Staunton spectator, and general advertiser. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 183?-1849, 1843-09-28

New Country. In 1888, accompanied by a
little colony, Mary and her husband bent their
course for their new home lived the frs,
winter OH the Kentucky side, and i'm the
spring OF 1889, settled at Columbia, five miles
above Cincinnati, where the little colony
| erected block-house and garrison. Here
they remained, living in cabin some three or
four hundred yards from the block-house un-
til 1871, when Mary's companion was taken
from her and she left widow in an Indian
country, with two babes, the eldest bat two
years old, the other an infant of only few
days.
"Before the loss of her husband, Mary had
frequently in times of more emminent danger,
retired with him into the garrison; but in her be-
reaved condition, her lonely and wounded
heart, ccald not brook the bosterous mirth
and constant confusion to which she mus; there
be exposed. The feeling heart seeks solitude
III afliction. She therefore remained with her
babes i'll her cabin. In vain did her neghbors
depict the danger of massacre from the In
tians.-She knew not what fear was. Her
trust was in that God who alone could protect
her and her little ones. For her children. she
provided bed under the puncheon floor of
the cabin, iii a small hole usually prepared
by the first settlers to perserve vegetables i'm
winter from frost. Here every night, after
putting them TO sleep, she watched through
the chinks Of the cabin during the great
er part of each night, the approach Of the
savages. The plan was if the Indians enter
ed at one door to fly out at the other and give
the alarm at the garrison before her children
would be found in their concealment under
the floor. Often thus watching, she saw the
Indians enter the little settlement, traverse the
grounds IN the vicinity of the block-house :;
some times they came to her very door, but
never did they enter. Horses were stolen,
settlers were killed and taken prisoners, but
Mary and her babes were protected. Deli
cate as flower, and with all the tender SEN
slbility of the most feeling heart, it was the
faith of the Christian which sustained her un-
der all these trials, and enabled her to triumph
over all fear. There, day after day, might
have been heard, in that rude hut, Mary's soft
voice, rendered plaintvea and melancholy by her
lonely condition, hymning her favorite Psalm
"To Heaven lift my waiting eyes,
There all my hopes arc stad;
The Lord who built the earth and skies
Is my perpetual aid.
Their feet shall never slide nor fall,
Whom He designs to keep;
His attend the sostest call,
His eye can sleep.
He will sustain akest powers
With His almighty arm;
And watch our most unguarded hours
Against surprising harm.
| israel rejoice, and secure
Thy keeper is the Lord
His wakeful eyes employ his power
For thine eternal guard
Nor scorching sun, nor sickly moon
Shall have his leave smite;
He shields thy head from burning noon
From blasting damps at night
He guards thy SOUL He keeps thy breath,
Where thickest dangers come
Go in and out, from death
Till God commands thee home''
''Aller Mary had lived in this desolate and
perilous condition some fifteen months. her
character and history became known TO a
young man of kindred spirit. He, too, from
the age of twelve, had been exposed to the
perils of war. He had served in manv cam
paigns against the Indians, and had engaged
with them IN the battle field when quite "a bow.
He had traversed the Indian wlds from the
Aileghanys TO the mouth of the Ohio, and
from the Kentucky river to the lakes. Fear
ne never felt, and had imbibed feeling of pity
and contempt Tor any being who manifested
that childish emotion. Mary's bold and fear
he had travelled much, seen and known manv
females, his heart had never before felt the in
fluence OF Lore and 0dmiration combined.
Mary's exquisite sensibilty and tenderness.
added to her undaunted courage, qualit,es so
rarely found to meet in the same woman, in
duced him at once TO offer himself as her Dro-
tector and her husband.
Whey were married; and Marv's second
husband proved himself to be, what she had
taken HIM for man of true worth He was
one OF the first pioneers of Ohio-contribut-
ing much TO her constitution and laws. their
broad principles Of liberty and equality-liv-
ing long to see and enjoy her prosperity, and
died in good old age, not tunhonored' though
"unsung." But Mary had left him years be-
fore for better home. She lived TO rear to
maturity all her children. eight i'm number. ard
to them was attached with an intensity of aE-
lection which nothing could moderate. She
bore all the privations offourteeh years of war.
BRUSH and Indian, exposed to the most immj
nent danger, and heart and nerve never failed
her. But when one, and then another; and
then another of herchi were taken from her
by the stern hand of Dean, her "heart was
smlten and withered like grass - life lost its
attraciions-earth lis lovelness-and home IFS
endearments. She sunk under the loss of her
children, and died of broken heart"
The stranger pauscd-the big tear stood i'm
his eye, and with Guiveriug lip he added ::
"lhe first daughter born TO me after nv moth
er's death, called MARY CRAIG, though nv
eldest had been partly named for her, wears