New-York daily tribune., 1842-12-15

INplAsA-The Legislature OF Indiana convened
at Indianapolis en- the 5th inst. In the Senate,
Thomas D. Walpoe, Wing, chosen President
pro tenn. Thomas J. Henley, Loco, was elected
Speaker OF the House. The details of the votes
have not yet reached Us. Governor Bigger, IN his
Message to the Legislature, stntes that nearly all
the receipts for taxes &C., during the past year,
have consisted in treasury notes of the State and
that of s26, ,979 which fell to Indiana her por-
ton of the Land Proceeds, $13975 has been with
held by the General Government for arrears OF IN
terest due on Indiana Bonds purchased by the
General Government and invested in the Chicka-
saw and Choctaw Annuities; leaving balance ot
Sl2 903 to the credit Of the State This may be
Sc. down as the amount of money available to meet
the expenses of the State the present year.
As regards the condition of our foreign debt,
(says the Gevernor,) there has been material
change since the last meeting of the Legislature
No part of the interest has been paid The sus-
pended debt has been made the subject of very
considerable investigation by the State agent, and
the result is to strengthen the probability that
nearly the whole of the amount will prove total
loss OF the collateral securities, it is not proba-
bic that more can be realized from them than halt
million and even to save this amount Will re
quire much care and attention.
The Governor speaks of Reputation in manly
tone, regretting the course Indiana has been
obliged to take, and protesting, :" in the name OF
the whole People of Indiana, against that indis-
eliminating censure and reproach which place
those who have become unable, by unavoidable
circumstances to discharge their Just liabilities, on
the same level with the wilful repudiutor.' He
speaks of the accumulated burdens and difficulties,
the prostration of business the embarrassments OF
the currency. and all the other causes which have
qorne down the State, and rendered her unable to
pay her Just liabilities. I" To exact impossible
ties" he says, and then to affx the brand of in
fanny under such circumstances is to say the least,
unwise The exercise Of no mans honesty is
quckened by reproaches which he feels to be un-
merited.'
He then adds:
alt is the future which must determine whether
we are a feith-keepiag people. AS for myself, l
have deep and abiding confidence in the integ-
rity and enterprise of the people of Indiana, in the
extent to which her resources may be developed.
and in the realization of those means which
and will be supplied discharge those obligations
the avoidance of which will bring upoa US merited
and lasting nfamy."
Under the act of the last Legislature that pro-
vides for the letting of the Public Works, the
Whitewater Valley Canal and the Madison and
Indianapolis Railroad have been leased. The
message is confined wholly to the local concerns Of
the State.
The condition of the State Bank, on the 31st
October, is stated Its discounts s., ,967,
9l7; its specie $799, ,047. The circulation
$l,732,5lS the deposites $l,8ll,248.
E,,r Nrcno C,,ops-Sayarol frno negro
sailors (says The Franklin La Bnnrer) who have
been brought to this port in contravention of law,
are now confined in the jail of this Parish where
they will be kept at the expense of their Captains
until the vessels to which they belong are ready to
proceed to sea- 1t is the duty of the officers in
charge of all Ports of Entry, or Landings in this
State to notify the nearest Judge Justice OF the
Peace of the arrival of every vessel or steamboat
from any other State, having board any free
negroes, mulatto or person of color.
lGe We thought there in the Constitution
of the United States some such provision as this
"The citizens of each State shall enjoy all the
rights of citizens in every other State. If so, by
What right are citizens of New-York and Massa-
chusetls imprisoned in Louisiana and other States
for no offence but their color 7 The Constitl-
tional guarantees should be respected when they
do not favor Slavery as well when they do
DARING ROBBERY ON BOARD STEAMBoAT.-
During the passage of the steamer New Haven
from Newly orl to Norwich, on Saturday evening
last, a very worthy old gentleman by the name OF
Mr. Luther Pickering, Of Greenland, N. H., was
robbed of about $500 in cash, and gold watch
worth 500 more. For the better security, as he
supposed, of his morey and watch, he placed them
under his pillow when he took his berth.
Boston Mail.
Two INDIANA Towns NEARLY DEsTRorEp.-
Mooresville, Ind, was almost totally destroyed by
fire on Tuesday night of la.t week. 1t contained
some 600 inhabitants, and about so houses. On
| the Goth ult Muncietown, in Delaware CO. Ind,
was also visited by most disastrous fire. Iwo
printing Offices, one dry goods store, enc ta'ors
shop, one iron ware store, and the Recorders
Office, with their contents, totally consumed.
Loss $4,000.
NAVIGATION OF THE MIss1sslPPI-A memorial
to Congress on the subject of improving the nayi-
CATION Of the Mississippi, was published In the 81,
Louis Republican few days since. 1t is stated
in the document that in four years l3S steamboats,
were lost in the river, occasionng Pesuniary loss
of $3.7lOO00 Between the 1lth of September
and the 18th of October, this year, esh boats were
lost, causing destruction of property to inc
amount of $219, ,000 and the loss of forty or hty
lives Five of the boats were sunk within mile
of one place
F1RE.-On Thursday morning, the large tanneTy
of Mr.. Elijah A. Hansyn discovered TO be on
| bo hull ersirely destrOyed.-