The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-03-22

goatee, and a beard graceful ia shape,
but too thih-to look very black. His
face slopes from the cheek-bones to
the tip of his goatee, SO as to give
him the Southern American contour
of physiognomy; but it is lighted
with eyes of different color, eyes of
a grayish hazel, at times appearing
light blue, with drop of brown in
them, but in agitation dilating, dark
ening, and although never quite los
ing the appearance of a smile,- yet in
action it is a smile of a deyilish~ ma
ture. His forehead is good and his
face and expression refined-remark-
ably Sd, considering his mixed race,
want of education, and long career of
lawlessness. e.-,.l
LowERY PHYSICALLY.
To match his face the outlaws body
is of mixed strength and beauty. 1t
is well knit, wiry, straight i'll the
shoulders and limbs, without a ply
steal flaw in it, and as one said TO Inc
who had known him well since child
hood, .'He is like trap ball, elastic
ali over.p He has feet which, would
be noticeable anywhere, pointed and
with archlng instep, so that he can
wear a very shapely boot, and his eX-
tremities, like his features, indicate
nothing of a negro. A good chest,
long bones, suppleness, proportion,
make his walk and form pleasing to
see. He is negligent about his dress,
but his cloths become him and never
disparage him. People have told me
that he wears fine clothes; but, when
questioned to the point of re-exami-
nation, admitted that lie had nothing
on but a wooden blouse and trousers
and a black, wide-brimmed, stiff
wooden hat. 454sfs ,2
He can run like deer, swim, stand
weeks of exposure in the swamps and
forest, walk day and night, and take
sleep by little snatches, which in a
few days would tire out white or
negro. Although tippler, he was
never known to be drunk-a fact not
to be fully asserted of his confederates.
Brought suddenly at bay, he is OBJ
served to wear that light, fiendish,
enjoying smile which shows nature
at its depths savage, predatory, and
IL.
for the past nine years, within re-
gion of twelve or ii teen miles square,
against County, State Confederate
and United States authorities, alter
nately or unitedly, is justification for
the terror apparent in the faces of all
the white people within those limits.
Lowery's band gives more concern
to the CarOlinas than did Cartoons
Legion ninety years ago.
HIS BLOOD AND VACCINATIONS.
The three natures of white, Indian
and negro are, however, seen at utter
walls, TO come forward in his outlaw.
nature. The negro trace is in his low
of rude music. He is banjo player
and when the periodical hunt for hin
is done he repairs to some one of the
huts In Scuffietown and plays to tn,
dancing of the mulatto girls and hi
companions by the hour, his belt o
arms unslung and thrown at his feet
the peaceable part Of the audienc,
taking part, with mixed wonder, de
light and apprehension. Several time.
this banjo has nearly betrayed him t.
his pursuers. Sheriff Mcmillan de
scribed himself and posse once lying
out all night in the swamp and timbe
around Lowery's cabin to wait for hin
to come forth at daylight. "And,
said be, "that banjo was just everlast
ingly drumming, and We could hea
the laughter and juba beating nearly
the whole night long, r.r.,...
THE MULATTo sARDANAPAULUS.
The licentiousness of Lowery is suf
ficient to the noticeable, but while j
never engages him to the exclusion o
vigilance and activity, it also shows
what may be traced in some degree t.
his Indian nature-the using of womer
as an auxiliary to war and plumber. ii,
has debauched a number of his pris
oners with the mulattO girls of Scuffie
town, and the charms of these yellow
tinted syrens broke up the morale o
the late campaign in force against The
outlaws, while, as some ailege, Ia,
discovery of the detective Landers' plar
tocapture Lowery was made by a girl il
Lowery's interest with whom Lander:
spent his time. Lowery has said, anC
laughed over it, that he devised at 6
| critical point in a truce between the
contending parties that bevy of thu
prettiest and trsilest beauties i'm Scuffie
town should come up and be intro
duced to one of the officers high ii
command. After that the Mare An
tony in question laid down his sword
and gave practical evidence that the
hostility of races is not so great as the
slavery statesmen alleged. The in
differencesof the Indian to the loan q
squaws finds some parallel in LOwery':
tactics. He himself is the Don Juan
of Scuffietown; but he sleeps on hi.
arms, and will go into the swamps fo
weeks without repining. Women hav'
been employed to give him up bu
they either repent or he discover
their purpose by intuitive sagscity.
GLIMPSE At MADAME LowERY.
As l rode down on the train from
Shoe Heel TO Lumberton, on the 2Stf
of February, the conductor, COlone
Morrison, came to me and said 81
you want to see Henry Berry Lowery's
wife you can find her in the forward
second-class car" She had taken the
train al Red Banks for Moss Neck
points between which the whole
band of outlaws frequently ride on the
freight trains-and at the Latter no
table station. i saw her descend with
her baby and walk off down the road
i'm the woods and stop there among
the tall pitch pines, as if waiting fol
somebody. The baby-lhe last he'll
of outlawry-began to cry as she left
the train, and she said, mother
fashion: "No, DO, no, wouldn',
cry, when l had been so good all day.
This woman is the sister of two of the
remaining outlaws and wife Of the
third. The whites call her satirically
"the queen of Scuffietown )" but she
appeared to be meek. pretty-eyed,
rather shrinking girl of very light
color, poorly dressed. She wore many
small brass rings, with cheap red
stones in them, on her small hands,
and dark green plaid dress of muslin
delaine, which just revealed her new
Morocco "store" shoes. A yellOwish
muslin or calico hood, with long
cape, covering her head, and there
was nothing besides that 1 remember
except a shawl of bright colors much
worn. 1t was sad enough and prosaic
enough to see this small woman with
her baby in her arms, carrying it
along while the husband and father,
covered with the blood of fifteen muir.
| Cers. roamed the woods like a Semi