Western Sun & General Advertiser, Volume 13, Number 50, Vincennes, Knox County, 11 January 1823 — Page 1
WESTE11N SUN & GENERAL ADVERTISER
KY ELUiU STOUT. VINCENNES, (IND.) SATURDAY, JANUAKY 11,1023. Vol. 13. No. 50.
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FOItMGS ARTICLES. from kile's wekkly hegister.
Turkey. Many fugitive Greek fani Hies have located themselves at Mar
It may be only necessary to add, that pronounce it one of the most import i this wiid, or worse than wild expedition, inventions which has honored our coun
try liostcn Palladium.
has completely failed, after the cost of
some lives and much money and suffering ; and we hope that it may do a little,
seilles It is stated that the Turks have m audition to many things ol the kind that reduced the Suiiotes.bv which thev have have happened, to teach caution and prc-
acquired the release of 14,000 men to act vent others from engaging in such illegal j t umbeiiand of New-Yoik, for di easing against the G.eeks in the Morea. i'he unwarrantable practices the foundation ; flax and hemp in an unrotted state , tho accounts, however, aje very uncertain of which is desperation and the desire of j cost of which exclusive of tho patent
NEW INVENTION. " A new improved machine has been
invented by Mr. William Cumberland, of
in
and obscure ! piunuer, thougn some may embark
The island of Cyprus is in a state of them with different views, and others
Sheriff's Sale's. F)Y virtue of a writ ol Fi Fa to me di3 rccted from the clerks office, of the F'uyd circuit court, I will expose to public sale on Thursday the 16th inst. at the court house in Vinccnnes. the undevided moiety of three hundred and six acres, and thirty six perches bounded on the north west by William II. Harrison's prarie land, on the south west, by lands of Thomas Jones, on the south east, by lands supposed to be vacant, and on the north east, by lands ot John Badollet, and other lands, supposed to be vacant, as the property of Wendclin W istenfeld, at the suit of Abner Scrihner, JOHN DECKER, Stiff k c. January 4th, 1823. 2t.
desolation by the Turks. They have de
stroyed sixty villages. In some instances, thev filled the houses with women
and children, and consumed the whole purpose of justice.
with fire ! Many of the monks hae been put to death, after Uj severest tortures. Cyprus has remained unaffected by the insunection ol the Greeks, and no reason is assigned for such barbarous acts, The Greeks have obtained some fur
are tairly kidnapped and reduced to a
state of slavery, by sets of knaves, no pun ishment for whom is sufficient for the
Frim the Autfrain Obstrvir of 'the 2Zd Sefit.
AT
DREADFUL EARTHQUAKE
ALEPPO. We have received the calamitous
B
punhc At the lowinj cenne
V virtue of a writ of Fi Fa, to me lirccted from the clerks office, of
the Miox Circuit court, 1 will expose lo
public sate
court
iwing lots Uing in the Borough of Vin-
cennes vo wit, ios. i, oj, o. z.-,
238,290, ;tu 3 14. JiJ. jjo. jjj,
ther siernal advantages at sea The I news of an earthouake in Aleppo. A
Turks have fitted out a great fleet for the I letter from Constantinople, dated Sept
purpose of conveying troops to the 1 2 describes this event in the following
Morea &c. Nearly the whole of the I manner ; Aleppo, one of the most beau
ships weie captured ordriven ashore, and tiful cities in the Ottoman Empire, has
about two thirds ol the soldiers and sail- I been visited bv an earthquake, rescmb
ors perished by the sword or the waves I ling those which laid waste Lisbon and
Several persons were captured that were I Calabria in the last century. The fust
proceeding to the Morea for the purpose land most severe shock occurred on the of purchasing slaves for the Asialic mar-1 1 3th ot August about ten in the evening,
ket ! 1 he victory appears to have been I and instantly buried thousands ot the in a great one, but the prtieulars are not I habitants, under the ruins of their ele
distinctly stated. The destruction seems gant mansions of stone, some of which
to have been dreadful and as ll the Turks I deserted the name of palaces. Several
lost several thousand ll.es; for it is said other shocks succeeded and even on the
that they all perished 44 except two thou- 16th, shocks were still experienced, some
sand. I he affair took place in the of which are severe. Two thuds ol this
si raits of Bacco.
It would appear that ponuious citv were in ruins, and alnnrr
, on Thui Ml y the 16th inst. the naval power of the barbarians was with them an immense quantity of vall huse in Vinccnnes, the fol- nearly annihilated. liable poods of all kinds, from Persia,
A Fans paper ol the 1 2th Oct. has the have been destroyed
r , i -i r . i I
.)iioiHnKanicic- Mia..u.umimm ouil, Ar.rnrd nn to the : fir.f nrrmint nf
dated the 1 3t!i August, inserted m the K;e .i u i
. ' . una Htm. niiu,ii uimuu ui ji ill umy
vrufiruu tuanc, givc uic pai acinars oi havci i,rn f.v.1prn,rfi linm,rv nf
turtner important successes, ot the thc sufferers amount to from 25 to 30,000
iirecKS. u appears max. snorny auer a
signal defeat of the Turks, they, (the
I'urks), suddenly reappeared at thc foot
of the Souli mountains with 15,000 men
I he situation of the Greeks was then
very precarious, ana it was resolved to
yTl, 332, 40b, 4 u, taken a the properly of J. Sc VV. L. Colman's, at tncsuitof Wil.iam Eirp, k Brothers.
JOHN DECKER. Siiff
k. o.
January 4th, 1823.
49.lg.2t
V virtue of a Venditioni Exponisto
!) me directed from the clerks othce,
o! 1'ie Knox Circuit court, I will expose destroy their wives and children to pre-
vent them falling into thc hands of the
enemy, an I afterwards to rush upon them,
and sell their lives as dearly as possible.
Tins resolution re ched the ears of the
Greek women, but they had influence sufficient to prevent its execution, and
succeeded in restoriusr confidence a
moagst them. It was then resolved that
the women (who insisted upon it), shouhl
arm. and 800 were selected and armed.
I he women amounted to 3ooo. Af'cr
to mihlic sale, on I nursday the !6tU inst
at the court house, in incennes, tlie lee ';,.r,l Mii. 190. lvitu'" ill the Hnr-
Ol'iiiv v v . ...v. - - t " o-t of Vhcenncs, as thc property of II -acinth Lasselle, at the suit of John D II ay i. J(MIN OECKEU. Shff. k.c. ' January 4th, 1823. 49-lS-2t. Y virtue of an Execution, to me di-
P vectcd from the clerks offb e. of the
Knox Circuit cou t, I will expose, to pub
lic sale, on Thu'sd'.y the I6i!i inst. atihe
cniirt house in Vmcennes, a house &
lnlt of a lot. No 146; lving situate, & be-
ini; in the Borough of Yiiicenncs, as the
progeny of W ilium Lmdaey, at the suit
of Henry Hume JOHN1 DECKER, Shflrn c. January 4th 1823. 49 .g 2l
Smith 5 Holtt)ii,or Indianapolis
Have now in press, k will soortlv publish
Thr rvnriVJ JUSTICE and F iRMF. R's SCRIVEXER.
Containing The office and duty ol
Justices ol t .0 Peace, sheriffs t lerks,
Amon them one of the best men in th cily. the ioipfdd 'nninl f CM ( 'he.
valier, Esdras Von Piecotto. Having es
caped thc d.tner ot beinu; boried undc
thc rums of his own house, h hastened
with some of his family towards the crate
of the city ; but as he was passing a Khan, a new shock occurred, and a wall fi ll down and buried him and those with
him. Tartars who have arrived from
Damascus, f'vu-t that thev saw the whole population of Aleppo encamped in the environs hey state that several other towns in thc. Pachabt of Aleppo and Tripoli, particularly Anticho and Laodicra. have been destroyed by this earthquake. The captain ol a F enc.h ship also e-
nnnrn i.'ii nvn vocks. l- t'-r tinf n' i; p
i.u,. un.) .nur, i e.ey rarf ,oin:c, had ris-n from the sea.inthe
attacked the cnemv, the w.m. n vienur 1 rr, ...l- t. i
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THE subscriber having aerain taken the FERRY ot Chas Smith. deed, where he has a larte new boat, with aprons and railing for the ease and safety of carriages and stock He flatters himself by strict attention, to share a part o the public favor DAVID CHANDLER.
with the men in feats of personal valor,
and drove them fir from Souli , The
result of the action has b-en 1350 pris
oners and four nieces of cannon. vTfie !
I ss of the Greeks was 167 men and 17 women. A letter from Constantinople, dated
September 10, says Sinre the last pos1 . disagrerab'enews for the, Porte has amv ed from the Morea The Greeks have destroyed there more than 20.000 Turks, in partial battles and ambuc;ca;les Th
T irks possess nothing there but Corinth, which is dest'tute of every thing neces ary for its defenre; it is therefore probable, that thc garrison will soon be obliged to surrender Colocotroni is ho commander in chief of the Greek, All these particulars are said to be tr.v, though thc Porte studies to conceal them Atcio seeral Turks have been ex ecuted. who pn sied in mas;acrein(r the sirk Christians On thc 5th Sept- tljere were on'v 100 Christians, remaining out of 160,000! Porto Rico Rxpcrf'fion. It will be remembered that some of those, and, seeminglv, ncarlv all the chiefs of the expedition fitted out at t Bartholomews for the conquest of Porto Pico, hid arrived at Curracoa, where
thev were taken into eustodv bv the Dutch authorities General De ('oudra5 and Mr Irvine, and oth.c, were vet in prison at the Beginning oftlie last month. Capt. Spencc, of thc United States dup Cvane, had requested the release of Mr. I. as an mericatV citizen ; but the governor tliou rh he expressed great willingness to cultivate a g'd un drstnnd'Mg with the United States, would not consider him in any other light than
as u sect eurv of stte rf tlie island of
Bouqua. " as declared by every paper
renttve to the affair. It wa believrd
that captain Spcncs would not persist in
his request.
under the same latitude as Aleppo
" As soon as the Arabs and the Bedou
ins of the Syrian desert obtained informa
tion of the calamity which had bcfdlen
Aleppo thev hastened in hord'-s to exer
cise thtir ti ade of pbird-r in that im
mense grave. Pehenn Pacha however
drove them back, and also several Janissaries, who had committed depredations among the dead bodies and rnins.
u The great number of unhu'ied bo
dies in this extremely hot period f-f thc
year has produced p nti-.l efflux h,
and obliged the. unfortunate inhabitants to seek for refuge in some remote dis
trict
right, will not exceed thirty dollais
The principle of this machine is simple and it is tfiectual in its operations : taking out with great expedition the ligneous and woody parts from the fiore, which it leaves perfect. It has been examined by some of thc best mechanics in this city w ho highly approve it.
Mr. Cumberland has also brought to
perfection by a chemical process the art of bleaching rotted flax and hemp at a trifling expense, for which he has obtained
a patent,
PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 27. A society of gent cmen in Connecticut have offered a premium of fifty dollars, for the best Farce rcdiculing the practice of duelling, w ith special rcfert nee to tho late southern combattants A candidal lor the piize has already arisen in this city ; and hi effort is by no means a contemptible one. It is entitled u Modem Honor, or how to Shun a Bullet' and was performed last night at the City Theatre, Prune street. It is a short piece of two acts, and consists of broad butlesquc, Its allusions to thc late southern duel are s'rongly ludicrous, particularly to thc Co.ognc, back positions, kc. The piece concludes with a duel between two negro slaves, which is highly laughable. It is to be repeated this evening. HdO Gazette. The Legislatures of Tennessee, it will be recollected some time since, had a caucus on the subject of thc approachit g election for president, and claimed tho right of promoting a citizen of that stato to thc office and Gen. Andrew Jackson vas nominated Lately, a similar caucus was held by thc legislatoi s of Ken-
ui' ky, oy which li nry lay is neiu up to view as a candidate for the same office, i'hey are both very good men, in their stations their superiors ate not often found; but we believe those caucuses were piemuturc; and that thohc concerned in them, were promoted by sinister motives, rather than the good of those to whom they would dictate. We hope, however, that those nominations will come far short of having their intend d influence on the honest ycomanty of'-nr countt), whose rights it is, to say who shall be their next president. Indiana Farmer
Whatever may be one's w:sl:cs in respect to the presidential election, whether he pn'.eisa Northern Soutl ern, Eastern, or Wistetn man, he cannot except gralificaton of them by placing thc decision of thc question on sectional considerations. Nfthing cjn be mote incon-is-tcnt with a choice itself, than to regu'atc it by views which, if acted upon in the four nnarter nf t!i!S ITiiino. mimt inri 'Jl I
ki 1..,: 1 !f
auiv jntvtui 11a Ov tog lOiHiU iu ail oay- ' ing nothing about thc fatal effe cts of geographical divisions, ever) one must know that it is impossible to determine the balance of eventual mimbcis in he Union
I he number of house in ths r Jtv. 1 in favor of any one division, which some
is stated at 40,009 and of tho h htbitans I si em desirous to make. It is the heigh:
at 200,000. of visionary speculation to set down and
J attempt to estimate the strength of thit At a " fancy ball " at Liverpool, thc ! or that section as being superior to any
Earl of Wilton wore thc solenoid drrs one of the remainder, two vcars from now.
ff a Greek prim e, worth srvcu thousand and to form an opinion accordingly. But
tins method ot calculation tccias to he gaining ground, and, in pursuance of it, many arc seriously discussing the pretensions of the East, the North, thc South, and the W s respectively, to furnish the next president.
It is to be feared that people do not suf-
fiounds sterling
IMPORTANT INVENTION.
A grr.t rnuv.
th's coen'iv
for hiv f j-r.er
'n'c, to whom eh indebted i has Imc-
lv completed a Machine, lor cwtini? fur ficieutlyc ni elder thc consecje.enccs, when
from skins without iniurv to the nelt.
which has heretofore beeo rendered useless for Ua'her. It also asrci tained, that this machine will shear cloth much better than any marhine now in use. One
they adop; ;licvc reasons lor shaping their coorsc. Local views in state politics may not be dangerous, but tiny become so whn extended to thc nation at large. If v. c imbibe them in the prosecution of
man can cut. with this maehinerffce for home purposes v. here thev may be toicr
trom 1 hh s !;ins per tiav,or sheal' 250
whev their i!:i:r:ence mav be
it alforiU t,o r.rc,u;nent or jus-
vards of cloth whereas ti c cutting of the fur from 50 skins or shrat ing I 20 vards of cloth is considered a da s woil;, by the present mode of cutnn.r and sh a--ing. Vims there is n savimr of 19 2 -li s of thc labour thc fur cut bv tl is ma-
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aeJ. anu foreseen.
ifn ut'on to j,o lurther. 1 here was a time, fi esh in the recollection of all w hen thev brought us to the verv eve cf !argcrous ce.liis n, and on a qurRtion, too.
lesi adapted t) enlist state prejudiced
chine is pronounced, bv good imtcs, to than the presCii!. The loss we tl en rc-
bc better than that cut in the usual wav ceived cannot b so soon forge tten. It
t.onsnienng thr savfig o the skms (tnr- must continue a long time as apolitical
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ticularly thc seal,) and hbcur, v. c must bcaccn, indicatir.;
liat . occasions