The Western Register and Terre-Haute advertiser, Volume 4, Number 50, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 8 March 1828 — Page 4

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Twentieth Congress. FIRST SESSION.

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Jnnuary 18, 1828.

|4r Woods, of Ohio, from the Committee on Roads and Canals, to which the subject had been referred, made the following

REPORT:

The Committee on Roads and Canals, u*ho were instructed by a resolution of the House of Representatives, to inquire into the expediency of granting to the State of Ohio a tract of land ta aid in extending the Miami Canal to Lake Erie, end of enabling the State of Indiana to continue the canal from the

Wabash, through Ohiot to meet the Miami canal, report: That they have examined the subject submitted to them. The committee find that by the act passed at the last Session of Congress, granting a tract of land to the State ol Indiana to aid in opening a canal to unite, at navigable points, the waters of the Wabash with those of Lake Erie, a quantity of land equal to one half of five sections in width on each side of said canal, extending from one end thereof to the other, is granted to the State of Indiana and that the line of the Indiana canal from the Wabash, as located upon the only practicable route, passes a distance of more than seventy miles through the State of Ohio.

The Committee will not undertake to decide whether the State of Indiana can construct that part ol her line of canal which passes through the State of Ohio, or what control and power she could exercise over it when completed. These are questions presenting difficulties which may be altogether obviated. This part of the Wabash canal may be executed by the agreement and joint efforts ol Indiana and Ohio. The committee believe it proper that it should be made in that manner. Ohio may become deeply interested in the execution of this part of the Wabash canal. One of her own great canal routes from the Ohio riv «r to Lake Eries more than sixtyiive miles.of which will soon be completed, will be connected, with the "\Vabash canal, about fifty miles above the head of theMaumee Bay. The great interest of Ohio, which is

accordance with that of

ndittna, to make the section ofthe Wabash canal, which passes through her territory, apart of her own line of canal, which extends from her commercial emporium on the Ohio river, through the most populous and productive section ofthe State.

Unless the State of Ohio is enabled to continue the Miami canal to meet the one from the Wabash river, she can have but little, if any interests in the execution of the work by Indiana. It would hardly be reasonable & just, that another State should xlcrive revenue and wealth from a work executed within the State of Ohio, which would draia the water irom the channel of one of her larg e9t rivers, and command the entrace to Lake Erie by the Maumee Bay, from which Ohio would be almost excluded. By authorizing the State of Indiana to relinquish to Ohio the right to the land within this State, which has been granted to Indiana by the act above referred to, upon such terms as may be for the mutual interest of both States, and at the same time awarding to Ohio a degree ©f the liberality which has been already extended to Indiana and Illinois, the active eo-operation and erertion of the State of Ohio, in the advancement and completion of the work, willjbe secured. The impor tance of a navigable communication between the Wabash river and Lake .Erie to'Indiana and -to the United States, might easily te proved. The opinion-which Congress has enter tained of it, is folly shewn by the liberal grant which has been made to aid in its construction. The committee therefore believe, that it will be only carrying the views and objects of the Government more fully into effect, to give additional facilities for the accomplishment of the work of those States immediately interested. They believe the interests of Ohio in this work should not jbe overlooked,

The proposed communication between the Ohio river and Lake Erie, by the Miami Canal,-is of equal national importance with Any other which can be efBected, #11 .passes thro'a district of country notosceeded in fertility by any portion of the United States: and supporting, at this moment, on a considerable portion ofthe route, a»popu latin as great, perhaps, as any other section of equal extent in the United States. '1 his canal empties into the Ohio river &t Cincinnati, a point to which that stream navigaUic for the largcsf clas steam boats, during alii o&t ih wh'de year. The whole exn! ©f hj .nal, a& located by the 1 onimission^rs and Engineers ol Ohi- ©, aided in their labors

Had

surveys

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by several of the most experienced and scientific Engineeisin the United States, is two hundred andjsixtyfive miles, and is estimated ta cost nearly three millions of dollars

The State of Ohio has already

cuted

distance of six-

tyr-six miles from Cincinnati, is under contract to be finished in June next, and no doubt is entertained but the whole line of canal from Dayton to Cincinnati will be finished and in active eperation next summer. From Dayton to the Maumee river, at the mouth of the Auglazie river, where this canal will meet the one from Indiana, is by the line of canal, as located by the State of Ohio, about one hundred and forty-nine miles and from thence to the head of the Maumee Bay fifty miles. Nearly eigiity miles of the liae between Dayton and the Maumee river passes through public lauds, no part of which has been sold. On the residue ot the route the greater part of*the land has been sold by the 'Government The land is already granted to the State of Indiana for more than one-third of the distance which the Miami canal will pass through the public land and the State of Ohio solicits, as an act of equal liberality, that aid which will enable her at once to execute that partot the line of canal common to both States, in connexion with her own work. The interest of the State of Indiana will be greatly promoted by this arangement, and the more speedy completion of the work ensured. &

The United States yet own in the State of Ohio a greater quantity of land than has been sold to individu. alsj since the establishment of the present land system the qnantity of land sold in Ohio being little more than seveniiiillions six hundred thousand acres. The United States still own in the State more than seven millions six hundred and twenty thousand acres of rich, fertile land which is now surveyed, and in market. If it is the interest of the State of Ohio to expend millions of dollars in the execution uf this work, (and no enlightened citizen can doubt it,) does it not become the General Government, owning more than half the land in the territory through which the canal will pass, to bear at least a proportion of the cost of executing this work No argument need be urged to prove the increased value which this work, when finished, will give to the public lands, or to shew the importance of this communication in relation to the great national iuterests and operation of our Government. To any man who looks at the relative situation of this country, and counts the increasing population of more than two hundred thousand citizens, already to be found residing within thirty miles of this canal, in less than one third of its length, and who still doubts the policy of executing the work, other arguments would probably be useless

The committee have, by the bill which they submit to the House with this report, provided that the land reserved lo the United States along the canal line, shall not be sold for less than 50.per acre. This will enable the State more readily to sell the lands granted to it, and, at the same time, it cannot fail, in the end, fully to realize to the United States more than the minimum price of the whole land now owned by the General Government in the vicinitv.

The State ot Ohio is now directing her principle efforts and resources to the execution of a more circuitous canal rout, between the Ohio River and Lake Erie, which passes through the middle of the State. She has, however, devoted a p'ortion of her funds, to the commencement of the Western or Miami canal but when it is finished as far as her citizens own the soil, it cannot be expected that she can carry it through the public lands at her own expence, while the General Government will derive a full moiety of the profit, without any contribution for its construction.

Entertaining these views, the committee believe it will be expedient to enable the State of Ohio and Indiana to make an arrangement, mutally satisfactory, for the execution of that part ot the Wabash canal which will pass through Ohio, and to grant the aid to the State of ..Ohio which is asked. For these purposes the committee report a bill.

Notice.

THE subscriber invites all persons who have unsettled accounts with iiim to call and settle the same with himself or Mr. S. Wright, who.is authorised to.settle and .receive the same. 1 hope this call will be attended.

C. MODES ITT,

December 28,1827^*40—tf.

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considerable portion of this

canal More than forty-four miles, commencing at Cincinnati, and extending up the valley of the Great Miami, has bee& completed, and is now navigated. The remainder of the line to Dayton, a

Removal.

Has removed his

STORE

TO HIS NEW

BRICK HOUSE,

Fronting the public square at the corner of Ohio and Markwt Streets, where he wil^ take pleasure in waiting upon all those who may please to favor him with a call.

Terre-Baute, Feb. 25, 1828.-49tf

Calf-Skins

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wForgreen

cts. per lb. will be given for dried calf-skins* weighing six, lbs* and under.

Tor green do, lOcts. 'And I6cts. for dried .calf-skins weighing eight lbs.

do 8cts.

A liberal price will also be giv for good

Deer-Skins.

Enquire at the Register Office. February 25, 182&.

Taken Up.

Batfrt JPCurl, living in Ad-

ams Township, Parke County, Indiana, on the 31st day of January, A. D. 1898, one

Sorrel Mare ^r

Three years old, fourteen and a half hands high, with a bald face, three feet white, appraised to twentythree dollars by Elias Goble, Bernard Noel and Johnson Fuett.

A true Copy, &

MATTHEW NOEL, J. P.

Rockville, Feb. 24, 1828.—49-3

Wanted

One or two

JO URJVE1 M£LV

ers

IMMEDIATELY A N

8 or 9000

HOOP POLES

During this Winter and next Spring.

S. Eversol.

Terre-Haute, Dec. 2, 1827—38tf

Thomas II. Blake

if AND

E. M. Huntington

twill hereafter

PRACTICE LAW

In partnership. They, or one of them will attend the courts of the first judicial circuit, and the supreme Court.

Their office is in Terre-IIaute, at the corner opposite Judge Deming. August 31st, 1827., 24tf

Notice

IS hereby given that the subscri. berhas taken oat Letters of Administration, from the Clerks Oflice of Fountain county, on the estate of Jacob Yount, deceased, and from an estimation of the estate he believes it is probably solvent.

DAVID WAYMIRE, Jtd'm. Fountain co. Feb. 6, 1828.

SHERIFF S SALE.

virtue of an execution to me directed delivered from the office of the Clerk of the VigoCircait Court, and also a cost biltplaced in my hands for collection, I will expose to public sale as the law directs on the 10th day of March next between the hours of 9 o'clock A and 1? o'clock M. the following LOTS situated in the townlof Terre-Haute, county of *Yigo, state of Indiana, to wit: Nos. 161 and with their appurtenances—as the property of John Campbell to satisfy the state aforesaid and the said cost bill. Sale to tajce place on .the premises.

HENRY ALLEN, Sheriff. Feb. 15, 1828. 46td.

Dr. S. Patrick,

Pf this place, has the

GENUINE

•. "VACCINE A E

Physicians and others in the country can be supplied by calling. Terre-jiaute, Dcc.13,1827-38J1

Lands for Sater

THE subscriber wishes to sell the following described lands, viz« 160 acres S. E. quai^. 14 160 160 160

S20 160 160 160 sa

^•80 6a

i2 to* 10 10 10 10

8. ti. 14 N. E. 23 N. W. 25 12 10 N half 13 11 9v'-! S. E. quar. 23 11 9 N. W. 14 12 9

't. N W. 11 12 9 E. N E. 10 12 9 12. S. E. 30 12 8 3

N &. qr. 6 11 8

Some of the above LANDS

are prairie and some improved, they wiH be sold low, and a liberal credit will be given,

THE

PATRONS

OF TI1E

Will recollect that some time since 1 informed them that they could discharge their accounts by delivering PORK, and WHISKEY to Mr. Rose. And I now have the pleasure of informing them that one

Whole Hog

has been delivered, and no more to my knowledge—This privilege of paying in PORK or other produce will absolutely be denied when this Pork season is over. Feb. 1. J. W. OSBORN,

NOTICE.

The late

maaufac-

turer of the «SUPERIOR, DURABLE

RAZOR STRAP,'*

Having communicated to me the art of making those STRAPS for the benefit of MYSELF and the public generally I shall continue to manufacture them, at my factory in Terre-Haute, where I have and will continue to keep on hand a constant supply, wholesale and retail. I

N. I have succeeded in makinjr sueh an improvement as will enable mc to warrant them for 20 year when they have careful usage this improvement also causes the strap to keep a smooth edge upon the instrument while it cuts it down as fast as formerly.

J. W. OSBORN."

Having used Levi Jacobs' improved, durable Razor Straps we certify that they exceed in excellence and durability any strap we have ever used, and freely recommend them as useful and valuable to all those who may have use for such an ar tide.

Deming,

John F. Cruft, L. H. Scott, Robert Wilson E. Tillotson, *rC. Gilbert, S. S. Collettf S Wright, 'i:

Moses Hoggatt, David Linton, J) U.

Joh nson,

R. &. JSP Cube, L. S. Shulert

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Early,

T. H. Clarke,' A. L. Chase,

James Farrington, F. Cunningham, Israel Harris. Jhnory Kinney, Juhn Britton, John Campbell, Chester Tutllet H. Allen, Peter Allen.''

Jl'Quilkin,

A. I/otchkiss, N Huntington, C. B. Modesitt,

Jiuction.

I will expose to PUBLIC SALE, at my farm, on Saturday the 8th of March nest, at a credit of nine months, for approved notes, about

Thirty five head of horned cattle CONSISTING OF WORK OXEN,

STEERS, suitable to be broke to work. .cows

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afld 3 years old HEIFERS Sfc. ALSO ONE GOOD

Work Horse*

Sale to commence at 10 o'clock. GEO. W. DEWE.ES. further particulars will be .made known on the day of sale.

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Feb 18, 1828. 49td-

State of Indiana,

Green county, Highland township,

Taken up

By John Sanders a resident of said township, astray

.r- Black Mare,

no brands perceivable, a few white hairs in her forehead supposed to be three years old last spring, near fifteen hands high appraised to thirty dollars by us the 26th of Jan. 1828, John Pagett and George Griffith. ,14o hereby certify the above to be a true^opy from.my estray book, this 26th day of January 1828

UIENRY LITTLE JQHN, J. 38|3t,

BLANK DEEDS, by the

quire,

single for sale at this office.

JVoti

IS hereby given to aiw *ng just and legal claims

J?1

esta»e ofHwekial, Burtcfclate of Clay countv, IntV.a that they exhibit their claimQ?

proven, for settlement, to th signed on or before the fir^ May next All person* A to the said estate

are re

An nie 4U a IP

make payment or they nu

accounts in the officers hat»u' lection. This 14th day ofl^601fl'or A. D. 1828. ^b%] ^JANBBUIVrCHFlFT

48'3t

D. DEMING.

Terre-IUute, Feb 12, 1828.

Administrator's jynli

THE creditors and hei tateofAbraham MarkM^Sl of Vigo county la. are

infonmj

said estate is insolvent, that"1^'^1' claim the settlement thereof and for this purpose have fiyn'1, eomplaint, which is now the circuit court of

jj W

therefore all persons bavin*'^ against said estate who do Sot in and present tbem before th' termination of the court therJ be postponed.

com*

eon^l

HENRY MARKIE jun

CATHAIUNE MARKLE j/', Of the estate of A. MarkU dtti February 16, 1828.-47,

O W E S OF

LITERATURE.

TVIf AND

EMBELLISHED.

WITH

:v SPLEJWIP

ENGRAnm.

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Mr/

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