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

DEFEAT or BT.ACK HAWK.

T'o~ Shs be0ate Jsarnat extva, deg. 3.
DEFEAT OF BLACK HAWK.
By the schooner President, which arrived
here yesterday. letters have hesn received
from Fort Howard, which announce the Rrat-
flying intelligence Ofthe defeat oF Black FinVgk
aud his warriors. The details of the engage
meut are contained in the bSllOwing letter,
which has been politely furnished us. .a-~.p..
% Fort H0sEgnd, Julg IS, l6SR.
"DeaP Sir-LasE evening we resolved the
intelligence Of hattie having been SouEhtbe-
tween Gen. Dodge and bis division, and the
Sacs and Foxes, IN which the former ara VIC
tOriOUs. The particulars, ~ stated IN Capt.
PlymPton's letter to Capt. CLARK, are the6e:
Parquett, with few Winnebagoes. lelt the
Portage, few days since, to proceed % Gen.
DOdge's army, aud guide them to the Sac
camp. Ga Saturday morning last, 3lst inst.
Gen. Dodge sent his adjutant 20 report %
Gen. Atkinson Of his movements. He had
not proceeded Car before he came upon the
Sacs' and Foxes trail, directing their cOurse
! to the Wisconsin river. He Immediately re-
turned and reported the circumstance to Gen.
Dodge, who pursued aud overlook them
about shutdown Of the same day, Saturday.
on the left bank Of the Wisconsin ana. ah0ul
40 miles from Fort Winnebago, when chs
fight ensued-the Indians at the same time
retreating. The night being very dark, they
| found it impossible to pursue them. They
had found when ParqMett LEFT them, which
| was early the next morning, 10 Indians kill.
cd, and but one white man killed, aud G6Af
| wounded Parquett thinks that not less than
40 Indians fell 10 the engagement.
Gen. Dodge was TO start early that nsoru-
ing Sunday in pursuit, and had no doubt of
( overtaking them in the course Of the day
Their object 10 to cross the Wisconsin, at
what is called the Ford. and 20 down ON the
| right bank to the Mississippi. The force Of
"Gen. Black Hawk" was reported to amount
to about three hundred and .Parq,,ett 10 Of
the opinion thakit was nearly all Of Black
Hawks army. The force under Gen. Dodge
being about nine hundred men, with but six
days provisions, he has sent to Gen. Atkin-
SON to request that all the mounted men nm
der his command might Join him, which will
probably put an end to the war 10 short
| time. 'a' e esn, '.t' /:
The Sacs and Foxes are ia a starving con-
dition, many OF them being found dead on
their trail, and at their camp, perfectly ema-
ciated.
Gen. Atkinson is reported tob be some where
on Rock River, and engaged 10 building forg.
lTEMS--sELEcTED. 4
Congressional LegisiasiOn.-The National InaelIi-
SO"VVt ssSk GOusuunD teDS embracing
the title Of some three hundred Acts passed by Corr
gress during lie late proiraceed session. large pro-
portion o these ARE, usual altogether oG individual
or local interest.
+ A notice, calling meeting ofthe citizens Of rank =
lin county, Penn. appears the last Chambersburg
Republican. 1t is signed by AZ persons. ali Of whom
have been supporters Of Gen. Jackson Disappointed
"n his character and policy, and dreading the coz
sequences Of his reelection these gentlemen ear
nes.ly call upon such citizens Of the county as were
formerly the political friends Of the President" to
meet at the Court House n Chambersburg ON the
inst. for the purpose Of expressing their ssatiric
ton with the measures Of the government and devils
ing means r averiing their disastrous
Anrder.--It was reported here, that on Friday Of
last week, pedlar was murdered near the CayugO
Bridge, by three men, two Of which were brothers.
We understand the pedlar had between 2and 300 dol
lars-and being intoxicated, free in showing il to
all. This was in the afternoon, and these three men
invited him to 60 home with them and say that night.
which he accepted, and their way to their resi-
dcnce they murdered him. They then laid his body
on board, TO carry it into large swamp near by.-
There happened 10 be little GIRL between l2 aud ~
years Of age picking raspberries who saw them and
the body as they carried Il along but unpercev
ed by them, in al probability would have shared
the same fate--one Of them she knew. When she re.
turned home she informed her parents ofwhat she had
seen, and 10 the morning her father procured an off,
and had two Of them arrested imedately and the
other they had NOT found, when the asws was secsiv
ed here.-Opid Eramiaer. '.aGf - 4
ErscSeiOa.-Eliza Freeman was executed On Fri
day hast, near Mount Holly, N. J. for the msrd.r
OF her husband.
Steam Boat dessroyed-We learn fromihe ~ OrleaDs
Advertiser that the steamboat Phoenix, IA iles above
Lafourche on her way up, took FIRE and after being
| run on shore, while exertons were making 70 eaye
her. some gun-powder exploded below, which seross-
y injured sailor and deck passenger, and slightly
hurt the engineer. s+aa, 3NF@.71
Washington Irving, Esq. ID said TO be On tour to
the White Mountains Of New. Hampshire. 7sSha 'sa
Fatal BarbGyiiy-Two black boys, Supposed to
have come from Philadelphia, drvep ines Co.'s
Mill pond. Bloomsbury y. .. ~ some white
hoys horseback, NE 2lsi ult. The poor blacks
in their fright cseapeihe threats of their psssSss
plunged into deep water, and being enable 90 swim.
were both drowned.
Msrder.--A colored man by the hams Of James
Levick, was murdsred near Groveville. BnrlingsoA
county, on the 22d. The person suspeelet oC haSnR