Western Sun & General Advertiser, Volume 16, Number 18, Vincennes, Knox County, 18 June 1825 — Page 1

WESTEKN SUN Ss GENERAl ABYETOSES

BY ELIHU STOUT. VINCENNES, (IND.) SATURDAY, JUNE 18, 1825 Vol. 16. No. 18.

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Sheriff's Sales.

7f n pursuance of a certain writ of venJif ditioni exponas, issued by the clerk of the Circuit court of Knox county, and to me directed, I shall expose to public sale at the court house door in Vincennes, on Monday the twentueth day of June

next, between the hours often o'clock,

A. m. and two o clock, p. m. all the right, title, Sc interest which Charles Mc.Clure, (now deceased) had or possessed on the twenty fourth day of Sefitember one thousand eight hundred and twenty two, in all that certain tract of land situated, lying and being in the county of Knox, containing ten acres, and including the Mill seat and Mill and being lot number six, in the division of lot number twenty-

four in the old donation, among the heirs of William Mc.Clure, deed, at the suit of James B. Mc.Call. S. ALMY, Shff k c.

I, 1825. 15-4t-g2

NOTICE. PURSUANT to an order of the Circuit court, made at their last term, there will be sold by the subscribers, on Xaturdav the 18ft dau o f June next.

ot nuhltr vendue, the south east half of i

lot number 5, in the donation, county of

Knox, belonging to the estate ot the Hon.

ohn Johnson deceased, l nis iroci 01 land to be sold, contains two hundred

acres, is unimproved, but of the first quality, well watered, and covered with valuable timber. It is situated about 5 miles east of Vincennes, adjoining the farm nnon which iudee Johnson former

ly resided, and is in the heart of as healthy and flourishing a settlement, as any in the country. It is believed there may be made as handsome and as productive a farm on this tract of land, as on any other of the same number of acres, in any part of the stateThe sate will in nVlnrk a. m. on the

premises, where due attendance will be given, and the conditions of the sale made O known, bv the subscribers. An indisputable title will be made to the purchaser MARGARET JOHNSON, Executrix.

DANIEL SMITH Axetq A r liT.Ar.KFORn.V cutors.

Vincennes, April 29, 1825. 1 1-tds. To the Creditors of the Estate of IVilllam Prince, deed.

"TOU are hereby notified, that we have JJ filed a petition on the Chancery side

May 28

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condition of said estate, whereby the

he. insolvent. Those of

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' Adminis f trators.

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ynu who do not come in and present your claims for adjudication before the determination of the court on said petition shall

be postponed to other creditors.

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JONH I. NEELY, SAMUEL II ALL,

May 27, 1825. 15-4t siicrifV's Sale.

15 Y virtue of a writ of venditioni cxpoJ nas to me directed, from the Clerk's office of the Gibson Circuit court, I will exnosc to nublic sa'c at the court hou-e

door in Vincennes, Knox county, state of Indiana, on Saturdau, the second day of

'July next, between ten o'clock A M. and five o'clock, r m agreeably to the thiid section of the law sutj ctin real and personal estate to execution, the lots or parcels of ground, to win lot number ffiy two, lying and being in the Borough of Vincennes also two hundred and sixty acres of land, part of lot number two hundred in the additional donation, as the property of George R C. Sullivan, at the suit of Sarah Jomcs, administratrix of George V. L Jones, deed. S ALMY, Slfff kc. June 10, 1825. 15-41-8 1 50

1TJ Yrptpe of a writ of fieri facias to J3--TC7"Irected from the Clerk's office

of the Rfiox Circuit court, I will expose to publfc sale, at the court house door in Vincennes, on Monday the tiventyeth day of June next, between the hours of ten o'clock, A. m. Sc five o'clock, p. m. agreeably to the 3d section of the law subject-

ini? real and ncrsonal estate to execution,

the following lots, or pa! eels of ground,

to wit : number two hundred and eighty

seven, and number two hundred and fifty

four, situate, lvinir and being in the iio

ruch of Vincennes, and county of Knox,

with a small frame dwelling house thereon, with the annurtcnances, as the fences

now stand, taken as the property ot

James Nabb, at the suit of Benjamin J.

Harrison. S. ALMY. Shff. k.c. May 28, 1825. 15-4t-S50 Sheriff's Sales. TTjJV virtue of a writ of plurius VcndiJ15 ton exponas on replevy bond, to me directed from the Clerk's office f

the Knox Circuit court, I will expose to public sale at the Court house door in Vincennes, on Monday the twenty seventh inst. between the hours of 10 o'clock a. m and 5 p. m. agreeably to the third section of the law subjecting real and personal estate to execution, the following property to wit: one house and half a lot of ground in the borough of Vincen

nes, known on the plat of said borough by the No. fifty two, as the property of

William Lindsay junr at the suit ot Jacob Kuykcndall. S. ALMY, ShT r. c. June 3d, 1825.

Tventy Dollars Reward.

Stravcd or stolen from the subscriber, a

bout the nrst ot :iay lasi

two sorrel horses, one of them 9 years old

15 hands high, a white spot on each ot his fore shoulders, both hind feet white the other 3 years old, both hind feet white, the above reward will be paid for the horses, and the conviction of the thief, if stolen, or ton dollars for the horses alone, if delivered to the subscriber, living in IIa

linois, opposite the Vincennes steam mill. DIOGENES HILL. June 3, 1825. 16-3t

State of Indiana. KNOX COUNTY. John Posey vs. Henry Ruenour. TOTlCE is hereby given, that a writ X of Domestic Attachment has been issued in the above case against the goods and chattels, lights, credits, mon ies, and effects, of the defendant, and that I wilt proceed to act on said writ, at my office in Vincennes township in said county, on Fridav the first of July next, at 12 o'clock a m. of which all concerned ill take notice. SAML. HILL, J p k.c. May 25, 1825. 15-41

A s NOTICE, "JTg2ujiby given to all persons whom it 3 my concern, that I intend to apply to thciidge of probate of Crawford county Ills for the final settlement of the estate of Elisha Bradbury deed, on the first Monday in July next JOHN HARDIN, Adm. May llth, 1825. l5-4t

NOTICE.

undersigned, administrator 'cgjt

f he estate of Levi Madden, deed late

of ZJavicss county, la. having discovered

that the personal estate ot said deceased, will not discharge the debts and demands against the same, notice is therefore hereby given that said estate is Insolvent, and that I shall claim a settlement thereof as such. JAMES BREEZE Adm. June 3, 1825. 16-3t It. DANIEL. Ii (atohsey at law.) HAS removed from Princeton to Vincennes la and will practice lavs in the first Sc fourth judicial circuits. He keeps his office on water street, where he mav at all times be found. April 24, 1824. 11-tf

The Creeks. From the Milledgeville Recorder of May 10. The governor, we understand, has issued orders to . . .

the officers commanding brigades in tne new counties, for the protection of the j frontier against Indian hostility, and also for ensuring the personal safety of the agent, whose life is said to be threatened ;

by the Indians. Since our last paper, information has been received cf the mur

der of Hawkins, the interpreter. A num

ber of the fiiendly Indians have taken re

fuge within the white settlements.

We received the lollowing note as we

were makiner un the paper. It will re-

lieve the apprehensions that have been

felt for the safety ot travellers:

Gentlemen: I have this mormne re

ceived a letter from coi. John Crowell, agent of the Creek nation, of which the

following is an extract, which you will publish in your paper, jas bozemn. "I wish you would be good enough to request the editors of the Milledgevil'.e papers, to state, in their next papers, that I have been by them, (the chiefs), requested to say, for the information of travellers, that there is no earthly danger. The head chiefs have also requested me to make this publication, and to state further, that it is an affair among themselves and that no white person shall be interrupted on the road or elsewhere." In the circuit court of the United States, for the district of Georgia at Millcdgeville, May terniy 1825. The grand jury regret that they find it necessary to ask the attention of the court to recent occurrences within the circle ofits criminal jurisdiction In the territory, lately ceded to the United States bv the Creeks at the treaty of the

Indian Springs, atrocious minders have been committed upon the bodies of Wil

liam Mcintosh, Etome Tuslu' nuguc and

colonel Hawkins, three distinguished in dian chiefs, at all times the friends of the

United States, and just about to begin a

iourni y to the west to explore the coun

tr preparatory to the removal of the

tribe, according to the provisions of t e J .aid treaty Numerous parties of Indians, the friends of the deceased chiefs and ot the United States, have been driven, des titute and naked, into the settled parts oi the frontiers of this state, for protection from the vengeance of those persons who have just saciificed those chiefs. It is understood and believed, that these out rages have been committed by large bo dies of anmd Indians, principally resi

dents of Alabama It is greatly to be apprehended and feared that they have been instigated and countenanced by white persons. The grand jury have due confidence in the vigilance of the constituted authorities of the general and state governments, but they cannot, without a violation of their own duty, icfrain from Callintr, through the couit, the attention

ofb')th governments to the situation of

the trontier, and to the consequences oi the atroci'ies committed in the lately ce

ded tcnitory. Those who have driven the friends of the murdered chiefs into

the settled parts of the state, may pur sue to destroy them in their places of re

fuirc. They recommend that measures

of necessary precaution for the protcctioi

and sucor ot the tugmves ne immediate

ly taken, and that every attempt to vio late their asylum shall be instantly pun ished. The grand jury deem it necessa

ry to the character of the government of their country, that the authors, perpetrators, aiders and abettors of the crimes lately committed, should be sought for, 1 I ! I I

ana, wnen asccriainea, prosecuieu ana severely punished. They have no language strong enough to mark their ab

horrence tor the white persons, it any, who have seduced or irritated the unhappy Indians to perpetrate this tragedy. They recommend the severest scrutiny into the conduct of all white persons in the nation, and the judicial prosecution of each and every one of them, against whom sudicicnt evidence to justify it shall be discovered. The grand jury request that a copy of this, their presentment, be sent to the president of the United States, and another to the governor of Georgia, and that the foregoing be published in the newspapers of this place. f Signed by the foreman, and seventeen other grand jurors. " tZ7 R' the southern mail of Tuesday hit, we received a printed paper, headed Creek Indians" and signed "Justice," and dated "Columbia, May 25" the first paragraph of which is as follows; "I see an account in the paper, of the murder of general Mcintosh, one of the principal chiefs of the Creek Indian, by

about 400 warriors of his own nation When all the facts, relating to this sub. ject, shall be known to the people of the United States, I think they will be of opinion that Mcintosh was not murder

ed; but rather that he has been duly exe rated, according to the known laws and

w us .ges of the nation to which he belonged." The writer then proceeds to notice tho efforts that have been made, from the time of president Washington to the present day, to civilize the Creeks and render them cultivators of the earth. He says that "the habits of sax ages ar d hunters arc fast wearing away au orp them" that they meant to occupy their

lands as cultivators of the soil that tho late treaty was made by Mc'lntosh and

others, without the consent of the re

presentatives of the Creek nation, and

adds

"Under this fraudulent and pretended

conveyance a whole nation are to be forcibly dispossessed of their propeny of the lands they inheiit from their ances

tors the land they looked to as the future inheritance of their children no longer bred up in savage habits, but gradu-

any looKing iorwara to me settled lito of agriculturalists. Driven again into a savage life, among savages, on new and distant lands, and forced into almost inevitable hostility with the tribes thty are compelled to intrude on. This is to be done, after these poor Vfretches naef for a series of years, been advised, piessed, tempted, exhorted, encoui aged, and, by all manner of means induced and persuaded, by cur can government, to quit their hunter-life, and to embrace fixed and agricultural habits. These people, their wives and infants, are thus to be driven away, against their manifest and rightful claims, against their interest, ag dnst their intentions and inclinations, and to the ut er destruction ot all those improved views of future living which they have adopted in obedience to the advice of their ereat father Wash-

m . - ington. Having thus persuaded them,

mr iweniy years past, to commence a gradual change in their modes and habits of living, just as we have succeeded

in tins Dcnevoient design, we destroy, m i moment, twentv years labor, we convert agriculturalists into savages, friends into enemies, and set an example of deliberate cold blooded injustice, that is sufficient to make an honest and a kind hearted man shudder, on contemplating its origin, its progress and its consequences. "This treaty may be very advantageous for Georgia But reflecting men will not fail to inquire, can ie,as members of an honest and fair-dealing government, justify these doings? Dies it comport with the honorable character of the American government, whose proud motto is,"EqUAL AND FXACT JUSTICE TO ALL mkn," to become participators of this manifest fraud, and take advant:ge of a treaty so obtained? Did not Mcintosh, belying his honorable character of national representative of his own people, and abusing the confidence icposcd in him, act, not as agent of the Creek nation, but as the agent of the whites? He might, (by bare possibility), have meant well; but did he act well? Did he not ktiow that his doings were not sanctioned bv his nation, but weie in manifest-

hostility to their wishes, and in open derogation of their rights? He knew of tho law previously and regularly passed by his' own people, with their usual forms: was he not, therefore, duly tried, convicted, and punished for an offence against a known law. and a dfdih prat fraivrl rr

- iwwMfcW IIHUVi Uil t J 9 nation? Although the punishment was reluctantly inflicted, and therefore somej what delayed, it was, nevertheless, it is to be presumed, the result of a meeting convened to deliberate on his case, and in conformity with a previous act of tho I nation, well known to him, and by which he was bound. The manner of punishj ment is nothing: that depends on the cus- ' lorn of the country. The Indians employ the rifle and the tomahawk; we use the : gibbet. Mcintosh knew the treaty of ; 12th February, 1825, was fraudulent and

invalid." Frcm the Montgomery Republican cf May 6th. From what we can learn of this matter it seems not to have been the unauthorized act of a few individuals, but the deed of the chiefs of the upper towns. Bo dies of Indians were drafted from the different towns, and every thing was con ducted with the utmost reeularitv and

secrecy. To what further acts this exe ' cution may lead, rre axo at a less to saj;