New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-03-09

The Austin Gazette publishes the following
letter, the date of which shows that the Indians
concerned in the late bloody foray had remained
within the line Of the Texan frontier for two weeks
after committing their first outrages in Erath
county:
BURNETT, TEx4s, Feb q, 1850.
Maj. Marshall regret to have to inform you
vicinity Of this place. We have had some 80 or 40
men after them since Sunday evening. The last of
the scout has this moment returned and informed
me that he with some six others have been on their
trail all day, frequently getting in sight Of them.
The Indians being on horseback, galloped from
one cedar mot to another, and thus elude our men.
The families are leaving the North Gabriel and
Musquete settlements in rapid succession. It is be
lieyed that all, Or nearly ALL. Of the inhabitants
north Of us will leave in less than two weeks. 1t
is now time to prepare for planting our crops but
instead OF doing SO our farmers are compelled,
many of them, to remove their families to keep
them from being outraged and murdered-and
that too, most probably. by savage villains, to
feed whom we are taxed. Truly the times are
sadly out of joint
In Texas paper we find the following letter
from Gov. Houston. The letter to which he al
iudes in the postscript Is the mysterious document
picked up some time ago on the clear fork Of the
Brazos, which we have already published:
EsEevrlyE DRPAaTsssre
Dear STA letter of the 18th inst, from Lam
pasas, is now before me. The accounts given Of
Indian depredations and murders are fightful in
their detail but what can the Executive do other
than he has already done? The paltry appropria-
ton made by the Legislature for frontier defense
and protection is nearly exhausted, and the troops
now in the field will absorb every dollar of it in
less than two months; the Treasury otherwise is
worse than bankrupt yet the Executive will con
time to use every means possible to render pro-
lection to the frontier inhabitants. For your i'm
mediate protection, You have perfect right to
raise one company Of minute men, commanded by
one LIST Lieutenant, two Sergeants and two Corpo-
rails and take the State for your pay and subsist-
ence: and would advise that, if such q party is
raised, it should not consist of more than twenty
men, each scattered along the frontier, and that
correct muster rolls, stating under oath the exact
number of days served by each man, be forwarded
to the Department, in order that you may be pre-
pared to present them before the Legislature for
relief.
The Executive has learned with regret that many
of these forays are lead on BY white men in dis
gnise. Should any such be taken, he would re-
commend that they be gibbeted at once. Minute
men are only to be called ont in pressing emergen-
cies.
Ii troops are mustered and turn out unneeessa-
rily, and in greater numbers than the emergency
requires kept in service longer than is need
full, the Legislature cannot be expected to grant
relief.
Very truly thine, SAM HOUSTON.
P. S.-Partenlar attention is called to the fol-
lowing letter. The letter speaks for itself, as many
of the illusions to parties supernduce the belief
tlemen of veracity and influence who have lived
for years upon the frontier, that some of the par
ties named are men of VIGOROUSLY bad characters
| hine HOUSTON.