Western Sun, Volume 8, Number 37, Vincennes, Knox County, 16 August 1817 — Page 1

THE WESTERN SUN

From the Press of ELIHU STOUT, Publisher of the Laws of the United States. Vol. 8. V INCENNES, (Ind.) SATURDAY, AUGUST 16, 18 17. No. 37.

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THE WESTERS SUN, IS printed on every Saturday, at T-vo DolLrs per annum, it' paid in advance, or Two Dollars and Fifty Cents, at the chI of t ie year, for Which a note wil) he reqtl red. No iubscripiion can be withdrawn i4l til ail arrearages are paid. Advertisement! conspicuously inserted on the usual terms. Advertising customers will note on their advertisements the number of times they Wish them inserted. Those sent

v lout such directions will be continu;itii forbid, and must be paid for actatf of Indiana S In the Kn o r circuit Court May ti rm. 1817. Knox County set OlVtn Riley Foreign AtV(t Babbitt jt r air bank 9 ) j tachmcnt. Tins day came the plaintiff) by v ieorgC P C. Sullivan his attoney, and on motion of the plaintiff by his attorney afotiftsatdj hrdcicri that public notice he given in the Western Sun, at least three ti nes that a foreign attachment has been sued out by the plaintiff against the said defendants and that unless they bo and appear here in their proper persons, or bv their attorney at the next ensuing term of this court to be holden on the I u . Mo dav n Sentember next and file w 1 and put in special bail in this cause that in default thereof judgment by default w ill be entered up against them. Copv from the Test R. BUN TIN, Clerk c. c. k. r. 3 1 3w.

CHEAP GOODS, WASSON'S & SAYRE. ARE NOW OPENING, ( v riiK Stout, l ately orcrrirn, ky N. B. Bailey) a handsom 2 assortment 01 DRY GOODS, principally bought at Auction in New York which they will dispose of at a moderate advance. W. & S. - Are also opening at CARLISLE, a general assortment of DRY-GOODS, & HARD-WARE. Which they will dispose of on liberal terms. Viecennes 30th July 1817. 35-tf

.) Dollars Reward. STRAYED FROM the subscribcr, some time in May lasti ,K sr. .ail , BLACK H Q R S K, with whiu face and feet twitch tail, 5 or years old, paces and trots, shod alround. One small )dvk Chestnit Sorrel Horse. Ins main and tail a little curled, 5 or 6 ye n s old, paces and trots, unshod and one small HAY MARK, her tail bobbed 6 r 7 years old, unshod trots and paces her pace is very fast Fifteen dollars reward (or S for either) with all reasonable expencea will be given, upon the delivery oi the above horses to E. Stout at Vnu ennes, or to the subtc iber at Ids residence at the Crossi. - of Honey Crtek, B miles smith of V. Harrison. j. L. Mf( ULX.OUGH. Honey Creek, Sullivan C'y. i i a 1 m C -1 c ...

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Vt 1 111 " .S . . J - I'M 1 :iE subscriber hi sing now closing for the present, his business in Vin-

ce tnes, will attend td the settlement ot all accounts at hi - Store until the first of September next lie requests those who have accounts agj 1st him to exhibit them for settlemi ni also those who hold bis DUE BI LS, will present them for pavnunt before that time after Which, all his Notes k Accounts not paid will with reluctance positively be lodired with an officer for collection. b N. B. BAILEY. July i IS If. 35 5 w

Lookout for Squalls!! THE subscriber being anxious to discharge all the just demands against him and has it not in his power to do so, without calling upon those indebted ot him for payment, inconsequence of which he avails himself of tliis method of informing them that unless they do discharge their notes and accounts, on or before the 15th day of August next, that he will indiscriminately put them into the proper officer's hands for collection, but on the contrary should they comply with this request promptly he will be more than sensible of their punctuality, attention & politeness. W. C. OSBOURNE. Vincennes, July 31, 1817. 35-6w Notice. HE subscriber intends toet out for Baltimore S Philadelphia, about .he i 5th dav of August) and will require all his funds he earnestly begs of all persons who are indebted to him to call and make payment before that time. His situation and arrangements can admit of no longer indulgence. JOHN EWING. Vinccnncs, 18, July 1817. :3 5t BRADLEY cS' BADOLLE II WE ri ST RECKIVEO A QUANTITY OF FIRST QUAL1 ! Y MUSCOVADO SUGAR, PRIME GREEN COFFEE, AND COUNTRY LINN EN, Sec Vinccnncs, June 6, 1817, 27 tf 4, LOOK HEME ! ! V HEELER S- HARPER, Respectfully informs their FRIENDS AND THE PUBLIC THAT THEY HTVE COMMENCED THE MAC HI N E MAKING, In all its various Branches, MILL IRONS, Mrale an ! turned of in the neatest manner. They also informs the public they will have a double Throssel for Spining Cotton, in operation against the first of January next, at this place. Wheeler & Harper, Have their Carding Machine in complete operation, and are ready to receive WOOL. They have cloathed their Machine with new Cards, which will make them able to give satisfaction to their old customers, and those that may favor them with their custom. W. Sc H. BrUceville, Knox County, ) June 2t 18 17. 5 27 tf Tivenfif Dollars Reward. 1 RAYED from the subscriber living i3 in the American Bottom, Monroe county, abOul - miles above Kaskaskia, ' on the Uth dav of Mav last, a YELLOW HAY MARE, 15 hands high or upwards, 5 or 6 years old last spring, her main cut oiY & mixed with white hairs, large cars, high weathers, droop rumped, short dock k switch tail, some white hairs in her forehead, supposed to be branded on the near shoulder, but the letters not legible, had on when rfie went away a middle sized BELL with a leather Collar and double buckle fastened on with a buckskin whang, he was brought from V incennes bsi fall, & supposed to have been raised there or in that neighborhood, and when last heard of she was making direct for that place. The above reward will be given for delivery of said Mare to me or 15 dollars for information so that I can get her again. RAPHAEL DRURY. Monroe County, Julv 29, 18 17. S $6 3V ZTMr. BENNETT. net Counsellor at Iaiiv, " EEPS bis OFFICE in a room adIV. joining the office of the Indiana CentineL 16-tf Vinccnnes, March 1817.

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from Niles Weekly Register A NATION'S WEALTH. What is national wealth what constitutes a wealthy nation ? The political economist will feel at no loss to say that the first is in the quantity of the productive labor of a people, and the aggregate means and resources of the whole. It may be assumed as a general principle indeed, I do not know but that it can be accepted as a rule absolute, that excessive wealth, in the hands of a few of a nation, is conclusive evidence of national poverty. Nor is this paradoxciai it is manifest to every man that observes the practical 01 erat ion of the fact, or reflects upon the subject. It is certain that England contains some of the richest men in Europe ; capable, perhaps, of commanding more ready money than the same number of private individuals in any other parts of the world but it is also as certain that she has more paupers than any other nation, probably more than there are in all the rest of Europe and Amcrica united. ".Vagnificient are thy palaces, O Cieno ! but thou hast also thy galiies." What better evidence of the imfi averts h ment of a nation can we have than that about one fourth of its people is subsisted by the coarsest bread stuffs that will keep soul and body together, at the cost of the rest, being public paupers: England has three millions of these, unproduc tive. If they were employed at something by which, (all the profits being included) they comd earn only 50 c eh ts curb fur day they would really add 450 mil. ions per annum to the national wealth a sum that makes the bagatelle story about 30 mi ii ions, appear contemptible. Were the splendid palaces of the French nobles before the revolution, surrounded with 10 or IS miles of rich country on which hardly any other houses stood than mud-built hovels an evidence f t'.c wealth of France ? would we not rather have taken an English country (at that period) which, though it might also have had its palace, abounding with large edifices of biick and stone filled with a ruddy and joyous people, keeping up the " hum of business," and enjoying life ? But to speak at once to

the point is the fact that some 8 02 harpies in a town bank directors r i - haps !) have in a course of years realized a million each, and established a credit to monopolize accommodations for a million more, by 4 shaving'" tht notes of their fellow citizens at 2 or 3 fur c nt, per month, an evidence oftthe wealth or of the misery of that town ? This immediately applies to the condition of England where the people have been aha ved in all manner of ways out of their earnings, until a fourth of the whole of them are tenants of the poor houseBut it is the building up of these great personal fortunes that facilitates the general borrowing of money, and enables a government to levy heavy taxes. One man with 10,000 dollars a year has more money to spare than 50 men with 1,000 dollars each, and he can pay more taxes than they, though he has only a fiftieth part of their wealth: This is a clear case for the latter have fifty times more people to maintain than the former. The truth is that the unequal division of property in England, caused by excessive taxation, has enabled the government thus far to continue that excessive taxation, and raise the various loans required which, without it, it would have been impossible to do. It was by the operation of this principle that the Egyptian pyramids and temples were built the whole labor and wraith of the people were centered at the disposal of the king : and I desire no better evidence of the poverty & misery that prevailed than the existence ot those monuments. Reduce a people to the lowest possible state of subsistence, taking from them all they earn over that, k a great amount would be reserved that would otherwise be expended to procure some of the comforts ot life. Ht sounds large" that the Messrs. Barings, of London, for instance, can ad' x'ance, in the first instance, 30 or 30 millions of dollars, and we are inclined :o forget the fact, that Certain of their cour.trymen, capable of actually creating us great a value in 1 5 or 20 days, are dependent on him and others for vat meal9

enough to keep them from immediate starvation. It has always been my opinion, and I have always supported it with all my heart and soul to the best of my ability, that the virtue of government must depend upon the virtue of a peop, in like manner as its wealth & strength depends upon their profitable employment and numercial force. In early youth, the venerable John Dickinson taught me the force of his favorite maxim, " that am ARMED PEOPLE AND AN UNARMKD MAGISTRACY WAS THE BEST SECURITY for freedom," and consequently of happiness (a sentiment that deserves to be inscribed in letters of gold over every man'srr place.) The principle of this maxim I would act up to in extenso. I hope that no man in the U. States will ever be able to advance "thirty millions' for then we shall probably see the poor houses tenanted by others than those who deprived of their natural friends, are incapable of themselves to earn a subsistence. Let plenty prevail, and every man be able to stamp his foot on the soil saying this is mine, independent of all but my Creator and tiod. A people so situated, cannot be enslaved every house is a castle garrisoned by freemen. But such a people cannot pay excesmve taxes ; and, what is more to the purpose they will not pay them shall they be collected of them at the point of the bayonet ? no they cannot be collected but as the free will offering of the majority. There is one thing that, more than any thing else, I apprehend may have a tendency to reduce the people of this country from their present happy condition. I mean our banking- institution they are the leven which, in the hands of ambitious and avaricious men is most to be feared to raise up Barings amcngs us. They have already accomplished much in the way ; and have a decided tendency to make the rich richer, and the poor poorer. The people generally are getting alarmed at the proceedings of those establishments ; whose funds, designed for the common accommodation, are more and more monopolized by a few : thereby enabled to speculate on the wants cf others, and make themselves fat on

the sweat of the " weary laden. 3 To the People of the U. States. The Board of Managers of the American Colonization Society, being about to enter upon the prosecution of the great object of the institution, beg leave to address their countrymen upon this important subject. The first duty to be performed is to obtain unquestionable information upon several most essential points, which will not only enable the Society to pursue its future measures with certainty, but may also justify the government in affording its co-operation in a way most conducive to the success of t ie object in view. To effect this, we have perceived the necessity of engaging a competent person to visit the settlement of Sierra Leone, and other ports of the continent of Africa, and probably also to send some time in England. Eor these and other purposes, it becomes immediately necessary that the Society should call upon its friends and ascertain what extent of funds may be expected. The Board do not think it necessary to comment upon the many and obvious benefits that may result from the labors they are engaged in. The love of our own countrv, and benevolence to the cause of our suffering fellow men, conspire to offer the most persuasive motives. To these are to be added the far higher and more animating inducements of being the instruments of a gracious Providence in dispensing the light of Christian hope and joy over a benighted and important portion of the earth. The Board, therefore, call with confidence upon their countrymen and fellow christians for that liberal aid to their designs, in reliance upon which this association was formed BUSH. WASHINGTON, Pre'st. We understand from unquestionable authority, that Gen. M'Gregor will return direct to the Maine ; and that there is no foundation in the report of an attack on Amelia ; it is said, however that