Texas Ranger & Lone Star. (Washington, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 47, Ed. 1, Thursday, June 2, 1853 Page: 2 of 4
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THURSDAYJ JUNE 2, 1S53.
FOR CONGRESS,
VX, K. "SCTJKRY.
For Governor.
3""TVe arc authorized to aunounce the Hon.
E. 31. PeasCj of Brazoria county, as a candidate for
Governer, at the election in August nest.
Jt2g "We are authorized to announce Licnf Gov.
James W Henderson, as a candidate for Governor
at the ensuing August election.
For Lieutenant Governor.
"Js-TTc are authoi-izcd to announce the Hon. D. C.
,Dick?on of Grimes county, as a candidate for Lieut.
Governor.
3'"Weare authorized to .announce Dr. J. B.
Robertson, of "Washington county, as a candidate
. for Lieutenant Governor.
For Congress.
"ig-u "Wc are authorized to announed Col. Thomas
W. IJIafce, of Leon county, .as a candidate for the U.
S. Congress in the "Western Congressional district,
fct the election in August nest.
i i?ST" "Wetarc authorized to announce Gov. P. II.
-Belly -v a jcandifntrr to represent the "Western Con-
gressional District of this State, at the election in
Avgust next.
:232 "We are authorized to announce G, E. Lew
as a candidate at the ensuing August election; to
reprcnt the "Western District in Congress.
" For Senator.
feg,"Wc arc authorized to announce Hon. James W.
HcDade., as a. candidate to represent "Washington
county in the' State Senate, at the ensuing election.
" For Representative.
j"Wc are authorized to announce G. Y. Craw-
ford, Esq., as a candidate to represent Washington
county, in the Legislature at the ensuing election.
J22 "We are authorized to announce Hon. John
.Stamps as a candidate to represent Washington
county in tlie Legislature, at the ensuing election.
ftmr.t J - comer an inestimable lavor on
?f'uclxanr: J send ag him the
VPc-stmasters will confer an inestimable favor on '
names of tiose subscribers who took the Hanger at
MsBasfc Qfficcprevious to the time of the bnmin-
bC nis establishment.
To Our-SubscrilJcrs
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J.'or7.?lTrppl.-!TMqfcc our subscribers, whojitorof this paper, with a few pei sons, haviu
get their pajiegfrorn this Office, Love complain
od of the-Inconvenicnt manner of getting to
the office. We now have the pleasure of noti-
fying them that Mr. Lett, has allowed us an en-
terauce through his store, daris"- the business
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the!
ap-
ral.
who we goiu -
into the mountains, to explore the gold region,
Strangors after strangers are daily arriving and
procuring- an outfit for the golden land.
.-JBS& Mr. JtthnMeKenzie, who has just-rc-
dS icoin the 'Sandieg, infortfts us that the
gOTfi louaan VJS-tJJaee wasot.snenMinute par-
fegl 5it5wnptwath.diggiiig for, and
maaypg thqshdfikabftrc,araT)rceel
asgai-ae Wjcmla, 'scA (Juadalonpe mountains,
otftfoe San Saba. : - : r
&ir . ::
-i The star and stripesrare found, and to-
day may lie seen floating majestically in the
breeze not " over the halls of the Montezu-
mas," but over that sacred spot where the De-
- ejaration-of- -IndrpnndcncTrwas declared, which
caused- the Mexican government to tremble,
tdtier. and fall.
1s5?" 3y a notice in our advertising columns,
iGvill bo Eeen that the annual convocation of
the Grand Chapter of the State, will be held at
this place on the 2'itli inst. On -the occasion
tjfefe will, double lea numerous assemblage,
land'U'c among other citizens, will welcqine the
"gates with open doors
fhrnESSZ Phe llev. Geoige Rottenstien, is no lon-
gejjeditdr of the Texas Wesleyan Uanncr, he
bavin" TeEigned Iris credential, as a Methodist
minister in order to don the silk robe of the
Episcopal Churcfu The paper for the present
"will be edited by llev. S. B. Cameron.
' AAVhig Candidate In the Field.
Judge B. F. CaruthcrSj formerly of 3Iissis-
rippi, now of Austin, has consented to run as
the Whig candidate for the Western Congres-
sional Distriot. He believes he has an admira-'Ble-clrance-to
slip into Congress, there being so
"many Democrats in the fiad. Jud-ie C. is a
m&n?5lt ffine talent and superior ability, and?
6tioull-then-iisgs eiectmm, he can (if he will,)
ablaoanionofablyTSprcsentthem.
.i :
C Col. Bancy says he it a Democrat, and
noyanhermopTirodit.aS the G.izetto""appCared
to Insinuate. Wo have alwa3's understood the
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be a Democrat, and how the Gazette
avemaaoitEuch'ariacrJor in; placing .him
hcfcMcc, we cannot conceive". - !
MRR -"-, AfE.S --:- tr!& 01- oiaao went up mere, uu iu iu use y
fSlgsSBHs r: ": T I-i-ifer i aaaiust the savages, and fouud speci
splgglg T ;" -"" Jgi! I pi ecious. metal to' such an extent,
g'SfcS: - ' '- iT-Tfcir some of their Incnds ootaiued ti
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llyTng" polnfaiici fucus of those
x Go!d Mines in Texas.
-..The following aiticle from the Indianola Bul
letin, will be read with interest. Prom what
we can learn it is the very spot, where the com-
panies, now fitting out at this place are going.
If they reach there, we have no doubt but they
will be amply repaid for their tiip.
As much excitement exists in Texas and else-
where in regaid to the late discoveries of gold
on the Coloiado and its tiibutarics, commencing
rsome 50 or 60 miles above -'lustin ; and as we
have not as yet received any veiy full accounts
from that region, insomuch that some degiee of
scepticism prevails on the subject, we propose
briefly to state what we know or have heard on
the subject, long before the present excitement.
It is traditionary aud historical.
"We know that the remains of an old Spanish
fortt stood on or near the San Saba ; that it was
erected to protect silver mines in the vicinity ;
that they were long and profitably woikcd, and
only abandoned about 1730 by the massacre of
most of the operatives and troops. This is his-
torical truth. Thcmines were very lich.
To woik these mines and seaich for gold
mines said by old Mexicans to be in that region,
was the object of Rezin P. and James Bowie,
when they were attacked and had the celebrateu
fight with the Indians in 1S31, six miles fioui
this old fort.
It is well known to many that the Indians
have always said there was botli gold and siher
in that section, and specimens wcie seen in their
hands many years ago ; but they have always
refused to divulge the place of existence Santa
Jnna, the Comanche chief, when diunk in lt45,
told the agent of the German colony that theie
was plenty of both metals thiough the moun-
tains of Texas. Theie Jived some yeais ago a
very old Mexican at San Antonio, who claimed
to have becu along with the Indians in his
younger days, and that they often visited gold
and silver mines in the same section and used
the metal for various purposes that they were
very careful to conceal one or two rich places
by using large stones, and that none but old and
confidential men were allowed to know the pla-
ces most highly prized.
The alcalde of Monclova in Mexico, during
the war in 1S47, informed Capt. Buchcl, now
of Indianola, and a gentleman Cy' veracity, that
his father had been stationed at an carlv day at
j the old San Sana fort, aud had during his life
often told him (the alcalde) a great deal about
; the countrJ, and that there were valuable mines
, t. nAunt hn (thn nunlfi hitA nn ,UnUt
j thei and tuat He uic alcalde; Had no douDt
but inteiesting documents on the subject could
be found amoug the archieves of Monteiey or
Chihuahua.
In the year 1S30 or '31 the father of the cd-
learned various facts on this subject horn old
Mexicans in Sau Autonio, made a trip into that
region, visited the Euchantcd Rock, aud made
encouraging discoveries ; but were driven in by
the Indiangr- ' - -"
lU- In 1S40 a paity of 2 or 3 anen from the Col-
mens of the
that they or
om tne next
Congi ess, a ehai ter for mining purposes ; but
the wars of 1S42, broke up their plans and sev-
" i eial of their number were killed that year.
. 'PliAnn nv.k rt IVlltT ltTinnfflllf T t ff C 1 1 I 111 Atlf
I J.UU2U IIC cb it. ll xuiuuiiuuu xtiifi? uit in uui
' i possession twelve to lifte'en years ago. Thev
, all tend to prove the same fact that gold and
' silver do abound iu the mountains of Texas.
We give them for what they are worth, just as
nc leceived them, before there was any of the
j present interest felt.
We have not and do not doubt the existence
of both gold and silver in the district alluded to;
' we hope it is very l ich ; but we caunot speak on
that subject, though the truth 111 soon be
known. It is known to all that those metals do
- exist in great .abundance, along the mountains
' from the extreme .North to the extreme South
of Mexico, and that our mountains aic branches
of those. Our mountains are said to resemble
a- iue gum regions in iuiiiuiuij. vuiy inuun , cu
i ATr ir.ir-noll ntir tntvn;fii!iTi tfllls nc nnrl lif hn;
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on .. , Ui..w., w-. .JS; , -,
seeQ botn.
Those interested can add these' facts to the
a" statements now made of recent discoveries and
better know how to estimate them. AVe have
es-1 had several very encouraging rumors from the
nc ! mines, but declined publishing anything merely
I to get up an excitement, and desire to await au-
' thentic renoits. I3ut again wc repeat, we have
no doubt but that the mines are theie the-only
questions to he solved are how extensive ? how
vtluable ?
Wf Timv nflflth.it vniv lntiv iiiovliniictUiln
.. , J J --.J . w -
J beds bf excellent coal and thu pin est maihle
have been found, in the same poriion of our
iStatc - Intuwola, Bulletin.
j j. The S. W. Ameriban speaks thus of the
J Ilaaiilton'Valloy gold mines :
j Several of the citizens of Austin have reccnt-
lv visited thcmines. They all airrcc that the
procpcct of find'ug gold on or near' the surface
is bad. There aie hands engaged in making an
excavation for the puipose of testing the existence-
of the precious metal at depth's not yet
reached
.Aitlinrl . Snnin fl!rit- o,,iTf"i4'vnie 'mtni v tfill.Ti
found 5in quantities aYid ricliriess'tb iusfifv the
kjvrill. 111111ft. UUIlLblUUJ Htlllllb 1)111
use of nnachineiy. This may be true, however,
no evidences have been furnished to verify it.
The suiface gold i.---met with in thin and mi-
nute scales ; and not plentiful.
Some rather ludicrous scenes are said to trans-
pire at the "diggins." One party, on not find-
ing the metallic particles as profuse as they con-
ceived it should be from previous representa-
tions, hung up their pans and shot them full of
holes.
Numbers still continue pressing to the so-
called El Dorado of Texas ; whether the whole
affair will pass off without further discoveries
being made, remains for future development.
S?" Ai indignation meeting was recently
held in Cincinnati, in relation to the Mayor of
cUyj who 1eglected tbe dutic3 of
his office.
The following re solutions were passed :
Jicsolvcd, That this committee believe, and
solemnly declare Mayor Snellbakcr is politically,
morally and deservedly dead, in the estimation
of the citizens of Cincinnati. Therefore,
Resolved That we leave him to occupy his
present position-as being no longer woi thy the
consideration of any honorable body.
AS?" The ship William and Mary, Captain
Stcnson, which sailed from Liverpool March
26th, bound for New Orleans, stiuck a sunken
rock near the G reat Bahama Bank, on the 3d
of May and was lost. Two hundred passengers
perished.
B A young man in our ofiice from Nash-
ville snvs, ( and he sticks to it,) that cucumbers
crow in the mountains of Tennessee, on trees
1 w .-
ojie hundred jcei mgn. e wish some one in
those mountaueous diggins, would send us a
sprinkling of seed, as wc would like to ?cc a
tree iu our garden 100 feet high, loaded down
with cucumbers. "
EU lt Cincinnati and St. Louis on the 13th
nit., mess pork was soiling at 14 20 per bar-
rel. "
snrm7raTrLipffl':"gpagrCT:;'t ji?55''-1
The Crops.
It gives ns great pleasure to state, that not-
withstanding some weeks since the crops were
j in a veiy backward condition, the news at this
time from Washington, Buileson, Giimes, Aus
tin, Faette and other counties, is quite cheer-
ing.. We are informed that the crops -in these
counties are doing well, especially corn, and
should the season continue favorable, the plant-
er may expect as rich and bounteous anhaivest,
this year as last. On this subject we quote
from the Houston Telegraph:
"We vistfed Chappell Hill a few days since,
aud were agreeably surpiised to notice the
piomisiug appearance of the crops in that sec-
tion. AVe had received such unfavorable ac-
counts of the crops a few weeks since, that we
had entertained fears that the heavy laius and
the cold weather had nearly luincd the cotton
ciop in the undulating country. The late sea-
son of dry weather has enabled the planters to
re-plant their fields that were injured by the
rains, and to weed out those that liad been over-
grown with grass. The crops uow appear to be
remaikably promising. The cotton and corn on
the plantations we saw, paiticuhuly those of
Maj. J. IL Cocke, Dr. Lockhait, Mr. B.out,
and Col. Wallace, wcie as promising in appear-
ance as at any time last year. It the weather
should continue favorable, the crops'in that sec-
tion will be as huge as they weie last year.
We aie iufoinied by (VI- Shannon that the ciops
are equally niomiMus in Montgomery county
We aie giatified to learn that a huge number of i
new settleis, horn Alabama, Tennessee and
Geoigia, have opened fauns in the neighbor-
hood of Bicnham, and aie deleehted with the
countiy. They expect that a huge number of
their tuends and lelations in the btate they leit
will remove to Washington county this fall.
The price of land has advanced in Washington
county -ncaily fifty percent., and within the last
year many new plantations have been opened,
and seveial fine houses have been erected, and
eveiything gives evidence of improvement, ex-
cept the roads. These seem to be almost en-
tirely neglected, and one might suppose, fiom
the neglected appeaianec of the loads, that the
planters expect to send their crops to maikct b
balloons or by raihoads, that aie to be built by
magic."
The editor of the Gazette, who has been on
a visit to Bastrop, says.
uIn the country aiound Bastrop, some exten-
sive and beautiful fauns have been opened the
past year, and the crops, though a little back-
ward, look very piomising; the corn paiticular-
ly has a good color, and with a fair season hence-
forward, will make a large yield. Cotton also
looks very well, and is larger considerably than
in this county. The advanced state of this
crop in our sister couuty may be judged of by
the following paragrah from the Advertiser of
the 21st May "We wcie shown a cotton stalk
yestciday, fiom the plantation of one of our
Bastrop planters, which poi tends well for the
coming crop. This specimen, a fair one for
the field, is about two and one-half feet high,
well branched and full of forms. -We are told
Mr. A. W. Hill has cotton in blossom. The
crops never looked better, or bid 'fairer for an
abuudantyicld."
Improvement of tlic Kivers.
We commend the following communication,
which we clip fiom the Galveston News, to the
attention of our readers. We hope to see 1 ail-
road men and river men unite, for wc believe it
can be the only way to succeed in carrying out
the internal improvement system :
Cincinnati, Texas, May 10th, 1S53.
Editors JVcics. Wc were a few days since
hauded a copy of the "Texas State Gazette,"
of April SOth, by a fiiend, and wc were sur-
prised to find a communication in its columns,
addressed "To the qualified Electors of this
State," over the initials "J. E. Cr. """calling on
them to oppose the improvement of our rivers,
and the application of two hundred and sixty-
five thousand dollars toso praisewoithy an ob-
ject, at our next regular election. We cannot
suppose Messrs Editors, that the voters of your
3-oung and rapid improving Stale will entertain
for a moment an idea of throwing impediments
in the way of the developments of its natural
resources, or the increase of its facilities for
transportation, notwithstanding such selfish and
uncandid appeals should continue to be made to
them from now until the dajT of the election.
We contend that his assumptions are void of
nuth, the lesult of ignorance, or willful mis-
representation. Ah proof, we will quote what
he say. in 1 elation to the mouth of the Tiinitv.
'Think, will you, for a moment, of the labor,
time and mimnj spent at or near the mouth of
the Tiinity last 3'ear, and what was the result?
What it will always be, when the floods of wa-
ter come eveiy impression that had been made,
was again smoothed by the shitting sand, &c."
You Messis. Editots, and the public genuially
know that thete was not a dollar spent "at or
ucar the. mouth of the Tiinit-," towards deep
ening the channel, or in any way to the nnprov
UWT1HV.11W Vfl. I.U - 1 I V. M. Ai..'.., tattiv 1-UblV llllO tl. Ulll
kTiintiJ'. nf" thn ll Vrtl" 1 f cfkl t fliflf. flimn , tr n ii-a
house'built to deposit goods in, after the goods
were lighted over the bar, is very true; but the
building of said warehouse -has very little to do
with the project in question, and serves to prove
positively that the correspondent of the Gazette
has clearly made 'one point, to wit: that he can-
not enlighten any one on the matter. If he
cannot enlighten, he should not attempt to mis-
lead the$public, by advising them on -a-snbjact ho
is so badly ported up in. Wc have lived, dur-
ing our residence in Texas, neat-, and on the
banks offthe Tiinity, duiing which time, wc
have taken some pains to become acquainted
with its susceptibility of being navigated and
improved; wo have, also, passed twelve yeais of
our lite in navigating the Uhio, Mississippi, and
other livers and have no hesitation in giving it
as our opinion that the Trinit', with the neces-
sary improvements, will become one of the fust
livers in the South, for navigation, which im-
piovemcut is ptacticable without a doubt. We
speak pat ticalaily of the Tiinity, having but
impeded knowledge of the other rivers in the
State. Wc have not heard one individual speak
of the impracticability of deepening the bars at
the mouths of our rivers until we saw the com-
munication in question. The general expres-
sion has been, by those who hvow it, that more
money is paid at the mouth of the Trinity, alone
for lightering cotton in one year, than would
pay foi the making of a permanent channel, and
mi eh is no doubt, the fact. The shoals on the
Trinity are soft rock formations, and can easily
be removed. Our rivers will continue to afford
more water, and for a longer time, each year, as
the country continues to settle up alon"' these
banks. The timber and rubbish being removed
fiom the surface of the earth, the water pases
immediately into the liveis; the ground, from
being trod by stock, will become firmer, and
consequently less water taken up by absorption.
Taking all these facts into consideration, and
many others that might be adduced, it must be
evident to any unprejudiced mind, that it will
take less water from rear to year, as thecouutry
continues to be opened, to make the rivers navi-
gable than at preseut. lny well informed
boatsman will tell you that our rivcrsirc much
hotter for navigation now than thoy were sevcr-
al years ago; that the boating seasons last long-
er on an aveiage, &c. We ate not Messts. Ed-
itois, opposed to the construction of railroads
in our State, but hope that the fruitful imagin-
ations of the Gazette's correspondent may be
realized to the letter. But every person must
know that a general railroad system cannot be
had for years to come, and never to materially
conflict with the calling trade on our rivers, if
they are propcily improving; which lias been
fully tested a.t the North wheie raihoads and
liveis lun side by side. If the apptoptiation
for our liveis is not so much as is needed, let us
take what we can get, and apply it to the im-
provements most needed. Taking all these
things into consideration, besides man- other
facts that we have no time nor the ablility to
place befoie the public in a proper light, we feel
confident that .eveiy well-wisher of his couuty
will go to the polls next August, .and cast his
vote in favor of ap'ptying every dollar appropri-
ated for the purposes intended, even if he
should happen to live in a section that should
derive less immediate benefit by the improve-
ment of the livers throughout the State, than
more favored portions.
PBO BONO PUBLICO.
&3? Our readers will find the two proclama-
tions of.Gov Bell worthy of particular and at-
tentive peiusal. One refers to the people the
pioposition to amend the constitution so as to
provide for filling certain vacancies that may
take place on the benches of our District Courts
The other refers to the people, to be decided at
the next August elections, the question whether
some two hundred and sixty thousand dollars
shall be appropriated for the improvement of
the several livers of the State. The proclama-
tion gives all the details of this important bill,
and the- should be examined attentively in or-
der to be voted on understanding!. We shall
vote in favor of this mcasuie, for we think it
would he difficult to accomplish so much good
with so small an amount of money, in any oth-
er way. On the terms of the San Antonio
railroad contract the whole of this appropria
tion would scarce! build ten miles of railroad ;
but if judiciously and honestly expended, as di-
iccted, on our livers, it will materially improve
the navigation of all the nivcis in our State
and in time to benefit almost every farmer and
planter, within twelve mouths from the time of
commencement.
To Gold IJUusters.
The Eldorado News amuses itself, at the ex-
pense of the Greenhorns who rush to California,
in a parody on Lord Byron, after this fashion.
We commend it to the careful consideration of
thoscof our citizens " bound for the promise
land." N
The Grccnlioni' came down like the wolf ou the fold,
To tin laud that ra -iid to be U-turn:;: with j-old.
And the gleam of .their wash-pan like comet-, or stars.
Hashed hrjght o'er our gulches, or canyons aud bars
Like the lesves of the forest when summer i green,
That hot in the month of October was een ;
Like the leaves of the fjrett when Autumn hath blown,
That host in Deiciubcrwas scattered and -trown.
For the - 1'icnd of the Storm' spread hi wings on the blast.
And rain at his bidding came Midden and fast.
And the witters were raised till each creek was a flood,
And previsions went up ou account of the mud.
And there lay the tools they lnd bought upon trust
Each vath pan and crew-bar all tovt red with rust ;
And there Ijj- each Greenhorn coiled up in his tent
Hi pork-barrel tnipU. hL. money all spent.
And tIiTictim3 them'clves were quite loud in their wail.
And the inorchint who sold upon credit turned pale ;
And tln-c who prajed hardest f r rain at the first,
Were now b their comrades most bitterly cursed.
In ain they prospected each dreary ravine
In vaju tlu explored where no white mm had been:
Tin- richer thej fondly expected to clasp,
Like the w lll-o'-the-wi-p. had eluded their grap.
And some of the Greenhorns rcolvcd upon Ilight,
And ra nosed the ranch in a desperate plight ;
bile those -who succeeded in reaching the town,
Confessed thiy were done most decidedly brown.
Jrom Mexico.
The late news from Mexico shows that Santa
Anna, has again commenced his tyrannical sway,
ne has ordered the banishment of Gen. Arista,
and issued a decree against the liberty of the
press.
The following is the correspondence between
the Mexican Minister of War and Gen. Arista.
Most Excellent Sir For reasons of the high-
est policy, among which those occupy the atten-
tion of the Supreme Government which, in spite
of all things, are necessary for the tranquility
of the country and public order, especially in
I the present critical moment when the nation has
confided its destiny to the President: He, in the
use of the powers on him conferred, has icsolv-
cd that your Excellency shall leave immediately
with the cscoit which is sent, and embark in the
Diitish steamer to leave Vera Cruz in a few
days, with the understanding that your Excel-
lency cannot return without permission from the
Supreme Goernment, and that, while you re-
main in Europe, you will hold your rank in the
army and lcceive the corresponding pay. Ac-
cept" the assurances of my liiuh consideration.
God and liberty. ORNEL,
To Gen. M. Arista. ' . r ' . "
Mexico, April 27th, lSoS.-1'
"The following ishe General's reply:
Most Excellent Sir Col. Andre handed me,
at 9 a. m., of the 30th ult., at my estate of
Nanac Amilpa, your Excellency's note of the
27th, and at 1 o'clock of the afternoon I was
on the rnaiLfor this pnrt, as-Has tlomandod of
me.
" I do not conceive why or how my presence
iu the country can be an obstacle to the restora-
tion of order, unless it be a crime that I have
held some fiiendly private relations with Cara-
vajal and a few other North American Federal-
ist if siding in the vicinity of the Northern fron-
tier, which is indicated by the expression which
your excellence' has let fall in the note am
now lcplyiug to, that while I remain in Europe
I shall cnjny my rank and pay. I must say to j
your Excellency, that notwithstanding my Fed-
eral ideas and the sympathy which I feel for the !
institutions of North Ameiica, I have not com-I
mitted the slightest act for which I should be j
puuished with banishment, I desire the happi
ness of my country, and to obtain it I see no
other road than of federal institutions, and if
possible, annexation to the United" States, in
which Mexico would find an inexhaustable foun-
tain of wealth and piosperity, even should she
loe that liddle, that quadrature of the circle,"
which Gen. Santa vluna tcrnrs nationality. j
"The day will come when this will occur, and j
in the meantime I pi otest most solemnly against i
this act of tyranny, and at a proper time I will '
demand ducieparation for the damages inflicted i
upon me. God and liberty.
3M1UAN0 ARISTA.
"To the Minister of War, Mexibo.
"Vera Cruz, May 5, 1S53.
JGS?" El Diario Espauol, Spanish newspaper,
states that Santa Anna lias applied to Spain for
aid against the United States, from which na-
tion lie feais sonic fillibustering expeditions arc
to be expected.
Mr. John Sullivan lias been re-appointed At-i
torncy General of the State of New York.
ARRIVAL OF THE ATLANTIC!
Four-tlays later from Europe I !
COTTON IMPROVING' ! ! !
Breadstuff's Declining!!!!
New York, May 14. The Collins steamer
Atlantic has anived at New York, bringing
dates from Liverpool to May 4th.
LTcr advices represents a better demand in the
Liverpool cotton market, with sabs for the three
days, preceding her departure of 20,000 bales,
of which 3000 had been taken en speculation,
and 2000 for expoi t.
Piices had slightly improved for all qualities,
though for some descriptions there is no quota-
ble change.
Trade in Manchester had slightly improved.
The flour market has been slightly depressed
and prices have declined 3d. to Od. per bbl.
Corn has also been in moderataf request, and
white has fallen off 6d. per quar:er. Lard has
been in good demand at former piices, but with-
out change in the quotations.
Bacon has been active at previous rates.
Pork and Beef in moderate request.
The Empress of France was taken ill on the
29th April-, and miscarried. She had been two
months enceinte.
The Swiss rebellion was entirely put down,
but Fi ibourg continued in a state of siege. One
hundred and thirty of the insurgents had taken
refuge in the Canton of Ticino. The aufhorij
ties of the Canton of the Grisoas had formally
notified the government of Switzerland that they
would not surrender the fugitives.
Australia!
Accounts from 3Iclbournc to the 25th of Jan-
nary, .hav2 been received They report pio-
duce high, provisions declining, aud labor chea-
per. The people of Tan Deman's Land were .still
much excited with the subject of the continued
transportation of criminals from England, to
that colony
Gold has been discovered in considerable
quantities near LTollistown.
Prussia The JeAYi?li Question.
A petition signed by Alexander Von" Hum-
boldt, and one thousand other citizens of Beilin,
lias been presented to the kingof Piussia, pray-
ing that the political disabilities" under which
persons of the Jewish faith labor, may be re-
moved. Three Days .Later froxu Europe.
ARRIVAL, OF THE AFRICA.
COTTON FIRM.
The Cunard steamer Africa arrived at New
Yoik, May 19, bringing dates from Liverpool to
the 7th instant, three days later than the ac-
counts brougliLby the Atlantic. Her advices
embrace the following commercial report:
"Liverpool Markets.
Liverpool, May 7. There has been a good
demand in the Cotton Market hern most of the
time since the departure of the Cambria, and
the sales of the week reach 50,000 bales. Of
these 6000 have been taken for speculation and
4000 bales for export.
Prices have generally been firmer, for all des-
criptions, but without alteration in the quota-
tions except for middling, which has slightly ad-
vanced. The Flour market has been heavy and the
quotations at the close are 22s 6d per. bbl. for
Western Canal and 23s for" Ohio brands.
Corn has also been depressed and is quoted at
30s Gd for white and 31s 6d per. quarter for
yellow. t
Lard has improved and closes at 52s 6d per.
CWt.tt
The money market is easy and Consols are"
quoted at 100 3-4.
The demand in the Cotton market at Havre
has been fair, with sales of 9,000 bales during
the week. The quotations for Tres Ordinaire
Oilcans is 93f., prices having recovered from the
decline previously noticed.
There have been more riots, in Switzerland,
the occasion of an election having been taken for
the disturbances. The civic guards made an
attack upou the people, and many were wound-
ed .
The Russian government has confiscated the
property of Polish absentees.
The difficulty with .the Turkish government
respecting the Holy shrines has been settled by
the cencession to Russia of its demauds. The
aimaments have accordingly been stopped, and
the fleets of the restrictive governments recalled.
The Persian goveranipnt is preparing an ex-
pedition against Herat, and the British ambas-
sador has threatened to burn the capital.
The Hungarian Coantcss Felchy (?) has been
sentenced to an imprisonment of ten years.
Charleston Cottou Market.
Charleston, May 20 The demand in the
cotton market hero has been moderate duruis
the past week, and the sales do not exceed 9,000
bales
lb.
The quotation for middling is 9 3-4 per.
The receipts of cotton at this port and Savan-
nah, since the 1st of September, compared with
tlipse of the corcsponding period List-yeifj show ',
a decrease of 1 0,000' bales a inlrmg'off of 7,-'
000 bales during the" week. " i
Mobile Cottou Market. '
Mobile, May 20 The sales of cotton in '
this market for the week ending this evening,
embrace 7,000 bales. The closing rate for
middling is ii 3-4c. per. lb.
The receipts of the week have been haroly
1,100 bales, and the experts 1,000 bales.
Stock ou blind this evening, 36,000 bales.
jVeiv Orleans Cottau Market.
May 21, 1S53.
The favorable advices by the Africa, thu
steamer of the 7th inst , together with the letters
by the Atlantic and the Cambria, received by
the same mail, brought out buyers who tok
4500 bale? at unchanged prices. The purchases
wore chiefly on Euslisli accounts, and eoosistcJ
of the lower qualities.
AVe quote : ,
inferior, - - - - - - -'6 1-2 a 7 3-4
Oidinary, ----.. 7 3-4 S 1-2
.Middling- ----- 9 3-4 10 J-1
Good Mitfdling, - - - - 10 3-4 11
Middling Fair, - - - - 111-4111-2
Fair, ------- J2 a
The Cotton Crop. A writer la the Charles-
ton Mercury, who thinks that the estimate of
the cotton crop of this year Is likely to be under
three millions of bales, and believes it to be un-
founded, and well calculated to lead into wild
and ruinous speculation, makes a-n estimate of
his own, founded 011 what has arrived and wba
may be expected, taking the receipts of former
years for a dita, and exlcnlates that the crop
will be about 3,300,000 bales.
Some newspaper says that there arc 117 news-
papers printed in the States of Iadiana more
than in all the world before thc'A.mericau Rev-
olution. That is going hack too far. On"
might as well go to tha dxja before ibe deluge.
The world only hegaa to wove on after the
American revolution; awl is hawly wider good
headway yet. '"
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Scissor-graplis.
Of thirty-one States in the Union, eighteen
have laws -prohibiting the coming of freenegroes
within their respective limits. Two off these
are none-slaveholding Indiana and Ullmois.
Delaware has incorporated a provision- In her-
new constitution for the same purpose.
The Charleston papers announce the death
of Mr. John Stuart for twenty years proprietor
and editor of the Murcury newspaper in that
city. He died at Beaufort, the place of his na-
tivity, on 3d ult., in the fifty-third year .of his
age. -
It is said that a young lady of fashion in Par-
is, Md'lle Virginie de T., having died suddenly,
her friends decided upon a post mortem examin-
ation. It was found that three of the'ribs had
encroached upon the liver to such an extent as
to produce death. The young lady perishedj of
tisrht lacing. '
Andrew Johnson, M. C. from Tennessee, and.
now the democratic nominee for Governor of
that State, is a native of Raleigh, N. C, where
twenty-five years ago he was working as a tailor.
Col. L. M. Keitt is elected to Congress from
the Columbia (S. C.) District, to supply the .va-
cancy caused by the resignation of W. Colcock.
A young man named Theodore A. Rossie, a
clerk in the foreign letter department of. the
New York Post Office, was detected on the lOtli
ult., by Mr. Holbrook, a special agent, in the
act of-rifiing-a-letter. JEE& was immediatelyar-
rested and committed. It is supposed that his
depredations have been continued during the
last two years, but as they were connnecT to
foreign letters, it was at first believed that the
robberies were committed on the otherside. :
At a meeting of the citizens of Vicksburg-,
held" on the 14th ult., a resolution was adopted
requesfimr the City Council to order an election
to take the sense of the people on a proposition
to subscribe $100,000 . to the Vicksburg,
Shreveport and Texas railroad. The meeting
was very thinly attended, whether from indiffer-
ence or opposition on the part of the people,
the papers do not seem to known.
At an estate sale at Ashville, N. C, megroes
brought from $1200 to $1250, and other prop-
erty in proportion. --?3
One of-the churches in the Presbytery of
Chilicothe, Ohio, has suspeded two of its mem-
bers who had been engaged in spirit rapping.
The Presbytery adopted the following resolu-
tion as to the rappings:
Resolved, That the practice ofr spirit rap-
pings, so called, as it prevails in many parts, is,
in view of this Presbytery, a revival of th e old
abomination of 'necromancy, so decidedly con-
demned in the -wordof God." '
It is estimated that 13,000 miles of railroad
are now in progress in this country and 7,000
in England. The whole will require 2,500,000
tons of iron, which, it is said, will occupy all
the rolling mills of the world for six years.
The New York Medical Gazette states that
twenty-nine suicides, five murders, and two hun-
dred and nine cases of insanity are directly
traceable to spiritual manifestations.,
Mr. Jonathan Kidd, lately deceased, of Pittsj-
burg, by his will, donated $5,000 to the support
of superannuated preachers and the widowsof
deceased ministers of the Pittsburg M. E. Con-
ference, $2,000 to the Missionary Society of the'
same branch of the church, and $1,000 to' the
Colonization.
In many parts of Illinois, the wheat crop js
entirely killed, so much that thousands of acres'
will be ploughed up and sowed in Spring wheat
or planted in corn. - ""
During a storm on the 9th ult., "a negro cab-
in on the farm of Mr. Jos. Watkins, of Ruth-
erford county, Tennessee, was struck by light-
ning, and three negroes, a man, a woman and a
boy were killed A son of Mr. Watklns" was
badly, but not dangerously wounded '
The Socialist?. filbert Brisbane and Victor
Consideranc, two of the most eminent Hvinff.scH
cialists of the Fourier school are now in GIncinr.
nati. They are on their way to Northern Tex-
as and the Bed Biver country, for the purpose
of selecting .from twelve to fifteen thousand'
acres of good land, with a view to the importa--
tion of a colony of French and imerican sor
cialists." "
Rev. W. G. Brownlow, of Tennessee, it s
stated, has been appointed cominissisner to t-
iperintend the improvement of the Tenn -e
river, Dy voi. .uaws, cecrcsary uc war.
The democrats of Arkansas have nomin&teu
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