The daily national Whig. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1847-1849, 1849-01-27
From lhe coneordIn. La., InlellIgencer Jam. 10.

NEW ORLkANs, " lSly.
There are now In Louisiana, living, for the most
part in unambous retirement and with republican
simplicity, the descendants of some of the most IL
lnsirons Of the ancient noblesse OF Fnnce-that re-
Inowned chiyalry which won its honors with the
sword and, on thousand fields, taught how to tri-
uppi and how TO diet Generous In victory, heroic
In defeat captivating by their manners as often as
BY their arms worshipping their country and ever
ready 10 perish for It's honor; volatile in prosperity,
yet enduring exile and privaiion with the most adj
mirnbe constancy-wo naturally feel an interest in
It's fortunes wherever their blood can DO truced.
few days since there was pointed out TO me, among
the members Of the City Council gentleman called
Lterdlier Jua0nrWe, name that may be followed
back for centuries, but Is OF special interest 70 us
because Of Its association with the career OF Wash
inson. Properly written the name is JnmonuMs de
i tiIsrs-a Norman patronymic of high rank and
great antiquity. One branch OF the family followed
the Banner Of the Conqueror into England, and
from / sprang in. the reign Of James II George WI,
Tiers Duke d Buckingham, so famous in history and
| romance. The first time we hear OF the name In
America 10 in l75i, when the Marquis du Quesne
commanded the French forces In Canada. Seven
Of three Of them--Nyon de yillers, major Com
mandment aux Illinois," in l764-M, de yliers,
"Capdnine aux illinois, in l754--and Jumonville
9Th " r. asss e eneresaeh
ments which the French were making on the Ohio
Coy. Dinwiddie OF Va, organized an expedition
under Col Fry, Washington being second In com,
nand. Washington with three companies pushed
forward to open road for the army, and to erect
tort on the Monongahea, near The present town of
brownsville, Pa. While throwing bridge over the
/ Yonghiogany, he was warned by the Half King,
friendly Indian that strong detachment Of French
were on the scout, md would attack him on sight
He Immediately transferred his camp 10 the Great
Meadows, four miles from the Laurel Hill and threw
up temporary breastwork. On the evening OF the
9th May, Mr.. Gist, surveyor in the employment
of the British Ohio Company, notified him that
hostile party were accommodating his movements
and were then bivouacked in. the vicinity. Taking
fnrtV nneu n pyu friendly indiana he or at
night and next morning found the French in
cess of the mountain. They flew to arms. The
firing on both sides was simultaneous. After spir-
tied action Of fifteen minutes, the French surren-
dered their leader Jumonyie de Villiers and ten of
his men, having been slain. His party consisted of
thiry-hve men, one Of whom escaped, and carried
the news to Fort du Quene, tnow Pittsburg) where
NJ. ContrecGur was stationed with strong garrison
Anticipating the effect of his renconre Washington
fell back to the Great Meadows, strengthened the
entrenchment called IL Fort Necessity and collected
within Its walls some four hundred men, indiffer
emily supplied however with arms, ammunition and
subsistence. On the Sd July, at eleven A. NJ. body
OF French and Indians, 300 strong, led by NJ dc va
hers, brother Of the late Jlmonyie, opened brisk
lire upon the Fort The fight continued until eight
al night when the French called parlcy, and Wash
ington sent ont Capt. yanbraam, who had some
knowledge Of the French language He returned
French, which Washington accepted, and on the
morning Of the 4th marched out with the honors oil
war condense this statement from Sparks. The
French writer's, on The other hand, without excep-
ton from that day to this, represent that Jumonve
had been sent tho two nations being at peace, with
friendly communication for the British authorities,
and that he was encountered and slain while in the
act Of reading It, In proof of this they quote Art.
VIII Of tho capitalization ut Fort Necessity, three
months after the fall of JumOnvile, In the following
words: 'Que CONNIE les Anglais out en- leur pouvor
I'm officer deux Cadets ct general ment les prison.
niers qnis nous out fats dams Cassdssnat du Sieur
de .Jtfaonrale &C." On the strength Of this phra-
seoloay, supported by the dispatches from Canada,
Washington was represented in France as an assas-
sin, and to this hour 50 appears in her archives.
He himself says "when the articles were read, we
were wlfully or ignornntly deceived by our inter-
prefer in respect TO the word assassination. He read
it the death or the ioss OF Jumonvile. So we re-
coived and so we under stood IT. until to our great
surpriZe and modification we afterwards found II
otherwise in literal translation" 1t may be stated
likewise that, six weeks afterwards, copy of the
capitulation with Washingtons report of the 1rhos
campaign. were submitted by Gov. Dnwiddie to the
Virginia House of Burgesses which, after full en-
quiry into the facts passed vote ofthanks to wash
ington and his officers, specially excepting Van.
braani, who was charged with treachcry In his in
tcrprct aon OF the articles. ,lg1t
The death Of Jnnionvile do yilers caused great
excitement in France Funeral ora'ions, in his
epic, entitled "JlnionriHe,n impassioned and
vindctive that Zimmerman refers to II, in Of his
essays, remarkable illustration Of national pride
and anipathy.
/ The scene of these events was in the heart OF tho
Aeghanies, amidst the gloomy shades oil Laurel Hill,
In what is now the County of Fayette, Pa, district
full of interesting memorials and traditions. Trav-
oilers on the national road, between Union and Cum
berand, traverse, at intervals the route Of Washing
ton, and pass near the grave OF Junonville the re-
mains Of Fort Necessity, Dunbars camp, and the
Y NJ de yilliers, to whom Washington capitulated
at Fort Necessity, made "Capitaine aux Illinois,
four years thereafter, and when the Canadas were
ceded to Great Britain In 1863, he came to New Or
| leans, when upon the recommendation of Brenvile,
he was created by the King of France, Cheyaller
Of the Order OF St Louis on account OF the galantry
he had displayed in arms. He brought with him
from Canada two sons. The eldest was In the Span
ish service when Louisiana was transferred TO the
United States, be took the title Of Cheyalier after his
fathers demise and died at Opeousas where his de-
scendants now write themselves Devilliers. The
second son, Coulon was likewise in Spanish reg
iment, and at the cession Of Louisiana went TO Ha-
wanna where his family now reside; The old Che.
waller de Vilers lived To- very advanced age, and
died here in 1903. He is still remembered man
of courtly manners Of ardent temperament and pow
eriu frame. He married second time In Louisiana,
II lady of the ancient family Of Lvaudais Beaumont,
by whom he had an only child Charles who died, a
planter In the parish Of ST. Bernard In 1889 and
buried in the cemetery of our ancient Church Of st.
Louis where this inscription may be read on his
tomb. @
CIGIT CHARLES JuAosvIILE CouLos DE VILLIERs.
Rejeton dune Mustrs race
Sanscesss aur eoups da sort oPposant songrand ear
4 Dams Pefroa stntier de Fhonneur
De ses aysuf, toa1o,rs il a s,iri Ia trace
which may be thus translated "Scion Of an illus
trious race always opposing manly fortitude to the
vicssitudes of fortune, and uniformly following the
footsteps Of his ancestors in the difficult path Of
honor
During the British invasion In 1914 some of the
property of this gentlemen appropriated by Gen
Jackson for the public defence and considerably in
ijured Some years afterward Mr.. Bernard Marigny
introduced bill into the Legislature for his relief
and in the course of an eloquent speech, gave the
French version Of he death Of the Sieur dc Jumon
Vile and was understood to hint, that France and
the French had first made Washington hero. moi
,ord Of truth in't, sir. Not tord Of truth in'F
in voice of thunder exclaimed the well-known Lar
ry Moore then q Senator from st. Helena. "GoD
ALMIGHTY MADE GEoRor WAsnisoToS A HERO"
The Senate was thrown into confusion. Mr. Ma
! rigny looked daggers. Old Larry frowned defiance.
Marigny gowed with the blood of chiyarous race.
Moore was the best type Of the genuine frontier
have ever seen--shrewd, prompt and brave as a
game-cock Friends inferposed. Explanations en-
sued. Neither of the gentlemen comprehended per.
fectly the language used by the other. Mr.. Mari2
7 ny had been too strongly construed. And Larry
meant, not personal but historical lie.
Notwithstanding the penalties Of the laws Of Ma