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NFUTBAI, IN 1)01.I ___._ 1 A --.. vk-r 11,110 .... 1 I.Y r". • -- '''-''"- ----•-...-----•- Mcvotcb to NeW5, Citcraturc, Poctri), !Rimer, litechanico, ;Agriculture, the r3iffttoion of tioefut ihtformation, enteral VOLUME V. TILE LEHIGH REGISTER, Is pub/hiked in the Borough of Allentown, Lehigh, Conn Pa.,exery Thursday UV AUGUSTIN L. 113.1111 E, At $1 GO per annum, payable in advance, and $2OO if not paid until the end (.1' the year. No . • •., raper di ;continued, until all arrearages arc paid except at the option of the proprietor. A lIVF:IITISF.MKNTS, MdAing nor m o re than one square, will be inserted three times for one dollar and-for every subsequent insettion hventylive cents. Larger advertisements chard in the „same proportion. Those not exceeding ten lines will be charged seventy•five cents, and tho:•e making six lines or less, three insertions for 50 .ents. 1-1-irA liberal deduction wtll be made to those who advertise by the year. t Wire in Hamilton Si., nne door Eavl tit the German Ilijormol Church, nearly opposite the "Friedensbot he Glfire."ete Poet i cal Orpartment. Nature s Hoorn for a nobleman to pass! In costly lobes ? in trappings gay A fop trickled out before the glass? Nu: clad In sober giay, A nobleman in hear/ is be, With mind for his nobility crest,'a soul it. Virtue st•ooe, Ilis arms, a lieut . ' with candor bright ; Which gold bribes tiot to what is wrong, Nor blinds to what is right, The patent of hi, eiiuri race _ Behold it in Lis open face. Ile erjpge N Out on ibo , e above, Nor trample•, on OW worm behm - Alt,ferualm , catima em .1 Ilia love, (Jr flattery makes it p.nov : Staunch to hts Irichd, iit WM: tikc magnet I. ilre lie envie. ilot the •i. et snag De scoff, I R at the lileaar:4l W:glii ; And all the war that liv d th wa,,;;; 1, in tilt stati-e rtgln ; Fur broad estate, and waving land, lle has the pour watt', w. 11110; hand e is not rich and yet indeed I las wealth; nor pool , has i.toek,itioulli small ; Nor rich, he gives so much to need ; Nor pour, hir on him 11,11 Such blessings tram ielievcd (listless, 'l'u crown his p(1111 with litippuiess. Routs for a ltd, ye truckling crew, \Alio round eatliCS gr, at ones lawn and whine; Pall back ! and g.,ze on something new ; A lot d, at least in mind— That tsravebt wurk in nature's plan, Au uffiglit,Thdepentlent man. i I , I, '•the ale" pre arts-ion of rya' wry all, mnr. ti .• lying p his horse and i ipitiomaits il his . . dote a lim it-hearted kw il Nletho Ilst 1,1.. :.‘ll 0- nee might IL , s. , ared. Le•aning, tin (neuter e.r. tit a , /,,,.L., _ ,id . „ , di,aul„, who ~ , ,a ,, , ih,. Milady. that his route Wits ilerwis Me river , lies in tit to ereat•li ilie ~,,,,a l e to the seal -- to a :settlement some fifteen or twenty miles ! I .. i , . _ i . ... , an ~ r 1, a, , ,r , ,, .., 0. . (!;I , ,td lo the year of our Lord, Is—, a mission- dirt art s the supposed robber replied . iii a °h .'. l ! '" mu i 2 " ' 2 ' 2 ' 2 plat 1 ie. east (.1 the (.)1;10. my hunt out of the taster() States, who had 'nice by no in••atis mild tied attractive— Next moraine the mi.:shalt:ry led in I erne just cuiripletrd his studies, and had revel'- 'You can't eet de ro tit-night—bosiii.s. the er, and alter an early breakfast the liospita td a commission fens the—Alissioilary old fort. is washed away, and you catiout ble preacher sad Iled his own horse. with Satiety, was passing inn westerly direc- find the yew one , I "In fix !Pm' . [hut of the missionary, and piloted him to 1 two over the prairies of lilinois. The term 'fix' hail an ominous import, the 'new' rooii ll...place nern....s t h e river, soy lie had seen, occasionally, no article in but the exact degree of outrage implied in era! miles in the direction towards ti— some of the three or four religious periodicals this new lorm of speech, was nut very clear- (giving , A ,,, parti„,„.. hand, ~,,,d, ~ ~,,,..r , uf that period, about the F-a-r IV-e-s-t, and ly understood by the missionary. B u t but arlectionate grasp, the valcklactoty was. with a benevolent, desire ul doing good to there was 00 alternative. Ile was , 22 , 1° i 22 ' 'Now stranger, you I; now where. my cab. the destitute and scattered pioneers of tins . and wholly unprotected ; lie was sma l l lill in is—don't pass without giving 010 a coll„ . remote, aid then scarce!' known region, ! stature. oln slender make ; had tin weapons I and, stav lung enatigh to gee Lila people a had traveled on horseback fruit: has native ! but spiritual ones. and successful resistance preach.' ! sillage, preaching ou Sabbaths, as occasions ' was hopeless. Ile I: now ma the Otli it) , The inilssiotuiry found a field of labor in ! offered, during his lung j miler. ()Mu was the I iver, and were he to attempt flight the a ! tiery and growing villago, among a pap_ then 'said, to be' a land of moral desolater!) ; death dealing rifle might stop him. So lit' ' ulation :pine as intellioeat mill %/dooms as l'ndiana was -`suppost•d' to be many dee tees turned it, directed into the trail and follow- 1 (h,,, people of his native State, awl a church lower in the scale of eivilizati am, and the led the guide. . As they slowly rode in ' I ” - . ethlice, t. Sabbath sch ul mid Bible class Yew State of Illinois ells .• inaigimd' to be 1 dean tile,' through the toll grass. with points • arose under his labors. , s . situated very near the •1 ni 'ui)lo,o of place:— 101 tiiiiher 1111 d brush %vocal for the space of , Th t , m o rh a preacher; w h om his br,rh. A vague and somewhat tiutilalui rotpres- 'tw r • iiiiies, the missionary drew a fancy plc- roil at quarterly woollier never suspected of n :do existed as to the luealoy and eliamettlr , Euro tin his imagination, of a cave anal a haying o 1 Of Missouri ; and Kentucky was known I•gitile of lobliers, who would ,tsar. him,, ti son.'fix' B ern mistaken ha a robber, its due limodollol his wolf-skin cap oil leathern abroad by report, for its fighting and gong-; tin determine his fate. Ile breathed inure' hunting shirt, became clad in cotton ear- :lig propensities, while the population were i re my w 1,,,,, I,„ m ai m only a simile Cahill. a 1 ",,„.,,, a , s p an a nd wove by his industrietis dharueterized, us •Nuts(-Imrse, hall-allig,ittur,. rough looking stable fur liorses,and a corn- wife, inaile a hire.' farm, prepared :Taverns and a touch of the stiapping-turt , e. field of a ft.w acres, ivitlt nu signs of accum- : ~e , ,m p il oi Around " A111011! , St tile vague and rather indistinct 'dices. . for the annual cow:vent ' lions , and wittm , sed the,conversiou of in toy' iMpressions of the character und habits ul "Light, stranger, and false your saddle- ! z_!iiiiii.q.,i u nd er his own labors. frontier adventurts, that floated over the , bags-1.11)i.r your horse. The missionary ;telt nowiedged more w r i., iWitul.,of the young IlliSSiollilly, were thuse Till,ing his saddle bags art his 'trio as di- w , ' ter. hen he .It coaled, in L it somewhat con a!rolihery and murders. • • , rected,..he entered the cabin ' II I:22u !' - ' ,ll a low lidental manlier, the story of his fright, that During the period of inquiry w and noxious door ay. I lere was a .wontari and three he was but half educated when he came to Meditation aheut devoting his life as a nibs- !chi.dren, but their personal appearance and iphiais. sionary of the cross in the wilds of the west, dress might, or 'Mete not indicate duneer to (it her .1e;14. , Wtts a CoVerilrig 8011 l thi'si• non had their appropriate the idea of robbery and murder occupied the traveler. . / I I spheres of llsefUltli•Ss, to which they were t,,0 minor place in his imagination. Still, of ooatse 0011011, milieu , 11l (Ile language 01 ll tided by nature, habits, education, and grace, With commendable rtsolutitai mad it martyr past generation ;a_ .sun bonnet.' it nearly I t i o l i t t i l m l i a i r i h . ‘ 111 , 1 , : , : l f l i 1, duce .t.'ll. il ' i S ou Sill , C u e ni li received l i : l li t t l i i i ai spirit, he resoived to hazard even life, with ' Ltd her face frum human übseivation• the sacrifice of every earthly cutulurt; to , 11p m :biog . f o rward a Viotti. the only salu- servant ; enter thou into il - re Joy of thy Lord. }reach the gospel and introduce the met- bitten given ea.-, ol'ake a seat by the liie, - • ruriating 'influences of civilization amongst a . atthri g„ r . , A 11/km . )sosre ToAsT --'l'hit following I eoPle who belonged to the same na t ion with I liecollecting it but Ledyard. and. ether, toast: was given by Col. A. A. Adams, at the himself, and who might e ventually exert a ' travelers have Slid of the humanity and i ct.lebratioin of the Fourth in Warren, Ohio : controlling influence over the d.st!mies of hospitality of the female sex, the nlissiunit. i Uncle haul—The gentleman whose birth the republic. ! ry must•d on the probabilities of escaping day we now cell brae ; with a family of It was a cloudy and cold day in the mouth !, wi th his life ; feeling n degree of reconcilia- thirty millions of h i andsome grls and buys, of December that our missionary friend was !Lion to the loss or his horse his saddle bags, and luta emnlgh II ) girt' eitch a farm, and seen crossing an a rm o f th e Grand Prairit', !and the contents of his purse, which last con- have plenty left for his grand•children inst of the Ohm, as the Kaskaskia river, ! mined but a few dollars fur traveling expert- by. abbreviation (meta Kas,) and French nc- : ses. In his saddle bugs were divers !inde cent bad, been culled. Ile bud traveled a I It's of apparel which he could spurn, and Intigdistance,that dav., by following It devi , ., tlrcr Meru %%4l3 thinthin l.9Cliel. bible', the gilt of a ' . '2SCICCiiOIII.3. MISSIONARY AND TIM Il01;1;C1 A FAMILY NEWSPAPER, ous and obscure trail, ur brittle path,' now.. through a skirt of timher—then across the point of prairie, without seeing a log cabin, , or any other 'sign' of a human tesidence.— Night was last approaching. The land lord, where he was accommodated with lid yam entertainment, the preceeding night, had directed him on 'blind trail to a ford, ing place across the beyond' which, ' and in the stone direction was the town of , .to which he was journeying, But horse and rider were fatiluetl wish long Itutinv, and a•land ride, awl Lae Missionary , could form no coujecuire how ha it might be from a settlement which he had hoped to reach before nightfall. Aaximis and somewhat bewildered, he looked in each direction for ; signs of a hu man habitation, when an uncouth specimen of humanity appeared on horseback, and coming in a rapid movement, and in a diago nal directiou, aches tl v path of the ini,sionuly. Az: the onto ad ironehod,'his personal rip) canine'', dress and I quipage manifested no.friemby dosign• , „I lis head Was covered o jilt the skit' of fin' pinkie wolf, with tail Itan«iug behiad.— Th I li. outer eartneat was neither a coat, 'rock, or Noose. In Wea torn parlance it huntiv made of dressed deer skin, with the cape and side strips curiously notched and iringed, but to the missionary it had an alarming aspect. cheer it. !maga powder horn and balk t punch, and aruuod his lady was a leathern belt, in %Odell was thrust a formidable knife. •-\ loaded rifle carelessly lay across tho i der's shoulders. N.ir x% as his per:-oilal:apri armee iii iL 1. , a,t &grey pryposs.,,itig. I I.• :Tor: (I a Idack board I I ti,r w . ,•( ormvili, (lark lock, ul hair could b soon 0011:Wilt l%;13 War thy, ah ,l fraini• tic proportio:is; It 111 , 1 I)..avcd. i I'll ;he IWIIOI 110 d 1111.1.!I:iat•11111 1111 , -1.).1.1IN ' over %v.', to tir.2..• his lon-, VI/t. .\ :•CC111$(1 ill4llloiit CIIIIVIIIrrkt 111111 t)I ihr tt,tvin a t% ~rd of pr,tyur t.) h, ,tc n f•ir iirritcettoti. ‘vhich that 111 , Iu felt to submit ta US (att.. with a 1-,rlti:tta of • wo.s rt•litivett froot hi.: f elurtiatiott, lre that 11), l.a '"" "."" oil I r. 1111.1 c 'I hymn from:Taco 4 r N I WI by a ellaraoteri.ztic 11;; • Flie salutation that struck har,b, etincral voice, convuved no con,o ; a non to his ninnl, and only s, teal to in Ills •11.1 1 10. ,tr,lnqor I %.11aot aro you :1 1 .1,11. :mil thcry t NVllere alo ridu2; ti - avv;liu ; au l r. , riuvvil duo rvproul !or hi,. ror affil mother now in heaven, a hymn boi , k, and a small pachage of neatly written sermns, which had cost him several months labor, and.as hefantcied. were admirably adapi,4l to disperse the clouds of ignorance that brooded over the inhabitants of Illinois. In the meantime the; settler, banter, rut robber, in whatever vocation he might ap ' r•Tiviiislied the lire tvith some lo t s id illy hickory, while the busy IA to was_proparing_the_humul_y_nn_al. It consisted of hied venison stcak, corn ?dothrers.' and highly flivored cable, wiili the appurtenances of Ire:di cream and cellent butter. 1 The missionary, who bad eaten nothing since early dawn, and was cmiitatiloi ech: It or fentinine humanity would not alloid him n morsel in the corner where he sat, was startled with the invitation—'Sit by, :?tran er, nod lake it bite.' If surprise and grat itude %%ere the first emotion., aneviein , itt followed, when ilw uppareid robber iitiplor. ed the ble.e ittg of l;od in tisouoretis voice, clusito , with an eNpreS:l ye .line a r 1 ii•W ililor,d'and confused, the - inis!viona-- ry forvra to eat, - until repeawilly remind , .1 by his now apparently hospitable landlord. and the kind hearted wife, drat lie did not oat—Terhaps he was tint used to such fare' .Would he take a sup of Ile did riot seem to regain his appetite until the of ficious housewife I)roinrlit on her platter of honey. gathered front the hollow sycamore, and made divers apologies thitt her barrier cot:lined' nothing he could eat. After, suiTer, Ilie landlord commenced re ligi.nas coo ver.:ation with the inquiry•—• Are uu a yrqr,Ning Intuit. stranger 1' The ipresiioo relative to church metillwrsliip rv:,s. prop o unded yt a novel form, and did not convey to the...mind of the missionary exi,ct- .sktrreei‘viicti I found nu in tI Hairic, l reetwil VOLt tiV t :soct Sthl the l'oplh•s tvort. va,,120 1191 1.111111 the 01V11 , 1' id . tho (-11)111, 11 n I. u I no:l:own:v.6p! 1.011 , III) itv , .ri.p hymn II: C. 1.• folluw,r; )1:;‘?1 , 1 Lnvithinl thr xvile r0:1,,t..10.1 with sov,:ral tittilthlo 1.:();1% . ,4••cion 1.11,)%vcd evcit I • ITh IS It 4 t soowthin,, previoo , ic..‘v.o In, rt. not and thr to toli aotl froo Lir Let y - Ir inrlination be to those who ratie•i .„an those who praise your conduct. • WN, ITE-E-14G1I-COUNTY, ~ A-U-GUST-7-,185 chAr,„o !-Pp I have, sotil •ave lit it Ibr the in , IN , 113811111 ERIE three Witinebagoes ; I instantly raised my ; e. to ..-,:o ii there wee r• env er die Lwein v %, ,a, and broneht down the head one. 'Hie scouts out. when, to ir e surprise, I ' , dm; chief tui•nt ii the moment I fired, mid threw tvitlee ahema five red -hr we Ike, Mexican his WlllilllaWk so sudden, Llll4l with 4•11 ell 1111- 11'4441i4: 1,, 4.14'h a ll \ m0 r 1c4441 pri,•o;ll4l', eat erring aim, that it 611111 i the eye iti the brain ing thi•ir diuner. Bute 101 sellle ftin. I of oite of the Winnebagoes. : thought; :mil as it was l',41111(41* On far to fire Just at this another Winnebago jumped with my pistol, for I fuel ivi gun. I. creep behind a tree and struck the chief on the ed through the bushes, makitor a circuit neck and shoulder with a war-club, which route so as to crawl on their rear, to be brought him to the ground and its he raised nearer, without beiag :wen ; I 4 , 44 within it for the second blow, I scut 11 pistol ag ainst . a briut Iwo rods. when one Drill 4114 4.44 W me, Tlic - TU:lier laid - it - strock - him - tvith - snchrorce — rrn - d - wilh-d - siny inTirprel—to-his—feet ;—but in the stomach as to fell Inn ) . By ; this he was no soon r en. ct time I droppt-d him time the old chiel was WI his :vet, and in atelin ; the oilier two sprang to their feet. 0 inthute more he scalped the four and hot hefor e they could conch their her-es for hung the scalps at my belt. About this their holsier-pistol, 1 pm a hall throtioh the t i me t h e Wmuebagoes hewn' to scatter and I •e- et earl'. 4104114 0( their -ivieds from - them; tun, and iii a few mieutes more eve found I then tieb• ;led the Ydekt t , and welinish ourst;lt i s masters of the field, it itlooir own • ed One dinner, for the Nl• xicans. horses back. besides about the •511 me monher We Imd hardly eel throneh dinner when of the enemy's. There were s:•vt•ettom of ; the )-„,k,,,„ saide•Well I'll be d—d if we the dilitekleet killed. On our way hackohe ain't (I'm. to streak it new, for there is a l e . chief hugged me, and said that I would be , g i ro , „f - these devils rem ine" I looked up, a great brave man some tiny. !Ie took at and FOre ennwrh there was a 1:;:de of sac rs bel t ed wun'lnuniwo' his my" waist and Put , coning. •• Well now ley fide:oh - -; I said. - it. around none- W . .ti got back at little bi - •tve :nest Ire the speed of .3,leveae lecses ;' lore midnight, and such a hallooing ns the , so . ; i) a minite ire were on the luck of the Indians kept up the rest of Ile, tight soca ,- : two it _t hmses, ooine• as it tile d—l Was:J ed impossible Mr human throats to Make.' t ,.. 1 . n'. Cut f„,: ;; ,,,,, e,„.„.,,,) „.„, „„d t d, i ,„ ;. The next day they left fur their village near i in t .... o'c, l odc we arrived at Ihe ow l :lea of tee the mountains.• 1 American army ; and in the mornine were About th e middle of April uncle and my- I taken before (kn. Ta ;I • •; • • . t , 01 , Al 1 1 14 4 I L riVe an self returued to the Pinery, where I- re-; account of my adventure. The o'd r4oner inained until about the first of July, when ; al laughed heartily, and. s tid he, “there is some or the trappers, who had been to St. I nothing like a handsome v,,oo r, inth after Louis with the Mrs, returned; and brought all, if he has any couraee.',' I lee li»n ea ve the news el the Nlextcan war. 1 instantlyile= • ern , onions to stop near the army Inc further termined to join the army ;and biding adieu; 1 :erect:; tins ; SOllll after this. the heel , • ei sat to the Pinery, I made toy way as e x ped ) . till° wa s fought and the cite w e , t a kee. notody as possible to Monterey, where the „. ; i c awa y at t h e .the e , to the north, wa tching arm y W as lying. As seen as I arrived at the inov:•meitts of a euerilla party; shortly al- Alonterry I !timid that I should not like the ter the cite was taken, I 1•••toree.l, oral wa .4 stares I "'"''''` a a , oldwr ; , sa I °lii-u'i'd iny ink -f sick. \ friend ere :p hoard for me, I.3":tlnee at., a scant a"; 1 spy. When I was at the sane cafe where I had heen heCore : first token Indere dial 'Level, hla be wins 1 was out o r ~,,, mind a; 0 ,,, t i,„.. I „.,„ hi _ called, he asked me what acquirements I - It‘m there. mid lay for three days delirious. possessed that made me wish to be a scout ; • M'i' friends hired a nurse and celled some- I told loin that I did not like the restrictions ; ;;,„„ 0,,, m5 „1,.,. 5. ‘\'h.,,, I t .„,,, to toy of a soldier that I spoke Spanish, and that : ~,,,,, i, was some time b„ hiri , I could jai -1 N‘a. ., quite wc ll. b lijll e d 1 4 1 W0401C0.11141114.1 rte. l ' ot• when I. W 41.4 , /WI 11144 first person 1 warfare generally. Taylor thou:),•ht I was : .1.0%. ,i,• ;‘ ,l C: 1 pu,l h I a : f.l. i. brew Inv the very yetiug for :t scout, but concluded to try : innmeet I LS le•rebdit there, but her father me ;so the next day I was sent out to Sithiilo, ' :lid not recileei?..• me ; rho was at Iny bed to see what Santa Anna was doing. \VIOLA . side s as cols.:Mile as the nurse, the moment ILL N. Oilcans l procured a paii•ot lalse whir - she 5„,,, I was awake, she threwller arm•s . kers and mustachios, which I 'now found ' area mil Inv nrc k rin d I,;: se d me . ot it ; t" very useful. The Mexican army lay en- sa id she, ~ I t at , 1,,„ so alarmed and c4l-11ped clear the city ; some were Tiartered I h ou o il you wen , i3O „, v to d,,, ; h ut t h an k, in the toy ; and as soon as I arrived in the r ; ~l - you IN b, , tt,. ] t p i W," “Yes," I re neighborhood oldie camp, I. determined to plies!, t.„„,1 s h a h live to ~,,i , „„d many all go lino the city ; so, with my disguise, and I hour with iIIV Carmel!ita." i•dfli ! Edwar my co intenance badly t mued trout expo- d o, d„ \u , 1,„.„ ,„,, ?., sh„ ,died, with her . sure, I passed for a Spaniard. I Initered dively hlaek i•ves b mt. on me, with such a we 1 tai city about nine o'clock and went into leek of Iwe an I dtlecidoe that, had I been We Skipped 11l mats II 44 , 011111 V i 1141420 01 . SititlX. :1 /VC whore there were several Al:•xican the oldest man in the world, I. could not help It was but three days j :matey Irom the ;officers smukieg and drinkiirg. I sat do.vn retswer'iv s, • •yes dearer t'iaa me life." , _. Pieervs and what furs we g ot of theta We 1 011 011 e sole 01 the room called he• a bottle : r r - seta to the l o ri by it Collide of 111ai41115. of Wilke all4l Cigatii, picked up a newspaper' We then prepared ourselves with four mot seemed very busy reading the news • I 15J).1 1 . 0111111 ;ROIL the conversatiou that ponics, teethe purr/Me Of C4l rry 4 lIV, 0111'111i1144s 1.44 White Bear Lake, whirl' is about 500 . I was ill the right place to get my news, ii miles ~,,,„ riot I ,,,„„ rvi „•,,„; the B r i t i s h I only, got away without being caught. lice. Arisen f a tiguing journey of nine days, Aiter a couple of hours, the must of them we arrived in• the Lake. Nly uncle has left, without mincing ice. 111 II few mu here a large block house, :similar to the one 'items I rose to go, and stepper) up to the at the Pinery, called the lathe l louse.— bar to settle for the wine; not thinking that lint seven rice!' belonged to this station.— I banded him, a five dollar go ld -piece, a h a il The Illackfted Indians had' considerable eagle. l'lte moment 1 [lauded it to him I trade here. We ball been at the house lsaw my unstake ; but it was too late to retrace, about a week. when the scouts brought in and the old Mexican wits it cunniug fellow ; news that a lartre party of Rackfeet were in as soon as be saw it he looked at me and said, the neighborhood ; they encamped within "Wait lieriCa moment until I get the changt.t about a mile of the house and the next day I have none in the drawer.'' Ile instantly commenced trading. The old chief, Wop- stepped out, leaving me with a young lode basic had his ddughter, "the Prairie Bird," j who was tendieg bar; she wan quite a hood whose skin was very white. and her hair some girl of about seventeen, though 01 dark softer and finer that the Indian ; she had complexion yet her features were reeuldr lane.: Hack eyes and very expressive. •• with a very grarelul foran ; der d l I a:r Wa...4 ' " '''' ' ''' ' ' I thought consid- as black as the raven's wing, and lido.; bi era hie of her, and being of a wild daring dig- glossy luxuriance :trotted nor neck a :id position, besides very young, tall and strong shoulders; ht•r eyes were large. black and I made, quite an impression WI the fair In. very bright and expressive. As soon as the than's teem for the week that they were old Nlexican, who id seems, wet her 141110-11 . tier' ; beSill. S, 1 IleC4lllle quite a bolo' ate with I had stepped out, she spoke to me in a low the yuuuq Lodi:ins, for I could run, j nap or hurtled voice : "''outs injui, you arm in shoot with the best of th en. danger; fly instantly for in a few minutes. ' The night before they wore ready to Illy father will be back with the sold:or. leave, soine twenty or their horses were and you will be shot as a spy." I. thaeked stolen by a party of Whim:lingo Indians ; the her very kindly lit her advice, :old told' !text morning the Black feet were ail up in her I should act on it, and inoved . goward :he arms swearing vengeance on the thieves, and door. "Stop." sti!:' she, "Yon Iv: 1 i he taken as they were trading with us at the time, , if vim go that way—follow me" Stn , c o n. uncle sent leer of his non with the purse- ducted too through several rooms into the ino• partv. It was some time before uncle garden. nod unlocked the back g ate which : would const , lll 10 my using with them ; but ',opened into at by street. • . • i the old chief sand he would loot; out for m e ••.ldies, senor," she soh! as :Ale opened uncle consented. After considerable trou- • t h e gate, "acid may the Ifoly Nil gm protect ble in keeping the trail we at last overtook ' you:", I took her hand and pressed it gent ) the NVinnelnumes about noon. They near- Ily to my lips, then tool: a small diamond ly doubled our numbers: but Wopkasic set ring from my hand, and placed'it on her was a hot-headed old warrior, and gave or finger, telling her to keep it as a memento of dors for a general attack. It W 413 made in my gratitude until the war Wits over, when a small erove of pine, and such a fight I i I would express my gratitude in a more ' never sate, 114'101 . e nor sine-', thoooh I have worthy instiller. "God only know:3 when been throueli nearly all the Nlexican war as that will be, she replied,ohot fly, and take scout and have seen mans euerriila war• this," she presenting me with u• beautiful ; fares, bet nothing like that—about three sill: scarf, which she - had over her shoulders. hundred ludinns, whooping anti hallooing "and US yo•iu- look nt it, sotnetiine.: think of like so many fiends, making more noise than Canuilita." I again pre , sed her hand to doingexcution, loot behind a tree.and when- my lips, and hurried away. I had jost ever I could see aWinnebago I would fire at passed the .Nlexican camp as day broke ; I liiin. Nlnuers were this way for about twee- then crawled into a thick chappdral, or i ty minutes, if any thing the Blackleet were j clumb 01, bushes, and fell in a sound sleep. • getting the Worst, when bounding to within at I woke about the middle of the afternoon few feet of 11 . 1 u• catni; Wopkasic, chased by and went carefully to the edge of the bush. One of the Exeenied, The N. Void< Herald publishes some ex tracts froth upwards of thirty folio paLT,F.. Written by Douglas. who was executed in that city on Friday, the '2sth of Joly. "The manuscript was untitled the , I.ife of Edward F. Douglas,' and though the or thography evinced a lamentable deficiency of the rudiments of English education, the nonman.ship was not bad, and the style man -i-fPsrs-som trnat ral-geni us-Sevent t 4 ,13 ions of this 'life' were mere fiction, and we have omitted most of theta, but retained those scenes which be admitted were founded on fact. Ii MIS written by hint for a inet:mmte, cud called his'tarn.' lEtv LIFE OF Fpw AHD wr:ELAs I was born in Citainesee county, Snot! of New York, in the year It-r 215, in the month of January. Whilst very Young , eIY Pa rents removed to the State of. ,Ilichignn. [ wtts kept at schnol until I. was ittteen years of age, Mutt) hither thought he needed my -asS'istatice on the farm. Pather never here no-much love, and Iron) my ihfancy was cruel and tyrannicil towards me per haps more sO, because I was the favorite of the rest of the family. In the fall of he took the home to work with hi.n. I was very large for my age, strong and robust.— it was in January one very cold day, we were drawing rails to build a fence, when I had mittens on, and as I was lilting one end of the rail it slipped out of my hands and y father made me take toy mittens II and handle the rails in the cold and snow with inv hire hands. I worked so until night, suffering severely. •Alter supper he terra to one of the neighbors on some ; tt lieu I told iny mother I ..valitr.d money and my clothes, as I was going to if flee She Ifledl to Induce me to rikiV bra it was or no use. So she gave the IWcrity du;HIS, packed my clothes inn carpel-hag, and with th•retateaty for we to boa good boy, stiro d. I took a large favorite hound, my rif le ;rid huntin..!;-kiti; . e. That night I stop ped at my and the next day started for the Valls of St. Anthony, at the hettti oft:tvatni. , 9.lt navigation on the iiecr. I arrived - titttr,• in fourteen and in neut. was at my It a trAiri2 called the Pin- erv. v uncle received me ..varinly.— There were but tliree Men at the tot at the time ; the re:4 were out with their traps and limning. There wore ten lo longing to the, station. I had been at the fort about n none le, w hen me mirk! i•roiwised to tile to go with him on his amimil tour. which he makes .v er y \larch, for Ow purpose 01 . bunging io what lairs li, can colioct of thi• Indians, and r i , T (CO, 4 Bat that, lice i.vervthintz else, had to coine to an end ; and I had to leave the love ly (l i mn •litt.i for this of \val., and the deadly sititi tt .:l- of the liaule-field. I wit.; orilore'd out to w itcti the movinirients of tit noted onerilla elikift'itnales. I had hunt* annuli] his reitr for olmilt a when I 5;.1%y froin his in/ .T.n.ints that he was going to t..y to ea' all part of o,:c ba : ;.f,p4ii train. I ilistantly !nee inforin.iiion to head-quarters, and :llay with his Jrnloons, wis soot itt• tewept biol. which IP! dhl, in his ustill bold wav, whin , al'»iit fifty prisoners, bosiden leaving thiriv nod wounded—Catta los inirrAwlv i•-caped with Iris life, wounded an.l twa homes rd 1 •i• hi n.. Sno:i famous b it tle of no 'no Vista wits fou zlit. which has firevitr irnin.irtal fed Ow morn of Taylor. c.iii .0.1 tit- 'lie voilo , , brave, and izelier i also many oilier noble iodicori. I wis with the Itat2g.t,ge, rain thriiirrhoiit . niof. of Ow fi nlit, at the time tlrt .ll„.ixi?,tit I ticorit fl tithed our tae n attil attached it. and wore so nobly re oil •nI by ellivalrui4 I l trdiii. Whimt the lancers iir:t the , t r ain, I was on 11 ; bin itt;the elear , g.i toy horse W:1.3 hulled unibir nt ii. A short. Lett ilespvr cooll,:t eft it b-tr o t the own who wqie stationtid to mi tr.! the 1v1 , 4‘)'1.! , Had the hii1 , 7f.1 , ,, 1J 'turn i 2.11. II trdia coon to our assistatico, . As ine lior4e ..yai falling, I ; Trawl. from . hiai an I jmnpeol miler a wagon, mid cool ?minced aw ty hut wa t Siam (driven from there by a shut in the calf of my leo. an.! a thrust of a lance in the other, and perhaps, 1,1 ve been had .it not beet) for -Irish NI illy," all commons large, gout avtiman, who was a camp fol, lower, and with:whom I iva; a great favor ite, She alway, carried a large thorn cud gel, which she said "never . tnissed lire ;" with one blow she split open the skull of the lancer who had Struck tilt'.. nil kept/ koocking, around her witlrsra Much force, that she drove the lancer . from the wagon %illicit I. WAS under ; nod. jest at this lime. Hardin an .1 his twat came up rind drove oil the laucers immpletelv„ Molly calm. , around the wagon to nsii:t me, "Arra. :mishit," says she, "ore ye kilt'." "No Mol ly," I replied,"not. quite." "Och, muther on the bloody green coat, hut thyy were O laguy a -at. it, Master N.A." Yes, Molly, ewe yin lily life this dine," I replied. = She then boon 1 up iny wounds, and Eli. +1
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