Excerpt from Chattanooga In is an old time's story which we are about to tell. The actors in it, with but few exceptions, are dead. Some, indeed, remain among the settlers on the menu tain sides, and in the deep forests, and among the Indians, now west of the Mississippi. These Indians still keep the tale, as a tradition, among them, and, perhaps, will hand it down from generation to genera tion, as long as their tribes remain. It is these old traditions, and half-forgotten narratives, that we wish now to reunite, as a Mason does his materials, until the tale shall be told.
We would be glad if an abler pen than ours would give form and shape, and if it can be done with mate rials so rude, beauty to the structure; but, in our country, so fruitful in tales of romantic interest, such pens already find full employment in arranging mate rials already before them. Unless, therefore, we shall preservd the story, the whole of these fragments may be lost and forgotten forever.
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