Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-06-13

take them alive. Several platoons are
first marched to the assault, their move
ment being sustained by the whole line,
which keeps up din by firing blank
cartridge and swivel guns loaded with
powder only. All take to fight now. as
the soldiers advance. Panic is the order
of this, when suddenly the fugitives
turn, for the marauder is near the cave
where the lion has hidden his whelps.
Ordinarily these negroes dwell in nuts
from their enemies, they dig holes in
the ground, at the bottom of which they
conceal that which they hold most
precious-their wives and children; and
it is to defend this treasure that they
now pluck up courage. With one hand
they dart their long, poisonous javelins,
holding their bucklers before them with
the other but the bullets find them
long before their assailants are within
reach of their uncertain weapons. So
enduring are they of pain, besides being
ignorent of the use of fire arms, that
they are often pierced with four or five
bullets before they fall. Taking up
handful of earth, they will rub the
bullet-wound with it, thinking that the
skin has merely been chafed off, and so
they fight on until they drop dead from
sheer loss of blood.
While the head Of the family is fight
ing, his wife and children encourage
him with their cries, and even assist
him by attacking the enemy with
stones but when he falls they give
themselves up without murmur, as if it
were hopeless to contend any longer
against destiny. Others fly with their
families and take refuge in their bur-
rows; and here the skill of the hunter
is displayed in the methods by which
he unearths them, some smoking them
OIL while others will discharge into the
b. row . gun loaded with red pepper,
nich half suffocates the negroes, and
compels them to rush blindly forth,
when they are at once seized and put
in irons. Should the explosion fail in
bringing any of the fugitives out, the
they know what has happened in that
one. The mother has suffocated her
children, the father has killed her and
then himself.
As the prisoners are drawn away, the
attachment to soil and to family, SO
strong among the African races, is strik-
inglT manifested by them. Some,
grasping their feet with their hands, re-
fuse TO rise. Others, bracing themselves
agalns, trees, resist with all their might,
or, entwining themselves with their
wives and children, form knots which
nothing short of the sword can unite.
But the soldiers have ways and means
OF rendering all such resistance futile,
for they have anticipated it. The ne
groes who are the hardest to deal with
are yoked by the legs to horses, and
thus dragged away from their village,
through brambles and over the rocks.
Half hayed, bloody and disfgured from
this treatment, and sometimes with their
limbs broken, it yet happens that some
OF them will not yield, in which case
they are shot, there being no further
use for them.
The hunt over, FIVE or six of the
prisoners are fastened to one chain, the
neck beng attached to it by strong
iron ring fastened with paddock, and
Their hands are fastened behind with
palm-leaf cords. And now a marked
change takes place in the conduct of
the captors. TO carnage, fire, wounds,
and all manner of savage barbarities,
the most tender care and COM
passion that is absolutely touching. If
an aged man is so enfeebled that he
walks with difficulty, they place him on
a litter or on camel, reviving him with
cordial drinks. Time is given to the
women to supply nsurishment to their
infants; the wounded are assisted in
their wounds, and provisions
In abundance are dealt out to all, for
the captors are bound to carry their
prisoners to the cities alive.