The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1871-05-05

completely crushed. lie endured the
pain with Spartan Indifference, and up.
preaching me laid his hand on my head,
saying: ugh Much brave squdw-save
MOckonowhR's life! MockonowhR thank
ful. Big medicine man, Mockonowha.
White squAw big handsome-shall be
Mockonowha's papoose, ugh" and turn
ing from the path into the forest, he LETT
INC there alone.
This last suggestion somewhHtfrightcn-
ed me, and FASTENED into the settlement.
MockonOwha presented himself some
days later ut our cabin, and between him
and myself there sprung up friendship
that lasted during his life, and which was
no less remarkable than happy.
BY his instrumentality was once able
TO save all the cattle Of the settlement,
when some ofthe reckless young braves
from the Ohio reservation had returned
for the express purpose Of stealing them
away. OF this incident I may fell you
some other time, but my purpose now Is
To state most singular occurrence that
took place some years later, after my
friend Mockopowha had been gathered to
his fathers in the new hunting ground
which lies beyond the shadow Of the Val
ley Of Death. l have stated that our
friendship lasted rs long rs he liyed-I
have every reason To believe that his care
for me did not end with his earthly ca
rcer. He was being Of peculiar nervous
organization, and l am sure possessed
mesmeric powers in most wonderful dc.
gree That they were accidentally de.
VelOped, and that he never understood
the source or extent Of them, am con-
WINGED. First, because the jugglery Of
which animal magnetism forms the basis
was never reduced to anything Ikea sys-
TEN with the Indians; and second, because
M0ckonowha regarded the function like
one who held n divine mystery, or the
possessor Of the key Of the secret Of ON.
impotence.
To this I have TO attribute his success
in the treatment OF certain diseases, for lie
kneW nothing, comparatively, Of physic.
lie seemed afraid himself Of the power
lie possessed, and could seldom be pur.
suaded to display II for the satisfaction Of
idle curiosity. Nevertheless with me he
was different, and once we were well &C.
quainted he never tired Of trying expert.
ments, or performing wonders TO touch
my inquisityeness or astOnish my Credu.
| lily. This was Of course done clandes.
timely, for / understood the mystery then
no better tllRn himself, and l knew tho
sense Of the superstitious settlers too well
to let them or my parents get ear OF a
mystery was sure they would pronounce
wiICh.Ctalt. suppose you can scarcely
credit ut this day, that when your grand.
mother, seventy years ago, was forced to
leave her baby at home while she ran to
neighbors cabin, she always hung n
horseshoe on the doOr.latCh, to keep the
witches from coming in md strIngliDg
the little one in its cradle. There are
plenty Of women, not near so old as |,
who, il they were not ashamed, might
confess having done the same thing. But
am drawing slowly to my story. Five
or SIX years had passed since had saved
MockOnowha's life after tho dreadful
thunder storm. Two years MOckon
nowha had been dead, and In that
time | had become q wife and mother.
In the choice ola husband, have every
reason TO believe, the influence of the
spirit Of MOclunowha WINS manifested, to
save me from a union that must Of neCes.
sity have cmbittCred existence and rem.
dered my life wretched.
know this Is heterodoXy, but II has
been a source Of happy thought to me,
aud can see nothing prcjudicial TO the
recognition Of Divine 0mnipotence that
God should use a medium we can recOg-
nize, TO show us u truth we ought to TN.
dCrstand. ltsurely was the influence Of
MockOnowha that guided me 10 the rivers
bank so late In the evening. ltsurely
was his hand that led me down ils course
until / stood In the shadow OF clump OF
Cedars, close By, that covered fiat.bOat
that was moOred near the mouth oil the
creek. IkRO1 ii was his voice that said:
"There, Elizabeth |" when they drew the
red curtain from the window and revealed
to Inc, John Maxwell, my lover, my aifl-
anced, with my parents fond approval,
carousing' with beaslly drunkards, aililiaS
ting with cutthroats and gamblers, the
nOisiest and prolanest Of them all.
A month later | WIS married, but not
to John Maxwell. He made IN oath to
take revenge, but | regarded It rs l did
him, with scOrn. l lived happily. My
husband prOspered In moderate way,
and the city, we had begun to call It
city by this time, for like every other
place in the valley Of the Ohio, its pre-
tentions were greater than to-day. The
prospects at that time even warranted to
some extent these great expectations, for
the tide Of immigration then began 10 roll
in upon us, which outside causes after
wards checked and turned in another di.
rectiOn. The city, as l was about TO say,
began TO spread; there were already
nearly q hundred cabins. John Maxwell,
when he became better known, was more
thoroughly identified with the class with
which had so &dvCrtently, for my own
happiness, surprised HIM. ] regretted this
sincerely, for he was fellow OF natural
fine appearance, and. for that day at least,
he was well educated. l could not but
SEQ however that bis morals were hope
lcssly depraved. | had liYed happy
wife so long that had quite lorgottenhis
threat, though at first 1t had caused me
great fear. l lorebOre to mention it tony
husband, fearing to prccipitate quarrel
between them,
Ithappened one day, three or four
months after my first babe was born, that
my husband went down the river on bust
ness. think 1t was TO examine coal
bed that had been discovered in some one
Of the many runs that empty into the
Ohio.
1t seems stranger now, when millions
Of bushels are taken from beneath our
city monthly, that the settlers ut that time
did not know there was coal in the vicin.
Lity-that, in fact, it existed both under
and above US. But you must remember
that these hills were then covered with
timber, and the sides sloped smoothly TO
the foot, and left no breaks such as now
lin the ouarries and gullies that the rains