The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1853-09-30
THE DAILY DISPATCH

bune, writing from San Antonio, August &C. gives a
war rumor to the effect that instructions had been
received by the quartermaster there to make inr-
mediate preparation for the accommodation of 10,
600 u s. trsops-an order, it is stated, induced by
the warlike attitude of Mexico Rumor was rife that
Santa Anna contemplated an invasion of Texas
The Tribune, however, treats this rumor as highly
improbable although it admits the fact that he has
| raised large army and put it in motion for his
| northern frontier. Santa Anna is acc orded too
much discernment by those who know him for
any such erratic movements He has intestine
| enemies to contend with, and he is preparing to
put their noses to the grindstone and carry out the
| oppressive measures of his own ambitious and in
| domltable will at the point of the bayonet The
Northern States are murmuring disafection and
he Is determined to teach them oh eience
|
FROM CHIHUAHUA-The N. o. Picayune pub
fishes some letters from Chihuahua and Magoffins
vile, the first of which gives detailed account OF
| the MCGEE affair, which has been frequently motto
ed heretofore in our columns. 1t resulted in the
killing OF two Americans named Hendree and
Hamick, .and the wounding of six or eight more
1t grew out ofthe fact that VIM. MCGEE, an Arneri
can arrived opposite Ell Paso, the I'd July, with
large number of cattle, bound to California
Some the cattle were stolen, and he found them
herding with others belonging to Mexican. In.
stead of going to the proper authority, he drove all
| the cattle off, intending to separate them and re-
| turn those belonging TO the Mexican Upon this
the Mexican had McGee arrested for stealing, and
he was placed in prison. On the 18th July he was
tried for the alleged crime of cattle stealing. Mr.
Hendree being his COUNSEL the theft was clearly
proved, and he fin ed by the court S25 This
decision however to be valid required the concur
| renee OF Sanchez. This Mr.. s. refused, saying Nc
Gee should pay 800, instead of S25, or remain in
| prison. party was afterwards made up of forty
eight Americans, and the night of the 18th July
| an attack was made on the prison. which resulted
| in an entire failure. The Mexicans defended the
place bravely, killing two-Hendree and Hamck-
and wounding six or eight more. The conflict last
ed about fifteen minutes. At last accounts MCGEE
was still in prison.
Another of these letters from the frontier gives
an account of party of fifty Americans, California
bound who lost, by the Indians nineteen of their
finest horses. On arriving at Esleta they despatch
| ed thirteen of their choice men, mounted ON
thirteen of their best remaining animals in search
| Of the stolen ones. When two days out, going
| Up canon, they were surrounded by hun
| dred and fifty or two hundred Apaches, and ten
out of the thirteen were killed. "Out of the three
who arrived here to tell the tale" says the letter.
one has since died from the effects of the shock his
nerves received during the fight. By this the In
dans have gained thirteen fine horses eighteen six
shooters and thirteen Mississippi rifles
| The inhabitants cOnoo1ain loudly Of ,,ooIoo+
of government to furnish proper frontier deences.
| THE Rio GRANDE-The Brownsville Flag, of
the 10th inst, correcting paragraph from the Co.
dorado (Texas) Tribune, says:
| There has been no augmentation of forces ON
| this part of the frontier no Mexicans have been
| ordered out of Texas. 'Cavalladas" cross freely
| and almost daily, and we have never enioyed
more friendly relations with our neighbors than at
| the present time.
| THE COLLIER DEFALcATIoN CAsE.-Tuesday
was the day for the hearing OF the Collier ha5eas
| corpus case, at GAINESVILLE, Ohio. The Washington
1 Star says:
The Treasury officers exhibit no falterng in their
determination to bring Collier to trial under the in
dctment of the United States court for California
for feloniously using the public funds. Among the
expedients resorted to to get him clear of the law
force, Is the plea that the offence having been per.
petraed more than two years before the indictment
was found, he may, legally, go scottfree of punish
ment and his present abettors ask his discharge
| this ground.
| The Star is under the impression that the law
officers of the Government regard this plea as
| signally frivolous.
| Edward Perkins, who was committed to Jail in
Staunton, on the charge of being concerned in the
murder of VIM. Coleman, was on Monday last, ar
raigned before tho examining court, and it appear
ing from the evidence that the accused could not
charged az principal or as accessory in the crime,
he was discharged On motion of the Common
wealth he was however, required to give bail in the
sum of $1,000, for his appearance as a witness upon
the examining trial of Trayer and Wilson.
| Edward B. Fiddler, who was arrested in Staun-
ton on the Goth, on the charge OF bigamy, viii be
examined to-day Friday.)
The Spectator, from which we take the foregoing
paragraphs states on the authority OF the Common
wealth's Attorney, that during the year ending in
June last, there were criminal prosecutions OF
one kind and another in Augusta, than in any five
consecutive years since the county was organised
| SERENADE TO CAPTAIN INGRAHAM.-A letter
in the Newark Advertiser, dated Genoa, Septem-
ber 9, says:
'Capt IngrahaH, of the sloop of war ST. Louis,
now at Spezia, was serenaded, few nights since,
| by large company of Italians in boats and re-
| ceived complimentary address from them in COM
memoration of his conduct at Smyrna. The affair
excited the attention of the foreign consuls here,
and the local police deemed it prudent to warn the
parties to abstain in future from such demonstra-
| tions."
| From a statement published in the n @. Medi-
cal Register for September, it appears that the
whole number of deaths In that city from scptsui-
Der l, 1852 to August 81, 1853 was 14,6a Oh wnien
3,43s were OF persons under ten years OF age ana
l,3sl were of colored persons. The deatns oy yef
| low fever areput down at SOS.
| We learn from the Lynchburg srginian' oI ues-
day, that as the downward freight train was pass
ing the landing at Lisbon, in Bedford on the oay
previous, a man named Samuel Johnson attelnpseu
| to jump on the cars, but missing, fell ana was N
stanily killed. Nine cars passed over MS oooy
The schooner Express, which sailed from sais \
nor. at .ix o'clock on Thursday morning. week.
with load Of -four for ship loading al sewpond
News for San Francisco, delivered her cargo and
.yr;ved i, norfolk at . o'clock on Friday
mr. Howell L. Davis. an aged and hisniy respect
- s,,;.a. - 81 Iynchburg died In that city on Eat