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Texas is rery fovorable
and if oontlnued, lrffl cause
a Urge excess of merchantable cottons : and
although several State* been cut short,
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in Tasks this year, that of last y
being estimated at 146,256 bales
stock on hanf of 1,899. Total,
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PUBLISHED ON CONGRESS STREET, NEAR COURTHOUSE SQUARE, HOUSTON, TEXAS, BY E. H. CUSHING.
VOL,. XIIV--NO. 29.1
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1858.
i WHOLE NO. 1287.
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1858.
See card of Prof. Cotton, whose
popularity as a teacher of dancing is not
surpassed.
We were shown yesterday a logger-
head turtle, caught by a negro in Buffalo
bayou, that weighed 84 lbs. It was pur-
chased fiy Mr." C. Granger, to be served up
to-day at the Old Capitol,' in soup. It was
a whale of a turtle, sure, and would bite a
broom-stick off as though it were a corn-
stalk.
We have been sh%wn apiece of den-
tistry by Dr. L. W. Bryan, of this city,
which, for elegance and beauty, surpasses
anything of the kind we ever saw. It con-
sists of a complete set of teeth for upper
and lower jaw, fitted to gold plates, and to
be retained in place by atmospheric press-
ure. They are equal to any work ever
done by his "father. Dr. John L. Bryan ;
and, consequently, cannot be beat in the
United States.
The' gentleman from Collin county,'
spoken of in the letter to the State Gazette,
by Robert More, M. D., we have found.
From the performances he has been engag-
infor the last two weeks,'we do not doubt
he has had the tallest kind of fever—and
yellow fever at that, but it is the old yellow
fever that rages in Houston all the time—
fever for gold. He has bought one of the
finest stocks of goods that will go to the
country this year, and will make enough
money this winter to prove that the fever
has got him. In the intervals of the dis-
ease he appears to have made good use of
his time, and we should not be at all sur-
prised if he should carry off some one of
Houston's fairest daughters—now or next
time, to adorn his'home. Withal, he has,
in two^weeks' stay in the city, gained ten
pounls in his eorporal weight. This looks
like he had the yellow fever very bad.
jgf The letter of Mr. Affleck will be
found most interesting to the farmer. He
need not apologise for the space he occu-
pies Our readers would be glad if he
would fill half the paper every ifeek, on
those and kindred subjects. He has a
"white card" for this purpose, and we
hope he will use it freely. As to the amount
of syrup produced per acre from the ordi-
nary cane, we cannot tell, and do not know
that it has been tested. Cane will yield
from 1000 to 3000 pounds of sugar, and
from 60 to 175 gallons of molasses to the
acre. We have known 256 Texas hhds of
1300 lbs to be taken from 130 acres, besides
about 400 bbls of molasses. But from 1200
to 1500 lbs of sugar and 60 gallons of mo-
lasses is a fair yield. This would net the
planter this year, about $100 to the acre,
which is a tolerably good business. We
hope ere long to have something more to
say of Mr. Affleck's wine, and trust he will
go into the business sufficiently, to not only
test the experiment, but to furnish the
trade with the article.
tution; that my written lecture, which I
still have in my possession, and which was
pronounced again and again, far and wide
over the length and breadth of Texas, con-
tains this special disavowal of all sectari-
an relation to the school, that it was spe-
cially explained to all persons making do-
nations ; and that all the donations were
made to the '•President and Trustees of
Ruttersville College." I not only heard the
same from all quarters knowing anything
on the subject, but always knew that it was
not a Methodist Institution.
That I never heard of a deed of any kind
giving the Conference an interest in the
College lots, until this controversy brought
to light the deed by Babb to Richardson.
I was present and cognizant to the presen-
tation of the College lots by the Town Com-
pany to Congress, for an Institution of
Learning, free from sectarian control, and
had a personal knowledge of the acquie-
scence of said company in the disposition
made of the property, by the Congress, and
also a personal knowledge of the Trustees
accepting office under the charter, several
of them being members of the Town Com-
pany, and especially that the ll-r. Robert
Alexander accepted the Presidency of the
Board, and I am now astonished at the
averment of Mr. Alexander (in a late let-
ter of his published in the Christian Ad-
vocate) that he betrayed that trust, and
recommended and aided in getting up an
instrument, intended to convey away the
property to the Conference, and thus de-
feat the action of Congress, under which
he had accepted trust and the highest of-
fice under said act. I think he must sure-
ly refer to some other deed, or that there
must be a misprint or some- misconstruc-
tion of his statement in the article refer-
red to and published in the Advocate over
his signature." ^
Father Haynie ie too feeble to write, but
is perfectly clear in his recollection as to
the matters here stated, and has strong
hopes that he may be able to be carried to
Conference at its ensuing session, that he
may testify in person to the truth of this
answer before he dies.
The writer was a member of the Board of
Trustees of Rutersville College, and knows
that it waB not a Methodist College, bnt
that strong and repeated efforts were made
to get the Conference to take it under its
especial care and patronage, and after the
actgiving the Conference the right to con-
firm Trustees, failing in the object which
promoted that act, the Trustees in the sum-
mer of 1856, took measures to dissolve the
slight connexion brought about by the
act.
We hope that the learned nnd well post-
ed Rev. Mr. Ferguson well not require an
answer from the rest of Texas, this should
be sufficient.
By giving the above an insertion in your
paper you will greatly oblige a number of
your readers. Yours, &c., Q. L.
HOUSTON WHOL ZSALX PRICE CURRENTS.
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*1 In tbii county Lh fr ^e.
Couon stored 00 th<? wharf U snhii-ct to removal per
ord *r of the Wbarftnaster, and any expense Incurred in
•9*rlac most be paid by the shipper.
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Ut wharftffe. Ail «xporu Including cotton, are
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LATEST NEWS.
We have New Orleans dates to Sunday.
The number of deaths from yellow fever
in New Orleans for twenty-four hours to
Thursday morn, was 76. At Charity Hos-
pital for the 24 hours ending Friday 6 PM,
there were 16. And for the week 95. For
the 24 hours ending Friday there were 43
deaths in the whole city. The heaviest of
the epidemic appears to be over. The de-
mon is starving only for the want of sub-
jects. The epidemic appears to have dis-
appeard from the Third District, to be but
slight in the Second, less in the Fourth
than a week or two ago, but to be most pre-
valent in the First District.
New Yobk, Sept. 24.—The Courier and
Enquirer pronounces the alleged despatches
from Trinity Bay, published yesterday, an.
nouncing that the ocean cable is in good
order again, and the electric current is
passing through as perfectly as ever, a sham
totally unworthy of credit.
The following dispatch has been received
from Trinity Bay:
"Tkixitt Bat. Sept. 24.—The report
that the cable is working is a gross falsho^d.
Nothing further is known than was received
from Europe per Niagara. Signals have
ceased entirely."
Nbw York, Sept. 24.—The report of the
loss'of the Brazilian war steamship Magee
is confirmed.
Four hundred men perished.
In consequence of the interruption of the
mails between New Orleans and VeraCrui,
Government has issued instructions to send
all the correspondence 4fer Western and
South-western Mexico via Panamaand Ac-
apuleo.
New Yobk, Sept. 25.—The agents here
state that the report of the appearance of
the steamship seen on fire at sea, answers
the desrription of the Austria, from Bre-
men and Southampton of this port.
They also state that the Austria had over
500souls onboard and a very valuable c,rgo.
The Austria, it is known, had eight life-
boats and four launchw—sufficient to carry
all the passengers and crew.
The passengers, it is understood, were
mostly German residents of America.
Among them were J. Bogel and wife, of New
Orleans.
The vessel and most of the cargo was in-
sured in Europe.
The Austria was on her third voyage.
It is confidently believed that all hands
were rescued.
The cotton market was firm to-day.
Sugar has declined Jc.
RUTBRSVlLtE COLLEGE.
Copied by request, from the True Issue,
Eo. Issue.—In a late number of the
"Texas Christian Advocate," Rev. J. E.
Ferguson concludes a communication thus:
"VTe will in conclusion ask Mr. Robert-
son and everybody else in Texas, who has
resided in the State for ten years, did you
or they ever hear or understand from any
source, that Rutersville College was not a
Methodist School, to all intents and pur
poses, till the summer of 185U. "
We are authorized to publish the follow-
ing answer to this question of the Reverend
gentleman, from the lips of the venerable
Rev. Jno. Haynie of your county:
•'I was Chaplain to the Texas Congress
when the original charter was passed, in
the year 1840, and know that the proposi-
tion to make it a "Methodist School," was
scouted, and that when it was changed by
its friends, so as to avoid all Sectarianism,
it was still difficult to pass it, in conse
quence of the suspicion created that i
might be, practically, Methodist.
I was also for, years the agent of said
College, paid by the hoard of trustees for
my services; arid in that capacity I traveled
extensively over Texas, and lectured, ob-
taining names and donations to said Insti.
stitution, and that on all occasions I spe-
cially stated, publicly and privately, to in-
dividuals, thai it vat not a Methodist Insti-
From the Telegraph.
LETTER FROM THOMAS AFFLECK.
Central Nurseries, Washington Co. 1
Texas, near Brenham, Aug. 25,1858. J
Friend Ccshlxc.—I have looked for you
here, now and again, ever since we began
wire-working, but as yet in vain.
One of your subscribers at Evtaw Lime-
stone Co., propounds enquires enough, in a
letter received to-day, to require the con-
tents of a two hundred page 12mo volume
to reply to in full! Others have made like
enquiries. With your leave I will answer
them through the columns of the Tele-
graph
Our Eutaw friend requests me to "detail
the cSodusoperandiof wine-making from the
Mustang grape; the manner of obtaining
the juice; the amount of water used, if any,"
and so on.
Although tolerably conversant with the
manner of making wine, as practiced in the
different countries of Europe, and about
Cincinnati &c., I find that there is much to
learn from practice and experience, with a
grape like the Mustang, nwely employed
for the purpose, or, at least, of which we
have no written experience. For my part
I have been mainly a looker on, this year;
a pupil M. Gerard. Until his experience
in a small way, in 1856,1 had strong doubts
whether a wine made from the juice of the
mustang would keep in this climate without
the addition of spirit or of sugar which be-
comes spirit. The wine made that year,
and that too with very ordinary means,
such as tubs &c, was excellent, and kept
perfectly; being now sound and good; vast-
ly improved indeed by -age. Nothing was
used but the juice of .the grape, expressed
by tramping.
This year the grapes were gathered by
plucking off the branches with the finger
and thumb. Every second evening, the
grapes thus gathered,during the two days,
were run through one of W. O. Hickok's
cider mills (made at Harrisburg Pa., and
an excellent machine it is for the purpose)
juice, skins, pulp and seeds all running di-
rectly into a fermenting tub. Fermenta-
tion commenced immediately; the mass ris-
ing to a considerable height, care being tak-
en not'to break the crest or mass of skins
&c. To say what "the proper temperature
should be" or the "length of time required
for fermenting" &c &c., is impossible for
me as yet. My cellar is 30 by 15, and ten
feet deep, with a stout roof of cedar, covered
with earth, and kept us cool as possible.
The time required for fermenting varies
from 60 to 80 hours; and can only be de-
termined by the nose! The tub may be
tapped with a gimblet, and a little wine
drawn off. When it runs clear and smells—
well, like wine, is the best direction, it
may be drawn off and barrelled. Fill the
barrel and lay on the bung reversed, eo as
not to be tight. After from two to three
weeks, the wine may be drawn off clear,
and still further clarified with the white of
an egg. Then when fully settled, say in
two or four weeks, it may be bottled off, or
racked off again into casks to remain until
wanted.
When the wine has been drawn from the
tub, until it begins to appear muddy, stop
it; then add three or four buckets of water
to each barrel of grapes in the tub, and al-
low another fermentation, when the result
will be piqutte or petit wine—the most excel-
lent drink imaginable during warm weath-
er; and may be drank as soon as made. It
will not keep long.
These directions might be greatly exten-
ded. Rut the fact is that those who desire
to do more than make a few barrels for
their own use, had better employ some one
in the first instance, who understands fully
the process.
I intend plauting in vinyard, the mus-
tang grape, every foot of land under tillage
this coming fall.
Mustang wine requires age, and repeated
racking off and other manipulations, to
bring it to unythiug like the degree of per-
fection it is capable of being brought to.
It is an excellent wiue, but in its natural
state contains a very large proportion of
tartaric acid, which, however, it percipi-
tates in the cask with time. Drs. Key,
Graves, Red and other practicing physici-
ans here, perscribe it, whenever to be had,
as the best of all tonics to patients in a
state of convalessense; and especially after
low fevers.
My correspondent enquires farther—"the
number of gallons of syrup that the com-
mon sugar cane will yield to the acre in
Texas, when grown; the number of acres
usually cultivated to the hand, and the
number of gallons of juice to make one of
syrup? I want this information to com-
pare it to the Sorgho."
I will leave you to reply to these queries.
A very considerable quantity of syrup has
been made generally, throughout the inte-
rior of Texas this season. In this vicinity
several mills and furnaces have been erect-
ed, and much excellent syrup made, and
which will serve the general purposes of
sweetening.
My correspondent's chief topic, however,
is Hedging, and with the Cherokee Rose.
He understands that I propose to "accept
of contracts on liberal terms" to hedge for
others. On this head let me refer him to
your advertising columns. And farther
permit me to say, I am by no means wed-
ded to this particular plant, the Cherokee
Rose, so called; but would be glad indeed
to find another better adopted to the pur-
pose. In the double white microphylla Rose,
I think we have one equally as well, per-
haps better suited to the stiff black prairie
lands, because equally hardy, well armed
and impervious, yet not so rampant. For
rich bottom lands .1 prefer the so-called
Chickasaw Rose, which resembles the Cher-
okee, but with smaller, oloser, squatty, ev-
ergreen foilage and less rampant habit.
Upon the whole, however, the Cherokee
may prove the safest, if the experience of
hundreds running through a period of fifty
years or more in South Carolina, Georgia,
Mississippi &c., goes for anything, and es-
pecially considering the thousands of miles
of thorough fence of this plant which exist.
That it will suit equally well all soils and
localities may well be doubted. For the
low sea-coast prairie the Guisachce or Wee-
satchie will, no doubt, prove to be the better
hedging plant For the thinner and poor
upland prairies it is more than probable
that the Osage Orange will be the best
adapted. I had great confidence in the
restive Cock's■ spur Hawthorn until this sea-
son, when it has been almost entirely de-
stroyed by a small insect of the Aphis fam-
ily, which operates underneath the leaf;
and which same insect has been very de-
structive to the Quince trees. And from
dread of this same insect, I say nothing of
the Pyracantha thorn, though as yet no
damage has been done. In Western Texas,
the Yucca a spanish bayonet, and the
Opunlia or Prickly Pear, etiher separated
or mixed together, in the end could I feel
confident, be made to form an impassable
barrier. There is a small tree here, of the
Rhameus or Buckthorn family, called by
India-ruber tree of which, too, good hedges
could be made..
In this, however, it is not a question of
what skill and industry could or might do,
but of what may be done economically and
profitably. The plant which when made into
a hedge must receive a certain and very con-
siderable expenditure of labor tinnually to
keep it in the form and serve the purpose of
a fence, is of doubtful value here for that
object. That some labor ought to ie bestow
on a hedge of any kind, at least once i
year, is sure.. But that plant will best
serve our purposes, which will hold its own
through a pear of neglect, should circum-
stances compel its being neglected, aud will
still continue to form a good fence, and
may again be brought into its proper form
as a perfect hedge, so soon as circumstances
will permit the bestowal of the labor need-
ful. In the three roses named, I think we
have these plants—Cherokee, Chickasaw
and white Microphylla
It is true, I could undertake contracts to
hedge, this fall, at so much per mile. Rut
it is doubtful if any have their hedge-rows
ready for the plants. Hence it would be
better to have that done thoroughly during
the coming winter, and the planting could
then be done to some good purpose the fol
lowing fall. Still where the intended lines
of hedge have been already in cultivation,
and not less than, from ten to twenty miles
in a neighborhood could be contracted for
it could be done now. The terms as named
in your advertising columns, are $100 per
mile; payable one half when the hedge is
planted, one-fourth after the dressing and
replanting is done the next fall, and the
remaining fourth the fall following.';- The
parties for whom I hedge must prepare the
hedge-row thus—It should be thoroughly
plowed (having been broken up at least one
year before) to the width often feet, and as
deep as possible. If done this winter to be
planted next fall, a crop of cotton, peas, or
sweet-potatoes might be taken from it. As
early as practicable in the fall it is to be
planted, it should again be well broken up
and harrowed, ridging to the centre. 1 then
furnish the cuttings or young plants, and
plant. The young hedge must then be ten-
ded by the owner, as if it was so much cot-
ton. The following fall I prune and dress
it, replanting when needed. And again the
owner tends as before, with some little ad-
ditional work as I shall direct. The next
fall, I again prune, dress, aud arrange it,
leaving it an entire unbroken line of young
hedge, which if properly treated, will form
a perfect fence the fourth year. 1 plant
two rows of cuttings giving a close and sol-
id bottom to the hedge.
I think our Eutaw friend will here liudall
of his enquiries answered.
How lovely the face of this beautiful
country now, and how positively delicious
the weather ! True we need rain for the
pastures in the praiiies. In the timber the
range is excellent, and the most abundant.
Corn is plenty and cheap, ranging from 30
to 50c. Cotton is a short crop to what was
expected. One good old neighbor who,
with one good soaking rain felt sure of a
500 lb bale per acre—Upland—complains
sadly than one half his crop will not yield
more that 1,000 lbs. per acre, and the re-
mainder about 800 lbs ! I think he has
no very great cause to complain. Some
will do better than this, a good many not
nearly so well. Rut for all the labor put
upon crops here, 1 should say the yield is
wonderful.
Nothwithstanding that I have not had
rain enough, this summer, to have kept a
plant alive in my nursery, had the soil been
as in Mississippi, every thing looks green
and well. The applctrces begin to drop
some leaves; and so do peaches aud necta-
rines. Rut pear, fig, apricot, plum, &c.
trees are yet as full of foliage as if we had
had weekly showers ; and I could show
you, and do hope yet to hand you, some
pears as fine as ever grew, of late l'caches,
too, I see a few on some trees. Recollect,
this only my second year.
ties of European grapes, too, are yet green
knd vigorous.
But above all, the rose in its varieties, is
thrifty and vigorous to an astonishing de-
gree. We want raiu for a full autumn
bloom:
something that smells pretty strong.'—worked
in around them with the first good rains
would help the flowers, but is not needed
for the growth.
Asparagus is yet as green, and growing
as in spring. Nothing surprises me more
than this, and what a delicious vegetable it
is!
Rut, I must hold up ! You little know
the risk you ran when you offered me space
in your columns for remarks on Horticultu-
and Agricultural topics! Being rather apt
to let my hobby run away with me.
By the way—In preparing for hedge-
rows for planting ; wherever prairie soil is
turned up in which it is known that cotton
would rust or die out, a tolerably good dress-
ing of cotton seed, or other equally good
manure should be applied before planting.
Yours, truly,
THOMAS AFFLECK.
In looking about the market for the
prices of cotton yesterday, we were shown
the following accounts of sales at one of our
warehouses, a part of the previous day's
business. Classifications not given.
AN ORDINANCE IN RELATION TO
GAS WORKS FOR THE CITY OF
HOUSTON.
Section 1- Be it ordained by the Mayor,
Aldermen and Inhabitants of the City of Hous-
ton in Council assembled, That C. C. Bier,
and such other parties as may be associated
or as he may associate with him'under the
name and style of C. C. Bier & Co., be, and
are hereby authorized to put up a gas work
or works within the limits of the City of
Houston, for the purpose of supplying the
City and Inhabitants with gas, and so far
as this Council can grant the same to have
the exclusive right for and during the term
of twenty-five years from the passage of
this ordinance, the City, nevertheless, to
have the right and privilege at any time to
take the whole works and right thereto and
incident to this grant, at the cost price of
erecting the same and interest thereon at
eight per eent. per annum, up to the time
of taking, less any deterioration therefrom
by reason of injury, or wear and tear, and
age; and this right so to take the same shall
appertain as well against the successors of
the said C. C. Bier & Co., and all other per-
sons who have or may hereafter have an
interest in said gas-works, or in this grant,"
or both, as does now by virtme of this Ordi-
nance against any present grantees affected
or benefitted by this Ordinance.
Szc. 2. Be it further ordained, That the
said C. C. Bier & Co., shall have the right
of way to lay theif pipes through any street
within the corporate limits of the City of
Houston; Provided, That the said C. C.
Bier £ Co., replace the street or sidewalks
in as good condition as it was prior to the
laying of the pipe or pipes, and that they
be held responsible for any and all damages
that may arise from any neglect on their
part to secure the safety of such streets or
sidewalks during the laying of the pipes.
Sec. 3. Be it further ordained, That the
said C. C. Bier & Co., or their successors
shall furnish gas to all the street lamps that
the City may require during said period of
twenty-five years, and in such case to cause
such lamps to be lighted, and kept lighted
nightly, at the cost of said C. C. Rier & Co.
or their successors, during the absence of
moonlight, throughout the year, as is cus-
tomary in other cities, at a rate of not ex-
ceeding of ($70,) seventy dollars per an-
num for each lamp the city may require to
be so lighted by them, taken care of and
kept in order, the city paying for all lamp
posts and the putting up of the same, and
also the said C. C Rier & Co., or their suc-
cessors shall at like not exceeding rate fur-
nish all other gas lightthe City may require
corresponding thereto in price; the said
City reserving to herself the right to inflict
such penalty for a breach hereof as ber
Council may ordain, and the said C. C. Bier
& Co., or their successors shall at all times
during said period, after the construction
of said gas-works, keep on hand an ample
supply of gas to meet thj wants of the in-
habitants of said City, and shall adequate-
ly supply such of them with gas as may de-
sire to take the same at such rates as shall'
not be exhorbitant, and in default of which
shall be subject to such ordinance or ordi-
nances concerning the same as the City
Council may pass.
Sec. 4. Be it further ordained, That the
said C. C. Bier & Co., shall accept of the
provisions of this Ordinance in writing
within thirty days from the passage thereof,
and commence or cause to be commenced,
the said gas works within six months from
the like time, and shall also complete with-
in said city, gas works adequate to supply
the requirements of the said city and the
wants of her inhabitants within the term of
one year from the passage of this ordinance
and in default of complying with any or all
of these provisions, this ordinance shall be
null and void.
Sec. 5. Be it further ordained, That this
Ordinance shall not be so construed as to
compel the said C. C. Bier & Co. to furnist
gas to persons residing in the suburbs of
the City at a less prices than will realize
eight percent, upon the outlay of extend-
ing the pipes to the residence of said person.
Sec. 6. This Ordinance shall take effect
from and after its passage.
Passed, Sept. 23, 1858.
A. McGOWN, Mayor.
This is to certify that the above is a true
and correct copy of the original, as passed
by the City Council of Houston.
Geo. Rottensteis, Secy.
24 Bales
5 "
9 "
8
8
16
6
8
10
ft "
7 '«
14 ^
7
@11J«
12J
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" 12
" 12
" 11|
" 12
" 11J
" Hi-.
" 111 2.
" 12$„
" 11J
" 12
This shows that our quotations are rather
under than over actual sales. And it would
be fair to put Middling at lli@ 12c, and
Good Middling at 12J«. as the price to-
day.
We hear another new case of yellow
fever reported on the same block« on which
most of the others reported have been tak-
en. It is that the North Main street cor-
ner of which is occupied by the President's
House, and we much fear, there is some lo-
cal cause of disease there, which demands
the attention of the city authorities. In
fact any man of ordinarily sensitive olfac-
tories, might have said with certainty that
there was local cause of sickness there, any
time this summer. We have been obliged
to hold our breath in passing some points,
on the side walk many a time this summer,
and we can but think that if the board of
health instead of passing resolutions in ef-
fect, that our city physician and Doctors
Robinson, Boxley, Howard, and others, be-
sides dozens of old nurses, dont know yel-
low fever when they see it, and especially
that some of them don't know it in a post
mortem examination, would take a turn
about in the back yards of the block refer-
red to, or would some of them visit the sick
who ere reported yellow fever, the/ would
show their good sense. -We are not partic-
ularly complaining of them. They are
all patriotic citizens, all know yeUow fever
when they see it, and have done much to-
wards preventing it here this year. We
only suggest how they might do more, and
hope to receive their thanks for so doing.
What is the matter of the block we don't
know. It may be bad drainage—or old
stables—or (pardon the thought ye disciples
of Esculapius) six doctor's offices. It may
be too many Worms or too much Shrimp.
If either, we advise the Fisher to take them
to the Bayou in his next piscatorial excur-
sion. Let us have this thing enquired in-
to.
THE
For the Telegraph.
GAZETTE CORRESPONDENT.
An article on yellow fever in Houston,
dated Sept. 19th, has appeared in the Aus-
tin Gazette.
The author signs himself Robert- Moore
M. D.
He says that he is a practicing physician.
He does not say that he ds located in Hous-
ton, but such is the inference to be dtswn
from the piece.
Now, as I am the only physician of the
name of Moore practicing in this place, as
suspicion has honored me with the author-
ship of the above mentioned article, it is
but due to the public, as well as to myself,
to disclaim all connection with it.
I never wrote the article, and knew noth-
ing of it until my attention was directed to
it in the Gazette a day or two ago.
H. W. MOORE.
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1858.
ii©"" We are favored by Messrs Forsgard
& Burke with Harper's Magazine, for Octo-
ber—a very good number.
We are greatly obliged to Mrs.
James Bailey, of this city, for a most ele-
gant pear from her garden, this morning.
It was delicious.
It wi!l be seen that the Board of
Health gives its opinion that there has been
no cases of yellow fever in Houston this
year. We regret that evidence which has
from time to time come to us, causes us to
dissent from its opinion to just the extent
of our own reports. We do not doubt but
there has becu several cases, though we
may remark, many others do. Rut we base
our opinion upon that of judges of the dis-
ease, who have visited the cases reported to
and given the information to us.
We are informed, by Mr. Robinson,
that a very atrocious murder-was commit-
ted near Independence on Monday last. A
young man by the name of Cooper, way-
laid and killed another, by the name of
Littlepage, a school teacher. It seems that
Cooper had made some statements about
Littlepage which were not true, whereupon
L. waited on hitn and got him to sign a re-
traction. The next day he hid himself
near where L. had to pass, and shot him
with a double barrel shot gun. Nineteen
buck-shot hit him in the breast. He stag-
gered about twenty steps and fell dead.
Cooper then got his horse and said he was
going to Brenham to give himself up. He
was afterwards socn in Rrcnham. The
neighbors mustered and started in pursuit
ol him on Tuesday. They were in this city
ou Wednesday, but could not trace liiui
further than the Brazos. We tell the story
as it was told to us. We hope the circum-
Thetiner varie- "r® exaggerated. A large reward
is offered for his apprehension. He is des-
Kcribed as bein^ a slim man, about six feet
high, with a peculiar eye. One of the
eyes appears to be fixed, what i« called a
and a little nitrnqenious manure—I stiff eye.
THE "ATTEMPT" OF THE NEWS.
For Ui e Telegraph.
Sanitory Condition or Houston.—The
foRowing is a true copy of an extract from
the minutes of the Board of Health of the
city of Houston, at a regular weekly meet-
ing, 28th Sept. 1858.
Resolved, That after making diligent
examination into the sanitory condition of"
our city, there exists in our minds, great
doubts as to there having occurred a single
case of yellow fever in our city during the
current year. JAMES BURKE.
Sec'y protem.
• A SPIRIT IN CORN.
I wandered out at even,
Across the fertile plain;
I heard the breath of heaven
Sighing through the grain;
And fancied, as I listened.
Weary and forlorn,
That each gentle zephyr was
A spirit in the corn.
I wandered in the morning
Along a crowded street,
And as I turned a corner
Bill Jenkins chanced to meet;
We went into a bar-room—
I took an ample horn—
And never since have doubted
Speerits bein in the korn.
[ Cincinnati Sunday Dispatch.
THE WANING MOON
by b. w. bryant.
I've watched too late; the morn is near;
One look at God's broad, silent sky ;
Oh, hopes and wishes vainly dear,
How in your very steength ye die!
E'en while the glow is on the cheek,
And scarce the high pursuit begun,
The Ik art grows faint, the hand grows weak,
The task of life is left undone.
See where upon the horizon's brim,
Lies the still cloud in gloomy bars;
The waning moon, all pale and dim.
Goes up amid the eternal stars.
Late in a flood of tender light,
She floated through the etherial blue ;
A softer sun which shone all night
Upon the gathering beads of dew.
Vet still thou wanest, palidmon!
The encroaching shadow grows apace;
Heaven's everlasting watchers soon
Shall see thee blotted from thy place.
Oh, Night's dethroned and crownless queen!
Well may thy sad, expiring ray
Be shed on those whose eyes have seen
Hope's glorious visions fade away.
Shine thou for forms that once were bright,
For sages in the mind's eclipse,
For those whose words were spells of might,
But f'.lter now on stammering lips.
In thy decaying bcuui there lies
Full many grave on hill and plain,
Of those who closed their dying eyes
In grief that they had lived in vain.
Another night, and thou among
The spheres of heaven shalt cease to shine,
All rayless mid the glittering throng
Whose luster late was quenched in thine.
Yet soon a new and tender light
From out thy darkened orb shall beam ;
And broaden till it shiuc all night
On glistening dew and glimmtring stream.
After a full week, we have at last the
'attempt, of the Galveston News, to point
ont the misrepresentation of the Tele-
graph. It would seem that with all this
time to go on, our cotemporary must have
weighed the matter well, and his attempt
ought to be the best he can possibly ittake-.
And doubtless he so considers it, as we eb-
serve he dismisses the matter from his pa-
per. He says it has become personal.
Just so, bat who made it so? The News, in
its first article, ^thout the slightest ohanoe
of a doubt, and why ? Perhaps by an ■sK-
ful dodge' to find an excuse for crawling eat
of a matter which even tfiat paper wants
the expedients to defend. It will be re-
membered that we showed the first article
of the News, to be founded on an utterly
false statement of what we had said, and
that its consequent arguments and state-
ments were a tissue of absurdities. The
News is as silent as the grave on that sub-
ject, and consequently must be understood
as acknowledging the correctness of oar
conclusions, and the justice of our remarks.
Very well. - < ,
Let us now proceed with the "Attempt."
That paper says :—•
"The Telegraph speaks of the 2} per cent
commissions charged by our merchants as
an imposition and systematic swindling op-
eration practiced upon the planter, and
calls it "gouging." "
Now this statement is simply likp that
about the the railroad in its other article,
false; and as such deserves no other notice
than to be placed with it, among the decap-
itated arguments of our powerful opponent.
When a person in controversy, utterly fails
to meet the points at issue, but in place
thereof oontinually raises other points, and,
by such feints, endeavors to draw attention
from the principle subject, he acknowledges
his weakness, and secures the pity, rather
than the sympathy, of the observer. The
consequent remarks of the News, of coarse
amount to nothing. But it adds:
Heretofore the merchants ef Houston
have had their cotton sold by our commis-
sion houses in this market, and the sales
have netted them a very handsome clear
profit on their purchases after paying these
very commissions. It is true that most of
them are now avoiding the payment of
commissions here, by having an agenoy es-
tablished here to effect those sales."
If the News will do us the kindness to
correct that statement, strictly by the facts
we shall take pleasure in attending to it.
It must state in doing so that a large
amount of cotton bought by Galveston buy-
ers is bought in Houston, and the samples
are never spread on the Galveston tables
at alL It must also add that a Houston
cotton buyer is obliged to do a ruin busi
ness, if he pays a quarter of a cent a pound
to have his cotton sold in Galveston, and
more than another quarter of a cent to get
it to the seller there, and then sells it for
less than a half a cent more than, he gave
for it. If he does this, but few planters but
can see that they lose nothing by selling to
him. The News says:—
"In Galveston cotton is sold exclusively
for cash paid down at the time of sale—"no
barter for goods, and no credits on balan-
ces"—but the whole amount is paid down
in cash."
This is another unnecessary remark con-
sidering what has been the rule regarding
balances there. Of that we say nothing.
A> for classifications, we did not say that
they were incorrectly made ia Galveston or
intimate any suoh thing, and the excessive
readiness exhibited by the News, in placing
constructions on our remarks, unfavorable
to its merchants, indicates one of three
things, either that it is extremely anxious
to create a bad feeling-against us, in the
mind of every citizen of Galveston, or that
^.iipiuhed onjgrsomc body else who is so or
that there is somethiag in thatcity, in which
its extreme sensitiveness indicates soreness.
We did say and can pjove it, that oftentimes
cotton has iteen classed higher in Houston
than in Galveston. Which was correct, or
whether either should be a standard, wheth-
er the classifications at either point are
*Orleans,' 'New York,' 'Boston,''Liverpool'
'Havre,' or 'Brimen,'classifications, wheth-
er they are made by buyer, seller or samp-
ler, we did not and do not say. But it is
as plain as the nose on a man's face, that
the higher cotton is classed in any market,
the better it is for the planter. And if the
classification here is higher than it ought to
be, the planter loses nothing by it.
As to the 'gouging' business the News in-
forms us that:—
"The merchants of Galveston have or-
ganized a Chamber of Commerce, and that
every cotton factor and ehipping merchant
in Galveston is a member of this body, in-
cluding the agency of the Houston mer-
chants established in this city, which fact
is a sufficient endorsement for the respon-
sibility of our Chamber of Commerce." v
The Chamber of Commerce is brought ap
once more. It is a very respectable body,
one of the most so in the State. It ia com-
posed of good men, and what it does and
what rules it makes ate all right. We nev-
er disputed them. By the way. neighbor,
when did it hold its last meeting f We have
had acoounts of two since its organization,
the first in 1849 and the second after some
stir which our neighbor will remember,
which was made in '55 or '56, and possibly
one since, we are not certain. The rules
it has made, so far as they operate to the
the disadvantage of the planter, we have
taken the liberty to aminadverting upon,
and believe we have a right to do so. We
don't complain of them, but in showing how
much better it is for the planter, to seU his
cotton here than in Galveston, as well as in
showing other things, at various times—ad-
vocating impracticable schemes for facility
ting the trade of Houston, direct shipments,
ship channels &c., these rules so far as
they authorized charges in Galveston upon
produce, were lawful game, and as such'
we took them in hand. The legitimate
charges are no doubt, a just compensation
for work done, but if there is any way of
avoiding that work, the charges are of
course an additional reason for doing so.
We may possibly refer to them again, be-
fore the people have forgotten the matter.
But when we speak of gouging we refer es-
pecially to the customary as distinguished
from the legitimate charges; the charges for
mending when no mending is done, for
storage on produce that does not go into
the warehouse, for more drayage than is
necessary or actually dons, for labor,
weighing &c So, All of whieh we have
classed under that name, because there was
no other that expressed the thing so well.
If no business house in Galveston, has ever
gouged in these ways, thenjhave we misrep-
ted them, and whan it is shown will
a«larowledge it, and ask their pardon, de-
clare that we have been hasty and foolish,
and promise better things, and *ot as the
News, when it was shown that it ha#!^8-
represented us in so many points, pass <he
matter by in silence. But before this Ik
done the thing must be shown to as, quite
conclusively as was the entire jnstioe of
offlr charges before we pat them on paper.
We have said nothing in this matter hastily
or unadvisedly.
As the News desires to dismiss the mat-
ter, that paper is welcome to do so. We
have swd all we desire to on the subject at
preeent, and should not have broached it
st all bat for the provocation given, and
forrthe evidences of hostility and bitter
enmity to Houston, which have been made
apparent now for months in many ways by
oar Island neighbors. Let them mind their
own.business, and deal justly by us, and
we will look with all the leniency possible
upon them. When by a fall six-months,
coarse, the Galveston News proves itself
willing to do the city of Houston and its
enterprises, as well as the Telegraph jus
tioe, we will give it twice the credit it de-
serves for this effort.
COMMERCIAL.
TELEGRAPH OFFICE, \
Thcmdat, Sbp. SO, 1868. j
f~It fhovld b* remembered that our quota-
tons generally represent wholesale prices.
WEEKLY
REVIEW.
147,185
Low MMdUac
Mmn .
"—f t^miim
MUiHac lUr
Wr
STATEMENT OF COTTOV.
8toek on hand Sept. 1, 'fig, mum
Reo'd past week 27
..: previously 6084
TttllNtiMiMU........ .
Shipped past week..
... previously.
Stock on hand Sept. 15, 1868,
as foRows;
Peel&jtamble-..
T. IV. vfhitinarsh.....................e. 4
Allen & Fulton... _"7
J- J- Cain ft Co i
Taylor ft Bagby 6
Increase of stock from last week
■ ■■ 1 t'-. v
001USMWDH nan T1U.
Amount on hand Sept. 1, *67
Rec'dtoSept 28 ..........
... Sept. 28 to 8egt 49
Shipped to Sept 28_.".
... Sept 28 to Sept SO
1768
1467— 8220
Sept^.1867 ..1662
in receipts to nr.
Stock on hand [ _
:. date-...... 4046
Increase of — for eor. week.....— 481
Increase'of stock on hand, etc .1266
Quotations for corresponding date for
Middling graM 14^15$c.
STATEMENT Of GROCERIES
kbcsivzd AT THIS FOIST SISCI Sift. 1.
1942
161
280
7S
1640
170
29
241
1129
112
1081
116
The past week has been one of a good
degree of trade, mostly, however, by orders,
as bat few from the oountry have ventured
in sinee the danger of the fever visiting as
kas existed. No doubt, as the feeling .of
danger wears off, the influx of planters and
merchants will be correspondingly increas-
ed. Still sales are l%rge and satisfactory,
and no sooner are goods opened and marked
than they are started off to fill orders in
every part of the wide region that trades at
this point
The crops are turning out as well as was
expected; and though it is a short crop
for Texas, it would be considered a large one
for any other section of the ootton-growing
world. We are requested to say to plant-
ers that, in patting up their cotton, they
would dovwell to put their initials in fuR
upon each bale, or even better, t« speR their
whole name. Yetyoften different lota come
to hand marked exactly alike. Confusion
arises, and merchants often times are pat
to more trouble than the cotton is worth to
get it regulated. *
The sugar crop is growing well, and will
turn out from half to three-quarters of a
foil crop.
announced, last week, the purchase
of 2,000 tons of iron for the Sugar Road, to
be delivered at once, and of 2,000 tons to
be delivered in January. These purchases
were made en exceedingly favorable terms,
and great credit is due to Messrs. Taylor
and Lubbock for their success in the enter-
prise, particularly when all they had to
contend with is considered. It is ant
pated that the road will be open to Sandy
point in December, and the people of Hous-
ton are looking for a celebration at CoL
Waters this foil, and a tremendous Fourth
of July next summer, at Colombia, just
three years, to a day, from the first meeting
in behalf of this line in that village.
The Central ileed is working along
rapidly as possible, and iron for the next
i ten miles is already afloat Also a splendid
new passenger locomotive, machine shop,
fto. ftc. A large force is at work on the
line, pushing it along as fast as possible.
The G., H. ft Henderson Road is coining
along towards Houston as fast as the work-
men can bring it The contract for the
bridge across the bay has been made at
$100,000.
Iron for the further extension of the B.
B., B. ft C. Road is also afloat, and is
soon to arrive. So also we suppose of the
Washington County Road.
Other roads, so far as we can learn, are
in statu quo.
The city isentively healthy, more so than
it has been for six months. There is no
yellow fever now here, and it is presumed
tHere will be none this year
HOUSTON MARKETS.
Oar last review left the market in a rather
ftvorable condition, and the later intelli-
genco received has confirmed the steadi-
ness and increased the activity.
Later news from Liverpool by the Niag-
ara, down to the 11th, showed an advance
in'cotton of Jd. for the week, and at the
time of the steamer's leaving the demand
was good, and the advance folly sustained,
with reports of a good trade at Manchester.
Quotations of Middling Texas, 7 3-1 Gd.
Private advioes announce the arrival of the
ship J. B. Jarvis, from Galveston, with a
cargo of cotton. This vessel was partly
loaded by the merchants of Honston, with
cotton, consigned direotly to their corres-
pondents in Liverpool.
Our domestic markets have shown no
advance in consequence of ihis news, but
holders were firm in their demands and
sales were realised at foil figures. Our
later advices increase the amount of the
crop of 1857-68, and it now sums up to
3,113,962 bales. This is final and definite,
and shows a smaller crop than was antici-
pated.
Calculations of the growing crop are
numerous and various. Oar opinion is,
that 3,000,000 bales will not be much out
of the way, although early frosts will no
doubt affect some districts, and may cause
a falling off perhaps of200,000 bales. Du-
ring the past year the exportation to Great
Britain shows an increase over 1856-57 of
381,096 bales and a decrease of exports to
France and Northern Europe of 60,008
bales.
The consumption of cotton in the North-
ern States during the past year has only
been 452,185 against 702,138 the year pre-
ceding, and the consumption of the South-
ern States is estimated at 150,000 bales.
At the present lime the stock of cotton on
hand at the various points exceeds that at
! the sane date of any previous year.
Lastwm
Flour bbls....4,..,. 818
Pork 49
Whiskey 88
Salt Sacks .' 41
Coffee 609
Sogar, hhds......... 67
Molasses, bbls 6
Bacon, casks 196
Hides. ^
Recfipts good and sales accordingly, at
18c. for Texas and 16c. offering for extra
flint " - C .■
Mimihwb
Baco* Sinss—Ribbed see worth ll@12c.
Clear, plenty at Uf@tl2}e.
Bacon Hams—DuffieM, 18<$20e.
Baooihq—The market well supplied at,
Mentuoky, 18019c. India, 19020c.
Casdlss—Star, 24026c. Adamantine,
2602oe. Sperm, 38040c.
Corrsi—Large asnoont received. It is
sold at—Good Rio, 12c. Prime Bio, 12Jc.
Choice, 18018}c. Java, 18024c.
Flocb.—A considerable decline from last
week. Fine is worth $6 000*6 50. Su-
perfine, $7 0007 60. Extra, $8 6009 00.
Ikox—With large stooks, we netiee no
change from our former prices, whieh we re-
peat. Refined Bar is worth 4}05o. Horse
shoe, 6}c; Hoop 7(08o; SUB 7®7Jc;
Swedes, 6©6Jc.; Cast Steel22026c., Ger-
man 14016c.; Blister, lO012£c; Slab
Steel 901Oe; Nailf $4 760$5.
Labs—Kegs 16c.; bbls. 12|^
Lead—Bar is worth 8*GPc.
Lims—Is held at $2 6O0$2 76
Lumber.—Dressed fleering is jrorth $42
6O0$46 00. Rough do., $18 00085 00.
Yellow Pine, $30 00085 00. White Pine,
$46 00. ^
Molasses—No change in price, we quote
bbls at 40048c, and Half bbU at 45048c.
Oils—Lard is worth $1 29
Pork—Good supplies at $22 00022 50.
per bbL
Rope—Manilla 14016c. Ky. hand made
10010}. Ky. machine made 11011}.
Salt.—Coarse salt is worth $1 60. Fine
do $176. ' • «'
Spirits—We quote whiskey as follows:
Oliver's, 32035c. Rose, 80040c. Dexter,
40046a Bourbon, 6Oe0$2 60. Monon-
gahela, 60c@$2 00. Brandy, American,
is worth 76c0$2 60. Do. foreign, $4 00
08 00. Jamaica rum, $2 0002 60. Cham-
paign, per basket, $12 00024 00. Claret,
$8 6006 00.
Scoar—Shows considerable decline.—
Common, none. Fair to fully foir, 10c.
Prime, lOJ01O}c. Choice, 10$. Clari-
fied, 12012}c. Crashed, 16016fe. Loaf,
16016}c.
Wool—17020c.
NEW ORLEANS MARKET.
Sept 25,1858.
COTTON—We notioed in onr'laet review
sales during the early part of the week of
14,500 bales, and stated that prices had
been buoyant without any quotable im-
provement, siace which, with a continued
fair demand, foctorshave been enabled to
realise figures showing an advance of about ^
Jc. The sales comprise 6500 bales on'
Wednesday, 6000 on Thursday and 4000
yesterday, making an aggregate for the
three days of 14,500 bales,«nd for the week
of 80,000.
The receipts sinee the 21st inst, 12,655
againstll,623dnringthe corrreeporid-
ing period last year, and the exports 13,487
Bl60tor
embracing 4898 to Liverpool,
Week's
Havre
and 439 to Boston Week's receipts 28,577
bales. Exports 15,408(14964 to foreign ports
and 439 ooastwise,) leaving on hand a stock
of 71,866 bales against 86,752 bales same
time last year. The entire receipts since
the 1st inst, amount to 70,686 bales against
33,973 bales to the corresponding date last
year. We modify our q—tstisau as fol-
lows: ? • - i:;. •
Aatimilttingf tkmt if UwmrpMl
Inferior 6
Ordinary
Good Ordinary „1
Low Middling.........^ -11
Middling 12
Good Middling j.. 1!
Middling Fair
Fair
CATTLE MARKET.
JarrERSON ClTT, \
Friday Evening, 8ept 24, 1868. f
Arrived during the past week 1280 head
of Cattle, including 78 head of Western
720 Hogs, 1230 Sheep, 48 Milk Cows
and 900 Calves and Yearlings. The mar-
ket was pretty active and prices of ordinary
Cattle easier for purchasers, bnt Hogs and
good Sheep continued pretty firm.
prices :
Bsxr Cattle,
Wactcrn Sne to choice, per lb net g 00 % e 90
Tbjlm Ac, Inferior, per h wl. .- a IXmii m
Western roach wd fair, per lb net. U 00011 00
, per lOOIbanet —tux ,vi
., tn lotMnTr a erdtaary.V head.
Milk Cow*, 9 hewl, choice-.
Veal Cattle..
The Civilian gives six as the number of
deaths in Galveston on Monday. There
were five interments up to 12 o'clock yes-
terday.
The Civilian acknowledges, for the How-
ard's, the receipt of two hundred and fifty
dollars from T. W. House, Esq., of this
city. A good thing well done.
TheCivilisn offers to give $10 to the How-
ard Association, for every name Chat the
Ranger and its correspondents can show
that it has omitted from the yeRow fever
deaths in that city.
Ti.e News says that two of it printers
have been down with the fever, but are up
again, and making up for lost time.
The News mentions its New Almanac.
We are anxious to see it, and from what we
have seen of the proof-sheets, as-well as we
know of the publishers, we are justified in
saying it wiH far surpass in interest every-
thing ever before published about Texas.
The News has a letter from a country
merchant, vindicating the Galveston mer-
chants from the charge of being " gougers.
swindlers," &c. If the News would just
make the th'ng as we stated it, it would nc t
show the sore place so manifestly. If, also,
it would give the name of this vindicator,
the reason of the vindication might posi-
bly appear.
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Cushing, E. H. The Weekly Telegraph (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 24, No. 29, Ed. 1 Wednesday, October 6, 1858, newspaper, October 6, 1858; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth236012/m1/1/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History.