THE YOUNG OFFICER.
A TALE FOUNDED ON FACT.
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The Hooking, or to give it the full and
proper Indian name, Hockhocking, is one
Of the most beautiful streams in the State
Of Ohio; and the scenery along its borders
and on the surrounding hills is of that pic
turesque and classic nature rarely TO be met
with in the interior.


In early days the Indian rowed thelight
pirogue on its bosom, while his terror-stri-
king war-whoop awakened the echo of the
adjacent forest. Could trees speak they
would tell of innumerable murders COM
mitted on its banks, and Of the sufferings
of those who were doomed to separation
from friends and the endearments of home,
by the merciless savages that prowled, like
beasts Of prey, around the homes of the
early pioneers, seeking opportunities to
reak their malice on the supposed enemies.
But such scenes have passed away, and
oppression no more is witnessed within its
peaceful wales.


The Indians have retired to the far-west;
the forests have disappeared before tha in
dustry Of the inhabitants: the arts and SCI
ences have asserted their creative powers
over the land; and the Hooking Valley
now presents scene of unparalleled magni-
ficence and grandeur. Where once stood
the howell of a scatter, splendid mansion
adorns the scene; where the war dance Of
savage-life was one held, house dedicated
to the services Of the living God now rears
its spire TO Heaven, the home of those
brave spirits whose blood sanctifed the
soil on which it stands; and the primeval
luxuriance of the forest is supplanted by
golden wheat and waving corn. In COM
mon with our own happy country it forms
part Of the grandest phenomena to which
the gaze Of an astonished world was ever
attracted, consummation of all that poetry
ever dreamed or Philosophy desired-a re-
public Of freemen advancing to the goal of
human happiness, beneath the broad shield
of Constitution that smiles alike upon the
poor and rich, the humble and the power
ful, the peasant and the nabob; knowing no