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VOL. II.
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Belleville,
Austin,
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Independence,
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Richmond,
Leona,
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N. H. Manger,
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Postmasters are authorized to act as agents.
gftt Sourwat.
JGr* The New York Courier & Enquirer
remarks as follows on the subjcct of the Debt
of Texas:
The project of repudiating all or a portion
of the public debt, is now fast gaining the at-
tention of the people of Texas, ami will pro-
bably form the great issue in their summer
elections. Indeed, if we may believe the
two journals published at the seat of Govern-
ment, the South Western, American and the
Texas State Gazette, public opinion has al-
ready decided the question. The latter, af-
ter declaring its firm resolution to oppose
every candidate lor Governor who is in favor
the following language:
4i We make the assertion, and are justifiable
in doing so, by recent and reliable information
irotn every part of the Staie, that there is not
one man in fifty, who has given the subject
nny attention at all, who is in lavor of. paving
the debt of Texas at. is face value. This sen-
timent has attained the point of maturity,
where it is impossible to prevent its consum-
mation ; and any attempt to do so. would pro-
duce no other effect than to strengthen anoth-
er party, which we can inform them exists in
this State, who are opposed to paying one
dollar of this debt; a party, stronger, twice
told, than any which can be mustered in favor
of paying it at its face."
These dishonest sentiments are echoed by a
considerable portion of the Texan press, but
we are unwilling to believe that they will be
adopted by the majority ol the Texan people.
No State of the American Union, we trust,
«an be guilty of such an abandonment ofeve-
ry principle of justice and honor. Texas does
onot and cannot plead any fraud or informality
in bar to her engagements. They were con-
tracted with the utmost deliberation and so-
lemnity, and the faith of the State, under its
ibroad seal, was pledged to redeem them. She
has not done this, hitherto, because he means
were wanting. But, now this difficulty no
.longer exists. Without any merit or any real
sacrifice of her own, she has been furnished
with ample funds, and a refusal to apply them
,to their legitimate purpose will brand h«*r
with disgrace forever. Of another Slate ol
.this Union it was once said with cutting seve-
rity, "She will bear any infamy however
jpreat sooner than nny taxation however
small but the sarcasm will have a far keen-
er edge if Texas is to become the subject of it,
Jor in her case it does not require the imposi-
tion of a single dollar to save herself from ig-
nominy. Her self-abasement will be alto-
gether gratuitous; and not oue redeeming cir-
cumstance can be found, nor one palliating
apology be framed under heaven, that can
diminish its abjectness a single iota.
The Enlargement of the Capítol.—
The Wnshingtoi, correspoudentof the Charles-
ton Courier, says:
i:The President, after re-hearing the prin-
cipal Architects who have offered designs for
the Capitol enlargement, has determined upon
the form of the new Senate Chamber and
Representatives' Hall They are to be rec-
tangular, instead of curvilinear, in order that
they may be better adapted to hearing than
the present Hall. The next thing to be djne
is to decide upon the plan of projection—wheth-
East or North and South. A duplication
of the present edifice, on the Square East of
the Captiol, was Mr. Hunter's plan, and seems
to be the best that has been proposed."
A Lady Scrprjsed at her Toilet.—No
wonder that the lady referred to in the fol-
lowing paragraph, which we copy from the
St. Louis Intelligencer of the 30th ult was lost
i:i utter astonishment. To be surprised while
engaged in the interesting mysteries of the
toilet, must be mortifying to a lady, but. to be
surprised iri such a manner as is related be-
low. is too bad for anything:
A day or two since, a lady living on Biddle
street, between Tenth and Eleventh, was en-
gaged before her mirror ingoing through her
toilet, exercises when the gins* suddenly re-
ceded from her as the entire front wall of the
building parted with its neighbors, and with a
tremendous crash fell into the street. The
lady, in utter astonishment at the suddenness
of the motion was left standing in dishabille,
though singularly enough, entirely uninjured,
j In consequence of the recent grading of the
' street the earth beneath the wall had been
partially removed and its sudden giving way
was the cause of the accident.
A Hot Place.—The first ingredient in
the making of glass, to which we were intro-
duced. was contained in a goodly row of bar-
rels in foil tap, marked with the esteemed-
brand of "Trueman, Hanbury, Buxton &.
Co.*' It is the well known fermented extract
of malt and hops, which is. it seems, as neces-
sary to the produetiou of good plate glass, as
flint and soda. To liquify the latter materials
by means of fire is, in truth, dry work ; and
our ticerone explained thai seven pints per
day, per man, of Messrs. Trueman. Hat.bury
Buxton, and Company's Entire, hits been
found, after years of thirsty experience,'to be
absolutely necessary to moisten human clay,
hourly baked at the mouths of blazing furna-
ces. These furnaces emit a heat more intense
than the most perspiring imagination can con-
ceive. or the staunchest thermometer indicate.
An attempt to ascertain the degree of heat
was once made; a pyrometer (a thermometer
of a superlative degree, or " fire measurer,")
was applied to the throat of a furnace—for
every furnace has its mouth, its throat, and its
flaming tongue ; but the wretched instrument,
after five minutes' scorching, made an expir-
ing effort to mark thirteen hundred degrees
above boiling point, cracked, was shivered in-
to bits, and was finally swallowed up by the
insatiable element whose proceedings it had
presumptuously attempted to register.—Dick-
en's {;Household Words."
A Broker in Wall street got. stuck the other
day with a $100 counterfeit note, in this way.
A beautiful lady-like woman called and asked
to have it changed into small notes. The
broker tells his own story. ';I was looking
more at the woman than at my business."
Sonthev tells a story of a lady who ordered
a book entitled '• An Essay on Burns," think-
ing it was a dissertation on the genius of her
lavorite Scottish Bard; but what washer dis-
appointment when she found, on receiving the
work, that it treated on burns and scalds, and
that its author was a surgeon.
There is one press in South Carolina—and
only one that we know of,—that is trying to
stem the tide of Disunion there : the " Patri-
"several gentlemen of wealth and worth who
are about leaving South Carolina, on account
of.the continued political turmoil arid warfare
with the Getieral Government which charac-
terizes her. If she persists in her mad schemes
of secession, her best citizens will leave in
droves, and move, as one told us a few days
since. ' into the United States.'"—N. Y. Ex-
press.
The Knowledge of Card Playing ap-
plied to nautical purposes.—Captain R.,
long and favorably known as a master and
owner in the Havre trade, tells the following
anecdote:
At the port of New York, in consequence
of the scarcity of sailors, he had to take green
hands or landsmen. Finding it impossible to
learn them the 'ropes' of his ship, and fearing
a storm, he adopted the following plan for
their instruction. Calling his crew to the
quarter deck, he asked them if they could play
cards,and receiving an affirmative answer from
them he immediately took a pack of cards and
placed them on the principal ropes—the ace
on one, the king on another, &c. When the
blow came he gave orders to haul 'taut' on the
jack of diamonds, overhaul the ace of spades,
let go the ten of clubs, cast off the deuce of
hearts &c., &c., and in three days he asserts
he had as good a working crew as any cap-
tain need wish for.
The Bar is last losing its attractions to the
young men of this city. There are now thir-
ty young gentlemen that have received lineral
educations who are serving their " times" as
shipwrights, architects, carpenters, etc. In a
few years the Uuited States will have the
most accomplished mechanics in the world.
A new class is springing up. who will put the
present race of mechanics in the shade. The
Ainion of a substantial education with mechan-
ical skill will effect this. Indeedv already we
£ould name some mechanics who are excellent
mathematicians, acquainted with French and
German, and able to study the books in those
connected with their vocations,
id fathers were wont to educate
as doctors or lawyers, to ensure their
ihility and success. That day is past.
will now take the lead, and in a few
will supply the larger portion of the
Icral Governments.—N. Y.Mir-
al fob Paper.—M. Adolphe
has bestowed many yeais of pa-
on the improvement ol the
, has at length, we are
in adapting to that pur-
aloe. whereby
wasteful and patchy
by a raw
quantities,
liy worked into clear*
texture.—Literary Gaz.
The New York Dandy Daguerreotyped.
—A writer in the Courier des E;ats Unishas
anatomised the New York Dandy in a style
which loses nothing of its pungency in passing
into English through Willis's pen.
The toilette of the New York Dandy is de-
scribed by iVions. Lacombe as trulv irreproach-
able. His pantaloons are so diligently re-
newed that knee marks never pro t liberate.
His gloves look like primroses, new-blown
with ihumb and fingers. His head, smooth
lrom the curling-tongs, sits in his collar like a
marigold in a paper-holder. The tie of his
cravat, so broad and so long, is a marble of
untumbled dexterity. With his hat at the
angle agreed upon, his set, booted like the
model foot in the show case of the maker,
laced, and with a violet in his button hole, he
walks broadway like a machine moved by
single action, and if he looks at. you at all, does
it,with an expression of "Vulgarian! keep on
the other side of the walk." (líPren le bus
du pave man ant.")
At his club, at the opera, at balls and in
Broadway, the New York dandy is pacha.—
MiVf rtfc —ofemessr^lamuia rtiilJ liustmfiJs <3r
New York have cyphered up the fact that
"appearances" content him. Some intelli-
gence and certain powers of conversation are
necessary, in fact, to keep up the illusions that
are risky to those who "at least will flirt"—
but the intelligence and conversation of the
Fifth ave noodle are eonfined to topics soon
exhausted. He knows that Cellarius invented
the polka, and that Saracco is his prophet—
that Derry and Corraz cut a coat authenti-
cally—that Montel, Taylor and Lenoir make
bouquets, and that Asia Minor an'd East
Broadway a'e positions of the planet we live
on—but other knowledge comes by accident.,
if at all, and is left to bald heads and those
who are willing to be bored with it.
Y, MAY 27,1851.
J. M. Gibson, Editor-
IS * *
$2,50 A YEAR.
Let us try to be Happy.
BY ELIZABETH P. ROBERTS.
L t us try to be happy! we may if we will
Ffcd some pleasures in life to o'erbalance the ill;
ere was never an evil, if well understood,
Bit what, rightly managed, would turn to a good.
Iiwe were but as ready to look tothe light
we are to sit moping because it is night,
e should own it a truth, both in word and in
deed,
at who tries to be happy is sure to succeed.
Le* us try to be happy: some shades of regret *
Are sura to hang round, which we cannot forget;
There are times when the lightest of spirits must
bov.
.And thd sunniest face wear a cloud on its brow;
We mist never bid teelings, the purest and best,
To lie ljluuted and cold in our bosoms at rest;
But theideeper our own grief the greater our need
To try b be happy, lest other hearts bleed.
Oh, try|o be happy, it is not for long
We shill cheer on each other by counsel or song
If we n&ke the best use of our time that we may,
There i< much we can doto enliven the way.
Let us cnly in earnestness each do our best—
Before (íod and our conscience, and trust for the
rest
Still taking this truth, both in word and in deed,
That \vi j tries to be happy is sure to succeed.
New Printing Press.—The New York
Tribune learns that Mr. H. Underbill of Ca-
ri^ridaiujua (N. Y.) has invented and taken
nieans ti> secure a patent for a new printing
press which is thought to be capable of throw-
ins? off sheets at the rate of 600 per hour, em-
ploying only a man and a hoy. It is supposed
that one man alone can work 400 sheets an
hour. It has been examined by several prac-
tical printers. who express their confidence
that it will do as fine work as any press now
in usi. The connections are extremely sim-
ple the advantages it possesses, and the
whole, including roller moulds and all the ne-
cessary appendages lor the press, can be pro-
fitably constructed for
The Magic of Internal Improvements.
—The St. Louis Times, of the 1st inst., thus
alludes to the rapid manner in which the
State of Illinois is filling up:
The emigration into Illinois is immense this
season. There are some into every county in
the State, but the middle and northern por-
tions are overrun with men in search of new
homes. It is all no doubt attributable to the
vast increase in the value of her lands and mi-
neral resources, to lit anticipated from the con
FITS, 1V1TS.
INDIAN REMEDY, A NERVINE BALSAM.
rpHE Empire Company having obtained, at
jl much expense, the Great Indian Remedy,
a Nervine Balsam, which is becoming so cele-
brated lor the cure oi' all nervous affections, espe-
cially epileptic and other fits, convulsions, &c.,
would respectfully call the attention of physicians
and the afflicted to it, as forming a new antidote
in the treatment of those dreadful diseases, hereto-
fore thought to be wholly incurable.
Any person affected by fits or nervous affec-
tions, who shall purchase the Nervous Balsam
and persevere in its usé, and is not radically cured,
or most essentially benefitted, shall have their
money restored. Therefore, to dwell on its vir-
tues, ór insert certificates of cures, would be use-
less. It can be procured*onlv of the
mr24 EMPIRE COMPANY. No. 138 Fulton st
murder. Two parties, named Manly and
Konif, met recently on the Causeway. The
former fired a pistol and shot the latter, two
ballsfentering his body—one passing through
his b¡feast and lungs. ' He still lives, but can-
not p ssibly survive. The offender has been
arrested, and says he acted in self-defence.
The sweetest, the most clinging affection is
often shaken by the slightest breath of un-
kindiess, as the delicate rings and tendrils of
the vine are agitated by the faintest air that
blows in summer.
A Modern Frankenstein.—A Cincinnati
paper states that a scientific gentleman of that,
city has within the last six weeks, at various
times, produced animal life solely from the ac-
tion of certain chemical preparations on each
other, in such a manner as leads him to the
conclusion that a more perlectly developed
precess, aided by further scientific discoveries,
will produce results miraculously astounding
to the world: The specimen of life produced,
did not exist more than twenty-four hours in
either instance ; but the simple fact of life
power being thus manifested and attested, as
it is, by the personal examination of five or
six eminent physicians, may lead to something
of which the whole world ol science, as at
present, may look forward with awe and
amazement!
A Curious Murder in Norway.—A man
named Liopatar, the gravedigger of the vil-
lage of Secham, not far from Copenhagen,
lately murdered his wife under peculiar cir-
cumstances. He was a man of rather weak-
mind, and completely under the rule of the
wife, an ill-tempered, overbearing woman.—
He was one day about to dig a grave, when
his wife came up, and perceiving in his hand
a piece of two thalers, ordered him immedi-
ately to give it up to her. He resisted, de-
claring that he wanted it to pay a debt. At
last it was agreed that she should receive the
money for a new grave which he was about
to dig. and which she agreed to aid him in.—
They dug at it together for some time, when
Liopatar suddenly struck the woman a vio-
lent blow on the head with his pickaxe, and
continued striking her until he had killed her.
He theq went to the adjoining church and rang
a grand peal in honor of her death, and was
about to fling himself from the tower, when he
Ünlb
The Jews.—In our thoughts of old clothes-
men and despised shopkeepers, we are accus-
tomed to forget t!;at the Jews came from the
East, and that they still partake in their blood
of the vivacity of their Eastern origin. We
forget that they have had their poets and phi-
losophers, both gay and profound, and that
the great Solomon was one of the most beau-
tiful of amatory poets, of writers of Epicurean
elegance, and the delight of the whole Eastern
world, who exalted him into a magician.
There are plentiful evidences, indeed, of the
vivacity of the Jewish character in the Bible.
They were very liable to very ferocious mis-
takes respecting their neighbours, but so have
other nations who piqued themselves on their
refinement; but we are always reading of
their feasting, dancing and singing, and harp-
ing and rejoicing. Half of David's imagery
is made up of allusions to those lively manners
of his countrymen. But the Bible has been
read to us with solemn faces, and associated
with such false and gloomy ideas, that the
Jews of old become as unpleasant, though
less undignified, a multitude in our imagina-
tions as the modern. We see as little of the
real domestic interior of the one as of the
other, even though no people have been more
abundantly described to us. The moment
we think of them as people of the East, this
impression is changed, and we do them justice
Moses himself — who. notwithstanding his
share of the barbarism above-mentioned, was
a genuine philosopher and a great man. and is
entitled to our eternal gratitude as the pro-
claimer of the Sabbath—is rescued from the
degrading familiarity into which the word
Moses has been trampled, when we read of
him in D'Herbelot as Moussa Ben Amran ;
and even Solomon becomes another person as
the Great Solimán or Solimán Ben Daoud,
who had the ring that commanded the genii,
and sat with twelve thousand seats ol gold on
each side of him. for his sages and great men
—Leigh Hunt'* Table Talk.
for himself,
whilst he
that he had not ruug a peal
The neighbors had assem hied
thus employed, aud it was in
their presence that he flung himself from the
tower of the church. He was so injured that
he died in a few minutes after relating the
circumstances of th** murder and suicide.—
The body of the wife was found immediately
after, the head being dreadlully ¿eaten in.—
La Pretse.
An Affecting Appeal.—A learned coun
sellor, in the middle of an affecting appeal in
court on a slander suit, let fly the following
flight of genius:
" Slander, gentlemen, like a boa constrictor
of gigantic size, and immeasurable proportions,
wraps the coil of its unwieldy body about its
unlortunate victim, and, heedless of the shrieks
of agony that come
The following specimen of womanly as-
sumption was given in one ol the census re-
turns in England:
"Jane , wife, head of the family rnang-
ing woman. John , husband, turns my
mangle."
"Bob, did you ever see Miss Smithey?"
"No."
"How do you know she is handsome, then?"
"Because the women are all the while run
nin? her down so."
Observing young raanthat.
Passengers per steamship Louisiana.—Mrs.
Povell, Mrs. Morris, J. Henderson & ladv, Mrs.
W)fctt and child, Capt. Pratt and ladv. J. B. Bar-
berj. M Bird, J. Lyon. A. Ravley, J. E. Smith
J. JR. Richards, J. F. Carr, Wildman, Reeves,
L. W". Barnes, Dr. Sweet, J. T. Heard, Wm.
tin irles, J. A. Ward and lady. Mr. TenEyck, J,
G. Hasbrook, Eeguin, James West—9 on deck,
and9 negroes.
CUM&TOCK is
MAGICAL PAIN EXTRACTOR.
or nnotner CO W\, uijrf-s; -ric x^owretix imrafeiTCitory
Rheumatism, Ague in the Face and Breast. Fe-
ver Sores, Prickley Heat, Inflamed Skin, Broken
Breast, Sore Nipples, Rough Hands. Blistered
Surfaces. Dressing for Blisters, White SweMings,
Cold in Wounds. All Corns, General Sores.
In Erysipelas, Sore Eyes, Gluinsey, Sore throat,
Broken or Sore Breast, Piles, Chest Diseases,
uch as Oppression Pains; also, Sore Lips,
Chapped Hands, Tumors, Cutaneous Eruptions,
iNervous Diseases of the Spine, there is probably
no medicine known so good; and as for Burns, it
has not its equal in the world.
Pimples on the Face, Masculine Skin and
Gross Surface.
Its action is to expel all humor. It will not
cease acting until the face is free from all matter
that may be lodged under the skin, and frequently
breaking out in the surface. When there is no-
hing but a grossness or dull repulsive surface, it
begins to soften and soften until the skin becomes
as smooth and delicate as a child's.
Sold only by the EMPIRE COMPANY,
138 Fulton street. N. Y.
A. S. RUTHVJEN,
NOTARY PUBLIC,
Houston. Texas.
n19 sw-w
NEW
ESTABLISHMENT,
at liberty.
NGILLARD & CO., respectfully inform the
• citizens of Liberty and vicinity, that they
will keep on hand Dry Goods and Groceries,
of tvery description, which they will sell on as ac-
commodating terms as any establishment in the
place. Mil—wlv.
WHOLESALE & RETAIL
GROCERY ESTABLISHMENT,
at leona, leon county.
MATTHEW TAYLOR respectfully informs
the citizens of Leon and surrounding coun-
ties that he offers for sale a very extensive as-
sortment of Groceries, Liquors, Hardware,
«Síg, consisting of Flour, Coffee, Teas, Sugar,
tioi purposes; all of which
Cash or Country Produce.
mrlTwtf.
A DMINISTRATOR'S N OTICE.—Hav
J\ ing been appointed by the Hon. County Court
of Liberty County, administrator of the estate of
Thomas T. SeeTy, deceased, at its March term
last, notice is hereby given to all persons having
claims against said estate to present the same to
the idministrator within twelve months or they
will be barred. „ .
A^ril 25 T. R. HARTWELL.
"\TOTICE TO PLANTERS AN1> MER-
IN CHANTS.—The undersigned are
to manufacture all kinds of tin-ware at the short-
est nil ice. and will keep constantly on hand all
na, neemess oi me snneks kind^of tin-ware, and are prepared to repair all
from the inmost depths of inn,1.. 0f tin and copper and sheet iron ware.
I and reverberating as the A. G. K. & J. B. SPANN,
V^lasco. Texas, March 29. 1851.—3m.
Tl3e Galveston Civilian and News, and the
Texas Ranger, (Washington) will please copy
the above and send their bills to the subscribers at
its victim's soul, lood _
mighty thunder that rolls in the heavens, it
finally breaks its unlucky neck upon the iron
wheel of public opinion, forcing him to despe-
ration, then to madness, and finally crushing
him in the hideous jaws of morai death.—
Judge, gire us a chaw of Tobacco /"
GAY'S EXTRACT UF CANCHALAGUA.
A California Plant ot'rare Medical Vir-
tues.—A certain preventive for Fever and
Ague, Consumption, Coughs, Colds. Influenza,
A.-thma, Bronchitis, Scrofula, Gout, Rheumatism,
Neuralgia, Erysipelas, Lumbago, Paralysis, Pleu-
risy, Jaundice, Dyspepsia, Costivenéss, Piles,
Dysentery, Dropsy, Liver Complaints, Billioas
Complaints, Nervous Affections, Cutaneous Dis-
orders, Fevers in General, Hemorrhages, Obstruc-
tions, Fluxes, Indigestion, Depraved and Defec-
tive Appetites, and all diseases originating in
Constipation of the Bowels, or impurity of the
Blood. It gives tone and vigor to the digestive
organs, and is remarkable for its Animating,
Strengthening, ana Restorative Properties. Pub-
licly admitted by Dr. Townsend, manufacturer
of ' Dr. Townsend's Sarsaparilla," to be "Far
better than Sarsaparilla."
£3?" In corroboration of the above, read the
annexed communication, as conclusive testimony
and prooi positive.
From the Graefenberg Company.
Sir—You are aware that as the originator of
the Graefenberg Company, I must have had my
attention called to the numerous Medicines pre-
sented to the public patronage. I have watched
with much interest the introduction of the Can-
chalagua into this country by yourself; and am
free to say that no medicine stands so deservedly
high as your extract oithat invaluable plant. In
my family I have seen its extraordinary eriicacy
in the cure ofa confirmed case of Bronchitis.—
For all complaints which require the prompt and
thorough purification of the blood, I deem your
Canchalagua far, very far superior to any and all
the Sarsaparilla of the day, ard with them all 1
m well acquainted. «-J. T. MARSHALL.
Wholesale and retail depot
EMPIRE COMPANY, No. 138 Fulton st.
Sold also by Kushton, Clark & Co., No. 110
Broadway; Mrs. Hays, 175 Fulton street, Brook-
'yn ; Radwav & Brother. Atlantic street. Brooklyn.
Enflurance $c Sx
The Widow's Friend, and the 0
insurance
AGAINST ACCIDENTS, AND ACCIDENT-
AL DEATH.
THE Manhattan Lite Insurance Company
oí N ew York, with a cash capital of Oue
Hundred Thousand Dollars in audition to
amount received lor insurance, is also e spec i
empowered by its charter, 10 insure persons d-
gainst accident or violence.
The following are (amongst many others) some
of the causes from which death by accident may
occur, viz:
By Gunshot and other, By Falls of Earih or
COMSTOCK'S VERMIFUGE.
THIS is the most extraordinary remedy for
worms ever used; it effectually eradicates
worms from both adults and children. It cannot
harm the most delicate infant or strongest adult,
and never fails to completely root out and destroy
all kinds of worms. The cost, 25c per bottle, puts
it within the reach of all, and all parents who are
without it, are wantonly exposing the lives of
their children to those fel destroyers of youth,
Worms. This Vermifuge is only to be had of the
EMPIRE COMPANY, 138 Fulton street, N. Y.
but as there are other pretended Vermifuges of
the same or similar names in the market, which
s are about as surs to kill the Children as
orms, it is best to see that the following
notice is on each package :
NOTICE: All preparations heretofore known
as "COMSTOCK S," or COMSTOCK &CO'S,
always belonged, and now belong, exclusively, to
Dr. Albeit L. Comstock; and though the name of
Comstock & Co: will be continued, this extra la-
bel, with the lac simile signature of Dr. A. L. C.,
will in future designate the genuine.
All others must be spurious.
ALBERT L. COMSTOCK.
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For G hours
12 hours
24 hours
2 days
3 days
4 days
5 days
other materials.
Falls from Build-
ings and other
Falls,
Sufl'ocations,
Scalds,
Burns,
Lightning,
Murder,
Bites of Animals &
Reptiles,
W ounds,
Horses,
Coaches,
Carriages,
Wagons, Carts,
Railways,
Shipwreck,
Machinery,
Assassination,
Drowning,
Explosion,
Manslaughter,
RATES OF INSURANCE
Against Accidental Death, without regard to
Age, Sex, or Health.
1st. The First Class comprises—Professional
Men and Private Gentlemen, Farmers, Clerks,
Shopkeepers and Tradesmen, and all iemales en-
gaged in the usual household occupations.
All of this class will be insured at the rate of
thirty cents on a hundred dollars for one year,
with a deduction of 15 per cent, when the policy
is taken for five years, and 25 per cent, when ta-
ken for ten years, and the premium paid in ad-
vance.
2d. The Second Class comprises—Printers,
Builders, Carpenters, Sawyers. Blacksmiths, Ma-
sons, House Painters, Coopers, Millers, Common
Laborers, and all persons engaged in ordinary
mechanical occupations, not deemed hazardous.
All comprised in this Class will be insured at
the rate oi 50 cents on a hundred dollars, with
the same deductions as are made in the first class
when the term is extended to five or ten years.
3d. The Third Class embraces—Engineers,
Conductors, and all other persons employed on
Railroads and Steamboats, and all persons having
the charge of steam engines. Also, all Express
Agents, Travelling Post-masters and Commercial
-Agents, Sailors, Pilots and Boatmen, Miners,
Colliers, and all persons employed in the construc-
tion of Tunnels, the Blasting of Rocks, Digging
and cleaning Wells, and all similar occupations.
All comprised in this class will be insured at
the rate of 100 cents on a hundred dollars, with
the same deductions as are made tin the first npd
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in the manufacture of Fireworks, are not insured
by this Company.
fcjf No risk taken for more than $5,000 in one
policy.
RATES OF INSURANCE
Against Accidental Injury and Death, for
Persons Travelling by Railroads, Steam-
boats, etc. etc.
{pp" All persons travelling by land or water
are insured against injury by accident, or acci-
dental death for any term of time, at rates aver-
aging less than one cent per hour.
TERMS.
6 cents.For 6 days
7 days
10 days
30 days
(50 days
90 days
70 cents.
80 cents.
SI 00
2 50
3 20
4 50
Indian Fight.—Intelligence has arrived at
St. Louis of a fight between the Sioux and
Chippewa Indians.
Velafco. Texas, for collection.
,The head-right certificate of John
Jenny for 320 acres of Land. No. 135, issued
in Galveston county. If not found within the
time orescribed^by law I will^ a^ply fOT^a^dapli-
JO
Mafy 1st, 1851.*
DR. HOUCR'S PANACEA.
An Alterative, Tonic, Diuretic, and Mild Cathartic.
THIS invaluable vegetable production seems
destined by Providence for the healing of
mankind. It is a medicine useful in all cases of
disease, while its use cannot injure the tenderest
infant. It acts immediately upon the blood,
cleansing it ol all impurities, thereby restoring
health and vigor to the body, for it is a well known
fact no disease can affect the system when the
blood is pure.
It is pleasant to the taste, and from infancy to
old age this Panacea will eradicate disease, invi-
gorate the body, and is the best medicine for the
prevention and cure of disease ever discovered in
any age of the world. Its action is mild, and il
cures without sickening or debilitating the patient.
Thousands have used it in the Doctor's private
practice, and consider it the greatest blessing
ever offered to man. It acts in perfect harmony
with the laws of nature and has never been known
to fail, where its use was persevered in, to cure
long standing and desperate cases of Asthma,
Bronchitis, Catarrhs. Colics, Coughs, Colds, Con-
sumption, Cramps, Cancerous Sores and Ulcers,
Dropsy, Dysentery, Erysipelas. Fever and Ague,
Female Complaints, Fevers of all kinds, Gout,
Gravel, Hysterics, Inflamation, Indigestion, Jaun-
dice, Leprosy, Liver Complaint, Neuralgia, Pal-
pitation of the heart, Piles, Scrofula, Spinal Com-
plaint, Salt Rheum, Scald Head, Syphilitic Com-
plaints, Tic Doloreux, Pimples on the face,
Swelled Limbs and Joints, Pain in the side, Spit-
ting Blood, and all cases of Prostration of
Strength, and General Debility of the Body.
N. B—Houck's Panacea has now been before
the pubKe for more than 17 years, during which
more than 20.000 000 bottles have been soldL,and,
since the death of Dr. Jacob Houck, the Inventor,
the Recipe and right to manufacture it have been
purchased at great cost by the Trustees of the
EMPIRE COMPANY, 138 Fulton st N.Y.
Sold by draggists generally throughout the United
States, West Indies and Canada.
12 cents.
25 cents.
30 cents.
40 cents.
50 cents.
60 cents.
CONDITIONS.
In the event of an accident by which the holder
of a policy ma}r be injured, one of the following
sums will be allowed and paid, viz: For an inju-
ry that shall detain the insuied ten days from his
or her ordinary business, one hundred dollars.—
Or for an injury that shall be so severe as to de-
tain the insured for thirty days, two hundred dol-
lars. Or if death results thereform as an imme-
diate consequence, five hundred dollars. Pay-
ment will be made within thirty days after notice
and proof are given to the Company.
Travel policies are issued to operatives on Rail-
roads and Steamboats on terms stated in the same.
When an accident happens, immediate
notice must be given to the Company by mail.
This Company is now prepared to issue risks to
persons in Texas, on more favorable conditions,
than any other Company extant, which the pub-
lic will at once see upon examination, of the
great advantages offered to the insured, who be-
come members, and participate in all the profits,
without personal responsibility. Pamphlets, to-
gether, with all other information incident, to
this subject, will be obtained, bv application to
F. A. STOKES,
Galveston, Feb. 20, General Agent for Texas.
INSURANCE.
fire, inland, marine, & life insurance. bjr the
Protection Insurance Company, of Hartford-, Conn
Capital stock 200,000 Dollars: and by the
merchants t planters mutual 1n8urance com'y,
Of New Orleans,
Capital stock 200,000 Dollars.
The above companies have opened offices in
Galveston, and will issue policies on as favora-
the terms as any other company, on Lives. Build-
ings, Merchandize in stores, and on shipments of
Cotton, Sugar, Molasses, Hides, and all other ar
tides of merchandize or produce, on the navigable
rivers of Texas, or by sea to any pjrt or ports in
the United States or Europe.
GEO. BUTLER & BROTHER,
fe7 Aeents for the Companies.
NOTICE.
THE subscriber being about to leave the St a'e
for a short time, has left his " Meat Biscuit "
manufactory in charge of Messrs. J. S. Savage
and Paschal P. Borden, and has appointed John
P. Borden his general Attorney during his ab-
sence. G. BORDEN, Jr.
April 7, 1850.
INSURANCE—Marine risks to and from Gal-
veston. covered on application to the subscribers
under their open policies at reasonable rates of
premium. fe7 WM. HENDLEY & CO.
WE have an open policy to cover all consign-
ments to us of produce, either for sale here
or for reshipment, and valuations are in full pro-
portion to market prices.
oct29 R. & D. G. mills.
Administrator's Notice.
HAVING been appointed bv the Hon. County
Court of Galveston county, administrator ot
the Estate of Robert Watson, deceased, at the
March Term of said Court, (1851) notice is
hereby given to all persons having claims against
said estate to present the same to the administra-
tor within 12 months, or they will be barred.
a7 6w JACOB L. BRIGGS.
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