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HOUSTON, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1857.
[WHOLE m 1202;
B. H. GUSHING,
1 KDTTOH Mfn PUBLISHER,
Ofllee on Congress ftieat, between Main street and
Court Home Square. <-
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All communications fartheoflee snonla be aa
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THE TELEG1APH
AND
JOB PRINT!
Congress street, betvfcei
House Square, Houston.
OFFICE
Main street and Court
Having recently* in addition lo the large power
press, procured a fine rotary job press, and over one
hundred new fonts of job type, JMpidA cuts, rules,
fancy inks, Jfcc., Jtc., we are pr^>are*f to do every
description of work in our line in a style unsur-
passed in this State, mm! at the shortest notice.
All persons wanting
t'OSTKRS. CIRCULARS. BLANK NOTKS, ItE-
CKIPTS. DKKDS. WRITS. EXECUTIONS,
BILLS LADIHO, <-AHDS, PAMPHLET -.
BOOKS. BILL Hk&Dd, LABRLS.
BLANKS POH HOT A it IKS l'WB-
LIC. JUSTICES Of THE
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WORTS. BALL TICK- "<•
KTS.WAUOS BILLS,
in a word anyining in oar line, «k>ft*4p in4>lnSn or
fancy style, in colors or gold, are invited to call.
Wo are confident that we cap render the most per-
fect satisfaction. Oar price* are put at th very
lowest living rate*, and we sha 1 not l>e outdone
in respect to cheapness by any oBce in Texas.
Having now ample force In 00r job department we
shall t* able to tarn act work with the utmost dis
patch We have or hand a large amount of
paper, plain and fancy, cards and stock generally,
which las been parchased/rom <the manufacturers,
and shall lie able to rnralsb oar work at prices that
cannot Cui to please. GMI and examine for your-
selves.
Orders from the Country promptly execute:!.
Address. ' *• H. CUSHING.
N««r ■*>> Arrange
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[FROM WBDMMDAY'S TRI-Wekkly ]
O* We must acknowledge our obligations
to the gallant members of the Washington
Light Guards for the ansolicited favor of
complimentary membership for both the ed-
itors of the Telegraph. We shall feel proud
of the honor of such martial associations,
and will endeavor to discharge the onerous
duties of honorary members to the best of
our abilities.
CTTht Democrats of Lynchburg held a
meetiing last week and appointed delegates
to the Waco convention. It has been the
understanding tint all delegates from the
county were to have been appointed at the
Convention soon to be held. We presume
the same gentlemen who were appointed at
Lynchburg, and who are all good democrats,
will be appointed for that portion of the
county by the other convention when held.
U"We have been kindly favored with a
copy of the Fifth Annual catalogue of Baylor
University. From it we learn that institu-
tion is in a most flourishing condition.—
There are four professors and three tutors
connected with the Faculty. The last
graduating class numbered six. . There are
are now in attendance upon the institution
about one hundred and fifty yonng men.—
The course is thorough, and the discip-
line good. Such institutions as this are des-
tined to do honor to the State.
UALVKSTON TO HOUSTON.
f KAY£3 Galveston every Tuesday. Thursday
I A mA Saturday, at 4 'eloct, P. M. Arrives at
Houston next day byT^J. M.
Leaves Hoiarton Moodily, Wetfciesilay and Friday
at 3 u'etock. a. a. Arrives at <J*l eston next day
* y I *. M
Roate No. 7.8G0.
HOUSTip TO AU80N.
Leaves Houston Sunday, Wednesday and Priday
at 3 o'clock, a. I. Arrf res at Austin Surdity. Tues
•lay and Priday at 3 r. a.
Leaves Austin Honda*, and Saturday at
*J a. a. ArrivesatBanston WKstr,'Wednesday and
Saturday, at Sr. ™
lo^jiu ; !<Vi.
HOUSTON, ria8A*f BLIP*, TO LAO RANGE.
Leaves Houston Sunder a*|d Wednesday at 5 a. .
Arrives nextday by 7 M. .
Leaves Lagrange Hj and Wednesday a 5 a.
■ Arrives at Houstoa a«a daw hv T t. *.
Boot* So. ijm.
HOUSTON, via HABB18BURG. #0 WHARTON.
Leaves Houston Monday. Wednesday and Pri-
lay, atlr. 1- _
Arrives at Houston Sunday, Wednesday and Frt-
ilay at 1 a. ■.
Bonte No.
HOUSTON TO nOH'revM.LE.
Leaves Houston Sunday, Wednesday and Friday
at e ft. a. Arrives at HantsvHle not day by 5
r. a.
Leaves Huntsville Sunday, Wednesday and Friday
atfia. a. Arrives at Hou*on nex><lay by 5 r, ■.
Roots No. IjmJT
HOUSTON TO ANDBMON.
Leaves Houston Wednesdly, at 8 a. a. Arrives
at Aads^sa aeax day by J*, a.
Leaves Anderson ldd§ at 6 r- a. Arrives at
Houstoa next day by Ir. a.
|j Where the mail leaves In' the morning it al
ways closes at 8 o'clock on the previous night.
]C7 0flee ham from 9 oeloek, a. a., to 18, a.,
and from 2 o'clock, r. a., to 6 r. a., excepting San-
day; when (he oflee will be open Iron 9 to 10
o'clook. O. L. COCHBAB. P. M.
Accident.—On Sunday afternoon a Ger-
man boy about twelve years of age, whose
name we did not learn, was thrown from a
horse he was riding on the prairie east of the
Tap Railroad, near town. His foot caught
in the stirrup of the saddle, and the horse be-
coming frightened, dragged the poor little
fellow at full gallop some half or three quar-
ters of a mile over the prairie. When j lick-
ed up the boy appeared more dead than
alive, but we understand he is now in a fair
way to recover..
V" •••••
EPHarper fob February has been receiv-
ed by Messrs Fosgar.l <fc Burke. It is full,
ax usual, of such literature and illustrations
as everybody feels interested in. We regard
Harper as occupying a field W its own, which
110other Magazine in the world cau fill, and
as indispensible to every general reader.
The same firm have received the South
erjt Literary Messenger, published at
Richmond, Va. This publication has
reached its 24th volume, and every one
knows of its high reputation for its literary
and political articles.
Steamboat Explosion.
The steamer Major Harris exploded both
boilers on Friday last in the Brazos Canal,
while an her way from Galveston to Colum
bia. A fireman, name unknown, was killed,
and the pilot, Mr. Swift, and a negro boy
were seriously injured. Capt. Miller and
nearly aU others on board were, at the mo-
ment of the explosion, on the stern of the
boat—having gone aft to remove an obstruc
ton from the wheel. The boat is a total
wreck
The County convention at Austin.
A county Democratic Convention for
Travis county was held at Austin on Fri-
day the 2d inst for for the purpose of choos-
ing delegates to the Waco convention and al-
so expressing the sense of the citizens of that
county as to the proper candidates for Gov-
ernor and Lieut. Governor. The result was
the appointment of some twenty odd dele-
gates, and the recommendation of Col. John-
son for Governor and Col. Sublett for Lieut.
This so far, is very well, and entirely un-
objectionable. If the democrats of Travis
prefer Johnson they have done right in ex-
pressing their preference. There was one
thing which occured in the meeting, howev-
er, which demands a passing notice. Judge
Oldham was the advocate of Runnells and
Col. Hamilton of Johnson. The Intelligen-
cer Says that "Col. Hamilton honored Col.
Runnels as a consistant man, but t thought
him often as consistently wrong as right.'
Now, when it is remembered that Col. H
was not long ago an ardent Know Nothing
and that since his renouncement of that her-
esy and his being received into the demo-
cratic party he has made no little stir by
his advocacy of Squatter Sovreignty, a her-
esy more dangerous, because in such hands
as his, more insidious than the other, and
when it is remembered that Mr. Runnells
has always been firm and consistent, and
probably did more againstKnow Notliingism
from the start than any other man in North-
ern Texas, we must say that the above re-
mark of Hamilton's is in bad grace. Let the
friends of Col. Johnson advocate his claims
as warmly as they please—and we reiterate
that no one will vote for him more cheerfully
thanoursell, if nominated—but they must do
it without doing injustice to a competitor who
has proved himself a faithful officer, and
true to every trust ever reposed in him.
The Intelligencer "doubts not but this
first public expression from the Democracy
of the capital will receive the hearty res-
ponse of the democracy of most of the conn
ties of the State." We do not agree with
that paper. TJie democracy at the capital
arc becoming too fond of making "first ex-
pressions." The people are coming to re-
gard such things with suspicion. We are
honest in our belief that the friends of Col.
Johnson have made au injudicious move at
this point.
As we have said before we have no pref-
erences. We are willing to let the East and
the North select their tnan from those promi-
nently before them, Johnson, Runuells and
Smyth, and we shall cheerfully vote for
their choice.
PrlBtlig Press for sale.
LABOR Printing Brass.
new. lor sale
,irav"
A 8i« nearly 1
cheap at this aAee.
THE HOVSTOK AND TEXAS CEN-
THAI. SAIL WAY.
TWBMTT-PTTB MILBS IS OPERATION.
RAINS carrying freights and passengers, (hav-
L ing splendid pafngsr cap) on th(j mad now
run aa follows-
Leave Houstoa daily at 3 A. M
Arrive at Cyprsss City IS "
Lvave Cypress BMP "■< *'•
Arrive at Houston 9 P. M.
These trains connect at Houston with Bie
IU11 mmmtm
amd at Oyprcas City with
Mail Stages to Aastln, San Antonio. W ohington,
La Grange, Chappell Hill, Brenham, Montgomery,
Anderson, Huntsville, Dallas, ChrbdVe, Ban An
irustine. Nacogdoches. Palestine, MarsfeaM, and all
parts of Texas. Travelers will And this the best
the <miekoetond the- plesnantest route to the inte
rior of Tens. P- BBBJIOND. Pres.
JanI9-'57: H. * T. C. B
NOTICE TO TSAVELEKS.
I
IiHBCnra will leave HeaAou daUar, excepting
Tuesday > and Thursdays, m. 8 o"5ieek A. M.,
connecting with the trains from Hhrrisburg to Rich-
mond,and w H rstarn to Houston In tisso for the
r. S. Mail steamer for Galveston. -
JNO. WJ0CMP,
> nt> R
Oct. 31, '55.
Sup't Hookton'
t.B.
Beeda! BcedsM IMedtU!
PiR sale at this oMet Btanlft Deeds, with Notary
certiflcutes attached to suit all
■tarried and singls per
1 A. 11
, vis: for
mu, nod the most inexperi
eneod Notary can Ail up Bia aosttdiScuit acknow
ledgemvnts without liability to eiro0.
The addition of Ave words wUI sfeke (fie fori
oow a warranty,) n gait claim. Paro'-asers will
avs directions how f> All the quit elalm blank
Pa eka -es of one handred or aaofe will be sent by
ail, post paid, at BS per hundred, or they will be
^Id at this odtee at ABy ccats per dosen, or ten
cents for a siagle
Fancy Groceries.
Pine Apple,
es.
Oysters, I and
m
PICK LBS—SM boxes, whole, half, ijjartfcrj and
rigths Jar Ptskles.
PKK8BKVB8 — -90B boxes ^safed PI
Strawberry, Peach, Pear, 4i.,TrtKrTi
OYSTBRS—IN* boxes Balfsors Can Ojt
t h cans.
IIW boxes Baltimore Spleed da I and 3 % cans
LOBSTBB&—MM boxes " Sgl' Pickled Lobrtcri
HALMOS—SO boxes fresh aMhaon.
MACKBRBlr—9* boxes fresh ean Mackerel
LKMON STRUP— boxes a'ssorted qualities
Lemon frtsp.
BASKBBBx and OIBSBB .«TBUP—l«U boxc< as
sortel Syrups.
£ANBT—H* Ikjxbs Boek and Assorted Canities
PI! FBUITS—IBttJtoxes Assorted Pie Fruits.
i'RKSBBVBD aiSOBR-Si cases Rast IndiaOin
PBPPBB 8AUC3—1W boxes Pepper
T< 1 MAYO CATSUP—HOI ' oxss Tomato Catsup.
PAOM VINBGAB—3*1 i>03tesPa«'i Tiaegar.
CITRON—10cases Fr^sh Clt-oo.
Cl'RRANTS—3 casks fresh Currants.
■CKACKBR3- -«■> cans frrsh Soda, Water and Wine
Crackers.
Just received and
Mssir fAMPSfrs *
O* Anthony W. O'Connell, who was con
victed of murder at Indianola last fall, and
appealed to the Supreme Court, has been
remanded back to Indianola, to receive his
sentence, the verdict having been affirmed by
the Supreme Court at Galveston last week.
O'Connell publishes his own version of the
murder, in the News of Saturday, endeavor-
ing to make it appear that the deed was com-
mitted in seirdefense.
SZTPursuanttoa call, the Democrats of
Lynchburg and vicinity met at Brown's
Hall on the 2d inst., for the purpose of
of electing Delegates to attend the Democrat-
ic State Convention, to be held at Waco in
May next.
Col J. Morgan was called to the Chair,
and C. T. Frost appointed Secretary. The
following gentlemen were then elected Dele-
gates, viz: C«L J. B. Ashe, it. R. Cage,
Esq., Dr. Ashbel Smith and Col. J. Mor-
gan.
The meeting then adjourned sine die.
J. MORGAN, Pres.
C. T FROST, Sec.
Delegates to the State Convention.—At
r convention of the Democracy of Walker
eounty held at Huntsville on the 2d inst.,
the following delegates were appinted to the
Waco Convention:
Wm D Schoolfield, Jas H Murray, Jo A
Smithcr, C G Keenan, H W Fisher, H M
Elmore, W A I.eigh, D J Ransom, J O Wil-
ey, H Randolph, M Dearenport, Joseph
Werner, James Wilson, Wm Johnson, Thos.
E Bowd.-e, John S Besser, D G Campbell,
John Connolly, G A Wyser.
A meeting was held at Lynchburg on
the 2d inst., and the following gentlemen
were elected delegates to attend the Demo-
cratic Convention, at Waco, on the 4th of
May next: Col John B Ashe, Dr Ashbel
Smith, Col R K Cage, and Col James Mor-
gan.
HJ" We regret to learn that Hon. James H.
Bell, Judge of the first Judicial District, has
resigned. Judge B. is one of the most tal-
ented men in this State, and a man of whom
the people of Texas should feel peculiarly
proud, he being a native Texian. We look
upon hiin as the best qualified for the post
lion he has occupied of any man in the dis
trict. No reasons are given for the resigna-
tion. We presume, however, our friend is
looking back to the flesh pots of Egypt, in
the shape of a large and lucrative practice
which be gave up ou his acceptance of the
judicial ermine. Whatever positioi. he oc
cupien, he is sure U> adorn. In future years
we hope to be permitted to cast our vote for
biro foi an office of the highest character
in the gift of the people.
An election will be held 011 the 2<1 of
March to fill the vacancy.
h ^ ib
D*A pike occurred at Galveston on Sun-
day morning in a back building 011 the
premises of W ni. Armstrong it Brother, and
had broken through the roof in a full blaze
before it was discovered. By prompt action
of the citizens and firemen, the flames were
quickly subdued. The loss of the above
firm was about $1,1)00. It is supposed to
have been the work of an incendiary, as an-
other fire was discovered in a wood house
near by, soon after the Jirst was extinguish-
ed.
LINES.
To Uiss Amelia S.
Why did my eyes fo me reveal
That angel face of thine'/
To wake a lore like this I feel.
If thou canst ne'er be mine?
Why have I known the virfnes rare
That live and shine in thee—
In thee who art with all so fair,
And oh ! so dear to me?
That placid brow, that light bright eye.
When love lit smiles are seen.
Speak of a purer world on hi?h,
And form a heavenly mein.
Thou hast the mind l>y heaven approved,
' The biandness of the dove;
I cannot gaze on thee nnmovetl.
I cannot choose but love.
Vrt do I feel 'tis not for me,
Thy grace doth live and shine;
For well I know thy love most bless
Another heart than mine.
J. N n. W.
Texas Items.
LATER FROM EUROPE.
Gov. King has sent a message to the Lo;is
1st 11 re res|M>ctii!g two coli>riil persons In-Ium^
in" to New Turk now held in slavorv in
South.
Gardening.—The weather last week has
been exceedingly favorable for spring gard-
ening, and in every part of the town we ob-
serve gardeners busy with the spade and the
hoe.. Now is the time to graft fruit trees, as
well as to prepare the kitchen garden. The
simplest, and perhaps, the best way to graft
seedlings is to cut them off about three inches
from the ground, with a square cut. Then
split the stump with a sharp knife, say two
inches, being careful not to wound the bark
with the knife. Now take two scions, say
five or six niches in length, and pare one end
of each down in the shape of a wedge, so
that the part intended to go outside shall be
a little the thickest. Put these in the
split so that the bark of the scions shall ex
actly fit that of the stump. Cover the
whole carefully with a hillock of loose earth,
just leaving the tops of the scions above the
surface, using no wax or strings or any-
thing else. If carefully done there is 110
need of losing a graft. They will put
forth and grow vigorously. At the end of
wo months the least vigorous scion should
be removed. At the end of a year butlittle
trace will be shown of the place of grafting
and in two years none at all. We recom-
mend this plan, because we have tried it,
and fouud it to be the neatest, easiest and
most successful of any.
Roses should now be well pruned. The
blooming of a rose bush is increased vastly
by close prunning. From a half to two-
thirds of the last year's wood should be cut
away, and in old buses even more.
Pruning is too much neglected in all our
gardens. Fruit trees need the wholson.e use
of the saw and the knife every year, both
winter and summer. All diseased branches
should be immediately taken off, aud not
more than half the new branches should be
suffered to grow. Fruit will now blossom
and set soon, if we have no severe frost as it
is feared we shall. After peaches are s$t
they require much attention if you wish
to grow perfect fruit. We have ad opted
the plan of carefully remov ing two-thirds of
the young fruit that sets, and have increased
the size of peaches on the same trees to
double what it was.
The kitchen garden requires but few
remarks. It is presumed that every person
knows the modus operandi^of growing a crop
of cabages. Yet we must be allowed to
suggest one thing whicli our experience has
proved profitable. The work of the garden
is in this country almost entirely left to the
control of the lady of the house, and negroes
of course, do all the work. Now, if gentle-
men did but know it, they could increase
their happiness, as well as oftentimes the
produce of their gardens—render themselves
more cheerful, more healthy and be'ter
pleasead with themselves aud the world, if
they would spend au hour or two from day-
light to breaklast in good honest work in the
garden. Let thein take au interest in
these things, as well as their wives and
daughter, aud we shall soon find a very vis-
ible improvetueut in the style and extent of
crops produced for the table.
Nor should dependence be placed alto-
gether upou hired gardeners for the flower
and shrubbery garden. Half the use of
these things is destroyed if those who own
them cau sec none of their handi work in
the form and growth of the thousand orna-
mental trees and shrubs which are now so
easily attainable in every garden. There is
a pleasure in attending to these things, in
watching their growth, in sheltering when
they need it from the sun, in giving them wa
ter lo drink, iu loosening the soil about them
and in rearing them yourself, which the mere
irazer at beautiful flowers never dreamed of.
It is in our view, inere affectation for any
one to have a fine flower garden, if he knows
nothing about it, and never enters it, except
to hear his taste complimented for what he
alisolutely has shown no taste al all.
Our article has grown longer than we in-
tended and we are forced to stop, without
attending to many things which have been
runuing in our mind whil<* writing it
The Boquet is expected at Galveston in
a few days, from Havana, with a cargo of
tropical fruits, segars, sugars <fcc., and
she will coutiuue in the trade between Hav-
anah and Galveston, if encouragement is
given.
The News says the amount of cotton now
in Trinity valley is cstimateu at 12,000 to
15,000 bales, awaiting a rise of the river
before it comes to market.
The Brenham Enquirer learns that two
routes have been surveyed, for a railroad
from that place to the main line of the Hous-
ton and Texas Central, and it is expected
the stockholders will now meet, decide up-
on the best route, and go to work in earn-
est.
We learn from the True Issue that a
County Agricultural Society has been organ-
ized at La Grange. Every couuty in this
State should follow the example.
The True Issue is infoined by Judge Long-
cope, just from Galveston, that Messrs. Kyle
<fc Terry will commence work on the first
section of the railroad l'rotn Richmond in
some ten days, and Messcrs. Cooper «fc Co.,-
will commence on the next section of 32
miles in 30 days. He requests that every-
body come foward without delay and lake
stock in the road, which will hasten its ex-
tension to La Grange.
The State Gazette says that Gen Lamar is
preparing to remove to Austin.
The State Gazette calls for a more efficient
protection of the Texas frontier from the in
cursions of the Indians. There is nothing
more urgent upon the attention of tli" Gener-
al Government than this, and we hope the
rccent outrages 011 the liio Grande will stim-
ulate our Senators and Representatives in
Cougress to seek for that action ou the part
of the War Department which the circum-
stances of the case require.
The editor of tho Slate Gazette has had his
horse stolen, but consoles himself with the
reflection that many of his fellow citizens
have suffered and are suffering the same af-
fliction.
The Bastrop Advertiser says|that eighteen
Government wagons passed through Bastrop
011 the 6th inst, en route to the mills iu this
county for lumber. They are from the Rio
Grande, to which place the lumber will be
taken for building purposes.
Samuel Smith, a young man recently from
Ky., was severly wounded by the accidental
discharge of a pistol in the hands of a Mr.
Young, near Bastrop, a few days since.
The new German Methodist Church at
Bastrop is to be dedicated 011 the 22d inst.
The Lamar Enquirer has discovered
" loud one" iu the Louisville Journal. The
Journal says that the lands of the i-outhern
Pacific Railroad wbicli were sold in March
last averaged $12 per acre, in April $1G,
and in May and June $15. The Enquirer
well says that such reports as these must
find credit only with very gullible people.
The Waco Statesman learns that the citi-
zens of Bosque went almost en masse for
Jennings.
Corn is very scarce according to the
State? man, in Waco. It readily brings $1 25
lo $1 50 per bushel,
An old codger of the times of the " runa-
way scrape," now living at Waco, lately re-
ceived a package of seeds under Sam. Hous-
ton's frank, which inadc him exclaim with
much gusto.
" Old Sam remembers me. He knows I
didn't transmigrate from the sanguinary
country at the time of the Runaway Scrape!"
The Statesman enters upon its second
volume with flattering prospects. Mr. Gran-
bury proposes enlarging it at an early day.
Waco is a large and growing town, and
ought to support a good paper, such as we
are happy to say the Statesman is. in a good
style. We trust our cotemporary will find
ample return for his enterprise.
Everything about Waco promises well for
the farmer. Wheat looks well, and stock
ranges promise an early supply of grass for
cattle.
The Locbhar; Watchman says that Mr.
John McMahan, Chief Justice of Caldwell
county, was thrown from his buggy and se-
riously if not dangerously hurt, a few days
since.
A man by the name of Lollcr was severely
stabbed by one Win. Martin, at Lockhart, on
the 5th inst.
Planters in the vicinity of Lockhart arc
busy in planting or preparing to plant.
The Lilierty Gazette says that a negro
woman of twenty-two, and three children,
all nuder four years, were sold at adminis-
trator's sale there the other day for seventeen
hundred and twenty dollars, on six months
time.
The Gazette speaks in high term of Rev.
O. A. Fisher, late foreman of this office, but
now officiating clergyman of the Methodist
church at Corpus Christi. He was certainly
esteemed as « very worthy young man, mid
we trust his success iu hi- new field may
be equal to his desires.
The State Times publishes a very beauti-
ful song from the pen of Capt. Reuben M.
I'otter, author of the ilymn of the Alamo,
and well known of old to many of oitr citi-
zens.
ARRIVAL OF THE BALTIC!
LORD NAPIER SOON EXPECTED!!
New York, Feb. 5.—The Collins U". S.
mail steamship Baltic, which left Liverpool
on the evening of the 21st ult., has arrived
at New York, bringing four days later intel-
ligence than received by the Arabia.
The steamship Europa arrived out on the
18th.
Cotton Market.
The Cotton market was quiet and steady,
the market generally being unchanged since
our last dates.
The sales for the last three days amounted
to 13,000 bales, of whicli 4000 we're taken for
export and on speculation.
Middling Orleans was quoted at 7%d., and
Middling Uplands 7 1 lGd.
The sales of the 21st (Wednesday) were
estimated at 5000 bales. The marked clos
ed quiet.
Tne market for Breadstuffs waB generally
very quiet, all qualities having declined
slightly. -
Provisons generally were dull.
Consols for money closed at 93J-.<@93%.
Swiss Question Settled
The Swiss question may be considered as
having been definitely settled, as the Neuf-
chatel prisoners have all been released.
Trial of Verges.
The event which has caused the most ex-
citement here has been the trial of Verges,
the assassin who murdered the Archbishop
of Paris.
Verges has been tried, convicted and sen-
teuced to death.
Mutiny in the Merset.
A mutiny took place among the colored
crew of the ship J. L. Bogart, bound for
Mobile, and now in the river Mersey.
The first mate was badly wounded and
nad to be conveyed to the hospital. The
second mate was arrested for shooting some
of the seamen, and three of the crew were
arrested for assault. •
Lord Napier.
It is nnderstood that Lord Napier will
leave in about three weeks to occupy his of-
fical position at Washington.
THREE DAYS LATER.
Firmness is tiie Cotton Market.
New York, Feb. 6—The Cunard Royal
Mail steamship Africa arrived off Sandy
Hook this morning, bringing three days later
intelligence than the Baltic.
Cotton Market.
Business opened ■ heavily, prices being
stiffer, but the quotations are unchanged.
The sales of the week amount to 41,500
bales, of which 5,000 were taken on specula-
tion, aud 2,300 for export. The sales of
Friday,the 23d, were 10,000. Middling Or-
leans 7%; Middling Uplands 7 7-16.
The market for bredstuffs and provisions
was generally dull.
The money market was slightly easier—
Consols for money closed al 93_J.^@93%.
The Swiss dificullies, though virtually
settled, will be referred to a conference.
The British in bombarding Canton dur-
ing t e bombardment took possession of a
French jolly boat.
River and Weather .
Louisville, Feb. 6.—The river is breaking
up ; the thermometer stool to-day 66 dcg.
above zero.
New York Markets.
New York, Feb. 6.—Four and Wheat are
held firm. Provisions generally and Corn
are sre steady. There is no quotable change
in the market.
Cincinnati Markets.
Cincinnati, Feb. 6.—The quotations of Flour
are nominal. Whiskey is held at 23c.—
Shoulders at 7%c. Provisions generally
unchanged.
Vicksburg Feb. 5.—It is warm and rain-
ing. The ice is breaking, with from 12 to 15
feet of water in the channel.
Louisville, Feb. 6.—Between Cincinnati
and Cairo the river is full of floating ice.—
The river rising at all points, and the ice has
generally broken up.
The steamboat Pike is reported sunk, and
the Chicago, at Wheeling. At the latter
place there is ten feet water in the channel,
and at Pittsburg fifteen. The boats gene-
rally arc in good berths, aud are considered
safe.
The weather continues warm.
Congressional.
Washington, Feb. 5.—In the Senate, a bill
was introduced providing for the transmis-
sion of the mails from the Mississippi to
California. The Scott correspondence was
taken up. The bill regulating foreign coins
was passed, aud then the Senate adjourned.
In the House, the bill in relation to the
submarine telegraph was taken up and dis-
cussed, but no action was had. The House
then went into Committee of the Whole on
the tariff bill. The Committee of Ways and
Means reported lavorably on the Senate tel-
egraph bill. The House then adjourned.
Fire at Brandon, Miss.
A large fire occured at Brandon on the
evening of the 5th inst., by which the Plat-
form office was burnt to the ground, aud a
large livery stable, with a number of horses
in it, destroyed.
Theatre Burked.
Washington, Feb. 6.—The National The-
atre has been burued, nothing but the bare
walls being left standing.
Weather and River.
Louisville, Feb. 7. There has been a
heavy south wind during the last forty-eight
hours.
The ice has nearly disappeared. Boats
are leaving for Cincinnati, and navigation is
fully opened below.
The Central American Treatv.
Sew York. Feb. 5.—TlieU. S. Senate has
virtually killed the Central American treaty
by recommitting it to the Committee 011 For-
eign Relations.
Later from Santa Fe.
Louisville, Feb. 5.—Advices from St.
Louis, announce the arrival of the Santa Fe
mail. The passengers report having met a
number of Kiowas, whose warriors had gone
to attack Bent's Foit. The military had
been sent to its relief.
Mr. Dodge, the Indian Agent in New
Mexico, had not been found, and it was
feared that he had been murdered.
Claude Jones had been elected Delegate.
Heavy Robbery.
A. J. Donelsou was robbed last night, on
the steamboat Daniel Boone, from Nashville,
of a draft ou New Orleans for four thousand
dollars, aud a gold watch.
The Fort Beud Democracy.
COMMERCIAL.
TELEGRAPH OFFICE,
Friday, February 13,1857.
0° It should be underttood that our quata-
ons generally represent wholesale prices.
TRADE.
Business is visibly livening up, and as
the time for regular spring trade approaches
we may expect to see it getting better and
better evay week.
But small amounts of cotton are being re
ceived. The grass does not yet afford suffi-
cient forage for the cattle. Nevertheless, we
see some arriving every day.
The steamboats and railroad trains are
making regular trips, and travel continues
to be large and constaut.
Roads are now dry and in good condition.
Markets generally unchanged from last
week.
COTTON.
The foreign and home markets continue to
show an improved tendency in prices. At
New Orleans the sales had been on a mode-
rate scale, operations being restricted by the
reduced amount of the supplies on sale and
the stringent pretensions of factors. The re-
ceipts from the 3d to the 9th instant in that
market were 15,404 bales against 18,868 du-
ring the corresponding period last year. A
marked falling off must necessarily be wit-
nessed from this time forward. The estimate
of a three millions bales crop with the present
lights before us, is not an unfair one. If no
more, the present high rates will no doubt
be maintained until evidences of what the
coming crop will be are fully developed.—
The English market has not, until recently,
responded to the activity and upward course
of that on this side, and every means have
been used to clog and depress our great sta-
ple by English operators, but ineffcctuiilly.
Liverpool and Manchester are no longer su-
preme in controlling the value of a commodi-
ty that is of vital importance to their com-
mercial existence. The quantity of cotton
purchased on English account this season is
much less than usual, and this too, iu view
of the fact, that the requirements of that
trade are greater than formerly.
The number of bales of cotton being re-
ceived at the shipping points in the interior
generally is very small ; with us, the re-
ceipts are light, aud at no time during the
next three mouths do we expect they will
attain any thing like the figures of anv week
during the fall. In the absence of the nav-
igation of ihe Trinity river we ir.ay look for
a few thousand bales more at this point than
we otherwise would receive.
The few parcels offering meet with ready
sale at our quotations:
Ordinary
Good Ordinary
Low Middling
Middling .
Good Middling.
0
10 @10 «*
io#@n'
12#@—
o
STATEMENT OP COTTON.
Stock ou hand Sept. 1st. 1850
deceived past week at
T. S. Lubbock's Warehouse
Allen,Batr y&Co'a
J. J. Cain «St Co\h °
fI. D. Taylor's "
58
357
63
87
bales 217
Received previously
5G5
.31,207
•• 31,772
Shipped past week
Shipped previously
... 436
.29,920
" 31,989
4*
« 30.350
Stock on hand Feb 11.......
1,633
New Orleans Market.
Saturday, Peh. 8.
Cotton—The enquiry appeared to moderate early
in the day, hut subsequently buyers came forward
quite freely, and the sales reached fully 3(1,0011
bales at about previous rates:
liverpool ciassification.
Inferior
Ordinary
Oood Ordinary ...
Low Middling
Middling
Good Middling ......
Middling Fair
Fair
The Times says the San Antonio ami El
Paso mail stage is very regular. Notwith-
standing the great length of the route, no
failures are made.
The Richmond Reporter brings us the
proceedings of the meeting of the Democracy
of Fort Beud county, held at that place on
the 2d inst. Gen. W. Wilson presided and
Mr. J. C. Mitchell acted as Secretary. The
meeting was ably addressed by Judge R
C. Campbell, and the following resolutions
unanimously adopted:
Resvloed, That the following named gen-
tlemen be appointed delegates to Hie Waco
Convention, to-wit: Col. Wm. Ryon, Judge
R. C. Campbell, F. W. Douglass, W. P.
Greenfield, J S YanDegraff, Maj T. B.How
ard.Gen. W. Wilborn and John C. Mitchell'
Resolved, As the deliberate sense of th
meeting at this time, that the Hon. Guy M.
Bryan of Brazoria county by his ardent de-
votion to the democratic cause,admitted tal
cut and public service, have entitled him to
the public support, and that we cordially re
coinuiend him to the VV aco convention, as
tln> democratic nominee for the house of re-
presentatives of the U. S. Congress, from the
Western district.
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Statement of Cotton.
Stock on hand 1st September, 1836—bales 7,2.55
Arrived since 1,085,428
Arrived to-day 6,684
Exported to date.
Exported to-day. - -
1,099,32
. 2,482
730 359—732,841
Stock on hand and on shipboard not cleared 366,526
SruAR—Receipts very light and only a very lim-
Tobdai o—Sale of 33 hhds- new crop, including
27 at IIJ4, and 8 at 13c. pound.
Si-oar—Prices are firm, the sales at 9JJS10\c
for fair to fully fair. On plantation some H00 hhds
were taken last week, at IU@IO^c. C lb.
Molasses—Little or no change. Sales about 3tNl
barrels at 55@58c. for inferior to fair, 6c for
prim..
Front—Market dull, Ohio at 96 75,50 Fine at •<>
30. St Louis superfine at S7, choice extra (Union
Steam Mill) at S & bbl.
Corn—Ordinary in store at 57c. and on the Levee
mixed at 62Lj@G3c., anil prime white at 65c. |>
bushel.
Pork—Market dull andjunsettled. Mess selling in
small lots at $21) 50@21 t> bbl.
Coff*—Quiet at 9J£c. 10>£®10)ie, Some 34,000
bags have bee n received direct from Sio within the
last 48 hours.
Whisky—Good brands retailing ar 353136c. for
rectified, and 38c. % gallon for Raw.
Cattle Market.
Jefferson City, Friday, Feb. 6,1857.
The arrivals during tlie past week continued on-
ly of the lower descriptions of stock, includin;
Lake, Attaknpas and Texas Cattle. uhichsoMat
cxtremly high prices. A supply of Western stock
i- due. and the market was easy for purchasers, but
closes bare of Hogs, Sheep, Milch Cowsand West-
ern Beeves.
rKicis:
Beef Cattle, West'n fine to choice 1? It-net ——
Het-f Cattle AVest'n rough & fair, V ibnet — '*1: —1_
ilecf Cattle. Texas, f 11' net 5 nu&Wm
Hogs, t? lb net 6 UttSlOOO
Sheep,ir lots. Pheail —S—
Sheep. choi«e —@—
Milch Cows, p head . - 63 IKkjil20UO
Mil'-h Cows, choice — ^70 00
Calves sndYearlinxs 8 no ail'
IT At Pittsburg, Cincinnati, Louisville
The Jefferson Herald says that the small-land St. Louis, last week, the weather was
est week's receipts ol cotton at .It ffervon liiisj warm and rainy, and the ice in the rners
season Iris Itcen more llian ''>"(1 I'lli---. I was breaking up
The McDonogh Estate.—The Annual
Report of the Commissiouers of the Mc
Donah Estate has been made aud will be
submitted to the authorities of New Orleans
ami Baltimore. The present value of the
estate as appears from the schedules annexed
to the re|h rt is $2,2^4,791 89. The total re-
ceipts from the estate the past year are $82,
62018, which with the balance on hand pre
viously, makes $158,160 34 leaving an ex-
cess of income over the expense of only
$22,465 95.
The net yield of the estate is stated to be
however, $26,«18 27.
The value of the McDonogh Estate, as ap-
praised iu 1K>1 by J. A. Beard, Esq., wan
$1,209,015; and its value by the same m}
praiser estimated Jauuary, 1857, is$856,323
depreciation $.'153,693.—N.O. HulUtia.
BfS=r- Fuller, of the Now York Mirror
gets oil' the following atrocity : VV liy
are fashionable ladies iu hoops, like tl
Enrili v «; inhabit'( Because they
have a "'protuberance around the etjua
tor;" amlgare (sometime ) llattcned at
the pulls F'
The population of New York is dying a
about the rate of one every seventeen min
utes, day aud night, all th« year round.
Cold Feet.
Cold feet are the avenues to death
of multitudes every year; it is a sign of
imperfect circulation—of want of vigor
of constitution. No one cau be well
whose feet are habitually cold. When
the blood is equally distribn*'1 o«very
part of the body there is gf ■■'y good
health. If there be vue
point there is a .oldncss; ::a<l net ouly
so there must be more than is natural
at some part ol the system; aud there
is fever, that is, unnatural heat or op-
pression. In the case of cold feet, the
the amount of blood wanting there,
collects at some other part of the body
which happens to be weakest, to be
least able4.0 throw a barricade against
the inrushing enemy. Heuce} when the
lungs are weakest the blood gathers
there in the shape of a common cold, or
ofteu spitting blood.
Clergymen, other public speakers,
aud singers, by improper exposure, of-
ten render the throa. the weakest part;
to such, cold feet give hoarseness, or a
raw, burning feeling, most felt at the
bottom of the neck. To others again
whose bowels are weak from overeating
or drinking spirituous liquors, cold feet
give various degrees of derangement,
from common looseness up to the diar-
rhea or dysentary; and so we might go
through the whole body; but for the
present, this is sufficient for illustration.
If you are weH, let yourself alone.4-*
But to those whose feet are inclined to
be cold, we suggest;
As soon as you get up in the morn-
ing put both feet iu a basin of cold wa-
ter, so as to come half way to the au-
klqs; keep them iu half a minute, rub-
bing vigorously; wipe them dry, and
hold them 0 the fire, if couveuieut, iu
cold weather, till every part of you
feels as dry as your hand; then put on
your socks or stockings.
On going to bed at uight draw off
your stockings, and hold your feet to
the fire ten or fifteen minutes, till per-
fectly dry and go to bed. This is a most
pleasing operation, and fully repays for
the trouble ol it. No one can sleep wel
or refreshingly with cold feet. All I11I
dians au : hunters sleep with their fee-
to the fire.
Never step from your bed with the
naked feet on au uncarpeted floor, i
have known it to be the cause of mouths
of illuess. "< ' '
Wear woolen, cotton, or silk stock-
ings, whichever keeps tiie feet most
comfortable; do uot let the experience
of another be your guide, for different
persons require different articles; what
is good tor a person whose feet arc ua
turally damp, canuot be good for one
whose feet are dry. The donkey who
had his bag of salt lightened by swim-
ming a river, advised his compauiou who
was loaded down yitb a sack of wool,
to do the same, and having no more
rense than a man or woman, he plunged
in, and the moment the wool absorbed
the water, iucreased-the burthen mauy
fold, and bore him with it to the bot-
tom.—Hall's Journal of Health.
A Repentant Criminal.
The Governor of Mississippi has
transmitted to the Legislature an appli-
cation made to him by Richard S.
Graves, former Treasurer of the State,
au absconding defaulter, asking per-
mission to return to the State, without
liability to criminal prosecution, and
undertaking, if that be granted to him,
to pay up his indebtedness by annuul
installments.
Mr. Graves ran away trom Mississip-
pi iu 1843, owug the State about $45,-
000. It has since beeu ascertained
that he went to Canada assuming the
name of Richard M. Hoi— For the
last ten years he h:.s !>. . . .t iding at
Simcoe, in Canada \Wt„, ' ajon>
uai there of some abiii:y ai;u -fluence
and for the last three years h-.iu a com-
mission of Justice of the i'euce.
Last year the Governor of Mississip
pi ascertained the place of residence of
Mr. Graves, aud discovered that he had
property in the State of Missouri, and
elsewhere in the United States. An
agent properly authorized attached
sonic valuable lands iu Missouri, and
proceeding to Canada obtained the ar-
rest of Mr. Graves, uuder the Ashbur-
tou treaty, as a fugitive from justice.—
The first arrest was made uuder the
provisional statute, but it was held
the Ashburton treaty abolished the
statute, lieing in its operations exclu
sive of territorial authority. Being ar-
rested again under the Ashburton trea-
ty it was decided the offence charged
was not- included iu the definitions of
the treaty, and Graves was again dis-
charged.
Being now free from liability to ar-
rest there, Graves addressed himself to
the Governor of Mississippi, praying
hiin, iu very affecting terms, to be al-
lowed to come home, and his wife, who
has adhered to him with unflinching de-
votion iu his loug exile, and his children
who have grown up around him, uu-
conscious, till now, of their father's de-
gradation. Weary of his banishment,
ami with a wife whose health suffers in
that inhospitable climate, he prays that
his fourteen years of suffering may be
considered a sufficient pmiishmeut for
his faults; and that he may lie taken
back umoiii; his kindred, on making ru
stituti >n. lie says he cau provide se-
curity that the State cau be repaid in
full, in sums of four thousand dollars a
year; aud that he is willing to go to
prison, wheuever he fails to pay. He
is free in Canada, but will surrender
what he has, to be allowed to remove
his invalid wile to a balmier air, in her
native home
Truly the way of the transgressor is
hard. lie likens his own punishment
to a fourteen years' exile to Siljcria.—
Lost years, lost honor, lost health;
these are the rewa. ds of a crime, which
seeiued to have escaped the search oP
the law, and the vengeance of man.
Gov. McKae being without the {tow-
er to comply with the request, has laid
it before the Legislature —N O. Pi-
cayune.
Gov. II. G. Runnels lately pro-
sided ovpr a Nicaragua Meeting at
Houston, when a standing committee
to raise contributions for our sou* ia
Nicaragua, was appointed. The old
mail's heart is: till young anil wanu iu
' its impulses for liberty — Stale (lazrtt,-
Curious Discovery.
. i . .. ■
Discoveries are all the go,, now, but
we do not Know When 4^'jpTC. lieard
of so singular a oue being, inade, as was
communicated to u"8 a fe*f tl&ys agoj "by
a gentleman of undoubted probity. 5
appears tliat he was somewhere in tlic
portion of this county wliich skirts thb
Nhvasoto, cutting trees to make fences,
and while hewing down a huge cotton-
wood, which measured gomejhree feet
in'circumference, he diSwvered that it
was hollow, but this did hot hinder-him
/romproceeding with his .work. ..After
he had felled a#d split it ii* half, he
found embedded within it, what proved
to be the skeleton of au,.Indian. The. ,
skeleton was entire, not a bone being
lost The inquiry very naturally sug-
gests itself to one's miud, how the skel-
eton came to be in such a place. Qur
informer says, that upou examin-
ing the tree closely, he fonud that there
was a small hole iu the tree, but the
hole was some five or six feet above the
level of the ground, ai^d he thinkB that,
the tree being very old, perhaps it was
at one time nearer the surface of the
earth. This seems tp:, he ft natural
conclusion, and we have no doobt that
the Indian was pursued by some hostile
tribe, or some wild beast, end seeing the
vacuum iu the tree, climbed up it, first
put in his feet, and then slijtthis whole
body in; but after the danger had passed
he-attempted to maktf hiit escape from
his unnatural place, but found himself
incompetent to do so, and at last death
came to his delivery. Arrow heads
were found around the free, and we
dohbt ndt that our conjecture in regard
to their being some hostile Indians in
pursuit of him is c. trne one, and that
we may be wore enlightened Bpon: the
subject, we intend to go and see the
tree, arrow, heads and skeleton.—An-
derson Texan. _
To Have Hens Lay ns tAe Winter.
—To be sure of a good sripply of eggs
in Winter, raise some chickins as early
iu the Spriug as possible. Thte pullets
of these earty broods will be large
euough to lay late in the Fall, and if
they are supplied with warm quarters,"
and besides being well fed with grain,
are allowed, occasionally, a few scraps
of fresh meat thrown in "to thtf'm they
will continue to lay all Winter. Old
liens, if treated thtts, will often becomc
quite prolific. Hen-roosts should be
supplied with ashes, gravel, and pound
ed^hells, especially in Wiuter, when
the bens cannot procure these articles
elsewhere. " ''*■ '■
The Tbaitobs' Reward.—Harris-
burg, Jan. 14, 1857.—Menear, of
York, openly boasts that he received
$8000 for voting fpr Cameron. He
says he would have voted for Forney
for Forney for $5000 The boarders at
Wilks' hotel- where Menear has been
stopping, protested against his remain-
ing. He was consequently dismissed
by the landlord. . iv* .
. Brady, to whom he applied for lioard
refused to receive him. Omit has given
Wagouseller and Lebo notice, %o quit.
In the House, au effort will be ipade to
expel Menear.
A clergyman who was reading
to Ms congregation a chapter in Gene-
sis, found the last sentence to be: "And
the Lord gave unto Adam a wife."—
Turning over two leaves togethejj" he
found written and read in an ajitdible ,
voice, "and she was pitched without
and witbin." He had uuhappily got
into the middle of a description of
Noah's ark.
Banking in Louisiana.
A bill has been introduced intotheliegis-
laturp of Louisiana, to establish a system of
Free Banking in that State, under certain
who-esome aud necessary restrictions. A
correspondent of tbe N. ©. Picayune, writing
from Baton Rouge, gives the following sy-
nopsis of the provisions of the bill:—
The bill is identical, iu many respoets, to
the act of 1853, bat certan important amend-
ments are introduced which are weSl deserv-
ing of consideration. In the first place, it ia
provided that no association of persons, laps
than twenty, shall engage in the businessof
banking and circulating of notes, and that
no corporation for banking purposes shall be
established ia New Orleans with a less capi-
tal than $1,000,000, and outside of the c\tft
for less than $500,000. This feature is in-
tended to do away with the individual priv-
ilege of banking and cirenlatien, with a
capital of $100,000, and thus flooding the
State with an infinites-simal quantity of
petty banks, under which the currency
would inevitably deteriorate and lose tbe
high standing it now enjoys. „
Another important amendment proposed
in this bill, is that of compelling the free
banks to approximate more cfoeely to ifhe ad-
mirable system under which the chartered
banks are administered by the law Of 1843.
To accomplish this, it is suggested that ia
future the banks should be entitled to
takeout double the circulation, as compared
with the value of the security deposited with
the Auditor, and that the remaiaing half
shall be covered, as prescribed in the law^f
1842, by one-third of specie and two-
thirds of specie funds. In other words, the
bauk will, under the clause, becoupeftsdto
have always on hand a much larger aaaount
of specie than they now possess ; thus con-
ferring at once a greater degree of safety,
coupled with the ability to move with more
elasticity and advantage to the community
and themselves.
It is further proviited that the circulation
shall never cxceed the capital of any institu-
tion, working under the free banking law,
and the individual liabilities of the stock-
holder is also retained. So that the object of
tbe bill is to secure the circulation to future
as follows.
1. By a deposit of securities amounting ia
value to fifty per cent, of the entire outsiaud-
ing circulation.
2. By compelling the banks to have con-
stantly on haud, as a basis for the remaining
50-100, one-third inspoaM&and two-thirds
in specie funds.
3. By constituting -the circulation as a
privileged claim over all otherjdebts of these
institutions.
4. By -wKtrieting tiie smount of ctrcula-
tio, so aa never to exceed the capital of the
bank.
5. By the individual liability of a M'|'
stockholder to the full amount of hit stock.
Under every circumstance this a most for-
midable array of securities, and if carried
into effect would afford a better guarantee to
the involuntary creditors than exists in any
institution or set of institutions in the world.
How far the parties directly affected, that is,
the free banks, relish such a severe caiegoty
of restrictions, is another thing. - ,*
The hill proposes, likewise, to place the -
free banks on the same footing of municipal
and parish taxation as the old chartered
banks. This is but just, as the former now
pay an annual Slate tax of $20,000
The ollicers' quarters at Carlisle Barracks,
1'enn , were destroyed by fire 011 the &id ult.
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Cushing, E. H. The Weekly Telegraph (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 22, No. 48, Ed. 1 Wednesday, February 18, 1857, newspaper, February 18, 1857; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth235928/m1/1/?q=Lamar+University: accessed June 2, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History.