The Texas Ranger, and Brazos Guard. (Washington, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 1, Ed. 1 Tuesday, January 16, 1849 Page: 1 of 4
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Jacksonville, -
Montville,
Houston,
?ort La Vaca,
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The following named gentlens* are request-
ed to act as agents for the "Texas Ranger:"
J. B. Robertson,
W. A. Higgins, "
J. Haller,
Sam. Fuller,
M. K. Snell,
A. W. S. Davis,
J. L. Nickelson,
Jas. Denison,
G. M. Bryan,
John Adriance,
G. H. Harrison,
N. H. Hunger,
R. H. Beale,
M- C. Spann,
J. Hilliard,
Brum Lee,
L. L Chiles,
W. D. Thompson,
F. T. Duffee,
G. W. Glasscock,
C. H. Stearne,
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J. C. Boggs,
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Columbia,
Big Creek,
San Fefipe,
•Richmond,
Galveston, •
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Nashville,
Cameron,
Georgetown,
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Huntsville,
ett,
C. Armstrong,
B. B. Boston,
Col. Yokum,
John Long,
H. C. Fountain,
Judge McFarhmd.
LAW ON NEWSPAPERS.
1st. Subscribers who do not give express no-
tice to the contrary are considered wishing to
continue their subscription.
2nd. If subscribers Order the discontinuance
of their papers, the publishers may continue to
send them till all that is due be paid,
3rd. If subscribers neglect or refuse to take
their papers from the office to which they are
directed, they are held responsible till they
have settled their bill, and order their papers
Id was the discove-
Europc. Three
bt rev.
The great era of the
ry of the art of
cities have contended for the honor of being
the birth-place of this wonderful art. It was
discovered in 1429 or 1430, but for many years
the art was a profound secretf and it was not
till Mentz was taken in war, and the printers
were scattered, that -it was revealed. As at
first they attempted to imitate written works,
they used to call it the wonderful method of
characterizing books. Many of the first prin-
ters bore the name of John, hence teleprinters
throughout Germany chose St. John as their
patron saint. The first bible ever printed was
by Faust or Faustus, about the year 1460 or
1462. He carried some of these to Paps and
sold them at the moderate sum of six hundred
and sixty dollar6acopy,and gradually reduced
the price to thirty-three dollars a copy. No
one suspected that they were not written with
a pen. As he sold so many, all Paris, was
moved ; such multitudes and yet all alike I It
was concluded that he must be in leaguftwith
the Devil. His rooms were searched—more
bibles were found, and a quantity of red ink;
this was the blood of the wicked ¿me himself;
and Faust was glad to eseapeforhislife, while
his wicked books and Devil's Wood wefte burn-
ed with holy horror. Hence that curiouábook
called Dr. Faustus and the Devil, which has
been extensively circulated among the ignorant
in this country. That book, let me sarf in
passing, is a libel; for Faust was a very riious
, and had less to do with the devil than
mnY wfrifl to
>n aftcj
4th. If subscribers remove toother places,
without informing the publishers, and the pa-
6th. The cour ts have decided that
to take a paper or periodical from the office, or
leaving it uncalled for, imprima
of intentional fraud!
liana, decided recent-
iber to a periodical
► discontinue the
for which hé sub-
far
Soon after priif
continent, the Archbishop of CanterbtirjMttov-
ed Henry VI. to send and get a printing mould,
as it was called. Canton, the father ofthe art
in England, bribed a printer at Haffem, and
smuggled him into England. He was received
in London and carried to Oxford bya guard of
soldiers, lest he should escape before he had
communicated the art to England. This was
in 1473. Jesse Glover, (a Puritan clergyman,)
is the father of printing in the^ITnited States.
He died in the passage over, but his press ar-
rived at Cambridge, M¡
m after, in 1639,
t settlers landed,
ent of Massachu-
its patronage, and
of land to support
ing printed in this
nineteen years after
For a long time the
setts supported the
by granting several
the printer. The first.
country was the freeman's oath, and the second
is sent to the° former direction, they are an almanac* The coüntry was so poor and
houses so scarce, that for a long time the first
printer, Green, had to lodge in a cask. The
first bible prmtro here, was that which was
translated by Elliott into the Indian language
—an immexripB work, both for the translator and
printer, Indian words had from thirty to
rs in each. Cotton Mather says that
have been very long at the flood,
growing very long ever since. Elliot lived
to see two editions of his bible printed. There
is not now a man on the face of the earth who
can read rt.
The first newspaper was printed in England
in 1642. The first in Boston was in 1704—
only on One side of a half-sheet of post, pub-
lished by John. Campbell, who styles himself
ew England at Boston," and
ty the only
| copying one of his early advertisements? "To
I be sold by the^ printer of this paper, the very
Who has had the
por and the measles, is as hearty as a
as a bird, and will work like a
.Hiair i
i established in South America,
1604. The number of
ien printed there is im-
whlch they dare do it, they are as anxious and
as ready to burn an author as his writings. It
was for this reason that the immortal Sidney
was condemned to death for a manuscript
found in his stiidy.- " Scribere éstagere," said
the learned judge as he condemned hini to
death. Cromwell well understood the power
of mind, when he took up the anonymons
pamphlet in which he was compared to, or
called a wolf, and Englishmen sheep. He read
it, and was never known to smile after laying
it down!
Foreigners not unfrequently give us the
name of a money-loving and a money-getting
people, and as far as they do so, they univer-
sally ascribe it, in a great measure, to the
maxims and lessons of economy which Frank-
lin impressed on his country while in its infan-
cy. There probably never was a more selfish,
soulless corporation, than the East India Com-
pany formerly was. Take away all that bril-
liancy and glory which the unrivalled elo
quence of Sheridan threw over the pictures
which stood out so vividly in the impeachment
of Warren Hastings, and you still have facts
enough left to show us how merciless and un-
relenting was the brute power of that Compa
ny's government. But since Sir William
Jones, (whose náme, I trust, will find a con-
spicuous place in that song which I hope Hu-
manity will yet have sung to her praise), took
his pen, the whole character and feelings of
that corporation have been changed. '.All the
legislation of the British Parliament could
never have done what was brought about by
the pen of that gifted writer. With what ad-
miration and envy does every nation look up-
rn
" Whose march is on the mountain wave—
Whose home is on the deep."
And to what is this supremacy on the ocean
owing? Some will point to Nelson as the
creator Of that dominion, and to the battles of
the Nile and Of Trafalgar; but is that it.? No
—no. Go back—back—till you come to
Father Evelyn, who began to plant the oak
long before Nelson was born, and whose pen,
as he himself tells us, caused millions of oaks
to be planted even in his day¡ These oaks
made the British navy* and left her without a
rival, till the live oak of America} bearing in
its bosom men of oak, cárhé in contact and
showed that this country was moré solid and
unyielding. These English oaks were the or
igin of that mighty navy, and of the proud vic-
tories of England,—and all this may be traced
back to the pen of the sylva-loving and oak-
praising Evelyn! The thing which we need
is, the student in the closet, and the means of
giving the results and the impressions of his
mind to the whole of society. This is what
the world has been sighing for, and toiling for,
and this is now within our reach, by the press.
Who can estimate the different states of so-
ciety when property can recite her sweet notes
only in the ears of a select few, who can afford
it, and when she can oharm, and softeh, and
refine the great mass of the community, and
make nations feel the influence of every note ?
Wto can tell how long and how widely the
influence of one chaste and holy poet will be
felt on earth, or how much a single sweet sin-
ger can do for virtue, and patriotism and hu-
l
Cewper raise his bold and moral" song;
in Virtue strong;
, while he sings, lets fell her honest te^rs,
And mad oppression startles while he heats r'
It was the genius of Beccfiria, first working,
in the closet, and thén sent out upon the world,
that banished torture as means of discovering
truth, and the genius of Locke and Voltaire in-
troduced toleration in religion—never more,
we trust, to be forgotten.
But for. a long time after the press was in-
bridge between the learned and the
PROPRIETOR.
ADVANCE.
NUMBER 1.
ANUARY 16, 1849.
a ray of lighT tilUi^plsglanced«ind
counted minds, and made its im-
pression all round the globe; nor is it beyond
th< bounds of possibility that a single thought
thus thrown abroad may have a greater influ-
ente upon the destiny of the world, than all
th^t man has yet done for the good of his spe-
cks. A single thought brought before this
andience may be destined to outlive us, and to
create new impressions when our heads are
pillowed in dust.
Nor is this all. The ease with which
lhtbwledge is now spread, raises up and calls
oUt genius, and creates mighty minds where,
in other ages, they could not be found. Once,
knowledge had to seek her disciples in the nar-
row circle of the rich, and try to stimulate the
pampered; now she can find a Brougham in a
sizar's jacket, waiting on tables in the College
Halls; or call out the great mind of La Place,
whilW6llowing the plough, on the little farm
of his father; or find our own great, good, and
immortal Bowditch at his father's trade in the
cooper's shop. Now, mind, wherever God
has created it, can come out and will come
Out, and lay its strength to the work of en-
lightening and blessing mankind.
Acpther great result to be mentioned, is,
that consequence of the ease of communica-
ting knowledge, the mind of woman is raised,
enlightened, purified, and in its own symme-
trical and beautiful proportions, its influence is
brought to bear upon the welfare of man.
Here the ancients mistook. They praised the
beauty of their daugStere; they professed to
adore the outward person; but the soul was
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Christianity , nr.rr; n Y
o, and after sneTB ; 1
gntlnto every bosom, and after shé 'Has,- by
the lid of her handmaid, knowledge, raised the
femile to her true place, and made her a bless-
ing in the morning, at the noon, and at the
eveiing of life, she sweetly sings at her grave,
"Rfst, gentle shade, and wait thy Maker's
will—
Theh rise, scarce changed, and be an angel
: still!"
The world has recently begun to learn ano-
the* great and new lesson, viz: that the press
woi fcs best where the government and religion
are (the most republican. Austria, with a pop-
ularon of thirty-two millions, has fewer news-
papers and periodicals, than the city of Lon-
dort; and Austria, Brazil, Spain, and Russia,
witl an aggregate population of one hundred
and ten millions, have not twice ás many pe-
riodicals as the city of London! Asia, con-
taining half the population of the globe, has
^ut very few more than the city of Boston! A
feié years ago, the city of Cincinnati, on the
Ohio river; was a wilderness; now it has more
periodicals than the empire of Brazil, with a
population of five millions. Rome, the Eter-
bal City, has not more than one-fourth as many
papers and periodicals as are published in Cin-
cinnati.
|Some have fearS lest the great and increas-
ing facilities with which thought can be con-
veyed and preserved, will be turned against
s; and that a stream of lavá máy be poured
at, so deep and scalding, that not only the
abernacle, but the cities of our God shall be
engulfed. They found their fears on isolated
ftfbts—sjich as these—that the miners in Cdfri-
1 were once instigated, (about the time of
French revolution,) to strip off their clfltbes
and sell them, in order to procure the wrwfcgs
of Paine; that these same writings were once
gratuitously distributed in Scotland, and a large
bedy of inhabitants got together and burnt their
bibies. At a meeting they once "resolved,"
with great point, " that the belief in a God Was
$o pernicious an opinion as to be an exception
to the general principle of toleration!" Hut
ée have no fears, when truth is left free and
unfettered, to combat error. "Controversy,"
says Bacon, " is the wind by which truth is
;" a process, we may add, through
it must pass as long as any ignorance or
undoubtedly, hereafter, to be
inm by which m ind is to be
powerful of all agencies;
now and then
i make it an engine of
and by it, pour upon his species a
r dreadful ; but these will
' ' to a gienfe-**
vi*Tihat
sida by sidy.
-
by age, whoí^hJft ofühe wicked piitroTia§.
Talents, consecratecrto virtue" will ever find a
response when they appeal to tliQ unalterable
principles of our nature,- while contempt will
be poured upon talents perverted. Mankind
will look back and sympathize with the Virtu-
ous Alfred and call him great, while they re-
gard Henry VIH. and Charles II. they
would the carcasses of felons hung in, chains.
Voltaire and Rosseau, Hume, and Swift, all
great men and fill wicked men, caeliiu his own
way, have nearly exiled ineinselves^from the
libraries of the virtuous. Not so with Locke
—the great and good—not so with Milton,
whose wing is of no middle flight, and which
will not tire to the end of time. Not so with
Cowper, whose gentle spirit seems to linger
upon earth, increasing in brightness, like the
light of morning, when the sun arisetb,—a
morning without clouds. The name of Bona-
parte is destined to fade—the decree is irrevo-
cable ; but should this nation crumble away
and sink under its sins and the wrath of hea-
ven, there is one name that will beam upon it,
bright as the sun which shines upon the cloud
that covers all beneath with blackness; or,
should we be torn and tosse<JJjy civil commo-
tions, that name will still hang over us
the bow over the great falls—" like love watch*
ing madness"—that name is George Wasu-
ington.
No writer of judgment, hop ing* for immor-
tality, dares take the side of vice. I shall not
attempt to analyze this fact. But from it we
may gather the assurance that, as a general
thing, even should its power be increased a
press must be the handmaid
religion." i nére a Worm at
the root of every tree whose fruit is not ior the
welfare of man; and it must perish, even though
a prophet weeps ovér it. It is not in the pow-
er of the press to make even a wicked Poet the
favorite of mankind. In vain he gathers up
the strength of a giant mind and still mightier
passions, and throw^ them into one deep, broad
channel, to roll and dash and foam, impatient
and fearless; in vain he strings his harp and
throws notes wild and sweet, upon the world.
Mankind will judge impartially of departed
men. Hence the press can never become so
great a curse as it is a "blessing.
While all men are looking forward to some
kind of millenium on earth—while with some
it is to be the reign of civil liberty, with others,
the prevalence of education and intelligence i
with others, religion; with others, it is a union
of all these. And who needs despair of having
the world enlightened; civilized, purified and
subdued, when we have such machinery with-
in our power by which to reach the miuds of
others, and cause mind to act upon mind!
Bright hope! that while art lays her iron path-
way over the earthy and wearies herself in in-
venting new methods by which to bless man-
kind.—every stroke of the press rears a moui>
ment which will survive all others; and every
pure thought committed by it to paper, shall
bless the spirit of man in her everlasting flight
through the regions of immortality.
Short Extracts
from standard french authors.
One lofees all the time which he can employ
better.—Rousseau.
The high stations of the ^WorltUcorrupt the
soul; poverty demeans it.—Ibid.
The first step of vice is the tlirowing-of mys-
tery over innocent actions; and whoever de-
sires to practice concealment has already, or
will soon have, some reasons for practising it.
One moral precept ülone may take the place Of
all others—it is this: •' Neither do nor say any-
thing, which you would not be Willing for all
the world to see or hear." As for me, t have
always Regarded as the most estimable of men
that Roman, who wished to have his house
constructed in such a way that all that he did
might be seen by passers by.-~-Ibirf.
Every age has its attractions, but through
them all, man is the same. At ten, he is trans-
ported with cakes; at tfrenty, by a mistress?
at thirty, by pleasures; at forty, by ambition;
at fifty, by avarice: when id it that he Seeks
wisdom alone 1—Ibid.
Man naturally thinks little.
ait which he learns like all
with greater difficulty^—i5¿íi
If the richness of both Indies-^if the
all the kingdoms of Europe
t is above
t envy;
Ornees to give, toe riagae
mmm i
3MM
throw one —i
Aman is<
nothing to be
Of two heroes, he who
most, is generally the ¡
Love of country
becomes an object <
Accustom
you without
and on what is below you without contempt.
Let not high station impose on you; it is only
little souls that prostrate themselves before
irroatners: admiration is dn* only to virtue.—
JHiu/ame de Sutut Lambert. •/ i.' J
Politeness is a desire of pi wising; natura
«jlVes it, and education and the world increase
it. Politeness is the suppteutem o* vS'Lic? It
is said that she eamc into the world, when that
child ofheaven alwtndonwd itt—Iftid.
When a person feels that he has not the Abil-
ity to make another esteem him, he always
hates him —Marquis dc Vautrnargttes.
A ronseiousness of our powers increase them.
—Ibid.
The art of p!ea«ng is the art of deceiving.—
Ibid.
Indolence is the sleep of the mind.—Ibid.
]Pne turns a thou Hit, as he would a coat, to
serve Hun mqp? thaPÜ^e.—Ib%dm
SoHtude is tcfthe mind what dietiu<ftetotb
body*—Ibid.
Wisdom is to the mind what health is to the
body—Rochrfouealt
Happiness or misfortune, usually go to those
who already have the most of the onu or rh«
otherv.—Ibid.
We can give advice, but the wisdom to pro-
tit by it/we cannot give.—Ibid.
We |ove better to see those to whom we do
good, than those who do good to us.—Ibid.
It is more difficult to conceal the sent ¡menu
that We lifcve than to feign those that we haw
not.—Ibid.
A man whom no person pleases is more un-
happy than one who pleases nobody.—Ibid
Origin of the Cap op Liberty.—In former
ages, old age was honorable, caps became em-
blems of honor. By degrees it became the
badge of freedom, for none were deemed hon-
orable who were not free, and when a slave
was made a freeman, he had a cap given to
him, which he was permitted to wear in pub-
Iícj The Pilius, or cap of Liberty, was simple
its form, in the shape of a sugar loaf, broad
at the base, and ending in a cone. This pre-
figures that freedom stands on the broad basis
of humanity, and runs up to a pyramid, the em-
blem of eternity, to show it ought to last for-
ever. It was simple, for Liberty is in itself the
most shining ornament of man. It has none
o «
of the gilded trappings that make the livery of
despotism.' The cap of Liberty was white, the
gWflwr eoiar of thai utulyed^ showing that it
should be untainte&txy ov tyiAtU'l) .
Immortality of Man.—Why is it that the
rainbow and the cloud come over us with a
beauty that is not of earth, and then pass away,
and leaves us to muse upon their faded loveli-
ness ? Why is it that the stars which hold
their festivals around the midnight throne, are
set above the grasp of our limited faculties-
forever mocking us with unapproachable glory ?
And why is it that bright forms of human beau-
ty are presented, to our view and then taken
from us, leaving the thousand streams of our
affections to flow back in an Alpine torrent up-
on our heart ? We are born for a higher des-
tiny than that of earth. There is a-realm
where the rainbow never fades, where the stars
will be spread out before us like islands that
slumber on the ocean—and where the beauti-
ful beings that now pass before us like visions,
will stay in our presence forever.—Prenticc.
Be Firm.—The wind and the waves may
beat against a rock, planted in a troubled sea,
but it remains unmoved: Be you like that
rock, young man'. Vice may entice, and the
song and the cup may invite. Beware—stand
firmly at your post. Let your principles shmc
forth unobserved. There Ls glory in the thought
that you have resisted the temptation and con-
quered. Y our bright example will be to the world
what the light-house is to the mariner upon a
sea shore. It will guide hundreds to the point
of virtue and safety.
The friendship of some people is like our
shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in
the sui^hine, but deserting us the moment we
enter the shade.
If boys, now-a-days, did not become gentle-
men at fifteen, the country would have mora
learned men. ' #
If girls, now-a-days, did not become worn**
at thirteen, men wouid have better wives.
BeautifH Saíing of a Dtino Man.—The
late Professor Caldwell, of Dickinson College,
a short tinfe before his death, addressed his
wife as follows—"Yoti will not, I am sure,
lie denton upon your bed and weep when Í anl
Ton will not mourn for me
been so good to me. And
r e I lie, do not choose a sad and
monrnfiii timé j dé not go in the shade of the
evening, or iii the dark night. These are no
times to Visit the grave of thp Christian; but
go in the morning, in the bright sunshiüe; and
when the birds are singing."
The We-dcísó Ring.—The wedding
is put on the fourth finger of the bride's hand
in the original formulary of
of th e t
ofthe'
, with the woráe, "áwf
r and on the middle finger, with "and
tilf Ghost," and finally on fhe fourth,
"Amen."—Ladiei Dañar Nwspa.
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