Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1855-02-18
{ From the As's 0rlsars PiesywEescf Saturday,
= LATER FROM ,rFxAS

ARRIVAL OF THE STEAMSHIP LOUISIANA. -
, Inc steam ship Louisiana Capt. Talbot, arrived
this morning from IndianoIa aud Galveston
- 10y TINS arrival We have Galveston papers up 70
Thursday morning, the Sth instant, and a humber
Oh cur other Texas exchanges. E-s&tiss s.s-
The steam ship Mexico, from this port, arrived
| at Galveston on Tuesday morning last
The new Steamboat Fort Henfy, intended to
run in the Galveston and BRACES trade. via the Ca
nal arrived at Galveston on Monday last from this
| port
A late number Of itse Nascss F51gg. stated that
government train had left Corpus Christi for the
/ purpose Of removing the military depot from In
dianoia TO that place. The Galveston Ggi7icp
learns from the very best authority that this was
mistake, and that there is no intention of nlakiug
such removal ~, 45frr1 r8,Et It,
The Gonzales fa2,1irer, of the 81 instant, has the
following. - r
Our farmers have eoinnenced preparing for
another crop in real earnest Many have finished
breaking up Their lands and we hear Of some who
nave already planted corn, whist others are wait
ing Tor arain, which is very much needed ct pres
ent, to enable them to follow suit. One Of our
iIrmers on Peach Creek, in this county, we learn,
already has corn up about three inches. This Is
what we call ''early in the fsld."
It's stated that there are at The present time
some seventy FIVE or eighty hands at work
upon the Galveston Houston and Anderson road
The San Antonio Texan has a report that some
Indians not far from Fredericksburg, were discover
ed endeavorng to clear out with caballard Of
horses, were pursued, and two OF them killed.
The same paper has letter from eorrespon-
dent at Eagle Pass, dated Jan. 25, giving the fol-
loving account of the killing OF a young man named
Buyer, who was herding cattle about three miles
from Eagle Pass by party OF Indians and Mexi-
cans from the Mexican side The writer says: =.
From the circumstances connected with this out
= II ! IL 4.
ike a hero, and sold his lie dearly The body was
found one half hour after the occurrence and there
We're twenty-nine arrow cuts through his coat and
eleven wounds in the head He had killed one
Indian named Lewis, the Lipan who acted as guide
for the Mounted Rifles at the time when Captain
Van Buren, was killed, and on the trail we found
much blood in different places showing that three
or four went off badly wounded. They were pur-
suep by Company K of the Mounted Rifles; but
they crossed back &c Mexico where Of course they
were safe.
The Austin State Gazette of the Sd inst. has the
following Indian news:
We learn from NJ Lyman Alexander, who has |
Just returned from Frederick burg that on the 25th
of last month the Indians stole several horses from
Fort Mason two Of which belonged to the Rangers
About the first of this week, German living eight
or ten miles from Fredericksburg, heard his mules
making unusual noise. He and his son started
WIN their guns, and crossing the spur oil a noun
tain, got ahead of the mules. The boy gun acct
dentally fired when several Indians ran up the op-
posite mountain, leaving the Germans mules, with
two of their own and pony, all OF which the Ger
mans captured. About the same time two other |
Germans, hunting on Live Oak Creek about twelve
miles west fredericksburg, came on two Indians
who ran the Germans chased them about two miles
when the Indians left their horses and took to a
thicket. The puFsuers set FIRE TO the thicket and
shot forward into it. They say the Indians were
killed and burned up. They took the Indians
horses. On the ooh nit. NJ. John Doss, in the
same neighborhood, found several horses in the
cove of a mountain, hoppled; believing them to be
Indian horses, he took and carried them home.