New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1858-12-20
TEENS InteIIIgemce.
The Austin InteIIIgencer ave:

Inc Austin lnLelIgencef says:
The prisoners confined in the Travis county Jail
made an attempt to regain their liberty last night.
They had far succeeded in their excavations that
in five minutes more they would have bid the officers
a long farewell But from the noise they made their
plans frustrated by the timely interference of
the iailor. They had succeeded in digging through
the dungeon, and were more than half way through
the outer wall. The mail robber, Dammart, was the
principal actor in the attempt to escape.
We learn from the San Antonio Ledger, that ne.
gro man was recently captured in Chihuahua by Mr..
Sol. Chldress, of San Antonio belonging to a Mr..
David Mllen, Of Anderson county, Texas The ne
gro is in Jail in that city and states that he went
to Chihuahua over the Memphis and Ell Paso Mail
Route, and that he assisted and fed at the sta
tons all along the road By the employees of the line
After crossing the Rio Grande, he was employed BY
the company as station keeper at $40 dollars per
month ...... -..
The citizens Of Ell Paso and the Rio Grande Valley
were to hold mass meeting denouncing this pro,
Ceeding the part of the Company but the Ledgers
informant left before it was held.
The Herald has very interesting letter from its
travelling correspondent at Fort Beknap. We clip
the following Indian news:
An express arrived on the 22d from Major Van
Dorn's camp, having left there on Saturday last,
Major Van Dorm had just returned from an extended
scout OF eighteen days, having proceeded abDut two
hundred miles in a nOrhery direction, but had not
the sign OF an Indian in all the time He salts
tedhmselt that there were no Indians within striking
distance. 1t is supposed that Gen. Twiggs will order
the expedition to return into Texas as soon as the
present dispatches from Major Van Dorm reach San
Antonio. Major Van Dorm had entirely recovered
from his wound The express reports twelve inches
snow at the camp when he left"
The Kerville correspondent of the San Antonio
Ledger says that young lady fell from pecan tree
the other day and broke one of her legs Moral
young ladies should not climb trees if they desire to
keep the axis of their crinoline unbroken.
The Huntsville Item states that the cotton crop in
that county, has yielded better than was expected
that corn is drug in their market and that it has
heard of private sale Of several hundred bushe
Of thesame at Is cents per bushel.
The Waco Southerner learns from gentleman ius
from the Paloxy country, (Emth and Palo Pinto
counties) that at least hundred families have set
tied on that stream within the past few months.
The Frontier News, of the 80 inst, says
We learn from a gentleman returning from cour
at Beknap, that while the District Court was in ses
sion, parcel of Comanches came down to the Love-
| Agency tied their horses outside and deliberately
walked into the Towakana vagean killed frlendll
| Indian 1t is not known how many were present bu
| we understood five were seen We also learn there
were two white men in the village at the time, wit
| became alarmed and having seCreted themselves thu
friendly Indians who had started in pursuit of thu
Comanches came upon them and shot one of the mel
| for Cumanche, WOunding him dangerously befor
the mistake was discovered