The Arkansas advocate., 1833-09-18

7 get them surveyed and brought into market, when thousands of your citizens would soon. settle on and improve them, if they lisstlaIly eaafanlY that they could eEeataaslY seeg.se thenas and moi De Jeff 10 the mercy q spec ulatofs.
 in conclusion, your petitioners hs1Inl9i conceive tlla. the justice es ttEstif ttEstif inc passagc of ia general pre-efllJstiqn layE, $ 50 appaent--and that the benefits which would flow from t would be so extensively feit isy q numerous anc7 naeritoTio1s class Of the ceHnunity---tfla they are at q loss to discover any reasonable grounds for objee- lion 10 1t. Hoping that itlnay be viewed m. inc same lightly your honorable body, and that 1t may receive your candid and laFofa- bse consideration, your petitioners as Inzdu- tY bound, will ever pray, Sc.
 BALTIMORE, Aug. 2o.-,a Grand Rail Road Speetocle.- .-The locomotive engine on the Baltimore and Susquehannah Rail- road, came in on Sunday evening, little before o'clock, with fourteen cars in its train; averaging, as nearly as We could judge, thirty persons 10 each car-malling q total of 420. These persons were most lY those who had been t0 the Camp EIeet- ine, near Ref1 andWefe oa tIse5s=fe- teg}ssa syas all like one grsat ta5aay.. 5a!as, ..e Ha9FelasBJ s1s :, a1a.s5 ptdti4s were BY
 nagies# at aa easy speed, at the rate of a- bout I6 miles to the hour, around the. spurs of hills, following the serpentine course Of the wild and tumblmg stream, the banks and rocks of which, in the vicinity of eve- " settlement were enlivened by spectators
 the younger with smiling faces, and the older with a kind of wonder and astonish- ment, at the reflection, no doubt, on the change which two or three years, with in- dastry and enterprise, had effected in their rocky and woody neighborhood. The sa- iubrity of the atmosphere was beyond al eomparison-and the pleasantness of the day-the mild refreshing breezes-and the quiet and orderly conduct of every =passen- ger-=rendered the scene, and every thing relative to 1t, most truly delightful. gltro1.
 Public Vigtae.-We indulged day or two ago, in some reflections upon the h. mentable declension of public morals, and the deterioration of public virtue in this country. It IS the contemplation of such things that bring shade over the bright visions of 1uturity which patriotism loves to look al and finger upon. We have just Tread the following remark made by Benia- min Watkins Leigh in the Virginia eonYen- ton ln l829-3o, which unhaPpily presents a true picture of what We vaifiiY attempted to paint. Hear what he says.
 1.-The greedy expectants of office are continually on the look out. Let a poor postmaster or. collector be sieh, and they begin to collect their volume of reconnen- datons. Let him die, and before his re- mans are committed to his mother earth, the whole swarm is at Washington Then, ST, look at the daily press, which in this country is the erernplar uita n1orumgae.-
 Why IS 1t that upon all political questions, l presidential election, or what not-fhe whole argument turns on the single point. which side will get the majority? Because thatis inc most efeetttal argument -, l the majority, for the party that shall prevail IS to have the disposal of honors and offi- cesi and omolmnents; and partisans are to be excited to eXertions, or acquired only l by the hope ofreward. There is another class of men, who, I think, have sprung up III Virginia, or rather begun to be tisfil- gdished as a separate class, within the last ittteen years They do net regard 3tli9e3f- selves as part ol the people. They pro- less themselves, 5ae peoples 8e4eess35-Ils8 peopie'sJ Jneads-the peoples men: mean lng nothing more in plain English, than that they afe men for the peoples m6ney.-- - neV ss4a 9sc crail4in1is ana 47r, 4ssH t tl,;
 content; and, therefore, whatever of honor or emoiument the people have to bestow. they expect to receive 1t at thoir hands.o
 @i now declare my conscientious belief, unpopular as the ayowal of t may be. that rom the beginning of time, never did any Ha,ion laahe a more rapid progress ii cor rnption than have these United States. d0- ring the last quarter of century. Even Tn tins good Old Dominion, for one place. hunter that was to be seen when I first orew up to manhood, there are ten now. Yes. 1 the number IS ten fold at least; they swarm into the country, and in the eitv: tbev in- lest cur public places; they invade our pri- Faey and disturb the quiet of their indus nous ll1, neigliDors, with their solicitations hey are themselves marketable conl6oz diiies: they put up their principles, ihsir vote at auetonto the highest bidder. sfffioo the s1,.9 highest value upon their service, but %gIlllng to take any price they can get hien hardly it for clerkship aspire to em- passles, and men who aspire to embassies @lll Y descend to clerkship Ofice-of- nee and emoluments, high or low, stale or federal, any sort of office which will sago then them the pains of earning their living by honest industry"