Wisconsin tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1847-1854, 1852-03-25
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THE PIONEER HISTORY OF ILLINOIS.

Illinois, comprising ali the period between the
year 1868, when Marquette first discovered the
Mississippi, and the year 1918. The work when
| finished will make about $50 pages, and viii be
entitled The Pioneer History of Illinois"
/ The author with whom we have the pleasure of
a personal acquaintance, has permitted US to
make the following extract:
ol.Clark came to Kentucky in the year 1775,
and was appointed 10 organize and drill the
militia al Harrod's Station, and Boonsboro. He
was then recognized as the main defender of the
western frontiers. He was in Braddock's cam
pagn in 1885, and was not idle in the Pontiach' :
| wars.
, - -~s< L -as.,r..Ad tr yirginia
the west his permanent residence
During this year great meeting was held at
Harrodsburgh, to take in consideration the politi
cal situation of Kentucky. and at this convention
Major Clark, so called at that day. and Gabriel
Jones, were appointed delegates TO the General
Assembly of Virginia. These members of the
Virginia Legislature crossed the mountains at the
Cumberland Gap, and suffered much with "scald
feet in walking to the seat of government of the
' Ancient Dominion"
When they arrived at the CapitoI. the General
Assembly had adjourned, but Clark and Jones
waited on Governor Patrick Henry and urged Of,
him the necessity of furnishing the frontier with
supply Of powder. And also strongly pressed
the necessity of new county. After much diff
iculty supply of powder was granted to be
delivered at Pittsburgh, on the 9Th OF December
1916, new county was organized and called
Kentucky.
The powder being at Pittsburgh, Clark and
Jones were compelled to pass there on their route
to kentucky; and they conveyed the precious
article down the Ohio to the creek called Lime
stone, where Maysviile is now built. There
they concealed the powder and sent adrift their
boat 50 that the Indians might not discover them
or the powder. On their way TO Harrodsburgh
they heard of Col. Todd being in the vicinity. with
troops, and Jones, with FIVE of the boatmen. re.
manned with Todd, to return and convey the pow
der to the settlement, while Clark and the other
two men would go direct to the Station. Todd
and party were defeated by the Indians, on the
23th Dec, I776. Jones and many others were
killed. The Indians laid in ambascade on the
trail of Clark and Jones. Clark and men reached
Harrodsburgh in safety. The powder at last
came to the station.
Clark, although, only twenty-five years of age,
had lived in the school Of Indian danger and peril /
so much that his education was complete in Indian
warfare. His mind naturally strong and yigor-
Gus, comprehended at once the condition of the
West, and he determined to give relief The
British posts of Detroit, Yiucennes and Kaskas
Bla, were stations for the hostile Indians. where
the British Government furnished them with all
the necessary means to murder the exposed from
tier inhabitants, and to pay them in gold for the
scalps of men, women and children On the 1st
of October, 1915, Clark left Harrodsburgh for
the seat of Government of Virginia, and on the
9Th of November arrived there.
The Congress of the Federal States suggested
the same plan to reduce those Forts, which con
firmed the sound judgement of this great man
After much delay and caution, the government
of Virginia, the I'd day of January, I77S. deci-
ded TO appoint George Rogers Clark. Lieutenant
Colonel, to take command of such forces as could
be raised 10 conquer the British Garrisons in the
West
Although the Illinois country was remote from
the revolutionary war, yet the inhabitants knew
OF It's existence, and were in their hearts unfrend-
ly to the British, and attached to the American
cause This being the case, the French people
were ready for any favorable occasion to engage
in any expedition against their ancient enemy,
the English.
Thomas Brady, commonly called by the French
Mr.. Tom" resided in Caholzia in the year I777.
and was man of sound mind and en.erprising
disposition. In his youthful days he had been
much Injured to Indian warfare, and had been long
n he # of ia II
life. His neighbors the French of Cahokia and
Prairie du Pont were ready at moments warn
ing, to enter into any enterprise military or civil
that was honorable and had no toork attached to il
And although the Illinois French were not ambi-
aous or enterprisiug in their individual capacities
yet no people made better soldiers. They were
obedient to oders, never murmured, and possessed
he inherent courage of their nation 10 face dan
ger and death in all its horrors in battlefield,
without the least trepidaton st LOUIS Union
NEWSPAPER SrArIsT1cs-A correspondent of a
he New Haven Palladium thus shows the 1idicul- t
'us results to which papers of immense circula-
ion" have led the census takers-who say a
The circulation of the daily papers combined /
n the United States per day. in 1880, was 246,- a
l25,16s" ;
A A'reading community certainly, must be the [
inhabitants of the United States-(an I
Industrious, TOO, withal, the produce and man. t
lfacturing statistics show)-vho, according to v
he above figures. read-every man, woman and T
,hild-more than eleren daily papers each. Nor i
$ that all; the statistics says
The circulation Of the weekly papers, per
Ccat, in 1850 was 5.593. .3756 624.
Simple division viii show this would give with f
n fraction Of tteo hundred ani ffly weekly pa 5
oers TO every person in this great country. .
The writer sums Up these interesting statistics
IS follows. !
The aggregate issue OF the newspapers and ;
periodicals, published in the L. s in 1850, was @
6S,1sI,6 ,65I ,726."
This magnificent row OF figures, divided BY >
100000 VII give sirtecH tt0ssr,d sepeu hundred
newspapers TO every mothers son and daughter ?