New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1855-07-04
Later rom Texas,

| By the arrival yesterday Of the steamship
Louisiana, Capt Talbot, we have dates from
Galveston to the 3Oth ult. The Galveston News
| of the 18th Says:
All our accounts from the interior, in rela-
! ton to the crops, continue to be every way en-
eouraging. Seasonable and abundant rains
have fallen everywhere, and, though it was pre-
yiously the general opinion that,a failure would
extend to nearly ell parts of the State vet now
this gloomy apprehension is quite dssipated,
and the crops of corn, cotton and sugar cane.
promise to be fully an average. The danger
now apprehended is from too much rain for cot
ton in the Fall. 4,s55
The same paper Of the 80th gives the follow
| ing account of the execution of the murderer
Hhultz.
| Pursuant to thesentence Of the District Court,
this eaiious man of crime was executed yester-
day. At IL o'clock, A., NJ, he was led out of
the Jail, and placed in the usual manner upon
his coffin, when the procession, consisting of
| about thousand persons, moved toward the
| place OF execution. On the way out, Shultz
made several demonstrations of determination
to escape, and was only quieted upon being as
sured that il he persisted in these attempts, he
would subject himself to the more summary ex
eeution OF powder and ball He persisted that
his name was not John Shultz, and appears to
have been laboring under the hallucination til at
discrepancy in the name, under which he re-
celVed sentence, would finally be means of his
rescue. After the reading of the warrant by
Sheriff Grove, he mounted the scaffold with a
firm step, refusing all counsel or comfort from
the clergy who were in attendance. While upon
The scaiio!d, his daguerreotype was secured,
after which the eowl was drawn and the mansof
many murders was launched into eternity.
: Heavy rains have recently fallen in the neigh
borhood of Corpus Christi, raising all the rivers
and small streams in the surrounding country
A band of about 100 Indians recently made
an incursion into the country lying between
Nueces valley and Laredo. After killing Mex
lean they were pursued by two companies of
rifles, but they succeeded in escaping 1t was
supposed they were Lipans from the other side
of the Rio Grande.
The San Antonio Texan of the 2Sth saws.
Tn tuesday evening last an express came into |
onr city bringing the news that a party of Indi-
ans had, the night previous, taken away some
hfteen horses belonging to II. Braden, and some
I'VE or SIX from D. ID. Edwards, Esq, both gen
tiemen OF our city and we believe that two
belonging to the latter gentleman were killed |
Several arrows were found and brought to our
CITY; they were Comanehe arrows, but this is
no assurance of what tribe they belong To
This took place near the Medina, some twelve or
hfteen miles from San Antonio, and in the
vicinity OF where several horses were stolen BY
them last week, concerning which q fight came
oil with those pursued, as mentioned in the
Texan OF last week. A party of some ten youpr
men, armed and equipped as necessity Directs,
left our city Tuesday night in pursuit, but they
viii hardly effect anything, as the Indians have
good start. We shall not be surprised at any
at hearing of whole families murdered.
or women and children carried into captivity.
We learn from the same paper that a few DAYS
previous an ARRAY occurred near that city be-
tween two men named Lakey and Boron, in
which the former was wounded and tho latter
killed.
The Galveston journal of the Goth saws:
NE learn from gentleman who has lust ar
rived from brownsville, that the Rio Grande
river is higher than it has been for years. in
many places overlooking its banks. II has
Ialnsu lnsessantly, in that section. since the
,ourth OF june Our informant learned NOTHING
iasr shah what5we have already published in
regard TO the movements Of the t;l;hustars
Inelr forces number over two tbousand mo-,
and are daily increasing >-'N'aiu ilen,
me Natchez Courier says that it has beSor,.
almost an admitted fact, that a white man oaa
not be convicted of murder in the State Of Mis-.
sissippi, provided he has plenty of money, Va
recommend that their criminals be sent to New
Orleans, - S. ~ --''',. ~"