The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1854-11-01

with pike and cuiras beside the half naked
Huron and Abenaquis; while young eaVal
liers, in the less warlike garb' of the court oI
the magnificent Louis, moved with plume ant
mantle amid. the dusky files of ,wampuu
decked Ouawas and Algonquins. Banners
were there which had flown at Steenkirk ant
La1den, or rustled above the troopers thai
Luxemburgh's trumpets had guided to glory
when Prince Waldeck's battalions were
borne down beneath his furious charge. MOI
was the enemy that this gallant host were
seeking unworthy Of those whose swords
had been tried in some of the most celebra
ted fields of Europe. "The Romans o.
America,'' as the Five Nations had been call
ed by more than one writer, had proved
themselves soldiers, not only by carrying
their arms among the native tribes a thous.
and miles away, and striking their enemies
alike upon the lakes Of Maine, the mountains
of Carolina, and the prairies Of the Nilsson.
ri; but they had already bearded one Euro.
pean army beneath the walls of Quebec, and
shut up another for weeks within the defen.
ces Of Montreal, with the same courage tina,
q half century later, vanquished the bsttal.
ions of Dieskan upon the banks of Lake
George. j.
Our business, however, is not with the
main movements of this army, which, we
have already mentioned, were wholly unim-
poftant in their results. The aged Cheva-
lier de Frontenac was said to have other OBJ
jects in view besides the political motives
for the expedition, which he set forth to his
master the grand Monarqe. r st.
Many years previous, when the Five Ma
tions had invested the capital of New France
and threatened the determination of that
thriving colony, beautiful half-blood girl,
whose education had been commenced under
the immediate auspices OF the governor gen.
eral, and in whom, indeed, M. de Frontenac
was said to have q parental interest, was
carried off with other prisoners, by the re-
firing foe. Every effort had been made in
vain during the occasional cessations of hos
tilities between the.French and the lroquois,
to recover this child; and though, in the
years that intervened; some wandering Je-
suit from time to time averred that he had
seen the Christian captive living as the con.
tented wife of Young Mohawk warrior, yet
the old nobleman seems never to have des-
paired Of reclaiming G his "nut brown daugh-
ter" Indeed, the chevaier must have been
impelled by some such hope when, at the
age Of seventy, and so feeble that he was
half the time carried in litter, he ventured
to encounter the perils of an American will
derness, and place himself at the head of
The heterogeneous bands which now invaded
The country of the Five Nations under his
conduct.
Among the half-breed spies, border scouts,
md mongrel adventurers, that followed in
he train of the invading army, was rene
gade Fleming by the name of Hanyost -
This man, in early youth, had been made
sergeant major, when he deserted to the
French ranks in Flanders. He had subse-
luently taken up military grant in Canada,
old it after emigrating, and then, making
lis way down TO the Dutch settlements on
he Hudson, had become domicied, as it were
lmong their allies, the Mohawks, and adopt
ID the life of hunter. Hanyost, hearing
hat his old friends, the French, were ma
ring such formidable descent, did not now
lesitate to desert his more recent acquant-
nces, and offered his services as guide to
Count de Frontenac the moment he entered
he hostile country. 1t was not, however,
mere cupidity, or the habitual love of treach-
ry, which actuated the base Fleming in this
Instance Hanyost, in difficulty with an In
Iian trapper, which had been referred for
lrbitrament to the young Mohawk chief, XII
'dago "a settler of disputes,) whose cool
courage and firmness fully entitled him to so
name, conceived himself ag-
,rieved by the award which had been given
against him. The scorn with which the ar
,itrator met his charge of unfairness stung
lin to the soul, and fearing the arm of the
powerful savage, he had nursed the revenge
n secret, whose accomplishment seemed
low at hand. Kiodago, ignorant of the hos
lilo force which had entered his country, was
'ff with his band at afshing station, or sum-
ner camp, among the wild hills about Kon.
ledieyu;;* and, when Hanyost informed the
OF the French forces that by
'urprising this party,1his long lost daughter,
he wife Of Kiodago, might be once more
given to his arms, small, but efficient force
vas instantly detached from the main body
% strike the blow. "A, dozen musketeers,
with Twenty-Five pikemen,s led severally by
he Baron de Bekancourt and the Chevalier
lie Grais, the former having the chief com
nand of the expedition, were sent upon this
luty, with Hanyost to guide them to the VIII
age Of ,Kiadoga.I Many hours were con-
sumed upon the march, as the soldiers were
1oto yet bhabituated to the wilderness; but
just before dawn on the second day, the par
Y found themselves in the neighborhood Of
he Indian village. odd ID eafa.s asasqassl
The place was wrapped in repose, and the
;wo cavaiiets trusted that the surprise would
y 50 complete, that their commanders
laughter must. certainly be taken, /, The Bar