Additional from Texas.- By Orizaba, last evening, we have a few additional items:
We notice in the La Grange True Issue reference to a rumor that Major Marshall, of the Austin State Gazette, and General Norton, of the Intelligencer, had gone to the Indian Nation for the purpose of fighting a duel.
Schooner Lost.- The schooner Alex. Moore was lost on the Aransas bar, on the 20th inst. She was loaded with lumber, and drawing four and half feet of water, and was considerably out of the channel when she struck and filled. The day was mild and clear, a fair wind blowing at the time, and nine feet of water over the bar. So much for trying to cross the bar without a pilot. The vessel was bound to the is port for market.- Corpus Christi Ranchero.
The Clarksville Standard says that the people there are on the alert, and suspicious characters are made to leave the country.
Lieut. Gass, of Johnson’s Ranger regiment, writes to the Standard that the regiment is doing no earthly good. The commissary department is badly managed, the troops discontented, commander apparently inefficient, etc., etc.
The Standard has accounts of many public meetings in the various counties in Northern Texas, relative to the late incendiarism, and the excitement that still prevails in all that country.
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Late From Coahuila.- A gentleman lately from Mexico, has kindly furnished us, says the San Antonio Herald, with the following items of general and special news:
The population of Eagle Pass consists of 547 souls. With the garrison, 740.
Zuazua was assassinated about the 5th or 6th inst., by one Garcia, said to be a partisan of General Bianco’s.
General Vidaurri entered Saltillo with 350 men in the early part of August. He was attacked by Armaberi, in the night, who had about 150 men. Vidaurri repulsed him.
A Mexican was taken prisoner by the Comanches, on Devil’s river. The party wished to make use of him as a guide; asking him sundry questions as to the road to Saltillo- the immediate loction of horses, etc. They held him prisoner till arriving at San Jacinto Crossing. Here another party of the same tribe were found, accompanied by their squaws. Here, leaving hurriedly, the Mexican noticed 100 red gentlemen on the opposite bank.
The same evening our Mexican friend saw another party of savages. He secreted himself, and made good his escape on the day following by reaching the colony of Captain Manuel Leal, on the San Diego. Capt. Leal sent an express to San Fernando. Two hundred men were ordered out, consisting of the National Guard, form the towns of Nava, Morelos, San Fernando, Presidio, Bio Grande, and Piedras Negras.
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The Massacres in Syria.- There are now eighteen vessels of war in the harbor, all them so situated that their guns bear directly upon the town. Everybody is now on the qui vive for an occupation of the country by French troops, as news has been received that several thousand have left France for this place….
…The dogs are eating the unburied dead. Robbers still ransack the ruins; women, girls and children are still slaves in the power of the ruffians who spoiled their homes, murdered their protectors, and brutally carried them off. In the streets we meet former acquaintances disguised in the dress and turbans of Moslems. Fear and anxiety swallow up sorrow for the murdered. The past is like a horrible and incredible dream. The future is darkness, terror and despair…
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Change in the Officers At West Point.- The following is detail of officers for duty at the Military Academy at West Point, to report on the 1st of September: Tactical Department- Brevet Major John F. Reynolds, 3rd artillery, instructor and commandant; Lieutenants Chas. Griffin, 2d artillery, John H. Forney, 10th Infantry, and John B. Hood, 2d cavalry….
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The Internal War In China.- Pillage and Loss of Life.-…
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A Virginia Slave in Philidelphia.- Offer of Freedom Refused.- On Tuesday week, in the Philidelphia Court of Sessions, Passmore Williamson applied for a writ of habeas corpus for the release of Sina Conquest, a colored woman, in the custody of W. T. Conquest, a native of Virginia, but now a resident of that city. Mr. Conquest was summoned before the court, and made affidavit to the following effect:
“That Sina Conquest was held to service as a slave by him, in the county of Accomac, and State of Virginia; that in the month of July, 1860, he returned to the city of Philadelphia, where he now resides, bringing with him the said Sina; that prior to leaving the State of Virginia he informed the said Sina that, by the laws of the State of Pennsylvania, she would be free upon her arrival; that he does not detain, and has not detained the said Sina, and has no claim, and does not claim to hold her in service within the Commonwealth, and that she is at liberty to depart if she deserves so to do.”
Mr. Pierce now addressed the court, and desired that Sina might be instructed as to her rights. He had understood that she wished to return to Virginia to see her husband, who was ill.
Judge Ludlow called Sina, a genteel looking colored woman, and remarked: “in obedience ot the writ, your master has brought you here, and I desire to say to you, that by the laws of Pennsylvania, having been brought here by your master, he residing here, you are a free woman, as your master has told you. If you return home, by the laws of Virginia, and a decision of the Supreme Court, you will again be a slave. You must elect which course you will pursue, and allow no one to interfere either way with your determination.”
Sina, in a decided tone, said to the court- “I think I would rather go back; I will be better satisfied and contented on my native soil, and I feel I will be better off in the end.”
Judge Ludlow said he had no doubt but that she would be far better off in the course she intended to pursue.
Sina now spoke again, in an indignant tone of voice, saying, “I have not been in prison at all. He (pointing to Mr. Conquest) has taken me around the town, well, I don’t know where, and shown me all the sights in the city. I don’t think it would be honorable for me to go away from Mr. Conquest..”
The court (Judge Ludlow) after listening to Sina, ordered the writ to be dismissed. As she was leaving the court room, she offered to give five dollars for information as to the person who issued the writ. Passmore Williamson and his intermeddling, abolition friends felt considerably mortified at the result.
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Douglas in Virginia.-….
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Another Southern Steamship.- The new steamship of the New York and Charleston line will be launched on or about the 8th inst. The Mercury says she will be called the John P. King, in honor of the distinguished President of the Georgia Railroad.
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The Rice and Cotton Crops.- The Charleston Mercury has been informed by an experienced planter on the Edisto, that the rice crop of the present season will be the largest that has been made for several years….cotton is not looking as well as might be desired…
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Later from California- Arrival of the pony express- …Lieut. Wood’s command attacked a party of Indians on the Pony route, killing seventeen and losing three of his men. It is generally supposed that there will be no further interruptions along the route.
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David Upton
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