The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1851-06-04
From Texas.


The steamship Mexico, Captain Talbot, arrived
Yesterday from Indianoa, via Galveston We are
indebted to Messrs. Harris q Morgan for Calves
ton papers to the 30th. A
ShiDpiur Business of Lapdca.--Ihe brig
Morning Star left the wharves Of Lavacs on Thurs
day. the 22d, for New York city, loaded with
cotton. There were two schooners Loading ana
expected to leave for the same destination during
the past week.
Tsras Cotton-The Lavaca Commercial, Of the
Oath. saws: We have Just received staiK OF
cotton from the plantation OF Col fitzpauicK ~
is very large and filled with blossoms ana oolls
nearly ready to open. We understand the oolohe.
intends having a bale Of new cotton INTO market
by the first Of July. He has large and promising
crop, superior to that of preceding years.
Rangers to be Paid off at Assstsn:-Ihe state
Gazette learns that Gen. Harvey has issued an
order that the Rangers lately commanded py
Can't John j. Grumbles, be paid of at the city oil
Austin, instead of Fort Mene.
! Immigrants brig Herschel, Capt. kaschen,
arrived at Galveston on the 18th, slxty'sx Gays
from Bremen, with one hundred ana Two ; ;,ai
grants. They all enjoy good health; these lmmi'
grants come on their own account, and were IN
duced to make Texas their home, by the favorable
representations of their German friends in the ine-
rior.
The Galveston Civilian fthe Both says:
The cotton and corn crops of Texas were never
more promising at this time ofyear than at present.
The sugar is doing equally well but the crop VIII
be short from the defect in the Seed in many cases
The Huntsville Presbyterian of the 24lh instant
says the Trinity River was rising; there was some
six or eight feet more water in the channel man
there had been ten days previous.
Onr accounts from all sections of the country, in
relation 10 the crops, are favorable, and health
and prosperity prevails.
...c ID tba ttor
ton. during the last few weeks offne weather, has
| been altogether astonishing.
| The Houston Beacon is urging the subject OF
internal improvements on the attention OF us read
ers, with laudable degree Of energy and spirit
The Montgomery tAla) Company, for the
mines of the ella, passed through Jefferson on the
9th ult The Herald says:
| "They marched in about four o'clock. in goot
order, bearing alot a banner with the unique, ane
| somewhat inappropriate device of Secession ant
Southern Rights which led us to suspect that il
was the adjourned Nashville Convention en- route
| ont of the Union. They said, however, that tia
banner fell to them in division of the estate of
dead Southern Rights Association, which wal
| born, kicked (once) and died. in Montgomery
| Alabama.
"They were we'll equipped with guns, on
| piece Of cannon, wagons, provisions etc. and are
bound for the ella River, on an exploring expedi
| ton, and seemed to be commanded by very intelll
| gent and gentlemanly officers, numbering abou
| fifty privates, besides transfers"
| Mossey, Boren was in jail at Brennan, strongly
susT ected of the murder of Neil Bowen, who wa
shot through a window at that place short tim,
ago. The murder was atrocious, and the excite
ment SO great, that fears of revival of the oil
feuds, between the Regulators and the Murellite.
are entertained.
| Major Darshall is receiving much credit at Sa
Antonio for the industry and courtesy with whicl
he has paid off the Rangers.
Indian Depredations-LymcA Law, etc.--Th
San Antonio Ledger, of the 22d ult., announce
Fe ptG Ell Paso. He travelled slowly, but say
that the San Antonio is much preferable to the In
dependence (Mo.) route to Ell Paso.
The Indians were quite troublesome to expose
settlements, and travelling amongst them was III
| safe. The Navagoes, fierce and warke tribe
killed, near Socorra, four Mexieans, and drove 0
over 5000 head of sheep, on the 9TH of April. o.
the 18th, atthe Aguanada, they killed the son-r
law OF Gov Amijo and pson who was with him
| Eflrs Were made by the U. S. troops to overah
and punish them, butihey returned without success
The Mexican Boundary Commission were sti
at Ell Paso and vicinity The starting point of til
survey had been fixed upon the Rio Grande, abou
twenty, five miles below Don Ana.
| LyDch-law was prevailing at Ell Paso to feal
full extent. Within two weeks, fifteen perso on
Americans and Mexicans, had suffered by hangin
and shooting, at the hands of the self constitute
jurs,s. For the most trivial offence, and withot
time for an explanation, the unfortunate beir
would be shot down or hung up to the lin
of tree, at the beck or nod of any one of Il
con mittee of safety, without even the formaiiti
l. Iaari