New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-09-16
From Texas,


D., Az, . a,eamsnlP Portland, Capt Bmhner, hom
- a. a. @0s ana Galveston, arrived hero yegta..
0 0 .a she Orousa. Galveston pspes Of the 1lls
u' anu psP Sa. rom Austin, the Seas OF Govern.
mtns TO the 27th. The following nss,s.ss
OF board the Portland: H'Aaeus9fa es 'se
PGssng1a-hr. oliyer ana lady at.s co.A,.. 80.
A. storey Jobnsop George Regain fahyaa ~ = 80.
On deck ave. 'sa walters
There was quite norsher in Ma,agorda Raw.
the 3Oth and Stat nit The bark Milford arrived =,
Pass Cavslla, with U 8. Troops, on the lstnss fon
New. York, all well. The Boundary Expedition
was sill st ndanola, there also re port that
Capt French's Company had broken up and sep
tye'ed Experienced very heavy weather frou
E : ~ - ''' "'''O ' - IN o Delta, So
Them q. Picdyahe says
A letter from Capt. Parker q, French, dated
near Live Oak Creek, August 10, was received at
San Antonio by oae OF the contractors OF the Gov
eminent train 70 FL PsAo In which ne says;
have at length got within few miles OF yolr
train, and TO morrow expect to pass tue Pecos on
your bridge We are all well and contonsed, ex-
ceps N. self. l am disconted, because the thieypg
Lpans night before last stole twenty eight mules
and four horses, beside aome cattle sens my
ranging company after them and recovered three,
! think we will recover all OF them, as they sre
still In bot pursuit. They were stolen from ia
while at Howarda Spring. We are pow abe to
make our twenty miles day, and will travel nom
the Pecog onward much faster than We came here
A Trenchman named Baron, of Castrogille, was
killed about 10 miles from San Antonio on the Rio
Medic by another Frenchmsn named D Honell, at
grog shop kept By the latter.
The Indians continue their depredations. Tho
Western IeIdn mentions having seen ieSsec
from member of Capt Wallaces company which
saws shat upon the third charge OF the Indians the
Chief was shot, and the Indiana drew OF, leaving
Can't w. and his men on the camp ground. Ths
Indians were Lipans and about 40 or 80 OF then
vere.armed with rites and holster pistols. Oapt-
Wa,lace's men were al, with but one exception,
raw recruits never ha ring before been in an Indian
gebs. This then accounts for Capt. Wallace nor
pursuing them
On the 9Th ult Capt .kes, with ihirty'ix men,
left Fort Merrill for the purpose OF interceptng
party of Ind ans reported to have been commltnnS
depredatiops in the netghborhood OF Corpus CnrA.
HI overlook them in camp, about two mules WIS.,
of the Nueces and twenty miles below the croas-
ing on San Antonio and LAREDO rosd On ap'
preaching the camp it was discovered that ms
Indians had deserted it, leaving all their eqnipase
bows and arrows saddles, shields 'ints lancas,
&c behind them. Capt. Cakes immediately pro-
ceeded on, and soon discovered three lndlans on
horseback coming toward him at full speed. AZ
soon as the Indians the troops they turned aud
fed, being closey pursued about two miles when
one beirg killed, another severely il not MORALLY
wounded, the third made his escape by taking "
the chaparral.
Capt Cakes reports that on march from FORK
Mcintosh to Fort Lincoln with six non,com mission
ed officers and "a privstes he found recent cam
Of about thirty Indians he pursued aud overlook
them Three were killed and others wounted.
Capt Cakes received two wounds. Capt. McCowa,
of the Texas volunteers, also had fight with the
gayases In which he routed them.