Show 1 EXCITING EXCITING G iao a A TE IIER c sa II 11 oon n of u f a river steamer attacked by guerrillas pro pie 9 c its a scene quite quile as comic as it is exciting klitin to those who can call at all control their nerves the ridiculous positively banishes all thoughts of all the tragic to see sec great big 11 follows fellows witt with and without shoulder straps strap sprawl flat on oil their cities bellies behind every conceivable cei vable projection of fit chair or table at A the first rattle of musketry and going ill through 11 tile absurdly impossible process of trying 0 to make mak e pancakes or of themselves near to my cabin door whole I 1 was sitting reading I 1 wit when 11 the alarm commenced I 1 saw behind b 01 tile the leaves of a table plied piled up about two feet ili laigh 11 h a U S officer cc r not 1 t one of tho alib lying alyin 11 flat on his face on top of him ln m a negro waiter ind and on oil top or of the alie latter a gaunt long braided whose eyes cy es seemed i eady to leap from their sockets poor fellow I 1 I 1 know tie lie must it have ave felt as relieved as any of us when we safely reached ached this thi plate place at I 1 lip I 1 p in ili of the arid and saw the myriad lights 0 of tilt the transports and 0 gunboats gun boats deflected in the stream and lighting up tip the bluffs giving 0 the appearance of a large and imposing city red river ca correspondence pon dence |