The Texas Monument. (La Grange, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 13, Ed. 1 Wednesday, October 16, 1850 Page: 1 of 4
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Electro-Magnetic Engine.
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Terms.
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A TEXIAN.
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five or six years
How interesting
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by the first of October next.
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Wc arc thus particular in this notice,
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the water-nrtted hemp in the
fit /♦rwrrln im i
room, so that
a wav as
Spring will soon be here.
The commissioners
start on
they derived solely fi
physical superiority.”
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It will cause die
of one of the most
the male attire as
vesture for single .
rendered,
dispatched
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Frjin thc Alabama Observer.
Texas Correspondence.
Houston, Texas, Jan. 19, 1839.
Dear Sir ;
ardent admirer for the above sum.
owner charges tw|o dollars for
kiss of the glove,
outside.—A. F.
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nople. per the bark New World, via Li
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be pledsed
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Vol. I.
give it an extensive circulation.
Committee will procure, fcnd publish) i
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Four Gencrati
said to be in one oi the county jails in
Connecticut, a
grandmother, an
She adduces authority to
’ ages, men and wo-
men dressed precisely
the distinction in dress which now exists,
“was arbitrarily drawn by the male sex,
in the tyrannical exercise of power which
Hom their greater
Her plan is to restrict girls to their
doubt that the new
or two thousand in-
to this
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emigrate to it before the first
Nov., 1S40, six hundred and forty acres
men, three
, upon
this country
This is an
desire its publi-
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before many of my friends who have ex-
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In this letter, I have! not entered par-
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features of the measure in question, fiiit
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6f the general principles involved,
there is’one subject upon which it
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I refer tof the controversy as I
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ed in water for’lalsbort time, and the most.
f the corn be taken off
with a penknife,lor with the fingers; a
--------r._„ , ; stick of Nitrate of Silver moistened at the
that my • children bathe at home,, free extremity U then to be pressed slight-
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J inks.”--Companion
The U.
about to try I
mauufactuie of cor^agd?
which propels the w
rent from (a small and very complete bat
tery applied to these
was started and kep
motion. This battery, Mr.
formed us, furnishec
iave had opportunity to
We saw a g(
paid five dollars for one
, She lost it in I
the new hall in Mercer stfeet.
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o give a j .
In order to produce this and maintained in motion
ne\ er
tower
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no dbubt, be ap-
fact is, the silver watch
electioneering pT.]r—...
I citeipent of speech-making, whendie
in
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water his milk.
customer in his round, the sad omission
flashed upon Jinks’ wounded feelings.
A large tub of fine clear water stood on
, no eye was upon
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ons in Jtid.—*rhere is
LTI y: .....J...... m .
ittle girl, her mother, i take occasion, somdtiine hence, to report' a site lor the
----great grandmother.— | in detail, the succesp of Dr. Davis in Ins I they should iletcrmine
Here iniquity is vjsitcd upon theichildreu attemptpact limatiiifcaninialsfrom abroad short time you may expect to see me in |
Cluwtftfvn M' rcury. (
Upon their enhance into society,
to dress precisely like men of
i wear
i male attire until the day of their marriage.
Singular Phenomenon.
At the annual meeting of the Amcri-
<
Science, Professor Looinis, of New York,
came forward to make some remarks upon
electrical phenomena observed in certain
houses. lie said, within the past <ew
years, several houses in the city of New
iY ork have exhibited, electrical pheno-
mena in a very remarkable degree. For
months in succession they have emitted
sparks of considerable intensity, accom-
panied by a loud snap. A stranger, upon
entering one of the electrical houses, in
sitteilqjting to shake hands with the in-
Jmates4 receives a shock, which is quite
noticeable, and somewhat unpleasant.—
Indies in i
.are saluted by
A spark is perceived whenever the hand
Published by “The
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This would seem
y man
who is acquainted \^ith the situation of
that beautiful country to which the com-
missioners are confined, will be satisfied
that the prosperity’ of Texas will be rap-
uated on the frton-
invade the country
heat. I it Das seven ears
stalk, similar to that de-
' ’ i dream. (Genesis,
grains from which
JJcbscrifTiom—$3 Dollars per annum, in advance.
Advertising—p^r square for the first insertion, i
and 50 cents for each subsequent insertion; 10
lines, or less, to constitute a square.
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der of the Eastern portion
army’ in Mexico, stating that most of the
states on t------- ----------- ---------
for the Constitution of 1S24, and that
they were willing and anxious to be at
peace with Texas. He ’ says, I have
heard, that they are willing to acknowl-
edge (the independence of Texas if they
succeed, and now wish to trade with the
Texians on honorable and amicable terms.
The common opinion here is that the
federal party will be successful, and if
they should be, our war will surely be at
an end. , '
We have had but little cold weather |
this winter. About 15 or 20 cold days
in all. The thermometer has fallen, two
or three limes, as lowf as 25 degrees above begun to learn Latin, occasionally mixed
zero.
for the last month, which I have spent in dead language ; it thus c lanced,
We have bad rain in abun- <
a door;
HONOR TO THE-BRAVE.
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WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 16. ISofE
full of confidence that all who led
... interest in the sacred cause in which
il
says:
ten consulting upon
If receiving Amin
It was
I him as a guest,
energetic steam engin
Paris that he will ta
Champ de Mars on tl
surpasses Mr. Wisc.-
they. are styled, tha
the electro-magnetic
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days of Joseph and Pharoah, three thou-
ira ago !
A letter from Washington
The Cabinet have
the proper manner
Bey, the Turkish Commissioner,
determined to receiv
according to oriental u^age, and that Con-
gress should be askej for an appropria-
tion of ten thousand dollars to defray his
expenses. It passed the Senate by
overwhelming majority! on motion of Mr.
Cass, Mr. Webster accompanied Amin
Bey to the Senate Chimber, conversing
with him through Mr. Brown.,
friendly reception given to die first Turk-
ish official visiter, will,
predated by the Ottoman Porte, and lead
to an intercourse, socially and commer-
cially’, less restrained t|ian that which has
hitherto existed.
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LA GRANGE.
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We were present a few days ago to
witness the running ofan engine propelled
by ’electro-magnetism, the invention of
Mr. J. A. Tatum, of this city, and which
hen he has protected by a caveat, in the Pa-
tent Oliice. The online which we saw
was an exceedingly’ rough bne, and in-
complete in many of its parts: 1
as we are able to judge, the experiments here remark that
with it were very satisfactory, proving con- t J ’
clusively the fact that a motion can be ob-
tained by the use of electro-magnetism
The apparatus, or engine, which Mr. Ta
turn has Constructed, consists simply of a
wheel, 4 feet in diameter, and weighing
about 500 pounds. iL.differs in its con-
tion of Congress upon some of the most
important,subjects vthich have occupied
but so far the deliberation of that body. I would
we have the most tal-
ented Congress that has c^er assembled
in this Republic, in my opinion. An act
•' has passed, which grants to the heads of
’ families- who have emigrated
country’ since the 1st Oct., 1S37
who may’ L .1.
s i |L o from an oirdinaiy fly a heel m I of land, and to single white t
each of its arms, being provided at the hundred and twenty acres of land,
1 outer end with a heavy wedge-like block i
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[ of iron ; sixteen of which, placed at the
what it is the design of Mr. Tatum to
i the breaks-in the
bn'the whole most
motion of the wh *
ternily. It would save them a vast deal
of trouble in* ascertaining
rank of a new lady acquaintance, and to
prevent them from committing the
common error of falling in love with mar-
ried women.—Syracuse N. Y.) Archi-
nicdcok.
Satirical^—-A little illlow who had
rma-
i all sujijeicts
newspaper should treat.
The paper is presented to the pub ic,
an
he
Committee are engaged, will endeavor* to
giye it an extensive circulation. The
Committee will procure, fcnd publish: in
7'Zic Texas Monument, all important
facts which are connected with jhe his-
tory of Texas, and particularly facts
i relating to those whose
Cure for Corns.—In the number of
L’Abeile Medical of the 15th, of April,
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a a > a I_______ _______
r , , - the favor corns, without a resort to cutting instru-
oUmixing them myself!” — ji
Well, my lordj it’s useless to deny
the thing, for I suppose your
watched me when—”
g‘No,” interrupted the nobleman, “tbq
fafel is, I
J mks, and the tub in the hall was full of - ly
se^-water, Jinks.”---Companion to a (
Clgfir.
Drawin'*
a
idly advanced by a k cation in that sec-
tion of the country.
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immediate settlement
desirable countries on the continent of
America. I have no
city’ will contain one
habitants by die first of October next.—
There will be citizens enough around the
spot to defend it frori the attacks of alt
the forces which can I e brought against it. /
I expect to leave r’ ’
Colorado in a few days. '
hear from me again I expect
West—r-how far, I arq at this
to say. In the course of the next month
or two, I may be on ti e banks of the San
Antonio, perhaps beyond it. *
Yours, &c.,‘
Oxen.
We notice the arrival from Constanti-
----,----jiv-
podl, of two pair of Asiatic Buffalo
, as tlrey are generally called
in th^ books, Water Oxen.
These animals have been imported by’
Dr. Davis for Mr. Williams Middleton,
who, we understand, some time since,
adaptjed (by wire fencing) a large extent
of land for the rearing of cattle, and in
which he has about one thousand head,
sustained entirely by the natural resour-
ces of the land, i
large revenue, but addin
. Gems. ,until she learned first to touch the tube
In passing from one
,. Texas, is abbot to head an exploring ex- ! parlor to the other, if she chances to step
— ~ ' '■ • 1 upon the brass plate which served as a
. the janction of the Colorado, of the west, ^°r the ftilding doors, she iCceived
' :— ' ’ j 1 ' J an unpleasant shock in the foot.
supplied with brackish wateE and backed s^?e touches her finger to the chandelier
Uy sharp mountains, never scaled by the (the room was lighted willugas by a chan-
foot of the white man, and this there is clef,er su,?Pe,nn®^ from the ceiling,) there
some reason for believing to be the “em-
erald fields” of the Aztec princes. L
Bereinendez once bought a
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section of the Gila country.
this placo for t^fe
A .en you
tc be inzthe
time unable
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and may,
Mummy Wheat.—An English paper
contains the following:
There is now flowering in the garden
of the Prince’s Park! a very fine yucca
gloriose. There is also growing there
some mummy wheat. It has seven ears
or more on one :
scribed in Pharoah’s
xli, 5.) The parent
it was raised were taken out of a mummy
in the Belfast museum,
ago. How surprising that the principle
of life should thus be preserved two or
three thousand y;ears ! How interesting
that we should thus (have brought into
life again the kind of ^vbeat grown in the
of her possessions,
scried from the first, and
During my
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a military force to Santa Fu
our jurisdiction, and but fch
nnfo'rtunate division^ in the command
, the object would have been fully -accom]
plished. Iler right was discussed, an(l
fully recognized at die. time of her en-
trance into the Union. It is now.preposP
tcrous and disgraceful to deny her title.
’ The -proposition made by (Congress to
pay her ten millions M dollars for the
country, coupled with the alternative dfj
‘ liaving it wrested from hdr by the federal
bayonet, if she refuses to accede'to the
proposal, is only anotl^er proof of th$
, high-handed and arbitrary character of
ot1r government, and demonstrates the
military despotism into jivhich it is-’run •
ni ng. W hat course it improper for Tex- h
as to take, I cannot now pause to consij
der; but must add that I am most deci-
dedly opposed to her accepting this com*
pensation for plundered rights and out*
raged honor.
. «■ The insertion of this hasty note amt
the accompanying letter v will greatly
oblige, v Your ob’t. serv’t.,
Mirabeau B. Lamar.
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Noriega, an Italian, has sent in a report
to the French Academy of Sciencesj
gravely proposing to navigate the air by
means of a team of trained condors. He
says he has broken in a flock of theses
birds jtill they are as docile as thie besu
bred English horse; while in swiftness!
they can show their tail even to the most
energetic steam enginje. It is. stated in
e a fly frorh the
j 25Ll?inst. This
~T^uc Delfa.
is
vury much annoved bv the elcctricitv, , u
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h z 1 '
’ im»» mm
* -ry■
a spice of the
, as one
day he was reading alou l to his master,
In the upper coun-1 \ ir, a man ; gin, a trap ;-~virgin, a man-
perhaps proper shat I should add
WOrdL X ICIVl «Ur lllU <
the boundary of Texas? It fell 4lo n
lot, while President of that Republic,
become intimately connected with h t
claim to the Santa Fe country. The
right of Texas to all the territory East ©f
the Rio Grande was considered as indis-
putable as her right to any other portion
of her possessions. This had been as-
rfvas never suri-
administration I
Mr. Tatum applies
current, and by at- : has engaged the attention of this Congress
t
of Government. ’It has passed both
houses, and been approved by the Presi-
dent. . I •
The act gives to five commissioners
(two to be elected by the Senate and
three by the House of Representatives)
the power to select a site for the seat of
Government, which i is to be called the
City of Austin, in honor of the late Ste-
phen Austin. The commissioners are
confined by the act to that section of
The Hastings MiUcman.^3\i)\i3, the
Hastings milkman, one morning forgot to j ail5" er this purpose best
In the hall of the first nesses of ingrkm carpeting
well. A drugget spread upon an ingrain I maghelic ^Ircuit wer
carpet yields a good supply of the fluid.
The effect of the increased thickness is
the floor by his side, no eye was upon obviously to improve the insulation of the
him, and thrice did Jinks dilute his milk carpet.
with a large measure fillednrom the tub, and also the floor of the
I tlio llmrl mot/ convcveil
While | soon as excited. This will not generally
area, | be the case except in winter, ami in rooms
(•which are habitually kept quite warm.—
The most remarkable cases which I have
ofxclose,
ii ri<v fnrj.
naces ; and the electricity was most abun-.
dant in cold weather.
jentleman yesterday, who i nnll<er^, and very fair ps beef cattle.
of Jemfy Lind’s Wo arc thus particular in this notice!
her rambles about hoping that the planters on our extensive
.2..., ' One of marshes and riveri, where the freshets
the workmen foupd it and sold it to an J are so destructive to cattle, will examine
The J into the capacities of thirse animals, and
inside avail themselves ofthis facility ofimpor-
and one shilling for an tation. '
the Trinity rivers and above the San
Antonio road. This road leads from
Nacogdoches to San Antonio, and runs
nearly parallel with the coast at the dis-
tance of about 100 miles from it. I am
confidently of opinion that the commis-
sioners will select some point on the Col-
orado, in the vicinity between the Brazos
leel [and Colorado. If the seat of Govern-
ment should be on the Colorado or near
it, the improvement of W. Texas will be
unprecedented in the annals of the world.
With its delicious climate, its soil anqits
beautiful scenery, it will soon be ond of
the most delightful portions of the globe.
When I look through the vista offuturitv
O J
I see that Single Star which rose in
1836 over an almost depopulated wilder-
ness, shining in increasing and unclouded
brilliancy upon one of the loveliest and
most prosperous countries in the world.
The commissioners, of the seat of Gov-
ernment are, by the Senate, A. C. Hor-
ton of Matagorda and J. W. Burton of
Nacogdoches, and by the House, J.
Campbell of San Augustine, Lewis P.
Cook of Brazoria and Wm. Menifee of
Colorado. No one can now tell at what
point the commissioners will fix the Capi-
tol, but it is generally believed that it will
be on or near the Colorado river.
an act supple-
mentary to the first act, requiring the
not only giving him a
ig greatly to the ’comes in contact with the American,
supply of the veal,* butter and beef mal*
kets in our city.
A pair of these Water Oxen, brought
out by Dr. Davis over a year since, are
really objects of curiosity, (and of course
of corresponding j|romise) from their re-
markable fatness, <u>q this from feeding
on the marsh grass on the Doctor’s farm.
Mr. Middleton hds in his enclosure, a
great deal of this marsh land, now value-
less, which, we bdieve, he is now about
’ to turn to good account with tlrese ani-
1 mals.
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These Water Oxen disregard mud and
carried for bogs, and are hence well adapted, as
working oxen, in •such lands. A great
part of the day they spend in the Ashley
1 on the Doc-
tor’s farm, with only thp nose out of water.
'I'hey grow to an enormous size, are fair
Congress has passed
1 « w « j • xz w a • a il * a
President and other officers of the Gov-
ernment to remove to the City of Austin
You see
by this, that Congress is determined not
to meet here again. 1 .
. Our Indian difficulties have not
sumed a very serious aspect.
Those tribes which are most danger-
ous reside in Eastern Texas, and there
lies the weight of white population, and
Caricatures.--The great
< i ■ f o r •
moral satirist Hogarth, was once drawing
in a room where many of his friends.
were assembled, and among them a
young lady. As she stood by Hogarth
she expressed a wish to draw caricatures.
“Alas! young lady,” said Hogarth,
“it is not a faculty to be envied. Take
my advice, and never draw caricatures.■
—by the long practice of it 1 have lost i Pa’n» ‘be hardened epidermis,
the enjoyment of beauty. J never see a
face but distorted*—1 never have the Sat-
isfaction to behold the human face di-
vine.”
We may suppose that such language
from H’ogarth would come with great ef-
fect. His manner was very earnest, and
the* confession is well deserving of re-
membrance..! . Hl
Government to the
will -ause it to leap into
feel confident that
I }iave deferred writing (be pilfering Comanc hes wrfl be peacea-
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communicate to vou the result of the ac- nio,llhs from the foundation of the new
T’ ’ 1 a new idea in the
Jinks served her, and went
he was bellowing down the next
his first customer’s footman beckoned to
him from the door. Jinks returned, and
was immediately ushered into the library,
There sat my lord, who had just tasted
tjie milk,
«“Jinks !” said his lordship.
-“My lord !” replied Jinks.
/‘Jinks,” continued hip. lordship, “I
slioidd feel particularly obliged if you I
would herafter bring me the milk and M. C. Matton proposes
water separately, and allow me ri "
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J “THE TEXAsTmOXIMENT.”
——
The Texas MoNume^ti a weekly
newspaper, published in the town of La
.Grange,' in the county of Fayette,
gloves. She lost
for
Three Dollars a year, payable ioUrilbly I years’ delay, it occurred to Idin
1 pnit thn^p hpHiitiuil enpriiTipn< tn ;
The Press and Type belong to the ta|jon anf] debate
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tation.
The cost of each, including all expen-
ses, is only about kixtv-rfive dollars, and
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with the acquaintance of the Doctor in the
East, can be easily I procured. We will
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great grandmother.— i in detail, the succes|s of Dr. Davis i
„1 upon thufchildreu i attemptltac
the third ami fourth generation. I into thisl climate.—
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i a droll expnrssion of coun-
a (tenance, saul:'
“Will nnv <rpntl«»man mum lhat I mav
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declaring
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himseh to be one ol the plain yeomanry.
. • r , ' v ,1 An r*lrl silver “liitlPe /avo”- tl.nl ki.n
can-convention* for the advancewent oi
carried,
for him;
ju<M . ,..
drq^v forth (not a silver “bull’s pye,” but)
a magnificent gol
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of the crowd can be better imagined than
determine^ neKjr to marry
a scheme to dis-
tinguish marriageable from married wo-
»ws. Regarded
cast. one merit,
that account, claim the
Gentlemen—Will you
to insert the accompanying
columns of your paper ? t
reply to an invitation to attend
removal of the seat o
upper country
i existence at once.
you thus long, that I might be able to i trading at the City of Austin in twelve
city. It is certainly
history of the world that the seat of Gov-
ernment should be si
■tier, that we ( should
of the* enemies of the white man with die
archives of the nation
strange in the United States,Jiut any
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shufflin
mav
him, and thrice did Jinks dilute his milk carpet. The (carpet must be quite dry,
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before the maid brought up her jugs.—- (the fluid may not be
; on. While ! soon as excitej. ”*'
j be the case except in winter, and in r'ooms
habitually kept quite
heard of in New Y ork, have been
well built houses, kept very warm bp fur-
naces ;
the
- 'i’he
carpet, or at lea^t its upper surface, must
a c|ose tex_
unexplored Centralia South of Mormon
territory. The country between ri
Colorado and Gila is rich in mystery
relate, iif enti,‘ely of wool, and of
electricity.
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So far as I
condition tjiat they reside in
for the term of three years.
invitation whiclnmany in the United States
will no doubt, gladly accept.
One of the most important acts which
traction .and repulsion obtains a power L that respecting the location of the'seat
The Land of Mystery r
i It is stated that Colonel Gaines, of ( w*lh her finger. ?
• ’ • * i . cx_ ! parlor to the oilier,
pedition to the Gila. Somje where near uPon the brass plate which served
with that river, is a sandy region, scantily
told that the roads I trap.
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Sheridan being on a pari amentary com-
, one day entered the room, as alt
T * j seated, and ready to
Imvc agreed to commence business; perceiving no va-
thc 1 Oth of next month to seldct cant seat, he bowed, and ,looking round
seat of Government, and if | the table with
on the point in c'
Will any gentleman iwonr that I may
Alabama in the spring. The immediate . take the chair * ’
'Che weather has been quite mild his motlier tongue with
this city.
dance here, and the weather has been I that hei astonished him by the translation:
very disagreeable.
try, however, I am
are in good condition. February will I
doubtless be our coldest month, but we | |
do not anticipate much cold weather.— mittee,
the members were
a mode* of curing
He advises that the feet be spak-
lordship projecting part ol
with a i 1 '*
: stick of Nitrate of Silver moistened at the
over the whole surface of hardened
cuticle, and epen a little beyond on the
sound skin. TlJe part to which the caus-
tic is applied, should then be well dried
and let alone for (ten days. A very slight
and hardly percfehtible vesication takes
place, which, however, is soon absorbed.
At the end of eight or ten days, by mak-
ing some slight tractions with the finger,
or a pair of dissecting forceps, from the
circumference to the centre of the eschar,
we may remove, without the slightest
, ,so com-
pletely as to letDre no trace behind. M.
Matton pledges’-himself that those who
try his plan will he certainly and radically
cured.—South. M. Journal.
was ...„ ( ...
chic u,t 1 &reat violence.
j_ ’ Electricity, theriefore, must necessarily be
j excited whenever a person walks with a
_!.„.Ti.ig motion across a carpet ; but it1
may be thought remarkable that the elec- the power! estimated
wheel, and yet by it
believe, has
steam. With the ,
appeared a brilliant spark and a snap.—
Gov. I*1 ,nany houses the phenomena have
1 k handful lof ^een so re,narkable as to occasion gen-
liltering chrystals of an Indian from that j eral surprise aiud almost alarm.
After some
i to sub-
mit those beautiful specimens to a French . .f. IH J
! - the friction qI the shoes ol the inmates-
B be- I uPon th0 carpeits of the house. I have
' - ' found by direct!experynent, that electrici-
ty is excited by the friction of leather, uh
upon woollen cloth. For this purpose. 1 of iron ; sixteen of ^'hich, placed at the
l! stood upon an insulated stool, and regular distances, occupy the periphery of
mendez made an attempt to penetrate the sP,eat^hig a small piece of carpeting upon | the wheel. It is to these armatures, as
exact situation of the country whence!a Dble belbrej me, rubbed a piece of
they were brought; but the Indian hos- ! !0atker vigmo^Kl} upon it, and then bring-
tdities in that quarter, and his own death, H1? ^ie lealMij near the cap of a gold
endtjd the quest. Col. Gaines was his c‘ectrometer» Mie leaves were repelled^
Igend, and it is thought has some clue i"oreat■ H°Wnce. The electricity ol
x^iicli leads him to attempt, almost sin- j ^ie *ea/ker was of the resinous kind,
gfe-handed, what the United States engi- i ^’ectricity, th(|r|efore, must necessarily be
n$ers have neglected to accomplish—-a
r<|ute along the North bank of the Gila,
a§ far as it is navigable, and an examinji- . . . .
tion of the nature and capabilities of the ?r,.c!^ s’,ou'^ H n e se enough to give a |
• - . . | bright spark. . •-----1 —
effect, there rpbst be a combination of we
V : several favorable circumstances.
mines and dangers, and the enterprisin
Gaines may have wonders to i
he lives to record his discoveries.—Mo-
bile Adccrtiser.
Great Bustle among the Femenines.^
Miss \\rebber out, boldly and inge-
niously recommending
the “most appropriate
females.”
enough to quell promptly those feeble prove that, in early
tribes which inhabit Texas. In the (1
West we have nothinsr but Mustang In-
dians, or wild prairie Indians, which are
not dreaded for their warlike qualities,
but for their dexterity in stealing horses.
They are frequently called stealing In-
dians. 1 , ■ ■ - -
The terrible Comanche of the Mexi- frocks until the comple ion of their cdu-
cans ceases to inspire terror when he ■ catton.
they are
A letter was received by the President condition, and continue to
few days since, written byTlfc comman- | l'IV pfdrcir murnagc.
i of the F ederal idows, at the end of the mourning
2 ' * * ■ j season, are to resume men’s apparel, un- *
the Rio Grande had declared* less ^.hey are
again. In effect, this is
men and confirmd widp
in this light, it has at
‘J ■ on r’
friendly countenance of ihe bachelor fra-
the domestic
the wrong Pocket.
ton Democrat tells a capital jpke upon
the YY hig candidate for Governor of Ohio.
During a speech of his at a place on the
Reserve, he proceeded to descant upon
the extravagance of the asc, ..... ....
himseh to.be one of the plain yeomanry.
An old silver “bull’s eye”; dial cost him
; but ten dollars, was all the watch he ever
and it was plenty good enough
and to illustrate the. fact, the
put his hand into Hiis packet and
i ‘ ‘ - - • )
Id repeater! Tljie shouts
described, while the would-be "Governor
made a most precipitate retreat. The
i was <
'Illi' ’ r ~ ■ j
purposes, and in the ex*
: went i 1
the ; rivcr,.and an artificial pond
in
cnorinous size, are fair
armatures, the wheel
; in slow but regular
Tatum* ‘ in-
but one-sixteenth of
as necessary for the
he wheel wab started
; a result which,
been attained by
from another |
small battery, the twb together containing country lying between the Colorado and
less (than 3 feet of platina, the motion of *'-- * *• ’ ’ ' ’
ture, in order to furnish an abundance ol the wheel was accelerated until it made
30 revolutions a minute. Though, as
„ . ... wc have already stated, the engine was
judge, I infer that heavy velvet carpets | verY incampletc and crude, and not at all
Two thick- ■
answer very ,nake it, and thougl
on
defective, yet the
was steady and uniform, and without! the
slightest perceptible jar. The plan of
Mr. Tatum, we may) state, without enter- '
ing into a lengthened description of it,
differs from all others. First, in the pro-
pelling power, being electro-magnetism.
Second, in that power being applied to
the armatures on the periphery or outer
circumference of the wheel, and to a pis-
ton or crank working on the axis of the
wheel, whereby it is claimed an immense
amount of power and leverage is.obtained;
and, thirdly, in the important fact that
iiorth and south polarity of the wheel is
always maintained. Without pretending
to pronounce, ex cathedra, a judgment
on Mr. Tatum’s invention, we yet were
greatly pleased with the results which w.e
saw he had obtained, and think his plan
highly worthy of the examination of the
scientific and of thosje who take interest
in such matters. ' We live in an age of
progress, and thete is no knowing how
soon the mighty [tower of steam, now ap-
parently so unconquerable in its strength,
and $o universal in its adoption, may be
forced to succumb to what science may
prov* to be a more mighty and more
subtile power.—Baltimore American.
si^-k, which is quite °draw k r PUt haf 1
noticeable, and somewhat unnleasant.— a tong pockets
attempting to kiss each other,
’ a spark. (Loud laughter.)
is brought near to the knob of
tjhe gilded frame of a.mirror, tho gas pipe,
dr any metallic body, especially when
4 ifis I>ody communicates freely with the
qartlt.-
one house which I have*' had the
tunity to examihe, a child, in taking
litold |)f theiknob of a door, received so
severe a shock, that it ran oft’ in g^reat
fright. The lady of the house in ap-
p’oai^ing the speaking tube to give or-
;r,s !o the servants, received a very un-
p easlnt shock in the mouth, and was
Ilie
Gen. Lamar's Letter.
To the Editors of the Alabama Tribune :
' ”T*n J / /’ ■’
. .*.r ...b Jetter in
columns of your paper ? It was pre-
pared in reply to an invitation to attend
a mass meeting at Macon, Georgia, pf
the opponents to the so-called compro-
mise or adjnstmept bill of Mr. Clay, and
in favor of the! Missouri line of 36 d|e|g.
30 min., but not having been finished ii
time for that occasion, I ri
cation for tbe purpose of laying mv view
* . [• ...r- .
pressed a wish to learn^them. |
j ticularly into a discussion of the practical
have confined myself to
After a careful examination of several
cases of this kind, I have come to the con-
| elusion that the electricity is created by
lapidary in Mexico, and, alter some hesi- ;
;, in which Gov. i
Monumental Committee; and the pro-! gan to suspect their value, ten thousand
. ceeds arising from the publication of: the ! dollars was offered and receiycd for these
•ii /°z* ‘ precious stones. The purchaser went
piper wdl (after paymg the expense, of I,
publication)"be appropriated to the elec*
tioii of a Monument to the memory of
die decimated Mier prisoners, and others,
who haye fallen iii the cause of J) eyas,
The paper will be devoted to np ^ect
in religion, or party in politics. The
Committee wish it to be emphatically a
newspaper which will treat all sects and
parties fairly—give place to no personal
articles in its columns, and give infp
tion, as far as possible, upon :
of which a i
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