• si golmleartlloommisq,l riandimv.firdwrArtglistininirgg olvff r Alrm t;c.,„ 109 a ulk " t.(111 L , OE COPP OD YEAR, !la ADV8111:1E, . , $1 00 11410/441D'PAIPHIN"Pfilthid ,113 }1!60 t o t tigT RAID 1511T1111.141ND - MORiljt3., , 411. LF NOT PAID vanlN TWELVi MONTHS. 800 rporghe above terms aro at liberal at these of any othor pi:Tr trtu:?titate, O r r x acted. flodisoontina ' anoe botlloWerl unlit all afro araitor havs vita paid. t ; tY 0 Witt' L Oli PtiSTMAS:TERS. t ' i bt'jt l Pittet e l o dimi t er , itlAftWie3trkl'Letitatioigil AU' Ong bi tire irsurgeisireiringorvt'O I h ieti.• or to' titHo loarclublo;eirto;flPd)llrlllPt!t'l 9 0 1 PIP?! 5' R l 'lo P . pritripper affll't 1 , 04100 pr mall h#lgalipnt t 43oultt, fri 4 6' 7."PkinhYAN4 phOltri'lB3 TO 4791 1..11 I 91 ti A,II6rfER TIP*,E/ITCF,'Y'Piq°nY,--:2.0•1, e AV liingtit, . in ether , year ‘1700; It roops . be. gat i ite,tirrivo. , frorin the Boat by way of pddford: and leumborland, and to concen-' mite ent Fort Pittieds a general rendezvous and &pat forritilitaiy stores Jut& muni tions oflwart: rirepdratory to an..invadion of the Indian country west of the Ohio. It va ot-lhis.tirno that, the town of, Pittsburg began to assunio,,ea ilogreo„ef importance, burotofore nnknOWn. , ,, It I)MP - rig the gen oralistore-housefor aft ; the Western posts; aut l,tho groat, Ilepet,for the Western army, It was also,; the point ear which, military . supplies.; wore ,roeured, and where the principal disbursements of public moneys woo Matlefor I the use of tho army, as well as:the diatribution of annuities rind sppplics ' fon Ow lfrlendly, Indian tribes. . , • , e.e1,011791,, the Allegheny river was ,the timntn,,frontier limits of the Pennsylyzi, pi= settlements, and, rill its' northwcsiern tributaries, worn wholly . within the Indian co uttry,., A few settlements had , been madeencar the river for, forty miles above Pittsburg by the moro fearless and incon sidoraPe. , ; But they paid with their lives ttliftlfeit of their temerity. The whole 0 0 ese se.ftlements were broken up about the,Oth of February, 1791, soon after the (111 1 b re a k Pi the Indian war. On that day the prittlernonts , were simultaneously at , inked ,and exterminated by ono hundred andtity warriors, distributed in bands asee gigged, for •the ravaging of the respective ueighborhoods. The settlements in this quarter Were entirely broken up; some were killed, some were taken prisoners, and others escaped with their lives. ~Notwithstanding all the , difficulties en coanteAc.,i in thp West, in 1792, the settle ments.:in the Youth and Monongahela, comprised in the Western portions of Penn. aylvanin.Prid Virginia, had become pros. i perous and enterprising. They had ex. tended arts,and manufactpres, :and were - rapidly increasing in numbers. The man : grooming of iron had become extensive; ' eineiting,furnaces, forges, and foundries glisted. in ,every improved settlement, and 4ae,hills yeilded abundance of ore. Agri caltitie had increased, until scarcity and vont liad been driven from the i settlents, gaLlAmagnificent' Ohio formed a outlet ...fRr their surplus products of all kinds to tligt,new, settlements, which wore rapidly ' ' d' elten mg into Kentucky and the North -1,• western, Territories. Such was the alien ; ilpcq Of the agricultural products'and of aomulactures, that the now settlements on the lower tributaries of the Ohio failed to afford an adequate market, and the morc , entffprising extended their trading voyagei , to; the .rich settlements of Spain on the loprer,AliSsisSippi. Thus a cominerce,which had spruno . up in 1786 in five years had tigenan important item in the prosperity of Western' PermsYlvanie. To diminish the, proportionate cost of' transportation for corn, rye, and other grains and products, these articles were converted into whiskey, which could be sent to all parts of the world through the great avenue of the Ohio and Mississippi. Thus the value of thous- ands of bushels of these grains were con . tained in the small bulk of a few barrels of whiskey, and an equal quantity was }withdrawn from the grain market. The tnne of their favorite drink "old Monon gohela," extended not only to the whole of filo Western settlements, but'also to New '. Prleari p _ the Atlantic States, and to Eu rope:;;Horses, cattle, and blooded stock fp the Atlantic seaboard had been intro. tpced upoh the Monongahela, and had al-, tip i iliecorne an important item of Western', !fe for the simply of the new settlements 'war down on the Ohio,' the North- 1 weSteia Territory', and those in Louisiana.' i Ilydr4Eistirg:3',or, all ,descriptions, cutlery, "every VarieW,' adapted to the • usO' of pm Settlerii nte; such as ates,' hoes, d raw i 10g4iirei,, car'penter's tools: knives and iirks, p scytho-blade.4, reat#ll4;liooks, and • ilietilLp," weremade' in _pleat 'abundance V tile siipplYpf the extending s ettlements f Ni t 'vOtiiirk, on thebhio k assumed an fin= tifinpo littieite' iinknoWn.' Besides',4l6 LOss :,ifiriety'' of small ''c ra ft, and' :il)' ("19 1 1iik, ot "K l 'eritticky flats," ritirnarous ; P., 14Ittke91,beats, barges,and Some sea vado3','werl carrying the produce of this Kextprilciitprqq,'pertion of the Ohio 'coun; Di nild'in retuoixlfrOin Loujstand, supply:. And the cbri,'Lhiefeial Posta with, the products .?' i r i t,T Wetsilinclids'4iid tbd eels or Moe n() Olib Wr,t,,y 61 New OrfeenS. L '" '-. ' ' win,in did yea r 1702, that tho Spanish trig i, ell •, ;e . f o al ofdleS began to f nalottritis'a this trado lily' he iinipsitiOnloit a'nsit'a'nd putt &hid.% Ihich" greatly feddde,Cl'6o,lproftid„,', ali,d 'vollllloo' ieStiltOd *Oho ' entir!i l ies's tit . 440" tend 'o6o:lbk 6unfi.seutihti'' ThO ',' i , , esterii nOtilla, 'eondkdobLi'' that' the • tree ',, v i igatieti 'Of pd'MildsisAnfi,winald greatly , pieta Aeic:itidieiierii,t iid' 'Otte nd,,.1 1 “) . e4t theli'dnt&titiso; !lila' tiallily Waled ,f i i t: ii I I -' . 6 . ,I 6 r , , , . , ''' the e thi Upir try), ht M. rohortrov • ii... 4 't, .;it , . ~, 11 .:. • ~.,.) L 1 i I ,ptt 3 Iftpii a a tl i te r tniiitary exa ,- 1 ? ps; dr a 06 orie;; ov i iii 66;(:, (o'4 1. • ei'peCied'' fin ', 'e VedO'rdt. Gove'rii= • , nt," thr o u gh' ) 1. , 1, tiV ,S' ' , iv, its 1 0 . ~ !11Y;:iii,..ei 443 4 -1 0Vcik! f :.,rh ' i lig . t . e, . 0 6 ' 1 , 4 ec`l.tici asp of IA thby'`elaintop as , , eir e lp,r4 ~gh, .v,i,,0 iSicf ?f i r' , i7!,7. t i k Y it ~- %Winn - dnd 'bcoutiarkie. ~n 4 ~. - '':. , i ' „ 'Peck, cheir conditioisitiuldokiirchiTvittrt (.: • ) ) ti .i'ff) . , i''''''i ,„ii ; ' . . ‘....' ' . I. . " '.. ''','-.'; '''':'''''' I . ' ..' ' '. - . I', '' !7 :.'• ..,' ', i ' 1 :iC i l :-.•. .., . .1, ~ ", • ..,' , ' , ,;; , . ~,..r• ; , . . ~, ... ~.,.,...,,... ....IL •.'''.' • I .'. . ! f...! . • .1 • : 0,1)101.; ...0 ,1 4 1,. .. r' 0 :. ' •r, t .;f".. f" . ':,....^.' ',PI i ...:, ' . . • - ' a ~ , -.. 'H • , 1 '-- i • , :, r , '', . .1... t. N . , . . .. , . , -1!:,' ', f ~' ', t!'.',• , , '.,' ~'::),'l , q i)l,', 1 ,, I ' ' ~ . , . ' . . ~ f :. ' . , .ii: 1 ..:,',. : ~f.- 1 1 , -.1. : •• ...' • - ---__ 1 1 r ~,A WEEICIN:PAITA: ,DEirtiTED-TO AND FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC INTELLIGENC. I VOtitt flue 'ld seitleritente tipon the:gretieseutherti trihu) : taries or thti:oilits•.• • • • r: • .• ~• &al 111:13 3 'tlio premoters of:Eastern,itiftG •ence.in reengrciss . ;.nnd in. the Cabinet'of •thelJnite&States . , Wee strong, andiswayed • 'the national policy :ns to' measures affect , ' •ing the Western` people, and these -meas. urns 'operated': the no less perniciously upon them than if it had•heen prompted by,nn, interested jecklopsy jn.tlo Atlantic Steles. • I.lle Spanish authorities of Louis ; . Tana had been permitted for years.to ob struct and embarrass the river trade, which fell heavy,upon the people of West.i ern Pennsylvania, as well as,upon those of. Kentucky. and .Ctnbcrland, while the commerce of the , Atlantic ports was favor ed with a more liberal' policy; and, as 11 to increase their burdens, Congress, in X 790, had passed a 'my. imposing excise duties upon all spiritous liquors distilled in the United , Btutes i when it was well known, that the most extensive and most import , ant distilleries were those on the waters of the' Monongahela, where the, surplus grain 'was worthless 'unless it could be converted into whiskey and other distilled spirits. Beside these disadvantages, the whole burden of the Indian war, which had been improvidently planned and injudiciously conducted, for more than three years, had fallen chiefly upon the Western settle ments. 'While these things were opera. ting to weaken the ties which bound the WeStern people to those of the East of the mountains, the Spanish authorities of Lou. isiana sagaciously perceiving the error of I the Federal government, lost no opportii- I nity to augment the embarrassments and stimulate the discoetent,while they held in prospect ultimate relief from the Spanish I crown, by 'a separation frOm the Federal Union, and an alliance with Louisana.--; Congress beheld the cloud in the West ; ' the loud murmurs from the commercial classes, the open denunciations from the exposed frontiers, the spirit of insurrection in the grain districts against what they conceived the iniquitous excise, convinced the Federal government ' that they were daily loosing the confidence of the West lern people, and absolving them from their allegiance. The Indian war , ha'd been waged with I but little success for some time, and at great expense to tho General Govern ment. 'lhe war was for the protection of, the Western people especially, and more'. particularly for those of Western Pennsyl vania and •Virginia. These ,petiplo were the principal sufferers from the Indian barbarities and outrages. They, too, were called on chiefly to fill , the ranks of the armies which had been sent against the savages, until they began loudly to com plain of the - burdens which were thrown upon them, while the East reaped the ad vantages of their labors. The Western people, although ardent friends of the, Federal Union, could not submit to oppres sion, by an unjust exercise of Federal power, and tho attempt to enforce it roused `them to resistance. The impost upon whiskey, distilled from grain in a country where grain was a surplus article, was tantamount to a tax upon grain itself, and operated oppressive ly upon the West. In the Eastern coun ties and Atlantic States grain was not a surplus product ; of course, but little of it I could be distilled into spirits; consequently,l the tax fell entirely upon the- Western, people, who were otherwise embarrassed in their commerce. The enforcement of the law for collecting the revenue was con sidered as indicative of a disposition in the Federal Government to usurp the powers of the States towards the formation of a consolidated government, whose controll joy, power should be east of the moun tains. , . The Western people hatl i bectune preju diced . •against. , the Federal Government. net only because. the,frontier settlemeots had been for years exposed to Indian:hos,- tilitios, almost unprotected by the "natiopal power from .1787 to 179 Q, but Vice nse the protection extended subsequently: had been inefeenials, and had resulted ,in two die graceful defeats, with the loss,. of.'many 1 jiAro and ::greatWipeiltifbi N"ithOUt 'Ally equivalent advantage, .chiefly for want Kif l i ft - liberal. appropation :by. ,congroM 4 77 - 1 • Anotber, eatiso ;of/ discontent, closely e9l l - • .nected -with, Indian ,depredations, was .ihe 1 temporising , policTof the Federal Govera- Bient with, the eourt of . St. "fatties, in per r !flitting the ,continued . oceupancy of ;4 Y,PPI.te IP. I.pbrts fou,t,mnre.,ttlan ten : years after the time stipulated for their leaving, agreeably to tha treaty:of : Up& The whole iiidian war had, been ,the rpoft of. intrigue betweep: agents apkenaprparies ro9n tip 134ilat,posts ; OlCoOtt, the , C, o tin,atla ,frontier, 'whose avowed' , object, was, le, Oecli. tie advance population , of ,pnlation, northwest to., the '.'..-'' • ' • ' '- ' „ "' ~ '.. . '''-'linother' O . :mainAi e4isd'Of, diisatidfae - 7 liiiri'lti:Vite4torn, .110;ndeylvania:;,‘Os 'WO hillidciid'iicilleY' dr the lacOiJ6.l . 'govOn'44it in submitting,to. Spripleti . ',Ve i ttiNti'et l 'l?t, ‘ l ll6, Ili§)'iiiiii; the:intent 'Oli.-whiCh Was , to Wialbki i liiii 'thik Wesern Obpie: - tNTOt' 4V iitiii' icitiiiiiad i the o ialusivii ' '4410- Oti l ii 4 iit e'ltiY,siAiiiiii ', O iiv`eii l `tblit ihti, flel4 liiiiii.Vd.4id.ii'dilti 6 thitin' t r nlitt3'6fitlialilt; tib l ittilatiliiiii ( thd ChieltriiiiiVPllltiO,neq .: ly five hundred miles by the riveiiutibol4 ~ ,~' ~L~ d' • k : ,H lea Po., September 30, .t/552. tho'botiiidtirY . established by the treaty of 1 1 783; • .To enceurage ,the dissatisfactiOn!of the. Western people, op, this point, French em issaries, under thentithority,of the French niliiister, Genet, weir) sent tiiihe l West to ferment discord, and to instigate a hostile expedition against the Spanish province under the patronage. and authority of the Drenchßepulilie l , which promised to open to them the free navigation of the Missis sippi river, Win once under the dominion ofFrance. Secret societies, under French influence, were org ized in many parts. of the country;' 'with,th .airowed object of! opposing the general measures of The , Federal administration in the West,- 1 Their reeolutions orient .denounced the excise on distilled spirits, aid the acts'of the government in its attempts to enforce the law.! Newspapers, filled with inflam matory speeches by members of Congress favorable to the French party, were circu lated with great, industry through ' every town and settlement, while the friends of the administration, the advocates of the' Federal authorities, wore few and odious. Such was the state of feeling in West ern Pennsylvania, in 1794, which had de veloped itself gradually and progressively for nearly foer years after the passage of the law, taxing distilleries, and generally known as the "excise law." A feeling of resistance had been mani rested! from the first passage of the law in 1700; and the ' President, Washington, FionalßLE MURDER is Sems.—A grog, aware of its unpopularity, had recommend dealer excitement preVails at present in the ed a modification of its obnoxious features. !province of Andalusia, in Spain, in cense- At the next succeeding session, Congress quenee of the discovery of a great crime. adopted the suggestions, and modified the A law in 1791. But this concession was goat keeper named Tradilla, lived with his wife and ten children in a lonely part not sufficient; it seemed rather to strencrth en opposition. The people demanded its of the mountains of Alcalo. One of his unconditional repeal, and every expedient i daughters named Marie Joseph, determ ined to marry a young farm laborer, nem was resorted to for the purpose of defeating its operations. Many refused to pay the edlAntonio de los Woe, who demanded her duties in any form, and resistance to the hand of her father. .Tradilla received him with great apparent courtesy, made him Federal government, already began to as sume the form of open rebellion. The stop all day, and at night provided him President proceeded to enlUrca the law' i with a sleepin place in a barn. When but, as far us practicable, he omitted no , the visiter and nll the family were plunged o I in sleep, Tradilla rose, slipped to the barn, opportunity to strip it of its obnoxious lea- . and bound the legs and arms of Antonio. tures, and sought to allay excitement, and to conciliate opposition by the influence He then cut his throat withiia razor. Ile afterwards awoke his eldest son named and popularity of those who were charged , Pedro, and told him to go to a deep ravine with its execution. For this purpose Gen. John Neville was at some distance, and dic , a hole. Pedro appointed Collector for Western Penusyl- shortly after arrived with p his spade and vania, and he accepted the appointment pickaxe at the place indicated, and there found He accept- his father with the dead body of from a sense of public duty. ed, however, at the hazard of his life, and Antonio. The young man started with the loss dull his property ; fel he became horror, but 'Pradilla rudely told him to dig p indi the a grave for thevictitn. He at first refuse the object of d, victim of an iubl i nce c used c gnation and om All but intimidated by the dreadful threats of munity. his former revolutionary services, and his his father, lie set to work. As, however, ! well-known benevolence and charity to he did not get on fast enough, Tradilla woke his wife and all the children, and the suffering frontier people for years past, were insufficient to shield him from popu- made them help him. Marie was among them. On seeing the body of her lover lar indignation. General Neville had been one of the she fainted, but her father beat her until she most zealous patriots of the Revolution, recovered, and then took a sort of malig n man of great wealth'• and unbounded , nant pleasure in compelling her to work benevolence. From his own resources !at the grave. From this time Maria could' alone, he had organized, equipped and not bear the sight of her father, and fre sUpported a company of troops, including quently shamefully ill treated her. One his son as an officer, which ho marched day, a fortnight back, he tied her to a tree . and beat her most severely. Her cries at at his own expense to Boston, to re-enforce the command of Gen. Washington in sup- traded her mother, brothers, and some port of the Declaration of Independence. peasants to the spot. On seeing them Tra- During the "starving years" of the early ;when took to flight. lle,was pursued, but settlements on the Upper Ohio and Rion-', ho the ptfrsuers were about to seize hint, onga hela, he had contributed g reatly to !he resisted furiously, and struck right and left with a large stick. In so doing he the relief and comfort of the destituteand!, ; broke the arm of one of his Utile children. suffering prisoners ; and, when necessary, he escaped, and secreted him he divided hislast lour with them. In sea- !Even tuall y , self among the rocks. His son Pedro in sons of more than ordinary severity, when his wheat matured, ho had opened his field formed the local authorities of the crimes committed by his father. They sent a to those who wore destitute of bread. By, i strong detachment of the civic guard to blood and marriage he was related to some Of the most distinguished oflicers qf the ! search the mountains, and rifler a while Tradilla.was secured, and safely lodged in Revolutionary. ,armies ; and such was hisl jail of Modinii- d , He readily popularity in the WeSt, that, had it been I th e confessed his guilt and is to be brought to possible, for any one to have enforced this ' 'lar 14 -''!' - 1 . ! Ltrial in the course of the menth, unpopn tv,,,PnUertil Npv fie, / was,the man. , [To ht,diCrilsiUk/ID.I , t ' ' i \VEST POINT. The Board, of ;Visitors have . made their ft , port to the Secretary of War. They recommend 'extensive and , expensive eiSan. ges :—Thati62 additional cadets betuirinitt ed annually, two from each State; that the pay, of the cad,oto be inereatled from E 124 a. month ,te.S2S, 20, frionth ;. that , the pay utila 6uperintendent be incredsed from ~82,00,0, to 841,000 i a,s.he has neorly all the distingnished :scientific and other gentlemen' who viait , Wet point, ,to enter tain; that , the pay 'of' instructors in Drawing ttrul French, in Practidal 'Engin eering and. Artillery be inert ased ; that all the secondar.y•, teachera. ,triltorii:frOna,tho nyrny,ho allowedis 0 par,menth Mara Icay, while employed. at West, Pe4int, (Ind.', that the fencing master he 'allowed +s2oo.a year; .001.12‘,1100 ,, bp upptePriatedl for the irri media.bliPornPletion Pf, a riding hall ;,,that fourortiVQ new buildings hd eredtCd lot the accommodatiOtt of (ho profhasors tio.w lodg ed in tlio b4rtael