New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1853-06-11
Later from Texas.

ARRIVAL or THE MEXICO
The steamship Mexico, Captain Lawless, CON-
handing, arrived yesterday morning, furnish
ing us with full files of Galveston papers of the
9th and 9TH inst We clip the following items
of news:
The Attorney General has arrived in Calves
ton, for the purpose of prosecuting the suits
against the banking concerns in that city
The Bastrop Advertiser and other authorities
give assurances of very promising crops in Bas-
trop and adjoining counties, Cotton is said to
be already in bloom in some places.
The Trinity and Brazos rivers are at length
too low for convenient steamboat navigation.
though they were up until about the LIST inst
The boats are now mostly lying by for repairs
| and to make such improvements as are required
by the steamboat law
A man named Mackey was sentenced to the
pententiary, from Liberty county, for five years
at the last term of the District Court. His Of
fence was cruelty beating, SO as to cause the
death of child, his own step-son.
grand Masonic celebration is to take place
at Washington, on the Brazos, on the 9th inst
Several Lodges are invited to participate and
delegates from the various Grand CHAPTERS
throughout the State, will be in abundance
Mr.. Reynolds, who was indicted by the Grand
Jury, at Galveston, a few days SINCE as an ac-
cessory in the murder Of young Parr and his
mother, at Point Bolivar, is now at Liberty,
having given bail for the amount of $4,000
The stchooer Gen. Pierce, commanded and
owned by Captain Follett, was capsized a few
days since, of Galveston bar, and will be total
loss. She was coming in from the Brazos river,
loaded with about fifty hogsheads of sugar, be-
longing to Gov. II. G. Runnels, and some sixty
or seventy bales of cotton, consigned to r. & D.
G.. Mills,
The Commercial states, at the request of the
President of the Layaca Navigation COMPANY.
that the channel through Gallinipper bar is
now completed and ready for the passage of
vessels, The channel is now ten feet deep and
iorty leet wide, 1t is In contemplation to widen
1t some twenty feet more
The Civilian of the 18th says
Inc last 81 accounts from the supposed gold re
glons oil Texas are like all the true accounts
which nave preceded them. Minute particles Of
gold can be found, but none that will nav for the
labor required 10 secure them Many adyep-
turers are returning, but others are organizing
distant expeditions, in hopes of finding the pre-
cions metal in other quarters
The News publishes the following letter, dated
Cincinnati, Walker county, May 20, giving an
account OF the massacre of q surveying party by
Indians: -
Information has just been received here of a
most melancholy character, to the effect that
benjamin kubert's surveying party to the Red
niNcr ana Maehita country have all been killed
with the exception of Henry Kinds, who lies
wounded at Fort Belknap. He. it seems, was
away from the party on a hunting expedition,
ana was laneed and shot at ON his return, but
escaped to the fort, about sixty miles off
Inc Machita Indians are the perpetrators Of
TINS unfortunate tragedy The death of The
Machlta Chief was mentioned lately in YOUR
paper, and the present slaughter was doubtless
| intended TO revenge his death
| In Mr.. Hubert, (who lived in Polk county \ We
,osu one OIL our most enterprisng and best busi
| n n.se men, lie has met the fate predicted for
nm by his friends, from his adventurous snd
| iaring spirit His death is greatly regratted
oy ms numerous friends in this Stote from Al
oama and Mississippi. ''''' -''''
The Western Texan furnishes the fo,,owirO
account OF murder by Mexicans
"Three Mexicans were on their wav in r.on,
the klo Grande with a eGballada of horses A.
san Patricio they employed another Mexican
who spoke English, to go with them as salesman.
They were followed by two other Mexicans from
the Rlo Grande, who entered into a conspiracy
With the one employed at San Patricio, for the
purpose OF numbering the owners Of the cabaI-
'ada. Some twelve or fifteen miles from Goliad
they put their atrocious design into execution
AFTER numbering the three men, they burnt up
ther bodies. The murderers then drove the
horses INTO the interior, and sold them
on their return, one Of them rode horse