Western Sun & General Advertiser, Volume 13, Number 32, Vincennes, Knox County, 7 September 1822 — Page 4

SKLKOTEl) I'OKTIiY. KKOM THF. TKF.VTON KMPORIUM. THK INDIAN CHIEF. He wam'crM many aweary mile, For dreary was the w:iv, and long ; IF- ir'd on many a stately pile, And heard the merry herdsman's song; And smiling faces still he met, Where'er he turn'd his heavy eye ; Uat in the west the sun had set, And tempests g ttherM in the sky, Where should he rest? the wind was cold. And thin his blanket's tatter'd fold.

;:tve water from the nmv.mp; brook, Nought had lie tasted all the day, An 1 wan and me ire was his look ; hut st 11 lie kept his onward way, V..iv; l'd and Flint, at length he stood hjsi le a splendid mansion proud, And rrav M tne needful fire and food, As lowly at the yite he bowAl ; ul the white !oniluu; bid his si ive, Tlirust from his door the Indian knave. Vt-irspassM ; the chieftain greets once more I Us n.vtive home amid the wild ; irs ri;etrUss'pi!erim uv i;"' o'er, And he, aipun, the forest's child, () v mo.v.nain, prairie, rock, and flood, lis f ieps trace the nimble deer, Fr.vi.'.ctbd of the. noi;ht he stood Aim ci-av'd in ain the white man's cheer ; Coiitat in. his poor hut to share, Faeeiv witn all, his rustic tare. V!is it seeks his lone abode, A ) the forest's deen recess ? A v liini in, n om his weary road, 1! sm:kred thither in distress. IF; viyv r-:ul wen y, drenrli'd with rain, l'ie tear ojf sorrow in his eye, Oh ' if he asks repose in vain, lie must amid thrit forest die : ' F he u ho bid his crouching slave, 'i iirast hom his door the Indian knave. The chieftain trimm'd his fire, an A set IV fo' e the stranger all his store, IV" 1 him his weariness forget, And think himself at home once more. Scet w ere his slumbers ; and when day Rose warmly in the euvtern sky, '1' io l;uli in sent his guest away. With gleeful heai t ;nd laughing eye ; But rever hft his native shore, To trust that white man's bountv more. r- . Milnp clinrsof a Dm Hist , Major

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the city of Washington, and at other icsort of gamblers, has publi hed an account of his life. It has all the. frankness of a Rousseau made Lauzecn. On one occasion he, was involved in a duel. aul he describes his feelings with singular candor. We should like l,.T5Ir. M Duflie s wound in Hie back aceouiueu lor in same spirit.- Union ill M Msiied the spring in my couch and four, a Mr. hhja i AVigg was there with his coach an.i nn.r .-.rays, mine cic iws, 1 arrived theic h st and obtained t!e best srables for mv horses Mr vVigg being a very consequential voung man and a great shot, could hit a dollar nine limes out often, he was much of a gallant.a'ull miv add very impu dent; he had the impudence to turn out of the stable mv foui h r.vcs anu net Ins in: mv servant who v;is :i verv faithful i 7 1 ," " - o went and turned mit M t lairs norse-: ine.e ran 'aneu a rse; thee Va 'alien a the horses rolled in the I mi. and ti mud. Yi-v.r came and asked ne anu as;.eu his horse, the Ma.v) - Hadey s who turned out 'in' J il hitt-t John, tie asked for the hoy aod ptHiinenoy came, ue neai nun Willi a club until he almost killed 1 iim; 1 was engaged in playing whi-t with Ma'pn Willis, Air. . Samuel Overton and Peter Tin Yslev: the hoy came to me shockugi oeaieu. uis iu.ui viu m piu i I.. i . ; , i ... . i .. c s 1 a-keil bun what was the m in err he said ?Ir. Wigg did it: f v what John? for turning hi hoises out of your stable he hail turned out your horses ami put his io; I did not wish to vex you bv telling vou of it ; knowing 1 -1 a I a i ight to turn his out and put in your's as thev were our stalls a il because his hoi ses rolled in the mud he beat me as he did 1 rote h um the wue and went U

sec Mr. Wing; I suppose one

hundred spectators were looking at us; I addressed him by saying Mr. Wigg, by what authority did you undertake to whip my servant as you have? he leplied, because he is a datnn'd imper tinent scoundrel, and if you take his part you are no better than himself. I up witlvlriv fist and knocked him down, kicked and cufted him. and no one offered to take me away from him, every one dUpised his imperious beha viour; he hallooed enough, but I had given him too much, for he kept his bed two weeks before he showed himself; and about 20 days after I had flogged him. a Col Birnhurst, a brother.in-law to this Mr. Wigg, delivered me a challenge as I was walking by the Spring 1 looked at it and said,! know nothing about fighting that way; he observed my outrage up on his brother-in-law demanded r . t i .i sausiacnon, anu lie must Have a decisive answer. I told him I musf see a friend and he should hear from me; well, sir, said he, see you do h immediately, and walked off; 1 have been sou y sin-e that I did not treat him a I did Wigg, went and showeu! the ehallangeto Major Thomas Lew is a great duellist, he said, Bailey, you must tight, your standing here is that of a gentleman, and if vou do not von will he hissed oio of the pia-e 'If you ?ay ymi are not afraid, I will be your second; I replied sir. I cannot say so with truth, I never had shot a pistol in rt" mu aM I l,ls gen iemao t ; . , 4 1 p ... imu inuea uut in icil Miuoilim a a man, and what will he my chance; Well, come, says the Ma jor. let me see how you can hont and I could not hit a tree tlieraze oi a man, at eacn snoi; we I says . . r i .i i . 1 1 Lewis this will not do. you must take him at handkerchiefs length saidlhcMi, to which i objected; well then c-'iiit I lin 1 'iim ! . 1 I.!.... jviv xiJLwjvi j im uiui uiKt: i ii ill ai inree or six ieet distance; no t.l I . 1 said I, then both will certainly fall; well said the Major. I will you a ,an ki, him i ui nIaee vmi uvnnfv vn.-.lu s, .,0t luKa,u-eaml lire wlu-n von please; well said I. since T must tight, I suppose tl is to be the saf est way; the Major then (hilled me, and said, alter you are place at your stations, twenty aids a part, and the pistols put into your hands cocked, the word will be given; advance, one, two or thiee steps blow, make a feint to iise but be sure to reserve vnur lire. It :o c... ... i .. i nc io ine, anu u can aovaucrA .o., sls v nll .,1,.....,. i agreed to the Major's plan of fWmn.r 'r,sC pi elimina; ie weie arrange hy lhc iMa)ur w;lh mv adia , ; tl iend, and 5 oVI ck the x m0rning was the hour annninto xi 1 r,n. mctMiug and God know A Uutlered enough that ni'ht; I oot tle favor of Mv. amuel Kean to write my will, had it witnessed and locked up in my trunk with a letter to my wife, V e key I gave to my servant John, I then repaired to the ground; we were placed and the pistols put into our hands. our seconds threw up for the word. Col llirnhart, Wigg's second, won it, it was given by him, advance. I did as I had been directed by Major Lewis, I advanced thiee steps, made a feint, and he tired, he missed mv fear was over, I stood my ground instead of advancing, and took deliberate iim at him, tired and broke his ami; lie Icil, 1 was tutc 1 hud kil

led him, both seconds ran to him.'

my second halloed to me, I advanced with a faint heart apprehending he might not be dead and would require another shot; to my great relief, he reached me his hand and fainted from loss of blood. Doctor Mauley dressed the wound, and he was taken to the house, on the second day his arm was amputated. Much eclat was bestowed on me for my supposed bravery If 1 may be permitted to take myself as a eriteion to judge by. I do most candidly say, that I believe that there is not one particle of bravery evinced by lighting a duel; it is the offspring of a false sense of honor; the most timid man placed in a situation which commands the admiration and (laticry of others, surround him by complimentary signals of his superioi grade; vanity and pride will blip plant reason and reflection, and he instantly becomes a dupe io himself, and domineering to nth er hence trilles are magnified ov him into enormities, anu a C " want of nerve is supplied by a love oi domination Extract of a leftrr of Jwlrrc Tout k)nii of Jhilmmit. published in the London Monthly Magazine Jor April. 1 enclose you a specimen of the language of my neighbors, the C'lo -taw andCh'ekasaw Indians kI made out Um Ibt in the Choctaw na'ion. about nine years

ago and tne occasion was this. I by the Swedes and Fins, iiad i short time before, received a J Maryland was granted to Lord let'.er from Judge Innis, of Frank-. Baltimore by charter in 1 i;?2, fort, in Kentucky, informing me land the settlement commenced that, in the year 1781, as some the following year. Southern Indians wcie passing) Rhode Island, which was e'tbrough Lexington, to join the eluded from the confederacy of Ameucan ai my north of Ohio the New England state began to an African negro was driving a be settled in the year 1635 waggon through the streets of In 1661 South Carolina was Lexington when seeing some In granted to Lord Clarendon bv dians, and hearing them converge, patent, and settled in 1679 bV he suddenly stopped his waggon Governor Saylc. and ub.ed his master's permission About the year 16S0 William (Who was riding near him) to go Pcnn obtained a charter fir IVnnaod speatc to the Indians. They sylvania. and sealed it w ilh a colwere pi opably the fi st he had ony of Quakers in 1682, and the

seen in America; they conversed tcgether with apparent case, to the astonishment of Mr. Parker, his master. He enquired "I the negro how hecou d converse with the Indians; who told his master that he was a native of GoMean, in Ah ica; that while he was a hoy, ihc neg.oes brought m some piisoiseis, and detained them U:uc a im ill line, in coue( mence oi winch he Icaint their language Ue -aid tuai t. ty were people ol w ft me same coF'i. wuh the same toe same language Willi the In duuis t.ten pi esent. more minutely into thi altau being on a journey into Kentuc ky, I made a lid ol the woidsen t " i cios u. f .i i.,c assistance oi an fiii luiein .,ent t.iu uieeu. l Fere is however, g-eat diiiicullv in catch log the sound ol tne words so dis tiucily as to he able to sped them With aCCUiacv. No two persons perhaps would spell them alike, 1 On i caching Kentucky" I lound tv mv nun titication. that the ne gro was dead; Mr. Parker, how . . i i ever, eouhrnieu the anove ac count, and a neighbor ol his, I'rcs ton Drown, Esci informed me that theie weie other Ahican neglues in the ncighborhooil; who. though not previously acquainted . , . 'i. ii Mtu our inuians eouiu cuuerse - j tlictn in tticir own latiuaijc.

"These facts open an interes

ting field of inquiry, and ecem to lead to a determination oi t nc long agitated question, from what quarter of the world did the Ab origines of America originally come? " I suspect that they may be allied to some or the tribes of wandering Arabs. Their habits are very similar, and those acquainted with the language of these tubes, might, from the meagre specimen I have given of the Choctaw language, be able to determine whether there be such a similarity as would justify a suspicion that they were of one origin. I have seen no specimen of language of the modern Arabs, which would enable me to pursue the inquiry, but many, no doubt, have in England." Historical Items New York wan first settled by the Dutch about the year 161 V and bore thn name of New Netherlands, until when it was Mirrended to the English, who changed its name to that which it now bears. New Jersey was also settled by the Dutch about the same time, which afterwards (in the year 1672) ta';en possession of by a number of Swedes and Fins, and in 1661 granted to the Duke of York, by Charles the II. In 1623 New Hampshire was settled, and erected into a separate i government 1070. and in the year 1627 Delaware bean to be settled j building of Pniladclphiacoinmenced the following year. In the year 1700, a number of indigent Palatines commenced the J settlement of N Carolina, which was erected into a separate government in 1723. Georgia was settled in 17.' by General Oglethrope. Vermont ( then part of N. Y.) ltJCVl.l.il.llft' I INI-1' 111 p u in u r ..... .., k c. ... .r.r fcmit uu, ()f x:NV England ai)(lul tw vcar i f- - - - - - ---- 'vu c.i o, fi K',nf,i..v first settled by Col. Daniel Boon. 1 ... I fIM ... . I 'I lll I Mil f 111 IOC aT IM IV.IHI"! ItJ lil'llll 'i the Ohio, were settled in 17S7. by the Ohio and other eoinpames. Lost Certificate of Lauds purclm sed Jhnn the United Hales. 3U11LIC Nolicc isheicby j;icn. that nine weeks after date, amilicaiiun will be mailc lo the Ueiixtcr ol the Laiid Otlicc at VincuitiCb, fur the renewal ol a ccmtieatc m my name, ior the i.oitu I . ..r w .: v.. i . t cai ijuai ici ji ocLiiun .u. 11,111 luwtl!hip No 2 notlh, ol Hutiv.c No 1 I west, in the District ot Yinceimis ; the oih'inui Having ijccn loi imen ui.cler n.y hanu at ineennes this -ith t!ay of Au gust, l.VJ'J. 91.31UP r.KOUC.K MITCHKLL.

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