Public Leger, Volume 3, Number 109, Richmond, Wayne County, 27 May 1826 — Page 2

NINETSBNTH CONGR2SS. FIRST SESSION.

IN SENATE. Monday, May 8, 1826. Agreeably to notice, Mr. Noble asked leave to bring in the following bill: "Be it enacted -c. That, so soon as the road shall he located through the state of Indiana, as declared by the act of Congress, entitled "An act to authorize the appointment of commissioners to lay out the road therein mentioned.' approved May, 1820, and the act, entitled '-An act for the continuation of the Cumberland Road,' approved 3d of March, 1823, the President of the United States shall cause the said road to be opened eighty feet wide, by cutting off the timber, dicing out the roots, and removing them from the road, preparatory to making a turnpike road, commencing at Indianapolis, cutting and digging, as aforesaid, to the eastern and western boundary of the said stale. Sec 2. That the sum of fifty thousand dollars, of moneys not otherwise appropiiated, be, and the same is herebv , appropri ated for the purpose of opening and ma kins the read, as mentioned in the first section of this act; which said sum of fifty

thousand dollars, shall be replaced out of the fund reserved for laving out and making roads, under the direction of Congress, by the several acts passed for the admission of the states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and Miouri, into the Union, on an equal footing with the original states. See. 3. That, for the accomplishment of tills object, the President shall appoint some fit person, as the superintendent of said road, whose duty it shall be. under the

direction of the President, to divide tin

i.:- c,.,al,,- in, Jim nun palub. in theicim

Withi the last two wee! he arrived here,! wards of two miles m ie..g., 7 " 7" received his instructions from the Secreta- j!a mile across, anupparently eight liu. -rv of War, and recently left the city to visit ijd red feet deep. 1 he bottom was tilled his familr.nt or near Union Town, Penh-!! with lava, and the south-west and nor hern

jsylvania,and will proceed, forthwith, to parts of it were one vast flood or uqi u ine,

in a state oi lernnu: , Mnrlfmit'fiervsurilcvaT:dllaming bilious.

Filly-one craters, of varied form and size, .rw likesomanv conical islands, from thei

surface of the burning lake. Twenty-two constantly emitted columns of gray smoc.

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of florid lava,

t.f a eu-cen t.up ii enough satisfied with the work.b-j'l.. . . . i . 1 ..(!, Hm nrli-n ot,l fl.. .

complete the location of the road. Mr.

Ioble said he had seen his instructions they were promptly given to him by the Secretary of War, and, for the want of knowledge as to the nature and extent of

the instructions, and the probable time that

the location would be completed in Indiana, he had been compelled to delay the introduction of the hill till the present. He was now satisfied that the local ion would' be early completed in Indiana during the present year, and he did not w ish to lose sight of the interest of the people of Indiana longer. He would have been willing to have included Illinois, as he is w illing to extend to her and Missouri that which he aks for Indiana, but for the fact, that the location cannot be completed during the present year in those states. Ohio is now at work, uot merely cutting off the timber,

and digging up the roots, preparatory to

or pyramids of brilliant flame, and many o them, at the same time, vomited from the i ignited mouths streams of florid lava

which rolled in blazing torrents, down their black indented sides, into the boiling mass below.

The sides ofthcgulph before us wercjj perpendicular, forabout four hundred feet ; !, when there was a wide, horizontal ledge of,! solid black lava, of irregular breadth, hut; extending completely round. Beneath this i.

black led"-, the sides sloped toward the jj

ould ;

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aruiiuvu ...... - - I - ....... w!i Mjp

plenty of poor people who would hVe j' glad to make shirts for fifty cents each " To a question from the aldcrina;, replied, that the society was a churj" one, and established in order to poor people with work; that she hnj "' ; imposed upon, but that now she was a 'squire, s!ie expected justice. : Alderman. I presume, madam, yriJ ' willing then in this case, that justice , be (lone? ' J)lrs. B. Yes, but I will never paytj more than fifty cents apiece for maj,i;i , r I son's shirts; I could have got plenty ofr -! pie to make them for that. A. You are presidentess of this s0c;.?vi . Mrs. B. Yes, I am, and ou see the il I arn imposed upon. Alderman. And you gave this work t Mrs. A. purely out of charity and be;,.-v,' : lent feeling! J Mrs B. Yes, I did. There are tr.nr poor people that would have mad" ' I

shirts for three eleven-penny bits ap;(rf I

ing it; he rejoiced o sec it, and let Indiana commence, at least, to make preparation. Air. Noble said, one more suggessir tion, and he would sit down: we must have the road, and when he said fo, it was in respectful terms to the Senate, and hoped it would be granted. Nine months in the year, was the road opened, the great w estern mail could be transported through the state and states in stages; ami our commercial men, and all other persons, would have the advantage of speedy convevan-

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making a turnpike road, but actually mak-j heen recently filled w ith liquid lava

up to this black ledge, and had, by some subterranean canal, emptied itself into the

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rontri' wliirh was. - as nearly as we

iodre. three hundred or four hundred feet

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u ,.r It tv.-iB vinVni. that t ie crater naa t ' anu i am now ui i uiuiioiv..

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them to one of those persons. Afdernian. Pray how much would t!, shirts have cost your son, hud they beemade by a lady, who was not in liec.s . tti'His circumstances?

jsea, on inundated ho low land of the shore. The gray, and, in some places apparently

calcined, sides of the greater crater before , u: the fissures which intersected the sur-I face of the plain, on which we were stai d- j ing; the long banks of sulphur, on the op- j p -site side; the numerous columns of a- I porand smoke, that rose at the north end j of the plain, together w ith the ridt'e of j steep rocks, by which it was surrounded, ri-inir nrobalds, in some places, four bur !

j ces, as w 11 as our l( How t it:;!- i s on this

) side of the mountains, to the commercial i dred feet in perpendic ular height, present-

same into sections of not more than ten j passing by niany important places. rd an immense volcanic panorama, the ef-iml-seach; to contract lor, and personally Thf first section of the hill provid.-s, that ; feet of which was greatly augmented by superintend the makini; the said road, as ! on a the location is completed, the the constant roaring of the vast furnac es bef re mentioned, as well as to receive, President shall cause the road to be epen-: below.'

ed; ttir second proposes the means, and ! B'.'twecn nine and ten, the dark cleud?

di?f)urse, and fiithhillv account with the Treasury for all sum-of money by him received in virtue of tins act. That the said superintendent, before he enters upon hv discharge of the duties enjoined by thi act. shall ext cute a bond to the United States, with security, to be approved of b the Secret ir of the Treasury, eondittonf 1 for the faithful discharge of his i n t i t prescribed by this act. That he shall lo l l las othve during the pleasure of the Pr -deal, and h.i receive at the r.ite of til teen hundred dollars per annum for his services, during the time he rn t be employed in the di-charge of the duties required by this act."

t'ie third declai es that a superintendent shall be appointed, to aid in accomplishing the object. lie hoped that leave w ould be granted, and that the bill would take the usual coure.

The leave w as

was read the fir.-1 t me.

and heavy fo, that since the sc-ttir.tr

of i

then given, and the bill

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ai in L-ongrcss aziembiert, I hat I lie provis-

Mr. Noble said, he would not detain the ions of the act, entiled "An act to provide

Senate but a few minutes, in e xplaining jj for the extinguishment of the debt due to

AN ACT Mikine further pmvia.m fnr the c ictiniuishmcrit of the i't ht tint to ihc Unit 1 tLiUe, " by the pur-ch:i-rr? ol I'u'iJic Inm!. f APna to, 4th May, 1820. P ilcnnttcd iu the Smtite ami House of Rf preventatives cf the IJniiid Slates of Atneri-

the details of the bilhand the reasons which

induced him to ak leave to introduce it. The act to authorize the appointment of commissioners to layout the road therein mentioned, contemplated that the United S'ate lands might become more valuable. T-'iat is the object of the bill now otTercd ; also, to give to the state of Indiana th it which she expects and claims as her right, under the proposition and stipulation entered into with her bv the United States, pledging two per cent, arising from

the sale of the public 1 md, for the p irposr of making road- leading to the said j state, under the direction of Congress, j The act he referred to, did not conteni- j plate the road to pass by the seats of gov- j ernment in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and to j the seat of government in Missouri. I The commissioners appointed to locale j the road, reported to the Wr Department I

that the distance would only he increased

'the United Stater, bv the purchasers e,f

j Public Lands," approved May the Kith, 1 1 G2 1 : and the provisions of the act,' milled

'the sun, had hunt; over the volcnro. rad- ; ualh de;in dava, aj.d the fires of Kiraiiea. darting their fierce light athwa't the midniuht gloom, unfbled n cight terrible and sublime beyond all v bad )et seen. The agitah d mas ol liquid lava, like a flood of melted metal, raged with tumultuous whirl. The lively tlame that danced ! over it undulating surface, lit ged w ith the S'llphureous blur, or glowi ng with i i aeral red cast a broad glare of dazzling light on 1 the indented sides of the insulated craters, j whose bellowing mouths, amidst rising ) flames.nnd eddying streams of fire.shot up, ! at frequent intervals, with loud detonations, i spherh al masses f f fused lava, or bright igI nited stones. i The dark, bold outline of the perpendic 1 ular and jutting recks around, formed a s.rikii g contract with the lurni .ous lake

j .l tt 1 ( Al'i-iiMilOl U! .ill . , rmiiiiu

act to provide for the vi inguishment oil, below, whose vived rays, thrown on the!'

the debt due to the United Mates by the rugged promontorie?, and rellected In the j purchasers of the Public Lands" approved ovei hanging clouds, combined toccinplete j May the Gth, I 21, ht, and the same are j the aw ful granduei of the imposing scene.' j j hereby, severally i ct ived and continued in It is a striking feature of this -volcano, 'force, in all respects whatsoever, until the that it does not spring out of a nueantainJ! j 4th day of Juh, 1C J7. ( or hill, as is the case w e believe in all other i

Sr:c. l2. Be it further car. .-,'-., That the pnrt-i of the world, but is seated in a com- j

legal holder of any certificate of lands ; parativelv plain country, or rather at the ji

Mrs. B. I don't know sir perhaps A i I 1 1 1

cost oi me uncn per yaru perhaps a (!. j

lar; but the persons who norkfor curs-, c iety, always work for less than tho:e v,i are iatt poor. Alderman. Is that the charity of ycq Society ? and can you he so blind as , perceive that when you gave lho-c bhlr;i to be made for your relation, by this pe; wnmaa, that y on were attuallv i tceiv'.;,

cha r it from ht r ? Mrs. B. Charity from her, sir sir, scorn it; lam no beggar, sir. Alderman. I did not say 3 011 were. V. ul declare, ourself, that these shirts v.nujj; have cost b7 and a b.alf cents, if made Ln , person in comfortable circumstances; mil now, a? a poor person has made f ht in, u: j pay but 50 cents; do you not then iccl'm I from her 37 ai:d a half cents for the j-.nY, t lege )ou allow her of earning fifty ce-o? ' Mrs. B. I gave her the shirts to oLl: her others would have made them still less than I flered, and you will i.t-ve convince me that I am wrong. There ;, ! other men as eood ns you are, and vL know as much, that say I am right. ! Alderman. Iamsorrysnch is the t : ion of any good man. I am sorry any rational being will so ;pro-::: the kinder feelings of the human hear!-!

; prey upon the necessities of the poor aril ; starving, and then try to convince others .; is charity. My opinion is, that vcr' should pay this pr.t wo wan the same pri for the sliirls, that you would pro!al'

J have been obliged to pay to one for niakir.; them, who was not uufortunatelv conifti led to apply U you for w ork and i shd

cnterjudgmentaccordinglr.

purchased from the United States, which j base of t lie stupenduous mountain, Mouna 1 md has reverted, by virtue of the prov i - Koa. It never overflows its margin like ion? of the act of the 2d of March, 1C21,!' other volcanoes, but the lava seeks a'aubor tlie several acts supplementary thereto ;j lerautou passage, bursting out occasionalor w liich,by virtue oithe.Mh st ctionof thej y at a distance from the crater, and finding act 10th ofMay,! fiOO,tssubjcct to besoldforf! its wav to the lower country, and even to

the balance due thereon, with inlerest ; ci uthesea. 1 he dimensions ol thi enormous j and received as brothers and which, under the piovisions of the said act j! gulph have ueen more accurately ascer- jj the other settlers. The captain of the vet has become forfeited to the United States,!; tained by Mr. Goodrich and Mr. Chamber- jj sel 'describes it as a delightful place; -

a little upwards of two miles, and on better ji since the 1st day of July, 111.0, and which! Iain, who have made a recent visit to it. the despatches from the coin ial age?.-

ground, less expensiv.' to the U. States, has not been old, shall he peri.'imcci to re- j by at tual mea-urerneiit they found the ; i ford the strongest evidence of the succe

FnoM Lir: !.: . Very late ink-Ilifrcrrc.f of a mo-t encouraging character, has hc.rj received by t!ie board of managers of t !. American c olou'z tion s )cietroni thecii-! ony on the African coast. The best hcp of its friends are in a fair wav to he ri; -j ,z d. The vessels which latelr sailed Ucz Boston w ith a number of emigrant?, am j vedin safety in 31 days parage, and -M

the passengers were land in good benhx.

deem the same, at any time pre vious to the 1st day of May, 18-27, on paying the a-

mount of the purchase money due, exc lu-

upper edge of the crater to be seven and a j of this experiment, and of the prosperity c

hall miles in circumference; anu at the 1 the colony. It is probable we shall nav. depth of five hundred feet, they satisfied H it in our power to publish, sf inenhal irde

sive of interest, with a deduction of 37 1-2! ihenelves that its circumference was at j! tail, the accounts from the agents of &

percent. H least five and a hall miles. (colony. Meanwhile, as a part ef the

I3i c. o. .i ml be it further enacted, J hat u ;i the legal holder of any certificate of furlh-fl

to make Columbus, in Ohio, Indianapolis, in Indiana, points. From the date of the act, which was in 1 820. although the Senators from the states of Ohio. Indiana, Illinois, and Missouri, as well as the Representatives, have been engaged every ses

sion ef Congress to obtain the passage of a l! the legal holder of any certificate of furlh-fl SINGULAR TttlAl

law to make the seats of governments ! er credit, eitonded to purchasers of pub- jf Br fore one nf the Aldti men of Philadelphia.

points in the three first named states, and lie laud, b the act of the 2d of March, (j Mrs. A. the complainunt,staled tothe court j to extend it to the litter; though a bill for 1G21, entitled "An act for the relief of the that she was a poor woman, and that she the purpe.se did pas the Senate wc were j puu ha-ers of Public Lands, prior to the jf had applied to Mrs. B. ns a lady holding a 1 delayed with our load, even as to its loca- n 1st day of July. I C27. discharge the amount ! high office in one of our femala charitable j tin-, till the passage of the act 3d March, due on such certificate, by reliiujuiid. merit, jj institutions for work that she obtained! 1C25. The road will p as through conn- or payment.oi hoth,Midi holder hall be cnti jj work from her: that at one period she had ! tie in the Mate, and in many ef them the ;! tied toareniisiontfaliintt'reatdut'theicon,!made up some coarse shirts at 10 cents'

United States own the greater part of the at the dav ol Mich disf .barge, together with a '! eat It and that subseouentlv, Mrs. H. ha , rni ..." . . . . . . . - . ! . . ......

la hi. 1 he rr. .meat the road is located, ; deduction o; o 1-2 pel cent. on and unequivocally the moment when the j actually paid, in ca-lt.

opening commences, not one ingl tract of j 1 in 1, bordeiing on the road, will remain 'I

lofig the property of the I nited States, but

the amount

VOLCANIC L KK. The lst

! ing ?een satisiieu ot her ;iialdu ations to ih liner work, hud sent her some linen at 1 V,l and a half cents per yard, to make up

i .i.ii iti,n.iii a au anoiii me rce.

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'""s "v I "I'1 V iiau lilll IKilliwi 11 iv. iixilll . ilil l O Ul I I . i t , j Mill 11111 I III Jk Wilt" lO III' lin iifl I il U g'Tl t '. Ji'M t d i I ',C tjralll VI I f. S(iOll, will be purchased by actual ettle, in contains an interesting review fa hod; ie- jj tlemaies shirts me usually tn.Lhfd "imtl ' trent wht r.ccomanted the rmi2f'lRt5 u!iif!i l!nrn wall hp pre. at roirmptitirm. nfK ruilili.b.wl in 1 1. v I r .t.ti 1 I . n - ' tl.t tl... ..r,. ' .. 1... ..." x . r i t . i!! (

(cresting information whidi they furr

may be mentioned the destruction of trft slave-factories bv the forces of the color.

and an accession of 1 1G liberated Africa

New setlSeihcnts are forming in the r.cip 'oorhood of the capital, (Monrovia),arul it" v. ith pride that the friends of this ei

ers for its wdoire, behold in it rr: aspect, the e lements ofa great, free, -l'!j tianantl educated people, on a e:lvt erto invt loped in the thid: gloom f i igH ante and cversha Jou ing clouds vt l'',l i ism and superstition. It is with ."oat regret the bead

cnt A f.fib.p .1. fifi tiC Wr .inns. I"f''

w Inch there will he great competition.

cently published in Boston, entitled".! our j that thev wore lor the bon-in-hiT of Mt.

Mr. Noble said, he would have introdu- ' nal ofa tour around Hawaii, the latgesCi is.- -that when the shirU i ight in number.

ceo liiiMjiu ariv in the s-smoi, ii he could ot the Sandwich iMands, trotnwbal wrl; were taken home, Mr, would allow but-, have d mm' so w it a propriety, but he wan- xtract the following extraordinary tits- -al oti, apiece that they weie worth one I ted important information, w hich he now j eription. dollar each ; and that U iViovcr this sum,: had. The commissioners under the net Among the most extraordinary pheno-ji t!o Miit w as I rought. . ij lust named, completed the location of the j! rncna on the island ol llawiai, is "thr great if To this ttatemrnt !Irs. H. replied, that road duitng the hit vear a fur as "Colum- j crater ofKirauea, situate about I t nt a an otlieor of the Temale Charitable So "; bu-. and reportt-d, tluringthe present sef- ji miles from tie sea chore in the inleiiui. It ' jet v, had been applied, to bv Mrs. A. sion, tothe Secretary .if War, and was to j is thus described in the journal. j (ur WHr'-.and tl:at,a a natter oi rharih J visit this city, for the purpose of receiving (I Immediately be:, re us :vi.ed an in j -hi had given it to ,: (!. -be wnwelf '

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i ii k.i;in oa"', nno liitu j .

M trcls. seventeen das after the tbT:l!i

of the vo,el from Libeiia. U zealous atid able agent.nnil much era to the cdoni,!- wlio wes t out with

Although the climate of Africa $ r.ov't

of the white in in, it is gratifying ll) :'y lh.lt l!ir liifl.r,l Mmn! u( ibr.t Cch15)'.

Ai!i:i.!:n. centimes ti erjoy ze

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