to settle three thousand dollars || returning once rather late from per annum upon the daughter; my usual walk, he overtook it was for this that the mer. cenary girl intercepted and detained his letters; letters which contained all that your unfortunate child wished to know the fatal picture was inclosed in one of them.' No sooner had the young man left me, than I gave myself up to the most obstinate melancholy, and forgetting the injunctions of my departed treasure, resolved to cherish sorrow, till my spirit shrinking from the burden should seek another residence. I therefore shut myself in my apart. ment, and never quitted it axcepting when I went to the burial place, where indeed my visits were frequent. In my way thither, I had often met with an Indian, habited as a traveller; his brow was furrowed and his head bald, yet such a benign serenity overspread his countenance, that it seemed as though age had made his approaches upon the tufted path of unbroken quiet; he always eyed me with complacency, but never accosted me; doubtless the severity of my aspect forbade him." At length, however, as I was me, and saluted me in the Cayuga language: ' Brother,' said he, 'can thy herd afford a draught of milk, or thy field an ear of maize to a hungry traveller? Yes,' I reply ed, and my habitation shall shelter thee from the damp winds, and the dews of the evening.' "Thou art kind, returned he, yet I would not intrude upon thy hospitality, were I not in want; but early this morning, as I was crossing the creek that runs at the foot of yonder green mountain, the angry stream, in its strength, tore from my belt the calabash that held my little portion of hommony' and carried it away 'Thou goest often to that mountain,' said I, doubtless, thou goest thither to pay homage to the new moon. "Not so,' answered he, but I go thither to pay homage to the Great Spirit, who, when he blots one moon from the another to chear the narrow face of Heaven, illumines path of him, who journeys solitary by night.' commenced the conversation. In my journeys along this way,' said he, I have frequently seen thee near an in.closure I have sometimes seen thee in it weeping upon the flat stones, and speaking to some one in the voice of distress. Tell me, I pray thee, with whom thou conversest, and why thou art so sad.' With a shower of tears, I gave him a brief account of my sorrows. It is thy wife and child who lie there,' said he, pausing a little, it is to them thou bewailest thyself; they hear thee; they are pleased with thy lamentations; they answer thee.' Ah, no! sobbed I, they that are shut up in the grave, are deaf and insensible.' Why, then,' asked he, in a firm tone, dost thou waste thy days in complaints, tha avail, thee, not? Behold thou hast seen but few winters, and the locks of thy head are white as the snows that drift upon the top of the Alleghanies, and thy life fleeing from anguish, as the pale leaves of the wild rose from the northeastern storm.' Alas!' demanded I, how ean I cease to I have none to comfort weep; me; I am quite alone.' So am I,' said he, yet thou seest me comforted but listen, and learn iustruction from a red man of the wild. Like thee, I have known prosperous day's, but the hand of misfortune, which none may arrest, hath borne hard upon me and thou now beholdest me old and desolate. I had a good wise wife, and strong and beautiful children. children. My fields of maize and my plats of beans, reached farther than my sight could stretch. My woods abounded with the yellow plumb, the crimson rasberry, the bloodred strawberry, and the purple grape; while the fat bear, and the nimble deer rolled among. the scented mandrakes; my brooks were full of fish, and on their banks wild fowl brooded in flocks-my neighbours envied my plenty, and in the pride of my heart I said," my glory is great, I am exalted above my tribe, " but I forgot to be grateful to the band that had raised me, and my glory was of short dùration the fountains of the sky ceased to flow, and my fields were parched up: the grain dryed upon the stalk, and the leaves became as dust: the angel of disease arose from a pool, whose sweet waters had been stolen by the fierce rays of the thirsty sun: he passed by my wigwam, and two of my children died.-Accompanied by my oldest boy Tola la, I put my canoe upon the Jake to get some fish for my afflicted family, and with a bitter tongue 1. bemoaned myself: the spirit of the flood heard my murmurs-he called together his strongest winds: the boat was overset far from the shore, and Tokala perished, while the noisy waves threw me against a high barren rock; I climbed its steep side, and from the top heard the war vhoop of a triumphant enemy, and saw my wigwam in a blaze, -Mad with grief and rage I plunged again into the water and swam to the land: I rushed to the ruins of my dwelling, and there of all my boasted treasures, only beheld the scalped and tomahawked carcases of wife and two last my little ones. As the wounded wolf, who cannot fly, snaps his teeth, and bites his own flesh-so did I. I tore the hair from my scalp, and knawed the nails from my hands, and yelled till I had no voice left. I looked toward the forist, and wished myself a thunder storm, that I might wrench its strong trees from the earth and blast its beauty. (To be Continued.) The SPECULATOR. NUMBER XXX. SATURDAY, May 18, 1811. Quis furor, ó civis ! quæ tanta licentia ferri! Lucan. A full box was accordingly taken immediately next that of my acquanitance, and about six in the evening Mr. F-and A two of my new made friends, after I had engaged a carriage, proceeded to introduce me to the lady whom I was to escort. We found her (as I understood at her fathers house) together with her female friend, and as both her parents were absent from the city, we enjoyed an unrestrained conversation until the hour of our departure for the Theatre. I beg leave here to remark that I was highly delighted with my good fortune: Miss G-who was to be my partner, appeared to possess, many accomplishments, beauty she certainly did not want. The house which she inhabited bore every mark of affluance she paid to me a marked aftention, and in fact I conceived myself in the right road to honor happiness and prosperity. When we had arrived at the Theatre Mr. F. wispered me that as I was a stranger he and the other gentleman would re " into all the wild schemes of my (as I afterwards found out) dissolute companions--m-other words I was roaring drunk, and after a night spent in every impropriety (for my virtue was drowned by the potation I had swollowed) I found myself at the dawn of day in one of the watch houses, for what crime I was unconscious-my money saved me from a public exposure in the Bridewell, and about eight o'clock in the morning, I walked home to my lodgings, in a situation more easily corr ceived than described. I was somewhat astonished to find upon my return my associates of the preceeding night, snoring comfortably in their respective beds, and I began to conceive that all was not right. To put the best face upon the sign the front seat to myself and the ladies; which mark of attention was of course compli ed with. The Play now commenced, and as I was a complete Novice in Theatrical a musement, I lent it all ear and eye, yet could not help feeling some what a shamed, at the repeated burst of laughter that from time to time issued from my companious in the rear; but conceiving it to arise from some ridiculous circumstance I did not perceive, I contented my self under that impression. I also observed that the ladies of my acquaintance in the ajacent box whith whom I sometimes attempted (between the different acts) to converse, dis countenanced my advances with replusive frowns! this I like wise attributed to the rules of the house. After the perfor-matter, I washed and dressed mances had concluded, I pro cured two hackney coaches in which we all repaired to the house of Miss G. and upon her pressing invitation tarried supper which was served in a sumptuous style, the bottle circulated freely I was elated with wine and the fair prospect beforeand as nothing tends more to put a man in good humour than love and wine, after we had bid the ladies good night, I felt myself in proper trim to enter and then calculated the expence of this first initiation into the beau monde, and found it to exceed eighty dollars. I nevertheless, consoled myself with the idea that the fortune of Miss G. would shortly reemburse all my expenditures and effectually salve over this disgraceful fete. Well-a-day! these were the foolish dreams of an inexperienced wind. Upon the appearance of the boarders I perceived in every see the rig run upon a raw countryman, and cursed himself, if he did not hate the whole tribe of clod hoppers I now plainly saw that I was Game for the whole hoste, but my spirits were so much depressed that I was fain to put up with every joke, passed upon me but the one from the fine gentlemen, who hated clod hoppers. To him I addressed myself, smarting under the unworthy treatment I had received and demanded an explina. nation; filthy wretch, (said he) stand aside, I never yet could bear the smell of a stable. without more ceremony, from one blow of my fist I made him measure his length upon the floor, and in less than an hour I again found myself into the grasp of that insatiablemonster LAW-The business was instantly arranged, by my paying (what the Counsellors called smart money) the costs -God forgive me, but after this experience, I would almost as willingly be clutch by the d-l himself, as to come within the power of an Attorneys That business is got through with,' said I to myself, as I indignantly traversed back to my Hotel. The moment I entered, I enquired for Mr. F. i Mr. A. and the rest of the party, but was inforomed that during my absence they had left the city, and to heighten my mortification the waiter handded me the following note. SIR, When your worthy Father recommended you to my notice, and the notice of my family, I naturally supposed you to be a youth of modesty and virtue; but as I find you possessed of neither, I take this liberty of prohibiting any future visits, you may contemplate making to my house-Justice prompts me to state, that when I find a young gentleman, come unblushingly into a public place of amusement, in company with two notorious women of the town, I look upon him as an irreclaimable and as improper companion for my wife and daugh ters. Yours, &c. The above note was from the master of the family I first |