New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-05-25
NUMBER 70.
Later from Texas

papers. The Galveston News of the 18th inst.
says:
We are glad to announce that we are now
having rain in abundance. 1t eommenced yes
terday with shower of hail, covering the
! streets, and was followed by rain. which still
continues. We hope, and indeed there is good
reason to believe, this rain extends far up the
country After many contradictory reports
tnere IS now hardly any doubt that our
rivers are at last navigable. A telegraphic
dispatch was yesterday received, stating rise
| OF eight feet at Cincinnati
| CHASE OF THE IsDIAss.-The Galveston News
states that Immediately upon the reception of
the news of the late Indian massacre at Fort
Elwell, Sergeant McNally, of the Mounted Rifles,
was dispatched with an efficient detachment of
men in pursuit of the marauders. They soon
struck their trail, and followed it as rapidly as
possible. Indeed, go rapid and determined was
this pursuit, that Sergeant. McNally and his
command, in order to rid themselves Of every
incumbrance that they could possibly dispense
with, threw away their rifles, and leaving FIVE
Of their jaded horses behind, went ahead with
no other arms but their reyoIvers By these
means Sergeant McNally succeeded in over
taking the Indians; who, finding themselves so
hotly pursued, abandoned their booty, and even
their own horses and entire equipage, and fled,
disorderly and precipitately into the dense fast
nesses of q neighboriDg chaparrdt. All the
mules which had been captured by the Indians
from the Government train, together with all
their own horses, guns, bows and arrows, buffa-
lo-rugs, fassos, paint, and general equipage,
fell into the hands Of the intrepid McEaliy and
his determined followers
ANOTHER FIGHr WITH THE INDIAss.-The
News, of the 10th, SAYS: ..
We learn from Drs. Williams and Johns, U. s.
A., who arrived in cur city yesterday morning,
from the West, that pretty severe and obsti-
nate engagement recently took place near Lake
Trinidad, about forty five miles West of Corpus
Christi, between Lieut.. Cosby, Of the Mounted
Rifles, with ten men, and a party Of Lipan In
dians, numbering from 35 to 40 warriors
When Lieut.. Cosby came upon the Indians,
they had just killed three Mexicans, and were
in the act of mounting their horses, to leave the
ground where they had perpetrated those mur-
ders. Lieut.. Cosby gallantly charged upon
them, and a desperate and sanguinary conflict
eusued, which continued, without intermission,
for about half hour; during which Lieut.. G.
was severely wounded in the arm, and had his
clothing pierced in many places by arrows. One
arrow pierced porte moanaie in the pocket of
his pants, and, had it not been for q quantity of
gold in the porte n,onndie, which arrested the
have lost his life. Lieut.. Cosby fought with the
most admirable GOODNESS and determined cour-
age, until his ammunition was completely ex-
hausted; when he ordered his men to disperse
and form again on Lake Trinidad The Indians
| also left the ground about the same time, carry
ing off their dead and wounded
In this fight Lieut. Cosby had sergeant
and one private killed, and one missing, sup
posed to be killed Of the Indians, it is certain
hat II H,ttf ,nf
ed was not ascertained, as they were all, as be-
fore stated, borne off from the field. In this
fight Lieut., Cosby's command succeeded in
capturing ten horses from the Indians; oil of
which they had previously stolen from the
settlements on the Nueces and Lower Rio
Grande.
From the accounts we have received Of the
conduct of Lieut.. Cosby and his yalorous little
command, on this trying occasion, there can be
| no doubt that they all behaved themselves in
| such a manner as should elicit the admiration
| and thanks Of their country, and the warmest 4
| sentiments Of gratitude from their countrymen
| along the hitherto exposed and bleeding from
| tiers of Western Texas.
The Indians were instantly pursued by Lieut..
r. Jones, of the Rifles, with an efficient force.
They did not succeed in overtaking the Indians,
but pushed them so closely that they were COM
PEELED to abandon twenty horses (Which tn y
~
and make sure their escape. These horses were
driven in by Lieut.. Jones.
The Metagorda Tribune says, that plot
among some half dozen leading geniuses of the
negro population, to escape, has been discovered
and the negroes brought to THAR senses by strik-
ing arguments addressed to them in the jail.
| The Houston Telegraph says: Z
Scarcely a week elapses that we are not called
on to record a homicide perpetrated in this sec
| ton of the State A few days ago a man named
| Odum deliberately shot down an unarmed Ger
| man named Suhr, residing on Buffalo Bayou
| We have before noticed the occurrence, but
without comment. 1t seems that Suhr penned
some cows, by permission of the owner, US he
alleged, and Odum, who also claimed authority
| to put them up, turned the calves out of Suhr's
| pen. The latter went over to see 0dum about
it, and the alteration that ensued resulted in
the cold-blooded and unproyoked murder o.
| Suhr
The Telegraph, after commenting upon the
frequency of murders in Texas, and the neces
sity of stringent measures being adopted to pre-.
vent it, says:
We heard Judge Buckley. in very able anG
just charge to the grand jury of this county
| recently, say, that since he had been on thu
bench in this district, upwards of ninety per
sons had been tried for murder, not one of whom
had been punished for that crime. In all thes,
cases the parties had either been acquitted, th,
offence reduced to manslaughter, or if founC
guilty, they had escaped, or been pardoned b,
the Governor.
GREAT DRAuGHr ON THE Rio GRANnE. ~
correspondent of the Galveston News, writing
from Rio Grande City, under date of the 30tl
ult,, says:
| This country is about to burn up from exces
siye draught; it has not rained O real goot
| shower here in nearly twelve months, and tn
river is SO low that the steamer Camanehe doe
not think of trying to ascend above Reynost
Nuevy. The crops are entirely destroyed in thi
vicinity, and the mnces is only to be fount
green in spots, and very few spots at that.
| MURDER IN MISSISSIPPI Holly Spring
| (Aliss.) Banner, says O dreadful murder Was
committed at Aberdeen, Miss, on the 18th;
| Colonel III. ]. Bunch and q Mr.. Fannin, VIII
was a sportsman, but still regarded as cleye
man amongst gentlemen, had been engaged a
cards. Fannin had won every thing Buncl
| had, his money, his horse and buggy, and hi
negro boy Bunch asked some time to rails
money to redeem his lost property, and at tn
expiration of the time Fannin called for settle
| ment, when Bunch told him he would pay hi1
| all he owed him at four o'clock the next day |
| the meantime Bunch borrowed q shot gun, say
| ing he was going birding. The next day Fanni
was on his way to Bunch's office, when some
1 fE,n II II.