for many rears one of the lending I citizens of Dona Ana County and of this Territory, also now deceased* The sketch is as follows:‘•There was recently published ill the eastern newspapers an account of the rescue of a man down in Texas, from an infuriated racib, by his making the Masonic sign of distress, which reminds me of an occurrence which took place in the Mcftilla Valley in l$bl.“When Colonel Bajlor, with his regiment of Texas rangers, arrived in the Mcsilla Valley in the winter of 18bl, there were several Union sympathizers in that vicinity of whom he was suspicious. On the second or( li i rH i if li ( I Inr li is 'teri I » tuti i IthiwitStiLoCOt!tenvolthesirco\rcn*wemi'Jsai—t