New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1856-01-10
THURSDAY MORNING, JANUARY 10, 1856
DAILY CREl,iSGlE CRElisClElN ElNT1E.
Later from Texas

AAe salee Oh goode imported into the port Of
aaageston' from foreign ports, during the month
| of September, was ss44,544, ss55 a.,ss,g
The value Of domestic produce exported to
foreign ports, was $67 ,158; and the value Of
domestic produce exported to other ports of the
| United States, $167 500; making the value Of
exports for December, 1884 857. ..se
A schooner from New Orleans, with 7S 900
bricks for the light house atAransas, was lost
last week in attempting to run over the bar.-
She sank in ten feet water. No lives were lost.
The vessel and cargo were uninsured.
The q. s. steamer Fashion, James McCutch-
on Baker commanding, arrived yesterday from
Aransas via Matagorda. She left at Powder
Horn Wharf the mail steamer Mexico, off Salu-
ria, at anchor, and the sloop WaterWitch, Capt.
King, for Galveston. @
The Fashion took from the ship ---, on Fri
day, December 21st, off Arsnsas, three hundred
and seventy five recruits, Capt. Whithall, q. s..
A., commanding, and they all arrived safe at
Corpus Christi on the 25th. The Fashion called
The lighter Surf, was lost by being blown off in
the norther Of the 23d, loosing both anehors,
and in running into Corpus Christi Pass went
on shore. The crew and cargo were saved
The weather has been severe below, and hum
dreds Of turtles and fish, benHmbed by the cold,
| we're taken by the Fashions crew. .sa
On Saturday, the 22d ult., an unfortunate
affray took place in Loekhart, between MIR.
Caviness and Mr.. Asa Perry, which resulted in
the death of the former. %&a@@, n g5aal54a
The News has the following in regard to the
Galveston and Richmond Railroad:
We have the qualification to announce to our
readers that the railroad was completed to
Richmond, on the lot inst, and that the cars
now run entirely through to that place. We
congratulate our friends in Richmond, in this
city, and indeed, the people Of the State gener-
orally, on this event. 1t is the first railroad
connection in our young State, between two i'm
portant points. As yet the Railroad Company
| have no boat Of their own, and until they do
| have one, the cars will leave Harrisburg to con-
meet with the Houston mail boat leaving this
city on Tuesdays and Saturdays, with the New
Orleans passengers and mail.
The passengers will reach Harrisburg on the
evenings Of Tuesdays and Saturdays, little
after dark, and the cars will leave Harrisburg
| for Richmond the next morning, and arrive in
| Richmond about II A. NJ, where stages will be
ready to take them on to LsGrange, thence to
| Austin, etc.
Mr.. Barrett, the President Of this Railroad
Company, arrived in this city by the last New
Orleans steamship, and through him we learn
that the Company will very soon have boat of
| their own to make . connection with the road,
| and that the stage line from Richmond will be
! so arranged as to cause no delay, so that pas
| sengers will reach Austin in two days from Rich
| mond. The time from Houston to Austin Is, at
present, three days.
The Nueces Valley says: . - b 81.
Most Of our readers are aware that Fort
Merrill and Fort Ewell have been broken up,
and the garrisons at those two places removed,
This movement on the part OF our government,
has been of inoalculable injury to this section
Of Texas. n5%
During the period that troops were stationed
at these two posts, an appearance of security
against Indian depredations was manifest and
the beautiful and fertile lands, for miles around
were being occupied, settled upon and cult.
waited, with almost unparalleled rapidity. But
no sooner were those forces removed and the
posts abandoned, than the war-whoop of the
willy savage again broke upon the solitude sur.
rounding the peaceful homes of the industrious
settlers, and they were forced to abandon thei,
hresides of happiness and boards of plenty
| leaving the fruits of their labor to be carried
away by the relentless red man, and their
homes, endeared to them by toll and exposure
smouldering in ruins.
FR1GHrFUL RAILROAD ACCIDENT. .--Seuex Cars
Demolished. = Last Tuesday evening, about
sunset, as the train was coming up about
! twenty miles south of this, seven freight cars
were thrown from the track and precipitated
down an embankment some twenty FIVE or thirty
feet, and completely demolished. The accident
occurred at Dicks creek, about two miles below
Red Bluff station, where the embankment is
said to have been made of sand. The rise in
the river had backed the water up the creek,
| causing the base of the embankment to be sub
merged some ten or fifteen feet. A continual
settling and spreading Of the base was going on,
causing falling and sliding from the sides above
until the grade was very much disturbed and
there was scarcely width enough to support the
GROSS ties The repair hands had just left it, hav-
| ing patched it up, as they vainly supposed, 80
that the train might pass. AS the train dashed
on it at considerable speed, the whole embank-
ment gave way and the seven freight cars were
crushed, broken and tumbled down the embank-
ment, and much Of the freight and fragments
submerged in the water. By @ miracle, no lives
| were lost. A freight car got wedged on the
track and stopped the passenger cars from going
over. One man went down the embankment
with the wreck and escaped without fatal in
jury. The locomotive escaped by hairs
breadth. The driver saw the cars, tumbling
down behind him and put on all steam. So
near was the earth giving way behind the loco
motive that the tender was falling, and was
dragged to place of safety off the rail- Mis-
fortunes never come single. This seemed to be
accident enough for one day, but another was
close upon its heels. A messenger was sent to
bring locomotive q few miles distant to assist
at the scene of the disaster. After night it
came-came laundering on, and finished up the
days work by running into the passenger care
left standing on the track, and making a very
general smash of locomotive, cars and every
thing smashable. We have heard nothing since
the night of the catastrophe, from the scene of
the "Wreck of matter and crush Of cars
[Quitman Miss. Intelligencer, 5th.
HORRIBLE BRUTALITY The Cincinnati (Ohio)
Commercial Of the 2Sth ult., states that two
young men of 'srespectable and wealthy fami-
lies" were on drunken spree at the Parker
House, in Maysvile, Ky, on the night of
Thanksgiving in that State, and being in want
of liquor, poured some camphene over the hair
and Whiskers of oolored waiter, whom they
found asleep, and then set fire to it. The poor
fellow lived for two weeks in extreme torture
and then died, but no steps as yet have been
taken to have legal investigation, as the
young gentlemen have agreed to pay Mr.. Ball,
the owner, for the loss of his servant, 81 200.
The RAFT.--We had the pleasure of visit,
on Thursday morning, from Capt H. G.. Sum-
mers, who is one Of the assistants of Col Fuller
in creating a navigable channel around the
raft in Red river. He informed US that they
had advanced, with the snag- boat Gopher,
nearly through Shift tail lake (Phobus, what
name y having pulled up about two miles of
stumps in that lake. So soon as they pass
through Shift-tail lake, they will commence
disposing of the raft which has been sawed,
above Don1av's Pavnu We hava mover caan the