The Morning Star. (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 712, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 26, 1844 Page: 3 of 4
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John McDaniel
August 15th, 1844.
ommerce
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Cvrrirttd frtm the Uullettn Sept. 12, 1844.
Corrected at Jos. Gran’s Exchange Office, 72 Camp street.
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Horses will at all time* be kept on hand for sale,or hire, to
accommodate strangers desirous of visitirg the interior.
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offered up a sacrifice to the sordid interests of a few petty
trafficeis in Mexican trade!—a sacrifice on the alter of
these people’s God—Mammon!!!—And what have I
done, that I should have to meet this death? Have I trans*
greased that law, the transgression of which brings upon
the transgressot capital punishment? No! I have not
transgressed that law I—I did not kill Chavis; but I did
use every exertion in my power to prevent his being killed,
at the very moment when Wilson Mason shot him, which
nothing derogatory from it.
I have already stated in a letter which has been pub
Untied States, I do noi believe i will prolong
destined
ber being emoved. It is supposed that limber thus pie*
pared will not be subject to rot or decovof any kind. I
This, lune wilttnst. lthes pioves true, the iuvemion will
be ol imnmnense imporiance lo ibe Unit d Slabs, W beta
timber is yet plenliei, nod iron scarcer that he e. The
First Municipaliiy
Second Municipality, •
Taird Munic paluy
BANK
NCW ORLEANN.
that they were dealing with a generous and magnanimous
nation, in the maintenance of whose friendship and favor
lay ibeir own best security for national independence and
consideration. We believe the opporiuniiy to be eminent-
ly propitioos, if Mexico be not loo far entangled in the i
meshes of Bin ish alliance and state-craft,and can be made
Rope, 50 cis rope,
Tteine, 100 lb*. ba,5 ------,
Nails, 75 kezs nails, 4, 6, 8, 10,12 and 20 pennys,,
Steel, an excellent assonwen,cas, German and Blister
8PECIE.
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3 63 a 86
10 JO a 16 50
15 53 a IS 60
decided disapprobation of the late Bankrupt Law, and for
one, in deference to that opinion, I do not desire to see that
law revived of any other Bankrupt Law passed.
I congratulate you on the satislactorv result of the Au-
gust elections, and remain your friend,
And obedient servant,
H CLAY.
.The death warrant was read McDaniel was then pre-
sented to the people. He declared his innocence, as did
his companion; they said Chavis' death was an accident; ’
but if he was murdered. Mason did the deed McDaniel .
exclaimed, just before he was sent to his long home—
-A rIHOMAS 8. LUBBOCK respectfully informs
Eh 1 his patronsand the travelling community in gen-
eral, that he has closed the “Old Capitol" for the
#E2 remainder of his term of lease, and opened the
it he would brtray the whereabouts of his party his life
should be his; and moreover, his return should be so ||
managed hat nothing should be suspected of the tiuih by
to agriculture or rather to the habits of those who pursue
it have been put into my mouth, and paraded at the head
even of newspapers I never used such expressions--
T’hey have been forged or fabricated by political enemies.
Of all the pursuits of man, I consider the cultivation of the
earth as the most honorable. It is my own pursuit, and
any reflecting man must at once perceive that I could say
| merioriousand gallaht an officer, bv at least encouraging
his recent and impoiant invention. It is the least it could
a future administration in respect to a quesion with A
Foreign power I have, however, no hesitation in say-
ing. far from having any personal objection to the annex-
ation of Texas, I should be glad to see it without dishon"
or—-without war, with the consent of the Union, and upon
just and fair terms. I do not think that the subject of
slavery ought to affect the question one way or the other.
Whether Texas be Independent, or iocov poraied in the
- “But lately, dgood deal is soid about wood, and a pa*
lent bns been wke n out for convening it into iron. I should
inther say into stone, by means of iron. This weiuhitd i
or rather jbrxalized wood, has been used in tons’* ucting
the termious or the Dover railway, and it really seems to ,
have both thequ litins of stone and i on. Rails of it laid
down at V: texunii. for expe. imeni, endared a travel equal
to thnt ol a year On the most thronged railway, without
any perceptable wepr—not even the saw mas ks of ibe tim-
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the duration of that insiitution. It is
(FORMERLY DECHENE’s HOTEL,)
Houston— Texas.
rp HE undersigned would most respectfully invite
I the autention of his triends and the public gene-
rally, to this long established and well-known House
which has recen l v been thoroughly repaired and
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them. The alternative was instant death by hanging, with-
out hope of reprive, for it was his last chance. His lacon-
ic reply again was. “Hang and be d — -d!” They hung
him gain and left him. But by good fortune he wes
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Agricultural,
Plantere’ ; ;
Port Gibson, s । ,
Commerc al Rail Road,
5EFrhe well-known City Kotei Stable is attached to the
House, where horses, carriages, Ac . will be kept for sale or
R. 8. NEIGHBORS,
------ [HOUSTON HOUSE,
CORNER OF MAIN AND FRANKLIN STAEETS,
Houston— Texas.
alove establishment, where he will make it his duty to render
every attention to all who may favor him with a call.
The well known Houston House Stable have been perma-
nenuy, atuched, thus rendering additional advantages to the
U“rhefrable, the Bar, and the Stable departments, he is deter-
mined shrli be kept in such a manner as to rank inferior to
found before life was quite gone, by some of his men, ta-
ken down insensible, and happily vestoced to life. The
। story refe cis ihe highest honor upon Lieut. Hunter, and
we hope tbe government will show some kindness to so
teres.s of his fellow soveseigns, render it extremely desira-
ble, for ihe sake of the peace of the world, and theintegri-
o , .. tv and securiy of nations, that the States of the western
put so ar asjois cap- hemisphere should also remake, to some degree, common
, cauac. The European combination is conservative in its I
character; it is Mitered into as a protection against the
11 progress of Republican principles, as a counterpc ise to
the contagious andgfascinnting example presented by the
Unhi d States, of a powerful nation governed by popular
। institutions, yet giving as perfect security to life, liberty
" and as rarely disturbed by civil broils, as the
I oldest and strongest of Governments. A counter alliance, I
to the extent st least, of good fellowship and kindly feel*
shot alone killed him. It is useless for me to repeat the
circumstances allending the killing of Chavis; I have
published them to the world, heretofore, and could, now,
but reiterate the same. I die perfectly innocent of the
tract of a letter from Mr E. Wright, Jr, author of the
translutio of ka Fontaine’s Fablea, which I hope may
find n place in your pper. The leuer is doled London,
Juno 8ih, 1844. and is published in the Boston Morning
Chroniele of July fOth.
Tue succens of ibis inveotion may have an impoitnnt
heur ng yponthe cosofconstuction of the N. Y & Erie j
Reilond, and to help to drcide the question of its speedy
consi ruction. .
LCity Hoiei Builuings,on Monday the 30th day of September, in-
j siont, for one Jusiice of the Peace, to fill vacbacy of M. H. Shry-
ock, Esq., xesigued, far beat No. 1.
A. P. THOMPSON,C J H C
and led-----a. 0 sooner said than done; he was in- }n Chambers, Houston, 18th Sep 1844. sep19dtde
stonily hung up andlet. In a few minutes they returned, 1 ------- cocgpipC a
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(1OFFEE, 40 sacks green Havana coffee, 5 sacks old Java do
U Sugar, 12 boxes brown Havana, 10 bbls N. Oileans do
Flour, 26 bbls, superfine Floor,
Whiskey, 10bbls rectified Whiskey,
Brandy, 2 nipes Larrande cogaac, 3 bbls old peach do
Tobacco, 50 ooxes,whole, hall and quarter boxes Virgin-
ta Tobacco,
White Lead, 15 keys extra whiie lead,
l^urpentiM, 3 bblsspiriisturpentine,
lAuseed Oil, 50 jngs boiled Oil,
Qinine,20 ox. French Quinine,
< rla-mel, 15 lbs English calomel,
Candles, 15 boxes New Bediord candles
Soap, 20 boxes Winchester No I Soap,
Sall, 150 and blown dalt,
Bagmng, 30 pieces Keniucky bagging,
Hojie, 50 rope, Kentucky and Gras*,
Tioine, JOO lb-, baleiog Twine,
INE.—300 galloos Madera Wine, just received bv
sep 24 dAvti 459 J. D. GROESBEECK.
NOTICE
e eby givca tston elecrion will be he'u at Hama's bar room,
By no means, however, would we have this Govern-
ment assume a domineering tone over Mexico, or resoit Steel, Brooms, 15 dozen straw brooms,
to arsber language or measures than were absolutely re- Pails, 80 paisied Pai’s,
qoired. On the contrary we would wish that as gr eat a Casiings, 1 cesings,oens,spiders,pots, Ac.,
" ' with many ariicles vneunweraiee,) . received per last several
paabi 16ndw.33? SHACKELFORD, SAMPSON A Co.
MANSION HOUSE; “
The intimate relations which have grown up since the
chargegsllegedsagaiost me.The only ffsecoagainstihe
idenhiccuionorLoesPnillipE, .............
in her Territory. And this is an act which my own con-
science does not condemn in met I feel that I acted as
any Texian should have done. But so far as this cap-
ture is a transgression of the law, I alone should be held
responsible, and not the men who acted under me. * Ca
14 a 15 p cl dis
pay* specie
16 • 18 dis
63 a 65 ctson dol
40 • 42 do do
72 a 74 do do
; 13 a 15 do do
52 a 54 du do
; 9 a 11 do do
38 a 40 ' do do
65 a 67 do do
par a 1 p cl dis
par <i 1 pct dis
par fi l p ct dis
64 a 7 ct dis
1 a 2 p ct dis
1 a 2 p ct dis
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par a i p ct dis
process of preparing the timber is simply this; ihe pieces, ,
after having been fitted, by the carpenter or joiner, for !
their p’aces ace introduced into an immense i-on cylinder,
winch is then exhosied by an air pomp. A solution ol '
sulphate of i>on is then injected, which immediately en-
ters into the exhausied pores of the wood. The wood is H
iben withdrawn, andaguin placed in a similar vacvem in
a solution of mo,iaie of lime, which, coming into contact
with the sulpbate of iron within the wood, decomposes it,
andfornsan insoluble sulphate of lime, or gypsum, with-
m ihe wood; and ihemuriaieof ion, the oilier new com-
- . pound, goes about its bsiness. So the wood becomes
lion that I am unfriendly to the protection of agriculture. । thorougoly impregnated wnh stone, as held as a vock,
I consider that intercBt m all us departments as the promi | 3od is yetsiough as it wasbefoie. The expense ofpn-'L
nent interest ofthe United States Couton, Hemp. Wool, j paring 2000 sleepers, enough for a mile of railway, .8
manufactures of tobacco, and other articles of agricultural h said not to exceed $400. Some of ibe greatest engineeis
product are now protected, and if ihe measure of protection | bave expressed their confidence in the invention, and the
be inadequate, no man in the United States would be wil- . process is employed on many of the gove-nment works,
ling to go farther than I would io extending sulficient | Whatan invention this for ovr Mississippi Valley! Rail-!
protection. I have never held or expressed any other j ways built of light, povous wood, ihe more porous the bet
sentiments. The substance of what I have said and which ter, proiably—may, for less than a thousand dollas per
is to be found in my published speeches is, that agriculture mile, be convevtd into loads, nearly, if not quite, as dura,
in the United Slates, owing to our distance from Europe- , ble as iron. Yankees, I think, will not be long in look,
an countries, needs but little direct protection. But the ing ioto this mauer."
principal aim in introducing and protecting manufactures
is to benefit agriculture by opening a new and home mar-
ket for its surplus productions. Expressions disparaging
A ? nominal.
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"Farewell, world—I go, I hope, to a better"—and the next
day, the following communication from him was publish- i degree oftosbenrance as possible migbt still be exercised
I 1 5 UIS atette: by this country, and ihe people of Mexico made to feel
IothiWorld—I am, to-morrow, to die’-—To be , •- - ’ 1
The scatfold was erected on a very conspicious site.
Thu, doubtless, was to give the spectators an opportunity I
of geting a “good look" at the strangling, dying victims
of the law.
Arkansas, ;
Illinois, ;
TExas--
Bonus,
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iK, recommends irself, therefore, to all the American
Staten, whether strong or weak ; and the prevent moment,
when be gvent powers of Europe arethrusting themselves
bold’yinio Awericon afeirs, would seem to present a:
proper occasion for the Unid Suites to pul themselves
forward on the principles laid down by Monroe in his
manileao oi American international doctsinesin 1823.—
Nen Orleans Dull,in.
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Anecdote of Lteulenaal Hunter—Lieut. Hunter, the
talented inventor of the submerged propeller, was fie- .
; quently and honorably alluded to at dinner on Thursday
—(n dinner given at Richmond, to the othcevs oi ihe cut-
ter Lzpre ) An anecdote in his history too good to be
losi, and worthy of a place in our national annals, was r - K
laud by Lieut. Portei. Lieutenant Hunter had been sent
to ihe West Indies lo capture a notorious piraie in those
waters, known as the "Liule Devil;” and who was final- i
I ly killed by an American officer in singlecombat. That _______._________________________________________________
Amecican force was on the lookout, in ambuscade, we be- rpURPSNTiNE.—4 bbL. Hpirbs Turpentine, just received
lished that the General Assembly of Kentucky, gave me lieve, but it so chanced that Humer was captured by the ! L to sep *24 dAwf-469____J. D. GROESBEECK.
no instructions to vote for the repeal of the Bankrupt Law. ; pisates, while sr perated from his pa. ly. The commander i’
instructions were pending before the Legislatuce but they of ibe cut-throsts, “Liule Devil,” was a man of furious V‘
fell by a disagreement between the two Houses. temper, and never falsified any promise of vengeance
( consider that the American people have expressed a which he made. Hunier was taken to a secret place, and
there informed that unless he betrayed his party, be should
be hung on she spot His answer was sailor-like, ‘Hang
and bed----d." No sooner said than done; he was i-
to see her own true interesis and policy, for the establish- ___
mmof. better uaderstending between ourGovernment
and Mexico, the vestoration toils proper influence and ers ’D9 "" " 5P.. 11 ---1 _______• a •a- fn- hm
weight of the Republic in theafaivsof neighboring States,
and the formaion of a community of sentiment, purpose
and feel’ing among the naiions of ibe American continents.
Aichafalaya, ;
E:cbange, 5
Imorovement
Orleans,
Cidzns’,
Commercial,
Coasolidated,
Grand Gulf, {
. Union, ; ;
Lake Washington,
Rodney, I ;
northern.
Pennsylvanio, ;
New York - ;
New England, ;
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; 56 a 58 ceuis
; 63 a 65 cents
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Gen. R. L Caruthers.
McDaniel and brown.
These men, charged with the murder of Joseph Antoine 1
Chavis, were hung at St. Louis on the 16th.
An immense muhitnde of men, women and children,
were present to see the sight!
Messrs Editors:—With a view to auraci autention to and property
what appears to be a recent and perhaps a great improve-
ment in the costruction of Railroads, I send you so ex.
- 1 a 2 p ct dis
par
• 72 a 74 coat*
SOTU. . , N
38 a 40 cu. on dol
ACI GINGER —500 lbs. Raci Ginger, for sale by
. sep 12 dAwit.458____J. D. GROESBEECK.
UI NINE.—150 oz., just received, aid for sale by
sep24d&wi/-139__ J. D. GROESBEECK-
ALOMEL.—400 los. Calomel, just received by
sep 24 d&wj.^58 J. D. GROESBEECK. (
SOUTHERN.
A’phama Sate Bank,
Soah Carolina,
North Caro’ina,-
Georzin ;
Virgnia. 1 ;
extinct, at some distant day, in my opinion, by the opera-
. lion of the inevitable lawsol population. It would beun-
• wise to refuse a permanent acquisition, which will exist
as long as the globe remains, on account of a temporary
instiiution.
In the contingency of my election, to which you have
adverted, if the affair of acquiring Texas should become
a subject of consideration, I would be governed by the
state of facts, and the Mate of public opinion existing at the
time I might be called upon to act Above all, I should
be governed by the paramount duty of preserving this
Union entire, and in harmony, regading ilia I doss the
great guarautv of every public and political blessing, un-
der Providence, which, as a free people, wear® permitted
to enjoy.
I am, gentlemen, repectfully.
Your obedieni servant,
. HENRY CLAY
Messrs. Thos Peters and John M Jackson.
Ashland, August 20th, 1844.
My Dear Sir—
I received your letter of the 12th inst. .You surprise
me by the statement of some opinions which areauributed
to me. Nothing can be more unfounded than the asser-
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