Ypsilanti sentinel. [volume] (Ypsilanti, Washtenaw Co., Mich.) 1843-1900, 1848-04-12

we are now about one and half miles be
| low.''
"Why did mt you let me know you were go
mgr said Consequence, his ardor little cool
ed, when he found the boat afoat, and himsel
trapped.
''Why didn't we let you knowa why, for ;
very good reason-we didn't know ourselves
One of your good citizens, as you call them
cut our line loose before we knew it, replied
the men. :.
"What liner inquired Banyard--ssthe new
one bought in Memphis last week q
eyes, sir" replied several of the hands al
once.
"Put me ashore" shouted the would-be dig.
nitary.
sNot until .yon pay me damages for my line,
which some of your good citizens cut for me-
answered Barnard. "You said YOU would be
responsible for their acts, and you were the on
ly responsible person in town. NY line cost
me fifteen dollars; you say | owe you ten; nov
pay me Eve, and we will be even; and then |
will have you put ashore"
"But sir" rejoined the man, edo not take
me eff! | have suit pending, and Will lose
it if am not there to see to it. Put me ashore,
ard I'll say nothing about the license"
"Not until you pay me five dollars damages,
for having my line cut; and if you do not,
will take you to Vicksburg, and have you com
mitted to prison, for endeayoring to rob man
under false pretences." -,
swell. sir, step towards the light, and get
the five dollars;'' and taking out his pocket
book, Consequence stepped to the light, and
gave the five dollars, when b. gave orders to
have him set ashore. The hands then told him
they would not risk themselves in small boat
at night, among the snags, without being well
paid for it: and Mr.. Consequence was forced to
give them each dollar, for which they set him
ashore in thick canebreak ION the opposite side
of the river, about three miles below the town.
How he got home that night is best known to
himself. We venture to say that he never med
died with business that did not concern him
after passing that night among the mosquitoes
and allgators.-Boston Bee.
BRAVERY or AN INDIAN woMAN.-One of the
Creeks, whom we.saw at Gull Lake, had been
tracked into the valley, along with his wife and
family, by five youths of hostile tribe. On
perceiviDg the odds that were against him, the
man gave himself UP for lost, observing to the
woman that, as they could die but once, they
had better make up their minds to submit to
their present fate without resistance. The wife,
however replied, that as they had but one life
to lose, they were the more decidedly bound to
defend it to the last, even under the most des-
perate circumstances; adding, that as they were
young, and by no means pitiful, they had an
additional motive for preventing their hearts
from becoming small. Then, suiting the action
to the word, the heroine brought the foremost
warrior to the earth with bullet, while her
husband, animated bya mixture of shame and
hope, disposed of two more of the enemy with
his arrows The fourth. who had by this time
come to pretty close quarters, was ready to take
on the courageous woman with the
uplitted tomahawk, when he stumbled and fell,
and the dagger of his intended victim was buri-
ed in his heart. Dismayed by the death Of his
the sole survivor of the assailnc
party saved himself by flight, after woundng
his mail opponent by ball in the arm.-Sir
G. Simpsons Narrative.