Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1869-08-12

EF The tax on incomes expire,
by limitation on the 30th of April
1870, A-good many journals con
tend thatby that tims the necessis.
ofsuch a law will bs, in measure
past, and are opposed to its reneNa
or he enactment. The argnments D
this class are, that ''the law has be
come unpopular for many causes
among which sre-that i. operate
on the active workers and producer
of the country; that it encourage
perjury; that the dishonest escap.
while the honest are burdened; tha'
it is inquisitorisi, DC. These thing
are no doubt all true, and SO arr
they true Of all tax laws, but taxe'
area neeessity to all prgspized com
manities, and must be levisd aht
paid, or the governEaene must eeas'
To- exist. Dishonest men viii. %
course, evade them If possible, a.
they would eyade, if in their power
any other honest claim against them
but that is no good argument agains
their assessment and collection. Ii
the matter of the income tax, we set
no way of avoiding it if We are tt
maintain our credit. The debt ani
interest must be paid. and the incom,
tax goes far in meeting that demand
and better still, it comes off the rich
the class best able to bear it, aEithel
money or land has got to pay tha'
debt, and for one, we choose tha
money should pay it. $50 E.s
R In the year 177o Washington
made tour to the Ohio river, pros
pecting for land. The Marietta Regis
ter furnishes some extracts from hi,
Journal He E0Ieft Pittsburg, (Forl
Pitt) Oct, Goth. 4 in a canoe. accompan'
led by seven white persons and two IN
dians. He arrived atsthe mouth of th,
FKanaw ha aOct.gA31st. We copy from
The Register. 70 s. 60 'i-''' 2" t'.'-l
On the 2sth, ( Oct. four miles below
Big Hooking, Washington says, "We
found Kiashuta and his, hunting party
encamped- Here we we're under the
necessity Of paying our compliments,
as this person is one of the Six Nation
chiefs, and the head of those upon this
river. In Kiashuta found an old ac-
quaintance, he being one. OF the Indi-
ans that went with me to the French,
in 1858. He expressed a satisfaction
at seeing me, and treated us with great
kindness, giving US quarter. of very
fine buffalo. He insisted upon our
spending that night with him, and in
order to retard us as little as possible
moved bis camp down the river just
below the mouth of a creek, the name
of which | could not learn In the
morning they talked about peace,
friendship and trade, and Washington
says: "The tedious ceremony which
the Indians observe in their counsel
ings and speeches, detained US till nine
o'clock" H.
Going on, he speaks of the "Great
Bend" at the upper part Meigs coun-
ty, and of the creek opposite Letart, at
the mouth of which was "the warriors
path (aeross the Ohio) to the Cherokee
country and eneamped 99th, two
and half miles below. ---. .a -
Oct. 3oth, on the Virginia side near
E opposite Pomeroy. eve found
many shallow ponds, the sides ofwhich
abounding with grass, invited innu-
merable quantities of wild fowl. About
five miles below we encamped in bot
tom of good land.'' -, -
Oct. 31st, 81 sent the canoe down
to the Kenawha, and set out upon a
hunting party to view the land. We
steered nearly east eight or nine miles.
then bore southwa ardly and westwardly,
till we came to our camp at the conau-
ence of the rivers ...~-.-... -
Nov. 1st, went up the "Kenawha,D
ten miles. Land on sides at the mouth,
every fine' -- ,--.---.1..r -. = a.
Nov. Cd, went '.four miles further
up the Kenawha, and then encamped,
and went hunting; killed FIVE buffaloes,
wounded some others, three deer, dc.
This country abounds in buffaloes and
wild game of all kinds" Bottom next
to the water, "very rich;;" and the
"Indians say it continues to the falls,
which they judged to be fifty or sixty
miles higher up" p, -. - 80
Nov Sd, "set off down. the river on
our return homewards, and encamped
at the MOUTH He was so pleased
with the land, that he says: ''At the
Of the bottom above the
junction of the rivers, and at the
mouth of a branch on the east side, I
marked two naples, an elm and hop
wood tree, as a corner Of the soldiers
and, if we can get it. intending to
AXE all the bottom from thence to the
,apids { Letart) J in the; Great Bend into
one survey: - Also he marked trees
below the mouth of the Kanawha.
Nov, 4th, going up the Ohio, "met-
i canoe going to the Illinois with
'heep;" and below Letart, "met with
! sycamore about sixty yards from the
river of most extraordinary size, it
measuring three feet from the ground,
'orty-five feet around, lacking two in
hes - --.-' i-'''''.' ''''
Nov. 5th, with Capt. Crawford,
" Washington walked across the neck
N .foot, % Italics ours, } in Meigs coun-
y, ''about eight miles, in two hours
md a half" keeping close to the hills.
Good neck of land, the soil being gen
rally good, and in places very rieh,",
Il valuable tract, and Tsjudge the
quantity to be about four thousand
lcres." I C 1870 I2aa JZs5a I9A bSsl
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