Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1853-12-30

| Io'teShdhe' Anu Wuat uiu lnlS young
hero do then Z Yield and die! Not he.
With one stroke of his jack-kuife he laid
his leg open, producing a plenteous flow
of blood, and with another slew the poi
sonous reptile. And then came day or
two of such experience as few meet with
In this life. Summons, worn to skele-
ton, with feet ragged from wear and tear
his leg wounded, and not soul within
twenty miles to help-lay there under
the log where he had been bitten, little
fire burning by him, which be had kim
died by the aid of a dry fungus, living on
the rattlesnake which he had slain. He
ate the heart and fat first, and felt
strengthened by the repast. There he
lay, under the log, for three days-pa-
tient and surgeon, sick man, hunter, cook
and nurse, all in one. On the third day
| his snake was ilearly = picked tothe bones,
and he was too weak to fetch wood to
cook the remainder. Jacob made up his
mind that death was not to be postponed,
and, having already shown how little di-
vision of labor was needed ia such cases,
determined to essay one more Office, and
with his knife proceeded to carve his epi-
taph on the log by his side. But God
was not far off from that brave man. He
fell asleep, and strength from unknown
sources flowed into his limbs. On the
fourth day he rose refreshed, and having
made sandals of his hat and waistcoat.
proceeded to hobble on his way once
more, taking with him as stores, the un-
consumed portion of his snake. That
night, again, he was comfortcd-teing
assured by some means unknown to him,
that he was near fellow men. Rising
with this faith, he struggled on till the
afternoon, when he reached house, and
was safe. 1t was the 2Sth of June, 1880.
Such were the fortunes of Jacob Sam
mons.
His brother Frederick was less fortu-
nate. BE had made many efforts, to no
purpose, to find Jseob, who, when he
fell, would not permit Frederick to stop
and help him, and in seeking hitl had
run many risks. At length he crossed
the Snrel: killed all OK: made some
jerked ,eef; and for several days travelled
along the eastern shore of the Chafnplain
without ill-luck. But on the morning of
the eighth day he awoke sick pleurisy
was upon him-a fever in his veins-pain
in every limb. It began to rain also, and
there he lay, this other young hero, not
far from his brother, who at that very
moment, in that very neighborhood, was
nursing his rattlesnake bite-there he
lay, knowing not that any one was near
him, for three days, on the earth, in the
summer rain, and his blood all OH fire.
For three days, we say, he lay thus
helpless. Un the fourth day he was bet
ter, and tried to eat little Of his beef,
but it was spoiled. He managed to crawl
to frog-pond near by, put aside the
green coating of the pool. and drank. He
caught frogs, too, and feasted, though not
Frenchmanin any of his tastes probably.
There he lay, for fourteen days and nights:
and having resigned all hope of life, he
put up his hat upon a pole, Sc that it
might be seen from the lake. 1t was
seen by an enemy; and he was found
senseless and speechless, and carried
shame on the human creature that bore
him back to his prison again. And
not to his prison only, but to its darkest
! dungeon and there, for fourteen months,
in utter darkness, he lay in irens-in
irons so heavy and so tight, that they ate
, into the flesh of his legs. SO that the flesh
came off to the bone And for fifty years
afterwards-for he was living in 1887,
and may be living yet--the wounds then
made did not heal. The British officer,
whose heart enabled him, knowingly, to
do this thing, was captain in sd reg
iment May God have mercy upon his
soul s -
But Frederick's adventures were not
yet ended for neither was his captivi-
ty over, nor his spirit broken. In No
vembcr, 1871, he, with others, was trans
ferred to an island above Montreal, in
the rapids of the st. Lawrence. There,
as first step, he organized another plot
for escape, which failed, and az a second
step, jumped with companion from the
island into the rapids of the great river.
Our hero and his comrade swan for four
miles through those rapids, navigating
among the sharp rocks and fearful shoals
with their best skill. Landing ON the
north side of the ST. Lawrence; they
fought a club-battle with a village full of
Canadian Frenchmen: conquered; killed
a calf: and seizing canoe, tried to cross
to the south side of the river. They
were above the rapids of the Cedars,
where no canoe can live long unguided,
when their paddle broke in the mid
stream; and once more destruction seemed
certain. \ fallen tree, in the branches
of which they caught, saved them, how
ever: and, crossing the next day below
the falls, they struck into the forest to
seek the Hudson. For twelve days more
they toiled on living OH roots, without
shoes, without clothes, without hats; and
reached Schenectady at last in a plight
that made Christian men give them
wide berth. .f-
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