Western Sun, Volume 8, Number 28, Vincennes, Knox County, 14 June 1817 — Page 2

ritory of Alabama, shall be issued and bear teste as heretofore ; nor shall any auit be discontinued, or the proceedings in any cause stayed, or in any wise affected by any thing contained in this act, or in the act entitled An act to enable the people of the western part of the Mississippi territory to form a constitution and state government, and for the Admission of such state into the union on an equal footing with the original states." Sec. 8 And be it further enacted That the town of St. Stephen's shall be the seat of government for the said Alabama territory, until it shall be otherwise ordered by the Legislature thereof Sec 9. And be it further enacted That whatever balance may remain in the treasury of the Mississippi territory, at the time when the convention authorized to form a constitution and state government for the western part of said territory, may have formed a constitution and state government for the same, shall be divided between the new state and territory according to the amount which may have been paid into said Treasury from the counties lying within the limits of such state and territory respectively. n. clay, Sfieaker of the House of Representatives. JOHN GA'LLARD, President o f the Senate fir temfiorc. March 3 1817 approvf.d, JAMES MADISON.

PARTY SPIRIT. For more than twenty years our country lias been doomed to struggle among the agitation of factious violence. Party collisions have cast a shade over our national character, wasted our strength, endangered our union, assaulted the basis of our con fttitution, and placed in jeopardy our very existence as a nation. We are happy in observing a m re auspicious epoch dawing Upon us. Political parties are forgetting their animosities, and extinguishing those fierce contentions that have so long triumph e 1 over patriotism and reason. We hale the period of their decline as the harbinger of happier days ; as the presage of an era that shall be filled with every thing great and illustrious in the history of empires. It is time the American republic should present a new spectacle to man kind. She has di awn the sword, and gloriously vindicated her honor, her independence, and her sovereignty. She has reaped a fame upon the land, and displayed achievements on the ocean, that will encircle her name with a renown that shall gather splendor from the lapse of time, and bind her escutcheon with wreaths of immortality. Let it now be her aim and her pride to show a nation ot freemen, bending their united exertions to extend the blessings of peace, and ensure the happiness of their common country. If the records of ages be not the dreams of fane v. and the inentions of imposition ; if man, in these m Kiern davs, be not diVested of the dignity sUmpt upon him by God and by nature; there is such a principle in the human soul as love of countryman elevated rational feeling that soars above the narrow interests, the degrading, and contemptible prejudices that chain down man to the dregs ot the earth, and extinguishes in his breast the last germ of public Spirit. If, indeed, it unfortunate y ha- alone existed in theory, let ours be the distinguished honoi of displaying it in practice. Our prospect- to the last de gree are animated and uncloud ed but our sentiments must be

more national, and our views more enlarged, before our country can attain her just rank in the scale of national consideration. When we shall cease to be a divided people, and the victims of our own folly when the selfish and local pleasures that now bend us to our best interests shall be lost in the prosperity and glory of the republic, then will she unfold her vast resources to an obstacle, and hold a uniform and irresistible march to the grand elevated fortunes which await her. One great cause of a violent diversity of opinion in his country, has past away ; we mean the difference of opinion which existed in relation to the friendship and enmitv of foreign nations. Napoleon no longer moves artel agitates the political world. France is a poor, wretched, a id degraded nation. she ever ha I influence in foreign courts, she has none now. And as it iegards England, the late war has at least taught us to expect nothing from her forbearance. Let us treat her with justice and magnanimity but who is so wild and biotted as not to view her as a haughty and overbearing commercial rival ? We believe that the American people are rapidly approximating to one opinion and one sentiment concerning all foreign nations : We shall settle down under the rational conviction that their friendship is no broader than their interest. Our duties are plain and simple. V needs no Egyptian priests, no Pe s in magic, to interpret them. I becomes us to m'nsjle together as one great political family to strengthen our union to guard our constitution, a- we guard the seal of life : to prose cute every internal improvement, which will contribute to the hap piness. the strength and grandeur of the nation ; and above all to disseminate the blessings of education with an ardor commensurate with their importance in a free government. B it in our endeavor to reconcile our distentions let n seductive charm that names and titles may wear ; let no alluring professions tempt us from a rigid at tachment to first principles ; to the genuine r epublican principles; nobly maintained by our fathers. The pomp and pagantry of power may vanish, as the dreams of other years ; thrones may crumble, and kingdoms be no more ; men may change and the fiery zealot wear the ignominous stamp of apostacy ; but the principles of civil and 7'eligiou.s liberty are eternal. National Standard. Baltimore, May 3 It is mentioned in a Nassau paper of the 12th ult. that intelligence had been received there from the Spanish Maine, that

Gen. Morillo, commander of the royal forces, had been defeated by the patriots of the valley of St. Joseph, and that he was mortally wounded in the conflict The independent troops under Bolivar and others, had generally been successful ; and the patriot Hliizers had much increased in Jlimbers Toe latter complain

of the protection afforded by British convovs to Spanish vessels, and threaten to capture all &ey meet with under such convoy, wothout respect thereto. Bait. Pat. NashviUe April 15 B ALT; There have been so many borings for Salt tat have turned out to be worth nothing, that we receive with distrust the accounts of new discoveries. This distrust is removed in respect to a late discovery by Mr. Jenkins, about 80 miles above Nashville, and within one mile of Cumberland river. He bored about sixty feet, when he struck the salt water, which immediately rose within four feet of the top of the earth ; on trying the water it was found that it was so satured it would not dissolve sat and every ten bushels of watei made ore o beautiful white sa't As far as the experiment ha beer made, by all the kiltie to be had in the neighborhood, which have

! made 20 bushels a day, there is every reason to beHe e that there is sufficient to make any quantity of a,f a day or to axn a boa? load of suitable castings were taken up the river. The success of Jenkins has prompted several enterprising capitalists to purchase adjoning laud, and beg n other diggings. We wish them all success, and latter ourselves that day is not distant when Cumberland river will furnish salt on better term than any other branch of the Ohio river. I YA VDREIV s. m carmic JflFFF.Rs his services to the citizens X Jr of incenns in the practice of hysic. .He flatters himself from the resuit of experience and practice, and having had the advantage in practice with the most eminent physician (Dr Anthony Hunn) in the last prevailing- disease (Typhus fever) that he will render general satisfaction to those who may repose confidence in him. There is no disease t' at the human family may be incident to but he thinks lie has a knowledge of the cause. The fever and ague, if he suffers a third chill to take place, will charge not a cent if his directions are attended to. He may be found at H Lasellcs, where he will keep his shop, and will at all times attend when called on, with assiduity and punctuality. 1 1th June, 1817. 28tf 7 NOTICE. V Meeting of the Board of Trustees I tor tne Dorouerh ot mcennes will be held at the Court house on Friday the 20th inst. at lo o'clock A. M. C. H TILLINGHAST, Clk. June 12, 1817. 28 17 SALE OF LO I S IN THE TOWN OF YORK Y request of a number of persons i wishing to purchase in said town, the proprietors will offer Lots for sale to the highest bidder, on the premises, the i irst day of August next, at ten o'clock, A. M. The well known situation oi this town, and the country adjoining particularly tiie Union Prairie, renders it unnecessary to recapitulate its peculiar advantages. As this place is situated about in the centre of ( raw ford county, it justifies a belief that the permanent seat of justice will be fixed he re. Terms of sale. The proprietors will 2 take approved bonds from the pur

chasers to the amount ot their respective bids, conditioned in three annual payments and win give to the purchasers their bond for a deed to be executed and delivered on the receipt of the last payment. Jt UN i RICHARDSON, ISRAEL AHRis. York, 5th June, 1817. 28 WBITLNG PAPER,

WD TAX A Set. Knox Circuit ol ut, to wit:

m y tci m. i iUon, Comfft, 1 ory.DejU. J M v term, is 17 William M Wil In ChnnCt ry. vs Sol' m on S. St T is day came the complainant by his counsel, and it appearing to t!-c hi isfaction of the Court that the defeta t is not an inhabitant of this State Tl e refore on motion of the said complain t by his counsel it is ordered that unless the said defendant do appear here cn or before the first day of ttie next term of this court and answer the said complainants Bill the same will be taken and 1 1 t,sidered as confessed against him, and it is further ordered, that a copy of tl :s order be forthwith inserted in the West ern Sun foreign! weeks successively. A ( opv Teste R. BvNTIN, Clerk c. c. r. c. 28 8w INDIANA Set. Knox Circuit ot i t. to wit : R ay term, 1817. Vi'illiam hrintoih vs. Samuel A Chew & EH Beat tyi) Admin in t rut or of Su w u el I.i yd Cht 7v d o as i Benjan in Parki IT Henry Hurst. ) In Chancery. T is day came the complainant by his counsel and it appearing to the satisfac tionof the ' ourt that Samuel A CI ev and E:i Beatty administrators aforesaid, two ofti c defendants to t;,e complainants 13:ii,a'T no' inhabitants of t!:is state, and they not having entered tl eir ;.ppearancC herein agreeably to law ni the lines of this court Therefore on motion of the sahl Y;'!iam V Intosh the complainant herein, it is ordered that unless the said Samuel A. hew and Eii Beatty administrators aforesaid appear here on the first day of the next September term of this court and answer the said Bill the same will be taken and considered as confessed against them. And it is further ordered, that a copy of this order be forthwith inserted in the Western Sun for eight weeks successively. A Copv Tste, R. BUMTIN, Clerk c. e. k. c. 28 8w . YD TAJYA Set. Knox Circuit ourt, ro wit May term 1817. Christianna Withers 1 On libel and pcvs. (. tition for DiH'Miam L. Withers. J vorce. It appearing to the satisfaction of the court that the l ibel has been filed and a Subpcena regularly issued from the ( lerk's office and returned non est" and it further appearing that the sakj William L. Withers isnotan inhabitant of this state Therefore on motion of petitioner's counsel it is considered that unless the said Wiliiam L Withers appear here at the next September term of this court, and answer the petition aforesaid, the same will be taken as confessed and decreed accordingly and that this order be inserted in the Western Sun for eight weeks successively. Teste. R. BoNTIN, Clerk c. c k. c. 28 8w GOOD BARGAINS, 1WISH to dispose of I ot No 40 in the old donation containing 400 acres there is on this tract a handsome prairie, and the greatest part of the tract first rate and all good farming land ALSO 204 acres adjoining the C ommons of Vincennes, which I will sell entire, or in small tracts to suit purchasers, presuming no person will v, Uh to purchase without first seeing the land, it will be shown, and the terms made known on application to F VIGO. May 15, 1817. 24 tfv A WORD to tin ECONOMIST! Abu AH Hill, has left in my hands ids accounts kc. for collection Those who KNOW and those who THINK they owe him, would Oblige him, and may-be benrjit themseles, by calling on the undersigned, at his office

in Vincennes, between now and the 1 5th June next in Ord.r to settle their accounts Friendly admonitions, of tie present kind, have become so common that they have lost much of their effect ! Be U s U may I have now done as I v ould be done by. Ci W. JOHNSTON, May 14, IS 17. 24 ftw mi