San Antonio Ledger. (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 5, No. 38, Ed. 1 Saturday, August 25, 1855 Page: 2 of 12
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(From the "Sentinel," of Angas* H-
u The principies of the American par-
ty were published to the world; conse-
quently they were open to honorable
and courteous discussion—bet not to
misreoresentation and abase. What
w^STmsniier In which they were
met? The world abroad should know
it, and we rive them.
«When they found their orators were
overmatched* in argument in a contest
with the American speakers, deter-
mined, as they were, to carry the day
at all hazards, as a last resort, they
called to their aid a power whose chains
bind so strongly the souls of men—that
power at whose thunders alike the
prince upon his throne, the plumed
chieftain at the head of his hosts, and
the humble cottager at his heárth, has
grown pale—whose hordes of priests,
with their dungeons, racks and thumb-
screws, have so often filled nations with
mourning, and whose influence over
their ignorant followers fal* surpasses
that attained by Alaric oyer his Visi-
goths, or Attilla over his Huns. Now,
here is a nut for demagogues to crack—
here b a lesson taught those native
born Americans whose sympathies were
aroused by ihe false cry of "proscrip-
tion" and thus induced to vote against
the great American party, with its
" priceless guerdon of principles/'
" In this cqpnty, there are five or six
hundred native-born American votes,
and about twelve hundred Mexican and
German votes. Many of these being
native American Mexicans, if left to
themselves, would have preferred the
American side of the question; but ig-
norant and superstitious, as they are,
the priest found no difficulty in con-
vincing them that the American party
were making war upon their religion,
thus adding to the reports that the
American party "intended to pull their
Church down," <:drive them beyond the
Rio Grande," Ac. By thus appealing
to their worse passions—by thus im-
posing on their superstitious credulity,
did lay and priestly demagogues succeed
in controling the entire Mexican vote
in this late canvass. But it is no new
sequence, similar causes produce similar
effects, and that page of history has yet
to be written, where we are told the
Jesuitical demagogue has ever failed to
exercise his wonderful influence over
the ignorant, whén he thought the in
terest of his creed demanded it. It is
also well known to be a principle of the'
American party that our laws upon the
matter of naturalization need a revision;
there should be a longer probation es-
tablished for the foreign candidate for
the honors of American citizenship.
The manner in which the foreigners, as
a body, permitted their votes to be con-
troled in this election, also furnishes
an unanswerable argument in favor of
the American proposition. Many of
these men consider themselves intelli-
gent enough to become the teachers of
American citizens, and have, in our
midst, undertaken to write laws for our
government. And Americans! from
the Rio Grande to the Sabine, remem-
ber, that the anti-American party tri-
umph solely with the Red Republican
German vate in the West, who went
with them almost to a man."
u The priest in Castróville did every-
thing in the way of canvassing, except
to make regular speeches. When asked
why he was so actively engaged against
our party, his answer was, "he was do-
ing all he Could against the American
party, because the&now-Nothings were
opposed to the Catholic Church." Thus
were the foreigners and Mexicans for
once imposed upon, and thus was the
battle fought and the victory won in old
Bexar."
"As the heroic Spartan, with his
three hundred, defended his post against
the barbarian hordes of the Persian
King, so have the American party con-
tended for the nationality of their coun-
try in this, the Thermopylae of Texas."
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A. G. Brown has been appointed
Postmaster at San Antonio, vice James
Bowen. '
The Spanish Cortex have authorized
a treaty with the Dominican republic,
the first acknowledgment by Spain that
has been made of Dominican nationality
since the independence of the island.
To the thoughtful observer how
much does the human countenance re-
Physiological View of the Day of
Rest.
Dr. Farre, a distinguished physician,
in speaking of the necessity to men of
a venerable day of rest, such as we
term a Sabbath,- makes the following:
arrangement in* favor of its careful-
observance.
The ordinary exertions of man run
down the circul&tion every day of his
life í and the first general law of nature,
by which Gód (who is not only the
giver but also the preserver and sus-
tainer of life,) prevents man from de-
stroying himself is the alternating of
day with nights, that repose may suc-
ceed action. But although the night
apparently equalizes the circulation
well, yet' it does not sufficiently restore
its balance for the attainment of a long
life. Hence one day in seven, by the
bounty of Providence, is thrown in as
a day of compensation, to perfect by
its repose the animal system. You
may easily determine this question as
a matter of fact, by trying it on beasts
of burden. Take that fine animal, the
horse, and work him to the full extent
of his powers every day in the week;'
or give him rest one day in seven, and
you will soon perceive by the superior
vigor with which he performs his func-
tions on the other six days, that his
rest is necessary to his well-being.
Man, possessing a superior nature, is
borne along by the vigor of his mind,
so that the injury of continued diurnal
exertion and excitement on his animal
system is not so immediately apparent
a¡> it is in the brute; but in the long
run he breaks down more suddenly; it
abridges the length of tits life, and that
vigor of his old age which fas to mere
animal power) ought to be the object
of his preservation. I consider, there-
fore, that in the bountiful provision of
providence for the preservation of hu-
man life, the Sabbatical appointment is
not, as it has been sometimes theologi
cally viewed, simply a precept partak
ing of the nature of a political institu-
tion, but that it is to be numbered
among the natural duties, if the preser-
vation of life be admitted to be a duty,
and the' premature destruction of it a
suicidal act. And if you consider fur-
ther the proper effect of real Christian-
ity, namely peace of mind, confiding
trust in God, and goodwill1 to man, you
will perceive, in this source of renewed
vigor to the mind and to the body, an
additional spring of life imparted from
this higher use of the Sabbath as a holy
rest. Researches in physiology will
establish the truth of revelation, and
consequently show the divine command-
ment but as an appointment necessary
to man.- This is the position in which
I would place it, as contradistinguished
from precept and legislation. I would
point out the Sabbatical rest as neces-
sary to man, and that the great ene-
mies of the Sabbath, laborious exer-
cises of the body or mind, and dissipa-
tion, which force the circulation on that
in which it should repose, while relax-
ation from the ordinary cares of life;
the enjoyment of repose in the bosom
of one's family, with the religious
studies which the day enjoins, consti-
tute the beneficial and appropriate
service of the day. The stndent of
nature, in becoming the student of
Christ, will find, in the principles of his
doctrine and law, the only and perfect
science which prolongs the present and
perfects the future fife.
A Freak of Generosity.—Oue of
most penurious baehelors, one afternoon
after attending the opera, was guilty-of
making a gift uuder circumsaucea some-
what original. He entered a millinery
store and accosting a very pretty atten
dant. inquired the price of a hat which
he saw in the window. She took it out,
and in order to show its beauties, pla-
ced it on her own head, with just pitch
enough to make it taking. The ole
batchelor admired it and pulling ten dol-
lars from his pocket book, concludiug to
buy it. The atiendant took the money
aud with pencil in hand, inquire where
she should seat it.
"Where it your self, my dear." was
his blunt reply as he left the store.
Boston Gazette.
The Richmond papers deny that there
has been any yellow fever at the Gos-
port Navy Yard, but admit there has-
been ship fever. The latter we imagine
is the worse of the two.
veal,
the
faces that move by us in
led streets are each an open
which life-histories ara traced
unerring pen. Dares all have
cneir record, sin leaves its mark, and
pure thoughts beam out in living char-
acters. ■
Considerable stir was created among
^ delphia on the
e discovery that one of
_ ^ in the office of the Chief
Commissioner of City Property was
short in his account about $12uQ.
the ci
ted John
to be a second lieuten-
, in behalf of
A grand meeting of the "United
Kingdom Alliance" took place at Der-
by, England, recently, to congratulate
the Temperance people pf New York on
the passage of the Liquor Law and the
fact that it was to go into operation on
the 4th of July. They issued a great
address to New York on the occasion
in which they speak of the 4th of July
asa day of "moral heriosm." When
they hear of the success of the afore
said liquor Jaw, we reckon they'll feel
that * wet blanket has been thrown
over them.
In the case of John Morrow, a Ser-
geant in the U. S. Army, charged with
/■ - • .y caused the death of
' prisoner was committed to answer' the
at- the November
WHICH 'LOVE IS BEST!
IT ISABBLKa. OSAKA* W* .
When I was ¡n fcfyfifteenth year,
Aud what the world called fair,
I loved a youth whose eyes wére dark,
And raven black his hair.
My little heart went pit-a-pat
Whene'er he passed me by;
And if he'd look at other maids¿
Fd sit me down and sigh.'
Music was in his silvery voice,
And he would" softly tell'
Hbw dearer far than aughfbeaides
He loved his Isabel;
And as he tfembling told his love,
I blushed. aftd-mine confessed;
And then, 0! I was very sure
Ihe first love was the best1.
lime hastened on. Two summers more
Their splendors o'er me threw.
My fancy changed:' I now adored
Two laughing eyes of blue.
My first love's voice its sweetness lost,
His eyes, methotfght, grew dim,
And much I marvell'd how I e'er
Had loved or fancied him.
My second love now whispered me
That I was wondrous fair;
That Cupid wanton'd in my eyes
And reveled in my hair.
So straight we vowed our little hearts
Should own no other guest;
And then—why, then, I had no doubt
That secoüd love was best.
But soon, alas! another change
Waa o'er my fancy thrown}
The beauty of my second love
No more in splendor shone.
I worshipped at another shrine;
Blue eyes had had-their day;
I loved, O! yes, I dearly loved -
Two eyes of sparkling gray.
And softer far than orbs of blue,
Or eyes of jet, they east
Their radiance o'er my beating heart,
Which seemed to love at last.
His accents like a-seraph's voice
Sweet on my ear did fall;
And then—yes, then, I thought and felt
Third love was the best ofalk
Thus did my fancy, fickle jade!
For years her wanderings keep;
And many a solemn-vow I breath'd
Of passion wild and deep;
Till reason came to fancy's aid,
This lesson to impart—
That lasting love is only bound
In a pure and kindred heart.
I sought and found that kindred heart,
And now all change defy;
Ño more there's magic in a form,
Nor lustre in an eye;
These fading charms no more I heed,
My spirit is at rest;
For now I feel, and know, indeed,
That last love is the best.
California Justice.—In the early
days of mining in California, according
to Frank Marryatt's account} t ere was
among them a large proportion of law-
yers of the disreputable class; and as it
was taken for granted that they must
know more of law than their lay neigh*
bore, the justices and similar civil dig-
nitaries were equally selected from
their numbar. Cn one occation a couple
of Mexican greasers,|who had been luky
in diging, disputed the possession of' an
old mule brought befoee one of the
magistrates, who, for the sake ofprecis-
ion, Mr. Marryatt designates as Judge
Muggins. Before he would listen to the
case, he decided that each claimant
must pay three ounces as-expenses of
court." Each in tnrn was then suffered
to state his case in his own language, of
which the Judge did not understand a
word. This done, his honor informed
them through an interpreter, that the
case mnst be decided by a jury. A cou-
ple of ounces more having been paid to
meet this expense, a jury was summoned.
The jury listened to the evidence, and
decided that the testimony was so
conflicting that they could not award
the mule to either; but that the parties
must draw straws for the possession of
the beast, and that the costs should be
equally divided. The costs, amounting
to twenty ounces, besides three ounces
for liquor bill, were paid, and the claim-
ants were about to decide the owner-
ship of the mulé in the manner dictated
by the court, when it was announced
that they might spare themselves-the
trouble—for while the court was in ses
sion another greaser had stolen the
mule, and left for parts unknown!
Well worth Knowing.—One pound
of green copperas (costing seven cents)
disolved in one quart of water and pour-
ed down a privy ,will effectually concen-
trate and destroy the foulest smells.—
For water closets on board ships and
steamboats, about hotels and other pla-
ces, there is nothing so nice to cleanse
and purify those places, as simple green
copjperas, dissolved ; for sick rooms it
may be placed under the béd in anything
which will hold water, and thus render
a hospital or other places of the sick
free from disagreeable- smells, Foi
butcher's stalls, fish markets slaughter-
houses, sinks and wherever there are
putrid and offensive gasses, dissolve cop-
peras and sprinkle it about and in a
very few days the '-bad smell'-' w 11
pass away. If a cat, rat or mouse dies
about the house, and sends forth an of-
fensive gas, palco some dissolved cop
as in cup gor jar anywhere wittan
'smelling distance,' and the cure is sure.
I have known a stock or any goods
which were nearly spoiled by a 1 skunk'
under the store to be cleaned aud re-
stored by simply sprinkling dissolved
copperas about the floor.
■Benjamin, of Louisiana, thus
expresses himself concerning the new
Kiow-Nothing party.
The Whigs of Louisiana, or four-
fifths of them, have been seduced into
joining ah organization, which, although
calling itself the American party, has
no claim to the name of á party at all.
It is a mere association for the purpose
of influencing, not the measures by
which the public good is to be attained,
but the men by whom the offices are to
be filled. Oh! what a wrefbhed fall
from the proud traditions of the gallant
whigs of the olden time. Although en-
tirely unnecessary to recapitulate the
often urged objections against this new
organization, I will state succinctly that
I am opposed to their principles:
Because they are anti-republican in
refusing equal rights to ail= American
citizens;
Because they violate the spirit if not
the very letter of the constitution by
the proscription of citizens on the
ground of their religious belief:
Because they are a retrogression to-
wards the errors of the dark ages, in
tending towards a union of church and
State — a union equally dangerous to
civil and religious liberty:
Because they present issues addressed
to the passions and prejudices of the
people, and t bus tend to divert the at-
tention from those higher subjects over
which it is their duty to keep ceaseless
watch:
Because, above all, they infringe that
priceless privilege of a freeman, the
right* of independent personal action,
guided by independent personal judg-
ment.
If not one of all these objections, in-
superable in my opinion, existed against
this-organization, I repeat that I would
refuse to join a body held together, not
by the ties of a common belief in cer-
tain- principles and measures of public
policy, but simply hy their preference
of themselves as the right class of men
for office-holders. Even if this prefe-
rence were wise and judicious, such an
association does not deserve the name
of a party in a republicf It lacks the
essential elements of one; it is a base-
less fabric, unsubstantial and ephemeral.
^Stupid Slander. —What abolition-
ist in Congress owes his elevation to
the votes of adopted citizens? What
Senator or Representative from Iowa,
Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois, Indiana,
or any other free Western State, peo-
pled to any extent by emigrants from
Europe, has ever been sent to Congress
by them to overturn the Constitution, or
invade the institutions of the Southern
States? Were Cass, or Jones and
Dodge, of Iowa, or Douglass and Shields,
of Illinois, representatives of the loyal
political sentiments of adopted citi-
zens, or those of Massachusetts Know-
Nothings 1 Have the disasters in those
States, which have resulted in placing
the supreme power in the hands of the
Know-Nothing party, and, as- a eonse
quence, sending abolitionists to the
Congress of the United States, been the
fruits of triumphs at the polls of adopt-
ed citizens, or-of brethren of the secret
order to which George Gale, and the
Bee, Bulletin, Picayune, Crescent and
Delta newspapers openly or sneakingly
belong 1
We demand plain, explicit and
straightforward answers to these ques-
tions from the parties we have linked
'in fraternity together. Wherever soi-
disant American party has obtained the
ascendancy in thefree States, abolition
ism has immediately been exalted, the
laws outraged, and the constitution of
our hitherto peaceful, happy and glori-
ous county trampled on and defiled.-—
Name to the people, ye Gay les and oth-
er falsifiers of the passing history of
this day and every day since Know-
Nothmgism was imported from the East
among us, the occasion where your bre-
thren have succeeded, that their very
first acts was not directed against the
South; and at the same time, we defy
you to show a solitary instance in the
history of the country, where, by the
votes of adopted citizens, a traitor to
the constitution has been elected to
power.
True Delta.
How the English National Debt Ori-
ginated.
England spent 36 million of pounds
in the Revolutionary war, when Will-
iam of Orange asceuded the throne—20 '
millions thereof had been borrowed.
62 millions were spent in the Spanish
war from the 4th of May, 1702, to 17th-
March, 1713; 32£milhons borrowed.
54 millions in the Spanish from 23d
October, 1739, to 30th April, 1748—29
millions borrowed.
112 millions of seven years—60 mill-
ions borrowed.
136 millions in the American revolu-
tionary war from 1774 to the peace
made in Paris the 30th November, 1782
—104 millions borrowed.
464 millions in the French revolution-
ary war from 1st February, 1792, to
the peace of Amiens, 1802—200 mil-
lions borrowed.
1129 millions in the wars with Bon-
aparte from April. 1803 to 18th June,
1815—388 millions borrowed and 771
millions raised by taxes
Maryland will produce one million
bushels more wheat than last year, and
probably 2.500.000 bushels more corn,
beside 1,000,000 bushels more oats.—
Similar results may be expected from
all the surrounding States.
The Pittsburg Gazette says: "Taking
the shipment of 1854 as the basis of
calculation, we are within bounds when
wc affirm that we mine for all purposes,
twenty-five millions of bushels of coal
per annum, which is equal to one million -
of dollars.
The Twenty-first Anniversary of the
British Emancipation Scheme in the
West Indies; by which smiling .planta-*
tions have been turned into wild wastes, •
and thrifty laborers to vagabonds and
lazzaroni, was celebrated-this day in New
York by the Abolitionists.
The Boston Post says that the Hill
Mill, at Lewiston, Me., with a capital of
¡$350,000, has earned $22,000 net in
three and a half months during, which
it has been in operation. It producís
fine cottons. The capital is to be in-
creased to $400.000.
W. N. Halderman. editor of the Louie-
ville Courier, has withdrawn from the
Know No tilings of Louisville, because,
he alleges, they undertook to controlJ
his paper. Per contra, Hon. Jeremiah
Clemons, ex-Senator in Congress from
Alabama, has written a long letter in
favor of the new party. So go the-
times.
The offer made by M. Cazncau, t<r
place the Domiuican Republic indirectly
under the protection of the United '"
States, filled the Emperor Faustian I.
with the liveliest terrors. I have heard
that he said to M. Reybaud, Charge
d'Affaires, at Port-au-Prince: " If the
Yankees establish themselves at Sama-
na, I shall be dethroned by them in a
year.? «Say in six months,' answered
Ml Reybaud. whieh ugmented not a
little the anguish of Soulouque.
A State Agricultural College is soon
to be established in Michigan. The ex-
ecutive committee have purchased a
section of land near Lansing, containing
676£: acres, for a farm school; and stu-
dents will alternate between mental
and manular labor.
A Hard Choice.—Speaking of the
proposed excureion by the employees of
the Sun office, the New York Express
says:
The boat will sail around the city
and " towards the Sound," after which
the employees of the Sun establishment
will go to the lunatic asylum, the alms
house, or the prison, as their taste may
differ.
♦
The liquor law of Massachusetts has
proved a failure to all practical purposes,
because it makes the jury judges of the
constitutionality of the law as well as
of the evidence. There is a loop hole
through which parties can almost al-
ways drive a "coach and four."
—
Hickory nut oil, considered equal to
the best lárd or sperm oil for burning
and machinery, is.-bow manu&ctured at
Gov. Medill, of Ohio, has ordered the
arms of the "Sarsfield Guards"—Ger-
man and Irish companies at Cincinnati,
—to be restored to them. The Ger-
ernor .has- also appointed George E.
Pugh, Esq., Major General of the Divi-
sion, who will be the superior of Gen.
Sargeant, at whose instance *the arms
were taken from the aforesaid Compa-
nies.
An editor in Missouri anouncesthat
the publication of his paper Will be sus-
pended for six weeks, in order that he
may visit St. Louis with a load of bear-
skins, hoop-poles, shingles, bark, pickled
catfish, &c., which he has takpn for
subscr ption. He íb bound to raise the
cash on them.
London covers compactly
square miles, with 2.500.000 inhabitants
A letter from New York says: The
flour speculators in Wall street have
been thousands and thousands of dol- -
lars out or pocket the past few days,
in consequence of the rapid decline in
prices, in view of the promised abun-
dance of the coming harvests, both
here and in Europe. Some parties who
purchased on time, in May, when prices -
were as high as $12 and §13 per barrel,
are turning over their contracts now,
and paying a difference of from $2 to
$3 50 per bbl. Some sales were to-dav
of good brands at $7.
The dividends declared by the direc-
tors of the Bank of Louisiana are a
semi-annual dividend of 5 per cent., and
an extra dividend of the same amount*.
To make a palatable drink, take five
gallons of milk warm water, five pounds
white sugar, one quart hop sotz, one
pint hop water, three quarter ounces
cream tartar, one ounce ginger and oil
lemon td suit the taste. Mix all toge-
ther, and let stand in the sun Or, in a
warm place ten hours, then bottle and-
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