Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Mass.) 1828-1830, 1828-12-30

at Boston, $6,i4l for hulks for Boston
Harbour, $25,6S3 for gun carriages and
artillery apparatus, $32, 1896 for muskets
purchased in 1873 and 1914, $39, 274 for
gunp6wder, and SIS, 249 for tents.
The aggregate amount designated as
admissible is $3.50, 748 26. The amount
of the several deductions for inadmissible
charges is $4l2, 60l 81. A small portion
of these deductions are made for deficien-
cy of proof, but much the greater portion
from the nature of the charges.
Boston Daily Advertiser.
Missouri. The Governour's Massage
to the Legislature of the State, gives the
following interesting facts, which show
the rapid increase Of population, industry,
and wealth, in that section Of the Union.
In 1926, the revenue was $4,000; it is
now about 100000. In July, 1926, the
State Debt was $4,000, it is now only
SIS, 900. Paper money, as it is called,
which at the former period, to the amount
of $l84, 900 was afioat, is now redeemed.
Valuable lands have been appropriated for
the support of schools. 1t appears also,
that valuable trade is carried on with the
interiour of Mexico, whence, in exchange,
comes solid currency in the shape of
silver dollars, which constitutes great
portion of the coin in circulation through
out the State. The Indians appear to be
troublesome neighbours, having. as the
message states, murdered three of their
citizens, and plundered others to the
amount OF between thirty and forty thou
sand dollars. Besides the trade with
Mexico, the message speaks of another
very important and increasing one-the
far trade IN and beyond the rocky noun
tains. In this trafiick, it appears, they
sometimes meet with annoyance from
British traders, who come into their terri
tory. and not unfrequently, quarrels with
them end in hloodshed.
The message strongly recommends the
leasing out of the lands appropriated for
the benefit of Schools, in preference of
selling them.
The sum appropriated this year for in
ternal improvement is $50, 1000.
GEN. ScoTT. 1t appears, by an editorial
article in the Richmond Enquirer, that Gen.
Scott has published phamphlet of about
sixty pages, containing ans abstract of a
correspondence with the Executive, relative
to the rank or command of Major Generals
Scott and Macomb." This phamphlet, it is
said, is published by Gen. Scott, with a
view of informing his friends and country
men of the relations which prevail between
himself and the executive department. The
merits of the question respecting brevet
frank are discussed throughout the publica-
ton. 1t appears by a postscript to one of
Cen Scott's letters to the Secretary of
War, that he did not receive the order from
the war department, depriving him of his
command in the army, until the pamphlet
was printed: and he intimates purpose of
petitioning Congress for declaratory law
upon the subject discussed in his cores
pondence. He also informs the Secretary
that he shall repair forthwith to Washing
ton. The following is the letter from Gen.
Porter. which brought the correspondence
to close -
| DEPARTMENT OF WAR, Nov. 26th 1925
"SIR-lt is not the purpose of the Presi-
dent to take any final order, in relation to
your late very reprehensible conduct, until
sufficient time shall have elapsed for the
receipt of your deliberate answer to the let
ter addressed to you from this department
on the 18th instant, and which contains an
exposition of the views of the President on
the several questions you have raised. The
nature of that order will, as you perceive,
depend, in great measure, on the charac-
ter Of the answer received from you, and
which the President hopes may not be
wholly uninfuenced by the considerations
which by his directions, have been thus pre-
scented to you.
To put stop, in the mean time, to the
course of INSTRUMENTATION in which you have
deemed fit to indulge, the President directs
that, from the receipt of this letter, you will
consider yourself as suspended from the
command of the western department of the
army, until his further pleasure shall be
made known to you.
Gen. Atkinson has accordingly been di-
rected, by'an order of this date, to assume
that, command and you will therefore,
without delay, transfer to him all unexecut-
ed orders that may have been received,
either from this department, or from Maj.
Gen. Macomb-at the same time instructing
one of the officers at present performing the
duties of Assistant Adjutant-G General of that
department, to repair to the head quarters
of Gen. sAtkinson; with the documents and
papers belonging to the command
have the honour to be your obedient
servant, P. B. PORTER.
Brevet Major General Winfield Scott,
United States Army, Cincinnati.