The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1851-12-02

The new steamship Meteor, Capt. Forbes, arrived
| yesterday morning from Galveston. She left
that place on the 9th, and made the run from
bar to bar in twenty-four hours, and from city to
city in thirytwo hours, the quickest trip on record
| The following is a list of her passengers:
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4. Joyce Stokes. John Merritt. Mrs. Hi and i've on
Later from the Rio Grande-The Galveston
News Of the 25th says:
BY thu arrival of the schooner Uncle Bill,
Capt Wood, we learn that Gen. Uraga had arrived
at Ma'amoros with 800 men, one mortar and sew.
eral pieces of artillery to reinforce Gen. Avalos.
'en Carvajal was in the neghborhood of Camar-
go, and daily receiving reinforcements. He is
occupying all the roads leading to Matamoros.
Brgadier Gen. Ford has gone into Texas to raise
men, and was expected back in four weeks. He
probably went to San Antonio. No general action
will occur until Ford returns.
1t was rumored that Avalos would pursue and at.
tack Carvajal. The Mexican troops in Matamoras
number about two thousand. Carvajal had not, at
last advices, more than five six hundred men
under his command. The universal opinion, on
the Texas side of the Rio Grande, is that Carva-
Jal will ultimately triumph, and sympathy in his
behalf is the predominant feeling.
Business at Brownsville was dull.
The Red Land Herald says great part of Red
River raft has been burnt up during the late un
precedented low water and that the of it will
have to be cut up and removed. We should like
to know how many thousand dollars have been
expended on that raft
Col. Ford and his body.guard, late of the revolu-
tion party, arrived few days ago at Corpus
Christi. He was fast recovering from his wounds.
1t was stated some time since that Powder horn
Bayou had been determined on as the terminus of
the great Railroad from San Antonio, but it now
appears that this matter is yet undecided.
Messrs. Stearn and Sala, the Lone Star informs
us, are engaged collecting the materials for Pan
Drama and Dorama of the scenes and incidents in
The Texan Revolution. The whole is to be com.
plsted in eWOrleans, and will cover canvas
three hundred feet long by nine feet wide.
The San Antonio Ledger, of the Doth, says:
We neglected to notice the departure of General
Harney in our last issue. We learn that the Gen.
eral is on visit to the frontier posts on the Rio
Grande for special purposes. We hazard the idea
that he will have eye those patriotic gentle
men who feel so sensibly the wrongs of the upfor.
tunate subjects of our sister Republic.
At recent election in Victoria county, SO votes
were given in favor Of subscribing 1926 0C0 to the
San Antonio and Gulf Railroad, and IL votes
against it. This is large majority of the votes
polled in favor of the subscription, but certainly
very small majority oi the voIes in The county
Major DashielI, Paymaster U. S. A., arrived at
San Antonio on the l7h, from Fort Mason, bring
ing with him two more of the Mexican prisoners
given up by the Camanches-one eleven and the
other twelve years old. They were delivered
voluntarily to Major Merrill, at Fort Mason. They
are said to be very interesting children, and must
have been taken when very young as they have
lost almost entirely the of their native language
They seem to have been perfectly attached to the
Indians, having ran away from the fort and gained
the Indian camp; but the old chief Ketumpse
again delivered them up. They will be transferred
to the charge of our Indian agent, Col Rogers.
Gen. Smith arrived at Camp Beknap on the Sd
ut, and left the 9th for new post, to be estab-
shed on the Clear Fork of the Brazos, from which
point he will return to his headquarters at this
place. 1t was expected that the General would
arrive at San Antonio on or about the 10th Decem.
ber The officers at Camp BeIknap speak in the
highest terms of the beauties of the surrounding
country.
The sugar crop on the Brazos is turning out
beyond all expectaton-at least double the amount
expected month since All the planters are
grinding with great success The cotton crop Of
the same region, as already secured, far surpasses
that of any previous year.