Western Sun & General Advertiser, Volume 21, Number 23, Vincennes, Knox County, 17 July 1830 — Page 3

j office seekers, pettifogging dmaogues, j very considerable, most of ihc gardens

WESTERN SUEtf. ! Iomel or steam quacks or speculating

VINCEXNES, JULY 10. 1830.

The subject of a Senator to ihc United States from this state, to supply the place of W. Hendricks, whose term-of service will expire on the 1th day of March next, is hepinninr to make some stir; the following persons have been named in different state papers as probable candidates Hendricks, Boon, Canby, Sullivan, Tipton and Kay; to which list, 1 will add, John Kvinr, Esq. as a possible candidate. For my own part, how ever, I believe the list will be reduced to three, Hendricks, Boon and Ray. The Branch Bmk of the United States, in Boston, has been robbed of about $10-, 000. by John Fuller, the second Teller in the Bank $'2000 arc offered for the recovery of the money, and $500 for the arrest of Fuller. I have been desired to say, that Alexander I). Scott, declines holding a poll for Sheriff', at the approaching election. Errata. In the third line from the top of the last column, on the first page, for 'indiscribable' read "undisseinbled."' TOR THE WESTERN SUN I had hoped iii.it it would not have been necessary for me to have arrain troubled this people on the subject of the Senatorial eiection. That ?he base schemes of n vile fiction, thvi interested efforts of par-tiz-uis and us.i t:ts, whether speculator?, inuiguers or hypc-cri'e:--, I a been sufficiently expse-'I. B it in ror.i, :i to his past :-cn ice-, and to his f:.ir lopes of future adviHicemeni, s is the mcreaied veii- ni o a ibw p panders, to pro scribe the il. John Ewinac. A new effort is uow making, and a now ground of electioneering is occupied by a portion of die party. The Hon. John Ewing, who has ever been above the practice of disguise, and has ever most freely exchanged opinions on every subject with his constituents and fellow-citizens, is now accused of deceit in the late Presidential election. This charge if left to the keeoimr

of the faction who conceived it, may produce some little effect with the ignorant part of the community; it is therefore necessary to recur to the opinions and conduct of our distinguished Senator on that subject. When he announced himself as the Editor of the Telegraph, the warm partisans on cither side were told what to expect; that its readers could only expect the truth, so fir as it was promulgated:

that it was not to peal the harsh notes of political animosity that he became an Editor; that he would never pander to liccmioiisness, nor foment passion by traducing character to excite party spirit, nor foster an illiberal feeling or an unfounded prejudice, to become a partizan; and his readers were told, that the opinions which he would without offensive importunity express, they of course were at liberty to reject or not. His object was to advocate dispassionately, measures for the public good, not the sinister designs of aspirants; and to support and promote agriculture, manufactories, trade, education, and science, not the interested views of pat izans. It was his determination to devote himself to the promotion of the interests of this people, essential to their prosperity, and of paramount importance

to the mere choice of oueor another distinguished man to the Presidency. This

course he ably and faithfully pursued: the

Hon. John Ewing could not become the

follower of any man; he could not confound himself with the crowd of parti

sans; he could not submit his unremitted

exertions to increase the prosperity and support the rights of the people to a few leaders on either side of the Presidential

question. Others might array themselves for Adams or for Jackson, but he could

not; he esteemed the patriotism and val

ucd the services of each, could not call

himseit by the name of either.

This course so patriotic a vl praisewor

thy, the jactwn are now laboring to mis represent for the gratification of their ma

lignity, and for the benefit of their candi

date, a warm partizan and zealous follow

er of the modern Jackson and reform, and

would be democratic, republican school

that school of politicians whose doctrines

are pregnant with ruin to the constitution

and destruction to the morals of the coun

try; whose leader, with the assistance o

an humble majority of Senators, "palace

slaves,-' at one tell swoop ot tyrannic

power, has removed trom office patriots oi -70, and of 1812, men of distinguished

worth and capacity, faithful public ser vanls, to glut the thirst for office, and gra

tify the malignity of his followers.

In relation to the presidential election the Hon. Julin Ewing endeavored to pro

inulgate the truth, without regard to the

supposed feelings or wishes of partizan

and it any individual doubts 1ns impartiality, he need only recur to the columns of the Wabash Telegraph for full satisfaction on this subject. This explanation, due to truth and candor, made, 1 trust 1 shall not again feel under the necessity of troubling the public with my efforts to devclope the designs of a known faction. But if the necessity should arise. I shall

avail of the impartiality of the Editor of . a r .

the NtMern un, pledged tome, unintentionally perhaps, to expose to this people the offl.rts of designing a.spirants and intriguing partizan. whether hypocritical

?havers; for such are the discordant ma

terials of which this faction is composed. United together by a community of malignant passions, of an unprincipled ambition, and of sordid interests, and especially by their hatred to the Hon. John Ewing; occasioned originally by his honest and disinterested opposition to the speculating schemes of Wilson Lagow and his associates, to aggrandise themselves by the plunder of the people; continued by envy at the high character he has acquired by his devotion to, and untiring zeal in support of the permanent and paramount interests of the country; and now excited by a dread of the confluences to their vile projects and sinister plans from his further continuance in a public station. Let them beware how they trifle with the best interests, and a-

buse the confidence ot this people. The

are ruined; the turnpike road and two stone bridges washed entirely away; in short the whole village, which a few hours before wore a cheerful and rural appearance, now presents a scene of dS olation and ruin.

CHEROKEE INDEPENDENCE. Mr. Wirt, late Attorney General of the United States, has been employed by the head men of the Cherokees, to carry their case before the Supreme Court of the United States. The Cherokees claim to be a sovereign and indefiendent nation, and Mr. Wirt expects that the Supreme Court will sustain the doctrines they advocate. A more wicked and unprincipled project could not have been suggested. We cannot believe that the Supreme Court will entertain the question which

Mr. Wirt has been employed to argue

day is perhaps not verv distant when the ! belore that tribunal. Ir is known to the

Hon. John Ewing, by his situation in a

distinguished branch of the national councils, will have it abundantly in his power to punish the most obnoxious portion of the present faction. The entire want of the necessary qualifications of one of the U. S. Senatorial candidates, and the unmanly, assassin-like "vicar of Bray" course of the other, of late, renders such an event quite probable. I trust all the efforts of this f iction will prove unavailing to elevate Wilson Lagow to a station he will certainly disgrace, or to induce a majority of this people, heretofore watchful and true to their interests, to abandon to his enemies: an honest and faithful representative, distinguished statesman and legislator, and experienced public servant, the Hon. John Ewinsr. A CITIZEN.

FOR THE WESTERN SIX I will meet the voters of Palmyra township, at Jonathan Hornback's on the 10th. On the 22d the voters of Harrison Township, at the place of holding their election. The 23d the voters of Johnson township, at the place of holding their election. The 24th the voters of Decker township, at the place of holding their election. And on the Saturday before the election, at the Court House in Vincennes; at which time and place, I will be fully prepared to refute the calumnies heaped upon me by my opponent, and shew to the people that I have Leen vilelytraduced and grossly slandered. At Vincennes I will have all the evilenees necessary to a full and complete investigation. WILSON LAGOW. a ; 9 : o : o o ; o ; o : tn

From the Baltimore American. DISTRESSING OCCURRENCE The Newton, New Jersey Herald

states that on Monday night the 17th in

stant between 10 and 11 o'clock, the stream which passes through the village-

of Branchville, aboui 6 inles above New

on, having risen greatly by previous

rains, the mill-dam of John Bell, Esq

at the upper part of the town gave way, and a column of water, 25 feet in depth,

swept away every thing before it Tlv

ford Mr. Bell was completely demol-

ished. The mill dams of Samuel Price

were next carried off, one wail of the

Woolen Factory was thrown entirely

down, the building otherwise slightly,

and some of the machinery materially

injured. The races of the Factory and

Gristmill were filled with stones and

rubbish, or destroyed; several dwelling

houses below were inundated: and

though but one life was lost, many es-

caped narrowly, and some miraculously

from drowning. The inhabitants had mostly retired to rest, but were awaken

ed by the loud noise ot the rushing wa-

ters, and immediately retreated to the

upper part of their dwellings The family of Mr. McDanieia very narrowly escaped drowning. Mr. McDaniels had

retired to bed, in an upper chamber, his

wife was in a lower room reading, one

child lay in the cradle, others were in bed asleep near her; she had scarcely

heard the sound of the moving, mass of water before the door of the room in which she was sitting was burst open by its violence. She sprung upon a box which was near her, with her infant in her arms, and there she stood the water reaching nearly to her chin, holding her child above it, until Mr. McDaniels, de-

scended from the chamber with a view,

if possible, to save them; she begged him to desist declaring that the children in the bed were both drowed, and that he must perish if he persisted in the at-

tempt to save either her or them; he

however did persist, and found his chil-

dren in the bed, floating on the surface

of the water, uninjured, and one of them

still asleep, and conveyed them all to a

place of safety. The house of Mr.

Michael Mackerly was entirely swept

away. Himself and wife were the only

persons in the house. When the house

was falling Mrs. M. clung to her hus-

band, and they soon found themselves

borne rapidly along by the torrent. Mr.

M. seized a bush, and held on, still sup-

porting bis wife, and in this situation he

was struck on the head by a piece of floating timber, which for a few moments deprived him of his senses, and at this moment his wife separated from him He was again carried further down, when he seized another bush and held on until his cries for assistance brought him relief. His wife perished, and was found the next morning half a mile below the village. The injury done to various descriptior.s of property in the village is

Judges, that it is impossible for two sov-

ereignties to exist in the same district ot country, and that the sovereignty of the Cherokees could only be successful, iy asserted by dividing Georgia and Ala bama, and establishing a new Stat or Nation out ot parts oicach, against their consent, which would be a flagrant vio lution of the constitution. It sustain in their pretensions, the Cherokees would either have to be viewed as an independent foreign nation within the United States, or they would stand on an equal footing with the whites, and would have to be admitted iito the Union, on an equal fooling with the oiiginal States; so soon as the extent ot their population would justify the

measures I o secure to them the i )ght

of living under their own laws, vvemut

treat them as a foreign nation, in every sense of ihe word sovereign and in

dependent competent to treat with

r ranee, England or Russia, as well as the United btates, and to adopt such revenue laws as would be most conducive

to their inteiest or happiness.

IF admitted to stand on equal footing

with other States, they would be entitiod to send two members to the Stnate

ol the United States, and as many mem

bers the House oi Representatives as

theii population would authorize under

the apportionment of representation a dopted by Congiess vvhkh could i.ot

be effected without violating toe consti

tutionso; the States and ot tUctrencial

rovei nmcp.t

We arc i bus convinced that ?lr. Wirt

and his employers can have but one cb

jeet in view and this is, to increase the

excitement that has been got up on the

Indian Q icstion. 1 hey may hope to e n

hat itiC Supreme Court in their behalf, and to procure a decision adverse to the so.ereignty of Georgia, and to effect

thereby, in the sequel, a severance ot the

Union. They ate aware that Georgiu

will not surrender her rights as a State

without making a manly and patriotic ef

fort to defend ihem, and that, should they

be forced to resist a deci cc ot the federa judicial y, they would not stand alone ir ihe conflict,

Thus, under pretence of sustaining

the pretensions of the Cherokees to sov

ereignty and independence, the opposition are obviously striving to overthrow the State governments, or to dissolve the Union. The trois.un of Arnord, though more palpable, was not more reprehensible or base Louisville Pub. Advertiser

THE FIRST STEAM BOAT VOYAGE. A late nuraberof the Portland Courier

contains a letter from our distinguished

countryman Robert Fulton, cif ir.e an ac

count of his first trip by steam, up the

Hudson river. It is an extract horn a

Philadelphia paper of 1807, and can

hardly fail of beinc; read with interest.

'When Fulton started upon this firs:

voyage, he stood almost alone in his ex pectations of success. He, however, was sanguine; and could he now revisit

the numerous rivers and bays of our

country, he would find his expectations

more than realized !

To Joel Barlow Esq. of Philadelphia. NEW YORK, AUGUST 22, i 807. My Deir Friend My steam-boat

voyage to Albany and back, has turned

out rather mot e favorable than I had cal

culated. The distance fiom New Ydk to Albany is 150 miles; Iran up in 32

hours, and down in 30 hours. The lat

ter is just five miles an hour. I had a

light breere against me the whole way

going and coming, so that no use was

made of my sails; and the voyage has been performed wholly by the power ot the steam engine. I overtook many sloops and schooners beating to wind

ward, and passed them as if they had

been at anchor. !

The power of propelling boats by-

steam is now fully proved. The morn ing I lett New-York, there were not

thirty persons in the city who believed

that the boat would move one mile an

hour, or be of the least utility And while we were putting oft from the wharf, which was crowded with specta

tors, I heard a number of sarcastic re

marks: this is the way, you know, in

which ignorant men compliment what

they call philosophers and projectors.

Having employed much time and mo

ney and zeal in accomplishing this work, it gives me, as it will you, great pica

sure to see it so fully answer my expectations. It will give a quick and

cheap conveyance to merchandize on the

Mississippi, Missouri, and other great rivers, which are now laying open their treasures to the enterprise of our countrymen. And although the prospect of personal emolument has been some inducement to me. yet I feel infinitely more pleasure in reflecting with you on the immense advantage that my country wiil derive from the invention. ROBERT FULTON. Unfortunate Occurrence. On the 6th instant James Hall and Soutberland Mayfield while reaping in a harvest field abiUt six miles north of this place a greed to fight in a singlo combat. They commenced fighting, and but few blows were passed before it was discovered that Mayfield was to all appearance dying As soon as this was dis covered, we arc informed his antago

uiht left him, but he lived but a few

minutes.

A Coroner's inquest was held over the

body and pronounctd that "he came by

his deaih by fignting with James Hall Madison Republican.

Working men. A party uuder this name has lately spread terror and dis

may among the aristocracy of the State of New York. They have lately gained a complete triumph in the cities of Albany and Troy, and in the city of New York they have probably a majo;ity. We have frequently been asked what was the object of the Working Men's party ? They commposc the great body

stributlon of a rast amount of money and patronage, which the Representatives or the People, the co ordinate branches of the Government, had tendered to him. Man is fond of power, and the distribution of money gives it to him ; it requires very cxtraodmary firmness of purpose, and the utmost devotion t3 principle, to resist the proffered power and more especially, when such a course jeopardizes the popularity of the Magistrate. By signing all the bills presented to him, General Jackson would have been re-elected without opposition But, all the highest honors of his country havo been conferred upon him by its grateful citizens the measure of his popularity was full and he koked only to a conscientious performance f the dutv to which he had been called. The Union was endangered, by efforts made to pervert the principles upon w;icb it was formed. A timid President, or a President anxious to be again elected, would have acted differently. It has been ascertained that there aro 500,009 persons in Ireland, who car.not speak the English language; 3t.d 1500, 000, who speak it but very imperfectly.

Erastus Root, and Jimes M'Call,of

New York, have been appointed by the

'resident Commissioners to settle the

boundary line between the Indians which

have, emigrated from that S'ate and ihc WinebaZes. Xational Intelkgencer.

CANDIDATES DEPARTMENT.

MONDAY 2d AUGUST, 1830 Se sa to r Fo r Knox, Daviess i? Mcti::.

Wilson Lagow.

Pepresextjtii'es.

John Decker, John C. Rkily,

Ebenkzer Welton, Joseph Chamber

JOSEPH RoSEMAN.

sIssociate Judges

John Moore, Riohard V. l'Ricr, John Black,

Sheriff.

John Myers, John B, Laplant, John Purcell.

Recorder.

Samuel Dillwortii, J. A. Dardenne,

Alfed G. Lagow, Richard Buck, HhPY Ruble, Elihu Stout.

W. Almy, Geo. W. Caruthers Clerk.

Gexl. W. Johnston, m. L. Withers, Samuel Hill. Daniel C Johnson,

COROSOR.

Abraham Rodarmel

A letter insulting and abusing the

President in the grossest manner, lot

turning a certain Air Barney out ol

oftice in Raitioiorc, has jouh going the

rounds ot the oppusrion papers for a

monih or so, and mac its appearance in

this neighborhood 'ast week It is signed by Mrs Barney, and dated a year

agcy and is now brought out as the cap

sheaf of the tabors of the coalition scolds, such as Barton, Clayt07it Holmes, Sec.

Sec. The. lady takes the real coalition grounds of right to the office, and robbery, outrage and all that, in being de

pnved of it. It ought to be stated by some one who may know, whether or not Mr. Barney and his mild consort have starved, by being obliged to depend on their own labor, as Mrs Barney seemed to think they would. The letter represents Mr. Barney as a picture of suffering virtue, but in B .Itimorc his dismis sal from office must have been popular. His standing there was yery low as an honest man. We will mention one instance of his conduct as a sample, and no one will say that such a man deserved public favor. Whilst he held a public

office, he was in the habit o running in

debt, and avoiding payment by all possi

ble means. At one time, when he was

preparing to take the benefit of the in

solvent laws, he called on many of his

acquaintances, and borrowed what mo

ney he could, telling each of them that he would pay it on the same day. When he had got what he could borrow, he

paid it by taking the benefit of the act on the same day As he got his living

by a public office, he drew his salary,

and his creditors could not reach him

Did such a man deserve to be retained in

office? Yet he is represented by the op.

position to be a persecuted man. V

essenger

NOTICE.

AKEN UP by J .:1m

M-Li tl Jblack. li vin in

$j&JJi litcheltree tor.-iiip,

Martin county, on the bth rtuvU June, 1830, A GRAY MARE about fourteen and a half hands high; cne hind hoof white had on a small bell, tied on with a rope; supposed to bo fourteen or fifteen years old. No marks or brands percciva ble appraised at twenty-five dollars by Thomas B. Eaton and John Shields. A true copy from my book of es trays.

WILLIAM EATON, J. P. Mitchell rec tonnthip. July 17, 1630. 23-3t

A.

JluakinTdam Me

The number of emigrants or "steer

age passengers" from Europe, arrived

at New. York since ihe first April, is

nearly eight thoui3nd S(. Ltuis Tirr.et.

ESTRAY.

' R AKEN UP by James li Me Arthur' living in Widner township, Knox

county, Indiana, a DARK BAY MARE face and left hind foot white ; supposed to be six or seven years old. No artifi-

of Farmers. Mechanics and Labor lcial marks or brands perceivable apf.rs of that state. The New Yoik Daily j praised at forty dollar, by A. Burntide,

Sentinel, which ably supports their J 1J- Johnson and Jee Oude, Letorc me,

cause, says: It is to put down political trimmers, those who make politics z trade to lesseD the influence of monied in aitutions to vivke the laborer honor ablc.andthe idler contempt ble to establish a system of Education, the benefits

of which shall extend to all classes of

citizens, or rather, to destroy the distinction of class, by elevating what are now considered the degraded and to blot

from the statute book he barbarous lav of imprisonment far debt. We have

only to say, if these are the objects of the

Working Men success attend them every where Harrisburg Intelligencer

Reduction of Duties. The American Sentinel contains a statement exhibiting the amount of the different descriptions on Tea, Molasses, Salt, Coco, and Coffee, imported into the United States in the year ending on the 30th September last, with the amount exported in the same period, and the amout of duties payable on the balance which remained for consumption. The aggregate of duties paid on these five articles, at the existing rates is 85,741,383. The aggregate of d uties on the same amount of the several articles, computed at the lowest prospective rates fixed by the act of the late Congress, would be g'2,262.598. The annual reduction of duties therefore, the

this lOthdavof July, 130.

A. (i. ROBERTS, J. P. N. B. There is a difference of opinion

respecting the color of said Mare. The Taker up calls her a dark hay, the appraisers call her a light brown.

July 17, 1N30. 23-3t "aTlist of letters e E.MAlMNo in the Post Uire in Wu.-hiiiiiton, Diviess cotmtv, Indi

ana, the quarter ending the 1st of July; whirh if not taken out within three months, will be seat to the General P.st Office as dead letters. Rizen Brand, Win. G. Cole, Francis Cauldwin, David Cpoie, Jam?s O.rnuhan, Nathaniel D:vis, Perrian Daniel, William Fuller, Eli P. Firmer, John tiraham, Andrew Galloway, Grcenbcrv Jordan, Joseph Kelso, Thomas Nee'v, .S mdfrd Scot I, Samuel Smith, Wiil i- m Terrile, Kertly Wayman, Jossi1 Wallace.

JOHN UmmiX, Postmaster.

Juh , 1S.'J0.

23-3t.

SULLIVAN CIRCUIT COURT. MAY TEItJf, 1S30. Lavina Davis. r. Petition for Divorce. Je.se Leerc. ) A NI) now at this time comes the com- . u. plainant by Judah her counsel: and

t it appearing to the satisfaction of the

of dollars.

Louisville Pub. Adv.

consumption remaining the same, g3,- j Curt that the said Jesse Lceren not a

473.784, aooutttucc anu a halt millions j resident of this state, it is orJcred thit

notice by publication in the Western bun, a newspaper printed in Vincemies, fr tour weeks successively, be pjven to ihu said defendant of pendency of this complaint, and that he the said defendant, appear on the first dav of the next term of this Court, to be holden cn the fourth Monday of November next, to answer said complaint, or the same will be decreed against him in his absouce. Attest, S. COLEMAN, m. Morr m. J:in- 2 1, 1S30.

Something to be Remembered kTt is the first time, in the history of the worh, that the Executive of a Nation has interposed his authority to stop extravagant and ruinous appropriations " Mr. Daniel's Speech, on the Veto. It may be regarded as a lemarUable event, in the history ofanv crovcrnment,

! that its Chief should risk his own popui larity ani power, by declining the dis-