New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-03-26
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anee Of the Convention, providing for such aa
event. Id case be fefassH to fake te oath ,f as-
glance prescribed bT it iii The name III ma
ereIgntys Of the people of Texas. .5
The Legislature has passed a bill raiafng geri.
msnt q mounted rffemen, of 1000 men % be5 81.
rolled for one year, unless sooner discharged bR
s1ovs Clark, AID to be put into service at once.
| The Convention have elected Col Ford Lieutenant
| Goionei John r. Baylor and Major Hiram Wal Z
ieT az the Held oficersno better could be chosen.
/ ing officers and men are to furnish their own q
etothn9, horses and aeeoutermsnts: and those who ~
NAY Nsn to do go. can furnish their own arms IL
aaapsea 70 ~ service, for which they are to REL
/ ceiye some addsfiona pay. The State ID TO arIa
| ana equip ne oneers and men, Who are To receive
the same pay az allowed II the Confederate states
/ The commissioned officers of each eouunar1y s
captain, tWo ieHfenants and IA suFsenn-4aEa ii ba
elected by the 1en the non Commissioned offIaafs
four sergeantS four c0rporals and bug or eaeh f
| eompany-to be appointed By the captains n ii
enrolling officer for each company. to he appointed
by the IoVerAoF, who is to enroll the me and ~
sist in their Organization. The Colonel ii specially
! to superintanH the armfng and eqaipping of the
men, III order that they may be broug t into acsiy,
/ ssEyiee with a. little delay as possible.
The regiment IL to be employed for the defense
OF me frontier and 10 the prosecution of active cam
/ pafgns into The Indian country.
Tile volunteers now in the service af tile State e
/ are TO De received as part of the regiment
Whatever arms, military stores, etc.. are now Id *
possession Of The state that may be necessary to
the regiment are ordered to be W used, on proper
shenld the Confederated States Government ID.
eept the regiment a. part af their military force
/ it ls to pc subject to their orders and NM.
Ihes ordtnanee 1s to remain in full force until
otherwise provided by act oR the Iegssafurs or sy
1 act Of the Cohfsderate Congress.
/ Among thN reports of the proceedings of tlis
| Texas Legislature we find The following:
Among other bills for relief one gaa Introduced
! for the reIel Of Cynthia Ann Parker. who was
about two mdnths ago recovered from The on1aT.-
/ ehes bg Capt Ross after having been eaptiFsin i'll
their hands FIT rs years. She was ared ON THE
10Th Gay Of Nay, 1886, al ,Parker,s Fort, st the
head OF the havasoto two MI aa neaFIg West af
where Springfield now Is. Her father, siIs Parker,
1 John Parker. her grandfather, and Beriatnin
Parker wereal killed, also, Samuel Frost aud Hill
! son Robt. Frdst, then yonEg man, making four
/ persons killed. Her grandmother was wounded
4 aud left as dead, but afterwards recovered.
There were four other prisoners taken bF the In
dians at the same time, namely Elizabeth KEEL
logg. Rachel Pummer, her son James Pratt Plum
mer, about ls months Old, and John Parker, .
being then years old Il
Ezabath EEeilog was bought BIZ The Kiekapaos
some six mo1ths after, and from them soon after
4 purchased bF her friends. She has since died.
Rachel PInmlher was with the Indians two years
and was bought by some Santa ne traders and re-
stored The narrative Of her captivity has proba-
u bly, been read by some of our readers. Cynthia
Ann states, through al Interpreter that her brother
i John died with the small poy, some eight oil ten
years after his captivity. The youngest captive,
James Pratt Plummer, was recovered when about
years old and is now living near Springfield. Miss
Cynthia Annis now entirely unable to speak ons
language, anl can converse only through an inter
prefer. She is nDw ST o. 35 years old, appears iIa
good health, and has g. very sprghtly child about
two years oil. She IL now III this city and NJ being
visited by very many. At first after her recovery
she was afraid Of being killed By Her own country
men, for the Comanehes had taught her to thiHk
! So She believed the Comanehes were the most
numerous and powerful people i'd the world, aud
only now begins to learn that she had been de-
ceiVed She vas aware that she American.
Her compiez ZION quite fair still, but iies Body and
arms bear the marks Of having been erIeIly treat
ed The bill for the relief Of this unfortunate
young wnman was referred to the Committee ea
the Judiciary.
The following is from letter Of tEe Sill INST,
from aeitize OF Laredo to 4 member of TIE Com
vention at A lstin: VI
LAREDO, March 6, 1se1.--A party af Indians,
thought to te sixty strans, attacked the settle
ments on THU side the Ffo, about tine lsk inst and
killed old man and young man, and sEatIea Il
young girl, about II years old, after haVtag gfssn
| hers great humber5of wounds with tneir iaaees
and eft her for dead, when heard feota HE Rrio
last. They then passed down and crossed the
Nueces aud at water hole called Ei Cato they
I, came upon siX MeXieans, who we're going tn sam
. Antonio with n cahaaao of fifty horses. OF these
r they killed bne and wounded anathers taking all
!. their horses TO Los Giueos; and from there they
. went to AHerca, in Iapaa county where they
| killed MkScan boy; thence to Los 0nenfaas
where they killed . Mexican: thence to San AM
+ tonic Visiu where they killed another Mexican !;
If when they went to Los Aseogas. near Rio Gsanhe
e City, where rnmors SAYS they killed sixteen MexI-
). cans and an American family
q Previous to arriving there they Ind taken two
q | Mexican bdys prisoners, who thaving been after
| wards retaEen1 say while they were with them
| they came Upon four aiexleans, a pretty Woman
and two little children in the road ii buggy, ana
= | that they killed Ill the party. They killed the
u white children by forcing mescRl down their
throats, and of nonrse strangted them. AT those
| lower ranc}es they tBak many horses. A small
party from lis nace went ont after them nndeftae
command OF Don Santos Renevidas, Mat Eallaghams
being one of t3e tfartY. They ofeftauls them yes
terday, abodt twenty miles ahaye Los 0inetess e
suppose ia Ehcnal county, where they had q rum
ming fight of two or three miles, Our men killed
three Of the Indians (whose seaps they hsoughtin}
and retook the two boys and nearly ailthe hafses.
about $50, al near as can ascertain.
{ The alarm that this terrible massacre has dGSIS
stoned is incredible, and assure ynut ii we aFesta3
be left at thP mercy of these savages are lost.
Nearly oil the settlers this side of the Naecss hays
e moved into town. and no one can tell when they
> will dare tc return. Indians have been seen in
: two or threh parties both above and below taSn
d and out on 1he San Antonio road during the time
q this large party was below. The party that our
men fought was as strong. Several are supposed
g to have been wounded q
: P. S. The etroops leave on Monday naxt,44 Up to
0 date we have heard nothing from east OF the.
d Nneces. Bss
t. TIE BuIFALo HUNTERS. 60 The Weatherfard
t. White Man. of the 7Eh inst. announces That Col.
is Baylor aud his party were that day expected, on
their return from the long eoutinto the Indian
country. The object of the expedition had not
been etfhetdd, but it had done much gaod never
u theless, haThg thoroughly examined the country
IL for more than 800 miles west of Parker county.
Col. Hood who conveys this information to the
White Man, expressed himself satisfied that some
traitor had given the Indians timely notice of the
contemplate move against them. Cob. Baylor re-
turns with the respect and affection of ali his men,
e The expedition lahoEed under serious aaadyaa-
trE