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iQ HACKELFORD SAMPSON & CO. have just received
Othe following from New Orleans and offer the same for sale
at reduced prices:
Iron 15000 lbs flat rod square slab and hoop iron any
variety of size. .
Plough Moulds 100 Swede & Tennessee plough moulds
Steel American German Blister and cast steel.
Corn Mills 36 steel corn Mills assorted sizes.
' -Currv Combs 175 doz English curry combs various qual
'h."CS" Chat ns 3. casks ox chains.
iEalFlranF 2000 lbs-. Sad Irons.
- 'Blacksmith's Hamners 1200 Jbs Smith's hammers from
2 to 12 lbs each.
Weeding HoesI tasks cast steel and Carolina hoes.
- Spades and Shovels Ames' Adams' and Taylor's spades
and shovels.
TBellows vices anvils axes hatches stock and dies scythe
' blades sickles collars hames saddlery &c &c.
The -principal of the above were purchased on debenture
and will be sold at New Orleans prices transportation added.
feb-15 479 :
'TUJSTRECEIVCD; 50oz. Sulph. auinine
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30 lbs.Englh Calomel uu id upium
2 bbls Castor Oil 10 oz Morphine
10 oz Hydreodate Potassa 901bs Cream of Tartar
40 lbs Mustard 1 bbl Alcohol
901bs Sulphur 10 lbs Lubelea Seed
20 lbs Cayenne pepper oy
.julj 9449
J D GROESBEECK.
-? NOTICE.
T HE business at Tallow Town is being carried on by the
uhaersignid on his own account and will continu it as
heretofore. . -
jy 19 d3w2i M. H. SHEPARD.
ADMINISTRATRIX' NOTICE.
LETTERS of administration on the estate of Thomas "W.
Nibbs having been granted the undersigned by the Hon.
Probate Court ot Fort Bend countyat'ihe June term 1845
thereof all persons having claims against said estate are noti-
fied that unless presented withra the time prescribed by law
they will be barred and persons indebted thereto are request-
ed to make immediateiiayment.
jy-33w6t REBECCA NIBBS
- Adm'x ofT. W. NIBBS.
'if OST My conditional certificate No. 19 and uncondition
JLi al certificate No 31 2d class issued June 8 1741 by ihe
Board of Land Commissioners of Harris county. Unless heerd
of in 90 days I will apply to the proper officers fpr a duplicate
fy 23 wDt ' WM. JONES.
'TVTOTICE. The subscriber having been appointed Admin-
il istrator of the estate of Proctor P. Hoseley notifies all
persons indebted to said estate to make.immediate payment and
those having claims to presentvthem within the time prescribed
by law or they will will be .barred.
3y23w6t-501 J. Dr. CORDOVA.
1 Republic of Texas. ) James Morgan vs
County of Liberty J Joseph W. Scales.
Bill in Equity.
The plaintiff in this cause having filed his bill of complaint
in the District Court of Liberty county and having as by law
required made oath that the defendant is anon-resldent of the
.Repqblic this is to notify said defendant Joseph W. Scales to
"appear at the next term of the District Court for the county of
Liberty to bahnlden on the last Monday of August A. D.
1845 to answer said complaint or judgment will be taken by
default against him.
) jy 23 w5c J. MORGAN.
LOST LAND GLALV1S.
LOST or mislaid the following described land certificates
belonging to the estate of John Beldin deceased to wit :
The headright certificates of John .Letcher Joshua Minett
Joseph Reynolds Wm. Vincant MandredWood Eli Phillips
Christopher Bruff and J. A. Sonthmayd each for one-third
Jeague of land 1st class issued by the Board of Com'rs of Har-
...risbuig county. Also the headrighi certificates of Amos Ed-
'son John Frederick J Kalen Wm. Graham and Joseph "W.
Marion each for one-third league of land 1st class issued by
the Board of Com'rs for Harnsburgtounty to John Beldin as
rtheir assignee ; and the headright certificate of John Robert-
son for 640 acres issued issued June 7th- 1841 by Harris
'county Board of Land Commissioners. Notice is hereby giv-
en that unless the same are found within ninety days applica-
tion will be made to the proper officer for duplicates.
; J. DE CORDOVA
jy 16 w9t Adm'r estate of John Beldin.
- TEN DOLLARS REWARD.
t QTRATED on the night of the 9th of Junefrom the pasture
1 O of the subscriber a large checnut sorrel horse about 16 or
17'hands high no brand on him awhile saddle mark on his
back. The same horse was formerly owned by Dr. Tayloj
of Galveston.
jy9w6t J. W. SCHRIMPF.
ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE.
LETTERS of administration having been granted to the
undersigned on thesuccession of H. Dunbar by the Judge
of Probate of the county of Victoria on the 24lh of February
J1845. notice is hereby given to all persons having just claims
"against said succession to present the same properly authenti-
within the time prescribed by law and all persons indebted to
said estate to make immediate payment.
M. DUNBAR
Victoria 20th April 184g jy 9 wGt Adm'r.
THREE CYPRESS CISTERNS
1.000 gallons each fo sale by
jane. 18 dw-tf M H. SHEPERD & CO.
BEEF CATTLE.
The subscribers are prepared to purchase any
quantity of Beef Cattle at Tallow Town near
Houston upon the same liberal terms as last
-year to wit SI 25 pei hundred payable in cash en delivery.
may7w8t M. H. SHEPHERD & CO.
Paints Oils and Dytsluffs.
7t ff gallons liueed Oil 150 lbs Logwood
- J.U U 50 kegs wliitelead ' lOOfuslick
400 lbs. Spanish brown 300 lbs. Alum
300" vecetianred 40 gallons copal varnish
v 4 bbls. whiting 40 lbs. glue
- 300 lbs. copperas chrom yd ow chrome
50 " madder green paint brushes
50 " indigo litbrage red lead
Sand paper pumice stone &c
Just received anc for sale at pricesto suit purchasers by
apllgd&w438 J. D. GROESBEECK .
REGULAR LINE OF STAGES PROM HOUS
a" TON TO WASHINGTON.
THE subscriber
having the co-
ntract for carrying
ttie mail will run
regular with a car-
riage lo accommo-
date passengers.
Leave Washington
every Monday at 6
A.M.
Leave Houston every Thursday at 6 A. M through each way
la 30'hours. J. F. BROWN Proprietor
- AGENTS: - ' J
jmar 14 W. W. MAS5IE Washington.
' A. WICKES Houston.
. SANDS' SABSAPARILLA.
JUST RECEIVED 1 gross Sands' Sarsaparilla
100 ozs French Cuinine
100 " Calomel
1 bl Cream Tartar
-4 ' ! 150 lbs Camphor
f And for sale low by J. D. GROESBEECK.
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IKES. Old Port and Claret just .received and lor sale by
octlS J. D. GROESBEECK.
The Laws
Ofthc9lh Congress just published and for sale at this
'Office. " .!". March 19.
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HOUSTON
From the Houston Star.
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TO THE MEMORY OF
COL K L. ANDERSON
Vice President of Texas.
(Died July 4lh 1845.)
Hark! hark! the light winds sing-a requiem now
And nature seems to mourn his loss
Who's sparkling dark eye flash'd beneath a brow
Who's light has gone to seek His cross;
Yes the patriot statesman he is dead
And left the busy scenes of life ...
To mingle with the souls of those who tread
Free free from worlds dark erring strife.
A short time since within the council hall
His voice there cheer'd the people's will;
But now that heart has ceas'd to hear their call."
And wails His mandate to fulfil.
This mighty spirit came when lowering cloud
Fill'd freemen's hearts with doubt and fear;
But with a majesty so great a2d proud
That liberty then woke with cheer.
His transit has been like a comet in its flight
Who's dazzling beauty awes the mind;
And makes it feel the darkness when from sight
Had left ah ! left it sadly blind;
But when this noble soul it bade adieu
The shouts df freemen sounded loud
The deeds of them who gave to you
The stars and stripes that float b'o proud.
Transcendent thought that heart so true so brave
Should then mount to meet the souls of them
That fought for liberty o'er the tyrant's grave
Who's power and might they scarce could stem.
Ah ! he now slpeps the silent sleep of death
But sacred shall his metn'ry be
And whilst the sea doth roll a wave our breath
Shall sing thy praise son of the free.
We mourn ah ! mourn the widow's lonely lot
The orphan and the orphan's pait
But there's a solace in the thought He's not forgot
But reign's triumphant in the heart
Tbo' he died ore the union knot was tied
And left a h.ippy union won
We know his worth in both were strongly try'd
As father patriot Anderson. C. B. S.
August 2d 1845
The Age of the Ladies A pleasant cheerful lively
generous charitable-minded woman is never old. Her
heart is as young al 60 or 70. as it was at 18 or 20 ; and
they who are old at 60 ot 70 are not made old by time.
They are made old by the ravages of passions and feelings
of an unsocial and ungenerous nature which have can-
kered their minds wrinkled their spirits and withered
their souls. They are made old by envy by jealousy by
hatred by suspicions hy unchaiitablc feelings; by slan-
dering scandalizing ill bred habits; which if they avoid
they preserve their youth to the very last: so that the
child shall die as the scriptures say a hundred years old.
There are many old women who pride themselves on
being 18 or 20. They carry all the characteristics of
ago about them without even suspecting that they are old
women. Nay they even laugh and sneer and make
themselves merry with such mirth as malice can enjoy
by sarcastic reflections upon the age of others who may
step in a modesty between them and admiration or break
down the monopoly of attraction whhh thpy have enjoyed
for a season either in imagination or reality. Pride is
an old passion and vanity is as gray as the mountains.
They are old women that have much of either. They
are dry heartless dull indifferent They want the well
spring of youthful affVction which is always cheerful
always active always engaged in some labor of love
which is calculated to promote and distribute enjoyment.
They pine repine sigh and groan ; they yawn and
stretch themselves they mtfrmur grumble long fret?
frown ; they snap snarl carp and vapor. They go lo
bed in the morning; they breakfast in bed ; they find fault
with this that and t'other thing; they make even their
own children run away from them and take refuge in the
cellar or the kitchen or any other place that may rid
them of the old woman ! And the children on such oc-
casions also call them old by an instinct of nature. Old
woman old grim face old gripe or any other nick-name
with the epithet old prefixed to it is as commonly applied
bv children to bad tempered mothers nurses or aunts as
pretty kind sweet dear and other youthful epithets are
instinctively applied to the good humored grandam with
her wrinkled face. There is an old age of ihe heart
which is possessed by many who have no suspicion that
there is any thing old about them; and there is a youth
which never grows old a Love who is ever a boy a
Psyche who is ever a girl. London Despatch.
Sorrow There is sorrow of the world that deserves
little or no pity. And there is a sorrow too deep to be
soothed but in the rest of the grave This is the sorrow
felt by her who sees the husband of her early afflictions
going fast to the drunkard's grave and to the abodes of
blackness and darkness forever ? We can see our friends
suffer: we may stand by and witness the amputation of a
limb and we may pity ; but when we see that the suffer-
ing of the body is but a prelude to the pain that must fol-
low: when we see the being we have loved deliberately
sacrificing both body and soul to a demon that shows no
pity to a demon that has slain his thousands and tens of
thousands and delights in carnage and blood; it is that
will cause n sorrow which mocks all consolation. It is a
worm that never dies. To lean on the trembling arm of
the tottering inebriate to sleep on the couch with the
starling troubled maddened wo begone hopeless drunk-
ard are living abiding sorrows that can die only with
life itself! And such sorrows poor woman feels and en-
dures because she cannot die because she was constitu-
ted to suffer till the attenuated thread of life has spun its
last fibre and the bleeding heart has throbbed its last.
What wont the Dutch do nexll
Labor Saving Machine. Everything in this age
shows the onward march of improvement and the mighty
struggles and attempts of genius to develope its vast
resources. Among other proofs of this is one in the
neighborhood of the Poor House where an ingenuous
Dutchman having an eye to the value of time has con-
structed a Water Wheel driven by the little brook of that
neighborhood which is just about sufficient to rock a
cradlermi to that duty has he put it. When the plump
baby with a full stomach is disposed to seek the arms of
the rosy God the machinery is applied to the cradle the
baby stowed snugly away and the willing water tickled
at its novel duly rocks and rocks and rocks the cradle
while the babe slumbers sweetly and Mynheer and his
Vrau labor industriously patterns of content and genius.
Who will not say that the world is not going ahead with
a rush 1 Texas Stale Paper.
Method in Madness. A lunatic in Raleigh N. C re-
cently penned the following stirring lines and srnt them
for publication to the editor of the Raleigh Register :
Tell them I AM Jehovah said
cTo Moses while Earth heard in dread
"And smitten to the heart
"At once above beneath aTound
"All nature without voice or sound
"Replied Oh! Lord THOU ART!"
Published Weekly?
WEDNESDAY AUGUST 13
From the N. O. Picayune July 29.
riieat Fire in New Xorlr.
Sunday morning's maiIbroughLiis the particulars of a
most calamitous fire attended with loss ofjife which
broke out in New York at 3 o'clock on the morning of
the 19th inst. and which at 9 afteThaving swept over a
considerable wing of the city was raging with unabated
viojence. How extensive may have been its ravages in
full and finally we are unable to say the Norihern mail
having failed yesterday from beyond Charleston.
Wecopy'particulars from the N. Y. Tribune omitting
some locaf dpiail noting that whilst that paper sets down
the loas at five millions the' Herald estimates it at ten
millions:
From the Tribune. 19ih inst.
Second Edition 5 o'clock. A. M One of the most
lerrific fires that ever occurred in this city broke out this
morning about 3 o'clock. It originated we believe in a
soap chandlery in New street and communicated to the
store alongside and thence to the rear of a building in
Broad street which contained a large quantity of saltpetre.
The explosion which took place from the ignition of this
combustible matter was tremendous and was felt and
neara in almost every part ot the cttv. Blue flames
issued through ihe ruins and extended over the entire
; street broid as it is say 100 feel and communicated the
fire to the stores on the opposite side.
Third Edition half past 7 o'clock A. M. We have
this moment returned frem the scene of the conflagration
with eye heart and brain opprpssed with the sublime and
"appalling spertacTe. The whole area between Broad
street Exchange Place Beaver street and Broadway and
' up Broadway to the Waverly House is one vast atnphi
f theatre of blood-red fhme swepping like a hurricane on
fire falling walls smoke and cinders flying like gigantic
uiuieuui an ways ai once. i ne names nave approactietl
within Iwo doors of the Public Store. No. 12 Broad
street containing nn immense amount of valuable goods
of all sorts and it will hardly be saved. The fire it is bp-
lieved will not stop short of William street and the Ex-
change; and the fierce n ind which has been ratsi d by the
terrific force of the fluncs is driving the confl ignition
furiously toward the South and East. There 13 no calcu-
lating where it may be stopped this side of ihe water.
On Broadway the roof and walls of iho Waverley
House had just fallen in and the eager flames are licking
about the doors and windows of the adjoining buildings
and darting their fiery tongues toward the Globe Hotel.
j Below the tall and costly buildings down to the Boston
and Providence Depot are all in a mass of flame and
H look like an immense glass-furnace while ever and anon
t thunders a tottering wall sending up a column of flame
and burning dust which spreads like a pall of firp over
the sky and showers a hail stoiin of giving coals and flam
in? brands over the crowd which hornbl' throng and
suffocate the streets in every direction for a mile around.
The Di'pot is now on fire and a tremendous rush takes
t place among the trampling crowd as ihe rumor spreads
that the building contains a large quantity of spirits
The wind increases its strength aiad fury and now after
j blowing in a whirlwind about liie holiest ffdine sels in a
steady current to the South-East. The Adelphi one of
the loftiest and most extensive buildings in'lhis part of the
city mustalso inevitably go. Indeed there is littledoubt
that the whole of Broadway lying between Exchange
New and Beaver streets and the Bowling Green will cer-
tainly bo destroyed. This block is almost exactly in the
I shape of a molar tooth with the prong lying upward and
tne lace tronting on tne uowiing ureen.
The entire block between Broad and New streets from
Exchange to Beaver is a heap of smoking and blazing
' ruins. Nota building is left standing. On ihe south-east
corner of Broad and Beaver which forms the point of a
t large triangular block of heavy mercantile houses one
of the most valuable perhaps in the city the flames are
raging with unparalleled fury and we do not see how a
single brick is to be saved.
The sidewalk in front of Old Trinity is filled higher
I than your head with a bulwark of beds bureaus chests
tables kettles clocks sauce-pans portraits vases giidi
i rons easy chairs meal bags counterpanes potatoes and
i every thing else that was ever seen or heard of.
j The Bowling Green is full of similar n alerials while
I forty or fifty poor families are trying to dress themselyes
3 washing their faces in the founiajuif and hushing the cries
of their children. c
I mu -ii. 1 r ii. r.:t.!-j .
j. ne cms irum wreyuu iuuk irigiueneu inio lameness
and cower amid the flakes of fire'that fall on every side.
In the-Batlery there are acresupon1 acres of household
goods scattered upon the crass each little pile attended by
the out-driven family. Here is a pinecradle roughly
rocking a pale squalid-looking infant; there a group of
smutched faces refresh themselves fiom a broken whiskey
bottle. Such" a scene has never been dreamed or ima-
gined. The glare of the conflagration lies thick and ruddy upon
ihe bay and the red light of the new-risen sun mingles
ghastily with the redder and brighter hue of the flames
The whole city seems pouring into this fiery and hissing
funnel in a sleady stream.
worse and worse!
Ten Minutes befoie 8. The following are the boun-
daries of the conflagration at this moment. It is still rag-
ing wilh unabated fury toward thesouth ferry.
Down Broad to Stone street and running down Stone
street to the ferry.
Down Beaver street to within three doors of William
with the almost certainty that it must all go down to
William.
On Bcoadway from the Waverly House down BroaJ-
way to No. 4 opposite lo Bow Imy Green and going
down Whitehall street which will in all probability be
swepi to the Battery.
The magnificent block of buildings in which Mr. S.
Whitney &c reside is exprcted lo go. Thesp are some
eight or ten of the most beautiful residences in the city.
A man was carried off by-two firemen belonging to No.
15- who had become deranged from his sister being
burned to death and the loss of all his property. Wc
tried every way lo gt-t n unes and moro particulars of
this shoclcing catastrophe tut were totally unable.
Touch not Handle not" One of those meddling
gentlemnn who like Thomas of old are never satisfied
until they have put their finger on every thing they see
was not lonir since observed by a friend with I113 hand
"done up" to use an every day phrase in some half do-
zen handkerchiefs. He accosted him with the usual
question
"What ails your hand ?"
A Why" said he "tother day I went into the mill to see
'em saw clapboards and I siw a thing whirling round so
swift and it looked so smooth and slick that I thought
I'd juU touch my finger to it and see how it felt and
don't you think it took the eend of it right off and theni
they hollored out You mus nt touch that its the carcilar
saw that saws all the clapboards;' but they spoke half a
second too late the eend of my finger was gone and I
never seed il since.
A Mastodon The Newark Advertiser says that an
entire Mastodon skeleton has just been completed in that
city from ihe bones recently found in a small pond on the
top of a mountain near Hacketts town Warren county.
It measures 22 feet in length about 11 feet high and 15
feet in girth. From the fact that the bones of six of these
huge animals were found embedded together in the depo-
sitc'of a pond on the highest grounds of the State (evident-
ly of different ages from the'calf up) the proprietors con-
jecture that they perished there in the flood. One of the
skeletons crumbled to pieces when first exposed to the air;
parts of the other five arc preserved. The one that has
been carefully put together is verynearly perfect and
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VOL.
presents striking idea of the huge dimensions of that great
monster of the animal world which probably became ex-
tinct in the general Deluge.
From the N. O. Picayune of the 30th ultimo.
FOREIGN NEWS.
By yesterday's mail we had the letters and papers
brought by the steamship Britannia as well as the North-
ern papers with a digest of the news. The intelligence's
from London and Liverpool to the 4lh in;t. It possesses
no feature of political importance. It seems to be with
the British press and jublic in reference to Texas and
our Oregon affairs as it was with the jilted lover in the
song :
"Oh no we never mention them
Their names are never heard."
The advance in the price of cotton and the activity in
the trade are to the people of this latitude the most inter-
esting information furnished by; ihis arrival.
The Britannia was fourteen and a half days on the pas-
sage; she had 105 passengers. She arrived at Boston via
Halifax on the morning of the 19th inst.
The Cambria was advertised to leave Liverpool on the
same day (19th) for Boston.
The sales of Cotton had been large and the demand
active; but as the stock on hand "and coming would bo
more than sufficient to meetthe utmost speculative inquiry
.prices had not improved in the ratio of the sales which
mr me weetr precening me sailing 01 me .Britannia
'amounted to upwards of 40000 bales an average of
more than 6000 bales per day. In the manufacturing
districjs the handswere all employed and so busy were
the mills that additional hands had to be sought from the
agricultural districts and from the seaports.
The overland mail from India arrived on the 1st. The
'news is not important. The news from China is lo the
20th of March.
The Bhoogiies have been at their old trade again plun-
dering ail around just as if there had never been an ex-
pedition among their mountains and Bejar Khan was
still at their head. In attacking the Murrees they appear
to have had the worst of ithaving been defeated with con-
siderable slaughter and the booty they were bearing off
retaken. The robber tribes destined for permanent expa-
triation had crossed the Indus al Sukkur about the 24th
of April for their new location in the Khyrpore territo-
ries. The troubles in the Punjaub continue unabated.
In Parliament symptoms of the close of the session is
indicated by the withdrawal of bills. The pressure of
railway business has been unprecedented and not half
disposed of.
There is every reason to believe that the Irish Colle-
giate Bill will prove a failure in the working. The
Irish members headed by O'Connell who have come
over to Pailiament in connection with the measure have
not succeeded in persuading the Government to accede to
the requirements of the Irish Catholic Bishops.
On the 30th ult. when the House! went into Committee
on the Bill Mr. O'Connell read a strong letter from the
Archbishop of Tuam Dr. M'Hale condemnatory of the
bill. The Government has made some concessions but
not enough to satisfy the Irish ecclesiastics. The bone
of contention is the religious education of the pupils. Mr.
O'Connell requires the presence of the Episcopalian Pres
byterian and Catholic clergymen in the new colleges so
that the religious equality of all may be unexceptionable.
Lord John Russell seeing that the measure will notbfe
regarded 'n Ireland as an "olive branch" expressed his
doubts whether it ought not to be withdrawn on the third
reading. But the bill in all probability will pass.
The correspondence between Lord Aberdeen the Fo-
reign Secretary and the Spanish Ambassador the Duke
deSolomayor relative lo the admission inio England of
the slave grown sugars of Cuba and Porto Rico has been
laid on the table of Parliament The correspondence is
somewhat voluminous. Lord Aberdeen holds that the
existing treaties between England and Spain do not give
or guarantee the right to admit into the ports of Great
Britain at the reduced standard of duties the sugar of
Plavana and Porto Rico.
The St. Petersburg journals bring news dated Warsaw
the 27th of May of the Emperor's safe arrival at the for-
tress of Ivangorod in company with the Viceroy of Po-
land Prince Paskevitch and of his Majesty's visit to the
Alexandria institution of young females at Pulava.
The Paris National states that M.jGuizot had attack of
illness which caused some alarm to ffis friends.
One of the female Iowa Indiar.s O ke-our-mi wife of
Little Wolf died at Paris on the 25lh from grief for the
loss of her young child in England.
Ireland. A conflict had taken place at Ballinhassig
seven miles from Cork between .the police and peasantry
when eight of the country people were shot dead and
many wounded. A great flood had covered the country
five miles in extent between Broadford and Glenomera
which caused great distress At a Repeal meeting on the
23d Mr. O'Connell read an address to the Repealers dis-
suading them from any inteference with the procession
which the Orangemen intended to hold on the 1st and
12th of July.
Algiers Official despatches received by the French
Government announce that the unconquerable Abd el
Kader has nol only left the territory of Morocco but that
he has succeeded in rousing to arms all the principal
tribes about Mostaganem. He has had a bailie with
three Irench battalions under Col. St Amand and
though he has been defeated as he always is in a pitched
battle Marshal Bugeaud considered the movement so
formidable that he has abandoned his task of disarming
the tribes upon the banks of the river Cheliff and march
cd to meet him.
Madame Laret recently ascended in her balloon from
Avignon. The balloon dropped into the Rhone and but
for The exertions of a young man who jumped into the
river to her rescue she would have been drowned.
The United Service Gazettce states that in consequence
of the massacre of the crew of ihe Wasp on the coast of
Africa it has been determined to give no quarter to sla-
vers offering the slightest resistance.
Mr. N. P. Willis had an interview wilh the Earl of
Dalhousie on the 28th ult. at the office of the Board of
Trade.
Col. Todd the American Minister at St. Petersburg
so deservedly popular in the Russian capital has been
appointed a member of the Imperial Agricultural Society
an honor never before confered upon a foreigner.
A Beautiful Sentiment "However dark and discon-
solate the path o"f life may seem to any man there is an
hour of deep and undisturbed repose at hand whtn the
body may sink into a dreamless slumber. Let not the
imagination be startled if his resting place insteae of be-
ing a bed of down shall be a bed ol giavel or the rocky
pavement of a tomb. No matter wheie the poor remains
of a man may be the repose is deep and undisturbed the
sorrowful bosom heaves no more the tears aie dried up
in their fountains; the aching head is at lest and thestor-
my waves of earthly tribulation pass unherdrd over the
place of graves. Let armies engage in fearful conflict
over the very bosom of the dead not one of the sleepers
hear the spirit stiring trumpt or respond to the rending
shouts of victory.
"How quiet those countless millions slumber in the
armsoflheir mother earth! The voice of thunder shall
not awaken them ; the loud cry of ihe elements ihe
wjn(s the waves nor even the giant tread of the earth-
quake shall be able to cause on inquietude in ihe chamber
of death. They shall rest and pass away the last great
battle shall be fought and then a silver voice at first heard
shall rise to a tempest and penetrate the voicelrss grave.
For the trumpet shall sound and the dead shall hear his
voice."
or $7 at the end of tl& year
X. NO. 33-WHOLE NO. 504.
The writer of the following note arrived here on the
28th ult from Ft. Jesnp which place he left on the 22d.
He was some two weeks ago sent by Major Donelson
with despatches to the commandant at that post. He is
now on his way to Corpus Christi with despatches from.
Col. Twiggs of the Diagoons to Gen Taylor who is
supposed to have landed about this time at that point.
. . NaiRcg.
Washington June 28 1845.
To the Editor of the Register:
Dear Sir As there seems to be so many contradic-
tory reports as to the number of U. States troops destined
for Texas and the points they will occupy I herewith
give you as correct a statement of their number apd desu
nation as my means of information will enable me to do
which you can publish if you think proper.
About eight hundred Infantry under the command of
Brig. Gen. Z. Taylor have gone by way of New Orleans
to Corpus Christi and have probably landed at tbatplace
about this lime.
Seven companies of 2d Regt. Dragoons numbering;
about four hundred under the command of Col. Twiggs
started from Fort Jesup on the 24th inst. forour western
frontier; they will cross the Brazos at this place. I do
nof think they can possibly be here before the tenth of
next month ; the roads'are rough and water very scarce 1t
and so divided that some days their marches must be
short. There will be near a hundred waggons and car-
riages" in company which will also much retard their
march.
They will proceed from this by way of La Grange
Gonzales jind Seguin to San Antonio if orders are not
received before reaching that place to turn their marclrto
some other point.
The Dragoons will be most heartily welcomed by our
citizens upon the western frontier a finer looking .seYof
soldiers commanded by more noble looking officers 1 have
never seen. The sight of CommdL Twiggs alone would
be sufficient to put to flight a regiment of Mexican caval-
The presence of this regiment upon our frontier will
ensure protection and peace to those who have so long de-
fended themselves against against both Mexicans and In-V
dians.
The regiment will be detained in crossing the Brazos
some two or three days; they will require about 300
bushels of corn and at least 15000 pounds of hay or '-
fodder per day; a good market will also be found for
eggs poultry bulter fruit melons &c &c.
Very respectfully &c. .
H. G. CATLETT. M
Land Measure Spanish French American.-
Having been frequently applied to lor information in te
lation to the land measure used by the governments of f
France and Spain during their occupancy of lhertertito- "
ry now occupied by the States of L'luisiana.'Mississippi t'
Arkansas and Missouri we take this occasion to'lay be-1
fore our readers the following table an original paperH
furnished by the Spanish authorities at New Orlrans. tg """
the first Territorial Government of Mississippi now ra
our possession through the kindness of a friend to wfionr!
we are indebted for this and murh other valuable infor-1
mation.
American ana rrenci liana measure
- T -.T
As 15 is to
16 so is Amer foot to the Paris foot.
" 16.05 " 19 02 "
'127225 "368.64 "
" 800 " 677
"272 25 "368.64 "
" 100 " 160x
perch ' dojf perch
square 'V da s'qoarej
acre c do arpent.
do u tio- ucre.
Paris arp't do acre.
1 Paris perch is 18 Pafis feet equal to 19i2a American
feet. -4i . t
1 Paris arpent is 100 Paris square perchesequalitaJ136T4"
square American perches. - '
1 Paris acre is 160 Paris square perchei.fequal to 216.
647 square American perches.
100 Paris arpents are equal to 84.624 American acres.
100 American acres are equal to 11 8.1 6SarpentS5o Pa-
ris. The government of Spain in granting- lands1 wfthia
the Territory above named measured with iheperch-ofj
the city of Paris and calculated their grants mj&Tjjents?i
not French acres as many have erroneously 'supposed. .
Ccncordia Intelligencer. " ' ""
A Secret for a Farmer's Wife. While the milking I
of your cows is going on let yanr pans be placed in .
kettle of boiling water. Strain the milk into one offthej
pans taken out from the kettle and caver the same with jj
another of these hot pans and proceed in like manner 1
with the whole mess of milk and you will find that you t
will have double the quantity of good rich cream and that w
you will get double the quantity of sweet delicious butter f
Try it. P
' -
Florida We have received" Go v. Mosely's Inaugural.
It is a brief comprehensive declaration of the true demo-
cratic principles; a document well conceived and well
written and leaving no room to doubt that the new Slate
begins her existence in the true spirit of the pure faith of
democracy. Pennsylvanian.
Farmers look well loyour Cattle This is the season
for the horn distemper and wolf in the tail. Remedy
examine the end of the tail and if soft cut it off at the first
joint. For the horn distemper core tnem anu put a
thimble lull ot Seneca un in eacn horn plug it up ana
your creature will eat her food in twenty minutes though
she had eat none in 36 hours before. I have Wied it re-
peatedly and never knew it fail ; and have saved many-
cattle for my neighbors by giving them a little ofthis oil.
BOARD OF HEALTH.
Houston August 9 1845.
Board met pursuant to adjournment.
Present E. S. Perkins Esq. ch'mn Messrs. Burke
Cone Davis DeChaumes Gentry Hotuc Hall and
Sampson.
Absent Messrs. Bagby Lillie Merlin and Wickes.
The minutes of the last meeting were read and adopted.
The repofis of the Visiting Committees for the last
week were read wherein they state that they find the ci-
ty generally in a perfect state of health. They further
state that for the want of the co operation ofthe City
Council in making an appropriation of a sum sufficient to
have the weeds now obstructing the public streets and
squares removed they cannot with any degree of proprie-
ty urge upon the citizens the necessity of having- their
premises as clean as the Board of Health would desire:
which reports were received.
Mr. Gentry offered the following resolution which
was carried unanimously.
Be it Resolved That we the Board of Health do res-
pectfully request the City Council to have the weeds that
are now growing in the streets and public squares cut
down and burned say for the distance of eight blocks
back from the Bayou and four blocks on each side of Main
street.
If this cannot be done w e would desire that the Council
appointa new Board of Health as the present one finds it
useless to attempta reform with individuals when the city-
lets the weeds grow in the streets.
We would also recommend the passage of an Ordinance
requiring the citizens to cut the weeds in their fes"
The City Sexton reports but one dcat' for ihe paf . 1 N
an infant child of Mr J Whiteside of the a csklc-
The chairman appointed Mrssrs Cone a-M Jt;
the istana 4tn anu Aierrb Uentry and .' c tbt 2
and 3d Wards Visiting Commutes fcr the fnstKgfwaeii.
On motion the Board then a-Jjrorsd to 5h udavLcxt
at 5 o'clock P M.
JOHN FITZGERALD 3-
-4"5s-
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