The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1878-08-01
PITTSBURGH TO BEAVER.

OF Pittsburgh
Especial Correspondence Pittsburgh POST
BEAVER, PA, July %, l87S,-Go away
from home to find the news is an old
saying, which you can find illustrated
any place within the neighborhood of
Pittsburgh. One can learn more of the
early history of Pittsburgh from people
little distance from the town than you
can from large majority of the busy
people in it. l suppose it is little on
the principle which Lewis G. Cassiday
once said "The country lawyers al
ways come to the Supreme Court and
beat the Philadelphia lawyers that they
have less things to distract them"
"Why," said Cassiday to one Of his stu
dents, 81 have seen country lawyers, who
only own four books, viz: Blackstone
and the Bible, Shakespeare and Purdon's
Digest, come down here and lick the best
of u.s." They give closer attention to
what they read than man in big city,
and as a rule are better informed on gen.
eral subjects.
They can tell you more about the early
history of Pittsburgh in Beaver than
you could hear in Allegheny, and take
pride in being on the spot where much
of the early history was made,
1t was at Logstown, a short distance
above here, that the Indians, then organ
lied as the Six Nations, had regular
council fire. and to Logstown came Con-
rad Wiser, in 174S, to talk up the treaty
which four years afterwards was COM
pleted in one grand council, gathering
together as they did, in 1748, the Min
goes, Delawares, Wyandots, Shawanees
and Miamis. Immediately after Conrad
Wiser's visit the Ohio company was
formed, in which Washington's brother
Lawrence was largely interested, and
when George went surveying for them,
he laid off several nice lots for himself,
so the traditions run.
This treaty with the Indians was one
of the corner stones upon which the
British Government relied in all subse.
quent steps, to get control Of the CONT
nent.
WHERE THE EUROPEAN SEVEN YEARS WAR
HAD ITS ORIGIN.
1t is singular to think that at Pitts
burgh the great European seven years.
war was commenced; war in which
France was allied with Russia, Austria
and Sweden, against England and Prus.
sia under Frederick the Great. In that
war it was said nearly the whole world
was fighting at one time. All Europe,
North America, and East and West In.
dies partook and suffered. At the treaty
of peace which followed in Paris, in 1853,
there was confirmed to Great Britain
the extensive provinces of Canada, East
and West, Florida and part of Louisiana
in North America, as we'll as the islands
of Grenada, St. Vincent, Dominica and
Tobago in the West Indies. That treaty
made England an imperial power, and
drove France from America and Asia,
dissipated their scheme of Empire which
had been so brilliant and extended.
The demand of the French captain on
the English Ensign, Ward, for the sur
render of the fort at the forks of the
Ohio, now Pittsburgh, was the first Off
cial act in the seven years. war which
was waged in all parts of the world.
Like many more disputes, it was kept
alive by the women longer than it would
have lived had the ambition of man
alone been in question. Many men long
ed for peace, but there were three wo.
men in those days who held the desti-
MES Of Europe in their hands; Maria
Theresa of Austria, Catharine the Sec
ond of Russia, and the guilty Duchess of
Pompadour, who had entire control over
Louis the Fifteenth, and was virtually
Empress of France.
wAsHINGToN's VISIT TO PITTSBURGH.
When Washington was sent by Gov.
Dinwiddle (1753) to Logstown, he stop.
ped at point two miles down the river
from Pittsburgh, on the southeast shore
where Shingles, King of the Delaware
Indians, lived. The Ohio company had
intended to build fort there, but with
Washington's advice, abandoned it,
Shingiss went with him to Logstown.
Half King was out at his hunting cabin
on the Little Beaver. After a stay of
four days the Indians designated four of
their number to accompany Washington
up the river, viz: Half King, Jeskakake,
White Thunder and Young Hunter. The
Indian names those days were not so
very much different from what they now
have. One of the leading chiefs in the
Indian territory to-day is old Journey
Cake. They call him for short Johnny
Cake, but when he puts on his plug hat,
filled with corn dodgers, for a journey,
you can easily see how provident In
dian like that should be called Journey
Cake.
On the way down to Phillipsburg you
get sight at the new bridge across the
Ohio at Phillipsburg from the cars at
Rochester. A close examination of that
structure will show it to be great work.
The piers for the channel span rise like
towers from the bed of the river, while
the two spans of uperstructure-it be-
ing of chilled iron and a peculiar truss
pattern-looks like a cobweb against the
sky.
Up Beaver creek, for six miles, is one
continuous town, although named off
differently with little boroughs. If the
ghost of old Half King could come back
and see the handsome scalping knives
they now make at the cutlery works, it
would no doubt regret his early remove
to the happy hunting ground.
From Pittsburgh proper to Beaver ia
almost one continuous settlement. You
do not feel that you are out Of the city,
for on every side are the familiar faces
which are seen on the streets and in the
business houses of the old city. / will
get up to Beaver Falls tomorrow, and
try aud see manufacturing curiosities
there. 3al 51 e ~. Q.
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