Connersville Watchman (Newspaper) - July 9, 1836, Connersville, Indiana Office on W. IN THE 3;(KMFTEa THE YEAR m. 5. can only with a People wh know their 4ND maintain 109. 102.) from of campaign being now our were turned with intense on We found ourselves four hundred from our and about distance from our from Vvhich we had been absent three Between us and our homes lay wet broad deep dismal swamps and a dreary We were much worn down by and scarcity of The weathers which had been remarkably began now to assume a frowning and wintry and almost universal health had hitherto there were many who foregoing has been forth again end Though charges huve been refuted an hundred I have been induced to on what authority those modern their bow Air were entitled to It is of amongst those who thus on the of there ate many who had not yet arrived on the stage oi he was devoting the vigour of his to the service of his or were whining or under the ted the evidence of my own I You will observe irom the giving which I have been somewhat mj former how we were employed every I from our setting to the end i of the And if the enemies i of Gen. can lind any room I for unnecessary any want of or any other grounds for the that have been I against the gallant leader of that they must possess more men than is usually found in of or I to prevent uio at any Hmo i from declining any longer to be i he the Deposites of 1'uhc upon the receiving those It must be admitted on all rudiments by which are now no expedition to feel strong symptoms of But that friend of the weary and cheered ns with the prospect of soon rejoining our families and around our delighting them with a relation of what we had and the morning of October 7th, we set out on our homeward on the lOth we arrived again at on the 9lh day after leaving it. The stormy season had set in. We had continual high with alternate and and learned that the shipping were destined on an expedition higher up the and that we must continue our march by land to our the 13th we crossed to the American side of the Detroit where General Harrison made ua a very appropriate and interesting highly complimentary to the He congratulated hia on having men to defend her who were willing to brave every and endure every species of He in his own and on behalf ot the ic the warmest for the prompt obedience to and the many testimonials of respect and he had received from bofh officers and He expressed his high sense of the importance of our and our patience under privation and his regret that it was out of his power to send us back by that all should be done that could be to contribute to our comfort in our homeward and then bade us an affectionate was the last i saw of General At that time from my own personal and the account given by men who were hia every day in whose judgment and veracity I had unbounded I believed Gen. to as a all is and as an all that is prudent and and 1 aoi still of that has been and within the last eighteen months or two respecting this distinguished and his claims to public Much pains have been and effort to exhibit as unworthy of public or private And to hold him up before his as not only narrow contracted in his and deficient in capacity as a sadly wanting in personal courage and military skill as an Many of the would be great men of the present day have assumed the office of and have made his public and private the theme of many a editorial and anonymous much forum proclaimed in caucus court and muster the subject of discussion in grog shops and it would seem that ancient and modern vocabularies had been consulted to find epithets to give the world a just conception of his His want of at the battle of his bad management at Fort and his want of and tardiness in his movements and operations in the which has been the subject to express to their country's strolling through forest and along or or in pursuit of pastime or far from scenes of danger or he was spending the prime of his days amidst the dangers of the that there are who lay strong claims to who were living in ease and surrounded by all the comforts that a country in a high state of cultivation could where mercantile and domestic ished comparatively by the storm that raged on our were making their by their tlie peculiarity of affairs consequent on a time of took no part in the than to deprecate its and the underrate the and asperse the characters of those who were zealously and actively engaged in its GenU under the greatest weight responsibility took up residence in the exchanged the pleasures oi civilized and refined society lor the companionship n en and savage sacrificed his private with no other than what he obtained by the laborious exercise oi his menial and physical Exposing himself to the and privations incident to a savage under the scrutiny of the constituted at that time watchful of the public to the shafts of detraction shot from the hand of seli interest and Yet with a perseverance patience and intrepidity that laughed at and set danger at he pursued his firm unwavering paving the way to that proud to which our rising has already in the And laying the foundation of those happy glowing which 300,000 are now so bounteously the that have been made to rob him of that hard honest fame to which he is so justly we find to consist in bold but bare and these assertions are used for proof and and from IMaine to unsupported by competent Docs the history of those times back them? history bears a very different Do side by side with braved danger in its most appalling on the batlle field they bear us his conduct on that was that of an able General and unflinching those who were his associates in and peril at Fort Meigs bear them in saying the American arms were disgraced by his want of skill and prowess at the siege and bat that On the contrary there were high minded honorable whose judgment and character for veracity stand who were prominent actors in that sanguinary opportunities for having a correct knowledge of the official conduct of their General cannot be from whose own mouth 1 have heard that all his plans were well and were such as both skill and experience in the Such as reflects honor on himself and on American and were calculated to warrant That the failure in the and the consequent and injury to our was attributable to the disobedience of by under his Asa specimen of my authority in this matter I refer you to late Governor of who was an in that expedition and crossed the river under respect to his conduct in the expedition to I have to a had been more actively and vigorously than that terminated in the battle of the further confirmation of the I have taken of his character ' refer you to a circular to the people of by Governor immediately upon our return home fiom that in which he recurred to the Civil of spoke of him as an order of talents of beins in any department of the worthy a high seal in the esteem confidence of the Western will also refer you to the Hon. John now a of Congress from one of the Northern Districts in than there is not a more high minded ble no man of sounder and but possessing a higher order of talents in the He was aid to Gen. Harrison on that and was his every and every night several conversations I had with that that and Gen. Harrison wag the he always spoke in the highest terms ofthe expressed his entire confidence in as a ao Statesman and a a man of the sternest and most respectable It is with no ordinary emotions of pleasure that we to our readers that tlie for Public and for Ihe amongst the Several States to the of each io bas become a Wo regard tMg as one most important steps taken by the Government for many years And we cannot but what it will redound greatly to the harmony and vrelU I of the of the and have been so from the time we firat saw this project of that whatever funds may be apportioned and deposited any maybe regarded as an absolute The money once in the Slate and onco expended may wo be upon as the property the National Governments at any need the funds so the Delegation in Congress from any would much sooner go in for raising ihe Tariff duties or for almost any mode ef raising a National they would for recalling the Treasure deposited with their That could only be had by a direct upon their the other remedy would be tiie most This would Du more be tbe predicament of things in state tlian in Congress will by acclamation go against or to the whole amount of public moneys on according to the terms of its agreement with the said 3. And be it That bank be and I employ fd by the secretary ofthe ry us a of the public Huch shall have first to the said secretary a statement of i its and a list of its i the current price of its I a cony ot its other information as maybe necessary to him to judge of of its 4. be it further That the said they slmll be employed as the depositories of the public to receive same upon the terms and v Ench bank shall furnish to lha secretary of the from line to as often as lie may not exceeding once a setting forth its condition and as prescribed in the foregoing section of this except such need unless requested by said contain a of ihe or a copy of the And the said banks shall to the secretary of ihe and to the treasurer ofthe United f c. a weekly ofthe condition these funda from the States when once l r il his account And wilh If these of the treasury have it as that of the or any other public could not be more and safely placed than in the hands of Gen. I have had the same account of from Maj. Duval a man of high and undisputed whose on gave for having a correct knowledge of him Col. R. M. Johnson and many of high have and will the same is another class of which goes far to me in the opinion 1 first entertained of this When a Tradesman 4'C. wishes to employ a hand to assist in conducting the operations of his and wishes to satisfy as to the character ability of him he is about to he will go to the person who had had him long in his If from him he gets a fair he takes it as the best evidence ofthe individual's fitness for his Gen. Harrison has been in public for the 1 ast thirty or forty and it seems he has met tha approbation of the has more than received the thanks of the publicly expressed by both the National and state for the and satisfactory manner in which he discharged the duties assigned I am not yet done with this and 1 fear I shall weary bear with me a little it isa matter in which 1 feel some the end do sot become actual we can't see Here is the new to regulate the deposites of ihe public it enacted by the and House of Representatives of the United Slates of in Congress That it shall be the duty of the secretary of the to as sonn as may be and employ as the depositories of the money of tlie United such of the banks incorporated by the by congress for the District of or by Iho legislative councils of the respective territories for those as may be located adjacent or convenient the points or places at which the revenues may be collected or disbursed And in those territories or in which there are no or in which no bank can be employed as a deposite and which the public collections or require a the said secretary may make arrangements with a or banks in some other territory or to establish an or in the te or so destitute of aa banks of and to receive through such such deposites of the public money as may be directed to be made at the points and to make such disbursements as the public service may require at those the duties and liabilities of every bank thus establishing any such agency to be the same in respect to its agency as are the duties Bnd liabilities of deposite banks generally under the provisions of this act Provi That al least one sUch bank shall slight shock of an Earthquake was felt at on the 7th A similar it may be was experienced at Tennessee on the same the iSth fifty houses were destroyed by fire in the lower municipality of New The council appropriated for the of the geological survey of Virginia has been commenced by Messrs. Rogers and under the Superintendence of professor W. 15. of the university number completes since the Newport Mercury was first published in this 175S,) by James elder brother to Dr. Benjamin or among the most long lived A pike was taken in 1754, at which had a ring fastened to the gill from which it appears to have been put in the pond of that by order of Frederic in 1487, a period of 267 It is described as being feet long and 350 in each state and if any can be found in each state and territory willing to be employed as depositories of the public upon the terms and conditions hereinafter and continue to conform that the secretary of the treasury shall not suffer to remain in any deposite Bank an amount of the public moneys more tlian equal to three fourths of the amount of its capital stock actually paid in for a longer time than may be necessary to enable him to make transfers required by the twelfth section of this and the banks so shall in his safe depositories of the pubic and shall be willing to un to do and perform several duties and and to conform to the several conditions prescribed by 2. And be ii further That at any point or place at which the public revenue may be there shall be no bank located in the opinion of the secretary of the is in a safe or where all the banks at such point or place shall fail or refuse to be employed as depositories of the public money of the United or to comply with the conditions prescribed by this or where such banks shall not have sufficient capital to become depositories of the whole amount of moneys collected at such point or he shall and may order and direct the public money collected at such point or to be deposited in a bank or banks in the same or in some one or more of the adjacent upon She terms and conditions hereinafter That nothing in this act contained shall be so construed as to prevent congress titte from passing any law for the removal of the public money any of Ihe said by or an agent for that to inspect such general accounts io the books of the bunk as shall relate to That this not be construed to imply a right of inspecting the account of any private individual or wilh the To credit ss all sums deposited to the credit of the treasurer of the United and to pay all drawn on euch in if requited by the holder whenever required by secretary of the necessary facilities for transferring the public funds from place to within the United Stales and the territories and for distributing the same in payment of the public without charging commissions or claiming allowance on of of To render to the government of the United States the duties and services required by law to be performed by the late bank of tha United States and its several branches as 5. And bt it further That no bank shall be selected or continued as a place of deposite of the public which shall not redeem its notes and bills OD demand in nor shall any bank be selected or continued as which shall after the 4lh of in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty issue or pay out any note or of a denomination than five nor the notes or bills of any bank be in payment of any debt due to which after the said fourth day of in the year one thousand eight hundred and issue any or of a less denomination than five 6. And be it further secretary of the treasury shall and he is and it shall be his in his judgment the same shall be necessary or to require of any bank so selected and employed as collateral or additional securities for the safe of public moneys deposited and the faithful performance ofthe duties required by this 7. And be it further That it shall be lawful for the secretary ofthe treasury to enter into contracts in the name for and on behalf of the United with tha said banks so selected or whereby the said banks shall to do and perform the several duties and services prescribed by this 8. And beit further That no which shall be selected or employed as place of deposite of the public money shall be discontinued as such or the public money withdrawn except for the causes hereinafter that is to if at any any one of said banks shall fail or refuse to perform any of said duties or services as prescribed by this and stipulated to be performed by its if any of said banks refuse to notes in specie if or shall fail to keep in its vaults such an amount ef specie as shall be required by the secretary of the and shall in necessary to render the said bank a safe depository of the public having due regard to nature of the transacted by the
