F)‘ l i I V with perfect secrecy. , . WHOLE N0. 149.] ‘ .;y.;..,;.';;-.-,-,-.:;.¢,,~.<;.:s::-:><>-<>-<><>~c><><>:><><><>~::<;rs:>:::<-?lv PUBLISHED BY ' S-. W. BENEDICT. TERMS-_—_-‘TWO Dollars per annum. - 333' Letters to the publisher must be post- paid. ' . - -. -- - . ‘ . .. '-. .- ..--. 0. -. -. -. 0 . ' .-' ‘ -"‘- ..=-::-=$..=-=..:=~x'Z.2=-=3-if3?<.>‘<?---S.-~4".3=-a.I=-..-=-aZ.=-=:.-=~<.=-=1 »>-4.:--:.:--.2.--:.2--..><>~.-<ele Dry Goods Groceries and C roclcery. Eli B. Bennett, Has just returned from New- York with a fresh an/ijzly of Goods, which he will sell as cheap as can be /zurchased any -where else. Among his new sujijzly are the following articles : XTRA superfine blue and black Cloths , Common and blue do. Superfine blue and black Cassimeres Sattinets, Olive cord, . Silk, Florentine and Mersailles Vestings Red, white, yellow and crimson Flannel Irish Linen stezim Shirting Waltham do. Black, blue and crimson Bombazetts Furniture Calico, Sarcenet Cambric Fine and common book Muslins India do. Flagg and black silk lilidkfs. Domestic sheeting 8: shirting Bedtickings, Galloon binding Men’s first quality beaver gloves Ladies’ kid. and silk do Green Florence Dimity Domestic and imported Ginghams Cassimere Shawls Figured Ratinet Black and crimson tabby Velvet Apron Check, VVhite and black worsted ‘Hose Dressed and undressed Calicoes Floss cotton First and second quality coat and vest buttons Cotton balls Pins Large and small corton Shawls GROCERIES. Rum, Brandy, Vi/‘inc, Gin, Old HYSOTI, Young Hyson, Hysoiiskin and Souchong Teas Brown and lump Sugar, Molasses, Plug and paper To- _bacco, Copperas, Cotton Wool, Codfish Soap, Candles, Spices, Indigo and Starch. Powder and shot, Fine Salt, &c. &c. CROCKERY—A general assortment. Norwalk, Feb. 19. GROCERIE S, &c. UST received and for sale by the subscribers A general assortment of Groceries, which they will sell logv for Cash or country produce. SAMUEL BURRALL 8: SON. Norwalk, June 20. LIME. l-IE‘subsci-iber would inform the public that he continues the business of making Lime at the kiln lately occupied by Barnum £9’ Chafi- man, and will furnish it on as low terms as can be had at any kiln in this part of the country. A supply of the first quality on hand : all orders thankfully received and punctually attended to. Pl-IINEAS CHAPMAN. N. B. All letters containing orders for Lime will be post paid. Ridgefield, Nov. 22. 35tf RAVELS through England, France, Spain, and the Barbary States, by M. M. Noah, Esq. then U. S. Consul at Tunis. Cliataubriands Travels through Greece, &c. Travels through Spain. . Thaddeus of Warsaw, by the author of Scot- tish Chiefs, Pastor’s Fire Side, 8cc. Ste. One sett of Scott's Family Bible, 5 vols. quar- to, new. Letters concerning the constitution and order of the Christian Ministry, by Samuel Miller, D.D. Portraiture of Methodism,with a defence there- of. Olney Hymns, by the Rev. J. .N'c*wton. , Topographical description of Ohio, Indiana and Louisiana. Blair’s Lectures on Rhetoric. New-York Reader No. 3, Scc. &c. For sale by P. PRICE. B. & C. Isaacs I l AVE justreceived a fresh supply of those justly esteemed and highly approved Med- cines, prepared by VV. T. Conway, Chemist, No. Bumstead Place, Boston, to wit : Dr. Relfe’s Botanical Drops. Dr. Relfe’s Asthmatic Pills. . Dr. Relfe’s Aromatic Female Pills for Obstruc- tions, Scc. Dr. Relfe’s Antibillious Pills for Indigestion, Billions affections, Ste. Dr. Relfe’s Vegetable Specific (for sick head ache.) . Dr. Relfe’s Vegetable Rheumatic Pills. Dr. Jebb’s Rheumatic Liniment ; Rheuma- tism of 20 years standing, has been cured by this in 24 hours. ' , British Antiseptic Dentrifice, most excellent for the teeth and gums. ~‘Dumfries’ Ointment, a certain and safe cure for the Itc/1, in one hour’: aft/ilication, be it ever so inveterate. yj“ Jvo danger from taking cold .’ Albion Corn Plaster. The relief is immedi- ate, and while it dissolves and draws the corn out by the roots, it causes not the least pain. Cambrian tooth-ache Pills; the reliefis instan- taneous, without the ‘least injury to the teeth. Dr. Hunter’s celebrated Pills ; Dr. Hunter’s Injection Powders, and Doctor Hunter’s Cerate for the prevention and cure of venerial complaints A treatise, explaining symptoms, and method of cure accompany each packet. M Pamphlets of many extraordinary cures, may be had of the agents, gratis. 33° None of the above are genuine, unless signer! ‘ W. T. Couwztv.’ A large discount to country ' Physicians, Traders, &c. The above Medicines may likewise be had of most Booksel- lers, Druggists and Post Masters throughout the United States. Norwalk, Nov. 23. Winter Arrangement. Accommodation Packets. To soil from Ebenezer D. Hog/t’s Landing, (1 Norwalk, for Peck Slip, New-York. Sloop MECHANlC—DAsx.\iu. Sloop UNION—BuowN. Sloop CITIZEN-PENuo,vi~:R. One of the above vessels will leave this place every Tuesday and Saturdaythrough the season-— commeticing this day. A For freight or passage apply to the subscriber, or to either the Captains on board of their re- spective vessels. E. D. HOYT- Norwalk, Feb. 20. Q Fior“jSale,‘ HE very superiors fast sailing Packet Sloop ORION, burthen fifty-six ton, 2 3-4 years old, well known as a Packet between Norwalk and New-York. She is well found, and built at Nor- walk of the best materials, has a very handsome cabin, well furnished, with five lengths of births. For particulars apply to BURRALL Sc HUBBELL. Norwalk, Feb. 19. fl For Catskill, Albany and Troy. HE Sloop ORBIT, Daniel K. Nash, master, will sail for Catskill, Albany and Troy, (and touch at other places on the river to land and re- ceive freight) on or about the 20th of March next. Orders for Lumber will be received as usual, or contragt entered into for furnishing any quantity by the 1st of May next. Apply to the master on board, or at the store of VVM. J. STREET. N. B. Those indebted for Lumber, had during ‘the past year, are requested to make immediate payment. Those that have accounts of longer standing will be notified in a different way. Norwalk, Feb. 5. Domestic Jlfamrfactures. HE subscriber offers for sale, at reduced prices, for Cash or most kinds of country produce, at his establishmentin Norwalk, Sheet- ing and Shirtiug Muslin, Stripes and Cham- brays, wholesale and retail. Also Cotton Yarn, both twist and filling (assorted numbers) by the bundle, run or skein, blue and white, at Factory prices. Candlewick, in 1-4 and 1-2 lb. balls. fix“ REEDS made to any order, on the short- est notice. ,. Also, Patent Composition for the axles of car- riages, an excellent substitute for tar, grease, &c. for sale as above. AARON NASH. Volatile ./Iromatic Ilcad-fiche Sizigf. Prepared by John P. IIV/ii.‘-wcll,Cliemist and Drug- gist—Boston. (Composed principally of Roots and Aromatic Herbs)--Patented and warranted. EW or none of the Snuffs in ordinary use, unite those advantages as an elegant sternu- tatory, which Tobacco, combined with other in- gredients, is capable of producing. The common Scotch snuff is not only destitute of fine flavor but is universally allowed to be injurious to the head and stomach, and sooner or later affects the transparency and color of the skin. The coarse black snuffs, instead of clearing and stimulating the olfactory nerves, serve but to obstruct and deaden them : and in process of time, by stop- ping the passages, has an evident effect upon the speech. The Volatile ./Ira-malic Snufl‘ will, by ex- perience,be found not liable to these objections-— its flavor is fragrant and deliglitful—-tlie effect pleasing and salutary-it opens and purges the head—sensibly stimulates the spirits, and re- moves that drowsiness which on some occasions will prevail in spite of our utmost efforts to baffle it. By repeated experiments, it is known to be of essential service to those who are troubled with long, dull, nervous bead-aclies, and will be found far superior for this purpose to the Cephalic snuff. In cases of catarrh or what is commonly called a cold in the head, a pinch or two taken at night on going to bed will, by moistening the mucus, effectually remove all obstructions before morn- ing. All those troubled with the hypochondria or vapors, will find in this chemical preparation a complete antidote. All sedentary and studious persons of either sex will find by its occasional use, a cheap and cheering relief from that lassi- tude which in-variably accompanies a long sitting or much reading. This snuff is well stopt in a handsome square bottle made expressly tor the purpose, and which will be found to unite all the advantages of a snuff Box. Extract of a Certificate from Docl. Benjamin Walerhousc, Fella-w ofthe Zllcdical Society in Lon- don—ancl oft/ze National Medical School ofFrancc —and late Professor of the Theory and Practice of P/zyslc in the University qfCam6rz'dgc. Boston, Milk-Street, Illarc/i 30, l8l3- ‘ The articles are certainly innocent in their qualities. Those liable to nervous and other head-aches well know that fits oftliese distressing affections most commonly subside on a spontan- eous sneezing towards night, and if this rcliefcan be expedited by a sternutatory, I should give the preferance to your snuff over that of powdered to- bacco or even the imported Cc/t/zalic Snufi; the ingredients of which are unknown to us. With this view Ihavc used your composition myself and recommended it to others.’ I am yours, &c. B. WATERHOUSE. To J. P. Whit-well, Chemist and Druggist. For sale by B. St C. ISAACS. *,.”‘ At the same place may be had Dr.Dean’s Rheumatic Pills, so famous for this complaint in the N. E. States. This excellent medicine is ac- companied by numerous certificates from Judges, dlergymen and respectable Physicians. Price 50 cents a box. .ivo12W.aLIc. (C'o7m.) WEDJV‘ESD.&1’,..M./IRCH 7,-1321. riiom THE NEW-LONDON ADVQCATE. HISTORY OF NEW-ENGLJND. Discovery and _/irst scttlenzent.—AMa1t1cs was to the ancients an unknown land. It was 328 years since it was first discovered ; and 218 since Captain Gosnold first viewed the shores of New- England. The Spaniards began their settlements and conquest of the vast kingdoms of Mexico and Peru, nearly a century before our fathers came to this country. Some feeble attempts were made to effect a settlement in several parts of this country-, but none succeeded till the year 1620; when the adventurers landed at Plymouth, and began a settlement there, which may fitlybe call- ed the beginning of New-England. No conside- rable additions were made to the planters until the distressing times in England led many worthy and serious persons to seek a quiet habitation in these desolate parts of the earth. To enjoy the privilege of worshiping God according to the dic- tates of their own consciences, was the cause of our ancestors leaving their native country, to plant themselves in this howling wilderness. A few years after the settlement of New-Eng- land began, the troubles in England were greatly increased, and arbitrary measures were driven on both in Church and State. Arch-Bishop Laud, and the ruling ecclesiastics ofthat day, then drove a multitude of conscientious puritans from their countiy. In the year 1629, about 350 persons seated themselves at Salem, and established a church there. Within a few years after settle- ments were begun and churches erected in Bos- ton, Charlestown, Roxbury, Cambridge and Vila- tertown; but, in that time, great numbers had emigrated to the fertile banks of Connecticut riv- er, and planted the now populous and flourishing towns of Hartford, Weathersfield, VVindsor and Springfield. And by the coming over of new in- habitants, the foundations were laid of the ancient colonies of New-Haven and Connecticut, since united into one state. Hards/zifzs of the firs: scttlers.—It is impossi- ble to describe the difficulties, straits, hardships, and perils which attended the settlement ofa new country——e§pecially at the distance ofa thousand leagues from a civilized people. It must, in the first place, have been a most affectionate parting, that they had with their native country, their rel- atives and friends, whom they were forsal-ting for- ever. The thought of venturing over an extend- ed ocean, then very much unknown, must have boen terrible to persons unacquainted with a sea- faring life, and especially to women of tender minds. The prospect of venturing on an un- known and barbarous shore, to the first adventu- rers, must have been distressing. But when all the trials and difficulties were passed through, it was in hunger and cold, in peril and fear, that they had began and prosecuted their settlements. It is impossible for us to ‘conceive what ‘many suf- fered by the fatigue ofa long voyage, by cold and famine, in a desolate country, where they were immediately exposed to the severities of a rigid climate, without any convenient habitation to cov- er them. The hardships they underwent brought many to their graves within a few months after their arrival. Ofthe first 350 who arrived at Sa- lem,U0t l‘3'*'5 than l00 died the following winter. or three months swept half of them into the grave. Truly, we cannot but admire the hand of God that supported and animated them under these trials. ./Iccount qfthc JV'ati-oes.—America, when first discovered, was found in every part ofit, inhabit- ed by a savage swarthy people. The learned have been much puzzled to determine the origin- al of the ,_..ives of this vast continent. Some have conjrctt.-red they were orignal Tartars, who found a northern path into America—and some that they are descendents of the ten tribes, carri- ed into captivity by Salmaneser, and planted in the northern kingdoms of Asia.—(See 2d Kings, 18, 11.) Others derive their origin from the an- cient Phenicians, who are famed for their early skill in navigation,~and who certainly sent forth colonies in early ages. Others, and perhaps with greater probability, suppose that they were at dif- ferent times aiid on various occasions, either acci- dentally or by design, transplanted from various parts of the other continent—-but when and how no man can tell. After all our inquiries their or- igin is quite problematical. However, this is cer- tain, they must have been here many ages—for we find them scattered throughout every part of North and South America: they inhabited not only the sea-coasts, but the vast inland country al- 50. The Spaniards found millions of Indians in the countries they conquered, and the vast king- doms of Peru and Mexico, seem to have had the marks of considerable antiquity. Our fathers, on their arrival in this country, found every part of it was, or had been peopled with tribes of Indians. who could give no account of their original.- Oiie thing is very remarkable in the dispensation of Providence--a few years before the arrival of the people at Plymouth, there is no doubt but God was pleased to send a dreadful sickness a- mong the natives, who were before very numer- ous, atid probably would have attempted to hin- der strangers from making settlements in their country. By this visitation, it is said, that great numbers were swept off, and some whole tribes became nearly extinct. The Massachusetts tribe, particularly, are said to have been reduced from thirty thousand to three hundred fighting men. Some say that nine tenths of the barbarians thro’ the country were swept off, and the land was, in a manner, depopulated. Cons/ziracy of the Savages.--It was not long af- ter their arrival that our fathers found the sava- ges, with strong professions of friendship, conspi- ring in one place and another, to cut them off.-— in the first year after their arrival, when a mortal sickness was daily lessening their numbers, when there was not com enough to feed them a fort- night, they were alarmed with the news of a gen- eral conspiracy of the Indians to extirpate them. Only two years after, (in 1632) a conspiracy of the eastern Indians to cut off our settlements was discovered/‘and by stratagem and prevented. The Of-the people who first arrived at Plymouth, two" — [VOL. IV.—NO. 1: same year the whole plantation was under fearful apprehensions of being driven off by the French, by order of General Riclilieu, which put them. on providing for their own defence. And it was nothing butthe want of utiion among themselves that restrained the savages from breaking up all our settlements, which were generally totally de- fenceless. A ~ . ' ,. Pequot! War.—The first open war with the sav- ages was what is called the Pequod war, in 1637. The tribe ofthat name was settled in Connecticut colony, and were very mischievous to the Eng- llsh, falling upon them in their fields and jour- neys, committing several murders among them. The several English plantations found it necessa- ry for their own defence, to carry on war with this tribe with their united force. This war was car- risons were destroyed and their houses burnt- 700 of that tribe were killed or taken prisoners, with very little loss on the side of the English :-—- in short, the whole nation was in a few months to- tally extirpatetl, and this destruction struck such a terror into the other tribes, that they came and begged for peace, and the land had rest for near forty years. During the seven years from the settlement of to that country, so that in a few years not less than 4000 planters had fixed themselves up and down in the country, and laid the foundations of many flourishing towns and villages in New-Eng- land. About 70 learned and pious divines accom- panied them. About 40 churches were gather- ed, and an university established-—the wilderness laws were enacted for the government of the in- fant state. But even in its infant state, New-England was not without its enemies at home, as well as in its own bosoms. Arch-Bishop Land, the grand en- emy of civil and religious liberty, while he was persecuting good men at home, kept a jerlous eye upon New-England—-he envied the puritans an asylum in these parts of the earth, and was plotting their ruin. As early as 1637, he procu- ied an order of court to prohibit the exportation of inhabitants to New-England, at which time such great men as Pym, Hampden, Sir Arthur Haslerig, and Oliver Cromwell, aftewards Lord Protector of England, were prevented from set- tling themselves in this land. God in his provi- dence reserved them for other services in their owti country. After the breaking out of the civil war, the cause of exile, was, in a manner, taken-a- way—the accession of its inhabitants greatly cea- sed, and some returned from this to their native country—'until the restoration of Charles II. when the persecution against protestant dissenters was renewed with greater vigor than ever. . , Consjziracy of the Indians.--In 1642, there was a general design among the Indians to cut offthe English inhabitants. They were to go,under pre- tence of trade, in small parties to the English hou- ses, and, while some secured the arms, others were to perpetrate the dreadful massacre. This horrid conspiracy was discovered by some of the Indians themselves. The discovery caused a dreadful consternation ; but by the extraordinary pains taken by the inhabitants to prevent any sur- bloody attempt. In 1653 a general alarm was spread through the colonies, by the information given by the In-_ dians, that the Dutch were privately soliciting the Indians to a general confederacy, in order totally to extirpate the English. But the discovery of the plot was probably the means of preventing its execution. For the space of near 40 years, from the Pe- quod war, though New-England was sometimes alarmed and put into great consternation, yet, in general, the country had rest, and there was, du- ring this time,a surprising increase of inhabitants, until the breaking out of P/zillz'[z’.9 War, which was called by that name, because it was begun and carried on by an Indian Prince of that name, a mortal enemy to the English. He resolved on nothing less than the total destruction of the Eng- lish. _For this purpose be invited all the barbar- ous tribes to join him, furnished them with arms, and suddenly began the most distressing war that New-England ever felt. This war endangered the very being of the colony, and it was a ques- prevail to a total extirpation of the English inhab- itants. Several years were spent by the natives in preparation for a vigorous war, and it was prob- ably owing to its being accidentally begun, before they were, in general, prepared, that they did not accomplish the great undertaking. In 1675, June 24th, the war was actually be- gun, by an attack on the town of Swanzey, and the murder ofseveral of the inhabitants. The troops ofthe colony engaged and were overpower- ed by numbers. Soon after which Mendon and Brookfield were atttacked, and divers places on Connecticut river. The whole Massachusetts colony was in the utmost consternation, many places being attacked almost at the same time in different parts—-houses burnt and people slain.— The distressed inhabitants frequently engaged the enemy, but were overpowered by numbers, and obliged to retreat with loss. A company of 80 young men, belonging to the county of Essex, at this time, were cut off, in an engagement with 7 or 800 lndiaiis, between Deerfield and Hatfield. The depredations of the enemy united the col- onies in an expedition against a strong fortress of the savages, in the then Naraganset county. It was attacked by a thousand men, taken, and de- stroyed after an obstinate resistance, in which 5 or 600 Indian houses were burnt, and in many of them the women and children perished... Some of the enemy confessed they lost 700 fighting men the lives of six brave captains. and 85 privates.-— The whole number of killed and wounded was a- tied on in the Pequod country, where their gar- ' ./Irc/i-Bis/Io/1 Laud, an enemy to Mia-England. ' Massachusetts Bay, there was a great flocking in- . began to be subdued, orchards were planted, and __ Prise: the savages were discouraged from their. tion with some, whether the Indians would not- that day,besides 800 more who died of the wounds LA they received, or the hardships they underwent: 1;; This battle proved bloody, and cost the colonies’ ,3 bout 170--and the whole army was in the utm0§t%‘;_'
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