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

powers he had for their protection. and
to secure them against the immediate
outrages of savage barbarity. They
reminded him of the ordinance of Con-
gress OF 1887, and of the right the peo-
pie had under it to legislature, as
soon as their number amounted to five
thousand free male inhabitants. They
stated that thee period had arrived
when they could claim that right, and
they felt confident that he would con-
cur with them in opinion.
On Sunday the 9th of October, an
Indian was killed in field in Jones'
Cove, on the east fork of Little Pigeon,
by party of Capt. Jobe's company,
who were on duty for the protection of
Jefferson. On the evening of the next
day, another Indian was wounded near
the same place by another party of
Capt Jobs command. The same day
several houses and stacks of grain
were burned and ten horses stolen by
Indians in that neighborhood.
On Monday the 2Sth of October, a
party of Indians, consisting of twenty,
ambuscaded McGahey's station, fifteen
miles from Knoxville, fired on and
wounded William Cunningham, as he
was riding on the road near station.
The people of the station gave imme-
diate pursuit, but could not come up
with the Indians. They took eight
blankets and patch coats, four pair of
moccasins, one gun and shot pouch,
three hatchets, and eight bags of
parched meal, which the Indians in
their hasty retreat had left behind
them.
On Monday the 23rd OF December,
Roger Oats and Nicholas Ball were
killed by Indians near Wells Station,
twenty miles from Knoxville, as they
were transporting load of corn to the
blockhouses for the support of their
families. This party consisted of ten
at least, as that number of guns was
fired. They took four horses from the
wagon, and mulatto boy fourteen
years of age, and left by the body of
Mr.. Oats a speckled stock trading gun,
which they broke in pieces over his
head, of the kind with which Panton
and the Spaniards have supplied many
of the Creeks. After the time they
were killed, several small parties of
Indians were discovered on the boun.
daries of Knox County. supposed to be
spies from larger body to examine
the state of defense kept .up on the
frontiers. A number of the frontier in
habitants of the neighborhood W here
Oats and Ball were killed, on the 23rd
of December, collected and pursued
the murderers, and were led by the
trail to the Hanging Maw's camp,
where they killed three men, and alas
how shall the fact be concealed from
public notoriety seven squaws also.
After the 22d of April, 1893, when
the proclamation of neutrality was
issued by the President the Spaniards
affected to recommend to the Indians to
be at peace with the United States, and
seemed to have relaxed their ardor for
stirring them up; at least, such indica.
tions were given by their professions:
although they did not forbear to sup.
ply the Indians with necessaries in
September, for the prosecution of their
expedition against Knoxville. Their
very dissimulation is proof of self
condemnation for the steps they had
taken already, and it was pledge that
their conduct would shortly be changed
in reality. The cause of those changes
are now manifest, and we can see at
this time, whilst the United States
were in negotiation with Spain for the
navigation of the Mississippi, that the
attainment of the objects in view might
have been defeated by offensive con-
duct towards that power, which a war
with the Creeks and Cherokees, their
allies, whom they had taken under
their protection, might have been con.
sidered. The neutral station which
the United States had assumed being
once ascertained, it became the dutv
and interest of their Spanish neigh.
bors to be upon good terms with them,
and not to provoke them by an often.
sive behavior to relinquish the attitude
they had taken. Hence their peace
talks to the Indians in the spring and
summer of this year, and the public
letters of Governor Gayoso, disclaim-
ing all agency in the promotion of mis-.
understandings between the Indians
and the people of the southwestern ter
ritory, and of the conciiating and DO.
lite letters of the Baron de Uarondalet
himself, to which we shall by and by
have occasion to advert.
Continued next week.
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