Western Sun & General Advertiser, Volume 17, Number 33, Vincennes, Knox County, 23 September 1826 — Page 1

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. WESTERN SUN h GENERAL ABYERTISER BY ELIHU STOUT. VINCENNES, (IND.) SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 23. 1826. Vol. 17. No. 33.

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Advertisements inserted on the customary terms. T Persons sending Advertisements, must specify the number of times they wish them inserted, or they will be continued until ordered out, and must be paid for accordingly. FROM COLOMBIA. Baltimore, Auo ?5. Latest from Jamaica. By the last sailing schooner Empress, Capt. Chaytor, arrived this morning, trom Kingston, we have received our regular fc'es of Jamaica papers to the 5th inst inclu ive. It appears that the show of the Spanish squadron on the coast of Colombia excited no alarm. A letter from Santa Martha, upon this subject, says : On the 9th inst. a squadron, composed nf one shin of the line, four fi unites, and

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Parish in this town. On Wednesday last, . der the guaranty and protection of Great eight days after the fall of the hail, Mr. Britian, but it seems he has not consentDaniel Johnson of the E. P. brought into , cd to such arrangement, and is determinthe village a peck of hail stones, varying ed to continue the contest with increased in bulk from the size of hazel nuts to that i vigor. It is not, however, believed that of wall nuts, and equally as hard, and per- 1 he will be able to gain any advantage, and fectly solid. Tnese he picked up from a that he will finally yield to the terms proheap which was two and a half feet higrn, , posed, and which it is understood the othand had been so high as to cover a fence er party is willing to adopt. Montevideo of the ordinary height, which was situated"" would be made a free port, and both counat the foot of a hill, from whiah the hail tries would be greatly benefitted by it, in stones had rolled down against the fence. ( a commercial point of icw. Lord PonThe hail fell over a space about a mile ' sonby is to sail for the River in a few days, wide, instead of twenty rods as stated last 1 but it is not known that bus any authorweek, and in many parts of it were found ' ity, whatever, to act in benaif ot the Emlarge heaps of this frozen rain from one to peror. three feet high U. that too on level ground, ' This G vtmment has issued orders to particularly in srme cornfields, which theii Consuls in foreign countries, tor the were destroyed. Heaps of the hail are collection of a duty of one-half percent, said to be still remaining, which have now j on tht value of suc'i cargoes as may be been exposed to an August sun 1 1 days, j des'incd for this ..os as also the sum of Haverhill Gaz. ' 9I'60 ) on each vessel, which are to be col

lected previous 'o the sailing ol the vessel, and. if a certificate is brought from the

Consul of payment having been made,ie i

cargo wih not be allowed to be landed f r sa c, We hope the Government of the U. States will not suffer the exercise of such imposition, which can be viewed on ly as an attempt to establish a tributary system little better than that of the Age-rines.

Hovj to keefi churches and dwelling houses cool During the exti erne heat of summer, our houses of public worship, as well as our dwelling houses, may be kept perfectly cool and comfcitab.e, by a littie attention : let the doors and window s e opened a little before sun rise, and shut by seven o'clock. The blinds and shutters, if there be any, should likewise be shut, to prevent the glass from being heated, Sc conveying the heat within If the doors be kept closed till the heat of the day, when the room is tequ'ned tor use, the air will be found in the same temperature that it was in the morning, when the room was first shut up. 1 hU fact depends on the same principles -as the evenness of the

temperature ot our cellars, which are cool

a schooner, came off the port ; hovered a- in summer and warm in winter, solely be-

bout us until next dav at 2 o'clock, when j cause the external air is excluded from

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thev nroceeuca to leewaru. i nis uav s

post brings accounts of their being at an-

chor off a deserted part of the Coast to

them.

It is said that Mr Simeon Guilford, a

leeward of Savanilla, in all probability in ; canal engineer, has discovered the matc-

search of water, or perhaps lurking tor . rials ot which the Roman cement was prizes. Every thing was ready here to j composed, and lias ta Ken out a patent for give them a warm reception, had they at- the composition at Washington, tempted a landing. Gen. Moutilla, who j happened to be upon one of his estates, 10 j From Peru, we learn authentically, that leagues from where they were lying, im- ot the members elected to Congress, one mediately came up to Salledad, and raised great object of which was the formation en masse the Militia of that district ; he of a welt organized system uf Governalso ordered up the Tyradercs of the ment, about 40 out of 77 or 78 members, jruard (one of their crack regiments) from , were collected together at Lima, in the Carthagcna, so that, if the enemy at- j month of April. Without assembling for templs to land, he will be met, on all vol- ! the purpose of organizing the Cong-ess, nerable points of the Coast. Nothing can they addressed the Liboiator Bolivaii, equal the enthusiasm with which every in- j with the most earnest application, to con1: victual m to arms to defend his home." tinue for another year Dictator. The The Congress of Bogota passed sever- ! Liberator resisted the application for a al laws with a view of benefitting public i time, but at last acceded to their request,

credit and the Revenue One takes one , and the members ot the proposed ong-

sixth of the salaries from all persons em

ployed by Government ; and an increase tax laid on all persons residing in Colombia. , All vessels going from Jamaica to Colombia, will require to have a certificate with all goods they may carry over. Extract of a letter from Panama, to a

gentleman in Kingsion,dated the 9thult.

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ma, alter the object ot Ins patriotic visit was accomplished ; but is now, it we may

credit a report in one of the morning pa-

'We have heic the Mexican Legation thought by many of our readers not less

to the grand American Assembly, Messis. intciesting than the above, though lessauISlichelena and Domingucz, wiiti their Sc- ! thentic in its character, depending upon eretary, Mr. Guerra, on the arrival of ik report" merely : whom it was agieed to instal the said As- From the jV Y Statesinan, i'ug. 28. scmbly on the 15th of the present month. J Vfdendid Marriage Contract. it was

Wc believe that this extraordinary occur- 1 matter ot considerable surprise ha Pre i . . . .: . i r !).... ... . .i . .

ranee Will call tnc attention oi r.uiupe, i itnjin. uomvak muaincu so long

and occasion some variation in the political machinations, which some Cabinets have entertained with respect to the Colombian world. The day before yesterday, the Battalion of Bargas arrived here from Peru, and proceeded to Carthagcna ; wc expect very soon the arrival of the rest of the Army -and also the Liberator, whom we desire with much anxiety." Transportation. It takes thirty days to transport goods from Philadelphia to this place, and costs five dollars per hundred. From New York city to this place, twenty days, and costs two dollars and 50 cents per hundred. Difference, one half in expense or, a saving in transportation of 5 ton of merchandise from the city of New York, of the sum of two hundred and fifty dollars ; in addition to which, they at e conveyed in two thirds of the time from N. York, that they arc from Philadelphia. Allowing our merchants to bring on goods twice a year, and averaging five ions at a time, it will he a saving of vr hundred dollars, each, per year. When our canal shall have been completed to the lake, the expense will be somewhat less. Columbus Jour, Almost incredible yet true. Last week ve noticed the Hail Storm in the East

Philadelphia Aug. 29. ha est from England To the politeness of Capt. Robinson, of the elegant last sailing packet Cambria, we are indebted for London papers to the 24th of July, be

ing four days later than those received by

The principal article they contain, is the official report made to the Emperor of Russia, on the seciet societies and alleged conspiracies said to have occasioned the rebellious explosion which signalized his accession to the throne It is very long, and not wishing to weaken its interest by dividing it, we have laid it by for tomorrow. Agreeably to the report of the Commissioners, the ramifications of the conspiracy extended throughout the empire, in almost every province of which organized hands rf reformers existed. The pro'esse ! '')jcrt was the establishment of a Hepi escntative Government. The nev from the manufacturing districts of Engiar.u possesses a mou; ntul interest.

The distresses of the Spi'field weavers rqua! in intensity Vy: .s of their brethren in the North ei End t. More than 900 of them dept t. vv j . ": . contributions for their si'pp.? : 1 c tountain of pria,cchality sect; : early exhausted. Hut for a Iresh d tion of 100. from his Majesty, the comirittcc must have closed their lahois on the 2Cth of July. The distress in the manufacturing distticffc ot Scotland exceeds, perhaps, that ot Lanc ishi'e or any pait of England. I' is stated, for example, in a letter ticm Gr-'ssgovv that in the small town of May-b'-ic. iti Avshirc, the inhabitants of which on.y amounted to 3000 there are 1768 persons out of employment. from miles' weekly register Great Britain. Wc have extracts trom English papers to the 24th July. It then appeared that the crop of wheat, (about the failure of which these papeis lale.y told us so much,) would be an aver, ge one. The distress of the laboring poor continues, and there was not any present prospect of telieving it. The people were meeting in larce numbers, and thty

pcrs, happily explained. 1 he illustrious j weie gloomy and sad, in geneial, but not Liberator was detained by the silken cords j so much disposed to riot as heretofore of love, and actually employed in ex- j J hey were evidently becoming more and changing vows of enduring affection, and j more miserable. The wages of women forming a marriage covenant with one of and child-en, in some places, had been re our republican beauties from Connecticut, j duced to one funny a day the price of Letters from Lima state that the deliver- ' articles tu.d bcn greatly diminished in er of S. America lias entered into a mar- j the hope of increasing the sale, but withriac contract with Miss Augusta Hart out effect, the markets being glutted of Saybrookj Con. sister of the lady of For instance, a piece of goods that lately Com. Hull, and sister of the lady of the cost 3s. 6d. paid to the weavers only, was Hon. Hemas Allev, our Minister to selling for 5s. 9d. The cotton spinners, Chili, Miss Hart is one of the seven sis- in general, it seems, will be hardly pushters, all beautiful and accomplished. If cd to sustain themselves from becoming this be true, it if. the greatest match (as bankrupts. Business, of every descriptithcy savin Connecticut) ever known in on was languid. The people, in the manthis or that country. We hope, his Excel- ufacturing districts, were reported as sup-

resa dispersed withou&haVjng assumed

tue exercise ot the lunctkjn tor which they were elected There existed a strong party against confening the abso lute authority on the Liberator ; but from the occurrence above narrated, it is inter red that the party in favor of the measure was still stronger. jYat. Int.

The following news from Peru will be

plying themselves with arms. We think

that society in England, by the increase of the people pressing upon the means of subsistence, by the corn-laws, the taxes, the excises by tythes and the poor rates, has nearly reached a point that wilt

lencv vvili come to the U. StatesxVmd con

summate the contract by marriage at Saybrook, in the good old Republican way. FROM BRAZIL. Jiio De Janeiro, June 28. It was re

ported a few days ago, that the Emperor command some great changes in the poli-

had concluded to authorize Lord ronson- cy of the country for, as before observhy to negotiate with the Government of cd, the people must live. Reformation Buenos Ayres, for the adjustment of all may not take place for some time to come differences relative to the Banda Oriental, the poor may yet tubsist through the according to the proposal to establish that aid of those whom they have enriched, but Province as an Independent Territory, un- these supplies will not last ; & some radiL'.t

cal change must be effected to place the people in a condition suitable to the new state of things to which they have been introduced by the resolutions that have taken place in the commercial and manufacturing interests of most nations, ?nd the many improvements that have taken place in almost every countrv. From Colombia wc learn that Pat z still held fi e command it, Venezuela, &c. and nothiri effectual had been done to dispossess h m of it. The Canal of the Isthmus The Boston Daily Advertiser of Monday last, says col. Charles De Beeeski, on Thursday last, waited on the president, at Quincy, with despatches from our commercial agent at Guatemala authenticating the hv tetligence of the execution of a contract, on the 17 June last. b 'wi t n the ? deral republic of e V l Amei(a. i,d a certain comply foimed N York, fortho puipis- o: tff rt.nga ia,i communication be two n t -x, AicM c -d Par-fir O.

teuns, tiiMing Nicatagbi.. one ot the states ot Cmtral America I t e c n emplated route is by ihe nvt Si J i , into the iake of Nicaragua, whence, from its western extremity, a canv will be cut for about 17 miies to the Pa ific The government ot Ctrtral America cal kd for proposals tor such an undertaking about a year since, and several companies hive been formed, it is said, in Europe tor the purpose, and have presented then claims. The. company with whom the contract is now made, are to have the righ: ot toll, 8c certain exclusive pr;vilep -v. which the persons inteitstvd ti.mk ,t f.;ra va'ue . If is supposed that the untk ,kin will receive countenance from the govemc ent of the U S. The persons tow composing the companv in N York propose to extend it through ah paits of the union, making it as much as possible a national concern, and will apply to congress it is said, for incorporation, by the name of " The Central American Sc United States Atlantic and Pacific Junction Canal Company," with a capital ol 5,000,000. The undertakers are vciy sanguine as to the practicability of the scheme, and the profit of the speculation, as well as the national and commercial advantages t. be derived from its execution. We unnersird they mean shortly to solicit the

j tion of our capitalists, and exhibit a detai-

lea exposition ot their views, j Respecting this work, the " Albany Arj gus" observes The whole extent of exj cavation, we are informed, will not exceed ! 17 miles, (the distance between the ake j and the river,) which will require a lockI age of 200 feet. 1 he wot k is r t quired to be completed ir. tR months, and it is said I'll! ...

win ue commenced with 6000 men from this country. While we heartlv wish success to thia

splendid project, we wc-u d rati er hear of : its tailurt than be assured ol its suctesft through an ai t of incorporation ly the coni gress of the U S But such ar. act will i

never De passtd.j Portugal 1 he following are Kien as scjfnt of tin fundamental piincip'esct the new constitution which tl t Emperot of Brazil ha- granted to t.e p u . Portugal, the thtone ot which hs abd eated in favotot his daughter T ev ate so 'iberal, that (cat?a t entertain d of an rppoMti( n tothcrr o. the part cf Srair,in which nothing si oit i a daik h gloom despotism isagi. abie t. tier rules But Spain will be compelled to submit. The legislative power consists of a chamber ot peers and a chamber of deputies The first hereditary and the tatter elective. The elections are like thoe of Franc , by means of e ecoral colleges. The right of suffrage is sufficiently extended io suit even the most democratic. The deputies are alwavs eh cted for four years, and the legislature muvt sit three months in each year the session to bo public the majority of votes to decidecomplete fredom of peech and privilege from arrest to members and no peer or deputy to hold any offke t xcip that of minister of siateorpiivy rcunselh r The duties and forms of th two charr bers are paecisely those ol the English parliament 'I he kit g is the snprc me of the ht-d of the state and irresponsib'e His n inisters however, are respomib e 'I he judges are appointed for life, and nmouh for bad conduct only Jtr its o deride questions of fact I he Catholic to be the re ligion of the state, hut all ethers tolerated. No rr-or.k to enjoy any political rights No amendments of the cons'i'urion to be made un:i' afier four ye?s probation The civil and political rights of the subject to be inviolable No laws to be rMrnjpective. Private dwellings not to be invaded) eicept by officers of the law armed