The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-08-27
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SAN ANTONIO, August y, 1853.
The FL PasO mail came in yesterday, after . trip
rom that place Of twelve days and nine hours-fae
tue, you will ack nowedge.
am IN receipt Of various letters from that country,
and enclose one herewith, which you may use az you
puh'ished In yesterday mornings PieaysBs-Eds.
Pie.l
In addition, transcribe from letter received
from NE hon D. H. Ankrim, district Judge Of that
district, so far as IL relates ~ the same affair. The
Judge says
Some Cslifornians had lost stock, which thew had
traced to the other One hexcan) side Of the river
In bringing back their own, they brought q good
many o,hers belonging to the Mexieans, and then
repoited to the Authorities OF FL Paso that whom ala
their ufe Cahfoni4ns) sock was produced, they
would return thos. they had taken.
A man BY the naDie ~ Magee made this report I'm
per- on, and was arre ted and held to bail for viola
ton Ut the laws o. mat country. Besides being
forced to return the Mexican cattle, which the Calf
fornians had taken he tined one hundred dollars.
This he refused to pay and was sent to jail.
r. Hendree, Esd acting as his attorney, and fall.
ing to get the fine RENTED, on the night u the 18th
inst, at the head Of party of come thirty or moro
CaliiOrnians and other transient persons, went over
armed and attacked The jail in Ell PasO and released
Mr.. kagee They were fired IN by the guard. Hem
dree fell dead and Ave others were wounded. One
Of them died the next day and the other four stl2
survive but two If teen are said to be seriously in
jured. One Of TIE Mexican guard was wounded
severely.
The whole party of Californians and other assaiI.
arts refreated to the American side OF the rivers
abandoning the corpse Of Hendrse. 1t was re.
cogn'zed III the morning and sent over to be in
TERED.
You can imagine the state Of feeling this affair
would produce. The whole population OF III Paso
were called To arms, aud a large number OF them
are still uuder drill Nothing saved us from an ey-
element little les than desperation on the part Of
the MeXicans, but the prudent course of some Of
our citizens IN times Of past difficulty which gave
them right to consalt with the principal citizens
Of FL Paso.
An express has gone south to. the Mexican 20
verIment, and no doot before this reaches you the
news will be known IN Washington city, via the city
Of Mexico. The subject Is SO diSgraceful that dis
like to write atouti.
There IL nothing further of interest here, except
that We have mace some arrangements to facilitates
Gen. Rlsk and his companions in their examination
oil this country their Pacific railway explorations.
We look for them here daily.
From letters received from other correspondents,
learn that on the night OF the Sd Of July the
Apaches visited the town of lsleta and drove off all
my experience in that country that its inhabitants
are annoyed beyond endurance, what between their
difficulties with the Mexcans and their troubles with
the Indians ltaca.- s3as
United States troops stationed near Fl Paso
and S0n EliZario But now the settlers in that re-
gion, though at poiat where all the trade OF
Northern Mexico finds an inlet-with o correspond
emigration via this city and from Fort Smith i'm
Arkansas, daily passing there, and compelled tn
halt TO recruit and prepare for further journey to
the Pacifc-these settlers, | repeat, are totally
abandoned by government, and have been 50 foc
eighteen months.
This is not merely local matter, but 1t is daily
becoming national quarrel I know what speak,
and aver that nothing but the presence Of re-
spectacle military force will command respect, and
cause observance Of conventional rights on the ons
side, and protect from the thieving Apaches the
other.