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expediency of incorporating the pre-emption principle, with the provisions of the bill, and after much reflection, they are of the opinion that the two subjects are not incongruous, but are sufficiently germain to be united in the same bill. The committee, therefore, desirous of guarding the interests, and consulting the wishes of as large a portion of our fellow-citizens as possible, and of granting to the pioneers of the west such privileges as may do them ample justice in providing and securing to themselves and families freehold homes, have proposed to amend the bill, by the incorporation,

in district sections, ot a pre-emption measure, wnien they hope may be found to contain the necessary provisidns, restrictions, and limitatians ttt sccue to the bnnajide actual settler, who alone is entitled to consideration, the benefit of his settlement and improvement upon a quantity of the public lands not exceed

ing one hundred and sixty acres, at the minimum price, and excluding every possibility of the pre-emption privileges inuring to the benefit of any person other than the actual settler. The amendment proposed, it is believed, contains some new and valuable provisions, which may render it acceptable to some who have opposed former pre emption laws, while its utility to the honest settler will not be in the least impaired. The committee have noticed all the material amend--ments they proposed to the bill. The proposition sub

mitted by resolutions of inquiry by a Senator from Mississippi, and the Senator from Tennessee, the

committe have not thought proper to act definitely

upon, except the pre-emption principle proposed by the former. Supposing thai their merits would more appropriately, at the proper time, be brought before the

Senate in separate bills and believing that the bill

for the distribution of the proceeds of the sales of the publiclands was sufficiently important in itself to exclude from it all amendments calculated to prevent

a distinct expression on its merits. The pre-emption principle, like that of distribution, is not a new one. It has received the sanction of Congress repeatedly, and public opinion has ratified the measure; hence it is believed that the connection of the two measures cannot embarrass either. The committee, therefore, report the bill, with the proposed amendments, for the action of the Senate.

Those who hope to see disaffection in the Whig I Congress from Maryland, is to have the mission to

ranks from any circumstance of this kind will be

disappointed.

A correspondent requests us to call the attcn-

Austria, and

That Col. C. S. Todd, of Kentucky, is to go to the court of Spain, at Madrid. Judn-e Huntington, of Indiana, goes into the Gene-

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Lieut. Judd and 12 men, 3d Artillery, directly to Ne Orleans. Thus Coacooche and his gani will not 1

seen or felt again in t londa. The thanks of the country are due to Col. Gates for his promptitude in concerting measures to relieve

tion of the town authorities to the prevailing prac

tice of boys and even adults shooting within the

limits of the corporation. He says, as he and a Columbia, in the place of Mr. Key.

friend were walking a few days since in one of Remarking on the above, the Albany Lven

the streets a little south of Pogue's run, a bullet ing Journal of June 24th, thus speaks:

shotJ)ysome-.-one -not- far ofiv struck-the fence L.We doubt whether any ...thing Jias yeLbcen . settled

near them, and along which they were walking.

This is dangerous sport, and the proper authori

ties should immediately take effectual means to

put a stop to it. No gun or pistol should be fir

ed ofT within town, and the council have it within

their power to prevent it.

ral Land Office at Washington, in the place of Mr. i the country of so formidable an enemy formidable

because of his secret and wily movements, striking only when he is certain of his victim, and where least expected.

Whitcomb. the present incumbent.

P. 11. Kendall, Esq.. has been appointed, as 1 am , -i-v- . . . .1.,. t:

we assured. jJismci attorney r me .Dismal ui

in relation to Foreign.Missions. We shall be grati

tied, however, to see Mr. Jenifer and Col. Todd established abroad. .But why may not New York look for the mission to England! We have States

men is distinguished as those from other States.

Our relations with England are intimate and important.

With the appointment of Judge Huntington, of

Indiana, we are especially pleased. He will "reform

the manifold abuses and corruptions which have crept into that Department. And if he is the -man we take

some forty or titty

clerks who have been used by Loco Focoism as instruments of corruption and fraud.

SKIUI-WEEKLY JOUKftAI.. INDIANAPOLIS: SATURDAY, JULY 10, 1841. MARION COUNTY NOMINATIONS. The Whigs of this couutv held a Convention on Saturday, April 24, at which the following nominanations were made: Representatives Iskael Harding and Austin W. Morris. Treasurer and Collector Jacob Landis. Recorder James Turner. Auditor John W.Hamilton. Assessor John M'Collum, Commissioner, 1st district Harris Tyner. Election on first Monday, 2d of August next.) The annual election is at hand. In less than one

short month the first Monday in August will have arrived. The certain return of this period must always bring with it, so long as our state constitution remains unaltered, the free exercise of a right, invaluable to every citizen, and which ought to be exercised with a sound discretion. If good selections be not

made to fill the various offices necessary to be filled,

it will hardly be charged, we apprehend, to a lack of

candidates; for on this head there is seldom if ever a failure. But at the same time, all must be aware that

it is not every one who may happen to fancy himself

qualified and therefore deserving of the office for which he is determined to compete, that is so in reality. Mr. Jefferson, who was not a bad judge of the essential requisites of men seeking or to be preferred for public stations, recommended this emphatic enquiryIs he honestMs be capable? Would he be faithful to the constitution? Blind partiality and foolish prejudice, stimulated by interest, may occa

sionally induce persons to look so lightly on what was a settled conviction with Mr. Jefferson, as to treat it

with seeming indifference. But will the discreet and sober minded portion of community be thus regardless? We apprehend not. They feel as if they had too much at stake to justify them in acting either rashly or unwisely. In addition to the tried integrity of individuals seeking office, according to Mr. Jefferson's test, it is, perhaps, not improper to enquire as to how they may have conducted their own private business. If this is essential in any case it will be found most so where persons offer to serve their fellow citizens in the Legislature. The situation of Indiana at the present, requires that individuals of ability and energy as well as undoubted integrity of character should be preferred. To commit the important business of Legislation to other hands, is at all times hazardous, but to do so at the present time would be not only the height of folly, but suicidal. It is a matter which commends itself to the serious consideration of every voter.

We wish we had it in our power to induce the

Whigs of this county to rally in the support ot him to be, he will also "retorm

the regularly nominated ticket. If they wish to

keep up party organization, if they , wish to

keep the Whig party in existence, they must

support the candidates presented by convention

No party can, however pure and upright, belong

kept together without party discipline; or if you our hands. Notwithstanding all the known and unnlPaSP. mrtv drill Th Whicr Wartv'wiH not known instanccs.of official corruption under the late

r ' 31 j administration, we could scarcelyredit a tale ot such adhere together long enough to carry out and con- unblushing villany, and we straightway applied to siimmatfl th orpat and hpnpficial mpasurps that the general post office for information. We were

brought it into existence and power, if a portion

From the Yew York Commercial Advertiser. RASCALITY WITHOUT A PARALLEL. Whiie in Washington ten days ago, the following

statement from the Louisville Journal was put into

From the Madisonian. : POPULATION OF THE UNITED STATES. The following table is the first official account of the census of. 1841), yv.l published.-It was furnished -to the Senate by the Secretary of State, in obedience to a resolution of that body, and ordered to be print

ed:'':' :'..".; . . STATEMENT Showing the aggregate in the population of the several States and Territories and in the district of Columbia under the last Census, distinguishing the number of whites, free persons of color, and all other persons, as nearly as can be ascertained at : this time.

States and Terri- White pop-1 Free col-1 M oilier

of those composing it will, merely to gratify per

sonal feelings, support their political opponents.

We should suffer no petty or personal considera-

there informed that it was true to the letter:

When Mr. Barry was Potmasicr General a com

mittee was appointed by the United States Senate to

investigate the affairs of the Post Office Department.

The investigation resulted in the very able report

made by Mr. Ewing, in which divers extra allowances,

tion to influence us. It is impossible to get a set and other corruption were duly made known to the

of candidates that some one or more of them will PeoPle ot tne country.

'Pi-. nflVFH ttm otTjota nf ttint ctnrtlinrr vpnnrt. ATr

not have enemies belonging to the same party. Eam, it mav be remembered. published pamphlet a

vindication so called, of his conduct. This pamphlet was, of course, an individual and not an official doc

ument. Nevertheless, he agreed to pay to the editors

No good Whig should fail to support, much less

violently oppose, a regular candidate of his party. Prejudices and dislikes should not weigh a fea

ther in the balance against the great and impor

tant interests of the country. Every Whig vote that is given to a political opponent, weakens

the party, and jeopards the success of the mea-

of the Globe, Messrs. Blair & Rives, $1,500 for printing it, and charged the amount to the Government.

'When Amos Kendall succeeded Mr. harry, as Post

master General, he glanced over the books of the department, and saw this item of $1,500. Afraid that

another investigation would soon take place, and that this extraordinary item would thus be brought to light, he made Blair &. Rives refund the money: at

Maine N. Hampshire Massachusetts Rhode Island Connecticut Vermont New York New Jersey

Pennsylvania Delaware Maryland Virginia North Carolina South Carolina Georgia Alabama Mississippi Louisiana Tennessee Kentucky Ohio Indiana Illinois Missouri Arkansas . Michigan Florida Territ'y Wiskonaan do Iowa do D. of Columbia

illation.

510,438 . 284,030 729,030,

. 105,587

301,856 291,218

2,378,890 351,588 1,676,115 58,581 317,7171 740,968

484,8701 259,084

- 407,695

335,185 179,074 153,983

640,627 58?,542

1,502,122

678,698,

472,354 323,888

77,I74

211,560 27,728

30,566

42,864 30,657

ored per

sons. 1,355

53

8,668

3,238

8,10

730

50,027 21,044

47,854 16,919 62,020

49,482 22,732 8,276;

2,753 2,039 1,366 24,368,

5,524 7,309

17,342

7,16, 3,50.

1,574

465 707

820 178

153 4,361

persons.

1 1 5

17

386,069

: 6

64

2,605 89,195

448,987 245,817 327,038 280,844

253,532

195,211 165,219 183,059 182,072 3 3 331 1

58,240

19,935

25,559 V 8 18 , 4,694

2483,536

sures for which all of us so ardently hope. If Ma

rion county should elect Opposition officers at least he entered it as refunded, on the books: Thus

.hp snnrmMiinrr Plpptinn it rm,l,1 hp nnintpd tr the matter remained till the ,3d ot March, 18-11, the

ir . ,.. . . , ,, very last day of Mr. Van Buren's Administration

as a re-action ot puonc opinion, uenoia a coun- when Mr Ni)eSi the success0r of Kendall as Postmas

ty, would be said, that but recently so sirnally con- ter Uenerai, paid back the si,auu to- biair v Kives

demned the sub-treasury and all the other odious entry was actually made on the books to that

measures ot the late Administration ltnowasstg- he statement, we repeat, is true, and the facts

nally condemns a National Bank, a Protective Ta- doubtless constitute a fair specimen of the conduct

rtft rna liatfihiitirtn rt ihfl ncnuficne ft 1 h P niln MP I . . . o . V. - -

"1V j . He 4th of March ast. Eevond a 1 doubt that de

lands, and all the other important measures that have been avowed by the present Administration,

and consequently approves the Sub-Treasury and

other acts of President Van Buren.

Some of our friends could not, if they wish to

partment has, during that period, been one of the

foulest dens of corruption that ever existed in a civ

ilized nation. From another but well advised source

we were informed that, being out of funds, Niles

drew upon a Pennsylvania postmaster in favor of Blair

for the amount, lhe latter was in great haste to ob

tnin ttip nmnnnt hpfnrp Mr. (ri-nnnrpr trrtt intn rjrtwpr.

strengthen our opponents, hit upon a better plan an(j proposed sending an express to Pennsylvania for

than the one thev are followinff out. If thev the money, to prevent the possibility ot defeat. .Let

Commissioner of the General Land Office. In our last we intimated that the President had probably been misled as to the choice of the peo

ple of Indiana in the selection of Judge Hunting

ton for this station. Further developements, together with our own observation, confirm this

oninion. We are assured that in the south-east

public opinion was decidedly in favor of another person. In the central part of the State it is evident to the most casual observer, that it is almost unanimous for the same individual. The same we are told and believe to be true of the eastern portion, whose delegate had no voice in the matter at Washington, as, belonging to the Opposition, he did not wish to interfere. One of the

editors of this paper was lately through the hea

viest counties lying in the north-west, where he heard an almost unanimous expression against

Judge H. In fact he heard no one, and it was a

subject frequently broached in conversation, express himself favorable to him. In the southwest and south, we think Judge Huntington the choice. As faithful journalists we are bound to notice those indications of public sentiment; but at the same time we are confident there will be found no disposition to caTil unnecessarily.

should openly renounce the party and connect

themselves with the friends of the late Adminis

tration they would not so seriously injure the

Whig party. They may suppose that the grati

fication of their private spleen may produce no

important consequences; but we tell them now

that they are mistaken. Many of the Whig par

ty suffered themselves to be hood-winked and de

ceived in the election of 1839, and have since

had ample cause to regret their course. Are they going to take the same course again? We only

ask them to reflect coolly, and then act upon their

sober judgment.

By an advertisement in to-day's paper it will

be seen that the public sales of the public lands, tion.

! there be a resolution of inquiry in the House of Rep resentatives.

advertised to take place at Chicago and Dixon, in the State of Illinois, have been indefinitely

postponed, in consequence of urgent representa

tions from the settlers in that country against the

sales being made at the present time.

Mr. Z. Beaty, late of this place, has become

co-editor and publisher of the Belmont Chronicle,

St. Clairsville, Ohio, in conjunction with Mr.

Hatcherson, formerly sole editor. We have

received several numbers of their paper, and would

commend it to the friends of Mr. B. in Indiana, acoochee's deceitful and hostile determinations, or

ders were obtained from Gen. Armistead by Col

From the Florida Herald.

IMPORTANT CAPTURE-COACOOCHE, OR

WILDCAT.

The steamer Wm. Gaston, Capt. Griffin, arrived

here on Saturday morning last from Fort Pierce, bringing the highly gratifying intelligence of the capture of Coacooche and 16 warriors, 3 negroes, and a

boy, who were immediately shipped on board the Walter M., Capt. Thompson for New Orleans. The fol

lowing particulars of the capture we have received

through the kindness of a friend:

This crafty and most formidable chief of the Sem

inole Tribe was prevailed upon, on the 3d of April, by

the Arkansas delegation to come into the camp of Col.

Worth, and subsequently to go to lampa, "to talk"

with Gen. Armistead, whom he assured that he would go, collect his people, and bring them in for emigra-

Upon the General showing him So, 000, set a-

part for him on his return, and promising a new rifle

and $30 to each of his warriors, he took a safeguard or pass (signed by Col. Worth) and departed from Tampa on the 19th following since which he declares that lie has 'run himself almost to death" in going

after his scattered people, some of whom, he states, did agree to go with him to Tampa, and some would not listen to him, and finally, seeing that he could not induce the most of them to go with him, he concluded

that it would be most prudent to "'give up." He has

been in at Fort Pierce four times since the 3d day of

May, and at every interview with the commanding

officer of that post, he conducted himself in a very

insolent manner.

Maj. Childs having reported his convictions of Co

14, Itil,i70

Lafayette Parish, Louisiana, not included in the above. Estimated population of Carter County, Kentucky, not included.

Total. 501,793 284,574 .737,699 108,830 309,948 291,948 2,428,921 373,308 1,724,033 78,085 469,232 1,239,797 753,419 594,398 691,392 590,756 375,651 344,570 829,510 776,923 1,519,467 685,866

476,183 383,702 97,574 212,267 54,107 30,752 43,035 - 43,712 17,051,180 7,332 3.000

Seamen in the service of the U. S., June lst.ld-10. Total population of the United Slates.

17,062,012

6,100 17,068,112

as worthy of their patronage.

The remains of Gen Harrison reached Cincin

nati on the 5th inst. The ceremony of inter

ment was appointed for the 7th. The body was to be conveyed to North Bend on a Steam boat, and by the Cincinnati papers we notice that the

preparations and arrangements for the occasion were on a scale highly creditable to the friends and neighbors of the late Chief Magistrate of the nation the good and illustrious Harrison.

We learn from a gentleman from Logansport, that Jesse Douglass, Esq. Editor of the Herald, has consented to become a candidate for Representative of Cass county in the next Legislature.

The contest, says our informant, will be between Gen. N. D. Grover and Mr. Douglass, and as there are three whig candidates in the field, the result is uncertain.

Appointments. A Washington letter to the Editor of the Baltimore Patriot says: It is now fully ascertained that the Hon. John Sergeant., member of Congress from the Philadelphia district of Pennsylvania, is to take the mission to London. That the Hon. Daniel Jenifer, a member of the last

Gates, commanding the Atlantic District, and Maj Childs was accordingly instructed to detain Coacoo

chee and as many of his party as could be found,

should he or they appear again at or near Fort Pierce.

This order was quickly sent to Maj. Childs on the 1st,

Cult.) and on the evening of the 3d, Coacoochee, his

half brother, his uncle, thirteen prime warriors, and three Indian negroes, came in, and they were all im

mediately secured. Col. Gates having taken with him to Fort Pierce,

Capt. Wade and 50 men, 3d Artillery, which place he reached in the steamer Wm. Gaston, a few moments

after Coacooche and party appeared there, gave or

ders to Major Childs to take 120 men and proceed to the camp of the Indians (35 miles distant) and use

his best efforts to bring in as many ot the warriors,

and the women and children that remained there as

could obtain. The Major accordingly marched forthwith to execute this order, but has since returned without success. This chief counts up 5 more warriors of his party who were at his camp. He has had no communication he says, with Piakr or Hospitarkee. The whole party of Coacoochee (21 warriors) had only three ounces of powder in their horns. Those brought by the 16 captured had one ounce altogether. Seven rifles were brought in by the party, and three more were afterwards fouud in the Indian

camp.

Coacoochee and Id of his warriors (one old man

being sent out to induce the women and children to

come in) were shipped, on the 10th of June in the United States schooner Walter M., under the charge of

From the Dayton Journal. A Kclic. A gentleman of this place lias a letter book, containing the official communications of Col. J. F. Hamtramck to Gen. Wayne, Gen. Wilkinson and other officers, from the 31st of October, 1794- to the 18th of August, 1797. After Wayne's victory Col. Hamtrarnck was placed in command of Fort Wayne, the building of which was completed during the progress of the correspondence recorded in the letter book; and upon the evacuation of the British forts at the Rapids of the Maumee and Detroit, on the 1.1th of July, 1796, he assumed the command of the latter post. This letter book remained among the garrison papers at Detroit, until the surrender of Gen. Hull, when it was by some accident thrown among the papers of

one of the officers of the Ohio 'Militia, and brought to this part of the country.

In one of the letters to Gen. Wayne, Col. Ham-

tramck informs him of an intervie w which he had had

with some Pottawatamie Indians, who had been sent

to Fort Wayne to declare the desire of their tribe for peace, which had not yet been concluded. "I inform

ed them that I was not the first chief and invited them to go to Greenville; to which they replied that it was rather a long journey, but from the great desire they had to see The Wind, (for they call you so,) they would go. I asked them for an explanation of your

name, iney told me that on tiieaUth of August last,

you was exactly like a hurricane, which drives and tears every thing before it."

A letter to Gen. Wayne, dated March 27th, 1795,

says, "Le Lms, the village chiet ot the lUiami nation

and one of the commanding trumps in McKee's game.

has at last come in. He stood out for a long time, but from a number of circumstances to tedious to

mention, that, passed between him and me by messengers, and with Lassalle, he has surrendered and I believe is fully converted. I have promised him a great deal of butter with his bread, but your excellency very well knows that flies are not to be caught with gall or bitter, particuliarly after having experienced for sixteen years the dulcet deception of the British. He was four days with me, during which time I had an opportunity of examining him with great attention.

He is a sensible old fellow, and in no ways ignorant of the cause of the war, for which he blames the Americans, saying that they were too extravagant in their demands in their first treaties; that the country they claimed by virtue of the definitive treaty of '83 was preposterous; thatrthe King of Great Britain never er claimed their land after the conquest of Canada and far less ever attempted to take any part of it without the consent of the Indians, and of consequence had no authority to cede their country to the United States." A letter to Gen. Wayne, dated Jan. 6th, 1776, says: "Little Turtle has informed me that a Shawnee told him that the cannon, which is still missing, had been buried near Recovery, at the confluence of two little Runs which empty in the Wabash, but in the mud un-. der the water; and Little Turtle says if it is not in the mud under the water, that it must be buried in the' grroud immediately at the point of the runs." The cannon referred to was one that was lost at St. Clair'S defeat which took place on the ground upon which fort re

covery was afterwards built. A few years ago a

brass cannon was found in the muddy margin ot a brook at Recovery, which was probably the one spoken of.J

Bobbery of the Frederick Counly Bank. Recovehy of a Portion of the Monet. Themoney that was stolen from this bank has been recov

ered with the exception of about twenty-eight thousand dollars. We understand that the circumstances which led to this result were as follows: Some time

ago, the directors of the bank received a communication from a person in New York named Wiley, whorepresented , himself as a lawyer, and stated that hehad professionaly become acquainted with such facts aswould enable him to secure the restitution of the sto

len property upon certain terms. Dr. Wm. .bradley Tyler, one of the directors of the Frederick County Bank, and Wm. M. Beall, Esq., the cashier of the-

Farmers' and Mechanics' Bank of Frederick county,