Richmond daily times. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1853, 1852-06-16
LAYER FROM TEXAS.


instant.
The Washington county papers contain state
ment of the robbery of r. NJ. Fugate, of Sc
gune. near Independence, a few days since. The
Ranger says Mir. Fugate was returning from
Smith county, where he had cole cted S2,770.-
On "Wednesday evening of last we elk, when with
In. two miles of Independence, he accosted
by man in his shirt sleeves, who told him that he
had a man dangerously sick in his camp, about
one hundred yards from the road, and wished
MIR. Fugate to assist him in getting him to n
house. Mr.. Fugate followed him, and discover
ed man lying on his side, apparen ty quite sick.
He went up to him, and STOPPING down to ascer-
tain the extent of his sickness, he jumped up
on by two men who wrested his six shooter from
his belt, and fired three shots at him without ta-
king any more effect than the burning of a hole
in his clothes. He then strapgled with II
handkerchief and his money all taken, with the
exception of fifteen cents The Ranger say some
doubts are entertained of the correctness of Mr..
Fugate's statement.
The crops in Texas continue highly promising
Rains have visited every portion of the State and
vegetation is progressing rapidly. 1t is thought
the corn crop this year will be greater than was
ever raised in Texas. They only fear now seems
to be that fthe heavy showers continue through
out the season that cotton may suffer from too
much rain. The corn crop is considered beyond
danger.
correspondent of the Western Texan, wri-
ting from the headwaters the Llano, on the 10th
ut, says that an officer in that camp had received
letter from Basilio Benavides, an old and respec-
table citizen of Laredo, which says:
On the Goth April, party of Indians tribe
unknown) cruelty murdered five men in the
neighborhood of this town. A party of officers
passed this place en- route for the Lower Rio
Grande, reported that party of indians pre-
sented themselves in hostile manner on
the road leading from this place to Eagle
Pass. The result of the meeting was that the
Indians presented a passport but whence and by
whom signed was not mentioned. The tenor of
it was permission to hunt mustangs.
The same correspondent, in subsequent letter
gives the following description of the post on the
LIano. 1t must be delightful place for sum-
mer residence:
This is the most miserable and God forsaken
country that a white ever saw. Nothing
but hills covered with cedar, for miles. No
place to farm here for at least fifteen miles below
the posts No wonder, then, that our minds are
tinged with the most lugubrious sensations, the
fruits of which elongation of our faces
No grass here worth cent. We have not raised
any vegetables, excepting few radishes and tul-
nips No rain but the weather like to-day, for
instance, SO cold that cloaks and overcoats are in
requisition. No wonder, then, that our minds
wander down to San Antonio, where green peas
and may be cauliflowers are tickling the palate of
the epicurean. We poor ''outsqurts" of society
hope for better times.
The disease generally calle1 the cholera, which
has proved fatal in SO many instances in Bastrop,
Moore's Prairie, Webber's Prairie and Gille-
lands Creek, has nearly disappeared.
The San Antonio Ledger says that Bexar
county, at the late term of the District Court,
contributed torty-fve years and eight months
labor to the State, by sending convcts to the Pen
1tenltlary whose aggregate services for the Pc
RODS to which they are sentenced amount to that
time.
number of gentlemen were to leave Calves
ton soon for Washington City, expressly for the
purpose OF giving testimony in the House of Rep
resentatlves on the question now pending before
that body tor the impeachment of Judge J. G.
Watrous, OF the U. S. District Court.
The canal to connect Galveston Bay with the
river Brazos is still in steady progress. The
Committee of Construction visited the work re-
Gently, and report advance of 10000 feet to.
wards the Brazos since their last visit and that
the canal Is both deeper and wider than is re-
qulred by the contract. The work moves stead
lily forward at about the rate of fifty feet per day.
The San Antonio Ledger says that the surveys
OF both rival routes for the railroad from San An
tonic to the Gulf has been completed, and that
the result shows that the grading by either of
them will cost less than any railroad ever yet built
Towards the coast it is so near dead level that
it does not vary from it in one instance the one
hundredth part of an inch in two miles, The
greatest variation from perfect level is six feet
in one mile.
The barques Neptune and Solon from Bremen,
and Franklin, from Hamburg, arrived at Calves.
ton recently with AT emigrant passengers.
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