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Indian Eloquence

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Parent Issue
Day
20
Month
October
Year
1865
Copyright
Public Domain
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-We have often read patoetic speeches of Indian warri ors, but have een nothing more pathetic than the following, by a Camanche Chief, at the receut council at Fort Smitb, addressed to Col. Sells; " Brother, my shirt you see, is in rags. When I returu to my tribe and say to thern, I have been among friends,' they will not beliove rae, if Í return in this rapred shirt. My wife and daughter will ask, ' Whero ig the ualico your friends gave you ?' Brother, what shall I sav about this whtjn I return to my pertylé ?'' The nest Oougross will "fiicially proclaini thu tprritory of Colorado as the thirty ueveulh Stato in the Union. There are 5,000 acres on tbe shores and islands of Lake Erie devotud to the culture of the grape, 'J'he Catawba, Isabella, Delawaro and Concord re the principio vurieties. ïhis year's erop on 3,500 of the 5,000 acres will average 5,000 pounds to the aere, making it oue of the most profitablo crope rieed,

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Old News
Michigan Argus