Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1848-05-04
STOCK, VERMONT, THURSDAY, MAY A, l848

muget again IN the fight. Around this ,,oa III,
whoeIorce OF the fight gathered, and II stood i,
Gloss IRE OF Inc combnian,s, The bullets roul
ed ike inll-stones on the trunk, knocking ,he
h0pk ~ chips rom beside the prisoner, and petc
my hra-soat IN several places In this position he
Ircmaiad for an hour, sometimes in the cen,rs
of the loes, ps the parties swayed 10 and fro n
the cOInlc, When the battle pissed him. as IN,
proyin3als were biiven back, leaving him Iess o.
posed n young Indian, by way of pasime, wonId
ihrowts tomahawk al his head, 10 see how close
he aayxlrike without hitting. The quivenng d
The hWe, almost in the victims face, as The
steel hTied in the tree, showed excellent practice
A Freedman, however, less refined in his tastes
attended 10 shoot him at once, by putting the
DuzzhOf his gun TO his breast 1t uniorlunorev
uaiinsNNs, ere, which threw the villain into rpce
Y Ryuched hi.,' rSll the so0k, and al L,s,
struck HIM with the breech, and left him stunned
and half dead
The Americans were victorious but The enemy
bore away their prInoner. Taking off his shoes
and Tying his hands together in front, they loaded
INN down with all the packs they could pile upon
HIM Thus mile after mile, through thickels A.
cross swa'nPs, and up steep activities, he was com
1eIed to travel His arms were swollen, his feet
ON and bleeding, and his powerful frame so ut
erly exhausted that he begged they would either
eIease or Kill him. AT length French officer
compelled the Indians 10 take off part of his load
u S4'e him moccasins. TO compensate for this
temporary relief, savage soon after opened his
cieek with single blow of his tomahawk -
When night came on, the party halted, and Put
man. more dead than alive, stretched his aching,
bruised limbs upon the ground This temporary
rest, however, was soon broken, for the sayagcs
resolved 10 burn him. Stripping him of his clothes,
they bound him naked to tree, and piled up the
fuel around the roos--he in the meantime watch.
ed all The preparations with all the fimness of one
Who had often looked death in the face Limbs
If trees and logs, aud pieces Of bark. were heaped
osetheI around him, and then applied torch
)ut scarcely had the blaze kindIed, before sud-
len shower exingushed it. Again and again did
he rain battle their ferocious purposes, but at last
he fame caught, and cracking in its rapid prog.
ess, soon shot up in spiral wrenlhs around him.
IS he wrilhed in the freed heat, the Indians be-
an TO dance and sing, and fill The mighty forests
nth their discordant yels. The convulsed body
,as scarcely visible amid the flames and smoke,
, death, when French officer, who had Just ar
wed, dashed through the throng, and scattering
re frebrands in his path, released him from his
,lture. That dreadful night he slept with sap
ngs bent over bis body, on each end Of which lay
is capors 10 prevent his escaDe.
AT length he reached Montreal, as prisoner Of
,ar. Colonel Schuyler being there at the time he |
ncceeled in eiIecing his Ielease by exchange, and
ulnan returned home -Headiey's JVasatng-
IN ant his Generals"