The Newhampshire gazetteer — Exeter, N.H., 1791-05-20 00:00:00, page 3

A CORRESPONDENT SAYS
. Some modern reformers of govern#
went Extend their ideas so far, that they
would not only reform as out of peace
and tranquility in this world, but also
deprive mankind of their dernier hope,
the expectation of happiness in the world
r to come ; hence the many indirect and
Wi"^" attacks upon revealed religion with
1 y^hich not only foreign rrewfpapers, but
even. American publication are dis
graced.
here the 20th instant, up the Ohio, from
the Kenabway, we have the intelli
gence, that just before his leaving that
place, a man had come in almost dead
with fatigue, who was one of 40 militia
that were coming up that place in a
boat loaded with provisions for the
' French settlement at Gallipolis ; and
that 20 of those whole turn it was to
walk on shore and hunt, were fired upon
by a party of about 30 Indians concealed
in a thick buffiy place, and most proba
bly all cut off but himfelf. The boat
probably, with the rest on board, had re
turned down the river. This happened
on the 27th ofMarch, nearly opposite
the mouth of the Sciota, on the Virginia
fide of the river.,
its content. The union takes place a
little below the clavicle or collar-bone,
and continues to the middle of the belly,
where, at the reparation, there is a fin
ste navel, through which one umbilical
cord, or navel-string entered. There
is but one liver—The contents of the
thorax were not examined ; from the
external view, however, there is only
one heart, and one pair of lungs, for
there is but one fternum,or breast-bone,
and no appearance of a double chest,
except behind, where it looks something
like two backs closely joined.—The
foetus survived until two days before its
birth, and had come to its full size,
that is, those parts of the children which
are perfectly formed. This phenome
non is in the possession of Messrs. Tay
lor and Hansford, practitioners of Phy
fick in this town.
Or four years, in a late English paper
this is accounted for, by the demand $
being greater than formerly, and the
Chinese to supply the market put in e
very kind of rubbish that used hereto
fore to be thrown away.
Yesterday the house of Mr. John Day
ton, at Chatham, took fire, fappofed by
a (park from the chimney, and was en
tirely consumed, with a great part ofhis
furniture. The wind was so high, that
in i; minutes after discovery, enveloped
in one general flame.
By an express which arrived from
Venange last week, we are given to un
deftahd, that the settlers at Cofewago
were leaving it, and coming down to
the garrison at Fort Franklin ; that from
every appearance a stroke was intended
on that settlement, as several parties of
unfriendly Indians had been difeovered
by scouts that were out ; that the Corn
planter and Halftown had upwards of
100 warriors in and about the garrison,
and have runners continually out to bring
intelligence, thev being determnined to
proted the garrison at all events, from
any insults.
The alarming incident of the finking
of the houses and streets in White Ha
ven (England) was occasioned by the
town's being undermined with coal-pits,
which were not properly secured ; as in
other places—no account is given of a
ny lives being loft.
The quality of Bohea tea, has been
much complained of within the last three
Some persons appear very much dis
gusted with the contradictory accounts
of the situation of affairs in France : but
so long as different interests exist, so
long will the world be abused with con
traditions. Time alone is to be de
fended upon as an honest interpreter —
he will do juftice—•and we must wait for
this infallible umpire to decide. What
are fifty years in the age of a nation ?
By Mr. Stewart Wilkins who arrived
VIRGINIA.
ELIZABETHTOWN, APRIL 27.
PENNSYLVANIA.
PHILADELPHIA, APRIL l6z
PITTSBURG, APRIL 16.
APRIL 23.
CONNECTICUT.
.DANBURY, APRIL 26.
Last Thursday night the dwellinghdafe
of Miss Sarah and Phoebe Comftock, in
Norwalk,two aged Maidens, was consu
med by fire.—By this accident those
ladies have loft one thousand pounds.
Sunday evening last the Hat-Mahu
fadory of Messrs. O'Burr and Co. in
this town was difeovered to be on fire —
but by the timely assistance of the neigh
bours, the fire was happily extinguished.
Died left Thurfday< much lamented
by those who with to defraud their cre
ditors, an aft or law ofeConnedicut, en
titled, An 14a relating to debts due to per
font ewho have been and remained avitbin
the enemy's power, or lines, during the late
woarr —This statute, tho' of a weakly
habjt, had yielded great service to the
people of this ftate.—lt has been pro
du&ive of at Icaft roo,oool. in cafh—
° 9
Have mankind yet to learn, that he
who fears not God,will not regard man ?
The plan of fubjugatihg America —and
making a property of the lives and for
tunes of our citizens originated in prin
ciples of infidelity. When Britain was
virtuous, she felt the influence of honor
and humanity—but when Hume, Man
deville, Bolingbroke and Saltaire formed
a creed for British ftatefmen-Mhe appe
tites of luxury,ambition and avarice ab
sorbed the idea of right and wrong,&the
contest with America was considered by
them but as a game of hazard on their
part, in which as individuals, they
might gain much, but could lose no
thing—such are the uniform effeds of
infidelity ; immediate interest alone con
trouls the a&ions offuch men—and it is
by accident that they ever promote the
public prosperity.
May 5. Several Pilot Boats were loft
in the heavy gale on Saturday night
the 16th ult. among them was Capt.
Scott, in a boat from Rappahannock,
which struck on the Horse-Shoe ;—All
on board perilhed.
By letters from Tobago dated April §,
we are informed, that the commander
of the island had forbidden the expor
tation of sugars and cotton to America.
And an additional duty Os four and half
per cent, had been laid on all the rum
exported.
May 7. We learn that upwards ofone
hundred troops which have been raised
in New-Jersey for the service of the
frontiers, will march from Trenton for
Fort-Pitt this day under the command
of Capt. Zebulon Pike.
- During the session many important
questions were agitated arid decided.
Among others came on the great and
much litigated question, Whether obli
gations in favour of real British fubjefts,
or those who had joined the armies of
Great Britain during the war, should
draw interest during the tiine the cre
ditors were inaccessible by reason of the
war. In this case the court adjudged
that the Statute law of Connecticut en
abled the Rate courts to dedud intereff
in such cases, was an infringement of
the treaty of peace, and that upon com
mon law principles, interest was reco
verable.—The learned and ingenious
arguments from the bench on this ques
tion, were highly interesting and gave
general fatisfadion.
" About one o'clock this morning,
the dwelling-house of Mr. Jesse Welton,
an industrious farmer of this town, was
consumed by fire ; the family narrowly
escaped with their lives, not being able
to save their wearing.apparel. A way
faring man who lodged in the chamber
of the houfe,had his shirt burnt from his
body, and fled naked to a neighbouring
house.—By what means the house caught
fire is not known. Happily no live were
loft.
Last Saturday the Circuit Court of
the United States finifhed the business
before them in this place, having fat
fix days.
We hear a draught of shad was taken,
near the narrows on Thursday last,
which confilled of fourteen thousand filh
—to secure which, the fifhermen were
obliged to add several feiris, one upon
the other. It is said that this single
draught of shad is worth upwards of
2001.
WATERTOWN, APRIL 2§.
NEW-YORK..
NEWYORK, APRIL 16.
NEW-HAVEN, MAY 4.
On Thursday last. the Circuit Court
of the United States was opened in this
town. His Honor Chief Justice Jay,
with the Associate and Diftrid Judges,
met at the Senate Chamber, from whence
they proceeded to the Court-House, at
tended by the Officers of the Court, and
Federal Government with the Gentle-'
men of the Bar, &c. After the custom
ary Proclamations were made, and the
Grand jury fu Orn, the Chief ,uflice de
livered to-them an elegant extempore
Charge.
Accounts from that quarter further
state, that the purchasing Commissary
for the army, is now laying in large
magazines of provision and forage, iri
the [neighbourhood of Fort-Pitt, and that
every thing is getting ready for the
campaign intended against the Indians
the ensuing Summer.
May 16. Accounts from Fort-Pitt,
Rate that the depredations committed by
the savages, within these four months
past, exceeds all former mifehief—that
twenty-three white people have been
killed this fide of the Ohio, since No
vember last, without counting those who
fell a facrifice in going down the river :
In consequence of which the inhabitants
of Firtfburg have been so nhuch alarmed
as to keep a body of militia constantly
patroling, apprehending a formal at
tack by the enraged savages upon their
town.
The Throne of Grace was then ad
dressed in prayer by the Rev. Mr. Weft.
1 he Hon. Levi Lincoln, Esq. of Wor
cester and Harrison Gray Otis, Esq.
of this town were admitted As Attornies.
Sunday evening the fi.-ft instant, the
dwelling-house of Mr. Cornelius Allen, of
Washington, was reduced to alhes, with
about two hundred bulhels of grain; and
30 do. of salt, which was deposited in an
upper room, and many other valuables ;
tho' the principal part of the furniture
was preserved. It is presumed the fire
was communicated to the roof by a spark
from the chimney. The flames become
so violent before the family were alarm
ed,. and spread with such rapidity, as
rendered all exertions ineffectual. The
house was .well built, and but lately
finifhed. The whole loss is ellimated
at 4001.
If received its death wound by the adop
tion of the New Constitution, and hath
languished in extreme agony ever since.
On Thursday the 28th ult. the two-edg
ed sword of Justice gave its last fatal
llroke and it expired without a groan.
—Numerous fpedators beheld its corps
with a smile, and hoped it might never
rife again in this world to our shame,
or in the world co come to our confu
fion.
" I know a place in America called
Point -no-Point ; because as you proceed
along the shore, gay and flowery as Mr.
Barge's language, it continually recedes
and presents itfelf at a diftahc^ a-head ;
and when you have got as far as you
can go, there is no point at all. Just
thus it is with Mr. Burke's three hun
dred and fifty-fix pages, It is there
fore difficult to reply to him. Bat as
the points he wishes to establish may be
inferred from what he abuses, it is in
his paradoxes that we must look for his
arguments."
The Census of Rhode- Island is com
pleted, and the number of Inhabitants
found to be 68,451.
BOSTON, MAY 14,
From Virginia we hear, that the PRE
SIDENT has made choice of a num
ber of old Veterans distinguished for their
military abilities, to command the Bat
tallion of new Levies which is to be
raised with all speed in that fate.
Major Guion, well known in the A
merican army, and who aded as guide
and interpreter to the French emigrants
recently fettled in the Weftern country;
was lately murdered by one of those emi
grants, by a pistol shot, It is laid these
emigrants are on the point of abandon
ing their settlement at the Sciota and
proceeding to New-Spain.
In the following easy metaphor describes
Mr. Burke's pamphlet.
On Friday morning the 29th ulb the
MASSACHUSETTS.
COMMON SENSE;
MAY 11.
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WHEREAS Stephen Clark;
of Sandborntown, in
the county of Strafford, has
in his pofleffion a note of
hand signed by me the sub
scriber, for tivo pounds twofoil
lings, dated March 11, 1791;
which he unlawfully obtain
ed:—This is to caution all
persons against purchasing
said note, for I am determined
never to pay said luffi, or any
part thereof.
Phin^has Thorn.
Stradhrntram, ^&<b 14, 1791.
^The Ecclesiastical Coven
tian of the State of New-Hampshire,
are hereby notified, that their next annual
meeting will be holden at Concord, in said
State, on the fir, Wednesday of June next,
(at the time and place of the General Elec
tion) when a Sermon will be delivered by
the Rev. Mr. Macclintock.
By order,
ISRAEL EVANS, Clerk.
Concord March 11, 1791.
Died at Canterbury on the firfl of
March, Mrs. Elizabeth Boynton,
wife of Mr. Joshua Boynton, aged 67.—
At the early age of 15, fbe made public
frofeffon of the Chrifian religion ; aid
from her youth up, to al! appearance, a
downed the dodrine of God her Saviour, in
a pure and holy life. But so it TOOas Of
fered to be, during the last year of her life,
fee teas very fubjedl to nervous disorders,
and full of weakness and infirmity both of
body and mind, which eventually led her
to a fate of melancholy and despair, bor
dering on insanity. Among many other
gloom) and irrational ideas, foe frongly
entertained this belief, that nnlefsfeefoould
speedily leave the world, all her children
to the third generation would be excluded
the favour and acceptance of God—With
this belief frongly impressed on her mind,
and her diforaors unufuaHy prevailing, on
one of her mos melancholy days, when by
mere accident foe was alone, ,e gave her
felf a mortal wound in the throat, which
terminated her exigence in two duo. —
During this interval foe seemed more ra
tional; and exprefed her devout and ar
dent wishes, that foe might not again at
tempt to do as fee had done ;—-that God
avould not leave her, norfnffir her to leave
him : and profeffed her willingness to leave
the world, and also her patience to con
tinue longer in it, as God pleased.
The loss, accafioned by this alarming
event, must be great, as the ship was
large and nearly new ; besides, there
was goods tp a considerable amount, and
a large sum of money on board—all
which (except part of the money, which
has since been found) was destroyed.—
We are informed that this accident pro
ceeded from the Reward's falling to sleep
and leaving a candle burning in the
cabin, which, by feme means or other,
fee fire to the fails that were flowed there.
No lives loft.
On the 4th inst. the Newham,jh;re
Medical Society met in this town, agree
ably to an Aft of the General Court,
palled at their last session, when his Ex
cellency Jojiah Bartlett, was chosen Pre
sident —Hon. Jojbua Brackett, Esq. Vice-
President, and William Parker, jun. Esq.
Secretary.—After making an addition
to the Society of a number of worthy
Gentlemen—Dining together at the As
sembly Room and drinking a number
of falhionable toads, they adjourned to
Mr. Honeyford's in Concord, the firft
Wednesday in June next.
EXETER, (Friday) May 20,
ffiip Termagant belonging to the house
of Messrs, Claggett, lying in the stream
opposite Georgetown, Potowmac, was'
difeovered on fire, which soon communi
cated itfelf to the powder on board ; the
explosion was. so severe as to shake molt
of the houses in the town.
Ecclesiastical Convention.