Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-09-05

kcttof from u haIlfOAQ surveyor
whole Families Massacred-HOrrid
Fate OF a Captive Girl-Grant's
Quakers Fattenfng ON Blood and
Stolen stock.
Correspondence of the Union and American.
Houston, Aug. 26.-Doubtless you will
be surprised to hear of my early return
| fro Z the frontier. We pushed our work
through very rapidly on account of Indian
hostilIlities and our provisions being short.
| W: made the round trip without any cas-
ualties. Our expedition penetrated the
country lying on the headwaters Of the
| Brszos and Colorado rivers, making COM
plete survey of the whole country and 10
eating some very fine lands for the Central
| Railroad Company. Our work lay In the
heart, as it wera, % the nt1uttiing gTo;i1ds Of
the C0mapche aud Kiowa Indians, and we
| frequently saw parties OF them and found
their camps every day, but not in a single
instance did they modest US or attempt to
do so, but would run off at our approach.
They have been making unusual demon
STATIONS upon our frontier settlements this
summer, and some Of their acts have been
most tiendish, and no punishment could be
! too severe. In one ms ance they made
raid into the neighborhood of Camp Colo
rado, and during The absence Of Mr.. Will
| Ii ms from home, attacked his house, shot
his wife down, threw an infant child into
! the fire and lrried eff little ri captive
This poor woman, By great exertion, man
| aged to puI cut the fire which the villains
hL ped would burn thu house, and then lay
for SIX long hours unsUle 10 succOr her
child when was undergoing most excruci-
ating torture only few feet from her. On
her husbands return she was just Sole to tell
him that it was the work Of the Indians,
and died. The little child lived only few
days after the occurrence. Pursuit was
made, bat without success, as the Indians
had half day start Of the rangers.
About two weeks after the remains ofthe
little girl carried of, were found by our par
ty Two hundred miles from where
she was taken. When discovered
she was hanging in small china
tree scalped ard probably XII led before she
was hung. The entire scalp was taken
from the eye bIows, only leaving two small
tufts of hair on the nape Of the neck. She
had on a wooden sack and calico fr0ck, and
Had blankets tied around her feei. There
is no telling what these iphuman wretches
made this poor little thing suffer. 1t was
indeed sickeniDg sight, and one to be long
remembered. She was given Christian
burial, and inferred underneath the tree on
which she was found. Mr.. Angle, in charge
of the party, took piscs of her dress and
the hair that remained, which were identi-
fed by Mr.. Williams, of Camp Colorado, as
belonging to his daugh er. Probably week
pefure ne found the child, scalp was cap
lured from the Indians and proved to be
hers, as it was taken Dy the United States
soldiers oD.y short distance from the Place
where the remains Here found.
ALI of these depredations in Northwestern
Texas are committed by the Comsnche and
KioWa Indians, who are On a reserve in the
Indisn Territory, where they are fed and
pzmpered by the Quaker Indian agents,
who have the government troops to back
them cd from Fort Sill, which is on the re-
serve. The Indians leave the reserve at
any time they wish, go into Texas, steal,
murder ard plumber, and return with all
possib e speed to their reservation, where
they have the protection of Uncle Sam. If
pursuit is made after them from the settle
ments, the puIsueIs are not allowed to cross
the line of the reserve, or claim property
which is their own. This has been at
tempted several times, snd every time the
authorities have in'erferec. In some in
stances the owners of horses have gone on
the reserve and pointed out their stock
and made complaint to headquarters, but
without any success.
These Indian sgents buy most Of this
stock at very low rates, send them off and
sell them at large profit. l. is state of
affairs that cam, long be borne BY the peo-
pie o: I xas; and, just because she is o
Southern State, these wretches are alloWeu
to run over her froltier rough sh0d. These |
Indians actually go back to the reserve and |
openly boast of how many white men they |
have scslped and women they have ruined.
The Quaker policy viii not work with the
Indians. 1t has proved failure so far. If
these Quakers were halt of them killed and
sc ilped, it would be great blessing to Tex
as. They have at last effected the release Of
Sartanta and Big Tree, two noted and des-
per.te Indian chiefs, who were tried and
sentenced to he penitentiary for life, for at
lacking and bui ming wagon train, and |
burning the drivers az the wheels. They |
are now turned loose to pursue the work |
that they but &C mmenced. p.