Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1838-06-27

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LET Upper Canada haze again made raj
ty on their oscn soit-haying formed a |
camp in !" Long Swamp" ian extensive
marsh lying between Grand Island and (
Chippewa Creek where they are now
terrifying themselves. The nucleus of
this force was formed by refugees who
crossed over from the United States in par
ties of twenty or thirty at time, so as to
eVade British vigilance, bat volunteers are
said to be hocking in to them from all
quarters. The number entrenched hen
they were discovered, is supposed to be
from 900 to 400. The alarm was instant.
! ~ given, and an express sent off to To-
ronto for regular force to extirpate them.
Albany Journal.
/ We lear reports from the West of fresh
robberies of the arsenals at Detroit to a
considerable extent-some hundreds of
stands of small arms and six pieces of
cannon.
A letter has been received by the Nj
agara Dock company, from a merchant
at Baffho, containing request that two
! certain cases of goods may be removed
from their store-houses to a place Of safe
tv, if such place is 10 be found in Maya
ra, as there was settled determination in
Buffalo to destroy that establishment bv
ire.-TorOntO Patriot.
ANOTHER SEIZURE.--Capt. Romans,
in command at LewistoWn, has made an
other valuable seizure OF Patriot arms
! Ninety stand, with b1yonets, were found
secreted at Dckinson's tavern, six miles
from Lewistown. on the Lockport road
They were principally English Tower
muskets and u S. manufacture.
This indeftigabe officer is preventing
much mischief-BufaLo Conn., Adr.
On Wednesday Night last, there was a
gathering OF tn refugees, three miles be-
low this place, with the supposed intention
of crossing into Canada. So secret had
they been ia their preparations that no.
body was suspected until the report came
that they had collected They had pro-
vided a schooner, two scows and arms
! and ammunition, but from some cause not
understood only twentv-three could be OBJ
,ained, and report that the marshal was
+ coming dispersed them.
A number Of muskpts and a quantity
of ammunition have been seized by the
authorities, and one person has been ar
I rested who will take his trial at the Su-
: Epreme Court now 10 session at Albany.
The Rochester Advertiser is mistaken
! when it says that there were 400 men as
2 serbed below Lewistown. There were
e probably about a hundred refugees and as
= MANY Americans from different parts of
= the country, who We're foolish enough TO
: come as spectators. --LewistOaon Tel.
E e. LATEsT.-The latest adyices from the
, frontier are Of more pacific complexion
/. than of late we have been accustomed TO
I receive. Il appetrs that an arrangement
! has been entered into between Governor
D Marcy and the Canadian authorities, hav-
: ing for its object mutual cooperation to
t prevent disorders, and guard gains' breach,
0 es o! neutrality.
= DIsTR EssING OcCURRENCE.--On Sun
day last, a child Of Mr.. Abraham Bickford
= of this city, aged 20 months, was discov-
u cred, betweenthe hours Of nine and ten in
Il the morning, to be playing with quanti-
{ ty OF percussion caps But little was tho't
> Of the occurrence, until, at the expiration
of abot two hours, the child was seized with
= vomiting, and threw up one cap.-An E.
metic being administered, three more were
!. discharged from the stomach No relief
D however was afforded, and the little suffer.
7. er continued 10 be distressed with nausea
> and vomiting, the extremitles gradually
e became cold, and at seven o'clock in the
" evening death terminated the scene. On
the next morning an examination of the
is bolv was made, and in the stomach were
% found twenty-one percussion caps, and
r twelve in the small intestines. These, to-
lie gether with the four thrown off before
Ir death, made thirty.seVen swallowed by the
+. child.-Lo1oeH Courier.
m TIE CAPTURE OF FIVE SLAVE YES
$, sELs-The Bermuda Gazette of the 29tt
re of May contains a Eotice Of the arrival a
to Hamilton of her Majesty's ship Pearl
u commanded by Lord Page:, having il
IN charge two siave-vesSels captured by tn
ut Pearl, toward the closeof Aprl-one wa
IS the brig DiIigent, captured after chase o
lc sixteen hours. She had on board four hun
" tired and eighty stares, besides a crew Q
e. forty-fve men-for:y of the poor slave
" had died on the passage. The other wa
OF the Opposition, and was captured the sam
'e; day She had, however, previously land
nd ed her slaves on the south side of Cuba.
n Another SLAYER. the brig Camens, wit
n flee hundred and eighty sLGres, had bee
oil captured by the British armed schoone
&C. Sappho.
Theschooner Benjamin Gather. Conc
to YER, arrived last evening from Chagres, r.
by ports that on the 231 Of May, when o
yly Ponce, p. r. fell in with and was boarde
Der by Fl. b. NJ. brig Snake, which reporte
ith that she had captured two slave vessel
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