The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1901-05-22

on hands and knees to serve her
to the latest day of my life.
That day of the last siege of
our fort, while Alice was lost,
as she did demonstrate to us
afterward, she showed more wit
to give us tiding of our stolen
ore, than we to make good use
thereof. She had shot over the
wall, fastened to her arrow, the
words, SC atched in berry-juice
upon piece of white rag
"The White Dove is safe"
She sought for and found the
same afterward.-How this
strange being fell in with the
savages again, after iberating
herself, it hath been her freak
not to tell, but she comes and
goes like n spirit, and some do
say, indeed, they are beginning
to regard her with n sort of SUI
perstitiol.
My sons do get great praise
for their bravery in combating
the common enemy. Such we
must REGARD theua. They have
been long time coming to this,
and the pretended atfront of re-
fusing intermarriage with them
was only preteXt for what
they had long ago considered.
Omayah came with dowpcast
look to visit us again, after the
carrying away and restoration
of Alice. He protests and we
are inclined to believe, truly, he
had nothing to do with the
treachery thereof. He too was
surprised, he says. He adds
that he saw Mary Greenlee's
contrivance for getting the
White Dove away ;and kept his
mouth bang up. Shut tight.
She bears him out in this, but
we cannot tell from her evidence.
At any rate, 1 am willing and
glad to think the boy was not at
fault. He has been the play
fellows of my sons SO long can
but feel attached to him. Tiger
King Processes great penitence,
but III him | have less faith. In
the old l look for more stability,
in the young l look for more
truth. This for red man and
white man. Omayah comes
rarely.
The Rev. Morgan Morgan,
who hath been chiefly instru-
mental in erecting the firs5
Church in this Virginia Valley
takes much interest in ciYilizing
and Christianizing the savage
race, and his labors among them
have not been altogether dis
couraged. Indeed if he might
but win one to the light of the
Bible it would be great gain,
yet | cannot be disabused of my
thought that it is an uphill
work, and that preacher may
always be prepared for an am
bush, even where he thinks he
has gained both ear and heart.
Charles, my New-World child,
as I call him, being the first
born here, is a daring spirit.
The boy lives in the chase and
il the war. Among tho Allie
ghanies he was captured some
time since by a party of Indians,
who took the child on, barefoot,
some two hundred or more of
miles, his poor arms girded be-
hind him and he driven on by
threats and brandishing of
his vile tormentors.
Travelling along bank some
twenty feet high, Charles sud-
denly and by intense muscular
force snapped the chords by
which he was bound, dashed
himself down the precipice into
the bed of a mouutain-torrent
below, and thus effected his es-
cape. Not but that they follow
ed him fast enough, yet he had
some little the advance Of them,
so, leaping the trunk Of tree
which CHANGED to lay PROSTATE
in the way, a sudden failing of
strength did overcome him and
he sank III the weeds and tall
grass which surrounded it.
His pursuers bounded over,
sundry of them almost touch
ing him as they sprang, but God
be thanked they did not slack
en- speed and hurried on still
seeking him.
AS soon as he doomed it safe
he essayed to arise from his
grassy bed, but here was n new
adversary to cope withal-a
huge rattlesnake, lying in dead
ly coil, so near his face he even
must hold his breath, lest the
bare movement caused by in
spir&tion bring the monsters
fangs and his own nose (of
which he hath a goodly allow