The Late Indian Fight. -- A Correspon-
dent of the Houston Telegraph writing from
Hamilton County, under date of January
19th, gives the following account of the late
Indian Fight:
  Some four or five weeks ago Captain Guil-
lentine of Erath county, discovered where a
large number of Indians had recently been
encamped near Phantom Hill, and reported
the fact, whereupon Captain Totten, Sen.,
Captain of this Disctrict, ordered out all the
men that could be started, (probably about
four hundred,) who, together with some two
or three hundred of Col. Barril's Frontier 
Regiment, pursued them and overtook them
on the 8th of January, and a fight took
place in which the militia lost seventeen
killed, including three Captains, Captain
Guillentine, of Erath county, Captain
Barnes, of Bosque county, and Captai Cul-
ver -- I do not know his county -- and thir-
teen wounded, some of which are mortally,
and of the Confederate troops that were
engaged, seven killed and thirteen wound-
ed.  The general supposition is that it was
a tribe of friendly Indians moving across
the country to Mexico.  I understand they
had papers to that effect.  The men, from
what I can hear, as a general thing, were
opposed to going into the fight after finding
out what kind of Indians they were.
  As I was not an eye witness, I will leave
the particulars of the interview that took
place between some of the Indians and some
of the officers, for some one else to give
(there was an interview, or I have been
misinformed.)
  The popular opinion is that it has left the
frontier in a great deal worse condition
than it was before the Expedition started
out.  It is similar to an expedition that
one Colonel Cressup made in earlier times
against a friendly tribe of Indians.
                           BONO.

  P.S. Since commenting this, I am in-
formed that I was mistaken as to the num-
ber of men engaged in the fight with the
Indians: the number was two hundred and
fifty, or three hundred militia, and between
one hundred, or one hundred and fifty Con-
federates.  Our men eat three horses and
two dogs.  I must stop my imperfect scrib-
bling for this time.
   Yours, respectfully,        BONO

  The Austin Gazette gives the following
additonal particulars, and list of casuali-
ties:
  This fight took place on Dove creek, a
branch of the south fork of the Concho riv-
er, about 200 miles north-west of this city.
Over 100 of the enemy were killed.  We
lost 14 men killed, and 16 wounded, from
the frontier organization. From the bat-
talion in C.S. service there was 4 killed
and 5 wounded.  We append a list:
  KILLED - Coryell County -- Lieut. B. D.
Latham, Sergt. W. M. Love, P.N. Maroney,
James Gibson, George Harris.
  WOUNDED -- W.P. Grubb, shoulder, severe;
W. J. Holmark, breast, slight.
  KILLED - Bosque Co. -- Capt. R. S. Barnes,
A. E. Everett, N. A. Bible, S.W. Wray, J.
B. Steele.
  WOUNDED -- Lieut. J. C. Isaac, in collar
bone, severe; C. Warloupe, shoulder, slight;
J. S. Mabry, side, mortally;  W. W. Pearce,
arm, severe;  W. M. Snell, thigh, severe.
  KILLED - Johnson Co. -- Sergt Jack Steward.
  WOUNDED -- Sergt. A. Peters, arm, severe;
Peter George, thigh, slight.
  KILLED - Erath Co. -- Capt Wm. Culver,
J. O. Gillentine, John Kehen.
  WOUNDED -- Capt N. M. Gillentine, mor-
tally; W. M. Gillentine, lungs, severe; J.
B. Bull, thigh, severe; H. Allerd, left hand,
severe; B. F. Bates, shoulder, severe: W. M. 
Roberts, shoulder, severe.
  KILLED -- Comanche Co.--T. Harker, M.
Axe.
  WOUNDED -- Elias Deaton, arm, severe.
  The enemy was armed with Enfield rifles
and used them well.
  Our forces held the ground for an hour
and fell back in good order.
  From the information received we sup-
pose the attack was made by our forces.

  The Register says that Indains have be-
come exceedingly troublesome, having kill-
ed a man named Smith a few miles from
the town of Gatesville, Coryelle County.
That paper adds:
  "Many families are now leaving the 
frontier on account of these troubles, and
to such an alarming extent do they exist,
that the people of the above mentioned coun-
ties must suffer terribly, unless Gov. Ham-
ilton or the Federal Goverment sends a 
military force sufficient to drive the In-
dians from the country, and protect the
lives and property of the citizens."

  We learn from Mr. Knowles, of Coryell
county, that a party of Indians made a raid
through that county on last Sunday, and
came as far as Mr. Lambs, ten miles this 
side of Gatesville.  This is the boldest raid
that has been made by them for several
years; they have not been known to cross
the Leon river before for the last ten or fif-
teen years.  In this raid they stole and kill-
ed all of Mr. Lambs horses, took three
horses from a gentleman w:o lives at the
Tyler place and one from Mr. Grisset in
twenty minutes after he had unsaddled
him;  they also killed in the same neighbor-
hood, a horse belonging to Mr. Morehead of
this place.  A company of men has gone in
pursuit of them.  -- Waco Register 23d.

The Indians -- The Crops, etc
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  Valley Home, Hamilton, Co., May 30, 1869.
Editors News:
  The Indians, three miles below Gates-
ville, took Joe Friend's team of mules, and
many valuable horses.  Proceeding up
Cowhouse Creek, the word is "they
cleaned it up."
  Two gentlemen just returned from
Brown county bring the news that a 
young man by the name of Jones was re-
cently killed there by Indians. He was
scalped and had the palms of his hands
cut out.

  INDIANS.--Mr. A. J. Purafoy, from
Eagle Crossing, Coryell county, was in
our office yesterday, and reports that
Indians(!) have been in that county late-
ly, committing depredations and steal-
ing horses.  He happened to see a party
of them, and he is almost certain, out of
the five he saw, two were white men, two
Mexicans, and the other was probably
an Indian. -- [Waco Register, 11th inst.