New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1855-11-05
Later from Texas.

b. The steamship Chas. Morgan, Capt. Place
arrived ON Saturday last from Indianela vii
Galveston. The Galveston News Of the LIST hal
the following paragraphs: sstyf. = ~
Nearly all iour Exchanges from. the interior
speak Of sharp frosts. being experienced in yari
GUS parts Of the country.,; The weather in Gal,
weston, for Several days past, has been unusu-
ally mild.for this season of the year
We learn from letter, received from Web
berville, that Mr., A. r. Gates, of Lagrange, has
;just returned from q tour through the. country,
where he has been canvassing for subscription
to stock f6rsthe proposed extension of the Har-
risburg road, and that he hassueceeded far be-
yond bis most sangaine ex peetations. From the
exertions lately made by the counties west oi
the sBrazos, we have little doubt, before another
year, this road will be extended to the Colorado
river. 4 7 ~ SH'!1s ttd AZ ~ ~ - 80
"A letter of the 31st ult., from Houston to the
News, says: k..
The prospect, II learn, ,sof the sugar planters in
the adjoining county is more fatteriDg.ei
The cotton crop is being rapidly gathered and
brought TO market. Our farming community
seem in high spirits Immigrants are coming
in by the land routes. So Co..
The Austin State Times publishes the Next
can account, byCol Lapgberg, of the hattie be-
tween Capt sCallahan's forces and the Mexicans
and Indians, This account places the number
Of the Rangers at 800, and the Mexican force at
$50, and states that the former were beaten,
with a. loss of ten killed and thirteen wounded,
and that they. lost thirty horses ind all their
weapons, etc. This statement is, of course, abs
surdly untrue. The Colonel admits, however,
that the Mexican leader IS retreated TO San Fer
nando to procure powder" The Times says. =
Without intending it, Col Langberg goes far
l.pt,s xf
made by Capt. Callahan against the Mexican
authorities. They knew as well before beerossed,
his object was to operate against the Lipans and
Seminole Indians, as people can be made to
know anything. Col Langberg himself under
stood the thing perfectly WE'LL The Alcalde at
1 Piedras Negras, gave Capt, Callahan written
permission to cross the Rio Grande, which hei
said to have exhibited tothe commander at Fort
Duncan, The Mexicans professed to be anxious
[ to co operate with the Texans in the campaign,
aided them in crossing, and did all they could
to. deceive and, betray them Col. Langberg
acknowledges his having prepared 8, s,secretly
to meet them why did he order Col Man
chaoa to fall back from tho river ?s Would II
mot have been more manly todeny them permis.
sion TO cross--tell them they could not pursue
Indians into their territory, than to act as they
dida Why did Col Langberg wish to decoy
them into the country, by removing all show o
troops, by directing the authorities to suffsl
them to pass over unmolestedy?', Simply becaus,
he was q party to. the ,deception-the per6dy-
and wished to seduce them away from the riyel
to destroy them.
The San Antonio Texan, Of the. 18th, has tht
following: 5 .'..
| Our correspondent at Eagle Pass, in pr
| yate dispatch, remarks thatGe Langberg ha
| asked the merchants this side of the Rio Grand
! to raise, q subscription to pay for the damage
done by the burning of the city Of Piedras Ne
| eras,, and remarks, ".thaf this very town
| built mostly and supported byplunder receive
| from the east side of the Rio Grande't >
The head quarters Of the army have bee
established in our city for the Hast few week.
and numbers of the United. States baggag
wagons may be seen daily arriving and depaTi
ing.
. Msjor Neighbors. writing to Gov -Pease, say
there is Q prospect of some trouble with tf
/ Northern Camanches, and seems to anticipat
| an attack on the frontier settlers, who aaI
wholly unprotected.
Gen. Smith has communicated to Coy. Peas
| an official order from the head quarters of til
army, announcing that the I'd regiment8of CAY
1 airy, at Jefferson Barracks, will proceed b
marches across the country to Fort Belknap,
be there disposed Of by the Commanding Gen'
raj Of the Department Of Texas. -. -