The Litchfield County Post

Indian Remains.—In the course of last week, some workmen employed in repairing the road from Beverly to Manchester, discovered several skeletons, which are supposed to have belonged to the aborigines of our country.
The bodies, (eight in number) lay about two feet below the surface, with their heads towards the rising sun. The soil above them had no appearance of having been disturbed; a black line of mould being perfectly distinct. Under one of them was found a square bar of wrought iron one third of an inch in diameter and one foot and a half long. At the feet of another was a pot of earthen ware scolloped round the rim, and ornamented round the border with rude line work: the body of the pot was plain : the fracture is black, & exhibits spangles of mica. The vessel contained a quantity of muscles, destined no doubt by these simple theologians for the food of the rising spirit. It was a custom with the natives to bury with their friends, corn, shell-fish, their pipes and other things, which were dearest to them in life. At this day in the western country, the horse and dog repose in the same grave with their master, that the warrior may be ready to ride over the river Styx on the ghost of his horse, with the ghost of his " faithful dog" trotting at his heels.
Salem (Mass) Gaz.