The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 49, July 1945 - April, 1946 Page: 388
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Southwestern Historical Quarterly
Marks, on the night of the 14th of Nov. and committed sundry
depredations by breaking her furniture, and injuring other
property about her premises." Rewards were also offered for
the apprehension of runaway slaves, and C. J. Hedenberg an-
nounced auctions of groceries, dry goods, hardware, furniture,
lands, and negroes.
The Weekly Telegraph for May 9, 1855, was in the large
eight-column size familiar to modern newspaper readers. It
reported the arrival at Houston of six hundred bales of cotton
in a single day, adding that about twenty-five thousand bales
had been received since the beginning of September. The vital
importance of transportation in those early days, as now, was
portrayed in an article extolling the ox teams and teamsters,
which "have been the pride and glory of this city for many
long years. Whatever else might have been dispensed with as
instruments of its prosperity, they were indispensable. They
stand in the same relation to the general prosperity that rail-
roads, canals and steamboats do in New York and Pennsyl-
vania."
But progress was not to be stayed by such expressions of
praise for earlier modes of transportation. The same edition
carried an announcement from W. J. Hutchins, William M. Rice,
and C. Ennis, as directors of the Galveston and Red River
Railroad, saying that the company had contracted for comple-
tion of twenty-five miles of that road by January 1. An appeal
was made for additional investment, and the editor joined
forces with the agents of progress, in an editorial calling for
generous public support.
Similar in character and interest is the material preserved
in the Weekly Confederate of Galveston, the Tri-Weekly State
Times of Austin, and the Texian Advocate of Victoria. Of the
Weekly Confederate, Gray wrote in 1898 that only the name
was known." It may be, therefore, that the page described here
is the only one that has survived. Had complete files of all
these early ventures in journalism been preserved, the task of
modern historians would have been greatly simplified.
These fragments of early Texas newspapers were included
in the papers of Charles Drake Ferris and his brother Warren
Angus Ferris, both of whom were Texas pioneers. Answering
the call of those struggling for independence, and attracted no
doubt by offers of land grants, Charles Ferris left his home
"Ibid., 391.388
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