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The tax levied for 1831, for State and Canal purposes, is the same as for 1830; and it is estimated that there will be paid into the Treasury, from the 15th of November last, to the 1st of March, ensuing, the additional sum of about $220,000, which will be amply sufficient to defray all the expenses of the Government for the ensuing year.

The amount of the foreign debt contracted on account of the Canals, is, $4,400,000.

The interest payable annually on that sum, to foreign stockholders, is $260,

000.

The amount borrowed from the different School Funds, and transferred to the Canal Fund, up to the 15th November, 1831. is $257,128.

The annual interest on the last named amount, is $15,428, payable to our own citizens for the support of schools. Making the whole Canal debt of the State $4,657,128; and the annual interest payable thereon $275,428.

The amount received into the Treasury from the sale of lands granted by Congress to the State of Ohio, for Canal purposes, during the year ending the 15th November last, was $55,009.

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which, after deducting the expenses of collection, leaves $94,619 net profit to the State.

The navigation of the Erie and Ohio Canal was opened in 1831, as far south as Chillicothe, a distance of 250 miles. This, with the Miami canal, and the navigable feeders connected with the main line, make an amount of finished canal, now navigable, of about 344 miles. It is stated by the Acting Commissioners that the portion of the Ohio Canal between Chillicothe and Portsmouth, a distance of 50 miles, together with the Granville feeder, miles, already in a very advanced state, will be completed in July, when Ohio will have, of navigable canals 400 miles; and which require to complete them a further expenditure of $320,504.

LEGISLATION. At the legislative session commenced December 6th, 1831, were passed twenty public acts. Among them were an act providing for taking census of the white male inhabitants of the State over the age of twentyone years.

An act authorizing the sale of the lands granted by Congress to aid the State in constructing and extending the Miami canal.

An act requiring the state auditor to apportion annually among the several counties for repairing and making roads and bridges, the amount of the 3 per cent fund, granted by the United States from the proceeds of the public lands for that purpose.

An act regulating the inspection of fish. An act for perpetuating testimony relating to lands. County surveyors are authorized to take depositions of witnesses for the establishment of surveyed corners of lands.

An act relating to nuisances by which owners, &c, of slaughter houses are rendered liable to a penalty of from $5 to $50 for permitting them to remain unclean any time between the 1st of April and the 1st of October. Owners of soap, candle, oil, glue, and varnish factories are made liable to a fine of from $10 to

$40 for allowing them to remain unclean to a greater extent than is necessary in the prosecution of their business. Persons are prohibited from putting dead animals in water courses, roads, fields, &c. The penalties to be paid into the town treasury.

An act providing for the erection of a new penitentiary, near Columbus or Franklinton. Besides these, numerous private acts were passed, and among thei acts by which 27 churches were incorporated, 17 state roads, 15 divorces authorized, 12 rail road companies, 10 turnpike companies, 12 bridge companies, 10 libraries incorporated, 10 towns incorporated, 5 academies incorporated, and 16 acts of incorporation for manufacturing, scientific and other purposes.

GREAT FLOOD. - Upon the breaking up of the ice in the Ohio about the middle of February, 1832, the river rose to an unparalleled height.

The following accounts are from divers Western papers. A Pittsburgh newspaper of February 14th, says:

'On Friday last Pittsburgh, Alleghany town, and the lowlands bordering the rivers, were visited by the horrors and devastations of the greatest flood that ever occurred since the erection of Fort Du Quesne by the French. It would be in vain to give the particulars of the loss sustained by our fellow citizens -- to describe the perilous escapes from the raging element or the alarm that pervaded the city at the prospect of a general inundation.

'On Thursday evening last in consequence of the immense rains that had fallen and the rapid thaw, the river rose to an unusual height many houses adjacent to the rivers became untenable. During the night, many families were awakened by the flood pouring into their dwellings, and many effected their escape at the risk of their lives. The shrieks and cries of the women and children could be heard throughout the night. On Friday the rivers arose with astonishing rapidity and deluged parts of the city with such celerity that the inmates of dwellings were obliged to fly for personal safety without stopping to save their moveables.

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to Union street and generally north of Liberty. The water ascended Wood

street to the middle of Second -- the corner of Diamond and Jail alleys, and the corner of Market and Liberty street.'

The Cincinnati Daily Advertiser states, that on the 10th of February, the Ohio had risen within five feet of extreme high water. It continued rising, sometimes an inch, and at others half an inch per hour, until the night of Friday, the 17th inst. when it came to a stand, and on Saturday morning at seven o'clock, began to recede, from which time, up to Tuesday at seven o'clock, 72 hours, it has fallen but little more than three feet. It afterwards fell faster, and on Wednesday morning it had left Maine street, with the exception of the intersection of Second street; and the warehouses and stores on Front, from Walnut to the Old Miami Bank, were re-opened and occupied by their proprietors.

On the 15th, 16th and 17th, before the water had reached its height, many frame dwellings, probably not less than fifty, (many estimate a much larger number,) and other buildings, below Elm street, upset, and not a few of them floated away. From Mill Creek to Deer Creek, a distance of nearly two miles, and from the river up to Lower Market and Pearl streets, was one continued sheet of water, excepting only where the walls of the buildings hid it from the sight, varying in depth from one foot to five and twenty feet and upwards, which from Tuesday the 14th to Tuesday the 21st, was covered with boats, arks and rafts of every description, from the huge flat boat of 1000 barrels burden, down to the light Indian bark canoe with its single navigator, with his single paddle, wending his way along the streets to note the progress of the flood.

When the site of Fort Washington, which stood where the Bazaar now stands, was fixed, the Indians were called upon to show high water mark, and they pointed out a tree which grew on the bank, near, or on the spot where the pump now is, in Lower Market street, as one to which tradition informed them their ancestors had tied their canoes. There has been much cutting down of the bank and filling up of the ravine since that period, notwithstanding which, the water flowed within six feet of the designated spot, and two or three inches more rise would have brought it to the place.

A gentleman of unquestionable veracity informs us, that in one hundred miles distance, above the mouth of the Cum

berland, he counted sixtynine_houses afloat on the Ohio in a single day, between sunrise and sunset. Lawrenceburg, only about twenty miles below us, we are informed, was so completely inundated that not a family was left in the place, all having fled to the high ground in the neighborhood, and in that distressed situation, compelled to abide the pelting of the pitiless storm,' and endure the severe cold which followed it.

We learn from good authority, that the late rise exceeded that of 1793 by three feet six inches, and that of 1813 by five feet ten inches.

LEGISLATION. At the second session of the legislature in June, 1832,

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four public acts only were passed, acts apportioning the representation in the General Assembly and dividing the State into Congressional districts.

An act was passed for the preservation of the Cumberland road; authoriz ing toll gates to be placed every ten miles; prescribing the rate of toll, which is to be paid into the treasury; authorizing the Governor to borrow money to repair the road, and exempting from toll, mail coaches, troops, arms and stores of the United States, or of any State, children passing to or from school, persons going to or from public worship, funerals

or musters.

INDIANA.

Congressional, Sep- Expenses of Judiciary, Miscellaneous,

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First, district. Ratcliff Boon, 11,281; John Law, 10,905.-Second district. John Carr, 4,855; William W. Wick, 4,610; James B. Ray, 1,732; Jonathan Jennings, 1,681; John H. Thompson, 1,486; Isaac Howk, 454. Third district. Jonathan McCarty, 6,243; Oliver H. Smith, 5,289; John Test, 3,107. December, 1831. Gen. John Tipton was elected a Senator of the United States, in place of Mr Noble, deceased, on the 7th ballot. For Gen. Tipton 55, Jesse L. Holman 36, several others 14.

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INTERNAL IMPROVEMENT. An act was passed at the legislative session of 1832 to sell and apply the proceeds of the lands granted by Congress to the State to construct a canal between Lake Erie and the Wabash. Commissioners were appointed to borrow money on the credit of the State and to commence the work.

Eight joint stock companies with an aggregate capital of $4,000,000 were incorporated to construct rail roads from the Ohio to Indianapolis and to different places on the Wabash.

An act was also passed confirming an act of the legislature of Kentucky, incorporating a company with a capital of $500,000, to build a bridge across the Ohio at Louisville.

Strict provisions are made for securing the navigation of the Ohio for boats of all descriptions.

ILLINOIS.

INDIAN WAR. In the former part of this volume, page 10, a succinct account will be found of the origin of the hostilities which disturbed this State during the year 1832.

In the month of March. Black Hawk, at the head of a band of Sacs and Foxes, crossed the Mississippi, over which he had been removed in 1831 and joining the Winnebagoes under the prophet, in all about 1000 strong, commenced an

indiscriminate attack upon the frontier settlers. Fifteen persons, men, women and children, were surprised and murdered at a settlement on Indian Creek (a tributary of Fox river) on the 20th April. Two young women were suffered to live, but were carried off into Indian captivity. A small party of seven or eight men, led by Mr St Vrain, the agent for the Sacs and Foxes, in endeavoring to make their way to the Head Quarters of the

army, were suddenly attacked by a much superior number of Indians. Two of the party were killed.

The militia were at once called upon to defend the settlers, and on the 14th of May a detachment of two hundred and seventyfive mounted volunteers, under the command of major Stillman, were attacked and overpowered on Sycamore creek, about thirty miles from Dixon's ferry. The party met a small party of Indians, two of whom they killed, and took two prisoners, and, in pursuing the remainder, were led into an ambuscade; the detachment being fired upon by a large body of Indians, were forced to fly, and with difficulty effected their retreat, with the loss of about thirteen killed and as may wounded. The governor of Illinois then called out two thousand militia, to meet at Hinepin, on the Illinois river, on the 10th June, to be headed by himself.

General Atkinson, with the United States troops in that quarter, immediately proceeded to the scene of hostilities. And General Scott, with a number of troops from the sea board, was ordered to take upon himself the direction of the

war.

The cholera attacked these troops on their route, and prevented thir taking part in the campaign. Those under command of General Atkinson, and the mi litia who were free from disease, marched in pursuit of the savages, and on the evening of the 21st of July, General Henry, with his Brigade, accompanied by General Dodge, and a battalion of Michigan volunteers, which had been detached by General Atkinson, in pursuit of the Sacs and Foxes, under Black Hawk, succeeded in coming up with him, on the bank of the Quisconsin, and immediately made an attack upon the Indians, which resulted in their de feat, with a loss of sixtyeight men killed, on the part of the enemy. The loss of the Americans was trifling amounting to one man killed, and eight wounded. Night coming on, and the troops being exceedingly fatigued, having marched forty miles that day, no pursuit could be attempted. Black Hawk passed over to an island in the Ouisconsin, to which place he had sent his women. Generals Henry and Dodge remained on the ground the succeeding day and night, and part of the next day, being unable to renew the attack, in consequence of the entire absence of boats and canoes, or the means

of constructing rafts to cross to the island. Generals Henry and Dodge marched to the Blue Mounds, on the evening of the 23d, for a supply of provisions, where they were joined by General Atkinson, with the regular troops and part of Alexander's brigade. After being supplied with provisions, the pursuit was renewed, and on the 2d of August, the savages were overtaken on the banks of the Mississippi, and entirely dispersed, with the loss of one hundred and fifty killed. The friendly Indians were sent in pursuit, and on the 27th of August, they succeeded in capturing and delivering Black Hawk, and the Prophet, into the hands of the American General. After their capture, treaty was made with the Sacs and Foxes on the 21st of September.

By this compact, the United States acquire about 6,000,000 acres, of a quality not inferior to any between the same parallels of latitude. It is known to abound in led ore, and the Indians say in other ores.

For the tracts ceded, the United States agree to pay an annuity of twenty thousand dollars for thirty years, to support a black-smith and gun-smith in addition to those now employed, to pay the debts of the tribes, to supply provis ions, and as a reward for the fidelity of Ke-o-kuk and the friendly band, to allow a reservation to be made for them of four hundred miles square on the loway river, to include Ke-o-kuk's principal village.

Black Hawk and his two sons, the Prophet, Napope and five others, principal warriors of the hostile bands, are to be retained as hostages, during the pleasure of the President. All the other prisoners were delivered up to the friendly Sacs and Foxes.

A treaty was also concluded with the Winnebagoes, for an exchange of lands, and the removal of that part of the tribe which resided south of the Ouisconsin, and east of the Mississippi. The tract ceded by this tribe contains about 4, 600,000 acres, and is represented to be of excellent soil, well watered, and abounding in inducements for agriculturists to purchase and cultivate.

Black Hawk and his fellow prisoners were brought to Washington, and after having been carried through some of the larger cities, to give them a proper conception of the power of the United States, they were dismissed and sent back to their tribes.

MISSOURI.

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FATAL DUEL-From the Missouri Re publican of Aug. 30, 1831.-The personal controversy which was carried on for some time previous to the election, in the other papers in this city, between Major Biddle and Mr Spencer Pettis, has had a most melancholy termination. challenge passed from Mr Pettis to Major Biddle on Thursday last: it was accepted, and the gentlemen met on the sand bar opposite this city on Friday afternoon. Major Biddle being nearsighted, he, as the challenged party, stipulated five feet as the distance at which they were to fight. On the first fire, both gentlemen were mortally wounded. Major Biddle was shot through the abdomen, the ball lodging within. Mr Pettis was shot through the side, just below the chest, the ball passing entirely through the body. Mr Pettis survived until Saturday afternoon. Major Biddle died yesterday morning. Both parties are said to have conducted with remarkable coolness upon the occasion; and supposing the wounds to be mortal, they exchanged forgiveness upon the ground.

[Maj. Biddle was a pay master in the

army, and brother to Mr Biddle, president of the bank of the United States, and Com. Biddle, of the navy. Mr Pettis was the member-elect to Congress from Missouri. The parties had long been in a state of bitter contention, and not long since, Major Biddle inflicted a severe personal chastisement on Mr Pettis, for which the latter was tendered 'satisfaction.' Major Biddle was a mar. ried man, but had no children — Mr Pettis was unmarried. Both seemed to believe that the duel would have the fatal termination that ensued.] ELECTION. For - August, 1832. Governor, except Crawford County: Daniel Dunklin 9,121; Bull 8035; scattering 700. Congress - Ashley 9498; Wells 8836; scattering 273.

By the auditors' report of December 15, 1832, it appears that the value of lands and town lots as assessed for taxation in 1832, was $7,424,279, of which the city and county of St Louis held $2,716,664. The value of personal property liable to taxation, including slaves, $8,363,480. The revenue of the State from taxes and licenses for 1832, was $62,313.

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