Western Times, Volume 2, Number 13, Richmond, Wayne County, 28 November 1829 — Page 2

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York, the last ofliH race, died at Home, sent of two thirds of Ihe Legislature to in 1C07. A short time prei iou to his de- pass local bills, or bills relative to cxcense, he bequeathed to the prince of pcnditures on subjects of Internal Inv Walcs (George the Fourth) two objects on proveuicnts, was taken up and negatb which he set a very high value. Thee VC(j vcrethIni-ni lonhc C,rter,vhichh,ld On motion of Mr, Chapman Johnson, been worn by Charles the V .M; ami a va - Ujc ftfow .. re8o,ulionrcvioilsy of. u.ible rv. ot very hieti antiquity, which i , , i ... n , i ,1 i f fered by bun. were taken up and agrebad been alw.iy worn by the Kings of . J 1 Scotland on the d lis of theii coronation. iC . , , t . . IIu Majesty no sooner heard of hi- demi-ej ,''H(,'l,ft,' 1 ,,at r"vatc property thin, with 'the nvW benevolent and liberal ought not to be taken for public uses, spirit, he ordered a pen-ion of twothomand without just compensation." pound per annum tn be paid, out of the, "Resolved, That no bill of attainder, privy purse, to the Counters of Albany J or cipust facta law, or law albVcting the the widow of the young pretender, who validity of contract?, tught to be passwas ti'iw left destitute by the death of her ed." brother in 1 vw. j Another proposition ofH'red bv Mr.

ui .u ijoiy, "f.ns;, r...iim, i r r .1- t. I. 1 ... nice civi-c-., . .....,r.........i i., .c ererted to the memory ol Cardinal de York at Koaie. VIRGINIA CONVENTION. ij:cjisl ti vi: committi:. la the Lrt:ilitivc Committee on "We !aed v. I'h. the following resoldtn.;i oil .Med by Mr. DoPDuidge, were a::ied to: O 1. U"yjJi( i, that tlic right cf suffrage b':ull continue to be excitiscd by all 'o now tnjv it under the existing Constitution: Prozilcd that no pei-on s'nll vote by virtue of his neeholl only, unlefs the arnn sh til be asjcbsd to the Vibic of at le.t s fur ti e p iy:n:iit of tax , if 'ich aeeismci:t be r"rrrc.l by 1 iw to be made. '2. And h ill he ettenled, tt, to evcrv freu wiiite male citizen of the comr.nnwealt'i, r'rident therein, above the ae of 21 year, who owns an 1 has pos3.'?d lor six mud!), or whohaiacqui rej bv rnini ie, descent, or device, a I.Ol I M ill I ' I . I'M 1 1 ir y l IIITIll Ul t ix";. if u h aii'stnent shall be reruir 1 bv liv; J I, or wli shall own nnl be in p.e!on for a like term of a asoh d I -t it" w itb the evidence ol title recorded, of a term origin illy not 1cm t!..vi five yar, and one v.ir r t!ie tirn r uiexp;rcd, of th i anau il v.il ie ol ..4 I.. SI. - . w S k .mm S . - . . AaVntl icntul -,;!, or w!ii for twelve ino.it: ;j next pre ediu has been n house kcep'T a: 1 be 1 1 of a f.im ly within th rj'i .-.: wlicre he miy clf.rto vote, and w!io shillhive been assessed with a p i r t of the revenue of the comaion xrcalt!i within th2 preceding year, and nct'j illy p ii I the same, or b iviiig a ves t"vl estate iu fee, in remainder, or reversion, in I ind, the a;set" value of which h til be ' . Sorni discus-ion to.d: phec on t!i propnjition ti introduce a le.ie!iold ij i ilifi.ation. Agiinit the propo-ition it w is contended thnt les-cet coul i be int1. i'nced by th'ir hndlord, and that 1 in 11 r by nuuvroui subdiv.sion of 1 iu 1- into srn ill ti i t and bating them out on L'.i t a ild itjuriouily multiply y () i the other side, it was rn nut iifu-1 tli it ti e es had each a com-n m iiiter t in the State, of which the evi 1 -nt e xit in their tenure, and th it hv X. bi li"g them from voting on ti l j i tbl't atlon, a great body of useful ciU.-ii, who contribute to the sup port of tlu f oiii;n juwcallh, would be tli?fr-ncbiscij. The propusiticn however, did not prevail. I i the 'itt! cmmitt'c yesterday, lilr. I) 1 Jridg; i tf-rcd a proportion to give to the ons of fr d lor- being abve 2 years of ag , the right to vote, but it was negatived as well in its ori-gi-iil as in a nnditied f rm, in which it w is c!V?ie 1, in order t obiiatc some objections nrnde to it on account of the inlivi linl tliAtinction whioh seme gentlemen rig ird it as establishing. Oa motion of Mr. Do 1 Jridgc.the fol hwing provi-o '.I'crtd by him on the preceding day, was a lir.ittcd. Pr r.ill, nr-;rrthr!f.n That the ritjht of sutlrnge sh -11 not be cxctcis.d by any j ui j -n i f ur. ..a:. ! n.nd, wbothi'.l be a pauper, or a non commissioned, olliier, s ddiei, sailor or mariner, in the service cl the U. States nor by any per3 jn convicted ol any infamous c tTence. An amendment was clTcred by Mr. Co ke to exclude delinquents who bad h gl 'i te 1 to pay their State taxes, from the pr.v i bg of vat in g at elections, but the proposition failed. Oa motion of Mi. (,'o(k an amendi.Knt w:ii a lopted ; X- biding from the privilege of v itmg. i itiz n born witho it the cu'irn inwialtli, utde-s they i!oul 1 hive reside 1 a specified term ol v an within the f ' inni'iii wealth, and i'.a county ia which t! y wished to Vote. Mr. Did lri Ige moved ta take up a II :!dutioii i.illied by him cm the HUh, oa t;i: subject of the enumeration of the pip ilation whiih after some modification bv Mr. C J ahnsou, was adopted in the following form: 'i' vh'ir t, Th it a census of the popu Ialion fr the purpose of apportioning; the representation shall he taken iu the voir lo ils t1-' cr 1 I J there alter, at least once in every 20 years." A resolution which had been clTcred sjma day prciioui requesting tho as-

johnwn, vaithci) taken up, but the !

. . . J nouroj adjournment arrived before ; i ,i:arte:.:rt.. .... ...,i .,r;, anv Gen. Taylor, a member of the Convention, resigned hrs seat in that body, or reason named in the follow ing letter. (J EX. TAYLOR'S LF.TTEll. Sir: Many of my constituents have instiurted me to support lh' proposed plan reapportioning representation with re'.ird to white population and taxition combine.!: and 1 have reason to be lieve that a large majority of the people of! inv di-ttict concur in the deirc cxureis-

ed in those instructions. Iilc, strikes ls at so many tun. s, nnd in j i i urnpihe roar! irom tnati;iitrr the result was known, grew suddenly It is due to myself to prevent all mis- 80 "n obvious way, that we may be.pbice to Hamilton and Hossville; and thejan 1 violently opposed to the late admini--conception of my official conduct. I j excused fur some repetitions on the sub Lame paper al-.i contains a rail upon thejtration, because Mr. Adams had appointed

was cieciea 10 mis nody wiin me ion j c m.ns OI lIie ,.uler places tor a similar two or three me: mhr cf Congress to nfRce Zu C re Zd ii 'i the -t ; such , the al.uie l" structions; and restrained by no pledg-i ntr,,t In t ween thi,,s a, they W(.rr ' -npike roan to connect the ;5,pportcd Gen. Jackson, a fur tue eUclion, ,, I ,...r.,r.n..-. i.wl.:.wl. i, th. that, without anv rx-es-ive share of na-! -Vf"Al ;,(,0nal r(Kul u,th ,ho C'cnn:,!, !,ecr.u?e he could "reform those abuses'

that my opinions do not harmony with; thoc of my coiktttuMits ; but 1 lnv e dis .. appointed no expe tation, vicd tcd no ' 1 Living alwas helitvcd and main tained that the nature ot p pi centative , . .1 i . .i i rmb. that renroentation is uhlv ,i mcii r' i !'vcrnriiMn maunv aeprncis on utr oriuwhereby the deliberate will of'tbe con stituent body ii to be ci, rrs-d and . t fectuated no act of mine shall ever im pair the principle. Hid my constituents instructed me on some other matter of tn re expediency, or required me to perform any thing whhh po-si b!e, it would luve atl rdeJ me pleasure to te-tily witti l ow theertul n su'mns sion 1 would give etl-ct to th ir opin 1 ions rather than my own. Hut they a?k what is impossible. They rt quire me to violate my conscience, and th--ciitiiiioiils of filial dcvotieli v IllCtl I OWC to my country. H-lieiing, as I conscientiously do, that the measure 1 am instructed to nip port is hostile to free inst.tutions, des tructive of equality of right among our . (itiiens, and introductive of a principle that a minority on account of wealth shall rule the majority of the qualified voters of the State, I should be guilty of moral treason against the liberty ol my native land, if I allowed myself to be the instrument by which this mc:i" ure was tfectcd. In this state of mind, by executing the wuhesof my const.', lents, I should justly subject myself to their reproaches for my ba-eness; and to the more insullerable reproaches cl my own conscience. One mode only remains to reconcile my duties ta my constituents, to the higher arid more sacred duties I owe to myself and my country. It is to resign the ollice which they conferred upon tne, nnd thereby to enable my colleagues to select a successor, who, more fortunate than I am, may give ell'ect to their wishes without violating any sen timent of private or public duty. Allow me to ask th it this letter miy have a plate on your journal. Forgive the feeling which prompts this request. If any eye shall hereafter read my hum ble name, I wish that the same page which record my retirement fiom y our council4, may hIso record the m lives (mistaken, perhaps, but not unworthy,) which occasioned it. 1 leave the Convention, sir, with sen t intents of profound respect and ver.er atiou for the virtue and talent w hich tunable and advance it. My heait will still attend your cnunciU; and I 'hall not cea-e to supplicate the Almighty that fie may so inspire and direct thctm that Virginia may be regenerated, until, free, arid happy. I have the honor to be your obedient servant, Ronr.KT n. tayloii. .Ias. Monroe, Ctq. President of the Convention. Tho Anecdote t f Mr. Randolph, another member of the Convention, which is told in the following paragraph, is so like him that we have no doubt of the truth of it. "Mr. Hvnpolph is here, as well as elsewhere, an object of great curio-ity. His health is better than it has been for some time past ; and amongst bis friends, be indulge?, as lieretofore, in a great degree ol pleasantry and sarcasm. II declares his determination to take no part iu the proceedings of the Convention, alid takes his scat every day at the

back of the President'schair,cntireiy out of the range oftheepeakcr? ; uuable,how ever, to con'ain himself entirely, l.e is, cvry now and then, beard, in a shrill undertone, either prompting and encouraging bis friend?, or criticising his opponents. He is particularly annoyed by the numberless visiters, of both sexcrf, that (ro.d the lobby, the gallery, and the vacant scats of the ball; and no little merriment was excited the other day, when bis voice was heard, nmid the crowd at the door, exclaiming, "Mr. Sergeant! I'll thank you to put me into the Convention." lit is very violent on the subject now before the bouse,

nnd avos that if the white basis pre w ' vails, the State must be severed, and the ' S uth side huve a government of its own." And wb at he favs. somrtimrs in j ?t ami sometimes from irritation other', I am sorry to say, too often utter in u much lees vei i l spirit." WKSTKUN STATES. t'The Progress of the West" has be come as common a pbrae amorg us as "the march c.miUJ. It is no wonder , that it is so. The extraordinary hc! vanccment ofthc re gions bordenre tlu 0'jio ft,,tl ta tributary waters, not only j . . j ,n PPU' tion but in ttie conveniences t ,io :i1 vainUlorioune, w- may very ilur . w . . r . . r a i. ,f...li1i.i..(,.,., . i Aingi ui i n 1 1 in a 1 1 till, j pecially a. we tu-l.t-ve that a Micen-a-itdiii-bn.fiit w h i mi' o ; n u-t pu ''y the brief b;:tor7 i rosp' ihy ol i.e f ii in. legions iu quef it' i i ii n e nave n en anm-i 'iv reaiiirif in I ''tt-t m -b paper h. a. ronr.t of that 'i'1 ' i'"' 1- "d ? J d :- Hrai kM.ri-lge a t J -7. - it xitu g (. t-r i.. 1 7 T G . and de-rnpt: ve t,J 'If t.i.vn asit was at f Im? ti-r.e aid hive h.-n equ.lly rdifieil ov a romp mionpiece. h.irne tuitoim n rtink-i i;i lint P'I"r fir1 JK-Ken ct, !e-iril i; g the to w n as it is low. Hut the contract borrows stilj greatt r forie fr mi the well known f ict, that like mag ical change have taken place in a Ya?t x'ent f country . Several hundred mile furthf r in the "western wilder nesO Cin.r.nnati presents features e qually sovUiog nt least. Never in so brief a peaod have 60 mary eolitarv places been nade glad. We must borrow from the Pittsburgh print, some of the particulai ofthc change iu that town. In 1786, vben Judge Brnrkenridge wrote his ncount of that settlement, H j was a frontier village on the outermost limits of civi is"d population containing perhaps a htndrcd houses. Now it hamore lh".n tv o thousand, with h popu Inlicncf mo e than seventeen thousand ou!s nd is surrounded by suburbs or villages cor.'aining seven or eight thousand more. Then it had the only news paper printed west of the Alleghany ; now three hurdrcd nre printed in the same extent of country. At that time all the Inr ircix brought thither wa transported on horseback; now Pittsburgh is called the Kirmingham of America, thousands of tons of metal are brought to it, tn he converted into steam engines. ! boiler iron, nnel.ois for the northern lakes, sugar mill and sugar kettles f r Louisiana. Instead of a trade in which four or five tons of lead and furs were exchanged for a few barrels of whiskey. Hour or merchandise, three hundred large and many of them splendid steam boats are required for the exchanges of that country. Among the articles exchanged are castings, nails, farming utcnsials, glass and cotton goods manufactured in Pitts buigh, which, forty years ago could not manufacture the axes for felling the woods, and imported its window glass from Kurope, but now makes window glass for Boston and Maine nnd decorates with its flint glass the table of the President. A boarding school now occupies the place of Braddock's defeat; obi rirt du Quesnc is now within the smoke of thousands of chimney s; and on the scene of another sanguinary bat tie, the Irontc columns of a new Univer fity are erecting. It is impoitant to those who are engaged in constructing routes for trade to this great western garden, to consider how vast a portion of this great and rapid prospciity is ascribable to the genius of Fulton, who has demonstrated that one single dis covery in science, one improvement in the means of transportation, may, as it were, create an agricultural and com mcrcial empire. Halt. American. Ills stated in several eastern papers. that measures are now in progress to bring before the next Congress a much stronger effort to ttcp the Sunday Mails, than was made at the last Seasiou of Conjiess.

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ci: TitKviMJ-: M)Vi:ihi;h ik-ju. 07-As we intend to remove both our family and Printing oflice, within a few day?, it i possible no paper will be issued next week. After that time, the 1'iinting otlice will be found in the new building on Main street, adjoining the Public Square, East of the Maiket Imure. We are al-o preparing to give the Timf some further iaipro ement, before the .. i 1 .1 1 1 ii- .i e pam w ill he taken during1 the Sessions oti our National and State I.egi-latures to lay before our readers the earliest accounts of their proceedings. iMf f iirv i a. ii i in. .t r rruMMitr:. The last Hamilton Telegrajth centains the prorceding of a meetinsr of the citi- , ... i;i i.iriinmnri in.i i. .... 4 1.

"i.m,iwuiuiNeiuii.Cn nosunty ti uen. Jackson one who,

jCar!al rl ,,:'mi,on' n noi r' ofr.fni'.d -rrvn.-V his friends.' That the author

r : T i c' 3 n.iUH tliA f ji r ...... ....... i i v wm i nit n :i ii 1 1 iia .i.j; j i 1 1 . s - ot the load, but aNo prove, a we i e: ilv ii.ri.cvr, an unspeakahle f-cne it to the cit - ' -! ' jieii of the IVoitbein part of cur Stale,

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,Mt I",I,,IC ;u I'irge. v,c received tn.ondeiful voung' ciac e of mtrintism

'i'..i i. i . .i - i t it'' l i I'll iimi i,i e i n rniiv i .'!, r rnrrri i i-i r into this paper. W. M. Leeds, Dr. War-j nr r, David Hoove.-, W'm. Sutherland and 1 nr. .Vienof fihall, are rMipnmted on beball of hmmtl, to enquire into the subject, !:ind ir,,ort t0 anol1rr n.ectinjr. No important intelligence has been re ceived from Curope ot later d .te than was contained in otir lat paper. Jamei Mnr'e . In the speech of thilenerahle Patriot and .f.-itP4m-n in ti.n v,r inia Convention, we find the following! sentiment: "If we can bind the union to getlier. by opening communications be tneen the new and old states, then our union will be perpetual; nothing can eier break it.1

Peunsykania. The two Houses met atjTelescope, a paper el high authority as a

Harrisburgh en the 3rd of this month, in pursuance of the Governor's proclamation. Daniel Sturgeon was reelected Speaker of the Senate, without opposition: and on the ith vote, Frederick Smith, of Frank lin, was elected Speaker of the House

CoT.Shr.ltz. in his message, enter; at l,'e lHT0M,c chlJ 01 ine Soutn.j has lfn,i. ,u (- f , . : just been placed before us. We have iengfii into the hnr.ncial con'-erns of the J . ... , c, , . , . i run over :ts pages with such eaercese State, as connected with it nubhc im ,i . - . - i - i i i 'as the certainty ct high pleasures nlprovements now b progress and express ay s begets, "in th?se happy days cf es a sanguinary belief that lOO nules cfipeacc and universal good will, isben the rcnnsylvania Canal will be iu full op-; know ledge and liberality and brotherly cration early next summer. hve, huietii g their great fountains in - the North, are pourii g down upon u l't rmont. On the eighth ballot, Wm. uch floods as promise to enrich us. with Cahoon.the Anti masonic candidate, was'onlv the flight inconveniencs of drownelectcd to Congress in the 5th uistrict in',,H u" this blessed era of good feel

Vermont. Our late Ministers to England and France, Messrs. Harbour and Brown, have returned to the Fnited States. Abraham Pradley. The Dayton (O ) Journal say s, Abraham Bradley, late Asis tant Postmaster General, is now on a visit to that state, seeking a place for his fami ly. Un his departure lor Ohio, the balance of his salary at Washington waa promptly paid him by Mr. Farry, and the insinuation of DulTGreen, that he was a defaulter, thereby proven to be a slander ous falsehood. Our old acquaintance, Josiah F. Polk,F.sq left with us, a few days since, the follow ing Prospectus for a new Magazine, of which he will be the proprietor, to be published at Washington City. From the prospec tus, and our personal knowledge of Mr. Polk, wc feci safe in recommending the proposed w ork to the public, as one that will well deserve tbeir patronage, ritopos.vLs, For rubli fhirur monthly, in the city of Wnh inton, a maatme devoted to Science & Litteratuic, to be entitled THE SELECTOR. The Selector is deined to be a compilation of . tit rnts irom nil the modern Iletiews & l eriodical Journals of bntU Kurepe ai.d Americu token in the united States. Where the article is long the substance only will L extracted where otherwise, i- interc?tine, it si ill be riven entire. In subscribing for this w-otk the public hazards nothing except in the conudefice reposed tn Ihe judgment of the comniler. lie cannot promise or bopt to give entire and universal sutnlaction,

but no ejjort shall be waDtinj to render the work interr$tin and useful to trcrj taste and occupation. A few pages will be reserved for original matter. The Setf-ctoh. vr ill imie at loon a there hall he procjjred a sufficient number of fubscrihers to justify the publication, in cambers of Z2 or more pn;es each, royal octaro. The work. mnnhip will be executed' in a style not inferior to that of any work of the kind published in our country. It will be ditched, and sent tu subcnberi by mail nt $1 per annum, exclusive of poetn?r,if paid uo tbc reception of the Jint luun her, 60 iT not thu paid, but within tiX months or 3 if not paid io ioon. J05IAH F. rOLK. Ct7-uhcriber? nnmef received at this iT;cc. Seeing that we receive such especial attention from the editors of the State Gazette, we must out of courtesy return them, occasionally, a passing compliment. In a long string of editorial nick nacks, which

their last number contains, (obyiously pre nnrfl fnr lliP nnntilif ain no . . . -.i v vjc?. " c mcci Wun the following declaration: b "Frorn its establishment, the Gazette has been an advocate of measures of domestic manufactures and internal improvement. Thi language enmrs fromene who one eulogized Henry Clay one who, until after the last presidential election, professi i . . , . . r t r, I JUDIUS Vi :i an accurate observer cf im:inkind inl.-ilv n,1m;.i Un - r hrtw l,r - . j ..4 U l 4 UUl II IT could, without the vision ol ri nronhet. knaw that urh n iS.,.-- iVwould ever exi- when he saiJ "Measure and not rr.cn, is the common cant of affected r.nrier:.tion - !,..-. mnr,fp,fi.;t tmn. fabricated by kno.vs, ani made current among fool."' Kery objection made by this "advoraf of measures' to the h'e administration, exit to a ten-fold eitent agaiust the present one. Instead of appointing 2 or S metnUrs r,f Congress. 1) cr 29 are 'rewarde'' ;' an a ol a,i tne 'subsidize J presses ' dusive cf this new convert to "reform at ion,") w ould fill half a column. What sentiment is entertained by this ;tl llillll.l ru I l ira ..i. (). lnriiT. is ool 'matter of conjecture. The South bolus out the idea that it is with them; and as we must clee these baity remaiks, we do it with an extract from the Columbia (5. C.) leading champion cf the present administration. The Teltseoi'C is also ;an advacaie of mean ret Fr ra ti e ?. C . Tt If ? ccpe, of Nor. C The Solthlrx 1'eviev.-. The eighth No. of this periodica!. f ill f . .ava ing, w hen party rage has mcuntcu t such licrcenes? that it tramples over ev ry thing thnt has tiil now been rroft -acred in the Constitution in thesu times of millennial concord, when tho icligion of peace itsclfi3 rr.ade to lerd t still deeper malignity to sectional and party animosities. In thess days, wo say, it is quite a happiness to see an American bock that wears the manly and kind countenance of a friei d. In this unhappy struggle into which we bav3 been driven, noble and precious as the objects are, for which we contend, and fruitful of praise as it w ill be, in nil after times, to those who bhall know how to devote themselves to the overborne, but sacred cause for which we fight, we have little to support or to animate u?, except the onconqncrsble will And sttnly ofrcwenge, immortal Late, And courage never to submit or y itdJ. The next session of Congress scexi to us to be prepaiing the clo3C cf this sad political drama of ours; aod we welcome our friends to the near approach of the final scene to one last, decisive conflict, that, if it docs not bring us the noblest of all triumphs that of successfully defending cur liberties must bestow on us, at least, the almost equally glorious one of beirg overwhelaied in their defence. But if we fail! lliry nererfail Rtio h8 In a ereat c?iue tie block maj suck their kotp, Tbeir bends mny sodden in the sun, their liriits He stniiif to city nte nnd castle wullis, Lut still tbeir spirit walks abroad. The next session of the Congress of the United Statcf, is preparing a con-

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