The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1873-08-15

ilOSS lOI tAlc SOfdhttSu snip. uc crew
armed themselves. with guns and cut
lasses to resist any attack that might
be made upon the brig by the con-
stantly increasing birch bark feet,
When voice suddenly came over the
waters, expressing itself in perfectly
correct English:
! ''Is that you, Dick Hubbard Don't
fire! III come aboard" 1t was the
master of the whaling vessel whose
name had been thus Familiarity called
out, and who w0uld not have been
more surprised had the same voice is
sued from the overhanging clouds.
/ Without being able to detect the
speaker among the hundreds of the
occupants of tE5 canoes. he shouted
i'll return at Il venture:
'All right! Come aboard But
who, in Heavens name are YOU ?''
"No matter! You wait Only for
Gods sake don't fire, or every moth
er's son of you will be murdered. 3"
Presently a long canoe, somewhat
gaudily decorated with paint and cary
ings, shot out from the mass Of boats.
and under the guidance. Of Fuegians
with the paddles. the chief standing
on the prov, made it's way to the ship.
The chief sfrang at once on board
the men remaining at their oars. This
person, clad in rough furs, with twist
ed hair and painted face, to every ap-
pearance an Indian, walking immedi-
ately up to Captain Hubbard, and
extending his hand, said
'.Wh kat. Don't know me, Dick ?
Don't know your old rdrtner at War
ren's Gulch in 1855 ?''
-'Heavens and earth - replied the
astonished ship-mastcr, grasping the
offered hand-'is it you, Coll ChiIds
Where did you come from, and what
are You doing here ~
Better ask" responded the other.
chow yOI are to get out of this scrape
ycIt are in. The Fuegians look upon
this ship as their lawful prize. Altho'
| have been their chief for four years
| have not the power TO alter their
nature. But can probably gain their
consent to let You provision YOUR
boats, and those Will take you safely
enough to Londonderry Island, where
you viii find whaIer's homeward
bound..n
As the slip was likely to prove a
wreck, and as a contest with a whole
tribe of sayages, Outnumbcring the
sailors a hundred to one, was sheer
madness. the captain agreed to the
terms, and the disguised white man
prepared to leave the ship.
But You will embark and return TO
America with us ?'' asked Captain
Hubbard, as his former partner was
swinging himself down the ships side.
''Not /, Dick I've been dead to
every body in the United States for
five years, and I don't care to be re
suscitated. I've got my wives and
children here, and think III STAY.
SO gOod-by ~ 49,.
For two years longer did Childs
stay on the desoiate shores, herdino
with rude barbarians, and sharing his
home with ignorant squaws. Over
come at length by entreaties offriends,
he returned and took up his residence
in the city of Washington, where he
lived as Il government clerk for sew
erat years. But he became tired of
civilized life. 1t was tame His
heart was in the forest. He grew dis
end to his life with pistol ball
The romance Of Senator Houston's
life is hardly known to the present
generation and vet it contained enough
to furnish material for half a score Of
novels. His escape from his mother,
when, at the age OF seventeen, he fell
III love with the Indian maiden Too
tooloo (sun- fash) and, following her
TO her home, adopted the habits of
the Cherokees, married her, ana for
three wears, under the name Of Oold-
oteka, hunted aud lished and fought
as Il young Indian brave and acknowl~
edged chief; his unexpected return to
+ his family, grown during his absence,
though still wanting six months of his
legal majority, to that heroic stature
which then, dressed in hunting shirt
and moccasins, and blanket and head
gear, and ever afterWard, however
clothed, made him a man of mark :;
his abandonment, sixteen years later
in life while Governor of Tennessee,
, when his early pranks had been for
gotten in his successes as lawyer and
triumphs as politician, of his young
and accomplished bride the day after
marriage; his resignation of Office,
and winding up of business, and set
tIement of affairs, with the utmost
deliberation, against the most earnest
entreaties of friends and jeers of foes :;
: his securing by deed all his not incon~
siderable property to his mother; his
return, as an Indian chief to the will
derncss. reclaiming his native wife,
and dwelling three years longer with
his tribe; and his sudden departure
at last for 'Fe2as, for the purpose of
becoming 4 herdsman on the prairies
all show clearly enough the large
element of savagism there was in his
! ,.4,r Nn1 vet ha was SuDerEIv