New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1859-08-30
Texas Intelligence.

The San Antonio Texan of the Goth says:
We learn that on Monday night our neighbors on
the Medina had a remarkably heavy rain, and that
the country around ives completely covered with
water. We shall soon see a great improvement IN
our stock ranges.
The Herald of the 23d says:
The recent rains throughout the West have pro.
duced in the last eight ten days magical change
in the appearance Of the whole face Of nature. Our
prairies now wear their usual garb of green, and
present to the eye an aspect OF uuequaled Eeaufy.
The prospect now is that we shall have our usual fine
fall and winter range, the value of which can only
be appreciated by thcse familiar with the stock in
terest in Texas.
The Cherokee County Enquirer OF the 10th says:
We have had copious rains in various parts of this
county during the past week, which hes had the
effect of consider ably modifying the intense heat of
the season, and we hope, ALSO of improving the cot
ton crops which were suffering greatly from the late
continued drouth.
The Eastern Texan of the Goth says:
Since our last issue we have had heavy rains,
which, had they fallen two or three weeks ago,
would have been productive of great benefit. As it
is, none but late cotton can be beneitted-the major
portion of the crop having been already very mater
ally injured
The Brownsville Flag of the 18th has the follow,
ing:
We regret to say that the sckners shows no signs
OF abatement. There is still greater proportion OF
recoveries as compared with last year. In Matamo.
it is raid to he worse than lest year. considering
that it has but lately commenced
On Saturday night last man named Anastaclo
Gonzales was shot in the stable lot OF Mr.. VIM. r.
Neale, by Juan Webb, Neale's brother.in.law On
the hearing before Mayor Powers, Webb was bound
over to appear before the District Court. The wounds
in each arm and side are serious, but the man VIII
probably recover. There is some mystery rs to the
motives which led to the affray they are not well
enough understood to be given here.
The Lavaca Herald chronicles the opening of the
fall trade there. Sixtyone bales of cotton were re-
ceived in one day by a single house.
The editor of the Goliad Messenger lately killed two
hundred bats in his office in single hour.
| The Houston Telegraph announces that there is a
Post Office thief between there and New York, and
that suspicion hoyers between Galveston and New
! Orleans.
The Telegraph states that ice is now an unattaina-
| BILE luxury in Houston.
The Telegraph thinks that, as the continued silence
of the G. H. & H. R. R. Co., which has been observed
for months past, and their inactivity have led the
people to doubt either their good faith or their ability
to go ahead with their enterprise it now becomes
| matter of importance that new charter should be
obtained and company organized, which will do
something besides talk and build fortunes for its pro
| jectors.
There ia to be hartshorn factory established ID
| Houston.
The Bastrop Advertiser states that Mr.. G. P. Shaw
who had store at Cedar creek, twelve miles west
Bastrop, committed suicide few nights since, BY
taking laudanuul. He had been drinking, and somt
persons had painted him all over with green paint
and sewed him up in a sack. On awaking, and mo-
succeeding in washing the paint from his hair