The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1878-11-07
STRANGE DELIvERANCE.
WILD AMERICAN TALE.

Rendezvous at Struggle Ford, eleven
P. NJ, sharp. Thirty rounds.
By order.
Captain BORDER REGULATORS.
These we're wild times on the Texan
frontier. No home was safe from scenes
of rapine and pillage -; no man, or child
secure from violent death, or a Fate
even worse. Out of this condition of
things and the lethargy of our govern
ment authorities in obeying our urgent
pleas for military assistance, the inde-
pendent organization, koown as the
Border Regulators, was born.
We were a stout, resolute body OF
men, made desperate BY desperate
wrongs, caring little for the dangers we
encountered so long as we wrecked
vengeance on the bands of Mexican
robbers and murderers who infested our
borders SO; every ! one Of .ths} Fifty
forming our secret company krew, on
receipt Of his laconic order, that work
was awaiting us, for we had received
many similar ones before, and many a
brave fellow who went out with Us,
never returned.
Our Captain explained, briefly, the
I1Gotive,for his call. Aspy had brought
intelligence that strong body OF fero
Mex,esn Mex sap6k Bank 81 the Rio Grande, at .
point Mt about an hours march distant,
preparatory to raid on our people.
It was enough for US to learn that
they we're under the leadership of the
eue-throat @ uchora, upon whose hands
was the blood of a hundred women and
children of our Texan homes, to secure
an unanimous demand to be led to thell
camp.
Ferrying the river, We made a steal
thy march through the rank, tangled
grass aud brush. The guerrillas were
all asleep except few guards, whom
We surprised, and followed in so closely
tha, they did not succeed in arousins
the csmp until we were charging back
and forth, through it, dealing deatf
and destruction on our way. . ~
The rout was complete, the guerrilla'
Hying in all directions, with scarce al
attempt at resistance, though, greatly Il
our surprise, they were four times TIT
number of our little company. In fv'
minutes after our FIRST attack, We wer'
se eparated into squads Of FIVE or ten mel
each, all engaged in frantic rush, ii
different directions, after the severa
wings of the fleeing robber force:
| never realized just how it happened
but in the rage of this wild pursuit,
suddenly became conscious that l wa
alone in my chose after force Of ftwent,
or thirty heeing guerrillas.
+ NV foes seemed to discover this fac
lat the same moment. and suddenly tn
order of pursuit was chauged-I heeiD
and the guerrillas in chase. Shot
burtled after me, thick and fast, but
would probably, have escaped un
harmed. had I not run into the arms Q
another body of flying guerri'las:
In trice I was set upon, disarme
land bound ; in another breath l shoul
have been made a target for score o
more of bullets, had not the breathles'
brawn7 cut-tbroat, whom I recognize
rs the dreaded Cucbora. himself, inter
fered. g.. ...., -. :,
Ten thousand curses on him 7 h
his,ed. killing is too mrrciful to hin
Have I not vowed to skin alive ever
accursed Regulator who falls into n m
. hands? Drag him away to the Salt
s,ockade, and let him meet his fate b'
. fore US all an hour after daylight. "A
but fise- oGsou follow me to our ne
rendez vous a. La Posa.'
! An hours terrible tramp with II
five rufians, left us a guard over m
r brought US to Sali,o, miserable lit
Mexican hamlet, whose inhabltan'
r awakened by our entry, crowded
0 their doors and horribly reViled me,
0 reioiced over the terrible fate await''
e me. as revealed when thrown into co
damp; noisome room, half undrrgroun
= and strongly grated with iron bars oS
the single aperture, near the ceiling
I could hear my guards, squatt
d I, outside this aperture, holding dss' a.
e, e. tory conversation during the. first mite
ls or twenty minutes of my i"carcerat'o!
and at las, coming to the conclusl
), that one of them was sufficient TO sta
iigff ,eg guard y over W me-, me- they agreed that th
would tsks turns d this tRsSi the