The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1849-01-06
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bine Pass, which has been in progress of construe-
ton for some time past is now about completed. 1t
| is of course worked by steam power, and will run
three saws cutting ten thousand feet of lumber per
| day. The total cost is not far from $4,000"
! The same paper above quoted, says that after
| being detained by low water for twelve months in
! the Angelina river, the steamer of that name has
at last been released from her long confinement by
the recent rise in the Sabine and its tributaries.
The steamer Angelina arrived, as we learn by a
letter received in this city, at Sabine Pass the
9th inst, with 275 bales Of cotton to Messrs Hutch
ings, Sealy a. Simpson. Should the water con-
tinue up in those streams, as it probably will for
several MONTHS it is estimated that the cotton that
will be brought to Sabine Pass, will not fall much
short of eight or ten thousand bales this season.
Col. HAYs's ExrEDIrIoN.-We extract the fol-
| lowing account of Col. Hays's recent Rio Grande
| Expedition, from the Victoria Advocate:
| When at San Antonio last week, we had con-
versation with Col Hays in relation to the
| of his late expedition to Chihuahua. The Colonel
states that he succeeded in finding the route for
good natural road tb the Rio Grande at the Presi-
do, from which point there is now good wag on
road to Chihuahua. The expedition failed in find
ing route in direct line which would strike the
Rio Grande about the mouth of the river known on
the maps as the Puerco This route doubtless
would have been considerably shorter than the one
| by the head of the San SABA which is too far to
the north The expedition found an extremely
| rough country bordering stream this side Of the
| Puerco, which they called DEVILS river. This
stream they were compelled to head, they found
it impossible to cross in consequence of the depth
of the stream and the steepness of the banks. The
stream known as the Puerco on the maps, is known
by the Indians as the Pecos. There is scarcely a
tree shrub upoI it from its mouth to its source,
and has not single tributary. 1t is deep, mar
row and crooked prairie stream, and the expedition
upon it suddenly where they least expected to
find drop Of wafer There are no Indians upon
the Pecos. We heard considerable talk of the
finding of gold and silver on the route, but Col Fl.
did not mention it, The Colonel estimates the dis
lance from Port Iavaca to chihuahua at something
less than 700 miles. The expedition brought in
boy, whom they took from the Indians on the head
waters of the Nueces river He had been in the
hands of the Indians but four days. He was the
son of a gentleman living on the Colorado, near
Bastrop, and was taken by the Indians while assist
ing Mr.. HILL OF Bastrop county, in driving sheep
from the Rio Grande homeward.
As the expedition under Col. Hays has been so
fully successful in finding the route for road, we
trust our Government will take early steps in as
ssting mercantile enterprise to open the road The
merchants of San Antonio, however, seem deter
mined to 60 ahead in the good work, and by spring
we have no doubt large trains will be on the way
with merchandise for the northern provinces of
Mexico.
1t may be asked by some whether or not Corpus
Christi stands better chance than Matagorda Bay
to become the starting point for the Chihuahua
trade. Our inquiries this point convince us that
it cannot compete with our channel. And our
reasons are these "A Omit that goods can be car
ried to Corpus Christi as cheap as TO any point on
our Bay-siill the land route is further, because
they have either to go by the head of the San Saba
(our roue) or to bear down two three hundred
miles south, uia Monclova, in order to reach Chi
huahua. Hence road can be had much more
direct from Matagorda Bay than from Corpus
Christi The mountainous region extending south
from the Rio Grande below Preside, will ever pre-
vent the construction of wagon road in direct
route toward chihuahua and hence, though q
road from Matagorda Bay will have to run some
thing far the northward still it is not much
out of the way as to allow of Houston or any point
north of us becoming an equal competitor.
Col. Hays proposes making public report through
the papers, and we must defer anything further on
the subject until its appearance when it will be laid
before our readers.
New ROUTE TO New MEXICO AND CALIFoR-
NIA.-The Fort Smith (Ark.) Herald contains let
tiers from Gen. Arbuckle and Major Bonneville,
both well acquainted with the prairies, recon-
mending the Arkansas route to New Mexico as
being shorter and better than the Missouri one.
They both urge Fort Smith point of departure,
and the Valley of the Canadian as the path but
Major Bonneville advocates the route by the south
bank of the North Fork, while Gen. Arbuckle pre-
IcIs Tic SOuhu udtlk VI OOulu DfdIiCu NTttl
AS scheme is, from Fort Smith to La Joya, on the
Rio GrNnde, 63O-or at the utmost, $50 miles,; La
Joya being the usual place of departure on the
Rio Grande for California by the route of the ella
River. This is of the projected great railroad
routes to the Pacific, and has, indeed, the merit of
being one of The shortest ones.
CAPITAL TRIALS. In the Supreme Court at
Boston on the 26th ut., the capital trials COM
| menced. There are five cases, viz: Washington
Goode, colored, and Edward Crosby, colored, for
| murder; and Jewell, Brown and Nicely, for rape.
The case of Edward Crosby for the murder of John
Weber, wheelwright, in Charles street, by a blow
with stick was commenced. 1t will be remem.
bered in this case, that the deceased and the prs-
oner met in Charles street, where the latter de-
manded the payment of debt for work. This the
former refused, and words ensued, and finally the
deceased was struck and knocked over by the
prisoner, his head striking the curb-stone in the
fall. He was taken into house near by, where
he shortly after died. 1t was at first supposed that
charge of manslaughter would be preferred
against Crosby, but after evidence came up of pre-
vious threats, which led to an Indictment for
murder.
From BRITISH GUIANA.-Accounts from George
town, British Guiana to the 9th of November, state
that the ship Marnion, which arrived there on the
9th picked up, Oct. H. about 200 miles from Finis-
terre, 80 Portuguese who had been out at sea in an
open boat for IS days. They had started from one
of ,he Azores to another island of the same cluster,
but had been driven off by winds. They were out
of provisions when found. Great complaints are
made of the dirty and miserable condition of
Georgetown.
DEATH OF CHEROKEE WARRIoR.-Captain
Dutch distinguished as the most daring and success
full warrior of the Cherokee Nation, in the Chero-
kee and Usage wars, that were waged on the West
ern frontier about twenty years ago, died at his
residence in Canadian District, Cherokee Nation,