The Connecticut courant, and the weekly intelligencer — Hartford [Conn.], 1780-09-19 00:00:00, page 3

PHILADELPHIA
September 5. On Friday left the camp which had
been formed at Trenton by the militia of this State,
Ly orders of Hie Excellency General Washington,
broke up in confequcnce of a countermand from
him, or advices received from Europe. It consisted
of 1500 infantry, two companies of artillery, with
pieces of cannon, and a troop of light horse.---
D^ing their encampment they daily praAifed the
menaces and discipline introduced into the Cen:
tinental army by Baron Steuben, and made a very
treat progress, The greater harmony and good
order prevailed. A market was eftabhihed, which
the inhabitants of the neighbourhood regularly at
tended, and the vefpea Shewn to private property was
such, that all the damage done in three weeks, did
not amount to more than fifty pounds specie, agree
able to an a/ppraifment made by two Freeholders
of New-Jersey. They were well provided with
tents, and all other nectaries for actual field far
fervice. la a few days more, the whole, with the
addition of Lafica&er, York and Cumberland, would
have made acorps of 3400 men. All under the
command of His Excellency the President of the
State ready to co-operate with the Continental
array', if their Services had been immediately n e .
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In CONGRESS. Angufi 22^ 1780.
<T7HEREAS it is of the utmost importance, ef
frankly to prevent the defiruaion, waste,
embezzlement and misapplication of .the public
floras and provisions, upon which the exigence of
the armies of these United States may depend, and
no adequate provision hath been made for the just
punishment of delinquents in the departments of
Quarter Ma^er General, Commiffa^y General of
Parchafes, Commissary General of I Tues, Clothier
General, Commissary General of Military Stores;
Purveyor of the Hospitals and Hide Department ;
therefore, : \/
Rafalved, That every perfan in any of the said
departments intruded with the care of provisions, or
military or hospital flores or-other property of these
United States, who shall be conviAed at a General
court martial of having fold without a proper order
for that purpose, embezzled or wilfully misapplied,
damaged or spoiled any of the prov^ons, horses, fo
rage, arms, cloathing, ammunition, or other military
or hospital floras. or property belonging to the Unit
ed States of America, shall fuffer death or fuchother
punishment as shall be directed by a general court
martial according to the nature and degree of the of
fence, it the diferetion of such court : And every
person in any of the said departments intruded as
aforefaid Who shall be conviCted at a General Court
Martial of having through nefle& differed any of
the articles aforefaid to be willed, spoiled or damag
ed, shall fuffer such punishment as the said court shall
In their diferetion dircA, according to the degree of
the offence.
August 23.
Refolvedl, That no Certificates ifTued in the
Quarter Matters and Cemmiffaries departments after
the fifteenth day of September u&t, afford any
claim upon the United States, unless issued under
the following regulations.
Firfl, That they be for fervlcee performed, or
articles purchased, within their ref,e&ive depart
ments.
Secondly, The Quarter Mate General and
Ccami&ry General shall themselves sign all such
certificates as are Issued in their refpeaive depart
ments.
Thirdly, All such certificates shall be given for
Specie, or other current money equivalent.
Fourthly, All contrasts or purchases made, for
which certificates shall be given, shall be made for
fpecte value.
Fifthly, The articles so purchased, shall be enu
merated in such cirtificafes with the rates and prices
thereof, and the prizes shall be reasonable when the
prefect circumflances of our affairs are compared
with the coll of articles of like quality, or services
performed in the year 1775, or when compared
with the allowance by Congress to the United States
as expressed in their resolution of the 25th Feb. lath
Resolved, That Certificates issued under and a
greeably to the foregoing regulations, shall bear an
interest of fix yer cent, per annum, from the time Sti
pulated for payment until paid,
Resolved, That the Quarter- Mafler General and
Commissary General be, and hereby are Bri&ly en
joined, to make monthly returns of their purchases
and proceedings to the Board of War, and make
monthly returns, to.wit. on the lad day of every
month to the board of Treasury. of all certificates
do issued as aforefaid. Extras from the Minutes,
CHARLES THOMSON. Se'cry.
In CONGRES S> August 26 1780.
CONGRESS took into corifideration the report
cf the Committee appointed to devlfe ways and
means for preventing the farther issue of certificates,
and for carrying into effeA the resolutions of the
18th cf March left, &c, and thereupon came to the
following refolutiona : ^ t ,
Whereas a large and immediate Supply of money
Is necessary for carrying on the operations of the
war, and for the payment of debts due for (applies
heretofore furnished, and for the payment ofintereft
on Loan Office Certificate:
Resolved, That it be earnestly recemmnded to
the Several States, to take the mod Speedy and tfcc
tual measures in their power for drawing in their
refpeaive quotas of the Continental Bills of Credit,
to be destroyed, either by a tax to be c^lkQed im
mediately, or by exchanging for them new bills to
be emitted pursuant to the aAof the 18th cf March
hi, at a rate not left than forty of the former for cue
of the latter, so that the whole cf the said new bills
may be jffued, p ?
-That it be recommended to the several States, to
raise by taxes, payable in the bills emitted puifuant
to the A& aforefaid. or in Specie, their refp«live
quotas of three millions of dollars, agreeable to the
apportionment cf the 7th October; 1779, and pay
the fame into the Treasury cf the United States as
soon as possible, the payment to be fully completed
by the left day of December next, each State to be
allowed in^eft for the fame, from the time it is
paid, to be hereafter adjured, according to a refo
iation of the 6th of October, <779.
That Major General Greene, late Quarter Mafler
General, and Jeremiah Wadsworth, late Commissary
General of Puichafes, and the present C;mmiff&ry
General of Parchafes refpe&vely, render an account
to the Board of Treasury, of the amount of the
monies due from them, on Certificates or otherwise,
on public account, Specifying the sum dec in each
State, in order that warrants may issue in their
favour on the Treasurers of such States, for payment
of the fame, out of the monies to be collard for
the United States as aforefaid, which warrants being
paid, shall be accepted by the Treasurer, toward
such Spates quo a of the monies to be raffed as atork
said : And it is farther recommended to fuc^ States,
to provide, that the Certificates of the said Quarter
Mailer and Cemmiffaries. and these who purchased
under thera, ba received id Payment of the said
taxes, to the amount of such warrants, under proper
regulations, for. preventing fraud.
Aad to prevent the possibility of any depreciation
in the bills to be emitted agreeably to the aA of the
18th March aforefaid; That it be most ^arne^iy re
commended to the several Sates, not to issue B.lh cf
Credit for a currency on any consideration whatever
to a greater amount than their refpeaive quotas of
the new bills fitted in 'the atl aforefaid; and that
the Bills of Credit emitted by any of the States since
the firft day of January lad, and redeemable in
specie at part, be coufidcre d as part of the proportion
of the money reserved by the said &A of toe 18th
March, to the use of the State.
Congress took into consideration the report of the
Committee on the letter of the Bth June, irom Go
vernor Trumbull, and of the 2ifl July left from Mr.
T. Burke, and thereupon,
Resolved, That all and regular the creditors of
these United States for fopplies furnished the army,
or the transportation thereof, &11 be entitled to ra
crive the jaft value of the fams due to them re
fpeaively in the Bills of Credit, emitted pursuant
to the a& of the i&ti March la&, the Value of the
films dud, to be afeertained according to the current
value of Continental Bills of Credit compared with
specie at the time the money became due, at the
place where the (applies were fornifhed ; provided
the fame do not exceed the prices fixed for such
(applies, by the a& of the :sth February UA, or a
proportionate value for services done, and articles
furniihed. not mentioned in the said a&, bnt if the
nominal fam in Continental currency cootiafted tor
when reduced to specie value as aforefaid, shall
exceed the fixed prices aforefaid, the creditor Ihall
be entitled to receive the amount of the (applies,
furnifhed or services done at the said fixed or pro
portionate prices in the new bills aforefaid. or the
nominal sum coatraAed for in Continental Bills of
Credit, and no more at his ele&ion.
That the accounts being duly examined and ad
justed by the rule aforefaid, by Coiamiffioners, that
may be appointed agreeably to the resolution cf the
12th June last, to fettle the accounts of offices cf
the sass departments in the several States, or by the
officer who made the contract or by whom the pay
ment is to be made, the fame fhali be paid or a cer
tificate given, for the sum justly due, certifying that
the fame has been duly examined and adjufied afte/j
ably to the direAions aforefaid, and,if paid in tire
new bills, the iatereS on the said bills shall be com
puted to the date of such certificates :
That all debts due to the United Slates for mo
nies received for their use or otherwise within any
of these States, shall be paid according to the just
value of the money when it was received, or be
come due, to be ascertained as aforefaid.
;ExtraA from # the Minutes,
CHARLES THOMSON, Secretary.
TRENT O N, September 6.
Friday night the 2fth ulba party of fix month;
men, under the command of Ensign Fitz Randolph,
went upon Staten Island and brought off a Jufiice
Lake and five other principal inhabitants; without
any infs on oar fide.
F I SHK IL L, September 14.
Extras of a Letter from Albany, dated Sept. 6,
" I have been informed as an undoubted truth,
that fame day left week, a party of Indiana & tories,
abDtit 60 in number, made an attempt to defltcy a
house, and kill the inhabitants, about 16 miles above
Shone Arabia, Tryon county ; they wer^ but off
four times, by the man of the houf«. hb wfit Mid
two children ; they than went to the barn and set it
onfire; tfhen the man took the opportunity uf.pul'
ling -one wounded and one dead man into the house,
from whom he got a frefh (apply of ammahitiorr,
his own being nearly expended : The wretches
made another ifTault upon the house, but tn vain ;
they were obliged to retreat with the loft of fizxee<
killed and one wounded, now ^ pzif^nr, an infa
mous tory. his name M'Donald. The attack firft
began at fix o'clock in the evening, and they left
the house about midnight.
" My informant said that the woman broke fix or
7 guns with an rr, as they attempted to fire through
a hole. He also said that during the whole engage
ment, the people were praying, so that, said he, it
was cJeir that God helped them : A^d his faying
was evidently true, for his divine inte pofi ion must
be acknowledged in every deliverance; and thia
Was a most extraordinary one, that deserves to be
publUhed to the world. 01 that mei woild pre fa
the Lord for his goodaefs, and turn from the evil of
their ways, that we might fee the Lord's hand turn
ed from judgment to mercy.
" T^ere have been several other remarkable de.
liveraaceK since the defiroying of Canajoharie, which
are not so well authenticated."
HARTFORD, September, 19.
The Ship Harlequin of 18 guns, ship
Jack of 14, and the brig Eagle of 14, all
belonging to Salem, are taken by the ene
my in the river St. Lawrence, and carri
ed to Quebec.
On theist instant departed this life, in
the 56th year of his age, Col. John Mose
ley, of Weftfield.
Last Thursday the Rev. Joseph Perry
cf Ea.l Windsor, was married to Mrs.
Naomi Verstille, reli& cf Mr. Peter.
Verstille, of this town.
At a Town Meeting at Boston on the
4th instant, the Hon. John Hancock,
Esq; had 858 Votes out of 923, as Go
vern or of that Commonwealth.
SIDLiEN i<uxu me iubicriber on me night after
the nth indent, a (mail bright bay HORSE,
trots all. ahard fuelling on his left knee, left eye
covered with a film, ufcd principally in the collar.
Whoever will deliver the thief and horfelo the sub
scriber, shall receive a reward of Three Hundred
DJlais, and for the horse only. One Hundred D 4-
lais and charges. BILDAD PHELPS^
Windfur, Srpt. I, 1780. ^ _____;-
STRAYED or Stolen (fappefed the latter) trera
the pafiwecf landlord Smith, of New Her ford,
in Litchfield county, on the night next following
the 14 b of Sep ember instant, a dark bay trotting
MARE, can pace feme, ebo^t 14 hands high, thick
fa and in good fhfh, branded with a croft on her
near shoulder. if observed, and a remarkable white
spot cn the near fid? of her neck where it joins her
body, and another close under her foretop, probable
the thief will endeavour to hide hid foots with
paint. The MARE was (Mod all round with new
ffiots. Whoever will take up said Thief and Mart,
if Stolen, and bring them to the woet; or tend
him word so th.at.he ma,.get his MARE, shall have
TWENTY SHILLINGS Si*e % Mercy, and half
cf said sum for the MARE only, and all rcafonable'
charges. SOLOMON DIMMECK.
Salisbury 15th Sept. 1780.