Southern Argus. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1834-1842, 1841-02-17
MISC ELLANEoUs.
THE WAR WOMAN'S CREEK.

believe one Of the principal tributa-
les of the Natahalee River, in the
cherokee Nation, N. Carolina. The
tory "a told by a few Indians remain
no since the removal in the fall of
lS3S,run thus:
Macy years ago, in the first settle
ment Of the country, a wandering par
" oftheir tribe attacked the house of a
somewhere upontheir borders
during his absence, and massacred all
his children, aud left his wife covered
with the maugleG bodies other BUTCH
cred offspring; scalped like them, and
apparently dead. She was not how
ever, wounded so badly as they had
sunposed, and no sooner did she hear
tbe sound of their retreating footsteps,
,ban 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 lon
rer in sight, hastily extinguished the
fire. which, before leaving, they had
onnlied to her cabin, but which had as
wei made very little impression on the
rreen logs ofwhich it was composed.
.Wiping from her eyes the warm blood
which was still reekIng from her scalp
less head, she directed her agonized
r,ze to the bleeding and dis6gured
(orms Of those who scarce an hour be-
fore were playing at the door, and
rladdenlng her maternal heart with
their merry laughter, and as she felt
in the full sense of her desolation, the
last ray Of hope die in her BOSOM
there stole over her ghostly face an
expression as savage as was evel
worn by the ruthless siayers of hel
innocent babes. Her eye CLEANED
with wild fury of the tigress robbed o
its Young, as closing her cabin care
mliy behind her, with her ceuntenanc'
animated by some desperate purpose
she started of in the same path b,
which the murderers had departed
Needless of her wounds and wasting
blood, and lost TO all sense OF hunger
and fatigue, inthe one absorbing an
fsu pnTpose which actuated her, sh
paused not upon the trail OF her foes
until at night, she came up with theI
eaeampcd at the side Of the ereel
which is indebted to her for its preseT
name.
Emerging from the gloom OF tn
surrounding darkness, on her hant
and knees, she crept nolselessly tt
wards the fire, the blaze Of which,
itaickered upwards, discovered to h
the PROSTATE forms of the Indians, III
innumber, who overcome with an u
usual latiguing days travel, were wra
in deep sleep, with their only wea
ons. their tomakawks, in their bel
Her own steaIthily advancing hgur
as the uncertain light Of the burnl
pine fell upon it with more or less d
dnctness-now exposing its lene
ments clotted with blood, and disto
ed by an expression which her wron
and the SIGHT Of the desolators OF
hearth stone exaggerated to deg
almost 6endish; and now shading
saving two cleaning spectral eyes
was even more striking than the sw
thy faces which she glared upon.
suring herself that they were last
sleep she gently removed their tOr
hawks, aud dropped all but one IN
creek. With this remaining weaI
in her hand, and a cool resolution
her heart, she bent over her nea
enemy and lifting the instrument
which her own children's blood
adhered, with one terrific and unerl
blow, buried it in the temple o
wner. The savage moved no n
dan partly TO turn upon his side
asped little, quivered minute
an aspen, and sunk back to his Tor
position, quite dead.-Smiling 81
IN his rigid face, the desperate wo
+ Left him, and noiselessly as before
patched all the sleepers, but one
4 that long rest from which only the
sr trump can awaken them. The
q, devoted victim, however, was arc
~ ioa Consciousness of his situate
al The death struggles. ofhis comPan
p s He spraug to his feet and ie
~ as weapon. 1t was not there.
ost one glance explained every lhI
ills am, he evaded the blow aimed a
yOf Oy the brave and revengeful me
/, to seized from the fire burning .
iPG and with it, succeeded partially II
ans ang off the furious attack which
=, lowed. In a little time they iell'
rdes SIngtogelher, the Indian despe
zion wounded, and the unfortunate "
TENT with the lJss Of blood and b
AssIg erlons. Both we're too weak TO
each other uow, and the wounde
pee" ase only avaiIed himself Of his re
os strength TO crawl away. j
10Y pIeOus plight, the poor woman =.
~ y until near noon on the toll
!. "A Oay when she was accidentily Z
S'd BY struggling party OF !
~ per- whom she told her story an