The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1823-06-18
BiseaiIanp.
From the Boston pdly Advertiser.

history OF his State. i, finely rels,ed in the
new Romeoce 81 Pever! Of Me Peak. IL is
well known lhs, Col Whsley and his son.in-
ls~ Cot. Gohs, two OF the Judges OF King
Charles l. arrived IN Boston in July 1900, end
res'd-d there end in Cambridge until The fol-
lou'ps Spfing. The fo'm mer had been o
Lieut., Sensral, and the latter Ma jor Gene
raj in the service Of Cromwell. They found
u Necessary TO retire Eom Cambridge, and
| remsin IN cone ssiment Tor The remainder OF
| their Ewes. They fsi Red TO Conneciicvt,
where they remained three or iouT years, a
! part oil the Time concealed in o cave. H. &c.
tober, 1864, they removed to Hsdley, IN this
| SIste, whe's they remained conceded in the
| beoss OF Mr.. Rnsssli, the Minister OF tho
| place, tltEcn or sixtcenye The onecdoto
of WHICH the su'hor at the Romsnce has avail
ed himself, Is thusr rels,edby Governor Hutch
ioson. The town Of Hadiey was alarmed
by the, Indians in 1878, in the time OF public
worship, snd the people were in the utmost
confusion. Suddenly . grave elderly person
appeared In the midst OF them. In his mien
snd dress he d, ffered IRON the rest OF the peo.
pie. lie not only encouraged them To defend
'hemselves, bl, put himself Al their head, rai-
bed, instructed, and led them oa TO encounter
the enemy, who by this mesns were repused.
As suddenly the delivercr OF HsdIcy disap.
pesred. The people were left in eoos,erna.
| ton, utterly unable to accoun, for uis strange
| phenomenon. Ii is not probable bat they
were ever able to explain IT," Thin person
| nsupposed by Hutchioson to have been Goiio,
and not Whaiey, as supposed by the rovelst,
and the scene Of the eSploi, was about y hun.
dred instead of thirty miles from Boston.
The following is tho story Us fels,ed by Maj
BritereSor,s, a Presbyterian, and one 1.-THE
| principnl characters in Peveril Of The Pesh.
Amongst my wsnde'ings, the Trans At
| ianuc settlements have not escaped me more
especially the country OF New England, into
which our native land has shaken from bcr
| lap, as q drunksrd Ripgs from h, his ue,.
sures, 90 much that is precious in The eyes Of
God end OF his children. Ths'e thousands OF
our besi and most gody men; such whose
righ,eousDess might come between the Al
| mighty and his wrath, and prevent the ruin OF
cities, arc content to be the inhabi,an,s Of the
desert, rather encouoteting the Onenlighten'
| ed saysges, than s,ooping TO exinguish undcs
| ihe oppsession praciised in Brian, tho light
that 10 w,,niu their own minds. There re.
msinei for 'ir,c, during The wars, which the
colony maintained with Philip, Q g'sa, lndisn
Chief, or Ssche,D, as they <were called, who
ssemeda Messenger sent from Satan 10 but
fet theO. Iii, cruelty was e'ea, his dissim.
uiaiiou profound and Tho skill and prompt.
tude With which he maintained a destructive
sod de.utory warfare, Inflicted many dresdfuI
| caisniues on tho settlement. ! was, by
chance, at small viiisgo in tho woods, more
Than thirty miles from Boston, and in its si,o.
alton exceeding lonely, and surrounded with
thicken. Nevertheless, there was no ides Of
any daBger from The Indians st tbst time, foT
men ttUs,ed to the protection OF . considers.
| bic body Of ,roogs who he'd taken The field for
| protection of the frontiers, and who 10y, OF
was supposed to lie, be,wixi the hamlet and
The enemy's country. Bot they had TO do
4, with foe, whom the devil b'mself had inspir.
cd a, once with cunning and cruelty.
| I, was on Sabbath morning, when wo had
assembled 10 isko sweet council together ~
the Lords house. Our temple was but con
suuc'ed OF wooden logs; but when shall the
| chsuni OF trsined h,'elIngs or the sounding oi
! tin aud brass tubes amid The sislcs Of q minis.
| ter, arise SO swee,ly to heaven, as did the
/ psalm iD which we united at oncc our hea'ls
! end voices An excellent worthy, who now
| sleeps in The Lord, Nehemiah Sogtace, long
Tho companion Of my pilgrimage, had just be.
/ gun 10 w,eslIe in prayer, when q woman,
| with di,ordered looks and di,heveled hair, CO.
tered our chapel in distracted .,s"no',
| screaming necessarily, "The Indians! The
! indians! !" In that land no man da'es sepa.
| rate himself from his defences; and whether
| in the c,y or in the field, in tho ploughed
| land or the forest, men keep beside them
! their weapons, as did tho Jews OF the rebuild.
ing OF The Temple. 60 we sailed forth with
our guns and pixies, and heard the whoop oI
| ,bese ipesrnale devils, already in possession
| oi PEI, Of the town, end exercising their
| cruelty on the few whom weigh,y csuses or
in6ispo,i:ion had withheld from public wor.
ship sod j, was remarked - q judgment,
ths,, upon that bloody Sabbath, Adrian Hso-
Ill tnr sths