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W. E. JONES. J. S. FORD k JO. WALKER.
WILLIAM I JNTB k JOHN 8. FORD, Editas.
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par annum, weerieify m
«%.We an mthorirtd to nnaounce JAME3 B.
PiClM a w M>U for: District Surveyor of
Travis Land District, to fiHtbe vacancy occasion-
f by the resignation pf ft L. Uushur.
areanthorised to aaoonnce Col. A. O.
WR, of- Travis county, as a candidate far Sher-
111 at the approachiog election.
We are 'anUiorixcd to aqnonncf LO. L
WcGEHEE. of LockBart, as a candidate for Dis-
trict Afforoqr of the 3d Judicial District,—com-
prised •t the coantirs of Bastrop, Caldwell, Guad-
lospe^^ays, Travis, Bamett and WiUkaason.
* W g araaatUkonaed to announce L. H. LUCK-
KTT. E*q., as a candidate for District Snrreyor of
Tnrria'Land District, to fin the vacancy occasion-
ed >y the1 resignation of H. L. Upshnr, Bsq.
For Nicaueca,—Several young gentlemen
have left this city, for Nicaragua. On Mon-
day evening, Mr. Charles Coney left, in the
La.yaea, stage, for this land of attraction to the
adventurous. Mr. Coney has been a citizen of
Anstin for a number of years. He leaves be-
liind, a large number of warm and influential
friends, Who feel and express roneh solicitude
for his Welfare and success. He is a young
gentleman of fine acquirements as a linguist,
a clerk and an accountant. He has served as
Clerk nrtho SWate Treasurer's office for some
years. Hit ability, integrity and application,
gained him the'good opinion and respectof his
employer and the public. There are few young
gentlemen better ypacitated to make their
wto distinction in Nicaragua than Mr. Co-
B*y. He speaks and Writes the Spanish lan-
guage «fth: fluency and elegance—is ac-
quainted *fth the Spanish American charac-
ter, *nd has a practical knowledge of tpen and
bftshiess ndt oftei possossed by ycrag genUe-
men of his age. -
Austin wifi be ably represented in Nicara-
gua by three such young gentlemen as Mr
Juwoingn, Mr Cooke and Mr: Coney.
n }y ■ .—. 1 v
JuxumsTAL Ktttiso.—A little aon of
Jtka C. Hampton of this city, aeeMefctiy
killed a little negro girl belonging to Judge
Sseed, by shooting her in the head with a
pistol. The kad affair happened on Thurs-
day evening. •' f\''T f ,Cr''^
Tax Swim.—Austin cm take preec-
dence of any place 1ft the United States in
the iny of oriiddy and .fithy streets. A
hard rain renders the streets almost inipassa-
"ble. There ' are alleys almost shoe-mouth
deep, in vegetable and annimal matter in a
Mite of putrefaction. The stench from, this
compound, and the many null, edifices to be
found stuck-near them as ornaments, is any
thing bat agreeable. The whole is a growing
eulogy upon thepubiie-spiritedneei of the
cittaana—he that runs may read, provided
he can smell.
. l*,-1*' ' ■ ■ «n' f ■ "■ . •
A Hunting Exploit.—Not many days
ajnaa^ a scion of the noble hooN of Africa,
came puffing into a hemae—with dilated nos-
trils enlarged eyea, and in hsriried speech—
h«announced the exciting fact, Alt he had
just seen a "big bar." Two young blooda
shouldered their rifles, and hastened to the
spot. On discovering the ferocious animal,
the young gents, forgetful of previous peren-
tal remoostrancee, rushed into the very jpwa
of danger. There was a rivalry to deliver
the first telling ahot—they rammed the mu-
sics of their guns almost against the sides of
the tamffo looking monster-- both fired sim-
nltanfloudy—the hige creature fell over
'^tooe dead"—after having given a long,
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Pakka Maria.—-The San Antonio pa-
pers notice tke^aatablishmeirt of a town, near
confluence of the Cibolo and the San Anto
nio, by emigrants from Poland. It has 130
" J"'
Patisg the Creditors.—The first of
Jnne pext, js reported to be the day assigned
Mr. Guthrie to commence paying the
exaa creditor%;T' .
spirit of the Times—On the 9th of
February the Spirit of the Times completed
its twenty-fifth year. The lovers of sporting,
of fine horses and of all those things calculat-
ed to amuse and not demoralise, should take
-the Spirit of the Timea. It stands preemin-
ent as authority io- all matters pertaining to
tho torf. Its contributors include some
the a bleat and most finished writers in the
United States, especially upon humorons sub-
jects* - - No lover of fori or hearty laughter
sheriff be without the Times.
- The Texas
The first number of the Texas V.i«p«W^r
ins been received. It is a tolerably large
sheet and filled with good reading matter.
The editorials possess point and force.
editor, Sir. Yeomans, will, without doubt,
prove a valuable addition to the editoria
corps of Texas. He seems to possess an in
dependence sf feeling, a disposition to express
bis sentiments boldly, but in a manner not
calculated to offend those differing with h™
He will needed in obtaining a wide circa*
lation foe Us paper should he adhere to these
roles. :tn i Jm<A
The politics of the Enquirer are define*
by tbeeditor:
We are opposed to all "higher-law" menv
whether American or European, whose onl; r
rule of aetkm either fenatieimn or some
cn>de notiaiS<afsdemocratic right. We shall
costend &x^eJigious freedom in aD its phaaes
when, divested of hypocritical charlatanism,
and not professing to owe allegiance to a
power superior to our own constitution and
lass. Religions creeds, having for their ob-
ject; the subversion of the principles of our
institutions, we shall war with to the utmost
of our ability, whether such creed has its
origin in Utiiih, New England pr Italy.
This programme will dof ~ "
The Enquirer is published weekly at Busk
Cherokee county, Texas, at $2 50 per annum.
StiavEB Out.—The Inquirer speaks feeling-
ly of the scarcity of creature comforts in Gon-
albs and " thereabout*" The bad roads have
y intiid as an embargo. The editoi's patience
appeared quite exhausted when relief came
Hb joy is best described in his own words:
P. 8.v Since the above was in type, a fine,
fast runniug, four wheel craft, has arrived from
trom the bay, only twenty-seven days out, i
an enormous cargo of one barret of flour,
ptand* of sugar, five pounds of coffee, forty
bexerof tobacco, sixty bushels of pipes, and
'Arte hundrtd giillont of RED-EYF.! Away
with your railroads am! Terraqueous peramu-
lators! We're safe note // ,
TWWi
Ysrk York
. ibeis
of the government established by tie Free
State pasty In F n#i^ and apprehensions are
entertaiaed of s eeSbon between the Feder-
al authorities and the Free State men.—N.
O. Trms Delta. ■ --- *-
If these orders have been issued and the
freo-soilers resist their execution the ques-
tion of mastery will no longer be between
them and the " Bovder Ruffians." The Con-
stitution—the laws—the Union, will be on
one side, and the abolitionists on the other.
They can have no pretext, no shield to cover
their proceedings. They cannot then pre-
tend they are defending themselves against
the machinations of invaders—intermeddlera
with their affairs. The Kansas row is a fair
exemplification of the workings of squatter
sovereignty as laid down in the Kansas Ne-
braska act. Similar scenes are liable to oc-
cur in the settling of every other territory of
the United States. Quasi-civil war is now
being waged between the anti-slaveTy and
pro-slavery men. No one cas tell where it
will end- The pro-slavery party have the
Constitution and the laws with them. They
have the undoubted right to enter any terri-
tory of the United States with their property
and to be protected in its enjoyment as long
as that territory remains the property of the
United States. If a few abolitionists and un-
naturalized foreigners can thrust themselves
into s territory of the United States—organ-
ize a government and pass laws prohibiting
a Southern man from emigrating to it with
his slaves, then the right of a handful of peo-
ple—the whole of whom may be aliens—to
establish a distinction based upon property,
is concedcd beyond doubt. A few thousand
European emigrants have it in their power
to shape the institutions of Kansas and 'Ne-
braska, and to preclude pro-slavery men from
going there with their negroes. Is it proper
or prudent to invest men, who have no politi-
cal rights nnder the Constitution and the laws,
with this power? Is it just, or in accordance
with the principles of the Constitution, for a
thousand or so of voters to decide the ques-
tion of ^avery for an immense territory capa-
ble of sustaining a population of more than
)r million—a territory as yet unoccupied J—
So principle, which theoretically or practi-
cally denies the right of a Southern man to
enter a territory of the United States and
carry Isith him any species of property, can
M snstained as equitable. The emigration
ors' citizen of the United States to any of
their territories, with any thing recognized
as property in any State of the Union, can
not be prohibited without violating the spir-
it of our institutions—of the Constitution and
the equality of right possessed by every citi-
zen of the Government to the use and enjoy-
ment of what is the common property of all.
Any law tothe contrary, enacted by s legis-
ature of a fractional territorial population,
would be subversive of a Constitutional right.
Southern men ean not be excluded legiti-
mately from territoiy of the United States—
neither by act of Congress, by a law of a ter-
ritorial legislature, or by any other act under
the Constitution. When a territory procures
permission to form a Constitution and enter
the Union, then the question of slavery can
le decided. She is then a sovereign State—
a co-equal member of the confederacy, and
er territory ceases to be the common prop-
erty of all the States. The jurisdiction of
the General Government conferred by the
Constitution, be it what it may, is changed—
it is merged in the relations subsisting be-
tween the Federal Government and a sover-
eign member of the Union. As one of a
cluster of sovereignties, a State has the un-
questioned right to shape her domestic insti-
tutions to suit herself. She may introduce
or aboliah slavery at her pleasure. She may
exclude the introduction of any species of
property or do any thing to promote her own
welfare and prosperity, not prohibited by the
Constitution of the United States. Territo-
ries have not these sovereign attributes. As
long as they continue the property of the
whole Union-—open foroccupationtoanyand
every citizen of the whole confederacy—they
cannot be inverted with them. This being
the case, where .does the right of a territorial
legislature to pass a law shutting out a citi-
zen of the United States because he is the
owner of a particular kind of property, come
from ? From what clause in the Constitution
is it derived? What jurist could defend
such an enactment npon the principles of
equal rights, justice and equity? If the leg-
islature of a territory have the right to legis-
late upon the subject of slavery, they of
course have the power to defeat a citizen of
the United States ill the exercise of a Con-
stitutional right. If they have the right to
exclude the Southern slaveholder, they also
poaantr the incontestible right to say the
northern man shall not come in with hb
clocks spd other , ware. The exercise of the
power chimed for territorial legislatures by
the Kansas-Nebraska law is intended to ope-
rate solely in the case of slaves. It is a dis-
crimination between the property of North-
ern and Southern men—favorable to the for-
mer and prejudicial to the latter. It was
never intended tc be applied to any but slave
property. If the law had recognized the
principle of equality—the right of any citi-
zen of the Union to emigrate to Kansus and
Nebnska and take with him hb property,
and had extended protection to his enjoy-
ment of the same as long as they remained
territories, then the South would have been
safe. There is no such clause in the enact-
ments, and if there had been, it would not
have received the support of Northern dem-
ocrats, if we are to believe their assertions
since the passage of the bills. The South
have had the Missouri restriction removed—
they have a chance of securing more slave
territory, provided they can do so against
^ On tht night oj^fhe 8th instant, fiSnes es-
caped from the custody of his guard and-fled
to parts snknowo. He was held to 1 3 in
the sum of five thousand dollars for his. aj
pea ranee, as a witness, at the Spring Term of
the District Court. In default of security
he was retained in charge of the officer. He
was kept in a room belonging to Mr. Swen-
son's building—rented at 830 per month—
was guarded by four men at a salary of 82,50
per day—a snng little sum of about 811 per
day or 84,015 per year, to be paid by the
State. Why he was not placed in the coun-
ty jail no one can say.
The Sight of Hines occasioned some little
flurry. One of the guard, Mr. Thos. Hay-
nic, was arrested—charged with the offence
of having allowed a prisoner to escape. On
the 11th he had a committing trial before
Justice Graves, who conceived the evidence
insufficient for his commitment, and dis-
charged him. The report of his having
been drugged by the prisoner received no con-
firmation from the testimony of the medical
gentlemen who were called to him under that
supposition. It is the opinion of those who
heard the evidence (we did not,) that the on-
ly points established were, the assumption of
judicial functions by Gov. Pease and the re
missness of the officers in
duties.
A. Difference- of Optnlbn. j President Pierce's Kansas Procla-. Martctlo Towers.
Ths Pierce Democratic editors/of Texas' mation. j There is no small barbor nov little inlet,,
say the "South Americans" are lfesponsiblc' Many complaints are heard against the . on any of the better settled parte of wircooats,
tor *.**.<* ofj pmto.Ucn -2?
the Day Book, the New York Organ of Gen. i interference in ' • single cruisers of an enemy, provided only
Pierce ia equally positive in ascribing the of intervention lias been enunciate a a very t^at they should be furnished with a gnn or
success of Mr. Banks to the Hard Shell De-' late period in the matter. It bursts upon the two 0f sufficient range and calibre to tell on
mocrats. In this connection the Day Book i public just at the time the South seemed to j the vessel herself as soon as the battery j
, I have become satisfied of the necessity of some , should be brought within the reach of her
T " cupii, w:,l toll vou that thev ' action to neutralize the measures and the acts j broadsides. An attack from boat parties or |
The Hard shells wilt tell you that they .., c „ „ , v , , J by land would, quite doubtles, very easily
nominated three national democratic candi- j of the t Aid Socie les o e - _ ; succeed in taking an open battery defended by ;
dates in the districts which elected three j the Free Soil inhabitants of Kansas. In its j ^ fe^r irregular troops without shelter or cov- ■
Know Nothings, and that we administration
i tone it may be classed as friendly to the South, er; but behind the simplest entrenchments ]
its consequences will be diametrically opposite, it would be entirely another affair, for our
The situation of affairs and of parties in | people in such positions, with no other in- |
interference
men defeated them. Suppose that to
true, on- ichat platform did their three 11a- [
tional democratic candidates stand '! II"/'.'/.! .
on one made vp of opposition ami dentin- Kansas long since justified the
ciation of the administration. They would! of the President, if his interference is proper
not permit an administration man to rote for now. Why he delayed action until the present
oneof their candidates; for tntvery meeting
and at every eaurns they took good care to
denounce the President and his Cabinet I—
How could ice vole for such candidates'—
juneturc is a matter to be explained by his
friends ?
"Let the reader turn to his proclamation
discharge of their
Why, by stultifuinq ourselves and consenting and see how earnest the President is, not only
to their condemnation of an administration | "gainst indinduals seeking to save Southern
nnnrnrf,j ' i interests in Kansas, but also against States
. " « , i which dare to look after their vital interests
This argument is a very unsafe one to be i therc Aye> read his words and rememher
advanced by the friends of the Administration, j during the many long months that New
It tells upon themselves with force. The England was pouring her fanatical cohorts j
The burning of the Adjutant General's
office was a crime which has created a very
general feeling of indignation against its per-
petrators' Therc is a strong disposition, ev-
ery where, to aid the officers in arresting and
bringing the wrong-doers to justice. The
only expression heard is of regret at the fail-
ure attending the efforts to effect a consum-
mation so ardently desired. The active
measures of the Governor have met with ap-
proval, but the course pursued toward Hines
is thought not to have been of a nature to se-
cure his evidence. Hb escape b considered
a vindication of this opinion.
Haynic has been again arrested. ,
/
Writ b rather amusing to notice the in-
teresting dilemma in which the Know-Noth-
ings of this State place their representative,
Hon. L. D. Evans. They declare that Rich-
ardson was and is a free-soiler, nominated by
the democracy to "catch free-soil votes,"
and yet L. D. Evans voted for him! If
Richardson is a free-soiler—which no sensi-
ble man believes—and the democracy sus-
tained him, it docs not justify Evans in do-
ing the same thing; clearly not.—Brazos
Statesman.
There are members of the American party
in Texas, who do not pretend to justify the
vote of Judge Evans—they leave it to him to
explain his reasons for even temporarily giv-
ing his support to a man in favor of the Wil-
mot Proviso. As to the position that "no
sensible man believes " Col. Richardson is a
free-soiler, it is quite untenable. On that prin-
ciple, any man who reads Col. Richardson's
speeches must convict himself of a want of
sense. If he understands the English lan-
guage he must conclude Col. R. intended to
express free-soil opinions. Perhaps he did
not know what he meant himself and has em-
ployed Pierce-democratic editors to elucidate
the dark spots in hb doctrines on the territo-
ries and on slaveiy. They have been assid-
uously employed for the last month or so in
proving he was insincere in his professions of
political faith; indeed, they succeeded so
well that Col. Richardson himself became
perplexed and took back one of his free-soil
speeches. Richardson's speeches, with com-
mentaries by Southern editors, would be a
rich work. The difference between the text
of the authoi1 and the explanations of the
commentators would be wide. " Variety b
the spice of life "—the work would be the
spiciest thing out.
Cel. Jennings and the Nomination.
The Pierce-democratic prints arc eternally
harping about the rejection of Col. Jennings,
by the State Convention, as the nominee of
their party for Attorney General. It b a
matter they pretend to believe the American
party take very much to heart. They have
ascribed various reasons for the failure of
Col. Jennings to secure the nomination The
Brazos Statesman says:
"The simple fact that Col. Jennings had
been a member of the opposite party, we think
was not the cause of his rejection. They
could not have objected to him with any con-
sistency, and then accepted others equally as
obnoxious, if that were hb sin."
Col. Jennings himself, in a speech- before
the Convention, ascribed hb connection with
the American party as the cause of hb de-
feat. The declaration was not denied. It
may be possible the Statesman has some rea-
sons to view thb departure of the Pierce-
democracy from their usual rule' of rewarding
deserters from the American party, with feel-
ings of dread. Has either of the conductors
of that journal ever been connected with the
American party? Is there any particular
meaning in the deprecatory idea of the States-
man that. " the simple fact that Col. Jen-
nings had been a member of the opposite par-
ty " was not, in the opinion of the editor, the
cause of his rejection ? The fa^t of having
belonged to a \ jlitical organization—of hav-
ing acted with and of having Tfeserted it in
the boar of defeat, may not be so "simple"
as some imagine. The rule which excluded
Col. Jennings from the nomination, might be
applied to others, and then there might be
some mistake as to being received into ths
Bombshell ranks with open arms.
The "Irish Democracy" of Wis-
consin.
From the Waukesha (Wisconsin) Democrat
it appears the " Irish Democracy " of Wis-
consin arc dissatisfied, and are going to estab-
lish a paper to be "the Organ of the Irish De-
mocracy of Wisconsin." The Democrat
gives the annexed as their reasons for the
course;
We found them, however, much more frank
Northern combinations, northern money, ai.d
despite of violence and fraud. The question • '? aTOwinS their grievances and principles
than we expected. W hen asked their mo-
of slavery in Kansas b being dccided rather
by force cf arms than by the ballot-box. If
tives, they replied that "when they look for
Executive favors thev are denied them, and
1 oung Meh's Democratic Association.
hy b it that we do not have some ac-
oount of the doings of thb putHotic corps ?
It is ntmored that they do not M'1 their
meetings for want of candles, the treasury
being exhausted, Bet we take this early op-
portunity of nailing the elander to the coun-
ter—of comae the true reason b the " in-
clemency of the weather." We do tr st
thb association will not fizzle ont, before tfc«
committee appointed to investigate the enor-
psjfm frauds perpetrated in oar late city elcc-
hare leportoi
tfae North acquire it—the acquisition will | told that the Irish did not come up to the
■avor of a conquest. The doctrine which re 1 scratch at the late election, and that the
fere the decision of the slave question to the! Germans alone are entitled to, and shall re-
people csnnot be objected to, if its practice j ce'v®>.8uchfav°rs;" and they are now bound
ij i j-a • . c f, ,! torctTieve themselves and character by start-
would work no detriment to the South, and - - - J
her interests were properly guarded.
danger from the Kansas-Nebraska act is, that
it may force the issue prematurely in the ter-
ritories, and cause it to be dccided adversely to
the South by men introduced expressly for
the purpose and not in the usual course of
emigration, occupation and organization.—
Kansas at present has more the appearance
of a theatre of war than a political arena.
Clay Moncmest.—The citizen* of New
Orleans are raising means by subscription to
build a monument to Henry Clay.
I ing this paper, and pledging that they will
The get the Irish of Wisconsin in harness, and
case preseuted by the Day Book is applied
to the Speaker's election in the following
manner by the Prattsville (Ala.) Statesman.
How could the Americans vote for Rich-
ardson, the candidate of the administration
anti-Americans ? To use the argument of
the Day Book, in its defence of the N. Y.
administration party, with a slight alteration:
"On what platform did their candidate stand ?
Why, on one made up of opposition and de-
nunciation of the American party and its
principles ! ' They would not permit an -4m-
erican to vote for their candidate; for in
every meeting and at every caucus (and in
the House of Representatives) they took good
care to denounce the American party and
their principles. How could they (the Am-
erican members) vote for such a candidate ?
Why, by stultifying themselves and consent-
ing to the condemnation of the principles
they approved."
We assert openly, and above board, that
those who contend that, under the circum-
stances, the adminbtration party in New
York were right, in refusing to vote with the
Hards, and the Americans wrong in refusing
to vote with the Richardson men, are not,
cannot be, honest, justice-loving men."
There never was a piece of more unblush-
ing effrontery than that of the Pierce-democ-
racy in denouncing the American party con-
tinually—refusing to act with them and in
then expecting them to support their nom-
inee. The editors of the modern democratic
papert finished the business by charging it
as a dereliction of duty in the "South Ameri-
cans" for not tamely surrendering principle,
independence and everything manly and sup-
porting the free soil candidate of their calum-
niators. The course pursued by the admin-
btration party was sufficient to prevent any
member of the American party from voting
for Col. Richardson, even if he had not been
objectionable on the Slavery question. The
self-styled Democratic party are largely res-
ponsible for the election of Mr. Banks—they
are entirely so for the defeat of Gov. Smith
of Virginia and the records furnish abundant
evidence to prove the facts.
Political Doings In Kansas.
The Leavenworth Herald gives the follow-
ing political history of Kansas:
"First, Reeder comes out here in October
1854, having been appointed in the June
preceding, Governor of Kansas. He delays
organizing the Territory for several months,
had no election for a Legislature until the
30th of March, 1855. Then postpones the
meeting of the Legislature until the 2d day
of July, 1855—thirteen months after he was
appointed Governor of the Territory. The
Legislature met at Pawnee, the place he called
them, he addressed a message to the two
Houses, clearly recognizing it asa legal body.
A bill passed adjourning to Shawnee Mis-
sion, which the Governor vetoed. It was
then passed by the constitutional majority
notwithstanding. For thus adjourning, Gov-
ernor Reader declared all the acts of the Le-
gislature illegal. He then went into the
embraces of the Lawrenceites, Robinson,
Lane & Co.
A general organization was effected through-
out the Territory among the Abolitionists
and Freesoilers, all agreeing upon the one
issue of making Kansas a free State. A
grand military organization was effected, not
only to resist the laws, but the better to act
in concert in their revolutionary schemes.
Their agents were sent out all over the land,
Sharp's rifles sent out to them, in boxes
marked Books. At their Convention at Big
Springs, they declared to resist the laws to a
loody issue." The position Reeder had
taken was soon abandoned, and the howl was
set up that the infamous acts of the Legb-
lature were illegal, because of corruption and
fraud at the ballot box. We heard nothing
more about the adjournment from Pawnee to
Shawnee rendering the acts of the Legislature
illegal.
The next move on the political chessboard,
by thb revolutionary party, was the famous
Topeka Convention, got up and attended by
only a few political tricksters. The call for
the Convention was addressed only to Free
State men, and none but that party took any
part in this move. They formed a Consti-
tution, voted down the principles of the Kan-
sas bill in Convention, and voted on their
Constitution 15th Dec. It was of course
adopted, as none but Freesoilers and Aboli-
tionists voted. On the 15th January they
held another election, and voted for a Gov-
ernor, member of Congress, and members of
a Legislature for the State of Kansas. This
is all done without even the forms of law.
Their government, they say, will go into oper-
ation on the 4th day of March next. They
have issued $25,000 in bogus scrip, pledging
the faith of the State of Kansas for its re-
demption, and how much more of this fradu-
lent wild cat currency they will attempt to
swindle the people with, we do not know."
The crisb is near at hand which is to deter-
mine the fate of Kansas. If these free soil de-
monstrations prove successful then it may be
concluded the boast of Gen. Shields that,
there will be to more Slave States formed
out of territory belonging tothe United States,
must be set down as having much meaning
and truth. The interpretations given the
Kansas-Nebraska Act, by Gen. Cass, Judge
Douglas and other Pierce-democratic lumin-
aries, will assume an importance demanding
more attention than the people of the South
have yet attached to them. If their construct-
tion of the law is correct then the South have
every reason to view the Kansas-Nebraska
bill as a heavy blow struck at the integrity
of her institutions aiid menacing her very
existence.
into that fair territory, Franklin Pierce had
no federal thunder for them! No! no ! that
was reserved for the South, and the moment
it was ascertained that she dared to raise a
finger, then it was suddenly found by this man
so adored by the McWhig party of the slave
States, that Federal bayonets were the "true
remedy." Go ahead, Messrs. Buford and
Beck—send your gallant Alabamians, Georgi-
ans and Carolinians to Kansas, and see if
Franklin Pierce does not welcomc them with
^rape aud canister!
Will some friend of the administration in-
form th; people why it is that the President
only sees the dangerous condition of things
when the South begins to move—and why
he did not see it, during all the time that
the hordes of Freesoilers, with loud denun-
ciations of slavery and the South, were rush-
ing in to secure Kansas by force of arms ?
And the South is asked to love, honor,
cherish and trust this man Franklin Pierce !
"Oh, shame, where is thy blush!"—Mont-
gomery Mail.
a Cotncldcncc.
It has been contended by some that, the
people of Texas are actuated by selfish or im-
proper motives, or by prejudice, when they
have complained of the want of protection
and of the inefficiency of regular troops when
operating against Indians. It is somewhat
curious the far off people of Oregon should,
to some extent, recitcrate the complaint. The
Oregonian in an article headed " How Goes
on the War?" says:
We answer that the United States troops,
who are paid for fighting, and who have been
sent here at the expense of the general gov-
ernment to protect the people, are all housed
up in good, warm winter quarters, eating,
drinking, and making merry, while a few
barefooted, half-starved voluq^eers, whocamc
here at their own expense, are in the field
fighting the battles of their country. In every
fight north, the comc out first too.
It is strange these expressions of dissatis-
faction should be heard simultaneously from
the inhabitants on the Gulf of Mexico and
the Pacific Ocean. There could have been
no collusion between them—no plan to depre-
ciate the Army of the United States and to
give the precedence to the volunteer for effect-
iveness in an Indian war. It simply elu-
cidates the position that, the regular troops
are not by education and training fitted to
operate against Indians. Their strength and
efficiency would be most manifest in a contest
with civilized forces, where science and stra-
tegy could be brought into requisition—then
they aro not inferior to the best troops in the
world. Some how or other they do not pro-
secute an irregular war with as much vigor
as volunteers. The history of the Texas
frontier proves this. The people of Texas
have no feelings inimical to the regular army,
but they do object most vehemently to the
placing of forces upon the frontier and deny-
ing them protection, simply because these
troops are here, though they have not, nor do
not, afford it to them. The people of Oregon
appear to entertain similar sentiments.
keep them therc in future.
But it b not the Irish who commenced
this move; it is William A. Barstow apd
William M. Dennis—the former to punish
us for not supporting him at the late election,
and the latter to fret the Irish in harness to
make him the next Governor of Wisconsin.
Now, instead of punishing, they can do noth-
ing to please us more.
When the horde of semi-independent po-
liticians who now dangle as tags to the tails
of corrupt leaders, are shaken off and made
to learn their proper place and business, they
will cease to lead their countrymen up to the
Uo.s* Wura and Shooting. The J alter'of>corAl(rtion~~*h®y Su'lEST
Xictona Advocate has a notice of the en-1 on their own merit, and not on the corruption
trcpee of three white men into San Patricio | of rotten leaders fer reward.
—their having stolen horees and having been 1 Barstow was the Democratic pominee for
pursjjitid and shot by the citizcns. i Governor of Wisconsin,
The Kansas Hkkald.—This is the title
of a pro-slavery newspaper published at
Leavenworth City, by Eastin & Adams, and
edited by Gen. Lucian J. Eastin. The sub-
scription for one year is §2 00. Southern
men in favor of the continunnce of slavery
in Kansas should patronize the Herald.—
Aside from its being an advocate of the South
it is a well edited sheet. Descriptions of the
face of the country, of the soil, productions,
scenery, etc-, can be found in its columns
and will be interesting to any one desiring
to know something of this now famous terri-
tory.
Bridge over thf. San Marcos.—The Gon-
zales Inquirer announces the completion of a
military Preparations In Kansas.
The Free State men of Kansas have been
preparing for the reception of the pro-slavery
men. The Kansas correspondent of the N.
Y. Courier and Enquirer represents the exis-
tence of great insecurity in the vicinity of
Easton. He mentions the following military
preparations:
The several fortifications which were hastily
thrown up during the late war in this city,
have been manned, and sentinels are at each,
constantly on duty, keeping guard. There
arc four of these fortifications which are cir-
cular in form, and are raised about five feet
high, with a ditch on the outside. Within
these, temporary barracks have recently been
made, and here the citizen soldiery are quar-
tered. Fort Necessity—or Fort Smith, as it
is called by some—is situated near the foot
of Massachusetts street, commands the ford-
ing place over the river, and is designed as a
retreat for the women and children, if the
town should be besieged or bombarded. A
high staff is planted in the centre of this fort,
from which our national ensign floats in the
breeze.
About fifty rods south of Fort Necessity,
and a few rods east of Massachusetts street,
is Fort Hunt, now in the command of Hon.
Morris Hunt, recently elected a Judge of our
Supreme Court. He has twelve men under
hb charge, each armed with a Sharp's rifle.
Fort Holliday is a few rods west of Massa-
chusetts street, and designed as a protection
of the town from cannon at Oread Mount.
This is the best built fortification of the four,
and probably will have to stand the principal
charge when the contest is opened upon us.
Fort Dirkey is somewhat north of the latter
fort, and is designed to protect the town
against an invasion from the West.
A circular redoubt is thrown across Massa-
chusetts street, between Forts Hunt and
Holliday, and would be a 7ery effective resort
for the citizens with arms in case of a charge
from the South.
All along Massachusetts street, between
the last mentioned entrenchment and Fort
Necessity, are breast works thrown up between
the houses, forming a sort of fence on either
side.
The Emigrant Aid Company's fine hotel,
which is still in an unfinished condition—
though laborers are at work upon it.—is also
under guard constantly, and is made the head-
quarters of the Generals and their Staff, as
well as of the Committee of Safety, Executive
Committees, &c.
Expresses have been sent to the different
towns along the border in Missouri to pur-
chase ammunition, and every arrival brings
some. One team succeeded in getting half
a ton of lead and,.several hundred pounds of
powder; others are able to buy one or two
hundred pounds, and a keg of powder. These
our women are engaged in manufacturing in-
to cartridges, to be used with Sharp's rifles.
Not a pound of lead or powder can be bought!
at the stores here; they have all been secured |
struction than that drawn from their innate !
sagacity, would fight as bravely as Turks,and ,
with as much skill as any European troops, j
These entrenchments would probably be ]
brought to their simplest and cheapest form,
when consisting of a block-house of logs or
of a tower of masmry, mounting the guns
and holding the magazines, surrounded by a
ditch and an earthen embankment. It was
a gun in such a position that once defeated
Nelson and cost him an arm. Napoleon
studded the coast of France with similar de- j
fences, which, during all those long wars with j
him, never received from the English cruis- |
ers any tokens evincing the slightest evidence |
of their con tempt for the efficiency or sttength I
of such batteries. If our own shores were
once garnished with such works, no blocka- j
ding squadron could ever succeed in keeping
our coasters idle in port, and much less so
our single cruisers—national and private—
who, defying any enemy, and multiplying in
proportion to the points of refuge established
on our own coast, would take the broad At-
lantic, and render that sea unsafe to the
merchantmen of the haughtiest power, if at
hostilities with us, unless conveyed by a fleet
of men-of-war.— Washington Union.
Defences of a more permanent character
are needed upon the Texas coast. At pres-
ent our coast towns are defenceless. They
would be at the mercy of an enemy with one
armed vessel. The possibility of a rupture
with Great Brittain admonishes the govern-
ment and the people of the necessity of erect-
ing, without delay, works of sufficient strength
to protect our sea-board towns. In the ab-
sence of something more effective, Martello
towers might be built at exposed points.—
For instance the Guard and the students of
the Military School at Galveston might con-
struct one. These works are named from
Martella in Corsica, at which point a deter-
mined resistance was made in 1794 against
an attack by a superior English force. They
are round—have thick walls and the roofs
are bomb-proof. They can be made so by
covering them with earth to the depth of
about three feet or more. They are usually
armed with one traversing gun—a lofty par-
apet or wall must be raised to protect the
men while they are working it. They should
be surrounded by a deep ditch. A door for
entrance must be several feet from the ground
and reached by a ladder which can be taken
into the work when necessary. From six to
twelve men are able to guard a work of thb
kind. Notwithstanding the apparent weak-
ness of Martello towers and their simplici-
ty of construction, the British Government
had twenty-seven of them crectod on the
Kentish coast, a quarter of a mile a part,
when they apprehended an invasion by Na-
poleon Bonaparte.
Two or three of these towers would be a
great protection to the harbor of Galveston,
and in them the students of Professor For-
shey might take lessons in practical gunnery
Citizens generally are not as well acquainted
with the use of artillery as they should be.—
Few persons have handled a piece, save on
the Fourth of July or some other national
holiday. Thb should not be. A people
who pride themselves upon the efficiency of
the masses, when called into thcfield, should
make themselves acquainted particularly
with the most powerful arm of the service.
Every man, who possesses military aspira-
tions should learn to work a cannon—for fear
his services might be required in that way,
at some time or other, he should learn any
how, even if he b not inclined to take ser-
vice.
Indians—These rascals still continue
their depredations. The regular troops foil-
ed to overtaks thejparty who committed the
murder at the house of Mr. Hill. The rain
put out the trail. On the 29th of Feb . J.
B- Brown writing to the S. A. Texan, from
the Cibolo, says:
"On last Saturday night the Indians were
around all night, and on Sunday afternoon
also, they saw two of them several times,
they watched all night for them and left on
Monday morning for New Braunfels.
The following circumstance is the one re-
ferred to in the Times of last week. The an-
nexed letter is published in the S. A. Texan,
and was dated Feb. 28th :
"I learned by an express sent in to me,
that three of my wagons which went down
to San Marcos after corn yesterday, while on
their way back, some fifteen miles from here,
were attacked by Indians, and were left alone.
Whereupon, I started and with the assistance
of some neighbors went to the place where
we found the wagons robbed of everything
valuable they contained, they had cut all the
wagon covers to pieces, and two rifles which
were lelt in the fight, they had taken. At
about 8 o'clock in the morning of the 27tl ,
two of the young men went after the oxen,
and one was left in camp, (by the name of
Jacob Gueseberger.) Soon after they had
left, 8 Indians well armed came charging up-
on Gueseberger, whereupon he caught hold
of his gun and six-shooter, and showed fight.
He made good the first shot with his rifle,
which brought down an Indian, and as soon
as he had shot, the Indians charged on him
amongst the wagons, where he defended him-
self with his six-shooter, until he had only
one shot left, he then got away and joined the
two other men, who were with the oxen, and
made their way to the first settlement. Du-
ring the fight he received two severe wounds,
one in his back some five inches deep, and
the other through hi3 arm, both with arrows.
Mr. Gueseberger was brought home and car-
ed for, and I hope will recover. The Indi-
ans were all mounted and well armed. Some
fifteen arrows were found near the scene of
action and brought in, also their clothing
and pieces of blankets which they had ex-
changed for others they had found in the
wagons." Yours Respectfully,
FRANK V. D. STUCKEN.
Families have moved into New Braunfels,
and business is at a stand.
The S. A. Texan of March 6th, hi\s the
following:
More Indians on tbe Cibolo.
On Monday last we learned from J. B.
Brown Esqr., that three Indians were seen
in the vicinity of his ranch, and there is but
little doubt but many are scattered about in va-
rious places, Mr. Holt,who lives near the Cibo-
lo,lost several horses by Indians,—a few days
since while in search of his stock he found
several valuable cattlc that had been killed
by Indians—he ha^ brought hb family to
town. Several companies of soldiers have
been scouting in that vicinity, but as yet they
have seen no Indians, although they may
have been seen by them.
' Arrests In Sew Orleans.
The accusation of "Thuggery" or assassin-
ation so pertinaciously made against the Am-
erican party by the Anties, has caused an
investigation of the police records.—The in-
quiry resulted in furnbhing incontestible
evidence of the nationality of the law breakers.
The New Orleans Creole says:
Fer the edification of those who may be in-
clined to doubt thb statement we will say,
that, we have examined personally the books
of the police court, not even trusting to the
semi-annual report of the Chief of Police, as
published in the city papers of the 1st inst.,
and find tbe figures there set down, to be as
follows: No. of Irish arrested, 2452; Ger-
mans, 636; English, 162; Scotch, 61. Whole
number of foreigners arrested, 3306. Num-
ber of Americans arrested, 410. Now we
have reliable testimony, which may be pro-
duced if desired, to the fact that the four
hundred and ten set down as Americans, are
mostly the direct offspring of foreigners.—
But, even were they not,—even should four
hundred and ten out of a population of forty
thousand of those "wild, reckless, filibuster-
ing, law-defying, God-forsaken" Americans,
be guilty of transgressions upon the laws,
what blame have they when THREE THOU-
SAND THREE HUNDRED AND SIX out
of a like population of the law revering
birdlings of European hatching set them the
illustrious example?
Mr. DuchhMu.
A Washington letter says that tbe political
friends of Mr. Buchanan, who have hi* inter-
est* especially in efcarge. are of opinion that
as a matter of policy he should have remained
at his post t least sntil after the meeting of
the Cincinnati Convention, and thus have re-
lieves himself of complications which mar
now arise by a withdrawal from it Accord-
ing to the present programme, Ito will return
to the United States some time in the month of
April, and in that evea> he cannot ■vfid th*
issue that will inevitably Ite toreed vpon him,
as to the a>lini>sion of Kansas into the Union,
and the policy relating to the-Territories. Had
he continued in the English- mission four or
five months louder, some of these threatened
embarrassments miirht have been avoided, un-
der the coverot his othcial positio*.. Now they
must be met in some shape or BtUer— N O
True Delta
It would be a pity to force Mr. Buchanan
out on these questions. Why did he not-re-
main abroad and save the modern demetrracy-
the trouble of defending his po-dtious upoaftxr-
all-absorbing political topics of the day T It'
was very unkind in him. If he had properly-
appreciated the trouble his course will brin
upon his party, by his returning and expressing
opinions, he certaiuly would have remained
abroad.
Tbe Present Legislature of
Louisiana.
When the Legislature of Massachusetts,
last year disgraced itself by the passage of
the Personal Liberty bill, and by other meas-
ures with reference to searching convents.—
The American presses throughout the nation
boldly and fearlessly denounced their action.
Gov. Gardner refused to give hb sanction to
the odious and unconstitutional bill which
they had enacted.
The Democratic presses too, were shocked
at the excesses of that Legislature. They
held up their hands in holy horror, and were
more immaculate than the cloistered dwell-
ers in the convents, which were proposed to
be searched. But what have they to say to
the lawless and highhanded proceedings of
the Democratic Legislature of Louisiana?—
They remove an officer elected by the major-
ity of the people, who is declared by the Ju-
dicial tribunab of the State to be legally
elected. Their Democratic Governor signs
this unparallelled usurpation of the rights of
this people, thb flagitious attempt to tram-
ple upon the ballot-box.
Do the Democracy endorse these highhan-
ded proceedings? The whole Democratic
press in Louisiana are loud in their vindica-
tion, and these Democratic presses that were
so much horrified by the conduct of the
Massachusetts Legislature see nothing wrong
in any thing that is effected under the name
of the Democracy. We invite the serious
attention of our Democratic cotemporaries to
the parallell between the doings of the Dem-
ocratic Legislature of Louisiana, and the
Legislature of Massachusetts. If the Nash-
ville convention was the fellow to the Hart-
ford convention, it remained for the glorious
Democracy to disgrace our sunny south with
a parallell to the Legblature of Massachus-
etts.
Runaway Sepro Shot.
Br.anco Citt, March 6th, 1856.
Capt. Ford: Dear Sir—By the request of Mr.
Hays I send you a few lines, with a request
that you publish them in your valuable paper.
Mr. Hays killed a negro man last Saturday
night ; he was a mulatto about 35 years old.
with small hands and feet. He had on number
7 shoes, and was well dressed. He had in his
wallet two white shirts, 25 pounds of bacon, 1-2
gallon of corn meal, several pens and pencils
12 sheets of paper, and an arithmetic with the
name of John Faylor on it. He bad also
two horses with him; one a sorrel branded P
on the shoulder, some white on his hind foot;
the other a brown, no brands, a few white
Tbe Texas Sun.
The editor of the Texas Sun b humorous
and witty. He got off a very good article on
a middle-aged gentleman living near Austin,
to which the aforesaid gentleman replied, but
the " devil" sat in judgment upon the repli-
cation—condemned the same for " its smut-
ty allusions" and consigned it to the prin-
ters' cemetery. One must admire the Latin-
ity of the Sun man. He translates delight-
fully. However, with all these means and
appliances to stave off care and vexation, he
sometimes becomes impatient—hear him:
"Oh that this Earth would crack."
—When an editor for the want of mail mat-
ter, has to fill nearly one side of a large coun-
try paper, with the productions of his own
pen, the style of conversation, used by " our
army in Flanders," is not entirely without
excuse. As yet, we shall not swear; but if
the mail does not come thb evening, (Wednes-
day) we cannot say of what enormity we may
be guilty. Copy, copy, copy, b the eternal
cry. Now when the original b so nearly ex-
hausted, it is no easy matter to furnish copy,
try who will. In his extctions, our printer
is the most inexorable devil, that ever flour-
ished a club foot. He'would have us to sup-
ply copy, if the material had to be drawn
from our life's blood. He appears to forget
that the inventive faculty does not possess
never failing proereative powers,—that the
bow, when never relaxed, loses its vigor. If
somebody would shoot at somebody else, or
get up a nice tittle impromptu fight, or run-
away with one of Eve's daughters, the en-
raged parent following in the rear of the fu-
gitives, we would not complain. But the
chapter of accidents is closed. Even the
weather, which the press generally united in
denouncing, has amended its ways, leaving
us no pretext or apology for abusing it. The
sun has risen in all his pristine glory, pur-
suing the same path in the Heavens which
Omnipotence blazed for it, ages gone by.
" Oh ever thus from childhood's hour,
Molly put the kettle on."
There is copy for you. Take it, you little
devil.
Convicts—Foreign and Native.
The relative proportion between the con-
victs of foreign birth and of native born has
been determined by statistics in several States.
The Boston Courier published the following:
Foreicn. Native.
Tbe King of Mosquito.
His present Mosquito Majesty is said to be-
quite tiwd of the duress in which he is held by
the etiquette of royalty. He is a specira n of
good natured. indolent semi-savageness. The
humbuggery of the English government in ex-
hibiting to the world this demi-barbanan a*
the King of a country, is apparent to the moat
casual observer who chances to meet his King-
ship.
The following extract is from the N. O. Pica-
yune :
" In his lecture on Nicaragua, at the Lycenm
Hall, on Moih ay night, Dr. McBean gave an"
amusing account of an interview he once had
with the young Mosquito King, who waa dress
ed in the full costume of b.s country, to wit: a
straw hat and a cigar. The young sovereign
said that his lather, the old King Bob, was very
drunk when he sold his lands to Capt. Shep-
pard, of Grej town, and t hat. therefore the grant
or sale was not valid. This is the grant which
Col. Kinney has purchased, and under which
he claims a vast region of territory. It is about
as valid as the English claim to Greytown and
the Mosquito coast, and neither party appears
to have consulted the Government of Nicara-
gua, the only real and uudoubted owner.
"Thisold King Bob, by the way, was a ca-
riosity. He was excessively fond of rum aud
tobacco, in which he was supplied by the Eng-
lish, from Jamaica. About the time the latter
first began to turn their serious attention tothe
acquisition of territory in Central America,
Kiiiff George the Third sent his sable brother
a richly ornamented general's coat and cocked
hat. King Bob was excessively delighted with
his present, and took every occasion to exhibit
himself in his new drwss. The captain of the
English war vessel which conveyed the pro-
sen?, wishing to do honor to the recipient of
his sovereign's bounty, gave a grand entertain-
ment on board, and invited King Bob and his-
court to be pre^nt. The latter came, aud ar
they approached the vessel, the captain-wan
gratified to perceive that King Bob was dress-
ed in the coat and hat he had just received.
But what was the astonishment and consterna-
tion of all, to perceive, when he boarded tbe
vessel, that he had nothing else ou. Tbe ludi-
crous appearance which the old Indian must
have presented, dressed in a richly laced red
coat, with the tails hanging down behind, and
a full plumed cocked hat, and no other article
whatever, can be better imagined than de-
scribed. His court, of course, wore ouly the
usual straw hat."
These are the instruments the British have
been, and are now, usi g to swindle themselve*
into the possession of the great national high-
way of commerce. If the movement of Gen.
Wm. Walker succeeds, tbe matter will be deci-
ded against Great Britain. Tbe Clayton-Bnlwer
treaty will cease to be spoken of, and the Ni-
caragua route will be controlled by Americana.
It was a blunder in our government not to re-
ceive Col. French, and a departure from the
established rule observed by every administra-
tion since the day;« of Washington. American
interests may suffer from this untoward ktep.
The American feeling would have been para-
mount in Nacaragua at least, if not in all Cen-
tral America. The error may be retrieved,
but it surely was one. ^
Who are Tbuggen? ,
Since the attack upon Mr. Denis Corcoran, of
the Delta, in the streets of New Orleanc, and
his accnsation, made in his paper, against Mr.
F. A Lumsden, of the Picayune, many of the
Anti-American sheets have taken occasion to
vilify the American party, by charging them
with the practice of carrying slung shot, braas
knuckles, and other concealed means of of-
fense, abont their persons. They have not
scrupled to call the Americans "Thugs*" or as.
sassms.
Mr. Lumsden procured his own arrest, and
evinced an anxiety to meet the charge of Hk.
Corcoran, boldly and unflinchingly. Recorder
Bright proceeded to tbe examination of Mr.
Lumsden's ease, but Mr. Corcoran waa unable
to attend. Several witnesses were examined,
but nothing elicited. Capt. Moynan, among
other things, testified as follows:
" Knows nothing whatever of a band or claai
of persons called Thugs, existing in the city,
carrying slung shots, brass knuckles, and simi-
lar weapons, with which they assault and kill
people: knows oniy of such doing so as appear
every morning before the court. As a general
thing those found with concealed weapons of
that character, are strangers, or at. least belong
to the ordinary floating population a boat tbe
levee, such as deck hands on steamboats: there
is another class of men often found with con-
cealed weapons, but these are generally pis-
tols and bowie knives; almost the only places
in which those armed with tl e others are such
ones as Tchoupitoulas street, St. Thomas street,
the levee, and the markets, and they are the
well-known drunken, worthless beings, on
whom the police almost always have an eye,
and who come before the courts almost every
morning; no American has, to his knowledge,
aud as far as his office is concerned, been found
with such weapons on him."
Here is the evidence of an officer of police,
who, upon oath, exonerates Americans from
tbe charge of carryiugthe species of conceal-
ed weapons used by the Thugs. Gentlemen
who have been so eager to seize upon every
thing prejudicial to the American' character,
and publish it, have been led into many errors.
The Thugs they have described with so much
gusto, are found among their allies, the for-
eigners. Thugging is not an American char-
acteristic.
by the Committee of Public Safety, and will j on the rump, the inside of one hind foot
be saved for use when necessity shall demand. | white. He had two bridles, a halter and
Harbor Defences.— Secretary Davis has
recommended the appropriation of the fol-
lowing sums for the erection of Ilarbor de-
fences in Texas.
Entrance to Galveston, . . . 8300,000 j
" PassCavallo, . . 175,000;
" Brazos Santiago, . :100,000
0^=*The, editor of the Cherokoo Sentinel J
bridge over the San Marcos river, one mile and j gives a glowing description of a ball, at Husk, 1
I half above that place. i ou the -'-M February.
white. He had two bridles,
quilted seat saddle.
Hays shot the negro in the night, supposing
him to be an Indian. The owner can find his
horses at Judge Jones' ; and rest well assured
that his negro never will reach Mexico.
J. C. STEPHENSON.
Qy The above negro is supposed to hava
belonged to James F. Johnson of this place.
In Maine
5
to
1
In Kentucky
6
to
1
In Mississippi
to
1
In New York
3
to
1
In Tennessee
15
to
2
In Vermont
8
to
1
In South Carolina -
28
to
1
In Alabama -
50
to
1
In Georgia
6
to
1
In Indiana
4
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The proportion of foreign crime to native
is reported in the states of Kentucky, Ten-
nessee, South Carolina and Alabama, to be
far greater than that among any of the North-
ern States, and in Georgia and Mississippi
equal to any of the Northern States.
In Georgia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Missis-
sippi, Alabama and South Carolina, the ag-
gregate foreign population in 1850 was 64,-
000, and the aggregate proportion of crime
was one* hundred and ten foreign to seven
native. The proportion of foreign to native
A Novel Spectacle on the Potomac.
The Washington Scntiuel, of the 16th inst.,
says:
The Orange and Alexandria Bailrood Com-
pany having been advised of the arrival ia
this city of a splendid new passenger car,
made arrangements for removing it to Alex-
andria over the ice; and yesterday afternoon
it was safely on its way thither, drawn by five
Worses. The car weighs 20,000 pounds.—
Passengers from Alexandria, at half-past 4
o'clock, reported that the half-way house had
been reached by the extraordinaiy team.-*-
Never before, perhaps, has the Potomac been
frozen, as it is now, to bear so much pressure
upon its icy surface.
Seguin.—The Mercury announces tho
success of the Democratic tickct it) the par-; crime in these six southern states, is greater
porate election of Seguin.
! lhau iu al! the northern states combined.
Mulattoes.—The census of 1850 shows,
that oue-fourth of tae colored people of tho.
North and one-thirteenth of the slave popur
lation are mulattoes. Of 3,204,318 slaves,.
246,656 were mulattoes, or had more or les*
white blood; while of the 195,000 colored
people of tbe free states, over 56,500 sre
mulattoes. In Ohio, more than half of the
colored population arc mulattoes, or 14,000
out of 25,000. In Indiana, about 90 per
cent, arc mulattoes; in Wisconsin and Iowa,
over 87 per cent.; in Illinois, over 85 per
cent.; in Michigan, 76 per cent.; in New
Hampshire, 54 per cent.; in Maine, 51 I>cr
cent.; in Pennsylvania and Vermont, 40 per
cent.; in Massachusetts, 34per cent.; iu Con-
necticut, 30 per cent.; iu Rhode Island, 24
per cent.; in New York 19 per cent.;.and lu<
New Jersey, 18 per cent. In only one sla.vp
state do the mulattoes form 16 per c^nt. of
the whole number of slaves, and in ouly three
do they amount to 10 per wnt.—Bvston Chu-
ritr.
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Ford, John S. & Jones, William E. The Texas State Times (Austin, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 14, Ed. 1 Saturday, March 15, 1856, newspaper, March 15, 1856; Austin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth235800/m1/2/?q=tex-fron: accessed June 20, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History.