Democratic standard. [volume] (Georgetown, Brown County, Ohio) 1837-1850, 1844-05-28

Lancaster now slands--ther successful
fight with the Indians upon Mount Pleas
ant, then called the Standing StOne--re.
cspture ofa female prisOner-and their
harrow and pierIOus escape from their wa
ry enemy
As early as the year 1890, the block
house and slockade, above the mouth Of
the HockhOcking river, was frontier
post for the hardy pioneers of The North
Western Territory, now that portion OF
our State from the Hockhockins to the
SciOtO, and from the Ohio river to our
Northern Lakes. Then nature wore her
undisturbed livery Ofdark and thick for
es,s. interspersed with green and howe'
nv prair;CU .Thtn the axe OF the woOdsman
had not been heard in the wilderness, nor
the plough OF the husbundman marred the
beauties of the green Prairies. Among
the many rich and luxurIant valleys, that
Of the HockhOcking was pre-emnsnt for
natures richest gifts-and the portion
whereon Lancaster now stands, was mar
ked as the most luxurianL andpicturesque,
and bee ame the seat Of anIndlan village +,
at a period so early, that, the 'memOry Of
man runneth no parallel theretO.' On
the green sward Of the prairie was held
many a rude gambol Of the Indians, and
here TOO, was mant an assem- blage ofthe
warriors of one Of the most powerful
tribes taking council for "war path"
hpun some weak or defenceless frontier
post. Upon one Of those war stirring
occasions, intelligence reached the lit
tie garrison above the mouth of the
Hockhocking, thatLthe Indians we're gath.
srinp in force some where up the Valley,
for the purpose of striking terrible and
fatal blew on one Of the few and scattsr
cd defences Of the whites. A council
was held by the garrison, aud scouts were
sen, up the Hockhocking, IN order 10 as
certain the strength Of the foe, and the
probable point of attack. Ia the month
of October and on one Of the balmiest
days Of our Indian summer, two men
cOuld have been seen emerging out Of
. the thick plumb and hazel bushes climb.
inc the eastern declivity Of that most re-
msrkabie promontOry, now known az Mt.
Pleasant, whose western summit gives
commanding view to the eye, of what is
doing in the prairie. This sminence
was gained by our two adventurers and
hardy scouts, and from this point they
carefully observed the movements taking
place on the prairie. Every day brought
an accession of warriors 10 those already
assembled, and every day the scouts wit
messed from their eyrie, the horse rac'
inc. leaping, running and throwing tho
deadly tolnahawk by The warriors. The
old sachems looking on with Indifference
---Ihe sqaws for the most part engaged
in their usual drudgeries, and the PapOos-
es manilesting all the noisy and wayward
10Y of childhood. The arrival ofany new
par,y of warriors was hailed by the ter
Iible war whOOp, which striking the face
of Meunt Pleasant, was driven back into
Ahe various indentaliOns of the surround
ing hills, producing reverberation on re-
Rerberstion, and echo on echo, till i
seemed az if ten thousand iends were
gathered in their orgies. Such yelli
might well strike terror into the bOsom'
of those unaccustOmed to them. To ou
scouts these were but martial music
strains which walked their wstchlulness
and newly strung their iron frames-fron
their early youth had they been always oil
the frontier, and therefore well know
ing the ferOCi:y and blood thirsty perse
yeranee of the savage. They were no
therefore likely be cirCumVented by III
cLuningnsss Of their foes, and without
desperate struggle, would moi fall victim
70 their scalping knives. On several OF
caslons small parties of warriors le
the Prairiss and ascsndsd the Mount; O
which occasions our scouts would bid
in the assures Of the rocks, or laying
the side Of some long PROSTATE tree, Co