The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1827-12-12

that the public coflerS VIII DC replehishc" iiU''
the receipts, as fast as they will be drained by
the expenditures, equal in amount to those OF
the current year, it should not be forgotten
that they could i'll suffer the exhaustion OF
larger disbursements
The condition of the Army, and of all the
branches of the public service under the super !
attendance of the Secretary OF War, will be
seen by the report from that officer, and the
documents with which it is accompanied.
During the course of the last summer, de-
tachment of the Armyhas been usetully and sue
cessfully called to perform their appropriate
duties At the moment when the Commission
ers appointed for carrying into execution certain
provisions of the Treaty of August 18th, 1870,
with various tribes of the Northwestern In
dams, were about to arrive at the appointed
place of meeting, the unprovoked murder OF
\ several citizens, and other acts of pnequlyocal
\ hostility committed by party of the Winnie
! bago tribe, one of those associated IN the
/ Treaty, followed by indications of a menacing
character among other tribes of the same re-
/ gion rendered necessary an immediate display
of the defensive aud protective force OF the
/ Union in that quarter. 1t was accordingly ex-
hibted by the immediate and concerted move
ments of the State of Illinois and the Territory
! of Michigan and competent levies OF militia
! under their authority with corps eli seven
4 hundred men of United States troops under the
command of General Atkinson, who at the cali
/ of Governor Cass, Immediately repaired to the
scene of danger, from their station at St. Louis.
Their presence dspelled the alarms of our fell
low-citizens on those borders and overawed the
hostile purposes of the Indians. The perpetra-
tors of the murders were surrendered to the
authority and operation of our laws and every
appearance of purposed hostility from those
Indian tribes has subsidized,
Although the present organization of the
: Army and the administration of its various
branches of service, are, upon the whole, salts
factory, they are yet susceptible of much inn
provement in particulars, some of which have
f been heretofore submitted to the consideration
, of Congress, and others are now first presented
in the Report of the Secretary of War.
The expediency of providing for additional
numbers Of Officers, in the two Corps Of En-
> gineers, will, in some degree, depend upon the
S number and extent of the objects of national
Importance upon which Congress may think it
proper that surveys should be made, conform
ably to the Act of the Both of April, 1924. OF
5 the surveys winch, before the last Session of
/ Congress, had been made under the authority
of that Act, reports were made;
| /. Of the Board of Internal Improvement,
! on the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal
2 On the continuation of the National Road
from Cumberland to the tide waters within the
/ District of Columbia.
, 3 On the continuation of the National Road
from Canton to GAINESVILLE.
4 On the location of the National Road
: from GAINESVILLE to Columbus
: On the continuation of the same Road TO
/ the Seat of Government in Missouri
q g. On Post Road from Baltimore to Phila-
e delphia
: Z Ola survey of Kennebec River lin part
8 On National Road from Washington to
Buffalo
g g. On the sursoy of Saugatuck Harbor and
River
TO- On Canal from Lake Pontchartrain to
? the Mississippi River.
: II On surveys at Edgartown, Newburyport
: and IIyannls fIurDor.
u On the survey of La Plaisance Bav. in
g the Territory of Michigan.
3 And reports are now prepared, and will be
submitted to Congress-
/ On surveys of the peninsula of Florida ia
ascertain the practicabiIity of Canal to con.
e meet tho waters of the Atlantic with the Gull
d of Mexico, across that peninsula and also Of
. the country between the BAYS of Mobile and oil
: Pensacola, with the views of connecting them
t together by Canal;
!. On surveys of route for Canal to connect
f the waters of James and Great Kenhawa riy.
! ers;
: On the survey of the Swash in Pamlico
5 Sound, and that of Cape Fear below the town
s of Wilmington, in North Carolina;
n On the survey of the Muscle Shoals in the
d Tennessee river, and for route for contem-
! plated communication between the Hiwassee
e and Coosa rivers, in the State of Alabama.
t Other reports of surveys upon objects point
, ed out by the several acts of Congress of the
: last and preceding sessions are in the progress
S OF preparation, and most of them NAV be com.
y pleted before the close of this session All the
officers of both Corps of Engineers, with sever
j al other persons duly qualified, have been CON
: stantly employed upon these services, from the
] passage Of the act Of Both April, 1924, to this
time. Were no other advantage to accrue to
the country from their labors than the fund Of
Typographical knowledge which they have col
! looted and communicated that alone would
have been profit TO the Union more than adj
equate to all the expenditures which have been
devoted to the object but the appropriations
for the repair and Continuation of the Cumber-
land Road, for the construction Of various other
Roads, for the removal of distractions from
the Rivers and HaTbors, for the erection of
Light Houses, Beacons, Piers and Buoys, and
Tor the completion of Canals and taken by in.
dividual associations, but needing the assist.
ance OF means and resources more comprehen-
J slve than individual enterprise can command.
| may be considered rather as treasures laid up
from the contributions of the present ape for
the benefit of pOsterty, than az llnreanited an
plicatlons of the accruing revenues Of the ma
ton 10 such objects of permanent improve
ment to the condition of the country of real
addition to the wealth as well as TO the com
Ffort OF the people by whose authority and re-
sources they have been effected from three to
four millions of the annual income of the ma
ton have, by laws enacted at the three most
recent sessions of Congress- been applied.
without ntrenching upon the necessities of
the Treasury without adding a dollar to the
taxes or debts of the community: without
suspending even the steady and regular dis
charge of the debts contracted in former davs
which, within the same three years, have been
diminished by the amount OF nearly sixteen
millions of dollars
Inc same observations are, in great de-
eIec. applicable to the appropriations made for
Notifications upon the coasts and harbors NJ