Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-07-01

mand in front and rear, but attempted no
attack, and Gen. Ord said the reason why !
they didn't pitch into Mackenzie was be- :
cause they were afraid. The troops which .
have been thrown to the front by the Mexican
authorities are nearly all raw recruits, who
have been impressed into service by sheer
force and violence. The general then de-
scribed
THE MODE OF RECRUITING
the national forces in the Mexican republic.
The inhabitants are enticed into attendance
upon the savage sports common to that
country. bull-6ght, for instance, will at
tract great crowd. AS the assemblage dis
perses through the gates the most soldierly !
looking citizens are seized by the local police
and hustled away to rendezvous. These
recruits are generally bound with ropes to
prevent their escape. They are literally
dragged into the service. The general saw
a bill, which had been audited and paid, for
four hundred yards of rope, and there was
no concealment of the fact that this hemp
had been used IN tying recruits. These are
the soldiers set to watch the border and pre-
vent the kickapoo and Lipan Indians from
raiding into Texas. The authorities dare
not bring the regular troops to the river.
They are so poorly fed and paid that they
would desert and flee to the Ameican side
, if the opportunity were offered them. The
general says the regulars are pitiful objects.
Their quarters are generally forbidden
places, and their army life, as a whole, is
calculated to stifie all patriotic feeling and
make them hate themselves.
> Gen. Ord says plainly that the Mexican
, troops are not used to prevent raiding to the
! Texas side. When
y A PILLAGING EXPEDITION
9 contemplated, the fact is nearly always
I we'll advertised weeks beforehand. The In
9 dams cross over to the American side in
: broad daylight; they recross in an equally
open manner, and retire leisurely with their
q plumber into the mountain Businesses. Re-
v Gently a band of raiders constructed two
i RATS on which to transport their plumber
f across the river. The work was performed
h in open day, and under the very noses OF
a the Mexican authorities. This sort of thing
a is of frequent occurrence. The general de.
: clares that the Mexican forces stand between
Il the raiders and the American troops, anc
"a really obstruct the pursuit of the thieves
II He did not say, in SO many words, that tn,
" so-called protectors were as bad as the pill
III layers, but it was impossible to look the gen
.. eral in the eye and not understand that h
j. meant something of the kind.
v Gen. Ord said it was a notifying spec
& tacle to the Americans living on the horde
q. to be compelled to witness such dastardl
os violations of the neutrality laws. The Texa
If. authorities have al they can do to restrain
": the people from taking the matter into thei
~ own hands. The population of that State
": swelling up toward a million, and the cour
I'd try adjacent to the border is too rich in pas
a. toral and other resources to be abandoned
and all because it is perpetually overrun b
hordes of plunderers from the opposite Sid
of the river. The tier of counties lying ne1
the river, in Texas, are practically unsat
a for habitation, owing to these depredator
de incursions. The general said, with a spar
in of fire in bis speech, that these outrag,
could not be borne always, and that if IL
rs, general government refused to act the pc,
M. pie of Texas would march over into Mexit
-. one of these fine mornings and
STIR UP THE NATIVES
of that heathenish republic in a mann
=. that would make old Montezuma turn ov
"a in his stone sepulchre. If this should con
- to pass the drubbing which the "Greasers
to would get would be good deal severer tina
ey what they might expect to receive in
ses scientific warfare. He said no other gre
Ter would have borne with such dastardly i
ate suits and outrages without giving the pc
nd petrators tremendous thrashing.
To The conversation turned on the adequa
ma of the present force in the department
Or Texas for the protection of settlers on IL
Ia border. Gen. Ord said that the availat
ION troops in his command did not number
ate exceed eighteen hundred or two thousan
1e condition of turbulence and hostility e
m. lists along the Rio Grande for distance
tn fourteen hundred miles. This extent
Of border cannot be guarded effectively by ty
At thousand troops. If they were deployed o
i've over the whole distance the sentinels wou
lit. be nearly mile apart. The general to
the the reporter that murders were commit
to almost daily at all the exposed points. F
nd Gently the raiders killed thirteen herders
in one neighborhood. He had letters fro
md ranchmen giving particulars of.
SUI THE MOST ATRocIoUs CRIMES
IAN upon the white settlers on the Americ
the side. He did not expect any immediate il
uas provement in the condition of affairs do,
FIN there during the present summer. Corn "
the now selling on the Mexican side at Sc |
adv bushel. The people back in the interior
ho- suffered much from famine, and they WI
two without money. Not being possessed of I
leet wherewith Il for buying corn, it was to be
pected that they would not discourage ra
ing, especially as it offered about the o.
means of livelihood open to them.