Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1855-11-07

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land made q stand - The q agl Isl came gem
teFal, and as the sun ross mai ticall
lover the towering ttees 81 the east. he be-
lheld the red men of Texas IN deadly
lstrife. But the bows and arrows sof the !.
iYFacos could not compete With tile ner-
leileSs rife of the Cherokee. The Y9cos
lwere falling rapidly, while The Gher6kees
were unharmed. 2
After an hour strife, amid yells and
lmutual imprecati0 the ~ acos' signased
"a retreat aud they fell back IN coninslon'
taxing refuge in the fortified sink-hoie.
Here. though hemmgd in, they were quite
secure, having great advantages, In
deed, they could kill every Cher okee who
might per adventure, risk his person. too
inear the brink.
The Gherokess had alscsdy killed .mass
InY, an now held . council to consider
they shouId-do. Il was proposed BY ono
brave, that they should strip to q state of
inature, march into the sink.hole in one
body IRE their pieces, then drop them
and with their tomahawks endeRvor to
kill every man, woman and child among
the Wacos, A half breed. named Smith,
twho was In favorsof This desperate rneN-
isure, as an incentive to his cop1rades,
stripped himself, fastened half q dozen
horse-bells (which he had picked up in
the camp and commenced galoping apd
yelling around the sink hole, nov md
then jumping on The embankmeat and
then back, cursing the Waoos most lus-
tily. Arrows were hurled at him BY tho
score, but he fell not. ~ ''9
Just as the Cherokee council was CONS
ling to close, at about an hour after sun
rise, they heard noise like tho distant
thunder on the opposite side OF the river,
and delayed few moments 70 discover
its cause. Very soon thoy discovered "
body of mounted Indians rising the river
bank little below them. What could
that. mean, they murmuted one to auoth.
er / The story is soon told. Asrnessen.
ger had rushed from the Wa6os, ID tho
Tahuancano village, begging help, and
now two hundred Tahuanodno warriors,
mounted and ready for the fray werc mt
hand. The whole aspect Of the day was
changed in q moment. To con1uerithO
combined force was impogsiblo 10 es-
cape thsmselueS would require prudence.
The Tahucanos in coming up, cut of .
Cherokee boy, killed and scalped lin,
and placing his scalp on lance, held Il
defantly up to the Gherokens The boy
was an only child, and his father b5held
this soene. The brave han' eye lSred
with fury Without a word he threw
from his body every piece Of apparel,
4 seized a knife with ono hand, and a TOM
a hawk with the other. ''What will you, }"
said the chief, "die with my br6Yo boy?
die Staying tho Wild men who have
plucked tho last rose from my bosom q"
The chief intcrfered and admonlsh6d 5hlm
It was madness, but tho Cherokee nsteled
not. With rapid strides ho rushed among
the Tahuacanos- upon certain death, but
eral, and died shouting defiance in their
midst. sg
The Tahuacanos occupied the post
oaks just below the Gherokeess aud Kept
lup lusty shout, but ventured not within
rifle shot. The latter, seeing that on an
open fold they could not resist such num-
bers-hhying taken fftySfvo Waco tcplps
(equal to their own nunber) having lost
Two men and boy-.-now fell baek into
1.-THE cedar bFake and remained there, till
might. They were convinced that their
safety depended upon cautious retreat.
as II surrounded by prairfes, thoy would
be annihilated. When night came on.
they crossed the river, travelled down tho
IsandSbank a mile or two, as If they, Wcro
going down the country; thence turning
Into the stream, waded up the edge Of tho
water somesi1 or seven miles, tho river
Ibeing low and remarkably even and thus
leluded pursuit. Insdue time they toach-
led their Red River villages, without
the thousand horses they anticipated,
tbut with ffty-fyc Waco scsips glory
enough in their estimation. The tribe
was speedily called together for . grand
warsdance. ..>
For miles around, tho American soilleN
ments we're surprised 10 see such CONS
motion and gathering among the indians.
X gentleman, my informant, was there
visiting widowed sister. HeTode up to
the Cherokee encampmeut, inquired into
the cause Of the movements, and was jhYis
ICED to alight and spend the day. Hb' did
so, and Witnessed one Of the grandest
war-dsnces he ever saw, and he Is an old
Indian fighter. A very intelligent man,
q half breed named Chrisholm, one Of tho
ffty-fye, gave him full history Of the.
whole transaction. be noted Il tcsrefnily,
and from him l received 1t. -.
The gentleman Is Captsin Thomas
4 Barron, formerly Of Washington county,
nov residing ssar Waco. When h6 frst
! visited VI aeo, in 1884, he sG once Tecog-
! Inized the battle-ground and sink hole, as
described by GhTisholm. The CEef6RPes
did not forget the TahuacaDos. buE held
them 70 strict ctaceount.--.J. II. B.,f9 Ats
GuI1eston Civilian.
gIl Reading, PennsylvAuia, afcw
eyenings ago, the Know Nothing Council
held large meeting. a pFcposition was