While they warmed themselves they inquired why the Indians were suffered to live peaceably lere. Mr. Barber said they injaring if they would be as liable to punishment as if they had destroyed entirely inoffensive, living on their own lands and They asked what wonld be the consequence no one were all destroyed. Mr. Barber said he thought they So They said they were of a different opinion, many white men and in a few minutes went out. In the mean time.two sons of Mr. Barber's, about ten or twelve years old, went ont to look at the strangers' horses, whieh wero hitehed at a little distance fron the house.

"After the men went the boys came in, and said that they had tomahawks tied to their saddles which were all bloody, and that they had Christy's gun. Christy was a little Indian. boy about their own age. They were much attached to him, as he was their playmate, and made bows and arrows for thetm.

While the family were talking over this, and wondering what it could mean, a messcnger came running breatbless to inform them of what had happencd. Mr. Barber went at once to the spot, and there he found the murdered Indians lying in the smouldering ruins of their homes, "iike alf-consumed logs. He, "with some trouble, procured their bodics, to ad- minister to them the rights of sepulture.

"It was said that at the beginning of the slaughter an Indian mother placed her little child under a barrel, charging it to make no noise, and that a shot was fired throagh the barrcl which broke the child's arm, and still it kept silent."

The magistrates of Lancaster, shocked, as well they might be, at this frightful barbarity, sent messengers out immediately, and took the remaining Indians, wherever they were found, bronght them into the town for protection, and lodged them in the newly-erected workhouse or jail, which was the strongest bnilding in the place. The Governor of Pennsylvania issued a