Western Sun & General Advertiser, Volume 9, Number 2, Vincennes, Knox County, 13 December 1817 — Page 3

William Wirt, of Virgil ia, Iras received from the Pn nt the appointrunt of Attorney General of the United States. Aaf. ifcfrJ INDI A N FIGH l

InfoTfnati'M 'fa Shavfanee Chief.

ir allies ith

- in ..i killed and a few ki.lc I S3 and taken upthe confederacy formerly

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I in- V. .: :ro the loss of 01 wounded, hai e Wards of l ) of

mentioned with much plunder, and have destroyed the crops and burnt the town of the Osages ol Arkansas h is also said that a nu nber of Scalps taken from the " hites wen foun 1 with the bagae of the Osages. Emigrant,

Destructive Fire, A fire broke out at Albany on Saturday evening last, at 7 o clock, which consumed 2 1 buildings with the greatest part of their contents -A part of the buildings wer occupied as shops and groceries) tndlonc of them was tenanted by five fa nilies. The sufferers are most of them in uftliercnt circumstances.

M a thingl ons .Vot. 15. Joan C. Calhoun, of South Carolina, f for many years a distinguished representative hi congress) has received from the president the appointment of secretary for the department of war. The Minister of Portugal, (the Chevalier Correade Serra) has taken up his Winter residence in the itv. The British Envoy (Mr. Bagot) is the opI Foreign Minister who has for some time past been a regular resident here. lie has lately returned to the. city from a f i n l!v visit to Mr. Madison, at his at in Virginia. IMPORTANT. It is circulated among the knowing onea of Washington that the S parish minister has been authorised by his master, Ferdinand VII to make an offer of to the U tates, upon terms that ouiVAinK nt will find it advantageous takaccept. !t is also conjectured the purchase will speediiy be affected. Georgetown Men. It is said that living Mammoths have lately been seen near the Rockv Mountains Emigrant.

QUEBEC, O !T. 21. Arrived in this city on the 19th inst. via the Te raise uata portag , Col. Bouchette, surveyor g tieral of lower Canada accompanied bv Captain Cairnes, late Of the 60th regt. Sc Me Joseph B tchette, junior. We have only been ubie to learn9 respecting the progn ss of the new boundary iine, that the exploring survey has been prolonged from the source of the St. Croix to the river Ristigouche, a distance of about 100 miles, in the course of which the parties of both nations experienced difficulties aiul suderins of ' he mo it ardu us nature The Americans employed in the exa 'i.r survev may be expected here in avfw (la by the same route, on their to ti -! a - of Ver m n it : t ie British Warty having returned to Saint Andrews, If ew IJrunswick, by the river St. John. DUE VDFUL MORT V I V. The deaths at New-Orleans from the 1st June, to the 6th Sept. last are St itcd to amount to twenty seven hundred.

RUMOUR it has been rumoured,

(says the Washington City iazettej that the state of Georgia has threatened to take possesion of Cast Florida herself if the genera government will net immediately adopt measures to restore tranquility to that province. The collection of the negroes is so great that serious apprehension! are entertained for the security ofthat state; and it i with a view to provide against this danger that Georgia is said to be determined on the Measure suggested The Plague, feighty persons per day were dying cAhuVi.L-in ai Algiers. Nothing was attVnmeLo arrest the progress of tl e mjuaav! It races dreadfully at Co:. sumtinople. Trie governor of Gibraltar has announced that he has receive 1 official information that the plague was increasing in Algiers, the number of deaths in the city

alone, amounting to 150 per day.

CINCINNATI, NOV I ,

The valuable Saw-Mill on the busk of the river called the Ox Saw- ill, owned bv Mr. J Palmer was consumed by fi -e on Fridav evening last. The i ss is estimated at about r - 'houtand d liar. Just as our paper was going to press, we were inarmed of the loss of the Steam Boat LEXINGTON near Natchez; four persons drowned i tunc oi the taro

anved. This nrcident happened during

Tiie nitrni wnentne passengers were m

bed, and was caused by the ve'ssVr running on a snag. Rt fiorfer.

THE WESTERN SUN. Vtnct mnes. ..December i 3 State Legislature.

HOUSE OF REPRESENT ATVES( CoRYDON, Monday December 1. The following members appeared, produced their credentials, were sworn in the usual form, and took their scats : to wit : From (he County of p,jH,'x, Dann Lynn. Perry Samuel Conner. Wu rrick Rate 1 i ff 1 001 1 . Gibson Rich. Daniel k Jas Campbell Knox George R. V. Sullivan, Robert Bun ton, and John M'Ciure. Orange Samuel Chambers. Harris', )i Jmies 13. Slaughter, Jacob Zcnorand William 1). i.itted. Washington Samuel Milroy and Alexander Little. Jackson William Graham. Clark Benjamin Ferguson, Thomas Carr and Charles I5eLrLrs Jt fJ' rson Williamson Dunn 6c Nathaniel I lunt. Swit z e rid n d 1 al p h Cotton. Dea r b o m Amos Lane. Franklin Stephen ! . Stephens, Jas. SnoWden and John Bryson. Wayne Joseph Holman, John Scott and Robert Hill, The House proceeded to the choice of a Speaker ; whereupon the ballots being counted it appeared that Amos Lane was duly elected Johe r. Ross was chosen Clerk, and Robert Biggs door keeper, T ie speaker laid before the house the resignation of Moses Wiley, a member elect from the county of earborn On motion of Fr. Sullivan, a committee of ( lections was appointed, and the house adjourned. Ind. Gaz.

Senate. " Monday Derenfttpr J. The following members o the Senate appeared and took their seat; viz. From the counties of Km r Sullivan c'" Davis VVm Polke. Warrick, Perry cf Posey anl. Grass. Harrison Dennis : 'enningtt n, Jefferson Iff Switzerland John Paul. D ' atboui n Ezra erris. Fra n ktin John Conne r . Gibson Sc Pike Isaac Montgomery. Washingt6n Orungt cj? Jackson John Depauw. 1 1 'a w n e Pat ri ck R ai rd . James Dill was ele ted SerretarvAnd Henry Batman Door Keeper. On motion of Mr. Ferris, the following Committees were appoint d : via. Committee of Elections Messrs Polke

Pennington and ' Committee of enrt

Montgomery and Ferris. A Committee of arrangement Messrs. Grass and Conner. Id.

a i! i . lied bill

V iCSSl s.

It is sinjested by a writer in the Balti

more Patriot, and the

suggestion

is

xfk au

probably correct, th.at it is the intention of Mr Clay to endeavor to procure at the next session; the passage of a iaw

authorizing a commutation of sjdipr's

l)ountv lands tor monev, at the lWte

one dollar per acre This measi

appears to us would be equally ajk

tageous to both parties; to the nation and to the soldier. The one would save at least fifty per cent of the actual amount of the bounty; computing the land at its lowest value of two dollars per acre; and the latter would gain at least one hundred per cent on the amount of his sale, if now made. There is such an emulation among the soldiers to sell their patten's the moment they obtain them that sales are frequently made it is said, at 50 dollars for the 160 acres It is desirable, for the intrcsts of the soldi rs, mat the intention to introduce such a proposition should he general ry known. The effect of a diffusion of this information will be if not to prevent the soldier from sellin&r, to secure

to him a price nearer the value

land than he can now obtain. .Mi

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B

r LOTS FOR S A LE

iVISH to dispose of a number of

BUILDING LOTS in the town

of BussaaOM also three lots with two

good buildings thereon, now occum

as a Store k tavern also 40 or 50

of first rate land, adjoining the same

great bargain will be given in the above property for a part paid in hand, and a reasonable credit for the balance IA is DUNKIN. April 17 2Utfl4

NEW & CHEAP GOODS

WE have just received fiom Baltimore, and are now opening a

large and general assortment of EUROPE JUST & AMERICAX J GOODS.

particularly suited to this Market, and selected by a partner residing M 1 .

in Baltimore, CONSISTING OF

WOOLEN, - J II A II D COTTON, and Dry- Goods. QC EE XS

J sCII IX A l Wares. 4 Proof Cogniac Brandy. i TIN, MADEIRA 1 5 GLASS, and TENERIFFE, and i Wines. sIRON J

MALAGA ( s OLD JAMAICA SPIRITS.

HATS & SHOES Assorted.

MACKEREL and HERKIX (i S. HAVANA CIGARS

COFFEE. By the BARREL. Together with a general Assortment of GROCERIES.

Which we will sell low for CASH, or for Country produce suit ble tor Shipping. Our country friends are particularly invited to give us a call. SAMUEL HILL & Co. Nearly Opposite C. Grader's Tavern. Vincennes, December 1 3th, 1817. 2 fr

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N pursuance to an act of the general

emoiy m h case niacic and nro-

vided I will proceed to expose to sale at the Court House door in Petersburgh, on onday the 12th of January next, the following tracts of land & lots 'of ground in Petersburgh or so much thereof as will bring the Tax and costs due thereon for the present year viz.

Own i

a me..

Lemuel Baidw i.:, Geo. Ewing Sc co (iv o. Teverbauyrh

frV I 6 ) 320 1 60

Jas. r ransley 350 Geo. Wallace 1 60

LOTS IN THE

PORTERS VILLE,

Owners Names. Josephs Hays 2. Elisha Hammons 2 W, Hammons 2. Arthur 2utchins,2 Edward Hunt 2. Samuel Kelso, 4. Win. Curry, 3 Henry Foster, f. Rout Foster. 1. ADAM HOPE, Sht riff of Pike County. December 10th, 18 17 2 tf

ROMthe scbscriberan indentured boy named, Benjamin Prior, all persons are hereby forwarned from harboring him under the penalty of the

(v j r- .n.iiig ujj bum runa-

o-xT a 17 ' m J ' uu,m'.s ,il,si uic suosciioer

wmuii 1 Laauiiawic cxpences. CHA'S. SMITH. Dec. 12th, 1817 2 4t

Rat. 'Tax. 2d 10 2d 4 20 3d 0 2d 4.59 3-8

2d 2 A

JSTE W G OODS.

J Notice. Tcfthe citizens of the counties of Knox, Sullivan, and Davis is hereby given. I) V authority vested in me bv the 4th 9 section of the act laying duties on the sales at auction, passed July 24tli 18 13, and as amended March 24th ltti4 I have appointed B V. Ik-ekes, of Vincennes, auctioneer for the above nientioned counties. M Se c. 2d, and it further enacted That no person jall exercise the trade or business of an uui tionecr, by the selling of any goods wares and merchandise whatsoever by auction, or any other mode of sales whereby the best or hithct bidder is deemed to be the purchaser, unless such pei son shall have a licence 01 other special authority continuing in force pursuant to the directions of this act, on pain of forfeiting for every such sale at auction, the sum of four hundred dollars, together with the sums or duties payable by this Act upon the oods wares and merchandise so sold : Provided however y that nothing herein contained, shall be construed to require a licence for the sale at auction of any estate goods, chat

tels, or other thing, which by this act 2 1111.1.

re not made iiaoie to uutv or exempted

10m duty."

DAVID M If ALE, Collector qf the Revenue or th- Collection District q, Indiana. December 10, 1817. " J tf

rTHHE subscriber has received from I Philadelphia, A LAI1GE cS GENERAL ASSORTMENT OF

MERCHANDISE A n d GROCERIES.

which he will sell Wholesale or Retail, at reduced prices, Persons having cash to give for Merchandise will find it to

their interest to give I

nm a call,

Vincennes, D

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j. n 12. 18 17

Mc.CALL. 2 I 6w

Masonic. f fi HE members of Vincennes Ldgc J Ao. 15, (A A. . M. are requested to be punctual in their attendance' at the Lodge Room, on Saturday the 27th inst. at 3 o'cloc k A. V. to celebrate the anniversary of St. John the Evangelist, A sermon will be preached at the CourtHouse, to commence at 12 o'cloc k precisely Transient Brethren are invited to attend. By Order of the W. M. V. J BRADLEY, v ry. Dec, 12th. 18 17. 2 it

LAW NOTICE. JAMES B. BENNET1 Attorney and Councellor ai L

in the first Cir

""ILL I ractice.

the Supreme Court

ol tn-

skjiiIv m other part-

keeps hisomcc in the room Centincl oinc e. 4 1 tf incennc: , S-nt

state Ifc

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