Later from Texas.

From the New Orleans Picayune
September 16, 1861
Page 1, Column 7

Later from Texas.

We have the Galveston News to the 3d instant, from which we gather the following intelligence:

Abundant rains have fallen in the Guadalupe valley. Cotton picking is going on briskly on the plantations, and the yield promises to be very abundant. The grain crop is immense. Grass excellent and cattle fat. Rain has fallen also in the central counties.

Judge Gregg's regiment is to be furnished with arms at Marshall, from San Antonio, ere leaving for Corinth, Tenn. The order for 1000 muskets, with accoutrements, has gone to Gen. Van Dorn.

Col. Wm. H. Parsons's mounted regiment, raised principally by his own exertion, under the president's call for 5000 men, were to be mustered into the service last week, at Waxahatchie, and thence to march to Missouri.

The heavy rains we have experienced here appear to have visited the country also, and it is feared that the cotton, much of which was open, will be injured. The worm is at work also in many places. The sugar cane crop and potatoes will be benefited by the rains.

A fine company of some 80 men, arrived night before last. They are part of the regiment ordered here, subject to Col. Moore's immediate command.

The schooner Anna Ryan, burned on Sunday night by the blockader, belonged to Capt. J. Ryan, of Calcasien, Louisiana. She was nearly new, cost about $7000, and was almost all the captain possessed. She was a lumber vessel, and was captured, with a load of lumber, a good distance out at sea, when on her way, not for this blockaded port, but for Indianola. Capt. R. was taken with her, and frankly stated his position to Capt. Aldenand that the loss of this vessel would be a heavy blow to him. To which the other replied that he would see about it, or words to that effect.

The mounted regiment raised by Messrs. Terry and Lubbock, is now gathering at its rendezvous, near Houston. Commissions were issued to picked men in all parts of the State to raise companies, and the men of the companies were required to be the ne plus ultra of the Texan Ranger. Col. Terry was determined that the regiment should be the best of its kind in the Confederate army, and we have no doubt he has obtained his wish. The first company, we see by the Telegraph, arrived at Houston last Wednesday, tinder Capt. Louis M. Strobel, a natve of South Carolina, but raised in Texas. He received a military education. His Lieutenants are W. R. Jarmon, and P. and W. Tate. The men are 104 in gun, a six-shooter, and a bowie knife, double edged, two feet long, and weighing three pounds. Every man is a perfect horseman and a splendid shot. If this regiment does not make its mark on the Lincolnites, there is no virtue in strength, courage, patriotism and thorough knowledge of the use of horses and arms.

The Dallas Herald states that Col. M. T. Johnson has been authorized by the Secretary of War to raise a regiment of men for immediate service. The commission was ordered with the express sanction and approval of the President, who remembered the gallant behavior of Col. Johnson during the campaign in Mexico.

It appears by a proclamation issued by Gov. Clark that Texas has been called on for three thousand more troops. Two thousand are to go into camp, and ten companies of infantry and four of artillery to goon the coast and Rio Grande.

The Houston Telegraph, of the 4th, publishes the following summary of the election returns:

Total vote heard from, 47,011. Vote to be heard from, 8000. Lubbock's majority so far, 1915.

 

 

 

 

 

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