New Orleans daily crescent., 1866-11-12
Texns7Intelligence.

Game is SO abundant and 50 fat in the region
neighbofing to San Antonio that the sportsman
never thinks of shooting turkies resting on lofty
limbs for they are 50 fat the fall bursts them open
Frost has appeared in Northern Texas.
The Paris Press thinks that negro labor will not
do-that it our farmers continue to depend from
it, the consequence will be ruinous. It says:
We are reminded Of the subject by hearing
several Of our farmers tell their experience and
no experience at camp meeting was ever told
more seriously.
Capt. E. j. Shelton had nineteen able bodied
held hands, to whom he furnished his land, tools,
etc., the present year. They have eaten fed
away or destroyed abOnt fifteen hundred bushels
Of corn, and their whole crop will not exceed fifty
bushels. had they been under an overseer there
would have been ditierentresult. How are such
laborers to live IN this country? They must work
steal, or starve, and all their " freedom" cannot
relieve them from the alternative.
The grasshopper has appeared in Mcclellan
county.
The planters are gathering their cotton briskly
around Waco. The Register says the yield will
not be 50 large as was expected.
The Trinity Advocate pronounces the cotton
crop Of that section good, and boasts that Ander-
son county will produce as large yield as any
county in the State.
The steam mill and cotton gin of planter
named Hoffman, about three miles from Brennan
were burned recently, together with As bales Of
cotton.
The weather was exceedingly hot in Houston on
the 7th
The Houston and Galveston Wharf and Cotton
Press Company have made some improvements at
Galveston, which are said to be unsurpassed in
the southwest in commercial point of view.
They have purchased twenty squares of ground
on tbe Galvaston strand and orontad
- s'''H i'i1u' "Hn 0ie'1eu htLu ana
substantial Wharf S0O feet long. They also pro-
pose to build platform 600 by $50 feet for tbe
storage of cotton. +. laroe nrass conot1o oF oor,
nrossino 5nN Folas - ~
= ts77"7 ''N "'e9 ualy, 's14 car Tracks lof cotton
ana assorted merchandise, The machinery for
the press is already arrived.
Oranges are irnnorted 10 San A ntonio fo,,, 7ro,
tarev NTeyioo = '+'- "a "
- ~ !leAloo'
No oil has yet been struck in Nacogdoches
county, notwithstanding the indications. One
man has dna To tho dnntb of = I,,1l 80 -
I; an -. p - y !" +t"""te0 ieee' ana
= %s'At uisslLS'
Ihe streets Of Galveston are to be sheIled with
claln shells, The mayor has contracted for 200
JuO pafrels.g E4ss
T. INTERESTING LlTIGATIoN-Al1 egsContederate
genera arrested t,l Nelo York on q Charge of
ofttqt9tW GomuerSloR. Cornelius x. Garrison |
w. W4e. Aahone.-lhs was motion to vacate |
liie oFeef o. an arrest IN the case Of the defen
1aht VINO, aufng recent visit to this city was |
atsesseu ata On chafge OF upiaWiully seizing the
seeaiheF george heary at Norfolk, Va. The de- |
!ehuaht nsthls action formerly commanded a |
i!N!sloa lhleL Lee, IN the Army Of Northern Viz |
gnu, ana had attained a considerable reputation
y @ otle ot Ine most lmpetuous and dashing division
commanders IN the Confederate service. Upon |
reslgnlng the sword for peaceful pursuits he be-
5aine Pfesidento OF the Southside Raroad-a bone |
i'aI olseH conJeheea lof ms military capacity