Public Leger, Volume 2, Number 85, Richmond, Wayne County, 26 November 1825 — Page 3
"Saturday, November sc, isss. 7l7r)ri-i3:iti5re of (hi5 stato will convene on Monday week. Considerable business of iui-,,,-t.nre, it i probahlo, will mmr? before them c!u Ijn.r tl'eir JHbrrations; which to H;-ose of to genj Mtifachon will require u threat. lmre of pru;;t.n, -c, depth of investigation, honcty of intention, 1 i'ru'nrjs of purpose. It is to the Legislature we ; 1 1j- for laws which snail have in view, at once, the ,vl 0f(he state anl of every in iividunl member ."ivrs nh-h 'hnU ernre u in the enjoyment of r., .ircrtnarvlife, guaranteed to us by the funia,. nt tl coaptation of our country laws, which 'I ive perfect ecurity to honest and peaceful .n ; ;-!rv, virtue and public spirit while they shall
j tiou of North America is laid open fo en-
'l'" na industry and the time is certainly not far distant" when these will iVj .effcclild nMy changes along the wild shores of our inland seas-Mipon the bosom of which an' active commerce will float, pouring its treasures into the city of New-York, increasing her wealth, population and importance, and making her, emphatically, the emporium of the "Western .World.
Several papers in this state, acting on the Fnggc-
tions of a writer in a New York paper, have mom- '
mended the publication of the laws of the state ut j j the public journals. The plan we think -ood, and I ; entitled to consideration. j i It is an established
1 j , -. . . i ----- a . . uui .wti ic, unit li;io trnir o rviloorfN ' allien is Hpoctrd dihI 1 n . . n err , , ,. , ' C IC." a"" ! rioranccoflawisnoexcuse:" and all men are li .hie
T'rU l bt liCVC mUCh' fr 0Ur bcnifit' Wi" jtobc punished for the breach of laws of the existence ;vrruizrr. . , , i, of which thev are completely isu-. pint. Were it irr-itior.s in the cxitinsf law? will be calleil for ' - . A"ir , . . , , , , Ca,,C(1 ,nr not so crimes the mot nemiciotn would he perreime ef which nn;ht be uefnl; but there, no !' trt.a ,..;o c r ...
.:,,Mi W11 bo some .fa ,I.Lercnt character. UVj, ciety would be ton, asunder, and peaceable well ! a,: o advocates .or o.ten chancing the laws. Let j deposed citizens be without nnv security for their I t, a remain upon the rtalutcbon at least till they ! ,,fetv. ; Uf.n al Inpn are buun(, u . (np j:, P,ovcn. by experience, to be inapplicable r,i ;lwe (naclw hj the con?llt,ltional utllori!j ' it is j :rilinvu.; but the mommt th, ascertained, rr-t essentially necessary that such Jaw3 should be PIa-them-let there he no tcmporizin? alternatives, CfH within tht. r,.a:h of everv ,r ... !
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r, rv i-ne nmcn 'nients but let them be ut once, ,r.'. li.jwevcr it mny oCend the interests or the precs ef some, boldly struck from the book . The ,,RA o 1 i t'ne object of all honest legisla- , :., an i to thie, particular interests should give v . P':t uatil laws are known to be pernicious -,!."-, rortlii'ie them in force. When often .. - ! in I amended, as h ;s heretofore been too
; inutiity. The nation il government, acting on thin ! ; principle, publishes the acts of Congress, yearly, in ! j, several papers in each stat . And tlius the anoma-
i ly is presented of the peo do of our state becomin; j' tolerably well acquainted with tbelawsoft eUnion,
whibt they are kept in comparative icnorane of I j; the laws if their own state, which are of more im- j !: mediate illten-st to them. Let n t.ikc Imp r'.mntr i
, th but few can become acquainted with - r , ... A. , , A , ' i , ' """rirevim-ile, an I we will then Icaow what chance t . ul::le d other mut labor under the dan!: v, t i e i . . , , 1,1 'the people have of becoming acquainted with iho ! ,.- i, .rHace of hemz governed bylaws of j; 8. l(u( s ,)f thl. ,(;,te There are in Wayne county ! . ' n th-r Un; w nothing This though not equal j ubout sixtcen Justices of the Peace, each of whom, ; TiVitv et intention, i the same in eiTect. al' , ,v, . a i ci r i ft ru . i . ti.ni, .if i together with the bherdi and Clerk of the ronrf, i ! , -.vn-kpd invention of Calirula, who wrote l-i e- n .. i i -.u i i . ' , ' y "nut- s.i ( : furnished with a copy ut the law-, making at most i ." in raall characters ami siiTent:cr tl.em nnnn!'' . ., . , . . ... i ' 1 ' " m "rfjn. twenty copies distributed in a county which conI i ; Ti t-, e tl at r.o prreon could reail then i 4 ' ' UH,J ,' tai'is il'aiu FIFTEEN to TWENTY TJI)USAND INlIAt- I , ! ,!! u-re I-ahle to be punished for the breach ofjj it.vnts ! How ,s it Posihl.. that a general knowl- I I..d-,vi-:of:n wh:chth,y ceuld not know bad j j of lllo lawrs c;.n bt. .y. frm ?f) ...aate - -.m- ' e. srreat characteristic of thi ae ,: ... 1 ti ! a suppiv : The nppo-iti .n ii ndicui-ius. J , 'ntry.cecmstobea facility of law-making !j If we know our own minds we nr- goiemed by no r . i-v-'-eakiz. Every man :,vircs to be a leg- j! cir!lsu.r ,aothcs iri .vrou.u-.endmg the , ubl.catiou of j
-...r.u... .....tur an -:.... in otner;; th. act of the U-isiatnre in .he pa er of the state. r s wer? nci .,ry pernru , ntly to in-1! Tho cx.M.n wouM ,,e ifir .n.iiu.r.hJe. tv!rticul .rU
';!nv n;riril oh;in' in -"r,,; r!l lcp-ii when com . are.l with thMadvntag- hi- h would I t ere, thrs .oWow-n such rapid succession, thatlj ac,:rueto the oeo.de. Taking the of the la-t '
M S.-ion of the Legislature fir a basis, we will cui d-avor to show the probable cu.-t of ; ubli-hii c them j I in one paper in each county. There an about f-ixty j
of measures tenrli eir to trie final emneipa tion of slaves. In accordance with tlis proposition, the Legislature of Illinois recommends that a system of foreign colonization be adopted, that would gradually extinguish slavery, by the passage of a general law, with the cotfsent of the slave holding states, declaring that all children of slaves, born after the passage of the law, shall he free, on arriving at the age of 21, on condition of their consenting to become colonized. Jut. Journal.
'cheaper (ban the imported. The pjgio.
lamv consumption of wool at Amesburv is
4,000 Ibs.Vies.
In the Legislature of Tennessee a resolution to recommend to Congress 'and the different states an amendment to the Federal Constitution; as far as relates to the election of Chief Magistrate, is in progress, havintr been adopted by the Senate, and read and ordered fr further consideration in the House of Representatives. Tiii resolution provides, that the States, bo hud iF In districts each State to compos as many districts as it has Senators and Representatives in Congress, and the people to vote directly in their respective districts, for President and Vice President; and the man having the highest number of vots in said district receives one vote; the votes to be returned to the seat of the general government and the persons havi tae highest number of votes to he
President, provided that number be n ma
jority ot the whole nuni'ier of votes i'iumi; and if no one per? .in snoubl iiavesdii nuinber,then the two h'mhrst to he returned ;-
irain to tht; people; and if there t ul I he jj Cartimgfna and Pkru. loimta pa
two out of the three hiihc si tied, the all , pen to tile 18th September, arid Carthagetlie three to be sent hack, ahd a re-e- i n t to t'te 1st i;itant, have beea rcreivi-d lection then takes place, and he Vho gets lat the otliee of tlit Federal G tZ tte, Boltia plurality of votes on the second trial shall more.
Population op Rome. The Roman PperAotizio del Giorno, contains a detailed
tabular statement of the changes in the population oft , at city from 1816 to 1825. It appears that in the former year the population consisted of 128,997 individ uals of jwhom 4,034 belonged to the- secular and Tegular clergy, including nuns, and that at present the population amounts 138,730 in? idividuals, of whom 5,120 belong to ti e clergy. Tims for every 25 persons there
is one priest, monk, or nun. Breach of pkojiise. A lady, who wai a widow, has been prosecuted at Boston, for a breach of promise of marriage. Ti e
damages were laid at 10.000 because j that the lady had an income of $1,200 per l annum, besides prope rty worth 15 or 16 ; thousand. It appeared on the testimony 'of her father, that she had said she intended to marrv the plaintitF, and that the ! wedding business proceeded so far, that 'even the cake was made when the lady suddenly threw her pc Ts-on and her money into the arms of another. The finding of the Jjry wa that "the said Jane, never did promise in the maimer and form as the
j' plaintilfiiad set forth in his declarations.1'
The case was carried up to a higher courU JVilcst
i a:.- nhvay varjinr, alvnv u'scc rfr'iii. Hi ': . ; of !irrpr art" very particular in recnronc t:,- ;n fin!, ' --.v, an l cmti'i'K ;imn,i 'mcr.ts in the
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asin; to pass in revirw the pl.i-
!!'.Lr..pv a: l the inirrovement of aje hut v.-e '! i' ' x.- fur fire hi-torian o( ur o.un'rv, nill find it r " : r '.. -jcali t- a regular ami pcrspicuou 'i;r.t eftl.." prr'i-s tifour laws.
n:orr remark t moii.'J venture to makt.
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rs of laws of :i trener i inter M, w liirh, at twenty-five' cent per pn:r, won!;! amount t lnteen rloN 1 ir"'. Th'is, for the miiii of tifti i fi tl .li.ir--, tf each .rmtt-r, the I iw of last eirn n.itr' t h tv been
r.aiiTiiated in every paper - 1 the -t-ti IlwouM j
!::! fe nrre.-irv t, in-irt them i'i one caper in !
n a Live rannr-t he rxi-eiiti ! wl.eit I h mn. ti i. i n . .1. .1 t. ..1. '
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' -in rs 13 or 14, wli h, at tlx. -.ift n ;i.e ! niimSi r,
wi!'! m ikf (he
be the 1 resident. The same mode to tie observed with regard to the Vice Pi esident. The question of a Convention lias been agitated, but Iwis been put to rest by a vote of 35 to 21. It is said that the Legislature will elect H. L. White, of K owille. to succeed Gen. Jackon as United State '-'e ator; and Mr. White has consented to -rrve. JSat. Jour,
Ti';! .1 oiti-.n, a"I ettleil !is'ike fif the t;re.it
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wh e - expose cut t'vo liumlret! Will anv on" pret n 1 that thi-
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iini eoa' I be b tter . ,Tii:le.l than in thi1 way ? I It 1 a 1! -ii ate matter for u, as editor of a public I
1: a -::. i.noiie, ;,,i, r hin; "l f! 1 'i-nal, t rero une-nd ;t in i'T.r.. which will render
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f'f i: roT, or rannat c. put m errrTi-j-(':r. -r led nd tram-V'! urton. it tr.U't r r-r.'-'urr rnr.f err r t ef !a t, a nr an npin -r r i'i''ic. ar.d of the rid 'in nr.d Mint,
--afi-r. Th- contempt, v.-hen nriff hare :'l ca.'trallv extend 1' and t!,- rrne-
i! i""'mv!.( m-it tar.rern, mnt finhnpry. ij j-
r f . re. j3 r r rr"n"o for the I a;r, love of "rv ri'i-' i. tv" a verv fehle :nce upon the f i-it ji rot f' " -il. al n', or the trees, the . ' r I.;!!-, 1 vh;-!i nirri?.an are at? aehed : . 'S . wf 'j, --.f :ir inlni!;i'i!' ron-fitu'ion, " '. :rr.arr r at of t J ejr .-u';Jrv. Wo woald
Canals in Gkkat Bkitaiv. It is stated by the Renter of Arts a?.(l Scieiice?, that there are in G. Britain 10 5 canals, the total extent of which is 1-4 milep, whic h Kt thirty millions sterling. This csti mat( of the cost rive? an average of somethin? more than 1 1.000 pound per mile. There are in the various cannl 4Csubterraoenn pasai'e, 40 of which have an ex teat of 32 mil s. None of thoe work? were projected prior to the year 17oj.
j C ill io is expected to surrender t-hortly j the u 11 ri'.Oii having seieral titne .ilteniptJed to revolt, aiid losing ten rnefi every day i bv sick-iesj?, executions, and deertionf. O i the 7lh July, 24 men ie two boats, s:caped from the cattle, nitd surreed' r J. to jthe naliorjal frigate Pr-teetr. Cart .rzvi na is in a complete state of defence, a.-d t C j garrison is in higli spirits. Commerc e is active. I From the Pacific. The P.-ruvion j Captain Kelly, arrived atB llnnore on I Saturday, in C3 days from Clmrillos, ti e j pre-ent port of Lima. j The IJ. S. frigate United State, and the U. S. scliooner 1 "Iphio, were Iwng at that port. Ollicers and cre.ws all ntdh ! General 13 divar was stilli t Upper Peru,
but was exported to return to Lima. ( ieneral Rodil still holds out in the Castle of C-tllao, and it uas believed wc.uld do so for some month to come. It appears that o . the 29h ot July, the British frigates Briton a' d Tartar visited ( 'all 10. and t ieir commanders'. Sir 31. Maxwell and
u oh:i i us to .1 charge of i::t rr:.ivl views.
! " i lv "cate and pronoter of whatever conduce j
t the "talahty and w elfar- of society, it i our dut - ; to reratnuicnd such ir.oa;t:res heedh:3 of persona! ' con'. "I'lenci j
zlrcrt of a hl!trfrini n rrrntlctnan in Ohio,
t t his fru ml in li futtntuii city, fiaird Oct. 21, i cr,. j "The- National Road is in an active! state of progress; what has been done i-' well done. By this time next year. 28! ...:n 1 r,..: 1 1 1. : 1. .. !
.t- a bV. ? nbereoc o the injunctions J; ,Mllt 'v " ioo-.m;u, iMi-je-, .1 . ru,: ifth.r rtmnf'.u-ded in rea-an, Jt j ,,l,m,,cr ' fi'S, some of them Ven ! Ie ror.-:TI, 1 t ra, ritrd nibvion and con-j' '-'Tge, and is a!) earnest of a spe-dy fmi!i. : ov'..- -I ,vr m Hw, but thoe i"tl order to break down monopoly, and t' : 1 . 11 . !
1 p;': Jir dfare, and hir ' j I'luUCe COUl pe 1 1 1 1 1 l I , Us ell a 10 give pool ;
with the rich, Mr. Weaver.
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1 v vrrrrfed. b.'f.-ve there nre !i men a chance
lev-;., thw -. ,tPi r;rmt rf-r'aiu ufT'ncen, whirb ij the worthy, industrious and able Superin-i
tendent, divided it into very small t-ections, and required no other s in ity than a reservation in his own hands of one-fourth of: the relative value of the work monthh done. The c.):iS (ju'ncc has been, as wa
reasonably to have been anticipated fiom;
Iv.SOLVTNT LAW r. MORAL JUSTICE. It i provide I hv Lie law of this state. (sas thj B ill imore (jr iz -tte), for tie relief of insol
vent debtors, that on the annlic ition of ; Captain Brown, were tu rmittt o hv Gen-
J any debtor for a rcleacc from his debts, it i; eral Rodil to land and enter the Castle,
c,,, 'j.ipv of ids creditors shall all'Lie, in u ntii l ; iiere tiey w r0 spl-. ndi ilv entertd ed at
10 the court, that he Ma conveved any p u t j;"a oreaui isi 01 tim e courses. 1 ne tanlo of his property, with intent to defraud his j wa aid to have been crowded witt: every creditors, an issue shall be framed by the j; description of fresh Mock, and the choiia st court on the allfgation'witli the form of an j: vv ines. Ti.e water u-ed by the garrison
action.' and tried bv a jurv, and if the was lound to be of .-xt.tdlert qu ilits , .md debtor be convicted of the fraud, he shall m all seemed to e j food health. Tie
be forever precluded from all benefit ot the jj tiooj
act. A case recently occurred in the Baltimore county court, in which a creditor prosecuted all"tration of fruud against a Petitioning debtor, and on trial, the jury - und the debtor guilty of the fraud the legal costs incurred by the creditor, in prosecuting iiis fraudulent debtor, amounted to more than seven hundred dollars; and the court decided that no costs could be recovered of the debtor on the trial of -urh an issue. Jifes.
The", xve humbly think,
p.v r.ry r, or vrrv c'f;om ,nf rred. We nerd not f '!. '.ir,, n they will readily iir;et thern-
i rtTv ere
.' 'H rc m'nn,' fr-" hinri : 'e we fntnded to ,., rrd a fi-w nain thorjht upon om par-
e 1 r -fitu'' s; hut it has nl'on Iv extended to o j jjq judicious an arrangement,
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: that we mu't. for t', nr.-ent, for- contractors have had to staiifl riloof, and1
" na iufenfion. in maUinsT th jj there are no smt-rmni contractor to prey ',,! - rhvit thnriht, and fouc:cret-ome j up m the poor, ai d pocket what thev ne-i whirh, to ,,.,.,nrd important. ver earned. Wlien a pe rson goes along I
e liive. before u the interesting detail rft!io rrntnl and imposing ceremony of rer v:M"1l n nnsr bovt, the Seneca Chief. 'r ,- L ;;e Krir..at Albany and N. Vork. r narrow compass- to which we are ho-
la:!jv r(ntir,,ed we cannot do justice toj
-Trndenr -and solemnity of the scene irrieed, it is impi-iM to find lauc,,ti -tror,g cnougli to express what we '-L a the occasion. As Americans, v e
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p'-e t t tl s,i jrn at work, the New-York ral. as an evidence of what freeborn g' n "'n l ent vrprize ran effect, when di- !'' 'd'-d hy inteilioence and science. The Cf' i:j'" 'i"n of this immense undertaking, i!'y. w",i!, i)ronrietv, he marked as a proud
b in the hUtorv 0 our country. By I
the line, instead of finding the contractors
standing with their hands in their breeches pockets, he sees the contractor hard at work, with a mattox, a shovel, or a sledge in his hand. Gentlemen, as st led b) the world, do not make good turnpikers.'
RnonE-IsLwr). -The Legislature ofthe strite of R: Uf-Island coitvened at South Kingstown, on Tuesday the 1st Nov. From the report of the Treasurer, it appears that the receipts into the treasury amount to 0,291. The house of Representatives consists of 72 members, and the Council of 2. including the Governor and Lieutenant-Governor. On the 1st int. the Governor cent to the house a communication from the executive of the state of Illinois, relative to tin resolution? communicated to the legislature of that state from the state of Ohio, recom-
an cxtc.'iiive ai.d must interesting nor-fi mending to the several states, the ad option
s, to the I U lie CI' tl l.UUlt. (.1
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! and appeared in fine he tlth and spin.-.-General Rodil vva- i a d iilv txiectali f : dep. itches from Spai". ai.d -:ad po. i . ly j refused all offers io treat with the I'om ts j He kept up the hope f hi- troops h o
pagati.ig stories of tht success id the Sp an ish arms in Upper P-a u, iSc.
It is stated in the St. Louis (Missouri) Republican. th at General William H. Ashley passed Franklin, on his way down, with a very valuable cargo of beaver. It is stated that he had from 00 to 100 packs, worth from Sd0,000 to 50,000. -V. Jour,
Tut. Biiandywixe arrived at Havre on the 4th Oct. and landed Lafayette and his
1 suite. all well. She had proceeded thence j to Cowes, to rc-caulk, having leaked had-j
lv in her upper-works. We have no further particulars. JWrs.
Wool, in large rjuantities, 13 now brought from the west, for sale in the eastern cities. It bears the cost of transportation bette: than most other raw commodities that can he produced beyond the mountains -and, if the same attention were paid by the farmers to the rearing of
sheep which they give, to the cultivation ot grain, over and above what the wants of their neighborhoods require, there would be a greater difference, indeed, in the a. Mvunt of their profits, ami their country too, wo aid lie the better for it. Twenty thousand pieces of flannel will he made at the Amesburv mills, Massachusetts, in the present year. The import of this article has neaily ceased, and, with a fuller supply of wool will soon wholly st"p.
! Tne home-made yo(b are better and
African coloxv. Preparations are making to despatch a vessi I fren B -ton, for the American colon) in Atin .i. It is proposed to carry farmers, artiz ins mechanics and teachers. JK'ilcs,
MARRIKI), At the (Friends) Ridge meeting house near this place, on Thnrs day last, Nathan Wir.sox to Sarah Stokks.
PUBLIC SALE. nnHF. SURSCJUHKII vill . ii. r it nufdic side on U. SKTKN ril l) W, the rt-!i f Twelfth ne.ntlj (Saturday, 10th of h ridter) next, TWO HOUSLS and LO I S, in the town of Kieii. non-1, know. n nUe . S an tliero. of hy Nos. t'2, and 47, in Hint part of the (own lai out by Jeremiah ;. t?-l" oe.n nee at 10 o'clock, when the terms will he n. ale known WILLIAM COX. I9!i of llth month, 8-1 ot A LL peron indeted to the estate of JFIIF.MPW MI MOI'n I P, ilec ae(, ,re req-K-t d to make immediate payment: ind all th"-i h .vui claim ;n;aiiit said estate, are require-! to present their accounts, lenlly authenti-ttted for set tint. ot, within one year from this date. The eot.ite is solUI,t CUvithKS MOFI ITT, Adrniui-tratir. 11th month 25th, 1025. 8-1 dt NOI'ICE. ALL pf rOH8 indebted to f f-" sur rtber ar- requesti'd to r all and 'i? !i re thei r are -u it; 011 or before the FIRiST IMV ofthe eti-un: , or they wdl he plaeed in l !ic hands of pr p r i. .rj for colic, lion, n nttcnnau to thi-4 nuti. lai. mitre eosls. CORN and WHF.A P will he t do o nujuueut. 1 iltH oontb Jtb ICZS. U