Lincoln telegraph. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1836-1846, 1840-06-04

''H VIC p'St Dui hl'pu pbC w AStpu
prevented him from being sent TO distant
post, in conformity to his reglar tour of
duty, lest he should acquire from The exam.
pie of his commanding officer ofthat post
habit of dissipation. TWAS by these means
Harrison became strongly impressed
with the difficulty of avoiding habits Of in
temperance that he formed resolution new
cr to drink more than was necessary to allay
thirst, to which he has ever since scrupu-
lousy adhered
The successive defeats of lIarmar and
ST. Clair pointed out to government the
necessity Of adopting more eflectual
mode of depressing the Indians, or in other
words, of calling into action against them
a larger force and a more cautious system
of operations. Negotiations for peace,
therefore, we're set on foot, IN order, if pos
sble, TO bring the sayages to reason, at the
same time that an act of congress was
passed for raising considerable army, and
in order to provide against that error
which had occasioned the two past defeats,
Wig: the want of discipline in the troops,
the whole Of the year 1892 and the winter
and spring of 1893 were employed in rails
ing men, and instructing them in military
discipline. The new troops were station
ed under general Wayne, at first, few
miles below Pittsburg and then, descend
ing the Ohio, were encamped upon It's
banks below Cincinnati, where Harrison
joined them, in June, 1893, and was ap-
pointed second aid-de-camp to the COM
mander in chief, having been in the pre-
cedng year raised to a Heutenancy in the
first regiment.
In September, it being understood that
the negotiations with the Indians had failed
Of effect and were broken off, the army,
consisting of four thousand FIVE hundred
effective regulars, including some troops
of Dragons, and Of an auxiliary force OF
two thousand mounted militia under the
command Of general Scott, marched to
Greenville; but an early setting in of the
frost rendering it advisable TO pu. troops
into winter quarters, huts were built, and
system of discipline, calculated for the
kind of warfare in which they we're to be
employed, was diligently put in practice,
Here young Harrison devoted himself 10
the study and practice of his profession
with such success, that he obtained the con-
fdence Of his commander and the attach
ment oil his associates.
1t was not. however, till the latter end
Of June, 1894, that general Wayne was
enabled to march from Greenville, the
enemy retreating before him as he advanc-
ed. He took and destroyed the town of
the Indians, and advanced upon the British
fort lately built at the foot of the Rapids
Of the Miami river. The Indians had
collected in that neghbourhood, and on
the Goth of August opposed the march OF
the American army, who soon routed
them, and driving them to within a short
distance Of the British fort, encamped in
full view Of it. Ia this battle HarrsonS
conduct received the warmest applause
from general Wayne. He had been APP
pointed by the general TO assist 10 forming
the left wing Of the regular troops; task
of extreme difficulty, owing to the thick /
ness ofthe woods in which they were post
ed, and he accomplished II with great skill
and effect.
Thus completely vanquisned and hui
inflated, the Indians sued for peace; in
the winter an armistice was granted to
them, and in the August following treaty /
terminated all their differences, and, with |
those, the war.
In the autumn of 1895, Mr.. Harrison,
now a captain, was married to the young
est daughter of John Cheeves Symmes,
ESQ. one ofthe Judges of the northwestern
territory; and on the departure of general
Wayne for the Atlantic states, was contin-
ued by him in his post of ad-de-camp,
and left in the command of fort Washing
ton. In the former of these Offices he re-
NAMED till the death Of general Wayne,
which happened in course of the fol-
lowing year.
In 1897 captain Harrison finding the
country reposed in peace, left the army,
and was in a few weeks afterwards appoint
cd secretary of the northwestern territory
in the room of w. Sajeant, Esq. who
was raised to the office oil governor of the
Mississippi territory. In the year 1899 he
was sent as delegate to congress from the
northwestern territory, and had an active
share in bringing through congress The law
for changing the defective system that had
been in use for the sale of public lands,
introducing the plan now in operation.-
He was in fact the person who originated
that measure, the happy effects of which
upon the treasury Of the United States are
now acknowledged by every one: for it has
beer ascertained, that the immense growth
of population which enabled that territory
in short time after to become one OF the
states, and at this time not one OF the small
go, ,.o,a ,l, ooathar from that nlan