Indiana Palladium, Volume 2, Number 48, Lawrenceburg, Dearborn County, 9 December 1826 — Page 1
EQUALITY OF RIGHTS IS NATURE'S PLAN AND FOLLOWING NATURE IS THE MARCH OF MAX. Barlow.
Volume II.
PRLVTED JJVD PUBLISHED BY J SPEWr.ft. J V ' ULLFY If co. On every Saturday Morning. jYOTES OjV KEXTUCKY Section 7. I i (he month of M ay, 1779, Col. John Bowman, with 1G0 men, marched aait st the Indian town called Chilicothe, situated about GO miles from the mouth of L'n king, arid on the second night got in sirjt of the town undiscovered. It was determined to wail until day light in I ho morning before they would make the attack; but by the imnrudei ce of some cf the men whose, curiosity exceeded their judgment, the party were discovered by the Indians, before the officers and men had arrjved at the several positions as-igned them. As soon as the alarm was iven a tire commenced on both sides, a ! was kept up, whilst the women and children was running from Cabin to ca ua the greatest confusion, tV col!eei';g io t,k: n t central & strongest. A clear day ligM it was found, that B nvmt'i's men were from 70 to 100 yards from ihe cabin in which the Indians had collected, and which it appeared they intended to defend. Having no other arms th i rills and tomahawks, it vas tiio'ig i? imprudent to attempt to storm sfiiir.g ca' ins well defended by expert warriors. I-i consequenceof the warriorscollec'itig ioa few cabins contiguous to each other, the remainder of the town was left' unprotected, therefore whilst a fire was kept up at the port holes which engaged the attention of those within, fire was set to 30 or 40 cabins which were coosnrrvnl, and a considerable rju intity of property consisting principally of kettles and blankets were taken from those cabins. I i searching ihe woods near the town 130 horses were collected. About- 10 o'clock, Bowman and his party commenced their march homeward, after having nine men killed. What loss the Indians sustained was never known except their principal chief Black Fish, who was wounded through the knee, and died of the wound. After receiving the wound Black-Fish proposer! to surrender, being confident that his wound was dangerous, and believing that there were among the white People, surgeon .that could cure him, bui that none amongst his own People could do it. The party had not marched more tran 8 or 10 miles on their return home, before the Indians appeared in considerable force in their rear, and began to press hard on that quarter. Bowman selected his ground and formed his men in a square; but the Indians declined a close engagement, and only keeping up n scattering tire, it was soon discovered that their object was only to retard their inarch until they could procure reinforcements from the neighboring villages. As soon as a strong position was taken by Col. Bowman the Indians retired, and he resumed the line of march, when his. rear was again attacked; Col. Bowman again formed for battle, again the Indians retired, and the scene was acted over several times; at length John Buii t r i i " i ger, james iiarroii, ano ueorge iUicii aed Bedinger, with about 100 mounted on horseback, rushe Indian ranks and dispersed them i direction, after which the Indk doned the pursuit. B wman cro
O )io at the mouth of Little Miami, anddurinS' " bich time he killed a plenty of
after crossing, the rren dispersed to their; gam" 10 support them, wlnlst John W atseveral homes. Col. Bowman had nineso" was able to bring wood with his oct( men killed and one wounded. The loss; ani1 water with the hat. A'aout four;
heir su-taiued bv the Indians was never
fert uned except the death of Black- ham an(1 h.is companion went to the O ihv retai! their ju ire s'oape, and s!.ut well 'night they parted. The -chooner was! Fi.h. . at tlu; mnhth of Lickifig. and about a! tog 'ther if the tu-ks are not blu and! ,,ext (5a' V(irhauled by the brig Rook, I a ihe month of October, 1779, as two ml1 froi vvlere they were wounded,' !l;iV0 lho e;iit co.,cavitv in their innerwich lon- ollf l'4 of the slaves and keel boat,; were ascending the O .io:ail(1 ,roni whence they were taken by a ;irface, von mav conclude that the! bn,u,t h( inhere. The Decatur,
small distance above thcibo:lt descending the river which they
liver, some moullv uf Lieking, the men on board discovered I :dians tandit:g on a sand bar on the south side of the river, and a
canai coming across to them wilh 3 or -Mo be located on any waste and unappro-jcave tusk is the most certain criterion of1 in Westmorland, in the neighborhood of Pot ;cape, and was not again seen till Tuesia it. Captain Bgors who commanded ! printed lands within the State (with few youth, and as mares have no tusk at all, terdalc at the head of U lies Water. Jbout day last. On that day, a mocking bird the boats, ordered the men to land and! exceptions,) together with the success of (hey must be judged w ith reference to a week before a young lady seemingly i6ozrtvas discovered on the wail of an old
make their boats fast to the same shore, near w hich they were, which was immedi atelv done, when the party consisting of about 70 inarched through the woods up until opposite to the sand bar where they had seen the I idians, with the expectation of killing or taking the whole, or driving them into the river, bdieving they were undiscovered by the Indians, and their number did not exceed 12 or 15. When Rogers and his parly turned toward the. river, the Indians who were ful'v apprised of their motions, and from which they judged of their intentions, had so secreted themselves in the bushes
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JinrrTriTiJwr.jamiia I Hi II II1 . I that Rogers' party were within a few paces of them hefore they discovered them, upon which, the Indians, to the amount of several hundred, rose poured on them a deadly fire. All who wen not killed or disabled by this tremendous fire, made a precipitate retreat, and aimed to get to their boats, hut the I . dians pressed them so close, that rnanv of them were at the boats as soon as the whites, and several whites were tomahawked in the attempt to get on board.
Before the Indians got so close as to pre-jvet
vent it, one of the boats with five men op hoard, cut loose and pushed olFinto tin river, and soon floated out of reach of the Indians, (who were busily engaged with the other,) and thereby escaped. Rogers was himself killed, at d the whole of his party, consisting of GO or 70 either killed or taken, except seven. Among those who were taken prisoners, were Col. John Campbell, and Major Abner Chaplin. The following most singular circumstance attended this defeat. A man whose name was Robert Benham, was wounded through the hips, iti such a manner as to render him unable to walk, lie crawled into the brush of a fallen tree, taking his ritle with him, and so secreted ! himself that the Indians passed him un noticed. He lay concealed two days without a mouthful of sustenance, when a Racoon came near him, and he shot it. Immediately after his gun fired, he heard somebody call, hut suspecting it was Indians, he reloaded his gun, determined to sell his life dear; by the time his gui: was charged, he heard the voice again very near, and calling in plain English. "Whoever you are, I beg jou will answer me, for I am in the utmost distress. v Upon this, Benham answered him, and immediately appeared John Watson, one of his unfortunate companions, with both his arms broken; mutual congratulations were exchanged, when Benham pointed to the Racoon w here it lay, and directed Watson to kick it to him with his feet, which he accordingly did. Having good use of both hands, Benham was able to skin and prepare the Racoon for the spit, as well as to procure tire, whilst John Watson having the full use of his feet, could with them kick and drag pieces of broken wood to Benham, who could make the fire and cook the meat. Before the Racoon w as eaten up, a flock of wild Turkeys came in view; Benham directed John Watson to go round them and induce them to come near him, which was done, by which means he killed a large Turkey. Happily, the weather was mild, and the man with broken arms could wade into Licking river (near where they lav) so deep in
the water as to stoop down and drink; haVt. ltlit(. osif t);is n,ar .!nd l!)C tjJ(ik but Benham unable to move from theis Wv;v.r ns a.,d p,. .u d nn( so t.on. spot where he lay was likely to die ofi(.!lvc At seve;, the next teeth too have
thirst, when tins project occurred tonst it a;uj th(. (.or.u.r U,P John Watson; he desired Benh; m topuitSlc ,nark in them. A
ins nat mio into nis rnouin m such man-;
ner as that the hollow part of the crown..t a!L -rh(; tJ15!;s a,t i,eCljrne on(..
sliould be upwards, which was done, and he went into the water and filled it l.tr! stooping down, and by that mean? fnr-
uished his friend with water. BerihanVj, ofdiiftrence iti the mouths of hor -
dressed and splintered up the broken! ses some hav- lost the mark in all ex-;ot lnc crew to act as captain and anotlies arms of John Vatson, as well as dressed C(.n corner teeth, even as early as'ai; m', ;U)L1 directed them to make for his own wounds; to enable him to doflve yeiir$ 0Jd Ojj,or3. have the front' Domingo. These seamen, u;able
more wnicn c tore up both their shirts. laey tcef, u (j,0 ton :.VY oroiecthif over the'to navigate the schooner, were compel- "ui ? us m lengtn. ana pass d oer25
don theln'ma,nea 111 121,3 situation niieen uays, bottom teetli at the same ae at.d I ,t! Xo niake a signal ot distress, when the """s- uicu nc arpi aj vy mo
neveryw,u,st Uieir wounds healed very last, in-: j, vo c ,n hors,,, at SOVon years old with ?a,P oeslHhuion hove in sight, they y- . J ii. . . .1 r ' . . . . 1 ... 1 1 12 qui. I I I.I fVi. gun aura of tSnnt tli.n
ms aban- somuch that with the use ol a crutch t!jt, coniPr ;i,)p(,ai . ,h() ofwere hoarded by a boat from that ship.- - -
ssed the Jj(-,mam tJCSa" to be able to m.)ve a Utile, jva vearold. Y m m iv form some ida i he Constellation took out ot the schoon- ' . . . , .
atn'J to support them, whilst John VVat.1 ... Tiiir. as-iWtL" t,llt:i U,L7 wtMC woununu, ijn-;it hailed, and were taken on beard. Virginia having passed a law opening a land oflice for the sale of laud warrant?,' General Clarke s expedition in reuuemg P the military posts Northwest of the Oaio river, and on the waters of the Mississippi river, induced a great num er of fam ilies to remove to Kentucky, and espe cially from the Spates of North Carolina and Virginia. They had to pass through an uninhabited wilderness of more than two hundred miles, with no other road than that made by the feet of the animals passing over it; in many places this road was crossed by logs, many of them nearly three feet high, over which the animalwere obliged to leap, there being no way round them. The narrowness of the way and the many obstructions in it, very
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rtl'ili''i itm i TirTTr.i Iff lifTTT i Ifhii much retarded the passage of families,! insomuch, that many days they o.uld not i advance more than 10 miles; these cumMai c s, added to the quai.titv of provisions necessary to support families o great a distance, so fatigued their horses, who had no other sustenai ce than they could obtain in the woods after a fatiguing da s march that many gave out and were leit on the road. Notwithstanding the winter did not set in very severe until nearly Christmas, many hundreds of men, worntn and r y children, were overtaken by the bad weather, and were, in consequence of theexlreme coldnessof the winter, forced to remain whrethev were until early in February. The weather was so severe, and continued so lor g, that it obtained the name of hard winter, ard has beetknown to those who were in Kentucky ;it flint timfj liv tlmt ii;sme fvr ciiirr4 ' . . . , . . w.i . i r. , , ... . . creek, and, when the U inter broke "r -
me wait is in nou ioc io ucn a neimu.jf,.,, xhfr coaS, 0f Chili, id hit. 39 b. It is vrV
that almost all of their stock were drew i ed, and it was with great difficulty the familes escaped drowning. In addition io their other calamities, the weather was so cold and the st ow so deep, that hunters eeuid not procure food, so that many were compelled to use carcasses of their dead cattle; and from the pool children there was a perpetual cr for bread, which it was out of the power of the parents to tunh. Section 8 will contain an account of ihe erec'i' g a fort at the Iron Banks, on the Mississippi river, b G . Clarke Of his goieg frern thence to the relief of Coho and Si. Louis Or hi? rt ceivit g the information of the meditated attack
on the setthjments in Kentucky, b Col. join in con;nunity, Undt d two of Their native B rd Of the dangerous and pat riolii ,; ris on the isl.md Richardson '.nstantly made ell'art ot Clarke , Hai lie, ar d Consoln, toschoice cfor.i d then as Ins consort, and proapprize the inhabitants of Kentucky of jclaai-ed htr Q ienof the island, and the. other their danger fcc. &c. he calls his et olc 'Ihe distinction b-tween
Iiiilcs fjr asi ( rtainmrr a Horse's ac. learlir gaod lwo-w-ar (-Ids are alike
in the mouth, and must be judged bjr,q,,j.t iut Ilnp'tins suppled him with a
general appearance. At three years old the horse has f ur hoie teeth, two above and two below in front of the m .uth, which supply the pi. ice of the suckit leeth. At f ur he has eight horse teeth lour aoove ano lour neiow, naving corner teeth only sucking teeth. At live years eld, these are gone and the mouth is up thai is all the feeth are horse teeth, and the tusk is up on each side of the mouth. A dark mntk or hollow, is general!; obserwihlo in all the teeth in the bottom jaw at just five years old, and the tusk; are concave in their inner surlace. At six their middle teeth ill onlv have t eiht it has ,r,.,..,, n ,,r ii,,,.,, .,,,(i w.iii 4 un.-:v m oil no marks U loft aruj instead of
instead of neing concave in their in-S Decaf ui . G II.Avay maste surface become convex, the horse ishe Si ilt Orleans.
" up! then termd aged. T'lero is a great
0f th"e ae trom (I)C anpearance of the:cr lhe women and children slaves. ;
.1 mouth in irenera! when the mn !' are! mout, j g(MlPral, when the ma !. are' no fonor vi -i M. If the corner teeth do. not appear Io )g and mri'dag forward .as were to the front of the nnu'.h if thev lorse is not very old, particularly if his'icad is not gray, and not very hollow, above the eyes, though the latter shape sometimes exist in young horses. A coawiiat I have said about tne corner teeth.!
It is here necessary to mention that the ca?ie to the Inn a Patlerdale in a post chase man to whom we have alluded. No r.oditliculty of acquiringan accurate know 1-j alone and said she would remain for some cc was taken of the circumstance in the edge of the age of horses by their teeth, time. From the time of her arrival until first instance; but as the bird continued
is very much increased by the tricks lhat!ir following triday no put of her conduit
are practised. It is generally allowed that no horses are ill to work till at least live years oldthe mouth is forced bv these means, for the horse teeth succeeding soon after the operation, the animal appears to be a five year old. To delect such deception regard must be paid to the tusk. Kvpry horse upon attaining the full age of five, has the tusk completely upon each side of the mouth: but forced five-'car-
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' -TV - i. OTTMh it-fclfT old mouths the tusk is oiS v just making!
its way through the gum. There (rvAmght it being Lriht moonight several
cir-'Cjuently exist also m the latter an irregu
la rit in the front teeth, as well as a! they could not ' hozeevir discover any 'trace of backw ardness in the grow th of the tusk. htr but next morning a man passing the Forced mouths vary in their appearance A road to Grasm re found the body of ihe according to the time of performing hvyoung lr y 'ying nt the foot of the moun operation and the habit of observ'u g'am. It is needless to say, that the body tras
horsey mouth will alone enable you lolshockuig'y disfgured;- it seemed to runs
ast ertain whcie an artifice has been practised. 7 JWcilem Robinson Crusoe. Tie Thetis!
transport. Lieut. Hopkins which arriv d htrei:,!he following pa?S(-g im.'1 few m0)iths' re a few dyi since from the Pac.fi.! ocean, hid tirement, my dearest JJory and oil will occasion to ttuch at an island for tvater, the! come round and be well; you knozr you con eniy inhabitant on which was an English Sf-a-depend upon nip." There is no possibility man. of the nnoe ol Joseph Richardson, a na-;0r ascertaining whether the decth of this
live of Al'Mn-n n, n.ar Ashforo. in Kent. who,HHP female teas the result of accident but, hke anutket UoLu.st.ti, or Ahzau.l.-r SelLcrts.j ;; , ( f f 4 contra'
i ;iu iii iue cr.i'ice oi suc:i a sounry nous less spot upwards of three years since fvu a rest denee wlu-re he landed, at bis owu urgent dt ,8irt fiom a Pair ot ship of war, commanded by apt. liobertson. the island is hboiit od. lmili - s ,n ciirua.Urance, and ab-uit aides st-ldom visaed by ships, it does not afford nee ssary supplies of 'wood, but it does of wafer in abundance. It is r uiatk.ibl) f rale, nd abounua vith hogs and horsi s iiichardson had eulhYiilt d two pudciis, on the vt'uttble produce d' which, with poik, young horse fl sh, and wild pigt-oris he lives lit hunts the former aniniaia nb dos, a fine breeil of which he has broken in; the pigeons are so numerous ua- i. lias an e uimcur.y ,n oonnntng men. and a few other kmds of n.rds though the only fire-arms he possesses 13 mi oid musket with a brtvk n Sock, which tie discharges by means of a niHtch; and by watching under the flees, he contrives, with such defective, means, to rarv hi; diet as of' en s he wishes. .-bout nine months since, the Indians, hearing bis d-s -olatp situation ttioii2.li not at all diseased to larse two inuivu:uai3 was quits p icepuuie on lie present visif. Rictujrdson having no means of amnseu-ent beside the necesHrv einidorn enf of obtaininsr subsistence, at h.s oivn b th- and eras er book. Lieut H uT rdto tke lam ifT'be island hut ,e refused o. leave i, declaring h.s determination of passing his gild m his own jrovernment He had ctntii nc-
lectins a fort to protect hansel! from thejoim.
la i i e Indians i here vaa no present appe.1r.1nce ol any increase sf his sulj of? Hampshire 1 legraph New York, Nov. 10. The Circuit Court of the U. States adjourned yeslerdav, the 17th inst. On
Thursday eight slaves were tried for trom the shower of balls. What must having murdered the Captain and Muudhave been the nights of this husband and
of the schooner Decatur. One of them "'ifo? After four days of unavailing only was convicted, named William Hill icge, the Indians gave a yell, exclaimed, he was yesterday sentenced to be ext cu-jthat the house was a "grand medic it e," ted on the 1 0th of next December. The meaning that it was charmed andimpregciicurnstances attending this allair wereji-hlc, and wont away. They left beas follows: In the month of April last, hind forty bodies to attest themarksman33 slaves were shipped from Baltimore! ship and steadiness of the besieged, and for New Orleans on hoard of the schr.U pock "f balls, collected from the logs of
aster, the slaves to' On ic, oas a' l!le slav?s tbrew the captain and M lm:,ttI verboard and then appointed oi:e .. ... .. . two tho seamen, the other two scan lwo tho seamen, the other two seamen remained in the schooner w ith the slaves "lt-'f's' that the Constellation would
: i:(f'P dunpanv vviin mem, mil 111 tne
brought in two, the remainder were car rie to Boston by the Constellation. 4 melancholy circumstance has occurred 20 years of age calling herself Miss Sands n'ive the slightest reoson to suppose derange
mcnl of intellect ; she ate her meals hcarti y was sent out to look at it. So soon as and employed herself chiejly in reading on the child opened the gale aid approarhwalkiwr and 7ias mild obliiiin and stem-ei towards the old wall, the bird dringly quite a lady in her habits and deport- scended, and made immediately to the merit. On the afternoon of Friday neck little boy, who took it up, and carried it she told the landlady of the Inn that she was into the house, and the cage door being. going to walk to the top of llehillyo (the opened, the little warbler returned to its highest mountain in ihe neighborhood) and roost, 'here it yet remains, apparently left Patterdale seeming y with that intent more happy and contented than when it abcut Jive in the afternoon: night came ctjlhad its freedom. Pttcrsbvrgh Pup.
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iTViiTfcV nHHt.Mr .1) TITTW fcy - there were no tidings ofher return. Late at ptrons aseendcit ihe hill in search of her slrwc in its desieiit, many projecting rocks. In the repositories fthe deceased was found a letter from a person signing himself IVHlinn llaluunu dated fui'mouth, in zenith is ry it is supposed the re, & d of the coroner must bcy Found Dead. Liverpool Albion. From Flint's Valley t-f he Mississippi, DESPEIUTE COMES J. The following story of a desperate and successful defence of a log house, agaii st a party of hostile Indians, partakes a little of the marvellous; but it is well told 4The name of the hero in question whom the author knew was Bapti-te Roy, a Frenchman, who elicited, and, I am sorry to say, in vain a compensation tor his bravery from congress. It occurj at Cute sang f)c$s;n on ,1 Mi50ri. A tumerous baiid of I!0rthern savages, amounli to four hundrod he,et the . . x . - , , 7 . . , , ... . mi w ere hunters by profession, and had powder, lead, and four rifles in the house. They immediately began to tire upon the Indians. The wife melted and moulded the lead, and assisted in loadii r occasionally . taking her shot w ith th other two. Every Indian that approached the house was sure to fall. The wife relate?, that the guns would soon become too much heated to hold in th hand. Water was necessary to cool them. It was, I thii k, on the second day of the siege, that Roy's assistant was killed. lie became impatient to look on the scene of execution, and see what they had done. Jle put his eye to the port hole and a well aimed shot destroyed The Indians perceived that their hot had taken effect, and gave a ell of exultation. They were encouraged by the momentary slackening of the fire, to approach the house, and tire it over the heads of Roy ai d his wife. He deliberately mounted the roof, knocked off the burning boards, and escaped untouched the house." While I ills Ihe N. Hampshire Sfafesman 9,.s urAts 150 nit n mid ahuuf naif that ruimbr of oxen ar. wmnloy-d in repaying, the lurn,ik road passing thruuh the Note - V hit e dla and that it wilt be made for the sleighs ihe cou.in winter Th h f the pSSahls ie roml is momins: ltp S'in ris n on the tops of tho aioontons ftro hours btfert day. On the -26 of October ib summits of the more elevated mountains were covered wiib snow which fell the day previoiu. Smru!ar Cii g prillfrof the 1 jn U town pu ircumstance. r.arly in the Y present year, a gentleman purchased a young mckie.g bird, intending to rear it. It became very gentle, occasionally getting out of its cage, bur would as often return. On 'the 10th of July, however it made itsesbuildh g fronting the house of the gentlestationary, and appeared to gaze con- - : stantly on the house, one of the cnildren
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