The Virginia gazette — Williamsburg [Va.], 1777-07-25 00:00:00, page 2

\ssl!'\'.tse. The Gefieral h-th thought proper to all out a confidenble part
of llw miluia to watch their motions, and strengthen the leven] polte.
The _enemy have englged in thers service swerd of tho Ashmeslsne
_ Indiam (the same who killed soute of our people et Sabblth Dny Pain!)
who ]ateiy fell in with : party of Toriee oing into Canadl, end sup
posing them to he.!mter men, put them flflo the sword.
,ss' ' " Extract efa letter ro- Ashan ', lated 7": 30, "17.
" The enemy are land :! (;rown-lsioint and Chimney Point, when
th'ey hlve been for seven] day.. Their ltrcngth unknown. Smcc their
hmfing they luve sent out two pertiel, one by the my of One: Creek.
the olhef through ]essop'esiPatent; the one by the way of Otter Creek,
it is hyposed : good necount will be given of, lo the people on the grante
fierem dflyl llo mdy to meet them. One half the militia in qrdened
ouuct'l- to keep open the communication between Foft Bayard
end Like,- " _,
Wflfifiid m hard that two officers. of Colonel Gansevoort'o -
, 'm been fell d, but at what place is not mentioned. .
N h-cctmciros Slsety, upon s umming up the votes of this
m sum end Liememnt Gomnor. found : majority for both
these lm dien, in (none of the Honounhle M/ljor General
elnwsicnmum ! ire.
-F-l S-H—Klp L, jub 3.
, . We lu- ucct. emwdc. with about three; hundred men, took
ss ficult ss infightofflmY-kk. theenemy'l guard, brought
ol'shenty bed ende, ,lsidd two [tuum end seventy sheep. This
liventunss gan '- mfidenble them at New York; soldien were de
Qanhed to mover-the booty, but no luce, it being gone.
We m informed that [bout two hundred and fifty of the enemy, last
Mondny, 'ndnoced n far u White Plzinn, where we had a small
; our lose m eight men taken prisoners and two wounded. We'
etm that the enemy took (hue pdsonen near Colonel Phillipl't, one of
Me ved uelttted et PM' 'I]. I soldier who had several times
' In! week"! the bounty, lad win de'serting to the enemy. He
hedenlifledmdlesmed hom'themmyelso.
At Dlnbtu-y'Dr. ]ohn Wood found in hit well four hundred ennnon
.""
,- odd hunted end twenty mount dine, supposed to be thrown
myssin their refreut from the!, im- ' _
to. We hear by expzese, and !: Alblny poR. thlt Ticonde
'tt-i-q, the hands of the enemy. he eccocctmt we have received is
my implfNr-ssk pot? says he just came of at the express arrived at
Alhany, m! informs th! our people bed sentence! fronthe fort. being
: imb'e to defend itrthey t off their small imnl, lee
" Exrrffl qsl bttfl'ffd on Stanwix, do"! thy ub influx!
" Ensign Spoote, of Clptein De Witt't company, watssout with 16
men cutting sodt at the Wood Creek Landing, where : party dien:
tired on them. This pche i: about nmile from the fort. [took
ct of men and went after them, but can a little too hte. I found one of
our men on the road half dead and scnlpcd, another coming in, (hot
through both arms; end about two miles further ! sound : third dead
and scalped, with 3 tomahawk Ricking in his head. ] still pursued on
further, but it beingtowardt evening, and having no provilion, ! thought
best to return, and brought in the wounded and dead men. Four men
lnd the Ensign they took off with them, twq ofwhom were of my compa
ny. This is another syecimcn at the tender merciet of the King of Bri
min, in hit hirinctg the Savzget to murder tu- By.this also, you may
ced what unnatural enimelt the Totiet are, who have an immediate
bend in prcmqting these borharitiet.
" Yefierd ty ous worthy Chaplain, the But. ]Vlr. Mason, arrived safe.
Captain Grcgg the same day was wounded; he it much better, and likely
to recover."
We learn that a man was hanged at Alhany : few dey: ago, who had
,heen recruiting for the enemy. Another was hanged the bther day at
Livingflon'l Manor, for : similar crime.
PHLLADELPHIA. july lo.
Y account: From Cnnedz, we leern that the enmy will be able to do
very little this empzign, u they have scarce men sufficient to gar
til'on eree, Montreal, Chamhlee, St. John't, &c. against the Cana
diam, whom they very much diflmfi, end accuse os burning their [tom
the left winter, thee they ne short of proviswnt, and that the lndien:
have laid down this latchet and gone home.
Me lkm-r mMorrisiovn, 71 5,
" The British ney mt, 'pyed, end deliroy all at they went
done. Would and Mdm were left without food to eat, or reiment
to put on. Three hundred him!! of lour were sent down towards
Weifieid MMsw—p-by order of hit Excellency, to be difldbuted
amm th r suffereru Theenemy nen desire ell the biblel \
booiugos die?:ity they c 'ct e aclsiessi; dis ] nssert I::factssi' ! 'I"
, ju' !). By late.: icet [tom New York. we hear the Hefliut 'lnd
Bnu uoope are upon such bad tenus that the sunne: hai'e positiveiy re
fused to do duty With the latter. And that Genernl neiflh lsil gone '
going to Europe. being himself g'reztly dis ested. ";!
Generel Clinton mited at New York ]- Saturday, but without "n',
n'oope, nor en it be discovered that eny more ie Expctfied, then them,
ibme of whom ere foreignen, which have already errived. si
Emnct d' . [durfron um; war Momflown, 7 to.
" We remfin here to observe the eumy'e motionl, and te e our .
sure- nccordingly. Out- troope ere healthy, end can, with Bows: ,
f-am; assure you that the spirit of lhbordinetion lnd dit'eipiinm "
great and daii ednneee among in 1 lind almofl forgot to me?
the! our hn'g-Je me in the rest of the Bn'tith enny. during art of : it
lete excursion into ]ersnez. Ind do assure you that till then ] iad now
of the inhumnoity . act- of cruelty these people can be [uisilty of. .ss*'
Barbarity, end the moihunton destruction of ivate propertffimu'kgd 5
their [00th thw'ughout their whole tour. "ere I to attempt to a. .
scend to pesticulln, it would far exceed the bounde of a-Wr. '
'He following exeg'jended um; it till:! from : Ne'er Yositk "paper es
On the morning of the :;th ult-fyebwt one o'eloelt, ' hit Exeeliensicy ?
. ]* ' l -
Genem] Sir Milton Have marched out of" Amboy with part of the 5
tu'my under hit commend. The division under the direction of Lord -
Cornwallit fell in with : body of ebout 3000 of the rebel my near
Bonhnm town, which hie Lordship soon ut to light, killed eboet'one
!
hundred. end took seventy risonen. exit three pteesi-eof eannon. The
prisoner: and canuon were sought to che city la! Sunday morning. '
41.
'sbe Prmfi fer plein! Sal eathartieus amnrue, mld Gllnbet'e Salt, ::
sstbe Sclt-U'erh in FIANCE. _' .
N the bottom of : rent tub, on : layes of straw andsi-rine twist, in 5
placed ebout zoool . ot' schiot ': A quantity "(cold water in poured ss
upon this, which presently disiolvee the common salt remaining in the
l'chlot, and ie afterwards let out by : passage in the bottom of the tub, -
an in making lie. Thin addition of cold water must be repeated until
all the common salt is difl'olved, end carried off. Then elayer oseshes
is idded to the material: in the tub, and hot water inflead of cold i:
pan'ed through the whole lepeatedly. When this last lie is supposed suf
ficiently charged with slk, it must be evaporated in large iron kettlee,
until it it enough concentnted, end is then red into deal—Rlyt to
cool, and crylhlliee. The liquor remaining : ter the cryflalllntion, is
poured off (for further evaporntion) and the salt: set to drain upon
t'plinn of willom, between two coarse clotht. The eveyontiom nnd
erystallintiom m reputed until the lie sumishee no more eryhh.ct
The felt obtained hy this is!} opention is not pure; "but mixed with
earth, selenitn, "a common salt; which on be sepnmd in thin
manner. The ahwe-mtio-od salt mon be di ved in cold win:, lnd
ths solution shend thru- h grey porr. I'he metten foreip to 3
suit; evil] remain' on th- er. on the ]" nor mpound nnd m.}.
lized, in the mnm ascribed deface, .wil .yieldyun Epfon silk. !!
the liquor in the myoit lgimed by : know dnrm iu cryshllintion,
the salt: will have that broken form of eryflllo, which give- them the ss
name of Epsom. On the contrary. if the liquor in ['He-ed to chrysh).
llze in quiet, the salte will be cllled Glauber's. ssct
N . B. ln order to obtain the gmtefi quantity of Epsom sllt fnsisn the
schlot, instead of ashes we ought to add the soda; (a) for the ashes con
taining vegetable alkal's, in abundance, will occasion the production cf .
lar e quantit of vitrioloted turns.
he 3000 do. of schlot should produce, by the first operltion, "old,
of falls. and aftemnrds Hold. of Epsom salt, perfectly pure.
* Scblol i: that sum" whirbflrjst pndpitam duck: th us..
qfstu water, before lb! connen salt begin to ('a/alike, ad re
ma-wsslla Law !besal! more pun- Wberc there it no tontri'vmcfgr "m- '
ing it, it smlu a! tbi bottom qf tlu pen, mnpojsii of earth. film'm. emsi.
nonsalt, sinful: with us turtbfy ba/ix, andsome Glaubcr'y.
(a) Soda is th: fqffih albeit obtained from the ashn qf fine Mind:
plant], :: sslbl be!). - '
To mak MAGNESIA.
WE must add to the bittem liquor, remainin after the cryfldh'za.
_ tion of common salt from se: water, : su cient quantity of any
fixed alkaline sAlt; (b) which will occasion che preciptnfinu os .n earth
perfectly white. Thin liquor must be filtered; the earth washed "pen.
edly, to on of I" the felt; andbeing then dried, become- the com
mon magne u of the shops.
(p)ct Pot-c/b, _or Iglp, er am: e/mg lie, drownfmu W-csha; (be
any dgffcrmu bmg ": the greater or lest purity qs lb: fill'dll, 'wbicb w]!
gi-w :: um or bfl fwbitc napgfla.