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VOLUME IV.
COLUMBUS, TEXAS, SEPTEMBER 21, 1861.
NUMBER 49.
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The Cat out of the Bag. — The" following
resolution has been adepteb by the Black Rrpub-
lican Central Club of New York oity: Resolved
that the surest and quickest way of ending the
repellion and eftablishing permanent pcacc, is to
declare immediate and unconditional emanci-
pation," 0
DECIDEDLY RICH.
During the session of the Texas Legislature in
1851-'2, the Judiciary Committee was instructed
to investigate the expediency of a proposition to
repeal all laws for the sollection of debts. The
following'rspofo was made on the subject, and if
oar readers should, from its extravagance, be led
to doubt its. authenticity, we refer them to the
47th page of the Laws and Journal of the Leg-
islature of Texas^of that session. Mr. Merri-
maa made the following report:
To the President, of the Senate—
The Judiciary Committee, to whom was re-
ferred the resolution requiring said committee to
investigate the expediency of repealing all laws
for the collection of debts hereafter contracted
in this State, and to report the result of their in-
vestigation to the Senate, have had the Bame un-
der consideration, and find the subject matter
thereof very subtle, exceedingly metaphysical
and troublesome of solution, i he brief tim }
given your committee, at this late period of the
session, to investigate the question, amounts to a
prohibition of demonstrative conclusions, unless4
as oor Chairman beautifully expressed himself,
each member of the cjmmittee ceuld saye all
his thoughts at dinner, and dreams at night,
upon the subject, and string them upon a stick,
up a boy dpes catfish, and present them in a pile
to the Senate. 4 ^ r.
Dificultas the task has been, your Committee
have endeavored to dive beneath the submarine
depths, and soar above the heaven-kissing heights
r)f the vast problem contained in the resolution.
They have endeavored to extract the intumescent
efflorescence of the resolution, and by the Ar-
tesian thought, to strike the fountain of reju-
venescence embowelled in the primary strata on
Which the dubious eyllogysm is based. If the
"language of the revolution had be«n encumbered
"by the amendment, the good that would have
resulted to the State from a law comprehending
its provisions, would have been apparent to all.
A heavy and onerous debt which has attached
itself to individuals by divers ways and means,
connected with the fall of cotton and the rise of
putty, would have been wiped out by an artistic
act of a single section, and the elevated heads
of dspressed and down-tredden debtors would
have turned to the capítol and blessed the fram-
er of the resolution that called forth a law that
burst their shackles. Alas ! for human good,
the amendment cuts off this fruitful source of
inquiry, and sends your coiúmittee afloat on a
sea of incertitude, with untried perils looming
up in the distance; without a chart to distingnibh
1he channel from the rocks and quicksands.
The eárlier, and*perhaps the only law analogous
lo the one asked fui by the resolution, Was en-
acted by Capt. Moses, a sort of military justice
of the peace and law maker Tor a people called
Israelites, who had borrowed, and otherwise ob-
tained, from a people called Egyptians, a large
amount of jewelry on a credit ; and by virtue of
this law they nevar did pay for it, as will be seen
by several 'eases where this law was given in
evidence under the general issue, and sustained
by the coürt.* Your committee found this law
and the decisions under it, in the first volume of
Moses' Reports, printed a few years prior to the
revolution of Texas, and to which they refer the
Senate for further particulars.
In presenting the inquiry to ascertain the results
of such a law on the future destinies of Texas,
your committee have gone cronologically back
in the time when Adam and Eve formed a co-
partnership in the fruit trade, and Cain and Abln
wcte onlv shirt-tail boys running at large in the
garden of Eden. THe few remaining records
of the time show, conclusively, that no law tbeu
existed to enforce the collection or debts, and
the people were hugely happy. Before the bat-
tle of San Jacinto, there existed á Republic
called Sparta, where the collection of debt could
not be enforced by the fcourts, although tnoney
was plenty but difficult lo make small change,
cxcept at the blacksmith's; If, in the opinion of
the Senate, an eril exists in the frequent en-
forcement Of laws for the collection of debts,
t.ien, by adopting the Spartan coiu and staudard
ef value for the pigeou roost fcurrency now afloat,
and making it a legal tender, the 6ame result
will be obtained that would follow the repeal of
the laws named in the resolution. Such are the
investigations of your committee, which they
instructed me to report back to the Senate for
their consideration. F. H- MERRIMAN,
One of Committee.
INTERESTING CLIPPINGS.
in
Con-
Confederate flags have been hoisted
necticut by unknown persons.
It is reported in Paris that young Patterson
Boneoarte is about to marry a daughter of Priuce
Murat.
Prince Napoleon took off his hat at the birth
place of Rittenhouse, and planted a tree at
Girard college, Philadelphia.
There is a man in town so witty that his'wife
manufactures all the butter the family uses from
the cream of his jokss,
The Telledega Reporter says Mrs. Aveitt's ne
groes have taken up a collection of $53 20
amomg themselves to relieve the wants of the
soldiers.
A strong party in the New York Stock Ex-
change are operating on the basis that the reeog
nition abroad of the Southern Confederacy is a
fixed fact
The planters of Chicot county, one wealthiest
cotton counties in Arkansas, have unanimously
determined to keep their ootton at home unti
the blockade is raised.
The Boston Post says: u Welles/Secretary of
the Navy, is too old and imbecile to perform hi«
duties, and Cameren, Secretary of War, is too
slippery to inspire confidence." Quite compli-
mentary, that.
Capt. R. R. Garland, who resigned from the 7tfc
U. S. Infantry, has, we learn from the San
Antonio Ledger, been assigned to duty in the
Department of Texas, by General Van Dorn.
The prisoners taken at Springfield say they
were told that the Southerners hud no arms, but
if men could do such fighting without arms,
what would they do now that they had taken
enoguh to arm several regments!—Dallas Herald.
Capt Jordan, of the Green Lake Company, has
returned from Memoras, whither he had been
to "purchase arfas áud ammunition ¿having suc-
ceded in procuring thiee boxes of rifles and 1,100
pounds of powder.—Gulf Key
Capt- John H. King, 61 the 1st U. S. Infantry,
who passed through here in cominan d of a de-
tachment of the first Federal troops who left this
State last spring, was taken prisoner at the battle
of Manassas, and is now in Richmond.
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It stated in a letter written by the. Riehmopd
correpondent of the CharlestonjCouner, thai the
cotton subscribed in the States of Georgia, Ala-
bama and Mississippi, amounts to $50,000,000—
the sum asked for by Congress.
The pious New York World says the North
must meet the South in battle in the proportion of
the population of the two sections—the former
having 20.000.000 and the latter 8,000,000.
That is, they should send two and a half men
against each one 3f our's.
Since our last jfsue, we have had an abundance
ofrain, though perhaps too late to do cotton much
good, will be of grsat. pent lit to peas, potatoes,
&c. Health we believe is gradually im^rovin^
in the county. Every kind of business dull.
Nothing though: of but the war .—Tyler R .
porter, August 29.
The New York Herald warns Lincoln and his
Cabinet that unless the war is prosecuted vigor,
onsly and successfuly and brought to a speedy
close, tax payers will rebel against the enormous
burdens imposed upon them by Federal, State
and Municipal
contest.
Governments to carry on' the
POISONED BALLS.
A late telegram from Little Rock says that
there has been great mortality among our wound-
ed since the battle of Oak Hill, produced by the
Rpisoned hallpshot by the enemy. The malig-
g^rtgrfnous character of the wounds led to
an íñveeífga/ionand it was discovered that the
extracted balls were perforated and the cavity
filled with a poisonous substance. So barberous
a practice has been unheard of in all the late
wars of modern civilization, a practice that will
bring down the scorn and indignation of every
eulightened nation on oarth. The North Amer-
ican Indians have long since abandoned the use
of poisoned arrows, and the treacherous Malay
only poisons his Krease, when he runs a muck,
The use of chained shot was condemned during
the Thirty years War of Frederick, as inhuman,
barbarous and an unnessary waste ol life. The
whole of Europe discarded their use; but it re
mains for the enlightened N ineteenib century,
and for the infamous Hessians, the base hirelings
of the baser Yankees, to revive a custom and put
into effect a means of warfare, that is alike re.
volting to the feelings of men and repugnant to
the progressive and christian sentiments of the
age. What can be done? is asked. Retaliation
and revenge on enemies so dishonorable can only
lead to the bloodiest and most cruel results—and
to follow such examples and pay them back in
their own coin is abhorrent to the feelings of brave
men who would feel lowered in the seale of honor
and the pride of soldiers to resort to means so in-
human and savage. "To take no prisoners"
would perhaps be the only course; but when the
enemy adds to his cruelty, the cowardice of beg-
ging for quarter, it will not '->e Southern to slaugh-
ter them in that condition. We ara at a loss,
we confess, to devisj a fittting response to Buch
men arid such practices. Anything no matter
how bad, would 6e good enough for them.—Dal.
las Herald.
BEN M CULLOCH.
The following appointments have been made
by Brig. General Sibley of Field and Staff Uffi-
cers for'ii^brigade being organized for his com-
mand :> ^
brigade staff.
Alex. M.Jackson, Asst. Adjutant-General;
Henry Beaumont, Asst. Quart. General.
first regiment.
James Riely, .Colonel. .
Wm. R. Scurry, Lt. Colonel.
Henry W. Raguet, Major.
second regiment.
Thomas Green, Colonel.
Henry C. McNeill, Lt. Colonel.
Samuel A. Lockridge, Major. *
The citizens of Richmond feel very keenly the
burthen of the Federal prisoners, which have
become so numerous as to warrant the renoval
of a part, if not all of them, to some otherjjoint,
and- we hear various suggestion«Jooking to^ their
removal farther South. We hope the suggestion
will be duly considered,—Richmond Enquirer.
At Bradford's foundry in Tennessee, they are
are now engaged in the manufacture of sundry
articles heretolore obtained at the north. Among
these are house fronts of elegant design, railroad
chairs, for which they have an order for 20,000
from the Litle-Rock railroad, and a shot of twelve
-twenty-four and thirty-two^pouude.
Our town is full of soldiers. Military compa-
nies from many counties are encamped in this
vicinity; waiting to be mustered into service—or
awaiting orders to march. We have never seen
a more orderly and well-behaved set of volunteers
than they appear lu be, and then we have no
hesitation in saying they will fight. The reputa-
tiou of Texas, high as it is, will not suffer in their
bands, if they shall he called upon to meet in
battle the enemies of their country.-— San Antonio
Herald.
Arizona.—Speaking of Col, Bailor's com-
mand, the Mesilla Times says:
" We have never seen a body of men assem-
bled under any circumstance who were anything
like them in decorum. Their steadiness is ex-
traordinary. Not a single instance of drunken-
ness, disorderliness—no wild follies have met our
eyes. Though they are mostly young, they act
with the gravity of age, and in every respect
like gentlemen. We are proud of theffi, one and
all. Such officers never can be conquered.
Every battlefield must be á victory, every cam-
paign a success. Arizona is cleaned out. Not
& Federal soldier is on her soil. Fort Staanton
has been abandoned. It was fired in several
places. Forty Arizonians took possession of the
Fort in the name of the Confederacy, put out
the flames, and kept guard over the property,
estimated to be worth $300,000. A battery of
flying artillery, consisting of four six-pounders,
Were unharmed. A large am«unt of ammuni-
tion, and supplies for six months for a six eom-
pany post, were saved. Fort Staunton is in the
Sacramento Mountains, one hundred and forty
miles North-west from Mesilla."
Lincoln's congress, before adjournment, passed
a resolution for the appointment of a committee
to request the President to appoint a day for fast-
ing, humiliation and prayer. Since their Sunday
defeat at Manassas, the Yankees have grown
very raligious. We have a similar instance re-
corded. It is in these ivord3 :
The Devil got sick.
The Devil a saint Wbuld be,
But when tho Devil got well,
The Devil a saint was he.
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VallandighaM Sustained.—The Democracy
of the counties of Butler, Preble and Montgom-
ery in Ohio, which form the district that sent
VaTlandigham to the Federal congress, have, in
full convention, unanimously endorsed that pa-
triotic gentleman's recent course at Washington.
The South owes a testimonial to Mr, Vall^nijig-
ham, and will y«t pay it.
The following sketch of the life of Gen. Ben
McCulloch, who participated in the battle of
Davit Creek, Missouri, will be read wiih interest:
" Gen. Ben McCulloch was born in Ruthford
county, Tennessee, in 181.4. His father) Alex-
ander McCulloch, was aid-de-camp to General
Cofíee, and fought under Gen. Jackson at the
battles of Talladega and Horse-shoe, during the
Creek war. His father emigrated to Georgia
while Ben was very young, and Ben was kept
at school in Tennessee until he was fourteen
yeais old. After this, Ben was kept huntiog
until he was twenty-one. At that time the bears
were so bad in Tennessee that the settlers conld
not raise their, hogs. Hunting bears in the cane
required much caution, a&d if a man's gun snap-
ped he lost his breakfast. Young McCulloch
frequently killed as many as eight bears during
a season, and never less than twenty in the
course of a winter. ThiB life gave him a taste
for wild adventure, and when he become of age
he determined to go on an expedition to the
Rocky Mountains, and left his home for ^ Saint
Louis to join a company of, trappers. Hi arri-
ved too late, however, and likewise failed in
joining a company of Santa Fee traders. .
" He returned home, and soon called on Col.
David Crockett, who was making up an expe-
dition to go to Texas to take part in the revolu-
tion. The whole Soutfuwest, at that time, was
alive with feelings of sympathy for the Texan?,
and men were daily flocking to their standards.
Nacogdoches was appointed the place of rendez-
vous from which the expedition wás to start, ancl
Christmas of the year 1835 was named as the
day of meeting, when, as 'Old Davy' express-
ed it, « they were to make their Christmas din-
ner off the hump yf buSalo ' McCulloch again
arrived too late, and finding the party gone, he
proceeded on by himself lo the river Brazos,
where he was taken sick and did not recover
until after the fall of the Alamo. McCulloch's
disappointment was very great at not being able
join the gallant band of patriots; but it after-
wards proved very fortunate for him, for Colonel
Travis,' after having sustained a seige of thirteen
days, with only one hundred and eighty TexuftV
against Santa Anna's army, fell with his brave
little band, alter having killed uine hundred of
the enemy. (
" McCulloch, on joining the Texas army un.
der Gen. Sam Houston, was assigned to the
artillery, and made captain of a gun. He served
gallantly at the battle of San Jacinto,. where
Santa Anna was lakeu prisoner, and his army of
1,500 men killed or taken prisoners. McCulloch
afterward settled in Gonzales county, Texas,
and was employed on the frontier burveying and
locating lands. He frequently led the wild bor.
der scouts against the Indians and Mexicans,
which service he entered before the celebrated
Jack Hays. He also distinguished himself at
the battle of Plum Creek in a fight with the
Indians, who at the time burned and sacked the
town of Linnville. He joined the expedition
against Mier, but, not agreeing with the plans of
the leaders, he returned home before the fight,
and escaped the cruel hardships and imprison-
ment of that command, whicn had surrendered
to the perfidious Ampudia.
" When the war broke out - tvith Mexico, he
rallied a band of Texan warriors on the banks
of the Guadalupe, and set out for the seat of war
oil the Rio Grande. The company arrived four
days after the battles of Palo Alto and the Res-
aca. His company was accepted by Gen. Tay-
lor, and he «as afterward employed in the dar-
ing scouting expedition toward Monterey, in
which battle, as v eil as that of Buena Vista, he
won imperishable renown, He afterward joined
Scott's army, and continued with it to the con-
quest of the city of Mexico. For his gallant
services he was hono.ed with a national reputa-
tion, and the office of United States* Marshal of
Texas was given him by President Pierce.
" Gen. McCulloch was married three or four
years since; and a characteristic story Í3 told of
him when his list child, a bay, whs born, that he
insisted, to the great horror of hi3 youn? wife,
in having the youngstef christened ' Buffalo
Hump,' in honor of a particular friend—an old
Indian Chief—of that unique name.
" The General is a thin, spare man, of great
muscle and activity, and is now about forty-seven
years of age. He has a pleasant face, and is
mild and courteous iu his manners, with an air
of diffidence He is very cool, and of deter-
mined braveiy."
When George the Second got into a heat witH
his minister, and insisted on being shown the
documenta relating to a certain subject the next
roojrriin¿, the sinister obeyed. When the king rosd
he saw Uirce large wagons full of paper , neatly,
tied up with red tapes, packcd neatly beneath thd
windows.
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J.D. Baker & Bros. The Colorado Citizen (Columbus, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 49, Ed. 1 Saturday, September 21, 1861, newspaper, September 21, 1861; Columbus, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth177634/m1/1/?rotate=90: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History.