sions.

"We have lately had several visits from a great family. The chief
of the Seneca nation having a daughter not well, brought her to the
doctor to see what could be done for her; he, his squaw or lady, and
daughters breakfasted with us several times. I was kind, and made all
the court to them I could, though we could not converse but by an
interpreter. I made the daughters some little presents, and the doctor
would not be feed. Who knows but these little services may one day
save our scalps? There have been several threatenings of an Indian
war; thank God, it seems to be quite hushed again.

"War with civilized nations is nothing to war with Indians. They
have no mercy, nor give any quarter to man, woman, or child: all meet
the same fate, except where they take a liking to particular persons;
those they adopt as their children, and use them as such.

"The doctor joins in affectionate respects to my dear father, and
you, the boys, and all our dear friends. I am as much as ever, and
will be to my latest breath, my dear mamma, your affectionate
daughter,

"I. GRAHAM."

Mrs. Graham always considered the time she passed at Niagara as
the happiest of her days, considered in a temporal view. The officers
of the regiment were amiable men, attached to each other, and the
ladies were united in the ties of friendship. The society there,
secluded from the world, exempt from the collision of individual and
separate interests, which often create so much discord in large
communities, and studious to promote the happiness of each other,
enjoyed that tranquillity and contentment which ever accompany a
disinterested interchange of friendly offices. But this fort being
detached from other settlements, the garrison were deprived of
ordinances and the public means of grace, and the life of religion in
the soul of Mrs. Graham sunk to a low ebb. A conscientious observance
of the Sabbath, which throughout life she maintained, proved to her at
Niagara as a remembrance and revival of devotional exercises. She
wandered on those sacred days into the woods around Niagara, searched
her Bible, communed with God and herself, and poured out her soul in
prayer to her covenant Lord. Throughout the week, the attentions to
her friends, her domestic comfort and employments, and the amusements
pursued in the garrison, she used to confess, occupied too much of her
time and of