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Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1835-05-22

" How like unto a "
Slot HE ben 81 afa ounJ.
They hsng add hei with iowncasi hook,
Boioc they snusd az last q ground
Yes, like those black ifis, much 90 oaz ne saw
Each ealpfi' hanging by single claw"
9HoayN0us--'rhe late Senator Of Albemare dead
Coch in The pit-got killed in ichesiing
By John WsOn.-Judge tWhfte f}y permitting him.
sell 70 be run for the next Presidency saved the pol
cal life Of Of the Wing members Of the Lcgisa.
turc Of Virginia VIII IT not prove his potcal death
By Capt " n. Clark w e. Rivesg a favorte Of
Virginia his frmness Proelains him the future hope Of
the Republican party.
By n Robortson.--B W Ecigh Nav he ouit HE
scat without orders.
By CaPt ~. Terry.-T. VI. Benton. The fearless de-.
fender OF The peoples rghtsthe Lion Of the Senate
he cannot be put 10 fight by the braying Of an Ass
BY Capt ~ WdsOn.--W. &. Rves The able ex.
FOUNDER and defender Of the Constitution; he obeys and
believes IN the Right Of Insrncton-rnay he be honorsd
BY the voice Of the people with the Vice Pres.
dency.
The Arkansas advocate., 1835-09-25
No. ".
THE PRESIDENTIAL QUESTION

THE PRESIDENTIAL QUESTION
 To the Editor of the AdvocaGe:-
 Sir--ln my last number promised tore
 view the conduct of Martin Van Burenr.
 relation to the war, and to the admissiond.
 Missouri. ! shall proceed 10 do so, but !.
 Aggression be pardonable, l would remat|
 that have just seen the Gazette contais. ing the address of the Baltimore ConWa| ton to the People of the United States They talk loudly about Democracy. ant
 Delegates fresh from the people. wOdI
 like to ask, sir, (and l hope whoever writaH
 against me will take notice of the question
 II Van Buren IS the choice of the Democs.
 cy, why, in heavens name, did they ndI leave the Democracy to elect him, wiih0t. calling Convention to choke him down their throats? If he is the choice ofts Democracy, why did they not leave hls fate Tn the hands of that Democracy? Oh moi
 There must be drilling and maneuyerng and marching and countermarching, ant
 he regulars, |. e. the office holders, hadhF be marsnalled in phalanx, and brought q against the raw undisciplined militia, L { the people. Some Solonaon in the Ga zette, while ago, enqu.red # every forma opponent of Jackson was not now Nhe man? hope so, for 1t would be prod that they have at length got on the ns5 side. should like to have the editor that paper tell me if he knows of any Ofpf holder or Government editor who is nor lG Van Buren? Ifhe does, he IS wiser than am. But let Us look at hls vaunted Denp cracy. There Is Roger B. Taney' known Federalist, and a leader in the fss eral mob tt Baltimore, Tn lSf2--Ee IS acp pital Democrat noae. So is James Buchf nan, of Pennsylvania, who thanked'hls G@ that not drop of Democratic blood fioEsa Tn his veins. So is Henry Hubbard, oih E Hampshire, who was one of the foremes H men Tn the State in sending Delegates the Hartford Convention. So IS San's' I Casiasnan. of the same State, who wlsns' publicly that every soldier who crossed" llae of Canade. might grave there. II.
 And now for MT. Van Bnren and u war. l suppose that your readers are ' aware that the great cry of the Defliosfass, ~ K aforesaid, just now k, @Dont divids p parlyp' They all cry out Justify agalns Judge White, because, they say, he da~ 10 come out and divide the party. Lesr !. acknowledge, then, that it was exceedpss wicked in the Judge, and not to have os'' expected. Let us do as tho Globe d0ss call him Federalisf, and refuse to supp
The Arkansas advocate., 1835-09-25

Our exchange papers are filled with &C., counts of ant-abolition meetings, held in different parts of the North. called and at tended by the most respectable citizens.- We are giad that they have at length awa- kened from their apathy. The abolitionists themselves are too senseless to learn wisdom and it is time that the intelligent and en- frightened men of the North should put them down, at home. The revolutionary heroes of the North fought for their liberties and their possessions. So did those of the South, and they have right to keep both. If the aboli- tionists had possessed the sense of a blinking owl, they might have known that their inter- mediing would end only in injury to the slaves --in severity, punishment, and death, as it has done in Mississippi and elsewhere,
The Arkansas advocate., 1835-09-25

We learn that tho overflow of Red River has resulted in great injury to the crops in that section of Arkansas. By persons who lett there on Tuesday, last week. we learn that the river was four feet higher than has been for long time known, and still risino. The overflow was gradual--not sweeping away the crops, but remaining on them long enough to rot them. Very little cotton or corn will be raised above the raft. All the prairies on this side of the river are overflow ed. Tine loss to the planters is very great. Several ofthem had from l5o to 200 acres in oottons which Is all ruined.
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estimate not very wide of the mark:
I2.692. 900


 Showing, according to our estimate, near y thirteen millions acres, or twenty ibou- sand square miles of land, in the aluyial re- zion of the lower Mississippi \ consid- erable portion of this vast region, perhaps more than one half Of #, is annually inun- dated, and only very small portion escapes at the highest flood.
 We shall not now pause to inquire by what means this aluvfll country can be protected from inundaiony but assume that 1t can be done, if the requisite capital and science, and the concert of the parties con- cerned, be brought 10 the enterprise. To effect this we submit the following scheme:
 !. 4 company to be incorporated by all the States and Territories, al least by Lou isana and Mississippi.
 3. The capital of the company to he twenty-five millions, in shares of Sl00 each-a preference of twelve months in subscribing to be given to the landholders Tn the alluvial region, to the amount of two dollars per acre-one dollar on ,he share to be paid at the lime of subscribing, and the residue payable when demanded by the company.
 3. The company to be authorized to hold lands in the aluvial region, by purchase or donation from the government, or private. persons, and to sell the same.
 4. The company to have power to re- claim the allnyial region, by dykes and drains, or any other means-and to con struet canals and open the navigation of streams therein, and to exact tolls for the navigation thereof
 ,. To collect dues from landholders. in the alluvial region, who may not be stock holders, for the reclamation and protection of their lands such dues to be assessed bv commissioners, under general and equitable rules.
 6. The charter to be perpetual, but the States 10 have the power of purchase. at specified periods and rates.
 We have sketched the general features oi the scheme, and need not go into details. ne object to be accomplished is one of vast magnitude and unequaled importance. It Will reclaim from a wilderness state now untrocden by human foot, millions of acres of land of unsurpassed fertility, and adap1ed 10 the production of the most valuable sta pies-cotton, indigo, sugar and rice. II VIII remove many causes of diseases that now exist in the valley of the Mississippi.
The Arkansas advocate., 1835-09-25

The Boston Post, leading Van Buren pa- per in Boston, says that 1t, and all others who do not wish to concentrate the South On slave candidate, have mistaken the true po- Hey in helping to get up the anti-Abolition meeting in Boston. 4 precious confession, truly! that Van Buren s friends should not op- pose the Abolitionists. Van Buren declares that he is not an Abolitionist. His friends in the North say that he is. Which shall we believe!
 Another Van Buren press in Philadelphia abuses the anti-Aboltion committee for burning box of Abolition tracts. He says it is mod laaO. The fellow had forgotten that Amos, the heaven-born, had authorised all good postmasters to stop such documents in their offices.
The Arkansas advocate., 1835-09-25

By the Nashville Banner we learn that the Hon. WILLIE BLoUNT, ex-Governor of Ten nessee, departed this life at Gainesville, in that State, on the 10th inst. Governor Blount filled the Executive Chair of Tennes- see during the eventful period from 1909 to 1915. He was President of the late Conven- tion for the revision of the Constitution of the State. He died full of years and covered with honors.
The Arkansas advocate., 1835-09-25

Our anti-State Government men arc pluck ing up courage. Grown bold under the Gov. ernor's wing, they begin to come out in the Times and discuss the question. Why can they not be content to let us pursue the same plan that Michigan is pursuing! Must there be different method for us. They remind us of the Irish planter in Georgia, who cut two round holes in the lower part of his door "a big one for the cat, and a smaller one for the kittens.
The Arkansas advocate., 1835-09-25
< Three aoise men ef Gotham !" Weni 10 seq lR q bopl.n

That astonishing tric that made Gotham famous in classical rhyme, has been equalled. Three geniuses have arisen in Arkansas, sur passing their prototypes. The first is the tsCitizen." The reeds may tell as bad se- cret on him, sometime, as they did on Midas. If the United States Bank is ever busy in Arkansas, 1t will hardly consider it worth while to buy him up. If it does, the price will not be missed much in the vaults. Such bawling patriots cost but little. You can make hundred of them in an hour. The second Gothamite is the fellow who found the Mares nest" He is man of uneaualled humor. Iti pity he did not find the nest earlier. He might have been we'll employ ed, like the prisoner among the Turks, with a pair of feather brooches, hatehinr the coos. ( Sam Patch" is the last of the trio. He can see as far into grindstone as his neigh- Dor. He believes all about the " Bank'' and " corruption" Gulliver was amono the Hounyhymns once. If 'sSam Patcho was there, he would be as good Yahoo as the best oi them. They can ali sing the old catch;
 We three
 Tom fools be.'r
The Arkansas advocate., 1835-09-25
ago?

Stevens T. .Hasoa, the acting Governor of Michigan, has been removed by President Jackson, and man by the name of Charles Shaoer, of Pennsylvania, has been appointed in his stead. No reason we believe has been given for the change. Mr. Mason has subse- quently been nominated for Governor of the !State of Michigan, by Van Buren conven- ton held at Ann Harbor.
The Arkansas advocate., 1835-09-25
CONWAY CiReUff CoURr,
Sept. Term, 1885.

.T
 l.. B. M'Aee These were cases of an.
 US peal from Justice If 'l 5. Murphy. ) Peace. Murphy, who ra
 and sides in Cadron Towpsb;. J. B. Hester ] Conway County, was saa1
 os for debt before Simmnn'a B. Murphy. J Justice of the peaee x
 " iiborh Township, in Sa same Coaaty there being nc .y,lsi;;cal 4s 7, the Peace in Cadron Township. MolioO by Linton, Tn behalf of Murphy, to osash Ji the proceedings before the Justice Na ton sustained-and decided by the conS that, although there $ no Justice ot gi'' ,I, Peace in the Township where defepdae, " sides, suit cannot be brought before 4 Tn. tice of the adjoining township. Bill of captions and taken up to the Superior Conn Pinckard & Arnold Action of Lucy 4, Buckley, ad'x. deb, contrac,.a
 and by Bnelioa Bennett B. Ball, ad'r of his lifetime ,n5 % N. Il. Buckley, decd. Ball, then par,
 ners. Offsets were pleaded, which Ball offered to nrovs Ills evidence was objected to by Fowlo who argued that Ball was interested. ia,s' i9 much as he was liable to fhe estate for half the debt which should be proven. Er eon tro, il was alleged that the law auhorisesa, q, administrator 10 give evidence as 10 mai ters occurring before his administratorshn Decided, that lhe evidence was not adms. sible.
 James Henry This was m action or
 gs debt Two counts in ls R. J. Blount. ) decIaration-one on 6c.
 titious bond for arge amount, averred to be lost-and the olbr on an existing one for $66. Motion, by Fowler, for Blount, 10 dismiss, for wantd jurisdiction, on the ground that the sun pro. ven, was by the statute within the iurfsde ton of Justices of the Peace. Motion sustained. Decided by the Court that sc tions sounding in damages differ front those l where the sum due IS certain. The Coa said-that where man claims damages the sum laid in the declaration determne he jurisdiction; but where it is On a specja. iy, or for sum certain, the sum found loh { due decides the jurisdiction. If you ovs me ninety nine dollars, cannot declare on lhat in The Circuit Court. adding eouua lost bond for hundred. If could the same could be done with a debt of five do. dissertations would be enabled to opprea their debtors, by suing for trivial sums the Circuit Court-Justlces would have jurisdiction, and the law would be absolute Iy annaIIed. The suit must be abated.
 Authorities quoted in the latter decision a decision in the Superior Court of & Territory, and Frazer vs. Shitle, MssOm Reports, page 575,-both agreeing win this decision.
 We publish the foregoing decisions, ,andiP tend to continue the plan, because they aa on points which the people ought to know Fhe papers in winch they are publisha should be preserved.
The Arkansas advocate., 1835-09-25

few days since with small detachment, and expected to be joined by the young warriors of some friendly tribes of Indians. This is the only true intelligence which could have reached R. Smith. No recent excitement has induced the organIzation of the militia of Texas. As early as last spring, an order was received by the Pollii- cal Chief from the Supreme Executive of Coahuila and Texas, directing hlm, and through hitn, the subordinate authorities, forthwith to organize the Civic militia ot the Department of Nacogdoches, which em- braces all the country laying between the Trinity and Sabine rivers. Owing to va rlous causes, aud among others, the chan ges daily occurring in the interior, prevent ed the organization being completed bnf so far as 1t has progressed it has been by authorities of the country and not by indIvl- duals.
 The situation of Texas has been pecu- liar, though. at this moment, l think her traaquii, and it is to be hoped we shall have no difficulty. The number of Federal troops within the limits of Texas (proper,) does moi, presume, exceed 500 men, fans and file; and these troops are stationed ex- clusively within the Mexican population.
 If is impossible 10 conceive any plausible pretext for the ipraSioa of Texas by Fede- ral troops, inasmuch as her citizens have maintained, at all times, their integrity to the laws and Constitution of the Repubic.! :!
 It has been, to some extent, unfortunate for Texas, that individuals have passed through her territory, and on their return to the United States, have, from ignorance or other causes, misrepresented the feelings and disposition of her citizens. These things have induced speculations upon the present and future political retafioas ot fer- as- when expressed in the newspapers oI ! the day, were well calculated to efnbarrass the true interests of the people of Texas, i accredited by the Supreme Government O Mexico, and on its part induced suspicion anG vigilance towards the North American population n Texas.
 am, with great respect,
 Your obedient servant.
 SAM. HOUSTON. To the Editor of the Red River Herald.
The Arkansas advocate., 1835-09-25

The Cincinnati Whig says it is authorized by General Harrison to say, .'that if it can be clearly ascertained that MT. Webster or any other Whig is stronger than himself, he will not stand one moment in the way, but that he will, in such an event, cheerfnlly act os 8 Whig elector.''
The Arkansas advocate., 1835-09-25

The Gazette is overjoyed at the election Of Dutee J. Pearce in Rhode Island. Will It be 50 good as to tell US what were the poli- tics of Mfr. Pearee twenty tssc or three years agol
The Arkansas advocate., 1835-09-25

But we need not adduce arguments 1T |
 value of the advantages to accrue from U '''s enterprise. They will readily snna 'le themselves. The only question is inc ssssl ss ticability of the work, and that can onIn E,ac' decided by lime and experiment. O'
The Arkansas advocate., 1835-09-25

Two bales of cotton of the new crop, from Baton Rouge, the first in market, were re- ceived in New Orleans on the Doth ut.
The Arkansas advocate., 1835-09-25
EDITED BY ALBERT PIKE.

A few barrels of flour arrived here on the Eagle this week, and were sold at Sl0 per barrel.
The Arkansas advocate., 1835-09-25

From information received here since the
 publication of the Gazette, we learn that the
 murderer, whose name Is stated to have been
 James c Johnson, was overtaken ih St. Fran cis county, and brought back to the spot
 where he committed the murder. He con- fessed his crime, and stated that as he knew he should be hung, he preferred being execu- ted at once--that he had nothing to plead in extenuation of his crime, and was willing to suffer the penalty of death. He averred that after killing Robinson, he obtained only one hundred and eleven dollars, which he found in piece of paper. Supposing that to be all the money in the possession of the murdered man, he threw the pocket book away, which has not yet been found. He was afraid to take gold watch, which was on Robinson $ person-and left it with him. After hearing his confession, in the presence of abont fifty persons, he acds instantly haRg-and after re- maining suspended sufficient time, his body was thrown behind the same log where the body of his victim was found, and left there.
The Arkansas advocate., 1835-09-25
Your obedent servant.
 SAM. HOUSTON. To the Editor of the Red River Herald.

The following is sketch of grand pro- Iject for draining and recIaiming all the allu- vial lands in the valley of the Mississippi, which are subject to inundaton, from the mouth of the Chic to the Balize. The pro- ject we believe. was conceived in Eicksbarg -and was first published in the Eicksburg Register. Ne conceive it to be an excellent scheme, if # can be carried out.
 The draining of the inundated lands ol the Mississippi has often been the subject el thought and investigation, with men of in- quiriug minds: but its strange that an enter- prize so magnificent, and attended with re- suits so important to the wealth and health of the valley of the lower Mississippi, has not as yet in this age and country of vast and daring schemes of internal improve ment, excited the public attention.
 We have no means of asceraining the exact quantity of the alIuyial lands of the Mississippi, from the mouth of the Ohio 10 the Baiize but we suppose the following estimate not very wide of the mark:
The Arkansas advocate., 1835-09-25

A writer in the Times, under the signature of Republican, quotes extracts from speech es of MT. Sergeant and others, in support of the views of the Governor. We freely ad- init all that is proven--to wit, that there were many in Congress, (NIr. Sergeant among others who disputed the right of the Senate to make the treaty-and who denied the rights of Missouri under it. The ques- ton came to an issue, and was decided in fa- vor of the treaty, and in favor of Missouri.- Those who opposed Missouri, were, general ly Federalists. When we made our quota- tions, We did not consider that they were of authority sufficient to settle the question de- fnitely. We only wished to show the Gov ernor that there was authority against him and that where 1t was probable both ways were right, we chose to follow the shortest. 1 We freely admit that there is authority against us--but we also claim that there is much for us. Philip P. Barbour, Smith, and host of others, are equal in our mind to Ser geant and Taylor.
 Of the extract from MT. Morris letter, we have only to say that if we had been disposed to quote him as authority, we think it would have been directly in our favor. Take the following extract
 "Ihe people of Michigan. the wards and tenants of the General Government I ''thought, were free American citizens, en- "tltled to all our rights. except Hsat ef' Stafe " "Goueihaent, and thot, too, IS 10 De iteirs, so ''soon as they hare sirty thousand free inha- 's6stditS; and l also believe that they have ''an equal interest and the same political "rights Tn the boundaries of their State that ''is to he formed Of her territory, as the peo- s'ple of Ohio have in their establishment of ssthe boundaries of their own State. But 'smay be asked, Suppose Congress should 'snever admit Michigan into the Union as a "State! To this would answer that the ssupposftion itself is unconstitutional, void, ''and against reason; as we'll might we ssselze upon the whole of Michigan and at 'staeh It to Ohio, under the supposition that "Congress will never again convene. Snp- "positions of this kind are idle and falia- sscious."
 Now if this be the case, it must be be- cause Michigan has right to be admitted. if not, Congress could portion her out among the Indian tribes.
 We are disposed to leave the subject. We believe, as the Governors adherent :. Jeffer- son. says, that the people say but little about the matter. It is, however, because they believe that the Governor has meddled in the matter with an uncalled for interference.- About tour-ffths of the Territory are against his view of the question--so thoroughly con- ylnced that they take no interest in the ques tion-