Western Sun & General Advertiser, Volume 16, Number 50, Vincennes, Knox County, 28 January 1826 — Page 3
THE WEST K UN SUN
rXCEXXES, JANUARY 28, 1826.
The legislature adjourned on Saturday last, the 5i 1 si inst. altera session of seven weeks, during which they passed 77 acts, and 12 joint resolutions next week, lor " the information ol my readers I will pub-v-ish a list of them.
rilOM KILES WEEKLY REGISTER.
Sfiain is in a state of misery that would command our pity, if wc could pity those who support Ferdinand and his priests. Many perish by dagger, and others by the lack of food. Greece. The expedition from Egypt, said to consist of 120 sail of vessels, with
30,000 troops, is reported to have sailed from Alexandria on the 19th October. The Greeks had made considerable preparation to receive this formadable armament but we fear that they must be crushed by it. The war stiil goes lecbly in Candia the Greeks lately made ihcmselves masters of the strong fort of GraS'osaby stratagem it was well supplied. V Tfrc Greeks have gallantly repelled U rase hid Pacha, in assault on Missolonghi for the Grand Y'urk had said to the pacha, 14 Missoloughi or thy head. " Ibrahim appears to have lost 1,200 men in a late a Hair with Coloctroni. 7'hc 7irks have resolved on another campaign. They have many Ausltians in their service. The Egyptian ganison in TVipoliza was closely shut up. Egyfit. According to the estimate of the French engineers who were in Egypt with Bonaparte, the whole expense of a deep canal which would connect the
Arabic gu'ph xhh the Nile and ti c j
Mediterranean, make Africa an island, 8c shorten the vovaue from Marseilles to Bombay, one half, would not exceed .700,000. It was said a body of 24,000 Egyptian troops had been collected in the vicinity of Cairo, and were training bv Genet al Boyer and a number of o her French officers. Detroit, December 20. Co fifierX Tines cf lake Superior It is altogether probable, that a law will be passed by the present congress, to provide for holding a treaty with the Indians of lake Superior, for the purpose of procuring for the United Stages, or for their citizens, the right of working the copper mines in the region of the Oatanagcn river. It is the opinion of intelligent travellers, that there may be dra vn liom that region a sufficient quantity of this article to supply the union ; and the c haracter of the country on the whole coast of the lake,
From Indianapolis, by the way of Gtctncastlc, Itockvillc, Newport, and Verfyillion Saline, to Peoiia. From Elizabeth, Ky. by the way of Brandenbutgh, and Laconia, to Corydonj Indiana. , XTj.. Xoble. submitted yesterday the following resolution for consideration, which was this day taken up : Resolved, That the Committee on Public Lands be instructed to inquire into the expediency of permitting, bylaw, purchasers of the public Lands, in all cases where they have entered one quarter seclion at the rate of g2 per acre, Sc made the payment thereon ot &80, to receive patents for 80 acres, upon the payment of 820 more, and relinquishing to. the U. States the residue of the said quarter section. ilr. Xiile stated that in 1821 an act cf Congress was passed for the relief of the purchasers of the Public Lands, which comprised three classes of crises one for those who had paid I -4th of their purchase money one for those who had paid 1-2, and the other lor those who had paid 3-4ths. The time limited lor one class had already expired, and though the resolution was not designed to embrace those cases, yet its object v:s to permit those purchaser's who had paid
gSO on a quarter section, to recetVy patent thereon, upon the payment of more, and relinquishing the residue of thfc quarter section. The Piesidctit had called the attention of Congress to the subject in his message, and in relation to those measures heietoforc adopted lor the relief of purchasers, experience had demonstrated their utility, In -he great reduction of the debt they owed to the 13. States. The resolution was adopted:
SELECTED ITEMS. By a private letter received in l:
water in her midships, and !4 at each extremity Cooiering by water. The Waterloo Farmer says Messrs. Abraham Person and N. P. Lee, Ikiv.c erected in this village, near Messrs. Swift's store, a lactory for the purpose of manufacturing Miner's patent pails by water I Thus one improvement after another is taking place in our village, giving character arid consequence to the industry and entei prise of our citizens." Skating. Mr. William Easton (says the Troy Sentinel of the 20th inst) started from the town of Putnam, on luke Champlain, in Vermont, on Monday 'morning the 12th instant, at II o'clock, arid arrived at fort Edward, at half pan 4 the same evening. lie started from fort Ed
ward the next morning at 6 o'clock, and
blc inducements to subscribers. There will be twelve numbers a year, each containing nearly as much as one of the Kevie s. This increase t space enables us to reprint every thing worth reprinting, in the Edinburgh & Quarterly Eex-uw ; In addition to the following works, fioin which we have regularly draw n our su'mlies he n t. f,,,..
Blackivood'a Magazine, London Xlagaziuc, Ed in b u rgh X laga z in c, Westminster lit ricxv, Hetrosfitct'vv Eevit tj, Literary Cmzi ttc, London Jour:u:l ff Vc ince, Literature, and the Artu, Lrezi'srer'-i ' Edinburgh Ph ilos yi iad Journal European Muguzine, i
Xt xv Monthly Xlazinc, Mjntldu Maeazlne Lriti Ji CrUic, tiriiis.'t EeVuxi Monthly Hern v.; .Icku man's Eefios it cry, Ixi Belle Asscmblec Electric Eei'iex: Christian Cbstrvtr Ladies Magazine,
Pocket J Taga z in e.
And all new Journals of merit, for which.
reached Waterford the same day at half! WC! u:lve st;.r.din:- orders abroad. . ' , l'.ir
past i ne wnoie distance is cu miles, and the time of pci formance 11 hours all thevray on skatci. 7iis is 8 18-100 mi'es an hour. Nile's. Gen. Wilkinson is not dead as was tcportcd. He was in g! od health in the province of the 7eas, about the 1st ot
ItV
yesterday weleatn that news had been received in Fans by Telegraphic ties pa'.ch, of a change of Ministry in Spain. The itueiligcnce is said to have produced
a great sensation in Paris. A change has been long talked of; whether the p'-rs-1 cut be stirh an one as will prove bcnVhcial to the people of Spain, lime run
eicic: mine jat. Jour.
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Wc are informed by a gentleman ft om Annap'o:i, that on Monday, Dr. Ji f AV:.', a representative: in Congress hum
Marv'.aud, was elected C
St.T'r. far rnsiiin-v m :m
joint ballot was, for Di. Ken' Dr. T)ler, 30. lb.
AOV. French fV.., Letters fron Pri nce state, that the : erch Gov ei unjust has taken the resolution to trject the K Iuitns of the Citizens u li e United States, for indemnification for their propem taken or destroyed under circumstance ol the most aggravated and outrageous charac
ter and that Mr lirown, our Minister in ZJaris, when lie again presses the sub- i ject, will be so at swen d h is not said on what authority this information rests: but as w c at e assured in the Pt e-adent's Message that cvcti the Ministers of Charles tiic X had no, .retu'md an answer to the repeated at.d eat ties; solicita- ' tlonsofour Minister on the subject, such a result mny be anticipated and when the information of it is received, it will , remain for Congress who alone have the J power to authorise coercion to deride, j whether the United States shall submit to -
t! e loss, or take cilicient measures to obtain payment. Ih.s-'oti Centintl
Xhrckinic affair. The Setrn of a church in Xew Orleans har been arrested ; for attempting to bury a livvig ehild a- j
ootu etgni cavs out. J he ;nkmt fr?m
I'he .Editor of a Journal cons"n-tinir entirely
of sclectien! from foreign Journals, may perhaps be allowed, without the imputation cf , vanity, to speak of the quality, as well as the ! quantity, i i the matter contained in his wei k. It is ei y cvideiit that an abundance is odefed to Ids choice, and as the Journals of G. Bri- ! lain are supported by writers of great talent and high reputation, to whom large salaries ' are pain, n u-h imist be of a very superior order, it wo utl s.vni then tobea.vvtocompile iVom all these journals, one which shall ' be superior to ir:y une of them.
January 1826. " TEEMS OF SUBSCRIPT (OX. I The price is S i'- ye-r, par ;dle in aciv a:ice hut it 1 1 : tid wia(iance &7 JU cents No suba. ilption to be ciiscoi.ta.ut d i.ntd A) arrearages shall be paiu and the publisher to bo at liberty to retain the nun.bers .s ea 1lateial secuiity, until they shall havebcen paid i The work will be sent to any part of the United Mates l; m til, on receipt of S5 on au 'tint, bv the publisher. T'iibscriptio'is for the above work received at the ot:iee of the Western San. Fif ty Dollars He ward, For the apprehension of X E ll and A LI. E X, and securing them in any jail so that I get them agjin. J J ANA WAY from the subscriber, on the Ohio, about thirty five miles
toTv ex
very
liom its mouth, on the night of Wcdnes-
xposuie, died seen after the disco- 4Ui or thi init. U.c above named negro slaves. A ED is ab ui 28 years ot
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The names of the two ships of e '.
wliich are now building at Chat ieti'W n.
justifies the belief, that it abounds in mi- i Massachusetts,
neral weat'.h. t opper is a) important article in the building of our navy, and we ought not to be dependant on foreign
aid
countt ies. for a supply of it. It is
that it does n t exist in reat quantities, in any other rt oi the U. States Gaz.
are rirgiu:.i
7:2c;;;, and. of the fiigate itcem'y c.:rn-
menced, Curabei land lb.
A seizure of twenty-seven Leghorn hats was made, a few d. by the ethcers of the custom;.
Yok. The hats, after having been :e
We havereceivtd Xew Oi leans papers ! uhuly imputed ftom Italy, a;d t-Np.-u'.rd
to the 23 ult. The small rt ix ptevai'cd
to an alarming extent in the city ; in con sequence of w hich, the Natchez H')ard of Health, luid ordered boats from New Orleans to be detained at quarantine. Intelligence had been received at Havana, on the 2Sth November, that the long expected squadron, with troops bom Spain had put into Porto Rico. The Louisiana Advertiser says This news, though not official, w as genet ally believed in Havana and created a confidential feeling, that Cuba would be in no danger horn the attack ct a Mexican or Colombian expedition. Louisville Public Adv.
(Tor the salve of the d. aw back
i vana,
packed
o lla
were, at the last named p;ace,
in separate hogsheads o!"coffc,
and shipped, lands. d, and entered as cotfee. The fraud was detected, and af:ci the hogsheads had been put on board one of the packets plying trum New Yoik to Philadelphia lb. KX TENSIVE SEIZURE. The New Yoik papers contain otiieial notices of the seizute there, of eleven hundred Sc thirtysix chests, and twenty-six hall chests llvson and Hyson Skiti teas, im pot red in certain vessels into Philadelphia, and
found in New Yoik, on wh.ich the duties
i he al re. fi Am r ni
WJLL be performed bv the Vincennes
Thespian Society, on Atonday a crrng, the oOrh inst. The celebrated Comdev in five acts, Tin: SCHOOL or R El-OHM, on HOW TO EULE A HUMKiXD, To conclude uhh the humorous after Ps'ce, emitted
FOiV
USE'S FRO LICK.
:ts, price 50 ccrds, to be had
at Mie.tne Si Ohy's gtocery.
open at InU padt five, and
t-'oor curiam taist
at 6 o'clock.
January 27, 1826.
I have not been paid, iar seemed, and as Extract of a tetter frm Duet to Ayics, i forfeited to the United Stales.
dated October 29, 13
War with the lUazils may be considered as ccitain, as this govcrnnient has openly declatcd its determination to support the patriots in the Handa Oriental, or province ot Montevideo. We are in the daily expectation ot this port's being declared in a state of blockade, by the Brazilian sqtudt on now in sight, and which brought to, a few days since, a btig from Salem, capt. Whitridgc. stove in her wa ter casks, broke away her stanchions, beat the crew, almost killed the cook, then
permitted her to proceed " CONORESS JlV. Hendricks otTered the following resolution : Hcso'vcd, Th?.t the Committee on the Post Office and Post Road be instructed to inquire into the expediency of establishing the follow ing Post Roads, or so much thereof as may not heretofore have been established by law : From llv ansville, by the way of Princeton, Vincennes, Mcrom, Tcne Haute,
The New-York American says. 11 if wc are correctly infot mnd, the French governmcnt hare recently come to the conclusion absolutely to reject the claims of our merchants lor indemnicaiicn ; k Vds concluaio-i vvill be, if it has not lei already communicated to Mr. Dfwnw henever he presses again for an ansvAcr., The Cycne, captain Elliot, has sailed from New York, bound on a ciuize to the Riazillian coast. Sec. The great ship, nearly finished at Philadelphia, it is stated is to be called the
and the frigate, which is
Library Notice. JTIIE annual meeting of the share-hcl-JL ders o! the Vincennes Library, will be held at the Library room, on Monday the 6th of February next, at 10 o'clock, a. m Shareholder are particularly requested to be punctual in their attendance Ry order, J. C. S. HARRISON, Librarian. January 25, 1826. 50-2t iYea? Series o f the Museum of Foreign Literature Science.
Pi 'inst;t'ania,
cadv
named the Eatiiart. ohq
are named after states, and ftigatcs after livei s. The Mediterranean sqadron is all well. The lliandywine had joined it at Port Mahon. The great gfrfi. A London paper mentions that the back of the gieat ship Raron of Renficw. was so tomnletelv
E. LITTHLL, 68, CilESNUT STUEET PHILADELPHIA,
I Ian just commenced a NEW SERIES OF THK 9IUSEU3I OF
Foreign Literature & Science. Tins work has now been published more than three years. Its plan embraced every thing valuable in the journals cf Europe but while it yet remained to be proved that this plan would be acceptable to the public it was not thot' expedient to incur the great
lve:ki!le. Craw fordsi!!c, kFurt Wayne, . broken during her passage, that pievi-
expensc necessary to execute it fully or to encounter the disadvantage cf copying from 1 ........... 1 . . . 1. I.-!, r. .a t
r for lam ching at the same place, isAl,ul T , I n I)e nal)S . . s r ). The sub nbers. On these accounts wc have, d the Eatzian. Shins ol the line nrhi-n-r.;, ,.i .i. , r..
, villi vn,. vi i"vv..vv.jyin',3, au.HJCU Hit IjU inburgh and Quarterly Reviews. All doubts of the success of a work on the plan t f the Museum, have been entireh re
moved by the experiment, and the best foofJ
ei grruimue- inr u,t- j)uoi;c lavour will be fojiid in i.nereased tfiorts to deserve it. The new series contains double the quantity oi" matter that was in the first and when 1t is considered that that was already the
to Foil Mei;;s.
ous to her giounding, she diew 25 fect
cheapest periodical work in the country, it w ill he evident .! ' o fH r verv cousidl-ra-
age, has lost one of his upper tore teeth,
is at:out five feet eight or .nine inches high, had on when he went away, an old fteen cloth coat, linncn pantaloons, an old hat an I coarse shoes, and one of his feet frost bitten from having Iain cut previously when ran away. ALL EX is a blight mulatto, heavy built, five leet t-ix Or seven inches high. hr.d on when he went away, a pair of era-se shoes :n the biogan form, with nails in the bet Is gray cotton Coat and linncn panta'o ns- Nt tl is a very black fellow. The aboc icwatd, and all reasonab c chaiges will be given to any honest man who will stop said negroes their object is to get to the free state of Indiana and hotn thence the probability is, to Canada J. D. WILCOX. January 13, 1826. 49-3t ALSO Fifty Dollars Reward DOR the apprehension and securing c in any jail so that I get them again, the following negro slaves, XED and T0B.Q, who ran away from me from on board the steam boat Cavalier, on the night of Sunday the 8th instant, one mile below the mouth of the Wabash river, on the Ohio. XED is a blight mulatto, aged about 25 years, well foimed, down cast look, little to say to any person, no particular marks recollected, clothing gray casinct coat, eld fur hat, St.lindsty pantalocns TOBA is a black fellow, about five fect six or seven inches high, well made, or thick set, has a pleasant countenance when spoken to, and veiy loquacious or talkative himself, has a rcmatkablc scar on his right cheek about the siz'- of a dollar, resembling a ring worm ; his clothing, new black cloth round about coat, old tur hat, and drab pantaloons. Those negtoes will probably make for Canada, or the western parts ol Virginia, and will probably fall in with captain Wilcox's negroes from near Massac The above re
ward, on my patt, will be paid to any person who shall apprehend the said two negro fellows and 1 do hereby authorise and empower any person to do the same, and to lodge them in ar y jail where rhcy may happen to be apprthet dul. Wm. L. WILSON. January 13, 1826 49-3t K7The Louisville Public Advertiser, and the printer at Madison, Ii diuna, aro requested to give the above three insertions in their respective papers, and forward their accounts to Mr. Allen, or col. r.nrip HrlLnt Pnin Cnnnrrv hnnulmi.
r, - y -r - j for payment. W. L. W.