Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1855-08-02

How Jel1n Meade broke into o delirium OF JOY
s---how Mary Sutton cried first. and then laugh
ed,eaHd then cried and efaaghed together oil
ttese matters shall not attempt to describe.l
Mary Sutton is now Mrs. John Mead and her
husband has actually begun the great historical
picture. Peter Finehshas taken to distdnnting
bills, and bringing actions Oh them and drives
about in his brougham tsifcady.
CAPT. BRADY AND coRNPLANTER. Il
sss A LEcRSD or THE ALLEcHASY.
| Many Of tile wild legends of border strife and
Indian harbarity that have been enacted along
the shores of the AAeghany and Ohio, hive
/ newer been rescued from the dim and fading re-
inembrances Of apast age. But occasionallya
story of thrilling interest is snatchcd from the
lingering records Of the red nun.
The story am about to relate, received
T from an old Indian pilot Of the Allegheny. 1t
wins many years ago, when that stern old chief,
/ Cornplanter, whose remains now repose in silence
and loneliness on the banks af that -beauteous
river he loved SO we'll, was in his glory. Ibis
tribe roamed over the dense and ~aAkss4tF7t0lFs
csts along its banks, fearless, uaselisged and
free. fe.F 4 saKsy6.srlS.1-
Ills people were hostile q. the whites, and
never lost an opportunity to lie in ambush and
seize theslonely voyager as he descended the riv
er, and consign him to the stake and the tor
tuYe. But the watchful, shrewd and deadly foe
of Cornplanter, and the whole tawny race"
was the indominitablc and fearless Capt Samuel
Brady. This veteran pioneer and Indian hun
ter was one of those noble specimens ofgthe har-
dy foreste,s who plunged fearlessy 'ihto the in
formidable forests that then overspread SO large
a portion Of the Western States :.
Like Daniel Boone, Lewis Wctzol, Simon
Kenton and Others, who made Indian hunting a
pastime, his deadly hate ofthe Indian, and bis
burning passion for hunting them down, run to
d monomania This hatred was in consequence
rt!trif-wyongs they had inflicted upon Instantly
his father, Captain John Brady, and his brother
having fallen victims to the tpmahawk and The
scalping-
The scene Of the present story is Mt plac'
known to boatmen and raftmen as g Brady
Bend" and where now thetnoise and hustle o
new manufacturing town called the '' Gre;s'
Western" rcsounds along the shores that thel
echoed only to the whoop of the savage orEsf
PANTHER scream.
1t is bend in the river Of nine miles in lengt|
and is sonietimescalled the " Nine mile Bend,
and is scarcely half mile across the neck
4 Here inthis bend, Cornplanter, returned iron
II some successful inroad upon the whites, had Sc
cure yLdeyeral'p prisoners by tying them to a
man trees whieehis. s@artly and @hideousl
paatM followers were busy in making ready tn
; fsggot and the torture. 49,.
The stake was erected and tho Aggpts pre-
pared with oil the GOODNESS and refinement {
/, Indian barbarity. 1t was IL beautiful evening
: the sun was just sinking behind the lofty hill
! aBon the opposite shore. Calmness had throw
, itS oily wand upon the Alleghany's crystal tic
and it slept The full round moon, just burs
ing throngh-the tree tops behind them, sailt
. calmly through the distant blue, and cast
/. mellow beams upon the sleeping river, al
:. danced on its placid bosom.
The melancholy note Of the whip-poor-w
l from the adjoining thicket fell swectly upon Il
ear. The victims were unbound, and led for
to the place of torture. At this moment,
voice, high up among the frowning rocks tn
!, Ilooined out from the thick hcmloeks whi
] crowned the hill opposite, hailed Cornpanter
the Indian tongue, Informing him that he "
! an Indian warrior, just returned from tho WI
!. path with q goodly number Of prisoners,
/ He desired that the ceremonies Of the tortu
~ might b suspended until he could ford theris
!. and join them, whcu they would celebrate t
oeeas,on with unusual demonstrations of sava
reioicings. 10 this Cornplanter consented.
/. 1.-THE flames thathad been kindled Were exit
" puished at once, and the prisoners again bou
d to the trees.
!. In the meantime, Brady, for il was he "
Ia lhad deceived the willy ludian. with body
sl-a men moved silently up the river to place kno
us !. Truby's Ripple" and there fording
nd river. drew his men up across the neck of
bend. and moved noiselessly down upon the s
4 ages. So can,ious was his approach that
Indians' were completely cut off from retreat
an fore they became alarmed.
Mt Rrady . men hemmed them In from behi
at while tho Allegheny rolled in 'front.' The
n intimation to the savages Of bis approach
ry communicated by deadly discharge from
oh pnerring rides, The Indians fought with des
ms ration, but were overpowered all were XII
or taken prisonbrs save the chief, Cornplan
on who,i finding himself alone, plunged into
,th river, and swan for the other shore.
- Being good swimmer, he repained sew
/. y minutes under water, but as hefossfVF bret
his fhe was greeted with o shoger, .bf hhllets,
thia way, alternately swimming under waite
ter oag'as he.could hold bis breath, and then r''
cen to DC syrace, he escaped unhurt, ,pud reac
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