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Full Title	The New York Ledger, v. XIII, no. 34, October 31, 1857.
Contributor	Cobb, Sylvanus, Jr.
Date Added	15 July 2020
Format	Newspaper
Language	English
Publish Date	1857-10-31
Publisher	New York : R. Bonner, No. 44 Ann-Street
Source	Dime Novel and Popular Literature
Alternate Title	The New-York Ledger Pioneer Patriot; or, The Maid of the War-Path. A Story of the Mohawk Valley During the Revolution / by Sylvanus Cobb, Jr. Maid of the War-Path.
Topic	Dime novels > Specimens. Popular literature > Specimens. Story papers > Specimens. New York County (N.Y.) > Newspapers. New York (N.Y.) > Newspapers.
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OCR a We Sige & At KR ot cs — \TO MISS SALLIE M. BRYAN, BY Oxonaw D. PResTics, Long thy mystic tones, dea ‘ve boca sounding through my bral, Like the distant voice of ocean (Of to thine my nc a “ner As deop calleth unto d thy soal a sea-abelt From the upper deep subi, (Cast by some enpiying Uilow ‘On this rocky shore of time, ‘Whore its sock and ing tke breatiagy low and mournful sigh,— ‘Adeop,ovor rests pining For its far home in the sky. have dreuned thy sala wind-barp, weird and wondrous powe ng 01 swig emusic In the Wwe wizard er, (Won caw wings ae fue) ‘ait in mourn cadence teing OF its own dear native wi ‘There's a realm within thy spirit, Filled with grandeur and with gloom, al, ‘Where each tone is ikea heat wal, * Andeachearth-well seams atom And the fowers~a sombre tintiog eermnonta the i ly forms, ‘eX nurtred by the droppings sing Wunder tora ‘il thy ca, seni Jn serenest stay high thought ind flashes eheurgarted “dod thon art hs glorious flower. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1867, by Rongnr Boswen, in the Clerk's Ofte of the District it for the Southern District of New York. THE PIONEER PATRIOT 3 3 on, THE MAID OF THE WAR-PATH. A STORY OF THE MOHAWK VALLEY DURING THE REVOLUTION. BY SYLVANUS COBB, JR. CHAPTER IY, ‘Tae Fos. Peter Roinson whispered to bis eldet hen whose name was Carles, and lade him run ‘ward and ask Philip Lancey to ¢ oni _Hittle fellow was used to worl king bia way through ents in deliver- ing’ the erran ‘alter Lancey heard it, and oe e mitre, or suspected, its import said, “my efforts thus far, instead or veming me, have served. to render my joints | ery .ore pliable, and Tean make my way alon easily. If Robinson wants you for assistance — help him. forma rear guard—then remain with Tam earnest in what Isy. See:—There! Had I ventured upon such exercise sooner Imight hare heen bo foe oft man spoke he leaped over a fallen ogi that lay in the way, and Jed on right bold ly. Philip made him promise that he would send Tack for bim ithe felt faint and then he walted till Robinson cau “Had you tot better be here with me?” the lat ter okey ss the he oun Zan ood ‘by bis aldo our trail, as sure as fate Tat "a0 faired, “Toaly« seek the good of the vaole P Soa are right,” returned our hero. “My fa- ther says he can walk alone, ad 1 will mala with you. But becautious how you tread. If you eels ot stele beneath your fect don't break ib if you can he Rol vin raid he had avoided that, though he wrest. Philip Laxice tig he momeat his fot came th it, and in nearly every case he it, some light, however, as the clouds were in detac! not very dense, Had the rea stars upon him ; but he could only trust to fortune and push tiny on. Ife knew that be wae moving ie river, and that was all. Whether a ho or a rock lay befor bia te es nota te al who was in the rear, + of his frock. “There Robinson stopped, su ‘as the eouud of their own y hear thet tread of the “Stand you eta ‘a tree,” and then ee little Charlee ups shoulder he bade him kee} oa and say 1 not in| i Robinson di mpanion had directed. sad then Philip daca Tetind a soca ‘reo, and dre ort axe from his belt, R. BONNE! Wi , | more steps immediately behind them. ‘They could | der ran throogh hiscomely frame. And the keen pereepton of those who hed | © e for 1, | EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR, (NO, 41 ANN-STREET. NEW YORK, OCTOBE R 31, 185 PHILIP LANCEY DISPOSING OF ONE OF HIS PURSUERS. Ja a very few moments the savags came on, With a Soytat borind the party dashed forward. | foree of near cighteen hundred men get to besiege He was a stout fellow, and seemed to be following | Indians were still all about them, aud the danger the fort, wile the foree within amounted to Title But there were pro- ie brave pi a ched a bended twig, reek that flowed from the eastward, and havi tisfaction would break from his lips He came | followed this a f the epring and Ww sed between them On ied the gentle eminence beyond, ‘They bad more apa cali, cantons one bent | gained the top of en, upon looking oft to his ear to listen, aU heard the fal of the fu | the north-west, they ea Iang@ number of dusky itive feet ahead, ioc his brent expanded, aud his | forms moving tow "them. But they were safe Hand was half raised to bis mouth to give tone do | now. "Ww rods brought them to the northern the whoop he would send forth to his fellows, But aston et the fort, and directly beyond this was a} their awful wickedness, and join hand was stayed, and the muscles of the broad | covered way, Wl rund a soldicg on duty. | Majesty, full pardon was offered, The order, with bosom relaxed. Philip had marked. well his aim, | He hailed them. as they an proached, and Philip | its threats and bribes, was laughed at in id his axe cleft the red man’s | went forward and explained matiors -AMter this | and ord was ent to the inated Englishinan tha that sank to the earth without a greea, and his aqniver-| the party were admitted, and the women and chil | the Pati ts had counted the cost of a siege, and ery was quickly plled rom the tral ani east dren at once conducted to the officer’ quarters | should defend the fortrow to the lat into the adjoining Colonel Gansevoort, who commanded the fort, sent | On tho following day —the soe ihe sege com- ork was ‘hard ily done when the Lovo patviots for Robinson and Philip Lancey ‘oe come and see menced ved in earn swore gtartied by a ehatp, slnill * Ifa fort, and the Tndiane bid ie vor bebtad the ty, and upon listening hey found wl th a eeond ‘Colonel Peter Gansevoort was @ mil, but Sem surrounding trees, and fired upon the Americans 1 savage was coming, and had beea | looking man, of good size, and twenty-eight years | who were at work upoa the parapets. Yet. little mde for a call to his companion of age. He was young for such a Pest but while | damage was done. “ Hases!” came from Philip's lips, in exact imi- serving under Montgomery in Canada he bad dis! On the night of the 5th the gnrix and e= tation of the sound he had heard, a8 both he and played those qual ronment him to | cially the women and children, were slartled by Robinson resumed their places behind the trees. | the Trond otic of his eounteyme ‘ain nd ever The second Indian came quickly forward, and | “How, sir!” exclaimed the colonel, ‘as Robinson |. The In tone of mingled | all hands within the w e | disgust and amazement, “are you a savage? ri ‘obinzon was utterly dumbfounded. He | their work amount youth's axe came down again with unerring aim, | knew not what to do or to say. But his wife who | they made. and the swage dropped as his companion had done | had heard the Gonmmandaat’ exclamation, buried | | On the 6 took place one of the most fal strug- before bim forward and asked what was meant. gles that during the war. When Geueral ‘The two men Iistened, Dut they cout hear no see?” ‘ore the colonel, while shud: | H “Look there?” | the lake, and was aiming to bese hear the crashing and bowling in the distance, but ashe spoke he pointed to a bloody scalp | be called upo i they were sure none others were upon their tral. | whict bung balf way from the bosom of the man’s| low him to the relief of the breve men at the gar two were seat forward to follow thispar-| frock, ris Soule cour guid ill “and probably othere “Oho—ah—I must explatn that,” interposed | and wi Philip, sable to suppress the smile that arose to “eT wiok you ace neh wos ‘obinson’s res | his com forward to ponse, “And thank God, these Lloodthirty | And "therewpoa the youth related the story of sin truth the colonel to discharge three guns wretches? warnings are hushed!” his meeting with the two Indian fm the foreat. | in rapid soon as his courier should Without speaking further they threw the sccond | Mrs. Robinson contd at firet hardly believe the se- fart, Upon hearing thissigoal, Merkimer would body where they had throwa the fist, and having | count she hoard, bat when her husband usured her | kuow that bis memenger had arrive, and woo sured, men’s rifles and ammunition, they | twas The colonel very bomb be prepat set accordingly. Gansaroort wae it ig on, when Robis | asked the stout st pardon, and then compli- | further requested, as soon as he bad fired the guns, son's hand touched some hair that bung from one | mented them n tee covine aad to make rome ind of esortic upon the enemy, of the fallen men's girdle. Ie pulled it away, and | After this he ee em an sono of ali| and at the same time Herkimer would push on found it to be a human sealp! The hair was long | they ha ern ana Dean, most of w Sata | au cat bis way through to the fort. and curly, and bad come from the bead of a fe le to And when they ean came rio tell of the ata sad failure was at han orkiiner's mes- male! He placed it within the bosom of his frock, | many we y forms they had seen gliding up from m eome eas, aid not arrive until the ond ‘li the direction of old Fort Newport, he sent at once | following day at gave directions} Tn the ‘meantime St St. had received intel- ‘ Higence of Herkimer't onan and at once pre- This, however, was not neoemary 5 for ardly im off. He learned the exact route a when the two fonts the Patriots were to take, and sent Brant wi ted to nothing save the noise 12 7 Tey ea Shet ‘atcoren that yard was | came in with the intelligence that a large Of | large party of his Tudiang, and also a detachment isang, and Were upen the point of ending Tooko | Tories and Indians were approaching the fort from | or Se Johnson's Greens undir Col, Jolin Bauer, to tack. Philip thought Je best not to tll the woe the west. form an amburcade at the most favorable spot men and children appened, for fear the night ‘be owl of the ravages could they on find. Gansevoort saw the bustle in the they might be paralyzed er terror ; #0 he simply | be ty heard in enemy’s camp, and noticed the moving of some of informed them that they had been pursued ivi the troops along, the edge of the wood down the river. It was shortly after this that Herkimer's r mesenger arrived, and then the colonel at once ready, and tke, to al pon the trail at any mo- | brave officers to assist him in the work. suspected the meaning of the movement te yen the light of the next day dawned upon | noticed umong the besiegera Towever, "eo ‘once more Plunged on upon his frackless arts, the dip of oars was heard in the the guns at once, and made preparations i the branches, and turning toin- | river, and ere long afterwal swe bateaux, laden | sortie. fun ta imei followers of any peculiar im- Maen 3 aiitary stores and provisions, made their ap- Among the officers of the fort was a brave, gal- pediment before them. fund with themcame Lieatenant Colors | lat amed Marinus Willett, enjoying th Nota marmae escaped from even the children, Mretton ecompanied by two hundred mea, ‘This | rank ‘of Tieatenant eclone, ma Tue little ones realized the seve ay danger that | was a fortunate and most timely accession to the | yoort gave command of the e h encompassed realized, t0o, bow | forees and stores of the grin, for hardly had | send into the enemy's camp. Two hundred and 5 nd much was wing J lone for tea and the occasion: | all been safely gathered with! al answer of little Carrie, only nine years old, spoke | bloodt! thirsty Mohawk chieftai panne of childish fortitude : * On ‘no, MAMMn,— ‘ues . n't be afraid of me.” fifty men were detailed for the work, and they were to take with them & sal Bld pee party were ready to set ont, the heavy clouds, which ld been rolling ° » dark and oe by came the oft-reper Thi-yak yak lowering all the morning, cir bounds, and but tis “ine hopeful and buoyant cal ing fo Little was done, however, daring the day (the | a. deluge of rain, aecompani os, terre Tight sore the whole party emerged from the second of August), me to to drill 201 1e raw | ni ve a 8. a 3 = Be 3 2 stood upon the tivated men a the best a Ys bowen Se “ig end of aa bour the rain ceased falling, at the dow that | hy upon the Mohawk, while only at a ene i short distance gleamed the watches o notorious Tories, en ‘oa, ‘Batter, i ‘tet Bya daring and ingenions |" Schuyler! jories of renegnde There was now a movements, Willett ucteted ia falling upon 3 {$2 PER ANNUM, TERMS, {is advance. with ©} coal themselves, until the pl son's men and the Indians had Leen sent off down, the river, By this brave aad chivalrous movement, no les: tha twenty-one Seago loads of spoil were secured ty to the fort, Tike perty retum- ing wiht los of a man, spoil consisted of excellent bedding, eloth- equipments of all kinds, five bil well as the papers of other office ese latter were of vast im they revealed sevoort a great deal of infor- n concerning the situation and aims of e five British flags were raised upon the flag- staff of the fort, bent “the envign of the Pas triots, and then the whole garrison mounted the parapets, and cboer upon cheer broke from their tp But, alas! while such joy pervad of all within the fort, a noble band of dir bet, ren, only a few malls asta, were sre being swept way like chaff before the wind! CHAPTER v. we remarked before, — General Herki- mer sent forward his messenger ‘oort, hi halted near Oriskany, intending to remain there Arie Tonge ‘and the uneasy ofeers became clamorous in their demands for aa immediate movement; and Gaally, when ‘ey found that their peristent efforts did not m ot them-two, at Teast—taanted. him Ww Tory and acoward! The bitter rons de the | jnto the old general's heart, but still he told ‘them that he had been Placed 0 over them as a father, and that be would not lead them i i from which he might not be able to extricate them. ice against ‘ame eo rank and frequent, that he yielded. With 4 quivering lip, and aching heart, be cried: “Ma “And you, tho boast eo loudly, and speak the word cxvard so frecly, shall be the first to run when sce the enemy !” f Th was about pine oflock in the imoraing when the troops started upon their march, ‘They were mostly undiseiplined, vad as the bitterness of some of the tr oftcrs against the commander insibordination, there could be no thorough system or regularity Mia their moveoten Butler, with their Indians d they knew the e: ite the Patriots i in a west di- rection, and was much of it through deep woods. at on S foan bottom was quite wide, and heavily timbered, wile Qe highland poe either side was not only timbered, but covered with a thick underbrush, amongst which an enemy could readily be con cvaled, this seep, sxmicirelar valley ered. rounded by an avis foe save the narrow way where’ the Her stkimer rand b his men, all unconscious of the ange which tovered 0 neve them, ‘marched oa— men, formed e rear reat guard—those men who, but a short time be- wi diaos, when they aw them tars, gave chase, and ehot and ent them down like gras? For a few moments the Tide bead fn the valley was throwa into wild disonler by this sudden at- * Lowsing's Pictorial Fek-Book, Vol. B, p. 26. FI a a a Ta iE ame Sees | | | i i a ee SEE Oe Bea ; i 2

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