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IMPORTANT FROM TEXAS.We are indebted to a gentleman of this place, for The Daily ( Texas) Times, from which we cxt-act the following important items;Through the politeness of Sam. A. Maverick Esq., a very respectable citizen and member of the bar at San Antonio de Bexar, in conjunction with private letters wc received, we have learned the follow, ing particulars of another Comanche and Indian Ireichery. We place the account in our editorial columns, nearly in Mr Ma vorick’s own words.THE EXPECTED COMANCHE TRE A TY TV RNED IN TO A FIGHT.Mr.;Maverick, just from San Antonio, stales that on tlie 19th inst. sixty five Co. munches came into San Antonio with Miss Lockhart, whom they had Rtolen from the Gaudnloup n year and a half since. About four hours afier their entry, some ten or twelve of their chiefs met in council our acting Secretary of War, Col. Wm. G. Cooke, Col. Fislter, il/.ij. McCteod, and the other queers at the head of tlie forces now stationed near Sun ■duionio. The Comanchcs said they were come to make a treaty of peace, our com mitsionera asked them why they had not brought in all of tlw A rnerican children as they had promised repeatedly of late, to
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Southern Argus
Columbus, Mississippi, US
Tue, Apr 21, 1840
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