New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1859-05-25
Texas Intelligence.
From The Galveston News Of Saturday last We
extract the following

From the Galveston News Of Saturday last W
extract the following
i Night before last the clothing store Of Nh. 7.
Wilson, on the Strand, was entered BY some adroi
thieves and clothing to the amount $1,000 or lZ0'
taken. Ihe operation wss skiidy as Ssoks y
The villains most likely supplied with iase keys
and there is reason to believe there is cohederatee
band Of them il or about sur city.
We have received some samples OF wool grown 81
Mr. John j. Dix, on the Nueces, about 20 miles above
San Patricio MI Dix has been living there but foul
or five years and commenced sheep raising on small
scale His flock consists OF cross OF Spanish ewes with
4 Ootswold, slightly Aerino, South Down and Saxon
They have increased 100 per cent year for the las,
three years. There has been no disease whatever
among them. One eve has produced eight lambs in
two PEARS and the flock keeps fat and even too much
60 fol- mutton. The samples Of wool banded us com.
pare hv0ably with the finest we have seen. One
I sample. half South Down, weighs CT pounds, the
fleece from eve. Another from buck weighs ten
pounds per fleece The experiment thus far leaves
no doubt that the Nueces Valley affords most ex-
cellent sheep range, and great many have recently
settled there for the purpose Of engaging in this bust
ness.
Sen Island Cotton has also been successfully raised
in Nueces county, and we learn that about 800
have been planted in that cotton this year.
The Austin Intelligencer says that James NJ.
Swisher has just returned from the salt works. and
reports that the greatest excitement prevails upon
the frontier, and that the people are armng to join
Capt Baylor, who attacked the Upper Reserve.
petition was in circulation calling upon Capt John
S. Ford to ran fer Governor.
An extra from the Bolton Independent gives an
account Of the killing Of Caddo Indian on the out
side Of the Reserve by the volunteer rangers A
squad Of twenty soldiers and eighty Indians, under
the o. s. Deputy Marshal, marched into Jack
county to arrest the rangers. The latter took to the
mountains, and dispatched . runner to the lower
counties for assistance against the Marshals forces
It seems that this act was not committed by Baylors
company, but by some other band Of volunteer
rangers.
The Cherokee Enquirer says that, though that
county is not regarded as the wheat region proper,
yet il the late wheat is not attacked by the rust the
yield will be at least 100 600 bushels.
We learn from the Enquirer that at a railroad
meeting held in Rusk, the 9th inst for the pur.
pose of carrying the Galveston and Houston Rail.
road through that place, 4llo acres of land, and
$4,000 in cash, were subscribed.
The Bell Independent, Of the 18th, learns from W.
b. White, who had just returned from the Rangers,
that the Ranging Company has broken up entirely,
and that when he left there were no Indians in the
country that could be heard Of.
The same journal states that the rivers of the
northwest out Of their banks, and great fear is
entertained as to the coming crops. The fruit, it
says, is all killed.
The Independent says that, in Bell county, every
field yeu see is green with vegetation; and well
informed correspondent expresses the opinion that
onethrd more, at least if not twice the crop will be
made in that county this year than was made last
year.
The Quitman Herald speaks Of the rain Of the sth,
which was SO universal throughout the State, and
thinks that enough will be made for that coun-
try without another shower.
The Herald says that the wheat birds of late have
been playing the mischief with their wheat. Flour
has been selling thereat 50 rs per hundred.
The Baptist, published at Anderson, Grimes county,
the large red ant has attacked the cotton crop in
parts Of that county. It eats the stalk near the
top, which then falls down. We have only heard of
few instances of this kind.
HOUSTON COTTON STATEMENT.
Stock on hand Sept. L. 1858, bales. 462 |
Received past week. .............. 2.366
preVlously'............ $3.50 &c, 73l |
shipped past week. ..."......... 2,309
previously. 1891 $4,000 |
Stock on hand May Is, 1859. 6,ss3 |
From the Upper Missouri,