Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1838-01-06
he Honse adjourned.
CANADIAN NEWS.
Extract of q letter to a member Of Congress from q gen.
tleman in Vermont, dated

teInan III vermont, ualeu
"Dec. 25th, 1887.
"The Canada war in the Lower Province is suspended
for the present-not over. The Radicals mean 10 nuke
| another and more vigorous effort. The lenders assert
that The efforts already made have failed OF success only
in consequence Of want Of arms and means oil attack.
They are collecting means in this State. Muskets, can
non, powder, ball, &c, are very freely gwen, and are
collecting in large quantities. They have an agent at
MONTPELIER, (BalenderyO a Frenchman. He has obtain.
ed, | am credibly informed, two or three cannons already,
and has got and will get in the county, very many mus.
kets and rifles, and much powder and ball. II is the in
tcnlion of the Radicals, who are now in this Stale, 10
! enter the Province in q few weeks with arms, &c, arm
and organize the French population, and make a despe.
rate effort"
Correspondence of The Boston .alas)
VERMONT, near the line 45, !
Dec. 2ah, 1887.
Montreal dates 10 the morning of the 27lh-and no
news, save The arrest of about a dozen more Canadians,
on the charge of treason. Among them, | am sorry TO
cav, is A. B. Popineau, and Joseph j. Girouard. For
the latter the sum of E50O was offered it is said he gave
himself up, near Couteaudu Lac, having been COM
pletely worn out with the ~hardships encountered in en-
deavoring to escape. The other men taken are not men
of much note, Charter is still at large.
The Herald, of late date, mentioned, that the people
of St Hyacinthe were again " rebeIlious." This agrees
with reports at Plal,sburgh, where, indeed, it has been
said, lha, Girod was still alive. While | have no sort Of
doubt, :hat the people OF the whole district near the
! Two Mountain Lake are ripe for fight the moment there
is the least chance for successful action, | cannot be.
lieve that they are soon for entering The battle, acithout
arms.
Correspondence Of The albany 8rgus)
NIAGARA FALLS, Dec. %.
DEAR SIR-l suppose any news from this quarter will
be quite acceptable. No regular attack has yet been
made on Navy Island. Yesterday the British forces at
tempted to erect bate ries opposite the Island, but q few
cannon shot from the Island dispersed them. At about
4 O o'clock in the afternoon, three armed boats put out from
the point opposite the Island, some cannon were dis
charged upon them, aud they retired. Two persons, it is
reported, were killed on the Cauada side. The British
forces are still concentrating in this quarter. Some are
militia clothed in red coats, and some are Indians. The
actual force of Indians may be 250. They say 700. The
other forces may be 1000, but called from 5000 TO 5000.
The inhabitants of this place have made q request on
the Marshal for n U. States force to maintain our neu-
trarity. 1t is absolutely necessary, and | hope the ap.
plicalion will receive his immediate attention.
Correspondence Of the National InteHigeneer)
New YORK, Jan. 2.
Hot work in Upper Canada There has been a fight
near Navy Island, and Buffalo and Rochester are in the
highest state of fury, for excitement does not seem 10
express the feeling. Sir Francis Head has erected bat.
teries upon the Chippewa side, and commenced an
attack by boats on Navy Island but Gen. Van Rensse.
laer, with his cannon, knocked his batteries to pieces,
and drove back his boats, with some loss of lives. Du.
ring This action, a rumor reached Buffafo, that Sir Fran
els Head had made a Judgment upon Grand Island,
(Amcrican Trrritory,0 upon which the people met in
mass, and demanded, if such were the fact, that the mi.
Itia forthwith be called out 10 rePel the attack. The
runor, however, was unfounded, although it does seem
that some Indians in the employ of the British mad been
sent there to cut off The retreat Of the Navy Island PEG.
pie, or, as other sources Of Information say, "to hunt
Some Of the British regulars had reached Toronto.
When they reach Chippewa, The attack upon Navy ISL
and will be q serious one.
The 24th regiment was TO march from Montreal to
Upper Canada on the 2Sth ut. The s5th regiment,
from Halifax, was near Quebec by the last dates. The
34th had left Halifax for Quebec, to march over the dis.
puted territory, by the new road the British regiments
have been making there.
Via Boston. we have one day later from Liverpool
The cotton sales were going on with spirit.
American gold is from 9 to 3 premium. Half dollars
TO- 3. u. S. Bank Stock liz Id.
TExAs.-A letter to The Editor of the New Orleans
Commercial Bulletin, under date of Nalcbitoches, Dec.
20, states that "the Texans are talking very Familiarity
and positively Of invading the Mexican Republic, and
removing their seat Of Government 10 the City Of Me1i-
CO :"
LATEST FROM FLORIDA.
GAREy's FERRY, Dec. %.
Nothing new. Alabamians, that were sent 10 scour
the Big Scrub, report Indian signs in number, but could
not take any prisoners. At Fort Mellon, up to the last
news, two days ago, nothing new; if the Indians should
scatter, no one can tell when this war will end; should
they keep together, there may in two months be a chance
Of taking some prisoners.-SaOann Republican.
RRlNTlNG lNK.-Jusl received at this Office, ,
supply Of johnson &, Durant's Winter .keps Ink