Vermont Phœnix

If the statements in the letter following from Detroit, to the National Intelligencer, are confirmed, the War is over in that quarter; but this Canada War is very like the Florida War, often "over," but never ended:

DETROIT, Jan. 12, 1838.

The capture of the Patriot schooner and prisoners by the Canadians disconcerted all the plans of the invading army. They immediately retreated from Bois Blanc to an American island. Dissensions arose among them, and some of the officers withdrew from the services. The extreme cold weather produced much suffering. Confidence is gone in the commanders, and the force finally disbanded.

Nothing remains but legal proceedings against those who have violated the law. The danger being now past, and the attempt to revolutionize Canada having been frustrated, the public officers begin to take measures for the preservation of their places. They assume the port and bearing of authority, and, doubtless, we shall be amused with the last act of their farce under the semblance of Judicial proceedings. You public officers are too far implicated in this business. They be assured, however, that most of our better to press very closely these prosecutions. Their remissness, at least, and the participation of some of them in the enterprize, otherwise, it might have been crushed in its infancy.

We shall probably be in an unsettled condition for a long time to come. Much ill-feeling exists on both sides of the line. In Canada it is not without cause. A hostile force invading its territory, an armed ship sailing to and fro before its villages, and firing with cannon shot into their dwellings, have given good reasons for exasperation on that side.

Our authorities are proved to be entirely incompetent, if not unwilling, to maintain neutrality; and most surely they have manifested no very anxious wish to do so. A detachment of the United States Army ought to be stationed on this frontier forthwith; nothing else, at present, will suffice. The next most important thing is a resolute and determined set of officers for the United States. For want of this, we have been nearly, if not quite, involved in War.

Yours, &c.
From the Cleaveland Herald, Jan. 18.

The Detroit mail has just arrived, bringing some late if not important intelligence from the emigrants who left this place some days since, under the direction of Colonel Sutherland. The following is an extract of a letter from Captain Townsend to Umbslater of this city, dated

"Bois Blanc, Jan. 12, 1838.

FRIEND UMBSLATER.—We are here in camp, and I have been out with my company and another, and took Bois Blanc Island; but have lost a schooner and three pieces of cannon, with about 15 men. We live hard my dear fellow—it is horrible, but we shall stick to it. I lost all my baggage in the schooner, and consequently have to suffer; but I am embarked and will not shrink. Give me your best wishes.—

I have just learned that it is reported that I was among the killed. It is not so. I am

Yours, &c.

E. M. TOWNSEND."
From the Fredonia (N. Y.) Cenzor.

We are not certain but Van Rensselaer and McKenzie have removed the venue for their trial with the Canadians to Chautauque county. Five loads of arms, said to be from Navy Island, arrived in this village on Wednesday last, where they were unloaded and the teams returned to the East. If this be the fact, the Patriots will be in little danger of McNab's bombs.

There are now and then seen in this village, or passing through it, some of the [careless] veterans from Navy Island. Their destination is unknown, for they are mum as an unrenouncing freemason.