The Texas Republican. [volume] (Marshall, Tex.) 1849-1869, 1868-07-10

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the Richmond Signal
CARPET BAoGERs.-I'ae negroes
were edited at their Church on last
Saturday night, By delegation Of
carpet, baggers, in the interest Of
Grant and Coliax. The first speaker,
after he concluded introduced another,
who was too tired and fatigued from
travel, to speak. They had been in
town oaiy two or three days, and we
suppose that he was oyerpowered
with too free an indulgence in the
ardent more than from travel
They had been indulging freely
wanted only sl0O to deiray their OK.
pcosos to Austin. Several of our
prominent citizens were present, but
they were not invited 10 reply.
When will the negroes learn their
mistake in allowing themselves to be
humhugecd aud imposed upon by
such trash.
+ ISnlANs.-A Mexican train which
had just unloaded is freight at Fort
lngc, and when but n few miles from
the Fort, returning to San Antonio,
on the 10th inst, was attacked By
Indians, and one Of the drivers kill
cd, and two others wounded In
stead Of keeping soldiers in the towns
throughout the State, where they can
be of no use, would il not be better
to send them to the frontier whore
they would be useful in hunting out
the marauding bands of Indians, and
protecting defcnoelcss settlers, and
trains carrying freight to their Forts ?
We think it would
ANOTHER NEGRO RIor.---.On
Wednesday the l7th ins,., negro
man named Atchison, from Hill
county, was tried for murdcrous
and unpyovokcd assault upon another
negro, il Waco, and bound over to
appear at the District Court. The
jail was too insecure and filthy to put
any one in, aud as Atchison said he
could give the required bond in two
81 three days, he was put in charge
Of Mr.. Cato, proprietor Of the Cot
iag9 House, and several other good
- '"''n '>~rrrcsrry ff*nt. 4 nor
consisting of some 10 or 80 negroes
armed With Enfield rifles, shot GUNS
ana other firearms, assembled on the
corner opposite the Cottage House.
where Atchison was confined undor
guard, with the avowcd purpose Of
wreaklng summary justice upon him.
some ten or dozen white men went
20 the assistance of Mr.. Cato. and
ior time, copiiict was imminent
! ne bureau Agent, Captain Hauehn,
hearing Of the riot went to the no. |
groes, and after much persuasion
succeeded in disbanding them. He
however, so far complied with their
demands, as to insist that Atchison
should at once be incarcerated in the
jail, stating that this was necessary
TO paciiy the mob. We do not recoc.
ME the necessity Of any such course.
on the contrary, n compliance in the
slightest degree, with any Of their
demands, was ,aeit acknowledgment.
OF the business Of mob law, and nm
to the negroes in
their rio,ous acts
The Denton Monitor states that n
terrible accident occurred at Hills.
'oro recently. A little boy, some
en- or Twelve years of age, wen, to +,
Shefe his pony was s,akcd with the /,
mention of riding out to drive up
ne cows, when the pony became :,
r'shioncd and ran away, dragging ),
nc boy after him for nearly mile, +
nth the boys legs cniangled in the =
ope. When the faiher found him
&c was quito dead, his skull being I
roken and body seriously torn aud fc
'jured.
The Chronicle speaks in glowing !,
rms OF clebarne, the county town ia
johnson county. Cleburno is sit. tn
''ed on the West side of the Cross 'e
mbers, upon the frontier: ~
Scarcely a year old-people poor. ar
mes hard, but little money in the ca
nniry, and great scarcity Of sujt. mr.
Ne lumber to build with. even m icl
ga prices, yet We to-day, in point an
population, enterprise, and i'm. SO,
ovcmen', viii compare fayorablv All
IN any Of our sister county seats
at are fifteen or twenty wears ola
d many Of whom we far ourpass Of
az the elements that constitute
Tiying and prosperous town pen
INDIAN RAlps..-A correspondent M,
'he peAton county Vedettc, says tiol
a gentleman just frcm Jacksboro mol
'or's that the Indians, nineteen In w.
mber, attacked Capt. Earhar,s "a'
up OF cow herders on Yesterday nj clu
clock u ~, about twelve miles q
N TINS place, at place called Hog fea.
9 and after a sharp engagement so I
cecdcd N driving OF thirteen hcod ten,
horses, and wounding one Of Ear. graz
is men One OF tho Indians {
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