VOL. 43.
The Huntingdon Journal.
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5215 P]EINTINI IIITNTING1100:N,
March 21, 1879.
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"Keep a Stiff Upper Lip."
There has something gone wrong,
My brave boy, it appears.
For I see your proud struggle
To keep back the tears.
That is right. When you cannot
Give trouble the slip,
Then bear it, still keeping
"A stiff upper lip !"
Though you cannot escape
Disappointment and care,
The next best thing to do
IS to learn how to bear.
If when for life's prizes
You're running, you trip,
Get up—start again,
"Keep a stiff upper lip !"
Let your hands and your conscience
Be honest and clean ;
Scorn to touch or to think of
The thing that is mean,
But hold on to the pure
And the right with firm grip;
And. though hard be the task,
••Keep a stiff upper lip."
Through childhood, through manhood,
Through life to the end,
Struggle bravely, and stand
By your colors, my friend,
Only yield when you must ;
Never "give up the ship,"
But fight to the last,
With a "stiff upper lip."
stlect Ribtrilanp.
REFUSING TO EAT.
Miss Root's Fast of Forty Days.
WHAT LED HER TO DECLARE AGAINST ALL
FOOD AND DRINK - FORCING GRUEL
THROUGH A TUBE TO KEEP HER ALIVE
-STATEMENTS OF THE ATTENDING
PHYSICIANS.
The strange * fastinc , of Miss Sarah Root,
aged 28, of No. 314 South Sixth street,
Reading, Pa., is attracting unusual atten
tion, not only among the medical frater
nity, but among the citizens in general. A
correspondent of the Philadelphia Times
has been in consultation with the attend
ing physician, and gives a history of the
case, which we lay before the readers of
the JOURNAT t :
"I gave her to day a fow drops of gruel
and milk," he said, in answer to a ques•
tion, "by forcing it into the gullet through
her nostrils. She is as determined as ever,
and absolutely refuses to partake of food
and water. She makes no resistance to
any operation, but absolutely refuses to
take any nourishment whatever volunta
rily. Her case is certainly the strangest
I have ever experienced. The injection
of the small quantity of food has just been
sufficient to prolong life. How soon she
may dic is impossible to tell."
When Doctor Luther called he told her
that if she would take but one swallow of
water lie would not insert the tube in her
nostrils. She refused. -lie then offered
her a spoonful of gruel, with the same re
sult. After the tube had been inserted a
similar proposition was made, but she re
plied that `.he could go ahead ;" she would
make no resistance to the operation of for
cing food into her throat, but that she
would absolutely take nothing. Dr. Lath
er's full statement of the case is as fol-
lows :
A HISTORY OF THE CASE
"I was called in about four days ago. I
found the young lady emaciated, weak
and gradually sinking. She was not con
fined to her room, but was able to move
about the house and the rear yard. I as
told by her mother and friends that Miss
Root had partaken of no food.or nutriment
of any kind and no water for three weeks
and two days. This statement at first seem
ed absolutely incredible, but I have every
reason now to believe it is true. The case
at once presented tha most remarkable
phase I ever experienced in my entire
practice. lat once entered into conver
sation with the young lady and found she
was as determined as ever in her refusal
to take any nourishment whatever. I en
deavored to reason 'with her, but to no pur
pose. Persuasion seemed entirely without
avail, and no argument had any effect in
changing her mind. I learned, through
conversation with herself and friends, that
the young lady seemed to be afflicted with
a religious hallucination that was an im
possibility to eradicate. It is recorded iu
the fourth chapter of St. Matthew that
Jesus fasted forty days and forty nights in
the wilderness, and this idea seemed to be
the controlling influence in Miss Root's
case. She positively refused to take any
food whatever. During all the hot spells
she drank no water. This is a most won
derful and startling fact, considering the
great desire people generally have for water
to assuage thirst during the excessively
hot months of summer. I found that Miss
Root's tongue was heavily coated and in
flamed, her breath was offensive, her skin
dry, and that her entire system was fast
sinking and wasting and the membranous
lining of her stomach contracted and in
flamed. I ordered a preparation of milk
and gruel and determined the young wo
man should not starve herself to death. A
teaspoonful of the gruel was then offered
to her. I begged her to take it, but she
sternly refused. She was gentle, calm, re
served and lady-like. Eating or partaking
of nourishment did not enter into the con
ditions under which she imagined herself
to be laboring. I endeavored to place the
spoon in her mouth, but her elegant set or,
natural teeth were firmly set together, and
at first it was impossible to insert the
spoon. Finally, however, the spoon was
inserted, but it availed me nothing. In
fants are generally made to swallow by
holding thir nostrils shut, but Miss Root
took air through the interstices of her teeth
when her nostrils were closed. I conclu
ded then that it was useless to continue in
the effort to administer food in the regu
lar manner. I then procured a silver tube
and inserted it into her nose. The tube
ran up one of the nostrils, and by means of
a force pump I succeeded in introducing
a small quantity of gruel and milk into
her gullet and thence into the stomach.
After the first operation I asked her
whether she desired a drink of water, and
she said 'No.'
STILL REFUSING TO EAT.
"Yesterday I called upon the patient
again. Before inserting the tube in her
nose I told her she might save a great deal
of trouble and unnecessary annoyance by
calmly submitting and taking a few swal
lows of food in the natural manner. She
very gently refused. The tube was in
serted, but before any food was injected
she made a motion indicating her desire
to speak. She requested that her hands
should be freed, and that she would make
no further resistance. I told the man who
was attending to leave go his hold upon
HUNTINGDON, PAD, FRIDAY AT: GUST 15, 1879.
her hands, which he did. The patiens
made no resistance to inserting the tube+,
but she positively refused to open her
mouth or swallow any nourishment in the
regular, natural way. A small quantity
of food I then injected through the tube
into her stomach. This is about the his
tory of the case as far as I know it. I
think she first gave - evidence oilier reli
gious hallucination about July 4 and ceas
ed eating, too, about that time. The first
week she ate nothing but a few berries;
subsequently she - ate or drank nothing at
all. It is a remarkable ease and one that
merits a full and detailed contribution to
medical literature. I might have done so
myself, but I was not the attending phy
sician front the start. Every.,detail should
have been carefully noted and every fune,
tion of her system during her: abtteuti,en;
from food should have been Mibhtelg 're
corded. The recovery of her full stength
depends entirely upon herself, of course. I
think, however, that she will become ra
tional in a short time, now that she has
gently submitted to the introduction of
the tube."
ANOTHER PHYSICIAN'S STORY.
Dr. F. R. Schinucker had the following
to say on the subject : "I first called on
Miss Root July 14, and found disinclined
to see any cne professionally. She did not
desire to come into the parlor, but finally
her mother persuaded her to come in She
shook hands, but turned her back and said
that she did not think it was necessary for
me to see her. We persuaded her to sit
down. She had then not eaten or drank
anything at all for three days, and very
little for a few weeks. She refused to give
any reason for her conduct, seldom giving
any reply to my questions, further than
she gussed it would come all right. Her
mother desired a physical examination to
be made, but Miss Root was opposed to
this, saying she did not desire to be an
noyed and that she wanted to go upstairs.
She submitted to an examination of the
heart, but I found nothing wrong. She
refused any and all medicine. She was
uneasy and walked the floor nearly all the
time. My second visit was made July 16,
and I found her stilt obstinate and in the
same condition. f-he took no fJod of any
kind and drank no water of any kind du
ring all the hot spell. I frequently asked
her why she did not eat, but she would
never give me a reason. I called again on
the 17th and tried to convince her of the
obstinate folly of not eating and tried to
convince her that it was her religious duty
to eat instead of to fast; told her that fast
ing, in a scriptural sense, did not mean an
entire abstinence from food; but she would
never argue the question with me at all.
I told her then that she would destroy her
own life if she'd continue much longer, but
she never made any reply, except that she
guessed it would come all right. She some
times would say : will,' but when I ask
ed her to fix a time she would make no
reply. That same evening the family be
came alarmed and sent for me. She was
up and about and was frequently on the
street. I saw her irr presence of the fam
ily that night, and then I emphatically and
positively told her that she must eat next
day; that I would call in the morning and
that I should have some one with me, and
we would use violent means to inject food
into her stomach. She was thin, pale and
emaciated. Her tongue was coated and
her breath had a cadaverous smell. Up to
that time she had treated my suggestions
with entire indifference, and now she beg
ged me very earnestly not to resort to
such measures. I told her that it was no
time to compromise now and that she must
eat. She followed me to the door and beg
ged me not to do what I had threatened.
Next morning I called at the house at ten
o'clock, when she came into the parlor,
shook hands with me very cordially and
sat down beside me. Her manner towards
me had entirely changed. I found that
she had not eaten anything that morning,
but that she had promised her mother to
take food next day if I would let her alone.
She begged me to give her time until next
day. tier mother feared she would not
survive, but I found her condition such
that I felt justified in speaking to her kind
ly and saying to her that I was very glad
that she bad agreed to take food. I told
her we would not interfere with her that
day. She seemed to feel that she was
under my control, while before I could do
nothing with her. I said I would call to
see her next day; I bad no doubt she would
fulfill her promise, and I left. Next day
I called, and was told that she had eaten
very sparingly of cracker and drank coffee.
She washed the cracker thoroughly at the
hydrant before eating, and the coffee was
cooked in a special vessel, which she had
thoroughly cleaned. She ate very little.
I saw her the last time, professionally,
about ten days ago. I stopped attending
to her because I could do nothing further.
Subsequently I learned that she had again
stopped taking food, when Dr. Luther was
called in. She was continually washing
herself and used a great deal of water upon
her stomach. She was a great reader. I
was told that she would read the Bible
and pray fbr hours at a time as late as two
and three o'clock in tha morning. She is
evidently laboring under a religious hallu
cination, and is especially imbued with the
idea that sanctification requires frequent
ablutions and entire abstinence from food.
It is evidently a matter of conscience with
her not to eat or drink."
Dr. Luther has especially forbidden any
indulgence in long hours of devotional
exercises, and he is in hopes that he can
sustain life until the time arrives when
Miss Root will consider her fasting over.
For the past twen„ty-four hours she has be-
come very weak, and if she continues in
her refusal to take nourishment, she will
surely die. She has been fasting now for
thirty days, and if she persists in her forty
days trial of endurance she will have ten
more days to run. Letters from many
sections of the State are being received.
ATMOSPHERIC ELECTRICITY AND PLANT
GROWTlL—Atmospheric electricity is, ac
cording to M. Grandeau, a powerful agent
in the process of assimilatien of plants.
Plants protected from its influence build
up 50 to GO per cent. less of nitrogenous
matter than those subject to ordinary con
ditions; the proportion of ash is higher and
of water lower. In the author's experi
ments different species of growing plants
were inclosed within an electric screen
consisting of four triangles of iron. The
plants exptrimented upon were maize, to
bacco and wheat—two specimens of each—
of which the one was screened from at
mospheric electricity, the other not. The
results of these experiments agree fully
with the discovery made some time ago
by Berthelot, that, free nitrogen unites
with organic matter under the action of
electric currents not only from ordinary
induction-coils, but even from feeble vol
taic batteries. The proportion of nitrogen
thus fixed in seven months in paper and
dextrine was 192 thousandths.
I He Told a Woman.
A REMINISCENCE OF WINCHESTER - HOW
SHERIDAN WAS INFORMED OF EARLY'S
STRENGTH-BEGINNING OF THE BATTLE
AND HOW IT ENDED.
The Confederates had it all their own
way for a long time in the valley, and
Grant was beginning to fear a miss. A
mistake had been made in placing Sheridan
there. The Southern army were massing
about Winchester, evidently for another
invasion or Maryland. Affairs had a dis
couraging outlook, for the Federal army's
marching and fighting had ended invariably
in retreat. A round moon, warm and
golden, shone on the quaint old town of
Winchester, Va., one evening in the mid-
Ve of September, 1564. In the vine-cov
ered porch of a house, whcse broad, brood
ing roof enveloped it in sombre shadow,
sat a brown-haired, hazel eyed girl, waiting
for a visitor. A man erect and soldierly,
leafing a gray uniform came up the walk.
The moonlight reburnished the faded gold
lace of his epaulets and sword knots with
something of their pristine splendor as he
advanced. They talked of the then all
absorbing topic, the war, that war, that
was blazing its way through the lovely
valley at their feet with ashes of home
steads, the charred skeletons of mills and
forges and foraged lands. The officer was
a member of General Early's staff, a Louis
iittrian, fervid with hope and fierce with
desire to drive the Union soidiers back.
The girl was a Virginian of that simple
faith which disbelieved in strife and
Woodshed, and her name was Rebecca. It
was another "Rebecca at the well," with
the difference that she drew out of the
glib-tongued officer the number and posi
tion of General Early's army, their in
trenchments and batteries on the Oppe-
Tian, and what troops had been withdrawn.
This was done in the most natural manner
possible, for to know these things was in•
teresting, and she had an idea of making
a history or becoming a heroine, for the
two had only met a few evenings previous
at a social gathering, where he had sought
au introduction and the privilege of calling
upon her. This was his first visit, and it
proved his last. When the young aid de
camp departed that Wednesday night he
had told so much that he had placed the
fortune of his command in the keeping of
Rebecca.
On the following Friday, while sitting
on the same porch, she heard a bird call.
low and tremulous, -in the shrubbery of
the lawn. She answered it by clapping
her hands softly, when a man as black
the shadows she sal in, came up, and, to
king something out of bis mouth, handed
it to her and vanished into the night.—
Speeding up to her chamber, she found
the gift to he a small roll of lead foil, such
as is wrapped about various articles, among
others, chewing tobacco. Carefully un
rolling it, a small bit of soft paper was
within, on which was written :
Have you any definite informatioa of the forces
and yosition of General Early ? If so, transmit
by bearer. StIERIDAN.
low strange is destiny She alone of
the few union loving souls in Winchester
k.uew what the harassed cavalry commander
desired. To put the information down
and roll it into the same receptacle did not
require many moments, when she again
appeared upon the porch clapping her
hands. The slave seemed to rise up out
of the earth. lie hastily placed the tiny
packet in his mouth, and without a word
or gesture disappeared.
Before daylight on the 19th of Septem
ber, 1864, the Confederate pickets were
charged on the Oppequan, and Sheridan
moved like an avalanche upon Winchester.
A terrible contest followed, the two armies
advancing and retreating like the surging
billows of the ocean. The battle never
ceased until sundown, leaving Sheridan
the victor of the battle of the Oppequan.
A series of disasters pursued Early, and
on the 19th of October—a month later—
was fought the memorable battle of Win
chester, which brought peace to the valley
of the Shenandoah. I talked with the
gentle Quaker lady yesterday. She said she
was not unconscious of doing anything of
moment at the time. She had known
General Crook, of General Sheridan's staff,
and during the brief occupancy of Win.
Chester by the Union troops had said to
him, if he ever saw a way that she could
serve the Union cause, to command her,
and he had mentioned her name to Gen
eral Sheridan. She showed me an elegant
watch, a souvenir of the event, a gift from
General Sheridan. Ou the inside is en
graved :
** ** '"' ''''''
Presented to
REBECCA L. WRIGHT,
Winchester, Va., by General P. IL Sheridan,
A Memento of September 19,1864.
The charm-holder is an ingenous ar
rangement of a horseshoe, gauntlet and
spur. The charms are a tiny cavalry
sword, field glass, orderly cap and other
military objects in miniature. The tate
of the young staff officer is unknown to
her.
Snakes in Whiskey Barrels.
THE QUEER HOME CHOSEN BY THOUSANDS
OF SERPENTS-A GREAT SLAUGHTER.
Jonathan Rockwell, engineer at the fire
brick works at Sciotoville, Ohio, recently
purchased five empty whiskey barrels and
stored them in an outbuilding to be used
for cider barrels when his apples should
be ripe enough to be made into that tem
perance beaverage. Near the outbuildings
there is a ledge of rocks containing many
fissures and openings, which has always
been "a bad place for snakes."
Yesterday Mr. Rockwell visited the out
buildings, and on opening the door he
noticed a number of snakes crawling into
the bung holes of the whiskey barrels
Quick 19 thought he
got the bungs and
drove them into the barrels and secured
the snakes. He then attempted to roll the
barrels out of the building, but found
them too heavy to handle without assistance.
He then called in J. P. Mathiot, Dustin
Jones, George Sturdy, Hugh Smith and
Thomas Powell, who armed themselves
with hickory clubs. The bung was taken
out of one barrel and some hot water was
poured in, and the snakes began to come
out so rapidly that all the men were
kept busy with their clubs killing them.
The next barrel was treated in the same
manner until all the five barrels were
emptied. The total number of snakes
killed was 2,153. No one pretends to ac
count for the snakes getting into the bar
rels. The affidavits of our best and most
reliable citizens will substantiate this story
beyond a doubt. The snakes were not all
larma ones, but there were none less than
a foot in length, while many were six or
seven feet long.
EVEN the laziest boy can sometimes
catch a whipping.
The Love that Lives
LOOKING FOR A SON WHO FELL LY A
REBEL BULLET
The Scranton RTublican, tells this
touching story : Among the crowd of
persons who moved about the D L. & W.
platform yesterday, waiting for the after
noon train from New York and Philadel
phia, there appeared a middle aged woman
who frequently gazed up the track with an
anxious and restless look that seemed to
say she was waiting for some one. She
walked about nervously and seemed im•
patient as the time drew nigh for the train
to arrive, and any one who studied Ler
countenance could not fail to see that she
was in mental misery. At last the loco
motive dashed round the curve, and the
sad face of the woman brightened with a
momentary ray of hope. She hastened
forward to that point of the platform
which the train would be likely to reach
first, and as the cars swept by she peered
into the windows, anxiously scanning the
faces of the passengers. When the train
halted and the living stream of humanity
Poured out from the different doors on the
platform, she mingled with the crowd as
if in search of some dear friend, but those
intent on business little knew the sorrow
at the heart of the pure obscure woman
who was tossed about in the bustle of life.
When the platform was cleared she with
drew with a sigh, but turned back again
as she quitted the door to take one more
look at the train and see if the face she
sought was not still there. A gentleman
who lives a short distance from her home
in the suburbs of Scranton, told our re
porter the woman's sad history. During
the civil war, her only son, a young man
upon whom she fairly doted, was killed in
one of the hottest engagements, and the
news of his death so preyed upon her mind
as to disturb the poor woman's reason.—
Ever since then she goes to the depot once
or twice a week to meet the incoming
trains in the hope that he will come to
her. At other times and on all other sub
jects she seems entirely sane, but she
sometimes thinks that her son will come
back, and to satisfy the hope that never
dies, and in the depth of that love which
never fades, the poor mother continues to
go on her sad mission with as much
earnestness as though she were performing
a solemn religious duty.
The Debt to Mother.
Mothers live for their children, make
self-sacrifices for them, and manifest their
tenderness and love so freely, that the
name mother is the sweetest in human
language. And yet sons, youthful and
aged, know but little of the anrity, the
nights of sleepless and painful solicitude
which their mothers have spent over their
thoughtless waywardness. Those loving
hearts go down to their graves with those
hours of secret agony untold. As the
mother watches by night, or prays in the
privacy of her closest, she weighs well the
words which she will address to her son in
order to lead him to a manhood in honor
and usefulness. She will not tell him all
the griefs and deadly fears which beset
her soul. She warns him with trembling
lest she say overmuch. She tries to charm
him with cheery love while her heart is
bleeding. No worthy and successful man
ever yet knew the breadth and depth of
the great obligation which he is under to
his mother who guided his heedless steps
when his character for virtue and purity
was so narrowly balanced against a course
of vice and ignominy. Let tha, dutiful
son do his utmost to smooth his mother's
pathway ; let him obey as implicity as he
can her wishes and advice, let him omit
nothing that will contribute to her peace,
rest, and happiness, and yet be will part
from her at the tomb with the debt to her
not half discharged.
The Early Early Rising Delusion.
For farmers and those who live in lo
calities where people can retire at eight or
nine o'clock in the evening, the old notion
about early rising is still appropriate. But
he who is kept up till ten or eleven or
twelve o'clock, and then rises at five or
six because of the teachings of some old
ditty about "early to rise," is committing
a sin against his own soul. There is not
one man in ten thousand who can afford to
do without seven or eight hours' sleep
All the stuff written about great men who
slept only three or four hours a night, is
apocryphal. They have been put upon
such small allowances occasionally and
prospered ; but no man ever kept healthy
in body and mind fur a number of years
with less than seven hours' sleep. If you
get to bed early then rise early; if you
cannot get to bed till late then rise late.
It may be as proper for one man to rise at
eight as it is for another to rise at five.
Let the rousing bell be rung by at least
thirty minutes before your public appear
ance. Physicians say that a sudden jump
out of bed gives irregular motion to the
pulses. It takes hours to get over a too
sudden rising. It is barbarous to expect
children to land on the centre of the floor
at the call of their nurses, the thermometer
below zero. Give us time after you call
us, to roll over, gaze at the world full in
the face, and look before you leap.
Mosquitoes.
HOW TO BREED THEM FOR HOME PUR
POSES
Seth Green, the famous fisherman, writes
as follows to the Rochester Cu ion :
am breeding a few mosquitoes for my own
use. I keep them confined, and some of
my neighbors do not admire the music
But they are not such bad pets as most
people think. Their singing is like opera
music, only a little more so; for when you
clap at the singing of mosquitoes you have
something to clap for;
but when you see
old fogies clap after hearing a piece of
opera music that has no more tune in it
than a cow bell, I think it is a bad ex
ample to set before the rising generation.
I will tell you how you can raise your own
mosquitoes, and not be dependent on your
neighbors. Fill any kind of a vessel with
rain water and place it in the sun, and you
will have plenty in a short time. But if
you do not wish the neighbors to get the
benefit of your labors, you should keep
them confined by tying a piece of cloth
carefully over the top. All wigglers that
you see in rain water are young mosqui
toes."
IT is not believed that there is an artist
in the world who can catch the expression
of a woman's face as she puts her nose
into the milk-jug and finds that the thun
der has soured the contents.
THE pensive mule is not usually regard
ed as susceptible to pathetic emotions. And
yet he occasionally drops a mule-teer.
gisiorp.
THE
OLD FOOT-HINTS OF THE RECEDING RI) cat
AND THE
EMILY WHIMS OF THE COMING WHITE MIN
WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO
The Juniata Region.
BY PROF. A. L. GUSS, OF HUNTINGDON, FA
'Tie good to muse on Nations passed away
Forever from the land we roll wee own.
ARTICLE XVII.
FJIt A TIME UNNOTICED,
It may saem strange, that from the time
when the Tuscaroras left Carolina until
they were finally adopted, and became one
of the Six Nations, that so little is said of
them, that we have trouble to find evi
dence of their location. But this is ex
plained partly by their being in a frag
mentary condition, too dispersed to be re
garded as a nation ; and partly by the fact
that the body of them were then living far
beyond the range of the white habitations,
and among mountains, perhaps then not
yet penetrated by the übiquitous trader ;
and again, partly because of fear of further
trouble with the white people, they were
for a season retired and circumspect.
EVIDENCE FROM MAPS,
Among the evidences of the locations of
tribes, that furnished by ancient maps is
most important and satisfactory. That
the Tuscaroras were upon the Juniata is
proven by the fact that after 1713, the
maps give their name, as attached to the
valley and mountain, as retained to this
day. In the same way, the name in Brad
ford and Schuylkill and other counties
proves the presence of fragments of the
nation in the localities where this name
still adheres to valleys streams and mount
ains.
OTHER EVIDENCE,
Since writing the above, I have found,
in the Colonial Documents of New York,
several passages which I think confirm my
position, that the mass of the Tuscaroras
lived in the Juniata valley for some ten
years after they left Carolina, and prior to
their formal admission into the Five Na
tion Confederacy. September 1, 1722, Gov.
Burnet held a conference with the Indians
at Albany. We find this record : "They
relate that two years ago, two Tuskarores
brought a belt . from the Governor of Vir
ginia, (as they said,) and thereby desired
in the name of the Governor of Virginia
to make war on and destroy the Taderigh
rones [Saponies or Catawbas]." The Iro
quois speaker further said : "We inform
you also that three companies of our peo
ple are gone out to fight against the Flat
heads, [Choctaws,] who have been our
enemies for a long time. There is also
two French Indians that live at Cadarach
qui, that went out a fighting two years ago
towards Virginia by the way of Cayouge
and have their abode among the Tinkar
ores that live near Virginia and go back
wards and forwards." Beyond all doubt
the Tuscaroras among whom these two
French Indians had their headquarters,
were those in Tuscarora Valley, Juniata
county. By the way, the interpreter gives
them a queer way of traveling in their in
cursions when he says they go backwards!
A SHOUT FOR THE TUSCARORAS.
September 6, 1722, is is noted that the
agreement made with the Governor of
Virginia, was by the whole Five Nations
including the Tuscaroras." Evidently
they were then only beginning to reckon
the Tuscaroras as a factor in connection
with the Five Nations. On the same day
the Indians "gave six shouts—five for the
Five Nations and one fir the castle of Tus
carores lately seated between the Oneidas
and Onondagas." The word lately cannot.
be accidental. It is proof of their recent
settlement.
December 4, 1726, Gov. Burnet of New
York says in speaking of the Iroquois,
"who were but Five formerly, but now,
by sending for the Tuscaroras from South
Carolina, are become Six."
September 9, 1726, the complaint of
Gov. Burnet says, that"depredations were
made in the heart of settlements by twelve
Indians. They called themselves Sennekes,
but the English knew two of them to be
Tuekaroras." The becoming Six Nations
was now for the first time worthy of record.
Had they moved among, and formally
joined, the Five Nations in 1713, as the
historians all tell us, this record would not
be made as late as 1726. It seems also
that some of them were personally known
to the Virginians, having lately resided
there.
INDIAN SLAVLRY,
Indian slavery was not an uuctantuon
thing among the English planters at this
early day, but they were harder to subdue
and render submissive than Africans. The
Indians above all things loved freedom.
and efforts to enslave them were not very
successful. This was especially the case
of the Iluron•lro(luois and Algonquin
families. Those of the Gulf States were
more tractable. In June 1713, when 800
Tuscaroras were taken in their fort, they
were given to the tribes, who were allied
with the whites, to be sold as slaves as a
reward to those savages for their services
HE IS ON THE JUNIATA.
An Indian boy, of what tribe is not
stated, belonged to Nathaniel Furd, an
Englishman, on the Pedee river, called
Constichrohare by the Indians, now the
site of Cheraw, Chesterfield county, S. C.,
was carried away. Complaint was made,
and Gov. Burnet and the Commissioners
of Indian Affairs of New York, on Sept.
13, 1726, made inquiry of the Iroquois
concerning the bov. In reply they used
these words : "You have made inquiry
concerning a slave, who you say was taken
by our people. We acknowledge to have
been of the company that took him. He
is given to Indians who live on a branch
of the Susquehannah river, which is called
SOGLIN EIJADIE Therefore, we desire you
to make a farther inquiry, fur that place
is nearer to you than to us." N. Y. Col.
His. Vol. V. Page 796.
SOGII-NEIJ-AD-IE IS JU•NI AT A.
Reyond doubt the branch of the Sus
quehanna here named is our own beloved
JUNIATA, and this reference to it is es
pecially interesting, as the oldest mention
of the name of our river, outside of the
ancient maps, that I have been able to
find. On maps I have found the name on
a number of them published from 1659 to
1671; as applied to the Juniata tribe, ex
terminated at an early day. And I have
no doubt that the „Indians who had the
slave in possession were the Tuscaroras,
who still had a town in Juniata county.
The whole question of the word Juniata,
and the tribe of that name, will he dis
cussed in a future article.
SOME STILL IN TUSCARORA
But while we claim to have established
for the Tuscaroras a residence in the Ju
niata region, with a central council fire
and fort in Tuscarora Valley, between
their exodus from Carolina, and their ad
mission into the Iroquois confederacy; we
claim also, that there were some Tuscaro
ras still living at this outpost until after
the Juniata region was sold to Penn.
John O'Neal wrote a letter to the Gov
ernor from Carlisle, May 27, 1753, in
which he remarks : "A large number of
Delawares, Shawanese and Tuscaroras con
tinue in this vicinity—the greater number
have gone to the wit."
AT ACADEMIA Ik 1754.
YAMOYDEN.
In an old deed, or bill of sale, fur the
lands at Tuscarora Academia, written in
June 1754, mention is made of the In
dians "settled on ye Bottom Surrounded
by ye Creek." There can be no doubt
that these were of the Tuscarora tribe. As
the lands were sold the next year, it would
be natural to presume that they then re
moved, but there is evidence to the con
trary.
THEY SAVE US FROM THE FRENCH.
In 1756, the year after Braddock's de
feat, will be remembered as a time of most
terrible border devastations, by Indians
headed by French. Among a series of
letters and reports, written Et Fort Du
quesne, (Pittsburg.) we find the following,
dated September 15th : _
"Two hundred Indians and French left
Fort Duquesne to set fire to four hundred
houses in a part of Pennsylvania. That
Province has suffered but little, in conse
quence of the intrigues of the Five Na
tions with Taskarosins, a tribe on the lands
of that Province, and in alliance with the
Five Nations. But now they have de
clared that they will assist their brethren,
the Delawares and Chouanons, (Shawa
nese,) and consequently several have sided
with them, so that the above Province will
be laid waste the same as Virginia' and
Carolina."
DEVASTATIONS BEFORE THIS DATE.
It would seem from this extract that the
Tuscaroras, being friendly to the whites,
were for some time a partial protection to
them in Pennsylvania. We have met no
such evidence elsewhere. The fact is,
that at the date of the above extract, they
had already devastated the eastern part of
the Juniata region which alone then_ bad
settlers, and had made several terrible in
cursions to the counties beyond, even as
far as Adams county. But the intimation
is, that had it not been for a desire first to
win over the Tuscaroras, the border would
have suffered still more. Fort Bight=
in Tuscarora valley, and Fort Granville at
Lewistown, were taken before the date of
this letter, and if up to that time there
were lingering portions of the Tuscaroras
in their immediate vicinity, it seems strange
that we have no mention of the fact, nor a
note of their temper in regard to the white
people. Yet we cannot well doubt the
fact, as the French were well posted on
Indian affairs, and at that time had gatties
constantly out under their directitin, to
the south eastward, to murder and burn
in a style that is shocking to relate.
In a journal kept by Col. James Burd,
while building Fort Augusta, at Shamokin,
Jane 4, 1757, we find these words : "This
day the Tuscarora tribe informed me they
intended setting off up the river ; I gave
them provisions enough, and five gallons
rum ; they set off accordingly." From
the abrupt manner in which they are
spoken of here I infer this branch of the
Tuscaroras had been living near Shamokin
and probably stretching along the Tusca
rora Path southward to the Potomac, and
scattered over the Juniata valley.
IN TUSCARORA STILL. LATER.
But there seems to be evidence, that at
still later dates, there were members of
that tribe in the .Tuscarora valley. On
the 11th of August, 1762, the Governor
received a letter "taken from the mouth
of Angus, Tuscarora chief by Eli Forbes,
missionary at Onohoquage." It is dated
at "Lower Tuscarora Onohoquage, July 8,
1762." The chief Angus, or Akis, car
ried this letter in person. The place is
said . to be "on the Upper Waters of the
Susquehanna." It contains this sentence,
"We should be glad to be informed of the
state and behavior of our brethren in Tux.
carora Valley. and to have some dirf,totions
about the way, as we propose to make them
a visit, and also should be glad of a pass
or recommendation, in writing, that we
may be friendly received on our way to,
and at the Valley." It may be argued
that as there is a Tuscarora Valley in the
south-east corner of Bradford county, that
that may be the region referred to in the
last two extracts above given, but this does
not seem probable, for the following rea
sons . (1) The Tuscaroras do not seem to
have settled at that point until ten years
later (1766) and (2) in that locality they
would have been no barrier to any of the
white settlements, and (3) the chief Angus
would not cjme from his town a little be
yond that place, to Lancaster, to inquire
from the Governor the way to the Tusca
rora Valley in Bradford county. Our
conclusion is, therefore, that it was the
desire of this chief to visit some of his
kindred in Tuscarora Valley on the Ju
niata. This fact is the more interesting
as we find by the first assessment, wbieh
was taken the next year (1763,) there
were over 50 settlers already living in
Tuscarora Valley. They must have settled
among these red men—a condition of af
fairs we have been slow to believe.
HOW THE FRAGMENTS CAME NORTE!.
We wiil now give a couple extraeta to
show how the lingering remnants in Car
olina kept coming northward, and retained
communications in the meantime with
those who were identified with the Iro
quoin. On the 4th of July, 1741. at the
celebrated treaty at Lincastcr with Com
missioners of Maryland and Virginia, @a
nassatego addressed Virginia as follows :
"Brother Assaraquoa — : There lives a
nation of Indians on the other side or
your country, the Tuscaroras, who are our
friends, and with whom we hold corres
pondence;
but the road between us and
them has been stopped for some time on
account of the misdemeanor of some of onr
warriors. We have opened a new road
for our warriors, and they shall keep to
that; but as that would be inconvenient
for messengers going to the Tuscaroraes
we desire they may go the old road. We
frequently send messengers to one another,
and shall have more occasion to do so now
that we have concluded a peace with the
Cherokees."
They also stated that , there were a few
families of the Conoye living among these
Tuscaroroes, for whom they desired passes
to come to live with the rest of their na
tion, already among the Iroquois, and that
they might come "the straight road from
them to us which lies through the middle
of your country." Both these requests
were granted.
NO, 32.
(To be continued.)