Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-03-12

FORT WORTH, Texas, March 8.-The
Indians and grasshOppers-make your
headlines to this on these seOurges, for
your "occasionaP' proposes to discourse
little on these peculiar institutions
first.
LONE-wOLF ON THE wAR-PATH.
This lovely savage has subsidized here
t0fore for whole season without raising
single hair on the Texas frontier,
keeping up semblance of peace, pre-
tended to have been cemented forever
by the late uulamented Edmund Long
sides Davis in his treaty at Fort Sill, in
the territory where, contrary to the SOL
emn verdict of the State, by its jury of
twelve, which sentenced Santanta and
Big-Tree to die, he turns these red raid
ers loose on our border. Red Eagle, son
of Lone Wolf, was raiding on
the frontier the other day, when
the bullet of Lieutenant Hudson,
of the United States army, caused
him to hOvel in the ashes and howl, to
shoot his mules, break up his ambulance,
and make funeral pyre of them all only
equaled in. grief by the pyre of Dido
over her lost spouse. He threw off his
pants and put on his breeches, shayed
his head and painted his face, waited
for the dark of the moon, and is now
prowling on the border, to the great ter
ror of the good people out there. But
the rangers are ready, and especially
since the legislature, now in session.
permits them to organize and get pay
for scalps. We have abandoned the
theory that the red devils are, in the
main, susceptible of very intimate as
sociation for any length of time, and
rather commend the theory of Phil.
Sheridan, the general of Piequean fame.
Now If this don't suit your 'fLo! the
poor Indian" readers, tell them to step
to the front, and have their hair done
up Indian fashion, and be happy.
THE GRASSHOPPERs.
On the tWenty-seventh of last October
Edmund J., his eXcrescency, stopped in
our town to speak to US, being then on
his way to Fort Sill to hberate Satanta
and Big Tree, as aforesaid, and for which
liberation he and General Sherman have
just had a newspaper duel, in which
Sherman fixes on Edmund the RESPONSE
bility of the act. Well, ere he got in the
sky began to grow dim; the sun wan
dered darkling in its course; myriads of
living things were seen against the blue
vault of heaven, as if the arch of the
gods had taken to fermenting and was
falling through. The "old Texans
would put their hands up and take
sight around the edges of the sun, and
calculate, "Grasshoppers! look out for
the wheat in the spring." An autumn
norther blew them from the north
west. Many years had elapsed
since they had made their
appearance here, many years had
elapsed since E. j. had cursed us with
his presence, and they put the word to-
gether, and said the one was the Sc
quence of the other as the night the
day. Then, in 8 few weeks came our
great governor Coke, and said peace
drouth had been upon us, when lol the
heavens opened up as the rock of
Moreb, which Moses smOte, and 8
deluge of pleasant waters came to our
parched land. The people lifted up their
voices in exceeding great joy, and said,
$50 mote it be-" our next governor,
our Moses to lead US out of the wilder
ness. He has led US out of the supreme
court on put up case, to the contrary
notwithstanding. (In parenthesis here
let us say well done, Father Grant
Bnt the grasshoppers; they stayed long
enough to deposit an ocean of eggs
on the prairie, and this morn
ing, while walking to town,
l saw, on a low calculation, $1,000, ,000,-
600, ,000, 900, 000,006. This may seem ex-
travagant, but you wouldn't say so
could you see them as | did. The prai-
rie-grass is just putting out, and they
are hopping, varying in size from q flea
to freely, and the earth seems to
move under your feet like the waves of
the sea when walk among them. They
hop by instinct, in a due northwest
course, the direction from whence they
come, and nothing but drowning in
streams impedes this instinct. What
damages they will do, you viii learn
anon.