The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1854-07-20
Thrilling Scenes of indian war.

Thrilling Scenes Of Indian War.
I Correspondence Of the New York Daily Times.
LAREDO, (Texas,) Wednesday June 7.
'54
Incidents thicken here to make New
Yorker stare. In the first place, this town
is fartherest from "white" land, in fact, if
not in distance, and nearer the famous
identical jumping off place to the pit, than
any other in Texas, though several be
nearer thereto than any man, East can
imagine. 1t is on the Rio Grande, and
divides is great water to the Westward,
from the mountains TO its mouth, in equal
parts. It is one hundred and ten miles to
the next place in any direction. tits such
a place, that if you had been here, you
would wonder to get letter from It,
Game cannot subsist any where within
fifteen miles Of the river, and yet the town
has nearly thousand people, all Mexi-
cans.-They subsst almost solely on corn,
(of which, wetted and broken, they make
their tOftIIas, smuggled some sixty miles
in Mexico. Nine companies Of United
States troops are encampted within mile
and have built one of the four field works
projected for the defense ofthis frontier
Fort Mcintosh. But a worse enemy is
within our borders, viz: the Indians, law
| oth e
certain line in Texas they are banded out
laws, and the word is 'slay and hold not
off, on both sides.
A brave little fight of 10 United States
Rifles, Lieut.. Crosby, to As Indians, took
place On Lake Trinidad, on the road to
Corpus Christi, last month. The Indians
were beaten off, and two or three Rifles
killed and the Lieutenant wounded. But
Of this you have probably heard. Twelve
out of fourteen teamsters were killed, and
the mules driven off in train, near Fort
Ewell camp, sixty miles away. Seven OF
the nine companies have been sent to
camps up and down the river, fifty miles
Infantry to hunt and scout mounted Cam
anches! Where are your three new noun
ted regiments? If the United States will
push her frontier into dangerous lands,
she must extend her ornaments. If the
Indians get six hours start of even dra-
goons, they are safe across the river in
Mexico. Smaller outrages are too numer.
GUS to mention" Single indiyiuals move
r not through the country but with escorts
nor through the town but with reyolvers
t Vioale Colt. The scouting parties frequent
: ly see Indians, but that is all. Every thing
is in state of siege. This morning cam,
e news of capture, within 100 yards of hi
comrades, of an Infantry soldier by Indi
$ ans near here, after firing two shots
9 Poor fellow!
The audacity, cunning and swiftness Q
the Camanche are all but fabulous. Also
last night, here in town, dissolute M. D
n an ex-assistant surgeon of the navy, Lin
y ton, shot causelessly and fatally wounde'
i the band master of the 5th Infantry, Cen
tro, of Albany, and the master of com
n pany ofrope dancers performing here. H
o. had but to cross the river for safety
Where is your extraGition article of th
treaty? 1t was only small mistake in pol
icy on his part in killing an American AM
Mexican at the same time, that caused
the Alcalde and the friends of the Mexica
to think of taking him. He is in irons
however, across the river, and is most lk
II to be brought back tonight and hung
. What else is to be done?-The Judg
has not visited these parts in eightee
6 months, and will not come. If govern
: ments will not apprehend, deliver up AM
e hang, enraged people will. A mule wa
led away from under man in the Plaz
n some three months ago. The man to b
n sure was prevented from accompanying tn
: mule beyond pace or two, by certain fix
It lures above his head No further harm
was done him; the mule was not his--no
n the life of the man he had taken Anothe
e shot his victim dead, but finding be wa
e not the person intended, apologized, an
was actually left.g Very advanced idea
n hereabouts:" sin lies only in the intention
r. eide the very latest moralists. The fac
IS is, bad people sell bad brandy, whic
drives bad men mad, and they devour eac
- other. These are the people, and this th
. the country, for which the United State
went to war with Mexico, and spent sixt
millions Of dollars and thirty thousan
lives-and now in profound peace require
+ three regiments to protect,
ID And what is the effect of this demon
n allied frontier life on character Peopl
h grow used to it-reckless of life, confden
ragged and saucy. The attention is cal
ed to getting whereof to clothe and t
IS eat. The practice of carrying weapons
at imposed by few upon ali, makes thel
N suspicious and hasty. The climate
: choleric, When a man has to underg
three hours a day temperature off 5 deg
T. even in the shade-a point the thermome
ct +.r frenuentlv reaches in Summer-an