St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1867-11-15
General Harney and the indians.

There are seven men in the new Indi-
an peace commission, but to the Indians
only one, and he General Harvey. Tall,
straight and excessively polite, brave as
a lion, and having no political TX to
grind, from his former connection with
the Indians Gor he left Baton Rouge in
1928 to join an Indian commisSion), from
his record for he has whipped them
soundly several times, and once terribly
at White Ash Hollow, in 1861, as well
as from his elegant personnel, Gen Har-
ney is Just the man for the commission.
lie knows Indians, not from the dOcu-
ments which mouder in the WASHINGTON
archives, not from having dwelt with
them as an honest Indian agent, but
from having spent the prime of his life
among them since his graduation at West
Point, when he started out as CAV roll
licking young lieutenant, down to with
in the past few years. He has won their
respect and admiration. for, when young,
being very athletic, he beat the Indians
at all their foot races, and in short race
has never been beaten by IN Indian. He
has attended their teasts and eaten. with
out making wry faces, cooked dog. lie
has danced with the voluptuous squaws
without showing that his nose was Of
tended at Indian SMELL He has eaten
Indian soup when the big brazen dish in
which it was brought on 10 the table was
cleaned by the reception of thorough
wiping with Il shirt by the Indian master
of ceremonies. In short lie has been in
Rome and done as Romans do. In per
son he is six feet four inches. very erect.
and now, at the aye OF sixtv-seven wears,
chats in French with all the vivacitv of
pert schoolgirl. \ we'll balanced
head, neither large nor painfully small.
neither bald on the top nor covered with
struggling hairs at the sides. but clothed
all over with snowy locks that are parted
as carefully. and brushed as smoothly As
those of a French dancing master. he is
most attentive 10 ladies, which fact. tax
en- in connection with his silvery locks.
may justify the remark once made by the
Irish barriSter, Mr.. Quinn. OF an aged
but rakish client, like .Etna, your hon
or, on whose summit are SHOWS the year
round, the troSt~ above have not chilled
| the fires below Round the generals
chin, from ear to ear. close cut white
beard, and on his upper lip pert NOUS
tache, to the ends OF which a Napoleonic
twirl has attached itself He carries eve
glasses, gold bound OF course, sports a
heavy gold guard chain. OWNS an elegant
summer residence not far from ST. Louis,
a plantation in Louisiana, and spends his
winters at his elegant mansion in st.
Louis. Early and judiclous real estate
investments have made him in a worldly
point of view. not Independent but rich
As to his opinions on Indian matters,
they have had more weight than those of
all the rest of the commission. Never
forward IN OlItrlllT lncill, they every one
sought him out and found that he wa, a
perfect mine of Indian knowledge 1t
was really amusing, yes refreshing, to
listen to the theoretical drcamings of
Iappan, the dictatorlal ipse dixits of
Sherman, the common sense OF SanbOrn.
the book knowledge and piety OF Taylor,
and then, above all, and over them all,
to hear the blunt experience OF General
Harney bursting forth with an "Egad,
/ tell you what it is and then forth
comes pointed experience and a story
pat to the mark, and facts and history
enough with it all to satisfy the most ex-
acting. - Correspondence Of Cmcur.at
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