The American Republican gazette — Concord, N.H., 1803-03-31 00:00:00, page 1

, " Errorof Opinion may be tolerated, where Reason is left free to combat ^-ffify We federal anion as fyeonty Hock of safety%— yfoon.
200 paces from their former fimath ns.
On the morning of the 24th, the re#
maining houses were seen Handing
within a precipitations accumulation
of ear h, which, extending entirely
round them, prefixed every where a
perpendi ular front, and rose to the
elevation of 50 fathoms. Vineyards,
gardens, olive-trees, were all crushed
and carried in one mass into the next
river. The channel of ;he river was
filled up, and he dream above con
verted inoa lake. An oppofive rock
on the territory-of Beftagno, at last
arrested the motion of the mass. A
slope, one of the bell cultivated in
Italy, remains now but a bare rock.
On a tra&of land four miles long &
one broad, there now remains noth
ing to strike the eye but ruined hous
es, deracinated trees, & stagnant wa
ter. The poor people of the village
have no present shelter but that of a
few cottages which are (landing ; and
from which they can view only their
ruined property, and defolatcd fields.
xfyftrw-
A SHIPWRECK. /
Jan. 12. We are extremely sorry
to announce to our readers the loss of
the Hindoftan Eaft-Indiaman, Capt.
Balfton, near the Wedge Sand, in the
Queen's channel, Margate Roads, on
Tuefday afternoon, about 4 o'clock.
The Hindodan failed a few days ago
from Gravefend, and as the weather
has been extremely tempestuous, con
siderable apprehensions were enter
tained for her fafety. It was the pre
vailing opinion that (he had putback
to the Hope, but on Wednesday night
an express reached the India- House,
with an account of her loss. We are
concerned to date that three midship
men, Mr. Hatchett, ML Hammond,
and Mr. Kent, were drowned. Mr.
Clark, a Cadet, and about 2 O of ,he
seamen were drowned, killed or fro.
zen to death. Soon after she got on
the bank, she filled with water with
the flood ; and as the sea made breaks
over her, the remaining part of the
London, Jan. 3. Letters from Genoa
of the 15'h Dec. mention the Sudden
demolition of more than two third
parts of the village of Vallaguardia
near Oneglia, by a convulfiun of the
earth which took place in the follow
ing manner :—The village was com
posed of about 8o dwelling houses &
400 inhabitants. It flood on the dope
of a hill in high cultivation, and a
bounding in copious springs of frefh
water. On the evening of the 23d
Nov. last, two appertures werefound
to have been convulsively made in the
ground near the village church. It
rained all that night. At day break,
on the 23d, an enormous mass burst
down from the Summit of the hill,
brought before it all the furface earth
and fell at last upon the houses of the
village. The roof of the church was
the firft thing demolished; then 57 of
the houses met, one after another the
fame overthrow; This passed in the
course of the 23d, and so slowly, that
the unfortunate villagers could view
with lei'fure the progress of that dis
aster. In the night of <he 23d the
ruins were removed to the distance of
AMERIGAN
THURSDAY,; MARCH '^|& j'
DREADFUL EVENT.
PRINTED AND PUBLISHED AT CONCORD, (NEWHAMPSHIRE,) BY E. RUSSELL.
.LIB ERTY AND THE CONSTITUTION.,
a& leaking provision for the redemp
tion of the whole of the public debt of
the United States," applied the sum of
feveh millions three hundred thou
sand dollars, provided by the fame,
to the payment of the principal and in-
Itereft1 tereft of the public debt ; and to en
'quite, generally,into the accounts &
;proceedings of the Commissioners of
FRANKFO RT te D EC. 30.
INUNDATION.—From Zarknite,
in Bohemia, we hear, that the lake of
that name, which.dries up almost ev
ery year, has risen above its banks;
& so rapidly inundated the surround
ing country, that the neghboring vil
lage was under water in a few min
utes, so that the inhabitants had bare
ly time to save themselves by leaving
every thing behind them. The vil
lage Danne in the valley of Unzvloed,
between the country of Senheeberg
and the city of Lass. has Suffered ftilb
more. The intelligence received
from Zeuge, in Dalmatia, is no less
melancholy; afteraninceffant drought
of 6 weeks, a dreadful Storm of thun^
der and lightning accompanied by
torrents of rain, arose on the Ift Dec.
which continued all that day, all the
night, and the succeeding day, with
out intermission. The wa er, which
gushed in torrents from the mountains,
Swept with it, in its impetuous course,
large pieces of rocks, de(lro ¥ ing a
pav d road and two done bridges that
had been erected in the furtimer. All
the warehouses of merchandize in the
city are under ware, and 2 with fah,
belonging to the custom house, quite
destroyed. b A conduit wnich furnish
ed the city with Sweet water, and laid
a' considerable expense, is also ren
dered useless, with all the mills in the
environs. So late as the 4th, the city
was Hill un^er wa er.
crew who were Saved were obliged to
fit on the tops. B ats put off from
the Shore, and rescued them from heir
perilous situation—they were about
120 in number.
gained by the republican fide of the.
House of Representatives during the
two last days of the session.
At one o'clock on Wednesday Mr.
Griswold made a detailed fpcech of
considerable length, replete with in.
volvcd calculation founded on several
reports of the Treasury Department,
in order to (hew that the commission.
ers of the. Sinking-Fund bad not ap
plied to the extinguishment of the
public debt, the whole sum of seven
millions three hundred thousand dol
lars, cire&ed to.be so applied by the
laws of the last session. His fpcech
embraced many other criminating
charges against the commissioners, all
drawn from involved calculation, and
was terminated by offering the follow
ing refolu/ion:
Refolded, That the commit ee of
Ways and Means be directed to en.
quire whether the Commissioners of
the Sinking Fund have, agreeably to
the directions of the ad, entitled 6 An
Washington City, March 7,
Never was there, perhaps, a greater
triumph of-truth and talent, than that
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the Sinking Fund—and to report to
the house.
Mr. Randolph, chairman of the
committee of Ways and Means, with
an intrepidity ^which did him great
honor, role to Second the motion.—
He rejoiced that the enquiry was in
ftituted, though at so late a day as al
most to preclude a full investigation
during the few remaining hours of the
session. Left however the misrepre
sentations of the gentleman from Con
necticut Should go forth to the public
without an answer, and might hence
be deemed unanswerable, he follow
ed MrGrifwold in all his calculations,
exposed their error, and ably vindi
cated rife Commissioners of the Sink
ing Fund and the Secretary of the
Treasury from every charge made.—
.He concluded- by moving that the
committee of Ways and Means Should
be permitted to fit during the fittings
of the House, that, late as the period
was, a letter, Such as the gentleman
from Connecticut Should himfelf in
dite, might be sent to the Secretary of
the Treasury, and the fulled possible
investigation take place, j ;•
General S. Smith and Mr. Nichol
son followed, and wi h luminous truth
completely dispelled the clouds which
had been attempted A 0 be cast on the
conduCt and characters of the com
missioners of the Sinking Fund and
the Secretary of the Treasury.
The resolution was unanimously a.
gree&o, and leave given to the com
mittee of Ways and Meares, to ad du
ring the fittings of the House.
Great was our furprize at Mr. Gris
wold's Submitting his resolution to en
quire at so late a period/when the H.
was so engaged with multifarious busi
ness as to have actually fat day and
night : Great was our furprize, equal,
led only by our pleasure, at the able
and decisive and instantaneous replies
and refutations of Messrs. Randolph,
Nicholson and Smith—but Still great
er was our furprize, and Still greater
our pleasure, at the receipt of the let
ter of the Secretary of the Treasury
on the #lfuing day.
On Wednesday between 6 and 7
in the evening, the committee of ways
and means addressed a letter to the
Secretary of the Treasury making the
numerous enquiries required by Mr.
Grifwol& On the next day at 6 o'cl.
in the evening, Mr. Randolph, chair
man of the committee, Submitted to
the House the Answer of the Secretary,
containing 3^ pages folio, besides nu
merous accompanying documents. —
It was immediately read under the
most reSpeHful attention of the house,
and appeared to contain the most fat
isfaCtorjfelucidation and vindication
e^, and that its contents embrace A
Wide field of calculation, and that it
argumentatively difeuffes the objec
tions and enquiries of Mr. Griswold,
it becomes a matter, if not of aftonifh
meht, at lead of admiration, that it
£ho&d have been so prompt made#
of the £ondua of the commissioners
of the Sinking Fund, who were dem
onffrated to have observed every in
junction of the law, and to have per
formed every aft of duty.
When the length of the letter of the
Secretary of the Treasury is confider-
LICAN GAZETTE.
} Various motionsand decisions were
made; of which we fliall at prefent^
Rate only two.
The House rejected the motion of
Mr. Bayard —Yeas 24—Noes 40.
, When on morion of Gen. S. Smith
a refolution,< declaring that the com-'
missioners were authorifed to fell the
Nor can it be otherwise accounted for
than from the clear and corre& prin
ciples which havd governed the con
dud of the Secretary, and his ability
to elucidate at a moment's warning the
most elaborate scrutiny into the tranf
aCtions of his department, even to the
Satisfaction, we will fay, of thole who
had piewoufly consumed, months, in
the leisure of their closets, in discover
ing the most vulnerable and artful
points of attack.
We mean not to adulate ; but we
feel an honest pride in pronouncing
the order of the house to print 2000
copies of the letter of the Secretary, a
well merited monument raised to his
talents and integrity.
But as if there were a fatality atten.
ding all unwarranted attempts to blac
ken character, there was another for
lorn hope, not to be abandoned in a
day of political despair, that appears to
have been cherished with an unusual
ardour of expectation, but which un
fortunately for its devotees terminat
ed in disappointment & humiliation.
The sale of the BANK SHARES
has long been a topic oQfederal tra
dudion. The impunitv with which
the grossest calumnies have been fuf
fered to circulate through h. medium
of newspapers and circular letters,
seems to have emboldened the oppo.
fition, and inspired them with an ex#
peHation that the floor of the house of
representatives might, at a politic lea#
son, be made the fuccefsful theatre of
more authoritative reproach.
Accordingly on Thursday, the lad
day of the session, Mr Bayard moved
a resolution for the appo nrment of a
committee, ' with inftruflions to en
quire into the legality of the sale of
the Bank Stock, also into its expedi
ency, and whether the United States
did not sustain a loss thereby.
This resolution was preceded by a
long and elaborate fpfeech. in which
Mr. Bayard introduced detailed state.
ments derived from anonymous doc
uments, of the price of Bank S ock at
the period of sale, and the rate of ex
change between the U. States and
London, & Amsterdam, and between
London and Amsterdam; His objed,
he said, was to prove that the sale was
illegal and inexpedient, and that it e
vencuated in a loss of 119,030 dollars
to the United States,
Mr. Bayard was immediately fol
lowed by Mr. Randolph, Mr. Nich
olson, Mr. S. Smith, and Mr. Bacon,
who, dispelled every doubt, and View
ed the sale to have been legal, expe
dient, wife, and productive of a con#
fiderable saving to the U. Sates.
Mr, Griswold followed, and at four'
o'clock the house adjourned without
Coming to a decision.
In the evening session the difeuffion
was again resumed, in d debate of a
most desultory character, which was'
not terminated till between t1 and 12
o'clock.'
Volume lll.—Number 112.