Rising Sun Times, Volume 3, Number 112, Rising Sun, Ohio County, 2 January 1836 — Page 2

INDIANA LEGISLATURE. CYu?nfrf fie Indicncpolis Papers SENATE. Dec. IC. Mr. Claik submitted the following resolution: AsofrcrfjThat lhe Juuiciar) Committee be instructed to inquire, whether it be practicable to devise legislative enactments, more ctitclu ally lo lestrain gambling; other than those now i.t force, ia relation to that subject. Mr. Clark said: 15c fore moving the

adoption cf the resolution I beg leave to eay, that I have puiptclv proposed the subject to the coiiMatralion el the committee, in the iuuchr.ile language cf lhe rcsclutior.. I have ru-pcscly emitted to point out the particular en actment which I might tciiu-ive mot efficient in restraining a vice which pievails to a lamentable extent. A vie, involving in its fascinations, alike minds I cf the noblest mould and those cf the most degraded cast. A vice, not only pernicious in itself; but associated with, and leading inevitably, if persisted in, to others highly criminal, and debasing men to the utmost depravity. I am persuaded that (he committee will give the subject that attention which its importance demand. I wih TO place tb.C matter before them and leave them untrammelled in their deliberations. Twice, since I have had the honor of a seat in this body, I have offered such remeuies, as in my judgment would restrain this growing and terious evil; but I failed to convince the Senate of their propriety or necessity. I discharged what 1 conceived to be my duty to the country ; and a like sense of duty now impels me again lo notice the Eubjeet. The enormous evils connected with this practice, unrestrained by our law?. have m tome cf the adjoining states driven the people to take the matter into their own hand, and to make and execute laws against oflenders. And thus committing a greater evil, disre garding and destroying the supremacy and sanctity of the law. These occurrences admonish us of the necessity of anticipating the evil, by guarding the community, as far as practicable, agiinst the alternative of seeing the land overrun with vice and immorality, or . r . . . 01 wresting iroin me nullionstd powers cf the state, the cfike of punishing otTenccs. The resolution was then adopted by consent. Mr. Dumont moved the following resolution: Resolved, That it is inexpedient am impolitic to legislate on the subject ot divorces, any further than lo dot he the courts with power to deciee divor ces in all proper cases. Previous to any disposition being made of the resolution, considerable discussion took place, in which Messrs. llillis, Clark, Payne, Plusr.mer, Boon, Uoleiitk and Dumont participated. Oa the question of adopting the reso lution, lhe Senate being equally divi ded, tiie chair decided it in the ailirmative. Dec. IS. Mr. Shaw submitted the following resolution: D J-J 'I'M. .. . I ... iiryo.ira, i nai me committee on Military Atfairs be instiucted to inquire into me expediency o instructing our senator, and requesting our llepre ecuiauvts in congress, to vote against nny appropriations of the public money to me iUililary Academy, located rv est loinl; and to advocate n repca of all laws, or parts of laws now in f reo in relation to that unnecessary and ex pensive institution. After considerable, discussion, and eevcial amendments being proposed tne resolution was adopted, in its ori ginal ehapc, by a vote of ayes 18, noes 1U. On the 10th, Mr. Griffith introduced a resolution something different in its character from the above, on the same institution, which also called forth con siderable debate, but being put to the oenatc, was lost. Mr. G ninth's reso lution was for inquiring into lhe abuses of said institution, and of memorialiting Congress for the correction of them; and not for abolishing the insti tution. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. Dec. 16. Mr. Walker of D. reported a bill to locate a state road from Dillsborough to Aurora, in Dearborn county; and Mr. Gregg, a bilJ to incorporate a company to construct a turnpike from Liwrenceburgh to Harrison each of which were p.issed la a second reading. Dec. 17. Mr. Gregg presented the petition of the corporation of Lawrcnccfcurgh, praying for a repeal or suspension of an act removing the scat of justice of Dearborn county. Mr. Gregg reported a bill to anvnd TrkCt lhc f011'0" f Congressional D;triet,fjr the election cf Senator,

and Representatives in Cot gress; read and passed to a second reading.

Dix. 18. Lei. Stausberry, U. b. Assistant Engineer, made a detailed report cf the various rail road surveys in this state, which were ordered to be printed. Mr. Walker of Shelby, cffeied a resolution for the appointment of a committee to enquire into the expediency cf fixing the ratio for Representatives at 1,000, to w hich Mr. Graham proposed an amendment, "that caeh organized county, w ith six hundred voters, shall be entitled to one Reprosentalive' when the resolution and amendment were laid on the table. Mr. Listen preferred charges against Judge Lverels. which were sent to the judicial v committee, w ith pew cr to send for periOiiS and papers. INDIANA AM) ISIICIIKIAX. To t.c Klitns rflhc Xalicncl IrMUi-cncer. Gt:.ti.r;i:x: In looking over your paper t b:ituulay, I onscrve an article headi d, 4 I be case cf Michigan,-' and 1 see that you have promised to publish in your lit. xt paper an opinion of the At torney General ol the United States on the right cf the. people cf Arkansas lo torm a Constitution and State liovernmctif, and you stale that the President of the United Stales thinks the opinion of the Attorney General applicable to olh Territories. It is nol my purpose to attempt a refutation of lhe doctrine advanced by the opinion referred to, or lo oppose theaumission of both Mich iszan and Arkansas into the Union on the pi inciples contemplated in the or dlnancc of Congress of 13th July, 1787, and m confurntilu to subsequent aclt of Lonns$. In my humble opinion the people of ulichigan have assumed for themselves power and authority that they did not possess under the existing laws of Congress, and that on the pre seiilalion cf their Constitution in its present form, a grave question will he rais ed, which must he M-tllcd before Michi can can be admitted into the Union as an independent State. If I understand her Constitution it includes within the boundaries of the contemplated Stale of Michigan a portion of the State of Indiana; thus we find that liie con stilution makers of Michigan have over stepped the legitimate bounds of their tenitory, and assumed the power of ft ami: g a Constitution for a poition of i sovereign State of the Union. Ih people residing in that part of Indian; could not, if they had desired it, (w hich they did not,) lake pait in lhe election of Delegate, or other steps taken by lhe people of Michigan proper, and yet strange to tell, Michigan, we are in formed, is about lo present a Constitu lion embracing a strip of country ten miles wide, and extending from Lak Michigan lo the cast boundary cf Indi ana, a distance of more than one bun dred miles. 15y the second section of an act of Congress of the lUlh of April, 1316, en tilled 'Mil act to enable the people of the Indiana territory to form a Consti tution and Stale Government, and for lhe admission of such Stale into the Union, on an equal footing with lhe or ginal States, it is provided, that the said Slate shall consist of the Territory in eluded within the following boundaries to wit: bounded on the east by the me re-dian line which forms, the western boundary of the State of Ohio, on lb south by the river Ohio, from the moul of the Great Miami river to the mouth of the river Wabash, on the west by line drawn along the middle cf the Wa bash from its mouth to the point wheie a nue norm tine drawn horn the the town of Vincennes will last touch the northwestern shore of the said river, and from Ihence by a due north line un til the same shall intersect an east and :ccst line rfrazm through a point ten miles north of the southern exlreme of Lais Michigan on the north by the said east and ii-esl tine until the same shall intersect the first mentioned vieredien line, which forms the western boundary of the Stat" of O! no, providcifthcil tin: Convention hereinofter provided for,vhcn formed, shall rati fy the boundaries aforesaid, otherwise luey snail he and remain as now prescribed by the ordinance for the gov ernment of the territory northwest of me river UIuo." The boundaries thus proposed and defined by Congress, were ratified by a Convention of the people of Indiana, and became part and parcel of the compact between the United States and the State of Indiana, over w hich the people of Michigan Territory can have no control, Congress possessing the power lo legislate for Ihem. The northern boundary of Indiana was surveyed, marked, and designated agreeably to the foregoing boundary, under the provisions of an act of Congress of 2d March, 1827. The State of Indiana has been in the quiet possession of lliis part of her territory near 20 years. I ask how is it possible lo admit Michigan under her present constitu

tion? Will not her admission, under

uch circumstances, be followed by se rious collissions? And an appeal to the courts of the country, or lo arms, will be unavoidable. Phis will pro duce a state of things that every patriot honld avoid. The article published in your paper, it appears to me, was intended to induce lhe President of the United Slates to follow the example of General Washington, and to submit the constitution of Michigan without, perhaps, referring to the existing laws and the facts of s case. This, I trust, will not be done. Michigan will be called en to revise and amend or alter her constitution so as to bring her action within er legitimate sphere. 1 hen, and in that case, no one is more anxious than the w riter of this article to see her admitted into the Union as an independent Stale. INDIANA. From Vie Indiana Journal. OUR NORTHERN BOUNDARY. Although it may not be generally known to your readers, it is neverthe less true. that in the constitution which the people of Michigan have recently idopted, a portion ot our terrtlory, ol great value to us, is included and made a pai l cf the proposed new stale cf Mich igan. The constitution to w1hc.1i 1 refer, begins as follows, to wit: ue the people of the territory of Michigan, as established by the aet of Congress of the eleventh of January, eighteen hundred and five, in conformity to the fifth article of the ordinance, Sec. I- or the proposed boundaries of Mich igan, we have therefore only to refer to the act of 1805. According to all iust rules of construction, the limits fixed it that lime for the territorial govern ment, are the boundaries intended by the constitution lor the new state. Rut what are the boundaries pre scribed for the territory by the act of 1S05? I he first section of that act reads as lollows, to wit: 4'ie it enacted bu the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Slates of .imcrica m Congress assembled, that from and after the thirteenth day of June nexf, all that part of the Indiana territory which lies north of a line drawn east from tlic southerly bend or extreme of Lake Michigan, until it shall incrscct Lake Lrie, and east of a line drawn from the said southerly bend through the middle of said lake, to its northern extremity, and thence due north to tle northern boundary of the United Stales, shall, for the purpose of temporary gov ernment, constitute a separate territory, and be called Michigan." Re it recolJected too, that with this constitution, which takes from us a strip of territory ten miles in width, and deprives us of access to the lake, Mich igan is at this moment urging her ad mission into the Union as an independent stale; that she has already elected her senators and reprcscntaive in congress; and that by having one of her own citizens at the head of the War Department she has the advantage of a powerful influence in her favor. -Under these circumstances, can it be supposed that Indiana will remain si lenl? We say lei her voice be heard through the Legislature, in the maintenance of her just rights. Let her sav lo congress and to the nation and let it be said with all the force which language can give with all that firmness and decision becoming a sovereign slate, whose rights are threatened that she will not yield her territory, and w ith it all her lake privileges, while here remains within her reach any means of resistance that can be exerted consistently with her amy to the Union. EQUAL RIGHTS. Dec. 16, 1535. AccniEXT. On Thursday afternoon last, a flat boat loaded with hay. caught (ire while floating do wn lhe river, opposite this town, and continued burning as long as she remained in sight. Tl i-oat and cargo were entirely consumed. The crew escaped in the small boat, without saving even their clothes. Jladison Republican, Dee. 24. A bill has passed the Legislature of south Carolina to prevent any colored merchant or tradesman, whether bond f free, to carry on work on their own account and if any while person employ such persons in contravention of the law, incy are subject to fine and imprisonment, at the discretion of the. court. 1 hat no free negro or person of color snau hold a slave or slaves, as master, or shall any white person hold a slave n trust for any free negro or person of v-viui . That no person or persons shall keep a school for inslructingany free negro or person of color lo read and write, under very severe penally. New York. The population of the city is found to be, by a census just taken, 264,000.

RIgIjSG SUiT: SATURDAY MORNING, JAN. 2, 183G.

LETTERS FROM WASHINGTON No. 2. Correspondence vf Vie Rising Sun Times. Gadsbx's, No. , 16th Dec. 1835. Dear Glenn Since my last letter, which I believe was of the Slh instant, (I keep no copy) both Houses ol Congress have attended the fu nerals of M". Smith of Connecucut, ana iir. Kineof Illinois, of the Senate; and Mr. Wildman of Connecticut, of the House of Representatives. Yesterday, the Senate elected Mr. TT-nVhi of Wrmnnt. and Mr. Shackford of Ooorkei?i:er iu Assistant. In the - - -i i House, Mr. Dorscy of Maryland, was elected Serjeant-at-Arms. To-day, the Senate has been engaged in the election of its Standin Committees. Dcing a mere spectator in the Gallery, I noted the result of the balloting?, first, for the Chairmen, and then for the mem h.r.nrtlii different Committees. The results are curious, and affords us room for curious re flections. Can it be possible that grave Senators of both parties, in this most dignified body, have been conversing ? It would seem so ; and it may be borne in mind that two years ago the opposition to General Jackson, took the appointing cf Committees out of the hands of the presiding officer of the Senate, where it had been for several years and by changing ii rule of the Senate, that body are now enabled to shape their Committees as they please, and to produce reports to embarrass the Lxccutive, and cast suspicion on any public functionary they may wish to injure. The appointing of the Senate's Committees has been postponed from day to day for three davs. Last night Messrs. Calhoun and Preston arrived, which gave the opposition a majority, they having 22 vote, and the administration party 17, sometimes 13, which you will see by the result of the different ballotiugs, which 1 send you. It is substantially correct. You will observe that 1 have stated the vote given to the two highest candidates, without noticing scattering shots 15 votes constantly, sometimes 17 or 18, on the administration SI !o and 22 on the side of the opposition. If both partics happened to hit on the same man, he run quite a-hcad: this seldom happened. The people who favor this administration should unite and pull together. There can bs no doubt of a majority of the people being for the administration, and why not show their strength The Senators have set un example of concert. Will the people follow it up ? We shall see. I send you the result of the different ballotings for Chairmen of the Senate's Committees. It shows the first trials of the strength of parlies in the Senate. I w ill not take the labor cf putting down the different ballots for members of the Committees if you want them look lo the newspapers. It looks like doing what you call in the West a small business, to talk so much about the election of Committees ; but see the issue. Here, for instance, is Mr. , the rival of General Jackson, and of every other prominent candidate for the Presidency he is put at the head of the Committee of If he can possi bly embroil us with a foreign nation, will he not do so, to embarrass the administration, ccd to prostrate the prospects of a rival fur the Presiiilency ! Would it not have been more liberal, more just, and safer, to have placed Mr. Buchanan of Pennsylvania, at the head of that Committee? He is a man of talent, great experience, has the confidence of the couutry and of the President. Mr. E wing of Ohio, is Chairman of the Com mittee on Public Lands. He is opposed lo the settlers in the new country, and is unfriendly to the reduction of the price of Public Lands. Why not put some man from a new State, who would know your interests and serve the poor I loncer, at the head of this most important Committee t I have become acquainted with some of your Representatives, but have not as yet been in troduced to your Senators. 1 sec them in their seals. We hear that Mr. Niles, a Jackson man, has been appointed by the Governor, to fill the va cancy of Mr. Smith of Connecticut. lie is ex pected tins week. No certain news of the final result of the late election in Mississippi. Roth parlies look with anxiety for the Senators fro Louisiana and Mississippi. Mr. Cuthbcrt of Georgia, has not yet arrived. Yours truly. Dollottings for Chairmen of Committees in the Senate, on the I Clh of December. CViairHMm Committee on Foreign Relation Mr. Clay 22 votes, Mr. Kingof Ala. 15 votes. .Finance Webster 25, Wright 17. Commerce Davis 22, Hill 17. Manufactures King 22, Wall 18. .'Igricullure Crown 25, Tipton 15. Military .1 fairs Benton 29, Wall 3, Tres. ton 3, Tipton I. Militia Robinson 26, Goldsborough 1. Xaval .Iffairs Southard 25, Talmadge 17. Public Lands Ewing22, Morris 15. Private Land Claims Black 24, Linn 17. Indian JfairsW hite 26, Cutbcrt 1. Claims Nandain21, Shepley 15. Judiciary Clayton 22, Buchanan 16. Post Offices, fee Grundy 25, Ewing 14. Roads & Canals Hendricks 39, Robinson t. Pensions Tomlinson 23, Brown 16. Dis. of Columbia Tyler 23, King of Geo. 16. Revolutionary Claims-Moore. 20, Hubbard 14. .ircounts McKean22, Rnggles 14, Knight2. Engrossed Rills Shepley 2-2, McKean 17. OrWc take the liberty of saying that the Hon. Amos Lane is not our Washington correspondent; nor did he write the letters published in our last, uml in to-day's paper; and we feel confident that Mr. Lake is ignorant of who the writer is. We make this statement to contradict the assertionsof some of the knovin"

ones, who think they know as much, if not more,

about our correspondent, than we do. It is also hinted that our correspondent resides in Rising Swi. This is not the fact cither ; but he is what he pretends to be a mere looker on ; a friend of ours, who expects to spend the winter and spring at Washington, and who has promised to send us an occasional letter. The lig papers at the East have their regu Iar correspondents at Washington, and it seems to us rather singular that a little paper at the West cannot endeavor to follow them, without a great fuss being kicked up about it. We say it is singular f'erbum sat. 0The Kditor of the Times presents to his Patrons the compliments of the season and most sincerely does he return his heartfelt acknowledgements to those who have been punc tual, through the year that is past, in furnishing him with the means of prosecuting his business. He hopes that those who are still in arrears from the commencement of the paper, will not bo backward in making payment. riv.i: I. NEW YOKK. Wo are indebted to a friend for a copy of the Cincinnati Gazette extra, dated on yesterday week, containing an account of a most awful conflagration in the Cily ol New York, and which the reader will find in to-day's paper. Wo believe this is the most destructive firo which has ever happened in the United States. The total loss it will be seen, is estimated at TWENTV MILLIONS OF DOLLARS ! fjr-We are indebted to Messrs IIe.vdricks and Tipton, our Senators, and to Mr. Lane, our Representative in Congress, for sundry congresssiunal documents. Mr. Howard, of our State Legislatuie, will please accept our thanks for sundry state papers. TEXAS. The news from Texas continues to bo of the most cheering character; and is h:ii!ed throughout our country- with thegreatett joy by those who feel a desire to sec the onward march of civil and religious liberty. Although no de. cisive action has taken place, yet success has attended the Texian arms in every engagement. On the 18t!i November, a party of 35 Tcxians fell in with 150 Mexican cavalry, and completely repulsed them, killing 5, and wounding a number of their enemy. On the 2Sth Octo ber, 4'X Mexicans sallied out from San Antonio and attackod a party of CO Tcxians, under Cap. Bowie; and after an engagement of three hour.-, the Mexicans were driven back with tho lossof 18 killed, one piece of artillery, and forty muskets. "The entire Mej iean forces within the walls of San Antonio, now number only 800, while the Texian Army without, are 2500 s!ronr, well armed and in good spirits." The Tcxians have formed a Provisional Government. Delegates met in general consultation, at San Felipe de Austin, on the 3d November, an.l adopted a Bill of Rigkti, and a plan of Government. Henry Smith was chosen Governor, and J. V. Robinson, Lieutenant G uverr.or . coxi:css. We have not as yet seen any thing of inlrest in the proceedings of Congress. It will take them three or four weeks, we suppose, to get a start. We find the following in the proceedings of the Senate, on the lGth December: Mr. Tii'TO.v offered thu following resolutions, which lie ever for consideration: 12";o:vcd, That the Committee on Commerce be instructed to inquire into the expediency of an appropriation for construct iiig u harbor at Michigan Cily, in Michigan, Indiana. Resolved, That the Secretary of War be rvrpu'sled lo cause to be prepared, and laid before the Senate, a plan and estimate, for lhe construction of a harbor at M iciiian City in the Stale of Indiana. INDIANA I.NTKKXAL IMl'ltCVCMEMS:. The following just and appropriate remarks in relation to Internal Improvements in this State, are copied from the (Paoli) Indiana Patriot. They meet wilh ourcntire approbation. We are friendly to Internal Improvement ; but we are opposed to the Sta!c borrowing millions of money to make rail road3 and canals. "'Willie- we frankly express our sentiments in ftvor of tiie construction of Internal Improvements, we are equally decided in the opinion, that it is visionary, extravagant, and premature, for the young state of Indiana to enter into a system, and attempt the construction of vvoiks of that magnitude, which would be deemed inexpedient, and of doubtful policy, by the populous and wealthy Slate of New Yoik or Pennsylvania. Twenty years hence, will be lime soon enough for Indiana (o embark in the heavy work ofcnttingcarials anclmakin rail-roads on the various routs designated. The great zeal manifested by the people in the northern and eastern sections of the state, together with tho quhfied sanction of the Governor, wilt serve, no doubt, as a sufficient pretext for the Legislature, to authorize the borrowing of a sum sufficient In mm. plete the work. And whether it will be the means for the advancement of "the best interests of the Slate," time alone will develope." MARUIED, On the 17th ult. by Davis Weaver, Esq. Mr. Harvey Pease, of Randolph township, lo Miss Eliza Lemon, o Cassar creek township.