The Texas Monument. (La Grange, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 6, Ed. 1 Wednesday, August 27, 1851 Page: 1 of 4
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salubrious effects, a wide waste of plains,
parched by a feverish sun.
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Story of an Indian Expedition in
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alleviation of our sufferings in
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The Survivors of DawsonSs Defeat.
BV JOS. C. ROBINSON.
you are already sufficiently ac-
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ter days, although she vtfas not a Christian
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of God in Texas and Brother R. cutting bee trees, and killing deer and
to say that she was one of the
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Texas.
recently at Lavillette, France. It trevels,
it is said, at the rate o( from twenty-five
to thirty leagues an I .....
construction, and coosuraes little fuel.—
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of infidels. But as you have requested
landscape, inter^perced with prairie faftns, j1 °C me» I will relate one to you which
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visit my parents and friends, and to attend
from the fires which they had set, l‘
they had killed somebody on Wilbarger'
trace, and that they were i
gether for mischief. We started home
and^got there about sunset.
could be found on
a height
formed a decoration rather novel and im-J
posing.
From this place our route led us upon
the elevated valley of Perote, through
which we passed, and observed that it
abounded with pumice stone, which con-
At
arrived at the
A Woman of Fashion.—To be a wo-
man of fashion is one of the easiest things
in the world. A late writer thus describes
it: Buy every thing you don’t want, and
pay for nothing you get; smile on all
mankind but your husband; be happy
everywhere but at home; hate the coun
try, adore Paris; read novels, neglect
your children and nurse lap dogs ; go to
church every time ybu get a new’ shawl
to show the Lord, and die without a fuss
whenever the physician makes out your
the base !
were
s of its
triumph. —------
A dandy, with a cigar.in his mouth,
entered a menagerie, when the prt
tor requested him to take the tveed
his mouth lest he sho»M ’• r * other
monkev's b&d
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or other, the i
apprised of ou
night of bur encampment at the Salado,
j a vigilant
watch was kept. Thus the design of es-
* cape was defeated, and the next day we
enjoyed our disappointment through a
long march, which the lieutenant malici-
ously told us, was to weary out the dis-
position wc had to run iway.
It would be impossible to describe the
sensations inspired by a view'of the
Sierra del Madre; and you will indulge
me here while I quote a description which
' you may have seen, and which I admire
on account of its accuracy. T
“ At the distance of ninety miles, the
traveller descries the lofty sierras stretch-
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. ing a hazy neutrallient along the expanse
* of vision, i It is not easy to bring .the
imagination to describe the sublimity of "•
the scene when we emerged from a valley
and gained the summit of an eminence
commanding a view of the Sierra del
‘ Madre, and its congeries of hills.
“ When the Sierra del Madre is be-
held at a distance, the diversity of pin-
nacles, peaks, and declivities, engages
the fancy in the romantic employment of
delineating remains of the ramparts and
buildings of cities in ruins. The hand
of an uninstructed genius, -as if endeavor-
* ing to regore disorganized elegance* may
be traced among the wild derangement
of massive plynths, shafts, architraves,
and entablatures.. To these may be ad-
ded the beds of bills intervolving thou-
sands of domes, the series of table-lands
rising like the steps of a flight of stairs,
and the gigantic elevations, forming in a
kind of relief, the main ranges of the
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The benefits of the Sierra de! Madre
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* to the climate, are extremely fe icitous ;
fur that is rendered a region of health and
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Mr. Editor
Believing that a brief relation of the
incidents and scenes witnessed by the
* survivors of Dawson’s defeat, after being
taken prisoners and marched into Mexico,
will not prove uninteresting to the nu-
| mcrous readers of the Monument, 1 send
you the following chapter for publication,
should you deem it worthy.
. It is true, that the excitement of that
lamentable, though glorious event, has
ceased; but the interest endures : for the
. concern of freemen in whatever relates to
the glory and prosperity of their cause,
is ever abiding^ k
With whatever of interest there is in
the circumstances of the battle of the 8a-
lado, and of the pursuit of Gen. Woll,
in whose hands we remained as prisoners
of war, ;
! quainted. My narrative
fopu, begin until about nr le days after the
pursuit was abandoned, when we arrived
at San Fernando, on the Rio del Nortea
'By this time we had abandoned all
..hopes of being rescued, and began seri-
ously to meditate on escape from our.bar-
barous captori. After remaining at San
Fernando about three days, in a state of
anxious suspense as to the disposition
they intended making of us, we were
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united to the prisoners of San Antonio,
and started for.the interior. This increase
of numbers, greatly encouraged us to
prosecute a design of forcing the guard,
in winch the projectors entertained rio
apprehension of defeat. But there .were
many of the most influential of our num-
ber who had secured to themselves, be-
fore leaving San Antonio, the privilege
of riding; and they did not feel that spirit
bf resistance which hardship and suffering
kept alive among the less fortunate. No
doubt they magnified the difficulties and
discouraged the attempt from the best
motives of prudence, which their com-
panions, with blistered feet and weary
limbs, ^felt little inclination to appreciate.
The subject of escape, however, con-
tihued to be agitated, until by some means
officer of the guard became
oui* intention; and on the
and disperse the blessings of c-vstal
ters.
the chilling Winds of winter storms, and the close of the day
they bear burdens of snow which attemper Castle, when the guard closed round and
and refresh the atmosphere of aummcr. j ushered us w ithin its walls.
“ In the vicinity of these mountains, i being called and answered,
and upon their skirting elevations, where j
one meets every day with the ancient
mortals of a hundred and twenty or thirty
’years ago, the inhabitants,inhale a highly
oxygenated atmosphere. The waters are
pure, cold, and wholesome, filtering thro’
primitive strata in some places, and in
others, from vast beds of limestone, they
rusbfin cascades, or come forth it) limpid
springs. In midsummer one may pass
from a climate of exceeding mildness to
the chilly atmosphere of March, in a few
minutes; and, still ascending,
may be soon attained where the Contiguity
of snow*pervades tlie air with wintry
coldness.’’
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west of the Sierra del Madre, w
forcibly struck with its equable
into hills and valleys, the regularity of
which is only occasionally intenupted by
the appearance of small plains
with thickets and groves.
dren. We saddled up wd started with
the Indian ahead, and Berry and several
others to guard him. / '
(To be Continued.)
that Cherokees and two squaws, but no chil-
’s.
collecting to-
We found
the children all safe. God had taken*
carp of them, and I still believe that hej
vvill continue to take care of them until:
he prepares them for heaven and takes ■
them home to glory, though some of
them, at present, are far from God.
About eight o’clock that night, Col.
a young man to inform us that;
<fre Indians had killed a Mr. Alexander
and his son that very evening on Wil-
barger’s trace. He raised all the men
ne couici kidcA* • V- * i >
and the next day we
were as early as possible ou iftc
where the men were killed. Before we
got there, Mr. Townsend, one of our old
fellow sufferers, with some
bors had got them bnried.
. Had it nbt been for such men as Col.
Moore, Texas never could have been
settled, (at least when it was.) He was
as brave a man as ever took up arms in
In the defence of Texas. He was always
on the lookout, and could not be sur-
prised.
Mr. Alexander lived in the town of
Bastrop, on the Colorado river, about ;
thirty miles above where he was killed. ;
He carried on the grocery or liquor busi-
ness, and had an ox team and wagon
.loaded with whiskey, brandy, tobacco,
There was also
another wagon about two miles behind
him on the road, .and two men with it.
The father was driving the team and the
son riding op horseback. The Indians
waylaid them in a (jry bottom, where the
path crossed ; 'it was only a path, as but
few ventured to travel it..
i was. shot dead, • and the son mortally i Grumble, stumble,
| wounded, though he sucecded in i ’ ‘
his escape, and rode back to the wagon
behind and told the t$o men that the
Indians had killed his father, and had shot
him so bad that he could live but a short
time, and requested them to take him
from his horse and lay him on a blanket
in a thicket, not far from the path, where
the Indians would not probably find him,
and set some water by him. where he ,
might* die alone, and for them to make
th’eir escape, as he felt sure the Indians
would soon be upon them. They did
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east of the Sierra del Madre,
place of
re-
of legen-
dary tale, the importance whereof Mexi-
can grandiloquence never failed
nify. The site of the ancient pyi
Cholula, the boldest altar of the religion
of Tenochtitlan, was covered by tei mound
of rubbish, crowned by a Catholic church.
According to the account of oi r officer
of the guard, it fell under die power of
time, and extended, at full length upon
the ground, three leagues from
Historians and travellers, 1 thought,
sadly deficient in their account
dimensions.
Orders to conduct us to the Castle of
Perote, met us at Tula, a small town,
-twelve leagues from the City of Mexico,
which caused sad disappointment, be-
cause we
to the city, where we expecte
with some
the sympathy and kindness of those of
our native country whom we might chance
to find there. Suspense, hunger, and
the exertion and fatigue of travelling
afoot more than a thousand miles, on a
daily allowance to each’of a pound of beef
and a pint of coarse flour, and at the rate
of from 25 to 45 miles a day, had produ-
ced mental and bodily dejection of the
most depressing character.
It is impossible to describe the tumult
of feeling with which we beheld the pros-
pect of a long and wretched imprisonment
’in the Castle of Perote. Remembrance
overcame us, even to weakness; but it
was the weakness of attachment to the
blessings of liberty, so soon to be ex-
changed for a condition less welcome than
Our last night at Tula was spent
in exhausting reflections, too intense with
anxiety to admit of quiet repose.
Next day we started for Perbte, and
in four days arrived at the beautiful City
of pftbla de”los Angelos. Iti elegant
Alameda, with.a statue of an Indian upon
a high pedestal on each side of the en-
trance, attracted our attention arid admi-
ration ; and its numerons fountains spout-
ing from the sidcsof hollow stone columns. • warrant.
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Texa« Presbyterian.
Shocking Occurrence.—On the morn-
ing of the 30th<ult., about 8 o’clock, a
tailor, in the town of Jefferson, Cass Co.,
by the name of J: G. Snyder, committed
suicide, by placing the muzzle of a gun
in his mouth and firing it off The ball
passed clear through his head, killing him
instantly. The cause, as far as we have
been able to ascertain, was a mental de-
rangement, induced by drinking. He
leaves a wife and child, nearly destitute,
to mourn his untimely death.— Herald.
When Prof. Owen was summoned in
Buckingham palace, to see the great tor-
toise (testude elephantopus) presented by
the Queen to the Zoological Society of ____# ______
London, before its removal to the garden/She gladly accepted iny proposition,
in Regent’s Park, he, in r‘
her Majesty and Prince Albert, proceeded
to take the dimensions of the girth of the
animal. To do this, he bestrode the
reposing animal. While thus employed,
the tortoise walked off with the Professor,
to the great amusement of the Prince,
while the philosopher, as he rode along,
calmly continued his measurement, which
gave twelve feet as the circumference of
this fine old Galapagosian.
He died some time that night.. The
Indiaus- di11 r”—’— Mtq. From the
firing of the guns and the sight ofthe In-V Ly-
dians, the oxen took a fright aiiff turned 1
suddenly round and broke off the tongue
from the wagon and ran away. The}’
robbed the wagon of all the dry goods
and as much tobacco as they wanted.—
They sat al! the barrels of liquor on their
ends and knocked out the heads, leaving
them in that situation, not having any use
for the liquid fire. We pursued ffem
up the country on to the west branch of
Little River, at which place we lost their
trail or tracks—(they were on foot.) On
the second branch of the river, we joined
a company from Bastrop and its vicinity,
commanded by Col. Burleson, as true a
patriot as Texas can boast of—an Indian
fighter? or any other kind of a fighter you
might name, when be believed his rights
were invaded—and as don't care a looking
company of men as
the top of the ground. These were the
kind of men, Mr. Editor, who settled
Western Texas. The Indians and Mexi-
cans killed one of them occasionally, but
they could not be conquered.
We united the two small companies
together, making 62 in number, deter-
mined to pursue the Indians Ss long as
there was any prospect of our taking
them. We followed on in the direction
we believed they had gone, until we
struck the main branch of Little River,
fifty miles above the falls of the Brazos
river, at which place we stopped a part of
two days for the purpose of resting our
horses, and to kill and dry meat for the
rest of the expedition.
The time was spent in finding and
Sierra del Madre.
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drying the meat. There was a lad by
the name of Berry in the company, not
more than fifteen or sixteen yeaisof age,
a Texian indeed. He was but hunting,
several miles from camp, alone, and met
an Indian io the woods. The Indian
attempted to approach a little nearer to
We stopped on a beautiful creek inhere him than he was, when they discovered
the water was rippling over the pebbles, each other. Berry would r not permit
him to do so, but kept him some fifty
yards from him. He conversed w»lHco^tructed by a journeyman engineer,
him in Spanish, and by signs; he told - •• ' 1 - •
him there was a company of white men
encamped on Little River, and that his
Captain wanted to see him, and that he
must go with him to camp. The In-
dian was very loth to go, but soon saw
that he would either have to fight the
boy or go with him. He was armed with
a good rifle and other instruments of
warfare. He finally consented to go.—
Berry pointed him out the way, keeping
him from tbiry to fifty yards ahead of
him, and in that way drove bico'Jnlo
camp—as brave an act as a boy could
have done. /He was of the Caddo tribe.
He told us that his camp was some five
miles distant, and that there were two
Magn eto-Ecfcctric Telegraph.--On
Tuesday, some remarkable experiments
were made at the Crystal Palace, in pre-
sence of the jurors, with Henley’s mag-
neto-eclectric telegraph. Two lengths
of gutta-percha covered wire having been
laid across the Serpentine, and con-
nected to the instrument, each length
had a portion of the gutta percha cut
away and the wire well scraped to a
bright surface. Notwithstanding this, and persuaded
however, the telegraph worked well.— — m____ Ju-
One length of wire was then cut in two,
and a long piece of uncovered bright
wire was inserted between, yet the result
was again satisfactory, the water failing
to deviate the course of the eclectric cur-r
rent. The third experiment made con-
sisted in cutting assunder the wire anc
letting the ends fall into the waler at
some distance apart from each other.—
Even through this defective ’ insulation
the instrument worked well, and it con-
tinued to do so after a still greater quan-
tity of gutta percha coating had been re-
moved. These results place in a very
remarkable point of view the merits, of
this invention, whereby the inconvenient
and expensive use of a galvanic batterry
to the present electic telegraph is entirely
superseded.-Southern Literary Gazette.
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Our names
g called and answered, we were
counted and ieviewed bv the command-
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ant, and then conducted to our quarters,
where wc werd locked in for the night. 1
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(To be Continued.)
Austin Collegewall of this
splendid edjJktF'is now up, the brick
work i^^s well done as any we have
ever noticed; the wall is thick and
staunch, well-tied with timbers, the brick
work cemented with the best of lime
mortar. This building stands upon a
proud eminence, overtaking the sur-
rounding country. To the north of the
College is the quiet and growing town
of Huntsville, situated on a natural plain,
several hundred paces in extent; still
further to the north extends a
scattered
Sometimes a
scenery of streams, and of lulls and din-
gles, of mountains and valleys, chequered
with plantations and farms, blended in
one display of surprising diversity of
landscape and production. We observed
one day a
which we discovered at a
perceived upon its silvery su
scattering shadows of .what we
to be trees upon its margin. As we ap- : (
proached this phantom sheet of
seemed to present the curious phenome-
non of retiring before us, appearing and
as (indistinguishable, but
more elevated sections rose abovje or sunk
below the line of vision. It reminded
me of accounts I had read of thie siraub,
or waters of the desert.
Each day brought us to some
notable event; such as scenes qf the
volution, of intestine conflict, or
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crowd of gaping people,
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making I Rumble, tumble,
1 Fretting, getting
In a stew !
Church and steeple, gaping people.
Quick as thought are lost to view !
Everything that eye can survey,
Turns hurly burly, topsy turvy!
Each passenger is thumped and shaken,
As physic is when taken.
By the foundry, past the forge,'
Throughthe plain and mountain gorge,
Where the cathedral rears its head,
Where repose the silent dead,
Monuments amid the grass,
Flit like spectres as you pass;
If to hail a friend .inclined,
Whisk ’ whirl! ka-swash, he’s left behind !
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Thus we pass the hours away.
The new Prussian Zeitung contains
the following statement relative to the late
escape of Prof. Kinkel:
Every fact that gradually comes to light
connected with Kintal's escape from
Spandau, is a proof of the dangerous en-
ergy and the power of united action in
the democratic party. Kinkel fled in the
first place from Spandau to Stelitz, and
thence to Warnemuude.. On the whole
route, at every two miles (eight English)
were relays of hprsea with a carriage ready
in waiting for three days and nights. Tho i
proprietors of the horses were in most
cases the drivers; more than a hundred
individuals were informed of the plan, but
of course did not inform those whose spe-
cial duty it was to know such matters. In
Warnemunde the ship that was to have
received theffugitive was not ready to sail,
and KinM was taken to Rostock, and
concealed in a\ bouse near the gate for
eight days, till he could embark in the
vessel that landed him in Scotland. r
’ A Safe Bct.—Several gentlemen were
riding in a car on one of the Boston rail-
roads a few weeks ago, when the conver-
sation turned on the next Presidential
election, and the merits and prospects
of Webster, Fillmore, Scott, Cass and
others were discussed at large. After
some lime a solemn individual who had
listened in silence, addressed the party
thus: “My friends you are all of you
wrong. Before the election of 1852 the
world will have come to an end, and
Jesus Christ will be the President of the
Universe!" Up started an enthusiastic
getlemfln from the Granite State who
stuHeringly said to the Millerite—“S-sir
—-III b-b-bet you ten d-d-dollars New
Hampshire w-w-won’t go for him
A roar of laughter greeted the exit of
the Second Advent, man as he removed
himself to another car.
at which place we found bees sucking
water. We soon got the course they
flew, and found the tree. We remained
on the creek until late in the evening, at
which time we heard guns firing. I told
my wife to remain there and get the
course of the bees which flew in a con-
trary direction to those We had found,
and I would go about half a mile on to
a high piece of ground and see if I couic
make any discovery of Indians. When
I got there I saw several smokes rising
near to me, from the burning of the prai-
rie grass. When I returned back I
found Mary wide awake looking out for
Indiana, with her gun in her hand, but
still coursing tj)e bees. I told her that
'we must qu|t our bee hunt for the pre-;
sent, and go home to the children, as' miles msianr, auu m»ic wciv
1 there were Indians near us, and I knew other Caddo men at the camp, and two
LA GRANGE, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 27, 1851.
and pine forests; to the west and south
are broad, fertile prairies, which are
fast being brought into a state of culti-
vation.
This institution has many advantages,
which should recommend it to the favor-
able notice of the public and friends of
education in general; located in a healthy
portion of the country, removed from all
local cause for sickness, and in the midst
of a moral, enterprising comunity. The
building and endowment fund are under
the control of an efficient executive com-
mittee, who are taking all the incipient
measures to permanently endow the in-
stitution, and employ an able faculty.—
These advantages will, doubtless, have
great influence in gaining patronage for
this young and flourishing institution.—
water, it
BY JOHN RABB.
During the past winter, Bro. Taffen-
der spent some time with me at my mill.
One evening said he, “ Bro. Rabb, can’t
you relate to me this evening, as our
subject of conversation, some Indian ex^
pedition which you have been engaged
in ; or a narration of some of your suffer-
ings in the first settlement of Western
Texas?”
Said 1, “JP^wner, Plata no delight in
relaxJ-s^uch stories. I would be glad
Tf 1 could erase them from memory’s
page; but that is impossible.. The im-
pression of the bard times which 1 have
passed through, 26 or 30 years ago, is
just as vivid on my mind as it was during
the period of peril and hardship. Fur-
thermore I have no time to spare for such
things. MT time on earth is short, aqd
I am glad of it. God requires of me to
spend a large portion of my time i
praying, an^i praising and thanking him,
for delivering me and my family from all
of our former* difficulties, and for con-
verting to Christianity one of the vilest
But as you have requested
just now occurs to-my mind.”
When I was through he said,
pect to go to England in the spring, to
visit my parents and friends, and to attend
the World's Fair, and I wish vou to
give it to me in writing, that I may take
it with me and havp.it published.”
Said I, “ Brothm I have not (he time
to spare whichJt would require ; neither
do I desire to have my name in print
before the public.. May the Lord
“ Keep me little and unknown,
Loved and prized by God alone.”
Said he, “I must have h.”
I finally wrote an imperfect sketch of
it, intending to correct it and offer it to
you for publication in the Banner, but
did not have time, so he took it as it was.
As it has gone to the old world imper-
fect to some degree, I feel it to be my
duty to write a correct history of it, and
send it to you for publication. It is as
follows: ; i
In June, 1830, I lived in Rabb’s Prai-
rie, near the Colorado river, where my for him as he requested, and left him.
father and brother, Thomas J. Rabb,
settled in . JJtecemUer, -nve miles
above where the town of La Grange is
now situated; at which place Col. John
H. Moore then lived and had done for
many years before it was a town—for he
was the founder of La Grange.
One beautiful morning 1 said to my
vi4fe, “ Mary, would you not like to take
a ride with me to-day ?” She asked,
“ Where, husband?” I said, “To hunt
bee trees, some six or eight miles north-
east of my house, near Wilbarger’s trace.”
the presence of • We told the children where we were
going, and tfiat they must stay about the
house and not leave it—as we were more
fearful that the Indians would carry them
off than that they would kill us.
We mounted our horses—I with my
rifle and other weapons of defence, and
Mary with her shot gun. You may think
it strange, Mr. Editor, at the present day,
to think of a female going out into the
woods with a lone inan, where the savage
Indians passed almost daily, but it is no
more strangelhan true. If God had not
blessed me with such a wife, I never
could have been dne of the first pioneers
of Western Texas. At any time when
we knew there were Indians in the neigh-
borhood, she has taken her gun and gone
with me after night and watched for them
for hours, as undaunted as the bravest
man I ever stood by during our war in
Texas. She always held up my hands
1 me that we woiild live to
Texas christianized, and eujo^ bet-
. - ,ou£
at that jime. I
about one year before,
cause <
Alexander, I
first subjects of God’s convening grace
during his first missionary labors in Texas.
Pardon this digression. >
We started on our contemplated bee-
hunt, and abbut twelve e’clock we arrived
at the place we had intended going to.
for traveling on ordinary roads_, arrived
tly at Lavillette, France.
hour, is of simple
The locomotive came from Picardy, and
all along the route tlie Inventor was rt- •
ceived with enthusiasm. On passing •
through Beauvais, he received die coo-y^.
gratulations of the Prefect and other au-
thorities, and the people carried him in
by c. w. WOLFZ.
Through the mould and through the clav.
Through the corn i ’ ’ ' * * *
By the margin of the lake,
O’er the river through the brake,
O’er the bleak and dreary moor,
On we hie with screach and roar !
Splashing 1 flashing!
Crashing? dashingJ__—--
_ Crulhes, bridges!
By lhe bubbling ini,-------;---
And mill—
of his neigh- Highways,
Hollo hill—
J amping, bumpiug,
Rocking, roaring.
Like 40,000 giants snoring !
By the lonely hut and mansion,
By the ocean's wide expansion,
Where the factory chimneys smoke.
Where the foundry bellows croak—
Dash along?
Sfosll along ’
Flash along ? ,
On ! .rwith a jump,
And a bump,
. Arid a roll!.
Hies the fire-fiend to its deftined goal!
O’er the aqueduct and bog,
On we fly with ceaseless jog,
Every instant something new,
Every moment lost to view ;
Now a tavern, now’ a steeple,
a <
Now a hollow,
ridge,
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Kuykendall, J. H. The Texas Monument. (La Grange, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 6, Ed. 1 Wednesday, August 27, 1851, newspaper, August 27, 1851; La Grange, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1291268/m1/1/?rotate=90: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Fayette Public Library, Museum and Archives.