Western Sun & General Advertiser, Volume 18, Number 34, Vincennes, Knox County, 29 September 1827 — Page 3

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Died, at Corydon, on the 6th inst. alter an illness of thirty hours, Armstrong Brandos, Esq. Post-Master of that place, and formerly puplic Printer to the State of Indiana. Mr. Brandon removed to Corydon, previous lo the adoption ol our Constitution, where he edi.cda paper lor several years. For honesty and correctness, in the various transactions ol lite, he had few equals ; and has lelt many friends Who know how to appreciate his viitues. An amiable wife and one daughter arc left to lament his exit fiom time to eternity. To them, especially, his loss will be irreparable. Indianapuiis Gaz.

for the Western su:;. Mr. Stout Agreeably to the law i emulating insane persons, it becomes the duty of the Circuit court, in whose district such a person may reside, to summon a jury on their c sc, and if he or she on inspection, and agreeable to testimony, be found to be insane, to appoint truce suitable persons as guardians of their p.operty and persons. I will here endeavor to give such information to the citizens ol Posey county as must warrant a belief in the insanity of Mr. Flinn, who is an inhabitant of that County, and who I am told, possesses property there, lie made his appearance at one of the ferry houses on the Wuhash, on horseback, and in full gallop, the Jurymen were on the point of pushing, off, to

v Cross, and tan ct rrmony he continued Ins

gait down the bank, and into the ooat having crossed, he made a precipitate a retreat up the bank and through Maikct street, forgetting, by the bye, to settle for his ferryage. Being unknown to the ferry-men, his conduct created suspicion that he was a fugitive from justice, and he was accordingly pursued. Ibi stopped, howc ter, at Mr. Johfaon's tavern, at the end of the street, where being overtaken, his fcrryagc was demanded ; he said he had not a cent, but pulled oft his jacket, which was accepted as full pay. Mr. Gibson, the owner of the ferry, learning from some acquaintance of Mr. Flinn's that he was crazy, immediately returned him his jacket. After exhibiting for four or five days the various insignia of madness, such as bobbing his head against the street posts, laying in the river at rights, singing Sc dancing for hours on the decks of the keel boats, making depi coitions on

the apple peach orchards m tnc neigu borhood, walking with cr.rcless imlitlcrencc into the houses, ami snatching up what suited his appetite or fancy, and sinning indiscriminately alter night, houses

and dogs, he lelt the tovn, no one ,;new When, or how. The first intimation had of him r.fterwards, was his commital from Daviess county, as a horse thief, to our county jail, where, being in the hmds of neither a medical, nor a too indulgent jailer, he was severely whipped for making a n i-e. It appears after travelling on foot to Washington, he put up for the night at a tavern; next morning he walked into the back yard, and with the consideration of a good provider, picked up an axe. and hilled a young call the landlady observed him, and being abtmed, asked him why he had done so? n s;id she was 3carce of bacon, and he v. anted some for breakfast, lie then went to the stable, bridled a horse, and started in full gallop towards Viuecniv's; after riding nbout four miles, he stopped at a house, and demanded of the woman the loan of a sad An chr k-uiI her husband was not in, and

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that he being an entire stranger, she could not let him have it. After looking round the house he took d.wn a title from its rack, stepped to the door,and deliberately shot down an old sow, and told the woman he would now- serve her so unless she gave him the saddle. She being justly alarmed, picked up her child andran into the cornfield, where-, she remained Until some travellers appearing, she enmc out and asked their assistance ; he was taken to Washington, tried before a magistrate, and sent here to jail, where he remained until the parties became acr quaintcd with his situation, when they released himhe again disappeared for a few days, and has again i cturned on horse ""back. The first horse he rode here was taken from him on the score of humanity, and as being the property of Mr. (VBrian, at the mouth of the Wabash, it is believed he galloped his horse all the distance. -r The second one, agreeable to his own stnry, he has mired in a pond, and as he has fc-not been seen since, the probability is that it is a fact, and the horse ere this must have died; this horse likewise be onged toCVIliian, and to procure which he must have been at the mouth of the Wabash river, a distance from here of 90 cnilea. A few nights ago a chnnrfc 0f

fire was taken from him in the strccis, and I t orn the tacts now related, no person is secure from" his resentment or whim The overseers of the poor should provide for him, arid il iic nas propeity the county will be repaid; within the last year, one female and two male lunatics, without any apparent means ol subsitance, and nearly destitute of chuthing, have been seen strolling through tln place humanity requires that wc sliou d have a Lunatic asylum in this state II From (he Baltimore Gazette. The Indians seem doomed to be the sport of all the unfeeling adventurers ot the frontiers, and every species ot aggravation is inflicted to compel thetnto make war tipon their white neighbots, in the bedet that it will sooner lead to their ex

termination. "It is seldom we read of an Indian murder, or outrage committed upon the whius, that it may not be traced to some wanton provocation of the border crs, inflicted upon the Indians, in consequence of the opinion, too prevalent, that they arc not worthy of the protection of the government, and have no rights which may not be invaded with impunity. Not content with driving them far to the setting of the sun.' it appears they are to be hunted Up, S: ejected from the last grctn i-pot lelt to liiem by their fi rst conquerors The Little Hock (A kansas) Gazette, of the 31st Ju:y, r,ays " The last mail from the south, wc un

derstand, brought a letter to gov lzncl, from major Cummi'-s, commanding officer at fori Towsoh, enclosing a proclomation which has bech recently promu'ga ted by col. Robhins and 'luckham, (the latter, also, a Mexican officer, and recently of Miilcr county,) inviting volunteers to join their standai d, for the purpose of making war on, and phindeiing the Indians in the Mexican territories, who arc hostile to that government. We have not seen the proclamation, but lmdet siand it offers to volunteers, in addition to thi usual pay of troops of the line, the whole proceeds of all captures which they mav make from the Indians. The volunteers are ditccted to meet at any point south of

! Hi! river. ;md west of the Spanish bluff; which, we understand 'N vome 20 or 3

miles ci'st ot Miller court house, and in a p ut of the country whee the Mi'hotitics of this territory continue tocxcicisc civil jui i-diction. u This proceeding. V bet her authorized

j or not by the Mexican author: its, o.ols loudly, in uur opinion, for the intcifeier.e e

ol our government. Such picdatorv p:rties against the Indians are ralc'lar- d f exasperate them against our citizens, however innocent they may he, and vi!i unquestionably result in their attacking

j and making reprisals on all hunting par

lies whom they may fall in with, and on our frontier settlements, for all depreciations which maybe committed on them. or heir property by these Mexican volun-

riowed by a natural channel down the Mis- J particles being uncommonly large, trauV" sissippi, and into the Gulf of Mexico , parent, and perfectly lotmed crystals.!, where those islands arc situated All is From the gentleman who favoitd us vvith now lost! The incapaci y and ncgli- the sample, wc learn, that the experiment gencc of the administration, and its total thus far demonstrated that an acre ot land absorption in the degrading business of c- which would yield 2o bushels ol corn, will lectioneering, has totahy losithU trade to ' turn out a hogshead or 10C0 pounds of

the western countiy, and to all the south- , sugar, the molassas paying the expense of

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ern states. A nart ot it nas oecn nans

ferred from the Mississippi to the St. j

Lawrence, where it is shipped from Britihh fiorts ; but no part of it can be shipped fiom an mimetic an fitrt ; of couisc horn New York to Nw Orleans this trade is interdicted to our ciuzens : lb. Brfitrt of 1821 2. (Doc. 70 ) Value of Im fiorts into the British '. A. A. CVawrV, in 1825-6. 1820-1. Fish g 1,577 none Oil, Spermaceti, and other fish 6,005 none Spermaceti candles 17,055 none Wood staves, shingled, plank lumber, See, 697,056 420,000 Naval stoics, tar, pilch,

rosin and tci p. Ashes, pot and pearl

Nuns and furs 12,5

Heef tallow, iiidcs and horned cattle 1 5 1,9 3 Putter and cheese 7o,('62 Pork. bacon,!ard Sc hos 44 . 762 Sheep 16,206

22,131 523,536

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Wheat

Flour, average in 1820-1 !d5 58 per 'barrel, (144,0(.0 barrels, in 1820-1,

8,575

13,000 none none none none 160,000 none none

206 973, in 1825-5) 967.842 fi 55.000 ' Indian corn 1 63.86 88.000, Indian meal 22.S.538 44.000 j Hve meal 32,137 30,600 Hye, oats, small grain, ' pu'sc 20,857 10 000 : Biscuit and ship bread 109,u6l 37,100! Potatoes 576 none ' Apples 11.886 none : Hire 146.9 10 1,200 obacco 69.884. 46.000 Hops 13,840 none Household furniture 11,723 none Carriages 5,673 none Hats 2,949 none Saddles 1,388 none Uccr, porter and spirits fiom g- ain 1 6 P8 1 none Lf-a-hcr, boots Sc shoes 129. o;9 none TaUnw, cr.ndb's k soap 25,618 none Snutr manulacered to-h-aceo 73,668 16,000 ". Linr.ec-d oil, and spirits tur;. mine 5,580 none I ' on. pig bar, nails, castings, and all munt.fuctutes of 19,000 none Chrv-oh'.e 1,549 none M die a1 : ng 5,275 none M'.r.uhir'ut -d 59.J,"95 rmne Kaw piodticc .j 9 61 1 none

cultivation, and the sugar bting worth to

the planter, upon an avciage, kcven cents a pound. Bait. Pat. Cherokee Constitution. Vf c have partially perused a manuscript copy ot the constitution established for the govcrnmtntof the Cherokees, by the represent tatives of the people of that nation, at a convention held at New Echota, on the 26th of July last 1 he Cherckees have made rapid advances already towaids civilization ; ar d shou rl this constitution be rigidly adhered to and supported by them, their condition will be still more improved, as they will be placed under a, government which wjl! protect them in the full enjoyment of civil liberty. This constitution commences by designating the boundaries ot the Cheickee nation, beginning on the north bank of the Tennessee river, at the upper part of the Chickasaw old fields, &c. The lands are to remain the common property of tho nation, bur the improvements made thereon, arc the exclusive and indefeasible property of the citizens who made, or may be rightfully in possession of them The power of the government is to be divided

The Legislative power to be vesttd iri two distinct branches, a Committee and a Council; and both tobe styled, 4t 1 he General Council of ihe Cherokee Nation " The nation is laid ofT into eight districtsthe Committee to consist of two members from each, and to be chosen for two yeai s ; the first election to be held on the first Monday in August, 1828. 'Ihe General Council to be held once a year, at N cw Echota. The Executive power

tccrs. The Isst mail brings the intcUircnco of Mr. S.vnc.KAN l 's return to the United States and of course the final abandonment of the Tacunaya mission. It is also known, that our affairs with Mexico arc on the vvoist possible fooling no treaty vet sngnccl with her, and our Minister openlv levilcdinthe government newspa pcrs. The British, on the contraiy, are Honored, and a public mournii g is ordered for the DukecM Yoi k, while the deaths of our Ex-Presidents have been unnoticed.. The cause of this is all well known. It is Mr A r ams denunciation of the 11 bigotty a;:d ofifircaion' as he termed it of the Catholic religion, in his famous Panama Message, and hU design, as therein declared, to effect an alteration, through our ministers, in their religious establishment- The fa'al blunder of Mr A d a ms has cost us the friendship ol Mex ico and the other new republics, and proves the danger of having a man without judgment at the head of the nation Not only the factious opposition in the senate, but every man of c nnmon sense and independence throughout the country, fotctold this result. Every such man knew that wc should become objects of jealousy, suspicion an odium, with the new republics on account of this attack of our President upon the Catholic religion Dee pi v has our countrr s; fT red for his imprudence. If. S Te!egrafit. The attention of all gord citizens is earnestly invoked to the following list of expoi ts from the United Sta es to the British West India Islands, cc-pied from the Richmond Enquirer. The list is made out for two different periods of time, 1820 and I S 2 5 . for the purpose ot shewing, that this trade, so valuable of itself, wsalso a growing one, and had nearly doubled in in the short space of five years. The specific items, and their respective value

arc also set forth, from which i? will be seen that almost even article ofthis trade was the product of the w estern states, and

Other articles not noticed, which make the footing to be 4,678,470 2,9( 6.226

ral Council, and shall hold his office for four years. Three Councillors are to bo annual'y appointed, to advise with the Principal Chief in the Executive part of the government. Sec. The Judicial powers to be vested in a Supreme court, and such Circuit and inferior courts as the General Council may, from time to time, order and establish . The Supreme muu to consist of three Judges. All the Judges are tobe appointed for four years. No minis' ec of ihe gospel eligible to the office ot Principal Chief, or to a seat in the General Council. Religious freedfim tc.IeiatecL Sheriffs elected in each district by rhe qualified voters, and to hold their office for two years A rharshall to be appointed by their General Council for four ye?rs ; his jurisdiction to extend over the whole C herokce nation The right of trial by jury to temnin inviolate. &c. 'J In mode of appointing the various othcr officers indispcr.s ble to a well regulatcd goveinntent. is laid down much in detail; and tie ch run em taken altr ee-

thcr, wc think is well calculated to pro-

Extract of a letter, dated Vera Cruz. July 27 k A few dajs since, com. Labordc arrived off this port vith i wo large frigates and a brig, and strni ge to say, though five Mexican vessels came in that

day, he did not molest any of them, and ducc ihe most happy results. The suc-

icit two large vampeacny m tgs quietly at ctss of the Chcroktes will stimulate othanchor at Sacrificios. I he brig of war j cr nations to adopt a similar policy; and was sent in here on the second day with a j we n ay ye liie to see one tribe after anowhnc lhg a her foremast head ; she came thci,by dropping the tomhawk. k followto anchor near the castle, where she re- ing the' example set them, rise from sav-

mained at anchor 48 hours lier ostc n sible object was to exchange 2 prisoners; for w hom she received 5! An officer from her was twice on shore, and w as the bearer of a packet from gen Barr.gan, military commandant at Vet a Cruz ; but what the real obj ctof her vi -it ic mnip I-noM's rvrpn! thnsp in nil.

U.o.i-v. As usual, a ihoiisaml conjee- T 5ad('k' : "Soever tray f.n.l .he sn,e w,H .ores are aflnai." ! f"".3 faTor lrav,nh at.

iern .un, oroc-, or giving imormation w here it may he had, for which they will receive the thanks of, SAMUEL ADAMS. Jr. September 22, 827. 34-3t

age bar barity to respectabilirv in the civi

lized world. Huntsville Democrat. A Saddle Lo.st.

N Wcdntsnay the 19th instant, my

horse got loose at the Market house

in Vincenncs, and lost offof him a man's

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Florida o.vp-ar. A gentleman recently

fiom Tlorida, has left with us a sample of j

sugir made on the plantation of col Henry Yonge, of Gadsde n county, East Florida. That part of Florida, in which this sugar was made, was a wilderness when the territory passed from the Spanish, to the United States government; indeed, col Y ngc, who has only resided there three years, vas among the first settlers. It is rapidly settling by intelligent and enterprising men, who are turning their attention to the cultivation of sugar, and a sample of the result of the first experiment is that now before us, which is a specimen of a crop of 30 barrels last year by col Yonge. The sugar appears to us to be superior to that of Louisiana, in strength, though its colour is not so fine as the latter, owing to its having crn packed up before the molasses was sufficiently drained off. Its flavour is pecub arly delicate, resembling that of candy; and, indeed, its granulatron seems to have been more a process of crystalization

, than that of any sugar wc have seen, the

Public Notice IS hereby given, that administration upon the estate o James Junkin. (late of Knox county) deceased, I as been granted in due form of law, to the undersigned, and that a sale of the personal estate of said deceased, consisting of

Horses, Cattle, Sheep.

Waggon, Farming impliments Also Iousihold & Kitchen Furntiure will be sold at the late dwelling house of James Junkins, deceased, in Harrison township, on Friday, the 19M day of October next, commencing at ten o'clock, am. terms of sale made known on the day WILLIAM JUNKIN, .idm. September 26, 1827. 34-3t