Thibodaux minerva. [volume] (Thibodaux, La.) 18??-1858, 1854-06-10
Later from Texas.

By the arrival at New Orleans of the steam
ship Louisiana, Capt jeremiah Smith, tn
Picayune has papers from Galveston to the 4tl
inst, from Houston to the Sd, Santa Fe to tn
Goth of April, SC.
| We find the following items in the Galveston
Times, of the 4th inst.
We were informed yesterday that the steame
Clifton had sunk in the Trinity river, five mile
above Magnolia The report we heard was tina
the sinking occurred in deep water, and that i
would be difficult, if not impossible to raise her
| The Galveston News, of the I'd inst, furnishes
the following paragraphs:
1t will be seen that during the past weel
There are now six steamers up the Trinity
which will be arriving here with their freigh
during the next week or two.
The grading on the Galveston, Houston ano
Henderson Railroad is now progressing on the
eighth mile. Additional hands and two more
machines are soon expected.
We understand that the little steamer Mich
Hill was at last accounts on its way above
Washington to Waco, the highest point on the
Brazos ever assembled by any steamer. The in
ducement to this enterprise, as we learn, is the
offer of premium of sixteen hundred dollars
by the citizens of Waco to the first steamer that
shall reach that place.
We learn from Mr.. L. Harris, who arrived in
our city direct from Port Sullivan, that frost
took place there on the Goth and Both of April
and did considerable injury to the growing
crops.
We have been informed that the cholera pre-
walls to some extent in the neighborhood below
Groce's Retreat, in Austin county. 1t is said
to have proved fatal in sveral instance among
the negroes on Mr.. Glover's plantation. We
also learn that DR.. Thomas Hunt, in that neigh
borhood had died with this disease, and thai
Mr.. Whitfield was not expected to recover.
The following item we clip from the Galveston
Civilian, of the I'd inst:
Copious rains have lately fallen throughout
Texas, and the effects are said to have been
highly beneficial to the crops. The roads,
however, have not much improved.
For the year ending June 80, 1858, the ex-
ports of produce, &C., from Texas direct to
foreign countries, amounted to the value Of
81, O29, 6e1, and the imports into Texas from
foreign countries to 1921, 459.
The corporation of Corpus Christi have au-
thorized the Issue Of $4,000 in city bonds, to
be used in the improvement of the channel be-
tween that place and Arkansas bay. The Valley
states that the contract for the work has already
been taken. s.:
During the month of April, 1901 bales Of
cotton were shipped from Sabine, of which
2,810 went to New Orleans and the remainder
to Galveston. ..
During the last week the steamer Guadalupe
has arrived here with $50 bales cotton; the Jen-
kins with 800, and Jack Hays with 1920.
The Galveston Times, of the I'd inst, says:
The corn and cotton crops in Eastern Texas
are represented to be in a most promising con-
condition. The stand of cotton is perfect, and
the corn crop one month earlier than the last
years. Nearly double the usual quantity Of
corn has been planted this season, SO that the
emigration through, and into that portion OF
the State, will find bountiful supply in the
fall. -