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Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1867-03-16

ss.~ a BATTLE WITH INDIANS
Col. Dalrymple, who left home on
January 10th with company upon
an exploring expedition to the re.
gion of Pccos River and the noun.
tains beyond, arrived at home on
Tuesday evcuing,-the expedition
being for the present forestallcd BY
the result of u serious conflict with
n large body ST Indians, well equip.
ped, and mounted, and armed with
guns and revolvors. This occurred
on the 4th of February. The par
! ticulars furnished, at our request, bv
Col. Dalrymplc ara briefly as fol.
lows:
The party was II in number, in
Guiding Col. D., Col. David Snivclv,
Judge Hunter, o.! Coleman County,
DR.. McllcynoIds, Capt. Moses Car
son and II othcrs-having 80 korscs
and mules, including pack animals.
About II o'clock on the 4th Of Feb
ruary, while On the march, near tho
upper overland mail station, on the
Concho River, they were suddenly
attacked By the Indians, from 60 to
100 in number aud supposed to bc
Kickapoos. The Indians opened
the fight with rcvolvcrs.
There was n running fight fur q few
uLdred yards kept up, in which
Col. Dalrymplo and Judge Hunter
received spear wounds. The wholo
party then took refuge among some
live-oak bushes in gully. The In
dams stampcdcd and got possession
of all the pack animals. They fired
on the party for an hour and half
from a mountain near by. Failing
to do further damage to the men.
they shot down all the saddle ami
mails but one. and that one was
wounded. There was no chance TO
protect the horses.
The Indians kept up occasional
firing till about . o'clock in the night.
About 10 o'clock the party left and
set off on their return, and Travelled
for thirty miles on foot. They then
met an OK train oound for tho PccoA
for salt. The rain returned, afford
ing the party transportation to tho
upper ,ttlements. The loss of prop
erty, by the company, is estimated
at $4,000 in value including .
horses ana mules. The Indians werS
we'll drcsscd and painted for battle.
Thor camp was supposed to be near.
There was sufficient evidence that
at least FIVE fadians were killed in
fhe canfict, --Geergetorn Va tch-
man.
Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1867-03-16

The pIsTEANCHIsENEN
National fntclligcncer says of the
military government bill:
"If it be held tha; this diabolical
invention of proscriptiveness does
not so apply to State officials as to
drive them from their Offices, ii GER
tainly applies TO them and TO cleo
tors in future elections or appoint,
menls in States. In a word, Con,
gress has stepped across State BAR
riers, and given express direction,
in form Of law, that ia 81 elections
in the ten States now excluded from
representation in Congress no man
shall bold Office OF vete who is ex-
cluded by the proposed constitution
al amendment. 1t is well known
that these include the hcst men in
anv State"
Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1867-03-16

thon resumed his seat, and the Mem
bers were sworn,
Colhx announced that the Presi.
dent had signed, within the legal
time, all bills passed within ten
days, except that appropriating fifty
thousand dollars for the Paris EX,
position, which was not engrossed.
A protest accompanied the army
appropriation bill, TO the following
effect There are provisions in the
act to which | must call attention,
The second section contains provis.
ions virtually, in certain cases, de-
priving the President of his consti.
tutional functions as Commander
in Chief of the army. The sixticth
section deprivcs States ofthe Union
Of the constitutional right to pro-
tcct themselves.
By means Of their own militia
these provisions are out Of place on
the appropriation bill. 1t would be
compelled to defeat necessary ap-
preparations If | withhold my sigma
ture. l sign it with the greatest
reluctance against tho proqision
named.
ATLANTA, March "A large,
public meeting held to consider tho
condition ofthc country, and reso-
lutions approving the terms of Sher-
mans bill, and the course recon-
mcndod by Gov. Brown was reject
ed. The meeting then divided, n
minority hold a meeting to.night,
The majority recognized and passed
resolutions consulting quiet submis-
sion and characterizing the bill as
harsh and unjust, and approving
the noble course of President John
son. The Southern people should
not barter manhood and honor by
accepting the terms Of tho BILL
They recommended Southern Gov
ernOrs to take stepc to test the con-
stitutionality of the bill.
AUGUSTA, March "A meeting
was called to consider Browns rec.
ommendation. Opinion was di-
vided, and the press agitated.-
Three or four papers favored and
the rest opposed it. Anxiety very
great.
New ORLEANS, March 4,-The
annual celebration Of tho Fire De-
partment to. day was splendid af-
fair. The weather was warm and
pleasant, and there was large
concourse Of the people.
WASHINGTON, March 6.-Sher-
mans and the Tenure of Office are
the first bills officially published by
the State Department to-day.
Mr.. Seward publishes Il circular
letter containing proposition of Il
peace congress to the belligerent
South American Republics, to be
held here on the 1st of April, with
an armistice till the termination Of
the conference.
NASHVILLE, March 6.-Brownlow
has issued an order to organize Il
volunteer force, to serve three years
under his command, and act as Il
military police reserve to preserve
order and protect the people.
CHARLESTON, March 5.-Steamer
Andelusia from New York to Char
lesion, was burnt off Hattras. Ed
ward North purser, j. McMullen
engineer Jacob Lockwood pilot and
Others, and four passengers missing.
The remainder were brought here
by the Manhatten.
Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1867-03-16

The Ell Paso Mail which left here
on the 4th inst. was attacked by
Kickapoo Indians on Saturday, the
10th inst, while crossing Live Oak
creek, two miles from Fort Lancas-
ter, and about ia miles north of
Fort Clark on the El Paso road.
The mail party consisted of eight
persons under Conductor Clark, two
Of the party where sons of Mr..
Greiner, who lives on the Rio Frio,
both of them well known and high
ly thought of on the frontier; no
other names have yet been reported.
The Indians, some forty strong,
armed with the best quality ofrifles,
(some Spencer's) made a vigorous
assault and were handsomly re-
pulsed by the mail party; the
latter retreating slowly towards
the mountains with tho mail, mules
and stage.
The Indians, reinforced by some
two hundred, renewed the attack on
Saturday morning and succeeded
in capturing stage, mules and mail,
the mail party having exhausted
their stock of ammunition. The
particulars reach us by a Mexican,
who states that he succeeded in
getting away from the Indians un-
observed. The fact, that this man
states, that he left the party still
defending themselves, leads us to
think of stragglers in rear of an
army during an engagement, each
one is the last of the company"
there is a probability of his having
abandoned his comrades during the
brush and the mail party still alive.
We shall continue to hope so until
positive information reaches us to
the contrary.
The leaders of the Indians spoke
excellent English and made use of
americanisms that savors very much
of hellish whites being associated
with the Indians. When the In
dams CD drove off the coach they
exhibited skill in harnessing the
mules, and the driver handled
the ribbons" in the most graceful
Jockey style.-iSan Antonio Express.
Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1867-03-16
WWe clip the following from the
Galveston News Price Current, OF
March 7th, under its heading of
General Remarks.


The recent legislation of Con-
gress has intimidated bus n C 8
throughout the country. The large
merchants of New York are reduc-
ing their stocks as much as possible,
and many goods are said to have
been sold recently at prices consid
erably below the cost ofmanufacture
or importation, by way Of making
preparation to do n much smaller
business this year than last. The
extent of the diminution is estimat-
cd at fully third. Experience
has shown that political innovators
cannot be reached by commercial
disaster, nor even by the ruin of the
industrial classes of their country.
They have always pursued their on
ward course regardless of acepmn-
lating debt, of the stoppage of banks
and business houses, and of the star
walton of those whom their destruc-
tiveness has thrown out of employ
ment.
1t is hoped by some that the con-
traction of business will lesson the
probabilities of commercial disaster;
and there is no doubt that prudent
foresight may do much in this di-
rection. By cutting off all needless
expenses, and by keeping business
within the narrowest possible bounds
the evils of the situation may be
modified but nothing can make
bad times the equivalent of good.
We hope it is not yet too late to
suggest that our planters who have
had to buy provisions recently, have
not made as much money as if they
had raised less cotton and moro Of
the nccessarics of life. This, we
think, must be so clear as to induce
different policy hereafter. But we
shall not press this subject. Enough
perhaps, has heretofore been said
upon it we should not now speak
of it if we had not lately seen enough
TO convince us that more money has
gone out of the country to pay for
provisions which ought to haSe been
produced here, than has come into
it to pay for the extra cotton raisedin
the place of breadstufis.
Our last Philadelphia Price Cur
rent informs us that complaints are
universal of the stagnation Of bust
ness. A spring season SO deprcs-
sed and generally unsatisfactory as
the present is hardly within the
memory of the merchants Of that
city. The trade of the interior is
dull and unpromising. The South
"devoid of the trading spirit" and
even unable to liquidate much ofils
Indebtedness on account of last
years purchases. The course pnr-
sued by Congress is not likely to
make mnch difference in this re-
spect. Wendell Phillips is holding
out the hope that the South will be
all the more valuable 10 the North
if she is radically recoHstructed.-
This is the old song Of the fanatieal
revolutionary spirit. 1t reduces a
country to rags and tatters, mean
while always holding out the hope
that the good time is inst ahead. II
Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1867-03-16

The Hon. A. II. Garland was cleo
ted United States Senator by the
Arkansas Legislature On the 10th
ult. He was elected for the long
term, and received a large majority
Ct votes on the first ballot.
Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1867-03-16

A GooD ONE.-A Galveston gen
tleman, lately stopping at the Mich
olson House, Bastrop, was in room
recently occupied by the Agent OF
the Frecdman's Bureau. One even
ing, Tom, a Freedman, entered the
room to make a fire, and after doing
50 sat down, crossed his legs and
made himself at home, smoking and
splitting in the fireplace. The Gal
vestnnian asked him what he meant
by such familiarity: Tom looked
up in evident surprise, and imme-
diAtsly arose, hat in hand, and in
his Politestmanner, said HBeg par
don, Masssl didn't know was gen.
man; thought you was de Freed
nse's Bg7oaE r'-Gci Nesrs.
Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1867-03-16

Taxing 1T HARD.-The illustrious
Forney says "there has never been
SO studied a violation of public SEN
tinent and public decency" as the
nomination of Cameron for United
States Senator. Forney ought 10
be q judge Of violations Ofpublie de-
oeDcy.
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Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1867-04-30
"Tncorruptible and Indebted"

The Legislature took recess OF two weeks at
the HOLIDAYS and received pay for that recess.
At the expiration Of the regular session, an ex-
ira session was Immediately called-the mem
bers did not leave the city, and yet they recelv-
ed mileage. They then took recess OF ~ days.
but before doing SO, passed resolution not to
receive nav for the time they were at home, and
now they rescind that resolution that they may
get the pay which they had declared by resolu-
ton thew would not receive. Such conduct be-
sneaks its own condemnation needs no COM
ment Can this be the Legislature OF Virginia
80 Temporal! OnaoresP' a.,
We are pleased to state that the skirts OF tne
delegates from this county are clear. 1t Will DE
seen by reference to the proceedings OF w ednes-
day last, that if the members get their pay Tor
the recess for which they had passed resolu-
ton not to receive it, they will do SO in spite OF
the decision of the Speaker that the vote re.
scinding that resolution was not constitutional
as it was not passed by majority ofthe House,
but only by majority of those voting. Bald
win and Waddell both voted against receiving
nav for the recess.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1867-04-30
Ashby and his ComDeers.

We have been presented by the publishers,
Messrs. Selby & Dulany, Baltimore, with a
copy Of the book, just issued, entitled, 'The
memoirs of General Turner Ashby, and his
Compeers, by Rev. James B. Avirett, (chap-
lain to Ashby Cavalry, and other officers of the
army of Northern Virginia, G. S. A. These
memoirs are dedicated to Virginia, undivided
and indivisible, and to her noble women, more
especially those in the Shenandoah Valley, in
defence Of whose homes this matchless cavalier
gave his life, with the sincerest hope that Ash
by lofty heroism may be emulated by the ris-
ing generation of the whole South" This book
has been gotten up in fine style, and it reflects
great credit upon the publishers. No word Of
praise of Ashby's heroism is necessary in this
Valley. "Stonewall jackson said of him that,
''as partizan officer, he never knew his SUI
perior,'' and that his daring was proverbial,
his powers of endurance almost incredible, his
tone of character heroic, and his sagacity almost
intuitive in divining the purposes and move
mentS of the enemv'
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1867-04-30
Insulting and Depressing the South.

The Alexandria Gazette, one of the most tenn
perate and conservative journals Of the State,
says that ''the Radical leaders in power do ev-
cry thing possible to insult, annoy and Cypress
the Southern people-impose upon them every
disagreeable exaction they can invent-and
threaten worse evils; and, then, complain that
the South is not in love with their rule, not
pleased with their action, and not delighted at
their course Surely, this is requiring little
too much from human nature-too much from
those, even, who desire to be patient and sub
missive' under the evils they endure. Magma
nimity on the part of those who are placed in a
situation where they can inhict injuries, might
induce respect-and, in time, might do more.
But continued vindictiveness and malice never
yet won mans heart, or enlisted a peoples
affection. It is impossible that they should
We believe that the course of the Radical lead
ers, since the war, has done more to create and
prolong sectional alienation, than did the wal
ITSELF 1t has been nearly as represslVe, 1t not
as destructive, to the material interests and ct
forts of the citizens of the Southern States as
contest of arms 1t has chilled enterprise,
burthened industry, interfered with business
and trade, and checked the movements of a
whole people towards restoration, harmony, and
a establishment of affairs on firm founda-
ton, under the government of the United States.
Can it, under such circumstances, be reasonably
expected, that the South should exhibit pleas
ure or dissatisfaction 2"
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1867-04-30
The Freedmen and Abraham Lincoln.

In the meeting of Freedmen here, on Mon
day night, the 18th inst, among other resolu'
tons, adopted the following:
"Resolved, That we hold in reverent remem-
brance the memories Of those who fell in the
cause of freedom, and, especially, OF Abraham
Lincoln, the good, the signer of our deed Of
emancipation, and the last martyr"
In speech delivered at Charleston, Illinois,
September, the 18th, 1853, Abraham Lincoln
said
II will say that am not, nor ever haze been,
in tauor of making VOTERS or JURORS Q!
NEGROES, or Of qualifying them to bold OF;
fee, nor to intermarry with white people; and
will say, in addition to this, that there IS .
races which, [ believe, will FOREVER forbid the
two races living together on terms of social ano
POLITICAL EQUALITY. l, as
much as any other man, am in favor OF having
the superior position assigned to the white
~
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the other paper

ms- The Spectator having about as many SUD-
scribers as both of the other papers published IN
this place, it is to the interest OF persons TO ad
vertise in the Spectator and tits the duty OF those
who advertise for others to advertise In that pa
per which has the largest circulation 1t be-
comes the duty of agents, commissioners, admin
igtrators, executors, and all who are entrusted
with the interests of others to advertise IN the
SPECTA TOR, as it has a much larger clrcuia-
ton than any other paper published here.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1867-04-30
DrY Goods.
ITO THE LADIES !-PIPE]

TUV 1IL AADIES Il II EN-, DhL1hI
lately occupied by Piper & Funkhouser, a very
superior stock of FANCY s. STAPLE DRY
GOODS, embracing beautiful stock of Dress
Goods of the very best styles, and at greatly re-
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Our stock has been bought on the most favora-
BILE terms, and, as we propose confnig ourselves
as near as possible to the Cash System, we feel
satisfied that we can offer unusual inducements
to all who may give us a call.
"ShOrt profits and quick sales' is our motto and
we intend to practically carry it out
We are also receiving large stock of
QUEENSWARE, CHINA & GLASSWARE,
at the corner formerly occupied by Drake & Pr
per, and can fill all orders in this line promptly,
and at reduced prices also. ap30-tf
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1867-04-30
Colored People Of Albemarle.

The Charlottesville Chronicle says that the
friendly disposition of the colored people of AL
bemarle is established, it thinks, conclusively
by the fact that there was not single delegate
from that county in the Torch and Turpentine
Convention in Richmond, where ''confscation'
was received with such evident and undisguised
relish. eve have, perhaps" says the Chron-
icle, AN unusually intelligent colored popula-
ton. As some one remarked to us, our col
ored people have lived under the shadow of the
University They know very we'll that the true
policy of the colored man is peace and not war
with the white man. 1t is perfectly evident
that Hunnicutt & Co. are arraying, or trying to
array, the two races in deadly hostility. How
long do they think the white people will sit
quiet under the Richmond yell for confscation
Not long, if they for moment believed that
Hunnicutt could carry any respectable proper
ton of the colored people with him. Even the
New York Tribune repudiates Hunnicutt."
The colored people of this county have not
lived under the shadow of the University, y
and though many Of those in this place were
inveigled into the sending of delegates to the
Radical Convention in Richmond, we think
that majority of them in this county will have
sufficient native good sense to know very well
that the true policy of the colored man is peace
and not war with the white man."
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1867-04-30

The Lexington Gazette and Banner stated
that Mr. E. G.. Johnston solicited the ap-
pointment as delegate to the Radical Conven-
ton in Richmond Mr. Johnston denies the
soft impeachment, and the Gazette says that
it based its statement upon information de-
rived from Others" and that whilst it has 'no
personal knowledge of the fact, yet it is still
'strongly inclined to think he sought for and
desired the appointment, his disclaimer to the
contrary Notwithstanding. This Johnston is
the man, we are informed, who offered the res
olutions which were adopted in the meeting Of
Freedmen here which appointed delegates to
that Convention