New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1849-01-22
From Texas.

Prom the \. a. Crescent, ls'h INST
BY the steamship Palmetto, Capt Smith arrived
Yesterday we have received Galveston papers to the
esh BY the following which extract from the NsEs
n will be- seen that the lndsns committing more
dspredstions
The BonAarp xrsas OF the 9th December says that a
Quspaw indian brought Intelligence TO that place oi tne
murder Of three Of his companions under the following
circumstances
"a party consisting Of four had been a successful
hunt and returning laden with peliry, when they
reached wster course about seventy OF eighty miles
south OF this which there was MILL (probshly
Cypress) There they invited says the Indian,
by some white men to stop while aud h1nt These
men, some eight or ten in number visited their camp
In the day time and seemed very friendly.
At night the Indians were fired upon very unexpect
eddy hred upon very Unexpectedly, and three were
killed. on the spot The Qaspaw fed through the brush
and thus escaped The Indians We understand,
all shswnces. They had fourteen head OF horses and
other property, which all taken by the whites
We take the following from the same paper
SUPPOSED Mvkpxs or LARGE BoDy on WHrrEs
A very intelligent shawnee Chief well known In this
place, and who speaks the English language, came ON
Friday last and gave US the following Information A
few days sgo. said he, "a lew white men into
the shawnee settlement, worn down with hunger and
fatigue, who stated that they a portion OF small
party of twelve who alone escaped OF 800 who
had recently (sbout twenty days before had conflict
with come bands OF Wild Indians, the head OF the
Arkansas
the Indlsns surprised the whites at night and sp.
preached near enough to kill the sen,inels with
go a. not to create alarm by the report OF re
snd then rushed upon their sleeping victims Snd
slsug htercd thom at their camp hres rh. 10 all We
can learn from the shawnee, aud. sthoush IN some
respects the story seems little improbable, we are
nevertheless inclined 30 the belief that II 10 founded
upon come unfortunate catastrophe that has eeiAen
party OF whies-probably emgrsnts TO California or
Oregon. -,
Tne Hesso. Advertiser OF the SOth ut says ths the
Cholera has progressed slowly Ia that city, but the
weather cool that II was though, there WAS uc
danger OF lts becoming epidemic Ia the cases that
have occurred the character Of the disease was thsi oi
the Asiatic Cholera The number of deaths hss been
shout twelve or hneen chiefly dssipaled persons or
those subject 10 exposure
The following account OF a desperate Rfrsy We take
from the CirsliGN OF the sih;
/. We are informed that Wayne Barton was Killed and
Edward Burleson, Jr badly wounded Ia reneonire
IN Washington Co short time since barleson snd
sousln Of bis bearing the same name were On one SIDE
and Barton on the other
A. The story goes several shots were nred, two OF
which took eject on T. Burleson and one or more on
Barton vi hen the Buflesons rushed in, beat down hsf
ton with their guns and left him for dead. though ns
sttsrward rsgained his horse, rode home, and hFed
t~o dsys Barlcson hit in the right arm and sac
with backshot AID ball passed through bis lef Shout
DER HE recovery 10 doubtful