Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. XXVII, August 1852, Vol. VVarious
History
Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. XXVII, August 1852, Vol. V
Various
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In Texas, a company of dragoons, under Lieutenant Haven, has had a
skirmish with the Camanche Indians, from whom four captive children
and thirty-eight stolen horses were recovered. About the 1st of June
a family, consisting of a father, mother, and six children, while
encamped at La Mina, were attacked by a party of Camanches, and all
killed except the father and one daughter, who were severely
wounded, and two young children who were rescued. A few days
previous a party of five Californians were all killed by Mexicans
near San Fernando. On the evening of the 10th of May seven Americans
were attacked by a gang of about forty Mexicans and Indians, at a
lake called Campacuas, and five of them were killed. A good deal of
excitement prevailed in consequence of these repeated outrages, and
of the failure of the General Government to provide properly for the
protection of the parties.----Early in June, as the U. S. steamer
Camanche was ascending the Rio Bravo, five persons landed from her
and killed a cow, when the owner came forward and demanded payment.
This was refused with insults, and the marauders returned on board.
The steamer continued her voyage, and the pilot soon saw a party of
men approaching the bank, and fired upon them. They soon after
returned the fire, wounding two of the passengers, one being the
deputy-collector of the Custom-house of Rio Grande, and the other
his son.
From CALIFORNIA we have intelligence to the 1st of June.
There is no political news of interest. A party of seventy-four
Frenchmen left California last fall for Sonora in Mexico,
accompanied by one American, named Moore. Mr. M. had returned to San
Francisco with intelligence that the party had been favorably
received by the Mexican authorities, who had bestowed upon them a
grant of three leagues of land near Carcospa, at the head of the
Santa Cruz valley, on condition that they should cultivate it for
ten years without selling it, and should not permit any Americans to
settle among them. They had also received from the Mexican
government horses, farming utensils, provisions, and other
necessaries, with permission to have five hundred of their
countrymen join them. They were intending soon to begin working the
rich mines in that neighborhood. Mr. Moore had been compelled by
threats and force to leave them. On his way back he met at Guyamas a
party of twelve who had been driven back, while going to California,
by Indians. While on their way to Sonora, they had fallen in with a
settlement of seventy-five Frenchmen, who treated them with great
harshness, and would have killed them but for the protection of the
Mexican authorities. This hostility between the French and American
settlers in California is ascribed to difficulties which occurred in
the mines between them. The Mexicans, whose hatred of the Americans
in that part of the country seems to be steadily increasing, have
taken advantage of these dissensions, and encourage the French in
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