The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1873-02-17
Z, FEBRUARY II, 1875 ---sUPPLEMENT.

ducts, S12,97S; home manufactures, 1885;
animals slaughtered or sold for slaughter.
sl64, 4S3; value Of all live stock. SOL. 55l !:
humber Of horses, 2,5G3; mules, 1G2; mich
cows. 1882 working oxen, s33; other cat
tie, 1850; sheep, $3.50; swine, 9,s79;
wheat, liz, $50 bushels; Indian corn. 35G,90O
bushels; oats, 43,4Gf bushels; tobacco, S.
900 pounds; wnol, 22,s53 pounds; Irish po-
tatoes, 1854 bushels; wine. 800 gallous !:
butter, 5000 pounds; hay, 1855 tons.
Point Pleasant, the corntyseat,is situated
at the junction of the Kanawha with the
Ohio, and is place Of considerable trade.
Near the site Of the town was once an m
dim village, which was deserted, it Is sup
posed. in 1860. In 179S about eighty gum
barrels were turned by the ploughshare 90
this ground. An anvil, wise, and other
black>miths' tools have also been disinterred
here from time TO time, and upon opening
some Of the Indiln mounds that abound in
, this section they have been found to contain
n gun-barrcl,a camp-kettle, a butchers knife
toHlaEawk, a pewter basin, variety Of
beads, and human skeleton. Point Pleas.
ant is on the field where was fought, Octo-
Der 10th, 1774. the bloodest battle which
the Virginia forces ever had with the IL
dams.
About LIST of September, 17T4, General
Andrew Lewis assembled at Camp Union
(uow LewIsburg, Gieenbrier couutyD two
regiments, under Colonel William FLEMING,
Of Botctourt, and Colonel Charles Lewis. OF
Augusta, containing 400 men each. They
were joined here By company under Coit mel
JOHN Field, CT Cuipeper; one from Bedford,
under Captain Buiord; and two from H0l-
stein settlement (now Washington. under
Captains Evan Shelby and Harbcrt- king
1,l0O men in all.
! On the 18th Of September General Lewis
took up bis line of march for the mouth OF
! tie E1nawha, where, by previous agree
ment, he was TO be met by Lord Dunmore,
In command of forces from the Lower Val
ley Of Virginia. This distance, which viii
now be truvc.scd by the cars in about twelve
hours, it took these hardy, swift-sooted pi-
onecrs nineteen days TO march, and on
reaching the point OF jurCture with the other
forces Lord Dunmore had not arrived, and
! they could hear nothing Of him. Going inta
: camp bel Ucen the hanaWla and Ohio, Gene.
; raj Lewis had dispatched couriers to Fort
Pitt, when lie received orders from Lord
Dunmore to march across the country and
meet him at the Shawnee towns. He was
, preparing to obey these orders when he was
attacked by a greatly superior force of In
! dams led by the brave and skfu chief Corn.
stalk. At the FIRST onslaught his brother,
i, Colonel Charles Lewis, was killed, ard Colo.
rel Fleming wounded, and the Virginia
troops were driven back. But they rallied
on Colonel FIELDS command, and renewed
the fight With desperate vulor. The battle
ragged. with varying fortunes, from sunrise
until late in the evening, when General
Lewis ordered movement by which three
of his companies succeeded in reaching the
flank and rear Of the enemy. The Indians,
who had brarely With>tood every direct Is
sault, fell into confusion ana tlcd upon this
vigorous attack in their rear being made
! The loss OF the Virginia troops were seventy.
| five Killed. "nl 40 woundcd-nhout onc.G'll
OF their Whole f)lcH. Among the officers slain
| We're Coionc, Charles Lewis, Colonel Field
Captains Baford, Morrow, Wood. CundiG,
| Wilson, and Robert McCiamnlIan, and Lieu.
tclril!ts ALEU-, COSBY, and Dillon.
This battle WAS remarkable for the large
. number of men wiD f cured in it who alter.
wards became famous s!ch Is General Isaac
| Shelby, tie first Governor of Kentucky, and
afterwards Secretary of War: General Vii
| liam Campbell and Colonel John Campbell
who so greatly distinguished themselves al
| Kings Mountain and Long Island Grncia
Evan Shelly, afterwards one Of the most
honorcd citizens Of Tennessee =; Colonel VIII
| linn F'lHniin", al active Governor Of Viz
| ciuia during tic Revolutionary war; Gene
raj Andrew Moore Of KOcnbridgc, one Of
| Tie abl4S: uicn tiai Virginia ever sent to The
United states senate; Colonel John Stuart
OF tirccnbricr !: General Tate, OF Washing
ten county, Va. Colonel william Mckee, o
Lincoln county, Ky: Colonel John Steele
| siHce Governor oil the Missouri Territory
| Colonel Charles Cameron, Of Eath; Genera
B.,z ,lei Wells, of Ohio, and General George
Mathews, a distinguished officer Of The ReYo
| luton, the hero OF Brandywinc, Germantown
and Gliillord 4 Governor OF Georgia, and /
Senator Of The United States from that State
Tie battle Ut Point Pleasant was most
vahllblr III H. results III preventing the III.
dams trom joining the British in the Hevc
lulionary war, which followed SO soon after.
| wards.
III III tie bray" chicf If Tie Shawnee:
! r,uIIslaii) was murdered at Point Pleasant
| while he Wis hr.d rs ho.tage by some rolun
| tecrs WHO were iuccuscd by tie shooting
| aud calping ui some of their number hy tho
Indians. The act wi> strongly condemned
and the Governor Of the Stitc offered Il re-
warL: for the apprehension OF the murdcrcrs
| bat without effect.
This whole region is fill Of legends and
anecdotes Of the struggles Of ii.cse brave
iaci,Woodsmcn against the indians; but
have, perhaps, :i:rvady wandered TOO i:;r from
tnr l,!$,l!.-, living present among these
shadCWY stories oi The past. RICuMoSD.