Indiana Gazette, Volume 1, Number 5, Vincennes, Knox County, 28 August 1804 — Page 3

pence. There are about a

million of acres of land in the

territory from which we may raise a revenue ; our lands must be taxed ; but for an average ratio of taxation, we may fairly calculate upon 50 cents per hundred acres ; and this will produce 5000 dollars ; our territory is increasing in population and wealth, which will enable us to diminish this ratio to raise a much grea-

ter sum ; all the lands which the United States will sell in this territory, will be subject to taxation, and not exempt as has been perfidiously stated by designing individuals in the country ; at all events, a revenue of the above amount, assessed upon the lands we now have in the territory, will not be burdensome. The rich will pay it ; the poor need not complain. Fellow Citizens, From this concise and impartial review of the subject we think you may all be enabled to estimate the relative advantages and disadvantages of our present situation, and the propriety of an immediate adoption of the representative grade of government. In whatever light it is considered it is important ; but we presume that you cannot hesitate in deciding the question of either remaining in the condition of debased slaves, or assuming the dignified and independent rank of freemen.

VIGO, Chm.

waged a bloody and unsuc-

cessful war. The Pianka-

shaws on the contrary assert,

that the Delawares were only to have the use of the country to live and hunt upon, in conjunction with themselves, but that they had no right to sell it. The dispute however has been happily adjusted and a treaty was yesterday signed by governor Harrison, as commissioner on the part of the U-

nited States, and the chiefs of

the Piankashaw tribe, by which the whole right of the latter to the country above described is vested in the United States. DIED On Sunday last, after a long and painful illness, Mr. Isaac Decker, an industrious and respectable farmer of this

county ; he has left a wife and family, of small children to deplore his untimely end. To Correspondents. The following pieces have been received and are omitted for want of room, Gerald, Philo Plough Boy, and Indiana Territory - In behalf of a minority of Knox, and what she believes to be a majority of her other counties ; but shall appear in our next.

In virtue of a Proclamation, signed by

his Excellency William Henry Harrison, Governor of the Indiana Territory, and to me directed. NOTICE is here-

by given, that an election will be held

at the court house in Vincennes, on

Tuesday the 11th day of September next, for the purpose of ascertaining by

a vote of the freeholders, whether it is their wish to enter into the second grade of Territorial Government,--Dated at Vincennes, the 21st August, 1804. WM. PRINCE, Shff. K.C. INDIANA TERRITORY, etc. WHEREAS a writ of foreign attachment has issued out of the court of Common Pleas of the said county of Knox, against the lands an tenements, goods, chattels and effects, rights and credits of ...Marie Rouille, at the suit of Thomas Jones, in a plea of trespass on the case, by virtue of which writ the sheriff of said county has attached sundry goods chattels and effects, as the property of the said defend-ant--now notice is hereby given that unless the said defendant shall appear by

himself or attorney, to give special bail

to answer the said suit, judgment will be entered against him by default, and

HAVE just received a Good Assortment of Fall & Winter Goods, Which they will dispose of on reasonable terms for CASH, PORK, WHEAT, FLOUR, BEEF, CORN, &c,.&c. N.B. Those indebted are requested to settle their accounts before disagreeable measures are adopted to oblige them.

Circumstances have recently occurred, which authorise me in pronouncing and publishing WIL-

knave; a villain ; a

the property so attached will be held for

thereon, and shall apply for that purpose, dated 31 August, 1804. R. Buntin, Prothy.

B. PARKE.

John Rice Jones, Attor. for the plaintiff,

Mediterranean Passports.

NOTICE is hereby given that it has been deemed expedient to change the form of the Mediterranean Passport issued to vessels of the United States; that

from the eighth day of July next, those of the new form will be issued at the custom houses to every vessel, for which

application may be made on a compli-

By William Prince, sheriff of Knox county.

A PROCLAMATION. WHEREAS the honorable Henry Vander Burgh, and John Griffin, Esquires, Judges in and over the Indiana territory, and Justices of the Court of Oyer & Terminer and General Jail Delivery, for the trial of capital and o-

ther offences in the said terri-

tory,

HAVING issued their

PHILADELPHIA, July 31.

ance with the terms prescribed by law and surrendering the former passport of

which latter case no fees will be required for the exchange, and that by an arrangement agreed upon by the Baba-

lison of Bordenton, New Jersey, and Richard Frenchg of that neighborhood, have invented a machine for ma-

king nails upon a plan entirely new, and very simple in its construction. It is said this machine cuts the nail, places it in a die, closes a vice upon it, heads it by the action of hammers, and discharges it by means of machinery. It is also further added that a boy can make, with this engine,

We are informed that this machine

from thirty to fifty pounds of nails

It was stated in our last that the Delaware tribe of Indi-

ans, had ceded to the United States all the country between the Ohio and Wabash rivers, as high up as the road leading from this place to Louisville. We are now informed that the title of the United States was not complete by the relinquishment of the Delawares, as the the Piankashaws who were the original propri-

etors of the country, had rc-

either the old or the new form of pass-

port will be sufficient to protect the ves-

until the 1st of July, 1805, after which

either the old or the new form of pass-

able dand the new one alone in use. 22d of May, 1804

ral court; court of oyer and terminer, and general jail delivery for the county of Knox in said territory, at the court house in Vincennes, on Tuesday the 4th September next, Public house is hereby given,

The articulars of the new arrange-

New French Government.

The particulars of the new arrangement are thus described in a private communication - "The name of re-

public is to be changed into that of

empire ; the

The printers of the laws of the Unit- ed States are requested to insert the for the space of six month, and the Col-

6m

.NOTICE.

The Subscriber.

fused to admit the right of the Delawares to sell it. It ap-

pears that the latter who are

ther Remembrances, to do those things which to their Office appertain to be done ;

do

emigrants from the shores of

the Chesepeak and Delaware

bays, came to this country a-

bout 35 years ago, and that

the Piankashaws offered to devide with them their lands upon condition of their uniting with them against ther mortal enemies the Chickasaws, with whom they at that time

their Rolls, Records, Inquisi-

tions, Examinations, and o-

ther Remembrances, to do those things which to their Office appertain to be done ;

and also they who will pros-

that are or then shall be confined in the jail of said county ;

their accounts, as excuses will not be

ahe

dred noblemen are to be created -

The brothers of the with their

to their mariner trade ; and at Bonaparte's several hundred dred noblemen are to be created - the brothers of the consul with their male children to be created archdukes, and all the - the heir to the thorne to be the imperial grand duke, and the

- the heir to the throne to be the imperial grand duke and the of Bonaparte to be

titles of Bonaparte to be

, the Emperor of the Gauls." The throne to be

in the family, and in case of fai-

lure or he is to have the power

of nominating from among his rela-

lure or he is to have the power

ives his immediate successor."

Capt. Dagget, arrived at Newbury-

place on nearly as good terms as it can be had at this place. All persons indebted to the subscri-

ber will please come forward and settle

taken in future as cash.

John Hulling, Vincennes, August 11th, 1804. All Kinds of PRINTING Executed on the Shortest Notice.

port on the 16th inst. from

from

be just.

Given under my hand at Vinccnnes, the twentysecond day of August, one thousand eight hundred and four.

Captain Jackson arrived there from

and acquainted him, that he

had seen a letter from Mr. Gibbs of Palermo, which mentioned that the Tunisians had formally declared war against the United States on the teenth March; and that they had sent out a considerable force against the American vessels. The same letter adds that the Neapolitans had sent a number of ships against the Tunisian privateers. Capt. D further adds, that an Italian vessel, which arrived at on the 21st April, brought intelligence of the sifting out of several Tunisian

quitted the regency.