Richmond daily times. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1853, 1852-05-20
LATER FROM TEXAS.

by the arrival of the Steamship Mexico, we
have dates from Galveston to the 10th inst, to-
gether with files from the interior
The Comptroller of the State has accepted
bids for 100000 of the million of the U. S. Five
Per Cent. Bonds offered for sale by the State
The following are the terms The Commercial
and Agricultural Bank of Galveston takes 500, 900
at TOUR per cent. premium, exclusive of interest,
payable IN Galveston, viz $4,000 on the 25th of
May, $4,000 on the LIST June, and $4,000 on the
18th of June. S. M. Swenson takes 81 OO, 900, at
two per cent. payable at Austin within thirty
days and Cocoran & Riggs take $60O,OO0 paya-
Die In New Y ork-S250,000 in ten DAYS, $780,
600, In twenty days, and 81 900 in thirty days.
at S5,01, $500, S5,03, 1904 and 1910 per cent
on each 100000.
The Treasurer of Texas had paid out nearly
100000 in bonds previous to the 1st of May.
The regular mail from Paso del Norte brings in
formation that the Indians there are committing
depredatlons, and that no person can travel in
safety. Large numbers of mules and horses have
been taken by them. Capt. Skillman, the mail
contractor, also lost his horses. Las Cruces. a
village OF New Mexico, has been plundered by
the Indians. Their robberies have also extend
ed to the copper mines Two soldiers were killed
by them on the Tornado. The Government has
lost large amounts of property under the eyes of
its own troops. The San Antonio Ledger ex-
tends Its list of Indian massacres and robberies in
New Mexico and chihuahua to near column,
The wheat crop in Eastern Texas is said to be
in very hourishing condition.
The Wings Of Western Texas held Conven-
ton at Houston on the 9th inst, at which resolu-
lions were passed affirming the Compromise in
favor OF river and harbor improvements by Con-
gress, and declaring Willard Fillmore the first
choice of the Wings of the State for the Presi-
dency.
letter from Houston in the Galveston Jour-
nal. gives an account of two tragic occurrences
which recently took place at Crockett and Bas-
trop. A German pedler, from Alabama, was
murdered by fellow-countryman and traveller
near the first mentioned place, under circum-
stances of peculiar atrocity. The murderer was
seized by the citizens, rope placed about his
neck, and swung up to the limb of a tree several
times, to elicit confession, but proving unsuc-
cesstul, he was allowed to remain suspended
over night and was, of course, found dead. the
following morning.
letter from Austin states that Gov Bell had
gone to the Corpus Christi fair.
At Bastrop the mother of a young GIRL who
had been decoyed from home by a fiend in human
shape, not succeeding in shooting his accomplish
the first time she saw him, met him again in the
street, presented pistol close to his breast and
killed him instantly.
The same writer mentions another foul MUIR
der. Donald Smith, an old gentleman and citi-
zen OF Bastrop, who had acquired some means
as Santa Fe trader, and once prisoner in Mex
ico started from Bastrop with his cattle, &C., for
the purpose of settlingon the frontier some forty
miles above Georgetown, in Williamson county,
and camped out over night near the latter place
The tent and contents not only found burn
ed to ashes the next morning, but burnt portions
OF his limbs and body were discovered, with the
skull broken in. 1t is supposed that he was MUIR
dered for his money by young man of suspicious
character, who was ACCOMMODATING him TO his
place Of destination, but no traces haze vet been
had OF his whereabouts, though some two hun
dred dollars had been raised by the citizens in
that vicinity to pay the expenses of bringing him
to justice.-N o. Picayune.