THE SECESSION OUTRAGES IN TEXAS. When the desperadoes who claimed to represent the people of Texas, had secured the Government arms and overawed the majority of the citizens who still, in spite of everything, clung to the Union and the Constitution, the whole State soon came under the rule of an irresponsible mob, who hung, banished, or cowed into professed submission every loyal citizen in the State. The usurping Governor Clark, by proclamation, ordered all Unionists, on pain of death, to quit the State within a specified number of days, the time being so short that most of them had but barely time to get into Mexico before its expiration, being followed by a gang of Secession robbers, called soldiers of the C.S.A., to the extreme verge of the frontier. Something like 600 refugees, men, women and children, left San Antonio in one train, and proceeded to Monterey, Mexico, and from that point made their way across to the pacific, in many instances suffering terribly, large numbers dying on the road from sickness and want. Numbers of these people we know to have been old residents of the State, and among its wealthiest citizens, but have been stripped of their entire property, and are now arriving in this State without the means to commence anew and make their families comfortable. Some of the refugees are possessed of means in ready money, but they are the exception to the rule. Several hundred have stopped in the vicinity of Los Angeles, while numbers of others have made their way to this city, among whom we learn the names of James P. Newcomb and J. B. Baccus, Jr., formerly editors and proprietors of the Alamo Express, San Antonio; Jesse Geib, formerly merchant in the same city; T. C. Barker; J. B. Baccus and family; Wm. H. Haskell and family; C. W. Bowers; Mr. Reedner, Mr. Powers; Mr. Recker; Messrs. Howard, Schmidt, Kells, and many others.
Yuma County, Colorado
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