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To which I wrote

SIR,

Monday Evening, 18th March.

With pleasure I wait on you in company with the gentlemen of my column- Please, Sir, name the time and place.

Capt. Butler, Acting Adj. Gen.

EATON.

In return of which I received the following.

18th March, 1793.

SIR, Having received your note of acquiescence, I have appointed Capt. Price's hut as the place of meeting. I shall endeavor to attend there in one hour.

Capt. Eaton.

Monday, half past 6 o'clock, P. M.
E. BUTLER.

Accordingly we met-I observed to the gentlemen that I had come there in consequence of Capt. Butler's request, who had called on them to attend, and that I expected he would suggest his business to them. This he did, by a statement of a number of questions; and we retired.

Soon the gentlemen requested our attendance, and exhibited their opinion as follows.

"The referees, to determine the difference between Captains Butler and EATON, are of opinion that however wrong Capt. EATON was, in the first instance, Capt. Butler was equally if not more so in the second and as they were both unfortunate in being culpable, so it is incumbent on both to come forward and bury the matter in oblivion, by again renewing their former friendship.

BENJAMIN PRICE, Capt. 4th S. Leg.
President.

March 18, '93.

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To this opinion Capt. B. conceded, and offered me his hand. I observed that I would ever sacrifice my own to the opinion of my friends; and accepted it."

On the 5th of May the army arrived at Cincinati EATON thus described the Ohio and its banks.

"During the last three days of our descent, the circumstance of my having been detailed for the rear guard, gave me a very considerable advantage of the officers who were attached to the line-I took my own time to progress, and my own method of observation so far as was consistent with my orders. Never was my eye so much delighted with the rude uncultured grandeur of nature. A description of the banks of the Ohio mocks, or can but ape reality. Geography has never yet done justice to the subject. For more than two hundred miles I saw not a hill incapable of culture. All so far as eye can ken is a fertile bottom variegated with gentle rises. The rank and rapid growth of vegetation, and the prodigious weight of timber, demonstrate the natural luxuriance of the soil. The sycamore, the elm, the beach, the aspin, the hicory, the walnut, and the maple, or sugar tree, are large beyond credibility. The trees even at this early season, were in full foliage. The herbage which covered the surface of the bottom, was nearly two feet high. I frequently walked the bottom, with two faithful soldiers of my guard, one of whom was an active Canadian, till I found myself almost insensibly strayed two or three miles from my boat. The soil continued the same. These little excursions, or rather eccentricities, were on the Indian side of the river. The tracks of dear, bear and buffaloes, were extremely plenty, and here and there a mokasin. I saw none of the animals; the noise of the proceding army had probably frighted them from the shore.

After all which can be said of its banks little can be said of the river. It is the most capricious stream I ever saw. However incredible, true it is, that its waters frequently rise in the freshes from ten to fifteen feet in one night, and fall again in a very few days, Its current is rapid, at the rate of five miles an hour in time of the freshes; consequently

the unwieldy boats which float down, never ascend. Keel bottom boats and canoes are rowed against the current, but with considerable labor. I am no friend to the first."

In August, an Ensign by the name of Morgan, was tried by a Court Martial, on charges exhibited by Gen. St. CLAIR, and cashiered. EATON thus records the names of the Court, and their subsequent fate a short time after.

"Brigadier Gen. THOMAS POSEY, President-Resigned and dead.

Majors. D.

H.

Captains. P.

Resigned and dead.

Damned by brandy.
Dead per do.

P.

Dead.

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Such is the disgust with which men view the imprudence and vices of others; so confident too of never immitating their examples:

Yet, seen too oft, familiar to the face,
We first endure, then pity, then embrace.

Capt. EATON continued with the western army till February 1794, when he obtained leave of absence. During this time he was engaged in various skirmishes and scouting parties, and assisted in the erection of Fort Recovery.

The following is the character which he gives of Gen. Wayne, written about the year 1795.

"He is firm in constitution as in resolution ;industrious, indefatigable, determined and persevering ;-fixed in opinion, and unbiased in judgment ;not over accessible; but studious to reward merit. He is a rock against which the waves of calumny

and malice, inoved by the gust of passions natural to envy, have dashed have washed its sides. He is still immoveable on his base-He is in some degree susceptible of adulation, as is every man who has an honest thirst for military fame-He endures fatigue and hardship with a fortitude uncommon to men of his years. I have seen him in the most severe night of the winter of '94, sleep on the ground like his fellow soldier; and walk around his camp at four in the morning, with the vigilance of a sentinel."

"His manners are austere and forbidding, but his heart is susceptible of the finest feelings of sensibility. When in danger, he is in his element; and never shows to so good advantage, as when leading a charge. His name is better in an action, or in an enemy's country, than a brigade of undisciplined devies."

After spending a few weeks in Philadelphia, he returned to Brimfield. In June, by request from the war office, he engaged in recruiting at Springfield; the Secretary at War, offering him his option, to attend to the recruiting service, or to return to the army at the westward. In this service he remained till October 1795, when he received orders to march to Georgia. He arrived with his troops in Philadelphia, and on the 1st of December embarked thence for Georgia. On the night of the 13th, arose a most violent storm of rain, hail, thunder and lightning, which is thus described in a letter to Mrs. Eaton.

Hoarse thro' the cordage growled the threatening blast,
Portenteous of the storm. The expanse of Heaven,

O'ercast with murky columns, seemed convulsed

With one wide waste of elemental war.

From every point, along the bounding surges,
Rolled the black phalanx of electric fluid,
Born on the pinions of the maddening storm.
Ocean oppressed, and shrinking from the alarm,
Rushed from the deep with agonizing pangs,
And urged, in vain, precipitate retreat.

Down rushed the glaring tempest, rain and hail,
In winding torrents closed, and the vast space

Of sea and air seemed one promiscuous deluge.
Blue streams of angling sulphur blazed around,
Transforming midnight to the fire of day,
Reserving all her horrors. Peals on peals
Burst from the flaming batteries of heaven,
And nought but horror stalked along the gloom.
Deep plunged the tortured brig beneath the gulph,
Them bounding o'er the waves, along the skies
Inveloped in the storm, wrapt her broad decks
Amidst the lightning's sourse; then plunged again
Beneath the breaking surges. All the while
The hardened sailor and as hardened soldier,
Dispairing and forlorn, saught that dernier
And natural resort from danger, prayer.

The shrieks of female terror, and the cries
Of infant fear, spoke uniform distraction :
And each articulation plead for mercy :
As if the God creative had forgotten

His attributes of kindness.

Eight gloomy hours we plunged in dread suspence :
Fear and amazement occupied the soul,

And hope was almost exiled: till at length
Breathed the soft spirit of our gentler fate,

Wafting the lightning's vapor through the skies,
Silenced the distant murm rings of the thunder,
And soothed the angry surface of the deep.

Once more the prince of day smiled from the east,
And each glad heart to a relenting heaven
Tendered the silent gratitude of praise."

On the 26th he arrived at Savannah, and on the 30th at St Mary's. He reported himself to the officer commanding at that station, Lieut. Col. Henry Gaither; and took the command of a detachment of 160 soldiers from Virginia, whose commanding officer was Capt. Tinsley; making in the whole number of troops on that station, about 300.

The erection of a fort at Colerain, on the St. Mary's, had been determined, and to this, immediate attention was paid by Capt. EATON, though he had strong objections to the ground, being low, marshy and unhealthy. This fortification he called Fort PICKERING; "not however," says he, " that I might satirize a good man by erecting his monument in mud."

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