New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1855-09-12

DAILY CRESCENT
LAIER PROM TExAa

ea 70 Incline to tbs impression that Eyans wifi De
The Legislature will be Isrpey Democratic The Pns
e bro BI s behtnd aud IL is said tbst in
Vi vote against 1t. $50 = - =,
+ The latest news from many parts Of the State
inform as that the cotton crop is greatly suler-
= ing in consequence Of the wet weather. The
= seed is sprouting in the ripe bolls ard the
Il young bolIs are dropping off. The Titus county
al Laupighter states tbnt Western Texas has
/. oeen flooded by continued storms of. late, and
a a we learn that in many places the cotson crop
J, has been injured. -s
h The Oldest inhabatant, sayg the bagrspra
tfa5ette county Pepper, has scarcely any reeef-
p LECTION of SO wet a spell of weather az "a have
d had during the past ten days. Very serious
damage has already been done IA tho cot,a,
crop; and, should it continue, we asnrehepd
mat the crop will be very materially shortened.
The Palestine Advocate gsys. f. 4 54 q i
| Several hard rains have f.lien during the -, -,
which has no doubt. seriously Injured the cofson yh
as f-aay of ptcking II WIT be- the masking Of potates
fond. f'sS"sA
Ln aararro county the weather Las been very
The Gonzales Inquirer of the 25tb nlt sovs.s4
heavy rain fell In this place on night
ye.eraas Potatoes snd ducks may need it, hst eoftss
and cotton planters do - SO ~ ~ t
A' sa@e paper mas the following in Yegard
10 the crop prospects in jackson and Iayaas
counties: n 4ss47-s
Mr Dennet who came through Jaek.op ana go.
few dasssineesnforns worms bay ra K 80
appearance in the cotton crops of sri
not done much damage. Ca Peach Crerk In our .a,,,
We also learn that they have been seen in two or Sn
artns but they soon commenced webbing without dong
any material dsmage II thought fhry viii resastp ~
Two or three weeks but their depredati6us esan'f
suffer -4' 'ase paintings shsf sisi
/ Ga1 l,a
| graphs
Ihe Trinity river is now in good nasigabie order y
steamer Jack Hays srrived yesterday with 40o bales
We learn that -srr Thomas /, Kim, ~ wv
Mr oFse an experienced diver has gone to I,rszo IL
tsge 10 mass an tasrt to recover the esr- st
W tis wreck Oh Tbs steamship Yacht whis onTnyYss
rohe time ago They are provided with suis
NOR and ether aPpances the enter6rise s7'
The San Antonio Sentinel SAYS vrry
eece1fea ths week before last fsndange ol,sa ,st
o' ,s san fsafo n which Mexican ahot and aya 81.
AuieIcahs seriously cut With knives. -
The Indians have been committing fresh Ia
predictions near San Antonio and On, the ,,,,,,,,. !
Nueces- The San Antonio Herald STATES that
several horses had been stolen in the ,n,nss.,iat
vicinity of the city ard Others wounded Nv AZ
rows. inc Herald also gives the following par.
ticulars . .s5.,,
stoen from MT Bennetts raheao ssysrai om osbsy
ansaes, SPOUT I've miles from the city. Early pext
morning couple OF gentlemen who were csn,niss s
discovered five Iniisns iesdnes sbd dryihS sst
nolss SOM 81 which they recognized B4pa4tt,s
Whefrthe Indians saw them they moved ou h. MIA s
ehepparet Ths gentlemen obtaining aid rrtnaat ''
tfcosFed al o. Mr Bennett'd horses but three The M
dams no doubt becoming alarmed AZ being. iisc,Y
et an ne snmas they could ntty {. M ma
may she M IN hurry They are supposed have takea
with them some twenty head OF burses They w.ra ii
lowed four or five miles the pursuit was pivar
useless the Indians being we moYptat ~ NJ up eH
good start. ~ Ns' ' e"'iAs
Horses were also stolen from Mr. Twohia,s n,scs IN tt
a hn%ra9 M rS4 s s6ont thirty miles bos the city
appears as il the Indians not fear 70 come IN ,h
success. gEH 80 ~ hi1'tVes s y
a letter in the Nueces Valley Advertiser Of
the lst inst, from Fort Mcintosh, says.
On the Goth inst MEXICAN was seupaaa hu 1na,x
pear santa Bar6Fe about hfteen miles here u ths
right Of the Eagle Pass road. He made his
within six miles OF here, where was found sba cS
nto Laredo He died the following day from shs ffset
of the wound which he received.
On the 2lst inst, two Mesirans were attacked bv
Indian, on the river eight miles above here The New
cans were unerned The Indian killed one of tber, tba
other taking alg bail y The Indian gave ebs
aoie crying out to "a van at the
hi you Bu. gs the frmsr g your f6 %9
he was dsaneng the!atter ohe had no idea of sntfsn
derips himself or his old clothes :
ALL the troops that could be spared from The
fort were securing the country, hut they we're
too weak in numbers 30 afford efficient prot4G =
ton to the inhabitants. s.aIs@
The seguin Mercury, of the 1stinst., has the
report reached town gesterdsy That Che Thdians sup-
posed to be seven hundred in number had captured the
little of the Rev MIR Melee, the Oiboo Hs ras
going from the residence of his father, two miles
beo" the crossing Of the old San Antonio stgGn
road down the C,bolo 10 Mr. Rctorsssfes mites fbis
side of Sutheriandls Springs he was taken A com,
pany under Captain mooollooa, armed ts selves and
started for the Giboe yesterday evening We bone hsy
may overtake the enemy r. s
We have since learned that the Indians Killed the hoy
The old man Rector narrowly escaped the IL
eayig bis horse and taking bushes The Indi.ns
took his horse
We take the following from the San Antonio
Texan, of the S0th ult: 9s '5aa
We have Just received information from eeptlsmsp
Of our aequantanee from Fredericksburg that boy.
some twelve or fifteen years of ags eOuory
some twelve mics from town. when several Indians sud-
denly cams upon him. but he happened o be we'll
mounted and having the advantage Of position. forftl.
hand Had they taken him tnefe lirtis doubt bnt hs
would have lost his lifei bat what they
his horse and as they took neigh.
boz hood around, probably they away sAti-i-a
1tis well known fact, that many Lipan Iu1iaus
are eneamped on tn. Mexican side OF the Rio tande
some six or eg gh miles Of LAREDO and they
Rio Grande aud come within fifteen mites nano
commit depredaions and it they get hours thes start
they eandefy pursuit and by the occasionally
FROM THE BRITISH WISE INDIEs.--By the arr
rival at New York of the, schooner Earl Dun
donald from Demerara,a file of the Royal Ca
zette of that place, states that the yellow
fever had broken out with great yiruence at the
Island of Barbados, and at the Dutch colony OF S
Surinam. Capt. Williams states that just be-
fore he left Georgetown, Demerara, on the llth
inst, information was received from Barhsdoes
that the deaths there from this dreadful dis.
ease had reached the number of thirty a day.
The efollowingparagraphs arefrom the Barba,
does West Indian ofSJuly 9th
WeEegret to learn the death Sir blackburn of The
hrm OF Aessrs Atkins Co. ef this city youag man
Gently from England who died to-day after an illness Of
only three days. OF yellow fever. Thpre sorry
TO near several cases of fever in the city The
exceedingly sutry, and the heavy rsins there II
tnost danp atmosphere very trying to the constitutions
'of Earopeans, Es"z
Dem-rara is reported to be unusually healthy The
new sugar crop had commenced and large uunsber
OF vessels were lying in the DemeraTa ryar, waiting fer
eargaes -.U. "a. q
sealed bottle drited shore at Baieys Bay on tina
20th inst being opened, 1t found TO contain
written paper has been forwarded TO us for pnb
cation following isau socurste copy OF tbs
tents of the paper taken from the bostls sss 8 s@E
=.- U. 5. STEAMER JoHs HAroock
1P M .iune % 1853