Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1854-05-18

escaped to her former captors, or that she had
been killed during the fight but were not long
left to conjecture. The girl was seen emerging
from behind q rock and coming to them with a
rife in her hand. During the fight she saw q
warrior fall, who had advanced some distance
before the rest, and while some of them changed
their position, sac resolved at once, live or die,
to possess herself of his gun, and ammunition ;
and crouching down beneath the underbrush,
she crawled to the place and succeeded in her
enterprise. Her keen and watchfui -eye had
early noticed the fatal rock, and hers was the
mysterious hand by which the two warriors fell,
the last being the most intrepid and blood-thirsty
of the Shawnee tribe, and the leader Of the COM
pany which killed her mother and her brother
prisoners.
Now, in the west, arose dark cloudS which
soon overspread the whole heavens, and the sle-
mentsu rent with pealsof thurdesR Dark
ness, deep and gloomy, shrouded the whole
heavens; this darkness greatly embarrassed the
spies in their contemplated night escape, sup
posing that they might readily lose their way,
and accidentally fall on their enemy; but short
consultation decided the plan; it was agreed
that the girl should go foremost, from her init
mate knowledge of the localities, and another
might he gained in case they should fall in with
any of the parties or outposts. From her
knowledge of the language she might deceive
the sentinels, as the sequel proved, for scarcely
had they descended a hundred yards when
low whist from the girl warned them of their
immediate danger.
The spies sank silently on the ground, where,
by previous arrangement, they were to remain
till the signal was given by the girl to move on.
Her absence for the space of quarter of an hour
began to excite the most serious apprehensions.
Again she appeared and told them she had sue
ceoded in removing the sentinels to short
distance, who were directly on their route. The
descent was noiselessly resumed, and the spies
followed their intrepid leader for half mile in
the most profound silence when the barking of
a dog apprised them of new danger The al
most simultaneous click of the spies rifles was
heard by the girl, who stated that they were
now in the midst of the Indian camps, and their
lives depended on the most profound silence and
implicitly following her footsteps.
A moment afterwards the girl was accosted
by squaw, from an opening in her wigwam :;
she replied in the Indian language, and. with
ont stopping, still pressed forward, In short
time she stopped and assured the spies they had
passed the greatest danger She knew that ev-
cry leading pass was guarded safely by the In
dians, and at once resolved to adopt the bold
adventure of passing through the centre of the
village as the least hazardous, and the sequel
proved the correctness of her Judgment. They
now steered course for. the 0hp siker, apd af-
ter three days. travel arrived safe s't the Block
house. Their escape and adventure prevented the
Indians from making their contemplated attack,
and the rescued girl proved to be the sister of the
intrepid Corneal Washburn celebrated in the his
tory Indian warfare, and as the renowned spy of
Capt, Kenton's bloody Kentuckians. s.-Auto-Bi-
ographV of J. B. Fuller.