The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1878-06-01
The Tooth Anniversary Of the Battle
/, and Massacre of Wyoming.

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There Is woman, widowed, gre, and old,
h Who tells you where the foot Of battle stepped
Upon their day OF massacre. She told ....
. Its tale. aud pointed to the spot, and wept,
| Whereyn her father and FIVE brothers slept
SOuudess, the bright-dreamed sumbers Of
| the brave, .# .Htr ..tL .....
When all the land funeral mourning kept
And there wild laurels planted on the grave
BY Natures hand, III air their pale red bios
| SONS wave. ls H.#a
And on the margin OF yon orchard hill
| Are marks where time worn batuiements have
| been,
And IN the tall grass traces linger still
OF arrow friese md wedged Jqvphn." z
1 Five hundred OF her brave that valley green
1rod on the morn In soldier spirit gay;
4 But twenty lived tel The nOon-dav scene grf
| And where are now the twentvl Passed away.
| Has death no triumph hours save on the battle
l. day s' -Fatz.Green Hdtteck.
The 3rd of July, 1873, will complete the
century since the fearful battle and massacre
of Wyoming desolated this fair valley, His
tSrian and poet have alike preserved the
picture of that dark and bloody scene in all
its lurid shades-the stern reality of facts
/ across which falls the glowing light of ro-
nance making Wyoming's soil to be revered
as classic and sacred ground. ssh.
rIt is eminently fitting then, as the huhd-
red years are rounded up, that the descend
ants of those brave men should appropriate
ly commemorate the day which saw their
fathers seal their devotion to the cause of
freedom in torture and death, and conse-
crate anew, with eloquence and song, the
ground on which they were strewn in man
ly battle, or tortured and slain in treacher-
GUS surprise. 40 - ta CT AL Is ".
In consonance with this, the 3rd and 4th
of July next will witness Memorial Ser
vice in honor of the day and the heroic
dead, worthy alike of the brave Colonists
and their children, and the quiet wales of
Wyoming aud the busy streets of Wilkes
Barre will re-echo with the recital of the
thrilling story by orator and poet, with the
thunders Of artillery, with the tramp of
| thousands, and with the stirring music of
martial melody. ..... .-...F
Over the plain where the battle commehc-
ed at historic Wintermoot, ending at "Queen
Esther's Bloody Rock" the procession will
pass, listening to descriptive address, while
at the latter the oration will be delivered
| which tells of the surrender, the broken faith
of the treaty, the horrid butehery, and the
wild hurrying to and fro of the terror-strick-
en- women and children and aged men, to
escape the torture of fire and the ruthless
scalping knife, and their untold sul1erings
as they buried themselves far over the
mountain in the "shades of Death" At the
Monument, erected by the unselfsh devo-
ton of the women Of Wyoming, nearly half
a century bgo, other and fitting exercises
will be held, which will close the Memorial
Service of the first day.
On the second day which happily COM
ihemorates the nations birthday, the scene
will be transferred to the city of Wilkes
Barre, then as now the important town of
the valley. Here the Memorial Service will
be trRnsposed into one of celebration and reA
joicing, that out of the suffering and afflicA
ton of that terrible day have come peace
and prosperity, and out of its bitter defeat
and cruel massacre, deathless victory.
The history of the Valley will be fifty and
beautifully illustrated in a moving pageant,
under the command of Col. Stanley Wood
ward, as Chief Marshal, IMPLYING the sever
al important epochs, commencing with the
aboriginal period when the Leni Lenapes
held possession of Wyoming, by native
descendants of that tribe. The introduction
of Christianity by zinzendorf will be por-
trayed by the historical tent OF skins,within
which will be seen the Moravian pioneer
and the legendary serpenb followed by
groups representing the struggle known as
the "Pennamite War" In the Revolution
ary period will be given the "Battle and
Massacre" which will receive an added en-
phasis from the presence Of the whole or o
| portion of the descendants of the Six Nations,
who come from their Reservation in New
York to participate in the sham battle illus
trative of the fierce struggle in which their
fathers worked their cruel will hundred
years ago. The first agricultural epoch will
be followed by tableau emblematic of the
War of 1912, and this by one eminently ap-
propriate to the discovery and use of anthra-
cite coal, in which wiIlbe seen the first CRATE
ever used in the Valley, filled with burning
coal, before which the owner Judge Fell,
shall be seen persuading its combustion with
pair of bellows The era of the post rider
and the old fashioned stage coach will form
a striking feature of the pageant, the driver,
jeff Swainbank and his coach being the
last to transfer passengers and mails over
the mountains prior to the coming of the
"iron horse" Following this comes the
second agricultural period, and that by the
few brave survivors of the Mexican War, in
which epoch Wyoming has a peculiar in
terest, in that the Valley sent forth as her
quota, one company-the Wyoming Artil-
lerists-of the two regiments furnished by
the State. The late civilwar will be proper
ly represented, and the pageant will close
with a tableau fortelling the future of the
Valley. .a ..
In addition to this, which will be living