Washington sentinel. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1855, 1854-06-09
6sneral gntelligente.
From the N. o. Picayune, May 30.
Important from Texas.

BY the arrival OF the steamship Charles Nor
gan, Captain Lawless, we have intelligence from
Galveston 10 the 9th instant, and corresponding
| later daies from other cities The most import
ant items of news are the following, which we
| condense from an extra Of the San Antonio West
orr, Isran, of the 22d instant
A letter dated Corpus Christi, May Is, states
that the evening previous an express rider, sol
der Of rifles arrived there on foot, and report
ed that party of Indians caught him near San
Patricio, and took from him his horse and every
thing he had, and then told him TO go back TO
Corpus Christi and 10 give the information 10
| General Smith. The same night party under
command of Captain Gibbs and Lieutenant Witter
left Corpus Christi with party of men TO go in
pursuit AT The same time express was sent
10 Fort Merrill, with instructions for Capt. Hatch
10 come down and meet Capt. Gibbs with another
party, and 10 join him.
The last express rider came back about eleven
o'clock, and reported that the Indians had run him
within five miles of Corpus Christi AT one, a.
m, Mayor Chapman, the quartermaster at Corpus
Christi left with party of eighteen transfers 10
60 in pursuit o. this last party of Indians Judge
Neal and several others started out on the scout
also, and when the express left for San Antonio
the next morning, they had not returned.
From gentleman who was present and wit
messed the conflict of Lieutenant Crosby with the
Indians near Fort Merrill, we learn that on the
same day those Indians made an attack upon some
Mexicans at Lake Trinidad, and killed Pedro
GarZa anu also MS son ana TWO Oh MS COUSINS,
and third one, who escaped came running in
and told our informant, Mr.. Crawford. Mr.. Craw-
ford and several others Immediately proceeded TO
the place at the lower end of the lake and found
them all lying dead. They were evidently shot
with escopet guns. He also informs us that much
slock has been killed and carried away by the In
dams in the neighborhood Of Aqua Neva and the
Blanco
From gentleman who Just arrived in our city
from Castroville, we are informed that two Next
cans were killed few days since by the Indians
on the Hondo, fourteen miles from Castroville,
and pundered of all they had in their honse and
burnt it. He also tells us that the Indians are
seen daily within few miles Of Caslroville, and
great apprehensions are felt by the surrounding
Inhabitants cattle horses straying off are soon
killed or driven off.
The news is now current in town that the Mexi-
can Maromas, six or eight in number, who have
spent some six months in San Antonio, delighting
our citizens with their feets in rope dancing, &C.,
and who left here q few days ago for Mexico, and
all the Italian harp players, six in number, who
left here some few days since for Laredo, have all
been killed
The same extra announced that Sergeant Nc
Nally had succeeded in catching and routing the
Indians who attacked the government train near
Fort Ewell, taking from them everything they had,
the mules they had taken from the train near
Fort Ewell and all their own mules and horses,
equipage, paints, bows and arrows; in fact every
thing.
From James R. Smith, from the neighborhood
Of the Leona, we learn that most of the families
there have collected for the purpose Of being pre-
pared for an attack from the Indians. They have
been furnished with arms. The citizens On the
frontier are moving daily. On the Attascosa
several families have left, especially the women
and children,