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

1t seems that the report recently circu.
lated in this section of country that negro
regiment was en- route from Shreveport to
garrison Crockett, Rusk, Nacogdoches &c.
IS wholly false. We are glad of it. Our
citizens are quiet and orderly, and since
the new order of things has been established
there has nothing occurred which in any
manner has tended to resist the United
States authority. Our new civil officers
have been regularly installed and every
thing is working smoothly Crockett Qmd
Nuac.
CODA gentleman of this city Of sci
entiic attachments and something of a
mineralogist, for several years resident of
California, and having some experience as
gold hunter, has discovered gold dust in
one of the bars Of the Colorado, a short dis
lance from town. He has proven the exis-
tence of the precious metal by actual expe-
riment, having washed out some from the
sand. He does not think it is in sufficient
quantities, however to pay for working, but
intends to investigate tho matter further
with view of ascertaining whether or not
it will prove profitable to wash the sands.
This gentleman discovered on the Sandies,
several years ago, large deposits of gold
dust, but water is so scarce there that it is
impossible for man to make wages in
washing out.-AuStin Intelhgencsr.
The Jefferson Bulletin says
The freed negroes are behaving very badly
in this and adjoining counties. With &C.
casional exceptions, they are utterly re
CARELESS of the contracts they have entered
into, and knowing very well that there ex-
lists no compulsion to labor, or even to re-
spect their contracts, they have become, in
the majority of cases quite worthless as
plantation hands. Many Of them wander
from place to place through the country
subsisting by theft and pillage, and very
few of them earn the bread they receive
from their former masters. In town, our
enterprising City Marshal, Capt. Walton,
manages TO keep them in tolerable ORDER
but from all that we can hear, things could
hardly &c worse than they now are, in the
country.
Col. r. P. Crump and Lieut.. Col. W. P.
Sauhey, recently Of the Confederate service,
we're arrested here last Sunday by order of
Gen. Hawkins, and placed under guard on
the charge of having caused the execution
of certain Union prisoners in Arkansas
during the winter of 1923. 1t was under
stood that the arrested parties were to be
taken to Fort Smith for trial, but on Mon
day they slipped away from the guard, and
have not been heard from since
Mrs. Necessity, being the mother of In
vention, the question arises who is the
father 2-BrsnhGm Inquirer.
OF course it was Mr.. Necessity. Does our
brother mean to insinuate that Mrs. n. was
not virtuous matron2 Or does he think
children were born without fathers at the
time young Master Invention came into the
world ?-Iten.
TEXAS BEEvEs-As an evidence that our
beeves are now cheaper than any others of
equal quality in America, we note the fact,
that two friends Of ours brought small
drove into the city from the mountains one
day this week. These beeves we're seal fat,
and ranging from three to five years old,
yet the greatest price offered for them by
our butchers was six dollars per head
Think of that people OF New Orleans
Here is your market for beeves-eome and
buy.-.San Antonio Herald
PosT MAsTER.-We are pleased to learn
that our old and esteemed friend, Mr.. s. P.
GAMBLE, is appointed Post Master for this
city. instead Of Mr.. Mandy Panty OF
Pambica, as the telegraph wires caused US
to publish some two weeks ago. The ap-
pointment of Mr.. Gamble will be highly
satisfactory TO all concerned. We hope the
agent for this State viii soon reach Texas,
and open all the routes TO the free commun-
ieAtien Of the peOple.-Ibd.
MIITART ARRIvALs-We learn that
General A. Wiilick in command Of the LIST
l. Al. -
arrived from lndianola snd gonsint0 camp