The Southern Intelligencer. (Austin, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 34, Ed. 1 Wednesday, April 14, 1858 Page: 2 of 4
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h. randolph,
OF mVI COUNTY.
>0H COMPTROLLER.
clement r. johns,
or hayb cocirrr.
FOR ASSOCIATE JUSTICE,
CONSTAKTÍNE W. BUCKLEY,
or rotrr bckd county.
ARQ MCSIUitMBID
FOR CHIEF JUSTICE,
WHEELER,
Wa trt «uthorlmd to mdoiiih-o J, T. (1RAVEH
Mud Id At 0 for Chief Juttic* of Trarla county, at the nest
Aufuat election.
We are nuUiotltrd to tnuounr* the umne of Jjmki T.
HcLAUHIN M * candidate for the office of County Clerk.
Wa «ra au'thoriied amf requeated to aniiounco J mo. 1*.
WHITE, of Guadalupe county, aa a candidate for the
•Cm of Dlatrlct Attorney of the find Judicial Dlatnrt;
abject to the action of the Dlatrlct Democratic Couren-
rise. Election In Aufuat,
Wa are anthorliod to announce JAMF.il H. FRY, of
Webberrttte, aa an Independent Democt atle candidate
KrCUaf Juatlce of Trarla county, at the o timing election.
Waare authorlied to announce HAMUKt. J. WOOD,
aa attouüdatn lor Aaaeaaor and Collector of Tratlacouii
«y, at the enauing Auguat election.
We are authorlied to aiTnounre L. I.. SYKKH aa a can-
didate for the office of Aaaeaaor and Collector, of Trarla
esantjr. Election in Auguat next.
Wa are authorised to announce Jai. H. THOMPSON
aa a candidate for theoffice oi County Clerk at the enau
Eg election.
JVa ara authorized to announce A. I). McfilNNIH,
Eaq., of Baatro)!, a candidate for the office of Dlatrlct At
T of the 2nd Judicial Dlatrlct. Election flrat Won-
Later Awn Europe.
The steamship Indian lias arrived with
threo days later news from Europe.—
She brings «^advance of l-8il. on cot.
ton. No material change reported in
the Liverpool provision market, except
in the case of bacon, in which a decline
of front 1 a 8 . per cwt. hud taken place.
Trade at Manchester is reported to
have evinced more activity than was
prevailing at hwt advices. London
monoy market reported without change.
American stocks are reported steady,
with a moderate demand prevailing.—
Mr. D'hrafli has given notice that he
will introduce a bill in the British House
of Commons, providing for tho transfer
of tho government of India from the
East India Company to tho Crown.—
Six thousand men are to bo recruited
for tho British army during the next six
months. Marshall Fellissier is appoint-
ed to succeed M. do Pcrsigny,as French
Ambassador to the Court of St. James,
o other news of importance.
ÚM9 In Aujust next.
«Mr. McGlnula would be pleaaud to recolre t he aup-
part of hia frieuda, acquaiutancea, and the people gen-
erally, who believe hi in to be deaervlng and tnnrito-
We are autlioriaed to announceGKO.il. OIMY, aa
a candidate tor the office of Chief Justice of Trarla Co.,
at the enauing election.
.. Wa an authorised to announce JAMES CA RTF.lt, of
Webberrille, aa a candidate for the office of Aaaeaaor
and Collector of Trarla county , at the ensuing election,
We ara autfrtHaed to announce FRANK BROWN as a
candldaae for re-election to the office of Clerk of the
District Court of Trarla county, at tho next Auguat elcc
Mob.
Wa are authorised to announce Dr. 8. 0,1IAYNIK aa
• candidate for the office uf Aaaesaor aud Collector of
Trarla county, at the enauing election.
From tbe Ranger*.
in town has kindly al-
na the perusal of a letter from
one of his friends, who is with the linn
gers, on tho Clear^ork.
MFTho weather for the last threo or
four days has been quite cool, with a
brisk norther blowing the most of the
time. ___
JWFrieud DufTitu haw on hand a lit-
tle of everything good for tho inuer
man, and especially some chewing to-
bacco which can't bo beat. If our
friends will make beasts nf themselves
by using the filthy weed, we recommend
them to Duff*.
■ urn ,
Texas Exports.—Six hundred fine
t>eevc« crossed the river on Friday last
m route for Fort Leavenworth. Sever-
•Marge droves of horses have already
crossed, and we hear of others behind.
It is fortunate that Western Texas has
tome resources which the drouth and
grAaahoppera have failed to destroy,—
ít is an ill wind which blows nobody
nh war and tho Kanrffts
giro an additional mar*
ek.
gM t W,--
The writer, under dato of 81st ult.,
says that a few days previous, the In
diuns stole some horses from a Mr.
Dobbs, near Belknap. Lieut. Burleson,
who was out with one man at the time,
sent him on to tho Fort, and gullopeti
back for assistance. On his way back
ho saw Indians, and shot at one. After
getting a reinforcement, ho started
again, and followed hard oa tho frail;
tho Iudians wcro forced to kill ono
horse, ub it gavo out. They run them
for about thirty miles, till they camo to
the house of Moses Johnson; here they
learned that tho Indians had passed his
grandson, and n negro boy, who were
herding horses, and luid shot the young
man twice,' with arrows. The party
kept on for ninety or u hundred miles,
haviug nothing to cut but fresh beef,
arid on that account wcro forced to give
up tho chase.
Tho writer also states that in about
The Volnntrer Bill
Opens a new enterprise lor our Texian
young men, who are fond of an adven-
turous life.
An entiro regiment of volunteers is
to bo raised and officered in Texan. In-
deed, as we understand tho law, the
men will elect company officers, and the
company officers the field officers. And,
although tho enlistment will bo for
eighteen months, it will yet be au hon-
orable, ami, in many respecta, a pleasant
service.
Upon Texas tho effect must bo good.
It will supercede tho regular forces,
who never did and never could have a
common sympathy with tho frontiers
men, and it %ill substitute, in their
places, men accustomed to frontier life,
and who know tho value of a peaceful
homo and the danger of continual sur-
prize.
Indeed, much of the forco will be
raised from these very frontiersmen,
who will thus bccomc tlio sentinels to
guard their own families and herds.
Others will push their families still fur-
ther out in order to furnish supplies and
sottlo tho good sites which constant ex
plorutions will discover. The notion
that all which lies north und west of
the settlements is one vast desert, will
thus be very rapidly dissipated.
Nor do we deem it as unimportant at
this or any other timo, that a military
spirit should bo cultivated, and that a
largo number of our citizens should be
instructed in tho regular business of
camp-life, the making of accounts and
abstracts, and tho details winch are
very useful branches of practical edu
cation. '
With this view we should esteem it
fortunate if some of the relieved regu-
lar officers of our State should bo cho'
sen and intermingled with those who'
have doubtless courage and energy
without experience. We have such
men as Col. Britton, Gou. McLeotl,
Mccklin and mauy others, who, in this
service, would" bo subject to nono of the
jealousies and annoyances which the
officers of tue regular lino necessarily
liavo to encounter.
two weeks, they will follow tho Iudians
to their villages, in the Wichetn inoun* ~Tho experience of such men would
tains, and effectually stop their, pi
dering expeditious for somo time
come.
1!
19* Tho Episcopal Convention of
Texas assembles at Houston this week.
The reverend clergy of this town, Chas.
Oillott and Edward Fontaine, have re-
paired to that place. It is understood
that the superannuated Bishop Freeman
will not bo in attendanco.
Another effort will probably be made
to elect a Bishop for the Episcopal Dio-
cese of Texas.
Sinco the meeting I
Messrs Hottenstein
moved ta Loui
of
Pratt is de
responding a<
* or Texa
the
it year,
is have re-
Rev. Mr.
of no cor-
church iu
■ «K W- . :v
of Texas, in tho pros-
of that branch of tke
uhl be rather a "hard roád
n;" yet it is known that tho
excited considerable jealousy
the local clcrgf ¡ and as a cou-
soqucnce, two years ago Aft'. Cox, of
Baltimore, and last year Mr. Vinton, of
Boston, were tendered the Bishopric.—
But to give up a fat living iu largo cit-
ies, and como to Texas to swim Bayous
and attempt to establish churches whore
there are nono, to say nothing of the
"uiggerij" so ^errifyiug to tho Boston-
fans, "would not pay." Consequently
the spiritual office has remained vacant,
Slid tho few Pastors are without a
head. , .
| make the service a valuable school for
youth, and we arc glad that wo have
niany such citizen soldiers among us.
Last and least, the service will bo
valuable in circulating a largo Burn of
money among thoso who need it anc
aro willing to earn it
Our members sf Congress deserve
credit for the aid which they have giv-
en tho Bill.
Sold.
'■ . ' Í 'aj"* ^ 5 " *
''"Mr ' UtiNVf ''iibf;
It Is tobe hoped that these nnworthy
joaío
ousies will bo laid asido, and that
•orne one of llio ablo Toxob clcrgy wil
' over die others. Let them
" if there be no other way to
"Apostolic Succession.''
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w.. wWh
Ah**- m-* -Jsk.
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ipoi InrentloiK.
one who ovor read the fatal ca-
| tastropho described by the inimitablo
Law. Sterne in Tristam Shandy, grow-
tdmbhng down Of the
must have felt nervous at
crashes from the fall of
arrangements. How
ible American win-
overcome by means of
block and
sash at its
rly Upon Ri
t bolts and spring
i, as many a bro-
I mashed hand can
Of the Publishers of
has invented a shn^ls plate
and bolt, wliicb, being fastened
*1 of tho lower window,
sash to any
Tth-
.. . - ■ r-:aAiiia<i
The Galveston News owns that the
Editors were sold bjj tho nceompliahed
Mrs. Cora Anna Weeks, and denounces
Iter and her husband as " a pair of ac-
complished swindlers." These worthies
employed the News to publish a South
ern.Literary p'npcr; but tlioy Boon dis-
appeared, aud have sinco turned up in
California.
Tho News says, that "her accommo-
dating tipouso ulways admitted that
Mrs. Weeks was Boss." Now tho Nows
should never trust an establishment
where tho feminity is admitted to be
Bobs." It is acting against nature
When Mrs. W. was lioro, she slighted
the Intelligencer, but is said,to have
been generously patr&tizing to our
bachelor friend of tho Sentinel. We
were a' little jealous at the literary pre
ferenco given to .the tasto of our cotem-
porary, whoso phiis alone never would
have won the smites. But wo cbnsolcd
ourseif with the fact, that if our favor
was not worth a call, wo wcro not sold.
The News does not foot up its losses
for the public, but, from the ungallant
application 6f cphithets, wo fear that
our veteran friend is ikinui something
rtiofo than prospective profits. Aa to
two dollars by each legislator, their
bleeding is of no c<niHpfiu^||ct'.
a0 Th« Washington States, of a re-
cent date, says the interest in roligion
is unabated in that city, aud that, at the
suggestion of a U. S. Senator, a com-
mittee was appointed to select a suita-
ble room uot far from tho Capitol, in
whicli to hold prayer meetings, where
the members of Congress can attorn
one hour each morning before the hous-
es proceed to bnsiness. This Sugges-
tion of the honorable Senator is certain
ly wise and commendable, mid wo do
lope that great good may grow out of it.
Of all men in the world we' think the
&L C's. stand more in need of religion,
occupying as they do a position so im-
mrtant and responsible, and it is to be
loped that this religions fueling, which is
nowprevailing tt the Capitol, will enter
tl(0 halls of 4§t National LeglHaturo.and
strike terror, to the hearts of its members,
and bring them to a saving repentance.
had a moro God-fearing and Qod-
oving Congress, there would bo less
("fuss and torjr" in that body—«very fa
natiiml eiemoot would be banished—
wrangling and strife between the two
sections of tho Confederacy would be
Jaeob DeCirdori—Free Libor, fce,
The Houston Telegraph takes Jacob
DcCordova aeriously to task, for his
lectures in Philadelphia, which lectures
liavo caused somo* of the abolition theo-
rists to commence speculating upon the
possibility of " freo labor " existing in
Texas, Tho Telegraph liberally acquits
Mr. DeCsrdova of any motive to injure
tho institution of slavery in Texas. And
anyone who knows that Mr. DcCordova
has witnessed tho practical workings
of " blave labor," and "free, vagabond
idleness, and degradation" in Jamaica,
must know that ho would never turn
loose tho Texas negroes. But then, the
Telegraph pursues liiin thus :
-Free Labor in tiif. South.—It is for
us to seo now, whether his self-interest,
a3 a large land owner, and a man de-
sirous of selling his lands, has not led
liiin, not only a step beyond good
Southernisin, but beyond experience and
facts.
The News says :
" It is clear, that free labor can be
effectually employed on the greater part
of Western and Northern l'exas, as well
as throughout the whole of Arizona.—
Cotton planting, whicli is followed in
Texas, can bo done by freo labor, and on
a remunerative scale, for tlio mere
planting requires, as it is well known
but very little labor; Tlio picking re-
quires more work—but then, where a
man has a family of boys and girls,
they can go into the field and accom-
plish a vast deal for a small sum, com-
paratively speaking, to suy the least
Sugar cannot be cultivated very large-
ly ia Texas, as it requires an invest-
ment whicli crops do not justify, at
least, judging by facts before us as we
write.
"Mr. DcCordova says ho has cm
ployed slave and free labor, and is well
satisfied that where it can be procured,
the latter is decidedly cheaper to the
small farmer, tlmn tho former. This he
acknowledges with what he calls a pro<
slavery "education." The only draw
back to tho introduction of free labor
in the Southwest, is the extreme scar
city of tho latter--and this drawback
will ceaso to exist, tho moment the fa
vorable character of "the country is
known to emigrants.
" Touching the employment of white
labor in Texas, Mr. DeCordova says :
' Without fear of contradiction, and un-
der a deep sense of the responsibility
wo assume toward our fellow creatures,
we assert that white labor can bo
cespfully employed in the upper portion
of Texas, without any extraordinary
risk of life.' "
Now as to tho News, wo liavo but
little to say. Wo can assure that pa
per on our word and honor, that cotton
planting cannot " be dono in Texas by
freo labor on a remunerative scale," and
that white folks here don't send their
boys and girls into tho cotton field.—
That cotton is planted, raised and pick-
ed, not only in Texas, but elsewhere in
the South, by free labor, is true, but
that it is doue on a remunerative, or nny
other scalo worth speaking of, we deny.
As to sugar, wo have known, In Texas,
3,000 lbs. of that article made from nn
acre of ground, and 200 galls, of molas-
ses, and that too, when sugar was
worth 10 cts., and molasses 60 cts. A
negro cultivates five ncrcs of ground at
least. Tho Nows can calculate tho
profits, or Mr. DeCordova either, if ho
furnished the facts which were " before "
tlio News. Mr. DeCordova is satisfied
that freo labor is decidedly cheaper than
slave labor. If he means free labor at
the North, and slave labor at the South,
he is correct; but if he soys slavo la-,
bor is moro expensive than freo labor
in Texas, ho is simply mistaken, to Bay
tho least of it-. Nor need tho News
bo misled by Mr. DeCordova, to look
for a very early day when Northern and
Western Texas will be consecrated to free
labor. Texas is made to bo cultivated
by slaves, and we only want enough of
them to inakc, not only their labor
cheapcr than free labor, but tho profits
of tbe labor greater than any whore
else on the globe.
Wo trust that neither Mr. DoCordo-
va's " deep boiiso of responsibility,"
nor Ilia great desire to sell eighty acre
tracts ot land in tho ludiay country, at
free State speculation prices,.will mis-
ead any unwary greenhorn, at Phila-
delphia or elsewhere, into tho belief that
any man can profitably cultivate tho
soil, and lose five hours in the middle of
the day, by laying by from ten or eleven
o'cldck in tho morning, to tlirco iu the
afternoon."
Now, wo know that in these sensitive
timeB, it ie dangerous to speak the truth,
even at liomO, and hence Mr. DeCordo-
va waa no doubt blameablu to speak it
abroad, or evon in "his book," for the
lurposc of selling land, or adding to tlic
Texas population.
We daro tell tlio Telograph, however,
tliat tho want of outspoken twutli, and
the pnlpnblo misconception, that in no
Southern State does tho w{iite man
work, lyo at tbe foundation of tho whole
olavory agitation. Wo exposed an ar-
ticle of one of the British Magazines,
last year, which assumed that the 3,500,
000 slaves of tho South, were owned by
150,000 matters. That after deducting
tlicno masters and their families, 2,600,-
006 ^ none of whom, it was said, work
ed) the residue of the Southern people,
4,000,000, were vagabond whiskey sell
ing rogues This monstrous libel was
rtpon th« asaumption that "whHo peo-
ple do not mmd their boys and girla In-
;o the field." We said then, as we be-
levo now, that no where upon the globe
<ft> five and « half million of fire# white
people do as niucj^ productive and
remunerativo labor, as that number in
Of course, when
wes yfa*wr, we
LintbcBeM, fn
tbe simp, la the learn-
ed professions, nud in the sacred desk.
We acknowledge but two ways of mak-
ing a living—working and stealing. The
Southern white people do less of the
latter, and more of the former, than
any people in the world.
Tho notion, that boys do not work in
the cotton field, (meaning on tho farms)
is simply endorsing Seward's slander.
Wo know not what was the good for-
tune of the Editor of tho Telegraph,
but fjr oursclf '?c can can say, that we
made no mean hand on a cotton farm in
our day; and no negro in Oglethorpe
county (and there wero ten thousand
there,) could basket more cotton in a day
than tho Senator from Bexar. We may
also point, with pride,- to our nearest
neighbors, the Lumpkins. Tho iatlfer
of that distinguished family owned two
thousand acres of land iu one body—a
great deal in that country—and he was
himself a man of marked distinction.
And yet no negro on his farm did more
field labor than John Lumpkin's sons,
iu early life. They have since filled the
full measure of fame as divines, as law-
yers, planters, and statesmen, iu that
State.
Tho Telegraph's notions may lie true
of that section, but it is not ?rue of all
Texas. Wo have more voters than ne-
groes, and five times-inoro whites than
slaves. Wo liavo almost literally no
idlers. Nearly all the work in the shops,
iu carrying, in herding stock, and inore
than half iu tho (¿eld, is performed by
white labor.
Peter Kerr, of Burnet county,[lias an
incomo of ten thousand dollars per an-
num, and yet every stroke of his work
is performed by white labor. A tenant
of Peter's, in 1856. (as tho old gentle
man told us,) paid his rent, kept his
next year's supply, aud made a nett
profit of $1,500, with no labor but the
old man and his son. Ono man in Bas-
trop, four years ago, cleared $900 on
cotton, with no labor but his own and
two sons. Take tho-counties of Dallas,
Collin, Cook, and that vast wheat re
gion, and it will be found thjit five-
sixths of the whole field work is per-
formed by whites.
To our Western men it is well known
that stock raising, well pursued, will
yield eighty per cent, per annum profits on
tho investment, through any twenty
years—and yet West of tho Colorado
nine-tenths of the herding is doue by
•' free labor."
All this does not mako slavery less,
but more secure. Tho institution be-
comes patriarchal. The black menial
feels himself to bo a pnrt of tho fami-
ly, and looks with pride upon the fact
that his mnsterB and mistresses are the
"clean light workers/ The growing
flocks, the widespread farm, the stately
mansion, are a matter of pride witli the
negro; for ho feels tliut ho is a villein
regardant, who will desccnd with the
rich inheritance.
The only pcóple who never learn the
truth, are the wilfully blimt, who come
from abolition -hot-beds, und eternally
send back tho wail, that "the n£gro is a
curso to his lazy master, aud Southern
whites, who own no ncgrocB, are a de-
graded class ¡ " Infamous slander.—
Wo liavo no degraded class. And
there aro no stronger arms, nor stouter
hearts to defend the institution than
the four millions who own not a single
negro—ivad the groat majority of whom
are manual laborers.
We aro no defender of Mr. Jacob
DeCordova; nor have we ever seen his
book. But we do defend Southern so-
ciety ns it is; and -it is not what our
Northern traducers make it—a cruel
State, where it is a disgrace fori.lie
white man to work. But as a general
rulé, the white man does work, and
works with honor. And there aro few
distinguished Southern inert who have
not been laborious workers. <
Dyixo.—1Tho Cherokee Sentinel gives
notice of expiring throes. Tho wailing
editor kicks the Democracy and the
time-honored Masonic fraternity.
The editor has overlooked the fact
that tho ago has ceascd to pay for Ji-
centiousncss.
The Beacon also gives notice of a
change of hands; and seems to doubt,
their success. Tho business is over-
done.
Tub Minnesota Constitution.—In tltc
debate in the Senate it was proposed
to allow tho State three Representatives
in Congress, it being asserted that the
new State bus a population of 250,000,
though tho census docs not show it.
It waa also objected, that Indians are
allotted to vote. But it was correctly
answered, that Congress has no concern
with or power over the question of suf-
frago in tho States.
ÜfTlie Sail Antonio Herald learns
that tha confidonce felt in the early
oompletion ot the Railroad to Victoria,
ia giving life to tbe towns on the Bay.
Letters have been reoeivad at Lavaca
from Now Tork, making offerp of the
isary iron to go ahead with the
work. It ia net doubted but the road
will be in ranuing order to Victoria ta
tine to carry off th* next cotton crop.
of
prairie, they went to Mr. Polk's (en,
(about two miles Northwest ot ' -
town of San Saba,) laid down the I
Frontier-
We call attention to the letter
William Tbaxtou, Esq., relative to the
frontier annoyances in the promising
county of San Saba.
We can only say to our friends, that
the United States Army Bill, which we
notice in another column, will, we trust,
provide for enough forces for frontier
protection—und we would recommend
that our frontiersmen, to a great extent,
form the companies.
The Governor is now absent, and we
suppose that no action can be taken,
except directions to Capt. Ford, until
he returns :
Wallace's Ciu.kk, San Suba C , Tex. 1
March 31st, 1858. i
(J. W. Paschal, —Dear Sir:—In-
dian depreciations aro now almost oi
daily occurrence in this vicinity. On
the night of the 25th iust, alter gnth-
,.rin«'* what horses could be found on the
• „t to Mr. Polk's |
of the
renco
anil drove oft liis entire e«6i/A/fl,f>3liead.
On the mottling of the 20th a compa-
ny of citizen was hastily raised, and by
10 o'clock \vas on the trail. The course
of the trail lbr the first 50 miles is about
W. N. W.—thence nearly North to the
Concho ¿-alley, where my informant
turned buck. ' lie reports the trail Very
fresh, and thinks the pursuing company
was not more than 10 miles behind the
thieves, lie also says that one of the
thieves wears a Jlnc boot, two of them
shoes, and tho remainder tnockusiiis.
On the night of tlie 26th, Mr. Wads-
worth and Mr. Boinar, living near the
month of Wallace Creek, had their bors
es stolen from the stake-rope near their
houses. On the same night, and iu the
same vicinity,a party visited Mr. tioius
pen. One of the party rode up to the
back part of the pen, got down and tied
his horse to tlio fence, when the dogs,
discovering liiin, forced liiin to get on
the fence. Ho then spoke to his com-
panions iu good English, saying, "Come
on—don't bo afraid." This aroused Mr.
Coin, who was sleeping at tlio pen gate,
and as he lose up the thief, discovering
liiin, shot one of tlie dogs through with
an arrow, and retreated some .00 yards
and took a position behind a tree, from
which lie shot six or seven arrows ni
Mr. Goin, who, in return, fired at liiin
The thief then unido his escape, leaving
his horse tied to the lenco.
On the night of the 29th, four horses
wero stolen from Capt. HarKey's place,
on Wallace Creek, two miles above the
mouth. These homes were cut loose,
from where they were tied, within a few
feet of the house door. On the same
night Mr. Ellis, Mr. Baker, and several
others, lost their horses.
During the last six days largely over
100 head of horses -have been stolen
from this immediate neighborhood.—
What arc we to do? Cen we get no
aid from the State ? Captain Ford is
quartered so far from us that he gives
us no protection whatever. We need
a force of 25 or 30 men, stationed near
tho mouth of Pecan Bayou, to range
through Sun Saba and Broun c unties.
If we can get nny assistance we should
have it at once, for we cannot stay here
to be robbed of all our property. Ma-
ny nro even now speaking of deserting
their lands and leaving their improve-
ments to the mercy of the savage, nrnl
th S,permit the most beautiful and fer-
tile portion of the Stat ', which, by the
mdtisffy bt the hardy frontiersman, is
beginning to " blossom as the rose," ty
relapse into its pristine wildness.
Yours truly, WM. THAXTOX.
P. S." Sinco writing tlio above I loom
that about 20 head of horses wore stol-
en last night'(81st) on the San Saba
river, below San Saba tnwn.
' J . .... 1
flfci^We understand that the Supreme
Court will render their decision tho in
"Plat" case, between our City Tifid
the City Company, during the session
at Tyler: but they announced that the
Bank and Mills eases would be held
under advisement till ¿lie next term of
tho Court in this city, a year hence.
We believe thoso cases have now been
pending for a period of ten years.—
When we boar in mind the serious in-
jury inflicted, not only on the pih ties
immediately interested, but upon tlx
mblio at large, by such protracted de-
lays, it may become questionable wheth-
er the benefit of legal decisions is not
counterbalanced by the evil of such de-
lays.
It will hardly be denied that our
whole community is deeply interested.
This state of uncertainty has hud near-
ly the sanio efiect asa decision adverse
to tho defendants, aud litis,deprived the
people of their usual commercial facili-
ties to u considerable extent.—Gulces.
News.
Delays nro worse thnn no litigation.
The Kansas Test Vote.—Tho New
Orleans Picayune gives the following
analysis of the vote in the Sedate :
An analysis of the vote.in the Sen-
ate on the bill shows that there wero in
the affirmative, twenty-two Senators
(Democrats) from Southern States,
three Senators (American) from South-
ern Stutes, and eight Senators (Demo-
crats) from Northern, or rather from
non-slavcholding States. In tlio liega
tive there were two Southern (Ameri-
can) Senators, four Northern (Demo
crate) Senators, and nineteen Northern
(Republicans) Senators.
Gen. Houston, (American) of Texas,
voted in tho affirmative in obedience to
tho instructions of his State; and Mr.
Pngli, (Demount) of Oblo, voted in
tint uegutivo for the same reason.
So Gen. Houston was not pcrruaded,
but obeyed.
Fenwick Smith's saddle tveo man-
ufactory, is located in the old house at
tho foot of Congress Avenue, on tho
right hand aido.
Ths vwomia iunkh.—-Tlte prcmire upon
tbe banks ot Virginia in lite ;«4wpe i>t public
opinion, it it thought, may powibly induce « re-
Miraption of mella payment before November
next. It ie wild that many of tbe bnuks are
rwttly and With to rename.
State of the Knuiai Quettlaa,
The amendment (to the Senate'*
which appears to have passed the
House of Represen tat i ves, pronoeo
submit the Lecornptmi Constitution1,
vote of the people of Kansas, aiufifn
tioned by u majority of the Territ,,.^'
be admitted on the urocluimitin.. J?."
' co*,|
B admitted on the proclamationofti
resident, and if rejected, to|on,u *
vention and frame a constitution inT
regular way. This amendment i
liist offered ill tho Senate by Mr (*M
tendon, and rejected by u vote of Ij"1 I
24. tvl
This proviso amounts virtually ti.n J
"enabling act" contended for u I
i... * ta r
tain parties in Congress, and
to amount to the udniisí¡o""f'H
oof Kunsus into tlio Union « .
said
StUtO UI 1VUMBUH llllll mo Lliioji . .
does not recognize the present existí"
of such a State. Tho Senate's bill
the other hand, distinctly ucknovvU'""
tho existence of sucha State, LuM
inits tho right of tho people "at all tjjii
to alter, reform, or abolish tlioir furrn^r
government, in such manner as tl
may think proper." 'l'lie difference i!
tween the purport of the tivo bilu
about as wide us it well could bo—n'l
one admitting Kansas with the present I
constitution, ami the other refusing t I
do so. The prospect of uii agft^JLJ I
between the two houses does not fCn, j
promising; inasmuch as the SemiteUI
previously rejected the bill passed by |¡J
House, by a majority of ten voteM
Tlio majority in its favor, in the lloi
was eight. Alter iis passage tlirnitfl
that body, it V';\% sent to the Seimtof
where it was rejected by u majority¿I
nine. The prospect of a cotnpromiJ
does not seem to bo good; und it J
probable that the matter will be delayed
for some time. ' '1
In the mean time, the Free SniM
are holding another constitutional c,,,,.
vention in Kansas. They disclaim a||
extreme views; however, and, itia Haiti
propose to modify and re-adopt the WI
pekiv Constitution.
The probability nppenrs to be
the pi^KjIavery men will refuse to voté |
upo itj'-when submitted to the people-
and that the free soilers will cluim it¡I
adoption. So that Kansas will bttvca 1
territorial, and two state government!I
at the sanio time, and continue toexhiUI
it, with all three, the worst governed!
community in America, the Jlormuml
excepted, la the mean time, the prin-1
ciples of the original Kaiisns-Nelirasku
act stands out in bold relief as a beacon |
lor the guidance of all parties, thoughI
unheeded. The people of Kansas tlicm-1
selves are charged with the responabiil
ity of settling the whole controversy.!
If they would only cease to enact theI
childish play, "When 1 say let go, yi«|
hold fast; when 1 say hold fast, you let j
go," and act together for once, ftirljl
determining what they themselves, (it
a majority of them) desire, they might
uot oiilyseciire peace amonjftheniselva,
but restore tranquility, in a gleat de-
gree, to tl e country :U, large.
It should not bo forgotten by tin
South, tliut a majority of the U. 8,
House of Representatives deny that
they refuse to admit Kansas becauso
the Leconipton constitution tolera les «li-
very; l ut they assume that the (Jumti-
tut ion is not the choice of ft majority of
the people of Kansas themselves. A
majority of both Houses in Congress still
admit the principle of the original hill
introduced by Senator Douglas and
adopted by Congress nt the outset of
the contest. — ('iri/iun.
'Tlio " Souilimi Dniwcnt'' pinto- llml 11
man iiiiuiril Jut' Sai'lli, J't'niiiiujr oil llie B Hp,
eniit• Id Wiii'o in Ins two lior-y wilson, on tlie I
"¿OtIt iust. \\ liiii' there, lie became n little h-1
tox'ciilwt; lute in tho evening lie ntiirti'd Imr,
anil a cliort tliitlaiico from intvn was tlii-im
from life wagon, apon a rock, and to Unity
liriiiHi fl. tlnit tlvalh eimicd next dny. Tl* I
•' Oi linici al-' Hiyf " lliis eliotiltl he a winningI I
those tiiider the iiiHncnce ol iiVtlent fpirilf, uul I
to tr'o chairs for feats when riding in a witgon,
as they are easily 1,'lteil over.'"— F.tchangt.
Would it not be better to go to the I
root of the evil and not drink any "hurt
bead" at nil? It is almost impossible I
to provide ngninst all the dangers toI
which drunken men are forever expos- J
ed ; but by never drinking one is never |
drunk, and never being drunk tiel
chances of life and happiness are great-j
I y increased.
We once witnessed a melancholy I
stance of an old woman being burnetii
to death. Her husband, who Inul not |
been sober for many years, walked about
hitching up his suspenderless troivsem
and saying : "Well, I knew the old
woman was drunk, but I did not sup j
pose sho wus uo d d drunk as to!
in the fire 1"
Jo Smith's friends no doubt knew 1*1
was drunk, but iiotso'druuk as to break
his own head. So it is iu most eases |
of self-dcstrnetion by the " ardent."
Six Uunuited and Fiitv Dotuiis Et'
waiid.—-The above reward has been s
scribed aud offered by good and reli 'I
bio citizens of Titus county, in tlií
State, for tlio apprehension of Patrick |
II. Curr, who, it is said, murdered l'f-
Henry W. Uankston, on the 10th of |
March, in the towyi of DangcrfieW-
CaiT is 18.or 20 years old, florid com-1
plexion, dark hair, snub nosed, j
slightly droop shouldered, is about lhL'
and a half feet high, and weighs abort |
120 pounds.
Tiuat) Kurri.v.--'The Jews would *'!r
lingly trend upon the smallest piece o FT
in their way, but take It up ; lor
sny, Itie name of Ootl mty he on it. * S.
there wu it little «iperstllior in this, yci, ^
there is nothing but good religion in
apply it to mou. Tnuupie not on any i
may bo some work of grace there that ^ .
knowesi uot of. Tint name of God m J
written upon that soul that tlion treadc
a hoi 1 Unit Christ thought w mnoli of b«' # .,
his preolous blood for It? therefore deup
not.
A WoxDBaitJL Watch.—A correspondo!)'
tho London Builder states that h«i kiKWMjr ,
ticman if ho lias hud a watch ill hi
tor inore than thirty year*, how?1
whicli there is no mean* otwuiding,
the tiny of the Week. I be hour, niinnte ,m<>
aud he bel leve years, «nd how tor
the day. It oost atwmt £!W0, ««• <
a Frenchman, < *"
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