Connecticut western news., 1882-04-05

hat and vest, he proceeded on his way once more, taking with him the uncon- stunned portion of the snake as provision.
 That night his mother again appeared to him and pointed in 8 particular direc- tion, smiling hopefully. Rising with 8 strong faith that he was nearly at the end of his perilous journey, he strug- gled on until the afternoon, when he saw for the first time human habita- tion; it proved to be the house of friend, from whence he proceeded to Albany, and thence to Schenectady. Here he found his wife and child living with some relatives, and the meeting between them may be imagined, but no pen could describe it. For long time she had suffered all the horrors of fear full suspense, and it was not until the night upon which he had seen his mother that she obtained 8 glimpse of relief. On this occasion she dreamed that she saw him striving to make his way through dense wood toward her, while white hand appeared to be lift | ing aside the thick branches to aid his progress. When she awoke it was with the firm belief that they would eventu. ally be reunited, as the event proved.
 Return we now to Frederick, who suffered even more than his brother.
 He had made many efforts, to no purpose, to find Jacob, who, when he fell, would not permit Frederick to stop and help him, and in seeking him had run many risks. At length he crossed the Sorel, killed an OK, made some jerked beef, and for seven days travelled along the eastern shore of Champlain without i'll luck. But on the morning of the eighth day he awoke sick 8 pleurisy was upon him-a fever in his | veins-pain in every limb. It began to rain, also, and there he lay, this other young hero, not far from his brother, who at that very moment in that very neighborhood, was nursing his rattle snake bite; there he lay, knowing not that any one was near him, for three days on the earth, in the summer rain, and his blood all on fire. For three days, we say, he lay thus helpless. On the fourth day he was better, and tried to eat little of his beef, but it was spoiled. He managed, however, to crawl to frog-pond near by, put aside the green coating of the pool and drank. He caught frogs, too, and feasted, though not Frenohman in any of his tastes, probably. There he lay for four teen days and nights, and having re- signed all hope of life, he put his hat upon pole, so that it might be seen from the lake. It was seen by ship passing at the time, and he was found by his enemies helpless and speechless, and carried back to h1s prison again, and not only to prison, but to it's deep- est, darkest dungeon, and there for fourteen months, in irons so heavy that they ate into the flesh upon his legs so that 1t came off to the bone. And what did that young heroic spirit do? Did it break down under the weight of cap- tivity and suffering? Not so; it was of such stuff as the spirit of our fathers was made. He thought of his home, of his brave father and bro thers, of his fair sister, and one not falrer, perhaps, but still dearer, and wondered if they had survived the cruel chances of the long an d bloody war. Then he longed to be free, and determined to live and escape from his prosecutors.
 At last a chance offered; he with others was transferred to an island above Montreal, in the rapids of the St. Lawrence. There he organized plot to escape which failed, but finally
 jumped with a companion from the
 island into the rapids of the great river.
 Our hero and his comrade swan for four
 miles through those rapids, navigating
 among the sharp rocks and fearful shoals
 with their best skill. Landing on the
 north side of the St. Lawrence, they
 fought club battle with a village full
 of Canadian Frenchmen {; conquered } killed calf~~and seizing 8 canoe, tried , to cross to the south side of the river They were above the swift and danger ous rapids of the Cedars, where nc canoe can live long unguided, wher , their paddle broke in the middle of tn.
 stream and once more destruction seemed certain. A fallen tree, in thu , branches of which they caught, savet a them, however and crossing the nex
 day delow the falls, they struck into tn v forest to seek the Hudson.
 3 For twelve more days they tolled on s almost in state of insanity, dreadfull Q lacerated, and living entirely on will a roots. At last they reached Schenec D tady half naked, and looking like will :- savages here Frederick hoped to fin s Miss Ellis to whom he had long bee r devoted, and also some members of hi @ family. But on inquiry he found tha b his father had removed back to Marble n town, Ulster County, his younges ,t brother had become major in tn @ American Army, and Miss Ellis, hi |, bright, sparkling, beautiful Mary, ha d gone no one knew whither.
 B. Disappointed, and sick at heart, Fret
 erick waited only to obtain clothes an le means to pursue his journey, and the h took his way to Marbletown, the res ); dence of his father, feeling angry wit to himself at not experiencing the joy ], should, at knowing that his family WI y alive and we'll. The young soldier WI le had shared with h1m so many danger a. and from whom he had now become il to separable, accompanied him, and t.