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"Before tne? tho towering precipice rising in
majestic girWde?r^ with scarce a crevice to re
lieve the monotony of perpendicular face, near
ly two. hundred feet heavenward; to the left,
the straggling broken chain of rugged moun
tains, scanty clothed with tho hardy verdure
indigenous to this - part of our country. To
my right and rear, as far as eye could reach,
tho rolling prairie, whose single stream mean
dering;'.'*? I'tgghdily from tho foot of the hills
through the tall waving grass until lost in the
distance; and at my feet, the graves?the
grave of tho true and beautiful; the grave of
Ahe fearless and manly.
I had halted for tho night within a mile of
(this storied spot, and my octogenarian host,
who.?e faculties were still ?b clear as tho rip
pling rill running past his door, had kindly
promised to relate to mc tho mournful talc
which gave to tho precipitous mountain tho
nnmo of Enomah's Leap.
"But,** said ho, "while suppor is in course
of preparation, you should view the spot more
<jlosely; it may Borvo to wring the last sconce
more vividly before you.
This suggestion I had acted upon, and the
grand und gloomy beauty of the pluco had pre
pared my mind for any legend, howovcr weird.
But this, my host said, was no legend, but sim
ple truth, for he saw and know the principal
actors in it before it happcucd, and was among
*ho ???t. of the white race at the scene of the
?tragedy,
?Artor h hearty backwoods supper, wo twuin
re?ted ourselves, with our corncob pipca, upon
ttaLbench.before the door, in tho bright moon
light, and the old mat) commenced :
"It's as many us forty years ngoue, since this
thing happened, but I!vo thought on it so
much, and drcampt of it so often, that I re-^
member it to-night, weil as 11 did tho day it
transpired: "fiBn't a story to bo soon forgot
ten.
"Enomnh was the only child of Manaono,
one of the fiercest and most relentless chiof
tains.of the .Sioux. How ho came by such a
tluughter is ono of those'.mysteries' which will
bo unraveled at tho last great day, for setting
aside her marvelous beauty?ho was as ugly
as sin?she was tho essonce of amiability, pity,
aud devotion; something, I haye'often thought
liko whnt a child's dream of an angel is.
"Gliinpso of House," some hunter from tho
East had christened her, but the name wasu't
soft euough, and hadn't meaning enough" for
the settlers of this rogiou who knew her f?ll
chnracter, so they fell back on her own name
of Enomnhi until the arrival at their out of
the way settlement of Harry Johnson, as fine
a young fellow as ever turned his back ou the
bustling city, for a life of health aud freedom
in Nature's towns?the woods.
He was tall?tailor than most men, but you
would scarcely have thought it, he was so ad
mirably proportiouod, and his handsome sun
fu?'?WW^W^&Wi '??r<5u* J&?S '
i^u--.Y;llag^.>v:'ib- tdotiiiiig torn' and blooaj
i'nuTier]fcft.'arm' terribly lacerated as if with
tho fangs of sbuio wild beast. It was on the
day following, when a party of warriors
brought in the dead body of an enormous
pauthcr, claiming to have slain it, then she
1 tuld her tale?how the monstor came upou her
unawares, and sho hud expected nothing but
a terrible death. The panther had already
left the branch upon his deadly spring, when
sho felt herself pushed ono side, and know that
another had received almost the full force of
the beast's decent, one of the armed claws,
only, haviug reached her loft arm, the wounds
fcnbled form, when ho took his first convalcs
ocut walk.
[ "Thou a change came. Heartsease, when
sho saw her pationt regaining his wonted
healt^rtecmod suddenly to have conceived an
aversion to the cabin, aud many a weary hour
did Harry spend in watching for her return.
At last after a week had passed unohecred by
her presence, he determined, weak as ho was,
to seek the Indian village, and, if possible see
the Indian maiden.
"Ho was not destined to exert himself so
much on that occasion, for scarcely bad he
journeyed half tho distance when he can.o up
on the objects of his thoughts, carelessly tos
sing pebbles into a little stream which flowed
at he foot.
"Heartsease!"
"My preserver !" And the guileless forest
child sprang to meet, him; then suddenly
checking her ardor she pnusod, and with a
confused blush, gave him her hand.
"Why havo you stayed so long from mo,
Heartsease V inquired tho hunter, with a
glance of unconcealed admiration.
?*I)id my white friend miss me, then."
"Would you miss the bright sun should it
ccaso to shine? Would you miss the pretty
wild flowers if they grew no more ? Would
you miss the twiukliog stars if they should
sot forovcr? Even so havo I missed you,
Heartsease,".
r "I havo missed my friend too," said the In
dia^ maiden, trembling with an emotion
which sho could not conceal, "and would havo
come to him, only I feared
"You feared I? What did you fbar, my dar
ling ?"1 For you aro, you must be my dnr
ling;" and he folded the little trembler to his
breast. "Think yon I have felt thoso sooth
ing fingers on my brow, or mot tho glanco of
these sweet blup eyes without knowing there
was love in the touch and look? Tell o
wbut you feared ?"
"Oh, it was this I feared 1" sho murmured.
"I feared that you would discover my lovo for
you. and despise me for it, for how could I
know that you would love mo in return? You
say you do 1 You call me darling 1 Ami
dear to you 1"
"As life itself?nay, dearer than life; as
my soul!"
"Then, Harry, break with mo a stick at tho
running stream, aud be true to me as to your
soul."
Taking up a slender twig, she held it to
wards her lover aud with her blue eyes picro
ng his very heart, she said :
"When Enotuuh forgets you, may the Great
spirit of her nation forget her, aud forever
leny her entrance to the happy hunting
grounds of her father and brothers."
"Spcakl"
"On the day that Harry Houston proves
false to his Heartsease, may the good right
liand which holds this twig wither from Iiis
inn, nnd may his-Groat Spirit blot his name
from the book of life."
They scarcely waited till the pieces of tho
broken twig had touched tho stream when they
clasped each other iu a fervid embrace, for
getting all the world beside.
"Hut my father!" suddenly exclaimed
Heartsease, disengaging herself from Harry's
arms, "he will never consent."
"No ? Is ho f>o iuvetcratc iu his hatred to
our race ?"
"Terribly so ! and more especially would ho
forbid my marriage with one of you."
"Then our only plan iB to journey two days
toward the dawn, where we will find u mats-of
^^^ipSnW^Ais f rgmuessV we wlltpl
lur uw;.pvHir.i tip ?Otting flun, whore wojwiit
pass our lives in happiness and content-went-;'
living for each other a?? our children. Shall
it be so, darling ?"
? "I will do as you say, Harry; the broken
I stick has mude mc yours."
Fivo days after this wildwood'betrothal the
hunter entered the Sioux village, leading by
th? hand his happy, yet anxious bride. Hearts
ease had been sorely missed by Manaono, but
as slie Was in the habit of strayiug od" to the
settlements; and remaining nbsout for days to
gether, her disappearance occasioned no real
alarm j nevertheless Manaono received her
with a species of grim pleasure.
"Was Euomoh lost, that sho is led home by
the whito hunter ?" said her father, after a
stately nod to Harry.
"Heartsease remained silcut, whilo a dcepor
crimson suffused her check aud brow.
"No, Manabnb," quickly replied Harry, who
saw that the power of speech had for tho mo
ment left his bride. "Enonmh was not lost,
bnt she has journeyed with mc to the lodge of
a servant of Mnuito, who bus married us.
Panther-slayer comes to you us u sou. Will
you forgive us ?"
"What! dog of a pale face !" almost shriek
ed Manaouc. "The daughter of a great ohicf
has become your squaw, and you hftv? come to
mc for forgiveness ? Ha! ha! you shall have
it! You shall have such forgiveness as the
"wounded bear bestows upon one who steals her
cubs. Ho ! Taoiuan !" Tho paiuted visage
of a warrior appeared at the opening of the
wigwam, aud the chief- continued, addressing
him : "Lead forth the dog of a hunter, and
sec that you guurd him well. To-morrow, at
sunrise, either ho or you must die !"
Although surprised at this reception, so dif
ferent from what ho had cxpoetcd, Harry
would have resisted to the death, had it not
been that a number of warriors had rushed to
the spot, upou hearing the thunder tones of
Manaouc, aud thrown themselves upou him
ere bo could draw a weapon. With his arms
securely pinioned ho was led away, whilo tho
gentle Eliomah sank iu a swoon at her father's
feet.
"Take hence the tfuitrcss to the memory of
her lathers," be said to a squaw who was in
tho wigwam, "and sec that she be restored iu
time to witness the death of her palo lover."
"But I am getting tedious stranger," the
old man said, "so 1 will hasten with what fol
lowed.
The morning dawned bright and beautiful
as that of a wedding day, and the wbolo tribe
gathered in the ccutrc of tho village, where
the four head chiefs were soon seated on piles
of skins.
"Bring forth the palo lace," said M.inaon.,
it tho -warrior of tho grcav Sioux
\j* prpnouuctfihis doom."
10 ceutro of the oppu space before the
icy brought the prisoner, with his
hands'ffghtly bound behind him, aud Mana
ono, tffjnng two steps forward; raised his right
hand, -YflS'if to oommnud attention, addressed
tho nimbly.
"W^rlbra of tho great Sioux natiou, what
do yo .whon.a sneaking wolf outers your wig
wam jn your absence, glutting itself upon your
papowc as it lies sleeping, aud that wolfe af
ter wo?L. fulls iu your power? What do yo
whcn^i panther springs upon the little ono
that Pattys about your knee, and yc afterwards
find panther sleepiug 7 Need I ask ?" '
A t/urmur of terrible import rose from the
swaying, mnss^-swaying with tho workings of
their Vindicative passions, and Harry Houston
kncwl|fy tho eager bloodthirsty look in the eyes
whiclf?surrounded him, that his doom was
sealed*'V
"Tap.paiohunter," continued Manaoue, whou
the tlip murmur had died away, "came to us
as a^ptid, and we opened our wigwams to his
tiredvfect and gave him of the best to cat. he
camd ; Ip us with honey on his tongue hiding
the sting within his heart, bis words were like
the fjrest rose, but his meaning like the thorn
concealed beneath, aud with his doublo tongue
he lured away a daughter of our tribe?my
child/vEnoinah. What is thisfalso friend's
doomr?"
/'Death !" rang out from a hundred throats,
"death by tho fire !'
"Jhn". said Manaoue, and a dark, sinister
sinilp played upon his features, "we will give
liiui-^- chance for his life. He shall leap from
tho bald rock; if he escape death thou, his
Great-Spirit is stronger than ours, aud he
shulb,he free. I have said it, aud it shall bo
soil
Xjwrp wcro a fow among the assembled
warihbrs .who murmured because they could
not havo the demoniacal pleasure of torturiug
the'jointer, but the majority took the side of
Mail-ioue, and tho victim was draggod, amid
terrlip'whoops,.to. the edge of the prcccpicc? j
youjMW it to-day. .
-j . ring furth. my guilty daughter that she
jehold her pale face warrior die," com
tipf, and poor Heartsease, now
stob'd. ealin and ulimoVed. A
^Luok^.catnc into his clear, dark pyc, ns she
Ioftjior conductors ?md bouuded to his side.
"Uarry, husband, must yo? dit-V" she
waibJ.
"fee it bns becu decreed by your stem fath
er," he answered, softly, "but he has choscu
fur no an easy aud painless death. I nm to
leaj from this rock."
"'Tis an awful leap,"said Euohiah, dreami
ly, ? aud 'tis a loug distance to go?alone."
"'. shall have ceased to breathe before I
reach the bottom, darling, so I shall feel no
pant."
-Aud is ull ready ?" inquired Heartsease.
*iWhon you have returned to your friends
the signal will be given, and thoso warriors on
out left will dart forward aud burl me from
my foothold."
Enomah's lace had a heaven-born expression
ou it. as she looked up und said ;
"Say one little prayer to tho Great Spirit,
Hurry, aud 1 will pray* too; don't forget to
a*k your Mouito to take me with you ? herevcr
you go after death, and 1 will ask the Great
Spirit of the Sioux to let uie go." Then, nftor
buwiug her head a inotMo'nt, as if iu silent
prayer, she turned her face to where Manaoue
stood, in tbo midst of his warriors, and, with
a look which haunted him until his dying day,
she cried:
"Farewell, father; in life or death I nm
Harry's only !"
As sho finished .?ho clasped her fettered hus
band in her arms, and before a hand could be
raided to shiy her, bouuded from the rock with
a thrilling cry.
You saw the graves to-day. It was on that
spot they found their mangled bodies, be still
clasped in the dead arms of his Heartsease,
and siuco (hut day they have called the moun
tain? Kuomah's Leap."
VARIOUS.
[From Moore's Rural New Yorker.]
Susie's Prayer.
It was half holiday. The children were
gathered on the green and a right merry time
they were having. I think children always
do enjoy themselves on such occasions.
'?Come, girls and boys," called out Ned
Graham. "Ict'H play hunt the squirrel."
All assented eagerly, and a large circle was
formed with Ned Graham for leader because
he was the largest.
"Come, Susie," said one of the boys, to a
little girl who stood on one side, and seemed to
shrink from joining them.
4 0h, never mind her!" said Nod, with :i
little toss of bis bead,, "shu'a nobody, anyhow.
Hor father drinks."
A quick flush crept over the child's pale
face as she heard tho cruel, thoughtless words.
Sho was very sensitivo, and the arrow, had
touched her heart in its tend crest place. ; Hot
father teas a drunkard, sho knew; but to bo
taunted with it before so many was more thau
sho could boar; and with great sobs heaving
her bosom, aud hot tears filliug her eyes, sho
turned and ran away from tho ploy-ground.
Her mother was sitting by the window when
she reached home and the tearful faco of the
little girl told that something had happened to
disturb her.
"What is the matter, Susie ?" sho asked,
kindly.
"Oh,, mother," Susie said, with the tears
dropping down her checks, aS she hid h?r face
in her mother's lap, <:Ned Graham said such a
cruel thing about mc," and bore the sobs
chocked her voico so that sho could hardly
speak j" be said I wasn't anybody, and that
father drirjks."
"My poor little girl," Mrs. Eilet said, very
sadly. There were tears in her eyes, too^
Such taunts as this were nothing now.
"Ob, mother," Susie said, as sho lilted her
face, wet with tears, from her mother's lap, "I
can't bear to have them say so, and act just as
if I had duuo something wicked. I wish fath
er wouldn't driuk ! l)o you suppose he'll ever
leave it off! ...
"I hopo so," Mrs. Eliot answered, as sho
kissed Susie's face where the-tears clung like
drops of dew on u rose. "I pray that he may
break off the habit, and I can do nothing but
pray, and leave tho rest to God."
That night Mr. Eilet cumc home to supper,
as usual. He was a hard-working man, and a
good noigbbor. So everybody said, but bo had
the habit of intemperance so firmly fixed upon
him that everybody thought he would end his
days in the drunkard's grave. Susie kissed
him when be cumc through the gate, as she al
ways did, but thcro was something in hei face
that went to his heart. A look so sad, and
full of touohing sorrow for one so young as
sho! * i - ,:
"What ails my little'girl ?" hp asked, as he
pnttcd her cOrly head.
"T Cltr.'t^ffl^XT"". father," sue answered,
I -Why ?'AhVrfS?*-?
"Bccauso it would make you feel bad," Susie
replied.
"I guess not," he said, as they Walked up to |
j the dooi together. "What is it, Susie?"
;<Oh, father," and Susie burst into tears j
again as the momory of Ned Graham's words
catno up freshly in her mind, "I wish you j
wouldn't drink any more for the boys and
girls don't like to play with mc, 'cause you
do." . ???<??
M.r Eilet made no reply. But something
stirred in his heart that made him ashamed of
himself] ashamed that he was the cause of so
much sorrow and misory.
After supper he took his hat. and Mrs. El
let knew only too well whero he was going.
At first he had resolved to stay at homo that
evening, but the force of habit was so strong
that be could not resist, and he yielded,prom
ising himself, that he would not drink more
than once or twice.
Susie had left the table before ho fiuuhed
bis supper, und as he pusscd tho great clump
of lilacs, by the path, on his way to the-gate,
he heard her voice and stopped to listen to
what she was saying.
??Oh, good Jesus, please dou't let futhor
drink any more. Make him just as he used to
he when I was a baby, and the boys and girls
can't call mc a drunkard's child, or say such
bad things nbout mc. Please dear Jesus, for
mother's sake and mine."
Susie's father listened to her simple prayer
with a great lump swelling iu his throat. And
when it was ended he went up to hor, and
knelt down by hor side, and put his arm around
her, oh, so lovingly !
"God in Heaven," he said, very solemnly,
"I promise to-night, never to touch another
drop of liquor as long ns I live. Give me
strength to keep my pledgo, and help mo to be
a better man."
"Ob, father," Susie cried, her arms about
his neck, and her head upon his breast, "I'm
so glad ! I shan't euro nbout anything they
say to me now, for I kuow you won't bo a
drunkard any more."
"God helping nie, I will bo a man /" he an
swered, as, with Susie in bis arms, ho wont
back into tho house where his wife was sitting
with the old patietit look of sorrow on hor
face,?the look that had be en mo so habitual.
I cannot tell you of the joy and thanksgiv
ing that went up from that hearthstone that
night. 1 wish 1 could, but it was too (leap a
joy which tilled the hearts of Susie and hor
mother iu ho described.
Was not Susie's prayer answered ?
mm mm ???? w
A train loaded with soldiers ran off tho
truck near Gordonsville, Virginia, and four
? were killed and many Wounded.
Tho Elective Fraticliisc.
1 ? ?
To the J?cojiIe of Soutfr Carolina;
It was referred to .the State Central Exccu- 'h
tive Committee, by the lato Democratic Con- >
vontion, to inquire into tho disabilities imposed,
by reason of tho ?'war, upon a portion of our
peoplo, restraining, them from the exercise of
the olectiyq franchise, in South Carolina, and
to publish tho conclusion attained, for the.
information of the people of the State. The
committee iu discharge of that- duty, announce
that they have examined the subject, and beg
to state;.
: 1. That no such disabilities now exist by or
under the acts of CongVess, known as the Re
construction act, ihe State having been of
ficially declared to be in the Union,
? 2. That no such disabilities exist under the
so-called amendment, known as the fourteenth
amendment to tho Constitution of the United
States, the disabilities therein expressed hav
ing reference to office-holding, and not to
voting. 5?v? ..
3. Thqt.no such disabilities exist by the so
called State Constitution of 18G8, nnder which
it is claimed that the State has been recon*
structed and restored to the Union.
The undersigned ; therefore, annouhce^that
no such disabilities exist by force of any law?
or supposed law, or authority whatever; and
they urge their hitherto disfranchised fellow
citizens, in every part of tho State, to exercise
thoir right , to vote at the coming election for
President and Viec-Prcsiucnt, of which right
they have been so loug deprived by military
power. By order of the.
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.
Items.
: . . ^ \- -r ';,-,v ;
The Indianapolis pension agency has 12,000
names, and the annual payments amount to
$1,800,000.
The eastern shore of Lake Michigan furnish'
cd Chicago with 50,000 bushels of peaches
this season. -
- - ? . ?' i
22 miles of fence inclose a farm of 13,000
acres in Illinois, which is subdivided by 70\
miles of hedge.
The needle-gun has _bceu ihtrotluced into
tire armies of Denmark, Sweden, Holland, a^d
?uiOAuJiutni St?t;kv'
,VVJ"The length of England, from Berwick to
Lund's End, is estimated at 426 miles;'
It is said that Mrs. John Wood, the actress;
Jias married a London journalist.
A Ecntuckian calculates that he has chewed .
1,825 lbs, of tobacco in forty years';
The wife of Priuce Napoloori is iti tho las*
Btages of pulmonary consnmptioii.
Chinese are flocking by millions to the*
newly discovered gold mines' at CKcfoo'.
Mr. Chandler of Alstcad, ?: H., haVveste^
? crop Ot COf ? uo udyo ulier planting.'
A New York milliner has built a\lWtfife?
which is a marvel oi cheapness ?t ?125.
The corn crops in tlio lowlands of Kentucky
have been ruined by an' inundation.
Competition has lotoefed the steamboat fares7
on tho upper Mississippi very much.
Brooklyn's valnation is $161,317,560, an1
increase of eleven millions since last year.
A regiment of United States troops eigtii
hundred strong, has been sent fto'iti Washing
tou to Nashville, Tennessee.
Beast Butler has been rcnomin'aied for Cori-"
gress by tho Bostonians.
The government is to issue arms to citizens
living on the Indian frontier.
The United States will bo requested' id sec^'
representatives to the European Pe?co Cbtt^ .
grcss at Beruc.
There was a grand Democratic demonstra
tion at Mobile on Monday night. Twchiy
fivc clubs, aggregating eight thousand persons,'
marched in procession.
In tho Surrntt case art appeal has beed
taken from tho decision of Judge Wylie, ana
a new indictment will bo submitted to the
jury.
Moro earthquakes and volcanic eruptions
have taken place in the Sandwich Islands'.
Tho reported sinking of tile southeastern shore
of Hawaii is confirmed:
Ex-President Pierce is* very feeble. His
nervous systotn is quite shattered, and ti is
very doubtful whether Ho Will gel nUout lllljj
fall or winter?if at all again.
The municipal election in Nasli villa, Tenth',
on Saturday, resulted iu tho re-election of the
present incumbont. Both candidates were Bo* .
publicans.
Confodcratc General J. C. ttfoo'lnah ,ni*.
been assassinated at his residence, lleltena, ?rk;
A man named Robhins, of Springfield MissdU
ri, who served under him, his been arrestety
; but denies being 'ihe vn?rdor*r>