Public Leger, Volume 3, Number 129, Richmond, Wayne County, 28 October 1826 — Page 2

FOREIGN AFFAII1D.

Selected from Eastern Papers. Russia. A Boston paper says The whole number of conspirators convicted by the high court of justice is US Some were convicted of a design to commit ieg-

icide and other murders ; some of exciting l revolt and rebellion: and others of partiei- j piting in the military insurrection and as- j sas-ination at St. Petersburg. They have j been sentenced as follows: j

i o be drawn and quartered, o To be beheaded, 31 To suffer civil death, and be confined for life t hard labor in the mines, 17 T hard labor in Siberia for a

term of year-, with deprivation ot

rank of nobilitv.

T- perpetual exile in Siberia, To transportation for lite, To degradation to the ranks,

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eighty Brazillian vessels of war are in the river. Partial engagements take place between some of the vessels of the opposing squadrons. The Chillian squadron was expected. Peru and Bolivar are considerably dis

turbed. The people as yet do not know how to manage themselves as freemen, and rather desire, and peshaps, need, a strong government, for the present. From Minor's Journal, September 30. SPUUT OF PENNSYLVANIA. All our great public improvements, the canals, are rapidly progressing to completion. The Schuylkill navigation may be said to be now finished, and ready to un

dergo the best test of utility, a full trial. The U"ion canal is also very far advanced. The greater part of the excavations have been made, the locks are nearly completed, and the tunnel is in a forward state, the water house is up and the great dam nearly finished. The labor which

has been performed upon this canal is pro-

worse claiming tohclono tn

and Christian countrr CH

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quality and efficiency of our 1 !

the tendency ot our institution t ' iryi higher degree, than t- 0s,3r 1

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torics arc daily gaining ground, and gen-!

erally, the appearance ot the people and the country, indicate that the former are in possession of at least a competence. The most important contemplated im-

' nrovement is a canal upon the north branch er country, the great ohiecu

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are taking to nave ims fxienic mu j; uonui uvcu mo savage st,,P , "

important enterprise, brought luSly and concerns every conductor of , ;;

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In addition to the survey above men- ! it still more concerns even-

Most of the above sentences, it will be j digious; and the work, in particular the

locks, executed in a Sivle deserving the highest commendation. From appearance, there is every probability the works necessary to supply the summit level with water from the Swatara feeder, will he

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seen by a previous article, have been com- J muted. Those sentenced to be quartered j were h tin's; those to he beheaded, have ! bei'n o der.'d to be imprisoned for lite; ' and the terms of the exile of others have been shortened. A large part of the con- j

victs were the younger hranches ol men ;

completed before the termination of the present season. The great Pennsylvania

nohibtv, and officers of the army and other j canal is also being executed with great est iHi-hmcnts of the empire. j diligence. We speak in relation to the

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Greece. Speaking of the enterprise j and devotion of the Greek, a late w riter ! says, 'Look to tfr little inlands of the Ar- i chiprlago to Jlxdra, for example: who! ar its inhabitants? Why, the tlf generate Greek-. A fw uh-rmen firt tixed thems -Ive on tttis tm k, on which there is t.ei- j ther a single bl ide of grass, nor even a! spiii-g of water. Others gradually came Iron, the continent, and settled. The ; purchased pemiion from the Porte to : govern themselves. As soon as this was i

granted, the little colon) throve; they built ship, formed a commerce, and soon a fir townaroe; and the astonishing number of 40.000 inhabitants found a refuge from si iverv on thi rock. The Conduriolti funilx aciluired, it is said, a million during th it war, and it was from this spot that the evolution emanated. This little rock i ill the hope ol Greece, although now tht ir lit he are gone: expended lor the common cause. W ill (Mi talk to mo, of selfishness, when nvo, pof-sing wealth ai d comfort, thu r iii thernt Ives for their country's sake ? Or will ou tell me there is no virtue in a p oph". w hose women even tight? The) are br-ive, sagacious, and cunning; and they ni.K want enlightening to vindicate their descent. They are a barbarous propie, and that is the secret of the diversity ol opinion concerning them. kThe indu-trious inlanders will never submit. Already they haye planned their ow . ede. A friend of mine saw a letter ye?t rday which states, that to a man the) have determined, in case of the worst, to leave their homes, and embark for Amen cn.

p.et them rorne if eome they must!' "Y tiav e hread enougii. and to spare land j enough and all the civil rights and social bl- -ing that men can be expected to pos- j se;a.id the m ntres of kings, the tails of I

ha-haw-, mitres of bishops, or even the sta; dard of the prophet, are things that w e laug i at, except as those who use them ho ior them. Antic 4. The Brazillian brig Natuno,

with T,3 -laves has been captured and sent j into Su rra Leone, by the British ship Fsk. j hile iii charge of a prize master and a j few searnen, the Natuno was spoken by a , strange vessel, said to he the Spanish brig ; Car-lira. armed with 10 guns, and man- i lied and fitted for the slae trade, whivh wouid have recaptured the Natuno, but 1 f r the firmness of the prize master who ' shot the officer from the Carolina, when ho ; attempted to force himself on board, and sustained a battle with tin pirates for an hour and three quarters, by which one of the recaptured -laves were killed. If the, Briti-li sMltJ,j niccl with the Spanish ves- j t-el.it is probable that justi(e will be icn j dered to tt.e rn w, by Spilling them in the on an, irtronsequer.ro of tlte battery and il' -tnif tin;, of their floating hell. ' Ti.e French government appears to be ! exerting itself in good faith, to suppress the hlaye trade; and ha a fiigate and seven' other smaller vessels of war on the African coat. Colo Mil! a. Mr. Watts, our charge d 'affairat B gota, ha- not been assassinated, as was so absolutely reported, letters from tiiin datetl the 10th of Augu-t have been received. AtTair- arejtptin a very unsettled state in Venezuela, and some of the adjacent provinces hut blood had not ef been shed, and a hop, rxists that good order m i he testorcd, without proceeding to extremities. IJulxos Ayres is more closely blockaded

eastern section, that portion whii h extend

from the Union canal, at Middlet wn, nearly to the mouth of the Juniata, a dislance of 2o miles. The we-tern Miction, 5 miles, in the vicinity of Pittsburgh, w e are informed, is also under contract, and the work going on rapidly. The Chesepeake and Delaware canal is daily becoming more and more an object of attention and interest to the Su-qu hanna tia ders. Of th state of this work we cannot speak with much confidence. Great vigilenc , howeve r, is exhibited in pursuing the work, but some formidable obstacles to its progress have piesented thcmselv. in the want of tenacity f fnip parts of the ground through, or rather over which the canal has to pass. The parts alluded to are hog or quicksand, and swallow up every thing placed upon them; earth, stones and timber, in large quantities, disappeared in rapid succession. Kven piles, it is said, driven to the depth of forty feet, do not retain their erect position for any great length of time. Measures, however, art in progre-s to overcome these difficulties; and the power and perseverence with which obstacles are met, are an earnest that this great national work will be stcaddv prosecuted to completion. In the list of public works, the improvements of I he Conestcga, by a few enterprising citizen of the city of Lancastar, is not undesery ing a place. It is, it is true,

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mer relative to the location of the 1 ennsylvania canal, upon which we understand a report has been made, that n further aaminatieii of the Summit Level is necessary to a decision as to the route of that canal. The latter survey has been made by what is termed the river party, with a 'view to the improvement of the bed of the

river. 1 ms pany passeu umvinc on their way down the river, on the 19th inst. The river commissioners continue their operations in clearing out the channel of the Susnuehanna. We saw

i ----- - - i j several parties blow ing rocks and removing stones from the bed of the stream bej t ween Hariisburg ai d Sunbury. Ann. her invaluable source of wealth, our coal mines, is daily attracting more and ,mnre attention. An extensive ind valuable bed of coal ha been opened and workel within a few miles of Danville, ami some additional discoveries have heen made upon Stony creek, by the Su-que haniia and Dauf'Jn company, ind in the vicinity of the t,;7atarq hy individuals. : There are mines opened upon the i Lackawanna, at W i I ' Jarre, at Danville, t Peter"- M aintain, the Swatara, the Lehigh and Schuylkill. , From ihc Colossus upon the Lehigh, to the Infant upon Stony 'creek, the busy note of preparation is j heard, some, we presume, for work, others for speculation. j . '. 1 Colonel M'Kenui) , w ho w ;ts associated : with Governor Ca-s, for the purpose ot making a treaty wijh the lodia of the ; North-west, has re mined to ttiis (it), the

objects of the ndssion which yvas er.lru-ted to these gentlemen by the Secretary ot i War having been fully accomplish d. In the few months ivluc- thh mi-sion has oc c upied, upwards of 4000 miles of territory have been traveled, including a voyage of about 2000 mile which was accompli-h

eu in a nir n rane. j ptupc -m country has been traversed by the conimissioners, which is enlirt ly unknown to :us fromanv infcrmatiQt which may be rejlieJ on. It is to be supposed therefore fthat much valuable knowledge relative to J the country itself, and the manners, and character, and custom? of the tribes which

of local interest, but it is evidence that the j; dwell there, must have been obtained. .:-: .fnr,tnrnr;,n ; c . .1 L-. oiul t i.-m..Ic ' W'p :i to n i ii re A . t ! i a t a trreat variety ofve-

I ' the charge that the people of Lancaster are hostile to public improvements. The Conestoga is a fine stream; and the object of the improvement is to render it nav iga hie by dams and locks for a distance of 18 miles, from the city of Lancaster to Columbia, on the Susquehanna. The dams and locks are of timber, the interstices filled up with loose stone, arid the whole faced or lined with plank .1 plan in our opinion which nothing but its cheapness an recommend. The locks are formed in the dam. that is, extending from the face or breast of the dam the whole length of the lork up into the pool. An innovation which we fear in this case will be found to be inconvenient. One section of the canal is completed, and a pleasure boat placed upon it, which affords a delightful source ot recreation in an afternoon's sail or ride. Upon the opposite side of our state the amalgamated company of tin Delaware, Hudson and Lackawnxen canal are pushing forward their work with much spirit and enterprise. The canal from Kingston on the Hudson, to Carpenter's Point on the Delaware, a distance of 70 miles, will, it is said, he completed the present season. The canal will then be extended '20 miles up the Delaware to the mouth of the L icknwana. from thence up the La k; -waxen about 40 miles, by a route not fully

agreed upon, with the addition perhaps of j

a rail road to the Lackawnxen coal mines. This, by a route of about one bundled ami thirty or for ty miles, yvill open an extensive body of coal to the N. York market. In the interior of oui state, many valuable though minor improvements are being made, and several as extensive and important as any yet undertnkr-n arc in r omen -olation. Almost every town and village in the slate, as far as our knowb-dge r ti-nds. is increasing the number of its inhabitants, and those generally of a vei v r -p'ctaole quality. fiouds are being made ai d repairing;, in tiuth there is vet much room for improvement. M anutac-

j ry interesting materials have been collect led; and we understand it is the intention I of Col. M Kenney to prepare these mate ! rials for publication. As every thing which ! tends to illustrate the history 1 four country, and the habits and traditions of the oI riginal inhabitants, must be valuable and j instructive; and as we are aware, from j the characters and qualifications of the igentlemen employtd on this mission, tha

they have suffered nothing which invited and justified the labor of investigation to pass by unexplored, we cannot, for a moment, doubt that the work of Col. M'Kenney, if indeed such a work be contemplated, will make a very useful addition to our domestic literature .Vat. Journal.

The leading article of the last Nashville (Tennessee) Whig, commences thus: "Matters and things. We have heard that several duels are in embryo but, as yet, we have seen nothing of a more hostile character, than a few "paper bullets of the brain," except, now and then, the muzzle of a pistol peeping from under a coat tail.' This is the paper edited by Mr. Erwin, who lias recently challenged Gen. Hous-

iton, of the House of Representatives, for ! having calumniated his character. This j challenge Gen. Houston declined; and, (judging of the future from the past, it is to I he apprehended that assassination may cnsue. I In another part of our paper yvill be seen

the account of the murder, in Kentuck), of Dr. Brown, the brother of the Ameii can minister in Paris, and well known to and highly respected by many persons in this city. The.- e occurrences have now become so common in the west, that except when, as in tin case of Dr. Brown, they involve the fate of Mime individual yy hose character and talerds have made him known to the Union, they pass by almost unnoticed, and always unreproved. Ami yet what can be more shocking whattate of barbarism

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j oi:i;o, p'll ill ill SUCH DroiK 'j l fighting a duel, reprehensible as itl"r : has yet in it something of chivalr' ; thing of honor and manhood, j I in the lace of day, with equal arrri1 a common peril. But the hahit r,j' ! ing concealed arms of entering ifl jcty with a dirk or pistol in one's C' j he used on any provocation, wheth" j or gross, and in ary preset; V1 ! sometimes unarmed, at others as wtjj j ed individualswithout attempt1 ; ation or reconciliation and x ithor i j pect for the laws of God or of maJ ' surely is a state of things whirl, evej ! sidcratiun of good order, morality ai:J gion should induce the public to pUtV j and it is by public opinion ci.lv tj can be done for in a country u!, J laws are made and admini-tcn-d hi'-' i living under them, unless public i plainly expressed, be brought to I the spirit of the laws, the) will he U:.J

111 principle and feeble in exccutior;, above all, let it not be seen that an

whose earlier life has been a cv.h;'J

rics of bloody broils and lictuh, i lence, shall be put firth asata .di;-

I tac high honors of the nation. X J

i 1 SvjtMns theory. Mr. Reudi I delivered and repeated his cocr?fi tures at Baltimore, en the ntwi! the form of the earth, to very n: ; and respectable audiences anilh ! tion paid to him yvas conclusive u ! of the interest felt in the fad ai.d;: I lations which he has collected nr.di: I to the su'-jert, and every bodv wa;:. j with his manner, which is,ir.J"eii.:. j monly happy.

It does not appear to he Mr. K ;, main purpose to insist upon thr in;:that the earth is hollow, aid ( j sustaining multitudes of orpin iz d j like unto oursclyes, or others

j we are acquainted, rrithin, ll ou'j jalogies are certain!) vr n ruri ' foresting, and the use Ihfd he r. ; them exceedingly ingenious huM', of his facts and reasonings arc chK 1 rected to make us believe th it t - j state of things bevond the in rink ! ly different from that which has tf: ( erally believed to exist, and i' t :( , been measureabl) successful ') I hardly doubt that manv ;n ima!j - . . ... -i

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north with which v,e an n With this in bis favor, his claims to; agemcnt in his projected vo;i; Di cry to the south, beyond the h'? are powerfully urged on nW-

the means and the public spirit the splendid undertakinir, anddo' f to promote the cause of general J that quarterns the British aie - !j attempting in the oposdte direct -j as yvc apprehend, for the lsu);rj

north-west passage, for that w'yi

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if possible, the figure and conuifearth at the pole. Xdcs.

The Jews.. Though a liuW;) complimentary to onr-ches. 1 )

Baltimore, was prepared for tra week, it was accidental!) 0!l;

intended to have said, that. at n"

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