The Western Register and Terre-Haute advertiser, Volume 4, Number 40, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 29 December 1827 — Page 3

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nearly ns might

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that which will be secured during .? remainder of (he yeir. is five -ilion' seven hundred and seventy i" 'housand dollars forming a sum

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of twenty-seven millions With 1

alit,-.vance.? for drawbacks and ''•jatinger.t deficiencies which may

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though i.ot specifically fore-! we rn:iy safely estimate the re''^sof the ensuing year at twenty millions three hundred thousand revenue for the next equal to the expenditure cf the present vear

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the late Repre

.""Irtl.e trnit^d State?! ne* merit, tlio appointment o. I I I.J AA RTNP/SIVshmild oe recei.

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xvitU the respect da-

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..^rie promptly nude, for all '"tr!ll0'indieted on citizens 01

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vj^l* or their prop' f!, the laws of nations, t'onimission ns Charge r: hat country Ins been issued.

Vu-hoo-d will entirely restore •vb,C"' iMiry' diploic itcreouse

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the two Governments, and

re! itions between then

pafious

•fv from tl« momentous con-

n'ir I'll ion in its intercourse

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the

.:„frrest in the administration I ./LMVI. FIND HIT* F'£V~ !td the rev vear orres be ex Cied with the anticipations ot tin

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tlve present

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an aspect

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'avorahle in the promi The balance in the treasury

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of January last

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i,wdrisw««« Oam ttat day to

^.nber last, as near as the return* received can show,

,w pp of them yet to ystecn Bullions eight m'J „„d ciihy-six thousand fay.

eighty-one dollars and

i-dred

-tv-two cents I he receipts o? E 'present quarter, estimated

f-'iirmillions five hundred and fiftee ousand, added to the above, fiom {.Mresratc of twenty one million hi nuncTrrd thousand dollars of re

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The expenditures o. th •rc-.ay perhaps amount to twenty two millions three hundred thousanti

presenting a small excess o-

vt the receipts But of these tw en tno millions, upwards of six havo applied to the discharge of toe v-iiiciiwi of the public debt tin '..bole amount of which, approach n, M-renty-four millions on the fiis. d" January last, will on the first uav rt next year fall short of sixlyS'/ven millions and a hall lhe Lai arce in the Treasury on the first of uiuary next, it is expected, will exrred five millions four hundred and jiftv thousand dollars: a sum exceed in: that of the firs? of January, 13^5 though falling short of that exhibited on the first ot January hst J?

It was foreseen that the revenue of the present vear would not equal that of lie last, which had itself been le^s IIMD fi itoi the next preceding year li it the hope has been realized which was entertained, that these deficiencies would in nowise interrupt the s'eady operation of the discharge of the public debt by the ann-ial ten millions devoted to that object bv tbA act of the 5d of March 18 7. amount of duties secured on merchandise, imported fr^m the com mmcement of the year until the GO'h oi September last, is twenty-one millions two hundred and twenty-six thousand, and the probable amount.

1 he deep solieitmb felt by our cit1'

ns 0

cla«s»:s throughout the

nion /op the total discharge oftlic public debt, will apologize for the ^rnestness with which I deem't nn 'ify

"rge this topic upon the con

ern'ion

of Congress—of recon:-

in&ndmg (o them again, (he obj'erv «ncp of the strictest economy in th application ot the public funds. The '^prcssion upon the reci ipts of tin

winch had commenced wili

)ear 16, continued with in-

f-re?sp,d

severity during the two first urtrjs of the present year The I' "rnmg {..-de began to How with th/ .,!,t' fpnirti r, and so/ar as we can J'"£C' from c-xporirrice, may be exPf(- ed to continue through the t-curspof tlie ensuing yar. Jn the j^-Mimc. on a]levi:-tion fmm the

-cn of tiift public debt will.

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l"rp-e

year'-., have been efi't eted to

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sixteen million?.

'•11 hie charge of annual interest ,Vl!

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reduced upwards

minion But among the max ''"s ol political economy which the

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of j|IR pnb'ic moneys should without urgent necessi-

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unuui t**

0!-!^h'anscended,

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is that ci' kecp-

^|i c.cxJ)eRdit'iresof the year with limits ot its receipt** The ap ,Ufl:'-ions ol the two last year*,

yearly ten mill

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'i'.king fuiui, have

(he promised revenue

suing vear While \v.« fore w:'di coi-Iidme (hat the jpmblic

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offers will be replenished from t!if he receipts, as fast as they will !rained by the expenditures, equa! amount to those of the current ear, it should not be forgotten that they could ill suffer the exhaustion of larger disbursements

The condition of the Army, and fall the branches of public service under the superintendance ol the Sec retary of War, will be seen by the report from that officer, and the documents with which it is accompanieJ.

During the course of the last sum •tier, a detachment of the army has been usefully and successfully called to perform their appropri ste duties the moment when the Commissioners appointed for carrying into execution certain provisions of the Treatv of August 19th, 18:5, with various tribes of the Northwestern fndi'tns, were about to arrive at the appointed place of meeting, the unprovoked murder of several citizens, on I other acts of unequivocal hostility committed by'a party of the inneb igo tribe, one of those associated in the Treaty, followed by indications of a menacing character among other tribes of the same region, rendered necesviry an immediate display of the defensive an»l protective force of the Union in that quarter. It was •lccordmgly exhibited b" the immediate and concentrated nio'-ements of th" Ciovernors of the State of Illinois and of the Territory of Michigan, and competent levies of militia under their authority with a corps of '•even hundred men of United States' troops under the command of General Atkinson, who, at the cnll of Governor Cas^, immediately repaii /d to the scene of danger from their Nation at St Louis Their presence dispelled (he alarms of our fel ow-citizens on those borders, and •verawed the hostile purposes of the fndiarr I'he perpetrators of the murders were surrended to the au thority And operations of our laws inl every appearance of pur[osed

subsided Although the present organization of the Army, and the administration of its various brandies of service, are upon the whole, satislactoiy, they .re yet *n*ccpt»ble of much improve nent in particulars,

I. Of the Board of Internal Improvement, on the Chesapeake and •Jhio Canal.

On the continuance oi the ia tional Road from Cumberland to the tide waters within the District oi Columbia 3 Oi the continuation of toe Na tional Road from Canton to^ inesville 4. On the 1 Cition of the Rational Road from uiesville to '011111111118 .0. On the continuation the same Road to the Seat of Government in Missouri "G. On the Post Road from Baltimore to Philadelphia 7. On a survey oi Kcnnebec River

(in part.) 8 On a National Wa-hit2'ton to B-iffal')

ostilit from those Indian tribes bus upon the coasts and harbors the United States lor the mamtena

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of which

have been heretofore srhmitted to the consideration of Congiess, and others are now first presented in tlit Report of the Secretary of War

The expediency of providing for .td'litional numbers of Oiliccis in the two Corps of Engineers will in soin« decree, depend upon the number and extent of the objects of national import ince upon which Congiess may think it proper

lhat surve should

be made, conformably to the Act of lhe 30th of April lb24. Of the surveys which, before the last session ol Congress, had been nrnde under the iiithority of that Act, reports were nade

acai.nl On surveys of a roiile for a, vanal to connect tiie waters of James and (jJreal Kenhawa rivers

On the survey jf the Swash Pamlico Sound, and that ol Cap Fear below the town of Wilmington In North Carolina

O.t the survey of the Muscle Sboah in the Tennessee River, and' for rente for a contemplated communica tion between the llivvassee and Coosa l.ivers, in the state of Alabama.

Other reports of surveys upon ob jeets pointed out by the several act1ol Congress of the last and preceding tessions, are in progress of preparabe com

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Ail the o9icers of both Corps of Kn ineers, with several other persons luly qualified, have been constantly employed upon these services from the passage of the act of30!.h ot A pril, iS'24, to this time. Were Other advantage to accrue to thcountry from their labors, than the fund of topographical knowledge which they have collected and communicated, that alone would have been a profit to the Union, more than adequate to all the expenditures which have been devoted to the ob ject. but the appropriations for the repair arid continuation of the Cumberland Iload, for the construction of various other Roads, ft»rthe removal of obstructions from the Rivers and vrbors, for the erection of Light Houses, Beacons, Piers and Huoys, and for the completion of Canals undertaken by individual associations, but needing the assistance of mean1and resources more comprehensive than individual enterprise can command, may be considered rather as treasures laid up from the contributions of the present age for the benefit of posterity, than as unrequited applications of the accruing revenues To such objects of permanent im provement to the condition of tin country, of real addition to tin wealth"as well as the comfort of the people, by whose authority and resources they have been el'ected, from three to four millions of the annual income of the nation have, by laws enacted at the three recent sessions of Congress, applied, without intrenching the necessities of the Treasury out adding a dollar to the taxes or debts of the community: without suspending even the steady and regular discharge of the debts contracted in former days, which, witihinjthe same S years, have been diminished by the amount of nearly sixteen millions of dollars

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Marine

Road from

9 On' the survey^of Saugatuc! [iarbor and River 10 On a Canal from Lake Pontchertiain to the Mississippi River

II. On surveys at Kdgartown. Newbury port and ilyannis Harbor On survey ot La Plaisanc Bay, in the Territory of Michigan

And reports ore im\v prepared will be. submitted to Congress. On surveys of the peninsula of Florida, (o ascertain the practicability of a 'Canal to connect the waters of the Atlantic with the Gulf of Mex'co across that peninsula and also of the country between the Bays of Mobile and of Pensacola, with the icw of connecting them together bj

ana

most been upon with-

The same observations are, in a great degree, applicable to to the appropriations made for fortifications

.. United States for the maintenance of the Military Academy at West Point, and for the various objects under the superintendence of the l)e partment of the Navy. Tne Report of the Secretary of the Navy, and those from the subordinnie brandies ofthe Military Departments, exhibit to Congress, in minute detail, the present condition of the public establishments dependent upon them the execution ot the acts ot Congress relating to them, and the views of the officers engaged in the several brandies ofthe service, concerning the im provemcnts which may tend to their perfection The fortification ofthe coasts and the gradual increase and

of a -reat system of national defence. vc\ ed, and little more

ofthe public ships, and the improvement ofthe Navy

human and divine, which contitute lhe great distinction between he warrior' patriot and the license robber and pirate these can be s)s :ematically taught and eminently acquired only in a permanent'school rationed upon the shore, and providwith the teachers, the instruments

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which has been upwards of ten vents millions mid been sold. 1 ne amou.it IN PROCESS and which, for a series paid into the reasury by the puioflpairsto come will continue lojchnscrs cf the. lands sotd, is not yet claim (he constant and persevering equal to the sums paid lor the who.c.

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which have emanated^from the lands haveJong been pledged to measures which have th se piiwciples. the Session of Congress for the giadua. Improvement of the Navy, holds a conspicuous place.. The co lection of limber, for the future construction of vessels of war the preservation and re-production of the spec es of timber peculiarly adapted to that pur pose the construct on ol Dry Dock*for the use ofthe Navy the erection of a

Railway for the repaii

Yards,

art

to. the youthful and inquiring m'nd The report from the Post Master General exhibits the condiim of hat department, as highly satisfactory for the present, and stili more romising for the future. Its reeipts far the year ending the first ol Iuly last, amounted to one million four huri Ired ami seventy-three thou sand five hundred and fifty-one dol iars, and exceeded its expenditures ly upwards of one hundred tho-usand dollars It cannot be an over san guine estimate to predict that In less than ten years, of which on-i half have elapsed, the rer.eipl3 wilL have more than doubled. In the mean time, a reduced expenditure upanes tablished routss has kept pace with increased facilities of public accommodation, and additional services have been obtained at reduced rates of compensation. With the last vear the transportation of the mail in stages has been greatlyr augmented Lhe number of Post Offices has been increased to seven thousand and it may be anticipated that while the facilities of intercourse between fellow-citizens in person or by cor respondence, will soon be carried to he door of every villager in the Unm, a yearly surplus of revenue will accrue, which may be applied as the wisdom of Congress, under the exercise of their constitutional powers, may devise, for the further establishment and improvement of the public Roads, or by adding still further to the facilities in the transportation of the mails. Of the indications of the prosperous condition of our country, none can be more pleasing than those presented by the multiply ing relations of personal and intimate intercourse between the citizens of the Union, dwelling at the remotest distances from each other

Among the subjects which have heretofore occupied the earnest solicitude and attention of Congress, is the management and disposal ot that portion of the property of the Na tion, which consists of the public finds The acquisition of tiiem, made at' the expense of the whole Union, not only in treasure but in blood, marks a right of property in tiiem equally extensive By the report and statements from the General Land Office, now communicated, it appeals that under the present Government of the States, a sum little hort of thirty-three millions of dol trs has been*paid from the common Treasury for that portion of this property. which has been purchast-d lrom France and Spain, and for the extinction of the aboriginal tides. The amount of lands acquired is near two hur.died a»d sixty millions of acres, of which, on the first of .January. 1020. about one hundred and th.rty nine millions ot acrtshad been sur

tthan

Act of th° hst 'die creditors of the. Nation a pledge from which we have reason to hope that they will, ina very few years be redeemed The system upon which this great national interest has been managed, was the result of long, anxious and persevering deliberation matured and "modified by the progress ..four population, A- 'lie lessons of ex oeriei.ceithasbei hi :crtoeminently successful. More man nine tenths of lie lands still remain the common property of lhe Union, the appropriitton and disposal of which are sacred usts in the hands of Congress. Of he lands sold, a considerab.-n part vere conveyed under extended creds, which, in the vicsssitudes tS" fhicuations in lhe value of lands, and heir produce, became oppressively ourdensome to the purchasers. It •an never be the interest or tne poli oy of the nation to wring from its '.vn citizens the reasonable profits of heir industry and enterprise, by oolding them to the rigorous import of disastrous engagements. In marca, ,8-21, a debt of twenty-two millions of dollars, due by purchasers ot the public lands, had accumulated, which they were unable"to pay An Act of

for the pres

ervation ofthe public property, de posited in them, ha\e all received from the executive the attention riqnircd by that Act and will contin ue to receive it, steadik proceeding towards the execution of all its pur poses.'* Tlie establishment, of a Na val Academy, furnishing the means of theoretic inr.truclion, to the youth who devote their li-es to the sei vice of their country, upon lhe 0 ceon, still solicits the sanction of tin e"is!aturo. Practical teamansbip arid the

of Navigation, may

quired upon the cruisers of the squadwhich, from time to lime, arr dispatched to distardseas but a com oetent knowledge even ofthe art ol ship building, the higher matbemntics and astronomy the hteratiiH which can place ur officers on a lev "I of polished education with the ofli eers ol o'lher marine nations, the vnowledge ofthe laws, municipal and lalional,"which, in (heir intercourse .vith foreign States and their Governments, are continually called into •iperation and above alb that acquaintance with the principles of honor and justice, with the higher obligations of morals, and of geneial

ep.iv, sc|eaccb I meats.

n.neK ui

h? but leaves a small balance to be re-

Congress, of the £d March, 1821, came lo their relief, and has oeen succeeded by others, (he latest being [he act of the 4th of May, 182G, the indulgent provisions of which expired on the 4th of July last. The effect of these laws has been to reduce he debt from the purchasers, to are maining balance of about four mill ons three hundred thousand dollars •lue more than three-fifths of which u*e for lands within lhe state of Alabama. I recommend to Congress lie revival and continuance for a further term of the beneficent accom* modatious to the public debtors, of that statute and submit to their con sideration, in the same spirit of equ ty, the remission, under proper discriminations, of lhe forfeitures of partial payments on account of purchases of the public lands* so far as to a!t0 otl"ir

"'There an various crthrsr of deep interest tO**he whole Union, whifth hare hefetofjro on rer.o-n-nt'nded to the consideration of Congrn»?, as' well bv my predecessors as tinder the impression of the {tn-S devolving npon nn. by nivself. Af rnong these are the debt rafter-of iuglier- than gratituit? to survivvyg warrio.'S of the .Revolutionary W.brthe cxtt Tision of' the Judicial Adoitaistra(un of the Fedora! Government, to tho se extensive and rnpo'Hnfc members of the Union, wo'co, hcvihg risen inter existence since the or? grUiizgtion of the present Jn iichry establishment, ^pw constitute at [ea.-^i one-third of i.ts erritory, po.ve-r a i~i population the fo'mati vi 01 a effecti an nnifoi

system "r tno

government of tiie yMditi •, nr-vi toe melioration, in some f'»rtn ar miV.lit.ir cation, of the diversiL'ed and aiicrx oppressive codes relating to JnsOil'^e.Hcy. Amidst the multipiici

U'ashingfcH, Dcc 4, 1 S2r.

t.nyh-s

of great national concernm ut wlie.'Ix may recommend themselves lo to" calm and patriotic* deliberateris of the Legislature, it may suflice to

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that 011 these and all other measure which may receive their sanction, mv hearty co operation will be g'^ea, conformably to the duties enj 11. »rl upon me, a/d under the sense til i'd the obligations prescribed by tilts Constitution /JOHN QUIXCr A DIMS.

The Legislature of onr st|tepr/-» grosses in the preparation or bus:* ness, but ha«l brought no im[orTane measure to a closc at our last d:ite,s-. A little law unworthy of t:-.e nlj -ct„ and ineffectual in its force his p-is«,.:-i the lower house on the subject o! our Northern ('anal. (!y\ Anabieand nnple bill on this suoj-ct has bc.^ne* laid tcfofv? the Senate. iut it is to b.^ feared thore who ride on hail hoads. will trample it under foot while see. almost in emfirvi.'

'•'•'Andrew Stevenson ot Virginia has, b'.cn elected .^p-aki-r of the ilou^ of Represent,:t vcs of the .States, he vote was for Steven "On 104. inr Juhn W. Taylor 94—^catferin^ 7.

J'lie actual mapnitv is about 20 ur Jack.Mn, in the (louso. It appear-? from this selecting Speaker that Jack-oman piinc.p'f,$ have prevaiied among the people at the time of circling :eir 1 ep»r*ei)tatives to Congresk—Tinry had 11 irnjo:ifyin the Si'f'aie the la^t St*s-» a iv a present 'hcrcf.ire we ha*.hope tlie po-ifv thej.ick.nu wi!l.be ni.ide known—mat .ave the power to control matto's they please, they will let acilonx prove what their political principles, are Will they piss La vs to pr* tect home industry Wjil tiiey ivc» -uch a support "to the \uiertcaa System" as will facilitate the grand march of Iut'rnol Imprcvem-.'ut-v If they do 'us all we a^k they lo not the people will hold them re-» -sponsible lor the injury done to our Country, and liuil thetii fiom the hi^li stations they now fill, head'un^ down to the depths' ignominy which they have laboured to prepare for oth^rs^r The people will watch

HKM.

COMMUNICA I KD

PI CD O.i the

lJ5th

instant, of

ouimonary consumption, JMr. Johnsun Tracy -p'sins, about two years a resident ol this town and formerly qf New- York.

The rema'ns of the deceased^ after an appropriate serriee in the Court Mouse by the Rev. Davnl Monfort, were escorted to the pi ice of interment by a highly respectable concourse of citizens to,whom he had greatly endeared himself by a peculiarly unassuming suavity of manners..

It wili be gratifying to (he fri mU of the deceased lo know that during his long illness he received frorn th« spontaneous kindness of Scotfc Esq. and his amiable family all tho attention that the dearest^ kindred could have elicited. ^v DlKO—Suddenly on the 13'h inst. Mr. Isaac J^ambert, of IIon?y Creelc township, ngn! 4vl years

THE subscriber invites all persnns who have unsettled accounts widi him to call am! settle the sam|t with himself or Mr. S. W right, who authorised to settle and rcceive ta« same. I hupq this caH will be attended. •/.

C. MODES.TI.

December 28, —40--tf.

"GOODS. II. Johnson

"NEW

Has iust received a

General Assortmcat' O

Winter Goods '.

Which wiiUbe sold low for Cash, Bees-ivaXy Lintics, Jeans* Linen, '''ealhers. Flax seed, Whiskey* §rTDec. 27, 1827.—40tif