The Western Register and Terre-Haute advertiser, Volume 3, Number 43, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 3 January 1827 — Page 3

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distribute a of the fund of public gratitude and justice to the pensioners of the

revolutionary war: the maintenance of ^[relations of peace and of protection with the Indian tribes: and the interna! improvements and surveys for the loca tion of roads and canals, which, during the last three sessions of C'ogress have engaged so much of their attention, and may engage so large a share of thgir luture benefactions to our country ^By the act of the 30th of April, 1824, ^"gg^tccl and .approved my prcde' ces^rthe|um of pOOOQ.*u*. f.npio

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first object io* which

'*ft®1their labours were di/ectedi by ord^ of i?~?'k 'ate.Ptcsident, wagthe examination •'*'^^ot the country between the tide waters

Potomac, the Ohio, and Lake fc-

"v ascertain the practicability of a corooiunicatioii .bet.veen thorn, to de- .... -^'gnate the most suitaWf prate for the Vv$^?ame' to fo.pin plain and estimates the detail of the expense of execu^"^tfon.' "•*&> 'T'^5 -p .v'

Qn tlfftd of February 1825. they ^made their first report, which. was imV*'^Mediately communicated to congress,and in which they declared that, havc4, ^sJjMng maturely con§jdercil the circumstan-

]ce& observed by them personally and .'^carefully studied the results of such of I' vfthe preliminary surveys as Were Chen /f^il'',COmP'eted, they were decided'y of o^I^,Pm*0U U*e Communication was ^}j»wcticablfe,

At the last session of congress, before the board of engineers were enabled to make up their report, containing ia general plan, and preparatory esti Jmate? for the work, the committee of the house unrepresentative* upon roads and CAnajs, closed the session with a retpuft expressing a hope that the plan

^aud estimate of the board of engineers ^mii' ght it the time be prepai^, and that |the subject be referred to the early and

Ifavoraihle consideration of congi'ess at /. jtheir present session. That expected nr^port Of the i. oard of engineers is pre-

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thorizing the secretary ot waf to have '•, 'prepared a complete system of cavalry sitactics of the United States, to be reported to Congress at the present ses^sion—a board ol stinguiMied otDcers ^Ofthe army, and of the militia has been convened, whose report will b,e sub-' rnitted to you. with that -ol the secretary ol war- The occasion was .thought favorable for cen.sultii the same hoard aided by the results of a correspondence -iK-itli the governors ot the sevei^l states! and territories, and other'citizens ol ih~ •twlfigence and experience, upon theac khowledged defection of the militia system, and upon the improv#ment& of which it is susceptiblcf.

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report of

theboard upon this suhj ct is also sub-' mined for your consideration

lh the estimates of appropriation^ Tor the ensuing year, upwards of tive mill ionb Of dollars will be submitted for the expenditure to be paid Iron: the? department of war* Less than i\vt lift lis of this will be applicable to the maintenance of the army. ^'A millioh and a "huff in the form of'fftnsidns, go^s as a icateeiy adequate tribute to the "ser vices and sacrifices of a former agfe and, a more thftn equal sum invested ui fbrtifieatibns, of fbr the pre|j#atio»i of ititer wal in/proW-ment, pipvidcs for itie et, the':op fort, and the happier exis-f "tence of the ages to come The np^ propri&tions to imlenM^iy those unforlunate remnants of another race, u#ahie lilike to share in the enjoy menis, awl to exist in the prtsenec oi ctvt!i^atioHj tho' swelling in recent years tO aitmgnltrude burdensome to lie treasjm y, are gener ally uqt without their equivalents, in profitable value or serve to discharge the Union from engagents more bui-» densome than debt flee rj^r.ner, the estimate of appropriations for tha navy department, will present an nggrel gate sum of upwards of three miUionl of dollars.— About one Imlf of thesd however, cover the current expenditures of the navy in actual service, and oue half constitutes a fund of rational property, the pledge of our future glory and dt/fmce. It was scarcely one

short y^r after the close of tlie late war ind when the burden of its expense and charges was weighing heaviest upon the country, that congress, by the act of ^Pr^» 1 BIG, appropriated one million of ^dollar# annually, for eight ears to the gradual increase of the ra *y At a subsequent period this annual appropriation was reduced to halt a million for six yea^s,

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present year is the last A vet more recent appropriation the last two years for building ten sloops of war, has nearly restored tli^ original appropriation of 1816, of a* million for every year. The result i* before all,—We have 12 ii ie of battle ships, 20 frigates, and sloops of nar ia proportion which, with a few

Reparation, oiay present a

hut-^fffoatwg fort*ii^iti«ms af^. th^ whole r.tnge of our coast, ready to meet sny invader who might attempt to set foot upon our shores combining with a *ystcm ol fyrtifications upon the shores ^itKi^olveN, commenced about the same time unlfer the auspices of my immediate predecessor. and hitheito systematically pursued, it has placed our possefsjon the most elective *tuews of

and has left us at once an example and a lesson, frun which our own duties may be interred. The gradual iM' crease of the navy was the prinri|*J of which the art of the 29th A pril, iai£ was the first deveiopement It was

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introduction of a system to art .upon the character and history of our country foran indefinite series of ages. It Mas a declaration of that congress to their constituents and to posterity, that it was the destiny and the duty of these confederated states^ to become, ug regular process of time, and by no petty advances, a great naval power That which^hey proposed to accompHsh in

is rather to be considered

as. the measure of their tneatts, than^e limitation of their design. ^J'hey look fon

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term of years suSicient for

the accompliifiment of atlefmite portion of their purpose and, they left* to their successors to fill up the cattvi\s or. whi^h they had traced th§ large and projpjletic outline: Th# ships tbeli^e^ amWrigatfes whidi they had 19 contemplation will be shortly completed. Ihg time« which they had allotted for the accom pli^hment of the work has more than

lapsedv tit remains for your cenfidemtiori how their succeissors mory contribute their portion ol toil &. of treakure tor tbe benefit of the succeeding age, in the gradual increase of our navy There », perhaps, no part of the exercise of the constitutional powers 6f thp Fed nil government, which has given more jjeb erai satisfaction to peo^ltS of ihe Union than this^j The system bsjjs not been thus vigorously "introduced, and hitherto unstained) to be now depaited trom oe abaadoued "„JLn tontijanii.g tt« provide tor the "gradual increase of the ftaVy, ft may not be necc.^ry'or expedient to aUCiir ite^"|frisent obf tothe rUMnber'bt our ship*J but hhcuid you deem it advisabli^o 'Continue the yearly ttppjopriat'ions of lialf a million to the same objects, it may be proliably e^ptHjt^d, iu Vovidiijg a &uppiy tiw*bfc»sto be seasoned, auo otlur mateiiats for future use in the eonscruciion 1f docks, or in laying the foundations of a school for the naval education, as to thr wisd:j|n of Q»gre,'.s, either of tl ote measures may appear j.o claiqfUhs inference. »7-f

Ui the small portion of thisNai'v en gageti in actv.ul service during" the peace, squadrons h?ve coiitiuueU jto Dc maintained in the l'acihc Ocean, ii. the VV es.t India Sens, and in the Sii."ditcrianean to which has been mjkifd a ?,niail uiuiainent, to cruise on ijie Jlapiein Coa^t of houth An.erit a In i.ll tl ey have ultutded protection to 01 m» luerce, have conuibuitd to ^ke .our ^otintf) %dvaiitageoir!-iy ^-.rewn to lordgri i-atium, have hontrsbt^ 1 td m^ltUudfs bi otir t»eah.en ii tl WAne ol theirKWirtry, have enuiid 1 uthl*?i» ot youths of {he 1 itangf geneiauon to lives ol ir.anly hardihood fend ot nautial experience and skiit 'f: piracies with which the W« Ii.ja bens were for several yfc rs infected, have been totally suppressed But, in the Mediterraueau, they have increated in ttit-anner afil ctive to other nation*, and but f^ the continual presence of our *quttdron| would probabiy have beta distressing to our cwn 'i he wcr- wMch has tunatel) broken out between the itfpnb* lie of Buenos Ayres and the Brc^iilian Government, has given rise, to very great irregularities among the Naval

Officers ©f the latter, by whom principles in relation to blockades, snd to neutral navigatioh, have been brought forward, to which we cannot subscribe, and which our Ccmmaiidcrt have found

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aod the very useful and frie tuercial intercourse between /States arid hit dominipns^ we have rea f«oa to believe that the just reparation demanded for the injuries sustained, by several of our citizens from sopie of hi officers, will not be withheld. Abstracts »'rom the recent despatches of Com tttftndorsofour several squadryns ttre communicated with the Report of tUe

Secretary of the Navy to Congress A Heport from the (Postmaster General is likewise communicated, presenting in a highly satisfactory {manner the result of vigorous, efficient, and econo mieal adiaiuistration of that Depart ment. Thet'evenue of thu «fiice, even of the year including tbe latter half of 1824, and the first half of 1825, had exceededits expenditures by a «uin of mo**'than forty five thousand dollars That of the sHcceeding year lias been Will more productive The increase of the receipts, in the year preceding the finst of July last, over that of the year jbffoirfc, exceeds one iamdeedaod thirty six thousand dolors, ind the excess of the receipts over lhe expenditures of the year Iras swollen from forty live thonsand to nearly eighty thousand do! iai^ During the same period, contracts for additional transportation 01 the uail, in st^es,for abott two hundred and sixty thoufeind niinw, have be«n made, and for seventy 'thousand mijes, annually, on hoHaback t$even hundred and fourteen new Post Offices have been established within tbe year and the increase of the revenue within the last three years, as tveilas the aug mentation rf the transportation b| mail, is more than equal to th« whole aosMiant of receipts, and of mail conveyance, at the c^mmeitcement of the present cen« tury^ wben the seat i)l tbe General Government was- removed to this place When we reflect that tbe objects eifac

ted bv the transportstiofi-ot the mail are.

By the Treaties faifci ^Bpahi,, respectively ceding Louisiana and the fr loi idn^ to the United States, provision

nations, -borne progresihas been made under the authority of various Acts of Congress, in the ascertainment and establishment of tho^ettitles: but claims to very Iwge extent remaiu unadjusted The poBlicfaith. no less than tbe just 1 ights of individuals, and the interest of the community itself, appears to require further provision for the speedy settle ment of these claims, which I therefore recommend to the cal^ and attention of the Legislature""

Incontbruiity with jthe provisions of tlie act of 20th May last, to provide for erecting a Penitentiary in the District of Columbia^ and A dtlier purposes, three commissioners were appointed to e.lt'ct a sight for the ercitiou of a Penitentiary for the District, and alsoa site cOunty of Alexandria for a county Jail: both of which h«ve been ef lifted The $utiding of the Penitentiary has fcceii con.meiiCed, and is in such a degree of fortvardne^ as to promise that it will be completed beiofe

noting of the j.cxt Cut gi pn. 1 his consideration points 10 the expediei.o of iiiaturing a the^preseut scstlonjahystem foi the ri-gi l.iuon and go\err,meijt of the pnite|t^iry of defining the ot oil fetes vlsitli $ »11 be punishabt ^sy ciifeifuienient in this edifice lit c!Qsu*glh»* eomnnudeat'on, I trust that it will not be deemed Itiappropri Me to tlie oecoiion and purposes upon which we .'ire assembled, to indulge a moihentary rctrospet t, combining, in a •«fti|l«rglatiHee. the period of our origin as a JNutmnal CoutederatV^n with thai of our present existence, at the precise interval of half a Century from each oth gr, Since vonr last meeting at this place, tlwi Fiftieth Anniversary ci tbe day when our Independence was declared, has been celebrated throughout our land,• and on that dyy, when every heart was bounding with joy, and every voice W33 tuned to gratulation. amid

two of the ptincipal actors scene, the. Vauid that pen* ned the ever-meinorable Declamtion. and the voice that sustained it in debate, were, by one summon*, at the distance of seven hundred miles from each other called before the Judge of all, to ac coiuit for their deeds done upon earth.r

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necessary to resist—From theffrienalyiThey departed cheVred b*%e benedick disposition |towards the United Statesjtions of tiieir country, to whom th*y letithe inheritance oR!eir fame, au«| the memory of their bright example

we turn our thoughts to the condittoo,. of their country, in th$ contrast ofthfr first Sl last day of that t*alf century how resplendent 8c sublime is the tranvtkiu trumgloo^i to glory! Then, giaucing through the same lapse ofti-.ne, in the/ condition of the individual** we see the ^rst day marked with the fulness and vj. gor of youth, in the pledge of their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred mor, to the cause deedou* and of mankind* And on the last, extended On the bed of death, with but sense and sensibility leti to breathe a last aspiration to Huaven of bles&ingc upon their country may. we** not humbly hope that to them, too, it, was a pledge ot transition from gloom to glory and that while their mortal vestments were sinking into the clod of the valley, their emancipated spirits wet£ ascending to the bosom of their God!

JOHK QUIISCr ADAMS. Washington, Dec, 5,1826

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among the choicest comforts and enjoy ments ot social lite, it is pleasing i» ob serve, that the dissemiiiatieu oi them to every corner of our country fcas outstripped in tl^eir increase ^renthe rdptd task*b of our population

rlonuHf uie kjluteu cm«s, prarifion u»u«hk iuhjiu w«s made for the securit/ -of land titles|su 'cut'T inti*resting, to comjen«afo derived froav the Governments of those 'tTr

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By ttie last Eastern Mail, 1 received ueitber letters nor papers irom 1 diana» polia A gectUoian in this sill age, however, has obligingly favoured ine wiith a letter he received from «ne of the «if»it|ers of the senate, datad the* iSOth alt. from which it appears ihe bill providing Tor two additional Judicial Oifcui^i was lost in th« Hemte on" the That41 the adtnir,isira»4, •ion question luis beeb before the senate for aoute*time, and yestewlay resolutions approving the course tuken gen?" rally, and particularly inr^anl to tl»« •*xtention «f the Cdmberiaml Uoad," the appropriations for internal «tnpio^e». ment, and the Panama mission,

and the t^unama ntisiioih wer6 a

fd by a majority erf t8 to 2

After- this expression of public fcatititnent, through our repreKentntiy^s, will the political demagogues of the day* haiKvtbe hardihofkdto conthtne to rank Indiana in the opposition to our presant general sdminisiration

The matter contained in the President's Mssa^e«*vill no doubt tie fmintJ

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1 have been compelled to otfiit in or-^ der io give tfci* eaiselieat document a .plaCB.-,

FIREH—I regret to aay that otl luesdaythe I9th ult. Judge Hoggstt was so unfortunate as to have his twostory framed welling-chouse whtcli he

nearly completed, destroved i*y fire.

administh \TOKS* Nonrtc. Letters of Administration on the Estate of a w#n by the name of Lockwood, (givtyj name not known) deceased, having been granted to tbe under, signed, by the Clerk of Parke circuit t'ourt—Al)h'(!i is hereby given to a'l persons haying claims against said lis* Ute, to present their accounts duly aun hentieated wilbin nfne months, snd iiose indebted to the estate are reque»t»v to make immediate payment^ Tht Kfetste believd he solvent.

I)EMSEV hey bold, Sll.MM\N,. if. .Acittiinintratnrs,

Nov. 3d'. 1826.

,t ,, .- jOf this opportunity will putitiwly havo, tue oieuiuii^aifreedom and lndepen-u0ijay the money as soon as the law!. 1 1 sires of a former a^eUan compel them together with costs had handed down to fhrir children, tr unrt-rm that

JSOW PAY UP.*,

FOR the accommodation of shoie indebted to me, and for the* salt# (if dcriT sing alh my old accounts 1 have determiued upon taking

Terre-IIaute Dec 13, 4ltf. A few bushels of fcLACK. VV'ALNUTS will be received in payment of subscription to the Register.

JOB POINTING NEAILY EX& CUTED AT THIS OFFICE

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UPON ALL CI AIMS which have not already been put »n suit—I shall pay the market price# of the Town upoir its being delivered at the POKKj HOUSE PORk tljis season will notr command ca^h, and tlie article is so a-^ bundant in the country that every man has it in his power to pay his debt-*, and those who neglect to avail themselves !of this CDDGi luaitv ttiii uu8ttivclu have

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