Western Sun, Volume 5, Number 44, Vincennes, Knox County, 30 April 1814 — Page 4

Southern Frontier. Extracl of a letter from col. Benj. Hawkins, to major gen. Pinckney, dated camp fort Mitchell, Feb. 1 6. 'A runner who is intelligent, arid was fenf by me to the chiefs lovv down this tiver, who are connoted with the Seminoles, returned this evening. He heard a talk from the governor of Pcnfacoia to the Seminolics, delivered in his p Defence to the chiefs of the village the purport was, 4 I hat being an ignorant people, they (hould UOei) to their oid chiets, and aid them 10 crufh the prophets, who bad deceived them by their lies as tney luo nvu.r'invU xh2 powder he pave them to i out provifions for thejr ivo men and children! he (hould give then; no more they had deceived, divided and ruined the nation. I he iiriiih were not expected to poflefs the country bordering on the tide waters ct the Floridas, and if I Ley fhouIJcome, they ccnld , I I ' l 1 V ( 1 1 '. I i I l i 1 1 , Hd V 4 M w I J i - U States would drive them off. Th?' Indians had once been deceived by them, and muff

thern cities, and particularly in New York, concur in stating that the news of the president's recommendation to repeat the restrictive system, had produced an instantaneous commotion in the mercantile community, not much unlike the effect of the shock of an earthquake in the physical world. This operation is greatly to be regretted, but must have been inseparable from a suspension or revocation the system take place when it would. Nat. Int.

taKe care now im-v t : m n

lilt Ui t K"' I l cv) J peace would he made am oner

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t for

the Seminohes to help then eld chiefs to deflroy tiie pro phets. The deception playec

on him was throne!

C Thurlday lad a moft 0 :eful fecne too!; place in this town. One cf the officers of the cuflotns having recciv ed information thc fome goods illegally imported were fuppofed to be iecreted in a certain waggon, flopped the teamiier in cambrldgeport for the purpofe or fearching for them. A trunk, containing goods apparently :?rici(h, was found ; and on the teatnfler's refuting to (how a certificate of the goods, the officer drove the waggon to the cuflom houfe in Boflon. Cpon arriving at the cuflom houfe, a mob a ii enabled, who feveral times ft ruck the oificer, and likewife mptf fli a ruefully abu fed mr r yiHi. from the fav.ie difpofitinn m an if e fled by the mob i: was eafy to per t ive they were iipe for

Boston, March 25. f sir I received information that Jeremiah Weather ly was on the road from Ca n ad 3 with goods which had been introduced into the L states contrary to law. 1 went to take poffeffion of the fame, fome converlation took place. I told Weatherly J had authority as a cuflom houfe officer to examine his load. He afked me to fhou him my authority ; which I did by reading my com million bis wife ot out. Weath erly faid f had no authority to fearch his load without a war rant, and he would be damned if I (hould. examined it although Weatherly a number or times clinched me, and forcibly endeavored to prevent inc from io doing. I found a trunk which contain

ed apparently Btiriih oods

s of:

im. end

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fee on d in coir,: party come ar the banc?, au

ammunition to hui i women and chiidri cnier, s tie ia w w l r . i U ariy credit be d prol (ins of the go

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we are happy. to learn that the coHeclor Jias directed pro lecucion to be commenced by the U. States di Ariel attorney againrt the i ingteaders of the mo:?, t j ihat however audacious fuch men may be, they will find that the laws of the U. States are no: to be tram pied upon with impunity.

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conGltitig oi broadcloths, filko OockinetS) fhawls, cambiicks and files. I afked him if he had any certificate ; and he did not produce any. 1 told him if lie could produce a cer - ' 1 I ; If

cincate, j mourn give mm upu ( the rroods. and he faid hr p

warrant had been Iflued for ny arrefl G JOHSTO Infpeflor. Henry A. S. Dearborn, efqr. coU leclorofthe Diftricl ct iiollon aivl Cirarkfton. M. De Kentzow, theswedilh minuter departed from vVafbington on 1 uefday mor ning, lor Philadelphia. M. Pederfon, the reprefentative of the government of Denmark, arrived in VVafliington on Tuefday from his refidence at I hitadetphta.

British Expedition. An expedition was fitted

Wei: Indies, fuppo

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fed to be deili.-

acrannw

lome of the foutherq iiates ;

report lata t :ore:a. ! r

oops

were r?roccemf m detacnmen t s o m t h e drfier en t It (lands to FSermuoa. tc was believed that the force would amount to ti e cr fix thpufand men. C h a r 1 fl o n Courier The New York Evening PoU (Lates, that the court ordered to enquire into the con-

duel of gen VVitkinfon, is to

convene at Troy, and will be

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lrom this talk to tiie ieminolie chiets, that no more am munition wilt be obtained by the hoflile Indians from him. I mi! further lights are Died on tliis fubjel, it may remain doubt fid wliether his acouief

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ceiii- i

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ceeded f i fear cf them oi cnriiitv tcus. Ic is quite ltkeh

m lilt a! t ion m a v

that

force i

have intimidated the Spanilh commaiulant more than the threars of the lidiatis, 6c that h fin -s u more j Jd ut to change his tone to them, ano to otter the belt Hpology he can to our government. All accvu is from the nor

eiiy part or iociety will at once difcerh in this procedure whnt they are to expect,

and Feffbndens c the prefeni viay, be a -aiii faded to power in MalTachufetts (htstd the lactiOtM 1 report,' made at the laft fefdon, be brot' Forward by govr Strong next fummer and read in the prefence of luch an Infuriated mob, it would not befurpriGng if the dceets oj the metropolis were 'o be flained with blood, and ifrewed with the bodies of the inhabitants. The following is ihe (tatement of mr. Johnion the cuitom houle otticer, made toH. A. 5. Dearborn, efqr. coUc&Of of thus poa :

would be damned if he would (how me any, for 1 had no authority to take them. ! then ordered mr. Ford whom I had called on to afiHi me, to drive ;ke team to the cuflom houfe A number of men, from t5 to io followed me, who aliaulted and abufed me on the way. " When I reached the cuf torn houfe a mob aflembled of two or th.ree hundred peo pie, who endeavored to ref cue the team, ck I was ftruck a number of times, but the load was taken out and putiii the cuflom houle ; after which the mob took away the team,

and ford, who was hufilcd, j

compoied or maj. gen. izai '

King.

Ah Albany paper fiates, that the trial of gen. Hull is finiflied, the refult unknown, but that the pipers arc lent on to Waftnnntoo.

TO BATCHELORS. T.he man who partes his years without a uire, will contract unfocial habits, be difplcafed with the world, & in the winter of hit years, will (land 'nke a lonely tree cn an extended plain, his bread expofed to every blaii of miffortune, without a companion to foothe tils troubles and

-olbh i lvIoe a;vay lAQ tears wrung

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tnumpea. ana

abufed. amid nnd hnr?t US 11511

which were continually rvH l --s

peated by the mob, carried! along the ftreets, with fcati dalotis labels placed on his

iiat, wnne ne was pelted ancS outraged in the moil horrid manner.

OWEN R E I L L T

icvcj. ho S'lORK to nr Cr. ,, -1,1 1 1J i . 3 o.u .'.and. jnu uttiv cc-

4 cupicd by J. u. Call 8c Cc.bs a Ityr where he will irll his pre lent Hock of

i . f-v t m .

ziu n;onc mv nor. c war:

fa: rounded by a mob, who

threatened me, atid declareSlk

i (hould be tarred and feathered That no officer of the cuftoms fhould live at Cambridgeport, or come there to feize goods fince 1 left home this morning to come into town, 1 have received by a mefrenger, information that Ford had been taken uo on complaint of Weatherly, foi highway robbery, and that a

GOODS

uffeallj low for Cfh. STinteboes. I 1 1

March

101 hare ju( received a freffi fupply

o; KAJtl fcK, which i willicllby the oaamthy low for t fi . o. II.

A JOURNEYMAN POINTER WKO ia wilting to wmk at C Ac and Prcls, and wbo wiibtj a pcrnn.j ;.i fituatU

s, can lc accc;n:L-;attd

at the taTice of

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