7 A letter elated Monterey, Mexico, Nov. 1862, from Vice Consul M. M. M. Kemmey, states, on. the authority of an eye-witness, that twelve Unionists.of Western Texas, provided with passports from the rebel Provost Marshal, were all massacred on the Neuces river, by a body of Texas rangers, but a short time previous to the above date. Also, a party of Germans were all killed, with o.ne exception, who escaped wounded, by the same party. The Consul remarks—“ You cannot imagine how Union- men are treated in Texas; they are hung on th© slightest suspicion.” “Immediate efforts be. made for a cessation of hostilities. ” An official letter from Maj. Gen. Blunt, Oct. 7th, 1863, in reference to the massacre at Baxter Springs, Mo., says : “ The body of Major Curtis, the son of Maj. Gen. Curtis, was found where thrown from his horse, shot through the head, evidently having been-murdered after being taken prisoner.” The same was the case with.all the wounded, the members of the band, tlic officers’ clerks and the. teamsters. The murderers were a portion of Coppey’s and Quantrell’s command, disguised by Federal uniforms. About seventy were thus butchered by these worse than fiends. “ Immediate efforts be made for a cessation of hostilities.” An official letter from Col. W. R: Penick, dated Independence,'Mo., January 11th, 1863, says: “Private Johnson, of the artillery, was brought in dead to-day, the fifth murdered the last week. They were all wounded and killed afterwards, in the most horrible manner that fiends could devise. All were shot in the head, several had their faces fearfully cut, evidently with boot-heels; powder, was exploded in one man’s ear, and both ears cut off close to the head.” “Immediate efforts be made for a cessation of hostilities.” In April, 1862, a party of rebel soldiers—if highwaymen can be thus dignified—on a tour of collecting conscripts, shot and instantly killed a poor deranged woman, Mrs. Ruth A. Rhea, on Lick Creek, in Green County, Tenn., because she attempted to drive them from her premises with a stick, when conscripting lier only son and support.—Authority of Col. Crawford. “ Immediate efforts be made for a cessation of hostilities.” In a letter to the Mayor of New Orleans, April 26th, 1862, Admiral Farragut says: “I shall speedily and severely punish any person ®r persons who shall commit such outrages as were witnessed yesterday— armed men firing upon helpless women and children, for giving expression to their pleasure at witnessing the old flag.” These are the “ gentlemen ” soldiers we read of, formed out of the raw material called “ chivalry.”. “Immediate efforts'be made for a cessation of hostilities.” Mr. St. Clair, mate of the steamboat McRay, states that “ in August, 1850, while his vessel was lying at the wharf near New Orleans, a German pedlar, who could scarcely understand or utter a sentence in English, was caught and hung to a lamp-post by a mob, for simply having in his possession photographs of Mr. Lincoln, then candidate for the Presidency, and not the least-opposition was made by the police, nor any notice taken of it by the city authorities.” “Immediate efforts be made for a cessation of hostilities.” During the engagement between the Federal gunboats and the rebel
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