Western Sun & General Advertiser, Volume 12, Number 42, Vincennes, Knox County, 17 November 1821 — Page 1

WESTEKN SUN & GENERAL ADYERTSSEK.

:BY ELII1U STOUT. VINCENNKS, (INI).) SATURDAY, NOVFMBER 17, iasi. Vol 12. No. 43.

THE lfrESTEl!X SU.V jd GENERAL ADVERTISER, IS published every SATURbAr at TWO DOLLARS per annum if paW a advance, or TWO DOLLARS & F1K TY CENTS at the end of the ycar,fo. which a note will be required. So subscription can be withdrawn until all arrearages arc paid.

ADVERttssUBNTs conspicuously inserted on the usual terms. Advertising customers ill note on their advertisements the number of dmes j

ihcy wish them inserted those sent j without such directions will be continued til forbid, Ec must be paid for acoo dh irly LAND-OFFICE MO.Ei, UliClilVABLE AT TERRE HAUTE. opecic, Hank of the U. States and branches, Incorporated Hanks of Uoston, (Mass.) New York Bank, in NcwA'ork, Manhattan Company, do. Mechanic's Bank, do. ry 1 Merchants' do. H Union, do. Dank of America, do. Uank of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. Do. of North America, do. Do. of Philadelphia, do. Farmer's & Mechanic's Bank, Mcchacic's Bank of city Sc county, Commercial bank of Pcnn. do. Schuylkill bank, do.

Bank of Northern Liberties, do,

BAIUROX& CASTINGS. JAMES & Mc AllTIIUR. Manufacturers of Bar Cast-Iron

DIGNIFIED SENTIMENTS. j moling the wellfarc and augmenting tho . happiness of out fellow man; but let any The address of governor Mc Minn, to one, who is disposed to satisty himself the legislature of Tennessee, on the 17th that self-love enters not into its'composiult. closes in a strait! of dignified piety tion, only look into the most oidinary and nnrl iritlMidft. wort hv nf nil YV !-.;......,: . . . i " ,e .

? --.--j . .. ,.u.w uiiuiivii amir uil urrCUCC o .1 Oilman UK 'I

such as

of tennis,

or a race between two coutscrs, and ask

- fl AVE opened a stork on Market cami0t resist the pleasure of extracting ' thing, to him totally indigent, , y street, Vmcennes, where they in- lhc concluding part. Morn Chrtn. between two gladiators, a r-mr , tend keeping a constant supply of the a- t Thc term of service to which the rr i,,..

bovc articles. I hey have just received kind partialities of my fellow citizens has himself if his prcdelhtions and sy.m.i Horn their Iron works. . called me, will now be mcasmcd m a few thies be not in favor of the one idc ot !h M ions liAU IliOiN Ot SUpen- days, and with it maybe closed forever ; other, without having any interest in th

my political connexions with the world. ? subject, or without any previous know Very tew of those who with me entered; ledge to excite such interest

or quality including.

0?LOUGI1 MOULDS

MILL bPINDLES1 AX,& HOE Iron,&c&c.

ALSO, V 20 Tons Castings, amoxg xv men are 70010 fy is Gallon Kittles, 10015 do. do. 50 20 do. do. And a general assortment of Hollow- Wave, Very light and handsome.

All which they offer for sale by thc

mat o largt qiiantit at ml need puces

merchants in thc country will have

the public vineyard nearly half a century

. .in - ?. -i .. )

ago. are sun toning in me service ot the!

state

ie to excite such interest

The truth, we think is, that man him

self des not know with certainty t e true

ate. I recognize amongst you, ho we - fountain from which those generous emo

ver, many witn whom l have lomr been ! tim. fl

connected oy the tcnuercst recollections, and thc kindest sympathies of thc heatt;

and many by whose friendly aid & coun-

Union bank of Baltimore

Mechanic bank. do. Merchants' do. Franklin do. of Baltimore, do. Commerc'l Sc Farmers bank do. Farmers' It Mechanic's do. Bank of Maryland, do. Do. of Baltimore, do.

Dank of Columbia, Dis. of Columbia. Union bank of Georgetown, do. Farmers' Sc Mechanic's bank, do. Patriotic bank of Washington, do. Bank of Washington, do. Do. of Metropolis, do. Union bank of Alexandria, do. Bank of Alexandria, do. Do. of Potomac, do. Farmer's bank of Washington, do. Farmer's S; .Mechanic's bank of Indiana, (Madison, Ind.) Except Notes of a less denomination than Five Dollars A WlllTLOCK, n. r. m. (coimr.cTF.D weekly.) Tcrrc-Hautc, 8lh Sept. 1820. 39-tf

Baltimore. ' annPP 'unity of purchasing uponoot

terms, auu sciecuug irom me oesi assort' ment in the western country. 26-tf Vincennes,"july 1821.

$ 40 iiollars IJeward.

LD or sto'eti tiom thc sub-

two bORREL MARES

ine alarge likely mate, 16 hands hiph,

sixears old, a small star in her torchcud, right eye looks muddy, a small car cn her rivht fore leg. large feet, has never been shod, had on a small bell fastened with a rope. i he other a MJi'vSSold

tenance I have been enabled to bear my feeble part in thc common duties of the day For all thc imperfections of my brst judgment, and for all my political errors and shortcomings, I have ever expeiienrcd the tenderest charity at the hands of a generous public, towards whom my best services were but a poor requital for thc multiplied evidences of their confidence and good will. I have witnessed thc march of our country's freedom from the manacles of lawless power; 1 have witnessed thc progress of refinement in this the home of our choice and centre of our affections ; from thc dominion of savage cruelty to thc most perfect enjoyment ol all thc comforts of civilized life. I hae participated in the means by which these blessings were achieved, and the mcauiic of my earthly prospects is nearly filled. Many of us must, in the course of a very few ilecting cars at most, be called to reckon the profit wc have mndeof the talent wc received, and happy will he tin i-iu! nf that servant who may have known and done thc master's will The ligaments by which wc are bound to world are yielding to the silent influence ol every moment's flhrht. and thc obicct:

.! . i r....... .... t. . . i v?f..i t.

, . .i i . w tT -jb, ' , by which we were once delighted will b

, 7 , ; ww ! seen and known no more

oeu on ner tan, a smn uo.n ner tore-

Land Office Money.

Keccivcr'e Office at Vincenncs, 9th September, 1820. TUK Secretary of thc Treasury has directed that in addition to Specie 4 k ft t .

A Bills of the Bank ot thc Ututcu states tid Branches, thc notes of thc following banks be received in payment for Public Landssold in this District, viz : All thc incorporated batd.s in thc town of Boston, In thc cities of Philadelphia. NewYork and Richmond, (Va ) In thc city of Baltimore (except the City bank of Baltimore,) In District of Columbia (except tne he Merchants and Franklin Banks of Alexandria,) k the following specie payx:ig banks in thc state of Indiana, viz Thc Farmer's and Mechanic's bank at Madison, Indiana. J. C. S. HARRISON.

Huticc to intruding sdtltrs ud other, ivho commit uastc on the public tmds. inpilOSK lawless persons who arcgulity of intruding on lands of thc U. States, and of committing waste on pub. lie timber, arc hereby notified, that measures having been taken for a rigid enforcement of thc laws of the United

States in such cases made and provided,

they arc hereby ordered to desist trom such offences forthwith, otherwise they

will be prosecuted to thc utmost rigor of

thc law.

Given ender my hand, and seal at the

City of Washington, this I UU day of July, 1S21. By order : JOSIAII MEIGS. Conmissior.cr of :Sr General Land Office. Masonic Miscellany, 5 Ladies' Literary Magazine. UX WM. G. HUNT, LEXIKOTON, KV. Price g3 a year, j7Thc first number may be seen at the V. Sun, office, where subscriptions Tflll be received.

a smp uo.n

head. The above will he given for the creatures if they are stolen on thc conviction of thc thief or 820 for thc creatines alone and all reasonable expenses paid if brought home THON.AS (lOODK. Wayne county, II. Nov 2, I83i.

U EW A HI) r cCyAYfrom Shellu-Vjunt,

PlQjWjuk, Ky. on tTiel2th

luianu nuvu me; name 01

about 3k years of age, about 5 feet 0 or 10 inches high, very straight made and

rather raw boned, one of hisiingcrs next

j " Let it then he our emulation, unde ;thc special direction of tnat dhincinte' ligenccto whose beneficence and bourn we refer the enjoyment of every good Cperfect gif., to grow in thc works of le

i iIcu'Cjs, toMiearance, charitv. and beno

, vo!ence,otie t.i -mother. Let us cwdcav. to be good citizens good neighbors, po brothers, ami good friends ; rtcr recolit rting that fwrf'Cf goodness is one of the highest attributes of divinity itself."

ON SYMPATHY. Fc:nr,h Charleatun City Gazette.

W e have always thought that sin I

to his littic ,me is disfigured and a little "titers, on metaphysical morality, u.

Kochetaucault ann Pope (or Bolingbrok

ii our readers will have it so ; ns Pope's

hssay on Man has been said by critics t be only a version of a work written foi

him by the hand of St. John, his great pa

tron) have done more harm than good to

the cause ot morality and virtue. Bv

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twisted towards the etui, he has also a small sore on thc back of tiis head, and a mole between his eyes on thc nose ; he carried off with him a blue gunded check factory coat, and a whitetai- of panciinons, ami yellow nankci tbvifc' ; it

nay oe wen to recollect mat "his man is

very fair, and at a short distance might identifying thc best social affectioi.s o'f

the numan heart, and the most exalted

acts of benevolence- vith the passion ol

sell-love, which is the strongest and most

ungovernable which pervades the soul o

man ; every magnanimous action ot out

lives, and every generous and tender sym-

If md is u very i: od ! viate.) w 1 1 be traced to thc sordid princis feliow wns sc n in thc Wc f belf-gratifieation.

not be known from a white man, nut vvhen his hat is off it sho s him more particularly ; he has fierce, keen. back eyes, and ery little bcaul or w hiskTs. tie stole from tne at tiu same time a datk bay horse, ubom hands hip-h, 8 or 9

years old, has a sm v! stas- and snip, and lathy whieh warms our bosoms, (at the o is v ithers t ui -man cais where he sH?ht of that wretchedness winch wo have

w as bti.-nt to tin tis1 ;( w. the tin end of no' llie power to remove, or even to alle

ins h it tar is IF

wot k -tot se I" lii

neti b uthood f,f Peola, Ind. I will crlVf tint V v tit -ill v hii t.i ii ti lin ti ill

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st cm v me teitow kf.tvv jvii o tnat I get him, or fifty dollatsVr the fellow and hot sc. STU.WE!. ii'' nv. August coh. !s:t.- r, r...

)ollars Kcwaiil.

lv v;icn for a umaway nc-

fit !wi n iv tn . ii it .t ... t r.,

soinc-ftimc n.vst near Latiisl... at: 1 has

ince uccn sti n ai Vinctnms lUicl negro calls himself S'.lM. i 5 feetS i it ches high, straight butti. talks plaTrt, .d bald heath a few of ais lore tn-'n ooi, 30 years old. Thc ah veicwaid v i . . be given if delivered to Geoige C'ol i.:r. -t Charles, or Smith & Furguvm, M Louis, or S'4 if confined in jail at N'uuei.ncs, and in formation given to cither Collier or Smith k Fcrrnison.

St. Charles. Oct.

J N HOBBIXS. 19, I 1 . -403t

A few eoppics of the CONS i 1TCTION of Indiana, for sale at thc bun office

they are not only spontaneous and inoU

untaty. but aie even n resistablc. Wc

will here close these brief remarks br

the following beautiful lines from ' r.

Darwurs Trmfiie of Xature Speaking

ot thc passion of sympathy, he says

I he straph Svmpathy from Htav'n,

And bright o'er Earth his beamy foie

head bends.

On m ns cold heart celestial ardor bings,.

And show i s affccticn from his spatkiing

wings,

Lift's the clos'd latcli of pale Misfortune'

uoorj Opc's the elench'd hand of Av'ricc to thc poor ; Unlocks the prisons, liberates their slaves And sheds his sorrow o'er the untimely graves." THE MOVING BOG. Tuiiam:.rr July 14. Tne greatest confusion prevails In this part of the country, owing to the trcmcndou phenomenon now in motion, with a slow but n resistablc and steady progress The most intelligent men and ablest engineer! rc wholly unable to ascertain its cause. It commenced on Tucs-Jay, the 25th ult. On tiiat day, between seven and eight c.oek in the aftciiK.on, a mighty convuW .;on, w hich seemed to i end ihe bow tlsof he cart!;, shook the country for many ni.es round The shocks weie attended with a noise like the roaring of t!istnt thunder; the catth immediately 'iit at a place called KiJmatady, o U'selctp, when a torrent i4 lava iswuc hth, composed wholiy of hogs tug. . ..e force with which it spuing was consideiablr a d it was attend'. d with a .d Ahizziig or rust ing rot e 'I he poi fiom wh-nct it iu .,ai w .s Log, n'y l a very limited tx'ei.t . he ; t. joining J.miis .ere fint meadows wirt iv fi .!s, but a flat c unrry mostly of te a'n.ed bog. In filt e r:.i nites it co.c.ro tiotc hundred acres foicing every tiling before it covering n its piogtess impliments of .usbandry, wearing apparel, cc &c. hieh iiappeneo ut the time to he aecicntally placed in thc direction over nieh it spread Thc people fled be-foro t, u:teing cries of tenor quitting their abins ; trees were every where torn up h.' the rt;ots and levelled. At the surface it has tne appearance of ferim nted beer working over the tubs O.. a part of :hc flat coun':yit was fuily sixty leet deep it moves like the tide ; y u would suppose it sliding oxer the suth cc of ihe soil ; it tears up the tarth in its progress, b ca.dng up tne meadows, and tearing up the sod in tare fl tker, ionning rolls as Ir.rge as woolparks, soir.c of them twenty fctt long. TJiesc immense rolls are

swahowed up in its progtess by th mass of fermented fluhl, or thrown out at the edges. They rcembu the craws which ate rolled on b-gs. for roofing houses; but they are hat der than they could be made by the strength of men or horses. Thc soil. conistinv of mail

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Even the great liuvkc himself has fin

our humble opinion) fallen into the same unhappy error ; for re describes the pas-

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siuii ui sin;i.! ny ;n tiowmg directly -,Jj ajjjjtrti s bii c eo upon me n.ofrom the stnuco of seil-love. He sup- vin mass; it 1m now coveted aboc poses it to be that rapid current, thc four miles. About 3.000 men were cmstreams of w hhh are supplied from the ployed, making embankments seven feet copious fountain of self-interest and per- high, and so btoad that two tarriagc sonal gratification ; But. it only requires might go abreast on them, which l ave any one who has ever felt the indi peiid- bt en since cither levelled or ovfl0w.d. cut influence of the passion of sympathy ' he number of spectators is immense ; in a high degree, (and all men have ex- they come In jaunting cat s, gVv- Sec. to pcrienccd more o," less of it) to ask his witness this xtt m rdmat y pliuointi n. own heart, or to judge from his own sen- The quantity of brg now in u.o'h u sations, whether the passion of sympathy estimated at r.b'.vc 25'H) acres It v ill is the subject of reasoning, reflection, or probably make i!s way to 'I atbert or Kilcalculation, in which self interest, or per- rush, and finally discharge itstli into tl e sonal gratification, can in any manner Atlantic. Ti e destruction of thc coun participate. No; it is thc pure, uncon lr' s truly awful. C-jrk JriUlligencc. tt oled, spontantous, and heavenly emana- "' tion of Dcitv infused into our souls, with- LOSS OF A DUTt II MAN OF WAR out any rtfl-ction of thc human mind, without any co-operation of human judg- ! Extrac: of alt iter Jrcm Ccfit. Brown, ment or reasoning. It is the twii.-sistcr ! to .;'? h .Ycv5urificrtt Mass. of blessed charity and love. j dittd. What wc have said of the practical ef- j cunn.co. st?T. 13. fects of lids divine passion is in its pro-4 Th? Dutch lost, a few i:iw hts zgo,