Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1875-04-23
MEXICO AND TEXAS.
Important Dispatch fren Corpus
ChristI-The Mexican AuthOrl-
ties Talk Fairly and
Promise Much.
Meanwhile the ButcberIng and Red.
Handed GreRseTs are Depredat-
ing Along the Frontier Of
Helpless Texas.

. GALVESTON, April PA special to
the NetOs from Corpus Christi, Texas,
/ twenty-second instant, says the follow
ing letter, from q highly respectable
1 Mexican citizen OF Texas, proves that II
the proper course Is pursued by our gov
/ eminent, right of, the Mexicans VINO
raided upon this country can be secured
and brought to Justice:
LAvEDo, TEXAS, April Il, 1875.
/ To Mr.. VIM. Hseden, Corpus Christi, Texas:
/ DEAR SIR-The Mexican General Nj
/ canarss ZOpats, who has just arrived at
1 LsvedO, and whom l have had the
! pleasure Of visiting this morning, ardent
/ ly desires to punish the bandits who are
/ committing crimes on this part Of the
! frontier. be favored me with a tele-
/ gram from General Escobedo, which
reads as follows:
sALTILLo, April 5, 1875.
/ General Zopata:
II you DO not find il incOnvenient be
! pleased to return yOul escort, that they
may take the eight prisoners from Car
margo and two from Mier, in order to
conduct them to this city, or until they
encounter an escort, which has gone
feTth TO meet them. NJ. ESCOBEDO.
According to information these pris-
oners are the same who rsided in the
suburbs Of your city. l am positive that
on being identified, General EscObedo
will punish them to the utmost extent
Of the law. l have positive informs-
tion, through Don Juan Muncas, that
the raiders, twenty four in number, re-
crossed the river near MieT, st the Pass
AriesO. They compelled g shepherd to
guide them to the ford mentioned.
Ii l,oN
you publish my letter that the raiders
were never in the bounds of this couu-
try, but it will soon be known where
they belong. l suppose that the eight
apprehended belong to the guerrillas.
Be assured that the Mexican authOri-
ties, in whose hands they are, will treat
them with the gravity their crimes de-
mand. General EscObedO Is a friend OF
order, and it is his desire to observe the
peace between both republics and give
satisfaction.
SANTOS BENAVIDES.
Colonel Santos Benavides, who
speaks authoTi'atively from his re-
lationship with the Mexican aus
thOrities, has lately been before
the joint committees OF the legis-
lsture which investigated the frontier
troubles, and is a man who represented
his district in the legislature, and has
been known as bulWork against dis
orders Oh the frontier. The prime facts
in all this that we now nave positive
information of the whereabouts Of these
bandits, and our government can de-
mand them. On the morning OF the
nineteenth the house OF DR.. D. d. Lovel,
at CarTizO, was surrounded by party OF
eleven men, and he murdered. de was
and old citizen of Texas and a most es-
timsble gentleman. One more victim
added to the list.
A letter to the Valley Times, dated
San Diego, Nueces county, Texas, April
Goth, ssys: "On the seventeenth Julian
Rits and his son were murdered one
mile from CalavOTss, on the road lead
ing TO Pass Iucho. The family of the
deceased was about half mile of at the
time, and saw the parties riding away
who committed the deed. The Laredo
rider, Manuel ParedO, was robbed en
the road this side of CoZa MsradO.
Lively times may be expected in this
country. Rsnchers are moving into
town; travelling almost stopped ;busines
very much depressed. From reliable in
formation almost every ranch not
burned is crowded by armed Mexicans,
fifty to sixty at some, for what purpose
it is not known, and how many more
doubtful characters are concealed in the
thick chepparel, which affords a safe re-
treat, it is hard to say. The crisis, it is
hoped, is close at hand.