Western Sun & General Advertiser, Volume 16, Number 19, Vincennes, Knox County, 25 June 1825 — Page 1

WESTERN SUN k, ENERAJj ABYEMTTSEK,

BY ELIHU STOUT. V1NCENNES, (IND.) SATURDAY, JUNE 25, 1825, Vol. ig. No. 19.

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' ITS situated on a beautiful B ulf o i the JL southeast side of the Wabash river, one mile above the mouth of Wild Cat Creek, and four below the mouth of the Tippecanoe river. No town in the state of Indiana, can anticipate greater prospects, considering its local situation, and natural advantages Lying at the head of steam boat navigation, or as near that

- - ' point as any eligible situation for a town tan be had no other site presents it self between that and the mouth of Tip pecanoe; it lies nearly in a direct line from Detroit, via Fort Wayne to St. Louis, and nearly so, between the South end of Lake Michigan and Indianapolis. There is no doubt but a great intercourse will soon be opened between those pla res, and this will be the point of intersection. This place being situate a sufficient distance East of the Western line of the state to leave sufficient space for a coun ty West of it, and being thus nearly in the centre of the second one; which warrants a belief that it will become a scat of justice for a new county hereafter to be laid off, and with this view, a liberal provision will be made by a reservation of Lots for that purpose. The surrounding country is rapidly settling, having its fertile lands watered by the Wea and Wild Cat on the south, the numerous branches orwhich affords many excellent scats for Mills and other Machinery; the Tippecanoe coming from the nv.-ih, wiil no doubt afford very extensive settlements. By referring to the report of a select committee ot Congress on that subject last winter, it will be observed that they consider the connecting of the Wabash witk Lake Erie by a canal, to be not only practical, but of great utility to the public. In as much as it will be nearer from the mouth of the Ohio river to N. York by 600 miles, than the route In yay of the Illinois river, and l5v) miles nearer than by way of the proposed canal through the state of Ohio: they have recommended a grant of a strip of land to the state of Indiana oi two miles in width, the whole length of the Canal on each 6ide, to enable the ;tatc to raise a fund from the proceeds of the sales thereof; which they think will he amply sumcL-nt for its completion; the mouth vX the Tippecanoe, is considered by then., to ;: the head of Steam Hont navigation on the Wabash; which opinion is conur.-r.cd 'nevery person who has any knowledge the Wabash river. Whtn advantages like the foregoing 3hall be realized (and that they will be, at no very distant day, there is no doubt,) this must become one of the most tlourishing towns in the state of Indian-i. THE SALE OF LOTS "Will commence on the thitd Monday Of June next, on the premises. The terms will be. one fourth the purchase money in hand, the ballance in three equal annual instalments DAVID MOUNT Pr-.ric-JOHX D VI SON, $ tars. May 18th 1S25. l7-5t.

R. DANIEL. (atornky at law.)

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AS removed from Princeton to

Vincennes la and will practice law

in the first S fourth judicial circuit. Ue keeps his office on water street, where lie Uiay at all times be found. April 24, 1824. 11-tf

Important Indian Treaties. We understand that Gen. Clark has concluded treaties with the Osage and Kanzas Indians, by which these tribes have ceded to the United States all the country

claimed by them except two reserves for ,

their own permanent residence. These ' sessions will comprehend a great extent of country between the Missouri and Arkansas rivers, sufficient for the residence and accommodation of all the Indians in the different States and Territories of the Union. These treaties will also free the Western parts of Missouri and Ai Kansas from the incumbrance of an Indian population, and will lay open to immediate sale and settlement three or four millions of acres of land, some of it the most beautiful in the State, while beyond the Missouri and Arkansas will be appropriated to the exclusive use of the Indians who may be willing to remove to the West in pursuance of the generous and i humane plan of the Federal Government J for the preservation and civilization of the j Indian tribes. We have the satisfaction to state that these important treaties have been made in the most unexceptional manner. The Indian deputations were full. Not only the chiefs of every village were present, but each ol these was attended by several of his principal warriors. The object of the treaty was made known to the whole nation, and approved of by them, before the deputations left home; and the terms of each treatv were unanimously agreed to by every chief and warrior present. Wc congratulate the State of Missouri upon the conclusion of these important treaties by which her western border is freed from the incumbrance ot an Indian title; we congratulate the other StfJ&s which are still incumbered with an Indian population upon the success of the first step towards the accomplishment of the great plan for the collocation of the Indian tribes; above all we congratulate the Indians themselves on the happy prospect which now opens before them permanent homes, in a climate tcmpciatc, finely diversified with wood and prairie, well watered with springs, crrcftf aftd rivers, abounding with grass, well adapt ed to farming and grazing, convenienfuo the great huffaloc range and to the finest salt licks in the world, and sufficiently removed from the contact and pressure of a white population, to enable, them to rest in peace through a series of tinboni generations To Grn Clark the thanks of l he whole community is due as well for the importance of the trc.itis concluded by him, as for the satisfactory and harmonious terms on which they have been fleeted. St. Louis Advocate: '

f-V?.' 9f a letter recrtved by a eitiz&W Ii Jii'ird County y Missouri, from 77jofc?-l

as ii. ucmon dated ST. LOUIS, ArniL 22 Deer Sir You wised to be informed, whether I really believe the bill for graduating the price ot public lands will' ever

pass into a law. I can assure you, with great sincerity, that I believe it will. Like every other new proposition, it has an opposition to encounter; but the jus- , tice an. I necessity of its provisions liave ; been gaining it friends ever since it was ' brouglu forward; and when submitted to . the ordeal of a public discussion, I think that ail objections will be removed. j It is certainly a fair principle, that land, j like every thing else ofiVud for sale, I should be sold for what it is woith; and as all individual sellers conform to 1 1 frit !

it is difficult to conceive a reason why the ledcnl government, the greatest oi" all land idlers, thonld not do the same. liven if sold according to my graduation of prices, the amount to be levied upon the west, by the sale of pub lie lands, wou d still be sufficiently large and difficult to pay; but if held up until every acre shall commands' 25. the amount will be enormous and ruinous, l ake, for example, the case of our own state. The federal government holds ihinv-fivc millions of acres in Missouri: at $1 -'3, the sale of this quantity will amount to forty-four millions of dollars! a sum exceeding the utmost ability of tfoc state to pay. The s.imc may be saidf

every other tate and tcnitory in whieff which public lands are situated. Three hundred millions of dollars will be required from them! a sum frightful in itself, and doubly alarming, when wc consider that it is to be Icxitd on a part of the Union to which next to nothing retu ns in the shape of government expenditure, and upon a class of the community who handle but a little money, and ob tain that little by the sweat cflho brow.

Also to the refuse tracts, those half j quarter sections in which there is a patch I of good land, and the rest unfit for culti- : vatiort, I think they would be well disposed of by bestowing them gratis on 1 poor families, who would cultivate them and pay the taxes, train up a family of

children in habits of independence and in- , dustry, and contribute, by their labor, to '

augment the mass of national wealth. I regret that the bill which I introduced, did not come up for discussion at

the last session. I shall introduce it again at the commencement of the next, and entertaining myself a thorough con-

viction ol its justice and propriety, and knowing it will be supported by some of the ablest statesmen in Congress. 1 indulge in the confident expectation of seeing it pa Your's, respectfully, THOMAS H.BENTON. CAPITOL OF THE UNITED STATES. This immense pile coycrs an extent of one and a hall acres and 1336 feet. Its length of front, is 350 feet the depth of the centre, 268 feet. The height of the wings to the top of thc.balustrade, is 70 feet height to the top of the centre dome 140 feet. Greatest length of the Senate chamber in the north wing, 74 feet greatest height, 42 feet. '1 he great Central retunda, whose top is the dome, is 96 feet in diameter, and 96 feet high: the library room is 92 by 34 feet, and 36 feet high. In the capitol, likewise, are a variety of rooms for committees and officers connected with the two branches of the national legislature: on the lower floor is a large room where the Supreme Court of the United States holds its sessions. The splendor of this building, when it shall be completed, cannot well be described to the eye cf the imagination: its massy walls its immense columns of solid stone and variagated maibf?fejts winding granite stairs, so constructco,Jas apparently to rest in air, on nothing out themselves its labyrinth of apartment, in which the stranger may easily lose himself without a conductor: all these must be seen, to present to the mind, an adequate idea of this monument of republican liberality, in encouraging the arts. The grounds of the capitol are cnclosid within an iron railing, and embraces more than 20 acres. Now, that the work on the capitol is not completed, these grounds present the uncouth appearance of temporary sheds and buildings in their rough state, and the rubbish of stones and other materials for building. When the yard shall be reduced to its proper level its avenues graduated its shrubbery growing this will be one of the most delightful promenades of any country. jVeu Hamfifihire Patriot, The CnEEKS. The following view of the disturbances among this people, is copied from the Charleston Courier, and throws much light upon the subject:

However shocking to a sensitive rrynd

is the summary vengeance inflict

the Creek Indians, on pen Mcintosh

another chief, who had ai led him

transfer of Indian lands, yet, it can be regarded, where it is correctly understood, in no other light than an act of penal justice, required and sanctioned by the law which governs the Creek nation. The Creeks arc, in a good measure, civilized they are losing the character of a hunt

er in that of the agriculturist; they have partially civilized towns which are represented by a chief in the general council; and of these chiefs, there arc thirty six. It has been always required that a majority of these should sign any contract for the alienation of the Creek territory but, latterly, so hostile are these people to any further sales, that the punishment of death has been enacted against any chief who should propose such a measure. Of these important and vital regulations, Mcintosh must have been aware and yet he not only advocated the surrender of the land, which is to go to the state of Georgia, but signed the deed, conveying it away, in company with one chief only the other signatures to the treatv t r I II If it nil! thnrn . ,

wwn, ia ouiw. uiujt kji jjciauns entirely unauthorized. Now, if these be thcRui

- jo uini, uui Call feci any sympathy for the ruin of the betrayer of his nation of the man, who appears to have been more civilized, only to become treacherous; and whose honors, won by serving our country, do not redeem his disgrace in the sacrifice of his own? If these facts be so, who does not pity an exiled people, torn up by the roots from their domestic soil, and driven, like leaves cf the forest, westward, towards

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the grave of the sunand that, too, un dcr his auspicies, in whom they chitfly confided. 7 The affair of killing Mcintosh, be it justifiable or not, is not cognisable by the government of the United States. They have only to look to the treaty. If executed by competent authority, on tho part of the Indians, it must be enforced, unless an enlightened and liberal policy should rather make a great pecuniary sacrifice to the state of Georgia than cover the Indian soil with the bones of slaughtered Indians. If, on the other hand, the treaty, as it is alleged, was executed by incompetent authority, tho whole matter i$ le-opened for conciliation and peace. We ate informed, by the late Darien Gazette, that, at a late meeting of tho Creek Indians, they made three irrivocable laws, viz. 1st That they would not receive ono dollar of the sum stipulated to be paid them by the last treaty for their land 2d. That they would not make war up. on the whites, nor would they shed a drop of the blood of those who should be sent to take their land from them. 3d That, if they were turned out of their houses, they would die at the corner of their fences, to manure the soil, rather than they would abandon the land of their forefathers. Wc are further informed that gen. Mc Intosh moved, in coincil, when the first first cession was made, that any person, who should propose the cession of another foot of ground should be put to death. A report prevailed in Milledgeulle, on the 25th inst. that a great council of tho Indians was about to be held, to deliberate on the propriety of commencing hos tilitics against the party among them favorable to the treaty; and it was thought a civil war would ensue. The legislature of Georgia, which had convened to hold an extra session, was expected to put a stop, for the preitnt, to the survey of the lands ceded by the Indians which had been ordered by the proclamation of governor Troup.

MR. CLAY AT HOME. Dinner to Mr. Clay. A public Dinncr was given to MR. CLAY on Wednesday lat. by the citizens ot Lexington and Fayette, as as a testimonial of their approbation of his public conduct. A heavy rain in the morning prevented many of his constituents in the country, who wished to participate, from uniting with the company; but not withstanding this circumstance, 300 gentlemen or more attended, and sat down to a sumptuous and handsome arranged table prepared under the direction of Capt Fowler and the committee ofmanagers The respectability andintelligence,aswellas tho number of assemblage, have not been surpassed on any similar occasion in this state. A more unequivocal expression of confidence and respect was never before tendcred to a representative by his constituents, where the duties and acts of tho representative were of so high and important a character as to attract universal attention nor can we scarcely conceivo it to be possible under similar circumstances, that a more unanimous sentiment of approbation could prevail, than now pervades the whole district in respect to Mr. Clay's vote for president. Wo might also venture to extend the remark to the whole state for as we believe tho citizens of every county are equally desirous of an apportunity of manifestintr towards Mr. Clay the like evidence of their respect and affectionate regards. Invitations have already been accepted by him to partake of the hospitality of tho inhabitants of wooaford, Clarke and Jessamine, and if his short visit will permit, we presume he will also accept thoso tendered him by the citizens of Louisville, Cincinnati and other places. Wc subjoin the Toasts which wero drunk by the company with perfect cordiality. Charles Wilkins Esq. acted as President of the Dinner assisted by John- Bradford and William Morton, Esqrs. and Col. Merrell and Col. James 1 rotter, as Vice Presidents. The following is the note of the managersofthe Dinner to Mr Clay, to which is annexed his reply. Lexington, May 28M, 1825. Dear Sir. The undersigned a committee on the nrt of the citizens of Lexington and Fayette county, are authorised to invito you to a public dinner, cn Wednesday next at Fowler's Garden. It affords us peculiar pleasure at this time to offer you thu public cxprcsiicn