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SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1851.
INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE
ELECTION BETUBNS. 1851.
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Falls,
Fayette,
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Gillespie,
Goliad,
Gonzales,
Grayson,
(í rimes,
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Harris,
Harrison,
Hays.
I enderson,
Hopkins.
Houston,
Hunt,
Jackson,
Jasper,
Jefferson,
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Kinney,
Lamar,
Lavaca,
Leon,
Liberty.
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McClennan,
Medina.
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Red River,
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Smith,
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"I'll Call around and Pay."
What a world of woe is contained
in these few words to the poor artisan
and mechanic! "I'll call around and
pay" says the rich man to avoid the
trouble of going to his desk to get the
necessary funds, and the poor mechan-
ic is obliged to go home to disappoint
his workmen and all who depend lip-
on him for their due. It is an easy
matter to work—the only real glory
in this life is an iudipoiideiit idea oí
being able to sustain yourself by the
labor of your own hahds. and it may
be easily imagined what crushing
force there is in 'Til call around and
pay" to the laboring man who depends
upon that pay for subsistence. If those
who could p iy would only pay at once
it would place htihdreds and thousands
in a condition to do likwise and pre-
vent much misery and distress.
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Nueces
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San Patricio
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Tarrant
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Uvalde
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Williamson
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Bastrop
Bell
Uekar
Brazoria
Brazos
Burleson
Caldwell
Calhoun
Cameron
Colorado
Comal
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Ellis
HJl Paso
Freestone
Falls
Fayette
Fort Bend
Gnlvoston
Gillespie
Goliad
Gonzales
Grimes
Guadalupe
Harris
TOTAL,
A couple of chaps were lying in bed the other morning, when a musket was discharged
near the house. One of them hunched his fellow; " 'Gustus! <Gustus ?"
" What do you wa-nt?" growled the sleepy one. -What was that banged so T* "Why,
*twas the day breaking' yon cussed fool," and Gustus rolled over to take another snooze.
FREE AND EASY.
We recollect, an excellent story,says
the Detroit Advertiser, admirably well
told by Hon. J. B , now a mem-
ber of the Legislature of Michigan as
having occurred about the time of the
Baltimore Whig Convention in 1844,
to which the narrator was a deligate.
It became the privilege oí many of the
delegates and others, to pay their res-
pects to the Hon, Henry Clay, whose
plain republican ease and urbanity
charmed all who met him for the first
time; while our informant was engag-
ed in conversation with Mr. Clay, the
door opened, and a fine six loot man
entered, unannounced;
The stranger was fashionably, but
somewhat astonishingly dressed in a
green sporting coat, with buttons
somewhat smaller than "the top of
your hat"—a bright scarlet plaid vest,
divided into squares of 8 by 1U, with
buff corduroy continuations This
astonishing "effigy" was "hung in
chains" of every style, and wore at
i his fob a pendant seal about the size
| of a steelyard poise. On his head was'
a four foot " Panama," under which
the entire "mission" of J. Q,. Adams
might have taken shelter, while from
one outlandish pocket modestly pro-
truded the package bearing the work
"Hilander," ballanced on the other
side by a "pistol" from ihe the armory
ofFalstalf. This surprising person,
after reaching the centre of the room,
he paused, and took a liesurely sur-
vey of those present, and and singing
out Mr. Clay (who could not mistake
him?) walked up to him and pronoun-
ced the single word, Clay ?
"Yes, sir," was the reply of the states-
man.
"Henry Clay."
"The same, sir."
"I came from Alabama, on the pur-
pose to see you, but don't put yourself
out on my account; you are a great man
sir, and when I am at home I am
some punkins ; In fact I often tell our
boys that Clay and I are bound to
shine, or else what do we live for;
your line and mine are little different,
but we are both prelty near the head.
In fact, Hank, what's the use being a
fellow, unless you be a h—ll of a fel-
low. Henry, good morning," and the
Alabama man took his departure.
Ijondon Described by a Parisian.
An article in a late number of the In-
tentional states that Mr. Francis Wey,
who is a college professor and littera-
teur of some eminence in Paris, has
published for visitors from the contin-
ent to the great Exhibition, a volume
entitled Guide a Londres, composed
we believe, of a series of articles, Les
Anglais chez Eux, (the English at
home,) which he had contributed to
the Muse des Families, an old and
favorite Parisian journal. It is very
amusing to see the manner in which
the^e thing are received by the British
press. The sensitiveness'of which the
Americans are acused is quite equalled
in that which is displayed in the Lon-
don criticisms of Monsieur Wrey. And
just at this time it is all the more pleas-
ant to us, for that ouraimiable mother
country caitics are quotiug with so
much enjoyment the characteristics
of us poor United Statesers, done in
the same country. Even Blackwood
does not seem to have a suspicion that
a Frenchman could caricature or in
any way exaggerate the publicities of
New York; but all the independent;
care-for-nothing John Bulls see only
"rancor," "ill-will." and "absurdity" in
the Frenchmans views of English so-
ciety. The Literary Gazette, Weekly
News, and all the rest, have the same
tope.—French it is said—
"Instead of patiently collecting their
facts, they invent them. Instead of
representing social usages as they are
they state them as what they choose
to suppose. They mistake flippancy
for it, imperturbable assurance for
knowledge. They speak ex cathedra
of matters of which they are profound-
ly ignorant. And the consequence ol
all this is that they commit the drollest
blunders^ make the most startling as-
sertions, indulge in the most grotesque
appreciations, and flounders in the most
extravagant absurdities."
We wonder if a single British review-
I cr will introduce, with such a para-
i graph, his extracts form the letters on
j America, by M. Xavier Marimer? Not
! a bit of it.
On the English language, M. Wey
say6:
"The Englishman has invented for
himself a language adapted to his pla-
cid manners and silent tastes. This
language is a murmur, accompanied
by soft hissings; it falls from the lips,
but is scarcely articulated; if the chest
or throat be employed to increase the
| power of the voice, the words become
! changed and scaicely intelligible; if
•cried aloud, they are hoarse, and re-
! s an bled the confused croakings of frogs
j in marshes."
"The English are passionately at-
tached to their language. They have
only consented to borrow one single
word from us, and that is employed by
their inn-keepers—table de hale, which
they pronounce taible dott. And yet
we have taken hundreds of words from
them."
English women—
"English women give to us the pre-
ference over their own countrymen.—
Our gallantry is something new to
them, and politeness touches their
hearth. But though they love us,
we are not liked by their lords and
masters. There is no exaggeration
in all that has been said of the beauty
of English women, an assemblage oí
them would realize the paradise of
Mahomet."
Their dreses—
"Many white gowns are to be seen.
White is a recheche luxury in that land
of tallow and smoke, where linen be-
comes dirty in. three hours. However
good taste is making- some progress.
Lndies may be met with who are
dressed, although, generally speaking
a sort of audacita is displaced in wear-
ing the most irreconcilable colors.—
What gives English women a some-
what biza-re appearance, is the cus-
tom they have of swelling out their
petticoat^, by means of circles of whale-
bone or iron;—this causes them to re-
semblance large bells in movements."
English manners—
"English manners, rigid and cold
and dominated by arid rationalism,
are the work of Cromwell. His bigot-
ry and hypocrisy, his exterior austeri-
ty, his narrow formalism, suit the Eng-
lishman; he keeps up Cromwell's char-
acter, and admires himself in his usa-
ges. But he has no pity for his model
-—he never forgives Cromwell for hav-
ing made him what he is. His spite
towards that man is the last cry of na-
ture, and the vague regret of a liberty
of imagination of which neither the
joys or the aspirations have been
known since his time. They have no
grace, desitivoltury, no poesy in them;
but are methodical, seasonable, inde-
fatigable in work and in amassing
lucre."
How the English love —
"They love nothing with the heart;
when they do love, it is exclusively of
the head."
English bankers—
"In France we have the love of dis-
play,but in London it is not so. There
some of the principal bankers go every
morning to the butchers shops to buy
their own chops, and carry them osten-
sibly to some tavern in Chedside or
Fleet street where they cook them-
selves. Then they put three penny-
worth of ryebread, and publicly eat
this Spartan breakfask. The exhibi-
tion fills their clients with admiration.
But in the evening these good men
make up for this by taking in their
own palaces suppers worthy of Lucul-
lus."
Flunkeys—
"The English aristocracy are distin-
guished by the number, the canes,
and the wigs of their queys. Seeing
constantly a footman, well powdered
and bewigged, carry horizontally a
large Voltaire cane behind certain
sumptuous carriages, I asked for an
explanation; it was soon given—wig,
powder, and cane are aristocratic pri-
vileges, Not only must a man have
a. certain numbers of quartering to be
authorized to make his servant use
such things, but he must pay so much
tax for the lacquey, so much for the
wig, so much for the tail of the wig
and so much for the cane."
What most strikes a Frenchman in
London—
"The coldness of the men towards
the fair sex, and their profound passion
for horses."
Officers of the Life and Horse
guards—
"Cupid seems to have chtfsen them
—they are possessed of of such ideal
beauty."
English taverns—
"The Englishman likes to be alone
even at the tavern. He fastens him-
self up in a box where none can see
him. There he drinks in taciturn
phlegm. He takes tea, boiling grog,
porter of the color of ink, and beer
not less black, Hp is very fond ot
brandy, and drinks large glasses of it
at a draught. He does not go to the
tavern to amuse himself, but because
drinking isa grave occupation. The
more he is. One can, however, scarc-
ly decide if his obstinate moroseness
be a precaution against drunkennessj
or the effect of spirituous liquors taken
in excess. At some of the taverns are
three gentlemen, dressed in black,
with white cravats, who sing after
one of them has struck the table with
a little hommer; they are as serious
as Protestant Ministers or money-chan-
gers.,' *
English feed—
"Thick stupifyingbeer, meat always
raw and horribly spiced; strong liba-
tions of port-wine followed by plumb-
pudding. Such is the meat of these
islanders."
How the English eat—
"They eat at everv hour,everywhere
and incessantly. The iron constitution
of their complaisant stomachs enables
them to feed in a manner which
would satisfy wolves and iions. The
delicate repast of a fair and sentimen-
tal young lady would be too much
for at couple of Parisian street por-
ters."
Statbles and museums—
"Stables are clean and brilliant as
museums ought to be; and the muse-
ums are as filthy as stables in Provi-
dence."
The Queen's stable—
"They form a college of horses,
with pedantic grooms for professors,
and a harness room for a library."
English omnibusses—
"The omnibusses in London are
worn out, ill-built and remarkably dir-
ty. Even in the wet weather nobody
is ever allowed to enter the interior
so long as any places are vacant out-
side.—We had expected to find them
built of mahogany and lined with vel-
vet."
"London wholly devoted to private
interests, offers nothing to the heart or
mind. The city is too large; aman
is lost in it; you elbow thousands of
people without hope of meeting any
one you know. Even if you had a
large fortune you would be ignored
Originality is there without effect ;
vanity without an object; and the de-
sire of shining is chimercial. Intelli-
gence has heretofore only one open-
ning, politics; pride only one object
the national sentiment; but as the peo-
ple must feel enthusiasm; for some-
thing, they adore horses; and as they
must admire somebody they burn
incense under Lord Wellington's nose.
After midnight —
"At midnight the English leave the
taverns, the public gardens, the thea-
tres, and the ball, and fills up the sup-
per saloons (not very reputable places)
—and the oyster rooms, where they
eat till morning. After sunrise, the
policemen are occupied in picking up
in gutters drunkarks of both sexes and
all conditions."
London rain—
"It is tallow melted in watar, and
perfectly black."
A bad quarter—
"Between Cornhill street and Thom-
as street, there lives what is called
the populace of London; there pau-
perism is frightful. The wretched in-
habitants of that district arc brawlers
drunkard;?, and prize-fighters."
At Westminsters Abbey—
"Shakespear slumbers at a few steps
from Richard II. The tombs bear
traces of Presbyterian mutilations;
but in other places the Calvinists scat-
tered the bones of the deceased bish-
ops of Geneva. Such is the intolerance
of the Protestants that they have not
admitted the statue of Byron to the
Abby, and his shadow may be heard
growling at the door."
At her Majesty's theatre—
"To go with a blue cravat is shock-
ing. When the doors are open, blows
with the fist and the elbows are given
without regard to age or sex. It is
the peculiar fashion of entering which
the natives have. If a Frenchman be
recognised, the people cry French Dog.
In the pit, the man behind you will
place his foot on your shoulder. The
ladies are plunged up to the neck in
boxes. In the theatre there is an echo
which produces an abomniable effect,
but such is the vile musical taste of
the English that they have never
found it out. In the saloons you
hear the continual hissing of teaket-
tles."
The English Parliment—
"The house of Commons at present
meets in a hole. The Peers are in their
new chamber. It is small, not monu-
mental and heavily ornamented.—
Xiords, when assembled, are generally
placed on the backs, or rather lean
on the back of the neck, and keep their
legs above their heads. The Queen's
throne, like constitutional royaiity, is a
gided cage."
The new houses of Parliment—
"They are an immense architectu-
al ptay-thing and the English only ad-
mire them because they cost a vast
sum."
English love of titles—
"One of my friends gave me a letter
of introduction to Sir William P -,
esquire. I left the letter with my card
at the Reform Club, Pall Mall. Two
hours after Sir William came to my
residence; but as I was not at home
he wrote a line and addressed it to me
with the flattering designation of es-
quire, England is the country of le-
gal equality ; but this sort ofequilbri-
um does not extend to social usages;
and although our penchant for dis-
tinction seems puerile to the English,
it would be easy to prove that they
are not exempt from it. They have
not, as we have, the love of uniforms
laced coats, epaulettes, or decorations;
their-button-holes often carry a flow-
er, but nevera rosette or knot of ribbon.
But every body pretends to the title of
Sir, which was formerly reserved ex-
clusively to members of the House ol
Commons, to Baronets, and to some
pubile functionaries. As hoivever, the
title of Sir, has become too vulgar,
every body calls himself Esquire to
distinguish himself from his neighbor."
This remark, nevertheless, does not
concern my friend, Sir William, for he
is really an Esquire,"
English soldiers —
"The noise which announces their
approach is very singular. Picture to
yourself the monotonous music of a
bear's dance, executed by twenty fi-
fers whilst a man beats a big drum.—
The coats of the infantry we are too
short, and are surmounted with large
white epaulettes. The men sway
their bodies about to the beating of
the drum, and carry their heads so
stiffily that they appear to be balanc-
ing spoons on their noses All the
officers and non-commissioned offi-
cers carry long sticks with ivory hand-
les."
Res?mblance of one to another —
"All Englishmen are like. They
live in the same way, are subject to
the same logical rules, condemned
to the same amusements. The proof
that there exists only one character
among them, and that they have only
one way of living is, that it impossi-
ble, on seeing them to divine their pro-
fession. A lord, a minister, domestic
a street singer, a merchant, an admiral
soldeir, a general, an artist, a judge, a
prize-figher, and a clergyman, have
all the same appearance, the same lan-
guage, the same costume and the same
bearing. Each one has the air of an
Englishman, and nothing more.—
They live in the same way, work at
the same hours, eat at the same time,
and of the same sort of food, and are
all requestrated, when away from
home frorrt the society of women."
The French at London—*
"At London the French labor under
two subjects of anxiety, caused by their
national prejudices. Accustomed to
consider themselves as the first peo-
ple in the world, to dazzle some, to
despise others, and to display every
where the confident pride of their
supremacy, they, in treading the Bri-
tish soil, experience the impression of
a greatness not borrowed from them;
they are astonished at finding a peo-
ple as remarkable as ours, as original
we are and carrying to a still prouder
degree the sentiment of their preemi-
nence. Then our countrymen become
disquieted; the intolerance of their
national frith becomes mitigated; they
are ill at ease, tor the first time in their
lives feel constraint. Ceasing to be-
lieve themselves among slaves as in
Italy, among slaves as in Belgium, or
among inn-keepers as in Switzerland
or Germany, they endeavor to resem-
ble sovereigns visiting other soverigns,
and by forced politeness render them
involuntary homage."
Feeling of the English towards the
French—
"They honor us with a marked at-
tention, though they are indifferent to
the rest of mankind. Our opinions
respecting them cause them anxiety.
They either admire us enthusiastically
or disparage us bitterly; but in reality,
they are obsequious and sevile towards
us V
After a good deal of the numerous
statues to Wellington, this at English
admiration of Waterloo—
"The trumpet of Waterloo, which
has been sounded in London every
where incessantly, and in every tone
during thirty-five years, diminishes
the granduer of the English nation.—
This intoxication seems that of a poe-
ple who, never having won more than
one battle, and despairing to conquer a
second time, cannot recover from their
suprime net bear m patience an unhoped
for glory."1
Hobace Grerly hit bt a Brick.—Mr.
Greely writes from London that he had
^>aid a visit to several model lodging bouses
in one of which he saw "newly invented
brick, whichstrnck him favorably '*— Ccr-
pet B<t$.
Western Politics.—
Mr. McGaughey, the Wh:^
candidate for Congrtss in
the seventh District of Iu-
diana, recently made ¿
speech at Terra Ilautc.—
A correspondent of the
Terra Haute Journal thus
describes the closing sccno
"The speech of. Mr. Me
Gaughey ended and a re-
spectable gentleman of the
same party roso to reply. I
suppose. Just then,ft-oo.
another quarter of the
room the words l Mr
Speaker f Mr. Speaker !n
addressed to Mr. Mo-
Gaughey in an effeminate
but portentious tone, drew
•Mention all one way ; And
the gentleman upon the
floor, overcome with gal-
lantry, in courtesy sat
down. This gave the floor
to Miss Faany Lee Town-
send, (who is to say the
least, rather notorious;)
an«l a more severe tongue
lashing man never
from woman than
Fanny inflioted on Mr.
(.¡awkey, as she called the
honorable gentleman.
"ller eyes flashed light-
niug upon him, and her
tongue baptised him with
gall and venom. She di-
rected a question to Mr.
Gaughey, when he turned
his back upon her and left
the room, looking very
much like a man who had
been badly caudled. Miss
Fanny was not thero br
arrangement of Mr. Mc-
Gaughey's political oppo-
nents, for she professes to
be a Whig herself, but on
this occasion she contend-
ed that Mr. McGaughey
had trampled on the con-
stitution and insulted phi-
lology ! She said in con
elusion—"Whigs of this
District, I implore you,
for God's sake, to send a
patriot to Congress—not
send this candidate of little
physical, and less mental
developement—but send
a man to Congress—ona
that will not turn his back
upon a lady !" Take it
all in all, I have never
seen a richer gathering."
For twenty years past
the malcontents of South
Carolina have been telling
how fearfully their State
was oppressed by the Gen-
eral Government, and how
she was impoverished to
fill the overpowering cof-
fers of the North. They
have pointed to her blight-
ed and paralizod condition
as an evidence of the utter
impossibility of her con-
tinuing to live under the
terriffc extortions practic-
ed upon her. After all
this it is certainly a little
curious to find tbe Wash-
ington Southern Press, the
especial organ of South
Carolina, boasting of the
condition of that State,
and proclaiming that no
Northern State can at all
compare with her in pros-
perity.—Louisville Jour-
nal.
One little garden patch
of ours has been very prof-
itable, very—this season.
The bugs ate up the cu-
cumbers, the chickens ate
up the bugs, the neighbors*
cats ate the chickens, and
we are now in search of
something that will eat
the cats Can any of our
agricultural friends aid us?
Too Observing.—The
husband of a beautiful
wife, on returning homo
was met by one of his off-
spring, all smiles, clap-
ping his hands and saying.
Pa, Mr. B , hat
been here—be is such a
nice man—he kissed us all
around, and mother too!'}
We think tbe N. York-
er beats us a little out
South in the way of puff-
ing. Hear what its editor
says of Barn urn's Museum
"One Stout Lady, tho
London papers say had
be taken into the Chrystai
Palace by an extra door,
she was too large for the
asnal entra see. Ño sneh
difficulty at Barnum's Mo-
urn. The crowds there, at
the splendid afternoon and
evening performances, can
easily get in and oat of
those immense doorways.
Ah, there's no place like
Barnum's."
NeVada, a mining city
in California, far amid
mountains whose summits
are hidden in everlasting
snow, has bnilt a new.
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