Two moons Their circling revolutions had fulfilled. Twas when the evening breezes softly breathed, Wafting sweet odors from the balmy groves, And from each songster of the wood there rose A vesper hymn, and over all the scene Twilight a soft and rosy tint had spread-- Upon a grassy knoll was seen to sit That warrior Indian. His head was still Proudly erect. But his glassy eye On vacancy was fixed, and from his side There flowed a crimson stream that spake of death. Alas! how changed the noble warrior! His snowy plume--the captured eagle’s gift-- Is pure no more, but sprinkled o’er with blood;-- Yet see! he rises slowly--but anon, He reels--he falls--a deathless stillness comes O’er all the scene. In mortal agony his hand Still tighter grasps his knife, and ’twixt His lips compressed, in faint and broken voice, He murmurs thus--“Great Spirit of my fathers! In the pleasant hunting grounds receive me!”-- His spirit’s flown--the noble warrior’s dead; His life-blood ebbed upon his native soil. Free had he lived--free did the Seminole die. H. H. B. THE OUTLAW AND HIS DAUGHTER. At the termination of one of those revolutions which have convulsed the Mexican States from their earliest formation, Herraras, who had been an active partizan, finding his own side in the minority, sought in retirement a refuge from the turmoils of political life, and protection for the innocence, with facilities for the education of his motherless daughter. This he realized, until it began to be rumored, and not without foundation, that he was secretly leagued with the piratical smugglers. He who intended to reap the chief advantage from a public prosecution, was young Velasque, a favorite of the Administration, whose sole motive was a vehement passion for the daughter of Herraras, which as yet the jealous fondness of the father for his own child, and the aversion of the adolescent Almirena herself, had with vexatious firmness resisted. ‘Surrender your daughter to my solicitations, and my influence with the Government shall secure your acquittal; otherwise, you must die, and--_I will be avenged_’--sternly uttered the wily amorado. ‘Leave me till morning, and you shall have my answer,’ replied the perplexed and indignant father. That morning discovered him with his child many leagues from the Mexican coast, in a vessel bound to the United States, whose sudden departure he had procured by bribes, after having, under cover of the night, with the aid of a faithful servant, taken on board of it, a rich amount of his ill-gotten treasure.