fett
S?r6m the Knickerbocker.'
TRUST IN HEAVEN.
Thik world la all a fleeting fthdw,
For man's illusion given;
The smiles of joy, the team of wo,
Deceitful thine, deceitful flow
There's nothing trte but hcaveni
Trustin heaven! when o'er ihypath,
"'Cloudtt'ftnd tempest come in wrath:
'When thy grief oppresscth thec,
Whcn'obscured'thy'prospecU be,
"When around thco mists are driven
Heed them not, 1m t trust in hcaveni
Trust in heaven! when Tnorning lifts
Up her head, and casts her gifts,
"Light and dew, upfin the earth;
When she brings the blossoms forth;
Till shall shine the stars of even.
Tor a safeguard, trust in heaven!
Trust in heaven! when there atar
Burnetii many a glorious star;
'Canst 'thou doubt, when thus their light,
Gleams unshaddwfcd through the night,
"That protection may bo given
"To thy pillowl trust in heaven!
"Trust in heaven! when one by one
Bwccttho waves of hope'glido on,
Leaving thco a "Wreck at'last
On the shore whence they have passed;
Though my heart bo wrung and riven,
"6U11 forever trust in heaven!
Trust in heaven! when 'from Its way
Those thou Iovcst go 'astray!
'Strive, still strive to bring them back
To its straight and thornlcss track;
And tha t truth may soon bo given
To their spirits, trust in hcaveni
Trust inheavcn!-it shall not fail,
When tho darkest griefs prevail,
And'whcn death at length shall comb.
When around thee spreads his gloom,
Tray that thott may'st be forgiven
Plaee thy dearest trust in heaven!
Mooftr.
From the New York Mirror.
THE LAST ARROW-.
dv c. f. 'Hoffman.
"And who beyo who rashly dare,
To chase in woods the forest child!
To hunt the pantherto his lair
Tho Indian in his nativo wild!"
Old Ballad.
yFhe Am6ridan reader, If at all curious
'about the early history of his country, lias
probably heard of that famous expedition,
undertaken by the vicegerent of Louts the
Fourteenth, the governor-general of New.
France, against the confederated Five Na
tions of New York; an expedition which,
though it carried with it all tho pomp and
circumstance of European warfare into
their wild wood haunts, was attended with
no -adequate -results, and had but a momen
tary effect in quelling the spirit.okthc tame
less Iroquois.
It was on the fourth of July, 1096, that
the Commander-in-chief, tho veteran Count
de Frontenac, marshalled tho forces at La
Chino, with which he intended to crush
forever tho powers of the Aganuschion con
federacy. His regulars were divided into
four battalions of two hundred men each,
commanded respectively by three veteran
leaders, and the young Chevalier De Grais.
He formed also four battalions of Canadian
volunteers, efficiently officered, and organ
ized-as regular troops. The Indian allies
were divided into three bands, each of
Tvlfich was placed under tho command of a
nobleman of rank, who had gained distinc
tion in the European warfare of France.
Ono was composed of the Sault and St.
Louis bands, and of friendly Abcnaquis;
another consisted of the Hurons ofLorctte
and the mountaineers of the north; the third
band was smaller, and composed indiscrim
inately of warriors of different tribes, whom
a spirit of adventuro led to embark upon
the expedition. They were chiefly Otta
was, Saukies and Algonquins, and these
the Baron de Bekancourt charged himself
to conduct. This formidable armament
was amply provisioned, and provided with
all the munitions of war. Besides pikes,
arquebusses, and other-smaller arms then in
use, they wore furnished with granades, a
mortar to throw them, and a couplo of fields
pieces; which, with the tents and other
camp -equipage, were transported in large
batteaus 'built for the purpose. Nor was
tho encrgy-of their movements unworthy
of this brilliant preparation. Ascending the
St. Lawrence, and coasting tho shores of
Lake Ontario, they entered the Oswego
river, cut a military road around the falls,
and carrying their transports over tho por-
tage, launched them anew, and finally de
"bauched with their whole flotilla upon the
waters of Onondaga lake.
It must have'been a gallant sight to be
hold tho warlike pageant floating beneaih
tho primitive forest which then crowded the
.hills around that Iovelv water. To see
tha veterans who had served under Turen
ne, Va"uban and the great Condc, marshall-
cdiwith pike and cuirassbeslde'tho half-na-ked
Huron 'and Abcnaquis; while young
cavaliers, intlio less warlike garb of tho
court, of tho magnificicnt Louis, moved
with plumo and mantle amid the dusky
files of wampum-dcckedJOttawas and Algon
quins. Banners word there which had
flown at Steenklrk, and Landcn; or rustled
above the troopers that Luxcrnburgh's trum
pets had guided to glory when Prince Wal
dccks battalions wore borne down beneath
his furious charge. Nor was tho enemy
that this gallant host were seeking unwor
thy of those whoseswordshad been tried
in some of tho most celebrated fields of Eu
rope. "The llomans ot America, as the
Five Nations have been called by more
than one writer, had proved themselves sol
diers, Ylb't only by carrying their arms a-
mong the native tribes a thousand miles
away, and striking their enemies alike upon
tho lakes of Maine, the mountains of Caro
lina and the prairies of the Missouri; but
"they had already beafded ono European
army beneath Hie walls of Quebec, and shut
up another for weeks within the defences
of Montreal, with the same courage that, a
half a century laler, vanquished the battal
ions of Dieskau upon the banks of Lake
George
Our business, however, is not with the
main movements of this army, which, we
have already mentioned, were wholly un
important in their results. The aged
CheValier de Ffoftteria'c was said to have
other objects in view besides the political
motives of the expedition, which ho set
forth to his master the Grand Monafque.
Many years previous, when the Five
Nations invested the capital of New France
and threatened tho extermination of that
thriving colony, a beautiful half blood-girl,
whoso education had been, commenced un
der the immediate auspices of the governor-
general, and in whom, indeed, M. De Fron-
tchac was said to have a paternal interest,
was 'carried off, with other prisoners, by
the retiring foe Every effort had been
made in vain during the occasional cessa
tions of hostilities between the French and
the Iroquois, to recover this child and
though, in the years that Intervened, some
wandering Jesuit from time to time averred
that he had seen the Christian captive liv
ing as the contented wife of a young Mo
hawk warrior, yet the old nobleman seems
never to have despaired of reclaiming his
"nut-brown daughter." Indeed, the chev
alier must have been impelled by some
such hope when, at the ago of seventy, and
bo feeble that he was half the time carried
in a litter( he ventured to encounter the per
ils of an American wilderness, and place
himself at the head of tho heterogeneous
bands which now invaded the country of
the Five Nations under his conduct.
Among the half-breed spies, border
scouts, and mongrel adventurers that fol
lowed in the train of the invadirig army,
was a f Cnegado Fleming, of the$name of
Hanyost. This mail, in earlyoUlh. had
been made a sergeant-majov, when he de
serted to the French ranks in Flanders.
Ho had subsequently taken up a military
grant in Canada, sold it after emigrating,
and then, making his way down to the
Dutch settlements on the Hudson, had be
come domiciliated, as it were, among their
allies, the Mohawks, and adopted the life
of a hunter. Hanyost, hearing that his old
friends, the Fronch, were making such a
formidable descent, did not hesitate to de
sert his more recent acquaintances; but of
fered his services as a guide to Count do
Frontenac the moment he entered the hos
tile country. It was not, however, mere
cupidity or tho habitual love of treachery
which actuated tho base Fleming lit this
instance. Hanyost, in a difficulty with an
Indian trapper, which had been refened for
arbitrament to the young Mohawk chief
Kiodago, (a settler of disputes,) whose cool
courage and firmness fully entitle him to
so distinguished a name, conceived himself
aggrieved by tho award which had been
given against him, 'Tho scorn with which
the arbitrator met his charge of unfairness,
stung him to the soul, and fearing the arm
of the powerful savage, ho had nursed tho
revenge in secret, whose accomphshnyj
seemed now at hand. Itiodago, ignoriSp
of tho hostile force which had entered his
country, was off witli his band at a fishing
station, or summer camp, among :tho wild
hills about Konncdicyu; and, when Hany
ost informed tho commander of tho French
small but efficient force was instantly de
tached from tho main body of the army to
strike tho blow. A dozen musqucte'ers, with
twenty-five pikemen, led severally by the
Baron do Bekancourt and tho Uhcvalicr do
Grais, tho former having the chief command
of the expedition, were sent upon this duty,
. . -.1. .... . !ii-i
with Hanyost to guiue tnem 10 mo viiiugu
of Kiodagd. Many hours were consumed
upon the march, as the soldiers were not
yet habituated to tho Wilderness; but just
before dawn on the second day, tho party
found themselves in tho neighbourhood of
the Indian village.
The placo was wrapped in repose, and
the two cavaliers trusted that the surprise
would be so complete, that their comman
dant's daughter must certainly be taken.
The baron, after a careful examination of
the hillv passes, determined to head the
onslaught, while his companion in arms
with Hanyost, to maik out his prey, should
pbUrlce upon the chieftain's wife. This
being arranged, their followers were warn
ed not to injure the female captives While
cutting their defenders to pieces, and then
a riibmcnt being allowed for each man to
take a last look at the condition of his arms,
they were led to the attack.
The inhabitants of the fated village se
Cure in their isolated situation, aloof from
the war parties of that wild district, had
neglected all precaution against surprise,
and were buried in sleep when the whiz
zing of a grenade, that terrible, bill now
superseded engine of destruction, roused
them from their slumbers. The 'missile, to
which a direction had been given that carri
ed it in a direct line through tho main row
of wig wants which formed the little strcctj
went crash among their frail frames of bask
et work) and kindlbd the dry mats stretched
over them into instant flames. And then as
the startled warridrs leaped all naked and
unarmed from their blazing lodges, the
French pikemen, waiting only for a volley
from the musqueteers, followed it up with
a chafgc still more fatal. Tho wretched
savages Were slaughtered like sheep in the
shambles. Some overwhelmed with dis
may sank unresisting upon the grouhd
and covering up their heads after the Indian
fashion when resigned to death, awaited the
fatal stroke without a murmur; others, sciz
ed with a less benumbing panic, sought
safely in flight, and rushed upon the pikes
that lined the forest's paths ardund them
Many thefo were, however, who, schooled
to scenes as dreadful, acquitted thdmselvcs
as warriors. Snatching their weapons from
tho greedy flames, they sprang with irre
sistlble fury upon the bristling files of pike
men. Their heavy war-cl'ubs beat down
and splintered the fragile spears of the Eu
ropeans, whose corselets, ruddy with tho
reflected fires amid which they fought
glinted back still brighter sparks from the
hatdhet of flint which crashed against them
Tho fierce veterans pealed tho charging cry
of many a well-fought field in other climes
but wild and high the Indian whoop rose
shrill above tho din of conflict, until the
hovering raven in mid air caught up and
answered tho discordant shrieki
De Grais, in the meantime!, surveyed the
scene of action with eager intentnessyie?.
pecting each moment to see the paTcjXlea.
turcs of the Christian captive among the
dusky females who ever and anon sprang
shrieking from the blazing lodgcs( and were
instantly hurried backward into the flames
by fathers and brothers, who even thus
would slave them from the hands that vain
ly essayed to grasp their distracted forms.
The Mohawks began now to Wage a more
successful resistance, and just when the
fight was raging hottest, and the high spir
ited Frenchman, beginning to despair of his
prey, was about launching into tho midst of
of it, he saw a tall warrior who had hitherto
been forward in the conflict, disengage him
self from the meled, and wheeling suddenly
upon a soldier, who had llkcwiso separated
from his party, brain him with a tomahawk,
before! ho could make a movement in his
timcc. The quick eye of the young chev
r, too, caugiita glance of another fig
ure, in pursuit of wh&jrt, as she emerged
with an infant in her arms from it lodgo on
tho farther 'Ma of tho village, tho luckless
Frenchman had met his doom. It was tho
Christian captive, the wife of Kiodago, be
neath whose hand ho had fallen. That
chieftain now stood over the body of his
victim, brandishing a war club which ho
had snatched from a dying Indian near.
might bo once more given to his arms, a
Quick as thought Dd Grais levelled a mV
forces that, by surprising this party, his Jol at his head, when the track of the flyirjf
long-lost daughter, tho wife ofKiodaga,- girl brought her directly in his lino of sight,
and ho withheld his fire. Kiodago, in tho
mailt iiio. IStl Ucell CUIOII iruui uig-iv...
his people by tho 'soldiers who closed in
upon tne space wmcn ms n,mui
a 'moment before kept open. A cry of ago
ny escaped the high soulcd savage: as lie
saw lioNv thus "tho last hope was lost. Ho
made a gesture, as if about to rush again into
the fray, and sacrifice his life with his tribes
men; and then receiving how futile must
be the act, he turned oh hi3 heel, and bdun
fWl nfmr his retreating wife, with arms
outstretched, to shield her from the drop
ning shots 'of tho enemy.
The utilising sun had now lighted up the
scene, but all this passed so instantaneously
that it was impossible for De Grafs to keep
his eye upon the fugitives amid the shifting
forms that glanced continually beforo him;
and when accompanied by Hanyost and
seven others, ho had got fairly in pursuit,
Kiodago, who still kept behind his wife,
was far in advance of the chevalier and his
party. Her forest training had made tho
Christian captive as flcctof foot as an Indian
maiden. She heard too the cheering voice
of her loved warrior behind her, and press
ing her infant in her arms, she urged her
flight over crag and fell, and soon reached
the head of a rocky pass, which it would
take some moments for any but an Aincri
ton forester to scale. But tho indefatigable
Frenchmen are urging their way up the
steep'; the cry of pursuit grows nearer as
they catch a sight of her husband througl
tho thickets, and the agonized wife find;
her onward progress prevented by a ledge
of rock that Impends above her. But how
agaiu Kiodago is by her side; he has lifted
his wife to the cliff above, and placed her
infant in her arms; and already, with r'd
newed activity, the Indian nlother is speed
ing on to a cav'drn among the hills, well
known as a fastness of safety
Kiodago looked a moment alter hcY re
treating figure, and then coolly swung him
selFtb the ledge which commanded the pass
He might now easily have escaped his pu
suers; but as he stepped back from the edge
of the cliff, and looked ddwri the narrow ra
vine, tho vengeful spirit of the red ihan was
too strong within him to allow such an op
portunlty of striking a blow id escape
His tomahawk and war club had both been
lost in the strife, bul ho still carried at his
back a more efficient weapon in tho hands
of so keen a huntcn Thef e werd but Ihree
arrows in his quiver, and thd Mdllawh was
determined to have the life of an cridmy in
exchange for each of them. His bow was
strung quickly, with as much cbblHess as
if there was no exigency to require haste.
Yet he had scarcely time to throw himself
upon his breast, a fdw yards ftbm the brink
of thb declivity, before one of his pursuei
more active than the rest, exposed himself
to the unerring archer. Ho came leaping
from rock to rock, and had nearly readied
the head of thd glen, when pierced through
and through by one of Kiodago's arrows,
ho toppled from the crags, and rolled,
clutching the leaves in his death agony,
among the tangled furze below. A second
met a similar fate, and a third victim would
probably have been added, if a shot from the
fusil of Hanyost, who sprang forward and
caught sight of the Indian just as tho first
man fell, had not disabled the tluimb-jbint
of tho bold archer, evctt as ho fixed his
last arrow to the string. Resistance seem
ed now at an end, aiid Kibdago again be
took himself to flight! Yet anxious to di
vert tho pursuit from his wife, tho young
chieftain pealed a yell of defiance, as ho
retreated in a different direction from that
which sho had taken. The whoop was
answered by a simullariodus shbut and rush
on tho part of tho whites but the Indian
had not advanced far beforo he perceived
that the pursuing party, nbw reduced to
six, had divided, and three only followed
him. Ho had recognized the scout, Hany
ost, among his enemies, and It was now
apparent that that wily traitor, instead of
being misled by his ruse, had guided the
other three upon the direct trail to tho cav
em which tho Christian captive had taken,
Quick as thought, the Mohawk acted Upon
tho impression. Making a few steps with
in a thicket, still to mislead his present pur
suers, he bounded across a mountain tor
rent, arid then leaving his footmarks, dash
ed into the yielding bank, ho turned shortly
on a rock beyond, recrossed the stream,
and cbndcaled himself behind a fallen tree,
while his pursuers passed withiri a few
pacos of his ebvert.-
A brbkeri hillock now only divided the
chief from tlio point to which he had di.
reeled his wife by anotlmr m,.tn .
..K, u,,u ,
HBvtticn tho reinainmcr nariv. nnc..: t
Do Grais, Hanyost and a Frem-l,
tcor were hotly urging their way
i X'r i t . . .
liuinuu itumui kiuuiiu ins ICCtll Will
when he hoard tho voice of tlm i..
TTInmiurr in Inn rrlriTi hnlnw Itli. i
ng from crag to crag, ho circled the
knoll, and planted his foot by thCt0
1.1.a.1 Aul. 41t !i 1 .
uiuaiuu uuiv mat auui iui limilS m
cavern, just asms who liad read,
spot, and pressing her babe to her
sunk exhausted among the flowJ
waved in the moist breath of the
chanced that at that very instant, Dt Js!
anu ms touowcrs iiau paused benei
opposite siue oi mo Knoll, from wh si
kert'surfaco tho foot "of the flying Ir.J, f.'wS
.1- i -i i i. .
uisuiiyiiguu a Biuiii;, which cracKun,
the branches, found its way throaf J
ravine into tho glen below. T
T1 1 1 I .1 t 1 f )
riencnincn hiuou m uouin lor aa
The musq'uctcer, pointed in tho
whence thcstdile had rolled, tun "
ccivc the order of his officer. '1 ,
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11UI, wiiuuuu iiiiiuu iruu dw III atlv rl
a broad rock between them, learnt-
it, pistol in hand, half turned totrs-l
follower; while the scout, who sioo.j
est out from the steep bank, bcniH
ward to discover the mouth of the catJ
have caught a glimpse of the sinking!
just as the shadowy form of her tf
was displayed above lief. God he'
now, bold archer! Thy quiver u i
thy game of life is nearly up; the!
hound is upon thec; and the scj
whose plumds now flutter in the t
will soon be twined in the fingen!
Vengeful renegade. Thy wife-
hbldi thb noble savago has still oui
left!
Disabled, as he thought himstj
Mohawk had drdpptfd his bow in hi!
His last arrow was still gripped in L
ding fingers; and though his stiffened
forebore the use of it to the best adrj
thd hand of Kiodago had not yet
power. The crisis which it takes s
to describe, had bebn realized by hi:i
instant. Ho saw how thd Fred
inexperienced in wood-craft, were tl
lid saw, too, that the keen eye of Hi
had caught sight of the object of ik.'
suit, and that further flight was lr
while tho scene of his bunting villafti
distance, inflamed him with hate
towards the instrument of his mishi
TtrnntnfrnHn Lnnn itnnn iVtf II.mIi. eirll$
i ufuu till illll.J ivw.
the muscle3 of tho other swelled a
whole cnbrgles of his body were -in
that single effort. Kiodago aims
treacherous scdut, ahd thd twangin; .
string dismisses his last arrow unonj
rand. The liarid of the spirit cou' j
have guided that shaft! it misses in
iir 1 G
iv aneyo smiles upon tho brave n
and the arrow, while it rattles h:j
against the cuirass of the French rj
glances tbwards the victim for whom
intended, and quivers in the heart ajw
yost! Tho dying wretch grasped the 1
cnain ot the chevalier, whose
clanged among tho rocks, as the tut
rolling down the glen together;
Grais was not unwilling to abando-
pursuit when the musquelccr, comwfffl
assistance, had disengaged him, Hi
and bloody, from the embrace of the
ning corpse.
What more is thore to add. Ts
wildered Europeans rejoined their
. i . i . i ... .
who were on their march from im
they had desolated; while Kiodago J A
froin his eyrie to collect tho fugitt
vors of his baud, and, after bun
mum, io wrcait a terrible venire: no
their murderers; tho most of wl
cut off by him before they joined tl" "
body of the French army. The '
De' Frotcnac, returning to Canada
soon afterwards, and the existence i
half blood daughter was forgotten.
tnough among tho dozen old families i'
state of New York, Ivho have Indian t
in their veins, many (race their decent!
tho offspring of tho noblo Kiodago ai
Christian wife, yet the hand of genit
displayed in tho admirable picture ofC
man and Adams, has alone rescued
oblivion tho thrillingsceneof the Mohrt
LAST ARROW,
An irishman seeing some sparrow-'
tree went beneaih and shook it, h
his hat to catch them as they fell.
. "What art impudent varlct" that
Patriot is only heaf his "Modem D'c
ary"
LAtv. A female with hor head sW
n silk bonnet, her waist puckered in"1
circumference of a junk bottle, and''
hi mo ncoi ot tier stocking.