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

TIE ELEcTT0N.-Allt the news received q Galvoe<s
ton up to Thursday lAst were highly anfsyoahls to
the Democracy, even from their stroneboldu n
News (Democrat) Of that dats speaks Il ~ iu1aow
ing discouraged tone:
We feel indeed that there ID reason % = al
ened, believing, q We honestly DO, that - ~
as were expressly gotten up to decsvs tie pscplss
and We are now firmly convinced that the Tins Wif
come, when very many Of the voters OF Texns VIII
find they have been deceived. But on. MOTTO = fk
"The will Of the people must rule asd - ahal -
cordingly pay our respectful homage u that Wil
as Gen. Houston said be would to Ffemoat ~ Ie
been elacted. # Ss
The Houston Telegraph hsads IL Eetnrus with g
inverted cannon, and exclaims:
ruined! What's the news in Travis, Aarshalll 4 d
Morse, how about the Red river county, Oh, fR2
word from Ell Paso! Somebody please send - =
crumb OF comfort from somewhere.
The election was held in Harris county, on Nor
day, and the Democracy got the worst whipping
perhaps you ever did sec. We do mot feel ahe fo u
Justice to the subject to-day. We can only ~ ~
the opposition polled larger vote in ts city 49,
even the most sanguine Of them expected
On the I'd inst. man named Dan Morrison Ghoe .
Mexican dead in Houston in quarrel. 10 ~
arrested.
The San Antonio Ledger states that thongh IN tho
Northern counties crops have been unusually good,
the same cannot be said Of Bexar, Aascon and oher
Western counties.
(. The Herald says that on the soth ut. thirteen
large foraging wagons and two passenger coacAss.
belonging to the overland mail line, arrived =, and
departed from that place.
The Bolton Independent learns that h g. Lovelady,
citizen Of Houston county, is confined in the Belton
Jail, on charge Of horse-stealing The Independslk
thinks him deranged. The Crocket Argus leArns ftom
several parties that unfortunate attachment fos
young lady has caused him TO wander, mentally and
physically.
The Gonzales Inquirer states that one Of their far
mers, who lives on Peach Creek, and who was ii
town few days since, for the purpose Of hiring
groes to pick cotton, stated that be win mako thB
year, with only twelve hands, one huadrsd baies
more than he can gather.
The Brenham Enquirer learns that short TINA snce
a difficulty occurred at Chapel Hill, between d.
Jones and Mcdonald Esq, in which the latter was
seriously cut with knife In the hands OF Jones, who
fled for parts unknown. IS
The LAGRANGE True Issue states that william b.
RUSSELL Of Fayete county, has received The appont
ment Of Chief Engineer. the part q our Stats, Ii
the United States and Texan Boundary Commiaaioa.
No permanent appointments has yet bean mads u nif
the vacancy occasioned BY the reslgnation os Maio
Scury.
The Upshur Democrat learns that . free.fght 90
CURED in that county, q few days since, hetween
Lewis Husky, Bill Long and BEN Bemine. Husky
was killed upon the spot and Long d supposed 70 b.
mortally wounded. The weapons used were bowls
knives and pistols
The Waco Democrat publishes the following latter
| from Gen. Houston: rs
| NAcoGDoCHxs, July I, I96o
J. O. SHOOK, ESP, Waco: Dear Sir Your kind
favor to me at Huntsville, has just come to hand
In relation to your frontier troubles, have 70 sAy
this: Should the people elect mo their Governor,
shall feel II my imperative duty to give that peace
and security Of life and properly to the frontier tha
the peopleso much need.
have to say, that 20 far tho ONCE Of Governor
might give me power, that the frontier shall be pro-
tected against the ncursions of the Indians, eiker
wild or those on the reserves. And Enthusiastically
saw that condemn, in the whole, the policy q fhA
present Executive and had occupied tho
frontier should have had full protection be the cot
what Il would. When favored the Reserve policy
in Texas had in view the Tennessee, Geofgia Als-
bama, and Arkansas Reserves; and not policy that
would be den Of thieves, from which hordes were to
issue and murder and plunder our people.
In conclusion, am willing for you 70 pledge me 70
the frontier, for with them have lived, and With
| them am willing to die.
| Thine truly, GAN HOU4T0Ns s