The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1868-08-05

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specimens being generally Pawnees,
butjust now the latter are gone on their
Summers hunt, up Republican River,
and the Omahas have seized the ep-
portunity to do a little begging on
their ground. The first who present
ed himself had a formidable written
document, which stated that this was
"a good Indian, the head of a family.
a chief" &C., and that he had been
badly wounded, los- the use of an
arm, and that presents of any useful
article would be worthily bestowed"
&C., &c. As he was evidently an able
bodied Lao, of not more than nineteen
or twenty, we did not see his claims.
The lady, however, gaze him some
bread and meat, which he fell to de-
vouring greedily, and did not leave
the yard till every morsel was eaten.
A few minutes after an old man pre-
sented himself, wearing the badge of
a chief, who had a withered arm and
had evidently been wounded, for he
had a white-striped scar across his
breast, which looked as fit might have
been made with a pork cleaver. He had
no papers, however, and We suspected
the young fellow had stolen them
and was begging on them without
knowing their purport. There was a
singular air of dignity about the old
savage; he stood in perfect silence as
straight as age would let him, his
withered arm laid across BIS SCARED
breast, and his other hand pointing
to his tent, in an attitute of natural
! and unconscious grace. On receiving
a paper full of provisions he bowed
profoundly and never opened it till
he reached his tent. Dir. Brewster
informed me that a short time ago a
very large Indian came down on a
| begging excursion from F~ontanelle,
with a paper on which was written:
This Indian is stout and able to earn
all he needs; put him to work. A
few days after he returned, and being
asked how he succeeded, shook his
head mournfully. and pointing to the
paper. grunted. "Ughl No good, no
goodl"
Another who begs between here
and Sioux City, exhibits a paper read
ing thus: This Big I%njun's name is
Hun-ki-do-rah He IS poor but
honest. Red-hot stones are supposed
to be safe in his presence. But what
he won't steal a two-yer-old pup
wouldn't pull out of a lanyard. Give
the noble red man ten cents, or if you
can't, a hunk of bread and meat. or a
square drink will do as WE'LL" This
joke has been played so often that
Mr. Low is getting sharp and watches
one very closely while reading bis
papers, and if be sees a smile or a
wink, becomes suspicious and hunts
up an interpreter to know what il
means. These Interpreters are gen.
orally pretty good men, but the resi-
dent agents are not above suspicion
and are often supposed to be In league
with the thieviDg indians, of which
the PaWnees are the worst In the
West. A few weeks ago seven Paw
nees were found dead In a gulch be-
tween their reservation and Republic
can River. Inquiry developed the
fact that they were part OF a bano
which had been into Kansas on Z
stealing expedition. They had stoleI
over a hundred horses and got tina.
far with them, when Overtaken by
pursuing party of eleven whites, who
| recovered all the stock aud captured
seven of the thieves. The agent ar.
rived soon after and told the Kansas
meu they could take each his own
horses, but he would not allow then
to return those of their neighbors who
had stayed behind, WalesS they hao
p0cer Of attorney!
This novel decision riled the jay
hawkers. who drew their pistols anC
swore there was all the power o.
attorney they wanted" killed THEN
captives, and took back all the horses
/ met a young "bullwhacker Al
Fremont who had just crossed the
high plains from Smoky Hill with
fifty others, and passed the place the
next day while the Pawnees were
gathering In and threatening ven.
geance against the whole white race
To my inquiry If he were not afraid.
he stared aud replied No, By -
fifty bullwhackers could whip the
whole Pawnee tribe any dayr' How
this may be | know not, but [ am a:
we'll satisfied at this distance, as if ]
had seen the whole affair.
On my return to Omaha I found
the city all alive expecting Genera.
Grant and party, who were at Chey-
enne Sunday evening. To make the
matter sure, a deputation was sent u[
the road Monday evening, which me-
the General at Grand Island, .ele.
graphed back. and came in with him
Tuesday morning. I think every per-
son in Omaha able to walk turned
out, besides the lame In carriages. AT
least $4,000 persons were in the street
in front of the the Republican head
quarters, whittier the party rode from
the u. p. RR. depot, and Grant,
Sherman, and Sheridan were present.
ed in the order named. Grant looks
better than any Of his pictures / ever
saw, but as for Sherman, his pictures
hatter him shamefully. They repre-
sent a somewhat fine featured man,
but to mt he looks very homely. His
hair appears to have been combed
with a hay-rake, and there is a sort
of scowl, or squint, or twist (I don't
know what to call i) in his eye,
which could not be transferred to a
picture, singlar too, it does not seem
constant, but shifts with sud-
deness from one eye to the other, as
/ have often noted in soldiers who
had been wounded in the side
of the head. A lady near me
remarked, Why, his picture in my
album is real nice. but he's as homely
as sin" l thought SO too. Sherman
spoke a few minutes-none OF the
others said anything-but after an
hour passed on East, leaving the pa
pers and parties here to decide which
is better, to have a candidate who
will not make speeches, or n who
has made too many, that will not bear
quoting. Now, [ would not claim all
this as an ovation to the Republican
candidate. Not at all. But a de-
cldedly ludicrous turn was given to
the whole affair by the discovery. af-
ter IT was all over, that Gen. Frank P.
Blair had come in on the same train,