New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-10-28
Texas Intelligence.
WALTON.


The Galveston News of the 18th says:
The weather is decidedly northerish-strong
winds blowing from that quarter, and SO as to
move several small buildings from their founda-
tons. a.-+7 o.
The Sheriff of Galveston has called for one hun
dred picked men to act as Confederate police.
He acts under Gen. HGbert's ORDERS The men
will be required to also in the defence OF the
city. ~ 49, IT, -m...-
The News has the following from the northern
frontier:
"A letter Of the 18th ult., from Camp jackson, on
the northern froneier, to the Paris lamar) Advo-
cate, says Buffalo Hump, one of the Camanche
chiefs, had come into the Reserve with thirty-two
warriors and ten women Near Fort Cobb one
hundred and fifty kioways were encamped. Only
twelve men garrisoned the fort, and they were to
leave in few days. Major Burleson, (H. Z.
McCullochs regiment commanded at Camp Jack
SON. The men would soon commence preparing
for winter quarters. A chain of posts, twenty men
each, extends from Camp jackson to the Conche.
From letter. to the same camp to the Clarks-
vile Standard, we learn that the kioways have re-
fused to make treaty with Col Pike, Confederate
Commissioner, and have declared for war.
The Austin Intelligeneer, of the 9th, has the fol-
lowing: '
As public meeting held in the town of Wash
ngton, few days since, the planters OF that sec
ton unanimously resolved not to sell tler cotton
to Mexican agents. believing them to be in the in
terest of Eastern manufacturers.
The Citizen says that seven large wagons, ten
mules to eachJ passed through Columbus onWed-
nesday from Chihuahua laden with copper.
The San Antonio Herald states that r. A. How
ard has contracted to furnish the army with 10000
beeves, to be delivered at New Iberia, La.
We are informed that the subscriptions for aid
ing and fitting out soldiers already exceed $4,000 IN
Travis county.
The Houston Telegraph has dispatch giving
further accounts of the storm at Galveston. 1t
says the storm was the seyerest that has occurred
there for the last five years, and adds:
The wind, which had been blowing fresh from
the southeast all the morning, suddenly veered
round to the northwest between l and o'clock in
the afternoon, and copmenced blowing heavily
from that quarter. .,
The tide in the bay being very high at the time,
on account of the eastery wind in the morning the
waters of the bay soon commenced rising, and
about half-past 2 the strand and the adjacent
Streets as far back as Market street. flooded
with water from to three feet deep.
Immense quantities of drift-wood, old logs, bun
dies of shingles and in fact everything that would
float, were floating around the streets in every di
rection. AT the time the gale was at its highest
the saboat Mattee, with three men in her who had
been drinking started from the central wharf to
make Pelican Spit She had got about halt way
across the Bay, when sudden squall struck her
and instantly capsized her, bottom upwards, with
| the three men clingng TO her. The Captain of the
steamboat Col. Stelle seeing the situation of the
| boat, instantly sent his yawl, with four men, in
charge of his first officer, their assistance, and
the gallant fellows, after heavy pull against d
tremendous sea, succeeded in reaching the boat
| and getting the men off safely.
The Confederate steamer OF war Gen. Rusk had
the day before taken her position in the eastern
channel to the north of Pelican Spit and it was
supposed would ride out the gale safely, but the
violence of the wind caused the anchors to drag
and she is now hard and fast the shoal between
| Pelican Srit and Pelican Island.
| The steamboat Bayou City was lying at the Cen
tral wharf and the force of the wind was such tina
it twisted her chimneys close off to her deck. bu
| as far as heard from she sustained no other dam
| age. The chimneys of the steamboat Dana were
| also twisted, but not enough to damage them ma
| terially. The Confederate war schooner Roya
| Yacht, which riding at anchor in the bay
| dragged her anchors, and was blown with so much
| violence against kuhns wharf as to render hel
almost worthless and entirely useless for the pre-
| sent.
| About 8 P. NJ, when the gale had reached it
| height, hand car from Virginia Point brought Il
| word the track sure to be washed away OF
the Island, as it rocked from side to side as the,
passed over it with the hand car and it turned ou
| to be true, as the train from Houston last evening
could only get to this end of the bridge, over TIL
| bay.
| We understand, however, that the road will b.
running again on its regular time tomorrow.
| We went over to the track last night, after til
| storm, and found it in very bad condition, til
grade in several places being entirely washed out
leaving but the iron with the ties hanging to it, an
| making the road impossible for trains.
| The blockading vessel Santee rode at ancho
through the storm.