The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1864-01-30

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INTERESTING RRox rxx1a
HoUsToN, TEXAS, Jan. 11th, via J,e,so..
Jan. 29th.-We haze accounts Of anothe, -.
rious Indian raid In Cook county in vhieh
twelve or hftesn people ware killed he
Indians were armed and equipped BY The
Yankees
Fifteen millicns Of dollars Of Confedefaeo
money that had run the blockade ftom seme
Eastern port to Havana, and Aaa safsly
aeacned Monterey, Mexico, en- rouso tothe
.'sns- Mlesissippi Department. has ben q.
'aeoea oy the English bonseof Blilmo ACo..
u na!sm"ras, for the sliexsd failure on,tAe
PART OF As)'r Hart, A. @ n, an agent Of The
confederate States 6.tssnment. In meetine
his contracts with that house for co,tcs =
The same house also attached large .rnour.
OF cotton In transitu in Mexico, bslorslrs
TO the Government, on the same account =
Gen. A. ! Hanilton, the Aboat,oa ..up.
p 'intee % Military y-GSveSnpraok1 1s1ns, -
hid public receptfoni Id MaRamosas By Gov.
Ssrna and Cortinas In speech u tho lAnses
quet he anno unced that IN case the 1fsasAfs
aiyance On Matamuras The Yankees wonh
h lp the Mexicspa whip them out. HAmil.
ton has as yet iseasd no proclamation that
We have heard Of krce of the Yankees,
500 strong, have ads1hesd from Brownsville
On Kings Ranch. They met with NO oppo.
sition. Col Benaredes and Col. John D.
Ford, the old ranger, ara raising fosce In
the west to suppress the Mrxican bandlte
now depredatng On our soil.
The Yankee force ut SAlaria aud Dskew,s
Point 10 about II, 900 men. They are oecu.
pying Indianola with . small garrisan. and
have visited Lavacca. They did NO damage
there save sacking few hOusca The rail.
road from Lavacca to Vic,oria 10 ;horouslly
destroyed. They also landed . force Of q
few hundred one day last week In the upper
part of Matagorda Peninsula, for the pur.
pose of cutting of fifteen of our pickets
who were below them. The pickets e.
capped in some oyster boats They wers q
squad of volunteer exempts from the city.
under command of ex Gov. Henderson. A
company Of men. under Capt Rudgely, a.
tempted last week to cross from tho mafu
land to the peninsula They we're caught In
storm, the boals swamped, and they were
obliged to swim out. Fourteen of the men
perished ia the attempt, their dead bodies
being SUI sequently washed up by the wavea,
Tney were frozen to death.
No engagement of consequence has 90.
CURED on our coast since the fall of Escho.
rLzo. Since the 1st inst. We have expe.
rienced the coldest weather known for
maDy years. 1t is believed that nearly al
the stubble in the sugar cane has been frOsen
out. The people have learned to look re-
verses sauarely Ia tho face, and they
evince determination to fight 1t ont, NO
matter what odds, or under what difficulties.
Texas will not succumb, even IL every other
The proclamation Of Lincoln sxcites hardy
thought. The health and spirits Of our
troops are good, and the Organization Of the
army Is thorough. Veterans are in command
of every brigade, AMI many Of the regiments
are from eight hundred to thousand strong.
Ii word, Texas is all right. The enemy
has III two months taken NO point that VA
regarded az defensible, and Intended to BE-
defended. They viii not attempt to do %
with less than two to one.