Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1884-05-10

out it was his warehouse, in the GEN.
tre ola collection of mounted domes-
tics, seemingly in readiness to under
take some distant journey. The vest
ments of the stranger announced him
to be one who held responsible
situation near the person of the Cap
tain of the Canadas and who, as it
would now seem, finding his errand
of peace frustrated by the fierce i'm
petuosity Of his allies, was content to
become silent and sad spectator of
the fruits of contest that he had
arrived too late to anticipate.
The day was drawing to the close
of it's first quarter, and yet had the
multitude maintained it's breathing
silence since its dawn.
At lenghth the sage of the Della
wares stretched forth an arm, and
leaning on the shoulders of his at
tendants, he arose with an air las feeble
as if another age had already inter-
vened between the man who had met
his nation on the preceding day, and
him who now tottered on his elevated
stand.
"Men of LenapeH' he said in hol-
low tones, d" the face of the Manitto
is behind cloud his ears are shut;
his tongue gives no answer. You see
him not; yet his judgments are before
you. Let your hearts be open, and
your spirits tell no lie. Men of the
Lenape. the face of the Manitto is
behind cloud"
As-this simple and yet terrible an
nunciation stole on the ears of the
multitude, stiffness as deep and
awful, as if the venerated spirit they
worshippel had uttered the words
without the aid of human organs;
and even the inanimate Uncas APP
peared being of life, compared with
the humbled and submissive throng
by whom he was surrounded. AS
the Immediate effect, however, grad
ally passed away, low murmur Of
voices commenced Il sort of chant in
honor of the dead. Though rendered
less connected by many outbreakings,
translation Of their language would
have contained regular descant,
which, in substance, might have
proved to possess IA train of consecu-
tive deus.
A girl, selected for the task by her
rank and qualifications, commenced
by modest illusions to the qualities
of the deceased warrior. She called
him the panther Of his tribe;' and
described him as one whose moccasin
leftno trail on the dews; whose bound
was like the leap of the young fawn;
whose eye was brighter than Il star in
the dark night /; and whose voice, in
battle, was loud as the thunder of the
Manitto.
Then, they, who succeeded, chang
ing their tones to Il milder and still
more tender strain, alluded, with the
delicacy and sensitiveness of women,
to the stranger maiden, who had left
the upper earth at time so near his
own departure, as to render the will
Of the Great Spirit too manifest to be
disregarded.
After which, others again, in due
succession, spoke to the maiden her.
self, in the low, soft language of ten
derness and love. They exhorted her
to be of cheerful mind, and to fear
nothing for her future welfare.
Then, with another transition IN
voice and subject, illusions were
made to the virgin who wept in an
adjacent lodge. They compared her
to flakes Of snow; as pure, as white,
IS brilliant, as liable to melt in the
ierce heats of summer, or conJeal in
the frosts of winter.
During these and similar songs
nothing was audible but the murmurs
of the music; relieved, as it was, or
rather rendered terrible by OCCASION
al bursts of grief which might be call
ed its choruses.
The scout, to whom alone, of all
the white men, the words were intel
ligible. suffered himself to be aroused
ron his nIedtative posture, and bent
his face aside, 10 each their meaning,
as the girls proceeded. But when
they spoke of the future prospects of
Cora aud Uncas, he shook his head,
ike one, who knew the error of Their
simple creed.
Happily for the self-command of
both HAYWARD anil Munro tbav l-na,u