The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-09-30
LATER EROM TEXAS.

We have Galveston papers to the 10th inst, and
others from interior and coast towns.
There were eight interments in Galveston on the
18th inst, six of which were yellow fever cases.
The Necs of the 10th, says the sickness in the city
seems to have increased during the past day or
two, and adds:
There have been some twenty or twenty-five adj
missions to the hospital since the commencement
of the yellow fever, about half of which were from
the shipping, steamers, &C., and hive from the
brig Belle Flower, from Aspinwall. Most OF them
discharged. There has been but death from
the hospital from yellow fever. There are now
fourteen in the hospital, most of whom are con-
valescent.
he same paper has the following:
The funeral of Col. Samuel H. Williams took
place Yesterday at 10 A. NJ, in charge of the Ma
sonic order, of which he was the Oldest living Past
Grand Master, and was esteemed the founder and
patriarch of the order in Texas. The pail bearers
were all Sir Knights in their regaia. The services
of the order were conducted by the Grand Secre-
tary, Ruthven, and prayers were made both at the
house and at the grave by Rev. James Huckins, as
Chaplain, and the whole was done IN manner TO
produce deep impression on the large audience.
Mr.. P. C. Tucker acted as Marshal. The process
sion was the largest we have witnessed for several
wears, on any similar occasion.
The Cirilian says that besides the Masons and
others who marched on foot, there were sixty car
riages in the procession.
Quarantine has been established at Richmond
All persons from Houston, Galveston, and New Or
leans are forbidden entering the town under a
penalty of 500. A guard of thirty men are sta
toned the banks of the river to keep the people
out.
The Houston Telegraph of the 18th inst, says:
The health of the town is quite good. Since our
last there has been no of sickness in Houston
resembling yellow fever. There have been but two
deaths, one infammatory and the other chronic di-
arrh9a.
The telegraph has received information of the
purchase of 1000 tons of iron for the BraZorla
Railroad, as well as all the chairs, spikes, rolling
stock, &c. Negotiations were pending for the
balance.
The Matagorda Gazette announces that quaran-
tine has been established at that place. The Gazette
reports that Matagorda continues healthy. The
paper of the llth speaking of the cotton crop
in that region, says:
Planters inform us that the stalk has grown to
be large enough, and is remarkably well filled.
Many fields have been picked over the third time
! and we hear of as high fifteen hundred pound:
per acre, of seed cotton, having been gathered
About one bale to the acre will be general aver
| age.
| The Columbia Democrat, of the l4th inst, says
The long wished for rain has come at last. Fol
| two or three days last week it came down in tor
| rents. The whole country seemed to be Hooded.
Most of our cotton planters were unprepared for
| it. Their fields were white unto harvest Sc
| heavy rain was to them serious injury, but il
the present beautiful weather continues, we may
expect some good picking yet. The cane is grow
ing finely. Our sugar planters seem very much re
vived.
The Gonzales Inquirer of the 1lth says:
Several heavy showers of rain have fallen thi
week in different portions of the county. In town.
the showers, though light, have been quite suffcien
for turaip sowing The weather has turned con,
| sderably cooler. We paid visit this week to the
farm of the Rev. A. Davidson, and examined one
of the most hourishng fields of Sea Island cottor
we ever beheld. The field is three miles from town
contains about one hundred acres, and the plants
are almost borne to the ground by the bolls The
yield now is something like sixty pounds, and th
1,oln
net him from three hundred to four hundred dollar
to the hand. Competent judges pronounce it on
of the richest fields they ever witnessed.-CharteS
ton Mercury.
From NEwFoUYDLAND.-The attention of the gov
| ernment at st. Johns had been called to the fac
of the French commandant having announced t.
the British residents of that portion called the Ba
of St George, that their concurrent right OF FISHING
would be allowed no longer by the French govern
ment-a right which these residents protest ha
been enjoyed by them and their fathers for the las
eighty years.
Sir Alexander Bannerman, the present Governo
of the island, seems to have taken hold of the mat
ter in the right spirit, having at once sent two wa
vessels to the spot to obtain the evidence of tn
planters, and acquire all the information possible o
the subject, which he intends to transmit to tn
Home government. AT the time His Exec
lency has issued proclamation "to Her Majesty
subjects residing on and prosecuting the fsherie
along the coasts of Newfoundland" warning theI
not to interfere or meddle with the huts, &c
cleft during the winter on the coast called tn
French Shore" but instructing them to report
the officers of Her Majesty's ships cruising alon
the coast any interruption they may receive at tn
hands of the French.
We learn from the Commercial Journal that ther
had been large imports of breadstuts and provision
during the past fortnight from the United State
and paying sales were made with some difficulty
Shipments, of fish have been made on very larg
scale for this early period of the season. and ther
were many vessels waiting cargoes. The cate
former years. The editor says there had been a
increased demand for cod oil for shipment to tn
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