Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1863-1866, 1865-07-15
Interesting from the Southwest.

Military Division Of the Southwest, on
the Sd ult., Gen. Candy notifies all refu
gees from Texas that United States
'roops are now in military possession
of that State, and that they can return
to their homes with security. Re wishes
it to be understood that security is fur
uished by United States troops, which
are in such force as to be fully compe-
tent to protect individuals and their
property consequently no home guards
or armed bands for self-protection will |
be permitted in the State. He fur
Their notifies the people of Texas
that it has been and is bis policy to |
make neighborhoods infested by guer-
rilIas responsible for their acts, and that |
experience has taught him that the in
huence OF inhabitants eBergetieally ex-
ercised, can put down this species of
robbery and murder The General
closes his order by announcing that all
acts Of the Governor of Texas, since
the passage of the ordinance of seces-
sion, having been declared illegitimate,
refugees viii, upon their return to the
State, resume possession of their pro
perty.
New Orleans papers have adVices to
the 28th ult. The commissioners sent
to meet the tribes of Indians in great
council, which had been arranged for
by ale Confederate authorities, prior to
the Surrender of the Trans Mississippi
| Department, failed to arrive before the
| Council dispersed a rumor had reach
ed the assembled chiefs that the last of
| the Confederate armies had surrender
| ed, and that the war was over. Com
missioners Lieut. Col. A. C. Matthews
sni Adjutant W. a. Vance pushed on
o meet, if possible, with some of the
in4vidual chiefs and have talk with
! them concerning the state of the nation
aud the political relationship which they
occupy towards their great White Fa-
ther 10 this they succeeded; about
twenty chiefs were having q talk to-
gether in a school called the Armstrong
| Academy, in the Indian Nation, and the
two com missioners that presented them.
selves we're very cordially received. The
disposition shown throughout the confer
ence was Enthusiastically friendly. The
Indians said that they had been induced
to join the Confederate cause under an
erroneous impression that they had been
abandoned By the United States Gov
eminent, but now that they had got to
proper understanding of the matter,
they were quite anxious for a renewal
of those terms Of amity and good fellow
ship which existed before the war.
Thereupon a preliminary treaty was
formed, which is toAbe observed until a
final treaty be agreed to at the great
council, which is to meet in the Indian
Nation on the lst of September next.
The treaty is signed By P. P. Petch-
lynn, governor and principal chief of
the Choctaw nation, on behalf of the
chiefs oftwenty tribes, and by two white
commissioners, on behalf of the United
Siates The signature of the principal
chief is written with his own hand, and
is good specimen of chirography. In
the provisions of the treaty civilized To-
dams agree to restrain their uncivilized
brethren from all acts of hostility against
the United States aud citizens thereof
until the holding of the great Septem
Der council, and the United States on
their part agree to hold hostile Indians
who have heretofore favored the Union
cause in check until terms Of final
treaty are agreed upon.
A gentleman recently in Northwest
ern Texas states that the late rebel por-
ton of the Cherokee Indians are in
great distress, and are actually near
starvation. Their Chief, Sandwaite, late
Brigadier General in the rebel army, has
! issued an address or appeal to the PEG.
pie of Texas to assist his poor followers.
The wheat crop of Northern Texas is
2 / II
very fair, though rust has damaged it
considerably. None of the new crop
has yet come in, though old is retailing
at S. per hundred
: The arrival of troops by way of the
river is necessarily slow. So with transit
of com missariat supplies. Those por-
tons of expeditions already arrived are
encamped, the infantry and cavalry in
the vicinity of Shreveport, near springs
of water in localities formerly occupied
by Confederate forces.
| The policy of Major General Heron
has met with universal sat 'sfaction. Va
grant negroes who have sought the city
| to rest in idleness, have been turned
back to their homes. Certain cases OF
f i'll treatment of negroes on the part OF
/ their former masters, are now undergo
ing investigation by Mr.. Ssickney, chief
of the Freedmen's Bureau. Shreveport
is at present burdened r. with supplies.
! Three million dollars worth have been
, reshipped TO New Orleans. The plant
, ers are impoverished, and though they
, have cotton, they will not~part with il
, except for hard cash This buyers do
: not feel disposed to give. A good share
of the cotton belonging to the Govern
ment, in charge of the Treasury De-
partment, is mostly in bad order, and
will need Retailing before putting in
market $50
A slight rise was perceptible in Red
river
Telegraphic communication between
: Shreveport and Galveston is now COM
plete, and in a few days will be com.
pleted as far as vicksburg in another
direction. "a a-lH
Governor Sharkey, in his proclama-
ton to the people Missisfppi,- accepts
the doctrine that it Is pat for the people
to decide on the constitutionslity of laws
or executive proclamations; tut that
! they are bound to obey them till they
,, are repealed, Withdrawn, or declared
illegal by proper judicial authority.
That authority in the case of the eman-
eipation proclamation rests With the
j United States Supreme Court. The
pardohing power resting with the Presi.
dent, be can Impose such conditions
e preliminary granting amnesty as he
8 sees TT The Governor hopes that the
; people will all take the oath in good
faith, and obliging|y and unhesitatingly
!. The negroes are free-freed by the for.
q tunes of war, by effect of the proelams
r ton, by common consent practically
and theor etically the ostensible cause O
the war, and it was staked on the issue
o This issue has been decided against
it. These things must be accepted.
The municipal election passed of
Y nniaflv at Xickshnr ON the Ist inst