The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1847-09-02

Secretary of the Navy Washington
News FROM TExAs-By the steamer Yacht
Captain Crane, we have papers from Galveston
to the 2ist inst.
The papers Of the country generally represent the in
coming cotton crop AZ large and fine Some complaint
Is made Of the worm In certain quarters but little i'm
portance Is attached to 1t.
The latest number Of the Civilian copies from the
rtctorfd .ddrocdfe the following, at the time in
dcatng doubts of the authenticity of the intelligence
We learn, from friend recently from San Antonio in
whose statements the utmost reliance may be placed
pursuit of body of Lipan Indians who had bsen com
uniting depredatons upon the frontier A fight took
place on the Leen one of the head waters Nuscss
river, In which six Of the Lipsns were killed
Mexican girl about fourteen years old and a bow
about ten VINO had been prisoners among the Indians
about year since She was afterwards released and
sent home by the people of San Antonio She has been
by them Col. Hays also took u number of horses and
mules, which said to have been stolen from the
Amercans Our informant gathered the above informa
tion from the members Of the company He did not
talk with Col Hays. He left San Antonio on the even
ing Of the Gath, via Corpus Christi Twenty miles
ABOVE san fatricio he passed large body Of Indians
which he supposed to be Camanches enoamped on the
Nueces He thinks they number about one hundred
ana niy and had three hundred head Of their
possession They came from the Rio Grande region and
crossing the Nueces at their encampment travel
Our informant also states that on the day before he left
San Antonoan express arrived there bearing
70 Cslonel Hays from Major Neighbours Indian sgent
The express stated that the Camanches had become
hostile and had ordered all persons who were surveying
lands to leave that part of the country The express
also stated that fve surveyors under Mr. Robert Hays
brother OF Colonel Hays who were missing had been
certainly killed 1t at the agency that
out surveying on the San Saba been killed taken
prisoners
FROM THE INDIAN COUNTRY "A correspondent
OF the st. Louis Revieiie, writing from the Usage
with the Osages the latter that the Spsniards
lmeaning the Mexicans, we presume) had advanced
them large sums OF money and made many presents OF
mules as payment for numbering the Americans who
travelled along the road and destroying property
In order to stimulate them this work large rewards
were literally paid for every scalp and oxta which the
Camanches brought In II therefore their intention
to take their old stands both sides Of the Arkansas
river early In the spring. There has been a powder
mill explosion Xenia which killed one man
THE New MAIL ARRANGEMENT AS might be
expected, the new arrangement for the convey
of the mail between New York and Boston, which
commenced on Monday has been a failure 80 far and
owing to the determined opposition with which the
government line has to contend after reaching city
The Oneida brought the mail from New York to-day,
starting at half past and arriving at about IL O'Clock
The Traveller much faster boat had arrived half an
hour sooner and the for Hartford with her passeu-
gers were starting when the Oneida abreast the
pier at the end Of Long Wharf In this way the
mail has been left behind for days, although the
! government has q contract with the railroad for
carrying the mail to Springfield for two wears
to come, for the of $si42 per annum To
avoid this detention the Postmaster here
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Sard ~ tsLs $40 ~ tS.,. ~ ~ eav,ns nar.
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dinicuIties for MI conh;na t. os It. S. s',e
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in the old ,;ns being Isss hv s,E onts ~ u' ~
nrice charged nass.ncers ~ this c;, snd IL,
81 s7X than thew can otherv,se ohtsin NASSAU. he
this route This bowsver 10 nat n rsa arsscsss
mept but one adopted to hv
route and works disadysnayeoYsv to The nsw I;n 10
would not be surprising n The ndsrsta hst
them extended even TO the refusal of the mail unless
by the Old line from New York To Boston Arc tatan
for four dollars and ~ brouobt 70 this a;, a. th
oppostiop boat for nothing would sill he 1osars 20
the amount Of eighty seven ana a half conts Tbis
accounts in mart for the fact that a hougb the rray
eer 30 cents more for to this civ than
the Opposition boat abe has three or fur th
Der OF that the other boa brnos nd
| all the through passengers
We have lust lear ned that thu EASTERN mail was do
tanned from some caus. an that Il did M, rr,y g.,
son for the boat hch left At half mast ono clonr Soy
New YORK and ~ conrse n remains t, to
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MURDER IN NAssAu.--h correspondent oil the
Hudson GdzeUe, writing from Nassau, states
that Austin Phelps, for the last thirty resident
~ ts 'ase was Ioanu ,ast rr'aAy morning DEAD IN
inflicted with an axe1 The deceased was "a vsars ~
age and IL Is not known that out of his own family n,
had an enemy while living Ic has left suryivnc him
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