The Morning Star. (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 185, Ed. 1 Saturday, November 23, 1839 Page: 2 of 4
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you both have used the influence of your presses to per*
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a magnificent Nation!
Texas, we could very
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• in Great Britain,
)0 tons, or 3,000
2,000 trees of 75
ilated that, as not
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acres are required
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THEMORNINHSTAR.
JOHN w. ELDREDGE, EDITOR.
the holders of its
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New Orie a
Forfreight
fore] nppin to
July i -hj
capacities, than the mockery and mummery of the oblige*
tions of her present position.
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the Count DEspaine, conveying to t
sitive order from Don Carlos to disc
and to desist from further enterprises
ed government of Queen Christina,
was not taken by Don Carlos until
conviction, that it was the intention
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and is also in 1
dedin raising the
ich-is considered
the United States
pond is, that the i
ined to refuse all
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mese events might J
1ss one or both pf
An to hope for. the
in such imminent peril from stones and billet-doux! Aird to be sufficient to relieve the bank
from its European difficulties; the
( luh, resoved to suffer thin rincursigns no longer, collect-
ed in all t eir strength, on the evening above
pies, has risen out of a
within reasonable limits
G lveston,n
HALA
culation has ex is-,
i namely, cotto,
in by the bank of
banking establish-
ting of twenty thonsand men, and t|
thousand men. A third account st
had lift Bourges for the head quarter
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25 reams |
nor 21 dd-
RAANDON:
paid, by
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ted, it has been confin'd to one obje
and has been undertaken and carriec
; the United States and other America
ments, and not by the merchants eit
j America. Fortunately for the peri
both England and America, this spe
an utter, if not a ruinous failure, to all
’ ed in it, se that whatever temporary d
suit from it, the country is likely to
such mischievous interference with t
1
Mr (
Her of England or
i nent interests of
||l.ition has proved
he parties concern-
pveenience may re-
lic free from any
'I proper course of
$honld the harvest,
1 v of foreign corn,
ns foxchasiig or deer hunting, and why the delights of
“the chase” should not apply to running down an old tat,
as well as firming down a young fawn. But to give an
you attempt
pply to them the toe
for the purpose of enquiring into certain abuses supposed
I to exist in the administration of the Custom House at Gal*
soon provide her a
ouston, Saturday, Nov. 23, 1839.
e learn, by a passenger of the Columbia; from New
under an oyter stand on the levee, at the foot of Gravier.
' street. The had got in some three months provisions,
and asiheythought their fortress impregnable, the y oc-
casionully sallied out and committed depredations that
[ would hav put the Seminole? to the* blush The Rat-
P
Congress Any bi
vith the gi
Sire and des patch
•mmmemmammamammmmo-
HR friends and acquaintances of capt. WILLIAM M.
LGN, deceased, are requested to anlend his fuveral, this
morng, atll o'clock, to proceed fromthe City Hotel. nov 23.
iinraamrgzooztharmhucnorhcopsebepdintwacnsh
prevail in the bank parlor has abated, in eonseguene c
the symptoms which appear, that the titles for the impor
of bullion are at present moderately settling towards th 4
—w—r and Miliums <w| that the deficiency in the hart
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bank of England has positively dete
bills having, more than twenty otn d
Apart Iron the services which the rat-clubs confer on
society, we do not see why rt-killing should not be con-
sidered as fnshionable and as intellectual an amusement
to run, which - instance of fie exciting
ef issue or
le amount of com-
There are only
zessity for a large
1, if it should oc-
Ware authorised to announce captain D W. BABCOCK,
as a ndidate for Colonel 1st regiment 2nd Brigade, T. M.•
she friends of Major JaMis l» Cocta wil‘ support him
forrtofice of Colonel of the 1st regiment, 2nd brigade, Texax
mi lit at the coming election.
IWe are requested to anvounce that MAGNU8 T. ROG-
ERSil be supported for the office of Lieutenant Colonel of
the ' Regiment, Texas Miitia.*
tWe are auiorized to announce Capt. MARTIN K SNELL as
acaidate for Lt. Colonel 1st regimeni, 2d brigade.
Ware requested to announce SOL CHILD, as a candidate
for kt. Colonel, of lst. Regiment, 2d Brigade, T. M.
eovernment of the United States, has been elevated to the
reach Peerage, and sent Ambassador Extraordinary to
urkey. .Weare glad of this. We have information
rhich satisfies us, that, both in the United States, when he
resided there, and in France, thisdistinguished gentleman
was the abiding friend of Texas. For the recognition of
our Independesce, by France—a fact of which no doubt
is now entertained.—we are measurably indebted to the
friendly dispositions and sentiments of Mr. Pontois. Hon-
r or and distinction to him.
Jon on the part of the U S Bank an
i post notes are now satistctorily settle
’ aid, Oct. 14. _ T
Although it is impossible to deny i
cumstances in the monetary condition I
[ England’s best customer, Arae non cal
much anxiety, yet webeliere that there
riod for many years, whn the trade a
cou#ry rested on a sounder basis thaj
the last two years there has been no si
lation (in the bad sense of the term,)
English merchant or manufacturer,
isted has been carried on on sound I
from any and all blame.'* It is vastly imprudent in both
of you, gentlemen, for present effect, falsely to represent a
hud and who telligence is satisfactory, for though i
ing decisive as to the ultimate fate of
hat there are cir:
f England and of
ulated to produce
has not been a pe-
1 commerce of the
at present. For
:b thing as specu-
on the part ef the
Vhat trade has ex-
Aeans, that the petted idol of Mississippi, the man whose
pise has been sung. in loudest anthems, from oneextrem-
y of the United States to the other, as an astonishing in-
iphectual prodigy—8. S PRENTISS, Esq—-has been de-
feated in a recent canvass for a seat in the United States
Congress. Public sentiment will, doubtless, hereafter be
regarded by him and his friends, as changeable as a lady’s
dancy.
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I report says that Cabrera has received
sons to believe, that it will be directly opposed to what । ney and that he is resolved to’continu
notwithstanding the great odds agai
ag the last month,
1 till next autumn
nature of rat-killing,‘we shall
any ' b< iefly drsc ibe th< "a tion r: We dnesday r
these pieces ofin- A large ituty of oar most dare-devil rats bivouacked
are ,
row
friends at Paris have great doubts
eighteen thousand men he will -be al
ny measure, how-
bw will fall with ed in all tleir strength on the evening above named,and
nd the cotton dis- pickingot a canine corns named the Bull Dog Invin-9
7. I cibles, as forlorn hope, th y made their first sortie about
ped in the F reach i 7, P M The attack was desperate, and the defence was
re reports current brave; ip quatter! was the order issued on both sides,
cabinet, but they L and eachparty seemed determined to “ do or die! A (
he police continu- breach irthe outer works was at length mad the ram-
having been cup i parts web next scaled, and the indiscriminate destruction
I of the garisop, without regard to age. sex or condition.
. followed I
case, the future authenticated history of which may cen-
I vict yon of wilful error. Mr. Jackson has not yet made
ill, brought by the
ritten,we have re-
Mht consequence —
suade the public, in advance, of its character. Tempos
omnia revelat.
well known that
I so indispep sable
siness-like princi-
real demandqand has been kept
So far as s
They wonthem well, and may they wear
i This cisive victory over the “varmints,” will remain
that thejcif- i as memgable in the annals of rat-killing, as the storming
ken up their abode with the Queen at Windsor castle, she ; corn markets and the news from Ame
is about to wed Prince Albert of “Saxe Cobourg Gotha." . next three or four packets
Since thejabove observations were}
i ceived two pieces of information of gj
The first is ‘hat Mr Judon has sue®
uz wi>d
i that a 74 gun ship contains about 2
i । loads of timber, which would requir
. year’s ---l T L— -l h-----1
of New England, and plant them with oak locust, and
other forest trees which are suitable to be used in naval
architecture. The expenses of this undertaking would
be inconsiderable, but the benefits which would arise from
it would be incalculable, and are too obvious to need point-
iprout. Look at the white oak parks of England which
have furnished her with wooden walls for centuries.—
Rot. Mer. Jour.
A RAT BATTLE
Un Wednesday evening, we saw a pile of slaughtered
rats, numbering some hundreds, at the foot of Gravier-st.,
which told us that the work of destruction had been re-
j trade and industry for several years.
| which is now gathered in and the sup
t which has been released from bond du
be sufficient to carry the country throua
we may reasonably hope for a modea
mercial and manufacturing prospe ritf
two things to be dreaded, namely, a i
additional supply of foreign corn, wh
cur, must be followed by a great dennd of the precious
growth. It has alm been cal
han forty oaks, containing a lo
, ber in each, can stand upon an acre, 5
> produce the oaks necessary for eve
This is an estimate of some impo
tries besides Great Britain. We beliye that this Govern-
HE following
5 eases in
75 bhls sug
10 do "
7> dosu
he bank, it goes a
creditors The
itavorable, for it
dreadfully press*
We were unable to insert the following in our yester-
day's paper owing to the want room.
From the N, O Ree, of the 1 44h inst.
TWENTY-ONE DAYS LATER FROM EU-
ROPE—ARRIVAL OF THE GREAT
WESTERN
Prince Albert is said to be a Protestant; his elder broth-
ers, among them the hereditary Prince, being Catholics.
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Poor VICTORIA! that her head and heart should be long j sum of £800,000 in London—;
v., mi .--p.„upu,. me nt has set apart large tracts of lam u Florida, cover
which have brought about the ex, J with valuable live oak timber, to be
I for the use of the Navy This is we I
timber is properly looked after, and is
ters or stolen for .other purposes, wh
unlikely to be the case.
But the white oak timber of New,
demand for naval purposes and itS
this kind cihiubex, so valuable, inde
• • ’ - morA as
) do Mad
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two armies of Espartero and O’Donll, the first consis- N cigars. xcbmnej —I suppose you think your Uncle was
1 latter of eighteen a greatmoker, bat he was nothing to be compared to ah'
sthattocourjers Aunt Ihad in the state otRhoie Island, who was the
of Cabrera and of greatessinoker in the world She smoked for years with
he two chiefs a po- two pip constantly in her mouth—and at length she was
thejr followers, not sallied with that, and so she took her old china tea
gainstthe establish- , pot milled it with tobacco, and smoked regularly every
This decisive step (j day ot ofthe spout y
I had acguired the ThMMarion, (Ala) Herald, says, that businasaisso
1. * 11 dull i that place, that many of the merchants have shut
$ °u8' s a. on' as up sho, and the lawyers their offices, and all hands, for -
1 ; ■ _ want f more profitable employment, have turned in to
■ I playig marbles! The editor of the Herald seems to be
consicrably miffed becanse he could not get a hand in the
gamebut turns it off as well as he can by saying that he
“had slight headache, and didn’t care to play any how.”
We tnk his excuse is rather a bad one.
is in <complet
boar J. She
de k pa sene
The Corun
would tach her the rudiments of the domestic dutiesof e good wny towards securing its Engl
wife ofherage—a sphere certainly better adapted to her second piece of intelligence is very
provesthat the bank of England is si
i ed, and that it is determined to adopi
I ever desperate, to save- itself. The I
Not so fast, Messrs. Editors of the Galvestonian and the greatest severity on Manchester
National intelligenctr. You have bath published in tricts aroundth it town.— rime^, Oct “
your papers, and ,lendor»td," that which you have rea. FkANcEg-The political news con
- . il. journals is of no importance. There
sons to believe falsein every particular—namely, that the at the lastadvices of changes in ath
“result of the investigation had by Mr Jackson, selrcted were supposed not to be well founded]
j cently going on. Here, thought we, would be material
for a letter in some of the northern papers. How elo-
quently could some pseudo philanthropist dilate on the
murders which he witnessed on the New Orlean's levee;
what n theme would this heap of dead furnish to a mem-
ber of the society for the “prevention of cruelty toani-
mals, ' or could not some sickly sentimentalist, acting on
the idea of thv “varmints” lying lifeless before him, write
a pathetic piece ^dfter the manner of Sterne," on a dead
rat? Our own opinion relative to the affair, however, is
that those who effected this grand toupt de mams—who
committed this wholesale slaughter, have done the state
infinite service.
The Great Western arrived at New York, on the 2d
inst., at 10pm, having made the passage from Bristol in
a few hours over fourteen days. London dates to tha
lath have "been received by her, the contents of which we _ .
hasten to lay before our readers. It wiM be seen thaj (j his partisans kept the field in Spam
there was an evident improvemeni in the money mark, | /----------:-----—-----
•wing probably to the fact that the corn crops were re FoRRESTS FOR ova NAvy,—It a rars by a report of
covering fromthe effects of bad weather, and that a fai the Commissioners of the Lin JR v r
average supply was anticipated. . •bet - Ta vun eh inconti in ahont
There was no impsovement in the cotton market, for
decline of {d had been submitted to.
oxDoK Momby MARKET — The money market i
its commercial department, has acquired a tone, and .
greater degree of firmness at present appears to prevail ta
in it than it possessedat the commencement of the week i
and we hope that nothing in coming events will tendu }
throw a (loud over the vast interests of this compmunity.
. . fl
pecially
-espescially if the |
not felled by squat- |
h wo think is not !
cerned in the riots of last May; among
of M Blagui, a leader in the disturbJJ
veston, go to exonerate the present Coll, ctor, Dr Roberts, siderable sensation in Paris.
Sfain — it appears from the last >
i cation of Spain is not yet perfectly iomplished. Ilie of Badajs, the battle of “old Victoria,” or the signal de-
report that the Carlist g< nerals Cabn w and Count DEs- * - . - ■ - .....
j pain were about to follow the exampl
; down their arms, has been contradict.
HR KWh
but will b
the ame
nov 20
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The rats of New Orleans are more numerous, more
] lazy, and mre hoaferish, timan those of any other city in
the Union; and when once night falls, or to use a more
poetical expression, when the sun closes his curtains,they
are insufferably saucy They will' croes your path n
dozens as you pass along the banquet, arid if
to strike them with your cane, or
■ of your boot, they dodge it, and then turning round.pl
................ thejr puny fore-paw on the nose, and in the most provo-
Bank of the king manner, say or seem to say.
i "No you don't, stranger; you can't come it” “ft’s all
rotd my hat with you.”
bl< to the timid of her sex. Recently two large stones
were thrown at the head of her queenship, when in her j! metals for the purpose of payment, a
.... , । * j f . • i . the banking establishments of Amen
apartments .1 W indsor caxtle. And lighter missiles hare j U. States taking the lead. Either.o
been repeatedly directed at her heart, in the shape of love- J produce great embarrassment, but ur
letters from numberless ambitious aspirants to her handin H them should occur, there is much re
l ]i marriage. The rumor now is,that of a batch of Cobourgs I future. I he pressure on the money
. . .,.,e i • j il from the. apprehension of the
• who have arrived in London from the continent, and ta- and will increase or (
The rut grievance having at length become intolerable
arket was chiefly ancnot to beborne, rat k ilfing clubs have been form-da
... occur rgrire of those events nn I not Vohrhortheoshem auth rpiem hod cheldthe
deer- ase accord i to the state of the with a ) iew t the final extermination of the whole race,
or at least their expulsion from our borders ‘ To one of
these Clubs belong the laurels of Wednesday evening
er nobility, vhould belong to a MISTRESS wlbo is not yet
out of her teens! A child in petticoats the sovereign of j are endorsed either by joint stock bi
If we had Miss Victoria here in other banks of-issue! The former o
feat of tb Bijtish on the plains of Uhalmate by the old
Ba Maroto, and lay “Gm th’ and his brave troops are, iu the recoids of na-
■ A more recent tional wrfare,
Bge supplies of mo- If it fad been achieved in Baltimore, there would be a
the war to the last monumut raised to commerporate the event.—P/cayon^
Mt him. His posi-
K -------- A GKAT SMOKER A wag, listening to a vain and
pompov fellow, who was boasting of the amount expend-
to withstand the r ed by hi Uncle, while he was a member of Congress, for
11 very far from be-
20kegs bult
' Provisjons i
20,009 I
A large 1o
nov 22
1 HHDBrow,
2
cheap for cash b
nfritti ■
4)N the 4
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by Cbarlesi
of the samel
one drawn b
1939 for $100
which said I
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less issue, a
came to this j
tion that I w
which I did ।
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agreement di
them, no dos
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Thin is the
sa the makers
by Buckleya
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iq nd
others the capture
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