New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1859-02-02
Texas Intelligence.

The Galveston News OF Saturday says u the
weather: Il
lit does not rain quite all the time, the intervals
Of ntermssion are pretty well filled up with fogs and
mist that have very near affinity 70 rain.
From the same paper We extract the following in
teligence regarding the cotton market:
sALEs- Saturday. ss5; Monday, 800; Tuesday 6s2;
Wednesday, 1l3; Thursday, 40l; Friday, 2s7-26lii
ouorAr1oss. - {Gla..ifeation. A..;mi,as;ns to
those Of Liverpool Inferior, 81 to 73c Ordinary,
III to ioi mddins Ill III so Sw %SSns
LIZ to IL middling fair, 12f to III fair, nominal
The demand that existed last week has continued
during the present week, and although We do not
note any quotable change in prices, the market is
somewhat irregular. VI
The San Antonio Texan says that the Sam Diego
mail arrived there the 18th, In time to meet the
steamer 80 as to make the trip from the Pacific To
New Orleans in twenty five days-the quickest trip
on record.
The Herald Of the 25th has the following:
We learn from Mr.. W. W. Abnett, of Uvside, thai
on Friday, the l4th inst, an Indian was killed BY Nj
Hilburn, Of Uvalde county. Mr.. Fl. was hunting
hogs only about two hundred yards from his house,
slipping through the brush and shot him through the
body, from which be died in about an hour. The In
dian was nearly naked refused to tell his tribe, said
that he was alone, which was confirmed by an ex-
dull4Asion VI us Chupluk plaCe. No wax AIOOt AuQ
had . bow and arrows, : bride and rope. He
spoke Spanish. The Indian stated that he had been
down towards San Antonio. There 10 not doubt
about any OF the statements here gwen and the case
4 appears to be involved in mystery.
! The Brownsville Flag Of the Seth ult. says:
! Gen. Gouicuria Cuban capitalist, is now here az
ranging with the merchants Of Brownsville and Mata
moros to run q line Of steamers direct between on
port and New Orleans We are assured that this nj
rangement is so far matured as to be pronounced
certainty. The first steamer Is promised by the ls
of March. The merchants of Indianola and the in
terror we see are active In organizing line Of steam
ers, with promise Of success; while the old compan
itself is not idle From all this arrangement we hay
. promise Of an active business In prospective.
| DEAF AND DUMB CoMPos1roRs.-Tn Germany, q
the birthplace Of printing, great interest is still el
taken place at Zabagen, in Wurtemburg, which i
attracting considerable attention. Mr. Theodore AL
| gerad, who has long shown much sympathy for TIL
deaf and dumb had conceived that those who wer
suffering under that calamity might be usefullv an,
proftably employed In the printing Office Fo]I6Wini
out this idea, that gentleman has now in his employ
ment one hundred and sixty operatives who are dea
and dumb, and Of whom eleven are females, all O
whom he has, at his own expense. and personally in
structed to such extent that they are now exper
compostors. The Government Of Wurtemburg has
thought that this experiment. OF which the object wa
to give work and sastenance tomany Of this class d
Of acknowledgment, and the King has, in the NEAR
time, given orders that large gold medal should b,
presented to the director Of this and silent print
ing Office, in testimony OF the high sense which BIZ
majesty entertans Of NJ. Algerads benevolent under
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