New Orleans daily crescent., 1866-03-06
Texas Intelligence.

IHE HOOD HOMESTEAD.-The executive com
mittee of this fund has been requested by General
Hood to discontinue collections on account of said
fund.
He says being fortunately placed in q situation
where he can earn competency by his own eXer-
tions he not consent to receive from his friends
in Texas, to whom he is so much indebted, the as
| sstance contemplated by the movement in his be-
half. In making this announcement, he desires
them to express his heartfelt gratitude for the
manifestation of their kindness, and for the gen
erous liberality in which it had its origin and to
say to the people of Texas that he wishes them to
still consider him of them, though his lot is not
as he had hoped cast among them.-[ San Antonio
Herald.
The Military Plaza yesterday was quite pc-
turesque scene of busy life. Hucksters and ven
ders of all kinds of vegetables, fruits ETC.. which
the market affords at this season were on hand
with all their wares. Wagons lol lded with wood
to be had in abundance. Shingles, apparently of
good quality, could be had cheap for cash-ditto
chickens, butter, and indeed almost everything in
the country produce line-Glbid.
Last night an armory was forced open by some
daring burglars and about dozen revolver 8 taken,
After short respite the parties made raid on
the periodical store Of Mr.. R. B. Horrie, and took
all the pistols they could find. If is not known
that anything else was disturbed. Probably after
more examples of this kind, our merchants will
conclude that tissue paper is no protection against
burglars: the robbers had only to tear the paper
from the window in the hall of the Plaza House. to
get into Mr. Horrie's store.-llbid.
The Nacogdoches Chronicle states that James
S. Linn, respectable and much esteemed citizen
of Robertson county. was lately murdered and
robbed. The Chronicle continues:
1t seems that Mr.. Linn was going to Millican to
purchase drugs. On starting from the place
where he had stopped the previous night, man
named selman, of rather trifing character, fell in
with him.
Some two weeks afterwards Mr.. Linn's corpse
was found by negro about quarter of mile
from the road on which he was found his watch
and some papers were found on his person, by
which he was recognized. Circumstances CON
spred to throw suspicion upon Selman; he was
arrested, and confessed the deed. It seems Mr.
Linn was decoyed off from the road by Selman
to examine some pits which some men had been
digging in search for gold whilst he was down in
one OF the pits, selman, pretending to see deer,
called to Linn to look at it, and shot him in the
back of the head while looking in the direction
indicated, and robbed him of $500.
We take the following items from the Austin
Intelligencer:
The freedmen's school at this place is in full
blast Little niggers as well as grown ones, may
be seen every morning, attred in their best duds,
spelling book in hand, proceeding towards the
Methodist Church. The lst Iowa cavalry left for
home last Monday morning; they were escorted
from the city by the band of the 9Th cavalry They
quietly passed down the avenue, waving their hats
IN adleu to the friends they had made while duty
NS,
when only the 9th U. S. regular cavalry will be on
duty at this post. "cullud geman'' has COM
menced the practice of medicine in this city. He
Is reported to be some on the measels.
The Brennan Banner says, that in Washington
county there were ninety-four weddings in 1861 in
1862 and % there were less than forty in 1864,
thirty-ive, and in 1866, one hundred and twenty
nine.
The Brownsville Courier states that Gen. Ne
CRETE has been arrested in that city for gambling
An unusual occurrence took place in this city
yesterday; it is reported to us as follows: Two
Mexican citizens were arrested yesterday, at about
| O'Clock, by some military authority, which is in
direct infringement of General Orders No. 8, that
there should be no interference by the military
with the rights of citizens, taken to the camp of
the IL 4th United States Colored Troops and there
by order of some one, were hung by the thumbs
IN order to make themconfess having stolen some
money from some soldiers, which money, there is
OF Messrs. Kingsbury and Ad. Glavecks, two of
our aldermen, they were at last set free.
Has the lnquistion and all its horrors been nsti-
tuted in this city in this nineteenth century or can
any military officer at his will torture people until
they confess things which they ignorant of? It
Is high time that some one would let us know to |
what extent military law goes. Any one may be |
seized in his house at any moment of the day or |
night and hung up by the thumbs until he confess
that perhaps he has set fire to the world or some
other nonsense.
The truth appears to be that two soldiers went
INTO Mexican house for no doubt bad purposes,
and after sitting there time they left and re-
ported having been robbed, and on that statement
hese two poor innocent men were taken by mill
'ary force and hung up until they should confess
lorrld barbarity in lS66.-tCourer.
A Mexican was attacked by two other Mexicans
Who robbed him of all his cash and silk handker-
chief evening before last The victim, who is in
he employ of Mr.. Gregoro. was on his way home,
1t the outskirts of the CITY, he was stopped BY two
men, knocked on the head with a club or cudrel
md left for dead. No arrests made yet but the
police have good reason to believe that thev will
BRING the culprit to justice
lady advertises in the Henderson Times re-
yard of 500 in gold for the apprehension of her
husband, who, after marriage of two weeks
obbed herself and family and absconded. His {
lame is H. M. Beck.
Two enterprising horse thieves were arrested A
lay or SO ago, by Messrs P. S. Oatman. John
3acon and others, about twelve miles north of this
'ity, on the Fredericksburg road and brought tn
own where they were lodged in jail. One of them
vas named watkins, and is an exc Confederate SOL
ller; the other is named Morrow, an ex-Federal
'thcer, who also pretends to be government
gent for the collection of all the government
'roperty.-[san Antonio Herald. I
The Tyler Journal reports the death of Colonel
5. l.. Goodman, an old and estmable citizen.
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The Hon. John J. Lacock, of Brown county,
as resigned his seat in the House of Representa-