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The Daily Dispatch: July 1, 1863., [Electronic resource], Later from Texas. (search)
, well known in Texas as one of the leaders of our Rangers during the Mexican war, were arrested on the 24th of March last, at the port of San Francisco, where they had embarked for Mazatlan, in the State of Sinalia. They were brought before General Wright, in command of the California Department, and released after having been interrogated about the object of the trip, their intentions, etc. Gen. Wright threatened to confiscate Jack Hays's property, which I believe to have since been sold by HGen. Wright threatened to confiscate Jack Hays's property, which I believe to have since been sold by Hays, as he is now in Mazatlan. There are nearly five hundred Southern families in Mazatlan, who have fled from California to escape their being insulted and persecuted by the cowardly Yankee caravan who have overrun that State. Many of these families intended to settle on certain lands in Lower California; but as no water can be obtained in that dry region, where it sometimes does not rain for three and even four years, and there are no houses built to protect them from the burning su