Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1838-07-18
GENERAL INTELLIGENCE.
From the Detroit Advertiser of June 80.

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We learn from the collector of this port
that a schr in the service Of The buccan-
iers was captured on Thurs lay, some
few miles below The county seat of St.
Clair. Having understood, from the
movement in that vicinity, that an expedi-
ton was on foot, the collector Immediate
ly started for the scene Of operations. A
small force embarked on the steamboat
Gratiot, and soon got wind Of the piratic-
al craft, which, it seems, had been across
to the Canada shore and committed dep
relations upon the inhabitants.
AS the Gratiot approached the vessel
with view to compel her to surrender. a
brisk firing upon her commenced from
the opposite shore. Finding themselves
in peril, the crew of the vessel took to
the shore and dispersed themselves thro'
possession of by the revenue officers.
They found two or three Canadian
prisoners in the hold, some fifteen barrels
of -four which had been plundered, about
dozen stand of arms, and other small
matters. The vessel was brought to this
port to be condemned One of the pris-
oners, we understand, was induced to
come down, by whom it is thought some
important testimony may be laid before
the grand jury now in session.
We are advised that most, if not all,
the crew, were Canadians. This prompt
ness on the part Of the officers and citi-
Il MS of St. Clair, will, it is confidently
hoped, crush another Of those incipient
piratical expeditions which have from
time to time annoyed our frontier.
FROM CANADA--Our advces from
Upper Canada and the Western frontier
continue to be of alarms and aggressions.
The accounts are probably somewhat
exaggerated, but even after making all al
lowance. there is enough left to excite
much uneasiness.-N Y Spec
UPPER CANADA.-We have nothing
new from the scenes of the new y reported
movements, and we suspect that the ac-
counts heretofore received have been mon
strously exaggerated. Unfortunate Y here
are two classes of men through whom we
receive intelligence, whose interest it is to
circulate large and alarming stories; the
uItras of Upper Canada, on the one hand,
who pant for what they call engeance on
the people of the United States, and whose
whole study it is to keep up excitement !;
and on the other the refugees and their a.
betors, whose only hope is in agitation.
Thus between the two, more lies are told
in week than six months of subsequent
investigation could disperse.-N Y Spec.
THE WRECKED SLAvER.-Another
cargo of Africans have been cast upon our
shores. 1t appears that the parties in
command of the vessel wishing to avoid
the chance of falling in with our cruisers
betwixt ST. Domingo and Jamaica, hauled
to the southwark, intending to pass by the
west end of Cuba, but not being far
enough to the westward. they were bro'l
up by the Pedro Keys off St. Elizabeth's
when finding the vessel a wreck. they
took to the boats, leaving the Africans &c
perish. Their arrival at Black River
however, created suspicion, and having
been interrogated they confessed. As soor
: as the circumst ance could be commune
Gated, two vessels of war were despatched
: from Port Royal 10 save the unfortunate
beings.-Jamaica r. Gazette.
2 ADVOCATE OF FREEDoM.-This inter
= estiug Anti-SIavery periodical, which il
Z issued from this office has obtained an av
s eraged circulation of fifteen hundred, "
: to the ninth number. 1t has an actua
E list of individual subscribers amounting
0 to over 1900. Such encouragement at
| forded by the community tells well upol
e the progress of Anti-Slavery principle
e within the limits of this State. The bal
0 is in motion. 1t can not be stopped til
) slavery is abolished, and the downtrodd
Q en-. oppressed and outraged slave receive
d 1.-THE boon of Freedom. Eastsrn Bdpfis