Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1854-06-08
vAsH1HaroN NEWS AND GOSSIP.

WASHINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP.
Muss in the House Hall.-see our re-
port of the very last foolish notoriety seeking
splurge of that modest and ingenious man,
Mr. Giddings which took place this morning.
Texas Indian Difieulties.-Late advices
from the Texas frontier tell of more Indian
troubles which threaten to become very serious
indeed. These Texas Indians have already
cost the United States Government enormous
expenditures, if we are not mistaken. Perhaps.
annually since the act of annexation, ten times
as much as these Indians cost the Treasury of
Texas, when the really defenceless condition
Of the Northern and Western frontiers of
Texas, and the Vaccinations of Mexico to stir
up the sayages to hostile demonstrations against
the Texans made the real inducements of hos
tile acts on the Fart Of the Indians of Texas
ten times as great as at present. Now, these
facts should be pondered on by Congress; for
they will have to foot the bill, and as their
legislation is necessary to put a stop to the
existing condition of things in that quarter,
they are really to be the responsible parties
for its much longer continuance.
At present We have some 2,70O troops on the
Texan frontiers, most of which. however, are
said to be temporarily concentrated at or
within striking distance of the Rio Grande.
Previous to the annexation, Texas rarely had
more than $50 men, at most, regularly en-
gagged in seeing to their Indians, who were
aided by some three or four volunteer expedi-
tions Of small bands of volunteers without
pay, who were accustomed to make excursions
| into the Indian range to hunt land locations,
and at the same time to observe or punish this
or that tribe which had given trouble.
1t strikes US that almost all the officers of the
United States army willingly admit that sweep
ing changes in our present military system with
reference to those particular tribes are abso-
lutely necessary, if we would protect the Tex
an frontier, for a reasonable expenditure to that
end. The question, however, is, how can that
desirable object be best accomplished? The
senior editor of the Star resided some years on
the western frontier of Texas before the an
nexation, and in duly seeing the elephant,
obtained much information concerning her In
dams, and their habits, and the methods and
modes of Texas with reference to them and
their results. So, he is emboldened to write
freely on the subject, and to say that party
of twenty-five Texan frontiermen will accom-
plish more in the way of Indian hunting, OBJ
serving, &c, than any ordinary company of
United States regulars 100 strong They will
travel, carrying along all the baggage, provis-
ions, DC, they may need for two months trip,
three miles for every one made by company
Of regulars, Dragons not excepted; and they
never fail to find the savages when once on
their trail. Seventy-fve of their rifles in &C.
ton, is worth quite 100 muskets or regulars ri
fes for that particular work, as the Indians
themselves know we'll.
Our notion is, to farm out to the State of Texas
the duty of protecting her citizens from their
own Indians. For half the money now paid
on that account, Texas, with her greater ex-
serience in such matters, could do the work
satisfactorily, and, doubtless would gladly
take such contract. If some definite plan to
this end be not speedily resorted to-, the pros
pect certainly is that, in the end, quite as much
money must come from the United States trea-
sury On Texas Indian protection account, as
was voted by Congress under the title of s'the
Texas indemnify
The Very Last Dodge.-The New York
1rt6u''e's last crazy notion, is to accuse those
engaged in the execution of the fugitive slave
law in Boston in the Burns case, of brutal
conduct The editor however. has Theodore
Parker-the "unjust, unrighteous, and dam
nable" preacher-for fugleman in this bust
ness, the idea being copied rer6at.m ct liter.
4ttna, from that crazed declaimer
Now, it is said verbally and in print by all
the Boston people and presses, save and ex
cept the abolitionists and the Commonwealth
that from first to last the authorities, high anc
low, conducted themselves with the most com
mendable forbearance.
So, there's q - fb 'sout somewhere" W.
leave the public to judge who tell it, Accord
ing to the Tribune, hundreds of stories reIativ,
to the brutality of the military and United
States civil authorities on that occasion ar,
afloat, Of which nothing is heard on any othe
> authority. Yet the Tribune, while thanking
God that Special Providence prevented thes
soldier brutes from being INDUCED in thei
longing for the privilege of making Boston
streets run with the blood of her peace-lovin,
and God-obeying abolition patriots, forgets t,
say a word about the BOTTLES of vitriol thrown
: from the windows of the Commonwealth
abolition organ) building, at the military, in
juring some and greatly endangering the live
of hundreds-all for the love of God of course
Under such prOvocations the military restrain
ed their resentment though the act was suffi
GENTLY atrocious to justify summary punish
ment on the spot, by fire and sword.
Really, it is hard indeed to have witnessed
as we did, what transpired in Boston during
portion of those exciting times, without appre
ciatiDg the fact, that to their other varied &C
complishments, the Abolitionists and thei
organs add that of being liars of more adroit
ness and impudence in that line, than an,
others who have ever fourished, at least il
% this country Of ours.
No Double Salaries BY the 9Th section O
an act passed May 8, 1892, it is enacted 'tha