Western Sun & General Advertiser, Volume 23, Number 13, Vincennes, Knox County, 5 May 1832 — Page 3

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VINCENNES, MAY 5, 16:W. I !ave been requested and authorised to Fay, that Thomas J. WiTiiuit?, of Pike county is a r mdidnte for the legislature at the August election. Mr. Wither ut one time was a citizen of Knox county, is an old urid highly esteemed friend and acquaintance, and well cjualihVd to make an able and efficient member of that hod v. In another column of this day's paper, I have given an address of Col. Boo to the people, noon the subject of the public binds. Tlie subject is truly an iuporuuit one, and merit au attentive and careful examination. Extract of r letter from a gentlemen in Washington Citv, to the editor, dated Ar;tiL lSlVJ. Pi: Ait Sin: The House of Representatives is now, to tlir almost entire exclusion of all other business, gravely engaged in trying Samcki, Hot sto., fonnerlva member of Congress, for having coined William Stanbrry, (now a member of the House of Representatives,) some time since, when accidentally meeting on the Pennsylvania Avenue, perhaps half a mile from the Capitol! Every day. con sumed in this trial, will cost the people of the U. more than ;,000. So much for the idea of congressional dignity, and the privilege of a member of Congre to rise in his place in the hall, and abuse an I individual not a member of the bodv to I which he belon; I have been requested to state, that William L. Withers, is a candidate for Sheriff, at the August election. I have been requested to state, that Abhattam Wf-stfali., is a candidate for Sheriff at the August election. ;'eca Almy is a candidate for Shena at the August election. I have been authorised to say, that Joiin:n - - , Pukckll U a candidate for Sheriff, at ti Au:"Jst election. i I have been authorised to say, thai John j B. La vlantk, it a candidate tor Sheriff, ut August election. roit the yvrsrLRN sun. Mr. Eniron, You have no doubt oherved that the Secretary cf the Treasury, in his late annual report to Congress, hss recommended the expediency of wZlhir the public lands ot the United States, to the state, in which those lands arc si-j tnated, but has not proposed any price per acre, at which those lands should be r eded to tiie new states. This part of the subject seems to be left to the Congress of the United States, and the individual states, in which the public lands are situated. Since this proposition was submitted to Congress, I have taken some pains to learn of gentlemen from the eld states, at what price per acre, they would sell the public lands to tho new states, provided they should be disposed to become the purchascrs? To this inquiry. I have received various answers. Some gentlemen seem to think oac dollar per acre, would be a fair price! Others say, scrcnty-jire or fifty cents per acre; and same few. have expressed their willingness to take twentyfrc cents per acre', "merely to get rid of u perplexing subject. There are many members of Congress from the old states, who are in favor of distributing the proceeds ariing from the caies of the public lands, among the several states of the Union, in proportion to federal numbers in each state. Others there tire, w ho are in favor of such distribution among the several staler in proportion to th? number of square miles contained in each. Ia the event of either proposition becoming a law of ( 'ongrevs, the old states would become individually and directly interested in continuing the sales ot the public lands ut their present high price, and all hpes of any reduction in the price of those lands, or a cession of them to the new slates, would be tbrever put to rest. Under all the circumstances. I am clearly of opinion, that, whatever disposition may te made of the public lands at any future period, it is now the pi ;, as well as the interest of the. people uf ihe now states, to urge upon Congress the expediency of redoiing the price of those iunds inimediwteiy . Should t lie price or the public lands be new reduced, it would greatly benetit the i-coole of the west generally, and could not possibly lessen any prospect which tho new states miiiht have of becoming the proprietors of the puhwe domain at any futon: period. But, on the contrary, should t:ie pr:'e of the public lands be reduced, the general government would not then p' i'-e so high an e unaie upon the value of the enii:i'".it d"ir.ain,and would be more disposed to cede th-un upon euuitable eondni ns to the state? in winch thev lie. ir i..e!f, I am not now prepared to .av at what price per acie, the new states souSd be pistiiible in beeomiug ttie pur-j ha- rs ! tho?e lands, should they be di1, p.)cd purchase tln.-;i at any price whatever. Thi i a il' j- lor the people cf tlii-s state-, and tic.ur ropvclive iegistaturcs, to consider ami lecide upn. E it ! may l e p. rmitti d here to remark, that tuis i a gr.ne su!j"ct, and b too l: itily ucted up.ui. I have t!)oul.i it my duty to say this mu h, with a n ,v of bringing an iiuportant suljcrt to con ideration of the prople. w ho are to be benefitted, or oliu-i

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Lett exertions to carry inio tuii clieet their withes, wht ii made known to inc. Very it.'pcctfuilv, vours, eve. U.HOOX. Wahgton City, April Ifi. r;5, FGU THE yvt STERN SUN. To THE FARMERS OF KNOX COl'-VM One welfare ritv ot the s. rjo Gli adrni i . i i . . . , .i nearea aou nariv contests ot trie n3A laues i.o p;m; no ieeis nis own interest 1 .! 1 -i 111' 1 - ..v.

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your kappiaess, in ine auvancemeut 01 you interests, the community at large are immediately interested, bes leave to addresg yen uin the lanuajic cf truth and soberness." That there never has been a time since the formation of our State form of government when there was such a scarcity of money, when the cry of "hard times" was more universal, when in fact and in truth, tha times never have been harder upon the labouring classes than at the present; when individuals were more embarrassed with less prospect of retrieving themselves; when our exports were lesi, and our imports greater when there was less sold, and mora bot; when Justices flourished and Constables urrew fat; w hen executions were circulated ia larger quantities than bank notes, in fine, when tbere was not money enough to defray the ordinary expenses of lite, and when one universal bankruptcy seems to await the 1 ' . ...I . :. .1. I 1 1 . .1 .... mi'lu-:" n..auuu.,L,vuj;UkWuum3 untortunate stale of things,- to show vou tj Ar ,,r, lt.L-K .n i' r. " . the root on vtiic, we tiasc split. to guard against like dangers in i.itutv, and if possible adopt a remedy, will bo the j object oi this, and perhaps some subse-! ouent numbers, and in atUlressin" them to you I would solicit for them a careful perusal, and such consideration as you may think it right and proper to give them, believing as I do that the subject is one deserving ot vour serious attention, in considering the question of the present distressed situation of the farming interest of the country my remarks will in a great degree be predicated upon the situa tion of our own county, (Knox,) taking it as a fair criterion, (as from an intimate acquaintance with others, lam induced to believs it is,) in determining the situation of all. Let us thest. lk at our present situation. The county of Knox this day owes to the town of Vincennes at the lowest calculation, one hundred Tjtormi . l sand dollars, l nis sum must ue paid seme way or other. How is ibis to be done? You may put up the whole county, forms, stock, goods and chattels, at public auction, and you cannot raise the money, for it is not in the county, nor in auy three adjoining counties. U not this a deplorable state of afiairs? Yet is it not literally true? Suppose for a moment that the creditors as thev have a ritrht to do at any time, were to enforce collections by law, I venture to say that there is not money enough in the county to pay the costs of collection, and the amount due tiie ensuing year for state and county tax. The truth is, there is one continued draia of the circulating medium, and nothing coming in. The steamboats alone for freight this year up the Wabash, have carried oh1 from thirty to forty thousand dollars, the land offices probablyjnore (and I refer only to those on the Wabash and its vicinity) than half a million, the merchants at least two hundred thousand, and thus we have in round numbers (and rather exceeding than falling short of that sum.) sevkn HUNPKi:i) AND FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLARS, which has gone from the Waoash alone the present year, not one dollar in a thousand of which w ill ever hud its w ay back. And how is this deficiency to be made up? You have not sent one boat to thirty to what went last year to the lower country. You -have no stock, or vcrv little, owing to the unfavourable season of last year, and other circumstances, for sale to the drovers. Emigration brings us but little, ana wnue me uio is u, wmcn it is as likely to be this, as it was the last year, vou get nothing from travellers. Twelve 1 I .1 4M I 1 mouths must then elapse before our re-1 turns are received for our comim? croos i from the lower country, our natural outlet, and only market, and which may again tail as they did the past season. Yet with all these Marruing tacts storing vou in the lace, uo you learn wisdom '.- What has been the cause cf this univer vil digress? I answer, credit, credit, credit. Instead of deeendiuii on vour own resources, instead of living carefully ar.d economically, instead of husbanding yjur own lesourees, instead of rnanufacturing t.r yourselves, instead ol cxc.iangiug your products for the articles ii.auufaclured bv our own industrious and euterprising mechanics, and encouraging them i j by a dealing profitable to both, vou run' j to tue store tr s:IUs nru satiu- Legnorns j and Danstables. broadcloth and sattinets, i hats and shoes, saddles and bridles, lea, uecded, us you think for fancy or utility, bc-jau-e lorsooth, it is a c heaper article, and vou can uet credit. The grocery dii vide the remainder of vour time and ere- ( dit, v nh the execution of S'-:oo littiv bu

whoie community without a prospect of for lhe tnith of it, that b?i cents has been !fne tfcc pre,p,8CiawaTi,S5?S,n speedy redress, uniess some immediate rcfuspJ for whaat dur; the . d , given. T ... . . steps are taken to relieve us, is what must that uow fmdi therc enfM1l,h ur to j'chLnb-r- ' S'Srorth be acKiiow edged bv every reilectm? man UnnnK- th AnmA it rfv.r.,j I ,V -r ,ts ,10rlh in th" community" To Wnt out a fow of 1 P dnand ltJ cti'd at ;0 ()t the villaCe, who is duly authorised to sell I 11: i.i lunmnmiiv . xu point out a iH 01 rpins ,n t , c,.n . 1 , it...... r.,,,-1, ntn ... ...f.iu.. a i

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know, that sclt interest is the niaiu-sorinL' I of human action? I lint! twi IaiuI with the merchant or the grocer. He trusts you not on the frith of your promise; ho reasons and reasons correctly, thus; "The man has forty acres under improvement, :i stock ot imrses, cattle, sheep, hogs. a judgment binds the first, and au execu-l n roll table. tn i " - - "lU J, iiuu iij1nrf' vvillnur to run ln i-!L- i' . o. t.-li. jno. t0 j)UV .... t , ... , r.n iv, UiVJiJIlV HS tUe nu.ans oi security, and most ene cient sijiisH to secure be fore it becomes too late Sometimes thev get bit themselves. But I would ask, why incur these debts at all? If from the surplus of your farm you feed authorised to do so, and you have the surplus, there rn t)i no dinner Ijiit supposing that there js a bad cron, and you have no surplus, what tiien? Do as soijie hare done already, borrow one hundred dollars to pay three hundred at the end of the year, and mortgage the plantation to secure it. My friend it is a bad business, depend an it. But do you manage your tarms as you ought, even when attentive to them? 1 fear not. If so, I would ask, why in the finest yvkcat country in the world, are we importing from three to live hundred barrels of Hour from abroad? Yet this is the case. Not a season but yvhat one or :nore boat loads of flour are brought to Vincennes for sale. There is something ..... p w ronu here. 1 am told, but do not vouch to ;jsl; aftd recelvlJ a ,iur pr,Ce, at all) ;.., u-ithnnf ir.v rwnpn tl, ,,., I "ui-, virnout inv ret rence to tlie qmin titv in market or the demand. In doin i !,;. Ht.:,..l nn vn nn r.f.i late lhc ; prov-ided it i's a fair one,! unJ alw. V3 Slu your wheat It u H tainly a poor compliment to our a-icul-1 Jural skill and industry, that flour should bo a matter of import rather than ot export, in a country like this. Bat it is said j me crops ran coin will not do well, and i when it does it beyrs no price; well ad-j. mit it. Trv something that will do well, i Uh m...: n..A. .... ..a "'" Hl'viClLiJ .-" , II IWUlllMI. I soil will answer admirably for its cultiva tion. Trv hemp: it is an excellent arti cie, and bears a good pjice; an old friend of nunc in Daviess planted five acre? the last season with himself and two boys; he rotted, broke, and cleaned the whole crop; he kept what he wanted for his own and neighbours use, probably a fourth, took the remainder to Louisville, and received there for it, cash in hand, one hundred and serenty-thrce dollars. From five acres I call this a good yield; better far than the same quantity in corn. The present year he wiil put twentv :?rN in lipnin Whv tlioti cVirmlil tint hemp be as good au article here? It would, and only needs cultivation and at m and at-1 tention. The market always y ields a fair price for any article. The 'difficulty is,

no one so arranges as to have the article -Jt.Afcfc ga.aeiin market except at a time when it is f Vnst J0 ,U1,1W,T11 cd i the planglutted. Butter, for instance, which da-1 f'01 ot Ivid llichey, and also on river ring the whole winter and spring would I I),lc,10e m JU1?,a WP. lc to have commanded here 18$, will shortly nimencc at 10 o clo:k A. M. precisely.

be a drug at cents per lb. The same with beef. 1'or one stall-fed 00 has been i paid, and yet there is no beef in market. In a short time beef will hardly be disposed of at f&l 00 oer hundred. I mention these facts, to call the attention of the i farmers to a better svstem. That is of; providing in seasons for the supply of tn market. Cash will be obtained for mar-1 kettin at the proper seasons, and it is certainly au object tor those near town to pav more attention to tuese matters. I have extended mv remarks farther than I intended at present, and will conclude by simply observing that in a country like this, blessed with every variety of soil, yielding as it does in the greatest abundance, and where with the least industry and economy our farmers might be per feetlv independent in their circumstances, it is a matter of regret, nav of reproach, i that thev should, instead of vearlv frettiiir better in circumstances, be declininir, and that a country like ours, instead of being as fJc-d intended it should be, cover

ed with fruitful fields, yielding the abun-1 V- w -'y -dance of their increase, so badlv mana- Iitatus.and proving not to be with t.al, , , .i i mav be put until thev et a colt, geil as to be a loss to their owners, and! lVf . ,rr , . . r . i

our farmcw ;nstead o u.in r o th,J, !in,i ir,if.n((u, ; '. ' , ' vv;il acbwh.d.J . lhov - usheij ctr thl.ir lS;,is, bankru : lh , ' ir cumstances. The remedv lor Uecutnt number. AtiRlCOLA evils may be pointed out in u tcam-33oat Hint. AIiaiVAI. - 1 May Echange for Lafayette, la

April gambler, from Lafayette, Ia. j CYPHER 25UlNOLES,t f patronage Paragon, tnmi Louisville, Kv IvOUUUU For -h- by ' """"t M - l' lH-U May --Exchange from Sji-nvneetow. j WILLIAM MILL'SE. - NICHOLS S SBIOTI Rambler, trom bhawneetown ... oj o .-j tt ibwiJi- ; incenaes, Sept. 24, liJi. i " STILL continues to carry on the DLPAtn I . Aoril -0-Rambler, for Shawneetown. . ,n Keg of CHEWING TOBACCO, iTll llfftl'rOU

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zsrT-rz. GEORGE BOON, f Sullivan county, JAMES BLAKE, of M anoij cuur.tv. ak r hur Patterson, Parke do. NATHAN H PALMER, Jefferson, do. MARK CRUME. ef F ivctu-county'. 1 Ue aoove leimpr! entlpm;in Are- rhp fr. tors, certain. and the following p;.uo.ns Till VINCENNES LIBRARY II AS been cemov-1 eil to the brie building, corner of tTZS&ir- .u-r street. It will not be opened until the BOOKS out are returned to Geo. W. EwiiK, Librarian. All persons having Library Books will please return them forthwith. By order of the Directors. Vincenn.es, May 5, 1S32. 13 Flax Seed Oil, For sale bv 1I1TT & OftRICK. incenncs, May f, 1832 Ei-if C A I rCt-fvLiv, BARGAIN. a large and commoiious HOUSE and LOT in B: ucevillc. Ejiox county, Indiana, well calculated for either a healthy and pleasant, presenting a eood vauaui.y iui cuuer, aurrounueu oy a ucne po r., 1 1 1 ;her, surrounded by a dcne no-' pulation ot enterprising citizens. Gentlemen wishing such a situation, will do well April 2S, 1832. I? 2m v -mm t -u i i v i Jy- I he Louisville Public Advertiser w:U inseit the above two months, and send the uccmmt to this oflice for collection. 'S V NOTICE TOTTh'SICIANS MERCHANTS. IJITT & ORBICIv are just n-rcivine IX from Baltimore, a very laucs and splendid asbcrtment of i " " . " l' " - aT 4r""-7. superior to any that have ever arrived during one season, at any one establishment m th State of Indiana, heretofore. In five or six; days the Medicines will he opened and adjusted, when they will be prepared to fill all orders in their line ct business with neatness and' dispatch, and on the most accommodating terms. After the time! above specified, they Invite the attention of Physicians particularly to the quality and low prices of their Medicines, as they hve selected nci.e but the best articles, and are determined to sell low for cash. They have also received a supply cf BOOKS and Stationary. Vincennes, April 28, 1832. 12 NOTICE. I 1 e soiq at puniic outwy to inc ' Y 'g111 "iuer, on Monaay ine I , "'7'.'' ,? ? doc'v ol M1" lift day of May next, beiore the office inson, in incennes. Z " 1 ' !IIl AM DECKER, AdnPrs of John Black. decl. (April 17, IbM. 11-4U cr t irr'xi.,Tc.Tiiij DAMS & FOItD having connecter'. themselves with H. Shacklkkotu). will continue the wholesale DRY GOODS OUOCEUY and COMMISSION liUSLNF.SS. under the Lnrm or adams, i ohi cv o., in I r,fcthe new brick building, two doers Mlow their old stand. I .nsviWe. ky, Jan.T. 1832. 5 Rw. 1 iLotfcr. SNOITATUS "VTv TILL stand the ensuing season at y Y my stable, 1 miles east from Ijiwrenceville, (111.) and will be let to mares at the wuliv. x ill 1V.U V yP J'within the season, or slO bv the 1st of January. Any mre led to INCI 1 A rtfe is ot a beaui.tul auburn E hands, inches high, and but i tour rs old this spring; his appearance ! It MiC.ull.ar l ilsu,.t- - In?U! rot uv i uo, P sire Unl Arcn, ureat ! - ! L'rand sire, imporieu iiiomeup, nis u-im was got by the old imputed IVnip, grand dam b the imported Diomede. JAMES NABB. April '2, LS32. 11DAMS. FOKD 5c CO. offer fcr sale' els cf g..od clean rfr seed, no b()xcs rkrh OVER - r.K St.Kl, U'J Ooxcs rZA No. 1. Tobacco; lOOfo? rc-l : do do. No. 2 do; lbO keps N dtLL 1. do. LoiUsvillc, Feb 7, loJ. WILLIAM Ml EC RE.

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EOAP.D OT TRUSTEES,) i Borough of Vixclnx, April 7, iS'tt. ) Un motion, u war resolved, 'I hut two lots out ot each of the ft.Ilowin- 2U aero s(luares, to w,t: X,. x ? 3 4 5 5 16.17. 18.25. 25. W 36 3j 32

f TV' ,a cornrno.., be ! flared for sale to the hi-ht hi '. .- mn tour'Ii to be paid in rah, one half '.( the ballanee in ?ix months, and the of,er h uf in Ueke m .ntlis from the day f Saie, the purchaser to give notes wi;h f-o.-h a security, and to receive a corticate of pu-ehuse from the Clerk upon j nvJucin Ihe Treasurer's receipt, f h, nronrv , c P:iit1? notes to be -liven to" tLe 1 reasurer o! the Common-, and that th Treasurer of the Comm.m?, whh th3 Cb'rk, conduct said sale, first iivitir six weeks notice in thn Vincennes newspapers, and that they have authority to employ a surveyor to renew the stakes, and numbers of the squares above directed to be sold, if necessary ; that no sale shall br in ado f-r less than " per acre, and that EOTS Xo. 1 and 3 fce excepted, the lots being sold. Ue-s'olrcJ, That any ordinance, or parts of ordinances contrary to the tenor ot th aboe resolution, be repealed. Passed "Jib April, R P. PRICE, President. Samuel JIill, Clerk. Pursuant to the above resolution of the Board of Trustees of the Borough of mcenncs, the undersigned w ill o tier for 8aJe at Puh,c auctijn on Saturday th the ')t'1 "aU of May next, at Mr. J- hn O Clark's hotel, at 'Jt o'clock, P. M the lots above enumerated lying in ;he Cun-nona of Yineennes. ANDREW GARDNER, Treat. C. F SAMLl L HILL, Clerk B. T. Viucennts, April IN, sli . lD-fw FOR SiiLU VERY LOW FOR CASH, OR A P VRT 0T CBEUIT, T' 2 THAT fertile and b auti!ul plantation .a. containing a inlf sec i n .f I 'VL mi 7-AND. and a quart.- station of WOODLAND continuous, wuh one eie irant stone DWF.LLiNCi HO! TSF, one do. cf Frame, IS ARNS, and OHT-IH,L"SI together wjth all ther appurtenances, owned by me, and situate one half mile freniTerre-H.iutc, Indiana, un the Wabash river. The fences, houses, &c. are all in complete rder, and tho land in the highest state of cultivation. For terms or particulars, apply to John Jackson, senr , near Terre-tfaute, who is my duly cmpowered agent and attorney for selling and transferring the same. GEO. W. DEWF.ES. Terre-IIaute, Ia. April G, LS3-J, KMH STATS Or INDIANA, PIKE COUNTY, PROBATE COURT, Januaby term, 1&82. John Chambers, administrator of John Dobbins, vs. The Creditors of deed. &stab ftfll IE. administrator herein, having fil1L f'" "1S complaint, representing said estate to be Insolvent, and praying for relief It is ordered by the court, That the creditors be notified of the pendency of said complaint by a publication tor six weeks successively, in a newspaper print ed at Vincennes, that tinier they notify said administrator of the existence and extent of their respective claims, by filing the same, or a statement thereof, in the office of the Clerk of the Pike county Circuit court, previous to the? tjn it distribution of the opsetts of the estate of s ud cc. cedent, said claims "Will be ;-tponcd. JOHN CHAMBERS, Adm. J in-jary 0, t''2. b-Ot TIN AND SHEET-IRON MANUFACTORY. I HAVE a la rgb assortment of TIN WAKE on hand, which I will sell at wholesale or retail low for CASH or PRODUCE, such a uny tuit. Job wmk done j ut hort notice. N. SMITH. uiceiiues, lz. .'I, 5U it COMMISSION ANJ) STORAGE AG32sTCY. THE subscriber has the pleasure of informing The public generally that he still continue the Commismoji and Storage Businks, at his Old Stand, VQRTH-lVRSr eonsER Cf U'JTER asd MARKET S TR E E TS. WILLIAM MIEURE. Vincepnes, April, 1831. 9-tf. SPIILXG AXD SUSSMBR GOODS. UlLLIAM MIEL'KI'. Jiaj just received a ffod supply FOREKiN AND D MEST1C Dny goods, Amongst vhlrl rt' thp f1t paXrrnt and latat style Calhujls, Ginuam, Ruujix Cas.-imi:ri:s, &c. He has also received gk(X'i:ries, AND TAR He respectfully solicits a coutmuancc t. 1 . . ...... . mm .

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