The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1852-08-03

Maryland. d.-Sharps island, Nanticoke and
other rivers, Hooper's and Csjoy's straits, Tan
gier and Pocomoke sounds, Love point. Total
SS, 500.
Virginia. island, York river, Old Point
Chesapeake, Days point, &C., Potomac creek
Total, s6l 900.
North Carolna.-Powell's point, Pea island,
Long shoal. Total, S25,00O.
South Carolina.-St. Helena and Port Roy
al, Charleston harbor. Total, $4,000.
Georgia.-Little Cumberland island, Bruins
wick harbor, Doboy and Sapael's bars, &C.
Total. S4l 900.
Alabamn.-M Mobile harbor, Sand point To-
tai, @l0, 900.
Ohio-Turtie island. Sandusky harbor,
Manhattan, Miami and Maumec, Cunningham
island. Total, &l9,700.
Indiona.-City West harbor. Michigan City.
Total, $4,000.
Louisiana. -Vermillion bay, Lake Pontch-
nrtrain, &c., Bayou st. John, Port Pontchar-
train. Total, S79,50O.
sissippi.-Poarl river lighthouse. Total,
S5 900.
Michigan. Grand and Detroit river light
houses, Windmill island, Saginaw river, Fox
point, Kalamazoo river. Total, 10000.
Apalachicola bay, st. Joseph's bay
St. Johns river, Key West, Amelia island,
Mosquito inlet, Sand Key, Cape Florida, Ca
rysfort reef Total, $79,920.
Wisconsin, river, Manitowac
river Chipewagan, Green bay, Root river
Total, $4,000.
Few Democrats are TO be found now a-days
who can afford TO apologize for Mr.. Pierce s
conduct in relation to this bill. More bold
ness than falls to the lot of ordinary men is
needed to deny to Congress the right of facil-
tating and increasing Atlantic navigation by
the erection of lighthouses, the construction
of light-boats, or the laying Of buoys and dol
phins and yet the only claim that Mr. Pierce's
friends can advance for legislative distinction
on his part must be derived from his constant
hostility to these and all similar improvements
Blot his votes on these questions from the re-
cord, and the name Of Franklin Pierce will
scarcely be known in Congressional history
1t is not uncharitable to believe that before the
canvass now begun be ended, the orators and
writers engaged in sustaining Mr.. Pierce's
nomination will arrive at the conclusion that
they could have worked more efiectually with
n perfect blank as the record of the past, than
with record so blurred and blotted with proofs
of his partisan hostility to every State in the
Union. Adherence TO the worn out tenets of
party is as feather in the balance in COM
parison with his resistance to practical i'm
provements. We know that the superstition
of Democracy is not without power; mt an
unreasoning reverence for distractions is not
likely 10 control the present campaign. And
the practical is all against Mr.. Pierce.
Under the operation Of the single measure
to which VIC are now alluding, Virginia, South
Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Michigan, Flor-
da and Wisconsin-sevon States that are at
this moment claimed as emocratic-received
S273,5 for purposes essential to the prose-
cution Of coast or lake navigation. Mono Of
them refused to touch the money all regard
cd il as moiety of what was due ftom the
country rs whole to particular portions of it;
and several of them are ut this moment ap-
pliconts to Congress for yet larger appropria-
tons. With what propriety can tn y, or any
one of them, now support for the Presidency
gentleman who voted TO put out "the eyes of
commerce." and whose pledges would compel
him to veto any bill of the kind wero it pre-
sented for official approval?
In the same session--1S37-Mr. Pierce vo-
ted against bill "to provide for certain har-
bors, and for the removal of obs'ructions in
and at the mouths of certain rivers, which
passed the House of Representatives by a
vote of 100 to 81. House Journal, page SAC. !
We again epitomize the provisions of the BILL
as it stands in Little and Browns edition of
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