The New-Jersey gazette — Burlington [N.J.], 1786-10-23 00:00:00, page 2

At a meeting of the Worcester county convention,
held at Paxton by adjournment, the 26th ult. forty
one towns being represented—it was voted to recom
mit the lift of grievances for further consideration to a
committee, who reported the following addition : that
the delays and expence in travel, and attendance on
bulinefs in the probate courts, in their present mode, is
a grievance ; and the present manner of recording deeds
is a grievance. The convention stands adjourned to
the Second Tuesday of November.
The town of Roxbury, at a legal meeting of its
inhabitants, the aid ult. have given inftruttions to
their representative in the general court —" With ab
horrence and detestation" the inhabitants of that town
view the late riotous proceedings in several of the
counties of the commonwealth; and they have in
ftruded him to use his influence in the aOembly, that
agriculture, manufactures, and the fifheries be pro
moted and encouraged.
On Monday last, at Mr. Hayt's auction room, State-
Street, Boston, a Jixty filling bill, of the new emission
Rhode-Ifland money, was fold for no more than 15s.
6d. Specie.
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N E W-Y O R K, 0a.12.
Extract of a letter from CbriJlopber Wyant, to Alexan
der Fooler, merchant, of Pittsburgh, dated PoJl St.
Vincent, the 20th June 1786.
" We have collected, fir, a great quantity of beaver
and other furs, and was determined to start for Pitts
burgh, in order to make you a return for the goods
we received of you, but we concluded, that with so
valuable a cargo, the rifque was too great.
" I propose to embark for Pittsburgh in September,
by which time I expert Mr. Hulling will have returned
from Cumberland river, and Mr. Davenport from the
Jenefee. You may depend that I shall be as careful
as poff/ble, and use every precaution in my power
with the Indians. I hope you received my letter by
Colonel Parker ; at the time he left us every thing
was in confufion, but now we are more quiet, and
things wear a different afpedt ; we have held two
councils with them, and they pretend to be sorry for
what they have done, but their profeffions, we are
convinced, proceed from fear; they have found from
fatal experience that we are their masters. The 16th
of April we gave them a proof it, though not with
out great reluctance. I refer you to my letter of the
10th of May, by Colonel Parker, fur an account of
the battle."
This letter of the 10th of May alluded to, Mr. Fo<wler
received, of <wbich the fullonving is an extract.
" On Saturday the 15th of April last, a trading boat
was proceeding up the Wabash for this place, which
was attacked by the savages within five leagues of this
place, when they fired from a thicket, and killed one
man and wounded two; the boat was fleered to a
American Intelligence.
BOSTO N, Od. 7.
THE committee of both branches of the legislature,
I raised to confider that part of his excellency's
speech, and the papers accompanying the fame, which
refped the disturbances which have lately taken place
in the several counties, on Tuesday last reported a num
ber of resolutions, which we doubt not, if adopted
by the legislature, will give efficacy, permanency and
dignity to the constitution and laws of the common
wealth —The report (as nearly as we can recollect)
was to the following purport: that the legislature
hold in utter abhorrence and detestation the proceed
ings of a number of persons, in flopping the courts of
justice, in Several counties of this commonwealth
that they highly approve of the conduct of the lu
preme executive in ordering out the militia, &c. for
the Support of constitutional government that thole
who obeyed the orders of the commander in chief, be
allowed a compensation therefor, out of the publick
treasury, and thole who shall hereafter turn out on
any similar emergency, shall also be allowed pay
therefor—that the legislature will, as they ever have
done, enquire for and redress any real grievances whicli
the people may labour under —that the treasurer be
directed to make out a statement of the taxes assessed
previous to 1784, the sums which have been paid
thereon, the balance due, and by whom, in order to
be laid before the people—that an enquiry be made
into the Salaries and emoluments of the leveral offi
cers of government, and if found expedient, that de
ductions be made therein—that Congress be requested
to postpone the time for the payment of that part of
the late requisition which is to be made in facilities —
that the current copper coin be regulated—that a plan
be devised for coining gold, silver and copper, and for
Supplying the treasury with Specie—that an institution
be established as a fubftitnte for the court of common
pleas —that an ad be passed making real and personal
estate a tender in the payment of debts —that a boun
ty be given to encourage the railing of flieep and
hemp.—The committee also reported the expediency
of suspending for a limited time the writ of Habeas
Corpus—a revision of the militia laws —and the en
acting a law military. The greater part of the above
report has been adopted by both branches almost una
bimoufly—the remainder is now under consideration.
From the fountain head of information, we are told,
that captain Stanhope had been Severely reprimanded,
and deprived of his command of the Mercury, by the
lords of the admiralty of Great-Britain, for his inso
lent behaviour to our worthy firft magistrate.
The town of Worcester, at a meeting, held by ad
journment, on Monday last, disapproved of their coun
ty convention petition to the general court, voted to
dismiss their delegates from further Service, and to
dissolve their meeting.
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CHARLESTOWN, (Massachusetts) Oft. 6
place of Security, and a runner dispatched to us Ame
ricans for assistance to bring them up. By the time
we got to the boat, we were attacked by a numerous
body of Kickapeans and Piankefhaws, we fought them,
but were defeated, with the loss of two men killed and
three wounded. We felt for our countrymen, and
were determined not to leave them a prey to lavage
barbarity, and proposed to give them battle again, and
to rescue our countrymen or fall in the attempt. We
did so, a reinforcement of twenty-five brave fellows
joining us at this time, we rushed on them with such
impetuosity, as drove them from their cover, and to
tally routed them, leaving ten killed and twice the num
ber wounded.
“ The king of the Kickapeans received a ball in
his backside, and the queen of the Piankefhaws mis
carried of a prince, the firft born of the family, and
on whom the nation placed great hopes. This ac
count we have from the French traders, who declare,
that lince they knew the Wabash, they never heard
such lamentations among the savages. Three hundred
Indians were opposed to Seventy-five Americans, and
beat with considerable loss; many of the principal
warriors were mortally wounded and carried off. in
this action we had one man killed and three wounded.
" We have had council on council with them since
this affair, they appear to be as abject as brutal; find
ing they could not rob us, they have turned beggars:
we are actually plagued with their Solicitations and fair
promises. While they behave peaceable, we are de
termined to treat them well, but they are a composi
tion of deceit, and it would be folly in the extreme
to trust them."
A letter from Danville in Kentucky, dated August
22, fays, " that two thousand men were to aflemble
loth of September, at the Falls of Ohio, under the
command of General Clark, to proceed immediately
againtt the hostile Indians."
A letter from a gentleman in Augusta, to his friend
in Charleston, fays, " I have only just time to acquaint
you, that Mr. M Gilverie has ordered off all the
white people from the lands which the Indians claim,
by the firft of October next; and he will not treat
with the Georgians, as he fays they have violated
every treaty, but will with Congress, at any place they
may appoint. —Fifteen hundred men are drafted, and
were to march the 24th instant. —The remainder of
all the militia in Georgia are drafted into three divi
sions, and are ordered to hold themselves in readiness
to march, provided the Indians do not think proper
to treat with the commilhoners, as we begin to smell
a rat, and think that the Indians are set upon us by
those persons whom M'Gilverie is attached to —who
they are you know too well, to your cost.
" The firft detachment is to be under the command
of General Twigs ; and provided all the militia march,
Governor Elbert (who I am informed is appointed
Major-General) is to take the command of the whole."
08. 16. Besides the remains of ftru&ures menti
oned by General Parsons, indicating that North Ame
rica must have been visited or inhabited by civilized
persons before the voyage of Columbus, Mr. Adair,
who resided long among the Indians, and understood
their language, enumerates a great many words and
phrases, particularly their names of the Deity, which
are Hebrew, and many of their religious rites, which
resemble the Jews. But what is more singular, the
president of Yale College, relates, in a difeourfe
lately published, that an infeription had been long ob
served on a rock at Naraganfet, which having been
copied by a learned foreigner during the late war, and
sent to one of the French academies, is pronounced to
be in Phenician characters.
From Albany we learn, that the rain which fell the
week pad, having raised the rivers and creeks to an
uncommon height for the time of year, many bridges,
with great quantities of corn, flax, &c. have been
carried away.
A few days since, a man in a waggon from Vermont,
attempting to ford Hofick river (about twenty miles
from Albany) was with his waggon and horses un
fortunately drowned.
The wife of Mr. Aaron Lancaster, of Pauling's pre
cin&, Dutchefs county, was lately delivered of three
fine boys; and were named Moses, Aaron and Jofepb.
Notwithstanding the Ihaken credit of this country,
the John, Captain Purchase, lately arrived at Charles
ton, South-Carolina, brought goods to the amount of
30,0001. and other large cargoes are said to be expect
ed.
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CHARLESTON, (S. C.) Sept. 14.
The following observations are /elected from a
charge delivered to the grand juries at the Che
raws and Camden, November 1783.
" Contrast your present situation with that from
which you are just emerged; behold the olive branch
of peace extended over your possessions, and your
country reviving under its influence. Your fellow
citizens can now in tranquility enjoy the sweet con
verse of their families, and find a peaceable and fafe
asylum at their own farms: no longer are their abodes
infefted by ruffians, nor our temples turned into a den
of thieves; for benewlence and hospitality mark
again their plantations, and refpedand piety our
places of publick worship. Were Ito enter upon a
description of the relative and exalted Ration you
stand in with other powers of the earth, with what
transport fliould 1 relate the admiration which our
success has created in the minds of distant nations !—
Look but forward towards the vast empire you are
laying the foundation of, and hearken to the loud
acclamations of your posterity ; re-echoed by° the
azure vault of applauding Heaven !
" If we grow reroifs in our duty at this period,
PETERSBURG, October 5.
Extrafl of a letter from Kentucky, dated Louifoilte,
Augufl 10, 1786.
" About 400 Indians lately surrounded Post St.
Vincent, with a view to cut off the American inha
bitants residing there, but the French and Canadians
interceded for them, and after long persuasion, and
making the Indians presents, prevailed on them to
go off. It is however expected they will soon return.
" A party of men lately marched from this coun
try to attack lome Indians they understood were near
the Wabafli river. They met with three at a falt
lick, two of which they killed—and in a few hours
after were attacked by a party of Indians, whom they
soon dispersed, killing three on the spot, ar.d, we
are informed, nine have since died of their wounds.
Our detachment had one killed and four (lightly
wounded.
" A council of the militia field officers was held
at Danville, on the 2d instant, in order to corifuh
on a volunteer expedition against the Indians, who
determined on marching 1500 men, under the com
mand of General George-Rogers Clark, against the
Wabafli nation, about the firlt of next month."
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BALTIMORE, Oft.ro.
A writer in a late London news-paper mentions,
" that a laudable spirit of toleration appears to
prevail in mott parts of the German Empire; and
great indulgence is shewn to proteftarits of all deco
minations. At Weilburg, a new chapel for the use
of the Lutherans was opened on the 21st of June,
and two Quaker meetinghouses were lately established
in the principalities of Liege."
It appears, by the latest accounts from Europe,
that the king of Sweden has permitted the importa
tion of all forts of grain and Hour into his dominions.
All Veffeis, privileged or not, are to pay but fifteen
shillings sterling duty per ton.
It would far exceed the limits of our time and
paper to give an ample detail of the devastation made
by the dreadful swelling of the rivers and runs, by
means of the late rains, on Thuifday evening latt,
in that part'of this town near Jones's Falls, and in
the country adjacent.—lndeed, there are few pens
in any degree capable of giving a just description of
so awful a feene, and which so ibikingly evidences
the power of that great Being who bade the waters
flow.—At present we can only observe, in general,
that this alarming flood (which deluged several streets
in the town) hath far exceeded, by its deßruAive
progress, any event of the kind that hath taken place
in these parts, in the memory of the oldest inhabi
tant living, and that the damage to this town, in
houses, stores, bridges, wharves, merchandise, and
other valuable property, and to the country within
the compass of 25 miles, in mills, milbdams, bridges,
lumber, stock, &c. &c. is estimated, by competent
judges, at one hundred thousand pounds, specie, at
leait.—But the loss of the lives of several hapless
people, who were hurried into eternity by the resist
less force of the mighty waters, is an affecting additi
on to the calamity.
PHILADELPHIA, Oa. 13.
The committee of accounts, who were appointed
for that purpose, have burned the sum of £. 20,000
of the late emission of paper money, agreeably to
the directions of the funding aft.
Thursday a very intelligent gentleman whose ve
racity may be relied on, arrived in this city from the
falls of Ohio, and Fort Pitt, and has communicated
the following disagreeable intelligence, viz. That
about the last of September, two men decla :
oath before a magistrate, at Pittsburgh, that the
from the Shawanefe town, and that just befoi
left it, a party of that tribe came in with so
scalps, among which were those of Mrs, Moore and
daughter, of Virginia; that 700 savages performed
the war dance, and said they would firlt fall on the
continental surveyors, and then pay a vilit to the fet
tlcment of Wheeland, about too miles below Pitts
burgh. In consequence of this information, captain
Hutchins ordered the surveyors into their camp, judg
ing it not prudent to perfiftin running the territorial
lines until a general confutation should take place.
we fnall factifice the dignity of our country, and
disgrace will be brought upon us forever.—Let us
then use our utmost endeavours towards effecting the
re-establishment of justice and the publick tranquility,
by subjugating the dominion of the pallions, by cor 4
refling the licentiousness that pervades the state, by
resigning ourselves to the calm operation of our judg
ment, and by embracing the temperate admonitions
of reason."
Sept. 28. Government have received information,
that Mr. Borrel has completed his contrast of coin
age for this state, in Switzerland, and may be soon
expected here by the way of London. Ihe stipula
tion was for 30,000!. in silver and copper, to be ex
changed for the paper medium.