New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-02-01
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BY the arrival of the steamship Perseverance, Capt.
Lawess, we have received dates from Galveston to the
2oth inst. The Journal of the 10Th has the following
items:
The bill before the Legislature to incorporate the Texas
Steamship Company, proposes TO loan said Company
saOO 900 Of the School Fund for the of six years
One hundred thousand dollars is to be loaned each
steamer that the Company builds, up TO three-the
to be insured TO the amount of the loan Upon fail
urc insure pay the interest the State is TO have
right TO sell the steamer by giving sixty days notice
The Company, we suppose in such event will be bouul
in honor TO bring the steamers within the States jurslc
ton.
A letter from Fort Terrell to The dustin State Times
states that Sergeant and eight upon party
of Indians, with stolen horses in the vicinity of the fort
The Sergeant supposed the Indians friendly; but of
them seized his bride and demanded hs gun whereupon
he shot the Indian The Sergeant ami one of the men
were wounded by the Indians but escaped 10 the fort
Pursuit made n xt day, bl on the wrong track.
The following items from The Ners of the GOTH
Late accounts represent the Trinity River rising at
some points The recent unsettled weather here affords
some ground hope there may have been rain up
the country. which may render our rivers nayigable
We understand the steamer Nick Hill has boen up Cedar
Bayou about thirty miles, which is some fifteen miles
higher than any steamer has before been This bayou is
Soyted 10 he fine stream for navigation being entirely
feo from distractions and having depth of fifteen
twenty feet and sufficiently wide for ordinary boats The
head Of navigation believed TO be within ten or fifteen
timber and he soil IL good Gen. Harrison is procuring
| lumber on that bayou for Mr. Lacy's Railroad
The steamer J: II; Bel, Capt Fowler, arrived in the
Brazos river on Wednesday morning with 400 bales Of
cottcn hogsheads sugar and 10 barrels OF molases
The Bell stuck the Brazo bar for about half hour
| but over safely.
rise and the water perfectly clear and transparent the
reddish turkish character having entirely disappeared
This is quite phenomenon in the Brazos, and one
that has been seldom witnessed By the earliest settefs
We have heard satisfactory reason assigned tor
| IT, , "
The Times reports the value of land in the vicinity of
Austin at $40 TO SIS per acre. unmproved. Improved
land worth go TO s3J per acre. all the way down the
Colorado from Austin to Metagorda. Ia the counties
beLer up land is worth from 81 to $40 per Farms
within We miles Of Austin worth FROM $40 to $50 per
/ acre Titles are generally indisputable.
letter has been received in Galveston which states
that Gov Pease has vetoed the bill to grant lands to the
railroad starting from Galveston, and known ss Lacey
his The Charleston Journal says that previous to the pas
seoe of be charter now offered for amendment Two con-
anes had been incorporated with grants of land to con
struc roads over the nearly the anne ground and
that additional grant OF land would at that time nave
| beep or ought now 10 be, made for the same.
company Of the 9Th Infantry are encamped near san
Antonio They were waiting the arrival OF some other
companits Of tie regiment when they would take up
The fine Of march for point on the ho Uiahue nut
| yet designated.
were no less than FIVE different parties San Antonio max
ing srrang TO drive stocks Of cattle upon the I'll
route 10 California. ,
ne Ansfia State G0zee says that it Is the intention
of Gov Pesfe not close any contract tor the cOuc
tion Of the Pacific Railroad before the LIST OF May next
Tie contract therefore open for bids until that time
J.rrs1 FROM TURKS IsLAED-We are indebted 70
Cant Dunize of brig Atlantic just arrived from Turks
I,s1d for The Royal Gazette Of Jan. H. the day OF ms
d,narture II represents tho cholera raging at ~
Tbomss Nevis St. Kits and tho Islands generally An
e,trso. om Tie Bahams Herald Of December dc crioes
a terrific hurricane which destroyed great a;nCaut OF
sst The sea rose fifteen feet The flOOp Butterfly was
,-da live LOST