as many individuals as, by a subscription of five dol-tenantless. The economists of the state practice on lars and upwards, may entitle themselves to be made the method of liberating prisoners, on condition that members. The standing committee of the associa- they leave the state. tion entertain the hope, that you will take pleasure in uniting with the offspring of New England, in your town and state, in contributing towards this patriotic design, and have ordered me to pay particular attention to any communication which you may make on the subject. [Bost. Cen. The Blackstone canal company has been organized at Providence, and the excavations are to be immediately commenced. The people of the little state of Rhode Island have caught the spirit of those of New York, and seem resolved to exert their liberal means to increase them, and gather that strength and population through scientific power, which the smallness of their territory would otherwise deny to them. PHILADELPHIA. The several squares in this city are hereafter to be known by the following namesLogan, Rittenhouse, Penn, Franklin, Washington and Independence. On the last stands the building in which the independence of the United States was resolved on. "It is in contemplation to commemorate the next anniversary of June 17th, being the half century since the battle was fought, with every possible mark of grateful observance. The corner stone of the monument will then be laid-an address will be delivered by hon. Daniel Webster-the presence of general Lafayette is promised, and nothing would more essentially contribute to extend and strengthen the feelings of the day, than to receive a deputation from the sons of New England, in distant parts of the country, particularly from your neighborhood. "I have the honor to be, dear sir, with great re-opening of a road from Tyemochtee, a river which spect, your faithful humble servant, EDWARD EVERETT." Ouro. The legislature of Ohio have directed the runs into the Ohio, twelve miles below Upper Sandusky, to the Lower Sandusky. Contracts have already (Signed) Sixty thousand dollars are already subscrib-been entered into for clearing off the timber, sixty ed or appropriated for erecting the proposed monu- feet in width, and ditching it on each side, where it ment on this memorable hill, and additional sums becomes necessary to make a dry road. are daily received. We cannot believe that money expended for such purposes is thrown away, as some suppose; but, on the contrary, are of opinion, that whatever has a tendency to excite a love of our country and a reverence for the principles of the revolution, cannot be valued by the amount of its cost in dollars and cents. 66 1825, By the above table it will be seen that, during the Jast five months, the number of foreign arrivals has been six less than during the same time in 1824-the number of clearances 28 more; or an increase in departures of 28, and a decrease in arrivals of 6. Thus the increase of departures has been in about the same ratio as the preceding years; but, instead of a progressive increase in arrivals, they have fallen short of the previous year. [Statesman. This young state is advancing in population and power with giant strides. It is probable that the census of 1830 will exhibit an aggregate of more than a million of free persons: and every internal improvement that is made, will mightily add to the number of them. A valuable article has lately been added to the products of Ohio--tobacco. One hogshead was lately sold in Baltimore at forty cents per lb. or dollars per hundred; and the National Intelligencer of the 16th inst. says: There arrived at Georgetown, last week, from Ohio, nine wagon-loads of tobacco, each wagon carrying three hogsheads. Some of the tobacco was condemned by the inspector on account of its being put up in too high a state; but, even in that state, twenty five dollars per cwt. was refused for it, and it has been taken to the country for re-handling and re-packing, when it will bring 28 or 30 dollars, being the price given for that which passed inspection. PRICE OF STOCKs-at London, April 14. American -three per cents. $0; four and half, 95. Sixes, for 1813, 93; for 1814, 94 a 96. Canal stock, for 1837, 102; for 1845, 104. United States bank shares, 1.24 17s. Gd. British-three per cent. reduced 912; three per cent. consols. 921; fours 1061; consols. for account, 924. DEATH OF GEN. MCINTOSH. Milledgeville, May 9— We stop the press to announce the distressing intelligence of the murder of the Indian chief, gen. Win. McIntosh, and the chief of Cowetau, Tustunnuggee Tomme, which was brought to the governor yesterday evening, by Chilly McIntosh, the general's son, and five chiefs of the nation, who made their RHODE ISLAND. The legislature of this state has escape from the massacre. The mischief was peradjourned to meet again in June. The session petrated last Saturday by a large body of Indians, was a busy one. Several petitions for additional supposed to be four hundred, who attacked gen. public improvements passed incipient stages, with McIntosh in his own house, on the very day he had orders of notice. The Rhode Island coal mine com- appointed to set off at the head of a mission to explore pany petitioned to be re-incorporated, with power to the country west of the Mississippi for the future increase their capital to $1,200,000, by issuing addi-residence of the nation. There is too much reason tional shares; to be allowed to hold their meetings to fear, that white men were the instigators of this and to transact business in New York, and to be au- horrid butchery. thorized to establish in Rhode Island such manufac tories as use their coal as fuel. The expenditures of this state, the last year, was $19,859 19 cents! There are 43 banks in successful operation in the state, and all in good credit. One of the duties of the attorney general of the state, is to report bills on the reports adopted by the legislature. The jail at Newport was The son of gen. McIntosh, and the chiefs mentioned in the preceding account, have arrived at Washington. He says, (observes the National Jour *Segars, said to be equal in flavor and taste to those made at Havana, it is stated, have been manufacture! from tobacco raised in Lancaster county, Pa. posing, has appeared willing to encourage them, by rendering them legitimate. nal), that his father's house was surrounded by a party, and set on fire, on the morning of the 30th of April, at day break; they immediately commenced "They have also been powerfully excited by the firing into the house, and killed his father before he people of those countries, whom religion, manners could escape. They then surrounded the house of Tus-and language attach, in a particular manner, to the tunnuggee, in which, besides himself, Chilly McIntosh, French. Mr. Kennard, (his brother-in-law), and two white men were. The chief was immediately killed; but the others escaped by flight; McIntosh and Kennard were pursued to the river (Chatahoochie), and fired at until they had crossed. They remained in the neighborhood until about eleven o'clock, during which time the assailing party were shooting the cattle and destroying the property of gen. McIntosh. Chilly McIntosh believes improper influence has been used to produce this outrage; and attributes it, in a great degree, to the bad feelings of an individual, (a white man), who was opposed to the treaty, and the declared enemy of all who signed it. This person was at a council that was recently held, from which the son and friends of general McIntosh were excluded; within eight days, after the adjournment of the council, the attack was made. "But, whilst a rival nation aims, by its policy, its navy, its agents, its succor, and, lastly, its treaties, to contract with America the closest bonds, a French frigate is scarcely seen, even at distant intervals, in her ports, and the French, upon arriving there, find themselves destitute of consular protection. "Notwithstanding these obstacles, sire, French commerce has not been inactive; and, if the importance of its interests, in these new relations, be still so inferior to what it may be, already it deserves the deep attention of the government and powerful support of your majesty. "The moment, moreover, has arrived, when the most urgent considerations threaten these relations with a complete interruption, if they be any longer treated in France with as much reserve and timidity, as England gives publicity and displays pride in protecting theirs. "THE HOLY ALLIANCE!" The London Morning "The single ports of Bordeaux and Havre, in the Chronicle, of the 14th April, says "Notwithstanding course of last year, sent out to those countries of the contradiction given to the rumor of a congress at America fifty vessels, which carried thither more Milan, by some of the leading capitalists, who pre-than twenty-four millions of francs in the productions tend to have good information on the subject, the of French agriculture and manufactures, exclusive money markets are evidently suffering from it, and of more than sixty vessels despatched to the isle of it is still a pretty general belief, that there will be Cuba and the Brazils; whilst more than two hundred conferences between the ministers of the allied pow-vessels, bound to Martinique,Guadaloupe, Newfounders at Milan, although it is now said that they will land, Cayenne, Senegal and Pondicherry, did not chiefly relate to the question of withdrawing the Aus-export from France to half that amount. trian troops from Naples, upon an undertaking from the king, that he will never grant any form of constitution to his subjects without the consent of the holy alliance!" "All our agricultural produce and manufactures are suited to America. The productions of Parisian industry are, above all, sure of immense markets. We possess the equivalent of those which she was accustomed to obtain from Spain; and most of the productions of America, which England receives direct from her colonies, find in France a certain employment, almost exempt from competition. COLOMBIA. The amazing progress which Colombia has made, in every kind of improvement, affords the strongest ground for expecting the most important advantages from the freedom of Mexico and Peru. Colombia, containing a population of four millions, "Your elevated wisdom, sire, forbidsjus further to publishes eighteen newspapers; has formed forty urge facts so evident, and considerations so striking: schools, on the plan of Bell and Lancaster, during and your majesty, whose royal mind cannot but be the last year; has established ten colleges and three powerfully alive to the great interests of France, has universities, where every branch of knowledge, ex-already understood all our desires. cept political economy and the mechanical arts, are taught; and the library of Bogota consists of 14,000 volumes. Such results have followed where the force of despotism had pent up all the energies of the mind for more than three hundred years. The effects that may arise from, such an activity, can scarcely be imagined. They will be vast; but they must be greater or less, according to the freedom of intercourse established between it and Europe. [Dumfries Courier. "Yes, sire, we entreat your majesty to ordain that official agents, worthy, in every respect, of such an important mission, should be sent wherever French commerce is at liberty to enter, and particularly upon the continent of America, there to legalize and protect its relations; "That the vessels of the state should thither follow the commercial vessels; "And, lastly, that commercial treaties should there stipulate in the interests of French merchants all the guarantees and advantages to which a great nation THE NEW SOUTHERN REPUBLICS. The French mer-can have the right to set up pretensions. It is by chants are extremely anxious to come in for a share of the trade of the rich countries liberated from the despotism of Spain; and those of Paris have presented the following address to the king: "SIRE: The commercial interest of Paris will never forget the memorable words uttered by your majesty when you lately visited the structure which is devoted to them. "They account for the confidence which leads us to the foot of the throne, and dictate to us the request which we venture to address you. "Sire, immense countries of America, which Spain alone formerly supplied, have opened their ports to all the other nations of the globe. "France, standing so high as a commercial and manufacturing nation, should participate in these new relations, so useful at the present moment, and so rich in the future. The government, far from op such provisions, sire, that, in this grand social movement, which effects an approximation between all nations, which multiplies their relations, elevates their power, and increases their prosperity, France, under your majesty's government, will maintain her ground in the first rank of the most civilized nations in the world. "We are, with profound respect, sire, your majesty's faithful subjects." The Algemeine Zeitung, of the 18th March, publishes the following observations respecting the commercial intercourse now existing between England and South America:- "In, and after, the late wars, the English merchants had made themselves masters of South America, as they had formerly done of India, though not in the same violent manner. They only offered their long wished for, but hitherto prohibited, manufactures, in Department of war, April 20, 1825. exchange for the valuable productions of the country, SIR: As a strong desire has been manifested by the which hardly cost the inhabitants any further trou- citizens of Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts ble than stretching their hands to gather them. They and Connecticut, that an examination and survey gave them clothing, implements and arms, which, af- might be made, under the direction of the national ter dreadful abuses, are at length employed, in some executive, of the country between lake Memphramameasure, to preserve order and tranquility. A new gog and the Connecticut river, at Barnet, in Vermont, world, as it were, began; the English commerce was opposite to Lyman, in New Hampshire, with a view confirmed in its conquest, and expended on it larger to ascertaining the practicability of constructing a capitals, perhaps the amount of 300 millions of dol- canal to unite these waters, and, also, an examinaJars. Not contented with furnishing all articles for tion of Connecticut river, from lake Connecticut to domestic use and for war, with advancing money to the tide waters of Long Island Sound, to ascertain the the merchants and the land owners, the English began practicability and probable cost of improving the nato work the mines for their own account, and made vigation of that river, I have the honor to acquaint themselves masters of the revenues of the country by you, that the subject, being viewed with much inteloans upon their security. The dependence on the rest, and considered of national importance, orders English commerce led to dependence on England, have been given to the engineer department, to orand, at the same time, English dress, English taste,ganize a suitable brigade to make the necessary exthe English language and English notions-came into aminations, surveys and estimates, in accordance fashion. All this, as we may say, happened of itself. with the wishes expressed by the people of the beThe English government had let the merchants take fore mentioned states, through their representatives their own course, and had offered no protection to in congress; and that an engineer will repair to Barthe large English property in that country. This net, in the state of Vermont, where he will be ready, property had sustained great loss during the troubles, on the 10th of May, to commence operations, and and was in constant danger. Mr. Canning's decla- will co-operate with any civil engineer or commisration has changed this danger into security; it pro- sioner, which you may, on the part of the state, think mises commercial conventions with South America, proper to send to that place for the purpose.* and thus places the British property there under the I have the honor to be, sir, with much respect, your protection of the state-insures to it the protection of obedient servant, JAMES BARBOUR. the government in case of violation-gives the Bri- To his excellency, the gov. of Connecticut. tish commerce in that country a claim to all the favor which the government gives to commerce in ge- NAVAL COURT MARTIAL. From the Norfolk Beacon, neral-and removes all doubts with respect to its sta-May 16-Copy of the finding and sentence of the nability and continuance." val general court martial, held on board the U. S. ship North Carolina, 74, in the case of midshipman Alexander Van Dyke, February, 1825, together with the LEGISLATURE OF CONNECTICUT. The following mes- decision of the president of the United States: sage was received from the governor: The judge Advocate having read the entire proceedings in the case of midshipman Alexander Van Dyke, and the court having carefully and deliberately weighed and considered the testimony in support of the charges and that adduced by the accused, and his defence, find the specification of the first charge not proved, and the prisoner not guilty of said charge. The court find the specification of 2d charge proved in part, and the prisoner guilty of the charge of disrespect to his superior officer. And the court find the specification of 2d charge not proved and the prisoner not guilty of 2d charge. To the senate and house of representatives. On the 30th of April last, after the preparation of my message at the opening of the present session, I received a communication from the department of war of the U. States, informing me that, in accordance with the wishes expressed by the people of the states of Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts and Connecticut, through their representatives in congress, an examination and survey is to be made, under the direction of the national executive, of the country between lake Memphramagog and the Connecticut river, at Barnet, in Vermont, opposite to Lyman, in New Hampshire, with a view to ascertain the practicability of constructing a canal to unite these waters:-and also an examination of the Connecticut river, from Lake Connecticut to the tide waters of Long Island Sound, to ascertain the practicability and probable cost of improving the navigation of that river: that the engineer department will organize a suitable brigade to make the necessary examinations, surveys and estimates:-that an engineer will repair to Barnet, in the state of Vermont, where he will be ready, on the 10th of May, to commence operations, and that he will co-operate with The finding of the court, under the first and third any civil engineer, or commissioner, who may be ap-charges, is approved. The finding, under the second pointed and sent, on the part of this state, to that place, for the purpose. I have no doubt that the proposed survey will be highly acceptable to the citizens of Connecticut, and 1 transmit herewith a copy of the communication from the war department, that the general assembly ray take such order thereon as they deem most expedient. [signed] Executive department, May session, 1825. OLIVER WOLCOTT. The following is the document mentioned in the above message, as having been received from the war department. The court find the specification of 4th charge proved, with the exception of the word “maliciously," and that the prisoner is guilty of the said charge of “conduct unbecoming an officer and gentleman," and that the charge falls under a part of the 3d article for the better government of the navy, passed April 22d, 1800. And do adjudge the said midshipman Alexander Van Dyke, to be dismissed from the naval service of the United States. (Signed) DANIEL P. PATTERSON, Pres't. Robert S. Brooks, judge advocate. and fourth charges, is not approved. The specification of the charge of disrespect to his superior officer alleged, is the writing of a letter to the secretary of the navy, requesting to be removed from the ship, without consulting his superior officer. The only evidence given of the fact was, the acknowledgment, reluctantly drawn from midshipman Van Dyke himself; neither the letter, nor any evidence that it had been sent to the secretary, was before the court, although the production of the letter was demanded by the accused. The same is to be observed *Alfred Smith, esq. has been appointed by the governor, on the suggestion of the secretary of war. of the order from the navy department, the disobe- great perseverance and exertions, the facts were, one commenced with about sixty witnesses attending in Jones has a family, and is now past the middle age. GREAT INVENTION. In the judicial administration of all criminal law, it is a rule that every penal sentence must rest upon the coincidence of the allegations with the proofs of charge. The specification of the fourth charge in this case is, that the accused, falsely and maliciously, represented to some officers or other persons, at Point Comfort, that his commanding officer had collared a lieutenant, or that it was currently reported on board the North Carolina, that he had collared a sailing master and cursed a midshipman. The court expressly exclude the word "maliciously" from their finding, and it was in full evidence before them, that the report, which the accused is charged with having asserted at Point Comfort to have been in cirMr. Jos. Bell is building in this culation on board the North Carolina, had, whether correctly or not, been so in circulation. The falsehood and malice, alleged in the specification, are both It is now nearly completed, and he expects to excluded from the charge as proved; the falsehood, town, a boat which he intends to propel by lever powby the evidence before the court, the malice, by the er. finding of the court, and with them disappears all the put it in operation in the course of the ensuing week. penal matter of the charge. The facts were not The machinery is very simple, and the manual force proved as alleged, and the sentence of the court is, required to work it, will not exceed that of four pertherefore, disapproved. This decision is not intend- sons Mr. Bell is perfectly confident that this ated to convey the opinion that the conduct of midship- tempt of his to apply the lever power to boats, with man Van Dyke was correct. The avowal that he had great advantage, will be successful, and that he can written to the secretary of the navy, and to members propel them with much greater rapidity than is done of congress, with a view to be removed from the by steam. No person has ever yet succeeded in makship, made apparently in a spirit of defiance, was dis- ing this application, although there can be no doubt respectful to the commanding officer, and, although of the correctness of the principle. Should Mr. Bell achievements of the present age, and will entirely not sufficiently aggravated for dismission from the effect his object, it will be one of the greatest explode the use of steam boats, as the labor and exservice, deserves to be severely reproved. pense, to put boats on his plan into operation, are in(Signed) SINGULAR CASE OF FORGERY. From the Rochester (N.initely less, and the advantages derived from the Y.) Telegraph-The case of Samuel Jones, who was tried and convicted of forgery, at the late circuit court, &c. held in the county of Monroe, judge Walworth presiding, excited very general interest, as the title of a valuable tract of land was depending on the issue of the trial. He was convicted and sentenced to Counsel for the people, the state prison for life. Messrs. Matthews, (district attorney), Chapin and Hosmer; for the prisoner, Messrs. Lee, Marvin and Dickson. JOHN QUINCY ADAMS. power and lightness of the machinery, much greater. BANKRUPT LAW. Cheraw, (S. C.), Intel. As the subject of a general bankrupt law, which has been for several years under the consideration of congress, may be soon expected to be seriously taken up by that body, we would recommend the following article, from an English paper, to the perusal of those more immediately engaged in framing the law: it may, probably, furnish them with some useful hints: The trial disclosed as bold, and, for a time, as successful a piece of villany, as can be found in the annals of forgery. In the year 1814, Jones came from Massachusetts to reside in this vicinity. Being poor, he engaged as a hired laborer. In the family where German bankrupts. The following severe and novel he resided, he made accidental discoveries of the tenure of title by which 1,000 acres of valuable land in Brighton was held, and conceived the project of regulations for the punishment of bankruptcy, have possessing himself of this land, by forging a chain of been adopted at Gera, in Upper Saxony. A banktitles from the original grantor to his father. He was rupt, who has been unable to satisfy the claims of all ignorant and illiterate, but the resources of his mind his creditors, either by his misfortunes or by enterwere considerable. By a train of operations he had prises, the failure of which could not be expected on so far effected his purpose, that, in the year 1821, he probable grounds, is not to be punished, even when commenced an ejectment suit of dispossession of the an actual bankruptcy is prevented by a general comWhile this suit was pending, position, unless there be fraud in the composition. settlers of this tract. he went to Ohio, and, with the aid of other accom- But bankrupts who are convicted of-ist, frauduplices, there manufactured a deed for the 1,000 acres, lence; 2d, imprudence or rashness; 3d, negligence, bearing date in 1790. This deed was presented at shall he punished, according to the degree of their the circuit court, held at Rochester by judge Platt, in guilt, with confinement in the house of correction; in 1822, and was so fully supported, by perjured wit- the first case, from four to eight years; in the second, nesses, that it prevailed. Jones removed and turned from one to four years; in the third, from one to out of possession the honest purchaser and occupant twelve months. They are never to trade again; and of 200 acres, being a part of the tract. He then, by if they avoid their punishment by flight, their names other suits and negotiations, obtained possession of are to be posted on the pillory. If the wife of a the whole premises, comprised in his forged deed, fraudulent bankrupt has participated in the transwhich he occupied for more than a year. But here gressions of her husband, she loses her own separate Providence interposed to disclose his villany. By property, which falls to the creditors, and she is lia MEXICO. The following tables have been taken from the report of Don PABLO LLAVE, secretary for justice and ecclesiastic affairs, to the congress of 1825. ble to be confined in the house of correction for half | which had taken on the coast a French slave vessel the time to which her husband is sentenced. If the with about 370 slaves. bankruptcy has been caused by excessive expenditure and extravagance, with the participation of his wife, or by her means, she placed on the same footing as other creditors, and loses all the privileges of her separate property. All donations made by the husband to the wife during the time of their marriage, and all purchases made with the husband's money in the wife's name, are, when the insolvency of the husband is proved ipso jure, so far null and void; and the things so given or purchased, which are still in existence, with the exception only of the necessary clothing, linen, and beds, shall be added to the estate. [N. Y. Eve. Post. BRITISH REVENUE. London, April 7--The official returns for the year, ending the 5th, have just been published-from which it appears that the total rcceipts amount to 1.49,122,152. The receipts for the year 1824, were 1.50,812,672. The revenue for the quarter ending April 5, 1825, is l. 10,512,567-that of the corresponding quarter in 1824, was 1.11,936,507. From this it appears that the receipts for the three months just ended, present an apparent deficiency, with respect to the corresponding quarter last year, of l.1,423,940; but, it must be recollected that, in the first quarter of 1824, there is included a re-payment by Austria, of 1,733,333; the effective revenue of that quarter is, therefore, only 1.10,203,174 or 1.309,393 less than that of 1825. This increase is more than a million and a quarter on the year, which, added to the reduction of a million and a half of taxes, shows that our revenue has increased nearly three millions. For the quarter ending the 5th instant, compared with the corresponding quarter last year, the increase of import duties is 189,659; excise, 1.179,083; stamps, 49,023; post office, 1.31,000, and other branches of revenue 1.16,614. In comparing one year with another, without taking into consideration the re-payment by Austria, in 1824, of 1.2,500,000, it appears that the actual revenue of the present year exceeds that of the last by the sum of 1.809,480. The increase of excise duties alone is 1.1,595,813; that of stamps, 1.347,557, and post office, 1.62,000. The diminution in import duties is only 1.155,180. This difference is insignificant, since we must take into consideration the repeal of the duties on wool, silk, &c. which amount to more than a million.There is, therefore, an actual increase of duties on imports. Such a result sufficiently proves the extent of our commerce and prosperity of the country, particularly as the augmentation of revenue occurs at a time of relief from public burdens. BRITISH EAST INDIES. Mr. Hume, in a speech on Indian affairs, delivered in the British house of commons on the 24th March, mentioned that a census of the population of British India had been merely begun about twenty years ago, and that no man could estimate the population within many millions; but that, if he stated it to be from 80 to 90 millions, it would not be overrated. Many, he said, carried it even to one hundred millions. In 1812, according to Colquhoun, the whole population subject to the East India company was 40,058,408 souls. AFRICA. By an arrival at Portland, accounts are received that the colonists at Cape Messurado, Africa, (Liberia), were in good health, and appeared to be flourishing on the 5th March. Several captures had recently been made by English and French vessels of war, of Spanish and French slave vessels. An English frigate was spoken on the 10th of March, Places, with their salaries, in the office of secretary for justice and ecclesiastic affairs: Secretary Chief clerk.. First under-clerk do.. $8,000 4,000 3,000 2,500 2,000 Third do. 1,000 Fourth do.. 1,000 Besides these, there are some benefices of this nature in Durango and Valladolid, but the number and amount are not known. Colleges de propaganda fide in the republic of Mexico, the number of religieux and missions under their charge: Relig. Miss. Colleges. Station. 22 Taraumara & Tejas |