Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1857-04-16

er about their hearts. They were star
wing.
And there at the very base of the
rock, silent and immovable as the frs
which shrouded them from the fierce
sun-rays, sat the implacable chieftain,
surrounded by his wrrriors. Neither
love, mercy nor pity entered his finty
heart His bitterest foe had stolen his
fairest fower-his only child, the daugh-
ter of race of kings, had left his wig
wan for that Of an enemy.
Vengeance upon them both--the
bitterest foe-and the faishless daugh-
ter.
White, wan, and emaciated, they wan
dered about on the beetling brow of the
cliff, like ghosts from the far off hunt
ing grounds of their race. Strong war
riors who had not quailed in direst,
deadliest combat, now sunk down like
reeds, before the breath of famine
Braves who would have laughed more
in derision at the arrows, or the scalp
ing knife, now felt a fcrcer, keener
pang, than poisoned shaft or merciless
tomahawk ever inflicted.
With the forests all around them,
where hei ds of deer roamcd frcc-with
the river beneath, where the silent trout
glimmered through its water, with flocks
of fowls soaring above them, they were
starving!''
Thd red deer left off browsing in its
leafy- covert, and came down to drink
the waters below-but no morsel of ven
ison could pass their lips mo drop of
that cool water to lave their swollen,
parched tongues.
The deer Tapped up the crystal liquid
of the river-snuffcd the cool breeze,
and then catching a glimpse in the water
of the dusky figures fitting to and fro
on the rock above, tossed their high ant
lers and darted away to the green woods
again: the bright waters danced onward
beneath with wild, mocking freedom,
as they bent down their despairing eyes:
and there below sat those dark, stern
warriors, grim and immovable. Oh, it
was horrible.
And then Utah came to the brink of
the precipice, and with her long raven
hair streaming like the folds of rent
banner upon the wind, bent over and
pleaded with hagonizing gestures and fran
TIC entreaties TO her sire, whom she saw
far, far below.
But never tone of tenderness, a
word of forgiveness, token of reconcil-
iation, went up from the proud, insulted
soul. He had chosen the Indians re-
venge.
Day by day, that doomed band thin
ned away, till at length famine alone
reigned conquerer upon the summit Of
the cliff. Day by day they wasted and
at last all was still. No ghostly forms
wandered freely about-no wailing voice
broke the silence. None of that fate6
band, save one of the bcsieged warriors
escaped, and he, descending in the shade
of night to shelving projection still
far above the river, flung himself down
into the rushing water, where his faith
full squaw awaited him in he light canoe
and received him as he rose. Then pad
ding silently down the stream, ant
thence to the shore, they darted feetly
into the dark, dense forest, and thus es
capped to their tribe to tell the dreadful
| tale.
When all was still, and forms were nj
more seen moving about ont he summi
of the cliff, the avenged chieftain and hi:
band asccnded. The Indians wratl
was appcased-his vengeance had indeed
been terrible. There they lay upon the
grey rock, those wasted skeleton likt
warriors, all stark and stiff, and there too
the Indian maiden had starved to death
in the arms of her lover-her white face
oh, so fearful to look upon!-her long
streaming hair Ike her bridal veil anc
shrould
And now. it is said, full oft by the pal
moonlight are seen wan, ghostly figure
gliding to and fro upon the cliff Wit
dark .plumes floating upon the nigh
wind: and ever and anon, the spectra
forms of the Indian maiden, and he
dusky warrior-loycr stand upon the brin
and in low, wailing voices chant thei
death -dirgc ere they go afar off to dwel
together in the Great Spirits huntin
grounds. -..'
And thus runs "Thc Legend oeStary
cd Rock!'
| GoRMASDIzING.- At the table of on
ofour New York hotels, lately. a rough
spun individual was annoyed by the vc