The Gonzales Inquirer (Gonzales, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 13, Ed. 1 Saturday, August 27, 1853 Page: 1 of 4
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Trifles Light as Air.
Mr. Editor:—I am almost inclined to believe
with a certain good old friend of mine, that
there are no such things as trifles. He was
wont to say "there Is nothing unimportant,
that has for its object the good or thé happi-
ness of others." There is nothing trivial that
is useful, or that wields a degree of influence
over the comforts or real well being of «theijp.
How often has a Kttle word, a cold look, or a
single- selfish action, broken the confidence
that bound in the closest ties two human
hearts; how often does one lktie aet place the
iharacter in a new and (hilling light; how ©f-
dbes one-nokind or suspicious glance revea,
more than tongue can ntterr and wake us from
that fairy dream, which only once' in our Uvea,
can cast a radiance over the cold realities which
surround usr and invest all things with its own
gorgeous light.
A smile from the .lip of a loved one to a
young and trusting heart, is worth far more
all the jewel of Golconda. A whisper,
sigh, has thrilled us with a magic power and
sent the blood dancing to the heart, with
sense of pleasure, almost too great
I well remember a fkir young friend, the idol
of her parents, the pride of her manly brothers,
the sunlight, the music of her home. As one
would stand at the entrance of a magnificent
Temple, thrilled and dakzléd by its glory, she
stood on the very threshold of existence, look-
ing with bright anticipations over the glittering
vision before her. Far «way into the dim, bnt
rosy future her fancy wandered, to a blissful
ie with one, whose very name made her
ble with happiness—a, home, mid buds
id flowera, whose sunlight Should never be
lowed by a cloud, or dimmed by a bitter
where love should make his'home and
le current of life wander gaily on and bear
ith it no changes or sorrows.
It was beautiful to see with what childish
Bt she placed her hand in his on their bridal
vening, and promised to go through life by
his side, making bright for him its sunny
spots, and cheering many a weary and trou
bled path in its pilgrimage; her woman's heart
was strong in its deep devotion, and for him
she left all, whose unfailing tenderness had
made her infancy and girlhood one long mem
ory of happiness. Her father blessed her with
all the fervour of a high heart; and as her gen
tie mother held for the last time her bcautifiil
_ child to her heart, it was with a holy prayer
• for peace and strength from on high. Oh! that
mother's prayer 1 How often did it come with
serene and angelic power to tho memory of
tha¿ daughter in after years, and point to are
t union in a land where parting shall be no more.
A few years passed on of unalloyed happl
ness, then the wife began to observe on . her
husband's brow a shadow that even her love
r could not always chase away. It would come
¡ * and grow darker and broader, and even when
he sat by her side at evening, wben> his resy
children clustered round his knee, er straggled
for his first kiss, it was there like a strange,
dim, intruder into that qniet home. In those
sweet household hours, when toil and cáre
were driven from her thoughts, when night
throws her starry mantle o'er earth, and our
own firesides welcome us, and she with the win
ning gentleness of love, would try to soothe
and cheer him, his coldness and evasion would
chill her. It was a " trifle," he would say; "it
was of no importance to her." Alas, ho knew
not that real love delights in sacrifices—that
his sorrows were her own. He knew not the
tears his coldness wrung from those heavy
eyes, nor the deep wound he gave by his
f' thoughtlessness to a heart whose every throb
MB.
"• *™Slowly and sadly time passed away and the
dreadful troth mealed itself gradually to the
faith ñil wife. The sparkling wine cup had
turned him on from his early frith, from his
peaceful home, and his high resolves, until now
it flowery fetters, had become chains 0f iron,
until the demon of intemperanoe ruled him with
an absolute sway.
It was long before the frfal truth forced itself
plainly on her, long ere the drunkard invaded
the sacred precinct of We home, era those in-
nocent children knew their frther's shame, and
often when the Ml measure of her wef swept
over the heart of that noble woman, would she
from her deaoiato pillow, thank God that her
own parents rcstod beneath the shadowy old
their cherished one. as her
prayed at their parting, soprkyédshe
noble —
ML
left, under the garb of innocent and social en-
joymeat, to final and otter ruin.> Oh! it was
pitiable tO see that wreck of mfpdiobd as he
yielded to the ^a«p of death. His ow*better
self awoke at last; and one starless nigfefcuhen
and charged [the tempest howled fiercely throughthe streets
and thé rain-drops patteréd against thé #0of
with1 "a,
knelt by his
memories swept over her soul, her gentle Mo-
ther, her stately ftther, and her noble broth-
ers were with her in spirit again; once moré she
stood at the altar with amaply format her side
and repeated the vows that bound, her : to .him
through good end evil forever; the varied
scenes of her married life passed before her,
and bowing her head on the pillow she purperi-
dered herself to the storm of grief that desola-
ted her very soul. .A deep¿: low groan made
her raise her head—her husband looking
at her with the light ofhis old iove inttseyes,
as with a faint motion he trie^to draw her to-
wards him. Then that midnight h&ur and
lonely death-bed were brightened by a confes-
sion and forgiveness, that shed the first ray of route
gladness, that had lingered in that. woman's
heart for many long years, and r*U*ved the
gloom that saddened many on after honr.
They buried him in a shady corner of-tie
churchyard, and there at the gravé <jf all her
early hopes, she repeats to her ptódrón the sad
tale of their frther's ruin, warns them that the
sparkle of the ruby wine contains ah enchant-
ing poison that leaves not Its work unfinished,
and points them onward and upward for
strength to resist temptation.
The rosy light oS her youth has frded, but
she has secured in Its place an abiding trust in
Providence, that sheds its heavenly peace over
her lonely pathway. EDNA.
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and entered
A. D. 1868,
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^ & Devine for the con-,
Sideratioins hereínaflór mentioned, hereby cov-
enant and agree to and with the said Company
and
Antonio and Mexican
the Gulf terminus to the
Antonio, and also the branch of
? the town of Lavaca, beginning
at duph .noinits and following sucE
Inés as the Engineer of saia Gem
ato by direction of the Board
ompany.
jones and Devine further cov-
. to.oonttruct,. finish and eqi^
in the manner hereinafter mentions
the same incomplete running ordi
tree yeara from the first day of De-
Knd to construct and finish
less íhan twenty miles of
the town of Lavaca on the
Antaníó, ón" or before the first
ty to the plans and specification of the !
Sectb^^Lch'^Sngsls^^ the firat soetion. in the same sum for the con'
" " strucdon and equipment of each subsequent o
additional 'section: Provided, That if sail
Jonei^ Derine Bh^l have at the oon
ment of the 'conatrvctiilkpf any ope
jgs as the
' may deém necssary rfor the
company, to be erected in con-
s and specifi
said
benefit of- t nm t IH r
1 specifications fUrnish-
ea Dy mm ana upon such localities on the line
of skid road as said engineer may direct
Sec. 4. Said Jones & Devine, farther cove-
nant and agree to build and construct said
road in the best, most dúrable, and workmen-
like manner, and upon the most approved plaii
Caesar Beating Hit Wife.
Under this title the Bepublicain,. a
journal published at New York, publishes a
letter from Pari which it says emanates from
irrefragable testimony:
The night is sombre and Bad: thé
blows with violence among the tali trees of the
park of St Olond, and draws from them Bounds
of pain. The clock of the cháteku Btrikes one;
the silence is broken only by the barking Of
some restless dog, or the noiso of some Vehicle
rumbling on its way to Paris.
From the outside the imperial palace has the
air of an edifice Whose occupants are all asleep;
in the interior, agitation and tumult t-eign:
Gtesar has not been - able to find his wife?—
The conjugal chamber is deserted. The wait-
ing woman on service, interrogated by his Ma-
jesty, replies with an embarrassed manner that
the EmpresB iust gone out, and ordered that
no one should follow her. The Emperor is fu-
rious, his ordinary phlegm has left him. He
otters oaths in all languages.
The persona present are in consternation;
everybody starts out in search of M'me. Bona-
parte.
On the opposite Bide of the chateau, on the
ground floor, before that magnificent park
which the old Kjü^Louis Philippe and his
redectsaor, the JHbd Charles X., were so
md of, is*ho apflHbt formerly occupied by
the Duchess of OnREs.
In the ftirthest part of the blue chamber, re-
clining on the sob, a woman young and beau-
tiful prays and weeps. This woman is the Em-
press of Fiance 1 Suddenly she trembles; she
nasheardanoiso ; someone knocks. It is the
Emperor and his followers.
"Open, madam,, or I will have the door bro-
ken open." No answer.
The courtiers went to work, aided by His
Majesty. At the end of a few moments the
doorgave way.
Wait for me, gentlemen," said Louis Nap-
oleon to us.
What passed during the two boor* whioh
the interview within occupied? Heaven alone
knows! Now and then, notwithstanding, a
smothered word reached us, and we heard with
terror, "Villain l—aasasoin I—I loved him I—to
Cayenne I"
of a body felling heavily
on the flo<*y(t he blue chamber is not carpeted)
made us trembnl Impelled half by Curl<
half by anxiety, wo entered Napoleon
holding by the hair bis wife, thrown on the
floor. "CowaídI" she exclaimed; "Help! help!
He would assassinate me arf he did Gaüneratal
He is drunk 1 Heln!"
We were, stupefied. Wo surrounded the
Prince to endeavor to disengage his victim.—
She whom he thus maltreated was a woman,
beautifbl and envied! Alast "Gentlemen,
said tho Emperor "you can retire; If One of
you.relates what he has $éofrú-I need not tell
the frte reserved for him." : I ; I;
The. next day tho "Patrie" contained the fol-
lowing parágraph:
"His Majesty this morning.ttéárd mass with
his accustomed jpiety. His '
ducta, culverts, turn-tables, switches, tUrnbolts,
water-tanks, , pumps arid fuel houseá aa the
engineer of said company may direct and also
covenant arid ,
nishing six firs
iplétó, sir
be delivered
•timé hérciül
years from the
I8S3,in
«et and siso
'said Toad by for-
tives with tenders
passenger cars, two
80 feet in lebgth, fifteen box
" ^et'in length, twenty-four
it to length, twenty-four stake
length and ten gravel cm.
'"tók,
_JNH IZ-' single tHkct to
said cottipftny at or within the
'ore specified, to wit: iotl
: first day of December,
Séc. G.~ InconsideratiSiiof the . ,r. n
and delivery of said road and equipmerits, the
furnishing of all materials and labor by said
Jones ft Devine, and delivery of the same,
completed in siich mariner as hereinbefore
provided, said company hereby covenant and
agree to and with said Jones A Devine, that
they will pay for said road the sum Of twenty-
seven thousand dollars for , each mile in length
f said road, exclusive of the buildings men-
oned in section third of this contract, which
payments shall be made in the following man-
nerand upon the following terms and condi-
tions to WM" that at the signing and delivery
i bad
plr!
the unhappy heroine of
; seínfor six
Works too
not soon
was shut up in
conv^t!
are flúaióha for á species
of hoax called
¡S
not care one
of the contract price of said first section of
said road, Bald firet section being twenty miles
of the road commencing at or near the town of
lavaca and running on the route to the town
Of Victoria.
Sao. 0. Said bonds shall be signed by the
President of said company and auch other
officers or persons as the board of directors
may by resolation direct Said bonds shall be
payable after twenty years from the date of
their negotiation by said Jones ft Devine, and
shan bear an interest of ten pér cent per an-
nUm from the timé of such negotiation, which
interest shall be payable semi-annually at the
Merohant'a Exchange in the city of New York.,
$aid bonds shall l>e a mortgage upon said road
tod upon the material and equipments of every
character belonging to thé same, which lieu or
mortgage shall be expressed Upon the free of
aa|d bonds. Si&lbotuts shall at any time be
convertible into certificates of stock of said
company at tho option of the holder by
g and cancelling the same at the office
ompany by thé treasurer. They shall
! payable to said Jones ft Devine or
or said ci
be made paya!
their assigiu3ds :and.in ease of the assignment
of the same or any portion thereof) such as
signs shall be entitled to the same right and
priyilegcs and securities as the original hold-
ers. tmMi
1. Said company further covenants
With and to said Jones ft Devine,
the time signing and delivery of this
shall pay to the said
(ones Jfc Devine, one-sixf,h part or the contract
for sfUd finit section ; aaic
h a#follows; tnao^ely. midcom
id deliver to said Jones ft L . ..
auch cities and towns and conn
the
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have or i
stock off
at the v wdlVpay
and brokerage commissions that may
in the negotiation and sale of such
as afe paid to said'Jones ft Devine,
in the seventh 'section of this con
soma being the first one-sixth advanced apon
the construction of each section respective-
ly.
Sec. 10. Said company farther
covenant with and to said Jonés ft Devine
upon the completion of the first sectlon of
road ip good running ordei\ said —
arid shall issue to Baid Jones ft,J
and securities for two-thirds of
contract price per mile of
and for one-sixth part of >
Baid second section, seid bortds and securt
to be of the same character and issued in 1
manner and upon the some terms and com
tions as those provided for the payment of the
Diistructíon &nd cü uipincnt of thefirst scotioD,
he lerigtli<Of the second and subsequentwc-
tions I MBH .PHH
and cohditions Of paVment of, -each section
shall ^^be the same .as those prescribed
contract for the first; and said Jones ft
shall be requi| d to file bond and
and
uebf nia
ta-of the
no such adltii
3ec. 11. 8aid com;
ees' wil
subscrip
elands) town lots, instalmerit npon
ion to stock, and asssets of every de-
the possession, p#which may
r come into the possession of said co
iy, " except such portion thereof ¡ás may
essary for the payment of % necessi _
cftrredt expenses of said company," shall be
and is«hereby declared to he a special
to: JWÜfc ISK HI
pursuance
contract,"and' no sale, mortgage, of other dis.
position of the saine shall ne mad '
company except for the
in this section. This
inpltidO and embrace eight
j'donated by the State tóaiad coto]
and every mile of said road coi
Sue. 12. Said company forth er covenants
andigréesjvith and tosaíd Jones ftDevine to
furnish them, the said Jotaes ft Devina, ^t the
expense and cost of Baid company,
plans, specifications of said I
ducts, culverto and edifices
tion required for the same, as woll as the „
of way already obtained, and any right of Way
not yet obtained shall be obtained without de-
lay at the coat of the comf
Sm. 18.' Said company forth er covenants
and agreeB to and with the said Jones ft Devine
that $ an;
from the
the construction
thereof, whether
aurns of money shül be paid to ¿aid Jones ft
Devine and reoeived by them upon tto terms
of a cash payment as hereinbefore provided;
atad the said Jones ft Devine hereby covenant
and agree With and lo said cómpany to expend
such sum or sums of money in the construe*
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be put
h&éi, and
vould not wf tha-
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judge, and his
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had not
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tion of said road and to waive
m said road, e:
by said com]
bonds Í88UI
State of
upon said rc
principal ani
so obtalnéd
Sao. 14. Said com]
and agrees with an
that the buildings
to be erected by, said
so all such wharves as
Engineer of said comi
according to theplans
nished bv said Engineer,
the bonds of the com]
ter as those issued
ment of the
t and other
^flve^er
Devine
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nant and agree ,
in case the Congress
remit in whole or in
road iron purchased
for the construction of
duce the rate of duties for
of money
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