New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1856-01-19
Later from tho Rio arando and Texas.

Later from the H1o G.ande and Texas.
The steamship Nautilus, Capt. Thompson, ar
rived yesterday afternoon from ,Brazos Santiago
via Galveston. By her We have received copies
Of the Brownsville Flag from the 18th to the
29th ult., but they contain no news Of i'm.
portance.
The Flag mentions rumor which had reached
Matamoros to the effect that Mr.. Gadsden, our
Minister to Mexico, had purchased the territory
lying between the Sierra Madre and the Rio
Grande. As the news Of the resignation of Al
varez and the accession Of Comonfort to the Pre-
sidency had not reached Matamoros nor Browns
vile at the time this rumor was current, no
value can be attached to it.
The Flag, Of the 29th, has the following para
graphs:
The steamer Ranchero, on her last trip,
brought down some tall specimens Of sugar cane
| some Of which measured fifteen and twenty feet
and had from twenty to thirty well matured
joints. Who can beat this:
| Last Sunday, at 2o'olock, M, we were visited
with a norther which lasted until Thursday
morning. There has not been experienced, dur,
| ing the few days which it lasted, such colo
weather since 1850. The thermometer fell tt
| 80 degrees, and ice formed an inch and a hall
thick all the orange, lemon, fig, and other fruit
| trees have been nipped; our market is perfectly
| destitute Of garden vegetables.
| Augustine 7. Barra, Mexican, was hung last
week in the vicinity Of the Salt Lake, for steal
| ing and killing three cattle belonging to Mex
| ican named Soils, who has q stock ranch at La
Jara, some six miles beyond the Salt Lake.
| Our Texan exchanges contain little of inter-
est. The Galveston News, Of Tuesday last, has
the following paragraphs:
| We learn that at the late District Court in
Milan county, in the suit in which G. D. Sayre,
| David Ayres ct ais, were plaintiffs, and jackson
Blankenship defendant. a verdict was rendered
in favor of the plaintiffs, confirming their title
to eleven leagues Of land. No appeal was ta-
ken. .... ...
| The volunteer companies lately in the service
of the State, under Capts. Callahan, Henry and
Benton, were to be paid off at San Marcos, in
Hays county, on the 9TH and 8th inst,
| A writer in the Gonzales Inquirer endeavors
to prove Sea Island cotton CON be cultivated
more pro6tably than the short staple anywhere
within rs or 100 miles of the coast, from the
| Sabine to the Rio Grande.
It is said that ice four inches thick has re-
Gently been put up in Austin. An imported
article, we presume.
| The Nueces Valley says the people of Corpus
Christi are highly elated at the speedy prospect
Of having channel cut through the fats. The
editor says ss nothing in the natural course Of
events can transpire to defeat an early consum.
nation of this project, so vitality important tt
the future prosperity of this city and country
GREAT Snow STORM IN THE NoRTH.-The fol
lowing dispatches will convey some idea of the
severely cold weather recently experienced il
the North:
PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 1O.--The Pilot Line and
four o'clock train from New York of yesterday
arrived here at o'clock this morning. Botl
trains reached point II miles above Camden
when the engines were unable to move further
with the trains. The engineer and conductor
of one Of the trains then left with an engine arG
tender only for Camden, to obtain assistance.
During the absence of this train the wool
gave out, and the passengers, in order to keeI
up the fire in the stoves, had to tear down fence
in the neighborhood, and finally they had t.
use the wood work of the car and completed,
demolished one of the handsomest passenge
cars belonging to the company, to prevent them
selves from freezing to death! Finally freigh
, train came up and pushed the passenger car
ahead slowly until they reached Camden, abou
i Q o'clock.
The tram winch lett mere 1or Baltlm0re at
o'clock this morning, was blocked up by sno7
} drifted and frozen to the track for foot dee
! and for more than mile in length. There
no chance of trains reaching Baltimore frol
l this city.
9 SECOND DIsPATCH
4 PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 10.-Two locomotive
have been started from the Baltimore depot
Q the assistance of the morning train, which
stuck in snow drift six miles below Whining
ton. Six miles further down, there is anothe
8 in the same condition. The Susquehanns rive
: is passable, but nc more trains will be starte
!. until there is some surety of getting through.
r FROM RIo.-The schr. Lynchburg arrived {
= Baltimore on the 4th, with Rio dates to the 26t
\ of November. Coffee was duller. Sales
! 125,O0o bags at 50ou decline. The stock ws
reduced to 10000 bags. Holders were fir
i and asking higher rates at the close. Out
: 12s,0 900 bags sold during the previous mont
d $4,000 were for the United States, at 4N700
g g 4HeO0, and for good 4N30o to 4N5oo. sterlir
exchange, 274 per ct. prem. Flour dropping
l. Baltimore 1923, and Haxal $29.