The Indianola Courier. (Indianola, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 25, Ed. 1 Saturday, October 22, 1859 Page: 2 of 4
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IND1AMLA COURIER.
The Lavaca Quarantine.
LATER PROM BROWNSVILLE ! I
“Pledg'd to do party'a arbitrary away
We follow Truth wtare’er the leads the way."
INDIANOLA
• ATURDAY.. ..............OCT. 22, 1859.
EDVERTISING—Marriages and deaths, Obitu-
aries and Tributes of Respect, at regular adver-
tising rates. Communications and notices de-
signed to call attention to private enterprises, are
sharged frr. No gratuitous work is done.
and all bills are due tchen the. labor is completed.
Advertisements inserted at $1 per square for Vie
first insertion, and 50 cents for each subsequent
inser tion. Legal advertisements charged by Vie
square, and must be paid m advance. Ten lines
or less constitute a square. A liberal deduction
vi made for those who advertise by the month or
year. See schedule of prices.
BORA CE A. SHAW A CO., General Adver-
ising Agents. 31 Park Row and 145 Nassau
Street. New Turk, are our duly authorised Agents
for that city.
Go to the Victoria Fair—Nov. 2d.
The Supreme Court is in session at Aus-
Fbost.—The Liberty Gazette announces the
appearance of frost in that place on the 10th
instant
fc**" A man died on the wharf at Lavaca, one
day this week, and the report went out that his
death was from yellow fever, but it was found on
investigation to be from want and intemperance.
Coming.—A gentleman informs the Belton In-
dependent that on his trip from Red River to
that place, he passed three hundred immigrant
wagons and 50,000 sheep, on their way to the
western part of ti e State.
C3y~ Jno. T. Shanks, formerly a cierk in the
General Land Office, of this State, has been ar-
rested at Austin, and bound over for trial upon
the charge of forging names to the transfer of a
•Bounty. Warrant.
CiT" Wild ducks and geese have been flying
over in great numbers for several days, and the
weather has been cold enough for all the other
winter fowls to make their appearance. These
ducks are the kind of quacks we are glad to see,
for they are certain death on yellow lever, and
we are now relieved of every “moiety'1 of appre-
hension of a visit from that troublesome disease.
The mails in the interior are sadly out
of fix. We receive complaints continually of their
failures and irregularities A Mission Valley
subscriber says that our paper sometimes comes
to him by way of Austin. He thinks the fault
is at Victoria. Our San* Antonio, Austin, Gon-
aales and Seguin papers of last Saturday only
leached here this morning. Whose fault is that?
tSTThe Austin Gazettesays that a lively time
is anticipated in tb&t city, this winter. Among
other extensive preparations that are being made
for the “comfort and accommodation” of the
throng of members (floor aod lobby) of theLeg-
lalature and distinguished visitors, expected, we
notice that—two fine saloons are shortly to be
opened in that city. They are located near Vie
Capitol.
£3T" Our city has grown to such importance
that new-comers have difficulty in finding locali-
ties, and draymen and others can no longs' be
directed as formerly :—1 next door to Mr. A.,” or
‘The old B— house,” or “just this side of the
Court House,” or “ibo new bouse opposite the
old F— store-house, brought down by C—.” It
Is time now that some better method should be
adopted. We suggest to the city authorities that
it would be a great convenience if they would
cause tho names of tho st.eets to be put up at
It was well kuown to us that ^'portion of the
people of Lavaca were so infatuated as to be
blindly debperate and that others were so bo’dly
unprincipled that they would do many things
devoid of sense and regardless of consequences,
in their eagerness to gratify covetous passions
and selflab designs. We knew that they had
done many foolish things and were capable of
doing others that would not square by the rule
of honesty—but we were not prepared to believe
that a controlling number existed there to put in
force so silly and disgusting, so disgraceful and
contemptible a proceeding as is revealed by the
operation of the half-way quarantine they have
pretended to establish. The unfair purpose is so
clearly manifest and the proceeding is so shame-
lessly flouted that we are balked for terms by
which to characterize the low meanness and the
high impudence exhibited. They pretend to
have established a quarantine against all infected
ports and this is its operation. Eagerly catching
up a rumor that there was yellow fever in In-
dianola (which they ought to have known was
false, because of the hourly means of ascertaining
tho truth) they declare it an infected port, and
that communication by land shall be stopped.—
But they do not stop it While the daily stage
is required to disgorge its passengers at the Buz-
zard Roost, outside of town, the drivor is per-
mitted to enter and mingle indiscriminately
with the people. While persons living in, or
passing through Indianola, were not allowed to
enter the sacred precincts of Lavaca, lighter-
men were permitted to go on board and receive
freight from steamers, just arrived at ear wharves
fresh from infected ports, and then go to Lavaca
and discharge their freights without molestation.
But, although they might go on board the steam-
ers direct from Galveston, they were instructed
n6t to come up into town or else they should not
return. Besides this, after the ridiculous farce
had been in operation several days, a committee
was appointed to come down and ascertain
whether there was yellow fever here or not—as
though a committee might not convey the disease
a3 well as any body else. Tbnt Committee was
told by every body of whom inquiry was made
that there wa3 no fever here, but a citizen of La-
vaca told tho Committee that a man had died
here the night before (Tuesday)—which was po-
sitively untrue—and went back to report upon
that evidence that there was yellow fever here.
A day or two after a hack driver was given a
permit, signed by the Health Offier, to come here
and return to Lavaca—the quarantine still in op-
eration—as though the disease was not commu-
nicable through hack-drivers as well as other
people.
Not a case of yellow fever has occurred here
this season, and these things go to prove that
they did not believe we had the disease. Thef
sole purpose was to create the impression in
order that Lavaca might reap advantages by
ARRIVAL OF THE ARIZONA!
General Intelligence.
cortinas’ 2nd in command taken.
Tho Arizona, Capt. Smith, from Brazoi Saint
lago on the 20th, arrived here next day, with
$3 7,800 in specie, and 30 head of horses.
She left at Brazos, sch’r Sallie Gay—thirteen
days and a half from New York; sch’r Chryso-
lite previously, reported as off the bar—from N.
Y., and a Mexican sch’r from Havana.
The schooner Kate Bruce, sailed for this port,
on the ISth inst.
On the night of the ISth, a company of 25
horsemen, headed oy Adolph G. Glavecke—one
of the proscribed, as will be seen from Cortinas’
Proclamation—went out of Brownsville and suc-
ceeded in taking Cortinas’ second in command,
lie plead that he had been forced to join the
party, but it was proven that he was one of the
sentinels, on the night of the first attack.
Cortinas had heard of his arrest, and says, if
they touch a hair of hint. that he—Cortinas—
will burn the City. Ho was answered that as
the man arrested, caitned to be an American
citizen, he had been tried by American laws,
and, being fonnd guilty of murder, by being one
of the principals concerned in the lato affair at
that place, and was to be hung on the 20th, but
up to the time of the Arizona’s sailing, it had not
been done.
The citv was iu confusion, as no one could pass
through the streets, after dark, without being
challenged.
The wooden buildings were deserted at n’ght,
everybody retiring to the brick ones, arid all par-
ties stand Patrol at night
Three pieces of artillery are stationed iu the
street.
Nearly one thousand kegs of powder, destined
for Zacetacas, for the liberal parly, and a large
amount of arms, nre detained at the mouth of the
Rio Grande, as the people of Brownsville are
afraid that if they are sent up, they will be seiz-
ed by the Guerrillas.
Cortinas had again crossed over to tho Atmri-
can side of the river, and it is said can bring cne
thousand men to fulfill bis threats.
A gentleman goes up on the Arizona, en route
for Washington, to see if relief cannot bo had,
and see if those who were so eager to annex Cu-
ba and other places, cannot afford tnen enough
to protect our own frontier. Unless something
is done soon, Brownsville will be deserted, as the
citizens are now hourly in danger of their lives
being taken, and their property destroyed. A
great many Mexicans will join the Guerrillas,for
the sake of plunder, as one good haul at Browns-
ville would make them easy for life.
Mr. J. B. Thomas is the gentleman alluded to
as the delegate to Washington. He called upon
us and exhibited letters to the President asking
for prompt aid to repel the lawless bandits from
Daniel Winter ha9 commenced suit in the 4th
District Court, against George H. Ince and An-
nette Ince on promisory note lor for $658, dated
San Francisco, May 2d, 1859.
Presidential tickets are multiplying with great
rapidity. The lastone on record is Judge B1 ack,
of Pennsylvania, and Mr. Lamar of Mississ ippi.
A statement was made at a late Convention of
Congregational Clergymen, in New Hampshire,
that not one pastor in the whole connection used
tabacco.
Tbe V alloy Spirit, published at Chambersburg’
Pa., runs up the name of Judge Black, for Pres-
ident, and says that he is “the most available
candidate that could bo taken, with the solitary
exception of J. C. Breckenridge.”
A Kentucky correspondent of tho New Or-
leans Delta, says that “on the territorial questiou
Mr. Breckenridge has always been, and now is,
opposed to the views expressed by Mr. Douglas,
£iid his sentiments are such as can safely be in-
dorsed by every true friend of the Union.”
In Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania, Mr Theodore
McDowell Price recently walked across a wire
stretched from the Court House cupola, to the top
of the exchange, a distance of one hundred and
sixty feet. The elevation was about sixty feet
from the ground. When in the middle of the
wire, he stoppt d, stewed oysters and ato them.
Frentice is still at large without the slightest
hope o*' reformation. In a recent number of his
paper, he says: The Pennsylvanian said lately,
that “the democratic party consists of iron men.”
GREAT
i
DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE.
RIOT-A.T HARFEjj
FERRY.
:,s
NEW ADVERTVeNTS.
IT
Terrible Excitement in Virginia—The Harper's
Ferry Riot—The Kansas Banditti at its head—
Plunder and Bloodshed—Abolitionists thefj-rgmd
Instigators—The Arsenal Attack and C<r.rH0-
Jt I I ft A
O. Mr,. ROOK
Mr* lAdie**
SBl* assortment M
The Insurgents Captured—The Notorious BrVten [ or(lered direct from Sis.
foe ladies,
assortment
RASHIO.VABfcKl
Mnctadine Bonnets,
of trimmings all of th&JaMtt ttjh
She is also eTp-'etlnffSallj-, ana
j announces to
(of a handsome
)DS,
tatiful variety
of Kansas Captured and Shot—Many Killed and
Wounded. *
Baltimore, Oct. 18.—A formidable riot broke
out last tvenino' at 11 «i;>rr'« Ferrv.
The United States Arsenal was seized, and all
the railroad trains east and west were slopped
by the mob.
The arsenal towr. is in the p ss- s-ion of 600 or
’100 men a portion of whom are j
It was first alleged to be an At>»ntion move-
ment, but it is now -.upp'^-d to ii.ive ue.-ji insti-
gated and organized by employees to Vio Gov-
ernment dam at that p ace, in • ■•n..— q..eu+— of
lof dress-goods,
t 22—n25-8t.
A M B R O T MB S !
their having been cheated <»ut nt a :«ut on »)f
their wages recently, by in abscO'i iiu own r.iftof.
They have taken this met! oj of g.-Ui.ig a;tb)>
funds in the Government pay hou-' #
The President lias ordered the United States
marines and troops Ironi W ashington to proceed
thither and loree a passage across the railroad
bridges at all hazards. The Governor of Virgins
ia has also sent troops from Richmond.
In addition to the troops sent from Washing-;
tor. and Baltimore, troops were aLso sent from
this city and from Frederick, Ya., to Harper's;
Ferry to quell the riot.
The authorities of Washington City and Alex-
andria are much alarmed, for fear of an invasion
by the ribters trom Harper’s Ferry.
The wires of the telegraph lines communicat-
ing with-Washingtonwere cut la.-t night.
A despatch from Washington slates that a
gentleman who arrived ther- last evening fropi
THE IjNI ERSIGKED
farn* the ladies And gent
;he is now prepered to ex*
nesses, in the finest style
erste price*. Operating
the house of It. F. Yates, Esq., for
Cleveland’s school, where he wtl!
O N E W E B K
Pletu-es put ui in plain and fancy |
loeWets, Ac., also on leather and
Me la i notype plate, which jnay bet
out increasing the ordinary letter j
invited to call and examine special*
October 22d, 1S59—It.
FULLY JN-
fanoia. that
OTYPE like -
and at mod-
al n street, la
>ietl by Mr.
f
set In rings,
and on tna
i Utter irith-
rerybodjr uw
D’REGAN
ROBERT F. CLI
WHOLESALE <k RETA.
COEN &CLEMEl
FOR WARD1NO and COMMISSION
CIIAXTX.
Then the devil will have a great many “irons in ' Frederick thinks the negroes only participated
the fire.” •
in the riot by compulsion.
Baltimore. Oct 18.—A despatch from Harp-
[Opposite the New '
S< pt. 17th, '59.— n20.]
RECEIVED THIS
T)ER:«.-h’r Mary L Brown,from PEN3A
I j e|low pine lumber.
.. to
1,000 (Mt
Per sch’r L L Davis, from PASCAGO^
yellow pine a 18,000 feet cypress twnb
press shingles. ( JULIA?
Oct iid,—Vi-n25.
A FINE OPPOHT
9,000 feet
0,000 cy-
IRALL
TO SECURE A D BLIGHTFUL St
OR A P E It MANE fciJ
ONE, TWO, THREE, FOCR OE fTVW BTSD1
TITLE I N BIS P,U
THE subscriber fpr
I vide that portion of .hi* tract of I
Trot ting on Matagorda Bay, info
11 r- v n.' t—-----------—
HUNDRED FEET SQUARE,andOtter*til
lating terms—FIFTY DOLLARS 1
coin-no-luting terms-_______ . _
Tl .■ Hand Point tract front* about nine ]
The following Senators elect, take their scats j er a Ferry dated at 3 o’clock tin.- morning, states
for the first time, in tbe United States Congress, j that several military companies had arrived from
on the first Monday of December next; Salis- I b-harlestown and Sl.ephardstou n, V a., and from
bary, of Delaware; of ; Paw*!! of _
Kentucky; Bingham, of Michigan ; Ten Evck, i drew to the arsenal and intrenched th. mselv.-s i IUv: "Tl n,n? b>ct to l-*Ta<*>m<
„ „ _ _ , __ , . * I • , < fitn.mg a nail I«]am!,open to «n mi‘**»*
of New Jersey; Bragg, of North Carol ina; An-|lnlJ'e armory. _p"i_
thoev, of Rhode Island; Nicholson, of Tennes- j. Tl.,° .''‘^rrcctioni-ts are Command.-d by the
i TT , 'l, r m oaumtti Brown, of lv»ns?H noM>n**tr. .in<l or;rr r*
see; and IIetnph.il, of Texas. oHy numbered ori’y s vc.een wb.us and fit c
Ex-President Tyler ha3 written a letter to the j Degrees.
National Intelligencer, denying that he has I Tbe rioters bold sevra! ..ft
changed views on the question of Slavery in the j Lnpmeld.
territories. He lias always believed that Con-
gress has no power over the subject. He agreed j
to'die insertion of the Missouri line in the Texas j
Resolutions, because a foreign State corning into j
the Union might mako its own conditions, even I
though it might not be Constitutional to impose j
the same upon territories already belonging to
: the Confederation.
j In the town of Pekin Niagara County, reside
I Samuel Robelg, his wife Salina, and four daugters.
i .j.
8f-viral ol iue i - >i
which was iu .dv . I ■ t«. ji-
atid twA> men of t1 e M.i-rrs ..p_.
killed While charging on ti e ; r ".or,
A portion oi the uaii li'.l, had pr. viou-lv lr-,i
under the command or n le.ni-r named Cook,
who with a large party of -L:\es is suppo.-ed to
be moving towards Pennsylvania.
A man name I Alter Ev.m, -,f \’,,w E tgland
one of the baud was -int arid uhen dving he
.'Oiitessed that the x-lame V*-.Is gotten up I«\
Brown, who represented to tlms,- tin u-i? e<j t
i.-inim, of'Oil iu mi iuiiui
on every side, and the situatton (Sun*
The heat h on Matagorda Bay, i* e I
and hare,and tortus a splendid shell road, <
liter- is also every facility for bathing.
Gaia.', Fish and Oyster* abound in the Tic
The soil is adinTably adapted to the
IH.N I \G. ana for raising fruit trees and Shi
Th- Po nt is easily accessible To small bo-
lt, hi v and pood walking all the way up tt
VhD prt sent* a first rate opportunity for;
idisin-ss men to secure a safe and comfo
heir i tmBies in summer, or to invest in a
tr*nt It >tne. Abo the planters of the inter
cmiat resilience.. The binding is four miles
Mid in mediately opposite the “Old Town.”
For further partculars apply to I Ail
Beooac-
Vds.
i Mata*
Bays
hreegy
• health.
■ extent.
kts and
i fo?-
9DT.
TO STOCK R A I
j IIE subscriber baa a fine Pasture of I
sand acres enclosed—(9ay 1,200
. anil M u
turning the downward-bound produce into tl,at " ^ ^ PeoP‘° ol Brownsville telt themselves
m hourly danger. Mr. T’s assured us, as did
each corner.
It appears from statements recently pnb-
lished iu the Seguin Mercury, over the signature
of.T. N- Waul and Dr. Robert Broadnax, and
an article by the Editor, that a hostile meeting
was proposed by Gen. Waul to Col. Andrew
Neill, ia consequence of a difficulty familiar to
our readers, which was declined, then re-sought
nnd stil| declined. The proposition was made
nnd followed up with determination, while the
declination was presistently and craw-fishily ad-
hered tot The editor evidently thinks that Col.
N. can supply a large demand for “white feath-
ers.”
place. This was nccotpplished in several instan-
ces, cotton consigned to merchants here being
stopped at Lavaca by false representations. One
of these consignments comes from Fulton, Card-
well A Co., to J. H. Dale, without anv instruc-
tions or explanations whatever, consisting of 15
bales, which of course could not be received and
risk assumed.
In rebuke of former trickery in the same quar-
ter we have always made a distinction between
the good and bad,- but as this last act was per-
formed in a corporate capacity, the honest and
fair-dealing will have to relievo themselves of
the odium which now attaches to the whole.
It is further known that at the fork of tho
roads a few miles out of Lavaca, a yellow flag is
hoisted upon a pole and a man is staiioned there
to point and shrug ominously and equivocate
concerning yellow fever at Indianola, and thus
to frighten tho teamsters into Lavaca. A gentle-
man here tells us that ho has reliable informa-
tion of this fact, and it was c in firmed in our 1
presence by a teamster. IVe have also seen
letters from interior towns enquiring into the
truth of the various rumors that have been ma-
liciously set afloat.
Some of our people proposed to “fight the devil
with fire,” and by retaliation cut them off from
all communication with the shipping in our port.
This could have been easily done, but we are
glad such counsel did not prevail. One wrong
never justifies, thhugh it palliates, another.
Dr. Eldridge, who called upon us several days
ago, that the accounts of the affair that have been
sent abroad, so far from being exaggerated ate
lame in tbeir description of the enormities that
have been committed and reference to the con-
tinued danger which threatens the city. No out-
rage is too great to be attempted by the insurg-
ents, as Cortinas’ band may be aptly called.
The Mexican soldiers who had conte over to
protect the city, returned to their own shore ou
the 8th, after congratulatory speeches on both
sides—the Mexicans being thanked for the pro-
tection they had afforded and the Browns villiaus
j They occupy a farm of a hundred aces, tbe |
work of which, such as plowing, logging, plan- I free States (!) this being the cliiefobject they had
ting, hoeing takiag care of team, etc,has, during j ‘a v'iuw.
the last year, been performed bv the mother and I Mr- F<”nitain Briekmnn, the railroad agent.
was shot dead from the armory. There are three
daughters. The eldest daughter, aged 18, plowed
20 acres, and one ol the younger sisters dragged
in trie graiu.
Letters from Geneva, Switzerland, announce
the arrival in that city of one of the favorite
cultanas of Abdul Medjid, and a musician, with
whom 6he eloped. The Sultana has the odd
name of Sarrafras.
A consignment of 10,000 cigars, made in Hav-
ana, for Louis Napoleon, has arrived at Norfolk
en route for France. They cost $300 per M.
The tables ol the insurance companies of Great
Britain show that life is so continually on the in-
crease iu average duration, that a revisal and re-
duction of rates has been determined ou.
for the courtesies they extended. T. F. Meagher took I ts departure on Wednes-
. TbG F‘ag Pub‘l;,,,e3 proclamation of Cor- (lav fron) New York j, lho yorUltru LllcU _
imas,' w o claims that he has taken up arms to j bearer of dispatches to I’rof. Dimitry, U. 8 Min-
avenge the wrongs the poor Mexicans ou this j istcr at Cos?a j.j^
side the river have sustained at the hands of!
Americans. He claims to be, himself, an Am- ^ sPr'nir> ('-alled Leon Hole, has been diseover-
to quite a number
• ... TT r ed some eighty n ih s east of El Paso which is
encau citizen. Ho refers to quite a number ] 0„e hundred and filly feet in diameter, and has
whom it is his settled, eternal purpose to victim-j been sounded to the depth ol eight thousend
j feet without finding bottom.
ize, for the sake of tranquility, but lie names only
one person—Adolphe Glavecke; who is the De-
puty Sheriff of Cameron County.
Proceedings of tlie City Council.
Jndge Black's Reply to Senator Douglas.
The sch’r Mary H. Banks, the arrival of
which, from Galveston, has been previously re-
ported, after discharging her cargo, went off in.
to the stream and lay at anchor. One of the crew
died on Sunday morning last, it is said of yellow
fever, which was probably true. The maa was
coffined apd brought on shore, and immediately
buried. Another case of sickness was reported
ou the satpe vessel, but she sailed on Monday
without delaying to prove its nature. There was
but little communication with this yessel while
in port, ami it wan not thought that her isolated
position was dangerous.
IV0 learn that the Gaudalupe San An-
tonio, Navldad, and other streams have all been
very high this week, from heavy rains above in
the interior. The Gaudal»pe' rose twenty feet
in one night A gentleman who left Victoria on
Thursday morning informs us that the embank*,
ment at this end of the Victoria bridge had near-
ly all caved in, and that the abutment would
probably bo lost Some fears were felt that the
bridge would be washed away, on account of
the strong current and accumulated drill wood
above. A number of hands were at work and
our Informant Lhiokst heir efforts would preserve
the bridge. _
tW The Memphis Appeal, a democratic pa-
P'T of Douglas proclivities^ proposes to republish
the speech of that gentleman against tbe petition
of the 3,000 clergymen asking for tbe repeal of
the Fugitive Slave Law, and his speech in Chi-
cago after being burned in effigy for having voted
for that law. It ia easy enough to prove that
Mr. Douglas has often uttered patriotic senti-
meuta-v-tbat be has “spoken like thunder on oar
side"—bat wii) that disburden the odium which
attaches to his later acts?.. Must the murderer
of to-day go unpunished because that yesterday
he bore no stain of blood? 1Yas Arnold excused
for treachery because he had previously fought
with desperation for the cause which ambition
lad him on be betray*
The reply of Attorney General Black to the
squatter sovereignty article of Senator Douglas,
is an exceedingly able and interesting document.
It effectually demolishes the arguments of tbe
Senator, and without the slightest departure from
parliamentary courtesy exposses the fallacies
and inconsistencies employed and exhibited bv
the ambitious demagogue who has spent his life
in trying to be President, after the fashion of the
toad who tried to swell himself into an ox. Allu-
ding to the eoolrbversy, the N. Y. Day-Book re-
marks that the point of difference is plain and
radical. Mr. D. stands upon the fundamental
heresy of tho Abolitionists, that African “slavery”
is the creature of the local law, and indirect oppo-
sition to the Dred Scott decesion, which holds
that “slavery” in the case of the negro is the
generator common law. and so-called freedom
the exception. The position maintained by
Judge Black, is, that “slaves” being property
as recognized by the CoDstitution,remain ‘slaves’
unless taken to some sovereign State where
the local law reverses their status. But as
Congress has no power to reverse this sta-
I tus, so a Territory, which derives its power
from Congress, cannot reverse it. All this is
very plain and simple, and every one who stud-
ies it for a moment, can understand it; but Mr.
D. so embarrasses the question with side issues,
and wordy declamations about “popular rights,”
“the sovereignty of the people,” Aa. that it ac-
tually confuses many well-meaning people.—
This clear and able essay will do much to dissi-
pate the fog in which a very plain and simple
subject has been enveloped by politicians.
At an adjourned meeting of the City Council
held at their hall on Tuesday evening the 18th
October, 1859, there were present James Ash-
worth, Mayor; R. D. Martin, B. F. Yates and J.
C. Carter Aldermen.
Bill of M. Demonet, goods furnished to Hos-
pital, $8.90—
Allowed and warrant ordered to bo drawn for
tbe amoant on Hospital Funds.
Daniel noffman presented a certificate of his
election to the office of City Marshal, to fill the
unexpirea term of Sam'l Turner, at a special el-
ection ordered by the Mayor and held on Mon-
day the 10th Oct. 1859, also his bond, for $2,000;
which on motion was approved, and the oath of
office was duly administe'ed by the Mayor.
A Report from A. D. Perry, late Hospital
Steward, embracing the number of admission^
deaths and discharges, from 26th of May to 8th
Oct., 1859 ; a bill for services as Steward and for
board of patients amounting to $221.75, and a
bill of Mrs. Mary Perry for washing amounting
to $15, was presented, and on motion referred
to Finance Committee.
The report shows that from tho 26th of May
to Oct. 8th, inclusive, the number of admissions
was 10; deaths 3; discharged, cured, 4; remain-
ing, 3. No yellow fever,
Tbe Recorder submitted ati Assessment Roll
for 1859, of property liable to taxation in the city
limits, the consideration of which was postponed
until the next regular meeting.
On motion adjourned.
ADAM MURDOCK, Recorder.
- ^ » —i -
I# Tbe accounts from Houston concerning
tfpSoarlot fever has assumed the character
of an epidemic among children in Cincinnati.—
There were 21 fatal cases reported for the week
ending tbi 3th inst.
A sexton was recently appointed at Clarks-
ville, Tenn., and instructed that his duties were
to prepare graves, superintend interments, and
repo-t to the City .Council weekly. At the end
of the first week lie reported that be had “pre-
pared” about thirty graves. Most of them are
stilL on hand, and the Clarksville papers are ad-
vertizing ready-made graves, and setting forth
to all parties in need of the article, the superior
advantages of Clarksville as a place to die ia.
The New York Express says: Among the
novelties recently introduced in ladies apparel,
is a new article of suspenders. They bear re-
semblance to those worn by gentlemen, except
that they are made of delicate, white elastic fab-
ric, with frilled edge about one inch wide, and
aro attached to the skirt by buttons in like man-
ner. We doubt not this invention will be gen-
erally adopted with a view to relieve tbe waist
oi the unlimited burden, which such habiliments
necessarily produce. Reason and experience
teach us that the old and absurd method, while
followed, impairs the hefflth, impedes locomotion,
and tends to ill health.
A the 'uffian* lying dead uniter the brdire
Cnpt (took is second iiftoommand of tin* ban.!,
aod is sn d to be posted in a ohnoi house a few
miles distant with a large oody of rum. way slaves
The arnmry \v,\s taken possession ol by iln
outlaws on Sunday night, about 9 o'clock, at <j
was done so quietly that the citizens knew ti -
thing of it nnt:I the ra:.>. d w -uis w-'e
Col. Lee, who c*r mini .3 :he l' inted smte
troops, thinks there i- an abut: iance of troop-
lure (Harper’s Ferry) m culture all the rioter
Browu had rei.jt u a f.nn air uii'es uislant
which he occupied as a id.J. z.cns for hi-nn
groes and outlaws.
Cook had lived in tl.e vicinity formerly am
taught school.
None o: the other whites am yet known, hu
it is supposed they were nio-i of them connects
with Brown in his Kansas intr-ig.-w.
It is reported hut riot confirmed, llat tho r: t rs
carried off u considerable sum of Governrneu
hinds.
Tiie attack upon the armory was successful,
most of the oul'.r.vs and nogr.vs b ing <• ipturei
together witli Bunvii and h s s •••. Bowen claim-
easy terms hoe;tu<e iie did !. I pillage the towr
or insult tho females.
A severe conflict occurred b. twpeti the out-
laws and the military ou the bridge, winch re
suited in the loss of several men on both sides,
among the ki led is Kriati D .r-ey, a conductor o;
the road. Mr. B iwina i ami Mr. llohet, were
badly wounded. It I - sti| pos.-d tbe rioters will
be tried und ■ r mars I .,1 j.< vv and hu 11 g on tbe spot
Brown threaten'd to hang all l.is prisoners it
lie was attacked 1m to,- t'-o"p..
The armory was t,:k -n. wit., tie rinter=, about
8 r'clock this morn ing. after :> de-perate resist
anee. The rioters .shot tim e marines during the
assault.
\V rien the suffer, rs war. brou.lt oat of the
armory, the greatest exciteai'r t prevailed, and
it was almost impossible to restrain the armed
militia. Brown and his run were shot in the af-
fray, the latter having died, and the former is
dying.
elwlr frourhi, tinO 4o. «tieH do. i _____
f .r ling a superior range for caitle, Iforsesiwui
prars ar.J a good supply of wntei—the priril,
lie offers to stock-raisers, on share*. Such an
»04id be |<aiticuUrly advantageous to those
mist improved stock. The range is especially .
r. because, being almost surrounded by salt
very rarely visited by frost. LOUIS BR.
Oct 22— v‘2-ni&-Sm.J • -fo Sai
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SLAUGHTER, SMITH &
COTTON PACTOKS,
— A A' Z> —
COMMISSION MEKCHAj
60 Carondelete Street,..........NEW 01
CI,peril cash advances made on cotton t
consignment, by GEO SUMRALL, Agent, 1
*s- October 1,
ctober 15th,'
FOR KEMPER’S BL1
.J^fcTin-: steamer TROYi
thoroughly repaired, trill make 1
ruaif p-n INDIANOLA to KEMPER’S BLUFF J
fre'g’it At the following prices :
LV
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O'ttcn per bale,................
Hides each.......................J"
t urn per bushel,.............. j. j
Lumber per thousand feet,...........*;
Barret f eight,....................
Tip? boat will leave Kemper’s Bluff on Si
ir.o-1 on Tu sday of each week. N A ML
f " v.;ig house at the Bluff, and will ship
per itife, paying charges upon usual terms.
In ji mola, Oct 15, vJnSt tf.J jj w jja1
aft
r. Ji I,un—c. b. j.ycc.H, agent.
U ULI AN Ac SUMRALL.
B E R MERC BU4.,
n, ... ■. fKjil
i I Ai\ E constantl yon hand an i
* 4 njcDt of rough %nd dressed lumhw^ ^
Rough.
u m
INDIA
t xd inch strips. " l£ inch flooring.
i.\.\tt3 Inch fencing. LV inch sigtW,
Inch boards—broad. 2,344inch piaak. Weather t
Weather boards. Scantling from 2x3 to.SxS inr
PlasU-rty laths. Cypress Shingles ,
Also Clear Cypress Broad plank
scantiing Doors, Sash and Blinds
! “ October 1
ed.
I U M B E AR si
I HAVE this day formed a co-partners
l rail, in the Lumber business, under 1
JULIAN k SUM RAH
ill orders heretofore taken by me, pi
be attended to by said firm,
Indianola, October 1st 1859—r2nl
The Great Enstern as a Cxifton Carrier.
rarA letter has recently been received at the
Agricultural Division of tbe United States Pat-
ent Office, from a planter in the Southern part of
this Slate, in which the writer speaks in the
highest terms of the Polish Wheat, or Grant Bye,
of which he has commenced tbe cultivation, and
says that fie has every reason to believe that it
will yield upward of seventy-fire busheisto the
acre. • :
the ravages of the yellow fever are very distres-
sing. There had been abeut 100 deaths^ and do
abatement up to the first of this week. The
cold weather has probably checked the disease
by this time.
From Galveston we learn that there is a de-
cided improvement as to health. The whole
number of deaths do not probably exceed 50,
and but few new cases have occurred this week.
In New Orleans, nine deaths from yellow fever
were reported for last week.
tMT"A new invention is-epoken of for meas-
uring distances, which promises to be very use-
ful. It is attached to a buggy or carriage wheel,
and so arranged as to strike at every mile.
The Washington States says that qnite a novel
ceremony is to be performed in Washington next
winter. A United States Senator, who has, by
some good chance, secured the good will of our
brothers, tho red men, is to be crowned a chief
of the Choctaws, by a deputation to be dispatched
for that purpose. He is to be haded with all
tho honors, dignities, and immunities of the po-
sition. The ceremony will, of course, be most
interesting. So that we shall have the first in-
* •
stance on record of a chief sitting in the Senate
This is said to be really true—do joking, and that
the distinguished gentleman is quite ready to
accept
r-w A post mortem examination of the body
of Col. H. W. Sublett, whose death at Austin
was recently announced, has revealed a fracture
upon the left side of his cranium, pronounced by
physicians to be the mortal cause. Morris Davis
was taken before Justice Flusserand Graves, and
upon tbe examining trial It appeared that Davis
and Sublett were playing cards on Sunday, the
2d inst, ^lien S. accused D. of cheating him.—
A souffle ensued, in which D. struck S. with &.
chair, but no visible wound was iuflicted. S. be-
came sick soon after and fell into a stupor from
which he never awoke, though bo did not die
until the nextnight. Davis was required to give
bail in the sum of $5,000. ,
The success of the Gre.it Eastern as a construc-
tion is admitted on all han is. but its pecuniary
success is yet to be tested, it is pretty certain,
however, that such a vessel in the course of de-
velopment given to the commerce of the world
would soon become necessary. The commerce
of tho world has so increased of late years that
the quantities to be carried at any one time,
from any giveu port to any other, have so much
increased that the capacity of the vessel requires
to be proportionably enhanced. To illustrate—
cotton is the principle article <>f export Irom the
United States. The whole quantity exported in
1820 was 90,000,000 pounds, or 200.000 bales,
of the average weight of the present day. That
would requite to transport it 140.000 tonsof ship-
ing, or 10.000 tons per month. The tonnage
cleared in that year from the cotton States was
193.637. In 1856. the quantity of cotton ex-
ported was 3,000.000 bales, or 1,350,000,000 lbs.,
and the tonnage cleared from the cotton Slates
was i,09S,795 tons, or comparatively, thus:
Cotton exported. Tons. Bales,
ft) bales cleared, per ton
1820. 90,000.000 ■ 200,000 195,637 ]
1856, 1,330,000.000 3.000.000 1.098.793 3
The return for 1856' ‘hows an it cr-ase of 2
bales per ton of shipping cleared uoni hie South
for foreign ports, but a go,.«i d» al of'cotton—'.15.-
000,000 pounds. nr21G.0O0 hal-*—were exported
from New York. i'he av*iu»! quantity a d si:ipv
ping from New Orl ans was 670.000 tons, and
the number of bales 1.500.000. it we take ten
months as the shipping season—in 1820 there
were shipped'but 20,0t'0 bales per month, and
in 1856 there were' required 110.000 bales per
month. The capacity of the Great Eastern is
27,000 bales, hence this vessel clearing once in
each month would, in 1820, have carried the
whole crop, but would now carry but one-fourth
of it. The commeree of the world, embracing
every product of industry, has increased in a
similar ratio, and the activity of interchange
since the abrogation of the Navigati m Laws of
Great Britain in 1816, and the modification of
all laws for tho restriction of trade, has become
very great, calling for a greater quantity of ton-
nage and greater speed in the transportation._
U. S Economist.
Texas Freight—«-Opelo
UREIO H Tis received every dty
r the Barge Landing of the Op<-
Tnulou«e street, to be forwarded t:
per steamships GUN RUSK, ORE
Charges on forwarded goods ad
ranee lower than bv aoy other e
ing through, given at the landing.
Vice Pr
New Orlcan°, La., Oct 8th
TOR NEW-YOff&r
The AI. Schooner t*ASST
I W. H. Booth , Master, tiffs* s’p‘
rargo engaged, is now
have quick ditpatch. F
apply to the Captain on
Indianola, Texas, Delias *59.]
^NEMENT, a arge q
JttST
i LARGE supply of
A MOLASSES,
BAC
stock of SUPERIOR
For sale by [(
Airived by
j >j | barrels N
i^llOES and
tt r’s and Ri
Misses and Chii
ed and fur *&lo byj
Indianola, Te: A
The Isle of Man has been connected with Eng-
land by a submarine telegraph.
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