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Geo. W. Kin^,
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Editor and PuMlsher.
SAN MJGUST1
VOL. 1.
M SATURDAY, APRIL 11, 1857.
NO. 2.
htfljert
Texas Items
washuistoa Items
THE EASTERN TEXIAN,
Is published every Saturday at the
office, corner of Columbia
and Montezuma sts.,
San Augustine, Texas
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^ar*JOB WORK, of every description,
will be neatly, cheaply, and expeditiously
executed at the Texian Office
i; Affairs at Nicaragua.
In the
r i • ■ "• Mas
lantry whicffispd
{this position. At tSts
Picayune atMarefe-S^, |my, Kbo outnumbered our locos«
we find the following letter from Gen. j three orTour to one, sdftpull
for;., publication
in command of the
Henuingsen, of the Nicaragua#
written by him to "a frigid
Orleans, and not origi^|>-de.
The
the army; po§m0ea ad
ac^uirm^ rofor^t/on, sttpe
those of othe? Individ iml-fe
Walker, hin^iSt Hi? e
can therefore he r&lied upon
JSgP* ' RiTAS, Feb. 24, 1S-57.
Yotj have, long before this seen
accounts ol the operaiieatsrterminat-
ing with the occupatipiT^ut Rivas by
<fur*a<niy y ou are therefore in pos-
session of the fact that the tiuprece- iauts'renred
my, i town, making a not uuskiifjftfl feint
ew on our right, whilst their rear attack
was boldly pushed on SPiir^Jeft, cut-
iug through the cactus fe fines. #9
idvarcing by paths with which they
were-, familiar between tWfc main
roads, they aitempted with a body
of from 500 ro 6w m°n tGNtake us in
|fenk. They fouiSi us however pre-
pared to receive them; Ui one point
tbey^ made a very desperate effort,
ai!d the fighting,, which was almost
haod to hand, ^tl for a few minutes
very, severe. The enemy -almost
reached the road ; one man actiu^iy
rolled d«ad 'nto-u. twenty more were
lyang Within pisfoi shot of him ; and
in less than fifteen'miir.ites our assail-
were obliged to withdraw, with the
loss of four killed and eleven wounded.,
On the 7th. I^nt.jdown with! Ws extract the following Items
Gen. Walker a-Sd ttyo battalions, to'from the Gaiveston papers of latest
cannonade !Sa& with two C-1 dates :
ponnders. Aud'^d' one hundred ; \ve are happy to learn ihat the
rounds into the plaCe. The enemy ! grading on the first section of twenty-
made no attempt to come out. The £Ve mjies of the G. H. & 11 E. R.
meats
result of fhis cannonade was a loss to
tholeneiny of betw^n 70 and 80.
killed and wounded, without thajoss
on our side of a man- Furthermore
desertions from their ranks recom-
menced immediately after, ana they
were obliged to keep their men for
several days penned in, and to abstain
from any attempr to scour the coun-
try, as those seriLout deserted.
% In the upper part of the country
and on the Island of Ornate pec, every,
effort is made to rai^e and to press
men, but the steamers that. n|g daily
SATURDAY MORNING....
A MAN.
OENTOS.
BT WM
Not numerous years nor lengthened Jife,
Nor pretty children and a wife!
Nor pins and canes and fancy rings,
Hor any such like trumpery things;
Nor pipe, cigar, nor bottled wine,
Nor liberty with king's to dine;
Nor coat, nor boots, nor yet a hat,
A dandy vest or trim cravat;
Not bouses, land, nor golden ore,
Nor all tbe world's wealth laid in store!
Not Mr., Rev., sir, nor squire,
"With titles that the memory tire;
Not ancestry traced back to Will,
Who .went from Normandy to kill;
Not Latin, Green, nor Hebrew lore;
Nor thousand volumes rumbled o'er;
Not judge's robe, nor maj#'s mace;
Nor crowns that deck the royalrace—
These all united never can,
Avail to make a
mind.
udr"
A truthfuUg^ loving i
rtfcill ofag£tioD {or itfl kind«
ft, firm, erect and free,
Thatnever basely bends the knee, **
That will not bear a feather's weight
Of slavery's chains for small or great;
That truly speaks from Sod within,
And never makes a lesjjue with gin;
That snaps the fetters despots make,
And love the truth for its own sake ;
That worships God, and Him alone,
.2nd bows ni where but at his throne;
Tbat trembles at no tyrant's nod ;
A eoul that fears no one but Gml;
^3ad thus can smile at curse or ban—
This is the soul that makes a man..
Nicaragua between the beginning o#
October and middle of December fast
{between 7 and 8,000 men,) was
broken up in detail in a series of bat-
tles, viz : the attack on Messaya;
the battle of Grenada ; the two fights
on the Transit; the second attack''en
aya-; and the two or three weeks'
ting whicHsaccompanied the-^de-
struction of Grenada and evacua
of that city
prbbob.j undiscovered*', in on«f-
ejection they were seen to disperse
An break through the brush to the
number of about 350, and throwing
away thnir arms, notwithstanding
all the efforts of their officers to rally
Pta.- ^ i
- Amongst the dead was a command-
leaving six-j pp the Lake io not bring
jup*their on«inaJ HUn^Ser.
tbe meanwhiie, the enemy has been
unable either to cut off our resources
oi to occupy the transit, and you will
perceive that in the same manner
that the Allied force was broken up in
a series of actions between the rnid-
is now completed, and is said to be
all first-class road. The labor has
mostly been performed by our haidv
sons of Erin, under the management
of our energetic contractors, Messrs.
W. Gary ec Co. The ttack laying
ie going; on rapidly, aud we hope by
the first of May, we can all take a
ride.
We have seen some mention made
of the small pox as prevailing in sev-
eral places in the West, but some pa-
pers jhink the disease may pfuveto
torn
the landing m n. W aiker j which Bosquet was known to have
fee at San George, the ei.einy, ac1^ worn. About an hour before dark,
cording to the most reliable account^, approaching the town itself we made
was reduced by the sword, sickue?S,
and desertion,, to fifteen or sixteen
hundred meu. Riva% which Js-'as
evacuated on our approach, we occu-
pied aud proceeded to establish our
our ordnance, factories, &c.5 and to
reorganize the army. . wliftch had, of
course, suffered much ,in the sevejg
and continued fighting. At this junc- ^jorps was principally-raised, you have
ture, the capture of the stes®nfyr on
the river, of which you must hj^re re-
ceived the particulars before we
came to raise the hopes of the disi
raged allies, and to nerve them to fr
exeri ions.
It had been said before this de-
spondiuglv, that as long as the Amer-
'jans held the lake and river, it would
be impossible to drive them cut. The
allies, bemg now in possession of the
steamers, were ab'e, on the strength
of this success, io make another of-
fensive effort, of which the object was
to cut off our communication wuii
San J uctu an3*tffe Pacific^t the same
time ,that it was temporarily cut of
with the Atlantic.
1 \ To effect this, the allied G uerals
er supposed to be Gen. Bosquet, from -W been paraiyseS'hy
i he fact that a s?|p-d was taken on
him'which had formerly belonged to
Geu. Walker, whiSh he had lost, and
an u j&uccessful attempt to penetrate
through the barricades, but the 'lfjjj
Infantry, which, except one compa-
ny, was for the first time engaged to-
day, behaved with so much gallantry,
tfiat if ever men deserved to have
succeeded they did so, and 1 think,as
a citizen of New Orleans, where this
fright to be proud of their conduct.
11 let the facts speak fof.thftfn-
Co!. Jaquess, on receiving
order to charge, formed his men
column, in as good order and with
its much coolness as if on the parade
ground, and turned a corner where
he came face to face with a baricade
at sixty yards distance, besides a hea-
vy flanking fire. To this fire the
sixty-five men he led were exposed
from lour to six minutes, during
which time thirty of their number
were killed or wounded, inciudiua; the
Lieut. Ueeehler mortally. KThese
men not only went iuto action in good
order, but immediately fell into t>rder
die of October and December, so the
force which came rscen
leaving oniy a handful of men behind {on coming out of this deadly fire.—
them,"advanced towards liivas with Tnat they did succeed is due to
m
their mam force, by the Naudaime
road, exactly one month ago. This
force, raised on the prestige of their
success on the river, they reported at
2,000; it was probably about 1500
men. When this force reached Ob
je, a village eight miles from lviV?
and near Which the roads t||ve¥|jg
I San Jnau del Sur arid the Pacific
'none side, and towards the Jake,
San George and Virgin"Bay on the
other. Col. O'Neil was «ent out wilh
the !<* Battalion of Rifbrs, and a lb/hi-.
gun, to observe them. Puree
•companies who attacked the, :ciay
.were obliged 'o fali b^e.k. fightmr;,
a'itju-tthree-qaarters oi a aii'e, where
?U': maintained i.imsei> Uii i s^iveu
with the 1st Infantry, finder Col.
Taquess. ;i*"
The enemy, who as^usual had
ngly barricaded in ihe village, w«*
easily driven into it. At nightfall
our picket was established within
rifle shot of their baricade. iibout
midnight we received the order fro-.a
Gen. Walker to return to Rivas,
which " was done. Lieut. Mills,
with company C of the Istlafantry,
whieh had for '.he first time been iu
rj?*
action, covering the rearj Our loss
in this skirmish was three killed^and
iefensive opi
i v - I am &cj .
K Charles Frederick Hhnningsen.
j^rtrltems.
—■
Wa.shin«ito% March 26.—The dif-
ferent departm^fS are perfectly over-
whelmed with applications for ap-
pointments to irirtior positions, the
mass falsely supposing that the rota,
tion principle affects the lesser offices
Ex-Governor Medill, of Ohio, forth-
with succeeds E. Whittlesey as
Comptroller, Ex-Senator Pratt, of
Maryland, has had the post of Minis-
ter to Prussia tendered him.
f
."•The recurrence of the President's
disease,• (contracted at the National
Hotel,) has disabled him from attend-
ing to the active duties of his office.
Stuart is reappointed Collector at
Galveston.
James W. Summons is appointed
Surveyor at Copaivx Texas.
Robert J. Waiiu? acfep; 3 the
Colonel himself, the Major, and three j G-oyern°iship of Ivausd. ili§ hesi-
iieuteuan's. 5CajoPDrisenberr^and.^a^n x*'as ou aeco,aot of uis «<tmny.-
New York, March 2Ctht—There
is considerable electioneering excite-
ment in England. It is generally
thought that Palmerston will carry a
small majority;
makinc: in
two accidents, firstly, that the second
rifles, who were to have supported
them by a simultaneous attack, took
by mistake a wrong street, and se-
condly that tne Co'ouel and Major
e successively sffot down. Coi.
qhess, w hose Von nd w is supposed
|je mortai. I am happy, to say is
«Blfes|y out of daifger, but id Major
■Oi|6Pjirtjeriry, who diBd of hjs wounds
at Rivas, the arm j lias lost a valuable
officer. i
Darkness intervening immediafelv
« 'e chicken pox. '^TTe ban
x iut of the 5th iiatf says : ~ f
We see it stated that the small pox
is raging with fearful effect in the
towns of Caudella and Lampasas, in
Mexico; and that some 700 have al-
ready died with it. It is also said to
be raging in Laredo, Texas. Would
it not be wed for San Antonio to be
look oat.
* jThe Northern Standard of the 21st
alt., also speaks of the smail pox iu
SRed River county as being brought
amonsc them by a Mr. Fleming from
N°w Orleans. Mr. Fleming and
thiee or four other persons in the vi-
cinity were sick with that dreadful
disease, aud much alarm seemed to be
felt.
The editor of the News, writing
from Gonzales under date of the Sth,
says:
The county generally has suffered
severely for the want of rain, but
should a few warm showers come,
even in a week or two, the crops will
do well. Both corn and cotton, are
through the ground, and if this north-
er blows over without a frost, no dan-
ger need be apprehended. The grass
on the prairies looks geen and fresh,
and the trees are beginning to assume
their spring foliage, while the gar-
dens about town look more forward
than usual at this season.
The News has the following para-
graphs :
We see accounts of the small pox
having made its appearance, in many
diflerent places in Texas, ajlmost
simultaneously. The nearest ap-
proach it has made to this city, as
far as we can learn, is Rock Island,
Austin county. There may he some
exaggeration in.the reports; but it is
Weil tor the people to be on their
guard.
Ion, in his le'ter to the Baltimore
Sun, dated Washington, March 19th
furnishes the following items :
It is aqusstiou that deserves atten-
tion whether the constitutional duties
of tbe President necessarily require
him to sacrifice his own constitution
to the demands of the office-seekers
and holders. Two of his predeces-
sors were in this way run down, and
it is time that Mr. Buchanon should
plead his privilege, if that can afford
him protection.
Formerly the career of an incoming
administration was more plainly mark-
ed than now. The doctrine was in
former times, that "to the victors be-
long the spoils." But, as was lately
remarked by the distinguished author
of this doctrine, the spoils wtj^takeu
ffj$m foes, whereas they are now tak-
es^SS!
It was with much satisfaction for-
merly, no doubt,.that opponents were
turned out, and friends substituted
lor them. It was a double pleasure-
such as General Jackson enjoyed
to " punish his enemies and reward
his friends." But under present cir-
cumstances the distribution of the
spoils is attended with unusual em-
barrassment.
The sooner the work be completed
the better it will be for the comfort
and health of the President and his
advisers, and for the proper dispatch
ol the public business.
It is satisfactory to know that the
ordinary working machinery of the
executive government is not to be dis-
turbed by the present administration.
The sooner this be made known to
the country the better. The clerks
are not to be disturbed.
It is evident from the statements
made by Gov. Geary that he will not
be induced to withdraw his resigna-
tion as Governor of Kansas. The
party which cohtrols the territofy
will no doubt carry out their views,
wbatfever ihey may be. An election
will be held for the adoption of a
Si ate constitution, toleraiing slavery,
which will be brought before the next
Congress.
Large preparations are _
Spain against Mexico.
The Spauish Government organ
demands that. England and France
request the United States to remain
neuiral. quite active—goods going freely
of hi?iairt-i Coi. ja<£ue*w* at aefc.
vouac ked b-.f-re San
bout miotiiahi'-! rode b- "
take the orders oi the
the troops
-~iVv
i{ {j £ jv 35:
' ii 5
er-ia-Ciiief with regard io pr^^i«ig
our operatious in the mormjJ^ When
he ordered ti:e troops to ore earn at
daybreak to Rivas. Our this
affair was seventy-nine killed, aud
wounded, including fifteen killed on
the field. The^loss of fbe enemy
was at least tjjro hundred killed and
wounded (betwlen sixty and seventy
killed,) aud probably a larger number
dispersed, as not only immediately
after their route in the opeu field,
large parties deserting passed through
the neighboring villages without
sd^uid j thcu arms, but this desertion contiu-
iku6 woupded, the enemy, beiore J ued more or less for many days. From
being driven into the village, leaving i this time though our. .forces have
some twenty bodies on the field. The!been twice since before San George,
enemy being now unmolested, began; the enemy has never appeared in the
to move cautiously towards the Lake jopen fieid.
creeping from village to village, and ; The steamer Sierra Nevada being
barricading strongly, till, having 1 now due at San Juan del Sur, on her
opened a communication witfe the return from Panama, Gen, Walker,
steamers, he advanced and occupied Ion the evening^pf the 30th Ja: uary,
luan with two hun-
5an George, two and q, haif miles
from RivaSj where he rapidly en-
trenched. |3
^ByGen. Walkeri^&rder I marched
ant with part of the 1st atfS 2nd rifles, cade, but hearing that Walker
1st infantry, three light) /guns, - and was marching to attack him, aban-
ibrty mounted ranger? tditeconabitre jdoned the town at m d-day^ and re
the enemy, bring them tc action and j treated to San George. Go® Waik-
driveK them from San George, if it! er entered Virgin at sunset, aud next
'couid be done without too Much loss, irnoriiing returned to liivas. |B afore
The 1st Rifles being advanced very ; day break on the 4th, General Walk-
, near the place pushed impatient lyjer with part of thu Island 2nd rifles,
t , a e , • forward to charge some very heavy i pene rat d into the suburbs of San
barricades unsupported ; Lieut. Col. jGeorg '. A forlorn hope under Dr.
Leonard iu command was wounded, j M-.T bermy surprised. « barricade and
It is rumored Napoieon offers me
diation." In the meantime, French
ships are ordered to cruise off Vera
Cruz.
- It is reported that England and
France have declined to guarantee
the sah:fy oi Cuba m the c sit of a
wit;: Mexico.
-A speciei Mexican Mmister ha
unit >1 at Southsmptpfj, sn rou
iViwdrid.
The Spanish! War programme eon-
templates the bringing of Santa An-
na from his 'retiretnent and assisting
him to c&ntore Vea Cruz,
The Galveston Price Current of
Saturday says:
Business in Galveston has been
ward per steam and sail vessels to
various interior points, and we antic-
ipate an animated trade for months
to come.
The Sabine, Angelina and Neches
remain navigable, and produce is com-1 Atlantic, midway between the conti-
' j iug down freeiy or, •>: • .co=, i,f;ng: uents, the two steamens having the
, j reshjpped at Sabine ic r ih;s p'.:-: a ad | cable on board, wih connect the
I halves carried by them respecti', elv,
1 and
Laying the Telegraphic Cable.
—We learn that the Secretary oi the
Navy has ordered the steamships
Niagra and M ssissippi, now at
the Brooklyu Navy Yard, to be equip-
ped with dispatch, to assist hx laying
down the Atlantic telegraph cable
between Newfoundland and Ireland.
The Niagra is the largest ship-
of-war in our navy, and her manner
of construction weil adapts her to the
peculiar service for which she is de-
signated, having a large "flush" deck
with high ceiling, upon which the
cab'e may be stowed through the
entire length of the ship, and from
whence it can run off through the.
hatchway, by the aid of suitable steam
apparatus The Mississippi will act
as an escort, to provide against acci-
dent. Another pair of steamers, de-
tailed by ihe English government,
will be similarly equipped; and the
whole proceeding to a point in thsf
! New Orleans.
fll""" i~~
The M-.v8 from abroad has some- steom "5"* " moderate speed,
, ,,i r ,u hn opposite directions for the shore,
what decreased the buoyancy of the r,;' , , . . . , ,u
*, , , / ,, " - Ihe two factories at which the ca-
cotton market, though boilers have ,, ... r , , . ,
, , , i hie is being irianufaciured are mcated
submitted to no deebne, and transac- •
tious have been on a fair scale.
Lord Paimerston announces that
Until/Parliament is dissolved, Great
Britain will pursue a firm potfey to-
wards China, and that he hopes for
the""co-operation of Ffcarice aiid ,the
United States, in competrmg TJhina
to grant additional commercial ad-
vantages.
Reinforcements are going out from
England to China.
The Chinese have seized upon the
British opium depot at Canton.
The treaty between England and
Persia has been signed, but not yet
been ratified by Persia.
The Neufchatels
opened aS Paris.
erence has
marched to SalPjt
dred and fifty iBj|n. Ou the morning [defeated on the divorce bill,
of tbe 1 fei Gen. Conas with 300 men
entered Virgin and began to barti-
Tbe Liberty Gazette of the 16th,
has the following.
During the past week two frosts
have fallen here, which have nipped
vegetation in the gardens around
town, to no little extent We have
seen corn from three to six inches
high, but it does not present a heal-
thy aspect. Some planters in the
county have corn knee high. Yes-
terday morning a chilling norther
was blowing ; last night frost fell, but
to-day the weather is mild and quite
pleasant.
The Houston Telegraph of the
18th, says :
Corn and cotton are cut down to
?' The Prussian Ministry ha^ been'the ground pretty generally by the
| late frosts. In Fort Bend county,
fields that last week were promising j
aud beautiful, are now desolate.
! at Liverpool and London. The Ni-
agra will sale for one of these ports
as soon as she can bs made ready, say
by the end oi the present mouth—an
English steamer loading simultaneous-
ly at the other factory. Meanwhile,
the Niagara will be fitted up with
apparatus to pay out the wire, corres-
ponding with that which was used
by the James Adger in laying* the
Newfoundland cable, but of a leas
ponderous kind, as the cable soon to
be laid is much more pliant and man-
agebie than the former.
The new cabie is making at the
rate of fifteen mi es pei day at each
factory aud is expected to be comple-
ted and laid down^by the end of June.
It will not be necessary that the Miss-
issippi should leave '.he United States
until a short time previous to the lay-
ing of the cable.—Journal of Com-
merce.
A good story is told of a sher-
iff avIio carae noar being outdone
by a person it was in t-ltc line of!
his duty to hang.
Well Pitt.-
:.:2? i
has ever been a good nusi-
aposer. They have ercoll-
I Of.egon to be a Slave State.—
The New York Tribune of the 4th
. j instant says: '* We have a number of
i ... , newspaper wri-J ;ctt_er^ from Oregon; by the last mail.
w iter, imitating the prevalent pntc-jcontaining the startling information
"Sir-" said the gentleman, as the j tice among some editors of puffing (that tj,j
s territory hitherto set down as
sheriff was carefully adjusting |everybody who has shown them jeertaia for Freedom,will, in all prob-
tho rope,"realty, your attentions I the commonest civility, ior their lability, present herself to the next
deserve mv thanks. In fact I do I courteous and gentlemanly con-! Congress for admission into the LTn-
not know of any one I should! duct," returns his thanks to " the j ion with a Constitution legalizing
rather have hang me.
"Really," said the
sheriff,
■parson and proprietor;
'you • church''* in a city he
■ of the stone! Slavery,
had visited,
_ ( .... j, , j~~, , ., The team we shed for those we
astronomy, chemistry. andjCapt, Wilkinson mortally wounded j Uiifed some twenty of its defenders, j are pleased to be complimentary, i" for the privilege ot promenading love are tfce streams whieh water the
sciences, btlt^ no one can; and Capt. Russei killed. The 1st'but iot being supported promptly 11 do not know of another individ- up and down the broad aisle ofj garden of the heart, aud without them
Jut & good original compos-i rifles were hereupon recalled<ltiKlj^|oBgh, the party and supporting | tfal it would give me so much 1 the same, on Sunday last, in search {it would be dry and barren—thegen-
mgsrt them.
: placed in reserve instead of the Istfwfmpany exposed t0 a deadly fire, j pleasure to hang."
of a seat, unmolested.*4
tie flowers of affection would perish.
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