The Columbian informer, or, Cheshire journal — Keene, N.H., 1794-07-08 00:00:00, page 2

KENTUCKY.
Pittsburgh,JUNE 10.
SINCE Frida, last the news we've had,
Has been, dear fir, extremely bad ;
An Indian of the Senecas ;
A white who (wears to all he Ays,
Have brought# moil alarming Rory
The substance I (hall set before ye—
Six nations of the Indians set on,
By titan and the imps of Britain, '
_Have join'd the Ind.ans to the westward,
3y which we loon mail be quite preft hard,
They now ar # crofting o'er the lake,
Fort Franklin to furprile and take ;=•
That Fort will certainly be taken
And scarce a feeler save his bacon.
JUNE lfr
The news I wrote three days ago,
This day I learn is all untrue;
The British have not gain'd, their ends,
The Seneca'/ are still our friends ;
Fort Franklin is in flatu quo ;
Nor dreads a white or yellow foe—
For Capt, D£nny finds he can go,
And I suppose is at Fenango.
Altho' t' extract the naked truth,
We put these traders on their oath ;'
Yet while they swear to what they fay,
We find we're humm'd from day to day ;
Hence when I write to you again,
Ajeconi letter fall tbefrfl explain.
the purpose of ccnfmencing new depuda
done, which, as it appears from the public
prints,She is now prosecuting in the adjacent
teas ; that Le Yetit Democrat, and La
Carmagnole, both fitted out in the Dela
ware, were permitted to enter the port of
New- York, and to continue therein anmo
delled during a great .part of the months
of August, September and October laft—
that the latter vehel is still in that port —"
and chat the former having failed from
thence in company with the French fleet
under the command of admiral Scrcey,
and having separated from it at sea, pro
ceeded firlt to Bolton, and afterwards re
turned far a fecend time to New-York,
where the at prefect remains.
"I have thought it my duty to Rate
these last mentioned particulars in the man
ner in which they have been communicat
ed to me ; but if my information has been
erroneous, it will afford the Sincerest
pleafare to have my error corrected.
sth. As you have not controverted the
propriety of my alluding to the peimiffion
of this government to the commanders of
the French armed Ships to dispose of their
prizes by sale in the ports of the United
States, but have admitted that " Yunr
treaty with France, has been so interpre
ted as not to compleat a freedom to fell,"
and xhat writers on the law of nations en
tertain different Sentiments upon the Sub
ject, it is necessary for me to make only
one remark —that as by the treaty with,
r&ce, prizes made by veCTcls belonging
to the greatest part of the powers combined
against her are excluded from admission
into the Amerigo ports, the operation of
the permißion to fell that was granted, by
the government, has been partial and has
been Solely beneficial to France.
[to be continued]
WINCHESTER, June 9.
Indian depredations ftilf continue on
the S. W. frontier, but in feme instances
the savages have been made to pay for
thfir temerity—a party of them having
lately stolen horses, &c. from a settlement
on Beaver Creek, they were pursued by a
party of militia, headed by Capt. John
Beard, who recoveredche horses and other
articles taken, killed two Indians and
rounded four.
TxtraA of a letterfrom a gentlemanat Green
ville, Head-Barter^ of the United States,
to bit friend in this town, dated April 23,
1 79+ .
The legion is still in this vicinity,
having performed no other exploit during
the winter ; than the eredion of a fmab
Cockade work, on Governor St. Clair's
unfortunate field ; we have been in a
<' moving, halting posture," since the Ift
of December, but it would ftcm that the
longer we continue here, the more firm
our attachment to the spot, and at present
it is altogether uncertain when we may
move, or where. The savages are Bill
referred and excuse us, while they depre
date on the river fettlemenu ; we may,
however, reasonably expea a itroke at one
nf our weekly convoys from Fort Hamil
ton, in 1 very short time.
INDIAN INTELLIGENCE.
7 I RG 1 Nld.
NORFOLK, June 17.
Oh Monday latt arrived the brig Jolly
Tar, Capt. D non, from Barbados,.—
Capt. Dixon, informs, that the (loop Gem
Green us Providence, (R 1.) Edward Boss,
master, arrived at Surrinam/rom the coast
0 Africa, with St slaves, on the 23d A
pril. T'.? Hoop came too below the town,
nd Capt Boss went up in his boat, and
left word with the mate to bring the floo,
up the next morning. At 2 o'clock, A.
M. the was cut out by nine pirates, (sup
posed to be soldiers from the fort) and ran
out to sea. ' The second mate made hit
escape out of the cabin window into the
boat, before they got out of the river.
The chief mate was confined until they
got out, and then ordered on deck to con
dud the Hoop to Martinique. The pi
rates sometimes spoke French, and one
of the (loop's people understanding it,
found they intended as soon as they made
the island, to kill all hands and run the
(loop on lore. They therefore took the
opportunity when the pirates began to be
sea sick ; & at I o'clok P. M. on the 24th,
they attacked them, killed 5 and confin
ed the other four ; the mate and one of
the Corp's people only, are wounded ;
and on the ift of May arrived fife at Bar#
badoes. The Capt. having all the papers,
the mate could not proceed to any other
island. When Capt. Dixon left Barbi
does, the mate had obtained permission to
fell his Raves.
N E W-Y O R K. /
WHITESTOWN, Juneii.
A report is in circulation, that the One
ida, Cayuga, and other tribes of Indians
fettled in the Weftern parts of this state,
have received a talk from the governor of
Canada offering them large prefeats if
they would desert the United States and
take up their residence (,ich is but a fof
ter name for arms) in his Majefty'adomia-,
ions. 1
Capt. Beard slfo look three guar, tea
(hot bags and fourteen blanket#. One of
the fellows killed was richly dressed, and
wore a medal engraved with the arms of the
U. States—front the date it wii pretexted
in 178,.
We are informed from good authority
(via the Creek nation, that between the
^^ ?P-!!H.!wM of Creeks
passed the lower towns, for war against
the Cumberloedfot<lemenu #
OA-iha goth-ait. Lieut. Cal, Kelly,
with a party of the Kn^x country militia,
went in pursuit ofthe Indiana who mur
dered Cancel's family, as mentioned in
our last, and on the day following, about
day-bieak, an advanced party of bis com
mand forded the Tenn&ffce, near Telaffe,
where they found the Indians, find on
them, killed one fellow and wounded a
nother; one Squaw was killed contrary
to the wishes. or intentions of the party ;
the Indians betook ihemielves to the al
most inaccessible spurs of the mountain,but
by the exertions of the men, who afceed
ed it in the face of a very heavy fire ; they
were routed, five warriors killed, and
several squaws and children taken prison
ers, who were set at liberty. Col. Kelly
brought off three horses, lately taken
from the frontiers. He left uadifturbed,
their corn, Lories and other property,
which he found io Telafie.
From the Pittsburgh Gazetteef June 7.
Friday morning lad, about 25 miles
from thia place, in the Alleghany river, a
loaded canoe, wuh three men on board,
was fired on by the Indians ; one of the
men was killed, the other two wounded.
The fame day, about half an hour be
fore fun.fet, a Kentucky beat, with a
bout twenty perlons on board, (all women
and children, except five men) was fired,
on in the KiSkemenctas, ftven miles from
the mouth; three men were killed, and
one badly wounded, the other being on
Shore, made his efeape—one Indian was
killed. The boat arrived here the meat
day with the dead men on board—the in
habitants of thia place took immediate
measures to have them decently buried,
and raised a generous colle^ion for the
present fopport of the women and chit
drea ; one of whom, with fix final! chil
dren, had her husband and (on killed. 1;
is supposed this was the fame party that fir
ed on the canoe in Alleghany. 4
Accounts frem Fort Washington, if
late as the 15th ult. inform os, that an
escort between that place and head.quar
ters, had been attacked the day before by
the Indians, and eight men were killed-
Our army were still at Greenville.
lowing
HUMMING EXTRAORDINARIES.
" That things go on gloriously in
France, (ome debentures excepted ; that
the Sans Culottes bare invented new ma
chines of death, fach as (pears which can
be lanced fifty yards and if no execution
is done with the throw, they return, by a
secret stratagem, to the owner, having an
equal chance to kill in the returning as
when thrown. This however, appears on
ly the conception of the British, whole
ideas of the irriftability of the French
are fwolen to such a degree, that they
convey molehills into mountains, and con°
“ We understand there were § English,
and 4 French but one of th French runa
way before the action commerced, and the
other English frigate, said to be La
Nimph, could not ccrae up. The French
44gun Ship, had all her masts Shot away,
and 80 men lying dead on her deck when
She Struck to the two frigates ! J"
Thereis no doubt but fume important
events, have taken place cn the continent
of France from the tft to the rath cf May
—events which will probably govern the
answers of Lord Grenville to the queflicns
which may be propounded by the Ameri
can Ambassador extraordinary, and on
which (as cn the fates) are suspended the
profpeas of war and peace with this coun
try, for either of which those who would
be the firft and must inveterate assailants
of surrounded Columbia, are ever read,
rebut for these accounts we must wait with
patience.
Os what could be collc^ed from the
late Cork passengers, a correspondent has
communicated for our Register, the fol-
The report Rates, that the Indiana col
leaed to confider the offers made them in
the talk ; but that a difference arising be
tween thole who were for continuing thei#
friendship with the United States end the
opposite party, a large number got. to
blows, and the meeting ended in a few
broken limbsand bloody nolas.
_JYhen we compare the above account
with those already published in the United
States, and add to them, that Governor
Simcoe- lias Anally pertaued near 40
German families who were brought from
Holland, and fettled in the County of
Ontario, by Charles WilUamfon, E^. to
desert their Settlements and take up a refi,
dence in Canada, it does not appear alto
gether an idle chimera, that the fame loy
al gentleman Should be tampering with the
Indiana to make them break their faith
with the United States.
HEWYORK, JVNB 2j.
The ground of the dispute between the
Vermonters and the English, we under
stand to be this. Before the indepen
dence of the United States, sundry grants
of land had been made by the crown of
Great Britain, near the Canada line, to
luch perlons as would fettle oh the.land
granted. Some settlements have been
made under thole grants. After the ir.de
pendence, and after Vermont had created
rtfelf into a Sovereign state, the legislature
made sundry new grants of the fame land,
toother persons. By the treaty of 1783,
those lands fall within the jurifdidion 0:
the United States. This id an agreed
point ; but the British government infifti
on the right of protesting the royalists 01
Settlers under the royal grants. Fer this
purpose they have Rationed a small garri
son within the United States. The Ver
monters claim both ~the : foil and the jurif
diftion. Both parties seem to be wrong—
the British for claiming the jurifdiaion
the Vermonters for claiming the foil. So
hands the depute ; but we hope it may be
fettled without the alternative of reforming
to arms.
June if.
The late arrivals from Europe bring
no later accounts than have already been
received, except a verbal relation of the
capture of three French frigates in the
British channel (which '&e presume to be
the three frigates mentioned under the
New-York head ofour lass, as inferred,with
out particulars, in a London paper of
April 25) this verbal relation, as given
by Captain Thomas in the Ship Jay from
CorkS^ ^follows : " That the day pre
vious to ms departure from Cork, an uc
tount arrived there cf a severe action hav
irg been fought in the English channel,
between four British frigates and three
French frigates ; that two of the Englifti
engaged two of the French, and the other
two engaged the largell French frigate, of
44'guns ; that the action commenced at £
o'clock in the morning and continued un
til ^in the afternoon when the French
men struck their colours.
CONNECTICUT.
NEWHAVEN, June 25.
Northfork, ( Branjord) 'June 20.
On Thurlday afternoon, 19 n iott. pas.
fed over this place, a cloud out of the 5.
W. the head of which was very thick and
aeavy, like the common thunder cloud ;
out of a very light fmoaky colour and ag
itated beyond deScription.—lts height a
diametrical extent about 1 8 of a mile
—of a circular figure, whirling in a meft
violent manner upon its centre —From its
centre iflued a vortex of air (Similar to
what is often seen in water) which defeene
ed to the earth, and alternately increased
and decreased from one to two rods appar
ently, but really frem sto 20. —As I
Rood and vieweq it, at times it appealed
to divide into a number of whirls, yet all
complete in,one.—'l his vortex had con
itant communication with the cloud above,
and when it contrasted (the vortex) the
wind lulled a'litile ; put when it expand
eo, frightful to behold I—the herbage of
the field—the fowls of heaven-fencer—
leaves—boughs and trunks of trees filled
the atmosphere, and whirled in every ci
radios. —No rain or hail fell from it—
z 'gtag in its course attended with an a
larming rumbling Something like that cf
an earthquake.—lts progress rapid terri
ble as the mighty whirlwind !—A very
providential circumstance ! It did not take
many buildings in its course, these which
it did were moved from their foundations
—prostrated to the ground or wrenched 2-
funder and whirled ata distance.—The
lowest ground was marked with the great
est havocs —there the Sturdy o#k—the
itutborn maple—the elastic walnut were
swifted off or torn up by the roots—Or
chards and forefts yielded to its violence.
-•-The damage and defiruaion of build
ings and fences it cor.ficerable, but the
greatest loss sustained is in fruit trees and
Sugar-maples—one gentleman loft forty
five very valuable apple-trees—another a
number cf apple-trees and forty cr
fifty maples—Damage and devafiation
were the uniform marks of its progress.
—The place of its faft and last ap
pearance 1 have not yet been able to learn
—on each fide of it was calm.— A gentle
man fat in his ftocp and felt nothing of it,
and at the fame inflant be saw his barn
(about 4 rods off) rife and move a small
distance from its foundation.
Thursday afternoon, 'a violent gust cf
wind, or rather a tornado, paged thru'
several towns in this Bate, from the West
ward. The firft account we have of its
progress, is from Poughkeepsie, Rate of
New-York, where several buildings were
blown do,n, br unroofed—-trees torn up
by the roots,,#c. In this state, in the
towns of Newrtrilford, and Newton, it
is said about thirty houfea and bars
were blown down, or much i r 9^^d
and that fume lives were loft. IK
were also severely Ah to Wat? ^,
Watertown, but we have itfr/t
ular information, only f^'Dor^ iZQfe
the pariffi of Northford.
Danbury,
A hurricane was experieh^ Be%l,
(this town) on TburfdsyHft in which
the house of the Misses ™t (maiden la
dies) was unroofed, and fir damaged,
a considerable Orchard deft/d entirely,
and every .thing in its courfc,:rf4 from
its place aid laid level with £''"'
ceire picquels to be main bodies. That
the Duke of York has in conjunction with
the Emperor and Prince of Saxe Cobourg,
attacked two foraging parties of the Sacs
-ulottes ; the combiAcd^powers advanced
in eight columns, the attack was irrefifta
ble ; they fariouily drove two waggons
of the enemy down a ftcep hill, broke two
of the Spokes and deranged one of the
wheel fellows so that the Oliver was inca
pable of making his escape. Much praifo
is due to Lieut. Halting of the Britilh
Royalists, for his intrepid conduct on this
occasion, who like a hero purfucc the
driver ; he received howevera Imall wound
in the left eye by a crack of the waggon
er', whip, but hopes are entertained of hi#
recovery, if he Should lose his eye, no
doubt government will bestow a pension
out of the inexhauftable treafur, of the
British station. Nor can Admiral M'Bride
oe too much commended for his timely af
tiftance, who, in the moment of danger,
hove in fight with his horle marines, and
performed wonders. They also report
that the citizens of Ireland, were about
to illuminate, when the glorious news ar
rived, but that later intelligence from the
continent having informed that the victory
was too dear bought, they postponed their
burnt offering until the next fair day."