entered by the Springwells road, and have come in on the left flank and rear of the enemy; and, doubtless, as we believed, would have captured the entire of the British forces, as they would have been between the fires of our volunteers in front of the fort, and ours in their rear. Entertaining these exhilarating hopes, although without food for so long a time, the troops composing this detachment, without exception, appeared stimulated by the anticipated and hoped for conflict. With these high and cheering expectations, they not only marched in double-quick time, but actually kept up with the slow trot of the horses for at least twenty miles, when the cannonading ceased. We resumed this unusual march, and, without once halting until we arrived, at about midnight, at the edge of the woods which we had entered the night before; when to our utter astonishment and indignation, we beheld the British flag floating from the flag-staff of the fort, and the Indians in the extensive common before us, taking horses and cattle."

The fort of Detroit and the northwestern army had been surrendered. The detachment that we have just followed was also included, as well as that under Colonel Brush, at the Raisin. Colonel Brush, however, decided that he would not be surrendered. He detained the British flag, sent to inform him of the capitulation, only long enough to obtain supplies for his soldiers, and the whole force was then started for Ohio, which they reached in safety.

CHAPTER XXVI.

THE BRITISH CELEBRATING THEIR SUCCESS AT DETROIT-ACCOUNT OF GENERAL BROCK'S EXPEDITION AGAINST DETROIT-SCENES AND CIRCUMSTANCES IN AND ABOUT DETROIT AFTER THE SURRENDER-THE MASSACRE AT CHICAGO-COMMODORE PERRY ON LAKE ERIE-HARRISON'S CAMPAIGN-RECAPTURE OF THE WESTERN POSTS, INCLUDING DETROIT, BY THE UNITED STATES.

On the 17th day of August, at noon, the British celebrated their success by firing a salute, General Brock and his aids appearing in full dress. They used on this occasion one of the brass six-pounders belonging to the fort, which had been taken at the great revolutionary triumph at Saratoga, on the 16th of October, 1777, which was recorded on it in raised letters of brass. The salute was responded to by the Queen Charlotte, which came sweeping up the centre of the river, replying to each discharge. This same brass field piece came again into the possession of the Americans at the battle of the Thames.

Let us now return and follow General Brock through the short campaign. He arrived at or near Malden on the 12th of August, where he found everything looking prosperous for the English cause. General Hull had already broken up his camp, and recrossed the river on the night of the 7th and morning of the 8th. He also received, at the same time, the additional and most gratifying intelligence, obtained from intercepted dispatches, that General Hull had, at a council of war, held prior to this date, spoken of the probability of his having to capitulate at no distant day.

On the thirteenth he reconnoitered the position of his enemy; and receiving, whilst at the little village of Sandwich, a flag from General Hull, with some excuses as to the burning of a house in the afternoon after his evacuation of Canada, detained the flag until late at night, and then dispatched his aid, Major Glegg, with

the return flag to General Hull, demanding a surrender of the fort and army in the following language: "Sir, the forces at my disposal authorize me to require of you the immediate surrender of Fort Detroit. It is far from my inclination to join in a war of extermination; but you must be aware that the numerous body of Indians, who have attached themselves to my troops, will be beyond my control the moment the contest commences."

On the fifteenth, General Brock established his headquarters at Sandwich, and made his arrangements for crossing the river. On the sixteenth, he crossed the river, formed in column, and marched up to within one mile of the fort, and halted. His Indian force, organized and led by Tecumseh, under the command of Colonel Elliott and Captain McKee, landed one mile below, and moved up in the edge of the woods west of the common, keeping a mile and a half distant. The strength of his force, according to his report to Lieutenant-General Prevost, was as follows: Royal Artillery, 30 men; Forty-first Regiment, 250; Royal Newfoundland Regiment, 50; militia, 400; and about 600 Indians-making a total force of 1,330 men, with three sixpounders and two three-pounders.

We will now read the reply of General Hull to General Brock's demand for the surrender of the fort: "I have no other reply to make than to inform you that I am prepared to meet any force which may be at your disposal, and any consequences which may result from any exertion of it you may think proper to make," etc. This bold reply contrasts strangely with his act of the following morning, when he invited the enemy to receive his surrender of the fort and army, without even firing a gun.

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There is a mystery surrounding this surrender. If we say was brought about through cowardice, how shall we explain away the sending out of the detachment to meet Colonel Brush? General Hull is chargeable with cowardice or treason. The reader must judge for himself between these two offenses, or say that it was probably both.

General Brock lost no time in returning to the Niagara frontier. Paroling the volunteers not to serve until exchanged, fur

nishing them with boats and vessels to pass the lake to Cleveland, sending General Hull and the regular troops to Montreal, and his militia to their homes, issuing his proclamation to the inhabitants of his conquered territory, and leaving Colonel Proctor in

SPENCER BARCLAY, one of the most extensive business men in Michigan, was born in Lyons, Wayne county, New York, on the 22d of June, 1835. In that State, he carried on the meat packing business for four years, then changing, he commenced as a merchant,, in which occupation he remained seven years.

Mr. Barclay emigrated to Michigan in 1855, settling in Grand Rapids during September of that year. He at once started in the mercantile trade, which he followed for three years with a somewhat varied success. Afterwards, he removed to Ionia, where for the same length of time he

command, he went on board the Queen Charlotte, and on the next day, the eighteenth, sailed down the lake, stopping at Fort Erie and Fort George, arriving in triumph, on the twenty-second, at his seat of goverment, which he had left on the fifth.

In this short period of twelve days he had moved two hundred and fifty miles against his enemy, effected a surrender of a strong fort and well equipped army of 2,300 effective men, and one of the territories of the United States.

A provisional government was established by the British at Detroit, and a small force placed in the fort. The Indians, who were numerous, and claimed large rewards for their coöperation, and who were but slightly, if at all restrained by the garrison, carried plunder and devastation into almost every house, and through almost every farm in the Territory. The miserable inhabitants had no alternative but to submit, or incur the hazard of more aggravated outrage. Most of the citizens of Detroit were sent into exile, and distress and ruin appeared to be the inevitable lot of all.

Contemporaneously with these events on the eastern side of the peninsula of Michigan, another disaster, rendered memorable by the folly which led to it and the blood which accompanied it, occurred on the western side, under the walls of Chicago. While yet in Canada, General Hull, actuated, no doubt, by the apprehensions which made him regard all things under his control with trembling anxiety, sent orders to Captain Heald, who commanded at Chicago, to evacuate that post, and retreat to Fort Wayne. Every order of this unfortunate general appeared to be pregnant with misfortune. That which was issued at this time to Captain Heald, involved a garrison, which had ample means of defense at its post, in disgrace and blood.

was again engaged in the packing business. From here, he moved to East Saginaw in 1862, and commenced the same business that he followed in the latter place, having only $900 as a capital. However, he went to work with renewed zeal and a determination to succeed, and success has nobly crowned his efforts, as he is now doing a business of from $75,000 to $100,000 per year, which is the result of an undivided and earnest attention to business, aided by a keen penetration and a sound judgment.