Western Sun, Volume 3, Number 15, Vincennes, Knox County, 7 April 1810 — Page 2

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KNICKERBOCKER'S JUSTORT OF NElI' rORK Clatchj published) has been spoken of as containing much genuine roiteind hum nr. The Jo! low ins is offered as d specinicn The next ambition of General Von Pcffcnburgli (VVilkinibn) was to be tho'ta ilrict disciplinary an. Well knowing that difcipline is the foal of all military enterprfe he enforced it with the moll rigorous precifion ; obliging every man to turn out his toes and hold up his head on parade, and prefcribing the breadth of their ruffles to all fuch as had any Hurt to their backs. Having one day, in the courfe of his devout rcfearches in the bible (for the pious Enaes himlelf could not exceed him in outward religion) encountered the hiftory of Ab(atom and his melancholy end ; the general in an evil hour, iffued orders for crapping the hair of both officers and men throughout the garrifon. Now it came to pafs, that among his officers was one Kildermeefler (Butler) ; a fturdy old veteran, who had cherifhed through the coufe of a long life a rugget mop of hair, not a little refembling the ihag of a Newfound, land dog ; terminating with an im

moderate queue, like the handle of

a frying pan ; queued fo tightly to his head, that his eyes arid mouth generally flood a jar, and his eye

brows were drawn up to the top of

his fore head. It may naturally be fuppofed that the pofTeflbr of fo goodly an appendage would refill with abhorrence an order condemning it to the fliears. Sampfon hiinfelf could not have held his wig more facred, and on hearing the general orders, he difcharged a tempeft of a veteran, foldier-like oaths, and dunder and blixums, fwore he wonld break any mans head who attempted to meddle with his tail queued it differ than ever and whifked it about the garrifon, as fiercely as the tail of a crocodile. i Theeel-fkin queue of old Kildermeefler became indantly an affair of the utmod importance. The commander in chief was too enlightened an officer not to perceive that the difcipline of the garrifon, the fubordination and good order of the armies of Niew Ncderlandts, the confequcnt fafety of the whole province, and ultimately the dignity and profperity of their high mightincfles the Lords States General Von Poflenburgh, all imperioufly demanded the docking of that dubborn queue. He threfore patriotically determined that old Kildermeefler fhould be fhern oi his glories, in prefence of the whole garrifon the old man as refolutely flood on the defend ve: w hereupon the General, as became a great man. was highly exafperated and the offender was arretted and tried by a court-martial for mutiny defertion, and all other rigmarole of offences notified in the articles of war, ending in a viz. in wearing an eel fkm queue, three Ret

long, contraiy to orders," Then came on arraignments, and ti ials, and pleadidgs and convictings anil the whole country was in a ferment about tliis unfortunate queue. As it is u II know:? that the commander of ditlant lrontier polt has the power cf acting pretty much after his own will, there is little doubt but the old veteran would have been ranged or fhot at ki bud he not luckily fallen ill of a fver, through mere ch:rin and lttortiikntioi; mA flagiiiouily deicrted troin all earthly command, vith hi-, beloved locks unviokited. His oblliiiavy remained unihaken

to the very lal moment when he directed that he fhould be carried to his grave with his eel fkin queue flicking out of a knot hole in his coffin. This magnanimous affair obtained the General great creelit as an excellent difciplinarian ; but it is hinted that he was ever fubject to bad dreams and fearful vilitations in the night when the grifly fpectrum of Kildermeefler would centinal by his bed fide, erect as a pump his enormous queue llrutting out like the handle.

INDIANA TERRITORY. Auditors Office NOTICE Is hereby given that by an aft of Affembly, palled at the feffion of the Legiflature of the faid territory, at their feffion of one thoufand eight hundred and feven, if any non rcfident claiming lands in this territory, either by entry, Jpatent, deed for conveyance, bond for conveyance, or other evidence of claim, his or her agent or attorney, fliall neglect or refufe to lift his or her lands with the affeffor of the county where fuch lands may have been entered and located, before the tenth day of March, then next, and now inllant, and the tenth day of March, quadrennially, thereafter, theafleffor fhali immediately proceed to lift, and make a valuation of the lands of fuch non-rcfidents, that may be in his county, per hundred acres, according to the quality of the foil, and its relative fituation ; but in making fuch affefrment and valuation, houfes, barns, and other improvements fhall not be included. And further notice is given, that the Sheriff of ever y county, f hall,

by the fifteenth day of July, annually, demand payment of the taxes, or fum affefVcd, on each inhabitant in his county, in perfon, or by notice in writing, left at his or her ufual place of residence. In cafe of non-payment of taxes, by the time appointed, it fhali be the duty of the Sheriff, to levy and collecl the tax fo in arrear, by afaleat the court houfe door of his county, of the traft of land for which the faid tax fhali be in arrear, or fo much thereof as will bring the tax due thereon, to be laid off in form of a fquare, or parralielogram, in fome corner ol the tradl, defignated by the Shcrifi at the time of fale ; Provided, That it the owner of any tract, or tracls of land, for which the faid tax fliall be in arrear, or any perfon for him, fhall, on the day of (ale tender, and deliver to the Sheriff, at the place of fale, goods and chattels, fufiicient to make the faid tax fo in arrear, then the faid Sheriff fhali not fell the faid land, or any part thereof, but lhall make and levy the faid tax in arrear, by a public fale of fuch goods, rendering fuch overplus 'if any) to the owner of fuch land, or fuch perfon for him. i PETER JONES, Auditor of Public Accounts. Vinccnncs, ift March, 1810. S

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MEMORY OF WASHINGTON. To the Citizens of the United States, WHEN your beloved WASHINGTON, the Father of Ins country, died i You with intreafed f: nfibihty, the univcrle in tcrs '. Amkkicans! How did your bofoms diln and glow, when, at the firll meeting of your political Fathers, following the melancholy event, you law the call for a MONUMENT woithy oi the fublime virtues you hoped to perpetuate, univcrfally appluuted. How then, Fellow Countrymen, have ye permitted two whole years to pals fince the nohle and natural refolution was every where, individually formed ; and the traveller Hill to alk in vain, Where is the National Monument, faired to public and private viitue ; to the manes of the illuttriaus WASHINGTON ? Columbians! you owe to the world, as well as to yourfclvrs, an apology, or an explanation,' for the roylerious delay of your acknowledged duty ; fince nothing can be more true, than that a mere difference of opinion, refpecYmg the form of the Monument, or the mode of its elevation, is the fole caufr. To prove this, let us agree at once to obviate all difficulty, by uniting in a limple plan t accord with the annexed, now in operation : TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION, To a Monument facred to Public and Private Virtue, dedicated to GEORGE WASHINGTON, to be ercttcd in the City bearing his name, by the voluntary contribution of Citizens of the Unitsd Sutcs only. The form, and inferiptiona, to be under the entire direction of three Tru flees. 1; Thefc articles of fubfeription for a Monument to WASHINGTON, may be opened in any oiftrict or pm of the United States, provided that none but citizens be allowed to fubferibe, and that no individual be allowed to contribute in his own name more than ONE DOLLAR, to this fubfeription fund. 2. The name of each fubferiber (hall be written in a book, and tranfmitted with the fubfeription monies, to either branch of the Bank of the United States. 3. To render the whole deGgn as fimple as may be, three trufly and well beloved friends, namely, Bulhrod YVafhington, and John Marlhall, Judges of the Supreme court of the U. States, & Benjamin Stoddart, late Secretary of the Navy of the U. States, or any two of them, are hereby empowered and requeQed to carry the whole dc'ign into effect, in fuch manner as in their wifdom m?y be deemed moft honorable to the memory of WASHINGTON. 4. .Should the fum hereby collected be more than fufiicient for a Monument, or Maufoleum, (whatever the object of our rcfpeel may he called) the Truttecs are hereby requeued to appropriate the furplus, to iucreafe the fund which WASHINGTON organ when in his laR will and teftament he virtually laid the corner Hone of a National Univerfity. 5. The Tru flees are hereby empowered and requeued to draw he fubfeription monies from the Bank in which they are depotited at diferetion, and aifu to depofit the oiigiual fubfeription book, either with the remains of WASHINGTON, or in the Library of the National Univerfity, founded by WASHINGTON. They arealfo requeued to publilh whenever they may think fit, flatements of their piogrcls in the important work, hereby continued to their care.

This is the price of one fione of the kind to be ufed. fC7" A Book is opened a: the hnnfc of Governor Harrifon, where ill who feel 4 venerttion for the Immortal Hkko, will voluntarily repair, and aud one ftone :o

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A PROPOSAL BY ZADOK CRAMER, Booklellcr, P:ti1urgli, (Penn.) 10R I'L'PLISHING H Y St'?SGMPTIC2f, NOTKS OF A TOUK TO Tilr. WESTER X COUXTR 1 t n uouci: THE STATKS OF OHIO AND KLNTUCKV.

a vovagi; DOWN Til K OHIO AND MISSISSIPPI KlVr.HS, AND A 7'AVv 77;a; THE MISSISSIPPI T1-RUIT011Y AND PAR T Ql; WKbP LM.MRUW. Comniciaed in the wit, tor of 1807, u:id coucluded in I oG.!. BY F. CUMINC;. Sketching the Date of the vaft traft cf country through which he travelled, a dillanceof between three aid fourth rjfand miles. Kail InUory prcgreli in settlement population manners tu3toms natural and artifici d curicfitie: rivers creek: towns villages, m.riu f a dlu res re 1 iion politicks I n i? i i tl wars and nia&tcres pcculiaitis of baifc woodfmen and hunters Indian mounts or ancient burying phccs--fortificaticns on the Ohio Chic ka law and Chocav Indians on the Miififllppi their manners and cuftonss fcttlenienti on tin: MiITiITippi river foil, prcducl., climats and diiefes, . of thefe iegioi;s Prdpofals for thiswoik were ifTued frmrs time ago, but its publication was neceiTari ly delayed in confequence of the author ex tending his route, further than he at fuft intended, down the Miflitfippi river, thro' the Mifliffippi Territory and pit of Weft Florida, The Tour is now completed, and the manufcript in the hands cf the publiflicr, and will be put to prefs immediately, Sc iffued with as little delay as poifibie. There were a ;nmbcr of fubfciibers to the firft propofals, and more are now rtfpedlfjlly folicited-thofc efpecially fond ef encouraging literature and fcicute of learning the ftate of their ovvn country, geographically and phyfici.!!y-of. reading man aa he is, with all his burdens on his back of fioring their minds with ufefnl in formation, rational and beneficial amufcments. SugIi will fubferibe and read with a confiderable degree of pleafure for our author takes us as we are, with all our foibles, and faults -our vices and virtuesperfections and imperfections.

CONDITIONS. This work fhall be printed in one volume duodecimo fize, of between f U. 400 pages, with a new type, and on a fine paper. The price to fubferibers Hiall not exceed one dollar and twenty fixe cents, neatly bound and lettered, and thofe who fubferibe for nine copies (hall have one gratis, provided the money be paid on delivery of the books, which in all cafes will be retired. A further difecunt oi five per ecu:, will be made to merchants who buy to fell a gain. Subscriptions received at the ofilce of the Weflern uu.

A PROCLAMATION BY THE President nf the United Stctrt. TW" HERE AS information has been reW ccived that a number of individually who have deferted fiom the army of the United States, fume of whom have fought fiieltcr without the jurifdiction thereof, hive become fenfible of their i-iTrnie, and are defirous of returning to their duty. A full pardon is hereby granted and proclaimed to each and all of fuch individuals as lhall within four months fjom the date hereof, furrnder themfelves to .the com. mandiiig r.flicer cf any Military poll within the United States, or the territory : l.'.ereof. In teflimor.y whereof 1 lhVC ciufrd the feal of the United .States to he affixed to thefe prefents, and finned the funic with my I; and. Dine at the city cf Wafhington, the 2Q:h dy ,f January, in the year cf our Lord, one thoufand fight hundred ard ten. ami of the lndrprndrr.ce of the Uniirri States of America the thir'v forth (Sird) JAMES MADISON'! By the Prrfrlri.t, II. ,:.:it:1 Secretary of State. cor.r.rv I 3 .v

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