Rising Sun Times, Volume 1, Number 29, Rising Sun, Ohio County, 31 May 1834 — Page 2

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house of rerrlsfntati vls. Saturday, May 17. The House went into Committee of the whole, Mr. J. Q. Adams in the trhair, on the hill making appropriation for certain harbors, &r. Mr. Denny said that it would he in the recollection of the House that Viie original annual appropriation of N50,000 for the improvement of t'.te 3lississippi and Ohio river, was intended to secure a water communication between Pittsburgh and N. Orleans; but in 1832, the Missouri river having been added to the clause, this sum proved inadequate to cllect lite improvement in all of them. With a view to have the obstruction removed from the upper parts of the Ohio river, above the falls, which had been hitherto unattended to, and for which he said that the present appropriation would not he sufficient, lie moved to amend the bill by adding 3 5,000 for improvements of the river from Pittsburgh to Louisville, under the direction of the Secretary of War. Mr. Ashley had no objection to any appropriation that would be actually necessary, but he reminded the honorable me mber, that although appropriations had been made for the improvement of the Mississippi river, yet, that owing to ihc construction which the President of the United States had given to the Constitution, these appropriations had not been applied as they were intended. He contended that St. Louis, being a port of entry, was as much entitled to consideration as any port in the Union. And lie suggested that 10,000 dollars should be applied towards the improvement of the .Missouri, near that city. Mr. Mercer suggested, that, if the words 'including the harbor of St. Louis,' was inserted in the amendment, this object might be attained. Mr. Hubbard said that the Committee of Ways and Means, in recommending the appropriation of $50.00'!, for the improvement of these three rivers, did so, in consequence of documents laid before them, giving a minute and detailed account of the measures to be taken for their improvement, and for which that sum was deemed all-sulli-cicnt. They had no knowledge that a further sum would be revuired. He hoped, therefore, the amendment would not prevail. Mr. Vinton advocated the amendment, and complained that, out of all tl -j uuiicrio appropriated, fin the improvement of these rivers, (nearly 400,000 dollars.) only 20 or 30,000 had been expended, w here it was much needed, and where it was the original intention of those making the appropriations, that it ought to have been, viz: between Pittsburg, and the falls ol the Ohio. Hi did not object to any improvement of the navigation that had been made on the lower parts of the river; but would merely observe that the upper part had been neglected, lie contended, that there ought to he two superintendents, as it appeared that the services of Captain Shreeve, who prepared, he supposed, the estimates for the Committee of Ways ai d Means, and w ho had the charge of removing these obstructions, were constantly required for the lower parts of the Ohio, and for the other livers, and which places only,he took into account. Mr. Pope concurred in opinion, that both these appropriations were necessary, and regretted that the amend, ment which he proposed, the former day, for the removal of the sand bar at St. Louis, had been rejected; but he did not think that the obstructions could be removed, unless with the assistance of Capt. Shreeve, who was the inventor of the snag-boat, by w hich in ention he had hitherto been enabled to clear the lower parts. Mr. Denny said that he was desirous to meet the wishes of those concerned in the improvement of the navigation both below and above the falls of the Ohio river; and to obviate any objections, he proposed to modify his amendment, by inserting the words out of which sum the Secretary of War sh all apply such amount as shall be necessary for the improvement of the harbor of St. Louis."' Mr. Recti said he had been under a misapprehension in relation to this appropriation, supposing it not to have been reported to the House: as he now discovered that this was not the cac, if 50,000 dollars was not enough for the object, lie thould vote for 25,000 dollars more. Mr. Pope, though not opposed to the improvement of the harbor of St. Louis, wai not willing that it should he inhided in the fc0,00doll ns now asked lor: because, as it would require, of itself, dollars Ib-ie would be I. it io,(t!i') .K-MatsJiLt f ; ().- met.

Mr. Denny said that o specific sum wasset apart for the harhorof St. Louis. Mr. Pope said that then the whole sum might be applied to that object. Mr. Mercer suggested that it would be best to increase the sum to 00,000 dollars. Aftr some further discussion Mr. Denny modified his amendment so as to make it read, "and the further sum of 25,000 to complete tl e improvement of the Ohio river, between Pittsburgh and Louisville to be commenced this year, under the direction of the Secretary of War."' The question being put, the amendment was re jected: Ayes 02, Noes 01. The folio i!ig additional items were

then severally moved and r tret, ,! viz: Ry Mr. Uawes fr Pound Creek, and several other creeks in Kentucky; Ry Mr. Watmough !'.r additional pier in the harbor of Delaw are city , Si 10,000; Ry Mr. Kwing for a survey of the obstructions in the two branches of White River, la., .si, 000; Rjr Mr. Can for improving the navigation el" Indian Shoot, at the Palls, of the Ohio river, S25.000. Mr. Carr stated that this was needed chiefly for the flat bottomed boats cn the Ohio river, of which there were 1000 which descended it annually. The toll for eat h of these, thro the Portland canal, would average about A; 15. So that the Improvement would save to their owners about .SGO,000. The two hills wa re now lain aside, to be reported to the House. adjoi n i'lD.v r or com;i:i:ss'. There was a debate, csterday, in the House of Representatives, on a position for fixing a term to the present Session of Congress, w hich disclosed enough to satisfy us that Congress will not, (cannot, indeed) adjourn before duly, if it gets away from here even within that month. If we look for a moment at the many subjects which must beaded upon the apprepriatons of almost every sort; the care and cus tody of tl io punlie. funds, contested elections in each House, cc. 5cc. one must be satisfied that Congress has good two month's w oik yet on hand . The result of vestcrda 's debate was the postponement of the whole subject for two entire w eeks. We doubt very much whether, at the expiration of that time, members will be prepared to fix upon a day- for adjournment. There is, under recent practice, in the Government, one reason s;,3i tying up the two Hju.ics lv a resolution for ;,.ij-.urnmctil without day, in addition to the usual and obvious objections to a pledge of that sort. Time must henceforth be given to the President of the United States, in case he shall not approve of any bill which the two Houses may deem it important to pas, to return it with his objections, that Congress may have an opportunity to exercise their constitutional right of pacing upon the bill again; or to retain it, without either signing or refusing to sign it, for ten days, when it would become a law without the agency of the President. Tlie case of the Land Pill, at the hist Session, 'neither signed nor returned by the President, I and thus nullified, is one which demands this precaution for the future, in regard to all bills of sutiicient consequent a: to justify the remaining in session for ten days on their account. Xr.i.Lxid. May 10. The following gentlemen are said to have been nominated, by the Presiif..nt of the United Slates, to the Skxatf, to be Government Directors of the Rank of the United States for the current year, viz: Henry Horn. Roberts Vaux, Charles McAllister, of Philadelphia; Joseph White, of Raltimore; and Saul Alley, of New York. .!. Tilt; il.VMv COMMITTEE. Washington, May 15. The Committee appointed by the House of Representatives of the United States to inspect the books of the Rank of the U. States, have returned to this city. It appear?, by the following paragraph, from the Philadelphia NalionaLGazettcvif May fJ, that they adjourned to meet again in this city on this day: Xul. inld. "We mentioned on Saturday that the President and Directois of the Hank of the United Slates had, on that I y, appeared before the Congress committee, at IhoNoilh American Hotel, in Chesnut sine', in pursuance ol a summons, (informal in every respect.) to lake thither ''the or.; books of the P ink, showing the indehtednes of individuals to said Pink."' With the requisition far the hooks, the Roard could not comply; and their answer w as road by one ot the number, furnish ing very satisfactory reasons for the rc fusal. After the Roard had retired, the committee adjourned to meet at Washington, on Thursday next, for the pMipe.-e of preparing a icporl to the

House of Representatives. As the record of the correspondence and the transactions between the Investigating committee of the Rank is voluminous, ;i week or more may elapse after Thursday, before the report of the former will be ready. si:x vtkTTk thi: iMTto states. The correspondent of the Portland Advertiser says: It is a body for intellect, eloquence and political resources, probabiy unsurpassed by any political assembly in ihe world. There are men in it who would have filled the woild with their names and who would have glittered like stars on the historian's page, if they had lived in the illustrious tlavs of Greece and Rome. History would then have embalmed their acts, and poetry w ould have embellished their fame. Looking through the midst of antiquity, they would have bloomed forth upon us as the Demosthenes and Cicero of other centuries. This is strong praise, I know, but I have not been an incautious reader of classic oratory, and what history has told us that the orators of antiquity have done, I have seen and heard in the American Senate. Not all, however, can be classed with the mighty dead. Candor compels me to say there ate some, but they are few, who have fallen there as the seed or the leaf falls after the w ind has ceased to toss it.

rr.TTiat fijo.m jfimsf. r.'i,i:.v. To the Eiilir-fthc Hamilton O. Intelligencer. Washington, March 27, 1334. Dear Sir ! have just received your letter of the 17th instant, in which you inform me. that at a public meeting in Hamilton, ua number of letters, stating in effect, that 1 had expressed a determination not to be a candidate in opposition to Mr. Van Rureu, and that their impression was great; and you request me to sav whether 1 intend to become a candidate for the Presidency, regardless of the decision of a national convention.' No individual has had the shadow of authority for making the above statement. Whether I shall become a candidate or not, depends entirely on the voluntary at lion of Ihe people. The choice of their public servants, in my opinion, belongs to the people, and not to those who, from selfish views, may nssumo the responsibility of acting for them. I am opposed to r national caucus or convention now, as I was in 1823, when mi attempt was made, through its influence, to electa President of the United States. A national convention is contrary to the established usages of the democratic part)-. It has a direct tendency to place the whole political power of the country in the hands of a few individuals, and to deprive the people of a full and fair expression of their will. It will substitute for the ollicial organs, under the constitution and laws, a ca bal, w liich w ill control, through a corrupt influence, the whole action and policy of the government. Under such a system the people will be kept in a state of excitement, the moral farce of our institutions will be eventually destroyed, and the ruin of our government must soon follow. To keep the election of President out of the House of Representatives, I have alwuvs been in favor of so altering the constitution as to send the election a second time to the people, if there should be a failure to elect on the first attempt. Under no circumstances will I consent to be the instrument of defeating the election of President by the people. Relieving, as I do, (hat our government can only be sustained in its purity ami vigor, by keeping the elective franchise near the people, and out of toe hands of political managers, my course, in regard to the future, will in no degree be influenced by theconlem plated national convention. In accordance with the usages of the democratic pari-, state conventions, under certain circumstances, are not only proper, but necessary. Rut the only legitimate object of such a con ven'ion, is to oserrluin public sentiment, and not to manufacture it. Its members should be chosen by the jKvplc, and to toe convention should be borne and ex pressed the Known w ishes of the people, With respect, yen r obt. servant, JOUNMcLKAN. VU1IUS AM) TORIES. As these terms have been frequently applied (or misapplied) of late, and as one of them has been adopted by sev eral Senators in their speeches, we trust that a short account of their origin will not be deemed a violation of neu trality. It appears that there is a difference of opinion among the learned as to the derivation of both words. A celebra ted Rritish historian (Pishop Runic!) explains the ctwnology of the word Whig in iis way: The south west

counties of Scotland hac seldom corn enough to serve them through the year: and the northern parts producing more

than they need, those in the west come in the summer to buy at Leith the stores that come from the north; and from a word nhiggurn, used m driving their horses, thedriveis were called ii7tt;mor5,and,by abbreviation,:;;. Now" in the year previous to Duke Hamilton's defeat, the ministers animated their people to rise and march to Edinbursr: and they came up march ing at the head of their parishioners with an unheard of fury, praying and preaching all the way as they came. The Marquis of Argvle and his party came and, headed ll.em, they being nbout six thousand. Ibis was called the w higgamor's inroad, and ever after that, all that opposed the Court, came in contempt, to be called n-higs; and from Scotland the word was brought into Lnirland. The foregoing seems a probable ac count of Ihe origin of the term; but the mere generally received definition that given by Defoe and others, who derive it from a Saxon term signifying :! 7, and which in Scotland is called u-( or :r'''. This was the most ordi nary bcveiage of those in the llighmds who w ere first called nvii'js, and this peculiarity according to some, ob tained them the name. According to others, v:lutj being the weakest or most insignificant part of the milk, the name irhig was first applied by the lories in contempt to their opponents, meaning that they w ere a mtic-enul water set. The word torv is of Irish origin thou.'h the thing, toriism, has always been so rare in that country. 1 he nam it is suit!, was first iriven to a set of banditti in Ireland rajyxtrees as they were also called whose summons to surrender was expressed by the lri word 7 brer, i. e. dive nic. It was thence transferred to the adherents of Charles I. by his enemies, under the pretence that he favored the rebels in lit land. Others derive the term from the Irish word toruighim lo pursue for pui po ses of violence. The terms 7ihig and tor', as party designations did not come into general use in England until about the middle of Ihe reign of Chailes the II. It was in the year 1G73 that the whole nation was first observed to be divided into iftig's and Tories. During the trials of the persons accused of conspiracy by the famous (or infamous) Titus bates, the appellation wug was given to such as believed the plot real, and lory to mose wlit) hekl it fictitious. Since that time the term Tory has ocen applied in laigland to the party in favor of an extension, or opposed to the diminution, of the powers of the Government and its head, and Whig lo those who espouse the cause of the people, (heir rights and liberties. Nei ther designation, there, is considered odius, or is more objected to by those to whom it is applied, than the terms Foli ra!it and De)ocrt, formerly were in tins country. 1 he tones would be more irritated at being called whigs, than tones; as many of our federalists would have been more offended at be ing called democrats than federalists !.:.. it. j -i inn ui uus country, iae manner in which tho terms w hig and lory were applied during the revolution, has given them a somewhat different import, and lory is considered nearly synonyyhailtmore Uazcllc. Till-: AT V WITH I'iiAKCK. It appears that the French Chamber of Deputies have rejected the bill, authorizing the appropiialion of 25, 000,000 francs, for ihe payment of claims for indemnity, preferred by the Government ol the United Stales. It is well known, that a convention was concluded with the Government of France, on the 4th of July, 1831, by which that Government bound itselfto the payment of this amount to ours, while tho government of the United States, on the other hand, engaged to pay 1,500,000 francs to satisfy the claims of French citizens. Ry the second article ol that convention, the sum due to the United States, was to be paid in six annual instalments, of which the first became payable on the 2d of l ebruary, 1833. The slipula tions contained in the convention, on the part of the United States, were ratihcd !y an act of Concrcss of Julv 13th, 1832; and authority was given to me secretary ot the Treasury, lo cause me several instalments lo be ree.e ved as they became due, in such manner as he might deem most eligible. A bill was drawn by that officer in favor ot tnc Cashier of the Rank of tho Uni ted Slates, and presented for payment on the 23d of March, 1833; the circumstances of the nonpayment, and protest of which are fresh in the reccollection ol our readers. Shortly after a com munication was made to tho tVn,-i, Chambers, by direction of the King,

ecommending that provision should be

made for carrying the convention into eiFect. Nothing, however, was done it (he last year's session of that body, md the subject has not been considered until (heir present meeting, when the convention appears (o have heen trea ted ns a nullify by the Chamber of Deputies. Ihe appropriation must lave been opposed more, in conse quence of an imperfect know ledge of the sulqecl, than from any rational conaction of its impropriety. Under tin; convention, French wines have been sometimes admittcd-inlo our ports at reduced rales of duties; while, on the part of the French Government, no tep, whatever, towards a luuiimeni oi their stipulations, appears to have been taken, for more than two years after the convention was concluded. Spanish Tkkaty. C. Van Ness, F,sq. son of cur Minister to Spain, arrived at New York, from Havre, last eek. He is the bearer of the new Spanish treaty. In consequence of the di.-turbod state oi the northern provinces of Spain, apprehensions had been entertained for his safety, lie was in fact stopl, it appears, three times between Madrid and the French lines, and was only released on paying the usual tribute on such occasions. Ihe mail, which immediately preceded him, was robbed end the passengers were stripped of even the clothing on their backs. Mr. Van Ness, on the contrary, although he was assessed to the amount of a few doubloons, had the good fortune in every instance, except one, to be treated w ith politeness. He represenled thenoithof Spain as being almost without any regular government. The Carlisl bauds and the Queen's troops alternately displaced each ot'.ier in siuh rapid succession, that the idea of authority in the minds of the people has become nearly obliterated. So distracted, iiideed, is the state of the w hole country, as to give rise to serious doubts whether the Queen's party will be able to sustain itself. .V. V. Evening Pust. J.XTISV FKIUI Ml liOl'E. Ry the Rritish ship Nimrod, captain Aiken, arrived at New York on the 11th inst. Liverpool and London papers have been received a few days later than were furnished by foimer arrivals. A brig laden with 2500 muskets, 200 barrels cartridges, 1C0 large barrels of powder, ami a quantity of shoes, for the service, was captured on the 17th of April, and carried into Vico. The Liverpool Courier says: The Spanish Government has taken the bold step of interfering in the Portuguese contest, and a strong military force has, there is every reason lo believe, alreadycrossed the frontier. The military interference of Spain will, it is expected, answer, a two-fold purpose put a speedier end to the unnatural contest in Portugal, and counteract the designs of Don Carlos, and thus eventually restore tranquility to Spain. The same papers, speaking of the rejection in the French chamber of Deputies respecting the amount due our Government, rcmaiks "It will now be the task, and not an easy one, of the French ministry to render the unexpected decision of the Chamber as palatable as possible to the United States, and endeavor to avert any measures of an unpleasant nature, which it is possible in the altered position of the two countries, the Cabinet at Washington may think proper to adopt; and to effect this object satisfactorily (o both parties, will require all the diplomaticskill of the French politicians." At Constantinople every thing had assumed a warlike appearance. .The licet was actively preparing; the garrison at the Dardanelles was to be strengthened; and no doubt remains that tlie Porte is determined to resist the intervention of other powers, to enable him lo renounce his engagement with Russia. FRANCIS. Arrivals at New York from Havre, bring Paris d ates of April 15. They contain intelligence of very serious insurrectionary movements at Lyons, and in Paris. Many lives were lost, and great apprehensions prevailed. The disturbances were suppressed by military force, by which the peace was still preserved. Advices from Porto Rico state that Donna Isabella had been recognised there, and that her accession to the throne of Spain was celebrated with great eclat. The advices from Naples mention that the King had left that capital, and it was generally thought, was on his way to Paris, for the purpose of arranging the marriage of his brothcr,who is in Sicily, with one of the daughters of King Louis Philip. It was also again strongly rumored that he was about lo 1 grant a Constitution to his subjects.

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