New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1858-11-29

Our entire State is undergoing 50 many changes
from year TO year. IN the creation Of new counties
the building up Of new towns, the construction Of
new public roads, ETC., etc, that naD in order 10
present our State as it s must be corrected aud re-
published almost annually and it was with this view
that our present plan was adopted, in order 10 keep
pace with the rapid changes and improvements that
are taking place.
A correspondent Of the Liberty Gazette states shat
Cen Houston will certainly move and settle on his
beautiful place at Cedar Point in Chambers county,
next season.
The Waco Democrat says that the editor saw, while
at Cora, bona ide Indian scalp taken from the head
Of an Indian killed in little fight abont twenty miles
from Cora, some few weeks since. The Indian had
on Elams boots, the man who was killed Gates
vile. There were four Indians, and we believe four
whites-Judge Bond, Thomas Deaton, and two others.
The same paper says
While at Cora, last week, we learned from Judge
Chandler Chief Justice Of Brown county, that two Of
the children Of Joshua jackson, little boy about
eleven years and little girl nine years Of age, had
succeeded in making their escape from the Indians,
and were found by some person and carried in and
delivered up to their friends The eldest daughter,
fourteen years of age, taken at the same time, was
found dead and scalped The two little ones made
their escape from the Indians about four miles from
the place where the Cora boys had their fight. They
say there is with the Indians white man (suppOsed
to be Tom Middleton), who paints himself like an
Indian every morning and, also, white woman,
about fourteen or fifteen wears nf are WIN docs not
pretend 10 talk English al Ait The children "a that
Il was her that killed their mother They saw the
Indians left them Itbe childrenS in CHARGE II III White
man and woman at their camp, and went off and
were gone some two or three days, when the white
man and woman also left-teling the children il they
attanntad n ne that the ,v9nld Ia kiIIed The
children went in search Of water and while ont the
indians returned ana the little ones remeberir the
threat hid themselves in a thcket far three davs
until the Indians left and then started for the settle
ments and were found as above stated
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Herald gives the following account OF serious atray
in the former place:
One of the greatest that has ever dispracpd
this Sfaa or ne army occHrred ths afternoon az thi
place. In difficulty which occurred between citi
zen, Mr. George Pettyohn, and soldier, the soldier
was shot Tho latter was taken up TO the garrison
a a5 aHv sof In9 NJ Shar} Tu Wilt ue
the Sheriff IN to the Justices Office Dartv of sol
diers completely armed, belonging to Company B, o
ne "a CaVary5 Who NAG Ilst arrived rom For
~ tha iog and nool1onncad rino @ ~ o
in attempting to escape ran into Mr. Fishers Hotel
The soldiers, some twenty in number headed by
sergeant named Eosenoo!ph, Lolo%ed up, nrng u
then surrounded the h5e and fred into it nnti the
were stoned by Major Thomas, who came down i
haste, accompanied by several Of his officers and
guard Oh sotdlers, DR.: r was teray snot 70 pieces
he soe in the otrope we're arrested
Company D, under command Of Capt. Palmer
The officers, and particularly Major Thomas, acte
WIN proh;PLness ana gooa judgement IN sne ana
ten Nv sriso we've poPs 70 resis "
There was a difference Of opinion as to who was
the wrong when the soldier was shot. The soldier
urge that be vas fayorte q t9e company, and th'
R,th % TonpTaI mem oTe dain we'll and Wi
very likely recover Mr. Pettyiohn received two sho
in each arm one in the right chest (ths one rangn
r9und} one ~ tne lace, and iesA wound IN me lie
hut Whether ii gras nrodnred hv sbot or a niece
glass is not known. Alexander, the Soldier receive
wound from six.shQoter, the ball passing throug
his mouth and out at the back of the neck
The Victoria Advocate states that a short TIN
since, German lady, living IN Yorktown, De"l
, county Locked her three little children IN the nous
anu went - Iue com,pen 70 aUeuu - 1le nl'lAius
+ her She had bpn absent hu a IN