New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1858-03-16

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eopious showers Of rain in that vicinity upon which
greatly depended the coming crops ~ ~.
Those who had began to despond little about rain
the coming season. had all their fears alayed by the
copious rain which fell on saturday evening. was
one OF the hardest rains accompanied with slight
hail thai we ever witnessed AZ there has been !.
large quantity Of corn already planted, some Of
which Is Just beginning to come up, the rain viii
have the effect to ensure good Seeds and moreover 10
pack the earth 80 az to prevent the birds from pulling
up the young great annoyance in soft ground
No prospect for the farmers could be more pFOisng
than the one before us
The same paper announces the killing Henry Hu-
gerien, at Ell Paso, by drunken Mexican, who
stabbed him with Q knife without cause
The Herald announces the arrival in that city on
the 9Th, Of Jesus Palscious late Governor Of Chhua
hua, who was en- route for New Orleans TO consult
with Gen. Comon;ort.
The Richmond Reporter Of the 18th says:
After several weeks Of dry weather, with alternate
changes Of temperature, the night OF the 6th we
were favored with copous showers of rain noFther
succeeded, and that again was followed BY frost,
not severe enough however. to ininre the crops.
The weather is warm and spring-like with some
4 indications of rain. ~
| The HoustongTeIegapb, OF the 18th, says 10 Is in
formed by Of the contractors that there now
twenty-nine miles Of grade completed on the Colum-
/ hia road.
We clip the following from that paper Of the same
date:
There were sales of cotton here day or two since
at ll4c. for Midding. This Is toerabiy good, and
fully cent above the price aweek ago. The market
is not quite up in these sales but inclined to
think fraction above our quotations, if anything,
especially in trade. Our figures are given to US by
leash men.
From the Galveston Civilian Of the 18th, we ex-
tract the following. ~
oor accounts, at the close Of the week. left the
cotton market at this place in rather anguishing
condition, in consequence Of the state OF the New
Orleans market which had failed to keep pace with
our own. The sales Of Saturday and Monday morn
ing here were made at concession of more than
cent. per pound. Mddling ranging from 10! to Ia.
The news Of Monday, however, reporting an advance
Of ID in Liverpool produced reaction here, and
IL to III became the ruling rates for Middng cot
ton--the sales, Including Houston lists, amounting to
some 1900 bales, nearly as much as the receipts,
which sum up 1890 bales. The receipts from LIST
September now up 4,470 bales. against ~ ,7sS
bales to March IA, 1851 showing increase of 26eS7
bales or considerably more than fifty per cent
We extract the following from the Galveston News
Of the 18th
We understand that new town is now fast being
built at Black Point in Refugo county, called st.
Marys. A letter informs us that there eight feet
water at ordinary tides entirely up TO the town. This
town is situated on the most western arm of Aransas
Bayou and is said TO be the nearest accessible port to
San Antonio and very extensive region OF country
embracing the San antonio and Nueces rivers and
that beautiful country between them, extending two
OF three hundred miles interior. # fstse
The same paper remarks as follows in regard to
the law passed by the Texas Legislature, at its late
session. for the sale Of the public domain belonging
TO that State
1t will be seen that Of public lands can be
sold, hereafter for less than dollar per acre,
while that reserved in donations made to railroads
and canals cannot be sold for less than dollar
and twenty yfye cents per-acre, while that reserved
by the Memphis, Ell Paso and Pacific Railroad act.
cannot be sold for less than two dollars per The
effect of this law must be to enhance the market
value Of the lands donated to railroad companies, and
thereby render those donations far eieetual as
a measure of State aid.