New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-04-19
HIGHLY INTERESTING FROM TEXAS.
Correspondents Of The n. Y. Tribune.

Correspondence Of The n. Y. Tribune
WASHINGTON, April Is, 1861.
great effort il made In the press TO Justify the action
Of the military in Texas and particularly to whiiewaHh
the officers ! am not inclined 20 throw blame upcn
individuals before their course has been investigated
and acted upon, az certainly ought 10 be, by the
psoper Courts. But having been present through all
those troubles in Texas feel myself bound TO vind-
cate historical truth and the character of the people Of
Texas, order that responsibility may rest upon tie
proper heads.
I. It was q fact, well known all over Western
Texas that there were only two officers in the army
stationed there who were professed Republicans MAJOR
Sheppard at Fort Clark, and Lieut.. Mower at Camp
Verde How many were Union men is unknown, bat
il was Notifying in the extreme for those who symp-
shized with the Republican party TO hear that party
Ns Presidential candidate and its most prominent lead
er yihhed, sbused and the dirtest epithets thrown
.pon them wherever we might happen TO meet with
officers of the army. Truly, the officers Of the army
from the North had 70 be very cautious" as yonr
informant in THE TRIBUNE of April II says but they
uutheroded Herod, and they succeeded 50 well that
svervbodv knew that the officers were thoroughly
mposed 70 the Republican party. l may here be per-
ait.ed 10 correct from the best personal information
that the Washington correspondent Of The N. Y
T;mes has said Of A. A. G. Withers. He was known
a an out-and-out Southern man, Misssisippian
sAyeholder He has unluckily no fatber-io.law who
could disinherit him, his wiies father, Ed. Dryer m
Irishman having died six years ago. Mrs. Withers is
not the offspring of Spanish family, her mother being
n Mexican lady, who never thought Of exercising AN
influence over Capt Withers his wife. And, finally
che considerable property of the lady is well taken
care Of by her uncle and brother heretofore have
doubt the Captain is now longing for the Federal
Hesb-pots, but he went the wrong track.
2. have no inclination TO speculate the feasbil-
hy OF sending back the very same regiments; but
cannot agree with your informant that the Gaze
Of Gen. Sam Houston and the Union party is
altogether hopeless. II Houston and j. A. Hamilton
under the eyes Of the Convention can make speeches
dcDouncing in the strongest terms the action of the
Convention treason when Hamilton is elected Seia
tor the strength Of his speeches, when the inbab
ants Of San Antonio every occasion unfurl the old
Gag, notwithstanding the headquarters of the K G. C.
there, think these important manifestations
the story from Cameron County the contrary not.
withdrawing. Cameron, Rio Grande county, Las
hardly many inhabitants your infoI has re-
ported votes. The six hundred Secession votes were
no doubt almost exclusively Mexicans from the OTTER
side, imported at two shillings head. Mccullough
was certainly not in Cameron before the election and
on the day itself he was at San Antonio. will not
deny that the Union acted very cowardly, but not
more 30 than those of Louisiana and other States
8. When your informant told you that the officers
have been unable to learn anything about the now
dominant party, except through Pro.Slavery channels
the newspapers not in the interests Of Slavery and par
ticulary TIE TRIBUNE, having been kept from them
ssndiousy by the system of espionage which has pre-
vailed in the post-ofees South" must in the fist
place deny this charge against the postmaster OF san
Antonio through whose Office all military FORTS posts
and camps got their papers. lie is not only gentle
man but, what is more, an honest man and officer WHO
DID not mind the infamous law passed by recent Leg
asatufe OF Texas. He delivered all papers that were
ordered I'LL the 10Th day Of February inst, when all
New-York papers, The Herad excepted, were by or.
der OF the vigilance Committee stopped In the second
place, CONTEND and hope TO be able to prove it in
Mort time by records necessary, that the officers 5f
heir impslse long before and during the last can
Vass received twenty If not more numbers Of The Her
hid for each number of Republican paper, and
hat no paper was more hated and yilifed Iy
hem than TAG TEIEUNE. / finally eay, ard
'our books viii bear me out in this assertion
hat from 60 10 20 copies Of your paper, ayersgb
vent to San Antonio. Let your informant tel Ne if
he citizens dared to take tis paper, why did not tile
meersf The fact is the whole military machine, ard
the Quartermasler Department, was 10
aeh an extent in she Prosayery interest," tlat it WIS
generally established fact that nobody who Was rot
could gei contract, an appointment even
Dc most nenia, in fact could not cell dozen Of eegs
. pound Of butter to an officer.
In The present tine when we need good fesJ;,, | ,
,nope all opposed to the common foe. am the lst n
se severely the weakness of the Union men Of thu
sA'es' or The obvious shortcomings of Tho 1
a. vi but az long as can hold pen shall !,
'pasS eSsIy attempt 70 throw the whole HAM. mr.,