The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-11-15
TEXAS ITEMS.

A squad OF eighty negroes passed through this
city yesterday bound for Bryan. They are en-
ployes of the Central Railroad, and only an install
ment Of 2O9o-[HOqston Telegraph, lith:
sample of flour made out Of the seed of the sugar
cane. The bread made from it is as sweet and
palatabe as that made from wheat -four. A
bushel of the seed will make thirty pounds Of
-four, and one acre will produce forty bushels of
seed.
An Agricultural, Mechanical and Stock Associa-
ton was formed at Brennan, for Washington
county, on tie I'd inst.
The Mckinney Enquirer states that several
persons. among them some Of the most respect
able citizens OF that county, have n Gently been
arrested by the military from Pilot Grove. The
Enquirer states as the cause that q short time
negro cabins in the neighberhood Of Mantua, and
took from them what arms they had, struck one
blow on the head, and took watch from another
This conduct is condemned as great outrage by
the Enquirer, who pays the negroes compliment
for their general quiet and orderly behavior. The
persons arrested are not supposed to have had
any hand in the outrage, and the Enquirer thinks
their arrest grows out of system of Radical
espionage, to crafty private malice.
The steam factory Of Major Mitchell. near Pow.
derhorn Bayou, is now in successful operation,
crushing bones to dust to be used as fertilizing
agent This factory gives employment to nu-
merous persons. who lind ready sale for all the
they get good prices. No person in Texas but
what can make living at something; no matter
how poor they are, there ia no excuse for an idle
man in our State.-[ lndianola Bulletin.
The Bulletin learns that arrangements are on
foot TO establish line of steamers direct to New
York from lndianola, and that suitable steamers
have been purchased. They will be so arranged
as to carry beeves to New York without any
danger of lessening their weight in flesh, by means
of conveniences arranged on board to keep them
from being crowded, and to feed and water them
on the passage. This will be good arrangement
for our stock raisers, as the accumulation of
beeves is greater than the demand, and 1t requires
other outlets for their expectation than the over
land routes and New Orleans steamers, thereby
enhancing the value of stock.
-Four years more will see the triumph Of the
Democratic principles Of the government. In the
mt antime We must go to work and build up the
Southern country In all that goes towards COM
ercial and agricultural greatness. We must do
ali in our power to encourage immigration.
Build MP manufactures and cultivate everything
that tends towards refinement and education. The
South has all the elements within herself to be-
me powerful and great, and we must not lack the
energy and perseverance TO bring to light the yet
undeveloped resources of the country, which
already great is but the 1.-THE of what we can do
By turning our entire attention to the fertility Of
the soil, unfolding our mineral wealth, and manu-.
featuring our own products. importing our for.
een wants direct, and otherwise fostering home
prosperity GIndianiols Bulletin
The San Antonio Herald is endeavoring to stir
up Tue ptOplo Vi tnht city Oh Tue OF rail-
roads. In an article on the necessity of railroads,
the Herald says: Every citizen of San Antonio
knows that his salvation In this world, perhaps in
the next. too, depends upon securing a speedy
communication with the gulf coast. Everybody
knows that OK teams cannot compete with rail.
roads, yet everybody sticks to the former and will
lot give dime to the latter.
We are pleased to observe that wagons loaded
with cotton were rolling in town from every
section of the county, daily and it is command.
ing good prices 10 Bsstrop-ruling at Is to Is
cents, coin, in this market. Bastrop county will
turn out q fair average crop again this year, and
as has been the case for three years past, will
still retain the enviable reputation as the banner
cotton county" Of the State this year.-[B astrop
Advertiser, 18th.
The Rusk Observer has been presented with
stalk of Louisiana sugar cane, eight feet long,
with sixteen fully matured joints. II grew in
Angelina county, where, says the Observer, the
business of making sugar will command increased
attention next year. The rich bottom lands there
are finely adapted to the growth of the same.
The Georgetown Waterman, Of the It'll, says:
The negro who murdered German near Waco
taking with him the murdered mans wagon and
four horses, went TO Austin, and was arrested at
that place, and passed through our town on Sun
day last guarded by three men,"
The La Grange New Era announces the death,
on the 4th, of Col. 8. C. Ferril, an old citizen of
hat county and " noble and gallant man."