The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1858-05-21

to them--to each and all of them---evel
should you know the pleaders to be o
your own kin; for in such case you
own brother might deceive you--not vii
fully and voluntarily, perhaps-but be
cause Of being goaded on by the savages
themselves concealed. Yes, such thing.
have been known as one friend being
thus used to lure another to his destruc
ton; and SO be cautious, vigilant, brave
and true, and may the good God keeE
you all from harmp' ,a g ,t @
As he finished speaking. Blanche pro-
ceeded to take an affectionate leave of all
receiving many tender message for hel
parents from those who held them in love
and veneration; and the boat swung out,
and began to float down with the cur
rent, now fairly entered upon the most
dangerous portions Of long and perious
Journey. fa -t.u. si.o.
The father Of Blanche, Colonel Philip
Bertrand, was native of Virginia, aud
descendant of one of the Huguenot rcfu-
gees, who fled from his native land after
the revocation of the edict of Nantz in
1865. He had been an officer of some
note during the Revolution--a warm po-
litical and personal friend to tie author Of
the Declaration Of Independence--and a
gentleman who had always stood high in
the esteem of his associates and cotem.
poraries. ,e-
Though at one time a man of wealth.
Col. Bertrand had lost much, and suffer.
ed much, through Britt sh invasion ; and
when, shortly after the close of the war,
he had met with few more serious re-
verses, he had been fain to accept grant
of land, near the falls of the Ohio, now
Louisville, rendered him by Virginia,
which then held jurisdiction over the en-
tire territory now constituting the State of
Kentucky.
The grant had decided the Colonel up.
on seeking his new home in the then Far
West, and as his wife had insisted upon
accompanying him on his first tour, he
had assented to her desire, on condition
that Blanche should be left among her
friends, till such time as place could be
prepared which might in some degree be
considered fit abode for one SO careful
ly and tenderly reared.
Blanche would gladly have gone with
her parents; but on this point her father
had been MISUNDERSTANDING that she
would have to remain at the East till
he should see proper to send for her;
and as he was man ofpositive character,
and a rigid disciplinarian, the matter Lad
been settled without argument.
When Colonel Bertrand removed to
the West, Eugene Fairfax. as we have
seen, accompanied him; and coming of
age shortly after, he had accepted the
liberal offer Of his noble benefactor. to re-
main with him in the capacity of private
secretary and confidential agent. On
taking possession Of his grant, the Colo
mel had almost Immediately erected fort,
and offered such inducements to settlers as
to speedily collect around him quite a lit
lie community-of which, as matter of
course, he became the head and chief;
and to supply the wants Of bis own fami.
y and others. and increase his gains by a
legitimate way, he had opened a store,
md filled it with goods from the Eastern
narts, which goods were transported by
and over the mountains to the Kanawha,
md thence by water to the Falls of the
Ohio, whence their removal to Fort Ber-
rand became an easy matter. To pur-
'hase and ship these goods, and deliver
package of letters to friends in the East,
eugene had been thrice dispatched--his
bird commission also extending to the
scorting Of the beautiful hciress, with her
ervants, to her new home. This last
commission had been so far executed at
he time chosen for the opening Of our sto-
y, as to bring the diferent,parties to the
mouth Of the great Kanawha, whence the
eader has seen them slowly floating off
lpon the still, CLASSY bosom Of "tho belle
t frivers." Il sgsr ,'t.7a aasi' Ut auT |,
The day, which was an suspicious one.
assed without anything occurring wor-
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