New Orleans daily crescent., 1861-01-29
From the Texan Frontier.

The Galveston News of Saturday last colates
the following intelligence regarding the troubles
on the frontier:
The Indians were thick about Beiknap in Young
county, coming on the public square, killing nag
and stealing horses. On the 5th, fifty-two Of them
charged some buffalo hunters twenty miles above
| Belknap, and took their horses from them. The
Indians appear to be coming still further into the
| settlements.
| A party of Indians a short time ago, came upon
a Mr.. Walker and his wife, while riding near the
| line of Llano and Gillespie counties. They shot Mr..
| W. from his horse, but he kept them off. They
took his horses and left. Mrs. Walker walked,
after night, fourteen miles for help, which being
obtained, her husband was carried in, only to die.
The Indians also carried off four children belonging
to another family in Gillespie county.
| The difficulty with the kickapoos has been AMIGA
| bly, arranged.
were thronged with g Buffalo Hunters" !" bound to
the general rendezvous at Lost Valley on the 18th
The companies from Freestone and Kaufman had
| arrived, and the Dallas men were coming. The
season for such campaign is the most unfayOr-
able, and the men will be badly prepared for it ::
but they are of the right stuff, and have good and
experienced officers. Many of the companies were
on the way.
Capt Stockton refuses the command offered him
by the Governor, preferring to serve with his old
friends, Col. Baylor and Capt. Hammer as an inde-
pendent ranger. Capt Barry has returned home
with one man from two months trip on the Bra
again with another company for BelkDap. Capt.
Lowe WAS sick at Fort Chadbourne. Capts Barry
Stockton, CurrentOu and Hagler, who have all
been out, report the Indians in large numbers in
aud below the frontier settlements. There is a
large camp of them on the head waters of either
the Wichitah, Brazos or Colorado.
The White man returns the heartfelt thanks of
the frohtiersnen for the liberal donation from
Houston. They do not appear to know what has
been done for them in Galveston.
Mr.. john Berry, of Williamson county, who has
been on the frontier since 1920, has presented Col.
Baylor with au otd-fashi0ned but excellent back.
woOdsmen's rifle he made himself twenty years
ago. He wished to join in the Buffalo Hunt but
his age forbade.
Capt. Tom Harrison, with full company, we'll
equipped, left Waco on the 1Gth for the frontier.
Waco sends rs men out.
The Indian forays have broken up many of the
churches and schools the frontier. IF the sava.
ges be not driven entirely out, and an efficient rang
ing force is not kept there this sad state of affairs
will continue for years.
Citizen ranging companies are constantly on the
scout now in Comanche and Brown counties Capt.
Deaton commands another in Hamilton county.
The Houston Telegraph says:
From a private letter, dated Weatherford, JAN
Is, we learn that the Grand Buffalo Hunting Expe-
dlti0n had already left that place for Lost Valley
whence it will proceed to Belknap, and there divide
into companies of fifty men. Each company will
take separate route, and by this means some one
company will stand q chance of getting fight
and every man in the expedition is exceedingly
anxious to be one of the fortunate fifty. There
were about one hundred Indians in PaIo Pinto
county, out of whom it would be impossible to get
fight, for if pursued, they would retreat to the
mountains, where it would be impossible to follow
them OH horseback