Western Sun & General Advertiser, Volume 10, Number 34, Vincennes, Knox County, 21 August 1819 — Page 1

Western Sim & General Advertiser

i BY EL1HU STOUT. VINCENNES, (1NU.) 8ATU1 AUGUST SI, 1819. Vol 10. No. 3 ?

77ZJ WESTERN SUX AND o a: . : MA AD VE r tisk ?, Ms published every Sd Tumdat, at Ty DOLLARS per annum, if p-iJ : m or TWO DOLL IRS FIFTY CENTS at the end of the year, for which a note will be required. No subscription can be withdrawn until :! 11 arrearages are paid. Jd f e it fi s KMB wrs conspicuously Inserted on the usual terms. Advertising Customers " ill note on their advertisements the number of limes they wish them inserted those sent without such directions will ?c continued until forbid, and must be paid for accordingly.

'30 F-r carrying MAILS Of the Unitrd S'ateg on thefotfoitring Post-R , id, will be received at the General Post Offiet until Saturday the 2.7 day of Octob r next) inclusive. 267. From Cincinnati by Cleves, Laure nc ebur g, W il min gton, H artford, Vevay, Madison, Lexington, Greenville, Charleston and Ulica to Louisville, to return from Madisonville to Lexington by Bethlehem once a w eek, 130 miles. Leave Louisville every Sunday at f c m an ive at Charleston by 9 a m at Lexington by 3 ft m at Vevay on Monday by 2 p m and at Cincinnati the lie ;t Tuesday bv 6 ft m. Leave Ciiu innati every Wednesday

'JL ot t a m arrive at Lexington on r riclay by 2 fi m and arrive at Louisville

j on S iturday by lo a m

6S. Eiom Lexington by Vienna Sc Pi l -on Roost to Salem, once a week, 89 miles. Leave Lexington every Sunday at 4 i m and : bv 1 0 a in rnve at Salem on Monday Leave Salem every Monday at 11 a m and arrive at Lexington by 8 p m. 269. From Lawrenceburg by PetersburgyK. to Burlington, K. once a Week. Leave Lawrenceburg every Fiiclay at 9 a m and arrive at Burlington by 6 fi w. Leave Burlington every Saturday at i 45 a m and arrive at Lawrenceburg- by f m. 270 From Vevay by Edenboro' & Ripley c. h. to Brookville, 54 miles. Leave Vevay every Men lav at 2 h i an I arrive at Brookville on Tuesday by 6 .' m. Leave. Brookville every Wednesday a 6 a m and arrive at Vevay on Tiui sday by 10 a m. 27 I. From Hartford to Rising Sun, as miles. Leave Hartford every Thursday at 7 a m & arrive at Rising Sun by 9 a m. Leave Rising Sun at 10 a m and arrive at Hartford by toon. 272. From Madison by Paris to 13 ownstown, 40 miles. Leave Madison every Tuesday at 6 a m & arrive at Brownstown bv 6ft m. Leave Brownstown every Wednesd tv at 6 a m and arrive at Madison b 6 : 7t . 273. From Brownstown bv Palestine, Bloomington and Hum's Ferry t Fort-Harrison, ISO miles, once in two weeks. Leave Brownstown every other Wednesday at 6 a m and arrive at Fort -Harrison on Saturday by 10 a m. Leave Fort-Harrison every Saturcay at I i m and arrive at Brownstown on Tuesday by 6 w. From Bedford, K. bv Madis n. Vernon, Lexington and New-London to Bedford, once a week 41 miles. Leave Bedford every Friday at 7 a m and arrive at Vernon by 7 fi m. Leave Vernon every Saturday at 6 am and arrive at Bedford on Sunday by noon. 275. From Louisville bv Shinninc Port, Portland, Xew -Albany, orj don rreedoma, troy, Mount Pleasant, Darlington and Evansville to llarmo ny, once a week. 144 miles. Leave L tuisville every Wednesdav a t u m arrive at Corydon by noon, Sc arrive at Harmony on Saturday by ll a rn. Leave Harmony every Saturday at 1 fi m 5c arrive at L uisville on Tues- ! iv hy-7 ,n27f From EHtabethtown, K. by Philadelpi, Livo iia Elizabethtown, Corydon bv Fredericksburg, Beck's Mills, Salem Mascota, and Valonato BrownttOWn, once a week. 97 miles Leave Clisabethtowti every Tuesday at 5 ; m arrive at Philadelphia by 2 fi m at Corydon on Wednesday bv l(J a m. Leavs Corydon every Wednesday at 1 fi m and arrive at Brownstown on Lv Thursday 6 m.

6 a m and arrive at Philadelphia on 1

Saturday by 6 fi m and at Elizabeth -town on Sunday by noon. 277. From Louisville by JefTersonVI lie, Greenville, and Fredericksburg to Paoli, once a week, 50 miles. Lsave Louisville every Friday at 6 a m and arrive at Paoii on Saturday by 3 pm. Leave Paoli every Wednesday at 9 a m and arrive at Louisville on Thursday by 6 m. 278. From Louisville by JefTersonville, Utica. Charleston, Salem, Paoli, Shelby, Liverpool, and Hawkins' Ferry to Vinccnnes, once a week, 130 miles. Leave Louisville every Sunday at 5am arrive at Cfcafleston by 10 am arrive at Salem by 7 ; m and arrive at Vincenncs on Tuesday by 10 am. Leave Vincennes every Tuesday at 2 p. m and arrive at Louisville on Thursday bv 7 m. 279. From Vincennes by Hazleton's Firry, Princeton, Harmony, Mount Vernon, Mouth of Wabash to Shawneetown,once a week, 92 miles. Leave Vincennes every Tuesday at 2 ?n arrive at Princeton by 7 i ?n 8t arrive at bhawnectown on I hursd by 6 i m. Leave Shawnectown eveiy Sun ,i C ... 1 T' 4 at u u in aim arrive ai v incennes ion t i i . . y i ucsuav Dy l i a m. 280. From Vincenncs bv Palestine Carlisle, Sullivan c. h & Terre-Haute to Foit-Harrison, 70 miles, once a week. Leave Vincennes every Tuesday at ll am and arrive at Fort-llatrlWi on Wednesday by 6 fi m Leave Fort-Harrison every Sunday at 9 a m and arrive at Vincennes on Tuesday by 9 am. 281 From Paoli by French Lick, L. 5! n reiersnurg and I olumDubois c i r . i .... via w i i ii u ciuiijunti1 a weeK. i t miles Leave Paoli every Tuesday at 6 a m and arrive at Princeton on Wed nesday by 6 m. Leave Princeton every Thursday at I 6 a m and arrive at. Paoli on Friday by 6 h m. 282. From Paoli bv Mount Bterling and Fredoniato Philadelphia, K. once a week, 70 miles week, 70 miles. Leave Paoli every Thursday at 2 m and arrive at Philadelphia on Saturday by 1 0 a m. Leave Philadelphia every Tuesday at 2 fi m and arrive at Paoli on Thursday by 10 a m. 283. From Salem by Bonolo ploo in g ton, 59 miles y Leave Salem every Vondav.attc n mmgto n and arrive at Bloomington oivfuc sby ! 0 a m . Leave Bloomington every Tuesday at 2 fi m and arrive at Salem on Y ednesday by 7 fi m. 284. From Princeton by Evansville to Henderson, Ky. once a week, 42 miles. Leave Henderson every Thursday at 6am and arrive at Princeton by 6 p m. Leave Princeton every Wednesday at 6 a m and arrive at Henderson bv 6 p m. 2S5. From Laurenceburg bv George - town and Brookville to Salisbury, once a week 66 m'ues Leave Laurenceburg every Wednesday at 3 p m and arrive at Salisbury on Friday bv 7 a m. Leave Salisbury every Friday at 7 ... 1 ! " w . a m auu amvc at laurenceuurcr on Saturday by 6 : m. fe TV . t V i oo r rom v nsoivown oy crnon to Bi ow nstown, 55 miles. Leave Brownstown every Friday at 6 a m and arrive at Usontown on Saturday by 10 a m. Leave Wilsontown every Wednesday at I p m and arrive at Brownstown on ! hu: sday by 6 p m. 27. From Corydon by Mount Sterling to Portcrsville, once a week. 56 miles. y Leave Corvdon every Wednesday at 2 fi m sn I arrive at Portersville on I hursday by 6 ft m. Leave Portersville every Friday at 6 a m and arrive at Corydon on Saturday bv '0 c m 288 From Jacksonburg to Randolph c . h. Leave JacksoT,burg every Leave Randolph c h every 289 From Hamilton Ohio, bv JtTs villc, Millville, Harrison. New-Tren-ton, Brookville, Connersville, Waterloo, Centerville, Salisbury, Dunlap's Mill, Fairfield and Brookville to Ham ilton, once R week 58 n "lies Leave Hamilton every Tuesday at 6 a m and arrive at Brookville same day by S fi m and at Salisbury on Wednesday by 2 p m.

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and arrive at Hamilton on Friday by

9 am. NOTES. L THE Post-Iaster General may I rxpeouetne mans ana aucr ine units . . js .l . i i i mr arrival and departure at any time ouring ire conunu nice oi me contract, lie stipulating an adequate compensa tion for any extra ex pence that may be occasioned thereby. 2. Fifteen minutes shall be allowed for opening and closing the mail at all offices where no particular time is specified. 3. nr rvcrv thirtv minute delav I J- .... . V I - - - - 7 i . i unavomaoie accuients excepted; m arriving after the times prescribed in ny contract, the contractor shall for. feit one dollar ; and if the delay contiiuc until the departure of any depeiiling mail, whereby the mails destined tor such depending mail lose a trip, a forfeiture of double the amount al lowed for carrying the mail one trip shall be incurred, unless it shall be made to appear that the delay was occasioned b unavoidable accident ; in which case the amount of pay for the trip will in al cases, be forfeited and retained. Pe rsons viHakg proposals are deired to stat their prices by the year. Those who contract will receive then ay quarterly in the months of 'ay, Kugust. November and February, one month after the expiration of each quarter. 5 No other than a free white person shall be employed to convey the mail. 6 Where the proposer intends to convey the mail in the body of a sta;re carriage, he is desired to state it in his proposals. 7. The "ost-master General reserves to himself the right of declaring any contract at an end whenever one fail ure happens, which amounts to the loss of a trip 8. The distances stated are sue! such as bave been communicated to this office arel some of them are dmihtW in correct : on this subject the contractor must inform himself; no alteration will be mnde in the nay on account of any error in tins respect. 9 A he contracts are to be in oper ation on the first day of January next; and are to end December 3 l, 1 823. j 10 fhe contracts for the new routes ! are to commence on the November next. 16th day of RETURN J MFIGS Jr. Post-master General General Post-Officf, Washington City, May 26. 1819 Cincinnati Cf WORKED T.4TTTT I, WORKED 'WW m trc Factor I VS. Q3 r. 7. a te l r BR OM WELL, f:om Baltimore. about to estabiish the various 1 branches of his business in this civ opposite the Hill Market House where he will MA UFACTURE the following articles, viz : Sk ves and Riddles of all kiiVs, Safes, Wove and worked W ire for Rolling and Standing Screens for Merchant Mills ; for Flaxseed ; For Standing Screens for Lime, Sand, Gravel, Coal, and Ore ; For Kiddles and Screens tor Wheat Fans, Cellar and Milk house Windows, Shakes for Meal ; for Corn and M dt Kilns, and Rat and Mouse Traps. HE Also MAXV FACTORS S Patent and Common Wheat Fans, Straw Cutters, I n and Steel Knitting Pins. &c. As J. . intends to make this Citj his permanent residence, those v h faor him with their custom may depend upon their work being done in a substantial manner, and as cheap, il not cheaper, than at any other Manu factory this side the mountains. LTAil orders left with or sent to Messrs Whipple and Washburn, froi t street, or myself shall be attended to with punctuality. Cincinnati, June 1 2." 1319. 200 Dollars EWARD. IflL 1 E CHEST V. i William h'ilhM a DEL a WARE lXDIA.x sentence of Demth. for the murder i 1 Thomas McCall, in March last !! made his escape from the euard Palestine, Crawfoi d countv Illinois, t the night of the 19th int. He is i bout five feet 8 ot 9 inches hijh, ligl coioitk down look, and speaks English. goo

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ST. LOUIS, Mat 20. The Mad of Orleant I i. is beaut - ful Vessel Was built at Philarffln id.

.. . - -r and is equally intended for liver and sea navigation ; the latter by s; s. cue former by steam power. She came to New-Orleans schooner-rigged, a-,-sended the Mississippi by the Steam, and is the first vessel which has arrived at St. Loms from an A' Otitic port. Men of reflection, men who observe the progress of human affairs, will mark thi di nt u iu I a. U .1.- r .. . . iw" IIIC onaiT (.1 1 iu vi wn I J . . . .4. J . . W I V I V map, and will see in its issue the com mencement cf that new older of things which is to line the banks of the Mississippi with sea-port towns and to raise up, at certain con. manding points, commercial cities ravelling the greatest of those which the seashore exhibits. 1 hey will mark the outset of this vesselleaving her port in north Latitude 40 d grees, sailing down to the uf Q Mexico, enteri ig it and quitting it a i , to penetrate by a noble river the interor and central parts of the N. American continent. Arrived at St Louis after an assent of 1600 miles, they will see her almost in the latitude from which she set out ; and having noied w hat she has done will cast f&mrard their eves to see what she miJkdo Looking up the Missouri, thev Ud see, that one hundred and sixty mRs m ire would take her to the Mandan Villages above the latitude of Quebec: and that 800 more would carry her west to the first falls of the Missouri river Looking up the Mis sissppi they would see that 1000 miles would carry her to the falls of t. Anthony, in the latitude of Vermont ; whence a canal of half a mile at the head of the river St. roin would enable her to enter the Caspian se:i of North America. Loosing up the Illinois they would see t?taf5Vj miles would tarry her to the ta which is to open the Michigan lak into the valky of the Mississippi ; whence by a chain of inland seas and the c nal Clintonfwhen finished,) she migni arrive, o a circumnavitcatM u of many thousand miles, at the point from which she first sailed Such an lines of water communication, such the means of commercial intercourse, formed by Natures in the Mag lucent regions of the Missouri and i is- : sissippi,and of which there is no parj allel on the face of the globe. MAS8ISSIPPI RIVER In the dearth of other matter, we devote a few lincsto an extract from a late publication, of Mr. Melish, relative to tiie western country. uThe Eastern extremity of the waters of this rher is the head wat rs of the Alleghany, which are situate in Pennsylvania, about 19u miles N W of Philadelphia f - , "The Western extremity i the head waters of Jefferson's ver, about 54J miles fi om the Pa- ifi ( )eean. "The distance betuten these two extremities in a direct line, is abui 1700 miles, "The Northern extremity is l branch of the Missouri, in the north latitude 52, 42 ; 550 miles west L north of the Lake of the Woods. " The 6' whrm extremity, is the south pass into the Gulf of Vlexii north lattiude 2 J ; 9u miles bciou New Orleans. "The distance between these two extremities in a direct line, is 16miies " The river and its btaches spread ove r nearly fifteen bnndred thousam square ndles. So that the Mississ pi md it branches water consid loiy anote i-jc.s, comprising states and two territofies) of the I ed SUtes territory a a freat portioi t it being unsettled, and probably th finest land in the world. uThc length of issouri i iv " accor lin to the sa.ue author M is 1 p m s

Vrkansaw, qq Red liver, lOOO a Platte, 760 assissi;pi 'mitsjunclion with Missouri,) 7 y ); im J 7 tQ wj ansesVj 6 in ennessee, 550 fellow Stone, 500 V! rn- River, 400 schitta, 400 sae river, 360 u m be 1 land, 300

Tl e chi( ulation is made without iniildins the bends and in a st?sil din 1 n All these stt earns are e.iviable

tearlv to tl eir s

So t i t lion on their branches cootipru r such a vast extent ef rich and feme laml, can be supp ied .F: . ,t she quantity of Koo is wight ut having any o! the obstructions ot . ,,,,. reyxnce. When this country acaaire a dense p pulution to which Matr it is ad rats lug with unexampW-d rspssV ity) what a v.ist fie d will it ofvti 'or comme cial enterprise. XewOrlt. will be the depot of ail its cxjxit., , K poits ar.d imports ; every uc:t of ground, cultivated in tins tu extcnl of countiy, will add to her wealt How extensive sad rnnspiji and etll be the means qrfayed tor her pr -perit . How grand, hotv n.ai-.iii-a m! her destiny ! S lie is the proper cl an nel through which our imports and exp.u ,i...uld hVv tee on Co:.-t-bv nature. Fn the At. Saw PLOUCH Bot. One of the last mails brought us the fust nnsnber of the National In. tclliguicer and Boons Litk Advutistr. It contains i.uuit rests ai. er tist meiits, the evidence ot IBfHlt.ii cm population. lion. V!iat think vou re i . o! a newspaper at Boon's Lick, in ihs wtlda of Missouri, in 11 6, where in 1819 there Was rv.t, wt be. lev, j, vilized being; excepting the eccentric character who avc his name to 1 e spot, who dcjiirined in the dreary 1 t awiul solitude with whsch be v.$ urrounded, and who has since t:vt l led farther into the wilderness, :o avoid society and enjoy his Eavorite life o a hunter. The editor of 1 is paper has been thought extravigant, for having asserted in a private cm e his belief, that in less than a century e should in all probability have a tumpike rout from Albany to ihe shores of the Pd .fi,. ui such a consumation is not less to be expected, than it was to have been Hippo d twenty years ago. that we should now see, on the wild and distant theat e of Boon's hunting exploits, a printing puss diffusing intelligence weekly among a numerous population. And now, we repeat, that Henry lomespun, Jr is da prophet; hr the secot d rising genetarionfromt e present erill march straight forwards on a smooth road, and througl flouriahing settlements, from Albans to the Columbia River. The V Ik vr Stone expedition h already a ir ?ni 'it. I- in I l.ir. .I.t. C -.n. 111 una i nam 01 commui icatmn. What a av t tre of lie ri-e. , cline, and fali ot h ifii.o, irrrrm-c! rt - YELLOW STONR VX. PEDITION. A gentleman iust arrived from , J - " 1 w. John s on the Missouri, informs t t on the 17th inst. the iHluhJvmi Vvv 1 oviAi . -X pedition Johnson and Jefferson pased that pice ali in xid ordei I nc lattco lour davs behind the for. me 1 and that the progies of tic bnatS IS Cfcl t :ir, if" the MMMti teep enough to keep them afloat. MiH&'ur. GaZ. Extract of a let'-r from an Gfscrr rn board th' United S a e: ghip U rner, to hi frimd in this fiiacc. da ted th 3d June, 18.9. 1 We are all in hi-h spit its to dav, as our i.ffuirs at Madrid look rather squailva war between Span and our country is much talked of here. I wish it may take place. "By last night's mail we received accounts from Mdiid to the 29th May 1 he treaty was not then rati Bed, nor was there much prospect of ratification 111 any short time, Ss it appears the Kin is much influenced y England whose influenci is not V great with this government, b t hh all the ot er Cabinets on t is ontinent. 1 here is a report in circu' on is fnorning, that the r.nlis 1 Mia ster has been very active in this aft : . and that be has prevai ed on the . g to r. h to ratify the treaty, k itiiout tiie concurrence of Fnh od, II this report be correct, then may I I e. that our goven meat wid slf i i s a. 1 opportun t t trv o r I i In vaifa e with he D n, i !. siise them severely for Hie n nr tults and injuries which 1 it iav nment have received Irom ihm. 'Tiie UilisbRaata ot Cadie ae varmly opposed to the iatincsi. , ind the prevailing opinio amot t v countrymen hire, is, that t..e tving will reject the treaty. daSmuiav last, ! y present at Bui Bait a very ant re'ot'aiid et .1 vciy popo.O' pubiic an nsnun n ipain The si rue, to me, asl cious and crud in tl e extrcmr, d

steam boat?