New-York daily tribune., 1861-06-09
opermouthed, and said with knowing, nct-'o-ee-pcf-
down air: I H. 'f "
"Wan, guess, captain, you are winding Of hef

lar from the wheel. Ii occurred 10 hls satacos
mind thar il was the man the wheel who canscd ne
motion Of the vessel and hs Inconvenience; but ne
daren move SO he held on TO rore with ono hand,
shakiDg the other at the helmsman ana crying o''i
Oh If conld only get at hiu d soon zap Ms inier-
nal clore for him - And after this episode uos re-
turned TO the Indians by telling that he had net
several ladies at Hewston who had been seailtu oy
the Indians, but who had since recovered ana h'"
wore wigs.
"If they had only wore them before!' / said and
told Amos the fine old story Of the Indian going 70
scalp the old officer, and bIs wig ing OIL ana 'ne
Indians astonishment, and the officers enormous ad-
vantage.
"Lord gracious p was Anos's constant exclamation
to express pleasure and surprise.
As lne sturdy sailor in blue JeIfey, itiing ciose
az a coat OF mall passed to take hls "lri:k at ths
wheel, we ask him when we shall be off the Banks
And re tells us the fogs will commence in PROBABLY
about thirty hours If the wind holds west -sou west.
40 Lord " says A nos " how tired am of tAlng
eoot ed up in this darned vessel; how long for ~
lop on the Brazos perary
Now fresh talk about the Indians Amos descDes
the Comsnches who are the special foes OF the Texan
settlers as fine stslwart men, though OFTEN 0andy-
legged from riding rather nsrrow across the
back and sometimes slim in form. lhey pant their
faces vermilon when Oh war party, ana looh dc rsy
as the devil does in taii-coat, SAID AMOS lnyy
were skiIlfol tbrowers of the touahawk, ana cou,1
split a mans skull with their axes az BOY wouia
crack hickory nut. Their howl was unearthiyL-n III
was something between q bull roar snd q woa
arrow at twenty OF thirty yarcs lie Dau seen l,e.
arrows 80 plump through horses neck for they shoe
very stroIgl; and they had way OF swinging GOWN
unGer their horses belly and firing from there, leaving
ouly the ton of the kuee for stranger 20 IRE a.
They would let the Yankees go, but they never gave
n Texan quarter and hated him worse than the fevli
hates holy water. They luckily had no revolvers
yet among them, except those they l1o taSeh
in war and kept hung around thelr hecKh ar
ornaments not knowing how to use them. buI
what skeared the Texans was, the fear that some
darned Yab kee runway would get among the INDIANS
and just TO get buffalo robes out OF them 20 hu 'el
Them how to use the ryoyers. Je-rewsalein! now
they would larrop him II they did catch such ft How
When the ak shooters rst used against the 20
ma,,c. ees they were kinder skeared yeo-sure they
were that They told the Yankee that now wien ,9ey
met Texan Ranger and he had used hs bowie-kniie,
and emptied biz rife and tney thought ne was reaoy
for wplnQ out he pulled out pocketknlfe ana hred
of Fix lines and they supposed II they nad turned Ic
bor,es he wonld have pulled out comb or something
ese-perhaps tobacco-bo1-apd hred OH ""' NA
timee II,
Here the fret mate passed on his way TO put up the
card with our days marked On It IN the out
side door Of the grand saloon we hah run twV
hundred and fty -four miles since yesterday. IL
we wet ON ike that we would be of the Banks Sun
Some accidental remark Of mine brought out some
6pe traits ii Amos character. he wss such gener-
ous extoll.r of bic young brother
Whan the Indians sent MP their smokes no Kan
ger poed on his red SHIRT aud got his pannlkin ana
bullets together smarter than lchabod, ana St rongh
and-tumbIe tight where . tile gouging vas gong
round he was regular snoter, that's true for u ever
there was a lad raile grit, IL was Icbsbod As for
ba,.roOm fuss when there shots round me alluded
70 "a fair general Tight, that child was all tharIy.s
sure-und had no fear about bim OF lpluDs thsn
tree toad has want Of sdeI ket. In only Que hng
he had to stop bn aud that wss playing al monte WIZ
Snaniards for drink. For ii no ost bis daDder was
sre 10 rise and then there awkward mes in the
house Sure ut corp-shuckirgr musses, and camp
meetings, there never was such iad-lnhoSsnt as az
mad dov but hen he did Q, once got kinder mad,
he rose thunder. Yes, he did that.
Ii va, to me very easant to look on the grea blue
most that still severed me from America 10 hear Amos
rampe on about life ~ild and 90 new W me. NOW
be broke into scrap Of Of the Texan Ranger war
songs;
"op our M mu,tsuss gay we took our way
With the Rangers merry band ,.a
And our csDPhIs. sho,s, " hen We sHh ID" gone
rh,ourh the Iadisn pass. OF tho peraIy grSs,
BY our hres We ehrsIih "epsi
IRE day bssaD esch TeraD man,
On his mustang gray had iesf
Then the trail al pisht, and a; slndo~n hghr
We halt Ranger band,
H14 a the the Rsafy RSsn S'i se Il o s'; arsni.
Nor was this sopg though the wretched doggrel from
some penny American soDgbOok, at all too highnown
for Amor who, like most Texsns was rather fond OF
sentiment and would talk Of The Lone Star, the
them of Texas, TOR hours.
But what Amos particularly delighted 10 dwell upon
was Icuabod's first 9gbt with the Indians. He
watched him very close as he rode among the i,ea
Shirts and the Indians came on whoo iDg, tossing
their f.atl.red heads and wbitling IN their arrows
He saw Icbabod turn very white, and the neat mo-
ment be was in among them. Three Conan hes besei
him. but be kll,d two OF them and The third turned
tail "Lordee, was as proud as julius Cssar that
dsy" sid Amos, bis eyes sparkling. AMI " as for
ny,eH" continued Amos . i was ku,der broken IN to
fighting for lad been in usses ut San Antonio among
tie Gre where the clicking Of tue knives opening
n @l.aka
reglar lessons 10 the kBiicscboo Of ST Lon's where
once saw two Frenctmen fight for bali an hour With
bowie-kuives--cut and pary-and all tile h,rm done
was that one Of them LIST LIE little finger by clean
sla,h and the other bit fret mans thumb OIL after
missing gougiug him. Here Amos became reflective
aud regretu beiog many hundred miles from this
same 81. Louis and sang,
"Beasn'ul stsr. in the bssvenss 40 bright"
10 tho sailors great enjoyment. Ending this, he
asked me abruptly If bad money down on the match
between the bang Tailed gray and Flora Tenn 10, On
Tuesday week on Lorg Island. Here he gave me a
stssdy look, the result Of vii bis crafty sniie
seemed to imply was not complimentary a. TO my
sharpness, and said -
self up about the Yankees Going TO see the
elephant, aud talk to Barnum. Now, blue Flew
iens! il yOu don keep your weather eve open,
In be darned If they wont draw yonr eye-eein and
make you pay for putting them in again. wouldn't
give an old corn-cob for your chance among the
s-es Come down and have some bufao shooting
with us in Texas; we then 20 out good party and
have rare fun in the per1lires. ten you how and
Ichabod mean ~ hx IL shal make straight tracks
for Memphis, directly get to the Empire City; wa
then At Mephi 81 al buy two strong horses, send
on our chest ny wagon, put thetrars We want IN sad
e-bags, and make Ice line for Chspol.hil, Wash-
pgton County, Texas"
Mrmpbis was pia / had taken a dieise TO; not
unreas sonable one, think. The Impression l formed
from the wharf-keeper IN that city, ~ho was Amos
great friend at cards and who wss always eulogzine
the absent Mississippi CT y His sole amusement al
Memphis when wharfkeeliDg, seemed To have been
shooting at waterra.s with pifto or watching dead
| odies hoat down the vast muddy river Sometimes