The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-03-21

from Western Carolina to ScufHetOWn
and took DIP WITH Iona fof the Z fit64wreey ey
wbheni sItIhiB generation they are
legitimate 'Bossii Strong ,isd nsaily
white; his dark, short cutphair has,a
reddish tinga, and diia slightlyacurling;
O. thick down 'appeafs Oh. his'lipi ada
temples, but otherwise heis beafdless;
he has that blieisha eye 30 freaueYtlY
seen among tie Scaf1e ttonians. and Is
is mild and ,pleqsingi but the demon
is always near at hand when Henry
Berry Lowroy desires it to appear; !;
and then the very heavy, black eye
brows Of the boy, which nearly meet
over the bridge Of his nose, give him
a dogged, determined look, which
many c man has seen to his cost.
Boss Strong is plastic material in the
hands of his brother-in-law and next
to that leader, is commonly regarded
as the worst Of the party! He is SO
distinguished ii oil the offers of re-
wards. Being the least capable and
experienced of the party, he is there
fore the most dangeroue in other
hands, and it is revolving instance
of the extreme of good and i'll to soc
the fidelity Of. Boss Strong to Henry
Berry Lowrey up to contamination
of repeated murders, with the coolest
military obedience, His hands are
dyed deep in tie blood OF old and
young Boss. Strong is about five
>feet.ten,. thick set, with full face,
and he handles his arms with skill,
and has the courage of n bull pup.
When John Taylor's brains were
.bl66wn out iiby Henry Berry, Boss
rushed us mp on the bank and aimed ut
young NaoNeill, md wounded him
with the wad of a charge of buck
shot, intendpd: to slay him. oit,
The people of Robeson County and
the military authorities have long
given up al prospects Of seduooing
either Of these murderers to betray
each other Boss, Strong has never
been considered as within that possi-
bihty. He, like the leading outlaw,
has generally killed his man at close
quarters seldom at more than from
four to ten yards. 'h
Andrew Strong, elder brother of
Boss, IS very nearly the same age
with Henry Berry Lowrey. He is
more than six feet high, tall and slim,
and nearly perfectly white; his thin
beard is of reddish tinge, and he
has dark, straight hair. This fellow
is the Oily Gnmmon of tho party,
without that higher order of cunning
which with Henry Berry Lowroy
amounts to prescience and strategy;
but his eye can wear look of meek,
reproachful injury, and his tongue is
SOFT and treacherous. he was at one
time in court, and when the indict-
ment of his crimes was read, he
looked out of his great soft eyes as if
ready to weep at such unjust imputa-
tons. Andrew Strong married the
daughter of Henry Sampson, another
of the Indian m1lattoes, and he has
two children. He is q cowardly cut
throat, and will steal q pocket-book
on the high road. In the way of kill
ing people he is similarly perfidious,
and the honey will drop from his
tongue almost into the wound he in
tilcts. Loving to see fear and pain, q
professor of deceit. plausible, un-
certain, uneasy. deadly, this moanost
OF the band yet has his consequence
in it.
Tom Lowrey has long, straight
Caucasian nose; good forehead of
more than average height; sloping
put heavy jaws; very scrubby beard
about the chin, coming out short,
stlff and sparse, and straight, black
hair: He would be called cadaver-
GUS II he were white; but in his eve
there are the hazel lights (darting
and restless, and really burning. up
to large glow of the Indian gipsy.
Perhaps the solution of the white
race, which blended originally with
the Tuscaroras- "a subject on which
the learned Judge Lccch, of Lumber
ton, has spent much inquiry-might
b, be solved by tho gipsy suggestion.
The Judge mentioned Portuguese Ca
II truly Piratical race since the days of
Iolsnols,) Spanish and several other
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