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COLUMBUS, TEXAS, SATURDAY, MARCH 5,1859;
WAsawfoW, Feb. 18/185 ;
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CmtUnun^ I^.SemUe
and House of Representatives:
* rioé-which remains of jour
/and the great urgency and
> of legislative action, before its
i protection of American
citizens and their^rapertv whilst in transit
across the Isthmus routes between oar At-
lantic and Pacific possessions, render it
juy duty again to recall this subject to
. ... '^eWfl!r%Presented
m, bethof Decem-
ber 1857 and l858,Jto whíeh I beg leave
to refer. I¿ the latter I state that "the
Executive Government of this country, in
its intercourse with foreign nations, is lim-
ited to the employment of diplomacy alone.
When this fails, it can proceed no farther.
It cannot legitimately resort to force with-
out the direct authority ol Congress, except
in resisting and repelhng hostile attacks.
It would have no authority to enter the
territories of Nicaragua, eren to prevent
the destruction of the transit, and protect
the lives and property of our own citizens
on their passage. It, is true that on a
sudden emergency ©T this character, the
President would direct any armed force in
the vicinity to march to their relief, büt in
doing tbw he would, act upon his own
tesponsibility. Under these circumstances
I earnestly recommend to Congress the
passage of air act authorizing the President,
lindel such restrictions as tbey may deem
proper, to employ the land and naval forces
of the United States in preventing the
transit from being obstructed or closed by
lawless violence, and in protecting the lives
and property of American citizens travel-
ing thereupon, requiring at the same time
that these forces shall be withdrawn the
moment life danger «hall have passed
away. Without such a provision our citi-
zens will be constantly exposed to inter-
ruption iu their progress, and to lawless
violence. A similar necessity exists for
the passage of such an act for the protec-
tion of the Panama and TehuautepeC
route*."
Another subject, equally..hnpuriant-,-wmr
i >• of the ftenafte at the
extent, could in no just sense be regarded
as a transfer of the war-making power to.
the Executive, but only as an appropriate1
exercise of that power by the body to
whom it exclusively belongs* The riot at
Panama in 1856, in which a great number
of our citizens lost-their lives, furnishes a
pointed illustration of the necessity which
may arise for the extension of this au-
tborityv
I therefore earnestly Tecommend to Con-
gress, on whom the responsibility exclu-
sively rests, to pass a law before their
adjournment^ conferring on the President
the power to protect the lives and property
of American citizens in the cases which I
have indicated, under such restrictions and
conditions as they may deem advisable.
The knowledge that such a law exists
would of itself go far to prevent the out-
rages which it is intended to redress, and
to render the employment of force unnec-
essary. Without this the President may
be placed in a painful position before the
meeting of the next Congress. In the
present disturbed condition of Mexico, and
one Or tflore Of the tlepUblics south of us,
no persoh can foresee what occurrences may
take place before that period. In case of
emergency, our citizens, seeing that they
do not enjoy the same protection with sub
jects of European Governments, will have
just cause to complain. Ou the other
hand, shoiild the Executive interpose, and
especially should the result prove disas-
trous, and valuable lives be lost, he might
subject himself to severe censure for having
assumed a power not confided to him- Ly
the Constitution. It is to guard against
this contingency that I now appeal to
Congress.
Having thus recommended to Congress
a measure which I deem necessary and
expedeint for the honor and interest of the
country, I leave the whole subjfect to their
wisdom and discretion.
JAMES BUCHANAN.
Story op Waterloo.—The world has
for year? listened to stories of Waterloo,
the scene of the last great action of Napo-
letm, but it would seem like a certain
.ttQjrmodify long familiar to our readers
A Dirge.
BY CHARLES 0. EASTMAN.
i - Softly!
^ She is lying
▼ With her lips apart,
Softly !
She is dying
Of a broken heart!
Whisper!
She is going
To her final rest!
Whisper!
Life is growing
Dim within her breast!
Gently !
She is sleeping;
She has breathed her last.
Gently !
While you are weeping
She to heaven has past!
A Patriotic Effusion.
On the 7th inst., in the Missouri House
of Representatives, on á motion to lay oh
the table a resolution offered by Mr. Pitt
that the Speákei be authorized to cause to
be pi itited and posted one hundred bills
announcing that the 8th of Jnauaty, 1859,
will be celebrated by the Legislature, Mr.
Pitt made the following speech :
Mr. Speaker : The House passed reso-
lutions, sir, the other day, to celebrate in
an appropriate maimer the 8th of January.
This is a lesolution simply asking , that
notice be given to the public that wu will
celebrate that day. We have declared our
intention, and now, when we come to pub
lis.il it, some gentleman is suddenly taken
with the retrenchment gripes, and squirms
around like a long red ashing worm on a
pin hook. [Laughter.] Gentlemen keep
talking about economy. I,
The Tbree Senators.
Yiee-Frcsident Breckenridge, iu his ad-
dress to the-Senate, on the 4th ult., upon
the occasion of their taking leave of the
Oft Senate Ghamber, thus made the fol-
lowing mention of the three great men
whose natnas, in a pre-eminent degree, are
associated with the recollection of the
place :
Ilereafier the American and the stranger,
as I hey wander through the Capitol, will
with-instinctive reverence to view the
spot on which 60 many and great materi
als have accumulated for history. They
will recall the images of the great and the
good, whose renown is the common prop-
erty of the Union; and chiefly, perhaps,
they will linger abound the seats once oc-
cupied by the Mighty Thuer. whose names
and fame—associated iu life—death has
not been able to sever; illustrious men,
who,-in their generation, sometimes divided,
sometimes led, and sometimes resisted,
public opinion—for they were of that high-
er class of Statesmen who seek the right
jfnd follow their convictions.
There sat Calhoun the Senator—^inflex-
ible, "austere, oppressed, but not overwhelm-
by his deep sense of the importance of his
public functions—seeking lii£ truth,jihen
fearlessly following it ; a man whose? un-
spariftg intellect compelled his emotions to
harmonize with the deductions of his rig-
orous logic, and whose noble countenance
habitually wore the expression of one en-
gaged in the performance'of high public
duties.
This was Webster's seat. He, too, was
every inch a Senator. Conscious of his
own fast powers, be reposed with confi-
dence on himself, and scorning the contri
vanees of smaller men, he stood among
his peers all the greater for the simple
dignify of his SensfBPial demeanor. Type
of his Northern home, he rises above the
ihuigination in the grand and granite out-
line of his form and intellect, like, a great
-continually talking about economy,
myself; do not believe in tying the public
purse with cob-web strings," but when re * England rock tepelíing a New En.g-
treifthment comes iu contact with patriot^ waVe> As a writer, his production
lRin, it assumes the rorm of suiawness. - - -
Such economy is like that of the old skin-
flint who bad a pair of boots m&dss f)
itiou aud civil war evér'
3 'mee they achieved their independence.
A" one or the other party has prevailed
and obtained possession of the ports open
«■' to foreign commerce, they have seized and
confiscated American vessels and their car-
goes, in *n arbitrary and lawless manner,
and exacted money from American citi
sens by forced loans, and oilier violent
proceedings, Co enable .them'to carry on
hostilities. The Executive Governments of
Great Britain, France and other countries
possessing the war-making power, can
promptly employ the necessary means to
enforce immediate redress for similar out-
íáges upon their subjects. Not so the
Executive Government of the United States.
If the President, orders a vessel of war to
any of these porls to demand prompt re-
dress foi outrages committed, theoffending
parties are well awaro that, in case of re-
fusal, the commander can do nothing more
than remonstrate, lie can resort to no
hostile act. , The question must then be
referred to diplomacy, and in many cases
adequate redress can never be obtained.
Thus, American citizens are deprived of
the same protection, under the flag of their
«country, which the subjects ol other na-
tions enjoy. The remedy for this state of
things can óníy be supplied by Congress,
since the Constitution has confined to that
bx)y alone the power to make war. With-
out the authority of Congress, the Execu-
tive cannot lawfully direct sny force,
however hear it may be to the scene of
difficulty, to enter the territory of Mexico,
Nicaragua or New Granadj, for. the pur
pose of defending the persons and property
of American citizens, even though they
(nay be violently assailed., while passing iu
peaceful transit over the Tehuantepec,
Nicaragua or Panama rotates. He cannot,
trithont transcending his Constitutional
power, direct a gun to be fired into a port,
or land a seaman or marine to protect ibe
lives of our countrymen on shore, or to
obtain redress for a recent outrage on their
property. The banditti which infest our
fteighboriag Republic of Mexico, always
claiming to belong to one or the other
of the hostile parties, might make a sudden
descent on Vera Cruz, or on the Tehuan-
tepec route, and be would have no power
to employ the force on shipboard in the
vieinity for their relief, either to prevent
the plunder of our merchants or the de-
struction of the transit.
In reference to countries where the local
fcuthorities ate strong enough to enforce
the laws, the difficulty here indicated can
seldom happen; but where this is not the
case and the local authorities do not pea
m,.
An individual who 'o:wrifd_^.j^r
BEL—
reminiscences the most.
«ill be cher'shed by Statesmen and scholars
>v'til6 the New English tongue is spoken,
s a Senatorial Orator his great efforts aie
'• verv_i>.ir i&ems -to vibrate beneath
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Fifty thousand gallons of wine were made i>-
the State of Connecticut last year.
In China a man can obtain a divorce from Iris
wife if he can prove that she is jealous.
The total number of British troops now serving
in ludia is close upon 100,000.
The cost of each letter sent to San Francisco
by the overlaud route is sixty-five dollars.
The Cleaveland Plaindealer proposes to get
Cuba by Swapping New England for it.
England is (axed to raise a revenuo of five
hundred million dolía . ,
In Boston, last year, 908 drunken people were
assisted home by the police.
It is stated that'in Miunesota there ¡are among
the residents 25.000 morefmalea than females.
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Ten young men have been arrested and hefd
to bail in Philadelphia, on a charge of street
lounging.
Our gold crop is at the rate of a million and a
half per week, or seventy-seven millions of dol-
lars per annum.
A young man named Barnes Was recently fined
£1, in a London Court, forakissingta girl ten yeaTs
of age against her will.
A lull for the suppression of? prize fighting and
for the punishment .of parties implicated, has pas-
sed the Senate of New York. s" i •
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Slaves in Brazil have risen hi price within the
last three years, from $500 to $1, 500, A very
likely negro commands $2,000. . -
A picture looks best surrounded hy á frcme,
and a woman, under good circumstances,, looks
best surrounded by her family.
There were received at the Dead Letter Office
last year 22,491 letters, containing «11 together
$59,918.
A countryman was drapginga calf by a rope
in a cruel manner.. An Irishman asked him' if
that was the way he treated a fellow creature ?
The chap who pluckcd the feathers jfrfefe the
wmg. of a house-, has recently converted his hat
into a brickyard.
A woman in ,Pittsburgh advertises lp: ¡take in
dirty children, as n oil us soiled linen, to wash.
What nest ? .
n9ar the eventful field, was frequently | ring ; it hiin^a to mm¿L .,f i!m rmml
questioned as to whether he did not possess | est events recorded, in letters of living fire,
some relics of the battle, and as invariably
answered in the negative. But ho was
very pooy, and one day, while lamenting
to a neighbor not only his poveity,' but the
annoyance to which travelers subjected
liim, his friend cut him short with :
M Well, make one help the other. Make
some relics."
'•Hut what can t do?." inquired the
poor man.
"Tell them that Napoleon or Welling-
ton entered your shop duting the battle
and sat down in a chair."
Not long after, an English tourist enter-
ed and enquired for relics, and was told
the chair story. The chair was bought at
an incredible price. The next comer was
informed that Wellington had taken a
drink, and the Wellington tumbler was
accordingly sold. The third arrival gazed
with breathless wonder st the nail on which
Bonapárt had bftng his hat. The fourth
purchased the door posts betweeu which
lie entered, and the fifth became the happy
purchaser of the floor on which ho had
trodden.
At the !atest advices the fortunate tavern
keeper had not a roof to cover his head,
and was sitting on a bag of goíd in the
center of a deep pit, formed by selling the
dirt on which the house had stood.
IIow to Enjoy a Kiss.—Some chap
who thinks he knows a thing or two, thus
discourses about kissing:
Of course ybu must be taller than the
lady you intend to kiss. Take her right
hand in yours, draw her gently towards
you. Pass your left arm over her left
shoulder, diagonally doWn across her back
under her left arm, and presB her to your
bosom. At the same timo she will throw
her head back, aud you have nothing to
do but to lean a little forward and press
your lips to hers, and the thing is done.
Don't make a noise ovejr it, as if you were
firing percussion caps or trying the water
guages of a steam engine, nor pounce down
upon it like a hungry hawk upon an inno-
cent dovp, but gently fold the damsel in
your arms, without deranging the economy
of tippet or ruffles, and by a pressure upon
her mouth revel in the sweet blissfuInesR
of your situation without smacking your
lips on it as you would over a roast duck.
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- limits, recent experience has shown tbat
the American Executive ehonld itself be
' mss the physical power, even if tbey have
the will, to protect our citizens within their
.Mm
Authorised to render this protection. Such
of authority, thus limited in i to
Bbevity in Correspondence.—There is
a story told of a gallant who wrote to a
noted general the following brief epistle:
uTo General Stmpnon: Sally has ac-
cepted me. Can 1 have her ?
"Yours, Patterson."
To which the General replied :
" Go ahead. Your?, J. Simpson."
upon tho walls of the temple i.f funic, by
the strong arm of tho god of war. On
such occasions we should rise above party
line and political distinctions. I never
fought under the banner of Old Hickory,
but, by the eternal, I wish I nad. [Laugh-
ter and applause.] If the old btro was here
now he would not know his own children
from tho sido of Jcsep'h's coat of mativ
colors—Whigs, Know-nothings, Democrats
hard, soft-boiled, scrambled and blather-
skites. I belong to no parly. I am free,
unbridled, unsaddled, in the political pas
ture. Like a bobtailed bull in fly time,
I charge around in the high grass and
fight my owu flies. [Great laughter.]
Gentlemen ! let us show our liberality on
this patriotic occasion. Why, some men
have no more patriotism than you could
stuff into the eye of a knitting-needle!
Let us not squeeze a five ceut piece until
the eagle on it squeals like a locomotive
or an old maid. Let us print the bills ami
inform the country that wo are as full of
patriotism as an Illinois swamp is of tad-
poles. [Laughter.] I dou't believe in
doing this by halves. Permit me, Mr.
Speaker, to make a practical quotation
fiom one of our noblest authors:
" I love to sec the green gians among the red
May roses;
I love to see an old gray hoss, for when he goes
he goscs! "
It has been proposed to assemble a
congress of all European powers at London
to deliberate upon the Italian question.
The London Times, in an article «pon
the subject, says that Austria will never
consent to a settlement of tho Italian
question by an European Congress.
"Oh ! she was a jewel of a wife,".said
Pat, mourning over tho loss of his better
half; "shealways hit me with the soft ecd
of the mop.''
The investigation in progress in Illinois
shows that $228,000 of fraudulent bonds
and certificates were obtained from the
State, and are now in tho hands of private
citizens. The correspondent of the Chi-
cago Tribune says that the friends of Ex-
Gov. Matteson are confident tbat he will be
able to extricate himself from the dilemma
in which he is placed.
The weld owes all its owtward impulses
to men ill at ease. The happy man inevi-
tably confines himself within ancient limits.
iV. Hawthorne.
Mr. E. J. Barlssdale, editor of the Mla-
sis$ip2>ian, Jackson, declines a candidacy
for Governor of tho State. lie manifests
i a proper respect for tho proftsaion.
fwrtig ti ,jy "¿tiok<.s"" of his deep tones . and his
' weighty word^1. , •. . *.
On the outer ,ci¡ole sat Hünuy Clay,
with his impetuous and ardent nature un'-
lamed by age, and exhibiting the same*
vehement patrio!ism and passionate elo-
quence that, of yore, electrified tho House
During the year 1848, thirty-five
one hundred years u<l tjpwaras, died
ted States,
of
iiK
Representatives and tho country. His
extraordinary personal endowments, his
courage—all his noble qualities, invested
him with an individuality and a charm of
character which, in any age, would have
made him a favorite of history. He loved
his country abone all earthly objects. He
loved liberty in all countries. Illustrious
man ! — orator, patriot, philanthropist —
whose light, at its meridian, was seen and
felt, iu the remotest parts of the civil zei
norld; and whose declining sun, as it
hastened down the West, threw back its
level beams in hues of mellowed splendor
to illuminate and to cheer the laud he
¿«ved and served-so well.
Twilight Pictures.—Did you never,
when walking through the streets at dusk,
notice the pretty pictures through base-
ment windows, as one after another the
household lamps are lighted ? There is a
little fellow climbing into his high chair at
the table besido papa,, and holding up his
rosy mouth for a kiss. Oh, what shall
keep that father and husband unspotted
from tha world, if the touch of tlroee pure,
trusting lipr? fail to do it?
Look again into this window : the eldest
daughter si.s at a table, reading a book,
safe sheltered ; the light just glances upon
¡reí smoothly braided hair and drooping
eyelids. She is reading aloud ; and her
mother sits bv, looking and listening, with
an honest prida in her daughter's goodness
and beaut)'. And now they both look up,
aud the book is closed, and the girl springs
to the door; anl we see the father's em-
brace and kiss, and mamma is well content
to wait her turn, for is she not—the briyht-
baired girl—tiieiu daughter \
Look aj;aiii. The fire bums biighlly.
By its light you see a man walking the
floor, with a baby's cheek against his; the
little thing is sick, and mamma is weary
with tending it; and looks on with a
pleasant smile st tho not ungrateful way
in which her husband handles the little
creature, and sootier him u> sleep. Ah,
see! he.kisses the mother's forehead as he
lays the baby back into her arms. Was
she weary when he came back to the
office ? Perhaps so, but she has forgotten
it now. Oh ! Love strong as death, give
us more of «hese blessed twilight pictures!
2¡Tew York Ledger.
It i¿ announced, almost official, that in the
spring Franco will joiu Spain in a naval expedi-
tion against Morocco.
The Fort Smith ( Ark.)] Times, of the 20th
ult., notices the organization of a Masonic Lodge
among the Greek Indians.
Who eve saw a hoy grow up in idleness that
did not becoruc a shiftless Vagabond, or a profes-
sional office-scekcr when he became a tnau ?
m ! |—
Cato, the censor, said to a very debauched old
fellow:." Friend, old age has deformities enough
of its own ; do not add to it the deformity of
vice."
Echoes.
WíMW
nr pbofessob si:livan.
A good ear cannotdistinguish one i
from another, unless there is an intervsd
one-ninth of a second between the nar!*
val of the two sounds. Sounds nirast,
therefore, succeed each other at an integral,
of one-ninth of. a second, in order to be
heard distinctly. Now, the velocity of
sound being eleven hundred, and twenty
feet a second,, in, one-ninth of a second
would travel one hundred and twenty four
- < •••* v >. v.iá ':
Repeated echoes I appen when'two ob-
stacles are placed opposite one to another,
as a parallel wall for example, which re-
flect the sound successively.
At Aderaacb, in, Bohemia, there is an
echo which-repeat^ seven syllables three
times; at.Woodstock,-in England, there is
one which repeats a sound .seventeen time*
during the day, and twenty times during
the night., An echo in the villa Smionetta,
near Milan, is said to repeat a sharp sound
jtbirty times audibly,., The most celebrated- {
echo among . the ancients, was lhat of
Metelli at Rome, which, according to tra-
ditiofi, was capable 0f repeating the first
line of ./Eneid,. containing fifteen syllables,'
eight times distinctly;
Dr. Birch describes an* echo at Rosen-
eath, Arglyshire,.Wbjcb, it is saidrdoes not
now exist. . When eight or ten notes were
played upon a trumpet, they were returned
by this echo upon aJtey a third lower than
the original, notes, and shortly after upon a
key still lower.. .
Dr. Page.describes, an echo .in Fairfax
county, Virginia, which possessed a similar;
curious property.. This echo gives three
distinct.; reflections, the second echo much
the most distinct. Twenty notes played
upon a flute are returned with perfect
clearness. . But the most singular property:
of this echo .is, tW some notes in the scale,
are not returned , iq. their places, but are
annnlio/1 n^Ti
supplied ^ flflR
fifths or octave&,
barns at Bellvidere, Alleghany dfcntyVNt ,
Y. The echo repeats eleven times * word
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There is a surprising echo
a coquette is a rose-bush from which each
Voting beau plucks a leaf, and the thorns aré left
for the husband.
" Love in a cottage," is all very well when
you own the cottage and have money Out at
interest.
The Supreme Court of Tennessee has just
decided the u e in public of a single oath aa an
indictable offence.
The vanity of human life is like a river—cdh-
stantly pawiug away, and yet constantly coming
on. Oh, Vanity.
A friend, who recently returned fiom Wash"
ingtou, in answer to a question as to where he
had been, replied : " I have been after an office
and got the refusal of it!"
One firm in Chicago coutractcd to send 100,.
000 poundsjof quail and prairie chickcns to the
East, this year, and has already exceeded the
amount.
A New York paper says that a man, the morn.
in£ after he has been drunk on wiue¿ feel aa
though he had the rheumatism in every hair of
his head.
of one, two or three sylla
heard to Repeat thirteen t|i
one's self in the cenle* bett
there will be á double echo, one in the
direction of each barn, and a monosyliable
will be repeated twenty-two times.
A striking and beautiful eflíect of ecbo
is produced in certain localities by the
Swiss moiititaineers, who contrive to aiug
their Bans de Vaches in sucbtinM that tho
reflected notes, form agreeable accompani-
inent to the aii- itself.
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Writing has been defined to be thé art of
painting visible wortiá — jj'ving substance and
color to immaterial thought, enabling the dumb
to talk to the deaf.
A fool
may ask more questions in an
hour than a wise man can answer in seven
years.
A bill for thfi suppression of priza fights
passed thejy. Y. Senate ou the 10th inst.
A. witty editor who has just failed, sáya he did
it with ail the honors of uar, and retired from
the field u iih flying colors—that is, the sheriff's
flags fluttering from the windows and door.
The si tidy of the Rev. Nathan Bangs, of New
York, was invaded a day or two since,by several
persons who had long been Mr. B.'s friends, aiid
lie was presented with a cane which was loáded
with four bundreJ live dollar gold picces.
Lord Campbell says it is law in England lhat
a jnrv who cannot agree may bo locked up du-
ring the f&vsiou of the court, and carried in a
'■art to the bordfchj of tiio neat county and shot
into a ditch. %
United StÁtis' Sen atoes.—The follow-
ing are the United States' Senators elected
to serve six years from the 4th of March:
Stephen A. Douglas, Illinois; Ilenry B.
Anthony, Rhode Island ; A. O. P. Nich-
olson', Tenn.; AlbeitG. Brown, Mississippi;
Clement C. Clay, jr., Alabama; Willard
Saulsbury, Delaware ; James Qhesnut, S.-
0.; Wm. P. Pessenden; Maine; John P.
Hale, N. H.; R. M. T. Hunter, Va.; & W,
Grimes, Iowa; Gov. Bragg, N. C.; Wui.
K. Sebastian, Art.; Kinsley S. Bingham^
Michigan ; L. W. Powell, Ky.; Robert
Tombs, Ga.; Ilenry Wilson, \íass.; J.
Hemphill, Texas; J. P. Benjamin, Lá.
Senators are yet to. be chosen in thé
place of William Wright, of New Jersey,
and Gen. Shields^ of Minnesota. ,
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Newspapers—Does anybody take tie
same delight in reading newspapers that
we do ? Is there not a! «rays something ia
a paperr no matter botr old", tbat will inter-
est you ? No matter how long we are away
from home, we have' every paper saved for
us, and how we revelover them 1 Th§y are
j ist as good as new, and we often find arti- -
eles that we should have been sorry to ihiss.
Why, then, does not everybody at least
one paper ? and let tbat*paper bethe i
est to you, that is if you live in the com..
Patronise yotir printer; he. is worthy of
his paper makes your town what it is; per-
haps it never would be heard of if it were
not for the printer. Then take the p ?er.-~
Exchange. , .. . •.<.
The Daltiaiore Exchange says, *• Nc Ameri-
can citizen can ever fully epprcciate meaning
of the proverb which tc:lls us Uvat ♦ Hope long
deferred tnaketli tho heart sick' until he holds
a claim against the Govtrumcnt of the Vuited
States:"
In the Terre llaute jail, they have a most
ingenious rascal, w!ia manufactured a Bil.vfir Key
from a half dollar, with which lie could unlock
th« eclls, and that hrj had worked his way to the
outer door when ho was detectad and bauilced in
his intentions.
Gen. Houston üPon Watroüs.—!
speech of Gen. Houston, in the Senate of
the United States, ia the Watrous case,
seems to have been one of the General's
happiest efforts. We have uot yet wad
this document; but will only copy thg
following notice of it from the Southern
(Austin) which paper, by-
the way, is no great admirer of General
Houston;
' . v ; •? -
We have read th:s speech with care. Aa
an intellectual effort, it is far aboVe the
estimate we had formed of Houston. In?
powerful combination and invective ft hate
no superior since the orations of Hi
against Cataline, in the Roman isenate.^ ..
* * .* No speech ever made in
grrss is of such momentous i otero
Texatis.
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J.D. Baker & Bros. The Colorado Citizen (Columbus, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 27, Ed. 1 Saturday, March 5, 1859, newspaper, March 5, 1859; Columbus, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth177559/m1/1/: accessed May 4, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History.