New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1857-03-16
Later from Texas.

By the arrival of the steamship Charles Morgan we
have received dates from Galveston to Thursday last
The News of that day has the following paragraphs
We have been having one of the severest northers
for few days past that has been experienced during
the past winter. 1t has not been as cold as it has
been before, but the wind has been severe, and the
temperature last night certainly but little short
of freezing point, even on this Island, while in the
interior we fear vegetation has suffered by killing
frost.
We had considerable rain in all parts of the cous-
try, with storm from the north and cool weather;
we are yet to hear whether young corn and cotton
are suffering
Business generally has been actiye-there is
lively demand for supplies. We find many calls for
from the interior, showing that crops have been
insufficient last season. .-"
Cottoa.-But little of the receipts from Trinity
river has been shown and the sales of the week
confined to few hundred bales at very full prices.
The Influence of the unfayorabe news from Liverpool
remains to be developed We do not think that prices
will yield to any extent.
A gentleman just from Newport in Polk county,
reports that sixteen atboats had passed Newport ON
their way down the Trinity
The Rev. DR.. Christopher Columbus Jones, atter
preaching and doctoring awhile in Paris, Lamar
county, away with the wife of one of the most re-
spectacle citizens of the place. He had wife of his
own and two children, and his paramour husband
and three children.
The Houston Telegraph of the 18th inst says:
1t feared that the mortimer would nave enueG
with frost, but has appeared, and we nope 70
| be fortunate enough to escape it altogether now
Crops have now fine star and If they have no set
back will mature from two to four weeks carrier tnan
usual.
The trade in hides is becoming quite business in
/ Houston Probably not less than fifty thousand have
been shipped from here this season. They are com-
manding good price now.
The San Antonio Herald of the It'll inst. publishes
the following dispatch:
FoRT MASON, Texas, Feb &c, 1867.
Assistant Adutan General. Dent of Texas,
Sir: | have the honor to report that Lieut.. Wood
this morning returned from successful scout on the
Concho.
He reports that discovering trail on Lipan Creek
he followed three days overlook and surprised the
party the head of the North Fork of the Coneho
on the morning Of the 18th OF February, 1857.
The party consisted OF five warriors OF Seneeo's
band returning from an expedition Into Mexico.
He reports that after an hours fight he killed three
and made two prisonerstaking or killing the entire
party, and their arms, animals and property.
One of the prisoners is lad of sixteen or seventeen
the other some twenty-five years of age, speaks ind
ierent Spanish and says he is Mexican. He speaks
Camanche, and has every evidence of being Canaan
che Indian. They both fought and were captured
after the rest of the party had been killed and the
elder had received two wounds
Lieut.. Woods party escaped uninured, he only re-
eeiving scratch in the hand from an arrow.
am, sir, respectfully, your obi, servant,
E. X. SMITH,
Cant. I'd Cav, COmdg. Post
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