The Western Register and Terre-Haute advertiser, Volume 1, Number 39, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 12 May 1824 — Page 2

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from the terms of the common shipping pap*r (which *tands upon the general doctrine* ®l maritime Uw) t« rigidly inspected. And on evert occasion, the court aspects to »ati*fit that the compensation for every material alteration i» eutirely adequate to the dimio'sfi'in of right or pnvilege on the fttrtof the leaman. An there wa» no pretence that there wa any extraordinary competition in thw case, tt»e th« stipul tion win pronounced to be opposed to the policy oi the act ot Conjjre"**. and a fraud upon thoughtless and unprotected claa of men and therefore void.

In the course of the trial, it came to the ktjnwledge of the conn, that manv ©"(-chants in th* rt.»t«* of Maine were ®cc»Mtf»«ned to furnish their ve *eU with nedicine« of an inferior quality, purchased by contract at a very low »4te. This fart rallt*d forth from the presiding Judjje the followiug deserved rebuk»'—

When we find that some merchants In this neighborhood instead of directing a medicine chest to h«* furntv.ed ®nd replenished with an adequate stuck of all the necessary medicines, drive a had rgain for a supply of the nr*st Ordinary kind* ami of those least a jUpted to the vovag", at a very trifling Sied price a?isl when even «nch medicines are insufficient in quantity, it cannot but create afee'in^little short of indignation th *t there *hou*d exist among mora.) people, such an insensibility to human suffering, and s-sch 4 carelessUe**ef human life This information, which for the first time ha* been brought to the notice of the Court, is most un welcome, and calls upon it, as an imperious duty, to pronounce the most pointed reprobation of the practice, if owners will persist ia this practice, they shill not, so far as this court i* concerned, derive any benefit from such ft violation of duty. Whenever they •eek to exooerate themselves from the charts of sickness imposed upon the «n bv thi» maritime law, the burthen of proof nf the sufficiency of the medicine chest in aH respects rests upon them And the court will require the feet to he est iblished by the testimony of disinterested person*, and not exrlu«reU to depend up»n parties who have trafficked for the supply at a low fited •%'*, and mav feel a deep interest in point til reputation and custom to gloss •ver the transaction.

Virginia Camcu*—The friends of Sir, Crawford in Virginia ,have at te npted to sustain his declining cause bv the recommendation of a legislative (Utters. In ordrr that the people of !New England may understand the reasons which induce such extraordinary exertions ia the Ancient Dominion at this political crisis, we sotij-nn an extract from the remarks of Mr. Linn £auk». who presided at this Caucus, Upon beinj{cau«,d to the chair oor authority is a Richmond \per ot the 25th Feb.

H»e ions of Virginia have long ureifded the eontrofiug tfifiji. rn'e ol this cowitry, TUc sceptre is now about to

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the purpose ol consolidating her piwer, and recovering her atreu&ht. You are met for the purpose of fioiaiuntiuft the persons best qualified to promote Aer interest and

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PUBLIC M%NT1MKNT.

Juhn (juincy Jidama 111 Connecticut. -—The in^'dui.us, complex, and noisy tuachinery put in motion in is "*tate, to lessen the popularity ot JOHN MINov 4 DAMS. HA* 111 UH* NO PEICTJKIB.E imp«esi,n on the pu dicminu. He is tar advanced in the Presidential .c**, as to put «td fiance all tw« manuti"»ns nf li eneunt's tn hon uiPtg him. we respect out selves Can his enemies deny luin the possession nj mental e\c**l!enc«% moral re^ tianle or religious principal? W*at tu tMia country, more deeply learned in political science, moral philosophy, and the whole circle of belles lett e, or more ardently attached to the right* of man. than this unassuming, distinguished son and pride of New Knglaud. Me i* not presented t» the people by a f^w tlo£in» cabalisiic»p' c^umpuioiispa !i/.ans seekers of contracts an*l «»tUces, worshipers of the «(»Uleti imagt1} hnt the people have sought him lot their candidate, ad will give him their hcartv support.—*V London Gazette.

Having told our patrons whom we shall not support, we will now inform theoi Frankly and explicitly who we will support. At the request ot a great number of out patrous, and in accordance with our o.*n opinion, we *h tll support ioH* quiNcv AOAMS lor President. His inieg. ity, -plendid talent*, esperieoce, and laitUful services, in ths various stations ami offices which he has beet) culled to tin in the government, entitle him tu ous warmest approbation and repect ami MC shall therefore use all honorahl means to promote his eHction to the Chief Magistracy of the Nation

Hartford Mercury.

Mr. JlJams—We have hefore expressed ourselves as believein^ that the integrity, exalted talents and tried patriotism of Mr- Adams pre-eminent!v qualified him for the high station to which his friends sought to exalt him. We still consider him to be the most prominent candidate. ttven in .his state his friends are numerous. As an evid» nee of this we can state, that the grand jury of this county, at the term of the county court, expressed their wishes on the Presidential question when ot the fifteen jurors, there were for Mr. Adams nine, for all the other candidates si.r. {Hillsborough, (wV. Recorder.

We entertain no doubt but that at present a vast majority of the people of this state are in favour of Mr. Adams.—[JY. Jersey Frtdonian.

Invention—We noticed sometime ago a paragraph in an English newspaper, givih^ an ac ount of an enjrine for producing power, which would super­

sede even sfeam, as sn sjenf} but as tsiis may be *aid to be the age of invention, we parsed it over a* not deserving immediate notice. We ceive, however, that Congress, during present session, has pa-si-d a law authoiiaiog the hi cietarv of State j,, issue lettc's patent to a Samuel H-owri for this inven!n»n and we are infonnel that Mr. Hi own has icttia}h disposed «f one hail uf his patent for tl is country, two respectable niercantiio houses, me residing in this ci'v and the «f»her in Philadelphia—a partner in e.'ch house being now in Kngland \yith ^fr. Hi own that they are all sanguine of hnccv^).. It May he prudent, t..relore lor 1 hose persona who are disposed to engage in operations rein in the app-ication of mechanical power, to hesitate until the merits if his new invention are (as thev mu^t shortly h") fully tested* 1'he advantfiges said to he possessed by the newly discovered agent over steam are, that with a muc'i l«-ss consumption ol fuel, and in a far less space, an equal power i* pi dnced. As a proof th tt the discovery is not chimerical, we have seen letters from liurope, stating that IS/MM)/ sterling hfld been offered for the patefit right France, provided the experiment succeeded. AN ACT to authorize the issuing of letters patent to Samel Btown.

He it enacted by the iSen»te anil House of Representatives of the United States of Anierica in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of Slate be, «ind he hereby is authorized and required to issue letters patent in the uMial form to Samuel Hrown, for his invention of a new and useful engine for producing power, by which water maybe raised, machines worked, and vessels propelled without the aid of steam, upon his complyie.g with all the pi-fvis-ioi.s of the several arts of Congress relative to the issuing of letters patent tor inventions and improvements, except so far as the said act* require, oil the part of aliens, a residence of tno years in the United States.

Washington, Feb. £S, 1824—Approved.

Editorial Jircana. No comlition in liftf is without its evils—no station in society front perplexities. The rich hie barrassrd with the caics of accumulation and preservation—the poor are disjurbed by actual want or prospective misery. Those in authority dieud the loss ol power—and those in subjection languish with envy All this, tlu- moralist will inform us arises from the impelfection of human nature. May' be it is so. But of all situations among civilized mortals not even excepting the school master, or the parish priest, ro one deserves so little envy as that of ri newspaper editor, lie poor drudge is supposed to possess neither a v. ill of his own nor thp smallest portion of sensibility. iiis readers, with two or thre* liu:.dri'd or peihaps as many thousand different taste-, evpuet a constant and unif .nn application to each of those, states of as many multifarious an I hiKh-«pic»'d 'dishes. livery varying appetite must be (!u'y vitUud uiid sal-