New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-04-27
Later from Texas.

MORE INDIAN MURDERS =. Another Family
.Massacred.-By the arrival of the steamship
Louisiana, Capt. J. Smith, from Galveston, we,
have received late Texas papers.
An extra from the Office of the San Antonio
Western Texan, dated the 18th inst, gives the
following account of the murder of nearly a
whole family, near that city, by the savages. II
Says:
We have just listened to one of the most
heart-rending recitals that 1t has ever been our
painful duty to hear or read. On yesterday,
April 10th, Mr.. James Forester and family,
consisting of his wife and four children. were
enjoying the Sabbath day in their humble cot
tage, which is situated in this county, and about
eighteen miles Northwest from San Antonio,
and also accompanying them was q neighbor,
who was q single man and whose residence was
only mile distant, when on a sudden COW
made her appearance, and from the actions OF
| the cow they concluded that all was not right
| Upon examining her they found that she had
| been shot with several arrows, and fearing that
Indians might be near, the single man proposed
to return to his house and bring over his most
| costly effects to the residence of Mr.. Forester
| He accordingly left for this purpose, and had
4 not been gone but few minutes when three
Indians made their appearance at the door, well
armed with rifles, knives, ETC., and demanded
something to eat.
Mr.. Forester proceeded to comply with their
demand, and had hardly turned, when one Of
the Indians shot him through the heart, he fell
dead without hardly q struggle, the blood gush-
1 ing through the wound and also his mouth and
nose. The mother with her child in her arms
two years and half old, sprang to the door, but
| before she could escape, she was knocked down
/ with gun, receiving blow on the back of her
head, and they surprising her dead, commenced
their other depredations, she Immediately sprang
| out Of the door without her child, and started
for the bushes which were near by. As she
turned the corner of the house, she was met by
one of her children q girl about twelve years
DID, who had been to play near by, and attract
4 ed by the noise, was coming to the house, she
screamed to the girl to run, and the child being
frightened, instead of fleeing, run Immediately
into the house, and the mother seereted herself
in the bushes She had hardly secured herself
4 when the dreadful cries of her four little chill
dren at the house, and actuated by those feel
ings known only to fond and devoted mother
when her children are in such an awful situa
ton, she thoughtless of danger rushed to thu
house and coming to the back part where sht
could look through, she saw sight too horribl,
to relate.
One of the sayages had her oldest daughter
girl of fourteen years of age, by the hair O
her head-here the poor woman commenced
wringing her hands and Wailng, she could no
relate what followed, it was too horrible, ant
God grant that We may not be panied to heal
such another tragedy related, and too, by
mother about her children. Seeing there wa
I no hope of saving her family she fled, and ar
rived in San Antonio this morning.
She believes her children all murdered and
RI she saws if they had all been killed before he
, eyes, she would feel far different than she doe
! now; if they are not dead, she knows they ar
e in the hands of sayages, and will undergo tn
most cruel treatment
Major Howard is now collecting company t
(, go in pursuit. Where are the young men of GU
I city Arouse from your lethargy-seize you
rifles, prove that you have still feelings WORTH
| of Texan Follow these savages, and rescu
n these children IL alive-if dead, never let slee
close your eyelids in your peaceful homes unit
you can raise your bowie knife in the al
Z covered with the blood of these savages, an
cay, have done my duty, l have avenged thi
/ horrible outrage.
d An extra from the office Of the San Antonio
! Ledger of the same date as the above, adds:
), Active measures have been taken to pursu
these marauders. A party of twelve men
Lieutenant Stockton's company, under his con
;, mand started last night at twelve o'cocl
; taking with them several of the Llpan lndiar
;. as trailers
- Expresses have been sent in various direc
a tions, and to Forts Inge MeKavitt, Terrett, an
), also to Austin and Corpus Christi, in order tbs
:, no measures shall be left untried to trace thes
= depredations to their proper source, and |
y punish the perpetrators of the murderous crime
: which are becoming almost of daily occurrent
p on our frontier,
The Galveston News, Of the 21st, has the fo
i lowing items:
e "A gentleman just down from the Upper Tril
n ity country, informs us that the wheat crops
d that lsection are unusually promising II
county Of Dallas has thus far proved to be full
as well adapted to the growth of wheat as al
N other portion of the United States
NJ A letter from Williamson county states til
& ] the PROSPECTS, Of the wheat crops were never be
~. ter. Stock cattle have advanced over fifty p
l. cent. in three months; and are still rsin
10 Cattle are being driven to Arkansas, Nilsson
D. and California, which accounts for the rapid i
d crease in their price, in the upper counties.
Is The crops in Montgomery county are We
\. promising. The young corn is foot high, al
10 most of the cotton ready to thin out Over fl
le hundred slayts were introduced into Montgor
r cry county last season.
O. The State Times learns that the crops
e. Little River and the upper Brazos look we
of although they have been retarded by rains
til From the Texas Ranger of the 18th inst,
learn that the negro man who set fire to t