Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1882-07-09

him in council Houston endured
it with stolid impassiveness. taking
no apparent notice of his imitator.
Councils of the tribe were held
yearly at Tahlon- tees>kei. Some-
times they lasted for a week. At
these councils laws were enacted and
affairs with the government of the
United States were settled Houston
was adopted as a member of the
tribe, but was never elected chief,
as has been stated He never took
part in the deliberations except as a
silent spectator. He was, however,
sent with delegation of the tribe to
Washington to obtain the fulfllment
of the terms of treaty. He wore
his Indian costume, and lived and
slept like his associates throughout
the journey.
lie councils we're held in an open
shed, rooted with boards, but without
floor, the members sitting upon
benches of hewn plank. 1t was a
greet gathering of the tribes, as well
as of the members of the council.
Sometimes thousand or more Sd !
upon the ground. Every afternoon
was devoted to a ball play end every
evening to dance, in which both
young men and women took part.
Sometimes a fatboat of whisky
would arrive, and then there would
be perfect pandemonium of whoop
ing, riot and debauchery in the
blazing fires under the canopy of the
giant trees. Houston took no part
in the games or dances, and pre-
served his sobriety on occasions of
public drun-enness, reserving his
not unfrequent debauches for private
occasions and perhaps relief from
the solitary misery of thought.
Houston remained as the house,
hold quest of his friend John Jolly
for more than a year. Then he fell
in love with half-breed woman of
great beauty, named Tyenia Rogers.
She was as stately for woman as
he was for man. He removed to
the west bank of Grand River, OPP
posite Fort Gibson, where, in the |
delta of the Grande, the Arkansas,
and the Verdigris, he made a small |
clearing in the rich bottom-land,
which still forms part of small |
Cherokee farm, and has log house |
upon it, although probably not the /
one built by the hands of Houston.
Here he lived two years or more.
He was frequent visitor to the !
nili' Try post of Fort Gibson, and a
ge ie rous consumer of the suffers |
whisky. His tall form was occasion
ally seen lying in the street in the
stupor of drunkenness.
This life of savagery and drunk
epness finally pasled out the nobler
elements of his nature. The strug-
gle of the infant commonwealth of
Texas for freedom aroused his
sympatbies end his ambition. He |
left fis friends, the Cherokees, and |
joined the fortunes of the rebublic. |
His subsequent career is familiar
story. He was strongly attached to
his Cherokee wife. After his arrival
in Texas he sent for her to join him,
but she would not leave her friends
eud home. They nad no children,
but bis pame is a common patronym
lc among the Cherohees. He did not
forget his Indian friends. Their
delegations were always welcome to
his Inequalities when he was Sena-
tor in Washington, and he was all
ways fervent in defense of their
rights in the halls of Congress. His
Indian life was singular episode in
q remarkable career, but it is not
without parallels in the lives of less
but almost equally
remarkable men, They found the
Ease nations of savage life, Cherokee
beauty, and Cherokee friendship ir-
res ,t;ble, and they founded families
possessing the best traits of the
white and red faces, whose reprcsen-
tat'ves would have won wide fame
if their exploits had been within the
domain of European civilization.
They now govern the destinies of the
Nation.
TooTHACHE.- you suffer with it ! Go
and buy bottle of Perry Davis Pail Killer
and find relief in the twinkle of an eye-for
IOOthache If is a GDecific