New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1855-08-22
DAILY CREsC CENT
LATER FROM TEXAS.
.aRRTgaL or THE STEAMER cHss wo

The U. 8. mail steamship Chas Morgan ar
rived yesterday morning with full mails and =
large number Of passengers. She brought dates
from Galveston as late as the 18th u1s.
4 by our Galveston exchanges we learn that
@sy have returns from thirty-fv counties,
give Pease majority over Dicksono of two
a ays hundred votes. The Democratic
es ,- 1t Governor and Congress are
"iso @A'4u ihsx. ~ candidate for Land Com
nii7Si'iief is aaesa " over seventeen hundred
votes The Democrats save elected. az far as
heard, four in the State ss~ste and fifteen in
the House. The z. Ms have s.etsd ons in The
Senate and seven in the House.
| In regard to the health Of Galyestc,,,h. ~
| william says:
The health of Galveston continues remarkably goea
We psd visit to the hospital yetsrdsy and found no
case Of yeilow fever other dsrsss there The
nan fTotn the seamer Msztco. who de last Wseb
nos admitted among the Other PATIENTS but kept in
Kept lot persons sick contagious diseases Thers NO
u yso@ lessf N private practice IN the city, and
son bettsr The existence Of veny fgyer at
New Orleans does rot that win prevail In Calves
9a Inis city be sAsapsd ssyeral occasions VIXEN
New otieaes was suffering under epidemic
/ The same paper also says:
The Council met last evening to concert measures far
the protection the city against tbs inroducton Of vel
physician TO board the steamers convey al rsr,ons
4 sies OF contagious diseases 10 shs hoPpital gr
/ A correspondent Of the same paper, writing
\ from Canon de Uralde, says:
1 We has4 asiightaI country here. every prospect
pssases only the stsslng by tbs IBdians and il
that from this to have relief. Many Of cur
wpr ~ citizens have suffered with patience until they
have brcorne stfshed that tn reed depend upon
Government for assistance and msay would Leave
H was not Ter tsir crops, and tsking Of lesT
ug any how ln fact see chance myself for
defend ourselves hsse only sufficient guard for
oar iamiiies the czsns would follow Indians to i
man into their Camps and thefs fellow the military sac
4 ties Of Anthony Wayne
The Texas Christian Advocate, Of the 18th
| August, says: 445sg
Ths San Antonio aud Eagle Pass mail vas attacked by
Indians during the week. One Ind an vas severely
wounded by shot from Mr., GARDNER OF Galveston the
others seeing stout resistance likely to be made,
fed -
The Galveston Confederate, of the 18th inst,
| says that the Germans in New Braunfels hoisted
the German flag on election day, and that at
San Marcus the foreigners hoisted black fag
in opposition to the American flag, hoisted by
| the natives. <s =.-l-
The San Antonio Texan, of the 9th, gives the
particulars OF a daring robbery committed by
the Indians at Bandera City, Bexar county.
They completely swept the country Of mules,
horses and cattle, for twenty miles around.
The San Antonio Ledger notices an attempt
to steal g negro by > white man. He was pur-
sued, arrested and committed to the county Jail
in San Antonio; the Ledger says that negro
stealing is getting to be quite fashionable in
that section,
young man calling himself Reed, of the
firm of Reed Brothers, of New York, was ar
ota1 1.,o L
acknowledged that his name was Lombard, of
Corning, N. Z. 1t was discovered upon exami-
nation that he wore a wig, and his hair, which is
rather whitish, was cut very short. He was for
titled with any number of letters of credit,
printed circulars, etc, and it seems that he had
heen practicipg pretty extensively throughout
Texas.
The Houston Telegraph thus pitches into
somebody: $685.
s Some pitifu haehguard at Austin who has not the
sense to decent English. the nanlness ayow
his recently re,urnsd one Of which he
had beoued with bis obscene vsrDacular, Such animals
are occasionally Uttered to SHOW, By contrast the nobility
of gentlemen" -4', p.
The 1ndianola Bulletin of the 1Ith inst says:
The man OConueI, who has been confined in the jsiI
at this place the last Twelve fourteen months so
that be might stand for murder made good his
escape on Thursday night last.
The Austin State Times says that the Ameri-
can party polled more votes in Travis county,
at the late election, than had ever been recorded
in their various councils, notwithst anding that
it had been reported that hundreds had with
drawn from theorder. This shows how much re-
lance is to be placed in such reports.
CRops IN TtxAs - Cur Texas exchanges
being at this time filled almost entirely with po-
htieal matters, We find considerable difficulty in
getting information as to the state Of the crops.
From the Central Texan lGrimes county, We
take the following:
The cotton catefpllar we have been informed, has
mads its on some Of the plantstiors near
as yst but it is very much feared that in very short
they will appear in such numbers to make sad
weather such as now have the favorable for
The generation and growth OF this destructive worm
Several of planters now engaged in cotton pick
ing Some hands have picked $50 pounds per day
We shown potsto, OF this tyear's growth,
yesterday, by Mr. Lucen Nems, which raised on
the plantation OF Mr. laao Parks that measured eight
inches in length by the same in circumference.
A correspondent of the s. Nueces Valley"
sent the editor of that paper a stalk of corns
which was an average from one hundred hills,
only forty five days old, which measured four
teen feet, one anu half inches In height
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THE FRENCH CeLoNY IN NORTHERN Texas
Louis Considerant, the head of the French col
ony in Northern Texas, has addressed q PAM
phlet to the American people, setting forth their
history, principles, wishes and plans. In no.
| ticng it, the Galveston Civilian says:
We have given it but hssty perpsal from which is
appears that they do sympatbze with the commonly
known Socialists but hold property ike Other people
they Europe escape persecution and ENJOY
cur liberty that they are intelligent. moral and inas-
pendent aud it they are nob Csthocs ous Tsak
themselves politically somewhat as the PuFtIaus OF ne"
| England two hundred ard fifty yeais ago. =
They repudate aboitionsm and declare that tney op-
posed it in Louis phppes time when applied TO the
French West Indies snost declare themselves the
friends of the othrgs That h they place much
more liberal construction the Objects OF that society
than we do They say they will INTRODUCES aftiEans Ia
borers farmers chancs and much capital into Texas,
and will aid in all improvements. roads and railroads;
they will establish English schools we'll as French.
The tone the address is deeorous and it Ia well writ
ten E...
i The Central Texan, speaking Of these people,
says:
We feel quite willing to these people into the
State and become in due time entitled to ali the rights
Of citizenship We, however do uot think that the inte
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