Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1858-08-28

It was supposed to the Falls, where it was
known there was yillage.
This division Of the Indians rendered II
necessary for the whites II they would fol-
low each trail, to divide their force also,
which would weaken 1t materially, and rem
der their further pursuit still more hazard
Gus; and In view OF this new danger, Cap
tain Brady stated the whole matter fnirly
to his companions, and Inquired Of them
what they were disposed TO do .undcs the
circumstances.
Should they follow either ono Of tie
trails, he said, the other half of the Iudians
would escape; should they follow neither
one. all would escape, and should they di-
vide, each division would be comparatively
small, and they might all be cut oG Ia de-
tail; therefore it was for them to choose
whether they would 60 forward IN one par
ty or two, or return as they were without
striking a blow.
/ The men were not long in deciding; they
/ were unanimous in their desire TO push for
ward aud take vengeance upon the enemy;
they also preferred division of the party,
and accordingly about one.half Of them i'm
mediately crossed the river aud set of TO
the northward, while the remainder, under
Captain Brady, followed the westward trail
to the Cuyahoga Falls.
II was the design aud expectation Of the
gallant captain to take the Indians by sur
prise; but the latter, expecting to be puT-
sued by the whites, were prepared to re-
ceiyc them and it was only by mere acci-
dent that the bordercrs were saved from
falliug into an ambuscadc which would have
proved fatal to all.
Seeing that the Indians were fully pre-.
pared for them--that there was no chance
Of taking them by surpriSe--that their mum
bers were at least four times as many as
their own--our friends judiciously deter
mined upon retreat; but they had not
gone far " hen the Indians, altering their
widest war-whoops, set after them in.
body.
Knowing that if bis men continued tc-
gether, there would be no hope for amy Of
them, Captain Brady, in order to save as
many lives us possible, called out so them
to disperse in every direction, and each man
to look out for himself By this means be
expected 10 divide the Indians into small
parties in their pursuit Of single individuals;
and this might have been the result, had
they not, unfortunately for his own safety,
discovered in him their most indicative and
troublesome foe, and at once resolved upon
his capture.
Captain Brady was well known to the
Indians, in former times he had hunted with
them over these very grounds; but he had
subsequently become their most impacable
enemy, and had done them SO much injury
as To create in them q fendish desire to
take him alive ard put bin TO the torture
--they we'll knowing that the accomplish
ment Of this purpose would not only rid
them of the man they both hated and fear
ed, but would deprive the whites Of their
bravest and most daring leader, and would
thus strike more effective blow against
the latter, than would the destruction of u
dozen or twenty men Of lesser note. For
| this reason, therefore, the moment il was
aScertained that he was one of the party,
his capture was determined on by all, and
turning from the pursuit Of the others, the
whole yelling crew set after him.
Captain Brady had something Of the start,
and was one of the Heetest runners on the
border; that he could distance and escape
from few, he was sanguine enough to be-
lieve; but when he found himself recog.
nzed, and looking behind him, saw the
whole body in chase of himself, bis very
heart seemed to die within him. What
chance had he of escape indeed--single
handed and alone-afar from the refuge Of
eyeu wilderness fort--and with fifty infu-
rated Indians in hot pursuit, urged on by
spirit of revenge, above every other earth
ly consideration upon taking him alive or
dead
Bnt the captain was q brave man, and a
brave man dies but once; be was a sanguine
man, too, and would not consider his case
hopeless while the freedom of bis limbs re-
NAMED; and though, as he afterwards ex-
pressed it, "it was hardly Que chance in fif-
ty, yet he was determined to do his best,
aud have no fault to find with himself Fl ON
lack of effort.
Near the point where the race 6rst start
ed the Cuyahoga makes bend to the South,
SO as to nearly enclose an area of several
square miles in the form of a peninsula; the
direction taken by Brady soon brought him
within this enclosure; and the Indians, by
extending their line TO two banks of the
stream, at the point where they most nearly
approach each other, considered him as in
a net and announced their satisfaction 10y
yells of triumph. There was now, in fact
no chance for him to escape except through
their lines or across the Cuyahoga river;
and considering that the foremost pursuers
were not City yards behind him, either Of
fhesa chances was reporded hv the Savawes
as an impossibility.
Still the hardy aud gallant captain did
net despair; he had many time hunted
over this very ground, and knew every inch
Of it, and all the windings, turnings, and
lpeenliarities of the river as well as the In
dans themselves; he knew. too, there wa:
one poiat where the river, compressed with
in few feet; rushed roaring and foanline
through rocky gorge; and it at once oe.
CURED 10 him TO shape bis course for this
point, and make bold. desperate leap fol
the other shore. lie might fail short, anC