Civilian And Gazette (Newspaper) - September 29, 1857, Galveston, Texas TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 89, 1857. H lest OP Capt. J. H. Star from 8M bales $ bides and the Mrs. Miss and Mies steamer Capt. N. P. on Sunday from tales 8 bandies peltries and the and Vogel and 0. A. T. B. and 1. B 2 on deok and 2 Charles Leo P. r ' U. The sloop arrived yesterday bales cotton to B. G. j The arrived on La. with feet - The arrived yesterday from Lake with 88,000 feet lumber B. of * shocking loss George Tendered a change of in order to Induce people to one of the naval Texas in town blooming as of though not so rotund in his leaf of long by 12 1 nine feet high raised near We near of land the he York where it netting him over We understand many of the planters in above Conn have this reserved one acre land to amiss it requires bat little attention in it attended to by light at so as not to lose day required for The generally The accounts of crops in these counties are quite and old residents are now realizing their long that their counties would be acknowledged equal if to any others in a private letter to Mrr B. Bosh Augustine It me great to state that Gen. Henderson that he has been big home abont ninety miles from No doubt now remains of his complete authorized to say that he would to the United States and a dis- he would not feel at liberty to It is left to the ' It will be that Col. Wallace himself suggested a fit successor of Gen. the above be evidently defers to the claims of Gen. ' We usual acknowledgements to the parser of New Orleans and 1 and Enquirer of 110 Temp in. that market on the Id at 10@11 cents quite as good a price in or twe which went high as 12 that new market pretty the v to sellat present prices The crop is an 1 - been Holt rose to an it hu in wealth and fame a and in comparative He la a man of great worth as 't oui South says Messrs. Lee thir teen the ordered They paid within an of per head for These negro will aent for The official the Steamer Central A BT a H. or 8avakkab, Sept indebted to Henry H. of tbe firm of Childa & of Kew of the five survivors of the Central who arrived here his the bark for the following history of that awful Child's J the 8tb. We had weather Aspinwall to afternoon of from 8th,) a fresh breeze sprang continuing all ' On Wednesday The and at night bad increased to a The sea ran very high at continuing through ' On Friday the storm still raged with unabated and at 11 o'clock in tbe the announcement was made to the passengers that the steamer had sprung a and was making water A line was formed and the men went to work a bailing the water from her engine The fires were already the water in to extinguish We gained on the water so as to beacon able to get up but unfortunately held but a few when the engine again stopped and this time The bailing was continued in all parts of the ship and until finally went Friday the water gained but we wete all in good and worked to the best of our hoping that when morning came we might be enabled to and be saved from tbe was staring us in tbe The fatal Saturday came at instead of brought nothing but an increased fury on the part of the We still worked on with beating hearts until 2o'clock.In-the'afternoon, fof the 12th,) when lulled a and the clouds began to break Hope was now renewed in our and we all worked like giants until 4 o'clock in the to our great a Oar flag was at we fired our guns to attract tbe attention of the vessel to The which proved to be tbe brig bore down upon and as we watched her nearing we considered safety The brig came near to speak and having lay ed fey at We had only three boats and in these we placed all the women ane and had the to see that put on board 80 far so good but evening this time we discovered responded to our and came near explained our and asked them to send us a boat as we had none ours having all gone to the Marine with our women and She promised to comply with our Captain's request but that was the last we saw of except a grew greater At X in the evening we saw no possibility her afloat much although we if we so morning we would all soon after it became ' this time a heavy for the first broke over her upper and all faded Life preservers were supplied to and we sent up two Very soon a tremendous sea swept over and tbe steamer went down in a I think that there were moment some four four hundred ana fifty souls launched upon the placed at the mercy of its The storm had by this time entirely We all kept as near together as and went with the Sept. 19.-We have just received the details of a moat horrible crime in Pike on Sunday The of Mr. Thomas f consisting of his tbe two a Mrs. Mr. grand and thirty were poisoned with arsenio by the a negro She put the arsenio in the food which she bad prepared for It has been discovered that ahe was to the murderous deed by Hungarian ' Thomas his Mr. grand and a Mrs. Cloud are and the remaining in a very critical ' ' Both of the culprits were found by a jury of the negro woman was immediately burnt at a - has been sentenced to suffer the same punishment on next The affair caused the wildest excitement throughout the There was or at least very except that one cheered hia fellow comrades and our courage was thus kept up for some two or three Daring this time I think none had but those who were unable to swim from exhaustion but one by our party gradually passed into The hope that boats would be sent to our rescue by the two vessels we had and which had kept us ebon fled from and our trust was alone in What better trust could we eternity looking us in the eyes I saw my comrades fast and at 1 o'clock that night I was nearly alone upon the wide some miles from I however heard shouts from all who were still strong enough to make themselves and who were near enough to but I could not see any About 2 o'clock I saw a which I judged to be about one mile from me. Taking fresh courage 1 struck out for the and it just as 1 was nearly and on board hy 'The vessel proved to be a Norwegian from bound for England 1 board of three of my and through the exertions of the captain and crew we at 9 next saved in noble These are all I know of having been We remained near scene of the fearful calamity until we supposed thai all who could be alive had been and then set is Widow papers tell a long story of the victimizing of distinguished and devout minister in the enlightened city of by the glittering baubles of supposed -as held forth by a lady who arrived in that in search of a distant by due process of was entitled to a portion of large estates which she held in and pitched upon his reverence as the She ingratiated herself into bis and became familiar with their fashionable spending the summer The accounts say During this time the deeds to property in all of which seemed to ue well were closely and so well was everything conducted on the part the French that the many tbe reverend and his wife congratulated them on good At one time on tbe arrival of a steamer from the French lady received a in wbich it was stated that in consequence of another death haying occurred in the family at some time must necessarily a remittance could be Bent perhaps not for several At this announcement she to grieve because it put ber to such a nonplus that she could not return the hospitality in a style equal to that which bad been so kindly extended to She talked fluently about the affaire of the driving glowing accounts of her travels through Europe and the United spoke whenever of the ameliorating influence of tbe gave her opinion of the all-absorbing question of slavery by dint of the most daring effrontery succeeded in all ber applications for small sums of ranging from to Arrangements were finally made for the French lady and the and his wife to go to Texas in order to up tbe then to return to Philadelphia and purchase a large and splendid mansion an Broad above A short time previous to a considerable quantity of silver silks and satins were obtained by the French for which the Reverend became While making all these arrangements the minister almost forgot to visit the sick and to pray with the and at when tbe mo ment arrived that he and his wife and tbe French lady were to proceed to the latter was no where to be trains were and tbe gentleman succeeded in tracing her to a car on a Western and attempted to seize ber and pull her The passengers interposed and finally be was thrust out of the and she went her way The Vaux were brought into requisition but they of no telegraph Bent forth its but all to no y 6EPT. 28, 1867. Nsw mail for the States will close at 12 o'clock M. Thursday 28 and leave on the steamship at 1 P. M. The steamer San Capt. arrived this morning from with 198 balea cotton and tbe following Mr. Jack and Col. J. B. The steamer J. Capt. N. P. this morning from with 148 bales j and the following passengers Mrs Montgomery and 1 on and 2 The Telegraph says that 806 bales were received at Houston The quantity is Public we the only county in the state which has itself of the benefits of tbe Publio School The Gazette learns that the County Court of that county has apportioned the of publio to the payment of tuition due to teachers from patrons who were unable to and the residue among the children of patrons able to Other counties are entitled to similar on with tbe conditions of the Many of prefer to allow the fund to accumulate to their credit until tbe amount will enable them to begin their schools on a better soale than they now while others seem to be wholly indifferent to the Tbb Washington now under sole charge of A. appears in new and is to be enlarged acd otherwise We are glad to find that this great Democratic paper is in a prosperous 20,000 new having been added to its subscription list within tbe last eighteen Tbe Union is a decided and powerful foe to northern and deserves a wide circulation at the The weekly is now published at the low rate of per in cheapest political paper in the use res Chinese gentleman in New York has sent the editor of the of very good made from the syrup if the new sugar the or Chinese agar it costs but 80 cents per gallonto and is worth in the market from to $ per according to In a note he of spirit from tbe may carried on by our farmers in the winter season when there other occupation for a galloi of proof spirit for of This will find ready tale at rectifies who will torn it into alcohol or camphene and orer The quantity of alcohol now used pr purposes of illumination to say of chloroform and medicinal is and was beginning to have a on the price of owing to the destruction of the cereals to we have found besides supplying and alcohol will ah yield from the same a large amount of forss and grain for the fattening of of the imports and exports for the fiscal June 80,^1867; in advance of of Secretary of tbe which the following facts 4om5lo produce 278,906,713- 298,811,727 amount exported ' 69,181,922 do ao imported 12,464,799 These figures show jm excess of in the Importation of over the value of pro duee and an excess of in the amount of spiecie exported over that Tinder tbe presure in the money market Is easily accounted HT The for carrying the overland mall to the has been finally signed by John and and by Assistant Postmaster General ii behalf of the The price paid is 000 per commencing on the 16th of 1868. forming ajoint Capitol extension of Capitol of Washington is on an magnificent Tbe cost of some of the is given in the Washington Tbe windows of the north and south fronts The marble workmanship on each of tbe eastern 6oot doorways Tbe two figures of placed each door are ted at aud bearing bas relief designs illustrative of American will for each They are designed by Is the intention to have one executed at and tbe for the promotion of American in this Tbe door Opening from the old baU of the House of into the corridor leading to the new bearing bas relief designs American and it to cost by Randolph Tbe intended for the eastern pediment of wing of do signed Mr. it is estimated For the design and model of the surmount dome Mr. Crawford is to receive tab Girl and the mantel tot the Senate reception room ' an English almanac a long cut a for mending and the having for try we the fracture being scarce visible It ia thus take of gum in ' It Into plaster of Paris until tbe and stick them be broken in Vm of the cement a late in wbich was addressed by Ohe of be the in reply to some charges weto made tat show the bond of sympathy draws tbe American Into tbe Black Mr. Swope as repeated ia elphia been obliged to go to New York a few on business with bis office sb if the State and met the correspondent of tbe who wee in Pennsylvania with that journal during the campaigns in Over a glass of wine at dinner correspondent became vary and be lamed from among other that be had 1 Mb a list of the party in prepared by of wfi that the charged Ford with misappropriate this and Ford prepared this list to show Jennett that he had done What was After trouble and the correspondent ended the statement ever to and 1 have it nw in mj and intend to publish the world who the men are who were Some of no remember that In the city of in the counties of Cambria r made very striking - boas The milk to 1b accounted ibr when 1 1011 the names of the editors ef these papers are m Mis 6�inan�ia�n�V no It la a heart of atone 8elaabrjeaacannot see Of tte feat the pangs and thrusts or * the first take for your motto at the of your going jist right or a little be the difference cf finding yourself in good or in a miserable bog or at the whale m mber educated in the for some yens before and after no one to my escaped tbe bog or and my escape 1 trace to the simple fact of my having put a restraint upon iny boys were in the every of miking a compounded ef with palatable to eat ana After being la the four I myself admonished by my appetite of the approach of tbe hour of - y when my Thinking tbe babit might trouble if al lowed grow tomy I partaking resolution waa to abstain for a the week was for a lor a I to abstain for die rest of was for longer During that whole I spoonful though 1 mixed gallons daily for old and his I decided sot lobe a slave to tobacco in any though 1 I have in mj - - given not long by a but only to smell of. I have in my life smoked a chewed but ane and that was before I was and took an ounce of though tbe scanted rappee of forty years sso had great for me. I simple of starting just with God's blessing on my laL as well as that of up all around me. Amos Lawrence was a weali who died a few yean pended of hia on various The memory of aoth a maiu Tbe Influence of Senator in a recent address before the Virginia Military in discussing tbe influence of the merchant upon civilization speaks as follows The vast which the merchant haB rendered to in relation comforts have been sufficiently but this agency in the civilization and moral improvement or his race has hardly bean properly It was the merchant who carried Joseph away from the murderous hands of his and established him in to become the stay and support of his and to save his raoe when it was threatened with extinction from It was the Phoenician merchant who bore tbe germs of civilization and tbe gift of letters around the of tbe Mediterranean it was be who sowed in the sensitive and susceptible soul of the Greek that Beed from wbich under his lovely tbe flowers and fruits that have made his genius He into every known region ia accessible to the or even to the human aid may with the an cient that he passes from land to to not merely the productions of the lands of different and in some the productions of their their modes of thought and If the wild hordes each in its respective over the of Central Asia know anything beyond the narrow of their own it is due to the Hebrew and Armenian who soale its That the intelligent Anglo-Saxon whether of the senior or junior branches of the is a prime agent in tbe work of human no one would be disposed to - If the obligations of the world to commerce bare been so great in past what are we to expect from it with all its increased powers for the future 1 If the periplus of the or that of the were bo important in what shall we say of tbe voyages of or even of private by which now we so often circle the globe If the commercial marine of which so slowly and cautiously felt its way along the shores of the did great what are wo to expect from those lines of ocean which find a path everywhere upon the boundless and reduce to dayB and weeks the time of circuits of human intercourse which formerly would have been either or else required months and years for their Mexican Extraordinary states that it has good authority lor saving that the United State Government is about offering a loan to without asking anything in return that will derogate from the of the latter The loan if anything be a purchase of Mexican which will require the sanction of There no power under for oar government to loan and none to use it but as There may be negotiations for the purchase of but these cannot be final till Congress makes them Gnus as is following paragraph ie travelling tbe rounds of the papers oi the Old Thirteen Marriman of in has recently imported several horned gnus and ibexes fcom Their flesh is esteemed a far greater luxury than that of a kid Where is Alamo where are the gnus and and is Mr. Merriman Tucker a relative of the mm in the circus or of Old who was too late for A short time since we alluded to the wounding of Mr. David of Lavaca in New Through a private letter we that the occurrence took place near New Santa in Jackson that Mr. Jones was stabbed in three one of tbe incisions penetrating the Though among he was kindly cared for by Mr. Gregory of New Santa and soon afterward was accidentally discovered and taken in charge by Mr. John J. of that a relative of Mr. Up to the 14th of August he was slowly recovering and had as we tiret lost an His numerous relatives in Texas will rejoice to learn that he was thought out of The banks of New reported at the close of last week in specie on while they were due to depositors and their circulation was and they owed distant banks The Boston on the 31st ult. had specie to of while their deposits were sixteen millions and a and their circa lation was The New York banks exhibit tbe following movements for three Aug. 22. 8,��4.,011 89,364,046 Aug. 29. 10,241,376 84,812,887 Sept. 6. 10,227,766 867,192 83,481,817 The New York Evening in endeavoring to allay the existing says that the banks are rapidly improving The general contraction has gone on and the ties ol the banks are The decrease on the several accounts is as follows 866,802 25,961 4,651,160 The Post Adulterated Pharmaceutical assembled in we are glad to have directed their attention to a great adulteration of It is bad enough to have pur liquors and other luxuries but when It comes to drugging drugs one of the greatest comforts of people who enjoy bad the evil becomes most tolerable and not to be The Engligh say that an American never takes a except when be takes and it is too bad to have such few bright days marred by bad of the in tbe use of our people are about as intemperate as they are in The Philadelphia Press Bays that our drugs are largely adulterated in foreign countries before they are shipped hither and they are largely adulterated after they arrive We do not doubt that many valuable lives are sacrificed by the or character of the medicines It is stated that in some parts of Vien na and for are official in of who are constantly employed in examining and testing the purity and goodness of each and the punishment for adulteration ia very In this there is a law of requiring the examination of foreign when passing through the The Philadelphia Convention have appointed a working Committee on Home who will have to examine into and report upon this all over tbe A Monarch of the The Tampa of the 8th says Capt. E. T. informs us while on a a short time he found on eleven miles from its a live oak tree measuring feet in which throws a shade at noon forty-five yards in This tree bas but five occupying a central the other four forming five feet from tbe and extending in horizontal the tree the from a ol a small with a large tree in the Capt. whole company under the shade of this at and hitched their horses to the The Springfield Nonpareil says that tbe Mr. editor of the of that has been elected Brigadier General of tbe Ohio To be at once preacher and is no but brother Boggs ia not content Both spiritual power and what each What severs which few have He must needs play the soldier A thinks he must be a universal to the showman who rides three horses at the same So he should His occupation divided between religion and soldiering is not unlike that of those who Ride three horses then Vault from their spring narrow hoop Once more alight upon their Then scampering round the oft trod reduction of loans within the last fortnight is not far of five millions of and of deposits seven million five hundred reduction of as shown in the state being tbe average spread through the does not show the real extent of which was most pressing on the last The aggregate loans to-day are probably five millions less than were a week the Post reduction of loans by the New York banks within the twelve days ending on Saturday was eight millions of dollars This may be very good for the but bow is it for who look to these institutions as the means of preventing or mitigating pressures in the money market To us it brings up afresh the old idea that banks too frequently encourage popular excesses both in speculations and They do not produce capital but The Boston Advertiser says the money market is growing daily more not so much from the actual scarcity of the capital as the continued and increasing uncertainty respecting the future of financial Tbe Philadelphia Ledger says that one half the usury now paid in that city results from of that it is assessed on the risk of the not the actual value of the safely - It ie well remarked by a correspondent of the Philadelphia Press that we are having another lesson taught ub of the value of tbe independent j Had the money of the Government been thrown into the New York so that operators could have got hold of it and invested it in railroad the crash among tbe brokers of that city would have extended to almost every branch of business and and the panic and suffering that followed tbe downfall of the Bank of the United States would have been nothing to tbe It is well occasionally to remind ourselves of the practical workings of this admirable improvement upon tbe old-fashioned system of keeping and disposing of the public country is at this moment two hundred mil lions poorer than it was two months says tbe Utica the decrease of railway In one view of the case this ia and in another it is Last year the value of railway investments decreased from one thousand millions to nine hundred and this year from nine hundrad millions to seven hundred The tendency from a fictitious to a real value was It was not in the power of financial managers to resist it. The Ohio Trust Company used its immense capital and credit to resist The War Department bas receiv edm interesting report from Mr. E. F. the superintendent of the expedition to construct the road from Fort dated El Mr. B. writes in glowing terms of the of tbe camel The War furnished him with some of those animals of which were to be used as of loaded them 700 pounds provender for the They bore the across the little but preferring to browse on them to grazing on the best better than the mules of the suffered much less than the mules from 4e usual casualties of such a Wue etc He jt far easier to manage a train of twenty than one of five explaining of the temper of the their ing would tion on while not Watki greater capacity for going without and their food on which any other animals make them valuable for Every unshod beast of the reached El Paso of them was lamed in the V. The Native Grape H. 0. by the Commissioner of to examine and report upon the native grapes of Arkansas and has written to the Commissioner from Hot in the former in relation to Bome of the fruits grown hut has not yet made his report on the He says Nearly all kinds of fruit were killed in this State by tbe late spring A few muscadines are on the bat I have not yet seen aDy wild plums or grapes in The Chickasaw are very numerous in open from which they are taken and planted in There are some few apple and the peach is extensively latter grows and to attain a great so bo is its growth that the trees in Virginia and Maryland are as dwarfs in They are generally planted regard to aspect or though near the wbich are generally in where the soil is deep and as a natural it snapped under tbe No brakes which two or twenty millions put on to the downward movement of railway stocks could eventually keep them from descending as though infinitely advantageous to the landholders on each and worth to the country all and double what they have it was in the nature of things impossible that they should at once do more than pay their working and prevent their floating debts from carrying them Railway were bound to fall and all the efforts of Trust Companies and other brakes could only result in snapping connections that might bare made the fall more gentle and less The time is at band when railroads will be operated on business tbe experimental era has well nigh The original stockholders in a large portion of the railroads have lost or nearly all their They paid more for the property than it was Tbe same property is passing into the hands ol others at its real and profiting by the mismanagement of their will doubtless so manage the roads as to make more beneficial to the great interests of the whole at tbe same time that yield a profit to The following from a late number of the United States is a forcible presentation of the solid grounds on which our present prosperity as a nation rests - the ten years the elements of wealth have organized themselves in the whole with immense until they are now producing Thus there have arrived in the country in that time 2,000,000 active wbo joined to the active youth of the older have poured over the bringing under the plough a quantity of new land equal to twice the entire surface of and of equal In tbe same lime thousand million of have been spent in building means of communication to make those and that labor applied to available to Thus labor and means of communication have combined on an immense scale to produce results which are now about to be All that and the capital it has re produced from the virgin soil it many fold its own and tbe at such now ready to carry off tbe surplus to the best The roads are aud absorb no more but many bring from new regions in a single year a quantity of capital equal to their own entire to enrich tbe marts of This year the season has favored combined and the products are The producers of na tural wealth are everywhere blessed with as a natural their demand upon manufacturers for goods must be very greater than tbe supplies of raw material will Mr. D. P. one of tbe oldest residents of that and an intelligent and reliable writes from tbe Gadsden July 20, as The condition of the Purchase has been extremely bad since the unfortunate and expedition of Crabbe into and at the present time ia but little better than a field of guerrilla robbery and Tbe exasperated state of feeling between the Mexicans and Americans prevents intercourse and which the Territory is entirely Americans are afraid to venture into Sonora for and Mexicans afraid to venture over the Americans wbo had nothing to do with the filibustering invasion have been treated badly in and driven out of the and corning into tbe with supplies and have been robbed and plundered by tbe returned The Americans in the Territory are by no means harmonious an these some in favor and others opposed to some in favor of murdering Mexicans wherever and others opposed to it. It results that we are in a state of there is no no property or no and no self-respect or morality among the We are living in a perfect state of without the restraining influence of civil or military the amelioration of have not been many conflicts and because every man goes armed to the and difficulty is always fatal on one side or tbe introduced into the Senate last be is an unfit representative of our That not give satisfaction to any Settlers want Spanish grants so they can buy a piece of land and hold to be encouraged to upon then finally be as in The treaty guarantees the validity of Mexican Miners want the privilege of pre-emption on abandoned or to the extent of 300 yards on the vein for each vein to bold the branches by owners paying for every 800 Be assured that you will receive the cordial support of myself and my Wbo is to Blame Having learned through reliable that the Austin mall for bas been allowed to take three pleasure trips at different times to New thereby inconveniencing many business men of both places I deem it due to this office and the citizens of places wbo have been disappointed in consequence of the to make the following statement It has been always the case that there hus been but one through lock bag from to wbich bag has a brass look cannot be opened between here and and without exception has always contained the letters for the States and The statement made by P. M. at Galveston to a citizen of that that the P. M. at Austin bad put tbe Galveston mail in the New Orleans bag is for we have no N. O. bag but have invariably put the letters for the States in the Galveston brass lock bag as ordered by the P. M. Sept. 17th, 1857. Editors attention bag been to the above Card of the P. M. at and a sense of duty to myself requires that I should give the facte in order that tbe Publio may judge as to is to By the New Orleans mail of May 26th I received tbe Austin Mail via New with a letter from the Post Mr. notifying me that it had been sent to his Office from This was pleasure Trip No. 1. July 18th. I again received the mail matter from Austin from the same with a letter from Mr. Dentzel the assistant P. M. at New the following being an from his Letter after of the mail having been received be says subject is certainly very annoying and should be remedied this is the second time it bas the Pouches were duly labelled for New This is pleasure Trip No. 2. The Austin mail of Sept. 3rd took the same direction and were returned from New This is pleasure Trip No. 8. I was called on by Parties who had a great interest in the prompt reception of their mail matter from Austin and in justification to myself and to those under my employ I informed them of the course our mails had been I however did not that the P. M. at Austin had put Galveston mail matter in the N. O. Bag for I knew that no bag was put up for that office but I did state that he had labelled the Pouches for this office with the New Orleans label and that they had therefore goDe to that place before arriving and the letters from the P. M. at New Orleans establishes clearly that I regret extremely having to make any publication concerning this have endeavored to discharge my duty satisfactorily to and have invariably shown every courtesy to to theme with whom I was brought in official H. B. P. M. Sept. 22d, 1857. 8M�r. 1�T arrived last night from with 181 bales and the following 8cren^on, Dr and 9 on Tbs Lot Coup ant was ont under Haviland and swung freely under the Immense wheels provided for and was run through the streets with Ws did not witness the portion but doubt not ware well In ease of wreck upon our this will be of great service in tbe Hon San Antonio learns that a Regiment of Texas Bangers immediately organized by Col. John P. Capt. B. of San sad Col. of Washington county at from port join Gen. Walker in bis attempt to the rightful President of the The Herald Capt. Henry's absence will be bit duties aa Sheriff of our of a prolonged engagement in the service qf Cool Would not be well occasionally at the Neutrality In order to prevent any the intermeddling of Sam's officials with these volunteer proceedings for extending of free dom 1 lab The Mexican that authorities of Coahuila and New Leon had a calling on all publio officers circulation of an address by the to the on the ground that it was subversive of The address is said to have bean printed in V Our friend E. P. now of bas written many interesting articles for Or leans of Texas citizen of Hays county writes to the New Orleans Delta as follows in tbe valleys and upon the com posing that tract of lying between the Colorado may be seen thousands upon thousands of as fit for beef in January as in and yet in spite of this fact New Tors is of the of Cattle suitable for tbe Northern markets may be purchased at 2% cents throughout the counties of San and and still tbe North complains of the of As far as we have the business of driving beeves from Texas to Missouri and this has proved The Texas drover generally disposes of his stock in one of where are rested and previous to being sent to New York by though we have beard of the past of cattle taken immediately at a handsome Tbe poor beeves from recently noticed by the New Yoik were probably from herds of this It rains about when it and no mistak e. They have had anot her young flood which carried away the bridge on the Bastrop and threatened other We omitted to Bay that onr brother of tbe Mr. H. F. editor of the Texas State of San passed a day or two in our city this He is in search of and we trust may find that Buchanan ib President of the and the Democratic and what is he will do all in his power to keep the States well knowing that he oan do this in no way more effectually than by carrying out the Democratic platform and adhering strictly to his constitutional The Constitution has guided and the Democratic spirit has impelled him and we have no of doubt that will do the same Though not indifferent to the honest opinions of ho will be turned from his patriotic course by none of the abuse of Northern nor by the of those in the South who bear no good will to and who possess little love for tbe Federal He is of and they who doubt bis capacity or integrity know little of the temper and character of the man they O- San Aston jo and Mexican San Antonio Ledger publishes the following from a dated the 8th from a citizen of a gentleman upon whom that paper the utmost reliance may be placed The contractors have on tbe grading 220 as by yesterday's 125 bands above on the 2d and 95 below up the track between that place and there are already nearly 5 miles of with four vessels running from bere to the whose only is to transport ties from tbe mills to the In the next place there are on the ground 600 tons of the best quality of T with abont 8-4 of a mile laid and gang of of 25 more commence to day to lay down the balance of Bay 5 1-2 A splendid with eight platform one hand Tbe locomotive operates as is tested daily by transporting iron and ties from the Bay bank to tbe end of the as at present laid The contractors are confident of with their contract in every and if energy and perseverance are deserving of they are determined to merit it. The 8. A. M. G. B. B. Co bave tbe honor of running the first locomotive in Western 1 184T.. f of tha pearl recently discovered in some ot oar bave doubtless reached and a word or two on the subject may be of interest to the readers of your paper and the publio at Soma two a German residing on tbe Llano reading in a northern paper an of pearl found in fresh water examined some of the shells in the and found that they contained having some idea of their value he continued in bla and has now been at work some six in bis over hundred A i north of tbe Llano near Port who employed some ten hands ia the is said wt bave found some ten thousand among them are one of the aiss of a common and many as large as a By far the most are about the of a sod of different sad are generally of a silvery some of a delicate rose Muscles combining have been found in the Sau Colorado sod aud I have no that will be found in moot of the rivers of our Specimens have beau seut to New York and New to ascertain real I have just returned from the many persons are yet engaged in searching the river in spite of the heavy loll daring the last two and the chilly weather in The excitement throughout this part of tbe country is persons are preparing to go out and hunt pearl even during the and it is certain there will be a general turn ont next When on tbe I met a gentleman who resided in California a Dumber of who was struck with the similarity of appearance of the Llano gold regions of and firmly believes that tbe coveted metal is to be found and expressed his to no exertion to satisfy 11 any of our streams contain it will certainly be for will be thoroughly I yours moat F. Gasette of the The new Board of Trustees were qualified last Alter they were installed George S. Living was elected and Joun Town Those welcome the Cotton are again arriving and The District Hon. J. M. commenced its session this afternoon in a new building opposite Constitution which has lately been erected by Since last Tuesday the been favorable for Cotton Planters around here are satisfied with The Bute of hundred and fifty acres of which was ordered by the Chief Justice to be sold last Tuesday was postponed until the 22d. A railroad meeting was held on Wednesday lust for the purpose of considering what steps our citizens ought to take to and Sabine through ibis Tha meeting was addressed by Capt. of who is visiting this as tbe agent of the soliciting subscriptions to The meeting being too thinly attended to get anything like a lull expression of tbe sentiment of the community it adjourned over to 8 this By resolution of the Board of Aldermen the following proposition be submitted to tbe voters the town of Liberty 1st. That tbe own take worth of Stook in the Sabine and Galveston Bay as v z by the subscription of the town lands on the west side of the 12 acre prairie lots at 12 acre timbered lots at 60 acre tracts in prairie at 50 acre tracts or bottom lands at 100 acre tracts in prairie 100 acre tracts in timbered or bottom Said road to take each alternate lot or Provided said locale said road through tbe town of The theological discussion between onr friend of the Victoria Advocate and his about and until without any conclusive This is one of the knotty problems upon good men Faith and Hope the world may disagree But all concern ia It is estim that on of bave continu demands of more impend than those of would come quantity of mi one might stigmatized as once a market mon of the war wl its bankruptcy and in Bays the St. Louis of that State in the war A leading merchant that he could not business six months Tbe ders of military companies were 1 more dangerous to be despot in A captain d demand a barrel of a r or anything which f it was the person was and be became at nd his store and goods although in favor were obliged to oppose er to save themselves from to this I for my present of having during of A crust of bn thatched roof and 1 whether the day ' heart that makes th upon a potato pah a pitcher of and a there is happiness for rainy or It is the whether the net a flower ' Har Advices from vessel had lost two report that a Spanish war Idled of ber crew from tbe is not only in the who believe they talked of for laughed Scrub in tbe club says the and in the and in the There is nowhere where Scrub isn't perpetually on the for the faintest sound of in order to show his sharpness and prove that is tbe subject of Nor does it need laughter to attract his Hissing would do just as Even has its must be thinking of he say so must be trying to spite look so She must be utterly forgetful of smiles so in is a disgusting whom all of us meet fifty tiroes a to take offence at imaginary attributing false motive to the most reasonable prose whose Iago ishis own insufferable makes him the of jealousy and Manufacture oi are in New York four hundred and establishments where clothing is and some idea may be formed of the immense importance of the trade from the fact that a number of our leading houses do business to the amount of over two million dollars a Fulton where there are only four houses that do a wholesale but where a large amount of the retail trade is has four employing each two hundred four employing each three hundred and four houses that each employ over four hundred Thus twelve establishments in Fulton street give employment to over 8,600 or Was on a a water carrier was carrying bis water through tbe sous a gallon six sous a gallon 1 By and by a bomb shell carried off one of bis without moving a muscle of hia ho sous a gallon I In tbe value of manufactured cotton increased from 1840, to In Alabama tbe in tbs asms period of from to Tbs Standard speaks in favorable Modern persons are aware ot the amount of labor and risk involved in the pro duction of such castings as are now required our mammoth steamship The employed in foundries will hold but twt three tons of melted metal at tbe and metal must in all caBes be poured into a mould in a continuous For large castings reservoirs of are provided and filled by slow degrees from the the sides being of sufficient thickness to retain the The preparation of the mould requires many week's Some time since an invention was chronicled wbich consisted of an improved method of preparing wrought so as to render it capable of being poured or cast into for the production of malleable or articles possessing all the strength and qualities due to wrought The though destined chiefly for the manufacture of railway is equally applicable to the production of other Scrap or wrought iron is or bars or plates cut into small and it must be melted into such as are used for melting blister To a charge suitable in amount to the one-half of one per of charcoal by one per of and one of sal ammonia are The whole is covered from the and melted in a temperature of about fifteen hundred degrees temperature is maintained for three The metal is then poured into Other carbonaceous matter may be substituted for The iron thus cast it is so as to be capable of being treated under the hammer in a forge and framed into other and thus also part of the iron may be shaped in and partly completed by Wat to set on ik the get on in this yon must be content to be always stopping where you are to yon most remain stationary to get you must keep down following riches is like following wild and you must crawl after both on your the minute you pop your bead off they go whistling before the and yon see no more of Ifl you haven't the art of sticking by you must acquire it by put a couple of pounds of upon your office and sit down on get a chain round your and tie yourself to your counter like a pair of shop scissors nail yourself up against the wall of your place of like a weasel on a barn or the sign of tbe spread eagle what will do best of marry s poor honest girl without a and my life for yours if you don't do Never mind your relatives say about and such stuff j when they come advising you for your stick up to them for tbe loan of an and you wBl never see on your side of the street To do any good we tell yen over and over again yon must be a Ton may get fat upon a roek If yon never quit y onr hold of it. The Death of Senator gentleman just from Texas hag communicated to facts bearing on the recent melancholy death of Senator which throw more light on that sad event than all else concerning it we had previously It seems that he was suffering at the time most grievously from a carbuncle on the back of his which for sixty had skill of his and bade unless arrested to terminate He had been suffering it on the day he committed the fatal and it was believed by those surrounding bim that the agonies of the added to bis belief that it would deprive bim of life in less than thirty had to do in bringing about his resolu tion to make way with Washington Lowell News says that some twenty-seven months ago a young man named K. Foster had the whole of one elbow joint torn out by an He was taken to the hospital where Dr. advised by Drs. Graves and proceeded to saw off tbe fragmentary shortening them some two and a half and then uniting so as to make a new Strange as it may the wound did well and and Mr. Foster haa a good elbow joint and He moves the joint with perfect though not quite so fully as tbe and as he bold out twenty-two and a half pounds with the hand at arm's The arm is now nearly three and a half inches shorter than the and is a good and reliable arm for all the purposes of labor to Mr. Foster is In discussing the eligibility 0f members of the Legislature to the U. S. we did not rely upon any legal opinion of our upon definitely settled by the highest We would scorn to resort to artifice on Bueh u The instead of giving its readers tbe facts in the points as discussed and settled by the U. S. them and leaves the reader under a total misapprehension of the real point in Our was intended for members of the Legislature and all such as might desire to bave tbe real facts clearly presented and the points decided fairly for those who argue the question on the principle of an attorney for his Our exposition went to the benefit of no particular but of any and of 128 members who might have any otherwise for a seat in the U. S. Towards all persona spoken of for that and shall extend nothing short of fair a sense of We are wedded to none of do justice to all shall be with the choice of our friends in the We oppose proscription come from where it may or whatsoever Why did not the Telegraph let its readers have the language of Judge of South on the subject Was Judge Butler too southern too faithful to his doctrine of strict construction to suit the Telegraph 1 A Submarine under the Burface of has invented by Messrs. Gould of The peculiarity of this lantern over others is its having the flame surrounded with two glass one about half the size of the so as to leave an air space by the inventors tbe vapor from the lamp is prevented from condensing on tbe If equal to the claims set this instrument must be valuable in submarine Wilding frequent defect in welding arises from the interposing of scoriae or cinder between tbe welded prevents the two surfaces from being brought in contact at all To remedy this evil it is necessary so to form tbe surface to be welded that a free exit may be preserved to tbe last for the and this is done by making one of the Bur faces slightly so that the welding begins at the centre and proceeds thus forcing out all tbe accrue and allowing complete Tbe New York Mirror Bays that the last Legislature at Albany without the most corrupt and unscrupulous body that ever assembled st tbe of the Organized on the most extensive regular and notorious business of the Government Printing Washington correspondent of the Philadelphia Press states that the Hon. Senator Bayard will introduce his and press it with great for the organization of a National Printing Such an establishment would doubtless be more expensive than the present mode of executing the publio but the work and paper would doubtless be Indians on the San report reach ed town early in the week that a number of Indians had the San Geronimo on the Wed and carried away tbe horses of Mr. Bobert and some A party had started in pursuit and followed the trail as far as but their horses being they gave way to a party from that composed ot Messrs. O. B. Hicks and immediately took up the trail and followed it so that they overtook the Indians at a distance of 70 or 80 miles above on tbe Medina The trail was the old one used by the One Indian was killed by Mr. but do not learn the Of the animals six in five were the other bad It seems that the horses of Mr. supposed to have been stolen by the had only been frightened away by and were afterwards An tonio Tbs Mexican Cabt Was seems still to be up on the road between Indianola and San The Sau Antonio Herald gives the following account of the attack on the Mexican The attack was made two miles this side of about 5 o'clock by a considerable number of men tbe fighting bravely ahot down two of the attacking whilst of their own party Antonio was and Valdi aud two other Mexicans were At 3 o'clock tha main body of tbe train came up under charge of Mr. and all encamped thut night Mr. Tobin stated to Bueno that the hia camp all night and he expected every moment that they would renew the but they did The Texian says tbe attacking party consisted of 20 or 80 Many shots were and one old Antonio was und some three others Two ol tbe black ruffians were probably aa loll horses and were carried off the The Mexican wbo was foremost in N. received three or lour and now in a loir way to The came off the bluck to seek shelter in the W. G. with the of the wlm were six miles the party and nil encamped together for the ure that were made by apies of the enemy to effect a but they did not Tlw oart was circumvented nil night by the black faced but all their efforts to kill tbe Mexicans and destroy carta proved a when they waked up W. G. and hie they got into the wrong Tbe following account is given in the Ledger of the murdered old man Joss Antonio was born in 179A, in Antonio de Bexar and was in K c on September 12lh 1S67. His was one amongst the first to the New until hia death important government Jose A. Delgado and hia brother J. M. were amongst the first to enroll themselves under the banner of Gen. Toledo and Majors Long aud the defeat ol this party by on the in tbe year 1318, the with many of their companions wbo bad the cause of fled to tbe Trinity The two brothers escaped by this tbe remainder of the being were From m- ia making among tha Germans to erect over the grave of Baron near the village of in Oneida be pleasant witty without free without learned without novel All reports as to character deal largely never a wise one either ss good ot as bad as lis m The city of tbe Telegraph continues remarkably there being no sick ness of any kind General Cass oh 8cndat venerable patriot and General having been invited to address the Michigan State Sunday 8chool thus writes will afford me pleasure to accept year I appreciate the Importance of Sunday and 1 consider their institution among tbe most valuable and efficient means of religions improvement that have come in our day to encourage the which are making to ameliorate tbe moral condi tion of the And no reflecting man can look abroad upon the dangerous and delusive va garies under tbe name of take possession day by day of tbe hearts and minds of leading to individual and social without being dearly impressed with tbe importance of zealous sod concentrated to check this great and And it can best be effectually checked by training tbe mind in tbe knowledge of God and tbe truths of Hia Standing on vantage tbe battle may be and And for one believe tbe contest to be one of the moat momentous which society has ever beea sod tbe Sunday School tuition of tbe youth an assured under of eventual an moss So my and bats an with ng were From Delgado went to were he had the honor of under Gen. Jackson at tbe battle of New In 1880 he returned to San and 1885 he rendered important services to by at the most imminent personal despatches from Messrs. Holmes and J. W. Smith to which resulted In ths taking of Bexar city by Col. ' The Indianola Bulletin Bays When the news San Twenty regular soldiers were sent out under command of tbe not to go beyond the limits of tbe county Messrs. Howard went in command of about sixty volunteers in seatch of tbe party which had attacked tbe No news of any further or violence had reached San Antonio up to Sunday Cannot something be done to put a atop to must tbe commerce ofthe gulf continue to through the of those most interested t Commercial says that we annually pay to Europe a tribute of as interest on borrowed and treble that sum as profit on ber fabrics and Ordinarily is not felt because a greater part of the interest money remains iu this country for having the same aa if the debts were due to oar own Bat when a crises of any kind at sorbs tha surplus capital abroad then our interest money ia transported ss fast as diminishing tbe specie basis of our advancing the price of and of embarrassing all our This was tbe effect of the lats war in and was among the most prominent ol the And when the British Government sets about tha rumored for tbe of India and ths invasion of our Toney market will probably feel tbe disturbing influence Ae tbe interlinking process of commerce goes we cannot avoid a share in the monetary of any To a certain sail in ths same But still as tbe dependence on other nations by our people most tbat that dependence shall be tbe smallest extent consistent with oar to - Cotton may be distinguished from In a fahrio by means of a good former fibres being and more or less contorted or and tbs latter and with cross knots at certain two fibrous matters may be also distinguished hy the so st s boiling of a strong caustic made by dissolving fused potash in its own weight ' By digestion in lineo yarn while Tbe best is to inmates of tbe cloth to be minatee in tbe above boiling hot to lift Ik oaten a glass press it dry between folds af blotting and then to pall ont a lew of tha warn and when tbe linen ansa wilt ha erf
