Richmond Weekly Intelligencer, Volume 1, Number 23, Richmond, Wayne County, 19 June 1822 — Page 1
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0f VOL. I. RICHMOND, INDIANA, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 19, 1822. NO. 23.
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inn I'BICE OF THIS TAFKR Dollars end Fifty Cents for 52
but xhich may be dischar?-
t the payment tf Tvco Dollars in
fUN'TFD A!T! FUI5LISHF.D BY
ELIJAH LACEi
'j sub-aipikn tafun fur lcs$ than
m advance icing- to the mntu-
( .iJiTCs? of both parties that mvdc is
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cr nations, -even in arms and muni
lions of war, is as clear and indisputable as that of navigating the seas. That right lias never been exercised in a spirit unfriendly to Russia: and.
although general complaints have
occasionally been made on the sub
ject of this commerce by some of jour
predecessor?, no specific ground of latitude.
charge has ever been alleged by
them, or any transaction in it which the United States were, by the ordinal laws and usages of rations, boui'd either to restrain or to punish. Had anv such charge been made, it
That these rights extended, in thejhereby, vested in the said state for a
opinion of the imperial government, farther south than the 55th decree
of latitude, appears evident from the
structure of the 3d article of the act
of incorporation, w hich authorizes
the company to form establishments
south ot the 55th degree of north
would bae received the most point- establishments to the number of eight
Rut, what will dispel even the
shadow of doubt in this regard, is the authentic fact, that in 1789. the
Spanish packet St. Charles, com
manded by captain Haro, found in the latitude ot 48 and 49, Russian
" ' ,, .., ,.,;,,tod attention of this government, with consisting in the whole of CO families
A ., , - ; I , , , .the sinet rest and tirmcst disposition 3 to perl ini every act ar.d obligation
t j3tn-v iu u'us viuiii couiti nave
s'jhscrilcrt :cih ih'cenf:nuc. been
re n u i red.
I am commanded
and 4t)2 individuals. These were the descendants of the companions of captain Tchiricoflf, who were sun-
poea tin men to nave perished.
,:mar::r? muttjlnt be paid, jby the president of the United States With Mich titles justifying the I'i'.ers tj the Ediijr must bi Pcd-lo as-uie you, that this disposition rights claimed by Russia, you you r- ; jwill continue to be entertained, to-pelf, sir, will acrec, that it is per
il r:is OF AOVKKTlSlNG.
f .-, Hr.es. , r less fur time insertion
gether with the earnest desire thatifacllv immaterial whether the Rus-
the most harmonious relations "inn establishment at Nov Archanbeiween the two countries may bejgelsk be small or large. I the rights
i iJjLr tuit continuance o
i?eriisc:nints. :n the $
i
preserved. Reh ing upon the assurance in your note of similar iJisnnsitiiwis; tvi inn-,-
ianv eniamea ny ni imperial ni p
f territorial possession were mea-
canal, and for no other purpose whatever; on condition, however, that, if the said state does not survey and direct, by law, said canal to be
opened, and return a complete map ary, in range thirteen east of the said
tended north to the present Indian boundary, and north of a line to be
run seperating tiers of townships numbered twenty and twenty-one,
commencing on the old Indian bound-
thereof to the Treasury Department
within three years from and after the passing of this act; or, if the said
canal be not completed suitable for
navigation within twelve years there
after, or if said ground shall ever
cease to be occupied by, and used
for, a canal, suitable for navigation,
the reservation and grant hereby made shall be void, and of none ef
fect: Provided ahvays, and it is hereby enacted and declared, that nothing
in this act contained, or that shall be done in pursuance thereof, shall be deemed or construed to imply any obligation on the part of the United
States to appropriate any money to
defray the expenses of surveying or
opening the canal: Provided also, and
it is further enacted and declared, that the said canal, when completed,
shall he. and "forever remain, a put
Mired according to the dimensions of lie highway for tbe use of the gov
ernment of the United States, free
from any toll or other charge what-
art!
(Cjlui'l it f.) y of Stutc to it tier.
tate,
the points occupied, what would
become of those of the United States
;ty towards the United St ites, thejupona very considerable extent of soever, for anv property of the United
president is persuauea win in- cm- iff sum; norm iesr toasij ior inejtates, or persons in their service fyes of this union will remain urm- only American establishment ever nassin through the same.
Mr. Vc Pa-1' 'tcJ 111 tlu' i)r0ji,-c,,ti,,Tl 'f theirpet known is certainly very inferior Sec. 2. .hid he it further enacted. lawful commerce, and that no efiectjh stability to that of Russia at NovoiThat every section of land though
lent ui
Ju ill be given to an interdiction m f i
T.,.il.- : ,.,:t.l :ti. K: :..!..
"... ; 1 am nappv to renew the assurance
r.ii.ivc u.iu lau nonoi 01 re- of my di,u, m,ed, & c. -M(,r kiter ot the 27th ult.j ' JOHN OL INC V ADAMS, i.'o l-CLti MiSmitted to tl:eTin-C!ff.VXLIKRL);pOLKTI(.
i.r .(ion ot tlie president of the
h i t. w .
ii;e deduction which it con;cf t::e grounds upon which the i -.f r- u'll.ition of the Russian ;r Company have now, for Vst t.rne exteiided the claim of
Knvou llxtraurdinarv nn I Minit. r Pit niputt utiary from liutsitu
TRA?:SLAT10.V.
'i-ioalhe North West Cast of tic.:, ta the 5Ut d'grecul north i:.. ils only foundation appears . te existence of the small -et--:Aoi Nov ArchangeKk, situat-
Thc chevalier de Pn.'ctica to the secreta
ry ifstttt'. Washington, 'Jlst March, (2d April.) 1322. Sir: I had the honor vesterday to receive the letter which you wen1
i' toa the American continent. -pleased toaddress tome, dated 30th
ipv i a small island, in latitude March lat, N. S.; and, not being Ar.d the principle upon which authorized to continue the discussion : ;te that this claim is now ad-to which it refers, I find myself un- : i. is, that the olst decree i- der the necessity of taking the con
stant from the settlement of tents of that letter ad referendum.
Archange.Nk and the c.stablish-jreserving myself to communirate it to i of the United States at thenv government as soon as pos-ibJ.e. of Columbia river. But from. In the mean tinu I shall take the 'ae statement it appears, that, liberty of subrnittit g to your coi.-'ul-year 1791. the limits prescrib- eration some observations which have y the emperor Paul to the Ru-m- been sugije-tecl to me by certain past. -rican Ctmpary, were fixed -aires in your letter, which require 5 jib decree of latitude: and "articular notice. . i:t assuming now the latitude) In the first oilicial letter which 1 U a new pretension i asserted, bad tin1 honor of addressing t you. iiii h tio settlement, made since '!ated I tn (28th) February last, I "ir 1 791, has given the color thought I bail succeeded in clearly Miction. 'demonstrating that the rights of Huspreteiision i- to be consider- ia to the possession of a certain exrot enlv with reference to the tent of the North West Coast of A-) iioa of the territorial riht, but merica, as far as these rights can!
" to that prohibition to the voxels .be rendered legitimate by the
er nation, includinir thse of.lhe hrst discovery, the first oc '-rated States, to approach with- cupation, ' and a possession not con-
- t huti'ired Italian miles of the tested for more than half a century
From the period of the ex-! that these rights, I say, go back re of the United States as an iii-jto times considerably earlier than "adent nation, their vessels hae the reign of the emperor Paul I. !y navigated those seas, and tin ' When this sovereign granted, in Uo navigate them ii a part of 1 7D1, to the Rusian American Sociir.deporiderce. 'etv its first charter of incorporation, Mih regard to the sucgestionjthere had neer been a question a-t'-e Russian government mightbout abaiidonintr to that company tlfied the exercise of sov-!the ribt of sovereignty over one atv over the Pacific ocean, as'detenninate portion of the North ea. because it claims tcrri-1 West Coast of America in all its plenon its American and Asiatic itude. The question was purely rrN it may suffice to say, that the'and simply of conceding to the said ce from shore to shore on this company a part of the sovereignty, 1: Htitude 51 north, is not lessor rather certain exclusive privilegiOOuegreei of longitude, or 4000 es of commerce; and it is in this view 'that the act of 1709, to which )ou little can the United States ac-:refer, sir, fixed tin' limits. of the op-:-t() the justice of the reason as- erations of tbe Russian American ,; J for the prohibition above mcnCompanv. Th, C Tin. rio-hts of sovereifntv blone-
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t-LltrJ Ki-it,. t 1 ..,.,. I?..; miII ln.o tir liiniT if
.anus iu uoju couiiiiei ee, oi iv i.nss,rl , ww.i .w i
Z H ahorsCinal natives of the their local extent in covsequence ol a West Coast of America, with-. the. conre-siousmad t fbat company ttrritonaljmi5diction oi oth-in the reign of the emperor Paul.
Archacelsk.
In the same manner the great extent of the Pacific ocean, at the 51st degree of latitude, cannot invalidate
the right which Russia may have of!
considering that part of the ocean as dose. Rut, as the imperial government has not thought fit to take advantage of that right, all further discussion on this subject would be idle. As to tbe right claimed for the cilizensof'hc United States of trading with the natives of the country of the North .Wet Coast of America, w ith
out the. limits of tb ju risdirtinn hf-
longinLt to Russia, the imperial gov
ernment will not certainly think of Washington March 30, 1822.
limiting it, and still less of attacking
Rut I cannot dissembl
be, and tbe same is hereby reserved
from further sale, until hereafter specially directed by law, and the said State is hereby authorized and permitted, without waste, to use anv materials on the public lands adjacent to said canal hat may he necessary for its construction. PHILIP P. BARBOUR, Speaker of tbe House of
Representatives.
JOI1NGAILLARD,
President of the Senate, pro tempore.
Apprnv-d.
J AMI.S MONROE.
A .1 .
ii mere. iui i cannot mssemnn
sir, that this same trade, bevot d the
5 1st degree, will meet with difficulties and inconveniences for which the American owners will only have to accuse their ow n imprudence, after the publicity w hich has been given to the measures taken by tbe imperial government fr maintaining he rights of the Russian American
Company in their absolute integrity.
I shall not finish this letter without repeating to you, sir, the very posi
tive assurance .which I have alreadv
had the honor once of expressing to
you, that, in every case where the American government shall judge it Meressarv to make explanations t
that of the emperor, the president
of the United States may rest assured that these explanations will be al-
wavs attended to by the emperor.
my august sovereign, with the most
friendly, and consequently the most
conciliatory disposition. Be pleased to accept, sir, the as surance of my high consideration. PIERRE DE POLETICA. Ir. Adams, secretary of state.
PUBLIC ACTS.
AN ACT to authorize the State ofj
Illinois to open a canal through the public lands, to connect the Illinois river with Lake Michigan. lie it cnact&l by the Semite and House of Representa tives of the United Slates ofAmcricain Congress assembled, That the State of Illinois be, and is hereby, authorized to survey and mark through the public lands of the U. States, the route of the canal connecting the Illinois, river with the south-! em bend of Lake Michigan, and ninety feet of land on each side of said canal shall be forever reserved from any sale to be made by the United States, except in the cases hereinaf
ter provided for, and the use thereof
for ever shall be, and tne same is
AN ACT authorizing the location of certain school lands in the State of Indiana. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of tbe U. States of America in Congress assembled, That the Register of the land office at Rrookville be, and he is hereby, authorized to select school lands within said district equivalent to tbe one thirty-sixth of tbe reservation commonly called Clark's Grant, for the use of schools within
the same; and the Register of tbe
land office at Terre Haute is hereby
in like manner, authorized to select,
within his district, school lands which, together with the eleven sec
tions already selected, shall be equiv
alent to one thirty-sixth part of the Vincennes donation tract, for the use
of schools within said tract. It shall
be the duty of the Register afore
said, in making such selections, to
be confined to section numbered twenty, in each township, and tbe
selections so made shall be reserved
from sale. Approved. JAMES MONROE Washington May 7, 1822.
AN ACT to designate the boundaries of a Land District, and for tbe es
tablishment of a Land Office, in
the state of Indiana. Be it enacted by the Senate and hourt
of representatives of the United States rf.
America tn cotircss assembled, i liar,
for the sale of the unappropriated
public lands in the state of Indiana, to which the Indian title is exting
uished, the following distric t shall b
formed, and a land office established.
All the public lands, as aforesaid, tn which the Indian title was extinguish
ed by the treaties concluded at Su Mary's in the month of Oc obcr, 1818, lying east of the range line, scpe ratine: the first ai d second ranges east
of the second principal meridian, ex-
principal meridian in Randolph coun
ty, and the said district to be bound
ed on the east by the line dividing:
the states of Ohio and Indiana, shall form a district, for which a land office
shall be established at Fort Wavne.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted
That the President is hereby authorized to appoint,by & with the consent of the Senate, for the aforesiad dis
trict, a Register of tbe land office, Sz.
a Receiver of Public Moneys; which
appointments shall not be made, for the aforesaid district, until a sufficient
luantity of public lands shall have
been surveyed w ithin the said district as to authorize, in the opinion of the
I resident, a public sale of land within the same; which Register of the land
allice, and Receiver of public Moneys, when appointed, shall each, respec
tively, give security, in the same manner, and whose compensations, emoluments, duties, ar.d authority, shall, in ever" respect, be the same
in respect to tbe lands which shall be
may be provided by law iu relation to the Registers and Receivers of public monevs in the several land
which said canal route may pass, shall offices established f r the disposal of
the public lands, of the United States,
in the States of Ohio and Indiana. Sec. 3. And be it farther enacted.
That all the public lands within the aforesaid district, to which the Indian title has been extinguished, ai d
which have not been granted to, or secured for, the use of any individual, or individuals, or appropriated and reserved for any other purpose, hy any existing treaties or laws, and with the exception of sec. numbered sixteen, in each township, which sh.dl be reserved for the support of schools therein, shall be offered for sale to the highest bidder, at the !aud office for the said district, unier the direction of the Register of
the land office, and Receiv er of pub
lic moneys, on each day, or days, ,as
hall, by proclamation vt the iTesi-
dc.ut of the United States, be desig-
:ated for that purpose: tbe lands
shall be sold in tracts of the same
ize, on the same terms & conditions,
ai d in every other respect, as pro
vided by tbe act, entitled 4An act making further provision fcr the; sale of the public lands;" approved April twenty-fourth, 1S20. Sec. 4. And be it further enaeid
That the President of the United States shall have power, and he is hereby authorized, to remove, when
ever he shall judge, it expedient so to
do, the land office afore said, to euch
uitable place, within the said dis
trict, as be shall judge most proper.
Sec. 5. A net be it farther enacl"d9
That the Register of the land office,
md Receiver of public moneys, shall, ach, receive five dollars for each
day's attendance in superintending
the puhlic sales, in each district. Washington, May 8, 1 S22-Apptovea.
John Randolph, Esq. arrived at Liverpool, on the 6th of Aprif in the Amity, in 20 days from NewVork, and set out the next day for Loudon, in fine health and spirits. Shot are made in any quantify at Ilerculaneum, 30 miles below StLouis, MUsouri, at about two cents
above; the price of lead, which is 5 cents a pound, and, of a. quality so
superior to the English, that it regllarly commands a cent more in the pound in the New Orleans market. At herculnneum there are, towers, not made by the bauds of man, but of perpendicular rocks, from 100 to ",00 feet high, on the margin of the Mississippi, from the top of which
he melted lead is poured, and taken
ip in sho! at trie water's edge, and :onveyed in boats where it iswanted.