Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1828-1831, 1829-08-15

in such Investigations. NJ.
Amherst county, July 22d, 1929.
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"rhere comes u voice ,iia, awskes my soIl--rt is the voice
of days that are gme-They non before the with all their
deeds OssIAN.
II becomes civilized man, as he floats down tho
tide ortime, to sketch the passing scenes, that pos
terity may profit by his wisdom api his folies:-Ia
1856, the whites began to extend their settlements, 10
New River aud Holston, in Fincastlc county. ~ A
mongst the first OF those adventurers, were-Gcn.
Evan Shelby, (2l Gen. William Campbell Col. WI.
liam Christian, Col. William Preston, Daniel Boone,
Thomas Walden, and a number ~ofJihecs, afterwards
distinguished in the histories oftheir country. Boone,
afterwards went to Kentucky, and finally to Missouri:
Walden was killed OH Clnch River, and the noun
tain dividing Clinch from Powell. river, still bears his
name. Those lands were mostly taken up at first,
as Corn rights,"-he who planted a few acres of
corn, acquired II right to rs many hundred acres Of
land surrounding it:-(3) Those frontiers were much
harassed by the %Shawnees. Deiawares, Watlawgas.
ane Cherokees. az a parry ofFrench Jesuits, about
TINS time, established themselves at GalliopoliS. near
iy opposite the mouth of Great kanawha:-thev in
cited the Indians 20 Commit great barbarities on our
frontiers. (5) Gallopols became n great point OF rem
devious for tie Shawnces and Dellwares; from
thence they would pass up the kanawha and Green
brier, and across the mountains To the frontiers ct Au-
gust1; or Up the kauawha and New River. and across
to James River aud Roanoke. Another chief point
III rendezvous, on the Ohio, opposite Roanoke. was
50 49, 'N''N ~ N'aNH IN'AtF W. IRll lCAlNt
;hey would pass up Sandy, and across by way of
Blue Stone River to New River and Roanoke.
y large party of Shawnees came in. in the Spring OF
1856, and destroyed nearly Tie whole Roanoke set
tiemen..
To avenge the last named outt rage, aud to prevent
its repetition, Governor Dinwiddic, in the summer
D: 1851, ordered out the campaign, which is common
heIe, as the SANDY CREyK VOYAGE" I6l The oh.
lJect of II was-to chaslise the s0vages on the Scotia
and to establish a military post at the mouth of Grea-
SANDY River, at q convenient point to intercept thai
route OF incurslo1, and ID counteract the French pos
OF GalIlopOlls, as well as to cut OF in some Hcasure
the intercourse between Galliopolis, and the India1
towns on the Sciota and Mama. This expedition WA.
commanded by the then Col. Andrew Lewis; it con
sisted OF a company Of regulars, principally drawn
from Fort Dinwiddie on Jack sons River. then com.
handed by Capt. Audley Paul, and three companie.
OF Colonial minute men, one ofthem from Botetourt
and the other two from Angusta-one of the comma.
mes rom Augusta, was under the command Of Capt.
John alexander and the late Governor John Nc
Mutt OF Nova Scotia, was a sabsltern in that compa-
NY; the other company from Augusta. was conman-
ded by Capt. WiHiraa HQgg; (whose conduct is said
TO have justified his nancy and tho late Capt. John
Anderson of Towards creek in Grecnbrier, vas one
Of Hogg's subalterns: the BOtetourt company wa,
commanded by Capt. William Preston.
This campaign was attended with circumstance.
OF individual suffer .ngs, peculiarly distrcssiuq. It,
comparative failure, II attributed Ia Il great measure
by some, to the tardy movements OF Capt. Horg
the whole regiment were required to rendezvous. nj
the post where Col. Lewis was then stationed ON tbc
49, E' 49, AEF All ltL IlRIG
excepting HUgg's company, and determined Ia 90 t,e
route by way OF New River and Sandy, for two rea-
sons-one was, to avoid an early discovery by the en-
cmy, by passing down the much more public rom,
of Great Kanawla; the other was. tina, tbov mil,
suddenly drop into the Indian towns, In the yallcy al
Sciota, previous TO discovery or interrnptiou bv fbo
French post OF GalliOpolis. They waited at Lcyis's
Tor Capt. Hogg, more than a week. and fnolIv CO,
out without him--they went ont by the bis, bond If
Roanoke, and crossed New River at Browns c,ri
below the Horse shoe; and descended that river to
inc mouth OF won creek-they assembled that creeL,
TO It's source, and pissed over to the head of Rlpo-
stone river, where they delayed about another WOOL
Tor Capt. liogos cOmD8ny-tbcv then crossed rho
nat top Mountains, to the head of the North fork nr
sunny river anu continued down that stream TO the
great burning sprDg, n where they "a .,ted one dav
At this place their salt and provisions. which ia
been conveyed on pack horses, became ovbouet.J
They had killed two B~uiTiloes, at the mouth nc Pid.
icon croeK' Just move tie spring; where Carter
Clarke now liYcs) they roasted them M tho Bnrning
Spring and alto them; and hung .npir hides IN n m 2
beach tree. From this time. they had IN de,c,d 90
tIeIy upon nc game ct the woodg. for tvb. isfeprs
lhcy proceeded down 10 the Great Fails If t,ot rio
er' now Donathan's mills whore they canghi ano,h
or Onlialoe-on the next day they were oysrfaken no
Il runner, with information that Cout. Unor ,yiit, ~.
company, were only about n days Journey behind.
Lewis therefore halted az themorfh of La D;,, yivcr
LG) nowlBloomcrs and Shorts salt workg mill Can,
iIogg arrived. On The ntJt dov, lin DcceuLor
lI5I they were oyertaken by an cxoress frop, Fr,,
CTS Fauqnire. who had inst taken his seat. as Gov.
eTnof OF NirRinia, as the successor Of Governor Dir.
H"u'i--"lh orders - return hDBc, md disland all
.h' troops, excepting Capt. Pauls rcrulnTs-wbo
"crr 20 return to Fort DinwidI,o. W"
This order TO retVrn. mo- do,,t, ,,oso
Ghan9e OF |oyerDdrs in Virginia; Govrrnor DinwiJ.
ue had ordered out tho campaign Governor Fan.
qn!re or5crcd ITS returns tho reasons given by Fan.
cures friends for this singular c,,,ngc o. ,o,io,
werei that Lcwi5s forces wcro TOO 0o,t ~ pLa.y,
establishment sufficiently strong, ut tic mouth ~ ~
Sandy and 10 defend il and homseIves. og,,cs' ,Io
gt'ht lotcc9 % 10 enomy, 10 be expected n, Clat