The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1862-09-17

IN tne eyes OF alt, huu NOfd sOopeu HNe NJ w
lant upon her mothers bosom. The glad woman
sat down 10 the rude door way and brushed
the moisture from her smiling eyes and as the
little group gathered about her and raised their
happy faces TO hers, and the heart Of each
seemed too fall for utterance, she bowed her
head again to her hsnd4, an1 the big bright
drops. fresh from her spirits shrine, trickled
through them, while her whole frame shook
with the weight Of pleasant and bitter thoughts
hat came gushing up from memory's disturbed
fountain.
She found words at last TO tell them all how
sho dwelt from the time of her o,ptivity beneath
The roof Of the great chief how he loved her
"a his own child, and how he young chief smiled
ipou her. She told them of the bitter tear,
she shed when thinking Of the dear friends sh,
mad left, Of her sleepless nights aud cherries
days, aud how, as years rolled on she learned Il
'ove the old chief, who was ever kind aud good
and 20 regard the Young prince as a brother.
Then she spoke Of her unwilling marriage
and told how tears had dreuched her brida
Snrb, how they b,re her iusensible from hei
from her hair; of weeks and months q
wretchedness and pnirg for her early home, ant
then of returning camness after the last gIim
mering of hope had died away 10 her hart
Years rolled on, and her husband, the powerfu
king of a warike and bold tribe was killed il
b title, his men taken captves, and their vas
possessions fell into the hands of the white men
but the Young Fawn - her d,rling Nora - hat
never been molested they had lived in thei
wild home alone and almost unknown, though
she had pever ceased to mourn for the friend,
ot early life, nor to remember the low, swee
tones that fell upon her ear, and the gentle
loving glance that had so often met ber gazs
True, these remembrances had the ehadowy
dmness of half forgotten dream; but still
their light had ever been with her, Frightening
hor pathway through life, and filling her lone
heart with sad and delicious emotions. Not I'll
that d ~ when the sweet face Of Ether came VI
before her bad her fond i'm igining4 taken TO
themselves form and distnctncss, with tn,
vividness of reality hut the fond tones of the
dear child aud the glance of her deep eyes hal
touched string in her inmost soul which vi
brated like the chords of long ueglec ed harp
and sent forth pleasant melody.
II was late that evening, when Oscar Dnn-
ham rode up to the door of his fathers house
and he was alone. lie found anxious, fesrfu
hearts aud fearful faces awaiting him, and wher
his mother looked in vain for the form Of her
darling, smothercd cry escaped her lips bu
her wild eyes te upon the -mling, happy fac,
of her son, and wondAr and astonishment KEEP
her silent L. VA nos tong before they knew
all and were weeping for joy At the grateful in-
teligence. Morning dtwued fair and beautiful,
aud ere the sun reached its meridian height,
the lone widow of the Indln ohieftain and he
lovely girl had pres 'ed to their throbbng
bosoms the forms of tho,e about whom they
had dreamed and communed with painful inter
est through long years of loneliness and sus
pense. 1t was happy group that assembled
that day beneath the low log cabin in that deer
| wilderness: aud the very birds tt,at fingered
| amid the thick leaves of the blossoming honey
suckle seemed oppressed with gladness, for
| their ttlc throats swclIed with the wild strain
when Anne and Edgar claop ID their tiny hands
and gtzad with their laughing eyes up to th
! lenty retteat, the sS"c; songtsr4 only answere,
their many shols with ION Ter and gladde
strain, and wttered and trembled upon tn j
blooming throne. Oscar and Ether, with ia
happy Nora, walked down 10 the river brink
and unmoored ihe ii'tIe canoe heneath the grea
! rock, and as they sailed gently over the brigh
waters and bent their laughing faces TO III
smooth mirror, rhey blessed the late th4, hrongh
,hrm together, and looked with kind of fond
ness upon the oil tree with It's dangling limb
! which had been the instrument OF so much iea
and pleasure And Mrs. Duuhlm aud her re
stored sister - they had everything 10 say, an
their hearts mingled lovingly together as the
told Of their past - its JOYS aud irs sorrows, an
looked fondy to the future with trembling
eager hop'i
H. is many years since these events occurred
and the great wilderness, with the Lighthouse c
the dark, bright maiden aud her fair mothe
have disappeared together; but in the flourish
ing village which is built upon the spo. and o
the shore of the river Ohio, nege where tn
cabin stood is a large, beautiful mansion. l.
owner, Mr.. Dunham, with his gentle wife an
dark eyed children, remembers with pride b
noble grandfather, over whose grave the gras
is s.ill fresh aud green, and the meek and ovin
partner, who sleeps sweetiy by his side eve
the Indian cheftais's daughter - Nora, Il
graceful lawn.