Western Sun, Volume 8, Number 35, Vincennes, Knox County, 2 August 1817 — Page 1

THE WESTERN SUN

From the Press of ELIHU STOUT, Publisher of the Laws of the United States, VIXCENNES, (Ind) SATURDAY, AUGUST 2, 1817. No. 35. Vol. 8.

THE H ESTERS SUSy

IS printed on every Saturday, at Two Dollars per annum, if paid Ul advance. r TWO Dollars and Fifty Cents at the end of the year, for Which a note will be required. No subscription can be withdrawn until all arrearages are paid. V Irertiaements conspicuously inserted n the usual terms. A Ivertising customers Will note on their advertisements the numln r of times they wish them inserted 1 nose sent Without such directions will be continued until forbid, and must be paid for ac

cordingly.

ELECTORS.

'TIE qualified Electors of the district .V . ..inllu ill k 1U1V. Sill-

Cdiunoseu 01 cullm - . -

I: van and Daviess, ire hereby notihed Sc requested to attend at the place ot holding Elections in their respective Townshins, on the Hist Monday of August nexts (agreeably to ah act of the General Assembly) approved 2d lanuary 18 17) k brocetd to vote for one Member to Conpress, and throe Representatives to the State Legislature. At which time one County Commissioner will be elected in ICnox to supply the place of m. Bruce, Esq. resigned. A V:;RD TO TAX xBLtS. The Tiiables of Knox are hereby notified and required to attend at the following times and places, (with cash or paper, receivable at the Land Office J to pay their State and County Taxes tor the present year, viz : at the Court-

House in vmcennca v-

ika oi,t V n iru st next ; at tne

house of Adam Harness, in I ccker tttwr shkson Saturday the 30th August ; St thShouse i f William Gamble, in Ham sonY&Nvnship on Saturday the 6th ot Sj ptJi ;at the houseof John Hogue in -almyra Township, on Saturday the 13th September at the house of VVm. 1 nice in Washington Township, on Saturday the 20th September; at the house of v Saml. VTcCrare in Busseron township, on Monday the 2d j and at the house oi Alexander Chambers in Widner Township, on Tuesday the 23d September The strictest punctuality Will

be expected of all I am not bound to change any man s money, you will please come prepared with small money. B. V. BEC FS,

Shff.

K. C.

JULY 15, 1817. INDIANA Set.

Knox Ciacun i ourt,towit.

May term, 1817.

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This day came the complainant by his counsel, and it appearing to the satisfaction of the Court that the defendant b not an inhabitant of this State Therefore on motion of the said complainant by his counsel it is ordered that unless the said defendant do appear here on or b fore the first d y of the next term of this court and am we: the said complaint ants Bill the same will be taken and considered as confessed against him, and he is further ordered, that a copy of this order be forthwith inserted in the Western Sun for eight weeks successively. A :- opy Teste, R. Bl KTIN, Clerk e. c. k r. 28 BW

7 BANK OF VINCENNES, The State Hank of Indiana. 6th June, 18 17. Those Stockholders who have not paid the second Instalment of five dollars on e h of their shares, are hereby requir l to pay the same to the commissi) ors in the several counties ot the State, under whose direction the said s ares were su. on or before the first rday of Septi tnber next By oi der of the Hoard IS A VC BLA K.FORD, Cash'r.

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n Chancerv.

INDIANA See. Knox Circuit Court, to wit:

iav tenru 1817.

William Mcintosh vs.

Samuel A. Chew

ii Bcattu, Admin

istrators of Samuel-

Uoyd Chew deceased, Benjamin Parke 42 Henry Hurst.

This day came the complainant by his counsel and it appearing to the satisfaction of the Court that Samuel A. Chew and Eii Beatty administrators aforesaid, two of the defendants to the complainants Bill, are not inhabitants of this state, and they not having entered their appearance herein agreeably to law and the rules of this court Therefore on motion of the said William M'Intosh the complainant herein, it is ordered, that unless the said Samuel A. Chew and Eli 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 Teste, R. BUMTIN, Clerk c. c. k c.

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iOOD BARGAINS,

WISH to dispose of Lot No. 40 in the oid donation containing 400 acres

there is on this tract a handsome prairiet and the greatest part of the tract firs, rate and all gocfcl farming land ALSO 204 acres adjoining the ( ommons of Yincennes, Which I will sell entire, or in smali tracts to suit purchasers, presuming no person will wish to purchase without first seeing the land, it will be shown, and the terms made known on application to

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May 15, 1817.

VIGO. 24 tfv

BLANK DEEDS,

JoliJN iVUilFIi,& Co.

avejust received, (hi add it i

to t h vlrformL r tock )

A GENERAL ASSORTMENT OF

Dry Goods & Groceries:

m CONSISTING IN PART, OS

Suptrfine Cloths. Domestic CoUcns,

Yellow

md Blue

Nankeens Ginghams, Silk Umbrellsa Sc o o s, Young Hyson, Sc Imperial Teas Madeira Port Sc Claret Wines Caogniac Brandy Jmaica Rum Draft Porter,

muslins, ?iiks, Raw cc Spun cotton, Coffee, Loc'f, Lump Sc Orleans Sugar Whiskey Mackerel Window Glass, Cut and Wrought Nails, Sait, Tar, Bar lrM 8c castings

Soap.

ALSO,

A few doz. dressed Calf & Morocco SKINS UPPER LEATHER, &c. .V! of which, they will dispose of Wholesale or R rtail, (at a very modeiate advance) FOR CASH. June 13, 29 tf TOILOTS FOR SALE 1WI?Tl1 to dispose of a number of Bri.DI.yrC; LOTS in the town of Bussf.ron also three lots with two good huiidiags thereon, now occupied as a store & tavern also 40 or 50 acres of fust rate land, adjoining the same. A grea' bargain will be given in the a, hove property for a part paid in handand a reasonable credit for the balance JAMES DUN KIN. April 21, 1317. 21-tf

3 &ENHAWA S ALT 0 jbl the first quality for sale by

JO US DULY

T Busseron prairie one mile From

Carlisle, which will be sold low lor

Cash Furs and skins, or for produce, such as Coin and Wheat. 8-tf Januarv 23 1817.

from the Long Island Star. OBSKRVER. One fruitful source of idleness, dissipation and bankruptcy is the multiplication of small stores in the country. A young man who has saved some money by his industry, or obtained some from his friends soon finds labor irksome, and desires to be a merchant. He purchases goods to the extent of ins capita) & credit : and as country people are fond of running to a new store, he gets rid of his goods , and gets in return a list of bad accounts. Such men had better stick to their farms, or workshops. It is painful to resort to labor after long exemption from it ; and especially by one who has lost money rapidly, and must now recover it gradually. It is a great error in fathers to prefer rearing a son behind the counter, rather than in a workshop or in the field. Can it be more honorable to measure rum & molasses tape and ribbons than to follow the hardy pursuits of agriculture or manufactured I The arts of trade and speculation are not suited to all capacities ; and hence failures, ftauds, and ruin- We should instruct young men to live by their hands rather than their wits, and they will rarely fail. A life of industrious tranquility is more congenial to domestic enjoyment to the advancement of the mental powers to health & it is believed, generally to the acquisition of property. The Oid and the TsTevv World.

BLANK CHECKS, CuecK Booksniid,

What influence, the future destiny of the new world is to have on the fortunes of the old, opens a wide fieid for speculation On this subject we may, with the most perfect truth, say, that we have passed completely into the region of conjecture, history is here totally dumb, and experience blind. We are left without our ordinary lights and guides to analogical reasoning; and inference That

restive faculty, imagination, i.i at libel

to nuikl wliat theories it pleases to sti

nose all that is probable or possible of the

1 A fate of nations to anticipate the best or the worst consequences o'f national freedom and individual happiness, to human power and renown in both hemispheres It is impossible, in short, to say, what effect upon the fate of Europe or ourselves is to follow the cultivation of the wastes that lie spread for thousands of miles Define us ; the diffusion of the arts of civilization over all this wide expanse ; the rapid formation of numberless communities ; and the multiplication of the species to an almost unimaginable extent. The prospect seems too big to be grasped by human reason with its present impel feet lights too indefinite to be compressed, even w ithin the limits of probable reasoning and rational conjecture The mind is lost in an abyss of wonder, doubt, and admiration. f Will the old world preserve its.-ftower i;s riches and renown, as the arts and intentions of civilized life appear to enlighten and exalt the new ? Will her oppulent cities lose their wealth, her commerce perish, her various enterprise stagnate, her seats of science and learning decay, from the rival ship of the region she has populated and schooled ? Or will she become more powerful, more rich, resplendent in renown, as the resuits of her knowledge, the fruits of her power k riches diffuse themselves over this western region ? The mind struggles to liberate itself from this place of darkness and suspense It seizes and ciings to analogies the most faint and doubtful. It will speculate & systematize to relieve itself from painful doUbt, though on the most imperfect

materials. nat snail we ueauce, merer

fore, from the scanty records of a fe

thousand vcars only, that can be in th

tf least satisfactory ? What examples can we collect, out of which to build even our plausible theories, in this narrow I pan of authentic history ! Shall we say t at communities of men rise perform an that the capabilities of their local com dition and political organization will ad-

m t, and sink from the inevitable corrupVl

tionofthe elements of our human nature Shah we pronounce that all social com bination is subject to the law of decay th t society is tainted and corrupted in its essencf in its cn e ind vital part

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its moral principle after a certain num ber of generations have distinguished themselves, and disappeared from an extensive theatre of action ? Shall we be right in holding that man requires a new scene for his enterprize and ambition, when the soil on which he lias for centuries bloomed in his vigour which lias been made to glow with the splendid fruits of his genius & ambition, becomes effete and dead to further improvement I This may be so ,t mav require the) breaking up of the new giobe to reanimate his living energies, and vastly prolific resources. New communities may emerge by a translation of oid materia, into fresh power and splendour ; greatly modified in their genius, their habits, their manners, by difference of local situation by new laws and institutions by the influence of neighboring communities. Greece gave no sign of her Egyptian or Phoenician origin in the brilliancy of her genius in the character of her pursuits in the spirit of her institutions. But the power of these formidable empires had at the period of this settlement and emigration already far waned to its extinction ; the marks of their ancient glory nearly ail effaced by inherent decay, perhaps by the rise of ival communities, and the shifting of population. And what Athenian if he was again to visit his country, could recognize in her defaced features and h otted glories, the lineaments of her former "face divine." The Turk vexes, by his wasting dominion, the country whose) sons vanquished in the fullness of its pride, the Persian monarchy the country of Homer and of Pericles the parent and nurse of manly sentiment the region of taste, of poetry, and of heroism. An advocate of her eastern brio-ia might give to Rome a settlement, from the same cause that populated Greece the superabundant population of decayed and decaying empires, pouring into the uncleared and vacant spots, that invited an establishment. The theorv, that gives this military nation a Gothic origin, cannot be reconciled so well with this conclusion. Nevertheless, the manners, habits, tastes, 5c institutions of Rome, were ail different from those of every then existing community ; and after she had accomplished all that was possible, by the force of her peculiar genius & urhouuded power, her period of corruption ca .ie on her moral energy, the vital spring ot pll national power, submitted to irre sistable decay, A mutual interchange with all her antient inhabitants, with the more vigorous races of the north, assured the world, by another example of the sure resuscitation of human genius and energy, by new prospects, new wants & fresh incitements to activity and enterprize. Can any one, therefore, undertake to say, that the old world will verge to its downfall, as the new, nursed bv her genius, her arts, her spirit of enterprize, rises into rivalship in commerce 8c wealth, and dares to emulate her in all that constitutes her immense power and renown? That here, also we are to look, after the lapse of a certain period, for the springs of human exertion relaxed c lost ; power prostrated; art and science losing their useful and brilliant discoveries ; and all the lights and refinements of civil izat: on extinguished That person must l ave great audacity in speculation, who would urge such an hopothesis, with t! e imperfect lights that history holds out to us. Southern Pat.

Geaeral Post Office. The post master general of the United States has recently published a small work, containing a vieiv of the progress of 'he General Post Office Department. From an extract of this work, publish, ed in the Washington City Gazette, we gather the following comparitive view of the number of post offices, length of the post roads, and the yearly distance of the transportation of the mails, at various periods during the last twenty f ur years. The reader will he surprised to find, that there are now more than times as many post offices in the United States as there were in 1793; and that the mails are now carried over an anual distance iriare than twenty tn-j hundred times as great as they ,rere at that pp

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