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IHtSLECiltAP H & TEXAS REG'I STER.
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BIT FRANCIS MOOliE, JR.
fELEfifilPH ID REGISTER,
Pablished every Saturday, Main Street} Houston, by
fit AN CIS tlOOBE, Jtt.
terms:
Sub«cr pti#n far Oue Year, or Fifty -Two Nura-
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Advertising, one dollar per square for tfae first in-
Mrtira, aad fifty cents for eaek aufceequeut iasertiou.
Ten linea erless tocMstitute a square.
To Merchants and others advertising by the year,
a reasonable deduction from the above rates will be
made.
Steamboat cards, and Political cotnmunications
trill becharged at thesaeaerates as advertising.
Mjftic oh JYewspapers-
1.—3abacriben who !• not give express notice to the -coutrary
tfe considered at wishing to continue their subscription.
fi,— Ifsubscribers order the discontinuance ot their papers,the
pab2i«hsr may continue to send that is due be paid.
'legluut ^tinkalhvirpn.^iftam
•See to which ihey are directed, rtiejr are held responsible till
they have settled their bill, and ordered their papers discontinued.
•t.—If«ub eri!>er remote to other places, without informing
the publiihefs, and the paper i sent to the former dkeition.tliey
Are held retpeniible. .
5.—The courU have decided that refusing to taVe a paper or
periodical from the office, or removing, and leaviag it uncai.ed
far, is primi facie evidence of intentioial fraud !
Judge Thompson, of Indiana, decided recently. "That where
* subscriber to a periodical failed to notify the editor to discon
tinue the pipor, at the end of the time for which he subscribed,
o r pay up the arrearages, he was bound for another year.'
A yew or two since, the circuit court ofPe«nsylv«aiadecidod
"That where a Poet Master failed to notify the publishers of
newspapers, thattheir papers were not lifted or aken out the of-
fice, he rendered hiosselfliaWefur the subscription.
Agents for the Telegraph.
G. M. Rtder, Spring Creek, Harris co.
Swante Palm, Aaatin.
D. 6. Gregory, P. M., La Grange.
G. T. Laughton, Clarksville,
Jho. A. BaobY, Do.,
M. H. Dickson. Bonham,
E. H*. Dodd, Lick P. O., Fannin county,
U. Matthiesen, Faris,
W. W. Fain, Larissa, Cherokee county,
L. H. Gideon. Do., do.,
J. M. Goods, Marshall,-^ Harrisen county,
T. Collins, Crockett,
M. O. DisfoN, Montgomery,
J. P. Bowles, Milam county,
J. Tousey, Cincinnati, Walker co.
J. W. Copes, Columbia, Braaoria co.
J. L. Nickelson, Victoria.
MARRIAGE AND WOMEN.
It has long been a theory of ours that a
woman is always at the bottom of everything
very good or very bad which is done in the
world, if you find a man achieving greatness,
you hpve only to go back to bis cradle, and
io the lines of the mother's face who watches
there, you will see the lines ef energy, deter-
■sination, will—latent propertias they may be,
if life is a calm one—but the properties
which make bis fortunes are transmitted to
her child with her blood and thus nursed with
the first blood drawn from her bosom. If a
man robs or murders, nine times out of tan
he docs so to pleaso, or obtain the means of
-gratifying a woman. If he toils honestly,
end aecuumies wealth by self-denial, it to
pour it into her lap. In short, woman
makes or mars our life.. The effect she ex-
ercised over ill those whom, in the quant
language of an old writer, "unhappy lov of
poesie and letters had been astray," is sh wn
in the late number of Leigh Hunt's Journal.
. "Dryden married unhappy, and hew much
of-the venemous sting of his satire, bow much
of bis unpoetic, coarse deprecation of woman
had its origin therein. Addison shared hie
fate, and we know that the married Addison
did by no means equal the bachelor Specta-
tor; Pope refrained from matrimony, (his
physique, indeed, was not calculeted for win-
ning hearts,) and may we not imagine that
the 'divine little artist' might have produced
something beyond the sphere of mere art,
had successful love and domestic comfort
warmed his heart, and so ripened the Rape
of the Lock into a higher creation than the
also to avoid marriag-—
wherefore,"nofman shall know; avoided it with
heart vibrating between a Stella and a
Vanessa, descended, a very questionable
moral man, through a morbid old age, to' a
cheerless tomb; leaving his character as an
in explicable enigma to all times. Na/, in onr
days, have we not sees Lord Byron strug-
gling bis fiery course, without repose, with-
out definite purpose, through a maze of con-
tradiction, wrath and profligacy, to an awful
end? A man who married most un-
happily, whose heart was cauterized by the
loss of the only woman he perhaps ever truly
loved. His writings, his actions, tell us
that in his deepest abandonment to vice, the
ghost of his first and purest love rose ever and
anon before "him, to frown a clear reproof up-
on his wayward carecr. But even the loss of
Mary Chaworth might have been nullified,
had his marriage eudtid well. It did not; and
the unwise marriage magnified and prolonged
the unwise life and prepared the early
death."
These instances are striking, because the
actors in them have had the world for a stage,
and .-ill men's eyes to watch them; but the
truth is quite as great applied to meaner men.
It is the wife who*makes the home aad home
makes the man. Whenever we see a man
walking among men blameless, we take it for
granted that the aogel who keeps his feet is
the angel of home, a blameless wife.-Parkers
Journal.
The celebrated Geneva watches come out
io great force at the London Exhibition.—
There are watches for the deaf and blind—a
watch which runs,, with one winding, 374
days; one smaller than a fourpentiy piece to
hang in a serpent brooch; one still smaller in
the topef a gold pencil-case, tells the 'hour,
day of weak and- month.
A letter from Oven eounty, Ky., stal es
that the prospeot of a good tobacco erop in
that region is quite unfavorable. The hard
frosts and dry weather in the Spring, h.-.ve
materially reduced the plants, in addition to
which a small blaek bug had destroyed a
jgreat many plants by its ravages.—Delt i.
New Variety of Sheep.—The Provi-
dence Journal notices a ne,y variety of sheep,
a ram and a ewe, just imported from Africa,
and intended to be conveyed to the fine sheep
farm of M. B. Ives, Esq., at Potowomut.—
They came from the iuoiJ®tains about 300
miles in tbe interior, from the East coast of
Africa, and were a present from H. B. M.'s
Consul in Zanzibar, to a gentleman in Sa-
lem. The variety is entirely new, and quite
unknown to naturalists. It is distinguished
by the enormous fan ess of the tail, and a
singular dewlap .resembling that of cattle, and
the absence of horns in the ram. The wool
is very coarse, more resembling hair than the
article which is beginning to form so impor-
tant a staple in the productions of our state;
but, in recompense of this, the mutton is said
to be unrivalled in flavor and tenderness; and
it is probable that, by judicious crossing with
our native breeds, a very important \ariety
may be produced, sustaining, or, perhaps, im-
proving, the well-known reputation of Rhode
Island Mutton, and not depreciating its fit-
ness for wool.
Self-Reliance.*.—The success of individuals
in life is greatly ojving to their own resources.
Money, or the expectations of it by inherit-
ances, has ruined more men than the want of
it ever did. Tcach young men to rely upon
their own efforts, to be frugal and industrious,
and you have furnished them with a productive
capital which no man can ever wrest from
them.
0©*The Yarmouth (N. S.) Herald says
large quantities of mackerel had been taken
in that vicinity.
Education in Minnesota. The Territorial
University of Minnesota has been located at
St. Anthony. The University building is to
be erected immediately. The school fund has
been so husbanded in that Territory as to
secure to every child a common school edu-
cation free of all expense to parents.—[N. O.
Pic.
Kossuth to be Released.—The advices by
the Asia state that the Austrian Cabinet, have
consented, on the reiterated request of En-
gland, that Kossuth, and the other refugees in
Turkey, shall be set at liberty, on condition
that they shall immediately leave Europe,
and not return without the consent of Au-
stria.
A Desperate Resolve.—The Lockport Daily
Courier says: u There is' a legend that a
merchant once determined to ruin himself by
squandering his money in advertising; but he
found that the more he advertised the richer
he ji;rew, until at last he was obliged to give
up in despair of ever effecting bis purpose in
that way.
ValuaHle Discovert.—One of on : it-
Mr. A. it. Jones, has discovi edai. le
of ventilating sinks, whieh he thinks will ]. ve
■of tbe greatest utility. By inserting a pipe,
■ ty four inches in diameter, through tbe wall
J i*t above tho surface of the sink, and x
tending tbe pipe into the flue of a ohimnoy in
whieh a fire is kept up—for example, a kitch-
en chimney-—so great a draft is created a.- to
remove Alf impure air, and keop the premi <es
entirely £ree from disagreeable odors. 1 he
heat of &e chimney not only increases the
The wool crop of Michigan this season will
bring, at a low estimate, $700,000.
Banting— Seven of the Innividual Banks of
the State of New York have given notice
of their intention to wind up their affairs.
The stocks in them have, in many instances,
been transferred to the New Jersey Free
Banks. This is tho result of the one quarter
per cent, redemption law of the last session.
In addition, it is presumed that at least one
half of the remaining Individual Banks of the
State are materially reducing their circulation,
thS vacuum thus caused boing fiflld by foreign
bank notes
A Fact.—" He who advertises judiciously
and extensively,", says an exchange, " can af-
ford to sell to his customers to better advan
tage than he Who does not; because he adopts
the best means to multiply their number, and
secure to himself a much larger amount of
business. He who does the largest business,
can do it at the smallest per centage of profit.
Readers of the newspapers can always, there-
fore, know where to get the cheapest goods,
by looking to sec who advertises the most ex-
tensively."
Published Weekly.
HOUSTON, FRIDAY, JULY 18, 1851.
draft through the pipe, but purifies the air as
it ascends, so that, by the time it reaches tho
top, all the impurity is gone. Mr. Jones
assures us that he has tried tbe experiment
effectually, and that it works to perfection.
He says that, in this way, the most filthy
sinks may be rendered entirely free from un-
pleasant odors, while the purity of the sur-
rounding atmosphere will be preserved. In
densely populated cities, this discovery will
prove of great value in the promotion of com-
fort aad the preservation of health.—St.
Louis Ivle/ligencer.
so conspicuously in the center of the Exhibi-
tion, that few who enter can help seeing it.
And there are several miles of cases and lots
of. costly wares and fabrics exposed here, a
good share of which are quite as attractive as
i the great diamonds, and intrinsically far more
I Valuable. Is there cause for wonder, then,
that the Exhibition is daily thronged by tens
of thousands, even at the present high
prices ?
Queen Victoria's Fancy Ball, from tbe
preparations making, is to be among the most
brilliant fetes that ever come off in that luxu-
rious court. Among the persons invited, we
notice the names of Mr. Lawrence, the Am-
erican minister; Mr. Van Alea, &te U. S.
charge tP&flSires to Ecuador ; Mr Davis, Se-
cretary to the Legation ; Col. Lawrence, At-
tache to the Legation. Mr. Lawrence was to
appear as old Gov. Winthrop, of Massachu-
setts; Mr. Van Alen as Gov. Stuyvesant, the
last of the Dutch Governors of New York ;
Mr. Davis as Mr. Penn, and Col. Lawrence
as Lord Baltimore.
The State of New York is the owner of
the headquaters of Washington at Newburg,
having purchased the building and an acre of
ground some two years ago, for $2000.
A letter from H. Greeley, of the New
York Tribune, who is in attendance at the
World's Fair, expresses the opinion that tbe
receipts for admission during the three months
ending 1st of August, will probably reach
$700,000. He says :
No other exhibition was ever comparable
to this in exteut, variety or magnificence.—
For example : a single London house has one
million dollars' worth of the most superb
pfcte and jewelry in the Exhition, in a by no
means unfavorable position ; yet I had spent
the better part of five days there, roaming
and gazing at will, before I saw this lot.—
There are three diamonds exhibited which
are worth, according to the standard method*
of computing the value of diamonds, st least
thirty millions of dollars, aud probably could
be sold in a woek for twenty millions ; I have
seen but one of them as yet, and that stands
DR. JOHNSON'S
System Of Mutual Education.
* Houston, July llib, 1851.
To the Hon. Francis Moore, Jr.:
Dear Sir—Now that our country has ex-
perienced some National, Political and Com-
mercial changes, it certainly would be desi-
rable—at least to all lovers of Freedom—to
see it undergo something of a Mental, Moral
and Literary Revolution. Now, Sir, from
ypnr well known patriotism, philanthropy,
and indefatigable assiduity in the promotion
of the best interests of your healthful and
prosperous city, I am induced to lay before
you something of a plan on which it is pro-
posed to organize and perpetuate associations
throughout the State, which shall have for
their object tbe Education or mutual cultiva-
tion of its inhabitants—the orphan and indi-
gent, as well as the more affluent and influ-
ential class of citizens. In the first place,
I would introduce to a class—say from seven
years of age and upward—the science of
music by figures, which, from its combining
pleasure with utility—its simplicity and fa-
cility of acquisition—its moralizing and har-
monizing influence is decidedly preferable to
any other elementary branch for the purpose
of attracting the attention, expanding the
mind, and paving tho way, or forming a pre-
lude to other solid, scientific, ornamental
tnd useful branches of Education, upon which
the prosperity of our Republican form of
Government must forever depend. After
some proficiency shall have been made in
this preliminary step, I would, by familiar
lectures on the inductive system, introduce
other sciences, as circumstances would seem
to demand; and whenever a class should
become somewhat advanced in any branch, I
would have each member of it teach a class
below it, thus becoming, alternately, Student
and Teacher, progressing in like manner from
science to science, until I would not have a
youth of either sex in our State ignorant of
the outline of Anatomy, Physiology, Psycolo-
gy, and the laws governing Life, Health,
Longevity, &c., &c.
From my knowledge of the people ofTexas,
during the last sixteen years, I have no hesi-
tation in saying that there will be found
among them a sufficient quantity of patriot-
ism, intelligence and benevolence, to carry ou1
so desirable an object as tbe one proposed,
when they shall become acquainted with its
practicability and unparalleled utility.
I am now prepared with suitable books to
commence the experiment, and shall avail
myself of your kind offer, as well as that of
most of the Aldermen, of the use of the City
Council Room, where I will begin with a
Juvenile Class, on Saturday, July the 19th,
at 9 o'clock, A. M.
An adult Class of ladies and gentlemen
will meet at the same place, at candle-light,
of i he same day.
During the following week, elementary
lectures will be given to Classes, as follows,
viz:—
On Monday night, July2l3t, Lecture on the
Philosophy of Language, Phonography,&c.
On Tuesday night, Music by Figures.
Oa Wednesday night, Natural Philosophy.
On Thursday night, Chemistry.
On Friday night, Anatomy, Physiology, Pay-
col ogy, &c.
On Saturday night, Music, &c.
Yours, respectfully,
^ L. H. W. JOHNSON.
NEW AND VALUABLE DISCOVERY
IN LAND DRAINING.
It is well known that several implements
have, from time to time, beon invented for
the purpose of facilitating and economising
the cutting of drains, and many powerful
ploughs have been constructed with that ob-
ject ; but none have been hitherto found ca-
pable^£ meeting the great desideratum. W e
are ht^py to say, however, that we can at
length announce the accomplishment of this
iraportantgibject—so far, at least, as the pres-
ent recent trials have gone.
One of the warm supporters of our jour-
nal, Mr. Cotgrcave, of the Rake farm, near
Eccleston, in the neighborhood of Chester,
has at length vindicated his county, long stig-
matised as the most backward of all English
counties in adopting the improvements of the
age, in every thing which relates to the ame-
lioration of ita most unyielding soil, how
far this stigma may be deserved, after the ef-
forts made to give to drainage something like
a system, by the promotion of a Drainage
Company, and still more recently by the in-
vention we now notice, we leave to others—
for ourselves we are coutent to mark t'i
progress of events, not doubting th.it ju^ti--
will one day be done to the cnnn*y, as "--It
as the individuals whose aim has to r>-n
der the clay farms of Cashire all tbatthuy an-
capablc of becoming, and that we are bound
to say we consider very productive. We have
no doubt that many landowners have hitherto
abstained-from draining their estates, because
of the great outlay required ; now, however
when they find that cutting the lateral drains
can be efficiently executed for one-half the
former cost, besides effecting a considerable
saving in time, there will we trust., be in this
part of the kingdom, few farms undrained.
We have not yet had an opportunity of
viewing the work which has been done at the
Rake form by Mr. Cotgreave., but shall avail
ourselves of an early opportunity of doing so,
as soon as the inventor has completed his ar-
rangements for exhibiting his system in full
work, when we will give our readers the re-
sult of our inspection.
The Marquis of Westminster who at pres-
ent is extensively engaged in draining his es
tates, and other eminent agriculturists in the
neighborhood, have expressed their approval
of this ingenious invention.
At present we content ourselves with giving
the following extract from a newspaper of the
neighborhood, and we fondly hope that our
close examination of Mr. Cotgreave's imple-
ments and mode of operation will enable us
to stamp the process with our approval, as one
worth the consideration of our readers:
" We cannot commence our labors in
manner mope advantageous to the public, and
more satisfactory to ourselves, than by laying
before our readers some results of a new dis-
covery in this neighborhood, which it appears
to us is calculated to secure most important
and immediate benefits to all connected with
the cultivation of the soil. We allude to Mr.
Cotgreave's (of Eccleston) new practice of
draining, in which three vitally important
considerations are comprehended, viz—econo-
my of outlay, economy of time, and increas-
ed employment of labor, with its judicious
and profitable distribution.
Mr. Cotgreave's principle consists of a se-
ries of ploughs derived from the carpenter's
plane ; in fact, it is nothing more or less than
a land plane; and, when seen, every one
must wonder why the principle now brought
into operation has not been applied ^ars ago.
With the exception of the main drains, all
the work,, even to the obtaining the perfect
level of tbe drain, is performed by the plough-
plane. Mr. Cotgreave has so adapted his
plough that, with four horses, he can throw
out a drain from four to five feet deep. The
saving of time is another material object.—
,The work by this process is almost incredibly
expeditious, and very little damage is done to
the surface ; indeed, in grass lands, a heavy
roller will repair all damages. The cost of
workmanship is half the price of manual la-
bor on the present system, and the time occu-
pied one-tenth ; while the work, to say the
very least, is as efficiently and durably per-
formed.
In the neighborhood where the plough has
been used, much has been said of the proba-
bility of the implement throwing many men
out of employ. This, we contend, is errone-
ous, because the want for such an economical
implement' has hitherto prevented draiuing to
any great extent being carried ou. As the
agricultural markets now are, the farmer too
frequently says, with truth, 'such a field is so
wet and poor, I cannot work it.' Conse-
quently that land is thrown out of cultivation';
and, as land is abandoned to take its chance,
so the assistance of laborers is dispensed with.
Poverty and poor rates increase ; and crime
inevitably follows in the wake. But, if the
expense of draining is brought withip com-
pass, then, as a matter of course, more land
will be drained, more laborers permanently
employed, and the agriculturist will have a
ebauce of so increasing his produce that he
may cam a livelihood, and, by extra exertion,
something more.
Tbe working of the plough-plane is a prob-
lem many may doubt: we did s-j : but we saw
and were convinced of its powers and efficien-
c^' .
All who have witnessed the operation of
Mr. Cotgreave's plough are unanimous in their
approbation of the plan, and their conviction ^
of its full and complete success.
We are desirous of calling the attention of)
the landowners and holders to the actual mer-
its* of this most clever adaptation of the plane1
deeming that merit of every kind imperative-
ly commands the attention of the public press
most particularly. '
Mr. Cotgreave has, most fortunately, that
kind of education which is well adapted to his
occupation, viz., that of land-valuer and sur-
veyor. His experience as a land-valuer has
been called into operation by the Tithe Com-
mutation Act to a great extent; and for the
performance of the duties thereto annexed, he i
must, of necessity, have considerable knowl-
edge of the nature of soils generally. Added,
to this, he has a large clay farm in cultiva-,
tion, in his own hands, the treatment of
which needs no more reference from us, save
that those who wish to know bow he works it
can see, if thay will visit his farm.
We n< w proceed to the detail of the plow j
We find that the necessary staff of men i? !
ten, and of horses four ; and with this at com- '
mand Mr. Cotgreave will be enabled, with
out distressing either horses or men, to com
metice two statute acres in the morning, and
finally complete, ibat is, cut the drains—in-
cluding the main drain—lay the pipes, fill in
and make good the surface of one statute acre,
and halt*prepare the second to be ready foi
work the next day. The plough, as we have
already explained, is on the plane principle
and, by means of screws, may be adapted a?
occasion requires, even while in operation in
the cutting, to take a shaving of two, three,
four, five or six inches, in depth. This con-
trol ol the plough is most necessary, as ti
must be evident that certain portions of the
land requiring to be drained frequently have
undulations ; and, if there were no regulating
principle, it is quite certain that no water level
could be obtained by a plough. This point
we particularly impress upon the attention of;
our readers, because every practical man
would inquire at first how this difficulty is to
be overcome.
Again—How is the plough to work when
a stone obstructs it ? This has been consid-
ered by Mr. Cotgreave, and provided for.—'
If the stone is too large to pass aiong the
plane, or too deep to be turned up by the cut-
ting in operation, tho coulter of the plough i*
-i> formed as to protect the share, and, with
'sv r - nd hooked instrument the stone is re-.
i > .! i— the plough returns, when the debrir.
ibstiuction, in addition to the shading
n 'e may si>call it, then in process of cast
ing out, are removed at one and the same
lime.
' One of its great recommendations is that i
is adapted to every variety and condition o
soil, and that it can be worked almost inde
pendently of the weather, unless the frost i
very intense. Iii tact, those who have wit
nessed the plough at w< 'k are at a !«. s whic
most to admi-c -.he absence of co*n| lexitv i
the contrivani^, or the rapidii} and perfec
success of the operation.
or $4 at the end of the year
- — *
VOL. XVI. NO.29.--WHOLENO.8tl
For the purpose of expedition and efficient
workmanship, the land-owner ought, before
commencing wiffr the plough, to have the
pipes of both main& and tributary drains in the
field.
Mr. Cotgreave's system is to commence
with spades, and complete tho whole of the
main drains before he begins with his plough.
He then casts out, with his plough, the clod,
measuring six inches sq'bare, on the left side
of the intended drain, over the compass of two
statute acres. This is of great advantage
where there is much surface water, as the
process of draining immediately commences
and renders the land less liable to dapiage by
the treading of the horses; and the main
drain being cut, the water percolates to it,
and so passes off. He then returns to the
first acre, and with the same plough casts out
on the right-band side the sub-soil. To at-
tain the depth ofeighteen inches by six inches
wide, he requires four drafts—viz., the first
six inches, the rem lining three 4 inches each.
The plough is then changed for one which
will cast out its shaving two inches wide by
six inches deep. With this he attains a lev-
el bottom. Then commences the pipe lay-
ing. To insure the level, a gauge is passed
along the bottom of the drain. This effects
.the double object of clearing any fallen soil
oui, a id forming a perfect bed for the pipes.
As the drain is too narrow to admit of a man
getting into it, a new process of laying the
pipes is adopted—viz., threading them ou a
half-inch iron bar, the one end trailing in the
drain and the other end in a man's hand.
The rapidity and perfectness with which the
pipes are thus laid is surprising. A man then
follows with a sort of paddle,< wiih which he
completely adjusts the pipes, and if there are
any spaces by breakage, or otherwise, he
repairs the damage. Tne drain is then ready
for filling up, which process again is rapidly
executed, and the first clod, in almost one en-
tire piece the whole length of the drain, is
rolled on to its bed.
We think we have said enough to excite a
reasonable curiosity iu all to witness the ope-
ration of this valuable implement, and a natu-
ral desire on the part of agriculturists to profit
by a process so easy in its application, so ef-
fectual in its results, and tbe benefits of
which can be appropriated at half the cost
and in one-tenth less time, than the prevailing,
practice. Mr. Cotgreave is now making ar-
rangements for exhibiting his system in full
work within a few miles of Chester : jvhen
our readers may have, an opportunity of in-
specting the plough and its operations."
[Farmer's Herald.
The Fortune of Washington.—The
British account of tbe battle of King's Moun-
tain, contains a letter from Col. Ferguson,
who wa3 killed there at the head of the Brit-
ish forces, in which the Col. relates to his
brother, Dr. James Ferguson, of Scotland,
the following curious incident, showing one of
the remarkable escapes of Washington, in a
time of imminent danger. The occurrence
happened while Ferguson lay with part of his
riflemen on a skirt of wood, in front of Gen.
Knyphasen's division. We quote from the
National intelligencer;
"We had not lain long," says Ferguson in
this letter, " when a rebel officer, remarkable
by a hussar dress, passed towards our army,
"within a hundred yards of my right flank, uot
perceiving us. He was followed by another,
dressed in dark green and blue, mounted on a
good bay horse, with a remarkably high cock-
ed hat. I ordered three good shots to steal
near to them and fire at them ; but the idea
disgusted me—I recalled the order. The
hussar, in returning, made a circuit, but tbe
other passed within a hundred yards of us,
upon which I advanced from the woods tow-
ards him. Upon my calling, he stopped ; but
after looking at me proceeded. I again drew
his attention, and made a sign to him to stop,'
leveling my piecc at him ; but he Blowly con-
tinued his way. As 1 was within that distance
at which, in tbe quickest firing, I could have
lodged half a dozen balls in or about him be-
fore he was out of my reach, I had only to
determine ; but it was not pleasant to'fire at
tbe back of an unoffending individual, who
was acquitting himself very coolly of his du-
ty. So 1 let him alone. The day after, I
had been telling this story to some wounded
officers, who lay in the same room with me,
when one of our surgeons who had been dres-
sing the wounded rebel officers, came in and
told us that they had been informing him that
Gen. Washington was all that morning with
the light troops, and only attended by a
French officer in a hussar, dress, he himself
dressed and mounted as above described. L
aui not sorry that I did uot know at the time
who it was."
Colonel Crocket! in a Quandary.—" I
never but once," said Coionei, was in
what I caii a real genuine quandary. It was
during my electioneering fin- Congress, at
which time I strolled about in the woods so
particularly pestered by politics that I forgot
my rifle. Any man may forget bis rifle, you
know; but it isn't every man can make
amends for his forgetfulness by his faculties,
I guess. It chanced that as I was strolling
along, considerably deep in congressionals,
the first thing that took my fancy was the
snarling of some young bears, which procee-
ded from a hollow tree ; but I soon found that
I could not reach the cubs with my bands, so
I went feet foremost, to see if I could draw
them out with my toes. I hung on at the top
of the hole, straining with all my might to
reach them, until at last my hand slipped and
down 1 went more than twenty feel to the
bottom ot that black hole, and there I found
myself almost hip deep in a family of fine
young beers. 1 soon found that I might as
well undertake to climb up the greasiest part
of a rainbow, as to get back, the hole in the
tree beiug so lar^e, and i>s sides so smooth and
slippery from the Tain. Now ibis was a real,
genuine, regular quamlary ! If so be I was
o shout, it would have been doui>iiui wheth-
er they would hear me at the settlement, and
if they did hear me, the story would ruin my
election ; for ihev were of a quality loo cute
to vote lor a man that ventured into a piace
he couldn't get himself out of. Well, now,
while I was calculating whether it would be
best to shout for help; or to wait in the hoie
until after the election, I heard a kind of fum-
bling and gruml !in}{ overhead, and looking
■'p I -aw tin- ■ .i bear coming down stern
foremost upon tut. my uiotto is always "go
ahead !" and as soon as she lowered herself
within my reach, 1 got a grip of her tail in my
left hand, and with my little buck-bom«hafied
penknife in the other, I commenced spurring
her forward. I'll be shot if ever a member
of Congress rose quicker in the world than I
did! She took me out in the shake of a
lamb's tail."
Our land—Its Length and Breadth.—The
following grand totals, showing the estimated
surface of the Territories of the United States,
North and West, must satisfy any one that
Uncle Sam is a large landholder :
Total surface of Old Territory East
Rocky Mountaius, in square miles 994,435
Total in acres, 056,428,400
Total of New Territories West ot.
Rocky Mountains, in square miles 607,741
Total in acres 555,226,240
Texas in square ""Iff- ; 225,620
Texas in acres 20^.832,800
Grand total of Territories and Texas,
in square miles 2,187,490
Grand total in acres 1,399,997,440
Total North of 36 deg. 30 min.,
in square miles 1,642,784
In acres 1,051,381,740
1 otal South of 36 deg. 30 min.,
in square miles 545,712
In acres, 348,515,688
length of u. 8.
coast.
Atlantic Coast
Gulf Coast
Pacific coast
Total
Total length of "shore line'
Miles.
2,000
1,600
1,620
5,120
33,063
NEWS BY THE AFRICA.
england. . 4
In the House of Lords, on the 17th, Lord
Stanley presented a petition from liri: port of
Liverpool, complaining of the evite which
had occurred from the repeal of the naviga-
tion laws, and went into a speech of consid-
erable length to show that, though thera had
been an increase in the foreign trade, of the
country, advantages derivable from that in-
crease bad not gone into the British coffers,
but into those of foreigners.
Tho Earl of Granville thought it could be
shown that the repeal of these laws had not
been injurious to the mercantile or shipping
interests. Seven countries had followed our
example, some entirely and without restric-
tion, like Sweden, Holland and Belgium, or
made certain restrictions like.France and
the United States.
Lord Hardwick presented petitions from
various ports, complaining of the repeal of
the navigation laws.
Earl Grey defended the ministerial policy,
and the petitions were ordered to lie on the
table. '
France.
The debate on the constitution is going on
with .increased violence. Cavaignac, it is said,
has made up his mind to draw the sword in
case Louis Napoleon attempts to prolong his
power.
Leon Faucher, in the Assembly during a
speech, applied the term abominable to a
speech of Lepelletier, who had attacked him
and also defended the Lyons insurrection of
1831 and 1834. The whole body of the Left
rushed towards the tribune, and threatened
Faucber with personal .violence, when the
men of the Right advanced to his assistance,
and an actual melee endued in the hemisycle.
Faucber looked down with disdain on bis as-
sailants, and the President with difficulty re-
stored order. These scenes are but the com-
mencement of a long series of struggles. The
Assembly continues to be deluged with peti-
tions for a revision of the constitution. The
Bonapartisls declare that the signatures
amount to 2,000,000, while the Red Republi-
cans estimate them at 700,000.
M. Tocqueville despairs of any satisfac-
tory solution. He says half the law cannot
be revised legally; the only course for. the
Assembly is to submit, and make itself- re-
spected. Whether this means that the Le-
gitimists are to submit, or the Reds ; whether
the Republic is to go on under Louis Napo-
leon, or, according to law, under the man
chosen by the people in conformity with tbe
constitution, is left in obscurity.
The commission nominated in 1850 lor
drawing up a new penal code for the French
navy has just terminated i(? labors. The
code contains 286 articles, and will be forth-
with submitted to the Legislative Assembly.
italy.
Three sons of Lord Alborougb have been
arrested at Leghorn, clandestine printing
materials aui publications have been fougd
on their premises.
The French court-martial at Rome, on the
4th, pronounced sentence of death on ibur
in.u, convict d of haviug form >d part of-.die
patrol which sometime ago attacked the '
French patrol in Jibe streets at night. One
man b isides has been condemned to hard labor
for life, and three to five years of the same
punishment. The rest of the prisoners, eleven
in number, were acquitted. Tbe police of
Turin conducted to the frontier Count Bertola
di Ruvini, a spy and agent of Austria and
Rome. The Chamber of Deputies voted the
abolition of the privileged of Nice, from 1854,
and a revision of the tariff in 1855.
The Roman Catholic Bishops of the Up.
per Rhine district have demanded a repeal of
all religious concessions made since March,
1848, together with a list of sixteen other
claims, all of a most aggressive character,
and aiming at rendering the ohuroh para-
mount to every other authority.
The executions still continue; two more
men had been shot.
spain.
Hopes are held out that Lord Howden is
likely to succeed in_ inducing the Spanish
Government to enter into negotiations, upon
terms of reciprocity, for the removal of the
differential duties on merchandise imported by
English vessels into Spain, always exoepting
Cuba and the Philippine Islands.
germany.
There is but little news. Hamburg was
tranquil, but the unpopularity of the Aus-
trians was increasing.
spain and portugal.
A Spanish squadron has been sent to Lis-
bon to keep the revolutionary party in chcck.
Th*1 Portuguese "exchequer is at a low ebb.
Fr^sh troubles app eh-md-d. The Spanish
Cortez have the national debt under consider*
at ion.
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