The national Republican., 1861-07-09
FROM TEXAS.

r'' -.- FROM TEXAS. .' 80 a.'
In addition to the disasters heretofore re.
counted as produced by the treachery of the trai-
torous officers Of our army in Texas, was the
seizure at San Antonio Of Grants army trains,
laden with provisions to the value of 100000.
Brief notices Of this seizure have hitherto ap.
peared. The army supplies consisted prinei.
pally Of bacon, soap, and candles, to be. de-.
livered at various posts in Northwestern Texas
and Arizona. The merchandise was seized by
the rebels on the first day of April, but the agent
in charge Of the train, on the plea that the
goods we're not yet transported to the several
United States posts for which they were destined,
proceeded to persuade Clark, who assumes to
be the Governor of Texas, to release them.
The train accordingly went on it's way in peace
for nearly three weeks, when, on the goth Of
April, fresh seizure was made. News Of the
Presidents proclamation of the 18th Of April,
calling for troops to suppress rebellion, had
meantime reached Texas. These goods were
accordingly seized as enemy's property, and
about the same time some $4,000, which the
paymaster Of the forces had drawn from New
Orleans to pay the troops, was also seized at
San Antonio, "on the Lords day, under the
pressure of public necessity" as the newspaper
Of the place remarked.
Mr.. Grant, the contractor for the delivery Of
these goods, loses two hundred and eighty pairs
of oxen, and twenty horses, which the rebels
took from him, pretending to believe that they
belonged to the Government, whereas they
knew perfectly well at the time that they were
the private property of Mr.. Grant.
The officer who acted in this matter IN be.
half of the rebels, was Colonel Luckett, who
assumed to be auartermaster for the State of
Texas. There were fifteen hundred Texas
troops at San Antonio at the time, armed with
rifles and revolvers, and all mounted except
four companies Of infantry.
The four hundred United States troops who
were betrayed by their commander we're at
San Antonio when our informant left that
place. They we're without money or means of
support, the funds intended for their pay having
been stolen by the rebels as above stated.
Rations in some sort were issued to them, but
it was understood that the design was to starve
them into the rebel service.
The people of Texas continue to suffer from
the want of troops to protect them. The In.
dams have made forays to within fifty miles of
San Antonio, killing the people and driving off
their cattle. The robbery of one stage.coach
by the Indians, we copied from Texas paper,
some days since. We now learn of another
like instance, with circumstances of great
atrocity. The mules attached to q stage.coach
came into town with only the fore-wheels of the
coach attached. A party was sent out to make
inquiries, when they found all the passengers
of the coach murdered. Three Of them had
been tied up to limbs of trees by the heels,
with their heads downward, and FIRE lighted
under them. In another instance, where
stsge.coach was waylaid, the coach had been
set on FIRE. The charred bodies of the pas.
sengers were found tied to the wheels.
Mr.. Giddings, of San Antonio, Texas, had
been murdered by the Indians. He had a
contract with the Government to carry the
mails from San Antonio to San Francisco, by
way of Ell Paso, Mesilla, Tucson, in Arizona,
and San Diego, striking the old Butterfeld
route at Camp Stockton, in Texas. He was
murdered at the Apache pass. The person
employed by him as stock-master had also been
killed.
Positively no business is reported at Gal.
weston, Port Lavacca, Powderhorn, and other
seaports of Texas, while in the interior nothing
but the preparations for war were going on.
Mr.. LINCOLN ON COMP PRoMIsEs.-"N No COM
PROMISE by public servants could, in this case
| be cure not that compromises are not often
proper, but that no popular government can
long survive marked precedent, that those
who carry an election, can only save the Gov.
ernment from immediate destruction, by Civ.
ing up the main point, upon which the people
gave the election. The people themselves, and
not their servants, can safely reverse their own
deliberate ons."-Message Of July A.
Mr.. LINCOLN ON NEUTRALITY.-"In the
border States, so-caled-in fact the middle