New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1853-05-23
From Texas.

BY the arrival of the steamship Perseverance,
we are placed in possessions Of Galveston papers
Of the 1Tth inst, and dates from the interior as
late as due. The papers are barren of news.
The Texas gold mine fever is still raging.
The Victoria Advocate of the l4th says:
Several persons from this neighborhood have
recently started for the gold region.
The accounts from Austin this week are GER
tainly more favorable than We had anticipated.
We copy the following from the State Gazette Of
the Both ult.:
\ considerable excitement is prevailing
throughout Western Texas, on the subject of
gold discoveries in our neghborhood; and we
have had several letters, and observe notices in
our exchanges asking information on the sub
| ieet That there is gold, and in great quanti-
| ties, on the tributaries of the Colorado short
distance above this city, we can no longer en-
tertain doubt, for some specimens shown us
! IRE of the most beautiful character. The num-
| Der of persons now at the mines is very consid-
cradle, set down by reports at from 200 to 500,
most OF whom are greatly encouraged by their
success, The district of country in which gold
has been found is very extensive one, and easy
Of access from this city.
The editor of the Indianola Bulletin publishes
a great variety Of historical and other facts
tending to show that there is gold in great
| abundance in the mountains above Austin. The
disclosures of few weeks will remove all specu-
lation on the subject.
There was a severe hail storm in Washington
or Austin counties or perhaps both, on the 18th
inst. The Ranger says;
On the 7th inst, a portion of Austin county
was visited by a severe and destructive hal
storm, accompanied by strong wind and heavy
rain. Some of the hail stones were as large az
eggs, of every shape Imaginable, The surface
of the earth was covered in short time from
the rapidity in which they fell, The storm
passed from South to North, over the plantation
Of Shelby, Black, and others, seriously iDjurins
the corn and cotton crops
We copy the following from the State Gazette
We learn from Mr. Bailey, Postmaster n
Washington, now in this city, that one of tn
most terrific hail storms on record passed owe
portion of Washington county on Sunday nigh
last. The hurricane was about three mile
wide, but how far it extended in its course iror
, North to South, is not known. The timber Ma
uprooted and stripped of its foliage and Nark
, and hail stones covered the ground over foe
, deep many of them described to our informan
larger than gooses egg. The appearance G
the country the morning after the storm wa
E frightful in the extreme.
, These descriptions covering the ground wit
hail stones one foot in depth would make re
n spectacle hail storm in Canada.
: The Brownsville correspondent of the Nuece
a Valley, dating 22d, says;
: Suspicion has been already awakened in IL
5 country to such an extent respecting SAINT
c Anna and Uraga's interviews with SPANS
= officials in Cuba, that the former yielding
public opinion has declined sending the latt,
to the Court of Madrid, but he will be sent
Berlin. 1t is so affirmed in private letters fro
o the capital, and by to-morrow's mail We W
: know more about it.
}, Gen. Carvajal with his two companions, No
e ton and Roundtree continue under arrest
Fort Brown, and no steps have as yet be
= taken for having them examined, 1t is alleg
n that We have no competent authority here
J. the purpose, and hence the rumor that til