Western Times, Volume 1, Number 26, Richmond, Wayne County, 21 February 1829 — Page 3

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fVwi a.vf d truth ttr uUo'-s me nn r'-.!s J.-jir, The present number completes the first

l.i'.ft car's publication of ih'is paper. U'iini it was commence.!, there was some i - - ;i t have expected a mote liberal t-jj-'Mirt, from the niot populous and nio-t wealthy county in the state. Since that time, however, many diihculties wo then hit to cncur.tcr, have 1 on rrmof d. A jVhtical tempest ha1- beer, stilled, and the irnmns of an old local ferling entirely disip.red. The irul imposition cf m then j n trier, who was expected to have been

well wiitten, and no doubt pleased the wri-lfcrgup his morning or eiening prayers, tcr's fancy. 1 fear however, that there j It is therefore a serious tnth, that though

wa something prrjoaa, intended by it. It'tve may vet eniov our civil liberties, manv

most lie looked s;t again. S Correspondent who has written from

has lived a privataliSe. Mr. Pickering is

years, the powerful effort rhich is now in

operation against them, is $ strong indica

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(li- wuati, is always welcome, and had j cation that we mut go the vay of all other h: coir-.niinicativ.il i cached here in time, 'nation, and see our frecdan sacrificed at

it should have appeared in this paper. A Par oily, in vers. is good, to come from so bad a hohir. as its author, and was unintentionally omitted this week. All other communications arc unworthy rf special notice, and hate been laid 'under the table.1 Sl .MUY MAIL. When I published, last week, the report of Kichard M . Johnson to the Senate of the

the shrine of rehgious innoratic , and ecclesiastical dominion. . It is a fact, perhaps generally known,

that among the different sects of professing

people in our country, there are a diversity of opinions in rejard to the observance of one day in fcrcn, as a day of worship. And it ha? been found, by i prettv

correct calculation, thai those whoobserve the rjf day of the week, as a holy day, arc

in the maioritv m everv Sfato in fhn ITni

i Min n t- ,i c. ii e sui'ie i oi sioi'P'.iisr . i i .1 i n , nit .u jc i lt Qn. anij ,0, :ig so, they have generally

in.- w ;wimoi union ana oponinjr oi m on , i ,... , f , , 1 ' made law s to tnjjrce its observance, or inthe fli st dav of the week, it was under the n- i4 i i i- ,ni ' thct a vena tu in cae ot disobedience. The

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acknowledged 1 y all parties, to have filled every station in which he was Dialed

with fidelity and ability, and to have done his country much service. Had it not

been for the term Federalist, he would

probably have risen to the first oHice in the nation, and not been left behind the fore

most patriots of the devolution, in the affections of the American People.

TO THE PKOPLE.

I think it is my privilege, as one of the people, to offer my opinion in re-

Life is the rolling year, Its vernal blossoms shoot, And Summer's genial atmosphere Matures autumnal fruits;

lalion to the late act of the General As-! ?tmany fruits nnripened fall

For tie Western Time. Life is a summer's day, The mom serenely bright: We hail w ith joy each gilded ray, , Unmindful of the night: Put storms and tempests intervene Ere evening drops her sable skreen.

imp ession that it had operated as a (aiet-

; petitioners for slipping the sabbath mail,

now take i K.mtajrfi of these civil enact-

us lo tho-e who were pressing that subject

?Vl.lIIHI VII IJIllf"". Ill III. II IUI1MV3-I , 1 i J .1 A 111 ' .meats, and contend that it won! 1 I.o

sinn, however, I find 1 was entirely rnista-! n . , , . ,

ken. Since the date ct that rcpoit, peti-1. i , r r , ,, . ... to prohibit the pertornnnce of any other tion have been crowded before that body , , , ,- , , , , , . ,. ,. labor; ami this n.ot abs-jrit monins' hain su :h abun-1 nice, that it w as didicult tori, , . , . '

I th j auopieu ny me Lomrrsn;e w no re-

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D-emcst n t!ie ea.ionai dopanrnrm.p- ........ ...v ............ .... . The letter

committee on tbe part ot the llou-e, though ' , . . .. .. r , from tie Po-t-master General, to tfVitco.r. adverse, in part, to the prayers of the pe-i ,

. lllllll." t UIM 1 'V3 Mll',ll pi.UL Ik I'V Vliw titioners, liave earnestly recommeuded . 1

tlirew thfc whle burthen on rnclf: which, from an i;mnnre of both the editorial and CKchanicanabor attendant en the publication of a p iper, I found to be more arj.is than I h id anticipated. Addi'ional experience ha' m ide the task more eay, nd additional patronaee has made it

more agreeable. For the satisfaction of

semblv. providinu for the sale of the School Lands within the boundaries of Indiana. I consider when we proscribe any mm for his vote, that we act derogatory to the tnie principles of our own political institutions; and especially when h; gives his rote under the solemn obligation of an oath. It is true that I, in the capacity of an agont, and as such under cath, to do you justice, thought

it my duty to vote against said bill. I

yet continue honestly of the opinion, Lhat oay vot ; w .s the best I could then, , r y t-t iw, under my present view ot

.vh.tt 1 thii'k to he the exclusive ripht

C evf rv Congressional township within

the repeal of so much of the Post law as

requires the delivery of paper and letters, i

on the tirst day of the week, and have reported a bill for that purpose. It i unplea-ant to express an opinion,

1V friends, I can now say that the list olVPublicly, oa a religious controversy,

jhcuber? ha increased, upon an avermornore than 7 per week, for the last 6 wtik; and !.ouH that increase be conti.vied, sii. h further improvement! will be Uiic ij the pipr ns it may lesere. It ijpear frimthe OaioStite .lournlt cf the 7th ultim tint Jo!vii Collet ha tr'friekcted Juice of the Supreme Court i lhat t itc Alexander Ihrper, Presi'.r.t uf the 4th circuit; (ieorsjc P.. Holt, i .-u!ent of the It ci.vjit, ar.d Henry : . n Tr' isu re r of Staie.

W His 5d'.i;n n. K . ha? al ) been ap

argument , that to stop t ' e mail on that

day wnu'il be of serion irs'p r . i the commercial and agricultural i forests of the

;countrv. The petitioners t!;Pmselve do 'not deny this. Then why arouse the passions cf the peop'e. and deafen the public ear with thoir crie f r that w 'lich they ad

mit would be inj iriou to tbpci:l interests

ot "orietv f An. here is the nnint: ineir

notions of the Divine law must be para

mount to every other consideration all

sects : tocieties of people throughout this jrrrat Pepublic mut be maaV to ield up

tlicir civ il and religious rights, and pav o-

beis.ince to w IkiIc. er law a party may de dare to le the Divine law: and not havin!

when surrounded, and patronized, by per

sons entertaining directly opposite opinions in relation to it. Cut in such ca-e a the present, a man cannot be entitled t the confidence of an independent people, who would conceal hi sentiments, or -brink from hi honr-t luty. Those w ho hat e. h id the in lepeniience to come out in opposition to the ambitious, deluded, or mistaken omniam of that dan-

, . i , tho newer it'.iu themselves, to enforce scroti? combination which i now arrayed 1 ' J

igai:i4t our Constitution, and citil iinr!its.

are bran.ied with the charge of Atlieism, Dri'm, or some Anti-chri-tian -ism, in or-

f Dinted by the (Jovrrnor, the CommisMon-jder tiut their warniax voice shall not be :r, on the part of Ohio, to confer tvith Jcr- heard, nor the priet-ridden victim be

eniih Sullivan, the Commiiorier from this State, on the term on 'hich that portion of the Wabash and Miami Can;l in

ma ;e sensible of his delusion. My onlv

defence in such caic is. that I tvr.s educated in a christian manner- taught from

which both state are especially intcrc-.my i .f-cy to behet e in the ditme ne

ki snail be c-tructed.

i -it of t!i it religion, a;.. I h.ivc become

:noie an ! more coafirmed in my belitf, as The Hon. Mahloa Di.-ker".n has I-ti'.j ?;lvr H.i.. -rd in a:: and ex!rionre. I

rs elected to the Sr::atc of the I. St..'c;

their reb-rious rot ions on others, under t!ie

garb nf fhritianitv they now call on the stioiijr ,trm ofthe nation, to do it for them. Vh -not w ith a much propriety stop the mail frc.m rnnuinc: on tlie teventh day, to meet tho reli-.rious views of another re-:-ect il 1p p-uli.'.n of citien, entitled to the san;e protection? Set the omple.

and what will be the result' Tell rr . that rVir opi'dop.s shall r in-r ; with the laws of Coi.rc-", . : ; ui'Oathe whole r..'ti"n. r ;

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to t. in. to--. t' i ' t'-'1

to con ft th

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1 : 1 i- r r bri.iKri r.b-ri ia the t .'?!. and

y the Pe?iht jre of N Jer-ey. t- fd! t'.e '.,ri..er onP , .,n n u!d a g!a ii , see it acar.cy orraio:.ed by the resignation vt j ,i,r.,.,4, , every corner, inn j.orthe Hon. K. Pateman. n'lh ..Lr n thp noisiot nr.fe or

Theodore Krelinhuven. at rrernt At-, ,r , r.t.tirn .p Ini.I licf'.iP uf:M" :

tnmey Ctra-ral, ha alo I ten li rte 1 by rt-. " plo-'-b-hirTs'" the Nit v ir.to vessels the Mimp U-.dy, a Senator to Cn-:f f r! I r-n ia'-erely say that no person would ;oftrade. tou!l b--n who are now petithe trni tii tear", fo:nmf-in? m the'ro in titer than mvelf to protect eadi and timing think it ri;r(it to cae fta'r conaeien4th of March nrxt. in the n,n of Mr. 1 pvery denomination of people, in the fu'.l cm? not at all. They should reflect then, JVkertvn, whose pt-"ut term will then 'enjoyment of their religious opinions. : on the inconsistency of aAin, or rather

i pi re. On the fmtricht b.t!b,hr.c, S ani'i L.

Siuthanl. tli" p?Tt Sci"t ry of th

Put when so bold and so mighty an eC tnjino enforce that which they would

fort as the present, t made to engraft upon "t grant toothers. onr ci'iibiws, the nU$iu,ti opinions of this, If any people in the tror.tre free, and

Kavy, re-eied a lr?e plurality of truei Society or that s x iety, and advocated, not protected in their reliqioi-s privileges, those

t rill Dr. IWteni in vacancy ; but being J only by different see ts and papers of in-, who are now making so mu h stir are of flipn dcchiH a nnrcsHer.t of the state. ; tbience in every quarter of the Union, that number. They have no cause for n. 1 ionejietitl inediciMe, hi name w as : ,ut openly and warmly recommended by a complaint. Put like all other mortal bewit!. drawn. nil Mr. Dickrrson elected. jhranch of our National Legi-1 iture, it is ing, they w Mi to mle. A large portion

TL True American m the warmth o" teallv calculated to awaken some unnleas- f them are honest, but deceived. They

ant apprehension, and calls for the loud- forget that the true christian must sulxlue et toaes of opposition, from every sinceie $e fj, hat he rnut have charity for all his lover of his country's happiness. fellow being, and be the ervaut, rather Our Constitution w:is formed by men of than the master of the law. No true experience, and reflection . They had in Christians everstrove for dominion over mind, w hen it was adopted, the ocean of their. fellow men, against their w ill, nor

blood that had been shed for "Helicons will any liepuhlican Legislature ever gite ake" they had them-elve felt, in some it t0 them,if they do.

degree, the tyranizing power of a .VaiionaC o

religion they knew it imposible, from ODITUAITt

i thi:. eiinced during the contest, wa Vc. great.

C i '-ri Tho 1 ut V merv .Tnnrnal.printd nt tJa!ena. (the I.oarl Mine.) Ilhnoi. on un .VI a It etticmcnts, ?c a list ef SCO i:tf i, remainintr in the po-t office at that

j ! ;i e. The 'JvirriaT is a handnme Suer liut.tl paper, ?nd h rather the appear4...e uf bel .nCin to an D'tTti City, than U' i distant 'Western wilderne.

1 un iiiiir'li mislakcn if the Trustees

of th.; sever -tl townships do not at thie

;iaif? exifi iso the full control -over the tents v.V prduts of tlieir School sections. I tliiak they do. Then why rot hive power over ;:ri interest ari.-ing from the samf r .-pital? Moreover, I concluded whe;; I opposed 'he School law, as it now s.and , t;ia tve had not one township la tile cut.ty of Wat ne, bit w t.nt was able to ive to the Board ikurii:

Ciuatt bj-iiicss, sullicier.t security f r! in-amount of the principal of theii S tioid iccti on ; or in my opinion ns ear able as a Commissioner will be vhen lc ltd out of fome one of said townships, to g;ve to the Enme board peo u i ly f.r li.e principal Eum of ten or twelve sec loos of land. I nlo discovered tint this I iw as it now stands makes no provision tor the townships ctct to dr.w the interest of their money ; there foie I a-k, in the name of common aon-c, iiow I could have favored the pas--of a law, standing, as I think, in oiUed contradiction to the intere st of 'In: several townships especially in the Cou .tv that other gentlemen, w ith my- " I , . il tne honor of representating. P i i ann 'ars to me several obicction-

r:v.t in this law more than I have t J.s ti,ru: noticed ; butasthe net has

o 'tjldisl'.-d in the Western Times, ; d i t?w before the citizens of Wayne, i t .cy ii! read it carefully and I . ite t ired in idprrent, it is not the i:-t error of my 1 : therefore I hope I -A' ill fird foruivrn WILLIAM STEELE. The following proceedings took place in the House, on the bill above nllu led to by Col. Steele, and arc copied from the Indiana Journal, for the purpose of letting the people judge for themselves whether the amendments were calculaed to benefit or injure the bill. Ed. "The School bill was returned from the Senate with sundry amendments. A wutm and inter: sting debate ensued upon a motion of Mr. 15asf.tt so to amend a to allow a credit of indefinite length to be given to tho purchaser of the lands, in which Mc?5ra. Swee.t--cr, Bissett, Steele. Odld, Sample, Du-

mont, and allace took part.

And hoary w inter etveeps them all

Life is the purling nil In our incipient years, Still widening and enlarging still. Adorn "this vale of tears;' At length it mingles with the sea, That '-vastly deej" Eternity. Life is that ocean wide, Where many millions 6a'd; Tossed to ad fro. by wind and tide, The snort of every gale:

Their fragile barks the breakers court And few attain the wished-for portLife i th" allotted space, That God to man has given.

There erring mortals ?:v his Grace May find their way to Heaven. It is the time for man to prove

I us f-tuo'sfor a w orld ci love.

CUJVi ii LVILLIj MtVKET.

Apples; rren, per bushel, 37; dried, .1,00 Icct ; per cwt. 2,G0

to $2,50. Butler ; perd, P, tf

1 0 cents. Com ; bf

7o cents. Etigs

Flour ; sune.' Kood, $2,0r;

Fresh, 3 to 4 el, 12 cptsto ,$2,0(1 yy

50 ccnts

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I HEKEBV fonvarn all persons from cutting limber, laying down tencrs, removing rails, Iroin the fences, or opening gaps ar.d passing through the premises where there are no usual reads, or gaits, of the r.statp. belonn:.f to the heirs of John Scott, dtvtd. lying in Jackson township Wayne county, (thunder the penalty of the law.Xl) JAMES C.SCOTT, Extr.

Feb. 21,1820.

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MV.f'r.i 7iv'fv....T!:eI.i-t!;'i:nbercif the

We-Tf rn lt iw , iri f a p .iing notice of

t ie lli'port 'if Mr. Jo ! t'i, r I.ei'lat.ireofthis State, rrsll!P V;da-h and Miajni Can-cl. 'I"hi. n !,- m. w e are

the very nature of man, that any one re- plF.D, in West Jersey, on the 29th of

ligion could meet the views of the whole j ,n,nrv, jn t10 40(, year of his airo. Dr. community; and they held in vhiTJ anti- r.rill? AIM IMTF.M.W. late a Senator in cipatu n the civil wars ami the danger of . Conriri. from the State of X. Jersey, adiohnion of the U on,which would fd-.jrp rpsjo,! his seat in that body, but a lo v any attempt on th r part, to enforce ' Jsiort (ir)e vPfrro iealh.

rbal with, but the w.,rH in funeral, iJ . V , ' ir, .-a.r-m, aia. im, on r.., :,

,m,"V i-v M'i,.. , mi. i, . - on tne samr nay. me lion, i nan in

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t it n'ldi ilevot-l to ur.irnporta'.t rna'te:

t Ii t ;b pre e de it, in the oiwsp;po,.

ire tiiftcf re reai wiih but little infer -t. hy ;'nc !o pay for a w nh, benrmgthe ' ' i')Mag !i!l( ' f 'dlrview ."

,,virv of the subject, they placed the ncKnilNiJ , a?ed 84. Col. Pickering

Jew. tho Mahometan, the T)eit, the Athe- too a!1 actite part in our ntrug8,a'fr in

i-t, an 1 all other citizen, of whateter de- ,ej,on,enre in 1777 na appointed Vy

nomination, on an enu ihty with theino-t Vu;ingto:i, Adjutant General, and

popubir sect in Christendom; and in tint i 7 faj elected by Congress Q tarter Master

Mjm Vci-i ci V, 11 ' t, fr orn X. I.:rmo jM,,1:,?1'-n-n,,1,r ""valuable Chart, or (;etlPral, of the :irmy ; which latter station r v .Tthi-Stn.e.h i-een lecturing on Phi- Tir;t h 5-5' jt asdictalc 1, t,nd hc fiJJoJ m ,t cc (,f th(, mr. fl v ' ,JlV m.,-,1:,' Utr:,u W. ! '-crow- vio'.at, thry mu -i ever remain. Put wa3 cntri:.,ird by Jen. Washington, ni,h

J( i 'hi,... in ihil d!phi' and N. Vor!,i,llc oC aU n,tion' ,hlt havo ovcrjnany important ncKotUtiors with the Inwnl ii now telhn the P.o.tm, f.ls jisted. bear a t.-timony not to be contro- jdiar 1 17;) I was appointed Po-Master tM l(l or two. She meets trith pretty hard .ted,that the .mlaence of Rehtou, zeal jGeneral-iu 1704 Scerefrry ef Wat -in iafo.nher V.,thorelitau:,,,,ahr . toa poaerful for t'.e paeons of men to j 1 70.3 Secretary of State-in 1C03 elected

ha tja h 'ie, mitr i-ip-'d to be rubbed n'V ; ..ii.i; for ilic : u very virago, with

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teiJt; T(or i it elTct regulated by any, a Senator to Con"recs, from his native

rational principle, for the. poor Hindoo ' State, which last statioa he filled until

kneels "with n ttr.. devoiien to the wheel i 1C1 1 ; and in 13H he whs elected to the f his Id'""', to l?e crushed to death, as the: lower house of Congress where he re-

-f . it -- l'r 1 i- pretty I.Tt srti:l:l professor of ('hi itiunity of.! mained until 1017, :nc which time, ho

Stule of Indiana, t In the Raiidob h Randolph Cour.lt. C : t r n i t Court, February Term, 183. Shields Mocrr, coirj Pi:, Ili-.tt, Jo ep!i Uiart, et j LatlccrJ' ah Respondent?. j 4 Nl) ncry nt thi d.-v towif, on Mcrday the fust judicial dav ci said cotirt, l.crc comes the said con-plainar t. by John S. Newman, his solicitor, nnrl files his hill of complaint, in !!U behalf; and il appearing to the satisfao'ien -f the Court upon nflidavit cf t!:r ?aid complainant filed, that Encs Iliatt nnu Uinnli Ttinll - f 1 - 1 ,

. in, ... c j dents, are not rr.lcrti cf the M.'.'e ci ite to 10 year?, and the motion of Mr. ,. ! 1 1 1

Bassett to strike out these words was

lest ayes, 25, noes 31. Mr. Stkkie moved to amend so a to allow the trustee to retain th" mon y in their owti hands, upon giving security, Sec. which motion was lo1. On motion of Mr. Loia, t!ie bill wa-

-oatu'iided as to authoriz-' the tru.-tee-

it any and all times io receive, and xercise control over the interest arisin from said fund ayes SO, nos "7. Thiivote was immediately reconsidered, and the question being again put. (lie same was negatived ayes 23, noes 28. And then the House agreed to the amendments of the Senate as amended. Col. Steele informs me, thnt he rated in favor of all the proposed amendments. I'd (VrA resolution has been fnbmitled lo the Maryland IIouc of Reprcsenta tires, the object of which is to prevent the ue of foreign Hw books and foreign

cases, ns authority in the Courts of

Justice of that State. CO"" A new mode of applying friction rollers to n railroad car, has been in vented by n citizen cf New Jerecv,

which produces truly astonishing re

the Court norr bore, thai the rordcTA' of the said bill of complaint, be pVo!L-i - ed for four works eucc sivrlv ut the Western Tim. ', a public r -p:prr ptintedin Cntr--vtlb -. ir ti e Cr.u; t cf Wayne, and st: to In.'t v.a; N. t!ie sai l En.-? Iiial! a. d .1 f h Hia't that thev be, rd appear b.Mrj the Judges of -re Hied b?h Circuit 1 ceur, on the hr.t d -y of tl.oir oext Term to be lnV.drn .?t ihe.Ccu.t tu r ?e, iti and for said ti.nntv of R. ! c;i the Third Monday of August . . x. ". J confess plead, or demur !o s i tvll cf complaint, or in default U t rp, i tho same as to them will be taken as confessed and decreed accrdirg'y. Attest, C. CONWAY, C' k. U.c.c One Cent Ficwanl. RANAWAV frcr 1 the fubsrribcr. living in New Gardr n tow r .slip Uaycounty, Ind. cn )C 21t el the month, Novembf rj iGvS, an ii.d-; : : npprcntice to tb e KaTinii g b tsW :-. t y the nam of William Taylor.

Said hoY is. ri-ir jr sis years o'd, li.bt

suits. A weight of SCO pounds wns.j complffx-r n,"nmUmnll "ofti- n--. Ail

ui.in mcr 71 levei raiiwnv, not very .lowly, by a half pound Wight, drawft t -v ft ...

mg nvcrnp'iliy. u-ie hnre w ill tljaw

persoi are. hereby ccutuu cd .Mnii rt harbo'ip.g cr trusting said bov cn r. v

account:. 115 I m l nav no (low '

eightytive ton--, w.ih the nid ef thU in.rcr tr;cl:rc- JOSHUA JF.ITF.RN. poilant mvrrlicn. ; ,s, mo , .:5 rt

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