Western Sun & General Advertiser, Volume 20, Number 12, Vincennes, Knox County, 2 May 1829 — Page 1

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BY KL1I1U STOUT. VI1NCENNE8, (IN IK) SATURDAY, MAY S, l3U. Vol. XX. No. 12

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FROM THE CINCi N.rt ADVKUTlSKU.

r?n v t r frr .vrr. The editor of the Rich annul

Whie;, the man who w.e pail SL'MO by Mr. t'.lay for earrvi:" lot.p.iU-hos to Bueynos Ayrcs, which sci vice he did. not perform, but spent the money on :i iaunt of pleasure to Lugl oidthc man whore olfactory nerves wire too refined to sail in the same vessel with "filthy mechanics" this man, we understand, has been at great pains to c deid ite the xpeiise accruing to the nation 'n the ill of rot'. Harrison. Hot when ftld'VJCi) were ;pet.t by h'.s patrons Ad.tms and CI iv , io a T'iVtw imoii ii to uiam i -or, wc th'v'iKI rather say, fir the ni'r-i- o. id' S -tjeant to Pennsylvania, and Km hosier to New York o;i an .-dectionecrim; scheme, fur thev spent mote of the

time for which they were paid on ths. two i xemsionsthan thev did when searching for the Panama compress, whr-h thv were never able tu iVad. We s.iv, when th'.s enot ivu us r im was expended upon these men for the most unworthy purpose, this same editor we, dumb to the whole transaction. Wtin the present case, when no man of rvnmvi -enve but perceives the absolute r.e -exitv of recalling eon. 11 irris at, who was the accredited agent of the administration who had, in their instt notions to Serjeant and Anderson, abused Udivar, with whom genh Harrison was s?mt to treat, cv whoHnhvar must htv e conceived had similar instructions in his pocket, to those ven to the mim.stei s to Panama, and therefore it coo 'd n-t lie expected ho could obtain either favo" or advantage f r ih.e count! y from that man who had been so giolv abused by those who sent Inea. Anoti,-. r ronteruptible king wretch in ihis state has also ahused coal. Jackson for appropn itiors rr e'e bv coin;' ess for additions to the pve-id ov.t's h',,- and f, r furniture, which apnropi ratio is w ere not only made by congress before gen. tckson arrived at Washington, but the rame npprepn Htem w ere sanctioned by the then pre aMcut. who roight, if he had thought proper, have ejected the lull, but which he unhesitatingly .vigncd and approved. This em-

titics, that at least 0 newspapers have been sent I

to his office, which must be discontinued ; and that no letters or papers arc tu be sent under

trank to his office, which do not relate to its duties. He speaks of various packets, which had

been thus franked (addressed to his predecessor)

which Mr.K. had returned to the Post Omce.

Phis too is correct Mr. K. properly and forcibly

speaks of the pride which he should take in cooperating with the President in his plans of rc-

torni. fT

Another of the papers which has curanatcd from the new Cabinet, is excellently wV.ten and in a very fine spirit. We recommend it to those critics, who have dwelt so much on the melancholy fate of the "six militiamen" Mr. Binns cannot strike a Collin handbill on this occasion. Richmond Em;. An order from the Adjutant General's office recites the proceedings of a court martial, convened at Jefferson barracks, on the 2Si December last, at which William Huston or ar, of the 6th regt. of infantry, was arraigned and tried. The first charge against him was for desertion from Jefferson barracks in April last ; the 2d for re enlisting at Natchez in the following May, and receiving a part i f the bounty, while a deserter ; the 3d tor deserting in Juiu- from the post at Natchez. To all three the prisoner pleaded fudtv, and was sentenced to be shot. The following is the order from the department:

War Df.pautmknt, l'th March, 1829.

M The proceedings of a general court martial, (rapt, 14. Udey, president) in the case of William Huston, alias William Hart, a private of the U. States' army, charged wjah the crime of desertion, and sentcneed to der.fh, has been suonntted to the consideration of thfQ'resident. The opinion is entortained, that while the conduct of the r . tidier presents no mitigating circunotancc which in a state of war, would demand the interposition of the pardoning power, there is at the same tune nothing in it, of a character w hich at a period of profound peace, re

quires the punishment of death. Ifc Ls fiardonf u. Hut in thus ir.tei posing the arm of mercy between the offender and the law, the President desires it not to be considered as an evidence of his futu; e course. The soldier who voluntarily steps forward to serve his country, and vvkd af

terwards by forsaking her, uihh perjury fCj abandonment, can have no well founded clafni to mercy; and hence, should not expect it. Painful to the feelings as stu b execution must prove, if a warning of the consequences, so often given, shall cease of effect, mercy must cease to phid, and justice have its vvav. W order of the President. JOHN H. EATON. The major general directs that this order be rcral at the head of ever y regiment and garrison in the service of the United States. By order of major r;cneral Macomb, " H. JONES, Jdj G';j.m

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temptibve wretch ought ' o wr.t tiil the i

has been expouvlod, an. I tuen let Irm examine lie :;oo-oo oco if he am! ' e Moains the item-., UiUiav.l Ta'de. Ciuo.m; hvs, & Cotes, then let l ;,u coa ;ia , aillioagh. he d:.-l vio'.end thoe ver it.-ois ; th- aiai vu tg Adams produed ef l.t h i oat h r lunnnt'e for :ie Ptc.Viv!ent's Hooo These caitiP.V, wo thin!:, conceive that the . p;o have 'ooioory ei" their Ciradaet a fow mouths ago; they must tluo.k what the people real in their papers one month, tin v must U.rget the no: t, ev t'ney would surely oover commit iheaiJvcs by such ahonrdities, oid such inceoo o tonoie-j. The mission to England for four vi. r i t the nation under the last id.uinistrat;.n, about Sv J-'a"h and t'oe hss el a oi : cdo i-a-., h ei' ou nmerce that of Panama,

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a as.; ,vT a Charge v ; i.r ..i .1 ' Ad ir.iN atul til vY the

k;1 nag w as ra odt al our merchants rob--o-;v se enoti murdered and incarcerated in

d.ev :o:s aod prion ships, yet neither iiits f Uiohm-jnd, nor Wilson of Steubenoi i.ie the slightest remark upon the sub-

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was riglit espouse, iosult, aial injury v.ibaiutod to without a murmar. But

v. to vheu President Jaohson recalls a minister ;i -e iut uctrvas tend.ers it impossible for him o do ao.c ; o 1, we have the cry of prof.igacy cf ';oo. i o, and waste of public money. n u v taoo tnea must suppose that tv.isions louog i eoar.tr.es are nuteh projected for the o - e o! pn'ttng mo iey into the pockets vd" fa:i'os, avd net for anv useful purpve to the

ao.t: v, w hen tliey weuhl calculate the expense .; loea'iing and replacing a minister under the ev.nst.inees cf gen. Harrison. Ncr have they eao.hu- to cer.suler tiie reason of hi recall, i-d itu iioito it to the i ight cause namely, the ;" u 'ieo.ee, if not too wicke dnes of Mr. Aiiams

re tae n m a inose private in-

i t i car mm; tors at l aaama. which ,.U caie liaied to e. tspcrate Ihtlivar, ..,;!, and the Sp.uns.i :;.) ernment. The

s-v t;.:.-v call vOi a uiu;ie;;s t rant ; the second oe d.';,, e their :ni ;io t s to interfere against in - e :. --t. n of !vnt;ui rv between that and o.nor o, a i i too vt n et: oi : and to the list, thev ! o v h. -it tto to apply the most degrading epii 's. W wou'.vl .OA. theoa w iiat could be said th Presi.lei'.t if he oahl sutler ministers toreuo. ot th ceaig whose instructions contained

weiato be tieaieil with.

Or ftc! FPus'i Ae;. 1 he Washington City Chronicle publishes an article on this subject which is characterized by sound sense. We extract the following, which is well worthy of attention : The following is a picture which has some truth of coloring, but wiiich w ill apply not only to this, hut past administrations. The number of applicants, however, is, we are Sony to see, augmenting rapidly, and their importunities proportionally increased. It would seem to indicate that the nation was not in a condition to atVu d employment to its population, or that many v. ou'd 'prefer the : hackles and miserable depenuanee of office, to useful and independent trades and professions. 'I his is tube lamented ; hut we fear it arises, in some degree, out of the nature of our institutions Every man, however humble his fortune, is desirous to make his son a professional man, and for this purpose gives him an education proportionate to his limited means. He becomes a Lawyer, Doctor, cr Clergyman, and contributes to swell the number of these professions, which have now become so filled in every part of the country, that but few can obtain more than a bare subsistence. Trades are despised, and ad that can, rush into the learned pro-

iesMons, as re. ; e genteel, ana more likely to lean to honors and distinctions. In a few years bitter disappointment takes the place of visionary anticipation, and many of those who might hav e been useful and prosperous as Mechanics, Farmers, or Manufacturers, become mere prescri-

bers of pills, or fomenters of village vcealion,''

Mr. smeathman (a gentleman who read a paper before the Royal Society, Febru ir 15, 1781, on Ants) relates that a party cf them once took a fancy to a pipe of fine e Id Mcdeira, for the sake of the staves alone, not caring at all tor the wine, and completely destroyed the weed of it Mr. S. divides these insects into three orders : 1st. the working insects or labourers ; 2d. the fighters or soldiers; 3d. the winged or perfect insects, w hich are male and female, and capable of multiplying the species. The last lie culls the nobility and gentry, for they neither labour nor fight. The different functions cf the labourers and soldiers, or the civil and military establishments, aie illustraited in an attempt to examine their nests or city. On making a breach on any part of this structure with an instrument, a soldier ears and walks round the breach, as if to see itven-

emy be gone, or to examine whence the attack proceeds. Soon labourers are ordered up in vast numbers to repair the breach, and a soldier over looks about oOO in the operation, l'hey carry mortar for the repairs and soon at e as secure as ever. If the attack is repeated anil an attempt mo.de to reach the royrd chamber, soldiers anil workmen all congregate around it, and will loyally die in the defence of their king and queen. l)r. Pranklm once put a not of treacle into a

closet, to which several ants got. lie shook all out but one, and then tied the pot with a thin hiring toa nail, fastened in the ceiling, so that it hung down by it. As soon as the Ant was satisfied, it wanted to get out, but for some time could not discov er the way. At last it found after many attempts, the way to the ceiling by V'h'g along the string. Then it ran to the wall, and

from thence to the ground. It had scarcely been aw ay half an hour, when a great sr.-arm of Ants came out, got up to the ceiling, crept along the string to the pot, and began to eat again. Tki was done till the treacle was gone ; one swarm running down the string, the other up it. 1 will now conclude by giving a short account of their buildings. ith regard to man, uA

Air. Miicathman; lus greatest works, the IhV-sJ eel pyramids, fall comparatively short, in alone, of the structures raised by these insects. l'hey are not above a quarter of an inch in length ; but the structures they raise are frequently in or 12 feet atul upwards above the surface of the earth " If the height of a man was six feet. Mr. S. calculates that the buildings of these insects may be considered, relatively to their sic and that of man, as raised nearly Jive times as high as the greatest Egyptian pyramid. Tlii ir tunnels would expand to;i magnitieentcyh'id?r of more than 600 feet in diameter. It may be added, that with re spect to the interior construction, and the various members iud dispositions of the parts of the buildings, they appear greatly to exceed any and every work of human

construction.

1 hav e been led in my extracts far beyond the units I at first proposed to mvielf. but 1 thought

that a narration of the habits of so wonderful an insect might be allowed more space than peri - i ... i i .

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CmCLtL ,;x,6. The Treasury IVp;t toaent has ivti'eicd, that the "Editors of - . sp ipers. who h c transmitted their papers to the l ieasury Department, will please to for- " o d the r accounts to the first of May next, i t observe, th it after that time no paper will be p. .id tor withrut i special subscription." i on s correct Mr. Kendall; the -ith Audi:'hA letter ii also an o.eVdent ample. He no-

and are readv to seize upon anv thine: nhv vvill

yield them a support. Many, again, are wrought up without Trades or Professions, lead aUilcof

dissipation and extravagance, are reduced to

want, and rush to ashmgton tor omce. ANECDOTES OF ANTS. To the Editors of the Liverpool Times. The mischief that the Ants in general occa

sion, by eating books, papers, silks, or clothes, is nothing when compared with their penetrating tiie beams of a house or destroying the timbers

of a shin : on one occasion they attacked the.

Ar;.;. a British shin ef the line, and, incite of

the efforts cf the commander and crew" after having hoarded, thev got possession of4u? and

handled her so roughlv, that had she not been

tightly lashed together it was thought she would have foundered on the vvav home ; as it was,

when she was brought into port, she was totally

unht for sen ice and was obliged to be broken up

It was stated, in a London paper of IS 14, that the superb residence of the Gov erncr General at Caleutta, the erection of which cost the East In

dia Company immense sums ot money, was ra

pidlv eoiug to. decav, owing to the Though

the mischiefs of the Ants are so great, they arc

rebe-.blv countct b danced by the good theymo-

duce, in ouicklv destroying dead trees,. v!vC.

Such is their celerity in this particular, that in a few weeks, they will carry off and destroy the trunks of large trees. The total destuction of deserted towns is accomplished in 3 or 4 years, net the least vestige of a house remaining. Some persons like the taste cf those insects so much, that after nipping oft the head and w ings, they will eat them with the greatest voracity. They say that they arc cf an extremely agreeable acidity.

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uc luunciiy 5ioou. un me north stele c;

Broad street it extended as high up as the buck building occupied by Mr Giannis, a little below the bridge bank ; it then rushed bclov? with appalling fury, destroying in its course every building, with the exception of those on the fust, and a part of those en the second square below Maikct squate, until it reached the suburbs of the city, in the iuin ediate neighborhood of Mr Course's plantation. When the fire reached the maiket, no human exertions could arrest it The wind was southeast; and, lashed into fury by thu flantcs, they rushed and roaied through tifbw ignited atmosphere like the troubled occaiC All was confusion and dismay. ThcspectaV , tors of the awful scene were only aroused

jfrom the apathetic consternation into which

they were thrown, by the occasional & startling explosions of buildings which were blown up by some of the fire companies, with the hope of arresting the devouring element. Never lus Augusta been visited with so dicadlul a calamity. The number of houses destroyed are estimated at from 300 to 350; and the loss of properly cannot fall short of half a million of dollars; not one third of which, it is supposed, was ensured The fire raged about five hours Various reports arc in circulation in relation to its origin ; but as eveiy thing at present is confusion and conjecture, we relrain from noticing them. 'HevX hunitd details, too, which wc have n.aoW v mo necessarily be imperfect. Providenti-v ally no Uvea have been lost. Indeed, wc j have not heard of a single personal accident of a serious nature.

New York, April 10. DLt'iiiucri. E rii'E. nvavivG of lafat Er-TF. rilEATRR. A fire broke out this morning at a quarter past three o'clock, in a building in Thompson sticet, near the Lafayet e theatre. Before the firemen arrived with their engines, the flames had acquindg eat st ength, and had eoizi d on the theatte. From the highly combustible nature of the materials it contained, such as the scenery, the decorations, and the large proportion of frame wotk necessary in a building so extensive, and erected for such purposes, the progres of the flames was rapid, and the conflagration soon became terrible. The whole city was illuminated by the strong reflection of the fire from the canopy of the clouds above; and even in dwelling houses g .fatly distant from the spct, it was light enough to read the smallest print.

The theatre, notwithstanding that the fire

men exerted themselves with all their usual

s p n it and address to save it, was wholly des

ti oyed ; only a portion of the front, eighA

ten feet in bight, remains to tell where it stood Four adicinine houses, in Laurens

sticet, with several back buildings, were

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just convulsed with a gentleman from Cui

bciland count), who informs us, that in b

ing through rock lor salt water, a fountain of

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depth of loO feet. When the auger was , nM 'l , , , r , ....... . cd. lhtcc buiUluuTS on the east side ct

IT 1 homp'jcn street, were also wholly consumed, and thive brick three story dwelling hou--ifi on Canal street, between Thompson ami Lam ens, were seriously injured Four ol them had evciy thing consumed but the walls. The vi hole damage, occasioned by the Are i& estimatidat 200,000 dollars.

withdtavvn, the oil rushed up 12 or U feet 1

above the surface of the earth, and it was be

lieved that about 75 gallons vvci e discharged per minute, forming cpiite a bold sticam from the place to the Cumbciland liver, into which it dischaigcd itself. The fountain or stream was struck lour or five days previous to the (kp.utuie of our informant, at

which time the quantity of Prctoleom dis

charged had r.ot perceptibly diminished.

railing into Cumberland river, the volatile

oil covered a considerable portion of the sur

face of the stream for many miles below. II ignited, it would ptcsent a magnificent, if not

an appalling spectacle. A

British oil, which is cxtcnsivclyuiscd Jl

The political hoiizon of Upper Canada wears a yet more thicstening aspect The editor of the Colonial Advocate, who is a mi inber of the parliamei t of the colony, and distinguished for his spirited opposition, ihus speaks of the labors of the legislature and executive. U S. Gazette.

fhc fust session of the tenth parliament

... . . i r i S i nc ni si session ci tne tentn naruameni medicine, is manulaciuml of lrcloW .,. 2fV p)cr Cali::(h draws near to it, end. The

Wc have seen a specimen ol this oil it

ignites liccly. and produces a flame as brilliant as gas light. Our informant states that in the same nebohborhood in which this immense fountain of Prctoleom has been discovci cd, Doctor John Croghan has succeeded, by boiing, in obtaining an abundant supply of salt water, at a depth of more than 200 feet, which now rises about 25 feet above the ordinary level of the Cumberland river. The works, we are assured, will prove beneficial to the surround

ing country, and profitable to the enterprising proprietor. Lc villc Jdv. From the Augusta Chronicle, Jiril 4. TEKKIDLK AND AWFUL CON FLA ORATION. Yesterday evening, between the hoursvef two and three o'clock, our citizens wc(s. roused by the alarming cry of fire. Itas soon discovered to have originated in a house occupied bv a Mr Galloway, on Ellis street,

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ington street. It almost simultaneously communicated to Broad and Green streets on the north and south, and extended to Hroud street as high up as the fire proof store of Mr. Hig non, and down Lllis street as far as Mr. Hol-

linshead's, situated on the corner of Houston street, destroying in its course the new thca tre. It extended up Green street above Mr Warren's dwelling house, and below, as far as Dr. Anthony's; thence, taking the direction of Centre street, it communicated to our beautiful market, which it destroyed, as well as both sides of Centre street, until it reached the bridge; and also those buildings down Day street to the corner where the old thca-

two houses w ill be prorogued on the 20th inst. and the sittings will terminate as many sessions have done in times past, with less beneficial consequences to the public than was expected from the deliberations of the people's representatives Money has been grartcd for the roads, some little enquiry has been made into the mal administration of justice a light house is ordered to be built the fit st crown officer's title to a seat in the osscmbly ascertained ; and last and not least, an investigation has taken place into the financial concerns of the country, by vbich rv wc learn that the governor and the old conncil, with an occasional order from the colonial v department, pension away our revenue, and v otherwise dispose of it at their pleasure. Seme of it they condescend to spend publicly, and the residue h applied so very secretly, that Sir Tolm Colbot ne had to apply to tho King at London, cr leave to inform us izhaZ become r.f it and has not yet obtained the ncr

Matricd, on the 3rd inst. f.t the Asbury Missionary Inst tution, near Fort Mitchell, Cicek Nation, by the Rev. Mr Hill Mr.

James Hill, of tl e U S. Army, to .Miss A-H

inanda Doyle, a Creek pupil of the Institution. This establishment is under the charge cf Mr. and Mrs Hill, who were desirous of showing the natives how this ceremony is performed in a refined state of society, and the highest encomiums are due them for their entire success. Great exertion and ingenuity were nccessaty to accomplish it. The company consisted of about twenty white perscLs and enc hundred and fifty pa-