New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1853-09-28

there to the I'D inst, and full hles OF our ex-
changes from the Interior.
Some Of the Galveston papers were advocating
the propriety Of suspending quarantine at that
port.
The Civilian and Gazette says:
The epidemic RACES with unabated violence,
and seems destined to constitute the darkest
page in the history of our otherwise fortunate
city. The disease is certainly more malignant,
as well as more extensive, than any which has
heretofore visited Galveston Its peculiar VIC
Tins are the unacclimated, but even those who
have before had the fever have been attacked,
though lightly, in some instances, and, in one
case, q native child died with black vomit
Already about two hundred persons have fallen
victims, and three times that number have been
attacked. AS the mortality is confined almost
exclusively to the unacclimated, most Of whom
seem to have been already attacked, we cannot
but hope the worst work Of the epidemic is over,
We dare not dwell upon the suffering and gloom
which surround us The darkness is relieved,
however, by daily and nightly deeds of mag
| nanimity and self-sacrifce which reflect honor
upon human nature.
The same paper says:
Yellow fever, we regret to state, has caused
| several deaths at the little town of Liverpool on
| Chocolate bayou, on the western part Of Gal
| weston bay.
BAD PROSPECTS OF THE CoTToN CRoP.--A cor
| respondent, writing to the Galveston News in
| relation to the cotton crop, says:
In many sections the weed is high and looks
| fine, but the bolls or forms are scarce. Far
| mers tell me the heavy rains caused it to shed.
| one-half of a crop is as much as will be made
along the road l travelled through Eastern
Texas. From Grand Ecore, on Red River, fif-
| teen miles below Alexandria, the crop is worse
| than ever before grew there. SO say the plan
tiers. have known that country for twenty
years. The growth Of the weed is luxuriant,
but there are very few hollis. In the Tensas
Valley--the best cotton land in the world ex-
oept the Brazos-there is the same complaint
Too much rain has caused the weed to be rank
and the hollis few and far between. The same
is the case in the Rodney Hills. All through
Kinds and the adjoining counties the crop is
also very poor. Through the Eastern counties
Of Mississippi the cotton will not average
more than eighteen to twenty four inches in
height. The same is the case in Green county,
Ala, only worse. There is not a crop of cotton
from Gainesville to Greensboro that will make
500 pounds per acre. do not believe the crop
all through Green, Perry, etc., to the State line
of Georgia, will average more than 200 pounds
to the acre. In Georgia and South Carolina
the cotton is not over from ten to twenty -four
inches high, as far as have seen. If the States
through which l have travelled do not average
more than present appearances indicate, or
the people generally believe, the falling off in
this years crop cannot be less than 100000
bales. In the Western portion of Texas the
crop is good, and have not seen good crop
anywhere else
From an extra of the Indianola Bulletin We
select the following:
YELLOW FEVER AT DIFFERENT PoINTs-Three
deaths had occurred at Port Lavaca during the
week ending the 10th inst. 1t was feared that
the disease had become epidemic in that place.
The fever was also prevailing at Victoria.
During the week ending the Goth, the Board
of Health reported IA deaths.
The Nueces Valley says there appears to be a
dreadful epidemic among the fish in the Gulf off
Corpus Christi. The beach of Mustang and St.
Joseph Islands is said to be covered with the
dead, while large numbers of dead fish float into
Arkansas Pass. The disease appears to be con-
fined to the Gulf, the contagion not having yet
extended into Corpus Christi Bay.
The Richmond Recorder gives a long account
of railroad meeting which took place in the
courthouse at Richmond, on the 9Th inst to
adopt measures for the purpose of raising means
to construct the Colorado branch of the Harris
burg Railroad.
YELLOW FEVER AT HOUSTON. The Telegraph
Of the 23d says:
We are happy to announce that the yellow
fever is assuming a milder form in this city,
and the number of cases is rapidly diminishing
The Sections report indicates that the disease Is
steadily abating. The weather has been quite
cool for the last three or four days, and hopes
are entertained that few more cases will occur
The disease thus far has been confined almost
exclusively to the central portions of the city,
and the few cases that have occurred in the out
skirts of the town have all been of a very mild
type. We hope ere another week has elapsed,
that we shall be enabled to say that the city is
free from an epidemic.
We learn from the Colorado Tribune that the
work of removing the raft in the Colorado is not
progressing favorably A number of workmen
were engaged to remove the logs, and, after cut
ting few cords of wood, they all abandoned
the work. The editor of the Tribune thinks
about one-third of the appropriation will be
squandered before the work will be fairly COM
menced
The citizens of Gonzales are endeavoring to
have an artesan well bored in the central por-
tion of that town.
The San Antonio Ledger, of the 18th instant,
has the following paragraphs:
On Monday morning last some excitement was
manifest about town, on account of the death of
a teamster, late from Indianola, of yellow fever
1t was doubtless a veritable case of that dire
ulsehse Inc INDIVIDUAL uleu at the Alamo.
Major Belger had him removed and inferred
Immediately after his demise, and used every
precaution to prevent a contagion of the disease
from this case, by burning tar, having the
clothes burned, etc. Our physicians have no
apprehensions that the disease will prevail here.
But we would suggest that the city be carefully
examined and all filth and other disease pro-
noting objects be Immediately removed The
general health fthe city is good. Weather dry
and fine.
The Commissioner appointed by the Governor
to ascertain what distance of the Buffalo Bayou,
Brazos and Colorado Railroad had been com.
pleted and ready for use, reports completed %.
miles, and the Comptroller has directed the
Commissioner Of the General Land Office to is
sue the land scrip to which the Company are
entitled, say eight sections of $40 acres for each
mile.
On one of the branches of the Colorado, falls
have been discovered about 100 feet in altitude
and nearly 100 feet wide. The water falls per-
pendicularly in one unbroken sheet These
falls were discovered by Mr.. William H. Magill,
who is an old settler in this State and never
heard of them before. This gentleman also
speaks Of the beauty of the country. Large
tracts of the most fertile territory as yet un-
known for the purposes of civilization
We have received information that Mexicans
from beyond the Rio Grande are driving in
large herds Of stock to this part of the country,