New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-04-22
WASHINGTON.
Gov. Bell of Texas, ia the Field Again Mr..
RlchIe's Losses, &c,

Correspondence Of The Tribune
WASHINGTON. Saturday, April 10.
Information has been received here from salts
factory, though not official, sources that thu ez.
traordnary individual who fills the Executive
chair OF the state Of Texas, has sont an Express
charged with the arrest Of those young men De-
longing to the Engineer corps who tried and hung
those bloody scoundrels at Socorro.
1t will be recollocted that those loodthirsty
villains wsntonly murdered poor Clarke, lson OF
the Rhode leland SENATOR cutting him to pieces
in the most inhuman msnner-that they had pre-
viOusy been msraGdlDg upon the deienseless
Mexcans, numbering and robbing them without
mercy-tbat for pastime they were numbering
the inhabitants OF Socorfo, and that the whole
town was in the utmost terror from these
wretChes; and there was no civil authority there
TO take cOgnzance OF these Oulrages.
When the account Of these terrible scenes, as
it was Published a week or two Eince. appeared.
the remark was universal THAI the young men OF
the Engineer corps had exhibited beautiful g
gard for the Institutions OF law IN giving these
wretches trial instead Of shooting them down
in the streets as we would dangerous Wild
beast. Some Of those young men, whom
| saw before they left Washington belong
10 the best families in the country. They are
peaceable aud quiet persons, not lkely 70 be led
away into the commission Of any rash act. as we
see by the course they pursued. They were
brave and firm when called upon to do an un
pleasant duty, and nobly they performed 1t. l
saw a letter from one OF them, the son OF distln.
euished gentleman Of this City, describing these
transactions in language which fully Portrays
sense OF the grave responsibility they mad as
sumed, but which also evinced the conviction OF
stern unavoidable necessity from which there
was no escape.
The Engineer cofps ere probably by this time
far beyopd the confines OF Texas on the western
border Of New Mexico. Should Gov. BELL
agents go there to take them, they will probably
meet with rough handling
This feat Of Gov. BELL is in very good keeping
with most of bis acts since he was elevated 70
the post he occupies.
1t will be recolected that the Senate during
its late Executive Session, upon the motion OF
Mr.. FooTE, gave Mr.. RITcHIE en- Traditional job
Of printing thirty thousand copies Of the Patent
Report. Ia that gentleman's subsequent chapter
Of Grievances in Lhe Union this was set down as
being an additional burden, the price to be PAID
being about what he was receiving on most oi MS
unfortunate Jobs, about which there has oeen so
much grooming Mr.. RYEs Immediately ohered
him thousand dollars for this burden, as bones
Mr.. John Towers, en- old Washington p;nter,
has since offered Mr. K. $4,000 for this burden,
agreeing 70 give bonds for the execution @c',
which Mr.. r. refuses. MIR. Towers upon care
ful calculation says, that had congress a. us
last Session passed the resolution glylng Mr.
Richie the fifty per cent on the prices OF 1872 in
place of his contract he wonld have made the
enormous sum Of $3.50 900. The public treasury
will probably be robbed at It's next session OF
that noUnt Constituencies ought 20 noid thsr
REPRESENTATIVES TO strict responsibility il they
vote away this money. If Nj. Richie has lost
let him render an account like an honest mau'
shelving TIE items When he does this no man
will refuse to make good bis losses ,,.,,,vp