New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1856-06-25
Later from Texas
! ARRIVAL OF THE STEAMSHIP MEXICO. s

gsARRIyAL OF THE STEAMSHIP MEXICO. 5g{s5 7
The steamship Mexico, Capt. LaWless, arrived at
this port from Galveston and Indianola, yesterday
morning, bringing Galveston dates to the 22d, and
Indianola to the 21st inst.
From the tone Of the press throughout the State,
we wond infer that large crops viii be made this
season Of both cotton and corn. ST ts
& From the Galveston Civilian Of the goth insty we
learn that the troubles the Texas and Louisiana
border still continue. That paper says y
The free negroes, muattoes and white men, to the
number Of forty, with the Sheriff at their head, who
had been ordered to leave the country have refused
to do So and have fortified themselves, some four
miles above Madison. They are reported TO have 9
hundred gnns, besides pistols and boWle knives, and
to bid defiance to their opponents. Parties in the,
country are about equally divided Almost every man
enemies. The high grass in the prairie affords hiding
places every where, and no man can leave ms nome
with safety. 4*s5sf$ s@ sssss
s Last Saturday DR. Meers and Burwen Alexander,
| two men who had been warned by the Regulators to
leave the county, and refused, were shot by party
Of twenty or thirty men, at Green's Bluff The execu
tion is reported to us to have been deliberate.
The prescribed class is said to nearly equal the
remainder Of the citizens Of the county in number
"a bloody battle is respected and the result is doubt
ifu unless the whites reinforced from other coun-
ties. They have had promises Of assistance from
Liberty aud elsewhere Ia M SFS. 9s 55S
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4 property Of any kind. Smith s. Merriman keep their
mill guarded night and day and other persons are IL
continual apprehension.
4 Nothing has been seen Of the niulatto Ashworth
j who murdered Deputy but he is believed to be urk
ing in the neighborhood if not with the party in the
4 fort. IA 1T ~ AL 81
It is impossible for us to give detailed or correct
history Of the events which have ended in the present
state Of affairs. There may have been faults on bott
! sides But there seems no doubt that the nsolence
and crimes of the free persons of mixed blood hayt
been such as to be unendurable by the whites. 1t i
evident that both parties cannot longer live in ths
4 same community. We shall expect to hear of bloody
i work by every mail, until the Governor can orde
such force to the spot from other counties, as vii
restore order, and sustain the laws. ~
i We copy the following from the Nueces Valley
4 the 14th instant: ~ $8 'tts 7%595 s V
Major Hill, Paymaster q. s. A., arrived here o1
Wednesday last and reports that while passing iron
Fort Davis to Fort Clark and at place called Devil
j River he was attacked by about fifty Indians; tht
Indians were armed with rifles and bows and arrows
and after delivering their FIRE. attempted to charge TN
4 wagon where the Major had SO 000-but two men II
I the wagon drawing their, revovers the Indians re
treated. A corporal was wounded in the arm DyS
4 rifle ball. and the arm had to be ampntated.s Majo
Hill was wounded in the right forearm with an al
row. but we are glad to learn not seriously ,
Tie Major and his son were most miraculous
saYedby swimming the river. It is most astonishln
that tile Indians did not xii them all, and eaptur
= the wagon and money. .'sas' @l4t'.si II 49,