conquerable, using his tongue in a torrent of biting Three mounted Indians, one of them of a words, stood bound to the stake-Mr. Walmesley, tall and particularly commanding demeanor, rode naked from his waist up, but meek, patient and un- rapidly on to the lawn. Never have I seen a resisting, was awaiting the like operation. My handsomer man than this last-never one whose clothes had been torn from me during my trance, by port was more noble and majestic. Every action no scrupulous hand-That I had been spared death was grace itself. His horsemanship was as perwas undoubtedly owing to the peculiar feeling the fect a specimen of equestrian skill as ever graced savage has for any thing deformed or stricken. a knightly encounter of chivalry. His burnished Probably I should have escaped altogether, but for arms glittered like silver. They were those, with the malice and hatred of Ramsay. which a soldier of wealth and high rank would delight to deck himself. In addition to these, he wore in his belt of curiously variegated wampum, the characteristic tomahawk, which, in its texture and finish, resembled an elaborate sword blade of Damascus steel. A rich plume nodded over his lofty forehead. "What has thee to say now?" asked Kamsay, deridingly, of the Quaker. "Nothing, Robert," he said meekly, "but to utter a prayer for thy speedy conversion, and then I go to my beloved daughter who cannot come to me." "Utter thy prayer quick then, for thy race is run." The deep silence, which pervaded both parties during the temporary cessation of hostilities, was "I will, Robert, I will. Merciful God! as the last first broken by the stranger chief. Turning to words of that pure soul thou hast just called to thy Ramsay with a face livid with suppressed anger, bosom, were for thy regenerating grace on this he bade him survey the valley through which, for great sinner, so let my own petition to thee, Most a time, the triumph of hell was complete and reMerciful God, in the same cause, be added to hers, sistless. In every direction, as far as the eye and may it be accepted by thee. Pardon him, could reach-East, West, North, and South,—in Father! for he knows not what he does; and Thy front, and in rear, the work of destruction was will be done forever and ever!" going on-The triumph of Tory malice and Indian cruelty, reigned unopposed. The villages, after a butchery of almost every soul in them, were in flames, as were also the greatest part of the farm houses and rural habitations, in the whole valley for its entire length. The fields of grain, nearly ready for the sickle, had been set on fire and consumed where they grew; the herds mangled, and with their tongues cut out, ran bellowing madly with anguish :-but no pen can picture the horrors of that hour. And from time to time, above the roar of the flames, and the crack of musquetry, rose the terrible yells of the infuriated bands of mingled Indians and Tories, who were changing one of the fairest spots of earth into another Campania. "My will first!" exclaimed the wicked man. But God chose that moment to vindicate his own power and glory. The impious assumption of the Great Attribute of the Divine Being was scarce made, when there came the quick sharp crack of rifles from a wooded eminence a little on our left; and three savages-one of them just applying the fire to the faggots that encompassed Pepper, and another doing the same deed for Mr. Walmesley, fell dead without a struggle. A moment of indecision in the survivors gave our unseen allies time to reload, and two more of the savages fell victims to the same unerring aim. With scarce less swiftness than the leaden messengers of death, those who gave them their fatal currency were upon us. One stroke of a friendly hatchet severed the cords that bound the old master of the Speedwell, the liberation of the Quaker was accomplished with equal speed. In a breath, the fierce old sailor was re-armed and raging, but no change could be remarked in the countenance of the Quaker. "And this is your foul work, Warrender," said Brant, fiercely. "It is indeed-I acknowledge it-I am its parent," answered Ramsay with an audacious smile. "You have deceived me, doubly deceived me," said Brant: "first deceived me by promising mild and honorable warfare, and, secondly, by procuring “Turn, hellhound, turn!" cried Pepper, without my absence from the battle-field by a cunning and ever having so much as heard of Macduff. The basely-forged lie-aye, Warrender, I say it, a lie! call was directed to Ramsay, who gave indications Had I been present, victory had not less been ours; of retreating. Stop a few minutes, do now-I and we-I mean myself, for disgrace cannot affect want to pass a few compliments with you. Wo'nt you stay and preach for Mr. Folly whack next Sabbath, d-n you?" 66 "Hist! what is that?" exclaimed the scout, who was one of our deliverers. "There's help coming to them. If you would save your lives, you must follow me instantly. Too late! too late! and we are lost." VOL. VIII-88 one so vile as thou art-had been spared the infamy, which this outrage will entail through all time on its perpetrators. And scarce can speech or future deed of mine wash out the blot, or clear my character from the mist that must shroud it, till good men shall arise to vindicate Truth and Brant. I feel I shall ever be contemned of all just and honorable men for that, knowing as I did, the foul hearts of the traitors to God and man, whom Alas! I have reached the battle-field too late-too men call Tories, I leagued with them-trusted to late! Yet what I can do, shall be done. The them-breathed the same air with them. But this forests around us are full of your miserable people shall show I am a Mohawk yet: What! ho! is flying from the barbarity of our bands, to death, by there one of you all that has just cause of quarrel starvation and fatigue. Go you, all of you, withwith this bad man, and would take a brave mode out parole, without promise, without return-on of settling it ?" Thayendenega be the peril of your release,-go, In a second of time, Pepper's shoes, hat, neck-comfort, and save! I will do all I can to arrest cloth, waistcoat and shirt, were a rod from him. further massacre!" "See if you preach for Mr. Folly whack next "Your name," said he, turning to me, "I have Sabbath, d-n you," said he, taking the quid from heard of before, as a just person, and as one dehis mouth, which, with him, always denoted a fatal lighting in converse with the wise men of the extremity of purpose. "There are points of dif- Past, and dwelling chiefly amongst books. I ference between us," mimicing the tone of the would that your heart could learn the truth of other, at the celebrated interview between him and mine, and feel that I am guiltless of this blood. I the Pepper family-"s'pose we settle 'em now!" would not that my name should descend to future At this point of time, Chengachcook, or Indian ages, darkened with the infamy of this most atroJohn, stept suddenly forward: "I claim," said he, cious massacre. Join me then in prayer, and af"the life of this warrior, it is mine-forfeited to terwards lend your aid to make it effective, that an her who lies sleeping yonder. Many years since, advocate shall arise to do justice to my fame." I came sick and wounded to the cabin of this good We employed ourselves, for some time, accordman. There was in that cabin a little bird, chirp-ing to the humane suggestions of the Mohawk ing on the boughs, and singing the sweet songs of chief. In that wilderness, which has since gone childhood. It fluttered around me; it perched at by the name of the SHADES OF DEATH, we found my side; it all but nestled in my bosom :--the many of the poor wanderers, and alleviated much Great Spirit never created any thing more beauti-distress. The sufferings of many had been past ful. It was there, and by its aid, that I got food, telling, and some alas! past remedy. We found got rest, and went on my way strong--that before women and children without male protector or the moon grew old, I had six scalps in my belt, guardian, actors in the late struggles, dying of torn from the quivering crowns of Mohawk war- wounds, with none to bathe their parched lipsriors. Aha! (the hand of Brant stole convulsively women dying in the hour of parturition, or living to the hatchet, but he withdrew it hastily, though through it to see their new-born babes perish for the fierce dilation of the nostril continued,--and lack of sustenance: but the sufferings were terrihis passion was, with difficulty, repressed.) Be-ble, indescribable, and unequalled. We saw many fore I left the good man's cabin, I promised the prowling bands of Iroquois, but the friendship of little bird to bear, evermore, her kindness in re- the Great Chief had been effectual to spare us colmembrance. I have done so--she has been ever lision with them. the one bright star in Chengachcook's sky. Once We were absent about a month-at our return, I saved her the Great Spirit was angry and took few of the hostile Indians remained in the Valley. her to himself. I come now, and find no fire on A fort was constructed for us to retreat to in case the good man's hearth; the bird of beauty, with its of emergency, of which Pepper was the actual little heart broken, can sing me no more sweet head, though Zebulon Butler retained the nominal songs. I have had no revenge-I take it now." superiority. A desultory warfare continued for With that, he drew his bow, from which he near a year-a war of mutual extermination, neither would not part on his conversion, with great ra- party giving quarter, but shooting each other down pidity, and sent an arrow to the heart of the mise-with as little hesitation as a sportsman uses when rable man. That done, his war-cry rang through firing into a covey of partridges. the glades, and he stood in expectation of an im- In the next year, when General Sullivan made mediate attack from the hereditary foe of his race. his incursion into the Indian Country, Pepper, high "He has been justly served," said Brant, with in command, and most deservedly so, for his merits no movement indicating an attack. "On me, be as a partizan leader were become widely known, acthe guilt of his death, if guilt there be. I am companied the expedition. He took two of his here," he continued, addressing himself to our sons with him then,-Praxiteles Job-by the boys, party, "to put a stop, if possible, to the terrible abbreviated, first to Prax. and then to Flax; the scenes, to which, God knows, I am no party. I latter he bore through life; and Ajax Seth, whom suffered myself to be deceived by the lies of him the same cunning mutilators of names, transformed whom justice has overtaken at last, and have been to Eight Jacks. Both of the youths became reabsent for many days. Since I had reason to sus-nowned Indian fighters: Flax was killed at St. pect that I was deceived, I have neither eaten nor Clair's defeat, and Eight Jacks fell triumphant at slept, but have journeyed hither night and day. Wayne's victory. Before Sullivan would permit these things from love, for I was wise in time to avoid a sentiment, which, to one of my disposition, must have been death. I did it from a friendship as deep and enduring as ever visited mortal bosom. From this mansion, I shall be carried to my last home, which, if the executor of my last will be faithful, and with my whole wealth I have bribed him to the trust, will be at the feet of the father and mother, and by the side of my dear lost sister. Pepper to join him, he obliged him to subscribe to the same russet curtain-the harp she won from what Pepper called the "New Act of Conformity." her father's rigid faith, by a resistless smile and He was to wear his hat, shoes and coat, no matter kiss, keeps its old place by the wall. I did not how hot the battle, or warm the weather; but he was to retain or discharge his quid of tobacco, as best suited his own inclination. When the General, with great kindness of manner, for nobody was more popular than the old sailor, requested him not to use so much profane language, he replied, "He'd be d-d if he swore again for the whole campaign!" and he is said to have kept his word. He became eventually a general, and continued to drink brandy, tell stories, and describe the location of "Booby Island Rock," and the intricate channel between "St. Kitts and Nevis," till he was more than ninety years old. Mrs. Pepper lived many years, but never recovered her admiration of a clerical dress! It may be mentioned as a pleasing trait in her character, that she retained to the last her "excessive purdiliction" for her husband. She died of a disease called "Acidulation of wind on the brain." "A BOON, A TALISMAN, OH MEMORY GIVE! We are parting now, sweet sisters; this may be our last farewell And for the comfort of maidens falling into the yellow leaf, whose hope deferred is making the heart sick; and, moreover, in further verification See Psalmanazar, book 73, page 749. of the proverb, that "there never was a Jack without a Jill, and if one wo'nt another will," let me state that, finally, the wedding bell was heard to tinkle gaily at the far-famed mansion, No. 1011, Water-street. It was Clytemnestra Ruth's good fortune, at last, to have the time of night asked of her in the form of words best adapted to her wants and wishes. And as "it never rains but it pours,' two months after, Mr. Newrum, the grocer, carried off Circe Leah for “good and all.” About the same time, Medusa Eunice became the third wife of the Reverend Mr. Folly whack, and went through the "go-to-bed-supperless," "lie-still-to-be-humbled," and "get-up-to-be-slapt" evolutions of a step-mother's drill, to the admiration of all Snickerdam. Hersilia Hippodamia Tabitha, the youngest child, on account of an extra touch of Nature's rouge, commonly known as the Red Pepper," Perchance, within my childhood's home, I never more may dwell; never was married. She was a cross child. If she really did go to lead Pluto's apes, poor apes! The story of the Scout has been written in books, that will only perish with the land whose legends gave them birth. No character of modern times surpasses it in interest. I hope the friend who brought him out, will not be offended with me because I claim to have known him. I remained the companion of my dear friend, the Quaker, as long as he lived, which was but a little more than three years. Mrs. Walmesley followed her daughter to the grave in less than six months. At my friend's decease, he left me all his wealth. It made me a rich man, but took away none of my melancholy. I restored the mansion and every thing around it, to the exact condition in which the irruption of the savages found it. In that state, I have kept it ever since. Change has not visited it,-time has impaired none of its beauties-the neatness, order, and regularity of its day, of former ownership, are with it still. The little couch, where the pure in heart had the visions which are now glorious realities in heaven, is hidden still by Or it may be, that the Providence which still hath been our Again, in health and happiness, will place us side by side. may be, My trust is in his boundless love, who rules our destiny; here, And I fain would be remembered in the home I held so dear. Will you think of me, sweet sisters, when I have passed When Fancy, in the passing clouds, may trace th' en- Of fairy-land, its rocks and glens, its palaces and towers-- pear, And twilight deepens into night, and still ye linger here; I tree; Sweet sisters, let the hour I loved, recall your hearts to me. would not have you dwell upon the sorrows we have The tears, alas! how often shed o'er loved ones earlier known; gone The withering hours of secret grief, whose struggles we repressed, While we calmly wore the quiet smile that spoke of hearts at rest Of the weary midnight watches it hath been our lot to keep Beside the restless couch of pain, whence suffering banished sleep- Of the vexing words, that ever were repented soon as said; | clustered with visions of enchantment,--bathed by I would not have you think on these, when I am with the a tideless sea, whose ordinary quiet harmonizes well with the delicious softness of the shores, dead. But when the balmy breath of Spring shall waken bird and invested with an atmosphere whose usual transpabee, And merry music once again is heard from every tree; were mine, And fairer fingers garlands of their brilliant blossoms twine; love, And gaver voices echo in their gladness thro' the grove; rency seems vacuity itself, giving to objects a brilliant distinctness and an apparent proximity; yet, all these mild attractions are combined with another trait in the landscape, which gives an awful and sublime interest. Every where around you are presented the mementoes of those terrific fires of earth, which here escape from their prisons, devastating and destroying these delicious scenes. But, sisters, let these pleasant things recall your hearts The mountains, the plains, the shores, the islands to me. DESCRIPTION OF NAPLES. Naples, July 7, 1842. are all volcanic. Even the houses which you inhabit, and the streets on which you walk, are all of lava. Here is presented a spectacle unique and imposing. A city reposing at the foot of a burning mountain, rearing her palaces and her towers upon a surface, which we have every reason to believe, conceals, at no great depth, the boiling lava rolling to and fro in Nature's great laboratory,-a surface, under which the thunders of heaven are reverberated in the caverns of earth,—a surface, often MY DEAR SIR-I promised, before I left the United States, to give you some account of Naples. It is a field so thoroughly explored and so often described, that I can do but little more than repeat what has been often said by others. Here trembling, shifting, changing from the tempestuous is the favorite hunting ground of the tourists: the fury of these great mysterious fires of our globe. old and the new world from each of its states, Earthquakes, rivers of flame, and showers of ashes sends here an annual quota of antiquarians, painters, naturalists, philosophers and men of pleasure. And here is abundant food for all. The eternal city, herself, affords not such variety of interesting antiquities: no where is there such profusion of enchanting scenery. cavern, are but ordinary spectacles. The lake of to-day becomes the mountain of to-morrow, and the mountain sinks into the lake. The ruins of time and man are mingled with the ruins of Nature. The Lucrine lake, so renowned among the Romans for its fish and oysters, situated within five Here are the shores of Homer and the topogra- or six miles of Naples, has been the theatre of one phy of Virgil; the lovely scenes which inspired of these remarkable changes. After an earthquake the muse of the Mantuan bard, and which received of terrific violence, the earth opened on its shores, their reward in the descriptions of his verse. Here and then succeeded a volcanic eruption of three wandered Ulysses; and here labored Hercules. In days, which converted a portion of the lake and these environs, the Cumaan Sibyl composed her the adjacent land into an elevated mountain of oracles; and the curious may yet see the dread three miles in circuit. During this eruption, showfrom whose "hundred doors," issued as ers of cinders fell at a distance of twenty-four "many voices," echoed through the vaults, when miles, and the village of Nipirgola was swallowed the Priestess gave her responses to the inquiring up in the abyss. pilgrims at her portals. Here Æneas consulted, The lake of Agnano, three miles distant from before he passed to Avernus, and made his descent this city, is an example of another kind. Here to the realms of the Hades. Pompeii and Hercu- the volcano has sunk into the lake. A high line laneum! they stand alone, the wonders of the of precipitous mountains, surrounds it on all sides, world. Baiæ, Cumæ, Misenum, Pæstum are all rising far above its surface, being the exterior of in this vicinity, with their fields of ruins, their the crater once filled with fire, now occupied by mouldering temples, crumbling columns, relics of water, whose effervescent surface seems boiling villas and palaces, and their endless poetic and with the half smothered fires. This appearance historic associations. The hills and the vallies, is probably merely the result of an escape of gas the cliffs and the headlands, the convents and from waters, which are highly charged with various churches, the castles and palaces, each has its his- mineral substances, and which present, at different tory; the scene of some adventure, the theatre of depths, different qualities. Avernus is another some crime, the subject of some legend, or the case of the same kind; but here, the transition had place of some tragedy. taken place before the period of history commenced. In the vicinity of these lakes, is the Solfatara, volcano in the twelfth century. The crater is now But the most remarkable feature of this region is the character impressed on it by Nature. Beau- the Forum Vulcani of Strabo. This was an active tiful beyond any thing which is seen in other lands, This is a new application in this utilitarian age of Vulcan's furnace, an application rather derogatory to this ancient factory of the thunderbolts of Jupiter. covered over, but upon casting a stone on its sur- walls and at the same time poured through the face, the sound is echoed far and wide in the im- spaces, between the buildings. And now, one sees mense caverns below. There are still crevices here, lying in great masses, floods of lava hard as from which issue sulphurous smoke. Such is the silex, in the midst of habitations, the frightful meheat of the surface that the manufacturers of sul- mentoes of their dreadful vicinity. This building, phur and alum, by digging a few feet into the earth, living and reposing in such close contiguity to boil their pots by the fires of Nature. these great safety valves of the fires of earth, produce, in the mind of a stranger, feelings of wonder and of horror. But from the lava, there is ordinarily but little danger to life. Its passage is so slow, that there is no difficulty in escaping from it. In one of the late eruptions, an English visiter who had ascended the side of the mountain, found himself between two streams of the rolling liquid, which had united below him and which he saw were closing on him. In the eagerness of his curiosity, he had not sufficiently attended to his safety. In this alarming situation, he determined to make the effort to cross the smaller stream. Strange to say, he passed without injury. The lava had coagulated to such a degree, that though still in motion, in the rapidity of his passage, he produced so slight an impression on its surface, as to escape without material suffering. It is believed, that this volcano communicates with Vesuvius; for, it is observed that when the action of the one increases, the other diminishes. When there is an eruption of Vesuvius, there seems to be almost an extinction of the fires of Solfatara; and when there is but little movement in the former, the heat and smoke of the latter are augmented. A Neapolitan Savan has written an essay to prove, that Solfatara is the veritable mouth of the Infernal world. If that world were material, it might well be, for it would be difficult to conceive a scene of more thorough desolation. Its summit exhibits at present, the shape of a deep bowl In the various ejections of these volcanoes, the scattered with many colored sulphurs, the cracks mineralogist may find some of the most beautiful steaming with suffocating smoke, and the earth specimens of his science. Nature exposes her hot from the hidden fires. most secret recesses to view, and pours forth, for But The eruptions, at the same time that they over-the inspection of man, not only lavas of every vawhelm and destroy, seem to disperse the principles riety of color, and apparently of material, but also of fertility; as Nature, in her ordinary operation various stones and minerals rare and curious. of decomposition, lays the basis of subsequent pro- at present, I will say no more of volcanoes. duction. I have seen in no country such a luxu- This is the country, you know, of Magna Greriant soil, such abundant and vigorous vegetation. cia. It still contains many memorials of the Greek The earth too, like every thing else here, seems in colonists, and has a population, resembling, in many love with beauty. When not in cultivation, it of their characteristics, their Greek ancestors. throws up in rapid succession, growth after growth The fusion which has taken place from the combiof lovely flowers called the Zena di Savoro, from nation of so many races, the mingling of Aborigiits almost perpetual culture; it often produces three nes, Saracens, Moors, Normans and the great Rocrops at the same time. One sees the rank wheat man race, all have not effaced the Greek impress. springing amid exuberant vines, and these hung in The same taste for the arts, the same love of ingraceful festoons from tree to tree. Thus grain, tellectual amusements, the same humor and acutevineyards, and forests are all combined, and allness, and quick susceptibilities to all impressions, seem abundantly sustained by this fruitful soil. are among their distinguishing traits. Even in the The husbandman often deposits, the day after reap-humblest avocations, you constantly perceive some ing his harvest, in the same field, the seed of suc- trace of fancy or of taste. The marketman, who ceeding crops to be gathered during the same year. takes his cherries to market, binds them in handThis teeming surface seems not to weary of such some curves and mingles them with various flowers. exorbitant demands, but to manifest a strength and Bouquets are presented you in the streets by the vitality akin to her interior energies. poorest of the poor, culled, collected, arranged and It is a curious fact, that the citizens of this coun- variegated with a beauty which "Shenstone might try, when their habitations are destroyed by an have envied." The peasant girl, from her scanty eruption, rebuild in the same place. These ter- wardrobe, will always show something either in the rific fires do not fright them from their localities. fashion or the material of her apparel, which evinPortici rests upon Herculaneum; and seven layers ces her love of the picturesque; something which of lava intervene between the ancient city and the reminds one of the drapery of the old statues. modern. In Torre del Greco, in one of the recent The huckster, who sets up his little stall at the coreruptions, the fiery current swept through the ner of a street to vend ice-water, orangeade and streets. In some places the houses arrested the lemonade, will cover it with wreaths of oranges stream, and it accumulated in the rear against the' and lemons of many colors, interspersed with lovely |