New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1859-06-17

extract the following paragraphs:
| The complaints of dry weather are more numer
! Gus from the country. Corn is suffering from the
drouth quite severely and cotton also begins to want
| rain.
We learn that copious rains have fallen in Victo.
ria and the neighboring counties, so that there is
now no doubt bnt the corn crop will be an unusually
large Slight rains have also fallen on the lower
Colorado, and this side, while the other parts Of the
country, from which we have heard, are suffering
more or less from drought. However, there are in.
dicatlons of rain almost every day, and though we
have had none here to do any good vet those in the
| interior have been more favored.
| We learn from Mr.. Machado, who, with Mrs. Wat.
son, brought out nearly two hundred camels to this
place last fall that he has now sold nearly all of
them to Alabama planters. There are now only
twenty or thirty remaining to be sold. At what
| prices he sold them we have not learned, but the
price IN Alabama is said to vary from sl50 to $3.50.
From the accounts we have seen the conclusion is
that full and fair experimenthas proved the camel to
be decidedly preferable to the horse, the mule or
the OK, for most plantation uses. account of his
docty and the comparatively small cost of his keep.
ing as he eats and thrives on almost any thing that
grows.
| The News publishes the following cotton report for
the week ending on the l7th
sALEs.-Saturday, sos Monday, 100; Tuesday,
z25o; wednesday, 5s; Thursday, 'l5S; Friday,
.QgoTATIoSs-,(C Consultations Assmilating to those
OF Liverpool) )-lnferior, nominal Ordinary to s !:
| Good Ordinary, 81 to 0; Low Midding, % ; Mid
ding, 10 to l64 Good Mddling, II ; Middling Fair.
nominal Fair, nominal.
REMARKs.-The market opened dull, factors SEEM
ing anxious to sell at low figures, but on Tuesday,
| with City of Washngton's accounts at hand more
animation was felt, and 2250 bales changed hands
the market closing firm at quotations.
letter from Seguin, dated 4th inst, gives very
poor account of the crops. There has been no rain
for five weeks and all the rost-btten corn is ruined
The late planting may hold on a few days longer
The grass also on the prairie is very scant and needs
| rain, but the cotton so far looks toerably we'll.
The Gonzales Enquirer learns from some of the
planters on the San Marcos that the web worms are
doing some damage to the cotton, and that the re-
plant corn is suffering for rain.
The lntelligencer says that four out of the six
butchers in Austin have ceased selling fresh beef
| owing to the prevalence of black tongue in that
| neghborhood.
The Marshall Republican informs US that Mr.. Luke
Holt was murdered at Bethany lately, by two men
named Bowen and Camp. The murderers escaped
The Liberty Gazette has the following account of
a homicide
Mr.. Gilchriste was shot and killed instantly by
his brothern-law, John Brown, both of this county
on the night of the 9th inst, under the following
circumstances Gilchriste, who was camped near
Browns residence, left camp between and o'clock
swearing he intended to 20 and kill Brown carrying
| with him large knife. He went directly to Browns
house, and was met by B., in the front yard. Gil.
christie then told B. he intended to kill him. and had
come for that purpuse. Brown retreated into his
house, barred the doors aud windows, and then en-
deavored to persuade to leave, but all to no pur-
pose. Gehriste swore he had come there to kill
him and would do it before he left. he finally sue,
ceeded in breaking window open, and in the act of
getting in was shot by B. Mr.. Brown gave himself
up to the authorities and was axamined before Chief
Justice Adair and discharged.
Mr.. VIM. Devenbrook drowned in Buffalo
Bayou, near Houston, on the llth inst
The Victoria Advocate, of the llth, says:
Mr.. Feter, of this Office who has returned from a
amble through the country, says the cotton and
corn crops in Jackson, Matagorda and Wharton couu
ties are quite promising. Although they are not
quite as forward as the crops in Victoria county, yet
they are fine.