The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1867-12-23
Why that Fashionable Wedding did
not Take Place.

Colonel Parker has been found. His
explanation of his recent mysterious dis
appearance upon the eve Of his marriage
will net be without interest to your readers.
1t is this. He was to have been married
on Tuesday morning. On the Saturday
evening previous he called at General
Grants residence and borrowed military
scarf. He was down town while after
ward, and then went off alone to take
walk. In the course of it he met an Indian
of the Six Nations, of which confederation
Colonel Parker is chief. The Indian took
him to room, gave him glass of wine,
and sat down to converse upon the impor-
tant business which he wished to see him
about. In o short time Colonel Parker began
10 feel drowsy, and concluded he would
lie down on the bed moment. He did so,
and fell into deep sleep. When he
awoke it seemed very late at night, but
whether it was the same night or another
he could not tell. The Indian was sitting
by the bedside gravely and patiently.
| Colonel Parker asked few questions ma
tural to the circumstances Of the case, and
the Indian said: I" You have been very
sick. Here is some medicine the doctor
| left for you" The patient took the medi-
cine, fell asleep again, slept comfortably
| until Wednesday morning, and then woke
| up, matter of twenty-fOur hours too late
for the wedding. The Indian was gone.
| Colonel Parker's friends think the Six
Nations are opposed to his marrying a
white lady, and that they sent an envoy
to take care that the wedding should
not take place, or to even deprive
| A hrI1 ri
him from among his subjects, the Six Ma
tons, stands ready to marry him, and the
tribes prefer that he should take her, and
remain more closely allied to his people
than he would be # he took wife from
another race. Colonel Parker's statement
| | have given without addition or embel-
| lishment. General Grant has taken entire
charge of the matter now, both because
the interrupted wedding had been ap-
pointed to come off under his auspices and
because Colonel Parker belongs on his
staff. He will institute strict investlga-
ton of the affair to the end that Colonel
Parker NAV establish his blamelessness il
he can. or suffer dismissal and disgrace II
he fails. Until his judgment is passed,
public opinion should Sleep washington
teleqram to Nelo York Tribune.
| AND STILL THE WONDER GROWS
The Buffalo IN. " Commercial Aduer-
tiser copies the above paragraph from the
Tribune, and then adds:
"There are some people in this locality
who profess to be well acquainted with
| Colonel Parker, and give an explanation OF
his mysterious disappearance quite dlf.
| ferent from any that we have seen stated
in the papers as current at Washington
| They saw that the gallant aboriginal has
| full. blooded squaw and family of 'one
little. two little, three little - nobody
| knows how many little-Indians OF his
own already. They say that though ne
desired to indulge in the rather expensive
Injury of a pale-face wife among the other
blessings of civilization to which he has
accustomed himself, when it came to the
sticking place he could not screw his cou'
rage up to it. He did not dare 10 Drave
the preiudices Of his tribe against marry.
ing pale face, and especially dreaded tne
vengeance of his true squaw's klndreu
We do not youch for the truth OF this ex.
planation, but should not like to stamp IL
as an untruth either.
awe have heard very Interesting de'
scriptions of Colonel Parker's habits @hel
spending brief seasons with his + tribe. "A
/ such times, it is said, he puts off all trace:
of his civilized life, and lives and acts JUS
as the other Indians do. He divests him
self of the white mans dress, and puts 0!
the trappings of a great Indian chief, will
feathers, war paint, and all the other &C
cessories. At such times his civilized
friends would find it difficult to recognize
the Gallant chief of the staff, for the whole
man appears to be metamorphosed. IN
demeapor partakes of the solemn stolidit.
of the Indian, and he is, to all appearance
nonchalant, lazy, naughty, redskin chic
of the true aboriginal type"