The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1830-04-07
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EVIeigny ISI DOT, 0O6
equal in value TO the real and personal property
In the United States IN 1920 Or, tax Of
nearly "a per cent. on all property, per annum.
II lsald Mr.. De Witty the people Of the Unit
! ed States were 10 discontinue the nse nf gro.
to 14,000,OO0, and also to an addition Of too
thousand million dollars to the productive cap
ital of the country, considered in pecuniary
and moral light.
The appalling effects of intemperance upon
the pauperism of the country, were then adj
verted to.
! In the State of New York, according TO the
official report of the Secretary of State in 1922,
there were provided for in that year, 1896 per-
manent, and 2ll5 transient paupers, at an ex-
pense of $47O,582 In the city o. New York
alone, there is a floating population of Is to
10000, who have no fixed habitaton /; and in
the winter of 1888, in one day 5000 applied
| for admission to the alms-house! In the United
States, in addition to the public paupers who
derive their support from the public treasury,
it is believed there are 10000 who subsist upon
! Private aims.
/ Nor are its effects Of less magnitude upon our
criminal jurisprudence. 1t is computed that
| throughout the State, there are, from official
documents, upon an average, 6469 in confne-
ment for crime. Computing the whole popu-
lation at 100000, and allowing five persons to
a family, every seventh family has a represen-
tative in some criminal prison.
Of the fatal amount of disease and death
which follow in the train of intemperanee, and
of the grief and distress inflicted upon families
and individuals, the following estimate was ex-
hibited by the'speaker, as a very moderate one.
Eight thousand is taken as the average number
of deaths, annually, from intemperance, pauper-
ism, &C.. in this State. Ten years are estimat-
ed by physicians as the extent of drunkard's
TaAa hnaA
taking into the account the probable number Of
tEis description of persons in the State, we have
nearly $4,000 families, or 100000 individuals,
suffering from the vice of intemperanee, mis-
cries greater than those which accompanied the
plague.-.Nsao York paper.
THE CHERoKEEs. John Ross, the principal
chief of the Cherokees has published in the
Cherokee Phenix, an account of the murder of
a Cherokee Indian by party of Georgians, on
the 9th Of Feb. 1t appears that Ross, in COM
plance with an order of the national council,
mana Of an indian MAJOR Ridge, to drive away
some lawless whites who had intruded upon the
Indian lands. They were directed to exercise
as much lenity and humanity as the nature of
the case would permit, but nevertheless to do
their duty efectuauy. They proceeded as d.
rected, turned the whites out of DOORS and
burned the houses, experimenting, if the latter
were not done, that the whites would return
and again occupy them The houses had been
} built and formerly occupied by Indians who
have now gone to the west, and who, according
to the Georgian account, had sold them to the
intrnders. Intelligence of the affair was con-
veyed Immediately to the nearest white settle
ments, and an armed body of about thirty men,
FASTENED to the spot. The Indians had depart
ed in several detached bodies, with one of which
the whites came up, and after fracas, captur-
ed four who were drunk One of them was,
according to the Indian account, shockingly
beaten, thrown across the back of a horse like
meal sack, and carried about mile, when no
was thrown off. He died the next morning.
| The Georgian account states that he was beat
en- to death upon the spot where he was cap.
tured. The other three prisoners were sent in
to Carroll county under a guard; but two of
} them escaped when within few miles of Car
rollton.
From some subsequent movements of the
Georgians, the Indians expected that attempts
would be made to seize Ross and Ridge and
they assembled in a considerable body, ready 10
act on the defensive if there should be occasion.
} Nothing further, however, had happened on
/ the 18th Feb. The Cherokees do not intend to
seek private or public revenge, but Co wait pa.
tiently for justice through the proper tribunals.
The intruders had forfeited the protection of
the United States, and the Cherokees had, by
treaty, the right TO punish them or not, as they
(; saw ft. The former had no right to purchase
houses or any thing else of the Indians; and it
Is doubted whether the statement that they had
I purchased them be not fiction added to the
t Georgian account, in order to throw over their
/ conduct some shadow of an excuse. Ross SAYS
the houses had been abandoned by Indians who
had cmigrated beyond the Mississippi, and that
the whites had afterwards seized them. Which,
ever statement be true, the whites had no BUSH
ness on the Cherokee lands, and the treaties
between the United States and the Cherokees
would have permitted the Indians to exercise
much greater severity Greenfield Gazette.
: Accounts from Prospect Hill, near Richmond,
N. G., mention the shocking death of the Rev
. Mr.. Owen. who has oficiated in the church Of
!, that place for more than thirty years. He was
in state Of irsoxication when he met his fate,
having broken his neck in an unsuccessful at
tempt to climb fence. This votary of the
bottle frequently held forth to his congregation,
while evidently laboring under the inebriating
:, effects of the spirit-in his pocket The death
: Of this man was of so little account, and the
: manner off so glazing, that jury of inquest
was dispensed with Cincinnati Advertiser.
Coon ToAsr. At an entertainment. recently
: given at tho fremont House, in Boston, the
2 following among other toasts were given:
Daniel Webster, like his namesake of old
. he stops the mouths Of those who would deyour
: him.
: The builders of the political fence, who pay
y ioih POSTS, those who have done the RAILING.
e iMPoRrAyT MIsrAKE. II appears BY the pro.
t ceedings of Congress, that the Secretary Of the
!. Treasury, in his Annual Report made a mistake
to the small amount of 8 100000, as 10 the ex-
n Pensss OF the Government for the last quarter
!" Of the year 1929. Adding this item II appears
= that the expenditures Of the last year exceed
y those Of the year 1928 by moro than tcsIue kHm-
+ dred thousand dollars This makes another
serious joke in the grand farce Of RstYsnckment