New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-06-10
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WASHINGTON SKETCHES.
INDIANS! INDTANSll TNDIANS!li
RED CLOUD AND SPOTTED TAIL AT THE NAVY
YARD.

full horrors" in the shape terrifying sights
agery during the past ten days We have had Indians
Council Indians Congress, Indians excursions In
dians in the Departments Indians at the Arsenal and
Navy Yard and lastly, Indians at grand white House
reception. first encountered them at the NayyYard,
having the privilege OF being Of the party OF ladies'
and gentlemen who there received them and escorted
them about the shops grounds and docks. under alter
nate suen clouds and fierce bursts, the most in
toerabe day OF this most ntoeabe spell Of weather."
" Ye gentle sayages " kept long waiting; they had
fingered at the Arsenal enranced the bg guns the
Wilderness OF msket and rifles and the mighty OF
ammunton-a display pleasant, but mournful to tho
aboriginal sonl But in the midst Of merry
group on the rose-shaded piazza OF Admiral
Dahlgren's pleasant house, entertained by a
courteous host and charming hostess,
we found II as easy to wait patiently for the coming of
our Nations wards and tolerable them az IL
would be anywhere the Plains the Powder River,
or the Big Horn Mountains. At last they came-the
mighty Red Cloud, that rains blood along the western
horizon, the pussant Spotted Tail, the slayer OF Big
Mouth-the Red Dog Red Shirt and Red Fly, the Long
Wolf and the Sword, and the other One That Runs
| Through and the large Bruin connection-Brave Bear
Little Bear, Yellow Bear Rock Bear, Setting Bear Living
Bear and Bear Skin and the aye known by the para
dOxcal name Of Afraid Then came the four Aboriginal
ladies. respectively named, according TO that charming
poetic fancy immortalized by Cooper and LOngfelow
White Cow, Rather, Thunder sintThe Woman without
Bow mot beam, and the World LOCKER who is OF right
| a travelled dame.
! However gallant and goOdly 10 look upon the head
chief OF the warlike Sioux may be in full feather and
paint, armed and equipped the law barbaric directs,
when his foot is his native plains and his name is
Makhpi-atlu-tah, wrapped gloomy in his blanket
wearing stove-ppe hat standing that piazza amid
group Of English and American ladies and gentlemen
he was certainly the most unpicuresQue and unprepos
sessng Of barbarians. Since his arrival here mis-
guided cheftan has been anxious TO adopt the entire
costume OF his entertainers and has been with difficulty
restrained Let not Mr.. Vincent Coyer yield % any
such unwise opportunities The stOve-pipe hat was
almost fatal concession This matter OF dress has 30
much 10 do with the poetry Of his wild protegGs and
poetry is, after all, the soul philanthropy Calico
shirts are descent from the buckskn garments frnged
with scalps which the fashion OF the plains
trousers are questionable kindness and substitute
patent leather boots for the immemOral leggngs were
to repay torture in kind. In his full Indian costume
there wild and awful power about Red Clouds sui.
len and sinister face, but in full citizens he would
look simply an ugly villain, and Inundated, shame
faced villain at that. As the is, let the costume be-
Let Us conserve this honest outward show OF savagery
Let something ancient symbolic and characteristic be
held sacred even in Washington Besides,
policy would cultivate the ferocious aspect the old
chiefs would give plenty Of paint to the young braves,
that the show may impress sautary fear the minds
of rash Congressman, ready TO rush into needless war
But Spotted Tail should be allowed to-
-" him col and breeches
And loos like a Christian man.
II so inclined. He should be permitted the dress
Of the whites he has befriehded long and we-to don
dress coat, Quaker coat military generals uniform.
cergyman's cassOck anything polite and pacific He
carries genial and jolly countenance, this gallant Spot
ted Tail, who has proved that wisdom has taken turn,
or rs on the grand tour and cometh from the West,
inasmuc II is told of him, that being shown the
ne' of national gold in the Treasury the other
This he fe TfS away Is made naca 81 ard FepaEked
NJ nocy and because he is on the whole, rather pleas
ant aboriginal fellow-whereat Red Cloud seems not
over pleased. With him, the memory OF Big MOUTH
pleads trumpettongued against this smiling spotted
Tail the lamented Big Mouth having been Red Clouds
brother n-aw This fOndness for brothers-inaw IS apt
TO disappear before civilization.
Mrs Dahlgren received her grOtesqueyattired guests
with all that graceful courtesy with which few months
ago she received the English Prince and ms suite she
served them with coffee and cake, with grave cereno
nousness that matched their own lofty and lmpassW
manner The visitors shown all through the work
shops and oundery They seemed interested and amused
bnt seldom betrayed anything like wonder or surprise
The first the last the only expression of pure astonsh
ment | marked Red Clouds face, was Wheh'
in the foundery, he saw the red-hot hqud IRON
ladled out into the molds, for shells aud
balls The immense trp-hammer pounding away at an
engnehaft seemed to afford him gentle degree OF ex-
tement and he expressed believe mild satisfaction
in the Monitor He inspected with majestic curiosity
the revolving of the turret and followed the ncochenS
Of the ball along the with series Of gracious
their lords showing equal interest If not intelligence.
their feminine decacy and tmidy only revealing itself
when the big guns were fired. Then, they covered their
ears and inmaed that they were having too much OF
good thing What heroines will this visit make OF these
four fortunate around the lodgehres in Winter,
M succotash fass and gbakes, antelope and buffalo
carvings. and such like cuttings up
The Indians all look less Ike squaws, but the
souaws do not look like the Indians They have hap
pier kinder expression-only in the face Of one III
elderly Iaatron did observe any peculiar hardness or
reentessness. She looked though she could preside
over the torture Of a Cheyenne cooly and UNI
,vinov As fashionable lady could bestow in marriage
a pretty young cir! on rich roue OF aMdeom OLD Ger
man BARON when about 20 leave, the visitors happened
70 pass the three lovely young children Of Admiral ahd
Mrs Dahlcren and each man and woman stopped ana
steamed 10 shake hands with the dainty little creatures.
wbo looked n them timdly but not dstrustingy. AZ
that moment could not but think OF other little children
as Innocent farbu will not dwell on 1t now-l did
not then truly glad 10 see the sudden out hashg
of human feeling from those stern locked mysterious
countenanees was than willing 10 hope that tho
memory Of the tender beauty Of these little and NJ
rho racious kindness Of their mother would remain with
these rude barbarans and help to soften their hear'
toward the hapless pae-faced children and mothers ~
| the frontier
The Younger ones, both and women, do look COM
paravey harmless and impossible, open 70 good AMI
ctylizug Influences and could be able somehow 10
GET hold OF the young for educational purposes, won
derfu benefcent work might be done for MS people.
before theft becomes a regular calling and nurder
econd nature Makh-to ha she-na may not change his
skim nor Spotted Tail his spots; hut their children may
No rescued from the dstortng darkness and stunthg
cold of barbari,m we take them in time Gen. Parker
| the able Indian Commissioner, must he revela
| ,ior 20 tbe,n Of what is possible of attainment