The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1854-11-08
LATER FROM TEXAS.

By the way of New Orleans have Galveston dates TO
the 26th ultmo, Austin to the 2lst and San Antonio
the 10TH From wcll-digeSted summary Of Texas news
which appears in the New Orleans rayune CLEAN the
following
The Western Texan learns from some gentlemen who
arrived from San Antonio from Las Moras the 18th
slant that just they leaving there express
rived which left General Smith Eagle Springs this side
of E Paso stating the fact that James Campbell esq. who
left San Antonio few months since with six or
eight others with drove Of five hundred cattle bound to
California attacked at Eagle Springs by Indians and
pundered OF all his drove No lives lost far as heard
from The Western Texan iurthYr learns that Dir Camp
bell net with Sen Smith at Eagle Springs and that he
was to accompany the general to the station at Las Moras
where they expected to arrive about the goth instant
The report is that the Indians Muscaleros and Ii
pans
Major Stein, commandan Fort Belknap was recent
~ Oh visit TO Austin lie informed the editor of the
State Gazette that at last accounts all quiet among
the Indians at Fort Chadbourne.
meeting has been held in Austin to devise plan TO
relieve the community from the pernlcous influence of the
Mexican peon population
The State Times leagHs ,,a be rangers called out by
the late proclamation of Gov Peasc will be placed in I'M
mediate service
The Waco Era has the following account of bloody
tragedy in Carthage, Pamela county the 22d ultimo
- X Williams and several of his friends assaulted
Jonathan Anderson and his with double-barrelcd
hotguns and discharged three shots before the Andersons
returned their fire The engagement soon became general
on both sides. A by the OF Iona1 Miller vas
~
Carthage seripasy Wounded aud several Of the Will
llama parry received flesh wounds All of the Anderson
party escaped unhurt After the assalants exhausted
their fires they reacd TO the second floor OF Mr. Turner's
ROOM carrying with them the killed and wounded
The of the airay old feud between Williams
and Anderson The bellgerens have suspended hosties
by mutual consent, for four months
Tho Brazora Planter says thJ sugarplanters busly
engaged in grinding the cane and The crops turning
better than expected
The Rev A. Farborn has resigned the pastoral charge Of
the Presbyterian church in Houston.
There eleven nterments of yellow fever vieals in
Houston during the week ePa.g toe e4ih uii The Star
OF the 25,b says the disease mostly confined the
outskirts OF the city and the mortality chiefly among the
unaCclimated population.
The Dallas Herald learns that Major Blanch civil engi
of the NJ aud + r. Company, has probably selected
Fenton Bluff about eight miles below Buffalo Che most
practicable crossing Of tho trinity latitude 80 deg,
for the Pacific railroad
HUNGRY NAS.-The Albany Knickerbocker thus de-
scrbes Che eating performances ola discharged convict
from the penteutiary
He entered the house of Mr.. McCuskey and called for
supper lie sat down TO long table loaded with all kinds
OF refreshments, and he gazed around him. smile
seemed to play upon his hungry phz Before he arose he
drank four cups OF coffee ate entire loaf of bread half
pound OF butter six pigs feet tongue eight cruers
one large dish OF cabbage &c He then rose with great
case aud refused to pay for what he had eaten He
| arrested and committed