The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1852-06-29
Texas.

Accounts from all sections Of the State represent, the
prospect Tor line crop as very encouraging cores
ponden writes from Huntsville to the Houston Beacon;
+" The crops the Trinity were never finer. and the
planters looking forward with the pleasing expeca-
ton OF being relieved from the scarcity occasioned
by partial failure of the crop last year.
The State Gazette has been informed by gentleman
from Van Zand county that The prospects Tor heavy crops
OF all kinds 10 that and surrounding countess and in all
the intermediate country encouraging 10 the highest
degree Wibou, some disaster the crop
viii almost, II not quite, double that OF any preceding
year.
The Leon Pioneer says that the crops in that vicinity
look exceedingly fine. The editor had conversed with
farmers from different parts OF the county, who state that
cotton and corn unusually promising, corn in parc-
ular There Is ALEC fine promise OF an abundant mast
The only complaint appears 10 be that the season ia
favorable for and other produce that the prices will
be too low.
The cultivation of wheat has been very successful in
portions OF western Texas. The Houston Beacon il in
formed tba, there will be from 500 10 1000 bushels
raised This year in Milan county, and that much more
writer in the San Augustine Herald undertakes 10
show the value and Importance OF Sabine Pass as port
OF entry and insists that - the duty, the interest and
policy of the general government To build light house
there TO deepen the bar the oyster reef above
The town. deepen the Blue Buck bar above the town,
and 70 deepen the bars at the outlets OF both The Sabine
and Nechss rivers into Sabine lake.
writer in the lndsnoa Bulletin congratnlaies the
citizens Of that place upon The arrival OF the lgh
for Maagorda bar. The light house y OF cast iron, and
Is 10 rest on foundation of brick and granite forty feet
square The elevation OF the light will be about seventy
five feet Its 10 be revolving one, and will probably
be seen at distance Of eighteen miles This lofty
tnre il being erected nvenen TO the bar and will be
ready Tor use in the course of a few months
The ship Albert Gsatin, whose arrival al Indanos
we announced in yesterdays paper. brought 300 Dragons
and 200 infantry, destined for the frontier She also
landed 100 Dragons a, Brazos Santiago.
LATER by advices from Texas 10 the 18th inst, we
learn that Lieut., Hawes of the I'd Dragons with party
Of fifteen men, had skrmisb with marauding band
Of Cumancbes, who had been perpelratng ouirages
he rpauh bet wee Duncan. N
dams were discovered at distance of about a mile or
more, and the pursuit, which lasted an hour,
cessary conducted al great Disadvantages Lieut. Halves
succeeded, however, in shooting two and recovering
thirty EIGHT animals and four captive children The
children stated that their father and mother and elder
brother and sister, murdered by them three days
before. Lieut Lehman reports that he crossed several
trails between the Nueces and the Rio Grande,
While laborers digging ditch for fence in
The Alamo, in San Antonio recesy they came suddenly
upon several pieces oil ordnance, since which Tune hif