The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-08-11

The steamship Louisiana arrived at New Orleans
on the ID inst, with dsfes ffou Galveston 70 tAs
3oh nit. There II very little interest In the paper
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henderson Railroad Company.
The President OF the Atlantic and Pacific Raul
ROAD Company, Hon. r. J. Walker, and Hon. 7.
Butler kipg, passed though Victoria On The 20th
nn., on their way to Austin, with three hundred
thousand dollars todepoeit with the State suthori
ties, In complain with the terms OF their charter.
Inc Tyler Idsgraph tsys:-" Colonel G. Mills
shot mans horse from under him With Z double
barr eled gun, some three weeks since, in Harris
county" The Telegraph has no. learned tho par
ticulaIs, but understands that he was held under
bond OF ~ 600 for his appearance before De
District Court tor al assault With intent 10 kill.
The Washington Range says:-"Mr. Ralph, who
las Just returned from Fort Graham, has shown as
specimen Of camel Gal, found near Hllsboro, in
Hill county, about fifteen miles from the BRACES RI
yer, which place Ii raid T. abound with this mineral
We applied the specimen to the blaze Of . candle
and IL burnt readily with . clear yellow fame.
Should the great Pacific Railroad run through Hill
county, as contemplated this coal region win be o.
immense value"
Under the caption OF Look Out for the Woh,n
the Tyler Telegraph gives the followipg;-"A About
twelve months SINCE, man calling himself John
Henry johnson, came u LAr,s-a, Cherokee county.
Being man Of seeming good morals and steady d.
puitmsnt, he there married young lady az very
respectable family He came TO this place In the
employ OF hessss. Alexander Il TempletOn, a. Q
carpenter. After working short time steadily, he
became dissi lated and acted very osgracefully He
left here or about the LIST of june and has never
been heard Of since.
The subjoned paragraph we find in the Victoria
advocate Of the I'D ult.:-W~ are informed that on
Nj, nday last Conrad FiIimaD, q dissipated German,
who several yes,s ago Use d 10 be hatcher in this
town, killed On vt Port Lasscca, by the name OF
WiDgate, or Shawnee Bill as he called himself. A
difficulty had occu red between them in groggery,
upon which Frilman 'oaoed ais pistols with buckshot
walked up 10 Wlngate, and discharged the contents
Of one of them into his b, ad, which kiilei him on
the spot. Frillmap Is in custody.
The GcDzsles EmGu0tv ef The ed has the fellow
ing:--We Icsrst 20 cam tba. Major r. d. Houston
was slot by MIR. M. g. Jacobs, at Cuero, DE Witt
county, on Saturday a,,. Major H. died within a
few hours after ,. cc'v,ag The shot. We have not
been able IT, get the fui laruculars Of this sad az
fair, hut learn that II originated about a
negro belonging Ia the deceased, who was
in Jacobs hire, but wnon Major Houston at
temI ted to take away from him. But what
renders the whole affair still more melancholy and
lomentable is the fact that Major II. has been for
several years past, AID LAS supposed to be ct the
time Of the o. curr.nce. in state of insanity. II
SUI b is the case, we caneot conceive Of any
extenuating CT cumstanees that could Justify &c
rash On act, save IN sef defsoce. Mr.. Jacobs, up
to the last accounts, hAn not been arrested.
The same Journal ms the subjoned notice Of the
crOI 8 in that section If the State:-Many Of cur
planters are complaining Of the scarcity of rain,
and feem to think that OF late this elsmsnt has
been rather partial IN its vsi ations. In the north
ern and western portions cft county it has rained
abuDdantly, while Ia other porto barely enough
has fallen to lay the dust. In this state OF Affairs
cotton, of course, must suffer come; ct We % not
think 1t Can BE- seriously injured. The crops gen
elslly are in Furnishing oudtion, and the pro-
pect now Is that, rain or rain, everv one VII
make az much "a he can conveniently pick out.
A correspondent of the San Antonio Ledger, wit
ing from Hsrnes county, has the following:-
For the past few weeks 1t has been rain, rain,
rain, until all the new con eIs, and not few Of the
old natives, wonder II It wD ever stop. The late
rise in the San Antonio, from the Cibolo down, was
little higher than the old weather clerks L.
putty at Helena, ever saw II. Toe rise was the
greatest from the mouth Of the Cibolo 70 the EcetC.
The Ciholo was ten feet higher than ever known -
be heretofore. Opposite Helena, the river svsY.
flowed its banks, which are forty feet sbsve lew
water mark, though from the Ecleto down Tie river
was not 10 high by three feet last FAM though
the EcletO, Hobdo, and Otser LITTLE branches, had
let themselves out, they did on the latter eoeasn
the San Antonio w7ulo havs made some OF the M
tives below Goliad think it HAD been raining some
where out west.