Civilian and Gazette. Weekly. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 20, No. 12, Ed. 1 Tuesday, June 16, 1857 Page: 1 of 4
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1 to anpounce W
i a candidate for Dii
i judicial district, coi
s of Galveston, Harria, Monte
1 Madison. Election, 1st
n authorised to announoe JAMES G.
; of Grimes oounty, as a candidate for
t office of District Attorney , for lb*
.composed of the counties of Gal-
ntgomery, Grimes, Walker and
Br Gen'l Land Office.
to aimoanoe STEPHEN
uauao i, as a candidate for re-eleotion to the office
«if Commissioner of the General Land Office.
Far Governor.
rixad to anuoonoe GEN. SAM HOU8-
as a candidate for Governor of the Bute of
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fe are authorized to aunounee Jadee CON-
"1W. BUCKLHY, as a eaadidate for Hepre-
" ~ "l*f FoitrBead and Anstln.
> areauthorized to announce FLETCHJR
Lie candidate for Senator
_ , . Jackson, Lavaca Vlc-
fitt, Goliad and
jftWH COMMERCIAL MATTER, 8KB FOOHTH
f.ÍUc Rpeaklni
Jonf H. Beaoan, the Democratic candidate
a, will address the citizens of the East-
ern District at the following times and places:
, Saturday,... Jone 6th, 1 o'clock P M
all parts
this city,
oa assurance, that if the present csnvaee is
heated as on former ooeasions, the determined
ocratio spirit is abroad in the land, firm and
—resohred that Texas shall maintain the high
titutional ground ahe has so gallantly ,
Tbeideaaof August will roll up the usual
ty in favor of our ticket andeound principles. '[
ia no wavering in the ranka—nothing to inf
change in the popular mind, and we feel
predicting that the nominees of the Den _
party will he elected by a large majority. They are
all entering u^on the canvass, East and West,
North and South; and in every diatriot able oham-
pions are found to advocate and defend the juat and
noble principles upon whleh the Democracy stand.
Our Bails.
We ley elaim to one virtue, if virtue it be, in our
We do not habitually scold about the
mails—indeed wer have done so very rarely , and
gen Willy. It ia a hsokneyed subject. But coi
plaints from our subscribers have been so frequent
of late that patience almost ceases to be a virtue.
■The Civilian is made up and mailed with unusual
regularity—that ia fact No. 1. When it does not
reaoh its destination, therefore, there is fault some-
where—put that down for fact No. 3. When in
consequence of fset No. 2 our subscribers com
and send us letters of bitter disappointment'and
threaten, if things do not mend, to stop the very
paper they most dspire—then it is that we feel
wratby—so this stands as fact No. 8. Our Indian-
ola paokage arrives via San Antonio—Saluria com-
plains—Burleson county complains—Polk grum-
blea a little—Victoria ahakea her head—and so it
goes of late. Now, gentle reader, the fault ia not
ours—(the same facta are stated about the News
and other Galveston papers)—bat' as wé have been
so modest, bo forbearing, to Christian-like towards
all post masters and mail folks, we ask them this
time to oorrect these evils.
Sunday,
tine, Friday,
filio, Saturday,
«ch . Monday,
Tuesday,
inesday;
Monday,
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_ f~ The present Mayor of Indianola, an exceed-
ingly modest young man, bad his maiden case a
few days sinoe, which, from accounts, was rather
"Salty"—it appearing that a stage owner undertook
to wallop a stage driver, where upon the driver re-
versed the order of things and wallopedHhe o wner.
Tbedefea ted Individual plead to the jurisdiction of
the Court, for this, that he resided in another vil-
lage, but on the same bay. The Court overruled
the plea, and decided (referring to the new Criminal
Code as it timbeen t^id) that whenever any fjgbt-
iog was done or to be done on Matagorda Bay or
any of the tributaries thereof, he (the Court) was
i , and by , would exeroise jurisdiction, and
wished it understood that the Cour>did not desire
advice from '• new light" individuals as to its pow-
ers or territorial limits.
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July 3,
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Gilmer,
an", Thursday,
Saturday,
,.Tuesday,
Wednesday,
, -hsrsdsy,
Beaton, Saturday,
Clarkaville, Monday,
Paris," '
6, 10
7, 10
8, 1
9, 1
11, V 1
18, 10
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Gainsville. Saturday
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Canton, Friday,
Athens, Saturday, August
invited to atten
Palestine, June
27, 10
28, 10
29, 10
29, 1
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And any competitor who may be in the field, if
ttendthi
appointments.
1857.
Aptómuaonta. ;/
to address the people of Texas at the
as set forth:
iy,............... ....June 8
Gilmer, Wednesday,......
Marshall, Friday, .
Jefferson, Saturday,..
Dangerfield, Wednesday.............
Tarrant, Thursday,
Greenville, Friday
McKinney, Saturday,
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designated, I will be happy
, the nominee of the
to all "WhipiJere in
Sam houston.
most respectfully invited toat-
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, the Democratic nominee for
will addraaa the people at the fol-
■ 10th June
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Tuesday 80
riae, Thursday 2d
Marahall, Tuesday
Jeftfson,Wedneaday o
Gilmer, Friday ......Xio "
Tyler, Monday "
Public Address.
It will be seen by the list of appointmente i to
day'a paper that F. B. Lubbock Democratic cm lú-
date for the offioe of Lieutenant Governor, willad-
dresa the people of Galveeton to-morrow night.
ggT'The Steamer Island City, Capt. J. H. Stork
rett, arrived last night from Houston, with 104
bales cotton and the following passengers:
tleford, Bearing, Brown, Fish., that'would
®"JWe are truly pleased to,hear that the health
of the Bev. Daniel MoNair, of tbia eity, was im-
proving at last acconnts, which left him asoending
the father of waters to.St.Papl, Minneaota.
In bis absence, the Bev. C. C. Gillespie has klnd-
' ministered in his stead as other engagements
ou/d permit..
Tax Cohxt.—The Biohmond Dispatoh is respon-
sible for the following;
He is going off. And, as he goes, they abuse bim.
TSey pay he has lost his toil. Wás ever comet bo
Vandalized f We nbw understand why he will not
t the earth on the 18th Of June next, .at 20
inutea past 10 a. x. A comet like a fox, is noth-
g without his tail, although his tail itself ia only
an infinite deal of nothing. On tbe 18thinstant
the comet waa nearest the earth, and was twenty
millions of miles away. Since then he has been
running off as fast as he .could scamper, with his
tail, or what is left of it, between his legs. It is
believed that he has gone to try and perauade the
other cometa to out off their tails also. This Great
Bore is now near the constellation of the Great Bear.
The editor of the Petersburg.. Democrat saw him
lately through a.telesoope of ordinary power. Alas 1
poor oomet f He has lost his tall 1
Pursuant to notice a meeting was held at the May-
or^ Office, June 6th, 1867.
; Havitand, stated that!the objeot of the
to take into consideration the beet way
a company to take charge of the United
government Life Beats, in charge of the Col-
of Customs. On motion, J, F. C. McClelland
was oalled to the ohair and J. N. Beed appointed
Seowtary.
A Committee was appointed to draft suitable Be-
solutiona to form a Life Boat crew, which was re-
ported by J. E. Haviland, and adopted. On Mo-
tion, the said preamble and resolutions were refer-
red to the Hon. Board of Aldermen, and the Com-
mittee, consisting of Messrs. Haviland, Moore and
Phillips, 7¿re instructed to present the same. On
motion, a Committe waa appointed, oonsiBting of
Messrs. King, Moore, Haviland, Phillips and Wee-
trop, to report auitable Implements &o., for this
company at the next meeting. On motion, a com-
mute, consisting of Messrs. J. E. Haviland, E. B
Nichols, J. W. Jockush, John Dean and J. J. Hend-
ley were appointed to address the Collector on the
subjeot. On motion, the meeting adjourned until
Tuesday night, 16th inst., at 8 o'olock.
J.N. Burn, Seo'y- J. F. C. McCLELLAND.
Noble GalVeaton, Farewell I
[For the Civüian.l
Pardon the intrusion of. a stranger who feels an
ardent desire, in some way, to return bis heartfelt
Past and Pbxsxht Condition or im Nxobo.—
The New York Observer, a religions paper, in the
courge of an able artiole on " The Past and Present
Condition of the Negro," tins shows up "Northern
pbilanthropby
Before the anoeetors of those negroes were torn
from their homes in Africa, by the slave traders of
New England, and placed under the/influence of
Christianity at the South, they were among the
most degraded and miserable of the human speoies
—slaves of oruel masters, and viotims of bloody
superstitions, believers in witchcraft and worship-
pers of the devil. And now, what is the condition
.of their descendente ? Several years ago, more than
800,000 of them were members, of the Protestant
Evangelical ehurohes in the alaveholding States 1
Nine-tenths of the negroes of the South are still
slaves, but is slavery under Christian masters in
America, the same as . under heathen tyrants in
Africa S Degraded as these slaved may still be,
compared with th§ sons of the pilgrims of New
land, or even with the- mass of laborers in some
of the enlightened countries in Europe, can 8,000,-
000 or 1,000,000 negroes, bond or free, be found in
any part of tbe world, who can compare for ¿otxl
condition, physical, intellectual or moral, with the
8,000,000 million slaves of the South ? Has Chris-
a loss
tianity, aided by all the wealth of Christians, done
as much dnring tbe last twenty years for the eleva-
tion of the 800,000 emancipated negroes in the West
Indies. British phllantbropiata themselves being
the judges of what it has done during the samd
period tor the elevation of our 8,000,000 American
slayee!
Kino, Ligon, Shacklefotd,Bearing, Brown, Fish,
er Whitney, Giulaber, Runnels, Bremond, Teagar-
den Patrick, Petty, Price, Moore, Hamond, Cava-
nash Lanigan, Clements,D J4GMMoody,Wor-
i. Zenck, Swing, Haber, Bryan, Phinney,
"are and lady, Fairfax Gray and lady,
Mrs. Ellis, Mrs. WUoox and daughter,
ruuiney, Mrs. Botts, Mre. Sampson, Mrs.
a and S children, Mrs. Jones, Mrs. Brenard &
' MWHaíria, Mrs. Moore, Mrs. W.Y.
child.
I ■ V
i a'—-"- Betty Powell, Capt. Wood, arrived
jght from Liberty, with the following passen-
,; Fielde A lidy, Col Lacy, Bichardaon, Mont-
iery. Davis, Durfree, DeBlanc, Ward, 2 horse*
4 also 75 balee ootton.
am the Betty will not raturn until Bator-'
r sventng ryxt at 4 p. m
-'-amahip Charlee Morgan, Captain' Plaoe,
i evening at 4 p. m. for Indianola ; will
. Thursday next and leave aame day for
Piaixs.—" London," says Downing, " has over
six thousand aores, either within its own limits or
in the accessible suburbs, open to the enjoyment
of its population, and six thousand acres composed
too, either of the grandest and moat lovely park
scenery, like Kensington and Biohmond, or of
luxuriant gardens, filled with rare plants, hot-
houses ana hardy shrubs, and trees, like the Na-
tional Gardens at Kew.
" Paris has its garden of the Tnilleries, whose
alleys are lined with orange trees two hundred
years old, whoee parterres are gay with the brightest
fioweis, wbose cool groves of horse-cheelinuts
stretching out to the Elysian Fields, are in the very
midst of the city. Yes 1 and on its outskirts are
Versailles—three thousand acres of imperial groves
and gardens there also—and Fontainebleau, and
St. Cloud, with all the rural, aoenio, and palatial
beauty that the opulenoe of tbe most profuse of
Frenob monarohs could create, all open to the
ptopl* of Paris.
" Vienna baa its great Pratir, to make whioh
*o%ld swallow up most of the' unimproved' part
of New York city. Munich baa a superb pleasure
ground of five .hundred aores, whicli makes the
Arcadia of her eltizens. Even the smaller towns
are provide^ with puulio'grounds, to an extei
~ "* ' sliorl
' the imagination of ur short-
fwho would den'
.for
ild deny a 'greenery' to
example, is skirted by
formed upon the plat-
itiftal gardens, formed upon
^rms which made the old "
iparts" of the city-
flowers and ahrubs
ti. ?0?,4"*'1 WÍÍ 916 l0*«Heet NitUUQ
^tefa'Jy grouped along walks over two miles in
BousnxLL Explosion rar rax Caxt or
tiaDoe.AI',?rS.'T.A-irt>npe of "distinguished" Spirit
form^i Lifters have recently been ':pér-
thewhifei°g1?,Dnti\ one ni«h 1"' "«i, Wben
Saiserable table-rapping humbug was ex-
bTsome' "¿tobo"'" wore played upon
< nrse g¿f®ra tn«l> agency, in the dark of
aúddTnlv WÍ7"8 of n,wboli« er "truck a light
auaaeniy, wa^ at ono# Wp0ged the gwiniiljDg im.
of the drunf wasaboy about
wart Ian. tall ',pirl1! of the tambourine a stal-
to"h diiSvsredP'"d..Tjteywere
tbe drum. The^md
tion amone the st ^5**^ mneh ooneterna-
had suddenly burst^ ?*^®.™ " " bo?.b6hel,1,
scattered and the
Tbe money waa retard^'J'y^led_ ^
her ditintsreeted Vnd self-saorificing spirit, evinced
toward the sufferers of the ill feted Louisiana, and
her more than fortunate survivors.
There are oases in Sabarian deserts ; there; are
realities intercepting mirages ; and there are Gal-
vestons for the Unfortunate; at least there is a
Galveston for the destitute.
When friends and all our effects were away—when
destitution seemed our lot,when, as strangers among
strangers, we were cast amidst the noble-hearted,
liberal-minded, eelf-saoriflcing citizens of Galves-
ton, how balmy was the their placid smiles, how
sootbing their disinterested proffers of timely aid,"
verifying the ancient but now rejuvenated adage,
that "friends in need, were friends indeed,"
Although fortunate enough "ourself" to have the
"sine qua non," for usual oomfort, we know that
many of our fellow-sufferers were not só looby, and
the provisions made by the oity covering all eon-
tingencies,evinces a spirit not less pleasing to those
who may be able to pay their way, than to those
really needy, for it was merely by ohance that any
preserved their funds, and not less magnanimous
than the efforts that were made to save us.
We have been taught to feel that we are at home,
We have felt as if among our own familiar friends.
Proffers of assistance have teemed from various
sources; the ladies have joined in the efforts to re-
lieve and to soothe us—smiling, happy faces have
tended to dissipate the honors of that sad scene—
till oblivion almost supervenes, and we feel that
we are wafted on Elysian wings of dream thought,
to bask amid the smiles of by-gone days, in the
land of Our biTth..
Galveston, the home of the unfortunate, good by!
good by j Long will you be fresh in the memory
of those'to whose happiness and comfort you have
so happily contributed.
One or thi Sobvivjjbs or tiíe Disastxb.
F. B. Lubbock, Esqr. the Democratic oandidate
for Lieut. Governor, has resigned the office of Clerk
of, the Distriot Court for Harris oounty—deeming it
immodest toxoid on to one office while he is a can-
didate fur another—a rare piece rfaelf denial among
politioans. Lubbock is of nitui$'s noblemen, and
Is governed by his ovs Jhk| ' propriety rather
than by precedent. He HmHc up an honorable
and luoative offioe for tbe^^Rit of a place whioh
can add nothing to his reputation and must; involve
a pecuniary loss. . ' ■
Betibed.—Mr. John C. Hepperla, has .dissolved
his connection with the Herald of thjp
to be lamented by the other publishers,
is a sprightly young man of muoh tact am
Mr. H. for a time edited the Texian at Ai
In retiring, he carries with him Our kindest
for his future prosperity.
Tbeasdbe Tbove.—Mr. Benj. 8. Dey of Carri-
tuok county, N. C., while ploughing in his field, a
few days ago, dug up a pile of old Spanish gold and
silver coin to the amount of about six thousand
dollars. It is supposed to have been buried during
the revolution—and .the accident that led to the
discovery waB most singular. It appears that aD
old pine tree had fallen near the fence of Mr. D.'s
farm, and One of the branches stuck in the spot
Vhere the money was found. As the tree was an
obstruction to those engaged in ploughing, it was
raised from its position when it was discovered that
the old branch had se^Mtof the pieies of coin
sticking to it. They to work and dug
down to the depth onRoutlofr feet, when they
were startled by the discovery of this large amount
of money.
EveTy eye that looked upon the shiners, we are
told became as big as moons; and one of the
negroes who assisted in raising the tree, on seeing
the money Btioking to the limb was so amazed at
the sight, halloed out, why Massa Dey what am
dat—I wonder if he gro dar. Well, well, dia am
de fust time I ebber seed money grow on de pine
tree. A yoke of oxen was soon hitched to the trea-
suey, and it was oarried to the house of Mr. D.,
where it can now be seen.
This, we assure our readers, is no hoax; and it
rather givea oredenee to the tradition that there
was money depoaited on that part of the coast by
Blackboard the pirate.—Norfolk Herald.
_ Thi Island or Mauritius.—The Island of Mau-
ritius, fromwbioh Europe derives a considerable
part of its Bupply of sugar—tbe unfortunate rival
of Jamaica in the English market—was origiáally
a barren rock, on which the soil bad absolutely to
be made, and is even now kept in its position by
being placed, secure from the fury of the hurri-
canes, in the fissures of the rock, in which tbe cane
is planted. It is dependent upon India for its ve-
getables, and on the Cape of Good Hope for ani-
mal food. The distance between Calcutta and
Mauritius is not so formidable as to prevent the
shipment of coolies, who are willing to go there
for a short time. Their labor is obtained at an
extremely low rate of wages, and the expenditure
required on account of the natural sterility of the
soil is gained in the low price at which tbe servi-
ces of the coolies can be obtained. Tbe whole su-
gar trade of this island is now in the hand of one
of the merchant prices of London, who is energe-
tically developing its resources, and year by year
increasing its sugar production. Mauritius is said
tobe competent to furnish one-fourth of the entire
amount of sugar used in the world.
Position In Sleeping.
Hall's Journal qf Health has an article upon this
subject, upon which it is argued that it is better to
sleep upon tbe right ride than on the left, and S8ys,
after going to sleep, let the body take its own po-;
si tion. If yod sleep on your back, especially soon'
after a hearty meal, the weight of the digestive
organs, and that of the food,, résting on the great
vein of the body, near the back bone, compresses
it, and arreste the flow of blood more or less. Ii
the arrest is partial, the sleep is disturbed, pnd
there are unpleasant dreams. If the meal: has
been recensor hearty, the arrest is more decided,
and the various sensations, such as falling over a
precipice, or the pursuitof a Wild beast, or other
impending danger, and the desperate effort to get
rid of it, arouse us; that sends on the -stagnating
blood, and we wake in a fright, or trembling, or
perspiration, or feeling of exhaustion, according to
the degrees of stagnation, and' the length: and
strength of the ¿¿fort made to escape tbe denger.
But when we are not able to escape the danger,
; ' '
lip Charlea Morgan, Henry Place,
l New Orleans, arrived early this
. No. 2. last night resolved to ce-
; anniversary ofour national
oooaaion, and
of that useful
tw it
thin.
— J®
Lieutenant Governor, will
Galveston, in Morian Hall, at 8 o'clock to-night.
The public, including the ladies, are invited.
|yThe steamship ChariesMorgan, Gapt. Place,
will leave to-morrow (Thursday) at 11 o'clock a.
m. for New Orleans. See Advertisement.
Tbe Steamer Texas, Capt. C. Spews, arrived
from Houston yesterday, with 74 bales cotton and
22 hides.
Tbe Steamer Eclipse, Capt. P. J. Menard, arriv
ed from Houston last night, with 52 bales cotton,
7 do wool and tbe following passengers:
Wilson, Fuller, Marscbalk, Ban kin, Lubbock,
Sandford, Miller, Bankui,' Franklin, Heney, Deles
denier, Lippman, Grocé and lady.
A new post offioe has been established at
Bainey's Creek, Coryell county, Texas, W. D. Clark
Postmaster :
The name and site of the post offioe lately kept
at Quihi,"Medina oounty, Texas, have been chang-
ed to New Fountain.
the laat exhibition of e?,de(* wheu do fell over the precipice, when the tomb-
"Bniritnal Manlhetatioá^^ *'0" Science or ling building crushes us—what then? Thai it death!
That is the death of those of whom itissrid,3hen
found lifeless in their bed in the morning : "Tney
were, as wéU as they ever were, the day before
and oftm it is added, and ate heartier than com-
num. This last, as a frequent cause of death to
thoee who have gone to bed, well, to wake no
give merely as a private opinion. The
"its truth isenongh to deter any ¿ttió-
■** ■ sai. This we do
np in the night
or bilious coUc,
time, is properly
, of Biloxi, Misaissip
fof Patent* ft ■■
cultivated it for the laat
he hiu ever fteen.
Korea it all vintor.
ir* and after t
up to seed, and is
t for harvest It afterwards
two or t
yyPr. F. M. Petty requests us to say that he
will lecture on Prophecy tit Morian Hail to-morrow
night. We know nothing more on the subject.
Chan or Tim*.—We notioe the Steamers on
the Berwick or Inland route to New Orleans, will
hereafter leave here for Berwick at 1 o'olock p. m
Thursday's and Sunday's, thereby landing passeng-
ers at a seasonable hour in New Orleans.
The Opelousas, Capt. Ellis, will leave to-morrow
(Thursday) at 1 p. m.
' It is due to the Post Master of this city to
say, that in our remarks yesterday about the mails,
no allusion was intended for this offioe. We have
good reason to believe that the affairs of the office
have never been more regularly conducted than
since Mr. Andrews entered it. But the fault is
somewhere and we hope it may be corrected.
■ It is truly remarkable in the present can-
vass to see the papers add men who, but two years
ago, were holding and defending secret poHtioal
meetings, conventions and nominations, now loud-
declaiming against conventions, composed of
men selected by democratic meetings, openly and
honorably, according fb tbe time-honored customs
of the Democratic and Whig parties. It should
bring the blush of shame to those who raiBe the
insincere cry, in order, aB they vainly hope, to de-
ceive the people and betray them into a false step.
It will not do. The people of Texas read and re-
flect for themselves. An open, candid opponent
will always command respect—'the bush-whacker
never. ,
The News has heard that there is a strong dissat
isfaotion in the East among the friends of Colonel
Johnson: and that tbey will support Houston;
that the K. N.'s and old Whigs will support him ;
that the Fret Soil party in Texas will support him.
As to Johnson's friends, and they are the whole
>eople, exclusive of politicians, the charge is gratu-
tons. As to the K. N.'s (who were) many of them
here will not support Houston. Ab to the " free-
soilers inthe interior counties," if the News will
keep Galveston straight the interior will take care
of the Democratic candidates. It is all a slander
about such a party.—Austin Intelligencer.
So far, so good. But what does the Intelligence*
want Galveston to do, more than she has done?
Has any county in the State taken a higher,.strong-
er ground for slavery and the South? Look to her
acts and let them speak. We have no fear of "free
soilers in the interior counties," but the interior
should award to Galveston the credit of having led
off in the only proper and just course towards those
who would nurture a viper in the bosom of the
State.
Thc PbisbttksUn (O. S.) General Assembly,
which recently assembled at Lexington, Ky. fur-
nishes the following statistics in regard to the ope-
rations of the church.
The number ot the missionaries in commission
March 1,1866, was 387, to which have been added
to March 1,1857, 208, making the Whole number
590, and more by 24 than the year previous. The
number of churches and missionary stations wholly
or in part supplied (as far as reported) by our mis-
sionaries^ 904. The number of .newly organized
churches is 69. The number of admissions on ex-
amination is 1,940, and on certificate 2,064, mak-
ing a total of admissions of 8,994.
The total amount of receipts from all sources
from Maroh 1, 1866, to March 1, 1867, is $98,248-
99 ; to which add balance on band in the different
treasuries, March 1,1856, $21,133,17; making the
available resources of the board during the year,
$114,882,16.
The amount paid out at the different treasuries
for the same timéis $96,121.76, leaving an avail-
able balance in all the treasuries, on the 1st of
March, 1857, of $19,260.40. The amount due
the missionaries át the same date was $12,964.86,
leaving an unexpended balance of $6,295.54.
v Francis 11. Lubbock.
Houston, June 6, 1867.
To the Hon..P. W. Gray, Judge 7th Judical Dis-
trict: ■
Bespxoted Sib :—The time has arrived when
circumstances require that I should sever the long
uninterrupted and pleasant official intercourse
whioh has existed between us.
For upwards of sixteen years 1 have been acting
as Clerk of the Distriot Court of Harris oounty. My
term of office does not expire for a length of time,
but having been honored by a call of the Demoo-
racy of Texas, to act as one of their standard bear-
ers in the coming August contest, I now most re
spectfnlly surrender the trust, heretofore so often
committed to my keeping. In doing so, permit
me to say, it is with feelings of regret, and allow
me to express my highest regard for you as a man
and Jndga, and through you to, the members of
the Bar and people of Harris county my liveliest
recollection for their many marks of kindnesB to
me. I am your friend,
F. B. LUBBOCK.
The Judge stated that he held in bis hand the
resignation of Mr. Lubbock, that he had been the
Clerk of the Court for upwards of sixteen years,
that he believed he had discharged his duties to the
satisfaction of the Bar and the community, that he
had certainly done so to his, both while an attor-
ney and sinoe he had presided as Judgo.
Whereupon it was resolved, That the resignation
be spread upon the records.
We clip the above from the Telegraph. Mr.
Lubbook, as the Democratic nomiuee for Lieuten-
ant Governor, felt it right to resign the office he had
so long held. He is now comdÉncing the canvass
in good earnest, and will arouse the fervor of the
faithful whereveT he goes.
Bunawat Ship.—The ship Sea Queen, whioh
some months since having come in collision with
an English vessel at Gibraltar, was detained by the
Admiraity for damages, recently he took ad-
vantage of an easterly wind and sailed, " with tbe
coast guardón board," for New York where she
arrived on Saturday week. '
Innocent CoNrEsaiox.—One Abel Fuller was re-
cently on trial at Groton, Mass., for violation of
the license law, in the course of which a bright lad
of twelve was called to the stand. He testified that
father did keep liquor in the granary for his
. i; V but then," said he, " it doesn't hurt 'em
any, because -father waters it well I"
not nominate
have suddenly
with him, and would have the people
their denunciations of him two years ago waa
rilegious and "dreadfully wicked." Let m
that we entertain foe Ms. Crosby the kindest
ings and have ever received from him polite
urbane treatment in his office and elsewhere.
have no objection to him on thatsoere. ......
But, froih the course of those paperp that are
ever ready and anxious to destroy the Democratic
party, it is dne to our political friends to refer to
the matter and Btate a few feots. It is said that the
offioe is not politieaHn its character and therefore
there should be no party test in reference to it. This
might be answered by showing that those
papers have hoisted the names of Gen. Hoi
Mr. Crosby, <fco., as fheir candidates, for it will; not
be denied that tbosg .papers which have always op-
posed Democracy and eapouaed the cause of the so-
called American party, express the party feeding
on their side, when they all agree, as in thie
But there is a more conclusive and striking
answer, which oomee directly home to Mr. Crosby
himself. The Democrats held a State Con1
at Huntsvilie, on the 21st of April, 1865. They
then put forth a tioket for Governor and Lieutenant
Governor, but made no nomination for Land Com-
missioner. The Know Nothing State convention
met at Washington about six weeks later, andmade
nominations for Governor, Lieutenant Governor,
Congress, and Mr. Crosby for Land Commissioner.
Afterwards, when the Democracy had become
aroused and It was quité P'obable that they wteild
carry the Slate, Mr. Crosby declined the nomina-
tion j and now, his K. N.'s supporters say that It
was beoause be was not a K. N., and Was opposed
to the office beooming political. Now recent reve-
lations have throw nsome light on this subjeot, .lift-
ing the veil of mystery whiph, long hung over it.
Mr. W.L. Cbalmeatfiyoung man of irreproachable
character, in repli|J^mfette|kreoently addressed to
him by Major Marshall, of tm State Gazette, asserts
that Mr. Crosby Mora Know Nothing in June, 1855:
and that Mr. Crosby did seek the nomination of
that party in the Washington Convention, through
him (Chalmers) and his colleague of the Travis
delegation—andhe'got it. Mr. Uroaby, then, is the
first- man in the Slate who Aught the influence of
#party nomination for the offioe, and he is respon-
sible for it. Híb refusal some time afterwards to
receive it, by both parties, was attributed to a fear
on his part that the Know Nothing ticket would be
defeated—both parties lost confidence in his firm-
ness, Mr. Fields was brought out only three or four,
weeks before the eleotion, by a sort of spontaneous
t haa been $one¡
eleven mike from Ur-1 the newspapers that about ten tiro
ships and villages have been laid
thenew landsoftfce
S. and it is snnnosed that it
warrant, did, about the millions of dollar, cash-and twenty millions
1866, harbor and oonoeal one have got out within the kit two yens to
nnwin «rirfM «•* Tii-í. vested in speculations there. It is .also "
supposed that there will be# general blow
WOWHiiplI
i, Hyde and Hirain
i owing serviee and labor to
, of Flemingburg, "Ky., who had,
The Canadian Parliament is engaged in over-
hauling the great fraude on the new railroads. The
corruption brought to light exoeeds anything known
the States. Members of the Parliament, crown
Leers, and even persons still higher in station, are
implicated. Bribes of almost inconceivable mag-
nitude, in one instance exceeding $100,000 are
sworn to have been offered 'in connection with the
construction of the Woodstock and Erie road. Tes-
timony is also given to the fact that the grossest
peijurtea were committed by its officers, in order
to induce municipalities to grant loans for its con-
struction.
"Cash."—There can be but little diubt that tbe
word cath is derived from the Italian catsa, the
chest in Which Italian merchants kept their money,
as do at the present time the Spaniards in their
caja, the Portuguese in tbeir caxá, and the French
in their eaitte.
The application of tha word cath to money is al-
together English, it not having a corresponding
term in any other European language.
CaA having been so inconsiderably adopted in-
stead of catta, (chest,) entries in the cash book,
(it should be chest-book) are made in English
counting houses in this unmeaning way: "Cash
Dr." apd "Cash Cr. ;" whereas the chest, and not
the money, is Dr. for what is put into it; and Cr.
for what is taken out.
'Great mischief has too often arisen, as is well
known in bankrupt courts, from the misuse of the
word cath, in which large deficiencies often appear;
which would not be the esse, if the word
. u ought to be. Instead of the
thé Ledger, it should be chest *c-
bave yet miteh to learn in England
beating Mr. Crosby. After that, as we distinctly'un-
derstood the matter, Mr. Crosby stated that be had
joined the Know Nothings In New York, but that he
found out about the time they nominated him that
they were a "rotton concern"—deolined their nomi-
nation, quit the " concern," and was therefore a
Democrat, bnt aot particularly a politician. We
thought it very probable, therefore, that he would
be nominated at Waoo. But there were members
in that body who knew more about this whole sub-
ject and Mr. Crosby's course than we did. They
insisted on the same pledge from him that was de-
manded from otbara, to wit: that he would abide by
the aotion of the convention. The matter was fully,
freely and amicably discussed—the previous course
of Mr. Crosby was stated to the convention by men
of honor and integrity—and out of 860 delegates,
not one was authorized by Mr. C., directly or indi-
rectly, to say that he would abide by the nomina-
tion ; but some faots were stated to show that if he
was balloted for, and not nominated, he would run
anyhow. It was then, and not till then, that those
who presented his name, withdrew it from a sense
of duty to their party and their principles ; and It
was only then, that men began seriously looking
around for a Bui table man. The-name of Francit
M. White, of Jackson, was suggested by one who
had known him and i is character for ttoeuty-éeven
years, as the man for the station—as one most hap-
pily qnailified to fill the place, by long-residence,
capacity, experience, honesty, industry and long
familiarity with our legislation and land laws.
Though several other gentlemen of high character
were also presented, Mr. White was selected almost
by acclamation; True, the Eastern Texas Gazette,
insinuates that as White was balloted for Lient.
Governor, Lúbbook's friends had to buy him eff,
with this other bait. Bnt the Gazette thereby perpe-
trates a vile slander, as we happen to know. We
also know that (during an adjournment) Mr.
White's name was suggested, canvassed and his
selection rendered morally certain before he was ad-
vised of tbe fact. It was done because of the course
of Mr. Crosby himself.
In addition to what w*e have said, Colonel A. N.
Hopkins oertifies in the State Gazette, that a short
time before the Waco convention met, Mr. Crosby
stated to him and several other gentlemen, in reply
to questions, "that he did not intend to submit his
name to the Waco convention, but intended to run
on his own hook," and " that he did not aBk any
d—n party any odds."
Justice demands the utterance of all we have said.
A false issue is sought to be made. Let the truth
be known. We award to Mr. Crosby all that is his
—he has, in our intercourse with him, been polite,
kind and accommodating—we like him as a man,
bnt our principles are above men. Mr. White is in
every respeot worthy of the publio confidence, and,
if eleoted, will give as full satisfaction as any man
in the State. He did not seek or expect the nomi-
nation, but he will be elected.
The Cincinnati Enquirer says
Judge Leavitt, of the United States Distriot Court,
yesterday granted the petition of habeas corpus,
prayed for oy the United States Marshal, against
the Sheriff of Clark County, commanding him to
iroduoe forthwith before him the bodies of the ten
)eputy Marshals of the United States, who are now
detained prisoners at Sprinfield. The writ was dis-
patched last evening by a Deputy Marshal, and the
return will probably be made to day. If the writ is
not obeyed the Marshal will apply for attachments,
and they will be executed at every risk. It is his
determination to «ue out warrants against all the
Parties, including the Judge, Sheriff, and every in-
lividual implicated in the resistance and violence
against the United States Marshals.
The Marshal has already the names of seventy of
these parties, and he is taking steps to asoertain tbe
names of others. They will be arrested and dealt
with according to law. All national men, who re-
gard the laws of the country and the dignity of the
Federal Governiabnt, will cheerfully proffer and
render their aid to the Marshal in the performance
of his duties. .-,
The Marshal, we leam, telegraphed to the Secre-
tary of the interior for instruotion*-not that he had
any hesitation as to the course which he ought to
and will pursue in the affair, but that he might have
the fnll sanction of the Executive forall his meas-
ures.
previona to said date,escaped into the State of Ohio soon,
and was then a fugitive from such service and la-
bor, so as to prevent the disooveiy and arrest of said
Add White. The offence charged, it.willbeob-
served, is not that the slave was aided in his seoape
from his maater in Kentucky,'by the four amused
persons, but that they sheltered and proteo ted him
in Ohio; or, in other words, they ''put him through"
on the underground railroad. The penalty for
the offence is a fine of a thousand dolían and im-
prisonment
The Depnty Marshal with nis pose, in Meohanica-
burg and the neighborhood, suoceeded in arrésting
the four aecused Individuals. While the arresta
were in progress, the most intense excitement was
created in the vicnity
A writ of totea* corpa waa procured from a
Judge in the Champaign county, tod the Sheriff at-
tempted to serve it; but ,before he oould doso, the
officers had conducted the prisoners beyond the
bounds óf the oounty. A second warrant was then
proourred in Clarke -county. The Sheriff, ip this
instance, pursued and came up with the party', bnt
they refused to obey thé writ. The Sheriff, not
having force to compel obedience, they proeeeded
on their journey to Cincinnati . A third writ; Was
then obtained in Green county, and the Sheriff of
that oonnty, w.ith his posse, served it npon the
United States officers at 6 o'clock yesterday morn-
in , in Jamestown. Thé U. S. officers resented the
act of the county offiajhs Jn seizing; their hones'
reins before making ^nown their business,
warm altercation ensued. The Sheriff and his men
were assisted by an exoited crowd of abont two or
threehundred persons. Bifies and pistols were dis-
played. The Marshal and his men drew their
weapons, and several shots were fired. Mr. Churchill
discharged his revolver at the crowd, but no one
was injured. The confliot was sharp and stubborn,
but superior numbers prevailed, and the Deputy
Marshal with all his posse were made prisonera.
The U. S. Depnty Marshal and his assistants were
arraigned at Springfield, before Judge Christie, and
held to bail in the sum of $15,000, for assaulting
Deputy Manhat Compton and Sheriff Dayton with
action of the people, and oame within an aoe of; jntent to murder, The whole party foiling to pro-
Tbe Press of Texas.
The following papen, being all that are avow-
edly Demooratio in this State, support the entire
Democratic State ticket: Houston Telegraph,
Galveston Civilian, Columbia Democrat, Browns-
ville Flag, San Antonio Ledger, San Antonio Tex-
ian, State Gazette, New BraunfelB Zeitung,,Staatz
Zeitung, Galveston Union, Austin Gazette, Austin
Intelligencer, State Times, Lockhart Watchman,
Seguin Mercury, Waoo Southerner, Dallas Herald,
Cferkeville Standard, Lamar Enquirer, Giliqpr
Democrat, Jefferson Herald, Marshall Bepublioan,
Henderson Democrat, Cherokee Sentinel, Hunts-
ville Item, Texas Banger, Brenham Enqu|rfr,
Palestine Advocate, Nueces Valley—in all, 28 pa-
pers.
The following papen, all of which have hereto-
fore been of the Know Nothing faith, support the
opposition tioket, composed of Messn. Houston,
Crosby and CaldwellSan Antonio Herald, Wash-
ington American, Huntsville Becorder, Nacogdo-
ches Chroniole, Busk Enquirer, Henderson Banner
Marshall Flag, Jefferson Gazette, ClarkBville Mess-
enger—in all, 9.
Besides these, there are a number of neutral or
"independent" papen which incline to the one side
or the other. The Bastrop Advertiser, La Grange
True Issue, and one or two others, formerly zealous
Know Nothing sheets, have not hoisted either ticket.
Several others of the neutral olass, manifest a pre-
ference (sometimes very decided) for the Demo-
cratic ticket.
Land Speculation in The West.—It is calcu-
lated that ten thousand new townships and villages
have been laid out on -paper recently, in the new
lands of the Western StateB and Territories, and it
is supposed that at least ten millions of dolían
cash and twenty millions credit have gone out
within two years to be inveeted in speculations
there. It is also generally supposed that there will
be a general blow up pretty soon.
Spanish cotton Tbade.—In the year 1864 the
quantity of ootton imported intp Spain from the
United States, was 86,024.074 ltia.^ in 1856,88,t<71,-
796, and in 1856, it amounted to 58,479,170 lbs.
The imports of the present year it is believed, will
show a large increase on the last, notwithstanding
the high and discriminating duties against us, which
is 79c. in Spanish, and $1 85 in foreign bottoms.
Ixon Ship Knees.—A regulation of the Com-
mittee of Lloyd's Begister comes into effect on
January 1,1858, to the effect that ships which pro-
ceed to sea without being fastened with iron knees
and riders prescribed by the rules, will bave one
year deducted from the period to whioh they would
otherwise be entitled to be classed in the registiy
books.
Methodism vs. Tobacoo.—The Msine Conference
of the Methodist Church, has passed a resolution
denouncing tobacoo as an expensive and needless
indulgence, unfavorable to cleanliness and good
inannere, unbecoming Christians, and eepeually
Christian ministere, and like the use of alcohol, a
violation of the laws ef physical, intellectual and
moral life.
A Whale Coooar ai Nantuokxt.—A scarg-head
right whale was captured off the south side of Nan-
tucket, on Monday week, and towed to the shore.—
Tbe fieh ia about thirty-five feet long, and will pro-
bably yield about twenty barrels of oil.
It is a mistake, says a
ing party pin upon ahai.
The organ of that party is a Iyer.
i the arrival of Governor
of our esehangea,
of the United Sutes
$70,000,000, and
cure bail were committed
Cincinnati, June 2.—The habeas corpus issued
by Judge Leavitt was served, and the prisoners
brought here for trial. The examination commenced
yesterday, but" the oase was adjourned for a week.
It is probable that Judge Leavitt will disoharge the
prisoners
Crops and. cultivation
Dr. Boyall writes that the late rains in the upper
oountry have improved the prospect of the crops.
The wheat crop of Williamson county, from the
calculations of a well informed gentleman,'amount
to about 18,000 acres, whioh, if only yielding eight
or ten bushels per acre, will produce ample bread
for all that region. In Burleson county the prospect
is still better; corn is waist high, and generally
looks well; the wheat crop is abundant, and esti-
mated at about fifteen bushels per acre. The crops
eaat and lower down are represented as still better.
The grass in all the region referred to is fine. The
sandy lands have withstood the drought better than
those which are thick and black, and at last ac-
connts promised to prod^se better crops.
Dr. Boyall thinks that, to secure good crops every
year, it may be necessary to change somewhat the
ordinary superficial mode of cultivation, by which
the surface i#only scratched about two or three
inohes, leaving hard pan at the bottom, impossible
for the roots of vegetables to penetrate, and when
the moisture dries out, the plants necessarily perish.
If a rain falls, it runs off and the gronnd is as dry
as ever, in a day or two, whereas in deep ploughing
tbe roots penetrate from eight to twelve inches and
the runs are retained to mature the growing crop.
Í have made particular inquiry and in no instance
that I have heard of has deep ploughing failed to
make good crops, in one nstanoe, last season, in
a dry section, where most of the crops had failed
and more cut down -for fodder, I discovered a
field of good corn. The owner said he had broken
up his land twelve inohes, and bad only one run
after planting. Hia neighbors had the same, and
made fodder. He thought bis field good for 40
bushels to the aore. The lands of Texas stand
drought remarkably well, and produce good crops
with less rain than any other portion of thé
Union.
Cohpabative Pbioes,—The following are the
Comparative prioes of some articles of provisions,
at New York, in 1840 and at present. A corres-
ponding advanoe has taken plaoe throughout the
oountry:
1840. 1857.
Meats, fresh, per lb. $ 7 @ 12}¿ $ 16@ 25
Meats,, salt, per lb... 6)¿@ 10 12@ 18
Potatoes, per bbl.... 1 26 @2 00 8 75@ 7 00
Flour per bbl....... 5 00 @ 9 O0@ll 00
Butter, per lb 12)*@ 10% 25@ 82
Cheese, do ....... 8 @ 10 12@ 20
Fish, do 4 @ 6J¿ 8@ 14
Poultry, do ....... 10 @ 12% 18@ 25
Sugar f) lb family use. 10 12@ 19
Apples, per bbl....... 1 60, @2 00 5 00@ 7 00
Hobbeb.—The arguments may all be in favor of
reat size, but tbe foots are all tbe other way. Large
orses are more liable to stumble, asd be lame, than
those of the middle size. They are olumsy, and
cannot fill themselves so quick. The largest of any
class is an unnatural growth. They have risen
above the usual mark, and it costs more to keep
them in position than it would were they on a level
with their speoies. "Follow nature" is a rule never
to be forgotten by farmen. Large men are not tbe
best for business; large hogs are not the bogs to
fatten best; and large hens are not the best for
laying eggs. Extremes are to be avoided. We want
well formed animals rather than such as have large
bonee. Odd as it may be to the theorist, short-leg-
ged soldiere are better on the march, and officers Ay
they endure hardships longer than those of longer
limbs. On ohoosing a horse, take care, by all means,
that his legs are short. If they are long and split
apart like a pair of dividen, never inqnire the price,
or the dealer; make no offer.
An Important Decision.—-The decision made on
the 27th nit., by the United Stales Court for tbe
District of Columbia, in the ease Of Combs vs.
Budge, embraces the settlement of a point of law
of general interest and importance everywhere,
viz: That cirtificates of die debt of Texas, endorsed
by tbe parties to whom issued, and placed by them
in the hands of an agent to be transferred on the
books of Texas, could be by that agent sold to a
bona fide purchaser, without notices so as to vest
in him tbe absolute title to them. Its importance
arises from its applicability to transactions in stocks
generally.
A Maxxoth Hotel.—The New York Journal ot
Commerce gives a description of alargo «ptimHíH
hotel now bring erected on Fifth Aveone inthat
city, which wifl cost $100,000. It will be built of
The Baltimore Clipper says there are three real
estate agents in that city, who bold «5,000 aores of
land, aome of whioh m y be bought by the section
thatT° drinki cents—and on time at
The Huntsville (Ala.) Advocate aaya :"The
land apeonlating fever rages among our people, and
ia mainly oonfined to Arkanaaa and Miarissippl bot-
tom. The Texas fever is over. We predict that
there will be a general oraab in lees than two y «an.
The whole oountry is crazy with speculation—an
insane desire to make money at one dash, a hasta
to be rioh,"
The land mania, like many other popular delu-
sions will oorrect itself in time; but experience is
notoriously an expensive teacher. Those whO'Oan
learn from reason and precedent would do well to
patronize theee cheap schools, and leave thoee
who are proverbial for parting soon with -their
money to seek a more intimate knowledge of the
effeots of being in Haste to get rioh by hazardous
speculations. Whatever enthusiasts may suppose,
onr population, and tbe demand for land by actnal
tillen of the soil inorease at a ratio whioh, for the
whole oountry, is nearly uniform for certain periods
of yean. According to a calculation in the New
York Times we add yearly to our lands, by pur-
ohases from the government, about tut millions of
aores, or about one t^ird of the whole surface of
England. Of tbeae ten millions of new lands, about
a third are annually brought under cultivation* and
the remainder are held for speculative purposes.
Even^at the present rate ef absorption it will require
very near a hundred years to get rid of our nation-
al domain, so that there is no speoial reason for
people to apprehend that all the land will beont of
market when they shall happen to desire small
traots for cultivation. Befleoting men have begun
to ask whether the General Government should
not take aome more effectual steps to prevent large
bodies of vaoant lands from falling into the hands
of mere speculation.
"The Washington Union announces the following
polioy in regard to tbe publie lands: Let us acquire
new territory, by purchase or by cession, and
band that we already possess. Let it be kept sacred
to tbe requirements of people to whom it exclusively
belongs, and to meet the expansion of a people in-
creasing like a rolling-snow ball. This, we appre-
hend, is the proper mode of disposing of tbe Publio
Lands, and in thia way can they best be made to
administer to "the oommon defence (and general
welfare.''
the.
m
to their
Now Process of Tanning.
Professor Mspes is pretty well known for' his
connection with the N. Y. Farmer's Club, wl
seems to be oomposed exclusively of Professon,and
to deal liberally in professions. Professor Mapes,
however, doee not stop with agiionlture, but has a
genius for maohanios also. He haa told us how to
rear and eatffat oalves; he now tolls us how to
dispose pf$he hides. The oentrifugal method óf
tanuingnow engages his attention. At a recent
meeting of tbe Mechanic's Instituto in New York
City, the ProfessoT being President of that body
announoed a new centrifugal apparatus, by whioh
he had been enabled to foroe the tannio acid through
every part of the raw hide by means of centrifugal
force exhibited in a rapidly revolving perforated
oylinder resembling the sqgar maohines.
By tbe prevailing modes, it requires about seven-
ty days to tan completely the average of raw hides
while, by the improved process, Professor Mspes
said that he bad succeeded in tanning a ealf skin
thoroughly in lees than fifteen minutes. (We have
known a schoolmaster to do it in half the time.)
The process he(the professor,not tbe schoolmaster)
used was to plaoe the bide around the inside of the
oylinder, holding it there by means of tbe centri
fugal foroe resulting from a very high velocity,and'
then passing a stream of tan liquor into the oentre
whioh was then carried by the centrifugal force
against the hide, and passed through under the in-
tense pressure, after whioh it escaped through' the
perforated cylinder into a^snrrounding vat, and was
returned to perform tbe same journey over again
until the tannic aoid was exhausted.
It was stated that the process of tanning was al-
most instantaneous when the minutest partióles
of albumin, gelatin and fibrin were brought in con-
tact with the tannio liquor.
As far as our information extends every new in-
vention for expediting the process of tanning has
led to a corresponding reduotion in the time which
the leather produced would wear. We presume
that a pair of shoes made from leather tanned in
fifteen minutes would last about aa long as they
were kept upon the last.
W~ It is said that over 200 hands are new at
work on the Mexioan Gulfand Henderson Bailroad,
oommenoing at remanent navigation on Pine Is-
land bayou, Jefferson oounty, where the best of tim-
ber abounds.
: Judge Nelson <~
thing In hiaopin;
Lean and C
the entire t_
slavery, and iw.
On the point t
¡ecendant of s'
of tbe United St
vis: Taney, W*
is distinotly exj
Judges Nelson i
do not dissent i
tis dray, and i
to be oitizens.
Itapp
ing JudL
-main points* n
The Africans and their
cannot be made oitizens <
tbe Missouri restriction <
and void; that sli
themselves and their
the United States,
any change of their ststus
domicil or tbeir masters, by
tary in a¡free State, or in a 1
States.
An important branch of t
it was expeoted that the O
waa not considered. It ie that
right of transit for a- master
through a free State
of a federal rigbt^or
These, whioh are!
Lémmon oase, New Yo
Philadelphia, will be o
hose oases are heard.
Meebsohaum Pipes.—The olay of whioh theae
are made is procured chiefly in Asia Minor, but
also in Spain, Greece and Moravia. The manufac-
ture of these pipes from the clay is carried on with
especial care at Vienna and Peath. The meerschaum
is soaked in a liquified composition of wax, oil and
fat, the absorption of whioh occasion tbe colon as-
sumed by the pipe after smoking., Oooaaionally,
the bowls ^-e artificially stained, by dipping them
in a solution of coperas and other Bubstsncesjoefore
the application of the wax composition. The
carving of the bowls is often difficult work, owing
to tbe occurrence of a kiqd of clay mixed np with,
and' harder than the meenohaum.. The large
quantity of parings left in roughing out tbe bowls
would entail considerable loss unless some prooees
bad been devised for UBine them. This has been
done; tbe parings areemployed in making the kind
of meersohaum bowls called . matta-bowU. The
parings are gronnd to a fine powder, boiled in
water, andlmoulded into blocks with or without the
addition of day. The blooks are allowed to dry,
and then a pipe-bowl is fashioned from each.
These bowls are distinguished from the real meer-
schaum byj^eing heavier.
Meersohaum bowls have been produced so large
and so elaborately carved aa to be valued at $600
eadh.
American Scndat School Union.—Tbe thirty-
third anniversary of this institution wss held in
PHUadelpbia on the evening of tbe 12th inst. The
receipts in the missionary department have been :
in donations, $71,982 87; in legacies, $11,946 87,
and a balance on hand from last year, being espe-
cially designated by the donors, $769 48, making
tbe total resources of the department for the year
$84,697 67. A large corps of missionaries have
been sent forth into 26 different States and Terri-
tories, who have established more than 1800 new
schools, secured about 80,000 children, and over
13,000 teachers. In addition to planting these
new schools, tbey have visited,supplied with books,
and otherwise assisted, nearly 8000 Sunday Schools,
containing more than 100,000 children; making a
total of Sunday Schools organized and aided of
nearly 5000. In the last six yean the Society
hag organized more than 12000 new Sunday schools,
containing about 78,000 teachers and nearly 600,-
000 children.
Sxwms Machines.- -The Manufacture of sewing
machines is beooming an important branch of in-
dustry. The Tribune states that of tbe 250 mach-
ines that have been patented, probably pot half a
dozen have any merit; bnt the few that bave any
merit are selling in a constantly accelerating rati*.
A single thrifty house enMged in thé man a facture
of hoop skirts has a hundred and seventy-five aew-
ing machines constantly at work, and is adding to
the number. There are eeemstre>aes in New York
who firet borrowed tbe money to buy, and now own
two or three, hiring other seamstresses to work those
for w hich their own hsnds do not suffice. For sew-
ing leather or other work too heavy for delicate fe-
male fingen some of them are unequalled, fbe
Tribune says it may be extravagant to estimate that
half the sewing in New York is st present done by
machines, but thinks the time is rapidly approach-
ing when at least three-fourths will be. A single
inventor, who has become too well off to manufact-
ure machines, is rebetving from varioua manufact-
ures at the rate of $80,000-per annnm for the privi-
lege of using hia patent.
Craiova Disease amosq Cattle.—a <
ular disease, of a
"black hoof;" is now very
berhood of London, Cam set.
«est appears in ( ""'
total rot of i
2®
piPL
Judges
that that
and Curt __
had, as shown t,
was immaterial, i
Tbe opinion of.
tell was that the <
Circuitj Court for i
that it should be aT
it should be aent'
bell and Grier, that It'
should be affirmed, i
The question was or
to the negro, the < ~
of the <
tbe Circuit Court
would confirm the ¿
for dismissal, would
the<
another forme
as a slave had
oonrta.1
thelQHHHHHI
Ob the main point
to his freedom, tta
seven to two. Th
Lean and Curtis.
Judges Ttoey,
Catron and C '
of alavea in -.
the free Sti
territory of the 1
on the retí "
of Missour
Six of \
north of
iy been
bis maater.
Incid ntto
Wood
Our leaden will :
Congressional oonventio
Winston Banks, the ]
Free Press, a seat in
urged by Senator :
Wood county. Banks i
Senator Bussell for his it
people oalled a meeting to
of Banks, of whioh the fo.
ings as published In the
speak the true spirit and i
tionf We reoord them with I
count
Mqj.
the Chair, after which,
Secretary. Col. Jonathai
npon to explain the objeot <
very able and eloquent :
to the-feelings of the as.
signified by loud oheering,
exposition of true souther
feelings. In the eourse .
vindicated his bourse
His address will forever \
litionism oast npon Wo
On motion of Ms"
were appointed to <
the sense of the ir
men were plaoed i
More, Nathan Jei
zell, G. H. Price,
W. C. Yarborougl
After a brief retirement,
the following preamble and i
meeting, which'
Whebeas, The report I
throughout the Stal
Wood county, that
are Abolitionist? in 1
whereas the cooree t
Jonathan Bussel^at t
uaapstly assailed by
oftbe Texas Free Pn
H«solved, let. That we 1
taken by Col. Bussel at thai
Resolved, 2d. That we i
the reports now in cir<
of Wood oounty «.re Ab
declare it to be erroneous and i
Resolved, 8d. That we i
ing of the oitizens of Wood oonnt
the Court House at Quitman on f
June, to sustain the forego'
Resolved, 4th. That tbe l
mass meeting shall be. w
Press shall continue to be i
removed from said plaoe as a i
mnnity.
Resolved, 5th. That we '<
editor of the Upahur Demo
theee proceedings.
On motion the meeting i
1st Saturday in June.
Wx. Haws, Sec'y.
LB.*
The manufacture in large <
and candles from a mineral
those unaocustomed to the \
lar, if indeed, not I
may appear, a company 1
manufacturing lar
stances from the .
quantities of which bat
districts of Kentucky.
coal is enormous, excei
land and tbe Cannel of Valee I
It yielde sixty three parts of :
hundred.
pany manufacture two I
or machinery, and tbe <
lamp and b" "
oil mannfi
coal, which ia declared te i
liancy, bnt en(
will entirely 4S
alcbolic basis. Candies, hard and white ae die i
eet wax, which burn aa dearly and as long, ___
from tbe debrit of the fatty matter an excellent lull
bricator for axles and beavy bearings are, io-sddl- J
tion, manufactured. It ie unneoeeaary to sj*fco]
as to tbe formation of this coal. Many have
tempted to aocount for tbe
in the Breckenridge i
,'jb - I
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