Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1852-09-16

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"Thi nix, my dear L said |,
in a whisper; ''do not act rashly."
"Rashlyl there is no rashness about
me--ybu know that. A cowardly
act like this canno be revenged too
soon. Revengel what am | talking
of? III is not re yenge, but justice.
The men who could perpetrate this
fiendish deed are not fit to live on
the ear rth, and, by heavens! not one
Of them shall be alive by morning
Come, friendsl co mgr And SO say
ing, L = led theIway. holding his
betrotH ed by the hand. We all fol
lowed q ut Of the room, and into the
street.
On reaching the Alameda group
of dark objects was seen among the
trees. They wer horses and horse
men Ilbout thirty of the latter, and
enough of the fo ormer to mount the
party Who were with L. saw
from their size that the horses were
Of our own troop 5, with dragoonl sad
dies. ln the hurry L had not
thought of saddles for our female
compa4i hons; but the oversight was
of no eanseouenee Their habitual
mode of riding " as a Ia Duchess de
Ber74, and in this way they mounted
Before su ummoning me, L bad
organized his ba nd-they we're pick
ed men In the dim light | could
see drd goo and infantry uniforms,
men id plain clothes, followers of the
army, gamblers, teamsters, Texans,
desperh hdo oes, ready for just such an
adventure. Here and there | could
distinguish the long-tailed frock-
the uh| |lress OF the officer. The
band ID all must cred over forty men.
We erode quietly through the
streets, and, hing from the gate Of
Nino Perdido, to ok the road for San
Angel, As soon as our divisioh b
had evacuated, a mob of thirty or
forty ruf1ins had proceeded to The
houses of those whom they termed
"Ayankeeados,p and glutted their
cowardIy yengeance 0 b their unfor-
tunaate victims. Some Of these haH b
been actually xii led in attempting tp
resist; EotherS had escaped to the
Pedregal, which runs close to the
village;while a few RaEIela among
the nqnber-after submitting to a
terrible atrocity, had fled to the city
for projection.
On hearing the details Of these
horrid scenes, no longer felt re-
pugnance in accompanying my friend.
L felt as eydid, that men capable Of
such deeds were not Hiit to live," and
we were proceeding to execute a sem
tence that was just, though Illegal.
IT was not orr intention to punish
all: we could not have accomplished
this, had we so willed it. BY the
testimony of the girls, there were
five or six who had been the promo
tiers and ringleaders of the whole
business. These were well known
to one or other of the victims, as IN
most instances it had been some old
grudge for which they had been sin
gled out as objects Of this cowardly
vengeance. In RaEaela's case it was
a rullian who had d once aspired to her
hand, and been rejected. Jealousy
had moved the hend to his terrible
revenge.
tits three leagues from Mexico to
San Angel. The road runs through
meadows ard fe Ids of magueys. Ex-
cept the lone pnlquer3a, at the corner
where a cross path leads to the ha-
cienda of Navarte, there is not a
house before re eaching the bridge Of
Covoaean. Here there is cluster
of buildings iabrlcas u that, du-
ring the stay of our army, had been
ID
occupied by regiment. Before ar
irving at this p3iut we saw no one;
and here only people who, walked
from their sleep by the tread Of cur
horses, had not the curiosity to fol-
low us.
San Angel is mile further up the
hill. Before en- tering the village, we
divided into fv G parties, each to be
guided bv one OF the girls. L-s S
vengeance was especially directed to-
words the ci deeah lover OF his be-
trothed. She herself, knowing his
residence, was to be our guide.
Proceeding through narrow lanes
we arrived in a suburb of the village,
and halted beior e a house OF rather