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who will command this part of the Stale, has not yet arrived, but is looked for daily. I fear great incouvenience will soon be experienced for the want otj water. Nearly all the woodencisterns of the j cit y have been taken away or destroyed, and there is already a scarcity of water. It the! large body of troops are to make much stay here, measures should bo taken at once to procjure water by additional cisterns, and wells in tjie higher parts of the city and sand lrlls on the beach, will have to bo sunk for an immediate supply. Our citizens and city authorities will of cpurse do all they can to supply the wants of the troops. * —' ^The Provost Marshal-General for this State— Lt. Colonel III G. Laugklin, 13th army corps, arrived here yesterday, and has opened his office in the rcusiom house, and will commence [■paroling persons to-day. Be immediately sent for the Mayor cjf the city, and stated to him that he was instructed by General Granger to I say that the United States forces were coming here as friendsj not as enemies, that they had no desire to interfere with the Mayor in the |_ discharge of his municipal duties, and desired to co-operate with him in the promotion of good' order in this cijy. He requested the Mayor to say to the cifebns that they should meet with the fullest projection in both person and property, that the houses of the city, should not be occupied by the troops, but tfiat they would be encamped out*jid6 of the cit^ that negroes feeing from th$ country to this city would not be allowed toj Hvq in idleness or become a burthen to tne people,, that they . wouldbe arrested as they arrived, and forced to work on fortifications or be put to other labor. He Bald there would be a great mauy laborers required assoon as the engineers arrived, and her should find ample and uninterrupted employment for all vagrant or runaway negroes whlt; should be found on the streets or c sewhere. He assured the Mayor that lie-would find the Federal authorities'cordially co*opcrAtin witp him in suppressing such a. nuis*. auce. The Major thanked Tbira land was . about leaving, when'Mr. Strother met hihi at the door having three negroes in his charge whom he said hehad'found a ■ fevif miles blow on | the Island, and:i■1who represented that they belonged* to plantations on the Brazos. l ... I. ; .. ; ; :r. .;v .vThe Mayor saw thaij it had been' his rule to send all such negroes hdmejbut as the United States authorities were riow.here he woujd consult them, and accordlngly^ho went tiaok again to the Proyost Marshal Genera l./ and having stated: to him the caso, asked hit 1 how he would dispose bf the negroes,.informing him, at the same,time, what-had beou his otyn ru e in all sdoh cases. The ProvosU] Marshal Genen.l said1, it might fee' very well :to send them, to thpir homes, but s he had work for thetfrto do, he | would isond them, for thejpresent;to tljio Quartern aster for employment. Tula waaaccordingly don5, but the Qaarterniaater having no immediate wort for thorn, sent them to Jair for]liaafo-kf)tlon tlila as An i mont la now UtUU lio. should wnnt them idtCfttipnpf.tJie.jRoil;w y -ve mens\c♦ _■ i: « * “J..[ A- I. u IV. • . U V SKm .’t *7Mr.- jlMtf? * '**** ‘%
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Galveston Weekly News
Galveston, Texas, US
Wed, Jun 21, 1865
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