Western Sun & General Advertiser, Volume 12, Number 7, Vincennes, Knox County, 17 March 1821 — Page 4

"STOP LAW." AN ACT tusfiendlng execution until a certain day therein expressed Sec. I Be it enacted by the fieofile df the state of Illinois, represented in the general assembly, That no execution hall hereafter i;sue on any judgment or replevin bond now in force or which may hereafter be rendered by any court of justice or jusiice of the peace, until the 20th day of November next ; and all executions that shall have previously issued, upon which the money is not made, shall be stopped until the above time, and the property levied upon be restored to the persun from vrhom it was taken ; Provided, That the defendant pays all costs which may have accrued on the judgment, unless the plantitT or plantiffs, by thcnibelvesDr their authorized agents, shall previously make oath that he, she or they verily believe that he, she or they will be in danger of losing his or their demand, unless execution or other process be issued in conformity with the xiuing laws. Hut if the defendant will give bond with good security, to be appiovedby the oflicer levying the execution, in double the amount of the debt, payable to the plantiffs in the execution, then the execution shall be sia ed until the said 20th day of November next, any alien affidavit notwithstanding, (.nd everr such bond to have the same force and effect of a replevin bond ;) Provided That this act s: all not be construed so as to prevent persons from bringing suits or issuing attachments previous to that day. This act to take effect and be in force from and after the 18th day of January instant. Vandalia, February 6. On Friday the committee to whom was referred the Bank Bill, made a icngthy report in opposition to the objection of the Council of Revision On the report being read, Mr. Alexander moved that the bill should then pass. The speaker rose in his chair, and in a short address to the house, thanking them for the honor they had conferred upon him to the office he then held, and his disposition to give the house his views upon the bill before its final passage, resigned his office. Mr. Blackweli was called to the chair, and Mr Mather elected speaker. Mr. Mather also made a short address to the house and resigned. Mr. M'Lean was re-appointed speaker, and the bill committed to a comittee of the whole house on Saturday. According to order on that day, the house went into committee of the whole and the bill was taken up, when Mr M'Lean occupied the floor in a speech of nearly two hours in length in opposition to the bill, and in support of the objections of the Council of Revision. 'He was followed by Messrs. Young, Alexander, and Blackweli, in support of the bill. TJic committee then rose, and the question being taken upon the passage of the bill, the yeas and navs stood as follows : YEAS Me rs. Alexander, Black"well, Borough, ouckmaster, Campbell, Porriss. Eddy, Logan, MFatridge, Matheny," M'Lean, of White, Moore, Omelvany, Philips, Slade, Will, and Young

17. NAYS Messrs. Cairns, Crisp, Kitchcll, Mather, Michaels, MClintoc. Moore, of St Clair, Otncll, Robertson, and Widen. 10. On the sam? day the bill was sent to the Senate, with the objections of the

Council, and passed that body by the following vote ; YEAS Messrs. Barker, Fraizier, Jamison, Jones, of Gallatin, Jones, of Union, Ladd, and White 8 NAYS Messrs. Boon, Cadwcll, Crozier, Kitchell, and Lemon. 5. So the Bank Bill has passed both Houses, and become a law of the land. Illinois Intelligencer. CENSUS Of the Inhabitants of the state of Illinois,

Taken under the authority of the state.

Counties. Whites, Blacks Total. Madison, 8408 141 8549 St. Clair, 5097 174 5271 White, 4706 67 4773 Randolph, 8189 342 5531 Gallatin, 31' 4 337 3451 Crawford, 3(f4 95 3-69 Edwards, 3346 23 3369 Bond4 2882 49 2931 Pope, 27 -6 34 2750 Union, 2413 19 2432 Franklin, 1701 74 177 Jackson, 1543 23 156? Monroe, 1504 44 1548 Washington, 15 J 4 33 1547 Wayne, 1144 5 1149 Clark, 930 1 931 Johnson, 859 14 873 Jefferson, 779 1 78u Alexander, no return. 48,919 1,476 60,395

0 BSE 11 VATIONS ON MILLS. The use of steam power in a country "where fuel is abundant and chejp, is beyond a doubt, far preferable in a general way to animal power ; and its preference over water power, in a country where mill scais are not found free horn all exceptions, is almost without limit. It is particularly so in nearly aU the valuable parts of this western country; for it is only on the head waters that se;its of the least objections are to bo seen There you have untillable laiuU, a thin population, and, consequently, but little use for mills of any tnagnitu h. As profit is the leading object of mills, seats are therefore sought for in ihc. valleys on the navigable waters ; and here you meet with endless difficulties. The first is, an interference with navigation one interest directly a variance with an other of equal importance. The immediate interest However, prevailing in most cases legislatures necessarily interpose then Authority ; but, in place of putting the evil at rest, their acts seem nly to have legalized that clashing rind war of interests which wns before carried on but by consent. Hence hundreds of mills are to be found which vield advantage to neither the public nor the proprietors Who is thcra not familar with these facts ? And perhaps a stronger reason need haHly be advanced in favor of steam power. But added to tl lis is, the drowning of lands byaising a dam ; and consequently, endless litigation with your neighbors. Next are the manifold causes of tour mill standing idle, to wit, back wo'er, floods, log droughts, hard frosts, broken dams by floods and navigation lawt,broben races and gateways ; and these arc causes, almost without exception, beyond human contro' Tn the list, t' ud not the least of difficulties, is, your town or

place must generally be carried to the mill scat. Steam on the other had has also its attendant difficulties ; but what 1 am aiming at, 16, not to cover its natural defects, but to rescue it from a character which it docs not merit, by contrasting it with other modes of power to show the public what they suffer through a misguided prejudice. In the western country but few steam mills have been erected ; and the circumstances attending those few have very u: fairly stamped the general character of being enormously expensive in their first and daily costs, too often out of repair, and idle too great a proportion of their time. This power is portable. It is of ?ny force you please, from ona horse to u bundled ; and the only question is, as to a seat, would its application to any machinery be profitable at such a place. Hence iroirietors have conceived right ol its convemency and utility to the pub- : , and of the promts to be derived to t ;nselves. They r gone to work, -i dilating on ' being di appointed in those whom they might employ as undertakers ; but unfortunately their own want of knowledge, from the novelty of the business they were going about, has but ied to the more easy credulity of their minds, and to a full open door for the entrance of pretenders better skilled in the p.-ystei ies of imposture, deception and fruiul, than in the plain doctrines of mechanism. Fair fortunes have thus been squandered, the most laudable enterprises broken down with embarrassments, independent families often thrown dependent upon the world, and the public btguilcd into an idea next to superstitioi fit a certain fatality attending the very thing, if fairly considered and honestly used, most to their advantage. The dangers of Fire might with some rcascn have been dreaded ss also an objection to steam, sirce its power depends entirely upon the diffusion of heat. But as Iittie or no interest, and certainly no h 'nor, could arise from a dri-igrcd ?istruction by fire, so therefore nothing to gruily bin a villianous, reveng ful temper tf lis ohjfct'on from but one inst mce that I v -collect of. and this recently here, occurring to a team mill in the western country, seemi Ir ft not to anr peculiar charrcter of mills, but to the charge an! mercv of some disappointed and bcnightsd villain That the steam mill here, from all the circumstances I can gcthcr, was destroyed by the bud of an incendiary, ro one will rcsonahly denr ; and that it at once becomes the business of every one, so great mat be considered ihr calamity, to detect ami bring to punishment the guilty wictch, all ought to aerec so p'a'n to me is this fact, that T trut with confidence to tie solita-y int?ncs of burning, as no way likely' to gain an addition to the prejudices unfavorable to stcrn powrr. If my poCjt;on v;th regard to this power b" d :ub!rd. ome one of nt b.rst as much leisure as I hive, will hnw why : and a more p'ricu'nr combative viryr, Reading to co?ts ;nd products on h ' c y f)r Cf,mC at 'vYvt kind of steam engines, r-' ' 'h stenm I consider as claimi' X V' c ily the preference over tl c con nsirg engine, because hcv cost les . re more simple, consume less ' el, equ" -Mcr. to tt. r d av be exerted at familiarly as a horse ,th

a whip to twice una thrice their common working power without risk Many have, no doubt, thought in this subject as 1 do ; but for the full benefit of useful reflections, 1 have ventured to believe them Letter published than buriea, especially for the benefit of those who have capital to employ hereafter h? mills. W:i. C. ANDEROXVinccnr.es, Feb. 1G. STEAM BOAT LINE. Between Ltukrule and l.GX'anxct By an advei t:scnic:;t in this daj 's paper, it will be discovered that the enterprising1 Messrs. Johr.sor.s haxc determined establish a line of s'.c.'m boats, toply between this place and Hvanna The UT.dertaking, if successful, Yu.d wc have no doubt it will prove so.) i!l be of the first importance to the people of the w estern country A direct communication with foeign povtf, will place uj beyond the control of the carriers of the Atlantic States and the merchant:, of N- : fVlcan;, whrtc combined c-ffc-its su i t at this time, to regulate the vp!u - il our sui plus produce. This enterprise may lead to others, more extensive, and mz be the commencement of a series of commercial operations, to be exclusively performed bv the western people, calculated to render us equally as prosperous and independent as cur Atlantic brethren. Heretofore v.c were inclined to believe, lltt the carrving hurinits of the Western Sta'cs might be tufcly and advantageously intrusted to the citizen's of the east ntul north. Of the propriety of this opinion vc have lately ft it strong doubts In the ordinary circles of society, pet ions arc respected, in proportion to the means they possess of acting independent of their neighbors. J hc ability of a man to snB'ain hrrmelf without calling on his neighbor for ai y kind of assistance, not only renders hi friendship desirable with the multitude, but places his foi tunes beyond the grr c.p of the greedy and the avaricious. Until he acnuiiTR this degree of indeper denco o :?enc , he is alva-s in danger of he x m.nec' by these who possess the means of controlling the value of the products o! his labor ' May wc not lairly infer, that the west and' the south, m order to be n-sprctcd bv the north and the rat, must first do their own carrving business ; export their own produce and import their own merchandise; rcguhite thrir own currency, and by pern.rting the people cf the Vorth and East to trade and carrv for then selves, relieve them from the trouble of regulating the course of exchange and overlooking the cordixtof the local governments of the we t. Levi grille Pub. Adv.

Ezlracl of a leifcv from a penflema:t on honrd of a vu vchat?r7?, at Lima, io hh; brother in Jhilfiworc, dated Callao, Oct 2.5. 120. "The news of a revolt at Guyani.il irachrd ftma yestenlay, which has hove us all aback Ti'is lorkinor state ac present. The Chilian (1, et ar.d army have raptured Pisco, a seaport about sixt miics above Li-