Western Sun, Volume 8, Number 23, Vincennes, Knox County, 10 May 1817 — Page 3

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JOIIS Mc.GlFFIS,8f Co. WJ espf.ctfuli.y inform the Citizens 7 XV of Vincennes, and the public in general, that they have commenced the

Mercantile Business

ON M t STREET, at the stand latelv occupied by HARLOW & TRIMBLE, where they have on hand A General Assortment of DU Y -GOOD S C5 (iQERIES) II Rl, ") V Q UK EN'S S WARk assorted, TIN J Also a Large Quantity of KEHHAWA SALT) Which they will dispose of at the most reduced prices for CASH. March 28. 7 tf

" Try all things, and holdfast to that which is best." THE, undersigned hairing sold out his stock of Merchandize, and

wishing to close his store accounts, re-

itiests those who are indebted to him to

call at his oftic.e and discharge their ar

rearages bv the first of Vplil ensuing.

I te now advertises (for the first time !) that he acts as a CONVEYANCER, and that lie intends PRACTISING LAW in Gibson, Knox, and the two adjoining Counties and if made worth his while, will attend occasionally, in any other county in the First Circuit. His practice as a LAWYER shall be fair liberal and correct, lie resides on Main street, in Vineetlrtes and may be easily found by a sign board over the door, inscribed. GENi. W. JOHNSTON. February 27, 18 17. 13-tf

WAR DEPARTMENT, Section of Bounty Lands. ALL persons entitled to Military Bounty Lands for services rendered the U. States during the late war, Would do well to recollect the notice given from this branch of the War Department, so lon;r since as the 22d of Angus', 1815, and Whici has been repeated in the public newspapers many times since that date, viz a V Land Warrant will not be issued to an exetutot nor to an ttdminUtrmtor. The government of the U States has not authorised any person to act as an agent for the purpose of transacting any part of the business relative to the obtaining Military Land Warrants ; Which will, as usual, be issued gratis at the War Department : nor does it reCOgni&e any pretended Land Office for such fiurfnsts, nor any other a$ ncii of that nature, in any State of the American Union. " August is 15 " tn addition to the above, it may be proper to remind applicants of the ctasses above referred to. that their letters and documents need not be addressed to any individual at the seat of government, by tiame, but simply to u TtttS Secretary of W ar, Washing 'on dry. D C " Their communication should contain the address to which the reply ought to be transmitted. April 8, 1817. 2:-3w NOTICE r INTEND to apply to the County Commissioners, for the county of Knox, ami state of Indiana at their next

rm to be held in August next, for

cave to establish a ferrv across the Wa

bash, from mv laud, commonly known bv the name of the Stone Landing to the opposite Hank. Hf. LASSELLE. April 4, 18 17. 18-3t-1) the President of the 0 States. "mJTTHEREAS, by the first section of an Act of Congress passed on the 3 1st day of March 18'8, entitled " An act concerning the sale of the lands of the U State and for other purposes" the President of the U States is authorized to cause certain public lands to be offered for sale j Wherefore, I J vmes Monroe, President of the U States, in conformity With the said act and other acts of Congress, providing tor the sale anil disposal of the Lands of the LV States south of Tennessee do hereby declare and make known that public sales for the disposal agreeably to law, of the public Lands, in the district ot Petri aver, bounded on

t.ie vvesi Dytne L.lnckasaw bay ner, en die south by the parallel of tAfc 1 of .orth latitude, on the east by thetfni;? and Tombigby rivers, and on the north by the Creeks. Santaboguc and Boue Homo, (the one falling bttoth Tombigby and the other into the Chickasawhay rivers) which have been surveyed and returned to the Register of the Land office at St. Stephens and which have not been disposed of or excepted from sale by law, shall be held at St. Stephens, on the River Tombigby, on the first Monday of July next and continue till the said lands have been offered for sale.

( Given under my hand the eighth day

ot March one thousand eight hundred and seventeen.

JAMES MOX

By the President,

Josiam Meigs, Commissione

of the General Land Office March So 20-7vvtl June.

jy Sale of Lots in WASHINGTON. (Indiana.) HIS Scitf. being lately chosen by 1 the Commissioners appointed by the legislature to fix the permanent seat

ot justice for Daviss county, is situatecjL in the Forks of White River on theT

Main state road, leading from Cincinnati and Louisville to Vincennes, & is about 20 miles from the latter it is also within four miles of that beautiful and navigable stream, the West Fork of Whtts River, at which place the road crosses said river, at the falls. This town is situated in a rich and fertile country, surrounded on all sides by rich and wealthy farmers it adjains Liverpool, on the north, a flourislAA little village containing 5 or 20 fanSs

and ill which there are two or three never ' failing springs, which afford a sufficiency of stock water throughout the year, and there is also within six miles of Washington, six Giist and two Saw-Mills. Together with all the above advantages, it has one which few towns c boast of, an advantage too which shoul interest every person wishing to pu chase lots in the western country, this advantage is health Liverpool adjoining the town of Washington, has been settled about 7 years, 3 years of which it was occupied as a fort, and it appears almost mcreditable to say that there rhas not during that time been a single dkth in it and such is the fact that dumga settlement of 7 years there is ntjSii the death of an infant reco ck d In srt W vsmxoTnx in point of He t. rn is the garden spot of Indiana T'te sale of lots will commence on the second monday in June next. Terms of sale will be made known on the day of aale by ' JOHN ALLEN, Agent for Daviss tountij, April 3, 1817. 19- 9 w

THE WESTERN SUN, VINCENNES: SATURDAY, May 10, 1817.

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New & Cheap Goods.

THE subscriber has now open a and general assortment of

RY GOODS,

'GROCERIES.

11 j on xr tnv

a 1 I i its wv via IJy, CUTLERY.

QUEENS IV ARE. TIN J TARE, HATS, SHOES, BOOKS, $e. cS'c.cSr. suitable for the present and approaching seasons. Those goods were selected by Inmseif with care, at Baltimore and Philadelphia, and he believes he is enabled, as he certainly is disposed t scTrjhf' ni in a way that should be pleasing, at.,prices the most reduced. PavmenWwtid be received in Corn, rwrt , Skins, Hec&yja.r or any articles of country ftroduce triat may suit for exportation at a fair price. JOHN EWIXG. Vincennes, Jan. 3. 1817. 5-tf

ICrJOHN EWINO has an agency for sening articles manufactured at the

Pittsburgh Iron and .Vail Factory any

of which he will disnose of at tritlinif ad

.nice on the Pittsburgh prices, and

riage. CUT NAILS made there

very description he has now open on retail at 25 cents per pound. CO TTO.Y in the bale. S PCX COTTOM assorted and FACTORY COTVOX. with a variety of other DOMES TIC GOODS, will be open for sale in a few days.

BLANK DEEDS, Tor sale at the V. Sua oflice.

In our paper of March 27th, we published a communication handed to us by a respected correspondent, signed 1 Vesuvius' it poured to warm lava of patriotic and honest principle upon the instigators of a meeting that had been called at Corydon to filch the peoples rights, and palm upon them some wouid-be great man, as representative to Congress it also censured the antt republican practice of bringing forward any man in sucn a way, and it giancedlat the possibility or probability of any measure of that nature originating at Corydon, as being under executive influence That publication we find noticed in the Indiana Gazette of tne 3d inst. from which we giean, and " are now happy to announce, that the people have manifested the ir decided disapprobation bv their entire negled to attend" the meeting at the time and place appointed " The Gazette, equally willing to make false and imprudent accusations' against us as to laud and screen his . xcellency " calis upon us to inform our readers that the intended cauctia 1 ad not its origin in executive influence ' which if it be true, we wish they may believe indeed the failure of the meeting is corroborative for let it originate where it may, we are unacr-uainted with any man now in opposition to this reputable governor, who would permit his name to be brought forward by such an assemblage. The peoples rights cannot be upheld by infringement nor can a good cause require any such aid. Such meetings might become his excellency V caue but the voice of the people must not be smothered. If the Editors of the Gazette know that the meeting originated with those who oppose the continuance of Jennings as governor, and Hendricks as representative, they certainly know more about the matter than some who have as fair an opportunity and whither it did, or did not, it is a pract:ce so anti-republican) und so reprehensible, that no man coming forward under such auspices would be supported by us. 15ut it is likely the Editors of the Gazette were not in this cc untry when Mr Jennings first came before the peopleand they may be ignorant of the time and manner we well remember the time, and all the attendant circumstances so we believe our correspondent 'Vesuvius" does and there appears more than one re ison to beli ve and to think, that ' his excellency' may recom

mend to those Wlo elM.im, tne prac

tices by which he sei

vYe heartily v. ;sh so

of talents might be fore the people with

and offer to represent them m the next Congress We are now an independent State, and should have no dependants upon party or power we will have no

vassals to rule over us, for our own vas

salage has ceased. The Indiana Gazette seems to take much pleasure in announcing Mr. Hendricks as again before the people as a candidate for Congress we do not participate in this joy yet we believe we know Mr. Hendricks as well as the Editors of that p iper, and assure them will feel happy in hereafter announcing to our readers, that he has been left to stay and make money at home. nd we shall feel doubly happy, if a man of integrity, talents and respectability, be sent in his stead this we hope will be the case. The state should have a representativeour present great, very great men have been gratified too long for the peoples good they are only capable of attending to their own affairs.

eutAKi

msc.t.

Ruential man to come be-

indendence,

COMMUNICATION. I7r. Stout. YOU seem to have drawn down upon you the high displeasure of a certain Mr Amicus, alias Philo-Reflector, alias Fair Plav This writer seems to have the faculties of the Camelion he can change the colour and appearance of his subject matter to suit the whim of the moment In one paper he can dare

vnu tn t i-nmp nn. mine on bcirin tl

grand attack," in the next he can c

1 leaJP

sure vou for haring began it He c

then, for his own benefit 1 presume, des

out a little 44 food for scribblers The ensuing week he can resort to epithets of personal abuse, and avow his intenti

on to abandon the cause, although the I

next paper may present him assuming a different appearance. He wed knows that J4 a crooked cause requires winding." He discovered himself caugnt as Philo-Reflector last week, and in last cvening's Centinel, he appears as tne peace loving Amicus as his weeks work is there, and as I have only a few minutes to notice it before your paper be put to press, I must be brief It seems to be notning in the opinion of Vmicua whither a newspaper be influenced by ambitious demagogues, and beiongs to a faction, or not, nor does ho seem to cart if the peopic couid be deluded into a beiief of the pretended parity and unbiassed freedom of Mr Jennings' Centinel does this writer not know, or has ne never read, tnat such nun as his 4 excellency,1 disposed as rhey too of en are to impose upon the people will fi:-t trammel the press by influence and then instead of permitting it to be what it was originally intended it should be the pailld'U 11 oft e peopi s rig its, they ".v. 1 debase, and m ke it tl e tfefi nder & protector of their nu n corruption I The circnmstar.ti land presumptive proof you ha e already publisher rpecting tris Centinel are strongly ,-oiro-boratedby the con se it has pursued, and the well known disposition of mr J can leave no doubt as :j lits views in sending n here But : r emember when vou first noticed that paper, you ave your opinion of mr Jennings, and it was an opinion lor the correctness of widen I would guarantee that nine tenths of the people who know him would vouch By paity spi' it a one can tl.at man be upheld, and as you very justly remarked, 4 party spirit is the bane of freedom." Your first notice of that p iper also stated, that a free press is tne best security for the peoples rights and that its excellence depends on the virtue and vigour republican pmity and freedom which direct it. This was your most severe cut at li.e Centinel, and it must have been that remark that irritated, the truth of which none who are otherways situated t'.n they are would dare to dispute But this Amicus deals in generals, be can notice nothing in particular 'tis a happy knack some folks have to jump over things As was your duty, you a'd before your readers t!,e reasons that influenced your be'ief with regrrd to the origin ana aim of that paper many others can be adduced when occasion requires but all you p-ave remain unaffected f om any thing vt snid by them and as this sly win ing is obvious proof to nic of their correctness, nothing further can now be neces-

You did saw and i' was too tiue,

svrv

1 - t "the purse st' mgs o! the . tate are at their disposal to supp rt it " and if 'is renowned excellency did rot. desire to hold them purse ,;ti 13 ''is very unHkeK indeed to me 'tis certain, tht pa-p'-v in nuestlon would not have beep nt ' ere But be that as t may they ('o hotd fhf purse strings of the ':inc, and a por1i n of its contents i! ev will use as they please unfortunately we have no reason to believe they will use it for the (roo-1 of the people as regards them, w o have no instance of that sort on record But T cannot say more, ror need I at present for no doubt as the Centinel has began it will continue it must in some "war or either excite partv spirit, else it will fail in effecting the contemplated purpose and if so, T will arain appear I have to advise that you beedlesslv pass tbeir groaning -when they cannot lustifv themselves, they may be expected to b!?me vou they may indirectly trv to shew t at faction has not contaminated tl,cir vision, and they may trv to fritter away the force of vour remarks bv onlv attacking the shadow -but the oeop'c can duly apnr ciate, and vour useful nanc will only be more esteemed by the independent and trc rood. PH1LO AMICUS.

doctor L. S. SHULER, PHYSICIAN, SURGEON Sc ACCOUCHEUR J Late from York, RESPECTFUL.! Y informs the inhabitants of Vincennes, and its vicinity, that he has commenced practice in this place, and now occupies a loom in the house of J. Bond, where he will at all times cheerfully attend to those who may call on him. He hopes by unremitted attention his knowledge anrl experience in the different branches of his profession, to merit a share of the public patronage. Those residing at a considerable distance, wishing to employ him, are assured that the best assistance will be afforded, on the most liberal terms.Advice in ail gaes given nUi l-tf March 14, 1317.