New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1853-12-27
Later fro n Texas,
PACIFIC RAILROAD BILL PASSED

By the arrival of the Perseverance yesterday we have
received later Texas papers. We give below summary
| Of the news which they contain
By an extra from the Office of the Austin Times we
learn that the Pacific Railroad bill passed the House on
Saturday the 18th inst without amendment by the fol-
| lowing vote:
| YEAs-Messrs. Speaker Adrian Banks Rav,or Ron.
Bell Birdwell, Boon, Bourlaud, Brown Burke Burney,
Calvert Cannon Crawford of Bexar Crawford Of Washn
ton, Crosby, Daniel Darden Dooley, Duany Edwards,
Ferris, Fields Fowler Castor. Hall Hicks Holman Uol
land, Hunt, kingsbury Laird. Lewis Loving Lyday Nal
lard Marshall Muckleroy McCuoch, Melton Of Hopkins
| Melton OF Navarro Moore Of Wood, Palmer Parsons
Rains, Rely Roberts Rushing Schlecher Shaw simms
speghts stout stroud, Swearngen TAFT Taylor Travis
Inroc9norton turner OF Lavaca, Turner of Rusk von
tress, Walker, Waller, Whitmore, Wilson Witt Wood Of
Cas-, Wood Of Leon, Wooten-71
A. NAYS -Messrs. Berry, Blingsy, Charlton Collier Hord
! White Wiley-l3 ff' Hf'
The Indians continue their ravages on the frontiers
party have been lately within twenty miles of San
Antonio. AID have killed and driven ayay stuck and
attacked the whites in that neighborhood man named
wilson had been seaped and left for dead by them near
s anche Oh Meoo The settlers upon the frontier are
Kept in constant state of uneasiness by the sayaess
The Santa Fe Mail has arrived at San Antonio in
| ty-fve days from Santa Fs and fifteen from FL p.so
The Santa Fe Gazette mentions the gold mining onera
lions la that quarter and says that the prospects of an
ample remuneration for outlay Of capital are most
hatteringn Ninety dollars is the amount given as the
result OF labor mules and several men empoyad
four days on some machinery in crushing the gold bearing
rock The rock is said to contain gold in the proportion
of Go cents to the bushol
The Indians continue to be very troublesome about ri
Psso but the Mexcans said equal them in per6dv
and atrocities
DR.. Zebulon Nj Anderson of Seguin aged tweptv6ya
and formerly Of Virginia killed by the accidental dis
charge Of gun the sth
Mr.. Wiley Hodge killed Mexican near ooliad
on the 10th, In self defence, it seems Mr. III was
IN company with a ady-his sister, when MEXICAN
whom they met attempted, without any necessity for so
doing to obstruc the passage Of the lady by turning his
oxen in front of her Mr. IL intertsred when the Me,
lean drew revolver with the evident intention Of using
IT, whereupon Mr. n drew pistol aud shot the Mexican
inficting wound of which he died
Limo Flores has been found guilty of the murder Of An
tonic Quico and his wife, near San Antonio
The Gonzales Enquirer says Mr. Shannon yery gentle
manly and intelligent emgrant from the State of Missouri
who passed through Gonzales few days since saws that
at and between Preston Red River and this place he
counted two thousand three hundred emsrant wagons
bound for Western Texas great many Of which are from
Missouri He mentions county that State as being
almost depopuated, by emigration to Texas The sam,
gentleman says that in the vicinity Of Bolton in Bell
county exclusive of the above he saw at one view he
thinks about five hundred tents pitched all home seekers