grief and terror of the Indian congregation on hearing that large a number of its members was so so cruelly massacred is impossible. Parents wept and mourned for the loss of their children, husbands for their wives, and wives for their husbands, children for their parents, sisters for brothers, and brothers for sisters. But they murmured not, nor did they call for ven geance on the murderers, but prayed for them. greatest consolation was a full assurance that all their beloved relatives were now at home in the presence of the Lord, and in full possession of everlasting happiness."

An account of, this massaere was given in the Pennsylvania Gazette of April 17th, 1782. It runs as follows:

The people being greatly alar teligence that the Indian towns on the Muskingam had not moved, as reported, a number of men, properly provided, col- lected and rendezvoused on the Ohio, opposite the Mingo Bot tom, with a desire to surprise the above towns "One hundred men swam thc rivcr, and procceded to the towns on the Muskingum, where the Indians had colleeted a large quantity of provisions to supply their war-partics. They arived at the town in the night, nndiscovered, attacked the Indians in their cabins, and so And their

and avin received in- completely surprised them that they killed and scalped upward of ninety-but a few making their escape-about forty of whom were warriors, the rest old women and children. Abont eighty horses fell into their hands, which they loaded with the plunder, the greatest part furs and skins, and retnrned to the Ohio without the loss of a man."

In Iess than one hundred years from this Gnadenhütten mas saere an officer of the United States Army, stationed at Camp Grant, in Arizona Territory, writes to his commanding officer the following letter: