The daily crescent., 1850-06-26

| From Texas.
We have received Galveston dates to the 2Oth
inst Excessive rains have prevailed in the inte-
rior. The Brazos said to be very high and there
had been no mail from Austin for week.
The Galveston News says that verbal accounts
represent that the late high handed measures to
deprive the Sale of her Santa Fe territory have
excited feeling of universal indignation in the
country Public meetings had been called in Aus
tin and other places on the subject. An extra ses
sion of the Legislature will undoubtedly be called
Subscriptions to the stock in the two new boats
for the Trinity amount to $4,000. All this is sub
scribed by the planters of the Trinity.
The company sent out TO make reconnaissance
of the country between Corpus Christi and Eagle
Pass, with view to the construction of wagon
road between the two places. have reported that
this route TO Eagle Pass is the shortest and most
feasible one to be found, leading from the Gulf
coast.
The Houston Telegraph of the goth, says, ''the
freshets in the rivers are of comparatively little
moment compared to the injury done to the crops
by the rains. The cotton and cane were recover
ing from the effects of the previous heavy rains and
cold weather, when the late rains set in and pre-
vented the planters from clearing their fields of the
weeds; which, there is much reason 10 fear will
choke the plant and cane
A correspondent of the Galveston News, writing
from San Antonio, says " The Indians are com
mittng depredations in the immediate neighbor-
hood Of this city, killing persons within six or eight
miles of the city, and even nearer, killing cattle,
etc. The bodies OF two men were found, about
six miles from the city on the Fredrcksburgh road,
the body of one pierced with four and the other
with five arrows, and both were scalped A trail
was discovered eadino TO Puerto Vieio a mass by
which the Indians mostly come to the city. The
Indians are SO daring that they come within mile
OF mile ana a nan oil the c'ty-shoot c@t!is ana
steal horses ana mules from tne rancheros situated
IN lne onaparfei ana on san Fedro Greek Maj
smith, u . A. with command OF about twenty,
were sent out to scout, and returned, after three
Gays without Inolng any thing' no" could they
ma any thlng vi what use Is 1t to send infantry
after Oamanches 1hey can accomplish nothing
IN an lhulah hSht'
TRADE WITH JAPAN,-Some of the English pa
pers are agitating the subject of forcing trade Will
Japan. writer in the United States Service
Journal after recapitulating the failure of both thi
country and France to open peaceful communiea
tions with the Janansse raoomnands ,b.t CO
p;,air sbovlJ -, -, - ii I :. -
i'''i SIiOu'u l''' Wy ,ei MANU- anu III lash'oi
that couid not De refused lie urges the dispatci
Vi aghhlceht embassy accompanied by fleet
30 that If friendly nvartures fail no,vdar and bI
NAV carry the point. His arcument ia thot T,n,r
haa '.'"'
IN9 'ii'ie: iieoesaalF u t'e cohlor
anu luxury Oh o'her portions Oh he world, and tina
hence she has no right to close her ports or relst
to exchange products and manufactures with Enro
mean nat;ans Tba a,rtb be er,.i,,,irs is -.
-, Lo.i. 90 ~ M; - ''l1 o''i
; nun nel'Sge VI al ms re'hinus us Gays me
Fhlladeiphla BulletIn,) oil the sylogism, by which
some crazy Puritan once sought to defeat the war
upon the Indians the earth is the Lords and tb,
VIC 'i'o lI0iu peope ergo lh
on.,i i9' ''OiT VI Vi VIC peui"i' "no' "uet
,bon Tho ,,ri,or bo,,,.,a-
'i'e' all i'is iosc' au
iis 'ii"' whipping 'ue Ciiihese Inlo opening thel
ports, has not made them buyers of English manu-
features; and we do not see how he can expect ;
different result in Japan. Is il not STRANGE in 8,
aro ill., ,his n saa s,,o, doot.;,,,
So, - ~ ''' o00'''''e' s'"'''y "u
Nahceu! "
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