New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-03-09

NIL. ar ,bis river they saw an open sea, nov Snown
nsNevsrk Pav Ir the evening as the boat was
% t .h he explorns party was set upon py t"o c"
80. fuT 81 say,scs: and one Of the English sailors
Joh, Colm,n was killed by arrow shot IN ms hrosI
The next dsy Hudson buried upon tae sdJaeent peach
,he ornrnde who had shared the dangers oil hs poia
s5veDmr,s 10 become the FIRST European victim OF an
Isan weerou in the placid waters he had now reached
To commemorate the event Sandy HOOK was naiicu
"Coimsas Point The ship wa soon visited ~ eaeoes
full Of native warriors: but Hadson suspecnng TIER
socd faith took two OF the savagcs aud pu, red coats
upon them while the rest were not suffered 10 ap
preach -
Cautiously sounding her way through the lower bay
the Half Moon az length into the river past the
Narrows snd anchored the mouth OF the Nils IN
"a very coed ka,bor for al wtndS The NAIVE saw
came AT once on board, making show OF love- out
Hudson remembering Colman's fare burst not uus'
them The next morning twenty eight canoes
OF sircle hollow trees" and crowded with men, wolnoh
and cildren visited the yscht But none were suucs
to come board though their oysters anu ovass -
gladly based In the afternoon the Han MOON ran
six miles farther up: and the crew were ehrap.r y,
the loyeliness Of tue surrounding county II -
beautiful land a. one can tread upon, 80 i,L.s
ard ahoupds in AZ kinds Of eNcelse NJ snip uiioot
Tb first OF Europeans Hudson now oegaA 20 eAP'o,,e
the great river which stretched before hi 20 te
or.nrg As be hoped, the way 70 the Eastern 80 -
~ drfpr onward with the foodtde, he sncaored over
tIt ;uss shove Yonkeys in sight OF "a nisn pons %
land which showed out five lsages on To the nor'- nc
~, dsv southeast wind carrying him rapidly up sp
mar and Haver, traw Bays, and beyond the stTet %
r.c Stonv ana V.rpancks Points. Hudson sallod on
tNecn TIE neies mass Guarded BY the fr pwnng
non5erbsrT and al nghtflll anchored his yacht nsr
West Point in the midst OF the sao!es' see'f! VI ''
"Mat{cawun' Mountains :,
Tbs next morning was misty until the arose and
the grandeur Of the overhaDgng highlands was S5ain
revealed fair south wind sprung up az tue weaver
became clear and while the Half Moon was getting un
der wsv the two savages who had been detained cap
tives on board al Sandy Hook watching their oppoitu
nity leaped ont port hole and swpm ashore scoruIai
| ly dcriding the crew the yacht sailed onward.
bright snhlmpal day succeeded the misty morning Run
ming sixty miles up along the varied shores whcn ned
the deep channel and delighted every momen; win me
ever-chancing scsnery, ard the magnificent virgin Tor
ests which clothed the river banks with their gorgeous
auturnrs hues Hudson arrived toward evening oppo
site the oftier " mountains which he nom te RIVER
side" and anchored the Half Noon near Catsklli land
ing where he found very loving people ana very Oh
The friendly natives aocked on board the yacht, as
she remained lGXly at anchor the next morning, AMI
BROUGHT the crew ears of Indian corn and puulpEin
and tobacco which ere readily bought " for tribes.
In the afternoon Hudson went six miles further up me
river end anchored over night near the marshes winch
divide the channel opposite the dourshing city which
| now bears his nhne Early the next morning he set
sail AGAIN. and slowly working his way through the shoa
ing channel and among the small Islands when el.
barrassed navigation, anchored toward evening eoou,
eighteen miles further up, between SchVuaC ana Gas
| Teton.
Passing over a space Of seventeen years we
! come to the purchase OF Manhattan, under the
Administration Of Peter Minut in 1926. The
embryonic rudiments of the City of New-fork
are graphically described:
Nnuit's Administration began vigorously. Up TO this
period The Dutch had possessed Manhattan Island onY
by rnht of hrst discovery and Occupation IL WAS no"
ete,ned 10 superadd higher title, by purchase IRON
| The sborisinos. as Minut was in,taed IN ms
Government he opened negotiations with the say ages
end mutually satisfactory treaty was promptly con
Guided BY which the entire leland oil Manhattan uieh
I ai.nf
coded by the native propreors To the Dutch West lnda
Company for the value OF sixty guiders, or ABOUT
81 Of present currency. Ihis event. one Oh the
most interesting In colonial annals as wei deserves
commemOratiOn the famous treaty, inlmortsized Oy
painters, poets snd historians which VIM Penn con
Guided 50 years afterward under the great elm tree,
with the Indians at Shackslnsxon
A ,hori time after Mnuit sailed, another snip ne
Arms of Amsterdam" dispatched from Holland,
having on bosrd Isaac de Raseres pfotege OF Sanua
BloumseIt, one OF the leading directors Oi uie West
India Company De Rssieres reached New NetherlGui
in July and Immediately entered hs duties as copper
koopmsn" chief commissary, and secretary oil inc
province under Director MinuL Az yet, no arrange
had been made for regular clergyman OUT MS
place wss 10 a certain extent, supplied By two hranN'
bssoecketa or CONSIDERS OF the sick Sebastian Jan
zen Kro and Jan Iluyck whose particular duty IL Was
10 read 10 the people Sundays some toxts out OF
the Scriptures, together with the Creeds. Francois
Molemaec kcr also employed ia building o horse
! MIL with spacious room above 10 serve iDr a large
congregation; and atowcr was 10 DO adisi IN Nh.ca
the Spanish bells captured nj Porto HcD % Tqhf 10
fore by the West Inda Company's hert wr's ntepd0d
| to be- hung
The island Of Manhattan having now beconr by yur
chase the private property a the Wet India lnDsGy
no time Loot providing for IT. permanent security
large fort, with four angles" aud 10 be ihced VITA
solid stone sthkcd out 10y the engineer kryn Fred
| eryckr on the southern point Of the bland. Thn
! point" suggested DE Rssieres, "migtt, with ltLls
| trouble be mtde small bland, by cutting through
Blon mGcits valley, 10 afford haven winter aud
summer, for sloops GBd ships.' IL commanding pOsl
siion wei appreciated and rs future destiny pro-
phctied II ought from its nature, 20 be- Royal Fort
that Il could be approached by land only side
ss II is tTi3ngc bounded by tie two rivers. Three
angles indicated by nature. The most northern -
opposite 70, and commands within the range OF can
shot, tie Great Maurus River and tho land. TAe
south erumOst the water level, commands the chan
mel between Nutten Island and the fort, together with
the Hen gate tie third point opposite 10 BlOnmaert
valley, commands the low land. The middle, which
ought 10 be lett as landmark u the hight OF bullock
shove n surrounding land aud should always
Rdttcry which might command the three points II Tie
streets should be arranged accordingly The Comp
tCir counting house OF the company wa, kept in
stone building, matched with reeds Some thirty other
Ordinary houses" constructed chiefly OF the BAR. OF
iTees clustered aoD, the east side OF the river
which runs nearly north ami south" Each coonist
had biz house The director and the kOopman AMI
tCcrttaTy lived together As room, however the fort
should be built II intended that all the SETTLER.
should bctnke themselves within its walls so az 10 be
secure from sny sudden attack Of the saveyes
In advance Of its cOmpletiOu, the post was named
Fort Amsterdam. While il wss in progress OF build
mg, an event occurred winch ttu2n hs criminal eu-
thOrs mn have escaped detection and punishment
desiined 70 cause much Of the miery which s;torwsui
vLtod the province. Weckquae5 geek Indian, wirh
HE nephew, small boy" and enoiher savage came
dow from tie ABODE Of their THE IN Wet Chester
bringing Will them some bearers kins barter with he
Dutch the tort The beaten trail OF the say.ges com.
ing the north and 70 ~ nhattan along tn
shore OF the East River from which just north of What
now called Kp's Bay IL diyergel TO the westward
and psssed near the swsnIS ground forming the
KoIck" or pond Of fresh water until recently known
as the Collect" When the Indian tradiaz party reached
this pond they met by three farm servants in the
| employ OF Commander Minuif, VINO robbed the Week
quses geek Of his petres and then rnrrdHed him The
atrocious deed 10 have remained Tor long time
unknown 70 the Drrch authorities snd ts actual per
petrctors probably escaped punishment Blu, the youay
sayfge who witnessed biz uaces murder vowed that,
| when he grew up he would revenge himself on the
Dutch" And in ATE. YEAR, the duty which Indian ju.