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TUESDAY, SEPT. «, 1858.
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late rasante is Galveaton Cemeteries.
Monday, Sept. ST.
Charlea Schaefer, 4 yean, American, yellow fever.
Charlee Wilson, >2 « " " "
Martha Salter, 9 months, " . " "
26 yean, German, " "
SO " Amerloan, " "
B. Goto, «5 " " " "
Tan MORS ins, Sept. 88.
John F. Bant, Jr., American, yellow fever.
Hocirojr—The Telegraph saya the Central Bail-
road in now bringing in from 260 to 850 bales of
ootton per day, and acme daya even more. Tie
aame paper saya—
Bnaineea toward the end of laat week, was quite
lively. We hear of sales of $20,000 worth of goods,
by one house, for the week ending Satnrday.
Thx Longest wat Bound.—In the table of cotton
¿sports for the last year, New York appears as hav-
121, and Boeton 15,668 bales tor-
>rts. Wlien wffl New Orleans and other
_ Jñthern ports begin to ship the productions of
Massachusetts and New York to Europe, and Eu-
ropean goods to New York and Boston f
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gy Up to 12 o'clock to-day, we learn from Mr.
Drew there were five interments.
tar ere requested by the Bev. James Huck-
ins, Presiden* of the Howard Association to an-
nounce the receipt of a draft from Mr. T. W. House
of Houston, for two hundred and fifty dollars. This
liberal gift was unsolicited, and is perfectly char-
acterises of the generous donor.
El Faso.—Accounts now reach ub from Ana tin,
that Judge Buckley's majority in El Paso was only
512, whioh, according to the published returns
leaves Judge Bell between 150 snd 200 votes ahead.
Still, we think that we shall not know who is elect-
ed until the result is declared officially. The Austin
Intelligenoer says that, all the bounties have sent
their official vote to the State Department, except
Angelina, Jefferson, Panola, Hidalgo and Hardin.
"We are assured by letters from responsible citi-
zens of Galveston and Houston that there are more
oases of yellow fever in those oities then are report-
ed in the newspapers. The papers in those towns
are greatly to blame in concealing facts.—Sanger.
The Banger is greatly to blame for publishing an
untruth. We will contribute (10 to the Howard
Association for every name the Banger or its corres-
pondents will show that we have omitted. We ob-
tain our reports from the Sexton's Beturns, and
they are complete. The aocounts are certainly bad
enough.
Libxbty.—We learn from the Gazette that the
District Court adjourned Thursday morning, after
being in session only three days. No bnsiness was
disposed of. The cause of adjournment was on so-
oount of sickness among some of the jurors, and
fear, on the part of the Court, that the yellow fever
would make its appearance! The Gazette says
that not a solitary case had occured. The Grand
Jury in the mean time found 24 indictments,
as follows : Gaming 14 ; Permitting gamin 1 ;
Aggravated Assanlt and Battery, 8 ; Assault with
intent to Murder, 1 ; Branding Yearlings, 2 ; De-
feating Execution of Process 1 ; Buying from a
Slave 1 ; Giving liquor to a Slave 1. The Gazette
says that the Jury had not finished the business be-
fore them when the District Court adjourned. They
obtained twenty-fonr indictments, and could have
found nine more.
Business is said to be brisk in Liberty. The Ga-
zette Bays Ox wagons are arriving here with cotton
and departing with heavy loads of merchandise,
with considerable activity.
Sobthibh tnu
the 28d inst., says : Mr. Umberbagan, who
in the northern part of that parish, will produce
this season, over two thousand pounds of tobacco.
The quality of the leaf is very superior, and when
msnufacturedjnto segara, has as fine a flavor as the
Havana articles. Indeed, foT several years past,
they have been Bold through the country as Ha-
vana . Texas has proved equally well adapted to
the growth of this plant, and we doubt not that it
will yet become an important item in our com-
merce. Only a luxury at best, and positively in-
jurious as we believe it to be, it is nevertheless one
of the most important items in modern traffic.
Fuss and skins.—Few persons are aware of the ex-
tent of the commerce of the world in these artioles,
many of which seem to have no value in Texas, al-
though the businees of procuring them affords a
support for a large portion of our race. By late ad-
vices from Liverpool, we have a report of the Lon-
don sales of Messrs. C. M. Dampson <fe Co., whioh
took place 26th, 27th, 23th, and 80th ult. The fol-
lowing were among the goods offered: 227,869 Kac-
ooon Skins, 23,217 Bed Fox, 14,984,Gray Fox, 18,-
848, Kitt Fox, 640 Cross Fox, 122 Silver Fox, 2740
Otter, 122 Sea Otter, 2294 Fisher, 2952 Bear, 8857
BeaveT, 696 Wolf, 5749 Marten, 24,919 Mink, 288,-
154 Musquash, 24,538 Black-rat, 8138 Lynx, 86777
Wild Cat, 8828 Skunk, and 3605 Opossum—to-
gether 628,798 Skins. This did not include any of
the Hudson's Bay Company, whose great sale was
to take place on the 81st and succeeding day.
Havx Had Enough.—The Boston Courier, one of
the ablest representative journals of the old Whig
sentiment of the Union, thinks that Massachusetts
has had enongh of Black Bepublicanism, and, in a
recent issue, in an editorial allusion to the Demo-
oratio nominees for State officers, holds this signifi-
cant language :
"We shall do all in our power to promote the
eleotion of these candidates, heartily and cheerfully;
not because they are Democrats, but because we
wish to do the State such service as we can render,
and because we think there is no other course left
for national man at present, in Massachusetts. The
State baa had enongh, and we trust the people are
at length ready to say, more than enough of the
Bepublican party ; and it is high time, by every
means involving no sacrifice of essential principle,
to resist and bring to an end a power, dishoneatly
acquired, and whieh they have so shamefully
abused.
^China Bxrbix .—They are the fruit of the great
Indian Lilac, a tree of unoommon beauty, intro-
duced into the Southern States from ChiDa, and
henoe the common nsme^Jtj, nn.
and grows every wnersin uw&ohih. it is a popu-
lar shade tree for streets, and the wood makes beau-
tiful furniture—not inferior to Satin-wood—and i&
quick of growth. The seeds are very hard and are
covered with a pulpy substance. The berries will
expel all worms from the soil when appied as ma-
nure. The first nse of them, as an expeller of the
r fly, while smoking bacon, was made known
VOL. XXI.
GALVESTON, TUESDAY MORNING, OCT. 5/1858.
NO. 27.
Financiering
John Law discovered what the alofeymists sought
in vain—the art of transmuting baser material in
to gold, or of making them answer the same pur-
pose.
We have seen a story some where of a man of
fashion, whose humiliation at being robbed by foot-
pads was unbounded—not at his loes, bnt because
he had but a shilling and his poverty was exposed.
Becently we had accounts of the return of the bills
of the Hatter's B ank by the burglars whohad plan
dered it, as the robbery led to an exhibition of the
worthlessneas of the concern. We now have an ac-
count of the robbery of the Bank of Kinderbook, N.
York. The vanlt was cleared of its contents, $6,000
or $8000, bnt we are told that "a portion of the bills
taken were mutilated—having been withdrawn
from circulation, and were soon to be returned to
the bank department to be destroyed." Great bank
that. We begin to sse through what is meant by
saying that a man who stealB a purse steals trash,
while the theft of reputation breaks the loser. The
banks know what is meant by shunning bad ap-
pearances, and that for oapltal a good name is better
than riohe8.
The public seem to believe the cases above allud-
ed to form ludicrous exceptions to the facilities of
Northern banking institutions. Let us see what is
protection of tbe public.
The official report of the condition of the banks
of the State of New York for the last half year,
shows that the number of banks was 297; the amount
of specie was $88;597,211; loans $173,858,145 ; and
deposits $98,045,875. So that the amount dne de-
positors alone is nearly treble the speoie, and the
amount of loans nesrly six times as great as the
specie
This is as near a healthy state of affairs aB the
banks have ever exhibited. In Jnne last year the
New York banks had bnt fourteen millions in specie
while their loans were $190,800,000.
In Massachusetts, according to the recent official
statement, the banks of the entire State had specie
to the amount of only $1,915,950—about one seven-
teenth of the amount in New York—while their
loans were $45,020,410, <■ one-sixth of the loans of
the New York Banks.
In his lecture before the Mercantile Library, W.
G. Hunt, Esq., one of New York's most honored
merchants, closed his remarks with the following
address to the young merchants present:
The merchants of this day will soon pass off the
stage of action ; you are to occupy their places.
New York being the centre of commerce and ex-
change for the Western world, the action of our
merchants will be looked to with great interest.
Already the financial policy of thiB city governs the
whole country. When New York expands it is felt
from Maine to Texas; when her banks contract the
effects reach to the borders of civilization. There-
fore, it is of the utmost importance that the finan-
cial policy of this city be upon principles solid as
the rock of ages. An expansion should increase the
proportion of specie to credit. If it be dollar for
dollar, it can only occur when exchanges favor the
country, and can do as no harm. If we fail in a
crop, having expanded dollar for dollar, wo can
only be required to contract in the same ratio. Un-
der the present system we go out ten to one, and if
we get beyond the limits of prudence, involved in
debt at home and abroad, and become alarmed at
oar indiscretion, we attempt to retrace oar steps at
a time when the banks are curtailing with tbe same
rapidity with which they expanded ; panic takes
the place of reason ; bnsiness is interrupted ; gen-
eral stagnation ensues ; expenses go on, while the
great interests of the country is paralyzed. It is
those constant changes that render mercantile life
so nnoertain, tnrns tbe world away from the chan-
nel of industry to the more popular cry of specula-
tion—to make a fortune in a day, or lose the earn-
ings of a life-time.
The United States Economist oomments upon the
abote as follows:
These teachings of a great and successful mer-
chant at this day contrast healtbfnlly with the rea-
sonings upon the same subject that were current
twenty years since, when tbe revulsion of 1887 took
place, during the fierce contest between paper and
bullion. The meTohants then met at the City Hall
to coerce the banks into suspension, in order that
** -aebtB might be thdjfr0*® liquidated in dopre-
lo resides*] ciatéd paper. The experience of tbe publio since
then has been such as to make the wisdom of such
men as Mr. Hunt listened to with merited respect.
It is, indeed, time that some Bystem should be de-
vised which shall prevent those alternate expan-
sions and contractions which have almost annually
in the last ten years, cut off, in the fall season, when
paper matares, and money rises in valne, all the
profits of the year's bnsiness. The last fall was only
an exaggeration of what has taken place to a less
extent in each of the last ten yearsj and these things
will continne to take place as long as the banks
manufacture credits without regard to the reserves.
They are as eager to-day to resume their expan-
sions as they have been at any day since the discov-
ery of gold, and the moment activity is restored to
business the same career of credit will be again
commenced.
Guadalupe County,
Guadalupe county derives its name from "El Bio
de Nuestra Señora dn Guadalupe"'—the Biver of
Our Lady of Guadalupe,—a miraculous virgin Mary
in a high standing among the Mexicans. It is bound-
ed on the north by Hayes and Comal counties, on
tbe sonth by Bexar county, on the east by Caldwell
and Gonzales counties, and on the nest by Comal
and Bexar counties. It principal stream is the Guad-
alupe Biver, which meanders through the country
from west' to east : its other water-conrees are York,
Cottonwood, Highland, Nash's, Mill, Elm and San
Clara Creeks. Its post-offices are Seguin and Bonito.
The terms of the District Court are held on tbe fourth
Monday after the first Monday in April and October,
the third day o f May and the first day of November,
1858, and the second day of May and the thirty-first
day of October, 1859. The Notaries Publicare Wm.
P. P. Douglass, William M. Bust, Isham Y. Harris,
R. Morris and Jacob De Cordova.
Seguin, the country town of Guadalupe county, is
situated on the east bank of tbe Guadalupe Biver, on
a beautiful elevated prairie, the streets crossing each
other at right angles and handsomely ornamented
with fine large spreading live-oaks the natural growth
of the country, and highly esteemed for the excellent
and durable character of its wood and beauty of its
appearance. These live oaks covered with extreme
ly dark and greenleaves, standing alone or in pictur-
esque groups near and far on the bright greensward,
the land being slightly undulating, present a truly
magnificent appearance. Within the corporate lim
its of the town there are several fine springs of pure
water, and in its immediate vicinity several well-
cultivated farms. The beautiful prairies which sur-
round the town are covered with fine mezquite grass,
the condition of the best of them, as regulated by whlchis admirably * i — .. — _
i.— ,., .i— aria Hdrsel. but it is nnhtfor sheep, being too nutri-
1. for the protection of tbe public. I-- Cattle that are fed on this ¿rkss gi ve an un-
commonly rich and finely flavored milk, and become-
extremely fat. The mezquite is a very fine grass and
is of vigorous growth, and is usually found growing
in thick tufts and patches, and when it once takes
hold it generally roots out all other grasses. Since
Texas has commenced settling up, the growth of this
grass has extended over a great portion of tbe West.
Not only is it very nutritious and palatable, bnt it pre-
serves its greenness and sweetness during the whole
winter
The town of Seguin, by estimation, contains a pop-
ulation of about fifteen hundred. It supports a print-
ing-press, and the usual supply of merchants, me-
chanics and professional men for such a population.
There are five religious denominations in the place,
each cf which has stated religious worship. Themeth-
odist denomination is the largest, and is about erect-
ing a fine church-edifice. Fora country village, Se-
guin is notsurpassed, in Western Texas, by any other
in the beauty of its scenery, the healthfulness of its
location and the general intelligence and morality of
its citizens. Many of the houses are built o concrete,
in consequence of the immense quantity of-first-rate
materials to be found on the spot. These consist of
gravel, lime, stone, and water. The walls are raised
about a foot or fifteen inchea'at a time between boards
which by the aid of screws hold the mass in its place
until it becomes solidified, which it readily does with-
in forty-eight hours and finally becomes as hard as
stone. Houses built of this material are very cool in
Bummer and warm in winter. The only skill requir-
ed beyond the aid of common day-laborers is to keep
tbe wall plumb and attend to the proper admixture
of the materials.—Cordova.
Stobm on Flobida.—A severe storm took place
on the Florida coast, on the 15th inst.,
The Calhoun was in imminent danger of being
wrecked. In making a harbor in Ocilla Bay, she
went aground, at ebb tide, in five feet of water.
The passengers left In a yawl boat, leaving tbe
steamer hard and fast some fivo miles south of St.
Marks Light-house.
A barge, belonging to D.Ladd.witha white man
and three negrees on board, was blown out to sea
from the Spanish Hole, by tbe violence of the wind.
The steamboat Spray went in search of it on Thurs-
day, but when the cars left on tbe evening of tbat
day, no tidings had been received of the missing
craft.
The brig Gen. Bailey, was driven ashore on Long
Bar.
Tbe pilot boat May Flower was sunk at her
moorings.
The lighthouse keeper, J. J. Allen, lost all his
wood, boats, poultry, bath-honse, &c.
The Floridian says :
The memory of tbe oldest inhabitant is taxed in
vain to find a parallel in past years for such weath-
er as this section of Florida has experienced within
the last three weeks. There has been a constant
succession of heavy rains, producing, of course, dis-
astrous consequences to the ootton crop. From Mon
day last np to Wednesday evening it rained almost
incessantly, while during the forenoon of Wednes-
day there was a "right smart sprinkling" of a gale.
Though the wind did not quite reach the high point
of former years, the blow was sufficiently severe, in
the present saturated condition of tbe earth, to pros-
trate cotton stalks, and we have no doubt that the
damage done in that respect was great. On the
whole, tbe prospect for planters looks gloomy
enough. Complaints of rust and rot are general.
The weather has now changed for the better. On
Thursday, the sun shone as bright as in a morning
of May, gladdening every heart with the highest
hopea. How long this change will last, or what ef-
fect it will have in rescuing the crops, remains tobe
seen.
Canada is beginning to prove rather a cool asylum
for our "colored brethren." The Colored National
Emigration Convention has finished its sittingB at
Chatham, C. W. The results which have been reach-
ed at this last convention are the recommendation
of a select emigration of the enterprizing among the
oolored people, and the appointment of a "Niger
Valley Exploryfg Party." The parties already ap-
pointed are Bobert Douglas, Philadelphia, Dr. De-
lany, of Chatham, C. W., and Bobert Campbell, of
Philadelphia. Mr. Douglas goes out as an artist,
photographer, &c., and Mr. Campbell as naturalist
and botanist. Their objects is to explore the fertile
valley of the Niger, the region known as the Yoru-
ba country,^id ascertain whether the reports)which
have been tendered will warrant an emigration to
that land.
Thx Introduction or Cotton into the Mississip-
pi Vallsy.—The Baton Bouge Advocate haa a let-
ter dated Chapel Hill, Tenn., Angustio, written,as
we learn from the Advocate, by a gentleman who
was formerly a citizen of Louisiana, and at one time
filled a high office, in her government, from which
we extract the annexed interesting passage :
The person is yet living who saw the first sack of
cotton seed brought into the Mississippi Yalley. It
was introduced by Daniel Clark, father of Mrs Gen.
Gaines, who was a native of Ireland, a Spanish sub-
ject, and acting as Consul for the United States at
the yrt of New Orleans. It was imported express-
ly for Mr. Bringier, a wealthy planter, on the right
bank of the river, a few miles below Donaldson-
ville. Mr. Bringier had also the first cotton gin
imported. The cotton seed was distributed to such
planters, up and down the coast, as deaired to try
the experiment, and in the fall of the year when it
was pioted, Mr. B. sent his son, Louis Bringier,
the present venerable Surveyor General of Louis-
iana, with a barge and gang of negroes to collect it
for the purpose of being ginned. The cotton was
raised and ginned upon shares, and when bagged
was sent to Daniel Clark for exportation. Mr. Brin-
a— twttt mu bb ma guuo up as inr 88 iSanon KOUgd
and Pointe Coupee, gathering cotton to be ginned
at his father's place below Donaldsonville. This
was in the latter part of the last and at the beginn-
ing of the present century.
Cholera Prize.—The Paris Academy of Sciences
has again advertised its prize, amounting to about
twenty thousand dollars, for the discovery of the
cause and effectual cure of cholera. This prize, re-
marks the Scientific American, ia a bequest left
some years since by M. Briant, and a competition
has already taken place for it without success. No
lees than one bnndred and fifty-three essays were
presented on tbe subject, but only two of them
came within tbe scope of the conditions.
One was by the cbief physician of Smolensko,
Busaia, the other by Dr. Ayre, of London. The
first maintained the identity of the viras of cholera
with that of small-pox and typhus, and he proposed
the inoculation of persons with the small-pox virus
while the oholera was raging. It was asserted tbat
by doing so six out of every seven cholera patients
would be cared. The London physician maintain-
ed that eight oat of ten persons would be cared by
administering doBes of calomel, at the rate of one
grain for adults, every five minutes for the space of
an hour. Neither of these proposed systems for
caring cholera were accepted by tbe Academy of
Sciences. The ground was taken by its members
that a person to be entitled to tbe prize must dis-
cover a specific as sure and certain for the cure of
cholera as quinine is for intermittent fever ; also,
that the remedy should be as efficient for causing
the disappearance of this disease as vaccination has
been for virulentsmall-pox.
WEDNESDAY, BEPT. 29, 1358.
The Bteamer Eolipse, Capt. Menard, arrived
last night from Houston, with 353 balescottm,lots
bidee, peltries, <fec.
Interments in Galveston Cemeteries.
2Sth September.
Maria Graber, age 88 years, yellow fever, Geiman.
Charles Farish, 15 months, " " American
" ~ 32 years, " " German
4« K U
" Portugal
" German
" German
" American
Hannula Slaacke,
Child (no name)
John Tylva,
Joseph Berger
Henry Bcbreiber,
John P. Bent,
19 years,
29 years,
83 years,
22 years,
Mr . Hughes, wife of Edward Hughe , died
this morning at half past e leven o'clock.
Dr. Ware is 1bo among the deaths which oc-
curred this forenoon.
The Prebbyteby or Western Texab meets the
21st of October noxt, at Gonzales.
Jacob Dammert, who was arrested for ab
Btracting money from' letters taken from the Post
Office, has been examined before U. S. Commission-
er Croeby, at Austin, and in default cf bail in the
sum of $5000, waB committed to prison to await bis
trial.
Escaped fbom Jail—Arkansas Johnson, who was
sentenced at the last term of the District Court to
eighteen monthsimpriBonmentin the county prison
for assault with intent to kill Victor Girardin, es-
caped from confinement laBt night in company with
a seaman by the name of Frank, charged with as-
sault and battery. The Sheriff, from whom we
gather our information, states that when the jailor
entered the cell to give them their supper, he was
seized by the prisoners, and locked in while they
stepped out. Nothing has been heard of them since.
Pbeoooioiis Basoalitt.—Three little boys, one
white and two negroes, were caught in very naughty
tricks last night. They broke into the establish-
ment of Mr. Hinkledey, the confectioner, on Tre-
mont street, and besides breaking three large panes
of glass in the window to effect an entrance, play-
ed the miBcbief with the sweetmeats, jellies, etc.,
tben and there fonnd.
Their next foray was apon the Bestaarat nearly
opposite Briggs & Yard, where tbe youngsters
helped themselves to segars, and other refreshments
to the amount of nine dollars. The negroes were
arrested and are in jail. One of the negroes was
in the employment of Nick Hill, and the other be-
longed to Mrs. Gillespie. The white boy, who was
the youngest of the trio, made his escape.
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Another In Alan Expedition.
The Waco Democrat publishes the following ex-,
tract from a private letter, written by L. S. Bom,
to Geo. Barnard, Esq., of that city, dated:
" Beaxos Agency, Sept. 12,1358.
"I am just on the eve of my departure for an ex-,
pedition against the Comanches. I have charge of
a band of warrior from this Beeerve, who are t©
oo-operate with Major Van Dorn of 2nd Cavalry,
U. S. Troops.—We will start on the 15th inst. A
party of Indians belonging to this reserve, came irr
this morning with 60 head of horses which T*~
captured from the Comanches. The party num'
ed 20 men, and were under the command of Gett
Williams. They fell in with Buffalo Hemp on tná ' 1
Canadian Biver, near where Capts. Boss and Forjl
fought them, and he had with him about 40 or M
men ; yet he was afraid to attack the party undas
George, and concluded to send to their villages some
two days journey distant, where several tribes of
Indians, comprising Comanche , Keechis Kickapoos
&c., have assembled together for tbe purpose of
making a foray upon tbe Beserves and the frontier
of Texas, for reinforcements, and in order to detain
Williams and bis party until their men could ar-
rive. they (the Comanches) proposed to bold a ooun-
cil which was readily agreed to by William . But
he soon learned from a man in hi party who un-
derstood Comanche, tbat these men had gone for
aid, and they made a break at night, stampeded
their horses and cutdirt for the Agency, which they
succeeded in doing—bringing in 60 head—many
others having given out and stampeded. George
says they found a good many of tbeir horses with'
Buffalo Hump's party, and be refused to give tbem
up. He also states, that while there, a stealing,
party came in with about 100 bead of horses, which
they had stolen from the people on this frontier.
George would have pitched into them for a fight,
but tbey told him that tbey bad just concluded a
treaty with the whites and were coming in. This
kept him from thrashing them when tbey first met.
The Indians are Btealing from this reserve and sur-
rounding frontier almost constantly, and these sev-
eral tribes that have combined to depredate upon
the frontier.and Reservations, and are going to cajtBe
much trouble, unless this expedition produces some
effect upon them."
The Comanches.—The Washington Starr pub-
lishes the following letter from an officer in the U.
S. Army :
Fobt Akbuckle, C. N., Aug. 2S, 1S58.
About ten days ago, a band of Comanches, under
their four principal ohiefs, having sent in a Eeechi
with a message to the commanding officers at this
fort, indicating a wish for peace, Lieut. Powell, of
the first infantry, was ordered to proceed to the
Wachita villages and meet tbe chiefs in council.
Lieut. Powell, accompanied by Major Hurst and
some few citizens of this district, Bet out the same
night. The council, at whieh were present repre-
sentatives.of the Comanohes, Wacos, Wachitas and
Keechis, met at tbe Wachita village. During the
council the Comanche chiefs acknowledged that
iheir yonng men had committed the recent depre
dations in this vicinity. They also stated to Lieut.
Powell, in council, the causes which produced
tbem, and he has no doubt made the proper au-
j thorities acquainted therewith. It was finally de
MesBrs Lidstone & Co. entered into an agree-: termined that the principal chiefs of the Coman-
ment yesterday with the contractor for the B. B. ches should come in to Fort Arbuckle as soon as
u -j a. .r - ii «.i. i i_ • j x. possible, and bring the stolen horses with them and
bridge, to furnish all the lumber required for_tbe i jjeliver them to the commanding officer, to be given
work, with the exception of the cedar piles. Nearly to their proper owners.
one million feet will be necessary for its completion, j ' '
Mr. Shields also closed a contract for building tbe
work-shops, &e., necessary for the prosecution of
the work.
The Howabd Association.—The total amount of
receipts by thi Benevolent Society since the com-
mencement of the epidemic reach $2,000. When
the almost total prostration of business, the unpre-
cedented scarcity of money, and the many absentees
(many of them liberal and wealthy citizen ,) when
these things are considered, we have cause to be
proud of the generosity of our community.
Nor has our sister city of Houston been behind in
the good work. The name of a House and a Hutch-
ins will be kindly and gratefully remembered.
Matasobda Countt.—The Gazette is aasured by
planters that the yield of cotton in Matagorda Co.
i in the highest degree satisfactory. The Gazette
says planters are progressing very rapidly with
their cotton pioking, though somo will find it im-
possible to save the entire crop with their own force.
The great cry is bands, hands, and many are offer-
ing one dollar and fifty cents per day for negro wo-
men to pick cotton.
Victobia, we are glad to see by the Advocate
continues to enjoy its usnal good health. The Ad-
vocate says there has been nothing in tbe type or
form of yellow fever.
Nueces Valley.—We regret to learn that Messrs.
Barnard & Kinney decline longer to publish the
Valley which tbey have kept up the last year, at a
considerable sacrifice of time and means. They
made it one of tbe very best papers in the State,
and we shall miss it greatly from our exchange
list.
JSF' The Waoo Democrat learns that the citizens
of Sumpter, Trinity county, while digging a well on
the public square, after having gone some 23 feet,
through a soft Limestone Bock, they came to a
piece of pine timber hewn out 6 by 10 inches square
bearing visible marks of the club and broad axe.
Four feet below this piece of timber, through the
Boft rock, tbey struck a fountain of excellent water.
by'Col. A. P. Calhoun, President of the State Ag-
ricultural Society of Sonth Carolina.
Ixo Manttaottox.—In Pennsylvania alone,
there was produoed last year, nearly 450,000 tona of
pig iron; of manufactured iron, 227,887 tons. The
entire produotion last year was 1,000,000 tons, while
the consumption was only 1,886,000 tt/ns, a fact in
itself whioh, to a great extent, accounts for the un-
usually small demand from England. The iron
manufactured in the State , in 1856, was as much
as it was In England 85 years ago. In Pennsylvania
alone, there are employed 10,000 persons, taking the
fa mace , mills and fbrges.
Gband Lodge or tbi U. S. I. O. O. F This
body oommsnoed its snnual>eeBion st Baltimore on
Monday laat, and we learn from the Exchange of
the 20th that Bepreeentatives thereto from every
State and Territory in the Union, aa also from Can-
ada, Mexico and the 8andwich Islands, have al-
ready arrived in the city.
During tbe session whioh will continue about a
week, aa is expected, the question of the admission
of the Lodge in Polynssia into the jurisdiction of
ths U. 8. Grai "
action.
Mobmon Women Leaving Utah.—A young man
man named Herbert Brandon, recently from Utah,
informs the Jefferson City (Missouri) Examiner,
that several Mormon trains had left Fort Scott on
their way to tbe States. Two of tbe trains, num
bering three hundred, were chiefly women, English
and Scotch, and the principal topic of their conver-
sation throughout wastba absurdity of Mormonism
and its principles. They were all unanimous in
their denunciation of Brigham Young and his
jostles, and talking of his assassination by tbe
ormons as a sure event. They have all (without
Lception) become disgusted with Mormonism, and
renounced it, and expressed their determination
from henceforth to use all their efferts for the total
annihilation of Mormonism. They express their
desire to return to their native countries, and would
if tbey had the means to do so, in order thst they
might be instrumental in saving others from the
baneful influence of Mormonism. Mr. Brandon
predicts a speedy dissolution of tbe Utah communi-
«y.
3rand Lodge, will oome up for definite
Utah.—The Mormon oontinned to arrive in the
Valley from the South, and were resuming their
usual avocations. Brigham Young is in constant
danger of being assassinated by his own people,who
have beoome greatly incensed against him Bince bis
numerous fraads have been disclosed. He keeps
himself constantly concealed. The Mail party bring
faU confirmation of the reports of the richnees of
the South Platte gold mines. Many miners, without
tools, and with no appliance other than a tin pan,
were getting from three to five dollars per day.
Lixaie's Opinion or Bmxx as Food.—According
to chemical investigation by Prof. Liebig, beer ia
worthless for food, so far aa the blood is affected; it
is of value only to snpport respiration and to sup-
ply warmth. Tbe nitrogenous portion of the barley
omes soluble in brewing, passes off in the sweet
r, and Is separated partly by boiling snd partly
fermentation, or lees. Beer serves to nakapeo-
I fa'; when they are thin in fleeh; it harihe same
I 0( -$nreh in bread. It has its value in sup-
i he tnthl not in the formstian of blood,
also as a means of enjoyment and as a
Emiqbant Kodtes.—The Emigrant Boad from
Fort Smith, Arkansas, passing through Northern
Texas, crosseB the Trinity and Brazos rivera, and
strikes the bead waters of the Colorado of Texas,
just on the eastern edge of the "Staked Plain." It
then turns considerably to the south in order to pass
around the southern end of the "Plain." Water is
obtained at tbe 'Mnstang Springs' and from spring
in a range of sand hills crossed by the road, which
finally strikes the Pecos Kiver about 75 miles below
the 82d parallel, and follows the course of the etream
up to that latitude. From tbe Mustang SpriDgs,
which are about 5 miles from t'no 32d parallel to the
point on the Pecos, in latitude 82 degrees, is, by this
road, something more than 160 miles, while the
direct distance along the 82d parallel is only 100
miles. The old road also passes over a range of
sand bills 80 or 40 feet high in places which extendB
for 12 miles in width, where the remains of wagons
still mark the losses sustained by California Emi-
grant , while nearly the whole road from these hills
to the Pecos, about 83 miles, ia very sandy. The
sand hills mentioned extend many miles sonth of
the emigrant road, and northward as far as the82d
>arallel, when they end as a distinct range of sand
}ilis. though ft Randy Tidjfo ertandfi some distanoa
arther northward. The water mentioned is found
in the northern end of these sand bills, and is the
upper end of a continuous obain of springs whioh
extend through the whole range of sand hills. The
distance from this point to the Mustang Springs is
45 miles, and to the point of a great bend of the
Pecos to the east, about 15 miles below the 32d par-
allel, 50 miles, tbe road being, except for a few miles
across the sand ridge mentioned, perfectly smooth
and hard.
By tbe Mexican Gulf and San Antonio route
water is fonnd in abundance the wholo way.
[g* Hon. F.B. Lubbock, Treasurer of the San
Jacinto Monumental Fund, acknowledges the re-
ceipt of the following sums :
1856, April 21, at Battle Ground $
4, at Honston
6, at " Individual sub
4, at " Ward No. 4...
4, at " Ward No. 1...
4, at " Ward No. 2...
4, at " Ward No. 8...
4, at Harrisburg
5, at Liberty
12, at Houston, Ward No. 1..
12, at Liberty
No machine haB yet been invented which can
make a perfect file. The file cutter with a small
hammer can cut notch after notch, in a piece of
softened Bteel without a guide or gauge—even to the
number of a hundred notches in an inch. It is one
out of many things in which skillful labor triumphs
over the uniformity of operation whioh belongs to a
machine. The cutting of files alone in Great Bri-
tain gives employment to more than six thousand
persons.
Odb Bxlations with Mexico.—Walker Fearn,
Esq.,U.S. Secretary of Legation at Mexico, and
Capt. Henry, who went oat as bearer of despatches
from Washington, have arrived at New York. A
letter from the city of Mexico says :
"Mr. Forsyth was instructed to inform tbe Mexi-
can Government, in closing its relations, that the
United States had filly decided upon calling Mexi-
co to an aocount for the long catalogue of outrages
upon American citizens and the American flag, and
to insist that thaae outrages or the like should not
be repeated in future. He has therefore demanded
and reoeived his passports, and will cloee the lega-
tlan about tbe end of the present month."
Thx Eira or an Axxonact—M. Pottevin, the
intrepid cronaut, whose excursions on horseback
caused so much excitement in London, has met the
fate of several of his predecessor . Hs fell into the
sea near Malaga, when deeoendlng with hia balloon
and wis drowned.
Bdmobs—How they Gbow.—Tho Baton Bouge
Gazette is exercised at the nnfavorable reports in
circulation abroad as to the health of that town,
and at the idle rumors which are propagated in the
town itself. In illustration of tbe way stories grow,
it tells tbe following story, the moral of which we
commend to tbe good people of Mobile :
A day or so ago, those clever gentlemen on Main
street, Messrs. Piper & Bradford, sent their "easy
carriage" to the ferry landing, to receive a body
from West Baton Bouge. Tbe boat was on the
other side, so the driver turned round and passed
up Main street to the undertaking yard. Tbis go-
ing and coming was counted for two burials. When
the bearee returned in an hour, it connted for three
and when the body waa received, it.made four bur-
ials from Main street before 12 o'olock m. Tbis is
the way alarmists connt in town, and tbis is the
way they keep up excitement to fever heat.
Law vs. Dcelino.—The Brandon (Miss.) Be-
publican says that a bill was recently filed by W.
P. Harris, Esq., and Steel & Norria, Attorneys at
Law, in the Chancery Court of Clark County, in
this State, to stop a sale of property under execu-
tion, based upon judgments rendered before Judge
Hancock, on the ground that tbe judgments were
void, because Judge Hancock had been engaged in
a duel. The law of Mississippi is very strict in re-
gard to dueling, and makes any man having been
engaged in a duel, or carrying or accepting a chal-
lenge, disqualified from holding office.
The Bepublioan takes decided ground in favor of
rigidly enforcing the law excluding all persona from
office who have been engaged in duels.
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More Indian Murders.
News from a reliable source, we think has reach -
ed us, that the Indians are again committing dep-
redations on our frontier. On the head of Denton
and Clear Creek several families have been mur-
dered and most of the Btock killed or carried off.
Among tbe killed are Kilgore, Mc Donald, Wain-
scott, HaneyB, White, Avis and Brandy. The people
are alarmed and are rapidly fortingnp. The neigh-
boring counties shonld try and send them immedi-
ate relief as those depredations will be likely to con-
tinue until tbe Indians receive a drubbing at tbe
hands of the whites.—Sherman Patriot.
We have been informed tbat on last Monday wee^
a party consisting of some four or five gentleman,
and some two or three ladies, were going out ifito
Jack county on a visit; that up north of this, on tbe
road from Gainaville to Belknap, they had stopped
at a place where there was <\|ater, when they were
attacked by seven Indians ; and two of the men
immediately killed the remainder started towards
their wagons—except one,, who caught up hischild
and broke off into the buah ; when the Indians, it is
supposed, concluded the men who had run from
tbeir wagons were going for arms, started off, but!
attemptod to pursue the man who bod ran off; who.
was enabled to elude tbem—though not Without
having received an arrow in one of his arms, whicH
be carried fifteen miles before he found any one t"
extract it. One of tbe women ran off into thecree'
bottom, aud bad not been found at last accoun
It was not known whether she bad fallen into
hands of tbe Indians|or bad got lost. We undel
stood one of the gentleman eaid he knew one of tl
Indians—that be was a Kickapoo, and had eaten at
his house several times.
P. S. Since writing the above we have learned
that tbe woman, who it was feared bad fallen lAo
tbe hands of tbe Indians, made good her escape^—
Frontier Newé.
In addition to the absva, we learn from a gentle,
man who passed through this county last week,
that Mr. N. H. O. Polly, and a Mr. McKenzie, were
murdered by Indians, on Sunday, the 12th inet.,
while on tbeir return from meeting, in Montague
county. Dr. Polly was formerly a resident of this
oounty, and had recently been elected Chief Justice
of Montague county. We learn that there were
sevoral others in company at the time of the murd-
ers, all of whom escaped. These are all tbe parti-
culars we could gather.—Dallas Herald.
Total
$1,442 05
Proceedings of tlie City Council.
Septembeb 28,1858.
Adjourned Meeting.—Present, Aid. Atchison,
Beissner, Frederick, Leonard, Lidstone, Lufkin, Ma.
geean, McKeen, and Tucker.
On motion Alderman Atchison was called to tbe
chair.
The Special Committee on Canal, presented tbe
following report whioh was adopted :
"The Special Committee appointed to report what
action is deemed advisable for tbe City to take in
order to protect her interest in the Brazos and Gal-
veston Navigation Company, after having fully
considered the same are of opinion that it is for the
interest of tbe city tbat the canal and the lands be-
longing to the Company be sold, as cow advertised,
by the Trustees on the 4th day of October, and the
proceeds be applied to the payment of tbe bonds.
Tbe Committee are of opinion that it is best for the
interest of the City, to have no connection further
witb said Company nor is it deemed advisable to
expend any money in order to save that which has
already been given for stock to wit the sum of $20,-
000. This amount will never be repaid. The amount
of tbe bonds held by the City will be paid in whole
or in part, depending entirely upon the proceeds
arrising from tbe sale of the canal and lands. The
bonds hypothecated to the City, to wit: $21,000,
for the use of tbe city bonds amounting to $7,000,
will be redeemed by the retiring of our bonds on
the payment of tbe cash. The bonds issued for the
purchase of tbe $20,000, stock will all be taken up
tbe present year, and there will be no further tax to
be hereafter collected on that account. The Canal
will pass into other hands who will proceed imme-
diately to complete it, so that after all we shall have
the canal with all its advantages and benefits to the
City and without further coBt."
Bespectfully submitted,
D. D. ATCHISON, Chairman.
Tbe petition ofE.L. Ufford, praying further time
to comply with tbe order of Council, was granted
and the time extended to thirty days.
On motion of Aid. Tucker it was
Resolved, That the Soap Factory in the 1st Ward,
known as Cameron's Soap Factory has in its late
management become a nuisance to the neighbor-
hood in which It is aituated and that it is hereby
ordered tbat the same be discontinued for sixty days
from the date hereof and that the Mayor ia request-
ed to act accordingly.
On motion Council adjourned.'
CHS. E. THOMPSON, Sec'y.
Prompt Action.—At San Juan del Sur, Nica-
ragua, recently, two American butcher , who were
trading with the United States frigate Saranac, were
arrested by military authority for the alleged vio-
lation of arme municipal rules. Capt. Kelly, of our
navy, promptly ordered some marines into boats to
go ashore, but before tbey landed tbe men were
released. Apologies^ "—-«dgjbjtheNicaraguan
authorities for tb "^"^ nresence of
the 8aranae haf
vionsly. V
A Valuable Whale.—"The schooner Watch-
man" says the Newburyport (Mass) Inquirer of the
10th instant, "which recently returned to this port
from a whaling voyage, captured a sick sperm whale
in Sam Bay, from which was obtained 11 barrels of
oil, which, at the present market price is valued at
about $450. From the carcass of this whale 600
poands ot ambergris was obtained, which was sold in
Boiton the present week for the sum of $10,000 mak-
the whale of the value of $10,450, which is, we
most valuable whale on record.
A New Halancc of Power.
From tbe returns of the censúa of Texas, now
nearly completed, it ia ascertained that its popula-
tion will not fall far short of four hundred and
fifty thousand. No State, in any section of the
Union, exhibits a more rapid growth, or greater
evidence of singular prosperity. In eight years it
has more than doubled its number of inhabitants,
while its productive capacity has been developed
in a still higher ratio. The same impulse, which
sends a ceaslesa tide of emigration into the North-
western States and Territories, is giving an extraor-
dinary vitality to this vaat Southwestern region,
outlying on tbe borders of Mexico.
The moral influence of this prosperity upon tho
adjoining Mexican States is already apparent. Tam-
aulipas, Neuva Leon and Coabuila begin to feel tbe
contrast between their condition and tbat of Texas,
and, dimly, perhaps, to perceive the happy result
of its union with the great North American Con-
federacy. Their allegianoa to the central govern-
ment is growing weaker and weaker. Tbe civil
commotions which continue to paralyze tbeir en-
terpriso are but warning signals of their desire to
adopt tbe policy which has produced upon their
borders so rich a harvest. And, as the wave of
17 00 j population rolls nearer, gathering strength and vol-
6 25 i ume, even antagonism of race and tho pride of na-
75 50 tionality will give way before it.
1 00 it cannot have escaped the observation of those
who have watched the development of the North-
west, that, at least, the tide of immigration has
reached the arid plains which Etretch eastward from
the base of the Bocky Mountains, and begins to be
deflected towards the Southwest by this natural
barrier to its further progress. The lines of com-
munication between Iowa and Kansas, and Texas,
already projected, will, ere long, give snob an im-
petus to its current, that tbe past growth of this
empire State will bear no comparison to that which
is to mark its future progress. And when it reaches
the eastern borders of Mexico, converting all the
region of the Bio Grande into waving harvest fields
and filling the prairies and river valleys and Gulf
ports with the sounds of peaceful industry, will the
inhabitants of tho State , ecpaiaLcil from mis scene
of unexampled prosperity only by a narrow river,
be content with a government tbat palsies enter-
prise and gives birth only to civil strife ?
The extension of American territory and South-
ern institutions íb, therefore, inevitable in this di-
rection. Gravity does not witb greater certainty
decree the attraction of the lighter body toward
the heavier, than tbe example of tbe prosperity of
the State of Texas is sure to prepare for the annex-
ation of the frontier Mexican States to onr Federal
Union. Men are now living who will see the Am-
erican flag floating from every city and stronghold
of these already semi-independent provinces.
Tbe course that emigration begins to take, and
the works of improvement in progress to link the
extreme Northwest witb tbe extreme Southwest
suggests the speedy appearance of a new balance of
political power in the republic. Tbe commercial
and industrial interests of tbe States bordering up-
on, and west of the Mississippi river, are almost
identical. They have a common, natural outlet to
the ocean. They feel a common interest in tbe
policy tbat controls the public domain. Their peo-
ple have little sympathy for the follies and the pre-
judices tbat prevail in the older States. A fresh-
ness and originality of character, a strength and
vigor of purpose, and a restlessness of enterprise,
mark the inhabitants of all these States. They are
progressive and aggressive. Like the Israelites,
when led by tbe pillar of flre and cloud, tbey are
ever on the march to a promised land. Tbese States
will soon disturb the present balance of power in
the Union, preventing any mere Northern or South-
ern coalition from deciding the policy of the Gen-
eral Government.
While politicians lay crafty planB for their own
aggrandizement, and, looking ever at the North or
at the South, seem to see only growing antagon-
ism of feeling and widft separation of interest;
while those of one section exalt in apparently in-
creasing sectional power, and those of the other
begin to prepare for bold resistance to anticipated
encroachment npon constitutional right , tbey ap-
pear to be utterly ignorant of the consolidating
political strength of a section that will co-operate
witb neither party in its extreme measure.
Tbe Northwest and the Southwest will soon de-
velop a policy suited to their wants. Tbey will be
felt in the council halls of the nation, and dictate
Presidential election . The quarrel over the ques-
tion of slavery will ere long give place to new poli-
cal issues in which tbey have a deeper practical in-
terest. Territorial expansion, connection with the
rich Pacific slopes, and a controlling influence over
the waters and territories of tbis western world,
will be demanded by tbe young giant of the WeBt
and Southwest, who acts under a firm belief in
" manifest destiny."—Picayune.
T
fMrect Trate with Earspe.
Crockett Argus makes the following sensible
rks, based upon ths commercial statistics of
i, in regard to tbe importance of promot-
trade between Texas and Europe:
manifest reasons, commercial as well ss poll-
this course of trsde should be foetered, and
_ bale of ootton should be sent to any American
:,sxospt to be bartered for, or to have its prooeeds
ed in, such American manufactures or pro-
ms as can be afforded cheaper there than
laewhere. Some of these reasons we will briefly
sfclp.
Tke people of Europe being the principsl purchas-
s of onr stsple, snd also tbe manufacturers or
growers of most that we receive in exohange for it,
it follows that we can sell for more and buy for less
than any where else. If our cotton be sent to New
York or Boston, snd thence to Europe, it goes
burtbened witb the expensee of doable transporta-
tion, storage, drayage, insurance, factorage, and all
thoee«barges whioh, however small they may be
separately, are yet formidable in the aggreeate. It
ia to be presumed too tbat, independently of all
tbese expensee, a profit is realized by those in our
domestio ports, who operate In the artiole. Tben,
supposing sales to have been made in New York or
Boston, tbe proceeds are generally invested in dry
goads, wines, brsndies and other articles of foreign
production. These are brought to us, a our cotton
goes from us, taxed with the cost of two transpor-
tations, two polioies of insurance, to say nothing of
the prdfits of importers, jobljenLeniwholespleeman,
Tbte course of trade, as any one may perceive, ne-
cessarily tends to diminish tbe value of tbat which
we boH, and to enhance the cost of-tbat whioh we
receive in return. By thiB suicidal policy of em-
loying intermediate agencies tbe people of the
ontb, and more particularly of Texas, are more
injuriously affected than by all the legislation of
the General Government of which tbey so vehe-
mently complain. And yet, the remedy is in their
own hands, and the evil ia one for which tbey have
only themselves to blame. Private enterprise, pro-
perly directed, can easily accomplish all that is de-
rable, without the aid of legislation, or any large
aqociatlon of individuals or of capital. Tbe man-
ufacturers and traders of Europe are more impera-
tively bound to have onr cotton than we are to have
their broadcloth , their silks, tbeir wines, &c., and
they would gladly bring them here, or the money,
as we might choose, witb whioh to buy it. Surely
no good reason can be assigned why it should take
a circuitions route, have accumulated upon it tbe ex-
penses above enumerated, and in addition be sub-
jected to the risks and fluctuations of a New York
or a New England money market, when a direct
course lies so palpably before us. To our mind, if
a few energetic men would go to work in earnest,
to bring trade into its legitimate and natural chan-
nels, they would prove more useful in their day
and generation, than by going into Southern Con-
ventions, there to discuss and decry tbe value of the
Union.
The trade of Galveston the present season will
amount nearly, if not quite, to 200,000 bales of cot-
ton. Tbis, at $50 00 tbe bale, will bring tbe sum
of ten millions. The returns in articles manufac-
tured or grown abroad, may be Bet down as amount-
ing to as much more, giving an aggregate com-
merce of twenty millions. A city transacting so
large a business ought to be independent of all in-
termediate agents and negotiators, and deal directly
with the principals. She is entitled to the legitimate
profits of such a commerce, and nothing can be
more short-sighted or ruinous than to permit them
to be shared or engrossed by the shrewd and cun-
ning traders of tbe North. These profits would
amount, in the aggregate to a very large sum, two
or three millions at a moderate estimate, and would
rapidly build np a great and flourishing sea-port.
But the present is scarcely an indication of the fu-
ture of Texas, or of the commercial importance o!
its principal city. A judicious system of railroads
will divert to it all the cotton which now finds a
market by tho way of Bed Biver, supposed to be
nearly equal to that which reaches Galveston, whilst
not ono tenth of tbe cotton lands of the State have
been reduced to cultivation. With her resources
fairly developed, she is capable of producing as
much cotton as is now grown in the whole United
States several times told. Then her extensive wheat
region, the beat in tbe known world, and capable,
after supplying the home requirement, of furniBh-
ing enough to meet any conceivable demand for
commerce; this too, must become an important feat-
ure in ths trade of Galveston, and further impress
it with tbe importance of maintaining direct Inter-
course with foreign nations.
The political reasons for severing ourselves from
the commercial and finanoial thraldom in wbich we
are now held to tbe North, are not so cogent with
ub as with those who see Disunion looming np in
the distance. We see nothing of the kind, and have
no other serious thought than that of living out
our appointed time in tbis great and glorlons Union
of States, hopingand believing that the misguided
and reckless few^ho know so little of itB cost and
pat so low an estimate upon its blessings, will, in
the meantime, have disappeared from the land or
come to their sober reason. But were we a dis-
unionistpír se, or in any other sense of tbe term, we
shonld most strenuously advocate the forming of
direct commercial relations with foreign nations as
a prelude to the severance of those political ties by
which we are bonnd to a portion of our country-
men. As it is, we desire to see tbe South, rich in
resources as she i , so employ her wealth a to make
it inure to ber own benefit. Producing as she does
much the larger portion of exportable values 6he
does not need the interposition of financial go be-
tween , and should attend to her business in person.
If we would expend as much thought and energy
in work as we do in talk, we would find ourselves
prosperous and happy, and tbe jealousy and ill-
feeling with which we regard our Northern breth-
ren would disappear in proportion as we turned tu
our own account tbe large resources tbey now de-
rive from our productions.
THUBSDAY, SEPT SO. 1858.
The steamer Island City, Captain Blakeman
arrived this morning from Houston, with 482 bales of
cotton, and the following passengers:
Messrs. M Chapman, J J Hendley, A B Thomp
son, John Graves.
tST The steamer Swan, Capt. Peacock, arrived
this morning from Liberty, witb 2S bsles ootton.
Interments In Galveston cemeteries
Sept. 28—Elisa F Morison, 18 years, Am. yel. fev.
29 Fred Fry, 28 " Gr. "
29 Minns Psulus, 80 " Gr. "
29 Dr.JnoG. Ware, 24 " Am. "
29* Louis Haban, 28 " Gr. "
29 Mrs Elwina L. Hughes, 20 ys. Am "
The ouly death reported this morning, are tw
children—one of Mr. Hollis, snd the other a child
of Mrs. O'Connell.
Hides.—Tbe Shoe and Leather Beporter mentions
at sale, at New York of 856 Texas hides, usual
weight, at 20% cents per lb., rejecting bad hides :
556, dry Texas, 22J£ lb. 19}£c 8 mos., rejecting bad
hides.
UMSHIP
ele-, wttek save
, aoas u> ««able ■**ej
live HtokeUoi to all who kvor i eaa
We have now five Praam, amongHi tkefl
be«tlmprorwlSteam,AirSartng,DmI
Prensa, and the KacaettePaiant rard adtoi
Within the laat few mon thi apwardt of
dollars have been expend <! for addittoi
whieh,together with oar fe;^ejla<ce stock
tn elalmlng superiority. \
'• Sow fall*
W fuer
Joirlma
tth tb.
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of a paper
tgT" Bobert J. Cowart. of Georgia, has been ap-
pointed by tbe President Indian Agent, for an agen-
cy in New Mexico.
Houston.—The Telegraph says that the health of
Houston has recently been bettor than at any time
within the last six months. That paper says—
There has been no cases of yellow fever since our
last, and our people are generally settling into the
belief that we shall entirely escape an epidemic
this year. The cases that bave been reported have
mostly originated in one locality, from which it has
not spread, although the patients have, in two in-
stances, been removed. The last case is recovering.
There have been bat seven cases in all reported
this year in Houston.
Population or Arkansas.—The Arkansas True
Democratic publishes a statement from which we
learn tbat the State census returns of 1S58 make the
total population of Arkansas 818,813 :
White males 186,94?
White females m 120,640
Free colored 6S2
Slaves 60,048
Total
...818,818
The first overland California mail to California
via Jefferson City and Springfield, Mo., Fort Smith
Arkanaaa, and Preston. Texas, took it departure
from St. Louíb post office on the 16th September.
It seems strange that there ohoulc^have been
any thing in the appearance and addreBS of the ven-
erable Dr. Boyall of the Civilian office, to offend the
pro tem editor of the Indianola Courier. In addi-
tion to the reapeot wbich the Doctor's age and ven-
erable appearance is naturally calculated to inspire,
he is in reality one i f tbe most^amiable, mild, and
inoffensive men we have ever seen, and has proba-
bly more personal friends than any man in the
State. Tho acting editor of the Indianola Courier,
however, took it into his head to pronounce the
Doctor a "bore," an old fogy, &c., which drew
from the latter a reply, to which the Courier re-
joins :
"We should have been led to reflect on tho pos-
ibility of our having arrived at an incorrect con-
clusion in reference to the matter, were it not for
the corroborative evidence of the dozen or more
subscribers to the Civilian who (reluctantly it is
true) had their papers discontinued in order not to
be compelled to forego the boredom of another visit"
&c.
The Courier has seen "men in buckram" ic those
discontinuances. They really numbered bit two,
while the new subscribers obtained by the /T)octor
at Indianola much more than make good the loss,
The fact is that we have a good list of paying pat-
rons at Indianola,which of itself ought to incline ns
favorably towards the placo and people ; but, in ad
dition to this, we have many personal friends of
long standing there. We trust we have been whol-
ly free from those feelings of petty rivalry which
seem to exist between portions'of the citizens of dif-
ferent towns in Texas. Matagorda bay and its
tributaries are naturally entitled to a large trade
and to one or more large towns ; and we have long
re?Tftttflíí í^ionn^onl wAdolll-ií-g r*,!v<
which has defeated the success f th e efforts to estab-
lish such marta of trade there us are demanded by
Western Texas. Whenever wo have been able to
say a good word in belialf of any feasible enterprise
to meet this demand wo have done so ; and we will
continue to do so with pleasure. Galveston has too
many ties of interest, as well as of common human
ity, to bind her to the remainder of Texas, to wish
to be apon any but friendly terms with her neigh
b rs. As for ourselves, we say to the citizens of
other towns, patronize your own local papers first,
then if you wish to read another, we shall be happy
to serve you. Our agents never undertake to pro-
mote onr interests at the expense ofotherB.
The reaolutions adopted by the New York
Democratic State Convention endorse the adminis-
tration of Mr. Buchanan ; approve the settlement
oftheKanBaB question, and its removal from the
arena of Congressional discussion; repudiate sec-
tionalism, and repel tbe idea that a preponderance
of the Northern States in Congress is a victory over
the South ; oppose any change in the naturalization
laws; reiterate tbe principles of the National Dem-
ocratic party generally. Amasa J. Parker was
nominated for Governor, and J. J. Taylor for Lieu-
tenant Governor. On motion the nominations were
made unanimous. Sherman B. Piper received the
nomination for Canal Commissioner, and Edward
L. Donelly for State Prison Inspector. There being
now in the field a Democratic, a Know Nothing and
an Abolition ticket, the Democrats have a fair
chance to auoceed.
We are indebted to Mr. F. D. Allen for a
copy of the new book, entitled "The Prince of the
House of David or three years in the Hoiy City :
being a series of the letters of Adina, a Jewess
of Alexandria, Bojourning in Jerusalem in the days
of Herod, addressed to her father, a wealthy Jew in
Egypt ; and relating, as by an eye-witnesl, all the
sccnes and wonderful incidents in the Life of Jesus
of Nazareth, from his baptism in Jordan to his
crncifixion on Calvary; edited by the Bev. Profes-
sor J. H. Ingraham, Bector of St. .'ohn's Church,
Mobile ; revised and corrected by the author.'1 In
his preface the author says :
"All the scenes of the life of Jesus during the last
four years of his stay on earth, as recordeed in the
Gospel, are here narrated as if by an eye witness of
them.
"Adina, the writer, a Jewess, is assumed to have
been a resident of Jerusalem during the last fonr
years of our Saviour's life ; and to have written to
Alexandria, to her father, numerous letters, des
cribing all evenfs of interest, and especially giving
a minute narrative of the wonderful events of tho
life of Christ, whom she daily aw.
"Witb Bacred awe and deep reverence, a con-
scious of treading on "holy ground," the writer has
unfolded, with the four Gospels as his guide, the
successive incidents of their marvelous History,
such as no four years, before or since, have paral-
leled.
"Jesus was man, as well as God 1 In thiB book
He is seen, conversed with, eaten with, as a man 1
"Some of the scenes present Him (as evidently He
did pasB them) in tbe hours of domestic intercourse
and frindiy companionship."
Were we called upon to express our relative res-
pect for "yellow covered literature" and "religious
novels," we should scarcely know to which to award
the "bad pre-eminence." The fb'rmer are unmixed
and unblushing pictures of vice, that often "to be
hated only needs be seen." The latter, euch a
skillful blending of fact and fiction—such an alloy
of truth and perversion of scripture history—as
may not only -leave tbe ignorant and bad in error
and vice, but "deceive the very elect." The work
of Mr. Ingraham, with "so many title respecta-
ble" that we cannot repeat them, does not come
quite into this last class ; bat we confess that not-
withstanding hiB expressions of "sacred awe and
deep reverence," we think there is a slight shade ol
vanity and presumption—not to say irreverence—
in the conception and execution of his work.—
Nevertheless, it is in a pleasing and popular Btyle,
and such a book as will have many readers and
admirers.
Copies are ent per mail by Mr. Allen on the re-
ceipt of $1 85 cts.
Jcdue Beagak made a speech at Dallas a few
days since. Tho Herald gives a brief report of his
remarks; and say that be denounced the move-
ments of Gen. Walker, and that peciea of propa-
gandista in the South, of whioh Walker is tho ex-
ponent—he believed that the acquisition of Nicara-
gua and Mexican territory under the auspices of
Walker, would never resnlt in any good to tbe South
—that the interest of the South in regard to slavery,
was in direct opposition and conflict to the genius
of those people who now inhabit those countries.
The Judge Bhowed his position on tbe Conference
bill, and the reason of his vote on that measure. nd
believed tbat be was acting in accordance with tbe
true position of the democratic party. The greai
points in his speech were his views in respect to
State Bights, which were as truly conservative a
any man could wisb, and at the same time as strict
and independent as any South Carolinian need de-
sire—his views on tbis question are original and
striking ; and we believe in accordance wit b a large
majority of tbe democratic party South. Wo would
liked to have given a full report of his speech on
this question, but unavoidable circumstances pre-
vented us from so doing. The Judge is eminently
sound and national on the question ; and as bis
views on this subject have been published elsewhere
we shall say nothing more in reference to tbem, ex-
cept this, that be is all right on tbe subject.
He spoke of hia efforts in behalf of the Western
frontier, and how the frontier has received so little
real service from tbe kind of protection that has
been offered by the Government. The Judge be-
lieves, as we do, that mounted volunteers of Tex-
ians are the only means of preventing depredations
and of arresting «•- .«TT1 ™ Í
tie spoke ofthe laborious exertions he bad under-
gone in regard to mail routes, and showed how be
consulted tbe interest of hiB friends at home, in do-
ing all in his power to furnish them with proper
mail facilities. He thought tbat very little was
done to protect onr eoast, and tbat nothing would
be done until we had more infiuencein the electoral
college. In regard to the overland mail route, he
believed that contractors should have the privilege
of choosing their route, and then wo would have
nothing to fear,—as the Southern one is tbe moat
eligible,—unless from tbe interference and influence
of Northern politicians with the contractors. He
believed tbat if Senator Busk bad lived, tbat tbe
great Pacific Bailroad would have been secured to
Texis, and that he believed that the general gov-
ernment bad the power to build the road. As to
Arizonia, he had no hopes of making a slave State
of it—there would be no security for Blaves there,
and tbat slaves are more valuable where they now
are, and that tbey would naturally find the proper
localities for profit and usefulness.
Joint Slock. c*m
The London Cotton Plant is t be til
recently established in London, whioh
tbe regulation of the affairs of the Son'
iu a moot authoritative tone. Ho far as
other paper tavon, by the pnblioatioc of facts
arguments, tbe promotion of direct shipments ot
cotton from tbe South to the consumers in Europe,
it has oar cordial sympathy and thanks ; but the
Cotton Plant of London is evidently an exotioof
bot-bouse growth, and not yet calculated to inspira
that confidence In tho American planter which its
ffers of ebelter and protection aseume to exist
already. Tbe patronizing tone it falls into may be
kind and frank ; bnt it is not complimentary, sod
loes not tally witb the popular ide* tbat men ara
osnally the beet judges of tbeir own private affairs,
nd have the right to regulate their own pursuits
in tbeir own way. In tbe matter of disposing of
the produce of tbeir own labor and oapital, men sro
naturally a little sensitive to tbe Interference of
others ; and cxperienoe bas too often demonstrated
that tbe farther tbe planter places bis crop beyond
hi own individual control the greater will be tho
expenses and risk to which it is eubjectod. Tbe
London Cotton Plant volunteers the following
somewhat dubious counsel to tbe South :
Tbe tendency^in Borona to commercial associa-
tions, and the unexplained successor tbe joint «took
banks ot London, point tbe way to tbe cotton plan-
ters ot America whiCb they should lake Ufc emanci-
pating the Southern Slates from the present un-
equal, uunatural, and ruinous system of trade. Do-
mestic issues indicate clearly enough tbat tbe peo-
ple ol tbe South must acquire real independence
within the "Union." instead of tbe empty compro-
mise and wordy enaotments which only insult tbeir
expectations. Tbe cotton planters po-M« tbe only
power which oan effectually make tbe 8outb equal
within the Union. Tbey have in tbeir own bauds
means of resistance ax well as progress which csn
govern the world. Let tbem use tbese means. And
tn show « bat tbe planters con effect we desire to re-
cite tbe history ofthe LondouJoint-Stock Bank .
Thesv monetary associations represent what wss
once dormant capital in England—little sums here,
little enms there, in the hands of people who did
not know how to use them. When tbe joint-stock
banks entered into tbe field ofcom petition, of course
tbe old established influences predicted all kinds of
disaster. Tbe people were warned to keep their
money inoperative. Tbe joint-stock banks were
ridiculed, and one even at tbis day meets in tbe
City witb some respectable old gentlemen who st-
tr'butes tbe late crisis to tbe progress of tbe world.
But yet tbe predictions in tbis, as in otber cases,
come back to roost. Tbe joint-stock ban ks, by af-
fording a current interest upon capital from day to
day during the late panic, retained the specie in
London, which would otherwise have fled the conn-
try in dismay, and thus brought tbe Bank of En-
gland down in the universal ruin. Tbis is now
generally conceded, and we only allude to it to show
our planting friends how tbey can combine for mu-
tual protection and profit. Let the ootton planters
form County and Siete Associations. Tbeir cotion
bags are better than bank notes ; they are as good
as gold, and every bale representa money. lit otber
words, the planters would become a great, omnipo-
tent, practical joiit-stock company. Indeed sued
is the case now, if they would but use their power
and act witb energy.
"Anticipating tbis cotton movement as one of
sheer necessity, the attention of prominent capital-
ists in Europe has been turned to the subject for
many years past. The first flow of the golden tide
ofSoutbern wealth will bo followed by a contmeroo
wbich will outrival tbe trade of tbe Dntoh £<st In-
dies, and equal that of India. A few years will
show what thecotton power ia. Tbe Southern States
of America will prove to the country which secures
their trade tbe richest commercial colonies of the
world."
The detail of tho plan here put forth are kept
within tbe shadow of tbe Cotton Plant; but the ex-
perience of the people of the United States in these
joint stock companies Is not 6Uoh as to command
tbeir immediato ascent to tha plan. The managers
and employees of these companies ere generally the
chief beneficiaries. If Cotton is King we sn-pco
'hat tbe Joint Stock Company would beoome tho
power behind the throne, and thrive at the expense
of both monarch and subject. The history of the
Ohio Life and Trust Co. baB furnished so strong and
instanceof the effects of American Joint Stock Com-
panies on a large scate Utmt it i- uw)<w.. io eaplalu
tbem further. Their European counterpart may be
gleaned from tbe following. The Tribunal of Cor-
rectional Police, at Paris, says Gahgnani't Messen-
ger, has just bocn occupied two days by another of
those case which have been eo frequent of late—
swindling, in connection with compsuics
It was proved that, in 1854, a rompí lit J
the Union des G z with a capital o« ' ^...VíC',
and another, called the Cc puny dc. . VieS7'
with a capital of 2 j'fO.'MOf., Jrairii 'u _ <ss.
quently incre-sed to 5,1 >00.0 of., were : .rmed ; tnd
that ot tbe former one. Salmon, of tbe latter ->nc,
Baron, bisbrotl er-ln-law, wore managers. In June
1847, Salmon ro-igned, and in October following,
to the great surprise of the shareholders, the com-
pany was declared bankrupt. This lead to en in-
vestigation of the affairs of tbe two compsniM ,
wbicb were mixed up together, and it turned out
tbat those affaire were so complicated, and tbat
their accounts were in such confusion, tbat the pre-
cise situation of neither could be ascertained ; that
in fact, among other things, the Verreries Company
pretended that the Gas Company owed it 800,000f..
whilst the Gas Company claimed 400,000 I- from
the Verreries ; but tbat, nevertheless, the 15,000,-
OOOf, capital of the two companies has been disipa-
ted. It further turned out, that when the tías Com-
pany was established, a person, named Valette, who
was charged to issue tbe shares, and that, tbrugh
he bad received 1,228 211f- for tbem, be bsd not
banded in one farthing to the Company ; but thai
Salmon bad diBimulatcd this heavy loss. It also
appeared that, though he (Salmon) received from
tho company 2,400,000f. worth of shareB, tor patents
transferrer to it, a salary of 20,000f., and was enti-
tled to twenty-five nerccnt, ofthe profits, be con-
trived to realize a profit ot up'.ards of 126,000f. by
an irregular salo of some of his shares, to the compa-
ny. Lastly, it turned out tbat, in addition to gross
irregularities and mismanagement, be bad distrib-
uted dividends out of capital a', the time when tbe
company was notoriously insolvent. With regard
to B ron. it apocared he hnd improperly realtZ'd a
profit of 16 .0001. by trafficking in share of the Gas
Company ; had embezzled securities worth 100,-
0001. belonging to the Verreries and Gas Compan-
ies, five hundred shares io other companies belong-
ing to the Gas company ; 10,000f. io money be-
longing to tbe Verreries Company, and 4,481 shares
belonging to different percons; also that h* had paid
dividends out of capital, and had, on one occasion
after declaring one of SOf. when the looses were en-
ormous, had theimpudence to make thesharebrdd-
ers vote him a "gold medal of honor," worth 500f.;
and, lastly, tbat be had committed sundry viola-
tions of the law oo c mpanies.
It was further ascertained tbat one Kouillier, who
was concerned in getting up the Verreries Com-
pany, and who was a member of its Consell de Sur-
veillance, had knowingly tolerated some of the ir-
regular acts of Baron, and had advanced him money
at the usurious interest ot more than 40 per cent. ;
and, finally, tbat there wub reason to belive that
another member of the same conseil, named Vinck,
had been privy to the embezzlement ot the 10,000f.
It was decided that Baron bad been guilty of tbe
agf^a"PoW^ero-li co!mpSSl? *,Ka'DÍ"i" con-'
demned bim to five i ear's imprisonment and 8 OOOf.
fine ; Salmon of vio'ating the law on companies,
and it condemned him to two year' imprisonment
and 500f. fine ; and Bouillier of usury, and i*. sen-
tenced him to three months' imprisonment and ¿0,-
OOOf. fine.
-i
\S
A poor actor, with a book under bis arm, was en-
tering a pawnbroker's office, when he encountsred
a^friend who inquired what he was going to do I
"Only going to spont Shakespeare," waa his reply
A Dxpbxciateo Paper Curresct.—Bevolntions
are not, on the whole, favorable to government pa-
per currencies. In the Bepnblic of St. Domingo
where they have, on an average, about two revolu-
tions a year, the paper money of tbe country Is go-
ing down rspidly. A letter from Port au Platte of
Sept. 2d, says that one silver dollar will now pur-
chase there two hundred paper dollars just half a
cent At the other end of the Island in Hayti, where
they have not had a revolution or rebellion for sev-
eral year , the paper dollar is worth from six to
eight oentB.
The citizens of Vernon county, Missouri,have
resolved in a public meeting tbat they will not per
mit cattle from Texas to be driven through their
County. They declare in their resolutions that
Southern cattle communicate to those of Missouri
a disease known as Spanish or Texas fever, which
is very malignant and has caused the death of great
numbers of native cattle in Vernon county.
We suspect that it is the competition, ratherthan
the fever, brought by the Texas cattle, which bas
caused this opposition to them in Missouri. There
is no healthier stock of animals any where than
'be neat cattle of Texas, as the fact that they have
remained free from disease the past season, while
the cattlo of almost every other State have been
dying by hundreds amply provea.
The New Orleana butchers, in order to allay the
fears of their patrons in regard to diseased meats,
have advertised that tbey kill none but Texas
beeves.
A Hibernian had come far to see Niagara and
while he gazed npon it, a friend asked him if it was
not the most wonderfnl thing, he had ever seen.
To which he replied, "Never a bit, man ; never a
bltl Sure, it's no wondor at all tbat the wather
should fall down there, for I'd like know what
could hinder it."
The Calobio Engine.—Ericsson's caloric engines
are entirely successful, as high as five horse power.
It íb becoming extensively used for domestic pur-
poses, and being free from danger, easily managed,
cbeap, and requiring very little fuel, is frequently
preferred to the steam engine. So Bay the newspa-
pers.
Getxrocs Child.—Mother.—Here, Tommy, is
some nice castor-oil, witb orange lee in it.
Doctor.—Now, remember, don't give it all to
Tommy, leave some for me.
Tommy, (who has 'been there')—Doctor U a nice
young man, give it all to the Doctor I
Impure Drugs.—At the recent meeting of the
American Pharmaceutical Association, Dr. Gnth-
rie's report on the home adulteration of drnsta ivas
read. ThiB report states that drugs wbich lire ex-
amined and rejeoted under tbe U. S. lewe at one
port, are sometimes re-sbipped and entered at some
other port where there is no Inspector of drtgs ,t.y
wbich tbe law is evaded. A petition, asking for
amendments to render the law effective, bad been
presented in tbe House of Representatives, and
been referred to the Committee on Ways and
Means, in whose hands it yet lies. Tbo report urges
its passage Doubtless tbe best efforts of the Physi-
cian are often defeated, and many valuable lives
lost, by tbe vending of adulterated and worthless
medicines.
Cotton.—We clip the following exliact from the
Courier and Enquirer, a paper as well posted in
statistics aa any in the country:
One of the gratifying features of the commercial
world te tbe renewed and steady demand fcr co'ton
—a demand tbat increases in a much greater ratio
than tbe increase of population. Tbe Eoropean
demand and prices are such as to furnish the ample
guarantee of remuneration toour Southern planters
for a few years to come. With all tbe available sour,
c-s of supply from Egypt, Asia, Australia and south
America, tbe cotton of tbe United State is not
enough to meet tbe growing demand in Europe.
A Cohxebsion.—Tne Mobile Tribune has receiv-
ed a pamphlet containing tbe confession of James
Copeland, a monster of Iniquity, who w i some
times since banged in Alabama. By his own con-
teasioo, he belonged to a regular gang of robbers
and murderers ever since 1889, and wbono opera-
tions extended through Alabama, Floada, Misais-
eisppi and Texas.
We have not yet Been tbe pamphlet.
An EngK-h officer writes from India of the
taking of a Bajab and tbe sacking of his palace.
Tbey fonnd in tbe treasure vaults bags containing
820,000 rupees and £80,000 in gold, with ;ewel*/(^
timated at £200,000.
Pecans.—The Seguin Mercury says tbe
ield of Pecana, m Ganda'upe'
for an abundant yieli
tyjii flattering beyond anything thi
tofore conceived. He tbinke there,
pecana exported from that toon
port* that will be required.
lieeV bere-
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im-
thabfcu beep* ber
:ra jrMfoe enough
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