Lincoln telegraph. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1836-1846, 1838-12-20
CANADA WAR REVIVED.
From the Buffalo Mercury, Dec. 10
GLORIOUS PATRIOT NEWS FROM THE
wEsT-THE BLOW STRUCK

WEST-THE BLOW STRUCK.
The steamboat Wisconsin, Capt. Power,
arrived from Cleaveand this morning,
brings US the following important intell-
gence.
The patriots, amounting to nine hundred
crossed over the Detroit River to Sandwich,
burned that village to the ground, and the
British steamer Thames they were jpned
by two companies of royal militia, and are
now on the march through the London
District where ii is expected they will be
Joined by several thousands of patriots !
+ In Il skirmish with the Queens troops,
several of the latter were killed we can
not learn how many.
The blow is struck and we shall see
different work from what we have yet had
in either Province
Since the above was published, we have
received our advices from Detroit, with the
following particulars
Ga the morning of the 4th, the patriots,
whose number has been varously stated,
at from five 10 nine hundred, crossed the
river four miles above Sandwich. This
village is directly opposite Detroit. and
about twenty miles above Maiden. 1t was
four O'Clock in the morning. Soon after,
they attacked the regulars and militia at
twenty or thirty minutes, repulsed them
The British loss is reported at thirty or
forty killed. The patriots lost, killed Capt
Sewr and two men, three wounded.
The British armed steamer, Thames, was
set on fire at Sandwich. This was at 6
o'clock in the morning, and the burning
buildings, the flaming vessel, the glare
upon the waters, and the Illuminated spires
and edifces of the opposite city, with the
noise Of the conflict, made the scene one OF
unsurpassed sublimity, which hundreds as
sembled to witness. g..
The Patriot force Immediately proceeded
toward the London District, leaving Nal
den, the strong hold of the loyalists, for
them to guard at their leisure.
The Montreal Courier copies from the
Western[U. c. Herald, the story that 1900
pirates, commanded by Polish officers,
were at Putinbav Island, below Amherst
burgh, and that Gen. Brady, with large
force had gone to dispense them, in the
steamboat illinois. Several other impor-
tant rumors are in circulation, relative to a
renewal of the rebellion.
REcAPTURE OF BILL JOHNSON. From
the Albany Argus we learn that Bill John
son has been recaptured, and delivered to
the United States Marshal. by Capt
Vaughn. U. S. Navy, and j. w. Turner,
Deputy Marshal. His arrest was made on
Monday night, by Capt V. near Taberg
Oneida county. Mr.. Turner, according
to the Syracuse Standard of the l4th.)
having spent the last eight days in the
pursuit of him, and having finally got on
the right trail in that vicinity, succeeded in
the accomplishment of his design. He
was delivered to the custody of N. Garrow
Esq. the Marshal at Syracuse, on Tues
day morning and was brought TO Albany
the next day and committed to prison. He
submitted quietly to the arrangements of
the Marshal, until his arrival at Utica, but
the remainder of the way he was tul bulent
and refractory
LATER. The latest accounts, state the
invaders have all been Killed or put to flight
by the British regulars. Thus ends this
last rising of the patriots.
DEATH OF CoMMoDoRE N1cHorso III