Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1901-01-02

home, and gave to their new settlemen
the name Of the one they had left IL
Pennsylvania When the war Of therev
olution came, to the never-to- be forgot
ten honor of the scotch-Irish Of York ant
Chester districts, South Carolina, be Il
said, they were as true as steel to the
Whig principles which they early es.
poused. No Bloody Scout" arose ir
their section, Tory was rare bird,
and an anathema marantha to his
neighbors and relatives. On the soil Of
York, Houck was defeated and Fergu.
son killed. To Lacy, one Of her sons
was given the honor of beginning the
attack at Kings Mountain. He and
his men belonged to the good old stock
They fought with the tenacity of the
old Covenanters, their forefathers, and
marched and bivoucked with the gay
spirits and good humored endurance OF
their Irish ancestry. Indeed, these set
tiers were a happy mixture Of the can
ny Scotch care, with a spice Of Irish
spirits and good humored endurance
a decided improvement on the stern IA
naticism Of the one, and easy pliancy
and want Of thrift Of the other. In re-
ligion they were Presbyterians to a
unit-sood conscientious men, "true
and just in all their dealings;" always
punctual attendants at the meeting
house, looking up to their pastor with
the faith-devotion, almost, of a Ro-
manist to his Padre. Yet it was not a
venial sin to get groggy at the court
house salesday, or get so exhilarated at
the polls election days, as to- have seve-
raj small fights; and at wedding, the
best of men would dance Jig, hornpipe
or reel. and "come home with a drap
too much in the e'e."
THE CATAwBA INDIANS.
! The aborigines of York were the Ca
tawbas, who, as late as the year 1760,
numbered 5000 warriors. They had all
the characteristic bravery of the red
men Of America, but were ever kindly
dispositioned to the whites, and from
the earliest settlements, dwelt in amity
with them. Sad, indeed, is the contem-
plation of their present state. A miser-
able remnant hangs around the waters
Of the river that bears their name
though the fish, once their prey and
sport, have nearly all left its broad
stream. The woodman's axe has long
since felled their broad hunting
grounds, and the laborers' gee-haw to
his plodding plough horse, echoes
through the hills that once resounded
with the high hunting cry Of the Ca
tawba, to the bounding stag or faint
ing hind.
The women engage in a rude pot
terry, making pans and pipes, which
they exchange in the neighborhood fol
provisions and old clothes. The men,
still too proud to work, live on in worth
less dignity upon the poor pittance
paid by the state for their broad fer
tile lands. 1t is 20 or rs years age
since with what aching hearts we may
we'll imagine), they acceded to the pro-
position Of the state to sell their lands
to South Carolina, and they went to
Haywood, North Carolina, to join the
Cherokees. give up their individuality
as a people, and be blotted out from
among the nations; but North Carolina
refused them home. and they came
back to the haunts Of their forefathers.
a living monument to the cupidity of
the whites, which must excite the SYM
pathy Of every generous heart.
Their numbers were reduced to less
than one-half. not long after the Revo-
luton, by the smallpox. The tradi-
ftion that I heard in my boyhood was,
that it was introduced through the av-
arice of some of the white men, to en-
able them to get more easy possession
Of the rich lands Of the Indians. Be
this as it may, the fatality Of the dis
ease among them was awful. The
treatment Of all diseases was the same
with the Indian doctors, and to each
and all they gave corn-sweat. The
mode of administering this was to boil
ears Of corn, slip-shucked, take them
steaming out of the pot, and pack
them closely around the patient, and as
soon as it produced profuse sweat,
they were taken up and thrown into
the river, and it was more frequently
a dead than live body that was TAX
en- out Of the water. Experience was
no teacher to the Catawba physician 4
for I remember being told by an e/
witness, a reliable man who 1'eu
among them at the time, that1le hau
seen rs day, during the gpTalence OF
the scourge, taken oyt/of the river
dead.
Hagler was the lame OF their last
king. I remember being told, py the
same individA referred to above, OF
the mode e(his burial. The grave was
ten feet%ide, ten deep, and ten long,
and M it, with his body, was put his
h,1dsome mounted rifle, fine powder
flask, gold and silver moneys, pipes,
tobacco, etc. In fact, the grave was
nearly filled with valuables, the per-
sonal property Of the dead king. There
was a guard Of sixteen warriors ap-
pointed to keep watch over it moon,
(or four weeks) and some Virginia
gamblers, who had been present at the
got rum enough to make the
guard drunk, succeeded in doing so, and
rifled the grave Of all it contained of
real value.
Hagler died childless. One sister re-
mained who had married General New