Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 March 1860 — The Texas Frontier. [ARTICLE]

The Texas Frontier.

Tne foli-.i’.v-ihg is from the W o-i;-ngf• n . correspoadeut of the P'-iladelphia American: i ‘■Vt’AfMM.Tf-x, March '-I. 1860. “Govern >r il-niston, of T.-x i»-*s sent a special nee ut here. To seek aid Iroin I.e? (i >', - .'•rum - tit in protoeting l’. xas ag .inst lleged ii;v.oifoii. A ; he ha.i previ- u.-dv made* n similar application by leh-graph, tdie .'acts ;ir ■ .n it m.aterial ty dd.'ereia'., tie mg h icon- »-ni:irged in tho i•«.•_* ease than in ’h ■ other. Tito ' iit-ofij.atioi. in jassesa:-,?! of the proper department gives a verv dill'--rent version id the troubles u.n the Rio Grande iVotii iii.it presented by Governor H utst in. Gortinas is not a M •.vie.au, as is charged, but a citt7. ’ii of Texas, living within the ihuys ol't.hat State, mid subject to its authority, ft is well known th- t. bo opened the jail at iii-.iv.au-villt*, at .i r--cr.ati.-l his baud : r-.>:w the ' prisoners and v igaboti-is whom he loom! confined there, and iias since plundered both ■ sides o! the river, as boo'y or opportunity offered ait inducement. Some Mexicans may j hove been subsequent ly eniisted. but to ! charge them with an‘invasion,’which is led j by it citizen of Texes, and organized with I banditti ,rotr» Texas, is rather audacious. j •• fcvi'inuli>>neotts wigh tlus demotwtruiion, j | r.-ir. CV’igi 11, one ed th .- Iv.-ttatm*.-* front Tex- - | as,-made at ovoverneut. in the S' note t-*v c-ii- ‘ ! ling out as- gmi'-nt • : mouttied Tex-m vol- ! j Uutee-s. up the pica of repressing Indian i and other outrages, and attempted, yester- ! dav. to f-ngraft it as an amendniei t upon tne ! regular West. Point appropriation hill. It j would involve a cost of a million and a hat: doliars unnuuiiy to the treasury, and thru ex-' ; perniiture is rest My t he insjdrution ol the proposed policy. We have now it large United ; Ska es force on toe Rio Grande, sent there ! expressly to meet this contingency, and the W.o Department fin emit red most of the 1 < . i)s in U ah to th R frontier, vvith.thepri.*- | less’al purpose'”’ot holding the Indians in 'check. Yet, in the lace of this large presj out and prospective protect j Art, t.-r.-T' i larger |by far than the emergency require:-, Fon- : gress is asked to cull out a regiment of mouu- ! ted men, merely that Tex is may he pensioned to the tune of a bullion asid a half a | year. She h. ■ cost pretty de.iily already. I without inct ring any new outlay, thougti, !if an occasion re, ily demanded it, millions ! would be freeiy voted to provide for her dei feuse.” ! . ’