Crawfordsville Daily Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 27 June 1891 — Page 2

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"Red Matth* «tatnps hi* font. and nations feel the shock "-Myron, 1L KKK i,hi' lilack water river pours its tributary title into Lake Ontario, on tin* site of tho present city of Oswego, stood liu* stone fort from which it O.ori os its name. On the opposite sitlo of the river was a smaller fort or block house named Ontario, perhaps \ulder than its neighbor, and buiit for a trading post ami a refuse for the settlers of the region when threatened by sav-••-aires.

The union jack of Kti«jland floated over rho stone structure, and the cannon primly pointing from its walls, the measured tramp of sentinels, attested tho vigilance t»f the garrison. It was the spring of the year, and a cold wind blew over the lake, piling the cakes of ico on top of each other with monotonous and prating sound and the forest, which stood in a wide semicircle behind the forts, was still bare of leaf and blossom. On the beach in front of the fort two voting men 'v«ro standing, one of whom .varried a musket on bis shoulder: at ..his feet lay half.a-, dozen canvas back -lucks.

Apparently in answer to a remark of bis companion lie said "1 beg pardon, Colonel, but surely the monotony of garrison duty in a wilderness like this Vniight excuse a little temerity, as you -all it, and you yourself could not object to a venison steak or a nicely-cooked duck, just to vary the vulgar menu of salt pork or beef. Uelieve me, I have taken greater risks for less satisfactory results.*' "I doubt it not." replied tho Colonel, smiling gravely 'but in view of the crisis which 1 think is approaching I can not alford to exchange a bravo man even for a mess of pottage." "This prize, however." said the first spoaker. 'cost nothing but powder and lead. I shot them as they flew over the fort this morning on their annual transit to the north." "We must not be lulled to a false serenity." said Colonel Mercer, unheeding the last remark. "Yonder sea of ice .-protects us from open attack, but w*o '.must g-uard against surprise from tho forest."

The duck-hunter pointed with his '.'hand to a long triangular line of emigrant .fowl just clearing tho trees in ^heir flight and making for the lake. "(.»Mose." he whispered, "tired and flying loiv. They will come within range/"

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Willi short, plaintive cries and heavy :t!appinf of ivinjfs the Mock passed overhead. A sharp .report, and one came whirlinff down. "See. Maiden." said Mercer, pointing to tlio bird wliicli first a it railed his attention and which now came fluttering helplessly to earth.displaying an arrow '.-.ntickiliff.in its In-east. "Hie redskin who ^ped: t4iat shaft is not far off. for t.he ijird 0ftu'd")!ot liiiye flown far with such :l "Our retreat, is? fiut:,: off I" exclaimed'

Marden. riujetiiotisly..'• .N'o. the eoioinand.in of Xho forlvUVIlir J'.ucHaii sok'miiity. "'Our trust is in l:iod.'? "i.i us lie tiiaiikftil,. however,. that the.iMineii's'iifriAv has given warninp of ililsiK't'sen.-e and added a fat .irnose to the eorhlistssariaf. de par linen t,'V .s:ud -Ma I'lleu.iiiifM'fi'iiny.

The drums bent. for parade and drill, and the soldiers of New Kiiulaml bej_'an 'to form by companies on tho level ground in front of the fort.

Inured in hardship and danger from infancy, tlio men, though young, were veterans, a match for the savage in his native forest ami the Frenchman in the open fli id. True to their home trainithey were grave and decorous in their deportment, and whether oil tho .march or in garrison, no profane jest or ribald song mingled with tho toil or idleness of the J'uritan soldiers.

After parade the men amused thera-.-elTes with athletic exercises until sunset, when the sound of a buglo brought them within the walls and the gates were closed for tho night. As the evening deepened and the stars came out, tho surroundings of this isolated stronghold became more marked in their savage sternness. The forest rose like a black, impenetrable wall, forming a •semicircle, tho extremes of which •touched the lake: the dark river gliding

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between fort and block-houso and catching evanescent beams of light from the windows and loop-holes of those dim and ghostly sentinels of a plutonian shore.

The shadow of a dream without its silence. The never-ceasing wash of tho waves upon the strand, the crash and grinding of the ice floes, the sighing of the wuid 111 the tree-tops, and the baying of wolves in pursuit of prey, lent a demoniac reality to the picture.

The interior of the block-house presented scene in strong contrast to that without. 11v the light of a lire of resinous pine women were knitting, children sleeping peacefully 011 blankets or bear skins, while men smoked and told stories of adventure or speculated on the probabilities of the future if tho royal troops should or should not come to their relief "I wish it was Colonel Washington and his rangers instead of them sassy red coats that was coming. The grass wouldn't grow under fiis feet. "Mind, 1 don't doubt that woeau whip the Frenchmen ourselves, and then I vote that we go and hunt up the l'nglish troops and lick thnn for not getting here iu time." This suggestion was favorably received, the popular belief being that one ranger was a match for three Englishmen. "1 served under Johnson at Crown 1'oint." continued tho speaker, a weather-beaten and soldier-like man. "lioneral IMeskan commanded tho French and Indians, and, if we had been Knglish troops, led thickheaded Knglish ofllcers. I wouldn't bo here It'll the story. As it was, wo fell into an ambuscade and the advance guard was thrown into confusion. Johnson said he was wounded, but. he wasn't hurl bad enough to stop him from running away. Hut we didn't miss him, for l.yman'was there, cool and quiet as if he didn't think it was much of a shower alter all. The Indians wero firing under cover, [Mid the Frenchmen coming on in line of battle with bayonets at the charge. It was a ticklish moment: but Lyman called to tho stragglers to drop, and the front rank fired over them. It was tho Frenchman's i.irn then. Then Charley Nelwyn gathered up the stragglers and charged the !ndian.\in the woods, driving them out and piling them on to the French, while our main body poured volley after volley into tho struggling mass. I!ut Dieskan was a lion, and ho flew around among his men, and while the Indians skulked to tho rear, firing at us as they went, ho got his regulars into order and led them to the charge hnrself, shouting: 'Kn avant. mes enfans! Vive le France!' The men took up the cry, and came on shouting: 'Vivo le France!' "Mtit we stood firm: our front rank knelt, the second stooped and tho third fired over their shoulders, and poured a storm of bullets into them at short range. Their front rank and most of the second fell in piles. Dieskan himself staggered, rail a few paces, calling to his men to follow, and tumbled head first 011 the ground, which was »voi with blood. Then the French line wavered, and Lyman led us to tlio charge. The French tried to rescue their leader, but our boys, firing as they advanced, drove them back, and George Marden captured two of their cannon and turned them on their owners. Then they began to break, and although the„y kept up a running fight for awhile, they finally gave it up. We took a lot of prisoners and boatloads of arms, and Lyman said wo had gained a great victory and that King George would thank us for it." "Hut he didn't, did he, Jabe?" asked one of his listeners. "No, nor Lyman either: but ho made run-away Johnson a baronet, as they call it. and sent him a lot of gold and silver dollies, and called him the hero of Crown 1'oint." added Jabe, with a smile that proved that he appreciated tho royal sagacity, though not in a way to flatter bis majesty. "Tel! us, Jabe." said a woman with a child in her arms which bore a strong resemblance to the orator and was making si'unt, but effective efforts to reach him. "tell us hew Master Marden get that. Indian hoy that ,follows him about, like his shadow." "Well, you see. there' was two of tliein:" said Jabe, transferring the infant to his own broad bosom, where it presently-fell asleep. "After the battle I've been telling you about. Marden chased the Indians until'it was too dark to see them, and on his way back to camp he found two young half-breeds, a boy and a girl. They might be twins, they were so like in features, size and everything. Tho boy had been hit by a bullet, -and his sister was trying to bandage his wound with leaves and strips from her blanket. Our boys haven't much love, for the redskins, but the look .that the girl gave Marden out of her big black eves melted his heart like a lump of sugar, ami ho gave orders to -bring .the boy along. Wo made a kind of.Jjiiiroteller with our rifles and Ciiais -and laid hiti! 011 it. the girl walking beside him. holding his hand and saying a few words in French now and then almost in a whisper, but it seemed to help him. to bear the pain. We brought him into camp and the sur-geon--be was a French prisonerextracted the bullet—the girl holding his hand all the while and never flinching. Marden used to visit tho hospital sheds every day to talk to the wounded, and he was so gay and cheerful that the men got to^look for him, and their pale faces would light up when they saw him. The Frenchmen called him tin' Chevalier Joyeuse, for he could speak their language as glibly as any of them, and he would sing French songs until the poor follows almost fancied themselves at hoftic. Dieskan loved him for his kindness to tho prisoners. and wanted to givo him the cross of St. Louis which ho woro, but Marden would laugh and turn it off with a compliment. They wero both interested in tho young half-breeds. I never beard what their history was, only that they had been made prisoners by a hostile tribe and rescued by French soldiers after the boy's tongue had been cut out. Hut if you had seen tho way tho girl followed Marden with her eyes, you

would say it was as good as a love story. Dieskan promised to do something for them when he got his liberty, but bo was sent to Kngland because the French had no prisoner of equal rank to exchange for him but all the others wero sent to Montreal in exchange for men, women and children captured by the Indians in their raid across tho bolder." "Well, Jabe, what became of the pirl? and how did the boy come back to Mr. Marden'.'" "1 don't know where the girl is," said Jabe. "The boy looked sick and weak when he went to Canada, but he must have found his way back to Marden about six months later." "And Marden kept him for his.sister's sake'.'" asked a listener. "Ik wasn't in love with her," said Jabe emphatically "You don't suppose a gentleman like Mr. Marden would fall in love with a poor half-breed girl, if she /,.((/ a pretty face. No be is a tender-hearted man and be pitied them both—that's all."

Some of the men were occupied in playing cards, others in cleaning guns and accountremenls all the women had been listening attentively to the narrative. and now that it. was ended, rather unsatisfactorily, as some thought, the silence which followed was dm? perhaps to profound speculation 011 the mysterious part of it.. A familiar signal from without diverted attention to a small but heavily-barred postern door, which being cautiously opened gave admittance to the subject of Jabe's story—tho half-breed boy—on whom all eyes were turned with an awakened curiosity. His lithe and graceful form, set off to advantage by the green hunting shirt and leggings of the rangers, was surtnount«d by ahead resembling those Italian studies so familiar to the public of tho

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present day—the dark hair descending to tho shoulder, framing a face of oval form and olive coloring, small rod lips and flashing black eyes his ago might be seventeen, his height below tho standard. With a glance and a smile of salutation to the inmates, ho went straight to.Iaho and gave him a slip of paper on which a few lines wero written. Tho ranger glanced ovor it, and handing tho sleeping child to his wife, whispered in her ear that ho was sent for by tho commandant: then, by way of soothing tho anxiety in her face kissed her and tho "liild and departed, followed by tho half-breed.

CHAPTER II. I1A.MO.V TO PYTHIAS.

It was early spring in the valley of tho Mohawk, and the snow still lay upon the ground, in heaps and ridges, as its playfellow, tho wind, choso to dispose it, and the moon, riding high in tho starry vault, gave weird effects to the ermine carpet below and the black and naked giants which flung their, gaunt arms to the sky in salutation of the Queen of Night, and tho river with its floating masses of ice moved on with majestic rytlim like .1 hort with glittering crests, invincible in its might.

To-day tlio scene is changed, the savage grandeur has departed with the red race who once inhabited it. The Erie canal bears the freight of tho West to tho seaboard, the scream of the locomotive wbislie takes the place of tho war-whoop of the Mohawk brave, and the cattle of a hundred hills drink at tho turbulent river.

On this April night in the year 1750 Sir William Johnson, sitting beside the cheerful hearth of his kinsman. Charles Selwyn. was urging upon that youth some suggestions, the worldly wisdom of which could not be doubted, falling as they did from tho lips of a warrior and statesman whom King George was graciously pleased to honor with a baronetcy in reward for a victory which was saved from disaster by his lieutenant, after his gallant chief had retired from the field with a slight wound, which was. however, of sufllcient importance to be mentioned in the dispatches announcing the defeat and capture of Dieskan at Crown Point. In fact, tho lion skin being too short, the epidermus of iho fox was made available to eke out the .deficiency, with the happiest results to the wearer thereof.

Charles Selwyn vas about twenty-five, tall, brown-haired, gray-eyed, with a resolute mouth and a thoughtful yet, .cheerful expression.

The room wus large with no attempt at adornment, unless the stags'antlers and other trophies of the chase suspended on the walls could bo counted as such. A few bear skins scattered on tho floor served tho purpose of mats and, at a pinch, beds, when guests were numerous and tho blazing logs gave all tho light that was needed on winter nights. It was, in short, tho great hall and re-ception-room of an American manoi house, rude and inelegant to European eyes, but quito in harmony with tho genius and tho requirements of tho hardy pioneers of a now nation. A tablo strewed with books and manuscripts gave ovidonco, however, that tho light of eighteenth century intelligence was not quite excluded by tho forest shade. From this object Sir William glanced at tho faco of his nephew. "Dreams, dreams! Charles," I10 said, with an impatientgesture, "well enough in time of peace, but now we liavo othor matters on which to sharpen our wits and our swords." "Is it not peaceful in tho valley, uncle?" asked tho youth. "Mothlnks

this Arcadian peacefulness is the nursu of poetic thought, tho cradle of philosophy." "Thou art not lacking in tho soldier blood of thy race, boy, else I would not bo here to-night." replied the baronet, dropping into a familiar and confidential tone, "and that which 1 have to say imports thee much." "Yo.. are right, uncle, but if I lay my books aside 1 must have? something to recompense me for the sacrifice." "1 lard itlows. lad. hard blows. Turn thine ambition ill another channel. King George is not a niggard of his favors to those who deserve them. Tho laurel on the hero's brow is nobler than the bay leaf of the poet or the toga of the sage."

The young man was not as much impressed by this rhetorical speech as his kinsman supposed. Me was not altogether a book-worm, having served under Sir William in the gallant affair a Lake George, where the French and Indians under I'.aron Dieskau were defeated by the provincial troops. Perhaps the youth knew, better than tho English home government, how small a share Sir William earned of that day's laurels. "Are thi- French stirring again'.'" he asked after a pause. "The news from the North is important. The French are led by General Montcalm, a man of tireless energy, lie is preparing a flotilla at Fort Frontenac and the favoring breeze which wafts ni 111 across Lake Ontario, will place Oswego in great peril." "Mercer and his Now Englanders hold that fort." said the youth in a tono of confidence. "And if they can not?"

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As tho full import of this suggestion flashed across his mental vision. Selwyn arose with the air of one who shakes off a drowsy feeling of security. "What then?" he asked. "Why. then in about a week your peaceful Arcadia will be full of Canadian savages and Frenchmen."'--:. "The 11rit.ish troops?" "Are comfortably quartered in Boston. New York or Philadelphia." "Heinforcen.ents for Mercer?" "I have no authority to raiso troops." replied the knight. "liut 1 could get volunteers—a hundred riflemen—my friends and neighbors," said the youth, impetuously. ,- "How soon?" "Ready to march in two weeks." "A drop in the bucket, nephew and yet as tho nucleus of a larger force, it might bo effective. Try what thou canst do, and in the meantime I will to Albany with speed and try my influence with the authorities to lend thee aid, failing which thou wilt of course abandon the attempt." "When my hand is on the plow I will not turn back, Sir William." "l!oy! l!oy!" exclaimed the baronet, impatiently, "ambition finds its way by Jevioiis means, the chief of whS'ii is pr-dent calculation. As I have already told thee, my visit hereto-night had tho object of arousing thee from these bookish dreams: yet I counsel not rashness. We will help each other, Charles. Thy prompt action in raising troops will redound to the family credit whether I succeed in Albany or not. Hut to march to Oswego with a hundred men wero sheer folly." "Mars' Charles," interrupted a negro servant, putting his gray, woolly head into the room, "dem 'ar dogs is mighty oneasy. Doy is rattlin' dar chains an' bark in'as if doy smelt somefln 'spiclous." "They scent a wild animal lurking around the barnyard, perhaps," replied Selwyn, taking a rifle from the wall. "Injuns, mehbe." suggested Peter.

Selwyn shook his head. "The Mohawks are our friends," said he, "ami would come boldly if at all." So saying, lie unbolted the hall door and was about to step forth upon tho moonlit lawn, bui almost stumbled over an object seated on the threshold.which arose and stood before him silent and motionless. Selwyn was too well used to Indian habits to be surprised at. this apparition, the sex and features of which were concealed by a* blanket thrown over .the head and almost touching the ground. "Whom' do you seek?" asked tho young man. in the Mohawk dialect.

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raised io his with an fxppossion half shy. b:ilf roufidont, and then a sm.-ill brown hand drew from the bosom a lt-'iU'r suporscribi'd in

also if they had not been surprised by a party of rangers, who quickly mado ', them look on this practical joko in a vory serious light. The boy is faithful' and Intelligent, and will serve thou ui Ariel served his master Prospero. I Mvcd him at the battle of Crown 1'oint, and thus earned his gratitude: but 1 havo taken tho liberty of translating his Indian name, which is as long as this letter, into that of Shakespeare's sprite, Ariel. Hut why do I indito this epistle to thee, C) my Pythias, and venture a life to place it in you hands? It is because thy Damon is begirt with foes- his castle threatened by tlio barbarian and the still more dreaded Gaul gathers his forces at Montreal and

Frontenae. to make destruction sure.

Where are those renowned English heroes. Londoun and Ahercrombie, and why do they' not march to our relief? Are tin waiting, like their predccessors. for the despised provincials to beat the foe and then claim the victory in grandiloquent- dispatches to the home Government'.1 Mercer will .hold tho fort till it crumbles beneath his feet, but naught can avert tho catastrophe unless help arrives before summer opens St. Lawrence to the bateaux of the enemy. Whisper this in the ear of thy kinsman. Sir William Johnson, whose eloquence may rouso those sluggisli Englishmen to make an eflort to save this important post. 1 know thy love for me may prompt thee to attempt the rescue with a handful of volunteers, but that would not avail, and wo aro enough to die. Adieu. "GKOKOK

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hand, "Charles Selwyn." Takin).' tlio mossongor by tho arir», S«lwin led him into tho hall' and, pointing a chair, opened the lottor. Tho lad, liowevcr, seated himself on a boarskin mat, and, resulnj? his head tipon his hand, remained motionless as before. "Exhausted," thought Selwyn, fflancinfr at him. "I'eter, givo him.some food.'' "What have you there?" askd Kir William. Hut his kinsman was too mueli occupied to heed the question. "Old comrade and brother-in-arms," ran tho missive, "if this letter ever reaches you, I confide thv bearer to your protection and sympathy. Ho had tho misfortune to tall into tho hands of a band of llurons, who, being in a playful mood, cut out his tongue, and would doubtless have deprived him of his hair

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Selwyn handed the letter to Sir William and began pacing tho floor with hasty steps and thoughtful brow. Tho Indian boy, having eaten, had rolled his blanket up for a pillow and stretched himself on the bear-skin, where ho slept 1 soundly. The baronet, having read the letter, returned it to his kinsman with I the remark: "The hour is late. To-night for rest to-morrow for action."

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