The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 184?-1851, 1845-02-05

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threshold, he stumbled heavily against some
thing laid across it. Upon STOPPING TO ascertain
the cause he discovered the lifeless body of his
faithful dog.
"Minamee,' he shouted with stentorian lungs.
/" Sea and earth! how did this happen Minamee,
| say?"
"Hushr' exclaimed q voice in a whisper,
"hush you'll wake my child"
wake your childw repeated he, hearing her
nesting her infant to her bosom, as he threw
open the door, awake your-" the sentence
was unfinished Fell horror p~etrified him with
the sight that aseseHted itself; his lower jaw
dropped aRa 81 as seemed ready to start from
their sockets; warm blood curled in his veins,
and the checked pulse ceased its lhrobbing.-I
Sitting before the hearth upon the floor, there
was the young mother, bearing marks of cruel
violence in her features and her disordeied dress,
and pressing to her breast the headless trunk Of
her infant. Pale was her countenance; and the
fixed, glossy stare bctokened madness in all its
horrId form.
"Say;" screamed the trapper, rushing to the
side of his demented WIFE .'say how-who has
done this?''
"God of heavenm exclaimed he--''she's daft
gone wild-madm and scarcely less so him
self; the strong, bold hunter howled in his mis-
cry.
For days he was unable 10 learn the particu-
lars Of the terrible catastrophe. At length a
change took place in the %benighted reason of his
wife; but like the remaining spark in the char
red ember, it was the last effort of the mind ere
death expungcd Ii its m;series.
1t appeared that at sunset, Minamee was pre-
pairing TO set ont to meet her husband, after roll
ing her little charge in Il Buffalo skin, and laying
him on his bed when a long shadow of ii man
was cast suddeHly into the entrance, and as quick
/ ly Disappeared. The dGer-hOund sprung llCm
the floor, on which he had been lying; as he
, leuped to the doorway, followed by his mistress,
The sharp crack of IA rife was heard, and The no.
bic animal fell dead at her feet. In an instant
afterwards the form of an Indian, whom Nina
! NEE at once recognized as the loiled assassin at
: her marriage. bounded into the cabin, and des-
pite the mothers furious struggle, Clutchcd her
child from his couch, and brandishing his knife
j with savage yeIls, severed his head from his
body.
/, "Thore," said he, pitching the headless corpse
e t0wards the frantic mother, sis my rcVengc.-
: Blood TO the red mans wrong IS as wafer to fire.
| am satisfied. FAREWELL And tuning upon
d his heel, he Quilted he spot Ike one who had
accomplished "A noble decd, and with a slow and
< naughty football.
S The hitherto happy and contcnted home of
d the trapper was now desolate. 1t was a long,
+ long time since tears had fallen from Nick's eyes;
, but lis he watched the sinking moments Of his
d dying wife, they chnsed each other dow his fur.
$ rOwod cheeks in streams, and showed the flood
l. gates Of his heart were open. AS the sun rose,
$ the spirit of Minamee fled.
/. "Reycnge!" exclaimed the trapper, rising
' from the side Of the dead body of bis wife, over
o which he had mourncd for hours. "PlI have
r. such revenge that in tale and story none can
IS equal. I'll be more bloody than the panther;
4 more cruel than the beast or savage of any kind
= Or time. Reycngow continued he, with Il con-
vulsjve laugh; ''the white mans vengeance shall
at least match the red"
Mounting his small, but fleet steed, caught
c from the wild prairie, the trapper turned his head
a towards the west, and driving his heels into his
d tanks, gallopped, like one reckless af life and
limb, 10 the valley of the Mohawk. There, as
he anticipated, he found the tribe from whom
n his Indian wife had been chosen. Brief was the
It horrid tale of his wrongs, and as brief were his
i demands for justice.
e "Give me-" said the trapper, "the murderer,
d and let me deal with him as | list"
The chiefs listened with that seeming apathy
y with which they listen to every relation whether
n of good or evil; and continued to send vo lumes
e of smoke, curling upwards from their lips, as
e they sat in q circle about the fire, withouta per-
I%ceplble emotion of any kind. At length the ell
der said, after a long silence, "my white brother
c says well. Let it be so. Deal with him as you
d list. Take him hence"
The consent obtained, a howl of savage de-
l. light burst from the trapper's breast, as he poun'
ced like a gallant tiger upon his victim. "You're
minn," clutching the remorseless wretch by the
II throat, and lifting him from the earth in his Draw
. ny grasp like a weak puny child. "You're mine! ~
t repeated he; Sand as ye gave no mercy, none
shall be given ye."
Winding long, narrow strips of untanned hide
round the shoulders, arms and wrists of the pri-
n soner, he bound them tight TO his body, and fix
ing one end 10 his rude stirrup, threw himself
% upon his horse to retrace his steps att slow and
~leisureIy pace. The trapper appeared even to
select the path with care, so that the prisoner
might not be injured by break or brier in their
progress.
!" In silence-without one word being spoken
in that long, long night-they continued on thro'
waste and wild. The unruflied Hudson reflected
the clear rays of the moon, bright and unbroken
as a mirror. The refreshing mists rolled along
a the sides eff the highlands in graceful folds, and
n nothing broke OH the ear but the wash of waters
and the melancholy note of the whippoor-will
Just as the first tinge of light streaked the east,
y the trapper arrived at the door of his cabin; and
T., securing his prisoner beyond the chance of es-
cape, TO the. trunk of a %primeval willow hard by,
he at once began the task of his unparalleled, un.
heard of revenge.
10 With a Ratchet he cut long and stout branch
es from the willow, and tying them firmly togeth-
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