The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-03-10

| From Texas.
7 From files Of late Texan papers we take thu
following items:
From letter received from Columbus, Colo
RADIO county, the San Antoaio Texan of Feb
rusry 18th, learns that the negroes in that vi
entity had entered into an extensive plot fol-
escaping to Mexico. 1t was discovered ia time
and frustrated. One of them, however, sue,
ceedsd in making his escape good. The Texan
states that these plots are Of common occur
renee, aud advises great watchfulness.
COLORADO RAFT.--The work of removing
the raft in the Colorado, says the Houston Tel,
egraph Of the 2lst, is progressing rapidly The
planters in that section manifest the most de-
termined spirit to prosecute the work until every
obstacle is removed.
EMIGRATloN.-T Colorado and Guadalupe
vaIlies have, says the Presbyterian attracted
the attention of large number Of emigrants
The amount OF negroes that have been taken
to Gonzales and other counties il astonishing
| ANoTHER NEGRO PLoT.-The Houston Tee.
graph of the 2lst Of February, reports that a
gang of negroes were discovered in Washing.
ton county, who were just preparing to move
in body 10 Mexico. They had secreted Il large
number Of arms. horses and provisions in the
woods, and would have set out on their journey
IN a few days, but the plot was discovered in
season to defeat all their plans.
| EXPEDITION AGAINST THE CAMANCHEs- len.
Brooke has at length been fully convinced that
oil efforts to concilate the Camanches, are una
vaing, and that their treaties are only intended
TO dupe the military authorities, so that they
may renew their depredations under more favor
able auspices. He has therefore determined to
punish them so efiectually that they will in fu-
ture either remain open enemies, or be deprived
OF the power to commit depredations. We
understand that as soon as the spring opens, q
campaign will be made directly into the Indian
country, and the sayages will be visited in their
own hunting grounds. The Seminole chief Wild
Cat Is now waging war with the Comanches in
the neighborhood ofEl Pnso, and he will prob.
ably force theWestern bands to fall back towards
our settlements on the Colorado. Houston Tsle.
graph, 2la ullimo
WILD Woman CAuGHr.-The famous Wild
Woman Of the Navidad has been caught. A
party OF hunters wh0were out hunting deer,came
upon the camp of his singular creature and cap
tured her. She is an African negress, who fled
to those wilds when the settlements were de-
serted just after Fannin's defeat, and she has
been wandering like an Ourang Outang for .
period OF about fifteen years. Her food during
that period consisted of aeorns, nuts and Other
wild fruits, with such other food as she could
occasionally steal from. the neighboring settle.
ments. She cannot speak any English, but con
versed freely with the Africans on the neighbor
ing plantations. Thus is solved the mystery
that has hitherto given aromantic interest to the
story of the Wild Woman of the Nayidad.--
Houston Telegraph, 2lst uAimo,
| From ~. Ns,n YorE Er.r;n~ D.,
RELIGIOUS lNTELLIG ENcE.--A course of Lent
lectures is to be delivered in ST. Paul's on We'd
nesday evenings, by the clergy of Trinity.
IL is intended soon to erect an Episco pal
Church in the vidinity of Grant street and Broad
way. The Rev. John Grigg has been elected
Rector.
The several benevolent and charitable asso-
Citations are already preparing for the anniversary
festivals in May
The first English sermon preached by Dutch
minister in New York, was delivered in the new
church, Nassau street, April Is, 1854, to an i'm
mense audience, from the text, "Knowing the
terrors off the Lord, we persuade men," Ql. Cor
|v.ll) The delivery is said to have occupied
two hours.
| President Fillmore and the Hon. Henry Clay
have each been constituted life members Of the
American Board of Commissioners for Foreign
missions, by the contribution, for that purpose
of Arson G. Phelps, esq, of this city.
The lower House of the Massachusetts leQis-
lature, has elected the Rev. Abel Stevens, editor
of Zion's Herald, to preach the next SELECTION
| Sermon"
A correspondent Of the New York Observer,
enumerates twenty lone denominations of Chris
tians il the new State of Iowa, amounting in
the aggregate to 3l,5l9 church members, of
| whom M fhap third I 81 MI
dists. The writer says, however, that great
allowance must be made in the numbers speci-
fled as Methodsts, from the fact that they gather
mutitudes into their classes who are uncon-
verified"
! The Lutheran Church in the United States,
has flourshing mission in India.
"Wood's Theology" has reached third edi-
ton, 8 vols, svo The Rev. ]. Todd, in the N.
Y. Observer, says of this work:
| If stranger shall ask for an eptome of our
theology, We should tell him that Dr. Woods
has sifed all the writings Of our fathers, and has
given US, as nearly as can be done, the system
on which our churches have been built and have
grown up. The venerable man has done his
work, and many will rise up and cal him blessed
Hereafter, no one need
be in doubt as to what was the prevailing the
ology, and the prevailing errors of New Eng
land during the first half of the nineteenth cen
tury."
Mrs. Dean, the wife Of the Baptist Missionary
at Hong Kong, has composed several books,
which are said to be very popular with the Chi
nese. She is said to be an excellent writer of
the Chinese language.
writer in Blackwood's Magazine says, that
duellng is on the decline in England, and, that
"there is growing up spirit of dgn6ed SUBJ
mission to the law Of man, based as it is, on the
law of God, which totally prohibits these unhoIy
exhibitions of murde Gus malevolence A truer
estimate is formed of the nature of honor-one
which forbds alike the offering and the resent
ing Of insnlts."
| Mr.. Collins, of the American mission mt Fuh
Chau, China, under date of December 9, 1850,
writes that Rev. G. ]. Faust, the pioneer mis-
sionary of the Swedish Lutheran church, was
murdered by pirates while returning from the
shipping at the mouth Of the river with the pro-
ceeds of some bills Of exchange. On ascertain
ing the fact the authorities sent five hundred
soldiers to the village TO which the murderers
belonged, and burned down about fifty Of their