Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1851-03-10

bered, and they accordingly took their pos
few yards distant. All was soon silen
as death, except the yelling, bowling an
wailing of the wild beasts, 20 keep ava,
which. we adopted the usual precaution 0
Ere. :,se9,a,,. r, ast,yaa5.s ada .,vs.t 49,.
u =. had slept, as near as could calculate
about three hours, when / was awakened
by gentle pulling Mt my pack. There i
no halEwake business in the lynx.eyet
walchf illness Of a dweller in the wilerness
lfsawake at all he is sure to be wide awake
with every one Of his wits to aid bim al ter
seconds notice. ins,inctively scented
danger, oct as The. .Aai,aes salar of, = but neal
at hand and. immediaie.i Ibid not stir, for
| knew too we'll that if an enemy were 50
close,ti,e FIRST movement made by me weuld
be the signal for an unerring denth-blow,
The dusky light cast forth by the half-con.
sumed brush, revealed the swarthy forms
Of the s,vnges, and that of my friend, in
motionless rspose; but could not discover
the guardian in the fugitive glance threw
around. The pulling ut my pnck contin,
ued,and perceived that il wns being slow.
ly Withdrawn from beneath my head
Sill feigned slu,nber. At last il was en-.
tirely Withdrawn, and my head was very
carefully permitted todescend 10 thegroundl
manifested aslight condition of disturb
ance, and, as if in the restlessnes EFF llinlf
broken sleep, p,changed my position. 1t was
then ] heard the voice Of the quadroon ut
ter the command a. ,syrE Fvx u s.Esa
ssslfhe W axes. strike before be hsss time
TO brealhe.1salsass Ia ssisss 6 hsas&g 6ax
"a 81 will, "rwas the cool reply Of The Yam
Keea1ialG q n9f{Hl1asg S tsEi3 az ts0j
IS" Take this, pack beyoud yonder, rock
while | 60 for7 the other one" said the
quadroon. s!i hssa .,5fsggsia:ssls.. sgsas}
4 Shake haste about it," whispered the
Yankee as he moved noiselessly away
with my properly upon his shoulders b
The quadroon now crept towards my
friend, who was sleeping nearly opposite
10 me, and as he turned bis back | drew
one ofmy pistols, without betraying my
reaisitualion. II was my determination
to shoot hiunsthe moment he attempted to
carry off my Friends property, bu, / was
spared that trouble. Scarcely had the
a1adrooD stopped over his intended victim,
ere hefell. tOnc of The awnees, like my.
self,had been watching him with an eagles
unquailing glance, avid had, with the speed
Of the electric fluid, risen and buried his
hatchet in his brain. Tie crunching sound
of the blow made me sick al the stomach,
bat could not feel any compassion for the
wretch who would deliberately rob his
partner in theiwilderness and meditate bis
murder in cold blood. 3 10 moment re-.
covered from the shock the quadreon's
death had given me,and springing up,made
utter the other robber. 70 Saia " @aa .9a
III caught him returning to- complete his
work Of plunder aa.tls was in no respec.
abnshed by, my appearance but coolly
drawing his pistols, land taking his knife
between his teeth, said he 'sss'posed he'd
hive to fight me Sa'.Belore could give
him my answer, the Pawnees were up sand
aboutus. Weighing the whole event in
the balaiicesh gnipst strict jssrice, Il am con.
strained 10 admit that the Yankee deserved
TO die, but it wei against my myigrain,"' as
the saying is, TO take bis life.vsIn the
.wilds OF slheNew World there is no. law
but that Of might. Judges and j,res are
never fo1nd there, excepting the sell. elect
ed elfconsii,uted order, and they have on
iy TO act sharply up TO the stern require
ments of the welfare ofthe mnj,rity. To
punish the thief there, such as either the
+quadroon or Yankee, slightly. would be
productive OF no service whatever: The
sligh, penalty accomplished. the thief would
return 10 his work again, and with it en-
deavor 10 wreak his vengeance upon the
authors Of his disgrace. s7- * -
In the wilderness, extremes are altogeth.
era paironized. Norman sieals there v ho
is not thoroughly desperate, and willing to
take or y yield life, :as the, chance may di.
rect. Nothing, save moral law, Of very
peculiar nature, governs adsentlrers like
my associates and myself were. The Paw
nees, children Of the soil, as wild as the
pau;hers they loved to destroy, had deter.
mined, ininceordance with forest statute,
that the Yankee must cease 10 live, and
he was well aware OF III 9 fate in store for
him. One Of the Pawnees ordered him to
lay down his weapons, but he refused. -
Ten seconds afterwards,she was PROSTATE
upon the ground, dead, with five or six
shatcheis buried iu his body. His goods,
and those Of his acco:nplice. were offered to
us, but we declined having anything to do
with them, and the Pownees, with few
gestures Of surprise. divided them among
themselves. bin5the morning they depar.
ed, leaving us at the scene Of the nights
Hdisnster. We buried the bodies Of the i'll
fated, ireachorous men, and sadly oppress
ed, slowly peregrinated towards little
stream entitled the "Elkhorn :" Thus en-
ded our night. How much more pleasant
ly our day was spent, presume my read
Eers willere long ascertain. S -5zaEG
We forded the "EIkhorn," and struck
into region Of country as rugged as the
Alps, and as picturesque and terrific OF
Eoriginal chaos. As stated in my previ
Gus sketch, human habi.ation is what th'
wandsrer is always most anxiously in ques
Of should, moreover, inform the reade
that in taking this route, We deyiated fron
that first marked out. We had obtained I