Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1869-06-24

FLIGHT AND ESCAPE.
GoLrAD, TEXAS, June 8.-Goliad name fraught
with memories of the past-btter, black, mur-
derous memories. The ancient crumbling walls
tell the story Of ruin, and the dropping trees
moan forth the requiem of the fallen. Beneath
the sod on the banks Of the sluggish San Antonia
sleep, Ia the chill embrace OF death, FANNIN,
and his fated four hundred, clasped to the cold
bosom of mother earth. Meath theemeral sod Of
the prairie they sleep, without stone to mark
their last resting place. and their memory fadcth
from the thoughts of men. Yet they have not
died In vain, for their blood-bought heritage is
to-day the home of those for whom they fell.
have wandered over the country hereabouts,
and have revelled in the beauty of nature-in her
most intoxicating lovliness. Limitess prairies
curving lines seem exquisite in their proportions,
and long, serpentine lines Of live-oaks draped
with swaying Spanish moss, meet the eye at
every turn. NOTES and solitary trees everywhere,
and the golden light of summer over all, while
the aromatic breeze bears stlessly along, the cry
of The shrlke, and the changeful note of the
mocking bird Is 1t q wonder that gaze through
half-closed eyes at such scene of enchantment,
and permit my horse to crop away at the grass,
while rccline meath the old oaks shade? But
look here comes a specimen Of the genus homo
rather ou,re, even in this land of queer concets
and oddities. Mouutcd on "caico" pony, or
:. poi,t,, bors. of MINGLED rod white and back.
not, nt the outside, above twelve hands In hight,
the approaching rider reminds one of pair OF
frc-tougs astride of ack-rabiti for the afore-
SAID Individual cannot DC ihuch ICES 'na Six ieet
six, II not more in personal altitude. Aud his
legs work about like the arms of a gigantic
,,,;.s,,,, ,,,;o,, t rosor,t,o, o,so no r,ov nor-
winu"'iii, "nich he ieeeihoie' "i'o' 10 'na5 Po'-
haps yet be seen, In another Important particular
And such clothes-they are-well, not ''store
oI,,h.s y ot all evopts yorv mpch douht
eo'n.'' ~ .i
whether anything iess than a careiui chehiicai
analysis would determine the constituent elc-
mcnts tf thosp cloze.o Int grease mud,
- -. .. -, .,.,
patches anu hoies, fcehi Pie'y "eh eonoinou
and In about equal proportions. And those spurs
be ,vilaptiv seizud the sunr of n mountain for
c. ,."-,.,.s - 49,. - as
e"en i'o'' "''u ouen''" '"s., on-o" s"' 'p'' ",
the moment or rather, on his feet.
with n fierce shake of the spurs aforesaid, a
terrible dangling OF those legs encased iu those
saver .,n,wm init Iov,l lrnp,iel boots he IL unnn
me A Wild whoa! pIul darn We - a Dull
nnon The uarticolorcd rcius of hair. and The
rider the savage. The devil. is at hand. "IIow
a, ". onmc an Stranger: seen npytbin' of n stray
hoss-braud-a .auare and triangle connected,
nn Tho ,ivht shouldpr npd n circle and cross on
I'm hio--Iost him outen INV cnridrd this morpin-
hrs n nl.pupy good horse-lhis one I'm on Is
dcvil thnuyh-trivp twenty dollars for him on the
No. ), H''s '"N''' ~
n,;id,, suggosted tb,. thoupht The dcvil
cxistnd in ,bc nerson of ihe rider. Which brought
ont sons,hinp between horse-laugh aud The
val or n steam whistle. nj which tho "caljco'
yam sSar,v H hack ward and commencsd series of
yn,,iins dcsioned IN destroy lbe c,,,lilibrun of
,ho ,,i1r mi In this ,he h,rs.. I,l.d miserable
far owin,, IN he ereat weishf oi the horsemans !
hnots npd .,'nrs and the Sisi,nce brlow bis
oan'r, az ,riviiy he was moi to be tbrown. A
vigorons nnnlicuiion Of ouirt. (wbip) spurs and
hn,d wo,ds with nm admonition TO "dry up yer
dorn i,,,iishnn.s souiui.yet ~ nrodueed aston
i.h,ny rrs,,,t. far the pony now became fatigued
and s,,a, naarI,, rnnn;py AVER is ynur corresnnn-
dau, !, haca.,.. on;st
/ n,,,id .';vs nv y,,o INNS M inflammation In
ro.,,rd ~ III n,;ss;nu horse bnt hc dismounted
anT W., had n chat He nrovpd 10 he live Yankee
who had heen ir,nsnlsnied nrior 10 the late war.
into Tsx,n soil , and he wns now. he told me. 4
.,darn'd siyht richer than be ever could have been
in did Vermont And this man had received a
Grst class roIleUe education had been refined nnd
even rnssed Ms n poshed man of the world, prior
to hi. arrival in Texas. When n few hours had
passed he recovered his old ways, and dropping
his barbarous mode OF expression, became, to my
turprise an agreeable companion, and excellent
cnniuany .1,nc ,nnst become n thorouph Teyan
to In anvtbino here snid he 0aud then stock
raiser SION h,comes n dumi-sayape. 1 hold The
iir to he sayarcly glorious. one so enjoys the
lnxnriolIs sense Of perfect fieedom from all re-
sIraint."
/ remaincd at his rancho two days, and never
enioycd mysrlf better in my life than when scour-
luz at full speed over the prairie in pursuit OF
mule-eared rabbits and coyotes, or III chase of
horses or cattle.
rhe morn,nr of nv departure neighbor
..came in" (he lived four miles away and re-
ported tba, ihc hail had cut his cotton 10 pieces,
and seriously damaged his corn during the past
pipbt. Ne mentioned that rain only, and not
mnch of thnt had fallen in our yi.inity. and he
moi very prnciously suggested that our rioximlty
to Pnty,'s domnins was such. that the hail melted
hefnr,. il st,nck the earth. of course his lam
.,nn,,e yvas MI nj the most elegant character but
il was forcibl.. to nm extreme degree.
the morning of the 4th / had d little adventure
n, tho Clcto about dftv mile, North west of