New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1859-10-20
Texas Intelligence.

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The Galveston News Of Saturday announces that
sickness in that city is on the increase During the
18th and l4th there were fourteen deaths, ten Of
which were by yellow fever, and a number of cases
were reported several miles down the island.
During the 18th, 18th and l4th, there were fifteen
deaths in Houston, up to the time the paper went
to press. The News says:
We learn from Captain Sterrett that there were
ten burals in Houston yesterday before he left and
he had heard of six more that would take place
during the evening. It is estimated that the num-
Der now sick is about one hundred and fifty. The
sickness is considered more fatal than it has here
tofore been. Among those who have died we hear
of numbers who are well known to our citizens
and whose death will be deeply regretted. We are
sorry we are not able to give the names of all such.
Hampstead is still reported to be healthy.
The telegraph continues to receive distressing
accounts from Cypress. RumOr says there have
been fifteen deaths, and every person left who was
liable to the fever is now down.
gentleman just from the Rio Grande informs
the Austin Gazette that owing to the ravages Of the
hostile Indians the ranches were all found aban-
doned on the east side of the Rio Grande.
We have conversed with several frontiersmen
lately, says the Gazette of the 9Th, and find that
they concur in the opinion that liberal premium
offered for Indian scalps would be the most effect
ual remedy against the attacks Of the hostile In
dams.
The Mckinney Messenger says that the company
that went in pursuit Of the Indians who committed
the recent outrages on Clear Creek, in Cook coun-
ty, have returned home, after unsuccessful pur
suit. They followed the Indian trail to Red River.
but did not cross.
The citizens of Frio county have organized them
selves into Ranging company, and elected J. R.
Bureson, captain, and Daniel Williams, lst. lieu
| tenant
We learn from the San Antonio Tedrar that n
mass meeting of the citizens of San Antonio took
place the evening of the 5th, for the purpose of
devisng means for the effectual protection of the
frontier from the inyasions of the Indians Hon. s.
A. Maverick was called to the Chair, and the meet
ing addressed by Messrs. John Davis, Peterson.
Trueheart, Maj. Clark, Capt. Sweet, the Chairman
and Col. Wilcox. An adjourned meeting was held
the next evening and committee appointed who.
presented report which was adopted. From the
report we extract the following:
Your committee further recommend that as soon
as possible expeditions consisting of not less than
one regiment of Rangers, and as many mounted
| troops of the United States as can be spared, be
| sent from three different points into the Indian
country, to carry on a war of aggression and ex-
termination, and that they be authorized to pursue
1 tugtves into Mexico.
| Your committee are unanimously of the opinion
that the system of subsidies to the Indian tribe is
inudicous and they protest most earnestly against
! the issuing of firearms and ammunition by the
General Government.
| The Bastrop Advertiser states that Gen. Houston
visited Bastrop on the 9Th, and entered his SON as
a student in the Military Academy. ,s
The Gonzales Inquirer says that their planters
have been taking advantage of the fine picking
weather, and that the worms are sweeping their
fields but too late to do any damage.