The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1869-08-25

INDIAN OUTEAGEs IN TExAs.-The Aus
tin (Texas) papers report an Indian raid
into Burnett old Blanco counties. On Cy-
press, near Whites house, they killed
Whites son-in-law, Tom Phelps, and Mrs.
Phelps. This took place within thirty-fve
miles of Austin. They went to Phillips's
in daylight and took his horses out of his
pen. This is the third raid in that section
in the last six weeks. The Austin Repub-
Rcdn says:
The Indians rode on at moderate pace
to Fox's Mills, thence to Double Horn creek,
thence to Pecan creek, to the house of Ben
Phillips, stealing horses as they went,
and shooting those they could not capture.
Phillips, hearing of the raid, had staked
his horses near the house, and tried to de-
fend them /; but finding his shotgun no
match for their Spencers, he was forced to
seek refuge in his house. His horses were
taken to the last hoof, and the robbers, with
perfect nonchalance, lunched on his roast
ing-ears, watermelons, and peaches. A
few miles further ON they passed the house
of Mr.. Woolf, near the mouth of the Llano
river. The two sons of Mr.. Woolf, aged
ten and eighteen years, were engaged in
marking hogs; the Indians found and sur
rounded them. The younger one was cap
tured at once. The elder lad, cool and
brave, took refuge under the bank, and
kept the savages ut bay by the rapid dis
charge of his revolvers. A woodchopper,
not far distant in the woods, counted TWEEN
ty-six shots. He was finally shot and
scalpcd. ....
BY this time the alarm became general.
party, scantily armed, under the lead Of
Captain Roberts, took post at Pack Saddle
Gap to intercept the Indians ON their way
out. All day they guarded the gap, but at
night the men, anxious for their families,
left dcfenceless in their absence, returned
to protect their homes, agreeing to re-
assemble with the dawn at the gap. That
night the savages passed through, heading
for Llano town. 4 short time before band
of savages, numbering from seventeen to
twenty, well armed with Spencer rifles,
spears, and bows, and riding horses marked
with San Saba brands, appeared near the
Pack Saddle mountain, in Llano county.
Jones Bedford, passing on horseback along
the road, was shot at from the thicket, but
escaped unhurt.
On the 2lst about noon, they approached
near the house Of William Porter, Oh the
Pedernales. The men of the family were
all absent, gathering cattle. The sayages
halted OF the spring, within eighty yards
of the house, and took all the horses from
the farm. The women, being without
horses, could not leave the house or give the
alarm. 4 few miles to the eastward they
overlook Mr.. Brown, who, with an OK team,
was hauling wood through the forest. Mr.
| 3. being unarmed, hearing behind him the
sound of o troop of horses, concluded to
have the first sight himself, and hid i'll the
thicket. The Indians halted for moment
at the team, and not seeing the driver,
passed on.
Brown then ran mile to the nearest
house, gathered some seven or eight men,
poorly armed, and took the trail i'll pursuit
The Indians rode down the Cypress Valley,
keeping scouts upon the high ridges to over
| look the country, and stealing horses right
and left. Passing on through the county oil
Mason, they we're pursued by party OF
citizens, who, after chase of eighteen
hours, brought them to bay, retakine
twenty -four horses, killing one Indian, and
disabling three others, and rescuing the
boy, who had been painted like an Indian
Mr.. L. r. Blake, recently Of the Fourth
cavalry, stationed at Fort Griffin, informs
the Austin Record that Mr.. Duncan, who
was out gathering up cattle to drive to the
Colorado, was surprised by the Indians
and some two hundred head taken from
him. The Indians camped, five hundred
strong, within mile of the fort, and killed
friendly Tonkaway belonging to the post
They killed thirty head of horses on Cow
House, in, Coryell county. In the neighbor-
hood of the fort, they killed fifty head Of
cattle, leaving large number of carcasses
lying where they fell. VIII these outrages
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