Fowle's New-Hampshire gazette and general advertiser ([Portsmouth, N.H.]), 1786-10-26 00:00:00

NEW-HAMPSHIRE GAZETTE, AND GENERAL ADVERTISER.
THURSDAY,
OCTOBER 26, 1786.
PORTSMOUTH: By JOHN MELCHER,
PRINTED and PUBLISHED in PAVED-STREET.
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The following particulars of the terrible Hurricane which happened at Woodstock, in Connecticut, on the 23d of September last, are extracted from a late Connecticut paper.
Mr. GREEN,
FOR the information of the Public, I send you an imperfect account of a most terrible Hurricane, which went thro' this town last Wednesday the 23d instant; such an one as perhaps has not been known in this State since the memory of the oldest man living.—The tempest came on about 5 o'clock afternoon, in the north western part of this town, and proceeded in a south-east course, in width about a quarter of a mile, with amazing violence, as if the elements were at war, carrying desolation wherever it went. Such a torrent of rain and hail, such a whirling of the clouds, such violence of wind, lightning and thunder, none can form any adequate idea of but the unhappy sufferers. Beginning a few miles above this town, no material damage was sustained, except the destruction of some Indian houses, until it came down to two barns belonging to Capt. Daniel Lyon, which were overturned. It proceeded onward a mile and half through woodland, until it came to the dwelling-house of Capt. Stephen Tucker, which it separated in the middle, and carried away one half, and a young man out of the chamber into the field, not much wounded. After beating down his corn-house, and the roof from his barn, it went on about an hundred rods, and attacked the dwelling house of Capt. Phillips, and tho' a low house, yet with astonishing fury the tempest blew the roof and covering into pieces, stripping it of its stores, clothing and furniture, leaving it almost irreparable:—thence it continued in a south direction with irresistible fury, thro' a thick forest, leveling the woods before it, twisting off above the ground some of the largest trees, overturning others by the roots, and even new stumps, 20 inches in diameter, were seen turned out of the earth by the storm.—Stacks of hay and fences were scarcely to be found after it. Passing on about a mile through the forest, having ruined a large quantity of excellent timber land, it took in its way a barn of Capt. Benjamin Lyon, swept off the roof and part of the covering, totally demolished his chaise house, blacksmith shop, coal house, and fruit trees—his dwelling house not much shattered, altho' cracked thro' the middle. About twenty rods across the road the storm lay with incredible weight upon the dwelling house of Mr. Elijah Lyon—it being a large house and standing fair to the wind, was in a few minutes stripped of its roof, of all the upper part of the chimney, and much of its covering—some of its windows with their frames, and even beds with their furniture, were blown out of the house and lodged in the wrecks of trees in the fields: his barn was left without a roof, and his cider-mill house and corn house, being full of grain in the sheaf, were shivered into small pieces and blown away into fields: about 200 of his apple and other fruit trees were plucked up by the roots. South about an hundred rods, the tempest fell upon the dwelling house of Capt. Wm. Lyon, which being almost new and built uncommonly strong, was shaken tremendously, the roof paring in the middle, one half went off with the storm; and one of his barns, stowed full of hay
and grain, was so entirely swept away, that no appearance of a barn is left; a large number of his fruit trees also, destroyed. Surprising as it may seem no lives were lost as yet, and no person wounded, except a child, and that but slightly. Only one house took fire, which was soon extinguished. From this it passed on more than a mile over pasturing ground and thro' groves of wood, marking its way with havoc and destruction until it came upon a large barn of Mr. Payson Child, stowed very full, which was laid in ruins irreparable, and some of the sheaves of grain carried a quarter of a mile. Near this place in open ground lies a large tree torn up by the roots, and no place as yet can be found where it stood within forty rods around it. East, a full barn of Mr. Job Hollbrook was torn to pieces and left in ruins. The tempest in its progress lay a little east of the main street, and passing along under the hill it unroofed two houses, and shattered to pieces a barn, a new cider-mill house, and other out-houses belonging to Gen. M'Clellan, with the ruin of almost all his orchards. It took the roof from the house of Mr. John Sanger, the roofs from two barns of Charles C. Chandler, Esq. another of his barns is utterly destroyed, with a great number of his fruit trees. With the same vehemence it passed on to the south east, and made utter destruction of the barns of Mr. Nathan Child and Mr. Amos Pherin, uncovered and shattered the dwelling houses, and overturned their orchards. It carried much the same havoc with it as it passed through the north east corner of Pomfret, and thro' the town of Killingly. In the last mentioned town we hear a young woman was buried yesterday, who was killed by the fall of a piece of timber in the time of the hurricane.
The inhabitants in this town turned out very spiritedly for two days, and laboured freely in securing the grain, hay and apples, buildings and fences, &c. The damage of the sufferers in this town is not yet estimated. I think what must be lost in grain, hay and corn fields, buildings, fruit trees and timber, cannot be estimated short of 10,000 dollars, many judge 15,000. Such a scene of desolation was never before seen by any of us; and it strikes the mind of every beholder with wonder and amazement— These are a part of God's ways, and how little a portion of them is heard!—but the thunder of his power, who can understand! JOSHUA JOHNSON.
Woodstock Aug. 25, 1786.
N. B. The facts above mentioned may be depended on for truth, as I have seen most of the ruins myself, and have taken particular pains to obtain certain intelligence as to the rest.
* In an account sent to the printer, by another hand there is the following, "A stone which covered the mouth of Mr. Amos Perrin's well, (on which stood the curb) supposed to weigh 800 wt. was taken off and removed by the force of the wind to the distance of six feet from the well."
BOSTON, October 19. PROCEEDINGS OF GOVERNMENT.
As we conceive the present state of public affairs and every measure adopted by government, for the regulation of the same, viewed in a very important light, we have endeavoured to collect such a sketch of the proceedings of the General Court upon this subject as, we hope, will afford satisfaction to our readers.
The occasion on which the Legislature were convened in their present session, was one of the most serious that can arise in society, that of a violent obstruction to the administration of justice. The public well know, that the supposed causes of this evil have been frequently represented to government under the name of grievances, equally various in their nature and difficult in their remedy. To restore quiet to the community, and to relieve these grievances, so far as they are under the controul of laws, seems therefore to have been the duty and the inclination of the General Court. Early in the session the Governor's speech, which contained an accurate statement of the tumults which had then taken place, was put in commitment. A petition from the town of Dracut, backed by several others upon the subject of public grievances, was also noticed in the same manner. The petitions of various conventions, of a like tenor, have been read, but the authority of those assemblies appearing, in some instances, to have been limited merely to the framing of a petition, subject afterwards to a revival of their towns, and their representation of the sense of some towns which were included in their addresses, being also questioned, their petitions have been specially committed on these points.
The report of the Committee on the Governor's speech, consisted of resolves expressing an abhorrence of the riotous measures adopted in several counties, approving of the Governor's conduct, promising pay to the militia who were called into service, and providing for the suspending of the writ of Habeas Corpus. A list of business necessary to be acted upon, was also reported. To these resolves the Senate assented; and the House unanimously concurred, excepting as to the last article, which occasioned several very serious debates. The result was, that the subject of suspending the writ of Habeas Corpus, has been recommitted, with directions to report a system for supporting the vigour of government.
From a consideration of the present burthens of the people, the Court agreed, the 11th inst. to refer the consideration of the last requisition of Congress to their next session. They have also requested the Governor to make application to Congress to postpone the payment of the present tax payable in facilities, alledging for a reason, that the loan officer is unable to issue certificates to the inhabitants of this Commonwealth, in sufficient quantities, within the time limited for the payment of the tax.
The scarcity of money, which (however improperly considered as a grievance) has really been productive of much difficulty, gave rise to an act for establishing a mint within this Commonwealth, for the coinage of gold, silver and copper, conformably to the resolve of Congress upon this subject.
Nearly every article which has been the object of popular clamour, has been attended to, either by the whole House or by Committees. The subject of the Probate Courts has been taken up in the former manner. A proposition was made to establish a Probate Court and a Register's office in every town, but after two debates upon the question, the expediency of the proposal could not be evidenced.

The House have had before them several times, a report of a Committee appointed the last session, to consider of a mode of paying the principal and interest of the public debt. This report raised many of the impost and excise duties already laid, and proposed several new objects for taxation. In short, so extensive were the principles of it, that the House proceeded for some time with a design of raising the whole revenue of government in this manner, which would entirely supercede all taxes upon polls and estates, as now in use. But many difficulties arising, especially in the equitable adjustment of the tax upon houses, it was at length voted, that it would not be expedient to raise all the supplies of government in this mode, and the report has been committed for incorporating it into the impost and excise laws.
The sale of the Eastern lands, being considered an object of great consequence in sinking the public debt, a Committee has been appointed upon that subject, and a plan is now before the House for surveying a number of townships, and for selling them at public auction in June next, if not previously disposed of by the Committee on this business.
A law martial is also under consideration, providing rules for the regulation of troops stationed in the forts and garrisons within this Commonwealth, and of the militia, or any part thereof, when called into actual service.
On Tuesday last, a Committee, appointed to examine into the salaries and emoluments of the civil officers of government, made a report of the annual amount of them, a sketch of which we herewith exhibit.
Governour. —Salary before the Revolution 1300l. and perquisites at least 1000l. total 2300l. Present salary, without any perquisites 1100l.
Lieutenant Governor. —No salary before the Revolution—perquisites supposed to be 250l.—Present perquisites (he having no salary) supposed to amount to the same.
Judges of the Superior Court. —Before the Revolution, Chief Justice 300l. the other four Justices, each, 250l. and fees of office more than equal to their travelling expenses, besides being allowed to hold other offices.—The present Judges allowance—Chief Justice 375l. the other four, each, 350l. no emolument allowed, all fees taken being deducted out of these sums.
Treasurer. —Before the Revolution, 267l. and allowed to hold other offices.—Present salary 350l. and his whole time employed.
Secretary. —Before the Revolution, 240l. and his fees supposed to be 200l. total 440l.—Present salary 250l. from which the fees of office are deducted.
Agents, before the Revolution, each, 400l.
Members of Congress, 26s per day, including all charges.
Officers of Harvard College. —President, before the Revolution, 200l. Holliston Professor 100l. Professor of Mathematicks 100l. Hancock Professor 40l. with additional grants to each. The present officers the same.
Clerk of the House of Representatives. —Before the Revolution, 100l. and pay as a member.—Present Clerk 120l. the several sessions taking up much more time.
Collector of Impost and Excise for the county of Suffolk, acknowledges receiving, from June 1, 1785, to May 31, 1786, 507l. 1s. 11d. out of which he pays two deputies 120l. each, which leaves him 267l. 1s. 11d.—Fees for taking bonds, at 1s. each, set against the expense of office, printing, paper, books, wood, coal, &c.
Naval Officer for the County of Suffolk. —Whole annual amount of fees 680l. 19s. 5d. 7-12ths of which being paid into the Treasury, leaves 283l. 14s. 9d. from which deduct for absolute expenses and rent 238l. 8s. 8d. leaves for his support 45l. 6s. 1d.
Besides the above mentioned, the report contained a calculation of the incomes of several other officers; but the materials not being complete, prevented that certainty which has been obtained as to those who are paid out of the publick Treasury.
The report brought on a question, whether it was consistent with the constitution to diminish the Governor's salary? but the time not admitting of a full discussion of it, a reference took place.
Yesterday the Committee appointed to consider of the districts to which many of the inhabitants of this Commonwealth are subjected in discharging executions for private debts, on account of the great scarcity of a circulating medium, submitted the following question to the Court, viz. Whether a tender act, or an act suspending the operation of law, respecting the recovery of debts, and levying of executions, will not be inconsistent with the constitution of this Commonwealth and militate with the confederation and treaty of peace, unless the debts due to British creditors be excepted? The question, so far as it respects the confederation and treaty of peace was put in Senate, where it was determined that a tender act, or suspension of law as aforesaid, would be inconsistent with both. But the question being put in the House, whether they concurred with the Hon. Senate, in their decision on the question, it passed in the negative by a large majority. Leave was then given to bring in a tender act, which being laid on the table, was read and committed.
ENGLAND.
LONDON, July 24. By intelligence from Peterburgh, we are informed, that an express had arrived with an account of a Russian ship having been taken by the Algerines. A Cabinet Council was immediately held; and we learn, that the result was, that an order be immediately sent to Constadt for equipping 30 sail of the line, a number of frigates and bomb vessels, with all possible dispatch. Orders were also sent to the districts of Narva, Revel, Withaia Votochok, Lodoga, &c. for fifty thousand troops to be held in readiness to embark in ten days, with a train of heavy artillery, in order to punish those insulting pirates, who have so long disturbed the peace of mankind.
The above resolution reflects the highest honor on the Empress of Russia, as it shows a continuance of her wise determination to protect commerce, and suppress piracy.
July 25. If newspapers could kill a man in earnest, the King of Prussia would have been dead long ago.—Either his Prussian Majesty does not read the publick prints, or quite disregards them; for his spirits do not fail him, whatever his bodily strength may do. His subjects seem to think him little less than immortal, for they talk and write as if nothing was to happen.
A coal porter, who lives at Pimlico, has undertaken for a wager of five guineas, to drink at a publick-house there a butt of porter, in 21 hours. The same man, some time since, drank, at the Swan, at Hammermith, twenty-one quarts of pale porter in an hour and 20 minutes.
July 30. There is every reason to suppose that a revolution or civil war will shortly take place in Holland; and the probable consequence will be, protection on the part of France to whatever party the English may oppose, of course a dispute with our Gallick neighbours.
Mr. Adams is going to Madrid, on a similar errand to that for which Mr. Eden is now at Paris, to explain and remove some difficulties in the commercial arrangements between Spain and the American states.
July 31. The fate of the unfortunate Fitzgerald was carefully concealed from his daughter, who resided in Dublin: and her father's misfortunes would not have been known to her, but from the following circumstance: she was sitting at the window facing the street, and heard a man calling out—"The last dying speech of George Robert Fitzgerald."—At first she disregarded it; but on hearing a repetition, with the addition of, "late of the county of Mayo," it was evident it could be no other person than her father: she immediately dropped out of her chair in a fit, and was with difficulty recovered. She has remained in a very dangerous state ever since.
August 5. At the town of Munkats, in Upper Hungary, the beginning of last month, a man tied up his wife to a beam, by the hair of her head, and whipped her to death. He a few days afterwards soaked his shirt in spirits of wine; and then putting it on, set fire to it, and burnt himself to ashes.
On the 10th of June died at Paris, of an apoplexy, in the 114 year of his age, Joseph Buller, a native of Savoy. He served several years under Prince Eugene, and had worked for 60 years on the quays at Paris. The only illness he ever experienced was a distemper in the eyes, occasioned by a fall from a pile of wood, when about 50 years of age. He had lived 57 years with one wife, and renewed his marriage at St. Etienne du Mont. He followed his business to the age of 105, would not have left it off then, had not the charitable contributions raised for him enabled him to subsist without it. A print of him was published some years ago, at the bottom of which it is said, that his father died aged 123 years ten months.
The Lyons Gazette relates a singular and fatal occurrence that happened about a year ago, near that city:—A Nobleman, named Baron Rigand of the age of eighty, after a life of celibacy, the last forty years of which were spent in a kind of religious retirement, took it in his head to marry; in vain did his friends expostulate with him on this strange resolution; he was peremptory: willing, however, while he indulged his fancy, to do it in a manner consistent with his benevolent disposition, he wrote to the Abbesses of the several nunneries in the neighbourhood, that if they knew of, or had in their houses any young woman in low circumstances, of good morals and temper, born of honest parents, that would marry a rich old man, such as he was, who probably would not trouble her many years, but leave her in affluence, to tend her to him, and he would instantly espouse her. He did not wait long; a person answering his description in every respect was brought to him, the nuptials were solemnized in presence of all his friends, and at night the happy couple were left in their chamber: soon after an hour had elapsed, a bell at the head of the bridegroom's bed was heard to ring most furiously; the people of the house ran into the bridal chamber, and found the Baron expiring by the side of his young bride; and in a few minutes after, death put an end to his days in the presence of those who to lately had seen him wed. The bride resolved to spend the remainder of her life in the convent she had come from, and went thither the next morning: that day nine months she was delivered of a son, who, if he lives, will inherit the title and estate of his father.
On the 26th ult. the following melancholly accident happened at Montpellier: A wooden building, employed as a temporary play-house (the regular theatre having been burnt last year) being too much crowded, the upper boxes, unable to support the weight fell, with part of the roof, into the pit, and instantly crushed to death 500 people. An account of this shocking event was received by express, at Paris the 2d inst.
It is a fact, that large discounts have already been made at 4 per cent. and such is the plenty of money, that rebate will very soon be at 2 1-2 per cent.
A few days ago his Excellency Mr. Adams, the American Minister here, waited upon the Secretary of State, and informed him, that Congress were exceedingly offended, that the Forts on the back parts of Canada were not restored, and that if the terms of the treaty were not literally fulfilled, Congress were resolved upon making reprisals upon the trade of this country, in North America, and in the West-Indies.
From a Connecticut Paper, we have extracted the following.
PROPOSALS
FOR printing by subscription, as soon as a sufficient number of subscribers shall appear to defray all expenses, and clear the Editor Two Thousand Pounds;—a New Edition of
PAPER MONEY,
upon the following Plan.
It will be printed on a thick paper, that it may be easily divided, one bill into two, which will be very profitable.—The devise on one side will be, Dr. Faustus paying the Devil for the black arts in paper money.—In the Devil's mouth these words: Cursedly bit, by G— . On the reverse the devil tendering his paper money to the States of New-York and Rhode-Island, for the debt he owes them for not granting the impost—in his mouth these words; Gage de mon Amour &—The States accepting the money, for fear of offending their tutelary Deity.
The price to subscribers will be four shillings per dozen the first month; eight the second; and will rise proportionally, as it is to appreciate five per cent per month.
N. B. Subscribers are desired to send in their names before the Millennium commences, because then all fraud is to cease; whereas the present plan is to cheat every body.
BELPHEGOR COPPERPLATE.
† The Token of my Love.
HUMAN LIFE.
IN it there is no pleasure to be found, but what has cost us some pain; but what we have sought our way to, thro' nature's perverse bias, and besieging temptations. Unbought pleasure is not the growth of earth. This is a militant state, nor must man unbuckle his armour till he puts on his shroud, for the most victorious veteran may meet with a defeat. Nothing in life's review, but what we may call our trophies, or spoils when in war. All else is vanished as a dream, What have I said? vanished as a dream!—Would to God it was! 'Tis not! Far from it! Every moment is immortal! Every moment shall return and lay its whole freight, nothing lost, its every whisper, every thought, before the throne of him who sent it to man on that commission, and commands it back at the stated day, to make its report; to be registered in eternity, for the perusal of angels, and the justification of their king.

JAMAICA, Kingston August 12.
The great and good allies of the Americans are grown so exceedingly tenacious of their property, whenever they enter any of the ports of the Thirteen United States, that it is not uncommon for them, when they find no ready money forth coming, to recur to the virtuous principles of the children of Columbia, to close the hatches again, and to return even to Europe, without ridding themselves of the smallest part of their cargoes;—having constantly before their eyes the energetic instruction conveyed by the old maxim “ Of two evils choose the least .” Such prudent conduct should be a lesson to Britons, and their descendants.
We are given to understand by a correspondent, as a fact, that a merchant in this town, who lately had a considerable consignment from America of flour and rice, received the humane instructions therewith, that he should not dispose of the same immediately, but wait the event of a hurricane, as the consigner made no doubt but the island would, on that occasion, be distressed for such articles in the course of a few weeks.
CHARLESTON, (S.C.) Sept. 29.
Mr. Goodwin had nearly met with a fatal disaster, in performing Jassier last night. A knife had been inadvertently put into his hand instead of a blunt dagger, with which he wounded himself in the side, so as to occasion an effusion of blood.
Government have received information, that Mr. Bessel has completed his contract of coinage for this state, in Switzerland, and may be expected here by the way of London. The stipulation was for 30,000. in silver and copper, to be exchanged for the paper medium.
PHILADELPHIA, October 7.
We learn from Kentucky, that 1500 men, regularly drafted from the different settlements and townships of that district, have actually marched on an expedition against the Wabash Indians.—They are to rendezvous at the Falls of the Ohio, and to be commanded by that distinguished warrior and partisan, General Clarke, of Virginia, whom the Indians dread, and stile the Big-Knife .
NEW-YORK, October 16.
Besides the remains of structures mentioned by General Parsons, indicating that North America must have been visited or inhabited by civilized persons before the voyage of Columbus, Mr. Adair who resided long among the Indians, and understood their language, enumerates a great many words and phrases, particularly their names of the Deity, which are Hebrew, and many of their religious rites, which resemble the Jews. But what is more singular, the President of Yale College relates, in a discourse lately published, that an inscription had been long observed on a rock at Narraganset, which having been copied by a learned foreigner during the late war, and sent to one of the French academies, is pronounced to be in Phoenician characters.
Extract of a letter from Baltimore dated the 6th inst.
“The storm, or rather tornado, of yesterday, has done great damage in this town, many houses are entirely swept away and some lives lost.—Some parts of the town were so filled with water, that the inhabitants with difficulty made their escape during the night, and the cries of those distressed persons were terrible. The freshest made its way with such rapidity through some of the streets, that it destroyed and tore up the pavements in such a manner as render it necessary to have the whole replaced.”
Extract of another letter from Baltimore, October 7.
“After some days continuation of Southerly winds and heavy rains, in town and country, we had of course a high tide, and the waters in the falls ran down with the greatest violence, and rose to such a height, from six to nine o'clock in the night, that it irresistibly carried away every thing before it. Mills, houses, seven mill dams, bridges, stores, fences, &c.
“The water rose so high, that in our school-room it was two feet and an half above the floor, and in Mr. B's. front room it went over the top of his desk. Near the upper bridge, it swept away three or four houses, great part of Mackenheimer's large house in the marsh, the gable end and great part of the New Reformed Church in Old Town, the corners of Jassray's and W. Roe's fine brick houses, all three bridges, and what more is not now known. By this you may easily guess of other damages. Several lives were lost. Some people carried down the current were saved, others drowned. Every spot along the Falls looks frightful.
“Mr. C. had the singular circumstance of a dead horse floating into his back door, through his house, into the parlour, and there lodged.
“Yesterday evening, about four o'clock, Mr. Boyle, in crossing the rapid Falls, near Hanson's house, in a phaeton, was drowned. One Ryan, a butcher at the point, crossing the Falls in a canoe, fell over and was drowned, 8 feet from the shore.”
A few Events of 1786.
 1. The King of Great-Britain nearly frightened out of his senses by an old woman, with a rusty cane knife.  2. Tories in Nova-Scotia rending the air with acclamations of joy and satisfaction for the launching a schooner at Shelburne, after three years hard exertions.  3. The household furniture of the heir apparent to the British crown sold at publick vendue, to pay his debts.  4. The Americans, carrying trade in the hands of the British and other foreigners—and our own vessels lying by the walls.  5. American Patriots importing foreigners to navigate their ships—and doing all in their power to discourage home manufactures.  6. Men of neither honour, honesty or decency talking of virtue and merit.  7. New England men, who could imprison a British army in Boston, insulted, with impunity, by a desperate banditti. 
Extract of a letter from Post St. Vincent, 20th June, 1786.
The 15th April last, a trading boat proceeding up the Wabash for this place, was attacked by the savages within five leagues of this place, who killed one man and wounded two; the boat was steered to a place of security, and a runner dispatched to us Americans for assistance to bring them up. By the time we got to the boat we were attacked by a numerous body of Kickapoo and Painekehaws, we fought them, but were defeated, with the loss of two men killed and three wounded. We felt for our countrymen, and were determined not to leave them a prey to savage barbarity, and proposed to give them battle again, and rescue our countrymen, or fall in the attempt. We did so, a reinforcement of twenty brave fellows joining us at this time, we rushed on them with such impetuosity, as drove them from their cover, and totally routed them, leaving ten killed and twice the number wounded.
“The King of the Kickapoo, received a ball in his backside, and the Queen of the Painekehaws miscarried of a Prince, the first born of the family, on whom the nation placed great hopes. Three hundred Indians were opposed to seventy five Americans, and beat with considerable loss; many of the principal warriors were mortally wounded and carried off. In this action we had one man killed and three wounded.”
On the 30th ult. died, Mr. Nathaniel Loyd, of this city, carpenter.—By the assistance of persons who were in intimate with Mr. Loyd, we have collected some melancholy circumstances previous to his death, viz. As Mr. Loyd was at work on the 18th day of August last, he perceived a bull dog running directly for a number of children with fury in his looks, foaming at the mouth; conceiving him to be mad, and being desirous to save the innocents, he fatally intercepted between the dog and children, and encountered him, trusting too much to his own strength and agility. After the first blow, the dog griped his face, and then seized his throat with the utmost fury, tore up the skin four inches across, and could not be beat off by any one present: Mr. Loyd's presence of mind dictated him to force his hand into the dog's mouth, and to seize him by the tongue, which he did, and held him until one present beat out the dog's brains with a broad-ax. A surgeon was sent for, and the wound was sewed up and healed in a little time. Admitting of a probability that the dog was not mad, Mr. Loyd pursued his business with usual cheerfulness, until the Wednesday preceding his death, when he complained of the parts bitten prickling and feeling strangely: the next day he was deprived of his reason, and became outrageous; lay so (confined) until Saturday, and then expired in the most excruciating agonies, leaving a wife and children, whose dependence was on his industry, to bemoan his unhappy fate.
BOSTON, October 17.
In the House of Representatives, on Friday last, a bill passed to be engrossed, for establishing a mint within this commonwealth, in conformity to the ordinance of Congress, for the coining such pieces of money as are directed in said ordinance, viz. in gold Eagles and Half Eagles.—Silver—Dollars, Half Dollars, Double Dimes, Dimes, and Half Dimes.—Copper—Cents and Half Cents.—The copper coinage is not to exceed the value of 70,000 dollars.
NEW-HAMPSHIRE.
PORTSMOUTH, Oct. 26. It is a fact, that Dr. Gordon has met with so many crosses in England, on account of his “History,” as to determine him to give over all endeavours to accomplish the object of his voyage—The Lord Chancellor, (who is the licencer of books) we are told, has refused him a license for its publication, on account of its partiality to the Americans.
Notwithstanding (says a late Dublin paper) the frequency of executions, and that an unhappy fellow-creature not long since stood in a gibbet a sad spectacle to numbers of depraved human beings, we are led to think hanging loses force by its frequency—and he who visits them often, will at last have as little sensibility of it as Hamlet's grave maker, in the exercise of his office—“custom maketh it to him a property of ease,” The curtain of eternal night being dropped on the last scene of the culprit's life, or in other words, the execution being over, the multitude return to their several avocations till the evening arrives, when some of them assemble to recapitulate the dying words and actions of the deceased: Another day passes, and you hear no more of him, save that a few of his former associates had, the preceding night, lodged his body in an obscure corner of an unrequented church-yard, or probably in unhallowed earth—where his memory and his crimes are interred with his bones! The humanity of our legislators is as conspicuous as their wisdom. What pity it is, therefore, that they cannot devise, for certain descriptions of felons, a mode of punishment short of death, which might be nearly, if not equally, replete with ignominy and horror, as well as possess the salutary advantage of being permanent and lasting—at present, alas! it is transient and momentary.
Thursday evening, 12th inst. was celebrated the marriage of Mr. WILLIAM BROOKS, Merchant in Exeter, and the amiable Miss GLOVER, second daughter of the Hon. John Glover, of Marblehead.
DIED , since our last, Mrs. Abigail True, aged 67, wife of Mr. Israel True; Mrs. Margery Clarke, aged 39, wife of Mr. Joseph Clarke; Mr. Daniel Grant; Miss Judith Jackson, aged 16, and a child of Mr. Daniel Pierce's.
HIGH WATER at PORTSMOUTH, From Thursday Octo. 26, to Thursday November 2.
   Forenoon. Afternoon.     Thursday, 20m. after 2 45 2   Friday, 1m. after 3 36 3   Saturday, 1m. after 4 26 4   Sunday, 5m. after 4 15 5   Monday, 39m. after 5 3 6   Tuesday, 26m. after 6 51 6   Wednesday, 15m. after 7 39 7  
First Q. 2od. 1oh. 34m. morning.
NAVAL-OFFICE, PORT of PISCATAQUA, October 19, 1786. ENTERED, FROM Ship Viscomte D'Arrot, Palmer, Havre de Grace. CLEARED, FOR Sloop Mary, Palmer, South Carolina.
ABRIDGEMENT of the STATE POLITICS in EUROPE and AMERICA, For September.
In Europe.—England still in the dumps at the loss of America, and waiting but for the infringement of the treaty on our part to wage another war.—Ireland jealous of their neighbours, and secretly wishing an opportunity to shake off their connection with Britain.—Holland verging daily more and more towards anarchy and confusion.—France augmenting their navy, and cherishing with a liberal hand the arts of war.—The politics of Prussia remain in statu quo —their Monarch on the confines of eternity—his death will occasion great commotions among the powers of Europe.—Russia by the wise administration of their Empress blooming like a garden.
In America.—The New England states, alas!—discord and convulsions are their characteristics:—especially Rhode Island and Massachusetts,—the former distracted with paper money; the latter with mobs; both of the evils very troublesome while they last, but of a perishable nature, and usually of short duration.—New-York like an unchristian Jew, watching every opportunity to take advantage of their neighbour's necessity.—The Southern states appear to be tranquil, a fracas now and then, serves but to restore greater tranquillity in the end, they seem virtuously endeavouring to cherish, with a fostering hand, the arts of peace—husbandry and manufactures are there encouraged under the auspicious influence of their assemblies.
THE SEASONS.
While the earth remaineth, seed time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter and day and night shall not cease.
AMONG the great blessings and wonder of the creation may be classed the regularities of the times and seasons. Immediately after the flood, the sacred promise was made to him, that seed time and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night should continue to the very end of all things Accordingly, in obedience to that promise, the rotation is constantly presenting us with some useful and agreeable alteration; and all the pleasing novelty of life arises from these natural changes; nor are we less indebted to them for all its solid comforts. It has been frequently the task of the moralist and poet, to mark, in polished periods, the particular charms and conveniences of every change; and, indeed, such discriminate observation upon natural variety cannot be undelightful: Since the blessing which every month brings along with it, is a fresh instance of the wisdom and bounty of that Providence, which regulates the glories of the year. We glow as we contemplate, we adorn whilst we enjoy. In the time of seed sowing, it is the season of confidence; the grain which the husbandman trusts to the bosom of the earth shall happily yield its seven fold rewards. Spring presents us with a scene of lively expectation, that which was before sown, begins now to discover signs of successful vegetation: The labourer observes the change, and anticipates the harvest: He watches the progress of nature, and smiles at her influence: While the man of contemplation walks forth with the evening amidst, the fragrance of flowers, and promises of plenty, nor returning to his cottage until darkness close the scene upon his eyes. Then cometh the harvest, when the large with is satisfied, and the granaries of nature are loaded with the means of life, even to a luxury of abundance: The powers of language are unequal to the description of this joyous season: It is the carnival of nature: Sun and shade, cool and quietude, mirth and musick, love and labour, unite to render every scene of summer enchanting. And the division of light and darkness is one of the kindest efforts of omnipotent sagacity. Day and night yield us contrary blessings; and at the same time assist each other by giving fresh lustre to the delights of both. Amidst the glare of day and bustle of life how shall we sleep? Amidst the gloom of darkness how shall we labour? How wise, how benignant, how like a Deity then is the proper division! The hours of light are adapted to activity, and those of darkness to rest. Ere the day is passed, exercise and nature prepare us for the pillow; and by the time the morning returns, we are again able to meet it with a smile. Thus every season affords some interesting innovation.
O LORD, how manifold are all thy works; in wisdom hast thou made them all.