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AUSTIN, TEXAS, WEDNESPAY, APRIL 8, 1 857.
far tin SjMtr.i ItUoUigenctr.
SONG OF. THE STRANG lilt.
Can I ever—can I ever enjoy one quiet tour?
Will my hutuin e'er recover its former tune or
Willnever—will it never, pnss ftwuy the
diu-knuno cloud t
That inv m<1 beHitliua withered, mid uiy droop-
lug' spirit bowed.
golden drenan luivo vhnUlied -my bouudliifi
hope* ure crushed.
MUfrrtuin drendlul tempest, in its fury, o er
iue ruibi d, .
And «wept uie from my country. my kindred aud
1'Uro" Ílie'de erl of a fore'gu luud. n frieudlosa
wretch to roiuu.
My parent —brother —«Utcra—sit, all li ve
, immed awny,
I «tumi in thin old world, a Male mnu to-ilny.
Like Logan, loat mid lonely I seek my raeo in
•' There doth not one of nil whoalmrcd my uame
or blood remain.''
E'en «lie, «u whole fui lb plighted, my soul built
nil iU truvt,
(Aud high but" boii-teii fabric'- now mouldered
into dust.)
E'en «lio lias proved un'aithful and nil her vow
forgot,
She tmil'a upon another now, and sharea Iiih
brighter lot.
•
Culi I over, cau 1 ever, onepeaceful hour enjoy f
WW My ¿«sum e'ttr rooover the ii^btueaa of n
buy /
Will the weight bo never lifted from the cold
and wcur¡fd lieiirt.
Will thecluuda of «rlcf and auguish from my
spirit ne'er'depart f
llarlt.' n voice within mo whisper , this gloom
«hall pass away,
Anil to thin night of aorrow «hall aueeeed n
radiant day,
When reatvreu unto my kindred in their happy
bouie above.
My aonl thro' endlenangt a shall enjoy both peace
and love. 'l.H. O'C.
Austin, March 21, 1857.
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Fom the Centipede.
Centlpedal History of Texns.
CHAPTER I.
It m ii matter of inuoli doubt as to
what European power first set foot
upon what is now the State ami was
formerly the Republic of Texas. Upon
the question of the original proprietor-
ship of this vast country, has been ex-
pended the talent of some of the great-
est statesmen of the present century.—
Among the Stato papers of the United
States Government, so celebrated for
diplomatic lore, may be found the ar-
guments of Pinkney, Adams, Monroe,
Clay, DeOuis and Cevaies on this dis-
puted question. But whatever might
liave been the facts or tho legal ques-
tions therein involved, when applied to
the rules of National law, tho reader
will find that as has been said witli
regard to laws in general, tluvt " pos-
session is nine pqints of the la\y, and
with nations the tenth point consists
in the* power to maintain what they
have. And although it is proven by
tiie learned American statesmen above
mentioned that the French were the
first Europeans who visitedjthe coast of
Texas and landed upon her shores, and
were therefore by the laws of Nations
tlio legal proprietors of tho country,
watered by its tributaries, yet old
Spam having possessed herself of it
with her troops, her missionaries and
her citizens, and having constructed
her forts, missions and towns in the
territory with a degree of energy
i ?,lt?l'Pi'¡se in singular contrast
with the imbecility existing in tho gov-
ernments of her decendants now in ex-
«tence upon this continent, nothing
ort of tho strong arm of revolution
i fie power of the sword were able
0 dispossess her of tho " fair Queen
°* y e prairies."
.. ''r8t emigrants who landed upon
nc shores of Texas were brought liitli-
cr by one La Salle, a Frenchman of
rare enterprise, gallantry and intrepid-
7, and who I am authorized by " Moso "
.and the balunco of -tho family, to state
nil? ft,c"s^nnt relation of cousin Sully
1 ard, who inherited her uncontrola-
o propensity for crossing water conr-
L i ii°m t'1'8 ^'8t'nguished ancestor,
♦jwi r iW° ttro '"fanned, was educa-
or t"e church, and was tanght to
wnjagato «Amo, Amas &o." at the
t institutions in his native country.
w'ien he arrived at manhood, being
n ambitious, restless disposition,
tiiUiL i 1 tho pursuit, in which I
S ,ac,tcd very smart unless they
P«m their preachcrs better in the 17th,
"Wy <Jo in tBis tho 19th centnry.
Tlie expedition started from Rochello
at about a quarter of un hour before
sunrise (wo like to bo exact in every-
thing, niñeo we are writing the only
correct history of Texas) on the morn-
ing—it must have been on the morning
of tho 24th of July J 804—1 mean 1084,
iu four vessels. They were tho Jollie,
the Belle, the Amiublo and tho St.
Francis. Of these four ^csscls, the
St. Francis, which contained most of
the pork, beans and dried beef, of the
company, was taken by tho Spanish be
fore reaching tho western world. The
Amiable was wrecked in attempting to
cross tlie bar into Matagorda bay, and
I expect ail the amiability of tlie whole
crew, as \yc iiud that they woro after-
ward? continually quarrelling and fight-
ing. among themselves, went down with
tier.' The Belle, (like some of tJ¿e belles
of. the preseilt thy) being oí light
draft, took the lead and erossbd the
bar hito Matagorda'bay, and after cru-
siug around for sonio timo in tho shal-
low water finally run aground and was
sunk. And the Jollio was the only one
among them that ever returned to Eu-
rope.
One Beaujeu, the commander Of the
Jollie was to be .•oininanderof the squad-
ron, but aside from the mere manage-
ment of the vessels, it was understood
tluit. LaSulle was tlie Grand Connnaj)-
def. This arrangement did'nt exactly
suit Beaujeu, who considered himself
the beau ideal of a sea captain, having
served for liJ years in tlie French navy
and fought in several pitched battles
against white men, while La Salle had
only had a few skirmishes with the hi-
jius on the banks of the Missisippi, and
had only served as an adventurei'-in one
or two voyages of discovery. But not-
withstanding he wrote to the Miuistcr
of State for special inalrnctiojw, and
called upon LaSalle for a definite
arrangement with regard to their respec-
tive powers, no satisfactory jiiiswer
was returned, and so the matter rested
"just so " until the sailing of the expe-
dition. LaSalle was on board of the
Jolli, and 1 should think from the quan-
tity oí wine and brandy on board that
barring the breaking of a bowsprit,
which caused them to return for re
pairs, and the ili nature of Beaujeu,
who seetus to have been in the sulks
all the while, they must have had a
jolly time of it. As they passed the
Island of Madeira, Beaujeu wanted to
stop for water and refreshments. Ol
coursc we all know what kind of Re-
freshment he wanted. But LaSulta saw
no 1190. iMr Bt<>|>|>ing- for Aludoirtt when
Hiey/had so much^i^jU frout'U L'l'uiu^v
on board, nor for taking iu water while
the champaignc lasted ; so he ordered
them to push ahead. While the two
commanders were thus blowing away
at each other, -E ilus, whom " the king
of heaven the power of tempests nud
of winds has given," concluded that he
would blow some too, and summoning
all his little windy g nls around him.
who, by the. by, were as contrary as the
two commanders, he caused
'•the raging billow rise,
And mount the tossing vessel to the.skiea."
During thj storm the vessels became
«operated but came together at the port
of pettit, Gouave—called so in contradis-
tinction to Grand (lotnive—St. Domingo
except the St. Francis, which was blown
so near to the other side of Jordan that
she was captured by tho Spaniards.—
It is said that a storm is a!waVa suc-
ceeded by a calm. With LaSalle the
one alluded to had well nigh been fol-
lowed by tho calmness of death, for he
was takoh with fever which confined
him to the port for some weeks, and
camo very near terminating, not only
his trip to America, but also his voy-
age of life. However he recovered
aud won visited by tho various public
functionaries of tlie Island including
the Governor, who, unlike the present
sable Chief Magistrate of St. Domingo,
was a white man and an elegant French
gentleman. LaSalle, having laid in a
lot of chickens, muscovy dticks, pigs
and other domestic animals, proceeded
on his voyage. Historians have omit-
ted to mention whether or not, iu his
catalogue of domestic animals lie in-
cluded any little niggers. If lie did
not, lie was not a good Southern man
according to the Picayune and Delta.
Wo suppose LaSalle entered the Gulf
of Mexico somewhere between the west-
ern end of Culm and the northern point
of Yucutnii. Upon this point the his-
torians all agree, from tho fact, I sup-
pose, that he stopped to rest and re-
fresh himself at the Island of Pines, a
small spot of laud near tho south-west-
ern coast of Cubil. And here I will
just remark if the Captain General of
Cuba had found LaSalle about that
time trespassing upon his pine timber
lie would most certainly have taken
him up for a fill i buster. And instead
of his restirfg at tho Islo of Pine , he
would have been made to pine upon tho
Isle of Cuba, in some of the cold dun-
geons of the Moro, or would have been
put to death bv the hands of tho exe-
cutioner a la Lope/., Crittenden & Co.—
However the Captain General didn't
happen to see the light of his counten-
ance, and LaSalle having taken a few
liglitwood knots aboard, steered for the
mouth of the Mississippi at tho rate of
several knots per hour. Although they
drew near the Western continent, and
while all hands were standing with
their months wide open looking out for
tho month of tho Mississippi, they ap-
proached noar enough to discover that
thcro was no m'^itu of the Missippi
tkar. On the contrary, nothing bi t a
long line of low ton coa t mot their
view. For all that 1 know, it wus Gal-
veston Island long and low, which their
anxious eyes beheld, Not knowing Ex-
actly where the mouth of the great riv-
er was, tho voyagers begun to coast
around in search of it, nnd taking the
wrong direction they floated down to
tho vicinity of Corpus Christi Bay,
when becoming short of water aud pro-
visions, the^r sent a party ashoro for
supplies. \ ou would naturally suppose
that it was rather a bad point to stop
for supplies when you remember that
not a human being was to be found in
those diggins, and all the water wus
too brackish to bo relished, llowovor
Nature had established a Zoological gar-
den of her own iu that vicinity, and
although they found no one to sell them
mouldy cheese, dried beef and such
luxuries, yet they obtained plenty- of
game, such a fat veti'iwm', " barr-ineat,"
wild turkeys, mulo uarftibitsaud horned
frogs which they carried to their ves-
sels and dressed them in real frcnch
style, seasoning the sumo with wild
'.'ingenia" and red pepper, which arti-
cles are green enough to grow ou the
verdant shores of the bays in that lo-
cality. After this they continued to
"slosh around" iu the Gulf, while
the two commanders were quarrelling
about whether to crawfish buck to
where they thought the mouth of the
Mississippi was, to return home or to
hind until the l.ith of February 1085.
When LaSalle crossed the bar tit passu
Cavallo into the bay of San Bernardo
alias Espíritu ulias Matagorda, and
with due ceremony took formal posses-
sion of tho country iu the name of his
king, manifesting the saine by pulling
up grass, throwing sea shells and cut-
ting up a dust generally.
Oil the 20th of February, 1085, La-
Salle ordered the Amiable, which had
most of their provisions on board, to be
landed, and to enable tho commander
St. Aigron to do so with more facility,
sent the pilot who had brought the
Bello-over the bar, to pilot her in; but
St. Aigron, who, if Joiitel is to be be-
lieved, possessed none of tho Saint in
his disposition, told the pilot ke might
" go where the good niggers" dont go,
and he would guide his own vessel
So he hoisted sail, run upon a shoal and
wrecked his vessel. Wo are told that
LaSalle intended to have been present
at the landing of this vessel, or rather
at the wrecking of'licr, but was debar-
red of the pleasure by an accident that
happened the evening before. Some ol
his mustaciod followers while taking a.
Ttiniiiritic stroll l>y tli® mm iWiorc, *verci
discovered I y a party itf lufllans, who
were much pleased with their socie-
ty that they concluded to take them
home with them to theirhunting grounds
in tlie far off prairies, whether they
would or not. LaSalle immediately put
out in pursuit of them. Thus while he
was scouring the country, in search of
the savages who had swept off his un
suspecting companions, the waves of
the oct-an were washing tho decks of
the Amiable pnd making a clean sweep
of most of his supplies. LaSalle on
his return, set to work to save as much
of tho wreck as possible. The value
that they placed on the various articles
of her cargo may be estimated from
the fact that the first thing which they
saved was the powder, the flour next
and then the brandy and wines amount-
ing to about sixty barrels. Their blank-
ets were allowed to float ashore and were
picked up by the indiana, who wore
very glad to get them, since they had
none of the " critter " to protect them
from the inclemency of the northers
which sometimes come even as late us
the last of February.
LaSalle, having been so unfortunate
with his vessels, was anxious to trade
with tho Indians for some of their cu-
noes and despatched one of his lieuten-
ants for that purpose. But tliose.learn-
ed frenchmen had never made the study
of the (Jarandina lunguage u part ol
their education. In fact our readers
must be aware that it was not taught
at the University of Brient*. And as
the Indians were equally unacquainted
with tho dialect of tho French, the
traders were unable to make known
their wants. At length they very un-
wisely, and very rudely seized two of
their canoes ami several other articles
and started back to the Colony. The
Indiana followed, and coming on them
iu the night, poured forth a shower of
arrows into their, camp which killed
two of LaSulle's particular friends, and
wounded others of the party. Thus
the firfit European blood that was ever
shed upon the soil of Texas, by the
hands of the red man, was caused by
an act of injustice and oppicssion on
tho pint of tho whites. It has been
followed by scenes the most terrible
ulid heart-rending, from that time to
the present Jay. The flumes of the
savage torch have enveloped tho htip-
py homo of the woodsman, tho toma-
hawk and scalping knife have glittered
over the fallen victim, and helpless
children and innocent maidens have
been dragged into barbarous captivity.
These are reflections well • undiluted to
excite (lie attention of the moralist,
but our's is the part o'f tlm historian,
and we must not stop to draw conclu-
sions from the the facts presented, or to
culate upon what would have been
effects of a different set of causes.
six;
the
jB6T As the careless rider, who on dc
spending a hill, endangers hit* life by giv-
ing slack reins to his horse, even so do
some men endanger their domestic hap
piness by giving too much lieonse to
their thoughtless young wives.
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NO. 33.
Old Joe's Strong Drink.
In tho pretty village of HaddoiiDoW,
Acw Jersy, some yeu.s ago, there re-
sided an old fclluw who -was familiarly
kuown, towu and country round, us
" Old Joo." Ho hud no particular occu-
pation except doing "chores" or errands'
--ifc* any |iartieulur location, lie uti
where he could get a bite, and slept where-
over he could get a lodging place.—
Joe wus a regular old toper, and
Jersey ligithinings had no effect on hit '
insides than «o much water. He gen-
erally made his head quarters at the
lower tavern, for there were two iu the
town. He would sleep and doze away
the afternoon on an old bench in one cor-
ner of the bar room, but always uwuke
when there was any drinking going on.
When Jkj \vjis not nskej to, 'Ji)uk, he
WotlM Slip to the bur, and drniu the glas-
ses, of the few drops left in them. Mr.
Bolus, the village physician, was iu the
tavern mixing up u preparation. He
placed a tumbler half full of aquafortis
ou the bar, und turned round to mix up
some other ingredients. A lew moments
after, he hud occasion to use tho poison-
ous drug, when he found, to his disumy,
that the tumbler had been drained to the
last drop. "Mr. Wiggins," exclaimed
the doctor, in ull'right, to the landlord,
" what luis become of the aquafortis 1 put
on tne bar a few minutes ugo?"'
" 1 don't know," replied tho landlord,
" unless Old Joe slipped in and drank it."
In this suspicion they were soon con-
firmed, for the ostler stud he hud seen Old
Joe swallow the fatal draught. The doc-
tor knowing that he must certainly die
after such it dose, instituted u search ut
once. After some hours pent hi looking
through the barns, out-houses, aud woods,
lbr three or four miles around tie village
Joe was abandoned to his fate. It was a
cold night, und us the village topers as-
sembled around u blazing hickory fire in
the bur-room, nothing wui thought of, or
talked of. but the unfortunate end of poor
Old J ye. Some four days had elapsed
ami nothing having been heard from Old
Joe, they all cume to the conclusion that
he was goner. The doctor, about tliisi
time, had occasion to visit u patient some
eight luilcsdistuut; what was his surprise,
w.lien about live miles from the village, to
see Old Joe in front of a farmer's house,
splitting wiod.
" Why Joe," said the doctor, riding up
to the fenue, "I thought you were dead
and buried before this 1"
" Why, vhat made you tli&k that Doc-
tor?" said Old Joe, leaning on hi axe-
handle.
" Didn't ybu drfilk thát (lote 1 left ou
WiggiriB1 bay, u fe^-duys snipe Ia'
"Yes," replied Joe, half tlshained to
own it.
" Do you know what it was ?" asked
the Doctor.
" No j" returned Joe.
"Why, it was aquafortis—enough to
kill a dozen raen I"
" Well, how, Doctor, do you know that
I thought th«re was something queer
about that darned stuff, for after I drank
it, every time I blovcdniy nose I burned
a hole in my pocket Imnkerehicf."
Southern Trade.
The city is full, just now, of southern
merchants who are here making their
spring purchases. It would he laugha-
ble, were it not contemptible, to see the
clerks of merchants who were loudest
last fall iu their cries for Fremont and
shrieks for freedom; prowling about the
hotels, drumming and coaxing these
"southern slaveholders" whom tlioy
have denounced as bloodhounds, tyrants,
knaves, &C., to come lo their shops and
buy goods. We have the name of one
now, sent to us this morning, a regular
attendant and contribute!' to Buocher's
church, whose clerks are almost omni-
present at ¡ill the hotels drumming
southern customers.
'fliis class of men, or these men, have
a "perfect right" to get all the custom
they can, and to sell their wares to who-
ever they etui coax to buy them,' but they
must understand that other people have
rights as well us they, und when they
use the profits of their trade with south-
ern merchants to rob tlioso merchants
if their property and their dearest
rights, the southern people have a
right to know it. Upwards of fifty
thousand southern people read the Day
Book, nnd expect to learn from it such
facts us will enable them to guard
against, the suhtilty of their enemies.
I'hey shall not be disappointed.
Tlieii light to know who labored in
the " moral" or political field to ruin
them is us good and legal, certainly, as
the right of a New Yorker to inquire
through a " inercnnt ile ugency " into the
moral, social, and family refations of
the southerner. This right we shall
give them the privilege of exercising,
and now give warning to all those
who are not willing to show their hand
to these merchants whoso trade they
so much covet, that the Day Book will
do it tor them.
We promised, last week, in answer
to many inquiries respecting Abolition
merchants, t</give a list of such whole-
sale dealers iu this city as are person-
ally known to us to be supporter of
what is termed southern rights, or more
properly speaking, " equal rights" oí
the southern with the northern States.
The following is not by any means a
list of all such, but embraces those
known to the editor of tho Day Book as
good ami true men :—
B M & E A Whitlock, T W Bayand
& Co, A H Bean, C B Hatch k Co,
Henry's Smith & Townsend, North
Sherman & Co, Catlin Lcavitt & Co,
Hiflninn & Net ring, Harral ft Sprrmls,
Kuter Phelps & Clark, Ilotchkiss Fon*
tier & Bennett, Cushmau King & De-
Graw, llctts Nichols & Co, Furmuii &
Davis, Jennings Wheeler & Co, Byrd
& Hull, Win L McDonald, George
Brothers, Stoddard & Morris, Piano
Forte, J W & J Read, N W Burtis &
Co, Oscar Cheeseman, C T Longstreet
& Co.
Per Contra—hero is anothér list of a
few who give of tho profits of their trade
to the support Of Abolitionism
'Bowon &.McNainoe, William Wat
soil, S B Chittenden & Co, Curhart &
Nye,' Hastings Plimpton & Co, Killgoro
& Coffin, Patou & Co, S A Martille i¿
Co, Livermoro 4. Morris, A T Stewart
& Co, Barlow & Stevens, Underbill
Haviland&Co, WJFDailey, Stringer
<& Townsend, Morton & Grinnell, L 0
Wilson & O, A W Spies, Jaoñb Lan-
ding.—-Yew Ycrk Day limk.
l-'or tlie Southern lutelUgeacer.
Round Rock, Tuxas, )
March 30th, 1851. j
G. W. Paschal Etq.
Di-iaii Sin :—I wish to call your uttcn
tion to a subject of vant importance to
the whole upper country, mid ouo which
calls for i in mediate action on the part of
those in power. Sir, when we hear that
tho savages on our frontier Imve been
committing outrages upon our people ;
and when we are told that tho U. S
troops do not give that protection which
was guaranteed to us by that govern-
ment, we have under certain emergen
cies taken the field ourselves, i. e. with
Texas troops and money ; and by so
doing have taught the red ekins, that
it was best for them to keep above the
line.
All of this litis been justified by all of
our legislators, save a few who say it
is " wild extravagance." There is at
this time att enemy in tho upper coun-
ties, which is doing more real injury to
the whole State, than has ever been
done by the Indians. And one if possi-
ble more revolting to the feelings of
humanity, we think. 1 hear yonr read
ers ask what is it ? It is, if not slarva-
turn, that which is nearly bordering on
it. Yes, sir, there are at this moment
a number of families, that have not had
a morsel of bread for weeks, and don't
know when they will get any ; as they
have spent the lust reticent mouths ago.
To use a common phrase of the country,
they have staid, until they are too poor
to leave. We are creatures of hope, but
sir, the last lingering hope has ncarly
foraaken them. What a picture for
Texas 1 But sir, it is nevertheless n.
true one, one that needs not rhc nam;
of an artist. Many of them went upon
the waters of the Colorado anil Brazos
two years ago, with bright hopes and
flattering prospects, but alas I how
changed is the picture.
What is to bu dono ? I for one say
give them money out of the Treasury,
to buy for this year, and next if God in
his mercy docs not send rain to make
good crops, they must be sustained, as
the garden spot of State is ruined. We
may not have such a season again in a
life time, and it is to be hoped never,
again. i
I will not say how this is to bo done,
but I do think, that tho Governor has
the power under the clnuse which says
lie may call the legislature together on
extraordinary occasions, call out the
millitiu, &c„ &c. While ou this subject
1 will ask if the poor preomptors can
not be relieved iu some way if they are
compelled to leave their homes, to make
bread for theilschildren. We recollect
some years ugo, Alabama made an ap-
propriation of a large sum of money, to
buy bread for the poor.
1 hope you will give this subject
your serious attention. II you can «lo
anything let it soon, as it is wanted im-
mediately, und sufferiug humanity calls
on all who can to help.
Most respectfully,
J. R. SIMMS.
illO
in Aet to divido the State of Tcxm
two Jmllelnl illitficU.
Be it iiiucted by the Sctmte and
Home of Ileyrcsenbuieci of the United
Suae of Am tea in CongrtuatumUed,
That the Statu of Texas be, and tlie
sauie is hereby, divided into two ju-
dicial districts, in the following man-
ner, to wit: All the territory of
the State of Texas embraced in the
counties of Newtou, Jasper, Jeffer-
son, Orange, Tyler, Polk., Liberty,
Galveston, Harris,Montgomery, Aus-
tin, Fort Ueiul, Brazoria, Colorado,
Wliarton, Matagorda, Lavacca, Jack-
son, Calhoun, Dewitt, Victoria, Gil-
liad, Refugio, S«n Patricio, Nueces,
Cameron, Starr, Webb, an
on titer existed in
I.Rl" 1 .Jp.r
as are now enjoyed, or in any manner
appertaining to the present district
judge the district ofTe*a«. • Ap¿I
tho district judge of«aehdistrict shall
be entitled to tlie same cotnUeosatiob
as by law ia provided I
judge of the district of'
Sec. ti. And be it fm
That there be appointed one penan
as district attorney, and One person
as marshal, for said western district,
T' - ,wn* ■
and fifty-two, shall compose ono dis-
trict, to be culled the eastern district
of Texas; and all tlfu remaining part
of tlio territory of the said State shall
compose another district, to be called
the western district of Texas.
Sec. 2 And be it J'u thcr enacted, That
there shall.be held in each year four
terms of the district ^our'tot the east-
ern district of Texas, two1 of which
terms shall bo begun and held at Gal-
veston on the first Mondays in De-
cember and May, respectively 5 und
the other twoshull be begun aud held
at Brownsville on the first Mondays
of March and October, resp : ctivfcly;
and four terms of the district court of
the western district of Texusshall bo
held iu each year, two oi which
terms shall be begun and held at
Austin on tho lirst Mondays of Ja-
nuary and June, respectively; and
tho other two shall bo beguuand held
ut Tyler ou the tirst Mondays of March
and November, respectively ; and the
said courts aro hereby authorized to
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Vebb, and Hidalgo,
eigMeeiH hundred
Chivalry.—Tlio religion of chivalry
was that of the motives of the heart. It
was love, faith, hope,gratitude, joy, fidel-
ity, honor, mercy; it was a devotion of
mind and strength of the whole iiiun of
his soul and body, to tlio discharge of
duty, and the sacrfico of every selfish und
dishonorable feeling.
The sum of ¡>5,000,000 has been
mid by 0111° government to the Collins'
ine for carrying the mail.
tijy If a felon trembles before an
earthly judge, who is but a mere man,
tow will an impenitent sinner stand lie-
fore the heavenly judge who is both God
and man.
MUff" A doctor knows the human body
as a cabman knows a town— lie i well
acquainted with all the great thorough-
fares nnd small turnings ; he is intimate
with all the principal edifices, but he
cannot tell you what is going on inside
of any one of tliein.
Steam Funm Mili..—We are pleased
to notice that our enterprising towns-
men, Messrs. Johnson & Dennison, have
commenced erecting in our town a
"Steam Flouring Mill." It is to be of
the first class order and driven with
sufficient power to meet the demands of
McLennan and surrounding counties.
They guarantee to make flour as good,
if not superior, to any manufactured in
Texas; and from our acquaintance with
them we arc snro that they will do as
they say. An establishment of this kind
has long been needed in Waco, and we
trust our friends will meet with the sno-, ,
cess that their enterprise merits.— | possess the saum
Bra rut Stoértma. .
1 fori
whose terms of appointment and ser
vice, as well us duties and emolu
ments, shall be the same with (how
respectively appertainingto the ffcidt)
offices in the district of Texas; and
said marahal^slmlljgiva the same bond
I PPi
now directed by law : Presided, That
that other I
give, to be aj
j roved and
hold adjourned terms when tho busi-
ness of said courts shall, in the opi-
nion of the judge or judges, require
it.
Sue. 3. And bs it further enacted,
That all suits and proceedings of what-
ever natno or nature pending in the
district court of Texas, at any of the
places at which terms of the said
courts were enjoined to be held, am
which said places may be within the
eastern district of Texas shall be
transferred to the district court oi
ti*u imiloM (lulrint «fTiuuiUllllludi,
suits and proceedings pending at any
of the places at which terms of. the
suid district court were enjoined to be
held, and which said places may be
within the western district, shall be
transferred to the district court of the
western district of Texas; and this
act shall not produce a disconti-
nuance of any such suit or proceed-
ing, or of any order, issue, or process
the present district attorney of ¿ho
district of Texas shall be the distnetf
attorney for the eastern district,
but aliall retain charge of all suitaiel-'
ready commenced until the final ter-
mination, unless the President of the
United States shall otherwise direct
and the present marshal of tho dis-
trict of Texas sliall be the marshal of
the eastern district during their res-
pective official terms.
Sue. 7 And be it further enacted,
That all suits hereafter to be brought
¡neither of said courts, not of a
local nature, shall be brought in the
contt of tho district where tho de-
fendant resides; but if there be irfcro
than one defoiidant a fid they ratidb
iii different districts, the plaintiff
may issue in either, und send a du-
plicate writ ugainst the defendants,
directed to the marshal of tho other
district; on which writ an endorse-
ment shall bo made, that the writ
thus sent is a copy of a writ sued
out of-the court or the proper dis-
trict : and said writs, when executed
and returned into the office from
whence they issued, shall constitute
0110 suit, and be proceeded in occord-
ingly.
Passed tho House of Represent-
atives February 2,1857.
therein ; and jurisdiction is here given
to the said district courts respect-
ively to perform all duties appertain-
ing to the said suits aud proceedings,
and to proceed to try'and dispose of
the same us fully as tlio district court
of Texus was authorized to do; and all
troceas mesne or final which may
itive issued from, any of the courts of
the district of Texas shall be proceed
ed in and returned to the district court
to be holdcu ut tho place from
whence the saine issue, and shall be
of us full force and effect as if the
s.aid district hud not been divided in-
to two districts; aud all process
which may have issued from the
suid district court of Texas in any
case pending therein, or any penal in-
other process which may hereafter
issue from any of the said courts to en
force any order, judgment, or decree
in any cuse heretofore ended und de-
termined therein, shall be issued from
und made returnable to the court in
vhich the suid cuuse or the record
thereof inuy be, and may issue und
be executed by tho marshal of the
district from which issued in any part
of the State.
Sec. 4. And be itfurthcr mactcd,
That either of the suid district courts
may, on applicatipn of the parties de-
fendant, and for good cuuse shown,
order uny suit now pending, und
transferred to such court by this act,
to bo removed to the proper court of
(he other district for further proceed-
ings; and thereupon tho clerk shall
transmit all the papers in the case,
with a transcript of all the proceed-
ing and orders 111 relation thereto, tu'
tho clerk of the court to which tho
suit shall be removed, and all further
proceedings shall be hud in tho suid
court, as il the suit had been original-
ly commenced therein.
Sk.C. 5. And be it further enacted,
That the present judgeof tho district
of Texas be, and ho is hereby, assign-
ed to hold said courts in tho eastern
district of Texas, and «hall exercise
the same jurisdiction and perform the
same duties within the saiddistrictas
he now exercises and performs within
his present district. There shall be
appointed a district judge for the
western district of Texas, who shall
wers, and do and
Rallr,adi.
The commercial Bulletin, iu an
able review of the railroad system in
the United Sjtates, says tho city of
f!i.y..ign, situated at the foot of Lake
Michigan, would RaVc never boett
anything but a small fishing village
hud shu not been brought luto com-
munication with different portions of
Illinois. There are now ten principal
railroad connecting ut this town,
after huving traversed und intersected
un area of 103,00U square miles of
fertile country. These railroads have,
with their branches, aa aggregato
ength of2820 miles. What has beeu
the growth of Chicago in consequence
of this itnenmse reticulation of
ruilroud ? In 1840 her population
was only 4,500; it is now 100,000
The aggregate value of her importa
and exports during the year 1856'
were $405,642,383. The amount of
Tonnage arriving at Chicago in 1860
was 1,213,291 tons. The value of
tho wholesulo mercantile business for
the sumo yea£ was 850,186,000.
Railroads and railroads alone have
dono all this. In twenty years they
have created a city which in ten yeara
hence will have a larger population
than New Orleans.
We learn from our exchanges that
there only remains thirty miles of
track to connect the tvft> ends of the
tnpliis an
which is to be completed by the first
of April.
Memphis and Charleston Rail Rood,
lien
Apr
Tho Iron for the thirty miles is
ready to be laid down. During last
month, tho earnings of this end of
tho Road were 9Ü3.150 and on tho
Western cud they were $30,061 Total
$01,217—deduct expeuses $24,808—
net earnings $35,408.
Litigants in the Federal Court
at Galveston, should take not ico that,
by jhc recent Act of Congress, a ter/u
of the Court is required to' be held on
the first monday in May next.
We understand the Judge will bold
Court at that time.—Galeutcn Xtwt.
1—
Capt. Thonrns Pettlgu, Into of tho U.
S. Navy, and a citizen of South Caroli-
na, is dead-
All efforts to renew the Kansas troub-
les will bo hereafter resisted by thoso
who lisve gone thoro to stay. There
seems to be a general disposition to
abide tho decision of tho people* when
the Constitution comes to bo formed
Punch wants to know if the inhab-
itants of Shcerness, Eng., (live there
out of sheerness-essity.
A new way is suggested to cut out
a muslin dress, which is to wear a
velvet one! ,
The Collins steamers will con-
tinue to carry the mails this summer
at $19,252 per trip.
The total expenses of the British
Government ore 1887, 37CV.WO per
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