Huron Reflector from Norwalk, Ohio • Page 1

"WHATSOEVER THINGS ARE TRUE--WHATSOEVER THINGS ARE HONEST--WHATSOEVER THINGS ARE JUST--WHATSOEVER THINGS ARE PUKE--WHATSOEVER THINGS ARE OF GOOD Paul. VII. KORWALK, HITROl? COUNTY, OHIO-TUESDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1836. NO. 48.

Published X. --Two Dollars per annum-- payable Dollars ami I'lltv Cents, after of -apcr di.contm- arrearages arc paid, umcss at me 01 i.ic mi-nts inserted tl-rce times for one sqi-iv and cei.ts lor eiery in-' riion. A discount made --Moil kinds of Country year. Produce received brought tears into the eyes of Maria, who threw her arms about his neck, and declared she could not live if he was oilended with her. This was ail very interesting, of course, and his own native and onre patriotic i contravention of the treaty.

state, we had supposed that the regard to the exposure of as the affecting interview lasted! landholders of a state, that has some time, it seemed to give us boasted a Washington, a Jefferson, With Santa noise of the strife, raging like a tor- Anna's person in his debarkation, the nado around them, would have a President disclaims any intention to ked up the sleeping energies of the better appetite for dinner. After Alonzo had soothed his beloved, and dried her tears, he discovered that whose glory appears to have depart- Madison, a Monroe, and other statesmen and patriots, but great his rullles and collar had suffered much from the embrace, and gently hinted that he should like to put howls like the scream mnteci that ne snoum nite 10 put a the feathers tbemoff and new equip his neck and out earth? a v.ild goose, and ill fall soon in the shape of snow akcs." said Alonzo to us one after- oonl as we were standing by the of a street, and a i a- c.le'mh-bel!s and warm brown a reach your OU continued he, 'the storm ill burst forth. Come, go oine vith me. You have heard of paragon of women, le'bcst of wives--Allonsl You iall see how she will receive her usband's had mentioned his i to before, and although there was olhins particularly engaging in the escription. yet one that you often car of, you feel some curiosity to ee.

As we hied towards the man- ion which my friend rented, we met ur a friend too, ad a wife, and straightway, when ic had passed, did Alonzo fall to ommiscrating the fate of his friend 'A wife he has, indeed, 1 said Anzo, 'But no more like my wife Kin--than--than--comparison aches ith impolency at the thought! 1V? he hath not the heart of oman, which is, or ought to be all My friend Daggett is a of mind--of genius--but un- appily he is united to a woman ho cannot appreciate him, and who a complete nobody. But here is vj house. Enter and see what can be. As Alonzo pronounced these words he door flew open. I glanced at be staircase and saw that a broom ad not passed over it very lately, 'he hall lamp was untrimmed, and brasses on the doors had not rotten stone in many days.

entered the room. A young idy sat by the window, apparently ounting her fingers, for no other ccupalion seemed to engross her ttention. Her dress was good so i a the quality of the cloth was oncerncd--but there was a great ick of neatness therein, and even 'ie vulgar idea of soap and water itself as we looked he isthmus which joined her head her shoulders. But we had not orig to make these remarks, as she rose on our entrance and embraced Alonzo as before for if she had not seen a month. I was in- she, the bosom.

'How cried have not yet come from 'But. Maria, my dear, you can end for Ohio Legislature. ed, and whose degenerate sons, indulging in inglorious ease, forget that there is an election, forget that they are free. Oh! shame on such a people as Transcript. From the Baltimore American.

General Santa Anna has address- Jed a communication to the Texian Government, declaring his having complied with the terms entered in, to by him, and protesting in the first pulling up the heel of her shoe i ace against his having been treat- a hole in the stocking. e( m0 re as an ordinary criminal than as a prisoner of war, by the head of a respectable nation. Secondly, against the treatment of Adrian Wall, a mexican General, who had entered the Texian camp with flag of truce, with the consent of he Cabinet, and under the word nd honor of General Houston. Thirdly, against the non fulfilment the 9th article of his capitulation, reduced, and Maria gave us to un- lerstar.d that as the acquaintance md friend of her incomparable A- orizo were abundantly welcome a i i stumbled over a broom nd bandbox lay in clegan in the middle of the floor, re found the v. ay to a chair, thickly ovcrcd i dust.

It was rather ate in the afternoon, and we were dad to hear Alonzo tell her to place be dinner on the table. She repli- ed'certainly, my Alonzo, nothing me greater pleasure than to vail upon you! You know itis my neat aud my drink to obey your Dishes. Alonzo turned to us with a smile jf triumph, as she went slowly from Lbe i com, and said, 'can 1 avoid ado- readily cxe- "iricru vioman so -ulcs all my heard svhal she We bowed and wailed. cxlremelv but I bc- the heard in of half an hour, we he tiow and heavy step of Maria i a i the room. 'Now tho't ac.

'we slull break our fast. Truthe raw air gives one a tremen- a I i 'They are just answered he hide 'Why, Maria! Maria! how many imes have I requested you to have a change of linen always on 1 know said she plaintively, alas! I am always making those unhappy whom I 'Dont weep, dear began AJonzo. 'Well, said we, looking at our vatch, and moving towards the door --'we have an appointment and--' cried before dinner--hurry Maria, and have it on the Maria was gone a quarter of an lour, when she came in with a platter of meat, which she carried so daintily just touching it with the tip of her fingers, that it slipped from ler grasp--the dish was broken to "ragments, and the meat rolled upon Alonzo broke forth in a violent passion, and accidentally set foot upon the grease when he came tumbling to the floor. His wife screamed and clung to his neck, demanding if he was hurt, and we forthwith took our departure. Hungry, cold, and weary, we passed swiftly along the street.

Evening had set in, and we saw a bright cheerful light shining through the blinds of a neat dwelling on the opposite side of the street. Daggett's voice was at the next moment heard. He stood on the steps of his house and invited us to walk in. We did so. His wife received us without much ceremony, for she was busied about her household affairs.

She asked us if we had supped, and when we told her that we had not yet dined, she moved out of the room as noiseless as a spirit and as quick as lightning. We scarcely bad time to mark her neatly formed ankle and pretty foot, before a snowy cloth was spread upon the table. Five minutes sufficed to cover it with viands of a most delicious flavor and cooked in a style seldom surpassed. When her husband spoke she was all attention, and before he had finished the thing wanted was produced--the half expressed command was executed. It is true she did not tell him that she loved him like an angel or worshipped him like a god; but she administered to his anticipated his wishes with a celerity and propriety that novels seldom describe.

We left the house, comfortable in mind and body, and resolved when we look a wife, to choose one who loved us with her hands and feet as well as her heart. Boston Galaxy. The Bay has been closed and partially open two or three times. A heavy wind has cleared it from the entrance almost up to the schooner Texas and the ship Milwaukie, bound for Detroit, ran aground a few nights since, near the mouth of the bay, (where they now lie.) in consequence, as is alledged, of there being no lights in the Huron I and Sandusky light-houses. insoners, he Texians vhich provides for the exchange of that although had been freed, not a ingle Mexican had been set at liberty.

Fourthly, against the nonperformance of the condition which vas sine, qua non, that he should be ent to Vera Cruz when the Government shall deem proper--they jeing satisfied that the condition of he treaty had been fulfilled on his jart, which as he alleges, had been done so far as he was concerned. fifthly, against the violence commit- i person, in forcing him to on shore after he had em- marked, and exhibiting him to the soldiery, and, finally, against his aeing kept in a narrow prison, calculated to injure his health, guarded by sentinels, and suffering all the privations which make life insupportable; also for the uncertainty in which he has been kept in regard to bis fate and that of his fellow prisoners. To the protest of -which the above an abstract, President Burnett, of Texas, has returned an answer, framed in a courteous and becom- ng style, in which he admits, that circumstances of popular excitement had constrained him to deviate slightly from the terms of the treaty, respecting Santa Anna's return to Vera Cruz-- the excitement having been caused by the cruelties committed by the troops lately under the command of Santa Anna, upon Col. Fanning and his party, of the Mexican General's participation in which slaughter, he expressed himself i i even to conjecture. He says that the embarkation of Santa Anna on board of the Invincible, had been the result of the government's determination to comply strictly with the terms agreed upon, and that his subsequent debarkation was owing to popular excitement, which rendered it indispensable to postpone his departure.

To the first item in the protest, the President states, that the accommodation of Santa Anna, had been the best within the power of the authorities, as he had exposed his own sick family to privations, in order to make him comfortable, and that the wants of the comforts of life was owing to the visit of the Mexican Army. In reference to the treatment of Gen. Wall, he alleges that every thing had been done to afford him a safe return, but that the order to that effect having been contravened at a distance from the scat of government, the reasons for it were not make a show of him, however natural it might have been for the people to desire to see an individual so connected with the late occurrences, and that he was aware of no acts of violence committed on his person, which, as that of a prisoner of war, was held sacred. He concludes his answer, by alleging that the apartment of which the General complains as a narrow prison, is larger and more commodious than that which constitutes both his office and the residence of his family, and reminds Santa Anna that the best accommodations which the new government had enjoyed had been broken up about two months previously by the army under the immediate command of his excellency, at the burning of the town of Harrisburg. From the Greene County Gazette.

OHIO'S SHARE OP THE SURPLUS REVENUE. One of the first acts of the Legislature of Ohio at its approaching session, will be the acceptance of her share of the surplus revenue, which according to a table of the National Intelligencer will be The applications of this great sum is matter of newspaper discussion at present, and a variety of purposes are suggested as appropriate subjects on which to expend it. A correspondent in the Springfield Pioneer, in an article which we think an excellent one, suggests that at least a part of the sum should be applied in part payment of Ohio's public debt; and that in its expenditure the following among other things be considered: 1st. The people of the State ought to participate equally in its immediate benefit. 2d.

It ought to yield an income rectnes-s of any sitions, it is to to the Siate (after paying the expenses of the investment) equal to the interest paid by the State upon a like amount of her debt. 3d. It ought to be so invested, that upon reasonable notice the State maybe able to call it in, and apply it in payment on her debt. 4th. It ought to be so invested as to be beyond the influence and control of party politics.

If there be any doubt as to the cor- one of these propo- the first; because there is a manifest inequality among the counties of this State in the benefits derived from the expenditures made by the State. And perhaps no part of the State has more just cause of complaint than the Mad River Valley. But, in making our Canals, we have contracted a debt too large. And, if an attempt is made to equalize the several counties by applying the money in question to such works of improvement as they may ask for, it will be absorbed without any reduction of our present taxes; without any provision being made for the payment of the State debt; and without any corresponding benefit to our country. There are temptations enough to engage in log rolling in the Legislature, without adding this very strong Dt-c.

10. On motion of Hunt, so much oi'thc unfinished business of the last session as relates to the Bank of Maumee, was referred to the standing committee on banks. Mr Patterson introduced a reolution, instructing- the committee on the Judiciary to report a bill to amend the acts of January 5th, 1804, and January 2o, 1807, on the subject of blacks and mulattoes; which was laid on the table in order to be printed. Th-j Senate then proceeded to make a permanent election, of officers for the present session; which resulted in the choice of those heretofoie elected pro tempore, without opposition, except in the case of Door-keeper and Sergeaut-at-arms--Mr nkeny receiving 17 votes, and Mr Cool 15, on the second balloting. HOUSE.

Petitions presented--By Mr Ihrig; from sundry citizens of Ohio, praying for a more equitable distribution of the School fund--referred to the committee heretofore appointed on the same subject. By Mr Hubbard; from certain inhabitants of Lorain county, recommending the culture of Silk to the consideration of the al Assembly--referred to the committee on Agriculture. Bill reported and read the first time-- ByMrKeiley; a bill accepting this State's proportion of the surplus revenue of the United States. bill authorizes the Treasurer of State to receive our share of the surplus revenue on the terms specified in the act of congress to regulate the deposits of the public money; and to execute certificates of depositor all moneys so received in such form as may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury. On motion of Mr M'Nutt, it was Resolved, That the standing committee on the Judiciary be instructed to inquire into the expediency of so amending ''An act to regulate th-i pruciice of the i cial Courts," as to authorize either party to a suit at law, arising out cf a contiact, to examine the opposite party, unJer oath, in open Court, touching the matters in controversy; with leave to report iherc- on by bill or otherwise.

The House proceeded to the election of a Speaker, to serve during the present session; the result of which was announced as follows: For William Medill, 61 Blanks. 10 Whereupon, Col. WILLIAM MEDILL, of Fairfield county, having received a majority of all the votes, was declared duly elected; and resuming the chair, he returned thanks to the House for this renewed expression of their confidence, and ''osureu them that he would use his best endeavors to deserve it. The House next proceeded to ballot for a Clerk, to serve during the present session; which resulted as follows For George H. Flood, 41 fill the vacancy of the Hon.

Thomas Ewing; which, on motion of Mr Patiersoc, was laid on the table. At half past three o'clock, P. the Senate, a to resolution, proceeded to the hai! of the house of representatives, in order to witnoss the inauguration of JOSLPH VANCE, the Governor elect; and, upon returning to their seats, adjourned. HOUSE. Bill reported and read the first time--By 3Ir Hubbard: A bill to lay cut and establish a State road in the counties of Lorain and Huron.

Mr London moved that the house resume tho Consideration providing for the election, on next Saturday aftenoon, of a Senator in Congress in the placo of the IIOD. Thomas Kwmg, when upon a call of the house, on the motion of Mr Kelley, it appeared that four member? absent, three of whom in consequence of indisposition. Mr Atkinson moved to amend the resolution, by striking out the word-j ''Saturday fie 17lh inst," and inserting the "the second Saturday in January next; 11 which was agreed to without a division. On motion of Mr Van Hook, a message- was sent to the Senate, informing them that the of tiiid house was re'idy for their reception, to witness the inauguration of the Governor elect: whereupon that body, preceded by officers, appeared i i the bar, and took their seats on the right side of the hall. Gen.

JOSEPH VANCE, the Governor elect, accompanied by Governor LUCAS, the Judges of the Supreme Court, the Officers of State, and the joint committee of the Assembly, then appeared i i tb.6 bar, and was conducted to the Speaker's chair, whence he delivered the following INAUGURAL ADBSESS. Gentlemen of the Senate, and of the House of Representatives; In appearing before you to take the oath of office, custom has made it necessary that I should make to our common constituents, in presence, a declaration of what is to be my course of policy in the discharge Scattering and blanks, iJO one. The interests of Education, the Common School System, we hope known, but were alleged to origi- will be liberally provided for in the instance, then works of Internal Improvement, c. Northwestern Indians. Information has been received (says the Detroit Free Press) at the office of Indian Affairs in this city, that preparations are making for a renevyal of hostilities between the Sioux and the Chippewas of the Upper Mississippi.

The pillagers, a warlike band of the latter tribe, are incensed at the fail- We un- IhaUhe schooner Jefferson, i i i i i O1) the a i of the authorities at the post of which wenUo their relief, 1 General Wall, whose conduct du- St. Peter's to punish the murderers aground i the violent snowstorm of yesterday. The schooner a but instead smoking her a a i i a table-cloth, her arms re loaded books and pic- lures. We now expected that Alonzo would seriously chide--but he "gain glanced at us most triumphantly, and whispered, 'See uhal it is to have an intellectual were now compelled to exam- lance below the ice a short dis- the Clarion, Dec. 1 Enlightened Alexandria Gazette states it as an uncon- troverlable fact, that shme respectable citizens of Loudon county, Virginia, owners of the soil, and not a hundred miles from Middleburg, did not know on which day the Presidential election was to take place, and ine a dozen volumes and listen to the were astonished when they heard remarks of the enlightened Maria, jthat it had "come and gone." They The sun had declined very near must be bright fellows about that naked tree on the western hill i part of the Old Dominion, to sleep sore the subject of dinner was again through the tug and tur- nientioned--when Alonlo seemed to moil of a Presidential election.

If i a a i from a trance, and rather the spirit of Patrick Henry is de- peuishty requested that dinner might 1 parted, and his voice is no longer be immediately brought in. jheard careering in the whirlwind ring his sojourn had dent. not been pru- Touching the non fulfilment of of some of their people, after they had been delivered up by the Sioux. uelle Plat, the chief of the pillagers, the 9th article respecting prisoners, I has returned from a political mission the Prasident declares that he has 'to La Pointe, with a supply ofam- no official knowledge of the dis- munition.and has sent messages, with charge of a single Texian prisoner, immediately brought in. heard careering in ihe whirlwind Alamo, naa wien uu The harsh tone of his voice land guiding the storm for liberty in destroyed, both of which acts were under the Treaty, although some of the survivors of Tanning's command had managed to whereas the Texian government had released several Mexican captives and paid their expenses to 7 ew Orleans, where they wished to go.

Of the admission on the part of the Texian cabinet that Santa Anna had performed his part of the conditions, the President says that so far from having done so, cattle had been driven off by the retreating army, and brass pieces of artillery found at the Alamo, had been melted down and tobacco, to a number of the surrounding directing them to furnish volunteers for a large war party. By the advice of a teacher located at Leech Lake, one of the chiefs consented that their plan should be communicated to the officers of the Indian Department at Detroit and St. Peter's. GEORGU II. FLOOD, having received a majority ot all the votes given, he was declared elected; and having taken the necessary oath, he proceeded to the discharge of the duties oi'his office.

The House also proceeded, in like manner, to the election of a Door-keeper and Sergeant-at-arms, to serve during the session, and seven ballotings having been t.ikcii without efleoting an election, the House, on motion of Bigger, adjourned until Monday morning--yeas 41, nays 31. SENATE--Monday, Dec. 12. Mr McLaughlni.from the btanding committee on the suoject, reported a bill to accept of the deposits of the surplus revenue; which was read the first time. The Speaker announced Messrs Smith, iStarkweather.and Spangler, as members of the joint committee on the part of the Senate to regulate the times of i the i i a courts.

Mr King offered the following resolution, i was agreed to on the part of the Senate: Resolved by the Senate and House of Rcprescnlativi-s, That a committee of two members on the part of Senate, and members on the part of the House, be appointed to wait upon JOSEPH VANOE, Eaq. and inform him of his election to the office of Governor of this State; and ascertain at what time it will be his pleasure to appear in the hall of the HoUbe of Representatives, to t.i.ie Ihe oath of office. On motion of Mr Owen, so much of the unfinished business of last session as relates to the new county of Ottoway, was taken up and referred to the standing committee on New Counties. HOUSE. Petition presented--By Mr sundry citizens of the counties of Huron and Loram, praying for the location of a State road from Vcrmillion, in the county of to Brighton, in Lorain county--referred to Mr liuqbard.

Dec. 13. Petitions presided-- in and Campbell; from citizciid of Richland, Huron, Seneca, and Crawford counties, for the erection of a new county, 'Jio teat ofjustice at Paris--referred to the committee on New Counties. By sbrs Owen, and Campbell; from citizens of Seneca, and Huron counties, for the erection of the new county oflvcnton --referred to the above committee. By Mr Owen; from inhabitants of the peninsula of Huron county, to be annexed to the proposed new county of Ottoway.

By Mr. letter received at the Express Office fioin Natchez, stales that Mr of the U. S. Senate, had fallen from the second story of a Hotel, and broken his leg and thigh, fears were entertained for his Mr Campbell; from citizens of Sandusky city, for the erection of the new county of Erie--referred the committee on New Counties. The resolution, for the appointment of a joint committee to wait upon Gen.

VA.NCE, the Governor elect, as amended by the House, was up and agreed and Mes. King, and appointed to the committee on the part of the Senate. A resolution was received from the house, designating the Saturday ot January next, as the day set apart for the election of a United States' Senator, to of the various duties confided to my care by the Constitution and the Laws of our State. By our Constitution, the duties of the Executive are plainly set forth. Fortunately for the political tran- quillity of our people, his power is confined within narrow limits.

He has no patronage to draw around him a crowd of hungry expectants, ministering to his vanity, and a i his patriotism. The framers of our Constitution have wisely guarded a- this; and those of them that have lived to witness the beneficial effects of this restriction on Executive power, and to compare our peaceable contests in the election of ihis officer, i the violent and bitter conflicts in pome of our sister States, have reason to be proud of having had an agency in i i to the State an i of such inestimable value. And yet, i all the a salutary restrictions contained in this instrument, it has still conferred upon the Executive a power of fearful responsibility---a power that authorizes him to step between the law and its victim, setting at defiance the verdicts of your i and the decisions of your Uourts. Gentlemen, the very tho't of exercising this power causes me almost to shrink back, and withdraw from the station I am about to assume. I know my own weakness, and fear that! shall lack that nerve and energy that i enable me to resist the strong supplications that will be made in favor of the culprit.

The security of property, and the peace of society, rest upon the inflexibility and sternness of your Executive officer, and in the certainty that the penalties of the hw will be enforced and carried into execution. It is alone in the certainty that pun- ishmeiu will follow conviction, that you can hope to restrain the vicious, and arrest crime; and all interposition of Executive clemency, not warranted by a stern regard to the principles ofjustice, loosens these restraints, and gives encouragement to the evil passions and propensities of the profligate and the i is a subject of grave import; it comes in conflict i the opinions of a large and meritorious class of our fellow citizens; and it is not my purpose to call in question the truth of these opinions: It is sufficient for me to say, that the policy of the law is different; and that they, in common with the other citizens of the State, have a deep interest in faithful execution. I will only add, that, i all the reflection I have been able to bestow on this subject, I have come to the conclusion that the case must be strong indeed, that can justify the Executive in interposing bis and thus virtually take the administration ofjustice into his own hands. In my general course of administration, I will follow in the path of my predecessors. All must agret iH i i 1.