The Colorado Citizen (Columbus, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 6, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 6, 1859 Page: 1 of 4
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NUMBER 6.
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,.,-8ft8 the story, there-
Lotooio a family by the
ting to Texas from
nous to the revo*
her
gone through all the
rtcr that'stofmy period^ and
imation, conceded to be the
tlld Wftfj
.arose,
fear and hatred at West, rushed
tatelv from the room. ,
« What do yqu intend to do with him ?"
askeda pompous, portly individua!, com-
ing tip an<L laying his hand familiarly on
the shoulder of West.
" S«nd him to h—-11!" was the-instant
reply, and the large man shrunk back into
the crowd, for-Ull knew the character of
West, and none cared to arouse him.
Without a word to any one he left the
room, and in a moment the furious beat, of
his horse's hoofs told that the avenger was
on the track of his victim. For miles and
miles the prairies stretched out like an un-
dulating sea, terminating its waves of ver-
dure in an immense cypress sWamp; and
toward this swamp the wretch who was
¿y offered a chance for his life
was now hastening with frantic speed. It
was a strange race. The moon, full orbed,
rode high in the heavens, shedding a sil-
very radiance on all objects; making it
almost as bright as day. A stillness pro-
found as the grave reigued around, broken
BY
harry hatwabd,
m
i ón
tien
had
iom frOmMex-
reveled in
crimes of all -kinds, unchecked either, by
law or anything stronger than law—public
wgM KÉ B Í^NiS£ÍÍLt Í
besmgtm
piase, levying
suer. Nearer; and nearer does he draw to
the doomed wretch, and with a shriek of
despair does the hopeless man see that it is
impossible for him to reach that* place of
e. Even now the breath of his
enemy's steed comes like fire into his face,
and with one more bound they were side
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at his door requesting
wife objected to his
the soul of West
ithput knowing the
roal visitors, he ad
tea or twelve ruffians
, stamp entered the
f cries demanded liquor
. ill not suspecting any-
r it-beforethem what the
Slid .while turning to go
' apartment, was felled sense-
a Wow from behind,
fy gagged and bound.
scene which followed we
attempt to depict. The
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ored to give y
inscribed-btgb in tnsr
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which had arisen but the morning before
on a scene of primeval happiness, now lit
¿p, With its,first rajrs, smouldering ruins,
Mackeoed walls, two charred and grinning
skeletons, tad memorials of yesterday's
happiness—two flowers breathed upon by
death ere they were faded or soiled by the
simoons of a hot and pestilent world.
Ten years have flown by since that
night of horrors. Ten years of sorrow,
Man and joy; ten years of stupendous
$hange. In that time have been en&cted
Some ofthe most sublime dramas of time;
- íhe lone star of Texas still shines brightly
¡n the 'Armament; but ominous clouds
seem to threaten its brilliancy. Mexico
again asserts her right to that beautiful
rirince wrested from her grasp by the
oes of San Jacinto. The tocsin of war
cesounds over the rich prairies; and
tie everywhere aré eager td " whip
V Recruiting offices are every
by side. ■ ■^■1
Spare me! O, for God's sake,
yelled the terror stricken fugitive.
-he Oniy fnswer ,was a shaq .
; a stunning report, and the murderer
before that God whom he had out-
by bis crimes on earth. Gone! no
w'ítlB -jntcd# and .with his
upturned to the sky,
the sweet white
band
ss. 6f
is horse
is_ efface of the
Myt perhaps, ¿f the
ir inmates, lost to
tch—John
eman, one in-
life we have en-
ut his iiame is
Slionld f-r
this ever meet the eye'of a Texas Ranger,
he will, perhaps, remember the night be-
fore the wallsof Monterey, where he told
his story to his companions, and a strip
ling who formed one of the group of
listeners.
A Model Clerk.—When the town of
G-—- was considerably smaller than it
.now is, there was employed in one of the
dry goods stores a young clerk whom we
shall call W. He was fresh from the
country, and considered himself pretty
sharp. One day as be was attending to
his duties^ a lady stepped in and asked for
hose.
" Oh yes," said he, and out of the store
he went to an adjoining ware-room, from
which he soon returned, bearing aloft a
huge field hoeI "Here is the aiticle,
marm, that'll do you good service 1"
"Oh, I want hose—ladies' hose," said
she¿ perplexed. "
w Oh, yes," said he, and he immediately
disáppeared, but quickly returned with i
small garden hoe. " Here it is, marm !'
The lady, almost out of patienee, told
him she wanted stockings. Somewhat crest
fallen, he waB behind the counter in a jiffy
displaying the article. She picked out a
pair of good- quality, but thinking the
price rather dear, remarked that they came
"too^igh."
" Only about to the knee, I guess," was
the greeft 'un's response. Scene last: lady
exit in a huriy, and the cletk crawls into
Lis boots. —
O, tell me, false one, dost thou ever weep
For him whose fault was loving thee too true ?
And does thy lips their sorrows never speak ?
Nor fill with grief thy winsome eyes of blue ?
Dost ever watch the sun's declining rays,
As sinks it slowly in the golden west,
And think of that sweet, auspicious hour,
Wheg first thy presence his glad vision blest ?
O, tell me, false one, do9t thou ne'er regret
The few harsh words thy lips onca-lightly spoke
Which first roused him from thy trancing spelt.
And each fond tie that bound"! rudely broke f
Dost thiuk it kind, to lead somo servile stave,
For á short time, near to a dazzling throne,
And show him there the grandeur and delight
Whieh he, on earth, can never call his-own ?
Yet s4 lhou onfiS didst lead—ay, e'en entice
My joyous footsiéps 'long thro' groves of bliss,
And bade mo Wieldlove's sceplrc therewith pride,
Upon the throne of human happiness!
When lo ! thou—like eouie scojfing fiend—quick
turned
Love's all-resplendent diadem to lead ;
And-its bright throne into a shapeless rock, -
On which, in grief, I bowed my weary head!
O! why didst thou not choose some other heart,
On which to wreak thy withering hate and acorn
Than this, whose fate thro' life has been to find
'Neath every bad of bliss ú hidden thorn!
Canst ne'er relent ? Will not thy maiden heait,
Some future day, ope wide thy mystio gate
Of human bliss to him, who wonld return
A deathless love for thy undying hate ?
—GleñíorCs Pictorial Battle Ship.
and into one of those let
tfc look for a moment, reader, and study
the rich Variety of originals which we
JdktlU fed
.. As wdjBBter^a fine,' manly voice is troll-
iog «orne good old ballad, commemorative
^ of the American prowess by sea and laud.
He*, sitting.on the barn floor, is a party
of hunters, looking at the strange doing*,
|o them, of there more civilized compan-
ions. Suddenly all are hushed and still
ás death, for they instinctively know that
some deed of blood and vioWnce is about
to beperpetrated.
u liar l'n shouts a tall, commanding
a cowering ahd frightened man at
{ "you are one of Uie villains who
my house, murdered my wife and
and wonld have servéd me the same
Ir I had ¿otgot out of your clutches;
are the last of them, but it shall never
-
ñd that Jack West ever took the life
of his bitterest foe without giving him a
Ybur mustang is a good one—
ioOunMM i and if you can get away you
may hate youf life, but if I catch you', no
mercy; for you and your infernal gsng
slewed me and mine none. Go, five min-
utos start, and the Lord have mercy on
vou if the mustang fails you in
aker turned snd commenced put-
cape on b revolver, and arran.
The man to whom he had
Explosion on Board the Great
srk.t—The Cincinnati Commercial has
the news brought
by ¿be steamship North American, from
which we extract the following fuller ac-
* of the explosion on board the steam-
ship Great Eastern than we had by tele-
The explosion on board the Great East-
efatócurred on the 9th instant, when off
Ha^ug^-The funnel was blown into the
to'pioces the great saloon, and
dQia¿%r,éat damage to the internal fittings
of ti)' vessel. The guests on board had
ju#fQuitted the saloon,'and all fortunately
escaped injury. The explosion was ter-
rific, but'the ship resisted the shock, the
frame sustaining no injury. The accident
made so little difference in the movement
of tbe ship, that her engines were not
stopped till- she reached Portland, ber
place of destination. The Coroner's in-
quest on the firemen showed that the sup-
ply of wateT to the boilers through the
water- jacket was stopped, because of the
failure of the auxiliary pumping power.
Secohdly, that a top in the stand pipe,
which, acts as a safety valve, was turned,
apparently intentionally, so that the pipe
•~WS3 HISB16S8*
The injury to the^fittings will be repaired
at as expense of about £5,000. During
the trip tbe Great Eastern was almost
without motion, when other vessels met
with were tossing on a heavy sea.
Women often lose the men they love,
and who love them, by mere wantonness
or coquetry. They should be careful not
to take this step hastily; for a proud, high-;
minded, gifted man will seldom ask a wo-
man twice.
Mrs. Partington is said to have anxiously
asked if Uncle Tom is a better man than
Enoch,of Biblical memory. Shegrounds
her reasons for making this inquiry upon
thcafact that she has heard that Uncle
Tom had been translated .seven times,
while Enoch was translated but once.
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Wishing.
by joh* g. 8AXE.
Of ¿11 JtriiUeementa for the mind, .
From logic down to fishing,
There isn't one that you can find
So very cheap as " wishing !"
A very choice diversion, too,
If we.but rightly use it,
And not, as we are apt to do,
Pervert it and abuse it, '
I wSR-a common w'shj iudccih-*
f J pnrse was something fatter,
That I might cheer the child of need,
And not my pride to ilaltcr
That I might make oppression reel,
As any gold can make it,
And break tbe tyrant's rod of- steel,
As only gold can break it.
I wish that sympathy and love,'.
And every human passion
That has its origin above
Would come, and keep in fashion;
■ That Scorn, and Jealousy, and Hate,
And every base emotion,
Were buried fifty fathomB deep
Beneath the waves of Occan i
I wish that friends were always, true,
And motives always pore;
I wish tbe good were not so few,
I wish the bad were fewer;
1 wish that pef8oAs ne'er forgot
To heed their pious teaching;
I wish that practicing was not
So different from preaching!
I, wish that modest wcrth might bo
Appraised with truth and candor;
I wish that innocence were free
From treachery and slander;
I wi*h that men their vows would mind,
That women ne'er were rover ;
I wish that wives were always kind,
And husbands always lovers!
I wish—in fine—that joy and mirth,
And every good ideal,
May come, erewhile, throughout tWearth,
To be the glorious Real;
Till God shall every creature bless
With his Bupremest blessing,
And hope be lost in happiness,
And wishing in possession !
Pake's Peak.—The following dispatch,
dated Leavenworth, September 28, to the
St. Louis Evening BullMin, gives a more
complete statement of the latest news from
Pike's Peak than was received by the tel
We have received Denver City dates to
the 28th. The aggregate value of the
dust brought is $23,500.
The returns of the voters on the adop-
tion or rejection of the Constitution con-
tiuue to come in but slowly. The returns
or eleven mining districts, together with
the vote of Denver City and Auraria, foot
up 2,1 <9 against the Constitution, and
565- foí íMe same.
The influence of heavy rains and snows
thai ft*!! in the mountains for the last two
weeks, have caused considerable rise in
the^'iatte and its tributaries. In conse-
quence of this rise quite a number of gold
hunters are again returning in boats.
Indignation meetings wer held in Au-
raria on the evenings of the 9tb and 10th
inst., by the friends of Vanover, in which
it was resolved to take the necessary steps
for securing a judicial Investigation of the
affair. Warrants were issued for the' ar
rest of the leading lynchers, but bad not
been served at the time of the departure of
tbe express.
A Vigilanfcf Committee had been organ
ized, in consequence of the frequency of
depredations upon the property. Three
thieves had already been tried and punished
by banishment.
A Sailor's SurprisiS-TIio Milwaukie
Our Country.
The editor of the Wedowee (Alabama)
Mercury lets himself off in the following
sparkling style:
There's not tbe least shadow of a doubt
about the matter—ours is, emphatically,
undeniably, positively, comparatively and
superlatively, a great and gracious country.
The annals of time furnish nothing to
compare with it: Greece wasn't a circum-
stance; Home was " no wbar ;" Venice
oouldn't hold us a candle, while all modern
nations sink into insignificance before our
country. It has longer rivers, and mud-
dier and deeper, and more of them, and
they run faster and go further, and make
more noise and rise higher, fajl lower, do
more damage than anybody else's rivers.
It has more lakes, and they are bigger and
deeper and clearer than those of any other
nation. It has more cataracts, and they
fall further, and faster, and harder, .and
roar louder, and look grander than all
other cataracts. It has moré mountains,
and higher ones, and more snow on'em,
and they are harder to get up and easier
to fall down than all other mountains.
It has more gold, and it is heavier and
brighter, and worth more than the gold
of other countries. Our rail-cars are big-
ger, and run faster, and pitch off the track
oft6ner, and kill more people than all other
rail-care. Our steamboats are longer, and
carry bigger loads, and " bile their buster"
of tener, and the captains swear harder
than in any other country. Our men are
bigger, and longer, and higher and thicker
and can fight harder and faster, and drink
more whiskey, chew more tobacco, spit
more and further, stick up their heels
higher, and do anything else more and
better, and oflener than men in ail other
countries. Pur ladies are prettier, dress
finer, spend more money, break more
hearts, wear bigger hoops and shorter
dresses, and kick up the devil generally to*
a greater extent than all other ladies. Our
politicians can spout louder, lie harder,
make gas faster, dodge quicker, turn of-
tener, make more noise and do less work
than anybody else's politicians. Our nig-
gers are blacker, work harder, have thicker
skulls, smell louder, and need thrashing
oftener than any other niggers; Our
children squall louder, grow faster, get too.
big for their ^jgwsers quicker than all
other children.
It is a great country! It is the corner-
stone of nations; it is the top of the pile,
the head man of the heap^the last button
of the coat, the crowning jewel ifetfre dia-
dem, the capital cf the column, the las!
link in the chain, the observed of all ol>-
servers. It will eat up all other nations
faster than Pharaoh's lean kine eat up the.
fat one. When all other nations are num
bered among the things that were, it will
be just rejoicing in its strength. It will
kick all other nations out of existence—it
will lick them up as the cow licketh salt
It has now thirty-three States and " more
a comin'." It covers more territory than
all other nations. And finally, it has
louder thunder, faster lightning, bigger
than can be found in any
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"•What church do you attend, Mrs.
Partington?" "O, any paradox church
where the gospel is dispensed with 1"
Shrewd inquiries are making hereabouts
whether the enp of sorrow has a saucer ?
can any one tell us ?
A surly bachelor remarks that tbe ladies
fashions, for the ensuing season, show a
persistent determination in the dear crea-
tures to crawl out of their dresies through
tbe upper part.
«Husband, iíust have some change to-
day.' 4 Well, stay at home and take care
of the children—that will be change
enough anyhow.'
There are fourteen revolutionary sol-
diers now living in Massachusetts, whose
united ages amount to thirteen hundred
and forty-nine years 1
Tbe Washington Monument contribu-
tion box, put lip in the New York Post
Office, yields only about half a dollar á
day, which is decidedly slow.
One of the railroads in New York is
said to be tbe safest in the world, as the
Superintendent keeps a boy running ahead
of the trains to drive off the calves asd
sheep!
■ .i m ■ ■ m
The whole number of Indians at present
in the country, is estimated at 350,000,
Rents in Mattoon, Illinois, are " dreid-
fu!." Houses worth about 1500, reut for
$000 per annum.
In cne hour and five minutes, 1,600
hogsheads of tobacco were sold in NeW
York on Monday week—aggregating tbe
enormous sum of $400,000. .
after a five years' cruise, returned to that
city. The News shall tell the rest of the
tale:
He left a wife and two children when he
went away, and the first thing on his return
was to seek out his family. He found
them in the third ward, and after kissing
bis wife,, saw with astonishment that his
children, like sheep in the the East, bad
doubled in'tbe five years, as in tbe place
of two there were now four, and one quite
small. He looked at his wife—he then
looked at bis babies—then at. his wife, who
stood silently by. Back and ' forth from
one to the other, full five minutes he gazed,
then broke out with : " Well, Mary, for a
nmflll woman, without help, you've raised
children amazingly ! "
Many a true heart that would have come
back like a dove to the ark, after the first
transgression, has been frightened beyond
reach by the angry look and menace, the
taunt, the savage charity of an unforgiv-
ing soul.
^ -—
A beautiful thought i& suggested in the
Koran : 41 Angels, in the grave, will not
question thee as to the amount of wealth
thou hast left behind thee, but what good
deeds thou didst white in the world, to en-
title tbee to a seat among tbe blest!"
A Niagara correspondent of the New
York Times insists that Blondin is a myth,
and that he never crossed the Niagara on
a rope.
New York city is about nine miles long
and not more than a mile wide. Present
population not far from 800,000, including
suburbs.
Fifty guests once ate everything a cer-
tain man bad in his house. The next
guest, he turned out by simply pointing to
bis date box. What was tbe date? Ans.:
March -ith, '58 (march forth, fifty ate.)
bail, colder ice,
part of the habitable globe. Hurrah for
News contains an account of a sailor, whop prodidgious constellation of free
A., Slates! Hang# man that wont j
his own country!
praise
There are 81 lawyers, 36 doctors, 15
clergymen, and 20 land agents in Leaven-
worth, Kansas; besides 60 " saloons."
B. Ford, a prize fighter in Boston", has
been ordered to leave the State, or pay a
fine of $20, and be imprisoned for three
years.
The St. Augustine (Fla.) Examiner as-
serts positively that cargoes of African
negroes are constantly landed in the Uni-
ted States. é
An exchange says the best cure for pal-
pitation of the heart is to leave off bug-
ging and kissing the girls. If this is the
only remedy that can be produced, we for
one say, " Let *er palpitate."
A Frenchman, who promised to estab-
lish a school, bearing that a high school
would be more respectably patronized, took
a room in the garret of a four-story house.
A Yankee schoolmaster, named Corn-
stock, turned a drove of cattle into the
cornfield 6f a farmer in Dubuque, Iowa,
and during the confusion which this act
created, in the family, ran away with the
farmer's daughter and married her
Bassommerre, the French Ambassador
to Spain, *s relating to Henry IV tike
particulars of his entry into Madrid. " I
was mounted," he said, " upon the smallest
mule in the world." "Ah !" exclaimed
the King, " what an amusing sight—an
ass upon a mule I" "Very good, sire,*
retorted Bassompierre, '*1 was your Majes-
ty's representative I"
Never break your neck to bow at all to
a " sweet sixteen," with flounced dre&s, who
is .shamed of ber " old fashioned" mother.
Sandy
Our exchanges, not only in Texas, but
in all the principal receiving porta of the .
South, are filled with articles in regard to
the great amount of sandy cotton which
is finding its* way to market, and urging
upon planters the necessity of great caro
in its management. Thar this may be
strictly true,, we do not pretend to gainsay;
but that it will be made a pretext in many
cases to lower the price of the great staple,
and thereby secure the crops of our farm-
ers at rates far below thereal^ralueo? their
produce, we do not doubt. We bave
heard of the cottoñ of one of our neighbors
being objected to on this account, when it
was his first picking, upon which no run,
or but iittie, bad fallen, and in the gather-
ing of which be had exercised the usual
care of a discreet husbandman.
tion affects Che interest of ottr p:
community very seriously, or will .before
the cotton season is over, and rrequir^a at
their hands two things ; first, great care ¡á
gathering their crops, and then a.c
nation to see their staple properly chmijÉed/
The signs of the limes indicat? a little
"sharp dealing," we think, and it should
)e guarded against.
As oürs is one of the finest cotton grow-
ing counties in the State, the following
article from tbe Rural Gentleman, pub'
lished in Mississippi, may not prove alto-
*' t uninteresting to those ofour people
ed in its culture.—Central Texan
'oo much care cannot be taken
gathering the crop nice and clean
do not think, how much they lose by not
handling their cotton nicely. It is much
more easy to remove the leaf irf ,pk:kiug
than at any other time, and .great, care
should be taken to keep it as free from
dust and dirt as possible. The gm-and
too, is a matter of great import. ;
anee. A good ^ gin—one that does soft
nip, but gins nicely and evenly-r-lrvery
important;, but the gin caano^ do every
" If your gin has too muck or too
little speed, it will tell upon the ,cólton4int v
and affect its value. Irregular ¡ speed of
your team will also produce its éffect opea
the quality of the lint; the speed of your
gin should be as regular juid uniform as
possible. Oare should be taken
your pick-room,'
h^a uc
When you at
not be taken in t
press, and in keeping it
dust and. dirt. A close,
day is best for packing - but
avoid packing on a rainy d
lint room and premiare "'1
root There
packing, because many pack in
and the cottoa gets wet in carrying it fi
the lint room to the press. •
" Cotton packed in this way gives rise to
the charge of fraudulent packing, and i
not sent back, the sampfo of the cotton f
materially injuntd, w&en packed too damp.
Instead of a rich cream color, the sample
is blue, looking like poor skimmed milk,
and is classed , accordingly. Cotton of
different qualities should never be packed
together; they are unsaleable, and the
producer get the lowest price for mixed
cottons—they are deservedly classed very
low, and are liable to suspicion. Pack
every quality of cotton to itself, and make
your bales neat. Many bates are
and badly put up that they look as
a ragged street beggar; besides their bad" dBlli
unsaleable looks, they are exposed to the
depredations of numerous oottoa thieve* * *
that swarm about our cotton; markets, so
that when your cotton is sold it loses
greatly in weight, and you blame your
merchant. Cotton I>adly put up ~
more from weather and from t"
fingered tribes than any other, an
sell as readily as cotton well put up .of tbe i
same quality. It is folly to labor bard to
make cotton, and then lose from one-fourth, «
to one-half its vahie by careless handling,
as* is often done.*
Great Britain is putting the island of
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Jamaica in a state of defence.
The Jews in America nuaber 250,000,
wbostüfr adhere to the faith of Abraham.
In Bombay, India, the deaths by chol
amount to between three and ~
per week.
Iowa, which had but 100,000 population -
in 1846, now has 600,000—an unparal- .
leled increase. ...... 'i.
The General Grand Cha
Arch Masons of the TJcti
in Chicago-this month.
PiPSllRu.
At Ihe. State Fair of the Pennsylvam ;
Agricultural Society there is to be a
fire engine tournament.
The eyes of needles am
machine whieb, >*
can punch twenty thouban
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There are four hundred.)
of lailroaé fiukhed in Iowa.
line is the'
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