New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-10-09
Texaa Intelligence.

The legislature of Texas have adopted Joint
resolution providing for the removal of the re-
mains of Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston from this
city to the State cemetery at Austin. The resolu-
ton, which was unanimously adopted, provides
for joint committee, consisting of one from the
Senate and two from the House, who shall pro-
ceed during the vacation, to carry out the pur-
pose in an appropriate manner.
The Galveston Civilian and Gazette complains
of the verbage of the Texas legislature. Says
the Civilian:
Speeches and acts of incorporation are abont as
plentiful as leaves; but as to solid public work
scarcely any has been done. Many aspiring poll
ticians who are endeayoring to distinguish them
selves by windy defamation are quite as likely to
eHtngulsh their rising prospects. The people
begin to understand that while thunder makes q
great deal Of noise and causes ducks to look
askance, lightning does the work in silence and
is done before the thunder is heard. The State
pays more money for bad speeches from many
young lawyers than they will ever get from their
clients
Robert Hines, a bar.keeper at Houston, was
killed, day before yesterday, in rencounter with
John johnson, a lawyer, resulting from quarrel
as to whether a couple of drinks had been paid
for. johnson was held to bail in the sum of
$2O0O.--[Civilian.
The San Antonio Herald, of the 28th ult. esti-
mates that in twenty-five days there had been
700 to 500 cases of cholera in that city, The
deaths were $50. In the As hours preceding the
28th, there were II DEATHS The disease was
abating rapdly.-[Ibid.
DEsPoNDENCY AMONG PLANTERs,-The Houma
Guard says:
Another rainy week has passed since our last
| issue, and the army worm continuing its depreda-
| tOns. We have never seen our citizens appear
more Responding than at the resent time. We
have seen our people endure the insults and rob.
| berries of hostile armies and military governments {:
| we have seen their growing crops disappear as if
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worm, or swept away by the floods of the NTissis.
sippi; yet there was hope left in the heart, and
| men looked bravely forward for better luck next
time" But there is q point beyond which even
human endurance cannot pass, and it would seem
| (if we may judge by the evident dependency of
those we meet,) that we are approaching that
4 point. This dependency is the more apparent as
it has been but a few days since all were in the
| finest spirit.
The season has been unusually favorable for
i cotton, and many, who had ventured their last
dollar on the present crop fet that the venture
was success, and the future looked cheering in
| deed, compared with what they had passed
| through. But alas ! just the moment when they
were beginning to gather the fruits OF their years
labor, once more comes the dreaded army worm,
and with 1t the destructive rains, blasting all their
bright prospects, and destroying the last hope Of
many brave hearts,
To add to the general gloom, creditors seem tic
have steeled their hearts against every generous
impulses the utter rigor of the law is enforced in
almost every instance and the pound Of flesh
is unblushngly demanded. Once fine plantations
are seized and sold fora 1.-THE of what they cost
crops growing in the fields are attached ant
houses are stripped Of every vestige of furniture
and sold under the pitiless hammer. And the enc
is not yet.
THE CoTToN CRoP.-The present favorable
weather is worth hundreds of thousands to us
If it continues we may hope to see one lundre,
and fifty thousand bales of cotton brought to thi:
MARKET which would fully equal in price tn,
crop of any year previous to the war.-[Bulletin
The Houston Journal of the 4th inst, says tina
a gentleman just returned from tour through
Grimes, Montgomery, Walker, Madison, Leon
Houston Trinity Polk and Fort Bend countie
reports the cotton crops in those counties as Gu
off fully onehalf by the worms and rains. In tn
overfowed portion of the Trinity bottom, whicl
was replanted it was almost entire total failure
The loss by the burning of the Central Ralroa
Machine Shops near Houston on the Sd, is estima
ted at ffrom 100000 to $4,000. No insurance
f About thirty workmen were thrown out of en-
Aployment by the fire.