Portland gazette and Maine advertiser., 1818-01-06

ia To morrow will be bufy day with us.
We expect to be viGted BY the troops
lffationed at Point Petre however, il is
lour intention to receive them with firm
nefs, and not itrike our flag without fir
ing gun"
sPRINGFIELD, DEC. ID.
/ AT the last term OF the Circuit Court OF
| Common Please, holden in ti'is town Arch
ibald HAYWOOD, of Newyork, and Amasa
Curtis OF Schenectady, were convicted, on
two indictments, OF setting up gaming ta-
bic in the public highway, at West Spring
field and Long meadow, atthe time OF the
regimenial review, last October. lhsir
/ fGes and cost amount 10 two hundred ana
fifteen dollars. They we're a2prehended
at the time of the review at Long-meadow,
on the 9Th Oct. were examined before
J0stice, and ordered to lind sureties IN the
sum Of 500 dollars each, for their appear
| ance at the Circuit Court. For want OF
sureties they were committed to the goal IN
this town, where they have been confined
ever since.
We hope that the punishment OF Hay
wood and Curtis will prove warning to
the whole tribe of swindling gentry, who
usually frequent our militia reviews,agalnst
visiting this county again on similar oc-
casioa.
A meeting of number of inhabitants OF
! Somerset County, was held at Bloomfield,
on the 5th ult. to consider the expediency
of forming an Agricultural Society IN that
county. A subscription was opened, which
was immediately signed by about titty per-
sons including all who were present, ensa-
ging to pay at least one dollar annually, 10
wards accomplishing the objects OF the So
ciety. The plan of the Society is to include
all respectable farmers IN the county, who
are disposed TO join it A Committee was
appointed "to prepare rules and regulations
to be adopted and 10 give notice and re-
quest general attendance Of the farmers of
the county of Somerset, and others, at a
meeting to be holden at the Court House
in Norridgewalk, on Thursday, the ST day
of January inst, at eleven o'clock in the
forenoon, for the purpose of forming and
organizing the Society"
A short time Since, we noticed state
ment made in the House Of Representatives
OF the United States, of the number of reg
ular troops employed in the late war with
Great Britain, and the number lost in battle
Ia slu. H.
recommendation in his Message, the case
fthe surviving officers and soldiers Of the
war of independence has been introduced
before the same body, by the chairman of
the committee TO whom the subject wa
referred, and has undergone good deal of
discussion, some facts of a similar nature 10
those relative to the late army were men
| ioned The chairman Mr.. Bloomfield
/ of n ] stated, that the number of men
who were killed, and died by sickness, in
the war Of independence, was about II 900
| Ii will be remembered, that this was the
! precise number stated TO have lost their
lives in The late war. Now the war of inde- |
pcndence lasted screen ycarS--the late war
| tSvo years and half Ar the commence |
ment of hostillies in April, l77s, the coun-
try was miserably provided with oil the i'm |
portant requisites of long protrac,ed con
t,oversy.- his circumstance necessarily |
subjected the army TOR several years to the !
greatest hardships and sufferings. Who |
ever recollects, or will read, the distressing
accounts of their condition f'om time TO
ime, especially In the winters, which are
contained in General Washington's letters,
| will learn the exposures which they en-
countered, and the miseries which they en-
dured. The unexampled winter of l77s--
so, was one OF the most formidable seasons
for an army, that was ever known in this |
| country.
II seems extraordinary that we should
have lost as many men il the late war, short
as il was, as in the former one of nearl,
three times the length, and this at time
when the country was in so much better
| condition to carry on war, as was the fact
| in The last war-N Y. advertiser.
! The New York Columbian saws, Mr.
| Gallaiin has demanded OF the French Gov
eminent indemnify for the spoli4tions on
our commerce, and requested written an
swer,which was declined until the affairs of
France assumed more seltled and pros
| porous state.