The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1854-10-19
FROM TExAs.

BY N arrival at New OrleAnA We have Calves
toa advises 10 the 9Th iase We regret 10 perceive
that the yellow fever VAS stii prevailing in tina,
city. oathe m, there were 16 now cases. ln
Houstoa, the dissass had abssed considerably.
Col T. ]. Allen. one Of the propriesors Of the Gal
vsseou Jouraal. died on the 9TH Of yellow fever
Wecopy the following Items from the New W
leans Picayune
Intelligence hes been received from Fort Clarke,
Of neht on the 9Th Of September some eighl miles
from the Fort, between . body OF Camencnee ana
Lipaus. The Lipans were victorious, ana TOOK
horses a. booty, most Of them American horses,
eunooeod 10 have been stolen from the lower
n i reported In Western Texas that several hun
drcd dsssrters from the Mexican army have cross
ed the Rio Grandc, and are now scattering them.
selves throughout different sections of the frontier
Of Texas.
The pecan crop on the Brazos river IL represent.
cd to be very abundant this season
The Brazos Planter has later accounts from Mat
agorda than we received. The Planter says:
All the houses Ia the town, with the exception of
twelve, have been blown down. An the stores are
down, and the goods have been greatly damaged.
There were five persons killed by the falling OF the
houses--two Americans and three Germans, but
We have been unable 10 learn their names. DR..
Perrys wife had her arm broken. The house OF
Col Lewis, on the Peninsula, opposite Maiagorda.
was also blown down. large livery stable Ia
Matagorda was blown down and all the horses
killed. From Caney, we learn that the purgaries
belonging to the sugar houses of Col. Jones ana
Mr.. Gibson, and the walls of Col. Warreu's sugar
house, were blown down Col. Hawkinss dwell.
ing house vas blown down, and the thigh OF one OF
his negroes broken. A new schooner which ne had
just brought out to take his crop was wrecked
RESCUE OF FIVE HUNDRED AND TWENTY SHIP.
WICKED CHINESE BY U. 8. BRrc.-The China
Mall of July 2od announces the arrival at Hong
Kong, from Pratss Shoal. of the U. S. brig of war
Porpoise, Lieut.. Rolando, commanding, with $40
shpwrecked Chinese, rescued from starvation on
the shoal. The poor creatures had subsisted for
some time on succulent roots which were found on
the Island. Four of their number had died. Yet
during part of the time junk. dispatched for their
relief, busy saving property, while lives were
perishing around them. The Porpoise was dis
patched to their reliefby order of Commander Ring
gold, at the request of the American Consul The
China Mail says
The future history OF the United States Survey
Ing Squadron In these Eastern will contain 10
brighter page than that which records the account
of this errand ION humane deed intent'-it should
be printed in letters OF gold, and margined with
the word ''Glory!"
exertions In q tone of much afectionate pride. 1t
appears that for two nights and the best of two
days, he devoted his whole soul, taking neither
TODD nor rest, to the important business on which
he was engaged, and in which he has 80 ably sue
ceeded. We do not know how the American gov
ernment requite msritorious service of this kind,
but we presume neither he nor any one engaged in
the trip will be overlooked. So crowded were the
decks that for the sick men of the crew, beds had
10 be made In vessels tops.