Thrilling adventures among the early settlers, embracing desperate encounters with Indians, Tories, and refugees; daring exploits of Texan rangers and others .. . ground. Soimpatient were the Virginians to avenge the death of their comrades,that they could scarcely wait till the lieutenant gave the word ofcommand to fire—then they rose in a body, and before the Chip-pewas had time to draw their arrows or seize their tomahawks, morethan half their number lay dead upon the plain. The rest fled tothe forest, but the riflemen fired again, and killed or woundedseveral more of the enemy. They then r
Thrilling adventures among the early settlers, embracing desperate encounters with Indians, Tories, and refugees; daring exploits of Texan rangers and others .. . ground. Soimpatient were the Virginians to avenge the death of their comrades,that they could scarcely wait till the lieutenant gave the word ofcommand to fire—then they rose in a body, and before the Chip-pewas had time to draw their arrows or seize their tomahawks, morethan half their number lay dead upon the plain. The rest fled tothe forest, but the riflemen fired again, and killed or woundedseveral more of the enemy. They then returned in triumph to relatetheir exploits in the camp. THE HORSE STEALERS OP ILLINOIS. 24t Ten chiefs fell that night, and their fall was, undoubtedly, oneprincipal cause of the French and Indian wars with the English. Lieutenant Morgan rose to becaptain, and at the terminationthe war returned home, and livedhis own farm till the breakingout of the American then, at the head of acorps of Virginia riflemen,appeared our hero, the braveand gallant Colonel Morgan,better known by the title ofGeneral, which he soon ac-quired by his courage THE SENTINELS REVENGED. THE HORSE STEALERS OP ILLINOIS-A LAWYERSSTORY. About three or four years ago, more or less, while I was practicing ?law in Illinois, on a pretty large circuit, I was called on one day inmy ofl&ce by a very pretty woman, who, not without tears, told methat her husband had been arrested for horse stealing. She wishedto retain me on the defence. I asked her why she did not go toJudge R., ex-Senator of the United States, whose office was in thattown, I told her that I was a young man at the bar. She mourn-fully said that he had asked a retaining fee beyond her means,besides, he did not want to touch the case, for her husband wassuspected of belonging to an extensive band of thieves and counter-feiters, whose head quarters were on Moores prairie. I asked her to tell me the whole truth of the matter, and if
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