IJte Cnitif Drincicriil BELLE FON TE, PA. ' The Largest, Cheapest anil Best Paper ft' lit. lis It Kl> IN CKNTUK Col' NT V. O R A TION, IIY JOHN III.AMI I.INN, AT Til K l uvellliig of the Itruily Monument at Miincy. * PEOPLE or TIIE WEST BRANCH VALLEY: —Tho mournful death of Captain John Brady, which has flung its dark shado.v down through the corridors of a centu ry and brought us together to-day, occurred on the 11th of April, 1779. I will relate it in the language ot his daughter, Mrs. Mary Gray (late widow of Captain William Gray, of Sunbury,) who was fifteen years of age at the time of her father's death, and who had, even to the last day of her life (December 13, 1850), a vivid recollection of the stirring scenes of border life. She said: "My father was riding along the public road beyond Muncy creek, and about three miles from Fort Brady,* and near Wolf run, accompanied by Peter Smith on foot, when the Indians tired and Cap tion Brady fell without uttering a word, being shot in the hack between hi* shoulders with two halls. Smith escap. * d by jumping ulmn my father's fright ened horse. The Indians in their haste slid not scalp him, nor plunder him of his gold watch, some money, and hi* commission which he carried in a green hag suspended from hi* neck. Ihs body was soon after brought to the Fort and interred in the Muncy burying ground, some four miles from the Fort over Muncy creek." John Brady, son of Captain Samuel and grandson of Cap tain John Btady, said, as noted down by Lyman C. Draper, Esq., (in 1845) he was shot through the heart, only two rifles discharged, and the sign* showed only two Indians present. His watch, Ac., were not taken. Mr*. Gray's statement gave my informant (Lyman C. Draper, Ksq.,) the Impression that Captain Brady was not killed out of revenge, hut that a couple of Indian* who shot were in too big a hurry to stop and rob hi* body, |>erhaps afraid that other whites were following near at hand. The history of contemporary events, however, coupled with the undisputed incidents of his death—two Indians and two shots fired into him—in my judgment, point to a design in his death, and enrol him with Warren, Montgomery, M'-rcer, and other mar tyrs to the principles of free govern ment for which they laid down their * lives upon the field of battle. The invasion of Wyoming Valley, which had taken place in July, 177H, caused the depopulation ot the West Branch Valley, known as the "gr.a! lunaway," and as early as the Fall of that year a decisive stroke at the Six Nations in there own homes had been determined upon, but postponed on account of the lateness of the season. All winter it was discussed by the camp fires at Morristown. and with the open ing spring of 1779, General Washington wrote frr.m Middlehrook.t February 27, 1779, to President l'.eed, of Pennsylva nia, for actual surveys of the waters of the Susquehanna to assist him in form ing a plan ot operations. Hi* prepara- j tions to visit the heart of the Indian dominion with stern vengence could not he concealed, and the nt-w* was carried by swift runners to the council fires of the Iroquois. To divert such a stroke from their homes, what would those wily warriors do hut detach scouting parties to heat up the settle ments and ward off the blow lyr the desolation of the West Branch Valley on extreme right boundary of their nation ? Their ablest leaders and those well acquainted with the Valley would be selected for the purpose. Among these was John Montour,tf and what greater blow could he deal to the Amcr ican cause than to assassinate the prud ent, the resolute and fearless leader, who stood with drawn sword upon the frontier of Pennsylvania to hurl back the savage foe. The circumstances of Captain Brady's death, however, are not what this vast assemblage has met to commemorate. Many unknown mounds in thi* valley wrapt tho silent clay of other of its de fenders who fell by the rifle of the con cealed savage. Nor is it to mark to the latest t>o*terity the scene? of this bloody tragedy, this granite cenotaph is made to arise. "Cold a* the sod on which it rests, still as the heavens above it," it is to he forever eloquent of our undying remembrance of the man and the sol dier, and of our regard for him and others who died to save our National "For God's right* t-nwari. Onrkere Mi|ht ihl bl4— loriortoM #r ihrw right* ••rnred, Ws thw* th* -I^l.'' Let u turn then to the record of the man, the soldier and the officer. Cap tain John Brady was born in what is now the .State of Delaware, in 1733. His father, Hugh Brady, was an emi grant from the North of Ireland ; of that godly Scotch-Irish anceatry who read their Rihlea by the light of the camp fire of Oliver Cromwell's army, who were the first to cross the Boyne and engage the hosts of chnrchly des potism ; and who at the seige of* I/On donderry slowly starved to death for the rights of conscience. _ • govs.—This was th-- residence of Cap! Bra-lr. tli ' sits of whlfh Is within lbs present Imrnugh of Money. Fort Mure y sm sereral mil's north of It. "I w thlnk fort ought to ha built near Ssmtiil Walll*', al-mt two tnllee from Mtmry creeb, and hs,r dtm-M (to fobs taiit out arcnrdlngly"—Colonel Hartley's letter, An* to. 1775. Captain Walher's letter dated tort Money, April I", 177, says ontb 240f Angnet we wer# order a*l by Col. Hartley to loitM this fort. We Immediately began an 4 finished It by tha IMh of Repleader, Sr. .- Fetm'n Arc-hires, rot. pegs MO, oi. 7 p'*'- Ml. Another letter 4eerfllie It aa being at the monlli of Wallte' Run. Col. Welllier. In a letter of leerolr lit, 177, aft: "IGrt Mntwjr ha 4 been erer neted an 4 de stroyed." A small Mock boom was built on Its site he Robinson's company In Aprtl, 17S2.—Vnn t'ampen's narratlre ami fh-no'a A rehires, rot. 12, 41®. t Fennejrlrsnia Art hires, rot. 7, (sags 210. rt Ueneral llugb Brady tol'l his nephew, the late a Jasper K. Brady, 80,, emphatically, that It was John * Montour sho killed hie father. "There were two John Montour*—the Western one, who was on the st4e of the Amei leans ami at that Ume with t'apt Samuel Brady In tlie Senkushy eoontry, an 4 tha Raw Vorh one (here atlu4e4 to), who was on the able of the British. The latter lired nntll tSOD. awl dledim th# Can ease rlrer, In LMngatnn ronnty, N. Y. f fem the elfeeta of a drunken lamt with a fellow Indian."—L. C, Draper, Raq. } Captain bratly was killed shoot three miles north- Want of the nioiinnient, where the ridge drops down to th* leuik of Wolf rnn. Ills jrsr* Is n*nr th* alia of Fort Mnnry, Captain lirmly wan an well educated ' as (ho circumstance* of his father would j allow, and taught an clctncli tury school ! and sillying school over in New .lersey ' prior to the removal of his hither ami : iatnily to the hanks of the Conodo j gwinet, not fur troni Shippensburg, in Cumberland county, about the year 17.10.* In the i|uiot the l'rovinee had before the coming storm of the French ami Indian war, he followed the usual avocations of frontier life ; the primeval forest yearly bowing to the settler's axe. j His personal appearance has come down I to us by trndilion; he was six feet high, well formed, had coal black hair, hazel i eyes and of rather dark complexion. About the year 1755 he married Mary who was also of Scotch-1 riah ex j traction, and in the year 1756 his eldeat ! son, the celebrated t'apt. Samuel iirady, I was born in the midst of the tempest uous waves of trouble that rolled in i upon the settlements in the wake of i Braddock'a defeat.t Armstrong's ex pedition agninst Kittnning was then or- I gauized and marched from Fort Shirley |on the 30 th of August, three hundred ! strong, Brady going along as a private, (ten. .lames Potter, his subsequent as ! sociate in the settlement of this valley, was a Lieutenant in the command and | was wounded at Kittaning. Kittaning was destroyed on tho Htli of September, and the settlers returned in triumph. But this severe retaliation did not de ter the savage* ; as late as the Mil of November. 1756, they entered the Cum berland Valley, killed a number of in habitants and carried away captives. Forbes' expedition against Fort Du quest, e followed in 1758. His troops were composed in part of the regular forces of the Province, but Brady does not seern to have been along, not at least as an officer, as there is a very cir cumstantial account extant of every officer that accompanied the expedition. Pennsylvania Archives, 2n Forbes approach the F.etch burned Fort Duquesne and retired, thus tcrminatirfg the struggle between tho French and Knglish for the tiliio Valley (Nov. 25, 1758). Gen. Stannix built Fort Pitt upon the ruins of Foit Duquesne in 175'J, and on the I .lib of September, upon the plains of Abraham, rendered immortal by the death of Gen. Wolfe, Montcalm, with the "Lilies of France," went down be fore the Cross of St. George ; virtual ly ending French dominion in North America. This was followed by the ! peace of Pal is, February 10, It 63. But the end was not yet to blazing homes and border conflicts on the fron tier*. I'ontiac has secretly organized bis noted conspiracy of the Indian tribes extending from the Lakes to the , Lower Mississippi, and now called upon them, in fiery eloquence, to save their tace Irora slavery and ruin, and to drive i the Knglish into the Atlantic. About • the 27th of April, 176-'!, he assembled a . council on the batik* of the Kxoorces, a small stream not fir from Hotrod, and i having aroused the < hiefs in a speech of unparalleled fury to terrible earnest ness he let the tribes loose in vengeful wrath uj>on the frontiers. While Na- | ture was robing the forests of the West ; in the green mantle of May, they stole . silently through the n, seized most of the fort* unaware* and m...•sacred the garrisons. They even surrounded Fort Pitt, and for live days threatened its capture, their scouting parlies from the North penetrating nearly to Beading. Then John Brady sprang front the ranks apparently to the office of Cap tain. He was commissioned July 19, 1763, Captain of the Second Battalion of the Pennsylvania Uegiment, "com manded by Governor John l'enn," Tur tiutt Francis and Asher Clayton, Lieu tenant commandants. Then came Boti quel's expedition for the relief of Fort Pitt, the battle of Bushy Bun beyond Fort Ligonier (August 5, 1763), a bard fought battle of two days, in which Bouquet's troo|>s suffered severely, but he at last defeated the Indians by a hold stratagem—a victory which saved Fort Pitt, relieved the Western front ier*, and the Provincials returned to battle with inroads from the North. This closed the year 1763, With the return of spring in 1764, their incursions were renewed, and in the Pennsylvania HazftU of April 5,1764, there is an account of "the Indian dep redations in the Carlisle region on the 20th, 21st and 22d of March; killing people, burning bouses and making captives," adding, "Captains Piper and Brady, with their companies, did all ttint lay in their power to protect the inhabitants. No man can go to sleep within ten or fifteen miles of the border without being in danger of having hi* house burned and himself or family scalped or led into oltptivity before the next morning. The people along the North Mountain are moving farther in, esjwcially about Shippensburg. which is crowded with families ol that neighbor hood." Bouquet's second expedition follow ed, in which he was accompanied by the First and Second Battalions of the Pennsylvania Begiment. At Fort I.ou don (about twelve miles west of Chain hershurg) he was met by a runner from Colonel Bradstreet. who had |>enetrated with a force to Presque Isle (City of Krie now) who advised Col. Bouquet that he had granted a peace to all the Indiana between Lake Krie and the Ohio. Bou quet was at the head of the Provincial soldiery of Pennsylvania, and he and they were determined upon a conquer ed peace. He, therefore, forwarded the dispatrb toGov. Penn, with the remark, "that such a peace with no satisfaction insisted upon, would fix an indelible •tain upon the Nation. I, therefore, take no notice of that pretended peace, and proceed forthwith upon the expe dition, fully determined to treat as ene mies any Delaware* or Nhawanese I shall find on my way."J He accordingly pen etrated the country of the Delaware# to the Forks of the Muskinghum, (where Coshocton, < hio, now stands), and upon the banks of that river dictated his terms of peace; among theae were the absolute return of about three hundred captives. Some of my hearers, tho descendants * Jfotl.—llnsli Ilre.t '• asm* apposra npon lha list of taasbles i>f 11/ipewell ti-wfiahlp,i Timhertnod r.xintr, f.,r the year )?al, with Uh*> of June* slot John Qnlsiaj. ton th 24 of April, ITfi*, MeOords' Fort !,m.|..ti) now In franklin ronnly, was taken sn4 l.nrii-4 by tho In.llsns.sii4 Cspt. Aleisodet Cwlbert sifl who, with Or Jimsnn sl4 atenl Oft j men follow „| sflsr i'imb. worn frfnlnt Is sn action Islsrm Kay sod Si4-11.-s 11111, sn.l Captain Cnllo-rtt'.n sn.l many of th* insn hilled. JCol. Bee., vol. 9,W. of thu Cummins, the (liiiiililm, the Ir | vines, the McCortnicks, the Mucigenic i ry*, tho I'i |the Kobbs, iiikl others, who with me trace their lineage I" tli dwellers under the shadow of I lie North Mountain, will recall tho tradition* nt Bouquet's return with the captive*, which were minuted with our grand mothers' fireside tale*, and hunot the memory of our inlant yearn, like tho dying cadence of sonic distant music, or tho words of a well nigh forgotten song. It wuh on a wintry day (I>eeeru ber .11, 1764) when Col. Bouquet, having advertised for those who had lost chil dren to come to Carlisle ami reclaim them, brought out the band ot little captives for recognition. Many had been captured when very young and had grown up to boyhood and girlhood in the wigwam of the Indian, having learned tin' language of tho savage and forgotten their own. I'ne woman was unable to point out her daughter, and the captives could otdv talk in an un known tongue. She told her sad lot to the Colonel, and mentioned that she used, many years before, sing to her daughter a hymn ol which the child was very fond. Iho Colonel told her to *ing it, and she began : ••Altitu*, v i n>i aloft* >• I. Though in thin aolltuda • lre*r, I ft| my Hutitiiir high, lln my o**l7 hour lo hwr." Sho had not flni#h<ortion of the West Rranch \ alley extending from the m< nth of Mahanoy creek to the mojth of Pine creek, and on the 3d of February. 1769, t'.-e officers of the First ard Second Itattallions met at the Governor's and obtained an or der allowing thm lo take up twenty four thousand sere*. The surveys of 8,000 of'it, in what is now Union coun ty, were made by Samuel Maelay on tile lt, 3d and 3d of March, 17t ap tain Rrady, with other* of the officers, being along. The survey* of the second 8,000 acres, at the mouth of Chillitqu*- que creek, were made at the same time, and the officers returned to Fort Au gusta (now Sunbury). held a meeting and uetermincd that the remaining 8,(J00 acres should he surTcyerl on Raid Kagle creek, and Captains Hunter, itrady and Piper were selected to over see it. The latter survey* were made by Charles I.ukens in April, 1769, Cap tain Rrady accompanying him, and em brace the land from the City of J>ock Haven up Raid Kagle creek to where Howard now stands, in Centre county. During the summer of 1769 Captain Rrady removed hi* family to tho Rranch snd cleared a place on the east ern side of the river, directly opposite Perr'a Mill, now the site of l.ewisburg. e full ' of trouble in those early day*. The Connecticut |>eople, who had settled at Wyoming, claimed under their char ter the territory of the Province of Pennsylvania, as far south as the 41 deg. of latitude, which would run a mile or so north of lewisburg, and were , determined to enfotce it by adverse oc cupation. Retween the 3d and 7th of July, 1772, a large party of them reach ed the river at ilulings, where Milton now stands, when (xdonel d'lunket summoned the IVnnamitea to arms and forcibly drove them off. This contest continued for some time after the trumpet of the Revolution summoned the combatants to fight a common foe. In December, 1775, Rrady accompanied Colonel I'lunket's force to Wyoming Valley as a captain of a company, in which last encounter of the I'ennsrnite war .lease I.ukens, son of the Surveyor General of the Province, lost hi* life. Meanwhile the storm of war with the mother country broke upon the shore* of New Kngland, and when the news df the battle of Runker Hill reached this valley, it# heroic settlers promptly ac cepted the arbitrament of the sword, and Captain John Ixiwdon's company, one hundred strong, marched for Bos ton, Captain Samuel llrady, then a young man of twenty years, went along as a private, entering the trenches at Cambridge with Ixmdon on the 31st of August, 1775, Two Battalions of Associators were organised on the West Rranch, one commanded by Colonel Hunter, the other by Colonel William Plunket j in the latter Battalion Captain John Brady was commissioner! first mtjor (March 13, 1776). On tho 4th of July, 1776, he attended the Convention of Associatora, at Lancaster, as one of the representa ' live* of I'lunknt's B.ttlnlion, where Ihuiiel Roberdean and James Kwing ivero elctflod Brigadier Generals ot the Associators of the Province, And now comes in order of lime, August, J77ti, the incident at Heir's trading house, when | returning in haste ftom Sunbury (laid out in June, 1772, just below the situ of Fort Augusta) lie entered a canoe and shoved swiftly over to Dorr's, lo find ; the Indians in high carnival over a bar | rc| of rum, with which Derr was stand ing treat. In the midst of their drunk en orgies lie kicked over a barrel. To j this interference some attribute f'uptain Brady's sad fate, as the Indian appoint ed to he sober that day said, in effect, "Ho would rue the spilling of that rum 1 some day." Moon after this occurrence Captain Rrady moved to Money, having erected in the spring of 177 the semi fortified residence which afterward went by the name of Fort Brady. The day of asso ciators wo* soon over with nine months land one year's service. It became ini j iterative to raise regular regiments en | listed for the war, if the independence of the State was to |,c maintained. Ac cordingly • .'ol. William C-ook's Regiment, ' the Twelfth, was directed to ho raised in the counties of Northumberland and Northampton. Among the last set* of j the Convention which formed the first I Constitution of this Commonwealth, September 28, 1770, was the election of the field officers of this Regiment. Col. William Cook whose grandson, Jacob Cook, is with u* today, Lieutenant Colonel Ncigal Gray, then of Northnmp ' ton county, but who after the war own ed and died upon the place now known as Kelley's Mills, in I'mon county, and Major James Crawford, who died in Wayne township, Lycoming county, of which he was a Justice of the Peace in 1814, were elected. John Brady was ■ commissioned one of its Captains, Oc j tober 11, 1776, and on the IMb of De- I cember, in mid winter, it left Sunbury !in boats for the battle fields of New Jersey. The regiment went immediate ly into active service. Being composed of good riflemen it was assigned to the same duties our "Rucktai!*" were in the late war, on picket, on the skirmish line, to commence the fighting and to go through it. At Roundbrook, at KonumUtwn, at I'mcataivay, it left its • lead, and the green mounds that deck ed the purple heaths of New Jersey left their sorrow in many a borne in the ! West Rranch Yalh-y. When General Washington crossed the Delaware into Pennsylvania to | await the development to General Howe's plans, he detached Captain Hawkins Booue, of the Twelfth to Mor gan's Rifle Command, to assist in the capture of Rurgoyne, and two at least tb it I know ofi of Ins woumb-d soldier* returned to this valley to tell that Tim othy Murphy, a West Rranch rifleman, i had shot Gen. Ft i/er, at Saratoga, and how they, with Major James I'arr, of Northumberland, and Lieutenant Col onel Richard Butler, of Westmoreland, stormed Breyrnand's camp, led by the lion hearted Arnold. \\ ithin a few -hort months July 26, 1771*,) after Capt. Brady's death, (.'apt, Roone bravely died in defence of tin* vallev at Fort Free land. In due time Howe made his appear 1 an re nt the Head of the Klk. and Gen. Washington moved his army of the i batik* ol the Rrady wine to confront him. ; The Twelfth, with the Third, the Ninth and the Sixth, was in Conway's Brigade, General s terlinc's Division, in the right wing commanded by General Sullivan on the 11th of September battle of Rrandywine). General Wayne, with the two other brigade# of Pennsylvania, was left at < 'hadd's ford to opjwje Kny phausen while Sullivan's right wing was hurried on to Birmingham Meeting House to attack the Fngiiah left under Cornwallia. When the Twelfth Penn sylvania arrived on double quick upon the ground, "the cannon balls were ploughing up the ground, the trees cracking over their heads, the branches riven by the artillery, and the leaves ; were falling a* in Autumn by the grape ' shot." Capt. Rrady had two son* in the fight : Samuel, the eldest, was First Lieutenant (commissioned July 17, 1776.) in ('apt. Doyle's company, then attached to the First Pennsylvania, Col. Jsine# Chambers, and was with General ; Wayne, at l'hadd's Ford. John, (sub sequently, 1795, Sheriff of Northuml>er land county i then a youth of fifteen 1 year*, who bad gone to the army to ride the horse* home, was with, hi# father with a big rifle by hi* side. They had scarcely lime to obey the stentcrian order of Col. Cook, "fall into line!" when the British made their ap pearance. The Twelfth fired sure, and last, and many an officer leaped forward j in death after the sharp crack* of its! rifles. As the fight grew furious and . , the charge of glpatnmg bayonet* came ; on, other troops that had not time to j form reeled Isefore "the burnished row* ! jof steel." But the Twelfth stood firm. : ■ Lieutenant William Boyd (of Northum [bertand) fell dead by his Captain. Lit tle John was wounded and Captain j Rrady fell with a wound through his mouth. The day ended with disaster I to our arm*, and the Twelfth sttilenly quit the field nearly cut lo pieces. The wound only loosened some of the j Captain's teetn, hut being disabled by s severe attack of pleurisy, caused hy hi* exposure*, which he never got entirely well of, he was sent home. On the in vasion of Wyoming Valley, in 17*8, he retired with his family to Munbttry, and it was there, on the Sth of August, 1778, his son James was sent to hi* parents, cruelly wounded and scalped by the In dians, to die. The circumstances of hi# death are very minutely detailed in a letter from Col. Hartley, to he found in the l'ennsylvan a Archives, vol. 6, O. 8. page 689; also in Meginness' history, page 222, Ac. I will only add General Hugh Brady's recollections of bis broth er. "James Rrady wa* a remarkable man. His person was fine, ho lacked but a quarter of an inch of six feet, and his mind was as well finished a* his per son. I havejever placed him bv the side of Jonathan, son of Saul, for bcautr of t.er#on nnd nobleness of soul, and like litn he fell by the hands of the Philis tines. He was wounded and scalped on Saturday and carried on a bier to Hun bury where he died on the Thursday following, after reviving sufficiently to relate everything that happened." On the Ist of September, 1778, Capt. Rrady returned to the army. Mean while, under an arrangement of the ! army, which took place about tho Ist ; of July, tho field officer* had been mus tered out and tlio companies and their j officers distributed into tlm Third arid Sixth Pennsylvania Regiments. Capt. Rrady was therefore sent home by Gen. Washington's order, with Capt. linone, Lieutenants Samuel and Jolur Daugher ! ly, to assist Col. Hartley in protecting j the frontiers. He joined Col. Hartley j at Muncy on the 18th of Heptember, I and accompanied him on the expedi j tion to Tioga. (>l. Hartley, in a letter | to Congress (dated October 8, 1778. Pa. I Archives, vol. 7, page 5) describes the j hardships of this march. "We waded or swam Lycoming creek upwards of ; twenty times, met great rains and pro j digious swarnnt, mountain defiles and i rocks impeded our course, and we bad to open and clear the way as we paused. We carried two boxes of spare ammu ; iiition arid twelve days' provision. I cannot help observing the difficulties in crossing the Alps or passing up the I Kennebec could not have been greater than our tiipn experienced for the j time." <>n their return, after they left Wyalusing, the enemy made a heavy attack upon his rear and the rear guard j gave way. "At the critical moment j ''apiains Boone and Rrady, and Lieut. | King, with a few brave fellows, landed front the canoes and renewed the ac tion. We advanced on the enemy on all sides, and the Indians, after a brave I resistance, conceived themselves sur rounded, fled with the utmost haste, leaving ten dead." During the whole of the fall of 1778 the savages ravaged the settlements, and ''aptain Rrady was kept busy. He was one of those of whom Col. jlunter wrote on the 13th of December, who told him, "They would rather die fight ing than leave their homes again." j With the opening spring of 1779 these I inroads were renewed and in such force that William Maclay wrote, "He believ ! Ed the whole force of the Mix Nations was being poured down uj>on the West Branch Valley," Annd the scenes of terror and confu sion Captain Brady stood manfully at Ins post, and died by it, at a time when his service* could ill be spared. •>n the fatal 11th of April, 1779. in the golden light of morning its sunlight reflected by the myriad roin drops lying on the | bushes and the trees, with the song* of bird* among the branches, in all the hope and glory of coming spring, going forth to the duties of the hour, the sharp summons came, and in the twink ling of an eye Captain John Rrady stood before his (iod. *"r of rlrlnrv, the j.lufnt , 1h leff (( J u t from tlk le.it . I hie Die !/% Hut— **Glar? ItfliU b * l-hefS !/. Ab'i 1-ssdUtjl Wr-wf* til*- t-ntt." The day# of Heathenism arc long since pa*t, and w.s no longer lay our dead beneath the cypress shade to sleep the sleep thai knows no mourning. The eye of taith reveals to u* more glorious destiny, and the firm belief of n reunion in the Heavenly home sweep* the shadows Iroin fills our hearts snd our souls with hope* that tall be realized beyond the tomb. "Spring shall yet visit these mouldering graves." Know we not "Tit* on W t.s**j to| * MbgU •! t t!**r "h Uhd Af It. the )••/ i us m. Hat must jeftv ui iU 1 .u.u.iii.] 4u*L Ir.xtoUtr Yes, when the Arch Angel's truinp shall sound, Riddle* will come, and Conner will corne, from their seaweed shrouds and their coral coffins, far down in the deq> green waters of the Allan tic. and Capt. John Rrady will leap ex ultant fr>m his silent grave, with the immortal light of God on liis counten ance. To the valley hi* loas wa* well nigh irreparable. Death came to it* defend er, and "Hell followed" hard after. In May Buffalo Valley was overrun, and the people left; on the Sth of July Smith's Mills, at the mouth of White leer creek, were burned, and on the 17th Muncy Valley was swept with the besom of destruction, Starrett's Mill# and all the principal houses in Muncy township burned, with Forts Muncy, Brady and Freeland; and Sunbury be came the frontier. But why picture the sadness and sorrow which on this happy day, cannot be realized? Time has long since assuaged it all. The broken bearted widow has long since ria.ped hands with her brave husband in a better world, where there are no "garments rolled in blood," and their children snd their grand children nave joined tbcm beyond the flood. After the death of her husband Mrs. Brady removed with her family to her father's place, in •brabcrlsnd county, where she arrived in May, 1779. Mhe ; remained until October of that year, and then removed to Buffitlo Valley, to what is now known a# the Frederick place, three miles weat of Lewisburg; where she died on the 20lh of October, 1783, at the early age of forty-eight years, t rer her remain# in the beautiful ceme tery at I-ewiaburg, in the same grave with those of the youthful hero of Rrandywine (John Brady, who died on the loth of December. 1809, at the same age—forty eight), is a marble slab with the appropriate inscription, "All tear* arc wiped from her eyes." To Captain Brady's descendants, time fail# me in paying a proper tribute, j When border tales have lost their charm for the evening hour; when oblivion blot# from the historic page the glorious redord of Pennsylvania in the Revolution ol 1776; then,and then only, will Captain Samuel Brady, of the rangers, be forgotten. In private life, in public office, at the bar, in the Senate of Pennsylvania, in the House of Re presentatives of the United States, in I the rank* of battle, Capt. John Brady's sons snd grandson* have flung far for ' ward into the future the light of their family fame. Of General Hugh Brady, of whom General Winfield Sootl said, *9 iod never made a better man nor abetter soldier," I must (|>eak : No character in all bis tory, since the day* of General Wayne, hss impressed me like his—a kind, true hearted man; an accomplished gentle •tint* -Captain Mkbolss BM-tl- noH lit. IVwa .ilT.na as. at aek* fa as OseUln ot \h* .'ranklln. sad prnat.Smf is Ik. CSIM StatM Intlw. IIS *w la ranaoMad nt Ik. Randolph sbni Moan Hp In aa nngafMasat alth Iho Vsnanath at ana. aaataard of IwMim, o* tho 7th nf Murk. 1775, only knr oat of the** hnndrrd sad Iflm ami mi ni. Morcnn tlnaaor, it Kmdiat. nalnrnd Iho aorrkw aa I Joatonaat fa da no, 177 k, sad ess amtaotod Moatm ant-Ontnaol of Hartloy'a to(tiaoat la daaaary, ITTt. Mo tt lost at aaa la tho eanwr of USD: su thna Unat onant Otoaol etroit, in Aj.iil, IMI, he wa* thrown from a carriage and severely injured; and when the physi cian told him thut he could not recover, with that calm self posesnion, so indica tive of true courage, be said ; "I/el the drum* heat ; my knapsack in slung." As the General sank under hi* injuries ho became partially unconscious, and his mi lid wandered hack to scenes of his early life. lie was again an officer m high command, marshaling hi* army on the battle field ; then a subaltern, obeying the orders of h>* superior*; again a schoolboy conning over hi* les son ; and finally a child at hi* mother * knee; until, as the night of death clo cd around him forever, he murmured— New I lay lu- flow n If, ,Ifo j,; I I'll) til' Is.r l Ui) Miul If kd scaled with the Mood of their ancestors? I recall one, Captain Kvan Rice I van* Braily, who, upon the soil of hi* native State, within sight of the ancestral borne of the iiradys, on South Mountain, fell in the storm of battle. Four gen<-ra tionsof the Hrady* fought for this coun try, yet be w.i* the fir-t to fall in action: "ij.ej fairing trying In* f*tr !r * !..•• I" aid ug bUo 'itilfi tukfffri tr-* ; *,<- ! lu Tii u H nx I. h tun c ' He fell fighting the battle of freedom, fell in the great struggle for the preser vation of the I'nioo, purchased by the blood of a noble ancestry. "He fell in a war for law, for order, for the obliga gation of solemn contracts, for the sanc tity of oaths, for religion, for morality, for social quu-t, for all that secure* tho transmission ot healthy |>o!jtical insti tutions from age to age. for all that i* venerable in history, for all 'that i* lovely, pure, peaceable and of good re port among men, for all that truly made the f'nited States a fower ordain ed of Clod and he and those who fell at Gettysburg, at Malvern, at Shiloh. at I'etersbtirg, or starved to death in Lite by and at Anderaonville, were as truly martys as the early CuriMian*, or the Huguenot*, who "Kiss.-I lie flunns it,l drank 4 • thrtf * all t* llefeteti *" From far anatriot* slain of Antietam, of Fredericksburg, ot the Wilderness, of Atlanta, of the mourned battle fields of the war for the I'nion, whose last "All's well I" is still echoing gloriously through the Republic. Hv thy bright water*, oh ! Noble J*us quehanna! which mirror in thy wind ing course so many, mny scene* of do mestic peace and comfort; *o many scene* of Eden like be*uty. rescued from primev*! wildnea*. only listening, in thy quiet course to the sea. "To the laughter from the village and the town, and the church bells ever jingling aa the weary day goes down ;" surrounded by these venerable fathers who have lingered in life's journey to see this hap py day; surrounded by the youth and beauty of this grand old home of brave son* and patriotic daughters, under the auspice* of the Grand Army of the Re public—the "Cincinnati" of the war for the Cnion—in solemn joy we dedicate this monument to our benefactor. And as we gaae upon it, let u* resolve, thst a* this Oovernment came down to u* . from the Past, it shall go from us into the Future—a blessing to our posterity, and the hope of the world's freedom. •Sotl-Hit rrwttl of !h* llnt IH, IMA, * I**" *• Mf "Hif |wwplo of LptMifet mfimif % IgJj tot tot of |9ttoUMA tb*n If tof w hit ItnmMr Ut>. At toAt. to f~ * of tb —miry of tH# |TAltott B-W tot lM> aah— l AAho* f O}vN* b mat KM to thi* wy, tntb • tftbM oA •MrK to lm*nt tM maitj Tlrtwoa of tt* " Tto |*rAio r.* nn)iA| .ml !.!• • to J M M opol?" "Run!" he answered, and aet the example by getting out oi the way pretty fast, A Bible haa been discovered in Allen* town that was made in the year 1748,