Harpers Ferry Free Press

An Aboriginal.—As a number of workmen were employed lately in excavating the ground in the south part of Portsmouth, they removed from his "narrow house of clay" one of the aboriginal sons of Rhode Island. He was in a sitting posture, facing the west, in which manner the Naragansetts are said to have buried their dead; near the remains of this son of the forest, was found his stone pipe, together with other utensils used by the aboriginals, as implements of pleasure and comfort. Relying upon historical facts and tradition, we are left to infer, that for more than two hundred years, this son of the once proud and haughty Narragansetts has quietly reposed beneath the soil over which his tribe once swayed its powerful arm and sceptre.