Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1832-07-24
ono, from The Philadelphia Inquirer.
~HobEKA IN DETROIT--INDIAN WAR.
Extract To the Editor dated

=. DETROIT, July l2, 1899.
lear Sir-Ihe Cholera continues to prevail in
nave occurred; and of these about eighteen have
resulted In death. Most of the others are con.
vaiescent; the remainder doubtful. Facts and cx
perience have fully demoustr ated here that the
u'ssaSe Is not contagious, but Epidemic and that
UNDUE excitement aud fear exercise an active agcn
Gy In producing the mortality among it's subjects.
nc town IN almost deserted by its labouring inhab
ah'*' ana the countcnances of the remaining cit.
1ens' WIN some few exceptions, exhibit marks of
unusual depression and melancholy. This is great
~ to be lamonted. The effect is unhappy. With
every determination to resist the mental cont agion
l occasionally find myself just in the act of Weld
lng'o II. MY family have. SO far, entirely escap-
ed. How long this exemption NAV continue 7
know no' but do not allow the idea of drend to
prevail among them, and believe that, up TO this
moment, they have not known what apprehension
on the subject was.
regret to add, that the intelligence from m. 70
guiar troops is disastrous. OF the three comn,p;c
OF artillery under Colonel Twiggs and two ar tbre.
more companies of infantry with them. few remain
Ihese troops, you will recollect, landed from tho
steamboat Henry Clay below Fort Grat;ot. A crsn,
number OF them have been swept off bv the d;s,,,c
Nearly all the others have deserted. Of the desert.
ers scattered all over the country some have died
IN the woods and their bodies been devoured by the
wolves use the language of a gallant voung "a;
Ger. others have taken their fight tn the weld NJ
spirns without companion to close their owes or
console the last moments oftheir existence Their
straggng survivors are occasionally seen marchinp
some of them know not whittier with tbe;, LIS
sacks on their backs, Stunned bv the torr;fad r.
naoitants as the source of mortal pestience
Col Twiggs himself and Surgeon Everett have
ooih been attacked, and are very low. They were
still living at the latest accounts from w.,
Gratiot, and sahguine hopes were entertained Of
'neir recovery. No other officers have vet been
assaiied, except Lieutenant Clay, whose death was
mentioned to you in my previous letter.
, You will remember that the troops under Colonel
a1ofx ,,I,n III
on board the steamboat William Penn ON Sund,v
last, for Chicago. The sickness among them in
creased as they proceeded to Fort Gratiot, and be-
came so great by the time they arrived there that
they werc disembarked, and have returned To The
vicinity OF this city, and encamped at Sprnpwalis
about three miles below town. Seventeen or eight'
cen of them have died, and some still remain sScL
prooaoiy never to recover. One half of the com.
mana OF General Scott, ordered to Chicago bv the
Lakes, will never reach hm n large portion Of Them
dylng a still larger number deserving from an over
whelming dread of the disease and the residue
obliged to march back again.
This is gloomy picture: But il is literally true
We have had intelligence from the scene Of In
dian war, yesterday and this morning General
Dodge, near Gaena, had encountered banditti Of
saVages consisting of twelve, and killed every man
oil them, scaiPing eleven Captain Stephenson
near the same place. had encountered another bo.
dy OIL them, and killed six seven losing three of
his own men.-The fight was close and desperate
tne Instruments of the sanguinary contest being
chieny bayonets, knives and tomahawks The
most unfavorable part of the war intelligence is.
that Black Hawk, with the main Indian army. had
reareated to the west of the Mississippi, where it
VIII be difficult to take him. 1t is to be hoped that
peace will never be made with him, or any of his
hostile allies, until they arepaced beyond the pos
sibility of committing another depreciation or mas.
sacre. The frontier inhabitants have become ex-
ceed'ngly exasPerated, and many of them with
out knowing the real situation of General A.
kinson, have blamed his apparently slow move.
men's. l'have no doubt that he has under the
circumstances, acted for the best.
Yours truly, JOHN NORyELL.
ROBERT NORRIS Esq, Editor eff tho INQUIRER.