New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-07-15
TEXAS.

By the steamship Mexico, Capt Laviess, at New'Or-
leans from Idanola and Galveston 18th inst we have
.eeeiyed our Texas exchanges.
The IadtanoLa Bulletin says:
sDsring the past week hzve had numerous refresh
~ ,hox,rs peuishng the cisterns and rsvving vegss
tsn Crops sid 10 promise yell in the interior An
abondaDt yield Of corn, sugar cane aud Gotta IS eI'
SsMr Charles j. Mitchell editor Of The V,etOrta 1ioo-
est, died At Port Lavscs on the 9th 1t. from ipare:
received N se%PuSg 70 Gr's IRON zoe sn' a.. %nT,s
ia. G0IreaOn Mus OF the 4th says
~G.penen from different psrts Of the country MORN
ms Inst the crops generally present favorable appearance
Ire impression appears be that the vii tdrn
oct fair average enc taking the whole STATE hrongh
though IN some DeighborhSods has been cut on ny ths
drought The cotton crop u is believed viii b. full
aver ne one unes of by 81 many .es
TO which ii is subject late IN the season.
MANY persons have sti greet confidence that sbuad
ance Of gold will yet be founc 10 IsxY Much IS anc
pstsd from the Grand Qnvirs expedition no~ set oct uG
well appointed ,Dd capsule Of defending it-s from The
tribes Of Indians they 81 1ect 70 encounter They
do Dot expect 70 return til October
Tie CtrtiioH Of the Ist inst. says:
'1be vedii0n gotten by Gn Rusk for II Pa7o had
not l.f Fort Graham At the last sccouuts Mr. Greeley
Boston has returned The SoHatrestrH h@etc m say'
Gov Payne IL SICK ~ Waco his recovery doubtful Gen.
Ru,k xss expected At Fort Graham in day too Geo.
Clark will 60 through 20 FL Pao. Major Neigh1ors n
poy.d Jem Shaw guide for the eIPedu'n Should an
escort be needed II will he urOished free OF eIpsnse bv
Teas cizens and placed under the control IT competent
ne1 M.jor Neigh6ors will qualify as Indian Sup-rian
dent sod proceed at once 70 me dischsrRe ~ MS ,ns
"Gep Houston was AZ Wsshin StOn At fhs late Masonic
celebration and made one Of hi. happie.t speeches
The Gair.ston Ne,cs, Of the 2-th ult. says:
mi Greedy who With other gentlemen passed thr"ugh
our city their way ri pasO time snce, has now
returned We understand from him that toe nptny pro-
cesd only Waco, having fund that Vas impossible
for them ~ get back ia the time prescribed they PR
c4totd tie whole way They however, fortunately %
tsned All the information they wanted relative 10 the route
from vaIiou. and perfectly reliable sources and ara salts
fed that the II PasO route has overwhelming afvan Rss
over every ether TOR the Pacific Rsrssd aud will report
acooroir ely The main trunk nj the road they will propose
will proceed from tbs Mi-ss.ipp IN nearly dge ~-''
direction III PasO in the Latitude Of 30 degrees
crossing Red River Shreveport vi two branches
from DesTy the point in the interior of our StA7-
the to Fulton and the other to some point on olr
eosst"
The Southwestern Arnerican states that Bull Creek
about eight miles above Austin bed of hydraulic &C.
meut has been found about three feet thick, Oyerad by
stratum Of limestone foot in thickness In close
proximity il said to be a bed Of coal
The Colorado Valley as high as Austin, and probably
above has been visited with refreshing rains Of late
Hudson, who killed DR.. Graut al Houston last fall
has been tried and acquitted.
The Houston Telegraph Of the LIST inst. says:
"R.c.nt accounts from Moncova INDICATE that several
powerful bands OF Csmancbes and dsscalsros have ~
moved rom the western borders Texas tbs country
between the Rio Grand- aud Bpson d. 81 tpmi and they
ca.ionay send out parties from their mountain fast
Tsvsge the Mexican settlement. a. far south as
Fan Luis Poios and west TO Durango II Wa may believe
the Of the Nexctns, these Indians muster
INV. ef two thousand warriors, and two Of th-r
parties often scattered space Of country i've
hundred miles long snd two three hundred vide T-y
have destroyed several uourhiDg settlements and 10
instances have ventsred directly INTO the sress Of large
toS and carried away property to mn+uss vsld-
They have recently become bold that it !, supposed
they are led by reDee ade white The MeKctns ina
CINE that neary ali the Indians Of Texas have been let
loose upon them and that their country will bs
run by these ssvages.
siDeus tact that the region the of
the Colorado and the Nutces that a few years since
tbrODged with ssysgs almost deserted the few
Indian trails that found there ht very R la
dans reside in that section Many of the frontier set
tiers I'd supposed that The Indians that formerly resided
follow the herds Of buffalo that have removed T. that re-
gion hut the emIraDs who have traversed that region
state hs the Indians less numerous even IN N'rt1ern
TEXAS than they four FIVE y-ars II appears
evident therefore that they have enigrted 60 MeUe aud
ar. TesoTtng the herds and hook of the NeIc+ns
for the food they formerly obtained from the vast nerds OF
buffalo ana wild dec of the prairies Of TrK.-.'
The San antonio Ledger OF the 23d ut has the fol-
lowing items:
"Tw"geuemen srein this town with capital Of s2O0 Oo0
30 invest N Cotton mandatory IN the neghborhood o
San Antonio
The San AnfoHio Uestern Team Of the 23d ult says
"Ihe tram of M-ssTs. MAYER \ Co arrived thi, ~e-k
from Chihushua making the trip thirty lays Ihey
would have made in thirty had been for delays
The mail train between San Antonis aud HI T. $50 con
sts Of two smbul.ncer twenty tSo mules aud eight
the latter noted for their vAnr ana frontier exploits
The O travelling n To divide the twenty four hOurs
into three equal parts and travel fifteen miles 4t
division thus averaging about fifty miles day The party
thought 10 be ntly roug TO resist sny attack like
Iy to be made by Indians upon it