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PROPRIETOR.
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GALEN HODGES,
NUMBER 27.
MATAGORDA, TEXAS, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1859.
VOLUME I,
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pirations so willingly upon other s. ^Laugn- longing to the apparatus,
His new associations had given him
all night to keep from freezing. Fifth day
are
g
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xeiing drifted from five to ten feet deep
<y again became lost—for three or
idency ; and if a dissolution of the Union
should take place, he should fear that the
honorable Georgia Senator (Mr. Iverson)
might “turn jack,” and be elected president
of the southern confederacy, notwithstand-
from its distal extremity be prevented. An
incision was then made into the vein, im-
mediately beyond the director, to receive
the beak of the syringe. It is due to Prof.
showing spectral hands, in the presence of
crowned heads, and of the first literary and
scientific personages of the Old World.—
Such an extraordinary career is worth a
passing notice.
Everybody remembers the excitement oc-
practising deception.
We next heard of Hume in Rome, where,
if he had a sorrel sheep.
Why no, I never heard of such a thing,
Well, there is such a thing, said the doc-
tor, nodding his head knowingly.
Have you got a sorrel horse then ?
Yes, said the man, I drove him to mil!
this morning.
Well, said the doctor, he must be killed
occupation. That poor tailor was married
the other day to the sister of a Russian
Count, a lady of great wealth, and high so-
cial position and Alexander Dumas the most
a
A YOUNG LADY SAVED BY TRANS-
FUSION.
In the January number of the Medical
our
16 00;
25 00 ;
35 00;
60 00;
ROMANCE OF A CONNECTICUT
TAILOR.
A few years since there was at work up-
on a bench in Norwich, Ct., a tailor’s ap-
miles—one of the mail man’s face and hands
froze, and the other was so far froze as to
be almost asleep. Mr. G., here finding that
the men would freeze, took them off and
made them walk. They then turned and
went jack twenty-eight miles to Big Sandy.
lie next day the wind ceased, and they
start'd in company with Mr. Ashton, the
plained and discussed. The task of pre
paring the vein was undertaken by Prof.
C. C. Beard. An incision about two inches
in length was made over the median vein
in the left arm. A director was passed
beneath the vessel, near the lower part of
human fiend, the Race of Jhansi. Yet she
was a woman. She should have Pad a wo-
man’s heart, but the devil must have set his
seal upon it at her birth, and quenched its
humanity in making it his own. Not one
trace of woman, have we of her in the ac-
counts given of her brief career. Foremost
in the battle-field, foremost in the scene of
torture—ruthless, cruel, unwomanly, a dis-
grace to her sex, a stigma on the female na-
ture.
Varied as the flowers of earth is the char-
acter of woman ; to a large garden may the
whole sex be compared. Rank weeds are
found there, the sharp stinging nettle, and
the poisonous nightshade ; but likewise are
seen blooms of rich beauty, plants of grace-
ful growth--the scented rose and climb-
ing jasmine, the painted tulip and modest
lily—are all met in the great pasture of the
world, blooming side by side, mingling eith-
er fragrance or poison with the air around.
And the influence of woman is as diversi-
fied as her character, whether in a domes-
tic or public point of view. Two women
may be placed in precisely the same cir-
cumstances socially, the one will diffuse
happiness, and the other destroy it; the one
will give a perfect charm to life, and the
other make it almost a curse ; and simply
THE GAZETTE,
PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY BY
GAMN WOS.
thernometer stood twenty-seven degrees
The matted hair was unwomanly ; the thick before theAlabamy Legislature for estab-
legs incased in still thicker boots, were un-
camp fire—some in two feet of the fire.—
The men had all their hands and feet frozen
and lay four days within eight miles of the
station, unable to get in. Here Majorsand News and Hospital Gazette we find a most
Russell had ten men frozen to death. They interesting report, by Dr. N. B. Benedict of prentice ; a slender, pale young man, poor
attempted to follow the train and became
lost and froze. While here the Salt Lake
mail of Dec. 4th overtook Mr. G., and hav-
ing no men to send with the mail, Mr. G.
took charge of it and brought it to Lara-
mie, where he met an agent having men.
Mr. G. took the coach, in company with
four other passengers; below Laramie they
had but little snow, and the roads were
good most of the time. They found men at
MATAGORDA GAZETTE
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lishiug a Botanical Medical College at We |
tumka. Several able speakers had made
long addresses in support of the bill, when |
one Mr. Morrisette, from Monroe, took the i
floor. With much gravity he addressed the ,
house as follows : >
Mr. Speaker, I cannot support this bill 1
unless assured that a distinguished friend 1
of mine is made one of the professors.
is what that college wishes to make for ui®||
a regular root doctor, and suits the plac<M
exactly. He became a doctor it two hours 1
and it only cost him $20 to complete his ed-
ucation. He bought a book, sir, and read
the chapter on fevers, and that was enough.
He was called to see a sick woman once, so
he tucked his book under his arm, and off
he went.
She was a very sick woman indeed, and
he felt her wrist, looked in her mouth, and
They met Mr. Hockaday at Cotton Wood
Springs, on his way up with mules to sup- pressed and bloodless, and covered with
SGT Advertisements when handed in not specifying the p]y qie maq stations. From here the roads
tocariinna will ho flnntiniiwl until forbid. r .
became muddy and the creeks high, and m
some places had to swim the mules.
The stage company refunded Mr Guthrie
his passage money at St. Joseph on ac-
count of his attention to Mr. Ashton, the
agent, the hands, and for taking charge of
the mail and bringing it through from South
Pass to Laramie himself.
FROM WASHINGTON.
—o—
The Congressional proceedings received and every part of the process was fully ex-
by the mail are not of much interest. On
the 13th inst., Senator Houston, of Texas,
replied to Senator Iverson, of Georgia. The
latter, the day before, attributed Mr. Hous-
ton’s attachment to the union of the States,
The reply
Mr. H. said he had higher motives and as-
pirations than to be President. He had
held, perhaps, as high and important sta-
able to stand up. The mail mon, having tions, surrounded by difficulties, in scenes
no bedding, were compelled to walk around of anguish and peril, amid savage Indians,
and alien from all nations. No ! he was
—Left early in the morning—traveled eight loyal to all sections, and when he should
leave this life, he wished no greater monu-
ment, than it might be said of him that “he
loved his country well.” The honorable
Senator had charged upon him that he had
been repudiated in Texas by not being re-
turned to Congress. If the gentleman sup-
posed that this was the slightest infliction
upon him, he was mistaken.
In the brief time he had to serve here, he
should discharge his duties in a faithful
manner.
life they had made a
“I say, Mick, what sort of potatoes
those you are planting ?”
“Raw ones, to be sure—your Honor
wouldn’t be thinking I would plant boiled
ones ?”
“Do you believe in second love, Misther
McQuade ?”
“Do I belave in second ? Humph ! if a
man buys a pound of sugar, isn’t it swate ?
and when it’s gone don’t he want another
pound and isn’t that swate too ? Troth,
Murphy, I belave in second love 1”
A wag tells us of a boarding house keeper
up to the spout of the teapot.
enough in this world’s goods, and too feeble bride, and
bored when he talked of the great and dis- implored mercy in the shape of death ;
By inverting the languished people who sought his acquaint-
ance. W -------i.„ .1 ---
aristocratic views ; he liked the liveries, the an^ lusty limbs before the power of that
powdered wigs, the coats of arms, and the
etiquette of grand society. He changed
his name from Hume to Home, having, as
he affirmed, traced back his pedigree to
some illustrious Scotch ancestors. There
was not much genuine spirituality about
him, with all his marvelous gifts ; his aspi-
rations being after the world’s fine show
and greatness.
Six months later we find him in Flor-
ence, m Italy, whither he had gone in com-
pany with the sou of an English gentleman
by whom he had been adopted. He was
then stopping at the house of Hiram Pow-
ers, the sculptor, who gave us an interest-
ing account of what he had witnessed in
circles with the young medium. We re-
auce as a
in this State.
To his wonderful gifts as a medium he
ows his more wonderful fortunes. Nothing
opens the heart of the wealthy and sympa- complete
thetic like a show of spiritual powers.—
Hume at once found warm and influential
friends, by whose assistance he was soon
’ s of other me-
diums, who had crossed the ocean, and cre-
ated a sensation in England.
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ferent results.
An ill-tempered, quarrelsome woman, is
a nuisance on the earth. An ill-tempered
man i w , ’ * * ’
with his susceptible nature and aristocratic g-]e” of a sour-tempered woman is insuffera-
ble ; there is a meanness about her irrita-
bility, which men do not generally possess.
A man may swear and behave like a brute
—such conduct is as common as daisies in
summer, but unless he be something below
even the level of the bully—and that is low
enough—he won’t keep up an incessant
small-shot charge of hint and inuendo and
pettish rejoinder—for that is the style of
these nettles of the human race, these veg-
etable blistering plasters of humanity -
cross-grained women. Such women, with-
out having anything of positive vice in their
composition, do an immensity of harm; there
is sorrow and trial enough in the world
and, taking his sister with him, to give her without ill-temper adding to the burthen ;
an aristocratic French education, hastened
back to Paris, in obedience to a summons
from the Emperor. The last we hear of him
is in the saloons of Russia, With his noble
' ‘' la feather in bis cap, creating a
wonderful sensation. So much for the ro-
mance of a Conneticut tailor.
WOMAN AND WOMAN KIND.
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“ She is a woman.” Such was the ex-
planation of a creature met with among the
desolate mountains of the Isle of man. It
seemed hardly for the assertion to be truth.
Terms.—If paid advance. |3 00
If net paid in six months. $3 50
If not paid until the expiration of the year.. .$4 00
ya-No paper discontinued until all arrearages are paid.
jn-Rates of Advertising.—One square (ten lines ) first
insertion
Each subsequent insertion....... .. v 50
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fur-clad, or cased, rather, she crept occa-
sionally from her muddy elevation, and then
crept back again. Spending her time in
sleeping and eating, and performing the
most common offices of life ; thus that life
glided away. Yet was she woman in an-
other aspect of woman’s life.
In this Indian warfare which occupies
mens hearts, tongue s and pens, a tale has
arisen of one who performed deeds of start-
ling cruelty. Helpless children were strick-
en beneath the murdering knife ; women
- - - * ; old
men learned that age was no protection,
and young ones felt the importance of strong ed the doctor ; that’s the way we doctors
gain, if, perchance,
. He cherished no
unkind wish for any one on this account.
The honorable Senator (Mr. Iverson) may
find that there will be changes in Georgia,
as fortune was a capricious jade, and espe
cially the fortunes of political parties were
fiickle and uncertain. (Loud laughter.)
Mr. Iverson made a handsome apology on
the occasion. He disavowed any intention
of implying any thing not proper to the
Senator, or of wounding his feelings.
The world is not fairly represented by
its newspapers. Life is something better
than they make it out to be. They are
mainly the records of the crimes that curse
and the casualties that afflict it, the con-
tests of litigants and the strife of politi-
cians; but of the sweet amenities of home
and social life they are and must be silent
Not without a reason has the poet fled from
ie the “poet’s corner.”
58 I Sir, said a young wife to her husband, a
a case of successful transfusion in yellow
fever, operated upon a young lady in this to gain a livelihood even by the sedantary
city during the epidemic of last summer.
The young lady, having passed through
the usual stages of yellow fever, with he-
morrhage to an unusual extent, was found
on the fourteenth day to be beyond hope of distinguished of French novelists, made
recovery, by any of the ordinary medical journey all the way from Paris to St. Pe-
aids. Death was folding her in his cold
embrace.
swallowed with difficulty, her nose had the
pinched look of death; her lips were de-
a
yellow, dry, parched skin; and her distress
was very great.” Dr. Benedict, having an
apparatus for transfusion, obtained from
England, determined upon trying trans-
fusion as a last resort. We add the Doc-
tor’s own account of the operation:
A little past the hour of noon, there were
assembled at my house, Drs. Wm. Kennedy
0. B. White, C. C. Beard, D. W. Brickell,
and L. Greenleaf. The apparatus was
examined, its use described and illustrated,
for your wife. i
The woman turned her head away, and
the astonished man inquired if something
else would not do for the soup, the horse |
was worth a hundred dollars, and was all
the one he had ?
No, said the dector, the book says so,
and if you do’t believe it I will read it to
you :
“Good for fevers—Sheep sorrel or horse
sorrel.” There sir.
Why doctor, said the man and his wife,
it don’t mean a sorrel sheep or horse, but—
Well I know what I am about, mterrupt-
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which had appeard to Mr. Powers, on one
occasion, and recall almost the wmrds the
latter used respecting the apparition. “Hav-
ing made the structure and symmetry of
the hand my study for so many years,”
said he, “I may be supposed to know some-
thing about it ; and I can say that in all
my observation I never saw either a real
or an ideal hand that could compare with
this in the perfect beauty of its propor-
tions.” This seemed to be sufficient evi-
dence, to the mind of the artist, that there
i was a reality in Hume’s pretended powers, by diversity of temperament producing dif-
possible, with that notwithstanding the fact that he had some-
tendencies, he became impressed by the au-
gust ceremonies of the Romish Church, re-
nounced Protestantism, and the practices
of spirits, and turned Catholic. But his
medium power, which he lost for a time,
returned to him again ; and having proceed-
ed to Paris, under the protection of a Polish
nobleman, who had stood his godfather, he
astonished the Emperor and court by his
seemingly miraculous gifts. Returning on
a brief visit to America, he purchased a
farm for his uncle, provided for his father,
made considerable display of diamonds and
whose tea was so weak that it couldn’t get things which had been Presented to himffiy
his friends—the.crowned heads of Europe,
put them on Mr. Ashton —leaving hi
vith only a deer skin moccasin on.
whole compj.ny concluded the time
gnwing short, but like heroes made
I. .
chiefly in relation to his imputation. incision, in order it might be held under
eight days before Mr. G. left the valley. He declared that he had no i
that kind—that it was his purpose, after
the expiration of office, to retire to private
life. We extract the following from the re-
port of the “States:”
Referring to the admission of Texas, he
(Mr. Houston) would say that when she
joined the Union she brought no small state,
but as it were, a vast empire, or a repub-
lic ; nor did she join a southern country or
a northern section, but she joined the whole
Union. During his defence of Texas, he
tersburg to attend the wedding, and act as
“Her extremities were cold; she the young man’s bridegroom. .
Here is the outline of a romance which in
marvellousness is scarce surpassed by any- womanly ; the rough walk and rough gait
thing in range of truth or fiction. From his
bent and cross-legged position upon a tai-
lor’s bench, in Norwich, Daniel Dundas
Hume, the medium, has reached the highest
aristocratic circle of European society. He
has lived in intimate relation with Louis
Napoleon, and received valuable tokens of
gratitude and remembrance from the Em-
press Eugenie. He has had the honor of
j a heart that never sig'hed ?
Is there a tongue that never lied ?
Is there an eye that never blinked ?
Is there a man that never dr inked ?
If so, then heart and tongue and eye ?
Must tell a most confounded lie.
-
Boy.—“pa, de rivers sleep at night ?”—
Father—“No, my son, why do you ask?
Boy .-“The geography says they hav^beds.’
W^e happened to be in London shortly af- stunted being sat in her wretched hovel; immediately, and some soup made of him
ter his appearance in that metropolis. There
we made his acquaintance, met him often,
and had oportunities of watching his career.
This was in the spring of 1855. He was
at that time a fair impressible youth, of
delicate, almost sickly mind and constitu-
tion, agreeable in his manners, and very
well pleased with himself. He had begun
to drink the intoxicating waters of success
his head did not seem very strong ; He
dined with Thackeray, supped with Bulwer,
and shrugged his shoulders, and looked
New York. It had been snowing for seven
or
The snow was from one to six feet deep in
the Big Mountains, and they had to tramp
the snow to pass with their animals.—
Eecond day out the snow was so deep that
the company got lost and lay out all night
and the men in charge of the mail had
their feet and hands frozen, and the boots
h id to be cut off their feet next morning.
The third day they made Bridger at sun-
set, and after traveling about twenty miles
got lost again, and were compelled again
to lay down in the snow till morning.—
Fourth day they made Big Sandy Station,
and left there about 2 o’clock in the even-
ing, and traveled twenty miles, wind blow-
ing from the east. The storm increased so
as to prevent them from seeing five feet
ahead, and compelled them again to lay up. ing that gentleman charged presidential as-
They camped in a hollow, and during the [ „ . . .
night snow drifted on them to the depth ter.)
of three feet. Here the whole company al-
most froze. Mr. G. states that his feet
and legs Ytrere so numb as to be almost un-
a cheerful heart and a cheerful word it is
woman’s prerogative to bestow, and if she
fails to exert her prerogative she loses,
and deserves to lose, that supremacy over
man she is born and destined to hold.
STEAM DOCTORING.
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Those who knew the good old-fashioned
and excentric Mr. Morrisette, of Monroo
county, will at once recognize the following
as a “true bill.” It is true to the letter, and
“just like him
Some years ago a bill was brought up
Beard to say that nothing could exceed the eaabled follow the example
skill and steadiness with which his opera-
tion was performed. The blood was obtain-
ed, by the assistance of Dr. Greenleaf, from
the arm of a young gentleman who exhi-
bits a remarkable example of perfect health
and who had experienced yellow fever dur-
never had any wish or thoughts of the Pres- the epidemic of 1853.
It was my purpose to use the apparatus
myself; but as the moment approached, my
near relationship to the patient made me
distrust my firmness, and I requested Prof.
Brickell to take my place. He consented
to do so, but substituted for the syringe be-
' ' , one of simpler
construction, into the beak of which he ab-
sorbed the blood as it flowed into the re-
ceiver of the transfuser.
syringe and pushing upward the piston,
the last bubble of air was expelled. The
beak was then introduced by Dr. White,
into the orifice of the exposed vein of the
patient, and Prof. Brickell, with consum-
mate care, passed the blood into her arm,
before it had time to cool or even to repose
for more than a few seconds All the ap-
paratus employed was immersed in warm
water, or wrapped with heated cloths, so
as to prevent any reduction of the tempera-
ture of the transfused blood. The opera-
tion was commenced a few minutes before
1 o’clock, and was finished safely and satis-
factorily, in all respects, a few minutes
■. In withdrawing him from public past that hour.
The quantity of blood passed from the
young man’s arm into that of the dying
lady was two ounces and a half. Shortly member the discription of a spiritual hand
afterward the patient began to revive, and
she is now in perfect health. This is the
twentieth recorded case of successful trans-
fusion
Dr. Benedict explains that transfusion is
“applicable to no pathological condition
save that which is commonly called ‘col-
lapse,’ induced by hemorrhage, by certain
exhausting dischaiges, or by utter inability
to receive or retain nutriment; and the only
transfusion now sanctioned, either by phy-
siology or by common sense, is that of
human veinous blood into human veins,
identical, as nearly as
which has been lost, and in quantity just times been suspected, on good grounds, of
sufficient to arrest the tendency towards
death.”
$10 09 ; 6 months $7 00 ; 3 months $5 50
18 00: “ 12 00; “ 10 00
25 00; “
85 00 ;
60 00;
100 00;
didnot seem to belong to a woman—but this
hybrid of the human race carried in her
arms a babe, and the smile she threw on it
in the midst of her conversation, claimed
to be a true woman at heart, whatever re-
semblance her external form might bear.—
A young girl sat at the window of a coun-
try mansion; the moon shone on her fair
and lovely face. Golden tresses fell on her
turning tables, ringing? bells in the air, and of spotless white, and er ue eyes
were raised to heaven, whither her thoughts
had flown. She was as beautiful as any-
thing of earth could be ; delicate and fra-
gile, a breath of humanity ; more like a
spirit than aught else, seen in that place,
and by that pure light. Yet was that be-
casioned by this young man’s first appear- ing a woman, of the same sex as the wild
“spiritual rapper,” in Springfield tenant of the mountain cottage ? r .
Mid the burning plains of a West Indian then turning to her husband, asked solemly
Island, under a scorching sun, a mother
rocked her child. Her sable skin was as
> a contrast as could be to that of said the man.
the fair creature above described ; her lips
were thick and protruding, her nose flat and
expanding, her hair wool, or somethinglike
it in texture. Yet the negress was a wo-
man possessing a warm and generous na-
ture In the northern clime of Lapland, a
f
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read it and we understand it.
Now, continued the speaker, amidst the I
roars of the house, unless my sorrel doctor I
can be one of the professors, I must vote I
against the bill.
The blow most effectually killed the bill, I
it is needless to state. )
Sands—Boasters are cousins to liars. I
Confession of a fault makes half amends. I
Denying a fault doubles it. |
Envy shooteth at others and wounds her- I
self. I
Foolish fear doubles danger. t
He has hard work who has nothing to I
do.
It costs more to avenge wrongs than to I
bear them.
Knavery is the worst trade.
I
Learning makes a man fit company for I
himself. |
Modesty is a guard to virtue. P
Not to hear conscience is the way to si- r
lence it. I
One hour to day is worth two to-mor- I
row. I
Proud looks make foul works in fair fa- I
ces. I
Quiet conscience gives quiet sleep. I
Small thoughts indulged, are the little I
thieves that let in greater. t
The boughs that bear most hang lowest. I
Upright walking is suie walking. |
Virtue and happiness are mother and I
daughter. I
Wise men make more opportunities than I
they find. I
You never loose by doing a good turn. I
Zeal without knowledge, is fire without I
light. I
When a lazy man says “ I’ll do it at my I
is bad enough, but the perpetual “nig- leisure,” you may be sure he’ll never do it I
"" at all. I
A country editor announces in the fol- I
lowing terms that he has suspended specie I
payments: I
“If any man wants to see stars and ap- J
preciate one of the uses t<? which brickbats a
may be perverted, let him approach our
vicinity with an account.
P. S„ We keep a pile of bricks in
sanctum and carry one in our hat.
When Rothschild was asked whether ha 1
would not like to become a temporal King Al
of the Jews in Palestine, “Oh, no,”
“I would rather be Jew of the Kings W
King of the Jews.” dfl
A
the neir road south of Laramie, had Mr. enough, to tell
yourself?
notes of the weather. The oldest moun j Is there
taineers, one in particuar who li^es close - -
by the station, states th.t it was the coldest
weather they had experenced for thirty
years.
They left Mr. Ashton nf»r laying over
three or four days. While here the St. Jo-
seph mail arrived—Mr. Garvis, the Indian
agent for the Snakes, coming through with
They had pine mules frozen round their
mail agent. They reached the South Pass
at dark. Here the wind raised again; the
snow
and t
four hoinrs they wandered round in hopes they had not made a loss,
to find the road, and their only hopes was
to face the wind in order to reach Sweet
Water, which they did. They then at-
tempted to travel down this stream but the
drifted snow was so aeep as to be impassa-
ble. They camped, and Mr. Ashton froze
one of I it while in bed.
In the moving they left mules mail, and
all, and took t afoot dow n. Sweet Water on
the ice. M \ Ashton begged to be left in
bed, as they kin to cut the boots off his feet
Mr. G. pulle: off his buffalo moccasins and
put them on Hr. Ashton —leaving his feet
The
was
) a
desperate effort—part of the time carrying
Mr.zVshton. They reacb-d a station about
ten miles distant. Then they had some
hope of making the trip, although the
Mr. Sanders, the surveyor of few days after marriage, you were honest
tne nez road south of Laramie, had Mr. enough co tell me youi’ chimney smoked,
Milhr stationed at this place with a baro- but why didn’t you tell me you smoked
meer and thermometer in order to take
m 4- 4* Vv a a ♦•‘'IK 71^1— ^1 J rtn I fill
taineers, one in particuar who liYes close
15 00
18 00
25 00
35 00
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TERRIBLE SUFFERINGS ON THE
PLAINS.
Mr. John M. Guthrie returned from Salt
Like City a few days since, and gave the
Vteekly Platte Argus the following account
of the horrible sufferings which he and his
companions endured from the cold weather
on the plains and in the mountains :
Mr. G. left Salt Lake City on the 27th of
November, with the mail on packed ani-
mals, in company with G. A. Beardley of to his desire to be President.
was (‘ "
aspirations of perfect control, and the loss of any blood
belowzero.
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Lipsey, E. J. The Matagorda Gazette. (Matagorda, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 27, Ed. 1 Saturday, February 5, 1859, newspaper, February 5, 1859; Matagorda, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1329839/m1/1/: accessed May 21, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Matagorda County Museum & Bay City Public Library.