Southern pioneer, and Carroll, Choctaw and Tallahatchie Counties advertiser. (Carrollton, Miss.) 1840-1842, 1841-05-08
VOL. I.-NO. 81.

NOL. I'M. II.
so badly as they had supposed, and no sooner
did she hear the sound Of their retreating foot
steps, than disengaging herself from the heap
Of slain, haggard, pale, and drenched with her
own and the blood of her children, she peered
steadily from the door, and finding her enemies
no longer in sight, hastily extinguished the
fire, which before leaving, they had applied to
her cabin, but which had, yet, made very little
| impression on the green logs of which it was
composed. Wiping from her eyes the warm
blood which was still reeking from her scalp
less head, she directed her agonized gaze 10
the bleeding and disfgured forms of those, who
, scarce an hour before were playing at The
door, and gladdening her maternal heart with
their merry laughter, and as she felt, in the
full sense of her deSolaton, the last ray of hope
die within her bosom, there stole over her
CHASTITY face an expression as savage as was
ever worn by the ruthless slayers of her inno-
. cent babes. Her eye cleaned with the wild
fury of the tigress robbed ofits young, as clos
ing her cabin carefully behind her, with
countenance animated by some desperate pur-
pose she started off in the same path by which
the murderers had departed. Needless of her
wounds and wasting blood, and lost to all
sense of hunger and fatigue, in the one absor-
she paused not upon the trial of her foes, until
at night, she came up with them encamped at
the side of the creek, which is indebted to her
for its present name.
Emerging from the gloom of the surround
ing darkness, onh her hands and knees, she crept
noiselessly towards the fire, the blaze of which
as il fickered upwards, discovered to her the
PROSTATE form of the Indians, five in number,
who overcome by an unusually fatiguing days
travel, were wrapt in deep sleep, with, their
only weapons, their tomahawks, in their belts.
Her own stealthily advancing figure, as the
uncertain light OF the burning pile fell upon
it with more or less distinctness--now expos
ing its linements clotted with blood, and dis
i torted by an expression which her wrongs,
and the sight of the desolators of her hearth
stone, exaggerated to degree almost fiendish
and now shading all, save two cleaning spec.
tacle eves-was even more striking than the
{ swarthy faces which she glared upon. Assur
: ing herself that they were fast asleep, she gen
tly removed their tomahawks and dropped al
: but one into the creek. With this remaining
weapon in her hand, and cool resolution il
: her heart, she bent over the nearest enemy
and lifting the instrument, TO which her own
and her children's blood still adhered, with one
: terrified and unerring blow, buried it in the
temple of its owner. The savage moved no
> more than partly to turn upon his side, gasp
ed little, quivered minute like an aspen,
and sunk back to his former position, quite
dead. Smiling CHASTITY in his rigid face; the
desperate woman left him. and noiselessly as
b@ore, despatched all the sleepers but one, to
: fhat long rest from which only the last trump
Ican awaken them. The last devoted victim
: however, was aroused to a consciousness of
his situation by the death struggles of his COM
panions. He sprang to his feet and felt for
his weapon. Ii was not there, and one glance
; explaining every thing to him, he evaded the
blow aimed at him by the brave and re-
vengeful mother, seized from the fire burn
ing brand, and with it cucceeded partially in
= warding off the furious attack which followed.
In little time they fell struggling together,
the Indian desperately wounded, and the un-
fortunate woman faint with loss of blood and
! her extraordinary exertions. Both were too
weak to harm each other now, and the woun-
: ded savage only availed himself of his remain
: ing strength to crawl away. In this piteous
plight the poor woman remained until near
i noon on the following day, when she was acct
!, dentally discovered by Struggling party OF
. whites, to whom she told her story and she
T. died. After burying her on the spot, they made
IS some exertion to overtake the fugitive Indian,
o but unsuccessfully. He succeeded in reaching
o his TRIBE and from his tale the little stream be-
i fore mentioned was ever afterwards known
4 among the Cherokees, and also by the pale
! faces, as the "War Woman's Creek.-Ladies'
is Companion.