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THE NORTHERN STANDARD.
CHAS. DE MORSE
"LONG SIIALL OUR BANNER BRAVE THE BltEEZE-TUti STANDARD OF TUB FREC.
EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
CLARKSVILLE .TEXAS MAY 4 1843.
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CUPID. A. D. 1600.
There was once a gentle time
Whennethe world was in its prime;
And everie daye was holydaye
And everie monthe was loTehe Maye
Cupide thennehaddebut to goe
With his purple wings and bowe;
And in blossomed vale and grove
Everie shepherd knelt to Love.
Thenne a rosie dimpled cheeke
And a blue eye fond and meek;
And a ringlette-wreathennc browe
Like hyacinthes on a bed of now;
Anda lowe voice silretie sweet
From a lippe without deceite;
Onlie those the hearlcs could move
Of the simple swaines to love-
But thatte time is gone and paste;
Canne the summerre alwayes laste 1
And the swaines are wiser growne
And the heart is turned to stone
And the maidenne's rosemay witherrc
Cupide's fled no mannc knowe whitherre.
But another Cupidr's come.
With a browe of care and gloome;
Fixede upon the earth! ie mouldc
Tbinkinge of the sullennc gold :
In his hande the bowe no more
At his back the household store
That the bridalle colde muste buye ;
Uselesse now the smile raid sighe:
But he weares the pinion stille;
Flyinge at the sighte ofille.
Ob for the olde true true-love time
Whenne the worlde was in its prime.
21 grt cultural
CORNSTALK SUGAR.
The manufacture of sugar from corn stalks has
been attempted with success in several parts of the
United States. The Cincinnati Chronicle notices a
specimen produced in Wayne county Illinois. It
states that the sugar is well grained and as good as
the New Orleans sugar. It was made with the sim-
plest kind of machinery constructed by a carpenter;
and the process is said to be easy. The calculation
is that a thousand pounds of this sugar may be made
from an acre of corn. At this rate the business will
be profitable and cannot but open a new and "ast
source of production to the West The produce of an
acre in corn sold on the farm will not says the Chro-
nicle average on the richest lands twelve dollars
vear after vear. If an acre of the same land will
produce one thousand pounds of sugar at four cents
Aper pound on the farm the product will bring forty
dollars. It is scarcely probable that the expense of
manuiactunng win aosora tne umereuce Between
these prices. Baltimore American.
Sugar. About two years since we mentioned that
several planters residing on the Caney and Colorado
had commenced the culture of sugar. We have re-
cently been gratified to. learn that this culture has
been constantly extending and during the last season
one or two hundred thousand pounds of sugar have
been made in that- section. About seventy thousand
pounds have been made on the plantation of Captain
Duncan on the Caney and several other planters
hare made from five to ten thousand pounds each.
Major Montgomery has raised a very large quan-
tity of cane the last season for the .purpose of plant-
ing an extensive sugar field this winter on the Col-
orado below Columbus. Many planters residing
newthe mouth of the Brazos and Oyster Creek are
preparing to commence the culture of the cane.
One or two small plantations have also been opened
ob the Trinity. On all these streams and wherev
S
er cane .has been planted in Texas it is found to
irive well and attain a trrowth and vield a product
o: sugar-rotten superior to the cane cultivated in Louisiana-
It ii 'not. uncommon to find canes having
from 15 to 22 joints. And the ordinary crop of
sugar to tne acre is over 2000 pounds. Air. L.
Mercer ol Egypt on the Colorado has obtained ov-
er 3000 lbs. from an acre although the juice was
expressed by a wooden mill by which at a fair esti-
mate twenty per cent was lost It is found that not
.only the'bottom lands but even the prarie lands are
-'Well adapted to the culture of the cane. The com-
mon prairie lands will yield from 1500 to 2000
pounds to the acre. What a wide and valuable
field do the vast prairies of southern Texas thus op-
'ea to the industry of our citizens! There are not
.less than four millions ol acres ot praine lands now
I vine waste and profitless in southern Texas every
.sure of which is capable of producing one hogs-
fchtd.of sugar annually; or 1000 pounds.
Many of our planters have been deterred from
cultivating sugar by an erroneous impression that
the mills acd utensils required to prepare it were
very cosily. Where steam mills are used the ex
pense is undoubtedly considerable: but a cheap and
convenient mill may be erected for the purpose at
a trifling expense by an ordinary carpenter. Sev-
eral of the planters on the Colorado express thejuice
from the cane by wooden rollers that cost scarcely
ten dollars a piece and the syrup is boiled down in
common kettles. Telegraph
From the New Orleans Picayune.
TEXAN SANTA FlL EXPEDITION.
BT GEORGE W KENDALL.
(Continued.)
Picturesque Scenery The
Orsrano Mountain
Passes San Luis Potosi in the distance Beau
tiful Valley The Prickly Pear The Women
of San Luis The former importance and pres
ent condition Convent of the Augustincs At
tention to the Sick Xrc &c.
The country between Ojo Calicnte and San Luis
Potosi is wild mountainous and exceedingly pictur
esque. All at once the traveller finds himself wind
ing along through deep dark and quiet rallies sur
rounded on all sides by high and rugged precipices.
Many of the vallies are not more than twenty or
thirty yaids in width having pure streams of swift
running water dashing through them and with here
and there the rude mud dwelling of some family
that has chosen the secluded retreat for a home. On
either side the mountains rise in abrupt and precipit
ous masses shutting out the sun almost entirely ex-
cept for an hour or two during the middle of the day.
Wild flowers of almost every variety and hue send-
ing forth delicious fragrance arc to be seen on eve'y
side and here for the first lime we met with the tall
and symetrical organo plant a species of the cactus.
It is about six or seven inches in diameter at the base
tapering upwards gradually but very slightly grows
from eighteen to twenty-five feet in height and en-
tirely destitute of limbs or leaves. As it is an ever-
green and grows perfectly straight it is in many
parts of Mexico planted closely in rows and when
it attains its full size and height makes a neat and
strong fence as symetrical in every particular as
though the hand of man had fashioned it This sin
gular production of nature receives its name from
the very close resemblance a row of it has to the
pipes of an organ. The prickly pear was also seen
growing upon the almost perpendicular mountain
sides and here goals or scrubby-looking jackasses
were picking a scanty subsistence from the thorny
herbage which grew along the precipices. The cli
mate in these mountain passes for they scarce deserve
the name ot va'lies is delightfully mild the wants
ot the scattered inhabitants lew and easily supplied
by the vegetables they grow upon a few square rods
of land. Ignorant of the wide world from which
they are shut out its cares and its vanities they
here spend their days in peace and quitness and in
apparant ignorance of the wild sublimity with which
thev arc surrounded.
Emerging from one of these passes the traveller
finds himself climbing the rocky sides of precipices
that at first sight seem impassable. By slow degrees
the mountain summit is reached and then he is amp
ly repaid for his toil by the scenes below him scenes
so full ot calm repose and quiet beauty. Our wag-
gons with the sick had been sent by a different road
it being utterly impossible tor aught save man or
beast to make the passage through these wild moun-
tain gorges.
After toiling some six hours in gaining as many
miles we finally reached the summit of the moun
tains which hem in the beautiful valley of San Luis
on its southern side. In our rear was a rude and
broken country a country formed by nature in one
oi ner wiiaest ireaKs oetore us was spread out a
boundless and peaceful valley In the distance the
numerous domes and steeples of San Luis Potosi
were seen rising while all around were rich and
fertile fields and this too in the month of January.
Innumerable well sweeps were seen rising and fall-
ing in every part of the valley for here there are no
irrigating ditches and the inhabitants ire compelled
to resort to wells lor water to moisten the earth.
Descending the mountain we finally gained the
vallev and here we found a wide straight road
skirted on either side by huge prickly pear trees lead
ing directly into the city a distance of 3ome six or
seven miles. Tbo3e who have never seen the prick
ly pear as it grows in Mexico can hardly credit the
stories of the immense size which it attains. I have
seen the trunks of some of them at least two feet in
diameter growing ten feet in height without a limb
and then branching off in every direction. As we
drew uearerthe citv an aromatic tree the name of
which I have now forgotten takes the place of the
prickly pear on either side of the road. Here and
lhere.a dwelling house would be seen the front yard
fenced in by the towering organo which complete-
ly cut off all view of the habitation save through the
vacant space leit in iront lor an entrance.
Robiado had sent on his trumpeters as usual'to
announce our arrival and the principal streets
through which we passed were thronged with dense
masses of the inhabitants. San Luis is one of the
best built cities of Mexico regularly laid out and
with an air of cleanliness not common in a Mexi
can town. The women too are somewhat famos for
their general beauty they certainly have small and
most perlectly iorraed feet and hatfds large and lus-
trous eyes and the blackest and most glossy hair of
any females I saw while travelling near three thous-
and miles through the country. The windows and
balconies of the better houses were filled with them
while the girls of the poorer classes with their neat-
ly worked chemises gaudy petticoats and robosos
were gathered along the sidewalks to watch the pro-
gress of the Tejanos through their town.
San Luis Potosi must contain some five thousand
inhabitants although it is impossible to ascertain ex-
actly the number. It was a place of great wealth
while the adjacent gold mines were productive; but
since the working of them has ceased the city has
lost much of its former consequence. A large
amount of grain is raised however in the vicinity
and San Luis is still a place of no inconsiderable im-
portance. Its churches convents and other public
institutions are magnificent and will style with those
of any city in Mexico a country abounding with
the grandest specimens of arcitccturc.
Passing through the principal square of the town
we at lengh reached the convent of the Augustine
friars. This is a rich and noted establishment and
the holy and benevolent brotherhood kindly appro-
priated two or three large rooms in their convent to
our use. Here our sick were kindly attended to vis-
ited by Mexican physicians and several of those
who were in the most hopeless condition were taken
to the hospital to be better attended. How different
this from the unkind treatment we had experienced
but a few days previous at Zncatecas.
FACTS IN PHYSICS.
Gold-beaters by hammering reduce gold to leaves
so thin that 2S2.000 must be laid on each other to pro-
duce the thickness of an inch. They are so thin that
if formed into a book 1500 would occupy the space
of a single leaf of common paper.
A grain of blue vitrol or carmine will tinge a gal-
lon of water so that in every .drop the color may be
perceived and a grain of musk will scent a room for
twenty years.
A stone which on land requires the strength of iwo
mento lift may be lifted in water by one man.
A ship draws less water by one thirty-fifth in the
heavy salt water than in the water of a river and a
man may suppoit himself more easily in the sea than
in a river.
An immense weight may be raised a short distance
by first tightening a dry rope between it and a sup-lto remove with the heads of departments to the seat
port and then wetting the rope. The moisture im- of government established by law; this would obvi-
bibed into the rope by cappilary attraction causes it to ate the necessity of removing the archives save an
become shorter. unnecessary expenditure of the people's money and
A rod of iron which when cold will pass through have a salutary effect in restoring confidence and tran-
a certain opening when heated expands and becomes
too thick to pass Thus the tire or rim of a coach
wheel when heated goes on loosely and when cool
eu it Dinus the wneel most tightly.
One pint of water converted into steam fills a space
of nearly two hundred pints and raises the piston of
a steam engine with a force of many thousand pounds.
It may afterwards be condensed and re-appear as a
pint of water.
A cubic inch of lead is forty times heavier than the
same bulk of cork. iMcrcury is nearly fourteen times
heavier than the same bulk of water.
Sound travels in water about four times quicker
and in solids from ten to twenty times quicker than
in air.
Mexican Peons. In the Eastern provinces of
Mexico many of the largest and best haciendas or
iamb are owneu oy weanny Mexicans wno resme
m Mexico and the farms are conducted by peons who
are held m bondage and controlled by overseers.
Onone of these haciendas near Monterrey there are
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a subjection as gal ing as mat of the boors of Rus-
sia. lhe manner m which this state of servitude is
perpetuateJ is thus described in the American Quar-
terly Review.
"The means by which this state of slavery is prc-
petuated are complicated and such as naturally re-
sults from ingenuity exercised by unremitting rapac-
ity and oppression. The landholders primary ob-
ject is to become the creditor of his servant knowing
that if that can be effected he has a legal right to
control him and can hold him in servitude almost
for an indeifinite period. To effect this considerable
advances are made in the first instance in the face
of a law expressly forbidding loans to Indians be-
yond a certain sum under penalty of forfeiting the
debt; or enormous charges are demanded for such ar-
ticles as the necessities of the laborer may require.
If by any accident an animal is killed or an agri-
ural instrument broken the opportunity to add to
the debt is immediate y seized and an exorbitant val -
uDiion u nmuc. in me saie oi provisions o tne
aiansiorir.e support oi tneirnmiiies.eacnianunoiu-1
c. 1UU....U.UO .i.u..uu.j uu .a..i.i auuiuLni3
workmen w purcnase ai me price neuesignates.
i ne natural consequence is ttia the muian soon be-
comes ueepiy invoiveu; nis employer Keeps tne oou-
gation always in existence by a scanty allowance of
wagesjand the dependence and slavery of the debtor
are on;y
death'.
terminated by the kind intervention of
Millerism in Illinois. The St. Charles Pat
riot Extra a paper published at St Charles Cane
county Illinois contains thc following.
St. Charles Cane Co. III. Jan. 26 1843.
He that has ears to hear let him hear that ''as
thi lightning cometh out of the East and shineth ev-
en unto the west so shall the coming of the son of
man be" Matt xxiv 27. "And then shall appear
the sign of the Son of Alan in heaven and then
shall all thc tribes of the earth mourn and they shall
see the Son of Man coming in the clouds of heav-
en with power and great glory." verse 30.
"Watch for ye know neither the day nor the
hour wherein theSonofMancometh.-Matt xxv. 13.
"And I looked and beheld a white-cloud and upon
the cloud sat one like unto the Son Man. having
on his head a golden crown and in his hand a sharp
sickle." Rev. xiv. 14.
Now this may certify that I Hiram Redding of
Daysville Ogle Co. III. did see the above signs on
Friday morning the 20th inst between 4 and 5
o'clock.
I had got within about ten rods of where I was go
ing it being cloudy there grew all at once a bright
star in a cloud in the East forward of me as I was
walking. As 1 gazed upon it it receded from my
view: it immediately appeared again crowned with
a rainbow: it again receded from my sight and then
appeared the third time with the face of thc Son of
Man with the glory ot the Jcather shining round. 1
then spoke and said
"Jesus is this your It at that moment dropped
behind the black cloud and immediately appeared
with the same face with a flaming sicklo in his
hand.
Now reader turn to 1st Tim. chapt iy. and 2d
Tim. chap iii and the whole of chap xxiv of Matt
and see if you cannot see some signs of Christ's
coming Amen.
TheSecietary of the Treasuiy Mr. Spencer has
issued proposals for building thc hulls of two or three
iron steamers te be used as revrmu: Hitters on thc sea
coast. They are to be fitted with propellers upon thc
plan cither of Ericcsson or Lieut Hunter Pic.
Report of Committee of the Senate on the resolution
for the removsl of the General Land Office.
Committee room Washington
January lllh 1813.
A majority of the select commiltee to whom was
referred '"a joint resolution for the removal of the
general land office" have given the subject all the
investigation its importance merited. A maonty of
your committee are of opinion that the only benefit
which could result from the nassaic of the resolution
would be an expression of opinion approving" that il
legal and unauthorized act of the President in secret-
ly raising an armed force for the purpose of rcijiov.
ing the archives from the scat of government eswb-
lished by law. at a time when the representatives Oiri
the people were in congress assembled and deliberat
- . ...
mg on the propnetyof tucir removal. A majority
of your committee are of opinion that it was impolit
ic locating the seat of governmental Austin and that
the archives of the nation were for a time exposed
on account of our unfriendly relations with the Indi
an tribes but being assured by the President that
his negociatior.s now pending will lhevtably result
in a perpetual peace satis ties your committee that
the archives are at this time in less danger than at
any former period.
A majority of yourcommittecare of opinion that
the President is morally and legally bound under his
oathot office and the action of the present congress
quilizing the frontier settlements.
Therefore a majority of your committee have in
structed me to return lo the senate the "joint resolu-
tion" and recommend its indefinite postponement.
OLIVER JONES
Chairman of select commiltee
Report of the Special Committee to whom was refer-
red the secret message of the President asking
Congress to invest him with the command of the
Army seal of secrecy removed by the House
and report left among unfinished business.
Committee Room )
Jan. 16 1843.
To the Hon. N. H. Darnell
Speaker of lhe House of Representatives:
Sir The special committee to whom was refer-
red the secret message of the President of the 10th in-
stant have had the same under consideration and have
;nsl ructed me l0 report :
Thc prcsijent asks of iho Congress to give him by
law lhe commahd in person of . Army and baseJs
tu uc ai
ills request upon the superior confidence winch th
DC0Die llave .-. h:s miI ' ... ami .. aw
peopie nave in his military prowess and the awe
which his name would inspire in the enemy; in
both ot which we humbly conceive his Excellency
is mistaken. The ephemeral glory which the kit-
tle of San Jacinto shed around him has ''anishrd
and given plarc to the true state of facts that the
battle was fought in spite of him and his most
strenuous exertions. His retreat from thc Colorado
far from being considered an important and extra
ordinary military movement is now regarded as a
great national calamity from whose baneful effects
the country has not yet recovered b rom conhdeno
in our arms and the justness of our cause it over
spread the wholecountry with consternation and alarm.
In the intercourse of the different departments of
(joverument it is to be regretted that any thing
should occur which on either side should require
an animadversion seeming even to the most fasti-
I diou3j other than cour.eous and dignified. The
Presi.jent asserts roundly that he could not rally at
in-)lhe Colorado more than seven hundred men. The
commiuee feel constrained to deny this fact-one
0 vour cominittee was- at that time Colonel of ca
vary and had under his .command upwards of
three lumdrcd arid fifly effective men. General E.
Burleson whose cerlific-ue is hereunto appended
i nl.r hie .nmm-mt ;. iniLi n..
ive men and says lhat jIa: Ben Fort Smith at
mat time Aojutant uenerai. nad under his imme-
diate command about four hundred making in all
over thirteen hundred effective men. In addition
to this Major Smith has made affidavit which your
committee arcinformed is on file in the War Depart-
ment that the morning reportto him when the re-
treat was ordered from the Colorado was over thir-
teen hundred effective men. Thus placing the fact
beyond the reach of cavil or dispute. This force
was sufficient to have defeated the whole Mexican
Army as signally as was the small division under
the immediate command of Santa Anna at Sail Ja-
cin'o and to have prevented the breaking up of
all the settlements between the Colorado and the
Trinity rivers. But connected with the present in-
quiry it had a still more important effect. It de
stroyed all confidence which the people and sol-
diery had previously entertained in the prowess and
patriotism of their Commander-in-Chief. At the
Colorado his forces were double those of the
enemy; besides it constituted a nucleus around
which the whole country would have rallied. He
had complete command of that stream and with
any degree of skill or courage could have defrnd-
ed it easily against a triple force whereas the an-
nouncement of his intention to retreat was tbp sig-
nal for every man of family west of the Trinity to
abandon the army and fly to secure their families.
Those constituted a majority of the then forces un-
der his command and instead of increasing during
the retreat fiom seven hundred to seven hundred
and fifty as the President asserts with all the recruits
which could be raised the Army in fact diminished
:rom thirteen hundred and hlty to seven hundred anu
eighty-three at the bailie of San Jacinto. These con-
siderations alienated and estranged the feelingsof the
people till then zealous in their attachment and confi-
dence in the Commander-in-Chief. Nor is thc fact
that the President has twice since by the popular vote
been ejected to the first office in lhe nation any evi-
dence against the position which we h.ive assumed.
It is confidently believed that nine-tenths of those who
fought the battle of San Jacinto have always opposed
the elevation of thc President and his popularity was
solely based upon a misconception of a true siiatc of
fads or by foreigners who emigrated to the country
after thc battle of San Jacinto.
In addition to all this your Committee are of opin-
ion that the vacillating course of the President in re-'
lation to the measures of the Extra Session and the
expedition of Gen. Somervell has utterly destroyed
the small remnant of confidence which the people"
might have entertained in the Executive head or the
Nation. The extraordinary Congress was assembled
at Houston by the clarion blast of war and after the
whole nation had been wrought to the highest ex-
citement and our agents had traversed the great val-
ley of the Mississippi to ask for aid to our desnerate
cause the whole matter was suppressed under circum-
stances the most disgraceful to ihe Executive. Tho
volunteers who bad repaired to our standard trom the
U Stales were disbanded under the most humiliating
i t . . .
Circumstances ano wiinine most opprobrious epithets
and instead of returning to that country to add fresh
fervor lo the admiration in which our Chief MargB-
tate hau bsen held by their countrymen it was to ex-
pose his dissimulation and hereafter to deprive us ot
all sympathy from that quarter so long as he should
be at the head of the Government Your committee
are constrained to believe that when the next great
battle for Texas Liberty is to bo fought it will be
against a force of that superior discipline and num-
bers which uill require the cooperation and assist-
ance of our friends throughout Christendom and that
it would beasuicidaI'policy to place at the head of thc
army a man whose duplicity and shameless violation
of public pledges would certainly deprive us of all
such succor. Nor do we think that the Mexicans en-
tertnn any great apprehensions of him or that his
name would strike that terror in their ranks which
the President's inordinate vanityIeads him to presume.
They cannot but be avare that he retired from 'Austin
because hedid not believe it a place of safety nor will
it be easy to convince them that a man who would
thus fly from imaginary dangers would not in the
hour ol actual danger select for himself the safe sida
of the Sabine.
These considerations induce your committee to Be'
lieve that it would bu impolitic and unwise in us to
adopt thc President's recommendations.
1 he Committee cannot but view the whote mes'
sage of the President as the vagary of a distempered
tancy. But whilst they entertain this view of the
Executive communication there are other facts to
which it were madness to close our eyes. Thesurcst
and most certain defence of a Republican Government
is to be found in a well organized mtlrtra' and the
most appropriate time to prepare for war is a period
of profound peace; under ihis view of the aabjeet they
have matured a plan in the frontier bill which they
believe corresponds with our greatest ability and" ihcy
now recommend to the Congress to carry cif the
provisions of that bill and that they and their consti-
tuents will rest secure in their confidence in the per-
manence and stability of the Government and ouj-
capacity to sustain ourselves from foreign aggressioiv
(Signed) DAVID Y. PORTIS
Chm'n Select Committee
House of Representatives:
'City of Austin March 28th 1843.
"Thomas W. Ward Esq.
''Commissioner of the General Land Office:
'Sir The commmittee in possession of that por-
tion of the national archives recently arrested by the
citizens of Travis from an armed force in the wil-
derness have understood that you have published
to the world your willingness to open the General
Land Office and proceed to business but was prevent-
ed from doing so by their withholding the papers
and documents of your office from you. If a publi-
cation to this effect has been made by you I am direc-
ted by the committee lo say that ihey can but express
their surprise at your making statements so repug-
nant to the f.i;is and for which you could have had
no motive other than to produce erroneous impres-
sions abroad. The committee in common with their
fellow-citizens in every part of the country have al-
ways bean anxious thai you should open the land of-
fice. They could never perceive the propriety ef
your closing it in the first instance and they befieve
your haviHg done so inflicted upon the people by
withholding their patents and other evidences of land
titles a greater injury than will be in your power
fully to repair. Entertaining these opinions the
citizens of Travis so far from throwing any embar-
rassments in thc way of your rcsumptisn of the du-
ties of vour office have frequently urged upon you
to receive them and even after the clandestine attempt
to take off these papers in violation of law had
been defeated by their exertions they were still wil-
ling to restore them to you for that purpose wiihou:
requiring any pledge from you except what you vol-
untarily offered to make and of this you were fully
apprised by my letter to you of January 31st which
you had when you made your publication alleging
that lhe papers were withheld from you.
'It is certiinly true that the peonle ol this partot
the country were anxious lo obtain your pledge in
writing instead of relying on vour verbal assuran
ces that there would be no further attempts to remove
clandestinely the records of the nation from thc seat
of government without the sanction of congress; but
to show the sincerity with which they have always
desired that you should resume your duties end no
longer withhold the patents and other land titles of
thc people from them lam directed to say to you
that if you will express to ihem your intention to open
thc land office at this place and will forthwith pro-
ceed to the discharge of its duties all the papers anil
documeots in the possession of the committee will be
delivered to you immediately. Your early reply
to this proposition is requested.
"JUdHUA HULUEN
v "Chairman Archive committee?
"Austin March 28th 1843.
"Tol'ic Citizens of Travis County:
"Your committee appointed to wait upon Thomas
William Waid Esq. Commissioner of thc General
Land Office .iiiha communication tendering the pa-
pers and documents belonging to tne General ijand
Office beg leave to report duty peiformed and that
Col. Wnrd returned as answer to your committee.
'that he did not correspond wiih ruffians and had
no written Tcply to make to the aforesaid communi-
cation ami should have nothing to do with thrm.'
I011NJ. GHIJ.MHLES
'-.MARTIN .MOORE."
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De Morse, Charles. The Northern Standard. (Clarksville, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 33, Ed. 1, Thursday, April 27, 1843, newspaper, April 27, 1843; Clarksville, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth80483/m1/3/: 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.