NEW SERIES. No. 9-VOL. VII.] BALTIMORE, OCT. 28, 1820. [No. 9 VOL. XIX. WHOLE NO. 477 THE PAST THE PRESENT-FOR THE FUTURE. EDITED AND PUBLISHED BY H. NILES, AT $5 PER ANNUM, PAYABLE IN ADVANCE, We shall next week publish a very interesting (the authority of the kingdom, and dictated to the Mr. William A. Coleman, a general agent at New but of the nation, he is now entirely reconciled to The mails. A number of subscribers, south and west, have lately withdrawn their names on ac. count of the increased irregularity of the mails.We wish to make every allowance that charity will permit but it is certain that the evil is becoming greater and greater; and the misery of the matter ter is, that we do not know whereat to fix any part of these serious irregularities PROSPECTS IN EUROPE. We have many accounts shewing that the emperor Alexander has retired from his purpose of forcing the people of Spain to retrace their steps-this is not what we expected; we thought he was too proud to do it: but, perhaps, he found that Great Britain would not, and that France could not, take a part in the iniquitous crusade which he contemplated. Spain is not wholly settled; but the cortes manifest a firm disposition to secure the liberties of the country, and we freely confide the care of them to The next president. An attempt is making in Phi- that assembly. Our accounts from Portugal are ladelphia to get up, what its projectors call, an indefinite-but it appears that the work of revolu"anti-slavery" ticket, for electors of president and tion is going on: some suppose that it is the object vice president of the United States. A large meet-of certain patriots of that country to form a federal ing was held on Saturday last, at which an opposi-union with Spain-a measure which, probably, tion ticket was agreed upon, and a committee of would be advantageous to both parties: Portugal correspondence, &c. appointed to promote its suc-being too small as to territory, even under an encess. From some accounts which we see of this lightened government, to maintain the stand of an meeting, there was a considerable degree of independent nation, in times like the present. She warmth. What the result of this business will be, has long been nearly as a British province-but we cannot foretell; but it is to be expected that the Spain is her natural friend and ally: religion, manticket favorable to the re-election of Messrs. Mon-ners and customs being common to both countries, roe and Tompkins will succeed by a very large with languages nearly the same, and, if Spain admajority, notwithstanding almost every man in heres to her constitution, and will admit Portugal Pennsylvania is opposed to negro slavery, and, at on equitable terms, we believe that the general good another election, may cause the great weight of the of society would be promoted by their union under state to be thrown in favor of a candidate for the one head. It appears that the Austrian troops were presidency from a non-slave-holding state. But if advancing towards Naples-the emperor, however, we might venture an opinion, we should so far pre-says that his purpose is only to maintain the transume on the liberality of our southern friends as to quility of his own Italian states; yet it seems he is suppose, tirat, when Mr. Monroe's second period of to protect those of the pope from revolution. In service has expired, they will freely support a gentleman from a different section, as his successor. A change in this respect seems to be dictated by a Sound policy, and will do much in the work of conciliation. Naples there is an increased appearance of means emperors of Russia and Austria are each to furnish I beg leave to subjoin a statement, (marked A), of the tonnage for the year 1818, compared with the amount thereof, as exhibited in the preceding annual statement for 1817, with notes in relation to the decrease of the registered, and increase of the tions;" and that the contingent of Russia is to be lo- By this statement, it appears that the total amount of new vessels built in the several districts of the United States, during the year 1818, was Registered tonnage, Enrolled do. 42,137 05 40,284 15 Total amount of new vessels, Tons, 82,421 20 I have the honor to be, very respectfully, sir, your 606,088 64 549,374 02 69,721 49 The fishing vessels at Amounting to collected during the year 1818, amounted as follows: Registered tonnage, paying duty on each voyage, 859,782 61 Enrolled and licensed tonnage em ployed in the coasting trade, an an nual duty, Fishing vessels the same 61,452 92 The registered tonnage, being cor- Fishing vessels the same The district tonnage of the United Of the registered tonnage, amounting as before stated, to,606,088 64 tons, there was employed in the whale fishery, Enrolled and licensed tonnage also in the whale fishery, Amounting to, 81 14,782 88 1,418,651 74 606,088 To the senate and house of representatives of the Uni ted States, in congress, assembled, . RESPECTFULLY SHEWETH: That your memorialists petitioned your bonors ble bodies, at the last session of congress, to impos a duty on sales at auction; and that a bill for th purpose passed the house of representatives, bu was afterwards postponed. Your memorialists, encouraged by any favorabl indication of opinion of your honorable bodie again respectfully solicit your attention, believin that every citizen of the United States has a vital i terest in the success of their petition. Your memorialists,, standing on the threshold importation, form, in a measure, the medium of com munication between the trade of foreign nations a our own, and have the best opportunity to acqu a knowledge of the operation and effects of o mercantile concerns. They therefore feel it to an imperative duty, as good citizens, to point to your honorable bodies, the evils which flow fr the practice of public sales, which continue to most severely felt, directly by us, and indirectly every consumer in the nation. Your memorialists have witnessed with reg the gradual, but too perceptible and rain change in the character of our trade during 64 last fifteen years. In the time of our greatest p perity, the business of buying and selling was s ed freely and equally by the whole trading munity: but now, with little exception, the b ness of this country is under the control of 482,633 23 1,150,174 16,134 84 tioneers. By investigation, your honorable bodies wil certain, that of the vast importations into this for the consumption of the United States, a three fourths are for foreign account, and o by foreign merchants and manufacturers; in vending of which, auctioneers are chiefly em ed-that by this system, the business of imports which properly belongs to the American or dent merchant, is thrown into the hands of th 77 reign or non-resident merchant, to the incalcu 614 63 *This table shews a "real and nominal decre ́as compared with the year 1817, of 177,127 t [ED 16,749 45 of bounties and protection, as an evidence of ral weaith and prosperity. 181 gene prize and skill of our fellow-citizens, we believe Resolved, That, relying on the ingenuity, enter. that all manufactures adapted to our character and circumstances will be introduced and extended, as soon and as far as will promote the public interest, without any further protection than they now re Injury of the citizens of the United States-that, consequently, the numerous and respectable body of importers, with the clerks, mechanics, cartmen, porters, &c. dependant upon them are destitute of employment, and many of the latter charged on the charity of the community, while not more than six auctioneers of large capital, the agents of foreign capitalists, monopolize the trade, and distribute our importations to all parts of the country that beceive. sides these prominent evils, there are others, which, though less conspicuous, are in a legislative point made to any amount of taxes, equally apportioned Resolved, That no objection ought ever to be of view, perhaps more important, as they have a and imposed, for the purpose of raising revenues demoralizing effect on the community:--In auction necessary for the support of government; but that sales, the vinder is not accountable for the quality taxes imposed on the people for the sole benefit of of the article, and not in all cases for the quantity. any one class of men, are equally inconsistent with This encourages deceptions in fabrics; the first pur-the principles of our constitution and with sound chaser, finding himself deceived, is tempted, and policy. defrauds the next; the second defrauds the third, and so on, until finally the loss falls on the innocent proposed tariff or some similar measure be adopt. Resolved, That the supposition that, until the consumer. Public sales rapidly accelerate the aded, we are and shall be dependant on foreigners vance in prices; this excites an appetite for gam-for the means of subsistence and defence, is, in our bling, and when the fall in prices returns, (which is opinion, altogether fallacious and fanciful, and deInevitable, and is also fatally hurried on by the same rogatory to the character of the nation. practice,) bankruptcies and misery follow. manufactures as are principally benefitted by that Resolved, That high bounties on such domestic tariff, favor great capitalists rather than personal industry or the owners of small capitals, and, therefore, that we do not perceive its tendency to promote national industry. covering its beneficial effects on agriculture, since Resolved, That we are equally incapable of disthe obvious consequence of its adoption would be, that the farmer must give more than he now does for all he buys, and receive less for all he sells. Your memorialists will no longer detain your honorable bodies with a detail of the evil flowing from public sales-from which we can never be relieved until our merchants share equally in our importations; until every trader is held accountable for the quality as well as the quantity of his goods, and integrity in dealing is properly rewarded by being considered a sufficient guarantee. That, under a sound, equal, and permanent system, your memorialists most sincerely believe, that fabricks, from whatever source they may come, will be improved; corruption in trade will be diminished; the co..sumers throughout the land will, on an average, buy cheaper; the fariner will be better paid for his pro-it duce, bankruptcies will be less frequent, and our commercial character consequently restored. enormous, and deemed by a large portion of the Resolved, hat the imposition of duties which are people to be unequal and unjust, is dangerous, as encourages the practice of smuggling Resolved, That, in our opinion, the proposed tariff, Your memorialists indulge a hope, that in this in- ed, would, if adopted, have a tendency, however and the principles on which it is avowedly foundquiring and enlightened country, we shall profit by different may be the motives of those who recom the experience, and avoid the errors of older na-mend them; to diminish the industry, impede the tions, who, though universally acknowledging that prosperity, and corrupt the morals of the people. auctions, lotteries, &c. have a fatal influence on James T. Austin, Esq. and the hon. Daniel Web the morals and habits of the community, are perpe-ster, addressed their fellow-citizens in favor of the tuating them on their legislative records. In this report and resolves, in speeches which were disyoung, rich, and thriving country, we need no suchtinguished for closeness of argument, variety of stimulants; nature has made us bold adventurers, illustration, and abundance of fact. and without the aid of any deleterious excitement, our enterprize will conduct us honestly, soberly, recommended by the committee unanimously pass. and industriously, to wealth and happiness. The report was then accepted; and the resolves the ed. Your memorialists therefore humbly pray, that congress of the United States will impose a duynate, and to those members, from this state, in the A vote of thanks to the hon. Mr. Otis, of the seof ten per cent. on all sales by auction, excepting house of representatives of the United States, who real estate, shipping, and such as may be directed opposed the new tariff, was unanimously agreed to. by civil process. And your memorialists will ever pray, &c. &c. New Tariff. Boston, October 3, 1820. Yesterday an adjourned meeting, on the subject of the proposed tariff, was held at Faneuil Hall-hon. William Gray, chairman, and William Foster, jun. Esq. secretary. A long and interesting report was read from the respectable committee appointed at a former meet ing, which concluded with the following resolves: Resolved, That we have regarded with pleasure the establishment and success of meatifactures mong us; and consider their growth, when natuand spontaneous, and not the effect of a system Public Lands. The following petition is in circulation for signa- To the honorable the senate and house of representa a Charge 2d-Conduct unbecoming an officer and gentleman. In most cases those purchases were made be- | August last, and at various other times between the fore the commencement of the existing embarrass- 1st and 31st of August last, to a degree disqualify. mments, which seem to oppress every part of the ing him from the discharge of the duties of his community, and at a time when the purchasers station, and highly degrading to his character as bad a fair prospect of meeting their payments to commandant of marines. government, without difficulty or default. But in consequence of the great scarcity of specie, and the unexpected depreciation of the local currency of the western country, which excludes it from the land offices, their calculations have been defeated, and in most cases they are now dependant on the sale of part of their land to procure the means of paying for the residue. This resource, however, is in a great measure taken away by the diminished value of their land, produced by the law in ques-marine barracks, and elsewhere in the city of Wash tion, as purchasers are not now disposed to pay two dollars with the interest that has already accrued, when they can procure land from the government of an equal or superior quality at one dollar and tweenty five cents per acre. Specification 1st. In visiting a house of ill-fame, near the marine barracks, in an open and disgraceful manner, on or about the 31st of August last, thereby degrading his rank and station, and dis honoring the service to which he is attached. Specification 2d. In calling lieut. R. M. Desha, paymaster of the corps, at the centre house of the ington, on or about the, 1st of September, instant, in the presence of a number of officers, a damned rascal, liar, and coward, and threatening him, lieut. Desha, with personal chastisement, unless he would immediately challenge and fight him, (lieut. col. Gale,) thereby degrading the dignity of his rank and station. of his officers, that he did not care a damn for the president, Jesus Christ, or God Almighty. Under these circumstances your petitioners rely on the justice and benevolence of congress for such relief as the equity and hardship of their case Specification 3d. In declaring, in the open street, seem to require. And they earnestly pray that a in front of the marine barracks, on or about the 1st law may be passed enabling them to apply the pay-of September, instant, in the presence of a number ments already made to such portions of their entries as those payments will cover at two dollars per acre, agreeably to the provisions of the law under which the entries were made, relinquishing the residue to the United States, and also allowing those persons who have purchased but one tract, the privilege of retaining it entire, with a reasonable extension of credit without interest, or otherwise relinquishing a part of it, as before stated, at their option. Your petitioners are induced to believe that the granting of this induigence, while it will afford to them a most important and seasonable relief, cannot be productive of any injury or inconvenience to the United States: on the contrary it will have a tendancy to extinguish the heavy debt that is now due from purchasers of land in the western country; will remove the grounds of discontent which the existence of such a debt is calculated to produce, and prevent the oppressive consequences of a forfeiture of the payments that have heretofore been made-a forfeiture which, under existing circumstances, it is believed, would be at variance with every principle of sound policy, and hostile to the gemus of a liberal and enlightened government. Court Martial. Adjutant and inspector general's office, GENERAL ORDER. Charge 3d. Signing a false certificate. Specification. In certifying on honor, to lieut. R. M. Desha, paymaster of the corps, that he had not detailed any soldier from the line, or received the services of one so detailed, from the first of April, 1817, to the 30th June, 1820; when in fact a private soldier was mustered as his, (lieut. col. Gale's,) waiter, and actually attended as his coachman, from the 17th of October, 1819, to the 30th of June, 1820. Charge 4th.-Breaking or violating the order for his arrest. Specification. In leaving his quarters at sundry tsmes, between the 1st and 8th days of September, instant, without permission from the proper autho rity, and in express violation of the order for his arrest. SAML. MILLER, Brevet major of marines. Head quarters of marines, Washington, September 11, 1820. SENTENCE. The court, after mature deliberation on all the evidence adduced on the trial, find the prisoner lieut. col. Anthony Gale, commandant of the marin corps, guilty of the charge of habitual drunken ness, and of its first specification, but not guilty o the second; not guilty of the charge of conduc unbecoming an officer and gentleman, but guilt of the second and third specifications under the At a general court martial, begun and holden at charge, and guilty of so much of the first specif the marine barracks, in the city of Washington, on cation as relates merely to visiting a house of i the eighteenth day of September last, of which fame; not guilty of the charge of signing a fals brigadier general Thomas S. Jessup, of the United certificate, but find the fact without the criminal States' army, is president, was tried lieutenant co-ty; and the court also find the prisoner guilty lonel Anthony Gale, of the marine corps, on the following charges and specifications, viz: Charge 1.-Habitual drunkenness. Specification 1. In being disgracefully intoxicated on or about the 14th, 15th, 18th, 19th, 22d, and 31st days of August last, in the public streets, in the vicinity of the marine barracks, Davis' hotel, and at various other places, in the city of Washington, and to such a degree as to disqualify him from the discharge of his official duties. the charge of breaking or violating the order fo his arrest, and of the specification of the same. The court postpone the consideration of th sentence until to-morrow. Friday, 29th Sept. 1820-10 o'clock. The court met pursuant to adjournment. The court, upon the finding of yesterday, d sentence the prisoner, lieut. col. Anthony Gal commandant of marines, to be cashiered. TH. S. JESSUP, Brig. gen. President of the court. Specification 2d. In being intoxicated in common dram shops, and other places of low repute, Jxo. L. GARDNER, Lieut. and in the city of Washington, on or about the 15th of Special judge advocate. The president of the United States having ap- plains of Santa Fee southeasterly, across Red River, proved the proceedings and sentence of the court, the Colerado, Brasos and Trinity, and are at perlieut. col. Anthony Gale, commandant of the ma-petual war with the Spanish provinces. The Sparine corps, is accordingly dismissed the service. The general court martial of which brigadier Head quarters of marines, GENERAL ORDER. In compliance with instructions from the navy department, under this date, the undersigned is required to discharge the duties of commanding officer at head quarters: all communications, there. fore, connected with the duties of the corps, will be addressed to him until further orders. By order of the secretary of the navy. Major commanding. Indians on the Red River. FROM THE NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER. From accounts recently received from a very respectable source, in the territory of Arkansas, we have received the following account of the Indians inhabiting the country on Red River, and in the vicinity of the Arkansas territory; which, being authentic beyond any accounts of them heretofore given, may be acceptable to our readers: niards say they are 30,000 strong. It was stated last fall by Spanish officers at the Sabine, who were attached to the Spanish expedition against gen. Long and his followers, that those Indians had, within the last season, destroyed upwards of 1000 families on the Rio del Norte, and in other parts of the Spanish provinces. These Indians are becoming quite expert in fire-arms within a few years, having been furnished by traders from the United States, by way of exchange, for horses and mules, which these Indians would, from time to time, plunder the Spanish settlements of. These Indians consider themselves the most powerful-nation in the world, and, next to them, the Americas, (as they call the people of the United States.) But, since Long's defeat, they rank Spain before America, considering Long to have the command of all the United States. Mr. Guille's ascension. FROM THE AURORA. I started at 3 o'clock and 35 minutes on Saturday afternoon, the 14th October. By some mistake and many people interfering to assist me in ascending, the balloon lost a considerable quantity of gas. In less than five minutes I ascended to the distance of 1000 feet, when the earth disappeared from my view; there was not a sufficiency of distance between my situation and the earth, that to disengage myself from the balloon would have been attended with great danger. In this situation when I could not see any part of the earth, I remained about 30 minutes, when I was transferred to a clear region and had the advantage of the sun, which made the earth appear to me to be covered with snow; from thence I entered into another region of clouds, much darker than the former ones, and having no valve to my balloon, I was obliged to ascend much higher than I would otherwise have done. In this situation, when I ascended about - Keechies, between the Sabine and Trinity, 200 55,000 feet, according to the calculation I made with do. the help of a barometer, which I had with me, the air St. Padroes, do. do. do. 60 do. was so obscure, that I could neither see the balloon Texas, do. do. do. 100 do. or parachute, and owing to the great cold I experiTowacaroos, in the west of the Trinity, 250 do. enced, and also the fatigues, I fell asleep, and slept Wakoos, on both banks of the Brasos, 500 do. for some time. I would still have continued to asThese Indians bave all regular villages, and are cend, had it not been for the wet state of the balunited under the Cado chief, who bears, it is re-loon, which made it very heavy, and this I attribute ported, a Spanish commission of colonel in the Spanish army. Cado Indians, between the Sabine and Red Auno Dakoos, between the Sabine and Trinity, The Pawnees, who lately inhabited both sides of Red River, have, during the course of last fall, left their villages on Red River, and joined the Cado confederation, and become part of the Wakoos, and were last fall erecting a village on the Brasos, have about 300 warriors. Of Cherokees there are 60 warriors, who, in the course of last winter, joined the Cado confederation, and became part of the Towacanoos tribe, on the Brasos. Bedies, a strolling Indian, 100 warriors, and part of the Cado confederation. Toncowas, a strolling nation, who are generally to be found between the sources of the Brasos and Colerado and Red River. These Indians are also in the interest of Spain-500 warriors-and are considered to be the most expert with fire arms, and most warlike Indians of any in the province of Texas. Comanchees, a number of tribes under this name. They are strolling savages, and ramble from the] to the cause why my descent was sooner than I- CHARLES GUILLE. |