New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1853-08-03

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Baldridge Sparks X Co. are insured to the
amount of $4,000. The other sufferers have
| no insurance
1t is said to be the work of an incendiary.
The Civilian and Gazette says:
The number of German emigrants who ar.
rived at Galveston during the quarter ending
June 30, was i29
A collision took place between the steamers
Neptune and Star State, in the Bay, on We'd
nesday night. The Star State was somewhat
injured, We torbear any statement Of particu-
lars, as the matter is undergoing investigation
in the U. S. Court
Professor Forshey returned to Galveston by
the Mexico, and IS Immediately 10 resume the
survey aud location Of tae railroad from this
city to Houston, and thence TO Henderson Mr.
Lacy and his eoad iut6rs ia this work profess To
be sanguine Of success, and state that they have
made all their arrangements for its immediate
Prosecution.
The Advertiser says there is probably not a
cotton planter in Basrop county who will he
able to gather his entire crop, provided nothing
interteres to prevent it from fully maturing
The Leon Pioneer says the corn crop in that
vicinity will be good one, Cotton looks unu-
sually well.
The Jefferson Texas Herald learns that a
company is now organizing there in anticipa
ton Of speedy difficulties between Mexico and
the United States
! QUARANTINE REGULATIONS citizens Of
galveston are agitating the question y estab-
fishing quarantine regulations for that port for
the purpose of preventing the importation of
yellow fever from New Orleans.
BRAzos CANM-The Teleurafb hos boer !,
formed by MIR NcGregor TINT The WI on nv.
gaNeston and bra2os CaunI is Progressing ran
i4ly Inc new drcdge boat is far superior Ia
those that were first used by Capt Bradbqrv
~ inc last accounts the canal had been opeDe3
WITHIN few hundred feet Of OYSTER t'reek and
1aPt. Bradbury expects to complete it 10 the
hra]os ny the middle Of October The distance
- oe eAcaNatea is about tive miles and half
anu the ground is so soft and pliaMe that no ev-
poets to excayate, on an average, ten on fyyeIy.
, rods a day = '''''s
SOMETHING NEw.-The Lavaca Commercial
ms hotGei several loads Of hay brought int
that market within the past few days. Thishay
mas oeeh cut from the prairie near that place
anu is intended to he shipped 10 Pensacola. ~
an experiment If this experiment should rrov,
successful, II Is expected ere long 10 see a LARGE
Iuahuty OIL nay shlpped from there to Pensacola.
Mobile, and other places
WEATHER AND CROPS. The Marshal, p,z,,,
lican OF the 10th inst saws DURING tbo ,ro
yious two weeks they had frequent showers Of
rain, which have been general throughout the
! county, and the crops now present cheerful
appearance
/, 4he Gonzales Inquirer regrets to learn that
e ~ d %ot'ls nave mute their appearance in some
. Va sae Gotten fields in that county A gentle.
man informs the editor that on the San Nars1,,
nv uotSea' IN one large field, these insects were
~ "ofh on the cotton, hut had not done much
uanage. Should the present fair weather CON.
I unue few days longer they viii :; +;
d soon disappear ''''' It = thought
d lAoANoIA-The lndianola Bulletin saws.
D On Tuesday last, tie 2lst ult thoro# ~, y.
. inc wharf and landing and leaving. in An. 1
arg anu sla'll craft twenty which present, /
fer Dew place likg IBdiun.Is, ag.tg ma .fo,.r.
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