The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1849-05-17
LATE FROM MEXICO.


weston papers are. of the 18th.
The most affecting intelligence is that of the
death of Major General WORTH. He expired at
San Antonio on the eth, of the cholera The Gal
weston News of the 18th furnishes the following
particulars:
DEATH OF MAJoR.GENEnAL WoRTH-Major-
General WI, Worth died in San Antonio on Tues
day last, the 9Th inst at half past o'clock, P. M
1t should be Monday, the 7lh. He had been taken
seriously sick, as we learn, only the previous day,
though he had been quite unwell with diarrhea
from the time he left New Orleans, and continued
so till he reached San Antonio, which was but a,
few days before his death. He was far from being
well when he passed through this city, and was so
much indsposed at lndianola that the boat was de-
tanned there part of a day on his account, before
proceeding to Port Lavaca. servant belonging
to his escort died of the cholera on the road lle
above Victoria
1t is presumed, though not certainly known, that
the disease of which General Worth died was the
cholera. Immediately upon his death an express
was dispatched, which arrived at Port Lavaca on
Wednesday at O'clock being Just twenty four
hours on the way. We cannot learn any paricu-
lars of the sickness and death of this distinguished
offcer-these are probably given in the dispatches
now on their way TO Washington:
BY this affecting dispensation Gen. Worth's
family have been thus suddenly deprived of their
protector almost as soon they had arrived the
point OF destination, where they anticipated resi-
dence for some time to come; and the whole coun-
try deprived of the services of man whose bril-
liant achievements are deservedly the pride of the
people, and will adorn the pages of our history to
remote generation. The death of such man is
truly national bereavement, and will undoubtedly
be followed with demonstrations of mourning
throughout the whole Union. Gen. Worths family
consists of Mrs. Worth and two daughters.
The Cholera has made sad ravages at San An
tonic. A letter from Judge Paschal, dated on the
18th of April, published in the News Of the 18th,
gives the following painful details:
One subject now engrosses the attention of all
fhghtul day-some fifteen Or eighteen dying When
Office salned dead WHO we're well IL he
Tueha On ona the day f. se ba
few cases. but I'll last night during the whole week the
than fourteen deaths yesterday this place notwhstandipg
i estimated that not more than Of the popnla
the troops the neghbuiood Among those who fell VIC
TINS yesterday Mrs Shelton and Mrs Brennams little
chant recently settled here Mrs Blennams little dans
Ter aG dana b The weather today
continue, God only kuows-but presume long, if
unless il should leattack those who have
There have not been less than hundred and fifty deaths in
many more Business has now become almost entirely sus
pended, and scarcely Californian be here. was
n
be So q believe the whole OF my family would sink Bot
five beng dead who well in the morning.
Quires some effort to be SO.
The News reports the death of Mr. NJ. Croncan,
the publisher Of the Western Texan, and Mr.. B.
III. Wilcox, formerly bookseller of Galveston
and gives the following list of deaths between the
10Th and Goth ult.
Alick belonging to Mr.. Newcomb. Joseph Hall. VIM Bell
Z J Crockett, Lqcien Nj Truehat George W; Clark.
en Hane boy
II NJ Rudy casns
Ghas Aa ss saas pcShi
The News says of Galveston "The cholera has
been both east and west ofus, in New Orleans and
on the Rio Grande, yet by the interposition of
kind Providence this city has almost entirely
escaped. Healthy as any city in the Union-fFee
from disease, and likely to continue so for some
tme-the people of Galveston have every reason to
be thankful for the blessings they enjoy.
GOLD! Cold! GOLD! I've have been kindly
furnished says the Victoria Advocate of the tth)
with the following extract of letter Just received
from gentleman of San Antonio: 9 News from
the ella says that there is a large party of men
there digging gold, and that they find it in great
abundance"
STATE ELECTIoN.-The Austin Democrat con-
tains the Governors proclamation, ordering the
election of Governor, Lieutenant Governor, and
Commissioner of the General Land office, on the
first Monday in August; also of Senators and Re-
representatives. in the State Legislature, under the
apportionment law passed al the last session.
Mr. James Campbell of this place, who has re-
Gently arrived from the Rio Grande, some thirty
miles above Preside, at the point where three
panies of United States troops are now stationed,
report that every thing prosperous, and the cOun
try healthy. No cholera has reached that high on
the Rio Grande. The spot selected for the encamp-
ment is represented beautiful and healthy
lucation.- Western (San Antonio 1eran.
INDIAN DErREDATIoNs.-We learn from Major
Scott that party of Indians lately visited the mil
tary post above the Whaco village, and captured
fifty horses belonging TO the U. S. Dragons, and
number belonging TO the settlers residing in the
neighborhood. One of the settlers who had horse
staked out the prairie, hearing the alarm of In
dams, went out to secure his horse and found an
Indian about to cut his halter. He rushed upon him
and the savage fed to the bottom. II is supposed
that the Wichitas and Tonkaways have committee,
these depredations. We hope the enterprisng COM
mander at this post will not permit the lmputaiion
to rest upon his command, that they have been H.
suited and actually beaten by the savages. If the
Indians can come not only to the houses OF the set
tiers, but also to the very camp OF the Dragons and
steal horses, The troops are more than USELESS and
the Government may well dispense with their
vices. A few years since thieving party of
Wichitas and other prairie Indians, came TO camp
of Dragons on Red River, near Fort Towson, and
stole several horses. The savages fled with their
booty to their lodges near the Wichilaw mountains,
and were probably laughing at the imbeciIity of
the L. S. Dragons, when suddenly the brave COM
mander of the post they had robbed, dashed in
among them with his brave horsemen and Staying
about to the right and left, cut down about score
of warriors scattered the squaws and piccaninnies
in all directions like frightened paridges, and took
quiet possession of the Indian camp. The stolen
horses were recovered, and the humbled savages
were glad to for peace, and have never COM
mitted depredatons in that section since. We wish
the commanders on our frontier would initiate this
gallant officer as we should then have no more
counts of Indian outrages.
The injury TO the crops, by the frost of last
north, appears to have been greatly over estima-
ted. The Austin Democrat of the 18th says that
fine rains have since visited that region and The
prospec, for cropis 1attering. The grasshoppers,
which had created some uneasiness, were rapidly
disappearing. The Houston Gazette of Saturday
states that, Notwithstanding the frost the corn IS
in tasse and many fields will yield an early har-
vest.-Galueston Ciuilian, 7h.
ENGLISH IMMIGRANTs-Fraud.- American