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Office Sub-Assistant Commissioner,
BUREAU OF R.F.& A.L.
Galveston. Texas, Mar. 6. 1867.

To.
Lieut J.T. Kirkman
A.A.A.G. Bu. R.F & A.L>
Galveston, Texas.

Lieutenant, 

I would state that about 4 o'clock P.M. yesterday, John League, freedman, was attacked ad severely beaten with a dray stake, nearly causing death, on Central wharf in this city, by a white man supposed to be - Macumber, an engineer.

Also that Richard Finn, second engineer of the Steamship J.C. Harris, was present, and when the friends of John League undertook to raise him from the wharf in an insensible condition, he drew a pistol and threatened to shoot any one that should touch him: at the same time cursing the Negroes and the U.S. Government.

I am informed by Capt. Sanston of the City Police that he saw the above mentioned engineer, a very short time before this outrage occurred, going in company towards the wharf; and from the description given there can be no doubt but they are the men who committed the murderous outrage.