The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1866-11-26
THE DAILY EMPIRE.
H. H. ROBINSON,
PUBLISHER AND PROPRIETOR.
indian Life on the Prairlcs.

Indian Life ON the Prairics.
From B, =. T'aylor's Correspondence in the chi.
cagO JOurnall
Beyond the Missouri. in the Wilderness.
is an Indian village, forty-eight hours from
Chicago. IL Is as rude aud old-world-like
as Longlellow's forest primeyal" ltmight
have been described by the0ld French faith
ers two centuries ago, just as you see IT, or
theillustTiOus native of Genoa or any
body this side the deluge of Deucalion. lt
is as much stereotype, that village Is. A.
a flock Of muskrat houses, which it very
much resembles. Iou ride through the
billowey country already described, scanned
with deep "runs' and freckled Ike a face,
with yellow toweTs. You begin to tiud
out, now it is wanting, how much
company fence may be. running along
beside you post-hnste rs You 20, how much
of their pictorial beauty the "pastulu4
green owe to tiock and herd aud how a
little sprinkling of Indians in such a scene
seems TO date the landscape back to the
days of Leatherstocklng, IIawkeye aud
Pathfinder, AMI you feel as II one Of the
Oldhlmanacs in which the SIS were all Is
would answer as well as any.
But two signs Of civilization appear. the
trail beneath YOU that is flattened out into
a wagon track, and the little patches ofcorn.
shaped like an old fashioned harrow, that
lie about on the sunny sides of the hills.
belittled to vulgar fractions of acres. These
spots,of earth have been gently irritated by
the SquAws. and the maize has grown uf
itself and ndamazinglystall NOn are near
ing the village. Ponies of MI colors, poor
enough to herd with Pharoahs kline IN the
lean year-for their masters have just re-
turned from the buffalo hunt-are snnoh
ing around, dragging after them long laii-
atsof buffalo bide.i Small piecesdf biiur-
Gated animal copper "all alive" but not
big enough to say "how,' are tottering
about loose, the soul Oft shiny black but
ton in every eye. Fancy thirty muskrat
houses removed out of their damp IIollandic
habitatiOn TO dry. land, ranged in a Girclc,
and magnitied 10 a hight Df twelve or thir-
teen feet at the top OF the arch, and With
a circumference, some of theia, of forty.
Cut door in the side, and build narrow
hall Of approach. Pierce a hole in the top
Tor the light to go in and the smoke SO gn
out. Set weeds and foWeFs-to growihu
upon these homely d0mes. Lay lazy In
dians at length upon the sunny sides Of all
of them, and you have the picture of an la
dian summer village. - i'''N
/ Coming nearer, YOU discover lurking
paths running in every direction al. unT the
tall WEEDS. Squaws and childrenare ,I.a.
stantly entering and emerging by the little
hall door like the bees of an old Straw hive
OF Pleasant day. The sun shines and the
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