War of 1812 Bicentennial

From the Manlius Times, Oct. 29.

It is a melancholy and undeniable fact, that our troops on the western frontier are in extreme distress from the want of food; the citizens of the state of New-York, who have left their full garners and plenteous boards and volunteered in its defence, are pressed into the service of the general government and kept in a state of starvation.—Would to God, for the character of our country, we could state it otherwise. But the fact stares us in the face—and the truth must be told. In some instances they have suffered so much, that large bodies of the militia have returned to their homes. Col. Mead's regiment in particular, of about 400 men, having drawn no rations for four days, was dismissed. They received not a cent of pay nor even were victualled for a day—but were obliged to make the best of their way upwards of two hundred miles, subsisting entirely upon the charity of the inhabitants.

Col. Solomon Van Rensselaer, by the latest information it appears, has been removed from Lewiston to Buffalo, where he now lies dangerously ill from the wounds received in the affair at Queenston.