Indiana Centinel, Volume 3, Number 26, Vincennes, Knox County, 2 October 1819 — Page 1

Published sr V. JiLdChVLLV, ur WILLIS FULLUIFS, opposite run STSiAM-MlLL. ma-won xiooo -'Jcoooooo-sJlcw'0 - imniiiT.iiaf ro-.-i jtw --y-r' iaeMi-iii.ff1),M,W L

vol. nr. VINCENNES, (Ind.) SATURDAY, OCT. 2, 1819. NO. 6.

Merchants Rank at Salem, Massachusetts Vin-. Newport Bank New Port, Rhode Island

ance ?.3 a subscriber, will be considered as j Mechanics and Farmer bank, Albany, New continuance for a succeeding year. j York No subscription will b discontinued until; Trenton Ranking Company at Trenton, Now

CO.VDITW.VS. The Cextixel will be delivered in

cenr.o. or denosited in the Post-Office. at; Bristol bank Bristol, Rhode Island

R 2, if paid in advance, 2 50 if paid within 'New Haven Rank at New Haven, Connectisix mouths after subscription, or ft 3 attbej cut expiration of the vear. No subscription will j New London bank at New London, Conbe received for a "term less than six months, j necticut

and a failure to trive notice of a discontin-j Hank oi Ltica at Uticn, New lo;I;

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all arrearages are paid. j Jersey

Advertisements not exceeding 15 lines! Easton bank at Easton, Pennsylvania in length, will be inserted three weeks for, HariUburg bank at Ilarrisburg, PennsylvaME DOLLAR, and TWENTY FIVE CENTS fori Hia cich continuance longer ones in the same ' Brar.ch cf Farmers bank of Delaware at proportion. The cash must accompany ad-j New Castle vcrtiscments. " Office of Discount and Deposit of the bank Ml letters to the Editor must be post paid, j cf Virginia at Fredericksburg, Lynchburg ; and Petersburg, Virginia A LIST OF AGENTS. Rank of Augusta at Augusta in Georgia Princeton, la. Captain Samuel Shan-' Planters and Merchant, bank of Huntswlle, non. j Alabama fFashington, la. Post-Master, and Dr. P. Bank of Vinccnnes Barton. i an t Missouri at St. Louis Columbia, fa. Patrick Payne. Esq. : S-te Vduk Tcnnes.ee at Knoxville BracevilU, a.Myj. William Rrucc. wMwmmmrt Honey Creek ZVunV,-Ms:s Hogzatt Esq. SELECTED. Uirmonie, fa. Win. Smith, Post-Master.;

Ir, A ltranrinn. r'nst-Jl aster. I IIITj V UUUU.

and Wm. P Thoma-son, Esq. Oicensville. fa. Capt. John W. Maddox.l

This Asiatic custom, however, has one

merit : It ensures a wife' iendervst

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mr nusuanirs lteaiiu while he ui

sreat

care

living,

his

and

death.

the most unfeigned sorrow at

'he world's a bubble ; and the life of man) Less than a span.

Laujrenceburg, la. Capt. John Weaver. C.'izrhslown, fa Or- Hay, Vevay la John Dumont, Esq. Petersburg, la. John Mclntire, Erq.

Fort Harrison, fa. Isaac Lambert, Esq.

and William Markle, Lsq. Carlisle, fa. Post-Master, & M. Eaton. Bono, la. Post-Master. Evmsville, la. Post-Master and E. Harrison, Esq. Fork, III. F. Richardson, Esq. Palmyra, III. Guy W. Smith, Esq. Richmond, Robt. A. Sturges,Esq. St. Louis, Mis. Ter. E. L. Hempstead, Esq. and Abijah Hull, Esq.

In his conception wretched : from the womb, j

C O M M UN I C ATI' D . Pur the Cerdlnel. Correspondence. Copy cf a letter from a Gentleman ir. Vtic Jersey to some oj l:is yovi;g Jruhds uiio have removed to this Cuunirn. FRIENDS, U ilhout waiting for your opinion of my last, or consulting any thing but my own inclination, I have thought proper to pursue the correspondence. In doing this. I shall take the course suggested by mv idea of what you ought to consider your situation. It shall be mv aim to direct voar at

tention to the great object of giving dignity Jand respect to a rising and important secjtion of the greatest nation on earth. 1 You ought now to anticipate all you wish to see realised with regard to the future

character and prosperity id your state, by founding immediate! v such "institutions a

j shall be most likely to ensure its accomplish

ment, io raise the mas of mankind to a

superior standard of virtue, is perhaps im

The foregoing gentlemen arc requested to received monies, subscriptions, cVc. for the Indiana Centinel.

LAND OFFICE MONEY.

JSo to the tomb,

Nurst from his cradle, & brought up to years, With cares and fears. Who then to frail mortality shall trust,

.Rut lymns in water, or but writes in dust, j Yet whilst with sorrow here we live opprest, What life is best ?

Courts are but only superficial school?, To dandle fools. The rural world is turn'd into a den Of savage men ; And where's a city now from vice so free, But may be tcrm'd the worst of all the three r Domestic cares afilict the husband's bed, Or pains his head. Those that live siug!c, take it for a curse, Or do things worse. These would have children, those that hae them, none, Or wish them rone.

"What is it then to have, or have n wife,

possible: but so far to improve a sullicient portion, as to give a general stamp of superior virtue to the national character, is no doubt practicable. But every cft'ort to effect this, must be founded on the primary principles of our system of government. To promote real virtue in a state or nation,

scssors schooled in the arts cf hypocrisy and dissimulation, every species of dishcTiesty and perfidy is often cloaked under them. We generally find their avarice and rapacity unbounded ; they imbibe the idea that tVy are better IharTthe rest of mankind, ami imagine the community bound to support them in affluence without any cbligatioa on thur part to return an adequate compensation. They get their education and honors for the purpose of serving themsehes, and not their country. To get a prcfesMcn and a place, is the end of all their labors, and to expect them either qualified or deposed to serve the community, would be absurd. To establish a free government upon permanent principles, the effects of this mummery, and this charm of rank and titles must be done away or counteracted, and this can Lv done only by raising common schools to their proper ra;ik and icspectability, and the most favorable op;,orttinityfor effecting this is in a new state,nhoe political or civil character is not yet formed, where there are fewer obstacles in the way of forming institutions nect . i for its accomplishment. WI.ere thev mar easily progress to meet increasii.g'exiget cieP, and where no innovation upon habit is necessary, and where the current of popular, prejudice may sooner be tcrned in their fator, and render them permanent. V :.aVc not at present sufGcient knowledge or expe perience to be able to device tot- astern of general education. But from v. hat has been realised and can be anticipated from the experiments already made, that of a general fund, the common property of the, state, competent to all thp

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no further infringement cf the natural and ! ucati m, is the most practicrble. and in all

equal rights of the community mat be suf-: respects superior. Of the possibility of esfered than is absolutely necessary for the; tabiishing such a fund, consistent with the mutual benefit cf the whole. Virtue, indu-j interests of the people, there remains no ced by fear, cannot be relied on as any sc-; doubt, especially in a new tate, rich in ter curity to social tranquility, or the safety of riloiy atd resources, with a small populathe state. If it arises from the terrors of, tion and unprejudiced bv habit. This plan government only, no moral or political ad-' is partially in operation in operation in the vantages can ever flow from it. To force a states of New York and New Jersey. In person to do right, makes him no better. New York, from the accumulation of a few To make manki id virtuous, you must make years, the fund amounts to about a million them free, and to enjoy freedom, they must cf dollars, and is found of vast impcrtance be informed. Virtue should be revered for incompetent to the object, but is fast inwl, at it is in itself : its principles understood, creasing. In New Jersey, from four yeais' and a thorough knowledge of its importance surplus revenue, and the proceeds of th saW

Tim Tiore'ixror nf Pnhhr. Monies hns been But single bondage, or a double strife ? to society ouht to.x in the mind the stan- of some otherwise unproductive nrm.orr t

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instructed to receive inpayment tor Lands wur own aiucuoas sun ac nome iu pjcasc,iuaiu ui ngm uuu wiuue, mm in an niuiai iunu uiuuuuis io upwards ot 15U,L00 dollar,

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, Farmers Bank of Virginia and branches, Bank of Pnn. (Philadelphia) of North America do. "Farmers and Mechanics Bank do. Mechanics Bank of City & County, do. Commercial Bank of Penn. do Schuylkill Bank do 5frnk of Northern Liberties do cf Maryland of Baltimore of Columbia (District of Columbia Union Bank of Georgetown do Patriotic Bank of Washington do Bank of Washington do of Metropolis do of Alexandria do

New York Bank, New York Manhattan Co. do Mechanics Bank do Merchants Bank, do do, Union Bank, do, Bank of America do. State bank of Kentucky and Branches, Farmer's cc Mechanic's Bank, at Lexington, Commercial Bank, of Louisville, Bank of Chilicothc, Onio. State Bank cf Indiana, at Vincennes. Bank of Illinois, at Shawnec-Town, Bank of Missouri, at St. Louis, Bank cf Mississippi and branchesdo. of New-Orleans, do. .of Louisiana. Planters bank do. No nota of less than five dollars is receivable. Corrected lFeekhj. "

Is a disease. ! obligations. The community of a free state whicn, witli its own annual nrodurl ami

To cross the seas to any foreign soil, 'ought to be elevated above slavery, arro- the certain sources of revenue appropriated Peril and toil. jgance, and insubordination. The slave, the -to its increase, will doubtless in another Wars with their noise affright us: when they parasite and the outlaw are on a footing as generation be competent to meet the annual

cease,

For being born, and being born to die ?

The following parody presents a

tare of the times n the southern "Whatrs this dull town to me ? No cash is here ! Things that we used to see, Now doirt appear,

good

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members of a free covernment. The true e.rpenses of all the schools in the statp.

VtVre worse in peace. Qualification is a competent knowledge to Objections may arise on the ground thaf

'What, then, remains, but that we still should .correct its errors, and honesty in the cxer-' the constitutional organization of these cry, jciseof it; and as education is the medium schools cannot be so constructed as to pre-

(through winch the human character is fcrm-;venla licentious government from making jed, it is of the highest importance that all them the engines of corruption, but I appre rules, maxims, and institutions for the re-; ,ien( tnat as dongas the shadow of represenJgulation of society, from the most common ' tation remains, there can be no danger ; ev-

and ordinary transactions cf life to the e.r-! ry person feeling an immediate intercut in ecution of the most important duties of the' tne institution, no prostitution of it to purstate, should be such as are best calculated poses cf corruption could long crist. It to produce general improvement aud promote. e constantly under the immediate the common interest. j watch and care of the whole community anil The first and most important of these are um.5er tne government of a double represen-

lommon bchools. Here the foundation is:1-110" 'jciierali y ot the legislature of thn

cities.

Where's all the paper bills, Silver dollars, cents and mills ? Oh! we must check our wills.' No cash is here.

Wh;

t made the city shine ? Money was here :

makes trie, lads repine ? No cash is here.

"Wivat makes the plauters sad. Factors cra.y, merchants mad ? Oh ! times are very bad !

No cash is

here.

LAND OFFICE MONEY. Bills on the following Banks are receivable at the Land Office at Kaskaskia. Bank of the United States and its branches Bank of Illinois, at Shawaneetown Bank of Eduardsville at Edwardsvillc Banks in Boston Banks in the city of New York Banks of Baltimore, eorcept the City bank and Marine bank Banks in the District of Columbia (except the Merchants' and Fianklin banks, of Alexandria Bank of Kentucky and branches Banks in New Oilcans Bath bank ut Bath M Cumberland bank at Portland, Maine Cheshire bank at Kccne, New Hampshire,

curse upon the banks !

No credit's there ! Our notes are nought but blanks, No casii is here. Hard times ! the men do cry : Hard times ! the women sigh: Ruin and mis e ry .' No cash is here ! CONJUGAL LOVE. In Malabar, a stranger might easily form

a false notion of the cause of so much grief

as the wive?, exhibit there on the death of

their husbands, if he were not previously told that it is customary to burn both parties, the living and the dead, on the same pile. An epigram will put this instance in a clearer light. EPIGRAM, On a tcoman of Jfclabar weeping excessively on the death cf her husband. fStranger. Sure never with afiliction more sincere, Did widow heave a sigh, or drop a tear. Man of Malabar. Tis true: but think RstvTrfigricvesherso: They must not j-'arf ; snd hence her sorrows Sew 1

laid of the ultimate character, whether mo ral or political, private or social of inrfivid

iamines, communities, states or em-

iiais,

state, and specially ot the trustees ot the respective districts, and must be kept pure,

Kept pure ov e

anv snstitution can be

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pires. lhe importance ot well regulated ' ,eciU)I" in au tner institutions, the interschools, founded on proper principles, to a sts of the community are more remote, and

me muueements to guard them not so im

mediate. The organization of the schools

free government, cannot as yet be correctly estimated. It crists but in imagination.

There is no subject on which mankind are! should be by latv on princioles calculated to

ignorant. They have not yet begun e efluly beneficial, and of two orders;

to be viewed as the basis on which a free government must stand. Instead of bcin the primary object of the wisdom and exertions of sages, patriots and legislators, they have rarely been the subject of legislation. Though much legislation has born spent upon literary institutions, it has always been confined exclusively to colleges, "charity schools, and those of a theological nature :

all of winch are entirely under ecclesiastical

muueutt uuu uiicuiuu. i iiese institutions have in all agea and countries been the bf.ne of free governess. Here begin the distinctions that Cull y debase the whole mas

ot mankind. Uoth onnressnr .ind nnnrp..'

qually degraded beneath the diznitv of

are ct

man. lhe titles and degrees conferred by these institutions are altogether incompatible with the relations mankind bear to each other, and with the spirit f a free government, and answer no purpose but to make imaginary ditinctions. They are conferred generally without regard "to merit, ability, or acquirements, and are uniformly considered by their possessors, as well as the multitude.

as the certain pledges of superiority. 'e see this manifested univei sally through all the orders of the titled fraternity, from the Bachelor cf.irts. the Doctor of Law or Divinity, to His Holiness, or Uis .Majesty. It is from the influence f tLese distinctions in a great measure, that the most important dikes of state have been filled wifh the weakest and vilest cf mankind. Their pos-

one for the common branches of education,

ana equally accessible to all : the others as, a substitute for universities or colleges, and confined to the higher branches of Education, comprehending all the sciences novr taught, with the addition of politics and agriculture, with able professors in each. In these the number of Students must necessa rily be limited. This could always be done, with such a reference to locality, ability, and other circumstances, as that every part of the state should be equally benefited. It might be proper to provide for the admission of studenU into these school, over and above the number limited by the fund, and let the profits arising be applied to its increase. Thus they would form the grand eat. of learning, from whence, would arise the literati cf the state, atjuitously diffusing science in all its branch ef through the whole body of the community, without carrvii g with it any honors or distinctions bat those of merit. In these schools a uniform national character might originate, and itmisht not be extravigant to presume that, organized on the soundest principles of equality and representation, they might lay the foundation of our government on a basi never to be shaken.

The English papers are filled with account respecting a Cornet, which made its appearance in ruanv parts of Europe in Ji lr.