New Orleans daily crescent., 1866-07-19
Texas InteIIlgence.

n a large planter on the Brazos informs us that h
II expects to make 800 bales of cotton from a.
acres. Also 800 hogsheads of sugar from a some
What larger area Of land. He thinks he will maxi
60O0 bushels of corn from $50 acres, or about Il
bushels to the acre. He works now about q
hands, though he commenced with so hands Va
the SO now, under the policy of Gen. Kiddoo. a
far more work than the so did under Gen Gre
Il gory's srule.-[Galyeston News.
HoRRrBLE.--We find the following in tba,
staunch radical paper, the New York Eyenipa
Post, which is entirely too mild in its version ms
idea that the ruiians simply took him out d
bed, 7 is absurd; They stuck red-hot pitch,forks
4 into him and held him up and hoisted him out
\ Nor did they stop at hacking off his fingers and
| toes, but proceeded to perform the same opera.
ton on his nose and ears first however, roughen.
| l9g the edges of their knives to make the opera.
| ton as painful as possible. Nor did they merely
throw him on the fire. They tied his feet be.
| hind his head and hung him on by the chain
used In cooking, with the intention, it is
presumed. of trying to make him " boil over. .
whether they succeeded or not, is not known:
| for when the commander of the post ordered ont
the militia for their arrest, it was found that the
victim and his victimizers, the house, log fire.
neusekeeper, as well as the masks, fingers and
toes and crisp had all vanished into thin air leay
ing, however, it was imagined by some, a slight
tected: ~
"a STARTING &o'g.A fendish outrage was
perpetrated on the I'd inst, upon discharged feds
eral soldier living near Galveston, Texas Three
rufhans. wearing masks, entered his hOuse took
him out Of bed, and, with knives, hacked off his
nngers and toes; then built log fire in the fire.
place and threw him on it, and holding him there
until insensihle. His housekeeper found him burnt
to q crisp. No clue to the murderers has been ob.
tanned. .n-rIbid
The local of the Telegraph says thief entered
a boarding house in Houston lately, stole the
pants Of nineteen boarders, whilst the owners
were asleep, took them out into the yard, where
he examined them, and found an aggregate of
seven dollars and a half for his pains.
ELECTION RETURNS, We now have returns from
ffty-one counties, al official except two, which
foot up as follows: as
For Governor 1Throckmorton, 27,4n; Pease
eboo' Lieutenant Goveinor--Jones, 81 1856 Lind.
sey, b633. Attorney General-WaIton. is gs5.
banton, I243; Binckley, 5000. Controller-Ro..l
9ards, q Ala; Shaw, COLO. Treasurer-Royston.
1g42s; psaEsap q ssg es5s Harris 54l4 Land 6fce,
@ Orosny; 55,ozs Ward, 2293; White, 520I su.
preme Judges Coke, l9 ,lls; Moore, 1885; Don.
ley, 49, 1885, Willie, 1850; Smith, Ill ia CleVe,
land, l0680; 0chiitree, 5249; Belt 629o. Gaia.
well, 4666; Jones, $500; johnson, $3.50. 9''1
The majority for the amended constitution ;s
about 6000, SO far as we have heard. and there is
no doubt that it is garfield Telegraph, l4th,
The Telegraph says:
Accounts from different parts of the State rem
resent the prospects of the cotton crop as on the
whole much more favorable than they were some
Time slnees Some sanguine persons think there
will be nearly full orop-taking the crops before
the war as a standard. A worm, said to be a
worm that follows oveIhows, has committed great
rayages on the newly planted fields on the
Trinity.
The wheat crops are good. Corn crops are also
made and are good. The breadth of land planted
IN corn Is disproportionately small In certain dis.
tricts.
Yesterday evening planter from Oyster Creek
informed us that the cotton worm has positively
made IT'S appearance on the plantations in that