The Weekly Telegraph (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 21, No. 50, Ed. 1 Wednesday, February 27, 1856 Page: 1 of 4

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HOUSTON, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 27,1856.
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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1856.
Th* 22d.—We publish to-day the order of
proceedings on Friday, the 22d iust. We
bope to see a general participation in the
aftEecfty fjSMOO.COO in additip; nrnkjiig
and our eitixens generally. Hon. E. A.
Palmer, orator of the day, will, we are confi-
dent, deliver an address worthy of tae occa-
sion and himself.
The Court House lias been aeleitei
Lyceum as the most appropriateplace for
the Ball to come o£jWnight.- It will be
thoroughlj^jifejiSsed and filted up in a neat
[ style. As a society for the dis-
cenination of useful knowledge and the
Inoral and mental improvement of the young
men of Houston, it deserves every encourage
ment, and the Ball, which is got np for the
•ole purpose of enlarging the Library aid de
fraying to some extent the expenses nccessa
rily incurred in giving a series of public
Lectures, should be well attended.
tr We were right yesterday in putting
down fifteen as the vote against the Tap Rood.
Of between four and five hundred voters,only
this small number in the whole city are op-
posed to building the Tap. Was there ever
a vote on so important a measure more nearly
nonatM 7 It is to be borne in mind too
that nearjy or quite every opponent of the
measure in town voted against it, while
many who were in favor of it did not vote,
•considering the measure as too popular to
need any exertions'in its behalf. Besides,
the day was wet and disagreeable, prevent-
ing the polling of so large a vote as would
ot herwise have been given.
Th* Election.—Ttic cLetion for Judge of
this District, says the Galveston News, was
held yrsterday. Tin-re appeared to be very
little interest felt in the election, owing, pro-
bably, to the fact that the Judgc elect will
only preside here one term, after which, un-
der the latelaw, this county will belong to
the~7lb District, in which Judge Gray pre-
side*. The following is the result in the
three Wards of this city :
O W Smith
J H Bell
W D Mitchell.
Atkins
J C Megginson....
Buckley t...
198
193
32
13
Total 434
We presume the above vote does not ex-
ceed two thirds of the whole number of legal
voters in the city, t'he election was conduc-
ted, as far as we can learn, without any ref
•renee to, or influence from party conside-
rations.
Braxina Awctaht Giimal's* Owe*.—
On Sunday John J. Blankenship came to
this city andon Monday he delivered himself
to the Sheriff of Travis county, in order to
answer the charge of being one of the prin-
cipals in burning the Adjutant General's
office, on the night of Oct.'lO, 1855. The
same day the investigation of the caw com-
menced before Justice C. L. Mann and John
T. Graves. The testimony of Hines was de-
cidedly against the defendant—he, however,
introduced other evidence to prove an alibi
The case was argued by Jolin A. Green and
A.H. Chalmers tor the State, and for the de-
fendant by A. J. Hamilton, F. B. Turner,
H. W. Sublett, F. W. Chandler, Col. Neill,
of Austin, and Maj. McCall, of Waco. A
great deal of ability was displayed in the ar-
gument. The investigation was eloocdon
Friday, and to-day, at 6 o 'dock, the judg-
ment ofthe Court was to have been delivered.
Hynes has been committed in default of
giving security for his appearance at the
Spring Term of the District Court as a wit-,
nees against the accused. So says the Aus-
tia Tii
The Loan Bill.
This great measure, so often settled by
pnblic opinion as the policy of the people,
after passing the Senate, by more than a two-
thirds vote, was left in the Honse among the
mass of unfinished business, to be acted on
at the session in July next. There was no
measure before the Legislature of so great
importance to the growth and prosperity of
the State—none whose influence would have
been so generally and immediately felt by
the people at large If this bill had become
a law two years ago, as the people expected,
from one hundred and fifty to two hundred
miles of railroad would have been constructed
in various parts of the State, and as many
millions of dollars added to its wealth. The
San Antonio and Gulf Road, the Harrisburg,
the Houston Road and the Texas and West-
ern Road, commencing at Marshall or Jeffer-
son, might have been completed from 35 to
75 miles each. The State would have ad-
vanced to the roads probably $1,200,000,
while the companies would have
Outer of Proccedihgs n the Ztnd
lnstaat.
A aalote of 13 guns will be fired at son-
rue. At 19 o'clock a "gun will be fired,
when the different societies will assemble at
their usual places of meeting. At 11 A M.
a gun will be fired, when the procession
will be formed on Court House square by the
Marshall of the day, E W. Taylor Esq.,
and bis assistants in tbe following order.
Band.
German Rifle Company.
Mayer and Aldermen.
Lyceum.
Orator and K wider.
Clergy and Judiciary.
Temple of Honor.
Order of Good Samaritans.
Independent Order of Odd Fellews.
German Turners Association
Washington Light Guards.
Citizens.
The procession will march through the
principal streets to the Court House, where
an oration will be delivered by Hon. E. A.
Palmer, and the Farewell Address of Wash-
ington by F. R. liobbock, Esq. The pro-
ceedings will elose by a salute at sunset of
17 guus. By order at the
COMMITTEE OF ARRANGEMENTS.
Wap.hixotox, Feb. 14.—In tbe Senate to-
day the nomination of Mr. Philip Dallas, son
«f the Hon. G. M. Dallas as Secretary to tbe
U. S. Legation in London wai confirmed.
To day tbe Senale discussed the proceed-
ings of the Naval Board.
Tbe Haii«e referred the President's Mes-
sage in relation to Kansas affairs to a Com-
mittee of the whole.
In the House the seats of Whitfield, dele-
gate from Kansas; Allen, from Illinois; Gal-
pei diture of $3,600,OWL^JSrery meritorious
road in the go on vigorously, if
the Stat^^re to advance it from $6,000 to
per mile. There is no section of Texas
that can do more than prepare the roads for
the iron ; the most wealthy companies in
Indiana, Ohio and New York did no more,
wheu iron and equipments could be obtained
on a credit. When railroad materials were a
drug, iron could be had for railroad bbnds.
Such arrangements, owing to the great and
constantly, increasing demand for rails, can
not be effected now, but the bonds of the
companies must first he negotiated with cap-
italists. In Ohio, where there is so much
population and wealth, and so much external
commerce and travel passing over her rail-
roads, two-thirds of the capital for their con-
struction was borrowed. But for the aids,
thus obtained by credits, Ohio would have
less than two-thirds of the amount of rail-
ways now in operation. In this State,with a
loan from the Treasury equal to the cost of
the iron, a land bonus, as a basis- of credit
for any other loans required, and reasbnable
investments of labor or money by the people
to prepare the gradiug and superstructures,
we can build roads as fast as Ohio did, and
faster than any State of the South. The
money is in the Treasury, producing but five
per cent, interest, while the Loan Bill pro-
vides that companies loaning it shall pay six
per cent.; and yet while every man in the
Legislature, and out of it, knows that the
passage <-f the bill will stimulate the con-
struction of more than one hundred miles of
railroad per annum ; and white their con-
stituents are loseing half their crops to get
them to market, a loss that the passage of
the bill will obviate, to thCmajority of plan-
ters, in two years, they make it the foot ball
of the House, to trade and traffic with, and
to cany on its popular shoulders other meas-
ures of less favor and less utility. Two-
thirds of the people are in favor of the policy
of the bill, as expressed in large conventions
throughout theState and at the elections three
years ago. Gov. Pease, himself, was first
elected as a friend of the policy. At his last
election, he was nominated as a Democrat
and an anti-Know Nothing by the Democrats,
who have since, in the Legislature and in
the Convention at Austin, emphatically re-
pudiated his State plan views.
How long ard the people to be baffled ?
How long is the country to wait for internal
improvements ? How long are the pi inters
to endure tbe losses incident to the present
modes of trailrpoi tation ? an aggregate loss
to them, two years ago, as estimat. d by
Messrs. Mills, of Galveston, of $1,000,000.
At these figures, the expenditure of three
millions of State money bv the railroads now
in progress, in addition to their own funds,
would save to the planters the entire amount
loaned in from three to ffve years. And
while that amount is saved, several hundred
millions will be addedto the taxable wealth
of the State. Suppose we say the taxable
wealth is thereby increased but $100,000,000,
the State's revenue from taxation also in
creases $150,000 per annum ; it simply re
solves it"elf into this : if the $3,000,000 is
loaned to the United States, and remains in
the Federal Treasnry, it does not add one
dollar to the wealth tr revenues of the State
—nothing to its prosperity, and it can not op
erate to increase its papulation. Loan it to
railroads and the additional revenue to the
State is equal to $150,000 per annum, or ffve
per cent, on $3,000,000, so that the six per
cent paid by corporations is so much clear
gain. That is tbe result, financially, to the
S:ate.. To its citizens, it gives value to every
kind of property and to every occupation and
investment; it will operate as a direct dona-
tion to them of not less than $100,000,000,
in tbe increased valuation of their lands,
while it will add several millions annually
to the general productive wealth. These are
not imaginary figures, but results that will
as certainly follow railway investments in
Texa*asthey have in every other State of
the Union. Every day pub'ic sentiment is
increasing in favor of the Loan Bill, and
every planter that rides vpon the Harrisburg
or up n the Houston road, who was not be
font a friend of the loaning policy, goes home
its eloquent and zealous advocate. He sees
that the State, without inconveniencc to her-
self, can so aid the roads now in progress or
hereafter to be started, as to give much more
speedy relief the planting interest. He
sees and feels that the difficulties under
which the planter now labors would speedily
vanish, if the State would accord that credit
which tbe companies must otherwise seek
abroad. And, if we mistake not tbe signs
of the times, such a voice will come upfront
the people at the July session, as will ensure
tbe prompt passage of the Loan Bill and the
defeat of tbe miserable factions in the Leg-
islature that have been seeking, by every
species of artifice and proviso, to encumber
and embarrass tailroad corporations and pre
vent the construction of railroads by the
people
Cow Stealing.
In a country like Texas, cow-stealing
should be punished to the utmost extent of
the law. It is imposible for those who own
large herds of cattle to keep them confined
and consequently well guarded as they do
in the older States where men own but two or
three at a time. They must go at large to
gain subsistence, in this way affording the
amplest opnort nities to those thns disposed
to alter brands, marks, Ac., or kill their
neighbor's stock. Indeed, in early times, we
learn that many men accumulated fortunes
by depredating in this way upon the rights
of others: nor was the successful thief at all
lowered in public estimation, but rather el§
vated, since his influence increased in a
corresponding ratio with his wealth. Even
at this late day, when the society of Texas
generally has become as elevated ^Sorally
and intellectually as that of tbe older States,
we frequently h-ap-HSen who have been and
are yet^gei^ of this most unrighteous spc-
steakng, applauded for their success-
ful opimrtknrrlti ibc praire stock market.
No doubt in the early settlement of the
country, when the law was mainly admin-
istered by Judge Lynch, and large herds of
cattle were roving over the prairies, compar-
atively without value, and in many in-
stances without known owners, the lax hab-
it of butchering a beef without regard to the
rights of others was gradually contracted by
the old settlers, and subsequently became a
kind of lex foci, the validity of which was
recognized and readily conformed to by those
who imagined they were acting in self-de-
fence.
But the necessity for such procedure has
long since ceased to exist, and whatever
may have been the light in which this spe-
cies of robbery was viewed in early times,
it is now justly regarded by the law of the
land and by every honest citizen as the
basest theft, and deserving the most suinma
ry punishment. We frequently hear com-
plaints about Houston of a class of men who
seem to make a living by killing fat cattle
whenever they find them, without any re-
gard to the rights of others. Indeed it has
cornel o such a pass that many men will not
own milch cows at all, because they are
afraid of their being stolen and sold for beef.
It is difficult to swear to a hide, and as the
head is cut off and destroyed and the brand
defaced, there is no means by which the
identity o the animal can be clearly estab-
lished, so that, although the hide is exposed
and sold with impunity, the owner of the an-
imal has no recourse by which to punish the
offender and obtain his rights.
This is a grievance Incident to the nature
of our country, but one which calls loudly for
amelioration. The practice of compromiz-
ing with this class of rogues is not the way
to prevent a repetition of their dishonest
conduct; it only encourages them to go
on in their career of rascality until they are
finallv caught by some "tough customer,"
who, acting on the Shvlock principle, wants'
the full measure of his dues, even if it in-
volve the shedding of blood. The law
should be enforced in every instance when
such crimes are committed, and a stop put
to the practice of stealing men's cows and
afterwards selling them the beef. If they
would only divide the beef, throwing in the
hide to the rightful owner, it would not be
so bad; but to lay violent hands npon a
man's cow and dole her out in beef to liim
next morning at ten cents a pound, is "most
intolerable and not to be borne."
It may be necessary for us to retire from
printing and enter upon the stock-raising
business ourself soon, and we hope that our
vigilant executors of the law will have fer.
reted out and made such examples of some
of this class of offenders that when we do
commence we shall not have to suffer like
depredations npon our rights. So mote it
be.
CONGRESSIONAL.
Chairmen or the House Committees.
Washington, Feb. 13.—In the Senate to-
day, a debate took place on the Naval Re
tiring Board question. The Hon. J. P. Ben-
amin, of Louisiana,spoke in favor of it: the
Hon. James A. Bayard, of Delaware, strong-
ly against it.
lu the House, Wendell was elected Prin-
ter.
The standing committees appointed by
Mr. Speaker Banks were announced. The
following are the chairmen of the principal
ones:
Way* and Meant—Lewis D. Campbell, of
Ohio. The majority of this committee arc
moderate protectionists.
Claims—Joshua R. Giddings, of Ohio.
Teriitoiies—Galusha A. Grow, of Pennsyl-
vania.
Commerce—Elihu B. Washburne, of Illi-
nois.
Foreign Rtlatio.ni—A. C. M. Penniugton,
of New Jersey.
Public Lauls—Henry Bennet, of New
York.
Post Office—Daniel Mace, of Indiana.
Judiciary—George A. Simmons, of New
York.
District of Columbia—}ames Meacliaui, of
Vermont.
Revolutionary Affairs—David Ritchie, of
Pennsylvania.
Public Expenditures—Sidney Dean, of Con-
necticut.
Private Land Claims—Gilchrist Porter, of
Missouri.
Manufactures—Ezra Clark, Jr., of Connec-
ticut.
AgiicuUure—David P. Holloway, of Indi-
ana,
Indian Affairs—Benjamin Pringle, of New
York.
Ro. ds and Canals—James Knox, of Illi-
nois.
Military Affairs—John A. Quitman of Mis-
sissippi.
Militia—John C. Kunkel, of Pennsylva-
nia.
Naval Affai s—Samuel P. Benson, of Me.
Patent Office—Edwin B. Morgan, of New
York.
Library—William Aiken, of South Caroli-
na.
Mileage—Harvey D. Scott, of Indiana.
[Our despatch here has an error, and it
may he that the name intended is that of
Kichard Mott, of Ohio; or possibly William
H. Sliced, of Tennessee.—hds. Pic ]
Printing—Matthias H. Nichols, of Ohio.
In all the committees, are but two in-
stances of Lnuisiauiaii* being nominated:
those of John M. Sandidge on the Committee
on Private Laud Claims, and Thus. Green
Davidson on the Committee on Enrolled
Bills.
Fabmiso 1* to* Vicixitt or Hovstos.—
We k> own a gentlemen who some years ago
bought a small farm in this vicinity on a
credit. He was then ovct fifty years of age
and in bad health, and had a family of some
half a dozen children to support.' This gen
legos, from New Mexico; and Eustis, of j 'Imian has paid for his farm, and now makes
Louisiana, are contested. ! annually over one thousand dollars with no
The Legislature, of Maryland have elected | o|her ,id ,1iaN that afford,,a b ,)iRO(ril fam
Anthony Kennedy United States Senator. ..
I ilv. Others can go and do likewise. W hv
jntw BAMrsBiBE govern own ir.
\b
N«w Yobh, Ptb 15—The Wighs of New
Hampshire, we arc informed by Telegraphic
•bwpatches received here to-day have nomi-
nated Icbabod Goodwin as their candidate
for tbe Governorship of the State.
thaw at st. j.ocis.
Locistiix*, Feb. 15.—Despatches received
here from St. Louis, state that it has hefn
raining there all day. and that the ice i<
thawing rapidly. It is Imped that naviga-
tion will immediately re open.
mabtla.nd smurommr.
Baltimore, Feb. 14—An'bonv Kennedy,
the American candidal, was to d y on tin
Others can go and do likewise,
then stand ye idle all the day ?
A Farmer's Reason why tve are in
Debt) and can't pay it.
Bckfalo Bayou, Feb. 10, 1656.
In every section of the State, the great
scarcity of money (among the agricultural
portion of the community,) has become a
subject of complaint. This is no imaginary
grievance, like that of hard times, of which
men have complained in all ages. The mis-
fortune is general, and, in many cases, is se-
verely felt; for the great difficulty of p tying
debts has become a common theme. In all
cases of this character, it is decidedly more
easy to complain than to point out the means
of- relief. We will premise by asserting that
we arc persuaded tbatjifrelfand candid dis-
cussion of jiny- snbject tepds greatly to the
improvement of knowledge, and that a mat-
ter, in which the public are so deeply inter-
ested, cannot be too well understood.
In the first place, we complain in general
that money is scarce. W e are mistaken in
regard to the fact, for the assertion as alleged
is not altogether true. There is no country
in which money may be acquired with more
ease than in Texas. Piovidence has be-
stowed npon the State means of happiness
as great and numerous as are enjoyed by any
State in the Union ; a soil fruitful and diver-
sified, a healthful climate, numerous rivers
and adjacent seas, arc the great advantages
for which we are indebted to a beneficent
Creator. Agriculture, manufactures and
commerce, naturally arising from these
sources, afford to our industrious citizens
certain subsistence aud innumerable oppor-
tunities of acquiring wealth. We shoild
arrange our affairs in salutary and well di-
gested systems and place them in a healthy
condition, by which the fruits of industry,
in • every line, may be most easily attained,
and the blessings which follow more com-
pletely secured. These should be the objects
to engross our attention.
As a general principle, most men have
money who Uave any right to expect it; they
have less who expend more money than they
make, or otherwise procure a credit, and get
their names placed upon the ledger, and
most generally for luxuries which their crops
will not pay for. Now, no man, or body of
men, can have either money or credit, long,
whose expenses exceed their income. There
is a certain and plain process by which our
complaiuts may be relieved, and a conviction
of the necessity of a reform is the first step
towards effecting it, aud an investigation of
the causes that produced it, is the next The
most prominent cause is indolence and luxury,
which must be cured by diligence aud economy,
and the whole of our liabilities may be dis-
charged in a few years by industry and fru-
gality.
It is a common and prevailing remark of
our people, "that it requires less work to live
in Texas than any other State in the Union."
This may be true, but my experience assures
me you will find as much indolence and a
people as fund of luxury aod extravagance,
as in almost any other. In presenting this
figure I may be charged with coloring ; but
divest it and present the real facts, and there
is none but what will admit that some re-
straints might help to increase the quantity
of money among us, or at least, might pre-
vent the occasion for it.
The proposition I here state none will
gainsay, that most of the States maintain a
kind of barter or exchange of manufactures
with one another; but still the great body
of the inhabitants, rich and poor, are (or
should be) clothed in the manufactures of
their own State. Is this the case in Texas ?
Our implements of manufacture, the spin-
ning-wheel and loom, arc no longer to be seen
—they have departed from the land—they
were once familiar with our women, but there
is none left to do them reverence ; and in this
progressive age it is, in fact, considered vul
gar to even mention such old time follies.
Our women have ceased making cloth—they
buy it upon credit; in fact, the master, the
s'ave, merchant, mechauic, yea, all are
clothed in foreign or Yankee manufactures.
Is this because we do not raise cotton suffi-
cient ? or is it that wool is a very difficult
article to obtain ? But is our folly, in regard
to imports, confined to clothing T Look at
the funuilure in your houses—your bedsteads,
sideboards, bureaus, wash-stands, lounges,
window-curtains, carpets, £c.; in nine cases
out of ten are they not of Yankee manufac-
ture ? Do you consume your own butter du-
ring the winter J or do you indulge in a little
Goshen, as well as Northern beef, as if the
country contained uo homed cattle ? There
is another article, imported for the finger-
ringed gentry—as if there was no timber in
the StatL—I mean those individuals who
purchase the imported walking canes from
Yankeedom. This can be pardoned from
the weakness of those who indulge; but
what are we to think when we see the hon-
est yeomanry of our State, men to whom we
look to give character and reputation to the
country for industry, enterprize and economy,
setting an example detrimental in itself and
ruinous to our rising generation—it is with
shame, as a yeoman, I speak it, yet it is
true—that most of us do indulge in purchas-
ing, and and on a credit, too, Yankee trays
and Yankee axe-helves, and most of our im-
plements of agriculture are from Yankee-
dom. Every honest man must confess that
wc have no right to give examples and intro-
duce follies that may prove ruinous to our
fellow-citizens.
Every man must be convinced that apco
pie who have recourse to a foreign or North-
ern market for almost every article of their
consumption, can be independent in name
only. There is no State possessing greater
natural advantages than Texas ; but, to make
the most of them, we must practice the vir-
tues of iudnstry aud economy, and useevery
laudable aud worthy means to promote the
introduction of useful manufactures, and
protect such as are already instituted. The
rope factory, at Galveston, speaks well for
the enterprize and energy of those gentlemen
who conduct it, and should be liberally sus-
tained by both merchants and planters.
I hare been frequently told, in excuse for
its own remedy and make a plenty, as in
other merchandize ; but it must be in a way
of frugality and industry, and whenever
money becomes plenty iu any other way, it
does more harm than good, as it creates idle-
ness and wickeduess among a people, of
which we have already too much.
"NOT MOSES."
New Boors—Messrs. De Witt <fe Daven-
port 160 <fc 162 Nassau street New York,
have presented us, through Messrs James
Burke & Co., with a copy of the "Hunters'
Feast, a charming narrative of the life and
trials of the hardy hunter among the rugged
mountains of the far West, and an instructive
history of the nature, habits, haunts <tc.. of
the various animals with which he comes in
contact. For sale by James Burke it Co.,
Main street.
We are also under obligations to the same
publishers (De Witt & Davenport) for Kate
Weston; or, to Will and to Do, by Jennie De
Witt, handsomely illustrated with engrav-
ings by the celebrated artist, Orr. This
work, though fictitious, is true to nature,
and imperceptibly imbues the reader with
the elevated sentiments,—the pure morality
—of the authoress. There are passage9 of
thrilling interest in the book, and touches
of exquisite genius. For sale by Messrs.
James Burke <fc Co. at their Book Deposito-
ry on Main Street.
ID" The telegraph line from this place to
Galveston and also iu the interior has been
d wn for two or three months, and we hear
of no effort being made to put it up again.
Its construction at the time was undoubtedly
in advance of the age, but since the line has
been established, and as the business of the
country through which it runs is daily in-
creasing, we think it would be policy, to
say nothing of convenience, to keep it up.
O" It is not, perhaps, so generally known
as it should be, that there is a well furnished
Reading Room kept in the upper story of a
building nearly opposite the Old Capital on
Main street, where citizens and visitors can
have access to a great variety of newspapers
etc., from all parts of the Union.
CP Largely over one hundred copies of
Harpers Magazine are received monthly at
the Houston Post Office.
The Big Thicket.—We learn there is a
section of country known as the Big Thicket,
embracing a part of the counties of Harris,
Liberty, Montgomery, Polk, ai d Walker, in
all. sufficient territory to constitute a county
which is well timbered and abundantly sup-
plied with water, and embracing much val-
uable soil, which is as yet but very sparsely
populated, notwithstanding the land is avail-
able at low prices. As all this country is
tributary to Houston, we feel an iuterest in
bring ng it into notice. AVe will thank any
correspondent to furnish us with information
in regard to the region of country indicated
What is the character of its soil, timber, wa-
ter, etc. We shall take pleasure in spread-
ing such intelligence before our readers.
Later from Venezuela.—The steamship Te-
nessee, at New York, brings advices fron La-
guayra to the 27th of January. Venezuela
was perfectly tranquil. Congress was about
to meet. The cholera was committing awful
ravages in two of the provinces. .
ID" The Know-Nothing Convention meets
at Philadelphia to day for the purpose of
nominating candidates for the Presidency
and Yice-Paesidencv of the United States.
The most prominent men before the Conven-
tion will be Fillmore, Houston and George
Law, of steamboat notoriety.
O* It appears by an official anounccn-.cn!
in the Washinton Union that the only ports
in Dominica open at present to foreign trade
are St. Domingo and Porto Plata.
Captious of Acts passed by the late
Legislature.
K. I
*• $
Decisions ofthe Supreme Court,
At Galveston, February Term, 1856.
640—Mitchell v. Shanks ; Victoria. Affirmed
with damages.
641— Bass and Stapp v. Carotlicrs, adm'r ;
Victoria. Affimedwith damages.
642—Holliday v. Ingram A Reid ; Vitoria.
Affirmed with damages.
650—Burke & co. v. Ward ; Calhoun. Dis-
missed for waut of notice of appeal.
487—Scbciiier «fc Carroll v. Perry, adm'r ;
De Witt. Dismissed for the want of
prosecution.
649—Means v. Davis; De Witt. Affirmed
with damages.
603—Williams, adm'r of York, v. Talbot.
Judgement affirmed.
646—Salt marsh, ct si, v. Menfee, adm,r ;
Calhoun Judgment affirmed.
652—Rankert v. Clow ; Calhoun. Reversed
and remanded.
602—Williams, adm'r of York, v. McNutt ;
De Witt. Judgemet affirmed.
381—Hall v. Williams, adm'r of York ; De
Witt Reversed and remanded.
637—Allen, guardian, Ac., v. McLaughlin ;
Lavaca. Judgment affirmed.
638—Flotirnov v. Tne State; Jackson.
Judgment affirmed.
636—Flournoy v. The State ; of Jackson.
Judgement affirmed.
604—Powell, et al, v. Greenway, et at ; Gal-
veston. Affirmed with damages.
623—Herbert v. Hereford ; Colorado. Af-
firmed with damages.
644—Hall & Kemp v. Liun ; Victoria. Re-
versed aud remanded.
639—Perry v. Glenn ; Colorado^ Affirmed
wilh damages.
695—Smith v. Took ; Colorado. Affirmed l
with damages.
701—Cox v. Carr ; Brazoria. Affirmed with
damages.
620—Andrews v. Ennis it co. ; Colorado.
Judgment affirmed.
The Accident To Gen. Cass.
Tlye National InteUigeiicer, of Saturday
last, gives the following account of the acci-
dent to Gen. Cass, of which we had a brief
notice by telegraph:
Between 12 and 1 o-'clock yesterday, as Gen.
Cass was descending from the eastern port-
ico ot the Department of the Interior' on Sev-
enth street, he fell down teveral of the step*
to the midway landing, and sustained itijtir-
riesof a somewhat serious, and at first very
alariuitig character. Several persons hasten-
ed in a moment to his side, aud found him
insensible and bleeding profusely from a nc
arly perpendicular cut over the left tye aud
penetrating to the skull, but without fractu-
ring it, as is believed.
Gen. Cass was proinp ly conveyed back to
Executive Offiok.
Austin, Texas, February, 4th 1854.
Gentlemen of the Senate,
aud House of Reprcxntailces.
The following aets ami resolutions of flic
Legislature have been presented to me foi ap-
proval previous to the time of writing this,
viz :
1. An act to amend an act to incorporate
the Jefferson Railroad Cumpauy.
2. An act entitled an act to amend an act
en'itled an act to incorporate the city of San
Antonio—approved Jan. 14, 1842.
3. An act for the relief of Albrecht Gehrke.
4. Joint resolution approving the compro-
mise of 1850, and K- nsas and Nebraska act.
5. Joint resolution for an election in Chero-
kee and Angelina counties.
6. An act for the relief of the Hon. A. W..
O. Hicks, Judge of the Fifth Judical Dis-
trict.
7. An act to create the county of Parker.
8. An act to make valid surveys made by great; some achieve greatness; some
the county surveyor of Van Zandt county. " have greatness tliruit upon tliein " How
9. An act legalizing the creation of Van «, thie iikk hr it I. :♦ ..•,!•
Zr.ndt county! CaiU^ t™b ia'' bJ ,t? , ls Jt "IV
10 An act to allow Clinton Thompson, a ^dUCll ill.SO. and, by what means? His-
minor, to take possession and control Blfe* tvrj jirbvofces us with such queries as
Dr. Kane.
X SKKTCn, BV DK. WII.LUi
r.istr.n.
\Viie;; a man's tile is heroic, and his
name has passed into history, the world
wants to ku w hi in personally, inti-
mately. Tilts "grave and rJverend
chronicler," passing over his beginnings,
presents him abruptly in his full-grown
greatness; men rentier the admiration
earned, but the sympathetic emulation
awakened is concerned to kuow how he
grew into his maturity of excellence.
This curiosity is not an* idleness of the
fancy, but'a personal iuterest in the facts
that spring out of those aspirations n hicli
but every man upon the fulfillment of his
own destiny, llow came this uian to ex-
cel—what was in him—what happened
to develop it? "Some men .are borti
estate, and to transact business as though he
was of full. age.
11 An act to incorporate Powder Horn
Bayou aud Matagorda Bay Dredging Com-
pany.
12 An act supplementary to an act en til led
an act to incorporate the town of La ^Grange,
in the count^ of Fayette.
13 An act making appropriations to pay
the ^xpenses of volunteers called into the
service of the State, for the protection of the
frontier, and for otLer voluuteer services.
14 An. act to fix the salary of the Gover-
nor.
15 An act to change the sixth and ninth
Judicial Districts of the State of Texas, and
to define the time of holding courts therein.
16 An act to regulate the sessions of the
Supreme Court.
17 An act to create the sixteenth Judicial
District, and define the time of holding courts
therein.
18 An act making appropriation of ten
thousand dollars to defray the contingent ex-
penses of the Sixth Legislature.
19 An act to authorize the County Court of
Dallas county to levy an additional tax for
the purposeof building acourt house.
2!J An act to change the name of Martha
R. Eppenger to Martha R. Bonner.
21 An act to validate an election to be held
in the fourteenth Representative District;
composed of the counties of Cass and Titus.
22 An act for the relief of Harrison county.
23 An act granting the consent ofthe State
of Texas to the United States, to construct
breakwaters,jettys, dams and other improve-
ments on the coa-t of Texas.
24 An act for the relief of J- hn N Taylor.
25 An act to authorize agents and attor-
neys at law to make affidavits iu certain
cases.
26 An act to authorize the clerk of the
County court of Washington county to tran-
scribe certain records therein named.
27 An act making an appropriation for the
per diem pay and milage of the sixth Legis-
lature, and the per diein pay of the officers
of the same.
28 An act to incorporate the Texas and
New Orleans Telegraph Company.
29 An act supplementary to an act to
change the sixth aud ninth Judical Districts,
aud lo define the time of hold courts therein.
30 An act to incorporate the town of Cam-
eron in the county of Milam.
31 An act to reorganize the eight Judical
District and define the time of holding courts
therein.
32 An act for the relief of Ira B Dement.
33 An act to provide for the payment of
six companies of mounted volunteers that
were called into the service of the State of
Texas, on thdHMlgday of November, A D
1854, under XgHMPwsition of Brevet Major
General Pcr.slM lr ijiuitli, and to pay the ex-
penses incurred by said companies.
34 An act to provide for a special election
for Judgein the first Judical District.
35 An act for the relief of the heirs, as-
signees. and vendees Win F Allison de-
ceased.
36 An act to establish the western boun-
dary line of Tyler county.
37 An act to define the time of holding
the District Court in the thirteenth Judicial
District.
38 An act for the relief of James W Reed.
39 An act to incorporate the town of Cbap-
pcll Hill.
40 Au act to permit certain persons of
color freed, claiming to have been the pro-
perty of Gabriel Moore, late of Alabama, to
remain in the couuty of Harrisoi^kState of
Texas, for two years after the miit now
pending in said county, to establish their
freedom, shall have been decided.
41 An act amending and supplemental^
to an act to incorporate the Henderson anil
Burkville Railroad Company, approved Ja-
nuary 27, A D 1854.
42 Au act supplementary to au act entitled
an act to incorporate the Sulphur Fork Turn-
pike Company.
4') An act to remove the Land Office of
Milam district, from Cameron iu Milam
county to Bclton in Bell county.
44 An act to establish and incorporate a
literary institution under the supervision
and control of the Eastern Texas Conference,
located at or near the town of Gilmer in Up-
shur county.
45 An act for the relief of Benjamin F
Ber.ton.
46 An act to incorporate the towii of Lin-
den, in Cass county.
47 Au act for the relief of E M Thompson,
William W Byers, Richard T Barrett,' and
John C Clark.
48 An act sjpplementary to an act entitled
an act to incorporate the town of La Grange,
in tlie county of Fayette.
49 An act to create the fifteenth Judicial
District, provide for the election of a Judge
and District Attorney thereof, aud define the
time of holding courts therein.
50 Au act for the relief of certain sheriffs
therein named.
51 An act to authorize the Comptroller to
issue duplicates ol certain lost certificates of
stock, on certain conditions.
52 Au act to define the seventh Judicial
District, and the time of holding courts in
the same.
53 An act to incorporate the Brazoria
County Insurance Company.
54 An act authorizing the tran-fer of cer-
tain stock bonds ou certain conditions.
55 Au .ict for the relief of the heirs and as
| signces of Thomas Williams.
56 An act to permit the city of Houston to
levy a special tax for railroad purposes.
57 An act for the relief uf the Galveston and
Red River Railway Company, and supple-
mentary to the several acts incorporating said
company.
58 Joint resolution appropriating five
thousand five hundred aud folly-eight dol-
lars and .seventy cents, lo meet curtain ex-
penditures made for the Peniteniiary.
59 An art for the relief of C M tloolsby.
60 An act conferring powers on county
courts, and town and corporate authorities,
to establish quarantine regulations.
CI An act to amend au act supplementary
to an act to establish tin- Galveston, Houston
and Henderson Railroad Company, appro-
ved January 10. 1*55.
62 Au act for the purchase of a site and
erection of a store and ware house and other
purposes.
C-'t An act creating the county of Wi e.
64 An act to create the countv of Erath.
these-. Biography answers them.
Doctor Elisha Kent Kane is not quite
thirty-four years old, yet he has done
more than circumnavigate trie globe:
he has visited and traversed India,
Africa, Europe, South America, the
islands of the I'acilic, aud twice penc
trated the Arctic rpgiou iu the highest
latitude attained by civilized uian.. tie
has encountered the extremcst perils of
sea and land, in every climate of the
globe; he has discharged iu turn the
severest duties of the soldier and the
seaman; attached to the United States
Navy as a surgeon, he is, nev- rtiieless,
engaged at one time iu the coast survey
of the tropical ocean, and in a mouth or
two, we tiud him exploring the frigid
zone; an 1 all the while that his personal
experiences had the character oi roman-
tic adventure, lie was pushing them
to the spirit of scientific aud philanthrop-
ic enterprise.
In his deportment there isy^at mix-
ture of shyness aud frankness, simplicity
and fastidiousness, sandwiched rather
than blended, which marks the man of
genius, and the monk of industry. lie
seems co.iliued in himself but uot or him
self, llis manner is remarkable for
celerity of movement, alert attentiveness
quickness of comprehension, rapidity
of utterance and sententious compactness
of diction, which arise from a habitual
watchfulness against the betrayal of his
own enthusiasms. He seems to fear
that lit; is boring you, and is always
discovering his unwillingness "to sit"
for your admiration. If you question
him about the handsome official acknow-
ledgments of his services by the British
aud American governments, or in any
way endeavor to turn him upou his own
gallant achievements, he hurries you
away from the subject to some point of
scientific interest which he presumes will
more concern and engage yonrself; or he
says or docs something that makes you
think he is occupied with his own inl'er-
riority in some mat terwhich your conver-
sation presents to him. One is obliged
to struggle -with him to mtiiulaiii the
tone of respect which bis character and
achievements deserve; and vhcii tlie in-
terview is over feeling of disappointment
remains for the failure in your efforts
ransack the man as you wished, and to
reudcr the tribute which you owe him.
We wish we could be sure that he will
uot, in his forthcoming work, gire ns the
drama without its hero; or we wish the
expedition aud its hero had a chronicle
as worthy as he would be were he not
principal character iu the story.
Dr. Kane's Narra ive of the Expedi-
tion, now preparing, aud in process of
publication by Messrs Childs & Peter-
son, of Philadelphia, will embrace the
important discoveries made in the fro-
zen regions far beyon 1 the reach of all
the predecessors of the Americau ex-
ploring par y, and their |>erilous nd-
ve: tures, crowded with romantic inci-
dents, which, iu the language of the
^ecretaryjof the Navy, "not only excite
our wonder, but liorrow a novel grau-
ducr from the truly beuevolent conside-
rations which animated and nerved him
to his task."—Graham's Mu^aziue.
Commercial.
TELEGRAPH OFFICE.
Houston , February 25,
1856.
ID" Jt should be understood that our quota
lions generally represent wholesale prices.
Teade—A marked improvement has been
noticeable in almost every branch of busi-
ness.
CnrrcE—Tli« stock is ample villi a rao-lcrate da-
man J at 12)m'si12 for itio. Prime Miff at the out-
si.lc rates.
Muiias£d—Tlie receipts coutinat* small an-I prtcai
are wel' lu iiataiaeJ. W.e quote ordinary aod prime
at35337>.'. ,
SratK—The stuck is ample,.'t.-ut the enquiry if
limuc l at previous rates. We >iu >te Ordinary ?*«
: Fair 8'*; Prime Choice 9>i®llt;
Clarified
Bitter isd Cuzf.se—Tlie market it nearly or quite
bare of Ooshen Uuuer, tfiich is irnnteil at 3Un3i;
Western dull at 3:>S3o. Goshen and Western
cheesesctree at
Potatoes—The stock continues amp'e, anil tli
ruling rate is 31 Oi)--1 50.
Lino—Is plenty in barrels and tierces, at 13^«c ;
lie;;*, old ami ne*, M® 15.
Fkitukrs—I'rime live geese are ..eld at G3c.
Oats—Are in moderate supply with a fair enquiry
for feed at 91 Oil.
C>xdi.ks.—Star held at 32c.; Adamantine 30{
Spei nUi>i S40. - ,
S I.T-—Is plenty at 9- 0U fur coarse and 9- SO tor
fine.
Powd«3—Actire at®* SO
Bicc—Selling at TS-"c.
Ci n—In moderate I
''Lmd—ltir 9,'iS
Mickkscl— Kits No I, 83 73st 90. Heir quar
erbbls. do.7 00; hilfdo. 13 30313 00; half do"
No 3,8 0030 ; bbls No 3, 13 00.
' llif.E Rope—Kentucky li);a'$l3'orcood tofaney.
Manilla 1?®19.
IIwiuiks.—We quote Kentucky at stock am
pie; India, l?&IKe.
0:u—Lard Oil, winter strained scarce at 91 30ft
I 3il. inseel 91 SS3
Fscit—ilrieil Apples are plenty at It'S—12. Rt
sins. Boxes bring 5 00, htires 3 CO. quarters 1J1
Stmu'H—Pearl 12.-
Niit.s—Cut, 1 to 101^, 51 Tbe market
well supplied.
Com—Texas in sick and ear retat'ing at 9' M
per bushel. From wajonsISSSO.
latin—American Bar S}i SMi&e; Sweedes
SlahT@7)ic.
Foar—Northern &Texas 5j;<96.
Uturisa.—Castor Oil 91 23sl 30 per gallon
Slock fair. English Calomel 9' ."58- 35 per lb.,
aud scarce. American do., 91 2SS1.7a per lb.—
Stock fair Quinine, B. & D. 81 00 per do.—.
£tock fair. %
SaKDiHca—Ilatres, per doz. «5 06 Quarter boxes
do 3 50
liar—Prime Northern 92 00 per 100 lbs. 8tock
fair. „
I.rxccR—Yellow Pine, noqe in market; Texas
916 00330 00; Cypress, 933 00£4 00; Shingles.
Pine, none In market *. Cypress do., 91 5035 00.
Sasn—Glazed sash 10x13, per light, IPc.: do. 1'^X, -
II, 22c. The stook on bund is rery heavy, wi A
limited sates.
Bricks—Domestic, at kiln. 91 00
Lijuc—'Thomastnn. unslaked 3 75,
CoriTetfiODi;ci.—Ilides Butchers'green 6c ;
Dry salted, 14 ? lb-; Tslloirll^. Corn, in the ear-
per bbl. 7.1c. Stock fair. Foittler, ill good demand
at 91 25 9 100 6. Moss, dried. 9 100 ft, 73c
Wool, 12'i ® 90. Deer Skins, Good are worth
14c.; Inferiors 8c. Jtae*. wax, 1'3'Sc. Pecans,
none in myfcg*.
Houston Money Market.
EXCHANGE.
New Orleans, sight Ji per cent prem..
" " 60 days .........8 per Cent ilia.
New Tork, 6U days 2!i<33 " "
" " sight Ui " prem..
-BANKNOTES. "
Virginia -.-.... .♦....« 2acent die.
South Cut Una 3« " -
Georgia 3>i " "
Tennessee-......----....-... 3 "
North Carloina 3 '*
Kentucky 2.'£ " "
Bank of Mobile—* • 1 * 14
Mills' circulation. Northern Bank, Mies ... -jar
Commercial and Agricultural Bank, Texas par,
Louisiana -«■**.
SILVER AND Gj>Lty
Silver, Mexican doUars .3 faret.prem..
" Amer. hf. doL, old ccia.l " "
American Golil. par.
California Gold 950 ps. 949 50
" 39 - 19 50
'• " ...10 ~ 9 70
" 3 - 4 70
Sovereigns. *. ...®< f*5
20 Franc-ps ... 3 85
HJ GtliMt-rs ...... ...3 90
HI Thalers .............. ...7 70.
Mexican Doubloons-.. .... ]£ so
Spanish " ......It CO
New Orleans Market.
Siti-rdit mnriitxg, Fel'. 16,1PM.
Cotton"—We noticed in o:ir la>t review
sales during the early part of the week of
30,500 bales, and stated that the excitement
caused by the rsceipt of the accounts referred
to above had subsided and the market closed
with the advance barely maintained. On
Wednesday factors showed more disposition
to realixe, but buyers refused to go on at tho
previous improvement, and"the sales, which
comprised Gap!) bales, were at easier rates.
On Thursday the market continued, drooping
and 6000 bales were taken at figures i-till
more in favor of buyers, while yesterday this
downward tendency was still more apparent
and the sales comprised GSOil bales at about
the currency prevailing previous to the Per-
sia'sarrivaf, the advance realized on Monday,
has been thus entirely lost. This makes
an aggregate for the three days of 13,000
b.les and for the week of 49.500.
The receipts since the 12th iust., comprise
21,898 bales against 16,362 durii g tbe cor-
responding period last year, and the exports
31,080, embracing 4763* to Liverpool, ll&ido.
Glasgow. 946 to Falino:ith and a market,
4051 to Havre, 180C to Marseilles, 1640 to
Barcelona, 958 to KUincur and a market.
6-147 to Bremen, 3937 to Gothenburg. 4570 to,
Boston, 396 to New Tork, 295 to Baltimore
and 50 to Braros. Week's receipt* 4G,4u9
bales. Exports 63.035 (52,9(1 to foreign
ports and 71164 coastwise.) leaving on hand a
„ , . . . . stock of 216,917 bales, against 1^9,059 6aine
Since our last report wagon arrivals , t||(j(j ^ veaf — " - <
ast year. The receipts proper since
of September are 2?2,013 bales more
hare bceti more numerous than for some time j t|R. jst
past. The question of levving a special 1 >ha« during the same time last year (1,1
corporate tax. to aid in the con traction of: against 790,169) and die inere^ ,
,072,-
at a!l
5,150
i rr • V "Vr.. ill u .: I the ports, up to th- latest dates is 675,1
the Harrisburg Tap Road has been submit- (2.104.821 against 1,429.673 ) Referring to.
ted to the people of our city, and met with i our remarks above, we adjust or.r quotations,
their unanimous approval. This will have as fol owa :
the effect of giving an instantaneous impetu^
to this important enterprize which will sub-
side only with its early completion. TIul>
roads into the interior are in bad order, ow-
ing to heavy rains; but although wet, the
weather has had a decided Spring like tem-
perature. Tlie demand for staple ariicles
and groceries continues good, with a .-light j
reduction in the prices of some articles. j
Cottos—A'lvicci from Xenr Orleans t« the 17th I
inst., report nothing l-iter from Europe th^n notice I I
in our last issue The mnrket in Neir Orleans con-
tinues active and prices urithont any uoticeable
change. Operators were wtiting later European
news, as the last accounts left the Liverpool market
flrmancl prices tending upw*r.l. Tbe negotiations
on foot between the Allied poTcri r.^1 Z>is^iahal
assumed an air of more reality than any heretofore
propose!; anil as some weeks are likely to elapse
before anything positively reliable is placed before
the public, the prospective influence
\kw 0«I.x4v
Assimilating t« that of Liverpool.
Inferior I Mid i in*
j OH. to (iood Ord7-Middling Fair
i Lovr ,\iwiiinc * ' *
^ I Good and Fine
Middling
inal
Cattle Market*
Jcrreit ix C«tt, Feb. 1% lWi.
Arrived to-day 263 head of Cattle, 8%
Shcvp and 240 *H«^. Tlie festatsn*.
ties heavily supplied with CaUic, ami
Hogs, ShoJp# Veal Cattle and Milch Cow a
are scarce.
PlirtC
Beef C;*ttl« . WV«tern line to choice, pib net JW#
IWf C*tt!eW>*teru r->ujch and flue, pl«iirt
B«*cf Cattle. T**as. P l- n**t ..... 4 00^5 H0«
lloirs. pis net ••• 653*#—
SlMTn.in lou..f head
hrr«p. choi-e . —
M ilch Oour*. {? h**ad . - # WfCO !4
Mil h Cows, choice 0s ***
f pi-sce will | C",rc *t,J Veari ust. 8 rtJiU 0>
*>e felt to some extent, and a speculative excitemeut I
produced that wil. be favoraVc to our staple. Prices, i Rate* ol
. , , . . , , . ,, otis Points iu tlto laicrloe.
however, have been fatrly snstamed duruijr tae past j
, , ... rcn 1W r** 100 i.m
two years; the large disbursements of money inci- | Mont;rollK..... ^ 74. Cameron 2 00*,*
dent to the war, penetrating every « hanr.el of bnsi | lliujttville.. .... W Caldwell I ^5:1 50
net* In Europe,liare IncreiKd thcdcmaiut fornMi.u j ' "j iVtoStoelt 1
factured cotton,and with an existing aupp y of the j t>o« 50.#— jiVtitreville ... 173 $3)0
raw material, fully commenrfltrite with the cxtraor- • <«-iiae#ville... ["a- ^^ y '" | "*
Jinikry consumption, vt an W.lly luok f. r holier ] i :>««3 «0
IT" Our city has recently been visited by
the Rev. It. B. Bowen, a blind clergyman,
who has delivered several interesting dis-
courses, well calculated to awaken an inter-
est in behalf of this unfortunate portion of
the human family. We learn that a sufficient
sum has been contributed to defray the ex-
pense* of a blind youth o( this community,
to an institution for tlie instruction of the
blind at Bi'on Rouge, La. We most cordial-
ly t\-i~Ii the gentleman nil'.3. <1 in tlie most
abundant succ«M on his trj
Washington Affairs.
Washixgeos Feb. II.—The President has
issued by proclamation stating that Associa
tions ?) in Kansas, as well as iu other remote
State, now organizing, interfere with tbe
domestic institutions of the Territory. He
declares that the whole Power of the (Jeneral
government will be exerted to the suppression
of revolutionary movements.
The House had three unsuccessful ballots
for a printer. Nothing of importance in
the Senate.
WENnsn.tr, Feb. P —After the presentation
of memorial*. Gen. ltusk presented resolu-
tions of tlie Texas Legislature on the subject
of slavery, Ac.
W.\sui*ctom, February 11.—The Secretary j (>1|1(,r ,j>i
<>f the Navy has authorized the steam brig '
Arctic, Lieut. Hartstine, roinmainler, tft go
in earch of tli" missing Collins Mail Steam-
ship Pacific. Tin- Artie proceeds from N'ew
York to-day. if she can get her stores on
board in time.
, , , f- | ^ An act confirming headriglit grants of >^ ,crs to|.e j«rrnianeutly ritaMi*hrJ.even if |«« i h--,V,)iaih .... 3'"'' S l> iia J wis
the apartments of .he Servian of the_I,.ter.ur . ^ |ving thc boundary line of Austin's ! £ere ^ J*,. 0ltr „arket h„ plrUicfn „f the i &$£«. - ' «.*"« .. •
improved fce1ia£ noticed, an I the few lots arriving Col'u :m^«i ^" '—I -'Ll' ' Kc/pt "•••• •• ^ —
j meet wititi-cady sale at onroutside quotations: , 4Jrar.jre-..-l STufc! SO t'orstcaria-... ? To®- 00
imported lnxarics, that wc buy goods cheap- j thither several mciical geirlcmen, h:
er than we can make them, and that even aj tened to his relief, lie continued insensible
woman earns more in a cotton or corn
than she could earn at a loom. It may be
so; but there are man)* days that could be
CVnxin'i!.— The Hepii'ilit-utis in Con-
gress ]m-' j. ! ■■ tlie runtest ttliOilt tlie
Kansas d ieg itcs m til tlie pri'Scnt ma-
terial of iigitition has been used up —
t'len, tliiit intitter will he rnked cnt f>t
tlie asters. The "IS't.ck * Iter ? n very
s?K>rt nl
profitably employed with the wheel. There [
is one thing certain, that our earning* in the!
tirld have uot been equal to the price of the:
goods that we have consumed. If it were j
so, wc fcliuuld be out of debt. I am satisfied
that every domestic manufacture is chcaper i
than a Northern one, for this plaia reason .:
by thc first, nothing is lo-,t to the State ; b>* \
ile value is lo-.*—it car-
ried away tufcenctU lliiwe whuhave prudence !
and sagacity to encourage manufacture*.
. As I before observed, it is more ea-v to
complain than to point out the mi'ans of re- \
lief; but il we will import leis corn, use our
own bfi f, niaki- out own butter, r.ii^v pur
hogs, deal kss in Yankee notion", u-t lnek-
or_v chairs with law hide bottoms, run in
debt le«s. spend le<-, and pnv more, b<? more
frugal and itnl.istrio'is, we s! i :i 11 m>ou
find our affai rsniendii.g, our debts lessen in
field ' f°r some time, and. when he began to awake j
i to consciousness he spoke from time to time,'
but very incoherently. The wound being)
1 dressed anil bandaged, aud restoratives ad- i
j ministered, he was placed upon a litter at.
j bout half past I o,cluck and conveyed to his
! lodging at theXational Hotel where tly phy-i
[ sicians we have alluded to resigned him t"i
! the care of Dr. Miller, his usual medical ad-1
' viser. By 4 o'cluck he had considerably re- j
vived, and appeared quite rational and calm, |
and so continued throughout the evening. '
No one saw lien. Cass at the moment of
falling, and but that we have a-ivrtaiiu d i
th it he had been in the Patent I'tfice, we
should now be in doubt as lo whether In-
was at the time going li> or n turning frian
that office We have "-en one gentleman
who saw him falling" hen npon the fourth
step above the lamlinc. and we have tbe as
surance that another gentleman Hell known
to ii" saw bim when upon tlie f<
ironi tl.e top As tin r • ale i !'-ven -
the landing to the floor •■! the por.ieo.tl
eviib-nce of tin* latter warfi tits the colli-
sion that he ft 11 down ;it least seven sti-ps^J,^^
On tint ihi! southern . 1 -<f the ■ '
tin re s;iil js ice, bivitise of ii.e i-jtrW- i'"1 "I
the sun by the marble wall,uiwr which ti.n an*
C s« nrnnahlv walked, for .lie purpose of i of 1
Colony and Holier sons Colony.
67 An act supplementary to an act to de- '
fine thetiimsof holding the District Court iti i
I lie thirteenth Judicial District.
Au act for the relief of the heirs of
Elizabeth Jones, dtwa^l.
An act to create the comity of Cotnan
che.
70 An act to incorporate La Grange Lo4gc,
No. :m.
71 An act to create the county of Atascosa.
Inferior fi^s! Ordinary —
nary <£?!m ; Low Middling *
"'VSS,1*; OdihI Mi ld!iii* P;t
ST.VTKHKXT OF C
iiouj -Ordi
; Mi ldlinc
1 V
..t* t t
Stock rji hvud .^ept. Nt tP"i5
Received p**t week at
T. S. !.u bock*s Warehouse
J. J. Citin.ifc f%>*a "
11. l>. Taylor'*
John 11 Sniithcrs, .is clerk of the District
Court of Bowie c/juulv.
7.< An net for the relief of KiudAllis Itryan,
sheriff of Liberty county.
7 I An act for the relief of Thomas DCayce
and Sarah While.
7." An act t>> ctifU- the countv of
der.1.
7Ii An act for the iclief i i" Iiii
Powdiell.
; Received preirioua'y •
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l.exi!.£to(j
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omit."
Our
rd- a large
i Toe census
increase f* r the
\ F"! . -Hi
"torn—£uper!ineh\« ?*ve;i w\jr iinc* ow la.->i rc
port to the r\ie;it of .%« cents per barrel, i win?to
lite inactivity t.«f dciuand and «owcr prir.*-*
j'iroa !. We quote Superliuc at $'J stl*J 0^'I
tra '< r*i Js at H ■ f ^ I
'Ooottnurrs ;d^'i;y a-'.d dall at l!:,«C-l'-c.
fr Rh Si Sec t • r : ^'.••.illcis 11 '*■•!>?- I
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ill«iioro ... t th'—
n 1 •>!*«$ -6
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! Hound flock - .9 V* i 2 5i ^
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