The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1879-05-09
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Uness the hail should lead us,too much
out OF tbe:way, we will wait for them there
II you do not End us there, look for three
columns OF smoke, ranging north and south
and niake sli haste to come up' .
Fielding made no reply but nfittina
spurs to, his horse, turned bis head to nm
west, and was soon out of sight, while
Edgar snd White, now left alone, took their
way as rapidly as was possible up the banks Of
the stream. 1t was asmall force with which
70, attack twenty savages but, had the odds
been ten times greater Edgar's easerness
and Whites zeal would have felt no check
What they might not effect by the strone
hand they trusted to stratagcm to compass
and even the savage was no match for the
ranger, in cunning.
The two adventurers had goue scarcely
a mile when they were brought suddenly to
halt. The trail was about equally divided
-one half the party keeping up the bed
of the stream, and the other half issuing
toward the left, and leading off westward.
This was embarrassing. The prisoner could
not be with both divisions and it was cx-
tremely difficult to determine which to fol-
low.
eve are at fault" said Edgar.
There is sign which may set US right"
exclaimed White, pointing to little strip
of some white stuff which futtered upon a
bush, but few PAGES from the wafer
1.-The briars have befriended us at need"
Edgar rode rapidly to the place. A
narrow strip-evidently torn from Jane
bridal dress-hung fluttering upon briar,
as if caught in passing. He halted at the
distance Of several yards, and cautiously
approached on foot. closely scrutiniziug the
ground at every step. The horses had
passed, without doubt, near enough to brush
against the briars; but directly beneath
the fragment, q small dry twig was broken,
and the leaves about it were fattened to tho
ground.
ga mocassined foot has been set there"
he muttcred. And on directing the exam
inatien to the fragment, his suspicion was
confirmed, that it not accident but design
which placed it there. The fabric was not
drawn, as it would have been, had it been
torn inpassing; and it bore marks of large
hand. than James.
"They arc trying to outwit us, White"
said the captain "but they don't know
with whom they have to deal. This little
piece of muslin is Redskin lie-though
itSid come from Jane Fielding's dress.
We must keep up the stream, and let those
decoys go on their way"
cit has been ascertaincd," says Chateau.
BRAND, "that the white man, in America,
is capable of enduring more hardships and
privation than the Indian, and is decidedly
his superior even in his own mode of war
fare :" and thence be deduces sundry pro.
positians about differences in race, and other
Improbable speculations. But the facts,
about which there is no dispute, instead of
being the result of generic distinctions, are
the effects of much later cause--supcrior
intellectual culture. Not that the rangers
of those days were highly educated men, in
the ordinary acceptation Of the term; bu,
any degree in the scale Of civilization, by the
providence Of God possesses measureless
advantages-in all the pursuits oflife-ovel
every lower grade. And though these were
decidedly ignorant men, their evident supe.
riority over their enemies-without contra
diction in terms-was the fruit of their
Intelligence.
We cannot linger to detail the minute
and. to other men, imperceptible signs. or
the acute and logical reasonings upon these,
which led the adventurers unerringly upon
their way, though all would illustrate SO
clearly the principle above. They followed
tho trail after it left the stream, several
miles toward the north when, on entering
the broken country on the head waters Of
the Piasan, it yerged suddenly to the left
and led, almost Gas the bird fies," directly
toward the Illinois river A little before
sunset they reached the banks of this tran.
quill stream and but moments examira.
tion was sufficient to determine that the fugi
tives had crossed here some hours before.
But this was not the only inference that
Edgar drew from the signs of their halt
The footprints of several horses led off frou
the river, in different directions but it wa,
in that uncertain winding way which ami
mails take while grazing, and from tn,
extent Of these paths, it was evident that
halt Of some duration had been made
While minutely examining the ground, tn,
captain suddenly discovered the print of
small shoe, and following it little aside
he approached the river bank, and discoy
cred the impress of both of Jane feot in tn
soft loam. Directly over these, upon vii
low branch, hung small she'll comb