Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1836-11-10
From the Zanesyille Gazette.


LANDs.-We have been permitted TO
make the following extract Of a letter
for publication, from our talented and
enterprising friend, Col. John II. Sui
Ivan, of Rockingham, Wisconsin Ter
rltory, to his father, ofthis place, dated
October ., 1886, after visiting the
treaty ground, where the Sac and Fox
chiefs, with n few hundred of their
braves and principal men were assem-
bled, on the west shore OF the Missis-
si,pi, opposite Fort Armstrong, On
Rock island, for the purpose of selling
to the u. S. Government the whole
reserve on rho Iowa, containing two
hundred and sixty-fiye thousand acres,
and which was disposed of at seventy
five cents per acre.
"Ihe two bands Of Foxes under Pc.
wEsHIo and WAPPELLo, were encamp>
cd on the Wisconsin side ofthe Mlssis.
sippi, opposite, md about half way up
Rock Island. The encampment was
on a slope of the Bluff, and at a little
distance looked quito picturesque, as
the Indians fitted about the bullrush
and bark tents, arrayed in their snowy
green or rcd blankets, looking for ali
the world, when you gave a glance nj
their horses browsing on the blufftops,
like a picture of an Arab oncampnent,
glowing with the bright and gorgeous
colors of orientalism. But when you
come nearer, all the glory vanished
your eye would go to scratinizing the
tents, with all the dirty paraphernalia
of skinning, jerking meat, and general
cooking operations.
"About half a mile ubove this en-.
campment, lay the far more neatly ar
ranged tents OF the Sacs-which was
BLACK Hawks band, but is no more.
1t is still called bis; but alas, poor old
man, the sceptre has passed from Ju.
dab. He has no voice in council-no
authority in the tribe. This encamp.
ment was made Immediately on the
bank Of the river, on a kind ofpromon.
tory, and the tents were arranged
around in the form of a crescent
Above them, and fronting the hollow Of
the crescent, was erected the Council
Lodge. At one end was placed Gov.
Dodge, Capt. Boon, aud Lieut.. Lee
the OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES with &C.
neral Street, Indian Agent-and the
Indian traders fronting them-and on
each side Of the Council House were
ranged the tawny warriors, decked out
IN their most imposing inery. The
mass of the warriors and braves were
standing the chiefs and headsmen
setting in front ofthe standing p~halanx.
es, all listening with dignifed attention
to the propositions ofthe Governor, and
as each sentence was interpreted to
them, signified their appreciation by the
interjectional Height
Who is that sitting in front, upon
the ground, with an air of q good deal
oil non chalance, but who is not forget.
full of propriety and of the proper me.
taod of commanding respect, amid al
his apparent Indifference ~ "That i.
WArPELLo." What fcllow is tina
beside himl' "That is PowEsu1c, Tho
chief Of tho most numerous, bur. tn,
poorest band Of them all. He has no
management enough to keep his ban
in as thrifty a state as the rest" "Wh
is that blear-eyed, young looking Eel
low, to whom KEoKUcK is looking a
if he were watching his emotions ~
"That is APPENoOsE, a very talented
but dissipated chief.' "What fellow
is that, with uncombed and unshorI
hair--his naturally fierce countenanc,
rendered hidcous by his smearing i
Enthusiastically with black, and black on
lyT" "That is PAsHIpAuA, or 9Th,
stabbing chief so named from tn,
many transformations he has been guilt,
of. He is of the purest %princely bloc,
OF any living chief in the two nations.
need not ask who that next one is
That nobility circumference, fine con
tour, and talented expression could on
~ belong to hEoKUcK See, he rise
he is gong to speak. AS he step
out from the other Indians. Won Sc,
still more striking!y the distinction be
tween HIM and the ordinary Indians
His form IS Of the largest class-tall
without seeming to be %so--rull an,
portly, without the slightest tendenc,
10 corPulency. His chest and shoui
ders aud right arm were bare, save III
necklace of bears claws, and the larg
snake that was cncircling and pendan
from his right arm. His left arm pass
ing through the folds of his blanke
brought that article of dress close I,
his form, without checking the freedom
ofplay'of the sinister limb. In the lief
hand, he spoyted a fine Pongee sill
handkerchief. The large snake.skin
which was lined with some rich mate,
rial, and had attached TO it a humble.
Of little bells, that gave forth a tinklin,
sound at every gesture, added no it'll,
grace and imnressiyeness to clocution.