Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1832-08-09

country from Detroit and would probably ar
rive at Chicago 10 twelve days.
By letter which we published on Monday,
dated Galena, July 18th, we learn that Il was
Gen. ScOtt's intention to march with his
command across the country to Fort Arm
strong, on Rock Island; bat it will he per-
ceived by the foregoing particulars, that of
the $50 men with whom he LETT here. not to
exceed goo will be 10 situation 10 take the
Geld ;-abOut three hundree having been lost
by death and desertiOns, and more than that
number united by disease for active service
for months to come. Thus has terminated
this expedition, and Black Hank having in the
mean time dispersed his Indians and probably
crossed the Mississippi, there is but little rea-
son to believe that he will receive the punish
ment he merits.
Revolutionary Pensions. -Among the MANY
complaints and grumbIiOgs Of " the SOUTH
L(that is, the IS state-rights and free trade
south"l is this-thet very large portion of
the money appropriated for the relief of revO-
lutionary pensioners passes into the pockets
of persons in {" the east" This, to be sure.
is great grievance, and one that the .. cliv-
alric" and " generous" and !" magnanimous. !"
and PATRIOTIC and ,ohig loving "south. !"
ought to be relieved of! 1t might, perhaps.
be well for the {" south" to ask the question.
and ascertain the fact-what is the proportion
Of those who marched from the south" to
meet the enemy in the north, during the revo-
luton, compared with the numbers who
marched from the north, and redeemed " the
SOUTH" from the possession Of that enemy
Little Delaware, probably, lost more men in
the rescue Of South Carolina only, than 8.
Carolina lost during the whole war, 10 aiding
the struggles Of the people north of the Poto-
mac; aud in the taiktngs of these our DAYS,
at clustering crossroads meetings, and multi.
fcatiOn' feasts, it would not be amiss TO re.
member such things!
We have been led to these brief hints by
looking over an able speech Of Mr.. Foot, Of
Connecticut, in support Of the pension BILL
last. It contains instruction to the Sc nation" Of
South Carolina, which was not "nulliicated"
in the revolution, because Ofaid received from
other /" sovereign states" MIR. Foot refers
to the documents, and says, that New. lamp
shire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Con-
necticut furnished 1880 soldiers for the
regular army, and the other 8 states only
112,566-and that these troops being sent off
to protect other states, the four named had to
depend on their militia-and it was these,
chiefly, who fought at Lexington Bunker's
Hill, Quebec, Bennington, and Saratoga, SIC.
and expelling the enemy from their own ter
ritOry, or continually checking or repulsing
him along the ccast-their supplies forthere-
gular army were used in distant places, for
the common cause Of all the states and in
reply to Mr.. Hayne, (who appears to have
merited an application Of the fact,) Mr.. Foot
says that " near one half Of the population Of
South Carolina were tories ~ But South
Carolina now talks more Of deeds done in
the revolution" than all the rest of the states
some Of the loudest takers being English
men by birth-and as we seriously believe,
Englishmen 10 principle, still. The schigs at
+" the SOUTH" like the wings every where
else, did their duty nobly; hut the seemingly
ercIusive claims TO merit which are preferred
on their account, are, at once, disgusting and
ridicuIO~s.-Niles' Register.
Mwtiny in the Maine State Prisom.--A few
days since, from various circumstances. the
officers Of the State Prison in this place, were
led 10 suspect that some mutinOus scheme
was maturing among the prisoners, and were
shortly after confirmed in their suspicious by
information received from one Of the convicts
who was made a cOnlidant of the plan, but
who finding he could not dissuade them from
determination it seems they had formed to
murder one Of the Guard, 1.-THE son Of the
Warden) he resolved to inform against them.
About twenty had combined, and they wercl
headed by two desperate fellows, one of
whom was arrested sometime since 10 Ban !
gor, and the other, whose name is Jones, and
who received his sentence at the last term OF
the Supreme Court in this county, for store
breaking in this town. They were at work
stone in the shed built for that
purpose in the lower yard. and their plan was
when they had done work for the day to !
rush ont, armed with their sledges and ham
mers. and while some were making n way
through the yard fence, which is composed
Of plank not moro than l-2 inches thick,
the others were to gain the walk on the 9th
er side Of the fence, which might be done
from the top Of the shed, attack the g uard
house in that quarter, which contained arms,
murder the Guard, and defend themselves
until they could escape. On the evening
when 1t was understood the plan was to be-
put in execution, ]. Miller, Esq. the Warden,
with number Of others with imuskets and RI
hes. prepared for the occasion, concealed
themselves IN the Guard -house and awaited
the attack. When the Prison Horn sounded,
instead Of dropping their hammers as usual,
ana as they were commanded to do by one
OF the Ofhcers who had the hardhOod TO go
amongst them as usual, they formed them
selves into band and rushed towards the
barrier with the utmost fury, brandishing their
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