Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1865-09-02

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The Herald Of the 18th ult, says that
! speeches were delivered at San Antonio on
the 9Th, by Generals West and Merritt to
an immense crowd. The speakers were in
troduced by Hon. Samuel A. Maverick, in q
few appropriate remarks. The speeches
were conciliatory, and entirely national in
their character. General Merritt said:
lie lad come here in obedience to the or
der of his Government to aid in the resto-
ration of the supremacy Of law and order.
! He no longer recognized any foes in the
| South to the national flag. The citizens Of
his country everywhere respected it alike
as the emblem of liberty. He desired to
conciliatc. He honorcd and respected the
brave soldiers of the South. They bad
fought n gallant fight, however much they
might have been misguided and misled; his
heart felt for those people who had been
prosecuted for their Union-loving senti-
ments but he also felt, and deeply felt, for
those brave men who, through CONSUMPTION
and other influences, had constituted the
armies Of the South, and suffered so much
lie desired to entirely forget the past, and
to remember and look only TO the present
and future.
lie had not come here to hu,uiliate this
people, hut to give them protection, and he
appealed to their pride Of national charac-
ter to induce them to unite with their
brethren of other States in building up one
great giant Republic"
Judge Paschai was also called for, and
closed the speaking in few well-timcd and
appropriate remarks. The Herald says the
entire proceeding passed OFF to the full salts
faction and delight of all.
The Herald publishes letter from DR.. P,
Shepherd, from Houston, stating that tele-
graphic communication between Houston
and San Antonio via Austin, may be ex-
pccted by the 1st or middle of October
lie also states that lines are being rapidly
extended from Houston to Alleyton, to
Shreveport and Vicksburg, and other lines
under consideration
Won't Northern Texas be entitled to some
eff these tclegraphic attentions before long ?
The Herald also learns that Gen. Merritt
has sent out detachment of ono hundred
mounted and armed men on the Eagle Pass
road towards the Rio Grande, in search of
the Indians or jGyhawking white men, who
are continually depredating on the frontier.
The same paper also reoites several more
instances of Indian and jayhawking dep
relations. Two men were wounded on the
25th ult, near Bandera, by Indians. A
boy was captured and carried off by In
the 2ni August; and about the same time
party Of twenty-five or thirty Indians were
seen near fredericksburg, where they were
camped. A party of men had gone out to
attack them, with what result was not
known. Other parties of Indians had been
seen, aud the frontier settlers we're moving
in, and unless something is done to aid
them in their defence, the frontier will alb
solutely be depopulated.
young man named STOW, living near
San Antonio, while out hunting, had occa-
sion to leave his mule hitched, and on re-
turning, the mule was gone, having been
stolen.
VIM Loot, of San Antonio, while on tho
road between that city and New Braunsfel
was met by two deserters, and robbed Of
Slse. and made to take an oath that he
would remain at the spot where therobbery
was perpetrated, until the robbers could get
off with their plumber. Some Of General
Merritt's men were after them.
The News notices an article in the Hen
derson Times, rejecting on the conduct Of
Gen. Merritt's command, in passing through
the country from Shreveport, That paper
says:
ave have been called upon by an officer
on Gen. Merritts staff, who says that no
complaint Of outrage or trespass by men Of
that command had been made TO the Gene
raj. aud that no ill-cOnduct toErrd the in
habitAnts was believed 10 have been com
mitted.
We append a copy Of letter from Gen.
Merritt's Adiuiant General 20 the editor Of
the Henderson Times which renders it IN
necessary fer us 10 say more than that we
clipped Tie article as an item q news from
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