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Entered according to Act of Congress, in June, 1867, by J. W. Burke & Cos., in the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the United States for the So. District of Georgia. Vol. I. Written for Burke’s Weekly. DANIEL BOONE. HIS remarkable man was a native of Virginia, and . was k° rn about the year 1737. He was skilled, at Ms an early age, in the use of the rifle, and was a noted marks- JAY man and hunter long before he left n|| his native State. From Virginia he removed to North Carolina, but at what age we have no means of ascertaining. While living in this State, he spent most of his time hunting in the then wilderness country near the Cumberland moun tains. His own account of his discovery of Kentucky was that himself, his brother Squire, and a servant boy, were taking a hunt in Powell’s Val ley, when he found a gap, or low place in the mountain. He ascend ed to the top of the mountain, from whence he imagined that he could see the Ohio river. He thought it the most beautiful country he had overseen, and returned to the camp, telling his brother what he had seen, and that they must go up and cross the mountain. They did so, and found the deer so plentiful that they soon loaded their seven horses with skins, and Boone started his brother and the servant boy back with them to North Carolina. lie instructed his brother to bring back with him as many horses as he could get, and he would have skins enough to load them all by the time he returned. The brother and servant left, and Boone remained in the new country hunting for eight months, during all of which time ho never saw the face of a white man. In all this time he declared that he never enjoyed himself better—his only companions being his faithful dogs, who guarded his camp from MACON, Gs A., JANUARY 18, 1868. foes at night, and aided him in hunting by day. At the end of eight months, Boone’s brother and servant boy came back with fourteen horses, and as the packs were all ready, they loaded their horses and started for home in a day or two. “They traveled the first day, and until about ten o’clock the next day, when he saw four Indians, with as many horses, loaded with beaver fur. They wore crossing each other, and seeing plainly that they must ‘?W •^^sa^[ji|y3psSiSS^y'«^fc'^wS^ytT\voilL meet, he cautioned his brother and the boy not to let the Indians have their guns out of their hands, for they would be sure to want to got them, under pretence of wanting to examine them. V» hen they came up to the Indians, as Boone expect ed, they tried to get the guns, but failed. They then went round Boone’s horses and drove them off with their own. Thinking it not prudent to attack four Indians, with no one to assist him but one man and a boy, Boone allowed them to depart, and he and his. party set off foi home, feeling very badly at the loss of their property. But the next day, at ten o’clock, he told his brother and the boy that if they would “ stick to him ” he would turn back and follow the Indians, “ even to their towns, but what he would have his skins and horses back again. They assented to it, and immediately pur sued hard after them, and came in sight of them the first day. ‘ Now,’ said Boone, ‘we must trail them on until they stop to eat.’ “The Indians at length halted, hoppled their horses, cooked and ate; Boone and his companions watching them all the time. He well knew that, having eaten, they would lie down to sleep except one. They did so, and the one left on o-uard sat on a log at the head of the others, and Boone and his boys had to creep on all-fours for a hun dred yards, in order to get near enough to shoot. Boone told his brother that lie would take for his own mark the one on the log; the brother must aim at the one on the right, and the boy at the one on the left; and that, when he gave the signal, they must fire and keep loading and shooting, making as much noise, and using as many dif ferent tones as they could.” They fired, but only the Indian on the log was killed, and the others bore him off. The Indians fled in disorder, and Boone and his party followed them for three-quarters of a mile, shouting and yelling. They then came back, toqk their own horses and those of the Indians, put on the loads of skins and beaver fur, and drove them safe into North Carolina. Boone finally moved into Kentucky, about the year 1775, and built a fort at a salt spring, on the Kentucky river, where Boonesborough is now situated. He liv ed in Kentucky until 1798, when he re moved to Upper Louisiana, which at that No. 29