The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1865-02-10
AN INDIAN LOVE STORY.


In Gen. SCOTS recently published autobiog-
raphy, among his experiences in the Black
Hawk war, occurs the following romantic ep-
sode:
The summons for the conference was now
given to all the tribes and obeyed, and the grand
councils of war for the settlement of the trea-
ties commenced. While these were pending,
demand came up, from judge of Illinois, some
sixty miles below, for an Indian murderer, his
name unknown, but who had been distinctly
traced TO the camp of the great body Of Sacs
and Foxes whom the chiefs had contrived to
hold in neutrality during the recent hostilities,
Influenced mainly by Keokuk, not hereditary
cliof, and only q principal brave or warrior,
the sense bearer orator and treasurer of con-
federacy-The demand was communicated to
this remarkable
After little musing, the painful truth of
the story seemed to flash upon him With
candor he stated the grounds of his fears.
/ Young brave of some twenty years of age, the
son OF distinguished chief, had long sought
TO marry handsome young sqaw, the daughter
Of another famous chief, bot the maiden repul.
sed the lover, applying TO him the mo st oppro-
brious epihet-s9uaw-he never having taken
a scalp, killed grizzly bear, nor, by surprise,
robbed an enemy of his arms, horse and wife
Hence, she said her lover was not a 6rare but
Il woman. Her sympathies were, moreover,
With Black Hawk-her only brother having run
off with that reckless chief
All these particulars were not vet known to
the wise treasurer; for he had only been sur
priscd at the change Of conduct in the belle Sar-
age, who had SO suddenly married her lover.
Keokuk, in good faith said lie wo1ld inquire,
FOR his great care had been to save his people
from destructive war and entire spolation
with which Black Hawks conduct had caused
them to be threatened
The next day he called at headquarters and
whispered that his fears had proved prophetic;
that the happy bridegroom had, for the good
of the contederacy, confessed himself 20 be the
! guilty party, and was at hand but begged the
General to repeat, in a full council, the demand,
etc. This was accordingly done, and as soon
as SCOTS peroratiun-I demand the murderer !
was interpreted, the Young Apollo stood up
and said: am the man With a violent stamp
and voice Scott called out, the guard. A SER
geant, with dozen grenadier5 rushed in, seiz-
/ ed the offender, and carried him off
When the blacksmith began to place and rivet
irons upon him, lie struggled furiously. 1t took
| several Of the guard to hold him down. He
said he did not come forward to be ironed he
did not wish to be tried, that he preferred 10 be
shot at once. He was sent down to the ILL
nois court then in session, put on his trial, and
notwithstanding the strong circumstantial evil
dence, and that it was proven he had acknowl-
edged the killing in a hand-to-hand fight,
tricky lawyer, we'll provided with the means
of bribing, no doubt by the chiefs of the con-
federacy, obtained from the jury verdict of
not guilty.
The acquitted had yet to pass another orde-
alone Of fire and water. 4 swift horse,
halfway between the court and the Mssissip-
pi, Ga few hundred yards off, had been provi-
ded for ihe occasion; frontier men always have
;heir rifles in hand. and their horses ready
Tie lawyer hastened his client out Of court, and
gained for him good start. ely, young man,
or your dearly bought Helen will soon be a
widow = In minute followed by some whiz-
zing shots he was in the saddle. In another,
''horse and rider were plunged into ''the great
father Of waters" swimming side by side.
: Now came up furiOusv a dozen rlhemen, who
threw away their lead at the too distant game.
The last news Of the romantic, represented him
as the happy father OF a thriving family of
s'young barbaFians,' by more than "Dacian
mother''-ali far beyond the Mississippi.
ez-A good threshing machine for family use
the broomstick. Every wife should have
one.
eFLove and good dinner are said to be
the only two things which change a mans
character
/ Sr-0no Of ba toacts dronE a raaapf cain.
braion, was-''Woman! ,he requires no eu-