The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1875-05-29

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q drOves of stolen cattle and the reported
s deprcdatlons last week from Ringgolt
Q and Fort Brown, says:
: General Cortina had difficulty witt
: Scnor 1revino, living near Reinosa
Trevino was informed of the theft Oi
- some cattle, found the thieves, and re-
. cOgnzed them as servants of COrtina
r he rode up and informed them that
they must go with him to the alcalde ;
: they fred on him ana he returned the
fire, killing one and woundine
another and took prisoner the
e head man of one of Cor
= tina's ranches. COrtina went then with
one hundred and thirty-iive men and
demanded the prisoner of the Alcalde,
but could not obtain him; he hung the
alcalde and afterwards shot Senor Tre-
, vino. Yesterday Cortina received an
order to report at the City of Mexico
for duty; he declined to obey, stating
: that his resignation had been forwarded
to the proper officer.
Reinosa is in the "free zone,n from
which issue the armed men that dis
turb the peace of our state bordering
on the Rio Grsnde. This tract extends
from the mouth of the river II hundred
miles up the stream and six miles in
land on the Mexican side. Into this
district foreign goods are admitted duty
free, and from thence passed into both
the United States and portions of the
Mexican republic. 1t is said by all who
have means of knowing, that every
Mexican official in the "free zone" is Il
smuggler, and makes u living in that
dishonest and irregular manner. Cor
tina and men of like standing are the
| leaders of this branch of business, and
! they have aids and associates of u
lower grade. In payment for assis-
tance in the smuggling line, Cortina
allows these banditti to cross the river
into Texas and plunder the people
along our border. AT times his lieu
tenants accompany these thieving and
numbering expeditions. If Cortina
were to break up or permit the MeXi- |
can government to stop cattle stealing
in our state, his associates would veto
smuggling from the "free zone" and
that is consumaton that he does not |
desire, hence the summary mode of
releasing his cattle thieves at Reinosa,
Oh the 10Th instant. Between stealing .
cattle and running goods over the lines
into the Uunited States and that por-
ton of Mexico not embraced in the
"free zone" the bad element of the
border portion of our sister republic is
kept in congenial employment,
to the detriment of all hon
est and Industrious men in
both countries. The "free zonen is
governed by Cortina and a ring of Mex
lean adventures, and it is the home of
the lawless men who carry the torch
and the sword into Texas whenever
they want money to spend in gaming,
drinking and other vices of like de-
moralizing nature. Now, as Cortina,
by his conduct has violated the laws
life and obedience to his govern
ment, the United States government
should avail itself of this opportunity
to see to it that he is permanently re-
moved from the "free zone" if not
punished for his crimes, and
that the nest of the foul birds
is broken up by the Mexican
government at the earliest pos
sible moment. Either this or the as
Of protectorate authority
over this district of Mexican territory
by the United States government
should be the utimatum. If the Mex
lean government will not clean out
that portion of her domain so the
frontier of the two nations can be pro-
tected in such manner as to make
raids both dangerous and unprofitable, /,
it is the manifest duty of our govern ,
mcnt to accomplish n radical cure by a
. =
AMONG the various good things said
by ex-Presdent Jefferson Davis, in his {
speech in this city, in nothing was he
more emphatic than in his advocacy of
education. He urged the ,,
erection of school houses and churches
in every neighborhood throughout the {
length and breadth of the land, as the !
great preservers of liberty. He urged
such system of education as would {
train our own teachers, !
preachers, lawyers, doctors and me- . .
chanics at home. There is world of :
wisdom in the thought. Here, as in 6
his Houston speech, he showed his l
warm sympathy with the efforts of the
Patrons of Husbandry TO elevate all the {
industrial and producing classes. Him c
self an agriculturist throughout t
.he prime of his manhood, his
heart warns to all who live +
by industry. Before the war t
ne was widely recognised as one of the I
most perfect cultivators in the United
States, and rs a statistician Oh agricul-
.ure and commerce, he stood unrivaled 1
IN our whole country. The whole 9
Davis family, for generations, have !
been producers, unambitious of public +
)flice, but devotees to domestic happi- i
ness and purity.
How beautiful, in his remarks on l
Lhe United States flag, as the restored ,
emblem of our common nationality,
was his remark that "When brothers !
fight, neither should struggle under the
colors of his mother" =,
LAWRENCE. !