Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1882-05-18

seen the man before" The lieutenant
replied, 81 think | have, too" and,
stopping down, he examined his fea.
lures closely. Then, raising himself up,
he addressed the captain. "He is no
other than the Infamous Bowie ~
The captain then also stopped,
gazed intently on the sick mans face,
assumed an erect position, and confirm.
cd the conviction of the lieutenant.
The captain then looked fercely
upon the sick man and said: GLOW is
it, Bowie, that you have been found
hidden in q room by yourself, and have
not died fighting, like your comrades p
To which Bowie replied, in good Casti.
liam III should surely have done so, but
you see | am sick, and cannot get off
my cot.h Said the captain You have
come to q fearful end--and we'll do you
deserve it. AS an immigrant to Mexico
you have taken an oath before God to
support the Mexican government but
now you are violating that oath by
fighting the government which you
have sworn to support. But this per
jury, common to all your countrymen,
is not your only offense. You have
married respectable Mexican lady,
and are fighting against her country
men. Thus you have not only perjured
yourself, but you have also betrayed
your own family"
~ did, said Bowie, "take an oath TO
support the laws OF Mexico, and in de-
teIse OF those laws am | now fighting
You took the same oath when you ac
cepted your commission in the army;
you are now violating, that oath, and
betraying the trustlof your countrymen,
by fighting under: faithfuless tyrant
for the destruction of those laws and
for the ruin of your peoples liberties.
The perjury and treachery are not
mine but yours"
The captain Indignantly ordered
Bowie to shut his mouth. al shall new.
er shut my mouth for your like" said
Bowie, "while have a tongue to speak"
81 will soon relieve you OF that said
the officer.
Then he caused four of his soldiers to
hold the sick man, while fifth, with a
sharp knife, split his mouth on each side
to the ramus of the jaw, then took hold
Of his tongue, drew as much of it "a he
could between hiss teeth, out of his
mouth, cut it off and threw it upon
pile OF dead men. Then in obedience
to a motion of the officers swords, the
four soldiers who held him lifted the
mutilated, bleeding, tortured invalid
from his cot and pitched him alive upon
the funeral pile.
At that moment the match was
thrown upon the pile. The combusti.
BILE mud instantly sent up flame to an
height. The sudden genera.
ton OF a great heat drove all the soldiers
back to the wall. The two otiicers. pa g
as corpses. stood gazing at the immense
column of fire, and trembling from
asunder at every joint. The lieutenant
said in r falterIng and broken articu.
lation; alt takes him -up-to God
II Is believed that the officer alluded
to the ascension, upon the wings OF that
flame, of BOwIe's .oul to that God, who
would surely award due vengeance to
his .iendlsh murderers.
Not being able 10 fully comprehend
the great combustiblllty OF the cam.
phene, 1t Is also believed that the sud.
den elevation of that great pillar OF fire
was an indication of Gods hot displeas.
ure toward those torturIng murdcrcrs.
1t is further believed that the two Off.
GERS were of the same opinion, and this
accounted for their great agitation. aud
the narrator thought that tue same idea
pervaded the whole detail. As every man
to be greatly frightened.
For time the murderera stood
expecting every moment that
the earth would open a chasm through
which every man Ia the fort would drop
into perdition. Terrified by this con.
viciion, they left the fort as speedily as
possible.
On a subsequent day. Cassiano en-
tered the fort again. II was then cleans
ed, and ii seemed to be a comfortable
place. But in conspicuous place, in
the main area, he saw the one relic OF
the great victory pile OF charred
fragments of human bones. .-- Tsras
PdDsY.