The San Antonio Ledger and Texan. (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 9, No. 47, Ed. 1 Saturday, May 26, 1860 Page: 2 of 4
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FOR ELECTORS
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A. WHARTON-
■TA^IJ gtjgCTicy, AvevsrTi eoo.
•Pptl A**OR EV CENERAT
EDITORIAL COBIVkNTION.
The Brenham Ranger quotes with up
probation an article of oursgjilibllshod two
«* mmtiij,iloce, in whíoh we urged
the (Milling of a convention of;.Texas edi-
tora. ThJ) editor blow* his bugle and re.
hows the ««11. He lmd an w«4l not doll:
'twere at sensible to attempt to call
"spirit* from- tba vasty deep." Moat of
tbe country editora, nud some of those of
the cities, arc doad act against the cash
plan. Tbey are afraid of having to cur-
tail their little subscription list*, and are
filled with the belief that if most of the
editors fbould adopt the plan, by their
babit of crediting the circulation oftbeir
own sheets would shoot right up and mako
ikw rlifb... .Deluded So far##
the shoo ing up of tUir circulation is con-
aer«?(2, it might by possibility teto; but
if,tbey would uot want it «hot down again
iu Koujfthing leas than no time, vro are no
judge of Ujg thing*. They might, indeed!
cast their bread upog the water*, but wc'il
be banged if it wouldn't seo 'em "cussed"
befujfo it would ever como bock again.
LVI?.
I for Announcements. Job Work
and tonmrfewtadvorttaements, are iumiably
ced to A'lobt thissy^
that,.¿véntna1ly, it will
to ilT parties.
t
amaaaaa MR. A. MOVE
• offloe of Ajd«mw and Col-
•car, at tbe «n uiag
¿AMWt«* 4owt,mo«OT McíR. riWK
u a NaR'lxto ft tlw oRtw, of Aa«««or and Col-
Uotoi of Basar Oouoty, atttw tnaaing Anguit
•wfiéiTir it> T——t—~—
WfF^ralMMMrttad to «naminea' J OH ST M
•MHH.iaeta «wtMata tor tha «Re of Am-
■wM^n t CollMtar of«aiar.Coontj; atih auaulnf
AarSaJeoftii,, ,-. :. ;
TO!
tha
Aui
DMflctOM
aafhnHtait to «naonjiSaí ' W. O.
t—1 «MMata for'tha offlc. of Clark o.
rtOawtrof Baxir,Oounty, at tba anaulng
iflyauLaLa-i."
r,' MMWIM' «'• «nWHiíaa Ma, G H
NKMH t,"ia á añadldnta tor tha ! <>• of Clark
of tba Ooonty Conrt,of Baxar County,at tba etunlug
AupKMMí ? v. :—i_
Wérff* fe *** * to annamoa M . IjOUM
ZORJb'ai a oaadtdata for ra^lantlon to tbe ofllce
of Cogatp. Tfeororar, of Baxar County, attho an-
.atmprtytUq.
WaWáulSAttM t atanünaa Mr. HAMtrxn >.
SMITH, a* a a*ndtda a tor ra-ateotton to the offlee
af CI«A of tAa Oawty -Coart of Baxar County.
Wa ara authoriied to mraonnoa Mr.' SAMUKL
RITOHRT, 9 tf,:« a MSÍMate for tba «Roa of
County Treartrar of Basar County, at tboeniuing
y* ; ¡V
Wa ara aatboi
sisisva
Augait alaotton.
O. K. .IEFFER-
ir tba offloe of Olerk of the
r County, at the ensuing
Wa ara antboriaei ta aanounoa Mr. JOHN M.
CAROLATST iu a eandidnte for re-e!eotion to tho
•■ffiot of Clark of tba Diltrict Court uf Bexar
County. . ''
■■ ■
' Wa ara authoriied In announce Wr. FRAN
ba «'an<ti<ln(B tor raMlaetlon.to the
•dee of Oiitriot Purveyor of hoxar 'Land District
at tba ¿<>t Auguit election
nb Wa ara atttboriied to announce Mr JOHN
DOBBIN aa a oandidate for re-election to the office
of Sheriff of Besar oounty at tho next August oloo'
Hon.
J0
Wa ara aatharliad to announi
aa a candidate tor tha.offlca of
laetor of Basar County, at U
nounba B. MONDHAOON
if Auannr end Col-
tba ensuing August
abrftoSl
Wa ara authorlaed tó antiounae THOMAS f.
HARUSON, %)., aa a oandldata tor Dlstrtot At-
torney, tor tha fourth Judicial District, at tba an
suing Angnat elaatlon.
tornay
suing
(br tha'
iléottaa.
■lied to ánnounoe M. O.
Bdif. .
District, at tha an-
ANIÍBRSON Esq. as A eandidnte for DiitrlH At-
t8a.*Veuith-/aJlsial
We are under obligations to 8enator
WigWl ter^Congreisional do¿améüt«.
Wí *•(! fe call attention to tbe «nnounce
menf of Mr. A. Móye M1 candidate tor the
offica of Aaaeoaor and Collector for llexar
County at tbe ensuing election.
We BM* Indebted to tlie Committee for
an invitation to atteud the commencement
party to be given at the Texai Military In-
atitute, Riitérvllle, Fayatte oounty, on the
8tb<X«frit month. We should tike much
to attend, hut fear that ou. husinrss
i not ^enriit ifd todo so.
<i«11 noterget
into aastjicr etw't. TbatV ooregperiewe.
For moutlia we never Ixitbered our
head* to collect "a rod," but we've
quit thttt sort o' buiineng now, and ¡the
ooQseqaeneo i* that we «lip along moat
swimmingly, and the two old bachelors to
whous tbe Ledger pertains cau do about
as good living as the next one. Yes—when
you como to San Antonio, Mr. Ranger,
épJI i>n aa, .he enre, and we'll show you how
damooraHO'.anti-fire.eating.bacbelor-eaab
plan-editors ean live. Forgot us not, by
any meana.
Unless you adopt the oash plan, you'll
grow as thin as a shadow, Mr. Ranger;
you'll starve, olean dead. That's our ex-
perience. . -
ADDBBÍ8
To the Democratic Party of the State of
Texas.
FROM TIiniR DKLVOATKS TO THB
CR^KLBSTOX CONVENTION..
| Concluded.]
The foregoing comprehensive analysis of
the facts and distinctive issues whi'-ircon-
stitute the initial point of divergence between
the great wings of tho party may not be in-
appropriate.. The issues, with their remote
results, were sfvarent to our constituents
befóte the assembling of tbe Oalveston Con-
vention; and tlie interpretation given to the
Uiuciunati. platform by our opponents was
deemed by tho Demo.-racy of it-xas incon-
sistent with a just and logical construction f
that iii triiment. hostile to the vital ¡detests
of thoSouth.a denial of our > quality of rights
iu the common Territories, and grossly re,
pngnant to the plain letter ot the judicial da
cifion authoritivily pronounccd upon this
i'lm^ol quest Inn.
Heneo the D. tiioeraey of Texas,, through
their delegates iti Convention asjrfmbleaat
tne C'ty of Galveston, April 2r IrBOO, whilst
tiiey "naflBimed tho principles contained in
the Dumoc; i-í'c Jia^wnal Convention at Cío-
einnati"—in, ol sienilieatu empiiasis.
"denie i most uwijuiticO'il by the Sqnalnr So-
vereignty construction ?mn tothat plut
form." They resolví- that "'t is tlie i igiit of
every clti u to take Ins prope rty of every
Mtn * . . kind including slnves, into th romncm Ter.
«torhiMmd a have it protected thv'yjiM/^X
r yourself,; the FedriniT nstitution." In miikit.J this
de«kratii;:; of the right of protection,
Gen. Walker—The New Orleans True
Delta of last week contains a correspond-
ence explanatory of an uffulr of hon.ir
whioh nearly occurred between Gen. Walk-
er and Col. Lookridge, both of Nicaragua
celebrity. Lockridge mot Walker on the
street and denounced tho book of tho
latter aa false, so far as it related to him
Lockridge, and he at tbe same timo in-
formed Walker that he should hold him
responsihle'therefor at an early day. To
which Walker answered, "When you
please Sir." Col. Lnnkridge then sent a
note by bis friend, R. H. Purdom, which
note it appears, was withdrawn for expla
nation. In answer to another note, Gen
Walker replied that in his book ho "did
not intend to impugn the honor or cournge
of Col. Lockridge," and so the affair end-
ed without an appeal to pistols. Captain
Faysoux was Gen. Walker's friend.
adopted by
miuiint seci
einpbuticali
form it woii]
to tbe
placed upon
the Northern
tbe right of
the first sq
non-action.
ninority of States, but a do-
ul majority of votes, was
•■tqu Uter sovereignty" plat- loyaLnatioual men in all the States, by
only necessary to refer
ions already in the past
Cincinnati Plitform by
g of the party—denying
ction, and offering that
s in a Territory, might by.
iendly legislation, or di
rect prohibition, absolutely exclude South-
ern citizens with their property from tbe
oommon
constitueni
prehi
our 0]
ly to
in commit .
of the Convent
ment was pede
form, fee '
cognised
Terri torii
to prohibí
possessed
in his rigb
might be assailed.
But iu order that-our
ve a full and clear ap-
rpunds occupied liy
itimportant brief-
aintainedby them
lie upon the floor
bold announce-
Cincinnati Plat-
nterpretation, re-
lio people of the
nial condition,
that Congress
it the owner
those rights
and in the resolution adopted, we gave an
earnest that we sought the co-operation of
"inviting the Democratic party of ike
United States, who are in favor of the prin-
cipies recommended in the. majority re-
port to send delegates to that Convention.''
We have, as briefly as possible given
the faots. uud assigned the reasons that
induce our aotion. It remains with tbe
people of Texas, and tbe other Southern
States, to determine whether tbe saored
objects for which the Union itself was
formed shall be subverted'by a surrender
of our rights as ooequuls in the Republic.
Ouv M. Bryan, Chairman.
F. R. Lubbock,
F. S. Stockdale,
II. R. Runnels,
Wm- H. Paksonb,
E. Gkeer,
J. F. Crosby,
Wm. P. Ochiltree,
R. Ward,
Charleston, M%y 4, 1860.
The Santillan Cask.—Tho '-Phi'idel-
rt is due to tuuhy honest-minded Nor&t, phift r.iautrer gives the following account
ern delegates to suy, t m minorities of the r,\... r a . , , . .7
delegates from the middle Stuii s. who were ' very iinportant o:i,se, and the decision,
instructed fagote as a unit, and who, eon-e ol the gujjjenie court, upo'n it, as delivered
ipiently, weA borne down by the mujority
of their delegations, frankly mid ipenly
agreed with tho majority of States, iu th
¡Southern cpnstiuction of the Cinclnniti
Hlatforfbu ánd it is iquolly due to truth to
•Mtewhl^atfposihQfn delegates, who, refused
io Hustiiin,.the ex; '
Dev nocracy
* guage of oi
r his last nnt
Deuiocriioy of Texas eiunicilited in tho lau-
o|ir vi'i.eralilt) Chief EX'CUtive, in
in^unl nio-snge, what had been, ns
we have bc|Mre stated.expressly adjudicated
in the decioiin Af the Supre.. e Court; and in
order to show that, tins claim to Federal pro-
tection wos n<<t designed to contlii't with the
accepted doetiine of ntflt-interveiitioii by
Congress, it « ns expressly resolved Üiat the
afliruiation of this principle of the duty of
Congrcss.simp!y to protect tho rigiitsof prop-
erly is in no wise to conflict with the here-
tofore established and still recognized prin-
ciple, that Congress does not possess the
powor to legislate shivery into the Territo-
ries or exclude .t th< rt from."
Tho undersigned delegates, accredited as
your representatives, to reflect the above
olear and unmistakable expression of your
construction of the Cincinnnti platform—
c nvennd at Charleston in the Democratic
National Convention, on the 23d April, I860,
with tbe representation of the Democracy #f
all the sovereignties of this Union of States;
and we felt iustructed.in order that the Cil-
cinnati platform might hereafter be divested
of all ambiguity upo^j those great territorial
qu< stions.to insist upon tho adoption by the
National Convention ol'explanatory resolu-
tions, embO'lying your consiruction of Hint
platform. It is gratifying to stato that tfter
three days of earnest and laborious andeavor
in committee to reconcile the differences of
opinion upon tho vital issue of tho day—
the majority of States in Committee—con-
sisting of thu fllteeu Southern and the two
noble States upon the Western slope of the
continent—finally signed a majority report
fully embodying tho great principles which
our State Convention had so emphatieiilly
endorsed. After protracted debute, on mo
tion of Mr, B'irler, tho reports were aguin
recommitted fur tlie conshh ration of theCom-
mittoe, the whole Sonth voting lor th" Com-
mitment, still earnestly hoping fur nil adjust-
ment of the serums differences. Whereupon
seventeen States again reported this final
majority report
Rksoi.Vkd, That the platform adopted by
. ,,. , , , . the Democratic | arty at Cincinnnti, he aflinr.-
i it timetnncp, we published whntL,| vv¡t|, t|tu fullowiniiL uvulmiaLory rjuolu-
lprofb*8rd ft> Irtt iPtlatislWHin of the etiooriP Vioris: "
ii nica tion by Pope Pius IX, of Victor
Emautiel, King of Sardinia. It was in-
serted inndvertontly, nnd we regret much
that it appeared. Wo wore not however,
alone In the mistake committed, for sev-
eral of our New York and New Orleans
ootcmporaries published the saino spu-
rious urticlo, and have sinoe apologized for
doing so. We beg to do the same, nnd to
state that we would have tnado this ex
planatipn sooner, but were delayed by a
promise on (he part of a friend, who is
himself a'catholic, that ho would supply
us with the original. This he is unable (o
do, nnd we therefore repeat our regret thnt
tbe article was admitted to our columns.
;
plsnntorv resolutions of the
i;'° uisiority report, fieely admitted to Southern
members the justice and accuracy of the ma
eni
We think our neighbors aro mistaken in
attributing the "Opiate" paragraph, which
io fiercely stirred up their venom yesterday,
to the State Gazette. A certain witty co-
temporary out East, belonging to tho Her-
ald's own party is wo believe, responsible
for the paragraph. Tlioy should not so
terribly boil over thereat: some invidious
peoplo whom wo would help them in
abusing, might say that it got them where
the shoe pinches.
FtfirSJilMi;—Átténlion is requested to
the advertloepienj under this holding
Tho ptfiffitty referred to is a very fine
one, Mtdeffira an "excellent opportunity
to petara* wttVfng to find a profitable nnd
safe ipesiment. - Rea"3 t)10 ¡advertisement
and examine the, property.
THfjfiap LfrNP Express.—We i,uv,.
receiféd two numhors of a very neatly
printfed «bent 'bearing the foregoing
lining, and have pi asuré iu plac ing it
¿'"'I •• '« ■ • , ,, .
on as
independent in politics. ar< i its edilcr A
J. M^§lbh%'l^.V'írt,.cl{c!l? printer, and.
iudgingírñro (Ííí.;a¡wiiuieus we Lave seen
>ta i,r\s our bes'
- WW-
wishes fpr. ^ia sucosa.
Hotqp futiros. «>re snp^osed, by the
Couriar, to,beiiu and around tbe town ol
HempMtyad. The fdltdr has been inform-
ed th(¿tf Wprotty lat^e nest of horse thieves
was f%<}n^ At Nuvisota a few dnys sinoe.
aud though sume of tbe birds were cap
tared,^naiiy of.thym eeoaped.
THtJ.RiaaT StvP.—Tiie Hon. Alexander
H- St'^hens^ of Georgia, so long a h ndiag
luj.abé of-e«ngre*s from that Statu, hi
published a strongli'tter, In which be urg
en th : dwnooraoy uf Georgia not to rec.ig-
nize the BiohmondCouventlou, but to sen.'
delegate** ttáHim<>ro. We pre*une no
He is «Rtkled to at least as much consi
deration as Wm. L. Yancy. who has evoi
been *f Htm^ant diaunionUt. Nearly ul
the ledft¡g'm^t^ Georgia have taken th<
earn* j&Mffon with Steyhene. Senator
' Wlgfafc of 'thhf State, te said also to hi
opposed Of the seceders.
No man who does uot prefer disdflion to
oratio' pantf —rtth^r^rratio , > out be
. f«t •:«••• T.«' '
Tho Upshur Democrat" fears that the
withdrawal of tho southern delegates from
the Charleston Convention will prove disas-
trous; nnd thinks if all the southern Stales
had remained in tbe convention, and ad-
hered rigidly to tho two-thirds rule, which
had been adopted, Douglas, who had already
reached his highest possible vote, would
finally have been withdrawn, after which the
right kind of man could easily have been
nominated.
The " Dcinoor t" say :
■'•The southern 8lates ob|ected to Dong-
Ins. no douht. more than to the platform
«•Inch was likejy to bo adopted. Tlie Cin-
Jinmiti platform, and tile endorsement ol
ilie Dm! Scott decision, with tho right kind
if a rvomiiin'.ion, would have been sufficient,
this, we think, they Could have got. hu.!
i hey just stood tlnir ground. Wo hope, yet
'list things will vll work for tho best, am!
that the party will still harmonizo. W
have almost, unbounded confldeiice in the
Democracy of the nation."
Simon lldi, who was ono of the United
States marine corps at tho buttle of New Or-
I nns, dio I uenr Winch"ste", Vu., on the
IS'linl'. IIis a tin Was bally shuttered Hi
tlie n^ht, nn I be wax taken prisoin r.
1st, That the Ooveinmcnt of a Territory
organized by an ael of Congress is provisio-
nal and temporary; and i1u ing its existence
all citizens of the United ¿jutes have an
qiial light to settle iviili their property in
jority interpretation of tho Cincinnnti Plat-
form, but insisted on n siinplo reafflnuance
of that instrument unexplained, up'm tne
ground colily that ti;eu' parly siiccess in
those States depended uj on the rejection of
the'explana'ory resolutions, and ns a consi
qin-nee, the tacit admission vy the
tuli Convention of the Northern jponsti iiction
ofthe Cin innati Platform.
'Notwithstanding the siinp'e demand, that
t$e people of all the States be-permitted
I'teely "to settle the common Territories,
eitl out their rights ofpeison or propert)'
ieing impaired by Territorial L gislatiou"—
notwithstanding theearnest expostulations of
y out1 own representatives of Southern States
vho would rather accept defeat upon prin-
ciple than party success, by the concession
of a vital right, a sectional innj rity in the
Convention voted down the mujority report,
and passed the minority substitute, as the
declaration of principles of the democracy
of the nation.
Our duty to ourselves, and those whom
we represented was manifest. We had but
one of two alternatives—either th e surrender
of tho just claim of our people, to a simple
recognition of our co-equality of rights in
tho common domain, belonging equally 11
all the States—which surrender nt Charles
ion. would ever after be construed by the
Democracy of the North, as a voluntary re-
linquishment. and a finí I exposition of the
Democratic principles of tlie entire nation—
or to respectfully with Iraw from further
action with those who by the nv re numeri-
cal superiority, of a minority ofStates*. cast-
ing scarcely n single Democratic electoral
vote,sought to iui| ose upon onr acceptance
an iimbiguoiis platform, with, their interpre-
tation. which we deemed hostile to the ilear-
e t rights of our people, anil repugnant to
the solemnly declined convictions of the
Deinocruc) of our St .te m convention as-
seinhied. With us it ivas not a question i f
men, but of vitai fundamental principle No
man would have b en acceptable to your ri -
presautaiires. nominated upon that platfnrm;
for wo regard llm noiiunee of n p i ty not ns
nn exniisiior i,{ Iiih_owii record, Inn the re
ffgiiizi/J^jjiCBWiineTit of the principles of
the platform upon which lie is placed, us the
national representative and living head.
by Mr. Jn-tlou Catron, at Washington, on
tho fourth instant: ■
This case, properly^nown by the name of
(he United States vs. Bolton involved thu XI
title to the tract of llPon which the A,
groiier part «ri ihe city of'San Fi ancuco M
now stniids. The assessed value*of the
land iu dispute i over -fifteeu millions
of dollars. Tho p^this.' were, on the one
hand, the United States'. Government, repre-
senting thesquatter titles, and, on the other
hand, tlie San Francisco Luid Association.
Bolton was tho defendant on tlie
The San Francisco Land Association is a
company composed of many of the citizens
of Pennsylvania, and has its office located
in Philadelphia. The Association cluined
under a grant, alleged to have been made on
February 10, lS4ti, by tho government of
California, while still a Mexican province, to
ono J. P. Santillan. a curate of tin} mission
of San Francisco, in consideration of his
paying the mission debts. Tho United
States' iiifcisto'l that this deed was either a
lorgcry. or was fraudulently antedated; and
that the signature and seal of. the Mexican
Secretary uf State were nciuallv fabricited
in 1849, aftei the treaty of Guadalupe Hi-
dalgo, of May, 18-18. between Mexico and
the United States, by which treaty all tho
unoc. upied lauds in California was vested in
the United Stales.
The case ¿amo up by appeal from the Cal-
ifornia courts: u'.'P Board of Land Commis-
sioners of California having decided in favor
of the Santillan grant, *nd both tho circuit
au i distric: judges of ihe Onn*u States hav-
ing concurred in affirming the deci3. ?u ul' the
boa rd.
Tho supreme court lias reversed all th*
decisions of the inferior courtB. anil held:
First—That there ivas no h gal title, for
want of record evidence. Second—'1 hut
there was no equity, fur want of considera-
tion. 'ihn'il—that tin, title appeared to
have been made in eighteen huudred anil
fifty. The claim w as rejected.
t;
A correspondent ol the Galvrslon News,
writing from Guijalc-i. on the 3rd iust..
says:
1 hear much talk of a daily .mail from San
Antonio ria Columbus to Galveston. If a
certain pHi ty succeo Is iu putling u contract
I understand the cinches between San An
THURSDAY,
MAY 24.
We beg to direct attention to the card
of Messrs. Sohleioher tc Abat Land and
General Agents, published in ou issue of
to-day. Both member* of tha firm have
been known to us for years, and; !lre have
very great pleasure in recommending them
as exoellent and reliable business men;
Persons entrusting their affairs to tbe
management of these geutlemen may rely,
with the utmost certainty, upon their be-
ing properly attended to. Each of them
has had long and varied experience in land
business. Mr. Schleicher, in partioular,
having been District Surveyor of Bexar
district, and long ongaged in land business,
both as Surveyor and Agent, has acquir-
ed a know ledge of Texas lands, equal, if
uot superior to that of auy other man in
the State. We need say no more, for it is
manifestly the Interest of parties having
land or general business to transact, to
entrust it to the best qualified persons.
ceive that no Southern man could, without
lultih ing'liimself, and being recreant to the
tlie Territory, without their rights.eitl or ol j interests ol nil ilie States', stand as tfie
person or property, being destroyed or im
paired by Congressional or Territorial legis-
lation.
2d. That it is the duty of the Federal Gov-
ernment in all its departments lo protect
when necessary, the rights of persons ami
property in the Territories', nnd wherever else
its constitutional auihonty extends.
3. That wheu tlie settlers in a Territory,
in pursuance of proper legal authority, liav
ing an adequate population, form a Stale Con-
stitution. the right of sovereignty coinloenc
es;and being consummated by udniission'lnto
the Union, tlicy stand on nil equ d footing
with the people of other States, and tlie
Slate thus organized ought to lie admitted
into the Federal Union, whether its Consti-
tution prohibits or ncogmzes the institution
of slavery.
Tho majority nnd minority report were
identienll. the same in reference to the ac.-
quisition of Ctibit, the fiithful execution of
the Fugitive Slave law, the pro ection of
naturalized citizens, snd llie construction of
'.he P.-icilic railroad, lint the minority re-
port absolutely pretermitted any expression
elalive to the rights of thu South to co
quality in the terrl ories; simply asserting
n° affirmance of tlie resolutions, unanimous-
ly ad'pled and declared us h pln foiin of
principles by the Deniocraiic Convention at
Cincinnati. 1S56."
Th- only resolution reported In the minori-
ty report, in reference to the rights of prop-
erty iu the States or Territories, was one de-
claring, that nil such <|iit-siioiia "urp judicial
in their chnrnoter," nnd pledging the De
nuicrutic party "to abide by, and faithfully
carry «Tilt such determination of these qties-
lions as has been, or may be made, by the
Supreme Court of the United States,"
It is a historial ¡act, of great significance
that the Northern wing of tho D< inocrattc
party had pledged itself in 1854 nnd 18">fi, to
nbldo by the decision of the Supiemc Court
upon these Ten!torinl questions: ninl thnt
after tbe decision bad been rtmlercd in the
Dred Scott cuse, in furor of the Southern
onstruction, thegieat living embodiment ol
the doctrine of SqmdtviSomeignty express-
ly repudiated thnt decision, violated his own
sr.ritii piedgts. and, in his celebrated Fr
ti.nio and Columbus will go through in
Iwenly-four hours; making about six miles
nn hour—a sp.-ed already attained and kepi
up by one of our Texas lines. This is much
, , . , ■ , needed. And when passengers lint! that
vour '''I"" ''esi'cctfully con-1 t|ley can po through from Galveston to Sun
Antonio in a lililí* less'ban thirty-six hours
— a matter perfectly possible—you may rest
assured they will not be slow in mailing
themselves of tlie opportunity. Ti e gen-
eral iiiipio«sioii is that both freights and
passengers lor liic west will go over this
route.
1 he merchants out here are in favor of
making ilieir imports and exports through
Galveston. The II irrisluirg itailrond will
soon he completed to Columbus, and fiom
there the roads are always guoil lo any part
of Western Texas. This route certain y f-
foriis I'acililieo which have long been much
wanied. luid when the enormous difference
of insurance is calculated, it presents ad-
vantages which are sure to decide in it-
favor. So say tho merchants themselves
nnd, after all, they are tho very ones to
decide.
The gas works of San Antonio will soon
I e completed, mid in a "short time the city
will be illuminated. Prosperity is written
on everything in San Antonio, and i cannot
help dunking ilia.t if matters wear such ii
cheerful ai peano ce nt present, af'er a total
lailure through the en ire country of all ami
every spet iin of crop for four successive
i ears, what will llie aspect, of nffiirs lie
sboti.' l f i "ps provi abundant for a few years
to conic ? San Anro|ooUinsi be a Inrge place,
aud air. ...!y the business is so large that it
cnniioi I,., loo" prt.perh with the ox-cart
and wagon syslem Tbe cilv i- only about
a hundred and twenty-live miles in a s'raight
I.lie from Columbus, and the trade demands
urid will have railroud .communication an l
facilities
Everything around looks chrcrfnl; nnd 1
am led to hope that we will this year lie ena
Ci-leurateu l-iec-
¡inrt speech, alfirinvd thai, ''nOjinatter what j tluit our purpose was not the constructio;
m ay lie the decision rf the SupremeCoui t on of nil independent organization, beyond «1
hat abstract question, still the right of the
pres.illative or living enuioihiiieiit of a pl.il-
lonn, which, accoi-tling to the interpretation
of the Kfcthmal inajoriiy, who adopted it.
denied to the Sou<h n full nnd perfect cqiia
hty of rights in the Terrnories. The isMie,
as wo regard it, and us regarded by the
Slates who withdrew, was not, as to what
alone might be the individual opinions of tho
nominee,'who, if sound nnd elected, would
as an executive oflieer beoffi ially powerless
to enforce Ins individual opinion ; lilit we
sought earnestly to obtain nn e.\p icit anil
solemn declar.lion of principle from the en-
tire Democracy, North and South, that the
time when the people of a Territory could
alone exercise the attributes óf sovereignty
ivus in forming "n State Constitution;" ami
that when llie rights of property were des-
troved or impaired in llio Teiritories, the
law-making power ofthe Federal Govern-
ment should be interposed—not to t■stab ish
or exclude slavery—hot to protect wBen ne-
e.-sury the citizen in his constitutional lights
of property.
This was refused us.
Your representatives, recognizing— ns de
clured ill their solemn priile-t of tec ir I —
the p'inciples enunciateil in the Texas De
inocratic Platform us instriiclions f r out
goverii'Melit in ihe Nutiirtiol Convention." ami
under all the vravu and weigh'y responsibdii v
involved Hi the severance of the Ins which
had hitherto bound us us one party.with one
pin pose and common principles, formally
filed otir protest.and withdrew Jrom the de-
liberation ofthe Democratic National Con-
vention. •
AVo «ithdrcw with eight Southern Stated 'hied to give tangible proof that our Stole is
nnd tho partial delegation of two others, [assuming that importance in the eyes of the
California nnd Oregon stood lendv to move world, which her size and vast internal re
with tne balance of the Southern Slates left | sources entitle her to.
who introduced a resolution laying down) ,
u\limn\nn\,repudiating s/iiatter sm\r-': ashinglon, "States and Union" of
eignhj ami which is yet lo he'acted upon hi ' the 10th instant has tho foliowi.'ig items of
ilie iitijournc,I Conveutioii that asseinules lit! Army int.Iliuence : ~ ■
Ualliniorc. I r Z '
. Major Leslie, p.iv muster, .will proceed to
In the temporary orgaiiiziitkui of the Fr ink fort Arsenal. Foitlndepcndenc", Water-
retiring Slates the innjorlty report, origi j town Arsenal and Fort Ilnmilton to pay the
linlly signed bv scventeenStntcs was ndopt- troops at those slations. Major McClnre
ed as n platform; nnd ns nn evidence that, will return to Texas in sixty days. Leave
the disruption wns induced by no factious of absence for fiftv days has been'granted fo
spirit, or for slight causes—ns an ei ulence^Lieut. Blunt of the Second Artillery. Leave
Gen. Jo Lank.—The special Charleston
correspondent of the Ñéw York Herald
states his belief that if the Charleston Con-
vention had remainel in session another
y longer, this old hero would unques-
•naMy have received1 the nomination.
New Tork had already determined toaban-
don Donglas and give its vote to Lane',
which movement would have instantly been
followed by Pennsylvania, New Jersey,
Indiana and Minnesota. The Southern
States that remained in the Convention
would not, of course, have hesitated in
adopting him. When this state of matters
transpired, the Douglas men adroitly
staved off the result by passing a resolution
to udjourn to Baltimore.
Tho moie's the pity. Had old Jo been
nominated he would havo outstripped all
opposition, and been whirled into the
White House with a majority like that
Pierco received in '52. We consider his
chanoes now as deod. His imprudent des-
patch advising the Oregon delegates to
quit the Convention and join tho seceders,
has, we fear, snowed him under forever.
Wo still hope, however, that he may re-
ceive the nomiuation.
The Washington Star states that on
hearing of the secession of the cotton
States from tho Charleston Convention,
Senator Douglas telegraphed to his friends
to withdraw bis name as a candidate for
the nomination, nnd to use their influence
irt i'avor of Breckenrigc—stating that he
ivou.'d not nccept the nomination of any
Convent-Wi" which the whole country was
not represeu' 'd* On account of tho wires
getting "out of ii/mir," the telegram did
not reach its desu-'ation until tho ad-
journment to Baltimore .vad been ngrcert
on. The Washington Star . ft very bitter
opponent of Doiiirlii .
—
IsntAN Niws.-íIVü are permitted to u ike
the following cxtract from a letter receive '
from Fort Belknap yesterday by a iiv;rcluin<
in our city.
"We have plenty of Indians here yi t—
they killed, a lew days ago, Mr. Conrad
Newhouse, who lias been a resilient of ihi-
County for some seven years; and Mr. Mar
linez, a Mexican, from San Antoni >, who
lias been freighting heie for a couple ol
years. These gentlemen were.inurdcred on
Elm Fork, a few miles from Belknap.'-'
The following item was given to lis
by a gentleman in the employment of the S
A. & S. I>. mail company.
Oil the nirival of the stage at Fort Clark
the mail party learned tli.it a number ol
soldiers had been dispatched in pursuit
In-ians, w ho hail attacked a Mexican trim,
in tho vicinity of Johns, n's lUncho, on the
San Felipe, about 30 iniles from F«. Clark.
The soldiers reached Mr. Johnson's early
•on tho morning ufter the attack, took up
the trail and followed the* Indians to the
llio Grande, a distance of about 5 iniles. On
reaching this point it was found that the
Indians, (a large band) bad divided into
small parties,nnd crossed the river. Furth-
er pursuit was therefote useless.
The Indians destroyed a good many of the
cntt'o belonging to the train, but lulled mine
of the Mexicans in charge ofit. At John
son's Ranch, two Mexicans, at werk in a
corn field, were attacked and killed by them.
It is also stated by a passenger, that a thin
Mexioan was severely wounded, but our in-
f.-rmant heart! nothing of this circumstance.
Ouly a word or Two.
The Washington correspondent of th*
N w Orleans -Crescent say that Senator
Banter indignantly denies having telegraph-
ed tn tlie Virginia delegation to withdraw
from the Charleston Convention. The con-
trsdiction was ftot needed.- Senator Ilunt-
er's career as a publ o man branded tha re-
port as a falsehood from its start.
The same writer says that every effort is
being irade m Washingtijj^with a prospoet
of success, to conciliate the conflicting wings
ofthe democracy. The Southern democratic
members of Congress are said almost, unani-
mously to oppose the movements of the sc-
csders. It is' not Strang": no ono can bo
placed In a position to fully understand the
objoct and spirit of the Black Republicana
without being willing to rosort to almost
any expedient, whioh does not sacrifico'
honor, to defeat them, ami especially to'
wave, If need be, the urging of opinions,
which at the best aro but pure abstractions,
and probably can never be brought toa
practical test. Their success, we candidly
believe, would and ought to result in the
total and permanent dissolution of tbe Union,-
and it seems to us that no truu democrat. *
either in the original or party acceptation of
the teim,;could hesitate what course to pur-
sue in this m'nst wretched stato ot affaim—-
It, indeed, does appear to us that those who
are sustaining that splendid embodiment of
sectional madneasand folly, tho Richmon 1
Convention of bolters, are willfully nnd ma-
liciously driving the ship upon the breakers.
We thank our stars that we wero not
framed with the disposition to bo of
them.
This thing is certain: If Texas refuses
to be represented in Baltimore, and per-
sists in having her v. icj misrepresented in
Richmond, by that act of refusnl she stands
alone in her glory (I)—"her democracy is cut
loose from tho great national party —and by
that same she repudiates every one of her
public servants in the national councils.
iVe have no authority for this latter state
incut, save in the case of Senator Wigfall,
but in the records of all the rest we havo
our warrant. Who believes that the staid
and prudent Hemphill approves this mad
feat at Charleston? who that the gallant
Keugnti, who last summer fought anil throt-
tled sectionalism nnd rode on a whirlwind
uf popular applause back to the position
which he now so ably fills, approves it ?
who that old "Colossal" approves it, unless
forsooth he thinks by thnt means he may
twain go back to his cushioned seat in
Washington and his fifteen do lars per
diem ?
Texans! let us not bo misrepresented; let
us not be, like the lllack Republicans, sec-
tionaliz-'tl. Let our affections embrace íif
them the whole country, ami let us clinj; t.i
the Union sn long as it does not disgrace us
lo remain in it.
The Eenniimton Banner says that John
Sherman, in Fewn d. Vt. hail i orn 11 him,
n llio day lie completed his seventi th yc u ,
s g.. * and he celled his name Levy; and on
the su. 'O day was born unto Ii m a grand-
ton ant! gl oat-grands* n, thu pareiififTm
timo residing 'u three different S.ut s. All
three of the b iv are living now.
Ttir. V.tMY.—Lcnvo of n'nence for six
months bus Iwciigranted :o t.'npt. McNutf.
; of t'ts Oiilttnnve P.'ivirtmont, wit'i l.-five
¡to ot Irt-yoml th-' limits of tho United
W di'votiort to tlie South. ¡ *t*tea; fix months leave hns been granted
i , .. „.„„i, „ •«. I '<> Cam. Hardin1 . the tirsi tlrngoons.
for tin. l.nu'tii oi l is Inulth; ig'.t luontl i-
to C'ujit. McLnw*. of ibe eleventh i'it'nntry.
whenever lie etui be spared from his com-
£riny, now ui Mexico; four mouths to Lt.
ludsnn. ofthe fourth urtdiery, with per-
miaiiua to go abroad.
oth«r
A new impetus has been imparted to the
Ir'sh emigration. Some of tlie Irish pa|iers
think that it is likely to a«snme tbe pro-
porttens of former years. 1
people of the territories to innke It a slave
territory or a free territory is p.rfcct and
complete."
Hence in vk w of these stubborn truths it
was no matter of surprise, that after the
committee-men of the fourteen Northern
States, who signed the minority report, bud
r-puted in favor of again having nil ques-
tions r. Ulive to the rights ol property iu the
rerruories to jut ici< ■ 1 decision, t lio sectional
to j iitv in the C"iiv. intuit expunged that
ph dgc iVoui the niliiovtty report.
Tito minority report tims abbreviated—
coiHidiiie.;; no < xprcsshiu of principle in
I'efeieiicc- io the great territorial question
but a simple ntHi-manci" of the C:lloinnnti
pbitfomi, unqualified find unexplained—
.va presented by tlio .ninorityol theCmn-
iiiittoe mi Kesoiutions its t\ substitute for
the mnjnrlty report. It wns first voted
upon by theCouveiilion.unil, notwithstrtiul
ing the innjorityof States, and those States
casting five sixths of tlie actual Drinneratir
electoral streugüi in the Electoral College,
yet the minority report was adopted by n
sectional majority from the Northern
hope of reconciliation, it was resolved to
abstain from all notion ourselves, nnd
await the course of tho convention from
which wo lind withdrawn, fondly hoping
thnt n "second sober thought" would yet
impel them to consider the mntler, nud nc-
eede to our righteous drmnnds.
We here Inko occasion to repel llio im-
putation that we withdrew merely to de-
feat the nomination ef nn obnoxious can-
didate. As proof of this it is only neces-
sary to stale that, notwithstanding the
withdrawal of fifty-two electoral votes, yet
Mr. DoliglttHuever, nt any time during the
tifty-seveii ballotings that ensued, came
within fifty votes of receiving a two-thirds
majority, find his actual strength ivns
known to us beforo retiring. We also ro-
pel the imputation, thnt our purpose alone
was the construction of a sectional South-
ern org iiiizatiiin for the ultimate purpose
f lending to n dissolution of tbe Union.
Wo witl drew becnuse tho platform,
adopted by n sectional majority, was sec-
tional in its character; and as evidence
that, in a spirit of true nationalism, we
wore earnestly seeking the recognition of
States, and those States casting scarcely the et] mil rights of all tlie States, we ud-
a single Democratic Electoral vote. * jonrned without further action, to meet at
In order to prove that the platform thus Richmond, on tbe second Moiniuv in June,
of absence for six months luis been granted
to Cnpt. Davidson, of the First Drngnons
ami of oifdit months to Cnpt. Pilcher of tjie
Right!) Infantry. Acting Assistant-Surgeon
Peters is assigned to duty nt Fort Davis.
Texas. Assistant-Surgeon Sutherland pro
cecls to Fort Duncan, and will relievo Dr.
Oiinstead in his duties nenr that place, and
the latter will bo discharged from public ser-
vice. Leave of altsence for thirty days has
been panted io Assistant'Surgeon Lynde,
Af an election, held nt Brownsville, on
May 7, IStiO, fcr City officers, the follow-
ing gentlemen were eleoted:
Geo. Dye, Mayor. Aldermen, 1st Ward
F. Ctnninings. lí. 1?. Kingsbury, William
Douglas. 2d Ward, Ilcnry Miller. Wm.
Johnson, Charles Ilcnkel.
The Treasurer, Secretary, and Marshal
will be appointed by tho Board of Alder-
men.
lt will be seen from our telegraphic in
telligence that the Black Republicans, al
their convention in Chicago, hive nominnterl
Mr. Lincoln of Illinois, as their candidate foi
the Presi lency. We may hsvc some re I in«., carried 1334 oumei of letters,
«inks to intke on the subject to morrow. !an ounce.
ARRIVAL. UP TilSAN DIUGO
MAIIi.
The San Antonio and San Diego mail ar-
rived in San Antonio this morning nt 3
o'clock. By its arrival we have San Fran
cisco papers ofthe 7th instant. A gentle
man in the employment of tbe S. A. & S. D
company has communicated to us sonn
Indian news which will be found in another
column.
We find nothing of particular importance
in the papers.
A gentleman who is largely interested in
the Waslio ; silver mines, informs the San
Francisco Herald that a discovery of great
value and of a scientific character has been
made in that extraordinary region, which
would, probably, be mado public in the
course of a few days, and increase the ex-
citement in regard to the new territory.
Gen. Kibbe, the Q iirteruiaster General,
has been directed by tho Governor to prose-
cute before CiUigrcs-; the claims constituting
the California war debt, amounting to some
■5-15.0000.'
The Carson Valley correspondent ofthe
•'Herald'' states that the couutry had been
tlooled with flour and cigars, and that one
would imagine from nppeiranccs, peo
pie Intended to have their daily bread and
Havana's, if nothing else. Immigration to
Carson Valley was not very brisk.
The Herald complains greatly ofthe sup
pression by tbe Hover nor of the Libel act
passed by the last Legislature, and makes
some admirable remarks upon the unbridled
licentiousness of the press.
The Bulletin says that the "Express"
poney which left San Francisco on the 4th
at $5
Ilvatt, tlio contumacious witness, is con-
fined to his bud in tbe jail at Washington,
by a slow fuvcr.
Charleston is u uobla Sjulhern Cify.
The inhábil ants are intelligent., spirited, unit
hospitable. But notwithstanding Ibis, jt i*
to be regretted thai the-national Conv ntion
was lieltl in Charleston.—Tlie outside pres-
sure on the delegates was against hu Union,
—against the nationality ofthe Democrat!,s
puny, ninl therefore unfavorable to culm
deliberation utid fortunate results. Tlio dis-
miioiiKt, Mr. Yancey, was nt home 111
Charleston. Ni. lit ufter night large crowds
assembled lo hear speeches by delegates nii'l
others Mr. Yuncayyind his follow- is being
conspicuous among the speakers. Ncailv
nil the speeches which we lieaid were ultra
Southern in their tone and denunciatory of
Mr. Douglas. Northern Democrats could
scarcely obtain a hearing;—Men who havo
stood by the Constitution and the Union in
tlie hotbeds of Northern tre«son aud dis-
union. and who have contended for years
faoe lo face and hand to hand with black
Republicanism in its jnost odious shape
were either hi set! or their voices drowned
by the huntings of the crowd, An) even in
the Convention Maj. Perry, who refused to
secede, but leuuiined for a time and cast
oite vote for Mr. IJunter as a delegate from
South-Carolina, was hissed bi persons nu-
lla* floor anil in the gall.nes. Fit speech,
uud free action ueie, theveftm, virtiinlly
denied to'those deregates wlitr regarded de-
nunciations of tho star-spangled banner us
unpatriotic and treason title, (we .heard tliu
American flag bitterly deuotun id in one of
tlie crowds wh eh assembled nt night iu
front of the Charleston Hotel.) nod who
were determined to stand by the national *
Democratic party as the grea't hope uf llio
Union, and to rebuke the spirit of disunion
which tjircatoned to divide nnd destroy it.
Northern Democrats ofcoursefi.lt ncuteh'
this-condition of things, but tbey bore them-
selves like patriots nnd gentlemen. Thev
complained, but not bitterly, of tbe outsider
pressure brought tobenr upon them, lt
had no effect on them but to confirm them
in their devotion to their cnndi'nte. Mr..
Douglas. They had voted for the fugitive-
slave law—tbey had voted to repeal tho
Missouri restriction—they had voted to
annex Texas, nnd add thereby thr e hun-
dred thousand square miles of" slaveholding
territory to the Union—they had voted
against protective tariff laws, of which
South Carolina or.co complained so bitterly,
and on account of which f lie was about to
leave tho Union—tlrty had struggled in
their respective Slates to prevent the enact-
ment of laws to shield and protect fugitive-
slaves, and they had recently honored ono
of South-Carolina's prominent sons with
the Speukeisbipof the House of Represen-
tatives. Under these circunistnnccs. not to
mention others, these gullant men deserved
belter treatment thnn they received at the
hands of Sou-th Carolinians. For our part,
we have no hesitation in soying that we will
not go with Sotuh'Carolina. or with WTl-
liam L. Yancey nnd his fnllowers in their
attempts to dissolve ihe Union. The stnr-
pnnglnd banner is not vet odious in our
sight, nor do w« by. any means despair of
the Republic. We still have confidence in
the iiatiunul Democratic part}'. Wo look
lo Baltimore for confirmation of that con-
fidence. and for a ticket which will triuu ph
in November next. Meunwlide ie« ate for
the Constitution and the Union, and against
all who would trample on the one or dis-
solve the other. Aa for Mr. Yanery. we
leave him to the tender mrrrira of the
Alabama Democracy. Thry wilt dispose of
him.-[N. ('. Standard.
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