New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1858-08-02

The Galveston News of Thursday last says


We suppose our readers are not generally aware
that there is regular mail and passenger con1mu.
nication twice a month between Galveston and San
Diego on the Pacific The new mail contract be.
tween San Antonio and San Diego went into opera
t0n the first of this month, the stages leaving San
Antonio the 10th and 24th of each MONTH Passen
gers leave daily by steamer for Harrisburg, where
also daily connection is made by the cars on the B.
b b. and G. Railroad TO Richmond and there q daily
connection is made by stages to Columbus thence
trl-weeky TO San Antonio. Passengers leaving here
on the 9Th or 10th, may reach San Antonio in ample
time to take the semnOnthIy mail stage to San
Diego.
Regarding the health of Galveston the News says
The raising of the Strand about two feet, so as to
protect against all ordinary oVerfl0Ws and the filing
up OF all the low places i'll the city, as to prevent
the existence OF stagnant water has given our city
clean and heathfu appearance, and prevented effect
ualy those bad odors that have heretofore been the
harbnger OF sickness. Indeed it is the opinion of
our oldest physicians that the yellow fever can never
become epidemic in this city, while it is kept in its
present cleany condition, free from every thing that
can be supposed to cause sickness.
The Houston Telegraph does not think that the
G. H. and H. Road, will do much in the way OF
freight, though its passenger traffic will be very
large-that in the carrying of heavy freights, the
road cannot compete with river navigation.
The Belton Independent states that several of its
friends who have been raising the Duora corn, claim
eightyye bushels 10 the acre, and gentleman is
confident that he will have one hundred bushels to
the acre.
The Independent has likewise been informed that
there would be all of 150 900 bushels OF corn for sale
in Bell county this year.
The Item states that peaches are so plentiful about
Huntsville they feeding their hogs on them and
that in a month from now they won't be worth five
cents bushel.
/ TEa Enu A1t1
named L. Keilman, who lived on the Salado, few
miles from San Antonio had been shot in the leg
lately by some person unknown, from which wound
he died. 1t appears that he had law suit with some
of his neghbors and threats had been made by some
of the parties A short time after the trial bis
daughter, healthy girl of sixteen, sickened and
died, under suspicious circumstances. No one has
been arrested,
The Galveston News publishes letter of the 18th
of July from bampasas county, from which we ex
tract the following:
Indian depredatiBns, on small scale are still car
red on and we begin to despair OF receiving any aid
or sucCor from our tardy Democratic Administration
Perhaps the Government thinks that Ford's victory
on the Canadian is a finale to Indian depredations
1t is the general opinion here that it is but the he
reinforced, we will have an end or a check tc
Indian eptedatlons-otherwise we may look ont fol
formidable Indian invasion this summer or early
fall, the result of which must prove disastrous.
Independent of the drought aud grasshoppers We
are making good crops of corn and wheat in this
county, and the stalks of cotton are doing finely
This is of the best stock countries in the State
and may be considered of the healthiest, there
being but one practising physician in the country and
| he the Hon. County Treasurer of Lampasas.
In San Saba county the average yield of wheat viii
be twenty-five to thirty bushels per acre. have just
received information from a reliable source, that va
rous crops have been gathered and measured out Il
bnshelsper acre OF good wheat.