Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1895-12-04

to be particularly displeasing.
Daily accounts received at this period
imputed to the Spaniards unremited
exertiOns to induce the Creeks and
Cherokees to continue to make war
upon the United States, and the people
had for some time complained that
they were not protected, and held out
the idea that they ought to protect
themselves. They had appointed
place of meeting. where it was pro.
posed they should pass into the Chero-
kee nation and destroy the towns.
They began to assemble accordingly
at CANDLES Station, and had been
with great difficulty made to disperse
by the Governors proclaim ration which
he sent to them by Col. White, and by
his ordering out the militia to suppress
them in case of perseverance in their
designs after the proclamation should
have been made known to them.
The Governor did not hear from
Cumberland as soon as he expected,
his messenger having been detained
by high waters, which in the month of
March, 1893, were nine feet higher
than they had ever been known to be
before. He received intelligence that
between the Goth of March and 9th of
April, 1898, six hundred aud twelve
Greeks had passed the Tennessee in
several parties, for war against the
United States, but principally against
the Cum berland settlements, and that
the whole nation of Creeks were bent
OH war. He was informed that Gen.
Logan, of Kentucky, was preparing an
expedition against the Cherokees, at
the very time when the Governor and
those Indians were concerting meas.
ures for peace; and when to that end,
under the instructions of the President,
he was inviting full representation of
the chiefs to visit the President in
Philadelphia, on the 18th of April. He
was Informed also, that the Indians
had killed several of the citizens of the
territory; such combination of per-
picking circumstances required great
fortitude, and an uncommon degree of
resignation to the dispensations of ad,
versity. He calmly provided for every
exigency. He ordered a company of
rangers to be embodied to scour the
woods in advance of the frontier set.
Elements Cf Cumberland; authorized
Gen. Robertson to raise another if
necessary, for the same purpose, and
promised him from one hundred and
sixty to five hundred men, to aid him
in defense of the Cumberland settle
ments. He ordered Maj. Beard to march
without delay with the troops under
his command, by the way of West
Point and the upper waters of the
Caney Fork, to the paths which the
Creeks generally passed to war against
the district Of Nero, and to the woods
in which they generally formed their
camps and from which they annoyed
the inhabitants of Cumberland in
small parties. On his arrival at any
such paths in the woods, he was in-
structed to consider all the Indians he
should see there as enemies, and in all
the woods upon the Cumberland waters
as low down as the mouth of Red River.
But should he come upon Chickasaws,
Choctaws or Cherokees, and know them
to be such, he was to consider them as
friends, unless they gave proofs to the
contrary: in that event he was to treat
them as enemies. He was not to 90 to
the westward of Nashville unless Or
dered by Gen. Robertson, nor was he
to go to the south of the Cumberland
waters, unless IN persuit of flying
enemy; in that case, if he judged it
prudent, he might pursue them as far
as tee Tennessee.
About the Goth of April, 1903, Gov.
Blount received undoubted informa.
tion that upwards of six hundred
Creeks short time before that had
pas' rough the lower towns for
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y. zee chiefs however preteded an
earnest wish for peace, and John Watts
on his late visit to Gov. Blount gave
the most explicit assurances on that
head. Douglass, the Scotchman, who
was sent as a spy to Pensacola, was
mistaken in the Chickasaw nation for
a horse thief who had been there some
time before and was killed by them
under that mistake on his return to
Gov. Blount. s
On the 18th of April, 1903, on the
east fork of Little Pigeon, in Jefferson
County, thirty miles from Knoxville,
Joshua Upton was killed by the In
dians, and also man of the name of
Matthews, and another of the name of
Shields wounded.
A station was attacked in Kentucky
by the Indians, in the month of April,
1888, who killed three of the inhabi.
tants and made eighteen prisoners,
whom they carried into the woods and
killed.
On Monday the 18th, which was
was shortly afterwards, they attacked
another station, and they had set fire
to the house at Rock Castle and con-
sumed them.
Gov. Blount at this time by presents,
by friendly letters. by special messen.
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