American citizen. [volume] (Butler, Butler County, Pa.) 1863-1872, 1865-03-15
The Indian Girl,

ma of.Jacksop is still un written. lhouSh
Tho rad-skinned warriors that sprang TO
arms under the incitement OF 1ecum'en'
and ,ftarmards of Weatherford, the Red
Eaola of the Muscogees, were even then
considered as partially civilized, yet when
once adorned with the war paint they
lost all memory but that Of their aborl-
oinal extraction, and denied as well as
refused to receive mercy Many were
the incidents that have gone unrecorded,
incidents that would have graced the pa
ges Of any novel, or told with thrilling
effect by the winters freside; while
aoaip few have come down in local le-
gend to this day, and are told in the cab
ins on the Chattanooga, the Chicamauaa,
and the Coo=a Rivers, with as much MIN
uteness of detail as though occurrences
of Yesterday OF these the story Of ha-
Iaya aud Tholuca appeals deeply to- the
sympathy.
Kalaya was young chief Of the Mus
cogees: 1.-THE and handsome, always for
most in every point of danger, subtle on
the trail and wise in council, he bade fair
TO be one, if not the first Of his tribe.
In one of the hundred skirmishes OF war,
bv an act of great yalor, he saved the
life of the old chief Yarapea, and by this
act first met Tholuca, his daughter. To
see Tholuca was to love her, and kaIaya
from the first moment Of their meeting
gave way to the most ardent passion,
passion chat was returned by Tholuca
with all the reality of her nature. They
were to be married during the first moon
of autumn. and that time was only a few
weeks distant.
One day there came to the village ru-
mors summoning all the warriors to the
war-path, and Kalayo was first to respond
A baud of "pale-faces' = (white men)were
rayagiug upon the banks of the Coosa;
and, like eagles disturbed from their
nests, the Muscqgoes swept down upon
them once, twice, thrice, aud were as
often beaten back with fearful slaughter.
The white men pressed heavily them
until the red warriors were driven almost
upon their villages. At this moment,
through sheer desperation, Muscogecs
rallied, and turned the battle somewhat
in their favor. Kalaya had become sep
arated from his band and was creeping
stealthily through a wood to join them,
when suddenly he came face to face with
one whom he knew in an instant as a
prominent leader of the whites. They
stoo but few feet apart fora moment,
and then as though with mutual tho't,
aud with shout of defiance, they sprang
together. and clenched with a fierce and
deadly grasp The white man was of
gigantic stature, handsome face, and
richly clothed in the halfsoldier, half
Indian custom of the better class Of ira
dors and volunteers Of the border His
sinewy arm wound itself around the body
Kalaya like the folds of the anaconda ;
but in the young chief he had fully met
his match, both in strength and dexter
ty. A few struggles they made, heavipg
backward and forward, for there was no
time for the use of weapons, not even to
draw knives, and then both fell, kalaya
uppermost, with his hand upon the white
mans throat Another minute and the
struggle would have been over, the Mus
cogee victor, when at the instant Tho!uca
came flying through the wood from the
direction of the village. The flying saw
ages had brought intelligence to the vii
lage of their defeat, and Tholuca could
bear no longer the agony of suspense,
but was determined to seek her w'rrior
lover, whether he might be among the
dead or dying. She found him with his
enemy almost inlthe throes of death, aud
with womanly terror and compassion she
was tempted to plead for his life.
"Spare the 'pale-face,' Kalay, and let
him return TO his people that he may teach
them how much more mercitul is the
Muscogee than the white man.
The hand of Kaiaya relaxed upon the
white man's throat, for the request Of
Tholuca was law, and he arose painting to
his feet, and muttered some iudistinct
words of thanks to the maideH who had
given him his life.
But he had seen Tholuca, and her won
drous beauty struck at once all other feel
ing from his breast but desire to possess
her. He stood transfxed gazing will
suddenly born delirium of passion upor
the beautiful girl who bad saved MS life