The Texas State Times (Austin, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 46, Ed. 1 Saturday, October 14, 1854 Page: 2 of 4

                                
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AUST®, SATURDAY, OCT. 14,1854.
FOftD, WALKER
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DAVIDSON.
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Editor.
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ADVERTISING.—For each sqaare of ten lines,
or }«M, one dollar for tlje first insertion, and fifty
cants for each subsequent insertion. Advertise-
iiwnts not raariced with the number of insertions de-
sired, frOI be continued until otherwise ordered,
and charged accordingly. A liberal discount will
b« iB&de to those idrvthiitf br the year.
«0  AimomicemwVrfS.fidatfsfor State offi
ces ten dollars—County ofices five dollars.
fg~IVWt1fal rirmtarn, and communications of
a private or personal nature, will be ehasjed at the
i as advertisements.
8QT We are authorised to announce Charles
E. Travis' ta a candidate for Captain of Bangers in
the Third district.   -
wjrW« are authorised to announce E. P. Cal-
hocx « a candidate for Jiurtia of tie Peace in Beat
No. 1. ' Vr .«r'
MT We had
the put week from Mr. Lambden,
Indian agent and at present Editor of the
Waco Eft. Mr. L. i  a fine writer, aad an
amiable aad courteous gentleman.
The Hon. George E. Barney, of McLen-
nan, is on a visit to Austin., %i
Sir We hare received a well .written note
from JJ- Warren Stone, declining to be a can-
didate fi  the office of Major in tfae Banging
aSL-It will be Been by this day's paper
tbat E. F. Calhonn is a candidate for the
offiortf Justic^of die Peace, In Beat No. 1.
Mr. C., although a young man,, will fill die
office, if elected, with judgment and impar-
tial ability.
J&* We ask the attention of oar readers
to the stock of goods lately received by
Messrs. Sampson & Henricis, among which
will be found an degantaasortment of watch-
es, jewelry anfrftaoy articles that are rarely
to be found in this market.
The Mums or last Saturday.—In
another column will be found the proceed-
ings of ub adjourned meeting. The resolu-
tion providing ibr the raising of a commit-
tee to give all transient Mexicans notice to
leave within ten days, was before {its amend-
ment, opposed by Judge Lee, on the ground
that it struck at the Mexican population as a
class. Its present amended form, and the evi-
dent meaning of the-2d resolution, obviates
many «f the objections of Judge Lee. We
are in fever of designating the character of
persons to be driven front our midst—that
is, such as had been associating and interfer-
ing with negroes, or who might hereafter be
diaeovered in this commission of such acts,
and xa inducing-rimes to leave their owners.
This would nake .a distinction between the
guilty and the innocent. No matter what
may be the nationality of a man, it is first
due to him. as a nember of the human raoe,
to tty stfthiag of municipal regulations, to
give him aoffie'stni rf hearing, Wore yfio
comet and punish him. We dull always
contend for thai principle. In saying this,
we do not pretend to be the advocates of un-
worthy Mexicans. On this head we think our
position is eleariy defined. We appointed the
committee as required, bnt, by a handbill,
we discover another meeting has twwrcaited-,
to-get a more fclexprearion of public opinion
on tbe sabgcci. 4s a member of the com-
munity, we are willing to bear a responsible
share in its doings, bctshould feel wanting
in respect to ourselves did we not express
our convictions on the subject folly and can
didly.
Mtjrdeh.—We regret to learn that Thos.
S. Smith, a well known eitisen of Texas,
who shared in the privations of the Santa Fe
and Mier expeditions, and who more recent-
ly was appointed to convey the block to the
National Monament at Washington City, was
cruelly murdered in Brenham a few days
ago, by a man by the natne of Cooper. The
cause of the diftpufty is not stated by our
informant; but we are informed by those ac-
quainted with the deoeasqd  that he was a
gentleman of amiability, and in every sense
of the word a peaceable eitisen.
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A Seckbt.—-An advertiser in this week's
paper efiers to inform tbejnMic of a xahia-
ble mode of causing the hair to curl or wave,
for the inconsiderable sum of one dollar.
Address Byron H. Robb, Farmington, Trum-
bull cooaty, CHiio.
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; lodge ArrtagtM.
The removal of this gentleman from the
State has raised a question in regard to his
being legally and constitutionally in office as
judge of the 12th judicial district. _
The constitution provides for the removal
of judges for misdemeanors by impeachment.
So there are enactments relative to the mode
of procedure against other officers, yot there
are cases continually occuring where offices
are vacated neither by expiration of term nor
by impeachment, where the Governor exer-
cises authority to fill the vacancies without
express grant from the constitution or bylaw.
For instance where an individosd already
holding a State office is elected to fill another
and accepts itrequires no more than informa-
tion to the Executive, and he issues his pro-
lamation to fill the vacancy. A judge would
be superseded should he prove a lunatic.
No impeachment, no proceedings touching
upon his judicial acts, would be instituted.
A mere information would only be required
•to enable the Governor to order an election to
fill his place. %. person so circumstanced
would be civffly dead—he would be deprived
of office withbut the commission or the imputa-
-tion of crime, but simply from incapacity,
induced by a Providential visitation.
The public good demands the Executive
to fill his place, without express warrant, and
public opinion sanctions it.
The Constitution has the annexed provi-
sion:
"Sac. 6. The State shall be divided into con-
venient judicial districts. For each district
there shall be elected (appointed) a Jndge who
shall reside in the same, anil hold courts at one
place in each county, and at least- twice in each
ear, in such manner as maybe prescribed by
 w. — Art. IV.
In the General Provisions the following is
found:
"Sac. 9. All civil officers shall reside w ithin
the State; and all district or eounty officers
within their respective districts or counties;
and shall keep their offices at such places
therein as may be required by law."
It is evident Judge Arlington hes violated
the first quoted constitutional provision. He
has never held a court in Kinney county, and
it has been a year or two since he held a
court in Webb county, almost as long since
he dispensed justice in Starr, and there has
been no court in Cameron for the last term
or two—in fact, he has been absent for the
last 18 months. The result has been preju-
dicial to the pecuniary interests of the people
of the district, injurious to morality, and de-
trimental to the ends of justice.
The second provision has been eleariy and
palpably infringed. What use have the peo-
ple of the 12th district for a Judge in the
State of New York? Notwithstanding the
judicial deserter has quit the State—failed
to discharge his sworn duties, and betrayed
the trust-and the confidence of his people, he
still continues to graciously remember the
State Treasury. His accounts have been
regularly forwarded each quarter, and his sal-
ary drawn. So they would be to the last day
of his term. x
The question presenting itself is, have
these acts vacated the office ? We are in-
clined to answer in the affirmative. His fai-
lure to hold courts—-his removal from Texas,
and the attendant chain of circumstances,
mnatitntft strong proofs of his leaving with-
out intending to return. Absence from his
district and from the State, in our opinion,
vacates his office, and is sufficient justification
to ,warrant the Governor in ordering an elec-
oT Service.
Gov. Pease has been informed by the Act-
ing Adjutant General of the 8th Military De-
partment, that the term of service has been
reduced by the Secretary of War to six
month* imrtftd of twelve. There is no law
for eal&ng volunteers into service for a longer
period than six months. Gen. Brooks tried
o have the term lengthened to twelve months,
A mistake has originated from the fact
that the places «£ mustering into the United
States service have been changed. An opi
ion has been quite general that it is only ne-
aasary for those wishing to enter the Rang-
ing corps to present themselves at Austin on
the first day of November. Such is not the
case. The men must first be inspected and
received by those appointed for that purpose,
at the points designated in the Governor's
proclamation, and then go to Austin. The
first will be places of rendesvous and inspec-
tion—Austin the place of muster. Quite a
difference.
There is no doubt that the unconditional
requisition of Gen. Smith upon the Governor
for six companies of volunteers has been ap-
proved. There has been more than sufficient
time to have received contrary advices.
tion for an lncumbent-to tmeooed him.
He is now beyond the reaohfof an ordinary
process. Should the Legislature be in ses-
sion and prefer charges against and notify
him to they could not compel him to
do so. If he-were even willing to attend
and answer, it would require at least six
weeks for a notice to reach him Snd for his
journey hither j yet this is irrelevant to the
constitutional question. However, as it is, he
could remain abroad with impunity, draw his
salary, and bid defiance to publio sentiment,
unless the power to declare his office vacant
exists in some department of the State Go-
vernment. The power in question can be ex-
ercised at present by the Executive alone.
Should he act in the matter, we believe he
wiirbe sustained by the law and by the peo-
ple. Other officers, no more amenable to the
Legislature for their official conduct, procure
leaves of absence from the Legislature, before
venturing to visit the other States; yet a
Judge of the District Court takes it upon
himself to abandon his post, neglect the sa-
cred duties of his station, coolly pocket pub-
lic money he has never earned—to disregard
the constitution, his oath of office, the wants
of his district, and insult the people he out-
rages by pretending to hold a position he
knows he has forfeited by dereliction. If the
conduct of Jndge Arrington can besustained,
official responsibility mil be narrowed down
to a small compass, while official privileges
and exemptions will take a wide and startling
Whig Convention.
Tfce Whig Convention of New York has no-
minated-a frill Abolition and Free soil ticket,
.ami uilifftiil a tank Abolition and Freesoilplat-
forrn. 'They repudiate all fature compromises
—the acqmsgkm er extensftiuof slave tenitory,
and the admission pf slave States itt the Union.
The whole platform smells of the Fred Doug-
lass order, and we shonki hot be snrgpsed to
see that worthy returned to Congress
It remains to be seen whether the whole
Whig party of New York can be united in
this fanaticism, and what is still more interest-
ing, it remains to be seen whether they will
find sympathizers among the Southern^ Whigs
aad Bentonian renegades. '
The defection of the Northern Whjg party
upon the slavery question has long beek-charg-
ed, bnt Southern Whigs have answered that
Northern Democrats were no better. We have
busted more to the soundness of the Democra-
cy believing that the principles of Democracy
teaoh us to have as high a respect for our
neighbor's rights as our own—while every
notion of exclusiveness is a kind of "mure holy
than thou doctrine.,:
Some Southern W bigs may be so poisoned as
to sympathize with Northern Abolitionists; but
we think the great mass will prefer their coun-
trv and domestic peace to party trammels.
Know Nothings.—The Newark, N. J.
Mercury has the arnexed opinion of the
Know Nothings after having seen them:
The meeting of the Native American
(Know Nothing) Association, which was held
in this city on Wednesday, was attended by
some 150 representatives from various parts
of the State, and a finer body of men has
seldom ever assembled. Their appearance
was that of men who felt themselves enlisted
in a great and important work; and we feel
pretty well persuaded, now that we have seen
these acknowledged Know Nothings, that the
good and pure have little to fear from their
organization. The corrupt and unprincipled,
however, we should judge have little to hope
from its clemency.
Great Havoc Among Locusts, in Costa
Rica.— The Gaceta of Costa Rica, calculates
the destruction of locusts in that country, in
consequence of the measures dictated by the
government, at 159,400,000 insects. Up
to the 24th of July, 3,000 sacks ofthe insects,
weighing each sixty pounds, had been presen-
ted for the purpose of obtaining the bounty of-
fered by the government for their destruction.
Kansas Emigrants.
The emigration to the new Territory of
Kansas is flocking in from all parts of the
Union. Capt. S. P. Boss says he has crossed
at least one hundred 'wagons, containing fa-
milies en rou/e'for'Kansas, at his ferry on
the Bra?os, and at the time he left, some ten
or twelve days since, they were still passiug.
We had not thought before there was a
probability any resident of our sunny clime
would leave it tor the cold latitudes of Kan-
sas. However, there is a struggle going on
between the North and the South in the new-
ly erected territories of great importance.
The question between the two sections will
ere long be settled. Great efforts are being
made by the North to give both Nebraska and
Kansas governments which will not tolerate
slavery. Capt. Boss has but recently returned
from Missouri. He is of opinion Kansas
will be saved to the South. The people of
Missouri will not give it up without a tre-
mendous effort. Emigrants are arriving dai-
ly by hundreds. The "Aid Societies" of the
North are pouring in a Freesoil population.
They arc sparing nothing giving a chance of
sucecss. They work couccrtedly—harmo-
niously. What is being done by the South ?
Nothing. Everything is left to individual
action. There is no general plan—no union—
nothing to encourage her people to endeavor
to save, to add a State to the Southern pha-
lanx. Are we doing our duty ? Is it proper
for us to stand by idly and let the day go
against us—let judgment be entered up
against the South by default ? We should
think not. But, says one, have you not said
our people are already going without encour-
agement'? Admitted; but it is said the emi-
grants leaving Texas are probably not friend-
ly to the South; that they have gone out from
us to get away from negro slavery, and arc
wending their way to the far off territory in
order to aid in giving it to the Frecsoilers. It
is to be feared this is true. The same maybe
tho case in other States. What is the char-
acter of the population leaving the South ge-
nerally for Kansas? Can any one tell?
Have we not been culpable. If Kansas is
lost to the South who is to blame but ourselves.
Our negligence, lukewarmness and indiffer-
ence appear as the sure precursors of defeat.
Why cannot the Southern States institute
measures to people the new territories with
the friends of negro slavery as contra-distin-
guished from "white" northern slavery ?
Are there no public spirited, influential men
among(us to take the matter in hand ? If it
is not already too late, why can we not act in
the premises yet? Why cannot societies be
organized in the slave States to aid and en-
courage pro-slavery men to emigrate to Kan-
sas and Nebraska? There certainly, is a stake
Buffieient to call forth the united harmonious
energies of the whole South. The contest is
one of no ordinary magnitude. We should
engage in it with corresponding fervency and
zeal. If we do our duty that would be a con-
solation in defeat. But by our present su-
pineness we are likely to lose all, and to have
the loss embittered by the reflections arising
from a palpable, inexcusable dereliction of du-
ty. These things should not be. The South
should awaken to a sense of her interests, her
obligations to herself, to the necessity of dp-
ing every thing in her power to preserve her
institutions—founded upon the precepts of
the Bible, guaranteed by the Constitution,
and defended by the laws of the land.
What do our brethren of the press say to
tions to promote the emigration of slavehold-
ers to Kansas and Nebraska?
an
Found Dead.—Mr. Charles Merlin,
old resident of this city, and formerly keeper
of the Alabama House, was found dead in his
bed on yesterday morning. He had been on
a spree several days before, and had a phial
of black drops, from which he had taken a
few drops to quiet his nerves on Thursday
night. It was found that he had taken du-
ring the night the entire contents, which occa-
sioned his death.—llouston Telegraph.
"Among all the States, none is more thriv-
ing than Texas. None of the new States are
coming more rapidly under a religious in
fiuence than Texas, and this new State is to be
specially important to us, as a medium of
communication with Mexico, through which,
we may send the light of the Gospel to that
benighted country.—Boston Pur. Recorder.
The above is an importment admission, com
ing as it does from a decided Anti-Slaveiy
newspaper.—Pdss it round.
An editor in Iowa has been fined 8250
for hugging a young girl in Church.—Daily
Argus.
Cheap enough ! We hugged a girl
Church some ten years ago, and the scrape
has cost us $1,000 a year ever since.— Oh
cago Young American.
Death of Gen. Doff Green.
Oar Virginia exchanges announce the death
of Genera! Duff Green, formerly editor of the
United States Telegraph, at Washington City,
the administration organ during the first P resi-
dential term of General Jackson. For the last
ten years his name has but seldom appeared
before the public, and yet he has exercised
perhaps, in his day, a more potent influence
than any politician of the age. Selected by
Gen. Jackson a< his champion, at a period in
the political history of the country when a
corps of editorial giants were arrayed against
him, he wielded a power which has been sel-
dom equalled—never excelled. His devotion
to the hero of New Orleans was only equalled
by his sincere affection for the South; and he
deserted the standard of his favorite, saciifi-
cing all theimmensejemoluments which his po-
sition secured him, to battle for State Rights,
under the leadership of Calhoun, Hayne, Mc-
Dufiie and Pickens. The Telegraph then be-
came the organ of the nullifiers. and the politi-
cal essays which appeared in its columns at
that period, may well be styled the newspaper
classics of the nation.
It was in vain that the entire power of an
administration which he had so signally sup-
ported was brought to bear against him. Sin-
gle-handed, advocating a doctrine compara-
tively new in the politics of the country, he
battled manfully for State Rights, and finally
lived to see his principles embodied as one of
the leading articles of faith in the creed of the
Democracy. The tremendous personal and po-
litical popularity of Gen. Jackson—the im-
mense patronage of the Federal Government,
the ever ready opposition of the North against
the South—the mighty intellectual efforts of
Kendall, Blair, and a host of others—even the
personal violence of bullying Congressmen,
and blackguard editors, were all arrayed
against him in vain. Steadily and unflinch-
ingly he continued to wave the banner of
State Rights, and gave to tho principle a foun
dation which political sophists have never been
able.to move 
When the U. S. Telegraph supported the po-
sition assumed by Mr. Calhoun and the State
of South Carolina, in defiance of the proclama-
tion of Gen. Jackson, Gen. Green was every
where charged with being influenced by selfish
and ambitious motives. Nothing could be far-
ther from the truth; for by that act he sacri-
ficed the most lucrative position in the United
States—we might say, in the world—that of U.
S. Printer—the proceeds of which aggregated
more than one hundred thousand dollars annu-
ally. If ever a man espoused a cause from the
purest principles of patriotism, and at the sac-
rifice of every personal consideration, Gen.
Green was that man. When the violence of
party feeling shall have passed away, and
when all the actors in the great drama of nul- gaid) been lying around Bellvrew for
lification shall sleep beneath the sod of the ; gome several days on a drunken spree. The
Senator Douglass and tbe Aboli-
tionists or Chicago.
We publish below an extract from a letter
from a respectable gentleman of Chicago to
a gentleman in this city. The writer is well
known here. He takes no part in politics, and
only expresses the indignation which every dis-
interested spectator must have felt who wit-
nessed the disgraceful outrage upon the right
of speech. The slip from the Chicago Times
we omit because it has already been exten-
sively copied.
It must be a desperate cause which resorts to
(he desperate means employed by the Aboli-
tionists of Chicago.
' The constitutional objection to the Missouri
Compromise has never been answered; its re
peal was a simple act of justice to the people
of the South anil the Territories. We have
been forcibly struck with the candid approval
of the Nebraska bill by the Oregon papers.
They would regard any interference with the
subject of slavery, or any other domestic insti-
tution within their territory as a po?itive cut-
rage. Such must be the opinion of all who ac-
knowledge the right of self-government.
In explanation of the annexed extract wo
remark, that Judge Douglass' wife (now dead,)
was a Southern lady—that- by her he has chil-
dren. Bitter indeed must be the rancor which
would insult the south through a domestic re-
lation.
We have felt for sometime that these insults
of fanatics have to be met, and we care not
how soon. The chivalry of the North will bo
on the side of the constitution. But even if
the sectional issue has to be met the South is
ready.
"The most disgraceful proceedings occurred
here last Friday night, (Sept 1st--) that it has
ever been my misfortune to witness. Senator
Douglass arrived here (which is his home) a
few days before, and give notice that he would
address all those who desired to hear him on
the subject of the "Nebraska and Kansas" bill,
at seven-and-a-half, p. m., Sept. 1st. Accord-
ingly, notice was given throughout the adjoin-
counties and all over the city. The newspa-
pers here—all of them save one, (The Timet,)
being Abolition, Freesoil, Whig and Infidel, put
forth all kinds of appeals to the blood-thirsty
passions of the desperate and vulgar, to go pre-
pared to prevent speaking, organization, or any-
thing else in the way of peace, order and har-
mony. At the time appointed Mr. Douglass
took the stand, and the result of his ineffectual
effort to be heard is given in the slip herewith
enclosed, which, together with these remarks,
I submit through you to the good people of Aus-
tin and Texas generally. This brief printed
report is a mere drop in the bucket, as com-
pared with all the epithets and approhious
terms which were applied to the distinguished
Senator. Three times I heard the heart-rend-
ing and disgusting exclamation burst forth from
the crowd: ''Come down, you NiggeriteP
"we have your coffin all ready, and will bury
you along side of your wife anil your niggers!"
Much of the dreadful language used was lost
in the noise from the ear of those at a distance,
and it is to be hoped that what I have just-
mentioned escaped, at least, the ear of Judge
Douglass. His wile died a few months siuce
perhaps over a year, as also two of his little
children, to whom, doubtless, the word nigger
was meant to apply. Be assured that you, nor
any man, woman nr child in Texas, need ever
want to see a collection of the respectable
people of Chicago, who call themselves church-
men, christians and abolitionists—which terms,
in their cranium, mean nearly the same thing.
Many of the most respectable people here
tried next day to shift the odium of the affair
on the vulgar " canaille;" but it will not go
down—for, in the first place, these very good,
better, best people had regularly organised and
instructed said "canaille" as to their duties
and the part each was to play. Secondly, not
one living soul or voice was raised to quell the
disturbance. Hence, the best, most pious, re-
ligious, moral and charitable in Chicago have,
at last succeeded in suppressing the liberty of
speech. Their hearts ache for the blood of their
victims, while the most holy feelings of love,
affection and sorrow are set at naught, the grans
visited, and the ashes of those most dear in life
held up in scorn anil derision. But my heart
sickens at half, much less all that was enacted.
Mr. Douglass is cool and determined, aud is to
try to speak again to-morrow night.
... Yours,    F." .
[Communicated. J
Very well, Mr. Editor, we have seen your
testy reply to our remarks on your "Wail-
ingsr' a week or two ago; and we are in no
very good humor with you for demolishing
and defacing our pretty picture of your "vine
clad sanctum"—which we still persist was a
true one. We told you, you had lost either
your heart or your wits; but now we are pos-
itively certain you have lost both, since it is
plain that wicked urchin, Cupid, has blinded
your eyes to all beauty, save what is'centered
in that beau ideal of yours, who some un-
lucky recreant had dared to hint in your pre-
sence might be vulnerable to the attractions
of any other inhabitant of this mundane
sphere save your devoted self
What a desperate case must his be, whose
visual organs are so obscifred by the mists of
"la tendre melancalei," that he can even
transform roses into gourd vines, and the toe-
tctte esxr.ne.es of the bachelors sanctum into
"vials of wrath," which he has so merciless-
ly poured on our head, because we happened
to peep into his studio in a gay good humor,
and see things as they are. We actually had
begun to fear that odious Cervantes had ban-
ished the spirit of chivalry and romance from
the earth; but we are rejoiced to find, Mr.
Editor, there are yet some, cases of devotion
to the fair Dulcinea's of the day that would
have done honor to the olden time. We ad-
mire your gallantry and sympathise in your
interesting predicament.
'• Malheureux. qui des larmes
Ignore la douceur,
Et meconnait Ies cLarmes
De la tendre doulaur I"
Of course, until you are dispossessed of the
Azure Demons, we do not expect you to see
light in the sun, beauty in the sanctum, or
power in the-pen; or to know a rose from a
"gourd vine;" or the extract of " Mille
Fleurs" from a "vial" of essence of pepper-
mint. An revoir.
FANCIE FREE.
October 8th, 1854.
Atrocious Murder.
We learn that the mostcold-bloodedandmalic-
ious murder was perpetrated on Wednesday
last in the town of Bcllview, in this county,
that has ever befallen any community to wit-
ness. A very old man by the name of George
Pierce, who resides some two miles from that
village, having some business to attend to
rode into town on Wednesday morning for
the purpose of transacting the same, when,
while sitting in the store door of Mr. McMil-
lon, apparently resting himself, he "was ap-
proached and 3hot down without a word of
provocation, by one John Colter, whom, it
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valley, as now sleep the two great champions
of States Rights—Calhoun aud Green, a gr.ite-
ful people will unite in doing honor !o 'heir
memory.
shot, wc arc informed, took cffect- in the right
side and penetrating the heart produeed in-
stant death. Colter, at last "accounts, had
not been arrested but, was being hotly pnr-
In all the relations of private life. Gen. G. I sued by various good citizens who were great-
was without a superior. As a husband, a fa- j ly exasperated at the more than brutal con-
ther, a neighbor and a guardian, lie fulfilled
his every duty as a christian and a inau. The
writer of this, for years the recipient of his
kindness, feels in his death the loss .1 a friend
who guided his youth and encoura:: \1 his man-
hood. The airows of malice and d.-tiaclion
can assail him no more, but in the hearts of
those who knew him well and lovi-.l him, the
memory of Duff Green will be cherished' for-
ever.
duct of the savage murderer. The deceased
was the father of the family of Pierces who
were engaged some time since in a difficulty
with a portion of our citizens, but since his
residence in Texas, at least so far as we know,
has ever been considered an honest, respect-
able and clever citizen. Why it is, that he
was thus brutally murdered and deprived of
the very few remaining days which could be
reasonably allowed him in the enjoyment of
"Though the transports of fame and the triumphs I his family on this earth, is more than we can
of art j account for but so it is; the deed is com-
And tnbutes may swell the renown ol his name,: mitteJ and we earne8tly hope that the foul
Yet the homage that flows from the irec-i iroblmn; ' . . i i ki i
heart , perpetrator maybe brought to speedy justice.
Is the meed of his worth and the test of liis . Henderson Flo;/.
fame!" *  ..... 
in
Whigs'
Pennsylvania Politics.—The
of the Second Congressional District of this
State have nominated Joseph It. Chandh-r as
independent candidate for its representation.
Youthful Enthusiasm.—The Emperor
of Russia lately inspected a regiment of
boys, the Colonel of which was only eleven
years old
Public Meeting.
An adjourned meeting of the citizens of
Travis county was held at the Old Capitol, at
3 o'clock, on the 7th inst.
The object ot the meeting was to receive
and consider the report of a committee ap-
pointed to report upon the following resolu-
tions offered by Capt. Cleveland at a previous
meeting:
[For resolutions see last week's Times.]
Dr. Phillips, chairman of said committee,
reported the following resolutions :
The condition of things arising from the un-
warrantable and dangerous pi ivileges allow-
ed to the slave population of t-tiis county, and
especially in this city, imperatively demand
of all citizens interested in the common wel-
fare, the adoption of such measures as will
immediately counteract their tendency, and
establish diflerent and more salutary regula-
tions for their government. Tctthe end that
efficacy may be given to public sentiment
upon this subject, we regard it as highly im-
portant that oui feelings, views*inJ determi-
nations should be embodied and expressed
so as more certainly to secure general co-op-
cratiou. We, therelore, recommend the adop-
tion ot the following resolutions:
Resolved, 1st. That the practice of masters
allowing slaves to hire their own tinie, make
their own contracts, and^to occupy houses sepa-
rate from and without enclosures occupied oy
white persous, is wrong in principle and detri-
mental to the best interest of this community,
as it is calculated to support insubordination and
dishonesty among the slave population, thereby
rendering the iusiitution of slavery not only
valueless, but dangerous.
Resolved, 2d. That as law abiding citizens,
consu|tiug the interest, of all parties concerned,
we will liotin future allow our slaves any such
liberties, nor deal with slaves whose masters
allow them such privileges, and we will rigidly
enforce the laws agaiust those who allow their
slaves such dangerous privileges in violation of
the statrtesof the State.
Resolved, 3d. That all slaves found with arras
or deadly weapons of any description upon
their persons, or in their apartments, be chas-
tised severely in all cases lor the wearing and
possessing such unlawlul and dangerous ar-
ticles.
Resolved, 4th. That all assemblages of ne-
groes, whether for amusemeutor religion, with-
out the presence or permission of some respect-
able white person, are wrong, and should not be
permitted.
Resolved, 5th. That the ministers having
charge of the different churches in our county,
be requested to devote a portion of one Sab-
bath in each month to their spiritual instruc-
tion.
Resolved, 6th. That we will not buy, sell, or
give any article to^ or have any business tran-
saction with any slave, without the consent of
said slave's master.
Resolved, 7th. That a Vigilance Committee
be appointed by this meeting, to consist of 12,
from the city of Austin, half from the east and
half from the west side of Congress Avenue,
aud 36 trora Travis county, 6 from each beat
or township, whose duty it shall be to to en-
force a strict compliance with the provisions of
these resolutions.
Resolved, 8th. That we will aid and sustain
the said Vigilance Committee in the enforce-
ment of the provisions of these resolutions.
WhereaSj We have amongst us a Mexican
population who continually associate with
our slaves, and instill into their minds false
notions of freedom, aud make them discon-
tented and insubordinate, therefore,
Resolved 1st, That all transient Mexicans,
or those not freeholders, in our midst, be
warned to leave within ten days from the pass-
age of this resolution.
Resolved 2d, That all remaining 'after that
time be forcibly expelled, unles their good
character and good behavior, be vouched for by
some responsible American citizen.
Resolved 3d, That all citizens employing
Mexicans as laborers, be requested to notify
them of the passage of these resolutions.
Resolved 4th, That we will not employ Mex-
icans as laborers, and will discountenance and
discourage their presence among us.
Resolved 5th, That a committee of ten ener-
getic gent lemen be appointed to carry 1st and
2d resolutions into eflect.
Report received, and the meeting proceed-
ed to the consideration of the resolutions, se-
riatum.
Capt. Cleveland offered the following
amendment to the 2d resolution :
t fThat a committee of be appointed by
the chaiiman of this meeting to wait upon the
merchants, grocers, and other dealers of this city
and county, and request them not to buy or sell,
from or to a negro, any article whatever, with-
out a written consent from the owner of such
slave, and that such merchants, grocers and
other dealers, be requested to sign a written
article in accordance with this resolution."
Rejected.
Capt. Cleveland proposed the following as
a substitute to the 7th resolution:
"That of the fifiy-six composing the said Vi-
gilance Committee, six shall be citizens of
each of the several six beats, or districts into
which the county is divided, exclusive ot the
city of Austin; and that the chairman of this
meeting be instructed to ask of the County
Court, at its next session, on the third Monday
iu November, proximo, to clothe them with the
authority and power of the patrol, in each of
such districts; and that the rest (t wenty) of this
committee shall constitute aud compose the Vi-
gilance Committee for the city of Austin, with-
in and to the extent of the corporate limits of
said city; and that the chairman of this meet-
ing cause the Mayor and Aldermen of the city
to convene immediately, and in their corporate
capacity to pass such ordinances as will confer
upon the said city Vigilance Committee full
power and authority to take up and punish any
and all negroes that may at any time be found
idling, loitering, or conversing together, either
with or without passes, or with the Mexican
poprflhtion of the city, over two in number, as
said corporate body may by direct ordinance
direct" *
On motion of Mr. Hampton, substitute
laid on the table.
Mr. Hampton proposed to amend the 7th
resolution as follows:
"That a committee be appointed to request
the County Court and city authorities to appoint
the persons contemplated in this resolution for
their respective districts.-'
Accepted.
Preamble and resolutions, second series
taken up, read and adopted, seriatim.
On motion of Maj. Hampton, the chair-
man appointed the following gentlemen a
committee tocarry into effect these resolutions:
Dr. Philips, Maj. John Marshall, Maj. J. W.
Hampton, James Jackson, S. G. Norvell, J.
A. Burdett, Newton Burdett, Thos. H. Jones,
P. J. Nowlin, G. W. Davis.
Dr. Philips moved that the above proceed-
ings be published in the city papers. Car-
ried.
On motion of B H. H. Butts, the meet-
ing adjourned, sine die.
J. S. FORD, Chairman.
Wm. Leigh Chalmers, Sec'ry.
A Novelty in sporting has been presented
in New York, which will contest the palm with
the most celebrated troting nags. A trotting
bull of full Spanish breed in offered to take
the field agaiust all trotting nags in the
United States for a wager §1,000. The bull
is described to possess all the running points
of a fast beast, is of beautiful symmetry, with
jet black tufted hair, and has accomplished
2.40 in harness. He is called Don Giovanni,
and claims as his sire the famous fighting bull
who acquired such great renown, a year ago,
by killing a tiger in the Plaza dc los Toros,
Madrid.—Daily Globe.
Every Little Helps.—Dick who was
hung at Dayton, Ohio the other day, was in-
clined to have no faith in any religion but
the Catholic, yet he was visited occasionally
by Protestant ministers. About a week be-
fore he was hung, he was asked by one of these
gentlemen, a worthy and talented man
"Have yon any objection to my praying with
you?" " I guess not," said Dick, "every little
helps!"
ftSylt is evident that the Baltimore Pa-
triot man is an exceedingly nervous indivi-
dual: Hear him:
Is it lawful to keep a dog who barks, howlcs,
and yells alternately, all night long ? And
if lawful, is it humane, is it Christian, is it
neighborly ? We don't mind a perpetual bark
at the rate of a hundred and twenty reports per
minute, up to say 3 o'cock in the morning;
but after that time it very disagreeably dis-
turbs the melodious hum of the mosquitoes,
and is apt slightly to interfere with one's rest.
Tlicy say that every dog must have his day, but
those in our neighborhood seem determi-
ned to have the niuht also.
Spanish Affairs.
The English journals are hinting obscurely
at the probability of a sale of Cuba to the U.
S. The fact of a pressure for the payment of
British claims upon the newly formed govern-
ment of Spain, by Lord Howden, constitutes
an item of considerable moment in the matter.
England wants, and must h:ive, money to
carry on the war against Russia; if they can
not obtain it otherwise she may forego her
objections and prevail upon Spain to furnish
her from the coffers of Uncle Saui, by a sale
of territory. More improbable events have
transpired. England makes every thing bend
to her interest where she can. If parting with
the Sovereignty of Cuba on the part of Spain
should be essential to her welfare, she instantly
counsels it. In such an instance her sugges-
tions would be of a character not to be lightly
considered by the Spanish government and
she would no doubt stand, in case of need,
ready to enforce them. The following extract
from the London Globe has allusions to the
points in question:
A spirited letter, with which Lord Howden
has backed a new claim preferred upon the
Spanish government by the English committee
of bondholders, has revived hopes in this
country that had almost been converted to
despondency. The new government at Madrid
is called upon for justice to the holders of the
old four per cent coupons which were, in the
opinion of our own government and of Europe
generally, so unjustly confiscated. Lord
Howden not only requests M. Pacheco's
attention to the document, but craves his
assistance, and points out to the Spanish
minister that justice is expected from a go-
vernment "which inscribes public and private
morality on its banner."
The hopes which this spirited support are
calculated to excite, are naturally streng-
thened by the confidence in Espartero's pro-
bity ; and our private correspondence is suffi-
cient to convince us how strong is the expec-
tation that the new government of Spain will
endeavor to redeem the discredit which has
attached to the very name of the Spanish race
in finance, and which makes the mere sound
of Mexican bonds or Spanish actives a melan-
choly joke in the ears of English capitalists.
We cannot, however, be blind to the im-
mediate difficulties which press upon the go-
vernment at its entrance into office. It finds
an accumulated deficiency of £6,500,000
sterling—a considerable sum for Spain at the
present day. It finds the revenues cotifiscaicd
ill all directions, by the rcckless and unscru-
pulous conduct of previous administrations—
the ordinary revenue, the tobacco, the tribute
from Cuba and Porto Rico, the income of
the Phillippines, the mines, &c. The pro-
posed establishment of railways is, for the
moment, paralyzed by the disorder into which
everything has been thrown. Spain, no
doubt, is capable of procucing an amount of
wealth equalling that of any country of its
size; but it requires time for improvements,
and Espartero's difficulties are present and
urgent.
The financial difficulties are complicated
with political embarrassments, and all kinds
of possible redress, or concession are deman-
ded at the hands of the new government.—
The Queen Mother i^carcely disposed of, ere
a new comer presents a fresh form of an old
question : Mr. Daniel E. Sickles, the Ameri-
can Secretary of Legation in England, left
this country about a month ago, and was an-
nounced in America as having returned with
despatches from the. American Minister in
Spain to the President; and the nature of
the channel for the transmission of those des-
patches occasioned some remark on the other
side of the. Atlantic. We believe we are not
incorrect in saying that several recent circum-
stances have strengthened the view at Wash-
ington that the conduct of the local officers at
Cuba is unwarranted by any laws of interna-
tional intercourse. Without expressing any
opinion on the question at issue, we state
simply as fact that the irritation in the Un-
ited States is considerable, and that a strong
pressure is exerted upon the government.—
The purchase of the island from the Spanish
government is a subject of common and
impatient discussion. Mr. Siclcles, wc believe,
takes his departure from London to day for
Madrid.
High Price of Labor in Orgeon.—The
Portland Times says the demand for labor in
that Territory exceeds the supply. Carpenters
receive from four to five dollars per day, black-
smiths the same, dav laborers from two three
dollars, and our farmers are paying as high as
three dollars per day foi hands to harvest. Ta-
king this to be the basis of the price labor, of it
will be readily seen that however productivo
our land, our mines, forests or fisheries, we can-
not compete with other people iu tbe market .
China.
It appears that Mr. McLane, our Minister
to China, has bees exploring the interior of
that country, and judging for himself of the
condition of the Imperial and rebel parties.
In some papers at home he has been censured
for not fraternizing with the rebels. The
same charge was made against Mr. Humphrey
Marshall, but in each case it appears to have
been with little causc.
On arriving at Nankin in the Susquehanna,
Captain Buchanan, attended by a smaller
steamer, the Confucius, under the command
of Lieutenant Brown, Mr. McLane received
a very characteristic letter, in these terms:
" When a man has anything to say, let him
say it clearly; when he has anything to do,
let him do it right. This is an ancient maxim.
Now, your ship has come into our happy wa-
ters without letting the object be known,
please state it, so that I may inform my
superiors, and the soldiers on both sides be
restrained from firing," &c., &e.
Mr. McLane refused to communicate with
an inferior officer, aud Captain Buchanan
became the correspondent. During their
stay in those waters, however, the Chinese
people flocked arouud the steamers, and were
very anxious to learn how many men inside it
required to turn the wheels of the monster
steamer, the Susquehanna. A distinguished
Chinese general dined on board, and officers
from the ships went ashore and were treated
with great kindness.
From Nankin, on the 29th of May, the
vessels steamed seventy miles further up the
river to the city of Wuhu, a walled city, with
a population of half a million. Mr. McLane
was informed that the water was deep enough
for the Susquehanna to go four or five hund-
red miles further up the river, the banks of
which were under the rule of the rebels, but
as he had been further than any American
man-of-war had ever been before, he was
satisfied, and returned to Shanghai. The
river is estimated to be three thousand miles
a
m
be, perhapa assured of its Itvtfa. Would i| be
too presumptuous, howevor, if I venturoi to
ask your Grace to point ooft the pssMgsvhara
I recommended that "good plan."
Of course, when any* man In* tbvw to
discharge upon me, he takes care fo
f K A VhivImL ln«. ■ N A- ll  • I
the English papers) to thnnr vitriol ipnai;
and also (copying the Abolition proas) to 4Mt
an Alabama plantation in my teeth. Yowr
Grace is not original; and, being ibhtlM
nothing worse, you come <mt with than old
stones as fresh as ever. Now — 
Grace see anything so horrible in
of negroes t Are you not aware that ]
bishops, monasteries, yea, Po
slaves? Yet it is not Wonderful that you
should not covet a plantation in the so
long as you possess that enviable pieoe of
property, the Calvary Cemetery, when I see
by the newspapers 448 of your flock w«ro
buried last week at a fee of $5 per corpse to
you. I wish your Grace joy. I shall be
almost tempted, instead or a wetl-atooked
plantation in Alabama, to wish for a
peopled grave yard on Long Island.
Excessively Literary.
How a young lady endeavored to adaptlnr
style of conversation to the chaareter of htf
guests, is narrated in an Ohio paper.
Tom Corwin and Tom Ewing, being on a
political tour through the State, stopped, at
the house of a prominent politician t
but found no one at home out a:
who presided at the supper \
never seen great men, and —Msssd they
were elephantine altogether, aadj ah talked im
great language.
" Mr. Ewing, will you take condiments in
your tea, sir," inquired the young lady.
" Yes, Miss, if you please," replied the -
quondam salt boiler.
Carwin's eyes twinkled. Herif was fun
for him. Gratified at the apparint sucoees
of her first trial at talking to bi£ men, the
young lady addressed Mr. Corwin in the sssm
manner:  
" Will you lake condiments in your tea,
sir ?"
"Pepper and salt, but no mustard," was
the prompt reply of the facetious Tom.
Of course nature must out, and Ewing and
the entertainer roared in spite of themselves.
Corwin essayed to mend the matter, aad
was voluble in anecdote, and wit, and com-
pliment; but the wound was immedicable.—-
The young lady to this day dedans that
Tom Corwin is a coarse, vulgar, disagreeable
man.— Washington Globe.
4RRITALS AT THE KTMPOIITAI wB
Crime is on the increase in New York
city. The Chief of police of that city recently
made a report showing the operations of the
police department for six months ending June
30th, 1854, in which he says: "There have
been 25,110 persons arrested for criminal of-
fences from the first of January to the 26th
of June, 1854, being an increase of 2,874
over the corresponding period of time in 1853.
True Delta.
Dan Rice's Canvass Blown Down.
Great Excitement.—According to the
Rochester (N. Y.) Union of the 20th, Dan
Rice was particularly unfortunate in that
city. The Union says :
The exhibition of Dan Rice in this city
was not a fortunate one. His canvass was
prostrated twice by the gale, and once the
perfoimancc was prevented altogether. Yes-
terday afternoon just as the audiencc had be-
gan to assemble, a gust of wind struck the
canvass—breaking the centre pole, and
throwing tho whole concern to the ground.
No one was injured; but the damage could
not be repaired in time for an afternoon per-
formance.
At the evening hour for opening, the can-
vass was again in order, and an immense
multitude of people—men, women and chil-
dren—flocked to the exehibition. The tent
was filled to overflowing at an early hour,
and hundreds went away unable to gain ad-
mittance. The performance went on as well
as it could be conducted, with such a crowd,
until near ten o'clock, when a violent storm
of wind and rain commenced. The canvass
was lifted up, and thrown down upon the
multitude. The wildest excitement fol-
lowed. Women and children shrieked as if
in despair, and three or four thousand persons
were struggling in total darkness, amidst
a heavy shower, to extricate themselves from
the position in which they were placed.
The canvass was cut in hundreds of places,
and the people crawled through the rente,
and on the cloth over the multitude, to a
place of Bafety outside. That some lives
were not lost, is indeed a miracle. A good
many were slightly injured, but none ser-
iously, so far as wc can learn. Amidst so
much confusion, it was impossible to get the
names of those injured. The people quickly
dispersed after the accident, to escape the
drenching rain.
Singular Trial.—A singular trial,
says the Baltimore Sun, is now in progress
in one of the Providence (R. I.) courts.—
Some time since a young lawyer of Provi-
dence was detected at the Marlboro' Hotel,
in Boston dressed in woman's clothes. His
female wardrobe—a very valuable one, val-
ued at some hundreds of dollars—was taken
from him and given into the hands of a Prov-
idence policeman, who was to give it to the
lawyer's wife. She being from the place, it
was not done, and the owner has had the
officer arrested for theft, in keeping the
clothes from him. An amusing list of this
clothing was published in one of the Provi-
dence journals a few days ago, which showed
a very extensive female outfit. The case is
exciting much interest, as the gentleman,
besides being a married man, is a church
member, Sunday school teacher, &c.— Gal.
Journal.
long, and wc arc now satisfied that a large
ship can go one thousand miles from the sea
on its bosom with safety. It drains the richest
silk and tea districts in the empire, and
through it and its tributaries one hundred
million of Chinese can be reached, many of
whom already use our products.
While at Nankin Mr. McLane received a
full expose of the religious ideas of the rebels.
Much sympathy has been felt for the success
of the rebellion, because it was believed that
it would result in the establishment of Chris-
tianity amongst that numerous and ancient
people; but a knowledge of the facte only
adds its confirmation to the danger of propa-
gating the Gospel by imperial armies, or
successful rebellions against existing dynasties.
To the ten commandments they add two
more, one against smoking and another
against drinking; and if the rebellion should
be successful, and the Chinese should become
familiar with our views of the origin of the
Decalogue, they will religiously believe that
Moses received these eleventh and twelfth
commandments from Deity, and with them
they will be as sacred as the rest. In the
books issuing from their superior officers is
to be found, recounted with great accuracy,
the history of the world and the church, as is
known to us through the Old Testament.—
Some of their books, written by their inferior
officers, are of a very low character, often
dealing in the most ridiculous enigmas, and
descending to low ribaldry. As Shakspeare
revivifies the long forgotten scenes of English
history in play, so these men attempt to
reproduce the ancient Christian church.—
They speak and believe in the wrath of God
visited on the Egyptians, as also on the JewB.
Theso are the professions of their leaders;
the masses know nothing more than this, that
once they had idols to worship, and now they
have none, yet they get along just as well.—
One of the missionaries who accompanied Mr.
McLane to Nankin was sent on shore to talk
to an officer; after he had expressed our gene-
ral religious views to him, the officer replied
that his foreign brother knew well and true all
about God aud his son Jesns, but wes entirely
ignorant of his second son, Tae-ping-Wang,    
whereupon he' proceeded to teach and impress fjfgy yf Packets
on our missionary the importance of his point.
They maintain that their leader, "on whose
golden face no one has ever looket," has been
commissioned by God to conquer the world,
and bring them to the service of the true God,
exterminating all who refuse. To accomplish
all of which, God took him up into heaven,
gave him a seal, and a "sword unconquerable."
The whole worldmustcome under the authority
of Tae-ping-Wang. These sentiments arc
entertained with a fanaticism not surpassed
by Mohammedans. Captain Buchanan was
told that if he would kiss the ground, and
bring tribute to Nankin, &c., &c., he could
come there. If Mr. McLane would become
the minister of Tae-ping-Wang all would be
well; but that he covdd not come there as the
Minister of the United States, as the whole
world was to comc under the rule of the second
son of God. Such are briefly the ridiculous
pretension of these deluded creatures.
A writter from the ship's company says,
that Captain Buchanan asked one rebel officer,
with whom much communication had been
held, and who had made a good impression
on him, "If he had ever seen Tae-ping-Wang ?"
The officer replied, "thathe had never seen his
golden face." Captain Buchanan then asked
him " If he had ever seen Jesus Christ?—
The officer replied, " yes, twice." This last
reply was too much for " Old Million," he lost
his equanimity, and burst out, in pure English,
" Oh, you d d rascal." Fortunately, the
officer did not understand one word of bis
foreign brother's compliment.
Instead of being political reformers, the new
men are simply the upholders of a new dynasty,
erected upon precisely the same principles as
the former—the good of the Governors and
the abasement of the governed. There is not
a sign or a symptom of liberality Or enlargement
of political ideas in any respect, but rather
greater pretensions to greater superciliousness
than the Tartars ever dreamt of.
Their religion, instead of allying them with
Christians, is likely to make them as implacable
enemies as the Mohammedans were of old;
for one of the main articles of belief is in the
divine mission of Tae-ping-Wang, and his
right, by direct appointment from God, to the
empire of the whole world.
The chief minister of Tae-ping-Wang is
the Eastern King. He is also styled the
Comforter who Rescues from Calamity, or the
Holy Ghost who has been sent down from
Heaven by the Father, to assist at the Hea-
venly Court of the Younge* Brother of Jesus
Christ, whose mission is now to establish the
fourth dispensation. Mr. McLane's dispat-
ches to the State Department will possess an
unwonted interest.— Washington Globe.
J. T. CLEVELAND, Pbopbutob.
R. P. Powell, Pedernalis; A. Borland, Segaia;
II. M. Smith, N. O.; S. Seymour, Springrille; &'
M. Carter, do.; A. P. Wright, W«co^ R. P. Black,
Seguin, Mr. Smith; James W. A Ilea, Victoria; Ab-
ner Kuykendall, do.; James G. Robinson, do.; Wil-
liam g" Beckford, do.; J. W. Convene, Htwrt—,
S. F. Chapman, Travis county; l'rof. George W.
Guess, Gonzales; J. C. Newcomb, Galveston; B.
S. McCord, Bastrop; James M. Swisher, Travis CO.;
Dock- R. G. Harrington, Hiss.; Messrs. Thompson
and brother, Houston; Joseph Hodges, Parkrille.
Harried, y. ...
On the 4th instant, by the Rev. Mr. Ghgaia, Mr.
Johs J. McLadbik to Miss Mibgaut, daughter of
Capt. Bartlett Shnms, of Williamson county. ,
"All other goods by fortune's hands are given,
A wife is the peculiar gift of Heaven."
May their long lives be passed " Midst otUW if
connubial bliss," aad health and happiness eftr
attend th«n, with a moderate number of «tktr tit-
le retpotuibaiiiet. [Communicatee
^ssasss^ssassaaasB '
PLANT BROTHERS, Gekkkal COMOS-
sios Merchants, 75 Putt ttnet, Har Ttri,
(and Lavaca, Texas,) propose to sell cotton, (witfc-
ont advances) for fifty cents per bale, instead of
two and a half per eeat commission, and change
ly the actual outlays which accrue fer expenses,
thereby benefiting owners. Or they will advaace
in the usual way in cash or drafts at onr office.
The undersigned will receive and forward cotton
and other produce, consigned for sale to the abM* •
house, who will render prompt returns.
E. NASH k Co.
Receiving k Forwarding Merchants,
46m6 .Lower Wharf, Lavaoa, Texa% - '
BgT State Gazette and Gonzales foyriNr wfflS
each copy for six months, and charge B. Nash Jf Hoc.
Matagorda Bay.
THE undersigned have taken the agency of the*
above Line, and would respectfully state that
arrangemetns have been perfected for placing *
number of first Class Packets in the trade to ra
regularly and with despatch throughout the seaaflk.
We are prepared to make liberal advances on
shipments of produce to onr friends til urn i Bish-
ops, Simons & Co., Philadelphia.
We have also an open Policy of Insurance iasneA
by the " Independent Mutual Insurance Company,"
of Philadelphia, and can take risks on cotton, eta.,
from the time of its loading in the interior until it
reaches its destination. B. NASH k Co..
Lavaca, October 1, 1844. 4C::6m
c.
tyledP
Sew Tin Shop.
A. LAUGHLIN k J. COX having as-
sociated themselves together in the
Tinning business, under the name and styW
of Laugblin k Cox, would respectfully inform
friends and the public generally, that they
keeping constantly on hand a large and general as-
sortment of Tin-Ware, which they ottrst <iM >
sale or retail, at reduced prices.
Job work in tin, copper or sheet Iron, executed
to order. Roofing, gutters, pipes, etc., warrantM
not to leak.
As we are both practical mechanics, we feel con-
fident in saying that we can give satisfaction to aB
work entrusted to our care.
Shop on Congress Avenue, opposite
dett's Livery Stable. Oct. 14, 1854. 4fitf
B 'M
17 or Sale.-—A large lot of Law andMiacd-
laneous Books. Apply to
Oct. 14, 1854. ~
46 tf
E. FINNINGCe.
Fer tale Cheap*—A very
guerreotype apparatus. Enqnire of
Oct. 14, 1854. 46tf
E. FINN in ft Co.
Extract of Mace, do of oi
do of Almond, do of Clo'
Orange, do of Peach,
oves, do of NuUueg,
of Vanilla, supctiaa
do of Lemon, do of Rose, do of VanQla, i
for flavoring cookery. For sate by
46 tf BAKER k SMYTH, Pecan stiesC
500
LLBS.
Potash.
46tf
For sale by
BAKER It SMYTH.
SUPERIOR Lemon Syrup, for sale in
to suit purchasers. ~
street.
46 tf
Sign of the Mortar,
B4KBR k SMYTH.
WANTED.—Boarding in a private
by a gentleman and his wife.
" B." box 2, City Post Office. 46tf
Jolin Hitchel and Archbishop
Hughes.
Archbishop Hughes is famous for his news-
paper, controversies. He has, at least, one or
two every year. He seems to enjoy the ex-
ercise. His last piece of anonymous letters
to a cotemporary who certainly did not have
the best of it. In one of these letters, finally
acknowledged by the Bishop, he administered
some smart lashes over Mr. John MitchePs
shoulders. The following are specimens:
Mr. Mitchel is the Irish patriot who made
the magnificent discovery in military tactics
that a good plan would be to fling vitriol from
the tops of all Dublin houses more one
story high on the passers-by in the streets,
without inquiring whether the fiery liquid
should fall on the head of the friend or the
enemy of his country.
Mr. Mitchel i3 the same Irish patriot, who,
if he had a good plantation in Alabama, well
stocked with fat negroes, would.treat them no
doubt with the utmost humanity, and this we
say on the strength of our own opinion, inas-
much as we have always known Irish Orange-
men to have in their nature an immense
residum of humanity and bcnevolence toward
the captives under their domination.
Mr. Mitchel, in this week's Citizen, gives
the Bishop "tit for tat." Here is an extract:
Your Grace savs I once recommended as
a good plan, "to fling vitriol from the tops of
all Dublin houses more than one stoTy high on
the passers-by in the streets." Humanly
speaking, this is s falsehood; but in some
. clutive, mystic, and spiritual sense yon may
ARABIAN HORSE PHYSICIAN.
THE art of curing bog bone or bloodspBn^ f
evil, pole-evil, ring galls, saddle gals,' 1
and inflamed eyes, founder, bolts, cebe,. Fistala, aad1
many other diseases of horses in general, by ffcbt
application of rm-11 -|~riri1itirn rf ■nfitinia iifiUirt
ed from drug stores can be obtained ftoat Dr.
Gibson by remitting a one doBar bill to OjrfHN,
Union county, Kentucky. These preparations
not always effect a cure, but it icthoagM by j
physicians that they are the best mtheworid. 1
horse physicians have established Ihimiaiilti
my code of practice and are making moneys
46::3w AJL GIB80K.
TO HAKE TOVRHABtCVRB.
WONDER OP THK WOELD.
THE great wonder of the world has at fcflMk
been discovered. You cannot make erne Mr
white or black, but Mr. Byron H. Robb has at
length procured tbe trnth of the great (ecret, titer
much study, toil aad expense, how-to nab A*
hair curl and wave in the most graeeftd maanei fcf
life. The proprietor has traveled throagh WBIt
parts of Europe for upwards of nine yean; ia search
-ofthe celebrated chemist aad pbyatetogfct,ML
Jaques, and has at length fonnd him ia Italy, sad
purchased of him the receipt for $8,09S. AB per-
sons having the most aacoath aad mm ni IumsIk
hair, can have it transformed into the moat >«aati
ful curling appearance that could he desired, lh
composition of which the article is co p md wM
not cost more than fifty cents, aad but oaa appli-
cation is needed to the hair to eaaae it to ware ia
the most uniform and perfect manner far Bfc, aad
thus improve the looks aad appearance one haa-
dred per cent. We now offer the woodertal dJeeor-
cry to the world for the sum of $1 OO.
Direct all letters to BYRON H. ROBB,
ton, Trumbull County, Ohio, and the n
be immediately- forwarded to the person.
J86T All letters must be poat-paid to I
tention. Oct. 15, 1854. 4Sa>
i
'rnk
LOST.—Certificate No. Sit, Class 3, Bexareaua-
ty, issued to William Mockford, for 3tt sawa
of land. If not heard from within tho tiw
scribed by law, application will he maiH "S*
proper department for a duplicate. .
October 1,1854. 45t8 J. PtOCTBBr*
VALUABLE Austin City property, w«S
improved, will be exchanged^ for good
land on the San Saba, at feir vale
For further information apply at the State '
office. Octpber ?th, 1854. 45tf