The Litchfield County post., 1828-07-03

turned upon him. "Stop!'' repeated he in tone of authority. "White woman, thou hast kept thy word with me till the last moment. am the traitor. I have eaten of the salt, warmed myself at the fire, shared the kindness of these Christian white people and it was that told them of their danger. am withered ,leaAess, branchless, trunk cut me down if you will. I am ready" A yell of indigna- ton sounded on all sides. Naoman de- scended from the little bank where he sat: shrouded his face with his mantle of skins and submitted to his fate.-He fell dead at the feet of the white woman by blow of the tomahawk.
 But the sacrifice of Naoman, and the firmness of the Christian white woman, did not suffice to save the lives of the Oth- CT victims. They perished--how, it is needless to say and the memory of their fate has been preserved in the name of the pleasant stream on whose banks they liv- ed and died, which to this day is called Murderer's Creek.--NeW Mirror for 7royeNers.
 SGndw;ck Islands.-T The Mission house has been removed from the place of its or- iginal location; but familiarity with every spot enabled me easily to grope my way through the luxuriant plantations by which it is surrounded. But how great was my astonishment at the peculiar circumstances at which found our inestimable friends, MT. and Mrs. Richards. Instead of be- ing unobserved, to break their slumbers by the salutations of friendship and affection, how was surprised to meet at my first approach to the house, the presented bayo- net, and to hear the stern challenge of the watchful sentry,-'Who goes there 2" and when assured that it was friend-how in- applicable to my mind the fact of receive ing the cordial embraces of my brother- not in the peaceful cottage of the mission ary-but in the midst os a garrison, appa- rentiy in momentar, e; ;pectation of the att tack of foe: and to ind the very couch on which was reclining one. who has been ! most emphatically sister. surrounded by the muskets and the spears of those, known to the world only by the name of savages. My first thoughts were, that revolt of the Island, against the general government had taken place, in which our friends had been sei-ed, and were guarded as captives or that some formidable party of unfriend- fly natives had risen with the determination 1 of destroying them, & fromwhom they were protected by the higher chiefs-but as soon as explanation could be given, \ learned that their peril was not from the, heathen, but from the degenerate sons of a civilized country! The seamen of large British ship at anchor at Lahaina-exasperated at the restraints laid on their licentiousness, through the influence of the mission, had carried their menaces and open acts of vii olence, against MT. and Mrs. Richards. to such an extent as to cause the chiefs to arm body of men, and defend them at the hazard of life and at that hour, three ar- med boats crews--amounting to near for- ty men-were on shore. with the purpose of firing their houses, ,and taking their lives before morning.
 Only two days before, after succession of fearful threats and gross insults, the same party-countenanced and upheld by their captain and officers, ,and armed with knives and pistols had landed under the black flag of death and surrounded the Missionary enclosure, then unprot. c'cd, offered life to our friends, only on condition of their re- tracing their instructions to the people. founded on the Seventh Commandment. The firmness with which they were met by MT. Richards, only made them doubly infnriate and as they seemed ready to fall on him to execute their horrid threats, Mrs. Richards. with the spirit of martyr. rushed between them and her husband, ,ex- claiming, "My only protection is my hus- band and my God; I had hoped. that the helplessness of female, surrounded only by heathen, would have touched the compass sion of men from Christian land-but. if such cannot be the case, know that stand prepared to share the fate of my husband! When left my country, l took myslife in my hand, not knowing when I might be called on to lay it down. If this is the time. know then am prepared--sooner than to disgrace the character now sustain, or to dishonor the cause ef my Master,by coun- tenancing in the people we have to enligh- ten, a course of conduct at variance with the word of God, | bid you to strike the bosom barred to the blow!" Fora mo-