The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1851-07-30

3 We hays 49, u a. assh inst. from Galveston,
and iiles Of oskef Tsxas pspsfs 70 correspond. We
laslees such issns = srs Of insssest
Cteps Til Galvsson News says - We wefe
shown. . IN dkys since. : sample Of cotton, 10
H. seed. ~ tAb years growth. 4 wss grown up
on - plantation Of Nj. Aaron Coass. on Oyster
Crssk. ID Bnzosia county. and brought v Messfs.
EDuswsll, Hill y Co, sons time laas week, . :
spsclmen Of Nj. CoAssis growing cstton crop
Ths sample shown u wss. n quality equal - f.
cotton.- From Ill pgehsnt apieafancsss We aze o.
opinisn shas shs piching session. win comnencs I'M.
usually early and fhvorably this year."
Col. Fitzpatrick, who Fssides in Calhoun county
Eswelvs miles from Lavaea, inforus the editor o.
the Commercial that he will have bale Of biz
present growing crop Of cotton in market, in Tho
course Of the pressnt week. sssA
Sugar Ccse.-The editor Of tho Victoria Advo
cate has received, from Mr.. Ragland, Of that coun
~, . specimen Of sugar cane, which has matured
six and half joints. He has also seen specimen
from the plantation Of MI Bennett with six joint
fully masursd. The editor thinks thess may b -
sarded = good specimehs Of The growing cana crol
10 that section.
Tia Houston Telegraph. of the 2ssh July, saya'
1.-THE accounts Of the efscta Of the drought are b.
coming daily more disoouragins.- In nearly oil d
The counties east Of the Colorado. the drought hal
been 20 ssysse that scarcely one third Of crop d
uorn will be made. The wheat crops in The north
ern counties has also been shortened TO great 81.
tent. The weather has been 90 dry that sweet po-
tatoes could mot be planted. We have every reason
70 fear that there will not b sufficient quantity
E,-A
consumption. There arc few sections Of the
country where rains have fallen in ABUNDANCE
But in others no rains have fallen for three months
We have not known % extensive and disastrous =
drought to prevail in TEXAS during the last ftsen
years. 1t is nots little singular that the western
portion of the State, which has generally aufssed
the most from droughts. has this year suffered lesa
than any other portion. Tho crops on the Gusda-
loupe and San Antonio are said TO be good"
The Lavaca Commercial Of the 10Th inst states
that the web worm il doing great damage 10 the
growing cotton in the region above that town.
That paper aays: whenever the rains have
been most abundant the worms have appeared in
great numbers. PIaces whore there has been .bul
little rain have 60 far escaped. We understand
they have also made their appearance in the
neighborhood Of Goliad. The cotton crop in thin
portion of the country was fine. and promised an
abundant yield until the rassges of this desfuetive
insect commenced"
TIE Colorado Rqff-The Matagorda Tribune
of the 7th inst, informs u that Captain Ward il
busily engaged in removing the raft in the Colom
do river; and that be il making - rapid progress
considering the limited number Of hands Il hh dis
posal, a. could reasonably be expected.
Coastuise and Ialasd Navigation. H. L.
Kinney has entered into contract with Mr. Bel
den, Of Saluria, TO deepen the channel cleal
through, from Matagorda 10 Corpus Christi Bay, 1
distance of some one hundred and fifty miles
There are several she'll reefs and fats, making in
all, probably, q dstance of ten or twelve miles
that will have to be dredgsd--thoush there i nov
. channel sufficient for small boah and sloops U
run. The contract requiress permanent channel
Of four and = half feet I'll the way. This impor
tant improvement il undertaken by Col. Kinney
entirely At his own expense, and ID completion will
give good inland steamboat navigation more thar
half the whole distance from Galveston 10 Corpus
Christi. The balance of the distance between
here and Matagorda, only requires shout fifteen
miles Of easy and cheap canai, to complete ths
whole inland navigation from Galveston 70 Corpui
Christi
Encounter with Indsans-Cspt Walsee, %
the rangers, has had another encounter with par
~ Of Indians near the Nueces river. The Captain
had upwards Of thirty men, and the Indians bu
ten; but owing to the nature Of the ground, b.
could not get sufficiently near them to do much
execution. One Indian was wounded, but none
killed. Ali the saddles, camp equppsgs, rides
lances, shields, etc., were taken BY Capt w. The
horses Of the Indians were run of smone tho mus.
tangs BY the Indians, who were herding them, and
none were taken. Among the camp equippage
was found leather pouch, containing many letter.
and some newspapers, the principal part Of which
were directed to different persons in Laredo. and
mailed to Corpus Christi; there was also one ,hir
and one summer coat with bullet hole through
the right breast. These are no doubt articles "a
ken from the mail rider between Corpus Christ
and Laredo, who was recently murdered BY the In
dams.
Polsties-The canvass between Howard .nt
Mcleod has lost none of its bitterness. They d.
not appear to be now travelling in company. TIL.
Galveston News (dem) admits that il Eppe,sor
gets the full wing vote, his beating Greer and Bel
is not impossible. The charge of -disunion or 90
cession feeling, is bitterly repealed BY any caudi
date against whom it is made, and the course o
South Carolina is strongly condemned on all hands
10 pay the State debt, at its scaled value sopeas
to be the general and popular feeling.