The Crockett almanac : containing sprees and scrapes in the West; life and manners in the backwoods, and exploits and adventures on the praries . On upland and plain, in valley and dell, the bleached hones of thedeceased year are found. The white pith of Winter, piled upon the ground, proclaims thatwe have arrived at its centre. Nature sits trembling on her throne, like a bereaved motherwrinkled with age; and her desolate moan is heard among the naked branches. The yearcommences like the life of man, with low wailings, moans, and cries, as of helpless griefDesolation stal s abroad, and the Nor
The Crockett almanac : containing sprees and scrapes in the West; life and manners in the backwoods, and exploits and adventures on the praries . On upland and plain, in valley and dell, the bleached hones of thedeceased year are found. The white pith of Winter, piled upon the ground, proclaims thatwe have arrived at its centre. Nature sits trembling on her throne, like a bereaved motherwrinkled with age; and her desolate moan is heard among the naked branches. The yearcommences like the life of man, with low wailings, moans, and cries, as of helpless griefDesolation stal s abroad, and the Northern monarch waves his icicle sceptre over our pleasantplaces. The lonely traveller, weary with floundering through the drifted heaps of snow, and cir-cumventing the treacherous bogs and half-hidden springs of water, sits down to rest in therustling woods screened from the cold wind by the thick but naked branches of manv trees ;and here he ponders on his far-off home, the quiet fireside, the hissing tea urn, and the busywife, and sighs, as he recollects the distance which still lies between him and the centre of allhis hopes and Indian Barbarity. 5 [Concluded from Page 2.]partly with the hope of effecting her liberation. He found the town thronged with Indians ofvarious tribes. Upon inquiring for the Cherokees, he learned that they were encamped withtheir prisoner within a quarter of a mile of the town, holding themselves aloof from the rest,and evincing the most jealous watchfulness over their prisoner. Johnston instantly applied tothe traders of Sandusky, for their good oiiices, and, as usual, the request was promptly compliedwith. They went out in a body to the Cherokee camp, accompanied by a while man namedWhittaker, who had been taken from Virginia when a child, and had become completely nat-uralized among the Indians. This Whittaker was personally known to Miss Fleming, havingoften visited Pittsburgh, where her father kept a small tavern, much freque: led by Ind
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