The Columbian informer, or, Cheshire journal — Keene, N.H., 1793-09-25 00:00:00, page 3

N E W-Y O R K.
NEW-YORK, Sept. 9.
Account of the migrantfever which at pro
ject ra^cs in Philadelphia, in a letter from
a Physician of that city, to hit correspon
dent in this, dated 6th inst.
The fever is spread all over the city,
however, more are not affected than
hitherto, and the deaths are less numer
• cue.
On the firft attack, there is a univerfal|
proration of strength; the pulse is full,
and rather quick, but not terse ; from thei
beginning there is an uncommon oppres
sion around the precordia, violent retch
ings, and generally a total inability of
keeping any thing 00 the ftrmsch. Af
ter a little time a comatoze delirium takes
place, vibices appear, the ftn becomes
yellow, as do the adnata of the eyes ; and
The Indians by deputation, infilled up
on the Ohio as 'die boundary between
them and the United States. But, as ft
executive a concession was inadmissible, &
Ao relaxation of this demand being iedi
cated, the Ccramiffio ers who hed been
waiting a? the mouth of Detroit-river,from
the 21st of July,left thxt place on the 17th
of Anguft, and arrived at Fort-Erie on the
z;d of the fame month.
Trie tribes determined for war, are, the
Wyando's,Delawares, Shawanefe and Mi
amis ; althu' it is underlined that a con
siderable portion pen cf those, were for
peace.
Itis elfo underflood, that the Six Na
tions, including Capr. Brandt, and his
Mohwks, strongly urged the hcftile In
dians to make peace. 0
Vk E would be happy, could we give
our readers a fitisfadory account of the
reSu't of the council of war hed lart week
by order of the c mmander in chief ; but
that being out cf our power, we can only
give the ramourof the day : Tha conjec
ture is. that the reduction cf the five holhic
towns in the &eek nation is agreed upon ;
hut whether the period of operation, and
the number deemed necessary to be
brought into a&ual service, will perfeai,
coincide with the objeTin view, are cir
cumstances which no one Gems to be fuf
fiviently informed of, to form any de
cided opinion upon.
PENNSYLVANIA.
PxliL ADELPHI4, Sept. 4.
INDIAN WAR INEVITABLE !
,n Express arrived ys,erday at tbe War-
Ofrer from the Comm,loners for treating
with the Indians north 0, the Onio.
We learn that thev were not able even
to eff bl a meeting with the body cf the
hoftle Indians, who were lerkd at the
Rapids vs the Miami-nver, which runs
into Lake Erie.
Wh?n in affirmative Co-efficient, is pnt
in even fcala with a negative, the affirma
tive will inevitably more than balance the
negative, without any fault in the scale or
weigher.
Why then fhnuld Mr. Zenex tax me
with being offended at his remarks, or
handling the Talker's efi'ay too severe
ly, when I had eff.^ed nothing againrt
either, bat what region, virtue and truth
would jaltfy? As I*m advised to (hew
wherein Mr: Zenexs' observations tend
to scurrility, let it feffice to remark,
<< that in Scandal as in roboerv, the receiv
er is a, bad as the thief." —Mr judgment
is ton feeble todfeern any rißnu-l d tfar
ence, betwixt introducing a bad practice,
and acquiescence and encouraging in it ;
and as aa endeavored to jollify the ienti
meats of the Talker without reserve,
(notwithstanding the Talker himfeit
gave them up) I think it mill appear evi
dently plain to the impartial reader, that
his obfervatims not only tended to, bur
recommended Scurrility, without any fur
ther demonstration. —Bat lead Ith iud be
confitered by Mr. ZENEX, too cenfori
©Q, # lam willing to drop the debate at
present, only ndvlfing him, for the future
(when he pleads a cause for another man,
without application or fee) to choose a
better fide.
§. O CM ^x^ ^M&cO<O< — >/ C> < oo'o
^om^bG ^lUhitt^cNce.
* 7 would just inform Mr. Zenex that
cenforicirs is net derived from Genjor—they
baue very Efferent lignifications.
GEORGI A.
AUGUSTA, Aug, 15.
The New-York Diary of Wednesday e
vening, mentions that two vessels had ar
rived from France, in 53 days and bro't
;news from Paris as late as the Bth of July,
in substance that the Convention had
completed the confutation, decreed the
convocation of a naw Convention, to meet
on the 9th es November ; enjoined it on
the executive council to prosecute the war
with vigor, to fuffer no part of the troops
to remain inadive, and to listen to no
'propofitions of peace from the enemy till
November : That the fquadrpns of Brest
Should the bloodhounds cf defpctifm,
(headed by that infignificant b.iy the duke
of York) be so rash as to carry their at
tempt of fturming this place into effea,
may they meet that fate they so justly
merit.
The Citadel is one cf the moll regular
in Europe—the eld citadel was repaired
by Vauban, around which is a ditch full
of water—Half way up the hill is a very
Hreng work, which commands the citadel,
which is alfj farrounded by a dich full cf
water ; this work is again covered by a
third work built on the very top of the hill.
These three.works, which mutually com
mand each other, are covered by halfm-.cn
works, and furreurded by a cry ditch, &
which communicate to each other by a co
vered ways The walls arcund the city are
of amazing fttength, ahd within the city,
befioes the citadel, there are many half
moon works, in particular facing each cf
the gates.
finally, th: patient dies ; apparently with
out pain,on or about the IcvcAth Or eighth
day, generally.
The contagion in the fphereof its ac
tion, is confined to contact, or to the
iea< hos the b eath often infeded perfen.
Hutchinson, Ttili lives; his case,
however, is desperate —io well w:s he on
Tuefaay last, that he conceived himfelf
cut of danger ; and on that r.igh', or the
following mo-ning, drew op the llate cf
bis caie, far publication. His relaple
was owing to his coining down Hairs, and
the fatigue of his going up, by whch his
nose got to bleed, and difeharged be
yond his strength.
Ail who can, leave town. You would
be attonifhed to tee the thinness in our
streets. Thole who die are buried in the
night, for the moll part, and are carried
to the place of interment in carriages.
I thir k the dis rder mutt l?on be check
ed, filch are the precautions used by all
who are here ; and 1 affucth, number
cf tick is comparatively small, the popula
tion cf our city considered.
The fallowing account of Valenciennes,
is handed to us by a correspondent, and
will douhtlefs be acceptable to cur rea
ders at the present moment, when the eyes
cf the world are turned to that place :—
Valenciennes was known as early as the
beginn ng of the sth century. It was ce
ded to F ance in 1577. — It contains 6000
houses and 25,000 nhabitants — the ftieets
are 1 arrow and crocked—l is built upon
the fide if an eafv deicer:—lt is rendered
extremely commodious in the articlcof wa
er, by a branch of the Efca^t which tra*
verses it, as well as by Several little can
als.— it is strongly fortified, and its old
works were repaiied and greatly enlarged
by that celebrated engineer the Marftial
de Vduban.
We^t the farce t ; me have good ren'on
to believe that the Six N lion, will con
fouc in friendship with the United States.
ALBANY, September 9.
Friday afternoon arrived in this city,
from their mission to the Western Coun
try, the Hon. Beverly Randolph
and Timothy Pickering, Eiq s.
two of Commiffioaers of the Uot.d Stages,
appointed to treat with the hostile Indians ;
and on Saturday they proceeded on tae:r
return to the feat of government. Gen.
Lincoln, the other Commissioner, is en
nis return by water.
Weare ferry to learn, that the Com
^iffioners have no: succeeded in their at
pempc to make peace wrh the Indians.
Who, we underhand, infilled that the
River Ohio Should be the boundary line
between them and the United States ;
which, corfidcring the large purchases cf
lands, made of them at public and solemn
treaties by the United States, and th, ex
renfive settlements by our citizens, cn the
N. W. of that liver, was obviously not
Admirable. The war of course mull con
tinue until the savages are brought to
renfon.
ACCOUNT OF VALENCIENNES.
:nd Ruhffir, had united, given BAT
TLE co the British and Dutch Fleets,and
COMPLETELY DEFEATED them :
That the fleet at Teuton, has effectually
prevented the Spaniards from undertaking
any thing against their ccattcr Coifiea :
That the ii<gc cf Valenciennes has been
ratted, after the besiegers had left upwards
of TEN THOUSAND men, and their
genera, the PRINCE of COBOURG :
That the siege cf Lille had been railed.
Fr< m the tenor cf ocr latelt accounts
fom the fiat of war cn the frontiers of
France, there is room to doubt that part
of the above intelligence, which relates to
the siege of Valenciennes : To account,
however, for a ,rffb:lity cf its trutv, we
think it our duty to mention, that when
general Cuftine was lately at Pacis, he
told the Cemmitee of war, that he had
the means of conveying intelligence to
Va ercunnes, to inform the ggniion a.
what time to make a vigorous form,
which he should support, by attacking the
combed forces without at the lame time.
The success of Iris plan, he laid, would
depend on the b avery cf his troops.
Capt. Dowr.e arrived at New-London,
Ifrom the Havanaah, learnt there, thatgocc
troops with a number effoips of war,• bad
fade I on an expedition again, the French part
of St. Domingo.
Ou Monday four male, and four female
culprits, of various complexions^ fat on tbe
gallows, and received tbe dfciplme of the
' p°Hf or various thefts cf which they were
\ ctm^led) at the late term cf tbe Superior
Court.
From Gibraltar, Aug;, 2.
On Sunday evening arrived here the Jh,
\ George of B,cn, Silas Dagget, ma,er,
from Gibraltar, who informs ; *
That the Brit:,;, set under Lord Hood,
which went into tag old.terranean, at tt-c
date efthe la, accounts, were ts Barcelona ;
and that ayu kt.on with the Spain, feet ban
not been efrded, tbe latter having gone into
,Carthagena, cccifoned by the ficßtiejs of the
l crews;
That it was reported at Gibraltar, that
it was tbe intention of the fleets, when combi
ned, to have gone agaifi louloa ; but, that
tbe mo, thinking people ,ppoje the English
will have more prudence than to attempt it ;
That a number oj prizes were jeding at
Gibraltar, mojily Spans, vfls, taken by
tbe French, and retaken by tbe English :
That the,p Gen. Wajhingten a French
privateer bad been,nt in there.
That tbe inhabitants cf Gibraltar expec
ted daily to bear that tbe Engiilh bad declared
war again, America, for fap,lying the
French with provficns, attho' ibry jean to
wife tbe contrary :
And that tbe Spaniards expeßed a very
severe attack from tbe French after tbe
northern armies badretired io winter quar
ters.
Ve ear from the town of Raley, in
I ^tve, that on the if h inst. a rape
-^ permitted on the body of a woman,
% < on, whose name we have riot yet
^r^. - jut, owing to the Shrieks cf the
u r happ t woman, a man by the name of
D&y \n to her affiftanc^, who immedip
" Great efforts are making to Jupprejs the
French principles of Liberty and Equaliy ;
andthe I.,nefs is nearly fitted. There are
thirty-eight tboujind mibha raising to quid
ary propagation ofthoje principles. Tbe regu
lar regiments are ajo re rutting —each troop
of Light-Dorje, is to cons, of 7^ privates,
^fergcunts and 6 corporal , each troop. Dad
proceedings are made again, the country -peo
ple, as they oppose the racing of the militia —
the army is in continual motion to quell them
and thejails are full cf prijoners.
WORCESTER, September tz.
On Monday the 2d inst. aehild of Mr
Jsraes Wesson cf Temple<own, about
two years and an halfold, being at play
in the chamber, accidently fell Out at
the window, head foremeft, and flruck
on the stone of the door, eleven feet.
It was taken up senseless; and remain
ed so for several hours, but is now in
a fairway to recover. It is remarkable
that the scull was not fradured, nor ev
en the &in brcken.
QC»@o§Q§©Q<©o OCX 0
NEW-HAMPSHIRE.
r%ee7i&) J^^fo 25;
RAPE and MURDER!
MASSACHUSETTS.
BOSTON, Sept. 18.
From Dublin, June 12.
^'> 1793-
INFORMATION ts hereby given tn all
the Military Invalids of the U ited
States, that the sums to which they are
entitled for fix months of their annual pen
sion, from the 4'h day of March last, and
which will became due on the sth of Sep
tember text, will be pad on the said cay
by the Cotamiffinnets of the Loans, w : th«
in the States retpaively Usher the ufuaf
regulations.
By Command of the
PRESIDENT of the United St ates.
Hi KNOX, Secretary a; War,
" Mr. Pity has prepojed a tax upon
knives andforks, in order to help to fuftr:
tbe expei,„e war the Engrifn nation is enga
ged in. He bus been warlnly oppifed, upon
the principles that it will not be pred.cAive ;
knaves and forks being alar, out of demand
in England, tbe people havurg nothing let
to eat.”
atcly threw the ph„uatcr <f this Join'd
deed open his bad:, and putting his foot
on his bread, pressed with fueh violence,
as put an immediate end to hia exigence.
DIED] In June last, the celebrated
Dr. 1%/iam Robert,n, Principal of the
University cf Editbu gh, and one of the
rirtt historians cf the age, in his 72d year.
A: Portland, L ; eut. Thomas Htton, ^:.
27.— At Arundel, Mrs. Lvdia B'unt.—
At Providence, Mr. Gerfh m Carpen
ter, &r. 67 —Mrs. Thurber.—At New
bury-Port, Mrs. Susanna Hodge —At
Exeter, Mrs. Odiornc, IE-. 27. At
Philadelphia, Dr. fames Hutchinjon, one
of the mott eminent Physicians cf that ci
ty. Several of this intrepid & benevolent
order of citizens have fallen victim, to
the contagion prevalent in Philadelphia.
PUBLIC VENDUE.
TO De io:d at Public Vendue, nt the
House of ThomasK Bted, inn
holder in Packer-ficid, on Thursday the
17th day of October next at two o'clock,
in the afternoon, a valuable Failure, in
the easterly part or f id :o*a, containing
bout 50 aerss of land, being the estate cf
James Field, late cf laid town deceafea.—
oaid laud will padure t*^& fifteen head
f cattle, the fume — ... ^ct
sale to be fern at i f L a _„~
JO^Pti 1 FLD, A.mini.
ni.fr tor 0. laid Estate.
Parksrf.jp Sept Bb, 1793.
This day publijbed,
(and for sale at this Office)
THE
PROPHECIES
of the Rev.
Chrift'r Love:
and Hib last words on the
SC A- F F OLD:
kFbo was beheaded at Towcr-Hill, London,
on tbe twenty-feed Day cj A^gf, 1651.
Sept. 18, 179;
Nn-Refidenr ownes< F Lcds
X in the town of GSum, are he eby
informed, that unless their hi,h way p. t
ny-tax, which became due in the yeas
'9O, and '9l. is wo ked cut, cr fettled, by
rhe 15th of Odober next, their lards will
be so d at public vendue, for the payment
offaid taxes.
ZADOCK HURD, Celha o -.
Gilum, Sept, y, 793. r
" A treaty has taken place between the
kings of England ana Sardinia, whereby
they agree to make a (Cnimon case in tbe war
with France— the king of S. d nia to keep
on feet an army of 50,000 men during the
war ; tbe king oj England* to fend into the
Mediterranean a failo a& as ci ? cum,anccs
air<a ; ana sojurni,ihe Ring of Sardinia
with 260,060/. ayear, wble tbe war lafls
—tbe king cj Engand not to mane peace with
F aece ad.ttat re,button of that part of
(Savoy) now ptfffidby tbe French, &{.''
Copper Still.
FOR Sale, a COPPER STILL snd
WORM, aimed new, containing
about Thirty Gallons; very Writable fef
a re&if,ing Stif, in a Grain Difflery.
Enquire of the Printers,
Keene, Sept. 17th, 1793.
MARRIED] Mr. James Riggs, cf
Cheder (Ferment) to M.is Rhoda Pond,
of this t.wn !
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