New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-01-29
Texas Intelligence.

The polee force OF Galveston IS cohPoaeo "
twelve men only. The natural consequence ~
that the town is oyerrun with thieves, gamblers,
earroters and yagrants; murders are comhi.teu d.
all hours Of the day and night with almost peaieee
impunity.
Galveston appears to be the watering place VI
ssab;onable resort for those criminals whose mis-
. deeds have made New Orleans too hot residence
I for them. .
The Galveston News says there are upwards OF
ATTY vessels. of all classes at anchor outside the
bar-steamers, ships, banks, briggs and schooners
and still larger number lying at the wharyes IN
nnrt and in the stream. To accommodate all THIS
al,inuing Galveston has only ten wharyes
TuE Doc CAsE.-Many Northern sheets are III IN
tensely severe on the Texas dog case Ing
ings If the poor freedmen are represenIea as IN
toIerable (; and the audacity 81 the iate siaYe
owners is painted in the most maniest i, soi az
simpy because, when inqusition was nlaue W. IL
Elmore announced himselfas the author 81 tne
aIleaed atrocity. The important facts OF me case
are. that there were rogues about VINO naa
been committing depredaticns and theit s.. upon
Col Elmore's premises, anu nss caring much,
wa sunnose-what was the complexion oil the per-
son Of persons to be oyertaken by his police !. II
most strongly w ws eangS and that
is The amount Of the matter, except that the cu.
prit had been white man, it would have peeh IoI
gotten long ago, even If anything hau oeel SUN
about IL nfSG. III
have had no long jeremiads in the Northern pa
pers-[ Houston News.
We learn that several chaps are trying to have IA
a steam fire engine purchased by the city. rms
is all huribug for steam nrs e 4Hsn SEVENTY
four gun Inan4ofwar could navigate Bullalo Bayou
Man tie small engines first, gentlemen, ana mel
the city fathers think you can be trusted WIN
steam one, they will be sure to getit for you.
(. NJ M Houston Telegraph
4 There is report thet four citizens of Cola
county, Messrs. Ed. Maulding, John Bingham, job
Moore and Peter Brodegan, were murdered by ne
y groes on the Rio Grande. They had just arrived
Having driven beeves, when they were attacked i
their camps at night and brutally killed
A few years since, during the reign of peace
!. Goliad was the great horse mart of Texas. Mes
leans brought in numerous droves of horses in th
rprine and disposed of them to buyers from diffel
ent parts of the country. Some of the purchaser
came from Kentucky, Missouri, Arkansas, Missi
sippi and Louisiana. The traffic added much
the life, and increased the business Of our place.
We should like to see the return of the old stat
Of things next spring The grass in this vicinil
Is very good at this time, and nc doubt it will /
then. There is no point more favorable for tn
business than Goliad.
"a There seems to be good deal Of activity in Q,
part of the country in buying and selling beeve
We have heard of many being driven by the raj
ers to Louisiana. The STOCK lhterest y we gre
one Of our region, and we like to see 1t thriving.
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p,s AND Q,s.-The origin Of the phrase !" Nil
y your P's and Q's'' is not generally known sa ).
b sle-houses. where chalk scores were former !,
marked upon the wall, or behind the door Of !. Y
aproo il was customary to put 'a aesonn n
show Tho number Of pintSand quarts for which
wa in NJ arrears; and we may presume many
friendly rustic to have tapped his neighbor On
shoulder, when he was INDUCING toe iree,y IN
potations, and to have exclaimed = 1lles oile
mind Your P's and Q's." .ha aon
When Toby, the learned pig, was N .he zeis
Of his popularity theatrical wag who atse no
the performance mac,ous'y ses a oaiuJ ca a
resist si and Which mme dately occasionea MN
lose Ills cue The pig exhibitor remonstra.ea
the author of the mischief on inc nnih ~.
what lie had done, when he replied, that IN ms Z
wish was, to see whether Toby knew bis rs II
his Q's,