New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1855-07-30
Later from Texas.

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BY the arrival, yesterday morning, of the
steamship Nautilus, Capt. Lawless, we have dates
from Galveston to the 26th,, and files of papers
from interior Texas.
Heavy rains have fallen recently ebout Gal
weston, and the News expresses the fear that
they have extended into the interior and dam
aged the crops.
The Columbia Democrat says:
During the past week we have had more rain
| than during the previous weeks. Some appre-
tensions are felt lest the rains may be injurious
to the cotton crop. II, however, they should be
less abundant from this out, but little apprehen-
sions need be felt. Many of our planters are
beginning to pick out, and others will set in next
week.
From nearly all sections of the State we have
| adviees of good crops. Considering the back
wardness Of the Spring and little rain that has
| fallen, there probably never was BETTER year
| for farmers In our own county, the yield is,
| as we have before remarked, larger than it ever
has been. The corn on the East side Of the river
looks remarkably well, the rains which fell
| some two or three weeks ago having proved
| very serviceable, whilst that on the west side
4 is not SO good, but a fair yield will be made.
4 dallas Herald. &
i The prospects continue to improve, and plant
ers inform us that although the picking season
Is several weeks later than usual, the prospect
4 was never better for g full crop. In great
many fields from FIVE to twelve holls have opened
on q stalk throughout the field. Houston Tel
egraph.
| We are informed by gentleman, who has
just returned from a. visit to the upper Trinity
country, that the corn crops on the west side Of
the river are rather inferior, but on the east
side they are very good The wheat crop ia q
tair one, and is now being rapidly ground into
flour, which is selling at the mill for SIX dollars
i per hundred pounds.-[ BRENNAN Inquirer.
The Palestine Advocate says difficulty oc-
CURED on the 7th inst at Halls Bluff, on the
Trinity river. between German named John
Knorp and r. B. Wallace both living at or near
the Bluff. The difficulty originated about some
pigs belonging to Knorp getting into the field OF
Wallace. They met at the Bluff, and after few
words being exchanged between them, they
walked off together out Of sight of any one, and
when search was made for them, the body OF
Knorp was found, with the skull and breast
bone broken in, as if with q large bludgeon.
Wallace could nowhere be found Knorp was
somew hat intoxicated at the time of the fatal
occurrence e7
On Tuesday, l7th inst, G. A. Longtoft was
killed in Tarkington's prairie, in the upper end
of this county, by John W. Hall. Mr. Longtoft
: received several cuts with knife and died al.
most instantly. Hall was arrested and brought
to this place, and on Saturday examined befors
Jastice Cannon, who committed him for trial a
the next term of the District Court, the case moi
being deemed a bailable one. As the affair viii
e have to undergo judicial investigation we for.
. bear comment Liberty Gazette.
The Austin State Times gives long account
of the Indian depredations on the frontier. Il
says Maj. Neighbors entertains the opinion that
. the Inlians on the Reservation could be made
available in detecting and capturing the ma
rauding bands which attack the frontier settlers.
There are now 249 Comanches on the Reser-
vation. They are never left without men to look
, after them, and they are under regulations
! which allow them little opportunity to steal.
The Times says:
Maj. Neighbors will offer every facility to
, aid in Furnishing party of Indians who have
made forays upon the settlements He will
furnish guides and information. 1t ia shrewdly
suspected there are others besides Indians en-
gagged in the late murders and thefts.
e Thereaare number of German traders among
the Comanches, from whom stolen horses hay,
been taken. They supply the Indians witt
powder and lead, and cause a great deal o
! trouble.
: On what is called the Lower Reservation thers
are about six hundred Indians. They have neal
four hundred acres of corn in cultivation, ane
: tHe pTOsPeCt VI udhlHS GhSlr oWA pfedu &c iaii
With these people the feeding policy" work.
we'll.
Z The Indian Agents, says the Times, regret tn
late order directing the mounted troops t
3 leave the Texas frontier. 1t is equivalent t
stripping the border settlements of any protec
tion whatever. The Infantry cannot operat
: against Texas Indians. Their ability to kee
S possession of the posts would even be tested
- The mounted force on the frontier has alway
- been too small. The paper army Of Texas ha
!, been formidable. When active operations hav
s' been commenced, the companies on duty has
r dwindled down to insignifcance upon inspection
: When called for, instead of companies, squad
is is have been brought into the field. From 75O
"a 1000 men can protect the whole line, from Re
d River to the Rio Grande. ~as
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