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Warriors' of the Seneca Nation of Indians, from
1 Buffaloes Creek, .vifited Albany .laft week ; and,
• we are informed, .have conchided a. Treaty with
PRILAOILPHIA' A uc. a6.—lnterments in the that State, by which they cede their title to all the
Binial Grounds of the Citz..Northent Liberties, lands refereed along the Niagara Riverfrom But.
and Sout:twark, during the lidt 24 hours, ending faloe's Creek *to Stedman's Farro,including Black
Wednefday evening at fix o'clock—Adults 3, Rock. This is doubtlefs a grezt acquifition to that
Children s—Total 8. , State, as well as to the United States, not only'nn
The two La days have been extremely warm. account of the value of the lands, but alto is it
Yesterday the Thermometer in the thade was at fecures the Carrying Place. at the Niagara-Falls,
910, by which it appears to he the torteft day, 'ex- and the mesa advantageous fituation for
eftablifh-
cept one, we have had thefe four years. ing a military port to guard that important pati.
• AI•GUST the courfe of laft week the On Monday mnrning, 23d intiant, about five
. burials in this City and Liberties, amount only to o'clock, a (mart (hock of an Earthquake was felt
19 adults, a niufiber blow the average in the at Richmond,Virginia,by many of itsinhabitanti.
healthieft /ears, ,Its noife refembled that of the roaring of a
We are informed that the houfe of Mr. Mark chimney on fire, or the rolling of a carriage on a
Balderfon, in Bucks county, was buck by light- (tone pavement.
ning, at ten o'clock on Wetinefday evening laft,. NORFOLK, Atm. 24.—By the revenue cutter,
which kili.ed his wife in the cellar ; ands at the Capt. Haw, we are informed, that on Friday laft
fame time, k barn was ftruck and burnt down be- the (poke a brig-bound to Feedeeiclburgh, 63 days
longing to Mr. John Ely. It is, faid, that the from Marfeilles, the Captain of which informed,
houfe of Mr. John Balderfton alto took file, and is that the day before he failed, the United States
much injured. fchooner Enterprise arrived there, after an action
In addition to the preceding melancholy acci. with a Tripolitan vete), which he beat off. The
dent, we were laft night informed that the Mail veffel made her efcape by her oars, it having fallen
Stage, owned by Mr. Vandegrift, of Trenton, was I calm. The particulars are are not at prefent able
(truck by lightning at a late hour on Saturday to learn.
night laft, while on the road between Princeton I CH.taLssrowN, Ana. t4.—We are informed
and Trenton. The lightning appeared 6rft to have that the ,rains have been very heavy in the upper
been attrafted by the iron on the back part of the country for fifteen or twenty days pati ; the creeks
carriage, on the bind wheels, from whence it de- were fo fwelled by them, that a great deal of
feended to the axle-tree, and ran along the pole injury has been done to the Mills ; not a dam
under the carriage, and inftently killed the four was left (landing within twenty miles of Colum-
horfes. Befides the driver, who was for a fhort bia laft week. The Congaree river had rifen
period thinned by the (hock, there were two or' confiderably, but had not got without its limits;
three paffengers in the carriage, who providen. it was on the fall when the poll left Columbia ono,
.Bally efcaped unhurt, although the body of the Monday.
Rage was confiderably !battered. SALEM, AUG. 26.—Returned to this port, on
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If thunder; lightning, and rain, will tend to pu. Tuefday laft, the (hip Belifarius, Capt. BURRY,
tify the air, our city mull be pure indeed ; for we having been (truck with lightning. On Tuefday
had, on Saturday night laft, the heavieft rain and at midnight, r7th intl. in lat.. 42. long. 62. after,
thunder known here for a long time—both in being out five days from Salem, the weather was
quantity and duration. fqually, with hard rains, blowing freth front the
• Aim. 3 t.--The dreadful (hock on Sunday the fouthward, the (hip being under clofe reefed top-,
29th intl. took place about twelve o'clock, and its fails, all hands on deck employed taking in fail,'
effeas were jerioufly felt by feveral perfons, par- the Belifarius was fuddenly (truck with lightning,
ticularly by the family of Mr. John Pollard, of which defcended by the main-top gallant ma&
Philadelphia, who occupy a part of the premifes and ran down the main-malt, into the between
of Mr.„ Johnfon, coachmaker. The atmofphere decks, where it exhaufted itfelf. Every perfon on
Was at that time apparently (crate ; Mr. Pollard board was knocked down, except the man et helm;
was fitting at the door reading, his wife was nurf- .one of the feamen killed inftantly (Stephen She.
hag an infant at the window, and another child bane,. of this town) ; Mr. Meek, the Auef Mate,
was amusing itfelf on the floor, when the (hock, and-two feamen wounded, viz. Henry Lemmond
as fudden as it was ternble, (truck libirmotionlets and Timothy Brown, the latter badly injured, be.
for feveral feconds—lifrsi Pollard was extended ing muchturnt.. Ti;
e (hip for more than an hour
(infidels on the floor, and the child thrown a con- appeared to be on *fire, as large quantities of
fiderible diflance, but fortunately without any ma- frnoke iffued froni the hatches and companion way.
terial injury ; her appearance when recovering was AU the competes were rendered ufelefs, their po.
Edit', and upbn animation being rellored, the be- laxity being totally deftroyed, the North point of
came as fpotted as a leopard. The timely aid of fume tending to the S. A. and in others it was
Dr. Reynolds being obtained, we are happy in fixed at S. W. The compaffes which remained
Rating, iii: is no in a fair way of recovery, .and below were more injured than thofe on deck. The
feels no otherwife affedted, than by the weaknefs thip has received no damage in the hull, but the
occafioned by this flinch. Mrs. Johafon, alfo, who main-top-maft is injured.
was in the garden, as
.. well as a woman in a As the competes would not tend regularly to
'neighbouring lane, were proltrated by. the fame ' any one point, it was with Come difficulty that the
LA, and remained fume time in an almoft fimilar (hip could be kept on her courfe in the night time.
fstuation ; andieveral other accidents have occurred. We are happy to hear that Mr. Meek, and the two
In addition to the melancholy accidents record- feamen, are in a fair way of recovery.
e 4 in our left, occafioned by lightning, we have AL24IITI AUG. 21...-4 t is a melancholy truth
to add, that the bun and coach-houfe of Mr. that the moft flattering 'PraPeas (a few weeks
Lapatier, near.Fmnkfort, was (truck on Sunday fince) of one of the .greateft wheat !media this
laft and wholly confurned ; and, at the fame time, State and Vermont Were bleffed with, is in a
Ate coach belonging CO Mrs. Hannah Lewis clf this moment blatled.- •In the Northern and Wettern
city, while (landing near the Friends'. Meeting- Counties of this State, the failure hat-been very•
haute, in Frankfort, during the time of Worfhip, general ; along the margin of 'rivers, and in low
Was ()tattered to pieces by the lightning,. and the hinds, in many places there is'a total failure ; large
driver was in much injured, by the violence of the thaw but no wheat. •In the up lands, in tome
!hock, as to be deprived for feveral hours of the places, it is eftimated that (even-tenths of the crops
power of fpeech. We underfiund that he was much will fail, and frem all the information we can
better yefterday evening. gather, we fear the average lofs in this neighbour-
Nsw Yogic, Auc. 26.—,-On Saturday laft the hood, will be, at.leaft, one third of the whale crop.
frigate New York was put in coo:4(60p, and it This is truly a heaiy blow Upon our farmers,
is expeaed that in the courfe of two weeks from and the community at large, efpecially as 'froth
that day the will be fully equipped for lea. When all accounts the demand will be very great in syU
the joins the Mediterranean fluadron, Commodore parts of Europe. It would be of great import
MORRIE will have under his command the Chefa. .tnce, if Gentlemen of leifure and obfervation yo
poke, the Contiellation, the Adams, the Button, the different counties, would endeavour to colle6
the New York, and the Enterprise. There, with and communicate the moll accurate information
the fqnadron under the coin:nand of the Swedill of the extent of the failure of the crops.
Admiral, will, it is conceived, be fufficient to Nassau, (N. P.)Aucao.—et petition has been
pisneEt our commerce again(aripoli an 4 Morocco. handed about by feveral refpediable charaders, for
StrressllEß :.—Accounts from- Cape. Fran- the purpofe of procuring signatures tn allow the
cois fay, that the mortality continues to be very importation of the ufual American commodities
'great arnongil the European troops in Saint Do theGovernor'sProclamation having expired on the
Mingo. Goicral LEcctsc was prepariqg to re- eft inft. The chief motive was from a well-found-
tiirn to Franc;, his health being much impaired. ed idea that the trade in Engin bottoms
The command was to devolve on General Deeds. would bi monopolized by a few richindividuals
The Health Committee of Ford-Mouth (N. H.) here, who would keep up a high Price for every
Rate on tbe 24Th init. that no new cafe -of fever article. The Governor, I underhand; had paid
hid happened within the haft tweive,days, that the no attention to the Petition when prefented.
Town was remarkably bealty, and that the few This place, at prefent, is entirely glutted with
cafes of malignant fever which had occurred, were every article of confumption.
ev. idenq y Jeri/sr. • • • • FROM A NZW-LONDOU P•PiR. •
Advices reteived from New Orleans, by the brig A Letter from Waterford, dated the 224
Hunter, Rate, that that city was very -hcaltbyfoi contains the following intelligence.
the feafem,no fymptom of malignant Fever having " George Dickfon, a feamen,. landed on the
occurred as late as the 17;11 tilt. No official ac- Great Neck in an open boat this morning. He re.
count's had been received at New Orleans refped. fates that,he was ifeaman on board the brig Mary
ing the ceffion of Louitiana,when the Hunter failed. of New York, from Bolton, bound to New York,
Having teen different accounts of the action f3id commanded by Capt. Newtus, (a Mr. Penny, mart
to have taken place between Capt. I; and a owner and ftipercargo, was on board) that on Wed;
Tunifian tquadrtm, we havilweri induced 10 en- nefday night suit they ran on an ifland which he
quire More particularly than we otherwife Mould, thinks is calledMufkegot, between Nintuckerand
d Capt. Noassaw; of the brigantine Hope, of this the Vineyard, on the outfide. The .fotemali went
Tyt, who arvited here about ten days pall from over the tide as 'loon as the firuck ; the boat was
ile& • he (latet that he came through the Straits then ordered out, and the informant had hold' of
o( Heine, and landed at that city, where he was the painter, when a breaker walhed overlioard the
informed that a courier had pallid for Naples from boat, and every foul together, except Mr. Penny,
Syracufe the preceding day, who gave the follow,. who was below ; they were all drowned but the
ing accdunt-That liven Tunifians were in ebace informant who had pretence of mind enough to
nip's Neapolitan frigate, that Capt. M.Neit puffed t hold on by the painter,and was by the boat drifted
with the Bellow frigate between the Tunifians and on (hone. He afterwards law Mr. Penny cut the
the chafe, which incenfed the Tuaifian Commo- main (beet and clear away the boom, to try to get
done, who Ared into the Bolton ; the fire Was re- on (bore by floating with it, when a breaker car-
turned, and the aaion became general between rice' him over, and- he taw him no more. One of
the Squadron and the Solon. The refult of the the crew was waflied ashore holding by the derick,
*Sion was the finking of two of the Tenilians.the but the Turf was to high that the fpar fell on his
difinafting of two others, and the flight of the re. head and killed him; he drew him up and left him
staining. three. The Bofton put into Syracufe on the Wand. Not finding any inhabitants on the
arch ;muted. Several of her Officers and. Men ifland, be next day got of hisboat, and landed
bad been killed. • • there this morning about ten o'clock, after being
A numbsr of the principal Sachems, Chiefs aod "without nouriflunent four days."
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