Richmond Indiana palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1837-1839, 1838-10-06

gauge They will! i've too unhappilv in man
D a dark legend Of ruthless violence, like that whic
| have to relate.
1. in the same years when SuIlivan's arm
gave the finishing blow to the military power {
the Six Nations, that settler, who had come i
from the New Hampshire grants to this part
Tryon Comfy, (as the northern and western re
gIon of New York was at tina: time caled,) wa
sitting with his wife, who held an infant to he
bosom, enjoying his evening pipe beside his hearth
The blaze OF the large maple wood fire sprea
warmly upon the Imprinted beams above, an.
lighted up the timbers Of the shanty with mel
low glow that gave an air of cheerfulness ant
comfort to the rudciy furnished apartment From
The grey hairs and weather-beaten features ofthe
settler, he appeared TO be considerably or
the wrong side OF forty, while the Young bright
haired mother by his side had not vet passed The
sunny season Of early youth. The disparity o,
their years, however, had evidently not prevent
cd the growth OF the strongest affection between
them. There was soft and happy look OF con-
tent about the girl, she surveyed the brown
woodsman, now watching the smoke from
his pipe as they cured over his head, now taking
his axe upon his lap, and feeling its edge with a
sort OF carcssing gesture, if the inanimate
| thing could be conscious OF the silent compliment
he paid to its temper, when thinking over the en-
largement of the clearing he had wrought by its
aid during the day. Nor did the eve of the Young
mother kindle less afiectionately when tine Drawn
mcni, which is the pride of the American woods
man, behind the chimney, turned to take the hand
OF the infant, which she pressed to her bosom,
and shared al the same time with her the caress-
es which she bestowed on the child.
"l'hat boy raal credit to you, Bet. But |
think, it he cries tonight, as he has for the last
week, ! must make papoosc-cradlc for him to-
morrow and swing him somewhere outside of the
shanty. where his sGualng can't keep us awake
Your face Is growing as white a silver birch.
from loss of sleep at nights
"Why, John, how you talk. Pm sure Yorpy !
never cries;-nevcr, mean, worth talking Off |
As the mother spoke, she pressed the unhappy
little younster somewhat too closely to her bosom,
and he awoke with one of those discordapt out
breaks OF infant passion with which the hopeful
'cions of humanity sometimes test the comforts Of
ma rried life.
"Baby,-why, y-there-there now? wha,
vii 1t have!-docs it want to sec Brother Ben?
IIush-hush-he's coming with something for
,aby! Hush, now, darling !-Will it have this.
"Why, Bet, my DEAR" said the father .don't {
give the brat Bens powderhorn to play with: for |
tho he does like You much as he did nv first a
nlssus, his own mother, and flesh and blood the I
ad doesn't love to have his hunting tools discom
yborated Gods weather. where can tn, tor C
tented CHAP be staying?-he ought TO be home h
Y this tme.'' D
With these words he walked TO the door, and "
God tor a moment commenting upon the mild L
'turn. But the mother was too much engaged a
soothing the infant, by rocking him to and fro I
her arms. to reply. "
''Now don't, don't, gall continued the kind "
earted woodstnan. turning from the door, which g
2 left open; ''you'il tire yourself to death Let
G take him-thcrc, nOw-there,' id he. as she u
linquIshed the child to his arms; and addressing VI
e last words to the poor, perverse little thing in
walked up and down the room with it, vainy I'll
ying to li!i ITS gust OF passion peevishness W
FLUSH! you little varmnt you.' said the father tn
last growing impatient; ''hush? I'll call in ar
9 Indians to carry you off, Wills ne
The settler WAS lust Turning in his walk, near SIX
opened threshold, as he uttered the li-omened ra
rds, when swarthy hand, reaching over his sci
builder, cltitched the child from his arms, and bu
llncd IT against the door-post, in the moment tn;
It the tomahawk of another savage struck him a
Inc f1oor dozen painted demons sprang over col
PROSTATE body INTO the centre of the room
c simple scene of domestic JOY, but moment thi
ore so sheltered and home-!ll1e, was changed era
the instant. The mummicd nuyseng was we
g upon the embers the feet OF It's frantic VIII
her, who slipped and fell the blood of her tai
band, as she plucked her child from the Goals wit
sprang towards the door. 1t was blow of a p.
cy, though not meant such. which dismiss frof
cr spirit, as she struggled to rise with her nat
ess burthen. The cmbers of the fire soon mel
we'd the apartment, while the savages danced ing
ng them with the mad glee of the DEVILS own fiat
rcn, until The smoke and blaze, ascending TO the
'ooftree, drove them from the scene of their in Il
Nal orgies sctt
ne next days sun shone upon that mouldring
as brightly as if unconscious of the horrors
n his light revealed. So complete had been y,
evastation Of the fames that little but ashes
and the blue smoke cured up a. ~
the empowering trees gently as if it Tbe
only from cottager's hospitabIc fire. The yere
}, perched upon cedar-top, whistled as usu- ,,rn
his mate. swinging in his mes, upon the The,
mt branches of willow which had been posc,
I'd by the Inflated settler near spring not
pm his door; while the cat-bird from the bri- g..
cket replied in mockng notes blither and -, 70
IT than those he aimed TO initiate. The 49,,
wv only. driven from her nest i'm the caves 80,
hiring IN disordered flight around the place, -
ID IN sharp cries to sympathise with the des one ;;
- - - ~ et u and {
ere was no human murmur, however; amid -
enc. A youth of sixteen sat with his head a.
IN his hands upon fallen tree hard BY 800
II and motionless he seemed. that his form a ::
almost have been thought 20 have been - -
out of the grey wood, with which his ia - -
,rments assimilated in color 1t would not IL =,
icult TO surnise what passed in the bosom -:
young forester, at last, after rising with -
'r, he advanced to the funeral pyre of his $50
lold, and, turning over the dry embers dis H.. .
ed hafburned cloven skull from among 10. .
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