Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1871-02-09

through bis powder horn. He
supposed he was pursued, but no
Indian got near enough to be seen,
and he reached the camp of his
companions, unhurt. He once
told me story illustrative of the
rude morals Of the frontier ian
gers.
Lewis Whetzel who preceded
Macarthur by several years, was
the terror of the Indians on the
Wheeling frontier. He was little
active fellow, and it happened that
he was fred at and missed so often
that they considered him under a
spell. The usual remedy, n piece
of silver driven into the bullet,
failed, and he was deemed proof,
even against magic; but at last,
in one Of their excursions, lie was
surprised and captured, and they
pore him off in triumph TO Sandus-
ky, were they held council and
sentenced him to he burnt. An
old Indian who had lost his son on
the expedition wanted to adopt
and tried to save him. The night
before he was to be burnt, he slept
between two Indians, his legs and
arms tied with thongs to stakes
driven into the ground-the In
dians lying on the thongs. Late
at night when all were asleep, the
old Indian came, cut tue thongs,
got him ont without disturbing the
sleepers, gave him the gun Of his
lost son, took his own, mounted a
horse and led the way, signing to
Whetzel to follow. They Travelled
two or three days without Interrupt
tion, when they came TO the two
branches of the Muskinghm, at
CoshOctnn. The old man carried
Whetzel across behind him on his
horse, and when over the East
branch, said he now knew the way,
and turned with bis horse and gun
to return to Sandusky. When he
had fairly entered the river, Whet-
Eel shot him and he fell dead
took his scalp, and his horse and
gun, it being the best of the two
and made his way home in safety.
Whetzel told the story himself
without an apparent perception of
its atrocity; but his brother ran
gers refused to shake hands or in
any manner to associate with him
afterwards.
knew Governor Macarthur long
and intimately. He was a man of
vigorous intellect, but crude and
uncultivated. His daughters, of
whom he was very fond, grew up
to be fine women; but his sons
were ruined by the ansterity and
distance of his bearing towards
them. He was their monitor, but
not their companion and confiden-
t;al friend.
sat with Benjamin Ruggles two
years in the United States Senate
He was highly respectable mem
Der, and l perhaps thought the
better of him as we agreed entire
" in our political opinions. He
spoke seldom and briefly, and
always with deliberation and judg-
ment. He was a man Of mark in
his part of Ohio, many years after
he ceased to be Senator.
Thomas Morris succeeded Benia-
min Ruggles in the Senate. He
was II decided Democrat, and gen
orally fierce in his opinions. When
he first came into professional life,
he waged violent war with most
Of the other members of the pro-
fession in his country and Judicial
circuit, in which my somewhat
loose information induced me to
believe he was the assailed aud in
iured party. He was indicted for a
rape on the complaint Of a loose
woman, was tried and acquitted
but tNunted in al conceivable pro
fvoking 3 ways with it afterwards.
| About that time the agricultural
Journals strongly recommended the
turnip or Rape, as fall crop for
winter sheep pasture, and as the
farmers knew little about it by the
latter name, it was subject Of
much enquiry. Morris persetu-
tors got up a report that he Kept q
quantity of the seed for the ac-
commodation of his friends, and
for week or two he was daily
assailed by honest, well meaning
countrvmen with enquiries fol
Rape seed, until made furious by
this and like modes of annoyance
he stood at bay-aiways for open
and unsparing war. He was man
of considerable intellectual power
and good drhater, though some
what harsh and not always courte'
Gus. He evidently came to the
Senate impressed with the opinion
that his mission was to attack me
from this he was diverted BY tri
vial incident ia the early debate, to
which / attached no importance, -
He attacked somewhat harshly a
proposition Of MFR. Walker of Mis-
sissippi, as to the public lands
Walker replied contemptnously,
and Morris, much excited, attempt
ed to get the floor when Walker
sat down. l caught the eye Of the
President in advance of him, simp-
ly for the purpose Of giving him
time TO be deliberate, said a few
words in reply to Mr.. Grundy and