A Curiosity.
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Mr. Erastus Chase, of this town, while cutting up large pine tree which had blown, struck his axe upon the blade of a knife imbedded in the tree: and bi oke it.

 On taking it out, it was found 10 be, to all appearance, an old Indian scalp ing knife, which had been stuck horlzon tally in the tree, when 3 sapling, and the wood had grown entirely over it. The blade is about six inches long, with a buck horn handle;

 On the blade and handle are one huns dred and forty distinct rings- -slow- ing the number of years oi the growth, since ,he snlie was left there. one hundred and forty years ago, and twenty ,seyen years before white man settled in this country. The first settle ment of the town was in t7S4, but the settlers were drisen 0ff, and no perma, nent set,lementwa inads until '53. The Ashuelot Valley was favorte resorl and home of the Indians, and was with great difficulty and hard fighting ,ha they were at last driven from it. Many interesting relics of the aboligines have been turned up from the soil, before thi' discovery was made.--Ksene (N IF. Sentinel.