The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1867-10-31
On The war Path.
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IL ".'o tiil ouCCliHS oCeHc vi OstG-
urday afternoon. when our cores
pondent took his departue from the
Times office for Chicago, to .join
the innumerable caravan of editors
who leave to-day for the Rocky
Mountains. The somewhat too
ostentatious welcome which the red
denizens of the Plains are in the ha-
bit of extending to their pale face
brothers who visit them, renders
it not altogether certain that we
shall ever see our correspondent a.
gain-at least not with his scalp on
| hence the mournful and touching
solicitude which we saw him take
his departue. He had been eager
to go for some time, and had said
that nothing would give him such
inexpressible delight as to meet a
dozen of those internal redskins,
single handed, and wipe them out
those were his words, 'wipe them
outr'
He has been seen in the back Off
ce fiercely welding a hatchet that
''Dan'' uses to break up coal with
and hacking away at bags of waist
paper as though he was tomahaW-
king imaginary foes. One day he
was observed before glass trying
the effects of yellow erche and Ven
titan red upon his face, and several
times he has startled all the inmates
of the building, by what Carlyle
would call "weil authenticated war
whoops. Once he stole up behind
a telegraph boy, as he was leaving
the Office, aud made a fierce but in
effectual attempt to scalp him with
the poker, and it was no unusual
thing to see him practicing war
I iance down ia the alley. ''Eb's
blood was up, and it seemed that
our Indian difficulties were soon to
I receive at his hands swift and san
culinary solution.
But when the period arrived for
him to start on his bloody mission,
he showed signs Of weakeningin his
: resolutions. He expressed doubt
about the excursion amounting to
much, and offered to give way if any
other member of the establishment
wanted to go. No one desired to
embrance the profered opportunity
: and so he began the somewhat
mournful task Of preparing to depart
He had changed his tactics entirely,
throwing away case knife that he
had sharpened in one cfhis sanguin-
ary intervals for scalpirg purposes
5 and laying in large stock of wan
2 dun, beads, return balls, dancing
2 Jacks. marbles, wire puzzles, toy
: bugles, photograph albums, and 9th
. er trinkets calculated to please the
5 childish and untutored mind of the
r savage, hoping thereby to propitiate
, them if captured, or ransom his scalp
: to be sent home by Adams Express
: if that essential article should becom
the red MANS prey.
1 When he appeared at the Office to
: bid US final adieu, he presented g
, striking appearance. In order to
r deceive the saveges into the belle
= that he was zone of en- he had en-
i cased his feet in moccasins, ano
8 wore leather leggins laced up with
5 strips of raw buffalo hide. Around
? his shoulders he wore an Indiar
/ blanket from the battlefield of Shi
p lob. he had streaked his face little
8 and had tide up few thin hairs OIL
Al the top of his head with a red rib
Ell bon, with little bunch of feathers
woven in that wore dropping as
a pect. He ATTEMPTED to look cheerful
e and smile but, it was a ghastly eff:
II fort. We wouldn't sayssthat he had
been weeping, but the paint beneath
! his eyes was washed as with little
G lrivulets of water, and there was q
{ tIhuskiness in his tlloat as he attem'
/ pied to speak.
+ Our business manager gave him
a letter Of introduction to Spotted
q Tail, which he is to present in case
n he is captured and brought before
d that noted chief It was prepared
n at the dictation of the departing
e correspondent himself, and assured