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noi yoi umveq, uui is looked lor daily. I fear great inconvenience will soon bo experienced for the want otj water. Nearly all the woodencisterns of the ] city have been taken away or destroyed, and Ihere is already a scarcity ofwater. It tlioj large body of troops are tomake much stay here, measures should bo taken at. onco to procure water by additional cisterns, and wells in tjie higher parts of the city and sand hills on the beach, will have to bo sunkfo an immediate supply. Our citizens and city authorities will' of course do all they can tosupply the wants of the troops.The Provost Marshal-General for this StateLt. Colonel Itj G. Laughlin, 13th army corps, arr ed here yesterday, and has opened his f-lice in the rcustom house, and will commence ■paroling persons to-day. Be immediately sent for the Mayor qf the city, and; stated to himinstructed by General Granger to say that the U nited States forces were coming lrere as friends] 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 ot good order in this eijy, He requested the Mayor to say to the citizens that they should meet withthe fullest protection in both’person and property, that the houses of the city* should not be occupied by thef.troops, but tuat they would be3be allowed toj live in idleness or become a burthen to the people,, that they wouldbe arrested as they arrived, and forced to work on fortifications or be put to other: labor. He B there would be a great many laborers requiredassoon as the engineers arrived, and; he* should findample and. uninterrupted egrant or runaway negroes whd should be found onhemployhOr ahment for all v-t he. streets or elsewhere. Ho assured the Mayor that nenvould find the; Federal authorities'cordially co?.qp crating with hiirt in suppressing such a. nufc auce. 1 he Mayor thanked him land was .about leaving, when'Jflr. Strother met hihi at the door having three negroes in his charge whom he said hebad; found a feu) mi ies bfelow on i the Island, and who represented that they belonged1 to plantations on the Brazos. . I / ; . ; ; '.The Mayor said that} it had been; his rale,to sendaU such negyoqs hbmej but as the United Statesauthorities word now- here hhwouldconsult them. jnAiaccordihglwhe went back again to the Provost Marshal General, and havihg stfctedr toJ him the 3asq, asked him how ho would dispose bf the negroes, informing him, at the.sBmejtime, whaMouihis own rule in ail sdoh cases. The ProvoaLUarhhal Gcnerdl said1, it might fee very well rtosend them to thfcm homes, but -as he had work- for hem ^ do, hejkvouid Bond tfconu for the^presdnt; to tljo (3uartern}B8toV for employ nient. This wasJonihlaaftni luictio'ji of ill nont Is now p irauln^la reliI have obtaiiefl from Mr,-1
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Galveston Weekly News
Galveston, Texas, US
Wed, Jun 21, 1865
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