The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-11-07

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interesting events are brought to light. L
was not great while ago the Chickasaws
pursued the wild game of the solitudes o.
northern Mississippi undisturbed, and a.
mong them all tradition gives us no more
worthy examples than those Of "Tisho.
mingo,' the hospitable king of the Chick.
aswa nation, and his fair daughter tia
wanda" In the year 1916, a lawsuit was
pending in one Of the high courts of Geor-
gia, by which the title to large estate
then under investigation, depended entire
" upon an absent witness, who had. it was
found, removed to Fort Pickering, forti-
fed station on the Mississippi river. The
testimony of this witness was of the ut
most Importance to secure the property to
the rigntiul owner and although the jour
ney was hazardous one, of many weeks
absence. yet the value OF the property in
jeopardy justified it. So he set out on
/ horseback after taking leave Of his family.
| The defendant, & man Of wealth and an
| intriguing and crafty designer, learning
the absence OF his opponent. and aware OF
! the nature of his errand. determined to
prevent his return, and thereby secure to
himself the ownership Of the much covet-
ed possession. He found a worthy tool in
! his overseer Ga ninion at his command(,
/ who undertook. by the promise of a large
reward, TO follow to the death the unsus-
| pected victim. The hired assassin over
took the prosecutor at an inn kept by an
Indian, in Cotton Gina small village
now called Cotton Gin Port about forty miles
south of Corinth, Miss. on the Mobile and
Ohio railroad. The following morning
two travellers set out together, and in
crossing a swollen stream, the ford OF which
was difficult, the prosecutors horse be-
came entangled in some drittwood, and
while he was struggling to eXtricate HIM
self the murderer assailed him with a large
cl,, laff h en- on hn ho @
he cut the horses throat, and left him to be
fioated down the stream. He then extract
ed all the papers and letters from the pock-
cts of the PROSTATE man, beat most desper-
ately the lifeless frame and cast 1t into the
stream, consoling himself with the thought
that none but Indians could POSSIBLY lind
the remains, and they would suppose the
horse and rider were drowned in the effort
to cross the dangerous stream. He then
mounted his horse and pursued his
Journey.
The body of the mangled man, after
drifting a short distance, became entan-
gled in some drift near the bank, and in
this situation was soon after seen by a par
ty of Chickasaws on their way to Cotton
Gin. They drew the body from the mud
and discovered faint signs of life. Every
restorative suggested by savage instinct
was applied. and strange to tell the man
was ed TO animation, but not to con-
sciousness the blows upon the skull had
| injured the brain. 1t now became ques-
ton with the Indians how to dispose with
the helpless man. They feared ifhe should
die in their hands, that they should be
considered his murderers by the white
men in the territory around them. Final
| ly they resolved to take him to their chief,
Tishomingo, who lived not far from the
present town of Carrollville. The old
king received him kindly, gave him a
| of ok NIT n g
care of his daughter, Itawamba, who ten
derby nursed him. She bathed in unctuous
herbs the festered wounds, and bandaged
the swollen limbs, and for months waited
kindly and patiently upon the invalid
Winter rolled away, spring came, and
with it consciousness returned to the
mind of the poor sufferer. Asa dream he
remembered his meeting the overseer-his
| journey with him for twelve miles-the
1 angry stream that crossed his way-then
the blow-the fall-the darknes-all else
was blank. His anxiety 10 return to his
family increased with his health. The
good old Indian king sent him to Cotton
Gin. where he found a newspaper contain
ing an advertisement of his estate for sale,
signed by his wife misunderstanding With
out delay he set out for Georgia, and arriv-
Just in time to prevent the sale of his place,
and Just in time to prevent the marriage of
his widow He lived many years after his
return, but wasneverthe same businessman
he was before the accident. His murd erer,
haunted by guilty conscience, went TO
Fort Pickering, and committed suicide by
jumping into the Mississippi. In 1886,
when the country that lay in the northeast
portion of the Chickasaw purchase was
marked off into counties, and it became
the duty of the Legislative assembly to Sc
lect names for the new counties, gentle
man composing that body, conversant
with tie above facts, proposed "Tishomin-
go" anG "Ttawamba' for two of them, in
complinle to the charitable chief and his
faithful daughter.-Historical Mogostne.s
FROM LIBBY PRISON DIRECT.-We have
had the pleasure OF reading private letter
written bv one of our West Virginia Off
GERS, now confined in Libby Prison at Rich
mond, to friend in Wheeling. The letter
! tells diffe ent tale from what other letters
tell, and tn, reason is that it was not writ
ten for the i spection Of the experimenting
officer Of the prison, but was put in the
hands Of al Exchanged officer, who hid it
on his pers u and brought it through. The
writer of tn etter is high in the military
service and III higher in the estimation of
our West Vi, sinia people. He says in his
letter that ''t,nless Il general exchange of
prisoners is eHected soon, so as to get our
men and Officers North, many, yea, very
many Of us VIII never see our friends again.
The suffering IS great now, and Will be a
hundred-1old ereater soon. You cannot
imagine the co. dition of our soldiers. Ma
ny of them are now in state of starvation.
/ saw q number Yesterday who had not re-
ceived a bite to at for Jiye days.
The writer tells certain things of his own
experience which We cannot make public
because il would lead to his identification
at Richmond, but which are absolutely ag-
onizing to read of. We at this distance
who enjoy the con ,rts Of peace and secu-
rity, can have no roper appreciation OF
what our poor sol,l rs are made to pass
through as prisoners # war. No wonder
that they pray day ami night to be deliv-
cred, either by excAarge or death, from
their suiferings. 1t tainly ought to be,
and no doubt is, the ig6cy Of the Govern
ment to press the excl aBge Of prisoners as
rapidly rs possible leeling INTEL.
rs A cotemporary pithily states the
component parts of the copperhead party
to consist of two parts OF cold fag-ends of
the old Wing party, three parts OF the de-
funct Know Nothing order, and five parts
of the corrupt and venal scrofu!a of the
Democratic hide which had rejoiced in a
long pro-slavery servility under the title