of Gilmore had no connection whatever with the imprisoned chiefs, they persisted in their cruel and bloody purpose, swearing, with guns in their hands, that they would shoot any one who attempted to oppose them.  In the mean time, the interpreter’s wife, who had been a captive among the Indians, and had a feeling of regard for Cornstalk and his companions, perceiving their danger, ran to the cabin to tell them of it; and to let them know that Hall and his party charged Elenipsico with having brought with him the Indians who had killed Gilmore.  This, however, the youthful chief denied most positively, asserting that he came unattended by any one, and for the single purpose of learning the fate of his father.  At this time captain Hall and his followers, in despite of the remonstance and command of captain Arbuckle, were approaching the cabin of the prisoners.  For a moment, Elenipsico manifested some agitation.  His father spoke and encouraged him to be calm, saying, “my son, the Great Spirit has seen fit that we should die together, and has sent you here to that end.  It is his will, and let us submit; it is all for the best;” and turning round to meet the assassins at the door, was shot with seven bullets, and expired without a groan.  The momentary agitation of Elenipsico passed off, and keeping his seat, he met his death with stern and heroic apathy.  Red Hawk manifested less resolution, and made a fruitless effort to conceal himself in the chimney of the cabin.  He was discovered and instantly shot.  The fourth Indian was then slowly and cruelly put to death.  Thus terminated this dark and fearful tragedy—­leaving a foul blot on the page of history, which all the waters of the beautiful Ohio, on whose banks it was perpetrated, can never wash out, and the remembrance of which will long outlive the heroic and hapless nation which gave birth to the noble Cornstalk.

SPEMICA-LAWBA—­THE HIGH HORN,

generally known as

CAPTAIN LOGAN

In September, 1786, captain Benjamin Logan, of Kentucky, led an expedition of mounted men from that state against the Shawanoes, on the north side of the Ohio, and destroyed the Machachac towns on the waters of Mad river.  Most of the warriors happened to be absent from the villages when the invading army reached them.  About thirty persons were captured, chiefly women and children.  After the slight resistance which was made by the Indians had ceased, captain Logan’s men were both annoyed and endangered by some arrows, shot among them by an invisible but not unpractised hand.  After considerable search, in the tall grass around the camp, an Indian youth was discovered, who with his bow and a quiver of arrows, had concealed himself in a position from which he could successfully throw his darts against the enemy:  that intrepid boy was Logan, the subject of the present biographical sketch.  He likewise was made prisoner, and with