The Texas Monument. (La Grange, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 6, Ed. 1 Wednesday, August 27, 1851 Page: 2 of 4
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They had a fine audience, and extended, however, but a short distance Brie, a village near Paris.
Some of the perform? from the town.
on Monday
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bject before die poof le
much from the last crop.
. ready rising, as will be seen by the Arc-
tic’s news, and will no doubt during a. fait
' price. j .
Tbe Beacon says: “We learn from
a gentleman from Huntsville, that O’Con-
nell, who killed the printer, Eurcn, is in
jail in that pl?ce, and in irons. It is said
that public opinion is against him, and it
is very probable that he will apply for ai
a good
these springs drinking
It was
seen plays
-The Austrian loan of
inc tine Iwon fnl/on V... T? <-.»I»- !
road from Galveston Day in tlie direction
of the north-eastern angle of our State,
to meet the Memphis and Vicksburg
roads, and thus secure a connection with
Charleston and Savannah and New York
and Boston. If there ever was a time
6. That tl>c Convention at the City oU" • |
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Wednesday, August 27, 1851.
They
within a short.distance of the line of Opelousas road, that she will push her
The cholera is making dreadful rava-
Norel Application of Gutta Percha.
The!—A patent has been obtained by Mr. E.
Truman, of No. 40, Haymarket, for a
ig artificial teeth into a
preparation of gutta percha, made to re-
semble as closely as possible, in colour,
texture, and consistence, the natural gnm$t ‘
b
in a softened state, produced by beat, is
place ih the same room,, on
evening, the 29th inst.
rare treat, in seeing the “Mock Doctor,”
and “ Fortune’s Frolicks.”
The Thespians here hav
selves much credit already,
full hopes that they will be successful i
their laudable undertaking,
pose appropriating the net proceeds of
their performances towards the erection
of the Monument.
worse acted by regular companies, than
the Thespians acted theirs o|i last Friday
evening.
ferred claims, for which the five millions Decrease in'the
were i ... . 2 1, Z
per cent, in cash and fifty per
land scrip, at the minimum j
by the Legislature. They estimate that i h&ifion at London, whose skill
the cash payment required will be about the riddle oft
equivalent to the whole sum ]
to be paid on the scaling system.
consider themselves bound by this offt
during the whole (f the next session, of the
Legislature of Texas. We do not know
how they are going to help themselves if
Great Lock-Picker.-—There is
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most intricate locks, and | balloons ascended i
~ i ... the shouts of admiring thousands.
i genuity, has astonished the world al pre-' wind was i
°ffer sent in London. Dr. Smith, in a letter! and t
to the Transcript, says :
“ He picked the heretofore supposed
unpickable Chubb lock, which laughed at
all the Englis
It is the reliance of bankers, and secures
the archives of the Government. He
opened lhe chest in just fifteen minutes,
with some kind of Yankee nail he carried
in his pocket.
same place, k
groan for the Seces-
Sas momrioTTT.
J. H. 1UTIEXDALL, Editor.
m wc
3d day of May ISOS, the parties met in
al
their respective balloons were ready to
receive them. F
car. The weapons to be used, by mutual
consent, were blunderbusses, as pistols,
it was supposed, would be altogether in-;
efficient in their probable situations,
vast multitude attended, hearing <
ascent, bur little dreaming of the hostile
intentions of the aeronauts, being merely
attracted to the spot by the then unpre- ,
cedented novelty of a balloon race. At I P036 to see ing,-
nine o’clock the cords were cut, and the .
I majestically, amidst j
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moderate from the N. N. W.,
:epfing at the
The Arctic has arrived, with dates
sary on this careless or incapable
lock-smiths and rogues.
The Railroad Meeting.
We publish to-day the proceedings of
abroad meeting, held at this place on
, It will be seen by reference
to the resolutions that the meeting recom-
mends the assembling of a Rai road Con-
vention at Austin, on the thiild Monday
in November next. This will be a very
appropriate time to bring that subject be-
fore the Legislature of Texasj.
be hoped that nearly all, if not all, of the
counties of the State will be represented
in that convention, in order that some
system may be adopted that will be ac-
ceptable to the State. We think it can
be done without much difficulty if the
people approach the subject with the pro-
per spirit. We see from the last New
Orleans papers that the people <
parish of St Landry, in Louisiana, have
recommended the holding of a j^int con-
vention to be composed of delegates from
Texas and Louisiana, which
semble at Burkeville, in Newt<
Texas, to unite the energies of the two
to carry on me mam trunk ofThe
Pacific and Atlantic Railway from New
Orleans across the State of Texas
Paso, in order to secure its extension
along the valley of the Gila to San Diego.
We are pleased to see this movement,
and we hope that New Orleans will do
something more than “ blow,” as she
usually does about internal improvements.
If she does not make an effort to do
something soon, she will hardly have
breath enough left to “blow.” We
hope that Texas will not wait to be spur-
red on by Louisiana, but proceed to act
for herself, and at the same time that she
prepares to meet the New Orleans and
Public Meeting
At a large and respectable meeting of
the citizens of Fayette county, held
the neigh-'l,re lown of Ija GranS<'» nrl Fridav^H
• • j 22d of August, puesuant to notice,
both were wounded; the latter very se- purpose of taking into considerauJBH
a knife used by Mr. Glass- utility and practicability of cstablidmBB
, Mr. Winston using a revolver,| svqJP’in nf for tl.«
which he fired 3 times, slightly wounding ,
Both are
Bell,
Epperson,
G reer,
Johnson,
Chambers,
Por Lieutenant Governor.
Henderson, - ' - 5,068
Keenan, H - 4. - 3,73$
Gillett, - - 1,214
Ward, - . - - 3,1 $4
For Commissioner G. Lcfad Office.
Crosby, - - 9,430
Ward, - - - 3,617
For Ass. Justices!Supreme Court.
Wheeler, - - • 8,465
Webb, - 4 - 6,014
Lipscomb, - - 7,017
For Congress.
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il. i Indian treaties have become out of date
til. £ and forgotten by the “children of the
in the lower j George Etwards, who nad been^out on ; prairje^ .” they have again renewed their
He was arrested in the woods
' Spring Creek. Mr. Bickford has been
j considerate enough this time to replace
the ornaments Jimbo has been accns-
' tomed to wear, and has turned him into
So much the cornfield to fatten previous to closing
r: his contract with Barnum for the sale of
J imbo.—Advocate.
■ Cuba.—The Cuba
The steamer Chingarora, lying at the satisfactory. The New Orleans p
lake end of the Pontchartrain Railroad, [" do not agree about the news dierct
took fire on Frid^f
instant, at 10 o’clock,
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Death of Mr. Alexander Hunt.
—^Mr. Alexander Hunt, of Bastrop, died
ob Friday last, the 22d inst., from an
injury which he received by leaping head-
at a
Hunt & McMahan’s
Capt. Selkirk is on his way to Wash-
ington to lay the ca$c before the authori-
ties at Washington. The captain was J
stripped of all he possessed, and is :
in his application by friends who feel j rage muuc wnn uoi
confident that he will obtain redress from 1 after every wedding.
*l,s the justice and public spirit of his own' comes the expressi
1 Government.— Vicapnnc. : honev moon.”
morning last, which very of M. Daguerre, the celebrated disco-
much dry weat&r. It * verer of the daguerreotype, suddenly, at
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recoltect
All who attended, seemed
1 we
that the house will be crowded again
next Friday evening.
members of th
■ me a ucspTans,
others equally as good, for the success of
the gloridus cause in which the y are en-
gaged. We would say to those who
condemn the Thespians so strongly, that
they should recollect that intolerance is
destined to be banished from the world,
and that ^charity endureth forever.”
active, it is now. Wait a few years until
xMissouri shall leap over the Ozark Moun-
tains on her iron steed, and march to the
i, and it will be
1 he drought has so injured the cotton in • too late. Business and capital will seek
most places, that it is past recovery. ’
is now certain that in most districts the: lin
crops will be short, and that in
will the crops be even good ; and i
scarcely any, fine.
3,000,000 of bales, it is l"
crop will not exceed that of last year.— our Slate.
Although the crop is shorter in mao;
places, there is probably a greater num- Railroads arc as much superior to rivers
ber of acres planted, and it will not vary as rivers are to ox wagons, and the sooner
Colton as al- we have them, the better.
The Texas Presbyterian, Huntsville C
Item, Red-Lartd Herald, Tyler Tele-i kirk,
graph, and Cherokee Sentinel, are o il in
Goon, brothers; we
hope the day will soon arrive when the
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9 iron horse” will be heard snorting thro’
j the pine woods of the East, and over our
beautiful Western prairies.
derson, Victoria, De Witt, Goliad, Jack
, Cameron, Limestone, Leon, Bur-,
, ; tO
Dr. A. P. Manly was called to t
Chair, and James 1. Norton was ap-
pointed Secretary.
Judge Neill Robison, by request-, ec-
The JTild Man has been retaken, plained the object of -the meeting in a few
near brief remarks; at I be close* of which, lie
offered die following resolutions, which
were unanimously adopted :
Rcsolccd, That wc earnestly reque st
Jail the co'mfffdb.ofthe State of Texas
hold similar meetings, for rite purpose
! taking
Statement of Cotton.
Stock on hand 1st September 1SJ50,
I Strived since . f I., ,
i Arrived to day,
Totdl - - 2814
Comment is considered quite utHn^s- ne.!’and k !s ll,ouSht she 'rin
House, at Smith- continued extremely irregular, and we about a fashionable opera dancer, who,
though the mistress of the former, was
discovered in an intrigue with the latter,
a challenge was the consequence. Being
j both men of elevated minds, they agreed
to fight in balloons; and in order to give
time for their preparation, it was agreed
upon that their duel should take place -
Accordingly, on the ”ar“» ,n l')e District, completes the
...v. .u delegation to Congress from Alabama,
field adjoining the Tuilleries, where Fifth District, John Bragg, S. R.
...w-v ,d Democrat; Second, James Abercrom-
Each" party ascended his ^e> Pn“° '' *!!«5 Third, Sampson W.
Harns, S. R. Democrat; Fourth, Wm.
R. Smith, Union Democrat; Fifth, Geo.
i S. Houston, Union Democrat; Sixth,
A m‘ ^dliamson, R. W. Cobb, Union
of the democrats ; Seventh, Alexander White,
Union Whig. Total—three Union De-
mocrats, two Union Whigs, and two
Democratic Southern Rights men, op-
—Picayune.
’ | system of RailrdUds for the State of T
° ! and to bring the sul *
and the affair has undergone of the other counties of the State,—
i the !
. Mr. Win-!
unable to attend, owing
foremost into the Colorado river,
bathing place near
saw-mill. The. water bad been deep at
that place before the rise in the river dur-
ing the last winter and spring, which, it
is supposed, made a deposite of sand and
' gravel, and filled up that place in the
river, winch is mow shallow. Mr. Hunt,
pot knowing ^bat Ibe water was more
shallow at that I point than it had beer^in
previous years,| took the fatal leap, which
caused his deaflh. ' His bead struck the
ground, and so injured the spinal cord,
that he died in about 25 hours. ’ He was
an amiable man and a good citizen. He
leaves aw aged mother and a number of highly pleased, ^nd
relations to mourn bis untimely fate.\_
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Accidental Death.—We are in-
M formed that uimv r* cinLaa
■L Unrlfiian rnnnty, was riding with
his son a few days since, and carrying his
gun, they rode up to a water hole together,
and while there, Capt* Chriesman’s gun
went off by accident, driving tire 'bah
through the body of his son. The young
man died in a short time, leaving bis un-'
fortunate father overwhelmed in grief.—
This was Capt'. Chriesman’s only son.
He had three sons: one bn J^st during
. the late war in Mexico; anitbdr was run
over by an ox wagon, and killed; and
the last has fallen by the accidental dis-
charge of a gun in the hands of his own
father. Capt. Chrtesrnan is one
oldest citizens;
those who know him best; and the com-
munity sympathise deeply with him
account of his misfortunes.
From the N. Orleans Picayune.
Cotton.
Owing to the very small quantity ac-.
tually on sale, as the greater part of the i
12,000 bales remaining in the presses is
either not offered at all or at such high
prices as hot to admit of an offer, the
14z
weeks except in
Some 25 bales good
new crop, have been
o o sold at 8 to 8£c., and 34 hales Middling brated French aeronauts, M. de Grand-
injured. The Marshall House was blown F air at 8}c. Prices of old cotton have' pree and M. Le Pique, having quarrelled
~ t^rson f ~
nearly blown down.
i was committed, for a |
s short time, to the county jail.-Mlcd Land
’ \ August 16.
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Death by Poisoning.—We regret to
t learn that Mr. John Latham, of Shelby
ight, .the 9th county, lost his two eldest sons, (young
Total | - - - 1492
While the dfenstis returns taken for the i sition, where
-j <riyes as follows :
4 ree
Slaves —
that the water possesses
pierties. The day is pro-
The River.—We do not
to have seen the Colorado so low since
the spring of 1842. At many of the
.fords, (and they are very numerous) the
. water is not more than IS inches or two
j feet in depth. The water is quite clear,
and so warm that it is fine for taking a
tepid bath. The river looks almost like
a lake above each rapid, as there is
scarcely any current, exc
rapids. The rains must have ceased in
the upper country,, as the river is now
quite clear. The steamboat Colorado is
destined to lie at her resting place at the
mQiph ‘mf R-•—o.fi.q Lvfuw our
town, until the rainy season sets in, as
she can go. neither up norxiown.
Sulphur Springs, in Gonzales
County.—About thirty miles from La
Grange, and twenty miles from the town
• of Gonzales, are the Sulphur Springs
belonging to Mr Freeman George. For
a month or two there have been
many persons, at
the water to improve their health. Many
are of opinion tl
fine medical pro[
bably not far distant when these springs
will become a summer resort,
are ’
Gonzales county, near the corner of Fay-
ette and La aca counties. There is a
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, beautiful country in the vbmity of the
Springs, which is thinly settled. The La
Vaca, PeachCrcek ahd Buckner's Creek,
which are not far from the Springs, fur-
nish fine sport to those who are fond of when Texas and Louisiana should be
bunting.
a Grange Tlicspiins performed
at this place
22d inst
performed well.
ers spoke too low to be heard by those
who were in the back part of the
The performance took place i
room of the Institute building :
regret to learn that some parties interested
are dissatisfied with such an arrangement. • and his body badly torn by wolv«s.
Another performance, however, will take is thought that the rider, and his mule, cj - -
next Friday which was lying near him, were both j Mexican who
We anticipate a i killed by lightning.
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Not Married.—It seems that Jenny jdiem, met the cattle leturning, and aftcr-
T . , , « ,1 • — i 1 15 i I wards found the bodies of his murdered
; Lind and Belletti are not and will not be . . .t r . • i
. ; H j companions, at the distance mentioned,
married. Belletti has gone to Europe T|le Indians soon discovered him also,
and Jenny [remains in America. ^and made immediate chase, but he suc-
> ; ceeded in making his escape, f
GttAsUppERS.-Myriads of grass-'f,,r the j late boasted treaties—LeJgcr,
hoppers have appeared at St. I^uis, and
are destroying the gardens in the neigh-
borhood of the city. It is believed by
the Mexicans at San Antonio that the
grasshoppers are harbingers of cholera.
They appeared here preceding the cho-'
lern in 1833 lit. .1 5n 1849.
cede cholera, fet. Louis m<.
a visit from the scourge of Asia.
was
He offered $10,000 for the rapid descent of the machine, and
Pique was dashed to pieces on a
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collasped balloon fell. The victorious
is deposited Grandpree then mounted aloft in the
grandest style, and descended safe about
seven leagues from the spot of ascension.
The press generally in Virginia indi-
cates opposition toyG eneral Scott for the
Presidency. »i ! —
English Drunkards.—From i
nbate of the number of drunks
England and Wales, it appears that the
number of inales is 53,583 and 11,223
| females, making a total of 61,806, which
gives one drunkard to every 74 of the
pend the male population, and one to every 134
oljthc femalcc. in Cochin China and Sianf.
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(Nfz/i Antonio,) August 21$L
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Careless performance of important duty
by the U\S. Deputy Marshal.—The ccn- __ _ ,
sus returns as taken by the U. S. Deputy ■ has been employed sevdral hours to-day,
Marshal for the county of Gonzales, gives though unsuccessfully, in trying to get
Free people - - 891 i off the steamer Yacht, which is aground
Slayes i -• - 601 inear the Point. '
to leave the harbor by night, which
counts for her bein^ i
o _4 .
we presume she will
till the next high tide. <
The officers of the Galveston inform
! us that the Mexico, ag
anola, has, within three or four days, been
j moved about forty feet towards the chan-
1 soon be
> inm.n«r>Upating again on her proper element.—
of performing an important duty.—<S. IT. Galveston, Journal, \^th inst.
American.
The Dawson Claim.—Messrs. Whit-1 . —
ney & Schott have forwarded their inter- t,on ln the 4o,loninS counties :
est in the above claim to the Auditorial Hays, Caldwell, Williamson, Gillesp
Board, far action, under the law for the Comal, Bexar, Medina, Guadalupe, Bas- 5. That
examination of claims against the late trOp, Fayette, Washington, Colorado, county that may have matured anr plan
Fort Bend, Brazoria, Galveston. Harris, ■ or system for the purpose of railroading
Montgomery, Grimes, Walker, Milam, for the State generally, are requested to!
, Matagorda, Cherokee, Houston, Nacog- present them to the meeting in September.^
last, a Mr. Douthit was found intoxicated i J°ches, Calhoun, La \ aca, Bell, San
and disposed to disturb the peace and!
quiet of our streets, by indulging in a
knock down or two, in or near Watson’s
tfHjcery. He was properly cared for by
the Dep’y Sheriff Jordan, and Constable ,eson’ JasPcr» Robertson, Nueces. Polk-
Plunkett, who took the gentleman before’ Harrison, and parts of Lamar, Red River other papers friendly
Justice McKee to render an account of j and Fanning ! quested to publish th
For Governor.
its pliability enters into every interstice,
depression or projection of the jaw, and
the processes of the teeth so that np cavity
in which air is contained is left unfilled.
The result is, that the artificial gum
clings to the natural gum with a tenacity
that requires great force to remove it,
and the artificial teeth can be used for
mastication, &c. The principle is a
simple one, and is exemplified by the
common experiment of placing a piece
of wet leather upon tl»e smooth surface
of stone when it will be seen how eloeely
it clings to it., The adaptation of gutta
percha to tips purpose will avoid the use
of metallic plates in the mouth, an j pre-
vent many evils known to arise from tire
use of base metals. • • ' »
We have
haye no doubt
on
Alt mugh some
-ernr opposed to
they have ti e prayers of
.cock,
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; and we a cow hunt on the head of Cypress.Creek, i butcheries upon he people of the frontier. Mr. G. in the right hand,
interested was found dead, with his clothes burnt We learn that a few days since seven ! recovering, ;
■an investigation, which resulted in
acquittal of Mr. Glasscock.
j ston was t------- - .
wounds.—News.
to his
lost the cabin of his wharf-boat,
steamers that, lie moored at Paducah
were damaged. A gentleman whtMeft
Paducah yesterday informs us that the
storm was equal y desructive in that place;
the steamers Dover and Caledonia, which
lay moored at the Paducah wharf, were
immediately sunk—the latter sank out of
sight. The wharf-boats were generally
i ‘ '
down; the Patt
land, was i
Caledonia had a large amount of freight
destroyed. -------
The Texas Debt.—A meeting of'
creditors of Texas was held in Philadel-
phia a short time since, at which an ad-
dress to the people of Texas was adopted.
It is an animated remonstrance against
d the scaling system proposed for the ad-
»h justment of the debt, and contains a ’
cogent argument, exhibiting the bad faith'
as well as the moral delinquency of the!
proposed repudiation of contracts. 2.
contains, however, an offer to yield some-
thing of the strict claims of the contract;
and to receive in payment of the pre-
reserved by the Boundary bill, fifty
u _j c , cent, in
price affixed Hobbs, of Nelv York, attendin
Bales 16443
... 4
1,009,415
’ 3258--- 993784
td on shipboard not cleared 15631
Receipts at this bort last year.. 835354
Exports “ •• .....815543
Increase m fte receipts at all the ports.... 266514
Increase in'the epi ports to foreign poits... .441426
Decrease in the exports to northern ports.. 116639
Decrease in the sto ‘
s stock at New Fork
Case of the Helen Mar.—Capt. Sel-
, of the schooner Helen Mar, so
unjustifiably seized by the Mexican au-
thorities at Minatitlan in June last, for
the offence of going there on the faith of
the privileges granted to the Tehuantepec
Company, arrived yesterday from Vera
Cruz on the Bonitla. The Helen Mar
was taken to Vera Cruz, and after six
weeks procrastination, was condemned.
news is quite un-
papers
tofore
Mexicans were murdered 25 miles east
of the Rio Grande, on their way to this
city, with a number of oxen. Another
/was to have accompanied
itheyi, was detained a few hours at the
| Rio Grande, and hastening to overtake
. wards found the bodies of his murdered
■4- r j companions,
to Europe : '£|)e Jndians
a Mr.
the Ex-
in solving
ine i
proposed , which were supposed to defy human in
letter. ant| tliey kept, as well as could be judged, method of fixin
i between ninety and one hundred yards
of each other. When they had arrived
at the height of about nine hundred yards
M.'Le Pique fired, but without effect; The substance of the gutta percha, whilst
almost immediately after^ his fire was re-
turned by M. de Grandpree; the con- made to fit closely to the mouth, and by-
tents of his blunderbuss penetrated his
adversary’s balloon, the consequence
the privilege ofarying to open the lock of M. I
the safe in which the great regal diamond house-top, on which his shattered and
belonging to the Queen, .valued at two
millions pounds sterling,
nightly, at the close of the daily exhibi-
tion. But no one dared trust him near it
with the strange looking hook.”
Mr. Hobbs proposes to try his hand at
several other locks, for the successful
opening of which large rewards are df-
fered by the inventors.
the custom of the higher order
aided of the Germans to drink mead, a beve-l
made with honey, for thirty days
. From this custom
expression “ to
very Exported to date 990526
- -- - I Exported to day •• * oora
1 Stock on hand and
t this poi
X ' T
ports to foreign poits
>cks in the southern ports 17433
39801
unfortunate recontre occurred in
1 Richmond, Fort Bend county, on elec-
tion day, between Mr. Benjamin Glass?
cock, of Clear Lake, and a Mr. Win-
[ston, who has been staying in l
• borhood for some time past, in which
More Indian Depredations.—The late |
verely, by
We learn from the Beacon tbat Mr.
ill Revolve the
to suc-
i expires
in 1853. '
a Democratic Southern Rjsffits
intimated that liu? Wfiiffs
j make an effort to elect Mr.jHjllard, Whig,
the Journal, Whig, which is thd leading
' Unidfi* paper at the seat of C
Isavsr
Mr. Clemens will be .re-electdd this
: winter, of course. The thing is a dtitr;
fit isilue Mr. Clemen’s exertions in the
cause, and to the old Jackson Demo-
cracy of North Alabama, which has just
crushed the hopes of all the nullifying
school of South Carolina editors and poli-
ticians.
. The Advertiser, of the
utters the following
e o
sionists:
We have received sufficient returns to
satisfy us that the Congressional elections
in this State have resulted disastrously
for Southern Rights.
The election of Houston, over Hub-
to
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into consideralion^the importance
The steamer Galveston arrived iuside | °^ adoP^no a gencral railroad system fur
the bar last night, from Indianola, and the State of 7’exas.
2. That we recommend and solicit
each county in the State, to elect ‘two
The yaciit'auempied I Dcle8alcs 10 n,ecI « ,he C'V. of Austin,
‘ i ac- on the third Monday in November next
' o ’ I *
in her present po- to consult ,with each other for the pur *
t ’ll • ’ •
remain pOse of adopting a general railroad sys-
tem, which will be most conducive to the
round below Indi- interests ol the State.
3. That we request each county tol
publish the proceedings of their meetings,
and the names of their Delegates.
4. That the citizens of Fayette county
are requested to meet on the fourth Mon-
We give below the results of the elec- day in September, at the town of La
: /Travis, jGrange, to elect two Delegates to repre-
tie, sent them in said Convention at Austin.
Board, for action, under the law for the Comal, Bexar, Medina, Guadalupe, Bas- 5. That any of the citizens of Fayette j
Republic. Sensible people, are Messrs
Whitney & Schott.—lb.
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Breach oj the Peace.—On Wednesday [
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d | Augustine, Angelina, Sabme, Rusk, An- Austin bold its session for not less- than
ten days.*, .
7. That the Monument be requested
publish these proceedings, and that all
’ to railroads, be re-
quested io publish them also.
[ . * A. P. MANLEY. President.
James I. Norton, Sec’y.
The Alabama Legislature.—Ac- |
cording to the retnros in tl>e Moijjoinery
1 Journal of Wednesday morn tug. the 13th
•inst., iIrere is a large Union majority in -
both brandies of tl>e Legislature^ of Ah-
, bama. -
On this legislature wi
; choice of a- Senator in Cpu
ceed Mr. Cletncns, whose term
The Advertisernd Gazette,
f paper,
iff* would
j having i
' U«. . .v t.VVz. .’ll . lllllrtiu. ,, HI*
the Journal, Whig, which is the leadio
I UmW paper at the seat of Government,
y morning, the 15lh ( received, and the last papers bring no-
j and was totally, thing later. We expect to receive satis-
factory news hv next week’s mail.
f
Telegraphed to the N. O. Picayune.
Arrival of the Arctic.
Baltimore, August 11. I
from Liverpool of the 30th July.
Cotton has advanced j [since Europa’s
sailing, we suppose.] Sales for three
days 32,000 bales, of which speculators
and exporters took 12,000.
leans is quoted at 5 J ; uplands and Mo-
bile 54.
Consols at 96} to 96;. American
stocks are steady. Manchester trade
more active.
Political news unimportant. i
New York, August 11.
The Liverpool market, on Monday
and Tuesday (28th and 29th ult.); was
active, anff cotton advanced £ to f over
the Europa’s quotations. The sales
amounted to 20,000 bales.
The Ecclesiastical Titles bill passed
to a third reading in the House of Lords
on the 29th ult.
Italy.—Martial law has again been de- *\u:?u/e i
dared in Italy. hJs daed4 He
, j ; | shnrf fimal fno
Austria.—
000,000 florins has been taken by Roths-1
•— —--W —' J | ■ . J , .
Paducah, Ky., August 13.
The storm of Saturday nito
of the • inst., was of the most terrific and disas- men growPj) last week, by poison, sup-
i have i^rous character. The standing corn was posed to liave been administered to them
everywhere prostrated, the crops gene- *n ^le*r food, lor what reason, or by
rally damaged, trees were uprooted, tele-' "bom the poison was given has not as
graph wires broken, houses blown down, >’et been discovered.—16.
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Eddyville, Ky., August 12.
The steamboats Caledonia and Dover
Aniertca sustained dama-
ges to the amount of $3,000; the Mus-
tang lost ber chimneys; the Globe lost
to El i ab her cabin, and has nothing left but her
;ion!bo^ers’ fcng‘ne and hull; Mr. Smedley . ,
All the 3a,es of the week are confined to 2,250
bales, consisting mostly of low and mixed
lists, and including some few lots of good j
quality. There are some orders for
Middling, but that quality has. not been
on the market for some
very small parcels.
Middling, of the
Prices of old cotton have! pree and M. Le Pique, having quarrelled
The quotations merely as a reference.
Inferior. .J
Ordinary
Middling
Good Middling '.
Middling Fair...’
Fair
Cotton Crops.
The news from the cotton-growing
States by the last mail, is quite gloomy.; banks of the Rio Grande
1'4
It| a different route from ours, and we will
ger on for twenty or thirty yea^rs to
very few | come, goaded by the sad rcflcctio^ that
have permitted others with inferior
Instead of reaching advantages to enrich themselves with that
thought that the trade which should legitimately pass thro’
vru. I' riends of railroads, arouse ...^j uvij/ mvuiaciwa >■
y yourselves and prepare for action !—; cxas re^uses lo accept.
* 1 The committee who make this offer
is composed of \V,m. D. Lewis, M. S.
Nickersham, J. B. Trevor, George Bun-
dle and James C. Van Dyke.—Picayune.
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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/m1/2/: 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.