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Show OW DUCHESNE LETTER. ; 6 - dressed in their squaws, gives the following account of Issue day for the Utes in Uintah, on the entitled 17 th. v THE UINTA MS' HAPPY DA Y. - Saturday, 0:t. 17 th,, at the Uintah Agency, 13 miles distant from Fort Duchesne Utah, afforded much pleasure to visitors there, among whom were Liutenant and Mrs. Hearn and their three boys and Captain BradlIssue day, ey of the army. 1 In'view of the opportunity offered by a charming Indian summer day, a vast number of Indian dudes and dusky maidens turned out in full regalia. Their faces were artistically decorated m red, yellow, green, or mixed hues of attractive brightness. They, were frayed in gorgeous "colored blankets, heads, ribbons, and feathers together Wldi glistening bracelets, girdles, breast plates, ear rings, and dangling tiny mirror-;all dazzling, ,as their wearers . . : , moved hither and beams of mid-da- y thither reflecting the sunlight, as it smiled tlP.on them, ,and their main promenade understood to be White Rock Aven- In j Hie eld t r dames, vulgerly called 1 paraded with their pappooses snugly ensconced withclothes, ng go-to-meeti- Capt. Bradley Sunday- - in wicker-wor- k ed fancy colored baskets with back boards to straighten out the little tots . These baskets were sus- pended from straps, which, in transit, are ordinarily worn around the brow to carry the basket on one's back, are looped ovtr a saddle pummel for a change, or are wrapped around a wooden peg Inserted in elevated places where.- the basket is so disposed of as to undisturb the sleeping innocent The matrons filed into the subsistence storehouse, in postoffice order, and presented their tickets, respectively in a most solemn busing like manner. A clerkly interpreter, with one foot resting on a huge flour bin, examined the ticket, and announced a namer and number, as one, two, three, and so on. Another clerk made an entry at a desk near by and verified the ticket, perchance, while a great big good na- inred looking Indian, in civilized dress, (exceptr bright bracelets on his wrists and two great eagle feathers in his hat,) thrust a bright scoop into the bin of flour and lifted it out, emptying it into a sack held hy the matron in turn,o the number of measures for each being as signified by the annouucement of the ticket ex aminer. -- -- . |