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ence and respect, and filially attached by a
thousand ties to the spot of his nativity
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like an owl, it is true, shunning the glare
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good title too : I goes with the* majority.”
before the
force of public opinion like wax before the
fire.
In conclusion, “Citizen,” I may say that
I do not expect you to adopt all my sug-
gestions, but I hope you will believe me
sincere in all I have uttered, and atihe risk
as sermonizing, permit me
to say that if you would have happy and
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At the expiration of two weeks, he again
went up to the bar and said :
“ S’pose we settle that account—I’m go-
ing in a few minutes.”
The landlord handed him his bill.
“ Two weeks board at $5-—$10.”
“ Here, stranger,” said the Yankee., “this
is wrong.”
“ Plow so, sir ?”
“ You’ve made a mistake ; you’ve not
ouwSavior to the fiend—“Get thee behind
Satan.” Sufficient for me will be the ap-
probation of my conscience, and the favor
and approval of the good and virtuous of
dations should be provided, and personal the community. Do justice by your slaves,
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themselves : molasses should not be want-
ing. A negro has a sweet tooth, and mo-
lasses and sweet potatoes are great favor-
ites with them ; both are abundant with
us, and they should have them. This is,
indeed, the general bill of fare provided in' in rags, a
the line of edibles by the mister, to which ! Shall the hand crimsoned with gore
deepest dye. The sex
ly balanced as possible in order that none
“A man may be freezing,” (I quote , might be forced to seek abroad those do-
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it must continue (however modified) to
form a part of our nature. The weaker
yields to the superior claims and paramount
authority of the subtler and stronger, in all
animated life, from the lord of creation to
the grub beneath his feet.
The durability of our peculiar institution
will, in all human probability, be co-extend-
ed with the maintenance and observance
by us of the duties and obligations that de-
volve upon us as the guardians and depos-
itories of a sacred charge. Domestic sla-
i very is our only chance for temporal salva-
tion—destroy it and we a'ne'undone. It is
the sheet anchor of our hope and the “ark
of the covenant’, betweoen us and contin-
ued prosperity. No effort should then be
wanting on our part to make it appear to
the world what it really and intrinsical-
ly is.
If we set up the golden calf of dissension
and, unmindful of the props that have sus-
tained us, cease to guard that great pillar
that supports the stately and noble edifice,
and tearing down the legal barriers, or
suffering them to go to decay whilst sacri- ing opposition to it.
legions hands still undermine and seek to
destroy that which has made us the envy
of less favored contries, and the cynosure
of the earth, we may look for the day of
our downfall, and to be cat off as a blighted
branch from the great dree of nations.
It is time however, for me to leave the
field of speculation and generalities, and
come to the “scratch.” Ample accommo-
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to any known to sacred or profane history
or extant in the earth at the present day.
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cutting satire of great Dryden to his ene-
my—
“ With all his bulk there is nothing lost in Og, .
For every inch that is not fool, is rogue
A monstrous mass of foul, corrupted matter,
As all the devils had spewed to make the batter.”
Should our laws prove ineffectual, the re-
sentment of an outraged public will keep
would be with the slave but slight induce-
ment to do right if it brought no corres-
ponding advantage. It is certainly our
duty, then, to reward the obedient and pun-
to the great jsh the lazy and refractory. Where slaves
are properly cared for, a large amount of
labor can be exacted, and made profitable,
whilst order, subordination and cheerful-
ness are maintained. The inclemencies of
the weather should be avoided as much as
possible, and a plenty of good warm cloth-
ing given them for both winter and sum-
mer use. Too much attention cannot be
on those of latter years. Inde-
pendently of the claims of humanity, we
are strongly urged by interests to look
carefully to the wants of mothers and their
children. What more agreeable sight
than to look upon fifty or a hundred saucy
romping little imps, and reflect that to our
care and attention we are indebted for the
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very zealous Christian mother, who went
mnnt’.TW cmmi'nl day Of
, her poor neglected child.” “ I don’t know,”
i said the little girl, taking hold of her.dirty
i dress with her dirtier fingers, and inspect-
ing it. “ I guess so, if I ain’t too dirty.”
“ That’s a fine strain,”
man to another, alluding to the tones of a
singer at a concert’the other evening.—
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lesson that they will not, “but if he strains much more he’ll bust I”
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kind, and believed to be sanctioned by the
great author of all law and source of all
authority. Not only has the statute laws
thrown around this class of our population
the aegis of its protection, but public opin-
ion—that restless battering ram to level
all oppostiion ; that ponderous trip hammer
that crushes with irresistible blows and re-
duces to form and shape the indurated mass;
that rollingmill through which whatever
would be perpetuated must pass ; that bed
of Procrustes to which every thing must
adapt itself in our day and generation—
comes to the aid of outraged humanity and
says to all who would scale its walls or
cross the lines drawn by Christian usage,
“thus far shalt thou go and no farther, and
here let the waves of oppression be stay-
ed.”
Europe, enlightened Europe, groans un-
der the heel of despotism. And Britain,
the heart of constitutional liberty, is being
ossified, whilst Ireland .“still serves,”—she
who drew from the eloquent lips of her
most gifted sons, that burst of patriotic ar-
dor, worthy of a better cause : “ No mat-
ter in what disastrous battle his liberties
may have been cloven down—an Indian or
an African sun may have burned upon him,
the moment his feet touches the sacred soil
of Britain, the altar and the God sink to-
gether in the dust, his soul walks abroad
iin her own majesty, and his limbs swell
above the measure of his chains that burst
from around them. He stands redeemed,
regenerated, and disenthralled by the irre- the teachings and influence of Christianity
sistible genius of “universal emancipation.’
But, softly, most noble son of Erin, “fair
words,” says the proverb,” “batter no pai\
snips,” and .not thus, even at that day,
though thy intended son-in-law, the patriot
Emmet, when hurling defiance in the teeth
of his guilty judges, and had thou, per-
chance, but waked up a generation later
and seen millions of human beings, (thy be-
loved countrymen) from infancy to feeble
and attenuated old age, dragging their pal-
sied limbs, (palsied by starvation) forth into
the fields, into the highways and the by-
ways, sending abroad one soul piercing
shriek of “come over into Macedonia and
help us,”—“oh I give us bread or we die ;’’
and seen, the green earth strewn with the
bones of Irishmen, and should have asked
“ what means all this?” thou wouldsthave
been answered, “potatoes kept but poorly
this year and the past one, and a couple of
millions have died from want 1”
And this too, in the land of Milton andJ’
Shakespeare, Newton and Bacon, Fox and
Pitt, Tillotson and Paley, Watt and Ark-
wright, and the hosts who have made the
arts and sciences a ladder whereon to
climb to endless fame and eternal glory ;
stretching like that of the patriarch of old
to the heavens, and bringing those celestial
visitants, Justice and Merculy to dwell in
our halls and temples, and shedding by
their influence a lambent light, not alone
on us, but on ages yet - unborn, heralding
the approach (if not of that millenium by
good men long promised and by the pious
still expected) at least of a purer political
atmosphere for the nine hundred millions
of suffering humanity w ho—
JMeet every sad returning night
And joyless morn the saiae.” ■ «
I say it is the legal restraints thrown
around our system, and the great advan-
•disguised in name ; and slavery of the most tages of having a direct, permanent, and
revolting form, without any of those safe- i well defined wright and title in the slave
him, is worth two picke.d up at random un-
der the hammer or from the slave dealer’s
gang. A deaf car ought seldom to be turn-
ed to their complaints. We cannot tell i
which are just and which are not worthy p"“ for 80rae lani
to-be acted upon, until we have bea,.d I for the plainttff closed his remarks, the fore-
| man, a bluff fellow, said : “ that’s a good
. How God-forsaken and dejected must | title—goes for plaintiff.” Mr. S. requested
that pour slave feel wlrn, when deeply in-, to hear the other side. Moodily he re-
jured and brutally treated, comes with lac-! sumed his seat> completely carried
erated-feelings and mangled limbs, and is ? a^ay by the eloquence, and beWifched by
driven forth, as often happens, with curses j the host of facts that were made to array
and opprobrium from the light of that face.! themselves on the other side, he exclaimed
that he is want to regard as the sun of his ~ 1 r
hope, and to the man -whom he knows to be
bis temporary ruler and “set in authority 1 believe the custom is melting
over him.” The duties of a master are not
few, and his obligations sacred and most
binding.
The Sabbath should be observed. Wheth-
er it be a day set apart by Divine command
and its observance made imperative, or it
be the result of a compact and the fruit of of being viewed
the conventionalities of civilized life and
Christian teaching, still it is looked upon as a
day sacred to rest, and peculiarily the right
of the slave. The world (I mean the Chris-
tian portion) regards it in this light, and
we would but beat against wind and tide,
■ and make a continued lee-way whilst offer-
paid in advance................. $3 00
If not paid in six months................ .$3 50
If not paid until the expiration of the year... $4 00
paper discontinued until all arrearages are paid.
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ought to find at home. Gadding about by jured Danite. To him may be applied the
night, or day is wrong, and should not be
tolerated. Strict discipline at all times
should be enforced, but not unnecessary
punishment resorted to. Meritorious con-
duct should be rewarded by kindness, pe-
cuniarily and otherwise.
It is often said that we must be impar-
tial and show no favors. This is just what him wallowing in the slime of infamy.
I advise. But I see favoritism differently
from some people. Impartiality consists
laws and Christian obligations, interest i by the master hand of the great socialist,
steps in as mediator and checks us or Greely himself.
chains us to the stake of duty. The rights ■ He supposes a man
of primogeniture do not exist amongst us, [streets of New York to be honest, healthy,
and the horded^wealth of' d life time is us-! and willing to work, and yet be pinch-
nally divided among many/heirs. Vast ed by cold end "want, and constrained by
numbers of slaves fall but seldom to tbelo.t(the conventionalities of civilized life to dc-
i of any single individual. ;ny himself one.atum of the abundance that
This is the suimst^mii-antee for the pm^ ■ stares him in the face on every hand. He
pethation of the institution—but lor this; stands disinherited by no fault of his, and
the mighty fabric' would crumble to the I for no wrong that he has done, of even the
dust. T"....... '
slave power and interest if every man in surround
the South owned one or more, to rivit him dance. ‘
still firmer to a desire for the perpetuation (from memory and shall preserve the spirit
of the institution. Such ties would be as ■ of tnc author if the words are not litterally
triple bands to bind him to the sphere of correct) “and yet have no right to a de-
duty. lie would be so wedded by interest [caving stick of timber in the most unfre-
and alffction, as to desire the continuation, [ quonted morass—he may be brought by
at any and all hazards, of those rights he want to the verge of starvation, and yet
enjoyed under the guarantees of a written [have no legal wright to pluck and cat the
- bitterest -acorn in the depths of the remot-
est forest.”
How different with us ! when the young
and helpless, the strong and robust, the old
and feeble, know no distinction, but are
cared for and have their wants supplied in to every one his dues. There
with always a liberal and often a lavish
hand.
Alms houses, foundling houses, lying-in
houses, soup houses, yes, and calico balls
for the benefit of the poor, are
sea of misery but so many drops of sweet
water to the briny ocean. They serve to
screen a little the hideous spectacle of suf-
fering that but for such a filmly covering
to keep it out of view, would appal the
stoutest heart and raise the blush of shame
on any Christian cheek. The cold and cal-
culating charities of mankind may check
a little but can never stay the current of -bestowed
human suffering.
“ The deepest ice that ever froze,
Can only o’er the surface cloSe,
The living stream lies quick below
And flows, and cannot cease to flow.
Human institutions must and will under-
go some change and modifications—ameli-
orations and improvement in the science of
government, lessen measurably the afffic- possession of them I ■ One slave raised at
tions of the great mass ; but so long as the
earth is peopled so long will some rule and
some submit to be ruled—so long will ex-’
ist the distinctions of rich and poor, weak | and the hand that nourished and sustained
and strong, the oppressor and the oppres-
sed. That “might makes right,” is as pa-
tent to our understandings now, as it ever
was to any former generation, and despite
guards thrown around it by our laws, ren- that makes our form of servitude superior
dered doubly effective by the right of hold-
ing property in a class whose status is
fixed by that almighty fiat, “a servant of The Sabbath is required to be respected,
servants shalt thou be,” no less than by food and raiment prescribed by law, and
the unalterable decrees of fate itself. Self, nursing and medical attention made a du-
interest, that prompts civilized man to eve-,ty no less by the force of legal enactment
ry act, impels us to obey the dictates of hu-’ than the spirit of Christianity. Contrast
inanity. When urged by angry passions ' the situation of our slaves with that of the
servation, point out secret beauties, and be-
come, as it were, a partner in his feelings,
else his impressions are comparitively dull
and spiritless,
MATAGORDA, TEXAS, SATURDAY, APRIL 16, 1859.
ally fish, should be allowed them. An al-i forget soon. I have my mind’s eye on such
m,.-...v.. .— [an one, even now. He does acts that
Poultry, they raise plenty of shame us as a Christian community, and es-
capes unwhipt of justice.
Shall it continue to be with us as in the
days of “ Doited Lear,” when plate sin
“with gold, and the strong lance of justice
would harmless break against it. Arm it
pigmy’s straw would pierce it.”
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he adds flour, bacon, beans, peas, pump- laved and cleansed from guilt in the pool
kins, turnips, tobacco, whiskey, milk, fruits, of public opinion, the Bethesda whence the
to be standing in the etc., as circumstances permit ; how much, lepers of the day should be healed? or, if
more arfiple than that of a laboring Scotch-! too much corrupted, scorn_
man, who gets two porringers of oat-meal j the walls of respecter common courtesy,
and milk a day, or Paddy’s frugal dish of
“ eat and point!” Martial rights and con-
jugal ties ought to be scrupulously respect- of garish day,
ed, for a wrong, unprovoked, maj/ rankle infirmity. He will discern the cloven hoof
in the heart for years, and eventually show of the abolitionist, doubtless, in all my
itself in misdemeanors or crimes of the
should be as equal-j such a wretch where an honest man may
stand. He is with them or against them.
“Bulk without spirit vast,” he stands
' mestic ties to which they are entitled and like the cowering Philistine before the in-
bitter curses of the wronged and trampled
upon, but made light with blessings, and
perfumed with the choisest balm the part-
I expect to be condemned for some of ing spirit knows, tears and lamentations
myopinions. There will''not be wanting such as I have seen shed in bitterness of
carping fools and soul-bespotted monsters heart when a beloved master and foster
to damn me for heretical doctrine I brush father was taken from their sight forever,
all such from my path with the rebuke of Be just in albyour dealings with them ; in
[From the Planters’ Banner ]
BEST METHOD OF WOKKING
NEGROES.
Messrs Editors Having disposed, of
that branch of the subject relating to ! 1 pc constitution, by the general usage of
Duties of an Overseer,” as proposed by
“ Citizen,” I now pass to the consideration
of the remaining part, to wit > “ The best
Method or Working Negroes to an Advan-
tage.” This latter thesis is somewhat
vague, at least, it is not as definite as I
could desire, but I shall presume that he
intended to draw from me my views in re
gard to the most advisable course to be
pursued in the management of negroes, to
the end, that their service may be made
profitable, and, at the same time, comporta-
ble with the dictates of humanity. Re-
garding the proposition in this point of
view, I will proceed to lay down such
rules and guides as I deem, if not indispen-
sable, at least greatly conducive to suc-
cess. 1 shall reason from the premises,
that slaves are a branch of the great hu-
man family, and to be classed and treated
as such, although, certainly, of an inferior
order intellectually in the general scale.
I deem this course more catholic and con-
ductive to the prosperity qnd perpetuation
of the institution of slavery, than the oppo-
site one of regarding the negro as a brute,
and beyond the pale of humanity. Before
entering into the dryer details of the sub-
ject, and prescribing rules to be observed
in the treatment of slaves, I shall offer a
few observations, if not pertinent, at least
pressing latterally upon the general issue
involved in the examination of the question
in its various bearings and from different
standpoints of view.
I look upon the institution of domestic
slavery, as it exists among us, as infinitely
more humane, beneficent, and compatible
with Christianity than the coolie, the peon,
the serf, or the peasant orders, and our
■slaves as far better off than the great mass
of groveling humanity, embracing as it
does ninety per cent of the human race.
Whether slavery be of divine origin, as
some contend, or the fruit of fraud and op-
pression, as others maintain, I leave to sub-
tle cassuists and hair-splitting disputants.
Suffice it for my purpose that I find it as I
find the rights of property, the martial
i'1-ghts, the rights of parents in governing
and restraining their children, and many
others, of minor importance, all upheld by
the general voice and usage of mankind.
I deem it more prudent and economical to
take the world as I find it, and endeavor to
patch up the rents and stop the flaws, as I
jog along, than to set about building anew
one :—the present one has occupied many
centuries of a master builder, and I am not
disposed to set up in opposition at this late
hour. The institution of slavery exists
amongst us in the most perfect form it has
.ever assumed, since Joseph was sold into
.captivity till the present hour, when four
millions of happy and contented slaves bask
in the sunshine of that opulence and pros-
perity that results from their subjection to
-the superior energy and mental development
.of the dominant race.
If we but look abroad over the earth,
what do we see ? Save in a small island
across the ocean, and, perchance, the little
mountain girt republic, where freedom’s ta-
per still sheds a flickering light—naught
meets the eye but a barren waste of serf-
dom, a Sahara of misery, a wilderness of
•woe. In bestial Africa, in pagan Asia, in
down-trodden Europe, and priest ridden
South America, all, all, is slavery, however
What’s a Name.—I have heard an anec-
dote here, of one of your Boston men, which
is too good to be kept from your readers.
Theodore D. Parker, Esq., a merchant in
your city, happened a few weeks since to
be a guest for one night at Mr. Knapp’s
hotel. After ten, as he was enjoying the
coolness’ of the evening breeze on the piaz-
za, he noticed a gemtieman in the office who
was examining the book of arrivals, and
who afterwards walked up and down the
piazza, scanning him ^Mr. Parker) closely.
Some ten or fifteen imnutes passed in. this
.rged forth beyond way, when the stranger broke the silence
by addressing him:
“ Is your name Parkei’ ?”
“ Yes sir.”
“ Theodore Parker ?”
“Yes sir.”
“Do you live in Boston?”
“ Yes sir.”
“ Then sir,” (looking as if the identiy of
the individual was fairly established,) “ I
suppose you are the man who goes about
in New England, villifying the institutions .
of the South !”
“ Oh no, no I” answered the astonished
Mr. Parker, before whose eyes a bag of
feathers and a kettle of tar danced a mo-
mentary pas de deux ; “ I am Theodore D.
Parker—I am not the minister whom you
speak of.”
“ Ah ! that alters the case, then,” re-
sponded the chivalric Virginian in a milder
tone : “ but allow me to give you one piece
of advice, and that is, if you are going to
travel round these diggins, you had better
in the future, when you sign your name, be
particular and make that D d—d plain.”
Yankee Boarding.—“ What do you charge
for board?” asked a tall Green Mountain
boy as he walked up to the bar of a second
rate hotel in New York—“what do you ask
a week for board and lodging ?”
n Five dollars.”
“Five dollars! that’s too much; but
s'pose you’ll allow for the times I’m absent
from dinner and supper.”
“ Certainly—thirty-seven and a half cents
for each meal.”
Here the conversation ended, and the
Yankee took up his quarters for two weeks.
During this time he lodged and breakfasted
at the hotel, but did not take either dinner
or supper, saying his business detained him
dinner and supper—14 days, 2 meals per
day—28 meals at cents each—$10 50.
If you’ve not got the fifty cents change
that’s due me, I’ll take a drink, and the bal-
ance in cigars 1” |
The Conjurer and the Yankee.—Ander-
son, the wizzard, met with a Yankee, who
stole a march on him one day, after the fol-
lowing pattern : Enter Yankee. I
“ I say ! are you Professor Anderson ?”
“Yes, sir, at your service.”
“Wa’al, you’re a tarnation smart man.,
and I’m sumthin’ at a trick too, kinder cute,
deu you know.”
“ Ah, indeed, and what tricks are you up
to, sir ?” asked the professor, amused at the
simple fellow.
“ Wa’al, I can take a red cent and change
it into a ten dollar gold piece.”
“ Oh, that’s a mere slight-of-hand trick, I
can do that, too.”
“No you can’t. I’d like to see you try.”
“Well, hold out your hand with a cent
in it.”
Yankee stretched out his paw with a
cent lying on it.
“ This is your cent is it, sure ?”
“ It’s nothin’ else.”
“ Hold on to it tight—Presto ! change.—■
contented slaves, if when, perchance, you Now^open youi hand.”
“ iankee opened his fist, and there was a
gold eagle shining on his palm.
“ Wa’al, you did it, I declare ; much
have your coffin loaded with the deep and obliged to you,” and Johnathan turned to •
go out.
“ Stay,” said the professor, “you may
leave me my ten dollars.”
“Yours ! warn’t it my cent ; and didn’t
you turn it into this yaller thing, eh ?
Goodbye !” and as he left the room he was
heard to say, “ I guess there ain’t anything
green about this child.”
An Englishman, traveling in Kilken-
ny, came to a ford, and hired a boat to take
him across. The water being more agitat-
ed than was agreeable to him, he asked the
boatman if any person was ever lost on the
passage. “ Never,” replied Pat, “my broth-
er was drowned last week, but we found
him the next day.”
It is a law of nature, that man can
enjoy nothing, to effect, alone ; some onb
said one gentle- must ^ean uP°n lds arm—listen to his ob
“ To what would not he on quail and phesant swell.
Who e’en on tripe and carrion could revel.
There are some who cannot be reached by
conscience that being entirely blocked up,
or because they never had any ; and oth-
ers like the monster I have limned above,
who are protected by a shield of utter dis-
regard of public opinion, (save in that it
drives him from the light of dayJ more im-
penetrable than that of Ajax, or than that
could have been made, though formed of
trice seven hides stripped from as many
patriarchal bovines reaied on old Bashan’s
plains.
The custom long prevalent of grinding
on the Sabbath during the rolling season,
when so little time is allowed us between
the maturity of the cane and the advent of
Jack Frost, is being seeriously invaded with- in another portion of the city,
in the last few years. Able champions are
arrayed on either side. I have made up
my mind, as every other man must have
done, in regard to the morality of the hab-
it. The policy is another matter. I have
no direct interest either way, and, like the
woman who witnessed the combat between
the bear and her husband, can stand a pas-
sive spectator merely, and let each do his deducted tjie times that.I was-absent from
own fighting. My position on this mooted
question may be fairly settled to “Citizen’s”
satisfaction by relating an anecdote.
The late S. S. Prentiss was once the at-
[ torney in Mississippi for defendant in a
. When the counsel
are not worthy;
j man, a bluff fellow, said :
“Do you think you are fit to die,” asked
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cleanliness enforced, ifnecessary by punish- afid attach them to you by a sacred regard to prayer meeting- several times
ment. The white-wash brush should be ' for their rights, and you may cast dread
seldom idle or suffered to cease its work of [of insurrections to the winds, and sleep se-
purification. An abundance of good and | curely beneath the “shadows of your own
vrholcsome food should be always on hand [fig trees, and have none to make you
to supply the wants of each and every afraid.”
slave. Vegetables should be raised for Men who bring the institution of slavery
them and dealt out without stint. Pork [ to shame and disgrace humanity, ought [
and beef, either fresh or salt, and occasion-!to be taught a win
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benefit will be charged as advertisements.
«®_Marriage or Obituary, notices exceeding ten lines in
length, charged as advertisements.
^5“Yearly advertisers will be confined to their legiti-
mate business ; if otherwise they will be charged
extra.
Advertisements when handed in not specifying the
number of insertions, will be continued until forbid,
and charged for accordingly.
Advertisements from a distance must be accompa-
nied with the cash, or city acceptance, to secure in-
sertion.
US'Candidates’ announcements for County offices, $5 :
State, District and Congressional, $10 ; payment re-
quired invariably in advance.
iggg_A.ll advertisements, the publication of which is re-
quired by law, must be paid for in advance.
Each subsequent insertion.
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Lipsey, E. J. The Matagorda Gazette. (Matagorda, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 37, Ed. 1 Saturday, April 16, 1859, newspaper, April 16, 1859; Matagorda, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1329846/m1/1/: accessed June 5, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Matagorda County Museum & Bay City Public Library.