Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1841-04-01
Eagehsla Court Mouse, S. c.,aprn \, As41.

disengaging herself from the heap Of slain
hageard, pale, and drenched with her own
aud the blood of her children, she peered
steadily from the door, and finding her enc,
mics no longer in sight, hastily eztinguisl.
ed The fire, which, before leaving, they had
applied to the logs Of which it was COM
posed. Wiping from her eyes the warm
blood which was still reeking from her
scalplcss head, she directed her agonized
gaze to the bleeding and disfgured forms
OF those who, scarce an hour before, had
been playing at the door, and sladdening
her maternal heart with their merry laugh
ter; and as she felt, in the full sense OF
deso!ation, the last ray of hope die within
her bosom, there stole over her ghastly
face an expression as savage as was ever
worn by the ruthless slayers Of her nno-
cent babes. Her eye cleaned with The
wild fury oflhc tigress robbed of its young,
as closing her cabin carefully behind her,
with countenance animated by some
desperate purpose, she started of in the
same path by which The murderers had de-
parted. Needless of her wouGds and
wasting blood, and lost to al! sense of hum
ger and fatigue in the one absorbing and
fell purpose which aclualed her, she paus-
ed not upon the trail Of her Toes, until at
night, she came up with them encamped
at the side of the creek. which is Indebted
TO her for its present uamc.
Emerging from the gloom of the sur
rounding darkness, on her hands and knees,
she crept noiselessly towards the fire, the
blaze of which. as it lickered upwards.
discovered to her the PROSTATE forms of
the Indians, FIVE in number, who, over
come by an unusually fatiguiug days ira
vel, were wrapped in deep sleep, with their
only weapons, their tomahawks, in their
belts. Her own slealthily advancing figure.
as The uncertain light of burning pine
fell uponit with more or less distinctness-
now exposing its lineaments clotted with
blood, and distorte y an expression which
her wrongs, and sight OF the desoators
of her hearh-stone, exaggerated to de-
gree almost fendish; and now shading all,
save TWO cleaning spectral eyes-was
even moro striking than The swarlhy faces
which she Stared upon. Assuring herself
that they were fast asleep, she gently re-
moved their tomahawks, aud dropped all
but one into the stream. With this re-
naming weapon in her hand, and cool re-
solution in her heart, she bent over the
nearest enemy, and lifting the instrument,
sn s2r, ,Y!hltifGA &spar % i
blow, buried il in the temple OF lis owner.
The savage moved no more than partly to
turn upon his side, gasped little, CULVER
ed minute like an aspen, and sunk back
10 his former position, quite dead. Smiling
ghastly in his rigid face. the desperate wo-
man left him, and noiselcssly as before
despatched all of the slcerers, but one. to
that long rest from which only the last
trump can awaken them. The last devol-
ed victim, however, was aroused to con-
sciousness Of his situation by the death
struggles Of his companions. He sprang
TO his feet, and felt for his weapon. Ii
was no, there; and one glance explaining
every thing, he evaded the blow aimed at
him by the brave and revengeIul mother,
seized from the fire Il burning brand, aud
with it succeeded partially in warding of
The furious attack which followed. In
little time they fell struggling together, the
Indian desperately wounded, and theFun-
fortunate woman (ain. with loss Of blood
and her extraordinary eSerlons. Both
were TOO weak t. harm each other now,
and the wounded savage only availed him
self of his remaining strength 10 crawl
away.-In this piteous. plight, the poor
woman remained until near noou on the
following day, when she was accidentally
discovered by struggling party of whites,
to whom she told her story, and then died.
After buryins her on the spot, they made
some cxertion to ovcrlake the fugitive In
dian, but unsuccesstully. lie succeeded
in reaching his tribe, and from his tale tho
little stream. before mentioned, was ever
afterwards known among the Cherokecs.
and also by the pale faces, as the '' War
Womau's Creek"