Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1886-11-11

TWO BRAVE SCOUTS.

Illc' piteuH WI. Jun IfWNCtoOO
Chronicle.
TWO BRAVE SCOUTS.
Kit Carson and Cooley Go on Bold and
Successful Expedition.
In the afternoon of the next day a
war whoop was heard, such as Indians
make when returning from victori-
Gus enterprise, and soon Carson and
Cooley appeared, driving before them
band of horses, recognized by Fuen-
ties to be a part of those they had lost.
Two bloody scalps dangling from the
end of Godey's gun announced they
had overtaken the Indians as well as
the horses. They informed us that
after Fuentes left them, from the fail
ure of his horse, they continued the
pursuit alone, and toward nightfall en-
tered the mountains into which the
trail led. After sunset the moon gave
light, and they followed the trail 10y
moonshine until late in the night, when
it entered a narrow dcile and was diff
ficult to follow. Afraid of losing it
in the darkness of the dcfile, they tied
up the horses, struck no fire, and lay
down to sleep in silence and in dark
ness Here they lay from midnight
till morning. At daylight they re-
sumed the pursuit, and about sunrise
discovered the horses, and immediate
ly dismounting and tying up their
n,yn +ho,- orn,,t ooutiouSlv tn a risinU
ground which interviewed, from the
crest of which they perceived the en-
campment of four lodges close by.
They proceeded quietly and got within
thirty or forty yards of their object,
when a movement among the horses
discovered them to the Indians. Civ
ing the war shout, they instantly
charged into the camp, regardless of
the number which the four lodges
would imply.
The Indians received them with a
fight of arrows from their long bows,
one of which passed through Cooley S
shirt collar, barely missing the neck.
Our men fired their rifles upon steady
aim and rushed in. Two Indians were
stretched on the ground fatally pierced
with bullets. The rest fled, except a
lad, who was captured. The scalps of
the fallen were instantly stripped off,
but in the process one of them, who
had two balls through his body, sprang
to his feet, the blood streaming from
his skinned head, and uttered hideous
howl, An old squaw, probably his
mother, stopped and looked back from
the mountain side she was climbing,
threatening and lamenting. The fright
full spectacle appalled, the stout hearts
of our men; but they did what human
ity required and quickly terminated
the agonies of the CORY savage They
were now masters of the camp, which
was pretty little recess in the mount
ain, with fine spring and apparently
free from all invasion, Great prepare
tons had been made to feast large
party, for it was a very proper place
for rendezvous and for the celebra-
ton of such orgies as robbers of the
desert would delight in. Several OF
the best horses had been skinned and
cut up, for the Indians living in the
mountains, and only coming into the
plains to rob and murder, make nc
other use of horses than to eat
them. Large earthern vessels were or
the fire, boiling and stewing the horse
beef, and several baskets, containing
fifty and sixty pairs of moccasins. indi
Gated the presence or expectation OF &
considerable party. They released the
boy who had given strong evidence o
the stoicism or something else of The
savage character in commencing hi
breakfast upon horses head as soor
as he found he was not to be killed
but only tied as prisoner. Their OBJ
ject accomplished, our men gathered
up all the surviving horses, fifteen il
number, returned upon their trail, an'
rejoined us at our camp in the after
noon of the same day. They had rid
den about one hundred miles in tn,
} pursuit and return, and all in thirt,
hours. The time, place, object anC
numbers considered, this expedition o
Carson and Cooley may be considered
among the boldest and most disinter
/, ested which the annals of Western al
venture, so full of daring deeds, CA
present Two men, in savage desert
pursue day and night an unknow
J body of Indians into the defiles of a
, unknown mountain, attack them Of
!, sight, without counting numbers, an
defeat them in an instant, and fo
| what? To punish the robbers of tn
: desert and to avenge the wrongs c
} Mexicans whom they did not know
General FremOnfS autobiography.