Indiana Republican, Volume 1, Number 21, Madison, Jefferson County, 17 May 1817 — Page 1

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VOL. I.

MADISON, (INDIANA) SATURDAY, MAT 17, 1817.

No 21.

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, . . ; . . . .1 is waterea oy me ivnssissippi, me cm urv ced the above business in the Missour. Jd ;ts tribuUr3 thc clared house formerly occupied by. Mr. Grelt 0sage and the GasSonade. wasei. Lawrence I oole nearly opposite Emitted in the Missou- any fi

JOSEPH W ILSON lions will lie in the, Missouri ter- Johnston county, one . fohn S. TAII OR ' ritory, between latitudes 35 and Tat r, was offered as witness and RESPECTFULLY - informs derees ,north ngitudc objected to on the ground of dethe citizens of Madison and 2 and 1 o degrees west from the feet of religious principle. Witnesthe citizens ot Madison, ana . f Wa,hjnfrtoh- This tract ses were CAued whn derin tht

its vicinity, that he has commen- . ' P ... . . . . r , , ,

ced the above business in the . . K ' . , .

iuc (.ui cu uidi iic uiu iiui ueueve mere

ither a heaven or a hell : nor

Wm. RniMnsnn's Canlinf Ma- I ' . . . ,r

, . , , , n territory. ment. it was contended on the chine ; where he hopes by his at- ,fhese q( other sidc shoM bc tention to business to merit a count for richness of sworn to declare whether he be. share of public patronage. All hcallhincs of cJim and licved in a God and in a future orders m his line of business will navi blc watcrs advantag'es en. state of rewards and punishn ents. be thankfully received, and punc- h a im ju(j Q j TayIo0 sM tuaily attended to; his work shal rf valI of lhc that onJ th hJand, (t would be done in the neatest and most ,-.... c ua : . -

the great rivers and the centre of to be sworn, when the very questhe territory combine to fix so tion was, whether he was quali-

many interests, commercial and ned to swear and on the other, Last Notice' political. The staples wiil be that he agreed with those who ALL persons indebted to the wheat, hemp and tobacco, lead, held that a man shall not be comsubsedber, bv note or book salt and fur. pelled to declare opinions which account, due on the first of May, Besides the bounty lands, up- go to disgrace, and degrade him:

will do well to avail themselves of wards or uve millions or acres 01 uc cuuia noi merciore permit a

this notice. ' THOS. BOICOURT. May 7, 1817. 10 3W

permanent manner. May, 5th. 1817.

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IBlacksmilh Business. rHE sulwcriber wishes to inform his friends, and the iblic, that he still continues to rry on the above business in all various branches, at his old ind, where work will be done I the best manner, and on a :ort notice. He has on hand a iantity of the. best Juniata Iron, Jiich he will sell low for cash. J WILLIAM W. THOM.

fMadison, May 3, 1817. 19-

I For Sale or Rent. JHE subscriber will sell his house and lot, lying in the Avn of Madison, being a cor.r lot, well fenced with rails jmall hewed log house, &c. he. it is not sold in a few days, it ill be rented for one year. For Xiition and terms, apply to Jab Minton in Madison, or the bscriber. i SIMEON L REYNOLDS. ?May 2nd, 1817. 19 3W

; Doctor Healh has jubt 2ceived some genuine

imore: he will inoculate )rlhe moderafe price of ne dollar, and any per- : m who cannot pay him vill on application be cnoculated gratituously. t - Mill : Sugar will be received it market price in payment for subscriptions at this office.

other public lands will also be man to be exposed to such a

surveyed by the first of June temptation to suppress the truth, next ; making in all, in the ter- Tarr was rejected as utterly inritories of Missouri and Illinois, competent to give evidence, and

Tf v . about fourteen millions of acres as a person to whose oath the law From tit hashville (Ten.) Whig. sub- a at time t0 thedispo- gives no credit. Soldiers' Bounty Lands, sition of the government. The Raleigh Minerva. That part of the soldiers boun- drawing of lots for the soldiers' ty lying in the Missouri and Uli- bounties, and the public sales, Slave Trade. With regard to nois territories, being five mil- may be expected to come on soon this most infamous traffic, it is lions of acres, is in a rapid state after. stated that in the spring of last of preparations, and will soon be The Indian title has been ex- year there were nearly one hunready to be aborted v among the tinguished in the Missouri terri- dred American vessels fitting out soldiers. tory to about seventy thousand from Havanna, for the citof Gen. Rector, the surveyor ge- square miles ; that is to say, to Africa with the intention or proneral, following the instructions a tract of country about as large curing slaves. I must believe of the government, ha3 employ- as the state of Virginia, and em- that this statement is hr beyond ed more than eighty companies bracing all the latitude of that the truth ; but it certainly can. of survevors, comprising up- state. not be denied that many of our wards of four hundred men, and The line between the whites depraved countrymen are conbound them in contracts to com- and Indians begins three hundred stantly employed in this detesta. plete their surveys by the 1 st day miles up the Missouri river, at blc barter. The frequent capof June next. the mouth of the Kanxus, in lat. tures made by. the English cruiTo make sure of fire millions 39 degrees 5 minutes north, and zcrs, prove this incontestibly ; & of acres fit for cultivation, up- luns north over a rich country, nothing could rescue the reputawards of eight millions arc order- one hundred miles to the head of tions of the whole country from ed to be surveyed. None will be the little river Platte, then east this infamy, were itnotthe geoffercd to the soldiers which is over naked sterile ridges one neral satisfaction which is every not fit for cultivation, and the hundred and fifty miles and a where expressed when those outsurveys now include large bodies half, to the des Moines (river of casts of our soil are disappointed superior in fertility to the richest the Monks,) then down that ri- and defeated of their, diabolical lands in Kentucky or Illinois. ver 16 miles to the Mississippi aim and profits. , Raleigh Mm. Two and a half millions of a- South of the Missouri the line crcs will lie in the Illinois ierrito- beginning at Prairie de Feu (fire Great Mill, (Md.) April 12. ry, in the fork of Mississippi and prairie) thirty miles below the jot among the lN egroes Illinois rivers, between the lati- mouth of the Kanxus, and runs . . , tude 39 and 41 degrees north, in south 254 miles down that river 111 y m'uP' parallels corresponding with to Arkansas; then down that ri- A daring not took place on the Washington city, Philadelphia & ver supposed 250 miles to the 7th irst. or Easter Monday at a the middle parts of Pennsylvania. Mississippi. dram shop, at St. Inigocs, mSt. This tract is washed by the Mis- The two and a half millions of Mary's county. It commenced sissippiori the west, andthellli- acres intended for the soldiers in about half an hour before sun-set nois on the south east, and has the Missouri territory, are sur- with an affray among a numeran easy communication with lake veyed within those boundaries. ous collection of negroes, sup. Michigan by Chicago, and may We have this information posed to be 150 or 200 m numcarry its commerce to Ne w Or- from col. Benton, and give it as ber, who were there drinking, leans or to New York, when the such, that those interested may The few whites who were precanal of that state is finished, reiy on it.J Fran. Monitor. sent, interfered no further than Slavery is not admitted in the H."';'J' to command the peace; when linois territory. "Important Judicial decision At suddenly, as by preconcert, they The other two and a half mil- the laje supreme court of lawcf turned upon the whites, and