Martinsburg gazette and public advertiser. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1826-1833, 1832-08-02
CHOLERA IN DETRoIT-INDIAN
WAR

S11OLT1INA IN ttEs hNt 1-lNDtAlN
WAR
Extract Of letter 10 the Editor of the Pills
deiphia Inquirer. dated
DErRoIr, July 10 ISSe.
Dear Sir-The Cholera continues 10 pre-
vail IN this city. Between thirty and forty
cases, in all, have occurred; and of these "a
bout eighteen have resulted in death Most
OF the others are convalescent; the remainder
doubtful. Facts and experience have fully
demonstrated here, that the disease is not
contagious, but epidemic, and that undue
excitement and fear exercise an active agen-
cy IN producing the mortality among ITS sub
Jects. The town is almost deserted by its
iaborng inhabitants; ana the coun,enances
| oil the remaining citizens, with some few ex.
ceptions, exhibit markes of unusual depres-
sion and melancholy. This Is greatly to be
| lamented. The effect is unhappy With
every determination 10 resist the mental con-
| taglon, occasionally find myself just ia tire
act of yielding TO it. My family have, SO
far, entirely escaped How long this cxemp-
| ton may continue, know not but do not
allow the idea Of dread to prevail among
| them, and believe that. up to this moment,
they have not known what apprehension on
/ the subject was
| regret TO aid, that Intelligence from the
regular troops rs disastrous. OF the three
companies OF artillery uader Col TwiGGs,
and two or three companies of infantry, with
them, teaU remain These troops, you win
re2olieet, landed from The steamboat Henry
Clay below Fort Gratiot great number
OF them have been swept eff by the disease.
YEARLY al TIE others haze deserted or the
descrers, scattered all ever the country.
some have died in the woods, and their DO.
die have been devonred by the wolves use
the language Of gallant young officer. O.
theirs have taken their flight 10 the world Of
spirits. without u companion to close their
eyes, or console tie last moments OF their ex-
istenee. Their struggling survivors are oc-
'caslonaliy seea marching, some know not
WHITTIER, with their knarsacks on their backs
stunned hy the terrified inhabitants as the
source Of a mortal lestiience Col 1'wieGs
himself, and Surgeon EvERETr, have both
betn attacked, aud are very low They
were still living at the latest accounts from
Fort ofatot, aud saognine hopes were EN-
teftalned otthelr recovery No other officers
have yet been assailed, except Lieutenant
CLAY, whose death was mentioned to you ia
my previous letter
You will remember tfat the troops under
Col Cummings, several Of whom died here,
embarked on hoard The steamboat William
Penn, on Sunday last, for Chicago. The sick
ness among them Increased as they proceed
Cd TO Fort Gratot, and became SO great
ty the time they arrived there. that they
were dsembarked, and they returned to the
vicinity of this city. and encamped at Spriag-
walls, about three miles below town. Sew
enteen or eighteen of them have died, and
some still remain sick, probably never to re-
cover One half Of the command OF Gen.
Scott, ordered 10 Chicago by tie Lakes, win
never reach him; large portion of them dy-
ing; stu larger number of them deserving
from an overwhelming dread Of the disease,
and the residue obliged to march back
IhlslS gloomy picture; but Ii is literally
true.
We have had intelligence from the scene
OF Indian war, yesterday and this morning
Gen. Dodge, near Galena, had encountered
a bandtth Of savages, consisting Of Twelve,
and killed every man OF them, scalpug elev-
eh. Captain Stevenson, near the same place,
had encountered another body of them, and
killed six or seven, losing three Of his own
men. The fight was close and desperate, the
instruments of The sanguinarary contest being
| chiefly hayonets, knives and tomahawks.
| The most unfavorabie part of the war intel
llgence is, that Black Hawk. with the main
Indian army, had rctreated TO the west OF the
AAssissippi, WneFe III Win Ue uTHcNlf 10 take
him. 1t is to be hoped that peace will never
lie made with him, or any OF bis hostile al
lies, until they are placed beyond the pos
sibiIty of committing another depreciation
or massacre. The frontier inhabitants
have become exceedingly exasperated; and
many of them, without knowing the real sit
utton Of Gen. Atkinson, have blamed bis
apparently slow movements. | have no
doubt that has under the circums tonces, acted
for the best.
| Yours truly, JOHN NORVELL.
ROBERT MoRRis, Esq. Editor OF the Inquirer.
DETnoIT, July II.
| On Monday evening a small vessel arriv-
ed from Fort Gratiot having on board fifteen
Of the officers who had been ordered to leave
camp in consequence Of the prevalence Of
the Cholera, aud report at West Point on
the first September From one Of them we
learn that Lieut.. Clay, who was attacked
with the Cholera, died on Monday morning
Almost all the recruits had deserted, and the
tiicefs had found il Impossible to prevent
them. The whole guard deserted, a few e.
yeDIngs since.
Accident. As coach, with passengers for
the steam boat Connecticut was passing down
Foster Wharf, the horses took fright at some
hides lying on the wharf.-starled suddenly,
and went overheard. carrying with them
coach. passengers and driver. The horses
| were drowned but the driver and passenpers