Western Sun & General Advertiser, Volume 14, Number 9, Vincennes, Knox County, 29 March 1823 — Page 3

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yi.YCX.KS, maucii 29, 1823. Uy a letter from Washington City, we learn th.it Mr. Vance, ot Lath enceburgh is appointed Register, and Mr. Holman, yf Wavnc coimtv. Receiver ot the laud otVice at Fort Wayne. Being unacquainted with the individuals u'i'ivc mentioned, we have no remarks to offer as regards their private worth they may he, and no doubt are, capable and deserving ; but is it not more than strange, that appointments to office should so repeatedly travel west, from the eastern part of our state ? To do awav reflection upon our western section, atiing from such preference, we must remark, that it is unmerited, and only provej that the eastern interest can always protrude its favorite claims. We have received two communications from our correspondents in Illinois, one of them requesting the publication in

our piper of the protest of the minority i

of their legislature agamst a convention to amend the constitution of that state the other, requesting the publication of

the pr'cecdr,vs at a meeting of the pco

state of Louisiana ! The district of country included in these parishes, was formerly a part of what was called West Floiida, but added by congress, in the same law, wc believe, that converted the territory of Orleans into an independent state by the name of Louisiana. The population of those parishes was returned in the official census of 1810 as in Louisiana, and the people thereof have paid taxes ever since the organization of the state, as citizens of the same no person before dreamt that they were other than an integral part of the state. The motion above alluded to was offered on the 23d of January last, and made the order of the day for the 1st of Feb. We are not yet advised ot the decision, but it seems that a proposition to expunge the offensive resolution from the journa!, had been postponed for three days which shews that a majority was disposed to favor the project. This strange matter appears to gro -out of the contentions between what we must call, for the sake of distinction, the American and French interest in this state, which have proceeded to very unhappy lengths. The population of the aforesaid parishes is chiefly American, and the Fiench party seems to have ta

ken this summar) mode to obtain a com

ligenccr.

RAPID FIRING. Mr. Ellis, of New York, came to this

p'e at Vanda'ia, in tavor ot a convention.- . , .. . . . ,,r , ,i r , r rr i pictc ascendency in the legislature

.... ... . 1 .. .' . ... On this subnet one ot the papers has

the following remarks: "Should the sen-

our Illinois frierds, a fair view of bolh

sides of the nueslion, insert bjth docu

rnents.- At the same time we must beg , tion ()ismissi the Florida ,cnators, it

rV f T, I wlU terminate our political organization; ! couds. Four piec es, containing 32 char

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five hours in ihc boat, c went -along side j others. The. work h intended as a m-r the Uaytcan sloop of war Concord, col. ual for swindlers and shavers, both in EuMorrettc, who treated them handsomely, I rope and America ; and to be tiansmittcd and gave capt. Knap a passport and a let- . to posterity, as a trophy of the inventive ter to the captain of the port of Jacquemel genius of the present age. Ind. Gaz. where he Sc his crew arrived on the 28th , Dec. The mate, Mr. Joseph Howe, and Legal decision. State of Indiana, vs. four of the crew proceeded thence to Aux James R. E. Goodlct. Indictment for Cayes, to get a passage to the U. States, wearing sword in cane, there being no American vessels at Jac- t The deft was indicted by the grand juquemel, 5c Mr. B. has arrived in this port ry for the body of the county of Vaiulerin the schr. Leo. Norfolk Herald. i burgh, at the late term cf the Vat.der- - : burgh Circuit court, under an act of the

Communicated fur the Xathnal Intel- . general assembly of the state cf Ii-dur.a,

to prohibit the wearing of concealed weapons, approved January U, 1820 and on ! Wednesday last, during the term ot said

place a few weeks since, for the purpose court, the case came np for adjudication, of submitting to the Government, his in-j before John Mc Cteary and Win. Olmvention in the repeating fire arms, con-1 sted, Flsqrs. associate Judges for said sisting of muskets, rifles, fowling pieces, . county, when the deft by his con sc'. moand pistols, containing from three to ten ' ved the court to quash the indictment, on charges each. Suitable persons were the ground that the act of assembly upon appointed on the part of the Ordnance j which the indictment wa? predicated was Department, to superintend the cxperi- ! unconstitutional The case vas at iy arments, extracted from the minutes, j gued by Mr. Clark, on the pa: t of the

. our pieces, ot tnc tollowing description, prosecution, and Mess-s Hall, Ba'tell,

Hulyer, l.J Evans, Wigmton Sc Daniel, for the deft. after argument of counsel, and the case being fully hi ard, the court sustained the motion. 1 he opinion of the court was dtSiu.red by judge Mc Creary affr which, judge Otmstt d, in a few pointed and cppiicable remarks assigned the grounds upon which the opinion of the court was founded Evansville Gaz.

v. . v. kjuvin. i.i j uini in vu 3v)amiViy, as follows; A musket containing 8 charges w as fired in 12 seconds: A rifle containing 10 charges, was fired in 17 seconds: A pistol containing 5 charges, was fired in 11 seconds: and a pistol, containing 4 charges was fired in 5 seconds Five pieces, containing in all 33 charges, SO of which were discharged in succession in one minute and ten sc-

should thev violate the laws of the con-

should be lett with her citizens to decide , . .. ' r

it is a question of much importance, and j

ahould be lett w for themselves.

By the Nashville Gazette, rc are informed, that gen Jackson will not accept his appointment of minister to Mexico. :; We have just received the following important information from a gentleman, who has seen col. Johnson since his return from Washington. The supreme court of the U. States has finally decided against the constitutionality of the occupying claimant laws f Kentucky. The bill tor the establishment of an armory in the western country, has passed both houses of congress. Morning Post fXOM SILE'S IVEEKLT REGISTER. Piratfs or Cuba. The pirates and their partizans are so numerous at Matanzas, as to have prepared a number of boats for the purp .sc of c ipturing the U. S. schooner Grampus, (then lying there), on t ie 1 8th of January. It is stated that they actually pu'led-ofT from shore for the purpose, but when they discovered that all the officers and crew were not asleefi, they concluded that 'the better part of valor was discretion' and retirt'd. "Latch a wczle asleefi!'" sur-

nrise an -vmencan vessel ot war in an

enrmix pot t I No no ! Scetal new acts of outrage have been

commhled by ti ese desperadoes; and, at Havana, some of the cfliceis of the U. S. biig Spark, attempting to go a-short, ere saluted, as tney approached the -w harf, wit;i broken bottles and stones, o,i

account of the capture ol the vessel lately

ceded to by the government of Louisiana,

we are at once involved in a civil war, The moment these senators aie dismis

sed, our political qompact is annulled;

ges, were discharged in succession, at a target, at the distance of 29 yards, in two minutes and two seconds, 22 ot the balls hit the target. These guns consist of a single barrel and lock, stocked in the usual style, and

the law of force becomes substituted for ! are perfectly simple, safe, and conve

it, and theie last farewell to the senate : meat. The number of charges may be will be hut the precursor of anarchy, extended to twenty, or even thirty with Foreign Fienchmen 1 ' are you prepared out adding any thing to the incumbrance for these setious consequences? Are of the piece, except a few ounces to its you ready to wage war against the laws weight each charge being as completeofthe United States? j ly under the distinct and separate conSince the preceding was written, trol of the gunner as a single charge in we have received a New Orleans paper an ordinary gun, which, by means of a of the 30th January, in which it appears sliding lock that primes itself, may be that on the 29th, the senate passed the discharged in less than two seconds to a following resolution unanimously and so charge, or at any longer interval, at the the controversy is at an end, for the pres- option of the gunner, with the same cfent Whereas a certain resolution had fret as the ordinary fire arms, been introduced into the senate, to call These guns are now at Mr. Sanford's in question the right of that part ofFIor- (formerly Fcnnison's) Hotel, where any ida which is annexed to this state to be persons are at liberty to examine them, reptesented in the senate of the state: or load and fire them, to their entire satResolved, that the right cannot be ques- isfaction. lioned, inasmuch as it is guaranteed by a solemn compact between the United The legislative council, and the house biases and this state. of assemoly 0f Lovvcr Canada, have both Each party receded that which got naSce(l resolotinns. hv lnrcm m:.mritifs.

up the original resolution for expulsion, aRainst the proposed union of the two nnd trio, nthrr wlnrh rpnmrA'! Wo rK1it-

ration from the journal.

provinces

j Three men near Grecnsburgh, Penn.

were employed in boring the earth for Puogress of our couktrt. We 5alt water, when a flame burst from the noticed, in our last paper, the present well and burnt them so badly as to enstate of the Transylvania University, at danger their lives. whicn there now are 386 students. The : T.1)C British government in India have National Intelliirenccr, in reference to

this same subject, says 4 Less than fifty lhe age "f sixteen, or while in a state of t years ago, he now populous and flourish- pregnancy; they also direct an inquiry i

ing state ol Kentucky had not a white in- eirc burning, to ascertain that no com-

An Orleans Boat

AS taken upon the i6th inst in If the Wabash the boat is 50 feet long, and 16 wide the owner cat', have

her again by paying for this advertise

ment, on appiicmon to FRANCIS DECANT. March 28, 1823. 9 tf

Saddle f$ Bridle Found. O MET IMF. in the last of January or

ijl the first of February. last past, in

one of the streets of Vinccnner ,

JVnmau's Saddle, and

the owner can receive them by applying at the Western Sun office, and paying for

this advertisement 9-tf March, 1823.

last past, in :nnef, a d a Bridle, J

habitant. Where the Transylvania Uni

0 versity now stands, or near it, there rang-

ent into Norfolk. Plunder was selling cd. in seventeen hundred and seventy-five,

pulsion is used, and that no intoxicating

drugs arc given.

It is rumored that a strong desire ex-

Sheriff's Sale BY virtue of an execution on mortgaged premises, to mc ditectcd from the Clerks oflice of the Knox Ciicuit court 1 will expose to public sale on Saturday the 12th day of pril next,atthe court house in Vincennes. the following described property, to wit: a certain house and two lots of ground, situate in the village of Vincennes, being the same whereon Hyacinth Lasielle formerly lived, and bounded on the west by lot- then belonging to William Prince and Lawrence Dazadone, Sc on the cast by a new made street, on the north by a street, and on the south cast by a street, and measuring twenty five by twenty two toises tach also two other certain lots of gtound in g

the village aforesaid, situate opposite and 7

in from of the above mentioned lots.be-

ing the same whereon the said Hyacinth Lasselle has erected a store house and o-c ther buildings, and bounded on one side

by a street, on the north west by the lota

at a low f are gjid watches tot g6; pie

ces ot muslin ,u S1; cochineal at glOO per seroon, kc. After the -.park's boat had returned, cant. Wilkin -on went cn shore and re

monstrated against the outiage the gov-j

cinor assured him that such acts should be punished, and offered him a file of nun to ccuduct him to his barge. A young gentleman, formerly of Charleston, S. C but for sometime a resident of Havana, having observed to the mob that their "conduct w as imptopcr," and added, "never mind, com. Poiter will be here soon.' was assassinated on the night that followed, being cut and stabbed with knives in a must shocking manner. Matanzas was, for sometime, as blockaded b a piratical schooner some vesvels were sent against her, a little fighting took place and the pirate haud . IT. The Congress frigate was at Havana on the 8th of February. The captdn general has issued a inferior order to prevent piratical depredations by the people of the island, and it appears to be in good faith We shall insert it hereafter, though it will not aail much. "The king pays me but 400 dol larsayear," said a pety customhouse officer at Havana to one of my friends, and I am compelled to pay g500 for a dwelling house I must live.1

herds of thousands of buffaloes.

Cuba. Correspondents of the Hich-

istsinCubato declare itself independent ; of Elihu Stout, and on the west by lots

of Spain, under the auspices of the Uni ted States. It is further said, that over

mond Enquirer positively state that the ! urca effect will m all probability

rumor about the design of Great Uritain

to possess herself of Cuba, is entirely groundless. One of these, under date of Washington, February 19, gives the following statement: The British minister here, (Mr. Canning,) waited some time ago upon Mr Adams, secretary of state, and read to him a letter from his

cousin George Canning, in which he

be soon submitted to or government.

owned by Antoinc Marshall, and on the east by lots whereon the widow lioucheo now lives, containing twenty five by twen-

ty two toises each. Also that certain

1 he revolutionary spirit which has ' tract of land situate in the cr-unty of long existed in Germany, lately prevails . Knox, and being the same whereon Hyatoa high pitch in the universities. In , cinth Lasselle then had a Distillery, consonic of them the students have arrang- j tabling eighty acres, being pa-1 of a lared themselves into two parties, the I gCr tract then owned by John Hire Jnes, friends of hereditary nobility, and the ad- and also the still tubs, and all and singuvocates of democracy, Their disputes lar the things appertaining to the said

are very acrimonius; and duelling has Distillery, as the property of HvacintU

peaks of the rumors as to Cuba; denies bccome extremely fasnionabie among , Lasselle, at the suit of Gabnci Godfroy. in the most positive manner, anv nish or ni' nnMircnrn t. . JOHN DECKER, Xhjf k.c. intention on the part of the British trov- . ROCHES TER, T eh. 1 . March 29, 1823 fc2 50-9 St

oninion that it would he dishonorable in I 7 Mcrwin, ot Brighton, on a wager of

them to avail themselves of the weakness

of pain for any such purpose. It seems

i too that the minister here was directed

by his government to read this letter to the secretary of state. No copy was furnished and Mr. Monroe directed Mr. d.ims to apply and know whether one would be furnished. It is said he has not had an answer, but it will not. This is all the information our government has on the subject.

Piracy. The brig Two Brothers, of Neubui yport, Anthonv Knap, jr. master, was captured by a Spanish schooner with aciewof ; 5 men, off the Morne Rouge, south side of St Domingo, on the 22nd

j Drcbr. The captain and crew, 7 in nutn-

t fain members from that boily, on this h- i, wctc dnvr.n by the pirates into the

Louisiana. A motion has been made

in tlie 5CUIC i vnia unt v..j t.jiv-i ni1

crrouml that the parishes of Feliciana, V A f ' 1

Flast Baton H 'ige, wasnmgm.i, .i. Helena and Tammany form no part of tht

brig's small boat, without any thing but the clothes they had on. Fortunately they reached the ihoro irj safety, after being

8 1 9, went into the woods on Saturday

last, and cut and cordon o n- cord of lour feet in Jifty five minute I Mr M. selected two beach ti ccs ia -kii g .:bout half a cord each, w hich he ted, cut, split, and corded in 55 minutes. This is an instance of despatch, altogether unprecedented in the annals of chopping. A Bank check for 8233 will be given, for a complete Sc accurate hwtoiy of the proceedings of the Bank of Vincennes Sc its branches, from the first of January, 1820, to the present time; including the transactions with the bank of the Steam Mill Company ; tho arrangement of the state debt ; and more especially what disposition was made of the specie carried away from the bank of Coiydon, including the transfer of the notes due the bank, to Murry, Draper, Fairman Sc Co for the special benefit f William IL Eads ard

Tin $ Sheet Iron MA.VUFACTOll V, WHOLESALE St RETAIL. N smith, fjTAS again commenced business, on 3 the corner of Market andccond streets, Vincennes, where all orders in his line will be strictly attended to. Job work will be done on the shortest notice. Paper on a number of the Ohio banks will be taken in payment for woik, at its value. $r7Thc highest price given for old Copper, Brass Sc Pewter.

SAMUEL jucm.'

HAS removed

will practise LAW

and Daviess, and the

the first circuit He will occupy tho room adjoining the Post Office. January 9ihj 1823. 50-3m.

to Vincv nnes, and V in the com ts of K nox J he northern cMin'irs of 11