Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-02-03
TEXAS NEWS AND NOTES,
Latest Neuu from re,aa

Latest News from Texas
New Orleans PIcayune, Feb. IS, 1872.
The steamship New York, Captain
Wright, arrived yesterday, thirty hours
| from Galveston. We received full files Of
papers through the postofllce, and were
politely furnished with papers and letters
0y the clerk OF the New York. The steam
ship brought over $50 baskets of cham
paigne-s very singular article to come
fromkTexas.
Among the passengers on the New York
were General James Hamilton and COL
| onel Dangerfsld, the Texan Secretary Of
the Treasury. A letter in our paper to- day
gives an outline OF the news. We find but q
few items OF interest lot mentioned in the
letter.
Fifty thousand dollars of the exchesuer
bills nave been PIT IN circulation. No
more is tc be paid out at present.
| Thomas Bell, an old and respectable
settler, and one who fought in every
battle he could reach, shot himself
through the heart during q At Of mental
arrangement, near his residence on the
Bernard, few days ago.
The son OF Mr.. Baker and the son Of
Mr.. Soles, citizens of Travis county, re-
siding on Ooion creek, eight miles from
Austin, were killed by Indians on the
I'd inst.
The Austin Gazette says thst "goId snd
silver has been psId into the treasury for
exchequer bills Of the government of
Texas. We ourselves have been offered
drafts at thirty days sight of the first
water in NeT Orleans at par for exchequer
bills;" and yet many of our merchants
turn up their noses at them, and refuse
to take them at any rate!
The British baTque Buoysnt was lost
| recently of the mouth of the Brazos river,
where she was anchored, receiving car
go Of cotton. In gale she parted her
cables and went ashore. The captain,
first and second mates. and four men were
drowned. She had 2l5 bales Of cotton on
board.
A new fort has been finished at the east
end Of Galveston Island, and two Of the
six guns belonging to it mounted.
In relation to the probability of an in
vasiCn, the Texan of the n inst. has the
annexed:
We understand from gentleman Just
from San Antonio, that considerable ex-
citement exists in that place; thst 1t is
the general opinion there, from the move
ments OF the Mexicans, that there will be
an invasion by Mexico. Our informant
has been citizen of San Antonio for
three years, and says there has been no
such mar@uvring among the Mexican
cit zsns within that time as is now taking
place.
THE ENCHANTED ROCK.
Beyond all doubt there are q great
many very curious things in Texas. A
correspondent informs us that in the S3n
Saba Valley, in the mountainous region
of Texas, Is an immense rock, formed OF
the granite peculiar ITO the Upper Colo
rsdo country. 1t rises about 200 feet
above the plaiD, snu can be seen in oRe
direction at the distance OF several miles
When near, IL presents to the eye an even
surface, with nothing peculiar in its con-
stIuction, except that from about midway
up the face of the rock is undulcting.
It received the name of "The Enchanted
Rock" from it's singular appearance at a
distance by moonlight. When approached
from the eide on which the moon shines,
1t resembles an immense castle brilliantly
lighted; and the fluctuations of the sur
face sre so regular, and have SO much the
appearance Of windows, that the behoIder
can hardly imagine he is looking on 8
solid rock. The Comsnches believe it to
be the occasional abode OF the Great
Spirit, and look upon it with as much
reverence as q good Catholic does upon
the image Of the Virgin.
The rock is q species OF perishable
grsnite-the quartz, perytes OF copper,
and oxide Of iron can be easily separated.
The perytes of copper has, st the first
glance, the appearance Of gold, and par
ticles Of it washed up on the banks of the
Colorado, and other streams of Western
Texas, have given rise to the report that
native gold abounds in the mountains. 1t
is the reflection of the moons rays by
this substance that gives the imposing
appearance to 1.-THE Enchanted Rock"
THE SCHOONER SAN ANTONIO.
The Texan schooner Of war San Anto-
MO, Captain Seeger, sailed from this port
last evening, to joint the squadron in the
Gulf. We should not be surprised to re-
ceive Information of bit OF brush in
the vicinity of our coast. Captain Seeger
has been in possession Of information for
several days which has induced him to
believe that q vessel will leave this port
about the same time with his own, for the
purpose of capturing the San Antonio.
We know he had reason to suspect that
Mexican vessel, with fifty or sixty armed
men, will attack him.
The situation of the San Antonio is
very peculiar. The late mutiny in this
port deprived her of her entire crew She
sailed, yesterday, with fourteen men, all
raw hands, but the eleven officers on
board are Of the right sort. Seeger him
self is as gallant a fellow as ever lived,
and is ready and anxious for fight. If
IN attempt is made to take the San Anto-
Mo, the ASSISTANTS will find they have
"caught tartar" The Texan schooner
carries six tWelve-poun. ers and one long
gun smidships. Rsther than suffer her to
be captured, her commander will blow
her to the skies. We shall be placed in
possession of the earliest intelligence
relative 10 the movements of Captain See
ger.
THE NUTINEgR5.
The nine men arrested for murder and
nutiny on board the Texan war schooner
SsnlAntonio, on the night Of the 18th inst,
were yesterday brought before his Honor
the Mayor for examination. The Attor-
ney-General WAS present, so was Lleuten-
ant Seeger, commander Of the Ssn An
tonic.
The dispositions Of Messrs. M d. Dear