New-York tribune., 1841-10-12
rHE TEIAL OF MCLEOD.

eeA-.Ji oi ptkt'4t.1s tNfuilis ~ '''itj 'FH'I
,he TESTIMONY on boil -ides had been closed-o
winch ali that ~ ha,c mol previously fublsfrd
wiIl be found on our t.fs' page. The summing "
was 10 commeace at ocloci, yesterday, Mon
dsv. and. with tie judges charge would pro5a
BIZ. consume The eutire day. Ia fact, it va. doubt
fol whether The lawyers would conclude in season
for the delivery q; the Judges charge last evening
If the did. The yerdic, was probably rendered
forthwith; ii not it viii almost certainly be rem
dered to.day Bu; tle ia,crest Of the case ia very
,ench diminished since The testimony for the de
fence has rendered ii morally certain that there
will be a verdict, and ihai y,rdict Not G0ihy.
We did no. remain over to hear the summing up
Of the Counsel--a5le aud eloquent as it was GER
rain 10 be-because though we should have been
yery happyto repor; the substance, should hard
IL be able to find room Tor it-pubishing ii, VIC
must either wiki or after the verdict rendered
For -eyera! days our columns have been crowded
10 exclusion with the testimony which our readers
lave generally perused and they would hardly
hanl, n. to make room for FIVE several reviews and
,ifines of il From friend at Utica we hope
rhs evening to receive whatever Of the arguments
is most worth preserving and meantime we shall
TRY our own hand at summing up the case
The preliminary aad substantially admitted facts
are these: A Petrio. rising or instruction took
place in both Upper and Lower Canada in the
autumn of 1897, which was speedily suppressed
with considerable bloodshed in the Lower province,
but very little in the Upper. The discounted ia
surgents fed to the United States-tho.c from the
Upper province mainly to Buffalo and its vicinity.
They found there "A state of feeling and circum-
stances very favorable to their cause--a great
meeting was held in the Theatre to 'sympa,hise
with them "a great many volunteered to aid them
u military force was embodied; the arms and mu-
ntions of the State were seized; the party moved
down the river, crossed over and took possession
of Navy Island situated in the Niagara River near
the middle OF its deep and strong current, and only
Two miles above the Falls of Niagara. Here they
planted batteries and commenced firing upon the
adjacent Canada shore, the village of Chippewa
lying iust above them They threatened and were
expected 10 make movement upon Canada d.
rectly, the adjacent shore being exposed TO inv,-
sion from them at any lime while their own wood.
ed island with It surrounding current tending
strongly 10 the Great Cataract below. was e<-
uemely dithult aud dangerous to attack.
Rat he hastily levied aud i.proyilea force IN
The Island. wu, daily hoa,ling Of their number,
and prospects began 10 feel ,edly the want of mo
ney provisions aud munitions Winter had set in,
they had tle protection from its severity they
were few in number, and needed every thing from
competent leaders down to whole shoes \ force
Of 1--we huadred men sent against them might have
enniMlated Them The lake had frozen ny, with
all The craft uron it, though the Niagara remained
open, as ii mainIy does a, all seasons The Pat
riots' therefore sent word contiden,allv to the
Executives Committee of their friends in Buffalo.
begging thar supplies aad a steamboat be sent to
1heir relief
The owners Of the more valuable boa,s refused
10 leopard them in this service. but the friend, OF
The Patriots prevailed on Mr. William Wells, who
had recently purchased for an nconsiderable sum
the small steamboa, Caroline to send her down
She was accordingly cut out of the zee on the 2Sth
by volunteer aid hastily manned by volunteer
crew, and sent down on the 29th--Nlr. Well, him.
selfand a number Of steamboat captains engineers.
&c being on board. She ran down, touching at
Black Rock Dam and Tonowanda. 10 Schlosser,
'hence across to Navy Island, to which she made
three trips during tina; day. and back TO Schosscr.
where She lay up for the night. She took on board
al each place whatever was offered, and carried
cannon meh, provisions. &c. to Navy Island
charging nothing for passage or freight, though
some lew paid voluntarily. Mr. Wells evidently
did not feel SAFE ., Sch!os.er. ann meant 70 have
returned 70 Black Rock Dam 10 pass the night
but there was something wrong with the machine.
ry--so ne stad At >chosscr. Thirtv.,bree men
twenty-tkree Of them dodgers merely. wba could
no, find accommodations el<cwhere-had re,;r,s
on board, when about miduigh, she wss approached
and boarded by three boats full ci armed men from
Chippewa, who drove her inmates ashore, severely
wounded James H King, brcther-ia-law Of Mr
Wells, took prisoner Luke Walker, boy; shs;
Amos Durfee dead. Just after he had stepped from
the boat to the dock. roughly handled some others,
Sc, the boat on FIRE and lowed her into the current,
whence she dgfted. pyramid of flame, over the
mighty cataract. Her dcs;royers returned in ri-
umph to Chippewa. sach is the deed which. by
solemn adjudication OF the Supreme C1ug; Of this
State. is held to implicate every individual con-
cersed in it in the gull; OF Murder, and for al
legged participation in which Alexander Mcleod
was indicted and put on trial fer his life.
The circumstances which axe held TO involve