New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-07-24

,,o.,,s.e, ,s stood at hundred and over IN tte
sbsde. Zach da5 seems to exceed its predeeess0r
in Intensity G. heat and sasriness ON Saturday,
Al he riiyoad s,;s at ll3e and on the west side
Of tbe sogars q ~. iussrlor Of brick houses at
| Ino. h the interior of he Uclrthonse, conceded
70 be the coolest place in to wn, = 1000 st ioso
Inc ar was as hot as i it CAM cd iaa
mace The corn crop ruined hey ~ u
and we nave every reason to fear t. ~ M cvesv ~ -
crop Will share the same fate, The L soss =. sne
cotton il scarcely is inches high and the sauarss
are falling on. The disaster fs greater even s'an
men are willing to admit. IL will approach, ~
some portions OF the State, nearly, not quite, N
a famine, and we have every rcxsson to believe "
will be necessary to call the Legislature t1getncT
to pass laws to postpone the collection Of debts
until another crop is made. Such p t1e actusi
condition Of affairs extending from she Ro Granae
to the Onachita river in Louisiana. and 10y s IN
eastward we know not, and from the aulf 70 VIZ
s3d parallel Of latitude, with perlaps mere arg
there favored farm or neighboTfood
The Qutrnan Herald Of the HE, says "A intense
heat am want Of rain are seriously afsys hng ths
cotton ii9 that section
The Henderson Tines says tile corn era Y =
failure no amount of rain can save IL early ralns
would reviv@ the cotton.
Heavy raiss have visited parta Of Wood com ~
leaving the gzound too wet sopIow. a settsrffp n
WeatherfoTd, Parker county, states that On th
return Of Capt. Baylor and hiy party To that place,
the citizens fredss hundred guns in honor of his
sgaaI victory; the more striking that the re smeng
under Col johnson, which has hsen in the same
region for some weeks, for the express purpcseof
punisaFng hostile Indians and protecting the rom
tier haye not yet caught or punished one savage
but some of them, in aiding sheri@s posse, have
aided alho in killing white men. The.ietter says
Col. Jehnson's expedition, the hontiersmen
think, VIII he failure. His six hundred WELL +
armed mes have done nothing so far; while here
right under their nose, six of the men Gen. Housl
ton last spring publicly denounced ct Austin as
towards and women murderers, have, in fan fight,
killed ten OF his pet warriors, wounded three, re-
covered thirty fine American horses these Indians
had stolen, and proved beyond doubt that the
Reserve lndisns were the guilty parties in the muir
ders and robberies frontier has suffered from
SO severely. These whipped Indians were plainly
recognized to be WicRitas, Waeoes and Reserve
Comanches.
Col. johnson is on a wild goose chase If he is. :.
Indian body guard say it isforty days travel
to where the wild Indians are," and they know he
is coming after them. Two citizens OF Clear Fork
say they saw Buffalo Hump and his band IN the
Rocky Mountains, where they have been all win
ter Agent Blan says his Indians are always on
the Reserve, but his young Wichita warriors q are
sometimes ont buffalo hunting and then they dis
covered trails of Kioways,s who intend to depre-
date in certain counties and return, fersooth, by
the Agency and lay the blame on his people,
Smart men! that can tell by looking at an Indian
trail, which way those who made it viii return.
Why don't they, then, intercept these hostile In
dians and at least recover the property they have
stolen! These buffalo hunters have been caught at.