the river, there abandoned, and soon after descended the Niagara Falls; that this deponent has made vigilant search after the individuals, thirty-three in number, who are known to have been on the _Caroline_ at the time she was boarded, and twenty-one only are to be found, one of which, to wit, Amos Durfee, of Buffalo, was found dead upon the dock, having received a shot from a musket, the ball of which penetrated the back part of the head and came out at the forehead; James H. King and Captain C.F. Harding were seriously though not mortally wounded; several others received slight wounds; the twelve individuals who are missing, this deponent has no doubt, were either murdered upon the steamboat or found a watery grave in the cataract of the Falls; and this deponent further says that immediately after the _Caroline_ was got into the current of the stream and abandoned, as before stated, beacon lights were discovered upon the Canada shore near Chippewa, and after sufficient time had elapsed to enable the boats to reach that shore this deponent distinctly heard loud and vociferous cheering at that point; that this deponent has no doubt that the individuals who boarded the _Caroline_ were a part of the British forces now stationed at Chippewa. [Subscribed and sworn to before a commissioner, etc.] STATE OF NEW YORK, _Niagara County, ss_: Charles F. Harding, James H. King, Joshua H. Smith, William Seaman, William Kennedy, William Wells, John Leonard, Sylvanus Staring, and John Haggarty, being sworn, severally depose and say that they have heard the foregoing affidavit of Gilman Appleby read; that they were on the _Caroline_ at the time she was boarded as stated in said affidavit, and that all the facts sworn to by said Appleby as occurring after the said _Caroline_ was so boarded as aforesaid are correct and true. [Subscribed and sworn to before a commissioner, etc.] _Mr. Poinsett to General Scott_. DEPARTMENT OF WAR, _January 5, 1838_. Brevet Major-General WINFIELD SCOTT, _Washington City_. SIR: You will repair without delay to the Canada frontier of the United States and assume the military command there. Herewith you will receive duplicate letters to the governors of the States of New York and Vermont, requesting them to call into the service of the United States such a militia force as you may deem necessary for the defense of that frontier of the United States. This power has been confided to you in the full persuasion that you will use it discreetly and extend the call only so far as circumstances may seem to require. It is important that the troops called into the service should be, if possible, exempt from that state of excitement which the late violation of our territory has created, and you will therefore impress upon the governors of these border States the propriety of selecting troops from a portion of the State distant from the theater of action.