Civilian And Galveston Gazette (Newspaper) - April 15, 1848, Galveston, Texas THE Three Copies Eight APRIL 15, 1848. VOLUME 111 for the insertion fifty - liHM inserted per square for each business of the office must be post or bw oat of the post office I this extending below Houston in the of the but here scarcely any has and other pat of candidates for j and obituary in are charged We learn from the Austin Democrat that the to locate the are to meet on the Brazos on the 14th inst. J. f Successor 4iM> ' I's r STRAWS Stare in C. ton i or cash In Naw f of Co's to tha of Cot tor this to shipped to their mora or New Orleani april 10, Houston Telegraph states that Gen. Rusk that he expects the pending in Congress to re thao another United District Court will become a APRIL 12, 1S48, The passed by Legislature of Texas will public printers bound themselves to complete the work within twenty days after they were furnished with the says the Austin at the State within six after the Legislature on the 27th That LEWIS MARKET GAL Keep y on hend a full so sale and Aleo bricks and m tries at white 1 ADAMS & Strand Keep on hand a and well assorted stock of Staple and Fancy Dry Groceries Western and Boots and and all kinds of Goods suitable for plantation A ug 8. HITCHCOCK & CO. Ship and Galveston LYNCH & CO. Auction and Commission F. A. WALLEY & CO Hardware and Ship and of & sheet ikon WARE of State than Mr. whUe Mr. the fills his office with equal - The 6teamer Capt. Jer. Smithy arrived yesterday morning from New having left that port on Saturday evening The steamer Yacht was advertised to N. for Matagorda and Port via and Indian CONGRESS 1s occupied in the consideration tendering the congratulations of the United States to France on the occasion of the establishment of a Republican Government in the latter the relative to the Government of Oregon j the question as to who made public the cotton The to authorize a not to millions of to be negotiated a boat has passed both houses of signature of the The accounts received here by Palmetto are from Vera Cruz to the 2lst ult. and the city of Mexico to the 25th. Congress had not The Monitor lashes the Members very severely for staying away on so an portant au The Court of Inquiry was in The spirit of revolution was fomenting in San Luis and is said to be at the bottom of it. The says From Guadalajara we in reference to the that they are very hold. The high clergy protects it is supposed that Father is the soul of this The Monitor of the 23d says that the diligence which arrived at Mexico of the 23d, had been at a place about two leagues from The diligence encountered after this a party who advised those in the diligence to be as they had had a tight with the rob John Jacob As whose wealth made throughout the died at New 0n 65 years The report of the resignation IL IL WILLIAMS & CO. Forwarding Commission Merchants Sep 2�i-4tl Texas JiND COMMISSION Main st. next door below and particular attention paid of other * M. Forwarding and Commission and of Havana C. J. BARRY & JONES MERCHANT Opposite the A. Commission Merchant A New J. * New Hinmen k 4e Advances oa off redeem te New end Mew J. Dry and toe eolu aide Malta Willow centre and f centre anU & CO ft THE SENATE AND PUBLIC The Senate of this at the fate session of the rejected the to provide for the establishment of Free Public The Committee on Mr. in the gave the as resons for not recommending the passage of the K The committee are fearful that it is too early to attempt a plan of free schools for the of good for those for whose interest the Legislature is required to act in they would suggest the propriety of into the operations and details of the policy of States where systems of public instruction attempting one of our own aJB of especially in those of great we should be well satisfied of our ability to accomplish our before we attempt their Failure is sometimes an auxiliary to generally is a very obstacle in its In a community unacquainted with any mode of popular the majority of whose members have been educated at institutions established and sustained by private and individual means and tho sanfe cause in the education of their It must prove a matter of considerable difficulty to fall opon a system of free public schools in prove - fund now in the treasury i is and among the small would be ta or to some at a sum of any The does not command the share of each county to be drawn from the but leaves it to the counties to determine whether they will receive and if not it the credit of the It is natural for us to receive whenever anything is and so strong and universal is this principle of our that we scarcely ever refuse even the shadow of a The committee suppose the if not all of the will of the school fond to which they other goods fog JONES Fo April l. jonj U PI DEALERS & AND GROCERIES of Centre sis & Detail iw and Carpet c. 1 ' Market i Boots and k 1 ry Variety may be entitled should the hill Ue and If and the plan of Education established prove successful or a considerable sum of money will have been used to no and the cause itself be Many of the counties may fail to organize under the as has already been flattering are seldom ever and the committee deem even the trifling they should be considered which here obstruct our another reason sustaining them m the recommendation they make in regard to the To this appears not only as a poor but a most lame and impotent The suggest the propriety of inquiring into the operations and details of the policy of states where systems of public instruction are before attempting one of our own This is precisely what the friends of public instruction have and the information alluded to is just such as we should expect in a committee on Education in the upper branch of the State an which appears to have no foundation in the present The risk and difficulty of a appear to be too much for the nerves of tainly one of the obstacles contemplated is to fall upon a system of free public schools which in its beginning prove ultimately We have heard of the beginning of the but we did not that a measure intended for all could be ultimately successful in ite very According to the idea that the committee seem to they would not plant a grain of corn unless the in the shape of a full grown could be placed in their hands at the same The in question simply gave the right to the people of the various counties to erect public to tax themselves for their and to draw from J Treasury of the the funds that they had paid to assist in their These facts constitute the flattering temptations and trifling dangers amidst which the committee and the Senate are unwilling to trust the people of * Most and reverend The expressive of and Mr. Bumble used to convey his respect for the will scarcely more than signify the distinguished consideration which the Senate has won tor itself in this It and far IX DEALER * Hotel repaired tad excellent koto Is not ARREST OF will be by most of our readers that considerable difficulty and excitement has been created On two or three occasions by attempts to arrest James a citizen of Montgomery for some years but formerly of Paul is a man of and his conduct in though somewhat has always been it is stated to have before with the exception of the terrible crime with which he stands The Mobile Herald announces the arrest of Paul in that us a fugitive from justice in and adds was taken before Justice refused and committed to He will be examined on the 10th inst. Chancellor on a writ of habeas It appears that some three years ago the prisoner murdered his slave in Lowndes He was arrested before the examination was gave bail in the sum of He fled to and returning to was arrested as is stated A large reward has been offered for his apprehension by the Governor of The prisoner was formerly in business in this and is a man to do in the as far as property is The murder alleged against the current was of a rare After beating and otherwise torturing his man servant to he cut the body into pieces and destroyed it by for the purpose of concealing all evidence of his If this be we trust he may receive speedy and The humble estimate which General Taylor places upon the people and soldiers of Texas is no new and we confess that our pride rebels at the adulation which a portion of our citizens appear disposed to extend towards the available candidate of the The want of respect and courtesy which he had shown to our people was no secret iu 1846'. and the Brazos tbc of n warm friend of annexation and of the as a reason why the people of Texas were not more enthusiastic in turning out to serve under Gen. T. at the commencement of hostilities the report extensively circulated at the and never yet that Gen. Taylor does not possess a very high idea of the value of Texas and has not been so cautious in concealing his opinion as prudence would seem to have Perhaps this rumor may have given rise to a disposition to leave the officer every opportunity of proving the superior efficiency of a regular the In del in which they had lost f i 5 Dut a 8ll0rt distance from T on the the same who on other occasions had robbed attacked it On reaching Agua the passengers who came in the report that they saw the dead Texan lying in the middle of the The authorities of called on Gen. Butler for protection against the Some troops have left the city of for the object of clearing the road of the robbers who infest from Puebla to It is reported that Col. Hays and his regiment are on their way to Vera La Re a paper published in on the 2oth Gen. Scott will arrive in this probably to-day or on his way to the United It is also said that all the volunteers in the American army will soon leave the all we know that yesterday 17,000 rations wore caused to be deposited It is also said that Mr. Trist will arrive with Gen. Although we do not believe this story we announce it. We would like to know what influence the absence of the commissioner will have on the ratification or rejection of the We have before us the Monitor of Mexico of the 25th, in which not a word is said of the projected departure of Gen The Court of Inquiry was still hearing the testimony in the case of Gen. Major who claims the authorship of the was under The papers of the interior are full of accounts of the assassinations and robberies jAt Vera Cruz nothing definite was known of the but the general impression that it would not be The merchants are in a stato of great and uncertainty on tho Those who have imported a large stock of goods care not how soon the Treaty is But those that have not a supply are afraid to lost their fall under the Mexican laws and In reference to the present state of the the American Star of the 22d ult. says in every department the utmost quiet quiet that argues more to us that some change is about to take than all the talking that could be Matters to have approached that crisis in that we often witness at sea after a hard lull and the heavens are watched with eager for the first signs of a for an increased or a clearing up of the We are not but we confess that the present aspect of the political horizon does not suit We had rather hear them talk of than to remain so atW at It is too strong an indication that action important nature is being It may be that all will turn out and that the present lull may be succeeded by a gentle blow from the quarter where peace But now none can tell what the change will The of Queretaro is an exception to the rule of silence observed by all the Its editor is opposed to opposed to the and he urges his opposition in strong Speaking of the he says give 61,(XK) square is to more than half of our immense for a miserable it is worth more than 302,000,000 of dollars as we will demonstrate on a future He says half of the Republic will bo sacrificed for twelve millions of going to pay the expenses of peace says the for the numerous papers in the who urge the question of peace so lie concludes thus People awake from your country Accounts from Yucatan 26th ult. have been received at New The Picayune The situation of affairs in the peninsula is The Spanish race and their descendants are threatened with The citizens of Valladolid and for a long time held out against the assaults of the Indians who surrounded but early in March they began to despair of making good their so hotly were they They began to deliberate upon falling back on and thus take up a new fine of and this purpose we presume they for the next we learn is That a host of Indians had surrounded Merida sets their numbers at forty or sixty These may be but every new success must swell their and there seems no hope for the Spanish race unless the authorities of Havana intervene in the most strenuous to The inhabitants of Laguna have become terribly ' Gen. but at the battle of Contreras he lost both affrighted for their personal Public meetings j his reputation and the patronage of Santa and were held and addresses sent to Com. Perry praying j since had given himself up to drunkenness and de in no event evacuate the | profound sleep your ruin is The sacrifice of your dear country is about to be consummated A large train left Vera Cruz for the City of Mexico on the 30th ult. A train from the City of Mexico arrived at Vera Cruz on the 30th. under command of Capt. of the La. Maj. Graham was met by the train at Plaza del The were very troublesome on the Gen. Valencia died in the city of Mexico on the 21th, of brought on no doubt by hard drink to winch he has been long He raised himself by and long basked in the favor of Santa which he purchased by his treason to that he would even should peace be made between Mexico and the United set forth in the most moving terms their desperate situation and the probable success of the The Commodore left on the 16th on an excursion to visit the ruins of On the 24th he sailed on the steam frigate Mississippi for Vera accompanied by the Spitfire and one other Capt. Stoddard informs us that the U. S. steamer Iris was to sail from Carmen for off the inhabitants of Sisal and transport them Laguna to prevent them from being or driven into the The be v | more The Mexican Civil authorities took Ta terms of the armistice possession of mpico on the 1st in accordance with the is indeed 4th day In New commercial affairs h ing alligator The Austin Democrat tells the follow u 0 but says nothing further in relation to that bi0 An alligator gar was hooked in the Colorado twee neat this place on Thursday morning by Mr. measuring six feet in After being * to land and his head was brought city for Two hours after the from the its combative propensity was strikingly evinced by angrily biting whatever tame in contact with its it was of the shark a variety of which abound parts of in many 3tr.-De la the French Consul in New naa already received instructions from the Provisional Government of continuing him in the post he has filled so long and so The True Sun says that Mr. De la Forest gave a to his on the 29th, at Bon Upwards of 300 people were and 300 bottles of wine Were poured libation to A salute of one hundred guns was fired in New on the 29th in honor of the French Re- The Herald of the money is getting Arrangements are making to aid the heaviest French in case the news is Should the Washington's advices be they will need no Capt. Wise's company left Tampico on the 1st, for to put down uhc Indians who were committing At Vera Cruz Col. Wilson gave notice on the 29th, that on the next at the entire civil admin of the the Post would be surrendered to the in accordance with the terms of the This hud given great dissatisfaction to the Mr. member of Congress from S. at last accounts from was rapidly sinking under his No hope of his recovery was Nothing is sweeter than a good accompanied by a Have you felt its power You enter a for an clerk is and strives to suit Such a man you love to trade and ore always sorry when you cannot be suited at his In another store you find one cross and doesn't like to wait upon angry because you cannot get about the goods in and intimates be does not want such Will you ever go there again if you can help it. Persons should strive to make themselves agreeable no matter how difficult a purchaser may be or how much trouble they are subjected The trouble will last for a few moments and by being pleasant you may gain a hundred Follow the same rule through and be agreeable your at in the on board tho steamboat and in the Treat all the poor and the the high and the the bond and the Of all traits in a man's that one Is the which leads no however poor or to foel the least in his ENGLISH is well known that since the reduction of the rate of postage in Great Britain in 1839, the number of letters sent through the post offices of the United has rapidly and that this increase is still going It is needless to say that the revenue from this source has inci eased nearly in a proportionate The friends of the cheap postage movement in this country and with good that a similar result will follow a reduction of postage in the United The following founded on official show the number of letters chargeable with postage delivered through the post office in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and from the year 1839 to 1847, with the annual number and percentage of increase 1889 1840 1841 1849 1843 1844 1845 1845 1847 No. of No. of 76,000.000 Annual Percentage on the 169,000,000 93.000,000 196,500,000 27,500,000 207,000.000 10,500,000 22O,50JU.O00 13,500,000 242.000,000 21.500,000 271,700,000 29,500,000 299,500.000 28,000,000 322.000,000 22,500,000 123 per cent. 36 14 18 28 39 37 30 The Paris National of February 29th., sf at 2 the Representative Papers by the Palmetto contain full particulars of the European news received by the Caledonia at Boston on the 27th and bringing accounts from Liverpool to the 12th of the same The Times of date last named abdication of Louis the appointment and rejection of a the complete triumph of the Parisians Over the the establishment of a previsional the erection of a the overthrow of the House of Peers and the titles of the abject flight of all the members of the Orleans family with their misguided ministers to our own or to other places of the immediate recognition of the new Republic of France by Great Switzerland and the United have all followed in rapid each minute teeming with some mighty affecting the destinies of whole nations and A provisional government has been organized by our the members of which are celebrated throughout the world for eloquence and sci some of them are of almost romantic Already the decree has gone that a new Na tional Assembly is to be called April 20th, when tho Provisional Government will resign its authority into the hands of the Universal suffrage and vote by ballot are to secure equality and fraternity to It is quite clear that the good of Paris will have a vast majority in the new and leaving their more or less profitable will try their hands at In the mean time commerce at a The funds have fallen Considerable failures are Clubs are in the course of formation to advise or overawe the Strikes of workmen are becoming more numerous operatives demand tin increase of and have expelled large bodies of English workmen from their in the construction of The moderate the representatives of the have disappeared from the and amidst the chaos of with occasional instances of sublime which such a state of tilings has England waits with her arms folded in deep and anxious alarm for the next scene in this c Minister from the United States went to the Hotel de Ville in formal recognition of the Provisional It was appropriate to of the American Union to be the first to welcome our infant republic for there is no bond more powerful nations than community of of the French During the decrees and proclamations on the following subjects were issued from time to time by the Provisional Mayors of etc. 1st. Interdiction of meeting of of 2d. An organization of a moveable National of 24 3d. Arrest and punishment of 4th. Articles pledged at the Monte do to bo restored to the Minister of Finance paying tha due on 5th. The to be an Asylum for invalid 7th. All political prisoners to be liberated and furnished with means to join their 8th. Suppression of Chamber of Peers of Chamber of Constitution of a Every citizen to be a National the liberty of the press and freedom of thought 9th. National workshop open for the 10th. All citizens to remain in and defend their barricades till they have acquired all their 12th. Order to arrest 13th Abolition of ail titles and 14th. Change of term 15th Ten days additional time to pay bills throughout the 16th. National Assembly to meet on the 9th of April and decree a Population to be the basis of Representatives of the people fixed at 900, including those of Algiers and the Suffrage to be direct and All Frenchman twenty-one years of age to be and all of twenty-five to be eligible to be Voters to be furnished with a ballot and to vote at the principal place in each No person to be a representative who has not 2000 Each representative to an indemnity of twenty-five francs per day for the duration of the The National Constituent Assembly to meet on the 20th of 17th, Payment of half year's interest on the per falling due on the 22ud of to be made at Paris from the 6th, and in the departments from the 15th. 18th. Interest of Bons du Tresor fixed at per for those of from to four months to and 5 per lor those of from six months to a 19th. An act to be prepared for the immediate emancipation of the slaves of all the 20th. All taxes to be collected as 21st. A budget to bo brought forward in which the system of indirect taxation would be 22nd. All prosecutions against the press for political offences to be and the prisoners confined for such offences to be 23d. Forbids the publication of any placards without the printer's name being 24th. Restores the old military title of generals of brigade and 25th. Discount banks to be 27th. The stamp duty on periodicals to be 28th. All oaths taken by public functionaries to be 29th. The properties and rights af foreigners to be 30th. AU the citizens to be armed and clothed as National those not able to provide clothing to be furnished with it by the Provisional 31st. Diminution of the hours of it was eleven hours to be and where 22nd. During ten days the convocation of the Primary Assemblies unstamped paper may be 33d. The central administration of the department of marine and colonies to be organized on a new 34th. A gradual assimilation of the institutions of Algeria to those of France to take the army to be recompensed for its past services to France 35th. Property of all kinds and works of utility to be preserved and 36th. Royal residences to be and the proceeds applied to the victims of the and as some compensation for losses in trade and All the institutions having the name perused to be called The coming elections In France create great aware of the fearful importance of this were preparing for the has been appointed under Secretary of State of the Ministry of Numerous diplomatic appointments were M. Ci-devant Due Harcourt goes to M- Dalton to M. Due do Boissy to Gen. Fabvier to M. de Tracy to the M. de Beaumont Vassy to M. to M. the republican Minister of the sent for the French Admirals in they all he then addressed and asked if there were any of them willing to serve the they He then said he required a man of courage and that he knew them all to he so. and he was ready to appoint to the command of the fleet of the republic any one tney might choose to They declared willingness to abide his own M Arago then said he had equal confidence in but that there was among them who enjoyed an advantage which determined his of He therefore appointed Admiral Baudin to GREAT Liverpool Times says * It could scarcely have been anticipated but that tho great which has convulsed France should have been felt tn some degree in the British In London a trifling disposition to riot was exhibited in the earlier part of the but the disorders wero confined to mischievous boys and artisans out of order was speedily In Glasgow the tumults were more and several have been unfortunately shot by the Tho rioters in that city were merely who ed and had evidently neither concert nop any political object in In Manchester somb tendency to disturbance has been but every thing is now In our own tranquility been Numbers of unemployed parties ancl others have assembled on the but nq political feeling is In Ireland no breach cf the peace has yet taken but the exciting guage of a certain portion of the which surpasses any thing within our has escaped the attention of the We have no of any serious disturbances of ihc public throughout England arising from political although the depressed state of and the existing uncertainty naturally incidental to tho aft fairs on the we produce a statu of disquietude and suffering amongst numerous es for some time to Chamber of Deputies on the 3d ted on articles of relative to the powers demanded by Ministers for tha defence of the The article was adopted by a vote of 162; to 54. Majority for Ministers 108, The second article was under discussion on the 4th, Madrid was account of the revolution in Paris reached Vienna on the 15th inst. and a profound The consternation which prevailed says an article in the cannot be The five per cent. fell from to 82. The intelligence from Italy received in was anything but Our latest accounts from Vienna left the Cabinet m Nows of a general rising in wai looked for Tiie successor of Prince had not been The report of the arrival of Louis Philippe and family in England is The English accounts The King on landing had on a green blouse and blue borrowed from the captain of the The King had in a change of The ex-King and Queen had for some day a been moving from to in the neighborhood cf They were nearly by and on his arrival the Kmg stated that on a night or two back he thought he given himself On Louis Phillippe and the with a male and a female who had during the week constituted the suite of thein royal master and embarked in a French fishing boat froni with the of attempting to cross the At sea Marl v picked up the Southampton and I which immediately steamed for New which harbor she arrived at 7 in the On the and were by the nearly tho our were gratified by being shaken by rhe hand by One of His Majesty's first acts on ing the hotel was to write a r to ur us communicating intelligence of Lis SANTA A report was current a short in to the effect that an American had at AU from Chihuahua with intelligence of all the of tha Mexicans in the province ot their number 4&fem^. and fighting and that Gen. Urrea was upon El Paso with 3000 Thu Santa Fe was in great It was reports ed that was advancing upon Puso with au army of from 6 to 10.000 men by raj id Gen. Price immediately made preparations for ing with several bodies of troops to the of Mr. Abel arrived in Santa Fo on the 1 El and brought word that the troops below were oil on a forced march for El and that was a strong prospect of a fight at that bodies of Mexicans were reported to be Col. Ralls was fortifying the Gen. Price and staff left on the 8th. lie will on arriving at El about 1500 men under hU The St Louis Reveille of the 30th Wft learn from Adj arrived yesterday from Forfe that the report current of the defeat of Col. Ralls is generally discredited hy the officers at that Lieut. Tuttle had left with an escort press for Santa we learn from the Lexington that a letter had been received from announcing the arrival of an express from Santa with nows of the defeat Col. Ralls with a loss of 80 It teems not unlikely that the news of Col. taking into consideration the disparity of is all it is more than probable that a severe gagement has been We look for further from New Mexico with much contains thy tit ou THE INDIAN FIGI IT. The Austin Democrat of the 1st inst following particulars of the recent Indian li the By Lieut. of Capt. company of who is just in from the we learn the following particulars of a fight had by a that with a party of and On the information was received from Lipan by some hunters of Capt. Company of that a party of and were lurking about near and that they thought they had down for the pose of stealing On the reception of this Highsmith sent out a detachments under Lieut. to enquire into the truth of this a few miles from Capt. camp discoverd a large trail of foot leading up the qu which the company three miles from their This was immediately sent back to Capt. learned subsequently to tho lining of tha that a German was to have been killed by the took up the line of march with near fifty of his The detachment under Williams followed trail a short distance in advance of the main the darkness of night prevented their following it Early next morning they resumed the and followed directly up the Llano some 25 or 30 when some acting as spies Capt. discovered a party of 30 in of the Waco and encamped in a thick bottom of the The company having approached near Capt. 11. directed a acting as his call to and ask their Watery to coma out and have a which was hut the chiefs after some evasive words in reply to the mode a sign to the iu tho bottom retreat across the and started in time ta but very promptly arrested by a ball the command of the The } the which gave him his was at once approved by all the Admirals was the signal for a and a com Admiral Baudin has left for He is mediately to take the command and to sail for firing was kept while the Indians were endeavored to escape across the as is all The ' ' Ilis instructions are to take possession of any two or three of the entire Hie rtn he may find in the port of and to proclaim ported next having seen a trail of two foot Algiers uu part of the French ' ans leading north towards the
