The Texas Monument. (La Grange, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 4, Ed. 1 Wednesday, August 13, 1851 Page: 2 of 4
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after opening the body, and giving the the duties and requisitions havm
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tingling, creeping feeling over the
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is opposed
a revenue
as derivable therefrom by taxation, thenyl city San Francisco,growing out of tire
of a man by the name of John
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J. < WliE.Ullt, Editor, y.
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We most as-
baa t|re residue re* j next day it is perfectly yellow; the n
mainiag after the payment of thio debt, jt j3 drooping, an<To« the fourth it is .
usual yield trill be realized.”
New Cotton.—The first bale* of new
cotton which arrived in the Galveston
! market, was ;
IT. J. Coffee,
31st ult.
Colt’s Revolvers.—We learn from J
: one
tish Board of Ordnance, bein
contingency. And however of the city, was summarily hung,
have been tlu«ir intmti/.n In.t—_ ir. [_____• •
make the whole taxable, yet an| entire Cut down and buried.'
d range having taken place in the
ship, it cannot be said to be taxable
petty > and hence no revenue cann
We learn from four gentlemen who
were iu pursuit of A. W. O’Connell, whoj
in the town of
few days since, that he was
the amount received by the Stalp lor the captured by some of the citizens cf Cald- j
1 gether with
ithey either leave tbe country
the authorities of Texas into other bands) die farmers.
do not the means arisrng:|rom the sale, I makes its appearance
occupy precisely the r*1^*----j-c I. . ...
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For Senator—Dancy 87
on Oyster Creek, on
Lancers, now
: of Good Hope, ht
tended reason set . tip by the Mexican the proper authorities for permission
Government for this outrage on Justice, receive from the
is, flrat the Provisional President, &r!asj 25 revolvers, of Mr. Colt's manufacture.'
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• ing to
etc., i
I . Constitution.
A construction has been pot upon ffre
fecontf section of fhe tenth article of the
Constitution, by some of those who have
aspired to public office, which we do not
think at aft applicable, ami with whieh
we are compelled to join issue.
It is asserted that because this section
requires one-tenth of the annual revenue
derivable from taxa iron, to be appropria-
ted as a perpetual fund for the support ofj murdered...John Euren i
free public sebook; ergo, one-tenth of| Huntsville, a
pvf* f ~ i ‘
sale of a portion of her domain, ought’ well county, having in possession
also, to be .added to this fund. The stolen from their midst, and was
ac- diately executed. This is the
We rather think this
We are much more
♦
Mr. Jakeil, a German, who had been
in Bastrop about one year, wa|s found
dead in his camp above Piney, within the
corporation of the town of Bastrop, on
Wednesday morning, the 6th inst. Hia
family is in Europe, and he was making
preparations to return for them.) for the Garay, i
purpose of making a j_
ment in Bastrop. He had bee
some time previous to his deatih.
St$te. The editor says, “On very few
plantations will there be even a fair crop,
while on nearly ell others scarcely any-
thing will be matle. Marry planters will
, across the not' make more than corn enough for
..... , w F bread; and if the drought continues a
An of which grant were from time to time few days longer, the cotton crops will be
inquest was held, when four physicians extended, until 1850, when a sale
upon to examine hub, who,
also, to be '.added to- this fund.
amount being ten millions, would,
cording to this, giv$ one irrillian for free] they give.
public school purposes. | ful story. We are much more Str
ilowevck favorable we may be to the • impressed, that iffoverkrken, be me
*n and bolls, less than half grown.”
P supposed to result from the lime in
soil, caused by cool, heavy rains coming i
suddenly after a.long-drought.
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Messrs. Hay &
case—the latter
"gentleman being our district attorney, and |On Qf
. dessrs. Leigh, Campbell and Lyon, act-,
If of the prisoner. Mr. Eureu
was an Englishman, being born, we be- ’
lieve, in Cornwall, and was about 25
years of age. He was buried on Sunday;
and his funeral was attended by
large conepurse of our citizens, all of
1 with the
• idea of how slight the space from time to
Farewell, John; mayest thou
find more mercy in heaven than was ac-
corded thee on earth ; as we have
doubt thou died in charity w ith all men—
not excepting thy destroyer.—Hniitsrillc'
Item, August 2d.
words !* -------
Extensive iron works arc
cAaWishcd on L ike Superior.
Democrat
i (he 2nd j .. _ i ,
I Potter o.
In Seguin errantv, forGovernor—Bell
112: Greer 2; Johnson 4; Chambers
7 ; Epperson 32. Ward 36; Keenan
G6; Henderson 30; Gillett 12.
ard 119; McLeod 12 ; Lewis 14 ;
ter 9.
and found, alas! that it was too true.— | Brazoria county, for Governor—,
Bell 85; Greer 2; Epperson 20.—
i 25; Ward, GS ;
Tarrant 7. Howard 2G ; McLeod 81;
Potter 3; Lewis 13 ; Menifee 1.
Matagorda town,
Epperson 33 ;
3. Henderson 57 : Ward 44.—
Howard G2 ; McLeod, 36; Lewis 23 ;|
old Potter 2. ------
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Curious Discovery t
curious discover
s province of
;ey. Some Greek workinen, in di
near I
vessek of war
blockade
Telegraphed to the N. O. Picayune.
South-west Pass, July 31.
The brig Tehuantepec and schooner
Tehuantepec.
We see that a call has been made bv
the citizens of New Orleans upon the been very disastrous In fha! section of the
General Government, to require the Re-
public of Mexico to comply with the
terms of a decree or grant made to Jose
, in 1842, giving hmi the right to
permanent settle- construct a road, or canal,
unwell Isthmus of 'Tehuantepec; the privileges
the law specifying to be conveyed
vested right, which Mex- wholly’ or in part by sea, and to and from
foreign port, hence the single letter
13, 1
annex
|o the United Stales, sec. 2,
following words: “Said State,
when admitted into die Union, lifter ecd- , very
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i the United States all public edifices, jour
etc., belonging to the Republic of?'lucl' for tl,e wantof" rain-
We understand that iu Brazoria county
last week, a negro bcjoipging to ME Wes-
learn that John J. \'auchati, of ’ ., - . . , , ■ . , . r
, * , ... i McNeil, a wealthy planter, bv sbootinjr
shot by a Mr. Rives • .’L . .
of the same county, on the night of the Mr< McNeil with
3d instant. He expired in about three and two buckshot, wotjndin
hours after the. fatal occurrence. The‘ar,norL------—--------o—r—1 ri > • r r •• . h ,
.. r. 'Ht L. The negro, and one pf Mr. McNeil’s, love and grtel, for winch we ian find
deceased has n|any warm friends in Ala- .. .- .. » . 1 r . i no
* 1 Itut-tlit-afno in Ihp Hint. «nrn inimAdntPlv
bama, Florida, and Texas, "bo will ;
inOuin his sad fv?.—J 11^
we also learn that another destructive rectness of this report. '
| fifti visited the doomed city of Sian decided interest manifested i
Cuba, by most ol the Southern States,
! organizing
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in various parts of the Union for the pur-
pose of lending aid to the patriots. \V
are informed that a company is organising
in Corpus Chri-ti, Texas, which is to be
commanded by Col. Kinney, which in- evening
tends, (if it has not alrcadv gone,) to a , , . . ■ ■ ,
, , p A] ti 1 \ . . , • . . whom were deeply impressed
embark for Cuba, tojom iu tl>e revolution. • • r •
We sincerely hope that tfic revolution eternity.
will be a successful one, and that the op-
pression which has so long rested as an
incubus upon the prosperity,of this beau-
tiful island, may be removed, and the
genius of Liberty perch upon the stand-
ard of a free people.
In 1831 the |>opulalion of Ireland was
7,000,000; in 1841 it was 8,176,000p
and at the same ratio it is calculated that
jt should, under ordinary circumstances, bolls to such
be at prescat nearly ten milltoue. i are .willins fv cnw.
fcjottever | favorable
dissemination wof knowledge throughoAt death
the length and breadth of ow iuhate;
however much we may desire to-see pub-
lic schools ctevfeiJ in every section of our forwarded to La A
country’, we would nty wish tp see it done ! a
by a iar-fet$n£il' Inference, attempted toll
be deduced from this section of the Coo-; nrary, and. bad if not been for the wet
Stitution. : !.
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Under the joint resolutions for
Ing Texas Io the United States, sec.i
we find the
by two ecclesiastics, proceeded to make
They found the skele-
of large stature, with a cop-
on his head, surrounded bv ., - • ,, ~ ,
- - |(j9 an(j epidemic: you could neither sink
up to the elbows, were stained with
g a speedy
Infested as San Francisco is,
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Election Returns.
The following is the result of the elec-
tion ’m the City of Galveston. The vote
cast, says the Civilian, was small, but lit-
tle interest being evinced in the contest.
For Governor.—Bell 241; Epperson
12^2; Chambers 22 j Greer 23 ; John-
son 8. ~ ’I
Fieut. Governor.—Henderson 208 ;
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Keenan 135; Ward 19; Tarrant 8; day.
Gillett 2. I |
Congress.—Potter 185; McLeod 101;;
Howard 92 ; Lewis 20.
Chief Justice.—Hemphill 379.
Associate Justices.—Lipscomb, 242;
Wheeler 333 ; Webb 71.
»|fproaching a crisis.
I j ! ; Baltimore,| July 29.
P. Lebarre has been appointed
’, in place of J ones,
deceased. (District not mentioned.)
Capt. Neagle has been committed to
in default of bail for S4,000, for hav-
ing defrauded the U. States. (Amount,
;~,2oo.)|
In Harris county, Bell received 343
■votes; Greer 30; Johnson 22; Cham-
bers 3; Epperson 151. Howard 206 ;
Lewis 89 ; Potter 1GS; McLeod 111.—
elected Senator, and Harrison,
prepaid if from the place from which it is
sent it be under 2,500 miles; and if
over, then twenty cents, the postage ako
to be collected in the United States when
received.” W----
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The election in Alabama came off on
W. H. Collier, Democrat,
was the only’ candidate in the field for
. v>overnor. His position seems to have
i lution.
From the bpst information we can get, months,
there is a probability thtU the revolt is
. pretty general throughout the island;
main phiza,
and
morning, when he was
----So it seems
iwner*! that justice is dealt out in rather a
c Pr0-( handed manner in San Francisco, and
(herefrom for public school purposes,'
uulil after (as we said before) a liquida-
tion of the debt.
y-
Johnson 34 ;
is elected Representative. — —
. the last week ibe wetflbev Ims been ex-
• ranging
from 99 to 102 degrees at 2 o’ dock ja
It has been about two weeks since w «
rain, and a refreshing shower
*' iiirkol rrmtofiil ^li.v.ir tl.. .
'Uhe crops in’ tfiis county are good—<n’if
, a
He was pursued j Orleans and Opelousas railroad into the ^e 4th inst.
—*- State of Texas, and in the direction of:.
El 1 ‘aso, which would most certainly be! Governor.
intersected by branches io a very short ,)CCn anomalous, and we wonder tl»t he j
from i tjme5 either by the State or by private should have remained sole occupant of
in a very few years w ould ! t|ie field. r
Washing- be extended through New Mexico >0to!fied with him
! <*0,nX . California, pacing 1 he w hole route thro’
- tn; our own territory. What then would be
’ New* < Frleans might thus se-
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first cure to herself the principal trade of
no men
immense trade from New Mexico, and would have it,
AVe
Harrison county, w as
same county, on
He expired in
Austin, and Fort
rver, floating Repre-
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From the Marshall Republican w’e
learn that the lorig-continued dronghtjias
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t the construction of;
the road itself, which was in a fair way to
be consummated.
the work was commenced by’ American!
! citizens, than a law was passed by the
Mexican Congress nullifying th^ afoie-
said grant, which was sent to the parties
. .! engaged in the survey of the route, to- i
a horse, | . • T ■ ' ■ , • ‘ A r L. kJ
gether with a peremptory command that; of obtaining for the officers ol the 12th I
imme- , 1 J ! °
vthey evther leave tr>e countrv or cease
version: r i
1 j | from any further operations* 1 he pre-
rongly
it with
; if unpaid ten cents. But
They report that Trinidad and Villa
Clara have “ pronounced” in favor of the
revolution, and that five
have gone from Havana to
those ports.
New York, July 30.
Gen. Dearborn died at Portland to-
: nor
Talk of a fly in molasses,
in a barrel of tar—I can find
■ a bathe in the Dead
But the sufferings of my Com-
i was but a (rifle to what 1 felt;
cut ami maimed in consequence of mv
superior horsemanship, 1 jumped into
— ------ _j raw as a beefsteak and
jumped out ol' it; as if I were flaved
alive. However, let me be just to this
abominable mixture; if I smarted for it,
my wounds were effectually cauterized,
completely skinned over; the cure was
perfect to a miracle.' We dressed with
the comfortable sensation of men who
had been well coated with mutton
stiff, greasy and extremely out of
After all, to how little of ihe really akin ; and remounting, turned our steps
n we gi ve clear to for<jg of the Jordan.—Dublin L ni-
! How muck there is in our versify yiagazine.
Soul of God and heaven—how much
The corn crop has been materiallv in-
jured in Iowa ind Illinois by excessive
abo(it to be ■ rains. W ish p’c could have shared a
poilibn.
1 ’ ■ L I . *11 -"'t-
is, (litrt the Provisional F’resident, Gala's, • 25
in lheyear 1846, transcended his powers, W
in extending the time,
the 2^d uft.,!' . . . . . .
J , But mere pretext, it is very clear, brought
- i rv i I about very probably bv the instigation of
the aih of r eb- , . cilizens Io ||1C follow ing construction of
the United lbe late postal arrangement of the United
j Stales in i
c which we lake from the Civilian.
“ All letters sent from the
lion over :
and hence the framers made
for Sgch a i
stron-; may have been their intention to| there left until
i
wner*
dollars worth of property have been de-
stolen from his
penniless and without shelter, who before
had every prospect for rnakiu
fortune^
: with a motley gang of desperadoes and
I kjg « i- ( •
i
L Jenkins, by a mob of the citizens. Jen-'
Fl. . .... o
public school fund. W e are free to ad- < ofi* a small safe containing a considerable
I stolen
citizens. I
an ^officer
bed, and contemptuously shook Mrs. Par-
by the fire, and flirted her cap-
It was a saucy gust.
Keenan 411; i
if the drought {continues
was; almost entirely’ destroyed. It is so far
to the citizens of New Orleans; all injured that scarcely one-fourth of the
g been:
decided complied with, both by the grantee and
that Mr. Jakeil died of “drops;’ of the the assignees, except t-------------------
But no sooner than
g traces ofi
i an
number of nails, and about 500
very
I
candidate for Vice Presideuk
~L ,k; New York, July 29.
Adviges from Rio Janeiro to the 17th
ultimo state that the affairs of the Platte
' are
’ j
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Gray is elected Senator, and Harrison,
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|Tankertley., and Scott, Representatives, defeated, with a loss of500 killed.
Cotton steady ; sales 1500 bales at SJ
to Si for middlings.
•, Arrival of the Niagara.
Decline in Cotton.
W’e ikould call the attention of our sentative for Washington and Burleson - New York, Joly 31.
d McDade Representative for 1 be steamship Niagara has arrived
Bell received al- 5’0? Liverpool, bavmg left there on the
19th instant.
Cotton has declined The sales of
the week amounted to 39,000 bales, of
is thought lobe elected Sdnator, and Dr. which number speculators took 500, and
---- ~ exporters 7,000. Better qualities were
r n n 1 unhanged in price. Consols are 9Gj.
or c o/, 'pra(|e al Manchester is better. 'Hie po
Epperson GG. fitical news by the Niagara fe unimportant.
The ^feather, Crop*, —During'
j tremely wamr—the thermometer
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eii about two weeks since
le
of
that there are several thousand effective
; men in arms, and that they have met and
. repulsed the Queen’s troops, with some
loss. On the other hand, we arc informed -
by the Government organs, that the revo-i -
high- |uljonory movement has created little or
oo alarm to the exiting authorities. But
we are strongly inclined to doubt the cor-j we de not wish for apy thing but justice number of objects shining like
There is a very ’!! lhc ca.55’ we .'V!H n?f a,temPt .to. PrejuL Silver, they hastened to t^|
in behalf of our owa reipecung k,
tes, Branch prosecuted the
j„e-. y i_.
• .Messrs. Lei{
’ng on behalf of the prisoner
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lieve, in Cornwall,
years of age.
_.r...r.g, and his funeral was attended by
under orders for the Cape
ve made application to
i to
Exhibition of all Nations,
feel assured, that
in extending the time, when the terms of of fire-arms, Mr. Colt will take the lead
the treaty l»ad not been complied with, of all competitors*
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citizens to the foliowin
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jsiai <n i uiiucvimtJ ’ ' ------o —----w---r
refereneje to California letters, m°st an unanimous vote.
Grimes county, not complete.
United?
! Dickson Representative.
i .. . In Montgomery cqun
on letters sent 7 J
. ,| i Greer 2G ;
gn ports, the ’
since, and then fled,
to San Antonio, but up to the 31
had not been captured.
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Rcst in Cotton.-—W’e learn
r the Lone Star that ,a disease has (nade capital, that i
j its appearance in the cotton in
a portion of this (OI| county, which is said to be d<
b» be^n disposed of,.{thejuris- great damage. “It resembles ru^t
diction of tlie same having passed from wheat, and lias beenj given that nan e bv' the result*
„ , - — From the time it
! on a - plant ur 61 it Texas. (
precisely the i
And should not they be Applied to the On the first day sm»B yello
payment of the debt first ? W’e most as-
suredly tliink so. Then the residue re- ’ next jav j
I ^ikmtlirtrr nflair ilia nofriionl rsf ikia ' ». • i 1<
may be appropriated by the Legislature! (ire]j. stripped of leave
cither for pyr|>oses of education, or in
whatever way she may think best. We!
I cannot see how one dollar can be appro-
priated to (lie purposes of education until
the debt is first cancelled. Had the juris-
diction not passed from the Stale of Texas
when the sale was made, and
w;
according to the plain wording i
Constitution, onc-teuih of this amount
; — ----
would have ipso facto, belonged • the kins
that it will make a fair average yield wiih-
. , , ____ —. J co**
Keenan 109; ton i
Telegraph. — »■ •
.The Noxious Cease, rude
blowus, blustering railer,” fcaid Mrs. Par-
tington, as she readied <mh the storm
to secure a refractory s4mtterr and the
Dooley 80; wind rushed wb aud extinguished her
Senators— liglit, and sUmiibcd io the door> and
j Mayfield 52; and tanned live fire m rfre grate, and rusUed
Dancv is eldcted Senator “,e ca!ico Hvoiwe upon the <juib,
I - . , * ,. J peeped into the closers and umkr die
tor the counties ofCaldwell, Bastrop, and | "
Fayette; and T. M. Hardeman Repre- tington’s night jacket as it hung airing
semaiive for vafoweii county. the chair by (‘
l‘‘c t_ n___- z__ nXCF»or Bell border as site looked out tqxm fhe night.
’ T . _ It was a saucy gust. “ How it blows’”
, o in?on o , ppef ag a|Je g|JUl jow-n (|)e
Keenan 411; i *» j hope heaven will keep the poor sailors
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l Howard 818 J. Lewis 229; Mcl>eod 31;^®°^ thejpoor *God bless
' comforts of life as we have—|xx>r creo-
. lures, who are forced to live in one room,
on a
same grounds ? 'IS thoroughly stripped, is about four days.
IW I
spots may be seen on the.leaves; the Atlantic and Pacific railroad,
perfectly yellow ; the ^iext __
en-
s, blooms, squlares
’ It is
1 ,e' of a very ambiguous character. ! Wr. Harris.
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Such is the alertness and precaution •
evinced by lliq Spanish alhorities, to pre- evening by a report that
• t vent any report reaching (he L uited States killed i
We learn from the Aka California, dial u,hich ba preJudiciBl Io the c<(s,jng an ' ’
considerable excilement prevails in!thejGovernment, that all the letters and pu-j 1
pers going from the island, arej fitst In^j in his stde, through kInch his intestines
spected, and every thing suppressed {protruded. John was a
I which would enlighten the public mind ’
rc'° met. A. W. O’Connell, a tailor, who <88;
has worked in
was the man who terminated j
poor John’s earthly career. So far as ‘
we can learfl, it was caused bv an
grudge,
o e »
few minutes
1y. O'Connell
_„J on I
i tion was had, which {extended to TuesJL
day evening, when he was committed to foun(j
removed that also, tlhey sfrw
| hair matted, eyes smarting, and tongues
^reut' burn»’S from tbe *ntense sulphurous bit-
°aud ter sabness uf the detestable liquid in
They' hastened Io the c“aptain of '’bic1' we im"’eraed: water it was not,
' - bitumen nor salt; nor sulphur, but a dis-
gusting compound of all four.
A hogshead of it would serve as an
emetic for all Asia Minor, and leave
some gallons to spare against the next
swim in it.
or a wasp
no parallel for
Sea. T
of the P’nion?
Bv K-
, (he water as
tbree cups
i bale of new cotton,
ttempted to His crop was planted
wemfoer, he would have Ikm) a
. market ten days sooner.
Crops.—The weather still continues:
The cotton crops of
county are beginning to suffer very
We 8|re in-
Te«s, sh.II retain all the pnbfic fundi, I formed that several plantations are pmost i v’n" <
debts, taxes, etc., which may belong to, entirely destroyed, which a f
or be due and owing said Republic; and'«ince to yield an average
shall also retain all the vacant and unap- an<i as tlie prospecj for rain seemsl more |
preprinted lands lying within i(s limits, to than gloomy, fears are entertained that
l^apjili'tdto^payment'nfthcifF.BTs^nd jlhe present will fall far behind the crop
of said Republic of Texas: of last year.. ||1, ,
and the rcil^c of said landi, after dif \\e iearn tllat a ,angcr, belong
chargin. tatd debit, and liabiliiict, to be Gapt. Wallace’s company, murdered
disposedof as >aid State may direct."— fc||0w-soldier at his camp,
With this understanding then, and with • • • /< ; *»
our free and lull consent to these resolu-
tions, we were admitted into the Union.
Does it not ansc tlren, from the very word-
ing ol these resolutions, that all the unap-
* propriated lands are pledged to our cre-
ditors for (lie payment of their debts ? If! i
then, with their consent,
domain
sent from the^plantation of - ^Qm Office—\Wrd 19G; Cros- Surveyor General,
by 189.
Senator.—Merriman 355. | .
* I 1311
Representatives—Andrews 283; Hart-
of our London papers, that the Bri-pey 271 ; Franklin 9S. (S2,!
g desirous | T TT . ..i • • The Cuban news creates great excite*
, ment.
New York, July 25?.-
Advices from Port-au-Prince to the*
15th givle accounts of another battle be-
tween the Haytiens and Dominicans, at a
place called Coluhy. The Haytiens were
in tbis|d^crip<ion | From W“*'ing'on c<>u*'y «>'* returns J
are not complete. Day i$ elected Sena-
tor for Washington,
. Bend counties. Tat
in another Way.
I
1 A-x J 3 ■ 'tLu I
Col. Fitzpatrick, of Calhoun county
aca, on
weighing 302 lbs. {
on the 5th of Feb-:
L 1 those who
i . ! ta<nr which it would (five to
bate in
btates.
It is to require the Mexican Republi
to comply with this grant, that the citi-
zens of New Orleans ask of the General ( States to California, if prepaid, six cents,
, II I 1 I ' ’ I >1 I 4 I I • 1 f
Government.
No satisfactorv answer has as vet been; to Chagres or Panama, forei
• r ■ /* I • I ■ ■ '' 1 ill*: t ' g -1 • - gh ’ I Im F"| ■ t < | |
received from \\ ashington, further than postage must be rated under that clause
illicit <111 viiui 1 it in uf niiiuv 10 acuurc iu 111
few weeks , . . , ... ....
those citizens a
roI) ’ | ico has wantpnly, and fir violation of every-; a
I » • j' • ! I . . | » | i : 1 I - | .1 | » * I
principle of justice, honor and integrity postage to these points will be ten cents
■ as a nation, deprived them.
But we would say to our friends of
New Orleans; that though this field appa-!
nu to rently be lost, all is not lost. Let the
■ z 1 •« * '*• ,'1 i
a capital intended to be invested in this,
few days route be applied in extending the New;
jrsued ■
st ult.
was detected in the act of carrying ■ in refcrcilcc t0 ,he progress of the
mil, that at the time of the framing of the; amount of money, wlfich lie had
Constitution, it may never bare been sup- fr0I„ the office of one of the citi...
posed that 1 exas would lo=e the jurisdic- was immediately seized by
any portioft egf her territory; the police, from whom lie was taken;
-------------------! no provision and being carried into the
ccruc. with a severity beyond the crime.
Wc also learn that another destructive
| Francisco, which . has consumed over
b f .. . . S3,000,000 worth of property. It seems auJ comnanies arc «aid tn be
WP arc informed by a gentleman that U|a| |be arraV(j(1 # T Pa
there arc one or more villains in the vi- e , . . *
. ..„ , , , fortunate place. 1 his last makes the fifth
.entity of W barton, who have becii tam- . * »• 1 • t ....
. ... , , 1 . ‘ large fire which it has experienced within
paring with ll»e negroes, and endeavoring . ., . ’ .... .
j* < J . . . I B.° u’guteen months past, while millions of
to drive them off. A fortnight since, Mr. , ,, . t t 1 . , J
r. , e , , 0 ... I dollars worth of propertv have been de-
Gurdou of that county lost two valuable . . . 7,
■ , * ' e : stroyed by the devouring flames, and Iran-
negro boys, who were stole, fron. h» W and |bousan(Js
premises. Since that time an effort has (
been made to run off some 6f Mr. Mat-!
tbew’s, without success. The villains
liave not as yet been arrested. Mr. G.
has offered a reward of SiOOfor there-! • jr T, , . . I
> ... . villains from every quarter of the globe,
cotery of his negroes and the detection J . . . . c , .
♦ , - some time must elapse before this state
of the thief. —«■■ ■ i. -n • Q
j of things will cease.
The Iftisti Censis.—The impres-. ...........
si<Hi now generally prevails that the result! - Cttors.—The crop of corn in Naco^-
of the Irish census shows tl;c population dochcs county is almost an entire failure,
to be less than six and a half millions.-r- The cotton crop in that and the adjoining
a short crop:—
.says “ that the
cotton is shedding its blooms and young
1 an extent that (he planters
at a half crop.”
■ k
The^Union mew were dissatis-
-i on the ground of his reputed
secession principles, and desired to con-
centrate on
The secessionists also <
even some have deqotmced him,
iean thing by the way,) and grounds ot bis lukewarmness, as they I
an immense thide from New Mexico, and would have it, in reference to southern
1. | ultim tel\ be the termmua of the _rt 3 rights. In tbe first district Lan^doi^,
l(uien Whig, is opposed by Brag".
and southern rights man;
f o 7
James Abercrombie, Whig,
Our latest Aews from the Cuba revolu-;bv John Cochran ; in the 3d Wm. S.
L . 1
lion is to the 2Gth oh., and we confess isj Mudd, Whig, is opposed by Sampson
1 ' * !
Oiir cilizens were shocked on Saturday
a man had been
9 • I
in the court house. We went there,
j lav our friend John Euren, having
just breathed his last, with a fearful wound Keenan 7 • Henderson
I
suppressed | protruded. John was a printer, em-
in the Presbyterian oflice, and
j little deserved the untimely foie which he
A. \V. O’Coqnell, a 1
our town six or eight1 ^crs
’s earthly career. So
can learn, it was caysed’ by
> though the immediate cause is a
mystery to us, they having been seen only ver.. curiou3
a few minutes before, walking through ; maje jn t|ie
the square, arm-in-arm, apparently friend- 'pur|
’I was immediately arrested,>
Monday a preliminary examina-Had"zab’7Ou'nd
beneath exactly similar; hav-j
! a *
;e gold and
dice public opinion by any opinions of t|)c district, and that functionary, assisted
r»i.r nrvn t*os’rk0/*t.n/r it Af^aarc T-Tav X. ■ • .1 • ■ •
an examination.
a man
per helmet
a thin crown of gold ; the han
arms i
something of a bronze color ; in the right
' hand was a copper chain, with an in-
cense box of tbe same metal covered
with verdigris: on the third finfrer <
left hand was a gold ring, with the fi
ures, in Roman characters, 9(66. —
the sides of the skeleton were
in silver, very brilliant, and 26 cups in
n^iron, very rusty, hut bearina
having been gilded ; there were also
immense i _
arrows, of which the wood were rotten
and the points rusty. The skeleton and
the different article were carefully packed
’ if* ° i up, and sent to Adrianople for examina-
talr, attempted to assassinate Mr. .Sterling (jorJ . ..
McNeil, a wealthy planter, by shooting;
him in the night. The negro fired upon - .
a gun loaded with a ball beautiful witlun us can
ig him in ihe utterance!
fhe arm or shoulder, but not dangerously.—-
i The negro, :
implicated in the plot, were immediately,
tried by a jury of planters, and executed.
From Bastrop there are two precincts
to hear from.
Mayfield 99; Rector 151; Russell 54.
For Milam county we give tbe vote
polled at Cameron. For Armstrong 102; have had rain, and a refreshing shower
Millican 41. Representative Hill 63 ; J'be most grateful about diis rime.
Thompson 72; Cranford 1; Mercer 7. : 1'^ crops in (fiis conntv are goorf—anrf
T , , ,, , , ‘ much of onr early corn is so far matured
In Caidwell county, the vote stood—’ Z- .....
For Bell 192; Greer 4; Johnson 6; Bp- out move fai», but the late torn and
person 29; Chambers 3.
Henderson 93; Gillett 4 ; Ward 18.
Howard 63; Lewis 9-5; Power 5; Mene-
fee 1; McLeod 62. Crosby 219; Ward
9. Hemphill 228; Wheeler 155; Lips-
comb 71; and Webb 173.
Hancock 91 ; Gordon 41.
Dancy 5G; Rector 72; ;
Russell 37. \
B. G. Shields, but failed.—
complain, and | e
F sentahve for Caldwell county.
, on the i T • i. z <-•
In Bexar county, for G
910; Greer-153
son 57; and Chambers 1. ixeenan 411; i j hope heaven will keep the poor sailors
Henderson 289 ; Gillett 182 ; Ward 7. safe, who gi. d«mn on the sen in vessek;
> ’em-F—»he poor
[indignant creatures that have none of lire
.. B. __*
who are forced to live io one room,
and have a bed in tire very place where
(hey sleep—how 1 lro|>e tlrey may be
How- comfortable dris blustering night. This •
p t must be tire noxious storm,” she con-
01 tinned, “ when tire strn crosses tire Pe-
nobscot.” Sire donned her specs, ami
sat down (0 consult Dudley Leavit about
the fact, and she found she was rigln;
while the wind howled round the home
most dismally.—Boston Pathfinder.
B/%thing in the Dead j»ea.—Heat-
for Governor—Bell ed and fatigued, we prepared for a gene-
; Qreer 2; Cham- ral bathe—is a private party; for the
pilgrims determined to reserve (heir ener-
gies for the sacred J<vrdan, (Ire bke of
Sodom being held by them in horror and
abomination. The bod odor which the
Bulgari^.__A was nol» <Ictcr ns»
been «nd calling a hall, <ve plunged Hkeyoung
Bulgaria, in ^uc^s ’n,° hquid element, Paulo
kmen in di^- c*>uc^m5 an okl hen on tire banks.
g,... _____ the Rahmanil^ah and the town e P^unS^^ • Disastrous was the
of Hadzah, found a large table of grev P*unoe' raP*I * enough head after head
colored marble; tbev removed it, and PoPPed uPfro,n ,be arable waters—
lone beneath exactly similar; hav-' ha,r eyes smarting, and tongues
As *
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