From the New Orleans Picayune :.
AN AFFECTING TALE.
{"character_count": 1547, "word_count": 268, "ccnet_language_score": [0.9667999744415283], "ccnet_perplexity": [1897.5999755859375], "fasttext_language": ["en"]}
McCuIluch Rangers after a hard days ride
had bivouacked one night last summer in a
beautiful mesqut grove between Reynosa 9iejo
and Camargo, barranca protecting one side OF
the cncampment from q surprise while the steep
banks of the Rio Grande served the same pur-
pose on the other. The horses had all been
watered fed and curried, the irst relief oil the
guard posted, and the Rangers, after drinking
their coffee, were reclining about on their BIN
kets spinning long yarns Of their adventures
when Bill Dean told story that wound up the
entertainments of the evening, IN theatrical
parlauce ,and ca used an outbreak at the termln-
arion that came nigh stampeding the entire cav
allade Bill had Joined McCulloch's men for
the. and the reecolI ection of his humorous tale
about chasing the prairie fire mile and half,
trying to cook his horse meat, secured him a
most patieut hearing.


Those who know anything about the emigra-
ton of Germans into Texas, are we'll aware that
thousa nds of them have made Indian Point, near
Port Lavaca grand rendezous before leaving
for the interior settlement OF New Brauniels
or the frontier stationed the Pierdeaales, the
Lanano or the San Saba. Bill said that ne Wis
| tied the Point Iast spring when some five thou
tsand Germans were eneamped there and
was present at one Of the most thrilling ant
heartrending scenes il had ever been his lot &c
witness. So far as his individual knowledge
went, neither ancient nor modern history made
mention of any case which might be considered
any where near parallel.