Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1828-1831, 1829-09-26

rffer ,, hing Corrisalls and HIS
came TO attack the Fort a. p;. soon
MEX 81 ~ was ,nen commanded by Gait Vy;I;.,,.,
~ Ken,u a.e ia'e s Cod VIM Mckee Of Iiiscoln COMM
: -, ~ s-sy W They sent a summons 70 MsIs.
TO surrender;-McKee, KNOWING That ,I W nichec
easily surround and besege the, for, Enemy couia
nom obtaining supply of water he asha s.,
Dme "'snf, ITO dream ON the proposed So, Tl'iy
ms was granted During thai n;gbt ,,,;i i1 I
dreaming (wheher with his ewes Omen or M, T ~ss
not informed he had his men busily engaged IN . al,
ig waer rom the river, and when every vessel in,
.he Tort tlat would hold water was filleJ be co.,.
wo,o 10 TIE enemy, by the Grenadier Souayv Icorn
San Ss,erl nus interpreter, ssthta the Great Spir.
'1 nun m his dream, that no ought not to sur
icincr' ne Indians then beosn t3,air a,t,cL ,nJ
hept the garrison closely bcseoed for about ,veaI
~ hliis t'iat they could neither shoot tho vvb;tes
he rs s'ar'e them out, they retired = -
,d L On leaving the fort did not return homc-
iuS' out started up the kenawha towards Creor-
prier. Mckee sent. two men, witt, t
ana hasten on to Greenbrier, to warn the set,
inert o. approaching danger: those messengers
soon overlook the enemy, and found them d;snc1sed
10 groups hunting After following the Indians s
.,iie' 'he messengers became DISCOURAGED -onnos;n
.,ey co.a NOT pass through among the Indians with
: fort. ie'oihea 10 the
raoh re o,ns convinced, that If the Indians should
iech inc Greenbrier settlement before the whites
were warned of their approach the settIcr,ent iJ
be destroyed, he therefore made torc;hl a,S @
aietc appeal TO his men, and concluded bv nsl;nng
Dho VIII risk his life to save the people of Sreenh
, LII sn',n rIyof and Philip Hammond answered
we WILL and stepped forward as volunteers: one al.
iiaiihoid friends remarked that If he knew tho
Oh such tour he would not sacrifice his liz.
- tbs way Hammond is said to have replied TO
nm ~ III something like the hot anruaoe of Oss;,ns
CothDori 'iEc lime of danger is tla Tprv se,sor ~,
the foe!" anu ioSa me Ola
Pryor and Hammond were dressed in FLO J,d;,,
80 aha the orenader Squaw, who was then in the
III aud VINO Notwithstanding the murder of her bre-
ei u'o nephew, seemed to be III much attachedto
49, MS, painted Pryor and Hammond in the H.
u,' war stvie they then set out, and BIZ TRAVELLING
night anu day, they overlook the Indians ~, No.d,
RIVER, about twenty miles west OF Dounellv,s For,.
NOV Anthony Raiders, SEM they passed the Indians
without beng recognized, and arrived at the fort
ABOUT sllndown. The people of tho re;rbho-bon3
were coliected INTO the fort during that lcht. fSee
Col. Stuarts letter. and Pryor and Hammond. pro
ming py tae example OF Capt Mckee. at Point Plea
SAINT ADVISED the people at Donnsrvs Fort TO procuI.
a good supply OF mater. They did So A barred yras
MED and rolled beliud the door and every man Who
VIII read COL Stu9rts Letter above referred to, viii
see that that barrel OF water was larqev inst
IN saving the fort; that barrel enabled III lin IIan,
mona ana Ote6 Pointer to preserve the door ffou he
ing oursted open, until the whale strength of tie SDrt
ConI be brought to bear on the enemy. (3l
Inc State OF Virginia some wears afterwards xa-v
PopeIy purchased Dick Pointer Ia negro slayel from
His haser and set him free by act Of the LeeiI
Z +iIe- lie lived IN CiIecnbrer until 1897 uba1 -
was gathered to the tonbs Of his fatbors ..sn '.
years ana full OF honors." 40 man vas more
20 " ms acquaintance than Dick Pointer. have
80 1i "puTs, While youth, and listened to that re-
"s u'fe ola gentleman recouHtins the deeds of wore
MAen the voice of past time had risen ike tie sim ~
iS SOUL and he folt the joys of other DAYS His OH;
t1ary, recorded Ia the Lewisburg Palladium testcs
tne nigh estimation in which he had been held bv he
Iel'ow citizens. If we may believe the ceIebrateJ
sioech OF "sUordecci .hannsi .Noah C;ocernor o,J
1sdgt 81 israel at the foundation OF the new (,;tv
9 9l Arrarat upon Grand Island IN New York. in 1872
LICK oiner must have been a remote descendant .,
iiah' The son OF Noah. Dick Pointer, However Was
torn IN America; and when Mr.. Jefferson was e,
eiogucntly exposing to merited rdicue the Count do
B1hons and the Able Reynas enrious defr,cf;on ~.
the human character In America by she,r;no tbat
America had produced, amongst the tchnes n IvssbS
Ineton IN war, Franklin in PHILOSOPHY, Rittsn.
mouse IN astronomy; amongst the red men. n Iogai,
ana an oPechanconnough, ard amongst the bioSk,
fhilhs, he might have added, with patriotic prido
'dnd D'of Pointer, citizen soldier"
-, ,,p..-,,, SON OF CORNSTALK.
40 behold he shall up, ike lion from, ,,s s,vs;
10. -0---'- = - ~ s"0's -'e'emish
20 See Jeiiers0ns Notes Virginia. 9Th edition, sd anrs,
dix; page 351 - "''"' Al apPel-
81 u have heard the various particulars of the .isoe ofDo
c lof rom tnose who were in the time s,cb a.
we women Dene employed m running bullets while the men
were engaged IN bghtDg; tire Indians maxine ~ %
the fort and the means taken by the whites TO defea, ,Ie
attempts the Indians getting under onr of the houss and
he whites slipping thc kcse plank side and shootjng
down among !hsm, &c But these are minor oacla, as
suppose worth detailing even If coul do !, ;b 80
racy, whichi suspect could no,r NV i~ 'o''