Western Sun, Volume 8, Number 38, Vincennes, Knox County, 23 August 1817 — Page 1

THE WESTERN SUN

From the Press of ELIIIU STOUT. Publisher of the Laws of the United States. Vol. 8. VINCENNES, (Imd ) SATURDAY, AUGUST S3, I8ir. No. 38.

the western sun, IS printed on every S:tinlay, at Two Dollars per stimuli, if paid in advance, or Two Dollars and Fifty Cents, at the ej.d of the year, lot whicn a note will be required. No subs, ription can be withdrawn until all arrearages arc paid. Advertisements conspicuously inserted on the usual terms. Advertising customers will note on tin (r advertisements the number of limes Ihev wish them inserted I hose sent without such directions will DC continued until forbid, and must be paid for acCordingly.

LOTTERY. E R E UTUOHiSKD to state that the drawing of ihc MA-

SO .si LOTTERY AT Ht LOUIS,

will commence on the 15th day of October next but (eel tickets now remain unsold, T lose here who want a chance noi supply themselves quickly else 'twill be too late, 30-if VlKCBitKF.S, 36, Tune, 1817.

KENHAWA 8 alt Of the first quality for sale by JOHN ni LY

TN Busseron prairie, one mile from Carlisle which will be sold low for Cash, Furs and skins, or for produce, stn h a9 Corn and Wheat 8-tf January 23 187,

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B tweenthe age of i4 tnd 16 who can come well recommend, will be taken by the subscriber, ABIT A 1 1 BROWN. On Second Mecrt. Vincenncs, June 19, 1817 29-t

BMQ. II VS It IRGAIXS ! ! THE subscribers offer for sale at very low prices for Cash, a general assortment of jLjryGnotU Hardware Qtteensfpaff, O Q CONSISTING IN PART OF

IT roadcloths, Cj.s unci es, VestingSf ffoisery, Stripes, plaids Muslins, i ankcens, Calicoes, ( i inghamSg Flannels, Checks, 1 i andkerc htets, Bcdticking, Cotton Y irns. Sc. Ed ;ed Plates,

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cers, C. C. Bowls and Blueprinted do. , Dishes, .Painted - do s C C. Dishes, . Hanoiled - do , Salts, P ppersj Pitchers, ? Creams, S.. Bowls, Coffee s Suar, Madeira ") s Brimstone, Teneriffe g Salt Petre, Port r- J Copperas, Valatra j w Salts, Antigua Rum, J Ginger Sc Ml spice. Jamaica - do Pepper k Ma 'tier, Cogniac Brandy, J Young Hyson"1 .

Whiskey. v Old do I j Iron Castings S Chulan and l

Anvills v Imperial.

ices, v, Scythes, v Cutting Knives, Curriers, do S ! and saws, v German Sc. CrawS ley Steel, S Iron V ire, S Shovels, Spades, S Sheep Shears, s Locks of every 5 kind, s Files, S 1 1 ant iers. J Knives k Forks, n Teutania Spoons, Blue printed Howls

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These Goods were purchasad remarkably low in Baltimore, and will be sold at a small profit. SAMUEL HILL, k Co. .' arlu r,f;fiosifr Greater s Tin --rv Vinccnne July 34, is 17, tj FOR SALE BLANK DEEDS, &LASK EXEi VTfONS. BLANK SUBPOuNAS.

$ LAW PARTNERSHIP. D. FLOYD V II. II. MOORE W 1I C practise law in conjunction in future in the western and middle t ircuits, and occasionally in the eastern i ircuit and also in the supreme 8c Federal courts. 1 hose who may wish to employ them may depend upon the united exertions of both ; one or the other may be found at their law Office in Cory tlon letters on business must be directed to both; 33 tf Corydon, May 17. A List ol Letters, REMAINING in the Post-Office at PaiWOEToN, the quarter ending the 30th of June 1817, which if not taken out within three months will be sent to the General Post-Otiice as dead letters : A Ezckial Allerd Philip Ameck B John Barr A W. Black Basley r Henry Boure Jesse BartfKl C A.CamnbelK John Carrell

Jenet i olwell

William Clark

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Thomas Dais Adam DuglasS E Morgan Eaton John Eldridge a Dunul Grass W. C. G lissom H Henry Hills Stephen Hurst James HuddoC Alston Holder Lewis Harper, J & K Sary Johnson Putyman Knales Sarah Kimball. L & If David f arance William Lathom Peter Lahew John T. More head James Mnrtin Philip A. Meak James Montgomery. P JamcsPatton ChaHes Polke R Si scph Rasborough John Robinson Nicholas Robinson E. Roberts 6' T James Sands William Shook John X. Trusdell Lewis Tackett. V 1ST If Mrs. Vanada Joseph Wasson Eliza V, i son Joseph Wilks 2 Venson Wood James Walland y James Young, JOHN 1. NKF.EY, P. M. Princeton, June 3o, 1817 50 36-3 w

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IV IS 1 1 to dispose of Lot No. 40 in

the old donation Containing 400 acres

there is cn this tract a handsome prairiet

and the greatest part of the tract firs, rate and all jfood farming land LSO 2 )4 acres adjoining the Commons of Yi icennes, which I will sell entire, or in small 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 F. VIGO.

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JP Mr. BENNETT, AHorneti & Counsellor at F,rriti

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s. joining the otlice of the Indiana Centinel, 1 6 tf Vincennes March 18 17.

rooi) BARGAINS,

BllADLEY 1$ BAOOLLEf, , Have just rfckived a quantity of FIRST OCA LI i Y MUSCOV VDO SUGAR, PR1 E GREEN COFFEE,

AND COUNTRY LINN EN, Sec

Vinceimes, June 6, 18 17, 27 ti notice. LI those in lebted to the E tate of foussaint Dubois deceased, will call and pay the amount due, immediateiv, as the Estate is in want of money. HENRY DUBO.v'

ViuctnatSy July 2, itfi7. 34f- i

TO MAJOR AMBROSE WHITLOCK District Paymaster, fyc. No L Regarding as they deserve, your abortive attempts at smartness and ridicule, I shall endeavor to answer your address to me," with the calm spirit of conscious rectitude" which you so highly recommend but badly practice ; and if 1 shall not be able to impart to my observations a sufficient portion of" dignity M to satisfy a gentleman of your enlightened mind ; and exquisite taste ; I hope they will not be found deficient in truth or candour, or decency. Depreciating most sincerely, all personal contests of either a public or private nature and having i believe been engaged in as few controversies of any kind as most men who have lived to my age, I will frankly acknowlege to you, that I derive no u amusement" whatever from the necessity you have imposed upon me, of vindicating myself, and exposing your malice and misrepresentations. And that you should have supposed such a case capable, - of being converted into amusement to me," must have resulted from the philosophy which you may have acquired or an insensibility that has been produced, by the multiplied complaints M both private, and public, with which you have been assailed, and by which you have suffered so much throughout a long course of public service." Without pretending to question the possibility, of youi having been always right, and your accusers always wrong, it will I expect be acknowleged by your friends, that you have both possessed Sc exercised the disposition, if not the power to retaliate most sev rclv and it may be a question of some doubt at least whether you have suffered most in public estimation, by "the slanders" that have been published against you ; or by those whi( h you yourself have uttered against ol hers. " Be that as it may" my sitnution is however something different, from What Vou describe yours to have been. I have not yet become familiarised to complaints about my official duties, yours being the first attack, that has eve r iinputed to me, an intentional violation of them. And it is no inconsiderable consolation to me, that 1 have enjoyed the uniform friendship, and undiminished confidence, of ail those respectable citizens who, if your allegations against me had been true, must have been eye witnesses of them. I am truly sorry, that you, win profess to have suffered so much, by 4 slander," should have been roused from your peaceful retirement" with such apparent exasperation, at my bare denial, of as flagrant, k unfounded a misrepresentation, as ever was published against any man or that a high minded officer with such exalted, St unrivalled pretensions lo correctness, at the moment of exhibintig a monument of self extracted praise,' should have been induced, from such a circumstance, " to make use of a newspaper for the first time in his life," to make accusations, wholly incorrect ; and capable ol being positively disproved. I will not pretend to say that the misanthrophic spirit of the publication in the " V stern Sun " signed " Justice & truth" the disposition it manifested, to prostrate governors, and delegates of territories, the paymaster general, secretari s of war, and even the government itself- all for your ufifiort- or the intimate knowledge, which the author affected to hav e of the whole management of the pay department were presumptions sufficient, to justify the belief, that you were either directly or indirectly concerned in that publication. But when the public are informed that the charges, which it contained against me, relative to the servant and muster rolls" therein mentioned, had been put into circulation by you, previous to my election to congress ; whieh can be proved by your friend Lieut Boon and others, I trust that I shall be held petfectly justifiable, for having said, that " I had no difiicultv in accounting for Mr. Whitlock's exhibiting such charges." And unless you can show that I had ass-tiled your reputation, previous to your hating circulated those reporu

against me, you must stand convicted of having made such an accusation umrult, for the purpose of paliating your unprovoked maliee against me ; and your officious intermeddling in the election of this territory, I believe it will be found upon investigation, that no delegate within vour district, has made fewer complaints against you, than I have done at and even previous to the election to which you alluded. The public clamour against you had greatly subsided, in consequence of the redress, which had been procured through the representations, and instrumentality of the delegate, whom I succeeded ; and I am unconscicus of having said or done any thing at that time to your injury. During the time I held a seat in congress, my letters to my constituents, which were published, must convict you of further misrepresentations, in charging me with having withheld from the people, the true causes why their pay has delayed." It was a duty imposed upon me by the station 1 field, to endeavor to procure for my constituents, the pay that was due them ; and it is true tiiat j spared no pains to accomplish that object. But all your hostility did not, and could provoke me to do you an intentional injustice, as an evidence of which, you may find in my letters to the secretary of war, and the paymaster general, that I explicitly disdained," all intention of ever insinuating any thing against your honesty and integrity, professing to know nothing to your disadvantage in that respect." The public will therefore see that, you have been 4- more sinning than sirned against " I come now to your charge concerning " the servant," which is considerably altered, and softened since its first appearance in the " Western Sun " it is now neither alleged, nor insinuated, that this servant 4 belonged to me" nor 44 that I had drawn his pay as a private ; This much at least, seems to be relinquished by you, as a 44 malicious calumny an unblushing falsehood ' Your statement now is, that I had mustered a bluck many in capt'n Amos f quires' company, in 1812: that he rereived his pay with the rest of the company, and that I afierwards claimed pay for him as a private servant. Vdmitting this statement to be true, it would oniy prove your inattention to your duty ; and your obstinate refusal lo do justice. I am told that it has been a regulation even in the army, that servants should be mustered in order to prevent officers from charging for more than were actually emp.oyed ; and I can point out oe officer at i east of acknowledged worth, and pre-eminem talents, Who had his servant regularly mustered with the company he commanded. Bui 44 be that as it may," you knew that capt'n Squires' commanded a company of draughted malitia, that negroes were not subject to militia duty and that the pride of our militia would not have permitted a negro to have heen associated witji them in such a service you therefore, must have been convinced that the negro in question, must have been employed as a servant or you must have suspected that he had not been employed at all and yet, although you ware instructed 4 to guard by all possible means, against imposters, or fraudulent and unjust claims, however specious the form in which tin y approached you," you actually paid the fraudulent demand of this negro for serv ices, which he never performed ; and obstinately refused the otficer whose servant he was, the allowance to which he was justly entitled, although he was no ways implicated in the blunder you had made But it is not necessary for me to rest my defe nce upon this ground, correct as it evidently is. The pith of your charge against me, is that I had mustered fhitt black man in capt'n Squires company. This I do most positively assert to be ncorrect, and I appeal to capt'n Squires and all his company, who must have known the fact, if it had existed for the truth of my assertion. I had never even seen the individual alluded to, until I saw him at camp as the servant of colonel Whiteside who iad employed him for that purpose, and in whose service he continued during toe whole tour ol duty us all the troope