Western Times, Volume 2, Number 14, Richmond, Wayne County, 12 December 1829 — Page 2

FOREIGN, Trom the Ohio State-Journal. • s RUSSIA AND TURKEY. in oar column* of to day will be found Ihe Treaty-of Peace between Russia I and Turkey. W?e publish it entire to the exclusion of other matter, presum ing it will be read with avidity, and for matter of future reference. In speaking of the Treaty, the N. Y. Com. Advertiser, says, “Turkey in Europe, we regret to say, is not cjrcumccribed by a single foot of its territory, or rather, it will not be, after the payment of the indemnities. And the territory ceded by the Turks in Asia is Tery insignificant in extent, consisting merely of Anapa, of a very narrow and barren line of coast at the foot of tbe Caucasus, and a portion of the Pachalik of Akhaltztk. The most remarkable feature of the treaty, is the specification of immunities which the Russian subjects are to enjoy in Turkey. They re to be entirely fief of Turkish jurisdiction ; to' be governed only by the Russian Ministers and Consuls; and the Russian merchant ships are to be entirely free from search, even in Turkish •sports. Their versels are not to be v.iaitted, and their merchandize may be landed, ware-housed, transferred, or shipped, without giving notice to the local authorities, or saying “by out leave.” In fact, says the Courier “they are 1o enjoy rights which they do not possess in tneii own country. The passage of the Dardanelles, the Canal of Constantinople, and the unconditional freedom o£ the Black Sea to the ships of ail nations at peace with the Porte, is an importantstipulation, inobUining which the Russian Emperor has most disinterestedly negociated in behalf of the whole* commercial world. Merchant vessels are not to be checked or detained onder ®ny pretence whatever, and any violation of this solemn engagement is admitted beforehand to be an act of hos- „ tility, and just ground for war. With respect to the indemnities, we have not yet fail information. Two only are mentioned in the Treaty: “The commercial one of 1,500,000 ducats, stipu lated and granted by the Convention of Akerman, which is to be paid in the course of eighteen months, and a larger one for the expenses of the present war, the amount of which is to be regulated by mutual accord.” .The amount of this latter indemnity is stated in the French and German papers at 10,000,000 ducats. But the Courier discredits the statement, as too exhorbitant; and it is elsewhere mentioned that a less sum will ultimately be demanded. Turkey being unable to pay so mneb—and the arrangement being left open to tbe interposition of the meditating powers. Another very important article is, the accession of the Sultan to the Treaty of the 6th of July, 1827, and the Lon, don Protocol of the 22J of March, 1829, respecting the independence and limits of Greece. Immediately after the ex change of the ratifications of Peace, the Porte is to appoint Plenipotentiaries, who, in conjunction with those of Russia, England, and France, are to settle the execution of those Treaties. This is most fortunate for Greece, a9, by the Protocol of March, 1829, the larger boundary is exacted—the line from the Gulf of Arta to Yolo. The line running thus north of Thermopylae, includes s>art es Thessaly and Epirus.” From Niles’ Register. ■REAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND. Several meetings of ministers had taken place, in consequence of advices from Constantinople. The British parliament has been further prorogued to the of December.. There is no indication of their being called together for the despatch of business until the usual time. The averages of grain published October 15, exhibit a further decline in that of wtie it; Weekly average, wheat 69s 4d.; barley 345. 8-i.; rye„3ls. lOd. Duly on wheat, 245. Bd.; barley, 10s. 10. —rye, 21s. 3J. The fine spinners at Manchester have resumed their lobors. They hqld a meeting and agreed to abide by the majority to go to work, or hold out longer. [The vote stood for working 767, and for holding out 760.—Majority 7 for going to work. Our manufacturers still complain that no sales cau be effected, either in plain er fancy cloth, cut at ruinously low prir oes. During the present week, Lappets and net have been sold at sd. per yard. For this kind of fabric, little more than thirty years since, the weaver received 9*. fid. per yard for the workmanship. Dolton paper. There have bpen some further dis turbances at Barnsley—mobs es weuv ers attacked the military; but they were dispersed, and some of their leaders taken into custody, .The duke of Newcastle lately drove •AT man/ of bis tenants, because they ( had cot so voted at, an election as be I %ad wished. It caused much excite- ['

men! in the neighbourhood of his estate. Ireland continues much disturbed. FRANCE, Loud calls are making for a change in the ministry. The elections had been "favorable ffi *the liberals, - The king, however, did not appear to pay much attention to these things. The press is fearless , and the king will hear. The theaves who committed the robberyMipon Madame de Lafare, when she was kneeling at a chair in the church o/St. Roth, have been arrested, and the sum of 122,000 francs has been recovered. It is also expected that the remaining 8,000 francs will be found. Three youths stole the reticule Contain’ing this property, the eldest of whom was only 19 years of age; they are all now in custody.

VIRGINIA CONVENTION. [From the Richmond Whij of Nov. 23.] . The Convention on Saturday completed the 7th week of its session. It affords, we presume, the solitary example of a deliberate body, which in the lapse of nearly two lunar gionths, has agreed to no one thing, decided no one principle. Meanwhile, Congress and the Legislature are within a fortnight of assembling, and twelve members of Convention, arc likewise members of Congress—and the public mind is kept in a State of great excitement, agitation and suspension. Too much enquiry and deliberation cannot be used in so great a work, but we respectfully sug gest if-there are not considerations to urge the Convention at least to observe the maxim festina knte —if they should not, at least, “hasten slowly.” Avery awkward state of things will be pro dqced by the contemporaneous session of the Convention, of Congress and the Legislature. Nothing is yet determined in the Convention. For the last week, the question of the extent of suffrage has been chiefly discussed, and has called forth almost as much warmth and inter est, and quite as many speeches, as that of the basis of Representation. There is less of sectioual feeling, altiiflugh there is yet much. To extend suffrage somewhat, is the disposition of nearly the whole Convention, Randolph perhaps, and a very few others eXcepted. Difference of opinion exists as to degree, and che parties may be thus classed: 1. Those who adhere to things as they, are, and who thiuk that the Constitution issuedperfect from the hands of Geo. Mason, as Minerva sprung armed from the brain of Jupiter. 2. Those who wish some extension, but are not wil ling to depart from ihe land. Mr. Monroe on Saturday declared his adhesion to-this sentiment, which, after a former speech,occasioned some surprise. This party is considerable in point of number, but much less, we believe, 'than n majority. -3. Those who go beyond land, and desire to give every man a vote who being a citizen resident for a certain time before he offers to vote, iu addition pays his share of State taxi This party we are of opinion is the strongest, and were we to hazard a con jecture, it would be that the Coriven tion wHI settle down uoon its opinions. 4. Those who wish to give every citizen, resident for a certain time, bearing arms, and paying taxes, State or county, tbe right of suffrage.

Political, Mr. Jefferson's Opinion on Removal of Faithful Officers for their Politics. —ln Ihese days of nominal reform, when the faith of many honest men begins to be staggered in the favorite doctrine of the nation-—the people’s adequacy to self government: when friends of the present method of administering the free institutions of a free people, are disposed to characterise their doings, or rather their misdoings, with the cry of leform! reform!! and to screen them selves or attempt defence behind the rampart of Thomas Jefferson’s example, it may not be amiss to present your readers with an ociginal,and I presume hitherto unpublished letter, from President Jefferson, to the late Gov. Hall. This letter is, as llje letter itself shows, a reply to sundry citizens of.this State, who had addressed the President, praying the romovai of Col. McLane from the office of Collector of the port of Wilmington.. The friends of President Jacksonandthe existing Administration, may here learn Thomas Jefferson’s method with a political opponent in office—his filed determination not to ex ercise the power of removal, except in cases of incompetency or unfaithfulness. The sequel of this letter will probably explain the reasons, why it has not be fore been made public. But Thomas Jefferson the then President of the United States, David Hall, the tlten Gov ernor of the State of Delaware, and Allen McLane the then Collector of Wilmington, being all dec’d.; and the cir-

cumstances which formed the reasons of the request thfct the letter should not be made public having ceased to exist, it will not be thought out of order wehope, that the wfiple Tetter be published tier-, batim. Such letters begin now to be looked upon as the precious relics of old times,'’and'ln these times of trial, when so many extraordinary ’ political doctrines are UtigtW, any thing from the pen of Thomas Jefferson, in relation to public officers, -should certainly not be withheld from the-publib. The letter is in Mr. Jefferson’s hand writing, and is word for word as follows.-— Delaware Journal.

Washington , July 6, 1802. Sir —l received in due time your favors of May 31st, and June 9, the former covering an address from a democratic republican meeting at Dover, the latter one from tbe grand and general juries of the Circuit Court of tbe United States, held at Dover, both of them praying a removal of Allen McLane from the office of collector of the customs at MV ilmington. When! first tame into tbe administration, complaints were exhibited against Col. McLane, and an inquiry immediately directed Lobe made into his conduct. Every opportunity which could be desired was given, on both sides, to the producing of testimony ; and on a very lull investigation, he was finally acquitted. He had a right to consider that acquittal as a bar to every thing anterior; and certainly according to sound principles it must-be soconsid ered. lam persuaded that the Repub lican citizens who have concurred in these addresses, would be as incapable of wishing me to do any thing which should bring a just censure on the administration, as 1 should be from yield ing to uich-a wish. We have no interest nor passions different from those o t our fellow citizens.—We have the same object, the success of representative government. Nor are we acting for, ourselves, alone, bat for the whole hu man race. The event of our experi ment is to show whether man can be trusted with self government. The eyes of suffering humanity are fixed on us with anxiety as their only hope, and on such a theatre and for such a cause, we must suppress ail smaller passions and local considerations. The Jeaders of federalism say, that man caunot be trusted with his own government. We must do no act which shall replace them in the direction of the experiment. We must not by any departure from principle, dishearten the mass of our lellow citizens who have confided to us this in teresting cause. If, since the dale of the acquittal, Col. McLane has done any new act inconsistent with his duty as an officer, or as an agent of the administration, this would be legitimate ground for new inquiry, into which I should consider myself as free to enter. No particular fact of this kind is charged in the addresses; hut only that he is disagreeable to the citizens of the place. Tlus would be among the proper considerations on the appointment of an of ficer, and ought, before appointment, to have weight, but afler many years possession of an office, and an exact discharge of its duties, removal, for this reason would not be approved by those beyond the pule of his unpopularity. Our opponents are so disposed to make a malignant use of whatever comes from me, to torture every word into meanings never intended, in order to veil their own passions and principles, that I must ask the favor of you to com municate verbally the sentiments of this letter, to those who forwarded their ad dre6ses through you, not permitting the letter or any copy to go out of your hands. I pray you to accept assurances of my high consideration and re spect. Taos. Jefferson. Gov. Hall.

From the American Mercury. Confession of a Murderer. —A Pamphlet has been published, which, from what we hear of it, is not likely to have any useful tendency, purporting to be a history of the Life of Swearingen, lately hung Tn Washington county, Maryland, for the murder of bis Wife. The following is his written confession af the fact, which forms a fart of the history: li l did unfortunately, kill Mary my wife, but it was far, very far from the manner in which the Stated by its prosecutor and witnesses, made it out. I acknowledge to alt the world and to my God that I was the cause of her death, but 1 declare before that world and that God, who knows all things, that 1 had not engaged any premeditated purpose so to do—that it was not done designedly, or with “malice aforethought, and that although I have been convicted of the crime, and my life is about to pay the forfeiture, yet, if the facts bad been known, and developed, the State could only have convicted me of manslaughter, as ! killed her in a fit of singer, and although my dying confession will stand ia high array to some of the (estiawny

of the Illnesses, yet tbe world must be the judge between this confession and the testimony, and see, by corroborating circumstances, the truth of it, that much < i injustice has been done me, and that the verdict was wrong, although I die guilty” Miserable man! thus to deceive himself, that being in a passion at hisinno* cent and unoffending wife was any palliation of bis crime! v Front the Scioto Oaaette. THE IRON OF THE SCIOTO VALLEY. This valuable miueral is found. in great abundance, in the lower section of this valley. On the waters of Brush creek, in tbe county of Adams, there are, already, three blast Furnaces in successful operation; two of which are owned, in part, by our fellow-townsman Thomas James, Esq. and the third by Mr. Christian Benner, near Bainor* ridge,in tbiscounty. At these furnaces something like 1500 tons of castings, of all descriptions, are annually made; tbe greater portion of which are manufactured into bar iron, nails, fyc. at Rapid and Maria Forges, on Paint creek, the first of which is owned by Tboroas James & Cos. and the latter by Mr. Benner. It is admitted by all tbe manufacturers of this article, in this country, that the iron made at Lhese forges, in maleabili* ty, toughness and ductility, is not excelled by-the best qualities of tjie Juniata and Sweedish iron. Theifails which are, also, manufactured from this iron by T. James & Cos, are not inferior to those of Pittsburgh, or New England. Aud we are gratified to state, that they are enabled, generally, to supply this extensive market with this necessary article.

In looking back to the period when we first settled here, now twenty years ago, we cannot but be struck with the tstnnisbing change, which has taken place in this country, in the march of its general improvement. Then, the iron and nails consumed here, were brought from Pittsburgh and Juniata, in Pennsylvania; at 16 or 18 ceuts per pound for the first, and something like 25 cents per pound for the latter. Now, the best quality of Scioto iron is retailed in this market, for 6 14 cents -per pound, aßd nails by the quantity for seven and iight cents. For this great re duction In the prices of these necessary articles, to the farmer and the trades-j man, they are in a very great degree in-’ debted to the enterprise and public spir it of Messrs. James and Benner, who have liberally embarked their capital; and their industry in the manufacture of iron in this part of the country; and who now, entirely, supply Ibis market with that article. Such men, every where, not only merit the patronage, but the gratitude of their country. In the vicinity of Portsmouth, at the; junction of the Scioto with the Ohio river, and above it on the right bank of the Ohio, as far up as the French Grant , there are a number of furnaces erected, and one or two forges in operation, that manufacture iron of an excellent quality. And there seems to be no scarcity of iron ore, throughout that whole region of country. From what we have learned, from conversing with gentlemen, who are intimately acquainted with that section of Ohio, we have no doubt but it will be found, upqn a more thorough examination, to be equal, if not superior, to the richest mineral districts of Pennsylvania.

Power of Steam. —Every thing is changed, in place of Scottish squires riding to London on horseback, with servants behind to guard them from harm, they are now whirled to the cap ital in the short spnce of thirty-six hours. In place of clumsy coasters, creeping into creeks at every ominous appearance of the sky, and scarcely venturing to lose eight of land, we have steam boats that serve all the purposes of bridges, and enable beggars as well as lords to set out on travels to foreign parts. In -London, Dublin, Liverpool, Greenock, the tourist may step into a floating pilace, draw on his night cap, go to bed, and after a sound night’s repose, awake next morning in a different kingdom; thus rivalling the exploits of the hags, who whilom clomb the welkin, mounted on a broomstick, with the inno cent victims they wickedly bewitched, and dropped from the cloulds in a far country. The great modern wizard, James Watt, has reduced to practice what was merely fabled of Michael Scott. By applying the principle which lifts the lid of the spinster’s teakettle, machines have been constructed which can pick up a pin end rend an oak; which combiue the power of a community of giants, with the plasticity that belongs to a lady’s fair fingers; which spin cotton and then weave It into cloth; which by pumping sea water and extracting its steam, send vessels across the Atlantic in fifteen days; and amidst a long list of other marvels, engrave seals, forge anchors, and lift a ship of war like a bauble in the air.” Dumfries paper.

NEW GOODS. THE Subscribers have jSPreceived from New York, Cloths, Cassimeres, Cassinetts, Circassians, Bombazetts, Yestings, Flannels, &c. Ste. Which, with their former stock, comprises an excellent assortment, and will be sold very cheap for cash, or approved produce. BLOOMFIELD & COMMONS. Centreville,Dec. \2th 1829. 14</NOTICE, S Hereby given to; all persons who are indebted to the Estate of CORNELIUS RAT|JFFE,Dec. To ceme forward and make immediate payment; otherwise, their notes and accounts will be put in an officer’s hands for collection. * JOSEPH RATLIFFE )- , CORNELIUS RATLIFFE) Wi 12th mo. 12,4829. 14*4. A Printing Press roR SALE Office of the Indiana Palladium,> Lawrenceburgh , JYov. 14,1829.) THE editor having in contemplation toma reform in the ifio and appearance of tbe Indiana Palladium, it induoed to offer forialo the Preu en which it now printed; together with a chare and (ome other materiaii luitabla for printing a taper royal paper. The preu ia constructed with a tcrew, on tbe Homage plan; . and ii an excellent one of tbe kind. It willko told low for ehaeh, or on a abort credit. Lettors (poet paid) addretted to tbe editor requesting further information, will be promptly attended to. D. V. GULLEY.

NEW STORE. THE Subscribers have just received, aud opened, in the Store House formerly occupied by Sam* uel P. Booker, in Centreville, Ing. ! a large and excellent assortment of Fashionable ; Differ ®.®'©©S G-P.OSSP.IBS, Hardware, &c. ■ Which will sell unusually low for Cash, or approved Country Produce. , HART k MORTON Centreville, Oct. 3, 1829. s*tf O YES- O YES!!! - . . fin HE Subscrib* J ers having pur chased the interest ofTho9L.Doughty, / in the late firm of / I BOUGHT! & V I ) Will still costinun to manufacture all ® kinds of Saddles, Bridles, and Harness, at the Old Stand, two doors East of E. L. & P. H. Frost’s store. Thosa Wishing to Purchase ahy articles it their line of business will please give tis a call, as we design selling low for Cash, or approved country produce. J. & W.S. BRADY.

Taken Up, T>Y Henry Thornburgh, living IB Perry township, Wayne county, Indiana, on the 2d of Nov. 1829, Three Mare Colts. The Ist a STRAWBERRY ROAN, Two years old last spring, appraised to twenty-five dollars. The 2d a BRIGHT BAY, Black mane and tail, one year old last spring, appraised to twenty dollars. The 3d a PALE SORREL, With a bald face, considerable white on her legs and belly, one year old last Spring, appraised to twelve dollars by Joseph Williams and Larkin Thorn* bargh, on the Uth inst. I certify the above to be a true copy from my Es'ray Book. ISAIAH OSBORN, J. P. November 28, 1829. 13*3. FOR SALE AT THIS Office .