The Weekly Independent. (Belton, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 18, Ed. 1 Saturday, August 29, 1857 Page: 2 of 4
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THE WEEKLY INDEPENDENT.
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THE WEEKLY INDEPENDENT.
a.. MARSCHALK, Sr., Editor.
P. MABSCHALK, J*- Publwub .
Helton Texas
August 29, 1867
SATURDAY MORNING,
PREPAYMENT OF POSTAGE
—To all thoso who pay in advance,
we will s"nd the Independent FREE
OF POSTAGE.
Jt3T Anything in the way of food or
provender for man or beast, token jn
exchange at market prices, lor subscrip
tion to "TheIndependent."
fl^=" The Telegraph will please accept
our thanks for their Extra of ihe 15th
inst. containing the latest Foreign news.
/3T We are indebted to our friend
Mr. S Wood for a copy of the Week-
ly dispatch, printed in Richmond, Va.
It is pubished at Si per annum, and is
an excellent paper.
gST Our young friend Michael Van-
derhurst, placed on our table a day or
two ago, a very delicious watermelon
for which we return our thanks. Bye-
the-bye Bud has a fine lot of the same
sort on hand for sale at the Drug
Store.
gar Brother Gain of the Bastiop
Advertiser beats us in the way of
corn. He has received an ear contain-
ing 1200 grains, well shaped.
BSF We learn that fine rains fell
in portions of our county last week.
¡3T Wo have inside and out of
to-day's paper an excellent article rel-
ative to the Chinese Sugar Cane. In
the article of Mr. Beck, from our own
knowledge of the gentleman, we can
safely state the figures are correct
and not exaggerated, as we know he
would be more apt to underrate than
overrate the result of his experiments.
It will be seen by referring to
advertising columns of to-day that
Mrs. Isbell again proposes to open a
school, in Belton. Now we do sin-
cerely hope from the honor of our
1 own, that this lady will commence
with a full school. Wo are ciedibly
informed that she is a good teacher,
and we hope for our own credit she
will be well sustained.
Kp- According to the figures of our
cotcmporary of the Houston Tele-
graph, H. R. Runnels has a majority
pver Gen. Houston of about 9,500
▼otes.
[CP* Another example of thoughtless-
ness in the management of fire arms
has recently occurred in San Antonio.
A little child of a Mr. Lefrering was
shot and killed by a little negro girl
with a pistol which bad been carelessly
left in the kitchen of J. O. Settle.
O What is the matter with you,
Bro. Cain? Did you really and truly
lose that great big heart of yours in
Fort Bend County, or havp you steel-
ed it against the fair sex entirely? We
think that any man who is as popular
among the ladies as you arc, could get
a wife at most any time, and we really
think, William, uuder nil existing cir-
cumstances you are bound to do so.
What have you to say to the contrary
JP3T We do not pretend to be an
adviser in such matters, but it is our
candid opinion that a steady, sjber,
industrious tinner could do a most ex-
cellent business in this town of Belton.
If there is such a one out of business
The Iiidianollnn, etc.
We are truly sorry to see that our
friend Bennet of the Indianolian has
been compelled, although he has is-
sued but six numbers of his paper,
to discharge all assistants, and do all
the work, from devil up, in conse-
quence of the apathy exhibited to-
wards his enterprise by the merchants
and bu-iness men of Powder Horn.—
Well, gentlemen, there is one thing cer-
tain, if you let this paper die for want
of patronage, it will be many very
many years before you get another.
Mr. Bennett prints you an excellent
paper, and you certainly are standing
in your own light to act as you are do-
ing towards him. We thought you
had got over those things.
Rend what a correspondent of
ours says in relation to our own pa-
per, after having learned that we
were compelled to leave Georgetown
for want of adequate support:
1 trust you are doing well with your
paper. You occupy such a position
in the central part of the State that
you can do much good for all good
causes, and seeking as you do also to
advance the prosperity of your section,
your people should support you hand-
somely, and they would be ingratcful,
if they do not. Above all men an
editor earns a -rood living and yet as a
class, they come farther from getting
it than almost any other. It speaks
little for a people to let their local pa-
per die or sutlier for the want of pa-
rage. A citizen of a county too
often thinks—that his homo paper con-
tains no news—that it only gets what
he has seen in other papers, a::d for-
gets that his land and all his interests
are made doubly valuable and often
quintupled by the influence of his
home paper. I sincerely hope your
people are a generous and noble peo-
ple—a liberal people to their editor
that they will keep his barn and larder
always full—will cram his pockets
and dress him and his family in de
cency and order, and thus keep his
face sleek and always wreathed in
smiles.
Important—Read it.
A movement is being made to estab-
lish a Mail Coach route from Belton to
Hempstead, the present terminus of
the Galveston & Henderson rail road,
via Cameron, Port Sullivan and Boon*
ville, to be furnished twice a week.—
This is a matter in which we are all
interested. By this route we would re-
ceive our Eastern mails in about the
time that they now reach Austin. A
>etition is lying at the Drug Store for
signatures. The matter only awaits
the recommendation of Major Scott,
the Mail Agent, who by a petition from
those interested will be influenced to
recommend it. Let every body sign
at once, that it may be pushed right
ahead.
I®" The American brigantine, the
Adams Gray, which has been for some
time suspected of being a slaver, has
at length been caught, almost in the
act, and made a prize of by the British
steam sloop of war, Prometheus.
She was taken to Sierra Leone, where
with her cargo and £5000 in gold, she
was condemned.
it3T Reagan is undoubtedly elected
to Congress, over Evans by a large ma-
jority from the E. District of Texas.
From a Communication in the
last San Antonio Herald, we learn that
counterfeit $100 bills cf the Union
Bank of Louisiana are in circulation.
The following is a description as given
by a correspondent of that paper.
Letter A. January 7, 1857, R. N.
Wood, cashier, Alf. Penn, Pres., Vig-
nette, Cupid astride of a lion in front
an iron client, railroad train and vil-
age in back ground, Indian on the right
lower corner, sheaf of wheat in die
work, figures 100 above and below on
left end. S
JC9* A letter to the Civilian from our
neighboring county of Falls, represents
the corn and cottoncrops of that region as
being in a most flourishing condition;
bottom lands producing from fifty to sev-
enty-five bushels of corn to the acre,
and from £to 1 bale of cotton per acre.
We are glad to hear that our neigh-
bors have been so lucky. But the
writer must have been most wofully
imposed upon when he believed the story
he tells about the Chinese Sugar Cane
being "only the old Chicken or Devils
corn of Alabama." If the farmers
who told him that yarn really believe
it, they had better go to work to in-
form themselves better before next
season, or we of Bell county will get a
long ways ahead of them in making our
own sugar and molasses, to say noth
ing ot vinegar, and may-be Brandy
J3T Cushing, we do not think it is
fair for you to havo said anything
about those peaches. Cause why ?—
You should not agitate a body.—
Peuches arc not among the productions
of this portion of our Globe this sea-
son; and for goodness sake don't make
a body's mouth water so.
The Standard mentions the proba-
bility of an increase of the mail facul-
ties in that part of Texas.
[£p~ That is cheering, We hope
you can soon say in all parts of the
State—for if there is any class of in-
dividuals suffering for want of mail
facilities, it is particularly those of our
citizens in the Western counties.—
nnd is anxious to make a location, let just think of the city of Lampassas
now, with probably 600 or 700 inhab-
itants, [most of whom are visitors to
COMMLN1CATION.
For the "Weekly Independent." .
A Reply to Id's "Duty of the
Sabbath-day."
FOREIGN ITEMS.
The ex King of Oude and his Min-
isters had been arrested and imprison-
ed, proofs of their complicity in the
recent revolt in India having been ob
tained.
From Madras accounts were re-
ceived positively asserting that Delhi
had been taken, but the report was re-
garded as premature.
An act of Legislation had been pas-
sed whereby the press in India is pla-
ced under the license system.
Rritlsh loss in Canton River.
The Biitish lost eighty-three men,
including Maj. Kearney, in the en-
gagement with the Chinese fleet.
Arrival of Steamship Fulton.
New York, August 10.—The steam
ship Fulton, which left Southampton
on the 29th of July, has arrived at
this port.
The utmost dispatch was used in the
shipment of troops for India.
The Madrid correspondent of the
London Times states that Spain did
not nccept the offer of mediation in
the difficulty with Mexico, until the
British and French Ambasassadors
represented to the Government that it
could not rely on any assistance from
thoso powers, in the event of Spain
going to war with Mexico.
The same writer says that a repre-
sentative of Sunta Anna had arrived
in Madrid.
The trials of the Italian insurgents
were progressing on the 23d ult. Up
to that date none of the prisoners had
been shot.
A prisoner named Nicotera had re-
vealed the whole plan of insurrection.
The Russian Government had redu-
ced the rate of interst paid by the Im-
perial banks from 4 to 3 per cent.
TRHEE DAYS LATER.
him come nnd see for himself.
A magnificent meteor was seen
the Springs,] being without a regular
in tlio East, between 11 and 12;
o'clock on Thursday night, by one of II 13 ll0rrible'
the attaches of our office. He des-
cribes it as being an immense ball of
fire, which gave more light in his room
than a candle. It burst into a great
number of pieccs, with a loud report.
At Last.—We learn that n new ho-
tel is building in Jackson, Miss, which
will be opened in time for the reception
The Cart war is still going on,
and has been the means of turning
back several large trains which had
started for goods to the coast. We
sec also that Gen. Twiggs has order-
ed an officer to inspect the route by
Columbus and Houston to Galveston,
and if found suitable, to establish it as
of members t othc iícgisl'aturcunder ja route for the «™VO«*úon of
the management of that Prince 0f suppliesjiv^the^onst^
Hosts, McMakin. "With or without
Onions."
O" Gen. M. B. Lamar of Texas,
¡Lp- We learn that B. F. Weeks
Esq., has been elected chief Justice of
Bexar County, in place of Judge Mc-
has accepted the appointment as Min-1 ^eo^' deceased.
ister to Buenos Ayres, and is making Qy The first bale of new cotton re-
hi arrangements preparatory to leav- ceived in Houston this year, was sold
ing. ! at 15$ rents per ponnd.
Arrival of the Steamship Can-
ada.
Pryor and Prioress were defeated in
the race for the Goodwood cup. They
were placed fifth and six. Fourteen
horses started. The first favorite and
two other horses fell in the race.
The Submarine Telegraph
Cable.
After the arrival of the vessels,
with the submarine telegraph cable on
board, at Cork, the ends of the cable
were joined, and a message was sent
through the whole length, 2500 miles,
in one second.
The War in China.
In the accounts from China it is sta-
ted that the British captured a fort and
destroyed 127 junks, mounting more
than one hundred guns, and manned
9,000
Washington, August 10.—Gen.
Cass finds the negotiations with New
Granada very complicated and delicate.
It is understood that no treaty will be
made beforo winter. Sovereignty over
any portion of New Granada will not
be acquired or asked for.
M sry8 " tbis is a subject too much
neglected by all," and I will add, too
much misunderstood by many who talk
about the duties of the Sabbath-day;
and if 1 must judge by M's position as
given in his article, I am ready to say
that he would do well to study ihe
Book again, for I feel certain that that
article is eighteen hundred years or
more behind the requirements of the
Bible. I was somewhat glad to see
the caption of the article, but was dis-
appointed in the proof of its support.
M. must be very old to have been rais-
ed by Jewish parents.
I feel glad that this friend to the
Sabbath has launched out upon the
subject, for the best way to get the
truth to prevail, is free discussion and
an open field fight. My friend M.
seems to think that profaning the Sab-
bath day is a greater crime than the
same act would be on the other days
of the week. If this is M's notion, I
will beg my friend's attention to the
Scriptures on this point: Col. 2 v 16,
17, "Let no man judge you in meats
or in drink, or in respect of an holiday,
or of the new moon, or of the Sabbath
days, which are a shadow of things to
come, but the body is of Christ." M.
says, "Professors as a general thing
are too remiss in this important duty ;
they should watch well their conduct
and conversation on this holy day.—
When it is our privilege to go church
it is our duty to be found there, and
when we have not this opportunity,
we should make our homes our special
province, and our Bible our ardent
study." Allow me here to refer to a
few passages of Scripture on the sub-
ject of keeping the Sabbath. Glad I
am to have M's references. By them
and the examination, I find that the
Sabbath applies to the Israelites. A
law given by Moses, partly as a sign
between Gód and them, marking them
off from all other nations by its obser-
vance: partly as commemorative of
their deliverance from Egypt; and the
reason why the seventh day was fixed
on, rather than the sixth or eighth,
was that on that day God rested from
labor. The soul of man was to form
itself on the model of the spirit of God.
It is not said that God at the creation
gave the Sabbath to man, but that
God rested at the close of the six days
of creation; whereupon he had blessed
and sanctified the seventh day to the
Israelites. This is stated in the fourth
commandment, and also in Genesis 11,
which was written by the Israelites,
and the history of the creation natu-
rally and appropriately introduces the
reason and the sanction of their day
of rest. Nor is there in the Old Tes-
tament a single trace of the observance
of the Sabbath before the time of Mo-
ses. After the Deluge, it is not men-
tioned in the Covenant made with
Noah. The first account of it occurs
after the Israelites had left Egypt; and
the fourth commandment consolidates
it into a law, and explains the princi-
ples and sanctions of the institution.—
The observance of one day in seven
therefore, is purely Jewish. The Jew-
ish obligation to observe it, rested on
the enactment given by Motes; accor-
dingly the observance of the Sabbath
was entirely in the Jewish spirit. No
fire was permitted to be made on pain
of death: Exodus, 35-3. No food
was to be prepared: 16-5, 23- No
buying nor selling: Nehemiah 10-31.
So rigorously was all this carried out
that a man gathering sticks was
arraigned before tho congregation
and sentenced to death by Moses.—
This is Jewish—typical—shadowy.—
It is all to pass away. Much has pas-
sed : even those who believe our Lord's
day to be the descendant of the sev-
enth. The computation of hours is
altered; the Jews reckoned from sun-
set to sun down. Modern christians
reckon from midnight to midnight.—
The spirit of its observance too, is
altered. No one contends now for
Jewish strictness in its details.
We have said that the Sabbath was
for the Jews : was a law for them, and
was «badowy—waa to pass away and
has passed. In proof of thia position,
I will introduce the new law, "Now
Christ and the Apostlea are the witnes-
ses:" Mat. 12-1 to 14. Read Acta
20-27: "On the firat day of the week
when the disciples come together for
the breaking of the loaf:" Acts 16-1,
12. "Now concerning the collection
of the saints, as I have given orders to
the churches of Galatia, so do ye upon
the first of the week; let every one of
you lay by him in store as God hath
prospered him, that there be no gath-
ering when I come." This seems to
to be the practice of the Apostles and
churches to meet on the first day of the
week for the purpose of breaking the
loaf, and collecting for the saints. No
other business is required of the chil-
dren of men by Christ and the apos-
tles, but what I have refered to. If
this be true, I want to know of my
friend M where and how it is that the
ardent studying of the Bible, and stay-
ing at home is more binding upon me
one day than another. The will pro-
nounced by the Apostle is the best. It
is a rule of liberty, and at the same
time a rule of charity. " Let no man
judge you in respect of the Sabbath
day," It is very difficult to discuss
this question of the Sabbath. Heat,
vehemence and nonsense are substitu-
ted for arguments. When you calmly
ask to investigate the subject, men ap-
ply epithets and eall them reason. They
stigmatise you as a breaker of the
Sabbath; pronounce you dangerous,
with sundry warnings against you in
private, with plain hints in public.
"The Apostle urges charity; one
man esteemeth one day above an-
other ; other men esteemeth every day
alike; he that regardeth the day'regar-
eth it to the Lord, and he that regar-
deth not the day to *he Lord he re
t;ardeth it not.'* Carry out this spirit
in the detail of this question and there
is abundant difficulty. It is a question
of degree. Some work must be done
on the Sabbath day. Some must sac-
rifice their rest to the rest of others,
for all human life is sacrifice, volunta-
rily or involuntarily, Again that
which is rest to our man is not rest to
another. To require the illiterate
man to read his Bible for some hours
would impose a task on him, though it
might be a relaxation to M. To the
laboring man a larger portion of the
day must be given to the recreation of
his physical nature than is necessary
for the man of leisure, to whom the
spiritual observance of the day is easy.
Let us lenrn large charities; let not
the poor man sneer at his rich neigh-
bor, if in the exercise of his christian
liberty, he uses his horses to convey
him to church, and not to the mere
drive of pleasure; but then in fair-
ness let not the rich man be shocked or
mad if the over wearied shop keeper
and store keeper breath the fresh air
of heaven with their families in the
country. The Sabbath was made for
man. Be generous, consistent, large
minded, as man may hold stiff, precise
Jewish notions on this subject; -but do
not stigmatize that man as a formalist.
Another may hold large Paul-like
vi ws of the abrogation of the fourth
commandment, and yet he may be
sincerely and zealously anxious for
the hallowing of the day in his house-
hold, and through his country. Do
not call that man a Sabbath-breaker.
Remember the Pharisees called the
«on of God a Sabbath breaker; they
kept the law of the Sabbath, they
break the law of love. Which was
the worse to break ?
Now in conclusion, friend M. fake
care least in your zeal, which seems
to iie for Christ, ye be found indulging
the spirit of the Pharisees, and not of a
Christian. D.
From the San Antonio Herald.
Chlneae Sugar Corn Syrup.
Messrs. Editors:
I promised to give you the result of
my experiment in the cultivation of tho
Chinese Sugar Corn and its manufac-
ture into syrup. I now give you the
particulars as I have finished boiling,
and have shelled the corn and measur-
ed it.
On the 31st of last March I laid off
two thousand four hundred square
yards of land and divided it into twelve
rows—eleven and a half rows were
planted when my seed gave out; of
the balance, in consequence of not be-
ing able to irrigate the whole piece, I
judge that about ihree hundred square
yards did not come up, the earth being
very dry nothing could vegetate with-
out irrigation. This and the half row
not planted made a deficit of about five
hundred square yards, leaving only
nineteen hundred yards or a little moro
than a third of an acre. From this
small piece some scoundrel entered my
field the week before I commenced har-
vesting, and cut off the heads of two
rows for about forty yards in length,
stealing not a particle less than four
bushels. From the balance I have
twenty-eight and a half bushels of
prime ripe seed, twenty of which is
now on hand for sale. I ground the
cane and have measured and put away
seventy-two gallons of choice "Gol-
dcu Syrup," which I sell at one dollar
and fifty cents per gallon. I am like
wise making about lorty gallons of
vinegar which will be worth by whole-
sale thirty cents per gallon. I also
stripped about one thousand pounds, of
choice fodder from the cane before
harvesting, which my hom-a «ite very
well, although not quite so greedily
as corn fodder. In appearance, how-
ever, it is as handsome as any corn
fodder I have ever 6een. With the
bagasse I am now feeding my milch
cows and they will not leave the pen
all day when they can gel it. I must
say, however, they display wisdom in
that as the prairies are so bare of
grass that they cannot get anything
by leaving the pen.
For a month before harvesting my
children ate more or less of the cane;
and as it was near the road and remote
from the house the rogues helped them-
selves. In addition to this, while har-
vesting, as I could not cart in conse-
quence of its being across my potato
field we had to tote it, as the Viiginians
say, and during the totchig process
about a dozen little Mexicans bovs came
and asked to let them work, so as to
eat, which they did all day. and at night
I gave each one about a dozen cane.—
You may think these minutise too tri-
fling to mention; but when you re-
member that it was not from a large
field but from a little more than the
third of an acre you perceive that it
made quite a difference in the product.
To sum up then:
Seventy-two gallons of syrup at
one dollar and a half per gal-
lon, $108
Forty gallons of vinegar at thirty
cents, $12
One thousand pounds of fodder. $20
Twenty-eight, bushels seed, which
I sell at five dollars per bushel,
or one dollar per gallon when I
Sell by the retail, say, $150
The bagasse we will not say any-
thing about, although if salted and put
away for winter use would be valua-
ble as food for cattle.
The ratoon where I cut the cane ten
days ago is now some of it a foot high,
giving promise of at least another crop
of molasses this fall, and with a lato
frost I confidently expect as much more
seed as Itlave already obtained.
Thus you see that about nineteen
hundred square yards of land has pro-
duced me equivalent to $290, with a
promise of as much more before frost.
To the planters of Texas I can con-
fidently rt'eommend and assure them
it is no humbug, as stock of al! kinds,
horses, cattle and hogs, also chickens
are very fond of the grain, and I firm-
ly believe it will supercede the use of
oats and maize for stock feeding, ha-
ving much more weight of grain than
oats and more productive than corn
Besides which if a cotton planter is
not disposed to grind the cane, by
throwing the fall crop in wind rows it
would I think keep good all winter,
and afford the most nutritious food
for his cows and bogs, and if cut up
would be an excellent food for horses.
Yours truly,
J. H. BECK.
Change fob Another Comet Ex-
citement.—M. Vernet has culculated
the orbit of the comet recently discov-
ered by a Berlin astronomer It ap-
pears to be approaching ihe earth so
"Please, sir," said a beggar to
Scroggs the other day, "couldn't you
give me a little something? I'm a
bricklayer, but had a bad fall when at
work at my buisiness, and have to
rapidly that it will soon present a fine1 angwered^croJ1™ S"T h d ^°°8en,se'
object to the nuked ej..P At present n0t 0nl' *
present
it is believed that it is not Charles the
Fifth's comet of which there has been
so much talk, and which was to come
into collision with the earth on the
13th of June, last. Its position is in
the constellation Perseus,
Twenty five thousand dollars have
been netted by Mr. Everett's oration,
for the purchase of Mount Vernon es-
tate.
bad fall, at my business, but a bad
winter, too, and not much of a spring.
I think you ought to give me some-
thing!"
The editor of the Battle-axe of Free-
dom and Tomahawk of Liberty, writing
from Philadelphia, after hearing Miss
Louisa Pyne sing the song of the "Sky-
lark," says : "Her voice is delicious,
pure aa the moonlight, and as tender «•
a three ahilling shirt."
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