New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1856-12-04
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,af;er from Texas.

ma staan,slsip Louisiana Capt Talbot, arrived yes
from Indanoa via Galveston, pring
aners from the latter place to Saturday last, Inc
NsWs Il that date has the following paragraphs
Il gha asnert IF business during the week has no.
,nfb improved, and advices from the rivers remain IN
adverse to carly opening non,nsred
sth being about 1900 bales only
5t T3ithmond 4s3 bales came in during me weeh,
Weathel las been changable, rain fallihs nearly
every day of the week L. IA e-r;nainc b,t find
asaen and Welding very little, nave deayed
further operations. Cotton picking ~ eloseo Will e"
exceptions ~ ~ ,ornn;ne 6, from, our
1lnl Random Of Fort Bend county, who informs
that IA had lust sold bales OF silk cotton 10 H.
Mill far 30 cents per pound This is an entirely
new article, imported from Mexico and has never
been tried before in Texas.
The news in our last Of Indian murders in Kerr
county seems to indicate that the people OF that new
county are in critical situation Ten OF her ctlzens
were murdered within few days her losses lasC
year in life and stock were consderaole' anu aIo'
eher that beautiful region has had severe scourse.
Kesyille is the highest settlement on the Guadalupe
and unless protected by the military the people must
either abandon their homes or defend themselves
which. with so sparse population, is hard to do.
We have before us letter from a gentleman con-
nected with the Jefferson (Cass Co., Texas) railroad,
which says:
The prospects of our road are good. We desire and
are determined to have a railway connection with
Galveston. We like the way cotton sells IN your
city. Two years ago, our people thought OF notlhg
but road to the Mssissipp but the course OF 1Ie
Galveston delegation in the Legislature ana u te
Civilian and tie News has turned all northern Iexas
towards the Island city, as home port, ana tlne
will show that the vast trade OF tins region VIII gip
to swell the tide Of your commercial greatness. We
no longer feel Jealous of your city, as would be
dictator.
The Houston Telegraph states, from reliable
source. that Gov Bell will not again be candidate
for Congress and thinks that his chance OF election
would be small in case he should
We learn from the Brazos Statesman that two
waroner were recently killed on the road IRON ort
BeIknap 10 Preston by northern Indians as is sup
4 posed. Further troubles are apprehended. The III
dams at the Reserve have about one hundred acres OF
wheat looking better than any in the settlements.
THE Statesman also learns that Col. Neighbors, the
4 AGENT has given the Methodsts the control OF the
schools to be established in the Reserve for the educ-
Of the Indians These schools will soon be under
Z way. o..-..
The Dallas Herald informs that a new light draught
steamboat is building at Magnolia, intended to run
between that place and Dallas She will be ready to
commence running for the spring trade.
A correspondent Of the Liberty Gazette gives the
following particulars of the execution on the 23d
ult, Of notorious desperate named Jack Bunch for
the murder Of Mr.. Deputy, in Orange county, some
months ago:
About II o'clock, Bunch descended from the third
story o. the court house. where he was confined, and
on behodng the guard in the room below, exclaimed
'God d--n it, gentlemen, how do you do all
While they we're removing the handouts from his
hands he said "cut the hand off if you cannot get
them off any other way" On arriving in the aisle OF
tr first floor of the building, and seeing the crowd OF
T)eople he again said +" God d--n it, gentlemen how
do you all do?i He was conducted to the place OF
execution in the rear of the court house. where he
conversed with several persons some friendly to him
others unfrendly. He told them to keep out OF bad
company He said that loose companions had
brought him to the galloWs. He requested several
individuals to see that his body was decenty buried
and on ascending the ladder made general request
ito the crowd to see that bis remains were deccntly
cared for and did not fall into the hands OF the doc
tors. The ladder was then icrked from under him.
He had not the fatal cap on his face. Persons pres
ent say be died with scarce struggle he had been
hanging scarcely minute when his eyes closed, and
the pulse soon ceased to beat.
After han ging about twenty minutes he was taken
down and placed in a coffin, when he was examined
by physician and pronounced dead
Bunch was only about twenty years OF age. and
when sentence Of death was pronounced upon hlm
exhibited q depraved fearlessness. During his con
tinement, and while at the galloWs, he exhibited the
most reckless deprhvity. He was OF mixed blood
Spanish French and Negro. He was descended from
the buccaneers. who in days past infested the AleX
can Gulf md met his fate with all the hardened de
pravity of his ancestors.