Western Sun & General Advertiser, Volume 13, Number 48, Vincennes, Knox County, 28 December 1822 — Page 4

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SKLKCmi POKTUY.

NOT TO UK HKLF.tVK.n. u's movokvl to answer

death. Tn this interval, sVb re

paired to the house of her um

and liberal friend, and protector. r ri i i . . r : i

c dumnv MVS. i . wnose piaee oi resilience

v Pi-,

nv i .n.ii icc, k pt liis temper, tmt Vik-ncui was in the near vieinitv of this

wproot' wll,c!l niay lK awful scene for

l iio'i sM?:ikV alwnvs of me ; "ho il.i I p.ik always t:! of thee, " Spite of all nr noise and pothtr.

' 1 lie wori I woUkd believe nor one or

t'other."

f. pig it :t. lvitc kisM her luisb md with these worth : " vVh.it tr uiports ilo I proe, While Ileav'n my own sweet Will affords, To l)!f-s his or.lv love ! " 1 do !)el':eve," cried he, ray Kate, T'.i u wo.nen, iroo.l or ill, WYre never uad rstoo.l to hate ; No, never, their o-vi IV." MKI)lTTION As T vvalkM by niys.df, T said to myself, And mvself said again tome ; Look to tin self, take rare of thyself For no');r!v cares for the.

Then 1 sal I to invself and then answer M

nivself With the s' If-samc repartee ; sk to thyself or look. nvt to thyself, the self same thing to me. aiIOELLXEOUS.

rent unconcern. Several times

Tom examined his mm ancj re

mained silent. His crave had

" What heart is there, enlightened by one ray of ti e gospel, that would not, in iev of such a

been dun; the day before and he , scene, feel deep anguish of spir it I II ' 1 I ' . If .1 1. A ! 1 1 . . .

IMKIUCLV IXDIJXS.

the purpose of

nvinn her a last look, and fare

well. Mrs T. was all this time

in ignorance of what had passed in the camp near her. and of Jen

ny's offer, and her determination :

nor did Jenny divulge them to

- Mrs. T. She had come, she

said, to brer a eoflin. and windiwr

sheet for her son, addingR' when

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the sun, has reached its Tteigth,

(pointing upwards,) Tom dies

Not suspecting the arrangement

Jenny had made to preserve her son, Mrs. T. with comforting

words, gave her all she requested.

hen asked what should be the

length of the coflin. and the grave

clothes, Jenny replied " Make them to suit my size, and they

will answer for my son. "

4 Soon after Jenny had left

Mrs. T. for the camp, where all

things were ready for execution, i . . i j

Hxiracud fro-i Dr. Afrrse's Rciort on messenger in uaste arm eu una

Indian Jtfair. informed Mrs. T what was pas

Story of Totopia and Hortan- i"g in the camp, and Jenny was

huboec, Chootaws, known to immediately to die. Mrs. I.

their white neighbors by the hastened to the scene, with the in-

names of Jenny and her son Mention of rescuing her friend;

Tain. 1 1)11 Jenny, the moment- she saw

The following affecting and au- her carriage coming, at a distance.

thpfiiic tory. related to me by a imagining, tlouhtless. what was ladv of respectability and pietv, her ohject standing by her grave, 14... .1

who was an ee witness to a part 'angm the muzzle ol the gun the ol what s 'e relates, strikingly il prepared instrument of her death, lustra'' the Indian character and and pointing it to her heart, en customs aui s icws the hinh im treated the executioner imme-

portaw-e of giving to these natives diate.ly to do his duty. He obeyofthe wide wilderness, the bene- ed, and she fell dead.

lit of our laws and religion. u Dining five years after this

l,.lr,NNY was the wife .f a Choc Tom was tieated with sneers and

taw who murdered an Indian of contempt by the friends of the

his own tribe, about twenty years old man whom he had murdered ago, tied over the Missisippi into They said to him, Yu coward

houisaoa, where he was overta Met your mother die for you.

ken and put to death by his pup. You afraid to die coward. Tom

tjuers. .penuv, wun lour or live euuiu not euoure au nils, a year

small children, of whom Tom ago Tom met a son of the old

was the eldest, afterwards settled man whom he had murdered on

in the neighborhood of St Fran the bank of the Missisippi, Jen

had laid himself down in it, to sec

if suited as to length and breadth. When the shirt was completed, and handed to him, he imme diately drew it over another gar

ment, the only one he had on ;

and compassion for these children

oi the forest, who are perishing by thousands for lack of knowledge ! and who would not in such circumstances, desire and endeavor

not faintly, not coldly, nor inac-

drew a pair of calico sleeves on , tively. but with all their soul, and his arms, tied two black silk hand- all their might, to send the blessed

kerchiefs round each shoulder, gospel among them.

crossed on his breast, and a third

wrapped about his head. His hair was tied with a blue ribbon, and a vard or two on each arm

iVeto Haven, July, 1822

A CLINCHER. Young f Hiding outdone ! To.

above the elbow. The pipe of the cotTee room at the Bush tavpeace went round three times. ern; Bristol, the conversation of The old chief s wife then ai ose,re-: the company touched on the subtired into the bushes, and the jject respecting the real or imaginDeath song in words rendered in ! ary existance ol Mermaids, when English,4' 77hc is done ; death ap- one of the party declared in favor proaches " This done, Tom went ; of the affirmative : Oh real, round and shook hands with eve ; beyond all doubt I have seen ry person present. While he seven or more atone time, tho held the hand of one of his neigh- m ist beautiful creatures I evbors, a white man, he said to him, er beheld; with long black hair, farewell ; ' yon see me no more in and their young ones sucking at this world. When you die. you their breast The worthy and see me." I lis neighbor said. uTom facetious host of the Bush replied, where are you going?" I am u Sir, Captain , of the j going to mother?' said Tom. informed me that one Sund.iv Where is your mother?' 4In a morning a Mermaid had suddengood place 'V'B'ut Tom. will not tly appeared to his men, dressed you wait? Perhaps the friends of in gay attire, with his head friz the young man you killed will ac- zled and powdered as white as cept a ransom We will do what a full grown cauliflower, and dewe can to save you." Tom repli- manded to know if the captain

ed, "No I will die " was on board The captairioon No one demanded his death, - appeared on deck. Sir. I shall and all who weie interested, and feel particularly obliged by your would have considered their hon-1 giving orders for your anchor to ored duty concerned in it, resided be taken up. as it laysaginst my

at a distance ot lortv or lutv , street aoor ana prevents mv lam-

ago, Tom,

eisville, Louisiana, where lived a

a hdv a widow, of much benev

olence and wealth, who had com

passion on Jenny, and acted to

wards her the part ol a friend.

i Ah )ttt six years

then of the age of about twenty

five, murdered ati old Indian, fot

wni h act. according to an unal

lera'Me iav m ine nation, nis uie

was dema ided, and he was sen

ic d to die. The day of exe

cutioii was fixed, and had airi-

miles from his home, and for some cause unknown, probably he had been his greatest tormenter plunued his knife into him. giving him a mortal wound. He returned home with indieaf ons of triumph, brandishing his bloody knife, and without waiting for en quiry confessed what he had done. He told his Imhan friends that he would not live to be.calied a coward.

" I have been told fhc said.)

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ru aim me regimes uuo inenos, that I tear to die. Now you shall hotpot the murdered, and mur- see. that I, can die like a man. v derer, with others, a mingled wealthy planter, whose house Vwowr were assembled, after their bc pasW, he invited to see how usual manner and all things he ennhl tYu Tl.ic i

were ready for inflicting on the Sabath rnnd.n- ttv..K-i

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criminal the sentence of the law. At this moment, of strong and mingle 1 feeling, Jenny, the mother pressed through the crowd, to the spot where the son stood, by the instruments prepared to take fiom him his life. She then ad dressed the chiefs and the company .demanding tho life of her child, offering in iu stead her own.

was the hour, which he appointed for this self immolation u lleie. " says this lady who gives me this informition, who was present and relates whafslie saw here a sene was presented which bullies dUcription. As I approached Tom was walking forward and back again, still keeping in his hand the bloody knife.

lier plea was this. u Tom is which he seemed to consider as

v-uniiT. He has a wife, children, i the duelrst hi av.ml n,. mVo.

M others, sisters, all looking to ! tol. his badge of honor. With all lum for counsel and support his efforts to conceal it, he diseovI am old. I hae only a few ered marks of an agitated mind

uavs ai most.aiut can do hut lit- I he sad group present consisted

tie more for mv fami'v. NorU'ofahout ten men. and as many as possible, they bad obeyed r strictly ju?:,a' her i-'it a hame females; the latter with sorrowful! Thc,r riet was drained till h(

lo a ncic sntrf Jor an old countenances were employe ,i(t' ' j making an over shirt for Ti

miles The death song was refeat( d, as was the shaking of hands: Both were again repealed, the third and last lime. Immediately after Tom stepped up to his wife, a young woman of 18; with an infant in her arms, another little child two or three years old. standing by her side, and presented toher the bloody kuife. which till now he kept imhis

ihand. She averted her face to

conceal a falling tear ; but recovering herself; turned, and with a faint, forced smile, took it. His sister was sitting by the side of his wife, wholly absorbed in grief, ap parentiy insensible to what was passing ; her eyes va ant. fixed on some distant object. Such a perfect picture of uo I neve: beheld. His pipe he gave to a young brother, who struggled hard to conceal his emotions. He then dr ink a little whiskey and water; dashed the bottle on the ground, sung a few words in the Choctaw language, and with a jumping, dancing step, hurried to his grave. I lis gun was o fixed bv the. aid of a young sapling, as to enaole him to take his own life. No one. he had declared, should take it from him. These preparations and ceremonies being completed, he gave the necessary touch to the apparatus was discharged and its e, r - ;v.. ;ed through his hear!. lh .viy fell dead to thecal t!i. T.io females sprang to the lifeless body. Some held his head others his hands and feet, and others knelt at his sidtv He had charged them to shew no signs of grief while he lived, lest it should shake his resolution. As

fai

he

I was dead It then burst forth in

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I i tOlTPIlf unit thir chiirL-e nml

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The nngManim -nisnflVr of Jen- burieL The men. all exceot two, 1 'emt-tations were loud and undisny u as accepte I and . w hours brother's of Tom were present' ' 1 scmWcJ- From this last scene, I allowed tier lo prec for her . smoaking their pipes, with appa- retired, leaving the poor distressed

ily from going to church. "

B'dth Herald. Two gentlemen, members of congress, one from Connecticut, the other from Kentucky, were travelling in company, when they chanced to spy a drove of mulc6 going to market. Says the Yankee to the Kentuckian, " do you know what animals these are u Indeed I do " replied the latter, "they surely must be some of your constituents. " No doubt " rejoned the Yankee, and I suppose tley are travelling to Kentucky, to be employed as school masters?'

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lltON STORE.

niMIE subsciibcrs liavc constantly on Jt hand at their store in Vinccimes, a large assortment of Bar Iron S Castings, of every description, which they cfierby wholesale ami retail, at reduced prices. Merchants, and others who purcha?o large quantities, can be supplied heicon as reasonable terms as at any other place in the western country. They also ofiVr for sale, CO barrels Kcnhawa Salt. J MES8c Mc.AliTHUR. November 9, 822.

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