The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1872-01-13
spotted Tails Daughter.


Spotted Tails Daughter.
correspondent of the PHILADELPHIA
Press, writing from the army in the Indian
country, tells the following pathetic stor,
of the great chief, Spotted Tails daughter
During the latter years Of the war part
Of Spotted Tails family remained for q
time at Fort Laramie and with them wa.
bis favorite daughter, a young girl just
/ budding into womanhood. The fort was
then garIisoned by companies OF an Obi,
regiment OF volunteer cavalry. Among
the officers Of this regiment was q younp
man of good appearance and pleasant man
Ears, aud with whom the chiefs daughter
! fell IN love. Her passion DOES not seem t.
! have been reciprocated by the young sol
dier, and he did all in his power to con
vince her he could not marry her, and
therefore it would be wrong in him to pa,
lis addresses to her, But the infatuated
! alrl would not be convinced and could no.
! understand why she, a princess and the
daughter of the most powerful chief on the
! plains, was not a suitable wife for the young
| soldier Day after day she would dres,
herself with scrupulous care and come to
the fort to see her beloved 1t was pitia-
| be to observe her as hour after hour she
would sit OH the door step Of the young
officers quarters waiting for him TO come
out. At other times she would follow him
about the parade ground like a dog, seem,
ingly perfectly happy if she could only be
near aud enjoy the poor privilege of look
ing at him.
! Spotted Tail, hearing Of the strange con,
duct of his daughter and deeply mortified
at her want OF self-respect, FASTENED to the
| fort, and putting her in charge of some
kind friends, babe them carry her far off
into the Rock Mountains, where portion
of his tribe dwelt, and endeavor in every
way to make her forget her unfortunate
love. She went away meekly enough, but
fell into deep melancholy from which no
effort of friends could arouse her. Pre-
dwindled away to mere skeleton.
One day a courier whose Rorse was white
with foam sought the great chief, and told
him that his daughter was dying of a brok-
en- heart, and wished to see him once more
before she passed to the happy spirit land.
Away, over mountain aud stream, hurried
the chief, and paused not for food or rest
until he reached the bedside of his beloved
child. lie found her still alive, but fast
sinking, and she bid him sit close beside
her and hold her neshless hands in lis
while she told him all her simple story of
love and suffering and broken heart. She
said, Il shall soon be at rest, my father,
and with those Of our kindred who have
gone before. In that beautiful land will
wait for you, and you viii soon come to
Join me, dear father, for your locks are
whitened will years of care, and you are
fast growing old and tired. You are Il
great chief and have yet many warriors,
| but the pal; .ces are more numerous than
the leaves O The forest, and pray You to
cease from airing with them. Spare your
! people, my lief, rest yet a little while in
| peace, and >nu will have reached the end
| of your ,jou 'nry of life and cone to Join me
in the hap, home to which anu now 60
ing. The lr4:efaces are las people, and
/ between s"a and them l hope war will
never come gain. And, Oh my father and
chief. whcr am dead take my poo vast
| ed body an. ny it on the hill beside the
fort where earned to love SO WE'LL" The
pulscless l. .'lds grew cold as the great
! chief prom; I'd his child all she asked of
/ him; then the lustrou' eyes glazed over,
the thin lips ceased to move. the smile fed
I from the wasted face, and the Indian girl
| was dead.
! The heart-brol1en chief bid the attend
ants dress the body Of the princess for bur
I ial. and then on the shoulder Of stout war
riors it was carried all the way to Laramie,
and laid to rest among the paleiaces, one
of whose race she had so fatally loved
! Her grave is still pointed out to the tray.
eller, and there it will long remain a mon
ument Of tie saddest story of the plains.
| Spotted Tail often speaks Of his dead
| daughter with atfectionate remembrance.
and once in great council held with the
| whites at Laramie, he said. Were not
the hopelcssness of resistance and the die
tates of policy sufficient to restrain me
from acts of war, the pledge | made
to my dead child in her dying hour would
cause me to keep at peace with your peo-
pie"
No Bones In TIE OCEAN.-Mr. Jeffrey
has established the fact that bones disap-
pear in the ocean. BY dredging it is com
mon to bring mp teeth, but rarely ever a
| bone Of any kind; these, however compac- ,
dissolve if exposed to the action of the
water but little time. On the contrary.
teeth-w hich are not bones any more than
whales are tish--resist the destroying ac-
ton of the sea-water indefinitely. 1t is,
popular opinion is that it is a brine. II
such were the case, the bottom of all the
seas would, long ago, have been Swallowed
by immense accumulation of carcases and
products of the vegetable kingdom con
stantiy floating into them.
Dentine, the peculiar material Of which
teeth are formed, and the enamel covering
them, offer extraordinary resistance TIC