New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-03-13
Texas Intelligence.

DANGEROUS EFFECTS OF BILLIARD CUE-We
understand that Mr. Shiehagin, who was struck
last sunday with q billiard cue in the hands of Mr..
Nondragon, and who never spoke afterwards, died
Yesterday morning. The most likely version that
we can obtain of the alteration which led to such
fatal results, is that shiehagin laughed at Mondra-
gon, because he made bad lick or miss cue"
or som ething of that sort whereupon Mondragon
cursed him and struck him over the head. We
understand that Mondragon has made his escape,
at least he was not to be found yesterday morning
~ TsH lSan Antonio Herald
A little breeze sprang up on Main street yester-
day, caused by some discharged negro soldiers,
who came up from Galveston on the steamer
Shreveport. Marching four or five abreast they
endeavored to shove people from the sidewalk, as
they had been accustomed to do in Galveston.
Ihey succeeded in some cases, but met with
tough customer in citizen, Mr.. Hart. For their
pofteness he shiVered a chair to pieces over the
head of one of them. The negro then rushed
upon him with large knife, and he was only saved
from destruction by the good use of portion of
the chair which still remained in his hands. Times
getting too hot for him, the negro fed but was
soon overhauled by officers Hennessy and Fitz-
gerald, of the city police, who turned him over to
the tender mercies of Judge Hadey.
The freedmen of Houston, as a general thing,
are well behaved. and whenever these scamps
come here from Galveston, trying to teach their
bad manners, they ought to be roughly handled
and so they will be.-[Houston Telegraph.
The Telegraph reports the assessment of Hous-
e
Galveston is assessed at s., FAC, 900.
Speaking of the wants and changes in the cities
and towns of Texas, the Telegraph says:
Our whole system of domestic labor has to be
changed. We must supply the places of emanci.
pated blacks with decent white servants. The
Emerald Isle is noted the world over for its SER
wants. thousand of them, with proper recon-
nendations,. could secure good places to-day in
Houston, and thousand more in Galveston. They
desire 10 know what wages they can get and we
inform them that from ten to fifteen dollars, gold,
per month Men servants receive from fifteen to
twenty dollars, gold, per month, and skilled la
borers such as gardeners, etc., receive from
twenty to thirty dollars.
The BARRIERS in Houston ask twenty-five cents in
specie for a shave. The Telegraph is willing to
guarantee small fortune to any decent barber
who viii settle there and charge no more than the
old price-one dime. .,... -..
Sunday evening Main street was almost entirely
given up tothe gay beves of African bellies, who
swept the pavements clean, from three o'clock till
the shades of night had fallen. Many of them
were more gaudly decked than the finest peacock
in all the handwriting dresses of the richest
silks, which fairly sparkled in the rays of the
declining sun. 1t was amusing to watch their
eoquettish airs, and how they could swing their
trails. The colored gentlemen seemed lost in ad-
miration of their ladyoves and touched their hats
politely as they passed But we are sorry to say,
their politeness in general seemed scorned their
darlings were evidently aiming at higher game.
What pity-what pity Telegraph.
Almost every steamer arriving from Galveston,
discharges large quantities of corn from the North
west, which is easy sale at an average of dollar
and forty cents per bushel, and understand that
the tendency, is upward. This ought to look like
carrying coal to Newcastle. On the Colorado, not
hundred miles off, this article is abundant at six
bits, and on many portions of the Guadaloupe it is
two bits less. West and north of San Antonio,
which is generally thought to be not good agri.
cultural region, it is worth only dollar, and even
in that city it is but a few cents higher When
Texas is properly penetrated with railroads, in
stead of importing corn, she will be able to supply
the New Orleans market as cheap or cheaper than
the Northwest.-EIbid