New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1855-11-21

LOUISVILLE, Nov. 10. - The Ohio is falling
with nine feet and one inch in the canal. The
Niagara departed to-day for New Orleans.
Later from Texas.
The steamship Perseverance, Capt Shepherd,
arrived last night from Galveston, bringing pa
pers to Saturday last. We find no news Of in
tersst. The Civilian says. .@5a1 Fl
We regret to learn, as we do by q letter from
Crockett, that the cotton crop of Houston county
has fallen much short Of an average, in conse-
quence Of the rayages Of the worm Corn is
selling in that county at 81 per bushel
The Matagorda Chronicle states that the pick
ing season is over in that county, and remarks
in regard to the crop:
The weather during the past week has been
fine, clear and cool-all that could be- desired
for picking out the remnant of the cotton crop;
two or three weeks will close the harvest, al
though we have not had q frost sufficient to
blacken vegetation. The cotton crop of this
country, when ginned, baled and numbered,
will not exceed half the usual amount--about
four bales to the hand.
The Victoria Advocate says the Guadalupe
river will soon be in condition to receive the
long wished for boon Of steam navigation, and
that the pulling out of snags, aud removing
distractions have been done in most thorough
manner, so that boat can now come up to the
town landing in the darkest night without
feeling her way. The editor descants on the
great advantage which must accrue to western
Texas, from the navigation of this new chan
mel of conveyance notwithstanding the twelve
feet water on Matagorda bar
The Jefferson Herald speaks Of q severe storm,
which visited that neighborhood on the I'd inst.
1t says large trees were uprooted, houses blown
down, and fences swept away. The cotton also
suffered severely from the beating wind and rain.
The authorities of Cuba more than year ago
required duties to be paid by citizens Of the
United States on certain descriptions Of build
ing materials and provisions, which, before that
period, had been admitted to the Island either
free, or on the payment Of mere nominal tax
The losses, in consequence, were considerable,
and since that time the subject has been brought
to the attention Of the Spanish Government by
the direction Of the Secretary Of State, through
our Minister at the Court of Madrid The re-
suit is said to be that the Spanish Government
has signifed to this disposition to refund these
duties, improperly demanded by the Captain
General setting apart twelve months during
which the claimants are to present their several
claims to the Spanish authorities, on the adju-
dication or verifoation Of which these duties
will be refunded.
The boundary between Utah and California
has been at length adjusted, and most of the
Carson Valley settlements are found to be in
the former division of the Union A letter from
Judge Orson Hyde, at the new Mormon town of
Genoa, in that valley, says that only very
small portion Of the upper end Of the valley or
lower part of the great canon, is found to be
on the California side of the line. Judge Hyde
has organized the county Of Carson, in Utah
Territory, embracing almost the entire valley
with the adjacent Territory. On the Goth of
September the various county officers we're
elected. These settlements were not Mormon,
but the politic authorities at the Salt Lake
have established new town, called Genoa, OBJ
yiously with a yieY to throwing enough Nor
mons into it to control the county.
A dispatch Of the 18th inst, from Rome, N.
Y, says:
~ On the road towards Utica the steam saw mill
situated on the hill Of that place, blew up about
nine o'clock in the morning, killing two persons
instantly One of the killed was Henry s.
Roberts, son of Judge Roberts, of this village.
The other one killed was the fireman, whose
name we have not been able to ascertain.
HANDSOME CoMPL1aENT.--Mr. Henry F. Mid
dleton, the able editor Of the Shelby (Ky.)
News, has been presented by his American CO.
laborers with handsome service of silver, as
q token Of regard for his Jealous services in the
American cause.
On the evening of the 18th, q freight and
cattle train on the Central Railroad, when
about four miles from Rochester, N. r., was
thrown from the track while crossing high
bridge by the train separating and running
together on heavy grade. One person was
killed and great number Of cattle Twenty
cars were thrown off the track.
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