The New-Jersey gazette — Burlington [N.J.], 1786-11-27 00:00:00, page 2

American Intelligence.
N E W-Y 0 R K, Nov. 14 .
OY very recent accounts from St. John's, Nova-
D Scotia, we are informed that Benedict Arnold, I
having attempted to JOCKY some of the inhabitants
out of their property, but being detected, and the
people being much exasperated, offered to deliver him
up to the Americans for ten dollars; but alas ! be
fore the bargain was firmly agreed on, he made his
escape to Halifax, and there got protection from the
populace.
What an extravagant dominion (fays Dr. Young),
does pleasure exercise over us? It is not only the
pestilence that walketh in darkness, but the arrow
that deftroyeth by noon day. Our luxury is beyond
bounds, it flops not at the poor, even they that live
on alms are affected with it. It has often been ob
served that it is with dates as it is with men. They
have their birth, growth, health, distemper, decay and
death. Men sometimes drop suddenly by an apo
plexy; dates by counted; in full vigour, both. As
min owes his mottr to original fin. some dates
owe their HI to tome defed, or infelicity in their
original constitution, but contrasted distemper is the
mod common ruin of dates and men; and what na
tional distemper more common than our own. On
the foft beds of luxury most kingdoms have expired.
We hear, fays a London paper, that a weaver in
the county of Wicklow, has invented a curious com
position for men and womens' hats, which consists of
warp and weft, being spun like wool, and afterwards
manufactured in a loom. The grain of this sub
stance, which is not yet known by any but the pro
prietor, is as glossy as mohair, and promises, as a
correspondent informs us, to be as durable and im
pervious to rain as the best felt.
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SAVANNA H, Oct i 9.
A number of runaway Negroes (supposed to bel
upwards of ico) having flieltered themselves on Bel- I
Some indeed among us are not so much grieved I
for the present state of our affairs, as apprehenfivel
for the future. The growth of luxury alarms them, ;
and they think we are from that alone in the high 1
road to ruin. They observe, that no revenue is fuf
ficient without ceconomy, and that the most plentiful ,
income of a whole people from the national produdi-I
ons of their country, may be dissipated in vain and|
needless expences, and poverty be introduced in thel
place of affluence. This may be possible. It, how-|
ever, rarely happens; for there seems to be in everyl
nation a greater proportion of industry and frugality,
which tend to enrich, than of idleness and prodigali
ty, which occasion poverty; so that upon the whole,
there is a continental accumulation. Reflect what
Spain, Gaul, Germany, and Britain were in the
time of the Romans, inhabited by people little richer
than our savages; and confider the wealth they at
present pofTefs, in numerous well-built cities, improv
ed farms, rich moveables, magazines stocked with va
luable manufactures, to fay nothing of plate, jewels,
and coined money; and all this notwithstanding their
bad, wakeful, plundering government, and their mad
destructive wars; and yet luxury and extravagant
living has never buffered much restraint in those coun
tries. Then confider the great proportion of indus
trious and frugal farmers inhabiting the interior parts
of these American States, and of whom the body
of our nation consists, and whether it is possible that
the luxury of our sea-ports can be fufficient to ruin
such a country. If the importation of foreign lux-|
uries could ruin a people, we Should probably have ;
been ruined long ago; for the British nation claimed I
a right, and pradifed it, of importing among us, ;
not only the fuperfluities of their own production, ;
but those of every nation under Heaven; we bought 1
and consumed them, and yet we flourifhed and grew ;
rich. At present our independent government may I
do what we could not then do, difeourage by heavy I
duties, or prevent by prohibitions, such importati-|
ons, and thereby grow richer; if indeed, which may ;
admit of dispute, the desire of adorning themfelvesl
with fine clothes, &c. is not, by Strongly inciting to'
labour and industry, the occasion of producing a
grater value than is consumed in the gratification of
that desire.
The agriculture and fisheries of the United States
are the great resources of our increaling wealth. He
that puts a feed into the earth is recompensed per
haps by receiving forty out of it; and he who draws
a filh out of our waters, draws a piece of silver.
Let us (and there is no doubt but we shall) be at
tentive to these, and then the power of rivals, with
all their retraining and prohibiting a&s, cannot much
hurt us. We are sons of the earth and seas, and,
like Anteus in the fable, if in wreftliog with a Her
cules we now and then receive a fall, the touch of
our parents will communicate to us frelh Strength and
vigour to renew the contest.
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R I CH MO N D, Nov. 8.
A letter, dated Kentucky, October 3, 1786, fays,
" I suppose you have frequently heard of the depre
ciations committed by the Indians, in some parts of
this ddtri&; they relemble your distresses in 1776. —-
We are greatly flattered with the conquests our two
armies may make in reducing the savages to a proper
sense of their duty.
“ The army under general Clarke was supposed to
consist of 1200 men, including officers; that under
col. Benjamin Logan, 900. Clarke was defined as
far as the Wia town on the Wabash—Logan to
M'Kee's town on the Little Miami.
“ I incline to think that Clark will either have a
severe battle, or find all the Indian towns deserted;
for on receiving intelligence of his appointment to
take the command, he defpatched an express to post
St. Vincent, with a letter to col. Legreau, informing
him of the intended expedition, and requeuing him
to procure some guides. The express delivered his
letters in the evening, and early in the morning the
contents of the express were publick ; and about 200
Indians, who were then at the post, immediately de
camped ; by which means the Indians may either pre
pare for battle, or evacuate their towns."
Nov. 9. A report is now in circulation, that ge
neral Clark had gone on an expedition against the
Indians, who having intimation of his design, remov
ed their corn and other property, together with their
women and squaws, to some of the Chippewa towns;
but that colonel Logan was dispatched to destroy
their stores, while general Clark was to attack the
Indians in the front: in both these enterprises our
arms were fuccefsful. Colonel Logan burnt their
towns and above 4000 bushels of corn, and took
some prisoners, and general Clarke routed the party
which he attacked, after a short engagement, making
great Daughter amongst them, and capturing Sixty
prisoners.
His excellency Patrick Henry, Esquire, having
sent a letter of resignation to the hon. assembly, they
proceeded to the choice of a governor, when Ed
mund Randolph, Esq. (the present attorney-general)
was by a great majority ele&ed, and is to take his
feat on Thursday the 30th instant.
I he following gentlemen were elected to serve as
delegates in Congress for this state, the ensuing year,
James Madison, William Grayson, J. Jones, 11. H.
Lee, and E. Carrington, Esquires.
Extras of a letter from Kentucky, dated October
8, 1786.
" From the Wilderness we have an account of a
most melancholy disaster that happened between Lau
rel river and Racoon-Creek, on the 3d instant ; about
2,lndians rushed on a camp of travellers, killed 16
persons on the spot, and wounded several more, who
are not yet heard of; took 5 young women prisoners,
and carried away all the horses, cattle, and most of
the dry goods; 50 men well armed from this diftrift,
are in pursuit of the Indians.
" By a young man who remained hid just by, we
learn, that they are Chichamoggas; he was so near
them as to hear them speak diftindly, and having been
prisoner among them for several years must be a com
petent judge. Will government pass over this cruel
ad in silence?-
“ The settlements at the lower Blue Lick, on Licking
river, are breaking up; great Signs of Indians in that
quarter; if they are Shawanefe, it will give colonel
Logan a fair opportunity to demolish them, as they
are not apprised of his going against them.
leifle-lOand, about 17 or )$ miles up Savannah ri
ver, and for some time pad committed robberies on
the neighbouring planters, it was found necessary to
attempt to dislodge them. On Wednesday the 11th
instant, a small party of militia landed and attacked
them, and killed three or four, but were at last
obliged to retreat for want of ammunition, having
four of their number wounded. Same evening about
sunset, 15 of the Savannah light infantry and three
or four others, drove in one of their out-guards, but the
Negroes came down in such numbers, that it was
judged advifeable to retire to their boats, from which
the Negroes attempted to cut them off, but were
prevented by lieutenant Else of the artillery, who
commanded with about eleven of the company, and
had a field piece on board, which he difeharged three
times with grape shot, and it is thought either kil
led or wounded some of them, as a good deal of
blood was afterwards seen about the place to which
the shot was directed. On Friday morning general
Jackson with a party proceeded to their camp, which
they had quitted precipitately on his approach. He
remained till Saturday afternoon, when he left the
island, having destroyed as much rough rice as would
have made 25 barrels or more' if beat out, and
brought off 60 bushels of corn, and 14 or 15 boats
and canoes from the landing. He also burnt a num
ber of the houses and huts, and destroyed about
four acres of green rice. The loss of their pro
visions, it is expeded, will occasion them to disperse
about the country, and it is hoped will be the means
of most of them being soon taken up.
" General Clarke, with the troops, arrived fafe at
Post Sr. Vincent, was reinforced 'with 50 Americans
and 150 French inhabitants of that place; he took
about 60 of the PianKeShaw tribe prisoners, who were
at that post; hath detached col. Logan with 250 men
to cut off the Indians in a village adjacent ; left a
garrison in the town; and hath matched 600 men to
ward the Wia town on the Wabash."
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PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 9.
The lurking sons of rapine have been uncommonly
alert of late. I heir attempts have been pretty fuc^
cefsful. Judge Hopkinfon, Mr. Peale and others,
have been the victims of their depredations, which it
is hoped, will make people be more on their guard in
future.
Many of them prowl about towards the dufle of
the evening, and whenever an open door invites their
entrance, they advance forward; if they ate step
ped, they pretend to beg. If not, all is ffb, that
comes to their net. Hats, cloaks, coats, canes, &c.
generally lying exposed to their mercy, are the most
common rewards of their villainy. Some days Since,
a woman entered a hall and paSTed into the parlour of
a house in Front-street, on the table of which the
tea equipage was laid. She devoured it in idea, and
was just ready to seize the most valuable articles.
Luckily a servant entering the back parlour door,
the female thief was frightened, and decamped so
speedily as to elude all attempts to seize her.
Some of these vagrants have even the audacity to
afeend the flairs, and pretend, if detected, they have
mistaken the hoyfe, enquiring with great affected Sim
plicity, innocence 2nd lurprize, does not Mr. -
live there? Other miicreants inftrud little children
in the calling. These, as less fufpe&ed, aie, when
dextrous, more fuccefsful than the old ones.
Nov. 11. His Catholic majesty's frigate Loretto,
commanded by Don Thomas de Ugarte, arrived here
on Sunday last, in 47 days from Cadiz. She had
been defpatched from Old Spain for the officers and
crew of the frigate Hero, which arrived at this port
in June last, and was condemned by a survey of (hip
carpenters, as totally unfit for sea, or for any kind of
Service.
OECONOMICAL ASSOCIATION.
One hundred ladies of Hartford, in Connecticut,
have set an example of ceconomy highly worthy of
imitation throughout the continent. Should it become
general, this country, which is now the most free,
would be the most happy of any in the world. The
distresses of America have not arisen solely from the
machinations of Britain—from the hostilities of the
Indians—or from the Algerines—although all these,
particularly the firft, have been highly instrumental
thereto. Luxury, baneful luxury, has been the grand
cause of her well founded complaints. It is a disease
which must eventually work its own cure —as it is the
certain precursor of poverty. But every attempt to ac
celerate this cure without such a violent medicine as po
verty, claims the applause of the patriot—the philo
sopher. We here subjoin the form of the association
entered into by those ladies :
" The ladies of the city of Hartford, taking into
serious consideration the unhappy situation of their
country, and being fully sensible that our calamities
are in a great measure occasioned by the luxury and
extravagance of individuals ; are of opinion that it is
a duty they owe their country as well as their fami
lies, to retrench as far as possible all unnecessary ex
pences —that while the gentlemen are anxiously devi
other and more extensive plans of policy for the fa
tion of this and the United States, the ladies may 1
their influence in effecting the fame desirable pur;
by a ftritt attention to domestic ceconomy and fiugar ,
" Those ladies that used to excel in dress, it is ir #
ed will endeavour to set the belt examples, by It
aside their richest silks and fuperfluous decorat
and as much as possible, distinguish themselves by
perfect indifference to those ornaments and super
ties which in happier times might become them.
" Hoping for the concurrence of the ladies in < ~ r
part of the state, and confident of the assistance v.
approbation of every gentleman of sense and patric
they have fubferibed to the following articles:
" i. That from the date hereof, until the 25
June next, they will not purchase any gauze, rib
lace, feathers, beaver hats, silks, muslins and chii &
except only for weddings and for mourning.
"2. They will dress their persons in the plainest n
ner, and encourage industry, frugality and neatness
giving all due preference to the manufactures of thei
own country.
" 3. That when they receive visits and make enter
tainments, it will be their study to avoid unneceffar
expence, especially in foreign articles.
" 4. During the above term, as they will have tim
to observe the operation of their plan, they will en
deavour to turn their attention to the forming of,
more systematic and extensive method of domefti
ceconomy, suited to the circumstances of their coun
try, and continue the fame by agreement to a great
er length of time."
November 6, 1786.
TRENTON, Novem. 27.
The hon. the council and assembly in joint-meeting
on Thursday last, appointed the honourable Davii
Brearley, Esquire, and William C. Houston
William Paterson, and John Neilson, Es