Western Sun & General Advertiser, Volume 18, Number 22, Vincennes, Knox County, 7 July 1827 — Page 1

STE UN &' (KENEKAIL ABVeKHSEIR, 2 BY ELIHU STOUT. VINCENNES, (IND.) SATURDAY. JULY 7, 1827. Vol. 18. No. 23

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interest ot both parties, tnat mouc is solic ted. A failure to notify a wish to discontinue at the expiration of the time subscribed for, will be considered a new engagementNo subscriber at liberty to discontinue unti rail arrearages are paid. Subscribers must pay the postage of their papers sent by mail. Letters by mail to the Editor on business mast be paid, or they will not be Attended to. Advertisements inserted on the customary terms. jC7" 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. TO IHH. FVRMORS OF KNOX, DAVIESS, &C MARTIN COUNTIESBrother Farmers An o d residenter, one who is now living on the siine plantation he settled upon twenty years since. The lather of a family, and one who has

borne a part in the ca npatgns on the V abasli, begs leave to address you in the language ot sincerity and tiuth. He has not been an idle spectator, or an inefficient actor in the scenes which have been witnes sed on the vVabash dining the period he lias been a resident among you ; the happiness and prosperity of the ata e and the Union, he has deeply at heart, and shoind his country again call him to the battle field, he would cheerfully again match in obedience to her summons, though age may have stiffened his sinews, and in some measure have abated his strength. A mong the most itnpottant privileges vhich as a citizen he enjoys in our happy republic, is that of giving his vote for the persons best qualified to represent his in tcrcsis, and those of his lellow citizens, in the various offices for which they are candidates ; and to do this uninfluenced by any considerations but those which arise from a love of country, and a desire to promo c its prosperity and happiness, unsolicited by friends, umiwed by foes, correctly, honestly and independently In doing this an important question anses as it regards the several candidates, their fitness, their ability, their talents to discharge the duties assigned them in stations wf public trust and confidence and secondly, another still more important question must he answered in the affirmative, before the candidate receives my vote. u Is he a married man, the father of a family or has he an interest in the soil as a free h-ilder?" II he has not, I have uniformly voted against him, and shall continue to do so as long as I have a vote, whatever may be his talents, or his fitness for the office ; and tor this best of all possible reasons because he has no interest in common with his constituents no stake in society to bind him to the country The consequences of a good law or a bad one are alike to him, and so long as the public iterest promotes his own, so long he is willing lo temaiti ainong us. and no longer. In the course of my life, I h:vj found it easy enough lor candidates to make professions, and I never found one but what if you took his own word fur it, he was devoted lo the peoples inu rests, and a genuine patriot. Now it is easy enough i, for a man to write a resolution, to draw a report, frame a bill, (or get it done,) in regard to a popular measure A man who docs not own a foot of land, nor ever will, can talk about the reduction of the price of it, and that the government ought to give it away, (the only way in which he ever expects to own any) and that such and such and such a measure would be good policy in regard to it. The fact is, these are the very men who talk most about it. So it is with the improvement of the Wabish, (I hear nothing said oP White river ) This is a popular measure, every person is in favor of its being improved no body is fool enough 'o wish otherwise We all think alike about it, and therefore if a man wishes to be popular, he mounts the hobby Though so far as it regards anv interest he has in the county, cr the Wabash, either on the score of family, or property ; he can jump into a canoe and paddle off on the bosom of it whenever lie pleases. What interest has he at stake? why nothing. A good law or a bad one is the same thing to him he pays nothing but a pull tax, and can clear him

self from the county whenever he pleases, I have therefore always voted for, and shall always vote for a married man the father of a family y or one who has an in terest in the soil as a free holder. Should he make bad laws, he is a fellow sufferer His interest is identified vrith his constituents, lor good or evil he is bound to his country by the stiongest of all posssiblc tics, and therefore deep'y interested lit its welfare. a farmer of knox county.

SEA SK II PENT.

7' the Editors of the Connaught Jour, j

bee I rader, off South lslanu ol Allan, Galway Bay, Feb. 8, lb27 $ oir Having this tavoi abie oppo. tumiy ; of tiansmitting to you the toilovvi,,g won- j

dciful occurrence, which may be the

means of setting at rest all doubt as to the existence of a marine monster, supposed to be the Sea Serpent, I icadiiy do so, particularly as I have so many resp'ecta bie witnesses to support me in the truth of what 1 saw. Being bound from Rhode Island tor Liverpool, on yesterday moving the south iland ol Arran canlc in sight, thirty miles crs . Wc at the same time i'iscoveted, about two miles ahead, a vessel, seemingly a wie k,not having a spar or lope standnuv On x r i er? - I or dered the gig and six men to board h ; and was shoitly attet haiied by toe otate' who was one ol the party, for assistance, they pulling from the wreck with all pes sible speed. I hove the Quebec to the wind, and presently learned that Thomas Wilson, being the first lo board, was instantly devout cd by a most horrid animal, the like of which they had never seen or heard of. By this time the wreck was driven about a cable length of our stern, rom which I could plainly and distinctly see a monster of ti e serpent kind, Ling partly toiled upon ihe deck, its head ereeled about four feet, ai d its hind part in the hatches the hate poor Thomas lying close alongside of it. The sui prize and consternation whir:! v:tr'.ink ail on board

deprived us of the thought of pUnning any mode for its capture, was Mich a thing possible, the thought of our unfortunate companion titling Ui with honor. However, 1 tired a shot from a si:: poun der, which unluckily could not be brought to bear sufficient! v hiirli. it struck the hull, at the same moment the animal raised its head, body ar.d tc.il, in six or m:v. en folds, to the height oi a man cadi, extending itbcif horn the tiiier to lc bov. s ; its eyes wete h". :;-;, of a red colour, u.t much distorted ; its tin oat ;nd neck !ar ger than any othor par', cf a htight gteen iuii, as were its 1-u dy uid sides, and mo back biack and .eaiv, it had ears oi tins suspended near the head, simitar to an eel, and on the nnstri:s a horny excrescence, b tint and about eighteen inches long ; its chops were btoad and fiat. Whilst 1 was. preparing a second saiu'C with ball and slugs, it giid ti majes'-icdiy into the tea, gave a splash with ns'la'ii, and disappeared. Shor Jy alter, m sod", John Adams, mate, Mr. William Nightingale, and Air. Robeit Crocker, passengers, boarded her, and with gviei had our foreboding for the late of Wilson verified, he being no where to be found; the vessel was water lugged, and in a sinking s.ate ; a substance of a tar like n:v.uie, but highly corrode, as it biistcied the hands upon taking it up, was unon deck, so .e ot which has been preserved ; it ts suppo'-cd to be the ex crcmcnt of the animal. Our conjectui e is that The iiionsui' being attracted by the

j bodies ol the sufuicis in the wreck, had 1 taken up its abode the-e, and devoured i them. We coosidei its length to be a bout siy.ty feel, and us giith from nine to ' twelve feet. ! I remain. Si' , vour o'-edicnt servant, j THOM AS CLEARY, Master! j Wc, the undersign;. d, certify the truth of the i.bove. John Advms, Mate,

Ym Nkih i ingalk, and, Robert r -ker, Passengrs I S Mr. Ctokcr having occasion, lb proceed to Dublin, choscs that route lor going to Livepeol, and will be the bearer of this statement. T. C. The Jl'est Extract of a letter to the Editor of the Freeman's Journal, dated Pittsburgh, July 13. " I have just re'urncd ftom a journey of about eight hundred miles dis anccin the states of Ohio, Indiana, rmd Illinois. Dining my travel, I paid considerable attention to the subject of emigration, the price of lands, the prospects held out to emigrants, and the increase of settle ment. From the knowledge I have been enabled to gather from actual observation, I am convinced, that the advantages held

out to the poor and impoverished of Europe and the eastern cities ot the United States, aie not properly appreciated

immigrants lrom burope, especially, re-j move into our western vviids with san- ' gume expectations, and it is not surprising they should in some measure be dis appointed. When they settle in the west, lliey expeel to fiod a garden already laid out, and nope with cultivation, for a steady increase, with iess labor than the oest tarms in eastern Pennsylvania require Perseverance, however, makes ihc poor settler rich in the coutse ot a itwyeats This 1 have found in numerous instances. A man arrives in the wilderness witb his tamiiy and u few provisions in the wagon, and his firt U u days are spent in electing a log hut. He then ears an acre of gioiu.d to raise vegetab es, gets him a cow, and a lew pigs which fi d pumy of sustenance in !ie woods. lie goes en clearing, atu! ti; t.txi year sows six or seven aeics ol wheat Evciy yeas increasing the quantity of his cleared land, he thus, in a le v. j ears fu els bin. self surrounded by all the Gudot ta of life, rcvuitint; lrom his pain me and industry, , 'i lie situation ot tnis man, v ith pi opct ty ot his own, is infinitely b. t ( r In n thai oi 4he day laborei in the large cities, who. however industrious, is poor to the day ot his death. Owing to the vast extent of the arnual sutvey s marie by the go ci mm m, . d i e r.u 'itber of Land Ofl ce estab.isl t d. the finest land river bottun can be obtain ed at cue dollar twenty five cents per a etc, so that a good fa;m can be purchased for one bundled dollats. I hctc ate millions of acres of the finest land, under the government survey s, now for sale at the price 1 have mentioned, and there are thirty-nine offices for the saic ot public hinds Emigration lo the west goes en biaveiy. You would be astonished to' see the v illages and tarm houses cv cry day springing up on spots, w hich, five years since, vv-io the sites of dark and gloomy loicsls. During my j'.mney, I met with unwinds of tvrc; t v iutle villages, newly created, ca'led " Washington " There v ill be grta confurior as to names ot pla-

I c c s , in the lapse ol time, in this country.' j Tofiorrct finical The Wabash river, i next lo ti..i i e !;:;' s s i c , is t,hc largest i bvannli of the Ohio. Its whole length, I memdirg the meanders, is live htindted : " .d t- s. and the stvei al distances ': as e 's'io.-'.fi as lf!!n s : from lis mouth j lo Vinci tsncs, one hundudand fifiy miles; j lrom ti'.tnce to I t ire Haute, niiKtv; llier.ee to the mouih of i ippecanoe, one ! hutuircd and lorty ; thence to the mouth ot Lbtie tiver one hundred ; thence lo its j cotnee, eighty miles. The place of its 1 entrance into the Ohioisone hundtfdand ninety five miles west ol its head watets, and two hundied and twenty five miles south of it s most northerly bend, near i Fort Wayne. I his nobb stream is from

two to five hundied yatds in breadth for thtce hundred aod oighty miles. It has been for some months p:st. and may generally for half the year be navigated that distance by steam boats ot theordin.ry size, and their will be no dilhculty in their ascending s'ill fatther when te settlement ot the late purchase shall commence and afford them employment. I hepo jeeed canal, that is to connrct the stream with the Maumce, ai d by that river vri'h the lake Erie, will no clou'-t be provided for al the next stssif n i 1 c Leeis!atuc atid when that work shal: be omj lpttd, there can he as I i 1 1 . o ('out.t, but that a large proportion of the intercut si between the Mississippi and the ! kes wpl pass along this cha- net. Tht upj cr part of the Wabush, which is now ore vast wilderness, will, before ten years 1 zc b'cen passed away,bcron:e the u ot buy anil populous parts of Indiana Here are none of the causes of disease which rdv tetartcd the settlement ot many plpres below ; nor is this region b'oken into hills and mountains as is usual at the sources of rivers ; for this stream is perhaps the only one of similar, size in the world, which, through its whole course, has no elevated or abrupt territory within view of itsbmks The first considerable trib utary of the Wabash, is Little river, which rises near Fort Wayne on the ISIaumce, and affords extraordinary facilities for the ptojected canal. The summit level betw een these streams is said not to exceed sixteen feet above the bed of either The Salamonie Missrissineway fiom the south and Eel rivers from the north, w hich next enlarge the Wabash, are ftom fifty to eig! ty yatds in width, and from eightv to onr hundred miles in length all of which flow remarkably pure and very

flush even in the driest seasons. The 'I ippecanoe is a rapid stream, and at its mouth is half the size of the Wabash. 'I he other considerable branches are Sugar creek, White and Patoka rivers, which rise in Indiana, ana Vet million. Embarras and Little Wabash in Illinois The whole country watered by the Wabash and its branches, contains more than twenty-five thousand square rriles, of which lour filths are in Indiana, the residue in Illinois. Near the mouth of White river is the only considerable obstruction to the navigation of the Wabash. Filieet. miles of rapids prevent the passaged latgt boats in iow water; but the whole distance, it is believed, might be canalltd lei an'expense pet haps not exceeding tht aver age tatc ol the erst ol the Ohio and Kcw Yoik canals Jo J nr. The battle of l uzaingo. in Brazil. On the 20th of F.biustythe sun was just rising above the horizon whin the eimendir g at n.ies encountt ; ed each olhet. 'Ihe imperial aimy, which was ig. t otant of the counter march made by the R. publicans was sui p i- d to discover them marching n iis It f fid k i wards ti e pass of Santa Maria, wr.tre they had ex reelect to fii d it tnran p d 1 he Genal in chiet then gave I is command to t:- corps of his army, with a e nrco t: c u d by the solemnity ot tt e n'cment, v d ordered General Lavalleja, will ihe war iots ot ihe first cm ps, to chzrf-.e the er.uny on their lefi, sword in hand, to bring them into action and thiow them into chfusion The division Zufriategut, composed of the 8th and I6tn 1 1 gin em o' Lam ers, -under te command ot the brai Co onel Oiavatria, and the squadron of cuirassiers, with i s va'iant comn ai der Mtclina, went to support, in a second line. .h attack of the first co pi. The third, under G neral Soier, lorri ed on tl-e htightsruar the position of tfu fi s? ; while the divisions of Branden 2,1. d Paz, of the 2d. temained in reserve, a Im.e in ife t ar between ihe ht and 3d, and he nn si n of the btave Colonel Lav elle vnS destined 10 their left. While thus drawn un, and in spite of the vvaim attack on the first corps, the enemy tell upe.n the third in a formidable manner, with three hatfanens, ?nong which was that of tht. Gei mans, supported by two thousand h rse and six pieces (l artillery A vain, firing row commenced thioiighnut, thr whole !?r r ; and both am ies closed inbalt'e viih resolution and vigor, on the right ar.'l left. The charges ot cavalry were rapid well sustained, and with various success. Col. La'. tile, with Iris division, on the left, swept awrty ali the cavaliyin his fronj puisuingand pu-ting them to thr svo.cl a league ai d a half fiom'ht field ol battled But in s; if of this brilliant expn.it tho day was still undecided. I he p:ircipal forces of the enemy ehai grd en out !ik ht and centre, and it bcait e mcissaiy to leave erl the thiul -I cavalry in reserve, aid bring into aeiion tie divisions ol Faz and Bianden The u hole oi bothptrriea were now eng g, d ; and Gerttai B td. 1 en, who had bet n sen; tt. b:r ik hiei - n a mass of infantry, fell gloriously in he fit Id The 8th ha-ta-ion. under the comrr.-ntl , of Colonei O.az.ibal, had sj tnt its fii e; when the 2d ui der Coior.c 1 Airgrt , being ucktd bv a hot y o1 cvairy vj h the G rrr.an lancers at their head. urrr,ur d d them, ane tlrove ihen. trom ihe fit d Coi Obivtiia, with the division ot M id-, on-do, and 1st of cbvali) , cut them tr fie-.X ces, on their retreat, and put their hors ' cu con bat i Oi the right, the commanders, G.-mea and Merita disputed the pa.m d gi0t ; and charging a st-org ct on v 1 f Ci,v0!ry, cut them up. and ob'igccHl en to tefrfat under the piotec'tioi ot ti e turn of h bat- : talionentre1 cl -ed under seme ran. 'I he j officers led 01 the troops km t ; ace. but I they were driver, ha-k a Pt.t !v ? de- , sfuctive fiie, when the whole mass of

cavalry rushed upr n th. O' in an inst?nt. The 16th rr gin f rt rtccivtd oic'rrs to support thtir friends ; and the c'tji.. .

j and cuirassiers hsttKd To n'are tlpm-

sehes on their right ar d fi flunks wl ilo the btave lancers, n ur ccuvrmg a if on , parade, charged over a fi. id now rnecd with the dead, attacked and drove tl.e enemy back to a bat ety of three cannon, which they also took The fith regiment supported this charge, wlirh was dtrisivc. Colonrl OU iveira sus'rirefl in it the reputation he had acquired at Junin and Avct cho The centre of the enemy's cavalry haul