The Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1846-1852, 1848-11-03
General Coss and the Widow CumptOn'S
COW.sGen. Taylor at Fort Harrison.

COw-.Gen' Taylor at Fort Harrison.
Senator CORwIN, In late speech at Rip.
ley, made the following most appropriate
and inmitable comparison. We give it 10
his own words as reported to the Maysvile
Eagle.--CincinnaIi Gazette.
Mr. Jefferson, said Gov. Corwin, knew
the ditferance IN the tastes of Lewis Cass
and Zachary Taylor. He appointed one
OF them 10 be Constable of Ohio; to the
other he gave commission to defend a
frontier post which was the key TO the white
settlements ofOhio and Indiana. And this
difference in their character is still percep
tlble,
Ifa traveller about the year 1910 or 1911
had been passing through ONO in the neigh
bOrhood OF ChIllicothe, he might have met
a cow running in full speed. with bell ing
ling al rapid rate. Behind her, about a
hundred yards, i'll full speed after the COW
was fine sleek, looking young fellow
mounted on crop cared bobtaiIed sorre
poney, sticking his spurs up to the rowels
The mud hy'ng Ineyery direction,) legging'
Iou, holooihB " tne SlTuHRef at the tUp o
his voice, stop that cow
The traveller stops the COW, and up comes
the man on the crop cared poney. Say.
the stranger, whose COW is thatp
The widow Cumpton's COW, who live
over in that cabin yonder; took her out O
that rail pen at the end OF The cabln.'
What are you taking her fr!'
old CumptOn died about SIX weeks ago
and have an execution for $4,364 cents
and costs against his widow, and have levi
ed on the cow
'Ah!' says the stranger. [Corwin, wit
an exceedingly ludicrous expression of face
represented how the stranger looked.] 'Oh
if had known that, your COW might hav
gone to the d., Pray, who are youl ii
a very gruff, cross tone
Lewis Cass, Marshal ofthe Federal Dis
lrlct of Ohio livery complacently]
The stranger turned away and rode of
Corwin depicted, with his very expressly
countenance, the utter contempt the straI
ger felt for Cass.
If he mad then ridden westward as far {
the Wabash, and arrived in the neighbo
hood of Fort Harrison at about this hour
the evening, he would have heard the crac
OF the Indian rife, Proceeding onward b
would have seen encamped around this Fo
= fifteen hundred Indians, firing incessant
/ upon the persons within; the stockades q
, fire; thirty men lying within the blockhous
painting with fever, sixty or seventy wome
and children sending up the wailings of de
j pair. A rough looking person, thinne
with disease, was shouting Steady, me
steady! and his voice was heard loud abo,
= the roar of battle, giving directions as coo
t J az on parade, for the extingulshment
!, the flames Ever and anon his rifle wou
be brought to his face, and some dusky fo.
would be seen leaplng into the air and fal
n ing dead or Inorlally wounded His sma
band of seventeen men gallantly stood b
their leader, aiding to put out the fire al
u returning with murderous effect the dl
4 charges Of the enemy.
=, In the widest moment Of the conflict,
1t woman with disheveled hair and trant
j. manner, bearing in her arms a babe frigh
ened into silence, is seen by the light Oft
FIRE, rushing towards where this rough loo
ing person is standing: "Oh, Captain Ia
j. lor! for Gods sake, surrender the Fort; "
q cannot expect 10 hold out against the sa
ages until reinforcement arrive and if n
% exasp pera,ed, they will perhaps spare the Ii
of my babe. Oh, surrender and spare
t. sweet yourg life. care not for my ow
=. if its life be saved" go back, madam
" replies the captain with hrmness mlngl,
y with respect. II have commission in II
u pocket, and have sworn never to fail in II
+ duty, or desert my post, and will redee
n my pledge. Other lives are at stake b
sides ours. While / hold this key to t
10 frontiers of Indiana and Ohio, as long as
n, drop of blood warns my veins, the peasa
. shall sleep IN safety. Steady, men! steady
= And for eight long days, & eight long nigh
that gallant young man with his weary ba
fought the foe and the FIRE, until the 81
10 cor came and beat back the savage into
10 native wilds. Then the wife was restor
al to her husband, and the laboror slept
re safety.
er This was all matter of taste upon I
part Of the young Captain, just as chasi
is the cropped -eared sorrol COW of the Wild
in Cumpton was matter of taste on the p
Il of the young Constable. There is no