Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1883-08-17
A Brave Girl.

In the year 1881, while Clinton and
Washington were watching each others
movements near New York, Gen. Schuy-
Ter, having resigned his command, on
account of some unjust charges against
him, was staying at his house, which
then stood alone outside the stockade OF
wall Of Albany. The British command.
er, therefore, seeing his opportunity
sent John Walter Meyer, with party Of
Tories and Indians, to capture Gen
Schuyler.
When they arrived at the outskirts Of
the city, they learned from Dutch Ia.
borer that the generals house was
guarded by six soldiers. The Dutchman
the minute the band was out of sig BIT
took to his legs and warned the general
of their approach.
Soon after, a servant announced that
there was strange man at the back
door who wished to see the general.
Schuyler, understanding the trap
gathered his family in one Of the upper
rooms. and giving orders that the doors
and windows be barred, fired pistol
from one of the top-story windows tc
alarm the neighborhood.
The guards, who had been lounging in
the shade OF tree, started to their feet
at tho sound OF the pistol; but alas, toe
late! for they found themselves sur.
rounded by crowd of dusky figures,
who bound them hand and foot be fore
they had time to resist.
And now you can imagine the little
hat Ior
stairs; the sturdy general, standing res.
olutely by the door, with his gun in his
hand, and his black slaves gathered
around him, each with some weapon
and at the other end of the room. the
women huddled together, some weep
ing, some praying. Suddenly, crash
is heard which chills the very blood
and brings wildly to each ones mind
the tales of Indian massacres so common
at that day. The band had broken in at
one of the windows.
At that moment, Mrs. Schuyler
springing to her feet, rushed toward the
door; for she remembered that the
baby, only a few months old, having
been forgotten in the hurry of flight
| was asleep on the first floor. But the
general, catching her in his arms, tolc
her that her life was of more value than
the child's. and that. if anyone must CO.
he would. While, however, this gener
! Gus struggle was going on, their third
daughter, gliding past them, was soon a
! the side of the cradle.
Ali was as black as night in the hall
except for small patch of light Just at
| the foot Of the stairs. This came from
the dining-room, where the Indians
| could be seen pillaging the shelves, pull
| ing down the china, and quarreling with
one another over the ill-gotteu booty.
| How to get past this spot was tie
| question, but the girl did not hesitate
! She reached the cradle unobserved, and
| was just darting back with her precious
burden when, by ill-luck, one Of the
! savaees happened to see her. Whlz
went his sharp tomahawk within few
| inches of the baby's he ad. and, cleayin!
| an edge of the brave girls dress, stuck
deep into the stalr-rail.
| Just then one of the Tories, seeing he
! fit by, and supposing her to be a sci want
| called after her: "Wench. wench
where is your master?" She, stopping
| for a moment, called back, "Gone K
alarm the town. and, hurrying on, wa
soon safe again with her father-up
| stairs. :. "a
And now very nearly all the plunde
/ having been secured, the band was abor
] to proceed to the real object of the ez
! petition, when the general, raisin
/ one of the upper windows, Gale
/ out in lusty tones, as