Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1865-02-03
WHOLE NUMBER 4,1i.

lu MS senses, Out past all nope OF rec0V-
cry. Night was falling. There were
no means at hand for moving the woun-.
ded man, who left there all alone, would
have met with lingering death by be-
ing eaten alive by wolves that were al
ready beginning to prowl around. But
Brandt settled the matter in his own In
dian fashion, and conscienciousIy, by en-
gaging the wounded officer in conversa-
tion for moment, and suddenly striking
him dead with his tomahawk, before be
was aware.
Toward the close of the last century,
a woman, called Jemima Wilkinson, at>
tracted some notice, and made not few
fproseytes, by her imposlures. one pro-
fessed to be the Savior of the world, and
to possess The power of working miracles.
Brandt went to see her, and, when she
opened conversation with him, he replied
to her in his native language, making a
long and fluent address, which, she was
forced to acknowledge she did not under
stand, He then repeated his address in
several other Indian dialects, with none
Of which however, Jemima appeared to
be in the least familiar. Upon this the
old Indian chief arose, and, waving his
hand with dignity, said
MADAM, it is well that your impos-
lures are SO weak as hardly to be dan
gerous. Unless my teachings have de-
ceived me, one language should be as fa-
miliar as another to the great Parsonage
whom you falsely profess to represent"
On the old age of Brandt there fell
dark stain, respecting which, however, q
good deal of misrepresentation has been
current. The facts OF the case referred
to are as follows:
One of his sons, whose name was Isaac,
was desperate haracter-drunken
quarrelsome, and the terror of the neigh
borhood in which the family were then
settled, near the present town of Brandt
ford, in Western Canada. Law must
have been very lax in that district at the
time, for it is on record that Isaac Brandt
in one Of his drunken fits, entered the
shop of an honest saddler in the village
Of Cayuga, and shot him dead. He bad
no acquaintance with the man, nor any
spite against him, but perpetrated the
foul deed simply for his amusement, and,
as he said, "to keep his hand in and bis
pistol aired" How he got out of this
difficulty never could learn, but he was
at large for years after, leading a career
of the most atrocious ruffianism. He had
so often threatened to take bis fathers
life, that the old man was always or his
guard against him, and lucky for hin.tl,at
be was.
1t was in the year 1895 that old
Brandt, being somewhere in the neigh
borhood of Burlington Heights, was told
that bis son Isaac was lurking some
where 10 the neighborhood, where be had
lately been committing some new atroc-
tiles. For the purpose Of avoiding him,
the old chief changed bis place Of lodging
in the neighborhood, and went to tav-
ern at some distance. He had not been
long there however, when he heard a
brawling in the house, and presently his
son Isaac's voice in the adjoining room,
declaring that he would have the old |
mans life, and before any person could |
interfere, the drunken youth burst into
his fathers apartment and threw himself
upon him with knife. Brandt drew
his dirk, with which he parried, fer some
time, the blows aimed at him by the des~
perate young man, who, in the struggle,
at last received blow on the head that
stunned him. The wound was but
triAing one, and. under ordinary crcum-
stances, would not have been fatal; but
acting on a constitution vitiated by drink
aud dissipation, it took virulent turn.
and carried off the young desperate af-
Ter few days illness.
The old chiefs eldest son, John Brandt
was a gentleman Of education and ac-
but he died while yet
young, and do not think that there is
4 legitimate Brandt of the descent living.
The chieftainship of the Six Nations
las passed, through the female line, into
he family of the late Colonel William
Johnston Kerr, who married daughter
# old Joseph Brandt.
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Have compassion on poverty, but a
hundred times more on impoyerishment;