Indiana Centinel, Volume 3, Number 23, Vincennes, Knox County, 11 September 1819 — Page 1

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"Published r Y. UUlCliVLLV, for WILLIS FELLOWS, oitosite the SLE.LM-JllLL. COQ ""JW VOL. III. VINCENNES, (Ikd.) SATURDAY, SEPT. 11, 1819. no. e:

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a continuance for a succeeding year.

iiiooin the best manner,

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DANIEL DEVAU.

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proportion. Hie cash must accompany advertisements. All letters to the Editor must ba post paid.

Poughkeepsie,

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July, 1819.

From t!:e Philadelphia ddvertUer. TO THE COMET. Mystic stranger ! blaze of liht !

Messenger of good or ill ;

A LIST OF AGENTS.

Princeton, la. Captain Samuel Shan- Portent to the wanderin

' What behest dost thou fulfil ? Washington la. Post-Master, and Dr. P. Barton. Dost thou tell of blight afar, Cobiabla, lis. Patrick Payne. Esq. j Or shall health's kind blessing cease, Bruceville la. Maj. William Bruce. Dost thou omen direful war, 11)1" I Creek- iVirip,-Moscs Iloggatt Esq. Or confirm the notes of peace ? llir.nniie la. Wm. Smith, Post-Master. Ctryi-iti la. A. Hrandon, Post-Masier, Art thou missioned from above ? and Wm. P Tho nasson, Esq. Oh, celestial herald, say,

Oivensviile, la. Capt. John . Maddox. Dost thou bring the torch of love,

v aKenmg me millemal day :

Could we thus with rapture meet thee,

emanation ol the skies,

hi vre.ncebnrgy la. Lapt. John W eaver.

Ch irlestoxni la. Dr. Hay, Vevnf fa John Dumont, Esq. Petersburgh, la. John Mclntire, Eq.

Fort .Hxrrison, la. Isaac Lambert, Esq. How would songs of triumph greet thee, and VVilliam Markle, Esq. . How would minded praises rise !

Carlisle, la. Post-Master, 6t M. Eaton. Ihno, la. Post-Master. EvnniviHe, la. Post-Master and E. liar rison, Esq. Fork, III. J. F. Richardson, Esq.

Pahr.jra, III Guy V. Smith, Esq. ' Richmond, A. Ilobt. A. Sturges, Esq. St. Lewis Wis. Ter. E. L. Hempstead, Esq. and Abijah Hull, Esq.

But though wisdom has denied, Finite skill thy course to tell ; j Though thy errand's undescribed, I Yet we know that all is well J

He who speaks in dreadful thunder, Throned in power above the sky; He before whose viewless splendor, All thy radient glories die

The foregoing gentlemen are requested to

received monie, subscriptions. &c. for the He who holds the b lt of Heaven,

Indiana Centinel.

LAND OFFICE MONEY. The Receiver of Public Monies has been instructed to receive in payment for Lands sold in the District of Vincennes, notes on the following Banks, viz: Bank of the United States and Branches, Bank of Virginia and its Branches, Fanner's Bank of Virginia and branches. State Bank of North Carolina and Branches, do. of South Carolina and do. Bank of Penn. (Philadelphia) of North America do. farmers and Mechanics Bank do Mechanics Bank of City & County, do. Commercial Bank of Penn. do Schuylkill Bank do Bank of Northern Liberties do of Maryland of Baltimore of Columbia (District of Columbia TJniou Bank of Georgetown do Patriotic Bank of W ashington do

Ban of Washington do of Metropolis do of Alexandria do New York Bank, New York Manhattan Co, do Mechanics Bank do Met chants- Bank, do dcx Union Bank, do, Bank of America do. State bank of Kentucky and Branches, Farmer's & Mechanic's Bank, at Lexington, Commercial Bank, of Louisville, Bank of Chilicothe, Ohio. State Bank of Indiana, at Vincennes. Bank of Illinois, at Shawnee-Town, Bank of Missouri, at St. Louis, Bank cf Mississippi and branches. Io. of New-Orleans, do. of Louisiana. Planters bank do.

uuiC ui icsa man uveuouars 16 rcceiv-

fcytems, which their course fulfil.

He whose glance thro' lime hath liven, God will eerguaid us still Mystic Orb then urge thy flight, Soon thy meteor rein is o'er, "Whilst thou burnest the gem of night, We admiring, GOD adore.

CO VJ777tAYW. jthey demand for their labor. For n.y part from the stratutn whicJt unIei lavs the arable The Centincl will be delivered in Yin- 1 am wiling to fall in proportion to every soil, lire material they call '.Marl. It i

cennes. or dep.)ited in t!ie Post-Office, at', thin else. The stated price for making such an excellent fertilizer, that the thin,

eoruAUiteu croumis ot that reirum.

beinj propeily dressed with

it, rendered a productive as those of the inland country by the operation of evpsum.

Almost every farm contains a plentiful sup-j

piy ol tuis invaluable article and on many the marl is found in every field. The inhabitants really possess the means of raising at pleaure the heaviest crops; for their industry, with the help of the JIarl9 is rewauled with manifold increase. Doctor Mitchell and Mr. Pearce have lately reconnoitred this interesting tract, and confirmed the accounts given of the abundant product in pais and grain, which follows the application of this fossil manure. The marl pits are replete with extraordinary things. Remains of animals, eiti.ei ea-tinct, or not now known to be alne, t;r not found in these parts, constitute i considerable portion of the marl. None of them

jare petrified, but all are detached, and the i : . .

pic-ccs, are m various stages ol decomposition, according to their situations and qualities. Belemites. five or -ix inches lore Gryphites, a pair of wlto.e shells weighs between si.r and seven pounds a small sort ot zig-zag oyster, not more than an inch long veiy distinct teeth of the famous animals of Jlaestreht, with portions of the

jaws annexed sevtral species of crms and cockles bones behnging to whales, t to some otht-r kind f cetachus creatures Teeth and Vertebiceoi sharks exceedingly curious baculitesarc some of the animal' remains which the proprietors find by penetrating with the pi:k-axe and shovel" a few. feet. Thev also discover various tools and instiumeuts made by the hand of man. Figments of clay pifes for smoking, have been repeatedly tbutttt. One of those received by Dr. Ylitchell from Dr. Reynolds, is exceedingly curious, unusually farce, and tery nearly entire. It is even said that n.ctullic articles, such as buckles and tongs, have been likewise dug tut of the marl pits. Bones, horn and teeth of land animals aie mingled in this jumble of oiateruls which the marl pits afford. The horn of a deer, the toflth of an elephant, the thili of a rhinoceros, and the fragments of other skeletons, not so well ascertained as vet, show the admirable and unaccountable association of heterogenous substances deposited here. Such ate some of the disclosures made in the beginning ot these investigations. Every quarry that is opened, anil every load that is removed, promises new and valuable additions. Thus, while the mail pits affords agricultural wealth to the proprirt .rs. they will furnish a harvest equally abundant to the antiquary, the theologian and the ireolo-

Pi ice of a quarter of wi eat. Ts Gd

days a quarter of wheat 13 days a quaiter of malt T day: 3 quarters of nats 1 day S pounds of veal 1 day r pounds cheese, or A pounds of butter

One of tin

ANECDOTE. Osage. Indians who were on a

visit to a-hington city a few years ago, being in Baltimore, was shewn eerv thing in the latter city that it was supposed couhl interest the attention of one of the native lords of the forest. Among other things his guide conducted him to see the iraol." Af

ter viewing it with attention, he exclaimed

Hist.

It is bplieve ! that the belt or zone con

taining this mar!, reaches from the Hudson

to the Delaware in a direction parallel with

What dot r' the reply was, The uaoh"u7 , 1,,r,awarJ m a direction parallel with Indian-" What's gaof f His guide answer- f rih Amenca, ed, A place to put India:, in who don't i J""1 4N " tor lt 1 10lht to be pay the skins they owe' (skins bein:: the m, t" ,fiv ln,Ic? y-ule, benning at

medium ot evrb.-u W. r -vn.hnl f i?,UU i?e "?a8e f the eversink OiIJs, near handy

anioinz theXn. tr, Amo..n c., ,. j Hook, and ending between Bordentown and

ing viewed it for some time with astonish

Burlint(n.

ncoiauie middle of the seventeenth century. In Lex the medium pay of a labo.erwaa Fi ice of wheat 40s and of malt Sis per quarter as estimated by the nisi.op 37 days a quarter of wheat -2 days a quarter of malt 7 dajs a quarter of oats 4$ days tuo shitts for a man, made Latter part of the eighteenth century. Fay of a lab' rer per dav 4d Price of a quarter of wheat ZsCd of malt 50s 41 davs a quarter of wheat 2C days a quarter of mait PC days a fat hog, fourteen score, at per score G or 23 days a quarter of beans and ne?s -0 or 21 days a quarter of barlev 41 days a flitch of bacon, Iv sr.Ve at 8s 9 days a yard of dotu for servants G days a pair of men's shoes 1 day less than a gallon of ale 1 day three pounds ordinary cheee U pound butter 40 days, clothing for a year of a common servant ot husbandry llbid. COURT OF CHANCERY in ENGLAND. From the Philadelphia Union. We copy, to day. tuo curious articles from the London Courier, upon the subject of this growing evil. "Law," savs the Edinbnr" Review. is cheap in America. In England it is brtter to give up forty pounds tha . to contend for it in a court of common law ; and in the court of equity it is be tter to abandon five hundred or a thousand pounds, than to contend for it. Ve mean to say nothin- disrespectful of the chancrllorwho is an uprht judge, ;t very great lawyer, and jealous to do all he can; but we believe that the court ot chancery to be ni a state width imperiously requites legislative conecfiw... He do not accuse it of any maKeiati n, hut of a complication, forma'litv, enta.- !ement, ami delay, which the life', the ueaTth, and the patience of man cannot endui.-." Mr. Hroughan, in his recent pamphlet non the abuse of characters, relates an a Vcdoteol LordErskine, w.iich convevs t e keenest satire upon the law's delav: j e chancery court. Some dispute arr.e as to t.,e mode of redress to be pursued b: ..no ot Lrs.mt s Uients. 'I he judge said. Let him go to the court of equity. Erskine anawered, in an aitless tone ol voice, which, oade estI::inter Hall ring with laughter, uuld your Lordship send a fellow creature there 2 SUITORS IN CHANCERY. The following is a return of the total a-

.juu.ii ui me enects or the suitors in

no catch skin dere.

From a London Paper. Signs of the times, or the difference between the present and those of our ancestors. We see a hundred men hung where thev saw one. V"e see five hundred transported where they saw one. We see five thousand in the work house whei e they saw one. e see. scores of Bible societies where thev saw none. We see paper where they saw gold. We see men in stays where they saw men in armour. Y e see painted faces where they saw heal-

The sentiments expressed in the follow--,v n?-', , ing advertisement will convey a forcible . N e,SCC c;l-dren perishing in manufactories admonition to the mechanics ot this coun- e the' saw them -Iour-:-ng in the tv,to 4 0 and do likewise:' A contrary' - 6 , course has been pursued by some of our me'- 6 See PnS?ns u iere t!,f.v saw castlpschanics, located where little or no com?e-, t"' "W rePresen" lition is crated : instead of proportioning , " . ,

d equalizing their labor with the pressure - V , 7 I CJ sw irue men wnere ue scc

iaise knaves.

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O - IV l"l O'iuv. HUM- Willi lUHIIU'll- I r.. I . , . . . I f UM I U ll.O ment, the untutored child of nature gave! . 1 he 'osures hitherto made in this re- high court of chancery, in the years 1756. this reply, Worthy of a Socrates, a Plato, a : K,"n "' ,be ci:;ns,d1 asn c xn' X 17r' i7 196, 1806, 181G, and R.cl.efaucault, or a F, anklin-- Indian can i f0" U 1 -ide and spreading lbl8, as laid before the house of commons -

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Corrected Weekly.

an

qualizlng

of the times, and the relative value of other UM i necessaries, they have actually added some; -VZ MILr0N and

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iinct- wr lour per tciii. m.-c j-ucc?, wej asset t witliuut fear of contradiction, exceed' the must ea'travagant that are to be metj yvith in our great cities. Ch. Gazette. LO)K At TKia.

we see Mr.

ANTIQUITIES. The township of Middletown, N. J. is remarkable for the relics of animals and things tli.lt II1.1V h imarrinft in nra nvicfnil ho-

scarcity of money and the fill ot all kinds fore thp flomL For severa veaps t(e farm. ot produce, it is impossible lor mecliamcs er have hecn in the practice of enriching to have steady employment at ths prices tlieir lands with aa earthv substance dug

Owing to the hardness cf the times, the

field for improvement, and such a spirit of

research has gone forth, that there can be no doubt that both owners and laborers will preserve for deliberate examination, the rare and curious things they may discover. jJiles. Old Times.

From a 1 ondon paper. PRICES OF LABOR, &c. &c. Middle of the Fourteenth Century. Ordinary price ot a dav?s labor, 2.

Price of a quaiter of a hundred weight of

wheat, from 3s Ad to 4s Medium, 3s Ed 2 days work for one quarter of wheat. 0 days for a fat hog two year old. 0 days work lor clothing for a year for a common servant of husbandry. 6 days, a quarter of beans or peas .5 days, a quarter of barley.

2 nays, a pair ot shoes

1 dav

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, t u gamin oi iiie.

Middle of the fifteenth ceniur

ray ot a laborer per day, Zd Price of quarter of wheat, to 5s Gd 0 to 2 days, a quarter of uheat 1G days a quarter of malt IT days, clothing fur a year for a year of a servant. 8 days a quarter of oats 7 day s a flitch of bacon 4 days a yard of cloth for a shepherd 1 diy two gallons of ale " Former part of the sixteenth century. Pay of a laborer per day, 3 id

amount of the effects of

the suitors m the hih t c"!irrtroflc,,ancerJ ast.2,864,975 16 I In 1 bb, the amount wa3 4,019,004 19 4 In 1776 the amount was 6,602,29 8 6 In 1786 the amount was 8,848,535 7 11 In 1796 the amount was 14,550,397 2 O In 180G the amount was 21,922,754 12 8 In 1816 the amount was 31,953,890 9 5 In 18)8 the amount was 33,534,520 0 10 In our paper of Wednesday we published a return of the amount of tbe effects of the chancery suitors at different periods. It 13 curious to trace the increase of these sums, ln 1756 they were under three millions) and had scarcely exceeded four-millions at the end of ten years 1766 In the ne.rt ten, the increase was above two millions and a half 177G ln the next above two millions 1786 Thus in thirty years the total amount rose from 2,800,ooo pounds to 8,800,000 pounds. The increase in the nt-vt ten years fiom 1786 to 1796, was nearly six millious. From 179 ' to 1806, above seven millions. But from 1306 to IS 6 above ten millions. The increase in the two veats, 1817 and 18IS is above one million and a half. The total amount is now above thii tj three millions and a half -o. gio From .VioV, Register. the co vu'v in A Liverpool paper announces the arrival at that place of Don Oni and suite, "late Spanish ambassador at the COURT vf H ash

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