New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-06-08

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nliserabe little fort called Fort Orange, bailt OF
logs with four or i've pieces Of British and
J az many svives. This has been Reserved, snd is
maintained by the West niia Company. THIS fort
formerly Cd an sand in the riY-r, il IL now On
the ain land toward the Iliroqu0is. e above the
said irlaId + colony sent here by this Rensse-
8eT, Who Is the patron. his colony Is composed Of
about hundred ler~on. who rrsle In some twenty
five 81 bTiy houses bGilt along tie river. as each
iourd meet convenient. IL the principal house lives
the IsrJns agent; the nini-icr oar old fueni the
pCrile hegtpo!rrsis has lis apart, IN which service
l. lriiuTu-d. There il also "a Kind of baff here
whom they cal tbs sereSchGl the Schuut FISCAL who
ADMINISTERS Jurtc-. Their houses merely Of
boards auc ihatch,d with no ilasou-Uok except the
clinhtls. Tie iWest furnishing many arg- pines,
they make hoar's by H.eans II their n.s when they
have here for the puuese. They fouEd some pieces
of eroEud al ready which tie savGges had formerly
cleared. GEd IN winch they wheat aud Oa.s fpr
beer aid for then horse. at Which they have great
numbers. There L little iaud IT for ullage, being
i. Iu.d ID by hills which are poor su. fAis obges
them to separate, and they already occupy two or
thee leagues 81 country.
The next article in this Volume is short D,scrip-
ton Of NeT-N,iAsriaHds, from book published IN
l64l, by William Castel, an English minister who
took great interest in the conversion of the
Indians. We quote the concluding paragraph:
And now oorcerbng New-Netherlands convenient
temperH:ure, the goodness OF the sell, or cUmmOd-
i;ies which either ses or land affords, | need say
more but that in all these respects II dlhereth little
from NewEugiaud. Only must in tn, ~ four things
give the prccedeucy that the land in general richer,
the fields more fragrant with flowers the timber longer
and therefore. 1T for building and shipping, the
woods fuller ot beavers and the waters "f salmon and
sturgeon.
Next cones the Broqd idrics, translation
from the Dutch, by Mr.. Murphy, of a pamphlet in
the form Of 4 dialogue between the passengers of a
LII IN, u. ault
Kieft's administration in New Netherlands; and
showing pretty paioly that the act of vituperaton
if no other was "a well understood at New Ainster-
dam two hundred years ago As il il to-day in New
York This curious diatribe Is not without GER
tain historical value, though of course, its state
ments must be received with much caution.
Nextwe have an extract from HGgdnadr' DcserlP-
tion of AMSTERDAM, translated by Mr.. Brodhead,
and containing all that is known of the colony
of New -Amstel (nOw NewCaste) which in loo
the City of Amsterdam undertook to establish on
the South or Delaware River.
Then comes The Screen Articles Of the Church
Of Leyden John Robinson's church, by which Ply
mouth in New-England was founded), now printed
for the first time from copy furnished by Mr. Ban
croft, who found it in the English State Paper
Office among the papers relating to Virginia, hay-
ing been furnished, doubtless, to the Virginia Com
pany at the time of an application to that Com
pany for a patent. Mr.. Bancroft has preGIed an
Introductory letter explanatory Of the articles,
in which We find the following passage
long time ago. wrote of the Pilgrims al Plymouth
that they were betrayed into the eYcesses OF
religious cuOp and after the lapse OF more than
w.ny years the remark still approves itself as cor
rec.
ARE We to conclude from this that Mr.. Bancroft
JUS ifes the conduct of the Plymouth people to-
wagd Gorton, whom he himself describes as "a
wild but benevolent enthusiast" but whom the
Pin mouth people, on religious grounds solely,
turned out OF his house Gort0n himself tells US,
in the midst Of d snow-.tOrm, with his wife and in-
iant child, the child sick of the measles, the wife
"as tenderly brought up as any mans wife in that
town." or are We to understand Mr.. Bancroft to
apply the description of mot excessive" to the
laws against the Quakers enacted in Plymouth
Colony, as We'll as in the other colonies of the New
England Union, and which that colony byits repre-
q natives in the Board Of Commissioners for the
United Colonies attempted in vain to force upon
Rhode Island
Next follows a collection Of pieces relating to
the embassy from Cansda to the United Colonies Of
New England. in 1850, to negotiate cooperation
against the Iroquois-the inveterate enemies of the
French and also of some Of the Indian tribes hav-
ing relation. with New England.
In consequence of the Jealous exclusion, by the
representatives of the Company of New-France, OF
Ill nj from he
Indians on the coast east of Pemaquid POiHt
(abtut halfway between the Keilnebec and the
PenCbscot). which had led TO several seizures and
collisions, message had been sent IN 1915 TO the
French Governor. General at Quebec, proposing
free trade-tbe first communication on record, aud
probably the first ever had, between New England
and Canada free trade Was quite contrary to
tie policy Of the Company of New France, and no
immediate answer Was given to this message.
But the war between Canada aud the lrOquois be-
coming very pressing, and the lroquols having
even sent war-parties to attack the ludlan cate
cbumpus Of the French missionaries on the upper
wafer. of the Kennebec River, it was hoped that,
hv holding ont some advantages Of trade, the pe0-
ple Of New England might be induced to afford
some aid in this var-especially as the Plymouth
people, by mesus of their clearinghouse on tno
Keunebec River near the present site OF Augusta
lad direct intercourse Of traffic with the convert
ed Indians who dwelt higher up at NOrridsewocx,
and an interest in protecting them against the Mo-
hawks. The business Of opening the way for this
peootistion was intrusted to Druilletes-so Mr..
Shea says be wrote his own name though Cnai'e'
voi1 spells i, Dreuiilettes-the founder OF the hen
nebec Mission; and the principal piece OF this col