which the fire had been so lately visible, marked as it was by a scathed oak tree, there ap

THE FORTUNES OF MARTIN WALDECK. peared not on the heath the slightest vestiges

BY SIR WALTER SCOTT.
CONTINUED.

GEORGE now occupied the place of Max, who had retired to rest. The phenomenon of a huge blazing fire, upon the opposite bank of the glen, again presented itself to the eye of the watchman. It was surrounded as before by figures, which, distinguished by their opaque forms, being between the spectator and the red glaring light, moved and fluctuated around it as if engaged in some mystical ceremony. George, though equally cautious, was of a bolder character than his elder brother.

He resolved to examine more nearly the object of his wonder; and, accordingly, after crossing the rivulet which divided the glen, he climbed up the opposite bank, and approached within an arrow's flight of the fire, which blazed apparently with the same fury as when he first witnessed it.

of what he had seen. The moss and wild flowers were unscorched, and the branches of the oak tree, which had so lately appeared enveloped in wreaths of flame and smoke, were moist with the dews of midnight.

George returned to his hut with trembling steps, and arguing like his elder brother, resolved to say nothing of what he had seen,lest he should awake in Martin that daring curiosity which be almost deemed to be allied with impiety.

It was now Martin's turn to watch. The household cock had given his first summons, and the night was well nigh spent. Upon examining the state of the furnace in which the wood was deposited in order to its being coked or charred, he was surprised to find that the fire had not been sufficiently maintained; for in his excursion and its consequences, George had forgot the principal object of his watch. Martin's first thought was to call up the slumberers, but observing that both his brothers slept unwantedly deep and heavily, he respected their repose, and set himself to supply the furnace with fuel without requiring their aid. and unfit for the purpose, for the fire seemed What he heaped upon it was apparently damp rather to decay than revive. Martin next went to collect some boughs from a stack which had been carefully cut and dried for this purpose; but, when he returned, he found the fire totally extinguished. This was a serious evil, and threatened them with loss of their trade for more than one day. The vexed and mortified watchman set about to strike a light

The appearance of the assistants who surrounded it, resembled those phantoms which are seen in a troubled dream, and at once confirmed the idea he had entertained from the first, that they did not belong to the human world. Among these strange unearthly forms, George Waldeck distinguished that of a giant overgrown with hair, holding an uprooted fir in his hand, with which, from time to time, he seemed to stir the blazing fire, and having no other clothing than a wreath of oak leaves around his forehead and loins. George's heart sunk within him at recognising the well-known apparition of the Harz demon, as he had been often described to him by the ancient shep-in order to rekindle the fire, but the tinder herds and huntsmen who had seen his form traversing the mountains. He turned, and was about to fly; but upon second thoughts, blaming his own cowardice, he recited mentally the verse of the Psalmist, All good angels praise the Lord!' which is in that country supposed powerful as an exorcism, and turned himself once more towards the place where he had seen the fire. But it was no longer visible.

The pale moon alone enlightened the side of the valley, and when George, with trembling steps, a moist brow, and hair bristling upright under his collier's cap, came to the spot on

was moist, and his labor proved in this respect also ineffectual. He was now about to call

up his brothers, for circumstances seemed to be pressing, when flashes of light glimmered not only through the window, but through every crevice of the rudely-built hut, and summoned him to behold the same apparition which had before alarmed the successive watches of his brethren. His first idea was, that the Muhllerhaussers, their rivals in trade and with whom they had had many quarrels, might have encroached upon their bounds for the purpose of pirating their wood, and he resolved to awake his brothers, and be revenged

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on them for their audacity. But a short reflection and observation on the gestures and manner of those who seemed to work in the fire,' induced him to dismiss this belief, and although rather sceptical in such matters, to conclude that what he saw was a supernatural phenomenon. 'But be they men or fiends,' said the undaunted forester, that busy themselves yonder with such fantastical rites and gestures, I will go and demand a light to rekindle our furnace.' He relinquished, at the same time, the idea of awaking his brethren. There was a belief that such adventures as he was about to undertake were accessible only to one person at a time; he feared also that his brothers in their scrupulous timidity,might interfere to prevent his pursuing the investigation he had resolved to commence; and therefore, snatching his boar spear from the wall, the undaunted Martin Waldeck set forth on the adventure alone.

ringing far down the narrow valley. When Martin returned to the hut, his first care, however, much astonished with what he had seen was to dispose the kindled coal among the fuel so as might best light the fire of his furnace; but after many efforts, and all exertions of bellows and fire-prong, the coal he had brought from the demon's fire became totally extinct, without kindling any of the others. He turned about, and observed the fire still blazing on the hill, although those who had been busied around it had disappeared. As he conceived the spectre had been jesting with him, he gave way to the natural hardihood of his temper, and determining to see the adventure to an end, resumed the road to the fire, from which, unopposed by the demon, he brought off in the same manner a blazing piece of charcoal, but still without being able to succeed in lighting his fire. Impunity having increased his rashness, he resolved upon a third experiment, and was as successful as before in reaching the fire, but, when he had again appropriated a piece of burning coal, and had turned to depart, he heard the harsh and supernatural voice which had before accosted him, pronounce the words, Dare not to re

turn hither a fourth time!'

INDIAN GRATITUDE.

With the same success as his brother George but with courage far superior, Martin crossed the brook, ascended the hill, and approached so near the ghostly assembly, that he could recognise, in the presiding figure, the attributes of the Harz demon. A cold shuddering assailed him for the first time in his life, but the recollection that he had at a distance dared and even courted the intercourse which was now about to take place, confirmed his staggering courage, and pride supplying what he wanted in resolution, he advanced with tolerable firmness towards the fire; the figures which surrounded it appearing still more wild, fantastical, and supernatural, the more near he approached to the assembly. He was received with a loud shout of discordant and unnatural laughter, which, to his stunned ears, seemed more alarming than a combination of the most dismal and melancholy sounds which could be imagined. Who art thou?' said the giant, compressing his savage and exaggerated features into a sort of forced gravity, while they were occasionally agitated by the con-joy nature in her calmest mood. One evenvulsion of the laughter which he seemed to

While the frontier war, between the Indians, aided by the French, and the British Colonies of America, was at its highest pitch, James Pritchard, a young Englishman, served in the capacity of surgeon to a party of the colonists who occupied a small fort, which was built to afford protection to the surrounding country. It was in the middle of summer. Being an extravagant lover of nature, and, as a natural consequence, a poet, when the calm breezy evening came on, it was his constant practice to take a ramble through the woods by which they were environed, to en

ing, tempted by the unusual pleasantness of the air, he strolled rather father than usual from the little fort, and entered a majestic, natural vista, formed by a clump of towering forest trees which bordered on a large swamp. The sun was just setting majestically in the west, and his bright reflections on the clouds, seen through a large opening at the other end of the vista, contrasted with the deep gloom of the shade of the trees, awakened in his breast sensations of the most pleasurable debreast, and his eyes bent upon the ground, he scription. With his arms folded upon his slowly paced along, luxuriating in his own reflections. At one moment, the music of the frogs swelled among the trees in an uninterrupted strain; now it was broken in upon by the note of the whip-poor-will, and then, a sharp croak, and a sullen plunge into the water, told that he had disturbed the security of the deep-throated musicians of the swamp. -Suddenly he was awakened from his pleas

her seat and the extreme point of suffering was past. Just when one of the fiends was applying the torch, a warrior rushed forward, and struck it out of his hand. He ascended the pile, and thence made an address with all the gestures peculiar to aboriginal eloquence. The effect was wonderful. Those who were before so eager to collect the wood which was to burn their intended victim, now scattered it to the winds. Pritchard was unbound, and given to his deliverer. It was the chief whose wife he had cured, who now, out of gratitude, conducted him to his people, where he treated him with the greatest tenderness, until his health was restored, and then placed him safely in the protection of the whites.

ing reverie by a loud hugh! pronounced close spot where the surgeon was first surprized by by him; and on lifting his eyes, he was start- the Indian Chief, was chosen as the scene of led by the appearance of a large Indian, who, the tragedy which they were impatient to enby his dress and accoutrements, appeared to act. Our hero was fastened to a tree, and be a chief of some consequence. The hand with eager haste a circular pile of combustiof the surprized surgeon passed mechanically bles was quickly raised around him by the into the hilt of his sword, the only weapon of veterate savages. But Pritchard was no defence which he had about his person; but longer sensible of his perilous situation. The before he had half withdrawn it from the scab-intensity of his feelings had driven reason from bord, the muscular grasp of the savage completely paralized his efforts. By a few signs, easily understood by persons in peril, the indian assured him that it was not his intention to hurt him; and striking into the thick woods, beckoned him to follow. Seeing that it was useless for him to make any efforts against his powerful conductor, and besides, being pretty well assured of his peaceable intentions, he silently followed his rapid strides through the forest. They soon arrived at a temporary wigwam, built in a spot naturally so much secluded that the best woodsman might pass it without discovering it. Here lay languishing a female, evidently a favorite wife of the indian warrior. Her disease had baffled the most powerful incantations of the indian magicians, and had bid defiance to their whole materia medica. Hearing, by one of his followers who had rambled from his companions in a hunting excursion, and who had observed the surgeon of the little fort engaged in the examination of some plants, that a great white medicine was in the country, he with a few of his men, brought the sufferer to her present situation, and laid in wait for the doctor, whom, as we have seen, he succeeded in capturing.

Pritchard, tired of adventures in this wild region, embarked for his native country, where, after honorably filling his station in life, he died, leaving among his manuscripts the outlines of the foregoing narrative.--Hesperus. RUDOLPH.

CHAMBERLAIN AND PAUGUS.

Among Lovewell's men, at his famous Pickwackett fights, was a N. Hampshire settler of the name of Chamberlain. He was one of those rugged spirits, that in the rude period beyond the "old French War," moved from the thick settled seaboard, and penetrated into the wilderThe Indian pass

Pritchard examined the case of his new patient with attention; and finding that the rude means applied to for cure, were worse than the original disease, he, by the use of a few herbs, soon brought her to a state of convalescence. The chief was delighted; and loading the doctor with all which he thoughtness of this province. would be acceptable to him, he led him to a spot within a short distance of the fort, and

left him with every appearance of gratitude imprinted upon his countenance.

Not very long after this circumstance, the little fort was attacked by a large horde of savage warriors. Its defenders enacted prodigies of valor, and our hero exerted himself against the assailants in a most conspicuous manner. A thousand weapons were levelled at him, but none, though he was often wounded, reached his life.-At length the superior number of the enemy prevailed.-In the gloom of the night, they burst from every side, with hideous yells, on the gallant little band who were weakened by fatigue and hunger, and completely mastered them.

It was the lot of Pritchard to be among the prisoners; but he was preserved from immediate slaughter, only that his death might be made the more lingering and excruciating; for his exploits against the savages awakened, powerfully, feelings of deadly revenge. The

ed his log house, on his scouts to surprise the frontiers, and near it were the haunts and dens of the less savage beasts of prey. The smoky rafters were hung about with gammons of the bear, that had tumbled from the white pine at the summons of his long rifle, and he lay at night on the fur of the dun Catamount.

He was tall-higher than the stateliest Indian; strong, four of them were no match for him with their tomahawks against his heavy hatchet;-he was swift of foot, he could outrun the moose in full trot; sagacious and eagle eyed, he entraped the Indian in his ambush, and surpassed him in that sort of instinct which guides the savage and the keener brute through the wide and pathless woods.

The red men passed cautiously and harmlessly by the dwelling of Chamberlain; and a score of them would lie still, where they watched in ambush, and suffer him to go on unmolested, lest their rifles might miss what they deemed his charmed body, and bring him in vengeance upon them; for he valued them as lightly as Sampson did the men of Ashkelon.

der Capt. Lovewell were on their way eastward, through the wilderness where Chamberlain dwelt, and some of them saw his smoke in a valley near P―, on the Pemigwasett. He learned their destination and immediately joined them on an expedition against the Winnipiseogee and Pigwacket tribes--who had recently committed some daring and destructive assaults upon the frontier un

lain was welcomed by the gallant Lovewell; and he was considered by them all as a great accession to the strength of their devoted little band.

Around the shores of the Winnipiseo-der the leading of Paugus. Chambergee, which, though it is the long settled name of the chief sheet of water in the "Granite state," excited, when mentioned in Congress as a portion of a contemplated water route through this state They traversed the woods and ena smile from the dainty eared but not countered an overwhelming body of Inwell informed gentleman of the south; dians, on the peninsula of Lovewell's around this then wild and unknown, but || pond, and their fights have given celebnow navigated, celebrated and beautiful rity to every portion of the surrounding lake, there dwelt a powerful tribe of wilderness. After the thickest and most Indians. Their chief was Paugus. He desperate of the conflict was over and was a savage of giant stature and strength, Chamberlain, weary with fighting, thirsswift, cunning, deadly with his rifle and ty and faint under the hot sun, had retomahawk, cruel vengeful beyond the tired to the edge of the pond to drink native vengeance of the Indians, and and to wash out his gun, which had the terror of man, woman and child a- grown so foul with frequent firing that long the frontiers, and even among the he at last could not make her go offinfant cities that had then begun to spring He pushed his way through a copse of up on the very edge of the sea. The willows to a little beach by the Pond, audacious chief was supposed to have when lo, from the thicket, at a short ventured into their streets in the dark distance from him, emerged the stately nights to learn their counsels concerning figure of Paugus, covered over with dust the Indians, and even to take off from and blood, making his way to the watamong them the astonished captive. er. The warriors at once knew each other, Chamberlain's gun was useless and he thought of rushing upon Paugus with his hatchet, before he could level his rifle, but the Indian's gun was in the same condition with his own, and he too had come to the edge of Lovewell's pond to quench his thirst and hastily Scour out his foul rifle. The condition of the rifles became immediately, by some means or other, known to the enemies, and they mutually agreed to a truce, while they washed them out for the encounter. They slowly and with equal movements cleansed their guns and took their stations on the outer border of the beach-" Now Paugus," said Chamberlain, "I'll have you"-and with the quickness and steadiness of an old hunter, sprung to loading his rifle. "Na-na-me have you," replied Paugus, and he handled his gun with a dex

Bands of soldiers had penetrated to the shores of the Winnipiseogee, to find out the retreat of this terrible savage, and if possible to slay him or take him prisoner. But he was too sagacious, and always eluded their search, though they came, at one time, so near him, that he saw the blaze of his wigwam as they set it on fire, and the smoke of it curling among the tree tops, that were then above his head.

Often had Chamberlain sought, in the Indian skirmishes he was engaged in, to find out the form of Paugus-to make him the mark of his rifle, or to encounter with his hatchet the tomahawk of this fearful warrior. But they never had chanced to meet, although Paugus had learned of his tribe the character and prowess of the settler.

A small body of determined men un

terity that made the bold heart of Chamberlain beat quick, and he almost raised his eye to take his last look upon the sun. They rammed their cartridges,

each at the same instant cast his ramrod upon the sand.--" I'll have you Paugus," shouted Chamberlain, as in his desperation he almost resolved to rush upon the savage, with the breach of his rifle, lest he should receive his bullets before he could load. The woods across the

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sition of the mind, than from the particular kind of knowledge after which it aspires. It is natural to conclude, that men differ as much in their tastes and dispositions as in their outward appearance. What constitutes the pleas ure of one, is little regarded by another; and the condition exactly fitted to one taste, would be intolerable to man of opposite desires and habits. Some delight in the pursuits of science and extensive research, while others are content with observing the varieties of human life, and bending to the manners of the world. Some are allured to the vale of Temple, by pond echoed back the shout. Paugus way to the field of battle, by the maddening the songs of the Muses; others are hurried atrembled as he applied his powder horn sound of the trumpet, and the clangor to the priming. Chamberlain heard the of arms-while but a few retire to the peacegrains of his powder rattle lightly upon ful seclusion, and there listen to the monthe leaves beneath his feet. Chamber-itory voice, know thyself." By far, the lain struck his gun breach violently up-greater part of mankind, place their happiness on the ground-the rifle primed herself, he aimed and his bullets whistled through the heart of Paugus.—He fell and as he went down, the bullet from the mouth of his ascending rifle touched the hair upon the crown of Chamberlain, and passed off without avenging the death of its dreadful master, into the bordering wilderness. The hunter, after recovering from the shock of such a fearful and imminent encounter, cast a look upon the fallen savage. The paleness of death had come over his copper colored forehead.-He seized upon his rifle, bullet pouch and powder horn-left him on the leafy sand, and sought again the lessened ranks of the whitemen, as they wearily defended themselves against the encircling savages. He shouted to them of the fall of Paugus. The Indians looked about them-the tall figure of the chief was no where in sight. In grief and despair they ceased their fire and withdrew into the woods, leaving Chamberlain and the remains of the band of the fallen Paugus to retrace their way to the distant settlement.

Chamberlain, it is said, long afterwards killed three of the descendants of

Paugus, who came into the village where he dwelt, to slay him in his old age, to avenge upon him the fall of their ancestor. White Hills, N. H. May, 1828.--Album.

ESSAY ON SELF KNOWLEDGE. To increase in knowledge, is one of the grand objects of human pursuit, and from nothing do we more assuredly infer the true dispo

muning with themselves-and live so much
more on the surrounding objects, than in com-
from home, that they know little of the opera-
tions of their own minds. A person may em-
bark in schemes of enterprize and spend a
whole life in she pursuit of wealth and fame,
and at last, with all his blushing honors thick
upon him,' die utterly ignorant of himself. He
may have traversed continents, and examined
minutely all their curiosities, interpreting the
their monu-
half obliterated characters on
ments, and all the while neglect to trace the
characteristics of a mind more lasting than
marble. He may have penetrated into the
bowels of the earth, and explored many a cav-
ern, and yet may have left undetected a dark-
er recess in his own heart.

of the mind, and attempt to explain this phe

To one who considers the extensive range

nomenon by referring it to any want of intellectual power will appear vain. The intellect engages in the pursuit of remote truths, with an accuracy and ardor, which are truly astonishing. The objects presented to it, are revived in all their relations, and these relations are examined with scrutiny the most mi-nute. It is not then to any incapacity in the mind, that we are to ascribe its aversion to contemplate its own propensities and feelings. Nor is our mental constitution such as necesscene, to the exclusion of all solicitude, for fusarily to confine our attention to the passing ture interest-so far from this, the present in a great measure borrows its completion from the prospect of what is to succeed and we are ever either harrassed by fear, or hope is directing us to a period when our joys, if not perfect, shall leave us little to want, when the fever of desire for sublunary objects, shall have died away, and our sky shall wear a brighter aspect. In whatever light this subject may be viewed, and with whatever ingenuity we may seek to color it, the fact still remains-inexplicable perhaps, except on the supposition that there exists a moral cause, universal in its extent, and most operative in its nature. The philosopher teaches us that