Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1870-02-10


MEssRs EpIroRs IL am us you will perceive, |
Oh the Head of the Guadalupe, on which head too
much cannot be said. The country presents
dreamy appearance beneath the hasy sunshine OF
goriously beautiful day, for we have here. even
in January the most delightful weather imagin-
able. Vast mountains are seen on every side, and
lovely little vallies lie clasped in their embrace,
while at my feet drones the glad, sparkling wa
tiers OF the Guadalupe, US pure and cold as are the
streams of the far North
Ipromised yon, in my letter from Laredo, to
write you OF my visit to Monterey. Now failed
to keep my promise, first of all, because did moi
80 to Monterey, aud secondly, because have
been lifting about continually since last wrote
you, that have had no time TO write, and even
now, am employing stolen moments, and am
writing at the path-side (road there is nont) with
| a slab OF rock upon my knees for desk or table.
feel, to tell the truth, much more like sleeping
than writing; for was on the ''war trail oil
night, and then. the whole aspect of the scene Is
strongly suggestive of sletp that can scarcely
keep my eyelids from Yelling out the light OF
day. The country has literally been rocked to
sleep, if might Judge from the quantity of rocks
scattered about, but fancy your stony gaze will
not reihx into smile at my Joke, so geologically
speaking, ~ rock , nhes A., - rs,o.ou 49,,
threading numbcrlcss trails through endless
wastes OF chapparal, reached Mer, ON the night
OF the 18th. Micr is upon Mexican soil abou
two hundred miles above Matamnras. and il
chiefly remarkable as the scene of fearful suffer
ing ON the par of band Of 200 Texans, who ,nol
the place H. believe, 1872, and after achievins
u victory, surrendered 10 the Mexicans, who fo
two years after wards kept them in vatlnus horii
bic prisons, varying their torture by decimating
starving, and working them to death. portion
of the untortunatcs returned TO Texas some tim
prior to the Mexican war of annexation, and thei
recital OF horrible indignites, suffered ut III
hands Of their inhuman caplors, is still ntve
failing topic Of interest 10 those who listen 4
! their talts. have met several of these heroes
now "gaunt and gray" within the past year, an
, have ever listened with bated breath aud vii
eagerness to their narratives.
The moon lit up The ci y as entered It's narro'
q streets, and the white walls OF Mier CLEANED s.
lent and spectre-like through the still night nil
As entered the main pldzu TRIO Of cracke
. bells changed wi"rdly, and the hoarse shouts {
. the Mexic gaardds calling the hour smote harshl
upon my ear. Entering dimy lighted fond
. (hotcD had my holse cared for, and went t
y sleep, cpntending with numerous ileas for th
u possession OF my 'shake-dnwn."
Having visited Ceraloo, sixty miles TO the soutl
: ward, set out with two comrades, on the It'll
9 for San Autono-some 800 miles to the N. "
Our way was ACROSS q vast plain covered wit
!, every known variety of pricky tree, shrub {
II bush, and ranches were only to be fonnd al int
= walls of days ride Leaving the blue range of u
u Sierrns in our rear, we plunged on, II fert
II "northcr" conlesting our advance, vainl,
Six days we jourm yed, amusing ourselves
y times by hunting. Deer, antelope, coyotes, geel
u and ducks abouna,d. at night, seeking Il
" thicRest ut the chapparal we would wrap up
., our blankets, aud with the stars gemmiDg Il
ID blue canopy Of our triple couch, we would slet
10 as only men who lead wild, halfsavage live
can sleep.
n; From San Antonio, went to Austin. The
OF casting of the leather, spurs, and tinsel Of MtS
pe can costume, donned tho habillinents of cvi
VI zltiuu, and whired for II brief hour in the MAJ
u of the dance. 1t was brilliant affair at Il
Capitul-some eight hundred were present, ut
'Music arose with its vuluptuous swell" al
'All went merry as q marriage bell " / guz
upon my storm browped hands, and thought
M, the past weeks of wild riding and savage pleasui
" and wondered at the contrast. "Aladdin's lamp
ch | mutlered, and oLce more roaInud restless
us about the vast hal-a stranger alone in
,s that vast throng Of beauty and bravery. 7
women Of Austin are neutrality-suspicious. s
VI and II could only cease my wandering -prrha
en- but pshaw! here am ca-tle-huiding, the INT
he profless of all employments, unless one h
i, wealth and consequent leisure at his conman
~ and even then, to live, is better than to dream.
re On the 18Th | hud "pass" with despera
I'd nj Webberyille, sixteen miles below austin.
i, was bad 'un," but brought him 10 and tur
II ed him over TO The authorities to be dealt wit
MI and now am on another trail" with 'prt
~ w poet" ahead.
~ ~ BY my diary, find that since left the d.
moud State, n little less than n year since, ha
ro travelled ON horseback. $40 miles, by stage J.,
az miles, by railroad 51G0 milea, by steamboat al
ua ship 9l5 miles; tutll of l60 75 miles. Most
81 this has been within the limits Of Texas, where
~ horse Is the principal means of locomntion.
ns hope in May, ut The farthest, to again be at q
=, 40 home by the bright waters of the Delaware, III
-, :, how eagerly look forward to ihe day when
nv M. shall cease my waDderings, l cannot tell.
H. remain your own,
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