New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1843-05-17
TALE OF THE sENECAs.'


syoSospIo,' An C5PUBLIsHED POEM, By HoshEk-
II was our rood fortune, nearly two years since,
To make the acquaintance Of native American
Yoet of treat proraise-Mr. WILLIAM II. c. Hos
mEa, of West Avon, Livingston County, New
York Several of his poems have been published,
and have received large share OF appreciation
from scholars Of the incest discrimination Many
of them were issued before the author had attained
the age of twenty years. Perhaps ne has written
too much, for he has volumes OF manuscript poetry,
strongly marked with original beauty, though oc-
casonaIly betraying something AKIN ia {. ooidness
of simiIe. which does not strike sensitive ear
pleasantly; but where one such stumbling block
crosses the path thousand new and strange
flowers spring into existence around you, as II
called I'D there by an Enchanter:s wand. Mr..
HosaER is poet he has all the fire, the m
SEPARATION and enthusiasm of one He IS law
yer, too; but with much more love and respect
for the Nine Muses., than for al the opinions oi
Lord Mansfield, or the legal lore OF whole Bench
of Judpes. He is the idol Of most charming
family circle, who have the good taste to relish
and approve all his poetical ALTERATIONS.
The poem from which we publish extracts this
morning will be published in New York the com
ing spring. Some passages from 1t have appeared
In the New York Tribune alone. The tale goes
back to the league Of the Six Nations against the
cbiyalry of France, and describes more partlcu
JaIly the landing Of the French troops some two
centuries since, near the present town OF Roches-
ter, their march up the valley of the Gencsce and
the battle which was fought between them ana
the warlike Senecas, near Avon. Of course
true love story is interviewer with the texture OF
facts TO which there is striking adherence, not
only in the narrative, but in the descriptive por
aions of the work.
The story is divided into seventeen Cantos
written in the octo.syllablc verse We publish
first the Proen and then some extracts from the
Canto called " TIE Bower" These selections
have been made almost at random. If we might
be allowed to express an opinion, we should say
that the truthful description OF the prrneva! for
ests, the Indian burying ground, and the swamPs
bordering the Gcnesee, where the French column
was ambuscaded, contain by far the richest nm
agery. 1t may be rank heresy to say so, but VIC
have been induced to believe that it is nearly
equal to any thing which WALTER ScoTT has
written in the same style. The poem will lln-
questionably make sensation In the literary
circles.
In order to explain what follows after the
Plocm it is only necessary to state that in the
absence of De GREY one of the heroes of the tale,
n predatory band of Indians, led on by rejected
lover OF DE- GREYs wife, had marched to g The
Bower. where she resided with but one female at
tendant, an Indian girl Wannuthay burned the
cottage, and carried away the captives AT the
end Of the first days march, the marauders en-
camped on the border OF the lake which is 50
happily described. The faithful Indian GIRL after
killing her guard, escapes by MIG Int to INFORM DE
GREY of the fate Of her mistress.