New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1852-08-02
NEW oRLE A N s:
MONDAY MORNING, AUGUST 2, 1862
Later from Texas.

The steamship James L.. Day, Capt. Talbot.
arrived on Saturday, from Galveston, bringing
dates from that city to the Goth ult.
The cotton crop throughout Texas continues
to be Us promising as it possibly could be- I'm
less the worm should make its appearance with
in few days, the product will greatly exceed
that Of any past season.
Capt Roach, formerly of the steamer Brazos,
was shot and dangerously wounded in Calves
ton, on the Goth ult., by man named Thomas
Richards. A sudden alteration took place be-
tween the parties at bar; Richards struck
Roach with tumbler, and Roach knocked him
down and beat him. Richards then got pistol
and shot Roach, the ball entering his face just
below the temple, and ranging down u the neck
where it is lodged. The wound was considered
very dangerous. Richards has been arrested
The Indianola Bulletin of the 22d ult. men.
tions the arrival at that port of the schooner
Arispe with one hundred thousand feet, and the
schooner Elizabeth with seventy-five thousand
feet Of lumber. The formers cargois designed
for the construction of the city wharf and ware
house.
The engineers have ascertained the distance
of the railroad route to Palacios to he twenty
five miles further than to Powderhorn Bayou,
making cost of two hundred thousand dollars
more to the former than to the latter point.
They make the cost per mile, on the whole route,
eight thousand dollsrs, which, we believe, is far
below the cost of any railroad ever yet construct
ed. The engineers have also estimated the cost
of the road to Saluria to be sixty thousand dol
lars less than to Palacios
Capt. j. b. Reid, of Victoria county, has
commenced picking cotton. His crop is very
promising, and so far free from the worm
The Victoria Advocate says the cholera has
entirely disappeared from that place, only two
OF three cases having occurred within the pre-
vious week, and none within several days. The
general health of the country, so far as is known
il gncl.
Not long since, a man by the name Of Collie
was killed in New Braunfels by fellow German
named Volker. The cause of the rencounter
originated, as we learn, from some old difficulty
arising out of the transaction of the German
Emigrant Association, of which Collie was for
lller agent.
The Marshall Republican says that a man by
The name Of Samuel G. Ward was arrested in
that place on the 18th ult., charged with pass
ing a forged draft. The draft purported to BIZ
drawn by James Low l. Co., Of NewOrleans
and accepted by them. Suspicious had beer
previously excited in relation to his movements
and having hired horse from livery stable
to go a few miles in the country, and informa
ton having been received that he was travellin!
in different direction, he was pursued and ar
rested a mile or two beyond Greenwood, La
After being brought back he was suffered t.
walk about town unmolested, and in day O
two absconded He was found the next da,
concealed in stable, and committed to Jail il
default of a thousand dollars bail.
THE LATE JUpGE MCKINLEY Hon job
Mckinley, of the U. s. Supreme Court, who die
at Louisville, q few days ago, was on the benc
fifteen years, having been appointed in 1887 b.
President Van Buren,. He was born in Ken
lucky, where he studied law; subsequently, h
removed to Huntsville, Alabama, and took a
active part in the politics of that State. A
affair, about the year 1922, in consequence
having written severe personal article for on
one of the papers against Mr. McClung, law
yer of Huntsville, who was a candidate for tn
Legislature. McClung called upon the editor
the paper for an explanation The latter, VIII
was a high spirited young man, refused, an
Mckinley still kept in the back ground TIL
consequence was, a street fight between MI
McClung and the editor, in which affair the lat
ter was killed. The public excitement was grea
and the feeling strong against both McClun
and Mckinley. The former lost his election fc
the Legislature, and the latter removed to tlol
ence, Alabama, on the Tennessee river. In 49,
Mr. Mckinley had so far recovered his popular
ity that the Legislature of Alabama elected hi
to the Senate of the United States, as support,
of Gen. Jackson, and he continued a member
that body until 1881, when he was succeeded /
Gabriel Moore. In 1888 the people elected NJ
Mckinley to the House of Representatives, b,
he continued member of that branch of Co
gress only one term.
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OLD DRINKING HABITS IN IRELAND-If on al
occasion guest left the room bits of paper we
dropped into his glass, intimating the number
rounds the bottle had gone; and on his retu1
he was obliged to swallow glass for each, und
the penalty of so many glasses of salt and waite
1t was the practice of some to have decante
with round bottoms, like modern soda wat
bottle, the only contrivance in which the cou
stand being at the head of the table, before t
host Stopping the bottle was thus render
impossible, and every one was oblghed to
his glass at once, and pass the bottle to /
neighbor, on the peril of upsetting the confer
on the table. still more common practice W
to knock the stems off the glasses with kni
so that they must be emptied so fast as they a
filled, as they could not stand. Some times
guests, as they sat down, pulled off their sho
which were taken out Of the room; and t
emptied bottles were broken outside Of the do
so that no one could pass out till the caror