Western Sun & General Advertiser, Volume 9, Number 23, Vincennes, Knox County, 9 May 1818 — Page 3

1 "MMnUMMnHMMM Our Relations with Spain . The intelligent fro a Washington is ef at md satisfactory import re.ative t o r affairs with Spain. After years of oegociation and firtva ttemtion, wt seem to have approached the fbini ol icti ni) and a rapture is seriously onte n plated, 1 ho committee of Foreign K ati :is it appears, were called ogethi r on Sua I if last, at twelve o'clock fhe committee consist ot Mcsssrs. Forsyth, of (Geo.) chairman j Holmes. Mass cl u us; Barbour, Virginia ; H oertson, Louisiana; Porter, N Y. ; Tallftaa , N Y. ; Mills Massachusetts. A letter from Washington, to the editor ol t. e Alexandria (gazette, savs : The people here are all elated at the prospect of war with Spain. It is reported here that the chevalier Osis, ii prefeting to depart: and 1 have heard it J 'ispefed, that the troops of the United ot itea have been ordered to enter and Ake possession of the Floridas." WosTIR.Ohio, Mrach 2?, 1818. LA 1J OF! i E VOXLY. We are authirised to state for the inermation of purchasers of Public Lands that the Receiver of Public Monies at tais place has been insti ucted bv the Secretary of the t reasury to receive nothing in payment for land, but what will be received as cash by the Brtnches of the Sank of tiie United tat s : this is understood to be U. S Bank notes, the notes of the Pittsburgh Bank and specie. IC7 tt is reported that in consequence it the arrangement entered into in the Land Offices, that several of the Banks in Ohio have stopped payment. The German bank of Vooster,the Western Reserve Bank, the Bank of New Lisbon, end the Farmer's bank of Canton, are f aid to be among the number that have pan k nipt.

land, which, attended by one man & two b ys, will print above a thousand sheet s on both sides, in one hour, and this without any harder labour than putting on Sc taking off the sheets. It is propelled by steam and was invented by a German.

P VTfcNT HARVESTER. The model ot a machine to cut, thresh nd clean wheat, rye oats barley, cc. at Jne Operation, is now exhibiting at the Tontine New York, by the inventor, and has attracted the attention of many gen ilemen of science, and practical agriculturalists, ail of whom we understand express the highest opinion of its merits. The machine is constructed to be moved y tbe strength of one horse enters a f eld of wheat, rye. fee, will take4 a two men's land a head." and cut, thresh and fan the grain, fit for the mill or market nd without waste, or leaving any thing behind to be gleaned. This complete peration can be performed as fast as a fcorse can walk. The machine may be eparated and used only for cutting and fcathei ing the grain, which will render it Xtremely simple and effective. It is Calculated that two horses and one man o attend them, will cut and gather the g ra in from twenty-five acres per day. T e ne I cost of a machine for cutting ind gathering the grain, will not exceed O'.e hundred dollars; ind a machine complete for performing the whole Operation of preparing the grain for the mill "bout Rouble that sum. Among the gentlemen who examined the machine, we may name Doctor Mitchell, Mr. C. R Livingston, Mr. Th omas Freeborn Mr. Isaac fennintrsion. the Mayor &c. Should a Board of Agriculture be established in this state, agreeable to the recommendation of the Governor, it is hoped this admirable intention vi ill be one of the rirst objects of us attention. WED, Tn the 6ist year of his age, on the 25 th Harch last, at the hot se of a friend, on Cumberland Island. Georgia, on his return from the W; st Indies to his native ante, Virginia, Major General HFA&Y IEE, i co- -picuous officer in the Revolutionary Army. The bill M concerning; navagation v.t'h passed the Senate with but two Assenting voices, hal passed the Muse 1 R presentatteea with an almost equal

tinaramity ; sixteen votes only appearing Intne negative. If the bill' receive the anctton vi the President, therefore, of M a re is little doubt, it will be tome a i;-.".. 5c 1 v a Stronger vote, probab!v. in any act of a like character has v. r rrct ivc d in Congress. Thil is the lost important a t, so far, of the present session ; particularly with reference to the commercial convention with Great B i- i which expires in the course of u xt v. ar bv i's own limitation. I he Necessity for the act i as been so apparrnt.asto overcome the reluctance to pass it. Which, at the last session, caused Us postponement ; and the tote it had received may be regarded as a pie Ige of I :. eeei ce by t engross to the poiir ) it ; cl lei Hk 'i mi l:v- fir r.cr, A ril 1 3.

THE WKSTEltX SUX. VINOI3XXESMay 9.

Extract of a letter from the Hon. A'uinl. Pfie to thf Editor, dated Washington City, April 1 5th, 1818. Sim. You will oblige ine and some of your subscribers in Illinois Territory, it you will announce in your paper the Pass:ie t the Hill for the admission of Illinois Territory to form a constitution. It passed to-day, and requires only the signature of the president to become a Law ; it doubtless will not be withheld. The convention is to meet on the first Monday in August, the elections for members thereto on the first Monday of July. The terms and conditions are highly advantageous to the State. We are authorised to state that Richard Daniel, esq. if elected will aain Represent the counties of Gibson, Pike, Dubois, and a part of Posey, in the next General Assembly of the State of Indiana. GENERAL GAINES. We are happy to find in a Savannah paper of the 2 1stinst that Gen. Gaine s is safe. The paper remarks that "Gen. Gaines and Major Nix, who were upset in a boat as they were descending the river to Fort Scott for provisions, are safe : but that Major Wright the General's aid, and four men were drowned." The Franklin Gazette of vesterday, on the authority of a letter from Milledgeville of the 16th, says." fien. Gaines is said to have arrived" at Fort Gaines in safety, passing eight days and nights without food." ?

A OR F AT OFFER. " During this winter I have repeatedly written home to my friends, to make an offer directly to lord Bathurst, for my contracting to settle the country with British subjects. 1 now say that if government will give me the management of the public lands of Upper Canada, for 30 years, 1 will maintain during that time two regiments for his majesty ; repair all the forts ; and for the last twenty years of the term pay an annual rent to Britain of a hundred thousand pounds sterling." ROBERT GOURLAY. Niagara, Feb. 24th. 1818. The New London Gazette of the 1st inst. states, that capt. Heath, on his return, informed a gentleman in that city, that the affair between capt. Perry and imself, was definitively settled, to mutual satisfaction. BANK FAILURES.

The fla$ of the V. States as has been established by Congress after the 4th of Juiy next, is to be thirteen horizontal stripes, alternate red and white ; that the union be twenty stars, white in a blue field and that on the admission of every new state, one star be added. A proposition has been made in the legislature of New-York, now in session, to abolish the council of appointments and the council of revision in the government of that state, and to extend the right of suffrage. The Aurora says a project has been agitated at Washington, for an issue by Government of Exchequer jiiils to constitute a currency for tne United States, receivable for revenue, and payable by government in specie, when demanded. Some essays, in favor of a plan of this kind, have been published in the National Intelligencer. The report that Lord Cochrane had sailed for South America, appears to be amply confirmed. It is announced that he arrived at M. Bartholomews, with a frigate and three transports, having one thousand men on board, from whence he had sailed, supposed for Guyana. The U. S. sloop of war Hornet, capt. Reed, sailed from New-York on the 31st ult. lor St. Domingo, with commodore Lewis, Mr. Taylor, and Mr. Irvine, U. States Commissioners, the two first named to treat with Petion and Christophe, relative to the property seized by them belonging to American merchants. An affray of a very serious nature, occurred lately at Harttord (Geo.) between some of the citizens of that place and waggoners in the service of the U. S. &c a portion of the Tennessee troops, in which capt. Chisholm of the latter was killed, ana several other persons woundeu"' SuftfiorterWestern Commerce. A gentleman, passenger inthe JEtna, informs us that on his passage up, he numbered 9 Steam-Boats, 37 Barges. & 643 Flat Boats, bound down stream. This includes the number seen during the run. He estimates that at least 100 more must have passed by different channels during the night. Ky. Herald.

The Zanesville papers inform us that the German Bank of IVooster, has again stopped payment ! On the 21st Apiii the Bank of St. Louis, refused to redeem their notes with specie. Emigrant. Fredericktown, April 1. The public are cautioned against receiving Post Notes of the Lank of the United States, altered in so neat a manner as to deceive the best judges. Two persons have been arrested and imprisoned at Chambersburg, who attempted to impose on the bank there, with a note altered from 105 dollars to a large amount. Several notes have been altered from lOS to 9J5 dollars, Sc so v ell is the alteration executed, that some of the banks have been imposed on. Politicml Examiner. GENERAL MIX A. The accouet recently pub.ished in two or three of the Baltimore papers, & copied into ours, that general Mina is still living, and that letters of very late date had been received from him and his aid, is contradicted inthe Baltimore Patriot Ol Tuesday last. Thi letters w hich had been imposed on the e titors, it is said, were written bv persons formerly attached to Min a's expedition, but who were left by him at ( .alvezton, when he entere Mexico, and who 1 ive never seen him since. .V. Y. C m. A re.

The subject of the better organization of the Militia of the United States, is again passed by, the house of Representatives having refused to take it up, when moved for by gen. Harrison on Tuesday last. This decision is understood to operate as a postponement of the subject to the next session; when, according to the rule of proceeding recently adopted, it will stand for decision in its present shape, after the first week in the session without being originated de novo, as required by former practice. (.Vat. Intel. April 2. Hagerstown, 1 4th March, LUPENEl LA. The experiment has been fully made whether this valuable vegetable will succeed in our soil. A quantity of the seed was brought from Italy 18 months since, by Dr. Reynolds who received it, from a friend in Leghorn ; and sown in April of the last year, in a grass lot of Upton Lawrence, Esq of this place. Although exposed to all the rigors of the frost of the winter, the Lupenella grew luxuriantly, and completely imbedded itself in the soil. It mantained its verdure during the coldest weather, Sc has already commenced its spring growth. It appears, therefore, quite evident that this nutritious substance will domesticate itself in the middle states of America, affording pasturage, during winter, to cattle, and the most abundant harvests to the sickle. Herald.

SUMMARY. Commodore Aurv Who had been com. Knitted to prison at Charleston, by order of the Spanish consul, has been liberated. In c msequence of a peion from the Merchants of Cadia to Ferdinand VII, the ports of Cuba are to be closed a-

LOTS IN VINCENNES, For Sale. TAM authorised to sell for Joshua Bond a HOUSE AND LOT, situated on fifth Street, in which the said Bond lately resided. ALSO, A House e Lot, Belonging to Danl. Sullivan, in which he now resides. The property will be shown, and the terms of sale made known to any person wishing to purcease on application to C. R. C SULLIVAN. April 1st 1813 18 tf " Ir8 ALL persons having 700A.9belonging to O. R. . Suni-. an, v ill confer a I ivor on him by returni:..'- them to his OF ICE. G R C S For buic at Uus oliice, Blank Deeds, do. Subpamas, do. Ex c utions, ("1 A lvintstMtMN

0 DOLURS REWA1ID LOST, THIS BIORNINO In the Sfrppt.t nf V;

- ---w "J r A LETTER CONTAINING 549 D tLLMS. Principally in small BANK NOTES, W hoever may have found, and will deliver the letter and its contents, to Mark Barnett, or at this OFF C E, shall receive the abov e Reward or, in proportion for any part thereof and no questions will bo asked. S. Colman. Vincennes, May 7, 1818. 23 tf Take Notice. 4 LL those that purchased LOTS in V the town of MLR; M, at the sale are hereby requested to call at Carlisle, and pay up the first payment, or their Bonds will Le put into the hands of proper officers for collection, in case of my absence Wasson & Sayre will be autnorised to receipt for the amounts. S. COLMAN, Agent ofS.C. May 7, 1818. 23 3w VsVHMHMsVMHH HRSSSSSBBSHSSttiSSaiSBSVSBSeaBSSSSVBISeBSSSSMBSlMHMHSMHe Notice.

THE SUBSCRIBER, XVIHES to prepare to go to the f Eastward, and wants cash All persons indebted to him are requested to make payment immediately. Suits will be brought on all notes and accounts of long standing, that remain unpaid, after the first day of July next. J. B. McCALL. Vincennes, May 8, 18 18. 23 8i JPLBLIC SALE ' OF LOTS IN SM V UNA. 1 HE subscribers having laid oft O jp HVXDRED & FIFTY LOTS) for he commencement of a town at the June tioa of Honey Creek with the V abash, on the South side of the Creek, and east side of the river, will offer at public sale on Thursday the 21st day of May next, on the premises, one half of said Lots, or so many as the demand may seem to justify. The terms of payment will bo made easy, sale to commence at 10 o' clock A. M. In offering the above Lots for sale the subscriber beg leave to notice those objects which they conceive more particularly entitle SMYRNA to the attention of the public. It is evident to every man of experience and observation that, (although temporary causes may contribute to raise some towns for a while into notice) the permanent basis and support of all towne must rest on the following objects, viz ; the progress and improvement of agriculture in the adjoining country, its fertility, its extent, and the fac.i.ity w hich the situation of the town affords for the transportation of the surplus produce of the country and the mutual interchange of the productions and manufactures of other countries. With respect to the first object enumerated, viz : the improvement in agriculture, SMYRNA has the advantage of most other new to towns in the country, being situated on the margin of a wry flourishing settlement, which in point of respectability and persevring industry is not outdone by any in the state. The is likewise a very respectable and growing settlement to the south east (commonly known by the name of the Listen settlement) which will probably depend on SMYRNA for a M.uket. I to the fertility and ex'ent of the country easterly of SMYRNA, any one who has heard o the country need not be in doubt and the facility which it affords for the transportation of the surplus produce of the country, and the mutual interchange of the productions and manufactures of other countries is known to all who are acquainted withthe Wabash. Another peculiar and essential advantage of this town is, its safe and convenient harbor for boats which perhaps is the most commodious of any yet known on the Wabash. It is . J so said that the proximity of high land on each side the Wabash, at this place renders it most convenient for making the State road which is contemplated from JJArros. m O iio, to .Sr. LmviSy and heie i int will he t, e place where that ruad wid cross th Wabash. L' er these considerations the subscribers offer the above f r sale, leaving it to the pe to dei i le it it is not worthy their eemcat attend m. Ca ;b A nol i,

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