The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-09-24
NEWS FROlf TRXAS.

indian Depredations-The Rains ana che
CrOps-YellOw Fever and Ats Spread,
Etc. Etc.
We had the pleasure of meeting Ma tor GEORGE
;. SIMPSON, hymasttr in the UuiJed States
Army, VINO has just returned from tour of
luty IN Texas. There nave recently been re-
Porls OF serious Indian depredations and out
pages on the fort Davis ana Ei Paso route A
Major Simpson has pass, over the entire ronts
Pom san Antonio. we have been able To ohfein
rom blm some facts that may be interesting TO
on the whole,our previous accounts are some.
Rhat exaggerated. Tie Indians are far more
IiOuoNsomo IN the large settlements than in
" ne upper country, where they can obtain
bothing unless they attack a train, which has
BecOme rather hazardous, as there are a great
nany Trains passing with escorts, and the lie
ians might get the worst of it,. IL is the gepe. d.
al Denet Jhat tbese depredations, represen ed
De committed by lnuians, are really the acts
MexicaDs. quite recently two or three men
ave peen Killed, and a lot OF horses and cattle
lave been stolen. Major Sim psOn had seen
leither Indians nor any sign OF them but
Vcouls repol ted their trails OF the road, some
fifteen or twenty miles.
We learn that the crops generally are very
ne, but large proportion of the cOtton-per.
4 apps three-fourths of it-has been destroyed by
ne worm. The corn Is particularly abundant,
md the grasses never were better. OF course
*lhe cattle are as fat as they can roll-good news
pr The Crescent City, for do we not want Iull
upply OF that delicious Texas beef This fall and
<finter? The rains throughout this entire
Region amounted almost TO deuge IT has
poured down day after day, and of course the
tbround is perfectly saturated the country in
Home sections inundated, and the streams
Mwollen, in some cases above their banks. On
Skurkey creek, at one time, when Colonel Wade
Iknd his detachment canped out, the water rose
7petoIe morning to such "a height that one of the
baggage wagons was carried down the stream.
II Is the general opinion that there has never
|peen 80 much rain in one season in that section
Ikf country.
The people are perfectly quiet on the subject
G politics, contenting themselves with The
taimple declaration that they are ready for re-
construction. The registration of the voters has
Npeen completed, and IT is the general belief of
fhe white citizens that the amnesty proclama-
Zion OF the President will bring them decided
hsnaj ajority in the State, and save them from the
Ascendancy of the newly enfranchised freed
'inen.
Yellow fever has appeared at Allytown. This
I9orroboates the statement which we found in
0Ehe Galveston papers of the l4th, From Ally
uown westward the health of the State never
was better, but it is understood that one of
Never has occurred at Austin. II is the impress
Mon of NJ ajor Simpson that this disease will
Npfead all over the country, and that there is
10 possibility of stopping it, as intercourse with
&hose cities where the disease at present pre-
Fails as epidemic, is totally un restricted.
knd in addition, the climate is rendered so
'noist and impure by the excessive ralns, that
II the disease is once introduced 1t will spread
With 1rightful rapidly. We hope, in this in-
Etance at least, that Major Simpson may be
|nistak en-, and that, instead of further ravages
f this dreaded disease in Texas, we may shortly
bear of its entire disappearance, and the perfect
restoration of the people to health and pros
.SberiJy.-N. o. Times.