New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-11-20

The steamship Louisiana, Capt. Talbot, ar
lived on Saturday last from Indianola pia Gall
reston, bringing dates from the latter place to
the 10th. Her manifest will be found in the
ship news column.
The Galveston News of the 18th says: /
e A gentleman who has just returned from journey
through many of the interior counties, Gays the hne
weather is bringing out the cotton crop wonderfully
Many planters who thought few weeks since shss tnsy
crop which s rapidly maturing Wall yield more
than the first This second growth Of the cotton com
mepced after heavy rains and appears to be very
general ali over the country The fields covered with
in all the stages of growth the same STOCK nsthg
buds blossoms forms and bols maturing anu openlng
and white with cotton ready to pick Our lnformant
thinks the total crop will be fully equal to that Of last
year though he does think il possible that the mos
favorable weather make it an average crop
The editor Of the Houston Morning Star speaks OF
having received from Mr. Sampson, on Mondsy morning.
the 18TH piece of threequarters Of an inch thick
and large enough several ueps which had congeaied
in small vessel in the of the previous night
German was drowned while swimming his horse, near
the Nine Mile House TIE road from Houston to Wash
ington, on the 10th inst. Ui g
We see it stated that the Masonic fraternity are en-
deayoring to establish high school at Waco acLennan
county. Iv,, .4s ~ E
yellow FEVER AT PoBT LAvAcA.-The Register, of the
11th inst says the yellow fever still the increase at
Iavaca There had been six deaths during the week.
The editor of the Register suffering from an attack Of
the fever. m 5ge H. /, T. A.. E
The same paper announces the death Of Major Wood,
ouarternaster at Indianoa the sth inst, from yellow
fever.
The Marshall Meridian learns that two hundred hands
from Georgia. with and implements are arriving &c
work on the Pacific Railroad 1t also states that the con-
tractors negotiating loan Of two or three m'ns
and that fifty miles Of the road will De but
ia ha
The ship Mddesex arrived at Arkansas on the TN inst
ffteen ays from NewYork with Government stores ant
$50 including 345 recruits for the army
thirty of whom deserted at Arkansas and from lou
to eight were drowned from board lighter on thei
1 way to Corpus Christi.
The Jefferson (eass Coz Herald says We learn tina
man was killed in the northern portion Of this count
in the early part of the week The affair was not invest
so we learn the survivor of the bloody TRACED
lesurely went on mis- way rejoicing towards the land
Arkansasn Il# a& l3 lz&
The San Antonio Western Texan of the vt
has the following:
Francisco peres Creek having out to catch coup
of horses and returning at the time he was
Mr.. Menghof who was part owner Oh tne horses "
panied by Others to search for them and a
for the person hunting them After several hours scare
Rottsman was murdered having been shot
the breast with ball; and the hersss were gone. ~
took nsce in the vicinity of the Medina SIX miles 1fo
Castroyle on or about the 2Sth of October last Il
be noticed that Williams murdered, and bis little
carried captivity by the Indians on tine Zsth OF o
ber and but a few miles from the same place. NOW,
body Of Rottsman found in the vicinity OF the roy
the Indians would naturally take on their e1pealt
down the country--one or two days intervene after
' murder and Williams was killed, it will be remembered
their return up the country, at which time they "
riding some fine horses. We may naturally conciuae y
g that Gustav Won Rottsman killed by the same
dans that murdered Williams, while they were on Tn
trip down the country-that they took his horses
U far as
they murdered williams and plundered his resideace
l. took away his son. s
The Texan states that express arrived In San An
MO on the 5th inst, bringing orders from the war
partment to have the six companies Of rangers music
into the ser vice of the United States.
Mr. W. M. Messenger, editor Of the Henderson y
died on the I'd inst, after protractea Illness.