Year: 1872

I was present at the reception given to
the Indian Chiefs at Cooper Institute, and
occupying platform seat Immediately in
the rear of the illustrious warriors, had
an excellent opportunity of noting their
appearance. A general report of the pro-
ceedings need not give, as 1t will be in
all the papers, but I merely propose to
write up a short paragraph OF things in
dividually saw and heard, and first | will
give the names of the different Indians =
Red Cloud, Red Dog, Blue Horse, Lone
Wolf and wife nee Ear of Corn, Red Fox,
Little Wolf, Thunder Hawk, High Bear,
Poor Elk, Stabber, Slow Bull, Hawk
Eagle, Black Crow, Garry Crow on his
Head, Little Wound, Big Foot and wife
nee White Hawk, Good Buffalo, Red Leaf,
Two Elk, Blue Shield, Daylight, Poor
Moon, Hard Heart, Coyote, Feathered
Eagle, and High Wolf. They were quaint
ly and variously dressed in pantaloons,
second hand dress-coats, and overcoat
capes adorned with ornaments and beads,
while the two wives, Ear of Corn and
White Hawk, wore for their Dolly Vardens
old calico dresses with accompanying In
dian trinket ornaments, and all wore moe
casins save Red Cloud, who had on pair
of gutta percha slippers.


Peter Cooper opened the reception by
few remarks in which he said that his
father could remember when a wall had
to be thrown across Duane street to keep
ont the Indians. After remarks from DR..
Fisher and Mr.. Tatnur, Red Cloud was in
trOduced, and he threw the audience into
hearty laugh by pulling off his coat and
making his speech in his shirt sleeves with
his wristbands unbuttoned; and his speech
like that of Red Dog, was characterized
bv the same monotonous tone of voice
aud continuous gesture of the hands in
one direction, and one who has read of the
eloquence of the renowned chiefs Philip,
Logan, and Red Jacket, must have been
much disappointed at the sing song school
boy style of oratory of these noted warri-
ors. While they spoke the others gave
the approbational ugh! Ugh" and talked
away among themselves, while Lone Wolf
turned and kissed his hand to the little
boy of the Superintendent of Indian AT
fairs, who sat behind him nodding in a
chair, and the little fellow didn't seem to
have much opinion of receptions, but a
profound regard for sleep, while "Ear of
Corn" a care-worn looking squaw, would
turn with a maternal smile toward the
drOwsy child. These Indians though
chiefs are poor looking enough, they are
sons of nature rude, and ignorant, the ad
vancement of the world has done nothing
for them, they stand to-day in the aborig-
ina condition of tour thousand years ago,
proud of an old blanket, ragged clothes,
and tin trinkets, and while some of them
arouse our vegence by their atrocities,
they should all have our pity.


At the close of the meeting the Indians
all filed past, and l enjoyed the privilege
of shaking hands and bidding them all
goodbye, and l assure you that it was
more agreeable than to feel their hands
twisted in ones hair in the scalping oper-
alton, which hope never to experience


ATTEMPT TO ROB A BANK.


Sometime since a man representing
himself as a sculptor in company with
two others, rented rooms adjoining the
First National Bank building in Jersey
City, and afterwards on some plea rented
others in the same building on the floor
above. This, together with the fact of
their coming in and going out of their
rooms at unreasonable hours of the night.
aroused the suspicious of the other occu
pants of the building, and one day during
the absence of the men a young man eff
fected an entrance into their room through
an upper window and found the floor lit
tered with the dust of brick and mortar,
and upon removing a cupboard he found
q large hole behind it in the wall leading
to the vault of the bank, through which,
in another night the burglars would have
effected an entrance to the bank and the
vault. The brick and mortar taken out
had been carefully concealed in large
chest in the room. The young man re-
placed everything as he found it, and in
formation was given to the bank officers,
who called a meeting of the directors and
gave information to the police, who on
the next night surrounded the place, and
bursting open the doors at ! o'clock in the
morning, they surprised the burglars at
their work, and, although they presented
revolvers, and made q determined resis-
tance, they were all three captuaed and
committed to the county Jail and their
chances for the penitentiary are as good
as any thieves in Jersey.





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