Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 March 1859 — Untitled [ARTICLE]

Scene in the Wisconsin Legislature.The Madison correspondent of the Milwaukee Neirs thus writes: “This afternoon after the Assembly had adjourned, an old Indian came into the hall and looked around, nodded to the members, shook hands with the reporters and clerks; and wandered up to the Speaker’s stand. Taking up gave] he looked at it carefully, struck a blow with it on the Speaker’s desk and listened. The echo evidently pleased him, for he struck two or three more blows, then commenced a regular war dance, keepr ing time to his step with the new ‘war club.’ The members cheered, and for ten minutes the old fellow kept up his aboriginal exercise, and only stopped when too tired to keep up hie youthful pastime/’