Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-07-06

PATENTS Among the patents issued during
the week ending June %, were the following to
parties in this county:
George Crompton, Worcester, piled fabric.
John Goulding, Worcester series ofleed-water
heaters and generators
George f.. Burt and Stanley B. Hidreth, Har-
ward, and Charles b. Ballard, Hartford, VT, saw
ing machine.
VIM. A. Foster, Fitchburg, valve of locomo-
tive sand box.
Theodore s Foster and VIM A Foster, Fitch
bnrg, time signal for railroads.
LIFE AMONG THE RED MEN.-The Kansas
City Times of June Goth contains the following
account of the adventures of Milford girl
among the Indians, brief account Of whose es-
cape we published a few days since:
"The steamer Fonteuelle arrived at this city
yesterday morning, after three months trip
to Fort Benton and the mountains. Among her
miscellaneous cargo of robes, turS, peltrieS and
Nebraska corn, was a woman named Miss
Amanda Barber, who in n fit of ianatical ro-
nance offered herself in 1867 as voluntary mis-
Sionary TO the Brule Sioux, then occupying the
territory between the Cheyenne river and the
Biz Horn mountains, Dakotah territory.
Miss Barber created quite a sensation In the
eastern states by her marriage with young ln-
dian named Squatting Bear, who accompanied
a party of Sioux TO Washington in 1867. Miss
Barber was at that time 4 clerk in one of the
departments at Washington, in a position Sc
cured for her by Gen. Butler, before the I'M
parchment fiasco, According TO her own state
ment, made yesterday 10 our reporter, she was
firmly impressed with the reality and perfection
of the red men of the plains. She had read
everything relating to the Indian tribes, from
the reports of the commissioners of Indian
affairs down TO the latest dime novel. In I'll of
enthusiasm or temporary insanity she offered
bprsplf md bppnmp tho wifi Df
Bear, junior chief in the Lone Horn band of
Brule Sioux, and with him and his party re-
turned to the Yankton agency, where she
was duly initiated into her new life as
white squaw. Her romantic ideas of
Indian life seem TO have received a terrible
shock since her introduction to her new home
and relations, and though she endeavored to
fulfill her mission as a teacher and missionary
to the best of her abilities, her progress appears
TO have been as slow as the progress of civilza-
ton on the plains She says that her first great
surprise was being required to mount upon
wild, vicious pony, and travel without saddle or
attention over the country from the Missouri to
the White Earth River, distance of several
hundred miles. Her inability to make the
journey provoked mirth among her husbands
companions, and finally eXasperated Squatting
Bear until he bound her with rope to the
pony's back, and led the animal himself on the
westward trail. She was still more surprised TO
find her husband possessed of two other wives
Que vicious, dirty squaw of forty years of age,
the other gill of scarcely fourteen years. Her
lite in his wigwam, or teepee, was not as bright
and happy as she expected II would be. Her
husbands absence was taken advantage of by
her rivals 10 compel her TO perform the vileSt
drudgery, such as gathering wood, cooking
meat and scraping robes for the tanning pro.
| cess: but during Squatting Bears presence ut
| home Miss Barber appears to have been better
| treated Her husband in violent fit of pas
sion, killed his oldest squaw during the first year
she was with the tribe, when, without warning
| or notice, she was hurried off to the main camp
| of the BruleS, three days journey toward the
mountain, and from thence she accompanied the
| tribe on its annual buffalo hunt, where she be-
came sick from exposure and fatigue. She
| was left at temporary drying camp ut
| Rawhide river, where she attempted to
| escape by walking to Fort Fetterman, a
distance Of sixty miles. For this attempt she
was beaten until nearly dead, and then sold by
her husband for three ponies to a Cheyenne
| chief, who sported the expressive sOubTiquet of
| Coo-Coose, or Baconsdes. She was taken north
| in 1870, and has remained with the Cheyennes
| ever since, until her escape this spring, when
| SHE made her appearance at and claimed the
| protection of the authorities at Fort Benton,
| Miss Barber is woman rather plain in appear
| ance, skin tawny and black, eyes small, dark
| and impressive, and voice rather masculine. She
| says that so far as the romance of Indian life is
concerned, she found none OF it. Her efforts 10
| teach and reform the young Indian children
were treated with indifference and contempt
She learned the Sioux language easily, but the
Cheyenne dialect was harder to acquire. She
has a much higher opinion of the Cheyennes
than of the Sioux. The latter tribe, she says
| are to blame Tor nearly all the theVing and
| numbering done in the white settlements. She
| found it necessary to paint and color, like the
rest OF the tribe, while she was with them, and
| twice witnessed the murder or execution OF
| white men-one soldier of the thirty-SecOnd
United States infantry, who had been taken
while out hunting, who was burned and scalped
| the Others were two teamSIerS brought from
| Fort Mcpherson. All three were burned at a
place called 'Saddlcr's Hll,' in the Nebraska
| bad lands
| Miss Barber left the steamer Foptenelle at
this port, and after few hours rest started on
her way to her friends at Milford, Massachu.
| sets"