Western Sun, Volume 8, Number 50, Vincennes, Knox County, 15 November 1817 — Page 1

THE WESTERN SUN

From the Press of ELIffV STOUT, Publisher of the Laws of the United States. VINCENNES, (Inu.) SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 18 17. No. .jo.J L V ui-. e.J

WESTERN SUN, IS printed on every Saturday, at Two dollars per ftirtufn, if paid in advance, r Two Do'nars and Fifty Cents at the end of the year for which a note will c required. No subscription can be withdrawn until all arrearages are paid. Advertisements conspicuously inserted on the usual terms. Advertising customers will note on their advertisements the number of times they wish them inserted Those sent without such directions will be continued until forbid, and must be paid for accordingly.

ie just received, (in addition

to their former Stock)

A GENERAL ASSORTMENT CF Dry Goods fj? Groceries; CONSISTING I.Y PART, OF

Superfine Cloths, Yellow and Blue Nankeens, C inghams, Siik Umbrellas k Parasols, Young Hyson, 8c Imperial Teas Madeira Port Sc Claret Wines Caogniac Brandy Imaica Rum Draft Porter,

Domestic Cottons, Muslins, Silks, Raw St Spun cotton, Coftee Loaf Lump Orleans Sugar Whiskey Mackere Window Jilass, Cut and Wrought Nails, Salt, Tar, Bar Iron & castings Soap.

ALSO. A few doz. dressed Calf & Morocco SKINS UPPER LEATHER, &c. All of which, they will dispose of Wholesale or Retail, (at a very moderate

ivance) FOR CASK. Junel 3,

29 tf

CHEW GOODS,

W A SON'S & SAVRE.

ARB SOW OPENING) At the Stork lately occupif.d, by N B. Bailey) a handsomj assortmentof DRY GOOD S principally bought at Auction in NewYork, which they will dispose of at e -moderate advance. W & S. Are also opening at C ARLISLE, a general assortmentof DRY GOODS, cV HARD-IVARE. which they will dispose of on liberal tei ms. Viecennes, 30th July Ifli7. 35-t

On petition for Divorce.

INDIANA. m jfcox C'nvuit Court, to wit :

Lev is Peck nam,

V.V

Seiinda Peckham,

T appearing to the satisfaction of the court that the petition lias been tiled, and it further appearing that the said Seiinda Peckham is not an inhabitant of this State. Therefore on motion of the Petitioners counsel it is considered that unless the said Seiinda Peckham appear here at the next February term ot this court, k 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 . Tc-te, 46-8W ROB'T. BUNTIN Cl'k,

PORK W NTED we w ll con ra v : r for PORK, To be delivered at cennes or Coffee ys md by the I r n- c 'mber SAM'L. iilLL, S Co November l. 48-4 w

BARGAINS ! BARGAINS ! !

THE subscribers Offer for sale at very low prices for Cash, a general assortment of Dry -Goodly Hardware, Queensware, CONSISTING IN PART OF

ices,

TTfc roarlr-loths.

Si Cassimeres, J Scythes,

Vestings,

Cutting Knives . t 'mrtpic A i

Hoisery, f Curriers, Stripes, Handsaws, Plaids, German & Cr Muslins, S ley Steel,

de-

Craw -

Nankeens, Calicoes, Ginghams, flannels, Checks, ghawls, Handkerchiefs, Bedticking, 30U011 Yarns, Sec. Edsred Plates,

-C C. - do.

CC Cups St au cers.

Blue Printed Painted

; Iron W ire, S Shovels, Spades, s Sheep Shears, Locks f every S kind, Piles, v Hammers. Knives Be Forks, v Teutania Spoons, J Bine printed Howls . Dishes, S C. C. Bowls and

do. s Dishes,

do s c- C. Dishes,

Hanolled - do v Salts, Peppers,

Pitchers, Bowls, Madeira Tencriffe Port

Malaga J k Antigua Rum,

Jamaica - do Pepper

Cogniac Brandy, Young Hyson"!

Whiskey. C Old do

Creams, Sc.

s Coffee & Sugar,

Brimstone, s Salt Petre, S Copperas, s Salts,

S Ginger Be Allspice

Madder,

Iron Castings Anvills

Chilian and ' Imperial.

oil!

These Goods were purchasad remar biy low in Baltimore, and will be s

at a small profit. SAMUEL JIILL, & CO. A early oflfiosite Greater Tavern

Vincennes July 24'. 34 tf

FRESH GOODS.

JCST ARRIVED.

'BHE subscriber is just opening in Second St. nearly opposite H .Lasselle's Tavern, an assortment of FALL GOO D S, CONSISTING OF

Superfine Cloths, St ( assimeres,

Common, ditto ditto Flannels Sc Coatings

Rose, Striped, and Point Blankets, Super Cotton Counterpains. Super Vsesting, Stockinets, Plain, Plaid Sc changeable Senshaws Galicoes, Cambrics, Muslins, Sec. Men's coarse Sc fine Shoes, Bov's ditto ditto Ladie's and Misses Black Sc colored Morocco China Sc Liverpool

Super cotton Marseiles quilt 7-8 S: 4-4 ;rish Linnens, Levantine Shawls 7-4 Printed Kcrse mere ditto, Silk 8c Cotton ditto, Blue Liverpool Tea Setts, Lustre Ware, ditto, Superb fancy Pitchers, Young Hyson and Imperial Tea, Best Green CbrTet, Double refined Lo.f Sugar, Bloom Raisins. London Par. Madei-

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ra Wmc,

Tea and Coffee Port ditto.

Cups 8c Saucers ICogniac Brandy, iHolland Gin, ALSO A neat but small assortmentof MILLENARY, iich can be made up in the newest dtimore stile. GEO HUSSEY.

Vincennes, Oct. 2

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VVHKAT PORK, c.

purchase du-

Libera Ehcotiraswtnent.

j. s W. L. OolmaiL

HAVE JUST RP.CKIVBB ROM Baltimore and Philadelphia, and are no v." opening at their store

A N E W A N D 6 E B R I A S S 0 RTMENT OF MERCHAYDTZE, Suited particularly for the present and approaching season CONSISTING OF Woollen, )

Cotton; $ DR Y-GOODS

Silk

WARES.

Groceries, I lard Del, China, Tin. and Glass,

Shoes assorted, cS'C ($r. All of which will be sold at very reduced prices for Cash, or the following articles of trade or Barter at a fail price, to wit :

Deer skins, Fur skins,

LOTTERY.

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Corn, Rve, Barley, Oats, Flour,

Bees-Wax,

Honey, Tallow, Butter,

Beef Pork Tow flax Tin Hogs' lard, nen, Whiskey, Liusey, Beef hides. Besides many other articles not necessary to enumerate. 45 -tf Vincennes,Oct. 18th IS 17 -57 I LOOK HERE !

An Apphkvtice to the

4 mot

Shoe ct Boot Making Business, Between the age of 14 and 16 w ho can come well recommend, will be taken by t ic subscriber) ABU AH BROWN. On Second Street. -Vincennes, June 19,1817 29tf

i ringthi

subscriber will

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ensuimr lai! auu winter,

FORK,

BEES IV. ' tallo rr, FURS,

and all such ar

les of country produce :portation at a fair price indebted to him may 1 . A.

to maK.e payment

as m ay soil U 1 itOhe ii enable them

in that way. JOHN EWING. Vincennes-, October 2. 44 tf

The time of Drawing fixed ! ! THE-TtKAND MASONIC HA! L

in-

WILL commence drawing m

ton, on TUESDAY MO ENINO8i h

November nex', when the first drawn number will be entitled to a prize of Five Thousand Dollars ! After the drawing commences the tickets will rise Those persons, therefore, who are disposed to adventure, and who wish for a chance obtaining the above capital prize of 85,000 will do welfto call and purchase without delay. Tickets at S!' for sale by E. Stout, at the W Sun office, Vincennes. By direction of the Managers, W. G. HUNT, Agent. Lexington, Sept. 5th, 1817. 47-tf

FEVER AXD AGUE ' AND intermittent Fever, Cured. THE subscribers have just received of Dr. Griffith, from New-Jersey, an infalible remedy for the above mentioned diseases. When this medicine was first announced to the citizens of NTev- ork, Mr. John Murray, one of the most respectable merchants then certified that in thirty instances where he had known it used, a single box never failed to cure in three days, several other gentlemen there and of Cincinnatti attested to its superior efficacy, it is safely taken in pills, or mixed with any drink, and has no sensible operation printed directions accompany each box. HALE k WOOD.

NEWSPAPERS. From the Richmond ompiler we earn that fol towing curious facts. n 1780 there was a newspaper printed by Dixon and icholson at Williamsburg, then the seat of government for the State of Virginia. The conditions were conspicuously placed at the head of the paper, and run thus Ail persons may be supplied with this paper at Fli Y DOLLARS a year, and have advertisements (of a moderate length) inserted for ten dollars the first week and seven dollars for each week after." That nothing may be wanting to excite interest in this account, it is to be added that the paper was published only once a &eek ! Fifty dollars a year for a Weekly newspaper ! This singular article induced us to turn to Thomas's History of Printing, in America, a very curious book, to see whether he had taken any notice of the facts mentioned. He mentions no such firm as " Dixon and Nicolson," but states that Clarkson and Davis " gegan the publication of a newspaper at illiamsburg in April 1718. Nothing is said of the terms of the newspaper, but it is stated that so erly as 1736 a newspaper was established at Williamsburg, by W Parks. We are led from the interest of the matter winch presents itself, to extend this article so far as to make an extract from the work before us. ' Sir Wm. B irk ley who was governor of the colony (of Virginia) 38 years, in his 23d answer to the enquiries of the lords of the Council for the Colonies m 1671. 64 years after the settlement of Virginia, says I thank God we have no free schools nor printing, and I hops we shall not have these hundred years. For learning has brought disobedience and heresy and sects into the world ; and printing has divulged them and the libels against the government. God keep us from both !!" Lord Effingham, who was appointed governor in 1683 was ordered expressly " to allow no person to use a printing press, on any occasion whatsoever" Mr Thomas does not mention when the first printing press was put up in Virginia, but he states that so late as 1766," there was but one printing house in the colony, and this was thought to be too much under the control of the Governor." Dcm. Press. NEW WORLDS AND NEW REVOLUTIONS.

Oceanica, or fifth part of the world, has just undergone its revolution too. The Island of Otaheite, which Bougainville, and Cook after him, have rendered so famous on the old continent, had seen its king become christian dethroned by idolaters : Pomare had been obliged to fiv from his kingdom. Since 1 808, Upfate rc igned in his place. Here follows an account of the successes of Pomare, as heretofore stated, his restoration to power, and the effect of his example in christianizing the islanders who embraced the religion of their sovereign." Christianity has promoted the sciences, and sciences have served it in their turn. The triumph of their faith in the austral ocean is only due to the progiess of information and to that spirit of inquiry which has characterized the philosophy of she 18th century. The time has arrived when America is to lose the name of .V, iu World. There is a newer world than America, whose name is not yet generally adopted. Some call it Australasia ; onthers Oceantca ; those Terrae Australse ; those P lynesia. The fifth part of the globe is composed of New-Holland and New-Zealand; of New-Caledonia and the Hebrides, of New-Phi llippinea ; of the Van -Dei man Land, of Solomon Isles, Friendly Isles, Navigators Island, Society Islands, Low Island, and ill the Islands of the immense Archipelago of the Pacific Ocean. Bougainville was the first wl o called the attention of Europe to those re ions so long unknown. O her navigators have) since surveyed and explored their.. The arts have been carried thither. Light has penetrated there by the preac! m. s of missionaries, by commen ; 1 inter course by the ship-wrecked Europeans who have been cast on these V. les, by sailors seduced bv distant climates, a