New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-01-03
Texas Intelllgei

ana outrage %I1iS nD-cOuntFV{7 7f@l III
bss bntshsgf 4fpd.son. when shan He GET Eslofg
: capt. hoge.~ :. all well mounted, armed ant
WIN sofde 20 men, % nearou toWn on Sun
equipped GO. 7eraly, campe -aatier, ii response
e rEe tse ea,i a;.I sor otfstIon paifs, rlibe
rally eontr5asna 5pa oney and provision ga e lid Z
the defense Of the frc inter.
Capt Curenton is cl 'camped near Belknap with
fifty men who are Gags iof the tight and wish
sufficient reinforeenents to proceed against the
Indians.
The trail Of party. of 20 il qdians has been fol
lowed up byW. J. MoseIey, wifi Y men from Bslk
nap, north of Red river, then Hest TO point
about 200 miles from Behnap. A camp Of 500 In
dians with great many horses, M faere seen,
all prepared for sojourn of some dur. ation This
is the camp the frontiersren, we prcst ae, intend
TO attack in thcir expedition Of tbs 18th IA mary.
The Dallas Herald Of the 19ths has letter Of the
Iiti,y from J. A. Carroll, weILknoWa c5sfzs. Of
Dssiton county, which says
1he Indians within fifty miles OF Denton, ant.T
i fhs9 are not drigen back We will coon be the%
counties are coming il every day. Our company
will start rom here tomorrow ard every man vh,
can get aaans will go. Cannot Dallas do something
for us. N Gods name send US men. ammunition
and arms. The express says the Indians are about
nine hundrsd'strong Do aend us al the assistance
you can.
Mr. CarroiVenelosed to tfs Herald a letter Of The
14th, lie had jastreceived by IN expresefrom Capt.
W. L. Fletchte5 of Montague: The letter is al
dressed to the citizens of Wiss and Parker eouN<
ties. 1t says:
Tie Indians, D large bodies, ere collecting at
fhe mouth of farmers Creek DRIED river and
dancing war dances; and we are sattsfed tdey are
dancing over the scaips that wer y taken ID Jack
ana ana Parker co untss. The Shaw aees, CaGdoes,
Kickapoos and other'tribes are together, and they
have two large droTes of horses (Esnerican1 that
they have stolen andthat S not ALL they are steal
ing daily from our cstizsn5. The people of Clay
county nave al come 70 this place, andwe are we'll
assured that this is move Of the Abosonists ard
Indians together to overcome Texas. Come to on
rescue, and that in haste. have commissioner
Lieut. Leonard to recruit all that are willing tor
come to o1r assistance Come TO this PLACE, and
yon can learn at what pout sbe attacI55wl be
made II Baylor and Hammer aye there tsH them
to come.
ford Col. Baylor started with a company for the
scene Of danger.
Measures we're taken tc send . cornpan zvfron1
Dallas. & ..#>N
In Falls county, the citizens of Deer and Pond
Creeks have raised a company of volunteers.
armed and equipped ready to respoad to tLs can
of TEXAS.
military company has been foTFaed at Carzi-
cana, under Capt. w. W. 8fSPhaM and L5dlts.
Gardner and LoCkhart.
AID FOR THE FRosTIER.-Tp to the 2ad, the e5
Houston Committee for Frontier Relief had re-
ceiVod Se45 rs. And in Galveston the eontri5u-
tons for the same purpose, on the Gath I'll,
amounted to $l365. Additional subscriptions are
in'the course of collection.
PohITIcAL-The Galveston News Of the 28:aiS
publishes the following extract from o letter date
San Patricio 18th inst:
., Nothing is spoken Of here but me dissolution Of
the Union. De the 10th we had a meeting. The
Lone Star flag was raised at tie G9aTth. ouse. and
strong secession resolutions adoptaK
An old lady, Mrs Bridget Hart svns accidentally
bunt to death on Friday. Her clothes caughtstire
and she was dead before the accident was dis
covered.
Col Hicks addressed the citizens Of Sabine Pass
or the 10th, urging secession and tie formation Of
a Southern Confederacy.
4 lady raised the first Lone Star far at Sabine
q public meeting was to be held at Nacogdoches
on the 22d, to consider of the political crisis
at Houston, on the 24th, a salute OF fifteen guns
was fired in the morning and one hnndred id the
evening, in honor of South Carolina
The Houston Telegraph says, with reference to
the call of the Governor for extra session OF Tie
Legislature, that petitions for forty-to counties,
out of more than hundred organized ones, had
reached him. There were more than 10, ,7sO names
appended from the forty-two counties. Only two
counties had the names of majority of voters
signed to their petltions-Brazora and Galveston.
The Bolton Democrat of the 2lst gives an inter
asting account of q Lone Star and Southern Con
ledefacy celebration ct Salado, in Bell county, on
he 10Th. Eight hundred persons were present.
MIsEELLANEoUs.-On the afternoon of the 21st
nst the San Antonio and Mexican Gulf railroad
vas to commence operations for the transporat-
ion Of passengers and freight between Layaca
md the present terminus, six miles from Victoria
The passenger cars, balance Of chairs, cross
les, etc., arrived at Lavaca on the 18th.
The Hampstead Courier speaks highly of the
ahors in that section of DR.. Moore, the new State.
5eolOgist: --s
DR.. Moore, we believe, proposes examining and
'eportpg RS fast as possible on such features Of.
,ur State geology as will be at once usefnl to our
'itizens for practical farming, manufacturing and,
)ther purposes.
The Columbus Citizen of the 22d says:
The grading on the Columbus Tap Road, we
earn, is nearly completed, only about one,haf
nile remaining unfinished. A new force, has been
,laced upon the road, VIC understand. The
prosperity Of Columbus demands that the Tap
hould be speedily put through"
Mr. G. A. 0gsbury is now sole proprietor Of the
lavaca Gulf Key Mr. Feter having Withdrawn.
Mr.. s. G. Ragsdnle has. severed his connection
with the Brenham Ranger. He will be succeeded
BY bfessrs. Lancaster and Drake.
The Draytons have achieved decided success
1t Houston.
WIDEA AwAKEs IN PITTsBuRG. = Fifteen Wide
Awake Clubs in Pittsburg have adopted resolutions.
% form themselves into military organization.
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THE CITIES THE UNIoN.-Accurding to the re-
cent census the ten principal cities of tie Union
anf in population follows: New York iirst&
Philadelphia second, Brooklyn third, Baltimore
ourth, Boston fifth, New Orleans SIKH, st. Louis
seventh, Cincinnati eighth Chicago ninth, BufaIo
enth. 4f
CoINCIDENCE.-Iti is coincidence not d little sSa-
sular that nephew of Major Anderson, the eGul-
nander at Fort Sumter, is the clussmate and cham
# Mr.. LncOns son at Harvard College.
FoRT SUMTER.--Ion, the Washington correspond
Mt of the Baltimore Sun, in letter dated the 2Sth
It., says
Officers state that Fort Sumter may ba taken by
battery Of five six heavy pieces
n the land opposite it, at the distance of one and
half miles. After making. breach, it will he
ecossary to send sufficient force in boats to
torn the fort.
MUNITIONS OF WAR FOR THE SoUIH.-Ihe Balti-
1ore Sun, of the 29th ult., says: reg
The leading dealers in firearms and munitions of