Rising Sun Times, Volume 2, Number 103, Rising Sun, Ohio County, 31 October 1835 — Page 2

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A. r. GLEN'X, EOITQK AND I'ROrRIETOTt. From the H'tcltty Jtfcrsengtr. ADXMOnryi SYSTEM, INTERVAL IMKROVEMFVTS, It AIL UO.'DS A"D CANALS, UNCONSTITUTIONAL Ol'PREsMVK LAWS, cCC Internal Improvements, Canals, Bail Roads, Sz.c. Now let us enquire what is internal improvement! If an individual buys a tract of land, and expends several year? toil to clear a f aim. stock it with hogs, cattle and horses. I ask in the name of common sense, if this is not internal improvements! I will answer, it certainly is, and a part of I he best; and a basis of all internal improvements in any country an improvement that ought to receive the sanction of the legislature of any stale. Now, has our legislature done their duty in this case? I answer, I think iiot but fnr from it 1 leave a candid public to judge for themselves the constitution of the United Slates is clear and uncontrovertible that no state shall lay any duties or imposts on any import or exports, except so much as to pay the expense of their inspection law except the neat proceeds of which is to go into the treasury of the United States. Now, the ndvulorem system lay a tax on all the internal improvements Htid,machineries and manufactories in our state, and our j-ister states, and all foreign articles that we stand in need of, and also our own exports, every hog one year old, every beef three years old, are taxable. It is wi ll known th.it. annually, vast numbers of live and slaughtered hogs are exported with both slaughtered and live beef cattle: all of which are taxable by the ndvalorem system. Yea, the wool on the sheep's back, may he said indirectlv. to be taxed, for the internal machine thai is to card it is taxed, which will raio the price of carding; but above all the ignoble tax on the dung cart and road wagons, prove that the framers of the ad valorem bill, were hard run. to find methods to oppress hard enough. Now it is certainly known that every oilicer both military or civil, are sworn to their solemn test, to support the constitution of the state, and also that of the U. State?; for default of this important and invaluable point, I leave the public to judge for themselves. I shall proceed to another topic, i e the bank: Several hundred thousand dollars borrowed on the credit of the stale, (people I mean) and so unnamed that the farmer gains little or nothing; also, creating upwards of 100 officers, for the earth makes her retains but once a year, and it miy be easy seen, that speculators are tli-se that would be gainers by the bank the farmer cannot be accommodated by the bot. safest and never dying security; and if accommodated, he could not hold it longer than to get his seed in the ground. White-water canal. It is represented that this famous canal would facilitate 10 counties then let those counties pay all the expense and damages that M ould accrue by the destruction of all the good mills and machinery, on that valuable stream, where the owner paid &2 1-2 per acre, while in a slate of nature, and expended thousands of dollars to build these glorious machines which manufacture the stall of our daily pudding and cake, and all other bread stuff. I cannot sec any thing but the god of folly, if there is such a god in heathen mythology, that move a few demagogues, to destroy (he utility of these useful and most blessed manufacturing mills, for a canal that could i.ot be used more than 7 or 3 months in the year, and the ten counties would not produce n surplus sufficient to use it four month? per annum. Now to injure and oppress one part of the community to enhance the other, is miserable, and I ought to say, corrupt policy. This leads me to another reflection, i e a part of territory of the state belongs to the general government, and cannot be taxed, r.o! not one foot. Now, who ij to pay all these sums and taxes levied on all the internal ()ca the scalps) improvements of every species in the. state destroy the constitution trample down every sacred right of indivdual. to build a canal in the woods. The Erie canal, where the inhabitants haveto go forty miles or more for supplies, is heavily taxing one part of the slate to enhance the value of the other, and raie the price of government lands in that vicinity ; is it not so? I say, is it good policy! Is it just? I think no!. Rail roads, when they are completed, belong neither to the state nor people no one can ue them no vehicle can travel on them but the. comfanies. Suppose all the resolutions, lid before the hou-c last session for rail roads, had passed into law, we thould have had to send an host t.f hands to have excavated the Norway mountain, to have obtained the coin,

and eent a large and strong rnba-s to mineral regions of the Santa l-Y, Peru and Chili, to have ohtuieed enough of the precious metal, 1 pay (he cost. Now ( would advise a fi w standard turnpikes, which every bod can travel, and those that use the road pay for them, the wagoner will make his employer pay the turnpiking the merchant will I y in his goods the consumer will pay his part the whole will be (axed -more or less, and almost insensibly the present system has and will create a host of expensive officers, the engineers, the suivcyois, (he lax li-iers, tax collectors, commissioners for canal--, hank officers, an;' loan commissioners; all must be paid by and thro1 the hard earnings of the industrious yeoman of the country. I would advise every member of the legislature to have an iron ring to fit his fore finger on (he right hand, so conspicuous, thai a hen he writes or lilts up his h and to vote, it may jog his memory of (he glo rions word, cos riT'.-Trox, then think o( CoMon township, Switzerland ronntv, Ind. MOSES WILKY." JA'It'S UI'.MSKY. OV I ?:t I!. CO., Ml lM LMOli OF STKAMEOAT NAVIGATION. An artiile published by me in the Baltimore Aut licat:, in the month ot June Ias(, h. s been the means of furnishing me, by the most respectable w itnesses, the positive proofs that lames Ramsey w as (he inventor of Steamboat Navigation. They are now in my possession, and will be made public at a proper time, if necessary, lathe month of December, 1 71'.?, Mr. llnm-ey made (lie fut xperimei-.t of propelling a boat by steam, at Shenherdstown, on the Potomac, Washington's favorite river nguiint ihe ifreutn. On the fust d ial, he

went three miles an hour; en the second, four miles. He also made a like experiment at i;il el. !j hia, against the tide, and his his boat went with' considerable velocity agiins! ;!.(: rapid tide of the Delaware, opposite the wharves. Finding that lie could not raise funds ju his own ceuntry, adequate loan experiment on a large scale, he went to England, built a boat, and made his essay on liie Thames, in the pi csei.ee of the Philosophical S.,eiet of Loudon, and a huge c.ni oiii -e ef people. Owing to a small tie feci in the mubinnv, which he peiceucd, and had no doubt of im mediate!) routed) ing, he appointed an ther day for the tiial, when a large multitude of people assembled to witness it. Hut, alas! Rumsey was no more. 1 le fell from his chair in an apoplectic lit, and immediately expired. Phis teok place in the year 17L'0; and he was, by the visitation of Providence, deprived of (he honor and rewards due (o the most useful and interesting discoitiy that has succeeded since the creation ef the woi Id. Mr. Fulton was in England at that time, intimate with Rumsey, and had access to his papers and the boat built by him. All the woi Id know s how lie perfected the first discovery by Rum-ey ; indeed, w ithout an adequate toward. It is said th it Ramsey's family resided, at (he time of his death, near Shepherd-town, in Vitginia; ai d thai some of his defendants removed to South Carolina. Editois of papers in the district of Columbia, and throughout the United State, particularly in the Southern and Western, are respectfully requested to insert the above. Should any of the descendants of James Rnmsey be now living, by apalyiug to me in person, or by leUers, p.ost paid, they or any of them, may hear of tomething greatiy to (ben advantage. JAMES JOHNSON, Lombard Street, Baltimore. October I, I 3.3.5. Vj:tiY IMIMKTANT 1 ROT! TFXAS. U c have received to-day from a gentleman in lxa a letter dated the tbh of September, giving the important intelligence that a Convention was to hi held on the 15lh of October, composed o( live members elected from each jurisdiction c f of Hie Province, to t oriMilt on the public safety, and intimating that one ol its acts would he "a Declaration ol Independence."" The following are extracts: " The state ofallairs which have been for seme lime extremely threatening to our new settlement, lias at last come to stub a pas (hat leaves us no alter native hut to ) b id our brilliant pros poet w ith our hard earnings, (obtained at the sacrifice (i exile from our beloed counti) the Halted Slates.) to the Mexicans, or to expel them by foice of arms Iroin Texas our adopted country width bul f.-rcur presence would ever have remained a wilderness, because the Mexicans were afiaid to occupy a country inhabited by so many Indians; and those numerous tribes, which are settled about us in every direction, thry are by spies and emmissaries trying to st i ike the first blow on the American settlers rof Texas, and embrue their nuirdcrois tomnhaw ks in the blood of

our defenceless women and children. Our particular location is ru re exposed thaa a: othoi. 'he mo;-Yuo; boo.! hab g settlements of N. American Indians who having became' dissatisfied in in the U. S. came hero several years ago. They consist principally of Cherkees, Shaw nees, Ivickapoos. Delaware?, Coshatoes and Alabama?, and there are numerous small Spanish tribes, fill of whom reside within 25 to GO miles of Nacogdoches, and the two fust mentioned, who are ihe most numerous, wiihin 2.3 to 35 miles. Some of these Indians are visiting us daily to trade. Sixty horses were counted the other day in the town. These Indians alwavs have been friendly with us, and would remain so was it not for the infamous cyt rtures made to them by the Commandant of the Mexican army, who has taken possession of San Antoine, distant fiorn us o!0 miles, situated in the direction in which our neighboring Indians no to hunt.

rids desperate stale of affiirs will oniige me to cnange my plans, i nave it in contemplation to lake my family for immediate safety, to Fort Jesttp, and leaving them there for a short time as we have several friends in the gar risen, til! a mote healthy season, to descend Red River and ascend (he Mississippi, w here in case our (roubles continue, (hey can remain. I shall out be able to accompany them, as all my future prospects are in Texas, and they are now most probably lo be left lo a ate of war. The confidence which (he Ameiicans in Texas feel in their pow ers over the Mexican (loops gives them much less uneasiness than they have from their more powerful neighbors, the Indians. moM of whom we conrider equal warriors to ourselves, while w e calculate to w hip the Mexican troops with great facility. 'Unclosed I send you the proceedings of a meeting at Columbia. Oa the loth of October a general Convention of Delegates from all Texas will meet, when they will declare us "Independent of Mexico." Red River is all alive lo our interest, and offering us their assistance s individuals, as well as Mi.--is-ippi and New Orleans, whence we look for considerable aid." Phil. Hazctfe. it .i it M U.IFK.KXT l'llK-CXT. Ail Uast III diaman arriveddately at London, brinUH'il '15 11.11 I HI Ilia t(tllMJ il UUlltUCI . r ol articles of most cosily and magnimioiu uesci ipuon, as presents lo me rung oi i-.ng.anj, irom llie King ol O ide. They consisted of a bedstead of solid gold, and : table of the same metal! two chairs of solid silver, hesides other articles, the whole richly chased and ornamented with carved figures. There were sent also, two elephants, two Arabian horses and two dwarf buffaloes. The elephants are small of stature, being but eleven years of age, male and female, accompanied by attendants, natives of India, attired in the splendid dresses of the connrty, and the elephants accoutred with splendid trappings. The dwarf buffaloes are cf the s:z; of the common pig in this country, but are most beautiful creatures, and as a curiosity, unique. The w hole, of the presents are estimated of the value of U0.000. Jyotlon Transcript. As a substitute for capital punish ment, it is proposed by a member of the Massachusetts Legislature, that all the right and social powers of the convicted he annulled a civil death instead of physical. The bonds of matrimony shall be dissolved the moment a person is convicted of crime, and all title or interest in his estate shall cease, precisely as if he had been executed. Although not mentioned in the word of the act proposed, we presume that a long confinement in a penitentiary is -also part of the substituted punishment. Without this, the oilier infliction would in most cases he no punishment at all. Poutson. A mi,f. a mtmttk. A steam car has been built in Faigland, for exportation to the U. Slates, which performed the distance between Manchester and Liverpool at the rate of a mile a minute, nearly forty miles. At that rate, when the New York and I'rie rail road is finished, one can breakfast in New York, dine in Buffalo, and beat Detroit, Michigan, the next day, at a distance of nearly eight hundred miles. The wav to succkkh. "I owe my success in business chiefly to you,1' said a stationer to a paper-maker, as they were settling a large account; "but let me ask how a man of your caution came to give credit so freely to a beginner with my slender means?' "Because," replied the paper maker, "at whatever hour in the morning I passed to my business I always observed you without your coat at yours." . There is truly a "world of wisdom" in the above little anecdote.

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REMOVAL. QCrTtie Printing Office is removed lo the second story of the ivcsl end of Messrs. lLn'nes S,m Isinius's nezo Brick Building, on Mom street. Entrance, bill door from the corner of F ront and Jliin. TIMELY NOTICE I'Ult WAKMXC. The peconil volume of the Rising Sun Times is drawing to a cloe; ami tin re are a number of subscribers on our li-t who have encouraged ns with their names, lint who h;ive not 'is yet paid us for our work, except in promises. Now, the paper m.tker will not take promises from us; nor can we pay for ink, rents, provisions, &rn. in this way ; and promises will answer no longer. We had thought of riding around next month and visiting some of these delinquents; but on a second thought, we have chaaged our notion. Collecting tours by Fruiter?, are generally a failure. We have known them to ride a week, and the collections would not pay the expense. So, therefore, our delinquents need .not expect us to call, but they may rest as sured that they will see some other individual instead of us, as soon as the year is out, unless some satisfactory arrangement is made with their accounts. Recollect, there will be no child's play about it Wc have earned our money and we must have it, if it is to be had Two years is long enough, to send a paper to any person without receiving in the meantime, a little of the quid pro quo. POSTSCRIPT. The above article is intended only for the special benefit of those who commenced at the first number of ihe paper, and who have not yet paid any thing. Those who commenced after the fust number, will take notice that we do not allude to them. fJC5Farmers will find one or two excellent articles on the fourth page. TEXAS. The news from Texas in today's paper, looks rather warlike. The position which the Texians occupy at present in regard to Mexico, is rather unpleasant; and as they appear to be acting somewhat on ihe principle of "reserved rights, and evince a determination to resist any encroachment of Santa Anna, we should not tin surprised to shortly see accounts of buttles being fought in that quarter. (V-The lat arrivals at New York from Falkland, brin intelligence of th; death of the Hon. Wm. T. Darrv, Minister to Spain, and late Postmaster General, lie died at Livi rpool, of consumption, w hen on his way to Madrid. The National bit llisrencrr savs "Though J strongly opposed to Mr Barry as a public man, i there were points in his private character w hich ., I .1 . ,. . ,. . , obtained the respect even of his political opponrnt. anil r . :i - . . ' in private hfi O-The annual meeting of the Indiana Conference, of the Methodist Episcopal Church, for ICaa, commenced at Lafayette on the 14th ult. and adjourned on the 21st instant. The Rev. James Jo.xcsand the Rev. Hosier Durbi, were appointed to the Vevay circuit. FIX) UK. The Editor of the Cincinnati Gazette is "using up" the Flour speculators of that city. The Gazette contends that the present high prico of Hour is not occasioned by any scarcity of that article in the market; but that it proceeds from the fact that it is all bought up by a few individuals for the purpose of speculation. The manner in w hich the speculators kick at this statement, is good evidence that there is too much truth in it. A letter from Liverpool, dated on the 7th ot September, states that some shipments of Flour arc making to the United States. LAWUENCKBUiiGII IiKANCU HANK. We are opposed to the whole system and principle of Banking. We have always viewed them as little belter than Inquisitions, established ostensibly for the public accommodation. We have seen them exercising their overbearing tyranny, and have known the best of men, (who had met with misfortunes,) to be reduced by them to the most abject poverty ; and it is our sincere wish that we shall never have any thing to do with them, more than as the conductor of a public journal, to watch over the administration of the affairs of such of them as may belong to the People, and in which the People's money may be deposited. It is the duty of the conductors of the Press so to do the People expect it of them and when corruption and mwl-adminislration of their affairs is found to exist, they should immediately inform the People thereof, that no time may he lost in applying the proper corrective. The history of Banking in the United States, admonishes the People lo be watchful and cautious. The best of charters may be granted, but they may get into the hands of the worst of men. It was in the capacity of an Editor of a pub lic journal, that w e first alluded to the failure of the Branch of ihe State Bank at Lawrenceburgh to pay the claim" of Pensioners. We made no charges, nor have we yet made any against that institution. Our first remarks were based upon reports in circulation. We knew nothing of the failure, until in conversation with an old Patriarch of '"ti, who had been to the Bank, and was informed that there was no money there for him ; nor could he bo informed when there would be. When he heard this we felt as every American ought to feel in such cases wc felt indignant at the treatment the war-worn soldiers of the American Revolution had received at the hands of those from whom they had a right to expect better things; they had nevei before been refused their poor pittance whn it wa demanded, mid it canted a

number of them to suffer much inconvenience.

Hence we made a statement of the case in our paper, which it is not necessary to repeat here. This called a reply from "E. U. John, cashier" of the Bank, which the reader has seen, and which was endorsed by the Bank organ, the Palladium, in both of which we can.e in for a share of Bank vituperation, along with some others, merely because we ventured to question the conduct of the Bank in this case, yet without making any charges against it. The Bank having stated, in its reply, that it was not to blame, we determined to ascertain, if possible where the default occurred, knowing that there had been inissiuanagement somewhere. Accordingly, we addressed to Hon. Amos Lank, a copy of the following note: Rising: Sun, Oct. 17, IG35. Hon. A. Lvne Sir: Having understood that you have written to the War Department, staling the failure of the B u kat Lureneeburgh to meet the payment of Pensioners, and asking lo know the cause thereof, and believing that (he reply you may receive will be of interest to the public, I request that you forward me copies of any letters you may receive from (he proper Department, on this subject, for publication in my paper. Very respectfully yours. A. V.. (JLKNiV. We publish the above note to kIiow that the letters which follow were procured at our own instance; and it is perhaps due to Mr. Lane to say, that we never have had any other correspondence orconveriation with him on the sub ject; and with regard to thu charges made a-gaiu-thim by "E. J). John, ca-hicr,"' weknow nothing about them. We submit these letters lo the public without comment; and would simply rcmaik that tho lime tiuiy arrive w hen it will be neoe?ary lo agitatethe policy of i t moving this Branch to a belter place. W.vn Drae.T.ii:vi, f October l . iCJ.3. $ Snt: I have had the honor (o receive your letter of the 30tli tilto. in relation to a deficiency in the funds required for the payment of I Ynsioncr.s at thu Branch of the State Bank of Indiana at Law lenceburgh. The inclosed repoit from Ihe Com missioucrof Pensions, will how you (be amount of the first remitlar.ee for this object to the Parent Bank; the cause of the deficiency that occurred at the above Branch; and the measures that were promptly taken to place the requisite funds at its disposal. Very respectfully, Your obedient servant. LEWIS CASS. Hon. A. Lne, Lawrence' gh, 1 1. War Di:rAnTMt.T, ) Pension Office, Oct. 12, 1833. Sir: The deficiency of funds complained of in the enclosed letter from the Hon. A. Lane, is not attributable to any remissness on the part of this office. The annual expenditures on account of Pensions in Indiana, does not exceed $-12,000. During the months of iYlay,June,.JuIy and August, in 1831, tho whole amount sent lo Mr. Posev, the late Pension Agent, and the predecessor of the present agent, was only .rJ.9-12; and that sum was sufficient to meet all the demands on him. Por the corresponding months of the present year, which include one semi annual payment, $-22,000 has been sent to Ihe present agent. The remittances therefore would have been sufficient, had all the Pensions been payable at one place, as formerly. But under the present nrrangement they are payable at ten different agencies, and i( is owing to this arrangement (hat the funds failed at some places, while there was a surplus nt other places. In a letter of the Olh u!lo. from flic agent at Indianapolis, who has charge of the Parent Bank of the Slate of In. diana, he says "We see a difficulty in making so minute divisions of funds to suit the different classes of Pensioners in each district; that occasionally in some Branches a kind of funds will be exhausted, while in another Branch there will be a small overplus in that same class. Unless we could be enabled here, on ascertaining the district in a Branch to aid them accordingly, we do not see how we can remedy it, until a regular further appropriation arrives." In my reply to the President of the Parent Bank, dated the t Gilt nil., I informed him that a remittance would he immediately made on signifying to me the Branch where funds would be wanted, and the particular description of Pensions, for the payment of which they were required, "in a letter from that officer, of the 14th ulto., he says that he was ndvised from LawrenceInirgh, that the funds there had failed. He also stated that the Pensioners under the act of 1832, would be obliged to wait until the receipt of funda. On the receipt of this letter, ten thousand dollars, the amount lequired by him, were immediately mt. Krielosed here-