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C0rp Cljsrfett Star.
By BARNARD and CALLAHAN.
CORPUS CHRIST! MAY 12 1849.
VOL. I-NO. 34.
THE STAR.
PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY AT TOUR DOLLARS TER
YEAR PAYABLE IN ADVANCE.
Pmces of Advertising. For one square of eight lines
first insertion one dollar; for each subsequent inser-
tion fifty cents.
CORPUS CHRISTI ACADEMY.
THIS INSTITUTION will be opened for the reception
of Pupils on MONDAY tlie 'M of April.
Thorough instruction will be gucn in all I lie branches of
study requisite to form a finished English scholar ar.il also
in the Latin and Greek classics.
Moral as well as intellectual discipline the culture of all
the faculties of the mind and not a part of them will he
regarded by the Teachers as of paramount importance and
as essential in attaining the object of a complete education
the formation of an elevated character and a valuable
member of society.
TERMS BY THE MONTH:
For the primary branches of Heading Spel-
ling and Writing $2 00
For tlio additional branches of Arithmetic
Geography and English Grammar - - 3 00
For the higher English Latin and Greek 1 Oil
Payment to be made monthly.
The extraordinary and long-tried hcallhftilncs of this
city the singular beauty of its location its peculiar desira-
bleness as a summer residence together will its direct anil
constant communication bystcanibo.il with other ports oiler
the strongest inducements to those who wish to educate
their children with convenience and safely.
With these advantages and relying upon their past expe-
rience and their established character the Teachers of this
Academy arc conscious of deserving the confidence and
patronage ol the intelligent public.
mar 31 Im
C. E. FARLEY ) - .
W.W. WHITBY. jTwf'f"-
$2 00
1 50
2 00
1 f.O
2 00
I 50
1 25
TRANSPORTATION LINE.
THE UNDERSIGNED impressed with the belief that
a great portion of the trade from Uio Grande City
(Clay Davis's.) Micr Laredo and other points on the
Rio Grande will pass through Corpus Christi have de-
termined to establish Lines of Transportation for Freight
and Passengers from here or from New Orleans to the
above points at the lollowing rates:
From Corpus Christ! to Lon:do per 100 Ihs.
Return freight " " "
Corpus Christi to Rio Grande City " " "
Return freight " " "
Corpus Christi to Micr " " "
Return freight ' " "
From New Orleans to Corpus Christi per bbl.
From New Orleans to cither of the above mention-
ed points per 100 lbs. 3 23
Back freight to New Orleans " " " 2 25
In addition to the above points a line will be run to San
Antonio dc Bexar (110 miles) from Corpus Christi at the
following rates:
From Corpus Christi to San Antonio per 100 lbs. S 00
L Back freight " ' 75
These wagons will start every two weeks and run at all
seasons and it is intended so to arrange their departure that
goods brought down in the semi-monthly packets from New
Orleans can be taken away as soon as landed so that the
method of conveyance will combine besides cheapness and
safety txpeditwn.
From the central position of Corpus Christi to all the
enumerated points and in fact to all the Upper Rio Grande
Country the undersigned flatter themselves that their under-
taking will meet with success.
All information desired will be liberally imparted hy the
undersigned.
' ' J. H. BLOOD Commission Merchant N. O.
E. FITZGERALD Corpus Christi.
H. CLAY DAVIS Rio Grande City
BENJ. F. NEAL. San Antonio
npr28 Agents for the Proprietors.
B. F. SMITH & O. H. BROljKLEBVNK
DENTAL SURGEONS
North cor. of Lafayette square and St. Charles si.
New Orlea7is.
fv "O EFERENCE in the city and country may be bad to
XV the following gentlemen who have honored them
I with their patronage:
His Ex'y Gov. Johnson Professor W. Stone Professor
Jones Professor Harrison Itcv. W. A. Scott Rev. W. It.
Nicholson.
To SmAKGER1 To those unacquainted with the charac-
ter of his operations the following extracts of letters to Dr.
Cartwrigbt may be satisfactory :
" During a residence of six years he Dr. S. has jtilly ob-
tained a high reputation as an operator and the esteem of
all who know him." W. STONE M. D.
' 'Thc elder Dr. Haydcn of Baltimore and the distins
guished Dr. Brewster of Paris pronounce his operations in
plugging equal to any they have seen." C. C. EDDY fjl-lf
H. CLAY DAVIS
COMMISSION MERCHANT RIO GRANDE CITY TEXAS.
THE UNDERSIGNED having prepared himself with
suitable buildings in Rio Grande City for the trans-
acting of a General Commission and Storage Business is
now ready to receive Consignments either forsale or sto-
rage ; and believes tliat this point from its central position
on the cast bank of the Rio Grande being four miles from
Camargo and fifteen from Micr offers facilities to Traders
mid others engaged in the Mexican trade surpassing any
other on the river; and his extensive acquaintance in this
valley he believes will enable him to close speedily all
consignments made to Mm. He will devote bis entire at-
tention to the business and will endeavor to give general
satisfaction and solicits business. Charges will be moderate.
Ac Esr.i Messrs. Ogdcn & Mosby mouth Uio Grande ;
Capt. P. C. Shannon Matamuros.
dlG-tf H. CLAY DAVIS.
J. H. BLOOD & CO.
COMMISSION AND FORWARDING MERCHANTS
( No. U0 Common street Ncio Orleans
WILL give particular attention to the execution of
orders for the Mexican Market and to consiTu-
ments of Hides Wool etc. addressed to their care" as
well as to all general business.
Refer U CoL H. L. Kinney Gen. W. L. Caznean Cor-
pus Christi: James Powers Esq. Live Oak Point ; V. E.
Howard Esq. San Antonio; H. Clay Davis Esq. liio
Grande City. scn2G
TRANSPORTATION LINE
FOR SAN ANTONIO AND THE RIO GRANDE.
THE subscriber will receive and forwnrd nil Merchan-
dise from New Orleans destined for Sail Antonio and
the various points on the Rio Grande by the Transportation
Line already established advancing the charges thereon to
this place on the usual terms. '
mar 17 WM. L. CAZNEAU.
MISCELLANEOUS.
BUENA VISTA Uv Ciiahlls Fex.no Hoffman-.
Supposed to be icritlcn by i Mexican prisoner icithin the J!
rican lines at iS.tltillo.
We saw their watch-fires through the night
Lisht U' the far horizon's verge;
We heard at dawn the gathering light
Swell like the ditnnt ocean surge
The thunder tramp of mountain hordes
From distance sweeps a boding sound
As Aztec's twenty thousand swords
Anil clanking chargers shake the ground.
A gun ! now all is bushed again
How strange that lull before the storm
That fearful silence o'er the plain
Halt they their battle line to form ?
It booms it boom it booms again
And through each thick and thiiuderniu shock
The war-scream seems to pierce the brain '
As charging squadrons interlock.
Columbia's sons of different race
Proud Aztec and bold Alleghan
Are grappled there in death-embrace
To tend etch other man to man.
The storm-cloud lift. and through the haze
Dissolving in the noon-tide light
I see the sun of Aztec blaze
Upon her banner broad and bright !
And on Mill on. her ensigns wave
Flinging abroad each glorious fold;
While drooping round each sullen stave
Cling Alleghan's but half unrolled.
But stay! that shout has stirred the air;
1 see the stripes I see the stars
O. God ! who leads the phalanx there
Iii'ueath those fearful meteor bars ?
Old Zack Old Zack the war-cry rattle?
Amid those men of iron tread
As rung " Old Fritz" in Europe's battles
When thus bis host great Frederick led!
Like Cordilleras' snow-fed flood
Its torrent-track though forests rending
Like Santiago's crashing wood
Through which it whirl- in foam descending
So Taylor's power in that wild hour
Upon our central might is thrown
So round his dread resistless tread
Our bleeding ranks arc rent and strewn.
O ! hardly from that carnage dire
We drag our patriot chief away
Who crushed by famine steel and lire
Yet claim as hi the desperate day !
That day whose sinking light is shed
O'er Biieua Vista's field to tell
Where round the sleeping and the dead
Stalks conquering Taylor's sentinel !
While the battle was going on there came tip a thick
black cloud which extended across tho valley immedi-
ately over the two armies entirely concealingtheiii from
my view from which I could liear peal alter peal of
heavy thunder and see the sharp lightning descend. At
the same time I could hear the roar ol" the cannon of both
armies then engaged in deadly conflict ; though heaven's
artillery was contending against that of feeble iinn.
THE KENTUCKY FORGER.
It is related of that unfortunate man iilnrtiii
Brown who was once a prominent incmbcrW the
Kentucky Legislature lutt was conduct in the
Penitentiary for forgery that when lie first cot-
tied in Texas the inhabitants were determined to
drive him out of Austin's settlement of San Fe-
lipe because hn had been a convict. Austin him-
svlf had forbidden stub persons to settle on lis
ground and the colonial lawjpnssed bv him was
most strict prohibiting an nsflum to refugees nul
all persons rendered infamonviy felonies of what-
cvet description they might bua aw wl:cll tlic
father of Texas always enforcct with thc mmosl
rigor nonce a soon as thc setiur3 informed the
General of this new cntc he iinm:atciy sent an
order warning JJrown to decamp witm three days
on pain of summary punishment. Tl mcce;
was William S Austin's private ;crctary a
young man of cultivated intellect iiouleeart aj
generous to a fault. He arrived at th Green
Heart Grove thc residence of Brown aha hfe
family one summer's noon and found the family
circle formed around their frugal table. It was tc
dinner hour.
y forthwith delivered Austin's written or-
der which Brown glanced over and then said
mournfully
"Tell Gen. Austin that I shall never move from
this siKit till I move into my grave. It is true I
committed a groat crime in my native State ; but
I also snircred thc severe penalty of thc offended
law ; and then with my dear wife and children
who still loved me I stole aw:y fror.i the eyes of
society which I no longer wish to serve or injure
to live in quiet and die in pcao;. I am ready and
willing to die; but on my faim' ' accowit I ca t-
not and will not leave this stvn."
His wife and daughters imp irod him tr?chr.nnji Tnni.;n
t.; n.ni:n.. pi... i ..-. ... -.1'. - '"-"""i
ma iwuiuiiuii. Alley iviMviu nieir willingness
again to undergo the toils and privations of"cmi-
gration and if necessary to prepare a new homu
in thc wilderness. But prayers tears and entrea-
ties were alike vain. To every argument Martin
Brown gave the same answer in a calm sad voice.
" I chose my place of burial tho first dav I set
eyes on my little grove and I shall not change inyjtf'
mind now." V
S returned deeply touched with tho scent.'" f
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Tun Astoe Lierahv. Tho Literary World publishes
an interesting letter from Mr. Cogswell librarian of the
embryo Ator Library who is now in Europe purciasin"
books for that institution. We learn from Mr. Cogs-
well'?ays the N. Y. Mirror.) that ten-thousand voluaics
have already been purchased and that the only biblio-
manical purchases he intends to make are three books
provided be can find them viz.: curious editions of Ik-
mcr the Bible and Shakspcare. In all his other pur
chases he intends we are happy to learn.;o xerne
r.iuuuai mscrcuoii anil 10 cxpcn.il InciHviJWvwiucli '"lr
Astor bequeathed for the bencfif&f hv$$)&'Hn-
nerto ensure that end rather thniKtivwfeu''sSuriojif v
ss
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tin lm.1 .:.. -.l !..! . .. A .-..-- i - - '.'
hi. iinn muicsui leiaicu iu vri'ii. lusiiti me sn K
gttlar state of facts and interceded urtrentlv for &V
relaxation of the law which rested in the disc
tion of the colonial chief.
" You havosullered yourself to be snii'
charms of the beautiful Emma. " said i
with a smile.
6 tried to look ind'
merely resulted in a bunting '
" I will go and sec Martit.
General ; " butTfii. will have
case to alter r.iy detcrminatior
"When Atisi-.it shrived in tl c fveiuiig a". :"
filiation the family of the grove w-- iv'-1v; "'
tm.-t.tl with grief. Brown j "!in:c a1"'"
wore its out mask ot marblf l1"1" ii. dialogue betw-en a sh;nWnc7IanJ a stmngw
told l.i r:i A....: .:.... ito n it Wfi.s brut a asl"I'L'. K . .
. v "" .. ;"" " aa ""?"' V.. ... J ri": " ...r StranscrUmv ch frO
"it is true ho iaid J.was tu me penuciiuary
ol ivcntuckv: but Iwas m tne udgiMature oeiore
nan . i
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ITF.RESTiMo DiscovERr. The Paris correspondent of
the Courrier ties Ktats-Uuis describes a marvellous dis-
covery which Ikh just been made relating to thc impor-
tant subject of coloring gray hair:
No more of those imiierfect and dangerous dyes
which give the hair a suspicious shade and the
penetrating action of which carries trouble into the
regions of thc brain; thc new system succeeds in
bringing about the internal coloring of the hair.
This too is not one of the thousand inventions of
modem charlatanism. The discovery which is i
lwrrowcd from thc Chinese had the honor of oc-
cupying the attention of the Institute at a late
session. M. Stanislas Julien the learned oriental-
ist addressing the grave assembly said in his report :
Thc Chinese have succeeded in machine and trans
forming by means of medicine and a.pecnliar diet
the liquid which colors the pilous system and liv-
ing to white and red hair a black tint which main-
tains itself during the continued growth JU. Gil-
bert at present bishopin China olTerfAiiecorditiT to
I the testimony of thc Abbd Volai'n ot"e of the di
rqeters of foreign missions a living ptxif 0f this
internal coloring of the hair and beard. t ;3 hy
this method that tliR Chinese correcting 1 iai'?;
rics of nature have been au. .j0 c3jn. no
(rom tbe highest antiquity of :v. MaA-. i (l
nation.
The Chinese method of vhci . i. Debny who J
has published a treatise upon it pcstss?s and gives
the formula consists of various ii.b-tances mixed
with the food and drink and the.-o substances far
from being hurtful to the body- a'e on the con
trary favorable to tt for they ha-'e for basis andjj
element lcmiginous principles winch arc rccopn-
mended by physicians and always stirrwfiillyjwrn-
ployed. It is astonishing says the author thatjrtho
physiologists who have experienced and sujfceede'l
oion- i tne bones ff liviiiir aintnnM red. bv
them cat and Jisest madibft. have not
Jiotight seeking in tj.O same vny to color red
I white hair black ; witu(a little study and pcr-
crance tbijurounL tertair have succeeded.
coloring ot trees been prac-
rootswitha liquKillet' with
ami thc sap vessels absorb
late it over the whole trcu
ic yvoqd is' dyed of thc'4
at jym iia-.ic & vjrtv.
and thevbeard U.! Jti?i
disposed .o Ihc "anv phe-
a stillicic; W if f..
iutrodttci. . v" io '
lem. tiiR li w-4 itH -i i
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them jn tl .!tcm ' 'iA'
pourr thfirt . t 'iv i Ai' '-&$'
turatetl wit" f-t'iwr
irwith i -i ?i UiJ-
s HBPHHslo003 afl " IV -' ' "' v-'
V C 'i r ' ! ln:. retails tut noiriti;t ni.
f tli; regimen jtrkr !o ' 1 R'! .Head-
iim.rv..hitc will lA5 1'im .otc of ! iks by
Ens )'
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Pl"eariug r the'SItacc r -"-iy
of a very few book-worms. Ho3TOQrSffiSj'pIenant
'iHuril Spencer.
jin the remark-
account of bis trip to Aliborp tbe
ami oi tne curio-ities ol Ijooks nud (.t
able library of that old coiintry-hoC.Jy' Mr. Cogswell
gives a pleasant testimony to tbe kindnes of thc English-
men with whom he has come in contact m his biblin-
philist researches. He says :
I would like to have it known at homo that
every possible disposition has been shown here to
facilitate the great object of my visit everything
I have asked for ha been granted me without
hesitation ; many gentlemen oi whom I hail not
the slighest claims have bestowed upon me hours
and hours of their time iu helping me to form
catalogues of books iu thc special department of
science to which they were devoted or in exa-
mining buildings which had some importance to
be known ; in these and iu various other ways
has a spirit of uniform kindness been manifested to-
wards America for I regard none of this as per
sonal to myself; it is to me as tie representative of
a great institution of our county.
You know how men of science arc sparing of
their time and it may surprise 7011 to hear that in
several instances after nn accidental introduction at
a party to some eclcbrile I have inquired of him
what were thc great books in liis department and
had for answer " Come and breakfast with me the
first day you are at leisure and we will talk over
the whole matter." This lias repeatedly given me
three and four hours of the valuable time of the
tnviter. If it were not wrong to publish anything
of another even praise without his knowledge
and consent I would name several individuals who
have done this. .'I have now lucn two months in
London and 'not" an ill-natured or discourteous
word has been-addressed to mo by either high or
low.
AnsnKcc of Mind. It is related of a certain
magistrate living in the valley of the Connecticut
who was so fascinated by the appearance of a
pretty Catholic lady witness before his court that
instead of the Bible he presented bis face to kiss.
He never discovered the mistake till his wife who
happened to be present gave liim a severe box on
the car.
Kentucky : but l.'vas
I was iu the S'.iO Prison and while a member of
jtlin Senate- opposed with all my might thc nanu-
g?4&ci so many banks. Those banks soon Uter-
"vatus beggared thousands and among the reit me
and my children. 1 was then tempted in oner to
save my lamily to perpetrate a forgery or Ito do
that 011 a small scale which thc State and its tanks
had so long been doing on a large one. I pal1 thc
forfeit of my crime. While the grand switllers
rolled in splendid atllucncc I pined alone in a feon's
dungeon. Having ervcd out my time 1 resoretl
never again to commit another wrong. I hne
kept my vow and have now but one sole desre
tu be let. alone or lic."
Gen. Austin did let the old man alone canceled
the order for his banishment and was ever after lis
steadfast friend.
S the private Secretary made other vlsis
to the Green Heart Grove and the beautiful Enmk
is now the wife of an eminent lawyer and 1
"bright particular star" of fashion's sphere a
Galveston.
Martin died at last in peace and was buried il
his beloved grove (at his special request) iu 1
most fanta.-tic manner Mantling erect in full httir
tor's cotuine with his right hand raised toward.'
heaven and his loaded rille on his left shoulder.
His biography proves a great truth one which!
all the tomes of human history proclaim as with
thc wanting cry of a million trumpets "That the
crimes of governments always produce their conn
terparts in thc vices of their individual subjects."
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Tub Rcsir. Soml..ldy liis furnished tho foUovinVV
-M .....- r
dialogue between a shin?
Stranscr Now n-"ch aorou a4. Mr. --
a cabin passage to 0J"fonK
Shipen -icr Oi'e hiu.dreiLjJllir.-j cash du
advance. But I cau'f take you all full
cabin.
Stranger "Vell suppose go in tho hold how
much do you asfc then 1 "
Shipowner Eighty del: t... but I can't lake
you. Hold is full.
Stranger But can't I go In the fore-peak"
What is the price of passage thctu'i
Shijmcncr Eighty dollars- but 1 can't take. "
you. Full fore and aft.
Stranscr Well can't I go aloft somewhere?.
And suppose I do what will you charge 'J jj
Snjmcncr We charge eighty dollars to goany
where but can't carry you aloft got to carry pro-
visions aloft.
Stranger It is a hanl case isn't it 1 But as I
want to go tolerably bad what will you charge to
tow'ma ?
The shipowner retreated suddenly and didn't make his
appearance again till the vessel sailed.
Hah. Columiua. Among the letters of excuse
for uoii-uUeuduncc received by the committee of
arrangements for the late l'rankhii tc-tival 111
New York was one from "Old John" a father of
the press. He relates the following incident in his
early life. " One day when I had got to be foreman
iu the oliicc of the Philadelphia Gazette an eve-
ning paper a piece of poetry came in at a late hour
and as w:is supposed was all set up. But just as
we were going to press it was discovered that the
copy was written 011 both sides and that we had
omitted half. By dint of great scratching we got
the remainder up in pretty good time. That piece
of poetry has innde considerable noise iu the world
since that day. It was the song of Hail Columbia'
in the nuusii-script of the author J udgo Hopkinson."
ivX
Beauties of the Missouri Routk. Now while stre-
nuous elforts are being made to induce California emi
grants to go by the Missouri route we deem it a proper
time to give the following piece of advice to those whom
it may concern from the pen of Lieut. Morrison of Col.
Stevenson's Regiment of Volunteers from New York
which wo find published in the papers of that city .
Caution to Ejuouants. I hope that tho?c who
intend to emigrate by land here will be careful that
they are not overtaken by storms or snow orwatit
of provisions on their toilsome journey across the
Ivocky Mountains. 1 have seen tltose wno starieu
from the borders of Missouri hale and stalwart
men bonnie down into tuc piams 01 wmuuun.
Drippled for life. 1 have seen brothers who 111 tne
madness of hunger have fought for the last bit of
iheir father's dead body having shared tjie rest at
'.heir previous meal! having been encompassed
arith snow 011 thc topsof thoscilreadful mountains
Maidens who left their homes rejoicing in the
pride of youth and beauty iu joyful anticipations
font thc far-oir laud by the horrors and sulumngs
of that fearful journey despoiled of their loveli-
ness ami bloom and withered into premature old
age.
A razor paper has been invented on which if the
razor is wiped after shaving in edge is restored.
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