The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1856-04-16

situation? She mustered strength,
however, to crawl from the bed to a
chair, and there, in an agony of despair,
waited for the horrible death which she
was SO near, and which she we'll knew the
two savages were left to inAict after the
the others had gone. There they stood,
with eyes of the tiger, fercely glaring
at her. She begged them again to spare
her; she was but child, must soon die,
and c,uld dono harm. Che-mo-ka.mun
drew his tomahawk, and suddenly sprang
to her, fourished his weapon over her
head, then raised it up for final blow.
The intense agony of that dreadful mo-
ment, even after the lapse of SO many
years, must be still fresh in the memory :;
it was too deeply stamped ever to be
eradicated. Her father, brother and
little sisters had been led away into cap
tivity, and probably to death; her moth
cr's fate she knew not. But, ere the
blow of the tomahawk fell, the other In.
dian called out: "Stop, Che-mo-ka-
nun stopl don't kill the child; she is
very, sick, and will soon die; let US leave
her here" The still, small voice I"
that spoke to the heart of the red man
was resistless. Che-mo- ka-mun lowered
his battle.axe with growl, and they both
went off, leaving her to die alone; but
the unseen Power that controls all
events was there to save her As soon
as the two savages we're gone, the child
crawled out of the house, and attempted
to get into the woods, for fear the Indi-
ans might return, aud, BY resting her
self every few feet, she finally got over
the river on some timbers of an old
mill-dam, where she laid down exhaus-
ted.
After remaining there several hours,
she saw Tick-ke-sho, the friendly Indi-
an, apparently looking for her track,
which be found and followed, and he
soon came to her and told her that at
the first campiug-place, the chief had
made him sit down with his back to
small tree, and tied his arms with strips
of bark behind it The chiefs consulted
together, and agreed to send man back
and kill the girl in the morning, end
then secured the prisoner and went to
sleep. Tick-ke-sho determined to escape,
and by rubbing the bark thongs against
the rough tree, he soon wore them of,
and then noiselessly stole away, and, run
ming with the speed of a deer all the
way back to Boyer's house, he found
the little girl as above stated. With
somo strings the faithful fellow tied her
on to his back, and started off through
the woods toward white settlement.
The only clothing left to the child by
the Indians was piece of calico to COW
er her shoulders, petticoat and pair of
stockings. Frustrated as she was by
long disease, this was all the clothing
she had to protect her from the autumn
nal blasts. After travelling some distance,
she tore off some strips of calico, and
tied up her stockings with them, in do
ing which, she accidentally dropped a
small piece on the ground. /
Mrs Boyer, while wandering around |
in the woods, had heard the fen ae 5ose
of the Indians at her house, and suppos-
ed that they were shooting her husband
and children. Believing them to be all |
killed, her heart leaped to her mouth as
her eyes fell on the little piece of calico.
she knew at once that one of her little
aock was spared, as the Indians, on leav-
ing the house, must have taken differ
snt direction.
The faithful Tickle carried his
little charge many miles through the
woods to her uncle's, Michael Tremble.
then residing at the mouth of the Clin-
ton River, where her mother soon after
Joined her, and learned that the remain.
der of her family had been carried off
prisoners, and she might probably never
zee them again. The terrible shock
hat Cecilia had received, instead ofkill.
ng, cured her; the fever left her, and
'he rapidly recovered.
Boyer and the three children were Ia {
Ten to Saginaw, where the children were
eft, and he was taken westward to Grand 9
river, and their fate was unknown till q a
riendly Indian camPin aud told Mrs. T
'oyer Of their situation. About year t
fter they were captured, the late Capt q
acob Smith, whom all our old residents y
generous, warm hearted t
Ian-took couple of pack horses, load
with goods, through the Wilderness d
} Saginaw, redeemed the children, and &c
-ought them to their mother Nh. st
skin, then of Maiden, at his own ex- nj
'nse, sent bark canoe, loaded with -
'ods, through Lake Huron and Michi, OF
n to the Grand River, Ar d purchased b'
oyer from the Indians, had him taken III
Mackinaw, supported him through the VI
nter, and, on the opening of navigation tn
the spring, sent him down to his fami- IN
ne
Soon after the war ended, Boyer, with MI
J rife on his shoulder, was one day up
ssing down Jefferson-avcnue, in the eji
y of Detroit, and. when opposite Gene tn
Cass' old residence, lie met bis old =
my, Che-mo.ka-muu. His French las
'od boiled in his veins at the sight of ma
q; he instantly cooked and leyeled his the