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ti^waat«w»?<awfjK3soiga^^ .DLKHiTA:) iii-^TTi'l IHT :5s*sq :?5S'-'; jt:;fi\';.i-; "GOING TEACH YE ALL NATIONS, • • • AND BEHOLD I AM WITH YOU ALL DAYS, EVEN TO THE CONSUMMATION OF THE WORLD."—MAT. XXTIII. 19, 20. r VOL. VI. ^ PITTSBURGH. SATURDAY, AUGUST 4, 1849. NO. -21 THE PITTSBURGH CATHOLIC m.-ide liim respected nt home, and lireaiJed bv their .songs .Tnd dances, the magic of their I through a crevice he could look into the haunted hin cnetnies; to niagnonimity of soul he joined hreaihings and insn(H;ition3 were now vainly | lodge. A.stonishment, indigimtion and horror, IJ? FRINTKO AND I'LULI.SIIKD KVKUV SATURDAY a most tender and parental kindness of charac- brought into jday; the evil made ila most: by turns, seized upon his soul; he there saw HV ter and manners, and he posse-ssed the art oi fearful progrc.<s, and on the eighth day, the, the four old men, who were not present at tho J. POKTI^K * €o.. winning both the esteem and love of all hi.^: whole village, clad in mourning and bathed in banquet of ihc bear, practicing their hcllisfi people. He was the father of si.x children, all ^ tears, followed Waape Kiejeck the iwiliirht, sorceries, with their bag of medicines or sii- Corner of Wood street and Virgin AUet/. thc type and expression of his own unrivalled i (such w.ns tho name of the young hero,) to the , porslition.'! spread out before them on the floor, TEIIMH—Two Dollars a Year, jiayublo in ADVANCE qunliiips, and distinguished for their undumtcd | grave t.f his five unfortuate brothers. He strained his dim dull eye and discovcrcfl Three copies will be forwarilcJ to one address for Five courage no less than for their good nature and | Kitchcchaoiii.«si painted himself black, and , five craniums fi.vcd at the top of so many poles, moral conduct, ever above suspicion. They disappeared from the village. In vain did the ; He walked round the hut, peeped through an- Dollars. wcrc able huntcr.s, and many a deer and elk ; people spy out the old chief, in vain did they • other opening, and by the aid of the fire's fell yearly victims to their unerring arrows.— 'flatter themselves with the hope of tracing him flickering glimmer, beheld at the extremity of Frequent were the festivals, and numerous the among the neighboring bhiirs. High among tho lodge a sixth ligurc, straight and unmoved, the rugged rocks in the m;).<it desert wilds of. the very likeness of a marble statue. "Could SELECTlONiS. bMiiquets oivcn by the venerable chief of the Potowolomiesand .six beloved children. Some­ nature, Kitchccliaoni.ssi, un.secn by mortnl.", Ihnt be bis son Waape Kifjeck?" times, however, he ventured to brave some or unheard save by the prowling wolf or howling He e.\amined the figure more minutely.— other of his neighbors, either ihniugh contempt panther, deplored the fillen hopes of his wa-j*'There is the same dres.?, the same ornaments KITCHECHAO.NISSI, or on account o1" any other less blamoable mo-1 ning aoe, and wept over the ruin of his social; with which he had laid him in the grave. It OR THE CREAT WIND OF THE SOUTH. tive, to send them the banquet invitation. comforts. Who can conceive, much less do- was thus that his son appeared at tho last ban- ^n Indian Legend. The Indians arc tlie mo^*l adroit managers of I l^ict, the writhing agonies of the father's heart,'quct. But why that livid hue—those cyca poisons in the world, they use them with the i ^s he sat upon the dre.nry peak, musing on the i closed a.H if in death—that appearance so like UV REV. 1>. J. OK .S.MKT, S. J. most superrrfinod druggistic skill ngniiist'any ; fate of Waapc Kiejeck? lifeless clay? How came he there if it was Every one convcrsniu uitli ihc history of one wliu lias<,'iven them lite least cause of di.s How often in the throes of wild despair did his boy?" the Aborigines of this country, know that tlic . plcnFurc The five oldest sons of Kitchcchao- he lift bis trembling arms to the .Master of liic ; During many years previous, Kitchechao- holding of public festivals an<l banquets, is one i iiissi followed each other to the land of spirits and death, beseeching him to extinguish .ne nissi had entertained strong suspicions against of the first and mo^t tinio-honored practices of in the course of one and the same year, the slowly dying spark that still burned in his li-ese sainc aged magicians; he ever looked the favage and nomade life. It is the voice of! unhappy victims of the secret vengeance of breast, and to re-unite him with his dear chil- upon them as the authors of his five first sons' nature that calls upon tliC heart of symjialhy | some nervous and vindictive villagers. Long:dren. in the land of ^spirits! How often im-.andof Waape Kiejcck's sudden and myslc- or friendship, which is the only impulse thai | and bitter was the grief of the aged sire for pelled by the o'olirium of the moment, did he rious death. Thoughts of direst vengeance, survives the moral ruin caused by ignorance the death of his dearly cherished children.— raise his enfeebled frame to leap the jutting hope and doubt, for awhile alternately ruled nnd superstition. It is no local, no epochal im­ Years and years passed by without ever giving ; brow, and thus put an end to a life that seemed'his soul. He wavered which to indulge, he pulse, nor even periodical—all times, and all a banquet, and without ever assisting at those a living hell. : watched all their moliens, and attentively ob- races bear testimony to its universality. What to which he was invited by his peofile. Often | One sombre eve as he sate on the bank of a ; served their wizzard spells. The drummer rc- Lycurgus found among the Cretan.-, Athcnans when the heavens were studded with the stars I torrent that roared adown the steep precipice, | sumed at length his wonted task; a second relates of tho Athenians, Persians and Aca- of a summer or winter night, and the moon | pI'Miged in the decppsl reverie, he seemed to shook his gourd filled with little pebbles, the dians: the Jews had their love-banquets on the walked forth among her sisters, did he wend hear n voice, which in hiud and hurried tones, third played the flute, while the fourth heaped high places, and the Christians in their |)rivate his lonely way along the liver's bank, and in lold him — ''Arise! Kitchechaonissi—Arise! the tnost aflronling language on the youthful houses. Festivals were the exponents of the treiTiuloiis accent.s of sorrow, call upon the i Speed thee across the river; climp the rugged hero, taunting at the same lime, the power of love of men; bound together by the same ties spirits of his departed sons, beseech ilicm to iiiUs; and thou shalt see ihy son, the object of mcdiciue, which neither he nor his brothers of social compact, and the bonds of one and rever.l to him the mystery of their sudden and i thy plaints and grief." He arose in haste, the . had been able to resist. Like a tiger or a lion- the same religion They wee, moreover, the unexpected death. Often, ton. would he full sun ta.-i sinking behind the distant mountains, jess, whose young arc snatched from them by means perhaps of all the most cfl^ictual to prostrate before his favorite iManitous, and in | tinged the tops of the gently waving pines and the traveller's daring hand, Kitchechaonissi strengthen unity, and promote the interests of tones of agonising sorrow, demand of their ;ilie dark crests of the cedars with a flood of; felt the blood course through his veins and boil peace and concord among the members of the impartial power a just and equitable judgment j living gold. Distraction and irrief accompanied ] throughout his frame. Armed with his dread> same caste or family. on the assassins of his oflsprinii. \U\m on his way, and the (piickened pulsations i ful club, he bounded into the lodge, discharged The Potowolomies have, in this respect, The son who still survived was the only stay j of his heart kept time with the tears of sorrow, I his fury on the murderers of his sons, and their own customs and predeilctions. Scarcely ond comfort of the septuagenarian chieftain, Mialf-mi.vcd with hope, which trickled down his stretched them at his feet—four dismal corptes. has autumn, with its mellow tint of crimson, and on him was centred all his hopes and affcc- t'urrowed checks. The evening breeze played | He then rushed to the embrace of Waape Kie- and its silkin softness of mountain mosses, tions for the few phort and painful years wliieh j with the few scattered locks of silver hair, and jeck, but, alas! bo holds in his arms nought, jralcd before the chilling presence of the icy he might still spend under the tents of his de-; the gurgling of the frothy torrent seemed to save the stufled ;Xin of his noble boy. north wind, when the wigwams, long the drear parted fathers. Gifted with all the finest qiial-1 echo back the language of his sobs and sighs.! This marvellous event was soon spread out abode of the idh.

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