Mineral Point tribune. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1854-1858, 1855-08-08
From the Knickerborker for July.
CAPT. SAMUEL BRADY AND C0RNPLANTER.
LEGEND OF TIVE ALLLoAHY RTyEH.


LEGEND OF TIE ALLLGAHI AIvER.
Many of tho wild legends OF border
strife, and Indian barbarity, that have
been enacted along the shores of the AL
legany and Ohio have never been rescued
from the dim and fading remembrance of
a past age. But occasionally story of
thrilling interest is snatched from the lin
gering records of the red men.
The story [ am about to relate, re-
ccivcd from an old Indian pilot of the Al
legany. 1t was many years ago, when
that stern old chief, Corn Planter, (whose
remains now repose in silence and loneli-
ness on the banks of that bcauteous river
he loved so well) was in his glory. His
tribe roamed over the dense aud unbroken
forests along its banks, fearless, unmolest-
ed and free.
His people were hostile to the whites,
and never lost an opportunity to lie in
ambush and sieze the lonely voyager as
he descended the river and consign him
to the stake and torture. But the watch
full, shrewd and deadly foe of Corn Plant
er and the whole twany race was the
indomitable and fearless Captain Samuel
Brady. This veteran pioneer and Indian
hunter was one of those noble specimens
Of the hardy forestors who plunged fear
lessly into the interminable forests that
then overspread SO largo portion of the
Western States.
Like Daniel Boone, Lewis Wetzel, 81
mon Kenton and others, who made Indian
hunting a pastime, his deadly hate of the
Indian, and his burning passion for hunt
ing them down, amounted to y mOnoma
MIA This hatred was in consequence Of
tho wrongs they had inflicted on his fam
lly-his father, Captain John Brady, and
his brother having fallen victims to the
tomahawk and scalping knife.
The scene of the present story IS at a
place known to boatmen and raftsmcn as
A." "Bradys Bend" and where now the noise
and hustle of new manufacturing town
called the Great Western" resounds
along the shores that then echoed only to
the whoop of the savages or the panther S
scream.
Il is bend in the river Of nine miles
in length. and is sometimes called the
" Nine Mile Bend,n and is scarcely half
a mile across the neck. Here In this
bend. Corn Planter, returned from some
successful inroad upon the whites, had Sc
cured several prisoners, by tying them to
as many trees. while his swarthy and hid
eous painted followers were busy in ma
king preparations for the faggot and the
torture.
The stake was erected and the faggots
nrepared with all the coolness and refine
inent of Indian barbarity. 1t was beau
tifui evening the sun was just sinking
behind the lofty hill upon the opposite
shore. Calmness had thrown its oily
wand upon the Allcgheny's crystal tide,
and it slept The full round moon just
bursting through the tree-tops behind
them. sailed calmly through the distant
blue, and cast it's mellow beams upon the
slopng river, and danced upon its placid
bosom.
The melancholy noto of the whip poor
will from the adjoining thicket fell sweet
" upon the car The victims were un-
bound and led forth to the place of tor
| turo. At this moment. voice, high up
among the frowning rocks that loomod out
from the thick homlocks that crowned the
! hill onposite. hailed Corn Planter In the
Indian tongue, informing him that /" he
was an Indian warrior, just returned from
the war-path with goodly number ol
prisoners
He desired that the ceremonies of th'
torture might be suspended until h'
could ford the river and join them, wheT
thew would celebrate them with unusua
demonstrations of savage rejoicings-
To this Corn Planter consented. Th
flames that had been kindled were extin
euished, and the prisoners again bound t.
the treos.
In tho meantime Brady. for it was b
who had deceived the willy Indian. with
BODY of men moved silently up the rive
to place known as Truby's Ripple,
and there fording the river, drew his me-
I'D across the neck of the bend, an
moved noiselessly down upon the savage'
So cautions was his approach that ia
Indians were completely cut off from r.
treat before they became alarmed.
Brady's men hemmed them in from b.
hind, while the Allegheny rolled IN from
The first intimation to the savagcs OF h
approach was communicated BY deadl
idischaras from HE unheTrluS rlHes LII