Crawfordsville Record, Volume 4, Number 42, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 25 March 1836 — Page 2

CIIA WFORDS VILLE RECORD.

OHIO AND MICHIGAN BOUNDARY. We shall lay before the public, in a few days, the report made on Tuesday, in the Senate, by Mr. Clayton, from the committee on the J udiciary, onthe interesting subject of the northern boundry of Ohio. It is a document which discusses all the questions connected with the Michigan and Ohio controversy, and fully sustains the principles ol the bill to establish the boundary by the line from the southern extreme of Lake Michigan to the most northerly cape of the Miami bay. The committee unanimously agreed that congress has power thus to settle the boundary, and it is expedient thus to settle it. The results ot the inves'igation by this committee, at the present session, aro the same with those at which the same commitee of the senate, though differently constituted, has twice before unanimously arrived , The reading of the report occupied more than an hour, and five thousand extra copies of it were then ordered to be printed. Since this report was made in the Senate, we understand that the judiciary committee ol the house have

reported on the same subject. Their report,made yesterday (Wednesday) arrives, it is said, though ve have notseen it or heard it read, at the same general results and was made

with equal unanimity. JYat. Intel.

U. STATES BANK (Of Pennsylvania.) One of the means by which the Key-stone Stale is to be annoyed and punished for chartering the United States Bank, is, to procure the passage of laws, in all the loyal States, prohibiting the establishment within those States of any branch or offices of said Bank. A bill to this effect has been already

introduced into the Senate of Ohio; and if Virginia is not fairly choaked

by the collar she now wears, it is

to be presumed the present Lois

lature will be induced to follow suit

But this game of annoyance is one

to which each party can play. And if such annoyai.ee is to be the "order

of the day," we already perceive

that Pennsylvania will take part in

it. In the Senate ot that state, Fri

day last, Mr. Penrose a Van Buren

member and bank man, offered

applied to that portion of the Wa- Harrison and Granger, and against bash and Erie canal within the Van Buren. This settles the quesgrant of canal land, and of $1,500,- lion about Vermont; and I repeat U00 of the ten millions appropria- lhat we shall give the hero of Tipuon, to be applied to the construe- pecanoe lhe ten lnousand maj(jrity. tion ot the portions of public works to be put under contract the present when Mr. Gallot went through S6i!iMn'n 11 . , lhe U'ed Stoles, with Al'amselle I heBoard have appointed Jesse d,Jeck, lhe ccebrate(l c, hant hfc L. William, pnncipal engineer on was one evening arm in his praicanalsm this state; and hav created ses ol the hospitalises and social!.

. h i.giiieer on llcs 0f the mother country ; and on mans fn r-ti n hovn nnnn.LKu . . J '

", : g'MFt- other instances, he quoted one of vision over their sev eral appropriate lhe Rutland punch bowls, which, JEM kS. ",elr. Ufflces 31 - christ'ening of the youJ

Aiiuiuuujjuiis. i ue acting commissioners are severally authorized to appoint resident and other engineers on the particular works on which operations are authorized.

Destruction of Peldn in Chinaby

an cmtliquakc. We have been favored with the

following extract of a letter from a young Baltimorean, now in Valparaiso, which details some facts respecting the affairs of Peru and

Chili. It also mentions the report

in circulation at Valparaiso of the destruction ofPekin in China, and

ine entire disappearance of one

marquis, was built so large that a

small boat was actually sailing on it in which a boy sat, who ladeled out the liquor. "I guess," said one of the company, I have seen a bowl

lhat would beat her to immortal

smash; for at my brother's christening the bowl was so deep that

when the young ones said it warm

sweet enough, father sent a man down in a diving bell, to stir up the

sugar at the bottom !' A LETTER FROM MR. BROOKS.

series of resolutions, intended to

meet the case. They propose to

prohibit, under corresponding pen

allies, the circulation, within the limits of Pennsylvania, of the bills

notes, checks, drafts, or orders of

all banks of such states as shall thus prohibit the establishment of branches or agencies of Pennsylvania banks, and the circulation of Pennsylvania bank paper within its limits. The old key stone state may cry "lay on Macduff"

March 7.

FROM THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL

Synopsis of the doings of the Board of Internal improvement. A report from the committee on roads and canals was unanimously concurred in, declaring it inexpedient, at this time, to direct the expenditure of the $50 000 appropriated for the improvement of the Wabash river, at the Grand Rapids, inasmuch as operations at that point are now going on by tho commissioners of Indiana and Illinois jointly ; and as the result of their experiments will be known in a few

months, the Board will be thereby better enabled to determine the best

manner of accomplishing the object

of the Legislature. lrom the es

timates, the portions of the work to

be put under contract will cost a bout $3,000,000.

The board have determined that

tho Wabash and Erie canal shall

cross from the north to the south side of the river, by means of a dam at Wells' Ripple.

The Board were on the 10th inst, notified by the Governor, of the passage by the Legislature ot Ohio

ol an act to permit and authorize the state of Indiana to construct a part of the White Water canal within the territory of Ohio, and enclosing a copy of the act. The Fund Commissioners have, it is understood, been requested to negotiate a loan of 500,000, to be

THINGS IN SWITZERLAND Chamouni. Sept. 9, 1835

llllnrlrnH f K...- ,1 1 1 . . . '.. J '

u.uus.uiu nouses, causefl and quarantines on lhe olher side, I have by an earthquake, which left noth- been at last bitten by lhe mania of the moun-

mg but a black and stagnant nool ,amm,au nS"sl a am mountain-mad .. i..,. ,. . nr " ' myself, raging even here amid the frozen spas where but a moment before count- oUe iUewilJ passes r cimLu

.-v., ...v.uuua t-vioitu in me ntiiei at me very oise or t ne mi htv ftinnt i!i

of unconscious security. Baltim- Shivering with cold too before the bright

Ore ixOZ. mazing lire, as me icy-iauen blasts of wind come sweeping from the mountains along the Extract of a letter from a en- vale' an(J ,1(nvl likG furious winter through pnan of Baiting not f tKUN I OlparaiSO, dated ISocembcr 1, sudden change this is from the summer bree1835. zes, and the vine-clad hills of the beautiful A flairs on this coast are about the Lake LemanS Bul ,wo d;i3's "go, after a same as when I last advised vou fn ,wo?8 tjTey7l w,ils in s,Jmr at ... ... 1KMkeu Jvu Geneva. Winter this day, the very wildest Willi but little or no alteration. In winters of the Canadas I have seen. All cli-

I eru, fcalverry Continues still to mates, all temperatures, almost all produc-

retain his hold, from last advices t,ons you C3n lnvehereabouts' asJ0U ascend

' i fir iit-vi'Frif 1 nip miie

1 found a young English Barrister in Ge

neva who sought a companion to promenade with him among the mountains, and as I have

an abundance of time at my disposal now,

readiiy enlisted, and we tormed a traveling

co-partnership "to go on loot, ' over hill and

and affairs were expected to be brought to a final crisis by this time. If Santa Cruz, the president oi Bo

livia, should prove victorious, it was tho't JSalverry would, after his

deteat. rntirn in l.imn hum ,.nii ,.i n. ri i- ..

, '-"itiut isuiii me aucv, niicic me viiainuis live, as wen as

City, and take a vessel at Callao, wereonIy the mule can transport you. We

emu &U uepan vanquisiied and in f on nnnnn i ' i toot, and alter but a short stro , we werp peace-leaving a sad memento to called np to be examined by one of LIZ tuture generations of his short tho' cers who keeps guard on this border of the tyrranical government. dominions of the Duke or Savoy, for the Duke The UlySSUS, captain Hobson "f?av7 Pus,n liw boundary lino into ivno o ri 1 i ' Switzerland, or else the Swiss have almost Uasat Cob JQ, loading copper ores surrounded him. Our passports of cousinlor ILngland, last month, and while sured us a free road. The time of the necesthere Salverry's sloop of war, the sary quarantine for the traveller who has been Libertad, came in the harbor, hav- FranceTm.y English friend has passed in In-IJ i irn i Geneva. His little pack upon his back e? mg landed 150 men Up the coast to caped with no examination, while mv Ll

1 Hid r M . I n . .1 l . 1 . 1 11 Ti- i. '

niaiuu .uuuiiu aim nine ine town in the rear, in which they succeed

ed wiih the loss of a few men on "achside. Among the Bolivians

cliffs over which the icicles were often tricklin"

But as the sun went down, darkness for a while left us in the wildest gorges of the mountains,

that our postnton seemed iievt-r to fear as lie knew every step of the way, when but one mistep, however, of his horses would have tumbled us down some terrible chasm into the white waters raging far below. The moon, however, soon lit up the scene again. The glaciers were as its reflectors. The wild passes seemed yet wilder in the deceiv

ing light ot night. 1 was not sorry, though

there wag not the least of danger to be in

this so excellent an hotel, for in such a sav

age ending at it seemed to me of all this world, mountains environ the vale ofCha mouni all about and carriages can go but little further the mule alone monopolizing all the transposition to himself. As yet I had but a moonlight view of the vale of Chamouni which it may he, lent to its sublimity for indistinctness of vision often aggrandizes the object viewed. We rose however, at early morning light with the fiist peep of the sun upon the tops of the mountains, and though the whistling wind of vinier whirlingaround every corner of the house, ami

hissing in its very cranny, hid magnified my

vwn v .-w 1 1 v- V4 uiiiimtuiuii Ol WtlUl IO PXpect, yet 1 was disappointed in nothing Two

glaciers, rolling far down into the vallev.

werewie ursi ot wnicn i nad a distinct view

The triple headed monster, Mont Blanc, par-

uaiiy snowing nis summits, was lust before

me. The snows upon his head, looked as if

they had never been touched by the rays of

uiesun, or vexed by mortal iootstep. The enormous Alps around its base propped as it

were, upon their shoulders the monarch of

the "mountains.'' The sea green pyramids of ice upon the needles, as they are called, illuminaled by the morning sun, dazzled like

banners in the sky. The gloomy forests of

hr, the jigged rocks ot porphyry and granite, the hamlet and the cottage here and there peeping out, the noise of the brawling torrents now quickened into floods, and then sprint like vale of Chomouni itself, so green so fresh

so sad and lonely as it were, in this the home

of ever-frigid winter all formed a picture of

th it amazing grandeur which makes one feel

there is a God ; and as the church bell sounded

at early morning, and all the recks sent bick

an echo, and shut up within their walls, at

every undulation I felt that such were fii

Cathedrals in which to worship him. For the mountains were his altars, the torrents sun

us power, the winds were his ministers:

all proclaimed a being above, fir above the

greatest ot earth's inhabitants! I know not how it is, but there is an influence in a church bell in such a solitude as thisj much more ex alting than when it sounds from the fretted roofs of the grandest temples man has ever erected to heaven. And when I see the numerous crosses here, the many little churces too, for vilagcs so poor, the emblem of the offeiing ofour S.iviour made, worn upon the in;ck of almost every person, I am not surprised thnt

it is so, but I should be surprised if it were

otherwise. J o attempt to give jon an idea

can and the

EVILS OF MOBOCRACV. "History teaches that thP i eirrpr miNnit r general and too eager pursuit of riches, must brin on the downfall of republican liberty. Public virtue is the onlv niA i . . .

Pldhegloriou..,ri;ctnoff public virtue is not to be found wll' quarry of personal intenriiu , "

worked olf and exhausted. ' Ueea lie who hesitates not hv rUau.i

.ii . j ""ji-iiuuu, ei. her known to be falsehood, or recklessly taken up without care whether it be false or tme,-t0 destroy the fame of an adversary wants but h.tle of the guilt of him who would stab an enemy ,n the dark. Personal abuse is a poisoned weapon. 'Unrestrained liberty is anarchy; dominion .n he strong; slavery in the weak; ouCe and p.under in the combined oppressor!; helpless misery in the oppressed: innri, '

s!.fjcion, distrust and fear to all. Law il

the guardian of freedom. 'The summary is short. Liberty becomes licentious, and bursts the bounds of law Tactions race and

I he war ot ruction is succeeded by confiscating and sai guine anarchy. Anarchy is superceeded by tyranny. J 'Ambitious men may rise and disappear, par te3 ,liay slruggIe an( often N. tnt-ii a OUr,CountrJ? will remain, our counry w-,1 flouush in immortal youth, unhurt amidst the aush of contending fact.ons and survivmg the wreck of the most mortal t h ,W if the soul of national freedom be kept alive I he breath of that life is virtue. Demo at zing pubhc sentiment is a mephitic gass in which freedem dies. B 'The following bold but correct view of the evils of mobocracy deserve an attentive rP.

iriz

of what a solitude this is, would be all in v

mi

cious-looRing india-rubber legings stuffed with a few travelling necessaries, attracted the most extraordinary attention of the Savoyan custom house officer, who compelled me to open every thin", even a little iravplin.r

killed Was the governor of C. They dressing case not much larger than a common

burnt all the public property not shavmS box, which, without doubt, he susr.ir1,?f;n, . i i pected, was full of Geneva jewels. The nasmolestino; any private destroyed Lip.K.fn,,, J, . !P:

the castle or fort, spiked the guns comprehensible patois. Bull learn every step

ana men embarked on hoard ot 1 take? 'hat language is not so indispensably

the Libertad, and sailed for Cal- necessary as we imagiue, for in addition tothe

Witt-. tl. . r v necessity l nave olten hail ot making use ot lao. With the exception of a few , nJanna f ,,,, T mm :.,1'

Shots through some of the dwell- a deaf and dumb traveler from New Orleans.

ings, no Other damage was perpe- who even without a companion seemed to

tratcd. et along admirably. The truth is, there are

Tr rMiIt; 11 .1 i about litre so many anguages, that the pcoIn Chili we al goon quietly and pIe learn tospea!and SndeWand as well by

H.tKHv;iuusMy, auuougn OUStness is s.gns and gestures as by words. Hence,

now very dull, owing to the distur- pernaps, is the reason that the nations of the bailees to the leeward, as purchas- c.onlinnl use so many gestures in conversaers there hold UoU Uon' for as.words will only answer their

lir - , . purposes with their own neighbors, they We have accounts here Stating must have a common lanouage which all

lliatl ehin has been destroyed by na"ons can understand, and that is action

an earthquake, and 100,000 houses cnv,tzerianc1' as ottenasyou change ensulphed; so that where this ritv ,nAor "SIh?ods -u Ja"8e

. " .1 u ' .. . i lie x iciicn is not r rench, and

siuuu iiiun; is

stagnant pool.

now a black and

VERMONT.

Extract of a letter from Burlington, Vermont, dated Feb.

-Jo, 1836. You will recollect that when I was in New York, last fall, I mentioned to you lhat should Pennsylvania nominate general Harrison, Vermont would follow, and that, in that case, we could give him ten thousand majority; as I then predicted , so it will be. The ami masonic and whig conventions both met at Montpelier this week, and nominated general Harrison for president, and Francis Granger,

esquire, for vice president: and for

state officers, S. H. Jamison, the

present lieutenant and acting gov

ernor, lor governor, and David M. Camp, esq , for lieutenant governor

and an electoral ticket, sound for

w , u

vjmiiuiio irii ini- i.s nni linrm-in

so that you have here barbarized French and'

uieie uaroarizea uerman, here, JialianFrench, and there, as in the Grisons, the mingling of the Italian Latin which makes what

is caned me liomance

Ti n i rv ci i t .

uuu" ""i we ieu oaiencnes' we were in the wildest country my eye ever beheld. Even America at least America of the

Jorth, must yield the palm to sublime scenery here, and in the vale of Chamouni. We have nothing like it, and but little to compare

wun u an awiui and attecting sublimity. I never shall forget this evening of which I speak, when the last rays of the sun fell upon the snuws and glaciers of Mont Blanc, and when the mists that hung about them divided and reflected its beams as it was going down. The mists now even were our aid. fot they but magnified the view and made sublimity more sublime. The sombre prospect of all the day was suddenly changed upon the bright side of the mountains that seem buried in snow, for the blue glaciers that run far down, even upon the green vallies, were as so many stars that lit up the earth as the stars themselves light up heaven. The beautiful vale of Chede oh what a charming mirror of tho mountains! shadowed forth and painted nil upon its quiet bosom, not even forgetting the firs or the shrivelled green upou the cold i

for it is not desertion or a want of l.fe that

makes the solitude as a large city fur example, where the language is all uninteh'gible, is often a solitude "loomier than the tipfiln

where human footstep has never been. This

is not then asolitudo undisturbed by man, but it is a place of itself all alone, as if

it were not of this old world, but as if soitir

convulsion of nature brought it here, as

ii u were exempt iromthe other laws that regulate the seasons as if Dsii V in fnM

w J , had concentrated here, all the seasons, all the climates pointing out never ending winter on the cliffs of the mountains, and in the frozen water falls that have crept into the vallies, showing the Spring in Alpine flowers that blossom all the summer, and in the lively torrent that starts from the glacier's base, and the Summers, as a melancholy one though in the verdant clothing of the humblevalley, and then sad Autumn, in the even nowwithered leaf, the chilly mists, and the icy laden blasts from all the Alps. Remember, that old as the world is, it knew nothing of this solitude till 1741, when two Englishmen discovered it. nn

claimed its wonders. Or, if it were known before, it was never visited. nPvPr

explored, and the world was as ignorant of it as of America before Columbus told mankind there was such a world, and pointed out where it was. So secluded as it is, the people in it had been forgotten even in the thirst that monarchs have to

possess out an acre ot ground, no matter

now im, or uarron it may be. The

mountains peans had never benn trnrlrlon

but by the avalanche and the chamois.

l he Ingush led the way,-the world has followed. Near the Mer de "race is a stone on which they dined, where an in-

mscription records their heroism. Forty five years after the summit of Mount Blanc was reached But few persons however, have had the temerity to make this wild ascent. For forty years, only forty persons ascended, one was a woman by the name of Marie Coutet, who while she lived was called Marie of Mont Blanc io American has ever ascended I am inclined to believe that thpH;fTnu

dangers of the ascent are exagerated not intentionally, however, but by the

. r- - iu iiuve OI

V ouuws, ana SUCh nrpn nitnn,

tamascems, ,vhich though di&onough 11UIC in ine eyes ot a man

snows and mountains. Thl . " c" ?

the Si tha.4 there is ying aside tne lolly of venturing one's self

coftVorde"118 fm0ne it

'We tell the people of

that unless they look well tn ilmmdl .u.'

day of their destruction is at hand. They are trying to destroy themsnl VPS V.- A

denounce as a traitor every man who encourage in any shape, or under any nrefPYt it,

null n A J i .- ' ' . ' "'

ii" , - u Borga-on ot the laws. We disclaim every man who advise the people to take the laws into iheir own hands no matter for what cause, no matter for what good reason, no matter how much'oood may for once be done thereby. We sayhat every man who attempts to deprive the veriest wretch that breaths God's atmosphere, of the right of trial by jury, fr any crime, is virtually a traitor not only to his country, hut to his own best rights and dearest interests. Men who unchain a mob, are like men who unchain the plague and the pestilence. It may rid them and their country of ifsenem.esandits scourges; but will also sweep them away in its poisonous career. Wo would take him to be insane who wnnl,l

on the brink of a volcano, and throw into it 'he inflatnable matter to produce ,..;-.

llllf Wl SPP lllpn '-lltr, II . '

,.u, aiiug mou iaw and anarchy, on the score of expediency, (as if any expediency can justify overwhelming the J ivv) and we still suffer them to preach on.' Arkansas Adv.

OA lettor

that Oon Poll I , "as,,II,gion mentions PrnllJ ; H has been nominated by the piut.e Ot John II. Fatnn nr,rY,nnA ..

ter to Spain. ' u ,mnis-

VIRGINIA SENATORS. WM. C. Rives is elected a Senator in Congress, from Virginia, in place of John 1 y if r resigned .

The course of events in Virginia, relative to her Senators, within ihe last two yean is an instructive commentary upon the doctrine ot obligatory instructions from constituents to the members of their legislative bodies. I wo years ago the Legislature instructed her benators to vote in condemnation of the removing of the deposites. Mr. Tyler and Mr. Kives were the Senators. Mr. Tyler voted as instructed, and Mr. Rives resigned Mr. Leigh succeeded Mr. Rives. An effort was made, ond failed, at the spring election of lSdo, to obtain a majority of the Virginia Legislature to reverse the instructions m.der vv.i.ch Mr. Rives resigned. It was repeated in lb3b, with success; but demonstrating a nearly equal division among the voters3 Mr. Tyler is instructed to vote to expunge ins former vote, given under former instructions. Not choosing to do so, he resigns. I his is certainly most ridiculous. It never

can be correct thus

Congress to be governed by tl,e mutations of a political party, produced by deep excitement and accidental results. Mr. Tyler addressed a long letter to the House of DdegMtes, in explanation of his conduct. They refused to print more than the ordinary number of it. Jt is understood that Mr. Leigh means to retain his place, and give his reasons, also. Cin. Gat.

Illinois .The late session of the Legislature was prolific of laws for the improvment ot the State, by rail roads canals, &c. Some twenty of them were passed. We notice t eta to incorporate the Beleville and Missisippi railroad; for the construction of the Illinois and Michigan Canal; to incorporate the Wabash and Mississippi turnpike company ;to incorporate the Wabash rail road company tr incorporate the jAlton, Jacksonville and Galena turnpike company; to lay out a State road from the Wabash to the National road ; to incorporate the Alton, Wabash and Erie railroad company; incorporating the Mount Carmcland Alton rail road company ; to incorporate the Rushvile rail road company; to amend an act to incorporate the Jacksonville and Merdosia rail road company; to incorporate the Wincher, Lynnville and Jack sonville rail road company; to incorporate the Shawnetown and Alton rail road company; to incorporate the Pekin, Bloomington and Wabash rail road company; to incorporate tho Waverly and Grand Prairie rail road company; to incorporate the Central Branch Wabash rail rond company; to incorporate the Galena nnd Chicago union railroad company; incorpora it'g tho Mississippi. SniiiiL'tielJ and Carrnl-

I ton rail tgad Company j and several others.