New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1858-07-30
River Intelligence.
Texas rnfnIss.s,.,,r.e


The Galveston Civilian, Of Monday last, has tile
following
The health Of Galveston continues good There
age No symptoms Of yellow fever or other malignant
disease
It has frequently been matter Of safprfse to d.
that boys BaLhng in the bay channel alb not taken
by sharks. This morning d shark nine feet long
was hsrp9oned by Mr. b. Crane clerk ef the steamer
San Antonio, at the end Of the brick wharf.
We understand shat the contracts for the brick
iron and wood work for the Shippers Cotton PTesy
upon an enlarged and much improved plan have aE
been given out and are already commenced upon
the ruins Of the late ire The site for tho building
is nearly cleared up, and every exerten will be made
to get the press ready for kha coming business season.
IL is expected that the press agd warehouse viii bs
open for business BY the lst Of October
From the San Antonio Herald Of shs 22d we ex-
tract the following:
We heard 1t TumOFed yesterday fn town ana HIVE
no reason to doubt its TRUTH that justice has OYER
taken SOME Of the cartcuttng offenders Of last win
ter. gang Of some six or seven horse thieves were
recently watched and caught In their thefts by Ehe
good citizens of Goliad, and one of sheu1 By the
name of Wardick was shot and killed NiIe crossing
the river at GOliad. Two or three others put in
Jail day or two afterwards we learn that fw0 of
those who had been put in jail, others caught af
terwards were hanged. The War5icks are believed
to have been at the head Of the depFadations com
mitted upon Mexican cavtnen in Goliad and KaEIea
counties, last winter and spring.
By Tuesday evenings mail there was an order re-
the I'd Cavalry in Texas and placing them under the
command Of General Twiggs.
| The Gonzales Inquirer, Of the 1Tth states that
company, consisting of ten Of the citizens Of Golisd
arrived there the previous morning. 10 hot pursuit
of some notorious characters belonging 10 aH organ-
zed band Of horse thieves and eUthroats extending
through Western Texas. Three Of this gang were
overhauled by this company few days before III
| Iabadie, opposite Goliad. One was arrested ana
confined in jail, and the other two, after lighting
with determined resistance, were finally killed ia
eaction. The one who was arrested confessed To
the organization Of large band, and confirmed the
statements made on previous occasion by several
others arrested in Navarro county.
4 The Waco southerneF learns from Capt. Nelson,
who came down from the frontier few days since
that seven bands Of the CamancheB have combined
for the purpose Of waging war upon the whites
They are supposed to number between eight hunlret
and one thousand braves. The frontiersinen are or
the alert to repel them.
The Frontier News, published 1t Weatherford
Texas, says:
We have learned from gentleman direct from
Beknap, that Capt. Ross Of the Agency had sent Ou
some Indians into the Kicapoo caaps to see If they
could make any discoveries In regard to the murdel
of those families in Jack county. The scouts have
entered, and report that in the Kiekapoo village
they nave found Mr. Gamperuss horse and severe
articeg carried of at the time the murders were com
mitted. They also state the Tedheaded white maj
mentioned by the children, Is also there among tht
Indiana, lis apity but force enough could Be i'm
mediatey sent against them % destoy this Villag
and to get possession Of the fiend in human shape
so that he might get his just deserts.
b just as we were going to press our Sheriff cam
d into town with Mr.. G. WI. Haywood, charged will
the smnrder of Mr.. Glass, in Collin county, som
three or four years since.
h 1t viii be highly gratifying to General Tarant
. many warm friends to learn that he is reeOVerin
j very fast We learn from his physician that he ha
4 an attack Of paralysis. The General is at the res
dence of Mr.. Fondren, about sixteen miles Eortwes
of this place. We also learn that it was his intentio
to leave Fort Belknap about the 5th of July wit
about 400 men strong, going into the Wichita Mour
tans to exerminate the red children in that quartz
i. The Gilmer Democrat states that on the 11th Nj
Woodson Dudley was passing through Little Gypres
swamp, when to his astonishment be found dea
man who had the appearance of having been hange
= about two weeks. The dead ard purified body ha
fallen to the ground but the head was still suspende
I in the air by rope. The words Horse Thief weI
pinned to the body and near it was scrip Of pape
on which were written these words fsFrier's P1in
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