Charles City intelligencer. [volume] (Charles City, Floyd County, Iowa) 1864-1866, 1866-03-22

iH uumDie tone, Will not now Cnas
tise this girl as she merits. May
ask your name, sir 2"
Henri Du Poncey, lieutenant in tn
musqueteers of the king"
By this time, Daindasee had divine,
that she had been rescued from the in
dignity and pain Of flegsing. am
casting herself at Du Poncey's fee,
she poured forth her thanks in her ma
tive tongue, while her father and hi
fellow-captives raised cry of JOY
Margry bit his upper lip with rage
until the blood ran down bis grizzly
beard.
Raising Daindasee, the young Officer
lost no time in removing the fetters
from the Iroquois under Captain Mar
gry's charge and went to the Other
galleys to carry out his liberation
That night, the captives were placed
together, furnished with more comfor
table clothing. and better fed than they
had been during their toilsome captivi
ty. They knew, also, that the French
missionaries among the Indians had
procured their liberation, yet they
could but regard Du Poncey as their
liberator.
Strange to say, the gay young off,
Ger, who had proved impregnable to
the beauties of the court at Versailles.
felt strange witchery in the stealthy
glances of Daindasee's lustrous orbs.
And she, as she lay on her mat that
night in the hated prison-house, for the
last time. felt her preserver was dear
to her untutorcd heart. About three
weeks afterwards, the captives were
sent home. aud dnring this time Du
Poncey bad basked in the sunlight of
Daindasee's azure smiles. without
even thinking that he loved her, while
to her the world seemed brighter and
fairer than before. And so they par
ted--he to render an account of his
mission to the king-she to return to
her forest wilds.
Two years passed away, and Henri
Du Poncey visited Canada as an aid
de.camp to Count Frontenac, the gov
ernor-general. Had the truth been
known, it would have appeared that
he was induced to seek his position
from desire to once again see the
rescued galley.slave whose beauty
was indelibly impres sed upon his
heart
The accounts given of the savages
by the Canadians were not, how
ever, very flattering, aud he was at
times shocked by the narratives OF
the ficndish forocity with which they
carried on warfare. OF all the off.
cials at Quebec, only one offered any
palliating circumstances for this Inii.
an barbarism. This apologist for the
red man had, strange to say, been a
terrible sufferer at their hands: a party
having burned his country-Aouse, and
murdered his family some years pre-
vious yet he declared that they had
been provoked 10y an uncaled for as
sault made by some French fur ira
ders upon their village. When war
against the Iroquois aud Hurous was
declared, this same Monsieur De Boul-
iaye alone voted may"
Henri Dn Poncey was sent out in
command of a company which formed
the advance guard of the army of oc-
cupation,' and ere they had fairly en-
tered into the hunting grounds Of their
foes, they fell into an ambush. The
French fought bravcly, but the Ifo-
quois outnumbered them, and Du Pom
cey, badly wounded, was among the
prisoners taken TO the Indian village.
The conquerors made their entry in
triumph, chanting songs Of victory,
while the prisoners were surrounded
by crowd of women who scourged
them with insensible brutality. Du
Poncey, as the head man, was the first
doomed. He was stripped and paint
ed black, after which he was bound to
stake with green withes, and sur.
rounded by piles of wood. Then the
boys of the village were permitted to
shoot their arrows at him to multiply
his tormcnts, while the warriors stood
ready to reproach him as coward If
groan escaped his lips 1t was a
terrible agony-the forerunner of an
awful death"
At length the torch was applied
the flames began to rear their forked
tongues, and their destined victim had
taken his last look at the beautiful
earth, when shrill war whoop rang
through the air! Another moment,
aud band of warriors rushed up to
the stake. scattering the combustibles,
and unbinding the victim, who fell in
sensible into the arms opened to re-
ceive him.
The torturers, furious at this inter-
ruption. ran for their weapons, but
soon found that the rescuers were of
their own nation-the chosen warriors
of the brave Owreouharc, an esteem
ed cLieftain.
Brothers I" said he, as soon as
silence was restored, when was
the captive of the pale faces, and
made to paddle their heavy canoe,
Daindasee shared my fate. She would
have been whipped-wronged-per.
chance killed. but this yonng pale-face
saved her. We all owe much to him
do any thirst for blood? Ii so, Owre,
ouhare is ready. Let me die, but this
young pale-face must live.
This oration based upon the prima-
ry. principle of Indian justice. met
the'approval of the tribe, Du Poncey
was carried to the largest wigwam,
where every attention was lavished
upon him, and in few days he was
convalescent.
Daindasee was his nurse. Not the
scantily clad galley-slave, but the
daughter of great chief. tall. erect
round-limbed and graceful. Her blue
eyes lit up features less strongl,
marked than is usual among the Indi
ans, aud her dress although fantastic
was elegant.
A month passed. during which tim.
Daindasee became sufficiently verse;
in the French language to understand
aye, aud to reciprocatc-the ferycn