Western Sun & General Advertiser, Volume 9, Number 50, Vincennes, Knox County, 14 November 1818 — Page 2
ion the post, it will be promptly given injured by the nkfemiCiy malfeasance
up
Feo the New Ohifaw Odette
MOfET. With respect to Pensacola, that post There is nothing in this world rivcs E stands on a different footing There are mm so much importance nothing which not fifty warriors west of the Appalachihi let so meny faults and nothing which cola, and the population of thfeyDDUer is wtyl pass current for so m ny virtues, as sufficient to keep them in awc l'hc yotf,t Without money an honest man population of Pensacola alone is iun js despised, and with it the greatest ras- dantly competent to preserve it from ltal or meanest scoun lral is respected lin into the hands of the Indians. Vfhc Y m shall sec a befog without a Mnle post therefore, will be surrendered withpre tension to humanity : a mere walking out condition, to any agent of Spain duly lu nn of irrossness and depravity ; one. of authorised to receive It.
the vilest of the vile, provided he posses- is thus seen, that the U States do record of such claim, to he pa
8's the one thint needful accompanied not desire to hold the Spanish posts, one the several and respective clsil an I almost worshipped by half a score of which is surrendered without condi- 5. Be U fur:h-r ordained
or nonfeasaneeof tlic said clerk ; and by
the said chairman caused to be recorded in the rccordcrs office of Knox county and then deposited with the Borough treasurer. 4. Be it further ordained That the said clerk of this Board shall have k receive the sum of twenty cents for every hundred words contained in the record he may be obliged to make of the said lot or part of lot so as aforesaid claimed,
For his trouble in makim?Lhc ueccssai y
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leans a small quantity of
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o.v irjxD m ceehal a hok r.vEsr or Dry Goods 85 Groceries, which "he will sell tow for CJSH cf CO UXTR Y P R 1 D fC R
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of lickspittc-s, sycophants, bowing and tion. and the other without anv condi- order to afford to counter claimai
nrinninc tpplsuse at every thins he ut- tion but that it shall not be surrendered opportunity to lay in their claim orclaims
ters I While 1 poor man of talents, of to a force, nominally Spanish, under con- before this board, no final decision shall
posts are to be surrendered.
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BorOUffh Ordinances.
feeling and sensibility, and an indepen
dent s ml, shall wander alone and unfriended through a world which cares not for Vis sorrows, y To be poor is the lot of many from the commencement of their existence, but Jsrnisfortunc is apparently considered as a crime, and there is nothing more galling to a poor man of a liberal mind, than that kind of haucrhty arrogance which the rich and affluent assume towards him, more especially, if he has once been in better circumstances, he feels it keenly it sinks deep. But to be reduced from affluence to
misery and want not by any faults of our hereby ordained by the au
trol actually Indian Jn a word, it is to be made by the Board until the expireSpain and not the Siminolcs that both the lion of three months after presentation
AN Ordinance designating the time and mode of presenting claims to Lots in the town of Vinccnnes, and the manner of deciding thereon. Sec. I. Be it ordained bv the Hoard oTruiteee of the Boroughs Vincennee
in common council assembled, om it M
ru the
seme. That in pursuance ancMurtkerancc
of the first section of the AaiefNIWmgress entitled "An act to adjust the claims to lots in the town of Vinccnnes and for the sale of the land appropriated as a common for the use of the inhabitants of the said town," approved April 20, 18 18, this Board of Trustees will im
mediately after the promulgation here-
at the time and in the manner hereinafter designated. $2 Be it further ordained That the
claimant or claimants for any lot or par
m own, out or a concurrence o' events not in the power of man to foresee kr t0 prevent, and in consequence of W Being poor to be treated with coolness 5t contempt, by those with whom, in days of prosperity we have been intimate, and ea'led friends embitten a man's feelings, makes him miserable and misanthrop'ck, and causes him to despite human nature. There is nothing which produces so much hatred to a forme r frit nd as the f 1 tint he avoids you, because you hare not as much filthy lucre, or because you iave been unfortunate in business
an i yet if a man has failed, no matter eel of ground, shall make out or car.se to w hat may have bern the cause, friend- be made out, and sign with his. her or ship soon changes into pity and sorrow their proper name, a notice in writing, .for misfortunes quickly degenerates into stating therein distinctly the quantity of Ncontc -npt and the poor benkrupt een- ground claimed, the street or;streets (by ersjly, not only loses his friends 8c credit first, second Bee.) upon whicMiysXhubur also becomes at least for a time, nted, h the person or persontd'oinmg, an object for scorn to point his slow un- if known, as also by whatmanner of tir:e RlOving finger at. the same is claimed, whether by deed, T. ere are, it is true, a certain class in End from whom, shewing therein the Ociety whose opinions, whose good or chain and connection of transfer ; or by ill will has no more effect on an honest occupancy, for what period and by what man than the ivlle wind; I mean those flat, right, and whether the claimant rests lazv and stupid beings whom you find in his, her or their claim upon written evsi! places, and meet at every corner of idence only, or upon parol testimony, or t e streets whose money is respected, partly upon both whenever She claim
and proof made before it of such origi
rial or first claim. And in order that the said claims when so presented may be made public for the information of all concerned, it shall be the duty of the clerk to insert a list thereof in the Western Sun for six weeks successively, the Expense whereof shall be oaid by the successful claimant to such rejccVvc ,ot; vs JfcW 6. -4':d be it further ordained Tat after the expiration of the said three months, it shall be the duty of the Board to take up, examine and decide upon the several claim or claims of that length of standing according to evidence of record before the Board : and in case of confirmation, shall make and execute to the confirmee, his heirs and assigns, a deed or deeds (after such form as may hereafter be prescribed by the Board) designating such lot or lots by tUe.num-
oeror numnersto wmrn it or tnermav
NOTICE. The Sale of Lots in the Tn-.vn of OXFORD, WILL commence on Monday the 7th day of December next upon the premis es,on a . redit of ONE and TWO TEARS after the day of sale. This J'O WM is situated on an eminence of the west bank of the Wabash river (11'.) at the place called heretofore Hot:-rar'.e and is inferior to no sttUEtion which the Wal ish affords from its niotiTlki Aanil
i, it iJ?JV
indeed, with one exception,
ly landing place on the west baiwei' tf
river from its mouth to Palmyra, m.t neighborhood of Vincennes. It is hid out up n an entire liberal plan, and in the neighborhood of a hesithy flourishing settlement of wealthy Europeans. The situation and local adrsntsges this scite arc so- well known, s description is scarcely necessary. CHARLES SMITrtt m ..,2 WILLI AM JONES. pW
November 14. 50-4 w
ut, wrwmw w " J properly belong by end on the supfcy 8c claims to lots in the town of mcennes, M vu,.
itti uiv ii fiAiESSKj uivi vvi nnaui ui iiiiit
bnt who have no personal character.
Yet this class of things ; these purse proud puppies these substitutes for Bit n1 who have neither capacity to conceive, ambition to attempt, nor ability to execu'e. any thing either good or bad ; tens of thousands of whose little seals Blight inhabit the shell of a tobacco seed, and yet have rooms to let, are suffered hy common consent of society in a manri r to look down upon and tyrannise over honest industrious men, and whose ta entsougl t to entitle them to the first rank It therefore becomes necessary for very man whether knavish or honest ; whether stupid or eminent to c:et money, to get it honestly if he can, but. by all means to get it : For if he is as wise as Solomon as strong as Sampson, and as brave and eloquentss Caesarj unless he possesses the wealth of ( rosus, he will be disregarded and despised.
We have seen some conjectures in
fctewspapers respecting the delivery
ftjie Spanish posts in Florida, which it
s been announced are to be restored to
the Spanish ft- vernment, that have led Us to some enouirv into the subject The two posts, we are induced to be-1-eve, wit be surrendered under varient circumstances T e ost of St Metes will not be snr ten - red but to aforce competent to hold it. It is a military post, remote from snv population, surrounded by hordes of desperate Indians and negroes ; it is the onh barrier t gainst their ravages and incursions. To evacuate it on the mere dt mand of any Spanish agent deputed to r. c eWe, or to a force incompetent to hold it, w ould be to evacuate it to the Indians; for, We hSTC authority cf the late Snan-i-sh eommsnder of it, for saving that the Indians controlled him, ar.d not )c i cm Self-poe-vatiftp is the first dieUte of nature and there is nothing in the law of n lorn, most rigourously construed whi re uires t nation to prostrste aoV part f hs population Et the mercy of an inf riated and snvarc enemy. We have dsdy irrounts that the Seminole Indians remaining unsubdued are embodied in force : this check withdrawn, and they m it Sweep our borders On the
sup.ara.ice of a force adequate to Karri-
or anv part of it depends upon nnv writ
ten document or documents, they shall accompany the said nctice of claim : and where any part of such claim depends upon oral testimony, the deposition or depositions supporting said claims lawfully taken before anv Judge or Justice of the peace (and when taken out of the county of Knox to be certified under the seal of the proper clerk's office) shall accompanv the said notice and other documents, and in all cases where anv doubt mav be suggested by a counter claimant,
or entertained by this Hoard, as w? the
credibility of any such
1 , , 1 t,. P.I T-
snail or ine uutv oi tne imarci c ounce
the claimant to produce the said itnen or witnesses before this Board inrrder to undergo a personal examination. 3. Be it further ordained That the clerk of thisBoard sh.tll record in a proper book or books to be by htm provided at the expense of this Borough, all such notices of claims in the order and rotation in which they are delivered in ; and
her or them in the fee-simple estate thereof forever. This Ordinance shall be in force and take effect from and after its publication. G. W TOf!NTSTO Chairmen pro. tcm. John Fwino, Clerk pro tern, SUPPLEMENT to an Ordinance entitied "An ordinance directing the manner of surveying the comrrrons 6c prescribing the terms of sale." Be it ordained by the Brard of 7rut tee of th- Borough of Vincenne in torn rnon councii UMtetnbltd, and it Is hereby ordained by the authority of the name, That a Treasurer distinct from the Horough Treasurer, be appointed to attend to his duties as such in all monied maters relating to the Commons, under the same restrictions, regulations and penalties as are provided by the Ordinance for the guidance and government of the Borough treasurer. Sec 2. Be it fvr'her crdai-.-ds That any prov ision in the Ordinance to which this is a supplement, not corresponding herewith, be, and the same is hereby repealed. C V. JOHNSTOV, Chairman. John EwtMG, Clerk pro. tern.
BOARD O F T ROSTERS,) Vinccnnes, Sept 28, 1818.
Public Nctice i hereby riven THAT by virtue of an aci oft on press approved April Co, 1818, entitled " An act to adjust the claims to lots in tho tdwn of Vincennes, and for the sale of the land appropriated as a common for the use of the inhabitants of the said town " PUBLIC SALES for the disposjlf the said Common, or a certain p!i thereof, agreeably to an ordinance tYii Jkmmm I .L!. It I C -T-
ujr proven uv ims oau oi 1 rus'ctiB. shall be held at the C'jur'-ffo-usf- of tS
said town ot v incennes, on he 3d Mon
from day to day. by adjournment, until the sale of the said common, or sue!) por
tion or part as mav Ife authorised and off- red, be completed. By order cf the Board. G. R. C. SULLIV Atft Chairman pro. tcm. C.H. Tilling hast Clerk. T7The Editors of the" Trd-aniin." JefTersonville, LouixviUe Courier," and 1 Weetem Sfiy," will publish theoboye in their papers, each 3 weeks, and forward their accounts to the editor of the Western Sun. (44 7W)
ru. a t-c the - ' ,m,m zl witEAuj it Ap FIFTY DOLLARS ard V) nhrnfre
EWAltD
G R C. Sullivan k J Call,
mM7 'ILL hereafter practice law incon-
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)ILT ILL be pivento any person who f T will bring back
1 1 thrive U'hn mm tx-icK tAL... ,
, ww viwyiv L4lT.11 J ft Wi
umu"u upon me aiienticn and exertions
of butii. They have made arrangements so as one or the other will alwsys b& found st their office in Vincennes. nearly oppoitc the P 3sfO Cr.MECT-
JOHN STOCKWELL.
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i..v, t)l sinf.ss wniHf- pffr-.: lar'.y attended to i:i Knox oim-Thev will aKo attend to Convevancmr nr.nn th
an Indented apprentice to the Tayloring shortest notice, and undertake atrer.ries Bussiness, who ranaway on the nieht oi not imeomnatihlr with ho', r..r,;-.
to issue whenever requested a subpoena the first inst. his Ego is about eighteen The postage of Letters addressed to
or BuupwiiM jur Mil. n uucss or wimes- years 01 a earn complexion, black liair them on business mr.t hn iA
: r . i 1 . .. r ' r-"-
uu mi-s, wihi urv idM ; nan on wncn 11 U Vincennes Fi b 19
Knoxcountv as mav be so as aXo?
required bv the J'oard to rive tn u:
he went away a half worn Caster H it.
new blue Round-about Jacket dcublcbreasted with white liullit Buttons on the breast and cuffs, Psntsloona lindbey, pale blue and white mixed, his other clothing not recollected, he went away in company with the artful (icorpc Perltv, an cml eront y of his, I expect tbywjl make for the Ohio river, tU::cc thcz or New-Orleans I will pive the above .reward to any person who will apprehend andbrin back the above named Stockwell. or
825 if lodged in any jail in the United States with information sotl.at I may be
ses (provided be or they vesicae within
tid
!u it per--
sonal attendance, to appear ancr p-jre
evidence at the next or any subsecwrft meeting of the Board. fpevidf 'd it be r:'H a reasonable time") at the op.ion of the claimant, under the penalty of five hundred dollars. It shall be his further duty to record truly & impartially in the said book or books, the substance of all oral testimony adduce or fsiven before the Board in support of sWVclaim or claims by such depositioriiirleflsitions and penerallv to do and perTorrrr, in regard to the said c!:nm,all such other 8c further dut 1 - s r. s the Board mav direct. Me shall immediately enter into
bond, with two or more responsible se- employing or crediting on my account, cennes on the west side of Wabash Riv-
cunties, in the sum of ten thousand dol- as 1 am determined to nut the law in er. Illinois The material of 1 i Flriilaa
lars, conditioned forthe faithful dischsr force against all such w ho disregard this to be o Hued Timber End Plank tho f.l. J..! f . 1 . . 1 ' 1 Hi 1 ,, f - .
t-One Cent Reward. r RAN-AWAY from the st;bcrlber cti
the morning of the 7th instsnt, living in
Allison Prairie Crawford county Illinois
a bour.d L-irl 13 or U years old. name
JVaney Walter Any person that will delirer the said pirl to me at my house shall receive the shore reward. EZRA H. ALLISOV. November 9, 18 1 8. 5 3t
A BRIDGE TO LET.
IV Sff to contract for the building BRIDGE, across a niece cf !ow
enabled to iet him again. I also strictly Rroni.d. of abi ut twenty-five red long, forwarn all persons from harbouring within three qusrters of a mile of Vin-
ofhis duties, aft 'v keeping snd punctu
avv delivering over to h's successor in office a'd books, deeds and other writings Eppei taining to his office or in his charge; which boid sh?.ll be taken ar.d the security s approved of by the chairman of this Board, to and in the name of Benjamin V. Beckee as sheriff of Knox county k his iiccessors in office, to and for the use of any person or perioni who mav be
notice.
HENRY RUBLE. Vincennes. (la ) Nov. 7, 1818. 49-
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J. CALL
1 11 l ' t If Ul M. v.t .. t ft
PEPS his OFFICE on Second S.
Opposite the POST-OFFICK. Vkiccna,Jaxi. 9th( isu tf
Plank will be furnished bv me An
person desirous of undertaking the work, bv spplicEtion lo me or Charlcj Smith in Vincennes, can get a Ii ersl , r-.tr.ict and the Cash paid st the completseo of the ork or if rt ested, a part of th money will be advanced. THOM VS AKDEHSOK.