Western Sun & General Advertiser, Volume 21, Number 24, Vincennes, Knox County, 24 July 1830 — Page 1

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wsssnzg sun IS published at S2 50 cents, for 52 numbers ; which may be discharged by the payment of g2 at the time of subscribing. Payment in advance, being the mutual interest of both parlies, that mode is solicited. A failure to notify a wish to discontinue at the expiration of the time subscribed for, will be considered a new cn gagement; S no subscriber at liberty to discontinue, until all arrearages ate paid Subscribers must pay the postage on their papers when sent by mail. Letters by mail to the Editor on business must be paid, or they will not be attended to. Produce will be received at the Cash Mark et Price, for subscriptions, if delivered within the year. Advertisements not exceeding thirteen lines, ill be inserted three times for one doliar, and twenty-foe cents for each after insertion 1 mger ones in ti e same proportion fcpPcsoiu sending Advertisements, must specify the number of times they wish them inserted, or they will be continued until ordered out. and must be for paid accordingly. BY AUTHORITY. LAWS OF THE UNITED S FATES. PASSED AT THE FIRST SES SION CF THE TWENTY-FIRST CO: irSS. AN ACT io roWct the out v e ors of the Public Lands of the United States, and to punish persons guilty of interrupting and hindering, by force, Surveyors in the discharge of their duty. BL if enacted by the Senate and House cf Representatives of the United States cf America in Congress assembled. That any person who shall hereafter, in any many, by thre its or force, interrupt, hinder, or prevent, the surveying of the public lands of the United States, or of any private land claim, which has, or may be confirmed by the United States, cr the authority theitot", by the persons authorized to survey the same, in conformity with the instructions of the Commissioner of the General Land Office, or the principal Surveyors i:i -vy of the districts, in any State or Territory, shall be considered and adjudged to ha guilty ot a misdemeanor, and upon convh tier; in :ny District or Circuit Court ot the United States, in any State or Territory, having jurisdiction A the same, shall be fined a sum not less than fifty dollars, nor more than three thousand dollars, and be imprisoned for a period of lime not less than one, nor more thr.n three years. Sec. J. And be it furtfyr enacted, Thnt, "W- emncr the Pre-'.dent of the United States ill be siMsfied that forcible opposition iias been offered, or will likely be offeree, to '.y Surveyor or deputy Surveyor, or asistart Surveyor, in the discharge of his or thck' duties, in surveying the public l ands id the United States, it shall and may te lawiul for the President to order the Marshal of the State or District, by himself or deputy, to attend such Survevor, dep uty, or assistant Surveyor, with sufficient force to protect such officer in the execu tion of his duty as Surveyor, and to remove force should any be offered. A. STEVENSON, Speaker cf the House of Representatives. J. C. CALHOUN, Vice-President cf the United States, and President cf the Seriate. approved, Mav J9. 1S30. ANDREW JACKSON. AN ACT to alter and amend the sixtvfifth article of the first section of an act, entitled "An act for establishing rules and articles for the government of the Armies of the United States," passed the tenth of April, one thousand eight hun dred and six. nr. enacieu on inc oenare ana House cf V--preventatives cf the United States of America in Con n ss awmbP'd, That, whenever a General oificcr commanding an armv, oi a Colonel commai.com; a separate department, shall be the accuser or prosecutor cf any officer in the Army ot th- United States, under his comm. e.id, the General Cour' Marshal for the trial of such officer, sha'u be appointed by the President of the Unite 1 States. Sec. 2 And be it further enacted. That the proceedings and sentence of the said Court shnll be sent directly 1 1 the Secretary of War, to bebv him laid' before the Pres ident for his confirmation, or orders in the case. approval, Sec. o. .-am iK if Tint tier eyuiCitd. I hat SO I.- . r- , "mi" "V V -uu oi me nrM section oi .u an iui trsnousaun' rules and articles for the go. ernmcnt of the'Armies of the United States," passed on the tenth of Apiil, eighteen hundred and six, as i-i re pugnant hereto, be, and the sam repealed, Ai -proved. May JP, 130. is hcrehv, AN ACT tn authorize tiie cckcti:n cf certain school lan is in tne Territory c: ArF. it cra'tcd hy the S nate and H.ut r,' It'pfienrrir'? J th Unit d S'ates j Am-ncainL ixrt ., w:?,v -rilled. Phat whtr-! ever the sixtfentii sections in said Tertitt ry, either in whole, or in put. are now, o:' ma iiereafur be, indued in ptivat? cl ii us lul l !)v tith's con'ir.Ti-d, -- leilie (h eidv d t) be va! d and saffi.hcs.r, o;her lands equivalent thcieio a:id iur. cjvcn'uut

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to the sim?, may be selected in liai thereof, under the direction cf the Secretary of the Treasury; nr.d the lan J! s s selected shall be entered in the office of th? Kerister cf the land district in which they may lie, and be, by such Register, reported to the Commissioner of the General Land Office, as school lands selected under this act: Provided, That, before making any entry of such other lands, the case shall be made vit to the satisfaction of the Renter and Uecaver oi tr.c saw district, agreed. Q rules j to be prescribed by the Commisv.:.: .r oi ihe ! shewing that the sixteenth scc'i -n, v a p.,r thereof, has teen included in inc manner above mention. ArFRovED: May 2?, 12:). AN ACT granting pensions to Samuel II. Phillips, Cord Hazard, and John M'Crcary, and r o increase the pension of George V. Howard. BF, it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives cf the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of War be, and h L hereby, directed, to place the following named persons rii the lis of Invalid Pensioners of th United States, who shall be entitled to, and receive pensions, according to the rat s, and commencing at the times hereinafter mentioned, that is to say: Cord Hazard, at the rate cf twenty dollars per month, to commence on tne first day of January one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine; Samuel II. Phillips, at the rate of twenty dollars, per month, to commence from the 1st day of January, one thousand eight hundred and ihirty; John M'Creary, at the rate of eight dollars per month; to commence on the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and twenty -tunc; George V. Howard, who has been, heretofore placed on the Invalid Pension list, to receive, hereafter, the sum of fourteen dollars per month, to commence on the first day of January, cne thousand eight hundred and thirty. Sec 2. And be it further enacted. That the pensions above granted, shall be continued to the persons, respectively, during their respective lives; and that it shall not be necessary for them to produce an affidavit cf continued disability. Approved, May 29 1830. AN ACT to relincn ash the reversionarv interest oi the United States in certain Iudi;m ieservat: -!;s in the State of Alabama. BL it emctfd by the Senate and. House cf Peircsefu'ath'rs o f the United States cf America ri Cong-res? assembled, That all the rirht, title, and interest, which might accrue or revert to the 1 Tinted States, to the reservations ci land now claimed and possessed bv Conaleskte, commonlv called Challenge, James Ore, and Giles McAnul tv and his wife Alice, and William Wilson and his vife Peggy Wilson, under a treaty naue and concluded between the United States and the Cherokee tribe of Indians, on the eighth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and seventeen; and all the rii;ht, t'tle. and interest, which might accrue or revert to the United States, to re servations of land, now claimed and possessed by George Suggins, and Arthur Sizoniore under a treaty made and concluded between the United States and the Creek Indians: m Fori Jackson, on the ninth day of Augus;, one thousand eight hundred and fourteen, all lying in the State cf Alabama, be, and the same are hereby, relinquished, and vested in the said reservecs, and their heirs, rr spectiveiv: Provided, That the said Conaleskec, commonly called Challenge, James Ore, Giles McAnulty, and William Wilson, George Stiggins, and Arthur Sizcmore, with their respective fami lies, shall remove to their respective tribes West of the Mississippi river, not included m anv State or territory; and that the Government cf hcUnitedStat.es shall not be chargeable with the expense of their re moval or transportation, or with any allow ance of land to, or cn ac. ount of either of them, or their respective families; And firvided, also, that no conveyance or deed of the said lands, or any part of them, shall be valid or effectual, until every such con vcvance or deed, shall be submitted to one of the District Attorneys for the Districts of Alabama, for his approbation; and if. after inquiry into the tacts and circumstan Attending the contracts for the sale of anv of the Suld lands, lie shall be satisfied that such contracts are fair, and that the consideration p lid, or agreed to be paid, therefor, is adennate, lie shall endorse his approbation on v ich conveyance and deec so approved; ami, thereafter, the same shal be deemed valid and - ffectual. Approved, May 29, ISbO. AN AC'P to amend the acts re'Tulatinsr the commercial intercourse between the Uni ted States and certain colonies of Grea Britain. Bh it cn.zc'rJ b: the Senate and House if Representative cf the United Suites of America in Cewrresn: scn:5!cd. That when orcver the President cf the United States I hali receive s Vlst lrtnvr rvi l'-nr, tl'-if f'i J - - ...v. ..... ..i.v. arvmment r.t l.iMt ItrUV.n will m,ot, th. ports m its Colonial posse sions in tf-.o We Indies, on the continent of South A mericu the Bahama Iands, the C. s ar.dth Bermudi e- Somcr 1'. the United States, for f.mited term; th it the n e v:d v. e or f u" ;:.e Unit: :atc and th colonial not ts . .trrin.; the , i.iau es c: t ny c :ht - ( : c k ee vi.nect j to other ci no- t - 1 .. .- a re or im i - , - . . . z, than - . ; ;.". . " th.eit r. ;v : de-C! lption. or i d J se-i- ns a . .... t v. ta 1 1 f the U t-s mav m: rt m to the said col. mi il po.-, si-ions tt oui the L! er articles which n.u'i 5t itcs any re i c Mid he i.np. siul posseh tint the cxp irt fv w, tiaued, to i tedina ioa' ivh es.v. I into t!ie sfio:u t "i ? Ignited Slates; and ' ' f thv- United Slates m tv ! lviU-':i C'.lo!i";ts uforenieiiCjuntry whatever, ithcr than

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thc dominions or possessions of Great Britain, any article or articles that can be exported therefrom in a British vessel, to any country ether than the British dominions or possesions as aforesaid; leaving the commercial intercourse of the United States, with all oilier parts of the British dominions or possessions or a footing not less favorable to the United States than it now is, and that then, and in such case, the Pre si - i e'ent of the United States rhall be, and he is hereby, authorized at any time before the next session of Congress, to issue his tiroclamation, declaring that he has received such evidence; and, thereupon, from the date of such proclamation, the ports of the United States shall be opened, indefinitely, or for a term fixed, as the case may be, to British vessels coming from the said British colonial possessions, and their cargoes, subject to no other or higher duty of tonnage or impost, or charge of any description whatever, than would be levied on the vessels of the United States, or their cargoes, arriv'Mg from the said Bri'ish possesions; and it shall be lawful for the said British v essels to import into the United States, and to xport therefrom, any article or articles which may be imported or exported in vessels of the United States: and the act, entitled ,4An act concerning navigation," passed on the eighteenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and eigthtecn; an act supplementary thereto, passed the fifteenth day of May, one thousand eight hun dred and twenty; and an act, entitled 44 An act to regulate the commercial intercourse between the United States and certain British ports," passed on the first day cf March, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-three, are, in such case, hereby declared to be suspended, or absolutely repealed, as the case may require. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted. That, whenever the ports of the United States shall have been opened, under the authority given in the first section of this act, British vessels and their cargoes shall be admitted to an entry in the ports of the United States from the islands, provinces, or colonics, of Great Britain, on or near the North American continent, and North or East of the United States, Approved: May 29,1820. By the President of the Tnited States of America, A PROCLAMATION. VTHEUPl AS, a Convention between the United States of America, and his majesty the king of Denmark, was concluded and signed at Copenhagen, on the twenty-eighth day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty, which Convention, being in the English and French languages, is, word for word, as follows : COyVESTIOXbctsrrcn the United States of America, endhh Majesty the King of Denmark, signed at Copenha gen, the 26th of March, 1S30. The United States of America and ll'S Majesty the King of Denmark being equaldesirous of terminating the discussions which, have taken place between them, in respect to the claims and pretensions form ed b the citizens oi the United States aud he subjects of Denmark, having for their object the seizure, condemnation, or confiscation, of tiicir vessels, cargoes, or proper ty whatsoever, within the territory, or under the authority of the respective Governments, have named for this purpose. and furnished with their full powers; that istosav: the President of the United States of America, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, Hi.nky Wheaton, Charge d' Affaires of the said United States at the Court of His Majesty the King of Denmark, etc. and His Majesty the King ot Denmark, tiieSieur Krxkst Henry, Count de Sehimmelrnann, Knight of the order of the Llephant, Grand Cross cf the order ot Danucbiog, decorated With the silv er cross of the same order. His Minister (mtime) of State, Chief of His Department of foreign ait iirs, CvC. and the Sieur Paul Christian de Stemaxx, of the order of the Elephant, Grand Cross, of the order of Dannebrog, decorated with the silver cross of the same order. His Minister (intime) of State and of Justice, President ot His Danish Chancery, etc., and the said Plenipotentiaries, after haying exchanged their full powers, found in good and due iorm, have agreed upen and concluded the following articles: ARTICLE J. His Majesty the King of Denmark renounces the indemnities which might be claimed from the Government of the Uni ted States of America, for the subjects of Denmark, on account ot the seizure, detention; and condemnation, or confiscation, of their vessels, cargoes, or property what soever, under the authority of the said Government; and his Majesty engages, moreover, to pay to the said Government, the sum of six hundred and fifty thousand Span ish milled dollars, on account of the citizens of the United States, who have preferred claims ralating to the seizure, detention, condemnation, or confiscation, of their vessels', cargoes, or property whatsoever, bv the public, and private armed ships, or by the tribunals of Denmark, or in the Staies subject to the Dam-,h sceptre. AK IT CLP, II. The pavmcnt of the above sum of six hundred and fifty thousand Spanish milled d-Hars shall he made, in the times and manner following: On the 31st of March; 1331, two hundred and sixteen thousand six hundred and sixty-six dollars and two-thirds of a dollar. On the 3C'h September, 1S31, two hundred and sixteen thousand six hundred and sixtv-six dollars and two-thirds of a dollar. On the 30th- September, 183:, two hundred and sixteen thousand six hundred and sixty-s.x dollars and two thuds of a dollar. To the second payment shall be added the interest for that, and far the last pav mcnt, at lour per centum per annum, to be I c rop-lad tr.m the fust pavmcnt, on the 31st March, 1S31. Po the third p ivment shall also be added the interest for that payment, at four per

centum per annum, to be computed from the second payment, on the 30th September, 1S31. The above sums, thus specified in Spanish milled dollars, hall be paid in bills of exchange, at fifteen days sight, at Hamburg; for the payment of which the Danish Government shall be responsible. At the time when the first payment shall be made, on the 31st M arch, 1831, two obligations, corresponding to the two last payments, to be tile etc d, for the capital and interest thereof, shall be issued bv the direction for the public debt and the sinking fund of Denmark, to the order tf the Department of Foreign Affairs of Denmark and assigned to the Government of the United States, By the said obligations, His Majesty the King of Denmark shall acknowledge himself debtor for the sums not yet paid to the Government of the United States of America, and the same shall be delivered to such person or persons as may be authorized to receive the same by the said Government; and when the said obligation are to be discharged, according to the tenor thereof, by the Danish Government, the person or persons authorized by the Government of the United States to receive the stipulated payments, shall deliver up the said obligations, with receipts for the amour.t thereof, from the said Government, ARTICLE III. To ascertain the full amount and validity of the claims mentioned in Article 1, a Board of Commissioners, consisting of three citizens of the United States, shall be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, who shall meet at Washington, and, within the space of two years from the time of their first meeting, bhall receive, examine, and decide upon, the amount and validity of all such claims, according to the merits of the several cases, and to justice, equity, and the law of nations. The Commissioners shall take an oath or affirmation, to be entered in the journal of their proceedings, for the faithful and diligent discharge cf their duties. In case of the death, sickness, or necessary absence of anv Commissioner, his place may be supplied by the appointment of another Commissioner, in the manner before mentioned, or, during the recess of the Senate, by the President of the United States. The Commissioners shall bi authorized to hear and examine, on oath or affirmation, every question relating to such claims, and to receive all suitable authentic testimony concerning the same. In order to facilitate the proceedings of

this Board, His Majesty the xving ot Denmark engages, when thereunto required, to cause to be delivered to any person or persons who shall be duly authorised for that purpose, by the Government of the United States, in addition to the papers already delivered, all the acts, documents, ships' papers, and prize proccediags, which may still remain in the archives of the High Court of Almiralty, or the Prize Tribunals of Denmark, relating to the seizure, detention, condemnation, or confiscation, cf the vessels, cargoes, or property, whatsoever, belonging to the citizens of the United States of America, before the said tribunals. The Commissioners shall award, and cause to be distributed, among the several parties, whose claims shall be allowed by the Board, the sum mentioned in Articles 1 and II, in a ratable proportion to the amountot the respective claims thus aliowed. akiu;lliv. In consideration of thi renunciation and payments, mentioned in Articles I and II, on the part ot llis .Majestv tne King of Den mark, the Government e,f the United States declares itself entirely satisfied, not only in what concerns the said Government, but al so in what concerns the citizens of the said United States, on account of the claims hitherto preferred, or which may hereafter be preferred, relating to the seizure, deten tion, condemnation, or confiscation, of their vessels, cargoes, or property, whatsoever, which, in the last mautime war of Den mark, have taken place under the flag of Denmark, or m the States subject to the Danish sceptre; and the said claims shall, consequently, be regarded as definitively and irrevocably terminated. Alt ticli: V. The intention of the two high contracting parties being solely to terminate, defi nitively and irrevocably, all the claims which have hitherto been preferred, they expressly declare, that the present Conven tion is only applicable to the cases therein mentioned; and, having no other object, can never, hereafter, be invoked by one or the other as a precedent or rule for the future. AK ITCLE VI. The present Convention shall be duly ra tified by tne high contracting parties, and the ratifications shall be exchanged at Washington, in the space oi ten months, or sooner if possible. In faith thereof, and in virtue of our re spective full powers, we have signed the present Convention, and have thereunto set the seals ot our arms Done nt Copenhagen, this 2Sth day cf March, 1830. E. II. SCHIMMELMANN. L. S. STEM ANN, L S. HENRY WHEATON, L. S.l And whereas the said Convention lias been dulv ratified on both parts, and the re spective ratifications of the same were, this day, excharged at Washington, by Marr.v I'as Hures, Secretary of State of the United States, on the part of said States, and the Chevalier Peter Pedlkses, Knight Commander of the Koyal Order cf Dannebrog, His Danish Majesty's Counsellor of Conference, and His Minister Resident and Consul General in the United States, on the part of His said Majesty: Now, therefore, be it known, that 1, AN DREW JACKSON, President of the United States of America, hav e caused the said Convention to be made public, to the end that the same, and every clause and article thereof, may be observed and fulfilled with go: 4 faith, bv the United States and the citizens thereof. In witness whereof. I have henamtn my hand, and caused the tr.d cf the United1, affixcJ.

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Done at the City cf Washington, this fifth day of June, in the year of ov.r Lrd one thousand eight hundred and thirty, and of the Independence of the Umrctl r.. s. States the fiftv-f-urth. ANDREW JACKSON. By the President: M. Van B'jrf.x, Secretary tf State. KENTUCKY OPINION. In Kentucky it is impossible that the principles cf the opposition can prevail. The character of our citiz. ns forbids it. Their devotion to limited constitutional government has been loo often demonstrated, to admit of the supposition, that they C3n be induced to advocate the right of the federal governmentto exercise unlimited powers. Though liberal and frank in the ordinary transactions ot life, they have invariably, when their rights were threatened by those invested with power, exacted a rigid compliance with the bond" the Constitution. On all questions of power they look to that, and hold their servants to it. When an unconstitutional exercise of power is proposed, they arc not zo venal as to inquire whether the price of flour or whiskey may be thereby increased, nor are they to be influenced by such considerations. They lock to the principle involved, end have never yet been found so selfish, as to be willing to sacrifice the Constitution for the sake of 2 temporary or local benefit. By revert' ing tocurStstc controversies, it will cc discovered that a majority of our citizens have invariably decided in favor of the constitution. They have never yet been willing to permit the State Government to transcend the bounds prescribed by the constitution of the State, and it is therefore idle to suppose they ever will concede that the federal government may exercise powers net delegated toil by the constitution. The republicans of Ktntucky while? they cherish the "rights reservtd by the States, as the bulwark and against consolidation," will not be: disposed to withhold from the general government the means necessary to a salutary and successful exercise of the powers "speci fically enumerated' in the constitution. But, when the administration is censured when the President is denouncedfor putting his veto on a bill which ap propriated g 150,000 to a private stock company, engaged in the improvement ol a local road they will look to "tho bond" to the constitution to ascertain whether the power to subset ibe for the stock of companies, incorporated for tho purpose of improving ordinary Stato roads, is to be found in it; or, whether the appropriation in question was italic necessary to the fair exercise of one ot the "specifically enumerated" powers cf the general government. The President and his friends deny that the general government possesses the povvr ta appropriate the national fund to such objects, and on this point the two parties are at issue. We contend, that, if the general government possesses power to subscribe for the stock of a stock company, incorporated to improve a local road, c to make an improvement, the benefits of which will be essentially local, it may, with equal propriety, become a stockholder or partner in any other descriptioo of incorporation or company; that it can subscribe for the stock of a cotton or woollen manufacturing company, an East India Conpany, a North-western Fur Company, a Sa;t Monopolizing Company, or a Steam Mill Company; that its power to vest the national funds in the stock cf companies is unlimited, and that we can have no cause to complain of such investments, unless they should prove unprofiuble cr unproductive. Now, suppose we should concede this power, what would be the censqucnces? 'I he Legislature of each, siato w; uld be called on, at each sess;on, to incorporate some fifty or sixty road companies, each of which would call on the general governmentto take hall, threefourths, or the whole of their stock and no one can deny t hat the government, if it can, with propriety, subscribe for half of the stock ot a company, may not take the whole In thousand of instances, persons deeply interested in the improvement of roads which would not yield fair dividends, would subscribe for half the stock, pay one or two instalments, and then forfeit their shares, and thus compel the government to "go the whole hog " The frauds that would thus be committed upon the government would be innumerable while the calls on it for subscriptions wouid be almost beyond computation. The conapences can easily be imagined. Not morethari a thousandth part cf the applications could prove successful; and, wf course, nine hundred and ninety nine of csch thousand applicants would go away dissatisfied. Thus, the system, of unrestricted appropriations wouid speedily work its own destruction, and that ot its advocates The nation would be -dis-gutr.iiby the frauds, tricks and corrupt practices lo which it would give birth, and the cause ot national internal imcrovemcnts would be put down loraceu tury, if not forever. LsuitviiU Adz