Texas State Gazette. (Austin, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 14, Ed. 1, Saturday, November 23, 1850 Page: 3 of 8
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Thursday November21 1850.
The Sennlo was called to order by thu President.
Senators present :
Messrs. Brashi-ar Burleson Cooke Campbell Gngc Grimes
Hart Kinney Lntinlor. Mcllae Mofjctl Parker. Taylor Trim
Van Derlip 'Ward and Wallace. '
The journals ol yesterday were read and adopted.
Mr. Parker presented the petition of Cyrus 11. Randolph ask-
ing iho repeal of n eertoiu luw therein named;; referred to the
committee on the Judiciary.
Mr. Wallace presented the petition of Mary Alexander ; refer
red to the comuiitcc on Private Land Claims.
Mr. Grimes presented the mcmoiial of Isaac Tousey ; roforred
(o the committee on Internal Imnrovcmeuts.
Mr. Wallace presented an informal memorial of a citizen of
Texas ; refeired to the committee on tno judiciary.
Mr. Campbell presented a memorial from the citizens ofKauf
man county ; referred to a select committee consisting; of Messrs.
Campbell Trim and Mcllae.
ORDERS OF THE DAY.
A bill accepting the propositions made by the United States to
the State of Texas in an act of the Congress of the United
Slates upprovcel the 9th day of September A. D. 1850 and en-
titled "an act proposing to the State of Texas the establishment
other Northern and Western boundaries the lelinqnishment by
ihe said State of all territory claimed by her exieiior to said
boundaries and of all hoi claims upon the United Slates mid to
establish n Territorial Government in New Mexico." Read
second lime.
Mr. Van Derlip moved to amend by stiikingout of the second
line of the preamble the following words : "and figures to wit :"
Mr. "Wallace moved to amend the amendment by striking out
"to wit" which amendment was accepted by Mr. Van Derlip
and amendment adopted.
Mr. Van Derlip moved to amend by adding after the word
t: mail." and before the word "as" in the third line of the last
' seclion the following woids : ' and by special messenger."
Upon which the yeas and nays were called and were as fol-
low : . v
Yeas: Messrs. Brashear Burleson Cooke Campbell Gage
Moffett Portis Taylor Van Derlip and Ward-10.
Nays : Messrs. Grimes Hart Latimer Mcllae Parker Rob-
ertson Tmit and Wallace 8. Adopted.
Mr. Wnl I ace moved to amend by inserting the words "and
another copy" after the word " mail." Adopted.
Mr. Portis offer rod the following amendment : insert after the
word '-messenger" the words "to be elected by joint ballot of both
Houses of theTLogislature." Adopted.
Mr. Portis offered the following amendment to the preamble :
strike out the words "are contained in the first section of said act
iu the following words and figures to wit" and insert contained
in on authenticated copy of the two sections of said bill referred
to the State of Texas in the following words." Rejected by the
folio win"1 vote :
Yeas : Messrs. Kinnev Portis and Robertson 3.
Nays: Messrs. Brashear Burleson Cook Campbell Gage.
Grimes Uait Latimer McRac Moffett Parker Taylor Tmit
Ward and Wallace 15.
Mr. Robertson offered the following amendment :
Insert after the word otherwise" in the fifth proposition the
following words " it being distinctly understood on'Mie part of
Texas tfwit'noihing herein contained shall impair the force or
effect of the. compact of annexation otherwise than as herein ex-
pressed." Rejected by the following vote :
. Yens: Messrs. Poi lis and Robertson 2.
Nays Messrs. Brashear Burleson Cooke Campbell Gage
Grimes Hart Kinney Latimer McRac Moffett Parker Taylor
Truit Van Derlip Ward and Wallace 17.
Mr. Robertson offered the following amendment to coino in at
the end of the 5th proposition : .
Provided that the Secretary of the. Treasury of the United
States shall not bo authoiized to ietaina greater amount of said
' bonds than which will bo sufficient to pay such debts as the rev-
onuc derived fromimpostduties were specially pledged for winch
amount is to be ascertained by an act of the Legislature of the
State of Texas." Rejected by the following vote :
Yeas : Messrs. Kinney Portis and Robertson 3.
Nays : Messrs. Burleson Campbell Gage Gi lines Hart Lat-
. imor McRae Moffett Paiker Taylor Truit Van Derlip Ward
and Wallace 1-1. . . ...
Mr. Burleson called for the previous question which was or
dercd by the following vole:
Yens : Messrs. Brashear Burleson Cooke .Campbell Gage
Grimes Hurt Latimer McRae Moflett Parker Taylor 1 ruit
Van Derlip Ward and Wallace 16.
Nays : Messrs. Kinney Portis and Robertson o..
The bill was then ordered to be engrossed by the following
Yeas: Messrs. Brashear Burleson Cook Campbell Gage
Grimes Hart Kinney Latimer McRae Moffett Parker 1 aylor
Truit Van Derlip Ward and Wallace 17.
Nays : Messrs. Portis and Robertson 2. . . ...
Mr. Giiffo moved to suspend the rule requiring bills to bo read
on three several days that the bill might bo put upon us third
andj final reading. . . .. .
On motiorrof Mr. Wallace the motion to suspend the rule
was laid on the table until 3 o'clock P RI. .'
On motion of Mr. Portis the Senate ndjournod.unjil 3o clock
P. M. .
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b O'CLOCK; P. M.
Senate met quorum present: .
A bill requiring the Commissioner appointed by an act creating
the county of Hunt approved April 11th 1316 to deliver up
certain documents and moneys Jherein mentioned. Read second
Hart Kinney Latimer. McRae Moffett Parker Poitis. Robert-
son Taylor Truit yun DeYlip Ward and Wallace 17.
Mr. Moffett chairman of the committee on Engrossed Bills
reported as correctly engrossed a bill accepting the" "propositions
made by the United Status to the. Stato of Texas in an act o'f the
Congress of the United States approved the ()th day of Septem-
ber A. D. 1350 and entitled "an act proposing lo tho Stuto of
Texas the establishment of her Northern and Western bounda-
ries the relinquishment by the said Stato of all territory claimed'
by her exterior to said boundaries mid of nil her claims upon
the United States and to establish n Territorial Government for
New Mexico."
Mr. Gage's motion to suspend the rule requiring bills tobc
read on three several days was taken up rule suspended rind
the above bill read third time and passed by tho following vote:
Yeas: Messrs. Brashear Burleson Cooke Campbell Gage
Grimes Hart Kilinoy Latimer McRae Moffett Parker Robert-
son Taylor Truit Vn Derlip Ward and Wallace -IS.
Nays: Air. Portis 1..
Mr. Robeitson moved to have the returns of tho vote of the
Mill Senatorial District upon tho acceptance of Ponrco's bill
spread upon the journals of tho Senate.
On motion of Mr. Gage the motion was laid upon the table
by the following vote:
Yeas: Messrs. Burleson Cooke Campbell Gage. Grimes
Moffett Parker Truit Van Derlip and Wallace 10.
Nays : Messrs. Brashear Hart Kinney Latimer McRae Por-
tis Robertson and Ward 8.
On motion of Mr. Gage the resolution relative to the count-
ing of the votes of the people of the State on the acceptance of tho
propositions or tho United States Government was taken up.
Mr. Gago rnoved to amend the' bill by striking out " instant"
and inseiting "on Tuesday the 30th inst." Carried and reso-
lution adopted by the following vote :
Yens: -Messrs. Burleson Campbell Gagu Hart Kinney Lat-
imer Moffett Parker Portis Taylor Truit Ward and Wallace
13.
Nays: Messrs. Grimes and Van Derlip 2.
Resolution of the Senate relative to an adjournment sine die
on the 2d day of December ensuing. Read.
On motion of Mr. Brashear laidon the table until Saturday
the 23d inst.
Resolution of tho Senate that no other business be entertained
by the Senate than that connected with the acceptance of the
propositions of the Government of the United Stales &c. Read.
On motion of Mr. Moffett laid on the table.
Joint resolution appointing agents to receive and dispose of
for cash the bonds to be issued by the Government of the United
States to the'State of Texas. "Read second time.
On motion of Mr. Gage referred to tho committee on Finance.
On mbtion of Mr. Parker the Senate adjourned until 10
o'clock to-morrow morning.
fteir Tost Routes iu Texas.
The following -new post routes in this State were established
by law at the last session of Congress.
From Sherman Grayson county to the county site of Cooke
county.
From county sito of Cooke county to Alton Denton county.
From Jefferson Cnss county via Alley's Mills and Coffeeville
to Gilmer
Fiom Mount Pleasant and county scat of Van Zandt to Pal-
estine. ' -
From'Gilmcr via Quitman and Davis's Mills to Greenville
Hunt county.
From Quitman via Kautman to Dallas.
Fiom Hunts'vilie via county sito of Trinity to Marion Ange
linn county.
From Crockett via county site of Tiinity to Livingston.
From Dallas to Biidville Tarrant county.
From Alton Denton county to Biidville Torrnnt county.
From Buffalo via Wnxnhatchie Ellis county to" Biidville
Tarrant county.
From Sabinetown via Fairmount post office and Toledo to
Burke villi.
From Shelbyvillo to Nacogdoches.
From McKiuney to Alton. u s
From Clear Spring by most: direct-route to Boston Bowie
county.
From Copano to .Refugio Refugio county.
I' rom Victoria to Lamar
A .-J Tho History of jOiir .Statoi. ( j
An attompt'is to bo'rritido to "form a SlaW Historical Societyfor
Alabama. Dr. Basil Manly Presidenfrof the University of that
State has taken the project in hand and" lias addressed n circular
letter to tho friends of the measure fit Which ho says:-
" Tho history of a State is an object of peculiar interest ; nor
less when it enters on its broad career by the peaceful will of a
virtuous and free people than when it struggles into being amid"
tho throes of revolution and tho Iforrorsof carnage. It is doubt-
ed whether an ingi'iiuons mid earnest patriotism can bo trans-'
fused much beyond its founders when a Slnte fails Jo record nnd
preserve its own history. And the fact that in the absence of
verities and authentic narrative nation have always resorted to
fiction and fable shows the common judgment of mankind that
the uses of history are iudispensa lo; and must be secured for. a
people by some means.
"In an inquisitive age devoted to the collation n'nd compari-
son of facts and tho deduction of right conclusions from them
it wouiu be. an unpardonable negligence in Hie citizens of Ala-
bama to permit tho still recent nicts-of her own history'to pass
from romembrancci wit limit a record ; or to be thrown into the
confusion and darkness of garrets nnd voults awaiting their sure
destruction. No succeeding ngo. will forgive the inconsiderate-
ness if while we are busy in amassing fortunes for ourselves
and providing for our families a name we omit to givo complete-
ness and method and perpetuity to tho materials for n history of
our State iml impersonation of all thot.gives security and value-
to man's social interests; which cherishes" by being cherished
and enobles by being honored and loved."
Every Woid of the above is directly appliqnblo to tho Stnto of
Texas ; and we have often regretted that tho Legislature had not
taken the necessaiy steps to secure the collection and preserva-
tion of tho very interesting historical data now scattered through-
out our limits and constantly perishing. The a'tention of the
last Legislature was called to this subject but nothing was done.
We trust that the next will be duly impressed with the impor-
tance of early attention to a mattcr.of so much interest to'lhe pres-
ent and future generations and in whiclijhinediate action wwill.
save what will otherwise' inevitably Ho lost: ' ' ' t .
News from tho Plains
CHOLERA 1 STARVATION ! 1 INDIAN HOSTILITIES 1 ! P
Thu Sacramento Transcript of tho 29th September contains;
a letter dated at tho Great Meadows Llumbo'dt river September
12th from Popt. Waldo the philanthropic and energetic friend
of the emigrants. Ho states that ho mot many who had given
up to die ; others without food save the worn-out horses which
had borne them thus far 00 the way tft. California. Some were
living on dead and putrid horse-flesh very few who have any
provisions and nearly all are traveling on foot their horses and
mules hnvhfg given out. No one now thinks of gold the cry
is for bread.'
"The Indians have stole a great number of the emigrant stock;
thereby many families have been left from four to six hundred
miles from tho settlements without teams or means of convey--ance
and tho Indians are daily growing more hostile and daring.
There is scarcely a day passes that there ore not more or less skir.-
mishes he'tween them and the whues.
' Many women are on the road with families of children who-
have lost their husbands by cholera and who will never cross the
mountains without aid. I have met intelligent packers who left
the Missouri river on ih& 1st of July ; they concur iu the state-
ment thnt there are near twenty thousand back of tho Desert Fif-
teen thousand of this number are now destitute of all kjnds of
provisions ; yet the period of the greatest suffering has not yet
arrived it the supposition ho correct mat twenty-hvo thousand
are yet beyond the Sink. It will be morally impossible for ten
thousand of this numhqr lo reach the mountains before the com-
mencement of winter: and the probability is that they then-
will find thee mountains covered with snow from five to twenty-
feet deep. AH remember the fate of the Don uer party."
From Goliad to Cibolo Springs Bexar county.
ia Eagle Pass and Presidi
io del Norte to
time.
On motion of Mr. Latimer roforred
Jndicnrv
Joint resolution refunding to Major W. S. Henry tho fine im-
posed upon him by sentence of a Couit Martini in the 9th Mill-
tary Department of the United States Army. Read second tunc
and ordered to be engrossed.
On motion of Mr. Parker the rule was suspended resolution
rpnd.third time and passed (unanimously) by the gllqinyotoi
to tho committee on the
Fiom San Antonio vi
hi Paso and Doiui.
-From Indianola via McGrcw's to Victoria.
From Victoria via Mission Valley King's nnd Sulphur
Springs'to San Antonio.
From Huntsville Walker county via Mitchell's post office to
Leoua.
From Binzos Santiago by land to New Orleans.
From Houston via Brien H. Jones's Big creek past office
Solitude post office T. Bingham's and Liverpool post office to
Galveston.
From Texann via Wharton and R J. Galder's to Columbia.
From B.istiop- Bastrop county vuuLockhmt to Seguin Gund-
nlupe county.
From Lnvaco Oalluun county to Texann Jackson county.
From Laredo Webb county to Eagle Pass Kinney county.
From Cameron Milam county to tho county seat of Bell
county
From Manchester via Waco to Cameron Milam county.
From Waxahntchie Ellis county via Waco to Cameron Mi-
lam county.
From Sholbyville to Nacogdoches via Copt. John King's store.
From Springfield to Palestine.
From Hilliard's via Carthago to Grand Bluffs.
From Pareclifta. Arkansas to Clarksvllle Texas via Rocky
Comfort and month of Mile creek. ' -
From Nacogdoches county to Tyler Smith county via.Ana-
dqreo and New Salem.
Provided That nothing in this act contained shall bo con-
strued as to express any opinion as to the true boundary of any
State or Territory named therein.
3 An old lady who did not know whether her plantation
was in Virginia or North Carolina found when the line was run.
that she was n resident of tho former province. (WIJ1 (said she)
I tun glad that I dpn'fcUve m Jorth mim.hnSW8
Fire in the Prairies.
IVIr. Samuel Fitzgerald who lives on Mulberry a branch of'
the Navidad oboul IS or 20 miles south-west of this place in-
forms us that some one unknown set fire to the praiiie south and
souih-wcs' of hjs faring on Tuesday the 5th inst. and that -the
wind was so strong that in spito of all his effoits Ins fence for
some 700 or SQ0 yards was burnt up.. His hair was singed nnd
his face badly burnt while endeavoring to stop the. progress of
the fire. Persons should bo cautious about firo in this country
iu the fnI and winter. The man who burns our prairies injures
the citizens as effectually as he would if ho wore to burn their
haystacks. When the gross is burnt up the cattle must die.
We hnva a law which prohibits the burning of prairies from the
lht of July to the loth of February and it would be well if it
wqreen forced. Many persons who have not been long in our
country set firo to the prniries to enjoy tho pleasure of seeing a
magnificent fire. It may be fun for them but it is a serious mat-
ter to our citizens. La. Grange Monument
ECr'We nro informed by private intelligence from Eaglo Pass
of a horrible tragedy which has recently oceured beyond Snta.
Rosa in Mexico. Four men left Englo Pass a few weeks since
for California having in company with them two frco mulatto
women. Beyond Santa Rosa three of the rn'en composing tho
party were found layin dead iu the camp. Two hndj been-shot
nnd the third had been killed by n knife. The fourth individual
and the women and children were missing. Tho trunks had been
broken opened and-rifled of their contents including-amongst
other-things the sum of fi vo thousand dollnrs. The wngons &c
wore left nt tho encampment'.' San A(ot(io Ledger. '
tCj The accounts of iminigrntinn into Texas which renchtis.
nnd tho evidences which nro continually before s are beyond
precedent. About live hundred persons per tveeic nmvo at this
oity but this wo learn is nothing in comparison with the over-
land emigration. At a moderate estimate wo shall hnvo nn ac-
cession of nt least 25000 to our population the present season.
The immigrants' are of the bettor class of people. Many of them
bring largo numbers of slaves. Civilian.
fCjr3 Tho imports into Galveston iho present autumn are in
mense. The splendid ships in tho New Vork$ir.nde come cram-
med and the New Orleans steamers pijed wjtjjrejght ; arid stjill
wn'nrn tok-1-lhnt pnrli vnssnl which Mnlres liVjrlennrtUro'fon Gal
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