Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1838-01-25
by last Evenings Mail.
CANADA.
From the ". Y. Star of Jan. % !

IS fully confirmed At the time i, took place the Anne
Tcan militia force concentrated the crossing place
from Grand Island 10 tile main shore which point the
u S. Marshal under the direction Of the District At.
torney, arrested the patriot Chief Van Rensselaer, He
was taken to Buffalo and Immediately bsed to appearat
Inc next U. S. District Court term.
OFFICE OF THE AmERIcAY,)
,,,,a Baltimore, Jan. 90, 6 P Nj.
TIN IMPORTANT sTANT FROM THE MICHIGAN FRONTIER.
Inc following letter, from of the first respect
aunl.y al De'fo! conveys the particulars Of important
ference TO The revolt in Canada We have here The de-.
OF plans which have been heretofore occa.
slonsy limited at in the accounts that have reached US
from Buffalo.
Our city for the last three days has been in great CON-
iusion in consequence of the extensive plan of nyed.
Ing Canada by certain refugees and others having been
discovered.
Nothing Of the movement was known. save that
meetings had been held and resolutions passed bu, il
was thought the matter would stop there 1t has turned
out differently, for Thursday night all the State arms
in city arsenal secretly taken away on the
same day 4OO stand openly seized at Monroe and
on The succeeding mig Jail robbed of all the
arms and fixed ammunition which had been deposited
there for safe keeping
The next morning vessel with about 500 stand md
about 100 men departed from wharves or Bots Blanc
"a British island distant 10 miles hence, and opposite
Maiden, at the junction of The river Detroit with Lake
Erie Attempts also 10 be made upon our city pow
der magazine at Dearborn which were frustrated by
guard being despatched from the city in time
Besides these daring operations, supplies have been
purchased and sent down Bots subscription pa.
PeIs circulated, and now containing 1000 names-com.
missions from Navy Island rendered and accep,ed-en
rolmens of about hundred men made in the diff.
ferent counties the rver-reguar drills hedund 10
cap the climax, - Sutherland from New York is
hourly expected with force from CIeaveand to arrive
al Gibraltar lG miles hence-ihe point OF rendezvous
and to take command Of all the forces.
AS Bois Blanc overooks Maiden, and has upon the
remains oil an old breast work, the patriots design
king 1t depot and intend, after leaving thereon guard,
10 attack Maiden, proceed 10 Sandwich and London and
effect junction with Mackenzie at Hamilton, Upper
Canada. Il,
All the operations have been conducted with efcien-
cy and secrecy and as there many dsaeced the
proposed route, there feasibility iuba plaH-
We think they will at least take NlaIGcn if they try.
From the number of men engaged, the amount Of
money expended, and the concert Of action shown in
this enterprise conclude that able head is at
work.
Governor Masnn issued his proclamation three o. four
days ago, but 4 was dIsregarded Yesterday The U. s.
District Attorney dispatched steamboat with the mar
sha and posse after the schooner but they deed and
threatened with the contents OF eighteen FOUNDER il
they approached nearer than halIIng distance.
Our citizens held public meeting and passed resolu-
tons expressing their disapprobaton Of the Patriots
measures. AID organized guard of 100 for the pro-
lection of the town, which then without any
save those of volunteer corps and liable to be plum
dered Of its stores by the Patriots fred by the
koyallsts on the opposite side Of The river.
return OF marshal. requlSltlon tor
was made upon Gen. Brady, u S. A. which was grant
ed. Arms from Dearborn were brought in, and
r"men OF 20O citizens made, 10 seize the schooner if
found within jurisdiction We think, however she
has reached her point Of destination ere this.
The patriots have large body omen at Gibraltar des
tined to operate with the vessel above alluded and to-
morrow murnng we expect the grand move to be made
upon the town of Maiden
have thus given you some Of the details of an
terprsc which, however much may syDpathize with
the Canadians is most fragrant violation ofneutraity,
and national faith.
That all these enrolaents could be made-arms taken
men driIlcd-and this whole machinery Of war put
into opcraon-wItfoul The knowledge OF police, ID
matter which our Government will find it exceedingly
difficult to explain 10 the satisfaction of the British
coast by cunnonade an impartial judge would deem
the retrbution just.
P. S. Monday Morning, January 8 -Sutherland has
arrived at Gibraltar from Cleveland, with 20 men, and
attack upon Dos Blanc, Of which the British are
said 10 be in possession is contemplated this day.
Correspondence Of The ". Eateligeneer.
New YORK, Jan. %
"The theatre of war having been shifted from at or
Navy Island TO Fort Maiden, my Canada
will henceforth, be uninteres,ing. We have nothing
later from Buffalo. Governor Marcy has returned home
If my hint the other day met with The eye and approval
Of authority, Gen. Scott is already his way to De-
lro but before he gets there, in all probability he will
be needed in Vermont, and may be, the Kennebec
road region Of Maine.
81 have no Detroit newspapers for nearly fort.
night, and cannot learn that any have arrived in this
city They poddng along, il is probable, via Huron
and Cleveland, on Lake Erie.
"The President of the Paterson Bank, in card,
that the bank w pay every dollar of its notes in cir
cuaon The Boston banks recovering their credit.
"rhere lie nothing new in our money market, unless
it be the pressure is becoming more and more
Treasury notes rs 10 per cent. above paper money;
9 10 = ! 4 per cent. below specie