Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 28, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 December 1847 — Page 3

Xlie 1 reiisury Iteport. : account of the government, for specie, at a premium, We rejret that our limits d not admit of the pub- in Mrxico; and as the government fund will not be lication of the whole of this very able document. We ' subject to the export duty, the aprcie may be brought have already given the financial tables. From these ' into the country, by the Treasury department, and the Secretary shows that, if the war is continued un-' recoined at the mint in New Orleans, into American til the first of July next, there will be wanted in aid coin. fiih7rtr'lin"y receiPls of "'e treasury, the sum of The Warehousing Ststem -has been entirely suc$l3,ra),lM Sl for which resort must necessarily cessful; more than fulfilling the highest expectations be had to loan-. This amaunt, however, may be re- of the head of the department. Some suggestions as duced 81,5tf),CG0 ; by a resort to the following means ' to improvements in it, witf le made the ühject of a of revenue, w bich the Secretary recommends : j future report. fn!ndi!3 " tC '"d Crffee ?hr25 P"cent'a2 1 The TariffA large portion of tl.e report is f cvalorem, SJ,lXJO,U(Xi per annum : from the reduction and i ,i i: j u v i ,1 . . . . rumPil Vt'fllt ill in Ktitiit-? nun irn .vriiIW Ka tiin lift

graduation in the pnre of 1'ubltc Land, $1,U0U,ÜÜ0 per annum; and Irom the eilen,, on of the preemption priVilege to every bona fide settler on our unsurveyed lande wheneer the Indian title may be extinguished, $500,000 per annum, should these measures be adopted by Con gross, the loan might be reduced to a sum not exceeding at the most $17,000,000. In fixing this sum, no deduction is made for the collection of military contributions in Mexico. The amount of these depend upon fo many contingencies, that the Secretary is unable to make any correct estimate of them. Those recently levied upon the exports of specie must, he thinks, produce at least $00,000. The more thoroughly the country is invested, and the safer the roads into tho interior are made, the greater will this revenue become; and while no present estimates can be made of it, no douht is entertained that it will be large, and augmenting from time to tin;e. The expenses of collecting our own revenue will, by the measures recently adopted, be largely reduced during the current year. The saving is estimated at $500,000 per annum, which will be accomplished, not by reducing wages, or reasonable compensation, but by dispeilsitijj witli every officer or agent not absolutely required f r the public service, by curtailing the expenses of the revenue marine, and by introducing a more rigid and perfect Bystcm of accountability. Tea and Coffee. The Secretary recommends the levy of a duty of twenty-five per cent, ad talorem upon tea and cuiTee, as a means of reducing the loans, and protecting the credit of the government. The Public Lants. The policy of reducing the price of the public lands, in favor of actual settlers and cultivators, and removing the present onerous restrictions upon the pre-emption laws, is earnestly recommended. Sales at the reduced prices, it is thought, would be confined to settlers and cultivators, in limited quantities, sufficient for farms and plantations ; and the pre-emption privilege extended to every bona fide pettier, and embrace all lands, whether surveyed or unsurveyed, to which the Indian title may be extinguished. The lands remaining subject to entry, at private sale, on the first of December, amounted to 152,101,001 acres ; and the unsurveyed land, to which the Indian title ha been extinguished, to $71,0-18,214 acres. Bouxtv Laxds. Allusion is made to the advantage that lias been taken of the necessities of the returned volunteers, by purchasing their certificates at inade quate prices. Jt is recommended that Congress pro hibit, by law, the assignment or purchase of these warrants, until the location of the land, and issue of the patent. The right of pre-emption has been granted to the soldiers entitled to such warrants, but denied to the assignees. Land officers have been instructed that they must not purchase these land warrants, or any other script; nor become agents for the deposit, sale or exchange or them Territory of Oregon. The establishment of porta of t.:try in Oregon, and the extension there of our revenue laws, is recommended ; also that donations of farms be made to emigrants to, and settlers in, that Territory, and the grant of a school section in the centre of every quarter of a township. The Constitutional Treasury. This measure has been in operation since the first of January last. During this period of eleven months, the receipts of specie into the treasury have been $l3,6GG,8o6 13, and the disbursements 45,226,51t 31 ; making an aggregate of $96,894,493 49, and not a dollar has been lost to the treasury, nor any injury inflicted upon any branch of commerce or business. In connection vvitii this matter, the Secretary remarks : The constitutional treasury has been tried during a period of war, when it wis necessary to negotiate very Urge loans, when our expenditures were being increned, and when transfers, aiprecrdented in amount, were required to distant points for disbursement. During the last eleven months, the government has received, transferred, and disbursed more specie than during the whole aggregste period of fifty-seven years preceding, since the adoption of the constitution. During the year ending 30 ih June, 1847, our imports of specie were $24,121,289, most of which, under former systems, must have gone into the banks, to have been made the basis of issues of their psper to the additional amount of Cfty or sixty millions of dollars. Such an expansion during the last spring and summer, accompanied by still higher prices, and followed by a greater fail, and by bankruptcies in England, to an extent heretofore unknown, finding our banks and credit greatly expanded; and reacting upon this expansion, would have produced a revulsion here exceeding any that has heretofore occurred in the country. A general suspension of the bsnks would probably have resulted, depressing the wsges of labor and I rices of property and products, affecting injuriously the operations and credit even of the moot solvent, and producing extensive bankruptcies. From this revulsion we have been saved by the constitutional treasury, by which the specie imported, instead of being converted into bank issues, bas been made to circulate directly, to a great extent, as a currency among the people, having been recoined here daring the last eleven months by the new orders of ibis department under the act of 9ih February, 1793, and the zea'ous co-operation of the ab' and efficient head cf the mint at Philadelphia, to the unprecedented extent of 20,758,043,12, and there are thousands of our citizens now solvent and prosperous, who have been saved from ruin by the wholesome operation of the constitutional treasury. The banks that so unwisely opposed the system, hive been rescued probably from another suspension; their stockhol Jers, depositors and noteholders, from severe loses, and the country and government from the ruinous effects of a depreciated paper currency. If the union of the government with the banks bad continued, and their suspension and the depreciation of their paper occurred during the war, requiring large specie disbursements, which suspended banks.cou'd not furnish, consequences the most disastrous to the honor and the interests of the country must have ensued. The government is now disconnected from banks, and yet its slock and notes are at par, although we have been constrained to contract heavy leans, and to keep larger armies in the field than at any former period. But during the last war, when the government was connected with banks, its six per cent, stock and treasury notes were depreciated twenty-five per cent., payable in bank paper twenty per cent, below par, thus amounting to a lss of forty-five cents in every dollar, upon the operations of the government. Nothing is more injurious to all classes, but especislly to our manufacturers, than the expansions, contrsctions, and fluctuations of the bank paper system, vibrating with every considerable change of the public money he'd by them as depositories. This perilous and seductive bank paper system opens temporarily, and beyond the wants of the country, a maiket here for foreign imports, not in ex-eha-ge for exports, bot for credit, the redemption of which diains the country of its specie, contracts the paper currency, forces, at a sacrifice, the sale of domestic fabrics, nd depresses the indu-try of the whole country. Domestic manufacturers require for their permanent and successful operation the basis of specie checking vibrations and jofijiMnt of the paper system, confining our imports to the wants of the country, and preventing the temporary Drebas of foreign goods for credit and not for exports, which always results in disturbance of the money m rkrt, and an injory to the roun'ry. If oar maoufcturers desire great advantages from the home market, it must be abundantly and permanently supplied with large sprcie circulation, which alone can sustain that market for a number of years, and prevent those catamit es which must follow an inflated paper currency. A home market for oar manufacturers, when based upon specie and low duties, is s -l d, ptrmsr.ent and augmenting; but when founded upon paper credits, it is inflated one year, only to be depressed the next ut some succeeding year; thus depriving the manufacturer of any well assured and permanent domes' ic market. The bank deposite year, 1836, when we were importing grain, contrasted with 1847, tbe year of divorce of the government from banks, exhibits the detusie inflation of the one, wi:b its succeeding disasters, and the solid prosperity of the other, resisting thus far, to a great eitent, the revulsion in England, and proving the god effects of the anion of low duties and tbe specie-receiving and specie-circulating constitutional treasury. . The Secretary recommends the amendments of this act, which he submitted to Congress in his last annual report. The Mints. The establishment of a branch of the United Slates Midi at the city of New York, is urged upon the attention of Congress. The coinage during the year is given the tame as in the President's Moses ge. The ajrrreeate coinage from 1793 to Decem ber 1947, is $14.J,233,37'J51. It is believed that when the new Treasury tiotes now aked for, shall be

when ihe new Treasury Lotes now aKeu tor, snau dq aas nsa tun openeu net pons ireeiy, snu mvnc missued, tiiey may be sold, to a consideral.le extent, un J change, anJ yet it is still contended that we ought to kaep

r - dw upon It much more liberally than we are able to " Upot 'et furnished by the experience of a s.n-

gle year, are picdicated unanswerable arguments against the doctrine of protection, and in favor of the principles of free trade and equal taxation. Ihe comparison drawn between the old and new tariffs, in their revenue features, are the same as those presented by the President. The Secretary, however, goes into other comparisons, and pre-ents the result of this great measure upon the various interests ol the country. We make such extracts as our space will permit. In my last annual report and that which preceded, it was proved that the home market was wholly inadequate for our vast agricultural products. We have long had for grain and provisions, the undivided markets of our own people; but these are not sufficient, and in a single year we bivf, with abundance of food retained at home, supplied the world with an addition, at once during the last year of $41,332,282 in value, of breadstuff's and provisions, bringing the value exported that year up to 65, 907,237. Our manufjcturers could not have consumed this surplus, nor their non-consuming machine, which sre substituted in their workshops for the labor of man. If the energy of our own people can add $11,332,232 to the export and supply of our breadstuff and proviaions in a single year, what could they not add to surh products, it they enjoyed free of duty the markets of the world? It U not only tbe reduced duties that have produced these happy results, but the mode of reduction, the substitution of the ad valorem fir unequal and oppressive minimum and specific duties. The higher duty was thus always imposed, by the very nature of the duty, upon the article of the lowest value consumed by tho poor, and the lower duty assessed upon the article of highest value used by the more wealthy, often operating as a duty of 10, 20, or 30 per cent, upon the high-priced goods, and of 100 or 200 per cent ad valorem upon articles of lower priceNearly the entire burden of the tariff wss thus cast upon labor, by whose wages chiefly the cheaper articles were purchased, whilst capital, with whose profits the more costly goods were bought, was almost exempt from tbe tax. It never would have been tolerated to have imposed a du'y of 15,20, or 30 per cent, by name upon costly articles, and of 100 or 200 per cent, upon cheaper fabrics, where the ad valorem rates would hive exhibited the injustice and inequality of tbe duty; but it was accomplished by minimun and specific duties, which assessed a higher duty in proportion to value upon the cheaper articles, and the lower duty upon similar articles more costly in price; thus imposing the higher duty upon labor and wages of labor, as effectually as though the tsx gatherer had collected from the workingman a third or fourth of his wsges every day, whilst capital was comparatively exempt from taxation. Such is the system which has been overthrown by the substitution of the reduced ad valorem, operating the reverse of the former system, in fivor of the poor and the wages of labor, as far as any tariff can so operate, and, as we see, even with lower duties collecting a larger te venue. The great argument for protection is, that by diminishing imports the balance of trade is turned in our favor, bringing specie into tbe country. Let tis now look, at the effects of high and low tariff upon the gain of specie during: these periods, from 1821, being the earliest date to which the records of the Treasury go back on this subject. From the beginning of 1821 until the commencement of 1833, and from the 30th September, 1812, until the 1st July, 1946, our excess of the imports cf specie over the export was $12,660,312, being an average annual gain of $791,216 in specie, during these sixteen years of high tariffs, whilst the excess of specie during the eleven years of the compromise act of 1833, and low tariff of 1846, was $63.507.630, and the average annual gain of specie was 6,227,967. Omitting the tariffs of 1842 and 1846, and comparing the ten years of compararively low duties, from 1833 to 1842, with the twelve years under protective tariffs, from 1831 to 1Ä12, we find under the latter an actual loss of specie to tbe country, by the excess of exports of specie over the imports, of $3,851,652, as the result of protection. And a gain, during the succeeding ten years of comparatively low duties of $46,294.090, or at the rale of $4,629,409 per annum; and in the single year, under the new tariff, a gain of $22,213,550, thus exhibiting a uniform gain of specie in the years of low aa compared with high duties. Similar comparisons, with like results, are instituted as to our domestic exports, and our navigation interests. The report then proceed: It is said the famine in Ireland was the sole cause of our Iste large export of breadstuff and provisions. Now, from 1790, these values are not -given so as to be stated in amounts, but the quantities are, and these prove that, even omitting the last year altogether, and comparing the low duty periods from 1790 to 1807, aod from 1833 to 1842, with the years of protection from 1317 to 1832, and from 1842 to 1846 the average export of breadstuff's and provisions wss much larger in the years of low, ai compared with high duties, especially considering the difference of population. As a still more conclusive proof that the export of breadstuffs and provisions was much greater under low than bigh duties, it appears that our total exports of cotton from 1790 to 1 807, both inclusive, was of the value of $8 1 ,074,843; and during tbe same period our exports of domestic produce, exclusive of cotton, was $530,411,134; making our exports of domestic produce, exclusive of cotton, at tbe rate, from 1790 to 1807, of $29,467,235, which, it wiil be perceived, at once vastly exceeds the average annual exports of domestic produce, exclusive of cotton, under years of bigh duties. Indeed, the tables of the treasury clearly prove that, whethei we look at imports or exports, the revenue, the gam of specie, the tonnage coastwise or foreign, the coinage at the mint, or the export of breadstuff and provisions, the balance is largely in fivor of the low duty periods. In the midst of all this success, why put in jeopardy, by any change, the nation's welfare! When free trade is advancing s rapidly throughout the world, shall we retrogade and invite Ureal Britain to re-enact her corn laws, and drive again from her ports our breadstufft and provision! And now, when under our successful example the ports of Europe are most probably about being more widely opened to all our exports, shall we check the advancing spirit of the age, and extinguish the dawning light of commercial freedom! Everywhere nations are being aroused upon this subject, their statesman are resisting the interested clashes, and exposing the injury and injustice of shackles upon trade, and will soon enroll the names of other countries on the great international league of commercial free lorn for the benefit of mankind. It was our own countiy and her public functionaries, who proclaimed these grett truths before they had received the sanction of other nations. Our great movement was felt in British councils, was quoted as a precedent in the halls of British legislation, where Ameiicsn free trade documents were recorded among tbeit archives, and our doctrines approved and example followed, by the rrpeal of the British corn Isws, and the reduction or repeal of other duties upon our exports. Indeed, it has been conceded by some of our own most distinguished protectionists, that the promulgation of free trado doctrines in the American official documents of 1845, certainly accelerated, if, indesd, it did not actually insure the repeal of the BnlUb corn laws. With such results already from our efforts, we have every motive to persevere, until the free trado doctrines of Great Britain and America, the Iwu great nationa of kindred, blood and language, shall open the ports and disenthral the commerce of the word. What may we not hope from cur efforts with other nations, if they have succeeded in Great Britain! That country, so long the bulwark of protection, applying it by a sliding scale upon the masses of her people down to the utmost point of human endurance, bas at length overcome the errors of sgea. (Joe of her own great statesman, the most able and tfficient champion of the protective policy, at length lifted his eyes to the light of tru h, and with that moral firmness and intrepidity which is the highest evideuce of real gn atness, abandons tbe cherished policy of bis life, only because he found it to be injurious to bis countiy, and unites in the support of commercial freedom, with his truly ültulriou, but untitled countryman, who bas earned for himself the highest of all earthly distinctions, tbst of benefactor of his country and of mankind. France, Russia, Germany, Austris, Italy, Prussia, Switzerland, Holland and Belgium, Denmark and Sweden, and even China, have moved, or are vibrating or preparing to move, in favor of the same great principle; and if our own country and Great Britain adhere to their present enlisted policy, the rest of the world must lose their commerce, or adopt, as they will, our example. , Before the repeal of the British Corn Laws, tbe argument here for high duties, was a measure of retaliation, by closing our markets againat British fabrics to force her to open br ports to our bread stuffs and provisions. Well, she has thus opened het ports freely, and invites the st

out her fabrics by high duties, and of course induce her to re-establish her Corn Laws. This is a newcommercial era, ard there are many causes combining at this lime to augment trade among nations. Tbe reduction or repeal of duties, the. construction of railroads and canals to bring the produce and fabrica of all nations from tbe interior upon the sea-boarj, with ceaii steamers, in addition to sailing vessels, to facilitate and hss'en the exchange, and with China, containing nearly one-third of the population of the globe, brought at least within the ra ge of liberal exchanges at low duties, our csnal and railroads bringing our own products and fabrics from the interior to the sea board, or lakes .and rivers of the West, the points of distribution for domestic consumption, as well as for shipment in exchange f r the fabrics of othet nstions. are of great and increasing importance. We require n protection because our industry and prosperity repose upon the immovable basis of superior advan-

anlag, and advancing, as we are, more rspidly than any

other nation, in all the elements of wealth and power; our little foundation there is for the humbugs which the exports, iiri.xuu, tonnage and specie, as has been already w; are endeavoring to play improved, wiil soon exceed those of any other country, and " ' ., . ihe prices be regulated at the creditor city of New York. ' Exploration of the Dead Sa a.-W h.le our squadRestrictions upon the commerce of the Union, are ..peci- wm Withdrawn from the Akd Jerraneiii. to operate ally restrictions upon her commerce, and have impede her ' eli,e herp ll waa rumored that s .me Mexican pnvaadvance toward, her d. atinv. medirted in mv Lt reooru I teers had appeared in that s-a, and indeed one A au r

as tbe centre and emporium of the commerce of the world, j For that high position, she possesses more natural a Ivan- j tage, arid arrester elements of augmenting wealth and business than sny other city. Let us remove the obstructions which high tariffs have erected round her magnificent harbor, let her have free scope to develop her transcendent natural advantages, and she must become the depot of universal commerce, where international balance sheets will he adjusted, and assorted products and fabrics of all nations interchanged, the great regulator of prices current, and the barometer of the exchanges of the world. The time is approaching when a bill upon New York will bring a higher premium than a bill upon any other city, and when the tribute of millions of dollars paid by us to other nations, upon exchange, hall be paid by them to us, and flow into our own great commercial emporium. As well might we attempt to decompose the great element of nature which holds together the p!anets, suns and systems of the universe, as hope to sever the links of mighty lakea and rivers, of ever-extending telegraphs, rail roads and canals, of free trades, of intercourse, of interest, of love and affection, of the gloree of the past, the present, and the future, which roust forever bind together the American Union. Indeed, when we look upon the American revolution the framing of our Constitution the addition of Louisiana, Flrrida, Texas and Oregon our ever-extending area, products and population, our triumphs in war and in peace, we must be blind to the past, and close our eyes upon the fu'filing realitie of the future, if we cannot perceive and gratefully acknowledge, that a higher than earthly power stiil guards and directs our destiny, impels us onward, and has selected our great and happy country as a model and ultimate centre of attraction for all tbe nations ef the world. 07"IIere is an article which will be responded to most heartily by every true and generous hearted Western man. Report from the War Department. Aylum for Disabled Soldiers, and provision for the Widows and Children nf thae fallen in bailie. This is another of the able documents submitted by the Executive to the legislative branch of the government, at the present session of Congress. Like the President's Alessage and the Treasury Report, it will aid in rendering the present a proud era in the history of our country. It gives a full and distinct history of our military operations in Mexico, which every patriot will read with just exultation, and which none but the canting and unconscionable hypocrites who justify an-ti-rentism, treason and other crimes, will condemn. But as the report is very long, and contains many important suggestions, we cannot review the whole, and must therefore confine present attention to two of its recommendations. One of these is the establishment of a military asylum for wounded and disabled soldiers. We have no such institution for the army; and we feel ashamed to admit that we never have had. At the close of the revolution, the disabled soldiers received pensions for the remainder of their lives ; and appropriations for for this purpose were sometimes contested by members of Congress, mean enough to make wooden nutmeg appeals, for popularity, upon the ground of economy. At length, long after all the disabled had died, and only a few were left of those who got safe through the revolution, pensions were granted, about twentyfive years ago, to all survivors of the revolutionary army. As none were enlisted after 1732, ar;d those only 21 years of ae then would be 8li now, the list must be nearly exhausted ; and therefore these pensions have not been a very serious burden upon the country. Tensions were also granted to the disabled in the war of ls?12. The list was not very numerous and must have been greatly diminished by the lapse of 35 years. These pensions have been the only provision made for disabled soldiers, from the commencement of the war for national existence ; and we have no hesitation in saying that they are not enough. If a poor man whose only capital is his labor, enters the army and comes out with the loss of an arm, a pension of ten or twelve dollars per month is no indemnity. We may be told, especially by greedy speculators in the money of other people, that his pension amounts to what he could earn with both arms. Be it so. But the disability compels him to a life of poverty, above which he has no power to rise ; and poverty soon brings sickness and death to physical disability. Other civilized nations, to their credit be it speken, have made ample provision for disabled soldiers. The magnificent English asylum at Chelsea, and the superb French Hotel des Invalides at Faris, are glorious monuments of national justice. If the British and French nations have called upon patriotism to fight, they have not ufterwards left such patriotism to starve, or to toil and wate amid the discomforts of poverty. And our own nation has been just to the patriotism of the navy, in establishing the noble naval asylum in our city.. Now let it, and promptly, extend the same measure o" justice to our army. Never had a nation so many reasons for being proud of, and grateful to, its soldiers, whether regulars or volunteers. The regulars who conquered at Palo Alto and Kesaca, the volunteers who aided in conquering at Monterey, Buena Vista, Vera Cruz, Cerro Gordo, Contreras, Churubusco and Chapultepec ; never had superiors, and may challenge all Europe, even for equals. And shall any niggardly spirit of economy ; any sneaking wooden nutmeg, shaving appeals to sordid solicitude about cents and half cents, interfere with the national gratitude that is bound to consult the happiness of such men! Let us appeal for advice upon this point to the gallant officers who have shared all toils and dangers with these gallant men, and have led them to victory, and through them, have led the national name to enduring glory. What will be the responses of the far-seeing, Napoleon-like Scott, the indomitable Taylor, the accomplished Worth, the indefatigable Wool, the high-souled Shields, the chivalrous Pierce and Cadwalader! They know what these men deserve, and what the nation is oouna to do tor tnem. They deserve an asylum that shall speak as loudly for national honor, gratitude and justice, as the glorious military monuments of Chelsea and Paris. Let all who return with mutilated bodies or broken constitu tion, be gathered together under roots worthy ol Ame rican power and justice, and protected and cherished for the remainder of their lives, in all the comforts which they have bo gallantly deserved. The Secretary has earned an enduring title to respect by the suggestion, aod we hope that manliness enough may be found in Congress to adupt it without delay. Another suggestion of the Secretary, equally worthy of consideration with tho last, is a provision for the widows and children of officers and soldiers of the regular army who die in tho public service. This provision was made for the volunteers. But why it lias not been done for the rrgulur army dues not admit a satisfactory explanation, and is no compliment to the justice of the country. One of the journals, to render the war unpopular, talks, in true tin-pedlar style, abojt the extent of the pencion list. How oppressive is national justice to national defenders. But if we annex Mexico, this terrible taxation will not endure beyond the present Feneration : for after 6uch taxation, we shall have no enemy im the continent to fight, and therefore no need of an army. So, Messrs. Wooden Nutmeg, annexa tion would be sound economy. I'a. Ledger. Ifftries' OmioN or Yankee Enterprise. -It isaid the rrreat British Reviewer, Jeffries, once re marked, that it was his firm belief that if a premium ' nf a thousand dollar was offered for the best tranflation of the Greek Bible, it would bo taweii by a Yankee, who, till the offer waa made, had never eeen a word of Greek in Ins life. He would commence lonrnintr the lansuaze immediately, to quality lumseii i for the rrreat undertaking, and would finish the whole j work quicker than any other person, and bear off the, premium.

The Dead S-eix. Some of our whig papers are endeavoring, in their usual tuppenny clap-trap style, to make political enptal out of the fact that an expedition to the Dead Sea has been authorized by the government. They contrast this with the refusal of the President to sand ion extra vojjaiit and unjustifiable appropriations for western rivers and harfart: The right or the wrong of either is not involved in the other; both depending on their intrinsic merits. When we ask for appropriations that are justifiable, we thill get them; but as long as we log-roll in conjunction with thoee which are not right, we shall not and ought not to get them. The follow ing explanation of the Dead Sea expedition, from the Journal of Commerce, will show how

ican veeM was actually cap.urtd mid carried into a Spanish port, oy a ve.-scl under the .Mexican fing. Our merchants bfC.irne alarmed and asked for the pritecttoti of their property afloat in that quarter. The Secretary nf the navy promptly nccceded to their request. The steamer 1'rinceton was withdrawn from the Gulf, and despatched tu Gibraltar; the Minon, and a small schooner, being her consorts. This squadron lias been actively engaged in the duties assigned it, to the tmtire satisfaction of the government. It has of course become necessary to send out a supply ship with the requisite ores !r the station, but it is well known that vessel of this description are compelled to remain at particular ports for months at a time, and neither officer nor men can find as much occupation as they desire. On the present occasion, Lieutenant Lynch, the commander of the U. S. ship Supply, with Lieutenant Dale, a gentleman of great scientific atttinrnents, have obtained the consent of the Secretary of the Navy to employ some of their leisure in making a visit to Lake Asphaltites, or what we usually term the Dead Sa. The Secretary has favored the project of those gentlemen, and furnished them with several extra boats, a truck, and some ind. spendable aparaiu for making the necessary observations. The whole expense nf this outlay is, however, but five hundred dollars. The expenditures heretofore authorized by our government for sucn purposes, have added greatly to the materials of science, and the reputation of our coun try. Those of Lewis S. Clark, of Gen. Cas, of Capt. Wilkes, and Col. Fremont, are esteemed of very preal imjKirtancc. The proposed exploration of the Dead Sea, Is not only convenient, but opportune. The world is much interested in the condition of Palestine, and there seems to be a prevailing opinion that further important discoveries are soon to be made there. Dr. Durbin has furnished us with the curious results of his personal examination of this celebrated lake. Harriet Martineau visited it in April last, and has published an account of her visit. The only person who is known to have crossed it was an Irishman by the name of Costigan. He succeeded in crossing the lake in an open boat in the month of July, 1S3Ö, but suffered 6o much fatigue and exhaustion, and was so illy prepared for the adventure that he fell sick and died. He made no notes of what he saw, nor did he communicate to his mends any verbal information on the subject during his illness. His remains are deposited in the American burying ground at Jerusalem. A great many important questions remain to be de termined, therefore, by Lieutenants Lynch and Dale, and they are excellently well qualified to succeed in the enterprise. Tins turning of the science and phvsical force of war, to the pursuits of useful knowledge, is honorable to the Secretary of the Navy. It affords some relief from the din of war, and will show to the world that. however much our brave army and navy may be en gaged in undertakings which they disapprove, we have not altogether forsaken the paths of peace and use fulness. Railroads of the West. The magnificent rail road projects of the West seem to move forward with gigantic strides. It has been some ten years since they were first contemplated. The speculating year, 1835, was fruitful in presenting the various routes. Although a year or two after that lime, they were viewed by the mass as dreams of enthusiasts, the pre sent time gives indication that nearly all of the main lines, will be finished within two or three years. " We commence with the Canada line. From Niaga ra river to Hamilton, the grading is let and laborers at work. From London, 12 miles is being graded west. If the two terminuses are made west, the capi tal required will be $5,000,000. The road from Detroit to Port Huron, will require an expenditure of $700,000. Twenty miles of thi line will be finished by July next. The Central Road, now being completed, will ex pend at least $3,000,000, to connect with the Buffalo and Mississippi Road at the State line of Indiana. Cost of the bo miles of the Buffalo and .Mississippi Road from the junction of the Central Road, to Chica go, $2,IHU,UUU. Road from loledo, o7 miles to Indiana State line, to intersect with Buffalo and Mississippi road, now let nut to grade, estimated capital $1,500,000. The railroad proposed, and whim is to be carried into effect under charters from the States of Ohio, Indiana and Illinois, is to extend from a point opposite St. Louis, to Wheeling, on the Ohio; passing over the route of the present National road, through Vandaua, Indianapolis, and Columbus; the distance between St. Louis and Wheeling being 033 miles. Estimated cost at $20,000,000. The road from Cairo to the Illinois canal. The State has expended a million on this route, and have recently abandoned it to a new company. It is supposed $2,000,000 more will complete it. The several roads now building in Ohio, and to be commenced next spring, will require $3,000,C0J more. Here then, is work laid out, that will cost at least $12,000,000 at the West, to sny nothing of the many short side-lines which grow out f these enterprises. The capital required for all of them is not equal to the call of instalments for railroad purposes, in England, during any two months within the past year. At the East, the projected routes will cost as much. if not more. In round numbers, $100.000,000 will be expended in the country, the next three years, for railways. Inclined Planes and Tunnels or American Railroads. There are nineteen roads with inclined planes, requiring stationary engints, and on the portage road, over the Alleghany mountains in Pennsyl vania, there are ten inclined planes in a distance ot thirty miles. There are htieen tunnels on twelve diuerent roaas, the longest being on the Long Island Road under At lantic street in Brooklyn, which is more than halt a mile in length. There is a tunnel Beven hundred feet luig through solid rock on the Harlem road, near New York. On the Reading road there are three tunnela, 9G0, 1600, and 1903 feet long. This rood, though only ninety-two miles long, cost $10,333,510. Scientific Ameri an. Slaveholder?. It is stated from official documents, that there arc but 31,000 slaveholders in Kentucky, in a population containing 273,000 whites over twenty-one years of age. fV,rl,WO or three competent JOÜILYEYMEX PRIXTERS WNrf- jl un have situatious by making Immediate application at Ibis office. epi CHAPMAN3 at iPA.NN. J. LlVIOt, niilirji! ß;ilv:iiilt mid VAeCt riciuil. rriMIE undersimed wuuld Inform Ih citieen of Indianapolis and M. vicinity that be tus purchsaed from Dr. Jones hi Ualvatrometer, and will continue to Heat all easee of acute or chronic and nervous diseases, especially disease peculiar to females, la wukb hi inode oi treatment I unrivalled. 63lf A n M I I ST 1 1 AT O IV S K OT 1 C K. -W" ETTERS oC administration having been granted So the ander3A signed ol the estate of Abraham Batty , deceased, lau of M anon rouniv. Indiana, all nersnna Indebted to said ratal are requested to call and settle the same, and persuiis having claims sjHlnsl said estate sr notified lo present litem, "i ne esinte (s pronaniy cm. ROBERT I WALPULE, Adm'r. Decemhrr 13tb, 1847. M-gwia ri.Alin AM) FIIC EL R auberrlbere will pay the highest market price la cash for Wheat, K 11 seed, W bite Beana.tieeea Feathers, blnseug, Urtea e ' reacliei, Apple, JtcMtc, at (be ig ot (lie Big n. If. 1 63y KELLfXiU It DAVIDSON. le! SiOIl WAN1KI by J KEI.UK b paid for any quantity of fond statt or air rtaiors, LCMiO at UAVIDSON.

OCS-VVho would aa ncm! or, If vfek, con li doc aa a injto 4ay, whf d thrjr cr) so eaciljr fiod relief in the highly popular and reWbrated Indian Queen Vegetabla Sugar Cojied Pill ot Dr. URAGG ? Every paper we pick up coritaiaa aomrtliing of Ihe mild and valuahla qialilu-t of Ux-ae piila, and tba numerous end wonderful cures tbey cortfUiitly perf roi. Almost every pcrton we meet bat oaieibing lo ar In prat of this great medicine and our ick frircd apeak in train of capture of l Im delightful and attontxiiing effect hlcii they experience from llielr u. Who can wond r that tbey hare ao rapW?y g tiiitd ihe greatest pop'-lariry ol any family uiedkiue now in use' See aUverticeinriK qf Dr. I'.r ; j Far tale by Tou.liaa Bröthen, sign of the Goljen Mortar, and by S. J. Wade. L-rtiEfLil, Indianapolis. uuu;t;s iiia quec ui;tas;i,i; feit; .in cüai lu The Great Popular Medicine Of l lie d.i) -Yasi iiiuomit used cr iii:ti(!i The numerous and Wcuileif'ol res it cUVWn It M:iic:il JJtfcct upon liiliuus Fever, ami Fever und Ajitic Ureat Incitement :iiuoii the i IIB IftDiiH Qciks Vegetable Sroaa Coated Fills are -K. njw Jmit'.e.l, on all h inn, to be the most ex'raorJiiiary and valaab'e medicine in gin ral tsc It not only acta aacpec:Se upon ti:ioui aal Typltu Fever. Chill and Fever, and Fever and Agu of Uie we.t Bit J coath, but in all dixca&e of dibility. weak aiomacb, iuli:estion, lost of appetite, impu-ity of the blood, and all dUis.iie prevalent in a western an.1 outbern climate. Their great power co iiittt in their peculiar ell'ect Uon all the organ ol' the yctem, and the rajii J formation ol new mni rich klaod, vt hieb. t:.cy prolu:e. In this lie the great teeret of their mrces. They are mill anJ pleisai.t i.i t!eir anion, but fenrching and permanent in their eitevt ; penetrating tbe remotest receaues of t..e tyjtein by their ready auaorpiion into the blood, thereby infusing a new supply of vitality and nervous power into all the machinery of lite. The extensive popularity they have avquirej aliover the est an J south, eniurtt aie of at least SO,000 Itoxe per Irlnnili, And we find it di;ticult, with oar large force of nana, and the lata improvements ia machinery which we have adopted, to manufacture them fan enough to supply the demand in thirteen wettern and southern States I One large manulactory is constantly en. gaged in preparing the various concentrated extraeta ol" which tiiey are couiposed. From the best information we can obtain I rom our e,(KJ0 selling agent., and hoüt of attentive correspondents in all part of t:ie rountry, our medicine cures, per month, not less than 10,0)10 oases of Fever and Ague, one thousand of which have resisted all other treatment; 4.500 cases ot Bilious Fever; 5,:'00 do ot weakness and general debility ; 3.500 do of various chronic diseases ; 2,000 di of weak stomach and loss of appetite ; hU) Co of Dyspepsia ; l,2tK) do of Kheurcatum; J,m0 do of Female complaints; 1,'JUO do of Ague Cake, or Enlarged Spleen; l,.i;0 ilo of Liver Complaint ; 500 do of Scarlet Fever ; 4UO do of Typhus Fever ; 3U0 do or Pun id Sore Throat. This must appear almost i icredible, but the numerous letters from physicians, agents, and those who use the medicine, from all the western and southern States, satisfy us that this is a mdtrt estimate.ind that our medirine is rapidly taking tbe place of the varioui tugartoatei count trf tilt whi h are atioal, and the numerous tonic mixtures, made wholly of ftunine, which are imposed upon the public by manufacture! who live, nobady knmwt spAersf Dr. Bragg' famous Hugar Coated Indian Queen Vegetable Fill are or two Kinds tbe Cathartic and Tonic. The Tonic pills are peculiarly adr.pt ed to the quick and permanent cure of Fever and Ague, torpor of the Liver, and general debility. It is in Fever and Ague, Chill Fever, K- that they achieve their greatest triumphs. It rarely requires over twelve hours; or more titan ha f a box of tlio Iodic pil i. to break the Chi 11 an J elh-ct a permanent rure which is rarely tbe case with the tonic mixtures of quinine, hawked about the country by ignorant pretenders. Those who take the tonic pill will never forsake them. Who can wonder, tlien, that a medicine of lach extensive popularity, and extraordinary viitucs should cause Great excitement among the Doctors ! The prejudices of physicians against their use are at lat giving way to the play ot reason, and the convictions of every -day experience which they derive from their patients and friends who use them. Doctors are now almost every day sending orders from every part of the country for a supply of these pilis to use in their practice. Here Is one all the way from the State of Mississippi, just received. Let doctors and the sick look to it, and hasten to procure a upply of this wonderlul Tonic : Beach Gsove, Tirran Co., Miss., ( July ISfth, 1847. J To Dr.Brmgg, St. Lonit, Mitttruri s Dtar Sir I have to inform you that I have used all our Tonic Pills, and therefore pray you to send me another supply immcdi ately, as there is much fever and a;ue within the bounds of my practice, and I hardly know bow to satisfy and cure my patients without them. I have thoroughly tested your Tonic Pilli in my praeticethrough this country, not only in chill and fever, but in real typkoidfrrer, and have met with such success from their use, that 1 now find myselt at a great loss to get along without them. I consider them a great blessing to the people of the west and south, and I sin satisfied that they are important in the cure ol more diseases than you recommend them for. Dont fail to forward tna a supply by mail, as quickly as possi ble, directed as above. Very respectlully, vour. JAMES HODGES, M. D. fJty-For sale, wholesale and retail by S. J. WAKE and TOMLI.NSON BROTHERS, Indianapolis; H. E. GREEN, Brownhurg; JOHN W. VAUGHAN, PitUborough ; CAVE J. CAR TER, JameMown; B. SWEENEY, Roylton ; DAVID WOODFORD. Thorntown; LANE at SIGN, Le' at.on ; PITZER k WELSH, Eagle Village ; GRAFTON JOHNSON, Greenwood ; MANWAR1NO It ADAMS, Franklin; N. D. ROBINS, Edinhur; EDWARD P. DAY, Snelbyville; LUDLOW Ic KENE DY, Marion; IRA BAYLEY, Freeport; H. PIERSON, Green field ; WM. SILVER. Pendleton ; WILLIS G. ATHERTON, Andersontown; J. HOCKET, Tlainfield; J. W. WALTON, Bridgejiort ; W. J. UNGLES, Belleville. May a.'th. 18-17. epW&S Wl yC27i

Sale of Delinquent Laiuls and Town Lots for Mnrsliull County. AcoiToa's OrricE, Massuali. Cooirrr, ) Plymouth, November 13, 1847. NOTICE is hereby given, that the lands and town lots that have been returned delinquent to his oOace fur the non-payment of taxes due on them, and owing from the owners thereof for the financial year 1816, and that the whole of the several tracts of lands and town lots in the delinquent list mentioned, or so much thereof as m.iy be necessary to discharge the taxes, penalty, interest and charges which may be due thereon, or due from ihn owners thereof at tlie time of sale, will be sold at put. lie auction, at the court boiise door in thi county, on the first Monday in January next, commencing at precisely 10 o'clock, A. M. of suid day, by the County Treasurer, unless said taxes, penalty, interest ad charges lie paid before tliat time. Said sale to continue from dav to day naul closed. WM. M. DUNHAM, 'J-4wi Auditor of Marsha' I county, Indiana. Adoitok's Omca, Jacksoh Couarr, la., November l'Jih, 1S47. ( TVOTICE is hereby given , that the land and lots returned delinll qnenl for tlie iion-rvt) ment of Lues due on litem for the year 140, situated in Jack sou count? and Fbile of Indiana, or so mucn thereof as will satisfy tlie taxes due thereon respectively , or due from tlie owner thereof, will be sold at the court houe dour at lirownstown, the county seat of said county ot Jackaon, in lite state ol Indiana, on tbe first Monday In January, A. U. 1848, by the Treasurer of aaid county, within the hour prescribed by law, and continued Irtan day to day until all are sold or ottered fur Kile ; if not paid before that time. In wanes whereof I hereunto affix the seal of the county board, and my eignature,at Brown.-towa, November, 19. 147. L.S. BEZl.N A. REDMAN, 5t-4wia Auditor Jarkann County. " A CAIll. MRS. BALDWIN respectfully Informs the citizera of Indiaa apolis, that she designs opening an Academy for young ladiea. at her residence, corner of Maryland and Tennessee streets, the first Monday in January next. Mr. B. will be agisted by M"a Ackley In her course of instruction, and other teachers will be employed, as the number and pro gresa of tlie pupil may demand the system of stuJy pursued, lein i intended to embrace all the branches usually taught in female seminaries of the hkher grade. TERMS. Tuition in the Primary department, f I 00 Junior department, 5 DO " Senior department, 6 00 French, Latin, and Vocal Music extia charges, S6-3wl 0. A. BlDWCLL. JOSIAH OSAKC. .. A. DIDUTLL V Co., Cohuiiissioii autl l'rotltice ITlerchuiits, Ao. 13, Wext Front Utrett, CINCINNATI W IBERAL Ca a wldrances made on consignment of Produce JLi or other merchandize. a area to M ossicle, Taylor fc Watts, Daggete k Bruce, Jobt Kuzler, J:ime Calhoun, T. II. Yeatman, Marsh It Co., M. Kugler V Son, E lia It Morton, L. Worlhingtou. Dee. SO, IB47. 61-y PUI.L.IC NOTICE. IS HEREBY GIVEN, that administration of the good, chattels, lirlit-i, credits, money and effects, which were of John Johnston, late of Marion county deceased, who died intonate, has this day been granted to tlie undesigned by the frobate Court of the county of Marion and Plate of Indiana, and lint ha ha t tken upon hitiwelf Ilia duties of such administration. All persona therefore having claim against said estate will present them according to law, and all persona indebted hi a'tiJ estate will erene forward immediately and make setUeuMsnL The estate of aaid John Johnston u prohnbtv solvent. 6il3w REUHF.N HUNI tR, Dee. 1 1, 1817. Adm'r of the estate of John Johnston, dee'd. snttii.ü. I71ROM the subscriber, near Rot kville, Indiana, one sorrel msre, ' sixteen hands and one halt' hijli, a blase in the lorehead 1 -ft fore foot and ri-ht hind foot white, six ye.irs old last spring. Also, one bay mare, about fifteen and one half hauls high, with a small star in the forehead, about ten years old, and a lump on the right jaw. Ahao, a dark bay mar.., a bout thirteen hands bih, with a atar in her fortheaJ, five year old last sprin. Any person who will give information to Jamrs Barns, at Hockville. Park county, Indlan.t, of the above described horses, will be liberally rewarded. Kockville, ind., Djc 8, 1847. 60 3w JAMW BARNS. State or Iiitliiinsi. Marion county. T the December term of the Marion circuit conn, A. D., 18 17, aaid couit declared the estate of Obadiah Campton, deceased, to be probjb.y insolvent. Creditors are therefore required to file their cl-ims against the estate for allowance in the said pro bate court within len months from the dale hereof, or they will i.ot be entitled to payment. 1 ' V. E. IL WILLSON. Executor. Dec. 17tb, 1817. l-3wis . Stale of Iiuli-iiiM, Marion ounly JOHN E. LIVEKMA.VS ESTATE. T the October term of the Marion probate court. A. D., 1847, said court declared tlie estate of John E. Liverman, deceased, te be insolvent. Creditors are therefore required to file their claims g.iinut the estate for a lowsnce in the said probate court, w ithin ten months from the date hereof, or they will not be entitled to payment. Decrmr.er8l.lP47. AUA M V 1V.1 iill 1 , Aimimsiraior. 61-Sw ftOTici:. VPALE of the personal properly of Oeorr; Marquis will take nlaca at his late residence, commencing at ten o'clock on the Ith December, 1847, eonsisting; of various larmins; tools, horse gearing, so e slieep and hogs, and household furniture. A credit of aix months on all amounts over three dollars, purchaser giving uotu with freehold tecuri y without benefit from valuation taws. 66 3w JOSHUA PTF.VEN8. Administrator. AnmNisTiiAToirs ivouci:. TT ETTERS of admini. ration hiving; been granted to tlie underJLi signed, of the estate of Geo. Msrqui deceased, late of Marion county, all persons li.debted to the estate will please settle the lime, and those having claims against the estate sre r-j nested to present them. JOSHUA STEVENS, Admr. Nov. 27, 1847. 504w marking; niul Ink. LABOE lot of Butler's celebrated Ink and Blacking, right fresh, for uie low by the doien or gross by 7 KELLOGO It DAVIDSON.

Ily tlie Ireitent of tlie United States. VjjiJi pui-unceof law, I. JAMES K. PULK, President of r.TCtja. Ibe Una od Stales of America, do heiiy declare and mae amitvn, lh.it Miblic sale will beheld at the undermentioned Land U.tices in lite biaia of Iowa, at Ibe period hereinafter designated, tow it; Aiihe lind Office at DU BL'QL'E, commencing oa Monday the lTlbd-iyof January net. frtue disposal of I lie putilicland wuhia the uiideruieiiiiiined htwnkiiip, via j .VorU oftkt s Urn swst a4 JftJ primcif1 aurieVea. To-nhiH ei(!ity-i(Hir, eijliiy five, en;hiy-ix, eighty aetea and eighty eight, ol raoer hfWn. J'own-miM eighty -fciur. eighty five, eighty six.eiihly-eeven.eijhly-ehr til ami eighty eise, of rai:ge sixteen. Townlnjsj righty-tnir, eighty-fire, eighty six, elghty-eeren and eihiy-efglit,t.f rii-evehU-en. Township eigluy f.r, eighty-live, eighty-aix, eljbty-seven and eiphty eight, of ranee e:gliteen. Township eighty fmtr, eighty Ave, eigbly-eix. eighty-seven and eislry-riiln, of range nineteen. AT THE tAME PLACE commencing on Monday Hie 31 day of January next, fit tbe dwMwal of the public lands wilhia lite oa. deruieulMrttcd lowmdiips, lu-itK: North of the base line and west of tit fifth principal meridian. Tttwnshine eighty f.ir. e ehtr bve. eii:lilv-ii. enhtv aevea and

eiptny rie . of ranee twenty. i uu'ushijiseighjy-lüur, eighty five, ei'tiiy-six and eighty seven, of ranee twenty wie. 1 owns:iipeiglity-ftNir,eihty-five,eighty-ix and eighty-seven, of ran re twenty two. lownitiiiiiseishty four, ei-lity five, eiility six, and eishly-sevcn.oT range twenty three. Townships eighty four, eighty-five and eighty-six, of range twenty four TownsbiiM eie!iIv-Artir. eiehtv-fiveand eielilv-sis- of rinr. twnrrfive ' ' " " ' ' Township riv,iy six, of ringe twrnly nix. Alllw IjtlJlllhn ! IOWA IIITV. riaiintfnrinf nm kin tula. Ihe Slih day cm January next, 6r the riwposal nf the p .he I a nil. w tibi a me unurriiieni nmcd tmnrilianit parts 4 town hip, to wit: Aurii tjuie but Lt td t tkeXlh principal meridian. Townships eighiy-ane, eiehty-tw end eigtey-three, ot rsii.ro fifteen. 1 uwn.hiu eighty raie.etehtv Iw.ssd rtshtv tri me. til ihm sis. teen. Townsliipieijlity one.eiEliiy-ta'oandeijlitvJliree.ofranfeaeven-ieen. - . . . . ToMnshinselstny-one.eishtv-twoand ei i tit v -three, of ranee eiahleen. Section two four, six, eight, ten. twelve, ftiurtff n. eiehlee n. twen ty, twenty two, twenty lour, twenty ix, twenty-eight, thirty, tliinyiwo, Utiny fcwr and thirty si i, in low runip seventy-six ; sections te, wo, Uüre, It Mir, ave.six, the nonttmM quarter, and Ihe srb hall of the northwest quarter of seclmn seven, srctioH eight, sec lion nine, lexcepi me stmuiwci uimrter of lb- mmiliive-t auartrr.l aec kmt ten. eleven, twelve, the north half and the northeast quarter ol tlie enuthea tu.um in kxihs initura, Brcium Itsjrieen ; tlie IX i IUI nail ol (be mrrliwrst quarter, and ibe run-in n ill of Ute northeast quarter of sectkin fifteen, gecUma righti-en, twemy, twenty-two, twenty tir, twenty ell, tettlyei2hl, thirty, thirty too, Ihiny-fiMir.and thirty mx. in utwnsnip seventy-seven ; aecilirtis nineteen, twenty, twenty one twenty-eight, twenty-nine, thirty, thirty one, thirty-two a ad thirtythree, in uiAiiehip seventy eiclit : and lowindiunj eiüliti two and eighty -three, nf range nineteen. 1 ownhiiip eijiny Iwo and eighty-three, of range twenty. TownsliipseiGhiy-two and eighty three, of range tweniy-one. Townships eighty two and entity three, of range twenty two. Township eighty two and eighty-three, of range twenty three. Toiiftliii eighty-two and eiijli-y three, of ran-je twenty tair. Township eight) -two and eighty three, nf ran-e twenty rive. JVurU f the S-tut lint md euA 0 tlttfiflk principal aterssan. Lot numiier three and "faZiraa ItUni" in sectum three, lot numher seven, and "Cram tslamd," in section f.ir. and lot number ix, section nine in township seventy srvei ; and tir UUmJs in arrtUaaa thirty I'uurand thirty-five, in tovimiliip sert my ei-lil, i4 lai.ge ihrre. At the 1-niJ Ottke at FAIRFIELD, omnii-ncw; 01 .tlm.diy Ilia Kih day id" Jnnuvy next. ! the dinwid nt tbe .u:.l-c land w utile tlie unrh-rnientMHied townships and part, of lo nhiM, vis : JiortA of iht bo-it Umt and a-rut of tktßflk principal mrruLa. Tiiwr.hips seventy, seventy one. seventy two, veveni) thiee, ietr-enty-ümr, and section In o. fcair. the went ball ot Ihe southwest quarter, and lite son'he.M quarter of Ihe enuthwe-il quarter of sect Km five. Sections si I, seven, eight, Ihe ext h .If of the amiibwevt quarter, the enuiheasl ((iitrtrr of the iuthwet qiiHrtrr, and the southwest ijiurur of the southeast quarter of section nine; sectnn len, twelve, fourteen ; tlie sthiiIi half, Ute wert half ofthenxirlhwest quarter, the southeast quarter of the runt Invest quarter, and lite smith we quartei of Ihe northeast quarter of section fifteen ; arclions seventeen, eighteen, nineteen, tweuly, twenty-one, twenty two, twenty Ihn, (except the northeast quarter of Ihe ntalheasl quarter,) lv-enly-fuur ; the west half, the uihweiit quarter id" the northeast quarter, the est half of Ihe Southend quarter, and the southeast quarter of the southeast quarter of sr-ciinn twenty live, and section twenty six, twenty seven, twenty eight, twenty nine, thirty, Ihirty-one. Unity two, thirty -three, thirty f.-or, Ituny five and thirty six, in township seventy-five, ol range nineteen. Lands apiifopriated by law lor tlie ose of schools, military or other purposes, will be excluded frm tlie anle. The utTt-ring of the kinds will be commenced on the days appointed, and proceed in the same order in which I bey are advertised, with all convenient dispatch, until the w hole shall luve been ooVred, and the sales Ihus closed. Hut no sale shnll be kept open kin per than two weeks, and no ptivnte entry of any of Iba Und vill be admitted until after the exiMraiion of the Iwj week. Given under my hand at the city of Washington, this ninth day of October, anno domim one thousand eight huudrrd and forty seven. By the President : JA.Mts K. POLK. RICHARD M. VOU.VC, Com. of Ihe Gen. Land Office. NOTICE TO ME EM PTI0N' CLAIMANTS. Every person entitled to tlie riebt of pre-emption lo any lauds within the towiirhisand partsof tnwmdiii above enumerated, is required to estaldb-b the name hi the s.ilnf.iclk',1 of the Kegn4rr and Receiver of the proper 1-1 'id Office, an 1 ni.tke payment therefor, as sou as prattieabte after seeing this tice. and before the day appointed for tbe commencement id Ihe public aale of Ihe land embracing tbe tract claiinetl,cllM-rwise surh claim will he forfeited. KICHACü iL YOU.NG.Com.ofihe Gen. Land Office. 43-10wb430UiDec. Ity tlie I'icsideiit of tin United Malt. VyijN pursuance of law, I, JAMES K. POLK, Tiesident of Hie United States of America, do hereby declare and make known that public sah- will be held at Ihe undermentioned Land Office, in the Territory of Wisconsin, at lite period hereinafter designated, to wit: At the Land Office, at MINERAL POINT, commencing on Monday I ne 17th day of January next, lor Ihe disposal of the public landa within the undermentioned lowmdiips and parts of low nxhiiM, vis : YortA of Ott bast Umt and west of the fourth principal meridian. Township f.airteen, fifteen and sixteen, of range three. Townships ÜHirteen, lilleen and sixteen, of ringe 6ir. 'township fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen and eighteen, of range five. Townships fourteen, filU-en, sixteen and seventeen, of ranee six. Sections lour, five, six, seven, right, nine, seventeen, eighteen and twenty, wed of "Cuoa Smr," of lowiwhiii tbiiteen, fractional townaliip fourteen, fifteen and stiieen, on the Aliausaippi liver, and township seventeen, of range seven. Fractional township fourteen, sixteen and seventeen, tn the Mississippi river, of range eujhc Fractional township seventeen, on tbe Mississippi rivrr, of range nine. At the Land Office, at GREEN RAY, commencing on Vondaytha 31st day of Januaty next, for the diseal of the public lands within the undermentioned townships and part nf a township, viir JN'eria of tie bate line and cast vf tat fourth principal meridian. Fractinruil section one, in township nineteen, situaied northeast of Lake " Prmrgu," of range fourteen. KracU1n.1l lowiivbip twenty-one, north nf "Fox Arer,"and tow ncbii thirty-two and thirty three, of range nineteen. Township tiiirty-tno, thirty three and thirty four, of range twenty. Lands riprtprMted by law for ihe use of schools, military or other punes, w ill 1 e excluded fnwu the sales. Tlie orTeringof the lands will be commenced on the days appointed, and proceed 111 the same order in hkh they are advert ued, with all Convenient dwpuich, until the whole shall htve been offered, and tlie ales thus cksied. Hut no sale shall be kept open Ion er than two week, and no private entry of any of the laud will be admitted until after the expiration of the Iwn week. Giveu under my hand at the city of Washington, tbi ninth day o October, anno ooniini one thousand eight hundred and forty sevea. By Ihe President: JAVIER K. POLK. K1CHAHU AI. YOUNG, Com. of tbe Gen. Land Oüice. NOTICE PO PRE EMPTION CLAIMANTS'. Every person entitled to the right of pre emotion to any lands within tbe hiwnhipe and parts t.f township above enumerated, is required loestahlii-h the same to tlie satisfaction of the Register and Receiver, of Uie propel Land Office, and make payment thrrefur at semi oj praoUcablt ajler seeing this notice, and I ekire ihe day appointed ktr the commencement of the public sale of the lands, embracing tbe tract claimed, otherwise such claim will be forfeited. KIUIIAKU M. 1 UUNU, Coin, ol the ten. Land Office. 43-lCwist 3Hh Dec GRAND SCHEMES FOtt JANUARY, 184d. J. IV. iHuiti-y V Co., Managers. S.30,000! 10) Prizes of l,(rO I), Hart! ALEXANDRIA LOTTERT C last JVe. 1, for 1848. To be drawn in Alexandria, on Saturday, January I, 1N8. l'KIZLS. One prize of f 30,010, 1 do Ih.Oou, do 5.000. 1 do 3,000. 1 do i,00. 1 do 1,017, 11H) do 1, LOU, lie. Tickets $16 shre ia propor tion. Certificates of packages of 25 Wi.oie Ticket:, do do 'Ji Half do do f do 25 Quarter do $i:o oo Iii 00 3 00 $3G,COO! $12,000! 15 1). itirn It tHois out of 76 numbers. ILEX.iNDRLI LOTTERT- Class .V 3. for 1848. lobedrawu in Alexandria, Saturday. January B, 18. SHLtMllll SCIIK.ME ! One crize of ce-KXl. 1 do I2.HU0. I do 8.1.00. 1 do 5.000. I do .- 000, 1 do 9. 1 .18. 4 do 3.0t 0,10 do 1,500, 10 do 1.OC0, x. Tickets $10 shares in proportion. Certificate of patkjges 01 -O note 1 Kaeia xj ivu 00 do do üö Half do 60 00 do do 26 Quarter do SO 00 $4 0,000! 210 Prizes of 500! ALEXANDRIA LOTTERY, Class A: 5. for 1848. To be drawn in Alexandria riaiunay, January li, ltvts. CAPITALS. One rrize ol SK .000. 1 do lü.OiiO. 1 do C.OO0. 1 do 5.0C.T 1 do 3.. 500, I do -i.34.1, 3 do 'i.OJO, 3 do 1 ,900, 3 do 1.1X0, do 1.-2 JO, SCO do 500, tic. 1 irkets $10 shares in proportion. Certincates ol package ot Jj hol Uckett, fino CO do fto 25 Hilf do 65 UO do . do Hi Quarter do Hi 50 $30,O00. $lr2,O0O. ALEXAXDULi LOTTERT, Cats No. 7, for 1848. lo be drawn at Alexandria, on Saturday, January &i(l4ti. 60 A'. U.lfrrtiYZ Urn ten U allots. SPLENDID LOTTERY. One priae of $30,000. 1 do 12,000, 1 rlo 8,0n0, 1 do .C03, 1 do 8,an, 3 do 2,000, 0 do 1.00C, 10 do MO, fc.-. Tickets S 10 bares m proportion. tvcruncaiesoi parxafesoi holeTk-keta fllO 00 do do 2 Half do 55 00 do do üi Ouarter do X7 50 MURE SPLENDID YET! $40,000. $30,000. $'20,C00. 10,000. 75 Prizts ot gil.t 00 üOt d . of j5;jO ! ALEXANDRIA LOTTERY, Class 9. for 1848. To be drawn in Alexandria, fcuturrtay Jcnuart i9. 1818. MAGNIFICENT SCHEME! One rdendid prize ef 110 0T0, 1 do 30. 0. 1 do 90.(00. 1 do 10.r00, 1 prize of HMO, 1 do 6 000. 1 do 4.0UI. 1 ro 3. S43. 3 do l.TjO. 75 do 1,01 0, Stsj do (tiling the lowest 3 Nos.) 500, k-c. Tickets only bij .''srfsm pruiiriKin. Certificates of packages of Sri U hole Tickets ? 0 00 do .do SO Half do ltOOt) do ao iti Qtiaiter do 50 OW do do 6 tipiitli do IS 00 73 Xt. IsU?t y 13 D t aten Ri'fois. fr?-Orders for Ticket and Shares and Certificates of Parkas In the above splendid scheine, will be promptly alten. led lo, and an neeiuint of each drawing w ill be sen I inimruu.tely aller it is over miui .nowT uwi in. inm utAnnmi J. SI. J. M A L tt I - Ageula for J. VV. Maury k Co., Managers, 2-3wT WaibinitonCit,D.C. Acuitor UrriCK, TirToit Count r, Ikdiama.) October Gth. 1847. I mjOTICE 1 la hereby given, that Ova landa and Iota returned dclin1 quentfor the tmn payment of taxes due on them for the rear I. sMisMed in Tinum coenly. iM Kuu of In an, or en amsckj thereof aa will eatiety the Uses due thereon respectively .or due from Kau asav aiaars I liMauiJr anili Iva A . a- a f .. .... -mm. ..oi irc xnu nu ire cojrt Douse ehuyf In Tipton, ib conntyseijtof I iheeald county of Tipton in Ih Hute of Indiana, oa the first Monday In January A. D..1Ö4, wilaln the hour pieecr.bed by law, if not psW oef'-r that (ne. r uiven enuer 1117 nana ion lotnaay tit October A. D lg7. . NEWTO.N J. JACK0, 45-w Clerk and et officio Auditor of Tipton County, la.