The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1852-06-16
LATER FROM TEXAS.


N. o. Picayune has received dates from Gal
weston to the 4th inst.
The Washington county papers contain a
statement OF the robbery OF r. M. Fugate, of
Feguine, near independence, few days since.
The Ranger says MIR. Fugate was returning
from Smith county, where he had collected
$2,77o. On Wednesday evening OF last week
when within two miles Of Independence, he
was accosted bya man in his shit sleeves,
who told him that he had a nun dangerously
sick IN his camp, about one hundred Yards
from the road, and wished MIR. Fugate to assist
him IN getting him to a house. Mr.. Fugate
followed him, and discovered a man living on
his side. apparently quite sick. He went up
TO nm, and STOPPING down to ascertain the
extent of his sickness, he was jumped upon
by two men, who wrested his six-shooter from
his belt, and fired three shots at him without
taking any more effect than the burning of a
hole in his clothes. He was then strangled
with handkerchief and his money all taken,
with the exception of fifteen cents. The Ran
ger says some doubts are entertained of the
GO rectness of Mr. iFugeei's statement.
The crops in Texas continue highly promis-
ing. Rains have visited every portion of the
State, and vegetation is progressing rapidly.
A correspondent of the Western Texan
writing from the headwaters of the Liano, on
the 10th ult., says that an officer in that camp
had received letter from Baslio Benavides,
an old and respectable citizen ofLaredo, which
says:
On the Goth April, party of Indians tribe
unknown) cruelty murdered five men in the
neighborhood of this town. A party Of off
GERS passed this place en- route for the Lower
Rio Grande, reported that party ot indians
presented themselves in hostile iuurner on
the road leading from this place TO EagIe Pass.
The result of the meeting was that The Indians
presented passport, but whence and by whom
signed was not mentioned. The tenor of il
was permission to hunt mustangs
The same correspondent, in a subsequent
letter, gives the following description Of the
post on the Llano. 1t must be a delightful
place for summer residence.
This is the most miserable and God forsa-
ken country that a white man ever saw
Nothing but hills, covered with cedar, for
miles. No place TO farm here for at least Is
miles below the posts. No wonder, then, that
our minds are tinged with the most lugubri-
Gus sensations, the fruits of which are an
elOngation of our faces. No grass here worth
cent. We have not raised any vegetables,
excepting few radishes and turnips. No
rain, but the weather like to-day, for instance,
so cold that ciOaks and overcoats are in re-
QUESTION. No wonder, then, that our minds
wander down to San Antonio, where green
peas, and may be caulltowers. are tickling
the palate of the epicurian. We poor "out
squirts'' of society hope for better times.
The disease generally called cholera, which
has proved fatal in SO many instances in Bas-
| trop, Moore's Prairie, Webber's Prairie and
Gilleland's Creek, has nearly disappeared.
The San Antonio Ledger says that Bexar
county, at the late term of the District Court,
contributed fOrty-fve years and eight m onths'
labor to the State, by sending convicts to the
Penitentiary whose aggregate services for the
periods TO which they are sentenced amount 10
that time.
The canal to connect Galveston Bay with
the river BroZos is still in steady progress.
The San Antonio Ledger says that the sur.
vey of both rival routes toI the railroad from
San Antonio TO the Gulf has been completed,
and that the result shows that the grading by
either of them will cost less than any raiIroad
ever yet built.
The barks Neptune and Solon, from Bre.
men, and Franklin, from Hamburg, arrived ut
Galveston recently with AT emgrant passen
gers.
The Indiauola Bulletin saws that in that
town may be seen one of the effects of Bloom
erism-an exchange of the duties of the sexes.
Some weeks ago a turkey hen belonging to
Mrs. Swartz, commenced 'setting;" bur on the
second day the old gobbler, the head of the
family. drove her off the nest and located his
turkeyship on the same. Other eggs were
given the hen, and both continued to 'set'' till,
at the usual time each brought forth a brood
of young turkeys. But again he Of the sterner
sex displayed that spirit of tyranny against
which the Women's Rights Convention assem-
bled last year in Massachusetts. He drove
her from her brood, took charge of them him.
self, and may now be seen taking parental care
OF both broOds with much concern for their
welfare as is usually manifested by the mother
turkey.