Public Leger, Volume 1, Number 30, Richmond, Wayne County, 2 October 1824 — Page 2

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AMERICAN NOMINATION. FOR PRESIDENT -JOHN CALDWELL CALHOUN, FOR VICE-PRESIDENT.

KLECTORAL TICKET. JESSE L. HOLMAN, Dearborn county, JAMES SCOTT, Clark county, ISAAC BLACKFORD, Knox'county, CHRIS'R. HARRISON, Washington do. DAVID II. MAXWELL, Monroe do.

VIRGINIA.

At a larec and respectable meeting of

the k4county of Elizabeth city and town of

Hampton, V irgmia, held on the 27th ult. Gen..B. W. Pryor was called to the chair and Dr. Wm. Hope appointed secretary.

The following among other resolutions were adopted with great spirit and unanimity. Resolved, That the claims of Johv Q. Adams to the Presidency, founded on his eminent public serv ices during a period of 30 years, and on his strict integrity, tried patriotism, and constant devotion to the best interests of the country, entitle him, more than any other candidate, to our confidence and support. Resolved, That we have full confidence in the republican principles, political experience, zeal and fidelity of John Qlivcy Adams, which, added to splendid talents, and a thorough knowledge of the foreign relations and internal concerns of the U. S. amply qu ilifv him for filling the important .Wlice of Chief Magistrate of a iireat nation we therefore recommend him to the people of this district, and pledge ourselves to use all fair and honorable means to ensure his election. Baltimoie Pat,

OHIO. At a respectable meeting of the citizens of Union township. Union county,on Saturd av the 28th ult. Maj David Comer, was c ailed to the Chair, and Hugh Porter, appointed Secretary. The vote was taken for President, when Joh.v Q. Adams had eighty-three votes ; Henry Clay one!

fit the Jackson meeting in Vcvay, it is said there were 11 persons present; hut at the meeting advertised in this county for the lltli instant, none attended. What a falling ofT.! Reason again begins to assume her leuitimate empire over the military infatuation of misguided enthusiasm. Laurels obtained from blood and carnage, are not the most substantial qualifications of the first Magistrate of the nation. Ceasar was a famous General, vet Ceasar overthrew the Roman Republic. Cory dun Gazelle,

fFrom the rhil.nl hia GazHto. A correspondent of a morning paper inquired, yesterday, if tlit editors of the Philadelphia Gazette rt-allv remembered what Was said and done by Mr. Clay in relation to tiie Missouri Question. Wc certainly do know that this gentleman was active in etnVtinu: what has been called the compromise, and if preserving a good understanding between the different parts of the Union, is only to be accomplished by sacrificing northern interests to southern, the dough faced Congressmen of the north deserve more praise than they have heretofore received from their constituents. The southern people are, however, always threatening to dissolve the Union when thev cannot carry favorite measures. Pass a tariff, or pas any other law which does not suit their wishes, and their first cry is, "dissolve the Union.1 To Mr. Clay, there are, wc think, strongcr personal obje ctions than to any other candidate; but the same liberty of opinion which we claim for ourselves, we are willing to allow to others,and our columns are at all times open for any temperate, wellwritten essays in his favor, or in favor of anv other aspirant for the presidency. Such discussions would, however, at the present moment, seem useless, and therefore, we do not court them. If the feelings and affections of the people of our state be not irrevocably fixed, no confidence must hereafter he placed in any indications ot popular sentiment, however strong, and how ever general.

By a late law of the Legislature of Ohio,

it is made the fluty of the master, at the expiration of the term of service of the apprentice, to furnish him (the apprentice,) "with a new Bible, and at least two suits of common apparel." At the late Caledonian Ball at Almark's, London, the Hon. Mrs. Hon:, the wife ofa Banker, is said to have worn jewels worth JL'700,000, or three million and eight hundred dollars!!

From the Cincinnati National Crisis. OHIO WESTERN CANAL. concluded from LAS'WEEK. From White's Mill, two lines have been located, one of which is continued on the same level to the upper plane cf this city, at a point a short distance north of the Court-house, thence it descends the valley of Deer-creek, 108 feet, to low water mark in the Ohio river. The other descends with the valley of Mill-creek, by locks, to

the lower plane of this place, and unites with the river at low water, between Walnut-street and the Glass-house. There is hut little difference in the length of these two lines,and the whole amount of lockage to the river is of course the same. The upper line will be more expensive than the lower, principally from the following causes: In the neighborhood of Jrryin's Mill it passes along the face of a hill, so steep as to incur the necessity U cutting it down from the top to the level of the canal. This hill is also liable in some places, to the occurrence of extensive slips; to obviate which will considerably extend the difficulties and expense of this line. It also passes over several extensive ravines or valleys, and being on an elevated level, the embarkments necessary for the passage of them, will of course be expensive. These difficulties are all avoided on the lower

i line, which not being connected with the I ulterior object of commanding the upper

plane in this citv, is enabled to fall by

j means of locks, from level to level, as may ! best suit the cencral declivitv of the country.

On the first plan, all the locks requited

will be within the corporation of the city, j and will constitute a water power nearly !

equal to 4000 cubic feet per minute, thro' a perpendicular descent of 50 feet to high

I water, and 58 leet more. to low water mark I in the river. On the other line, only 12 ! feet perpendicular descent can be regularj ly employed, as the remainder of the fall is below high water mark. From the scarcity of suitable stone for the construc- ; tion of locks in the valley of Mill-creek, it j will be an important object to throw as j much of the lockage as is practicable into the immediate vallev of Ohio, where stone I of an excellent quality is abundant, and ! near the spot w here the locks would be rcI quired. The valley of Deer-creek too, from the head of Main street, affords facilities for the construction of dry docks to I repair steam boats in, and for disposing of ! the locks at suitable distances, without ! much 'xpene of excavation, which are rot I admitted on the lower line; as on the lat1 tcr, some of the lock pits w ould " require ! the removal of an immense 'quantity of earth, to place the bottom of the locks far i enough below the present surface of the 'lower plane. These two circumstances j will afford items of saving to a considerable amount, to offset against the excess of cost ! on the upper line, but the principal offset is the greater value of water pow er on the upper level: and this alone may possibly ; compensate for the difference of cost. I With regard to vour inquirv, as to the

aggregate cost of the projected canal, or the expense ofany particular section of it we can only add to what has been already said on the'subject, that as the character and general features of that part of the line between Dayton and this place, are much more uniform than the section north of Dayton, it is less difficult to form an estimate on general data and principles. We can therefore venture to say that the whole G7 miles from Dayton to Cincinnati, with the w hole amount of lockage to low water in the Ohio, will cost a sum not exceeding S700.000. This estimate is made for the upper line the lower would cost considerably less money. It will be perceived, that the velocity given to the water in the canal, from Middlctown to this place, is fixed at 1212 yards per hour, to produce the results stated of the hvdraulic advantages to be derived from its construction. This was done with reference to a local work, having its commencement somewhere in the Miami valley, and terminating at this place. But itrnut be observed, the assumed velocity would be too great when the current of water, and the great mass of agricultural products of the country, moved in opposite directions: and this would most probably be the case in the event of completing a canal from the Ohio river to L. Erie ; hence it w ould be necessary, on the plane of an extended canal, to reduce the velocity of the currentpnd thus diminish the quantity

ol surplus water for manufacturing purposes. On the subject of the income and advantages of the proposed canal navigation, it seems unnecessary for us at this time tosny much, as at the present day there are few or none who do not acknowledge their conviction of the powerful influence it would have in promoting every interest of our country. It may however be remarked that if canal navigation is essentially important in the promotion of the interests and prosperity of countries whose tcrrito-

rial limits are circumscribed, and whose situation is adjacent to the seaboard, it must he much more so to a country situated as the state of Ohio is, far in the intenor of an extensive continent, without an direct communication with the Atlantic. . .;,m11v near at nana

I ne umc is uuutsuum..; if it has not arrived, when the commerce that would flow through a line of canal navnrw.rtinfr the steam boat navi-

ration of the west, (upwards of 5000 mi . r? .v .1 i co-ic nf trie

in extent) witn me nuaim - - -north, by canal navigation with the bay of New-York, would admit of a toll, without burthening that commerce, equal to the interests of the money required for the construction of the work. If there is any foundation for this opinion,which w e think cannot he doubted, the importance of such a

! work to the people of the western country

cannot be fully .realized tor tne revenue derivable from it is amongst the least important of its advantages. Its effects upon the agricultural and commercial interests trv. would alone justify the con-

struction of such a work by the people ot .

the state of Ohio, who are abundantly competent to its execution, if they are but united and determined in a liberal system

! of policy. In the completion ot sucn an

enterprise, the state would not oniy in inc. most effectual manner promote the best interests of her own citizen?, and establish on a firm foundation her own honor and glory, but she would contribute in an important decree to the interests of her sister

I states, and essentially strengthen the bonds

of our political union. Very respectfully, M. T. WILLIAMS, ; SAML. FORREIl.

But this was light, continues the UAmnn0i4 tritli IVrtrnmivc ...I..

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ceedings, it is added, produced ;in which was naturally to be expected ?1!

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Stain. Captain Butler arrived at this port last evening, in 36 days from Sicily, reports that about 4 or 500 of the banished Constitutionalists who had been secreted along the coast of Taritf i, had landed on the 4th ult. and were amicably received and joined by the garrison of that place, and subsequently by a number of the peasantry from the interior. Gen. O'Donncll who was stationed at Algesiras, sent two companies on the 5th, to reconnoitre, who also joined the Insurgents; Thirty individuals at Algesiras suspected of being conncted with the captors of TarilTa were arrested and ordered to Ceuta, but the Insurgents fitted out a vessel and recaptured them on their way. A report stated that from 500 to 1000 French troops had advanced upon TnritTa and Cadiz. A body of the exiles about 200 had left Gibraltar on the the night of the 7th, for the purpose as was said, to make a descent on Malaga. At 2 o'clock, P. M. on the Cth, on passing TarifTa heard a cannonading which lasted for some time, but from the position of the Constitutionalists, had every reason to believe that they had not only kept possession of the Island and Town, but had made good their footing on the main. The last mail had brought accounts of an affray between the French and Spanish troops in that city, in which many lives had been lost. The troops at Algesiras were much disaffected with their clothing and pay. Greece. Files of the Gibraltar Chronicle have reached us to the 24th July, in which w e find an extract of a letter, copied from the Augsburgh Gazette, dated Alexandria. May the 1st, stating that the Sublime Porte had, at the request of the Viceroy of Egypt confided the pacification of Greece to that prince, who had agreed to pay the whole expense of the expedition. In consequence of this, steps, it is said, had been taken to accomplish the object by conferring unlimited powers on Ibrahim Pacha, who was to open the campaign by offering safety and protection to the inhabitants, if thev returned to their former vassalage; but "if they obstinately reject equitable propositions, they will be exterminated." Ten frigates had been sent by the Porte to assist in this humane business, to which the Viceroy had added 35 other vessels, which were to convev 33,000 to the Morea; two-thirds of which

had been trained after the European system. This letter is said to be official, to have been scut to the Augsburch Gazette by the agent of Mehcmct Ali residing at Trieste. Whether this statement he true or false, it appears by letters from Smyrna, that the Turks under the Captain Pacha, true to their system of extermination, drenched themselves in blood at every place where they touched, on their arrival in the Dardanelles. To stimulate them to those acts of barbarity, the government is stated to have withheld from them their food and pay, calculating that they would thus enter more warmly into a contest where abundance of plunder was to be obtained, than if their hands were full. Accordingly on entering Melenia they put to the sword all the Christians above eight years of ae, and acted these scenes of carnage in all the hamlets within a circuit of 10 leagues.

miirimmni.'i 01 ieieiua m u t'ovr,

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plundering their dewellings, the Cant p'

j tack the Me of Sciathos, where, it a',nCr.i' j the Greeks were expecting him. 1

ignorant ot their measure5;, he tirr-rl r ... 1

than 7000 guns, and then landed a r.ura ous corps. An action immediately

place, in which the patriots attacked ii7 Turks with such fury, that the Pacha

escaped in a gondola. On reachin

vessel, he sailed for Salonica, where '

was represented to be in tiie greater e:p.

barrassment, trie contingent?, wnich Us

crificed, being composed of Turks rccrui.

edinthe environs ot Cassandria, Nauu-,

i and Macedonia.

It is always a source of gratification t.

find, that, notwithstanding the detail

I horrid cruelties committed by the Tu;- ! that so frequently reach us, thev are

jcorpanied by accounts of resistance aj bravery on the part of the Greeks, w!,;ti i afford ground to hope that they will h-j,

ly succeed m securing independence. Ireland. The Belfast Newslett r n, tions the assemblage of about lOOORihiA

!men on the 12thof July at Tullvallcn,!, ; Ballygawley, armed w ith various v,eapo;s. ! A magistrate endeavoured to get thu.r.- ', disperse, but they would not ur;i.;;;? j could promise that an Orange ra.-'v.

' semblcd in the vicinity, should r, t p.j

, that wav. His remonstrance with the Or-

jange party was equally tmavailinr.lutt!-; flatter, it is said, passed along the i.orp letly and were not molested by the Rib;:'men. After this the magistrate rede:

; towards Dungannon, and having proct-: ! ed a short distance, he saw 3 or 1 hui dr i

Riband-men in a field adjoining trie n c, ! and as soon as they perceived him, fitj jemnmenced shouting & calling out,"th.j I him, here he comes, down with hiro.p

! him, &e.' When he came eppc

j w here they were on the road, they free Ishoh at him, the bullets of which

near him, and he saw several guns preseil

cd at him, but the morning province!,

may haVc caused them not to go oh. Colomhia. Bogota papers to the

of July, are received at Phihidelp!

rhe account of the defeat of Catarns.a "' Olaneta, in Peru, and the union efa R: .! ist division with Bolivar, was puldishti.' Bogota on the 1 1th. Col. Campbell :t of the britiidi Commissioners, set out oni..e 0th for England, by way cf Carthago: u. Bolivar, with his characterise jr.-:-nanimity has declined the thirty thru . dollars voted him as an annuity hr lift Lj the Colombian Congress. The Bogota Gazette, contain? alaw.c!-

I recting the establishment cl Specialj bunals of commerce, which aie to l ;

cognisance ot all disputes rclalive to a? ! mcrcial transactions, and to 1 e c n.! c- i

I of four merchants who with the AUaJ ; President, arc to decide all causes bro1-

before them, w ithout appeal provided sum in dispute should not exceed 00

lars; above that sum the people hav :;! right of appealing to the superior C --:

ot the JJitnct.

A decree lias been published in thr sr? paper, declaring the coast of the M 'J

sliore as far n Cape Gracics a Dies, na

ternal part of the Territory of Cehnik

according to the declaratioin made in S-3

I.nreriTnn tho ftfUli W.t- 1 f,0.). K

which it was separated from the Call

General-ship cf Guatemala, to which ' formerlv lplnTrr.wt rif.l ndftr-d to the A'"

ceroyalty of New Grenada, and consequently all attempts to colonize it witi.it'the consent of this government, uuatiiUr ized and illegal. TheGaceta?,ofthe 4th of July retains a decree on the new territorial o ' vision of the Bepublic. The principJ" tcrations made is the division of wbatv. formerly the departmeut of Venezuela n to two, called Venezuela and Aprr,tU capital of the former Caracas, and th;d -J the latter Vamias; the division of that it

I Quito likcwiM into two, under the der' ! ination of Escuador and Asuay, the r.'T1

tal of the fonner Quito, that ot the Cuenca. Captain Chmller, cf the biig Torpc who anived at Baltimore on the lCth in 35 days from Rio Janeiro, report. on the ilith July a hot press took ylc b which several Americans were im tcsjci.; and on the c27th, an Embargo was ld acccount of the Brazilian squadron 1 11 about sailing to blockade IVrnanibuctthey sailed 2d An-iit, with 2000 troopsboard. The embargo was taken oil on 8th. On iho 9ist. r.niifniM C. oasscd WlU'

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in 4 mile

rt flirt ll.t-I'i nir mil:

adron r.t

chor ofl Pernambuco and Orlida, ccr

ingofonc 74, two smaller ships and .atw

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