The Texas Monument. (La Grange, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 17, Ed. 1 Wednesday, November 16, 1853 Page: 2 of 4
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It crosses an elevation 1850
of 276 feet above high tide at Aspinwall,
pagej is like one of those unusu-
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ses of
Department for publication, and now lay
our readers, the very able and con-
official opinion of Attorney Ge.n-
?ct of rhe
tates and
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must have
bo relied on
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railroad, such as
The
weather in case of delay,
incurred by exposure of chi
a very serious detriment fa
should be remembered the
decline in prices has already detracted
much from the expectations entertained
of proceeds of the crop now on hand.
Norther set in on the 9th irjst.;
of temperature seems
any effect on l
we can invite business n|e^» to come here
I now
five three months.
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There have been about thirty ca
in
try has generally a
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The Galveston News of the 11th hit?,
-,publislres a list of all the deaths that have
occurred in that city from the 1st of Au-
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gust to the 31st of October. The
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The Cattle Trade.—It is well known i
that the counties of Liberty and Jefferson
which lie north-east of this city, furnish ,
sold for in the market? Would it bring the New Orleans Market with large quan-j
1*”^ T .* _litities of beef cattle, which are for the’
t driven overland, in droves of
be worth more than.twenty millions of from two hundred to two I 1 . ’
dollar^, but the labor and capital of the sixty.
-• . . builders of the road would give to it an carried
or even to make extracts of increased value, and would add
We can1 only furnish Oiit | told amount to the value of the remain-’ gentleman who resides
. -Texas has, in my opin- endeavored to keep a i
this vast prize within her grasp., and her ol droves, which cross the Neches advance
river j
number crossed this season at about forty ■ to be erroneous, the quotations. given in
thousand bead. These beeves sell in ^n despatches per Arctic are but slightly
Louisiana at $17 to $18[ per bead, but above those per Asia, and the declaration
f ter-
ritory in dispute, which sderns to be pos«
break of war.
Under the the influence of these advf-.
packets between Quebec and Liverpool,! x
Glasgow and London. ' new
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''Speech* of Gen. Rusk at Austin, through the State, would amount to 10
*A Barbecue was given on
to Gen. Rusk, by the citizens of.Austin,
bn which occasion he delivered an inte- two millions of dollars ? I art) sure that
e^on the subject of the Pa- as soon as the (road was finished, it would • most part
’> We did not receive
th? 4th inst *cres, leaving us 92,507,000
acres. What could the ten millions be
! Cents f-,
Havtng per.used-<b</Lddre3S to the ye||ow fever in Victoria during the late
people of tte;Colorado valley, upon the
proposed road, issued from the Democrat
Office, atCdfTOblavW'e are now prepared:
to make some observations upon* it.
nCa * » • •• tt
sents the advantages of a railroad run
rn the direcifoh proposed,-in’
forcible light*.
pay out a great deal of money; but that
the road will pay, and pay well when
buil^, there is not a doubt. If their divi-
rise to twenty or thirty per
United States;” “The Telegraph;” the cent., I would have no envious feelings.
“Growth, Tride, and Manufacture of Texas wil1 Profil by ,lle rise in value of
property more than 100 per cent. [Ap-
plause.] No man dare undertake to tell
“ The the advantages which would accrue to
“ The Cotton Crop Texas from this road passing through her
border. To build the road through our
territory 800 miles, will require $20,000-
000 of capital. Now, if you bring $20,-
000,000 of money into the State, and
commence at the Gulf and spend it in
i ex-
penditure of that amount of money for la-
bor, will greatly benefit the State, but
how much greater the benefit if that sum
be spent in the construction of works of
, , If there was a security that any
! road would be built, the land which could
be bought for fifty cents per acre to-day
' would, some of it, run up to $100 per
acre ; this increase on the value of lands '
would not be confined to the immediate
vicinity of the road, but extend to many
miles jiorth and south of it, and in fact
advance the price of land throughout the
;. You will find that the taxable
Telegraphic News.
New Orleans, Nov. 1S53.
The schooner Eagle, from Cainpeachy,
reports that the cholera is raging with vio
lence at Merida, the capital ol-Yucatan
causing a mortality of 100 per day.
New York, Nov. 4.
A Mr. Manion, of Seguin, has announ-
ced his intention of shortly establishing
another paper^at Port La Vaca, and has
gone to New Orleans to purchase mate-
rials. *w*------------- , I i ' .
Mr. J. M. West is now associated with
Mr.*M. Bourlte in the management of the
Sart Antonio Ledger; the former as edi-
tor, and the latter as publisher.
the" .. . '
X-l/t 7 amounts to lour
qjftta ^Railroad .
epidemic; buLatl were not fatal.
Upwards o®hirty person^ have died o
the-yellow fever in the small town of
Richmond, infFort Bend county.
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TKe late New Orleans elections were
decidedly democratic. The Bulletin
says the Democrats elected their candi-
dates for Sheriff, Coroner, Senators, Con-
statues, and etfery one of their Clerks for
the District Court.
We did not receive the Message of Go-
vernor Bell until Monday morning last;
• consequentlyr^ve are unable to publish it
this week, asuit is rather a lengthy docu-
ment. r.-------- of a quality suitable for lies and the
It generally takes a Legislative body { perstructure
about a week to organize and prepare for oa^’ meZf>',i
business. . We shall be able to give our
readers something interesting next week,
n Addition tolbe Governors’s Message.
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Gen. Hou^on declined the honor of a production,, to any other which
public dinner, tendered to him by many ^ouln^-
prominent cilH^ns of Austin; but faVored | r01|,e „.est from |he Mis5issippi.
them with a speech on f
We have novyel received this speech in life, and never expect to.
printed form, but presume it will soon
appear. . >/' • 1 " ]
Judge Hudnall, whose card will be seen being the exact soil, climate and latitude
on third page^.is like one of those unusu-! f°r c°tton ; it is»also a fine grazing sec-
ally clever add efficient politicians who and admirably adapted to stock rah
sometimes throw up their offices in dwgoat #.®LP; '
° aUpcFIvi dS
or weariness, but are <
necessities of the public, to resume them j
again. As t-hi^ Judge has heretofore suc-
ceeded better 4ban any one else as a pri-
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doobt bis next effort will be w<ll sopported. I
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De Bow’sJRe'view, for November, i# tn,e» ,hat ’he company will have to
comes laden with the following heavy
burthen of contents.: “What is Fair and
Equal Reciprocity ?” The Army of the dends should ri
The Address is w.ell written; and pre-
running
.in a clear and
But the same thing has
been done with regard to other similar
projects in Texas. Railroads always look
well oo paper, and are jnuch easier con-
structed on paper than oh terra firma.—
The Colorado valley, from Columbia to
Austin, certainly presents superior attrac-
tions to railway builders ; and the time
must come when the'-produce of this val-
ley alone will be sufficient to load Jdown
• as many cars. as. could .be put upon any
railway track thav might be built through
it. But we
can be constructed at this time ;. apd
also doubt the policy of Agitating such
Scheme ^t present. We will givte a
krief reasons for entertaining this opinion.
**'Tbe present session of the Legislature
will have something more decisive to do
than merely granting new railway char-
ters, and discussing the feasibility of new
routes. Every member of the Legisla-
ture should go to Austin with bis mind
made i>p, oz ifearly so, on..tbis point: for
the grand object of the -present session will
be to give some effectual encouragement
to the few leading enterprises of this
character which, havd already been char-
tered, or which areJcnown to be popular
with a great majority of the people. The
mere adding of new charters to those al-
ready granted, will be like adding sands
to the sea-shore : it will be labor just i
superfluous, i . r
There are many wealthy planters in the
lower end of the valley, who would, no
doubt, contribute largely to-the proposed
road ; but there is not a sufficient number
to build ten miles of it without the aid of
foreign capital; and ibis is not easily or
speedily obtained. ’ Besides, the Harris-
burg road has this great advantage over
the Columbia enterprise: it offers the
prospect of a speedy extension to the very
wharves of Galveston : but could a road
to Columbia ever be thus extended ? If
we are not greatly mistaken with regard
to the locality of Columbia, we think it
could not; but all freight landed at Co-
• lumbia would have to be shipped ovdr the
* bar at the mouth of the Brazos. .We do
not think that nature has designated Co-
lumbia as a great railway depot: it cer-
tainly can never rival Galveston ; and the
people in this part of the valley would
much prefer aiding a road which promi-
ses them ultimate transportation direct to
• the latter city.. -- •
' But it is urged jn the Address above
alluded to, that the Harrisburg Company
■ cannot cross the Brazos opposite Ricb-
* mond, with their road ; and consequently
it cannot be extended to Richmond with-
out making a depot on each bank of the
river. We d> not know at what point
tfie Company design crossing the Brazos,
tout unless they have satisfied themselves
that they can bridge the river sufficiently
low down to run over in the direction of I
Austin, we do not see why they shoald!
hold out such an i
zens of this valley,
It isq!.ite probable drat the Company will , I
ftillv Pnlirrhton T . orriulo r ura «. tn tl.n I T ~
Our Legislature would do well to note
ois
has decided that when the journals of the
: ao
— ! sed through three several readings, as re-
HHMjjtiNl Mi
the cognized as a law, even when signed by
and the sharpest curve one of fifteen de-' term. Our information, frbr
grees. TheJronis'brought from Wales,‘gent fiiend at Nashville, is,
and is what is called the heavy W rail, is a candidate for re-election
It strikes opposed by Major G. A. Heniry and Col.
river about seven and a half T. A. R. Nelson, both whigs. He also
i miles from Aspinwall, and follows the expresses the opinion that Mj. Bell’s re-
general course of the river to three miles election is certain. The wliigs of the
above Gorgona, where it leaves the river, whole Lnion would have cause to be sat-
i and continues in a south-east direction to iafied with this result.
oceans,1
the plot in the direction towards Panama. It
crosses the Chagres river at Barbacoas,
A late English paper states that a pro-
is on fool to send one million of co-
Yeurs Past.—We give at (he foot of this
, ... , “.j average
President will state his conviction that prices of cotton at New (jirleaus for the
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individual energies and the private capi-
tal of the country. The Secretary of the
Navy, it is stated, has a plan for re-organ-
izing the Navy.—Mobile Register.
X The Panama Railroad.—The whole
length of this road from Aspinwall, on
Atlantic side, to Panama, on I
Galveston, Friday Mounin’J,
November, 11 th, 1853-
Since our report of l^st week; the-' ;
steamship Perseverance having left New.
Orleans on the 4th inst., bjrought us
ters from that city up to the 3d inst,, and
hundred and from New York up to the 27tfi of Oct.
Although ibis business has been
on for years>*ve have not, until, perseded
an un- recently, had any idea of^its extent. . / . r<* ’ . . . ..
remain- ' gentleman who resides at Beaumont Jias' the Arctic, which had an Unfavorable in-
record of the num- fluence on business.
on
eans, .inference mu^t be drawn, that
1the pressure at New York had by no
means abated. .. L .
Trade in town has assumed a more
lively appearance. Severabcoimtiy.mer-
chants have been in. and sjales from stores
have been more extensive than for some
time. Under the report that the rise in
the Trinity had been lost again, the steam-
which are in readiness, have not yet
Of movement of the steamers on the
Brazos river no advices I
On upper Brazos and Colorado, several
Flat-boats were preparing to avail them-
selves of an aarly rise c f the river for
f
hundred and fifty? resting Addrr-
bific Railroad. We did not receive al
printed copy of this Speech in time to in-
sert it in full,
any length.
readers with a few, and perhaps not-the mg 92,000,000.
J tnost interesting passages to be found in 10?’Tr ; •[ .... ... ® *.• I-
fIJ ■ . a leariul responsibility will rest upon him ri
yiie address. i • ■ ‘ l .^ho shall cause her to lose it, i
After touching upon various introdiie-’
tory points, the General goes on to say :
“In regard to the particular route thro’
the State, I think it would be wisest to!
designate as few specific pointsas possi-
ble. •’ It certainly should not begin north
of Fulton on Red River. Much has been .
said in'reference lo'llie 32d parallel of,
le, and it has been asserted |
oiver and <>ver again, by the opponents of Harrison, has arrived here from Liver- 'he’rds of stock cattle have been moved stringency of the money Iria.ket at New
the KI Paso route, that there is a scarci- nnnl. with tn thp 99d nltt ' t- . . . .iK l r\_i it... j
ty of timber and water on that line. 1
api prepared to say that I am, from per- firm, with
; senal observation, well ac
i the face of the country on
eiffi
hauling by wagon having been lost in
r *' 3 epidertu
near, when ox^teanjs cannot move
acres
to the mile^! of the Caxtons.—Monument.
r
nation il point of view, this road is
in<T I almost entirely b^en confined to the Quin- best military security
..I . 7 : ~ 1 tana side of the river, there having been our Pacific coast,
railroad as early as k..t :J s ’ - 1
physician when Dr. Gautier States, and advance her in wealth and
’ ms of both places were greatness, than any work of the kind ever
railroad yet awhile.! about forming an association to relieve projected.
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physicians could now be exhaust their venomous energies in vain, zoria as
__ t ■„ ! r_ ! jn jJer to
doubt be well remunerated, and at the wealth, Jpower and happiness, wh^man
t. . I same time secure the everlasting gratitude has sui
on the 21st Dec,, and Bish-; of many whpi
i. cauiirtt<9 r—| . : I • •. Ji • • I
res of vacant ’nS ,^een ,n existence ever since the days
to the miles! of the Caxtona.—Monument. political prisoners in the Papal dominions, pies of the New Testament to China.
recently committed suicide by throwing north-west to south-east,
ly anticipated by those not acquainted nessee, now in session, is to elect a
according to the with the topographical peculiarities of that1 senator to Congress to supply the vacancy
] region. The guage of the road is 5 feet, [ occasioned by the expiration of Mr. Bell’s
term. Our information, from an intelli-
tiiat Mr. Bell
i; that he is
half T. A. R. Nelson, both whigs.
will ov
hope, and also satisfy them
to the fact whether he can
leap it at all or not, at any
the Falls. - i j •
But this gallant steed is'
miles ahead of any other on
Railway Course, and while he takes this
glorious lead, we are not disposed to see
him jostled off the track ; nor do we see
the use of putting any more steeds in his
way, as he has competitors enough al-
We would like to see the citi-
zens of Columbia and Whorton enjoying!
the advantages of a ranruuu as eariv as 11 . A • ’ vr i
. ... . • but one case in* Velasco,
possible ; but it is our humble conviction | without a
that neither place can be made the starting left, and the cilice
point or terminus of a i
We may be mistaken in this notion, but' I,
• 1 ’ll i borne of our [
time wi i ow. , (spared, and were,one to go, he would no In its effects upon Texas i
The Methodist Conference will meet i <
A.
W • I CBS ■ I W OvIllJVlVllB tvl V O I] L
rgbt be saved hy|AVa hnvi 102,747,000 a::
♦ domain. Twenty ••evuns
i north latitud
El Paso route, that there is a scarci-
i that line,
am, from per-
quainted with
that line for
hi hundred miles West of the Mississi-
pi rTver, and my deliberate judgement is,
that a road from the Mississipi to Red Ri-
vdr will‘cost nearly double as much as it!
will from Red River to El Paso.
There is plenty of both limber and wa-
ter, and on no part of the route would il
be necessary to carry the ties more than
twenty miles, certainly not exceeding
thirty. In others they would be close at j
hand, the road running through a great:
deal of timber in places. The limber is'
erleap the Brazos with their giant;
more fully as
be made to sumptive of the passage of the act, but not aid of C
did* not prove it. The constitution of
now twenty j of
the Texas!
i
thousand dollars
to our slock raisers.
' I-
ped from Sabine Pass and also from In- and prospects of improvement seem to be
The Cunard steamship Africa, Capt. djanQia, (O New Orleans. Numerous further distant than ever. From the
! pool, with dates to the 22d ult.
The Liverpool cotton market closed
i an advance of |d; for the week.
The sales for the week were 46,000
bales. Exporters took 5,000—specula. 1r|"re7ill be surpl
, tors 8,000. ’ L ’
Fair Orleans is quoted at 6fJ., Mid-
! dling Orleans at 5|d. to 6d.
The whole stock on hand is 736,000
bales.
Flour has experienced an
from 9d. to is. per barrel.
Wheat has declined 3d; Ohio Flour is :
quoted at from 36s. to 37s.
Consols remain unchanged.
Preparations for war, both in
and Russia, continue to be made with'
su-: great activity.
s of a railroad, such as live-i
k, mezquite, postoak, &c. The coun-
level, smooth surface,
. and would require but little grading, the
crossing of the rivers offering the greatest
obstructions. The character of this route
is vastly superior, in my judgment, for
'i can be
[fodnd. I know the country to be pro-
! ductive for eight hundred miles along the I
route west from the Mississippi. 1 have
Saturday last.— never seen anything to equal it in all my
This route has
the greatest variety of productions, being
capable of producing excellent wheat,
corp, and other small grains; and also
j for cotton ;
ms-
gs; upon the whole, I believe it to be
i an agricultural region, to any
compelled, by tbe other line of the same length anywhere.
Many of the intelligent statesmen of
the North and East are advocating the El
Paso route, and for very plain and sub-
ljt stantial reasons, aside from the fact that
mary teacher an our town, we have ho jit js the shortest and cheapest.
As to security, the only important ob-
ject is, security that the road will be built.
i con-
:’dcL and winter be-
for want of grass, the transportation by ’ '
the rivers will necessarily be much larger
during the season before us than in pre-
vious years and unless rivers should ,ise
early and keep in good navigable order,
there must J)e great delay in getting crops
to market; this probability should ba
considered by those who placeJ heir cot-
ton on the river landings, and are not yet
prepared for sufficient protection ofit from
The losses
>lton have been
lor planters and
more, as a
After a succession of whrrn days, a dry
j the 9th inst.; the change
i tick to have had
the health of the city, and
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without daw ger of cdntracting'isick*
Berness in Houston is Reported active
i increasing.
Cotton.—The advices per Persever-
ance from New Orleans, w|)ich bare been
received here on Sunday,
much disappointed thos^ tv
the tenor of the advices per Niagara
copied in our last report from New Or-
leans'newspapers. Priced have met with
a further depression, undier the absence
of demand, and were receipts now large
here and pressed into market, prices innst
have giv«n way considerably. \Ve hear
of sales during'the week , of about 250
bales, for orders and to fill vessels,
loading, at a slight decline on our quota-
tions of last week. Some lots of ordina-
ry cotton, partly of last years crop, are
offered, but find no purchasers, although
disposition ha? been evinced that offers •
two cents lower than prices ruling at the
opening of the season would be accepted. \
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Cotton Crops and Pritts for Eight
tional railroad will be discussed, but th? statement a table, showman the
sound policy requires it to be left to the pa5( eight years—it is of touch tmerest
at this peiio<|.
Tuial Crop.
2,100,537
1.778,651
2,346,634
2,728,596
2,096,705
2 .<355,257
3,015,029 I
3,265,415
Tennessee Legislature.—We have here- •
directioh hard- ’ofore slated that the legislature of Ten*
in
^n despatches per Arctic a|re but slightly
taking minimum figure, and reducing the; of Russia refusing evacuation of the
estimate-to forty thousand head, and we t .
’' have the sum of six hundred and eighty itively given, threatens the imniediate out-
thousand dollars as an annual income break ol war.
But this is not all.
Large quantities of beeves have been ship- ces, business in cotton has been inactive,
Numerous further distant than ever.
from the lower counties to the upper ones. Orl
The prairie country on the upper Trinity
affords as fine a range for stock as any
portion of the State, and in a few years
lus beeves in that quar-
ter. W.e believe we are within bounds
in predicting that, with tbe advantage of
railroads, the cattle trade will exceed in
value our whole cotton crop, notwithstand-
ing the fact that our cotton products in-
crease rapidly from year to year.—Netw.
An American Officer at the Turkish
I Camp.—The camp of the Turkish army
on the Danube has been visited recently
1 urkey j by a great number of European tourists
de wi’h add military men. G— ur-”—
. . Mounted Rifles, U. S. Army, had gone
The intelligence brought by the Africa t (O ta|.e a |
positively states^liat the combined fleets ■ Crescent. T 7
had not entered tbe Dardanelles up to the comely received by the Sultan, who
13th ult., but confirms the report that the }dm a
diplomatic conference at Vienna had sus-
pended its meetings.
The Russian Ambassador at Paris, it
is said, had formally contradicted the re-
port <bat the Emperor of Russia had
’ threatened a war of extermination.
Prince Gortschakoff, the commander-
in-chief of the Russian forces in the prin-
cipalities, is said to be very pepular with
them.
The actual intentions of the English
and French Governments are kept pro-
foundly secret.
The report that Austria had made or
ordered a reduction of her army forces
is contradicted and pronounced false.
Koszta, it is positively announced, is
still in confinement.
— Sehnr Bakcst^ras, formerly MLiisrnr of
t luancrc oLBpain. is dead.
’I'hit? -Government of France ba? grUhvn—*——***—
ed tbu MtiJstjr of Marine cred|il for five
millions of f
Baltimore, Nov. 3.
The Maryland election took place yes-
terday, but the returns from only ten
wards in this city have yet been counted.
Ligonj the Democratic candidate for Gov-
ernor, has realised gains which will carry
the city, by 3000 votes, securing his elec-
tion.
Walsh, a Whig candidate, will, in all
probability, be elected in the Fourth Con-
gressional District.
Preston, an independent Democrat,
will, t is believed, carry the 3d District, j
New York, Nov. 2.
Letters received from England an-
nounce the receipt of intelligence of the
arrival of the Grinnel Arctic Expedition
at Greenland, and its departure thence
for head-quarters in Smith’s Sound. |
/ Louisville, xNov. 2.
f Matthew F. Ward, the author of “Eng- tracts and resultin
lish Items.” &c., this morning shot Prof. ■
Wm. Butler, the ball inflicting a danger-'
ous wound in Mr. .Buller’s left breast.—
The difficulty was caused by Prof. Butler
having chastised a young brother of said
Ward’s, who was a pupil in his school.
Louisville, Nov. 3.
Prof. Butler died last night. Judge
Joyce refused bail for Ward and remand-
ed him to prison for tpal. Ward’s young-
er brother, Robert, has also been arrested
and imprisoned, to atnswer as an accom-
plice in the killing of Prof Butler.
The celebrated Lucy Stone delivered side, is 49 miles,
a lecture in Louisville, last night, to a
crowded house.
We have received from the Treasury
the present terminus of the road, where a before
substantial bridge, 624 feet long, with elusive
three piers,7 is now erecting, the limber era I Cushing as to the legal e
and wood work of which is constructed ' compact between the United
at Darien, Georgia. There will be no! Texas respecting the public debt. So
grade on the road over 50 feet to tbe mile, fir as we can learn, this offieialfa<'tion of
except for one mile, where it is 70 feel. . the Attorney General has been Hailed with
mi /a i ’/-.I • i entire satisfaction, even bv! thL various
^TbeQ>.ebecCI>ron1clesa)9tltatMessrsJp(,rtle8in in)ereft. as an uoq,,L„i<,nah|e
iGil<i>onr&Co.,orthalcity,iniendbuilding expo3jtjon oflhe |a„ KeEroporrank
7' o ±>" “"n 7e’n S/e!,ms1Ts 7 >o »'bich it
about 2,000 tons each, to form lines of U/tton. / I
wbtk by Mrs. Stowe, “Record
------ of Travels Abroad,” is announced as
z'l tie Dardanelles though fifty miles nearly ready for publication.,
long, are only two wide. (
------- ( n
. The Debats states tb^t tljere are 30,000 jecl i
Capt. Walker, oflhe transportation of cotion—two months for
. Army, had gone
look at the grand army of the
The Captain had been hand-
> gave
o
letter of introduction to Omar Pa-
'slia, the Commander-in-chief on the Da-
in ube. —
'The President's Message.—The Wash-
| ington correspondent of the New York
[Courier is endeavoring to foreshadow the
■ forthcoming message of tbe President.—
Tr~ 1 He says its developments respecting our
foreign relations will be doubtless deeply
interesting. Through its statements we
shall be informed of the exact progress of
the negotiation relative to the fiishery
question and the northwest trade. The
best-informed at Washington believe that
the Secretary of State is proceeding quiet-
ly but efficiently to an adjustment of the
differences which have so long existed
between England and the United States
on that subject. Nothing definite or very
important can be expected to have taken
place in reference to Cuba, Mr
having not yet presented himself for
t al me c uflTf SpaV"'*Wu if 3Y?
i o ng no reprrsentattve of me Qutcn near
inis Government In regard to our do-lsntl •rrivais of ration arc
mestic affairs he says: “In finance, the
President will advise the adoption of c
revenue system which shall keep the an-
nual receipts nearly upon a level with the
estimated expenditure, One of his sub-
ordinate in adminstration has not inaptly
characterized the present system as “ a
revenue tariff for protection. ” It is to
be amended by striking out the words
“ for protection. ” As to the surplus on
hand, the system of purchasing up gov-
ment stocks will be pursued until it is
consumed. It is expected that the policy
of improving rivers and internal harbors,
will be discouraged. The plan of con-
necting the contract system of carrying
the mails with the increase and sup-
port of the Navy, will be referred to in
unfavorable terms, and its- abandonment
as soon as consistent with existing con-
J rights will be recom-l
o o
| mended. The proposition to connect the
J Atlantic and Pacific coasts by a great na-
9 '
50
51
----- - 1 1821—52
which will be graeed down to.250 feel. 1852—53
The general direction and course of the;
Mr. Gray the wealthy Californian who road from Aspinwall to Panama, is from '
i north-west to south-east, a i"
himself on the New York and Hudson
1 track, was, ;
New York Mirror, well known to all
Californians, as having been a gambler,
and keeper of the “El Dorado” saloon grees.
—a “ gambling house ” of tbe w orst des-
cription ; and the large income refered to, but some T rail will be used,
is the rent ol this same “ house,” which the Chagres river about sever
is yet devoted to that purpose.
T his Mr. Gray, was a practical printer,
»and moved from New Orleans to Brazo-
ria, in 1836ywhere he published a paper.
Madame Grey, his first wife, w ho is yet the height of land between the two o<
| living, is the lady who assisted in i“
L. • r j . - , , to rescue Santa Anna, when a prisoner
; poMpone H for. year, snd >t may be at Columbia. Since ’36 up .o the time I
of his location in California, he has been 1
a traveling and professional gambler.—
From California he went to Washington
city where he passed as a California mil-
lionaire and there he married a fassionable
young lady of high standing and respecta-
bility. His former wife hearing of this,
presented herself at Washington citv,
_■ ...J. committing
suicide. — Tex a s Ra nger.
The Ranger is mistakenj Gray was
a small paper al Bra-
ue beyond your expectations : you will
put yourselves in a condition to appro-
priate largely for education ; you will al-
so place yourselves in a condition to aid
branch roads. The responsibility rests
upon the Legislature, about to convene,
to settle the question whether we shall
secure or lose the route for this road. I
know the building of the road will advance I Bailroad
us fifty years in the scale of prosperity. v0
We are by no means sure of obtaining it;; Caiiforni
. there are rival routes, with powerful in-
point at which the Harrisburg Company j PrP®’d’n£ officers oi both branches of fluenceb. It has been pronounced by
• kA « i . k.. .k~ A(nninigtraljon to be a military road,
for national defence, and this route can
be sho4o to be. the best. I think the
Congress can be depended upon,
shall have the satisfaction of knowing P:
. .. . r. _ o; n
itoryL
insignificance, compared with this great
one;
appearance at the lost to us forever.
mouth of the Brazos. f
the 26th, learns from Dr. Gautier, who! as i
left-there on Monday, that seven deaths before a jollier will be constructed.
had occurred, artd that there were four-; a i
te^n new’cases. i$Up to that time, it had solutely necessary.
I the Legislature, and approved by the
Governor. The signing and approving
were merely held as being evidence pre-
point below conclusive as to the fact, if the Journals and if the State of J’exas does her duty
did' not prove it. The constitution of we<‘ ‘ ' - -
I Texas contains the same provision as that that the road is to be built through her
1 of Illinois, on this subject.— CiviZfonJ * lerritory. All other questions sink into
We are paine^ to learn that the yellow j
fever has made' its appearance at the lost to qs forever. It has been said that
mouth of the Brazos. The “Planter” of two roads will be built, but I give it again
n- my opjnjon that it will be madv years
In
ab-
ll will be the very P,
we could offer to .j
It would do more toL
They were ! develop^ the resources of the United o’f'”h-J
of both places were greatness, than any work oflhe kind ever
It would be a bond of union
the sick, and procure medical assistance, against which faction and fanaticism might engaged in printing
s early as lite year 1834 ; and he
| used for this purpose, an old Ramage
same time secure the everlasting gratitude ! has sufneienv foresight to estimee Press, which had the appearance of hav-
*se lives mi_
timely anistancef 'domaitu
The news per Niagara had been su- ,
1 at New Orleans by despatches *
A : of four days-later date from Liverpool by : .
Thle advice of an
cotton of Jd. ip Liverpool, as
al that place, and he estimates the;given by the N. O. newspapers proved
These beeves sell
Cotton“Southern Slavery and its as
sailants“ Domestic Poultry ;
Stater of Iow£;”
Trade;” “ Njtw Orleans, Commerce,
Mortality, &c.f’ “Agriculture “Inter-
nal Improvements and “Miscellaneous
Notei.” | . ! !
The election of Public Printer took r,non“men'7" Py™">Ms. 'be simple
place in Austig on the 10th inst., both
Houses having met in joint session for
that purpose. jThe election resulted in
the appointment of A. J. Hampton, Pub-
, e , TT. I road U
hsher of the State Gazette. His op|
nents were Messrs. Ford & Walker,
the South-Western American.
.-I . X ... 1 • I .
We are indebted to our Senator, the
i Hon. I. L. Hitt, for a copy of “An Act
I to provide for^the Construction of the State
Mississippi and, Pacific Railroad.” We property of the State will increase in val-
expectation to the citi-1 |iave not learned by whom this act was
, or any portion of it. | jntroduced into the Senate ; but its future
fuHy enlighten the Legislature as to tbe
point at«whicb they intend to cross the!
Brazos ; and also as to the direction they fact that the Supreme Court of Illinois
wish their road to take, if .hey extend it I'” ^,cided ihal W,‘e,n ,he j»uroal"
e . / | Legislature do not show that ao act pas-
west of lie Brazos. I he citizens of the 3ej through three several readings, as
Colorado valley ought certainly to have quired by the constitution, it cannot be
more definite information relative to
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Posey, Albert P. The Texas Monument. (La Grange, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 17, Ed. 1 Wednesday, November 16, 1853, newspaper, November 16, 1853; La Grange, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1291383/m1/2/?q=buffalo+NOT+bayou: 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.