Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1896-03-25


Cumberland Mountain to the south.
ward of the trace; crossing the Fork
high up, and to strike the trace that
led from the lower Cherokees to the
mberland settlements, and to scour
the country down to Nashville. Small
parties Of Creeks, said he, and also Of
lower Cherokees, are daily passing and
repassing to the Cumberland settle.
ments, killing the people and stealing
their property. He was glad of the ap-
preaching war between the Creeks and
Chickasaws, but could not take any
part until so ordered by the President;
though he left Gen. Robertson at liberty
to supply the Chickasaws with such
quantities of corn as was necessary for
their support.
On the 9th of April, 1893, Colonel
Isaac Bledsoe was killed by party of
twenty Indians in his field near his
own house. On the 10th the house of
Mrs. Simpson was set on fire in the
night, but the flames we're extinguished
by men who were in the house. On
the 11th John Hammond, and man Of
the name Of Dowdy, were killed near
the mouth of Sycamore, in Tennessee
County. On the 14th Henry Howdishall
and Samuel Pharr were killed near
Gen. Rutherford's. On the 18th John
Benton was killed in the road between
Capt Reece's and Col. Winchester
mill; on the same day two men were
killed on the road to Kentucky. On
the 10th two men were killed within
hearing of Clarksville On the Goth
Richard Shaffer and man named OF
Gombrell were killed, and James Bean
wounded. On the 27th, party of In
dians, at first supposed to be sixty, but
afterwards discovered to be two hun
dred, attacked the station at Greenfield,
and killed Mr.. Jarvis, and negro
fellow belonging to Mr.. Parker. This
station was saved by the signal bravery
Of William Nicely, William Wilson and
William Hall, who killed two Indians
and wounded several others; Nicely
and Hall had each lost father and
two brothers by the savages. The peo-
pie murmured, and demanded where
were the blessings OF Government, and
whether protection would ever be af-
forded to them, and whenY On the
28th, Francis Ransom was killed near
the dripping spring, on the trace be-
tween Kentucky and Cumberland.
Between the 1st of April, 1893, and
the 18th of May, six hundred and sixty
Creeks crossed at the lower towns of
the Cherokees, for war against the
people of Nero district. On the Goth
of April, Gov. Blount sent from West
Point, at the mouth of Clinch, one
hundred and twenty men under the
command of Maj. Hugh Beard, to their
relief. The complaints of the people
frequently broke forth against the Gov
ernment and accused it of the most
culpable neglect for leaving them 80
long exposed and unprotected; but still
the ways of peace were steadily pur-
sued, and everything was made to be
quiet in presence of the great object
which the Government had it in view
to accomplish.
On the 9th Of May, 1898, party of
Indians fired upon four children at
Johnson's station, near Nashville,
wounded three, one of whom they
scalped, and caught the fourth boy by
the jacket, but he stripped it off and
escaped.
A short time before the first of June,
1893, many parties of the Creeks re
crossed the Tennessee at the lower
Cherokee towns, on their way home
from Kentucky and Cumberland. with
numerous scalps and valuable horses.
Public resentment was heated to de-
gree of intenseness which can hardly
at this time be adequately conceived
of; restrained by Government func-
tionaries and orders from action, it
sought for opportunities, and wasted
itself in bitterness. On the 25th of May,
some Chickasaws were on visit from
their nation to Gov. Blount at Knox
vile, and in their company was
Cherokee, who went into the woods to
see their horses, about six hundred
yards from Gov. Bloupt's house in
Knoxyille; some persons, aiming at
the Cherokee, as it was supposed, who
had made himself very obnoxious to
the whites, fired upon them and wound
ed Morris, one of the Chickasaws, so
that he died the next day. The Lov-
ernor caused him to be buried with
pompous ceremony; the inhabitants of
Knoxville generally and many from
the adjacent country, attended the fu-.
neral with general and unfeigned ex-
pressions of regret and of indignation
at the horrid deed. By all these ap-
pearances, the other Chickasaws were
soothed and satisfied; being well con
vinced of the friendly esteem of the
white people, for the most part to-
wards them; the act was universally
condemned.
On the 18th of May, 1903, Captains
Rains and Johnston, with detach-
ment of cavalry consisting of hun
dred men, set off from Nashville on a
tour of duty to the southwark. Gen.
Robertson had ordered them out to
scour the woods and paths and crossing
places at rivers and creeks, to discover
the trails of Indians coming to the
Cumberland settlements. These regu-
lations gave the Indians much trouble
and rendered livery dangerous to them
to approach the settlements; but though
they were considerably repressed, they