Public Leger, Volume 4, Number 12, Richmond, Wayne County, 18 August 1827 — Page 4

SELECTED POETRY.

From the Rockingham Gazelle. I love the memory of that hour When first ia youth I found thee; For int uit beauty gently threw, A morning freshness round thee; A single star was rising there, With mild and lovely motion: And scarce the zephyr's gentle breathe, "Went o'er the sleeping ocean. I love the memory of that hour It wakes a pensive feeling, A? when within a winding shell, The plru lul winds are stealing. It tell my heart of those bright year Ere hope wcut down in sorrow, When all the kj s of yesterday Were painted on tomorrow. W Ltre urt thou now ? thy once loved flowers Their yellow leavts are twining; And brief ;t and beautiful acain That single star is shining. Cut where art thou ? tke beuJing grass A (ew stone discloses, And love'i light footsteps print the ground Where nil my p-eace repose?. Farewell 1 my tears were not for thee, 'Twcre weakness to deplore thee; Or vainly mourn thine ahscene here, While angels half adore thee. T!iy d i wor few, and quickly told; Tlty short aid mournful stry ll::th i; le-1 hkc' ti. " moruiiij; star Tii it m Us in decprr glory.

1 ir :nnnAei i - i f trn! inhvn n nrlc.. !! orrl.iliP. which tllCV dlSCOVCrcd h)' the j

j! removed a considerable way into the wil- cracking of the brush, as they were.com-

mmm II I I 1 I ' L ft..., Ptllfl III ITIl. I

! demess, and murdered; as no tiding ing up in tne darn, i nesu iv. .. could ever be trained of his brine a prison- ed the settlement at oil creek that night;

oe gamed oi nis oring a pn

j er among them, when the different Indian ; tribes were in at Greenville, to form a ! treaty in 1792. His loss was a. severe 1 one to the settlement, as he was one of the most active and enterprising men they ! had among them. He left a wife and several chiieren. Captain King was shot

;j while chopping, a short distance from the garrison; he left a wife and two children,

; and was a native of Rhode Island. Jona? ! Da?is was shut and scilped, near the , mouth of Congress creek, about a mile j from the garrison. Bcnoni llulburt, one ! of the spies, was shot, at the mouth of the .Little Ilockhorking as he was returning j from a scout, in the spring of 1791. i These were the principal losses the set Itlementat Bcipre experienced from the Indian which may be called almost mirlaculous, when we consider their exposed situation, beingthe frontier settlement, J and entirely open for several years to the ! numerous tribes of Indians who inhabited

oartv ol linen nnnmn.o;,

r J ! ,wl 1 o r; I r. . . . 1

L Jian wns killed, the othr-r i. 'v"e

bv this timely notice, they were enabled

to be in readiness lor me inuiuiic, wuu rived early the next morning, but finding the settlers prepared to meet them, they lelired without making any attempt. Had it not been for the fortunate escape ot the two Builards, this settlement would probably have shared the same fate with that at Big Bottom. The settlement at Waterford was alio attacked by the Indians; they were beaten off without any loss of lives but they suffered a considerable loss in cattle, which the Indians drove away. It was afterwards discovered that oi e Indian was shot thro' the shoulder. In I7JM, tAbt 1 Shearman wag kill, d at Waterlord; and in 1795 Shearman Wateiman was killed on Little Wolt creek. The settlement at Marietta suffered but

little from the depredations of the Indians.

j One was also killed on Da; k -'' bout three miles from Marietta" v

One ut th

t , ..III A 1 1 I

wucie .t 6fiumcni nnu been K,-r .

jbandoned on the breaking onf" ' .', U:

dian war.

! Two Indians had been disc.ivcrei iday before, on Mill creek, a Vl)i 'lh

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from Marietta, by one of t!, i . hv

as he was returning with the co-.v ' (Were so intent on examining the ' , h '7 the footsteps of passengers,!,'; jnot see him, although only a lew iV"' jhim, he made a circuit round tT jhills, and reached the garrison in' ?-r , t Early the ensuing morning, a party 0fLft' ' turned out m pursuit of the Indian t ' judged by the spies, that they ucuU Z

me mgni ai me abandoned seltWf.r

Approaching thertfor&

Duck creek.

vvith rautinn. th Iruliitu ,v

j 1 ' . UtSCQVQT .without giving any alarm; one of thejwas amusing himself with turning a lapgrindstone to him probably a novl

Their cws would octasionally come home ;The other had clambered up on the o ' with arrows sticking in ti.em, and some- J side of a cabin, aud was locking down

I the waters f the Scioto and Muskingum ! times they drot: them Ut. or destroea woocJcn chimney, to see what dUcovene, i rivers. The settb mnt at Newbury vas j! ttu-m. It w is against me regulation of he could make within. Hamilton Ktrr harrassed considerably bv the depn da. j the settlement for any horso to run at ione of the spies, (and son of Mr. K. kiSloi

lions Oi IDC mutatis.. URC Woman atlU IWO SM.ue, invy ueiu ni ui-j. u vi iuinticcikaiiicu uui u;e li.Cian f,n

I children were killed, and a rhild she had

in her arms was tomahawked, but after

llheurl coiisequeuce to the Indians, as tue cabin tor his mark: the rest of tu

: thev are not only easily removed, but al-o 11 company fired on the Indian at tho rr;, 'i

...... ... , w v (l . . - SjiiiJU- ! wards recovered of its wounds, as they )' assist tnem in their retreat; tliis regul i-;' stone. The one on the calin feli dead-th-

were zoinz to a p irtv of men who were at !' tion, with two r three ntte.rpts, winch

work in a field, a short distance from thr i 'hey made on this eettlen.er.t, proving dis-

; garrison. I he Indians escaped wituout i asirous. was me reason wi) mey so sei-

other escaped, uninjured; arid Uki.i

to

p loss, although pursuit was itistantly made, j dmti visittd the j ,.u c. A nan b) the; discovered in the neighborhood of trie

NOTBS OH OHIO. No

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Thoett!e,et.l:tl Marietta commenced,' ine vear i , sc moment wer. i' n ti!i a t.rii i-' O 'Pi :c . , n r,ref f. C'Hi at tue forks ol Duck creek, at U iter-

ihatuacinude it'thc couHv, and indct d S fo' lhc river, about 20 Point Ha. mer, was killed by an Iudian in i !, -,. .,. .,,,, ,. ii1:k f,!V- ri:t;.'l'!i above .Marietta, at the mouth ol ! "pen day, m the y car 1 1 9 J ; Hie Indian es-

-leg s ercek, and at Die Bottom 32 mil i capeil uahurt. ilatttiew iverr was snoi ai :

'tlight, batlled the exertions of his r-ur..;.

ers. Aiinoutin ine luuians wrrp

C7 V

it ime ol lv)bert S .i th, who was chopping

m ;i tie'd, witnm uu:j shot of tue fort ou

e set-

tit.- ih'1 state )f Ohio. Tiiis setthmcnt; u t- f, uikUt the direction of the Ohio s- 'nr-iHv. 'i'ho. emigrants were New; i... z i'.d' rs. fio;n the states of Massachuset-, K'ndt; I-land, and (ronnectirut, for- ... . .... i . ... i i .i . ... .:

'tw. t;i iniu.iicr. ana u juer me :'us

tlements, and were frequently pursue

they generally escaped wi;h impunity. I mm , -

oo lar as 1 nave been able to K an,, the Indians had no fixed residence, within the present boundaries of Washington cou.,tv.

up the Muskingum; another was common- (; the mouth of Duck crrck, while crossing But the tract of country embraced within

ced at Wolf creek near the forks; thes 1 in a c anoe. About this tiriie one of the

settlements were all on a tract of land call- j "spies,"' by the name of ilh.im Roger?, eI thv Donation Lmds, containing 100. ); w.is killed a f:w miles from Marietta, as 000 acre?, in lots of 100 acres, which lots he wa, returning from a scout, in company

.iameat.J?uperintendenceof(;en. Rl!tu. ere given to any person who; ould mab w.th auothci 'sin , by the name cl Heni ....... I .... I ill .! T" I I. I ! .(,.. ... I.. .... ...... 1 . .1 ..... V.

Putnam. Tnat sea?oa they planted " 50 - an ;,c!o ll 'Icmp.t thereon. The- lat-ds ;j deisun. Tu e.crcsorcota,a:,l built a st'o- kaded fort,!; l,rst lver' b' the Company, ij a;d tired upo

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it was used as the common hunting ground ; of several different tribes, m ire partituI larly the Shawnees, the Delawait?, ai.i the Wyandots. That tract of cojr'ty ; embraced by the Ohio Comp:ir.v"; vur.

hioiru.s xva)lai'i the path, j; cha&e, is reputed to have been ti.e test

son them as they p:ised by

j hunting ground, north west of the Ohio ih

cr: and is remembred with letzielto thii

Mu-kin-um river cfutiicient tren-th to! ;uk1 ,!,er Ian' "ivcn lo t,lc company in ii tuank-t it .uu.:; at bis hick, hut without day by many of the old Indian. 1 have

o.t :: ;. r:,on, on the eb-vatcd plain near the C '"ere afterwards assumed by Congress j Henderson nad a ball snot th.ough his

hid def..:,K... to anv attack of the Indians Ii -U'" Tlis lract lies a few miles i inju, in- nun

sho ild t!ey piove ho-tile. In the sum-!'

i'he It.di.

north of the settlemen

uu tlnte.-i him been told by iome of the first settler o:

t at Marietta, and aevi-uil msN s, I ai t-y hi.. u:u nor activity i'this place, that the hills were litlcrali?

nier.uid autumn ihev wer, Joined hv about ' ' xu MUs ' a5,u wcsl across me waters anu ne csc.ij.n; unnu.i. , covered wtiU bUUalo, Ueer and, wild tin-

!-M iv Mm. ii,,, r,r:, ni..rt n,.rp!0,,,lk"kfr,,t,f' Iuking..m River, Olive i

im ine iraiiv reVilution;tr ifiicersarul sol-

-ii ii.uicd to 1 et'mie. and habituated to'

It H ..- I nrt'itrrf' uu in n tn th.i '

" f ..... J il. .! i itwi mC .. ,.l III .. "if.. 1..m... J..'! I . .1- .1 I

i i j, it ii uiiu in, ii niesu sevei'ii sei-ti n..v.u. m niuiaiu, m. auvtij;-, tu (l weens. ji mis ime luev nave i cctrr.3

m'.litr.iv h ihit-, that they ued s-o little

I:vrn the attack of t!ie hu'iai. in the wart v.hit h brc-ke out the third year after their ' ttli tr ent coinn.n ( cd ; bein; ilwa on; 'heir ttuard. and goiri'4 into th ir rem-, ii'-i !? uit.h their guns ne.-ir tljem, and otx ! or two of lh(?ir iiiimber e!e vaU i on a hiiih j-'fitrplike .? sertir.el on hi- uatch touer, lilt y were a!n;n? prepared for an altnik,'

i -ii:ntj-e: en ina -tatues v.u Ii no way i

The u-n.: i oi Ju.ie, ITUx. R. J.;;keys; that the hunters made a tus.tie:;

'Gr-en cr-ek, Me ig'a creek, and Woll ;' M. igs, jr. t . vei n.-r I the Slate of of killinu the deer, tor theh -skins, and

cnek. t.Fm ii i.; m riy eligible sitiitions l Oiiio, and i'n t Piaster G -neral,) now de- j. low only, and that cne expei t hunter could far -"ttlemer:t. At the close of the year ceased nai! a lt nuitaw escape from j kill several hundred in the course cfa few

tlement-, could muster four hundred and sj companv w ith a man bv the name ol S)-

forty seven men ; one hundred antl thr; e ! riiunds, and fit? id -.ek evy aui ot 14 or 10

of winch lad iannh's. I he rumbcr 1 ! ears ohi, w aa letui in-just at night Horn j; a day, and perhaps not one ia a day. Ti.e chibltt-n I have not been ah! to learn. i: his t mf.etii w.n.r.- lie had been hoeinir. htifliilr hnvi- hn tlrivx from th rnivtri

scarce; the best hunters car.net kill, in ?.

j favorable time, more tlian three or fcur in

The settlers were ncai l all from the New I! Ttie lodians had secrete j themselves by

Llngh.nd state?, and many of them youn ; the side ol the path, between him and the men, without families. The settlement i ' tort, on the west bide of the .Muskingum

at Big Bottom was destroyed by the la- j! river; as he approached the river fur the; dians, January 2, 1791. Fourteen person ' purpose of crossing it, some turn in the'

towards the

one of the In-

; many years since, and the race ci tai key s

is almwst extinct.

ii iiiiii-i, i ii i uii- iiiim : im.i' ii uu i I'll I , - i i :n;t, d the Indian mode of -rtare: the ( " cro k,,,ef n,ld.,lvc vvere takcn lnoner p :th placed him with his back .nvari ihly i.u fen in- to atta, k the 'unua- . iU? s,ain OI,e woinan ai d 2 I ; U'is J'cture on iv and the n uMnuded, cleulating on uc- " J;!uldl"cn; lhc rcma,ncior ere younir men. j duns tired and ikU bvmonc r.'e- mere fn.mlhesudd-n and unexnect- 1 settlement was composed of young j shoulder. Being an excellen

ea man; er oi auaek, inan on mtir own; .. - s a! p or. ; ( a the - h venth of Ap.il, 17CL settle-! me; t- ueie brmjnat Di !pre ai d Xehul. Tie; tii-t i - tureen miles below Marie't en tho ():uo uer; the latter U CO rr.ih-s. Strong L'anis'.n iiouse- were Luiil at both th? ?e j laeov, to w hirh the settlers ! Il'd in any alarm; but the t:i cater number lived within tho narii-on s I : us ai y das er Irosn the Indian- w as apprehended. There re three cd'thes- garrisons in It !;!: he strongest one was called Farn - Ca-tle.' Ai;or the Indian war enmmenced in ! T'.M , I'.ur r -fx lanei c-r "sj des," as . e we ie t!ie?t call d, weie kept !: ( onsaant employ hy t!ie O; io company, whose 1 lejiivs it wa- to sraair the uood- daily, i'e' makf i '"p ! I immediately on discover- i ing -i:,M;s th.st Indi.ans were in the neih-; ho: :.A)d ; a- ;!i lhin; sei ions r r alar nit .g '! 'as discovered, the "spies,' gae nfdice, ti e alarm iun w i-tii d, and eery man s ha-tened ii - m th- ti Id, from the wood, oi ' w!i.ieir he rniut he, diiectl) lo his pot; the urates w ere shut, ai d in a few :; mo.nte- all were ready for the expected ' attack. Hal the often threatened attack never took place. The y,mkef" were '! ;.iWav& in preparation to rceive comp j - . . ... ..." i

in; anci ei course tr;e Indians f,t

men, who had drawn their donation lots,

and had jurt commenced improvements j upon them. They had built a block house j arid two cabins, a few rods from the house

all of which were occupied. They were I

in no appichension of danger from Indians as the war had not yet commenced; and

they visited the settlements in a friendly

monds thro' ti.e i

i

cut swimmer, n

SIJELP. It is in vain for people to cipect thai they can have fine v?ool, without Idtr Bucks. Twenty years since our wuol 3 all ol the coarse kind; and our manuiic-

,.turers Wire ifnnrant of dre&sin? cKtlr,

ue iuv-k immeuiuici) io ine river ariu, me!' . , . , . , , black boy followed him. but the boy be- i: et ,al Uat Ume shceP wcrc co:i5uler 3 ing unable to swim, was purged by the ji ProJ"le stock, and the farmers who Ime Indian who had discharged his :ille, draK- ?( woj" hmespun, are now most ot them iica

fTfil f u th hhm o tiin:l.m. l-..rt 'i 1 1 comI,

p,-. ..v. v. t...u ovuir ; ,. i.i 1-1 J

ed. S.nond,tloatedduu n the river, i0 ! "ons wmcu mey anu meir cuuuieMc the fort was taken up and recovered of ii sred in consequence ol the coarseness

his wound. The other Ir.di r.u u hn It .-mc OI eir aress; but tne tunc nasnow ion

manner lre-pjently. The Indians it seems ii was on!v aimed with a tomahawk, now l wIicn every farmer can vie with the pn

nice

had been watching the settlement ncarl)

an aay, from tne top of a neighboring hill, and just at dusk in the evening, they commenced their attack: one party approached the block house, at the same time another parly approaching one of the cabins, in a friendly manner. It was occupied by four men of the name of Choat; they entered without noise, beccued to the men to be quiet, or they would tomaha. k thern: confined them with cords and made tht m prisoners. I3y this time the other part) had reached the block house. The men had just come in from work and ueie busily occupied in getting their sup

per?; their ai rns were laid carelessly b in the cotneis of the room: a large Mohawk Indian led the van, pushed open the door and held it in that position, until the o her Indians had discharged their rifles upon its astonished inhabitants. No resistance was made except by the woman, w ho seiziut? an axe. made a blow .it fb

on his throne in the texture of his ccat,by

;r. Mr. Mc.Ks presented !! a lP" a""" to his flocks. Vom some nahance han-H . On this subject a writer in l cnns;Iu-

; poned to be unloaded, approaching the ln-'i ?tV7 Idianata prett) ...idpace: as he passed'!, " f lie fmcrs ought to g

approacbeu Mr Meigs with motions tor

him to surrende

his gun, w hich from

crow mote w

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d,, to call; ii.it would occasional! ii , ' " , ' ,, , . Ht;Sn '"J"1

oi uu io ins samuiuer; nui oeiore siic

o.;k

tlie door, to see who was at

J . e 1 . 'i' i ' rn'Tit at R'lnr 'however, lost

!: could repeat tlm blow, the other Indians

! rushed in with their tomahawks, killed

'her, and all who survived the first fire.

............. ! iu pin.i;. as ijc pasaeu I j , n I by him, he struck tne Indian w ith hi, (rn. ;i let them bear in mind that all the wool

and the Indian returned the blow with his1! Wti Srowi e manufacture that we n;itomahawk it stunned him a lit le, but ! !5r'' and manufacture millions of pounds did not check his. progress. The Indian -l?1 Tazv :i'oo evcr" ear besides the willimmediately pursued, hi t heit g unable to' ,ons ol dollars worth woolen cloths, overtake the object l hts pursuit, he! bIallket5 &. Sec. which we annually imstopped threw his tomahawk, which nar- P0t and consume. The farmer will betf rowlv missed its a.m. uttered thr- Indi .iJ! ,n mind WW is in demand; that hie

" i, iv . i 1 1 i . . . , ... i . r. i -. . i i i a . . . I . ......

l : :: : ... iu .r..m u,rrU.,. and not A,,cr "j" . ,;,0K ltcl; was ovc.r' ' d"

c-.r. I.::- a,.v.a..,r :. . c. vr. rn I,:wl rml i - H.u..uc ...fc, UHUCT 1110

t !-5. iy their vicinity. 17 K .Major (i ) lall a native of !1a. r. u,t-. lakcn by the Ittdians

v. a,I laiil::, tijrdM', with an ox team I

heds, piled up in the concr of the room,

j toi y tound a tKiy 14 or 15 years of age; i him they saved alive, and took with their

other pi isone.s to Detroit. The other

I C.ahill W.l uri imicrl hi.' fun nnn n I.i, 1 1

n adjacent om-I; his team .9 , n., mt nf , . , K ..,, : i... '

....w ! UIHI I Kl y II III' III III IH lilt 111 1 I ! Ll Vest-;! , . 4t, . i.i i, i , ' , "

a r.i ine uiueK m use, rusneo oui .u.a mailt

(o r tiev r rj. iUt 0f :Maior Gcodall no

c,.,:ate discovered. Jt wa, general-jlUcir just a3 the Indians were ap.

war cry, and gave up Hie chase.

Had Mr. Meigs tried any other expedient than that of facing his enemy and lushing immediately upon him, he musi inevitably hive lost his life. On his left was the river, on his right a very steep and high hill; beyond him the pathless wood, and between him and the fort, his Indian foes. To his sudden and unexpected at tack, to his dauntless and intrepid manner and to bis dexterity in the race Mr. Meigs undoubtedly owed his life. The Indians were immediately pursued from the fort and a number of shots were fired at them by the "spies" ou thecal side of the riv-

; er, but they gained the hill which over i looks the towns, and bidding defiance to

j men- pursuers, escaped unii jurt d. During the whole of the war. onlv twn

Indians were certainly known to have been

killed. Ono of these was killed on the Little Muskingum, by Mr. Henderson one ol tile nii ' llir,. ' i i-

i'i eon panv. when the n r.,.. ,i;.,. , '

Ii n thetr camp. ICender.un, with a

demand is increasing, that it fetches a good price, That the growth is not only a duty they owe their family, but their country: and that, therefore, interest, duty and jntrwtism cry aloud to our farmers, "Grow more Wool." I beg again to rocommend the improvement of the breed ol sheep." I crmont Gaz. Terrchnuie. August 4, Mr. Knight and his corps arrived in this town last evening. Our citizens were much gratified1 see them. The independent course MrKnight pursues; and his indefatigable exertions in the discharge of his duty, c-'r hut secure the respect of his fellow cit!" zeus, ami the confidence of his empb ) '; We have reason to fecilitate ouu upon the certainty of this grand thoio"fare passing in the vicinity of our Iowd and from every information our hopes tn fortune has to fixed ur natnnd pcVhr; as to render the location ol ibis, grc-t through our town a matter of mrr? er" tainty than of doubt.