New-York daily tribune., 1861-06-23

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wan e6uman1sA, and 10 their way weli dt.ciGaneo.
TAs guards II tho UniaeA States soldiers detsiea 70
sss -cs n on o them be
rssissd 70 shsl barracks, whore the two companies
stood on tho defensive till the afternoon Of the nexs
day, whan Gen. Twigss made surrender Of the DE:
pastneat of Texas, and stipulated for the wshcosi
q all the troops shoceSron with their Arms snd ts
gage. In conformity with this agreement, The h.t!s
garrison were allowed to march out Of town with tsss
arsna, mnsc and cclors, and eacsmp two miles from
ths pace. fae Rebel leaders had at first demanded
That those troors shoad lay down their arms and hsd
this heen permitted In, no order Of Twiggss could
haye prsys0ted q conflict, notwithstanding the DIS
parity Of numbers.
You willpease to observe that the town and depots
were seized on the night of the h and the surrender
of the depagtment WAS agreed on 6etpeen Twiggs and
tho 1erds on the 10th; bnt tie eapitu-
lation was not drawn up and signed till the lSthbe-
fore Col. Waite he'd arrived. Twiggss order, which
publishes Tie terms bears The latter date, and il pro-
vides for the formalty OF turning the property
winch had aheady been seized. This was to be done,
not by ocess who still held it, but who had three days
before hsd It in their pOssession From this order
presume you derive your strange impression that the
propetty did not pass ont Of the armys possession till
after Col Waite lad taken the command
TIE order for Col. Waite TO relieve Gen. Twiggs
passed through San Antonio the day before Mccullough
entered the town. and received by the Colonel at
lation; but with sll the haste that could 6s made,
Col Waite could not reach headquarters TILL the lo'h,
after the capitulation was signed A company OF
rangers had been stationed on the Camp Verde road 20
intercept him; and he evaded them only by taxing a
ess-beaten track On entering San Antonio ne would
have been a once arrested bad not the rebels felt tns
be was already powsrless and it was only thought
advisable 10 disrm the escort OF fifteen cavalry soi
ders with which he had travelled On the ith Without
anv Of his own troops around him, he took command
,ft tlo latr nanar MA hpldQuarfers
town garr:oned by 600 800 rebels who had already
been for four days in possession 6 the arsenal ana
other central depos of supplies and most Of the means
of trans nspona.ion on which the distant garrsons de-
pended. Your attempt to deny that those earIsons
were widely scattered Is absurd. The two nsarest
posts were Camp Verde and Fort Inge, garIisoned
by three companies and by one, each
being in different directions, 65 miles from San Ano-
MO. The reuotest of the posts was 6oo miles on.
The five or six on the Rio Grsnde extended from Fort
Brown to III Paao near 900 miles; and those of the
D0Ith-we. covered line of about half that length;
and each garrisoned by from one to three compa-
nies. At one VI these there may have been four o.
five.
Ip the face of an armed end organized pOpuationf,
which, az later events showed could muster an efficient
partisan force Of 5000 men 10 a few days-with the
supplies requisite for sustaining or moving those gar
isons already in the enemys hands-and with hls own
per con at their nercy how was it possible for CoI
Waite TO repuGhate the caIntulation and 70 con.
csntrs,e Had Gen. Twises done his duty, aud
done il in inns, ten thousand Texas militia
could NOT hsve prevented him marching out Of the
State with all the portable property Of the sTmy but
less than hak that nnnbsr csIid now battle any effort
to retrieve the di.ssses The Union eiement, which
might have ecsbisd Twiygs to preserve the State
froin rsbellos, had he made that element bold by Wis
own fidelity, was now too much paraly1ed, us TIE
Cur.s at San Antonio showed to be Of any sefyee to
Col Waite. His oaly course was 10 eany out che
capitalization. The property irreyoesbly lost; but
the troops might ril be made syaasie for future ser
,ee. The enerny's perfty has defeated that cbjset
with regard to smaller portion Of ths force; bus
world have been defeated in toto by resort to arms
when suoe9 was impossible. FIEDisTpa.
ssuch Of those officer. chose 10 comply With this .epsJ
were the ptopS for the purpose OF rs'lk
out seeing the o articles and nceiSs or "a NJ
certificates s tothssn by The Reoei Csss
,ioneIs.
Simu ously with NeCulloctis psreh on ssnAUonc,s
force sent by lard aud water sssinst Font Bro~n