Western Sun & General Advertiser, Volume 16, Number 32, Vincennes, Knox County, 24 September 1825 — Page 1

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) BY ELIHU STOUT. VINCENNES, (IND.) SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1825. Vol. 16. No. 32.

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V order and decree of the Probate

Court of Kmox county Indiana, I

will sell, at public outcry before the

Court house door in Vincennes. on Sa turdiy the Jirst day cf October ensuing. between the hours of 10 o'clock a m. and 4 oc. p. m. to the highest and best bidder, for ready money, the north east fractional quarter of the west fractional section 12, in town 4 north, of range 8 vest, in the district of Vincennes, con taining 98 actes and 22 hundredths, being the property of Menassch Reeves deed of whose estate we are the administrators.

LEWIS REEVES, ) BARNES REEVES.

Sept. 7th 1325. 30-jt PUBLIC NOTICE

TJJY order and decree of the Probate Q I) Court of Knox county, Indiana, I will sell at public outcry before the court house door in Vincennes, on Saturday the Jirst day of October ensuing, between the houts of 10 o'clock a m. and 4 o'c. p. m. to the highest and best bidder, for ready monev, a lot in the borough of Vincennes, designated on Messrs. Johnson and Emison's survey of the town, by the No. 185, whereon is erected a two story dwelling house, being the property of Klea7.er D. Carter deed, of whose estate I am the administrator. A. S. BADOLLET. Adm. Sept. rth 1825, 30-3t NOTICE. rTJHE estate of Thomas Milburn deceased, late of Pike county, is be

IWed to be solvent, thcrefoie all those h ving demands against said estate, are desired to present the same for sellc-

mrnt. Those persons indebted to said statc will make immediate payment. s E. MILBURN, Admx. Sept. 6th 1825. 30-3i

Six Cents Reward.

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the 28th

August last, an apprentice to the Shoemaking business named JOHN STRUPLE about 31 or 32 years ol age, about five feet eight inches high, hnis in one ol his kners, all persons are cautioned against harboring or employing him, under the penalty of the law, the. above reward will he paid to any person at ho will return him to me again. SYLVESTER BURXHAM. Sept. 6th 1825. S0-3t (PlT. R C. SULLIVAN, administrator of all the goods and chattels, lights and credits, of William Jones, deceased, remaining unadmir.istcred by Ambrose IVhitlock, and l'oussaint Dubois, former administrators, gives notice to all. that

he is legally authorised, as Admhastratcr de bona ncn, to settle said estate : and that he is now ready to do the same. All persons who have demands against the simc. are requested to present them for adjustment according to law. Those who are indebted, if not paid before the 1st of October next, will be surd. AM persona who may have any of the boks papers, accounts, notes, or ;itlep pcrsof said estate, are requested to deliver them to him. The siicl G. R C. Sullivan, administrator Asaf re.ml riomhis acquaintance V"h the debts ai d credits of t'.e v?i.- es 1 , dec'aies the same to be insolvant, Sc rlaim the settlement ol said estate as 37-if Vincennes, Aug. 13, 1S2S.

From the Detroit Gazette cf Aug. 2. the Indians. During the last two or three weeks, between two & three thousand Indians, including women and children, have made their usual annual visit to Maiden, for the purpose of receiving their presents from the British Indian agency at that place. The week before last the editor of this paper was at Maiden, at which time nearly fifteen hundred were assembled. A part were encamped

on Bois Blanc island, opposite Maiden, j

A Sacrifice. Wc were informed last Thursday, that the Sacks, at Maiden, who brought some piisoners with them from the Mississippi, killed three, and burnt their bodies.

distinctly laid down, free from all ambiguity, whatever differed from it would, at a glance, be apparent, and the proper pcnalty, punishment, fine, obligation; or forfeiture, might be applied and enforce

On the same day, we saw an Indian who i without any doubt or hesitation. What resides near Saginaw, with a horrid cut ; ever is contained in the books of reports in his breast, and his upper lip bit off he ! should be collected, arranged, c formal too had been keeping the carnival at Mai- ly enacted. Nothing should be left open, den, and in a drunken frolic, quarrelled as matter of opinion, liable to dispute, with one of the body guard of the notori- ; from the jarring statements of the numccus Kishkauko. ; rous reporters.

Oneida Indians. One day last week 1 Thus simplified, in substance and in

but the erea er oDortio had " Ditched "c wcrc visited b four or fivc of our red form' tl,e PcP,e uld easily bo but the greater proportion had pitched , ur-tKr-n xvhn ...rft firri n(W th rnnhlpd tn ruA '

their tents" a short distance above the

village. At the latter place there were about one thousand, more than one half of whom were women and children, and

they presented a tout ensemble of a truly novel and interesting character, and calculated more than any thing else to revive the impressions which almost every one receives, on perusing the wanderings of the suffering tribes of Israel through the trackless wilderness Here could be seen the slothful and ragged Chippewa, with his dirty wives and children, from the vicinity of Saginaw the almcat equallydisgusting Pottawotomie, from the south of lake Michigan i he lobust and warlike Sack, from the Mississippi and a few In dians cf all the several tribes and families

in the peninsula of Michigan, together 4,

with those who reside on the other ude of our boundaries. With the exception of the Sack, there appeared a uniformity in the dress of those Indians, that pretended to wear any it consisted of a calico or coarse cotton shirt, long kglns, mockasins and blanket the Sacks, we believe, never wear a shut, considering it a garment which belongs exclusively to the female sex some of them wear legins, Sc all have a blanket, which they usually wear so ac to expose their right aim and shoulder their hair is shaved cloc to

the scalp, with the exception of a narrow strip, reaching from a little forward of

brethren, who were dressed after the enabled to comprehend the provisions of I . ..... 1 , lt f . -

manner ci me wnucs, wun me aaaition, me iaw necessary tor the security of their perhaps, of a belt or a band. We at first property and persons. They might Bethought they were from some of the Mis- quire a knowledge of them at a small sionary establishments in Ohio, and were price. The stream of justice would flow much surprise! at their inquiring for ma- more purely and freely. Lawyers them thematical boo!, and instruments, Sc sur- selves, of the more elevated and enlight. veyors' compas;. s. On inquiry we found encd class, and judges, as well as the mithem to be Oneida Indians, on their way r.or magistracy, would feel themselves to join their biethren r.t Green Bay. more at their esse, and almost entirely They said they were accompanied by 60 exempt from the vexations of pettifog, or 70 of their tribe, and that the repre- ging. Law and Equity would be nearly sentations from Green Bay were of such identified in every particular. The pecua nature that they believed a greater part niary saving to the community would bo of their people would eventually emi- immense, and the administration of jusprate. The party departed for Green tice would be speedd without oppression.

Bay last Friday, in the schooners Eclipse and safe without chicanery.

FOR THE WESTERN SUN.

riR. editor. As the disputes agitated - 1 r

and Erie packet.

From the jVaticr.zl Journal.

for some time by the United States, the

Three Letters on the Administration cf state of Georgia, and the southern IndiJusticc in the United States. ans, have of late assumed a pretty serious LBf-nut . aspect your readers perhaps may wish The ourcc cf the tu.mmisttn of . to sec an outline of the controversy. Justice, i.i all well regulated coinnxini- 1790. Treaty entered into bv the)

ties,b legislation. This legislation should general goernment with the Cretk In-

NAWaY from the subscrib ing in Vincennes, on Sunday th

be clear, unitorm, ar.d ccnsistanl. The

limit between right and w rong, between ; what is allowed and what is forbidden, : should be defined and fixed with exact- : ness, by legislative provisions. Does the mode of training laws in the United Statcj, which has been borrowed from

the crown down the back of the head j England, correspond with this descripti

this hair is made to siand erect, is u-otu ; on ? 7hh is the. first quition. four or six inches long,' painted red, and ' Our laws, alter h rroision, arc decorated with feathers, The finest forms 1 commonly enacted in detached parts, and cither for strength or beauty, arc among ; by icfeiciice Lrm one act to another. ' the Sacks. During the day, the Indians This frequently embarrasses, 't.ot only the would be employed in receiving their pre- plain, unlettered citizen, but the attorney; sents, playing at some oi their games, ur '; and judges. In borne cases, supplements . wandeiing about the village in quest of li- j and addition': follow supplements and ad-

ditions, until ihr understanding is confused, and finds great difficulty in r.omprebending the intention of the law-makers. The judges must then expound the laws, 1 and their consti uc.?cn is paramount and ' absolute, in courts of the la:t resort, as to

vi the law?. Hence dificr- i

dians. by which they were taken under its protection ; their lands, within certain de

scribed boundaries, guarantied to them; and they were to be furnished, from time to time, to promote their civilization, with domestic animals and implimcntsof husbandry. lS02. Georgia ceded to the Union her claims to vacant lands, beyond tho state, for which the United States agreed to p?y her from the first sales, one million ti'jo hundred & fifty thousand dcllurs ; and also to extinguish, at their own expense, for the use of Georgia, the Indian title to the lands, within the state, as early c? the same could be fieaceably obtain ed, on reasonable terms. 1814. After general Jackson h id subdued that part of the Creek nati n, who had during the last war, taken up anna against us, a new treaty was mado with the whole nation; by which peace

em decision!; orcur in MtnilarcasM. In. ! ,YJJ iorsu, Pion oi inur icrmnry

tricasies arise: it becomes the study of a ccdCi ' a7 the balance of their lands scwliole life, and a Made, to conduct the ci- ! cured to them, by the pledged faith of our tizenthrouii the labviimh; and law and i vcrnmcntDurmg this year, theve Injustice art-,' of necessity, sold 'ike any c I ct!,a.n3'in council at Broken Arrow, cnac thcr commodity. The generality of those cl a raakin- lt deal,h tor ono for whose benefit the laws are made,know thereafter, to propose a sale of any more ; of their lands, the least ot them. icoi But what are called statute laws, or, in ! Georgia pressed for the exother words, laws enacted by the leish-! tinguishmcnt of the Indian titles. Acture, arc but a small portion of the law of , cording to the president's message, and the land. Much of it is to be found in i the report of the secretary at war, the Uhnnk nf Rrnnrt of Vindicated r.a. ! n"ted States are hot bound to remove the

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quor -many were continually intoxicated in the strcets,to the great annoyaticeof the inhabitants : but at niht there wcie numerous fioiviws, and nearly the whole time, un'il the break of day, was employed by the several parties in singmg, dancing and drumming. This visit for presents, may properly be called the Indian carnival It is to us a matter of astonishment, that the British government continues the policy of giving, annually, buch avast amountof presents to thcMndians living in our territory. Have those gifts any connexion with ulterior views, or are they made as a reward for the past services cf the recipients ? If future objects are intended, and those objects are hostile, cither to our peace or interests, the government of England will surclv find itself in

an error, and hat this expenditure 13! whose cost puts them beyond the reach of I Indians by force; the Indian titles aro

worse than useless. And considering the j the great body ot the people 1 hat which use that a great number of the Indians i is called common law, is principally to be make of the presents which they recehe, j found in these books ; and the contents of we cannot refrain from saying, that for I one volume often contradicts the contents the most Dart thev are a curse rather than 1 of another : so that human reason is nuz-

1 a benefit. It is a well kiown fact, that a zicd to know what is the prescribed rule

great proportion of these presents are dis- ! nrerrt nf. rithrr nmnniT tho. Canadians nr

- 7 - " four own whiskey dealing gv ntry,tor rum and whiskey ; and to this cause alone can we attribute the nuisances, in the shape of male and female savages, which yearly in June and July, infest our streets and house. We have heard that it has been determined by the British government to lessen, by degrees, the amount of presents to the Indians : the annual expenditure, at D' ummond's island and Maiden, on account of the Indians, we believe exceeds 8300,000. Two summers since, in consequence of the vast number that frequented Maiden, it was thought advisable to make some attempt to induce the Indians of the peninsula of Michigan to chist from .their visits, as some apprcht nsjons w t tx entertained that the impressions whirh they received at that piece v. ou!d induce them to act with insolrr.ee towat ds our new settlers. Six or citht persons were appointed by governor Cass, an i w believe were instructed to exert themselves to "top the Indians in their journey o Maiden, a'ul induce them to turn back The experiment, however, was whol;v useless; those appointed did nothing, or possessed no influence with the Indians.

of rir;ht. Rules of court and forms of pleading, arc, also, law, and rigidly binding ; Sc without a strict attention to them, the ends of justice may be defeated. Is it not possible so to frame a code of the principles cflau for the United States that every citizen may possess himself of it at a cheap rate ? All that would be requisite, would be to digest our several legal enactments, throwing out what is incoherent and dubious, and incorporating, under one head or title, all that relates to the same subject. Such a digest might be revised, annually or biennially, by capable persons, to be designated by the government ; and all amendments or variations, required by time and circumstances, misfit be, at once, incorporated with the original law, expunging from the latter whatever should appear to be incongruous with the amendatory additions. In forming this proposed digest, the antiquated language of legislation should be discarded, and that of common sense and perspicuity alone employed. The present language of the law is perplexed, involved; and, with its "aforesaid," aforemcntioncd," prolix sentences, Sc multiplied pr ovisoes, is, in a variety of instances, too remotely connected and confused-

I ly deceptive. The rute cf right being

not affected by the compact with Georgia

the Indians not being parties; no opportunity of procuring the lands on reasonable terms has been neglected ; in part fulfilment of the compact, there have been executed seven treaties with the Creeks and Cherokecs, by which have been obtained for Georgia, ffieen millions ev en hundred 2 fifty four thousand acres of land ; and the expense already incurred by the nation, towards a performance of the compact, is seven milli.n seven hundred and thirty five thousand ttuo hundred and frty-thrce dollars. The Georgia delegation in congress declared to the president, there was no alternative for the Indians in that state, between removal and extinction ; their consent to go, not necessary; if they would not sell peaceably, they should be removed by force. Governor Troup, of Georgia, by letter of 24th May, expressed the same sentiments to the secretary at war, in very indecorous and exceptionable terms. During this year, a delegation of Cherokee chiefs visited Washington, but would listen to no propositions for the sale of lands. Commissioners were appointed to treat with the Creeks ; they refused to sell ; held a council at Pole Cat spring, and re-enacted the law, declaring it death to any one, who should agree tc a sale. 1S25. Treaty at the Indian spring between the United States and certain Indians, whom the commissioners say, in a letier to govcroor Troup, thty ctU $A&