The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-04-02
FROM TEXAS.
INDIAN DEpREDArIoNs.

the border counties of Texas are being marke
with increasing impunity ard atrocity. The il
habltants of the Rio Grande Valley said to t
crowding into the interior for safety and prote
tion, and general alarm appears to pervade til
people of the State.
The Convention have mustered into service, fo
the protection of the frontier, large force
Texas Rangers and placed them under the com
mand OF Col. John s. Ford, who is claimed by th
Texas press to be as able, brave and prudent Al
officer as the country can boast. Su5joined is al
extract from an official despatch sent from Browns
vile on the 10th to the State authorities by Co
Ford.
| If Mexico remains pacific in her policy to
wards and Indian forays cease the number of mel
may possibly be reduced but whenever this line is ma
eriay weakened it simply invites attack. AT present
demonstration of some strength is ndspensaby
y zen Zaragosa is en- route for Monterey at the heaC
Of eight thousand His repued object is put
Gen Vldaurri When he shall have arrived the tone
the Mexicans will no longer be conciliatory.
From various points on the Rio Grande, Neuces ant
Fro, authenticated reports of Indian depredaons hat
reached Brownsville. Twenty.seven persons were re-
ported killed. many ranches plundered large stocks
ried away Companies of citizens had been in
andtwo skrmishes had taken place. resulting the loss
OF one Mexican. the killing of and the wounding o.
two Indians The depredaors reported to consist
Indians, Mexicans and few white men, Immediately
upon the receipt ofths information at Brownsville Cap
tam !teton was ordered out to pursue and il possible
chasllse the marauders Captain Nolan had previously
lei knggold Barracks with large detachment with the
same OBJECTS in view They have been out nearly week
but no report from them has been received The mount
| ed men will be kept in the field constantly.
is propaoie company of mounted men will have
headquarters at old Fort Ewe, the Neuces; another
near Laredo and another to be determined by crcum
stances.
LEGISLATIVE PROCEEDINGS.
The Texas Legislature convened at Austin on
the 18th. On the succeeding day Mr.. Epperson, Of
Red River, introduced the following resolution
Resolred. That when all legislative judicial and exec
are sin oIf
body of men, whether that body be composed of few
many, a despotism is established
z That in opinion the people of Texas have never
intended to confer such power upon any body of
ana mat any body OF men under any pretex whatever
III as.emptng 70 execute such power is guilty of usur
O. That the Convention in session, in attempting
70 uepose Sam Houston from the office of Governor of the
state OF Texas to which position he has been elected by
the suffrage of the feemen of Texas has undertaken
exercise power which it intended to confer
upon IL ana that the only mode by which he be e-
gay and rghtfuy deposed is that which has been point
ed outby the Constitution, to wit, by impeachment
substitute for this resolution declaring that the
Convention, in prescribing official oath, did but
their duty, aud that all officers of the State re-
fusng to subscribe to the oath deposed themselves
by such refusal, was adopted by So ayes to IL nays
CHLOROFORMIC VISIONS.
The following, which smacks of basheesh and
would seem to be made out of whole cloth is from
the San francisco Mirror. 1t describes what a
chloroform, in which he had been placed for the
purpose of having silver of iron extracted from
his eYe "My last sane recollection is of the sur
geon applying the handkerchief to my mouth; then
the room began to magnify to gigantic proper
tions; common lamp was transformed to a candle
labrum, more luminous and costly than ever light
ed the grandest cathedral in the world. The sur
geon became giant of prodigious magnitude
holding huge, cleaning knife, with a single blow
of which he might have severed me- The sound
OF voices in the room seemed like the clamorings
OF vast multitude during the burning of city,
and signboard, screeching outside, conveyed the
ioea of furious mob collected in the street for my
execution. On entering the room had noticed
large cat sitting asleep shelf, which
turned its head laziiy toward me and then resumed
its slumbers; this creature became hideous, vam-
pire-like monster, with great fiery eyes, and with
fangs and claws like what tabled to belong to
the Griffin walking round and blowing fetid breath
me, and pressing its frightfulpaws on nv breast
But the worst of all was a collection of gigantic
men sharpening instruments for my dissection;
could hear the whrring of the stone and the Shrek
ing of the ly-tempered knives as the grinders
laughed at the intended dissection. One was more
jocose and heartless than the rest; he was nv i'm
placable enemy; we had quarrelled and fought
knives at every joint; | shrieked and screamed
basphemed and besought my tormentors, but still
the instruments hissed through my quivering flesh,
and grated along every bone. | am satisfied that
all these emotions were experienced within a
moment after the first inhalation which began the
tions of thought when sense is subdued, and when
the phantom monarch of dreams leads the soul
through the endless avenues, switer in its journey
ing than the short-lived fire which falls from the
womb OF an overburdened cloud.
"But gradual revolution of mental perception
succeeded; those rightful specres began to recede
the men and knives began to diminish; the cat re-
turned to natural proportions, and crept slowly
away; the voices became less harsh and threaten
ing, and the noise in the street was subdued to un-
broken silence. | looked into universe of light
with nothing visible until indistinct forms appeared
on the horizon, coming toward me, and defining
themselves as they came. One was my mother
clad in grave-clothes, but, as she neared her bab
iments changed to the fabrics which elittered in
the prophets vision when he looked over the great
congregation which no man could number Di-
rectly she stood by me; and, recognizing every
feature, | saw that each age-mark was gone: her
cheek was fresh as the young girls when she first
bushes at the whispered words of love- and stoop-
ing to kiss me, the apparition went out: leaving
another, still more beautiful and youthful; it was
the figure of my young wife, who died in the birth
of her first child. She held an infant in her arms
who reached down and ran his tiny fingers through
my hair; but, when tried to take him in nv arms
infant and mother were gone. Strange that felt
no disappointment; | knew they were but pictures
that hung in the galleries of fathers heart. Ev-
erything changed to an existence of iude-
scrbable pleasure; l laughed and danced like
one mad with exhilaration of unexpected
deiverance from torture; the air came into
my lungs gratefully the uprising of cool
water TO the lips OF thirsty drinker. The aroma
OF celestial gardens seemed about me; | believed
that was in the territory of souls and wondered
now any should fear to die. | could h ear sounds
in the street, but they seemed to proIong and swell
like the sound of great organ. Millions of sym-
metrical creatures passed in review, along hori-
zon ofsilver and gold and yet was conscious that
they were but the creations of distorted imagina-
ton.
"PreSently | became conscious of returning
sano ,hS fa1f oId 1oFI
portions to be moved by the strengthening will;
my eyes opened and began to discern objects re-
tarning to natural dimensions, and began to COM
prehend the conversation of persons in the room.
The whole operation had not occupied halt an hour,
but had lived centuries of indescribabe horrors,
and emotions of happiness which are Incompetent
sible to the sane and wakefu mind. Nv 81 eht was
preserved and the fragment of steel is in my DOS
session which, like the key of St. Peter, unlocked
celestial splendors, and opened Pandora box of
hellish imagery, which, even now, scares me from
dreams to sudden and trembling wakefulness''
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