All the western states and territories . hawk in a postof the council house and exclaimed, Ill go and make peace, to which all the warriorsgrunted ough! ough! and runners were instantly dispatched to Dunmore to solicitpeace. 116 OHIO. In the summer of 1777, he was atrociously murdered at Pinnt Pleasant. As his mur-derers were approaciruig;, his son Eiinipsico tremljled violently. His father encouragedhim not to be afraid, tor that the Gnat Man above had sent him there tn l^e killed and diewith him. As the men advanced to the door, Cornstalk rose up and met them: they fiieJand seven or eight bu
All the western states and territories . hawk in a postof the council house and exclaimed, Ill go and make peace, to which all the warriorsgrunted ough! ough! and runners were instantly dispatched to Dunmore to solicitpeace. 116 OHIO. In the summer of 1777, he was atrociously murdered at Pinnt Pleasant. As his mur-derers were approaciruig;, his son Eiinipsico tremljled violently. His father encouragedhim not to be afraid, tor that the Gnat Man above had sent him there tn l^e killed and diewith him. As the men advanced to the door, Cornstalk rose up and met them: they fiieJand seven or eight bullets went through him. So fell the great Cornstalk wairior—whosename was bestowed upon him by the consent of the nation, as their great strengtli andsupport. Had he lived, it is believed that he would have been friendly with tlie Anieri-c;ins, as he had come over to visit the garrison at Point Pleasant to communicate the de-sign of the Indians of uniting with the British. His grave is to be seen at Point Pleas-ant to the present State Capitol^ at CoJvmhus. Columbus, the seat of justice for Franklin county, and capital of Ohio,on the left bank of the Scioto, 110 miles from Cincinnati, 100 Marietta, and 139 from Cleveland, is on the same parallel of lati-tude with Zanesville and Philadelphia, and on the same meridian with De-troit, Mich., and Milledgeville, Geo. The site of Columbus is level, and it is regularly laid out, with broad,spacious streets: Broad-street, the principal one, is l20 feet wide. In thecenter of the city is a public square of 10 acres, inclosed by a neat railing ;and in the environs is Goodale Park, a tract of 40 acres, covered with ugrowth of native trees. The new state house, or capitol, is one of the mostmagnificent buildings in the Union. It is 30-4 feet long by 18-1 wide, andfrom its base to the top of the rotunda is 157 feet. The material is a hard,whitish limestone, resembling marble. Columbus is surrounded by a rich and pop
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