Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1842-07-12
LATER FROM RHODE ISLAND.

charter Usurper, has offered additional reward
Of four thousand dollars, making $4,000 in ally to
any person who will kdnaP Gov Dorr, and deliver
him over to the cowardly charter tyrants SO that
they can hang him and sleep easy
From the Proriieace CAronicle, Neutral June 2s.
The following is the document from Mr. Dorr
which arrived last night and to which we alluded
IN our first edition as having been sent to Mr.. Bur
pess IL seems il was directed to the Express Of
fee, from an extra of which paper we copy 1t, and
was simply despatched in an envelope TO Mr.. Bur
CESS. That gentleman, receiving It, handed It
10 the Governor and Council by whose permission
It was published IN the Express
GLOUCESTER, Il. l., June 9th, 1912.
Having received such information as induces me
to believe that majority of the friends of the Peo-
pies Constitution disapprove of any further forcble
measures for its support and believing that tue
conflict ofarms would therefore, under existing cir
cumstances, be but a personal controversy among
different portions of citizens, hereby direct the
military here assembled, be dismissed by their re-
spectiye officers.
L. W. DORR, Commander in Chief.
From the leading federal wing paper in Prov-
dence, which has always opposed the extension of
suffrage to poor white men, we copy the follow
ing
From the Proridqnoe Journal, June 20
Our advces from Chepaehet to last evening
at eight o'clock. Dorr was in Thompson yesterday
morning. and is supposed to have taken the train of
cars for Norwich. We hope he may be arrested.
and we understand that measures have been taken
/ TO secure so desirable result. None of our men
have been killed except Mr.. Gould, whose unfortu-
nate death, the hand of a manaic we have AREA
dy mentioned. One Of the nsurgcnt party was
wounded, it IS believed mortally, at Chepachet.
lie refused to give himself up, and attempted to
cape the party in pursuit. They fired upon him.
a ball entered his thigh, and severed an artery. lie
was reported dead. man shot by the pic
que of the third Brigade, stationed at Foster, on
| Monday night party of about dozen or fifteen
men approached, paid no attention to the challenge
of the plcquet and refused TO stand. The men fir
ed, and one ball took effect, whether MORALLY or
not we are unable to state The number of prison
ers taken at Chepachet is considerably over a hun
dred. They were not employed in dwelling the re-
trenchments, stated yesterday.
\ portion of the Marine Artillery quartered
in four large tents which belonged to the Worces-
ter Brigade of Massachusetts, and are marked Nv
b. The sympathizing friends of Massachusetts
have suffered in several other particulars, the
spoils abundantly show.
Robert Gould, son of Thomas Gould, of Middle
town, member of the Middletown volunteers, lost
his life near Chepachet, yesterday morning, in a
most unfortunate manner. His brOther-In-la law, Mr..
Barker a member of the company, was sud
denly seized with temporary alienation, TO which
he had occasionally been subject and which, in this
instance undoubtedly caused by fatigue and ex
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! him through the brain. The deceased, under
stand was about % years of age, and had no fam-
/ ly. His remains were brought to this city yester-
day, and will be taken to his friends in Middle
town this morning. We are informed that Mr.. Bar
ker in not expected to recover from the wounds he
received in being secured.
+ Our advices from Pawtucket are to half past nine
O'Clock last evening. A strong force is still sta
/ toned there.
THE WINDING UP.
! The Providence Journal of the Both June, con-
the order of the Major General of the Charter
Army for their retirement form the field.
The same paper contains the following
Our adyices from V'oonsocket are to yesterday af-
ternoon An insurgent party, headed by D'Wolf,
with the six Comstocks, and between thirty and
forty Others had taken possession OF stone house
! in Burrillville a few miles from Woonsocket, and
declared that they would not be taken. They were
prepared with muSkets and field pieces. The Sea
Fencbes and detachment Of the Cadets were sent
out to attack the place.
Our adyIces from Pawtucket are to last evening.
There were indications of further disturbance al
though we hope the force there will prevent any
thing serious.
The New York Herald of July ID, gives the fol-
lowing statements concerning the dlsbanding of
Gov. Doris
THE EVACUATION OF DORIS MEN.-The nu-
merous contradictory statements relative the dis
4 I'm
bandment of the suffrage troops at Acotts Hill,
calls for the following, which is correct IN all It's
particulars. We have received it from among
the last the battle ground. The troops, number
ing about 250, were dlsbanded by Gen. DE Wolf,
Comma nder- in Chief under the orders of Governor
Dorr at O'Clock Monday evening. Dorr left
Chepachet for the Connecticut lines, with an escort
of fourteen men. About hundred of the suf-
frage troops remained upon the hill, and by unan-
imous vote they elected Michael Walsh Command =
erin Chief of the forces, and soernny determined
TO remain and meet the consequences They, how
ever, began to diminish during the night, and at 3
clock in the morning, when the roll was called,
but four were found TO answer. In this emergency
Gen. Walsh concluded that retreat the better
part of valo., and after setting fire to the officer s
marquee, securing the standard that had hoated ov-
er the garrison the sword presented him by Col.
Haskell, his pistols and his pipe, they marched into
the village of Chepachct day began 20 dawn. The
enemy being in the vicinity, they rallied addi
tonaI force before they reached the Connecticut
+ lines, which was about seven miles distant, and fl
nalIy reached Masonville Conn. at 3 O'Clock in the
afternoon of the same day, and from thence pro-
ceeded in the Norwich railroad and steamboat line
to this city. The companions of Gen. Walsh, who
remained with him until the last horn blew, were
Francis Mclaughlin of this city, Charles Newell
and Charles Calder of Providence, and other
person, whose name cannot be recollected, but who
we understand is Nrginian Ii Will thus be seen
that the charter troops, although numbering about
two thousand, who were IN the immediate vicinity.
did not obtain possession of the suffrage camp until
it had been entirely evacuated, and the officers
marques and tents burned TO ashes. We also I'M
derstand that at time did the suffrage troops
coed two hundred and forty enrolled men.
SERIOUS Loss.-The new line of demarcation
between Texas and the United States, gives the
former about seven hundred square miles of what