Indiana Centinel, Volume 5, Number 14, Vincennes, Knox County, 4 August 1821 — Page 3

SATURDAY AUGUST 4.

Election. On Monday next will be the annual election On this subject I have never attempted to dictate, nor shall I now presume to do so. lou all recollect the electioneering of the last year you alt remember the abuse audslander which was heaped upon me, unprovokedly and unmeritedly. You all recollect the many glaring falsehoods and shameless lies which were circulated through the district and you know, too, that every sentence I published in answer, is now a recorded truth, and a truth which you all feel the weight of. You know, moreover, that there are certain men in this town who have made lying their trade, when any thing was to be made by it ; and you know, too, that such men, only, are my pointed and vindictive enemies. Well, this year I have permitted them to go on their own course unmolested by me in word or deed. They have had rope enough, and completely hung themselves. They have flattered the people and boasted of themselves till the people are disgusted. They have set up their pretentions and exhibited their views, till many of those who would otherwise have been charitable, arc determined they shall have nothing. They have turned themselves inside out, ami the people have seen their souls. This is the real state of the case: Monday will prove it. What is the caue of the opposition to WILLIAM POLKE? Is he not an honest man, a good man, and a very capable man ? Does he not stand before the people without the shadow of suspicion on his chiracter? And is he not a tried and valiant soldier, who has for forty years been one of the shields and safeguards of his country ? And did he not chase the savages of the wilderness, and argue the peoples cause in the council, long before some of his present enemies were born ? And has he ever been wanting? Has he not ever been a consistent and most faithful patriot, true to the people and true to the constitution ? Will the people of Knox county desert such a man ? After bringing him out as a candidate against his wish, will they be guilty of the treachery of betraying their old friend who has never deserted them? Fellow Citizens, without presuming to dictate, let me beg of you never to forsake a man who has never forsaken you never cast away a certainty for an uncertainty keep the SUBSTANCE, fellow citizens, and let the shadow take care of itself. For myself, persecuted and abused as I have been, I cannot be inveterate or ungrateful ; nor can I reasonably conceive the pleasure that some men feel, while they indulge these shameful sensations. Sitting in peace beneath my own roof, in a country but lately reclaimed from the savage and the wilderness, I caunot but feel grateful to the men who risked their lives to secure to rac these blessings ; and, as thcirfcnemies have nothing to expect from my justice and gratitude, they must hope for nothing but silence from my generosity.

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fast it is thickening near the shores, and approaching the uow shallow channel of the river ? And win they just take one serious peep at the fetid slime which now pervades the surface, wherever the grss has been three days above water; and then, if there be money enough in the treasury to pay them for it, will they remember some of the trilling events of the past year, and reflect how many families changed their beds and bureaus for winding sheets and coffins ? The borough of Vincennes now enjoys unusual good health for the season; granted. Let us not again be fratricides, or patricides, or matricides, or suicides; but let us profit by the doleful experience of the past, and take measures instantly to remove this obstruction and nuisance in the river, and to banish from our border this precursor of pestilence, this harbinger ofdeath JVew Post office. A post office is established at Wanborough, Edwards co. Illinois, the residence of Mr Birkbeck. Gilbert T. Pell, Esq. Post Master. FOR TnE INDIANA CENTINEL. crA Card. ROBERT BUNTIN, Junior, of Vincennes, assures the candidate who writes a piece signed u Knox" in the Western Sun of this morning, that he is prepared to prove every assertion he has made as to his conduct in the Commons Business ; and that every assertion which he shall make as to that candidate's conduct in the Commons affair, or any other, will be open to legal proof, to the satisfaction of the pubiic. The people most injured and swindled by the sale of the Commons, have repeatedly enquired of me whether any advocates for those sales were candidates for their suffrages ? To which question I have well and truly answered. As to the charge of unprincipled slander" and u imposition vpen ihc ignorant and credulous," I know of no person more generally guilty of such conduct than this writer himself; and particularly when he uses such language as he does in the Sun of this day. ROBERT BUNTIN, Jr Aug. 4, 1821. The Ruling Passion in death. In Ireland the ceremonial of wakes and fun eral is most punctually attended to, and it requires some scavoir fuire t cany through the arrangement in a masterly manner. A great adept at the business who had been the prime manager at all the wakes in the neghborhood for many years, was at last called away from the death-beds of his friends to his own. Shortly before he died he gave minute directions to his people as to the mode of waking him in proper style. 4 Recollect ,v says he, vto put three candles at the head of the bed, after you 'ay me out, and two at the foot and one at each side. Mind now, and put a plate with the salt on it just a top of my breast . And do you hear, have plenty of tobacco, and pipes enough. And remember to make the punch strong.. And but what the devil is the use of talking to you ; sure, I know, you'll be sure to botch it, as I won't be

there myself HARD TIMES- It has beea calculated, that one girl at Leghorn, according to the present prices, can keep fifty men at work in this country to pay ierthe hats she manufactures.

To the Voters of Knox. YOU are hereby notified, that at the ensuing annual Election there are to be elected one Senator, two Representatives, one dissociate Judge, three County Commissioners, and three Directors lor the Poor liuuse. JOHN DECKER, Shff. K. C. VINCENNES Jr0-St01.e7 HE Subscriber have opened a STORE on Market Street, Vincennes, where they intend to keep a Coustant Supply of Bar-Iron & Castings. Tin y have just received from their Iron Works, 20 Tons BAR-IRON of superior quality, including, PLOUGH MOULDS, WAGGON TIRE, MILL SPINDLES, AX, & IIOE Iron, SLEDGE & Hammer Moulds. C &C 20 Tons Castings, Miojmi jrnicii are 700108 Gall in Kettles, 10015 do. do. 5020 do. do. Pots from I to 12 Gallons, Oven and Skillets of various Sizes, Stewpots, Tea Kettles, Oven J. ids of various sizes, Dog Irons, Fan Mill wheels, Saw Mill Cranks and Gudgeons &c. Comprising a complete assortment of War and cast Iron, which they offer for Sale by wholesale or retail upon reasonable terms JAMES & M' ARTHUR, Vincennes Au. 4 1821. 14-tf. State of Indiana, JIartin Circuit Court set. Jiy Term i. I). 1821 IIERSEY KELLOGG. Petition, for vs. Divorce. EN OS KELLOGG, ) It appearing from affidavit that the Defendant is not a resident of this State, therefore ordered, that unless the Defendant appear on or before the first day of the next, term of this Court, to answer the said Complainant, the matters and things therein contained will be decreed against him in his absence and that a copy of this order be published for four weeks successively, in the Indiana Centinel" A Copy attest. LEWIS R. ROGERS, Clk. Hindostan Aug. 4, 1831. 14-4t d. sayre; JAS lor Sale, low fur Cash Prime Green colfee, Imperial and TPn Young Hyson, J ma Sugar, Logwood, Iron, Old Jaraica Rum, Cog. Brandy, ' 50 Hlls- Whisker, 50 do. Superfine Flour, Yinceiiiics Aug. 4, 18 U. M-pd.

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CHARLES DOYEL. ) THIday the Plantiti ly his attorney moved the Court, for ati ontei of publication, and it is ordered that publication of the pending of this uit, be made four weeks successively in the Indiana Centinel, a Public Newspaper printed at Vincennes. that unless. aiil defendant appear here by himseli or Attorney, give .special Bail, and answer P.antifT Declaration on befoic the first day of the next term of this Court, that Judgement will be given by Default, and the property attached be sold to satisfy PlantiiFs demand. A Copy attest. LEWIS R. ROGERS, Clk. August 4, 1821. 14-4 1. $1000 of the Slate Dank of Indiana and its Branches, for Sale by D. SAYRE. Vincennes Aug. 4 1821. 3-t-pd. $40 REWARD. "OANAWAY from -the legnl service "'of the Subscriber, on the night of the 29th Julv ult. a Negro fellow, named TOM, eighteen or 19 years old. about 5 feet 4 inches high, square and thick set in his person, very black, fiat nose, with an artful, but down look, no particular marks on his body, ha with him a blue cloth skirted coat, a ho'iespun light cotton skirted do. a scotch plaid roundabout, new check'd domestic pantaloons, and several pairs of other pantaloon, together with sl irts, &c. an old fur hat, and a new pair of hoes. He formely wa in the service of Major Lagow, of Vincennes. I will give the above reward for said Negro, if delivered to me in Shawneetown. or twenU fixe Dollars, it delivered to Moses Kawlixgs. in the neighborhood of Vincennes, la. MOSES M. R LINGS, Shawneetown, III. Aug. 4, 14-."-t. STATE OF INDIANA, Set. Gibson Circuit Court Jlay Term 1 821. Thomas Chappele," . . i Jin Insolvent gainst f debtQr His Creditors. J This day came the petitioner bv his counsel and having filed his petition praying the benefit of an act of the Legislature entitled An act for the benefit of insolvent debtors. On motion it is ordered by the Court that this cause be continued until our next term: when the Court will proceed to give judgment according to law It i further ordered that notice of the pendencv o said petition bp given for four weeks successively in one of .he public papers printed in Vincennes Indiai a A copy, attest, JOHN I. NEELY, Ctk. G. C. C, I4-4W The land office, at Palestine will he open on the fourth Monday of thi9 mnntli for the entry, of all the Lands, lyinjr in Illinois District, which have been offer ed for Sale, at Shawneetown. JOS. KITCHELL, Rf.g'r. " G W. SMITH, Receiver. Palestine, July 11,1821. 1H&

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