New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1858-12-06

/ ~ Major Grants accommodating detachment con
sisted Of about eight hundred picked men, some Of
! them Hghlanders, and Others in Indian garb part
of Washingon's Virginia regiment sent forward by
him from Cumberland, under command Of Major
Lewis WashingtOns opinion of this rash adventure
! is too well known to need repetition.
(4) After leaving Loyal Hannah the road pre-
sented traces of the late defeat of Grant, being
srewed with human bones the sad relics Of fugitiyes
cut down by the Indians, or wounded soldiers who
had died on the retreat. They lay Wondering in va
rious stages OF decay, mixed with the bones of horses
and oxen. [IrEingfs Washington, vol j. p. 287,
% AS they approached Fort Duuuesns, these me.
mentoes of former disasters became more frequent,
and the bones OF those massacred in the defeat OF
Braddock still lay scattered about the battle field,
whitening in the sun. Ibid
o. preserve the unpoetcal name Of this stream
rather than lose the local allusion Its Indian chris
ening if such it had has persisted. 1t Is an aboml
nabe taste that rejects the often beautiful ana al
ways euphonous Indian names OF our mountains and
streams and rests contented with the christening Of
some squatter ambitious to perpetuate his own pa
tronymic Or his own wretched dscernment.
az Ormsby was a Gommissary in the army. His
account of the council at Turtle Creek on the night
of Nov. a. 1858, may be found in "Alhachs Western
Annals He says: ga council of war was held, the
result of which was, that it was impracticable to
proceed; all the forage and provision being exhaust
ed On the Generals (Forbesl being told this, he
furious oath that he would sleep in the fort
a worse place, the next night. It was matter OF
indifference to him where he died, as he was carried
the whole distance from Philadelphia and back on
litter" Forbes died in Philadelphia soon after the
close of the expedition.
(S) Head Of iron, or Iron-headed, was nickname
given by the soldiers to their indomtable commander
(9) Almost the precise language attributed to
Forbes. So runs the tradition he said he would
sleep in Fort Duquesne or in Ill the next night
and that the end Of it. The fort must be stormed
the next day.
CO) At night tremendous explosion was heard
The French had fired the magazines, and pushed of
in their boats, part down the Ohio and part for We
Mango
(iI) On the 25th of November, 1858, the youthful
hero could point out to the army the junction OF the
rivers, and entering the fortress they planted the
British flag on its deserted ruins, As the banner o.
England foated over the Ohio, the place was will
one voice named Pittsbnrg, 1t is the most enduring
trophy Of the glory Of William Pitt, America after
wards raised to his name statues that have beef
wrongfully broken, and granite monuments, o
which not one stone remains upon another; but long
as the Monongahela aud the Allegheny shall flow t.
form the Uhio-long as the English tongue shall bt
the language of freedom in the boundless valley
which their waters traverse, his name shall stand IN
scrbed on the Gateway Of the West. bancroft
Q2) On the 25th of November Washington, witt
the advance guard marched in, and planted the Bri
fish arms on the yet smoking ruins"
TIPvinp's WASHINGTON.