New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-05-03
Later from Texas.

BY the arrival OF the steamship Charles Nor
gan, Capt. Forbes, from Galveston we have re.
celved Galveston papers to the Both ult, and
our other Texas exchanges as late as due The
Galveston News of the 28th ult says:
The news from our rivers is unfayorable.
The steamers on the Trinity are laid up for
want OF water, and unless the customary Nav
ana June rises once more enable them to move,
large proportion of the Cotton crops will re-
main behind, and be subjected 10 the delay and
heavy expense of land transportation The
quantity of goods now on the way and intended
to be sent up the river, is very considerable
also, and the disappointment and loss, which
would follow, were navigation to remain closed
for the season, must be very onerous on the in
terests Of this community. The Brazos river
had fallen also, yet, the steamers were still
moving with light cargoes
The telegraph is now in operation from Gal
weston to Palestine
Gov Pease has extended the time by procla-
nation for receiving proposals for the Pacific
Railroad till the 1st of August
The INDIAN MAssAcRE.-The San Antonio
Western Texan of the 10th has the following ad-
ditionai particulars, relative to the recent mur-
ders by the Indians near that city:
4" A company of soldiers followed in pursuit
OF the Indians, about II hours after the massacre
TOOK place, and the next day large company
was organized by Majors Neighbors and How
ard, and great excitement was manifested by
our citizens generally. Some three or four
companies are already in pursuit, amounting
IN all to near one hundred men, and they have
been IN pursuit three days. Mexican and
ms WIFE, who lived in the vicinity of the mur.
dered family, have been missing since Sunday.
and 1t is thought that they are either murdered
or taken into captivity. The day after the mas
sacre of the Forester family, Mr. John G. Beck
man, accompanied by some five or six others.
well armed, left our city for the residence of
Mr.. Forester to see if they could learn any,
thing in regard to the children
'' On arriving at the house they met a sight
too horrible to relate. The father was lying in
the door, shot.through theheart, scalped and the
top part of his head cut off with an axe, which
was near by; the two daughters, one Of them
II the other IA years, were dead on the floor,
near by, sht with several arrows and stabbed.
and it was evident that they had been treated
in the most cruel and barbarous manner. The
babe was also lying dead, stabbed through the
body with large knife, one only was missing, a
boy about six years old, which they evidently
had taken with them The mother distinctly
remembers of seeing her oldest daughter irving
to defend herself with a knife, and the same
knife was near her when she was found
The reports OF the crops from various parts
are very favorable. The Indianola Bulletin of
the 26th says: The farmers of our county are
now actively engaged in cultivating their crops
Corn, cotton and all other crops are growing
rapidly. The recent rains have had a mos1
salutary effect on vegetation. The grass on the
prairies is now abundant, and the cattle are in
thriving condition.
Gen. Persfer F, Smith was married on the
18th ult., at Corpus Christi, to Mrs Armstrong,
widow of q son of the late Gen Robert Arm
strong, of Tennessee.
company of minute men is being organized
in Tarrant county, to range on the frontier.
The Galveston Times of the Both ult. reports
the Trinity river rapidly rising. It thinks that
this rise will give sufficient time for that portion
Of the cotton crop still remaining in the interior
to be brought out.
Hon Sam, Houston, says the BRENNAN Inqui-
rer, addressed large ssemblage of his fellow
citizens at Brenham, on the ed, in defence of
his vote and position upon the Nebraska bill.
Gen. Houston returns Immediately to Washing
ton to resume his seat in the Senate.
The telegraphic connection between Hunts
vile and Henderson will, it is thought, be COM
pleted shortly, when New Orleans will be in
telegraphic communication with Galveston and
Houston.