The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1848-07-15
From Texas.

We have received papers from Galveston to the
Ilth, from which we make few extracts:
The CoTToN CRoP IN TExAs.-The Galveston
News of the 8th inst, says: 2" Cotton picking will
be some two or three weeks earlier this year than
usual We have just heard from several large
planters Of the Brazos who expect that their good
pickers will be able to gather 200 lbs each per day
by the 25th inst The crop is not only forward, but
as far as we can learn, will prove to be remarka
bly, good one, unless the worm should make its APP
pearance. As yet, however, we cannot learn that
single cotton field has been visited by this great
destroyer of our Southern staple 1t is now about
the time that it usually commences its ravages.
Should the balance of the season CONTINUE lavora-
be- the crop of this State will greatly exceed that
of last year.. From the same paper we take the
following paragraphs:
A ROUTE TO CHTHUAHUA.-The Victoria Advo-
cate has article the feasibility and importance
of opening road between Matagorda Bay and
chihuahua. "'The distance" saws the Advocate.
g is very little more than five hundred miles; and
from information in our possession, we believe a
road may be had which will vary little from d-
rect route. Commencing at the town Of San An
tonio the road would take direction to strike the
Rio Grande a short distance above the mouth of the
Rio Puerco-crossing the Rio Grande at the place
where the road strikes it. direct route may be had
thence to Chihuahua, distant not more than one
hundred miles
THE GERMAN EMIGRATION COMPANY. - We
learn that Messrs. Fisher d Miller, the original con-
tractors for the colony embracing the fine lands of
the LlanO and San Saba, are now about leaving on
visit TO Germany for the purpose of settling their
affairs with the German Emigration Company, to
whom they assigned their grant. The interests of
very many Of our citizens, both German and Ameri-
can and Of the State generally are deeply involved
in the successful prosecution of that important en-
terpriZe. The Company have already expended
large sums of money, with results we believe, very
far short of their anticpations But they have had
to encounter many unforeseen difficulties and their
affairs, we presume, have not always been con-
Quoted on the mos economical plan. But the en-
terprize has tended greatly to the benefit of this
country, and we earnestly hope the Company will
yet be amply remunerated, and indeed there are
good grounds for the opinion that such will be
the final result
Texan Mormon SETTLEMENT.-The Mormon
settlement in Texas, is now at town they call
Zodiac, on the Pierdenales, and four miles from
Fredericksburg, now the county seat OF GallIspIe
county, which was organized about four weeks
since, the officers of the county being composed
partly of Germans and partly of MOrmOns, who
live together in the utmost harmony. The Mormons
number about two hundred, and though they have
been at that place but about twelve months, have
already built a saw and grist mill, have several
turning lathes and other kinds of machinery by
water power. They have all kinds of useful me
chanics who make every thing they want. They
have enclosed about 500 acres, good part of which
is cultivated in gardens, producing all kinds OF
vegetables in abundance. They raise the Egyptian
and English wheat, which yields from twenty to
twenty-five bushels per acre; and some of them
who have followed farming in Ohio, have assured
us that the lands of the Pierdenales better suited
to wheat than those of Ohio The mill streams
there are of the finest kind, and never fail. They
have thirty or forty, mostly framed, houses. They
pay great attention to making butter and cheese,
winch will compare with the best Northern. They
are now about constructing church and public
school house. Their trade amounts to about fifteen
or eighteen thousand dollars annually. The town
OF Zodiac IS situated sixty miles to the North Of
San Antonio. All this settlement of Germans and
MormOns greatly need mail, and now they have
organized the county they are certainly entitled to
one, Corn Is now worth there o. so per bushel
and meal 81 per 100 pounds, Oak lumber Is weTtlI
so per 1000 81 che Hil=Galpsslos Rs.gs,