Western Sun, Volume 8, Number 41, Vincennes, Knox County, 13 September 1817 — Page 1

THE WESTERN SUN

From the Press of ELIHU STOUT, Publisher of the Laws of the United States. OI.. 8 J VINCENNES, (I.vd.) SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER t3? i8ir. No. 41.

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THE WESTERN SI S, IS printed on ever Saturday, at Twe Doiiars per annum, if paid in advance r Two Doiiars and Fifty Cents, at tha end of tlic year for whit h a note will bi required. No subscription tan be withdrawn until all arreara ges are paid. Advertisements conspicuously inserted on the usual terms. Advertising customers will note on Kfreir advertisements the number of times fttev wish them inverted Those sent without such directions will be continued until forbid, and must be paid for acrcrv -inK:'.

B. IRG. ?ZVS B WGJUNS ! !

CON SISTIXr IN TAUT OF

T Sttadcloths, jjt, CassimertS)

Vestingsj Koiseryi Stripes, Plai s, Mus ins, -Kan keens. ' Cfciicoes,

lOiughams, Tfanne"ts, Checksi ehawls, 1 tandkercl i. fs, Bedticking, Cotton Yarns Sec

Piates,

Cups Sc

s ices, v Scythes, J Cutting Knives, v timers, do ! am saws, s German Sc CrawS ley Steel; v Iron V ire, S Shovels, v spades, S S t ep Shears, v L Krks of every kind, 5 Files hammers. Knives be Forks,

1 utania Spoons, do. Blur printed Bowls au- Dishes,

s C. C. Bowls and

anoiied - do ditchers, V ' is,

Tm i eira Tcneriffe . Port

Antigua Rum, . j; niaica - do Co iac Brandy, Whiskey. Iron Castings A n v i I i s

NOTICE.

SCHEME OF A LOTTERY, FOR BUILDING A MISOYC LODGE. is The town of St. louis.

1 1 RIZE of s 0 O is g5 ooo do JLOOO do ffl 6 25 do 1 25 00 3 K) do 50 10,0 K) 310 do 20 6,(20 900 do' 10 9 000 2550 6 15,300

THE subscribers offer for sale at very

low prices lor Cash, a general assortment of Dry G nodi Hardware, Queenytrare9

fj m l'1 ited do. s i ishes,

C C. Dishes, Salts, Peppers,

Creams, k Coffee & Sugar, ' B. imstone, Salt Pctre, S ( opperas, . Salts, ; Ginger S 1 llspice v Pepper k Madder, Young Hysori1 . Old do t N Chulan and I C, Imperial

These Ooods were purchasad rem ark a biv low in Baltimore, ana1 will be sold at a smalt pi ofit. S VMUEL HILL. Sc Co. A ' a rlv o:i i-r rre r's Ta vcm. Vinccnnes, July 24, 1817, 31 if

lor the abOve-

' " Sec. 2d, and be f hat no person shall

or business of an

Tthr ci izent rf the count fei cf Knox Sullivan, and DavU i hereby girten' By authority vested in me by the 4th sect'u-n of the act laying duties on the : smuea at auction, passed Jn!y 24tu 18 1 3, and as amended March 24th 1814 I have appointed (i. VV. Johnston, of

Vincenn s.

mentioned counties it further enacted ex '. v ise the trade

auctioneer, by the selling of any goods, wares and merchan iv- whatsoever by auction, or any other mode of sale, Whereby the best or highest bidder ih deemed to be the purchaser, unless sues person shall have a licence or other special authority continuing in force pursuant to the directions of this act on pain of fbrfeitingfcfbr every such sale at auction, the sunt of four hundred dollars, together With the sums or duties payable by this act upon the goods, v. uvs and merchandise so sold: Frovided howexer, that nothing herein con tained, shall be construed to require a lici OSS for the sale at auction ol any estate, goods, chattels, or other thing, Which by this act are not made liable to du'v or exempted front duty.' D iV D M II ALE, Collector of the Revenue for the i ol lection district cf Indian. July, 24, I81f. 34 if.

8 Le?s than two blanks to a prize. Part ofthe prizes to be detf rmined as follows viz. J he fi.st drawn 2000 blanks to be entitled to 6 dollars each First drawn number on the 1st. 2d, 3d, 4th 5t. 6v fth, 8th 9th and 10th dase drawing, each to be entitled fcoone of thy above 600 dollar prizes, payable in part by 1(0 tickets begining with No. 7uol to No. 80. ui inclusive. 'I he first 100 tickets for the first drown No. on the fit st d iv and so on in regular succession for the rest. .All other prizes floating Prizes subject to a deduction of 1 5 pel cent, payable in 60 days after the drawing is cofnpl ted. . o be drawn three times a week, 500 tickets each day JOSHUA PrLCHER"! THO AS BH DY T DOUGLASS Comrt. D. V VVAL ER, j THOMAS HANLY, J St Louis, eb 18 17. 1 5-7t tnT? ickets may be had in the above lottery either at the Store of John Fwiner, or ofBradley and Badollet, in in-

cennes.

ait

J CALL

Wilt (v a tice Law 1?) the

Circuit Courts ol Knox.

and the adia ;ent counties he re

sides at the J"ru':r irs Hotel." Vinecnnes, 14, Feb 181 II ft

Tailor & Habit Mai

cm-

ernl

STEPHEN V. STiUKlUl

J ESPECTFULLY Info r zens oi Vincennt s and t t( generally, that nc has taken p p: new house lately erected by Mr. fnearlv opposite Mr C Graeter;

where he will strictly attend to, and i nt.fui.y execute ail orders in the different branches of his business. He hopes by the knowledge he has attained of his business by being engaged in the first shops in Philadelphia; to merit at least a share of the public patronage. Autrusf 15 38 tf

iOTTERY.

VRE M'THOUISED to state

the drawing of the. MA

SONIC LOTTERY AT St. LOUIS,

will commence on the I5thday of October next but few tickets now remain unsold. Those here who want a chance must supply themselves quickly else 'tv ill be too late, 3 tf VinoRnnes, 26, June, 1817. A Sot of Fashionable ''straw bonnets. COFFEE, GRASS SCYTHES, CUTTING RMVlvS, FACTORY 0HECK,c IV! ACKEREL, WINDOW GLASSY PUTTY, Just received bif JOHN EW1NG Yineennes. July 24. t tf

journe man Pnnten WANTED.

Two or Ta ass Journeymen printers are wanted at the Missouri Guiette otVicc. St, L.uiSy June 3:h.

To Mr Benjamin Stephenson, RECEIVER OF PUBLIC MONIES, AT ED W ARDSMLLE. sir. I have read jour first Sc second numbers, and insteau ot seeing any tiling like exculpatory evidence in your own behalf, they seem to be princtply composed of supercilious reproaches and erroneous and futile charges against me. Those letters have a deceptive appearance ol candour that can only impose tor a moment all who have read my former notice of you, will be able to detect the artifice, i will not charge you with writing them I think 1 know better they are in my opinion written by a man whose arrogant vanity presumption, are equal to your ovn the one betraying him constantly into errors, the other making him persist in them But with him I nave at present nothing to do 1 only regret that he should make jou appear so very regardless of truth and so indifferent to the shame ol bring convicted of falsehood. You well know that there are many declarations in those ietters, regardless of every thing but prest i t e xpediency this course he niay deem necessary far himself as well as you, but it is ail a blunder, whatever opinions it may excite there, you should know that it "ill and can be properly estimated elsewhere. That your writer and yourself only perservere to nii the aT people, I might quote many instances to prove : but having the duties of my office to attend to, 1 shall pass over them in si ence with decent contempt, to notice a few particular points. In a:tempting to do this 1 find it difficult to use suitable terms to characterise the conduct of both yourself and vour writer

without using such as I

cannot conde

scend to emplo) . were 1 to say ti:at the

most odious

hav

in.w

ueiii

that

r presumed to be ambitious, did

i not, could not, be more

s oi inequity in

ny wuo may read tins lettei iy unacquainted with the pa too passionately but sir, true, when men will si e; i r there is a sphii of virtue d c sty in the people and pp justify a total possitive u,

when knaves will att nj siily Weak men to bu lv,c to impose, it surely is n

ervmg oi the ppcar to maand be total -. ies, to rite it would be 'i forc-et that d mor il honeal to them to Lnt of both to bubble leceitful mc'n

taose

whose minus

unbecoming uncorrupted uished whose

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wnose spirits arc unextin

conduct lias ever been blameless, to speak plain plain ! shall speak. In your first attack upon me you talked much of being slandered, how applicable any such language can be in your last address' tome, lam satisfied to let others judge ; but to answer your purpose you keep up the cry, why sir your talk upon this head and elections and in fact, nine tenths of all you have had written for you Is nothing but sheer slander upon me. I am incapable of slandering you or any other person ; you forced me to come out Sc speak the truth, and k truth is no slander," refering to my former letter, I shall pass over all this stuff to Lret at your handsome charge against me f r most illegally and improperly transfering mv duties i vou seem or your writer does for you to exult in this charge as though you had really gamed a victory ; but 1 think the piahl simple facts of this transaction will place you in such a dilemma that no man of even common honesty c an envy your situation. As district paymaster, it is and ever has been, out of my power legally to transfer my duties; and no person I presume, except he were a knave or a fool, would receive such a transfer from me. Without having ever made one, I do acknowledge sir and w ith pleasure too, that in many instances it has been in my pow er to employ respectable and suitable persons, to aid me in the settlement of the numerous scattered militia claims throughout the district. But I do most unequivocally deny that I ever selected or employed you,' to do or perform any part of my duties as paymaster. I acknowledge that from your own solicitations Sc importunities, I permitted you to become the voluntary agent of a number of individual claiments, who did not attend at the places appointed tor the General payments to take place, in due time You represented the situation of the absentees to be such precluded the

ility of their attendance, and appeared to express considerable soiicitude that they should without delay rcc ive their pay, under those considerations and a knowledge of your apparent standing at that time, I did permit you to become their verbal agent, but never made you mine no sir, you took upon yourself the responsibility to sign the names of the claiments or m ike their marks, on the receipt rolls ofthe companies to which they belonged and it was upon the validity of this that I paid you the monev, which you promised faithfully to give or rather deliver, to the diflerem individuals for whom you had signed. This sir is the statement of your ugency, and i will leave it for the public to judge whither I made any transfer to you whither you acted for me, or represented and acted for, t'ne indivi lual Claiments. I sanctioned the arrangement it is true, to accommodate the claiments1 which I had a right to do w hen yon signed their names k also reported the payments as mac e,. do not know, nor have ! ever enquired whether you did, or did not, give the money to its real owners : nor situated as you w ere and are, is it of any importance in this enquiry It is of no import

presume,

tai.ee to roe; 15ut I should

from the situation you then stood before

the people, as a candidate for congress, using your utmost Indeavoori to foiestail their desires that you paid it. ndeed money, and the taik about money, may have been serviceable auxiiaries to your purpose; and were to judge from some of the matter in your electioneering addresses vou could make them serve the end in view , may not this account for your anxiety to get possession of it ? I w as fully authorised to do all I did do ; if in delivering the monev to the men, you performed your duty With equal faithfulness, there is no room for blame. Kow sir in all your struggles to locate a crime upon me, pause for a moment and reflect what you have done tor yourself see however willing you may be for the sake of malignant self gratification to piunge into a vortex, if there be a chance for getting out of it ! How long is it since you or you: advocates charged me with being severe, morose, unaccommodating ? It is not io':g sir yet you are now furnishing the very matter which proves the fdsehood of that former charge aiso if L had bee;, thus, would . to accommodate the absent claiments, have suffered you to sign tt.eir names and paid you the money for ti.em ? no sir am; you know it ut think 1 beseech vou: before it be too late tor although you may have sin highly ele ten, urging you on: yet perhaps it is easier at your stage of life, to retreat, than progress and safei too. That man must be caious to the moral turpitude of crimes, who can ever he urged to presist when conscious of the fate that mustawait him. Ttis advice is suggested b your own ideas. You say 1 do not know that you have paid the money 1 1 will repeat that I do not, nor is it necessary as the cast- stands, that I should know. There ai'e competent w tnes-.es to the transaction It was not done, in secret, it was done in open daylight ; and sir if there be one individual from whom you may possibly have withheld his money, he mav commence suit against you and not only recover his pay but if he does not choose to admit it, he mav expose you to the penalties of the law for forging his name. & fraudulently with-holding his money w ill be proof of his original design. You may now have some view of the situation into which your writer mayhave thought it serviceable for himelj to place you, and if he continues his friendly endeaours he may yet place you in even a worse one, were it necessary I could show the impropriety and inconsistency of a great part of all you have said, that can in any 'degree efii ct me- 1 will content myself w ith a very few instances. You sin your name '.o the pieces that have been addressed to live Yet I l ave intimated that I bt in v you are not the a riter. To s .ow wh I believe so; an 1 show the Inconsistency, or falsehood, of the declaration you nu ke that you are not become famiii ir to com plaints, 1 will publish a letter from your own dear self; and as it is here publish ed letter lor letter h orn the origins!, I hope it will su part, away Any cajussj