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n. T.i
1 SAGE, .
omc.
'(5 F" Hit
5i
TVhii daily tasks are donand tired
' hands
, Lie still andloItTecT'onhe resting
When loving thoughts ha:e leave to
hiii; tvilobseeir-'andSj'vVV.'.. '
And wander bver past' Jand fnttire:
? lit .?' hi tit fiii.-ua-'jrH
When visions i bright of love and hope
' . fulfilled r ' - ; ; -f '
Bringvvv eary eyes a spark of olden
.rJ "f-'fire,' ' --'-'j lAi"-
One castle fairer than the. rest we
. ?build, J'L 'j --- - -
One blessing more than others we -i-jV-t
'desire i U. -rdhci
A home, our home, wherein,' wait
ing past, ;
- We two may stand together, and
' aloho ; ' ' l?
Our patieilt task-work finisHed, and
v at last 'fii ' .-f -iHi'-'-ii
Love's- pefXcct; blessedness ' anoV;
'" peace our, own. -Som'6
'little- iiest of safety ' and' -d '
.ViiJil ' light, rrj' ;! ;rr I
Guarded by Gocl's angeld day and
nisrht. - '
Wo cannot gnes&if this dear borne"
shall lie
In some I green - spot embowered
M; .,, , -with archki g trees,
Where bird notes, joined vith brook
! notes ghding by,
Shall make us music as we sit at
ease.
Or if amid the city's busy din
Is built the rest for which we look
and long,
No sound without shall mar the
peape i within, . ,
The calm of love that time has
proved so strong. ; . ,
Or - if ah, solemn 1 thought ! tnis
! home of ours 1 . .
Doth he beyond the world's; con
fusing noise ;
And if the nest be built, in Eden's
bowers,
.."What do we still but silently re
joice '? .
We have a home, but:. of its happy
state -We
know not yet.
to wait.
We are content
- From the Daily News.
oiih Carolina" in Olden
; Times., "it -,- nX"
The following interesting com-
muuication was-lurnishcd tothe-
....... - . -'I
jFra, and we" arc kindly permittee-
y that -paper to use it 1 :
Wf have been favored with a
cop3.oi a comiiiunieauou on aiio
snbject of our early Indian war Jn
North 1 Carolina, which was pro
duced; by a letter Irom honorable
Lyman C. Draper, becretar3r ot
the 'State Hospital Socieh' of Wis
consin,
desiriiiir-.
41
the
route 01
Cherokee
General
Williamstoh's
expedition of 1770, in the western
part of our State."
Is early all those who were en-
jraffca in: in.s expeumon .now,
quietly sleep the rest that "knows
no waking ; aijd but tew 01 the
present asce are! aware that at aii
early aay, ,tne vquiec ana iqveiy
region. ot the transniountain coun
try of our State was traversed by"
an army, in all "the pride, pomp
and circumstances of glorious
war." It is to be regretted that
Mr. Draper's . inquiries had not
been eaVlier made. Gov. Swain,
who was a native of this section,
h ad mi ri ute , knowledge ot this ex
pediton, as of eyeiw other histor
ical question relative to the State.
But he is dead, . and the key to
much of this information is bur
r".ed with him. ; Yet,' from his
letters' to me, tlic researches of the
late Judje Mhrph, and from
facts gathered from the cotenipora-
riesof those who hnsrered aiter the
campaign had ended; (they now,
too, have departed;) and ' irom
an .article u in jthe., ? ,TJnivprgitv
Mairazine, I am in some small de-
grec, ua)iedAq eomvh: At
request madpi and trace tjie "route
of General WiUiamston's Chero
kee expedition of-177G."
The Ohefo2:ee ; lucffans1 bwheJ
tat this time a;the territory ;;westl
f of the Bue JKi'aVo in North Caro-
now" the
f Geprgi a; and Te n n ess e."
In the snmmcr of 1776: tliese
Indians committed' fearfufdepre-
nidations on the white$ , in these
i ii
frontier ettiements.H'Aleri'were'
killed by tliem in iccrt1 and in
thrermbstlmi tal1 ffiaHH erv ' I Wbm eri
and cnildron was' tofcliercd with
out remorse, houses btirhed -and
and, fields laid , yt2i$e by,i th$e
savages., This , roused the, spirit J
oi me people. : . . oimuitaniausiy
Xbrth Oiirolffiai r Sbath: ' Carol
a n d iVi rgi ii la raised troops to fsrt fo'
due them.; - The troops dfnlforth
Carpjuui v viere f commanded? b$l
Ueneral . U ritnt li ItutJieriprd, and
an!d ' wer'6 2,400 strong, some say
3,000J;nrhe Snth CardliHa;trdqpS
W ere Co m m h hd ed - f y A G 6neral
Wiliiamstonyj ofand; -were t'2,000
strongs a,nd- thp vVrgJnia trqops:;
were 'tcpmrfia ided by , pjojoneh
ijnnstian.
(j 2 heral G riffi tli It utli erford1 ' is
well k:nmv'in thTli story of
JSorth ; Carolina; ' I : ha ve in 'my
possession some original lettes of
- 9
provejas did , his ; actions that ' hd
was eyq'ry ;inci a soldeir lie. lived!,
for a Jong 5 tniq(. near Salisbury,
ah d. as .early as ' 17,76 represented
the boifrrty (Itdwahy iri'theLegis
latiire, aim-a drain in 1777-'78 and
'79 and lroiii 1783' to 1786.' He
scrveel not only in this campaign
asrauist
me1 lutuans. butr.in. the
Continental Army; . as!a 13riga
dier ' Gen eral j i n - in e ' Con f i rien tal
Army, in the ill-fated battle of
Camdpn (Aiigtist. 1 780) where he
w as taken prisoner.1 lie removed
to Tennessee was jtvf public, life
there, (speaker of 'the Assembly,)
where he diedl The 'States 6f:
Srorth . Cardliha , and Tennessee
preserve j his j iiame, . :ia counties
calletl after him.; and a descendant-of
his .is at .this time, the
Third Auditor of the .Treasury of
the; United5 States.", u
The forces under-liis command in
this Cherokee ? campaign i n ' the
lattev part otVAugust 177G: camp-:
ed near Pleasant gardens, now. in
McDowell county, at Old Fort,
which it is stated was' built, by
him, crossed the Ride:a at thfc1
Swananoa Gap and the French'
Broad Uiyer.at "the. War Ford :;"
they then. followed JJomihyc Creek
to its source, and passed over to
Pigeon River on. the upper road
which- passes Colonel Joseph
Cathey?s p and then ;. Itichland
Creek to. its ; source. The" then
crossed, the, mountaips, near lci
Lhres, and followed Scott's Creek
to it's rhoutli! This stream is so
called from1 John Scott,' a trader J
among Ithe Cherokees grossing
the Tuckassege Riverthey came
to the Cowee ., Mountain. When
nearer the "top of . this; mountain
they were fired' 611 by the Indians, ;
but th e' Indians i rnmediately - fled .
Without further , mol eslation- the
army arrived at the Tennessee
Ri ve r , an 1 passi ng d p w n , , Vva ta 11
ga Creek, encamped oh the' west
side of rsaid River near a large
Iiidian Mdundv at a town -called
then by! the Indians ivequasse,
but which is uow known, ; by the
more civilized name of Franklin.
Here they remained : a day j and
then marched down the river to
a town called Cowe'e, and encamp1
edj ' Here theyl awaited the arri
val of the South Carolina troops.
After waiting, for some time, and
hearingnpthing from theru, Gen,
eral Rutherford resolved to ad
vauce onthe Valley Towns ou
the ; Iliwassee, leaving a strong
fotec at, Cowee, where by ap
pointment the S. C. troops were
to nieet him.' HeXcrossedTthe
Nantahala Mou utain, where he
was rnef b3rthe icnemy f i ii" force
and a severe :battle!v as -there'Ue-livered.
The Indians, with some
military strategy occapied two
ridges of mountains which form-
! ed uniacuta angle ;jatAv3iicru lin
therfpr.d's, ineiif had to pass-LiThisI
vantage., pointy 5,they maiiitame(l
wiui icbviuuuu uuu ucsueiauyiJ,
jchargih'g their rifles yith"fearful
eet; land concealing themselves
efl
after iJnr!ng, ?by the ridges bf the
mountam - sRuthertordS ? fronr
troops
suffered :$0Yrc)y ; . but after a
peratestraga droye' theludiaus
frpnV tjieir position, sthdi the In
diana rifled An ; great rcgnfusion.
,G en eralRu the rford ' proeetjdeil 'to
tu xiiwasaee xowus, 'ana .DUrut
hi that shbw he : was like Blen
netha'sset,1 4'ar native' of Ireland,'!
fmtHmiTii bf-letteiV5bht!
crops, fand'td6k some 'prisbnefs.
.General .Williamston'a ,, forces
joined him at Cowec r soon alter
tHe ; battle'.? Ms ;cle"l$ in: j6ihiii
uenerai Kuthertord s was . chiefly
caused by a severe skirmish tlrat
he ha with jthejniandsnearthe
present town of Franklin. V With
hmkm ml$ w&&
through Rabun G ap, and passing
along the Tennessee . river, tp the
piaee pf. rendezvous,, about -nine
miles from Franklin he fell into
an ambuscade prepared by ' the
savages In a narrow defile ; here
he lost; thirteen men killed and
thi rty wounded ; this attack was
vigorous and sanguinary, and
would 'have proved fatal to the
whole command had not Edward
Hampton.' with only thirty regu
lars, attacked the Indians in the
rearahd forced them .'to retreat.
Tli i gall antry of Hhmpfoh saved
Williamson "and his troops.
Ilaniptpn's courage had been in
tensified by the . appalling news
that his' brothers wife "little one's
and all" had been just before
butchered in cold blood by these
Indians. It is recorded, of him
during , his (fierce and fiery
charge 2ih his haste lie' rammed a
bullet -dowh his rifle ; neglecting
to put in the powder first. He
per2eived his mistake, and ' noth-
ing ciannxea, sat quietly aown on
the kr ass. while the
rassi wnie ine storm ragea
eery side;: unbreeched his
onj
gun, drew, the loadf reloaded, and
continuefl his work ot.. slaughter.
After this affair General William
son advanced unmolested1 to Co
wee, but as the object of the cam
paign had been accomplished re
turned o South Carolina by the
roilfe ur the Flivassee. General
Rutherford returned' homc and
disbandaued his troops at Salis
bury. v I . i :.".:v.
This same chastisement sub
dued the Cherokees, and they
sued for peace. A treaty of last
ing peace was made with them at
the Long Island . on. th e Holston
RJyer? Wthe 20th of July 1777.
The ( Cdni mission crs for lorth
Carotin a appointed by Governor
Caswell were, William Sharp,
W aigh sti 11 Ave ry , Ro bertr Lame r
and. Joseph . Wiuston. ttM . .. .
A regimenty from , .Guilford
county was ih this "campaign ;
James' Martin was Colonel " and
John Paisly -was Lieutenant Colo
nel ; names sincej well appreciate
ed in their descendants. - . (
Samuel Lowrie,' of Meckleh:
bnrg! county,5 who was afterwards
one o.i tne tuuges or tne.;oupen-
or Courts of the State, was a pri
vate soldier in this campaign.
ITT ' i ' I I ' f t
i ear vv ay n es vi i i e n e io u n a a
Beech tree, and" oh it was carved
theh figures 1 1706 ' Years after,
when ndmg thiscircuitas Judge,
h remembered this, circumstance
and'went to the place and show
ed his brotliern'awvera the figures.
WheW" he1 "recoil ected ' that this
date wTas long anterior to any set
tlement hy the whites iu. this, sec-r
tion, for Daniel Boon,e, who tra
versed much of our country and
lived for a long time in Western
North Carolina! ' -was not born,
historic research may-well be ex
ercised to know by whom these
figures were. cuta rr
Rev. James-Hall, lono and fa
vorabl7 known, as a Presbyterian
Minister, of Iredell county,: was
chaplain to the the jSTprth Cardli
ha troops.'.". His history, then, ahd
afterwards;1 proves that he Wasiis
ready to draw tfe sw6rd for lib-
'erty, ; as to preacli ,the" Cross to
siuuers. , IlQ pttenr preached, ; to
the" troops while encamped vat
Cowee ; with ' ah'": Indian mound
for a pulpit, tlie hardy troops for
his- audien co, 1 surrounded 1 by en
chanting Bcenery, here were the
first tidings of salyation aur.bnncv
ed , in this lovely .region, s of our.
country, to lallen luan. .
l nusi luu HBove win uc saxis-
Lfear.it may.proveVif youAvrite
U Uor. & yaacesAt Charlotte
tion, as he'iiTS Viati ve ofthU see'
tion of ourtatfi?4na iraa OtieOf
f theuitors at.theCflii vesity &iag&-;
t '-J? ir 1 V t l -i l- .
npi wm civeAou iiirtner mormaicu vvw ui-mc h", u v Vi ,
time 'the article on the; Indian
war, of ? 1776 was published, ana
perhaps the-author. ;R. M Henry,
Esqi, of , Franklin, 'Macon county,
X. C, may he consulted by you
with advantage.",-! z I - f
s .VYoAjrs. respect fplly, ;.t j
tt uf 1 d I st g is p ii ' t lie S an d .'
'Tis well to woo, 'tis well to "wed,
For so the; world have done
Since myrtles grow,' zuid roses blow,
And morning brought the sun.
But have a care,' ye young , and 'fair,
Be sure ye pledge vith truth;
Be cer tain that your love will wear
Beyorid the .days of youth. . x
For, it you give not heart to hearfv- ;
As well as hand for hanil,
Ypu'Jl find yu'v played the 4 tm-.
;.;;wjse-s; partj ; -5
And "built upon the sand." 1 " '
'Tis well to save, 'tis well to have
A goodly share of gold,"
And hold enough shining stuff,.
For charity is cold.
But place not all your hopes and trust
In what the deep mine brings;
We cannot, live on yellow, dust, .
Unmixel with purer things.
And he who piles up wealth alone
Will often have to stand" :' '
Beside his coffer chest and own
. 'Tis'4 built uponjthe sanoV
'Tis good to speak irihdly guise,
And soothe whate er we can .
For speech should bind the human
mind, . :
And love link inan to man.
But stay not at the gentle words
Let deeds with language dwell ;
The 6ne who pities starving birds
Shoultf scatter crumbs ts well
The mercy that is warm and true
Must lend a helping hand ; .
For those who talk, yet fail to do,
But build upon the sand."
J
, HI v . JT cFudS !.u G re w ic Si .
Samuel HeFaddcm was a watch
man fn a' hank.' lie, vas poor,
but honest, anil his life Was with
out reproach. The troubje with
him Was that-he felt that he . was
not appreciated,.. His salary was
only four dollars a week, and
when he asked' to have' if raised,
the President Cashier,. and Board
of Directprs glared at him through
their spectacles, and frowned on
him, and told, him to out and stop
his insolence, when he knew busi
ness was dull and the. bank could
not meet its expenses7 now, let
alone lavishing one dollar on such
a miserable worm as Samuel Mc
Fiidde'n.' And then Samuel Me
Fadden Telt depressed, sad, and
the haughty scorn of the Presi
dent and Cashier cut. him to the
soul. . He would often go into the
side-yard, and bow his : venerable
twenty-four-inch head, and -weep
gallons and gallons of tears over
his: insignificance, and pray that
he niiijht be worth v of the Presi
dent's and Cashier's polite atten
tion. ' ' . ' ' .
One night a happy thought
struck bun ;; ' a gleamT of light
burst on him, and, gazing " down
the dim vista of : years with his
eyes all blinded, with joyous tears,
he saw himself rich aud respected.
So, Samuel j McFaddeii fooled
around and got a jimmy, a monkey-wrench,
aeros!-cut saw, a
cold chisel, drill and f about ' a
ton bf i gup pownler ' and ? hitro
glycerin e, an d those thi ngf. Th en ,
in the dead of the ttight, ; hc'wcht
to the fire-proof 'safe; aiid, after
Working at it a whiei; burst' the
door aiid brick into an immortal
smash with such a perfect sucqess
that tuere was pot enough: of that
safe, left to s make, a carpet-tack.
Mr.McFAdden then procteded to
lc
oadiu rip? with cotipons green-
UairaU the ad chaiige that- was
a temperature of S2 de? Fail.,
) milli dcJJaW on him lie
retirea Mo; an unassuming tcsi.
lon"i'nnt4ot tovvn: and then' sent
word to Ihe cleiectives where he
A detective, called, on him the
next day, 'with .'a soothing note
from the Cashier. MeFadden
troated it with lofty scorn. De
tectives call on him every day
with humble notes from the Pre--sident,
Cashier and Board of Di
r6cfors. f At last. the bank officers
got np a magnificen t private sup-
per,- to which MeFadden Was in-1
vitcd. He. came, and as the bank
officers bowed down in the dust
before him, he pondered well over
the bitter past, and his soul was
filled with exultation
Before ho drove away In his
carriage that night, it was all .fix
ed that Mr. MeFadden was to
keep $500,000 of that money and
to be unmolested if he returned
the other half. Tie fulfilled his
contitictilike an honest man, hut
refused, : with haughty disdain,
the offer of the Cashier to marry
his daughter. ' ; "
Mac is now: honored and re
spected: JIc moves in th best
society, browspsaround in purple
and fino 'linen ' and other trood.
clothes, and enjoys himself firsts,
rate. And Often hqw he takes
his infant'son oh his knee, and
tel Is In m of his Nearly life, and i n
sfills holy principles ;into the'
child's mind, and shows him how,
by industry and perseverance, and
frugality, and nitro-glycerinc,and
monkey-wrenches, and cross-cut
saws,' and familiarity- with the
detective sy?tem, even .the poor
may rise to afiluence and respon-
sihilitv. -Murk Hcaw.
ScscsUiiic anil i?Irchaiii.cnl Po
sibiliiies. :
One hundred and fifty years .ago,
if any one had dared to announco
the posibUity of crossing the ocean
in a vessel driven ' by steam, or of
carriages driven at the rate of thirty
miles an hour by this same7 agent ;
orf of daguerreotyping the human
face on a metallic plate by the light
of the sun, and then chemically fixing
it there, or of conveying news by
electric agency for hundreds of
miles, and especially under . the
ocean, such predictions would have
been considered simply ridiculous. '
And now wjien science announces ;
that it is! possible to ccnhrol the ele
ments, to cause; it to rain or shine at
pleasureand that it is possible to
draw from the earth's hidden troa , .
surenew resources of untold wealth, j
imparting the greatest happiness and
benefits to the human race, it is still
viewed with increduhty by the ma&,
ses. But a few years since, peirole
urn was first utilized- to our benefit
There doubtless was a time when a
man .never dreamed of warming
himself with artificial heat. For ages :
thei savages'r did not know that the
possibilityof heat existed, in trees
under whose shelter he lay. He pul
led up wild roots, picked wild fraits
swallowed the raw oysters "and must
sels ; he wandered naked along the
beach. A cave by the river or sea
side, or a hollow tree served him for
a shelter. ;Many generations passed
before he learned to make a fire ;
by slow steps lie passed, from rude
tents, huts and cabins, to coriiforta
ble hpuseg and stately mansions
with apparatus; by. which winter- is
shorn of its rigor. . ' ;
. Heat increases about one degree
to every fifty feet we penetrate :'the
earth ; slmfts are now sometimes
sunk to a depth of 2,000 feet It is
within the possibility of mechanism
to bore 4,000 feet more ; at the depth
we should find heat of at least one
hundred and- fifty degrees, and in
many places even greater than this.
Mechanical power could be obtained ;
from the team, and water, forced up
from this depth. Heated water and
steam form these, 'could be carried
into our houses and warm our dwell
ings 1 to ' a summer temperature
Conducted in pipes under the soil
protected by glass we could cheaply
grow in New j England, all of the
southern .and tropical plants and
vegetables. The snow could be kept
melted from tho streets of New York,
and all the j buildings ' warmed from
this spontaneous fipWjTzseful also for
cooHng and otier purposes. , '
llie Viraideu ot if lanxa in L'arya,
1 . vei , ;
is earned m pipes wa&ex the soVL A
sala3 girJeh at Erf art, in Saxony, is
heated in tno same manner, wia w
1 dai'l tt WA xrieLled G0.000 dollars a
: vear to the proprietor. fcc ntifo
9
Tialrier ifiduperanterjdeut
them, cut down tn
growing
ed far the iaets as stated, at tho
was.