The Gonzales Inquirer (Gonzales, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 42, Ed. 1 Saturday, March 18, 1854 Page: 1 of 4
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GONZALES, TEXAS, SATURDAY, MARCH 18,1854
THE GONZALES INQUIRER
d published every saturday bt
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insertions will be published till forbid and charged
accordingly. •
All letters of a business character mm! be pott
paid, to insure attention.
Every communication for publication must be
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No communication or advertisement of an abu-
sive character will bq published on any term*.
For announcing candidates' names for any office
Ten Dollar*.
An Act to establish a System of Schools.
Section 1. Be it enacted bj the Legislature
of the State of Texas, That the sum of two
millions of dollars of the five per cent, bonds
of the United States, now remaining in the
treasury of the State, be set apart as a school
fund, for the support and maintainance of Pub-
lic Schools, which shall.be called the Specie)
School Fund, and the interest arising .there-
from shall be apportioned and distributed for
the support of schools as herein provided.
See. 2. That the Chief Justice and'County
Commissioners shall constitute a board of
School Commissioners for each county, whose
duty it shall be, during th® year 1864, to form
their respective counties into school districts
of convenient size, and number the same, so
that each district in a county shall be known
by its appropriate number. Provided, how-
ever, that in forming said districts the conve-
nience of neighborhoods shall be regarded, as
much as possible, and each school district shall
contain a sufficient number of children for the
maintainance of a school. They shall also, at
the same time, order an election by the quali-
fied voters of each school district, for three
Trustees for each district, giving ten days' no-
tice of said election, by posting up advertise-
i place
d pl«-
ees of holding, and tfce object of said election.
menta of the same at one public place at least,
in each district, stating fully the time and |"
See. 8, It shall be the duty of the Chief
Justice to appoint a suitable person in each
district to preside at the election in bis dis-
trict, who shall make his returns within ten
days to the Chief Justice of the county, and
the said election shall, in all other respects,
be governed by the laws regulating elections.
See. 4. The District Trustees so elected,
¿hall select from their number a chairman,
who shall, whenever it may be necessary, call
a meetirfg of the trustees, and preside at their
deliberations, and perform sucn other duties
as may hereafter be assigned htm.
See. 5. That it shall be the duty of the
Assessor and Collector of each county in the
State, during the year eighteen hundred and
fifty-four, and every year thereafter, to make
out a list of all the free white population in
his county, between the ages of six and six-
teen years, particularly designating the num-
ber of persons between such ages in each
school district, and transmit the same, under
his hand and official signature, to the County
Clerk of the county, and a certified copy
thereof to the Treasurer of the State, on or
before the first day of July, in each and every
year.
See. 6. That it shall be the duty of the
Cleric of the County Court to file and preserve
in his office the election returns and the list
aforesaid furnished by the Assessor and Col-
lector. It shall be the duty of the Treasurer
of the State to ascertain, from the abstracts
transmitted to him by fte Assessor and Col-
lector, the aggregate population between the
ages of six and sixteen years, and so much of
the ftind appropriated by this act as may be
in the treasury shall be apportioned among
tb.e different counties in the State, according
to the number of the population of scholastic
age in each county, subject to the order of the
county courts, and payable to the respective
County Treasurers, upon the order of such
County Court, under the hands of the Chief
Justice and the seal of the Court, or such
amount may be placed to the credit of the As-
sessor and Collector of taxes of such county,
upon his payment into the County Treasury
of his county the amount so apportioned to
such county, and filing the receipt of the coun-
ty Treasurer, acknowledged by said Treasurer
before the Clerk of the County Court, and by
the said Clerk duly certified, under hi band
and the seal of his court, with the Treasurer
of the State.
See. 7. That it shall be the duty of the
District Trustees to fix the time and place for
holding an election in their respective districts
(for the location or selection of school houses
within their respective districts) and to ap-
point a presiding officer. That the chairmi
of the board of trustees shall cause writ!
notices of said election to be posted up for at
least five days next preceding the election, in
three public places in each school district.—
That the returns of said election shall be made
within five days to the chairman of the said
board, who shall examine the same in pres-
ence of his co-trustees; and a majority of the
votes polled in a district shall be necessary to
the permanent location of a school house; and
no change of the location of a school thus lo-
cated shall be made, except by a majority of
two-thirds of those voting in such election,
taken after due notice as above provided.
See. 8. That no money shall be drawn from
the County Treasury for school puposes in any
school district, until the people of such dis-
trict «h*ll have provided a good and substan-
tial school house, with the necessaiy seats and
other fixtures, and that the money appropria-
ted by this act shall be applied only towards
the payment of teachers for each school.
See. 9. That it shall be the duty of the
school trustees for each district, as early as
practicable after their election, by ¡Mm ®ue
notice, to call a meeting of all the patrons of
the school in the district, and a majority of
school,
amount of salary they ere 1
shall be tmduty of said '
as far as possible such instructions, to em[
teachers of suitable moral character, and qi
ifications, to visit from time to time the dis-
trict school or schools under their charge, to
expel a pupil for misconduct, to examine all
complain ts between teacher and pupil of • se-
rious character, to discharge a teacher for in-
capacity or improper conduct, and generally
to exercise supervision over the sfltirs of the
school within their district.
See. 10. That the teacher of each school
shall be required to keep a roll or day-book,
and at the dose of hiB term of service to Itarn-
ish tield school trustees with a tabular state-
ment of the names of all the patrons and pu-
tendance by each pupil, which statement shall
be supported by his affidavit, made before some
officer authorised to administer oaths, that the
same is true and correct
See. 11. That it shall be the duty Of said
trustees, upon receiving the shares of the
school fund to which their school district is
entitled, to apply the same towards the pay-
ment of the teacher's salary, and the remain-
der of said salary, if any, to apportion equal-
ly among the patrons of the school according
to the number of pupils atd the time sent by
each to the school; and if any such patron
should neglect or reftase to pay his share of
the salary apportioned as aforesaid, said trus-
tees máy institute suit against him or her for
the amount of money due, and the tabular
statement fbrnished them, under oath, by the
teacher, and mentioned in the preceding sec-
tion of this act, shall be prima facia evidence
of such indebtedness.
Sect 12. If any patron or patrons of the
school are unable to pay their share of the
salary apportioned as aforesaid, and the said
trustees be satisfied of the fact, it shall be the
duty of said trustees to make out a list of all
such patrons in the district, together with the
amount of money due from each for tuition,
and forward the same under their own proper
signatures to the Chief Justice of the county.
See. 18. That the Chief Justice of each
county shall annually ftirnish the Treasurer
of the State with a statement under his band
and seal of the county, of the amount of mon-
ey due for tuition from all such patrons as are
exempt under the preceding section of this
act in the county, according to the lists return-
ed by the school trustees. And the Treasurer
of the State is hereby authorized and required
to pay said amounts of monej due from the
patrons so exempt, out of the school fund de-
rivable from taxation and created by the Con-
stitution of the State, and he shall distribute
the same in manner and form as provided in
the sixth section of this act.
See. 14. That the County Treasurer of
each county shall give bond with two or more
securities, payable to the county, in twice the
amount of the school fiind to which hiB county
shall be entitled, so soon as the Chief-Justice
shall be notified by the Treasurer of the State
of the amount to which his county is entitled,
which bond shall be conditioned that he will
well and faithfully keep an account for the
money to him committed as a school fund for
his county, and pay out the same only upon
the order of the Chief-Justice of the county,
under his hand and the seal of the Count
Court He shall also enter into a bound
to be kept by him for that purpose, all moneys
received, all moneyB paid out, and to whom
and when paid, and register and number all
orders by him paid or accepted to be paid,
which book, together with such orders, stall
be by him exhibited at his annual settlement
with the County Court That after the year
1854, his said bond shall be renewed, between
the first and tenth of September of each year ;
that all suits upon such bonds shaft be in the
name of the county, and in other respects
they shall be governed by the lawB relating to
the bonds of County Treasurers.
Sec. 15. That the trustees of each school
district shall be elected annually after the year
eighteen hundred and fifty-four, on the first
Monday in September, in the manner herein
provided; that they shall be a body corporate
and politic, by the corporate name 6f the
Trustees of Common School District No.— —,
(filling the blank with the number of thé Dis-
trict,) and for the purposes for which they aré
created, may sue and be sued, hold ana dis-
pose of property, and do such acts and things
as are incidental and necessaiy to the perform-
ance of their duties.
15. That the Treasurer of the State
shall be ex-officio Superintendant of Common
Schools in this State, and it shall be his duty
immediately after the first day of September
in each and every year, to record the abstracts
of children of lawful age in the different coun-
ties, and apportion the moneys as herein con-
templated, distributing to the several counties
thé amount to which each is entitled, accord-
ing to its Scholastic population, ascertained in
the manner herein prescribed, and also the
amount due for the tuition of children exempt
from tuition foes; and it shall fbrther be the
duty of the Treasurer of the State, to provide
the necessary record books, to be by him kept
exclusively for recording abstracts, as herein
and keeping a flill and perfect
account of all Investments and moneys belong-
ing or in any wise appertaining to the Com-
mon School Fund of this State, and all appor-
tionments and distributions of money by him
made for common school purposes; and he
shell - report to the Governor annually, on or
before the first day of October, the condition
of the common school fond, and also make to
each regular session of the Legislature such
suggestions in regard to the Common School
system as may be deemed advisable; that the
fiscal -fwihoiftir. year shall commence on the
first day Of September and end on the first
from
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mber next,
duty of the
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correct, shall drew
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first day of Septeml
That it shall be the
the board of
to present at least ouceayw,
U the Chief-Justice of bis
amounts of said ftind as his
entitled to receive, according
of children between the ages
within his district and
application'to
.■fctssr
: and the said
armed himself that
fJjpn the Couqty Tress-
surer an order, under his hand end seal of the
County Court, for the amount or amounts so
due and demanded.
Sec. 18. That nothing in this act aball pre-
vent tbe trustees of any school district, after
being instructed by a majority of the patrons
of schools in such district, 'from' employing
the teacher of a primary depártment in any
college or academy, and converting such pri-
mary department into a common school for
such district; and that this act take effect
from and after its passage.
Approved, January 81,1854.
Counsel to Merchant's Clerks.—Make
yourself indispensable to your employer; that
is tbeifpldeii path to success. Be so industri-
ous, so prompt, aO careftil, that if yon are ab-
sent one hour out of the usual time, you will
be missed, and he in whose employ you are
shall Bay, " I did not dream George was so
usefaL" Make your employer your friend, by
performing with minuteness whatever task he
sets before you; and above all, be not too nice
to leud a hand at dirty work, no matter how
repugnant. Your business in after years de-
pends upon how you deport yourself now. If
you are really good for anything, you are good
for a great deal. Be energetic; put your man-
ners Into your business; look as well as act
with alacrity; appear to feel an interest; make
your master's success your own, if you have
an honest one. Let your eye light up at his
request; and your feet be nimble; there are
some who look so dull and heavyj and go with
so slow and heavy a pace, that it íb irksome
to ask them what it is your right to demand
of them: be not like these.
Be tbe arch upon which your employer may
rest with safety; let him feel that he may en
trust with you uncounted gold.
If you do an errand lightly you begin to
lose his confidence; if you forget twice some
important request, you cannot be trusted. If
ou accustom yourself to loose and untidy
its, you will gain no respect, but rather
contempt. Avoid theatres, card rooms, bil-
liard saloons, as you would a pestilence; little
faults are like so many loop-holes in your
character, through which all that is valuable
sifts out, and all that is pernicious sifts in to
fill the empty places.
But you say you want some pleasure I
Make your work a pleasure. There are two
ways of seeing the sun rise—one with a dull,
complaining spirit, that if it could, would blot
out the great luminary with its washy flood of
eternal complaints; the other with joyous,
lark like pleasure, soaring out upward, and
seeing along the western path, gates of gold
and palaces of ivory. So there are two ways
of doing work; one that depresses the soul
by the listless, formal, fretftil participation;
the other that makes labor a boon and a bless-
ing; pursues it not only for gain, but the
higher exaltation of the mental and moral be
ing.—Hunt' Merchant*' Magazine.
A Contrast.—The Man who think* qf Him-
*elf.—I wish I could for once see a pleasant
face when I come home. Tired f Yesl that's
always the cry. I never get tired—oh, no I
Customers to pleaBe clerks, to overhaul—ac-
counts to cast up. Hush 1 I shall hate the
child. Now walk the floor and spoil him,—
Bill, hunt up my slippers. Mary, draw up the
rocking chair. Other men have these things
ready for them. There's Saunders, he takes
comfort His wife's as handsome as she was
the day she was married. If there's anything
I hate it's a faded woman. Light the lamps
and give me my newspaper. If I can't read
here in peace, PU go over to Saunders',"
The man who thinks of other .—Mary my
dear, how tired you look. Give me that great
strapping boy. No wonder your arms ache.
Ohl never mind me, I'm always O. K., at
home you know. Take tbe rooking chair
ouraelf, and juBt be comfortable, Ain't I tired?
Vhy, yes, I am a little; but then I've feasted
on fresh air and sunshine today, which you
haven't Besides I dont have such a lump of
itual motion as this to manage. Bless my
soul bow do you live these hot days y Never
mind the room, everything looks well enough
—you included—except that you are, looking
a trifle better than well. How do you manage
to keep so young and pretty, bonny wife f—
Well might the Bmfling answer be: "The
freshness and ftilness of my husband's love
leaves my heart green."
Melancholy Erasers or toe Spirit Delu-
sion.—We have apainfal duty in recording the
necessary arrest and confinement Of two of
our most worthy citizens—father and son—
yesterday afternoon* The father has been for
some time a believer in that most dangerous,
humbugging delusion, and an attendant at cir-
cles, where the spirits, mediums, Ac., were
supposed to be present The son soon became
a believer
dangerous
lence was nurnift
torney, together with thé sheriff and some
help, removed the unfortunate persons, and
tbey are now confined to prevent their inflict-
ing injury upon themselves and their fiuniliea,
bile the wife, the mother and the daughter
are broken hearted at the condition of the hus-
band and son. Have not those conductors of
the press, and one, of usual, almost unparal-
leled circulation, much to answer for in the en-
[ément their columns have given to a
doctrine so dangerous, and which hss already
_ it many inmates to a Lunatic Asylum?
The gentlemen from whom we obtained the
information, describes the removal of the two
men, as the most heart-rending scenes he had
ever witnessed; the mother, while she wept
bitterly at the removel of her husband and the
father of her son, felt that those engsgpd in tbe
melancholy, task, were doing a kindness while;
the daughter's cries, were echoed through the
hpusp ftt thp {removal pf her lather and her
brother to be confined—not for crime 'i
but what is next it, for Iceeof reason.—.
t Sentinel.
to be present. The son soon became
also, and both became deranged and
i to their femlies. Yesterday, vio-
manifested, when the District At-
ibe to]
cotton for
1880—will
teres t:
1780,
wJ $4T:.i*<g aM fee*-, f.-
b stfÉ •?<* «I W*
cotton erected
or horses;
.._.rJns.
generally used in
i velvets and qullüngs sude in
no, whit
írther i
the first cotton yarn
leiy.
first export cotton from
Surinam. • ''
1742.
at Biripingl
Mnotsur
England.
im
England for tl
1761. Arkwright
for the spihning
proved.
1788. The stocking frame applied by Hsu-
mond to making of lace.
1778. A bill passed to prevent the export
of machinery used in cotton factories.
1779. Mule spinning invented by Har-
grave.
1782. First import of raw cotton from Bra-
zil into England.
1782. Watt took out his patent for the
steam engine.
1788. A bounty granted in England on the
export of certain cotton goods.
1786.; Power looms invented by Dr. Cart-
el n !——j i- —
ips used in cotton factories,
ported into England from
ht—steam eq
Cotton
the United States., wwawaaHwigM
1786. Bleaching first performed by the
agency of the oxymuriatic acid.
1787. First machinery to spin cotton put
in operation in France.
1789. Sea island cotton first planted in the
United States; and upland cotton first culti-
vated for use and export about this time.
1790J Slater, an Englishman; built tbe
first American cotton fketorv at Pawtucket,
R. I.
1792. Eli Whitney, an American, invents
the cotton gin, which he patents.
1798. First mill and machinery for cotton
erected in Switzerland.
1899. Spinning by machinery introduced
into Saxony this year. *
1808. First cotton factory búilt in New
Hampshire.
1806. Power looms successfully and widely
introduced into England.
1807. Thé revolution in Spanish America
begins to furnish new markets for cotton man-
begins to'!
ufactures.
1810. Digest of cotton
tbe United States by
manufactures in
tin. and another
.. ... Mr. Galiatin. anc
by Mr. l'enche Cox, of Philadelphia.
to make bobbin lapp pet-
Machine
by by i
1818. The India trade* mta e free, end more
1811.
ented
Z'l
urn.
Si
He
y mm \<
"hint God with _ „
neighbor aethjreeK"
"Lovecastoth out fear."
«rite
■
r\.T; ¿
^ ¿¿-Mi. ''>■( i> a # witfi ylto n iñ yw
For his eyeá the gems of art.
r ' i
Nor the men who gaily flittotb,
Like a moth above a bower,
And who never calmly sitteth
With reflection for an hoar.
Nor is't he who seeketh fairly,
Earned wealth to crown his home,
For nis ease in yeere to come.
1
Not e'en he, whom all, admtring,
Ranks of men to emulate,
NoUhe Histrion'8 tone andfeature,
Nor the artist, whose bold creature
Mocks the handiwork of God.
Nor the scholar who consumeth,
Life's own lamp in mystic lore,
And Who moils, and toils, end longeth,
That his brain may garner more.
'Tíb net he whose name resoundetb,
Warrior chief, or gifted«
King of mil" " *
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never existed. ' .
all the time. Mr. S.
attentive, that it s
not let the windeof
ever so gently.
"Leonora toy dovy, don't i
window, in tlw draft; *1
cold, and then ^ *
she rep
inn
is so delight
"Thank you, my love.'1
"Darlini * '
take care c
whet would be
mal tomb, without you.
then and we
think, when it
bands ofl ""
pyasMr.andMw-
real
>v
age.
Who, then, is it—truly blessed,
Heart'Strong in exceeding rest;
pirlt joyous, calm sod fearless,
ope, full-orbod
What has hef—so all-sufficing,
Every, soul-thirst and dssfare t
Answer new—He guards the Altar
Of pure Love's angelic fire I
to the United States; first at Waitham.
1818. Average price of cotton 84 cents—
higher than since 1810. New method of pre-
paring sewing cotton by Mr. Holt
1819. Extraordinary price for Alabama
cotton lands.
18?0. Steam power first applied with suc-
cess extensively to lace manufactures.
1822. First cotton factory in Lowell erec-
ted. , , ,
1828. First export of raw cotton from
Egypt into Gre^t Britain.
1825- In New Orleans Cotton at froth 28 to
25 cents per pound. •
1826. Self-acting mule spinner patented in
England by Roberts.
1827, American ¿otton manufactures first
exported to any considerable-extent
1829. Highest duty in the United States
on foreign cotton manufactures.
1880. About this time Mr. Dyer introduced
amachine from tbe United States,into Ei)g
land for the purpose of making.
1882. Duty On cótton goods imported intc.
the United States reduced; and in England it
is forbid to employ minors in cotton mills, toi
work more than ten hours pei- day, ** nine Oír ftg «a
at something"^!?3^
1884. Cotton et 17 Cents.
1885. Extensive purchases made made of
LAURA.
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Oca Mother.—The following is from the-
pen of a distinguished author—the sentiments
are true and excellent, and beautiftilly ex-
pressed:
" Around the idea of one's mother the mind
of man.pHanwitba fbnd affection, It ig the
firet deep thought stamped i oa pur infiwt
hearts, when yet soft end capable of receiving
the most profound hnpressidiis, and all the
after feelings of the old world are more or less
light in comparison. I do not know that even
in old age, we do not look back to that feeling
as the sweetest through life. Our passions
and our wilfulness may lead us far from the
objeotof our filial love; wo learn even .
her heart, to oppose ber wishes, to violate her
' me wild or angry, at*
iC
mem
an<F
cotton lands by speculators and others.
1886. Cotton from 1,8^ 20 cepta.
I'tv.'
MALICIOOS T*mLEHS.-¿-Of all Objects; tho
most despicable is the tattler. One sueb, with
ears ever listening, eyes ewr watchful, and
tongue ever ready to report every little item,
of contemptible "gossip," iS cale
more real injury to a community, thah *
pickpockets, or a score of drunkards,
ot> jestingly spoken, is reported as
seriously hitended.to injure and
thing but half understood, is
their imaginations, and
mendous consequence.
appetite, and so distorted
that the I
to the worn
Those roost detested
command; we mey
headstrong ether
when death bee sj
and nothing but
capitulate her
tion, like a flower
past storm, raises,
amongst her tura,
have said, the mf
and even when
mi'
remembrance,
dead parent
beeutiSB,a«ri
i '■«, „
I orangiy or
" HíjMtff
,voice,
, ains toro!
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uroewe
between
We had been
the S.'s tan*
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room.
room to doubt
now y
and , ,
idea as we
fond affection;
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one's character, and
on foot, either with
or his honesty, which,
bring doubt and
to weir victime. The
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tne open accuser
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