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Some friendly Indian advised him to leave the Indian settlements, 
which he did.” ‘Could any rational person believe for a moment, 
that the Indians came to Yellow Creek with hostile intentions, or 
that they had any suspicion of similar intentions on the part of the 
whites, against them? Would five men have crossed the river, 
three of them become in a short time dead drunk, while the other 
two discharged their guns, and thus put themselves entirely at the 
mercy of the whites; or would they have brought over a squaw 
with an infant pappoos, if they had not reposed the utmost confi- 
dence in the friendship of the whites? Every person who is at all 
acquainted with Indians knows better; and it was the belief of the 
inhabitants who were capable of reasoning on the subject, that all 
the depredations committed on the frontiers, by Logan and his party, 
in 1774, were as a retaliation for the murder of Logan’s friends at 
Yellow Creek. It was well known that Michael Cresap had no 
hand in the massacre at Yellow Creek.”* 
Spring Garden.—During the day, I visited “ the Spring Gar- 
den,” owned by Mr. Slack, a very ingenious and enterprizing man. 
It is beautifully situated on the southern slope of a hill, looking 
down upon the Ohio. A large spring of very pure water bursts 
from the side of the hill, a part of which is diverted to the use of a 
bath house, and the remainder to the irrigation of the garden in the 
drier portions of the year. A green house is attached, containing 
many rare and rich exotics, now in fruit and flower. The situation 
is one of the best I have ever seen, and cannot fail to yield both 
profit and delight to the owner, and to afford a source of tasteful and 
refined recreation to the inhabitants of Steubenville. Indeed, hor- 
ticulture, delighting us by its flowers, and rewarding us by its 
fruits, tends, manifestly, to cherish a refined taste in individuals, 
and to produce an elevated state of society; while agriculture 
confers upon mankind the most substantial rewards: the best days 
of Rome were those of her Cincinnati, when the tillage of the earth 
was considered equally useful and honorable. The Georgics of 
* A brother of Capt. Daniel Greathouse, said to have been present at the massa- 
cre, was killed by the Indians the 24th March, 1791, between the mouth of the 
Scioto and Limestone, while emigrating to Kentacky i in a flat boat, with his fami- 
ly. He seems to have made little or no resistance to the Indians, who attacked 
him in canoes. They probably knew who he was, and remembered the slaughter 
Aap eg family, as he was taken on shore, tied toa tree, and whipped to death 
