Richmond daily times. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1853, 1852-04-14
LATER FROM TEXAS.

BY the arrival of the steamship Meteor we hnr
received Galveston papers to TIE ID inst.
We learn that the overflow of the rivers OF
Texas has at length subsidized, after having extern
ded to the bottoms of most of the rivers from their
heads to near the Gulf. There was a report that
the water from the Brazos had reached to the
plantations OF Governor Runnels, Gen. Coffee.
Messrs. S. McNeel, Bingham Brown, Cecil and
Terry, on Oyster Creek. That river however.
has fallen within its banks above. Itwas then
some twenty feet below the overfIwoing point in
the vicinity OF Washington, though there are some
fences missing IN that region. As compensa-
tion, however, Tor the loss, it appears that the
heids which were overflowed have been enriched
by the deposit of about foot ofnew SOIL
Inc lctorla Advocate states that the Guada-
lupe river at Seguin had overfowed the bottom
anus upon Its banks to the depth of ten or fifteen
feet, and that the St. Marks, Plum creek, Peach
creek, Cuerro, and Irish creek were also out of
thelr banks. The bottoms generally above Vic
torIa were covered with water, but the amount of
damage is not stated.
The Colorado also very high. The Austin
Gazette states that in that vicinity a large ouan-
tlty OF fencing was washed away, growing crops
destroyed and cattle, hogs and horses drowned.-
Inc streams In Caldwell county were higher than
they have been known for many years, and a
similar account is given of the San Gabriel and
other streams in that direction, and in both local
ltles the injury to farms and the destruction of
stock have been very extensive. There are ru-
mors OF several persons having been drowned
two OF three in the Colorado, one in the San Ga
briel, and one or two elsewhere, but the names
are not given. Several grist mills in the neigh
borhood of Austin were washed away by the
flood.
correspondent of the Washington Ranger.
writing from Rock Island on the Brazos, states
that short time since, near that place, two me-
gro men, BASS and Ned,) the property of Mr..
James Mitchell, rose upon their master and his
cousin, Mr.. Charles Donohoe, Jr., and after Sc
verely lnJuring the former and leaving the latter
for dead, by blows inflicted by some heavy weap-
on, made their escape. Messrs. M. and D. are
recovering from their wounds
We learn from the Huntsville Item that dis
ease, resembling the Asiatic cholera, broke out in
the vicinity OF that place about three weeks ago,
and was very fatal in several families. Col. John
Hume lost thirteen of his negroes, and son about
seven years old, most intelligent and promising
youth. There were ight corpses on his premi-
ses at one time. The Affections of COL Hume
have truly been heavy and disastrous, fer in add-
ton to the above. the Item says 'his fences have
all been blown away, and his fields, where the
corn and cotton should be growing, are overrun
With stock, and the work of the past two or three
months completely destroyed
The disease first appeared among gang of ne
groes recently arrived in the neighborhood from
Georgia. several of whom died. The Item of the
goth says the disease had then disappeared, ard
that the health of Huntsville was good.
The Western Texan of the 18th inst, SAYS a
negro died very suddenly, in San Antonio on the
18th, from disease resembling the cholera.
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