New-York daily tribune., 1857-04-20

north, the New -Enganders even attempted 10 sur.
round the Dutch, as it were, by seeking to estab.
Esh themselves in the Delaware or South River:
but BY the combined efforts Of the Dutch and
Swedes already there, this project was defeated
But though thus excluded from the Delaware, the
PEOPLE of New Haven soon after established trading
post high up the Housatonic, which was regarded
Nv the Dutes th hardly less jealousy as designed
n draw az sar Indian trade from Fort Orange
and in fact II was the first step toward that close
approximation to the upper Hudson which the
New. Englanders afterward made
These various encroachments led to very hot
words between New Netherlands aud New England.
In fact it was nothing but the weakness o. New
Netherlands that prevented u war. The pahsade
whence Wall street takes its name, inceslng the
town of New.Amsterdam, and erected about this
time, was intended as a means Of defense not less
against New England than against Indian INVASION.
These controversies Of limits were first tempo
rarily arranged BY an agreement entered into IN
1850, by which all the eastern part OF Long Island
that part composing the present County OF SUI
folk-was yielded up to Connecticut and New
to begin at Greenwich Bay and to run northerly
twenty miles into the country, and beyond that as
might De aterward agreed, but nowhere to APP
proach the Hudson nearer than ten miles. 1t was
not long, however, before new disputes broke out.
The insatiate New-Englanders would, in all probs-
ility, have gulped down the whole Dutch Colony,
ad not the Duke Of York interyened to snatch it
ut of their jaws.
New. Netherlands converted into New York, and
ecome the property of Royal Duke, was far
more formidable opponent than it had been while
elonging to the Dutch West India Company.
Though the Hartford and New-Hayen men had
ow joined forces under single charter, they found
themselves obliged to give way, and at once to
resign every pretensOn to Long Island. But they
did not give up their spirit of encroachment. No
longer able to employ threats and violence, they
now tried another plan. AS TO the boundary on
the main land, Connecticut was charged with hav-
ing practced piece of trckery on the New-fo
Commissioners. The initial-point on the Sound
was fixed at tide-water in the Mamaroneck, whence
the line was to run north-north-west to the south
ern limit of Massachusetts,. Such line the New
York Commissioners were made to beheve-at
least such was their subsequent alegation-wouid
not anywhere approach the Hudson nearer than
twenty miles. Upon reconnaissance 1t turned
out that it would strike and cross the Hudson IN
the Highlands, thus extending the north part OF
Connecticut to the west side of the Hudson
River. As soon as this fact became known, the
Commissioners of New-York raised loud outcry
against the fraud which, they declared, had been
practiced upon them; and the controversy was
kept rp for twenty years, serving longer still
to keep alive that feeling of suspicion and
dislike on the part of the old Dutch settlers
toward the New -Englanders, which, though great
ly modified by the lapse of time and more
intimate association has not yet entirely vanished
from the breasts of some of their descendants. AT
length, under orders from England, re-suryey of
the boundary took place in l6S3-GOvernor Dom
gan and his Council meeting the Governor and
Council of Connecticut for that purpose. Upon
this occasion the Connecticut folks not only lost
the territory they sought surreptitiously to gam
under the former arrangement, but were obliged to
make still further concessions. They retained, in
deed, as at presentfor the boundary as then fixed
was substantially the present One-a triangular
piece of territory on the Sound already inhabited
but in the upper and unsettled district they were
obliged to retreat to more respectful distance
from the Hudson. The whole line as thus agreed
upon, including the upper and till then, unsurveyed
part. was run and marked in l73l-in which year,
We may remark by the way, the City of New-fork
had, as appeared by formal census, 1862 inhab-
itants, and the whole province so, ,2S9-nOt much
more than half the number Of which the colony Of
Connecticut could boast.
1t would seem as if the people of Connecticut,
as 70 this matter of territorial encroachment were
still I'D to their old tricks. Under pretense of
Strengthening the line, their Commissioners want to
get some additional slices of New-York. To that
our Commissioners will not agree, and so the re-
survey has come to stand-still. The present peo
pie of Connecticut are chips of the old block, and
those who have bargains or arrangements to make
with them will do well to keep both eyes open.