Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-05-02

robes, 436 horn saddles. 435 travesties, 287
bead mats, 191 axes, 100 kettles, ~ frying
pans, $50 tin cups, 30swhetstoaes, 2l2 sacks
paint, 90 water kegs, ovens, Al grubbihg
chairs, 303 parflecks, 15 curry combs, 81
coffee pots 46l hoes, 81 flieking sirons, 149
h5rn SPOONS, ~ crow bars, % brass kettles,
II hammers. Sstew pans, 10 drawing knives,
% spades, 4 scythes, 8 files, 19 brides,
pitchforks, -45 tea KETTLES, go spoons, 46
U. s. mail bag Stone 'mallets lance, 33
wooden spoons, 251 door mats, As raw hide
ropes, p meat stones. The. whole Is sup
posed to am6tiIit to mo less than one hum
idred thousand dollars, an irretriey Able loss
to the Indian tri0es-Cheyennes and Sioux.
1t will require 5000 huffaloes to be killed
e procure enough g nldes 20 make ma E9e.9
wigwam costs on aIl average one hundred
FdoliRrs. They made SIX different stack Of
effects taken from the village; everything
was promiscnoasly thrown inzandztire set
to them all at the same moment. The dry
poleslpf the wigWams caught hfe IKE TN
der; and as the fire spread out the sight ap-
preached subtfmtty. The forked flames
leaped into the air eddyin e and whfrling
about and making the whole sky black
With smoke. a terrible warning TO the re-
Vengeful fiendS, who, fresh from the coun-
Gil, Committed the diaboIical action on the
IL IN
/ and s1rged onward with the wind as if ea=-
ger to swallow all at once the vast piles
I AGAIN would it retreat, to shoot upward
into the air, deVourfng everything that It
lahad but previously scorched. The hides,
ISfobes and lodges Melted into seethfng
masses of hlackish fatty substances with
ttheT white heat Flakes of fire were borne
on the breeze to different parts of the pratt
Erie, setting the prairie grass on fire. With
llightning speed the fire rolled on IN Grim
tson waves consuming everything, while
the black smoke slowly and stately sailed
bskyward, forming a cloudy, murky pail
Eoverhead. Il Every greenathing, and every
Ideadthing that reared its head above the
Eearth was consumed, while the buffalo, the
antelope andtthe wolf fedfin wild dismay
bfrom the swift coming destructive agent.
lAllaround the huge bonf1res made out of
the Indian village, the, prairie seemed turn
ed into 9surging lake of fire. and the In
dian paradise was Transformed INTO roar
| ing 'shelf.n The ciump OF trees, the banks
Of the Pawnee were completely shut from
view by the columns of thick rolling
| smoke. for within that belt of trees was
| rampant destruction. For this terrible
but deserved retaliation the Indian agents
cry 20, Lord, what will become Of Han
coek. The General commanding
to them, feeding them out of his
own table because he had invited them,
that they might see justice, and that he
/ mightintroduee them under and with the
/ best logic that he could command, viz
military force, to the Indians as persons
delegated by the "Great Father, to attend
to their wants. and as persons to be respect
ed. But everything that he has done, SO
Il far. has been met by them with, ,cOntendlng
views. There is no. real necessity Tor tue
polite Difference which he pays Them, I'M
Il less it is to show them and the country al
4 large ttIaC if they have more experience
il in Ifldian affairs than himself, he Is
4 willing to profit by their advice. But we
II assert most .emphatically that they have
lIlnot as much experience as he has. And
il he is not remarkable, that We are aware Of
4 for cruelty or for merciless, cold blOoded
4 policy, to cause such fierce and bitter ami
4 mostly on their part, The Indians have
4 deceived him, and TO their impenetrable
II duplieity he fell victim, and as the means
II OF eff scting result that will cancel theil
Il turpitude, he was. compelled TO burn thei II
I villages and order Castar with his whole
II force of cavalry after Them He waited
II patiently at Larned tor the chiefs to come
II to the council. They came in groups ei
n twos and threes, five days after the day sci
II for it, to the number of fifteen, thus in
i volving him in endless embarrassment.
/ STANLEY.
laP. s. During the fire there was an inn
mense eslaughter of the innocents." Ole
Il clothes that had never seen water, anC
fallof what is vulgarly ytermed I1ice, i" Wert
burnt in immense quantities. The smoke
NJ n, a l,rlo ao,.ct Unr,E nm t0 heaven. ST.