The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1875-02-05

Tor she was always up to behold the rising
OF the sun, and to catch his very first beams
as they appeared over the hilltops, light.
enlng UP the sleeping earth to cheerful
ness and mcrriment. Where was she this
morning The apartment OF the wigwam
which she occupied being searched and
she not there. The next place was TO the
Gill, for very well all knew her layorite
retreat; butno trace Other was found there
One OF the seGrchers happening TO 60
around to the baS" of the Cliff found the
long looked Tor Virginia, cold, and silent,
in death, and what amaZement filled his
bosom, rs he hurried back to inform the
villagers Of the discovery.
Then all ofthe villagers assembled around
the spot where the once beautiful but now
cold and liieless Virginia lay. Women
were crying, and lamentation sounded forth
on every hand. But if they were amazed
at finding Virginia, oh! what borrow struck
the assembly, when Sequin too was discoy-
cred but few PAGES distant; lie, too, cold
and lifeless. Such sorrow and anguish AS
the base of that Cliff witnessed on that sor
rowful morning, it is to he hoped it will
never witness again. Sequiu their chief,
he to whom they went for counsel and
advice; he who was their acknowledged
leader on all occasions, could it be that he
was silent in death His remains all be-
smeared with blood vas their reply.
The liieess forms were carried TO the
trapper village, and the neighboring villa
ges informed Of the death of Scquin, as
well as the lovely Virginia. How the
news spread from village to village, and
from wigwGm to wigwam, and men. wo-
men and children hastened to the trappcr
village to see the honored dead.
Another chief was appointed, and the
council assembled, smoking their long
stcmmed pipes and any one would have
known that something solemn was at hand.
All the particulars were found out as far as
possible, in regard to the deaths, and then
the newly appointed chief arose and ap-
pointed Il day for the funeral, asking all
the Indians to be present on the appointed
occasion. zone grave shall contain both
bodies" said he, Ior as they loved each
other so dearly on earth, do not separate
their mortality, now their spirits have fled
to the happiness beyond The burial day
arrived and the box which contained the
liiIless remains Of the chief and Virginia
was conveyed to the grave, which was at
the foot OF the Cliff, near the spot where
their remains were first found. Then, be-
fore the rude box was let down into the
grave, the chief babe them wait, and 81
lence of five minutes ensued, and oh low
solemn were those minutes to more than
one on this heart-rending occasion Then
he ordered the coffin to be lowered and the
grave to be filled again with the cold, damp
earth When the last shovel full was thrown
in, he again ordered silence, and after few
minutes of silence and awe, lis though the
great Manitou were present, the chiefspoke:
"My friends" said he, sit has pleased
the Good Spirit to remove our friends from
ua, and we deeply feel their loss, but since
it was the will of the Spirit, rest content.
| am about to change the name Of the "Fa-
tai Cliff" for although it has been called
so by our f0retathers, | deem it prudent,
that since this horrible event has taken
place the name be changed, lest some one
else dash over its stupendous heights, and
be destroyed. The name | am about to
give it must hereafter be its one, its only
name, and when we go by it, or behold it
from altar, it must always remind us of this
solemn occasion. The name give it shall
be Lovers Leap. The name Of Fatal Cliff
was never afterwards applied to this pro.
iecting rock by the villagers but, oh what
thronging memories crowded in on the
savage, us the name of Lovers Leap Was
mentioned, and until their dying days, did
the trappcr village Indians, know it by the
name OF Lovers Leap.
Some enquiring mind may ask, "Does
Lovers Leap" still remain or is it among
the things that We're? For well is it known
| lot l,n l,u l,;,
back toward the setting sun, if indeed they
are not entirely extcrminated. 1reply yes
the rock called Lovers Leap still remains
But is the country surrounding this won,
derful rock, and which was once occupied
by the Susqueliannas, not inhabited
reply, that although the war.whoop of tho
redskins is never more heard, that this
country is still inhabited. Another race
from another part of the globe, found ou
where the redskins lived, and they fell il
love with the country; and notwithstand
ing they had sufficient land in the country
from whence they came, they made wal
upon the innocent redskins, even killed
them on their own lands, in their OWL
houses, and took possession Of the same.
At last they succeeded in driving the In
dians away altogether, and then more pale
faced brothers arrived; and they built
houses in the forests, and cut down the
trees, until more joined them, and ther
they moved the forests rs with q scythe
and to day, where the trapper village stoot
stands tlourishing town, Of an industr
Gus, thrifty people, who have erected build
ings dedicated entirely to this "Grea
Manitou." An cnterprising people, VIII,
have regular employments, and pursue then
steadily, no one daring 10 modest them, o
make them afraid. They are an ipgcniou
people, and have inventions by which the,
may be transported from one place to an
other at the rate of a mile q minute, Al
invention by which they can communicate
thought around tic world in the twinklint
Of an eye.
: Mcthinks sometimes if the Susquehanna
could only visit what was once their happ,
hunting grounds, and be permitted to roy
, from place to place among them, wha
! wonder and admiration would startle then,
and how changed would seem the condi
| ton of the country now, with what it wa
then Yea, L0cer's leap still remains
Hundreds ofpale faces pass Just below it
tremendous height each day. Indeed, ther
is q street for the public nearly beneath il
and as the many pedestrians pass, there j
9 scarcely one who ever thinks of the TRACE
dy which once took place from it. 1t stand
, out overlooking the murmuring waters O
the grand and noble Susquebanna, who's
e course is ever onward, ever southwark, ant
:. overlooks the town which rests beneath it
(Polt Dcposit) and when the town
c wrapped in midnight slumberit still stand
! as sentinel in its very prominent position
:, Not II boy in the town but has made it
Il visit, and many an hour have we reste
n on its peak of hot day, quafling III
e smoke of a havana and catching the gen
tie zephyr as il came from the fresh am