| Show was tecuma li skinned in november 1852 the present writer met at mibs mias an old gentleman named elkin a participant in tle tre battle of the thames from whom he tle heard beard some accounts of that action which he had bad never met in print As for the atory of col johnson killing tecumseh mr elkin Eikin said it was commonly mr aly reported and not questioned at the time he himself was in another part of the eliga engagement gement being under col james johnson who broke the british line on the right while his brother engaged the Indi indians atis ails on the left ur mr elkin informed us that the day after the battle battie the troops were matched out by companies to gratify their curiosity by visiting the scene that precaution being adopted to guard against possible danger from lurking ind indians mus nus hla his company was me tile first that reached the ground where tecumseh fell and they found his body from the back of which razor straps strap that was his expression had been cut the company composed chiefly or of relatives of the men inen who had been slaughtered at the river balsin kalain in that massacre to which had bad put a stop at the risk of his own manifested life great indignation at this barbarous treatment of the body of a magnanimous foe their passion finding vent in their teara and curses and threats of vengeance egal agai against the authors of the indignity whether from shame or fear no exhibition was ever made of the disgraceful trophies nor had he ever heard of their existence during tile tiie almost forty years which bad had since elapsed fr lal lai our recollection ot of the manner and circumstances of the narration we are satisfied saus tied that this is a much more correct version anan that which cepres enta the body to have been skinned rhe phe incident of the indian prisoner prisoners ts is absurd as everybody will understand who knows what indian fighting war wms in those days lays and that batia hatla Is probably not the only fiction which has been interwoven in the story etory as it has pm paa ed from mouth to mouth we think ur mr elkin eikin said that on the morning after h he haw the body undy it had disappeared mobile regester register the new york 14 post tells us that old sailors are never lever so BO much at sea as when whon they are ashore 11 upon which the louisville courier journal remarks thad that in this they thoy are somewhat like henpecked hua hub husbands bands who are never so BO much at homo us as when they i are abroad |
