The Northern Standard. (Clarksville, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 16, Ed. 1, Saturday, March 2, 1844 Page: 3 of 4
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Hiay'siuon uscem! to the forks of the river
should business make it-desirable to do' so I
will merely observe here that the raft is. not
30 extensive as it has heretofore 'been-represented
and I have: no doubt' that two thousand
dollars judiciously expendended would re;
move the entire obstruction. The raft is cer-
tainly within he Colony limits and by land
distant from Dallas not more than 10 miles.
Dallas is destined to be an important point
and its intelligent and hospitable owner will
doubtless be largely benefited by the good
judgement evinced in making his location.
In the foregoing; I have condenspd my no-
ice of our journey and the result in as few
words as possible Lam aware that I give
but little if any deffinate. information. I slate
merely the fact that we visited and made the
examination the judgement we formed and
)lhe course of action taken upon that judge-
ment the .experiment will demonstrate its
correctness or fallacy and that experiment
will soon be tried. Having accomplished
one important object of my visit as before
stated my next was to ascertain the number
of emigrants artually settled within the limits
of the Colony the number of cabins erect-
ed &c. &c that I might know to what ex-
tent the work for the first year was accom-
plished and how much yet remained to be
done In the course of my journey to the
Colony and even after my arrival within it
l had to encounter all the numerous repres-
entations & false statements that the ingenui-
ty of interested land speculators could invent
for the purpose of defeating the accomplish-
ment -of the Colonizing contract for the first
year and thereby to lay open the whole teri-
tory -embraced by the Colony for the loca-
tion of the numerous land claims now held
up for that purpose. I was perfectly aware
that I had sent into the Republic a much
greater number of families than was requir-
ed to comply with the requirement of the
President for the first year but I was also
apprised of the fact that a" large portion of
those families though they had many ot them
visited the Colony had not actually taken
up their residence there but were temporari-
ly sojourning in the region of Rod River
I will not enumerate those statements
they will not accomplish the object designed
the Company will comply with their don-
tract thoy have not and will not incur a for
feiture That portion of the Republic of
Texas lying ivithin the limits of.the Colony
is not to be located and held by Jand specu-
lators foreign and domestic and remain un-
settled for another half century or more but
every quarter or half section must become
the residence of an actual cultivator of the
soil and the Cross Timber Tegion of coun-
try must and will be the most densely popu-
lated portion of the Republic and hence the
great anxiety evinced to throw it open lor the
location of claims. Do the citizens of the
Republic generally understand the actual
condition of the contract? Do they know
that each alternate section is reserved to the
Republic and that the settlement ot the one
half by the Company will make the reserv-
ed half worth to the country four or five times
as much as the whole would be without such
settlement? Are they aware that if a for-
feiture is incurred the whole will pass into
thehands of land jobbers and remain long
unsettled? That in that event the present
frontier settlements will long remain siich
and subject to the harrassmg incursions of the
riiumerous Indian tribes who will as long as
possible contend for the Cross Timber coun-
xyas a hunting ground!
It is conceded that the Colonizing Com-
pany has nnt heretofore acted as promptly
and efficiently in this matter as they ought
to have done but the writer of this has not
"been negligent of his duty his course of ac-
tion has not however been .sustained .by oth-
ers the promised aid has not been prompt-
ly rendered the first Colonists have howev-
er been the greatest sufferers. They will
not I trust have cause of complaint hereafter.
On examination t fipd about 160 families
embraced and actually settled within the Col-
ony and distributed a? follows:
West of Trinity River in IieonarH and
Combs' neighborhood - ' 30. la mil's.
In Col. Bryan and Keenan's set-
tlement being East of Trinity and
on Elm (bribes Whue Rock 60 do.
Cross Timber settlement . 30 ''
McGanah's settlement '20
On Red River; (estimated) 20
t x Si
ri
ir.
T-
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160
..jOjfthcse 16p.familrosVabout'136.only can
be counted in the fulfilment ofithe Company's
contract others are constantly going in and
the number required will soon be completed.
shall be with you in a few d:iys in the
course of my journey through the region of
country on Red River and have the pleasure
of communicating verbally many matters of
interest of which I do not speak in this
time not permitting at some future period I
shall notice the obstructions in Trinity River
more in detail but this must suffice for the
present.
Respectfully
your friend.
E. B. ELY.
Fort Inglish Feb: 25th 1814.
Maj. C. De Morse:
Sir Before this t reaches you you will
doubtless have been informed of a most hor-
rid murder on Rowleit's Creek about eight
miles from McGonah's on Monday night
last the 20ih inst committed as is supposed
by three Indians who had stopped and stayed
all night at the camp of their victims on Sat-
urday preceeding. They called themselves
Chickasaws but were supposed by the de-
ceased to be Dela wares to what tribe they
belong is quite uncertain Their conduct on
Saturday night was such as to excite the sus-
picion of Mr Monsey and he spoke of it to
some of his neighbors but they departed qui-
etly on Sunday morning and the family was
lulled into fatal security. Early in the night
of Monday Mr. Lee living about a mile
from the camp of Mr. Monsey heard the re-
port of guns in the direction of his camp
and several other sounds of an unusual char-
acter but his suspicions were not excited to
such a degree as to create alarm. He how-
ever early next morning concluded to visit
the camp of his neighbor to ascertain the
cause of the noise of the previous night on
reaching the camp the sight presented to his
view was too appalling for description Mr.
Monsey and Mr. Jamison an inmate of the
family lay dead in the camp both having
been first shot then tomahawked and scalped
and a short distance from the camp lay the
mutilated corps of Mrs. Monsey mangled
in a most shocking manner the skin and
flesh almost entirely striped from the body
one legtorn off the upper part of the skull
broken off the brains taken out and not a
particle of the flesh of the face remaining.
The two sons of Mr. Monsey who. were also
at the camp are missing' and although dili-
gent seach has been made they cannot; be
found. One was about 16 years old and the
other about 12 whether murdered escaped
and bewildered in the Prairies or carried
away captives is yet uncertain. There were
obviously but three concerned in the mur-
der and those doubtless the same who had
previously been at Mr. Monsey's camp. I
have not time to give you farther particulars.
The time however has now arrived when
some regulations must be made by which oc-
currences like this can be guarded against.
If not the citizens of thisegion of country
must regard every Indian found vitKin their
limits as hostile and treat them according:.
In great haste
your friend
E. B. ELY.
The Hon. M. de Saligny Minister of
France to this Republic' was at New Or
leans at the latest dates and was expected
to arrive at Galveston in a few days.
Id3 We have received a letter from Aus-
tin from which we learn that Col: C P.
Cooke is at liberty and supposedrto be lurk-
ing about Eastropi We do not learn by
what means he got out of prison.
Cf Hon. Alexander Porter United Stategj
Senator from Louisiana and long recognis-
ed as a gentleman of superior ability died a
few days since at his residence in that State.
Editorial Fame. There ire few pur-
suits of life which impose a greater amount of
cares and anxieties toils anddisappointments
and which yield with a more niggardly hand
th reward of industry denying almost eve-
ry thing to hope than which has been most
appropriately called ''the thankless calling ol
an editor." Few who fyavedongj occupied
the station that have not contracted the mor
al inf'Ction of the age we'live inVnd. whose
sensibilities are not indurated .by the never
ending conflict in which they are engaged.
The Washington Spectator in alluding to
the resumption of the e ditorial pen by John
H. Pleasants Esq.. indulges in a few. reflec-
tions on'this head as full of tr.uthas they are
of ; beauty: . "It . is hartly" the editor remarks.
"to labor in advanced life whea repose and
I peace should settle on our brows but it. is
uaraer suit 10 laoor ai a vocation wc unie
and must hate; for who can love the' life of
an editor? He is a statesman without honor;
a politician without profit ; a writer without
immortality. Even the good he does is un-
seen. His thoughts of beauty or power drop
like autumn leaves and are borne away by
the winds'; and although fertalizing the earth
from which in spring the. flowers bloom and
the oak shoots its branches who thinks ofthe
decay which crumbles under his footsteps as
-N. O. Kepub
he walks alonsr the shade "-
Any information touching the whereabouts
of the following stray will be thankfully re-
ceived by the owner:
Mine Advertishment. Rundaway or sto
len or c strait mine pig plack horse apout
fourteen oder fifteen han:s six inches hie.
He has pen got four plack legs two pehint
and two pefore and he is plack all over
his pody put his face and that is plack
too. He trods and ganters. andbacesand
vaux and ven he vaux his legs and veet
all goes von after anoder he has two ears
upon his head poth alike put von is
placker dan toder he has two e.yes!von is
put out and toder is pon de side of his
head and ven you go on toder side he
vont see you ven he eats much he has
a pig pelly and he has a long dale vot
hangs down pehint put I cut it short tod-
er day and now it is not so long as it
vos he is shot all rond put his pehint
shoes corned off and now he has only
got shoes pefore he holts up his head
and looks gaily and ven he has peen scairl
hcjumpsapout like every ting in de vorld
he vill ride mil sattle or a shaze or a cart
or vill go by himself mitout nopody put a
pag on his pack mit a boy on it he is not
vo( old and ven he vaux or runs his
hed comes pefore and his dale stays pehint
only ven he turns round and gits mat and
den his dale comes first. Whoever vill
pring him pack shal pay five tollers reward
and if he prings pack de tipfdat stole him
he shall pay twenty tollers "and ax no questions.
iMUNEY MARKET N. ORLEANS Feb. 10 1844
k SPECIE. v
Dollars and half dollars - par
Dimes and half dimes - - 1-2 pm.
American Gold - par to 1 do.
Sovereigns - - - - 4 84 to 4 87
Doubloons Spanish - - 16 40 to 16 oi
cp Patriot 15 53 to 15 56
Tweuty franc pieces - - 3 85 to 3 87
TREASURY NOTES.
United States ... to 1-2 dis.
First Municipality - - - 1 to 2 dis.
Second Municipality - to par.
Third Municipality - - - 45 to 47 do.
BANK NOTES.
NKW ORLKANS
Bank of Louisiana -Gas
Light -Mechanics
and Traders
City -Bank
of Orleans -
par
" P!ar
par
- par
- 30 to 35 do.
Union -
Carrollton -
State ...
Canal - .
Consolidated
Citizens - - -
Commercial -
Atchalafaya
Exchange
Improvement
Tennessee
Arkansas
Indiana State Bank -
Cincinnati
Kentucky -
Illinois State Bank
Alabama -
Shawneetown
par
-. par
par
- par
- 32 to 34 dis.
38 to 41 do.
2 to 4 do.
65 to 70 do.
- 52 to 53 do.
' 57 to 60 do.
- I to 2 do.
50 to 52 do.
- I to 2 do.
1 to 3 do.
- 1 to do. t
45 to 50 do.
7 to 8 dis
50 to 55 do.
nr .i - i i f.t t tr
sg-re are auinunzeu iu auuuuucf. uui. x. ri.
MARTIN as a candidate foi-Brfcadier General of
the Fourth Brigade; ; Texas Militia. 44-tf
RELIGIOUS NOTICE.
THE Rev. Mr. CHACEwill deliver a Lecto re
in Claiksville on the third Sabbath of March
Instant. '
Text: Matthew 10th Chapter and 28th Verse
And fear not them which kill the body but are not
able to kill the soul but rather fear him which
is able to destroy both soul and body iu hell.
March 2nd 1844-
SUCCESSION OF E. SIMMONS.
THE undersigned was duly appointed Adminis-
trator ot'the estate of Elisha Simmons deceas-
ed; by the Probate Court for Red River county at
the last December term thereof. This is therefore
to notify all persons indebted to said estate.to make
immediate payment and all parsons having claim
against thesame will present them within the time
prescribed by law (12 months) or they will be for-
ever barred. WM. SC URLOCK Adm'r.
estate of E. Simmons.
. February 26ih 1844 16-6t
A lew hundred dollars Texas Prunn'ssorr Notei
will be received at this Office for subscriptions at
the rate of six per cent. i
TO EMIGRANTS OM
NOW. within the Republic ot Texas who
have left the United Slates with the 'intention
of settling in the Trinity and Eted River Col-
ony the undersigned agent of the Golbny
takes this method to say that to all families
who proceed to the Colony make their se-
lections build their cabins and occupy the
same on or before the' 1st of June next 640
acres or one section of land will be given
and young men over 17 years half a section
or .320 acres mere visit and selection with-
out improvement 'wil secure no rights ac-
tual settlement and improvement is indispens-
able s
Persons holding certificates in whi:h they
are required to settle at a period earlier thaH
above named are informed that the time spe-
cified is extended to the 1st June-Jhe com-
pany have not and will not incur a forfeit-
ure all statements of that character are erro-
neousthe surveyors are now at work lay-
ing off the Colony into sections and Emi-
grants on their arrival will hereafter expe-
rience no difficulty in making their locations
with certainty in regard to the precise boun-
dary of their.Iands.
Temporary absence after .settlement does
not forfeit rights.
E. B. ELY
Agent ofthe Colonizing Co.. Texas.
Bonham Fannin Co. 25th Feb. 1844.
NOTICE.
TO MY CREDITORS You are hereby notifi-
ed that I shall appear before the Hon. the Chief
Justice for the county of Red River Republic of
Texas on the 30th day of March 1844 and apply
for discharge in bankruptcy.
March 2nd 1844-1 6-3t JOHN H. DYER.
NOTICE.
WE the undersigned commissioners appointed
by Congress to riew mark and lay'out the
Central National Road fiom Trinity to Red River"
will meet the other two commissioners viz: R. W.
Box of Houston count and James Bradshaw oi
Nacogdoches county at Dallas on the Trinity Riv-
er on the 15th day of April next to commence op-
perations. Those who wish to take contracts for
opening aid road will do well to accompany the
commissioners. WM. M WILLIAMS.
JASON WILSON.
JOHN YEAREY.
March 2d 1844-16-tf Mcj. of Com.
SUCCESSION OF E. MATHEWS.
THE undersigned was duly appointed adminis-
trator ofthe estate of Elberf Mathews deceased
at the last October term of the Probate Court of Red
River county. This is therefore to notify all per-
sons indebted to said estate.to make immediate"
payment and all persons having claims against said
estate will present them within the lime prescribed
by law (12 mouths) or they will be forever barred.
SAM'L. S. HERVEY Adm'r.
Feb. 26th 1844-16-6t of est.E. Mathews t'ec.
PETITION FOR DISTRIBUTION.
THE REPUBLIC OF TEXAS )
County of Red River.
James Stoneham and Folly Stoneham.
vs.
The heirs of James Burnham deceased.
IN Probate Court February Term A. D. 1844
Jamps Stoneham in right of his wife Polly Stone-
ham formerly Polly Burnham presented his peti-
tion for the division and distribution of the landed
estate belonging to the said James Burnham dee'd.
These are therefore to notify all the heirs of the said
James Burnham deceased to be and personally ap-
pear at the court house in the town of Clarksville
in the county aforesaid on the last Monday in May
next at the court of Probate for said county; then
to be holden and show cause if any they have why
Mm. M. Williams John Emberson Joshna Bow-
erman Samuel M. Fulton and W. C. Harrison be
not appointed commissioners to divide and distrib-
ute the lands of said es.ate and set apart to the heirs
thereof their respective portions.
By .order of W. B. Stout Chief Justice & exofficio
Judge of Probate. J. C. HART CPfc.
Feb. 2Plh 1844 lG-3m:
PETITION FOR DISTRIBUTION.
THE REPUBLIC OF TEXAS )
County of Red River. )
Isaac Moore vs. the heirs of Joshua Moore dee'd.
IN Probate Court February Term A. D. 1814
Isaac Moore one ofthe heirs ofthe estate of Josh-
ua Moore deceased having presented his petition
for the distribution of said esiate these are therefore
to notify R. P. Moore Arena Settle and her hus-
band Marcus G. Settle. who live beyond the limits
of this Republic and the following' named heirs
within the Republic to wit: Mary Modi ' the wid-
ow oi the said deceased L. V. Moore Lurena Wil-
liams and her husband H. L. Williams AVhitfi;ld
Moore Caroline Edmonson and her husband Wm.
Edmonson West Moore and Mary Jane Moore by
her guardian Wm: Edmonson to be and appear at
the next May term.of the Probate Court to be hold-
en at the court house in the town of iClarksville en
the last Monday in may next to show cause if any
they have why John T.Harmon Geo. W. Wright
and R. G. Miller be not appointed to divide dis-
tribute and set apart to each of the heirs their res-
pective portions.
By order of W. B. S:oiit Chief Justice & exofficxj
Jdge of Probate. J. C. HART Cl'k.
Feb. 28th 1844 16-3'm..
"; NOTICE.
.4
The undersigned would just say lothoie. indebt-
ed to him on account of lS43y that the bui-
nes season; has far advanced that theiindulgen
tnuise heretofore practiced will beearefnllyawdt
ed. .Lll.w: ". ?'U JAS THOS. LEE. -
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De Morse, Charles. The Northern Standard. (Clarksville, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 16, Ed. 1, Saturday, March 2, 1844, newspaper, March 2, 1844; Clarksville, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth80515/m1/3/?q=%22central+national+road%22: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History.