The southern press., 1851-07-26

| From TExAs-By the steamships Pampert
and Galveston, at New Orleans, we have paper,
from Galveston TO the llth instant and full
J Texas mail
| The Galveston Journal thinks Mr. Epperson,
the Whig candidate for governor, is sure Of
election, If his friends exert all their strength
The Galveston News expresses the opinion
that General Mcleod will be elected to Con.
/ gress.
Col. George w. Wright has Withdrawn as
! a candidate for Congress in the eastern district
Judge Roberts has also withdrawn in the same
district
| Gen. Sam Houston is on visit to Galveston
On the IL lth, he addressed very large and
crowded assemblage of men, women and child
| ren at the Market and in the evening ball was
given him at the Tremont--thc large numbers
in attendance filling that spacious building to
to the almost entire extent Of its capacity.
The Indian Commission--We learn from the
Western Texan, of the Goth ultmo that Messrs.
Todd, Campbell, and Ter pie, IT, s. Indian CON-
missioners for Texas and New Mexico. are pre-.
pairing to leave for Washington city, with view
to closing the business of the commission
The cause of their departure, before consumma-
ting the important duties as gned them, is given
10 the following paragraph, which we extract
from the Texans article on the subject
This step, on their part we learn, has pro-
ceeded from the acts of the last Congress in
omittng to increase the appropriation granted
at previous session, which omission disables
them from executing al the purposes contem-
lated by the act creating the commission, and
the recent reorganization Of the Indian Depart
ment, by which the powers heretofore exercised
by commissioners, in the formation Of treaties
with the Indians, have been transferred to Indian
agents and officers of the Indian Bureau In
this unexpected state of the case, the commits
sioners deem their resignation to be the only
proper course for them to pursue
number of negroes in the vicinity of La
grange, lately had their preparations completed
for trip to Mexico. They were provided with
guhs, ammunition, etc, to force their way
through any opposition which they might en-
connter. Fortunately, the were detected in time
The Civilian of the 9Th says that the cotton
crop of Texas, perhaps never promised better at
this season OF the year than at present. The
DRY weather, which appears to have done some
injury to corn, does not seem TO have affected
cotton.
Mr.. Ball was killed in Montgomery. by a
man named Stephen Edwards, who had escaped
81 900 is offered for his apprehension
The San Antonio Ledger of the Sd inst says
The agents of the San Antonio and Mexican
Gull railroad company are industriousy pro-
scouting their abors in procuring subscriptions
in land--Within two days they have procured
subscriptions to about fifty thousand acres, at its
present cash value"
The Western Texan, of the 26th ult has the
following account of recent attempts to assas-
sinate in that city On Friday night last man
was stabbed, whose name we did not learn. On
Saturday night gentleman by the nan Q Of
kornel was stabbed in the back by an unknown
assassin
Wes1pard the Blooaer Costume fakes lis Way.
The Star State Patriot, of the 28th ult. has
the following--"We have heard it hinted that
two young ladies Of high respectability, chsrac-
terixed for their beauty az well ss for their in