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AUSTIN TEXAS SATURDAY DECEMBER 23 1851
NO. J8..
THE TEXAS STATE GAZETTE.
Published weekly by JOHN aiAUSIIACI. A: V. ii. OLDIIAK.
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. VTf -iii yvi '" c'"nUl t0 Jft " " runaway a notice of the apprehension and
ii ?' h a fU" dc.scriP n of ucl "live shall bc published weekly In one of the papers
?h. pi v T nrnm.cuA for th B'ace of onc n'u"'. "d printed copies thereof furnished to
5.1. . i . CTty Court ?f tb county where the commitment shall have been made.
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tmtll Torbld and charged accordingly.
Subscribers Advertisers and Agents may remit monoy at our risk and expense. All communl.
tttloiiH must be addressed to the Editors pout paid.
Tf"
Proi'Hecy of Napoleon The New York Times contains a
manifestation from the spirit Ia:-.1. purporting to be from Napoleon
through Azor Eloyr on the 29th November in which it is said "Ere
three months have passed dating from this hour an assassination of
a crowned head will astonish and bewilder the magnates o'f Europe
and overturn an empire in another quarter. In anolher quarter a
traitor to his King but a loyal man to his God shall turn his strength
against his master and raise the banner of the people. This shall be
ometime after the first events of which I have spoken."
Memphis and Charleston Railuoad Notwithstanding the pres-
sure in the money market this road appears lo be regularly progress-
ing to final completion. One hundred and eight miles in two sections
ore already in successful operation. The western section connects
Memphis and La Grange the eastern compasses the Muscle Shoals
on Tennessee river. From Decatur at the eastern end of tho Shoals
to the junction with the Nashville and Chattanooga road the road is
graded being eighty-three miles. Twenty-five miles east of La
Grange are also graded.
Another Bank Defalcation. Thomas Ilowlaud Teller of the
National Bank of New York is a defaulter to the amount of about
370000. Ha has given up bills of exchange to the amount and if
the bills prove good the bank will sustain no loss.
(Ey- '1 he overcoat of a member of the Vermont Legislature was
stolen. The House passed a resolution to pay him for it but the
Senate rejected it upon the ground that it would be time enough for
the State to pay for the coat when it had stolen ifSandwich Islands The latest news renders it certain that these
Islands will be annexed to the United States at no distant period.
Liiiertv Hill. A new town of th above name has been laid off
m Williamson county upon the south San Gabriel on the road lead-
ing from Georgetown to Hamilton. A sale of lots was to have taken
plape on yesterday. The town is well locited in a region of good
land fine water and timber and in one of the most healthy sections
of Texas. It will become the trading point for a large 6t:ope of
co"try.
Tho War in tho East.
Important Decision. Is a free negro a citizin of the Unittd
From tho Now Orloana PiiMivnnn nf thn 1fch. w i-ithar tho. l States? A highly important decision was mado on Thursday Inst
i'.n... . J ' in the U. S. Circuit Court for this State nt
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by His Houor
! Judge Drummond in tho case of Joseph C Mitchell free negro plnin-
iollowmg items :
Nows by tho Pacific which arrived at Wow York from Liver- tiff vs. Charles 11. Lnmar defendant. The plea filed by tho defendant
pool roporta a decline of cotton L-8d. por pound. i nlL'tf5retl lllB phtintiffto be a free negro and not a citizen of the United
TliA0;n-Po l i . ' - nt ' States entitled to maintain n suit before tho U. S. Circuit Court
!f g bebastopol was progressing up to tho 13th ISov. Thia plea was sustained by the court. Tho case was ably argued by
lhe allies were receiving reinforcements to tho extent of several V. H. Uiggins Esq. for the plaintiff and E. R. Hooper and C.
Ihousands. During tho previous ten days 13000 troops had ' XJocslt wins. Ecqrs. for the defendant. Wo understand Judge Drum-
rmconrl flw to..i i - c y ii. Vm i i.i i I mo" intends lo write out his opinion and vro shall endeavour to pub-
passed the Bosphorus to reinforce tho allies. Tho health and M.h it nnd lhe poi;U9 niade hy colul1( for Ul0 beneflt of our rci.w
spirits ot the troops wero said to bo good. Tho wenthor had ' We also loam thnt Judge McLean coincided in tho opinion delivered
grown bad. bv JJs Drummond.
A force of 50000 Turks is boing dispatched totho Crimea. KlLLItD IIia Wikk. A man named Gohrko a watch maker.
Usten Sachen it is reported is to supersede Monschikoff in whoso shop is on Market square in this city stabbed his wife
tho command of tho Russian forces. wMi aknilb on Saturday the 17th hist. iniliefcing wounds that
It is reported that the Russians have captured two British j i"66"!10? halm08t "nodiato death. He was quarrelling with
cvnigera ' I llor boforo ho perpetrated tho deed. Ho has been arrested ani
uuiumuiuu it uwuic in& inai. ic is reporrou mat no is Jaoonuir
0" A series of calamities have befallen the Bonham Advertiser
The editor has a lame right hand the co-publisher is confined to his
room and the "devil" is also sick. We hope these things will be of
but short duration; for let us assure friend Hunt that we take a good
deal of stock in the Adverliser.
rd3 Major Sam'l McOlarty recently died in Henderson Rusk
comity. Ho was a bright Mason and well known to the fra-
ternity in Texas.
SF "We sometime since commenced publishing the senti-
ment of the press in regard to tho deposit offered by the con-
tractors for tho Pacific Railroad. "We soon found that the tiling
va1 impracticable. "With but few exceptions the press of tho
State is uauimous.
Wo are gratified to witness the spiritof the press in Northern
ami Eastern Texas. They clearly discriminate between tho
3oad and the deposit and do not pervert opposition to tho lat-
ter into enmity to the former.
fT The following is from a London letter in the New York
Tim-as dated 17th November :
"I told you lonff ago that Sebastopol is no longer a fortress
"but only a vary strong position and subject to capitulation and
to be defended step bv step. You can seo that the Enirlibh
papers have arrived now at thatsame conclusion. And now 1 will
From the abovo it would appear that tho allies are determin
ed to prosecute the siege of Sebastopol notwithstanding tho ap-
pearance of the winter.
It is now said that England and France have rosoWed not to
treat with Russia on tho basis of tho four points proposed by
Austria.
Tho London Times says that tho effect of the war on trade
cannot fail to be very 6erious but that success must bo achieved
no matter how heavy the cost.
For the Gazelte.
' Honor to whom Honor in due."
Messrs. Editors : In the Gazelle of December Dili appears an extract frora
the "Washington Star'' containing two letters from Fort Smith Ark the onr
from Dr. Geo. G. Sliumnrd to Thos. S. Drew Supi. &c nnd the other from the
Intter.to Hon. G. W. Mnnypenny Cotn't. Indian AdUirs proclaiming the "re-
cent discovery" by Dr. S. ofthe "Gum Mozquite." &c.
I beg leave to say lhat this is- not so rectni a discovery though very possibly
(or the first time trumpeted abroad through the press.
The credit ot a prior (il'noi the firM) discovery and promulgation also is due
to our own fellow-citizen Mr. DeWitt C. Baker (of thn firm of Baker & Smyth
Druggists at Austin) as many of hii acquaintances here and in New York City
have long been aware.
While on a surveying expedition in north-west Texas during the summer of
last year 1853 he discovered this same "Gum Mezquhe" in the vicinity of For1
Belknap .nd being i-aiijfied of its identity in substance with Gum Arubic and
that the trees affording it were ofthe Acacia fumily and abounded in those re-
gions he procured and brought home on his return some specimens of the gum-
These he exhibited to some of our citizens and afterwards while in New York
city last winter ho related these thing to many acquaintances there especially
the DruggLsts. After his return from tho North he wrote in May last lo Messrs.
Boyd & Paul oCNey York at their request enclosing some of the spccimonsi
staling that he considered it as haying all the propertiesof the best Gum Arabic
that it abunded in north-west Texas and that the Botanical description ofthe
tree from which he procured it corresponded exactly to the Acacia of the
U. S. P.
Having no pretensions to Botanical Science 1 have requested of Dr. S. W.
Baker of Austin a brief description ofthe tree which is here presented :
"Tho Acacia is found throughout the whole extent of Texan from the Red
river to the Rio Grande. There are mnny Variotie mid most of them Gum
b-aring imonir which are the Acacia Arnbicn and the Acacia Vera. The
Aeaeia Vera is found in western Texas and produces a fine gum. viz : thesame
described in the foregoing communication some specimens of which ar now
in mv possession being part of that brnuslil by D. W. C. Baker from nnrih-
wrst Texni. during last year 1853 embodying the properties ofthe best Gum
Arabic. But the Acacia Arabica is most abundant being found intersppised
over the entire country from Austin milie Rio Grande and tin loo produces
the gum in abundance. All ihe trees known by :he name of "Muslreel" bo
called aredifTerent vaiietieg ofthe Acaei.i."
It is due to Mr. Baker to udd that he has not desirdthis publication thnt he
deprecates all newspnper notoriety in lliu premise and ha only yielded lo my
own special request to be allowed io publish the above f.icls. It is simply an act
of justice as well as of public intercut. For if nsseeiiiii morally eeitain "Gum
Mezquilo 'should ou-t Gum Arabic from only one-half of ils dominions the
commercifil and medical world ought to know who led ihe vau j albeit ht ia
cuperior to seeking or u foiling the honor.
Vory respectfully H.
Fhqm Havana Naval Tho Steam ship Cahawba Capt.
Shufeldt arrived at New Orleans from New York via Havana
on Monday morning. She lauded seventy-nine passengers at
Havana and brought eighty to New Orleans.
The United States steamship Princeton Commander Eao-le
arrived at Havana on the afternoon of the 30th tilt. and was
to sail on a cruise on the 2d inst. to the Oarribbean sea in search
of the sloop of-war Albany. The Princeton had just arrived
from Key West whore Capt. Eagle was informed'by the au-
thorities of the place that tho whole of the Florida Reef had
been sighted within four days previous and there was no sign
of a wreck. Capt. Eagle had also reliable information to the
same effect lrom the Ualiama J3anks.
portod that ho is laboriuir '
uncier mental derangement. It such is not tho tact tho majesty
of tho law will bo likely to bo vindicated in his case as he is
without tho wealth or influonco to carry him through itB meshes.
Houston Telegraph.
Dhsi'kkatk Renoountku. We learn that a remarkablo fight
occurred in Amsterdam in thia county a fow days since be-
tween an englo and an owl. The eaglo seized upon'tho owl but
found his proy too weighty to bo carried off and in tho scuffle
the owl fastened his claws in tho eagle's thigh and hold hi
enemy so tight aa to make it impossible for him to escape.
Whilo in this condition a gentleman passing byr hearing tho
scuffle approached and easily captured both the combatants --
"Wo learn that tho owl was one of tho largest of his species
and the eaglo mcasurod over six feet across tho wings TaUey
(Ya.) Whiff.
8T" Listen to tho editor of tho Marshall Republican :
An Important Event. Wo neglected to mention that on
Friday the 24th tilt. -wns born unto us a bright and blooming
little girl with black hair blue oyes fair skin a pretty handj
and in fine an acknowledged beauty. In tho language o an
extra vagast poet &
"Thn lovnliool and fnirt onir
That eur graded morning mm
Or ever nioht wind iebed unon.""
At least such is our decided opinion. If any ono doubts t
they will please to keep themselves quiet on the subject for
about 17 years when they will find us if Bho maintains her
present good looks ono ofthe most popular men in the country "
Such events are common in our family. Ens. Gazktt:
Long Swkkt Potatok. H. M. Thompson Esq- sent us a
bweo6 potutoo yam) raised upon his plantation ono milo abo
Richmond which was two feet in length. Tho middle of t'
potatoo was six inches in diameter. Richmond Recorder.
None of your small potatoosr that! Eds. Gazetitk.
A Potatok. Tho editor of tho Gonzales Inquirer has- re-
ceived from some 'fair younir frioud.' a vain waiirliin- ni-lii-
pounds.
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the
Her Uritanic Majesty's line of battle shin. Boscawen. nrrivpil
tell you to be prcparedpy the re-emharkment of t?ie expedition at Bermuda early in November and reported hnvin- suffered
If we should hear of u third reat vktom like the two iirt. a very severely in a irale on tho 17ih of October. It iti'mirMii.u.fl
cry ot indignation and anxiety will break forth all over this that tho Albany buing at the timo in about tho same latitude
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uuuuLij uwu i. nuvu uui me least uouot tnr mo auvico to re- may nave ueen uisumsten.
call the armies will bo given from different quarters. 1 have
the most positive and highly respectable inlbrmatioi that Lord
Raglan V mymw of 'givitujup the siege J or this gear and
that he wrote home to that effect remarking that retreat will
Irtjcome a question of safety unless ho should in the next fort-
night be reinforced by considerable numbers of all arms. And
if you examine tho cold cheerless short worded bulletins of
Canrobert you may think him to bo of no very different opinion.
The most that in my opinion can and will perhaps bo done
stud that only for military honor's sake is to storm coute qui
oute tho south side of Sebastopol and then destroying what
An bo destroyed leave the north for next Spring."
GovEHNoa of Virginia. The democratic convention of thle Stete
Jtas nominated Mr. WUc lot the oflico of Goreruor.
The local news from Havana is unimportant.
December 2530 i m. in lat. 2(5 27 N lorn; 87 11 W.. the
Cahawba spoke the U.S. frigate Columbia Capt. S. B. VVilsnn
bearing the broad penant of Commodore J. T. Newton Com.
mandiug the home squadron bound on acrniso all weil. Mo-
bile Register.
Q7 During Senator DoiiIhu's recuiit visit to Jnckson Mis. a
dinner was tendered liim byliin pergonal and political friends which
he declined in coiiBequeiice of his engagements requiring him to leave
without delay. Tho correspondence i given in the Missiesippiafi
Va-Uaiilk Discover r. It is mated that a minr of block tin ha
ben discovered iu Upshur comity Vn. yielding 80 pel cent of pure
ore. The mine has been purchased by tUro gfiiUotnrn. who will im-
roed'iHtely commence opeutiouA.
Skkious Accidkht. As Mr. Alfred Allon o this county a
much esteemed citizen was bringing a load of pcfotoos home-
ward from Jesse Adams' ono day last week and whilo stand-
ing oroct in front of-his wagon tho horses suddenly halted.
while his head was turned in conversation with a person be-
hind and ho was precipitated upon tho tongue. . This frighten-
ed tho horses and thoy ran. Mr. Allon falling before the
wheels was turned over and over repeatedly hetbro them and
at last both of them passed over his body "fracturing two ribs
and otherwiso damaging him internally. 11q i& 6till1n a donbl-
ful state. Clarteviue Standard. ' ;
Aiacv Movements. Major Morrill left Carlisle Pa. on tho
21st ult. in command of a detachment of recruits for Bra'i
Battery at Fort Wachira thonce to resume his couituandat
Iort Belknap Texas. .Van Antonio Ledger.
"Wak Stkamkrs. The six additional war steamers recom-
mended and commanded under the present efficient secretary of
the Navy will all be ready for servico in the course of next
year. Tho engines are all contracted for and will bo ready to
bo put on board on or before tho 1st of October next.
5Q2T Professor DeBow proposes on his retirement from office
tp establish in "Washington a weekly journal to bo entitled the'
" United States Journal to bo dovoted to iho interest ofnori-
culturo internal improvements and commerce.
Si'AN of Horses Dkowsed. A span of horses belouin to
Mr. Robert Kuykendall wore drowned yesterday wtu at-
tempting to croBS tho ford of White Oak Bayon at Beachump'a
Springs. Tho driver a negro boy escaped without iniurv-
IJouston Tel. J J
Q7- The elTectivo British force in the Crimen rs Paid hy n cor
pondent ofthe London Times to he only bixtcen thousand so n
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Snow and Sikiouino. Snow fell to lhe depth of u ooc i
Worth Jefferson county New York lust wool; nnd sleighs were
drawn out for the first uuao this season Washington dentinal
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Oldham, W. S. & Marshall, John. Texas State Gazette. (Austin, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 18, Ed. 1, Saturday, December 23, 1854, newspaper, December 23, 1854; Austin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth81166/m1/1/: accessed April 19, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History.