Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1856-07-29

Girty was no common man, he YVES cool eau
tious and sagacious, with q courage that was
controlled and tempered by these endowments,
which qualified him to command The Indians
| and to secure the confidence of the British au-
thoritics in this country.
1 At the grand Indian Council, convened at
Chillicothe, of the tribes of the North Westhe
displayed eminent capacity, and consumated his
purposes in keeping up the organization of the
Indians, after the surrender of Corvallis by
originating aud planning the campaigns against
Kentucky and North Western Virginia. When
the Council adjourned he took command of the
six hundred Indians designed to operate against
Kentucky and proceeded to execute the plan APP
proved and adopted by the Grand Council. His
successwas attributable to his great forecast adj
roitness and holiness Though he. was foiledat
the attack at Bryants Station, still at Blue Licks,
when the wise counsel of Bron was disregarded by
the rashness of SlcGary; Girty's aptness took
advantage of the blunder aud his success and
havock was terrible The memory of Todd,
Trigg, Harland, Bulger, Gordon, Mcbride and
Young Boon, who fell on this occasion, will long
excite shudder at the success and cruelty of
Girty, and chide the rashuess and tetnesity of
NIeGary.
The forces that made the incursion against
North Western Virginia, were commanded by
George Girty, brother of Simon, and were com
puted at three hundred Indians, the choice of
the Delawares and Shawnee's, and fifty whites
Of the Queens Rangers. They marched for
Wheeling and reached there, Sept. 18th, 1882,
with the British colors. John Lynn noted
settler, whose fame was that: 'sno Indian could
escape his eye, nor avoid the aid Of his bullet
swan the river and advised the settlement of
their near approach The fort was still without
any regular garrison, and there were not twenty
effective men to defend it. The mode Of attack
and the system of warfare adopted disclosed the
directions of Simon Girty. George Girty de-
mandcd the surrender of the fort with all the
arrogant confidence of the beseigcrs, the response
to this was the lightning wing of the bullet aim
cd Mt the British colors these braves bore. The
savages then opened the attack on the fort, but
neither the British colors, nor the cuelty of the
Girty's, nor fire, nor cannon; all of which were
employed; could cover these men Of Wheeling.
For three days and nights did these men stand
out against the bescigers and finally compelled
them to leave the field, they had selected for
their plumber and carnage.
The system of warfare adopted BY Girty, was
to strike his foes with surprise and terror, and
this was the reason that at the onset, he sought
to conceal his forces, that the sudden emerging
of his painted and bedeclted warriors from their
ambuscadc, might excite confusion and dismay,
4 and transport his forces with the confidence of
the plumber and the scalps of massacre Thus
his tactics and mode of warfare was character
| lied with great cruelty and barbarity and his
name became a terror to every white settlement
on the frontier
Yet, as a gifted English poet has said, "nnnc
are all evil while we remember his inditfer-
cncc and derision st the suffering inflicted on tho
unfortunate Col Crawford, by the Indians still
we must not forget that when Kenton was
prisoner of the Indians, and Girty recognized
| him as an old comradc in the Dunmore war, he
was SO moved by sentiments of tenderness and
Kindness, that even the Indians partook of his
emotions and he procured respite of his pun
ishment And his obs;inancy was so subducd
and his cruelty so allaycd by the tears and ap-
peals Of Mrs. Cunningham when taken pris-
oner by the Indians, that he procured her re-
lease and secured her restoration to her family.
At still later period in his life, VIC are in
| formed, when Col. Marshall of Virginia, was de-
sccnding the Ohio river, he was warned By
James Girty, at the instance of Simon, that eE-
forts would be made by renegade whites and
| Indians to decoy the boats descending the river
to the shore, and he admOnisllcd him to resist
| all such efforts aud to keep the middle of tho
river; and he further said Simon regretted the
past wrongs he had inflicted on the whites aud
desired to repair them if he could and would be
! glad again to return to the whites. But he re-
NAMED with the Indians till his death, which
some say, was at the battle of the Thames; 9TH
ers that he died subsequent 10 this, that he be-
came gloomy. lonely and disconsolate, often
would wander from his tribe and at last went off
and never returned to the Indian council and
wigwam but when he was found, it was in T.
secluded place in the woods, he was laying on
his back, serpent was coed up on his BOSOM
he was dead-and it is said thus closed the
career of the Indians "Grcat Captain" Simon
Girty.
NFw Mons OF CorPEnlNe yEssgLs.-English
papers state that ". 0udry, of Passy, has made
preliminary experiments for applying electro
| type on an enormous scale-no other than to the
coppering of wood and iron ships OF whatever
I tonnage. The vessel should be coated with au
adherent species of varniSh, then placed in
dock to which the cupriierous solution would he
admitted and then sby a series Of piles, the re-
quisite thickness of copper would be deposited
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