Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1825-01-14

and convenience. They belong TO that high
class OF benefits which il is the nobcst ambition
OF fiie statesman To beStoW upon his country.
! The most eminent conquerors have deemed their
glory incomplete, unless crowned With the merit
of these benchccut works. The great Napo-
leon, when giving law to Europe, was also
| engaged in digging canals and opening roads
through the interior of France. Caesar when
triumphant over all enemies, gave orders 10 drain
| the Pomptine Marshes, to cut through the 18th
mus OF Coriuth, to dig harbors on the coasts of
Italy, and to open roads across the Appenine
mountains.
Our great Washington, in all the situations of
ms lie, when young man in the colonial iegis-
iature, when President, when again retired to
private station, was a constant advocate for ill.,
ternal improvements. To us, who are mere ie-
gIsiatOrs, whose peculiar duty it is to apply the
public money, can higher object of
ambition than that ofapplying it in way so
universally advantageous 10 the whole body of
the people.
The Delegation ofChickasaws who lately Wis.
lted w asillugton, came, we informed, by per-
mission OF the Government in compliance with
their request, and at their own expense. One
OF the objects of their visit was to conclude an
arrangement by which their annuity for one
year, amounting To- S35, 900, should be employ
ed, under the direction of the Government to-
wards the education and improv ement of their
children, We are gratiied TO learn that such
an arrangement was effected. Five thousand
dollars OF the appropriation we learn, are TO be
applied To the expense ofIerecting buildings. &C.
and the remaining thirty thousand are to be in
vested in stock, the interest OF winch is to be
applied towards the support OF the schools
w e learn, further, that the plan of the po-
Vernnent for the education of the Indians as
deineated in the regulations of the Department
oil w ar, is that which they have adopted: and
that the application Of the money will be through
| tie Rev. Nlr.-Stuart, the Superintendent of the
school called Monroe, now in operation among
! them.
we are gratlted to witness SO decided q
proof OF the estimation IN which the compare
tocfy enlightened of our sons of the forest hold
the inprov ements of cultivated ife and to wit
ness the Chiefs of those unfortunat C people with
all the feelings Of civilized parents, employ ing
| their money and the remnant of their own
wretched lives in marking a provision which
shall rescue their offspring from the sad condi-
tionin which they and their fathers have been
Tor centuries inyolrcd.-l.Nat. jour.
! L. S. Penal Co9c.-Tae penal laws of the
| L mted states havci long been known to be en-
! tlrely deficient; but the subject was so grave
one, and its details to such a degree perpLex-
ing, that n revision of those laws has always been
contemplated with reluctance, almost amount
/ Ing to aversion. The defects of the system
have become so fragrant, however as to over
come tins reluctance; and the House of Repre-
sentatSes Is ut length seriously engaged in the
discussion OF a bill embracing such nultituds-
oi provisions for the punishment of offences that
| have hitherto gone UNPUBLISHED, as to excite
wonder that, under this defective system, so few
crimes have been committed within the peculiar
jurisdiction OK the federal government. This
bill will, probably, occasion much discussion
q md "A Her nfnt e.,
as IT has been seriously entered upon, we tim K
1t probable that, in whatever shape it NAV be
thrown by amendments a bill upon this subject
will take the form and force of tao before the
close of the present session. [.Nat. Int.
ROui from WIaSitington to W Orleans The
following resolution, in relation to this subject.
has been unanimously adopted, by the Common
Hall of Petersburg
leeSofred. Tuat the Senators and Representa-.
tives in Congress from this district and the
dis lets o. Richmond, Dinwiddie, and Prince
George he requested to use such means as they
may think best to procure survey to be made
for the route ofIhe contemplated National Road
from Washington TO New Orleans SO as to pass
through this place and the capitals of Virginia,
and North and South Carolina; and that COPY
Of this resolution be transmitted 10 each of these
gentlemen, and to the Mayors of Richmond and
fredericksburg, Raleigh and Columbia,
Mr., Moab, of the n. Y Advocate. closes
some handsome remarks on the contemplated
settlement at the mouth of the Columbia River
in the following manner:
CIV C should saw that our rational strides arc
too rapid, that VIC undertake QuiXotic projects
but so we said when the grand canal was first
attempted. For eighteen months we wore our
] eyes, hair, and fingers to nothing, IN endeayor-
ing to prove that the canal never Womb no
completed but alas, the more we wrote the
| faster they worked, and had actually the boats
aGoat, and tolls gathered By th,, time we mr.
rived Mt the conclusion that the thine, was i'm
| possible We doubt whethera post road can
be made from Buffalo TO the Columbia river.
and whether post coaches, with glass windows,
will be established, but it may possibly be done,
| and we will consider nothing as beyond the
power, resources and enterprise of this country
Should we establish a territorial government at
! the mouth of the Columbia, what poor devil
shall we select as governor who shall we ex lie
| to that spot?
! Briefly, il may be necessary to settle the
! question OF occupation, or TO have look out
| for our Indian trade that, some measures should
be adopted on this subject; but as yet, we should
suppose that an officer and fifty men sent round
| Cape Horn TO that spot with provisions, &C.
for two years residence. would be all that is
required in the present state of affairs.
! .Ne,o Minister to tie Ui1iLed States-H is
mentioned in the London papers, that the Right
| Hon. w. Vesey Fitzgerald will repair, early in
the spring. to the United States, to take on him
! self the 1ufips of Nipicfcr