The Galveston Commercial, And Weekly Prices Current. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 14, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 17, 1856 Page: 1 of 4
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WEEKLY PRICES
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the galveston civilian office
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STON, THURSDAY MORNING. JAN. 17, 1856.
from
. B. POWER,
COTTON FACTOR
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Houston*^*? "be'required to^iay°ttelr^l^^^I>'™',ln^
advance. P8^ tlletr subscription in
m>m^___^STPART, DirRjVETT <fe BEOWK.
There were upwards of 500 balea of cottoü at Sa
JSiB^saaRSK* --
port 1 l4nt was above' on « trip to BoviJ-
Sunday8mrn"?ráídMwtYorÍnVrd ^ *>ttM laflt
Morrlman* mUta, si™i,M°flr"tl,t"íí'i" Sml'¿ *
Broto*., £ V« G",v<« ° **
illlffftls
above until lio «.i i. ,* but did not proceod
suftcienfí^ cfernífe?g|^?L.tj e snags and logs were
over them.
Brazoria County.—The Planter says that moat
of the plantera have completed their sugar boiling,
and all have made fine crops. We have heard the
sugar crop of Brazoria county estimated at 6,000
lihds. A lot of sugar sold here this week weighed
about 1,800 pounds per hhd. and brought 7 cents
per pound, or $91 per hhd. At this rate the sugar
alone would amount to $546,000. The proceeds of
the cane crop, including molasses, will doubtless
uett the planters of Brazoria over half a million of
dollars this seasou.
««tod iVJXVztziszti
mentioned : C0"taniR 80 >° facts not hitherto
Jotton'SdStowaftand'bTóStbac^ MT¿& A"~
on their way to Canada • It woulH h B"i *ro ,,ow
count them all, but wo mav men ?« "8C,?SS to re-
thing more wanted ? "mont supplies. l8 any-
sseswsg¿
AN*. Locokotivk—Gon. T. J. oh„,„bers | U W tmfium.
Aasajr Office.
and refining operations of the
y Office in Wall street, New York,
rintendenco of E. N. Kent,
to adjacent to the Custom Houm
d in it the operations of refining
cts^f California are conducted on
the receiving office, 'where iUs
ly exarainod, each lot marked, end
i. From this office all th gold is
posit melting furnaee, in another
to there melted in separate parcels
run into east iron moulds and
All the tot
United States
uro under th
The Assay
in WaUsti
the golden
an extensive
by deposito
welched, ci
certificates
taken to th
apartniont,.
in crucibles,
stampc"
presented a memóri«T m""t , , tJn,ilnbers ' "> P'o.coneti.ut storms wiH. ¡""I* "excora-
«SsSSttorahaudi¡n¿d
a curiosity to see the stalwart met
with thlcl
ick felt
The
sinee have i
mA fnAtinJ • I vS/kl^A#! 1 ^ . 8urvivo?d of FranbnS feft!
is what he de^res; and allhe asks
^'"company, be placed
lie!
on
and
railroad* cornerTlKl&íÍl^,^"« ^ I gíeTde¿ b ve"$it?f
from the memorial f°"0<lin* 18 MD extract fcaJÍretrao«> their steps to CaUB&r \nd
pgr The papers of northern Texas continue to
report the arrival of large numbers of substantial
immigrants.
Fire at Nacogdoches.—'The Iluntaville Item is
informed by Mr. Randolph, Postmaster, that a de-
structive fire occurred at Nacogdoches, which con-
sumed some eight or ten buildings, together with a
large amount of property. Tlie District Court
Clerk's office, the County Court Clerk's office, a large
new hotel, and several stores, are among the build-
ings destroyed. The loss is estimated at $50,000.
fg- In 1804 Great Britain received 77,978 bales
cotton trom the West Indies; in 1854 the amount
had dwindled to 8,746.
Consumption in Massachusetts.—According to
the official abstract, 5,610 deaths occurred in Massa-
chusetts during the year 1854, of whom 1,908 were
males, and 2.707 females—a preponderance on the
part of the latter of 794.
A resolution has passed both branches of the
General Assembly of Florida, authorizing the in-
habitants of West Florida to vote upon the propo-
sition of seceding from tlie State and uniting them
selves with the State of Alabama.
The Potatoe Disease.—The use of refuse salt
with manure is recommended as a cure for the dis-
ease. A small quantity of ashes is also added.
Chlorine and potash are necessary to the growth ot
potatoes. ' '
. The debt of Tennessee is $8,744,856, of which
84,852,000 consists of bonds issued in aid of railroads,
secured by fisrt mortgage of $10,000 per mile on the
roads assisted. The State owns stocks, &c., val-
ued at $2,244,827, costing $8,292,716.
The cultivation of tobacco has in tho last few
years, increased to a considerable extent in the inte-
rior of Germany, especially in the Grand Duchy of
Baden, the exports of which alone are estimated to
exceed a million of florins a year. Accounts from
the Palatinate (Rhenish Bavaria) state .that the
prices of tobacco have become higher than they
have ever been known to be heretofore. In some
localities the culture of provisions has been aban-
doned, to give place to this more profitable crop
ST The specie shipments from New York to
Europe during last year, amounted to $27,530,141.
innesota
alike land aid "wíta7 T . °Upat>ie °f traversing I ZT^g '«".direct from the'Á7ctió Se7
th.¡¿/STttaSi?"dr'knd-<-°«< Stlm'iW"h
wjree. *'or sixty dave
i Great*Fi«h iJI° ' there being no
„ __ wU, i .« T„crait to7wS2hJdSí^%Ve®0i"^"nn^
mixed wii
proper
molten si
when it
feathers,
ting," am
metal an ij
wtco its weight of silver, melted in
es in crqcibles, and poured out in a
into vessels containing water, which,
íes in ooutact, spreads it out like
his operation iá Called "granulu-
ometimcs "feathring." It gives the
[fense amount of surface, and eminent-
be acted upon by the parting agent
The granulated metal to now taken to
Labor on Railroads.
The comparative advantages of free un«l slave la-
bor on railroads at the South, contiuues to be dis-
cussed. The Slireveport Democrat says, that as a
general rule white laborers, at least emigrants, can-
riot labor in the sun south of 83 degrees of latitude
longer than about eight months in the year. ^ They
will almost inevitably sioken if exposed during the
summer and autumn in this latitude. The Panama
Railroad Company first employed emigrants^ from
Europe in building'their road, bi
ut so many of them
perished from sickness, that it was necessary to em-
ploy blacks, obtained among the free negroes of
Jamaica.
Mr. G. W. Morse, the late State Engineer of
Louisiana, thus compares the relative efficiency of
free and slave labor employed on our public works:
" There is, however, one item not taken into the
account, and that is the fact that negroes in this
climate will, for the year round, perform much
more labor than an equal number of white men.
I think the difference is about two to three, or that
twenty negroes will prform as much hard labor as
thirty white men, which would increase the differ-
ence in favor of slave labor from $28,422 to $37.475
per year. The last difference is not alone owing to
the fact that negroes can work on during the sickly
season, while many of the white laborers fail, but
to tho fact that they are better laborers generally,
and, in my opinion, actually perform one-third
more work."
Dangers of the Gulf Passage.—The Key West
Key ofthe Gulf, of the 22d ult., in noticing tho col-
lision between the ship Malabar, Capt. Crockcr,
for Glasgow, and ship Creole, Capt. Pierce, for
Havre, Carysfort Reef light being in sight, distant
about 10 miles N. N. W.,at5 a. n.,on the 13th ult.,
remarks:
From observations made at Sand Key, the num-
ber of vessels which pass every twenty-fo'.ir hours
is believed ty be about sixty. As far as possiblo
huging the Florida shore, whether going east
or west, and thus keeping nearly in the same track
danger from collision is very great. Neither of
these ships had a light sot; and in fact so far as wo
have been able to judge from inquiry and observa-
tion, not one sailing ship in five hundred which goes
through this Gulf, so lined with vessels, Bets a light.
And yet it is quite certain that in this caso no collis-
ion would have occurred had a good lantern been
carried in the foretop, or under the bowsprit, or on
" •"* ''i; and it is
iem had sueh
condemned bv
any"admiralty oourt in Christendom, to have naid,
to the extent of her own value at least, all the dam-
ages and losa of the collision. If we were called
upon to say what are the throe elements of safety
in the navigation of this Gulf, we would say that
they consist of a good look-out, a good lead line
and a good light.
fg" The vote of Texas at the last election, ex-
ceeded that of Louisiana, by more than three thou-
sand.
iCrctfo "BbiCj
a lamp.
party,
without a single accident to person and" property
and, withal ,porformed all that was required of them;
and, had they gone out four or five years earlier,
would, no doubt, have been instrumental in saving
the lives of a portion of Franklin's party.
One word in conclusion as to the Franklin Expe-
dition. The two vessels, Erebus and Terror, left
England in 1843—were last heard of in 1845. They
probably tried several passages, but were baffled by
the ice; and finally in 1848 were crushed, probably
in Victoria Straits. Many of the crews perished,
but one or more boats got off with the survivors, who
took all the stores they could collect and traveled
southward toward the Arctic coast, in the hope of
reaching some of the Hudson's Bay Company's
ports. The season of 1849 was probably spent on
this dreary journey, anH renewed in 1850 when they
reached'the coast at the mouth of Fish River, but
in so exhausted a state that they could merely run
their boat on the beach and crawl ashore to die.—
Thissecms all that is certain, and all that we can
evor'know,of the fato of the Franklin Expedition
Thk Cultivation of the Olive in thk United
States. Mr. Robert Chisholm, of .Beaufort, South
Carolina, in answer to tho inquiries of the Commis-
sioner of Patents, gives a highly-interesting account
of his experience in the cultivation of the olive.
Mr. C. obtained his trees from the neighbor-hood
of Florence, early in 1833. They were of two
kinds—the small, round olive, esteemed the best
for oil, and a much larger and more oval variety,
upon which the first named was grafted. The win-
ter of1885, he states, was an exceedingly cold one,
and killed to the roots all of the orange trees in
tho southern States, but did not in the least injure
these olive trees. The trees at first did ,not im-
prove rapidly, for want of cultivation. In order to
remedy this, and at the same time bay expenses,
sweet potatoes and field cow-pcan where planted
among them. This was found to succecd admira-
bly; the trees grew rapidly, and soon began to
bear fruit, which they have continued to do every
year.
Mr. C. can now boast that be has made oil from
the olive, but does not think that it is sufficiently
remunerative to be prosecuted as yet, and so
confines hinuelf to pickling the fruit. His pickled
olives are pronounced, by competent judges, sup-
erior to those importad (rom France. lie adds
thai very few imported olives can now be sold in
that section of country.
A Rich Prize.—'The British discovery ship "Res-
olute*' which was abandoned in tho Arctic sea by
the last Exploring Expedition, was brought into
New London, on the 28d ult., by Capt. Bridington,
wiili all her armament, stores and equipments, <fcc..
valued at about $100,000. When fonnd ahe had
drifted over one thousand milea from the plaee
where she was abandoned.
Jy fits it
nitric acii
another rep, anjS placed in la^ge stone ware vegT
, 8 contalmg the acid. These are kept jn a large
close chawér, and are heated by steam. A dense,
noxious, jliow vapor arises from the action ofthe
acid on tie metal, and is carried off into the atmos-
phere though a Very high chimney. Nitric aeld
will not (fesolve gold, but it desolvea the silver of
the.gran.dated metal, taking it up in a clear solu.
«on, whie the pure gold sinks to the bottom of
the vessd in the state of a brown powder. When
all the gild is thus separated, the clear solution-
nitrate of silver—is run off into a large vat In tiio
room below, and the gold powder is placed in wood-
en tubs, where it to washed with water until the
washing will not afford a white eloudy precipitate,
i a m!np,e 8oIutton of common salt in a test
glass. The washing containing the most minute
mUlftl iiug'liui' " 1 '! •
•inw '
_ tin
polled from it in ovens—the invention of Mr. Kent.
From these it is taken to furnaces, melted in cru-
cibles, run into ingots of bars, then placed—all
hot—for a few seconds into a "brightening" bath
of diluted sulphuric acid, taken out, washed, and is
now finished refined gold. After this, a small bit
of every parcel is taken to the Assayer's room,
where it to submitted to the experimentan cruets
of a very refined analysis, to determine its fineness.
It is then weighed, stamped with its weight, fine-
ness, and value, and to then ready to be sent to the
Hint, to be struck into coin for circúlátion, or ship-
ped abroad to pay our foreign debts.
It requires twice as much silver in the Assay
Office as tho gold to be operated upon. The silver
is reduced to a nitrate—a* has been described—
then it is precipitated in large-vats in the state of
white powder—<the chloride of silver-r-by a solution
of common salt, and the chlorine pf the salt unites
. with the silver. The nitrate of soda to then wash-
ed away, and the chloride of silver is precipitated
in other vessels into a pure silver powder, by gra-
nulated zinc. The zine unites with the chlorine,
forming the chloride of zinc; leaving the silver in
tho state of a pure powder. Th« chloride of cinc
is then washed away, and the silver powder to then
submitted to hydraulic pressure in the Bramah
press, and again brovghunto the uietaUc state, and
used over and over again, ad infinitum, for the
same purposes, thus exhibiting the. triumphs of
chemistry in a simple and remarkable manner.—
AU these operations are conducted with the most
scrupulous care, and ate managed with profound
skill.
Considerable machinery is omployed in the Assay
Office. This is driven by á compact double cylind-
er direct acting engine, made by Starbuck & Sons,
of Troy, N. Y. Three steam boilers aire employed
to raise steam for the engine, and to heat the aeid
baths and water required fea the various washings.
All the sweepings of the floors, &o., are preserved,
and the old crucibles, ashes, and ether., refuse
tters are ground up, abd the gold separated by
" aratus. AU the gold which arrive#
in New Tork from CaHfornta to refined lb the Assay
Office; this amounts to about thirty millions per
annum. The depositors of gold recolve warrants
for it, payable as soon ss ita value is determined,
which to done in the course of one or two days
after it is deposited.—American.
Cottv* at Muumis^-U appearsfrom the Whig,
from Sept. 1st to Jan. 1st, that the total receipts of
Cotton at Memphis were 148,671 bales against #9,-
778 Isst year, an increase of 49,768 bales. The
shipments wen, respectively, to New Orleans, 128,-
966 balee; to the Ohio river, 14,276: and to St.
Louis, 742; a total of 188,984 bales.
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The Galveston Commercial, And Weekly Prices Current. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 14, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 17, 1856, newspaper, January 17, 1856; Galveston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth181349/m1/1/: accessed May 21, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History.