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HOUSTON, TKX1S.
TUESDAY.... JAN. 29 ,1861.
jgp" Thanks to Vincent for all the late
picture papers. Harper for February, etc.
B. F. Davis is a regular Agent of this
paper, is now in Austin, Texas.
N. ts. McDonald, Esq., i> Agent for the
Telegraph in Northern Texas.
.We have to thank our friend Dr.
J. W. DaTtnport, of Tyler, for the inter-
est iie bus manifesie<! rn ?r reading the
circulation of the Telegraph in that neigh-
borhood. Our latest obligations to him is
for a club of 8 subscribers to the Tri-
weekly, and 6 to the Weekly.
. Our friend McClure, of the Pales-
ine Advocate, is the mast whole-souled
fellow in the Bepnblic of Texas. We
always knew it, and so did a thousand
others of his friends. It is to gratify
them as well as ourself, that we tiiake
mention of the fact, and also to put on re-
cord the last good thing he did—which
was to sencf us a large club of new sub-
scribers, at hisj postoffice, with the cash
for the same injthe letter. This is the
second time he has made up a club there,
and thus proved his affection for ns. May
he have a year added to his life for every
subscriber he has sent. When he makes
that wish too much of a good thing, we
will try again.
CAN THa SOCTH BE COERCED t
"The South cannot be kicked out of the
Union." How often in years past have these
words been in the mouth of the
people! With what presistency have they
proclaimed their belief that the Booth WM
inhabited by blustering bullies awl black-
gaarls, who would cry "cbaykn," the mo-
ment they were confronted by the valliant
men of the North! It would seem that a
belief that the South could not be kicked
out ot the Union, has been the basis of
every part of the federal legislation which
the North has demanded.
The burdens of the tariff have been borne
by the South, and South Carolina, a nation
of statesmen, condemned the imposition
thirty years ago, and gave protection a
blew which would have killed any other
false doctrine in the world. But Federalism
still lived. Under the operations of the
tariff, New England with her barren soil,
but with her mountain torrents has grown
wealthy, and with her wealth ha3 increased
in pride 9 nd arrogance. Her manufactor-
ies have been the pet objects of the protec-
tive policy, and through that policy have
brought millions of wealth to her peo-
ple. New York also is full of factories.
Pennsylvania iron works, have cost the peo-
ple untold millions, and Pittsburg, a town
built up on the exactions of the government,
mainly from the South, raised a mob the other
Hay thai put the government to dffiancs, and
' COERCED the United States into a refusal to
arm the forts of the South, and this too, after
these very people of Pittsburg had been paid a
full price, tariff and all for the guns with
which these forts tcere to be armed I
Much of tho great West owes its wealth
to the prosperity of New England, where a
maket is found for its produce, and is : bus
secondarily the pet child of the Protective
Tariff. Northern people see and know this,
and hence the pertinacity with which they
hold to the Union, without which the tariff
would be valueless. Talk as they will
about the "glory of the country," ant! all
that, the fact that the imports of the ooun-
try are made the source of revenue, and
the productions of the South pay for the
imports, as well as that the South furnishes
a market for the manufactories of the
North, and the grain of the West is at the
bottom of the glory. But for these things
the purse proud Abolitionists would never
have had the power to oppress us.-
Massachusetts is cnanimonsfor coercion,
besaasa uf ihc;c things aud the fishing
bounties, and the shipping interests, and
the Federalism, that old humor in the blood
of its people which has manifested itself in
so many sickening sores on the body of its
republicanism. Would it not be well for
the Massachusetts people to get up another
Hartford Convention cn the subject, and
thus more boldly nullify the constitution
in the Union, even as the co-operationists
of the South are trying to do ?
•'The South cannot be kicked out of the
Union," said they, two, four, six and ten
years ago. Whit say they now. "The
Suuth has raised the standard of rebellion.''
Now ' rebel" may not be intended as a
title of bonir. But, in America, history has
made it the proudest gem in the crown of
Liberty. When freemen rebel against the
oppressions of tyranny, hydra headed
though it be, they beoome the world's
heroes. Call us rebels if they will. Let
them call us so. f So were our fathers called
by *
they covered the taunt with glory and
banded it down as a precious heritage to
us. We are the sons of rebels. We came
honestly by the name of rebel. Let us
wear it proudly!
Can they kick and cuff and beat us into
the Union t Of all the outrageous absur-
dities that has ever been hatched from the
brains of the Federalists, this coorcion is
the worst. Can freemen of Anglo Saxon,
of Huguenot, and of other descents that
occupy this soil, be coerced X Were they
ever conquered? Is it their nature to yield?
Whero in history is the precedent? Sup-
pose the South shonld be defeated in the
struggle, would she stay whipped ? Who
can imagine it? Why an army of two
millions of men, two men for every voter,
could not hold the people of the South, or
of the North either, for that matter, in sub-
jection. The idea of coercion is the off-
spring of ignorance and fanaticism. Let
but the people of Massachusetts put them-
selves in our place, and grant, for the mo-
ment that they were in the wrong, let
them imagine ns attempting to coerce them!
Quite possibly they will see the folly of
their proposition.
Shall we then have war? It is more than
likely, unless these coercionists sit down
and have a sober counting of the cost be.
fore they commence it. If they should, or
when after war has commenced they do
learn how futile must be an attempt at co-
ercion, why the red hand of war will be
turned aside. This is our hope. A hope
which requires that every one of our peo-
ple should enter upon preparations for the
worst. The only way to avert war is to face
it, and to be most thoroughly prepared forit.
yo ADVANCE.
" Coercion" seems to be the order of the
day, by those who have been thirty years
maligning and seeking to injure u3, while
others seem to expect it as a matter of
course. So long has the world been ac-
enstomed to see power employed by domi-
neering despots, to coerce unwilling people
to submit to their domination; and so
long ha3 it been the necessity of mankind
to "fight their way" into new privileges,
that few seem to think any other way pos-
sible. The Northern fanatics threaten it.
The better people, friends of the South
among them, fear it—foreoode it, if the
South secede; and the South seems to ex-
pect it. Even Sam Houston talks of the
" horrors of oivil war" as a necessary con-
sequence of secession, and the pulpit, even
the conservative ones at the North, " give
it out" that " civil war" must come if the
South secede.
Now, we ask in all candor, why must
thi3 be ? It must come from the North if
it come at all. But why from them ? Is
the South so needful for them? Can they
not "get along" without us? Do they
need our protection, our cotton and su-
gar, etc ? They can have them all after
our independence as well as now, by pay-
ing the price—the market price.
D" they need our protective tariffs ? Can
they not comjeie with European labor un-
less we are taxed to pay the difference be-
tween the hungry operative^ of Europe
and the well-fed laborers of the North ?
If they nee;t us for that, it is rather a late
day to make this cry for our help. We
have paid it willingly thus far, and would
have continued to do so, if thoy had re-
spected our rights.
But if a modest claim of this kind be
urged, they can have it by a " treaty," by
giving equivalents conservative of our in-
terests after secession. But sword and
ball are to be tried, it seems.
It seems, further, that more fears are
entertained of another disunion among
themselves if they permit us to secede
peaceably. The North will be " split up"
into fragments, they say. Is it then the
South that holds in check the terrible en-
gines of destruction, which are accumula-
ting forces there ? Verily, the South has
suddenly arisen to vast importance to the
North, within a few weeks. Poor North !
saved from self-doom and self-ruin by " the
gum of all villainies," and " the worst of
all murderers and thieves," as we are po-
litely called in the pulpit and press, by
Abolitionists! Can sincerity exist in these
pleas ?
Perhaps it may appear that the very
Abolitionism which has brought on these
troubles against the South, may also have
unsettled everything else there to their
ruiu. We shall see.
But, of coercion, to secure any of these
ends, or any other ends they profess to
seek, it can certainly be said it is absurd,
ridiculous. But who are despots now, if
the South must fight fotLer freedom ? and
what advance has America made over Rus-
sia or Old England of '76, it the sword
must arbitrate the question ?
Rev. Mr. Castleton, in hia " Fast Day
Sermon," thus alludes to thi3 purpose:
"We have now arrived at a juncture in the history
of mas when the principles of self government hare
reached their culminating point, whose issues must
iaevitabiy he decisive in the solution of the ere it
problem, whether self-governing nationalities can,
by their own inherent self governing powers, re-
adjust, re-construct, or disintegrate, (as the will of
God may be) without the arbitration of the sword ;
or whether self-governing nationalities, forgetful
of the rrinciple* upon which their own right of
existence is founded, will forbid other netionali-
ties to govern themselves under their own con-
victions , and becaase & paper bond gives them a
secminr right, and numbers give them vaunted
power, will urge the hounds of war, and lift the
sword of power, in the bootless task of compelling
a free, self-governing people to be villing. against
their convictions. The old rale of despots : The
worse for being hydra-headed.
" This magnificent and portentious problem is
speeding on its perilous way, and 35,000,TOO of
heatrs are trembline on it* issues."
Who is responsible? The South only
asks to be left to go in peace wit}i an equit-
able division of public property and terri-
tory. \fho wants to fight? They are the
despots who refuse this demand and raise
the insensate cry of civil war, to compel
sovereign States lo remain in a Confeder-
ation, whicjj, without re-adjustment, is no
longer tolerable.
BENJAMIN D. OBLl'M.
Survivor of Fannin's Massacre.
' I
"Woe that the linden and the vine shall hlocni,
And a Just man becarrie-' to*he tomb!**
In this ever-fleeting world of ours, where
successive changes mark each step in the
rapid flight of time, and where mortality
and decay are written both upon the petals
of delicate flowers and the cliffs of the
solid rock-ribbed mountains, the news
that death has enlisted some new recruit
from the sphere of the living for the realms
of eternity, is an event in perfect unison
with reasonable anticipation and recorded
revelation. Even ihe sanguine youth, who
heedless of danger indulges in those day-
dreams which paint the future with rain-
bow tints, is subject from the very first
moment of his birth to that mandate which
the haughty prince, as well as the humble
peasant, is constrained to obey. Nor can
ener^ of robnst manhood; more
than the failing weakness of tottering age,
avail to avert the universal doom pronounc-
ed against all who wear the human form.
Benjamin D. Odium, the suoject of this
brief notice, was a native of Kildare
county, Ireland. At an early age, he em-
igrated to the city of New York, where the
current of his existence glided on in a
4Uiet stream, unruffled by adventure, until
the news of Austin's grand scheme to col-
onize Texas, awakened in his bosom a de-
sire to participate in the peril and glory
attendant upon the vast enterprise. Con-
sequently, in eighteen hundred and thirty-
five, we find him engaged with Johnson
and Grant, in a perilous expedition against
the Mexicans, in the unsettled wilds,
stretching towards the Rio Grande. A
; sudden and well-planned attack, by over-
whelming numbers, terminated this ill-
fated affair, and Odium, Brown and one or
two comrades, alone escaped the general
slaughter.
Soon after the lamentable tragedy just
mentioned, Fannin's gallant, but unfortu-
nate, regiment, displayed its moving col-
umns, under the banners of the Provisional
Government, on the green prairies, below
Goliad. The graphic pen of history has
duly recorded the martial daring and ulti-
mate massacre of this Spartan band. Suf-
fice it here to say, that among the brave
comrades, our deceased fnend bore himself
with an intrepidity of spirit and a cool,
undaunted courage, characteristic of the
sons of the Green Isle from which he hailed.
The luckless commander, met by vastly
superior forces, and alter a fierce and san
gninary conflict of arms, was betrayed by
false pledges and promises of security into
ternu of capitulation. The massacre
which followed the surrender of the devo-
ted regiment, baffles any ordinary powers
of description. ♦
Again, however, did a kind Providence
take its seeming favorite, our deceased
friend, undei its protecting wings, and
rescuing him from the appalling scene of
carnage to which nearly all his gallant
comrades fell victims, enabled him to re-
turn to his adopted home and receive the
warm felicitations of bis numerous
friends.
The deceased also rendered important
services to the country in a civil capacity.
>In the first Congress of the old Republic
that assembled in the city of Houston, he
was a representative from San Patricio and
took an active and efficient part in the ear-
ly system of legislation, upon the wisdom
of which mainly depended the fatnre
greatness of his beloved land. On the suc-
ceeding canvass, though strongly solicited
to again become a candidate for Congres-
sional honors, he positively declined, pre-
ferring the quiet shades of priv ite life to
the annoyances and vexation always at-
tendant upon political excitement.
( For several years prior to his final de-
Geasu Buffalo Hdst.—From a private
letter, dated Wetherford, Jan. 13, we learn
that the Grand Buffalo Hunting Expedi-
tion had already toft that place for Lost
Valley, whence it will proceed to Belknap,
and there divide into companies of fifty
men. Each company will take a separate
route, and by this means some one com-
pany will stand a chance of getting a
fight, and every man in the expedition is
exceedingly anxious to be one of the for-
tunate fifty. There were about one hun-
dred Indians in Palo Pinto county, out of
whom it wonld be impossible to get a fight,
for if pursued, they would retreat to the
mountains, where it would be impossible
to follow them on horseback. We trust
soon to be able to chronicle the successful
termination of the expedition, and the re-
turn ef oar brave rangers to their homes,
laden down with the glories of the chase,
•ad feel assured that our suffering fron-
tier wiB soon and forever be relieved of
the se«ur£e which has so sorely afflicted it
for years.
' See notice of horse stolen.
parture. deceased resided in ihe eisy of
Houston, living a quiet unobtrusive life,
and winning the confidence and esteeta of
all who sought his acquaintance. But
friendship could not withhold the uplifted
hand; or avert the fatal stroke of unpitying
death. On the 10th instant, in about the
fifty-third year of his age, he sank in the
embrace of deF.th'g chilly .arms, a victim to
a chronic affection under which he had
labored for a long period of time. Fare-
well, bravo soldier of the revolution! Your
memory will long be cherished by a grate-
ful country, whose cause you so early and
so well defended. And though the chords
of no Irish harp may beeome vocal, as at
the magic touch of the gifted Moore to im-
mortalize your deeds, yet your name shall
not be forgotton while patriotism lives, or
liberty has votaries.
Delegates to the Convention.
We had the pleasure, Friday, of meeting
quite a number of Eastern delegates to the
Convention; among others, Judge W. S.
Todd, Gen. J. H. Rogers, and R. H. Ward,
Esq., of Marion Co.; W. C. Battle, Esq., of
Titus; Dr. A. G. Clopton, of Cass; Col. T.
Davenport, of Panola; Col. W, T. Scot;, of
Harrison; S. F. Casey, Esq., and Col. D.
M. Short, of Shelby; Judge A. O. W.
Hicks, of the 5th Dist.; Gen. T. J. Cham-
bers of Chambers Co.; Judge Wm. Cham-
bers and C. L. Cleveland, Esq., of Liberty;
and Win. Mcintosh, Esq. of Brazos. These
gentlemen are all firm in the faith of seces-
sion, and represent some of the best coun-
ties in Texas. Several of them go up in-
structed by the people to vote against re-
ferring the ordinance of secession to the
people. They take the ground that seces-
sion cannot be accomplished too soon. We
are inclinKd to think, however, that the
majority of the Convention will feel dispo-
sed to refer the matter back. However
that may tie, in the names of these gentle-
men, as well as of the many other good
men of the State who have been sent to the
Convention, we are amply guaranteed that
nothing will be done, except for the best
advantage of the people. The liberties of
Texas could not be m safer hands.
Should the Convention adjourn to meet
again, these gentlemen express a wish that
it may meet next time in Houston or Gal-
veston. There would be many advantages
in their doing so, not the least of which
would be their being placed in immediate
contact with the outside world, and thus
legislating in full view of what is being
done elsewhere. Houston is also much
more accessible to the whole State than
any other city in the State.
Mr. Daniel Trabue writes to the
Galveston Civilian that the vote for the
Convention cannot reach 23,000. He says
in effect that in Harris and Galveston
counties the vote varied from one-fourth
to one-half less than a majority. We give
his words:
"We have heard from twenty more
counties, but not in figures, giving votes
varying from one-fourth, one-third to cne-
half less than a majority ; the vote cannot
reach 23,000. This includes Harris, Gal-
veston, Colorado, McLennan, Harrison,
Austin, Dallas, Rusk, Walker, &c., very
much from all parts of the State. If we
go out, it must be by a large majority sub-
mitting to a minority."
We have not the figures at hand, but to
show how much Daniel Tratue is deceived,
we state, jfor his information, the vote of
the four counties, Galveston, Harris, Dal-
las and Smith, alone, sum up 5000 votes.
Several other counties have cast over a
thousand votes each. Galveston and Har-
ris cast a larger vote than was polled in
August. The convention will represent
a majority of the people; and the State
will not go out of the Union in all proba-
bility until a majority of the voters of the
Stato have ratified the ordinance of seces-
sion. Daniel Trabue will, we hope, be
willing to submit to the majority.
1
JUDGE S3IALJLEY ON TREASOi *
\
We published on Tuesday the following
Telegraphic dispatch: —
New Yoas, Jan. 18.—Judge Snalley'
charge to the Grand Jury, in which be de
fines high treason, has driven Southerner
from this city.
We learn by the papers that Judge Snal-
ley delivered a charge to the Grand Jur, of
the United States District Court of Ua
Southern Federal District of New York, oi
the 14th inst., in reference to the danger
of citizens of the United States in connec-
tion with the warlike Southern movements
of the day. The Judge refers to the Con-
stitution and laws of the United 3tatcs, and
the opinions of Chief Justice Marshall, and
charges that the individuals concerned in
the seizure of the Federal forts and other
property at Charleston, in the name and
under the authority of Seutfc Carolina, are
guilty of high treason, as also are all par-
ties in any other State similarly offending;
and that any individual owing allegiance
to the United States, in New York or else-
where, who shall furnish these declared
Southern traitors "with arms or munitions
of war, vessels or other means of transpor-
tation, or any materials which will aiu the
traitors in carrying out their traitorous pur-
pose,'* or any person guilty of "inciting
or encouraging others to engage in or aid
the traitors in any way, is clearly liable to
be indicted, tried, convicted and executed
as a traitor—for death is the penalty of
treason "
One of tho Powers of Coagreo.
The Dallas Herald, of the 16th, has a
very able article on that part of the Con-
stitution giving Congress power to regulate
commerce with foreign nations, etc. We
copy the following from the article, and
ask for it the attention of the people. We
have said, and we say it again, and shall
continue to say it till the people give heed,
that the present Constitution of the United
States was never intended to govern the
country it now governs, or subserve the
interests that now depend up it. It ;has
radical and fundamental defects, not the
least of which is that pointed out by the
Herald. Mentioning the section above-
referred to, the Herald says:
Here we believe has been the greatest
danger to the institution of the Souih from
the delegated powers of Congress. In reg-
ulating commerce, Congress, according to
Mr. Webster, had the Constitutional power
to lay the Embargo in 1807, as well as to
pass the tariff act of 1832. With a deci-
ded majority in that body favorable to the
measure, what could preient Congress from
passing an act to prohibit the exportation
of cotton for a certain time? and what
would more effectually destroy the slave
interest of the South than such an act ?
Mr. Seward said last fall, in many of his
speeches, that the tim« was fast coming
when Congress would dbnstilucionally de-
stroy the slave power. Did he mean this
clause, or did he allude to the constitu-
tional freedom of speech that he claims for
all men? In either case, the danger is
great, and the present secession movement
has only anticipated the time predicted by
him. Let Congress prohibit for one year,
the exportation of cotton, what would be
the consequences to the slave interest in
the South ? It would be disastrous in the
extreme. With cotton reduced to 1 cent
per pound and all the markets of the world
closed but those of the North, slavery
would die, and tho slave holders would be
impoverished. Many expounders of the
Constitution believe that Congress posses-
ses this power, as it possessed the power
to lay the Embargo. ^ It jwas in vain that
New England rebelled against this meas-
ure and denounced it as unconstitutional.
She took the case before the Judiciary and
the Embargo was pronounccd to be Con-
stitutional. It was in vain that Mr. Sam-
uel Dexter, whose V very statement was
argument, and whose inference was de-
monstration"—in vain did he argue the
case, the judfcial tribunal was against him
and his cause was lost. If the Embargo
act was constitutional then, and was con-
sidered as coming under the power to reg-
ulate commerce, could not and would not
Congress have the constitutional power to
prohibit the exportation of any article
whatever, provided a majority so favored ?
It might destroy commerce instead of reg-
ulating it, but what of that, if by that
means, the objects and ends of a certain
party oouid be effected ? We thiak this
of euffijient importance ta demand the
attention of our delegates in the Conven-
tion. Let an ameodraant of this clause
be an ultimatum on the part of Texas:
otherwise, she would put her head into a
noose that might be tightened at any mo*
ment and destroy her dearest rights.
SENATOR BENJAMIN's SPEECH.
We never :eel the wau. •>i a !a:ge piper
and a score of primers su much as wheu
reading such a speech as that of Smator
Benjamin's, of Louisiana, the other day,
in the U. S. Sanate. We should like to
publish it entire. It is one of the ablest
we have ever read, and the most convinc-
ing argument possible, on the great ques-
tion of State Rights. Mr. Benjamin goes
over the whole ground, and shows not on-
ly the unrighteousness of the Northern
war upon the South, but the greater un-
righteousness and folly of the idea of co-
ercion. The closing paragraphs of his
speech are as follows:
Now, Mr. President, I desire not to en-
ter in any detail into the dreary catalogue
of wrongs aud outrages by which South
Carolina defends the position that she has
withdrawn from this Unionbecause she has
f. constitutional right to do so, by reason
of prior violations of the compact by her
sister States. Before, however, making
any statement—that statement to which we
have been challenged, and which I will
make in but very few words—of the wrongs
under which the South is now suffering,
and for which she seeks redress, as the
difficulty 3eems to arise chiefly from a dif-
ference of our construction of the Consti-
tution, 1 desire to read one more, and a last
citation fromVattel, giving a rule in rela-
tion to the construction of treaties between
sovereigns, and compacts between States.
Among other things, he says :
"The rules that establish a lawful interpretation
of treaties are sufficiently important to be made
the subject of a distinct chapter. For the present
let us simply observe that an evidently false in-
terpretation is toe grossest imaginable violation
or the faith of treaties. He that resorts to such
an expedient, either impudently sports with that
sacred faith, or sufficiently evinces his inward
conviction of the degrae of mortal turpitude on-
B« d to the violation of it: he wishes to net a
dishonest part, and yet preserve the character of
an honest man ; he is a purit-rical impostor. trho
aggravates his crime by the addition of a detesta-
ble hypocrisy. Grotius quotes several instances
of evidently false interpretations pot upon trea-
ties. The Plateaus haying promised the Thebnns
to restore their prisoneis, restored them after they
had put th"tn to death. Pericles, having promised
to spare the lives of such of tbe enemy as laid
down their arms, ordered all those to be killedthat
had iron clasps to their cloafes. A Roman general
having agreed with Antioches to restore him half
his fleet, caused each of the ships to be sawed in-
two. All these interpretations are as fraudulent
ns that orRhadamistns, who, according to Tacitus*
account, having sworn to MHhridates that he
would not employ either poison or steel against
him. caused him to be smothered under a heap of
clothes. [Tattel's Law of Nations, book 2, chap.
15, p, 234.
There is the text; now the commentary.
Yon, Senators of the Republican party,
assert, and your people Whom you repre-
sent assert, that under a just and fair in-
terpretation of the Federal Constitution it
is right that you deny that our slaves,
which directly and indirectly involve a
value of more than four thousand million
dollars, are property at all, or entitled to
protection in Territories owned by the
common Government.
You assume the interpretation that it is
right to encourage, by all possible means,
directly and indirectly, the robbery of this
property, and to legislate so as to render
its recovery as difficult and dangerous as
possible; that it is right and proper and
justifiable, under the Constitution, to pre-
vent onr mere transit across a sister State,
to embark with our property on a lawful
voyage, without boing openly despoiled of
it.
You assert, and practice upon the as-
sertiDn, that it is right to hold us up to
the ban of mankind, in speech, writing
and print, with every appliance of public-
ity, as thieves, robbers, murderers, vil-
lains and criminals of the blackest dye,
because we continue to own property which
we owned at the time that we all signed
the compact.
That is right that we should be exposed
to spend our treasure in the purchase, or
shed our blood in the conquest, of foreign
territory, with no right to enter it for set-
tlement without leaving behind our most
valuable property, under penalty of its
confiscation.
You practically interpret this instrument
to be that it is eminently in accordance
with the assurance that our tranquility and
welfare were to be preserved and promoted
that our sister States should combine to
prevent our growth and development;
that they should surround us with a cord-
on of hostile communities, for the express
and avowed purpose of accumulating in
dense'masses, and within restricted limits
a population which you believe to be dan-
gerous, and thereby force the sacrifice of
property nearly sufficient in value to pay
the public debt of every nation in Europe.
This is the construction of the instru-
ment that was to preserve onr security,
promote our welfare, and which we only
signed on your assurance that that was its
object. Ycu tell us that this is a fair con-
struction—not all of you, some say one
thing, some another; but you act, or your
people do, upon this principle. You do not
propose to enter into our States, you say,
and what do we complain of ? You do not
pretend to enter into our States to kill or
destroy our institutions by force. Oh, no.
You imidate the faith of Rahdamistus:—
propose simply to close us in an embrace
that will suffocate us. You do not propose
to fell the tree; you promised not. Yon
merely propose to girdle it, that it die.—
And then, when we tell you that we do not
understand this bargain this way, that up-
on it in this spirit releases us from the ob-
ligations that accompany it; that under
no circumstances can we consent lo live
together under that interpretation, we say:
"we will go from you; let us go in peace;"
we are answered by your leading spokes-
men ; "Ob, no, you cannot do that: wc
have no objection to it personally, but we
are bound by our oaths; if you attempt it
your people will be hanged for treason.—
We have examined this Constitution thcr-
oughly; we have searched it out with a
fair spirit, and we can find warrant in it
for relersing ourselves from the obligation
of giving you any of its benefits, but our
oaths force us to tax you; we can dispense
with everything else; but our consciences
we protest upon our souls will be sorely
worried if we do not take your money."
(Laughter.) That is the proposition of the
Honorable Senator from Ohio, in plain
language. He can avoid everything else
under the Constitution, that stands in the
way of secession : but how he is to get rid
of taking our money he cannot see.—
(Laughter.)
Now, Senators, this picture is not placed
before you with any idea that it will act
upon any one of you, or change your views
or alter your conduct. Allhope of that is
gone. Our committee has reported this
morning that no possible scheme of ad-
justment can be devised by them all com-
bined. The day for the adjustment has
passed. If you would give it now, you
are too late.
And now, Senators, within a few weeks
we part to meet as Senators in one common
council chamber of the nation no more for-
ever. We desire, we beseech you, let this
parting be in peace. 1 conjure you to in-
dulge in no vain delusion that duty orcon-
science, interest or honor, imposes upon
you the necessity of invading our States
or shedding the blood of our people. Xou
have no possible justification for it. I trust
it is in no caavea spirit, and with no sac-
rifice of the honor or dignity of my own
State, that I make this last appeal, but far
higher and holier motives. If, however, it
shall prove vain, if you are resolved to
pervert the Government framed by the fa-
thers lor the protection of our rights into
an instrument for subjugating and enslav-
ing us, then, appealing to the Supreme
Judge of the universe for the rectitude of
our intentions, we mast meet the issue
that you force upon us as best becomes
freemen defending all that is dear to man.
What may be the fate of this horrible
contest, no man can tell, none pretend to
foresee ; but this much I will say; the for-
tunes of war may be adverse to our arms;
you may carry desolation into our peaceful
land, and with torch and fire you may set
our cities in flames ; you may even emu-
late the atrocities of those who, in the war
of the revolution, hounded on the blood-
thirsty savage to attack upon our defence-
less frontier; you may, under the protec-
tion of your advancing armies, give
shelter to the furious fanatics who desire,
and profess to desire, nothing more than to
add all the horrors of a servile insurrec-
tion to the calamities of civil war; you
may do all this—and more, too, if more
there be—but you never can subjugate us-
you never can convert the free sons of the
soil into vassals, paying tribute to your
power; and you never, never can degrade
tbem to tbe level of au inferior and servile
race. Never! Never!
The manner of the orator and the effect
with which the last sentences were received
we find described as foil iws, in a letter to
the Philadelphia Bulletin, aKepublican pa-
per:
•4He made a capital speech; quiet, aud if not ex-
actly dignified. his manner was self-possessing
anil resolute. He went over the whole ground of
Southern causes of complaint against the North,
as coollyand dispassionately as if arguing a case
before the Supreme Court. There was no fine
speaking ; no appeal to the feelings ; and yet the
attention of ths galleries was unbroken. The 1h
dies, too, listened asclosely as the reporters lie
summed up hid argument very ramly, read from a
written paper, in a measured, legal tone, the caus
es of difference, and then concluded. This con-
c.Ualon w s a telling shot. He spoke coolly of the
approaching dissolution of the Union, and the
conies; th it might ensce. lie enumerated the hor-
rors of civil war—ailuded to the probability of ihe
South not being ableto defend herself. It was all
repeated over a* camly as had been hi< authorities
lie stood in a simple position,between two leaks
one foot crossed over the other—no attitude, no
gesture. As he reached the close, he.b aouehand
in his pooket, the other negligently o ng with a
vest chain. He balanci .i his head t« and fro, in a
true professional manner. Onl? his black eye.*
. showed the emotion he niusth*ve felt. 'They wer>
elongated.a% Rachel's sometimes became, when at
her stillest, most concentrated points of acting—
the quiet curse in Camille, for example—scintil
• lating with light; a faint smile, just a little scorn-
j ful, as he said :
You may set cur cities in fiames, raising against
j us not only our own property,but.as Great Britain
i di 1 in the Revolution,turn loose upon our frontiers
the savages; but there is one thing you will not do,
(herehe elevated his eyebrows, and said quietly)
you will never subjugate us.
He let goof his vest chain, and rut his other
hand coolly into his pocket, andas he half turned
to take his seat, he added :
An enslaved and servile race you can never
make of us—never, never, never !
The leiteration cf the word 'never' wag a3 free
from emotion as if he had been insisting on sjne
simple point of law, which could not be decided in
any different way. But. free from emotion as it
was, it produced the greatest effect. The whole
gallery, on all sides,burst out in one voice,in un-
controllable applause."
TELEGRAPHIC.
Later from New Orleans'!
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Thf Rifles arc
Important from Baton Rouge.
Important from Washington.
THE MARKETS, ETC.
TEXAS ITEMS.
The Livingston Sun says that the late
rains have raised the creeks and made them
overflow their banks.
The vote in Dallas county in tho late
election for delegates to the Convention
sto'od:
For Secession 741
Opposition
Secession majority 217
The Dallas Herald mentions a heavy rain
there on the 14th inst.
The Herald 6ays that tbe freight has
been paid on the articles sent from Hous-
ton to Dallas, and wagoners started with
them to the frontier. This was done we
infer by the ladies who gave an elegant sup-
per for the benefit of the frontier.
The Herald has a scale of rates of charges
of physicians in that county. The prices
are an average about half what they are in
the lower eeuntry. For instance, prescrip-
tion and medicine 150, detention per day
$4, mileage 50c. etc.
The Standard says that the polls were
only opened in one precinct in Red River
county in the election for Convention,
where 36 votes were polled.
In Kauffman comity, we learn from the
Democrat, all the candidates were in favcr
of secession. About 500 votes were polled.
The Paris Press says that the United
States flag was raised at Honey Grove the
other day with 32 stars, and the faint out-
lines of another. The people of Honey
Grove are a little behind the limes. There
are only 28 stars in the flag now, and will
be but 27 when our subscribers there read
this.
The election to the Convention by Lamar
county was to be held on the 19th inst.
The Weathorford Whiteman says that the
Houston and Galveston donations arrived
there 011 the 17th, and were at one? for-
warded to camp.
The great Buffalo Hunting expedition
was to start from Lost Valley on the 17th.
Col. JonnR. Baylor is in command, andhe
will, we truBt, be able to give a good ac-
count of the marauding redskins, and what
has became of them. We have great hopes
of this expedition, notwithstanding, the
commander has much to contend with in
the inexperience of his troops, as well a3
in the scarcity of grass, and ihe want of
arms in the expidition. He will make the
expedition tell however, our word for it.
We have to thank the Belton Democrat
for the following flattering notice of our
paper. What gives peculiar satisfaction to
the praise is that it comes from so able a
writer, and so influential a citizen as Mr.
John Henry Brown:—
The Houston Telegraph has won laurels
by its bold, ready and discreet pen. No
paper in the State has equalled it in scat-
tering early intelligence through the coun-
try. It has "fought the good fight and kept
the faith." During the last six months the
columns of the Telegraph have been en-
liched by a series of letters written while
on a sojourn in new Tork, by the Hon.
Horace Cone, of Houston, a man of rare
mind and great purity of character, who has
wstched with anxious eye the movement of
the North. From being formerly a strong
Union man, he was compelled by his eye-
sight observations in the North, to become
a firm and unyielding secessionist.
The Anderson Texian mentions heavy
rains early last week in that region. Con-
siderable damage was done.
The Texian has our thanks for a very
kind and flattering notice of our paper.
The Texian is again left in charge of
Howard Finley, Esq., as ptotempore edi-
tor. Our readers will remember how well
he filled the chair last winter. We dislike
to lose the weekly essays and paragraphs
of Dr Dickson, but we know of r.o one
who can better take his place than Finley
We hope he will get so uBed to the edito-
rial chair while the Doctor is gone, that
he will stick to it.
Execution or Gcs.—The nagro "Gus,"
sentenced to be hung at the last term of the
District Court for the murder of his wife,
duly expiated his offence on the gallows
about noon on Friday last. At au early
hour large crowds assembled at the street
corners to take a la t look of the being
whose crime but lately thrilled tho commu-
nity with horror, and to gratify the sickly
curiosity cf seeing how a being—negro
though he was, could face that grim mon-
ster, Death, before whom even the bravest
and most virtuous quail. The crowd
around the gallows numbered from eight
hundred to one thousand persons.
In due time the prisoner arrived at the
place of execution in custody of Deputy
Sheriff Lanham, and with all the tang froid
befitting a triumph he mounted the soaf-
fold,whioh certainly did not seem aterror to
him. He reviewed tbe preparations for
launching him into eternity, with the ut-
most indifference, and seemed rather
pleased that hie tragedy had drawn
so large crowd to see the curtain fall
on the final scene.
After the rope had been properly adjust-
ed he was told by Sheriff Fraier that he
was at liberty to address the crowd if he
saw proper. Gus availed himself of the
permission, and proceeded at some length
to confess hi3 guilt, the reasons why he bad
murdered his wife, and declare his belief
in a future and a happier world. He re
turned his thanks to Messrs. Frazer and
Lanham for the kindness with which he had
been treated while in their custody, and
declared his readiness and willingness to
die.
Several of Gus' fellow slaves then came
forward to bid him a last good bye, when
after a prayer by Rev's. Seat and Fayle,
who attended him, the rope was fixed
around his neck, the black cap drawn over
his head, and the trap fell. He died with-
out a perceptible struggle. >
Gus so died that he left the impression
on our miud that he did not realize the
atrocity of the crime he had committed, or
really felt any awe at the awful presence he
was about to meet. Ho doubtless believed
that death was a mere gate-way to "Dixie 8
land."
While we certainly hope that he has gone
to a better land, we cannot help a doubt
that such terrible crimes could have been
atoned for by a dying confession which
seemed to breathe a spirit of defiance, and
protest against the charity that would so
nerve an imbruted felon to meet death
calmly through belief in immediate for-
giveness of his crimes. Certainly wc do
not think such a death scene impressed
those of onr servile population present with
any terror of capital punishment,but rather
encouraged the existing brutal feeling that
Jt is noble to die, even a felon's death,
without emotion.
Bayou City Guards.—a new military
Company, named the Bayou City Guards,
has been organized in this city. Tbe fol-
lowing gentlemen have been cltcted offi-
cers .- Captain, W. B. Butts; 1st Liout.,
j. II. Evans; 2d do, F. A. Uice; 3d do,
Wm. Fulton; 1st Sorgeaut, L A. Bryan;
2d do, II. Fleishman; 3d do, J. E. Clute;
4th do, C. M. Botts; K. Burns, O. 9., and
J. C. Baldwin. C. 8.
By Telegraph and Express we have New
Orleans dates to Saturday the 2Glh, embra-
cing the following intelligence :
New Orleans Markets.
New Orleans, Jan. 25. p. m.—Owing
to scarcity of freight, and the unfavorable
advices by the Kedar, [given last week]
cotton has receded to the quotations below,
which the favorable advices by the Niaga-
ra hove not changed. We quote:
Inferior ™
Ordinary ~s@
Good Ordinary...'... 8?@
Low Middling 9|(W^1
Middling 10^@11.J-
Money coutiuue3 tight, though tip top
names command money at 10@12 per ccnt.
Nothing doing in anything less. Exchange
was somewhat firmer. Clear sterling ruled
at 3J@5 per cent. prem. Document do.
li©3 per cent. prem. Receipts of specie
for the week embrace $1,072,630 ia gold,
from New York.
Sugar is quoted at 2@7c. Molasses 10
@23c. Flour $5@S 50. Cora 58@63c.
Bacon 9J @18.}. Pork$20®21 50. Tex-
as cattle S14@30. No Texas cattle left in
market.
StfUt'a Carolina.
Washington, Jan. 24.—A dispatoh re-
ceived here from Gov. Pickens, of Souih
Carolina, says there is no apprehcusion of
immediate hostilities between Major An-
derson and the authorities of that State.
Charleston Jan. 25—The Legislature of
South Carolina has appropriatad S40,000
for postal arrangements.
Tennessee.
Nashville, Jan 25.—The Legislature
of Tennessee this day elected twelve dele-
gates to a Convention of the Southern
States.
fibode Island.
Providence, Jan. 25.—The Housa of
Representatives has concurred with the
Senate in repealing the Personal Liberty
Bill.
Georgia.
Milledoevillb, Jan.\23.—It has been de-
termined by the convention to elect ten
delegates to morrow to the proposed Con-
vention at Montgomery, Ala. on the 4tli of
February next.
All the Southern States will be invited
to send delegates to the same convention.
The ordinance in reference to the slave
trade, which was made the special order in
the convention to-day, was so amended as
to make it no longer piracy, but only a
felony.
The passage of this ordinance has been
received with a general expression of sat-
isfaction.
Ac ordinance was also presented by Mr.
Hill, of Troup, providing for the continu-
ance and observance of the present postal
revenue and other Federal laws. It speaks
ot the rights and privileges of non-resi-
dents, and of the probability that a new
Federal Government will soon be formed
on the basis of the old one.
Judge Beming also presented an ordi-
nance having reference to the inter-State
slave trade.
Mr. Cobb, of Clarke, also to-day report-
ed, in behalf of the Judiciary Committee,
an ordinance revoking the Federal juris-
diction over all lands ceded to the Govern-
ment by the State of Georgia, or authoriz-
ing the construction of Federal arsenals,
fortifications and depots for stores within
her limits. Laid over. f
A resolution was then passed, authoriz-
ing the appointment of commissioners to
all the slaveholding States, to urge their
cs-operation in the formation of a South-
ern Confederacy.
Mucti perplexity exists in regard to the
selection of these delegates. The present
members of Congress are scarcely men-
tioned in this connection.
Many rumors arc also current in refer-
ence to the probable representatives of the
State in the Southern Congress, at Mont-
gomery. It is believed, however, that
Messrs. Toombs and Cobb will be chosen
to represent the State at large.
Augusta, Jan. 25.—The United States
Arsenal has been surrendered to Governor
Brown, of Georgia.
Alabama.
Montgomery, Ala , 23.—The State Con-
vention passed an ordinance to-day;doing
away with the officers of Military commis-
sioners and authorizing the to fill the va-
cancies made thereto. Much discussion
ensued
An ordinance was also presented author-
izing the Governor to remove the aims and
munitions of war from the Mount Vernon
Arsenal and distribute the same to citizens
of the towns throughout the State.
Another was presented vesting in the
Legislature the power to confiscate pro-
perty belonging ta enemies of the State
and situated within its limits.
Montgomery, Jan. 24.—The Senate of
Alabama now in session, has passed a bill
requiring all free negroes to leave the State
of Alabama by the first of January next,
under penalty of being sold.
Louisiana.
Telegraphic reports from the Louisiana
Convention are very full, we are obliged to
condense.
Baton Rouge, Jan. 24.—The Committee
of Fifteen to-day agreed upon the form and
substance of the ordinance of secesjion.
It will be reported and acted upon to-mor-
row.
The ordinance guarantees forever tbe
free navigation of the Mississippi river to
all friendly States, and declares there shall
never be obstruction of whatever kind to
the export or import of goods, property of
citizens of such States, at the customhouse
of New Orleans.
It was agreed at latest report Friday
night, that the vote should be taken on this
ordinance on Saturday at 12 M.
Baton Rouge, Jan. 25.—After the ap-
pointment of Committees to-day the Com
missioners of South Carolina and Alabama
addressed the Convention.
Baton Rouge, Jan. 24th—Ex-Governor
Manning, Commissioner from South Caro-
lina said he came as the Representative of
the State of South Carolina to present h:r
ordinance of secession, and to ask the co-
operation of Louisiana in the formttion of
a Southern Confederacy. The causes which
led to this step are well known, and need-
ed no repetition at his hands, that contin-
ued egorts to resist aggression had tailed,
wa3 familiar to all.
South Carolina was not nnmindful of the
respect due her sister States as confeder-
ates and equals,
It was necessary that each State should
secede separately, with a view to speedy
confederation of all the slave States for
the purpose of common defence.
By remaining in the Union we could en-
joy only such security as we might expect
from avowed enemies. Delay tbe subject
and the United States is in the hands of
the Black Republicans.
It is no light or temporary matter. When
the Federal Goverdment intended to block-
ade wc became the object of oppressiou|
We should take preliminary steps towards
organization for our general welfare.
The gentleman paid an elovueut tribute
to thelrameis of the constitution, aud pro-
posed that the seceding States should form
a temporary government ujon its basis and
confer by delegates upon a plan for a per-
manent government, which would meet all
requirements.
The Commissi on urfr Gin Alabama—Synop-
sis of His ltcmarks.
Gov. Winston the Commissioner from
Alabama, followed Gov. Manning. lie
spoke of tho solemnity of the time and re-
marked it had been long apparent that w-j
must arrive at this conclusion. The lime j
has eome which i3 to test the ability cf the |
South to meet the emergency.
The Alabama Legislature seeing twelve !
months ago the inevitable conclusion ofjthe
present difficulties, resolved that the emer-
gency had arrived and let others do as
they might, she would dissolve the bonds
which cou'd no longer be borne. If Ala-
bama was not a leader sho was 11a submi3-
s onists. Co-operation had meant "wait."
now it meant "go on"—invite the State of
Louisiana to Fend delegates t> Moittgom-
goiy.ery. lie urged the Convention to act
promptly to the most hopeful, there was
hope no longer.
I jV/hat formerly seemed a calamity, was
now self-proervation. In two years the
South in wealth, intelligence, commerce
and agriculture would be lt;e greate-t na-
tion upon which the sun ever shone.
lloth addresses were much aptitude !.
A communieaiUn was received from
' cession w'as ca'.lcd up.
i Mr...;Rosier presented a sul'sfittue ^or
, the final settlement of the present dilficul-
j tics, which after enumerating t.Jie various
' indignities and outrages heaped upon the
j South, her rjeople and institutions by the ■
lawless and ruffian hordes ot the North.
! [Tovides for the calling of a convention of
j all the slaveholding States at Nashville,
! Tenn. on the 25th of February next, or as
j early thereafter as practicable to take into j
consideration the relations the slavehold-
ing States are to occupy hereafter with ;
the general government, also to determine I
what amendments to the constitution of j
the United States are necessary to properly
secure the rights of the slaveholding Stales
and finally to adjust aud settle all ques-
tions relating to the subject of slavery in
such a manner as to relieve the South of
any further agitation of the question, se-
cure to the people a peaceful enjoyment of
their property, and restore that equilibri-
um which is essential tea further continu-
ance of the Union.
'1 'to .Montgomery True
ort Barrancas, and are en;
and arranging cannon.
Fort Barrancas is almost opposite, in a
northerly direction to J'ort Pickcns, and
L'ort McRac is wcstwardly. between the
two. All the guns in Fort Barrancas
have been nnqpiked, exccpt two very largo
Columbiads, and th?y nre so effectually
spiked as to cause doubts as to whether
they can be made useful.
To the westward of Fort Pickens, under
the guns of that fort, was anchored the
U. S. steam gun-boat Wyandote; for what
purpose is not known, but it is supposed
that she is there to render any assistance
possible to Lieut. Slimmer, if he should
choose to leave, she will take him off.
Warrington Navy Yard and Barracks
] are occupied by the Pensacola Guard, the
liitle Rangers and the Greenvillo Guards.
Every cue seems jovial there. The War-
rington Artillery are also quartered iu the
yard, and are engaged in fixing their po-
sitiou iu the be«t manner for defence.
The Navy Yard correspondent of the
Observer writes on the 20th :
Wyandote is still anchored at the
Announcements.
ar; authorize to ar.\cance 1IILLTAUD J.
JO.NK'i i sq., c>f Grime< countv, as a candidate for
C >iiim's>iouer of the UencraJ i-iiid Oflice, at the next
elecfon.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
r«\) IltllE.
JL JanHtvSt
Two House Servauis, cheap.
a. A. JOXBS.
"Notice to Creditors,
rPIIE nn-Iers'jrned having t een appointed by the Hon.
-L Co in v Court a:, (he UeccmtHrr term, ls60. thereof,
! a«tmlni>trat>rof the«sute«.[ Agnes Miller, deceased.
lu r«-byk!v«s notice ti U creditors ofsiid estate, tj
present their claims d.ily aittip tlcatei within the
tlnirt prt s -ribe«: bv I *\r, or tlicv will 1 e barred.
Unit-it n.Jnn ti.r.w II K H-HK*. A 'm'r
notice.
matoe's Office. \
llvuotori. .Ia;i. 28, isgl. )
; 'IMIK Mayor and Secretary of the city oi Houston,
, JL wiM be In attendance at Conncfl Cna:;ibcT, 0:1
, Tiinrs'iaj'13 from 3io3 o'clock P. >1., and on fc'aiur.lay's
irom 4ioa o'clock. P. M.. toa*t?rvl to any and all bus!-
! n* ss p^rln!i In< to their ofticiul duties.
. J.C. -taffubd, Sec'y. WM. J. UDTCHINS,
1 Jan 29. if M' vnr.
IOST.—Caution*.—Lost in this city,last week,apnrse
J c -irah lug j.m.MiK other tt<it)?s two twenty dollar
i k -id l ieces, an i some other chan:
• notes •
f aud the followine
The
la ihe event of snch amendment to the
constit ntion of the IT. 8. anil such measures
not being acceded to by ihe people of the
slaveholding States promptly, then said
convention to reassemble forthwith upon
the call of the President to organize a sep-
arate confederacy of the slave holding
States, represented in said convention, and
such others as may join therein, and pro-
ceed to form a provisional and temporary
government for said confederacy, to con-
tinue until the election of delegates to be
holden for a convention, and a permanent
constitution adopted, thereby for the gov-
ernment of the sum?, and be it further or-
dained, that sis delegates to said conven-
tion be chosen by ihis convention to rep-
resent the State of Louisiana therein, and
that, all slaveholdirg Stales be requested ta
appoint, as many delegates as they have
representatives in Congress to represent
thjm in .-aid Convention, and that the Gov-
ernor of this Slate £am:sh the Governor of
each slaveholping State confidentially with
a copy hereof, and to request the same to
be laid before their respective Legislature?
and conventions if in session, if none are
in session to convene the Legislatures to
consider and act upon the propositions
herein contained.
Mr Rosier made a lengthy and eloquent
speech in favor of this proposition, review-
ing the evil effects and injustice of sepa-
rate secession, showing how closely the
great West and the Souih were bound, de-
nying the propriety of a government form-
ed by the cotton States alone, adding that
such an one wonld not be recognized by
Europe for many years to come. It would
involve the enormous expense of a stand-
ing army, aud navy, cripple the resources
and possibly cause a disagreement among
ourselves, and ultimately a civil war. The
vote upon the substitute was then taken
upon the substitute with the following re-
sult : Nays 100, Ayes 2-t.
Mr. Davidson of Sabine, in voting, said
that his Parish was for co-operation by a
large majority, and in deference to his
constituents, lie would vote yea, though an
unqualified immediate secessionist, had
been elected on personal grounds.
Baton kouge, Jan. 14.—a resolution,
that the thanks of the convention are dae
the Governor for his prompt action in seiz-
ing the Federal property within the limits
of the State came up, and afier much dis-
cussion was laid upon the table, subject to
call.
The resolutions reads—referring to the
forts—"We will defend them here and else-
where, by all the honorable means in our
power."
The committee appointed to confer with
the visiting commissioners, report that, they
(the commissioners) will address the con-
vention at tea o'clock to-morrow.
The Governor informed the convention
through the appropriate committee, that
he had no communications to make at pres-
ent.
The resolution thanking the Governor
for his action with regard to the forts was
again called up.
Mr. lloselius, of Orleans, 'wished to know
before he voted by what authority the
"acts" mentioned were done. "The Gov-
ernor was the highest conservator of peace,
and such disregard of its requirement
might become necessary and right, but un-
til he was informed as th what exigency
necessitated the action, he was prepared
neither to thank nor censure."
Much warm discussion ensued, during
which the Governor's annual message was
received.
A motion followed that the portion re-
ferring to Federal relations, as giving rea-
son for the seizure of the forts, &c., be
read, which gave rise to renewed discus-
sion both for or and aga'nst tne object of
tbe motion.
There was considerablinjuiirustou, Tmd
harsli language wasin iulged in, which the
President was forced to rebuke.
A portion of the message was finally
read, when a vote on the passage of the
original resolution was taken wita the fol-
lowing resilt: Ayes 118, nays 5. Messrs.
Messrs. Mfredith, Pierson of Union. Ros-
ier, S'ocker and Taliaferro voting in the
negative.
Baton iocge, Jan. 23.—In the Senate
of the Louisiana Legislature, last evening,
tho resolution olfered by Mr. Lawrence,
was takenup and adopted.
The rosdution expresses the unqualifi-
ed approvi! of the Legislature of the pol-
icy of Go'. Moore, in takiog possession of
the Federsl property within the limits of j
the State.
The rcEolution presented by Mr. Delany, j
on the right of secession, ^vas adopted and
sent to tne House.
Eaton Rouge .Jan. 25.—The convention
adjourned atier much discussion' on the
resolution submitting tho action of the
convention to the people. The vote on the
Secession Ordinance will be taken to-mor-
row at 12 o'clock.
The prospects this morning are decidedly
in favor of adjourning to New Orleans.
Xorlli Carolina.
^ o e for Onr Hundred and f rty d' liars, made pay-
w ab'e to .lame-? D. Freeman t>- J. It. Tittup.due.far uarr
fort. A gentleman who passed close lo
the iort from Olltsiae reporis unusual bus- «-l,ldneJ n iarylst 13Gi,i.n<l btaiin^ iatere^ at ihe
tie in the fort aud noise of canuoa tumb- ' ra-e-'- '<n.,,ilr <"'nt P"; nnnm.
ling. On the sieamer only one uian was
to be s<cca on dcck.
The pilots have been notified that they
may bring U. S. war vessels inside of the
harbor if said vessels carry a flag of truce.
I.nier from Panama.
Xr.w Yoek, Jail. 25.—The Atlantic and
Pacific Mail Company's steamship Ariel,
from Aspinwall, with the passagers, mails
anil specie, brought down to paeama by
the steamer which sailed from San Fran-
cisco cn the 1st, has arrived at this port.
The Ariel 1 rings SI,'055,000 cf treasure
cn freight, consigned to the principal busi-
ness honse of this city.
LATEtt FItO-U EU OPE.
Arrival cf tlic Xiagara.
Halifax, Jan. 21.—The Cunard mail
steamship Niagara, Capt. Ryre, has arriv-
ed at tiiis port, cn route for Roston.
The Niagara brings $1,080.(00 in treas-
ure cn freight and tho regular commercial
weekly circular for the week ending Fri-
day the 14th.
Liverpool, Jan. 13.—The salc3 of cot-
ton yesterday were 20,000 bales. 7,000
were tasen by exporters and speculators.
Hewitt & Co. say cotton advanced Jdover
the official quotations. They quote Mid-
dling Orleans at 7^d, and M..U. at 7Jd.
■ "r ~:
COMMERCIAL.
WMSEKLY ILWltlW.
We tavetn n .te an increase t f business for the past
vre k over the previous \v. ek. Th? h;tel registers
s'iow a ver; sr tl yin^r influx of peo. le. who are tak'Tig
advantage of thr u<uU Inaction of the season, to hiy
in Iheirsprins supplies. The result is that trade has
hem fair for this beasan.
Money is still anything but abnndint, or attainable
ai ra y rates, except on the choicest names. We have
heard of loans b !ng made on thes now and then all
winter at from 12 to 15 pi r cent. The value of m :n?y
however, 'n the genera! market, has brten much great-
er, ai d f.oiii2;i t 3 per cent, a month, has In some
instances been paid.
Exchange on New York, etc.. is governed by the
New Orleans market to some extent. Brokers' buying
rates fir sight are from 3=@1:4 cent, discount, Strll
ing rates, except for lar^e amounts, are par. Little or
notblnrdoing in 63 day exchange.
Firm th? interior we have cratlf ing reports of
heavy rains, which had f 1 en all over the State, thor-
oughly saturating the earth, an I pre pa i- g it well for
thes?edso.r thenewcrop. Prep irati ms f >r planting
are going on a5? usual, rxc.pt that from a'l appear-
ances there will be a much larger amount of corn
p'anted than usuaL This we tru>t will prove to be the
cas?. A country tbit buys Its fjol cai n ;ver be per-
manently pro>p -rous. While a land of plenty, where
provisions are abnndant and cheap has a c harm for nil
eyes even above tfrat cf white cotton fields and large
exports of the ft.sp'e.
The wheat fkl s are doing we'd and promise a aree
crop this spi ing, much larger than ever before. We
hope this will prove to be the case.
Wen >tca disposition among the people to wear
homespun. This is always commendable, pointing as
it d es. to independence and self reliance and show-
in*: a spirit ii Ihe people of doi?>g what is always ur-
wil i giydoncuu'Jer campu.sion if law, in support of
home in imtry.
Th® movement of the ral!road3 is progressive. Wc
suppose th? b idgpacross the Brazes, on the W. C. R..
must be about completed by this tini", as well as that
across theXavasotion the Central road. B tli the
Central and the W C. B, are now laying down iron.—
Tiie locomotive has cro-s d the Trinity at Liberty, and
at last accounts track laying on the Texas and N. O.
road was progressing half a m lea diy. The President
h is npp!ied for the State loan on 5 miles this si ie the
Trinity.amoun'i^g ty $3>,001 which cmount has ac-
cumulate d from th i intere.-t of the lund.
building in Houston Is being pn^h d ahead without
lsgiing, and every week shows no little progress.
1 heInalthof thecitr and country, excepting now
and then a case of j neimmi i. is very gooi.
A libeial r. war-s wili bo pui-1 fir the recovery of the
pnrse ami c-mtei.t* < n auplu atton to A. S&SSIJMS,
a-iq , IIousTou.or the under«dgnei.
All pets >ns are c u'l -n^l :>i:a'nnt trading far said
notes as payment on them has be?ti stopped.
T , iiUiiTOMlilOWN.
Statiord s Point, Jan 29. *61. wt«3w
ktotice.
Gr IV* *'*vins tought the stock rf Goods of
• • Mr. I.C. !?p'*nce,in Houston, Is prt-par.d to otter
'o th* j n. lie every variety ot G«x ds on terms to suit
the t inies. lions on, .lan a6,1851.2t
NOTICE.
TWGOODWVN b-i ii defaulter ta the amount of
• several ThousmdDoLar-. \til -to l uigt-r transact
at:y l us'ness A r us. CLOUvifl & BuNNEK.
.la** 26.3* n a
Rosendele Cement!
T^GYPIIA.N BLACK SEED OATS.
-1^ Chii.eGusheu Butter,
CondensM Milt.
New Fi s, Kabins, Dried Apples,
Turkey Prune*. Bock Sa^t.
Just re :«nvi'd ai.d finale
By A.WIilTAKfR&OO.,
uan 2'>. tf Ccm-ncTce Street.
Printing Office for Sale,
A uood BARGAIN 1
TUB Types and Materia1 on which the Crockett Ar-
gus -Newspa-.-cr wu> formerly printed, arc row
oner, a fur s tie cheap anduinm accommodating teras,
'i .;e m iterials are «e nv new. aad the assortment is
oa<* o4 the beat in tli- iat 'iior. -P*jr full particulars
apply to IS. 11. CUf*HlNG. llousion, or
... J-C- I1KPP6RLA, Crockett.
£3" « i!l onr Texas cotem aoraries be tiud enough
to J4'. ve the above a tew insertions. Jan26,lm
Look for a Horse Thief!
^TOLEN. rqm a stable at Hernpst^td,- on the night
k7 of the 2i)tli January, a Dappled Clay-bank Horse.
wLirem me «nu tail, sin.dl size, star In his ton-head,
four white feet, aud « ran leu o: Jcfi shonlier witft [ 1
or nearly *o, it .tural pater, smooth in uait will rarely
tro at sll, atont seven year- < Id. Also, a re.i Texas
-a Idle not much worn, ordinary brtule and mo<s
b.anket.
Pioitably stolen by a m^nslgnlnr bis ra ne D. Mar-
tin. said Mart'n is rather heavy set. reddish Whiskers,
does not t .Ik very much, > ys he irom Kentucsv,
an i tolerably cer t *elly dressed, bad a doc.
Ten dollars reward wdl bo i«ai i by A. M BROOKS,
Houston, or JoKDAN SAi IT II, Bastrop, for deli very cl
the horse or for iiiioruiatiun so that either m-ty get
'' Jan24. St
COTTON—Under the influence of unfavorable ad-
vices ft cm New Orleans, prices have rectdt'd somi-
what in our marker though nothing so much a in
New O ieans. Oar quotations ar? for the ruing rates
up to to-day, 26th. To-day nrder the reciipt of ad-
vices of another decline in New Orleans of lie. tne
market i- not settled. Latest from J iverpool Is cf an
advpnee there cf Jt'd. Sales in llcuston have been
fjw du. ing the week. Wc quote for the week's busi-
ness—
Inferior. («1
Or.^iriur 8 @
Good < 'rd n *rv *J
L' w M. (idling. a, 10
Middling
Good Mi idling <S)—
.STATEMENT OF COTTON.
Stork on hand Sept. 1st,'09. 210t bales
b'ec' l i a*t v.eel: l.*H3
Rec'd previously......... - 17,22* 4S.S21 "
TotaL W,y25 44
Shipped past week 2121
Shipped previously ... ii,Gil 4iJt7G2 "
Raleigh, N. C., 24.—Tbe passage of the
convention bill is still doubtful.
Presentation of Another Substitute.
Mr. Fuqua3 presented a substitute which
provides tor a convention at Montgomery
to form at oucea fclaral Union of the slave
States, and euch others as may unite upon
the constitution of the U. S. as a basis. He
thought another government should be pro-
vided before the secession of Louisiana,
and thought that other than slaveholdiug
States might be induced to join them.
Washington.
Washington, Jan. 2-3—Mr. Buchanan in
an interview with es-President Tyler ex-
pressed a belief that no collision would
occur between Federal and State forces
during his administration.
He said everv effort would be made on
his part to avoid ono.
It i3 expected that the difficulty between
Messrs. Bust, of Arkansas, and Dunn, of
Indiana, will be amicably settled. The
House to-day resumed the consideration of
tho report of the Committee of Thirty-
Three. So conclusion was however arrived |
at, and the House adjourned over till to- ;
morrow. Tho Senate was mainly occupied |
in the discussion of private bills, and ad- ;
journed over till Monday.
Washington, Jan. 25.—In the Senate j
yesterday Mr. Crittenden dented having
advocated coercion. In the House yester-
day Mr. Hamilion thought that Texas wouid
remain in the Union.
Washington, Jan. 21.—The House i3 oc- :
cupied to-day in considering the report of t
tbe Committee of Thirty-Three.
Sharp words passed between Messr?.
Bust, of Arkansas, and Dunn, of Indiana, j
which portend something serious.
Mr. Bust charged the John Brown raid ;
upon the Republican party.
Washington, Jan. 21—Orders were issu- j
cd from the navy department yesterday for
the immediate increase of the naval force
at Pensacola. Gen. Scott, however, is ■
doubtful whether Fort Pickens can now be j
relieved or the other forts recapiured.
The House select committee appointed to j
consider the relations of the federal govern |
ment to the seeding States, have decided . jmlasst s.—La
not to report iu favor of the blockade of j :
their ports. They recommend, however,
the imposition of heavy tines tor the v.3-
lation of tbe revenue laws.
The preposition of the State ot \ ir-
ginia, of which ex-Pre-idenl Tyler was
the bearer, asking the Federal Government
to do nothiug to bring itself into collision
with (lie seceding State?, has not been re-
ceived with any favor.
The House Committee cu Elestions have
unanimously conilrmcd >he right of Mr.
Sickles, of New Voik, to a seat in Con-
gress
Florida,
Washington, January 21.—A naval
officer left Wa.lfngton several days since
j with such instructions as will probably
| prevent a cuili-ioa between Fort Pickens
! and the Florid i authorities.
4.63
523
15-3
IS.SJl
JIJl
46.7112
4163
Amount oi hand January, 2G15C1...
A< toll ws:
Peel & bumble 50-1
m.i: tee, ..'jiilurU & Co 150
Allen & Knlton.. ... 647
i\ M. Bagby - 12:*)
C S. Longco;*e t Co...._ i'2l
Vincent £ Owens. l'„ -4
E. It. W t icrs - 203
Decrease of stock from last wees.
Cor responding date for four Years.
ISjS lSr>3 likJO 18r>l
! Receipts for week...—... 2'! GS9 3.^7t
j T'liui receipts .31,471 55 1 >2 75.*H4
I Shipments lor '.<■& LJ4.*« *5 4
i Total eblpm--!it.s 2-J.4TU 53n?i OJJr.7
: Stoci .ou Jiand *k43 26J* 1j.U.W
MERCHANDISE.
IIACON SIDES—Advanced, Bibbed are worih
12;*a&13 Clear 14^s@l5.
BACON SHOULDERS—11.'-@12
IIAMS—No change,—Sugar Cure l are now sold
atl7@17^c. Plain, n me in market.
BAGGING—luiU is siliiu; at 13^l5.'^c. according
to qu!.Ii ty. Kentucky, snial' stock, is.'/ li'c.
BOTTER—Goshen, 2;/>329e.;,Choic3 Goshen 29@31c
Western 20@22c.
CANDLES—Star. F. W. 23c.— jS. W. 2i@22c—
damantine 2S@30c. Sperm"4ii.^50c.
CHEESE—Goshen and B. D. I7c.@— ^Western 12
*2 @13.
CoFFSE—Fair —@ —. 6ood Fair Prim?
an i 5 Ii lice l.'syJlSc.. Java20'.
CORN—Advan-In?, Wtite $flS@ — Mixed $1 15
@Sl 2?. Texas, none.
FiSII—$7 2 @;7 50. Coi5@Gc.Bfc.
FLOUR—Advancing—Flue is worth $? 50 @6 75 j
Superfine $7 00@§7 25 Estra $3 C0.& and $3 00 i
Extra Family @— Sruyier's Kentucky premium :
$10 50
IIAY.— Northern Hay selipprca-iily.
IRON.—Refined bar A'&lli. Horse shoe 7 :
Hoop 7#—. Slab 6'j@. Sweedes 6@6,'£. Gerntau j
Steel n®. Blister Sl« el 12@. Slab Steel 8«*@9— ;
Nails Wrought 10c. Cast'ngi 5c. E>.
LAKD.—Ebl. ll^it^c. K«i-s 15V£ 15.5s-
LEAD.—Bar at i>j 10c. per 5).
LiME.—None. CenK-ni S 753)3 CO.
OILS—Lard $1 25^1 30; linseed 1 GC@ 1 05. Sperm
SI 25£ii 50.
ONIONS—Advanced.
PAINT—Snow Wuite Z tcO 50@$10 do pure $1!<^
$12. White Lead No. 1 $3 OG6T3 50; do pure warranted
10 10@$12 CO
POTATOES— $3 75(£ bbl. accorJing to quality
IilCE—Caro'ina - 7 lic. Very scarce.
ROPE—Manilla is worth lllttgMl'i Kentucky hand
inad-f 10@l0?.ic. do .machlre iO.^.'-JlC*,' Louisiana
Manufacturing Company llif@l *c.
SALT—Coarse 2 03^— Faie 2 25.
SHOT—Wind per beg $2 25; Buck $2 50.
SPIRITS— WhisSey, — SE^ht decline Oliver's
Whisky 2i) -' 30c. Rose M |32. Dex'e- ZOOi. iOc,
Bourbon G c.(i75: Mcnolgahtla 63c(5;75; Wheat
6J;22 Clt; American Branfr $1 00352 50; French
do 2 50^10 00; JIaderia Vine $2 00@G 00 Port
$2 (X)@5 CO; Bnrgundr $1 0k'« 2 £0; Claret In case
comn.on $4 00&-S1 50; Champaign per basket SIS<2$20
j Jamaica Rum $i 25i<?-2 50; New England SOtojfiO; Iiol
ndGin in Glass per doz.—; in Casks per pallun
I 25§2 50: African do. 51^75; C .rdia's 5C(al 00.
Cutaw Male & Female High School
rpiIIS Institution win commence *ta thirl Session on
X Monday tbe 4th day of Febiuary, ls61, and will
contiLUC five months.
I? ates of Tuition per Session s
Orthography. Reading Writing, Mental Arithmetic
and Pilmar* Geography.onea I $10 00
English titan mar,Practical Arithmetic and Geo
graj-hy (completed,) cneoraii $12 50
natural .-clenie.French, Spani>h, llistorv, Ac.
one or all I $15 CO
Anc'ent Language. IlUher Branches or Mafje-
niafc-, Ac., ot-.e or all $20 00
Music on the Piano with use o Instrument. $25 00
Incidental fee p^'r Student 50
Bonrd of Tcachers,
Principal—^E Smith and Mrs. S.O. Kirgan.
Mc>rc—Mrs.E. Merri', late of L uisvilie, tv>.
OttiT Tea.'h-rs will b? employed wh":i necessary.
Mudents will be charged at tup above r tcs from the
time of entrance to ibe close of tbe Session, unless In
w*e6'-1 protr^ctdl hlcknes-s 01 at least one n on'h.
Tne Prmcu>aKintaklarchir«e of this Institution,
are determined, If in Instrr en^rzy an 1 per-everance
will ac-'oniplish it to trake th s J-ciool equal 'o any in
the Mat*, T M'y there'ore s licit a liberal rationale
toena; le them to smt-iin th.-msclvis In their etlorts
In the c mse < f education.
Eutaw, Jan 26.
Store
TII3 BEST
Houss Furnishing
IN THE STATE !
HOUSTON, T2XAS<
'pAKE4 Tlea«ure in informing his old patrons and
I tbe pnbbc thit. he has re milt on tbe ground for-
merly 01 cu;-led by h':n on Main Street, trd ts now oc-
cup* in? is l rge three story store, which he has
stocked front floor to roof, with
House Furnishing Goods
INCLUDING
Parlor, Sitting Boom, Dining Boom &/ Bed Boom
OF EVERY VARIETY,
From the most cr>s:'y Ris?wool, Magohony. and
Marble Sets, to the plainest and most ourabie
descriptions of Furniture, made for
long aud coustant use.
ALSO,
Carpetius, Drnggets, Floor Cloths,
3IaUi*i£r, Paper Hanging*, Curtain Stuffs and
Futures, Loo <ius Glasses, Picture
Frames, Ac,,
. _ ALSO,
A Large and rrm Assortment oi
China Ware. Queen's Ware. Silver
Ware. Plated Ware, Glass Ware, Britannia
Ware.iioasto and WhlteGraUie
Wares,
All Imported Direct from Manufacturers;
Among which mny l e found some of the most beau-
tiful Seta, Tea Sets, Toilet Sets, &c., ever.brought to
Texas.
Hot ing to receive a continuance of the patronage of
h- ouolic. >0 genereu-dy accorded to him before the
conflagration, he invite* the attention of those wish-
ing t' buy anything in his line to his store.
Jan 24, ?61 ly
Election Proclamation
By tlic Governor of the State of Texas.
Whereas, by virtue of an Act of the Legislature
of the State of Texas, approved February 16, 1858
the Governor is authorized to order ad election
for seven delegates to represent Texas in a Con-
vention of the Southern States : and whereas the
Executive has reasons to believe that such Con-
vention will be held at an e*Hy day. in order to
obtiin united action on the part of the Southern
•-tites.as to the best mode of maintaining "the
equal rights of such Stvtes in the Union," as guar
auteed by the Constitution ; and whereas, the ex-
tent of Texas, and the time necessary to secure a
lull and free expression of the people io the elec-
tion of Delegates, is so great, that the same may
not be possible when the ime and place of the as-
sembling of said Convention is made known;and
whereas, it is necessary and proper, that the peo-
p e of Texis shou'd. by the election of Delegates
to represent their will, declare their readiDtss to
co operate and consult with the other States in an
eff rt to maintain their Constiiutionalrights; and
whereas, the people of a number of the counties
of fixe State,have expressed a desire that said
election should be ordered wi*hout delay :
Now therefore, I, SAM HOUSTON, Governor of
the State of Texas, do hereby issue this, my pro-
clamation, orcerin? elections to be held on Slon
day, the4 h diy of Feorunry, A. D. Ir6i, io each
of the counties of the Seven Districts as hereinaf-
ter tet forth, as equally apportioned according to
tbe vot- of said c unties at the last Nov election
tor a Delegate to represent co jointly with Dele-
gut-s f om othtr i istric's. the State of Texas in a
Consultation of the Southern Ftates, to be held at
such time and place as may be hereafter made
known, of which due notice w<ll be given by the
Executive to Delegates elected-
FIR-T DISTRICT.
Galveston, Jefferson, Chambers, Liberty, Polk,
Trinity, Madison, Braaos. Walker, Grimes, Mont-
gomery. Harris. Austin, Fort Bend, Wharton, Bra-
oria, Matagorda, Jackson, Calbcun.-
SECOND DISTRICT.
Refugio. San Patricio, Nueces. Cameron, Hid&l-
g- , Starr. Zapata. We «b, El Puso, Live Oak, Bee,
Uoliad. Karnes. Atascosa, Uva?de, Medina, B*n.
dera. Kerr, Gillespie, Blanco, Comal. Bexar, Wil-
son, Cuadalupe, Caldwell, Gonxales, Lavacca, De
Witt, Victoria.
TIIIRD DISTRICT.
Colorado, Fayette, Ba-trop. Havs, Travis, Eur-
nett, l.lano. Mason, Sun Saba, Lump sas, Cory-
elle, Bell, wiliamson, Milam, Burleson, Wash-
ington.
FOURTH DISTRICT.
Robertson, Leon, Houston, Aderson,Cherokee,
Rusk, Panola, thelby, Nacogdoches, Angelina.
Tyler, Hardin. Orange, Jasper, Newton, Sabine,
Sin Augustine.
FIFTH DISTRICT.
Freestone, Navarro, Smith, Upshur, Harrison,
Marion, Cajs, Wood, Van Znndt, Kauffman.
SEWING MACHINES,
SINGER'S
SETOG MACHINES.
Planters, Manofactnrers, Families
All should h*v« oue of.
SINGER'S SEWING MACHINES
Tbe sreal demand for these Oftly Celebrated
SEWING MACHINES
Bas Induced the Firm of
I. M, SINGER & CO
to open an OFFIC* in the CITY o
HOUSTON,
Where will always be found a complete
STOCK
Singer's Seeing Machines,
and articles appertaining tbereonto.
Mr. James E, Clute,
Represents th« firm In the State of Texas, and ou
AUIHORIZED AGENT to sell our Machines at
our
New York Prices!
with charges for freight addkd.
The following are our REIUDED PRICES, at which
we are now SELLlKG
Singer's Family Machine....^. — $ 40 06
Singer's Letter A. Machine. ... ,, , $ 55 0C
Singer's No. 1 Standard Wachii.,112 inch table $ 10 OS
Singer's Ko. 2 Standard Machlc for Plantation
use, 16lnchtuble.«.
Singer's No. 3 Plantation M&chi 24 inch table,
EXTRA. LAR'iE SHUT I LL *11
Hemming Guages each..
Extension Tables each.....
*3,SIN0ERS SEWING SILK Flax.Thread^Cottoc
Extra Machine Oil, Needles, Ac., Ac . constantly oc
hand, at
HEW YORK PRICES !
MR. F. L. HOFFMAN.
Is our Traveling Agentfortbe State.
Orders from the country promptly attended t
I. M. SINGER A CO.
,?. E. I'LlTTEs Agent,
PERKXN'S ROW. NO. 1.
Corner Main & Prairie Streets,
dar 19 i«
"WTieeler & Wilson s
HKSTFRtJIlL.1I
FAMILY & PLANTATION
Sewing Machines
THJh
WHEELER & WILSON'S
SEWING MACHINES
Have taken the first premium over
SINGER, GROYER & BAKER.
AND all others at every StateFair in the Unior
States wherever they have contested witho
one exception during the Fall of I8S8.
For Family and Plantation
Xtey Cannot be Excelled..
THEYWII/L
HEM TELL,
GATHER AND ET/ivt?
and sew equally well on the Finegt Sflriu)(uU[
as the heaviest Linsey*And Ker,epu
C. ENSIS Cv., Houston, Texas
PECK, Suv Orleans.
WHEELER fc WHILSON. New Tork
dec 22
ly
THE BilNK.
Corner or Congress & Fannin Sts.
HOUSTON, TEXSA.
K. W. COWLING, President ft Caakier,
AND DEALER IN THE FOLLOWING
EXCHANGE:
BRANDT -Ban de Vie,
de Cognac,
KX731—Jw naira and New Xngtand
GENEVA. fIMM
W2ISKLY—A la Bourbon
Moneahela,
Bye,
CHAMPAGNE—Of all the brands of the Old er
New World.
CliARET & PORT—-de vintage *46,and a variety
« „ ®f LIQtfOBS.
Drafts sod Acceptances Cashed
OK SIGHT,
LIBERAL DISCOUNT ON DEPOSIT?.
lErlrriends, Patrons, Fellow-citizens.
TBB BANE & BACCHUS-
Jan 24,16(51, ly.
J< & S,
llifj
Ch
FCGAR-
Loaf—(&-
I4@13c.
TuliACCO.
gallon
in market; Fair 7<«47.?J
f. Clarified !2@12££c
Extra do 30.
i nn.:
HI ED.
'• «'f Ja:.*:>ry.
J'il. : Paralysis
uicd citi-
junty, a
n 1 a -od
hll fil.n
citiz-n. His
with grief,
•rithe 7th inst.
SIXrH DISTRICT.
Hunt, Grayson. Colling 'Fannin, Lamer, Red
River, Titjs, Hopkins.
SEVENTH DISTRICT.
Cooke. Denion, Dallas, Ellis, Hill, Limestone,
Falls, McLennan, Bosque, Johnson, Tarrant,
Wise, Montague, Clay, J^c'<, Hami tjn, Brown,
Comanche, 1'alo Tinto, Buclunan, Young.
And the Chief Justice of the several counties.
Cor in case of vacancy in (he othceof Chief Jus-
. Lice, or inability or refuaal of that officer to act,
then any t.vo of the county Commissioners) will
| therefore give due notice and cause polls to be
i opened at the several precincts of the respective
couni'n s in th>'ir District, for the election of one
Delegate to a Consultation of the southern Mates
the said election to be conducted in due form
according to lav,-, as in ot^er cases, mads and
provided, a- d will make due return to the office
of the Secretary of State, within ten days from
the t«me of the holding of the same.
Given under my hind and the great Seal of the
Stare, at Austin, this the 27th day of December
A D. 1£(50, and cf the Independence of the Uni-
ted States, the 85th, and of Texas, the 2nh.
lL. S.] SAM HOUSTON.
By the Governor,
c. w. Caae, f-ecretary of State.
In obedience to the above proclamation, I, J. S
Ftaffor l, Chitf Justice or IJjirri-. county, do here-
by direct that an election Le held at the several
pr-cin< ts of Harris county, on Monday. February
4th. I *G1. for one Delegate to a Consultation of the
Southern State.* ; and I uo hereby appoint the fol-
iovring persons ofiicers, to wit.
Precinct No. 1. r.j^k House, A. Daly.
44 4* ° 1 otins, F. Mohl.
C urt House. IV. H.Eliot.
Old Capitol. J. Bailey.
Hairisb.irg, J. C Butcher.
Sad J icinto- J. J. Lynch.
Lynchbu.g. J. C. Walker.
W ""'ell.
Baker's JlU's, A. Y.Saiith.
& CO.,
Main street, Houston, Texas, Three Doors from
the Old Houston G%uu Corner,
WHOLESALE AND SjTAIL DEALERS IN
STAPLE MD FANCY DBF GOODS
BOOTS AND SHOES.
Have receive^ and are daily rectivw l.ri..
tioi.5 to their already mafnidcert stock for tfcesprf
and summer <rade, and feel confident they can now
fer greater Inducement, to h. ir city aDd ommrr Mt
roi'S than any other houte In the 8u' e. Their c'Sklti-
lsmaunlacturednnder u.e Immediate mperriil^of
one of the m, mbm of the firm at their nSSnSSJSr
in New Tort city, and In analltr, beanty or .5
^t^i^rarp^ed-
P. E HENNESSEY,
Tin, Sheet Iron and
COPPER WORKER.
Also, Dealer in Parlor, Uall, Office ud
Cooking Stoves; Hard f'^al and Char-
coal Fnrnacoa, Coffee Koo«ters. Flat
Irons. Lilt and Force Paraps.
Congress Street,
Opposite Wm M. Rice's WarehooK. Eooflne
lu'ly warTaL .ed. H 'Ustoo, Texas. oct29*6Qyl
Kotice to Creditors!
ALihaving claims against the estate of
Mary E.Houston, deceased, are hereby remzired
u pressnt the same duly authenticated within the
v nS10 the nnd*-rsigned, appointed
administrator at the December term ik&i nt nirTtt
ron„iy Court, or they will debarred!'
Jat S. w6w GEO. W. LAWRENCE.
Auction Notice,
. Lirsi and extensive Sale of New and Elch
XT R Iff I T TJ R JEZ !
plated ware and mirrors, oil
PAINTINGS AND LITHOGRAPHS!
Consisting in the following: 1 Parlor gait, 1 piece.
Walnut & Brocatelle; I Panor Suit, 7 Ro« wood, pa^
pie and gold; 1Mlitre r-i'l top lw.-tead: 2 Walnut
round coiner Hotel bedsteads; 2 Beureaus, 2 Wash-
jtan-Jj. X ork-iaMes and Sluviug sum; 1 dot. Oak
Florence otfioecbatrx; 3 dot. IHu'-ng chair*- 1 doi
nose wood ^wlss Cottage cbalrs. Also, a large assort-
ment of Sliver p'ated ware: Tea setts, Cottce (Iraa.
Castors with cut b tUes; Ice pitchers, Xea and Table ■
spoons. Forks aud Butter knlve*.
A Large Assortment of Superior
Blankets, Napkins, Clothing, Boots and8hon. Hard-
ware, Cyoklug fcyves. Sbuvel blade.. Knives a-d
Wheelbarrows, -Patent Churns.
These Goods will be open for exhibition on Wednes-
^a>.ne*t,to theEtoreon Main Mrret. above the Old
ttuJey adjoining the CarrUce factory of Mr.
Sale to commence on Thnrsdav 54, and continne 3
day*, commem inb at 10 o'clock fL M , and continne to
1 ® ctock« and Irom 3 to 6 o*cir>ck.
Terms of tale: Cabh, or 60 days for any arnocntover
SM0, with City acceptance. "
The a'tent on o' the Public, prnicclariy the Ladle*
i is Invited to tuts 8*v, s t: e Good= are of a One qoal.ty
and will be suld low. aar Forcoi into U.'ket to raise
money. J- E. L1LLIE,
Honrton. Jan. !4.1w Anct«on<ier
3.
U.
p dwyer,
Houston, Tezas,
tvtatst stheet:
DEALERIN
e- < it isbau
. Turner v a;
l and -i\
a native
Tiie Pensacola Tribune, of Tuesday
morning, furnishes the latest report from
tn.it vicinity :
Wo paid a vis
I two ago, au<l fo
• its ami condi:ioa.
' At Fort H:irr-ineas an«i Barracks, we
I found ihe^Ioutcromery True Lilues an i the
j Independent ltiflss—iwoof the lincst com-
| panics we have met for many days.
I. C.
Concrete Euildi;
( : V:
SPENCE,
£3, Commerce St. Houston,
Jan
8.
9.
Hi
1 .
VI.
- 13.
" 34.
•• 15.
" 10.
•* 17.
lCa-tw3tr.
«adi West's, G. West.
fprinsr Ore-k.j. C!iue.
Cypress City, S. V ^ker.
Hockley, F. L. Viven.
^prinj Branch W. Ahrcnbek
llabermaclifr;' I. K. Morgan.
w
is liUSli of
io War;
id Ihe tr
:t day or
fine *pir-
r.d lueichand.i
il.-.ts ;
I N ron wan! Corn. Oats
LUi p, C« nie-it. plaster i
u city ■ f • a I or t'te ;<:«•
t CKUUEK s W-re
Business
Ilay Fran;
nd Fodder
Sni lorg.-i that
iivd .arfc'es «t [
OUM.-.lowiorcuh. jai.2l.3t
lit- wi:| ul -•« s.-tior chtuG
Illusion. Sen. U. LzuO.
:i «! - Jt- .ti m n s iuru-
X ti : , an i Jewehv.
a-, f r LV.M, r.,u„7i§
,v s U'ci'sal! i i«f,lends
u:i I *Xuii!H.e iiia st« ck,
r Wool lor hisiiieia-o.
wly
TH R partnership hei
X u'ltj siv e t ' b •
DISSOLITIO!V.
m
5THEE
EBIH
, MUD & TINWARE,
i IVcodware, Nails and Castings.
ALL kinds of Job Work, such as House Pipe, tintter
and H^of.uK.doneat the shortest notice.
All kinds of nork executed, by me will be
warrented. f&n2i *61. *17
LABADIE & BARSTOW*
Importers and Dealers Ik
Drag's & medicines
Paints. Oils, Varnishes- Color*.
Fire Crick, Garden Seedsj&c., &e.
il CO.tNEIL MARKET ASPiM STS.,
CALVESXOS « TCXAS.
Jan C4 *61. wlv.
•'i:t. J.
Jetlie i .
to collect u<
Hunslcn. Jau 19. 'Cl, lm
11 ro e exist fnz under tbe nr.ru*
i A-.! rmuu, 1* tbi> day dissolved
C Catiec t atono is a ttbotized
the bUS.Jt.S5 "t vhA late firm. I toa uuruui, .
C.CUtKKV, Tan, over J.U.ivaii'iJorejOrtom^
i:. 1>. JAKMo> . I Jiiiitwlt tf. A.iLLSWOKTII,Librarian.
NOTICE.
ANY Member fc.vln* l"utJ bdung.n? to the Hoa*-
toa Lvceuui. vlll ;4M-e ret irn tbem to their oeir
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