. ' . Bios'roN, Sept.. 10.
The Sea 5'67‘/1372!‘, riot (alt-en.——-Considérable ex-
citement was produced inutown on Thursday last,
in consequence_of a report that the monster of the
1-leephad at last fallen -a prey to the persevertng
advetittirers who had gone in pursuit of him.--'
This story was so plausible, that the yopug and
old, rich and poor, already enjoyed, in anticipation
a sight of this wonderful visitor of our Vt’£rters.-"T-
The next morning, we’ learned, that instead of
the Sea Serpent, nothing had been taken, except
a large fish of the mackerel genus, .called the
Tunny Fish,.or aloacorc, about 9 feet long, and 8-
feet in cir'cur'nference; This, to be sure, was a
curiosity, as it is rarely seen in‘ tliis qua.rte_r---but
public expectation had been raised to a high pitch,
and it seemed rather unfortunate that it should
sudd_enl‘y bedepress'ed, at least 500 percent.
It is ‘stated {hat the’ Serpent was again seen on
Friday afternoon, between Fawn Bar and Nahant.
It is also understood that a more formidable ex-
pedition is in pursuit of him: and we hope the
next or/zress from Gloucester, will give an ex-
fzression of the tt‘uth.-'—- Yankee.
Calcutta papers to the 29th April, are receiv-
ed. They mention no new war events of conse-
quence. The cholera mot-bus appeared to have
increased. , Calcutta’, .*/Mz‘z'l 29.
The following curious account was taken from
at Bombay paper’ :—-“ Capt. Powell, of the Queen
Charlotte, informs us of the interesting circum-
stance of his having recovered, from a rock, 31
miles N. W’. of Nooaheevah, (one of the Mar-
quessasja man that had been its solitary inhabit-
ant for nearly 3 years. - Hts account stated, that
early in 1814, he proceeded thither from Noon-
hcevah, with four others, all of whom had left
an American ship there, for the purpose of pro-
curing feathers, that were in high ‘estimation :1-
mong the natives of N.; but losing their boat
on the rock, three of his companions in a short
time perished through famine, and principally
from thirst, as there was no water but what was
supplied by rains. I-lis fourth companion con-
tinued with him but a few weeks, when he fortn-
ed a resolution of attempting to swim, with the
aid ofzr splintered fragment that l‘t:t‘t1ail2‘.L'(l of their
boat, to an island in which effort he must have in-
evitably pcrishetl. He had once himself;tttcn1pt-
ed to quit his forlorn‘ situation, by constructizag a
catamaran, but failed, and lost all means of any
future attempt. They had originally taken fire
with them fron't‘ Nooalieev:-:!i, which hehad al-
ways taken care to continue, except on one occa-
sion, when it became extinguished‘, and never
could have been restored, but by a careful pres-
ervation of three or four grains of gunpowder,
and the lock of El musket which he batl broke up
for the construction of his r:xt;*.mat‘ati. The
flesh -and blood of wild beasts were his sole ali-
tnent-—-with the blood of the latter he quenched
his thirst in seasons of long (lt'0ughls', and the
skulls of his departed CO1}-1D2\Ili0l‘lS‘ were his only
drinking vessels. The discovery made of him
from the Charlotte was purely accidental--the
4-..~-:3: \.v'.~.; ;;<.;".-xvn to be desolate and barren, and
f,Zn_*, ; ppcarance of : fire‘, as ll: ‘ ":"eSS€l passed it
::._r‘; t.-‘J, -;-r,’ultl_i;j- v.-.'-.t:':=.':::arl :3-.«‘.i.-.:‘-», arvi 3-..3-dotted an
enquiry, Wiztci: pr-J; ;-.3 a...;_....*.tc 5:‘ illti forlorn
inhabitant, in procuring his removal to Nooahee-
vah, where he was left ttnrler the care of Mr.
'Wilson, an European, who had resided there ma-
ny _y<:ars, and who had previously known him.”
_..._
- DETROIT, Aug. 2.
t’ 'uf.ttz'vc._foun(.’.--'-in the year I790, and prob-
ably in the month of May, a boy about 9 "years
of age, was taken prisoner by the Indians. _ The
place where he was captured, as near as it can
be ascertained, was upon the banks of the Ohio,
in Kentucky, a short distance below the mouth
of the Great Miami. -
For many years he has been living in the coun-
try upon Red River, which flows into lake VVin-
nipec, and a few days since he arrived at this
place, on his way to seek his friends and rela-
tives. He speaks no English, and it has been
‘thought advisable to let him remain here, where
he will be fed and clothed at the public expence,
until the opening of the council‘ with the Indians
on the 10th of.September next, at St. Mary’s, in
Ohio, ‘where he will be taken in the expectation
that this notice will reach some of his connex-
ions, that they may take charge of him.
His memory is very. retentive, and he relates
with great precision, and I have no doubt, very
accurately, the situation of his family, and the
circumstances of his capture. . .
He states that his name is Joltn‘Taylor, and he
I thinks his fath‘er’s name was .l"oh’n~-that he had j
one brother older and one younger than himself,
and live sisters ;' that his father went to his corn-
field where some negroes were hoeing corn, and
that he was left at home to take care of his young-
er brother ; that he went into the woods to pick
old wal’n'ut's, and was there taken by a party of sev-
en Indians. He has a scar on the left side of his
neck, and on the left cheek-, occasioned, as hs says,
by a sore when quite‘ young. -
He states that a party followed‘ thelvndians who
captured him,—overtook and had an‘ action with
them, in which the Shawanoes chief was killed.
These circumstzmces, it is believed‘, wi'l-l be
sufficient to recall him to the 1-ecollection of his
friends, and to indentily him" to any person, who
may attendat St. Mary’s for the purpose of claim-
ing him. ' *
He‘ rnanifcsts suclr solicitude upon tliesubjcct,
that I cannot but hope, he will be enabled to dis-
cover and visit his relations. Lewis CAss. '
ax}
Sa‘vam’2a/z, ./lug". 25.
Sonzrt/2i7zg uncomnzon.--A>rrive(l,.schr. Rising
Stutes,‘.-‘Vynants,->2 days. Aug. 23, iii lab 3'3: 40:,
lou. 74, 12, about 10 o'clock. A. M. passed thro’
a strip of water, about a mile in length, which
looked-as redas claret ; ti1e‘-clay, previous spoke
the brig Gen. Macomb, 4VVx'igliti,"fi-oni Charleston,
‘bound for llal'ti?mot'e, who informed us they had
':LL_l5t passed through water that lookcdas red as
blood ! '
' monster.
.'N'c-w,-York, Aug. .Ԥl..-'-The sloop Gen. Jack-
son, Christie, 19 days from Savannah, on the 20th
Aug. in lat.‘33, N. at 2 P. M. in th,e»Gu'lf Stream
about 10 miles to the S. E. of its inner edge‘, the
wind being light, the water clear, and the sea of
a beautiful transparent blue, discovered ahead and
on both hows, the water much discolored. Un
coming uplwitlt it‘, being a little alarmed, sound-
ed, but no bottom. On hearing it, it had the ap-
pearance of blood mixed with water.—\-Vhen up
with it, ii looked like brickdust or red ochre
mixed, and was in many spots, some very large,
and others small. In some places the red ap-
pcared to be mixed with the water of the sur-
face ; in others, considerably below, as could be
plainly distinguished by the transparency of the
water on the top. The red in’ many places ap-
peared to come up from below, in hr-.u‘sches some-
what resembling thc willow or poplar tree, and
to ascend to within :1 fathom or two of the sur-
face ; in others, the water appeared to be thick,
without any of those appearances, but always of
a reddish cast. ' '
IV/zalc-s.-—Capt. Pinkham, of the. sloop VVill-
iam, arrived at Norfolk, in four days'from,Nan-
tucket, informs, that on Saturday last, about 140
tiles E. N. from Cape Henry, he passed thro’
a shoal of about 300 sperm. wltales, some of them‘
-very large. - ' ‘
W’ e have no doubt, for it is reasonable -to sup—;»
pose, that the above school of whales, produced"
the discoloration of the water in the Gulf stream,
which has lately been described by several mas-
ters of vessels.
jllctcorolog-y.—One of those showers, which in
times of ignorance and superstition, would have
been considered supernatural and ominous, fell
on the 14th of March in. Naples and Calabria.
l\l. Sementini has given account of this red
7‘ai2z, which the people called blood and fire, as it
impressed their imaginations. The weather was
very stormy, and much thunder and lightning ;
the sky overcast with dismal redness. On analy-
zing the earthly matter, held in solution by the
rain drops, which gave them this appearance, it
was found to be ofa yellow color, unctious to the
to-tch—-its componcntiparts, silex, alumine, lime,
ch:-ome, iron, 320. (cc. '
.N'e=w- York, Scfzt. 14.
[fun-z‘cenc at tS'il‘(I.---It8p[)Ci1l'S by the report of
the vessels which arrived here yesterday frotn
E zrope, that a violent and extensive hurricane
o’ curred on the 3lst of Aug. The Hercules,
f"-nun Liverpool, experienced it in lat. 42, 34,
lrng. 54, was thrown on her beam ends, had one
I an killed and another badly wounded. The
‘ obert-Cochran from Genoa, was in lat. S5, 50,
"mg. 64, 25, and carried away her fore topmast.
l‘he gale was of several hours duration.
The ship Hercules, from Liverpool, on the
30th of August, in lat. 42, passed an island of
ice, supposed by Capt. Cobb and his passengers
to be between 3 and 400 feet high.
_ ‘ PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 3‘.
A laboring man recently arrived in this city
with his family, from England, was yesterday
swinidled out of 24 guineas by a sharper calling
himself J. Moore-—he inveigled the stranger to
aboarding house, promised to procure him and
companion workéagreed to give him 5'dollars
a piece for his guineas-—went' away while the
breakfast was preparing, to procure (as hesaid)
the silver, and left the crcdulotis stranger in the
lurch. The sharper was about 20 years of age.
Baflirizorc, S:/2!. 12'.
On Thursday last, about eleven o'clock, in the
prison yard in this city, the awful sentence of the
law was executed on John Alexander and Joseph
Thompson Hare, convicted of robbing the mail
of the United States. A vast concourse of spec-
tators attended, on this melancholy occasion, to
witness the fatal consequence of disobedience to
the laws. A solemn lesson which, it is hoped,
will not fail to make a due impression.
’ The dying confession of Hare, written by him-
self, is published in a pamphlet of twenty pages.
In this he gives a very interesting history_ of his
life and crimes, andpin the conclusion, says “ For
the last fourteen years of my life, I have been a
highway robber, and have robbed on a. larger scale
and been more successful than any robber either
in Europe or in this -country, that I have ever yet
heard of.” '
Jllonstrous 0zttrage.—A white female servant
in Columbia county, Georgia, lately had one of
her breasts-entirely cut oil‘, by a negro man“, and
was in the act of cutting off the other, which he
' ha'd nearly effected, when her shrieks b'rought
her employer. to her assistance, who secured this
The poor unfortunate girl survived
but a few moments. \Vhile ah milking, she said
“ the negro man came to the pen, and asked her
for some milk, and that she told him she could
not spare any ; when, with the ferbcity ofthe hu-
man tiger, he seized his prey, and gliitted the he]-
lish appetite of his nature. a No other provoca-
tion was given. _ He is confinedin Columbia jail.
A terrible punishment awaits him.-”
—-——-v
The Jewelry and VVatchcs stolen from Mr.
’ Sargcant, in Hartford, have nearly all been found
in a‘ barn in Ashford. Three men were seen to
go to the barn, which gave the owner suspicion
that all was not right-—-and on searching, he found
the stolen articles. The inhabitants were exert-
ing themselves to find the men. " i
- The Wfzale, which has lately been carried thro’
the country as a curiosity, was wantonly destroy-
"ed by fire in the village of ‘Waterloo, N. Y. by
somepersons who we‘re dis'sa.ti,slied with the
show—the reason of their dissatisfaction was,
that on examination, it proved to bee [cat/zer‘
w/talc I-—-0b.9e'rvcr.~ ’ h ‘
A son of Mr. Higby, 'in Hillsborough, N. Y.
was lately burned to death in a fallow.
' seen foot-paths leading to _the island of this
~ and become heavier, and the excavations be-
.. .. ’f1’IIE~L..2JVD I'o'.i«f. , .
The following’ interesting account of the
Ice of Greenland, is. translated from the work
of._Fabricius, a Danish writer, published in -
1782: V . , .
4“ The land ice in Greenland, is one of the
most remarkable phenotnena in nature, and
in extent far exceeds any other lzitlterto
known, running from one end of the Country
to the l)l3ll6I‘,”€t!t(l covering it with an etc:-nal
ice, leaving only some tops of mountains,
which rise black and naked above it. Vi hen
you ascend any of the highest mount:_tir.s free
from ice on the sea coast, a tlrcatlful view is
presented. As far as the eye can reach in
every direction, nothing is seen buta glitter-
ing surface, ‘ which merits’ the appellation of
an icy ocean. V » '
The ice is extending every year, in‘cr‘easing
in height as well as breadth, and has already
occupied fhe greatest part of the country.
VVhcn it meets with high mountains, it is
checked in its progress, till it 1'each'es' an" ti-
qual height, and then proceeds father without
obstruction.‘ An experiment has been made
of placing it pole in the earth at a considera-~
ble distance from the line of ice, and that
place has been found occupied by the -ice the
follotving year. .
rapid, that Grecnlatttlers, who are still liv-
ing,-remember, their fathers hunting reindeer
among naked mountains, which are now com-
‘pletely . covered with ice. I have thyself
‘part of the coutitry, which are now obstruc-
ted by glaciers. ‘ ' V . . ‘
It is chiefly in_the valleys that the ice is
accumulating, and where ‘these reach the
sea‘, and the inner part of the buys, the ice
projects in large blocks over the watcr.——-
Part ofthe ice appears to be even and smooth,
particularly in the middle, but a part of it: is
very uneven, especially at the extremities to-
wards the naked land, and in those places,
where small hillocks have been covered ; but
if you proceed farther on the ice, that which
seemed to be even, consists of vallies with
several strata. There are also a number of
rents of ditfct-cut widths, and so deep, that
the eye seeks the bottom in vain. That part
of the ice which appeared to be uneven, is
nothing but projecting hillocks with deep ra-
vines, where it is impossibleto proceed, and
which bear the appeat-ahce of the sea in vio-
lent motion, instantly congealed. If you
look down into the rents, or observe the ice
at the extremities, you find the lower stra-
’tutn of ablue colour, which is darker towards
the bottom, but towards the surface, the col-
our is lighter, the uppermost stratum having
its natural wh_iteucss. . The noise of water
:-falls is heard in some of the rents, and a
thundering sound is frequently heard under
your feet when _a. new rent is made. On in-
speeting this extremity of the ice; when it is
formed inl w places, you will fintlit under-
mining the ground, and pushing itaside as
if it were by a plough. This detritus lies
collected in heaps all along the sides of the
ice, like walls, and at the first breaking up
of the ice, it sunk into it forever. In many
spares nothin°'. The blocks of ice, that form
a continuation of the land ice, and projects
‘over the water in the inner parts of the bays,
are yearly increasing. The sea below throws‘
its waves’ over them, and makes such exca-
vations, that in many places, large poles of
ice are hanging dowr. at the sides, having
the appearance of pipes of organs,‘and in
other places, it forms immense arcbes.- In
proportion as ‘these blocks increase above
low are extended, immense masses are pre-
cipitated intothe water. Matty bays are re-
ally decp enough to receive such ice motm-
tains. As one mass falls down, that which
is behind is carried along with it, and thus
the one follows the other, with a tremendous .
crashing noise, like a heavy cannonado.-—
The sea, as it is easily imagined, is hereby
put into‘ rt violent motion, and overflows the
land to a great height, and this inundation
is felt at the distance of several miles-'. It
has even happened that tents, pitched at a
considerable distance from the sea, have been
carried away, and the people have perished.
Boats are also in great tlang'ct'.
_ Such masses of ice are a’t"fi‘rst prec;ip‘ita'tcd
deep in the wafer, and returning to the sur-
fact-.,‘coutinue for :1 long time in __motion.—-
Sometimes they are united to the flat ice in
the.bays by cougelatiou, and thus remain sur-
rottntlctl by it for atime, or they ln'eal; in their
fall the ice which is already formed therr.
_ Another circumstance which increases these
mountains, is, that in some places there are
large lakes above the ice blocks, tliscltat-girtg
their water through openings under them.--
llound the edges of the lakes are lranging
pieces of ice, which in the above described’
‘manner are precipitated into them. They
are then driven to the mouth of the opening.
through which the smallest pieces arecarried
down into the sea, but the larger ones block
uptbe opening, by which not only the water
is stopped,-but also the masses of ice. The
water’ rising higher, detaches still more of
those pieces, atiti thelake is at last so full of
them, that they break a new channel. - Thus
the masses that were heaped one upon the
other are hurled into the sea. accompanied
places, entire lakes are filled up; the ice‘
itants in the ItCiglll.i0i:ll()0tl,.fli:ltlt0ll I
this rbaring,‘expect:’ to se(§7§?‘the wlfole bay
blocked up with ice. . _. V _
If the ice mountain's remain for sometime
under the projecting‘ blocks of ice, (which do-1
pends on the state of the wind and the cur;
rent,) their size is then increased, and they
rise to a terrible height, assuming" the most
‘curious sliaprs‘; Atlast they are driven from ,
one bay into another, or they advance into
the sea‘, and float about in Davis’s -Streight,
till by moving sotrthward,‘ they are tlissolved
in more temparate latitudes. I'tlo not mean‘
to say that all ice mountains in; Davis’s‘
Straight have their origin on ‘Greenland, for
some of them probably came from morediss
taut regions; but I think it "tnost‘,probable'
that the greater part of this sort of ice has
been detached from the xvestzern, and from‘
the eastern coast of Greenland, which tlt't'3y'
call Old Greenland.”- - t I . . _ '- ,
.Moscow.-—.--An American getttlcman, now’
in I€us’sia, in'de'scribing' fltecity of 1\Io’sc_ow;
says that it-is about 8 miles longland 7 broad,
or about 27 miles in circumference. It con-
tains 273 churches, and 20 monasteries and
!C0llV8I'ltS,' the kremlin is constructed about
155- 1,,.,,g,.cSs is. indeed 3,, ,the middle of the town, on an elevated spot,
and was at ‘one time the strong hold of the
ancient monarchs ,: it contains 13 churches,» ‘
:3 palaces, arsenals, &c. all fine, and some of
them magnificent buildi_ng.s. - The kremlin
was m_uch injured by the French, under Bo-
naparte ; A-mines were sprung, and immense
breaches mad_c in the walls ;‘ one clturch was
overthrown, the steeple of which (the high-
est in Moscow) remains quite 'llYllIUl‘lJ;ilLl'_t(.‘.'
largest bell then hanging in Moscow, was in
this steeple, which fell down at thefitne, and
still lies upon the ground—-into this hell :1.’
person can walk and stand upright with ease.
In the kremlin is a cannon weighing 7 5,300
pounds ; this was never discharged but once,
which was on the coronation of the emperor
Paul. Here are also 753 pieces of cannon
taken from the starved and freezing French,
in the campaign of 181:2.
NORWALK GAZE'I"1‘f 3.
WED.N'ESD.flY, SEPT. 16, 1818..
On Nlonday next, (the 21st inst.) the semi-.
annual election of Rcpscutatives, &c. takes
place throughout this state.
and prosperity of a people rest on the fail};-
fut exercise of the L‘li.’(‘ll\’C-fl'{tllCltlS€, let ev-.
ery Freeman be punctual at the polls, and
discltat-go his ditty, unbiased by party con-
tentions and strife, and the result enttnm: fail‘
of being satisfttctorym himself", honorable in
Frecmen, and - conducive to the best’inter-
est of tltestztte.’ -
The following Nomination for Council-
lors, composed principally of the present
»Mcmber‘s, is the only one, which, as yet, has
publicly appeared ,- though it is reported that
another is to be privately circulated tbrouglt-'
out the state.
Toleratton Ticket.
NOMI-NATION FOR -Ct)UNClLLORS..
Hartford Couttty.—-.Tonailuzn Brace, Syl-
-vester Wells, Lemuel Whitman.
New-Haven County.—W illitlln Bristol, Du.
vid f.'.'omlinson,- Charles II. Poml. V
New London County.-—-Elias Pc-rkri-ns,
James Lanman, Enoch Burrows.
F airfield Cuunt_v.——John S. Cmmmz, Zol-
mon Wildman, David Plant.‘
, Windham Cottnty.—-1’eter' Webb, Edmzmtl
Frecmrm.» ‘
Litchlieltl Cottnty.-—‘Frederick' Wblcoll,
hlitldlesex County.—-Joslrzm Slow, fltrsiin
Olcptt. ‘
Tolland County.--John S. I’c.’ers.
The following gentlemen were elected tostantf
in nomination for members of Congress, by the
freemen in April ;-—from this nomination the
freemen are by law required on the 2 last Sejztem-
oer, (freen'1en’s meeting) to elect seven persons
as members of the next Congress. ,
Jonathan 0. .,%sclc_z,v, [.Da_~zn'tl Belles,
Gi‘dcon flbizzlrirzsem t Cfm'.9fopleer ./‘rfan-war-t
James :Sf8‘t:87l3 ] He!/.t P. Beers fifng,
Joint. Russ Hewzry -W. Edwards
John T. Parlors . Simeon IT. ‘.2517’ ner
Iirzlp/‘L I. Ingersnll Orange Jllcrwin
.S‘(Imucl .9. Foot [ ./Inset Sle1'li1zg:
Ifhisim Plzclps f C'1t£~oz'n II”illc;;
.7t"ug;os Barber 1 Elisha Tmcy.
The Freemen, (says the Colombian Register,).
will do well to remember in voting for the nomin-
ation for Councillors, that according to the pres:
ent law, each freeman must vote for Twenty
1’er.9on.s-, their names being all fairly ‘written on
ONE PIECE of paper. ‘ivory freeman there-
fore who expects to vote ii 1' the Nomination of
Councillors, should /zrevious to tile mcemzg, pro-
vide himself with a list of the whole ticket which
he intends to votefor; the twenty names being
fairly written on_a piece of jia/wr.
names each freeman must hand to the pl‘t:Sl(lln§3'{
officer when the votes for councillors are calli-cl
for. ' .-
In voting for'Members of Congress, each free-
man is entitled to select and vote for Seven Per-
sons, from the Congressional Nomination. The
whole ticket is called over by the presiding offi-
cer,-that is, each name separately. Any writzerz
by acontinuetl tbttntlcring noise. . The sea ‘or jzrhzledjziece r_»/‘gm/.er,’if put in the ballot box
is put into terrible commotion, and the inbab- _
'at'the time the name of any candidate in nomin-
This list of 2"‘
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As the peace §
Elisjalt Boarrtlman, .7\"atham'el Perry. * J
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