New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1858-01-12

Texas Inserlgeaes.
By the arrival at Bersieks Bay yesterday morning
o. The steamship Gslveston, Capt waslburnl we have
later dates from Galveston and other parts tf Texas
FROM tne commercial article In the Civilian Of sstar-
I cay Last we extract the following
Our markets has continued laucujd. tbbxoh 80
earn that some sales were effected dnrine ne week
az about New Orleans qnotafions. OF ctur.e the
market continues 10 share In tes Ianguor prevailing
elsewhere; bot our business men generally sssr1
cheerful and hopefal-feelinrs which tha 'foreign
news is well calculated 10 encourzre-
sagsr-Nc receipts Of Texas II Ia stated that
.aies of hoiAsses and Syrup have been made Il Is
Hides still range ct 10 &c. per pound. /.
Freights-Cotton to New York and Bostbu cant
Per pound. Liyerpooa 70. shipping coutiupss sbun-
ally large, being now in all nearly twenty thousand
bales, not cleared There now in port dye ships
ten barks, and two brigz.
Sss S'ssi Sss ss s;s
MUM; Time bills nominal.
The Civilian states that there have been heavy
rains and strong winds in many parts Of The STATE,
from which the crops had suffered, and the rivers
were very high.
The receipts Of cotton at Houston the week ending
January I. were enly 3s2 bales The 1oads and
weather have been bad as nearly to put 10 end TO
hauling to that city The entire receipts pf cotton
at Houston for the season have been Is, ,4sz bales
The Liberty Gazette says that Sam Rowe, ,Jr, Of
Polk county, while at an Indian camp in that county
the other day On froic, got to wrestling with an
Indian, who threw him down and left him. 1t being
observed that be did not move Immediately. some
persons went to him and found him speech1ess he
soon died, probably from the rupturs q an srterys
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An INDIAN WAR IN OREGON AED WAsHt txGTos.-
The Washington Union published the following ex-
tracts from private letters received by gentleman OF
that city by the last California mall which preshadov
renewal Of hostlites by the Indians in Oregon and
Washington Territories, at the probable uztgation
of the Mormons
OREGON CRY, Nov. ~, 1857.
Dear General: While on agisit to PoFtiand-ses-
terday learned from Captain Wright whose steamer
plies npou the Cascade route, that intelligence had
been received from Colonel Steptoe, at WkIlaWslla
that the Indians throughout the whole region were
busy In preparation for another war to be commenced
early in the spring. and that runners had already been
dispatched TO the various other tribes in Oregon and
Washington, so ss TO incite them into alliance. He
| further informed me that Colonel Wright at Fort
Dallas and Captain Ingalls,, at Vancouver had each
received such information led them to believe this
| rumor.
Col Steptoe declares that ID ia patent the Mormous
are active In inducing and melting the Indians to war
against the whites and. furthermore, they promise
70 ION with them in its prosecution they promise
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twenty thousand warriors Their forceis vsriously
estimated at from 500 to 10000 by Col. Hteptoe.
give you the rumor as got it in writing from
Capt Wright, who assured me he had Confirmation
OF It from Capt Ingalls, Doubtless you will receive
more direct intelligence from parties personally in
formed still have deemed IL worth whle to inform
you Of the facts as ascertained fyca care to, show
the rumor prove correct it will require much greater
force and more vigorous action on the part Of our
Government both general and local, than did the
last Indian campaign.
PORTLAND, Nov. 26, 1857.
would not be at all surprised at any time, sir, to
hear OF another outbreak among Indians, as they
threatening considerably and getting very saucy
70 the whites l learned from Lieut.. Allen Of Fort
Simcoe, who just arrived this evening" that the Ind-
ans there and at Fort was-walia say that the Nor
dred miles from Salt Lake City, and drove the troops
back, killing l60 men and officers No loss to the
Mormons. | notice nothing of the kind in any
papers, and hope IT may not be so. II DO, it seems
very singular that those Indians should know it SO
soon. If not so, how did the Indians WHIP live 50 far
in the interior know about the movement of our
troops or the Mormonsi
BLOODY AFFRAY.-A correspondent of the New
Madrid (Mo) Times Of late date gives the follow
{ ing particulars Of bloody and fatal Array
r learn that fatal alteration took place at wea
veryille, in this county, on Thursday evening. A
young man by the name of Richardson bf Memphis
Of the firm OF Clark & Richardson, killed james
Weaver and fellow by the name of Spear Spear il
said to have been desperate fellow and was not &C
tually dead At last accounts, bat was dying Rich
In the storehouse OF Clark Il Richardson, and locked
himself up. No particulars known here as yet
as to who made the attack, or who is in fault.
Nor PRACTICAL PoET.-The New York CORES
/ pondent of the Boston Transcript says that Dr.
Mackay was lately called upon by an inventor with
the model Of lifeboat and offered hundred dollars
ifhe would write song about it. The Doctor acknowl
edging the liberal tender declining the job the ap
plicant added fifty by way of higher bid, and,
finding this did not inspire the muse, asked the poet
If he thought Longfellow would undertake the com
mission at that price.
MARINE DIsAsTERs.--The London line packet ship
Northumberland was lost at sea in hurricane on the
I'd Of December. The passengers and crew, sixty
three in ALL taken from the wreck two days after
the vessel foundered, by the British brig Jessie, and
carried to Cork Ireland Capt. Glover his wife and
child and ten seamen Of the bark Cecilia from Ber-
bice, taken from the wreck of the latter vessel
which was dismasted in the same hurricane on Dec
3D. and taken to New York by the ship Aladdin, from
Calcutta.
/ SINGULAR LAwsuIr.-A highly interesting suit In
regard to the recovery OF certain letters written by
Gen. Washington to his secretary, Tobias Lear, be.
tween the years 1890 and 1799 was argued in the Su
preme Court tin New York the 4th inst The letters
are in the possession of Mrs. Hgbee wife of Rev
Edward Y. Higbee, o. the assistant ministers Of
| Trinity Church. They are claimed BY Mrs. Nelson
Eyre as heir of Tobias Lear deceased. Hon. Georgs
Bancroft present and took much interest in th,
proceeding.
NEW YORK SEPoYs--The circumstances Of mos