New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-03-07
NUMBER 2.
Later from Teas.

less, arrived from Galveston yesterday morn. |
ing. The following is a nss Of her passengers |
Miss Glasseoek Mrs Dalton, Mis- DaIton Mrs Iaaes
MrsIeyy, j. H. Mitchell ana lady Miss Tempsins Mis-
servant Miss Oidtana Mrs Kern. Mrs Church Mrs
stith and servant Mr. Gfnaat Rh0ades and ady. En-
.ssen and ssy Dr. gass,s n an4 .sss W. griga csgs
op deck; 9 negroes, $.st g&5Esgss ~ sfsss,- RI
By this arrival we have full Ales Of oar Texas
exchanges. There ia, however, in them Little
news Of Importance.
The Bastrop Advertiser says Mr.. 'Shackle.
ford is now engaged in purchasing drove Of
cattleto. take across the country to California
de purposes starting about the first of May
next. Another drove, Of near FIVE hundred
head, viii start from Lockhart about the first
Of April 7s%y q Z ~ +sE ~ -.
Our town, says the Indianola Bulletin, within
the last two years, has more than doubled her
I commercial Importance, having built about one
hundred and seventy houses In that time; large
and spaeious wharis;4 docks to accommodate the
largest vessels coming to the bay, and many
other facilities for trade and the acc5mmoda-
ton of emigrsnts, travellers and planters
Though meeting with severe adversities, her
course has been upward and onward, and at no
time during her existence have 50 many bright
prospects clustered around her future, promis
ing an early and triumphant fruition.
! Experiments in sugar growing have been
| made in Harrison countys Col. Fitzpatrick,
| from two acres of cane, made six barrels OF
sugar and three or four hundred gallons of fine
syrup.
1 The Galveston News Of the Sd says:
| Business incur place has been dull From
the appearance of weather here the announce
| Inent that rivers had opened for navigation was
confidently looked for, and preparations are
| made and making to meet the orders for goods
\ on hand and expected from the country; the
letters, however, received Uia Houston yester-
day are discouraging every way, neither the
\ Brazos nor Trinity had risen sufficiently to
| allow steamers to move, and some more patience
is enforced, Hopes, that navigation will come
soon, are not yet abandoned. The weather at
this point seems to indicate that the dry season
| is at an end.
| The Sabine, Angelina and Neches rivers are
4 reported rising.
\ The Matagorda Tribune states that Matagarda
Il county continues to improve rapidly, in wealth
4 and population Within the past fewdays seve-
1 raj planters from Virginia, North Carolina and
elsewhere, have arrived with heavy forces Of ne
tgroes, for the purpose of settling the rich 1and
4 en- Caney and its vicinity. -s ~ 'sssNs"
+ A few days since, j. Davidson and jos. sHar
ris, while hunting near Rouni Point, Harri
county, found the remains of a human skeleton
apparently of tall man, skull very large
teeth bad, but three in the under jaw, and fonl
or five in'the upper; had-on a gray roundabou
jacket, oottonade pants and unbieached drawers
no shoes nor hat to be seen, had with him q fn
! black coat, not much worn, and two or thre
pairs of old pants, little roasted coffee In rag
two nuts for screw bolts, one large and the othe
small. carefully wrappoed in cloth, an almana
for 1858, some magnolia seed, and case kuif
"A without a handle From the skeleton bein,
very imperfect, aagood deal eaten up. etc., it j
believed to have been there six or eight months
#! LATER FaoH sAsFA, FE.-The St. Louis Re
publican has the, following dispatch, dated In
dependence, Mo-. Feb. 23.:
; The Santa Fe mail arrived to-day, 'bavip
encountered severe weather on the outWar
} bound trip, with the loss of two or: three ami
mails and the mail wagon. The dates are'to III
LIST of February e7l aa.4 i 81, -.
The papers are barren of intelligence of a
interesting character. The usual number
Indian depredations and murders are ehronicled
Gen. armijo died recently at his residence O.
| the Rio Ahajo. 80 ~ -}sy
Bishop Lamy, of the Catholic Church, with
o small party Of an escort, Is on his way to Il
II States, and may be expected in alfew days. :
n Business in the, Territoryof New Mexico W,
Is at stand still. -
It No boats have yet arrived at this point, II
river is rising and IN fair navigable conditiol
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The NAVAJos,--Capt Dodge, the Agent
:. = the United States among this tribe of Indian
Il estimates their number at about eight thousant
:, of whom near tive thousand are warrior
q They are good deal inclined to agricultur
, and last year raised sixty bushels of corn, fiy
: hundred bushels of wheat, five hundred /,
= ! beans, besides q large quantity of pumpkins
: : melons, peaches, wild potatoes, etc. They manu-
: facture large quantities Of blankets, stockings
! ! etc.; all their wearins apparel, and mike the
: : own weapons, such as bows, arrows, etc. The
Z are all brought up to work, and men, wome
= and children are constantly employed The
I own two hundred aud fifty thousand shee
= = twenty thousand horses and one hundred al
y fifty head of horned cattle.
J, One hundred men in the tribe own aas man
:. as fifteen thousand horses, and one htandre
! thousand head of sheep. Some of the Indiar
y have forty or fifty persons to attend their herd
= They treat their women with great respect, al
y the modern doctrine Of Z" Woman's Rights
: !. seems to be fully carried out in practice anon
! ! the tribe The women own all the sheep, an
' the men dare not sell them without their pei
; mission-nor do they. ever make an importa1
:, trade without consulting their squaws. The
= y admit women to their councils. !. They rarel
y 4 kill, but consider theft a great virtue. I'll
- Agency is one hundred and eighty miles fro
y Santa Fe, in the heartof the Indian eountr.
y, [Santa Fe Gazette 'ss-, ~
CENTRAL LAMERICA.-Accounts have been II
u eeiyed from Guatemalato the 31st January. y
appears that Gen Earrera, the President, hi
resigned the Presidency, hut, that Congress hs
V declined to accept his resignation. The caul
of this resignation is some conflict between Il
n Executive and Judicialpow president Ca
= rera, it seems, had sent message to Cengre
= 4 demanding the dismissal of the Chief Justice
2 This resignation of Chief who has been for
y many years distinguished, has caused the liv
y lest SENSATION throughout all Central Americ
!, As Garrera has hitherto had his own way
"a Guatemala, in all probability he will centin,
!. to have it in future. =sF.,-;=s w. ~
ri SEAMEN AND THEIR WAGEs.-The New Yo
Is Shipping List says: 'sSeamen have again y
&c come scarce, and greater inducements are offer
to obtain crews. The rates to Liverpool are s.
= a month, with $40 in advance; to London, So
ii with $3.50 to $35 in advance; Havre, $2D. wi
n $25 advance; North of Europe, $1s, with S
q, advance; Mediterranean, SIG, with $lS to s.
l. advance; East Indies, $l4, two months advanc
of California and Australia, $l2, two months a
ID vance; South America, $16, one months q
pc vance; West Indies, SIS, one months adEsnc
to and ooasting, S1s to 500 per month.
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The Cincinnati Commercial learns that Il
ld young Kentuekian who, un the steamer Dire
b. den, in November last, attempted to protect
III poor woman from the insults and impositions
"a 4 ranp of IrishInen and was aWfully beate