News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-03-06

A newspaper correspondent writing
from chihuahua, Mexico, says :-"Ihere
they come" said little fellow, as ne
raised yell that fairly made my throat
ache to hear.
"And what are they'?" I asked, still
ignorant of the cause of all the uproar.
"Why, the rancheros and the Indians,
he said. "Come to the tower, Senor'
and see the grand sight" he continued
darting away toward the cathedral. But,
needless of the invitation, though still
excited. pushed my way along to the
wall in front of the church, and, crawl
ing to a place made for me, looked as
directed, and caught sight of slow.
moving body of men, horses, flags, and
women coming down the street. A band
leading the procession was performing
some sort of wild, soul-stirring march,
but the music was hardly audible above
the incessant cheering by the people
lining the streets. Marching steadily
toward me, I soon saw the composition
of the strange army. Directly behind
the band came some thirty horsemen,
each man carrying the gun he had used,
while his pistol hung from his we'll
worn saddle. OF all the swarthy, heavy
bearded, and tan-browned faces which
looked upon the cheering masses, not
one wore an expression other than stolid
indifference. The furious welcome,
manifested in hundred different ways,
never drew even smile from the set
lips of the brave-hearted fellows who had
risked their lives for the peoples safety.
Calmly looking upon the upturned faces,
they rode slowly along, as immovable
and undisturbed as the white walls OF
the houses they passed. Behind the
ranchmen, who rode two abreast, came
eight men on foot, who had long poles,
which they continually moved up and
down, and fastened to them were eight
long-haired, dark, blood-stained scalps,
the proofs among the people of the death
of so many hated Apaches. When these
hideous trophies were seen the people
grew frantic with JOY. Bravos resounded
on all sides; men shouted until hoarse;
women waved their shawls, and the ex-
cited gazers applauded.
But the scalp bearers had hardly
passed before there came the squaws
who had been taken. The minute these
bare-headed, dirty, homely, hard-faced
women were seen the cheering and ex-
citement increased, while the boys in
the street pressed hard against the
guards and tried to strike at the wives OF
those who had killed and tortured their
parents. brothers and sisters. Some OF
the prisoners held their nursing babies
in their arms, and needed only them.
The big-eyed nurslings, held as lovingly
by their wild mothers, as ever the wo-
men of civilization hold their young in
time of danger, cried with fear, and even
the food their mothers offered them SO
piteously did not serve to comfort them.
IT. was enough to make the heart ache
to see these ignorant mothers, hated and
struck at because born in wilderness
and the wives of savages, caress their
| children to their breasts and hold them
awav from the cruel hands outstretched
to strike. And yet so hated is an Apache
that every wall was hailed with Joy by
tho friends of the victors. / saw not one
face among all the mothers there that
had pitv written upon it. Women held
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souaws and laughed at the unhappy
wives and cursed them. Chihuahuf
forgot its Sunday and the people forgo
a their religion. The cathedral stood nea
bv. the air was soft and beautiful, an
still not a mothers heart apparently PIT
led or prayed for the unfortunates VIII
marched to a living death with the
scalps of their husbands swinging before
them.
An hour later, when the city was en-
loving its Sunday evening quiet. L met
the Consul of the United States ano
asked him what became OF the captured
women.
sTbev are to be confined in the tori
, at Vera Cruz for life.
"And the children?"
,, "They are given to whoever want
them, and are brought up as servants
"Slaves, then, you mean?" l said. =.
"Hardly that. They will be palc
wages when they earn them, and sucf
lives will be better for them than il the7
! were captured"
"What is done with the scalps ?"
asked.
) 1.-THE scalps? Why, the government
S buys them. Every one brings 5000. Th
: Apaches have long been the scourge Q
y northern Mexico"
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