3?V UlUUam G (Cont in ned from lust Week.) Chapter IV. "Th hard to do it; but the exhortations to peace ol' the young warrior, and the near neigh borhood ol' the wolf, quelled any open show of the violence they medi tated; but, Indian-like, they deter mined to wait for the moment of greatest quiet, as that most lilted for taking away a few scalps from I'he Occotiy. With a muttered curse, and a contemptuous slap of the hand upon their lingi.- tho more furious among Hu; ICstatoeos satis lied their present anger, and then addressed themselves more directly to the 'business before them. "The wolves, goaded to despera tion by Hu; sigh! and sound of hunt ers strewn all over ti., hills it rou nd j them, were now, snapping and snarl ing, and with eyes that Hashed with a terrible anger, descending the nar row gully towards the outlet held hy the two rival tribes. United action was. therefor*', demanded of those who, for a long time past, had been conscious of no feeling or movement in common; Hut here they had no choice no time, indeed, to think. The fierce wolves were upon them, doubly furious at Unding the only passage stuck full of enemies. Well and manfully did the hunters stand and seek the encounter with the infu riated beasts. Tho knife and the hatchet that day, in the hand of Occony and I'.stato. did fearful exe cution. The Hrown Vipers fought nobly, and willi their ancient repu tation. Hut the Oreen Hirds were the bunters, after all; and they were nov. stimulated into double ad venture and effort by au honorable ambition to make up for ail deficien cies of number by extra valour, and the careful exercise of nil that skill in the arts of bunting for which they have always been the most renown ed of the tribes of Cherokee. As, one by one, a fearful train, the wolves wound into sight along this or that crag of the gully arrow after arrow told fearfully upon them, for there were no marksmen like tho BsUltOOOS, Xor did they stop at this weapon. The young Nagoo chie, more than over prompted to such audacity, led tho way; and dashing into the very path of tho teoth-gnasblng mid claw-rending en emy, he grappled In desperate light o 99 H Gbecohee Un SU Cbnptero. dlmorc Gimme. tho first that offorod himself; and. as the wide jaws of his hairy foo opened upon him, with a fearful plunge at his side, adroitly leaping lo tho right, hu thrust a pointed stick down, deep, as far as he could send lt, into the monster's throat; then pressing hack upon him, with the rapidity of an arrow, in spite of all his fearful writhings, he pinned him to the ground, while his knife, in a moment alter, played fatally in his hean. Another came, and, in a second, his hatchet cleft and ci nched deep into the skull ol' the angry brute, leaving him senseless, without need of a second stroke. There was no rivaling deeds of valour so desper ate as this; and with increased bit terness of soul did t'heochec and his followers hate in proportion as they admired. They saw the day close, and heard the signal calling them to thc; presence Of the great chief Mol loy, concsclous, though superior in numbers, they could not at all com pare in skill ami success with the long-despised, but now throughly hated Mst a t oees. "And slill moro great tho vexation, and still more deadly the hate, when tiie prize was bestowed by the hand Molloy, tiie great military chief of Cherokee when, calling around him Hie tribes, and carefully counting the uuni'bor of their several spoils, con sisting of the skins ol' the wolves that had been slain, il was found that of I these the greater number, in propor tion to their force, had fallen victims j lo the superior skill or superior dar ing of the people nf tin? Creen Hird. And who bad boon their leader? Tho rambling Xagoochie- t ho young hun ter who bad broken his leg among Ibu crans of Occony, and, in the same adventure, no longer considered luck less, had won tho heart of the beauti ful .locassee. "Tbey boro tho young and success ful warrior to the center of the ring, and before the great Moitoy. Ile stood up in the presence of the as sembled multitude, a brave and fear less and line-looking Cherokee. At the signal of tho chief, the young innldnnts gathered into a gre ip, and sung around him a song o, compli ment and approval, which was just as much as to say, 'Ask, and you shall have.' Ile did ask, and before the people of the Drown Viper could so far recover from their surprise as to Interfere, or well comprehend tho transaction, tin; bold Xagoochie had led tho then happy .locassee into the presence of Moitoy and the multitude, and lini| claimed the girl of Occony to lill the green lodge of the l?stalo bunter. "That was the signal for uproar and com mot ion. The Occonies were desperately angered, and the Horco t'henehoe, whom nothing, not even i lie presence of tho great war-chief, could restrain, rustled forward, and dragging the maiden violently from the hold of Nagoochie, hurled her backward i to ibo ranks of his peo ple; then, breathing nothing but blood and vegeance. he confronted him with ready knife and uplifted hatchet, delving the young hunter in thal moment lo tight. " 'l?-eha-e-cha, e-horro o-cha-her ro-oeha-horro,' was the war-whoop of the Occonies; and it gathered them to a man around (ho sanguinary young chief who uttered it. 'lOcha lierro, echa-herro,' lu* continued, leaping wildly in the air with the paroxysm of rage which had seized liim 'Tho brown viper bas a tooth for the green bird. Tho Occony is athirst lie would drink blood from tho dog-honrl Of the Mst ato. K cha-e-i ba-herro, Occony! And again he concluded bis fierce speech with that thrilling roll of sound, which, as the so much dreaded war-whoop, brought ll death feeling to the heart of the early pioneer, and made the mother clasp closely, in tho deep hours of the night, the young and un conscious infant lo her bosom. Hut it had no such influence upon the fearless spirit of Nagoochie, The Kstato beard him with cool compos ure, but, though evidently unafraid. lt was yet equally evident that he was unwilling to meet the challenge in strife. Xor was his decision called for on the subject. The great chief interposed, and all chance of conflict was prevented by his intervention. In thai pr?sence they word com pelled to keep the peace, though both tho Occonies and Little Ksta toees retired lo their several lodges with fever in their veins, and a rest less desire for that collision which Moitoy had denied them. All but Xagoochie were vexed at this denial; and all of them wondered much that a warrior, so brave and daring as ho had always shown himself, should bo so (backward on such an occasion. lt was true, they knew of his love for tho girl of Occony; but they never dreamed of such a feeling ac quiring an influence over the hun ter, of so paralysing and unmanning a character. Even Nagoochle, himself as he listened to some of the speeches tittered around him, and rellected upon the Insolence of Cheoc'hee - even ho began to wish that tho affair might happen again, that he might take the hissing viper by the neck. And poor Jocassee - what of her when they look her back to the lodges? She did nothing 'but dream all night of Brown Vipers and Green Hinls in the thick of battle. Chapter V. "The next day came the movement of the hunters, still under tho con duct of Moitoy, from the one to the other side of the upper branch of the Keowee River, now called the Jo cassee, but which, at that time, went by the name of Sarratay. Tho vari- j ous bands prepared to move with the daylight; and, still near, and still in sight of one another, the Occonies and Estatoees took up their line of march with the rest. The long poles of the two, bearing the tireen Hird of the one and the Brown Viper of the other, in the bands of their re spective bearers stout warriors (dul sea for this purpose with reference to strength and valour-?-?waved in parallel courses, though the space between them was made as great as possible by the common policy of both parties. Following thc route of the caravan, which had been form ed of the ancient men, the women and children, to whom had been en trusted the skins taken in thu hunt, the provisions, utensils for cooking, etc., the great body of hunters were soon in motion for other and 'better hunting-grounds, several miles dist ant, beyond the river. "The Indian warriors 'have their own mode of doing business, and do not often travel with tho stiff precis ion which marks European civiliza tion, Though having all one point of destination, each hunter took his own route to gain it, and in this man ner asserted his independence. This had been the education of the Indian boy, and this self-reliance Is OIK .source of that spirit and character which will not suffer bim to feel sur prise in any situation. Their way. generally, wound along a 'pleasant valley, unbroken for several miles, until you came to Rig-Knob, a huge crag which completely divides it, ris ing formidably up in the midst, and narrowing the valley on either hand to a tissure, necessarily compelling a ? loser march for all parties than had heretofore been pursued. 'Strag gling about as they had 'been, of course ibut little order was percepti ble 'When they came together, in lit tle groups, where the mountain forced their Junction. One of the Hear tribe found himself alongside a handful of Foxes, and a chief of tho Alligators plunged promiscuously into the center of a cluster of the Turkey tribe, whose own chief was probably doing the proper courtesies among the Alligators. These little crossings, however, were amusing rather than annoying, and were, generally, productive of little incon venience and no strife. But it so happened that there was one excep tion to the accustomed harmony The Occonies and Estatoees, like the rest, had broken up in small parties, and, as might have been foreseen, when they came individually to -whore tho crag divided thc valley Into two, some took the one and some the other hand, and it was not until one of the paths they had taken opened into a little plain in which the woods were bald- - a sort of prairie-that a party of seven Occonies discovered thal they had among them two of their detested rivals, the Little Esta toees. What made the matter worse, ono of these stragglers was the 111 falei warrior who had been chosen to entry the badge Of bis tribe; and there, high above their heads--tho heads'of the Brown Vipers- thc de testable symbol, the green bird it self. "There was no standing that. The Brown Vipers, as If with a common instinct, were immediately up in ?un?s. They grappled the offending stragglers without gloves. They toro the green bird from the pole, stamped it under foot, smothered lt in the mud, and pulling out the conc lu ft of Its bead, utterly degraded lt in their own as well as In thc estima tion of the Estatoees. Not content with this, they hung tho desecrated ambient about the neck of the bear er of it, and, spite of all their strug gles, binding the arms of the two stragglers behind their backs, the relentless vipers thrust thc long polo which had horne tho bird, in such a manner between their alternate arms as effectually to fasten them to gether. In this manner, amidst taunts, blows and revllings, they were left In the valley to get on ns they might, while their enomies, In solent enough with exultation, pro ceeded to join the rest of their party. Chapter VI. "An hundred canoes-were ready on the banks of tho river Sarratay for the conveyance to the opposite Bhore of tlie assembled Cherokees. And down they came, 'warrior after war ner, tribe after tribe, emblem after emblem, descending from the crags around, in various order, and hurry ing all with shouts and whoops and songs, grotesquely leaping to tho river's bank, like so many 'boys just lot out of school. Hilarity is. in deed, the Ufo of nature! Civiliza tion relines the one at the expense of the other, and then it is that no hu man luxury or sport, as known in society, stimulates appetite for any length of time. We can only laugh In the woods -society suffers but a smile; and desperate sanctity, with the countenance of a crow, frowns even at that. "Mut down, around, and gathering from every side, they came--tho tens and the twenties of the several tribes of tho Cherokee. Grouped along the banks of the river were the boats assigned to each. Some, already till ed, were sporting in every direction over the clear bosom of that beauti ful water. iMoitoy himself, at tho head of the tribe of Nequassee, from which he came, had already embark ed; while the venerable Attakulla, with Jocassee, the gentle, sat upon a lillie bank in the neighborhood ol' Ibo Occony 'boats, awaiting tho arrival of Cheoehee and his party. -And why came they not? One after another of the several tribes had lilied their boats and were either on the river or across it. Hut two clus I tors of canoes yet remained, and they were those of the rival tribes. A green bird daunted over the one, and a brown viper, in many f'Uls, was twined about the pole of thc other. ..There was sufficient reason why they came not. Tho strife had be gun; for when, gathering his thir teen warriors in a little hollow at the termination of the valley throng! which they taine, Nagoochie behclc the slow and painful approach ol' du two stragglers ti (ion whom the Oreo nies bad so practiced-when he sav the green bird, the beautiful emblen of his tribe, distigured and deli 1 cli thero was no longer and measure 01 method in his madness. There wai no longer a thought of Jocassee t< keep him hack; and the feeling o ferocious indignation which filled bb bosom was the common feeling wibi his brother warriors. They lay ii wait for the coining of the Occonies down at the foot of the Yellow Hill where the woods gathered grcei and thick. They were few-but hal in number of their enemies-but the: were strong in ardor, strong in jua tice, and even death was preferabb to a longer endurance of that dis honour to which they had airead, been too long subjected. They he helti the approach of the 'Brown Vi pers, as, one by one, they wound ou from the gap of the mountain, wltl a fierce satisfaction. The two partie were now in sight of each other, am could not mistake the terms of tltci encounter. Xo word was spoken he tween them, bul each began thc seal' song of his tribe, preparing at th same time his weapon, and ndvancin to t be st niggle. " 'The green bird has a bill," san the lOstatoces; 'and he flies like a arrow to his prey.' " 'Tlie brown viper has poison an a fang,' responded the Occonies; 'an he lies under the bush for his en erny.' " 'Give me to clutch the war-tuft cried the leaders of each party, a' most in the same breath. " 'To taste the blood,' cried nm flier. " 'And make my knife laugh in tb heart thal shrinks,' sung another an another. " 'I will put my foe" on the heart cried an Occony. "'I lear away the scalp,' shouU an Esta to. in reply; while a joii chorus from the two parties pron i sed " "A dog that runs, to the blat spirit that keeps In the dark.' " 'Rc'ha-horro, echa-herro, edi berro," was the grand cry, or fear! war-whoop, which announced ll moment ol' onset and the bcginnii of the strife. "The Occonies were not backwar though tho affair was commenced I the lOstatoces. Cheochee, flu leader, was quite as brave ns mall nant, and now exulted in tho nc prospect of that sweet revenge, f all tho supposed wrongs and mo certain rivalries which his tribe hi suffered from Ibo Green Hirds. N was this more tho feeling with bl than with his tribe. Disposing the selves, therefore, in readiness to 1 eel ve the assault, they rejoiced in t coming of a strife in whicli, havl many injuries to redress, they h tho advantages, at thc same time, position and numbers. "Hut their lighting at Jlsadvai age was not now a thought with t Little Estatoees. Their blood v, up, and, like nil usually patient "p< plo, once moused, they were not readily quieted. Nagoochie, the wt rlor now, and no longer the lover, ted on tho attack. You should have seen how that brave young chief went Into battle-how ho leapt up In the air, slapped his hands upon his thighs in token of contempt for his foe, and throwing himself open before his ene mies, dashed down his (bow and ar rows, and, waving his hatchet, signi (led to them his desire for the con nict, n l'outrance, and, which would certainly make it so, hand to hand. The Occonies took him at his word, and throwing aside the long bow, they bounded out from their cover to meet their adversaries. Then should you have seen that meeting that first rush-bow they threw the tomahawk-how they nourished the knife-how the brave man rushed to the (loree embrace of bis strong en emy-and how tho two rolled along the hill In the teeth-binding struggle of death. "The tomahawk of Xagoochie had wings and a tooth, lt flew and hit In every direction One after another the Occonies went down 'before it, and still his tierce war cry of 'Rchn mal-Occony,' preceding every stroke, announced aonther and another vic tim. They sank away from him like sheep before the wolf that ls hun gry, and the disparity of force was not so great In favor of the Occonies, when we recollect that Xagoochie was against, them. The parties under his fierce valour were soon almost equal in number, and something more was necessary to be done by the Occonies before they could hope for that fav orable result from the struggle which they had before looked upon as cer tain. lt was for Cheochee now to seek out and encountc- the gallant young chief ol' IOstato. Xagoochie. hitherto, for reasons best known to himself, had studiously avoided the leader of the Vipers; hut he could no longer do so. Ile was contending, in close strife, with Okonette, or the Onc-d5yed, a stout warrior of the Vi pers, as 'Cheochee approached him. In the next moment, the hatchet of Xagoochie entered the skull of Oko nette. Thc One-Eyed sunk to the ground, as if in supplication, and, seizing the legs of his conqueror, in spite of the repeated blows which descended from the deadly instru ment, each of which was a death, while his head swam, and the blood filled his eyes, and his senses were fast fleeting, he held on with a death grasp which nothing could compel him to forego. ' In this predicament, Cheochee confronted the young brave of IOstato. The strife was short, for though Xagoochie fought as 'bravely as ever, yet he struck in vain; while the dying wretch, grappling his legs, disordered by his convulsions, not less than by bis efforts, every blow which the strong hand of Xagoochie sought to give. One arm was already disabled, and still the dying wretch held on to his legs. Tn another mo ment tho One-10yed was seized by the last spasms of death, and in his strug gles, he dragged the IOstato chief to his knees. This was the fatal disad vantage. Uofore any of the Creen Bird warriors could come to his suc cor, the blow was given, and Xagoo chie lay under the knee of the Brown Viper. The knife was in his heart and the life not yet gone, when the same Instrument encircled his head, and his swimming vision could be hold his own scalp waving in the grasp of his conqueror. The gallant spirit of Xagoochie passed away in a vain effort to utter his song of death -the song of a brave warrior con scious of many victories. ".locassee looked up to (he hills when she heard the fierce cry of the descending Vipers. Their joy was madness, for they had fought with they hud slain-the bravest of their enemies. The intoxication of tone which Cheochee had exhibited, when he told the story of the strife, and announced his victory, went like a death stroke to the heart of the mai den. 'Hut she said not a word- she uttered no complaint-she shed no tear. (Hiding quietly into thc boat in which they were about to cross the river, she sat silent, gazing, with the fixedness of a marble statue upon the still dripping scalp or her lover, as it dangled about the neck of his con queror. On a sudden, just as they had reached the middle of the stream, she started, and her gaze was turned once more backward upon the banks they had left, as If, on a sudden, some object, of interest had met her sight; (hen, whether by accident or design, with look still intent In the same di rection, she fell over the side, before they could save or prevent her, and was buried in the deep waters of Snr ratay forever. She rose not once to tho surface. The stream, from that moment, lost the name of Sarratay, and both whites and Indians, to Cils day, know it only as the river of .lo cassee. The girls of Cherokee, how ever, contend that she did not sink, but, 'walking (he waters like a thing of life,' that s'ho rejoined Xagoochie, whom she saw beckoning to her from tho shore. Nor Is this the only tra dition. The story goes on to describe a beautiful lodge, one of ibo most se lect In the valleys of Manneyto, the bunter of which ls Nagoochle, of the Green Hird, while tho malden who dresses bis venison ls certainly known as Jocassee." (The End.) How's This ? We offer one hundred dollars re ward for any case of catarrh that cannot be cured 'by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Hall's Catarrh Cure bas been taken by catarrh sufferers for the past thirty-five years, and bas be come known -as the most reliable remedy for catarrh. 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