Sentinel of the valley. [volume] (Woodstock, Va) 1841-1848, 1844-05-02
ments of savage wal riors. NV own men

(ments of savage warriors. My own men
were armed with rifle, hatche. and a
large knife. AT this moment. with view
to make the Indians waste their fire, and
to give my men an opportunity of rush
ing upon them before they could have
time to reload, told my men that wan.
ted 90 brave fellows who were willing
to doom themselves to certain DEATH
More than sixty Immediately presented
themselves, and SO would have done the
whole five bundled had it been necessa-
Try. selected my twenty men at ran
dom, and putting myself at their head
gave the signal for the sound of the bu-
[ gle. was soon heard. At one instant
1--WE hundred rifles at least were dischar-
sed at us. Nine out of the 20 Of this
'follorn hope fell dead /; ten more were
either woanded or their horses shot from
under them. One escaped unhurt. |
was myself badly wounded ; and my
mare, fine white animal, shot through
and through. turned and called IN my
men to dsmount and fight the Indians
in THEN own way. They did SO; and the
Indians gave way, but were soon rallied
by their chief, whose voice ! could dis
tlnctly hear urging his braves to the
| hight. l knew that | was near him. |
was near the branches of fallen oak !,
( the bushes thick arouud me. In turning
my horse slightly TO the left, in the d.
rection of the roots Of the tree, nv horse
| fell on its knees. felt for the moment
that would be lost man. IF my horse
should fail me, could neither walk nor
stand nor even spur my horse so com
pletely was | disabled. suddenly jerk
ed my horse by the bride, and it had
strength to recover and slowly move in
The direction Of the roots Of the tree
| had reserved the fire of one of nv ps-
tolls, keeping it close to my right side in
case of emergency. At this moment |
saw Tecumseh, who had discovered me;
and was deliberately takirg aim at me
with his rife. He fired, and the ball
struck my bride hand, which occasioned
the appearance Of the hahd which you
see. Here Mr.. Johnson held up his
witbered and mutlated hand, showing
his wound. was for second stunned
by the shock it gave ray nervous system.
The savage pc iyed the effect of his fire,
and felt sure Of me: He came towards
me with gentle Ieaping trot, with his
tomahawk. While in the act Of raising
it to throw at me, suddenly fred my
pistol at him and he instantly fell. The
Indians set up loud cry and retrsated
My men came up, took hold OH ME, and
guided my horse slowly from the field.
After going little distance, they took
me off, laid me on a blanket on the
Quad. and my noble animal fell dead,
pierced with fifteen bullets. The at
tack of the British regulars. by my bro
Their James, had in the meantime been
completely successful, In less than 90
minutes after the sound of the bugle-sig
nal was given, the whole 700 red coats
were prisoners of war, without the loss
of a single American. Thus ended the
battle of the Thames.
Shocking. A man, says an exchange
paper having quarrelec with his wife
seized an axe, and before the poor wo.
man could get out of the way, he rushed
INTO the---yard and split some wood.
Singular .4ssociriion of Names.
year ago the names of the President and
most of his Cabinet terminated alike, as
per example: Tyler Webster, Spencer,
and Upshur.
Now they commence alike, as per ex-
ample: John Tyler, John Calhoun, John
Spencer, John Mason. and John Nelson
Ito say nothing Of John Tyler, Jr. the
Private Secretary. and .Iohn LINES the