The mountain sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1844-1853, 1852-02-12
Late froEa Texas.

Late frOI2a Texas.
The Houston (Texas) Telegraph, OF Jan. ODD,
has come to hand, containing later news from
the interior of the State.
The editor has been to Austin, where he has
found the Legislature almost exclusively devoted
to the consideration of private claims while the
main question Of State policy was overlooked
On the 18th of January the thermometer at
Houston stood at Is degrees.
The Telegraph gives the following account OF
outrages by the Camanches:
We mentioned some weeks since, when our
contemporaries Of San Antonio announced that
Col. Rodgers had concluded treaty with the
Camanches, that these faithless sayages would
soon commence new hostilities. We warned our
fellow-citizens Of the western frontier that the
savages, believing that they had duped the whites,
would doubtless avail themselves Of the first op-
POrtunity to make foray upon the settlements.
Our predictions have but been too truly verified.
According to the late accounts from the western
frontier, several bands of savages have visited
the exposed settlements on Arangas bay and the
Nucces, and have killed and captured number
Of the settlers. They have also driven of quite
q number Of horses and mules from the ranches
above Corpus Christi. That these Indians were
Camanches there can scarcely be doubt, as AiF.
Burlcson and his party. who were attacked by a
band Of the sayages on the route from Comargo
| to San Pan PratTicio, recognized the Indians by
the war-trappings Of this tribe.
We again ask OF the officers Of the General
Government If these outrages are TO be permit
ted and the chiefs who have thus violated the
treaty, are to remain unpunished2 1t was the
faithIess Cotemseh who made the late treaty on
the San Saba, who concluded the treaty q year
or two since, and, shortly after the the former
treaty was concluded, similar depredations were
committed. Three times, We believe, he has
signed treaties with The officers Of Government
and as many times have they been violated 1t
IS disgracetul to our government that its Com
miSsioners are thus duped and made the plant
tools oFsavage marauders. Il was proved after
the second treaty VAS made with Cotemseh, that
his warriors committed the depredations near
Corpus Christi; for, the boy that was released
by the Camanches, declared that he had been
captured by Cotemsehs band.
We understand that high price was paid for
each ofthe prisoners that were lately given up
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Cotemseh expects to get a large sum for the un-
fortunate females who have lately been stolen
from Refugo. VIII the Government allow its
officers thus to bribe the savage chiefs to steal
children and women? We hope not Such out
RACES can be tolerated no longer The author
of them is well known; and he, this fuithless
and perfdious Coternseh, must be punished
The officers in command On our frontier should
be required to visit the lodges Of this chief, and
require him to give up the warriors who have
committed the late outrages on our frontier, or,
| if he refuses, to capture him and place him in q
situation where he do 10 further harm.
! The Mexican captives who were released from
the Indians at the late Council on the San Saba,
are still detained at San Antonio by Col. Rodgers.
Some of them belong to Mexican families residing
in the vicinity of Guerrero and Mier.
The Coal Trade of Pennsylvania
The amount Of bituminous coal mined in Penn.
sylvania during the year 1851, was nearly ], 100,
600 tons, and of anthracite nearly 1000, e0C
I making an aggregate of $500, 600 tons. Tn,
value in probably about 500, O00, ,000 The coal
fields of Pennsylvania cover one-third of The
State, or about Is, 600 square miles, lying above
or within the water-level. Those OF England
Scotland Wales and Ireland combined, contain
only II 600 square miles of coal, IN an area O
120 900 square miles of territory. This coal
in many cases. lies from 800 to 1890 feet beloy
the surface of the ground, and is raised by ma
chinery. In regard TO the quantity of irou-ore
nearly the same relative proportion exists be
; tween Great Britain and Pennsylvania.
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Bas-A Hungarian officer, named MAY, latcl,
killed himself at Constantinople by tying
| sheet around his body and setting it On fire,