The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1852-07-14

| worm carolina .Shoal In Pamnco rlver.... o'oo
Shoal in New river... 500
Beaufort harbor. ........ 500
South Carolina. Survey of Georgetown
| harbor. ...-......-. l,OO'
Georgia Improving Brunswick har-
Dor ................... lO,OO
| Ohio .......... Improving vermilion river l0,O0t
| Indiana ...... Michigan City harbor 80. 20,00t
Louisiana 49,. Deepening Mississippi
mouth $1,000
Nfissouri.. Pier near ST. Louis. ....... 1900
Arkansas. :. Survey Of rivers. LOOT
Florida ...... Bulk Head Shoal.. 10000
Michigan st. Joseph river pier...... 10000
| Wisconsin.. :. Survey OF Milwaukee river. 40(
Coming to the second session Of the twenty.
fourth Congress, we have Mr.. PIERcE's vote
recorded against the final passage of bill
making appropriations for building lighthouses
and other similar purposes. The bill wa:
passed by l0S yeas to 60 nays; Mr.. PIERCE
figuring in the minority. blouse Journal
page 599.) From the published act Little
and Brown, vol. S. page 1917 we compile ar
epitome Of the States beneficially affected by
its provisions, with the points at which the
Improvements were carried out-against Mr.
PIERcE's will:
Mains.-Mark island, Mount Desert island. Ram
island. Segun island. West Quaddy bay. Spoon
isle, Saddleback ledge, Eagle Island point, Plea.
SAINT river, Fort Point ledge, Adams's and Buck'a
lodges, Half tide ledge, town of Sullivan. York
hubble, Porters6eld'a ledge. Total, $5l, 900.
Ne,r Hampshire. haleback light house, Sunk
en- rock, Cod rock. Total, s !, 900.
Dfassochusetts. Ipswich harbor, Ned's point
h.,o hsrh IF 7 C,la Flaw
Mar blehead and Manchester, Aldridge LEDGE &C.,
Wings Neck Bay rock. SC. Total, $3s, 800.
Connsctieut.-L ynde point, Black Bay reef, &c.
Total, $l2 200.
Rhode Island.-Papoose Squaw point, Block
island, Fields point, &C.. Total, 100.
Ne,o Yok-Cumberland head, Split rock, Exc
cution rocks. Big Sandy creek, Stony point, Ged-
ney's channel, Sc, Romer's shoal, Esopus mead
ows, Tappan bay, Cedar island. rbor, Ron
dout creek Dunkirk hnrbor, Van Buren, harbor,
Middle ground, Robin reef, Salmon river harbor.
Total, $34s.2OJ.
Ns,o Jersey.-Cohansey creek, Egg island, Alb
secum inlet. Total, $4,000.
Penasylpania- harbor. Total. $674.
Dela,rare.-Reedy island, Brand ywine shoal, Del
aware breakwater. Total, 1900.
Maryland. -Sharp's island, Nanticoke and other
rivers, Hooper's and Cajey's straits, Tangier and
Pocomoke sounds. Love point. Total. $500.
Virginia.-Hog island, York river, Old Point,
Chesapeake, Days point, &C., Potomac creek
Total, SCI 900.
North Cnrolina.-Powcll's point, Pea island, Lon
Shoal. Total, $4,000
South Carolina-St. Helena and Port Royal,
Charleston barbor. Total, $4,000.
Georgia.-Little Cumberland island, Brunswick
harbor, Doboy and Sapaeps bars, &c. Total,
Sal 600.
alabama. harbor, Sand point. Total,
$l0,6O0.
Ohio.-Turtle island, Sandusky harbor, Manhat-
tan, Miami and Maunee, Cunningham island.
Total, $l6,7OO.
Indiana City West harbor, Michigan city. To-
tai, $4,000.
Louisiana. -vermion bay, Lake Pontchar-
train, &c., Bayou St. John, Port Pontchartrain.
Total, $79,5OO.
1ississippi. river lighthouse. Total,
$4,000.
Michigan Grand and Detroit river lighthouses,
Wind Mill island, Saginaw river, Fox point, Kali
amazoo river. Total, $4,000.
Florida. palachicola bay. St. Joseph's bay,
St. Johns river, Key West, Amelia island, Mos
auto inlet, Sand Key, Cape Florida, Carysfort
reef Total. S79,920.
Observation-Disclosures river, Mantowac river.
Chipewagan, Green bay, Root river. Total,
$4,000.
Few Democrats are to be found nowadays
who can afford to apologize for Mr.. P1ERcE's
conduct in relation to this bill. More boldness
than falls to the lot of ordinary men is
needed to deny to Congress the right of facii-
tating and increasing Atlantic navigation by
the erection Of lighthouses, the construc-
ton of light boats, or the laying down of
buoys and dophins and yet the only
claim that Mr.. PlERcE's friends can ad-
vance for legislative distinction on his part
must be derived from his constant hos
tilty 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 be-
fore 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
efiNtually with perfect blank as the record
of his 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 comparison with his resistance
to practical Improvements. We know that the
superstition of Democracy is not without power;
but an unreasoning reverence for distractions is
not likely to control the present campaign. And
the practical is all against Mr.. PIERCE.
Under the operation of the single measure
to which we are now abiding, Virginia,
South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Michigan.
Florida, and Wisconsin-seven States that
are sat this moment claimed MS Demo-
cratic - received $273,520 for purposes es-
sential to the prosecution Of coast or lake
navigation. None of them refused to touch
the money: all regarded it as a moiety of
what was due from the country as whole to
particular portions of it; and several of them
are at this momen, applicants to Congress for
yet larger appropriations. With what pro
priety can they, or any one of them, now sup
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