The constitutional union., 1861-02-08
The Constitution the Union, and the Enforcement o the Laws
DIES ARC ARKANSAS FRIDAY, FEBRUARY S.

the this strange circumstance, to the guard house. The superstition of the soldiers was awakened, and terror ran through the regi- ment. The Colonel, being apprized of the occurrence, signfed his intention to accom- pany the guard when they relieved the senti- mel they had left. At the appointed time, | they all marched together; and again, to their unutterable wonder, they found the post va cant, and the man gone Under these cir cumstances, the Colonel hesitated whether he should station whole company here, or if he should again submit the post to single seminal. The cause of these repeated disap- pearances of men, whose courage and honesty were never suspected must be discovered ;; and it seemed not likely that this discovery could be obtained by persisting in the old method. Three brave men were now lost to the regiment and to assign the post to a fourth seemed nothing less than giving 1t up to destruction. The poor fellow whose turn 1t was to take the station, though man in other respects of unconQuerable resolution, trembled from head to foot < | must do my duty" said he to the officer. z | will leave no man" said the Colonel, against his vii" {" \ man immediately stepped from the ranks
 and desired to take the post. Every mouth commended his resolution. will not be taken" alive said he, and you shall hear of me on the least alarm. At all events will fire my piece if hear the least noise. If crow chatters or leaf falls, you shall hear my musket. You may be alarmed when nothing is the matter; you must take the chance of that, as the condition of my mak- ing the discovery" The Colonel appauded his courage. and told him he would be right to fire upon the least noise which was ambig- uous. His comrades shook hands with him, and left him with melancholy foreboding The company marched back, and waited the event in the guard house with the most anx- ious curiosity.
 -An hour had elapsed, and every ear was upon the rack for the discharge of the mus ket, when, upon a sudden the report was heard The guard immediately marched, ac- companied, as before, by the Colonel and some of the most experienced officers of the regiment. A8 they approached the post, they saw the man advancing toward them, dragging another man on the ground by the hair of the head. When they came up to him, it appeared to be an Indian whom he had shot. An explanation was immediately required. | told your honor" said the man, !" that l ahond fire if heard the least noise The resolution l had taken saved my lite and led to the discovery l had not been long on my post when l heard | rusting at some distance; looked, and saw an Ameri- can hog. such as arc common in the woods, crawling along the ground and seemingly looking for nuts under the trees and among the leaves As these animals are 50 very common. ceased to consider it for some min utcs but being on the constant alarm and ex- pectation of an attack, and scarcely knowing what to consider real cause of apprehension, or not, 1 kept my eye constantly fixed upon It. and marked its progress among the trees still there was no need to give the alarm, and my thoughts were, notwithstanding, directed to danger from another quarter. 1t struck me, however, as somewhat singular, ;o see the animal making. by crcuitou2 passage, for a thick coppce, immediately behind my post. l therefore kept my eyes more con atant'y fixed upon 1t, and, as it was now with in few yards of the coppice, | hcsitatcd whether l should fire. Nv comrades, thought l, will laugh it me for alarming them by shootinga pig had almost resolved to let it alone, when, just as 1t approached the thicket, l thought observed it give an un- usual spring l no longer hesitated 1 took my aim, discharged my piece, and the animal was instantly stretched before me, with groan which conceived to be that of a human creature went up to it, and judge my as tonishmont when found l had killed an h. dian. He had completely enveloped himself with the skin of one of these wild hogs so arttully and completely, his hands and feet were so entirely concealed in it. and his gait and appearance So exactly corresponded to that of the animals that, imperlectly as they were always seen through the trees and un- elcs, the disguise could not be penetrated at d distance and scarcely discovered upon the nearest aspect. He was armed with dagger and a tomahawk" Such was the substance of this mans narrative The cause of the disappearance of the other sentincls was now apparent The Indians. sheltered in this dis guise secreted themselves in the coppice watched the moment when they would throw 1t off; burst upon the sentinels without pre- yious alarm, and, too quick to give them an opportunity to discharge their pieces, either stabbed or scalped them and bore their bodies away, which they concealed it some distance in the leaves
 MARRYING IN FuN.-An Erie paper tolls how at an evening party in that vicinity re- gently, as a matter of fun, proposition to marry was entertained by tEo parties who had then for the first time met. In carry ing ont the joke 1t was suggested that the