The Home Advocate. (Jefferson, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 12, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 8, 1869 Page: 1 of 4
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A. "Weekly Journal Devoted to Christianity, 10ducation> Home Enterprise, and General Intelligence.
«. A. KELLY. Proprietor.
F. J. I'ATILLO, Editor and Publisher.
JEFFERSON, TEXAS, APRIL 8. 1869.
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NUMBER 1*.
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OUR CORRESPONDENTS.
It was the Rev. A. M. Marler that
sent us the eleven subscribers from
Coffeeville.
Rev. T. B. Norwood sends us fifteen
names from Daingerfield, Hickory
llill, and Snow Hill, and promises to
"still labor for the Home Advocate."
Rev. J. W. Fields, an old and tried
friend, and a veteran of the cross,
writes : " Permit me to congratulate
you iu the chair editorial. The Home
Advocate is a decided success—the
very thing we need in Texas to sup-
ply a place in our literature. The ju-
venile members of my family are de-
lighted with it. Indeed I am pretty
fond of it myself."
Capt. W. J. Clark, formerly of this
place, now of Dallas, is laconic:
" Your H. Ad.—lam delighted with
~it. Go on Frank. Stick to it." Sends
1 subscriber. *
We don't "stick" to anything
olse. The Captain promses to help
all he can. We expect much, know
ing his force.
Rev. J. M. Binkley writes from
Kentucky Town : " I have been re-
ceiving your very excellent little
family paper, the Home Advocate,
which I think is just the thing we
need for the times. It is neat, plain,
moral and religions—just such as
our young people should have and
read. And many of us of larger
growth can receive instruction from
it. Out of some half dozen papers
I take, it is among the first I glean."
Sends 2 subscribers.
Prof. G. A. M. Starks, of Marshall
University memory long years ago,
writes us from Pilot Point, Denton
county: " I have received several
numbers of the Home Advocate. I
like it, sir, but no better than I ex-
pected when I saw the source. I am
g'oing to make a club in my school,"
<&c. Sends 2 subscribers.
Master Charlie E. Young, of Rusk,
is pleased with the paper, and sab-
scribes.
A number of ladies also send
greeting to the " Dear little paper,"
which is highly appreciated.
All the above is culled from strict-
ly "private" letters, and wo enjoin
upon our readers, as our confidants,
to keep the secrets contained in
them. Read in silence, and say noth-
ing.
A thousand thanks.
Passing along Austin street a few
days ago, we heard a terrible squeal-
ing in the Texas Stable, as of a
porker in trouble. On reaching the
spot we met a darkey who betrayed
a significant grin.
" What is the matter here ?" said
we, "saving pork this late in the
season ?"
"0 no," said Ebony, "just savin
my pet pig. You sec de coppcfatiori
gwine to take up all de loose hogs
for deselves. It's a bad business
dat de whifee folks, niggers, and hogs
all hab to be 'rested, and nobody
can't see no peace."
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Reader, did you ever try a corn
cake, iced with salt on All-fool's day?
We have heard of such a thing.
VARIETIES.
" The Old Bend."—Thirty cheeses,
a number of lbs of butter, all the
knitting for four sons, besides other
duties, were dono by Mrs. Polly
Clark, of Hampstead, N. II., ninety
years old, last year. Polly is a star
of the first magnitude and don't
meddle with politics.
"The New Bend."—The Houston
Union says there is a young lady in
that city, who can play Fisher's
Hornpipe with one hand on the piano,
Yankee Doodle with the other, and
sing Dixie ail at once. We doubt if
there is another young lady in the
United States who can perform a
similar feat.—>Colorado Citizen.
Will the Union please to inform us
whether that accomplished young la-
dy can perform a plum pudding,
churn, and heel papa a pair of socks
with the same facility that she can
do those other nice things ?
a here is too much killing going on
in Texas. It ought to be stopped, if
the last man in the State has to t.e
killed to do it.—Houston Times.
That is just what Tracy of the
Union thought about it, when he
commenced on Kinney of the Times.
Prof. Bond, the wire-walker, fell
while giving one of his perilous ex-
hibitions in Charleston, S. C., on the
8th, and broke his neck.
The world would not lose much if
all the rest of the " wire walkers "
and "wire-workers" would take a
turn at crack-neck.
The Sioux Indians call Gen. Sher-
man " General Walk-a-hcap."
lie does travel very promiscously,
and has been known even to " strike
a trot."
An orchard of five acres in Hinds
county, Miss, produced $2,000 worth
of peaches last year.
, This year's carnival, at Rome, was
a wretched failure. Only five car-
riages with clowns and banners ap-
peared at the Corso, while formerly
th«re were hundreds of them.
Good beef can be had in Houston
for 2| cents per lb.—Houston Times.
There is no such an article in Jef-
ferson, nor has been for an indefinite-
ly long time, so far as our experience
goes. But the poorest, leanest,
toughest blue logan that ever was
attempted for human food, costs 10
cents per lb. in our market.
Ominous.—The Editor of the Hous-
ton Times has heen presented with
a firm, white-headed cabbage, grown
in Texas, weighing 12 pounds and 2
ounces, and measured 30 inches in
circumference,
Houston continues to supply the
towns up the country with vegeta-
bles.—Houston Tunes.
We modestly request the Times to
transport us one of its cabbage-
heads.
Horses are so common in New
South Wales that they can be bought
for two cents a piece.
The Catholic Priest at Klein Zell,
a celebrated holy place on the conti-
nent, has turned Protestant and mar-
ried a pretty girl.
The Washington correspondent of
the Sunday Dispatch, says, that
" Bishop Simpson is said to be dab-
bling in the Philadelphia appoint-
ments." If so, it is not the first time
the Bishop has forgotten the Master's
injunction, " My kingdom is not of
this world."
PROPOSED CONSTITUTION.
We are glad to see that the politi-
cal journals aro giving publicity to
the proposed new Constitution of
this State,'that the intelligent voters
may inform themselves in regard to
its merits, pfeparitory to voting for
or against it. Would it not be well
for the few voters who can read, to
call meetings and read the document
to those who cannot, and tell the
meaning thereof.
The first Section of tho Bill of
Rights reads as follows :
Section 1. The Constitution of the
United States, and the laws and
treaties made, and to be made, in
pursuance thereof, are acknowledged
to be the supreme law; that this
Constitution is framed in harmony
with and in subordination thereto;
and that the fundamental principles
embodied herein can only be chang-
ed, eubjcct to the national authority.
We ask some of our political edi-
tors to tell us if this is not Federal-
ism, or consolidation, in its very
worst form, and designed as a death
blow at " State Rights." As we un-
derstand it, every principal may be
regarded as a "fundamental princi-
pal," and, according to the above
section, when once adopted can nev-
er be changed without the consent of
Congress. Has any State in the
Union embodied such a doctrine in
its Constitution ?
Section 5. Every citizen shall be at
liberty to speak, write, or publish
his opinions on any subject, being
responsible for the abuse of that
privilege; and no law shall ever be
passed curtailing the liberty of
speecli and of the press.
Unto whom or what shall a citizen
be responsible for the abuse of the
liberty of speech? and who shall de-
cide the question of abuse ? The
tenor of the section seems to be that
every citizen may say what he pleas-
es, so long as he pleases to say noth-
ing displeasing to some authority.—
Another section would cover the
whole ground if inserted, thus :
Section —. Every citizen shall be
at libarty to do as he pleases so long
as he pleases to do right, and no law
shall ever be passed curtailing the
liberty of pleasing.
Section 16. No citizen of this State
shall be deprived of life, property, or
privileges, outlawed, exiled, or in
any manner disfranchised, except by
due course of the law of the land.
We are in favor of the immediate
enforcement of the principal contain-
ed in this section.
Section IT. The military shall at
all times be subordinate to the civil
authority.
Who will guarantee that it shall?
Section 21. The equality of all
persons before the law is herein re-
cognized, und shall ever remain invi-
olate; nor shall any citizen ever be
deprived of any right, privilege, or
immunity, nor be exempted from any
burdrns, or duty, on account, of race,
color, or previous condition.
This is the "negro equality"
clause. Study it well, and consider
the consequences.
The Bryan News Letter, gives an
account of a brave lady who shot at
another lad3r, but did no damage
save to balmoral, hoop skirts, &c.
Woman's rights iu progress.
"OLD FASHIONED."
The following is au extract from
au article in the Baltimore Episcopal
Methodist on the old landmarks, or
old fashioned things in general:
We therefore try to serve our gen-
eration in " tho newness of the spir-
it ; not in the oldness of the letter "
They who prefer old Methodism -nay
reau the Arminian Magazine, and
Dr. Clark's lessons to preachers how
to mako up their own beds and pon-
der tho old injunction of the discip-
line, " to talk sparingly with the
women;" and revive the prohibition
against men wealing suspenders to
the communion table; but we have
something of moie importance to
attend to. For what is "old" we
have no reverence because it is " old."
We have no sad regrets for the 'old'
Methodism of our boyhf^id. If we
could we would not bring back the
abominable coal scuttle shaped bon-
nets, once indicative of a sister's
state of grace ; devised to cheat
men out of their natural right to en-
joy the blessed sunshine of a woman's
face. We would not revive the mor-
bid conscience that indicted upon a
girl the dreadful duty of killing out
of her nature the instinct of beauty
and love of pleasing, which God
wrought into the foundations of her
life. Eternity only can tell how
much suffering was thus inflicted. It
was a heroic day of the church, but
the heroines were wantonly thrown
to lions, kept by the church to
frighten its maidens into the most
intolerable slavery of which their
nature was capable. Young men of
Rome went to the lions of the arena
with less reluctance than the Meth-
odist girls put on their grandmoth-
er's bonnets, and plucked oil' their
little blue ribous, and foreswore all
the advantages of dress and person-
al decorations, and for (Hind's sake,
became ugly fo.ever. No wonder
that in many of their hearts, God
was always a hard master, appeased
by the blood of Christ, and finally
persuaded to pardon, by the consent
of the poor Cieafure to be miserable
for his sake. We do not exaggerate
the character of the struggle. An
old Methodist lady told us that " she
nearly lost her soul, because she had
a pretty foot." It was the fashion
to wear bows of ribbon on the slip-
pers, and she had slippers thus
adorned and she took pleasure in
her pretty little foot and its decora-
tions. When she heard the gospel
from a Methodist preacher, and
sought to give her heart to God,
these slippers were in the way.
They were pronounced "to be idols;"
for everything that any body liked
was "an idol." The struggle was
severe, but the ribbons were sacri-
ficed, and—perhaps from that time
the bows were fixed in the soul, and
secret worship was done them —
which no preacher talked about and
no class leader discovered. We
have seen the hegira of " old " bon-
nets, and "old" semi-lunar coats;
we have seen men and women per-
mitted to sit together like decent
people, who do not need to be fenced
apart like cattle ; we have seen
comfortable cushions cover the seats
of torment where in our former days
our poor body did penance while it
tried to hear the gospel. Wi
member the first attempt to put a
cushion upon the kneeling boaid
around the communion railing, in
Wels<'y chapel in this city. Au " old "
Methodist would not kneel on it.
lie said the Devil wa" in it
people thought it wascomfoit that
things go; and wo aro glad of it,
and wo havo no pleasure even in tho
ghost of them.
Wo wish all concerned to kno\v
that this paper is published for tho
living and not tho doad. They had
papers after their kind and we do
not admire tho k'nd. The world has
grown iu tho direction of religious
papers as iu every other direction.
Wo belong to a live world and a
lively time, and our Methodism has
no more of age about it than Christi-
anity has ; which is just tho newest
But moro auon.
thing in tho world
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A FEARFUL EPIDEMIC.
The following paragraph is from
Harper's Weekly. Wo clipped it
soi.no timo ago for publication. It
is not too lato even now to show
that Texas stands not alone in M law-
lessness and crime," and that if mili-
tary sovereignty is necessary to pro-
vent or euro tho wido spread dis-
temjiers of the country, it is needed
as much in New York, Boston, Phil-
adelphia, and other exemplary cities
as in tho "quiet village-"of Jeffer-
son—and if any difference, a little
more so.
" A fearful epidemic is raging—
an epidemic of crime. Not alone in
this great metropolis, but wide-
spread throughout our country, in
largo cities East and West, as well
as in quiet villages, tho postilontiul
breath is poisoning tho blood and
ruining tho souls of multitudes.
Every daily newspaper contains a
horrible record of murders—murders
prompted by every evil passion and
vile motive to which mankind could
become a slave, and urirdcrs com-
mitted apparently without any mo-
tive, strange and inexplicable. That
some remedial agencies inoro power-
ful than now exist, or moro prompt-
ly and universally administered, are
necessary is evident. Tho recent
assasination of Mr. Charles Rogers
indicates what a bold disregard for
law prevails, and how little oare is
taken even to conceal crime. It
seems incredible that iu a quiet, re-
spectable street in this city, withiu
sight of busy Broadway, a respecta-
ble citizen should be deliberately at-
tacked in front of his own residence,
mortally stabbed und robbed. Yet,
such was the case ; and the mm -
derer walked off with his ill gotten
giiir!9 unmolested. This is but a
single instance; but tho thoughtful
reader must turn with a sickened
heart from the daily records of sim-
ilar atrocities, and pray that en-
forced laws may afford moro securo
protection."
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More Manufacwrino.—The Tyler
Manufacturing Company has been
fully organized, and Col A. M Long,
the President is canvassing for $20,-
000 additional stock, for the purpose,
says tho Tyler Reporter, of "putting
sonio looms iu motion and adding
some wool machinery to the presout
factory;" the directors having pur-
chased an establishment already in
operation. Mr. J. P. Donglai is the
Secretary and Mr. G. W Humphrey,
Superintendent. The Reporter states
that the purchase made gives tho
ru_ i advantage of a "fine business which,
with proper management, will pay a
dividend at once, provided no addi-
tions are made.
General Henry E. McCnlloch is the
but the Grand Worthy Patriarch of the Sons
of Temperance, in Texas, lie has
was iu it and the Devil i,u him; only, ; recently published an ad Iress to the
vvc may hope, as the father of all people, calling upon the Ministers of
foolishness. We have seen old the Gospel, and all who feel an inter-
schoolmasters, old books, old roads,
old tinder boxes, and many other old
spei,
est in tho cause of Temperancc, to
assist him in reviving the order.
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Patillo, F. J. The Home Advocate. (Jefferson, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 12, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 8, 1869, newspaper, April 8, 1869; Jefferson, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth235537/m1/1/: accessed April 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History.