Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1895-12-18


number of guns of Spanish fabrication,
, with the budgets, blankets, match
coats, and some hores. Capt Evans
lost three men in this engagement,
which was all the injury sustained in
this expedition, though it had been
four times attacked, After the last
engagement the army of Gen. Sewer
crossed the main Coosa at a place
where the Indians had thrown up some
works, which they abandoned on the
approach Of the army, and suffered it
to pass unmolested. The army then
proceeded down the main river to the
Turnup Mountain, destroying as it
marched several Creeks and Cherokee
towns, which they had settled on each
side of the river, and which they had
precipitately deserted, leaving almost
everything behind them. Nor did
they. after the battle of Hightower, at
tempt to interrupt the march of the
army. Their ardor and spirits were
broken. The party which was routed
at Hightower consisted of those who
had been out with Watts The Gen.
eral had also three men wounded. The
army took and destroyed nearly three
hundred beeves. Many women and
children might have been taken, but
from motives of humanity the General
did not encourage it. Some who were
taken were suffered to escape; You
know, said + e to the Governor, the dis.
positions of many of those who are out,
and can readily account for this con-
duct"
Jaundenes, Spanish agent in the
Cherokee nation, on the 18th of Sep.
tember, 1898, wrote by the Little Tur.
key to Gov. White at Pensacola, to
supply him with seven hundred pounds
of provinder and fourteen hundred
pounds of ball, for the Cherokees then
embodied, to the number of seven
hundred, to take satisfaction for the
death of those Indians who had been
lately killed by Beard and his party,
al the Hanging Maw's. This was done
by the directions of the baron de Car
ondalet, who in June complained so
heavily of the supplies of corn and one
swivil, sent to the Chickasaws. How
he could make himself think that what
was so unlawful in Gen. Robertson,
according to his estimation, was proper
in himself, and that too for the purpose
of invasion and butchery of those who
were in no wise parties in the offensive
deed, nor approvers of it, but on the
contrary, gave it their opinion and un.
reserved condemnation, is for the re-
inements of subtlety to determine. The
reason which the baron gave for this
conduct was, that otherwise he should
lose the confidence and good opinion
of the Cherokees, with which he had
inspired them towards the King of
Spain. We shall presently see that
Spanish negOtiators endeavored to
give more justifable reason, well
knowing that some more plau ,ibe one
must be at least attempted.
Not long after Gen. Sewer 8 expedi-
tion, Capt Harrison in scouting ex
curSion, took two Cherokees, fellow
and squaw, who gave information to
the people of Knoxville, whittier he
brought them, that the town on the
other side of Hightower River, where a
part of Gen. Sewers army had the late
engagement, is the principal place of
rendezvous for the Creeks and Chero.
KEGS previous to their coming in upon
the frontiers. This town was princi-
pally inhabited by Greeks, and was
governed by Creek chief called the
Buffalo Horn.
After Gen. Sewers expedition, the
Indians did less mischief on the from
tiers than they had usually done for
some time before. They however con-
tinued to steal cattle and horses, and
their trails were seen in different
places.
On the I'd of October, Polly Lewis
and her brother,a little boy, were killed
on the south side of French Broad,
passing along public road near Dan.
bridge, in Jefferson County. She was
a young lady eighteen years of age.
On the 3rd of October, a party of
thirty Indians, plundered the house of
Mr.. Copeland, on the south bank of
French Broad he and his family having
a few. moments before crossed the
river. They were eye witnesses of the
number of Indians and of their acts.
On Sunday the 18th of October, u
party of Indians consisting of twenty
eight, killed Mrs. Lewis and five chill
dren. and burned their dwelling and
other houses in the Greasy Cove, on
the frontiers of Washington County,
twenty miles from Jone.boro, near the
path that leads across the Bald Noun
tain to North Carolina.
On the 18th of October, the grand
jury for the district of Hamilton pre-
sentcd an address to the Governor.
They complained in strong and plain
terms of the forbearing system of the
Federal Government towards the In
dians, and of the monstrous enormi
ties which they daily committed. They
represented themselves and the coun-
try to be in the deepest distress, the
public indignation reused, and the
ardor of the people for vengeance as