The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-07-08

A SPECIMEN INDIAN MAIDES.
Miss vvIhlrsRuooa, the Indian Prin.


From the Boise City (Idahol 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 willlong be re-
lnembered 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
Iavished SO unsparingly In days gone by
upon her llustrious sire, the old gentle
man Winnemucca. Miss Sarah, says Har-
per's Weekly, s.has written (21 a very saga
eious letter te Indian Commissioners Parker,
III 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 SieDermit, Nevada.
She and q few other interesting relics of
the t'noble red man" were being fatted at
the fort during that winter for the spring
campaign against Idaho emigrants. The
emigration having stopped for the season,
s'there were no other worlds to conquer, {"
so Sarah and her tribe were about to fare
badly, as the supply of dried scalps, grass
hoppers 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 fayorite pastime 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 would be difficult to
Judge of her exact age from her appear
aaee, owing to a careless habit she acqulr
ed of never washing her beautifully CHS
elled features. BRtas we had been taught
to Judge the age of COW by the wrinkles
n her horns, or the age of tree by the
belts of growth on its trunk, so we made
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 ''LoP"-and
not quite as broad as she
been permitted to coy with the sportive
breeze; unbound, unwashed, and uncomb-
ed, from her earliest childhood. stood out
in elegant and awry confusion from her
classically shaped edbeSe, which contribut-
dor. Her style of dress, though primi-
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 a 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 and
fresh crickets at that season, had materi-
ally diminished, over which hung beauti-
full set of skeleton hoops. These completed
the toggery ofthis sweetand simple daugh-
ter of nature. Her feet were ineassd in
moceasins, 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
tenaciously 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 due
her exalted rank and biIth-right- the
only daughter and ,heiress of that noble old
ohief, Winnemucca- -..