Connecticut western news., 1876-05-05
ICorrssponde nee of the Hartford Times.l
 The Indians at St. Augustine

winter YisitOrS-and especially Tor the la | dies, whose interest in these red men has 1 been unbounded, and who have made great l pets of them. They have purchased pol lshed sea-beans of Lone Wolf, and strange looking pictures of warriors and squaws, all showily done in red and brown and green colors. of Haw-po-keh, and lovely l little painted bows and arrows (um! good for pappoose D of Toy-ance and Ah-Ker and have paid big prices with admiring l eagerness; for To rapidly learns the value | of money. And they have affectionately l inquired into each wafrior's history, and lovingly assured him that he was good h. 1 jun now,' and that they-the lady visitors were so glad Black Horse was sccompa nied by his affectionate wife, and that they would like to go out on the Plains them 1 selves just to see how the noble red men live at home. All of which the willy sava- ges duly sppreciated-that is to say, all of it that they could understand, for none of them speak the English language-while wishing in their hearts that they could only once just catch lem out on the Plains, that's allI
 These Indians are load lot Repre- senting five different tribes-the Kiowas, the Cheyennes, the Arrapahoes, the Co., manches and the Caddoces-they numbered on .thelr arrival at St. Augustine, eighteen months ago, "A or 75. though half dozen have since died and one was shot, and made up party of the worst wretches that were ever caught on the Plans. Among them are savages who have helped slay and torture the families of poor settlers on the border, and committed such atrocities on their captiYes as may not be spoken of i; and among them also are some of the des- peracoes of the western tribes human dew ills who have become outcasts and outlaws, even from their own tribes, and whose con- stant aim has been to organize raiding and murdering parties to capture, torture and kill the emigrants and border settlers, and such military parties ss may happen to be not too strong for them. Their dark faces, hooked noses, long black hair and piercing black eyes, often have sinister look which would do very we'll for subject for one of the old masters who desire study of His Satanic Majesty. One of them, an ugly looking hag, murdered whole family of Germans.
 Yet there are good faces. really fine ones, among these Indians. Of these, Meminick, Cheyenne chief. is one. His face and forehead indicate man of no ordinary charactef; and his good feeling for the white people is believed to be sincere-as is also that of Black Horse, Comanche chief, whose wife is pretty good looking . woman. There are score or two of oth. CTS who are accepted as good friends of the whites, and who, dressed in military clothes, are allowed to roam about the streets of St. Augustine; nay, some of them are armed with muskets and put OF guard duty at the old Fort where the In dIans are kept. ..
 These Indians have an interpreter, anc are provided with spacious apartment built for the purpose on the top of tho north wall of the ancient fort of Sante Marca-which fort is the most picturesque structure probably, in America. They be- haved very we'll till week before last wher plot was discovered which led to trouble The head devil of the crowd is Whit Horse, Kiowa chief, and he had arranged plot for general jail delivery, to be car ried into effect within week of the tim when, by fortunate exposure (partly b, their betrayal by two of their number) was all brought to grief, and White Hors ' and two or three others were brought t dungeons and chains. It is not quite clea how far the plot intended to reaeh-wheth CT murder was in it or not; built is know that the plan was to escape to the St. John river, and thence on foot to the Wester Plains. They would have had an interest ing time of it before they reached th Plains; but their resources, in the way 0 Indian craft and endurance, have been UT derrated. One of them, Caddo, from th northern Texas border, was SO dangeroU that he was guarded all the way from th Plains to Florida by three armed meI specially detailed from the other guard look to him; yet he contrived, bound an snackled as he was, to give them the sli and leap through car window, sho distance this side of the Georgia line, ar disappear in the scrub palmetto. The trai was stopped and general hunt institute
 yet that Indian could not be found. At las
 as the party were returning, dlscomfitte
 and wondering how manacled 1ndis
 could escape, right before their eyes, one
 them accidentally hit something with
 foot which caused him to lift the sm
 palmetto leaves, ,and up jumped Mir. Lo al
 made off, shackled as he was, with gre
 bounds, through the scrub; but three br
 lets from as many rifles 'perwalled on hi
 to stop'-and he sleeps with his father
 Possibly he may be with Shacknasty lii
 in the happy hunting -grouDds).
 Showing his painted pictures-the VIC
 of his own handsome young warrior in
 cated by grunts and signs which fgu
 were chiefs, which warriors and whi
 squaws. Sweeping his thumb over wh
 line of aboriginal beauties, he said. 'Squ
 allr By his side lay stalwant Indian,
 lent, grave and lnscrutable as the Sphin1
 his emotionless face and blazing eyes giV
 no index to his real feelings. Some amc
 them laughed as heartily as white foll
 This grave and silent Indian was too pro
 to laugh, or to furnish entertainment
 his captors in Babylon; he had hanged
 harp on the willows-and to judge by
 looks, he would have been glad to hang
 scalp there, too. They are bad, treat
 erous race, and woe to the white man, Y
 man or child that falls into their power
 the wild DlainS Among the visitors tn