Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1856-04-26
REFORMATION OF INDIANS IN TEXAS,


The Austin State Gazette of the 2ath ultimo has
the following article about the Indians on the Re.
serve:
The able and efficient agent, Major NEIGuRoRs,
paid visit the past week, and we learn from
him that the Indians on the Reserve are making
important and valuable improvements. Some one
hundred and fifty houses have been erected, and
the Indiana are putting in about eight hundred
acres Of corn. 1fthey have fair crop there will
be an abundance made to sunply the wants Of the
Reserve. For tho first time the Indians OF Texas are
taking hold with determination TO depend entire,
ly upon it for their support. They are putting
their hands to the plough handle themselves, and
though it requires two t. perform the op3rotion--
one 10 lead the horses and the other to plough
still they have made beginning, and will soon be'
come expert at it, Even the Southern CnInmanCh-
es have taken hold Of tie hoe and are welding it
patiently. The excellent moral effects of this move
are witnessed in the sbsenle of theft and pilaga
on the part Of tue Indians. The settlers mako M
complaints of the loss UI horses CT cattle, and
some time ago, when Skillman was Killed by the
Northern Camanches, the Indians on the Reserve,
to the number Of hundred, Immediately volun-
teered their services to pursue the murdcrer3 9nd
arrest them. Some dozen were accepted, and they
overlook the hostile Indians. battle cnsued,
and the result that they utterly routed the ems
emy and brought back eight scal2s
There are some twelve or fifteen hundred lndi-
ans on the Reserve ana many tribes in other States
would willingly join them il they had the privilege
but it is not our policy to increase the Indians Of
Texas. We do much in afOrding tnose with US o
home and giving them support.
'Mai. NeigLbors deserves great credit for his la
bors, and should like 10 his services retaiu-
ed. We think it important to the security of the
State"
WHEAT AND NEGROES IN GEoRGIA.-A Georgia
correspondent of the Ne,0 Orleans Delta, under date
Of March 10Th, writes from Gwiunett county:
The prospect for good wheat crop in this and
the adjoining counties, is indeed very gloomy.
Most Of ouI wheat was sown later last fall than
usual and the freezing weather setting in early in
December, killed great deal in the sprout, and
before it had taken root.
Notwithstanding there is great agitation Of
the slavery question going on in and out OF Con-
gress yet have never known slaves to sell az such
high prices in this country, at public SALE az they
now command. In fact, you never hear of q man
being cheated in buying one at any price, II ha
gives too much, his friends will tell you he is not
cheated, but his bargain is q Htsle harder than
some one Glse's. There is a company OF young
m en- in this county buying young ones To carry to
Kansas to sell to those who are In want OF such
property. | understand they are going to carry
abous .wo hundred the first trip,
Fusion OF TUE TWO DoUGLAsEs.-A oOrrespen.
dent writing TO us from Lawrence, X. t. says,
that at township meeting on the Sth Of March, in
the County of Douglas, the Free State men got e
committe to report suitable name Tor tho town:
"Sumner" was the one chosen. "Who's SunnerT'
inquired the MsssouTiana. General Sumner OF
the Revolution-a South Carolinian." al right
we 20 him." The coolness Of the joke which put
upon the rufians the name Of an anti-sIavery Sen.
ator from Massachusetts w9s positive heat, COM
pared with the efrontery which then sussd the two
Dougases, Steve and Fred. Taking tho iattet
half of the Illinois Douglass name, and the frs,
of the Rochester one. these Free State men ra-
christened their County-and Sumner township il
now in Fred Douglass" County -Al6ony JoTrsf