Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-06-19
TEXAS ITEMs

The present population of Galveston
! has been estimated by those engaged in
/ king the census Of that city is p, 500
souls. or this number, Il, 500 are whites,
and the balance, $780, are blacks; show
/ ing an increase since the war of IL, 500
souls.
-Camanehe county is suffering from
the depredations Of the red skins. A
negro was killed there lately by the In
dians, and ninety-one horses driven OIL
valued at $500.
Many families are emigrating over
land from Texas TO California. The
| Bolton Journal describes a caravan OF
| twelve families which passed through
| that town in one day.
The infatuated local Of the Galveston
/ Nelcs has impudence to tell the cOlored
citizens that the white people Era every
/ bit as good as they are, and have as much
right to register their names as though
their skingr-ltre dark as ebony, and their
names Hannibal, POmpeYf, Caesar or
| Scipio. no cer,.,-,-,o,.
-Parson Lancaster, os,;tL ' Trrlos,.' ,Ir,.s,.'
Texas, Ranger, says hes Tf Prize y. ..5dstOl,
q few days ago, in COM. I'd friend,
and visited the cOurto., tEd IN tb&s three
eolored men were Oh the Jury. One OF
/ these individuals " had on, " in the words
of sode~ADgeR, " Q coat that was stolen
| frt ScAsi5 @AE5 young man that accompanied
us.
The federal court is now in session at
Austin, Texas. The Gazette says that
loyal juries, grand and petit, all white,
have been found without difficulty, and
I that the business Of the court is progress
/ ing hsrmoniously and rapidly.
The Gonzales Texas Inquirer says
that few days ago the judge of the
I county court ordered a UeBire of jurors
/ but that out of hundred white citizens
only four could take Griffin's iron clad
{ oath. Fifteen negroes were then sum-
moned, but eight Of these declared most
emphatically that they could not take
dat osf" The jury is now sitting,
/ being composed Of five whites and seven
/ blacks.
The San Antonio Express says: On
/ the llth ult, as Mr.. stfoOeh and q num-
| Der of his neighbOrs were driving about
/ one thousand head of cattle in the head
I waters of the COnchO to deliver them to
I contractor Adams, of New Mexico, to
supply the Indian reservation Of Fort
/ Sumner, they were attacked by party
/ of eighty southern COmanghese or Kick
apoos, all the cattle captured and cne
| man killed. The body of the latter was
/ afterwards found, skinned down to the
waist, and the head completely severed
| the suppOsitiOn being that be was skinned
/ before death, as these fiendish deeds are
only inflicted for torture Another herd OF
/ the same size was taken the same day,
/ twelve miles west of the head waters OF
/ the ConchO, and a third lot taken neEr
Horse Head Crossing, on the Peeos, about
sixteen miles from Fort Stockton.
Troops have been sent in pursuit from
Camp Verde; 10 results yet known
I Gen. Edward Hatch starts from here
Immediately with four companies of the
ninth cavalry, to be stationed in the vi
/ cinity of Fort Stockton. A permanent
camp, consisting of troops Of the fourth
cavalry, is ordered to the headquarters
of the main Coneho. This is deemed
sufficient to guard against such wholesale
depredatiOns in the future.