Western Sun, Volume 8, Number 16, Vincennes, Knox County, 22 March 1817 — Page 1

THE WESTERN SUN.

Fi Din tlif? Press of ELlllU STOUT, Publisher of the Laws of tiic United States. Vol. 8.1 VINCENNES, (Ixu.) SATURDAY, MARCH nz, is 17. No. 16.

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SCHEME OF A LOTTERY, FOR BUILDING A MASONIC LODGE.

IX rHE TOWN OF St. LOUIS. Vo subset iption can be w uhdiawn tin- l PRIZE of S 5,000 is $ 5,000 lil aH crrcai 9 are paid. 2 lo 1,-mj 2, I A'. I con . Ii insert- 1 1 ( 6,000 flvertisuix customers "will not? on Vo ,? crk mr tkttir advertisements the number of times 340 (ir ) 6 200 they wibli t'aein inserted Those sent 900 do 10 9,000 without u It directions will be continu- ?t 1 6 15,300 c I until forbid, and must be paid for fcc- " . , , , ,. , 4,018. Less than two blanks to a prize.

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New Cheap Goods, j HE sul ! c tbet has ft open a large a;- I gem ral assortment of

;.'. 1 UOODS, Gil KRIESi

HARD fVARl

VUTEERY.

QUEENS II

TIN WARE, II ITS, SHOES, B0OfS, vS'c. vyr.vV-. suitable for the present and approaching , ,fas Those goods were selected by himself with care, at Ikvitimorc and Philadelphia and he believes he is enabkd, n -i he certainly istksposetl to sell them 111 a way that should hv pleasing, at ;n-

the mos1 reduced. Payment wm oe ;iv d in C r;;, F&1 Skins, Bec&UMJC

or am articles of country produce that may suit for exportation, at a fair price JOHN EM INCL mcennes, Jan. r. 18 ir. 5 -if C7JOHN EWINC has an agency

for telling articles manufact1 Pittsburgh from and Acil '.- of which he will dispose of at vance on the Pittsburgh price i 1 T. V. L 1 VI ! , 1 very description, (10 hrs 00 i rciail, at 5 cents pcrj UUtl. CO rro.Y in the bale, . assorted, and I '. ?C 3T0 T'OJwi with a vanetvoi other

ces l'CC

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GOODS, v ill

a few days

Keep vour Cah ai liVine.

r"EH;. su scribcr lu.s i o on band, sL ar I intends coi keeping, ol ' his own manufacture . a supply of V) SCREVN AUGERS, of all sizes, and A a su r qualit) farmers, car 3 nters, and others, that may

I sh tO prcu re

Vine

will

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e to home manufacture. JOHN B. STROP! .9i incs, March , is 17. 1 v-tf NOTICE r c who stand indebted to iu e n u or iu)tk account, :'r-,' reo call : n 1 pay off tie moo on thi i5th day 01 April Dxtj I

lu'.v e a coun s, to

are dni agreeably to be paid by the time I am determine 1 to

uits, if ik t other me N ! exc 11 a

M ho

'I he i i.:tia and Ran greis

hai e them settledi hj

wise closed by that t? will be t ikcn. so none 'v'nv fullv satisfied n

an he t-iven.

ha o been paid, your Wins . t a, in 1 f v. Pork sold, and yet your old debts -v . suflered to stand m tth d d excuse, unless accompanied with the cash, can now be received Land speculatims will i a ay my debts, unless I am the spcculatoi I want land, and must , money to pay for it. WILSON L iOOW. March 5, 131 7. 1 3 5t ! V.VE a quantity of the host quality RENHAWA SALT for 1 edej k w for cash in har.d. "V. L.

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neu as

follows, viz. I he arst drawn 2000 blanks lo be enthled to 6 doll trs each. Tirst drawn number on the 1st, d, 3d, 4ch, 5th, 6t'i. 7th. 8th, 9th, and lf)th dai s drawing, each to be entitled ito one of the above 600 dollar prizes, payable in part by 100 tickets, begining with No. 7001 io No. 9000 inclusive. The first loo tickets for the Qerst drawn No. on the first day and so on in regular succession for the rest. All other prises Boating. Prizes subject to a deduction of IS vr i c nt, payable in 50 days after the draw ing ii completed. To be drawn three times a week, 500 tickets each day.

joshua pilcher;

THOM AS DY,

I). V. WALKER, THOMAS HANLY, J St Louis, Feb. l ;'. cy Tickets lilay be bad in lottery either at the Store of

n.u., or 01 Dradiev

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upper part 01 I hots. Jonc 1 on Main strc c t. Vincenncs, Januaiy, 1817.

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a OTIC E ons indebted to me are re

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tnten . that tu 01 one, dv wel

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toi i iuiaueipiia at e whose accounts iree years standing, to tins n I 'ce. j. D. HAY

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W STORE.

THE subscriber lias recently opened an assortment of MERCHANDIZE, in Mr. 1 Bond's new house 03 Market street, many of which are new

GOODS, I he w hole cor isli DRV - rQODS,

H QUEENS, I W VRES ASSOR r POTTERS, f ED. Sc TIN, IKON & ST LEI,, assorted. M i s SHOES Sc BOOTS. La lies SHOES Sc SLlPi ERS. GROCERIES, See. & . All of which he will sell low foi Casli, or Furs, 8c such articles of coun

tr produce as he can Qispose

1h nefit of himself and pi fi iends. and the nublic

------ m . give him a call. THOMAS V. KINGVincennes, March 1 s 1 r . is 1 BLANK CHECKS, For salt at the office of i 9u ALSO Executions Sr Snpcona. A -For Sale at this oh.

ha sers Hit

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fund, while a public debt exists ; and as an accumulating fund, after the public debt has been extinguished In both cases it increases in the rapid ratio of oe0-

1 , I T honor with the president and aExtract from an essay publshed monnr i, r . .! it it', 'it- nioni; the heads oi the ever-il m the National Intelligencer, denttrwr fn or- , tv.efai ,1 . uppciiiment, to evince bv how on he "organization of the mueh less than the sum total executive departments o) the lowed, or thn that estimated the government o. the U. States. SCn kes of the year can ho tt" The late joint report t the ally performed. The surplus Senate, from the Secretaries of should be annually reported to the different Departments, res- congress, and paid into a surplus pecting the annual settlement of fund; under the siiperintendance the public accompts, has gone the oi one or more officers in the tiefull length of recommending the partment of the revenue. This

institution 01 a Domestic Depart- ind should operate as a sinkino

menu. There are some matters introduced by that report, intimately connected by the symmetry of the Executive Departments It.

is, believed also, that the direct metrical progression.

and imm diate object in the view It is astonishing that, while fioi the Senate ; that of a plan to nanciers have gradually become j cure the annual settlement of convinced of the incredible efthe public accompts, and a more fects of the geometrical pro-res-certain accountability of the pub in relation to a sinking fund lie expenditure, in the respective nnp of them has ever displayed I departments, may admit of some fche important and interesting poillustrations. litical results of the principle of It may, it is believed, be satis- geometrical progression, in relatifactorily slievvn that the depart- on to an accumulating fund, mentsin the American govern- i With the explanations which merits, perhaps in any correct have preceded, it is believed that government, regarded intrinsi- priU economy and account acatly, distinct on the one hand, hihty, in the various branches of from legis itive branch, and tJlc public service, may be securon the r. from the indiei;! cd, as far as bv- hnmanpo j

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vy unman foresight, they can be secured, by a strict adherence to the five following rules : 1st. No persons charged with any public pecuniary concernments should be permitted to speculate in the concernments under their charge. They should be instantly dismissed from office on attempting it. No acuteness, no address, no cunning should be adequate to cover a deception on this point ; no feigned names, no simulated writings, no secret confidence. Let investigation never be refused, whenever it is seriously asked, & from whatever quarter the request may come. And let it be spiritedly followed up Let none be too high, let none be too low, to escape its effects. 2d. No self payments ought to be permitted. The rule ought to be rigorous and withnnf

The propriety of consolidating ception, within the United States the concernments of land and of Whatever claims the person

entrusted with public money may have on the government & however just they may be, he ought not to be permitted to retain against the government, instead of, in any manner, paving himself, his claims ought to be subjected to the same cnura u lth

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pees ougnt to be suffered to ex- the claims 01 every other person - ist ; ec all accountabilities ought nor should he be allowed to apto be brought within their ap- ply a single dollar of the public propriate departments. money to his own use. until his The effects of this principle claims had been examined and may perhaps, although imperfect- passed. Hence would arise a ly, be appreciated from the fol- strong inducement for rendering lowing concise explanations. prompt accompt. All the appropriations made by 3d Short settlements should law for the current service ol the be enforced. As in private life ensuing year, or for any other so in public business, they prepurpose, ought, in a certain ratio elude misapprehensions. The sayior the sake of an example, memory is fresh, the judgment I iat of thirty per cent to trans clear, a habit of punctuality is cend the estimates. A limit is raised. Quarterly settlementi thus fixed, beyond which the ex- should be the longest admissible, ecutive discretion can, by no pos- It will be better after some years sibility, go. Ic ought, then, in to reduce them to two months, practice, to become a point of or sixty days, and, in kw

therefore, em haticallv stiled ex-

ecutive departments, need to be only four. Even a classical division of the executive departments it is presumed, may be made ; their order settled, their names deduced. The department of the revenue in the first. Revenue i the ba! ... of ei . ii government, the sine

tai lion, tnai witnout winch tl other cannot exist.

After that of revenue,

succeed the department of domestic affairs. Domestic affairs natural:;, claim attention anterior to f reign affairs. The department of foreign affairs is naturally anterior to the d partment of war. Peace, in toe order and economy of nature, must precede the relations of hostilities; and in peace must hos1 a 1

tile 1 elations termiiiatc

would

maratime nvc in one department, with two distinct arms or branches might be adequately developed. Tile executive departments, once reduced to a conformity with the principles of correct po

litical science, no anomalous of