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WEEKLY INDEPENDENT.
INDEPENDENT IN ALL THINQ8, NEUTRAL IN NOTHING.
ANDREW MARSCHALK, Sr., Editor.
FRANCIS MARSCHALK, Jr., Publisher.
VOL. 2. Belton, Bell County, Texas, Thursday July 9, 1857.
NO. 11.
POLITICAL CIRCULAR.
To The Voters
Op the Representative District
composed op the counties op Bell,
McLennan, Cortelle, Comanche,
Bosqoe, Erath, Lampassas and
Palo Pinto:
FELLOW CITIZENS:—
At the solicitation of numerous
friends, I appear before you as a Can-
didate for election as your Representa-
tive to the next Legislature. I would
much prefer had I the time, to visit
you all in person, and lay before you
my views upon the different questions
which will claim the attention of the
Legislature at its next sitting, and this
I would more especially prefer, as the
office I am asking at your hands is by
no means ministerial in its character.
But the shortness of the time that will
intervene between this and the election,
renders it impossible I would be able
to visit all or even a majority of you
before that time, hence I have conclu-
ded to embrace this method, to ac-
quaint you as briefly and clearly as I j
can with my platform—that you may ,
fairly and impartially choose between .
myself and my honorable opponents ¡
at the b¡illot-box.
I am by occupation a farmer, in ¡
politics a Jackson democrat,—and!
have been aresident of Texas for near-
ly twenty years. I have cluug in weal ;
and woe to the ever varying fortunes
of the Lone Star banner. I have
shared the privations of her dark hours'
cheerfully in common with my fellow !
citizens, and I trust the testimony of
those who have known meforso long a
period will demonstrate that I was no
less steadfast and true and proud of ¡
Texas in the day of her gloom, than I
am now in the sunshine of lu*r hour of
prosperity. My long residence in the
State, acquainting me with, its difler-
politico economical transitions, has
conferred upon me reasonble knowl-
edge of its present wants and policy.
Having thus premised, [I hope with-
out egotism] of my personal claims, I
come to speak of what will be my rule
of action in the Legislature if hon-
ored by your choice of my-elf as your
Representative. I will oppose the State
either directly or indirectly becoming
a share holder in any railroad, or other
corporation, but sensible of the incal-
culable importance of a well regulated
system of internal improvements, I
will cheerfully advocate the loan by
the State, to such incorporations of
her surplus funds, when secured by
proper guarantees for its certain repay-
ment with remunerative intrust.
If the question of banks or no
banks arises in the Legislature, I will
advocate the passage of a law, so a! ;
tering the Constitution as to permitj
the people to decide that question at i
the ballot-box, for my democracy;
teaches me that the people are the!
proper depositories of power when
such questions are mooted.
I am entirely in favor of the passage
of a law, which will direct a speedy
inquiry, into the merits of the Eleven
League, and other largo claims of land,
whose conditions of title have never ¡
been complied with. The passage of
such a law has hitherto been either in-
tentionally or unintentionally omitted by
our past Legislators, to the great inju-
ry of our state in every respect, for
until we do protect the bona fide land
holder and farmer against such land
pirates, the insecurity of land titles
will continue to operate as a check up-
on immigration, and for years to come,
retard seriously the just developement
of our brilliant young state. It elec-
ted I will advocate the passage of such
a law.
If elected I will advocate the pas-
sage of a law, giving to the preemptor
bis tract, upon whioh he has settled
and made improvements, freo of charge.
That my motives may not be misun-
derstood, and I not subject myself to
the imputations of Demagogism, I
will state briefly, why I favor such a
law. Owing to the shortness of the
crops, and the consequent scarcity of
money especially in our frontier coun-
ties, it is often times a struggle, a
severe struggle for the laborious pre-
emptor to get bread for his family, and
I have known them very often to be
without the necessaries of life after
their most strenuous exertions to pro-
cure the same; bocause they had not
the means to purchase. as their fields
for the last few- years have returned
them no crops. And though the
time may be extended in which they
are to complete their rights, yet I
sincerely believe they will be unable
to pay the fifty cts. per acre, and I
feel assured if the state insists upon the
payment of that quota the result will
be they will be compelled to abandon
their settlements after all the hard-
ships endured and the labor bestowed
upou them, and their little homes fall
an easy prey to the laud jobber and
speculator. Then I will advocate such
a law as an act. of mercy and justice
to a very meritorious class of my
fellow citizens. Finally as the gener-
al Government has for years diverted
the proceeds of the sales of the public
lands from their proper functions to
the great wrong and injury of the
states for whose behoof the general
Government should hold the public
lands in trust. If elected I will advo-
cate a resolution instructing our Sena-
tors and Representatives in Congress,
to advocate the passage of a law which
will give to Texas her portion of the
proceeds of the sales of the public
lands, which when added to our three
millions, of surplus .already in the trea-
sury, will anablc the State to abolish
all tax laws—by a proper loan of
this vast fund at interest support itself
—without a recourse on its citizens—
lend a healthy aid to its systems cf de-
velopment—and present the sublime
spectacle, of the first Government on
earth, sustaining itself without taxa-
tion.
I have thus briefly given you an
outline of my views. They are before
you, as I presume are also those of
my competitors. You may now choose
between us which shall be your ser-
vant. If you should do me the honor
to say to me as Nathan said to David,
"thou art the man," I shall never
prove recreant to the trust confiilcd —
but will do my best to be a true expo-
nent—and faithful reflex in all things
of the will of my constituency.
Though I have been for so long a
time in Texas I have never before
sought an office, I am therefore but
little skilled "in set phrase of speech,"
for since these arms have known their
pith they have "spent their action,"
in tillingthesoil. You will observe that
I am not only a Jackson Democrat, but
also a ' Jackson" man. I have met
with many such, since I started in this
Canvass and hope there are n any more.
Though last in the field, I hope I will
not be least at the ballot box. I will
be proud of your support, my country-
men, but should it be your verdict that
you have fcllow-oitizens worthier to
govern than myself. I will retire with a
consciousness that you alone have the
right to decide the question, and will
cheerfully acquiesce in your decision.
Respectfully and truly, your fellow-
citizen.
MOSES JACKSON.
Juxr 3, 1867.
It is said that Commodore Vander-
bilt has had acapias issued for the arrest
of Gen. Walker, charged with having
combined with Messrs. C. K. Garrison
and Charles Morgan to break up the
Accessory Transit steamship line.
Com. Moore, of the Texas navy, it
is stated, has drawn from the U.S.
Treasury, 812,800 for commutaion
of back pay.
USEFUL JNFORHATIOV.
CHAPTER. I.
Of the Dalies of Physicians to
(heir Patients, and of ttae ob-
ligations of Patients to their
Physicians.
ARTICLE I.
duties op physicians to patients.
1. A physician should not only be
ever ready to obey the calls of the sick,
but his mind ought also to be imbued
with the griatness of his jnission, and
the responsibility he habitually incurs
in its dishargé. Those obligations are
the more deep apd enduring, because
there is no tribunal other than his
own conscience to adjudge penalties for
carelessness or neglect. Physicians
should, therefore minister to the sick
with due impressions of the importance
of their office; reflecting that the ease,
the health and the lives of those com-
mitted to their charge, depend on their
skill, attention and fidelity. They
should study, also in their deportment,
so to unite tendernes with firmness, and
condescension with authority as to in*
spire the minds of their patients with
gratitude, respect and confidence.
2. Every case committed to the
charge of a physician should be treated
with attention, steadiness and humanity.
Reasonable indulgence should be gran-
ted to the mental imbecility and ca-
prices. Secrecy and delicacy, when
required by peculiar cicumstances,-
should be strictly observed; and the
familiar and confidential intercourse
to which physicians are admitted in
their professional visits, should be used
with discretion, and with the most scru-
pulous regard to fidelity and honor.
The obligation of secresv extends be-
O 0
yond the period of professional servi-
ces; none of the privaces of personal
and domestic life, no infirmity of dis-
position or flaw of character observed
daring professional attendance should
ever be divulged by him except when
he is imperatively required to do so.
The force and necessity of this oblLra-
tionare indeed su great, that profession-
al men have, under certain circum-
stances, been protected in their obser-
vance of secrecy by courts of justice.
3. Frequent visits to the sick are in
general requisite, since they enable the
physician to arrive at a more perfect
knowledge of the disease, to meet
promptly every change which may oc-
cur, and also tend to preserve the con
fidence of the patient. But unneces-
sary visits are to be avoided, as they
give useless anxiety to the patient, tend
to diminish the authority of the physi-
cian, and render him liable to be sus-
pected of interested motives.
4. A physician should not be for-
ward to make gloomy prognostications,
because they -saver of empiricism, by
magnifying the importance of his ser-
vices in the treatment or cure of the
disease. But he should not fail, on
proper occasions, to give to the friends
of the patient timely notice of danger
when it really occurs; and even to the
patient himself if absolutely necessary.
This office, however, is so peculiarly
alarming when exercised by him, that
it ought to be declined whenever it can
| be assigned to any other person of suf-
ficient judgment and delicacy. For
the physician should be the minister of
hope and comfort for the sick ; that,
by such cordials to the drooping spirit,
he may smooth the bed of death, re-
vive the expiring life, aad counteract
the depressing influence of those mal-
adies which often disturb the tranquility
of the most resigned in their last mo-
ments. The life of a sick person c n
be shortened, not only by the acts, but
also by the words ox manner of a phy-
sicin. ' It is therefore a sacred duty to
guard himself careiully in this respect,
and to avoid all things which have a
tendency to discourage the patient and
to depress bis spirits.
5. A physician ought not to abandon
a patient becaure the case is de«med
incurable; for his attendance may be
highly useful to the patient and comfor-
ting to the relatives around him, even
in the last period of a fatal malady, by
alleviating pains and other symptoms,
and by soothing mental anguish. To
decline attendance under such circum-
stances, would be sacrificing to fanci-
ful delicacy and mistaken liberality,
that moral duty, which is independent
of, and far superior to, all pecuniary
consideration.
6. Consultations should bo promoted
iu difficult or prctracted cases, as they
give rise to confidence, energy, and
more enlarged views in practice.
7. The opportunity which a physi-
cian not unfrequently enjoys of promo-
ting and strengthening the good reso-
lutions of his patienfe, and suffering
under the consequences of various
conduct, ought never to be neglected.
His counsels, or even remonstrances,
will give satisfaction, not offence, if
they be proffered with politencss?aud
evince a genuine love of virtue, accom-
panied by a sincere interest in the wel-
fare of the person to whom they are
addressed.
[to be continued.]
Queer mode of Traveling.
SUNDAY READING,
The Fatal Flower.
"I love tbem that love me?" When
wo are assailed by enemies—when our
characters are aspersed—our motive*
maligned—our conduct vilified—oar
A somewhat novel craft came dbwn
the canal on Saturday afternoon and
tied up at the dock. It was a scow
built boatabout 15 feet long 3 feet wide ;
but the novelty consisted in the pecu-
liar motive power, it being towed by
dogs. The boat was accompanied by
but one man—a cripple from infancy—
having no use of his limbs below his
knees. He managed to hobble about
slowly by walking upon his knees, up-
on which he wore something similar to
shoes. He is from Chicago, and says
he is going to New York for medical
treatment.
His dogs, of which he has fix, large
and powerful animals, are trainedAto
pel fection, and understand and obey
his word of command as well as a
human being could. They tow his
boat along at the rate of four miles an
hour—he frotn the boat giving direc-
tions for their guidance. When they
meet a boat, they lay down close and let
the tow lino pass over them, and thus
take the inside. He has a wagon on
board for overland journeys. His boat
an open one, by a canvass covering
supported by posts, is converted into a
saloon which he and his dogs, together
with a tame raccoon, use for parlor,
dining room and bed room, all together
on terms of equality and good will.
He carries four loaded pistols to pro-
tect his dogs from attack. After pro-
curing a stock of provisions for himself
and companions, he anchored his boat
a little way from the shore and attrac-
ted attention and excited the curiosity
of passers-by, who crowded around
to solve the mystery. This happy-
family reminds one forcibly of their
old friend Robinson Crusoe, as being
on a pleasant cruise down the Erie
Canal. He pursued his travels the
next morning.—[Lockport [N. Y.]
Courier.
Travellers who visit tlie F.1I, of b«,t° „oruo[ldemncd, „,ywo„«io
Niagara we directed to the spot on tli. j a ¡^t . ..sha„ not 0<k1
margin of the precipice, over the boil- ¡ ,)is own clect?.
avenge
ins current below, where a gay young
lady a few years since, lost her life.—
She was delighted with the wonders of
the unrivalled scene, and ambitious to
pluck a florter from a cleft where no
human hand before had ventured, as a
memorial of the cataract and her own
daring; she leaned over the verge and
caught a glimpse of the surging wa-
ters far down the battlement of rocks,
while fear for a moment, darkened her
excited mind. But there hung the
lovely blossom upon which her heart
was £xed, and fhe leaned iu a delirium
of intense desire and anticipation over
the brink. Iier arms were outstretch-
ed to grnjp the beautiful flower which
charmed her fancy; the turf yielded
to the pressure of her light feet, and
with a shriek she descended like a fal-
ling star, to the rocky shore, and was
btkrne away gasping iu death. How
impressively does this tragic event il-
lustrate the way in which a majority of
impenitent sinners perish forever ! It
is not a deliberate purpose to neglect
salvation, but in the pursuit of imagi-
nary, fascinated with pleasing objects
just in the future, they lightly, ambi-
tiouslv and insanely venture too far.—
They sometimes fear the result of de-
sired wealth or pleasure; they some-
times hear the thunder gf eternity's
deep, and recoil a moment from the
allurements of sin; but the solemn
pause is brief, the onward step is taken,
the fancied treasure is in the grasp,
when a despairing cgr comes from
Jordan's waves, flH the soul sinks into
thé arms of the second death. Oh!
every hoyr of life's sand is sliding
from incautious feet, and with sin's fa-
tal flower in the unconscious hnnd, the
trifler goes to his doom 1 The requiem
of such a departure is,an echo of the
Savior's question—"Whatshall aman
give in exchange for his soul ?"—Am.
Messenger.
Drops of Comfort.
If we can exercise the confidence
of that little child on the sea, who,
while the ship was rocked with wild
fury by the winds, said serenely with
a smile on his lips, but no tear in his
eye "My Fatiieb is at the helm!"
' we shall never be disturbed by the
! clouds and storms which gather round
us. Even the bitterest afflctions are
recognized as blessings when we knew
they are from a Father's hand. They
are medicines ncc.cssary to our health.
They arc clouds to shelter us from ihe
dangerous sun of prosperity, showers
to refresh us in a summer's noon.-
What is a picture without shades '.'—
Clouds enrich and adorn a landscape.
Perpetual sunlight weather, and the
freshness and fragrance of a dewy
evening nre hailed with gladness after
the "long sunny lapse of a summer's
daylight." Afflictions are sweet to
tho Christian even when the heart is
The Hon. Frank W. Bowdon, of
Henderson, Rusk county, died a few
days since, after a lingering illness of
several months. Mr. Bowdon was
formerly a distinquished lawyer and
member of Congress from Alabama.
He has been acknowled by men of all
parties, since his residence in Texas,
as the most gifted orator in the State,
though but little in politics, beyond
being one of the Democratic Elec-
tors last year. His death will be
deeply lamented throughout the South,
where his genius and oratory had giv-
en him a wide spread fame, and still
found him in the meridian of lilfe.
An Irishman's description of mak-
ing a cannon: "Take ft long hole and
poor brass around it.''
"The heart knoweth its own bitter*
ness," and there are sorrows which
must be endured without sympathy,
and in solitude ; but is th re a grief in
which our Father will not sympathise?
Is there a sorrow which cannot be
whispered in His ear ?" "Is His ear
heavy, that it cannot hear ?" 4,Is His
arm ever shortened that He cannot
save?" There is no sorrow that he
cannot cure, no wound that he cannot
heal.
Let us then repair to our heavenly
Father in every dark, distressful hour,
and remember, that he said, "I will
never leave thee nor forsake thee."
And shall wo not respond—' whom
have f in heaveu but thee ? and there
is none upon earth I desire besides
thee."
Fast Young men Take Notice.
We heard of an incident which took
place in or near Al^uina, in this coun-
try, a few weeks since, which we relate
for tHe special benefit of those young
men who are interested. Afterchuroh
a young man—nameless at present-
stepped up to one of the best and hand
somest girls in 'the country—and to
whom he has been showing considera-
ble attention of late—and requested
the pleasure of her company homo.—
It was granted and they started. Ela-
ted, no doubt, with his success, the
young man was thrown off his guard,
and desiring to say something of a
verv tender nafbrA, he turned his face
m
towards that of his partner's and
whispered his communication. But
that was an unlucky whisper, for tho
same breath that conveyed tho mes-
sage—of love, perhaps—also bore to
the olfactories of the lady the fumes
of alcohol. Withdrawing her arm
from that of her gallant, the Miss turn-
ed from him in disgust, exolaiming,
"Sir, you have been drinking whiskey;
you can't go home with me." And
slio went her way alone, leaving the
lover of the ardent, completely non-
plussed, amid the groans and jeers of
many spectators of tho whole affair.—
We trust this will be a lesson, not on*
ly to this one but for all young men
who read this. The truth of the
above is vouched for by an eyo-wit-
ness.—[Corwirsville Telegraph.
A Pleasant Surprise,
Charles Gould, Esq., of the Ohio
and Mississippi Railroad, gave his
friends a dinner at tho Burnett House
last evening, when upon the removal
of the cloth, a surprising incident took
the company by storm. A'rai'road
track had been laid along tho table con-
cen'ed by the cl"tli, upon the removal
of which the quests were startled by
hearing tho shrill shriek of a steam
whistle, and the ringing of a bell in a
house, and itappcared that there was tho
St. Louis ari'l the Cincinnati Railroad
almost bursting with grief, for he is dcpol8 splcndid)y designed in confec-
assured that the pain is inflicted by a; ^ nnd ft minaIurc locomotive,
kind Father and for tho profit of his ^ ^ of carSf ran #J)e ,ength of
child. In the darkest hour ho hears th(j ub](j ¡n t||Q quickest time, amid
the prccious assertion "Whom the cnt!iu*m3tic applause. So well pleased
Lord loveth ho chasteneth, and the wurc company with the trip of tho
entreaty "Let not your heart bo trou- • i¡^]0 locomotive nnd train, that thoy
bled." When we are in the depths of cauge(j t|,e Bame thing over again
poverty, can we nut remember Ilim repe>ltedly, and it was found to be an
who fci ds the raven when they cry, UNe(.]]ent piece of machinery. Rail-
and clothes the lilies? and shall we roft(j8> just now,are in the ascendcnt,
doubt his willingness to minister to our cvun ¡n ^1C ]¡nfl 0f table ornaments and
necessities? When we are homeless, oonfcct'Ionary_—[Cincinnati Commer-
| we can hear a voice whispering, " In; cja|
my Father's house are many man- • •
Sinn's. I go to prepare a place for The stock of Cashmere goats and
M ,, other raro animals purchased by Dr
If wc are friendless without an earth- Davis, of Tennessee, at Constnntino-
ly friend, do we not read, "there is a (pie, last year, were all lost by the
friend that sticks closer than a brother." (wreck of the vessel.
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