Lower Sandusky freeman. (Lower Sandusky [i.e. Fremont, Ohio]) 1849-1849, 1849-03-03
INDIAN INCIDENTS.

A pair of incidents have come to our knowledge
respecting the Chippewa Indians, now soiourning in
the city, which so characteristic Of the race that
we cannot refrain from presenting them to our
readers:
The first of these has reference to one of the wo-
men whose name is Paaa-naa-aOdy ge-oneao-gu or
Woman of the Murmuring Stream. She is the
wife OF the orator of the party and when she left
lake Superior in October last she brought along her
only infant aged about six months On the arrival
of the party in Philadelphia the child was suddenly
taken sick and died. The grief of the mother
knew no bounds, and for several entire days did she
hang over the child, ever and anon giving utter
ance to monotonous wall and decking its head
with all the ornaments in her possession. All this
was noticed by Major Martell, who conceived the
idea Of having daguerreotype likeness taken of the
child, and, this having been accomplished the child
was deposited in vault and the likeness given to
the mother.
On Monday night last while one of the chiefs
composing the Chippewa delegatioQ vas relating a
story to the writer of this article, and the pres
ence of the entire party an alluson was made to
the nature of death, which caused the chIi1less
mother and her husband as they sat together upoa
the floor, to bow their heads and weep The story
proceeded, but we watched with intense interest
the movements of the bereaved mother Then it
was that we saw her take from her bosom (as if
unconscious of the company present) the portrait
alluded to- and, she pressedi it conYusiyely to her
lips a number of times, she accompanied each
movement by this exclamation: "Oh! nay poor
child! nay poor cIitd!'' She then handed the pic
ture to her husband, and, as his. keen black eye
suddenly filed with tears he also kissed the picture
number of times, and, returning it to his wife, he
turned his head towards the story-teller as if en-
deaYorng to follow him, while the wife Immediately
dropped her needle and hid her face in the lap Of
her husband.
A more touching picture of grief than this we
have never Witnessed; but Maj Martell tells that
what we saw is only repetition of what he has
seen great many times since he left Philadelphia.
The unhappy parents, he tells u.s. are always the
first to awake in the morning, and they never re-
sumo their daily duties without first putting their
heads together over the precious picture for the
purpose of uttering an ineoherent prayer. The one
idea which seems to absorb the mind of the be-
nighted Indian mother is this, that she may yet re-
turn to Philadelphia, and upon her own back carry
the remains of her offspring to the burial place of
her fathers in the remote wilderness.
The second incident to which we have alluded is
of very different character from the above, and is
as follows:
Five members of the Indian party already men
toned lately went out in the afternoon to enjoy
airing. They strayed over the Long Bridge across
the Potomac and having been treated with COM
Portable glass of liquor by some kind friend, they
continued their walk until they reached pleasant
wooden one of the hills looking. down upon the Po-
tomac. They had their bows and arrows with them,
and succeeded in killing rabbit and two or three
small birds Night came on but instead of re-
turning to their comfortable quarters in the city
flor the weather was cold) these wild fellows kin
died fire in the woods, and having enjoyed a gen
uine Indian repast and sung number of strange
songs, they erected afew boughs over their heads,
and there enjoyed sound sleep until the morning
They returned to the city the following day ap-
parently greatly benefited by their temporary re-
lease from the oppressive confinement of the me-
tropolis Nat Intellgencer