The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1872-01-26

make 4 long story short. they carried
me with them up 10 the lnountaiilS.
/ They danced around me-. sung and
PLAYED on the tomtonis sliearB all
night and to wind up they c0k 5ff any
hair aud commercsd to cat silIl my
face or TO what ypu may cal 1t, TO
tattoo me. oliacted so strongly TINT
they stoppod it, but they managed to
put a brass ring through my nose.
This twmp during my ten years. caf's
tivity. was made a warrior, and
went ont with them Oh all their war
and mauraudius expeditions aerossthe
Mexican border, and several times
came near losing my life while fight
ing the Apaches aud Pawnces. All
told, my body hears seyenteeilebullet
and arrow >wouuds.n Removing lis
boots, the Captain exhibited to there
porter five burk-sl0t ''inde1t,ues" HI
the right leg, and three or four gun
shot and arrow wounds IN his left limb.
Il remained with the redskins two
years before | was made 4 Warrior.
.ibont six months after this event,
while lmAing alone in the mountains
of Lower SOFA, heard the break
inas0f 4 twig not far from where | was
standing. | cooked my rifle, thinking
it might be a cinnamon be;lr. | did
not hear the sound again, but Instead
saw a biz Pawnee warrior vino stood
partly concealed in clump of cliapa-
raj about 200 yards distant. We look
cd at each other fully five minutes
without drawing bead; suddenly he
raised his gun and fired at me without
taking aim. | jumped to tlie right
and escaped, still keeping my eye Oh
the Pawllee; he todged around, but |
soon let him have 1t sI,elre In the head
and scilped hin. When nearing the
lodges rot two ash poles and stuck
the ends Of each into tl9 ears Of the
scalp-it's the style ofthe Comancles
TO take ears and all-and marched into
camp.
Five minutes later seven hundred
warriors, headed BY Old Wolf whom
the United states soldiers and Mexi-
cans wen know to their sorIOw, sur
me, aud such shaking Of
hands and lnlgging Ineyer experienced
before. The chief the next morning,
gave me his thinl daughter as a brid@
liy cur marriage | have seven chill
llen.n "Wheip are they now - que
ried the reporter. ''Oh, they're ruiz
hing wild on the Pains," replied the
Captain, langhingly. lie said that in
he Fall oflS47, after numerous fights
With the United States soldiers, during
which he tried to escape, rather dllbi-
rus, the Comanehes concluded to sell
lin and another white prisoner named
iirker. Thus, after ten years Of elp-
iyity, he was tlken to Fort Bent, and
vas sold to Col. Sumner, of the Sixth
.ayalry. The Captain was rlnsOnled
or six yards Of red flannel, one pound
'ftobacco, and u stringOf beads. KRIS
# WAS sold for eight yards of curtain
.Alico anda pound Of common Missouri
obacco. After being rlnsometl, the
1aptain sought the home of his youth;
mt all OF his relatives had removed,
md, heartbrnken. he retraoed bis steps |
md made his way iuto Mexico, where
ie joined Placida La Vega In bis war
lgainst the Church Party. At the con-
fusion he made his way to chihuahua,
md was employed by Gov. Anglestres
o fight 1.-THE Apacles at the rate Of $40
ler scalp. Withthirty Mexicans, dur
ng six months, they raised ninety
'calps. Becoming disgusted with the
he again cast his fortunes
with Old Wolf ard the Comanclles.
lie continued fighting with them two
or three wears against other tribes.
md when the French invaded Mexico
he repaired to Chihuahua and was
madc a Lieutenant in the Liberal
lrnly by Benito Juarez, and partici- |
Datetl in the battles of Los Membres, |
Mazatalan, Zipiek. Santiago, Esq,lan-
ito, Sierra Aleger and various Others, |
lown to Queretaro. when Maximilian
surrendered. At the close of the war |
&c again visited his Indian home, and,
growing tired of that species of exist
nee. determined to live in the future
mong civilized people. His faith,
lowever, in humanity has been terri
,ly shaken since he has been In Goth
IN, as he lost $50 in greenbacks at u
'lace of public amusement few even
ngs since, he has changed his mind
onsitlerably. lie speaks ilueiitly the
ialects of seven different tribes--Csls-
lillian and half Montezunla, the Ian
mage of Northern and New Mexico
nd Sonora. He is probably the only 1
fhite man that can aid the historian
h tlanslating them.