The Indianola Bulletin. (Indianola, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 14, Ed. 1 Friday, July 13, 1855 Page: 2 of 4
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A. MARSCHALK, EDITOR,
FRIDAY.............4. .4t.JDHr 13, 1855.
OF PAPER AND OP ADVERTISING:
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be addressed to the publUbar, port. paid.
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ship Mexico, will please accept our thanks for
files Of late Me# Oriesns papers.
Steamers Bills of Lading.
-Wrtavo a ftdl supply of the lave form of Bills
of Lading, adopted by Harris & Morgan’s line of
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__ . Job Work.
ffe are fiow prepared to do Job Work, Plain
and Fancy, in Colors and plain Black, and be-
lieve we can turn out about as good a Job as any
s oflfioe la the country. Try us.
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ANNOUNCEMENTS.
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are authorised to announce James Howerton “ *
emirtUrta for reflection to the office of Sheriff of Cal-
baun County, at the ensuing election.
■y^e are authorised so announce Hon. P. H..Bellas »
candidate for re-election to Congress, from the Second
District. ,-i jl. ■. ,k
|m We are authorised to announce P. K. WHITE,
ia candidate for Representative of the District compo-
sed of the counties of Calhoon and Jackson, in the Lower
House of the Legislature. Election 1st. Monday in August
ItTK are authorised to announce Wm- K. Varnell a*
V? a candidate for Representative of the Di
______ _ Jistrict compo-
esd ef the oounties of Jackson and Calhoun, in the Lower
House of the Legislature. Election next August.
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FhcU to be Remembered!
- That Indianola beach is the only point on
..the coast of Texas, where loaded wagons
, from the interior, can meet the Ocean Stea-
mers. t ,
That a Railroad can be built from the
same beach, to Victoria, forty miles, on a
grade slightly varying from a level, and
'not a thousand dollars worth of bridge
work, required on the whole line.
That the annual receipts, upon that line
for freight and passengers, by wagon and
Stage, are two hundred and seventy thous-
and dollars, and are increasing yearly.
That the Powderborn wharf is in the ci-
ty of Indianola; and it is with pride and
pleasure that we note the rapid increase in
its business and prosperity.
fl-
our Trip.
To-morrow we start on our promised trip to the
country. We intend before returning, to visit*
pretty much all of Western Texas, that is, all
pacts accessible by Risher's fine line of Stages,
and may possibly make one or two tangents—
don't know yet, however.
The object of our visit is to look up subscribers
and advert laments, and as a matter of course we
bops and expect to get as many as we want.
It, is useless here to set forth the advantages
which our paper possesses over others; may-be
some will say it does not possess any—well, no
matter, we believe it does—we believe that the
very fact of its being at the . point where the
Steamship* lapd in Western Texas, is itself, a
great advatage over any other journal in this sec-
tion—-bnt we will say to our country friends
whom we expect to call on during the next threo
or tour weeks, that we hope to bo able to prove
conclusively to their enlightened minds, that the
“Bulletra” is the paper for 'them, and that they
wiH be aa ready to subscribe for it, as we will be
tofomish itto them. '
During our abecence, our son will have charge
of file mechanical department of the office, and
several of our friends have po onused to have an
eye to our editorial columns.
‘ As yet’we hare extended the circulation of
our paper but little into the interior, and we have
been induced, from a number of years experience
to believe, that the only means of extending it,
is to go to the people and solicit their names.—
So off we go, and—quantum stiff'.
' CWT It will be seen by reference to another
column of to-day’s paper, that our friend Col. Jas.
H. Duncan has announced his name, in com pi i
aoc* with the request of many friends, as a can-
didate for Governor of the State. We doubt not
the Col. will receive a heavy PolL
Earthquakes in Lavaca.
We are surprised to learn by the last Lavacca
Herald, that the steam ship Nautilus, will touch
at that place on her way from New Orleans to
Bnacs Santiago, for the purpose of landing pas-
sengers and mails. “.Vo freight" We were
ffUratu that the mud boat, after operating two
yeaflk had failed to effect a channel for anything
bat little vessels, to that point, and that nothing
abort of earthquakes or other terrible commotion
in nature, would enable the steamers to get
there; and though we have been on the look-
out, for great things in these days of Maine Li-
quor laws and Spiritual Rappiags, and did think
we might have heard the “crash of matter and
wreck of worlds,” when it came, yet, had not the
H4r*ld informed us of the astounding catastrophe,
* wT had still been ignorant thereof. We fear
something serious, however, has happened; that
the Gulf of Mexico has been absorbed by “ La-
■ uucu Bay," and left the mail high and dry, as h
ia a weak at the present writing since we have
had 00* from the East. Something must be wrong
friend Herald, aonfewhere: asrttquakes or Karri-
caass, or, or some other wind!
fW A rencontre, which resulted in the death
from our excellent friend Mr.
Jno. H. Rogers Jr. of Texans, that the crops of
Jadkson county, particularly Sf Corn, were never
better. Rain came jost in time to save it, and
now file fields are teeming with the golden grain.
The health of the county is excellent.
OT An attempt was made to get up a public
meeting on Tuesday night last, tor the purpose of
nominating a candidate, forth* lower House of
the Legislature. It did not ubount to anything
however. Mr. Stockdale, we understand made
an excellent speech, but aside from that nothing
was done. There are now three candidates in
the field. We of course- blow of biit two.Yar-
nell and White. Printers have but one way of
knowing candidates, and that is when they read
the announcement of their _names in their col
umns.
reminiscences.
BT C~A. 0.
NO. IX.
Columbia in 1830.
pgr We were informed a day or two ago, by
a merchant at Powderhom wharf, that over
50,000 feet of lumber have been sent into the
country from Indianola during the past 10 days.
COMMUNICATIONS.
Akb You a Parent? If so, acquaint your-
self with the peculiar temper of your children.
Let your government be firm, but not harsh. It
is your right to rule; but cultivate a tender sym-
pathy for your children, and as they arrive at
years of discretion, remember, they are not al-
ways to be looked upon as children—that they
must ever be under yosr eye, or withiu the sound
of your voice. Make room for full devolopemeut
of their character. While you train and prune
the vine, give it air, light and sunshine; thus will
it embrace you in your hoary hairs, and beautify
the withering limbs which it entwines.
RODERICK RANDOM.
of 6b# of the parties, took place in the office of
Mr. Jacob Walder in 8an Antonio on Sunday
morning tbs 1st inst, between K. & Connelly
and Ti-J. Mackey. Mackey shot Connelly in the
ItseIC, trhk^l caused almost instant death. Mack-
«£ was HttaSIcii and after mm examination before
JaaUoaJ^ysr, was admitted tobefl in $1,000.
; togp Wa still have diy/ hot weather, a little
rafo^W iooI the atmosphere sad damped the
I pitot* would help ns a little jost now.
article in the A ustin Thaos,
has issued an order to Captain
out a company of Rangers. We
ooc c*um
To the Voters of Texas*
FELLOW CITIZENS:
In view of the numerous and important issues
that are now presented for the consideration of
the people of Texas, of the strangely different
and discordant materials arrayed under the ban-
ners of the politieal divisions of the State, and of
the wild and Utopian schemes for the aggran-
dizement of the State, but tending rather to utter
ruin, I feel it incumbent on me, not less for my-
self tnart for my numerous friends who have im-
portuned me, to submit for your candid approval
the motives which have induced me to ask your
suffrages for the office of Governor, and to lay
before you the platform on which, if elected, I
expect to stand.
The time is so near at hand at which you will
be called upon to select some one whom you shall
think competent, to discharge the important du-
ties of Chief Magistrate of the State, for the en-
suing two years, that it is of vital moment you
should weigh coolly and deliberately, and decide
with judgment upon the weighty matters to be
determined in the course of the next Gubernato-
rial term, and which will fix forever, the destinies
of Texas.
I shall not enlarge upon the surpassing advan-
tages and resources of our State; you know
them as well as I do—but shall at once call your
attention to the existing issues upon which this
election must tum.
If elected, I shall advocate the extension of
the area of freedom.
I oppose Know Nothingism, the Dark Lantern
Party; carrying out their designs and executing
their decrees as the secret and fearful tribunal of
Vehme, as incompatible with the genius and spir-
it of our institutions and the age in which we
live, calculated as the very name imports to de-
generate us to the barbarism of the middle ages.
In relation to the Public Debt, I am in favor
of acceding the setlement offered us by the Fed-
eral Government, of applying the money to the
payment of the entire face value of our outstand-
ing debt, with interest from date at the rate of
10 per cent per annum, and if we have not mo-
ney enough let the public domain be applied to
its extinguishment. »
I take this view of the question. Fellow Citi-
zens, upon high grounds. This debt is in the
hands of widows and orphans, and though it may
be strictly legitimate to swindle others out of
their iust dues, this class of citizens will ever
j command my advocacy and protection.
Reflect my countrymen, upon the unhappy
consequences your refusal tq pay this entire debt
will bring upon these unfortunate creditors; and
if there is one spark of humanity, one generous
feelling still remaining in your bosoms, in look-
ing upon th e sad spectacle, you will weep tears of
bitter reproach. Aside from the equity of this
debt, as a matter of policy we should pay it—
Should we pay our revolutionary debt with inter-
est, we will occupy a higher position than any
other people, our credit iu the commercial world
would be unlimited. The Barings and the Roth-
childs would take up our bonds to any amount
at a high premium. With this vast credit I
would embark in a system of internal improve
ment, judicious, yet comprehensive, that would
leave the Galveston plan ten years behind. I
would band the State with iron, I would take up
the Pacific rail road and give out a contract to
the western Ocean ; I would clean out our Riv-
res, and deepen our harbors and draw to them
the commerce of the world.
This debt beiDg removed, this iucubus which
has so long hung round our neck like the rock
of Sysiphus, or the Gorgon buckler of Medusa,
being thrown off, we would step into the rank of
states, full grown and armed like Minerva from
the brow of Jove-
The lethargy in whieh we have heretofore
been wrapped would bo shaken off. Teeming
thousands of emigration would come crowding to
our broad prairies and fertile valleys, making
them the reality of those fabled gardens ‘whose
flowers were diamonds and whose fruit was gold.’
Fellow citizens, from the numbers and high
position of those who have already entered the
lists for this office, I have no doubt it is a desira-
ble one, and that I should receive as well as
do credit to the station if you should d eclare my
right of holding it. Do not think because
mine is a name heretofore unknown to fame,that
the service I shall render will be the less vigi-
knt, or effective, bnt rather believe that like the
Knight of Ivaahoe, tho’ disinherited and unknown
I shall be able to beat down the hitherto invin-
obte lances of my opponents whose pennons are
fluttering in the breeze of your favor, and are
even now borne proudly in anticipaWm of easy
Tfce Mowers* Petition.
victory.
Fellow Citizens, on to the Polls:.—
OmmwUm winds cqom when
fr** a»ths waves come when navies an stranded_
mmmmu *hx« • **, •
Yours respectfully, Ac.
,__s “sse- JAMES H, DUNCAN
After leaving the army, we took our way to-
wards Columbia, the, then seat of Government
of the Republic. On our way, we slopped a fev^
days at the Camp of an Cccentiio fellow named.
Robinson, who was more extensively known
by his acquaintances as “Robinson Crusoe,” ow-
ing, I suppose to his solitary hanits He was,
Indeed a rrange toing-p-he was a man of
education and polished manners, and no*d0ubt
some sad reverses in his life, led him to prefer
this mode of life. (He was afterwards killed by
Indians). Having ^got rested, we commen^d
our travels, but concluded to go by Matagorda,
and after remaining a short time at that plade
took our Way "towards Columbia, and arrived
there without anything occuring worth men-
tioningv 1-
The town of Columbia in 1836, was composed
chiefly of tents, but there were several good
buildings in the place. The Senate and Repre-
sentative Halls answered the purposs very wpty
but the scene presented to the eyes beggars des-
cription. Grogshops—I believe every house or
tent you entered was a “doggery” or gambling
establishment. Two thirds of the people gatji.
ered there were gamblers and land speculators,
The remaining third were members of the “Tex-
as Congress” and volunteers who had come for
the purpose of getting their land certificates and
pay—hei.ee the gamblers; who swindled those
out of their pay who were foolish enough tp play
with them; while the “Certificate sharks” would
gull the poor volunteers, by relieving their wants
and easing them of their Head rights. - ■ \
There was continual excitement—rows and
fights daily—and in fact nothing else could have
had been expected from such a heterogeneous
mass as was here collected. “Sam” waa^jso
about; throwing everything in the shade with his
fantastic apparel and tall form. Senators and
members of the lower house condescended to mjx
with the crowd to be treated. Credit was low
ebb, and even Sam's chalk wouldn't mark; conse-
quently, the most liberal fellow at treating was
the best fellow, untill his dimes were gone, and
thenj friendship vanished.
“What is frienship but a name!
A charm that others see;
He’s got no money in his purse,
What do we want with he."
The Taverns wore all crowded to excess and
it was difficult to obtain board or lodging; this I
would not have cared about as we were used to
camping out, had^not my brother been taken
sick with the Congestive fever. I finally got
him a cot at the Tavern. It was a long room in
the second story extending the whole length of
the building and was crowded with beds and
people. He lingered about two weeks and then
We flowers and shrubs in cities pent,
From fields and country places rent
(Without our own or friends’ consent),
In desperate condition,
Yet on no wilful outrage bent,
Do humbly here petition.
Whereas: Against our silent wills,
With loss Of sun add purling rills;.1
Cooped up in pots ou window-sills,
In rickety old boxes—
The city’s breath our beauty kills,
And makes us gray as foxes.
Condemn’d m walls of brick And lime,
In narrow beds of clay and slime,
To ope our buds and shed our prime—
We need some kind defende r
We pray, oh, let us live our time!
And we are very tender.
0, cheat us not of heaven’s dew;
Nor air (however stale) refuse;
God knows ’tis little we can use,
So choked are all our vitals:
No slightest care will we abuse,
Nor fail in fond requitals
died. He received every possible attentiorilrom
the kind landlord? Curse the country. Oh; how
bitterly I regretted the day I set foot on its un-
grateful soil, I say ungrateful, because I have
never received anything but ingratitude Trom
those whose mature age, impertinence, brayado,
and blustering ignorance, gave position. A per-
fect stranger iu a strange land. But I wul not
dwell here, suffice it to say that time will never
obliterate the impressions made on me by these
early scenes In my checkered life.
I sold what land I had, to raise money suffi-
cient to carry me to New Orleans, where I was
taken sick. On my getting well, 1 found my mo-
ney expended, and foolishly returned to Texas,
as I was too proul to go home like a beggar, and
the death of my brother weighed heavily on my
heart.
It is not my intention to write a history of my
life; merely, having a few leisure hours to pass
the time and to give amusement to those who
feel interested in the early history of Texas; and
if I have succeeded I shall feel gratified and shall
from time to time, give such sketches and relate
such incidents as have trauspired in my campaigns
in Texas and Mexico.
To be Continued.
4 -
From the Saa Antonio Herald of the 3d inst.
More Indians About.
We’ll breathe you delicate perfumes:
We’ll glad our eyes with choicest blooms;
But do not shut us up in rooms.
Or stifling crowdpd places—
The sky, in clouds and light, assumes
To us far lovelier faces.
Our sooty and bedraggeled fate,
(Our evergreens turn chocolate)
Do we ascribe to spite or hate?
No we are sure you love us;
Yet, half-ashamed, we beg to state
We love the sun above us.
Then treat us in your gentlest ways,
And next unto the sun’s «wn rays,
With beauty’s homage, incense-praise,
We ever will caress you,
And to the ending of our days
In grateful silence bless you.
Song—The Love Spell.
BY MARY ANN WHITAKER.
Come, let me this fair wreath entwine
Around that peerless brow; ’
Its flow’ry eloquence divine,
In mystic voice will glow,
Its kisses meet those tresses bright,
A tale of love to tell;
Then bow thy spirit, gentle one,
Beneath the magic Spell.
List! the sweet flowers in fairy speech.
Plead Truth and Constancy—
Their soft, low breathings, but the prayers
Which upward rise for thee;—
Their fragrance o'er thy sense shall steal,
Like inceuse, from a heart
Whose holiest thoughts are all thine own.
Oh, bid them not depart.
I garlanded these modest flowers,
Because, like thee, they shun
The vuigar gaze, aud as thy love,
Were fondly Sought ere won.
Thus, then, this wilding wreath I twine
Upon thy blushing brow—
That glance, that tear, proclaim thee mine,
The spell reveals it now.
Amoqff the items of news by the Asia, obscure-
ly printed, and with, no commentary from the
press, is one which,is nevertheless of great signi-
ficance, in regard to the future course of the Eu-
^^sbort pa ragraph, dated at Hanover,
which speaks of tbk great sensation produced at
that German court, by the demand of the French
Envov (Count Receflot) tor permission to march a
tody of French troops through the Hanovenan
^TSilar request has been made by the Mar-
quis de Moustier at Berlin t® the Prussian Gov-
ernment, and steps have als° toen by
France to obtain the consent of the Senate of Ln-
beck for the embarkation of the i reach troops at
‘^ravemunde. i ; . , . . , . a , ,
Nearly cotemporaneous with this we find pub
lisheda long and elaborate despatch from the
Russian Chancellery for Foreign Affairs, the
whole purpose of which is to show .that it is the
policy and design of England and France to
change the character of the war with Russia,
and to make a direct attack upon her in her Pol-
ish provinces. - The aim of the Russian-argument
is to convince the German courts, especially Aus-
tria and Prussia, which also are in possession of
parts of ancient Poland, that the design of the
Western alliance is to rouse Polish Rationalities
against Russi.%, of vfliicli tho Gflcct, if not tli© dG*
sign, will be to rotise the same passion in the
contiguous States, and cause a revolutionary par-
ly all over central Europe. Russia, therefore,
presses upon the German courts the necessity and
importance of keeping themselves united, on the
principle of neutrality, at least, as against Russia,
but looking to her as tt-ir conservative friend
against domestic insurrections. The paper is ex-
tremely ingenious, and well adapted to the pur-
pose of securing the absolu*> neutrality ot all
Germany, which is nil the Czar desires, in order
to keep a wall of defence to himself between him
and his enemies, who cannot reach his Eastern
frontier with an army, without traversing Ger-
man territory. ,.j
The demand of the French for permission to
cross Germany with an army at several points,con-
firms in some degree the prog ran, me of policy
plainly intimated by Lord Palmerston jn the Bri-
tish House ot Commons, in alluding to tto re-
construction of Poland as one of the most availa-
ble modes of esthblishing in Middle Europe a
bulwark against the aggression of Russia
The demand upon the German States for leave
to march through them in order to reach Russia,
looks like a determination to allow no neutrality.
It brings the questidn up at once, whether these
States shall all ptand together in :.eutrality, or
whether they shall unite as parties to the war,
and if so, which side <( i|.
Ahen this question is really raised, and the
Western Allies have made themselves restorers
of Poland aud protectors ot the rising nations
against Russia, as an obstructive to progress and
enlightenment, a hew shape will have been giv-
en to the war, in which Americans may learn to
look upon it with very different eyes from those
with which they witness the present struggles of
monarchs for an equilibrium among Governments
The annihilation t\y the Emperor Nicholas in
1835, of the political rights assured to Poland
bythe Congress of Vienna in 1815, to which
England and France were parties, was a flagrant
wronjr, in violation of Solemn treaties, and in
breach of the public law ot Europe, which called
for the interposition of those powers upon more
distinct grounds of right and duty than the case
of Turkey, for which they have taken up arms
now. They were patient and consenting parties
then to an act which was utterly taithiesa, and
has proved to be quite as dangerous to Europe as
the demonstrations upon Constantinople are.—
They quailed before Russia then in the interest
of despotism. They feared to do right from ap-
prehension of the popular passions, to which
they might give too free an impulse for their own
security. It must be indeed a strong case of na-
tional urgency which could induce them to run a
portiou of the same risk now: and if, in doing so
they open a prospqct for the continental nations
to reform and liberalize their institutions, it must
be confessed that it is evidently forced upon
them by the necessities of a great war, more than
produced by any sympathy with the popular cause.
—y. O. Picayune.
The NeW York Courier and Enquirer h*» a
annexed interesting account of the ratifi^
by the Japanese of the treaty concluded by ^ latt*
Parry with that nation
The ratification of a treaty, the terms of
have been agreed, upoq between the MPO
Ifiring is a momU c___
FURTHER FOREIGN NEWS.
BY THE AMERICA.
THE ALLIES DEFEATED.
Loss of Four Thousand Men, including
Gen. Campbell.
California.
The Prometheus brings advices to the 16th of
June, two weeks later than previous accounts.
The news from the mines was very favorable,
and the shipments of specie on the I5th ult. were
largo.
Nicaragua—Arrival of Walker.
On last Tuesday morning the Indians
stole five or six head of horses from B. E.
Edwards, Esq., about fifteen miles from San
Antonio, and seven or eight from Edward
Braden; eight or ten miles from the city.
The next day the same or another party
stole a lot of bosses from the vicinity of
Castroville. On Thursday night they stole
fourteen head of horses from Mr. N. Lew-
is’ rancho, within eight miles of the city.
On the same night ..they visited Mr. Dwy-
er’s rancho, and fctole therefrom bores and
among others two carriage horses that
were tied near the house. We hear of
robberies being committed in several oth-
er places. It is not known to what tribe
these depredators belong. Good judges of
Indian signs have variably pronounced
them Oomrnanches, Tonkewas and Lipans.
Ws have no doubt these depredations lie
between the Lipans ot Mexico and the
Comoiancbes.
f On account of these depredations, ‘some
are disposed to condemn the ‘feeding poli-
cy.’ Before they do this, they should
know that these thefts were coinpaited by
the Indians that have been collected and set-
tled. It is not to be expected that the peace
policy will restrain Ind ians not under its
control. It is the opinion of some that
these depredation were committed by the
Commanches, others that is the work of
the Lipans who live in Mexico. If these
depredating bands belong to either of these
tribes, L is no fault of the peace policy.
But of one thing we are certain, and that
the Indians are about, plundei ing within
eight miles of our city. These depredai
tion% should be stopped, and the depreda-
tors punished. How is this to be done, is
the question. It will require an active
mounted force—one that can move as rap-
id as the Indians Where is that force to
be had. If such a force cannot be furnished
by the Department, we must look else-
where. The growth and prosperity of the
country has been already too long retarded
by these frequent plunderings of our fron-
tier settlers. From what we have learn-
ed of the late depredations, we doubt not
several hundred head of horses and mules
have been run ©fit withir the last few
TW» thing atm** be*
Col. Walker had arrived at San Juan del Sud.
Tie had taken Rivas with three hundred men.
Halifax, July 4.—The news by the America
is very scauty, but such as we have is of the
greatest importance.
The Allies Defeated.
It appears that on the 18th of June a force of
French and English, a number of which is not
stated, attacked the Redan and Malakoff towers
and-after a terrific encounter were reprised by
Russians with great slaughter.
The details of the affair had not transpired at
the departure of the America, and all intelligence
thereof is still fragmentary.
Private advices, however, say that the loss of
the English was no fewer than four thousand
men, including Gen. Campbell and eeventy-aix
other officers.
.( Other rumors were prevalent, but were of
very doubtful authenticity.
Great Britan.
In the British Parliament, Mr. Roebuck had
again moved a vote of censure of the Govern-
ment for its conduct of the war.
The Crimea.
‘ ‘Lord Panmure, the British minister-of-war,
had announced that an unsuccessful attempt was
made to storm Sevastopol on the 18th of June.
Advices received from Gen. Pellisser at the
French Court confirm the accounts of the great
loss sustained by the English troops.
As already stated, over seventy British officers
were killed and wounded. Among the former
were Gen. Sir Colin Campbell, and Colonels Yea
and Shadforth.
During the progress of the fight, the Russians
attacked, and recaptured the Mamelon Tower,
which, according to recent accounts, had been
taken by the Allies.
Prince Oortschakoff confirms, in his despatch-
es to St Petersburg, the succeses reoorted to
have been achieved by the Allies in the Sea of
Azoffi hut says that the grain and the stores des-
troyed were private property, and were net
lxtended for the army.
He also relates that some atrocities were com-
mitted by1 the French and Turks at the capture
of Kortsch. r
A despatch from Yarns, June, 17, says the
Russians had made an unsuccessful attack ou the
Kars, and reports that they had taken Anapa. *
France. ,
The Freqch Senate and Legislature had been
convoked tp meet, July 2d, in order for negotia-
or“-
8 pr-in.
From the Lavaca Herald of the 7th iust.
Stampede.
During our absence in the country a con-
siderable excitement prevailed in Ldvaca,
not without causo sufficient—a Mr. Cattin,
being accused of harboring and concetalihg
a female slave belonging to Mrs. Ervihe*—
From what we could learn of tire par-
ticulars in the case, it would appear j that
he had the 'negress locked up in ati out-
house or stable, supplying her with i food
for the space of some three days. The cit-
izens on hearing of this untoward pro-
ceeding instituted an inquiry, appointing a
committee to ascertain the truth of the* af-
fair; when on becoming convinced of the
truth of the case, Cattin was waited upon
and requested to leave the town iu a
peaceable manner, as they were not desiri-
ous of enforcing the “Lynch code.” Af-
ter persuasion and advice he left. This
outrage in the midst of a slave-holding
community was intolerable—a direct inva-
sion on the most (touchy rights of a South-
erner. This man has been suspected for
the dissemination of abolition doctrines
more than once. ; The same cause ^finrced
his expulsion frem Louisiana. This asser-
tion we make upon the responsibility of
honorable and trus worth)* iimn. It cannot
be doubted. Faf would it be from qs to
publicly denounce any man who had even
a shadow of doubt in hie favor, to disprove
the charges made against him and sustain-
ed. He, even after discovery, vaunted fool-
ishly in his conduct We were as much as-
tonished at his audacity as we were pleas-
ed with the temperate and citizen likepon
duct of our citizens on the occasion. This
incident is given publication too, in order
to protect the slave-holder against the
wiles of an abolition fanatic, and t$ach
him a lesson not to in future peril his
neck in the indulgences of his anti Sla-
very propensities. A caution to any other
or others of the same ,‘stripe” who may re-
side in our midst. We have too many
higher law men amongst us for theip^ace
of the South, for the good of the commu-
nity or the safety of property to slur over
an outrage of such a grevious character._
We hesitated to denounce, to publish, to
brand the man, till assured of the critical
truth of the above; even now we wquld
abstain from it (if our duty as a journalist
did not call it forth,) from feelings of human
ity and pity to his family.
Sir Charles Lyqli estimates the area of
the Miaaissippi delta at about 13,600 square
statute miles, and t|ie quantity of solid mat-
te quantity of solid qi
ter brought down annually by the
being 3,702,7o8.4bci cubic feet, it must
have taken 67,000 jrears for the formatioh of
the whole;. and the K-
alluvial matter of it
must have required 33,500 years more f6r
its' accumulation.! t>rof. Agasiz states
civilized aatjons, is a merely form*! ^ .
takes no tUe«v and gives no troabUu ihft
the doing. Not to, however, with ouF
friends the Japanese, as we learn from CaptTZv^
H. Adams, tf. S. N. who has just returned
his voyage to procure the ratification of our tr*k ^
ty with that Capk-Adaww did aot go? sail
Jeddo, but landed at Sinroda, one of the ports r* the
served for American vessels by the terms of tiu
treaty which he tore with him. He arrived ot
tfc&szzss-a?
AR answer arrivedtwao, expressing^
prise a! .he speedy return of the treaty, and^
ling attention to a clause WhidU' provided ratiL '
tion should not be required until' “after eighty
months,” from the date of agreement as to^ ^3
terms. . * pla
But in the -American .'copy of the treaty th, ent
phrase was plainly efehteen months,^
v!
he
though, as it appeared oh’ examination In the J*. ^
panese cop7 it was as plainly 11 after eight©#, v*!
months.” This strange-.discrepancy made sotn, J.
trouble, as the Japanese supected a Yank#, **
trick/aud being thetnselves Yankees in spifT
and therefore, according to the anti-A merit*,
folk, Yankees in fact, they -were marvellotZ
fearful of being “taken in." But this difficult,
was soortarranged, only, however, to be followed
by others. ’.
It was objected by the Governor Isawa Mets,
(Saki Nokami, (all the high officers having thistj-
Nokarai.) that no ratification was needed,
ne
so
sti
tie, Nokarai.) that no ratification was needed
and, indeed, that ratification would be buttheeo. ^
tering into a new agreement. This may hiT< Sa
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teen because the Japanese have never mad#,
treaty—with the Dutch they have had merelj
greements—or because they are in the habit,'
biding by their pledges when once given, with-
but formal confirmation, or it may have been i
little diplomatic fetch on the part of Isawa Meat
Saki Nokami. The point was successfully d^.
cussed .and explained on the part of Capt. Adam*
and at length five Commissioners appeared tor»t
ity the treaty ou the part of the Japanese Gov-
ernment. , -.// • ;
They rejoiced in the names of Matsmoto Dzn],
bheji Nokami, Ido Towseraan Nokami, Hokahiea
Itsilo, aud Soer Oego Nokami, the fifth being the
Governor himself. \Yheh ' sittings were fir*
opened they made their first *>oint in high dud-
geon because the American Commissioners in
asking for-the signature of the Emperor, caj)#j
him Kubo. This they refused to recognize ash»
title, saying that it was a vulgar slaug word, »oc
tjhat the Emperor was called Tae-Koen by Japa,.
ese gentlemen. When, however, the courteota
strangers asked for the signature of the Tae-Koen,
dll the Nokamis replied and objected that his lord,
sjhip could not sign tlie treaty, it was out ol £
precedent; it would add no value to the treap
that the Tae-Koen had really, no power in the jl ?
panese Government, which was vested in a cat.. *°
pet>council of six, chosen by the twenty-sere:
randees of the Empire from their own number
alnd that in this council was vested all the po»e
tp make and ratity treaties. i.;
j To this Capt. Adams replied by pointing k
the provision in the treaty, that it should to sign
ed by the President of the United S? 4ates and tl*
Emperor of Japau, and showing the President*
signature; and as the instrument also bore tin
sign manual of Mr. Secretary Marcy, the captain
suggested that to balance this, the signatures
ol the members of the Council of Six should also
appear with that of their Emperor, addwg quiot-
!y that if these were not promptly forthcoming he
slioull take his ship to Jeddo. On this the point
was yielded handsomely, the treaty was sent to
Jpddo instead of the ship, and soon returned
with the signature of the Tae-Koen and his
Gkand Council of Six, the name of the former be-
infe unreadable and unutterable by Anglo-Saxon
organs.
Thus was concluded the first successful effort
to bring this strange people within the pale of
the family of nations. The world at large, no
less than our own country, owe much to the sa-
gacity and firmness of those who Have accom-
plished so unhoped for and so desirable an end.
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A correspondent of the New York Tribune
says that be has learned from a private source
that M. Drouyn de I’Huys is atopt to resume the
duties of the Foreign Office. Count Walenskiii
said to to unsuitable for the office.
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Russian Designs on India.—The cor-
respondent of the London Times, writing
from the camp before Sevastopol, on the
22d of May, says; '
It seems tolerably certain tbat Russia in-
tended to have tried her hand at a diver-
sion in the direction ot India’thad we no!
deranged her plans by the invasion of the
Crimea. There is a Russian officer -not
at; headquarters who belonged to a regi-
ment who was actually told off for a march
to India last year. There were several oth-
er regiments destined for the same expedi-
tion, but they too found themselves en-
camped on the Alma 19th September, ani
on their road to Bakshiserai’nxet evening.
The officer had been provided with boob
relating to India, and had l>ppn &tndvinff
ating to India, and had been studying
“the manners and customs” of Hindoo*
and Mussel mans of the , great Peninsula-
A Wonderful Assyras Obelisk.—A
dealer in curiosities, named Dropsy, of the
Qqai Malaquais, was recently tried, bv de-
fault, by the Tribunal of Correctional Ptf*
lick,-at Paris, for an impudent fraud
Knowing that an elderly savant,named Bar-
Tois, had a great passion for antiquities,
and had even written a book on the sub-
ject, he proposed to him to purchase an
Aseyran obelisk, in a find s^ate of preser-
vation, which he said had been sent to P*
ris by an English company, who had dii*
covered it 'in some excavation at Babylon-
M.f Barrois eagerly grasped -at the propos*
tion, and finding, on investigation that tif
obelisk was covered with cruciform chw
acters, and bore appearance of antiquity
he paid d<?wn 5,000f. for it. But son*
tiipe after,, to *his great mortification, b*
fouind that it was a pefectly modern pt0"
duction. Having made inquires, he asce^
tained that it had been made, by order0
Dropsy, by a sculptor named Lebceuf, oo!
of the stone from the quarries of St Loui*
that Dropsy had given this person 2,00$
for the work} and tbat Lebceuf, in orders
to make it perfect as possible, had gone fr
the Museum to examine Assyren anti<p*'
ties; and had even consulted ‘M. Bsrrotf*
own book l The Tribunal sentenced
sy to fiften months’ imprisonment, 5,000t
fine, to repay M. Barrois his 5,0OOf. »*>*
besides, to pay him 1,000, as damages.
^Printer’s Hollers are thus improved ^
the Amherst Cabinet: u We have recen^
made an improvement in the making ®
our rollers, which was entirely origi0*1
GK i dWi ’ ------- - *
that he has
observations
There fo no reliable nears with regard to the
liascertainod
comparisons, that tho Florida reefs grew
foot in a hundred,years. And by esti
ting the nambeS and extent of
reefe comprising thp peninsula, he su
Agasiz states with us, Although it may have been kno**
(era before us, bnt -for which we |
those not acquainted with it to
of > glue and Sugar, instead o* jj*
nolneeas, they are much mors e*w
LhMr fiAMl Knt simnlv tow
ltoibe.<
•they need hut simply -40
.>* WI mwA mere.
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