Indiana Republican, Volume 1, Number 35, Madison, Jefferson County, 23 August 1817 — Page 1

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ie India 6 "where liberty dwells, there is my country."

VOL. I.

MADISON, (INDIANA) SATURDAY, AUGUST 23, 18 17.

No. 35.

PUBLISHED BY

UiUEL PELHAM,

EVERY SATURDAY.

any work of the kind. By this truly beautiful, descending gradu- that the purchasers will do well, great highway, unborn millions ally to the north, and the country The situation is important, it will will easily transport their surplus in its vicinity preserves the same possess in an eminent degree, the productions to the shores of the general symetry ; the land of a advantages of agriculture, comAflantirv nrnriitv t1i?r nnr1?p snnprlnrnnalitv rnrl rnthpA with inprrf. anH nnhlir midc nrA

E "lUrulfucAN" will be delivered and hold a useful and profitable excellent timber. ' advantages have not failed to atofoce for tan dollars ver annum, mtercourse with all the maratime " An important feature connect- tract the attention of gentlemen

in advance ; if paid wiihin two nations of the earth. The expense ed with the future prosperity of of wealth from various parts of b after subscribing U wdl be con and jabor f h;s g t undertak. tn;s nevv establish mentis, the prox- the United States, who have made in advance ; two djllars and fifty . . . ..... -r . .. ' 1 . ,, i , , !f nai.i iriikin sir months . : two ing bear no proportion to its utili- unity of navigable waters com- respectable purchases, but have

and seventy five cents if paid ty. Nature has kindly afforded municating with the Ohio river, not monopolized and some of

Y nine wmth;tree dollars ij paid every facility; we have all the mor- I he Cassadago lake lies about 8 them we understand, intend to kVT'wSi al and Physical means within our miles S. of Dunkirk, the waters make improvements immediately. uftu cents if not paid until the year ,r . . r . . . , T, c , r. : .i . ... - y control. Let us then proceed to of which are navigable for boats ljvus we see the prosperity of the tv-two numbers, will he a year work, animated by the prospect of five tons burthen, communi- western country increasing in a future subscriptions taken for the 0f jts Speecy accomplishment, and eating with the Canawocgo branch ratio,1 that ' has never, perhaps, 'ITll e discontinued until cheered with the anticipated bene- of the Allenghany riycr; leading been witnessed in any other part

apsarevaid uitiiuu ui a iridicjui uuicuiy. . iu j. uisuuii'. wwwu, auu wtuuy luiny

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cases a subscriber must give Judge Richardson then broke To perfect the navigation, some indulge ourselves in the pleasing punctually at the end of the yvar the earth, and was followed bv obstructions of trees at the outlet reflection, that the state of-Ohio s intention to discontinue, or he . ... , ' r i i i . . -r fct- - i yid responsible for another year's ne citizens, and his own laborers, oi the lake require to be removed, is one ot the most important sccription. each vieing with the other in his which can be effected at a trilling tions of it,' and will, ere loiig, i r: irtfsements not exceeding a square, demonstration of the jov, of which expense. The west promontory ranked as such. e inserted thnc times for a dollar; all partook on that interesting oc- being faced with Mgh perpendicu- " ' '"" " Wtoster Spect. July iS. rows in proportion, and if the F o o nil t j j tr of insertions dircd. are not casion. ' lar rocks, washed at their base

iej, they wtit be continued at the lnus, accompaniea ov tne ac- wum me waters ot uic laice, is re- from we iorw nmerican Kevicu-.

e of the advertiser t until ordered clamati

disc

MMENCEMENT OF THE first stroke towards the construe

GRAND CANAL. tion of a work, which, in its com-

ons of the citizens and the markably well suited for work ot Preamble ct a Le:ter from the Dc

rharcre of a cannon from the U. defence, and as a 'commanding of Algiers to the President o:

arsenal, has been etruck the scite for a light-house. the United States Translate

tance

In proof of the rising impor- from the Arabic, ice of this harbor, so essential jl his curious specimc

specimen of the

I Utica. July 1 5. pletion, will unite Erie with the to the safe navigation of Lake E- modern regal -style of the Eusr, p intention to celebrate the Hudson, the West with the Ata- rie, we give this fict, that the last was sent to u from the Medi er Krersary cf American Indep(h- lantic; which will scatter plenty Chataque Gazette derails a list of ranean, by a gentleman wh- vvhc :e at the village of Rome, on along its borders; carry refine- 10 vessels arrived at, and of 3 at Algiers soon after the Dcy's ia-

' inst. haviiiT mentand civilization to thereions which sailed hum Dunkirk, du- ter was written, and who was a.-

'ourth of Tulv

annouilced in the public pa- of the wilderness, and ever re- ring the week preceeding the 30th and the preparations of the main a proud and useful monu- June.

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1 vunniii5sioners oeing ;n a mem vi ic ciiig:iiciitu vicvvii vi cf suflicient forwardness, an its projectors, and of the wisdom gemcnt vasmadc bythehon. and magnanimity of the state of

joung, the only commissioner New-York. Gazette.

quainted with our consul at displace. We cm vouch, therefore: for its genuineness, and theacci racy of the translation. ' With the aid and assistance (. 5

rnt, and the committee of ur-

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Val the commencement of the

vation ct the Grand Erie Ca-

ccordingly, on that day, at

ISe, a ianre mimhrr nf rit.

accompanied by the com-

oners and engineers, assem

From the Albany Argus. J LAKE ERIE. The following information can-

not fail to interest community.

CROGHaNVILLE. In the last number of our pi

per wc stated thai the lots in the Divinity, and in the reign of ovr townof Croghanvillc were all sold Sovereign, the Asylum of thy with the exception of eight or ten. world, powerful and great rr.onWe now have it in our power to arch, transactor of all good restate, that these eight or ten, and tions, the best of men, the diadcy the out-lots and tracts, are all like- of God, Director of the Good

The want of a zood harbor on wise sold, leaving unsold, in the Order, king of kings, supreme

Lake Erie, so' important to our whole reserve of two miles square, ruler of the world, emperor of the future intercourse With the wes- only nine in-Iots, and two out- earth, emulator of Alexander the tern regions, has been a subject of lots, which were reserved by the Great, possessor "of great sprees,

and proceeded to the nlarp funeral ref ret. United States for tne support of sovereign ot the two worlds, and

inted on the line of the canal. Fortunately, within a short pe- schools. The out-Iots 'sold from of the seas, king of Arabia and

hon. J, Hathewav, on the nod, an excellent harbor has been seven to two hundred and seventy rersia, emperor, son 01 an rmpe-

life with

be everhumble

actual sov-

Algiers,

H-trnrfincr o nrtion trrtrA mi the. rast and west bv two affrceablv to the calculation which submitted forever to the order ot

accompanied with nromontories; in front bv a lodire we have made, is one hundred and his imperial Majesty's throne, 0-

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iv nfrtn-.nn- Kc.t-. ni;n Unfl. op 1 rip. a r mi pi tracts mm fnrhr do iars and twen- Jan. iiiuy uuu uiu w

txi the spade into the hands from each. t is called Dunkirk, ty-six cents, to one hundred and prosperity, and his reign be commissioner. lw wl,nm and Hps in the countrv of Chauta- fifrv-one dollars per acre. The lasting and glorious,) his

nitcvfrrA inA-nrA ' in rln'c Qtitr Til fnrm rif wlinlfi ;imnTint of the Durchasc and obedient servant,

who hadentprr-H intn thrift t he ha v is near! v a semicircle, oro- m'onev of the two miles square, ereign, gov. and chief ot

act for com

ie cm a!

bllowintr address: of smooth slate rocks, with a ca- twenty-one thousand dollars; ma

p'nxcwCirjjiNS,Wehave pactous channel towards the west king an average of forty-six dol'h!ed to commence the exca- headland of 12 feet depth, and lars and fifty cents per acre, fcr of the Erie Canal. -This another on the east 10 feet. With- eyery acre contained therein. 'k wlim nrrnmKchA :n Jti thr ,rr i a Rmrlnns hasln. But had the nine in-lots, and two

I IXJWJUOWIJ, Will 1 IVUjv " 7 '

cctour West

1 the Atabntir

se the benefits

mar Pas ja; (may his government be happy and prosperous;) To his majesty the emperor of Arnerica, its adjacent and dependent provinces and coasts, and

ition

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crn Inland Seas capable of containing 100 sail ot ouwots wmcn were reserveu, uccu xiC.tvC1 MW Bww.w.vw.

Occan. It will vessels, at their moorings, with sold, the average price per acre, tend, our nobie tnena, wv y

of internal na- from 12 to 18 feet of water, and would not have been under hity portct kings "r w

over a surface of vast

ft, blessed with a salubrious I'pte and luxuriant soil, cmjpngatract of country capable plaining more human beings f vvere ver accommodated by

he pillar of all christian sov

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moit glorious among

jrood anchorage in blue clay. The dollars; a price which, for a tract sus, the pill town plat of Dunkirk is laid off in of land in the woods, of that ex- crcigns, the

. . . . . .. mi ' i tArrteA amonfrst manv

spacious streets, crossing at right tent, wc wm vcniurc u , - w u- o .

aiMrles; the land at the head

bay has an elevation of from

1 2 f eet-The site ox the

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