Weekly Clarksville chronicle. [volume] (Clarksville, Tenn.) 185?-1857, 1857-09-18

remembered not the sacred he which binds
a father to his child And, unloved, and
unloving, Lucy grew in the years of wo-
manhood with void in her gentle heart
and vague sense of dissatisfaction in her
soul. - ss ~
Chorcona saw the neglected lilly Of the
white man, and loved her with all the
mighty strength of his affection; and in
the simple language of his race he told her
SO. And Lucy, lone, and with all wo-
mans thirst for appreciation, looked upon
the stalwart form and frank handsome face
of the young brave, end forgetting the fear
of her fathers anger, she reciprocated his
passion. ''
A gaint oak, far down in the valley, was
their trysting place, and every day when
the red light of sunset baptized the dark
mountain SUBMITS in its food of glory,
the timid white maiden went forth to the
valley shadows to meet her lover. Cho-
corna brought her the richest trophies of
the chase, the grogeous plumage of rare
birds, and the silken skin of the jet black
otter, he loved to bind the, many -hued
,camppm, woven by the shillful fingers of
the maidens of his tribe.
1t was far in the soft, dreamy summer,
and one night the young chief said that
when three silver moons had waxed and
waned, he would ask the white bird of
her father, Lucy paled and trembled-
for she well knew the secret enmity her
morose parent felt toward the savages-
but her strong, true love conquered fears,
and she assented to the words of her low
er.
Three moons had been born and died,
and Chocorna, in all his native dignity,
came to the hut of the settler to ask his
1 daughter in marriage.
Smith received him gruf1y, but the
chieftain, with majesty worthy of king,
laid before him the story of his love for
Lucy, and his wish to make her mistress
of his wigwam, and queen of his peope.
Like the bursting of thunder cloud,
Smiths anger bclched forth burning tor
rent of invectives upon the head Of Chocor-
ma. Language, the most insulting, min
gled with personal abuse, was borne with
lofty equanimity by the lofty chief-his
reply to it all being uttered in low, firm
tone
''T forget not that you are the White
Birds fatherw
Then turning slowly away, he was soon
lost to sight in the winding of the forest.
In vain Lucy besought her infuriated sire
to soften his harsh decision; in vain she
went down upon her knees to him in prayer
for her youthful love-he struck her to
the ground, and fed from the housel
A week passed, and the whole valley
was in an uproar. The fierce cry of war
echoed terribly amid the mountain fast
ness, and the red hand of murder wrote
in lines of blood upon the green, sleeping
hills Smith and his followers, with all the
force they could muster from the neigh
boring colonies, had sworn the extermina-
ton of the tribe of Chocornal Sworn it
by their homes, their honor, and their God
And armed with this dreadful oath, they
went down upon the Indians like the hai
storm upon the young grass of the mead
ow.
Chocorna called up his braves, and badC
them fight for their squaws, their helpless
children--and their own true hearts. Ant
we'll thoY answered to the call
Horrible were the scenes enacted. Fire
rapine and devastation-the wigwams ol
9 the savages were reduced to ashes, and tht
long black locks of the tribo's braves
warriors futtered from the belts of theii
pale face murderers. At length the deco
was done--the oath fulfilled. The Cho
cornas were ext9rminated, their bones
bleached white on the naked hills and tht
carrion crow fed upon their flesh. Young
and old, helpless women and innocent pa
. pooses, alike were sacrificed to the knives
of the inconsed whites.
q All but Chocorna, the chieftain himself
v whose plumed crest had ever waved in tn
n thiokest of the fray, and around who's
gigantic form the bullets of his foes fel
n harmless-he alone, of all his tribe, the,
4 had no power to slay, Anunseen arm up
. held him, and not the vengeance of tn
!. murderous Smith, or the blood, had tn
. power to harm him His fate was wrap
II ped in impenetrable mystery.
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