Western Sun & General Advertiser, Volume 20, Number 9, Vincennes, Knox County, 11 April 1829 — Page 3
THE WESTERN BUN. V INCEWfR S. april II, 1829. The Wab36h river has risen to a navigable stage, and boats arc daily passing, freighted with the rich and surplus produce of the country, to the lower market. The river is yet rising. The Steam boats Victory, William Tell, and Criterion arc hourly expected to arrive Republican Triumph. The state of
New-Hampshire is completely regenerated. At the resent general election, the Jackson party have succeeded by a large majority. The majority for Pierce, the Jackson candi date for Governor, is said to be about 5000 voies ; the entire Congressional ticket has succeeded, and their is a decided majority electcd to both branches of ttie Legislature friendly to the people's Prisdcnt. Pub. Adv. Wc understand that Col. Jno. Vaivtcr and Gen. Jonathan Mc Carty have been appoint cd Commissioners for opening the National Roid through Indiana, in pursuance ol an act passed at the late session of Congress appro priating 85o,000 to that object. lb. Wc arc much gratified to learn that Genctal John Tipton United States Indian Agent at Logansport, in this state, has been continued in his office. A malicious attempt .as made to destroy hi reputation at Washington by representing that he was in the habit of defrauding the Indians in divers ways, while in the act of distributing their annuities ? Gen. Tipton has promptly met his ac
cusers and completely refuted their charge,
and has returned to the discharge of his irn
pnrtant duties with the entire approbation of
his government. It will he gratifying to his numerous friends, thus to understand that their confidence in his initffritv and talents
lias not been misplaced. Re:. Statesman. Mr. RonF.RT Owen-, commonly called O
v-cn of Lanark, left this city on Sunday last
in the steamer Pat tint on his way to Cincinna
ti. The object ot Mr. O's visit to that place
is to discuss the incuts ot the Christian re
tigiou, with a Mr, Campbell, agreeably to a
challenge given twelve months ago by the
former and accepted by the latter. r Louisiana Advertiser March 17,
We learn that the President has appointed
Mr. Isaac Hill, ol New Hampshire, to be sc cond Comlroller, vice Richard Cutts, re moved.
Mr. Amnq Kendall, of Kcncucky, to be
fourth Auditor, vice Tobias Wolkins, re moved.
Mr. William B Lew is of Tennessee, to be
second Auditor, vice William Lee, removed
And these gentlemen enter on the duties
of their respective offices to-morrow. U. S. Telegraph. Natchez, Match 21.
The Steam Boat Natchez, on her passage from New Oi leans to this place, struck a
snag on Thursday last, about 3 o'clock p. m
5 miles below St. Franeisville. She was im
mediately tan ashore, and filled in a few min
utes only giving time to the passengers to
land with their baggage, and a few artic les oF
the carco It is feared the boat will be whol-
ly lost.
Galena, March 7. Sioux Indiana. A
gentleman of the army, now at this place, has
informed us, that he has received a commit nicalion from Mr. Marsh, Indian a$ent a Prairie du Chien, stating that he had infor
mation of a collection of Sioux Indians to the number of about 4-,ooo, who, it is said, intend
to descend the Mississippi this spring, on a visit to the Sac and Fk nations of Indians but for what purpisc is not yet known. It is however undet stood, that a ood deal of discontent prevails among the north western tribes, perhaps in conseqner.ee of some misunderstanding between them St the whites.
Extract of a letter to the Editor of the Baltimore Patriot, dated Washington, March .19th, LS29. General Scott has pone to Richmond, to wait the decision of the government on the lollowim; propositions : 1st. He is ready to k on duty, not subject to be commanded by a junior in rank. 2d. He solicits to be put on trial, by a court martial, for disobedience or orders. 3d. If these alternatives be not accepted, to be cons:detcd as having lcsigned. The t e i s a ! ind disposition entertained towards him, hy the government, and he has the pood opinion of all persons who have observed his conduct while here, in a state of suspense. " Jous- Tai lcp This venerable patriot and cirizvn expired at 7 o'clock on Thutsduy evening, the 19th March, at Ids residence in Albany Hecnlcrcd the 87ih year of his age on the 4ih day of July last. The Arus mentions the following incidents of his life : In 1776 he was a delegate the Provincial congress; in 1777, a conspicuous member ol the Committee of Safety a b )dy ol fearless patriots, who, at the hazard of their lives, exercised the executive powers, fiorn the sub--version of the colonial government, until the adoption of our ft it state constitution ; and he was 'icad.-tr of ti e Convention that fra
mcd that instrument. For many years prior to 1 8 1 3, ho was a member of the state senate, from the then eastern district. In that year le was elected Lieutenant Governor of this state, in which office he was continued by successive elections, until January, 1823, when he retired from public life. From Fe bruary, 1817, until July following, he admi-
nistarcd the government of the state, in con-1 sequence of the resignation of govr. Tompkins. In December last, he was chosen by the electoral college of this state, an elector of President U Vice-President; and the vote he gave on that occasion for gen. Jackson, was the last official act of his life.
Ice Floods. The damages done to the
various dams of the Susquehannah and Juni
ata, erected for the purpose of effecting a
still-water navigation on certain parts of those
uvers, or to supply canals with water, arc estimated in the Harrisburg Chronicle, at the
large sum ol g300 000 ; and yet the late ice flood was a " small affair," compared wi h
some others that have happened in the last 15
or 20 years. And it is observed, that "to
make dams across such a river as the Susquehannah, lor the purpose of feeding a canal is transcendantly pieposterous " Four bun
dled feet of the Shamokim dam was carried away, and much damage done to the sluice.
1 hese things speak powerfully in favor of
rail roads especially in districts of country
subject to severe frosts. It may also be ob
served, that no objection can rest against
roacls on account ot health. We cannot doubt but that they will almost every where be preferred, as a more prompt, ccitain and
cheaper means of conveyance. Nilcs.
made on examining the body of a laborer, named James Allen, who was killed whilst working as a shipwright at Dockhcad. The body turned out to be that of a female, and yet, strange to say, Allen has been married 21 years, and his wife deposed that she suspected, but did not positively know that her hus band was a woman ! Allen was a strong, active and ingenious workman or (workwoman)
of an affectionate disposition, but warm tem
per and her fellow workmen never suspected her sex.
NEW AND CHUAl' STORE. KURTZ & LODWICK, P ESPECTFULLY inform their friends, and the public in general, that they
have just received, and are now opening at their store room on mahet street, a few doors above Second, a new and general as
sortment oi liesh
SPUING GOODS,
CONSISTING O t
CLOTHS, and CASSIMERES,
FLORENTINE & WELLINGTON Stripes BLACK SIUC ASCIANS, HOSIERY, SILK, GKODEN AP & COTTON SHAWLS Together with eveiy article in the Dry Good line. Also, a general assortment of GROCERIES GLASS & QUE ENS WA RE, All of which will be sold cheap for Cash or Country Produce. 9-5t Vincenncs, April 4, 1829.
Land for Sale. I AM authorized to sell the two following tracts of land, the property of Rachel Hacklkt, 178 acres of land, a. d. No. 176, also, 171 acres, a d. No. 174 any person wishing to purchase cither of the above desirable tiacts of land can know the terms on application to major Utnj. V. Beckes, who lives in the neighbourhood of the land, or to E. STOUT, Agent. February 20, 1329. 2-tf Application to Court. Arcangk JNi f. h f. d it ii , Richard Pattimson, and Ellen Pattinson, heirs and legal representatives ol John Askins. se
izor, deceased, Take Notice, THAT on the second
day of the August term of the Knox Ciicuit court, eighteen hundred and twenty-nine, we
shall, by ourselves, or by our attorney, 3pply
to the honorable, the Knox Circuit court, for the appointment of Commissioners to divide all the several tracts and lots of land, lying in the county of Knox, and state of Indiana, belonging to the estate of John Askins. senr.
(late of Sandwich, in the Province of Upper
Canada,; deceased, among the several heirs
of said Askins, accoraing to their respective
ngnts. CHARLES ASKIN,) Heirs I? legal JAMES ASKIN, f representatives THERESA McKEEf of John Askins. ADELAIl) BRUSH,) deceased. March 25, 1829. 7-4t-JL-tp
Perhaps the general education of females
is no where in the world so well attended to
as in New-England. Other states and coun
tries may surpass them in grace, in fashion
in mere embellishment of manners ; but in
the intellectual part of education in the u
nio'i ol learning with their duties as women,
they are unequalled. During the summer reason it is customary for the town schools to
be taught by the virtuous, intelligent young women. This nivcs them habits of thought
and reflection ; a knowledge of character and a practical acquaintance with the duties of mothers before they are settled in life. The ladies of some ot the most eminent men in New England have been married out of such occupations. The annexed, is from the New Monthly Magazine, a London Journal it is cxtracied from a communication from a BiUish conespondent at Rome, in which the writer gives a description of Canova's statue of Washing ton with the following rcmaikson the character of that great and good man, w ho was with us in the time of the revolution. "The Washington is another instance of mortality divinized. It is something more than the mere fixing of a man into marble. It is an apothesis of the mind. Washington was no hero, but something infinitely better. He did not save America, but he showed America how she might save herself; one of the few great men who were contented to be grea for their country only; and who, founding a state by the mere force of single heart cd, high minded feeling, had the still greater glory of knowing how to retiic when the mighty woik was done. He was no genius, no orator, no writer; but he was thoioughly penetrated with the consciousness of a great and solemn trust ; he was stamped with a firmness which wielded and kneaded events to his will ; he was glowing with an unex. tinguishable devotion to liberty ; beside which, the world, and all that the world could p rotter, was as dust and dross in the scale.
To shape out such faculties to the eye was no easy task ; for an Italian it might seem impossible. But Canova has cast into his work all the inspiration of the 1 America Liberia. he
has sculptured what Alhen wrote.
1000 MEN WANTED. TJlT ANT ED immediately, one thousand Y V men, as loborcis on the Louisville Sc
Portland Canal, to whom liberal wages will be given by IVES h BALDWIN, April 7, 1S29 9-3 Contractor.
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Leather Stockings. Simeon Kendall,
of Ohio, who is represented as the prototype
of Cooper's inimitable Leather Stocking, has
applied to congress for a pension, and the house have directed that a bill be reported in his favor, He is stated to be one of the most extraordinary and interesting men now living. He entered Kentucky in 1771, and con-
tinned there through all the struggles with
the Indians, sustaining his position after Boon and his companions had fled. The anecdotes
related of his adventures are said to be al
most incredicle. On one occasion, when
watching the frontiers, he saved the infant
settlements from the Indians, by running 60 miles in one day and night, and spreading the
alarm. Kendall headed the whites, and with extraordinary skill and courage, defeated the
savages. He never held any military rank,
but was always selected as a leader in excur
sions against the Indians. At one time he was taken prisoner, and the Indians had placed faggots around him to burn him to death, when he was teleased by the intervention of a Frenchman. He afterwards saved the life of his deliverer. In 1813, his military ardour was by no means subdued, and he rendered himself formidable to the enemy during the war, by his long rifle, though attached to no regular corps. He has always been strictly temperate, but is now in penury, extremely old, and surrounded by a large family.
Settlement of an Estate.
he creditors, and otheis interested in the
estate ol ' Jamu s II R icha rdsqn. deed.
TAKE NOTICE,
THAT we the undcrigncd, ad
ministrators of said estate, have filed in the Cleik's ctlice of the county ol Posey, in the stale of Indiana, a petition, selling forth the
condition of said estate, by which it appears
that the same is insolvent. Now if you do
not present your respective claims beiorc the
dctei initiation of the court thereon, the same
will he postponed to other cicditois. JOHN BANK, I AdminiG EORGE SMITH $ strators. Apiil 3, 1829. 9-3l
A List of Letters 1 REMAINING in ihe Post-Office at Vincen1 ir-s, Knox county, la. the quarter ending the 31st day ot March, 18C9, and which it not taken out within three months will he sent to the Genral lYst-Office as dead letters. ABC
John B. Agan, James Broders 2 Zadoc Boswell Mr. Burns, Col. Bell Mannassa Brown P. C. Bowie James H. Bnntin Jacob Boul ware Until Cook 2 John Congalton Geoive Clo veneer
Columbian Steam Mill Store,
JUST received an additional supply of
DRY GOODS,
slmongst tiem are an Jullavx : 12, 11 Sc 10 quarter, double, and single rose Blankets, 3 A, 4, and 4 point Blankets, Cassinetls, Flannels and Domestics, Bombazetts, Taitan Circassian Plait's, he. he. which will he sold at the lowest cash prices for produce. CHEAP SHOES. Ladies' Sc Gentlemen's fire k coarse Shoes. HATS. An assortment of Gentlemen's Hats, will bt sold unusually low. wasted. White Oak, Drawn Pipe Staves, ditto, Hough II lid. do. ditto ditto barrel do. fc7Thc Barrel Staves will consist of the usual quantity of heading. NOTICK Persons bringing their wagons from Illinois with produce for the steam tnil!, shall have a free ferry over to the mill, and back. 46-tf Vincenncs. December 1828. NOTICE. THE subscriber has now in complete op cration, in Princeton, Gibson county,
a
ULLING MIL L, attend to all oidcrs in that line ol
business, punctually. Persons residing in Knox county, who wish cloth Fulled, will please leave the same at the Stage Office in Vincenncs, as arrangements have been made with the proprietors, to bring and return the same, free of cost A similar arrangement has been made for the convenience of the citizens of VANDEnuur.ii St Pose? counties He pledges himself to dress, and colour if required, in a complete and workman like manner, all cloth forwarded to him. JAMES EVANS. March 18, 1829. C-tf
JbL era Indiana, : A f and will
A Female Husband. The London papers contain an Account of a curious discovery
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MS
Itorough Tax.
ILOSE owinc bokough tax, are infor-
mcd, that unless it is paid soon, I shall
bender the necessity ot collecting by adver
tisement, sale. &c. MARVIN HOBINSON, Col n.v. February 25, 1829 , 3-3t 7Vhcn absent from town, Saml Hill. Esqr. will receive, and receipt for Borough Taxes, for me, M. R. Magistrates BLANKS tor Illinois
for sale at this office.
William Dart
Elizabeth Dooling 2 Richard Ellison Timothy Fry David Francis
George Garrett
Thomas S. Hitt
John Hants John Hoover Ni&iea C. Hudspeth J.imi") Hopkins Mr. Jacobus W'illiam Johnson Aniahlc Kaiour John Eaucleul.de F.lizaln-th Ix Roy ti' I.; eeh
i .angloii
illi iin Movely
Davul Alt -CorO" Ai.t'.rew McClure Henry Nolin Hubert Oliver Pouge & Ferrcll John P;.in And icw Pink stalT, Ik-njamin Pettice Sai.ui Plough
James Ashcroft John BilderbacU Elizabeth Buntin R. V. Beckes 2 Robert Buntin Joseph Brown Lamber Bono John Boyles James Boner George Crooks Alfred L. Castlemaii Georcc Calhound
DEFG
John Dollohon Samuel Dilworth John Ewing
Gabriel Firman William Farres Sew all Good rid ee
II.) KL Bradstreet M. Hays 5 William Herald it. i
jonn r. nays Benjamin Horn
Jonathan Hombuck J. Jones Josiah Jones Joseph Kirkpatrick Gen. Lassclle Augustus Lature John II. Lacy 2 Thi -mas H. Law ,1iVOP George McClure
iviaunew .vicuanniei Ophelia McCandlc&s Reuben Norton William Orsburn William Polkc True man Perrin J. 1). Packwood Jesse Prats
Frr.nci-. Rassiqu
lib un Hippy F-l't n S. Hv in John C. Pveiley 2 George Schwaitz 2 ( ivMiigc Shatter Abraham Snapp Emily Tremair Solomon Te ebauh William Taylor William Thompson Singh-ton Wilscn Phebe Wilks Peter Wolf
11 S T W John Rees Matthias Rose Columbus Hand
Moses Hawlings Jacol) Small A. G.Sloo Ann Smith Svlvaniu Tompkin4 Daniel Trcse o Able Thackcr JamcsTimms Loyal Wilcox Ebcnescr Welter. Mr. Whittlesey
Andrew Whiteneck.
T?"PerM nscaliii.gfor any of the above letter' will please say they are advertised. SAMUEL HILL, p.m. April 1,1829. 8-3t-U8L
A List of Lcttcvs 1 REMAINING in the Post Office at WaihX ington, Daviess county, la. the quarter ending the 31st day of March, 1829, and which if not taken out wuhm three months will be sent to
the General Post-Office as dead letters.
A Peter Ammerman It Christopher Burch Joseph Bradford C. H. Brown 3 Shadrach Bowman Robert Burr Caroline Blantcu C Perzis Chase D Jos. W. Davis 'J Joseph Dohcrty Cm Eli Gila David M. Hixrn 3 Elizaboth Houston Wilfred Hagcr 2 William Handlin A. Hobbs A' Moses Knight M William McGill E. April 1st, 1829.
Wm. McDonald Thomas Mcredy Mary Muttingly James Moarchead
O Samuel Ogborn William Olcntt P BenjiiTiin Peachy R John Hod irmel George Routt 5 John Staley John Strange Samuel Smith 2 Theophikis Spcnce Sheriff D.iviess cty.
IV John Walker Jeremiah Waupler
Joseph estern James W right
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