Weekly hawk-eye and telegraph. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1855-1857, 1857-01-07
A ThriIIing Incidens,

The tragedy Of Nacogdoches, and the roman
tic incidents which led to the Texan War OF
Independence, find their parallel only in the
Roman history Of Lncretia and the elder Bru-
tns.
Juan Costa was person of Influence and
hrayefy 10 The wild Forest but be fell ui4der the
displeasare OF Santa Anna, and his minion.-
pedraa, the eommandanlant OF Saeogdoches,
was sent to arrest him. He arrested the father
at the supper table, attended by his only daagh-
ter, young lady Of surprising beauty aud in
teiiigence. lie loaded him niih CHAINS and cast
hin, into prison, notwithstanding her tears aid
en;redties Finally be proposed to free the
father If the daughter would consent to sscra-
flee her innocence and honor. She.reiected the
!. Infamous proposal with blow in the face. The
armed rriisian ssorc horrible Oath to execute
his will on them both
With dark eyes, fearless, fixed as those Of
corpse, vet flashing double portion of lniuir-
Gus lire, she mounted horse and hurried wildly
ibroagh the country.
She halted at every house, no matter whether
Mexican or American, and rehearsed, in tones
of thrilling horror, her fathers wrongs and her
own.
All timid modesty, all weakness had vanished
| from her tongue, utterly Consumed by the
| seorching thirst for vengeance. She painted, in
| PASSIONS fiery language, and with awful minute
| ness the fact OF the damning deed She barred
! her virgin bosom, aud showed the liyid marks oil
| the ravishef's fingers among the azure VEINS
4 along the surface OF snow, now SO polluted
1 and soiled, but before as pure as the gieam
1 OF an angels wing.
And still, wherever the beautiful maid wan
/ dered, deafening yell OF wrath and vengeance
| rose up against the tyrants. The people of both
| races and all classes few to arms, appointing a
f. ek<,1 fth nf I'll
1 residence OF the absent and now imprisoned
| Juan Costa.
/ 1t was there debated by the people the mode
! of attack, and who should be their leader, but
nothing being agreed on the whole assemblage
| babe fair to break up in confusion, when tall
and powerful built stranger, who had just enter
ed Texas from the States, came forward and ad-
| dressed the multitude:
81 am stranger, but also man, and owe
| my life, soul, body, health and happiness, ALL
all to woman--to my mother land if turn a
deaf ear to the prayers OF an innocent woman,
| asking my aid against villain, may both my
| mother and my God curse me! Ii you stay be-
hind / 60 Tor one to fight Pedras, and his armed
ravshers of your wives and daughters"
/ The speech was received with tremendous
cheers, and a general shout, that seemed to
shake the solid earth, uttered the first peel OF
the revolution.
ave will go! Death to the tyrants! Free.
dom for Texas, and the giant shall be our
eader!"
And then for the first time was heard in the
land OF the wild, the name destined to become
an echo to the pulsation Of all heat the maine
| of Thomas j. Rusk.
i The next day he led his raw recruits to the
attack Of Nacogdoches, and stormed every po
siton against immense odds after assault OF
four hours, the carnage being dreadful on
both sides. Fortunately among the slain was
the dead body of the atrocious villain, Pedras
Such vas the debut OF Rusk in Texas, and
from that day his popularity has gone on stead
lily increasing, without even a transitory eclipse
or even SO much as cloud TO dim its spendor
III vain for three years Gen Cos demanded hi;
arrest. Mexico had not soldiers enough to take
him, and in 1866 he assisted to chase the last
Of these out of the country. Afterwards he
amassed fortune at the Texan Bar, and wa.
chosen one of the first Senators of the new
State Annexed place which he may hold to'
f lille, if he wills it.