Public Leger, Volume 2, Number 65, Richmond, Wayne County, 18 June 1825 — Page 3

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SATURDAY, JUNE 18, 1825.

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HENRY HOOVER, we are

-1 - to say, is a candidate for a seat in

thorized to say, the Legislature.

LOMAX, as a candidate for a seat

in the Legislature.

JOHN C. KIBBY as a cndidate to rep-

Wayne county in the next General

writer in the Dayton Watchman, states that "letters received from Harmo-

states

ny," in this state, "give the most flattering account of Mr. Owen's Society--900 have already joined--their school is or-

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and consists of 300 scholars."

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It will he seen by a paragraph below.

that the Commissioner appointed to locate the National Road, may be expected in this part of the country shortly.

The Nantucket Inquirer, in copying an article from the National Journal, makes

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the following remarks, to which we most cordially respond. The many articles which are copied into our paper, from the

Journal, sufficiently attest its value to

the printers of the west. Through it we receive the latest news from the southern states, as well as the proceedings of the

National and most of the State Governments. For some time past we have received three numbers of the Journal each week, in exchange for our own small weekly paper. "While on this subject, we cannot forbear offering our humble commendatory tribute

to the paper whence the above informa-

tion is derived. This singular document

is of itself an evidence of the industry and the ability with which the editor of the Journal performs his duties. We are clumsy hands at adulation; but it is our honest opinion, without any attempt at circumlocutory qualification, that the National Journal is, unexceptionably, the

most useful paper now published in the United States. Its reports of the debates in Congress are prompt and ample; the most perfect confidence may be placed in the accuracy of those official documents with which it abounds; and its editorial department evinces the utmots dignity, decorum and urbanity. In addition to these good propensities, which every other edi tor knows how to appreciate, we would notice the liberality which the proprietor exercises towards his professional brethren, in the way of exhanges. No public print, in any part of our country, is debarred by its humility or its obscurity from a participation in the intelligence which is the object of the National Journal to dis-seminate--though unpaid therefor by Government. "As an offset to this magnanimous course. we are constrained to point out the National Intelligencer. This paper, although enjoying an exclusive monopoly of Government patronage scorns a correspondence with other papers of humble pretensions, without an exaction of whatever difference in price there may happen to be. This custom might be justifiable in any other than the Government paper; nbut in the case of the Intelligencer we look upon it to be wholly unwarrantable as well as mean and avaricious. Pampared in the sunshine of Executive favour, fattening upon the income which even we contribute to furnish, is it not the absolute duty of its editors, to distribute throughouot the country, by every possible means, that information of which it is made the offical organ? Is is not also the duty of its editors, to ac

not also the duty of its editors, to acquire the earliest and most direct intelligence, of every name and nature, from all quarters of the Union? Certainly it must be-and if Congress had consulted the opinions of newspaper editors, instead of its own prejudices, the office of government printer would have changed hands at its last session. "In the present instance the editor here of speaks without bias; fr duing the late presidential contest, it was not his fortune to advocate the same candidate to whose

cause the National Journal was devoted;

but on the contrary, to be engaged on the side of the Intelligencer. During that peroid, we had frequent occasion to observe

!-rv, l ? , 8n,h,id ,lrit whitl seemed to ihistVo: Journal-arid now offer1 redtQJ' mt KratuU"U. but as a Ulch editor is justly entitled.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LEGER. Sir-There are some persons within the circle of your paper who are anxious to hear of the puhlic sales at this place, and have requested the earliest information on that subject. Be pleased to give these letters one or two insertions in your paper and you will oblige your friend, JOSEPH HOLMAN. Treasury Department, General Land Office, 2d April, 1825. Sir-It is contemplated to offer for sale twenty townships of land in the Fort Wayne district, at some period during the ensuing autumn. I would thank you to designate the particular land which the people would prefer, and also the particular period the most suitable for a sale. The Register's opinion is also requested; be pleased to inform him. I am, very respectfully, your obedient servant, GEORGE GRAHAM. JOSEPH HOLMAN Esq, Receiver of Public Money, Fort Wayne, Indiana. Land Office, Fort Wayne, May 7th, 1825. SIR-In reply to yours of the 2d ultimo, we have to state, the people are anxious to have the residue of the old military reserve, adjoining this place, brought into market, being part of townships No. 30 and 31 of range 12, and 30 and 31 of range 13, in all, less than one township of land. It is our belief it would be for the inte rest of the country, to have the residue of the twenty townships offered on the Wabash, Salimanna, and Mississiuaway rivers: say townships No. 24, 25, 26, 27 and 28, of range No. 7; townships No. 26, 27 and 28, of range No. 9; townships No. 27 and 28, of range 10; townships 27, 28 and 30, of range 30. We also beg leave to sug gest early in the month of October, as a suitable time for public sales. Very respectfully, your ob't. servents, JOSEPH HOLMAN. Receiver. For Samuel C. Vance, Register, ALLEN HAMILTON. GEORGE GRAHAM Esq, Commissioner of the General Land Office, Washington City, DAYTON, June 14. Governor Morrow, and E. A. Brown esq. passed through this place, in the stage, from Columbus, on Saturday last. They state that Mr. Knight, the commissioner for locating the National Road, will probably be in this place in two weeks. The canal commissioners have received an answer from Gov. Clinton, of New-York, accepting the invitation to meet with them on the 4th of July, to celebrate the commencement of the Ohio and Erie canal; thus Ohio will be honored with the presence of this great advocate for internal improvement on this important occasion. It is probable that gov. C. will pass through this place, on to Cincinnati, in order to visit the emporium of the west. S Columbus, June 9. OHIO CANAL.-We have now the pleasure to inform our readers, that rapid progress is making in the final location of the canal line on the Licking Summit, and that a contract for excavating a part of the canal, within four miles of Newark, has been entered into by M. T. Williams, acting commissioner. The first ground will be broken on this contract, on the 4lh of July next; when we have no doubt that a greater number of the citizens of the state will meet to celebrate the joyous occasion, than has met at any point in this state on any occasion. Our friends in Newark and Granville, and the farmers in the neighborhood of the Licking summit, will no doubt anticipate the wants of a crowd of visitors from a distance, and prepare for the accommodation of all who may find it inconvenient to provide provisions and lodgings for themselves. From the rapid accession to the number of responsible contractors now examining the several parts of canal line in preparation, together with the opinions generally given by them of the character of our line, there is every reason to believe that the estimates of the commissioners and engineers, will be found sufficiently "liberal to cover the whole cost of construction. Gazette,

From the New-York American. Slavery. On no subject are the southern people more sensitive than this, or have foreborne more, till their forbearance has been mistaken for acquiescence. But it is time now to speak out; else, it may be too late, when resistance becomes necessary. Such is the forbearing language of the leading article, by a correspondent, in the last Richmond Enquirer, in discussing Mr. Tucker of Virginia's proposition in Conpress to colonize the free blacks beyond the Rocky mountains "When resistance becomes necessary!" Why what infatuation, what folly, what wickedness! Resist whom and what? Resist the discussion in, and perhaps the enactment by, Congress, of a law which shall free our country from an acknowledged curse? from a growing source of weakness, misery and crime?

Is this an occasion on which Virginia would seize, to disturb the fabric of a government which has been, and will we trust in God, long continue to be, the instrument of diffusing more widely and securing more effectually the blessings of equality and free dom, than any that has ever existed?Wise men may differ, as to the best mode of effecting the removal from the midst of us, of a class of beings, who, while they remain, must ever be a proscribed race; but no wise, no feeling, no patriotic man, we apprehend, can doubt of the expediency of such removal, if it can be effected. Of the perfect right, nay of the impera tive moral obligation, of the general government to contribute all in their power to so desirable an object, we entertain no doubt; nor have we as yet seen any proposition whereby it can, in our judgment.

more certainly, or more properly, be accomplished, than that of Mr. King, in the Senate of the U. States. His resolution contemplates the appropriation of the public lands, after the public debt, for the redemption of which they are pledged shall have been discharged, to constitute a fund from which to defray the expense of transporting, with their consent, all free people and all such, as by the laws of the state in which they reside, shall hereafter become free beyond the limits of the United States. Yet for such a proposition, the mover has been denounced in a southern paper as a "hoary-headed mischief-maker"-and because the President thinking possibly that to differ from Virginia, was not always to be wrong, has appointed that individual to a foreign station, wholly unconnected, certainly, with that or any other question of mere domestic policy, the slave press, feeble but malignant, has opened its batteries, and censured without measure, an appointment, of which in other respects, none condemn the fitness, except indeed, perhaps the individual on whom unsought, unexpected and undesired, it has been conferred,

PIRATES.-A piratical vessel, and her crew of thirty-eight men, has been captured off Mantanzas by a British cutter and a steam boat fitted out at that place. Several of the pirates were killed, and the rest sent to Havana. It is said to be ascertained that some of them had assisted in capturing more than twenty American vessels, whose crews were murdered. An additional gang of pirates have been hung in Porto Rico-eleven at once. This looks very much like a resolution to do justice to this late numerous class of persons. Niles.

TREATY WITH COLOMBIA.-The ratification of a general convention of peace, amity, navigation, and commerce, between the United States of America and the republic of Colombia, concluded and signed at Bogota, on the 3d day of October last, by Mr. Richard C. Anderson, plenipotentiary of the United Slates in that capital, and don Predo Gaul, secretary of state for foreign affairs, were exchanged at Washington on the 28th instant, by Daniel Brent chief clerk of the department of state, on the part of the United States, and don Jose Maria Salazar, envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary, on the part of his government.-Niles.

EFFECTS OF FRIGHT.-A few days since, a daughter of Mr. Asa Paine, of Barre, in Orleans co. N. Y. about 16 years of age, accidentally fell into a well of something like 20 feet deep, and was taken out apparently without bodily hurt- but so great was the shock upon her mental faculties, that she has remained totally deaf and dumb ever since. She makes known her

wants by the aid of pen and paper, is apparently in good bodily health, but is confined to her bed from the effects of the fright.

IMPORT-to prevent importation.-It is stated that about forty glass blowers lately arrived at Boston from Europe, to be employed in the valuable glass works in the neighbourhood of that city. It may safely be calculated that, by their labor and skill, they will add not less than 50,000 dollars a year to the general amount of the products of our country, besides the value of the employment that they will indirectly give to others. A neat little item-and one that will be found, "after many days," not to have disappeared.-Niles.

The New-York Police Office has issued a notice, that base Spanish milled dollars, dated 1798, and six penny pieces of 1807, are in circulation. The impressions on both are very bold, and they appear to be newly made.

A company has been formed in Hartford Conn, and incorporated, for the purpose of lightening that city with gas.

WATER POWER.-It was mentioned, some time ago, that the water power, within a semi-circle of 20 miles, with Baltimore as the centre, was equal to 1,613,000 spindles -a friend, a few days since, gave the follewing account of all the mills which are actually at work on the principal streams, the most distant of which is 23 miles from this city. On the Patapsco 49; the Great Gunpowder 42; Gywnn's Falls 27; Jones' Falls 23; Herring Run 7. Many of these are very large establishments; The mills on the Little Gunpowder, which are numerous, are not stated.-Niles.

AUGUST ELECTION.

CANDIDATES FOR GOVERNOR. Isaac Blackford, James B. Ray, LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR. John H. Thompson, Samuel Milroy, Elisha Harrison. G. W. Johnston, Joseph Warner, D. Pennington, William Cotton. SENATOR FOR UNION AND FAYETTE. Ross Smiley, Martin M. Ray, REPRESENTATIVE FOR FAYETTE. Newton Claypool. SHERIFF FOR UNION. Asa Cooper, H. H. Brandenburg George Newland, Thomas M'Means, William F. Elkin, Zachariah Ferguson, REPRESENTATIVES FOR WAYNE. JOHN McCLAIN, SAMUEL HANNAH. ELEAZAR HIATT, ITHAMAR WARNER, SHERIFF FOR WAYNE. DANIEL REID. ENOCH RAILSBACK.

CHEAP STORE! THE SUBSCRIBERS have taken the Storeroom in Richmond, formerly occupied by

James Maguire, where they are now opening a new

and general assortment of DRY GOODS, HARDWARE, QUEENSWARE, GLASSWARE, GROCERIES. &c. Also--A few barrels prime SALT. All of which they will sell as low at retail, for Cash or approved Country Produce, as they can be purchased in Cincinnati. BURNHAM & BEARPARK. Richmond, June 16, 1825 65 8 HATTING BUSINESS.

THE SUBSCRIBER informs his friends and the public that he has just commenced the above business in Richmond, on MAIN STREET, adjoining the store of Joseph P Plummer. He expects to keep constantly

on hand a good assortment of FUR AND WOOL HATS, not excelled in quality by any made in the Western country. He will make any kind of Hats to order, and on the shortest notice. His Hats will be sold on reasonable terms. FURS and LAMB'S WOOL will be taken in payment, and Country Produce in part payment for Hats, at cash priees. JOHN PAGE. 5th month 27th, 1825. 62 THOMAS OWEN, JR. Has just received from Philadelphia, a general assortment of FOREIGN and DOMESTIC GOODS, of the latest patterns-consisting of DRY GOODS, GROCERIES, HARDWARE, &c. The above Goods having been purchased before the late rise in prices, will be sold on the usual terms. 5th month 7th, 1825. 59 TAXES ! ! ! COLLECTOR'S NOTICE. THE Citizens of Wayne county are hereby notified, that I have commenced collecting the revenue for the present year. I expect to call oa the citizens of WAYNE and CENTRE Townships, during the month of JUNE, JULY, and AUGUST. Mr. THOMAS HARDIN is authorized to receive the tax of Washington Township,--JONATHAN PLATTS, Esq of JACKSON, PERRY and GREEN, and Mr. JAMES HARRIS of New-Garden Township. Those concerned are earnestly solicited to be prepared to discharge their tax when called on. P. S. I will attend in Richmond on the FIRST and THIRD SATURDAYS in each month until the FIRST of September, and in Centerville on the SECOND Saturdays. THOMAS COMMONS, Col. W. C. June 8th, 1825. 64. TAKEN UP by Eleazar Hiatt, of Wayne township, Wayne county, Indiana, a BAY MARE, three years old, fifteen hands high, a star in her forehead, left hind foot white, no other mark or brands perceivable: appraised to twenty-five dollars, by Isaac Walker and Joshua Chamness. Certified by ABEL THORNBERRY P. June 1st, 1825. 63 PRINTING.

BOOKS, PAMPHLETS, BLANKS, HORSE BILLS, CARDS, LABELS &c. &c.

Neatly executed at this office on reasonable

terms, and on the shortest notice. PRODUCE. The following articles of country Produce will

be taken in payment for subscriptions to the LEGER, viz: Wheat-Rye-Oats-Corn-Bacon-Lard-

Sugar-Ginseng-Bees-wax-Tallow-Candles-Flax-Wool-Linen Rags, &c. &c.,-to be de livered at the office,

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