The Columbia Democrat. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1837-1850, 1837-08-19

ked Huron and Abenaquis; while young
cavaliers, in.the less warlike garb Of the
court, of the magnificent Louis, moved
with plume and mantle amid the dusky
files of wampum-deckediO Ottawas and Algon-
quins. Banners were there which had
flown at Steenkirk, and Landen; or rustled
above the troopers that Luxemburgh's trum-
pets had guided to glory when Prince Wal
decks battalions were borne down beneath
his furious charge. Nor was the enemy
that this gallant host were seeking unwor-
thy of those whose swords had been tried
in some of the most celebrated fields of Eu-
rope. "The Romans of America" as the
Five Nations have been called by more
than one writer, had proved themselves SOL
oilers, not only by carrying their arms a
mong the native tribes thousand miles
away, and striking their enemies alike upon
the lakes of Maine, the mountains Of Caro-
lima and the prairies Of the Missouri; but
they had already bearded one European
army beneath the walls Of Quebec, and shut
up another for weeks within the defences
of Montreal, with the same courage that,
half a century later, 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 Frohtenac was said to have
| other objects in view besides the political
motives of the expedition, which he set
forth to his master the Grand Monarque.
Many years previous, when the Five
Nations invested the capital of New France
and threatened the extermination of that
thriving colony, beautiful half blood-girl,
whose education had been commenced un-
der the immediate auspices of the governor
| general, and in whom, indeed, M. De From
| tehac was said to have 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 hostlities 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 cohtented wife of a young Mo-
hawk warrior, yet the old noblernah seems
never to have despaired of reclaiming his
''nut-brown daughter" Indeed, the chew
aler must have been impelled by some
such hope when, at the age of seventy, and
SO feeble that he was half the time carried
in litter, he ventured to encounter the per-
lis of an American wilderness, and place
himself at the head of the 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 invading army,
was a renegade Fleming, of theshame of
Hanyost. This man, in earlySSouth. had
been made a sergeant-majog, when he de-
serted to the French ranks in Flanders.
He 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 domiciIiated, as it were, among their
allies, the Muhawks, and adopted the life
of hunter. Hanyost, hearing that his old
friends, the French, were making such a
formidable descent, did not hesitate to de-
sert his more recent acquaintances; but Of
lered his services as guide to Count de
Frontenac the moment he entered the hos
tile country. 1t was not, however, mere
cupidity or the habitual love of treachery
which actuated the base Fleming in this
instance. Hanyost, in difficulty with an
Indian trapper, which had been referred for
arbitrament TO the young Mohawk chief
Kiodago, IA settler of disputes whose cool
courage and Grmness fully ent1e him to
so distinguished name, conceived himself
aggrieved by the award which had been