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Goods, Groceries and
Chroclcery.
Eli B. Bennett,
Has just returned from Ncw- York with a free}:
an//fily qf Goods, which he will sell as c/waft as
can be /zurchascd any where rise. Among his
new su/zjzly are the following articles :
XTRA superfine blue and black Cloths
Common and blue do.
Superfine blue and black Cassimeres
Sattinets, Olive cortl,
Silk, l"lot'entine and Mersailles Vestings
Red, white, yellow and crimson Flannel
Irish Linen steam Shirting \Valtham do.
Black, blue and crimson Bombazctts
Furniture Calico, Sarcenet Cambric
Fine antl common book Muslins India do.
Flagg and black silk hhtlkfs.
Domestic sheeting 8: shirting
Bedtickings, Galleon binding
Men's first qtiality beaver gloves
Ladies’ kit‘. and silk do Green Florence
Dimity Domestic antl imported Ginghams
Cassimere Shawls Figured Ratinet
Black antl crimson tabby Velvet
Apron Check, VVhite and black worsted Hose
Dressed antl undressed Calicoes Floss cotton
First and second quality coat and vest buttons
Cotton balls Pins
Large and small corton Shawls
GROCERIES,
Rum, Brandy, \Vine, Gin, Old Hvson, Young
Hyson, Hysonskin and Souchong Teas Brown
and lump Sugar, Molasses, Plttg and paper To-
bacco, Copperas, Cotton \/Vool, Codfish
‘Soap, Candles, Spices, Indigo and Starch.
Powder and shot, Fine Salt, SIC. 3:0.
CROCKERY--A general assortment.
Norwalk, Feb. l9.
Grocery, Fruit, Croclcery,
and Glass Ware Store.
——CHE./1P FOR C.‘1SH_
AMAICA, St.Croix, and New-England Rum,
by the barrel, keg, or less quantity. Cogni-
ac Brandy, Holland and ~"'common Gin, by the
barrel or smaller quantity p A good assortment
of VVioes and Cordials Old l-lyst-n, Young l-Iy-
s‘on,'Hy'son-skin and Souchong Te"-:.'s Loaf, lump
and brown Sugars Coffee, Pepper, Pimento,
Ginger, Pearlash, Molasses. Mounc§y’s fine Ale,
by the barrel or less quantity London and Phila-
delphia Porter, Stoughton’s Bitters by the bottle,
Segars, Tobacco, Snuff of all kinds, Muscatel and
keg Raisins, Butter and Cheese. Pork, Beef and
Pork I-Iams, Codfish, Mackerel and Shad, Soap
.and Candles, winter-strained Lamp Oil, 12.9. suin-
mer do. 6s. Shot No. 4, l0, 6, B. BB. Powder,
Rye, Oats and Corn, Flour ofall ltintls, Logwootl
Nicquaragua wood, Copperas, Liquid Blanking,
G[‘lt)(lSl.0l‘.("3i ofdifferent sizes,Alban_v green Peas,
VVin(low Glass, 7 by 9 and 8 10, and many other
articles, to make out an assort-ment.
A general assortment of C1€0C1i'/JR I’, CL./I-5'3
IV./IRE, and’F}i‘ UIT.
Being determined to sell low, persons in want
of any of the above articles, will be well psi for
calling at the above store.
E. H. S1‘.-’t’EET.
Norwalk, April 23.
B. C. Isaacs
- AVE just received a fresh supply of those
justly esteemed and highly approved Motl-
ctines, prepared by \V. T. Conway, Chemist, No.
Bumstead Place, Boston, to wit :
Dr. Ptelf-s’s Botanical Drops.
Dr, Rolfe’; Asthmatic Pills.
Dr. Relfc’s Aromatic Female Pills for Obstruc-
tions, 8:c. 4
Dr. l{elfe’s Antibillious Pills for Indigestion
Billious affections, Ste.
Dr. Relfe’s Vegetable Specific (for sick head
ache.)
Dr. Relfe’s Vegetable Rheumatic Pills.
Dr. .lebb’s Rheumatic Liniment ; Rheuma-
tism of 20 years standing, has been curedby this
in 24 hours. I A , -
British Antiseptic Dentrifice, mostexcellent
for the teeth and gums. "
Dumfries’ Ointment, a certain antl safe cure
for the Itch, in one /zour’s a/1/zlictttion, be it ever so
invetemtc. it? .No dangcrfrom 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’sl celebrated Pills ; Dr. I-Iunter’s
Injection Powders, and Doctor 1"lunter’s Cerate
for the prevention and cure of vcncrial complaints
with perfect secrecy. A treatise, explaining
symptoms, and method of cure accompany each
packet. _
Pamphlets of many extt'aot'tliiiai‘y cures, may
be h.td"of the agents, gratis.
»,:,s. _;t./-,,,,,. of the above are genztine, unless
,,~g,,.,[t \V_ '1‘. (lozvt-.'iv.’ A large discount; to
c~om~.vrv Plivsiciansa T‘"d‘l9l'3» 545- '1 he 3b.°Ve
.'-‘xi.-«I: ties ,{,;t_y ]]l.;c\\'lSC be had of most Booksel-
lt:|'\. ti;-ttggists and Post Masters throughout the
- .1 sme.-t. ____” Norwalk, Nov.-23.
Notice.
PIE subscriber having taken into partnership
/'1b.'_’;a/z Belts, the business will hereafter be
conducted underthe firm of A. R. BET’1‘S.8C Co.
All persons having unsettled accounts with _the
subscriber, are requested to attentl to them im-
mediately. A- R» BET“-
Witton, April to, 1821. 6*‘ 6w
Uni
Grocery Store.
7 He subscriber having returned from New:
York, with a fresh supply of GROCERIES
now offers them for sale at his old stand just west
of the Bridge, cheap for Cash. The following
articles comprise a pai't of his assortment:
Jamaica, New-Euglandand St. Croix Rum
Cogniac Brandy Holland and common Gin
Madeira, Port, Sherry and Curiant VVines
(‘.ortlials, Ale and Cider Brandy, London Porter
Honey and Molasses Teas of all kinds '
Sugars of all kinds Tobacco Raisins
Butter and Cheese Hams and Pork
Codfish, IVIackci't:l and Shad __L
Soap and Candles Lamp Oil
Dye \Vootls antl Copperas
A general assortment of Fruit
Clover and Timothy Seed Beans and Onions
\Vrought and cut Nails Powder and Shot
Flour of all kinds Rye and Corn
\Vhitewash and scrubbing Brushes
Liquid Blacking, and a great many articles not
enumerated.
All the above articles are of the first quality
If any disbelieve it, let them call antl judge for
themselves. The least favor gratefully acknowl-
etlged. DANIEL S. BARTRAM.
Norwalk, March 13.
d@ fifi
Accoinmodation Packets.
To soil from Ebcnecoer D. Hog/t’s Landivzg, at
.N'orwall:, for Peck Slip, J\"e‘zt:-York.
LOOP UNION, Brown, will commence sail-
ing from the above landingon Saturday the
' 3 lst of March, and return on Thursday. Sloop
CITIZEN, Pemzoycr, will sail on Tuesday and
return on Saturday. Sloop MECHANIC, Das-
kam, uill sail on Thursday and return the Tues-
day following ; each vessel performing her week-
ly trip through the season.
,3 For ft'eight or passage apply to the subscribers
or to either the Captains on board of theirre-
spective vessels. E. D. HOYT USON.
Norwalk, March 27. '
MILLINARY.
]-‘/ ‘BS. SELLECK having just returned from
NewYot-k, offers to her frientls and custom
ers, on reasonable terms, at the stand formerly
occupied by Henry Selle-ck, as a Shoe Store, a
few rods east of the Britlge, an assortment of
fashiohable liATSantl CAPS. She has a large
supply of elegant and supelior RIBBONS, Strait:
and Sill: 'l‘l{lMMl.\‘GS, suitable for Leghorn‘
Straw and Silk HATS. Likewise, Bardboxes, ar-
tificial Flowers, Ste. Scc.
She will be thankful for the favors of the pub-
lic, and will spare no pains to give satisfaction.
Norwalk, April 10.
Volatile Prointttic IIcatl—./Zclze Smgf‘. .3
Prepared by John P. 1'14’/zit-wull,Clit:mist anti Drug-
gist——-Boston. (Composed principallyof Roots
and Aromaticl-lerbs)—-Patented and warranted.
EVV or none of the Sp.u-ffs in o1'tlinary use,
unite those advantages as an elegant st-;ruu-
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
deatlen them : and in process of time, by stop-
ping the passagcs, li-as an evident effect upon the
speech. T/its Volatile ./Iromazic Snuff will, by ex-
perience, be found not liable to these objections-—
its flavor is fragrant and delightful—the effect
pleasing zintl salutary-it opens and purges the
liead——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
leng,dull, nervous head-aches, and will be found
far superior for this purpose to the Cephalic snuff
In cases of catarib 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-
tutle which invariably accompanies a long sitting
or mtich reading. This snuff is well stopt in a
hantlsonie square bottle made expressly for the
purpose, and which will be found to unite all the
advantages of a snuff Box.
Extract of a (,'crt{/‘icatcg/'ronLDoct. Benjamz'72
PVuter/louse, 1*‘cllo~wq/‘the Medical Society in Lon-
don-—and oft/zc ./Vational llfedical Sc/zool Qfflrancc
._.am! late Professor of the Theory and Practice
Q/'1’/zysic in the Uzzivcrsity of Ctzmbridge.
Boston, Milk-Street, ll/Itn'c/z 30, I813.
‘ The articles are certainly innocent in their
qualities. Those liable to nervous and other
head-aches well know that fits ofthese distressing
affections most commonly subside on a spontan-
eous sneezing towards night, and if this relief can
be expedited by a sternutatory, Ishould give the
prefierance to your snuff‘ over that of powdered to-
bacco or even the imported Cc/zhalic Szmfi”, the
ingredients of which are unknown to us. \Vith
this view lhave used your composition myself
and recommended it to others.’
I am yours, Ste. B. VVATERHOUSE.
" To J. P. IV/zilizuel/, C/icnzist and Druggist.
For sale by B. 8: C. ISAACS.
*,,* At the same place may be had Dr.Dean’s
It’/zeumatic Pills, so famous for this complaint in
the N. E. States. This excellent medicine is ac-
companied by numerous certificat-es from Judges,
ti-lergymen and respectable Physicians. Price
50 cents a box.
{‘
A BRIEF ACCOUNT‘
Of the Progrcssq/‘ Christianity and Civilization a- c
rable condition. In I816, the Assistant Secreta- r
ant and anxious inspection of the Governor, had
His Excellency ; and a Church had been erected, 1
Christian Ordinances among them.
to rouse the Negroes to diligence; and that an
as one body.
sense of duty and of gratitude which Christianity
inspires ; antl that uniting principle, in the heal-
ing spirit of the Gospel.
-At the desire of the Governor, Mr. Johnson,
Secretary, at his Excellency’s disposal ; and was
in consequence, appointed to the care of Regent's
Town,‘ and immediately entered on his charge,
in the month of June 1816.
On looking narrowly into the actual condition
ofthe people entrusted to his care, Mr. Johnson
felt great discouragement.——-Natives of twenty-
two different nations were here collected together,
vantl a considerable number of them had been but
recently liberated from the holds ofSlave Vessels;
they were greatly prejudiced against one another,
and in a state ofcontinual hostility, with no com-
mon medium of intercourse but a little broken
English. VVheu clothing was given to them
they would sell it or throw it away : it was diffi-
cult to induce the--n even to put it on ; and it was
not found practicable to introduce it among them,
till letl to it by the example of Mr. Johnson’s ser-
vantjgirl. None ofthem, on their first arrival,
seemed to livQ in the state of marriage; some
were soon afterward married by the late Mr. Btits-
cher. In some huts, ten ofthem were crowded
together; antl in others, even fifteen and twenty;
many of them were ghastly as skeletons ; six or
eight sometimes died in one day; and only six
ilifaiits were born during the year. Superstition,
in various forms, tyrannized over their minds :-—
mauy Devil’s Houses sprung up; and all placed
'tht.~ii' security in wearing gree-greets.-Scai'cely
any desire of improvement was discernible : for
. a considerable time, there were hardly five or six
acres oflantl brought. under cultivation ; and some
who wished to cultivate the soil, were deterred
from doing so by the fear of being plundered of
the produce. Some would live in the woods, a-
part from society ; and others subsisted by thiev-
ing and plunder; they would steal fowls, ducks,
and pigs, from any who possessed them : in the
first neck of his residence among them, Mr.
Johnson lost thirty fowls: they would eat them
law ; and not a few of them, particularly those of
the Ebo I\‘ation, the most savage ofthem all,would
prefer any kind of refuse-meat to the rations
which they received from Government.
Of this Nation of the Ebos it may be right to
give some particulars. About forty ofthem hav-
ing been drawn, on their liberation from the
Slave Ships, to serve in the African Corps, they
wet e placed under a course ofmilitary instruction
at Brance Island; but were discharged as intrac-
table, and were sent to Regent's Town. Here
they soon gave proof of almost incredible barbar-
ity.-—A Negro ofanother tribe had a sow, which
three or four days before had brought him a litter
ofnine pigs ; some of these people stole his young
pigs, and threw them all while alive, into a large
pot of boiling water: there the man found them,
when, on returning home and ascertaining his
loss, he had obtained Mr. Johnson’s authority to
search for them among his suspected neighbors.
—-From another were stolen his dog and his iron
pot, and he found both among the same depreda-
tors, ‘ who were preparing for a repast on the poor
animal, by boiling him in the pot which they had
stolen. A sick dog had been killed, and buried :
it was afterward discovered that some of these
people had dug up and made soup of the carcass.
These are repulsive details; but they set forth
the greatness ofthe change which has been wro’t
in these men. Placed under the care of one of
the Natives—himself but recently liberated from
the hold of a Slave Ship, and as yet but little in-
lluencetl by Christian Principle-he exercised o-
ver them what appeared to him to be unavoidable
severity : but when his own heart became pow-
erfully affected by the Gospel, he would retire to
the woods and pray for them—-tliey formed a
incalculable good to them. The \Vord of God
of God. They are active and serviceable men.
Power, which wrought, by the same Divine t
Truth, that mighty change in our own barbarous t
The change in the Ebo people has been men- tionate servant of the Lord-
tionetl as illustrating, in a remarkable manner, where this Word of Salvation, has been, for want
the efiicacy of Christian Instruction, under the 0f mlniSl€I‘5; but Ullflfqucntly or irregularly dis-
Divinc Blessing, in civilizing and elevating the pensed, the natives are far behind in civilization
most abject of mankind, No human wisdom or and in all the benefits of social and domestic life.
eloquence, no secular hopes or fears, no coercion Mr. Johnson's course of labor was-to_preach
or inducements of man, ever produced such a Christ as the Saviour of sinnet-s,—at morning and
change ! It has been the act of that same Divine evening daily worship, to set forth to the people
ed blood of‘ human victims, exposed to shame the
ruelties of their pagan idolatry, brought rude
mung the JV'cg'rae8 at Regmt’s To-wn, (Sierra men to feel the blessings of social life and of all t
Lc‘onc’,) extracted from the Re/zort ofthe Com- the meek and heavenly tempers of the Christain,
mittcc of the Church 11/Izssiortary Society of Low and gave birth to those laws and institutions,which
don, ’ re-acting with a benign influence on the minds
VVhen brought together at this place in the and manners of this_whole people, have rendered
year 1813, the Negroes were, as on the first set- us, with all our crimes, a real blessing to the
tling of them in other Towns, in the most deplo- world! And now in these latter days, we have a
enewal of the moral miracles of the plriinitive,
ry, then on a visit to the Mission, found about age: and have the honor put on us, by sending-
l I00 liberated Negroes assembled at this spot. the Gospel to the most degraded of mankind, of
They consisted of persons from almost all tribes quickening and rendering efficacious, in an local-
on that part of the continent. The efforts ofthose culable degree, the efforts of our country to re-
who had been placed over them, under the vigil- munerate Africa for her wrongs.
. o
But the improvement in the whole body of the
mt-liorated the condition of such as had been Liberated Negroes assembled at Regent's Town
there for any length of time.-Every measure in is truly surprising. . The gteater number were
his power had been t'esortt:tl to for this t:nd, by not, indeed, sunk into a state of degradation so
ow as that of the Ebos ; but the description al-
in preparation for the regular administration of ready given of them will sufficiently show, that,
His Excel- on all human calculation, but little success could
lency felt that a powerful stimulus was wanted, be expected ; and that little, butby slow degrees.
With what melancholy feelings Mr. Johnson
energetic principle was required, which might surveyed the desolation around him, the Mem.
harmonize their jarring feelings, and unite them bers heard from his own lips when he took leave
That stimulus was found in the of the Society, at the Special.Meeting, held in .
this place, in the month of November.
But what was the condition of these people
when Mr. Johnson left them, for a season, after
the labor of three years: A full return had been
then just arrived, was placed, by the Assistant «made for the benevolent measures ofthe Govern.
or and for the unwearied labors of their pastor.
The eye which beheld the people and their town
but a few years before would now witness a scene
that would bespeak the energy of some mighty
principle.
The Town itself is laid out with regularity-—
nineteen streets are formed, and are made plain
and level, with good roads round the town-.-a
large stone Church rises in the midst of the hab-
itations-—a Government House, ‘a Parsonage
House, a Hospital, School Houses, Store Houses,
a Bridge of several arches, some Native Dwel-
lings, and other buildings, all of stone, are either
finished or on the point of being so. But the
state of cultivation further manifests the industry
of the people-—all are Farmers—gardens, fenced
in, are attached to every dwelling-—all the land
in‘the immediate neighborhood is under cultiva-
tion, and pieces of land even to the distance of
three miles--there are many rice fields ;‘ and a-
mong the other vegetables raised for food, are the
cassadas, plantains, coco, yams, coffee and Indian
corn—of Fruits they have bananas, oranges,
limes, pine apples, ground nuts, guavas and pa-
paws—of Animals, there are horses, cows, bul-
locks, sheep, goats, pigs, ducks and fowls; a-
ral. . It has been already said that all are farmers ;
but many of them, beside the cultivation‘-.£ the
ground, have learned and exercise various trades
—fifty of them are masons and bricklayers—-forty
carpenters—thirty sawyers—thirty shingle mak-
ers—-twenty tailors-—four blacksmiths—-and two
butchers. In these various ways upward of 600
maintain-themselves ; and have been enabled, in
this short space oftime, by the fruits of their own
productive industry, to relieve from all expense,
on their personal account, that government to
which they pay the most grateful allegiance.
The appearance and manners of the people have
improved in an equal degree.—They are all now
decently clothed ; almost all the females have
learned to make their own clothing--about 400
couple are married.
These were great encouragementsto Mr. John-
son in his labors ; but he was not satisfied with a
reformation ofthe manners ofhis people : he pray-
ed for indications of a change of heart, and the in-
flluence of a living principle. Nor did he wait
long ; one and another began to visit him, burden-
ed by a sense of their sins, to ask what they were
to do to be saved—disclosing to him the gracious
influences ofthe Holy Spirit on their hearts, in the
most simple and touching manner. He saw per-
sons, in every direction, before they came to at-
tend morning and evening daily worship,kneeling
in private prayer behind bushes and houses. All
without exception wish for baptism ; but Mr.
Johnson admits none to that ordinance till he is
satisfied of their intelligence and integrity. All
have abandoned polygamy, gree-grees and devil
worship. The baptized are in the habit ofregu-
larly partaking of the Lord's Supper, unless pre-
vented by illness; and when Mr. Johnson left,
in April of last year, the number of Communi-
cants amounted to 263. The converts are earn-
est for the salvation of their country people, and
are continually going to them to persuade them .
to embrace the Gospel ; and they are equally
anxious for their mutual edification; Mr. Johnson
seldom visited a sick Communicant without find-
ing some of our Christian Brethren or Sisters
there, employed in offices of devotion or charity.
So triking and remarkable, indeed, has been the
influence ofthe Divine VVord, that Mr. Johnson
has Xvithheld from the Society many of the indi-
strong attachment to him—he prevailed on them Cations Of grace 3111003 his 'N€g|‘0¢-5: 135‘ they
to attend cbui-ch—antl was made an instrument of Should appear Incredible-
And it has been the plain and simple preaching
was blessed to many ofthem. They are all now of the mercy of God, as displayed in Christ Je-
civilized and married : they are steady, sober, and sus which has been rendered the instrument of
industrious ; and several of them it-gularly com- quickening and giving efficacy to the benevolent
municatc at the Lord's '1'-able: all are become measures of Governments and 0f producing [hi5 ,
clean and decent, and attend the Public ‘.-Vorship mighty change—brought home» indefida 38 this
preaching was, by the patient labors of an affec-
ln negro towns,
be simple truths of the gospel—tti follow up
hese instructions and prayers, by visiting from
ahcesfiorsa in the older times of our country—-of house to house to reprove sin wherever.he wit-
that divine power, which softened their ferocious nessed it—to open to the people the miserable,
minds, stripped the skins of beasts and cleansed estate of a sinner, and the way of escape and dc- ‘_
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the savage daubings from their persons, stauiich- liverance by the grace of the #505961;
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daily market is held for the sale of the articles; ,
and on Saturdays, this market is large and gen‘e- '
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