Part 20 (1/2)

[165] The following extract from a letter dated September, 1819, addressed by Mr Austin to Mr Schoolcraft, respecting the navigation of the Missouri, well portrays the ireat i the past twenty years

”I regret to state that the expedition up the Missouri to the Yellow Stone has in part failed The steaainst the current for a nuive up the enterprise Every exertion has beenthe Missouri with the power of steam; but all will not do The current of that river, fro doith the water, is too powerful for any boat yet constructed The loss either to the governreat Sines, would, I think, have done much better

Boats like those eht feet draught of water, must have _uncommon_ power to be propelled up a river, every pint of whose water is equal in weight to a quart of Ohio water, and es fixed to move heels, worked by men, have answered every expectation; but they will only do when troops are on board, and the ed every hour”--FLAGG

[166] For a sketch of Franklin, Missouri, see Gregg's _Commerce of the Prairies_ in our volume xix, p 188, note 33--ED

[167] The first settlement was made at St Charles in 1769 La Chasseur Blanchette located the site, and established here a military post The first mill in St Charles County is said to have been built by Jonathan Bryan on a se Creek (1801) Francis Duquette (1774-1816), a French Canadian who came to St Charles just before the close of the century, erected a mill on the site of the old round fort--ED

[168] One year after the above ritten, the author, on a visit to St Charles, walked out to this spot The as blasted; the relics of the paling were gone; the grave was levelled with the soil, but the old ruin was there still--FLAGG

[169] For a description of bloody Island, see _ante_, p 115, note 77

The duelis probably the one that occurred between Joshua Barton, United States district attorney, and Thomas Rector, on June 30, 1823 Barton had published in the _Missouri Republican_ a letter charging Williaeneral of Missouri, Illinois, and Arkansas, with corruption in office The latter being absent, his brother Thoe Barton's body was buried at St Charles near the old round tower ruins

In the sued Tho hied hiust 12, 1817, and both parties ounded On Septeht, in which Lucas was mortally wounded Joshua Barton was the latter's second In the _Missouri Republican_ (St Louis, March 15, 1882) there was printed an address by Thomas T Gantt, delivered in Memorial Hall at St Louis, on the celebration of the centennial birthday of Thomas H Benton, in which the details of this deed were carefully reviewed

During the political canvass of 1830, a heated discussion was carried on in the newspaper press between Thoed Biddle to a duel Both fell ust 29, 1830--ED

[170] Marais Croche (Crooked swamp) is located a few miles northeast of St Charles, and Marais Tee des Sioux The former is often mentioned for its beauty--ED

[171] ”I cultivated a small farm on that beautiful prairie below St

Charles called 'The Mamelle,' or 'Point prairie' In my enclosure, and directly back of my house, were two conical mounds of considerable elevation A hundred paces in front of the the shore of the 'Marais Croche,' an extensive ing a ditch on the in of this bench, at the depth of four feet, we discovered great quantities of broken pottery, belonging to vessels of all sizes and characters

Soallons This must have been a very populous place The soil is admirable, the prospect boundless; but, from the scanty number of inhabitants in view, rather lonely It will one day contain an iain”--_Flint's Recollections_, p 166--FLAGG

[172] At the ti wrote, St Charles, like many other Western towns, entertained the hope that the cumberland Road would eventually be extended thereto, thus placing thelish Prairie_, in our voluht, _The Old Pike_ (Uniontown, 1894), and A B Hulbert ”cuhways of A at St Charles, runs ard across Dardenne Creek to Cottleville, thence to Dalhoff post-office and Pauldingville, on the western boundary of the county Its total length is twenty-six e, founded by Mrs Catherine Collier and her son George, was opened in 1836 under the presidency of Reverend John H Fielding The Methodist Episcopal church has directed the institution

Madame duchesne, a companion of Mother Madeline Barral, founder of the Society of the Sacred Heart, started a mission at St Charles in 1819; but the colony was soon removed to St Louis In 1828, however, she succeeded in establishi+ng permanently at St Charles the Academy of the Sacred Heart, with Madame Lucile as superior--ED

[174] For sketches of the Potawotahan's _Journals_, in our volume i, pp 115, 122, 139, notes 84, 87, 111; for the Sauk and Fox, see J Long's _Voyages_, in our volue's _Journal_, in our voluof Boone's Lick County, since there was none known by that naanized in 1833 from the western part of St Charles County

Boone County created in November, 1820, with its present limits, named in honor of Daniel Boone, is in the fifth tier of counties west from Missouri River--ED

[176] For an account of Daniel Boone and Boone's Lick, see Bradbury's _Travels_, in our volume v, pp 43, 52, notes 16, 24, respectively

Daniel Boone arrived at the Fee district in western St

Charles County, in 1798 He died September 26, 1820 (not 1818)--ED

[177] There seems to be little or no foundation for this statement

Consult J B Patterson, _Life of Ma-Ka-Tai-Me-She-Kia-Kiak or Black Hawk_ (Boston, 1834), and R G Thwaites, ”The Story of the Black Hawk War,” in _Wisconsin Historical Collections_, xii, pp 217-265--ED