Civilian & telegraph. [volume] (Cumberland, Md.) 1859-1875, 1863-03-05
IMPORTANT FROM TEXAS.
The Evidence Of Union Feelings.
Barbarities Perpetrated by the
Rebels.

| DdrUdFltICS fcfpCtfuttu W eHC
Rebels.
UNIONIsTS IN NORTHERN TEXAS.
from the San Antonio Herald, Nov 49,
There are, no doubt, individuals catered
over various portions Of Western and Nor
thern Texas who have long INDUCED the
hope that the Yankees were just on the point
of invading the State, dispensing the Rebels
and taking the poor, down-trodden Union
lists under their protection. This unhappy
class Of our citizens may be distinguished BY
their lugubrious countenances, nerer releiref
by smile except 'ehen ne,os a'rires Of some
disaster to the Confederate cause. Upon such
occasions their pleasure is so intense that it
is impossible to conceal il.
| The most extravagant reports of Federal
victories are received by them as ndisputa-
BILE facts, while Confederate successes require
to be dozen times confirmed before they
are considered worthy of the least attention.
The greatest delusion under which such per-
sons labor is the belief that they are decei-
wing the community, and that their real SEN
tltntuto utc uOb huo"u. ANCNCi "oo e'S'S "
greater mistake. Th y are kno,cn and r'1
at first, and they are becoming ere,y day less.
| In the mountains near Fort CLARK, and along
| the Rio Grande, their bones are bleaching in
The sun, and IN the counties Of Wise and Dem
! ton their bodies are suspended by scores from
black jacks. Th,y Were ,carned in time to
| leure the count J; and, choosing n remain,
| Yn, yLo 1riTb
sehom their gor.! qmtH is at ,car, they must
erpect TO take The consequences Of their choice.
No Government, in time of war, will tole- ate
treason; and no man who is traitor at heart
should expect favors from the people of a
Government with which he has no sympa-
thy; and in the overthrow Of which he would
| rajoice.
| If there are any Of the above class-any
Of the dcluded followers of jack Hamilton
still ir Texas, it behooves them to reflect upon
| these facts. The Southern Confedcracy is an
established Government. Its final success in
the present war is an absolute certainly
No man of ordinary intelligence even in the
North doubts it. 1t is high time. therefore.
for those among us, whatever their sympa-
thics may have been, to prepare for the con-
dition of thin. that inevitably awaits them.
!
earnest, the cause Of their own people and
become good and loyal citizens They must
either do this, and do it quickly, or remain
enemies and traitors-ohjscts of loatling and
scorn among heroes and patriots in Il free,
glorious and powerful young Confederacy.
AN ABOLITION ORGANIZATION.
[From the Houston Telegraph. NV 27.
We have been permitted by the Governor
| to look over the official accounts of the dis
covery of the secret Abolition organization
in Northern Texas, aud the quick justice
metsd out to the traitors
The organization appears to be one Of re-
cent date. 1t purpMts to have been started
! in the Gorth, and to embrace numb' rs of the
Northern army in its fold. 1t also purports
to extend to at least several companies Of the
organized militia Of Northern Texas. How
far it extends in that diie ton we are not
prepared to say. The bulk OF its member
ship in Texas is in Cook, Wise, Denton,
Grayson, etc, counties. 1t also reaches
down to Austin, lis first pretended otjtct is
10 resist conscription. It's chief oyect is TO
keep up a spy system for the Northern army.
II las a grip, a sign and PASSWORD. In
case member diruiyes he is to be hunted to
tie ends Of The earth. In case cf d'gti Of
hc miliG1 TO meet a Northern inrasion, the
members are to 90 along and desert mhen the
! battle comes on. The testimony tHcited also
points 10 an inca sion Of 1tras from hdnsds.
| II refers, ntoreorer, to concurrent nroS'on
| by ardy Of Galresfsn, and that both armies TO
meet IN dustin.
The organization has been fGund 10 ertend
to all classes Of the rommusity, clegyme",
professional men. farmers, etc. Among tn
| number. we are panied to find the name Of
DR.. r. II. Lively, of Sherman, a member Of
the Masonic Grand lodge of thi, State. and
heretofore most highly esteemed, having Gu
joyed some of the highest offices in that bo-
dy. The whole substance and machinery
has been discovered. A jury of twelve good
men are empanneiled in each county; and
the guilty parties are brought before it and
the evidence taken. 1t is in every case so
conclusive that there is no getting around it
Severa! of the guilty have, after condemna-
ton, made full confession, and while under
tho gallows, declared that they deserved
death. In Gainesville t,oeuty-t,co haue been
hung. Trials are going on in all The coun-
ties. The testimony goes to show that most
of the initiated have joined the society since
the 18th of September.
It is very certain that nothing Of this
character could have gained any formidable
dimensions in Texas. 1t is simply out of
the question. The society is now nipped;
all its members are known and will hereafter
be watched. .t
John Howard Payne, author of Home,