Western Sun & General Advertiser, Volume 13, Number 30, Vincennes, Knox County, 24 August 1822 — Page 3

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riXCEX.ES, august 24, 1822. l no lust oiydon G izcitc says, Carter Reman, Joseph Warner, and Dr. Shuler, are p jointed Commissioners to settle up the affairs of the state bank, agreeably to the provisions of an act of assembly . electiov returns ( Continued. J 17th CONGRESS GLXKUAL TICKKT.

Counties. ri'iyd. Jennings. Knox, 454 158. Harrison, 332 724 ! Jefferson, 739 392 j Dearborn, 570 10 6; Switzerland, 103 566 j Orange, 95 422 Posev, 133 307 Martin, 13 177 Washington, 288 v 824 j Warrick, 26 226 j Sullivan, 71 288; Gibson, 344 57 18th COXGRES3 1st DISTRICT. Counties. Prince. Dewy. Knox, - 484 149: Gibson, - 4 17 13 1 Vanderburgh, - 192 12, Monroe, - 251 2i6j Owen, H9 38 1 Sullivan, 341 82 Warrick, 246 20 Vigo, 50 463 ' Parke, 20 200 Voscv, 387 145 Lawrence, 340 143, Martin, 131 60 5137 1707 Majority 1430 LIEUT. GOVERNOR-

people always to hear ju mind the precarious tenure of their pre-eminence, and to be convinced of the greater care and cxeiion essential to the support of ever' point cf their advancement to superiority. If ever they consider themselves perfectly safe in their elevated situation, and relax for a moment from the industry and virtue by which they rose, their decline and fall are certain, and in their descent the rapidity of their degencra-

l cy will be in proportion to the height they

had attained. This remark is applicable to intlividuals. How much diligence and virtue, and what a share of good fortune are essential for any individual to rise above medi

ocrity ! How much greater the care, and

ANCIENT CITY. The ruins of an extensive city, said in the Savannah Georgian, to have been discovered a few years since in Guatimala, Mexico, have been surveyed by a learned Spaniard, and drawings made of its curiosities which have been sent to London, and will soon be presented to the world. The city had been covered for ages with verbage and underwood.

NOTICE.

A Ly persons indebted to the estate of S Stephen Miland, deed, late of Sul-

ivan county, are requested to conic forward and Settle tliPm immpHintplv. nnd

now illuminated by the noon day sun, are too j those havit c!aims aainsl said estate apt to forget the history of those who are lost rpnll fn nr t,

in the shade. The recollection ot the untor- .

tunate is never ple:isant, but may be sometimes useful. A 'ridiculous self importance mav receive a salutary check from an otca-

724 ' good conduct, and good foitune requisite to j 392 ! support his dangerous height! 'Hi; nations w

our nature : delusue, extravagant hopes, mav be sometimes chastened by a passing

thought on the disappointments of life. ISo ;

the haughty, tyrannical pvcle ot Ingluy prosperous nations may be usefully moderated by the reflections of their statesmen on the instability of national glory, and by their rccollec-tio-i that other empires, now almost forgotten, once had their days too of prosperity and greatness. Scarcely any profane historian of antiquity

properly authenticated, on or before the

first of August, 1H23 GEOHGF BOON, DAVIDSON HUNTER, Administrators cf said estate, August 17, 1822. 30-3t

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Co k n P , Ike, Bo j . . Po wcl. Maxutl.

Kjox, 519 75 3 22 "Warrick, 8 253 1 I Gibson, 201 259 0 3 Washington, 411 377 216 244 Harrison, 549 410 90 9 Jefferson, 23 230 41 837 Deaibom, 408 378 803 22 Martin, 14 177 00 00 Posey, 151 354 1 1 OC FOR THE WESTERN SUN.

A notice in some late newspapers c f the discovery of the ruins of a large: city in Mexico entirely under the surface of the earth, is a circumstance, like so many others con st intly occurring, highly calculated to induce us to reflect upon the instability of human greatness. Whilst millions of die inhabitants were in the midst of their business or pleasures, rolling in bo indkss wealth, or be niltiered with wild plans of maddening ambition, it is probable that without the warning of a moment, they were, like the citizens of Guatimala in the same country, buried in the ruins of their magnificent city, which had been erected and adorned by the labor and the wealth of ages It is said drawings of the curiosities of this ancient city have been sent to London, ami will shortly be presented to the world. They will necessarily be very int?rc sting. Perhaps they may shew us that at :i period to which history docs not reach, ciiiiz ition and improvement had attained a clet; ee of perfection in North America, vhicii will seem incredible to many superb" ci d o!$ser ers of the progress of society. The antiquities of our country furnish an externa1, c lie Id for speculation; the structure and dimensions of some of them have been already traced by the pen of scienoc ; and the learned traveller, after visiting the pyramids and catacombs of Egypt, has crossed the Atlantic to see these last perishing mementos of a civilized and enlightened people, v hosw history is unknown. It is a pleasing and proud reflection, that as the world increases in years, its inhabitants should continue to progress in knowledge and virtue. How natural too is the idea, that every succeeding age should profit by the impro ements of those which preceded ; that the earth should become more If ghly cultivated ; that arts and sciences should be carried to a greater state of perfection ; and that mankind in becoming more enlightened and refined, should also become more ivtuous and happy. 1 feel no disposition to contradict the agreeable theory. I hae neither the information nor the leisuie necessary to investigate the subject. The invention of the mariner's compass, and of the art of printing, redound to the honor of modern ingenuity, and the great improvements in nstronomy reflect a brilliant lustre on modern science. Hat it is important for us not to forget that the progress of society is extremely slow, and its elevation extremely difficult to preset e. Independently of those sudden calamities to which the world is subject, there are other causes which alw ays retard, and sometimes prcent, the advancement of knowledge and irtue. The reflection is rather a nu l mcholy one, but it is nevertheless true, that idleness, luxury, and distinction, are the usual companions of the oergrown wealth and peculation of nations. Prosperity seems to coMtam in its bosom the -"Seeds of adversity, which seldom fail to produce tin ir deadly fruit whenever the so 1 beeomeexo ssi tly rich and luxuriant. Hence if we Uvke for givmud t'u.t human nature in any part of the world is t thi- period nv re enlightened, and nuined than it ewr was before in any other, it becoaici that fortunate

State of Indiana.

n ami.'vc rtoriu i i 1 r T T T

July Term, 1822.

Ann Leach

vs.

Anthony Leach, On petition for a Divorce,

c j 7 Jj lil IS day, to wii, the 8n day of the i. ! Ji. sa'd term of July, in the year afore-

respecting ; sani, came tne complainant, ov Henry

the early ages of the country, whether civi- Menick her attorney, and the defendant

by George R C Sullivan, the prosecuting attorney, and it appearing to the satisfaction of the court that the defendant

niing his rcau-iv. that the early events ( f the j

country are m oh ed in mvsterv and fable

We have no certain information respect

RTUCKY & STUAUT, HAVING entered into a co pat titer ship, for the purpose of carry mj on the Tailoring Business, . Will execute all orders in their line with

promptitude and despatch they hope by their knowledge in the business to meiit a share of pub ic patronage Their shop is kept at the old stand of S. P Striker. 23 tf Vincenncs. Aug 10. 1822. KENllAWA ?ALT. 'fTMIE subscriber has on hand a quan8 rity of KEXIUIWi SAL T of stipe ior qualify, for sale by the barrel or single bushel, low for cash. I will also give saddles, nit idles, Sc iiarsess, in exchange for good u hea Y corn fed pork, beef cattle Sec to be delivered in Novembei 6c Deer. next. JOHN C. HOLLAND. Vincenncs, July 17, 1822. 25-tf

hzedor savage, where tii eece and Home so triumphantly ilourisiied in the d ys of their prosperity. We know nothmg about the I'arh" histovv nt thn rnn.itn- ivn i-i vvhirli

wehve. The militants of the American ls T,ot an inhabitant of this sta-.e, it is ' tment, who were found hereupon its dis- therefore ordered by the court, that un. covery by the Europeans, were entirely de- ; less the defendant Anthony Leach, shall void of historical information. Immense ) appear here at the next tttm ot the court,

countries in America now inhabited only by ; to wit, the second Monday of October in a tew wandering sva-s, and by the xyild s thc ycar f;f ou. Lord ,822 to answer tie beasts oi the wilderness, exh.bit mcontesuble r 'fl,.,:noritc k:,, C0w.0 ,: u0

veiu ioiihuIi o vuv juiiiw n in u v, iunv as confessed, and a decree enteied up accordingly and it is farther ordered that

a copy thereof be inserted four weeks suc

cessively in the Western Sud, a paper

Specie ! Specie ! OXE DOLLAR 15- FIFTY CEXTS will he given per lOOibsin MM'CIK, for HOGGS weighing from 130 to 2(o if

fll-ll VITff HI Tllf .TPnTH I J 1 VI 1 I I ITV . iiv- n

first of August next. July 12, 1822. EOST on or about the I4tn instant, a A small polished steel dirk blade, with silver handle any person finding the same, and leaving it a this ofllce shall be suitably rewarded tor their trouble. 25-tf Vincenncs,' July 18. 1822.

To lie nt.

proois, certain as the ruins of Palmvra, oft

their having once been the scenes of civilization. The enlightened inhabitants perhaps were swept from their abodes by some sudden, unknown calamity, and with them may hae perished, for what we know, a higher degree of intellectual improvement than has since been enjoyed by any other people; or pwfh ips, after attaining the summit of huu .n perfection, tneir decline has been influ--llCtl tilt- general order of nature, and they may have degenerated by degrees to the lowest point of human degradation. In Europe, in Asia, and in Africa, we are not left to conjecture as to the possibility of nations renowiiea m arms, in science, and the arts, degenerating to the extreme limit which separates the iium in species from the brute creation. Tne histories of Eg pt, Syria, Greece, and Rome, turaish evidence in abundance of tLiis lucianoaoiy truth. The nations immortahied for having given to the world the knowledge of lcuei and tht: blessings of religion, haebeen chimed down for ages in tne dungeons of ignorance and superstition. vV'aen w e recollect that nearly three thousand years are gone since Homer sung the wars of Troy, that more than two thousand have intervened since the days of Herodotus. Thucydidesand Xenophon, and that Demos thenes and Cicero, and Horace and V argil, flourished belure tne christian icra, we may be permuted to doubt w hether the advancement of m.mkind in the pursuits of literature, has been very extraordinary. When we reflect upon the frequent and conspicuous instances wiiere human nature has degenerated, w here flourishing countries have become barren wastes, w here the towering trees of the torest are growing upon the sites of extensne cities whose histories are lost in the lapse ot ages, w e may be excused for doubting whether the world, or its inhabitants, are progressing very rapidly to a state of perfection nitnerto unknown. I hese hastily w ritten observations, occasioned by reading the other day the discovery ot some subterranean ruins of an ancient city, are only intended to aw aken a passing tiumgut upon the uncertainty of human life, and the instability of human greatness Great calamities happen in every age, and to every people ; it may be well enough occasionally to recall some of them to our recollections, not for the purpose of damping the ardor of genius, or the prospects of irtuous ambition, but to moderate a little thc dangerous draughts of intoxicating prosperity. LLAKENCE. Vincenncs, August 15, l.sJJ.

printed in this state.

A copy Test, E VATTREES, Clk. d c.c. August 12, 1822, 30-4tJW

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State of Indiana. GIBSON CIRCUIT COURT, May 7Vrw, 1822.

Hazel Brown, complainant,

vs. John C. Jones, and thc unknown heirs of Maria VV. Jones, defendants, Chancery. 7 JJ iHIS day came the plaintiff by his J counsel, and filed his bill of complaint against the above defendants, and it appealing to the satisfaction of the court, that said defendants aienot inhabitants of this state, on motion of the plaintiff by his counsel, ordered, that unless said defendants appear by themselves or counsel, on or before the first day of our next term, to be holdcn at the court house in Piinceton on the third Monday in Septrmher next, and answer the complainants bill, thc matters and things therein contained will be taken as confessed, and

decreed accordingly and further ordered, that a c opy of this order be published four weeks successively in the Western Sun, printed in Vincrnnes. 30 JOHN I. NEELY, Clk c c c.

Sheiiir "s Sale.

virtue of a writ of fictl facias is

sued from the Circuit court of Da-

vifis county in iavour oi joun Dteeu plain

tiff, against the goods and chattels, lands and tenements of Joseph Culbertson and James G. Read, security, defendants, I will sell at Washington on the 21st day of September next, for cash, one lot in said town, with the appuitenonces. number ninety seven, taken as the property of said Joseph, to satisfy said writ. Also at the same time and place, all the right, title, inten st and cVim of John Whalen. to a certain piece or parcel of land with its appmtcnances, being one third part of the sicam distillery adjoining the town cf Wa-O.dngton aforesaid, and known as the p-cxitv of Carr, Barton Sc Whalen, taken ;s the property of the said John Whalin. at the suit of Walter Clark, by virtue of a vr rit ot fieri facias issued from the same court. RAW LEY SCOTT, psdc. August 14, 1822. 30-5t

l)u B II OWN,

VING removed from market to

rfxTER strf.et, respectfully in

forms the public that he has on hand a good assortment of Medicine, Paints, & Dye Stuffs, Also a very valuable STOMACHIC BITTER,

But verv few, if any, of his own preparation, all of which he

accidents have occurred on board of boats offers for sale at a very reduced price for in w hich the low picssurc engines are cash. used. Xilct Register. J 29-31 August 15, 1822.

STEAM BOA IS. Mr. Thomas M. Dickey, of Lexington Ken. 41 announces the information that means have been found, simple and cheap, and requiting but oiy lime alteration in

the present maehiueiv, the effect of

which is independent ot human foresight, knowledge or care ; and giving to that navigation all the safety that might be wished, by securing it against the breaking of boilers. " We sincerely hope that Mr. Hickcy has discovered sot-ne improvement that will rfjy acconvplih what he proclaims to be fact I heie is no calculation to be made about the t xtcnt to which steam na 'uration will e;o, and whatever insures

its safety must be regarded as highly im

portant, indeed.

2 7 A subsc'iber will rent a good and comfortable DW ELLIN G HOUSK f. 1 1 m m W w-m a

witnout nouses anu a ii fj.j'. lying on Church street. 7"he house may bo had either ready furnished ov r ot, to suit the person applying. For terms apply to JOHN MOORE. Vincenncs, June 20 '8i2 2 I if TUt: f ACEAA.S DISTILLERY. THE undersigned has taken the above Establishment for the pu'posc of Manufacturing WHISKEY. W'icre they have on hand, and intend keeping a constant supply of the best qualit) of Rectified Whiskey ; warranted infciior to none manufactured in the country. They vrill exchange W HlSKl Y and KEN II AW A SALT of the best quality at a reduced pi ice, for Wheat, Rye, Corn or Stock Hogs, delivered at their distillery, or at thc Vincenncs Steam-Mill. ALSO The highest price in CASH will La given for good Maple Char Coal9 Delivered at the Distillery. JOHN C REILEYS; Co. Vincenncs, May 22, I S22. 1 7 tf Stale of Indiana. VIGO CIRCUIT COURT, March Term. 1 822. Elisha Parsons and John Durkce. admi

nistrators of the goods chattels and credits of William Coltrin, deed, vs. Cvrenii! f'hntdn.

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fjPHlS day came the plaintiffs by Jamc3 II Partington their atton.ey, and on motion it is ordeied, that unless thc defendant shall appear here by himself or his attorney, it or before the next March term of this court, to put in special bail to answer this suit, thc court will proceed to hear and determine the same in his absence and it is further ordered that a copy of this order be inserted in the Western Sun, printed in this state four wicks successively, and that this cause be continued to the next term of this court. A Copy Attest, C. GILBERT, Clerk. Terre Haute, Julv 23, 1822

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State of Indiana. KNOX CIRCUIT COURT. Sefittrnber Ttrmy 1522. Hyacinthe Lassellc, vs. John Huddclson.

Domestic Attaclnnent.

K I vj i ivr. is nercDy given, inatac:

mcstic attachment has been issued from thc offireof the Clerk of said ' ircuit court, at thc suit cf said Lassellc, against the estate of said Huddclson. which is now pending in said court ; and that unless he do appear by himself or attorney to give special bail, on or before thc first day of thc September term, 1822. of said Circuit court, to answer such suit, that judgment will be entered against him by default, and thc estate attached, sold for ihe satisfaction of the debt costs A. D. PHASER, Jtty. for .4 necking creditor. July CO; I 822. 27-4V7

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