Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1870-07-07
A SPECIMEN INDIAN MAIDEN.
Miss Winnemucca, the Indian Prin.
From the Boise CITY idaho, News


Harper's Weekley contains highly poe
tic allusion to Sarah Winnemucca, the in
teresting daughter of Mr.. Winnemucca,
chief of the Piutes, whose gallant exploits
IN stealing horses and cutting the tongues
out of defenseless emigrants will long be re-
membered by the people of Nevada and
Southern Idaho with feelings of just pride
and admiration. Now this noble aborigine
daughter. Sarah-no less-is to come in
for share of the honors which have been
lavished SO unsparingly in days gone by
upon her illustrious sire, the old gentle
man Winnemucca. Miss Sarah, says Har-
per's Weekly, ''has written (?) q very saga
cious letter to Indian Commissioner Parker,
in which she has eloquently portrayed
the wrongs of her race" What internal
noodles some of these eastern people are
If we are not very much mistaken, we had
the pleasure of seeing. some years ago,
Miss Sarah at Camp McDermit, Nevada.
She and few other interesting relics of
the ''noble red man" were being fatted ut
the fort during that winter for the spring
campaign against Idaho emigrants. The
emigration having stopped for the season.
'there were no other worlds to conquer"
so Sarah and her tribe were about to fare
badly, as the supply of dried scalps, grass
noppers and lice had been exhausted. Their
condition excited the sympathy of Uncle
Sans boys at the Fort. so they were taken
in and cared for until spring, when they
resumed their favorite pastlme of
stealing and numbering. But it is our re-
collections of Miss Sarah we propose to re-
cite, Sarah was at that time about sweet
sixteen or twenty-it wouid be difficult to
judge of her exact age from her appear
ancs, owing to a careless habit she acquir
ed of never washing her beautifully chis
elled features. Bat as we had been taught
to judge the age of COW by the wrinkles
her horns, or the age of a tree by the
belts of growth on its trunk, 80 we made o
slather at Miss Sarah's age by the number
of scales of greasy dirt which naturally
accumulated on the ridge of her comely
countenance during the lapse of years.
She was about four or five feet
high-how is that for "Lo?"-and
not quite as broad as she
was narrow. Her raven tresses, which had
been permitted to coy with the sportive
breeze; unbound, unwashed. and uncomb-
ed, from her earliest childhood. stood out
in elegant and swry confusion from her
classically shaped eabese. which .sontribut-
ed to her contour an air of romantic splen-
dOA- AAcI Styic VI QIcss, tQOuRn Dr1sQl-
tive, closely assimilated that worn by her
more fashionable sisters in Paris and other
big towns. 1t was the fashion of the day.
slightly exaggerated, consisting of an
elgant scarf, about foot wide, cut
from an ancient horse blanket,
which was gracefully girded round
her delicate waist, the circumference OF
which, owing to the scarcity of clover al d
fresh crickets at that season, had materi-
ally diminished. over which hung beauti-
full set of skeleton hoops. These completed
the toggery ofthis sweet and simple daugh-
ter of nature. Her feet were incased in
moccasins, and showed evident indications
of hard service and long walks over the
rocky hills and sage-brush plains, the mud
of her native heath, crisp and dry, clinging
to her toes. And we are glad
to be able to announce that this divinity
was treated during her brief sojourn among
the white savages, with all the respect dne
her exalted rank and biTth-right- the
only daughter ana heiress of that noble ola
chief. Winnemucca.