The Gonzales Inquirer (Gonzales, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 43, Ed. 1 Saturday, March 25, 1854 Page: 1 of 4
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Begulating and Realrietíng the Bal of
Bpiritaoqs Liqaori,'
" «I. Be it enacted1 by'the l^ '
the .Stfitje of Texas, Th t from
i passage of ihls act, there shall It
enses issued or granted, to anv
Section 1
tare of the
after the _
more licenses . _
son or firm in the State, authorizing said per-
sons or firm to sell spirituous or vinous Iitjnófs
in less quantity than one quart, frótp1 and áftér
tho fij-st Monday in August'best, ut^ess a'tta-
jority of the qualified electors shall, at ¡an elec-
tion to be held for that purpose, as providdd in
the second section of this act/ cast tneir votes
in favor of grantiqg such license.
Sec. 2. That it shall be the duty of the
Governor to order an election to . beiheld in
each and every cobnty of this;Státe,*to deter-
•mine whether or not the sale of spirituous or
vinous liquors, in less quantity than dne quart,
shall be abolished or continued; the said elec-
tion shall be held on the'first Monday in Au-
gust nekt, and returnsmadp asin allele:! Ctións
T>r county officers, ~u; 'i 1>tJ
-against said liceiise
the
>( rotes thus casUm
be found to be a majority of votes, cast for the
license, then in that case license may isüue,
upon proper application,^ any person x>r firm
as heretofore, to sellspiritous or vinous liquors,
in Icsb quantities than.one quart; but if a ma-
jority of votes so cast shall vote against the
- license, then there éháll be no moro liconse
. issued to Any person or . flnn ^ ^^.aforo-
I aaid.- ¡. j
: / Sec. 3. That ih the* event of an election
^hein'g held in any cOunty or coonties of this
" State, in the manner and for the purpoee ajm-
tioned in the1 second section of this act, Una
deoid«Hn Avor of die tíetnék, ft rtwtf be the
„auty of tho Chief-Justice of any couhty; so
voting, upon the pétition of any fifty persons,
over the age of twenty-oné years, and cjttáénfc
Of said county, ,to order a second olcctiop (or
«aid purpose, as directed in sqid second sec-
tion of uiis act, at any timé after one year
from any former election for «aid purpose;, and
if at Baid election a migority of the v«tes oast
«hall be found to have been cast against said
license, then there «hall b4 Mk more license
granted or issued to any person or flrm to táll
*- ** AM ■■ItAMH llAKAti* 1st IaMI /iMNtVftttf
Sirituous or vinous liquors in less
to one quart in said cotíntj í;;,w''">.
Sec. 4. That any person or firm viokthlg
tho provisions of this act,shall be guilty of
*n offence, and be subject ion finefof ,not ljcss
than ten, nor more than twenty dollars, fgr
each and eveiy offenco so committed, reepvejv
able before, any court of compel^ jurisdiction
of the same; and said fine when so collected
shall be paid over to the county .treasurer, for
the use of the county where said- offence was
committed.
Passed February 11,1854.
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Newspaper Composhio^—This is a distinct
and difficult aft. Its princi
what carefully studied by
succeed in it The disregard of
pies is the' causc of the prosinei
atteriscs so muchtjT'ournewi
The newspaper is not a thing to be
scarcely one to be rtlia., ft íé to
over, Tho articles, then, must V
OB to attract and hold attention. ,
fought and reasoning ar<t ¿o.ty.< but(9«t;, jr^r
suits only are to appear. Argument a .to, be
rathér than, stated. Usually one
point is enough for on article. Some single
¡nail should be stttfck 1kir úfeon the head, ao^
then left at once. Introductions are, áTwajp
¡a, nuisance. Inference aré always .skippefl.rrr
The sentence should; be short. ¡Every ,word
should leap with life, ipondensátipn should be
.extreme. Subordinate thoughts should be
thrown away. -The object is not to fwifca
subject in full, but to produce a certain effect
All that is not" nOceesanr to the effect shotild
be discarded. He who nos nervé to do this,
with a soul that fires with a great thought ana
the manliness to Otter H
power which no sceptre can riVál.
•I VsUV
The tendencies in professional life aré
i?'; jíhe constant didacti
deterioration of style.
ssaaaarr
üion of legal style, tem
repetition. In no wrtf- can: th# professional
| veekly pract:
in the columns of a newspaper.^-Xwdon
«nan more effectively make his woi
with life and power, than-by wi
ijtWOif i.'.l V jxmm
amn&r. -'¡y.,; ^tü .,[( .wtwiu
Sométhwo WokTtt Ewowisa.—We' find th«
following in an exchange, fnd |U it is 1>y no
means the first time we have heard of th« core
of the cronp by tho same remedy, we havebut
lfttlé doubt of ;
4VMy wife and I were
boy, about tLrM years
under a violent attack of
breathing was so difOcull
wj wére sW^ing in,a
I then folded a sh<
and rolled hhn np
. et<0VCTJ,h*> He
utes,apdrieptim
ZXlit
«t the cinntiVc power of cold ^«ter,'
"I tell the tale oa 'twas told to me."—Ahoh.
, We have heard ghost storms from our yonth
Hp to the present timo; we have read then in
books; we have almost fancied that we could
see: some of the devils that are , said to infest
the Hartz mountain®; have perused the stoiy
of thePhantom SWpi" have seen the ghost of
tUmlet more than once, but, as we knew it to
be innocept of bad mtcntion8, we,re not much
ned at its appearance. In feet we have
'•'le ii^ ^e^weJIftiíSrri the
„ fK}t,of writing, oourteous
Nevertheless we never expected to have a
gfooijt for a neighbor, We always calculated
W: hewing of them from afar. But we were
short sighted. A " tale of horror " is current
in pur neighboring county of Wetzel, and
supported by;what is said tobe indubitable
evidence, which is m exact counterpart of
ShakspewVs, stoiy, and excels that only be-
cause this one is toown to be true by so many
{persons, apd that has been generally consider-
ed the creation of an hjiagnative gentleman's
bratin. That ghost "revisited the earth at the
glimpses of the moon," so did this. That one
WAS " clad in complete armor," an in life, and
not in those snow-white garments which the
V0lg r deem inacparoblo from gpiritiial, ,vlsi.
tors ;,! tfjis one wins habited as the diseased was
then last seen. And here, (let) us remark in
pas«iag, as another proof what has been so
often stated in regard s $hek peare—thatbe
wrotft," not for an age, but for,«4l time."
.We hope that ihe reader will not think we
are joking* We assure him .that we' are in
earnest; but * ghost has been seen in Wetael
county, according;to >t^e testimony on oath of
a most respectable gentlemen ; and that -the
re,vélatipns which the "perturbed spifit" made,
hsiye led to the arrest of * man, pp .charge of
murder. The facts of the case, as related, to
u« again' and again,:and by «. gentleman pf
Mie highest standing in that cpunty, ara as
bllows:; .....
. 1'ijr^t, the preliminaries In the fell of 1850,
a ma named John Gamble disappeared from
near. New Martinsville very mysteriously, and
has never since been heard of. It is true that
several months afterwards.a body supposed to
be his, Was found 1* the Ohfo rive?, about
twenty miles below where he wás last seen.
There'Was;'however,'we learn, nothing by
which the corpse*could be identified aé Gam-
ble's, except a slit down ttiTe front of the.boot
legs, such as was known to haver been made
iir Gamble's boots. The deceased had' with
him at New Martinsville, on the evening of
hiB disappearance, a skiff, in which be left thé
mouth Of Fishing Greek. He went ouf of
town, down to the ihouthof the creek, in com-
pany, with Lebfen Merfeer, and there the oné
took the" skiff and tin other 'mounted his
horse. The same evening they were seen" to-
gether at the house of a Mr. Whiteman- a few
miles below town. They left there,'and were
subsequently seen in cobpany on the bank of
the river, but were again Been to' part. Gam-
ble disappeared after that time.. His skiff Was
found drifting down' tbe rivef a short timé af-
terward.' Either jiistly '.or nnjOBtly, the cir-
cumstances bore related led many persons to
suspect'Mercer of having had some band; in
the disappearance of Gamble, althongh the
two men had been seen to part : 1
Thus matters stood until a few Weeks sih6«^'
Mercer¡never bavingbeeit arrested,'WobelieVe,
and the community having ceased to think
much about the affair, when the people of thét
con'aty were 'thrown' into aJ
which has not yet snbsidei
of-Mr. John <H. Hindman, a truthful and en-
tirely reliable man in the opinfoh of all hid
bora, that he had ''seen and 'conversed
irely
neighb
with the ghost of the murdered man. Trae
(,to say, we have rarely witnessed a more un-
natural state of the public pulse' tlito' waá
evinced there last week. . Everywhere on
Fishing Creek, beginning at the river and end-
lief in ghosts, yet they took great paittfc to in-
form tho inquirer how reliable and worthy a
man Mr. Himlman was known.to be, tod he
Bndsi
difficult if was to explain certain thing* Wi
he Had brought to light. Some bad no hesl
tation in expressing their Ann belief that a
ghoBt bad appeared to Hindriito; tod ono to-
suspecting yoiith whom wé met looked
upon usas the embodiment of all' incredülif
because we hinted a doubt on the subject.-
Whom we saw who knoW Hindman, de-
clared that théy beHcve him to bé codscien-
tttttrty-ef the oplniodi' tUit-wh he Btatóífft
true. His statement ffe.shiB. here give.
,Jnr company with ^ few friend , he waste-
turning in the night from a "
that had taken place from Km
ed to nib down tbe declivity. He conc
to Walk, and was consequently left -bel
As he waa moving akmg at á tiioderate pace;
YfbaJt he toqk (to ,bea man appeared at. hil Bide,
d remarked to him as the tiro
ier, " t belie^é you do not know mi
tly cool aiid sutobihig it to hie á(
into, replied that hé did nofcknotw hii tom-
panipn. The «trjwiger then «aid, "I am the
man that Leberi Mercer murdered. X w
ghost also made other revelations,
which Hindman hhnsetf infortned tu
made' known to bo One bat Mercer.
telHég his story the stra
•*" " it was a mootillKbt1 nitht and
«Mh :wa«fln an Open
dUMt'W stumi
r stumps, he could find hot even a froce
óf hta mysterious'visitor. > ¡
Mt. Hindman, who assured ufc that he had
previously been the most'Skeptical of men in
regard to ghosts, and who thought at the time'
.« . .m ° . — • • w • . J
m
ly«-
Mtwm
murder,
Mn the county knew
made another-'^
Í and this time, o
he mi satisfied he waa
had an interview with M<
SIS
declared
in
Mercer Wi
fore a Justice; and sent ón
which heeta next tytaeiAayt"!
inatlon. Hindman made an
that the statements above
But nirato saya
up,1' <
tial evid.
him, and wilt Hindman ..
confess having recalled Gamble'to üie short
after the two were seen to part,- On tibe
ing of Gamblers disappearance. A stat<
of the circumstantial evidence, we havo Writ-
ten out and wé intended to publish it- But
we Have already occupied so tnucfrrOOin with
the ififtir,' thalt we must omit it Sorte ofitl
unimportant—such as Mercer's trepidation
whett'brought fece to'fece with'Hindman—hte
conduct towards another man; his demeanor
in jail ; and various other incidents whiob
seem "confirmation strong as proofs Of hOly
writ"' to those who bélieve ftbat "Murder,
though it' have ho tongne, will speak ' with
most miraculous organ." " ''' '
It is said that Hindman, who never laty
Gamble, describes him'and the jJresa be had
on when last seen with perfect acchrfcfcy*.' Ut
' Having glvto the' particttlars of tbW' tery
singular and interesting case, we1 m^st add;
for the bake of the rising generation, 'that <W«
do not believe in this or any 'Other gk
The eeer Was no doubt miitaken. Yet
ali bis neighbors are wófully deceived as to
hi character. Mr. Hindman at least
believes that <he has seen and converted
the deceased. ■•'■nm
Time will perlifeps dlspet the tí^story; i '
P. S.—We learn that the body found in the
river was idetitified as Gambles. The' wit-
nesses bo testified last Saturday,
■ Mil «m
■ Prairie Lands. ,?,i
A Mississippi correspondent of th
Ctfltivátor,;thrb^i Óijtí'the'
tions vrtnek will be of beneá5t p«líap« tpour
farmers;
But these lands, saya the writer referred itaj
ndnridiKRntim af mltnM.tfcii.lt DOW■ pTaC-
-andlprt-
under the system of cuitare that is nowtj
sume ii pretty müch the aame ln Otber^neo-'
tions of 4he coutitiy-U-will beceme overy^yeaii
less productive; less certain in cropping—iir—'
compact and gluey in their nature, and,''in
opinion, more subject to the ravágits of the
boll-wOrm, insects,- mat,- aad the tbousand-
and-one cdartities that cottoii is heir to. \ And'
this system of culture tono thing more norlert
than the surface-sciatehi^g or «kinbing sys-
tem,; practiood', generations ago, by our forc-
fetbers, and which has prostrated, and! laid:
wasteiso many; ridi and fertile tracts ofitod'
in this biglily favored <iountry Of ours. But
oufc anoestors'are not so ibuch chargeable for.
their blind.ignbrariaeiof the art of cultivation
as.the ferimera of modern dayv, 'for; at that
remote period, education was in the embiyo:
agripu]toral«cience unthpugbt of and nnkno(wn,
nd:nothing familiar to the fermpa bijtihja.rtf
loi :thebpundof amnestic deer across his
pathway; pr ttjirftfja prpwliiff M**.
lurking aroupd hia forest-home. , , )
it is conceded, bv all pcientific
farmers, that shallow cultivation
' ousts the etemente of, .fertility,
ihes asoil. but is li
planter, knowing these facts,
to tbo old surfec
not. abandon it at
wet, has done mOrt
thé prairie-planter
this son. Lands thus
and ímpierVioüé, tod i
ty,
and RRfHI
growth, become stunted, andli
sickly, as if a winter's blast lb
the fields. The young plant n
ÍSl
On the contrary,
a little precaution, tod
they art dry, tod *
ploughing, they will
easy; all- the year, tod the
luxuriantly, almost without
(M-ftp# '"
vBrthl
stalks,
rrir""
once, an
condition
or nutntis
11 ¡ii
An' ftisult ia twice as <
ApflUÜAÍáa
deep aa an-i
Aar intolt sinks to the heart
r*V UrhBst an apology merely skirts i
the sorfeoe, but Mvcr heelathé Wound.
To persons hnpertinenUy disposed, what a
uming ought thw not <0 b*
, 1"*'■ i ' < ■
Gaatoub Cass aid not Nnutct ]Ku^
Tbe Detroit Fne Press Saya: "
will vindicate those' prinoipU whick b*.
long hell A private letter from him, receiv-
ed three days •inm.nfem to Mr. Douglas' bill,
and * *-
. ?>¡W dl^MO'UI^ ,'lv 'i V 'WOI'*
*?• -IW* ,°ífTÍW
gfl,
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to
s
pm.
aa.
Scott has a b
Where.he *
purer, more
cannot
reasonable : world, tired of tnen as th^y art,''
tirt^fOf J*ypoorisyt tiwd o#| Mm
women, or wiui
ltod of sound, or
ity of oolor, Or, with, the old Gtevkb into the
¡^jnthflf beaütlfül forms, till his soul If,
rein America, 'ouf proéále wOilwlay
by, this rest can refresh but few-, bdt as "be
who batb no oblation cboosatb a
*cn
watered
kkness
belling
w .
the elm, and tbe pWbttag
In the flush of4h« autumn biapie/aadithe^W
" % 44/0 u m
-jit néveT knew where'róst
there Coifce times When all these
the kwk of bair~4hecsadle;
they speajj only
nature's bloom (
ble sweetneaa and i
indHfeñlibcé'of at
tbsr sent ns I
elseisgooewe
wlijiiyi
it there ia a i
Well
6ut QOd,
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lif K'M) \i
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The following línea, from Gray: "The
ploughman -homeward plods of weary nty,w
baa been fnuwL t* admit of ffthUrn transpo-
>•. I:/W
Tbe weary plougbman homvirtrds plods bis
! iway !i «.! ; w:,.- (II -Jtu. 1
The ploughman, weary, plod bis borneaban!
Weaigr tba ploughman plpds Uk bortoward ¿us?
it. WK{ •' iillJ-l fíHfáhf ,Sí'U'«
ion tbe I
the ploojghmto pkids'Tiii
oíx t>j irj
' .thu. wftairy iil>iiahii— i iiifldhii hk
£':v^árr. piód^'
'#íy. :"i «'Hfiinfritj ?fia kstiI:
The ihomiswaiid ploughman) weary pldda bia
'jtU dguortt .utiH-Kj
.ílWl'Wiiil0^ Jifa
i>. i ii i ¡ -ir.i t ^I'l'MiWifntli jfajiitfirf* vi'M
siders the beat in
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r&t *
t.;ñ\wy\ mmm-W. 'prof ,ofc ; f .hi
ftW .i ! 1"
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first time. There ia this ■ «*
and long tried friendship, this
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stands a beaitcas
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