heart, and placed it in a glass pickle jar filled with Louisiana whiskey, and this murdered man's heart has been seen by various persons since his execution, and it can be seen to-day in the drug and paint store of Dr. Hudson in the town of Orange. After this, they actually tried out all the fat from the flesh, and divided, it among each other for the oiling of their fire-arms. One of the doctors secured the head and carried it home, telling his wife to boil it till all the flesh should drop off, but the wife refused to have anything to do with it, and was horror-stricken at the barbarous sight. Her husband, however, compelled her to place the skull in a large copper-kettle, and boil it for several hours, when he took charge of it, told his wife that he had long desired an Abolitionist's skull for his study, and now he had got one.

Charles Saxton, a notorious robber, gave a ball a week or two after the murder, in honor of the Vigilance Committee, whose business was to clean out all anti-slavery people from Texas. He invited all the Secessionists of Orange, of both sexes, to the ball, and, as an inducement to attend the assembly, told them he would exhibit a genuine "Yankee skull." He had borrowed it from the doctor; and fastening it to a shelf, placed a candle in each eye-socket, and while most of the guests looked on with satisfaction to behold the Yankee head, he made the remark that "Yankee candlesticks were a decided improvement over the old-fashioned ones." The next morning Jim Davis and Saxton tied their pieces of mutilated flesh in a meal-bag, and threw them into the Sabine river, supposing that when the tide flowed they would float off, but they kept floating to and fro for two days, until Mr. George Kneeland, whose house was on the river-bank, went to Saxton and Davis, and told them

if there was any law in the land, he would instantly prosecute them, if they did not remove the remains from the river and bury them properly. Fearing this threat from Kneeland, who is an earnest rebel, the scoundrels buried these portions of the body.

To corroborate the above, I relate the following incident. Mrs. Freeland, a daughter of Robert Jackson of Orange, one of the first Union families in Texas, was anxious to borrow or purchase a large-sized copperkettle, for the purpose of making preserves. She was well acquainted with Mrs. Dr. Hudson, and knowing nothing at that time of the dissecting of Mr. James's body by the doctor), visited her for the purpose of securing the kettle.

While there, the conversation ran from one point to another, until the doctor's wife told how she was obliged to boil a human skull in one of her kettles, for her husband. Mrs. Freeland was horrified, and left the house.

The following persons will vouch for the truth of the statement in relation to the murder of Mr. McKees, Mr. Marshall, and Mr. James, viz.: John Livingston, David Livingston, Samuel Livingston, ship-carpenters in Orange, Texas; Mrs. Náncy Jane Jackson, William Jackson her son; Gowing Wilson Plummer, Mrs. Plummer, and Albert Plummer her son. Mr. Plummer is a New Englander, and was born in the town of Addison, Washington county, Maine. He has been for four years in the employ of the United States, as light-house keeper at the "Texas Light," on the east bank of Sabine Pass. N. Y. Y.

MURDER OF CAPTAIN MONTGOMERY.

ON the evening of the 15th of March, 1863, Captain Montgomery was kidnapped and taken to Camp Bell, a rebel camp on the Rio river, in Texas, a short distance from the mouth of the river, where he was kept till the next day, during which time he was tantalized by those who had him in charge. He was told he was going to be hanged, and was asked, in a mocking manner, if he was not going to say his prayers.

Next morning, about ten o'clock, he was taken a short distance above the camp, to a retired place on the river. A rope was tied about his neck, and he was commanded to tell what he knew about the Federal forces. He refused to disclose anything. He was suspended to a branch of a tree for some time, and when taken down, again required to communicate information; he still refusing, and saying that, as they were going to hang him in any case, he should not make any disclosures. They repeated this operation four or five times, when he was hung up in earnest, and left by his murderers.

He remained in that condition five days, when he was taken down by a friendly old Mexican and buried a few feet in the ground. The murderers afterwards removed the earth, saying he should be left exposed. The notorious Captain Bruin, a Southern traitor of Northern birth, commanded the hanging party, and for his bravery and chivalry in thus hanging a helpless and defenceless man, was at once promoted, and now rejoices in the title of Major Bruin.*

* Colonel Jesse Staneel, First Texas Cavalry.

HORRIBLE CRUELTIES OF THE REBELS TO THE GERMANS IN TEXAS.

IN the month of May, 1861, a rebel command left the neighborhood of Austin, Texas, in order to break up and destroy a German settlement near El Paso, in Texas. It consisted of some two hundred and fifty souls. These Germans had sown and planted largely all kinds of grain. In addition, they had large flocks of sheep and herds of cattle; also horses, mules, and swine, in great numbers. It was one of the most prosperous settlements in the State. They were known to be Union men with no possibility of an exception.

Their fidelity to their adopted country enraged the rebels, and on the 20th of the month some eighty or a hundred of these ruffians attacked the Germans, without the slightest provocation.

An indiscriminate slaughter of men, women, and children was made. Out of the whole population it is not known that more than three persons ever escaped. Fathers, mothers, sisters, brothers, and loved ones, all constituted one heap of carnage. They actually murdered little innocent babes not one month old, and violated the chastity of women, and then pitilessly murdered them, both young and old. Many of the men they hung. After plundering the houses of all valuables, and taking whatever they wanted, they burned them. They drove off all the stock of every kind they could discover, and then returned with an air of triumph to their companions in guilt.

This band of miscreants is said to have been under the command of two men by the names of Dibrell and Jen

kins, both of Tennessee. Dibrell has a brother commanding a guerilla regiment of Tennessee troops.*

BARBARITIES OF TEXAN RANGERS.

MONTEREY, MEXICO, November 4th, 1862. DEAR FRIEND: **** You can hardly imagine how the Union men are treated in Texas. They are hung on the slightest suspicion, by bodies of irresponsible men, who, were they in a country where law was respected, would not be allowed outside of a prison-yard.

You have probably heard of the way that a small body of Union men were treated by a part of J. McDuff's company of Texas Rangers, at the head of the Nueces. I learn from a gentleman here who had a conversation with an officer who was present at the massacre, that twelve passports from provost-marshals of Western Texas were found on the bodies of the Union men killed, by which they were allowed to pass freely over any part of the Texan frontier.

After the affair on the Nueces, another party of twenty Germans were attacked on the Rio Grande, as they were preparing to cross it, by a large party of Rangers. They succeeded in killing a number of Rangers and driving them back, only having in the party one man slightly wounded. They immediately crossed the river, leaving their horses with the Texans, and throwing their guns into the water.

We have here upon the frontier about one thousand

* General Rodgers and General A. J. Hamilton's secretary.

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