The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1852-07-21
THE DAILY DISPATCH.
LATER FROM TEXAS.

By the arrival at New Orleans of the steam
ship Louisiana, we have dates from Galveston
20 the OH inst.
TIL cholera is said to be prevailing in Victo-
ria, Gonzales and other places on the Guada-
lupe river, and is attended with great NOR
tality.
we'll. Throughout the State the corn has
con to maturity, and every section teens with
abundance. Unless there is a heavy immi
grafton il will be impossible TO consume one.
half the crop.
The Indianola Bulletin states that a few
GAYS since man by the name OF McNervin.
was shot in that place. An affidavi; had been
u.ade before Justice Allen against McNeyin.
and Il warrant issued for his arrest In the
absence of the constable, who was sick al the
time, The Justice called on a citizen to serve
the warrant. McNevin made demonstration OF
resistance with double barreled shot gun,
whereupon the deputised constable shot him
twice, inficIing q severe wound in the back
lear the snine, and in the <abdomeu. The
wounds at frs, were thought TO be MORTAL but
reaction has taken place, and at present
there is every reason to believe the wounded
man will recover.
The Nueces Valley states that at Corpus
Christi, two Mexicans got into a quarrel;
parties, when one of the belligerents attacked
Hernandez and struck him several times with a
sword. During the row he run the sword
through bis own leg, cutting one of the arte
rles, which caused his death in few minutes
after. There was but little sympathy mani
tested for the deceased, as it was generally
known tnat he had murdered two men in days
gone by. He was locked on by all who knew
him as desperate character.
The following is an extract from letter
published in the San Antonio Ledger, written
from Laredo, June 10, which that paper says
is altogether reliable:
On Friday, the 4th inst Mexican citizen
OF this town, named Refugio Huete, was at,
lacked and killed by three Indians, within less
than league from this town, ana about two
miles above the military posi- we have here
called Fort Mcintosh. The Indians escaped
harmless, without being followed, down the
country, and on Sunday morning, the 7th inst,
about dawn, succeeded in driving off eleven
horses and mules belonging to a party of men
from this town, encamped twenty miles from
here on the Juanita. The mail rider from
Corpus Christi, on the tn insr., passed by a
just abandoned by large party of Indians
the counted ten fires, and calculated about
eighty were in the party,)at place called
the Realitas. about midway between this and
Corpus Christi.
Some Americans me, the mail rider just be-
tore he arrived at the Realtas. and advised
him Of the p essence of the Indians. By the
latest arrival from below, we learn that very
large body of Indians had passed close to Mr..
Redmonds house, on this side of the Rio
Grande, in front of Guerrero.
IMPORTANT RUMoR.-Under this head, the
San Antonio Texan says that ''it is reported"
that couriers have passed through that city
With intelligence that the Mexicans had fired
into another steamboat on the Rio Grande,
killing the captain, and woundng several
others; and that Roma and Rio Grande City
lad been attacked by about FIVE hundred
Mexicans and Indians, and all the houses
burned except that of Clay Davis and Fam
dango house. in the latter place, and that sew
eral Americans had been killed.
The Delta doubts the authenticity OF this