New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1856-11-10
s gBllen Orleans 4ailp Ct&stsnt.
Texas Intelligence.

nv the arrival on Saturday Of the steamship Chas.
Ssorron from Jndiauola via. Galveston, we have re-
caived full dates from all parts Of Texas as ate as
due. 5000 r.
our Galveston papers furnish us with returns o'
tho clcrt;on in that city The whole vote poled thele
was 7Os OF which Buchanan received 4oo, anu ~
more 400 This is said to be an exceeding i'll 70 ''
greater than has ever before been poled III tue Guy
In sneaknr Of the election, the News OF the oth 'hst
says:
,rdarIv manner in which the election was yesterday
conducted Notwithstanding the very Stfohs parry
sI;nn that has existed among nearly all classes, and
th unprecedented zeal and eXertons that nave peen
made vet no election went OIL more orderly, or WIZ
a more general manifestation OF friendly leelng w.
txreen those Of opposing political sentiments. we
nave not heard OF single instance OF disturbance W
mar the peace and harmony of the day
ARoR1G1NAI REMAINs.-The fabulous ruins OF the
big thicket, says the Civilian of the 4th, have been
almost equaled in reality by late discovery in An"
gelina county
On the 23d of September Mr.. Fl. D. R; Smith
writes that while himself, his brother JOSIAH Hmth
and Jacob r. Stanley, were returning from Mr. Her
rocls mill within half mile Of the Neches river,
their dogs three in number) started panther and
chased him down the river. The men followed on
horseback after going about two miles, the doss
stonped and bayed very loudly at the foot OF hlgh
and rugged bluff of rocks about two hundred yards
from tie river. On approaching the men saw an
aperture two or three feet in diameter leading mo
cave. Driving away the dogs they saw the a,anep
and M Stanley shot and killed him They then en-
tered the cave, which they found nearly clrc, aa III
form and about twelve feet high with slna HIT r
ture apparently leading to another bt ts islit
was imperfect as to detef .nei, iu, ;tI lirfad
until they had first supplieu themselves Wv" "
torch. .,>o,, f>,,,d tbon,
selves in room about ten feet IN breadtn py elsnt IL
fo,4-, fact l6pu
rnen they beheld at the further extremity OF TINS
1oo,n what appeared to be two human boaies' one
stretched at fnl length its back on the tioor ana
the other lying with the head partly elevated om
with the torch close to them and awed, almost appal
led by the strange spectacle, made compete eAaln
ination. They Were indeed two human iorhls en-
tire. complete, and perfectly petried The ieet ana
hands we're bare A garment, which must have re-
sembed hunting shirt, seemed to nave oeen "oliL
by each and partly preserved by petritactlon was
distinctly visible especially at its seams ana ioAuS'
On the waist Of one was buckle OF pure gold, al
most three inches in diameter, securely embedded IN
the body. The features were not much shruhkeh
the eyes were partly closed and even traces Oh Ine
eyebrows could be seen plainly me parry WHY ols
covered these bodies intend in a few days to remove
the1p to Jonesborough, where they may be seen DJ
all who wish to examine them.
The Houston Telegraph says that Mr.. John NlVen
well known as an old Texan and soldier at San ia
cinto, died in that city on the I'd. He was bulle
with military honors the following day.
The papers state that BeNar county continues
furnish her usual quota of conyicts for the pentet
4iarv -Four men of notorious bad character hay
been recently tried and sentenced to that Institute
by the Court of San Antonio. There are still SON
six Or eight prisoners to be tried for crimes which,
convicted, will either send them to the pententiar
OF the galloWs.
NEGROES ESCAPING INTO MEX1C0.-lntor1natlo
has reached lis from Rio Grande city, says the Co
pus Christi Nueces Valley, Of the escaping I'M
Mexico of five negro men, on or about the 9th ms
There were three MeXcans with them at the time
their passing through Rio Grande City. All wei
well armed and mounted.
On the party being discovered in the vicinity Go
H. Clay Davis, at the head Of few other citizens
the place. made an attempt to arrest them. In tn
sllcv failed but though the runaWays and thleVt
escaped the horses all captured with the excel
tion Of fine American stallion, which one OF IL
negroes rode.
MOVEMENTS OF TRooPs.-We extract the foown
from the same paper
The 5th regiment U. S. infantry, at present st
stoned at Fort Mcintosh and Ringgold Barracks a
under orders for Fort Myers Florida, and will lea'
as soon as practicable.
The four companies stationed at Fort Mcintos
near this place, will take up the line of march u
sZ3nggod Barracks, thence down the river to Brazt
Santiago, where they will embark for their destin
7t02.