The Gonzales Inquirer (Gonzales, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 7, Ed. 1 Saturday, July 16, 1853 Page: 2 of 4
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Saturday, July 16,1853.
FOR CONGRESS.
nrwo nro authorized to announce Col. THOM-
AS W. ULAKV,, of Leon County, on a candidate
for Congress, to represent the Western Congression-
al District, at die onsuing August election.
pgr Wo are authorized to announce Maj. WM.
It. 88ÜRRY as a candidate for Congress, for the
Western Congressional District, al the ensuing Au-
gust election.
J3S" We aro authorized to announce Capt. G. K.
LEWIS as a candidate for Congress for the Wes-
tern Congressional District, at the ensuing August
election.
FOR GOVERNOR. „
MT We are authorized to announce Col. J. W.
DANCY, of Fayette County, as a candidate for
Governor, at the nest August election.
tST We are authorized to announce Hon. E. M.
PEASE, of Brazoria, as a candidate for Coxprnor,
at the August election.
FOR SENATOR.
pT We ore authorized to announco Col. AN*
DREW NEILBf of Seguin as a candidate to repre-
sent the 27th Senatorial District, composed of the
counties of Gonzales,'Guadalupe, Caldwell, Hays
and Comal, at the ensuing August election.
«TWO are authorized to announce Col. C. KYLE
of Hays County, a* a candidate to represent the
27 th Senatorial Distric^oomposed of the counties of
Gonzales, Gaudalupe, Cfcdwell, Hays, and Comal,
at tfc ensuing August election.
■3T We are authorized to announce W. IIESS
JONES, Esq., as a candidate to represent this Sena-
torial District, composed of the counties of Gonzales,
Guadaloupe, Caldwell, Hays and Comal, at the Au-
gust election.
FOR REPRESENTATIVE.
_ ' We are authorized to announce T. M. DEN-
I as the regular Democratic Candidate to repre-
sent the County of Gonzales in the State Legislature,
at the ensuing August Election.
pT We are roquested to announce STEPHEN
H. DARDEN as a candidate to represent the coun-
ty of Gonzales in the State Legislature, at the ensu-
ing August election.
MT We are authorized to announce BENJAMIN
WEEKS as the Democratic Candidate to represent
Gonzales county in the next Legislature, at the ensu-
ing August election.
' The Rev. Mr. Davidson will preach on
to-morrow at 11 o'clock.
1 As we predicted last week, the worms,
we regret to learn, have made their appear-
ance in some of our cotton fields. A gentle-
man, just arrived in our town, informs us that,
on the San Harcus, he noticed, in one large
field, these insects were at work on the cotton,
but had not done much damage. Should tho
present fair weather continue a few days long-
er, they will, it is thought, soon disappear.
We have made 'stript inquiries of Beveral of
our farmers from the different portions of the
county, but they all inform us that they have
not, as yet, found any worms. The crops,
generally, are doing well since the rains.
T. M. Dennis, Esq.—We have been request-
ed to state that, in consequence of severe in-
disposition, Mr. Dennis was not permitted to
attend the public meeting on yesterday, to ad-
dress his fellow-citizens, which it was his de-
sire to do. He has, however, prepared a cir-
cular, giving his views, on the various ques-
tions now before the people, in Ml, and which
we are now at work on and will have ready
for distribution this evening or Monday.
to tho
' It will be seen by reference
communication of B., this week, that he does
not agree with a statement of the height of
the mercury of the thermometer, published
by us in our first number. We were not
however mistaken. The thermometer really
stood at 105, but the room in which it hung is
probably more exposed to the combined heat
of the Bun and the reflection from the sandy
street in front than any other place in town,
end this cannot of course bo considered a fair
test of the general heat. Since then we have
kept a regular table ourselves, and at no timo
have we seen it higher than 08 deg., and only
once so high as thai Oúr correspondent, it
appears, has kept such a table for a number
of years, and can be considered reliable au-
thority.
Melancholy.—We learn with sincere regret
the death, a few days since, of the estimable
lady of one of the publishers of the Victoria
Advocate. Mrs. Sterne was a lady of fine
mind' and manners, loved by all who knew
Mer,.andher loss will be deeply felt by the so-
ciety to which she was an ornament
It is only a few days since Mr. Mitchell, tho
editor of the same paper, died from injuries
accidentally received.
' Tub Lavaca Express is the title of
a new paper just commenced in the flourish-
ing town of Lavaca, by M. E. Stewart, Esq.,
the first number of which is before us. It íb
neat in appearance and conducted with abili-
ty. We wish Mr. S. all the success imagina-
ble.
The Speaking.
Agrceablo to previous noticc, a large collec-
tion of the citizens of our county assembled at
the court-house oh yesterday,, for the purpose
of hearing from the several candidates their
views on the various questions likely to comc
before the next Legislature. W. Hess Jones,.
Esq., candidate for the Senate, was the first to
occupy the stand. He spoke for about forty
mjnuteH, and gave at full length his views rel-
ative to public schools, railroads, the State
debt, and other important questions that will
engage the attention of the next Legislature.
Gol. C. Kyle, of Hays, also a candidate for the
Senate, replied in a speech of about twenty
minutes. His views differed but little from
those advanced by his opponent. S. H. 1 Jar-
den and Benjamin Weeks, Esqrs., candidates
to represent Gonzales county in tho lower
branch of the Legislature, next spoke, and
each gave, in a simple but concise manner, his
views and opinions concerning all questions of
a general and local character.
An:ljnusual degree of courtesy was mani-
fested by the candidates toward each other,
and they not oiflfy acquitted themselves with
credit, but, wo believe, gave full and ample
satisfaction to their respective friends and
hearers. After the discussion, the crowd ad-
journed to tho beautiful grove in the rear of
the qfturt-house, and there partook heartily
of a substantial repast that had been pre-
viously prepared for tho occasion.
It was our intention-to give a report of the
speeches, but to do this and do them justice,
would have infringed too much upon our
space. Consequently we have been reluctant-
ly compelled to give them only a passing no-
ticc.
Our Sabbath School.
One of the best evidences of the moral ten-
dency of a community is the condition of their
religious institutions and the interest they take
in givjng their children tho benefit of Sabbath
schools and Bible classes. Religion is the wise
and sure basis upon which is reared the beau-
tiful fabric of moral excellence. "The fear of
the Lord is the beginning of wisdom," and its
Bacred^teachings often gain tlicir first interest
in the breast of childhood from the Sabbath
school. How necessary, then, that such im-
portant places of instruction should be sup-
plied with patient, pious and faithful teachers.
It is truly a labor of lovo to instil into the
mind of a young child those holy principies
of forbcaranco, benevolence and charity, which
give the highest impress to the human charac-
ter, and render easy those deeds of kindness
and sympathy that cost a glow of sunny ra-
diance over the darkest life pictures. We of-
ten think of this on these bright summer Sab-
bath mornings, when wo seo groups of neatly
dressed and happy looking children wending
their way through our quiet streets to their
Sunday school, at the sound of " the church-
going bell." It is a sight to soothe the heart
of weaiy, toil-worn man, and wo sincerely
hope that the teachers of our ably and pious-
ly conducted Sabbath school may be " blessed
in their deed," and in the piety and prosperity
of their scholars reap a rich reward.
Spiritual Rappings.—We had believed, un-
til a few days since, that " spiritual rappings "
had ceased to occupy the attention of our so-
ber citizens, and that the spirits had left us in
peace; but it appears that they were only col-
lecting their strength by this interval of inac-
tion, in order to astonish the believers, and
convinco the skeptics, by their wayward visita-
tions and performances.
They seem truly to havo made Gonzales
county the place of their final abode, and ap-
pear to have received a favorablo impression
of some of our citizens, to judge by tho ex-
treme benevolence they manifest toward them
in sudden emergencies, such as loading their
wagons with stone at the quarry for the Gon-
zales jail, then helping said wagon out of the
mud, Ac., thereby saving a great deal of trou-
ble and labor. We Bhould think this sufficient
to incurthe lasting gratitude of the obliged;
but the spirits seem to understand the princi-
ple, that so many of us find true to our cost,
on this earth—" That all good has its opposing
extreme of evil," and sometimes the grave as-
semblies that solicit the attention of spirits
from the other world, are suddenly startled by
the raps of some evil demon, who, upon being
politely informed that he may disappear and
roturn to his accustomed haunts, proceeds to
take revenge, by moving and replacing house-
logs, rolling old logs after the object of their
aversion, Ac. We think, wo of Gonzales are
decidedly ahead of our neighbors in this re-
spect if nothing else, this being the only kind
of spirits that'wo are at all troubled with.
Son Egos.—An exchange tells of a hen,
ÜMff Congrí
WfT)emocrat
' We have received this week tho first
number of the San Antonio Zeitung, a new
paper-¿-ecently established in the city of San
Antonio, and printed in the German language.
It is neatly executed, and will,'no doubt, prove
quite an efficient auxiliary to the wants of tho
Ctawan population of San Antonio. May
success attend their laudable enterprise.
' There are now six candidates in the
Congress, to represent this District—
ats and two Whigs; and eight
Ibr Governor—seven Democrats
and one Whig. What 41 pressing business"
some of them wilt-have, in a few days, at
home!
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fSBT Col. Kyle, candidate to represent the
97th District in the Stale Senate, arrived in
town on Thursday lost He looks as fresh as
a spring ro«e and seems quite sanguine of suc-
cess. The Colonel will remain with us ibr
several days. m -
Lu D. Evans, candidate for Gov-
ernor, addressed the citizens of this town on
Thursday l«k
way down East, which, in laying eggs, beats
the famous bird of Old Grimes all hollow. She
is confined in a common slat coop alone and
fed on the offal of the table. From Sunday
morning till Friday evening, she laid the in-
credible number qf sixteen egg —laying some
days two, others three, and others again four.
She usually lays two in tho morning without
leaving the nest, and then either one or two
in tho afternoon. This is eggt-actiy the kind
of a hen we. want Shanghais, Bramahs, and
all other fowls will havo to " cavc in " to this
^«-tensive pullet She is certainly entitled
to the highest perch on the hen-roost, and un-
less this egg story is ^«-agerated, she is a
very wonderful and epgr-straordinary bird I
The Indianola Bulletin says that there
is to be a new and superior hotel erected in
that town in a short time. There are already
three hotels in that place,, and if we are to
judge from its past rapid growth, the fiiture
ijmniiHi of Indianola will certainly justify the
ereetfon of á fourth establishment of the kind.
far* Mr. J. M. Conrad, formerly a printer
in the Indianola Bulletin office, has recently
become sole editor and proprietor of the
BoYfnsTÜle Flag.
THE BAILBOAD.
The all-absorbing question of the day is
railroads. It seems that all other subjects are
lost sight of and the public mind is concentra-
ted upon this grand, overwhelming subject
Tho great national railroaa, which is now
agitating tho minds of the people, and which
is to connect the Atlantic with the Pacific
ocean, it is thought, will pass through the
State of Texas, tho route surveyed by Fre-
mont having been abandoned as impractica-
ble, on account of tho great Sierra Nevada
Mountains, over which his road would pass,
and which is covqrcd, from four to eight months
in tho year, with deep snow.
A largo majority of our wisest statesmen
have expressed themselves in favor of a more
southern route, and all agree that it will pass
through our own State. This road, passing
as it will through tho heart of our country,
will greatly enhance the value of our lands
and draw an overwhelming emigration to our
State. But while this great national highway
is agitating the councils of th$ nation and
drawing /orth the applause of the Old World,
and whilo all justly term it the arqjrning step
to our national greatness, what is to become of
the San Antonio and Mexican Gulf Railroad?
The New Orleans and Opelousas road is mak-
ing rapid strides toward the capital of our
State, and in less than three years, in our
opinion, a great portion of our cotton, sugar
and corn will be hurried into tho Crescent
City of the South over this very road. Cot-
ton from Gonzales will be hauled to Austin
and from there sent to New Orleans. Then if
tho people of Texas really want to see a great
commercial city spring up at tho terminus of
our road on the coast, it is time they were up
and doing. We live in an age when men move
by steam and speak by lightning. There is
no time now to " put off until a more conveni-
ent season." Before we jre aware Austin
will become the great depot, and trade once
started in a channel is very apt to keep moving
in that direction.
Most of our papers have taken a stand
against the San Antonio and Mexican Gulf
Railroad, from the fact that we had to pay the
exorbitant sum of $27,000 per mile, when the
real cost should not have been more than half
that amount
It is true wo have been cliisoled out of a
few thousand dollars per mile by the Yankees
and their cooperators, " the famous trio at San
Antonio." But this should not prevent us
from going on and completing the great work
just begun, and we believe it is unmanly thus
to sigh overa few thousand misspent dollars—
unbecoming public journalists, in this golden
age, to take such bold stands in opposing this
work, when tho cry of being humbugged out
of a few thousand dollars is tho only objection
they can urge. It is true tho stockholders
have had some ground for complaint, the cry
having gone abroad that Judge Choate had
given it as his opinion that each stockholder
was bound, individually, for the whole amount
of stock taken. Tho Judge may have given
such an opinion, but we do not believe it, and
oven if he did, we think his opinion, however
correct it might havo been under the laws of
Massachusetts, will not hold good in Texas.
Under our wholesome system of jurisprudence,
where law and equity are so happily blended,
and we give it as our opinion, however pre-
sumptuous it may seem, that the stockholders
are respectively bound for tho sums they sub-
scribed, and no more. Then away with this
false alarm and let us have a road Suppose
wo have been chiseled out of about one-half
tho real cost of the road, would it not be much
better to have the road, even under these cir-
cumstances, than not to have it at all ? The
tax on the stockholders, though an hundred
per cent. more- than it should have been, is
comparatively nothing to the great benofits
that they will derive. Lands will enhance in
value at least one hundred per cent, and not
only so, but the money invested in the road
will yield from ten to fifteen per cent. Then
view the subject as we may, wo will be greatly
benefitted. Our proporty will nehance in val-
ue—our position among our sister States will
be elevated—our population will be increased—
our wild lands will bo brought under a high
state of cultivation—our bald prairies, which
now loom up . before the eyes of the traveler
as ho straggles along on his little pony, a drea-
ry waste and desert bare—a part of nature's
waste flung out as tho rubish of creation, will
blossom and bloom as the rose—our rich val-
loys, that stretch from the mountains- to the
coast, will become highly cultivated fields of
corn and cotton, and Texans will be keeping
pace with the mighty spirit of the age and
havo the extreme pleasure of seeing a city
spring up on our coast that will rival, in im-
portance and magnificence, the Queen City of
the West, or even the Crescent of the South.
Then let us not, for the paltry sum of a fow
thousand dollars, throw a damper over this
noble enterprise—an enterprise which, if car
ried out, will placo us high among those older
States that havo reached their present emi-
nence by long, hard and painful labor.
Tho great spirit of the age is moving on-
ward. The world is being connected with
magnetic wires; intelligence is now conveyed
in a fow moments to different portions of the
world, when, in former days, it required
months. Our own continent is being bound
round with railroads, and tho cars even now
aro thundering over many thousand miles.
But in Texas, the once "Lone Star" that shot
forth liko a meteor from somo distant orb and
assumed the proudest position in the national
constellation, there are no means of transpor-
tation. There is not a single one of our beau-
tiful streams, that wind their way through our
fertile valleys, that# can be navigated. No
proud Autocrat bears her rich burdens down
our rapid currents. No leviathan-like Mag-
nolia can stem the current of our mountain
streams. If we wish tho brightness of the
" Lone Star," that has assumed this euviuble
position, to remain uncclipsed,our minds must
be turned to railroads. Let us not be whipped
off of the track by a few thousand dollars,
paid as a bonus to these good Yankees, who
have been so kind as to lend us their monay
and labor for the purpose of carrying out one
of the noblest enterprises, of the age. The
time has come when ox carts and mule wag-
ons move too slow^to suit the convenience of
the farming community. The prices fbr all
the formers' products are fluctuating. To-day
there is a rise in cotton; to-morrow it declines;
and when situated, as wo are, so remote from
navigation, and with such slów means of get-
ting our cotton to market, we lose the pearls
that are thrown up on the waves of this great
commercial sea. Hence the great necessity
of a railroad—the urgent demands upon the
people to be up and doing, and looking to their
own interest What then is a few thousand
dollars to accomplish such grand, such praise-
worthy and noble ends? What, to the happy
possessors Of this favored land, is^a few thou-
sand dollars, when California has flung open
wide her silvery gates and rolled down her
golden sands? When Australia sends forth her
glittering millions to enrich tho farmers of
Texas?
Counterfeiters in Texas.—In the First Dis-
trict Court of New Orleans, on the 18th ult.,
Elijah Mallerson, (who is himself confined in
the parish prison awaiting a trial on a charge
of having had in his possession a large quanti-
ty of counterfeit money,) made affidavit be-
fore Recorder Winter that a man named Sasscr
some months ago brought into'that State a
large amount of forged and counterfeit bills on
banks of the States of Ohio and South Caroli-
na and also on'tlie Louisiana State Bank, in all
amounting to' over $20,000. Among other
things, he deposed that one John Dinica and
one Harper are confederated with Sasscr, and
have, during the last five months, been en-
gaged in that city in the sale of counterfeit
notes, and that said Dinica is now in Texas, en-
gaged in the same illegal business as Sasser's
agent
To Table Movers.—George Weiss, of No.
112, Willow Place, Brooklyn, publishes a com-
munication in the New York Tribune, in which
he offers to give $500 to any charitable insti-
tution if any one of the " mediums " will ele-
vate wholly a shingle one inch from its rest-
ing place by the application of the bare hand
or fingers, as is done upon tho table when
moved. Or if legs are necessary for its ac-
tion, he makes the same offer for the suspen-
sion by the same means of the lightest toy ta-
ble. It certainly seems that a force sufficient
for the propulsion of a large table should be
able to elevate entirely these light objects, but
it has not yet been done, and why is it?
Texas Salt.—The Picayune has received a
sample of salt from Corpus Christi, taken from
a salt lake about seven miles from that place.
It is a part of a quantity sent to the editors
of tho Nueces Valley paper, published at Cor-
pus Christi. It is clear colored, clean, well
crystalized, and of good taste. The editors of
the Nueces Valley say they are informed that
the supply of it at the lake in question is in-
exhaustible. Small boats can run up to the
beds, and one hundred bushels is the average
product to the hand per diem.
Georgia.—The Hon. C. Murphy, Democrat,
member of the present Congress, in a note to
the Marietta Advocate, announces himself as
an independent candidate for reelection in the
Fourth District
James L. Seward, Esq., is recommended by
a number of delegates to the Democratic State
Convention as the Democratic candidate for
Congress in the First District
The Hon. Herschel V. Johnson has accepted
the nomination by the Democratic State Con-
vention for Governor.
The Wak Question.—We refer our readers
to the following article from the New Orleans
Dolta, in regard to the Mecilla dispute, as
embodying our opinion with respect to the
same:
We entertain no anticipations of a war with
Mexico, in consequence of the present Mecil-
la difficulty. * The disputed territory belongs
to this country, and this country will obtain
it The line from El Paso to the Gila, at the
intersection of the San Pedro, is evidently the
line contemplated by the treaty between us
and Mexico, and it will be acknowledged as
the true one. Santa Anna is not insane
though he is vindictive. He hates us, but
he knows our power. He would wage war
against us if he could, but he feels his own
weakness, and would cedo territory twice the
value of even the vine-growing Mecilla val-
ley, before he would plunge his wretched
country into another war, which would end
in its total dissolution. Mexico is weak and
distracted; weaker than ever. The United
States are consolidated, and stronger than at
any period of their past history. A war be-
tween the countries would be a mere lÜlk
over for us; a piece of display which ends
in an easy victory; a pop-gun affair, which
would scarcely deserve the designation of an
international struggle. No one understands
this fact betted than Santa Anna, let him
bluster as lie may. Bluster is an element in
Mexican politics, as Buncomb is m ours, and
to be popular he must use it; but it is ab-
surd to judge of his real intentions by his
written words, as they are as. far removed
from each other as Maine from California.
If any confirmation was needed of this fact,
the late statement of Almontez, the Spanish
Minister, that his country would not go to
war, which we believe to be authentic, is
sufficiently conclusive on this point
B. F. Caruthors, of Austin, and S. C.
Blanton, of Bastrop, both Whigs, are candi-
dates for Congress in this District Also,
Judge Ochiltree, Whig, is a candidate for Gov-
ernor. '■
Calhoun County.—The Indianola Bulletin
says that" the population of Calhoun county
is less than 8,000. Within five years it will
exceed 10,000. Our bay shores and streams
will, in that time, be lined with farms and res-
idences and our towp «population alone may
reach 10,000."
It is rumored that a new Democratic
organ, of which Mr. Beverly Tucker is to be
the responsible editor, is to be started in
Washington; also that Maj. Donaldson, late of
the Washington Union, is about to establish
at Na8hvfllo a Union Democratic paper.
We learn from the Lavaca Express
that the dredge boat belonging to the Lavaca
Navigation Company has been repairfd and is
now lying off the wharf ready, and only await-
ing orders to go to work. The injury she sus-
tained was much lighter and more easily re-
paired than was at first supposed.
It is stated that six ships froih Eng-
land, with a cargo of three thousand Mor-
mons, are shortly expected in San Francisco.
Maj. W. R Scurry and Judge Caruth-
ers,_ opposing candidates for Congress from this
District, met and had a public discussion in
Washington on the 25th ult We have not
seen a full report of the speaking, but learn
that both gentlemen made the " fur fly " to a
considerable extent
The Brownsville Flag has hoisted at its
mast-head the names of E. M. Pease for Gov-
ernor and Wm. R Scurry for Congress, and
expresses the belief that these gentlemen will
got the bulk of the vote on the Rio Grande,
that portion of it, at least
HT Capt Henry E. McCulloch and French
Smith, Esq., aro candidates for tho House of
Representatives in Guadalupe county,
The wool clip of Maine, it is said, will
fall short in amount from former years. The
short crop of hay throughout the State last
year, and the demand for mutton, together,
has caused quite a diminution of the flocks.
The Library op Congress.—This commodi-
ous and splendid room, the Washington Re-
public learns, will be ready for occupancy in
the course of the present month. A large
number of books have recently been received,
both from Europe and the Atlantic cities of
tho Union; forming, together with those which
were saved from the conflagration, a collection
of upwards of thirty-five thousand volumes.
We learn from the New York papers
that a committee has been appointed by the
Directors of tho Industrial Exhibition Associ-
ation, to wait upon the President and his
Cabinet, with the invitation to bo present at
the opening ceremonies on the 4th of July.
Senator Robert Toombs, it is stated,
has ordered an engine, on the Ericsson princi-
ple, for his cotton gin, in southwestern Geor-
gia.
P. U. Pridham, an old and esteemed
citizen of Victoria, died near that town on the
3d inst
Col. C. Kyle.—We find the following no-
tice of Col. Kyle, candidate for Senator from
this District, in the Austin State Gazette.:
We understand Col. Claiborno Kyle is a
candidate for the State Senate in the district
composed of the counties of Hays, Caldwell,
Guadalupe and Gonzales. Col. Kyle is an es-
timable gentleman, of sound, practical good
sense, and has considerable experience as a
legislator. He would make an able and safe
Senator at this important crisis of our State's
history.
A Northern Warm Weather Paragraph.
It may be some consolation to our readers to
be informed that the Northerners, as well as
ourselves, are " favored " with a spell of warm
weather. The New York Evening Mirror, of
a recent date, says:
In Philadelphia yesterday the thermometer
went as high as 94 deg. In Boston, at 2 o'
clock yesterday afternoon, it reached 98 deg.
The samo desirable temperature prevailed in
Providence. In Albany yesterday the ther-
mometer touched 90 deg. At Newark it stood
98£ deg. As wo go to press it stands 92 deg.
in our offico.
A Speculation in Banking.—Tho Augusta
Chronicle and Sentinel describes a financial
operation in the banking way, just dono in
Georgia, which would not discredit a New York
dealer in "Owl Creek" and "Wild Cat"
banks.
The last Legislature of Georgia chartered a
bank under the name of the Bank Atlanta, on
the application of "a number of persons in the
city of Atlanta and its vicinity," who represent
that they " have capital which they are desirous
of employing in facilitating its business, ad-
vancing its interests, and lessening its depen-
dence on the banks of other places." A year
or more after the charter was granted George
Smith & Co., of Chicago, in the State of Illi-
nois, suddenly appeared at Atlanta about the
time tho subscription to the stock was about
to be made, and subscribed for all but ten
shares. These ten shares are owned in the
name of the Board of Directors, who were
elected or appointed by Smith & Co., not ono
of whom lives in Atlanta, or is known there.
A President, the owner of share, is sent out
from the North, but before ho arrives there
the bills of the bank are issued and put into
circulation in Chicago and other points in Illi-
nois and Wisconsin. A promising beginning
fot a bank chartered to give occupation to the
capital of Atlanta, but owned and worked up
on in the far away Northwest
Mississippi.—Gen. Wm. Clark, Union Dem-
ocrat, has announced himself as an indepen-
dent candidate for reelection to the office of
State Treasurer.
Major Joseph Moseley, for several years su-
Serintendent of the State penitentiary, died in
ackson on the 16th ult
In the First Congressional District, Hon. B,
D. Nabors, Union Democrat, has announced
himself as a candidate for reelection, and the
Democratic District Convention has nominated
D. B. Wright, of Tippah, State Rights Demo-
crat In the Second District, Col. J. A. Wil-
cox, Union Democrat, has announced himself
for reelection and the Democratic District Con-
vention has nominated W. S. Barry, State
Rights Democrat In the Third District O.
R. Singleton, State Rights, is the nominee of
the Democratic Convention, and Col. A. K. Mc-
Clung, Whig, is announced in opposition. In
the Fourth District no nominations havo yet
been made by either party.
" Leondas" shall appear next week.
„ Telegraphic Item*.
Satisfaction has oeen accorded to the United
States Minister respecting the imprisonment
of the American Consul at Athens.
The American fishermen this season go out
fhlly armed to resist the unlawfiil acts of the
British citizens.
War has broken out between Peru and Bo-
livia.
The Whigs of Georgia have nominated Chas.
J. Jenkins for Governor.
The plaining mill of Jas. Ogden, in New
York, was burned on the 28d ult The loss is
estimated at $50,000.
The accident on the New Haven Railroad
was occasioned by the carelessness of a
switchman. The express train ran into a
freight train.
Tho weather in New York is exceedingly
warm. Twenty deaths took place in three
days by sun stroke.
The Whigs of Vermont have nominated
Erazers Fairbanks for Governor.
Wm. B. Scasscer, who has been on trial iir
Washington, for the murder of Mrs. Emeline
Johnson, by giving her strychnine to produce
abortion, was acquitted by the jury.
Esh-que-go-ne-bi, a half-breed Chippewa In-
dian, is lecturing in New York. He is said to
be an educated man, of talent, good sense and
The execution of Patrick Fitzgerald, con-
demned to death for the murder of his «rife,,
took place in New York on the 17th ult.
A detachment of nearly 200 recruits left
New York on the I7thult. inthe ship Forest
City for Indianola, Texas, where they will join
the Fifth Regiment of Infantry.
The citizens of Wilmington tendered Secre-
tary Dobbin a public dinner during his recent
visit to North Carolina. It was declined on
account of the necessity for an immediate re-
turn to Washington.
The interior of the Capitol at Washington
is undergoing complete renovation.
J3f" Lieut. Bartlett, of the U. S. Navy, is
now in Paris, superintending the purchase of
two or three of the Fresnel lights, the advan-
tages of which are thus pointed out in a lato
letter from W. C. Bryant, Esq., of the New
York Evening Post:
The invention of Fresnel is one of the moBt
beautiful examples we have of that skill by
which the apparently barren phenomena of
science are forced into the service of man.
Light, you know, radiates in all directions.
Place a lamp in a tower on a sea-coast, and
part of its rays are wasted on tho clouds above
it, part on the earth below, and part stream to
the right and left, where they are not wanted.
By a most ingenious arrangement of prisms,
Fresnel collccted these useless rays and sent
them forward in a horizontal direction, paral-
lel with the surface of the occan, where they
must meet the eye of the mariner. An in-
tense light, by this concentration of its beams,
is obtained from a single lamp. I desired to
see an example of the effect produced, and a
lamp was placed within one of Fresnel's cir-
clcs of prisms, while I stood at a distance of
twenty feet or more. It blazed into my eyes
like the rising sun, and I could not bear to look
at it
The great advantage of Fresnel's apparatus
s in the strength of the light which it throws
in the direction where it is wanted ; but it has
two other important recommendations: its
economy and the ease with which it is kept in
order. With a single lamp it does what in the
old method required thirty, and it dispenses al-
together with the clumsy contrivance of re-
flectors, which are constantly becoming tar-
nished and wearing out The supply of oil
which is needed is, of course, comparatively
trifling.
Theso lights have been adopted by the Eng-
lish Government in many instances.
Our Indian Relations.—It will be seen, by
referring to the circulars of the various candi-
dates for office, now before tho people, that the
public mind is awakening to the importance
of immediate action on tniB subject
That unfortunate race of people cannot but
excite our sympathies, although they have
been our unrelenting foes, for the brave al-
ways compassionate a fallen enemy. It was
the noblest boast of the Romans, in their best
days, that they were merciful to a vanquished
foe. The Indians have been driven from their
ancient homes and robbed of their fairest pos-
sessions. Every year their limits are nar-
rowed—their game destroyed, and starvation
and flnal extinction stare them in the fucé.
Yet wo are not to blame tho white man too
severely. It is nothing more than the march
of destiny. Humanity cannot stop tho pro-
gress of civilization. It is irresistible as the
majestic torrent of our own Mississippi.
What, then, is to bo dono? Perhaps tho
best course which Texas could adopt would be
to cede a portion of our northwestern tcrritoiy
to tho General Government, in which to re-
move our Indians, there to confine them, and
teach them, as far as possible, the arts of civ-
ilized life.
It has been suggested that in considera-
tion, and as a mode of compensation for such
a ccssion of territory by Texas, the General
Government would be willing to construct a
railroad through this State to El Paso. This
we think entirely probable, for several reasons.
The Government needs such a road for the
transportation of troops and munitions of war.
It is the only way in which they can suppress
Indian depredations. It would obviate the
constitutional objections which some entertain
against the undertaking of works of internal
improvement by the General Government
If such an arrangement can be made, wo
will soon have a railroad of Iron (not of pa-
per) in our midst; for the United States havo
money enough, or what is the same, credit
enough, to engage immediately in tho work
and -prosecute it to an early and prosperous
completion. This subject is one on which our
politicians should prepare themselves to act,
as its importance cannot easily be overrated.
Auatm American.
Starching Linen.—To those who desire to
impart to shirt bosoms, collars, and other fab-
rics that fine and beautiful gloss observable on
new linens, the following receipe for making
gum-arabic starch will be most acceptable, ana
should have a place in the domestic scrap-book
*VI VTTUy 1101 UUOUMIU Of Mill 1CMU11JT O UTOBS f
and if she does not take pride in these things,
her husband is an unfortunate m*n:
" Take two ounces of fine white gum-srabio
powder, put it into a pitcher, and pour on it a
pint or more of boiling water, (according to
the degree of strength you desire,) and then,
having covered it, let it set all night In the
morning pour it carefully from the dregs into
a clean bottle, cork it, and keep it for use. A
tablespoonful of gum water stirred into a pint
of 6tarch that has been made in the usual
manner will give the lawns (either white, black,
or printed) a look of newness when nothing
else can restore them after washing. It is also
"ood, much diluted, for thin white muslin and
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