The Indianola Bulletin. (Indianola, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 20, Ed. 1 Friday, August 31, 1855 Page: 2 of 4
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. AUGUST 34, 1888.
TERMS OF PAPER AND OF ADVERTISING 8
PAPER—43.00 per annum, payable In ad ranee. $4 If
not paid in 6 months. $5 if aot paid before the expiration
of the year.
ADVERTISEMENTS—One square, of ten lines, $1.0*.
Each subsequent insertion, Fifty cents.
Very liberal discounts made to yearly advertiser*, aba on
long advertisemeuss.
Such as Pamphlets, Blanks, Cards, Briefs, Funeral Mid
other Notices, executed with neatness and despatch.
All communications on business connected with this
paper, must be addressed to the publisher, post paid.
Oir Agetto.
Mr HENRY M. HYAM8 Is our duly authorised Agent for
the City of New Orleans.____ ___
^^■ssrsasrasr ~
friends through the country will give them an early cal
K M Dowdbs, Lavaca. OW Ojl*»wtT, Victoria.
Jon* Law, p v, (rentales. -r- Cssnwmx, p », Cuero
R Josh, p a C hina Grove. 4 P Kisnaan, p r, CauMU.
— Paurocx, Price’s Creek. ..__, .__
E C Aanaasus, Seguin. __
4 PKisnaan, PM, Cotton
J C Strisuso, Belmont.
J S Johsstos Bastrop-
Saul., Ramca, Hamilt
P Faroe, MaysviBe, 1 B Vf ©ttxoca, Edeto.
Mjli. Prrrtmas, Valley P.G. 8x*i~JU*ick
* Faroe, Maysville, B W 9ttxoc*.
l>r StmiaRUASD, Sutherland Spgs. J T KiLQO**, Yorktown.
J T Ford k IT Brcgh, Texaaa.
Facts to be Remembered:
That Indianola beaoh is the only point on
the coast of Texas, where loaded wagon
from the interior, can meet the OceaoStea-
be built from the
ictofia, forty miles, on a
ryrng front
mors.
That a Railroad can
same beach, to Vi
grade- slightly j varying from a level, and
not a thoasand dollars worth of bridge
work, required ton the whole line,
t th
That the annual receipts, upon that line
for freight and passengers, by wagon and
Btage, are two hundred and seventy thous-
and dollars, and are increasing yearly.
-\| That the Powderhorn wharf is in the ci-
ty of Indianola; and it is with pnde and
pleasure that we note the rapid increase in
. its businessjind prosperity.
That Indianola has a population of thir-
teen hundred, besides thousands of passen-
gers going through the place annually and
for the year ending 1st December 1854, but
thirty-six persons died here ; notwithstand-
ing the yellow fever was an epidemic du-
ring the summer.
py We acknowledge oar obligations to Mr.
T. J. Pool, Purser of the Charles Morgan, for
full flies of New Orleans papers.
The health of Indianola continues good.
We understand : Port Lavaca is also quite
healthy.
Death of Hon. Abbott Lawranck.—Our ex-
changes announce the death of this distinguished
citizen. He died on the 18th inst,
jy We learn, by the Nueces Talley of the
25th inst, that the mail rider on the Loredo
route, c$me in and reported that he had been
chased by the Indians. ; —
Health of New Orleans.—We learn from
the N. O. Bulletin that the deaths from yellow
fever on the week ending 17 th August was 394.
Weekly report Charity Hospital ending Friday
28th August 128 deaths from yellow fever.
Did not friend Rowen excite a more
negative sentiment, by his wholesale fabri-
cation—be would be entitled to, and
receive our warmest sympathies! But,
having placed himself in a position where
he ia obliged to defend a si nking caase, be
is often driven to the most ridiculous shifts
to sustain bis arguments, and like the
traveler in the fable “ blow hot aad cold
with the same mouth” /
In his issue of the 18th inst., in one col-
umn, he enters into a long calculation—at
the botto m of which, to give it currency—
is the signature of^A. T. Hensley, of the
nrery respectable firm of Fulton <fc Hensley,
(the oracles, and one would believs, sole
proprietors of Lavacaian& as well as La-
vaca,) setting forth the extraordinary ad-
vantages of shipping by schooners over
steamers, by selecting a few heavy, leading
articles^ which are taken by schooners by
measurement, and comparing the prices
charged by them with the steamers’ tariffs
for the same articles.
In the very next column but one, Under
the head of M Opelousas Railroad,” he gives
a graphic description of a trip he took on
said road, “ to ascertain definitely, the pro-
gross made, and the time it would take to
reach Berwick’# Bay,” which he errone-
ously learned would be “January 1st, 1858.”
He then goes on to state that in consequence
of sundry shoals and bars intervening,
steamers drawing over or 7 feet at the
maximum, cannot navigate the Bay suc-
cessfully at all seasons,—that the fact of
discharging freight at Galveston, Powder
Horn and Indianola, cm route to Lavaca,
would so effect the draft as to render the
ruu to their wharves, not only practicably
but free from danger without doubt Upon
this data he predicates the rapid and per-
manent advancement of Lavaca, “ whatever
may be the jnflnence exercised upon the way
towns.
“Who will run these boats!” “Aye,
there is the rub,”—thinks “ Harris <fe Mor-
gan, in their adventurous speculations, may
be induced to do so” and if so, that Line
can run to Lavaca if they will, but as
human obstinacy is great and they may
still decline their trade, in which event a
competition line will' he run early in the
coming spring. What! friend Herald,
after the smashing calculations made in
your other calumn ? What folly! what
madness! what recklessness it would be on
their part to attempt such a thing in the
face and front of such figures! Where
would their patronage come from ! What
-yyd** ship by them with such
ere coming to Lavaca, wre are sorry to de-
molish the air-built castles the facetious
editor of the “Herald” has erected in his
inagination, after partaking of the sump-
tuous fnd delicate repast so “hospitably
tendered l>fm by the aforesaid “ Opelousas
Company,” on that “ trial trip” Whilst
quieU/esoonsed in a corner of one of those
elegant can, returning to New Orleans, was
lost entirely in the clouds of the aforesaid
imagination and a fine “■ Havana.” T)n
From the time when Texas was annexed, ten
years ago, and since that; time until withm a few
months, the United States government officers
have been experimenting aa to the
army store, and material of war co«M bet**
landed, on this coast, for use in t^tenor
Experiments demonstrated that Matagorda B y
possessed advantages not shared -by Any other
pninton the coast; namely, depth of water, an
safety for ships, and cheapness and certainty for
the land transportation. Every year sees im-
ta of Government stores lauded here,
<? m mens amount--- ,
such an occasion, he might be pardoned for ftnd ^ long> and frequent trains of government
““A
-ve have been deluged with showers: we learn
that the crops in the interior are likely to bo
much damaged from the incessant rains, particu-
ariy the cotton crop, ^
Schooner White Squall.—This fine schooner
has arrived in our Bay from New York, bringing
280 tons assorted merchandize, mostly for the
interior; consigned to our merchants at Powder
Horn and Tort Lavaca. We have been unable
to procure her manifest iu time for this issue.
£3^"' The Nueces Valley (Corpus Christ;) o:
the 25th inst, says “a Contral American Emi-
gration Company is being organized in this city
We are not informed who is to be the leader o
the expedition. Several young men of this place
have joined the company.” _
Outrageous.
We observe that our neighbor of the ‘ Lavaca
Herald” is sending round hiB bills. Why Rowen,
we are surprised at you, and will venture you
this little advise: if you can’t afford to publish a
paper^abd let your bills stand, you had better
sell out to some man who can.
C. M. Coen A Co.—We call attention to the
biwiness card of C. M. Coen A Co., in to-day s
Bulletin. We don’t k^iow who the Co. is, but
the Coen we do know, and can say to our friends
in the Country, that if tliey want their business
done with “neatness and dispatch,” to send it
alqnz- Mr. Coen is an experienced businees
man, late of the firm ot Powell & Coen, Mata-
gorda, and understands well the wants of the
people, and manner of doing businees ia this
country. Try him.
Villainous.—We understand that some fiend
inhuman shape, has, tor some few days back,
beau in the habit of maiming the stock that are
running at large about town. Two fine mu Ice,
belonging to Mr Lang, proprietor of the Powder
Horn Omnibus Line, were badly stabbed on the
night of the 29ti: inst. Tliey had been fastened
together and turned Qut the evening before.
The whelp who could perpetrate this diaboli
eal act, would not be too good to use the incen-
diary’s torch — to violate fbmale chastity — or
•trike the assassin's dagger 1 We hope he may
be found out and brought to condign punishment
for his viUiany. ; i j ;_
TO OUR TOWNSMEN,
Why do’ut yoa Advertise !!
After the demise of the “Bulletin” uuder
John Henry Brown Esq,, you were all, most
crazy to have it resusitated: you didn’t see how
you could possibly get along without a paper; and
now: tb*a we have revived it, you hang off like a
“poor aaaa at a frolic.” You don’t consider that
we have a wile and seven orphan children, that
1 ike other people, we have to live, and that the
rustling, grating sound on the bottom of a flour
barrel, gives ns an ague; OJ no, such a thought
has never crossed the sandy desert of yoor brain,
well tell you just [hhat we think; we
■that the merchant, lawyer;
or mechanic, who ari
ir, might to have his
botoberh cleaver, ami
will not patronize
spurs backed off
be pelted out of
Oh ! consistency, what a jewel thou art
He then goes on to apologise for npt
having an opposition line to Lavaca before
this,—promises, beyond peradvenlure, “that
the stock will positively be taken before
January, ’56.” (Stick a pin there,) “and that
a line of opposition steamers, if needs be
will ply between Lavaca and Berwick's
Bay, within eight movths from the l*f of
•September, 1855.” The best M. of Regalias
in Van’s store on that, friend Rowen. But,
jesting aside; let us devote a few moments
in analizing these “ hot and cold ” argu-
ments, as served up in the Herald’s col-
umns, and see of what ingredients they are
composed. The first is almost too weak
and puerile to be worthy of notice: the
same calculation was made and endorsed
by the same “ respectable firm ” last winter,
in the “ Lavaca Register,” and completely
rebutted by a writer in the “ Victoria Advo-
cate,” under the signature of “ Veritas.”
No one pretends to deny that the steam-
ers’rates are higher than schooners; bat
not in the ratio—takiug the whole tariff
throughout—stated by the “ Herald;” and
why should they not be ! Are they not so
everywhere ? If steam possesses no advan-
tages over sailing vessels, why expend so
many millions in their constrnction! If
the merchants of New Orleans found no
advantage in shipping by them, how is it
that they pay forty cents per foot on them
from N. Y., when they can gbip in first
class sailing vessels at from eight to ten
cents. We contend that the rates on Har-
ris & Morgan’s steamers are lower in pro
portion to their expenses, than an ocean
steamers on this side of the Atlantic. The
Charleston and Savannah boats get 12£-
cents per foot, from New York, a less dis-
tance, far less risk of bars, and still greater
disproportion in expense, both in running
and port charge#. The thing resolves
itself into this simple question: (Am a
merchant, keeping a general assortment of
dry goods and groceries—who receives his
supplies by schooners—com pete with his
ceighbor who gets his by steamers! If so,
why is it that Messrs. Cleveland <fc Mills,
Kirklan, Baugh n * Co, and other houses
in Lavaca, who receive the balk of their
a little deviation from the true line and
objects of the road. Let us inform him that
there was another “cheild” taking notes, on
that same occasion* (“and in faith we’ll
, “print ’em,”) who, perhaps, paid more atten-
tion to the details of the business before
him, than to the momentary pleasures of
the trip. His observations, and we believe
they will be found to be correct, led him to
the following conclusions:—First, lliat the
road could not possibly be completed to-
Bayou Bceff, till one year beyond the time
fixed by the editor of the “ Herald, viz:—
January, 185V ; the worst port of the road
being yet to be completed—through a
swamp where piles have to be driven 70
teet, and can only be worked at during the
drye8t part of the winter. Secondly, when
completed, it is not contemplated that
bulky freight, such as produce, will ever
be carried over it, even to Galveston, as it
would cost os much to take it from New
Orleans to Berwick’s Bay, as it now costs to
take it from New Orleans to Galveston.—
Some few articles of freight — valuable
freight—the mails and passengers, are all
it is expected to carry. It is “even doubt-
ful whether or not it will have the prefer-
ence as a passenger route, as the difference
of time cannot be more than six hours, and
having fifteen hours at sea, of more dan-
gerous navigation than the old route : pas-
sengers, particularly families, after being
once on board an outside boat, and over
the first fifteen hours of the voyage, rather
than get out of their berths, weak and ex-
hausted, perhaps from sea-sickness, would
prefer to remain a few hours longer, than
be at the trouble to change from a boat to
a railroad car, and then again to cross the
ferry at Algiers.
Some of H. & M.’s steamers now land
their passengers at Galveston without effort,
at early candle-light: the Berwick’s Bay
line could only get them there to dinner,
by substituting faster boats, H. M.
could makb the same time. In the third
place, tl^pBerwick’s Bay boats must make
dailg trips', consequently, in any event, they
could not go to Lavaca.
We sincerely regret, friend *• Herald,” »o
destroy such flattering prospects, but, pro-
bably while indulging iu that splendid
reverie, in the aforesaid railroad car, the
goods by steamers, aeU five times the
amount of produce the “ very
firm ” alluded to, does, when “
stmaey” it so great that they will not ship
by steamers. Though the former am but
aew comer*, and the latter am of the oldest
established house# on the Bay. We do
not know this to be the fact, but such is
is in With gov-1 what we have bee%credibly informed.
wily spirits that sported with you, certainly
kept these facts concealed from your dreamy
vision. Lavaca, therefore, will have to look
to some other source for its “ rapid and
permanent advancement,” besides the Ber-
wick’s Bay railroad. Tis true, tliat in
this progressive age, “time and space have
been almost annihilated,” where steam and
lightning can be employed, vet, nature ha<-
some laws which cannot be set aside, and
if some people will build towns at inacces-
sible places, they must blame their own
stupidity, for the drawbacks they are sub-
ject to in consequence thereof. .
Our Objections to the Dogmas of the
K. N. Party.
We object to their Anti-Republican tendencies
in this, that, their doctrines sap, and strike at
the very foundations of liberty itself) they refuse
the equal political rights guaranteed to uSby the
Constitution as proud American citizens, proscri-
bing us for our religious opinions; they attempt to
stifle our personal judgement, by an infringment
of our right of personal action; the issues they pre-
sent are of a character tending to inflame the
passions and prejudices of the ignorant and
thoughtless, calculated to blind them to the true
qUtotions of policy, which should engage their at-
tention, they tend, to that greatest of all evils
that can fall upon us, a union of Church and
State, and one of the most prominent features
that characterizes their plan of operation is a
wanton persecution of the Roman Catholic church.
We are no Catholic, but, palsied be our arm and
let our tongue cleave to our mouth when we shall
raise the one, or exert the other to disfranchise any
native American on account of his religious-opin-
iocsl but, oh no; say they, you are mistaken,
we do not seek to disfranchise Catholics, we on-
ly intend to keep them oat of the offices of the
country; “out of the offices of the country,’
forsooth 1 Where is the American Catholic, aye,
the American republican, be he Catholic or not,
who ia not ready to repel with just and merited
indiguatfon the unholy, bigoted, Anti-Americas,
Anti- Republican sentiment
We object to this organization because we be-
e&eve that the issues it presents do not elevate
it to the dignity of a national in the
North, having for its bassis, violent hostility to
the South, and bigoted intolerance towards Cath-
olkm, the Cocos and rallying point for freesoilere
and abolitionist# embracing in its slimy folds thb
disaffected aod disappointed of all parties, seem-
ingly united and intent upon one great purpose,
viz, the entire demolition of law and order, and
the uprooting of the conservative and fund amen
tad principles bt government itself It proposes
no great mrsenro of national policy; its great
strength lieR (aa Tristans Burgess said of John
Randolph) “not la budding ^ but ia tearing
down” ti»pricelem fabric, reared by the genius
wagons going and returning to and from the in-
terior posts, attest the importance of this point
as a place of shipment And this mast continue,
and even increase. The “ foots to be remember-
ed at our editorial head, are stubborn foots; and
imply many other things, convenience often con-
trols business. The natural advantages of this
point being superior to any o*her on the coast
suggest enterprise for the increase of business
facilities. Among these, and not the least among
them, is security. There is not a single i»ieee of
artilery here. The government has immense
stores, which an armed force however small;
could easitv take; without the posibility of hin-
drance. The few fowling pieces and crippled re-
volvers in private hands would afford litt/e de-
fence. This Bay could be eastly defended if the
means were at hand. Sand Point and Aligator
Head are commanding positions; and a small
force at each point would keep security, against,
any enemy. , , i ,,
In case of war, an inconsiderable force could
take, fortify, and hold this Bay; and riiake it a
base of operations to destroy this whole State.—*
We most respectfully think that the War depart-
ment has not taken that notice of this Bay which
its importance, and the interests of the country
demand. Our Senators and Representatives, ap-
pear to have ignored the existence of Matagorda
Bay and erased it from their maps of Texas.—
Light Houses, and channel Buoys, are provided
in abundance for othor points, of for less impor-
tance; while for this Bay our Light House out-
side, at the Pass, suffices in government estima-
tion it would appear. Matagorda, Lavaca, Tex-
ana and this place, all having a direct trade;—
their Captains and pilots must hunt out the chan
nals and furnish their own buoys and channel
marks, or do without We call upon the people
of the country and the Press to speak out upon
these tubjects, and induce the powers that be
to abdicate the “masterly inactivity” that has so
long characterized their conduct. Wo must
have Cannot^ Light Houses, and channel marks:,
the government have them all and to spare; not
part of the country needs them more than this.
The time has come to begin. We intend to say
more on this subject. .
The Mathematics and Geography of the
“Lavaca Herald.’’^
In an article of the “ Herald” of the 18th mst.
headed “ Difference in freights,” occurs the fol-
lowing remarkablo cyphering.
“The Schooner Esther Burr from New Orleans,
iately brought 2084 barrels, of which 2008 were
consigned to Lavaca, 136 to Matagorda, and 40
to Saluria.” [
Now tho sum stands thus—
By the sehr. EsthflE-Bu*»- 1----
Just as we were geing to press , a friend h
us the following , item of intelligence, j“
in oy
the San AntopiO mail*- *** "W 1 ** ***?
‘One of iho teamstera »d ** -*•■££
having boon Gent with » B
hnol water to M]r. Btown and ha **
or u tniles from this Camp “ ^
were met on their return next dnjW thtlnnt an
.„d all of then. fHghtMly buKhfA
them had 8 or 9 arrows, sad j,
5 to them, three of them were . c^ped *aa
of them had their elothing takoa<i* thp mmm
were taken, and all the leather
ness cut. and taken offj I had
to El Paso’ and two days after
camp an exprpsp «ame from El
news of « ittadk hasiag boon
preee from Fort Clark to tho Po,“* JlH ,4
the Olympia, free of their men were tilled and U
NEWS,
CHARLES
j LIVERPOOL
The Liverpool
OL COTTON MARKET. |F4 *
’1
to hare closed Ann.
<ip>
JR
MONET MARKET, ETC.
At London, on Saturday, the 30th ult., ^
was reported more in demand, and rates wet[ *
advancing. , ,,
Consuls remained without change and quiet
The Market for American stocks waa -
and quotations Unchanged. ^
THE BALTIC SEA.
The Allied fleet in the Baltic Sea, it is rep
1
.
“uTder^hTcirdumstances I consider myself for-
tunate in being dlivJ With regard to our well
boring operations, we are progressing very finely
we have bored dver 500 feet; I^|th nk « a/ew
days we will have reached a point ttjat w
water to the surface- ' !| J
We may remove from We pretty soon.
I remain your friqnc
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11 force
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Notice to Mariners. , ,
Official inforrajation has been Reived at tl)e
office of Lighthouse Board, U. S. treasury pe-
partment throikgji the Department cf
that
the Spanish government have given notice, that
on the first 1st of June last,the reviolving light on
tho castle of Sebhstian, at Cadiz, qbanged to a
fixed bright light) with red flashes at intervals of
two minutes. r %’ t I U- -
The New illuminating apparatuses cataqioptric,
of the second order of Fresnel. Tho light will be
olevated 143 feet above the level of the sea, and
be visible 18 miles, in clear weather, fijom the
deck of a ship.
There has been no change in the position of
the light.
Toe Allied neefc in wiw uamu oea, u is reports
contemplate commencing the bombardment*
Sweaborg on the afternoon of the 7 th inst *
FROM THE SEAT OF WAR.
The latest accounts respecting the sieve of
• -* represent everything as being read,
i r~r making a geneial assault
to take place in a few ^
V~ NAVAL EXPEDITION.
A grand expedition of the allied fleet was con-
centrating in Kamletch bay, destined for sore
point not stated.
RUMORS IN PARIS.
It was rumored in Paris that the French Got.
eminent had received an official notification from
Geu. Pellfosier of the resumption of the bombard-
meat of the Redan and Malakoff towers, prt-paf.»
atory to the general assault.
EGYPT. •
° The viceroy of Egypt is negotiating with ths
Bedowin Arabs to serve in tho Turkish army iB
the Crimea.
IMPORTANT RUMOR.
A telegraphic dispatch from London, da‘*d -
Saturday, (the day the steamer sailed) Sdys that
the siege of Sevastopol is to be raised, and also
the Western powers had received a commi*
nication of startling interest from Get many,
THE SEA OP AiSOFP.
!
Better Timds.
need to
From present! indications we sire' ind
believe the year ’56 bids fair to bie one of grea
ter prosperity than any we have had in a long
time; from the tone of the press everywhere,
there is certaitily a “better day coming.”
The “New York Commercial Lisjt,’’ say4:
August opens encouragingly in a financial and
commercial aspect. The comparatively cool
weather wo are enjoying, together! with more fa-
vorable harvest reports, imparts a buoyancy and
spirit to business^ circles truly gratifying after
the languor with which July was characterized.
More confidence pervades the various (jtepart-
monts of business, and there are agencies at work
to facilitate an active and prosperous^ Fall tra ie.
Pronjinent among these is the dectind of i(ll des-
criptions of P)rov|sions to a standard
bles the laborer and the artizan to I
exhausting the whole of their i
that farmers are amply! rew
******#•«
The fortifications of the Allies aroimd the Sea
of Azoff were progressing.
achy mil had descended from the mountains,
and threatened the rear of the Russians.
RIVER 1NLKLUOENCE.
Louisville, Aug. 24.—The river here is now
tailing slowly, with scant 5 feet 3 inches iu the
canal.
Cincineati, Aug. 24.—Tbe river is at a staul
here. Flour is quoted, with a few sales of super-
fine, at $6 62Ro£$6 75 per barrel.
THE PHILADELPHIA SLAVE CASE.
/ Philadelphia, Aug. 9.—True bills having
been found against Passmore Williamson and six
colored men, for assault and battery on Colonel
Wheeler, in carrying off his slaves, their case*
were called to-day in the Criminal Court for trial,
but were finally postponed tilTthe 27th inst.
APPOINTMENTS BY THE PRESIDENT.
Andrew B. Moore, of Alabama, to be associate
justice of tho supreme court of the Territory of
Kansas, iu the place of Rush Elmore, removed.
Townserd Harris, of New York, is to be con-
sul general of the United States at Japan.
LATER FROM CALIFORNIA.
New York, Aug. 25.—The steamship George
Law has arrived bere with a fortnight’s later
intelligence from California and the Pacific.
She brings $1,300,000 in specie on freight,
arid a full compliment ot passengers.
The elections were absorbing the entire atten-
tion of thj community of California. Noting else
of a local character ia written about in the
FROM RUSSIAN Aire^at*.--------
the
Among tho news from the, brought i,vi
of JHfenoo, and ettoented with the Uood of our
revolutionary sires, ind their patriotic foreign
ship Charles Morgan leaves for
For Matagorda,..............136
For Saluria,.............t.. 40 2184.
being more than the original cargo, by 100 bar-
rels. Now wo suspect that tho difference that
is shown in the prices of Freight by said schooner
against the 11. * M. Steamers was calculated by
tho aforesaid arethmetician, and comes, about as
near being correct as the above sum.
Again, the Herald says “The nearest wav
wagons can reach Powder Horn from Victoria is
to follow the Lavacca road until they get within
eight or ten miles of Lavaca, and then go direct
to the bridge on Chocolate, and by that road it is
from fourteen to eixteen miles further wagoning
than to Lavaca, nine miles of which will bear
comparison with the worst portion of tbe road
from Lavaca to Victoria.”
Now does .not the Herald know that the most
direct road from Victoria to Powder Dorn does
not cross Chocolate bridge, at all, at all, that it
does not intersect the Lavaca road until within a
mile of Victoria, that the measured distance be-
tween Powderhorn and Victoria is 39 miles and
a fraction, twenty one miles of which is a dry
sandy road, and that the measured distance be-
tween Lavaca and Victoria is thirty-two miles,
thirty-one of which is hog waMow and that of tho
very worst kind; it has this however to recom-
mend it, it is certainly the widest road we ever
saw, being from one to two and a half miles wide,
and, verily, in some places we think it must be
five miles in width.
Now our figures show that the difference be-
tween Victoria and Powder Horn, and Victoria
and Lavaca, is only between1 seven and eight
miles in favor of Lavaca insteadof "from fourteen
to sixteen as the Herald has it, and when the
quality of the road is considered, we believe that
it is in favor of our place—^ad that K 1s all
from Lavaca, instead of Powder lloru.
-There is one canons feet that we can
tempting the resumption of new enterprises which
re-open many closed avenues ot | employment
thus happily’ dissipating the apprehensions of
having another “Hard Winter" herein!
elsewhere.
The abundant harvests will enable! the Country
storekeeper to extend his City purchases, which
will in turn enablb the City merchant to recover
in some degree nfe losses during the ruinous de-
pression of the past two years. Thus, with| teem-
ing storehouses in tlie agricultural districts oper-
ating in conjunction wilh financial ease an< l mer-
cantile prosperity in qti our great marts cT com-
merce, the Country at mrge is enabled to look for-
to ' a most ! au9Di
ward to a most1 auspicious futurje
prosperity and wealth standing out
against the desolating wars and roi|i
edness of the Old World. o
E>eace,
bold relief
ihdebt-
4
Abdication and Flight of Santa Anna.
--—i-j,-mil.
By tho arrival of the stearashp (Crfizaba from
Vera Crez, which place she left on! the 22d, we
are in possession of dates from the <nty of Mexico
tihe c ty of
previous to
ve a! gov-
Vegja, the
loscn! their
hich
puce wsued
lie several
i two dele-
nf choosing
This
to mention, viz; that notwithstanding
is some seven miles nearer to Lavaca, than it is
to Powder Horn, nine tenths of its merchants,
who are shrewd, intelligent business men, prefer
to do their business through the letter piece
Dickens “Household Words."_The Septem-
ber number of this interesting “monthly? is on
our table. The folWing is a table of^ta con-
tents. Smuggled Relations, French Soldiers in
Camp, Specimens of the Alchemists,
cy, Chips—Deadly Shafts, Curiosities of London
Under the Sea, a Dear Cup of Coffee, Th© School
of the Fairire, Latest Intelligence from Spirits, i
Vision of Hours, Cate and Dogs, Back at Trinity
Rioe, 1% Nephews, thf tBlow Mask, Whit
tington inServia, the Angel, moreAleheiny the
Audit Board, the Old Boar’s Head, ltoutine.' Mr
PhilifcStabbes, the Roving Englis*^ &o«l
Giurgevo to Bucharest, a Dip in the^rine, Chip
Pension's, Alexander the Km, Lptent Gar-
dens, Unfortunate James Daley,
ests and Fisheries, a Legal Fiction, County Guv
My Garden Walks, mere Grist to tfcS
fOm tbe Past, a Poet’s Home^Wigs^
to tie 19th.
Santa Anna abdicated, and 1
Mexico on the 9lh inst. On the 811
his departure, he published a decred, darning the
Judge of tho Supretpb-Lkmrt, and Cieneral S&las
and General Carrefa his sucoeesorstH t f
The peopfp, however, would not
ernment of'his choice, and Gen.
hero of Resaoa do la Palma, was
leader. Tbe plan of Ayulta was atfop
is the Alvarez plani Gen. La Vega i*t
his proclamation to the governors <f
departments, directing them toappeii
gates from each Sth(e, for the
a provisional President for,
all occurred on the* 13,1
gates assembled and elected Don ......
Provisional President, who at oncq t n
the discharge ol th£ duties of the 5
was one of the patji
being Governorioftiie District and Was of
opposed to the revolution.
On the evening of the lJ
Anna arrived in \Vt
a---.— — ——— —ui iigpt &r-
Auxi*> iu which hitTtbake^hia
native country, states that ‘
exije for hf .....
On the moroing of the 17th,
quietly embarked On the war
which soop after
On the 19th, after the
Anna, for Havana, in
authorities of Vera
nna smrea 10 ,v araUraj, esoorted % IUsV.ife?
............, , mRP** to*
gammon about the teamster’s prefering to haul On the fo
from TjivanL instead of Pnminp Tlnn. Alma, in wll
Schooner Looked nm
N. Y. Schooners are daily looked for in
with Merchandize for the interior. We
tbe plan of
Santa Anna
Havana, with his
Iturbide. On the
tbe regiment of “
pronounce! against
of their officers, anc
to join La Have,
The next morriir g _
say 200 men, marched ont
of the Governor, to
On Sandav. I9tf.
the shoulder f JWj
I ace sometime* taken
iK ten Livw, and (I**
and hay a box of Dr. 1
t
■I WILiiiuk ol toe ues-
traction of Petropaulovski by the Allies.
Indianola Chapter No. 35.—This Chapter
was re-organiZed on Saturday the 25th inst, un-
der its charter’ and its officers were elected.
NE\V ADVERTISEMENTS."
Public Safe of 78 Powder Horn Lots.
AN MONDAY, the 5th day of November, next,
at the Cassimir House, the undersigned, aj °
agent for the proprietor, will sell at public auc-
tion
' \v;
. :■
J
75 TOWK LOTS, |U
situated from the resdence of Cbl. Baldridge to
the neighborhood of Mr. Jno. Swarts, front and U
rear. These lots are well situated—also lot a
ih block 21 near Huek’s lumber yard. They
are all on the D. N. White survey, and are held
uuder that title, through whiph peaceable posses-
sion has been held for over ten years before suit
was brought 4
- Tems of Sale.—Onb half cash. Tho other
half (to show the confidence the proprietor has
in the title,) to be paid when the suit is decided in
favor of White’s title, without interest. And if
the suit should be gained by the oilier party no
further payment to be niide. The papers to he
drawn with this understanding between the pro-
prietor and the purchaser. For particulars see
hand bills. JAMES ASHWORTH.
» aug31-10wpds Agent.
f,
C. M. COEN <fe CO,
Shipping Aaents, Forwarding and Com- .<
mission Merchants,
POWDER noit.V WHARF, IHD1AKOLA,
e*t prices paW for country produce.
A1-- •
ADOLPHUS MYLIUS, M. D.
_ f-*1 y * i c i a n and Sargeou
Q”gg bi*:****“• to ‘he Citizens of todUnota wJ
hs. oifif e is at his residence, where he ms! KM
uulesa Professionally absent. t
7 “I?* l*>°r gratis, between the tews* 1
7 and 8 o cloek, A. It. faurfl-rl-20-1 r?
Notice.
not called for within ttuu Unw, # **'
--- the other heir*. You win there***
H^^at ooei, aa I am anxious h) Wm
**• f’®*—*4 RUBBKN MOO**.
*X or .€ th* Estate ot Martin Mart* dec*.
%
CELEBRATED liter pilia
fuppUntedaU others foe the <*•
eSfectj are so salutary ami ***•
««** tetee same thneeo perfectly’ ante, that it to aotw^
prtotog that kte^Srtegacauih, all Other*. Invented hf »
... Hi if .-JUL----...a who practiced to*
region of country fo which Heptto, or hirer Comp**,*
peculiarly formic mnj common .and wh. had
ia ^coreringtheHnredtonfa, nod prop«>rtionlnR their <fo»-
«JteVth«na Pills are peculiarly adapted to every tor«
dtotoee, and oerer fan to alleviate th* most otetiaato*^-
name among the fooetictor* Ot mankind. Neonefo»*<
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i
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