Western Sun & General Advertiser, Volume 20, Number 20, Vincennes, Knox County, 27 June 1829 — Page 3

THE WE STB UN BUN.

FLYCEMYES, june 27, 1829.

I was indictable as a trauu upon Tine gav'cuP"

mcnti no false pretences were necessary to be set out.

communication. I HORRIBLE : An Eastern Editor com

rounm dat of jult. I am authorized I plains, that a certain Postmaster has been re-

to state, that a number of citizens have re- moved, and a S HOE ALIKE R appointed in

quested Edward Hannagan, Esq. to ad- his place. It is monstrous lrt the estimation

dress his fellow citizens on the ensuing anni- of the ruffle shirt men that a mechanic should

vcrsary of our Independence, and that ar- be appointed to office. Only think what an

rangemcnts will be made for a due and be-1 enormity this is, that a Shoemaker should be

coming celebration of the day. 76. appointed Postmaster. Wilmington Gaz.

Vinccnnes, 24th June, 1829.

Rail Road. According to the Baltimore

t it i

communicated. uazette, astonisnmg progress nas been made

Judicial DiGsi tr. The following con- in the Baltimore and Ohio Rail road, and an

vetsation is said to have passed between a almost incredible quantity of work done with-

venerable old lady, and a certain presiding in the last month. The editor says : "The

Judge of this state, equally distinguished by foundations for the bridge at Gwynne's falls the other great powers of Europe, is about

Macclesfield. The malcontents had even gone so far as to break the windows and destroy the machinery in some of the factories; in some cases the military had been called out to quell them. liverfool, May 5. We announce with ery great regret an alarming accident which occurred yesterday in the vicinity of Manchester, and which led to the burning of one mill, and the partial demolition of two others. The sole cause of this dis'urbance was an attempt on the part of the masters to reduce the wages of the workmen, which these infatuated men resisted by these acts of violence. The London Globe of the 2d, (contrary to what was before stated) states, that the Bri

tish government, in conjunction with some of

the zeal he exhibited, and the eloquence he are nearly completed, and the centering of

displayed last year, in electioneering for the arches prepared. 1 he stone for the lacMessrs. Adams and Clay, and for his watch- i" is on the pot, and nothing remaining unfitness over his judicial dignity. The Judge done to interfere with the erection of the Mas supported on the right and on the left, bridge. From thence the road is completed by bis humble associates, and the old lady for the rails to the Washington turnpike, was called to give evidence. through which a cut has been made, and in a President Judge. Take otT your bonnet, few days the masonry of the tunnel will be madam. commenced. From the Washington turnLady. I would rather not, sir. pike you gallop, if you please, on horseback, P.J. I desire you to put off your bonnet, over the finished grading of the road to the ,. I am informed, that in public assem- deep cut, which is in most rapid progress of bites, the woman should cover the head; completion, and where the new wagons are at such is the custom and of course I will not work with great effect By far the most diftakc of!" my bonnet. ficult part of this cut is completed more P J Why. you are a pretty woman ! In- than half. Lamps are placed along the terndeed ! I think you had better come and take porary rails, and relays ot hands are constanta seat on the bench. ly employed 300 men we are informed were

L I thank you kindly, sir but I really at work here A bridge is erected at the

to interfere with a strong hand to put down the usurpation of don Miguel, in Portugal, Sc to expel the usurper from the kingdom. BEn lin, April 13. The emperor of Rus

sia isexpectcd to be here at the marriage of

prince William ; but it does not appear that the empress will come, as was expected, or that he will goto the army. Many think a general war in Europe by no means improb able. Ancona, April 12 It is said that admiral Heyden intends to blockade the harbor of Alexandria, & hinder the Pacha of Egypt from supplying the port with pi ovi-d'ns. The blockade df Alexandria would be very injurious to Constantinople, and gicatly em barrass the pacha ot Egvpt. because since the occupation ot the principalities, and the

j rigorous prohibition of importation from the

think there are old women enough there al- Annapolis road under which the Rail road j ports of the Black sea, Constantinople has

derived almost all its supplies of corn from

Egypt; and the trade of Alexandria, which lifts already declined in a very alarming degree, would be reduced to nothing by this measure. From the Gazette of France, May 2. iwnts May I We learn from funis, that the Fiench division blockading Algiers, has captured several vesseh. among w hich was one under the Tuscan Hag, which belongs to the government of Tunis.

ready. U nas aireauy aci anceel some distance. A short

distance further is the finished section patal

From the U. States Telegraph, of June 2. lei with the Annapolis road. The embank-

Dr Tobias 1lrA rKiss. The opinion of ment at the end of it is rapidlv advancing, and !

the court in the case of the U. States v. To the bridge in the centre promises to be a ve-

bias Watkins, was delivered today by Judge ry splendid piece of masonry in appearance,

Cranch The court was of opinion, that the as well as strength. Beyond this, a long

money of which the United States was de stretch of graded road, and a great extent of

frauded, was the property of the U States; finished embankment brings you to the great that the offence was a common law offence, embankment at Gadshy's run, which is much

and that this court has common law criminal further advanced than we could have sunno

jurisdiction; but sustained the demurrer, sctl. beyond this again, the excavation has

and quuhed the indictments on the grounds gne deep into the hill under the Washing

first, t hat they did not sufhcientlv ever ton road, which crosses the Rail road on a

what the false pretences were by which the temporary bridge. This, and the deep cut

govern nont was defrauded; and secondly, arc the busiest places on the route, there be-

that the charge of forgery, if sustainable at mg quite a village of workmen's houses at

all, could not properly be made in conjunct! each of them. From this to Ellicott's mills,

on with another charge m the same count of and indeed, for 12 miles beyond the mills the an indictment. The demurrer is sustained road may be said, with but tew exceptions, to by the opinion, only on the formal objections be quite ready for the rails, making from

to t?ie indictment. As to the substance of town, a distance ot 25 miles, which, with the

the charges, the court's decision is against exception perhaps of the deep cut and great

the prmner. embankment, would be made ready for railfc

Judge Thruston was clearly of opinion, (in from three to four weeks. And the cut

that the demurrer ought to be overruled; and embankment will, with the bridges over although he concurred with the majority of Gwynn's falls and the Patapsco, be ready, we

the court in opinion as to the charge of for should think, and finished lor rails in some

geiy, yet he thought that the indictments what more than two months, if not sooner

were in other respects good. If these indict he winter, the workmen say, has been very

mcnts were not good, it was hardly possible, J unfavorable, and considering this fact, the

he believed, to sustain an indictment at com- exertions made, and the work effected, have

mon law, for such oITences against the Uni quite surpassed our most sanguine cxpecta-

ICU OlillCS. I UUII3.

The opinion of the court, which is too long

for insertion in our paper of to day, will be LATE FRO M ENGLAND .

given in our regular report of the case. The ship Mentor, Webb, has arrived at N

There is another indictment against Doctor York from Liverpool, bringing London pa-

Watkins, which will probably be argued to pers to the 8th. Sc Liverpool to the 9th May.

morrow on a demurrer. London, May 8. I he riots in the manu

After the decision of the court was pro (acuiing districts, have produced the consc

nounccd, Mr. Coxc, the counsel of Mr. Wat quences that were to be apprehended Blood

kins, moved the court, that the same jndg was shed five men have been killed at Roch

mcnt sh mid he entered to a third indictment, dale, and about 25 wounded. For some time to which they had also entered a demurrer. pst, there had been much discontent on the

TNI r K. v objected to this entry, and stated, part of the persons employed in the woollen

that they should argue that demurrer. The and flannel manufacture against some of the

counsel tor Mr W. then insisted that it pre- masters who pay lower wages than others.

scntcd the same case, and must be decided in The workmen destioyed the looms and shut

the same way. and urged, that if the court lies, so that persons inclined to work would would allow an argument under such cii cum- be unable. A riot ensued the military were

statures, it should be mvlc at once. called out 23 of the rioters were arrested. &

Mr. Key replied, that he admitted that this 16 of them committed to Lancaster.

thitd indictment, and the drmurrer to it, pre A large mob assembled before the prison

scntcd the san e case, but that Mr hwann Sc for the purpose ol liberating them. They at

himself, thought they could satisfy the court tacked the soldiers with stones, and wounded

bv aulhoutie. that the indictment was sus one of them. A party of cavalrv arrived, who

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tainanlc upo i the principles laid down by the fired on the mob, killed 5, and wounded 25.

court, in the opinion just delivered that it At Manchester there had been no further

was an indictment tor a fraud on the govern I disposition to riot. The dragoons are order

ment, and required no setting out of false ed to march to morrow from Bermingham to

presences t ut nothing more was necessaiy Leeds. Hopes arc entertained that the dif

than to aver, that it was a fraud upon the ft rences between the masters Sc men at Spi

government, and to set out the manner ol its taiiiclds will be adjusted.

perpetration, which was done sufficiently; M. Clemar ds de Lalayettc has been assas

celled; in the capacity oFtrind, neighbour

and citizen, he was kind, urbane and courteous, and to the unfortunate always ready to extend the hand of charity. Long will the

citizens of the place deplore his loss ; and to his particular friends, his death has formed a chasm never to be filled. He died in the fullest confidence of his Saviour's love k mercy, not doubting that he should be able to give an account of his stewardship. His funeral was numerously attended, particularly by those best acquainted with his worth. May the Lord receive his soul." E. a r r r 0 s ;&'.CS'.Vl , r s r om Candidates Department. August Election, Monday 3d, 1829. For Representative?. John C. Riley, Johjc McClubf, Thomas McClure, G. V Johxsto.v. Probate Judge, William Poi.kf,

Notice to Farmers. ''IT'IIE subsciiber respectfully informs the 1J i rmets of the country generally, that he has his Ox AIill, and Wind AIill, in complete operation, St that he wib exchange M Ii AL POIt CORN, Gi ving one bushsel ot Meal, lor one of Corn. He will also ijive FLOUR F-.iR WHEAT, On the most accommodating turns. By his strict a'tention to business, he hopes to receive a share of their custom. He will purchase Wheat, and Flax Seed, At the market pi ice He is also determined to sell LUMBKIl At the lowest prices by the quantity. J. L. COLMAN. Vinccnnes, June 1829. 20-tf

that the; principles relating to cheats by false

pretences, were wholly inapplicable ; and that they wou'd be ready to produce authorili. R. and be heard to morrow. The court then stated, it should be heard tn morrow ; a id Judge Cranch added, that though it might be unnecessary to aver and str?e the faKe pretences, and to charge that the government was !cfraudcd by the false pretences, yet that, if it was done, (as it was here,) and the party thereby saw that he was t be clnrged with these false pretences, it would be necessary that they should be prove I, and therefore, they should be stated and averred in proper form, and with sufficient certainty. Mr. Key replied, that he thought they could show that any such statement of false pretences, if set out, would be but surplusage; and that it would be enough to show the go vetnmcnt was defrauded, and the means by whi' h it was done. Jm!g. Truston stated, that he intended to hn said, in his opinion, that if the offence

sinated in Paris.

Letters from the frontiers of Wallachia, of

April 13th, mention some success to have been gained by the garrison of Giurgevo. on the 5th, and allude to a movement at head quarters to Krajova, with a view to ulterior operations against Servia. 1 he Russians, however, must first dispose of the Turkish ar my near Widdin, and reduce the fortress. The French papers announce that an interview would take place between the emperor Nicholas, and the kingot Prussia, on the 28th in Silistria. A letter from Ancona states, that the United States have failed in their effort to obtain from the Porte, the cession of an island in the Mediu rranean. They had opened a negotiation with the Greek government for the same object, with every prospect of success. The following items by the Florida, arrived at New York, we copy from a slip received at the exchange. The distress among the manufacturers was very severe, and extensive "turn outs" had

IMPORTANT. Extract of a letter from an oflicer in the UniStates squadron, to the editor of the Chro nicle, dated " United States ship Delaware, Mahon, Ajnil 10 " The brig Pacific, for your port, had a most remat kab'e short passage, (24 days) and brought papers and letters as late as the 6th ult. The writer here goes on to narrate the affair which t nk place last February, between the crews ol the American and Fiench vessels of war, ivhich has been previously published by capt. Downes There are now at this port a French frigate, sloop of war, (store ship) and two brigs. The brig Harri et, capt. Cook, of Providence, arrived here 29th ult. in 27 days from N York with stoics lor the United States snuadion.

41 Com Crane arrived here in the sloop ol war Fairfield, from Smyrna, which place he left on the 17'h Marchleft the Lexington there, all well, much engaged in convoying vessels. The Unite d Stales schooner Por poise, lieut. com'dt. Bell, also arrived here from Smyrna on the 23d ult. report says, she is going home, but I place no confidence in it. When the commodore left this ship last November, we entertained serious apprehensions for his valuable life he now enjoys better health than he has for twenty years past, and thinks nothing of walking six or seven miles, which for a man of his corpulency is very great. " We are in considerable bustle here, getting ready for sea, as the commodore's quarantine will expire on the 24th inst. when we shall sail, I cannot say where. 11 By a letter received from an ofTiccr on board the Lexington, at Smyrna, dated 17th March, we learn that the Russians have crossed the Danube with an army 400,000 strong, bound to Constantinople, where provisions were very scarce even the dogs in the streets were starving, so our Consul, who had just arrived from that city, informed them. The bashaw of Smyrna had purchased several caigoes of corn, and sent it by land on camels. The writer is under the impression that the Austtians and Hussions will have some difficulty with each other, as the former appear to be very friendly to. the Turks. An Auslrirn frigate was then dismounting her battery, and taking in provisions for Constantinople ' P. S We have just received intelligence that the French arc rallying around Algiers, and intend making an attack on that city on the 25th inst. both by sea and land." Salem, June 13. Jonh Curry, has been appointed Post Master at this place, vice Dr B Bradley, removed, or as some of the coalition papers would sav, " whose throat has been cut." All the President's friends and most of hi enemies here, are highly pleased with this appointment. Annotator. COMMUNICATED. Departed this lile on l'ueday the 16th inst

JOHN CHRISTOPHER FREDERICK ORAETER,

Esq. in tiie 77th year of his age, and for ma

ny years a Justice of the Peace in this place.

He was a native of Germany, and emigra ted when very young to the United States Few men have passed through life, and sus

tained a better reputation as an officer, he

Lost Land Certificate. O 1 ICE is nertby given, that six weeks after date, application will br made to the Register of the Land Ofiice at Vinccnnes, in the sta'e of Indiana, for a certificate of fcrpEitkd land stock, for the amount paid on the south east qu.tiicr ot section No. thirty-four, in township No six, south, of range No. fourteen, west. And also the south west quarter of section No thirty five, in township No six, south, of range N . fourteen, west, in the Vinccnnes District, entered on the 23d day of May, 1807, by George Chapman, and forfeited for non payment agreeably to law ; now claimed by me under the act of Congress of the 23d day of May, 1 823, ci titled An act for the relief of purchasers of public lands that have reverted for nonpayment of the purchase money .' the original certificates of the puich.se of which has been lost or destroyed. Given under my

hand, this 9th day of June, 1829.

20-Gt JOSEPH KENNEDY, for himself, and the other heirs of Joseph KF.xxEDr deceased.

Lost Land Certificate.

KTO flCE is lure by given, mat six weeks ! after date application will be made to the Register ol the Land Office ai Vinccnnes, in the state of Indiana, for a Certificate of

FORFEITED LAND STOCK, foi tllC amount pud on the i actional section No. four, in

township No. seven, south, of range number

rive, west, in the Vinccnnes District, contain

ing five hundred and twenty four acres and

sixty eight hundredths of an acre, and entered on the 25th day of March, 1812, and forfeited for non payn ent i f the purchase money agreeable to law ; now claimed by me under ihe act of Congress of the 23d of May. 1828, entitled "An act for the relief of purchasers of public lands that have reverted for non payment of the purchase money," the original certificate of the purchase of which has been lost or destroyed Given under mv hand this 8th of June, 1829 nr,,JAG WILLI M 11LACK.

Kstray Bay Mare. TAKEN up b Philip H Miller, living in Campbell township, Warrick county, Indiana, a bay mare, six years oid last spring, about 15 hands high, a small star in her forehead, a long tail, no other marks nor brands perceivable, appraised to 55 dollars, by Thomas Headncat and I a?c Birret, before me, LEVI IGLEH LART. j p. June 19. 1829. 20-3

Administrators Notice. 1 OTICE is heieby given, that I intend n to apply to the Probate court of Lawrence county, state of Illinois, on the third Monday in August next, for the purpose of making a final settlement of the estate of RoI . .1 1 . ...t . ! II

ucri uoiunaiit neccaseu. ai wiucn lime an persons interested may attend if they sec properthe estate is believed to be solvent. JOHN DOLOHAW Aim. June 24, 1829. 2o-Mt WANTED,

ONL, or two boys to learn the Tassisc business, the boys must be from eleven to fifteen years old, and would be preferred from the country application to be made to JOHN BLACK. Vincennes. June 1829 i R tf INDENTURES for Apprentices for sale at this ofiice.