Owyhee tidal wave. [volume] (Silver City, Owyhee County, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1869-1870, 1869-10-07
From the Brazos.--con Shea, Tom

From the BraZos.--Con Shea, Tom
Bugbee. Ed Bass, Geo. Miller, Bob Enos and
a number Of employees arrived at the mouth
of Bruneau last week with some fourteen
hundred head of cattle, direct from the Bra
EOS, Texas. They viii probably all winter
on the Bruneau and the white sage plains
adjacent They have been in town during
the week making it lively for the clothing
stores, as they have appeared since their ar
rival in bran new suits. They left here in
January last, have made the round trip leav-
ing Red river for the plains in May. Shea
and Bugbee have driven together all the
way, while Miller and Enos formed another
herd. The two droves were so far apart that
the respective proprietors did not see each
other for three months at time on portion
Of the route, but after passing Hams Fork
of Green river they have stayed near each
other, and arrived at their destination to-
| gether They infosn us that although they
bought all their cattle in Texas they have
| but two or three of what are known on this
coast as Texas cattle, by which we mean the
| long horned descendants of the old Mexican
| stock found IN Texas when it was settled by
Americans. but that nearly all the cattle now
raised in Texas is of the Durham or other
improved breeds that compare favorably
with those raised in any OF the States, and
SO far as disease is concerned they really
| l,o ftnpulaffpn n
Texas is mixed. The organization known
| before the war as Knights of the Golden
| Circle is still extant and was for time since
the war defended and abetted by the better
class of those who went into the rebellion,
but since they have become to be no respect
ers OF persons and now rob and murder reb-
els as well as Yankees and negroes, they
have come to be regarded as band of out
laws and receive no favor al the hands Of
either ex-COnfederates or Federals Shea
and Bugbee brought one man with them as
far as Denver who belonged to the organiza
ton, and who detailed his whole experience
with them and acknowledged that they were
getting too rough for bin and he was glad
of an opportunity to get away. The better
and more intelligent farmers and stock
raisers, with whom Mr.. Bugbee conversed
freely, expressed themselves as more than
satisfied with the present administration at
Washington, and only hoped they might
be able soon to free themselves from the out
laws, who, becoming demoralzed in the
army during the war, are still creating
trouble by robbery and murder, when they
are sure of a better and more prosperous
time and country than they could have
hoped for under the old regime. Some re-
GREETED the present loss of slave property,
but felt that upon the whole they were bet
ter off without them. And such as have
families growing up almost invariably ex-
pressed their gratitude TO the Creator for re-
/ moving the curse Of slavery from the land
before their sons and daughters had grown
, to mans and woman's estate, and that free
labor and examples of enterprise instead OF
Incidence and ignorance will be set before
f them Texas is a great country and only
! needs little reconstruction to be second &c
none.