State Gazette. (Austin, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 32, Ed. 1, Saturday, March 28, 1857 Page: 2 of 4
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We are requested to say that the
Pews in the Presbyterian Church will be
rented on Monday evening next at early
candle ILhting. A general attendance is
esp ctfully solicited.
!. We see that the Itov. Wh.IL Ba-
ker f the Preabjterian Church and bis
family hare returned to our Citj from their
late visit to Mississippi. He will preach to-
morrow at 11 o'clock.
aMv Chief Justice Hemphill has finish-
ed his labors at Galveston and his familiar
face is once again among us and warmly-
greeted bj his friend.
MJ Uon. 0. il. Randolph has returned
from the east. Weare pleased to meet with
him and to find that the right spirit is per-
vading the east and that the Waco Conven-
tion will be well attended.
BSk. Our esteemed 1. How-citizen Dr.
Sted I as returned with his family from hi
late trip to Alabama. We are glad to se-
him again among us.
0&- Preideut Bart of the Harrisbnrg
railroad has been touiporaailey sojourning
with ou on business He reports a fine
state of things as the result of the last
months work. Fifty thousand dollars havr i COon
been contributed by individuals towards the
building of the section of fifty miles be-
tween Itichiuond and Columbus. Rut as
much more is necessary he 6ays to ensure
the work and he is sanguine of obtaining
it.
BQu Hon. W. D. C. Smith of Newton
cuunty is temporarily in our city on busi-
ness. II is friends are glad to meet with
liim again. Mr S. informs us that the
friends of the lion. Geotge W. Smyth ot
Jaspe will urge his nomination for Govern-
or betes the WucoConveiition.
- be Time is Welcome to all the c.nir.1 it
can make in eliarging upon t CattetU a
ujootnoly of the pdSHc printing to th de-
triment of the interests of the State. It
chief allegation is that we did not complete
the prii ting of tl e law and journals in the
time specified by the law. The facta are
all that it is necessary to be stated.
The session of November 1855 aide no
provision for the distribution of the laws
andjourads and none were distributed.
At the ummcr session fifteen hundred ex-
tra copies were ordered without allowing
atij additional time to theater for their
completion. H0rerer so f.r as we were
concerned it was rendered unnecessary by
the postponement of the usual time of dis-
tribution to the counties. This was defer-
red until the completion and delivery to the
oiaie apartment of the Codes a work sub-
-tantially a component part of the laws of
the State. In January last when the Code
was delivered our work was also in the
hands of the Secretary of State and both
were then simultaneously distributed. To
show more fully the futile and paltry char-
acter of the charge of detriment to the pub-
dc service we might add the published note
of the Secretary of State but it is unne-
cessary Of a piece with the above is the fake al-
legation that our bond required us to trim
the laws. It is only necessary to say that
there is no such requireinen in our bond
and that the work was executed in strict ac-
cordance with it and in the same manner
as onr j redecessors.
e are by no means done wii !i th;G u
With all his cant about monorn.lv
if the public printing he has failed to raer'-
tion the fact that he has drawn from the
State Treasury upwards of thirteen thou-
sand dollars.
John S. Ford & partners
For public printing 813240 03
So far as hi3 sweeping charges of faith-
lessness are made against others it is
unnecessary for us to say a word. If
f the same stuff preferred against our-
selves it will only provoke a smile that one
o high up Salt River should cherish so live-
ly a recollection of the loaves and fishes he
has lost. Of those he assaults some are
hidden by the grave but their memories are
cherished by manyof the living. Others
Miller Crawford and Scurry aie well able
to vindicate thenmlves from any imputa
tion of unfair dealing towards the State.
One of the cardinal principles of the
Democracy is the strict accountability of
the public officer. Now we invite and
defy the scrutiny of our Know Nothing
neighbor. He parades the several amounts
received by our predecessors for work per-
formed by them and in the sum credited
to us he includej sums only drawn in our
name as public printers but really paid to
others as in the case of Spanish transla-
tions and German translations and print-
ing and for all outside of the legislative
printing in which this xealous Know No-
thing aboininator of monopolies was exten
sively patronized. Elected for the first
time as public printers we rave performed
the work of one legislature but in reality
of two sessions. The sum drawn by us ip
$1.8375 52 being much less in proportion
to the single session of the previous legisla-
ture and a double session may probably
never occur again there being no longer the
same extraordinary accumulation of business
to justify it. But so far as the profits of
the woik are concerned we inv:te him to
examine our books. These show nearly
the entire disbursement of this 828375 00.
as well as the whole revenues of our regu-
lar business in the execution of the pub
lie printing. Ther. are also as some
of our creditors are well aware balances
till owing and to be liquidated for
material used in the public work. But
"u- Know Nothing extemporary ays thai
some two or thr e thousand dollars are
yet to be drawn by us from the Treasury.
This is in keeping with his desire to mis-
represent the facts. For the translation
aid printing of the code and thirty-two
laws in Spanish we were to be paid the
paltry sum of 81500. Of this sum 8500
las been already drawn from the Treasury
by Mr. Quintero the Spanish translator
and appears in the grand total credited to
lurselves by our cotemporary. The balance
is all that is owing to us from the Treasury ;
but if the editor has got other information
we trust he will let us know it for the ben-
efit of our creditors.
Such then is onr experience in the pub
John Hemphill a can of preserved tomatoes. J jc printing. It is far from being profitable
which are the work of Capt. D. S. Kelsey In view o? the cost of labor material and
an antcrorisine citizen of Polk county -xpeiises M living tne punnc punter m
This gentleman is putting up in self sealing
$& Hon. K. T. Branch one of the
Commissioners to locate the State Lunatic
Asylum arrived on the day our paper went
to press last week and has since been ac-
tively engaged with Messrs. B gart and
Johns in examining the locations for the
Lunatic Asylum.
Gibson
Wfce tiiat J udue F. M
well known for his literary penchant has
become one of the Editors of the Times.
We bavetde kiudt feelings for the Judge
and wish him success.
City Postmaster. Wc learn thatMaj.
Wm. Rust has been appointed Postmaster
of Austin.
KEW A'lUIVAI. (It CtlOUS.
The Spring supplies have reached town.
See Sampstm & Henricks advertisement.
It is n uio-i beautiiul selection.
Sa.vlt.ls & Musso". We publish to
day the adierusements of this ciuerpris-
ing house. We learn that their milleiseed
advertised last week at a reduced price hai
been much nought after and a large por-
tion of it is already sold. A great variety
of groceries are constantly kept on hai.d at
low mtes. Barter wc believe is never re-
fused. Cum I V CO.MTN I IONS.
We refer our readers to the proceedings
in another column for the popular expres-
sion of opinion on men and principles.
Second Judicial District. Since our
last Hon. T. H. Duval has resigned his
Judgeship to accept the nomination of U.
S. Judge. As there will not be time to
hold another election and qualify the in-
cumVnt in time foi te Spring Session in
any of the counties the Governor will not
order an election nntil August next.
Mb. Owing to the resignation of Judge
Duval there will be no Courts held in our
District until November next.
New Goods. Messrs. Sampson & lien
ricks have received a fine stock of Summer
Clothing of every description.
La-lies dress and fancy goods silks mus-
lins lawns &c. Also a beautiful stock of
black and white Mantillas. Their adver-
tisement will appear next week we had it
already to put in the form but unluckily
the candle went out the compositer fell
down the steia and away went the typ to
rrrfrTrdVi:'ii. ami Fruit.
We have received at the hands of Hon.
cans apples pears peaches tomatoes ami
various other articles of the garden and or-
fexas is more stinting!; remunerated thai
my other southern State in the Union.
uch too has been the experience of ou
iredecessors most of whom ha e soon dis-
iMtira-
Mtsan.
A great mistake seems to prevail abroad
in regard to the endition of feeling in Wes-
tern Texas on the subject of Southern in-
stitutions. A more reliable portion of the
State exists nowhere in it as all our expe-
rience show. According to the census of
1850 there were more slaves in Western
than in Eastern Texas and the number has
stea lily increased.
When the Know Nothing party canvassed
Texas they sought to make capital out of
some freak of a few erratic aud visionary
GermansafSan Antonio and to charge their
opposition to slavery against the whole Ger-
man population. It happened also that a
German paper in S n Antonio was in the
hands of a man imbued with the wild no-
tions of the few free-soilers among his coun-
trymen. Yet he did no more than an Amer
ican editor is now doing in Eaesvrn Texas
that is claim the right to discuss the
slave institution. He was no sooner en-
gaged in it horever than the mass of the
Germans were at work to coun'eract his ef-
forts and they succeeded in forcing him to
abandon his paper and transfer it to II.
Fred. Oswald esq. the present worthy pro
prietor who has suppressed the slavery agi-
tation and made the Gazette a National
Democratic paper.
The Germans of Western Texas have
shown their fidelity to Southern institutionf
by a firm support of the Democracy in eve-
ry issue involving the prosperity and perpe-
tuity of slavery. They are a peaceable and
inoffensive population ; and where as in
Comal oouuty they are found in large num-
bers we see them engaged in industrious
pursuits attending to t'.ieir own business.
and seeking the education and advancement
of their children. In all Indian en outl-
iers they have aided in the protection o'
the frontier; and in the war witli Mexico
not a few of them enlisted in our arniie
and did good service under the flag of the
United States.
We have been led to these remarks from
a perusal of a letter from an old and respec-
ted citizen of the West in which he says :
"There is nne sulject to which I woull call
your especial attention I found in convciniiii;
with TarinQB person if boih parfiv Uat the ler-
ten.f Col. Wilcox pu'ilUaeil in Mississippi near-
ly two year ago baa made an unlavuno lr iiu-
prea'ion agaimt in German citizens. M-t per-
sons there retard them a opponed t" slavery
and the impression in tl.at we hare some fifteen
thousand German votes.''
We commend this subject to the notice
of our Know Nothiug cotemporary of the
State Times. As the organ of his party
he has done as much and perhaps moro
than any other Know Nothing in Texas to
create the impression abroad that Western
Texas is unsound upon the slavery question
owing to the free soil feelings of the Ger-
mans. Nrw that the battle is ove- and be-
fore the O. U. A. order is established in
all the towns of the S'ate let us see if our
cotemporary will do the justice to the nat-
uralized citizens of Texas to say that so far
as his experience goes they have at all
times discountenanced every attack made
by their countrymen or Americans in favoi
of free-soil ism ?
It is due to the prosperity of Western
Texas that 'his blight of Know Nothing
ism should be blotted out and that the true
co idition of our beautiful country should be
correctly conveyed to the minds of the thou-
sands of citizens of other Southern States
who are ready and willing to bring the'r
property to our State and settle among us
and are only held back and led to settle
perhaps in Arkansas or the Mississippi val-
ley from unfounded prejudices which they
have formed against us by a perusal of the
State RiMa and other Kuow Nothing or-
gans in Texas.
chard and shipping them to Galveston foi posed ot their interests and entered more
sale. He is able to compete with the No th ' uorative parsuits In referring to the
m i j. i. j Vuditur s ileport of Louisiana we see thai
cm pruuu. u n..w - ....w n lgw tJje aulount p;ud thc puohc pnntei
palatable article. We have tried his toma i or a ; session was $56500 00 and
toes and can recommend them. to our mer
chants of the interior. Will not our Texas
merchants encourage Kelsey especially as
they can get as good an article from him at
from the North ?
Tne si raTuF t stu lwaiic asylcx.
We are able to announce to our readers
the conclusion of the labors of the Com-
missioners s-lected by the (Jovei no to lo
eaten ait for the Lunatic Asylum. It i
situated about one and a half or two mile-
from the Capitol on the Georgetown road.
We understand that it is an excellent Iocs
tion for the institution. On Friday tin
Commissioners were present to superinteni
its surrey. We toogiatulate the State up
on the event and iook forward to the pros
pact of relieving soeiety of much ofthesuf
feting now experienced by the unhappy lu
natie.
STATS r THE TOTE.
We shall keep up onr Bulletin of the e
ljetiou of Supreme Judge until all the coun-
ties rs heard from when wc shall publu!
the vote in full.
Ninety-tnree counties officially bean
from pre Roberts 4545. Gray 4356. R
ported aia joriiie in Titus and Goliad abou
100 for Roberta. Angelina Jack Van
xandt Wise sad Young countios in th
Rast; Atascosa Bandera Comanehe Grath
Hidalgo Iimpesaa Parker San Saba.
Starr and Webb ton Wast bar sot
jft ilin issihlfr awn fo.
fterwards a relief bill was introduced gir
ng to him $17000 additional. This is
tore than the total received by all our prc-
lecessors in the Gazette and ourselves in
lud d for the last eight years. It is right
hat the State should be economical bnt
he people would never desire to see theii
state use its patronage for the purpose oi
ntroducing a conflict between employei
nd employed and aiming a blow against
he interests of a highly honorable and
iseful craft.
It is due to ourselves to say that we have
elied on other sources besides our estab
ishme it for support Our object however
as been to aid in advancing the great
democratic cause and habit as well as in-
clination makes editorial life the most agree
ble of all others. We have entered the
Gazette with the fir u determination of be-
ng connected with its destiny and the sue
ess of the State Rights Democratic par y
n Texas the balance of our life ; and wi
ironiiee our readers that we shall nevei
cave it with our own consent for any other.
A'e commenced with this firm resolve and
ur first act was to refurnish the office. Wt
laced in it the first power press I ntnnced
nto the State outside of Galveston and
Jlarksville. We have also added aootbei
md we intend that the office shall keep
iice with the growth of our city and the
rants of the business community. Of on-
hinz are shall entire friend and foe out
ourse will ever be on the square and erei
pen to fair and impartial investigation ;
.ever seeking to shun the strictest accoun-
ability satisfied that he who sets faithfully
rill only be the mors warralj pnttatnad in
ArbsartstrfMi ftifcm irisasn
Jndiciul District Convention.
The responses of our friends assure u?
that a Convention for the nomination of a
District Judge by the Democratic pirty of
the Second Judicial Distric is a fixed fact.
It will bo reld in due time the election
not taking place before next August. Wc
venture to say without any previous knowl-
edge of the name of the nominee that the
bar and the people of the District will in-
terest themselves sufficiently -to select one
who will be as acceptable for his moral in-
tegrity as for his professional ability.
It is well said by a Democratic corres-
pondent that the great principles of the de-
mocracy cin only be successmlly engrafted
on the policy of the country through our leg-
islative and Judicial tribunals. No axiom
can be less controverted. And in thc Pres-
idential chair of a past day in the United
States Senate in the present Cabinet of
Mr. Buchanan as well as anions our for
eign Ministers abroad we find the names
of distinguished jurists who although they
may have sat upon the bench have not fail-
ed to lend their aid in giving the pr.ent
form and impress to our National and State
politics. Indeed we seriously believe that
in no department of the Government is it
more essential to the well being of society
to have a thoroughly democratic mind thai.
in the office of Judge whose decisions arej
constantly involving the property lives ana
personal liberty of the citizen.
Our preference is for a man who like
Jackson or Woodbury is no milk and water
democrat no fence men no go-between
no man forsooth who desires to vindicate
his political impartiality by dodging the
ballot-box or voting on every side of politi-
cal issues.
THO. J. HISK.
In reviewing the action of the late se4
ion we are pleased to find that our Senatoi
has been faithful to the high trust repose
in him. lie has succeeded beyond the ex
pecta ions of many friends in securing sev-
eral important measures for the benefit o
the State of Texas ; and among these none
of the least important are the benefits be-
stowed upon the Western section of th
State. We believe that all that Cspt. Pope
desired in his letter to Senator Kusk ha
been ob'ained. The appropriation of $100.-
030 forthepiosecution of theArtesian Wells
on the Staked Plains will be sufficient to
test fall the experiment of furnishing an
abundant supply of water to travellers and
stock passing over that route to California
and Mexico.
We are also deeply indebted to the Sena-
tor for nis active exertions on behalf of a
waon road from El Paso to Fart Yuma on
the Colorado of California. These nieaf-
ares add fresh facilities for the development
if the immense interior resources of Texas
ind their active friend in Congress well de-
serves the commendation of our citizens.
It is just to say of Senator Rusk that
the increased facilities of Texas in mail
lines and mail stages so largely augmented
within the few past years is mainly due to
his persevering representation of our wants
to the proper Department and to Congress.
The passage of the bill giving some re-
lit f to the brave tars of our navy will loup
commemorate his name in the hearts of Ter-
ms who arc proud to iook back and glory
in their n ible efforts to aid in the rescue ol
.his large and beautiful State from the su
pcrauuated tyr.inny of despotic Mexico.
.Vc shall not note here the bitter and relent-
less warfare of Sam Houston upon these
nen. It is past and let the damning papc
be forever turned down. We desire only
to award due honor to the noble Rusk for
iiis unflinching support of their good fame
md fr demanding some acknowledgment
for their services.
The overland mail to California so strong-
ly sustained by our Senator will be the en-
trance wedge to the occupition of the 32
leg. of parallel for the California Railroad
by Southern Companies. Such we learn
.rom Washington is the general opinion ol
leading men.
Prices of Cotton at Ualverton.
The News informs us that a3 a general thing
the prices of cotton are lower in Galveston
than in New O leans but that if Texas en-
joyed all the monied facilities enjoyed in
Louisiana the prices paid at Galveston
would be higher "hai they are now. This
is the plea for banking. Now what does it
unountto? Why that we have to wait until
Galveston becomes a second New Oilcans
in order to euabla bank paper to raise the
prices of cotton to the same standard ; but
is this answer satisfactory ? Have the banks
of Louisiana made New Orleans first clas
port for European vessels? have thej
brought over from Euroj e and the North 'he
oottjn buyers? or were not these the effects
of the natural position of New Orleans for
the cotton trade ? If banks had done this
then why do hey not do it for Memphis
which has banks as well as New Orleans ?
And why is not cotton worth the same in
MeinphisasatNewOrieans ? Thuswcscethe
inconsistencies into which theiVitt! and all
Dankitcs must fall from their false
theory of trade. Put the AW doe?
not say that even if Galveston had the same
nonicd facilities as New Orleans that the
prices would be as high as in that city.
The editor only remarks that the prices would
be one-fourth of a cent per pound higher than
at present. Now thc truth is the prices of cot-
ton in Texas cannot be raised a fraction high
er by ba nks as we have shown in a previous pa-
per and we defy the News to controvert it.
Take Vicksbnrga city without banksand the
prices rule better than in Memphis where
banks exist. Why ? Because the trip to
New Orleans is sooner made and exchange
:s lower. Proximity to market and facilities
of trade are elements governing the price;
of cotton. If cotton is bought in Galveston
it is either bought on account or for specu-
lation and in both events can only be turned
into money by shipment to some distant
market ; and then the agent or shippei
draws his sight or time drafts based on thi
ootton shipped and the rates of cotton obtain-
ed in that market. The in trketa to vhichitis
shipped governs the pric.and ten thousand
-liin-piaster shops in Texas would not altei
that price and put another dollar into the
Texas planter's pocket than he would re-
ceive if there were not a Bank in existence.
t:Xri!Klt:.M'K I BASKS.
Many responses to our views on Banking
have come to us from the ablest and purest
jf our party. The masses are sound. We
iave given as briefly as possible our Tiews
of the theory of Banks and shown them to
it war with the equal rights of society at
the thresho'd and calculated as machines
to make the rich richer. The masses never
jet bans accomodations ; to them is only
given the dirty rags or promises to pay in-
stead of silver and gold and th.- Banks use
the latter to extend their means of making
money. The masses indeed are thc he were
f wo d and drawers of water t the Bank
aristocracy. Upon them fall all thc burden
of discount boon uncurreut bank notes.
If Banks wt in existence in Texas it
would cost the people hundreds of thousands
f dollars in discounts lost upon the bills.
Much may be said against foreign bank
bills it is true but if we are to chocse be
tween the notes of a rag machine in Texas
and one conducted in an extensive city like
New Orleans w::eie banks depend upon thc
sale of exchange for a large portion of their
profits instead of an alinosteutire country cir-
culation we would infinitely rather choose for
uur safety the Loui-iania rags to those of
Texas where but little else than circulation
could be relied on for bank profit.
But our intention at the present time is
to give to our readers chapters from the ex
perience of other States. .Last week we
laid before them the experience of Tennes-
see as depicted by our faithful Democratic
cotemporary the Naslicille Union. W
this week renew the subject to give a chap
ter from the experience of Pennsylvania.
Our authority is of the same orthordox
democratic character.
The following extract is taken from the
Pi'Misylrmtiaii a democratic sheet of the
25th Foburary and is addressed to its readeis
in view of the attempt made in the Penn
sylvania legislature to spawn more rag fac
tories.
"Our country has suffered so severely
from an excess of Banking Capital that a
sense of the evil consequences ofsuc'i a con-
dition of affairs should be fearfully impress-
ed upon the mind of every man who sincere-
ly desires to secure the welfare of the na-
tion. The distress and suffering which has
been entailed upon the American people by
this cause is absolutely incalculable and in-
describable. Banks without number have
been chartered and broken. The r notes
have been scattered throughout the land
and at the fearful hour of their destruction
have been found .. the po-session of tens o!
thousands of comparatively poor men.
The sufferers have worked hard and hon-e-tly
and received these beautifully prin-
ted "promises" as the payment of their
toil. After years of exertion a sum small
in itself but precious to them as tlu only
safeguard which they have been enabled to
preserve against dire distress and want or
the wages of a week Or a month or the sum
necessary to preserve the credit of a mer-
chant or the money needed to supply the
necessaries of life has been obtained in
these notes. But thc bubble has bursteu
in !f i hour when leist expected a'ld scat
icred havoc and desolation on every hand
Hundreds of millions of money have been
o t by the Auieric. n people by Eank fail-
ures. There is scarcely a man whose busi-
ness transactions have been at all of a vari-
ed character who has not lost something by
them it may be but a five dollar bill or ii
nay be thousands and tens of thousands ol
dollars. The army of sufferers from Bank
tng institutions is counted by its hundreds
of thousands and woe want and privation
hive been unjustly inflicted upon tens o
thousands of families by the swindling oper-
ations which have been sheltered behind
their charters. Not only by the direct loss
on broken bank notes but also by the effect
on the business of the country now expand-
ing now contracting the currency has im-
mense loss been entailed. If we glance at
an old Counterfeit Detector or any other
work which gives us anything of a full list
of the Banks which have been chartered
for an extensive period and glance di w
the column which describes their standing
md value what a sad lustory does the lit-
tle memorandums there printed -furnish us.
How often docs "broken" "worthless"
"failed" greet our eyes and what an im-
mense amount of loss and suffering would
these words marshal before us could we
trace ont the history of the issues of those
institutions. A record of the bauks of the
United States since the formiion of the gov-
ernment would be like an inspection of the
roll list of Napoleon's army after the Rus-
sian con paign. They started out high
with hope and confidence with the pres-
tige of invincibility and glittering in al!
the splendors of new uniforms aud grant!
"ijuipiueiits. But of all the vast hosts ten
ever returned. ''Killed" "dead" "woun
.ur legislature will be felt by feeble majori-
ties aud the gold of the capitalists spent
freely in fie legislative balls witt complete-
ly overcome and destroy the power of the
people reposed in the banc tf faithless
representatives. Ouly give life to the
nonsrer and its hydra heads will spring
up everywhere around us. In view of a
surplus in our treasury of millions of public
domain all liable to be made th- sport of
political destiny is it not a time to awaken
and arouse the masses of the people ? Can
any sound democrat choose to be silent ?
Are not all society interested in the Bank
question ? Sound then the tocsin ! Let
ts blasts be heard throughout the land and
iike the horns blown before the walls of Jer-
rico. the fine built plans of the speculators
ud bankites will fall prostrate in the dust.
OCR PARTY.
aa. The Ranger pays a high compliment
to II. H. FelJer Esq. who tho-igh respect-
. ully supported did not succeed in receiving
the nomination of the Washington conven-
tion for representative. W re glad to see
that like a good democrat Mr. Felder
bows to the will ef his party.
Osder of the United Americans.
This Yankee speciman of a rehash of Know
Nothingisin appears to have gained a foot-
ing in Texas. It sui that F. T Allen
Dcuty Post Master of Galveston is the
irand Deputy of the State of Texas and
that most of the lodge established st Gal-
vest n were originally xembers of the
Know Nothing order.
County Convention. It appears to be
the wish of the Democracy of Travis to de-
er holding their County Convention until
after the holding of the State Convention.
We think th policy a sound and wie one.
We should then bo able to act upon the
the platform adopted by that body and to
organise our forces upon it.
We see that such is the policy also of
several of our sister counties.
Eastern District Convention. Sev-
eral of the Democratic County Conventions
having n commended tho I3th of May for
the holding of the District Congressional
Convention it is likely that time will gen-
erally be adopted by the Eastern Demo-
crats. V3F The Rusk democracy have set the
18th May for the holding a County Conven-
tion to nominate candidates for county
offices.
Washington County. The Democra-
cy of Washington have nominated their
candidates for the House and Senate C.
B. Shcpard and A. M. M. Upshaw ; for
the Senate A. G. Haynes. These gen-
tlemen stand high in the estimation of their
fellow citizens and we trust thc Democracy
will not fail to give them their hearty sup-
port. Sgju The Know Nothings in Harrison
County called a meeting to devise the ways
md means to beat the Democracy of Tex-
as. The Editor of the Henderson Flag
says :
"We are assured there are scores of val-
iiant American spirits in that region of
country who will still shrink no responsi-
oi'ity on account of the paltry spoils of office
but will to the contrary go boldly forth in
the advocacy of principles destined in our
humble opinion to be cherished by every
American heart."
Hon. James Wilson We notice m
the Gonsalee Inquirer tbt Gen. Wall and
Judge Wilson have been requested by the
Agricultural Society of Gonzales to deliver
addresses before the meeting of April next
The indisposition under which Judge Wil-
son has been laboring for some time past
owing to the laborious duties of his office
will utterly prevent him from complying
with their wishes. Indeed it was as much
as he could do to discharge the l-ighly re-
sponsible duties of his office while in vig-
orous health.
Assassination at Rusk. Elbert OH
ver and Samuel Fi.dey. have been commit-
ted on the charge of assassinating Wm. R.
Wiggins Esq. at Rusk on the night of the
6th inst. bail was refused. A Mr. Mur-
phy is undergoing examination as an acces-
sory before the act. It appears from the
facts stated in the Cherokee Sentinel that
these men waylaid Mr. Wiggins on the
outskirts of Rusk firing upon him from a
place of concealment and killing him al-
most instantly. It is to be seen whet he-
justice will be vindicated in this terribh
affair or whether it shall go out to the
State that the Courts can give no protec-
tion against the hand of the concealed assas-
sin ?
Minnesota. The yeis and nays in the
House of Representatives on the final pas-
sage of the bill to authorize the people o-
the Territory of Minnesota to form a Con-
stitution and State government havu beet
published yean 97 ; nays 75.
Among the yeaa were 85 from the non-
slaveholding States and 12 from the slave
holding States. Among the latter wen
Quitman of Mississippi and Sandidge and
Davidson of Louisiana.
Among 'he nays were 48 from the South
and 27 rrem the North.
Not a single Southern Whig or American
sustained the bill.
Arrak
Mararchino
Other Spirit!.
Miss n to Mexico. lu some of the pa-
pers it is intimated that Mr. Forsyth will be
recalled. In view of a probable vacancy
we would say that to no portion of the Union
does this mission seem more legitimate than
Texas ? She has a a large Mexican fron-
tier constantly liable to interruption and
retains among her archives the original
papers in the chain of titles to vast bodies ot
land which directly interest our . citizens
A citizen of our State would be able as min-
istrsto Mexico to give fajilities to Texas
that site has never yet enjoyed. Our inter-
course is daily becoming more important
to each country and must necessarily occu-
py much of the attention of an American
minister. Will onr sister States join in
awarding to a citizen of Texas this mission ?.
Small Pox. We learn tkat this dan-
gerous disease is raging all along lbs upper
BioOrsnde
riie federal sjvli-iiiu'. il uml (he Pacific
(inilri-n'l.
" In rpfati-Mi to the construction of a railroad th
the Pacific witli the great and erievotu incident
attending no sfap. tnlun a clieiue of public im-
provement we are compelled to declare that h'u
ii'niient8 however iogenionii and honestly ad-
vanced are not in accord with ur eooatitutinnal
riew. aonteadiir maintained hj- ua on the subject. "
Richmond (X a.) Enquirer.
This sentiment of the Virginia Enquirer
in regard to the views of Mr. Buchanan
contemplates the project of a direct appro-
priation of money from the federal treasury
to the building of a national railroad.
As we remarked in our last in regard to
the past action of the democracy upon the
Maysville road ana as wc might refer to the
vhole course of policy advocated by the
South in regard to the grants of the Con-
stitution we must unalterably oppose all
ueasures based upon this fallacious and ru-
inous principle of national policy.
From what we learn however we believe
hat in the initiation of measures involving
doubtful principles of Constitutionality Mr.
Buchanan will be governed by those
friends in the outh who have stood by him
ud aided him in obtaining his present po-
sition and we shall therefore not anticipate
my evil of this kind in advance of its oc
currence satisfied with a merely simple ex.
pressidn of our opinion.
..... .-... I. I... !.
Mississippi State Geologist. We
have the pleasure to announce says the
Missiaaippian that Gov. McRae has appoin-
ted J. L. Harper State Geologist under
tl e new ltw separating the office from the
Stole University. The appointment of Dr.
Harper was strongly uiged by nearly all the
nembers of the Legislature irrespective of
party.
led" "frozen" "missing" would be the
iwful entries sufferings and hard fate. So
with the Banks 'vhich hae been so liber
illy chartered at different periods through -in
the Union. The roll-list is more than
decimated by the return of "closed" ''fraud''
broken" "worthless" "Jailed" which
blisters the record of their history. All
the robberies which have been committed
by convicted felons in this country havt
not abstracted from honest industry a tithe
of thc amount that the American i eoph
have lost by swindling banking operations.
Brought into existence by Legislative ac-
tion the corp rate powers granted by thi
people's liepreseutati'es have enabled then
co phinder nnd swindle the community
And the Legislatures which arc especially
selected to protect tin proj erty of the citi
ens have thus furnished the weapons by
which it has been . bstracted.
While the past history of the country
has been replete with repeated warnings o;
this character and State after State has
fallen into the same snare and suffered the
same evils Pennsylvania has borne her full
share of the disasters. Owing to the strin-
gent policy of the Democratic party of the
State for a series of years we appeared t
be totally sheltered so far as our own local
institutii ns were concerned from danger.
Our Ranks were comparatively few n num
ber and located only in localities where the
legitimate business was amply sufficient to
properly support them. Within the last
year or two we have had several Bank
failures however in onr own State and we
should be warned in time of what we ma
expect if any large addition is made to our
banking capital particularly if a batch o!
new Banks arc to be chartered in localities
whtr.' there is not sufficient legitimate busi
ness to sustain them.
Precisely. Only start Banks in Taxas ;
only let these thieving shops once get a foot-
ing in the State and as in Pennsylvania we
shall have the same melancholy picture pre-
sented thus sketched by our Democratic co-
temporary of tho en ire failure of the
stringent policy of the Democratic party to
restrain the evil or to protvst the people
from Bank failures. Repeated warnings
will be naslesj The outside pressure upon
fAiilIt OF 1857.
Below we g ve an analysis of the Tariff
adopted at the late session of Congress :
is sen. ccli i ran 100 to 80 rn curr.
Brandies 1. quori
O'tlUb Ab-jrth
oia CurmjMco
iv srnmCLK a run 40 to SO r a cut.
11 Wlneain Wood Cigarp . Ebony
Manufaci.Tiib.icco ' liampa'gTMf 'Cut Olau.
la aCdDCL c no 8J to 34 ria oar.
llk i run. Wine bottled
i tne Wonllent Iron Fabric Ale and Beer
r. re Arms. Bonnets Sufjrs
Copper Ware t'nmlia 8yrup
t.Tuilery flothin; Molaea
i.e: of .tetnl Jewelry Embroideries
Pipe Fab. ks QiHMwan Tin Fabric
Cheese Chinese Ware Caipeiing.
n acniDCi.it D r ox 35 to 19 pica caar.
Killing or Wm. F. Booasss. We
deeply regret to learn the early and unex-
pected death by an armed assassain of s
most worthy yonng man. It appears that
Mr. Wm. F. Boggess a son of Capt. Giles
F. Boggess both well known for their cour-
age and intrepedity in the service of Texas
was quietly witnessing thc performances of
a circus company in the town of Hender-
son when he was interrupted by a drunken
man named Sweeton and by a Mr. Cliarle-
Gross who came to the hitter's aid. Crost-
was afterwards seen attempting to place
pistol or knife in S'weeton's waist-band.
At the close of the performances the tw
stood at the entrance blustering and threat
ening with a view to renew the difficulty.
Boggess had been informed of thc fact
and on meeting them he used his cane upoi.
Cross who with a six birreled shootersoon
put an end to thc life of young Boggess.
Such are the melancholy facts detailed b
the editor of the Democrat. The wife o
Boggess was called in to witness the heart-
rending scene ; and of her agonizing feel-
ings no pen of course can speak. Sudden-
ly a devoted husband a cherished son i
gallant soldier and a good citizen has beei
plucked rom this world by the act of a de?
perado. Ft be it from us to prejudice hi.-
trial but should this assassain be liberated
by a jury having no clear perception of theii
duty to society and public morals it is what
would be far from astonishing us for sucl
has been too often the ca-c. Yet what con
fidence we ask could be reposed in the lav?
under such circumstances ? If the good
citizen is not able to rely upon the forms
Featheri
-lor cloths
Cordate
Worsted Goods
Ftannetr Mohlr
llarrfe! M .ttl'i;
Va da jt'i.'u lu of Hair
Cotton Lacei I uttmi P. iou.
i a scaascLa a r iu 3U to IS ra car.
Linens. Hempen Goods P. per A Periodicals
Other tlaz Goods lOila I Paper lJanginp.
jCuiton Ilo-lery
w fcbedvu r ram 15 to 13 ran can.
Tow fiflleiup TowoffUix jGold'eaf
in PI tea B imstone. Flax Untaicufact.
Steel in Bars liilTer Leaf JUiamouds.
The remaining schedules are G. reduced
rom 10 per cent in 1846 to 8 per cent. ;
II. 5 percent to 4 percent and I. 1 per
cent to free.
It will be seen that Iron and Silks are
lasscd together while cotton prints are
placed in a schedule of more reduced rates-
Why iron should be tbus placed can be ac-
eouuted lor upon no reason founded upon
in appreciation of the wants of the masses
f the people ft is one of the evils of pro-
tection. We shall advert to this subject at
mother time.
tp" Our readers have heard of the late
uelancholy tiadgedy in Washington City.
.Mr. II line a citizen of Virginia andagen-
letuan of respectability while conducting
".'ine ladies through the White House came
rn contact with a Mr. Lee a clerk who
uldenly turning round as some one
picked his pocket charged the act upon Mr.
Hume. Cards were exchanged and on
.he next day ."dr. U. called at the office of
Lee in company with some friends when
Lee still reiterated the charge. Humes
thereupon struck him with his cane and in
the mean time Lee drew forth a pistol and
rilled Hume on the spot. We have to add
that the pocket book was afterwards found
in the possession of another individual and
thus a noble and high minded man has been
suddenly cut down in the midst of life and
."riends by the hand of one whom he had
never wronged.but who had sought to inflict
upon him a stain of dishonor that no man
jould fail to resent
In a kbw Vocation The Provide
(R.I.) Jbarnosays tha: Geo. D. Prentice-
j. qi tne uowsviue Journal will soon
Jeiiver a leetnrn rwafnra tlia Pk'.:. tt
I .. .UCVUIISUSU llIIIOD
of that city. Lecturing will be a vnM.
tion for Mr P. . O. Bulletin.
We are glad to see the old sinner getting
to be a christian. We hope his God will
be more merciful to hint than be waa to the
poor foreigners is Louisville ; the latter
were butchered ind their property burnt by
lis instrumentality.
a We are about having a new market
house on Capital Hill. It is a fine struc-
ture and is nearly wmpletod.
law a farce and does it not sink in truth int a
means for the defence of the violators ol
all law ?
Hon. Wm. R. Scubry. We see by the
Civilian that Maj. Scurry is io W t'lington
City and was the orator selected by some
thirty or forty Texa' s teniporari!ysnjour;inp
in Washington to address President Pierce
on their behalf while celebrating Jie Anni
versary of Texan Independence. A cor-
respondent of the Civilian says :
" The address of Major Scurry was touch-
ing and truly eloquent and the Presideui
replied with evident emotion reciprocating
the sentiments of kindness and avowing
his continued devotion to the principle.-
which had governed his administrationanr
j strongly commended by the people of Tex
as. Tho into view was one of uiiusu-ii in-
terest mutually pleasing to the patriot Pres-
ident and his visitors."
The lluustou Lyceum has elected
A. Dalj: Proideut; Wm. Painter Yk
I'reside-it ; F. Mohl Rr cording Secretary;
L. J. Levin Financial Secretary ; T. S.
Lubbock Treasurer ; Wm. Bryan Libra-
rian. This institution seems to be well
conducted aod to reflect credit upon Houston
Small Pox. Up to the 2d inst there
had occurred on Pine C.eek Lamar county
5 cases of natural small pox ; iuoculatod
jiuull pox 16 J Varoiloid 3. The deaths
had been only two. The disease is .ntirely
confined to one house. rhe "FrtmtUr .Mf-
triot" learns that the small pox is raging ou
the road between D ingerfield sod Jeffer-
son it h-s broken up the school at H eke-
ry Hill and attacked all tha family of m..
V.mug at Chalybeat Hall. We learn thut
the small pox ha broken out on Caney creek
about eig'it miles from Brenham.
RCSK. The editor of the Palestine Ad-
vocate has been visiting Rusk which he
notes as improving. He says :
" It contains from twelve to fifteen hun-
Jred inhabitants snd has two printing offi-
dSS two taverns nine dry goods stores two
drug stores three blacksmith shop three
-hoeshops one bakery to saddlers' shops
.ne gin shop one gunsmith shop one ou.
riage and ne tin shop fitteei lawyers a
large number of carpenters and nine doc-
tors. They alst have two schools in sue-
-essfnl operation as we are informed one
by Miss Tular formerly of Palestine ajd
the other by the Rev. Mr. Marshall and
lady.
assx The Marshall Presbytery of the Cuaa-
oerlaud Presbyterian Church held at Dmm-
.rertield io January last set forth that Chap-
pel Hill College at that place is " healthy
. igorous and prosperous." It is iropo--d
to raise an endowment fund by the volun-
tary contributions of members of the church
throughout the State.
sKaT An altercation took place at Cl'n-
ton De Witt county lately in which a mau
lamed Morrison inflicted several stabs up-
u the body of Jonathan York.
Fire at Lagrang... A fire broke m.t
in thc office of the Assessor aid destroyed
.ive buildings before the flames eessid bt
Mibdued. Thc loss is estimated at $l'-
J JO. Dr. K. R.uth and Dr J. It Dodge
Win. Coffee and Wai. G. Webb were among
the sufferers.
Temperance in Gonzales. The Sons
had a splendid torch light procession at
Gonzales yeater.'ay Addresses were deli v-
es were delivered by B. F. Fly and Rev. J.
II. Cox.
San Antonio. The TWrimsays:
"There are at present a large number of
strangers in San Antonio and most of them
ire men of capital who have come here to
settle permanently and make their futuis
loiues in Western Texas. We learn by
ur exchanges from other States that thou- --unds
more are on their way here."
SSu Crockett sent to the peuitentiarjar
thc lust term of its court a man nasiied
A' in. Ward who had previously served an
apprenticeship in the State institution.
ly John F. McKcnney of Goliad has
.ruined his case in the U. S. Court at Gal-
veston and will come into possession of one
f the most valuable bodies of land in th
West. It is situated on the San Anfoiw
river and embraces two and a half lea
of land.
jgwea?
ty The steamer Grnppsbot lately carried
iWO bWs. of 'reight up Trinity river.
he ascended as high as Parker Bluff.
.Since then the river has fallen.
Meal is selling in Gonals at tl 20 to
3150 per bushel. Pretty husky that. 7a-
ot law far nrnUwtinn snrl anfrr i it. t.nt hu '
r J f V ll ...1 Rn . -r r
"5"i "" r"J iuv cents. uo. UAZ.
The Wheat Cvtoiv The news we te-
ceive from the Northern part of the State
icaus us io ueueve mat the wncat cnt will
The Indians. The Ttxan telU a story
of some Indian depredators lately whic!
shows what dare-devi.s they are. About
twenty horses were stolen by Indians neat
Castroville and immediately afterwards tin
citizens turned out to pu.-sue them. Thi
Indians soon discovered this fact and ta-
king a circuit of seuwral miles actually we
back upon their pursuers trail and made
thirteen marks upon a large cactus to show
them that they (the Indians) had discover-
ed from the trail the exact number of whiti
men who had undertaken to catch them.
This in Indian custom was something like
putting their fingers to their nose in deria
ion.
BT There were lately killed on the plan-
tation of Dr. Shelly near Liberty twenty-
one rattle snakes and one moccasin.
The Crockett Printer says:
" Parson Sloan has lost hit horse but
sincerely trust there is no nun mean enougl
to steal a preacher's horse with one eye ami
a sore back (the horse not the preacher)
and prevent his (the parson not the hoise)
going to marry folks now when Cupid U
shooting so many and nobody can do it like
the Parson."
Navabro COCNTT. We learn frojr. the
Condemn Times that there has been but
little sickness in this county t'oT the last
twelve months.
IssT- A portion of th citizens of Ellis
county have formed a joint stock company
to erect a first class flouring mill. It i
to be operated by steam power the ensuing
season. It is expected to raise 200000
bushels of wheat in Kilts.
am. Steamers are still ascending upper
Red River above Preston. The water b-
in fine navigable condition.
J-Charles Payne the architect of the
sew Courtboass stGonsslss has bough
the old sdfJss far three hundred doUars.
be abundant. The injury by the frost is
not extensive.
aaT Get Felix Hjstor died recent-
y at Washington Mississippi .n his 57th
year. He distinguished himself during the
Texan war and was raised to tho rank of
Brigadiir General by the Legislature of
whin State. Gen. Hutton has been long.
mown to .he lower Mississippi Valley as s
warm and eljque-sHdvoeateof State Rights
and of Cuban annexation. None have lived
more devoted to the Sooth; none have ever 1 1
been in public life who ha ve played a wore
lisiuterested and patriotic part. He was
truly a noble man and his memory wi'J
n.ng be cherished by us with the
pleasing emotion.
. -. '"i Texas March
X. VT. TFttREix. Esq.
oir l lie appjiutment
i. u. lMVal to
J ta&x
of the Hon.
seat on id sri.-i
liench has made vacant the office ol J idire
t this Judicial District and w bus bcaid
you spoken of very free y as one w ell quali-
aed for that position. It - jj aj .
.iterest of all that we should hava . 0-o.iA'
Judge. Having had. as kwt
-ppnrtunitie8 of kiiowiu j- !ii
J;iik .... .R and judging we
.ll be.. 'willing tesniuo lo 2a3.Wl
lU'iliacationsaudeuttrs nuessforthoffic.
should yo.i consent to . wd
b3 wessfl we h- .e e confidence that
ou will discharge the hi dntiel tho
position wnh M fySrfa to .jjj u.r
md to th MM je
Hoping i Jt wil coMeBt to imm
'"".weare
j-'pectfully your friends 4c.
.fwc A. Ncal James W. Smith. 8. U.
meed A. G Campbell P. B. Calhoun
w. ... 'Oldham Thos. B. Sneed F. M.
UIjsoi. K. R. Tnrnflr .Tnanh HU
I ;t" Hmiltn J"ln T. Allen Geo. w!
Mite. -
I
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t t n Austiw Mreb2Srt. !7.
r James P ItEAt P. B. Calhoux and others i
GentlemtM Your letter of thc 18th has
been received and in reply I return my
tincere thanks for the flattering nrfm.a.
you have expressed for me in desiring that
I should become a candidate for the offie j v v
of Judge ol this Judicial District. I would 1
not. under any circumstances in view of
the delicate aod responsible duties of that
pwition have c-meented to become a can.
didate without the endorsement and appr-
vsl those of my professional bnrthern in
whose judgement and leg I learning I have
most confidence. I recognize in you and
among others eminent in the profession is
ither portions of the District who have so
licited me these of the class to which X re-
mand your support will be s.fieient to
determine me in announcing myself a can.
didate for the offioe-subiect only to th.
aeciaion of a Democratic District Con-stv
twn. Tour friend and ob'dt nsr'vs.
A. W. TJEJLRELL.
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