The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1845-09-26

On Monday, Sept Is. Sheriff Backenstos is
sued proclamation, calling on the posse eoH'iia-
fas to aid him in suppressing the rioters and
maintaining the supremacy Of the laws, and sta.
ting that in case the law aud order citizens had
not force sufficient to suppress the rioters, 1000
effective men in Nauvoo should hold themselves
IN readiness TO march al a moments warning 10
any point in Hancock county. The Signal says
none If the citizens had answered, or would an-
swer the call, and tina, all the force the sheriff
can raise must come from Nauvoo.
The Signal also gives an account Of the mur.
der Of +. A. Wcrrel, who was shot dead ON the
10th, Wills riding across the prairie, "by some
Mormon concealed in the hazel rough nine mile,
from Warsaw" and winds of with the exolama'
ton, "Rerenge, rtreagc, fellow citizens, Is now
the word.'
The above are the principal items of news in
the Signal of tue l7,h. Ia an extra from the Of
flee OF the Springfield Register, dated Sept. 81
we have the following additional items:
Il appears that the nn,i.Momons continued
their work Of destruction until upwards OF l'V
houses have been consumed. Sheriff BackcnsIoS
failed in raising posse sir'ns enough 10 stop
these movements wIhou, rcs1ftng to Nauvoo,
owing to the fear Of oil well disposed persons III
the country, that their own houses might he con
sumcd.--We learn that he has raised about 2oo
men from Nauvoo, all well armed, with which he
had dispersed the rioters, commented 10y Col
Williams al Green Plains.
H. on. Ice, I.,gt ne
run and took shelter in comiicld, before the
posse came within firing distance.
\ Backcnstos had been driven away from Car
harc. md returned with about 800 men, to re-
move his family; on his retreat, he fell in with a
large BODY of Anti.Mnrmons. when a battle en-
sued. 7, is said that eighteen Antics and three
Mormons were killed. 1t Appeals that Williams,
Sharp, Davis, and other leaders, escaped. A
large number Of the Antics were taken prisoners
and are now confined and guarded at the court
house at Ccrthagc.
The people had all fled from Carthage, Angus
Ia, unJ other Anti-Mormon towns, and carried
their families into the counties Of Adams, Mar
quote, SCHUYLER, and McDonoush and are beat
ing up for volunteers in those Counties 10 recruit
their forces, with which to renew the war. 1t is
unknown how many men they viii be able 10
raise but i, Is believed that they have SO dis
graced themselves Ivy the incondiary mode in
which they have carried on the war, that their
success will no, he very great. But ii they sue
coed, another bloody battle may be expected, in
the course Of this week.
Before this news arrived the Governor had is
sued call for five hundred men to qucIl the dis.
iurbanccs.
We are advised that /, is fact that no letters
have been received a, this place from any OF the
Mormon party since the commencement Of these
troubles, except one from very obscure man in
Nauvoo, aud another from McDonough county,
and no newspapers. tits rumorel tina, the mails
have been stopped, and ther" is story nfloa, that
one mail carrier has been murdered. No mes.
scngcr has arrived from all that section Of coun
try until to-day, when committee arrived from
Mt. Sterling.