Hempstead Weekly Countryman. (Hempstead, Tex.), Vol. 9, No. 20, Ed. 1 Friday, September 24, 1869 Page: 1 of 4
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DIRECTORY
—of—
ADVERTI SF US.
A 1IBEKBECK, J. B-, Butcher, and
A. dealer in Mwto;
BUCKÜORN Barbershop, by Joshua
Watson, ehaving, hair-cutting, ctc.
UNN1NG11AM, J. L., Physician und
Surgeon.
DOUGLAS, n. S., Practicing Physi-
cian and Surgeon.
ELLIOTT, B, F , Attorncy-at-law and
General Agout.
RAVES, II. S. & CO., Cotton Bro
ker and Commission Merchant, Ad-
vances made on consignments.
Guillemet, A., Watch
Fruit and Candy Dealer.
Maker,
Hempstead girls- academy,
Mrs. Bayle and Mrs. Buckley Prin-
cipals.
JOYCE Ac. BLAKE, Attorneys nud
'' Counselors at Law.
LBSTER A. ANDREWS, dealers it dry
Ignodd, ready-made clothing, groceries
■ iciitenstein, Jacob,dealer in dry
M-J goods, notions, groceries, etc.
McKAY & A^LEN, Dry Cetds and
Grocery Merchant .
M'DADE, R. R, Chair and Furnituro
Manufacturer.
MII.SAPS, e.; dealor in Stoves, tin,
copper and ehect-irou manufacturer
A., Fashionable Barber and
Hair-drcsser.
Przedmojski, House, sign and or-
namental Painter
Roberts & niciiols, wagon and
i carriage makers, and repairers,
SC1IWARZ, Sam., Groceries. Dry
Goods, Millinery, BootB and Shoes.
SPENCE, R., dealer in dry-goods, huts
boots, shoes, notions, groceries, &e.
SHIELDS, W. E-, patont right for de-
stroying worms in cotton.
IOLETT, G. t. Physician and Sur
geon.
BBXXmif.
BELL &. cjlenn, Attorneys and Coun
selors at Law.
C11esley & johnson, Attorneys
at Law.
JJ ARRIS &. HARRIS, Attorneys and
Connselors-at-Law,
JJUNT &. HOLLAND. Attorneys and
. Counselors at Law.
^steriiout, j. p , Attorney and
Counselor at Law.
INDUSTS7.
I^ELL, Jack, Attorney and Counselor
VOL. IX.
HEMPSTEAD, AUSTIN COUNTY, TEXAS, FRIDAY, SEPT. 24, 1S69.
BTATE SEWS.
Sherman hn-3 had a large fire.
Business reviving at Lagrange.
Cotton worms abundant in Leon.
Canzak-3 i-J manufacturing Castor
Oil.
San Antonio Í3 to have a canillo
factory.
Country wagons continuo to visit
Houston.
San Marcu3 is to have a now court
House.
The Galveston Theatre has been
rc-opencd.
Heavy cotton crops in Freestone
county.
Sberff Snecd, of Hill county, was
killed recently.
Calvert Í3 to ercct an Episcopal
church shortly.
Fair prospcctB for a heavy cotton
crops in Rusk county.
Navasota has a new calabouso.
Hempstead nerds one.
Denton county rejoices at tho pros-
pect of a fine school.
Lumber is in great demand at Cle-
burne, Johnson county.
Tho cotton crop haa been eomu-
what injured by tho late raius.
Gonzales county scrip is worth
only 25 centa on tho dollar.
Tho Bronham Banner rather favors
Bouldn Baker, for Lieut Govenor.
Houston is said to bo tho finest
beef and mutton market ia the world
The Inquirer estimates the cotton
crop of Gonzales county nt 1*000 bale
John Hamilton v/aa arrested at
Seguin last Sunday and taken to
Austin,
1 at Law
C1JMMINGS S. A Attorney and Coun-
Eelor-at-law.
BOCSUOHN.
McLARREN, J.H., Physician nud
Surgeon,
TRAVIS
Catlin, j. Harris, Attorney and Coun-
selor-at-law.
Bssrman.
H£cADOO A. BREEDLOVE, Attor-
neys at Law.
gETH SIIEPARD, Attorney und Coun-
selor at law.
LA QBANSE.
GAZLEY, W. II., attorney and coun-
selor at law.
QUINAN, WHITTEN &. T1IOMP
t SON, Attorneys at law.
GALVESTON-
\ DKINS, SHAW & HILL, cotton and
CiL wool factors and eomuiission mer-
chants, Strand street.
AC. A M. W BAKElt, cotton and
• wool tactfM and commission mer-
chants, Strand
ft ANNON & CO. cotton and wool fac
V> tors and commission merchants.
GALVESTON, Houston & Henderson
Railroad.
KING. B. & A., dealers in Pnints, Oils,
Brushes,&C-, 121 Mrand.
1>ALMETTO HOUSE, B. C, McDuu-
ncll. Proprietor
SMITH, J C & S R & Co., Factors and
commissi ; u merchants, Strand
WASHINGTON HOTEL. J. II. (Jol
lett. Proprietor.
HOUSTON
Apples measuring 1 .r>.| inches in
circumferenco are raised near George-
town.
Tho stock of 7 stage coach lino has
been seized by tho slierifl' at Hunts-
villo.
The Bulletin er.ys Galveston was
never healthier—colSu makers are
starving.
Four hundred cavalry horses nniv
ed at Jeffersou on the 7th, from Lav
enworth Kanssas.
Houston concerts gave the Bay land
orphans two hundred and seventy
three dollars in coin.
The Banner cays, Brenham ship-
ped G3o bales of cotton from the 1st
to tho l~2th September.
it ia reported that Gen. Reynolds
has ordered Ilelms party to ceasc op-
eration out West.
The Fairfield Lodger speaks in high
terms of the newly appointed officers
of Freestone county.
A number of immip.grants have pas-
sed through Waxahatchio recently
bout! d for the Cross r! ¡tubers.
CHRISTIAN & Co., Wholesale Gn.
cers and Cotton Factors.
FANNIN HOUSE, R L Anderson, Pro-
r
prietor, Fannin street.
A Useful Table.—To aid far
mere in arriving at accuracy in es-
timating; the amount ot land in dif-
ferent fields under cultivation, the
following table ia given by au agri-
cultural eotemporary:
5 yards wide by 968 jards long
contains 1 acre.
10 yards wide 4S4 yards long con
tains 1 acre.
20 yards wido by 242 yards long
contains 1 acre.
40 yarda wide by 121 yards long
contains 1 acre.
160 yards wide 30J yards long
contains 1 acre.
220 feet wide by IDS feet long
contains 1 acre.
110 feet wide by 3i>f> feet long
contains 1 arre.
60 feet wide by 726 feet long con
tains 1 acre'
Akkival ani> Devakti kk of Train
Passenger Tram for Houston leaves'
Hempstead at 10:10 A.M. Arrives at t>
P- M. Arrives in Houston at LOT Freight
The Standard reports cotton worms
in Red Eiver county, but thinks that
are too lato to do much damage.
Collin boasts a stalk of cotton bear-
ing ICo bolls and squares,and acorn
field that will turu out ono hundred
bushels to tlio acre.
The Colorado Citizen says the ex-
cesivo rains which fell on last Sun-
day and Monday doubtless injured
tho cc'tnn crop very materially by
boating it out and staining if.
Tho Buffalo Bayou, Brazos r.-.id
Colorado Railroad Company have
erected and aro now putting the fin-
ishing tonche to a new depot build-
ing at Columbus.
Tho Brownsville Ranchero esti-
mates that :* 00 bales of cotton will be
raised on the Rio Graud (his year.
Cotton culture is attracting consider-
able attention in that section.
«exebaí, j'ewj.
Paper napkins aro the latest novel-
ty in Germany.
There r.ro five Americans in the
French penitentiaries.
Com. Vandorbilt luis earned title
of the ancient Marry-ner.
The orange crop of Florida is con-
sidered exceedingly promising.
The Spanish troops are to be arm-
ed with the Bordan needle gun.
The last Carlistrising cost tho Span-
ish Government 10,u00,000 reals.
Atlanta, Ga., is calle d the Chicago
of tho South. It is a pretty hard
[dace.
The great press ball at White
Sulphur Springs; Va.. took place
on the 9th inst.
Ia St. Louis the deaths last week
were 235, of which 114 were under
five years of age.
About 8,000 railway passengers
pasa through, Indianapolis every
twenty-four hours.
The Clarendon Hotel at Saratoga
has a piazza "fitted up expressly lor
engaged coupples."
A Strafford.. N. H., lady is assert-
ed to have kept an nnuying fire upon
her hearth for sixty-one years.
Fifty thousand dollars has been
subscribed in Littlo Rock, Ark., for
the building of a new iirat-clacS hotel
More grain has already been ship-
ped from Wentsvillo, Mo., this sea
son than for the entire past two years.
Omaha has a population el 20,000
and but three church buildings—Ro
manist Lutheran and Episcopalian.
Mero diamonds havo boon discover
ed nl tho Cape Good Hopo, one of
which is said to be worth <£60,000.
A Canada Sheriff having a writ of
attachment against the estaf-- oí a
lead limn seized his widow's artifi-
cial teeth.
Ayer, of "cherry pectoral" notorio
ty, id a candidate lor Congress iro'.r.
the Seventh District ef Massachu-
setts.
A young man in Illinois line read
ono hundred and forty-three dime
novels and it' r.; eanc as vh«;:: he be-
gan.
Over 55,000,000 changed bauds
at Saratoga dining tho race week,
and 8270,000 were in the "pools" on
a single day.
A young lady in Illinois, having a
dose ''to bo taken before going to In d."
eat up until she got well, so as not to
take it.
A foir.(eon-foot alligator was enp-
tmed tho other day in Mtickalee
'■ ¡reek, nenr Amarici:s, Ga. They
ara numerous in that vicinity.
The Mormon r.aint, IJeber Kimball,
had 43 children waiting to i reive him
on liie other rhoiv, when he parsed
over the shining river.
About 30,000 gallons of whisky
saved from the gutters at tho recent
fire in Philadelphia are to ho re-still
od and put upon the ran.rkot.
An exch."T!gc has discovered that
tho very men who took drinks last
New W ar's to keep them warm take
them now to keep them cc.ol.
Anton llubcnstein, said fr. be the
greatest living pianist and the superar
of Liszt, is coming to this country h:
the autumn or winter.
There isa water f.-mine ia New
Jersey. It is stated tint if the drouth
continues there wi' he great destruc-
tion among the crops and cattle.
I" rom the Hud sales at Siotix Ci' v,
foV/*", during tho past three months,
it is estimated that tho population ot
the State has increased "iuliy 26,000.
I ho crops ci ccitou and corn in
AiU'iiii, í.íiimrs, W<i hington. Wal-
ker, ^I.id' >cn Leon Counties, Texas,
eORRESPOS EX€E.
Industry, Ti-;sas, ^
Sept. 22d, 1S69.)
Editor CountI Vman:
Texas, with a territory of more than
two hundred and fifty millions of acres
—a mild and salubrious climate, va-
ried productions, and great mineral
wealth, forms one of the first, if not
the first, of the confederation of Amer-
ican States. With a soil unsurpassed
in richness and productiveness, she
may well claim to be the Empire
Slate, not only of the South, but of
the United States. Though Louis
iana may contain a largor area of su
gar lands, Texas embraces a larger
area of cotton lands than any other
State. Corn is grown in all parts of
the State, as well as barley, oats,
millet and grasses. The wheat re
gion is co-extensive with the whole
country, except a belt some sixty
miles North of and running parallel
with the Gulf. Fruits of various
kinds are grown in all parts of the
State. Many varieties of the native
grapo is favored, from which an ex
cellont article of wino is made. From
tho native grape and other varieties
(non > beiug cultivated) it is believed
that wine-making, at no distant day,
will become a profitable source of
husbandry. Culinary plants which
form -o important a part cf man's
living, is grown successfully in all
sections of the State.
As a grazing region, Texas is un-
equaled and unsurpassed. Stock-
raising, from rn early period of our
settlements, formed an important aud
profitable branch of trade, p.: if attes-
ted by the immense herd;: oí horses,
mules, cattle, cheep and goats. This
branch of husbandry h.i;. constantly
and rapidly increased, and will con-
tinue to do so to an almost illimitable
extent.
CROPS.
The cotton crops, though injured
by the extraordinary freshets in the
Western rivers, and the wortn^. which
arc covering a large district of the
cotton region, it is believed in the ag-
gregate, tho crop will bo an average
one in cousequenco of the large area
planted. Corn, wheat, barley, oats
and other grains, is above an average,
and said by many, to be the largest
ever raised; for tbeso and the health-
iness (.Í the country—the greatest of
blessings—the husbandmen have just
cause to be thankful to au idl-wise
and beniiiccut Creator.
J!IN 1 RAL UHALT .
G.i this subject, iii the absence oí a
Geological Report, it is bolievod that
the following extract from a paper
published by Herr A. R. Roesslur,
will afford a fairer outline to the rea-
der than anything ot my own:
" Tho territory of Texas afford a
complete series of deposits from thj
loose masses of this ore are spread
over the surface about Johnson's
creek 'Llano county;) a hill rising 45
fuet above the level of the river Llano,
is one solid mass of iron ore; its ex-
tension in depth is still unknown.—
The ores vary analogies to those of
the iron mountain of Missouri, are
partly magnetic, partly specular ox-
ide of iron; they contain on an aver-
ago 9Ó.S90 per centum of copper and
protoxide of iron, with 2.SIS per cen-
tum of insoluble siliceous substances,
and give 74.93 per cent, of mctalic
iroa, This iron region is surround od
on all sides by ridges of granite, in-
tersected by veins of quartz and as-
sociated with red felspar, grecis.*, tail
and chlorito slate3. Wood abounds
ia the environ?, and limestones and
stratolite may bo easily procured in
abundance; the extreme indolence of
the inhabitants, who find au easy and
profitable employment i;i breeding
cattle, sheep and horses, being the
ouly obstacle to the establishment of
extensive iron works.
Superficial indications of the exis-
tence of great quantities of petroleum
below the surface are not un frequent
in the environs of the "Loser Lakes,"
(Hardin county). Tho undulated
waters of the lakes and those of the
springs surrounding them, are impreg
nated with corbrosoted hydrogen gas
and petroleum; This locality belongs
to the Miouvc period, forming a
line 50.7 > in breadth and extending
several hundred miles in length along
the coast."
In addition to the above may bo
add-.d rich npecimens of copper and
lend, formed in various parts of the
State. Or and silver has also been
iotrnd. Whether any or all of the
last named metals exi- t in quantity
sufficient to justify working, remains
yet to bo seen. To develope these
immense courccs of wealth requires
capital, enterprise and labor. To
these natural sources of advantage
may be added cur millions of acres
>f vacant lands. These it would soera
offer sufneknt inducements to capital,
enterprise and emigration. No Statf
in the American Union can boast of
so rich and extended a toriitoiy, nor
cheaper lands, than Texas offers to
capital, enterprise and the emigrant.
KAIL ROAr*S.
The impoilance and necessity of a
system of railroads early impressed
itself upon tho people of Texas.
Yet, while all classes are alive to this
important necessity, but little wa:
done for years, on account of the
eparseuess? ot our settlements, ccatter-
• dov. r ;i largo extent of territory,
and tho want ot capital. Le.de
these circumstances capitalists abroad
were slow to engage ia so doubtful an
enterprise; but, by untiring energy
and peisevc-rauce all obstacles were
HORRORS Or A COS VEST.
C ruel Treatment Of a Sinn.
From the N. Y. Times.
A Vienna paper gives a detailed
I account of the discovery and rescue
of a uun from a Carmelite conveut in
IN O 20 ^racow* C>u Tuesday, the 20th ult.,
au anonymous notice reached tho
/ w i . Crimiaal Court at Crasow to the e£fect
Osterhout, Ksqr.; yet in justice to I .
,, . ., 3 •, that in the convent of the Carmelite
that gentleman and the cause m
which he has so heartily engaged, fcaret^d one of the order,
and of which he has made himself T*? Lbr-vk' had been
the mother spirit, we must say that forc,bly keV c<*1krtwenty-
,. , . , . i one years. 1 he Vice President of
his speech was not only eloquent and J.
argumentative, but earnest and en-
thusiastic. Mr. O. illustrated and toniewiez' Mediately laid tais infor-
exemplified his argument with practi- matlon before a Jud6e of
cable experiments and facts, proving who m «""P^ with tbü 1>ubllc
beyond a peradventnre both the prac- l>ro8ecutor' rePaired to tbe Bl8heP
ticability and economy of wooden VOn Galecki' with request to per-
railroads. For a better and fuller m,t them to enter the Har-
understanding of which, the reader overcome the obstacles that were
a referred to the able articles furnish- offered aSain8t their 8earch-tbe rePre-
od by that gentleman and published sentatives of tbe ,aw discovered the
in the leading journals. Mr. O. is J Part'cldar Par' tbe huilding where
not only earnest and enthusiastic, but J |be unhappy woman was confined,
possesses the rare faculty of enthus-1 ^"bo ^ace was a co^* "hich
i„„ {.¡g audience, Iwas 9'tnate^ a- Ae extreme end of the
A Close Observer. |corr5dor' between the pantry, dose to
the dung-hole, had a walled-up win-
a scrap or coolie history. I Jow and a double wooden floor, in
!a"£iery, Btubbornncss and Lazi-1 which there was a movably grating,
through which very probable food
was handc-d. Through a very email
open window niche some rays of
light could now and then penetrate
ncss.
We copy this from the editorial cor-
cespondence of the Planter's Banner. I
It i-3 from the pen of Mr. Dennett:
It will be remembered by many of 1. .. , . , . tl
. , into this dismal dungeon. The cell,
our readers that in ISG7 wo visited , , . .,
r. . , . seven paces lone by six paces wide.
J)r. Jut! node's plantation, where there ...... . ..
1 was opened, but it is almost impossi-
ble to describe the view this place of
were twenty-three Chinese laborers.
at work iu the field. Tbev had just 1. ... „ , . ,
, . , „ , , , " * I inquisition of the nineteenth centniy
been brought from Cuba. Lieutenant . , T , , . , . , .
„ ,. , , ±. \ presented. In a dark, infected hole
Kelly, then auu now manager on the I ,. ... _
, , . „ r . . adjoining the sewer sat, or rather cow-
plant ation gavo us all the mtormat.o
nlio Hen had in leptri to the c ^ ' °° ° '««P "fa'r-w. an entirely
facts in tlie Bam.cr. °okod- ""«"J' • '"« ■
_. _ „ , woman, who, at the unaccustomed
I met Lieutenant Kelly on the I • „ ,,,
, ,, ,, , I "lew of light, tho outer world and hu-
man steamer at 1 rauklin, and came I i- f, , , .,
. , ,. , T . , . j man beings, folded her handa ana pit-
with bun to the Lafourche Crossine: -,. „ . , , áT . ,
&> if ully implored: "I am hungry, have
I asked Lim wbat became of those - , T «i
. , , „ , , „ TT pity on me; give me meat and I shall
Chinese, and how he lmed them"? He be obed¡ent . . . . .. ^ hole>
aid at first they did pretty well, but I . .. ,, . ,, , „ , ,
J J _ for it could hardly bo called a cham-
they soon became trinincr. He could , , ., ... „,. , ,
.% ber, besides contamine all kinds ot
neither coax nor drive them into the . ■, , j. , ,
- .. , , . , ... dirt and filth, and a dish of rotten
field wbeu they chose to stay m their x „ , _ . . „ - .. ,.
.. „„ . , . , , potatoes, was deficient of the slightest
cabins, lhey preferred bead work, j , .. ,.
, , . , . , , ,. , , accommodation. There was nothing
tovsand trinkets, to the field labor. | , , , . ,, , ,
The Calvert Enterprise ot the 9th...
has the following items:
Lumber is scarce in Calvert. Dea-
ifi better this year than they hr.v ■
•i rinco IfCO.
It i. t.qiorfetl that O iwrnor Smith,
of AT.'.i :u.i.',:; rV ...t to decl«r« mar-
tial law in Tuscaloosa county, because
the civil authorities are unable to en-
force the ! :ws.
The Xnmau ship City of Parir ir, .Jo
tho tr'p from Queentown fo TlaKf.i:
insix day?, si^tf n l-.ours and thirty
minutes, one the most remarkable
trips on record.
Miss Adelia Griffin sue-: Mr. Wm
Vr.n Storch. of Fittsfon, IV.. frr
breach of promise, cstim.-.'.ing ihf
damagp sustained at $50,.' 0( .t' Rh«*
is young and comely, rud he ió old
Palarozie Fotsciim Loadstone up to , . , , ,
1 I ultimately overcome, and wo have
the "highest Sertiaries. A b;- l of!
genuine bituminous of coal is known
to exist near Fort Belknap. The
carboniferous formation has been sta-
ted to extend over 5,000 square miles
of surface, and to be 352 ieet in thick-
ness. Tho thickness of tho creta-
cíen.'. deposits probably extend 1500
feet; they are distinctly stratified,
generally fossiliferous, corad i ne li;ic-
stone?, particularly well developed in
the Comanche summit, Johnson coun-
ty. 050 led above the level of the
Lio Brazos, w here they appear under
the form of white beppurite limestones
overlying a b^.l oí j^rev limestones
whoso strata extend about 70 yards
wt stwnrd and in a low slope; they are
filled to tho depth of CO f< t wit!:
Exorrypa Texana, liolaster rimrdex,
Lima Waceonsi- , and other organic
remains. They alternate frequently
with accumulations of Gryphara
Pitcherina Exyogen Texana, and tie-
total thicknes ot tiiis group is 75
feet. < )n the south side of the hill,
V . Britt, I. Britt and W. Andrevrr-
were killed, and T. L 'taylor, IV
Steward, Bell Andrews and jas. ITen"
ry badly wounded at Wiiderville
lers are waiting for the regular travel West Tennessee, a few days ao-,
of the Central Railroad, with the view I durir j
now constructed, and ia course of con-
struction, some seven roads, on which
cars are daily running. Other roads
outside of our State are being con-
structed and projected, with the view
of connecting with our roads; and
others to terminate at commoicia
points.
In this connection, it may be m< n
tioned that a large and enthusiastic
meeting took plp.ee un Saturday, 11th
inst., at the town of X.lsovillo, Au?
I in conn*}', whi- h organized l y elect
irsg James W. Bethany, qr.. Pies
i dent, ICon. A. J. Bell, Vice Pre
dent, and Samuel A. Cummins, Sec
retary.
Hon. A. J. Bell, in a brief and cor.
cis,' manner, ¡.fated the object of the
meeting, viz: The consideration cf
constructing a wooden railroad from
tho town oí Hempstead to-the town
ui" Jjeliville.
On motion a committee was appoin-
ted to draft r*-solutions ■ xpressive of
, ., . . . —no stove, no bed, no taMe, no (
In making these they were expert . . , , . _
r 1 —it was neither warmed by a fire nor
, ... , , , . , by the rays of the sun. This den tbe
iiapjleonville for mora then their . , . . , ,. , ,
... , inhuman sisters who call themselves
plantation wages, and withholding! .... , . _
, . . , , ~ , I woman, spiritual wives, the brides of
their rations had no effect on them.J, , i , * . , ... ,.
,, ... [heaven, had selected as a habitation
i hey all carried sheath knives like , . it..
. for ono of their own sex, and kept
Kiiloi^. Uno day Lioutenaut Kelly c. , r
, „ J ,, - , here therein in close confinement for
¡ras badly aggravated by one of them 1 . lt
J r" J 'twenty-one years the gray sistcM
und ctruck him with a hoop pole.
daily passed this cell, and not one
Light of tho Chinese drew their] f .
, , , ,. Tr . . of them ever thought of taking com-
knives and made at him. He back- ... .
passion ourfhis poor outcast prisoner,
ed, and fell over a cart tongue back- TT ,,, , . , ,, . r, .,
, . ... .... ... naif human beiug, half animal, with
wf rd: they would have killed him , .. .?.. .
, a filthy body with.thin, knock-kneed
*■"♦ fora trusty negro who fired among , , „ , , ,
. , . , legs, hollow cheeks, closely shorn*
n with si kit Khnnff>r. I J *
dirty Iioad, onwaslied for years, came
a horrible looking being forward, such
as Dante in his wildest imagination
was unable to picture. With her
. , , deeply sunk eyes staring on one spot
searching their cabins, they found . ..... ... ....
° , , ,, , kneit this wretched victin in her cell
axes, saws, hammers, and all sorts o1 . , „ . _
, ,.,, in the convent of tho Carmelites.—
carpenters and cooper s tools, humen m, _ , . ,
i ..... i i „ The Judge immediately ordered the
away, tools that they had missed from I J
th.o plantation, bnt never till then
knew who the thieves were. He says
but
them with a six shooter.
Lieutenant Kelly then went to Na-
poleonville, and obtained the services
of tin officer and some men, and they
drove them all from the place. In
turn to bo clothed, and went himself
for Bishop Galeck. The Bishop was
., . . , ... , , deeply moved, and turning to the as-
they can outsteal anything he ever , , ,
„„ . , ... sembled nuns, he vehemenly re-
saw. I ney are treacherous, stubborn , , , ....
i , , , ., .. , proached them for their inhumanity.
and lazy, and he would rather have . , ..
. ., /• m - "Is thls Ea,<J. "what you call
one negro on a place than five Chi- , . . ,, _ .
-j> . . . love of your neighbor? Funes, not
nose. Bat he Bays he thinks these1
were not as good as tho average of
Chines laborers, and donbt if they
did not rank low among the Coolie
women, that you are, is it thus that
you propose to enter the kingdom of
Heaven?" Tho nuns ventured to
, , r,, , ,, ., , i excuse their conduct, but the Biblion
I.djor oí Cuba. Lut he sayB ho never ,, , . , *
, . , , would not hoar them. Silence, yon
wants anotho-r Chinese laboier on a
place that he manages.
of purchasing direct much cheaper
Hot! of sandstones and limestone?, the
♦he Gryphara beds are 200 feet thick: j t!: object and wi.-h.--s cf tho meeting,
the upper portions of the hill include i 1 ii" committee discharged tiiis duty
a small quantity cf Exogysa T«-xaaa. j i*y presenting a series of resolutions,
ianira osccdentalis. I.ima, \\ acu-n.-i.'.
Boiabter simnlex. and a Texaster.—
The Limestones above these strata
abound in Ilippresitcs, t ,.pr¡ot:na.
&c. The Texas Ternt-jr; 3C <r.s¡;t
which V
Ai:,-.- th
irnd t'
l re -unanimously ndonted —
adoption of thj resolutions
:• p .i:¿'m< nt of delegates to
' :• d.-b gates at tbe town tí
tie: —"7tli September, the
v.. a :dr< Sceibby tho fullov-
witli a
i . ai. jvrrive in lltmst'in ni l:w, 1-reisat . -n i • : uiniti",.
Traía leaves at 2 P. M., aa,I arrives at 1 ¡ S0,,S0r tramS Wl11 ^ \' .
^ i Houston ia about ten days. Freight1 ariiv.d ci nnv
Brenham Train, Panfenser, down n rr hres
New OrL
s and
i dolometic limestones of the Potsdam
.ee monitors at' period arc of freviu nt cecnrr rice : •
ans. and the d parti.• oí the western region
IvSká- ¡ can — ^ brought by railroad from > ^ * u • i
He...i«tea,l at ft05. j Bryan to Calvert, though the ship- ,{l t¡11. , * * - V ~ 'r>l ¡ 1 sre une m mIus, and furuisi. i it
. half an houi before ajrival! u } vutan.?..^ an ♦nKiwicu c i t ? _ c : *v i .
and departure of triint. : lH'r have to charter an entire car the nit- Uioa cí :h. I :.¡!iá :a*u . t<> t,narWvB ° ""l1 -r,ul i'1—-3 • j •"
Mails f.,r liellvill,.
v t'tilif. il::)' tt!id tuiil: v at í'*i*m j 1 í . ?r # j.
llel!i| ite;i(i i at li CO."t of
.nils
One ear v. ill carry ace -rd ..Hi. r-m - to
■ !; viu ..
hit azuil
i
John (•. Le¿l, John I*. Bed, Sam-
uel A. Cummins ami J. P. Osterhout,
who may I. styled the. father of the
\. i".ibn Railroad Eyst>-m in Texas.
>f th i State. ! ] Le spt eches v. - ;e eloquent and spir-
d, and t.dd t.n the m ting. Whcr
ü ¡-j.it- 1 tii- > lv v.'t-ll, it would
i' clvo lIiCili.iL C-^tv.LoiV J j : «LHi :iIlIKl.it iiiViuiGtIS t ' "pluk Jliil
i'.Íl na .. L " . a' ir'v i *L_t - i.d ; 1 I
Cotton Ins.
The following paragraph from thu
N w Orleans Picayuno will be very
gratifying fo planter's and others who
bad to pay the two and a half and
three cint Cotton tax.
Tho law firm of Tate A: Tap of
Memphis Tennessee had their agent
out in parts of Texis last y ear for the
purpose of getting of cotton tax re-
ceipts, and obligating themsrlves to
coll *ct the sum from the Government
for one half or nothing if not success-
ful. It appear? thi ball is in motiou
and a atrong likelihood of a faccess :
"A circular has been issued from a
law firm in Washington that it is now
certain that the Supreme Bench, with
one exception, is of opinion that the
cotton tax is unconstitutional. A
case is to be made in December, and
:io doubt i-: entertained of the result.
wretches!" he exclaimed ; "away
nut of my sight, you who disgrace
religion." The father confessor,
Piautkiewiez, an old priest who was
present, dared to observe that the ec-
clesiastical authorities were aware of
t'iis scandal, whereupon the Bishop
and prelate, Spital, denied his asser-
tion, and at once suspended the fa-
ther confessor, and also the super-
iorress. who Í3 descended from an
honorable Polish noble family. The
Bishop ordered Nun Barbara Ubryk
to be brought iufo a clean cell, and
there to be drested and nursed, which
the lady superior obeyed very reluc-
tantly. When the uuhappy nun waa
led away she as-ked auxiously wherth-
er bIm; would be brought back to her
grave, and when asked why she had
been imprisoned, she anaw. red, "I
have broken the vow of chastity, but,"
pointing with a fearfully tfild gesture,
and in great excitement to the sisters.
•Such a decision will be worth fifteen
miilioun cu uollars to the planters and they are not angels.** The investiga-
others who have paid this tax." L- , j • "
1 j tiou has commenced, bnt its progress
Tom Thumb aiüílittl^Ñutt fright- is much i:nHle<1 by difficulties on
ened the Sacramento Chinamen
They thought Grant and Farragut
had arrived.
Ten men assembled recently in a
hotel in California who counted up
amor-g them Feventy-threo millions
dollars.
account of the strict rulea of the order
of the Cannilites.
T'-niisylvnnia turni.-hed twenty-two
. la; t wck, as fcaciificeS to the
' . .. - . -i
Competition baa reduced the fare
from Liverpool to Ireland to three
pence.
The Radical electors of North Car
olina are abusing each ©th*r likb
i-i _k pocket!
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