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INDEP EN DENUN POLITICS
san augustine, texas, saturday, december *26*
letter from austin.
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hwjm&Mt mry Saturday at
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Ban Augustine, Texas
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>*; TBBMd OS THE texivn
Austin, Texas, Dec. 12, '57.
G. W. King, Esq. : '
My Dear Sir—Believing that a few
words from the City of Hills would be
—.— . acceptable to your numerous readers at
On'ftdTanoe,8).^-. °... - • *°$2 this time, I have concluded to write a
' in Jlines, givingthe principal items of
........11* oo
.*«0
h? 4-00 news.
the County, (ex-
noless the money
at the Pfftte,
* the Texian,
do
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-For St*te &r Wr.et
For Coa ^N>ffi«e8 five
legal ad-
for iaj^vaDce P|
cription. will
ezMdiciooslv executed
. «. v. December 26.
I in the Texas
^says the^ews, we find our
to be undoubtedly the richest in
jhe Union in proportion to population.
The estimated number of inhabitants is
60^,000; the assessed valuation of pro-
fl83,594,20o, averaging I3T6
man, woman and child, anil
over $3000 to everl voter.
v- Speaking of the Texas Almanae, we
.regard it as an invaluable document,
and would advise every family to pro-
cure one. Address Galveston News,
enclosing fifty cents as the price and
ten cents postage. We wduld call the
pabJishers' attention to an omission in
•tig} present, number which also occurred
last year. In the list of counties com-
' prising the 5th Judicial district, San
Augustine and Shelby are omitted. Will
look to this in their next edition.
corder at Hudtsvllle, has died of starva-
tion—so says the papers. It somehow
happened that we never exchanged with
the Recorder, bat still we regret- to
fceanpf its* early demise in the first year
rfifeaasaatence. ^ • .*«*
An tetra from the Henderson Ban-
ner office informs us that that paper is
no More. Worn down with age and
oppoftHaoii, H* name is stricken from
the list ; but McCormick intends reju-
venating in the flourishing town of Car-
tbagC, Panola county, under the name
an& style of the Carthage Reporter.
Doubtless the good people of Panola
will enlist warmly in its support, never
we believe, having had the experiment
them before.
Mubdeb.—A man by the
of Fort Bend Co.,
waaiftardered on the night of the 8th
jUto of his own negroes. He
inlfis fent, about seven
|t the time, the
on the head
with Idealising his Instant death.
Uhd in the
Xli^[ have
The session, many of us hope, has
half*expired. Many Bills have passed
bd^Houses,and have become by the
appro vafof the Governor, thedaw of
tfe^^^t by far the''greigfg*' pOrj
a public calamity, and his ioss to be de-
plored throughout our entire country.
As a mark of respect to the memory
of the deceased, the Legislature ad-
journed to attend his funeral.
Having already made my communi-
cation of greater length than I had in-
tended, I close for the present, with
my best wishes, <fcc. n
i Very Bcsf&eifully,
. "jNO/N. FALL.
imagination
wildeiik scope, never conceived of the
vast number of Petitions presented to
a Texas legislature for Private Relief.
Many of them are entitled to respect
from their antiquity, if for no other
reason. Many come from respectable
sources^ armed and fortified at ail
points with the most conclusive testi-
mony, and indeed, they present so much
plausibility, and such an array of evi-
dence, that tlie unwary -are very liable
to be deceived by them.
The Senate has passed some Bills of
great importance to Jhe people of the
State at-large. Among this number I
inaymention the- following:
A bill tb incorporate the Western
Artesian Well Company ; a bill to per-
mit free persons of African descent to
select their owii /masters and become
slaves ;^and a bill to provide for a Ge-
ological and agricultural survey of the
sm*'.."""*
Among those now; pending before
the Senate, of general importance,
will mention, a bill to establish and en-
dow a State University ; a bill for'the
relief of certain counties therein named.
The object of this bill is to obtain an
„ appropriatio^f one hundred and ten
"I wy-'rW'+rf —' ' -j— j ' Jl— , v- v - * *
w . thousand dollars, for some thirty coun-
:-r.
SLAVtBY IN NEW MEXICO.
In +he Chicago «Journalvof the 4th,
h ?: iM 03 54? H
t the'^hesaon of Sraivi
ry or no Slavery had much to do in the
recent contest for Congressional Dele-
gate in the territory of New 'Mexico,
and that by the re-election of Mr. Ote-
ro, the slavery party triumphed. A
pro-slavery correspondent, writing from
Westport, Mo., to the Richmond, Ex-
aminer, says: i? , , . '■
I send the Santa Fe Gazette, pub-
lished in New Mexico. You will find
in it an account Of the snccess of the
Democratic party in the Territory.
Judge Davenport, one of the Associate
Justices of said territory, tried his
hardest to defeat Otero, the Buchanan
nominee for Congress. The peogle of
New Mexico, generally are clamorous
for his removal. I would be glad if it
could be done. It is not an office of
much duty ; but is of an important
character. The matter wears weight
when it is known that Senor Otero,
whom I know to be an estimable gen-
tleman, is in favor of slavery for New
Mexico. Davenport. Bairtf and others
are against it. and this is the commence-
ment of the question. New Mexico is
bound to be a slave state.
"The Kansas question I consider
closed—the batteries of the north and
south will next, be turned upon New
Mexico.'*' T?
"This.isthc region of country which
'Mr. Webster claimed to be so totally
unfit ted* for slave labor by%eographical
and geological character, that
•40ta0ed afc **6Kr
received sentence, the
t about
•y being
iave lately
ler for eigh-
teen and the latter for ten years, in the
ifiaaMiAiy* A youngster whom the
Tut<ig>ifii iwHw Trnnrr was also sen-
tenced ftri' three years, for furnishing
tixm took in prison and attempting to
dfcO inir e9cape._ y ^ .*■ >
'SeSSS^WP ee by the Galveston News
SeMihe ipm* o£ deepening the channel
l| ffre month of the Trinity river has
paw been completed, though not com-
until the~first day of September;
tiie ebannel is two thousand feet long,
■ibk wM«. «nd five * & ha,f aeoP.
'tMttcing tfa« mTigation to Liberty
to Houston,
*t~
as
ties, with which to buy corn." What
action will be taken on these bills re-
main? ;to be seen. But as they are
fraught with importance to the citizens
of out State, the Senate will doubtless
take time and act with discretion in re-
lation to them. Anions: the great num-
ber of relief bills which have been pre-
sented to the Legislature, .1 am happy
to say there are but very few from
Eistern Texas.
Although the county of Travis is on
the list of counties desiring relief, in
what we call the corn bill, I must say
that I have seen no scarcity of provis-
ions in Austin. Flour is plenty at
$10 50 per. barrel—plenty of fine beef,
turkeys and chickens. In fact Mr.
Editor, I have eat so much beef and
chickens since I have been here, that I
hardly know whether to crow or bel-
low every morning.' But I think this
state of things is about to undergo a
happy change, as hog killing time is now
at hand, and my landlord has killed a
fine lot of pork—so now is the happy
time of spare-ribs and back bones. We
have had heavy rains recently, and
many of &e streams have overflown
their banks. The Colorado river has
ttseri 'sixteen fSet-^our mails failed for
some six or eight days.
Strangers are, arriving in considera-
ble numbers, from different portions of
the State. I suppose they are visiting
for the purpose of being present at the
Inauguration of the Governor-elect,
which ceremony will take place on the
21st inst. Among the many visitors
now in the city, may be seen many of
the fair daughters of TexaSj whose pres-
ence adds much to the pleasure and in-
terest of the society of Austin.
I regret to inform you of the great
loss the State, and more particularly
the cause of education, has sustained,
in the loss of the Rev. Daniel Baker,
President of Austin College, at Ilunts-
ville. He died suddenly in this city,
on Thursday evening last, of disease of
the heart. The zealous efforts of Dr.
Baker, in behalf of education, and high-
jm.A.we* Magazine, the " Southern
A££^bas been started in Galveston by ^ , . .
Mrs. Cora Ann Weekes.- We have not! toned morality in Texas, has made his
been favored with a copy. 'name a household word, and his death
to ex
cltide felavorj- from i£ by Ca gr^io«al4^h.^^
enactment, was ontirely unnecessary. 1
He regarded such legislation in this
ease as merely re-enacting the will of
God ; as attempting to secure by statute
what has already been divinely decreed.
If we mistake not, this sentiment at
that time founil great favor at the
South. ;
- [For the Texian.
JEflfitor Texian ;
Dear Sir—Allow me to thank you
for your kindness, which grants a fair
hearing even to the weak, the persecut-
ed and the poori
Having been traveling over the coun-
try in pursuit of my vocation, I failed
to .meet the communication in your pa-
per; of Nov. 2&th, over the signature
of " Farmer's Boy," ^from Hamilton,
until a day or ft9fo past.
fn thfrveiy ^feet^anj: m cftlicte parts
at his commuaRttioii, lie endeavors to
of -m attax* otns&t tff Milarn," ^
Now, I appeal to the readers of your
paper, whether I have attacked any one?
My humble aim has been to vindicate,
from unjust aspersions, the humble class
to which I belong.
Farmer's Boy appears to have lost
sight of the proposition of Mat, which
was, that Peddlers Should be ta&titbht
*>f the country, for certain puerile rea-
sons, which I attended w^tn my last
communication.
The evil of which your presen
respondent complains is, that " P
dlers are slipping around the; country
avoiding the officers, and thus swtn
ling the Stafe out of thousands of dol-
lars."
What remedy he proposes in the pre;
mises, is not very dea/ from his com-
munication. But as to the charge,
Peddlers have to pay a license under
our present law, of five dollars quar-
terly, Or sixteen dollars by the year.
Long and unjust persecution has made
the Jew timrd, careful and circumspect,
and Peddlers, as a class, are notorious
for having a close eye to their inter-
est.
Now, Mr. Editor, would any sensible
man risk the consequences of evading
sutfr
above mentioned ? Reason answers,
no! Common sense answers, no! A
transient fellow, far more apt to be a
w^i'i
TIIE SIven
the Seven Slee|«ers is ili« most rf fHibr c
f the legend's of tlje-c'ittrcli. K is !o1 -
lows* z
"VV^n the.^n|«ernr
the Christiana wrveu
occasio
fa
innOcent
per« rn|eJ
of Ej)!
m
pvtjfe 't y the
ranee
xuetn^
of a h
may hafeliaj
can only sa;
heard of it,#
I. do not beJi
aud^ijust
of a few-
As foE your correspondent's at
the merchants] and farmers of T^i^aha,
it is no coneerjfLpOfr mine-j _I;pr&p>o
Me to etuei r
own part, without asking vindication
from a pen so feeble as a peddlers.
Ono^other thing I failed to notice at
its proper place, that is, F. B. boasts
that merchants bring into the S,tate
sugar, coffee, &c., which he Sells to lie
farmer.Q3L%credit. I c(it,^r tije-iife
hatf Jbear:
Nicely Done.—At a certain eating
house a day or two since, a very lean,
cadaverous looking mortal, was so al-
lured by the inviting appearance of a
ten pound turkey, all done up in " fix-
ings," that he unconsciously Uttered the
ejaculation that he could eat it up in
ten minutes. " What'll you bet ? "
asked a snob at the door* The " lean
and hungry Cassius" immediately re-
sponded, "Will you pay for it?"
"Yes." "Well, then, I'll bet you a
drink." " It's a bet." said snob. The
lean man immediately set to, and the
choicest part of the fat and savory
monster were consumed with a most
enviable relish, but upon the expiration
of the ten minutes he found himself
stuffed up to the brim, and the turkey
not a third demolished. Rising very
coolly he acknowledged that he could
not go it, and quite as coolly forked
over twelve and a half cents for two
whiskey toddies—lost wager. Snob
looked blank upon being suddenly
struck with the idea that he had been
done up in a decidedly cheap package,
paid down two and a half dollars for
the turkey, and 13ft his friend enjoying
digestion and a prime smoke by the
stove, considerably better for a first
rate dinner for a nine pence.
[Pittsburg Dispatch.
The Thousand and One Nights.
—-The lovers of Arabian lore, especially
the young folks will be pleased to learn
that Sceherezade's stories are not yet
told, and that Shah of Persia has order-
ed the publication of a magnificent illus-
trated edition of the "Thousand an<^ One
Nights," which will contain many tales
wanting in the common edition. This
book, it is expected, will not have its
equal for splendor in the world. A
very large number of artists have been
seven years employed, under the direc-
tion of the Shah himself in working
at it.
Exterpise.—A correspondent of the
Galveston News says Messrs. Smith &
Force are building a light draught
steamer at Town Bluff on the Neches,
to ply as a mail boat between Sabine
Pass, Madison and Beaumont.
mez|
saystem—I will ob-
m * • -JgM ■
passant, that there
who attribute
barrassmenjs of
system ; and
that the farmer and all
be benefitted in
nde of such facilites.
wever, any wish t®
ion on this subject,
_ ag^that
"nay*venture more.
m* 'j- ® -....
es should keep near siura
I will, however, refer Farmer's #oy to
a pre„tty fair,' though unintentional ar-
gument against the' credit system, in
his friend Mat's communication, in the
36th No. of the Eastejjp Texian.
And noiv, friendig, I p^rt with you,
nbt yi anger. "Toil have harshljvand
I pHllf unjiisfly, assailed the calling to
which n>slong'rnTr<i ~?
jm
_ i? y firi tlie diSnel f ie if^iiTPa-dj
\vh:c#was most rhfracnlonly prs
'withont injuring the "| Owers ' ?"
Uiuidred ^nd eigjaft^-pevriv;
end of that ti<ne,'%|)e«lav<
whoni tiie inheftt?ft*ce of
desceBded, rfinov^d tli« \
__ _
the sun darted into the/cav^u and thtf
Seven Stftejoe** we e perfuittrtf to awalte.
Soon alter ri^tig from their sleep, which
they thought had last§4 jQprly a "few hours,
tliey were pressed by caiis of hunger, and %
resolved that Jamblicfrlia, one of their *
Dftlmhe'r, shonld seeretlv fetffrn to the cily,
"^nreliase thread for t&e uSie of himsejf and
cotepauious. The youth, if w& may
still employ -Miat appfiealtion, t|p|yp gp
longer recognize the once familiar e*?$y?V
hi^.iratiye routitryjvahd liis 'surpr^te
M'e appearance oflarge 0*-
cross t^minhantly erected over the princir *
pa'-^I^P^Sph^eus. His, siii^ijfi||re8ii 4
and olisdlete language confnaJidRd*!^al>a.
ker, togsvliom he ,
of pectus, as the currlm toalii of
Empire ;.^i)d^an)hiichiis on the suspicion
of- a secret treasure, Wa draggedibefdre
Larire
\
Tjieiir
the judge.
ced the
anit hiskienls h
rant.
pro'lu-
:^ha< fwb_ cen-, ^
* ^ chus^
1 age
Ha , ..
, nd,
^hastened
jpers.
theit
^instance
Yankee than a Jew, may occasionally
pass through the country without visit-
ing the officers of the law,' but to my
personal knowledge such cases are very
rare.
The Jew Peddler is herein a com-
paratively strange country, and having
in most eases fled from the tyrranny
and oppression of the old world—he
has a horrid idea of the mysteries of
th£ la!w—he is from training timid, and
averse to all risks, he finds taxes al-
most a cypher in comparison with those
to which he has been accustomed.
These facts cannot be gainsaid, and,*as
a consequence, it is idle to accuse suifn
a class of systematically evading^fche
law,
I fear my bare word #ill|not avail
much with such bitter enemies of my
class and religion, or I would pledge
it that I have not known a case of the
kind during eight or ten years that I
have followed the business. Some poor
fellow, through sheer ignorance, may
have been liable to the charge; but if
the officers of the law have done their
duty," (and I generally find them prompt
enough,) I am persuaded such cases are
rare.
But the Farmer's Boy has found a
tremendous mare's nestl A company
of peddlers got credit, a long time ago,
for a hundred thousand dollars, in New
York or somewhere else, through bogus
recommendations,- or some other mearis,
and then suspended, &c. It was well
enough not to be more explicit. Some
designing person has imposed on thy
credulity, friend—or else in thy anxii^
to malign Jew Peddlers, thou haSt
charged to their credit an exploit whicHl |
may very likely have been achieved by
some of thy useful friends, the mer-
chants.
Remember! I make no charge
the kind, but his legend forcibly brings
to remembrance that we have some-
times heard of financial operations of
the kind, effected by gentlemen of the
mercantile profession.
vindicate myself and those of my call-
ing. I hope, Mr. Editor, and you kind
readers of the EasterlyTgxian, will ex-
cuse the weakness of" the attempt, antf
regard more kindly, *wJii ^
JEW PEDDLERS.
Melrose, T£exas, Die. 12, '57.
New La ^©.Office.—In the state
zette^ve hnSihe following description of
Uie rtew LapSl Office (not yet confalete),
at Austin : This immense-pile of racket
grad^a^ly^l^oacfiing completion. It ocs
cupiesHbe teapi^gyce immediately to the^
and opposite t# the
n. The k>catioe seems
0nrast to the eye of rh6' he-
L ther public huildings.- As
iti Congress Avenue its
me(}ts and turrets, give te
edifice and would
al1^ than a ftivil insti-
xty feet abbve the-
this vasf height, We find
te the ttork of the
a,?ecated. Below
Jatk^Peaehes five feet
l^kaeMjT of hwr feert.
The h^S®'e fePt a !)0$e the ^arth is fill
ed wit\v <i.irt.. ^pTpon tWfe platform <fe'
have the first series of rooms-^ A ha'
tends thronzhlopi Biwldiiijrw
ef|,of fteGa
GfwernW^"**
toilding#"a^ed
with solid mnsotify-aiid over fiftfeen feet
high Otr each F de are offices of various
dimenyious according to- the peculiar de-
parme'it of clerks. These rooms vary
from 11 by 13 tdf:20' by 3G, We ascend
by a «jif suppprtinit^fem stairway the
second story^ and find anotiier large hall
and a similar division of room . litre we
look out upon the tovveiing hills and wood-
skirted prairie1* 011 every side, with the
iMear wateiS'-jof the Colorado :lweep'ug bv
A country editor
following terms-
specie paStter
uses
erythiiig
announces
i^Phas sus
an account,
pile of bficks hi
one^n our hat.
it he ina
Jhe^Emper-
iVe^verh
tifeir ? ,
at'eth#^
'd&pited. p itikr
.r, 1 * * en * 'i_ .
Taken at Jits I®ren6h savan
of excellent' heart, but isofflewbal eccentrtis,
lately : discharged a- «fervant.' Another
pr eseured" hi mself, sr'tld when, matters, were
nearly settled, the gentleman said :
"L;pten.my good feiiow^ l am not un-
fair ; but I hare to' u ast^ xvords. Ton
must undgistand rofcvat a hitit. JFr r exam-
ple, when 1 saf-^'iaiveme my razorSjVjo
«have me'—you must brit.g me at
same time.warm water, soap, i napkin, in ^
fact, all'.he accessories of flie toilet. And'
so with everything.'* • t
For some time all wentxStt to a marvel, and
otir friefid1 congratulated bim&lfoQ having
so e.tg6llejit a servant. One day 4 he felt
indisposed, and toIdvhisman to go ior the
doctor, wl\p lived a few'^tt^ gff. Oce
h6^ t^O-slionrS, passed tWSJr,. ^No nhv-
servant. !P'naHj|%f th€^hd of
three hQnrirvbacit-eame s f
what tnade-yoa^^ong ^ time
' I, doct^fj, j^o Jive^cloea at
. K*
??Ma^p, mt>ii«leur r^meiW^ers $l!blf^wbon
^mast g^^lyiU fttat
he wrll tp* aefid. T'hMl Started3
for the doctor; tbep^e Bnpge^lp, it) case
there should be any qpe'ratioh to perform^
the watchers, in acase they should beueed-
ed to pass the night;- the notary, in case'
monsienr ehuu'd wish® ma^s his testjf-
ment. and the undertaker, *"
kick^he bucket.
%
Id'had made a *stoo|, no
were of a Ungth.
^trying to make it^stmid
he looked in hts mdth-
Iked; "Does God ago qv-
|CS, my ch ildS'V''W oft;"
in, "I guess he wi!! lauglt,
this stotl." * 1: *
A Fugitive Slave Case.—We find iia"
the Jfew York Connnerical Advertiser, of1,
the evening of 2d inst. an account of a
fugitive slave case in Brooklyn, JJfe ,T; ft
Beemifthat the steamship Florida ''
ay^lW York from Savannah, with a ne'gro
slave who had secreted himself on' board,
^bd was not discovered until aft# the stea-
mer had sailed. As soon as it^frasdiscov-
ered that the negro Was rtthatfray, he was
detained for safe keeping uctil the steamer
should return. But Lewis Tappan, the
noted abolitionist, heard of the case, inter-
posed with an abuse of the habegg ctitptts,
had the fugitive Mp before Culver* another
rabid abolionist, add pending the hearing
Culver took the negro to ;%is own
house, and, the same evening, the rgfcaway
was released, and run off, via underground
railroad to Canada. ^
First rajeilft'lptice "of II. Beide-
A Woftern ei%liange n#er puli-
foi'oiving married u#e .•
^ 'Tried, in Seymour, on Sunday, ihrt
4th in t., by Esquire Mr. CJeorge
y^attroni, ^better known <a*,old Walfrom,
the tanner,) to Mrs. Fced|ricJ?5 Miller, a
charming widow of twenty-two. Old
WalfroTi is the u.-j!ie< and filthiest man iu
tlie ljfent|ed States, witliout ajjy ex jepiion,
pud how, with all his ug'iu^&R,* he got the
widoVv's io^ave liith, is a mystery,
lo u*. W^^Ti^s^ure thejiiide that she
need nof-li€^[rait!'A^au^ipbtnati running
;<\v y iifi^'^liroMM% %i e is the janly
woirj*^ #aSi#j^^eii:^Vttii>n ten feet of
A 6b«IC%W
8a rs.
The Inoftt curious #img in the worlc
is a woman who in not cttrious.-f
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