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.George W. Swylfc .ftwjw. Robert S. Neighbors of Bexar.
VB3ST" It is now generally Bupposcd that there will bo an ex
tra session of the Lerrislnture called hv the Governor: but it" is b&
lieVed that it will not be done before ths latter part of the coming
winter. The reason for postponing it to this time M that in the eventfJA.ugU8ta and Savnnnnh Georgia Charleston S. C and Pensacola
""'03" Col AiJl 'JEvand of Waco MoLonpan county nnd Guy Stokes and
MM. Knight Esqs of Navarro county nro authorized to net as agents for
thojToms iato Gazotto in their rospcotive counties. Their rt'ooipts for sub-
scription and advertising will bo accepted by tho publlshbra.
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jk1 difficulties in Peters' Colony crowds out this weebtour usual vuricty
" of' reading matter by its great length. ' It treats however of a sub-
ject of deep importance to tho whole State and about which there
hasbeen much interest manifested1 ; and as wo conceive it to be wril-
a ten in a clear candid nnd temperate style we could not refuse its pub-
- lfcation when tendered as nn advertisements
' V5ST" TTnn. Tlinmrw FTnrrifinn. rArirp.Sp.ntntiVflin tho lnnfc Lemfl-
laturo from tho county df Harris has; wo learn resigned his seat.
"83gT Wo learn with pleasure by the last Piqayunc that tho
nOUBn 01 iMl'0veHj mum x vo. 01 ih'w vncuus wuiuu wuo iuii;lu
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toVusberid last winter has resumed payment.
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Fine Wheat.
'V6 montioued' some tjino ehico that Mr. Swensoix was in
expectation of tlto receipt 6f some rare varieties ot-nno wheat
wHJchho ordered for the purpose of making tho experiment of
ifcroroductiyeness and adaptability to our soil and climate.
Ilo-hds just received thoni and is ready to furnish small quaii-
'titfes to tho farmers of the vicinity at cost and charges for.
th'e'pnrposo of fdirly testing their merits. They consist of the
choicest varieties over introduced into tho United States and
it is hoped that every one who has tho facilities for making tho
experiment will not fail to do bo.
ESST "Wo' learn that a train which left hero a short timo
Binco''for Phantom Hill loaded with supplies was visited be-
yond Fort Gates by Yellow Wolf and a party under him.
Hqpamo fhtd camp with a portion of Iu'b force which alto-
gether is said to have amounted to eighty or ninety and asked
towbo supplied with.provisions in such a manner that itVas
thought best by those in chargo of tho train to accede to lm
request.
1" Expressions of dissatisfaction havo reached us from
mbre quarters than one with the course of the Pemocratic Electors
of the State ; none of them having to any extent canvassed the State.
It seems to havo been understood that one or two of the Electors
pledged themselves to this duty but for some cause seem to have for-
golten it. No one can suprjoso that there exists any real necessity
- fonsueli a course beyond tho desire of the people to hear tho princi.
ples'inVolved in tho contest fully discussed.
correspondent writes to us " that lie was gratified when he learn-
ed thauGeo. "VV. Smyth was selected as one of Electors because he
calculated that ho would thereby bo induced to visit many portions of
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ine oiato wnere is pprsuniuiy nnKnowii anu me poopio mignt tnus
have'nrf opportunity of making tho acquaintance of a man whose per-
sonal worth is so extensively recognised and whoso official conduct
lias so often received "the approbation of his fellow-citizens.
Jifdgo Evans has wojearn visited a portion of theStato; the
otherpElectors have not that we have heard left home.
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' pE" any unl loud complaints havo been made of the man-
ncriii .which tho time of the late CongrebS was consumed and the
Very small purposes to which" it was devoted ; nor were they without
.causo.ias any fair mind must conclude who has watched the proceedings
Of that I body. Such a movement aathat of Mr. Merriwether to enquire
into tho respective amounts of money received by Generals Scott and
Picrccynnd which consumed no small portion of the latter part.of the
Bcssion strikes us as an exceedingly small affair. Suppose it should
itpenr.ias no doubt it will if examined iuto that Gen. Scott has re-
coived ten or twentv times as much ntnnii hj f?iinml Pinrnn what
doe8.it provo; nothing moro than that Gen. Scott has been ten or
tWSly times as long in tho public 6ervicc and was entitled' to it be-
oause ho earned it. When no man has been willing to risk his char-
ncteriipon thq assertion that Gen. Scott has received more than- his
due it is to our minds comefrom what source it may a low trick to
ba'lfippfug up his accounts at this day It proves nothing but parti-
zan ?eal and anjndeceut anxiety for its manifestation. We who Op-
"l Sc0U eicclio" avo amP' grounds for it and ;reasons
manifold for prerringGen. Pierce without onco decendlngf Wuch
meaningless artifices as tins.
l'Iho democrats ving elected a inaiority of the mem
bers of the North Carolina Legislature much interest is manifested to
Itnow who is likely to sucqedMr. Maiigum in the United States
Senate fr is reported in some of our exchances that the Viublio mind
in'Carolina lias settled down upon the Hon. A. W Vena ut?S hey es-
onttatie member in the Houso frbra'.the Granville' distrfctas Mr.
WhgunVs successor. The elcction'ofeither Mr. Venablo or Gen. II.
S&lWfa TOto Ju4)ith iy4ydemocnicy-4htooghbut
the next session of Conirress should do unvthinjr (tonnccted with the
piiblid'dobt involving tho necessity of .further legislation our legisla-
ture mircht have it beforq them.
We have never regarded any other fact aside from the necessity of
passing an apportionment bill as demanding an extra session and if
it bo called in time to disposo of that difficulty We think the Governor
will havo done his duty. To postpone tho call to the -period indica-
ted would probably be wiser than to make it this fall in view of the
probability which exists of something being dono by Congress at its
next sessipn in relation to oUr public debt. Recent indications point
very significantly to some solution of the question at that time which
may render it important to tho State that a Legislature should con-
vene. -
There seems to bo nmoilg the people of the Stato an interest some-
what excited in regard to Internal Improvements upon which some
of tho presses of tho Slate base tho 'propriety of a call at an early day.
For ourselves "ve apprehend no evil upon this scbre from a little de-
lay for we are in much moro danger from hasty and ill-digested legis-
lation upon this matter than we are from the consequences of post-
poning it for a year or two. Ruinous expenditures nnd miserable
failures have resulted in better regulated communities than ours by
rapid and extravagant prosecutions of vast and speculative schemes
o'f improvement. Different works and various plans of prosecuting
the work have been suggested and as yet tho general mind has
adopted no settled convictions. The public debt is still a suspended
question and it is unsafe to assume what may be the action of Con-
gress upon it and until this is known we can make no reliable esti-
mate of tho means at our command a fact certainly of some impor-
tance in the elucidation of a general scheme of State improvements.
Wo have always spoken with diffidence upon this subject for we con
fess ourselves in a great degree ignorant of tho working of any pe-
culiar system oUr residence in Texas dating somewhat behind the pe-
riod when these enterprises were adopted to any considerable extent
in the older States; and it is for this that we wish the people to con
sider well and understand what they are about to do.
Upon general principles we regard the constitutional inhibition up-
on the State owning stock in any work of internal improvement as
wise and politic. We had rather trust foMhcir success to individual
sagacity and watchfulness tliau to that of a State to say nothing of
the contests which would result for the patronage of the State in the
nature of contractors stock-jobbers and petty offices necessarily inci-
dent to such 'a system. Expenditures would bo made nominally for
public purposes but really for private advantages and local instead of
rational appropriations of money would be sought merely to strength-
en some demagogue among his constituency. The success of some
general system of improvement in our State is a matter of too much
importance to be slurred over in any careless manner or entered into
with that spirit of self-re.liance;which.libtens to Ho lesson of the past.
Under all the circumstances which attend the progress of individuals
or nations the present is only the Ohild of tho past and the youth of
.futurity. It is from the force of this law that wo must derive all
sound legislation and hence tho absolute necessity of counselling
others and heeding" to the "Voices of tho past.
In all our operations of whatever.nature Time must bo counselled
and his advice obeyed 'or he will punish the neglect of his councils
by crushing our airy fabrics into dust. We are therefore especially
auxious that no false step be taken in a matter of such acknowledged
importance and which commends itself to every mind but that of
unreflecting prejudice.
Should there bo an extra session in February next it will be ample
time for these matters to be entertained and even should they be de-
ferred to the regular session in.November following wo believe that
the true interest of the State will not 'suffer." ' '
. B3P The storm which we noticed last week as having been
so destructive at Mobile nnncnrs by accounts in tho pnpers to linvo-
eje tended throughout many of the Southern States. At Columbup.
Florida tho rain fell in torrents for several days and the wind lose u
a tornado almost unprecedented in its disastrous effects. Bridges were
everywhere "washed away railroad tracks broken up houses fences-
and timber blown down and largo numbers of vessels blown ashore
and wrecked The aggregate loss at the various points heard from is-
incalculable but wo are glad to fcarn that it is not so largo at Mobile
as at first represented being now estimated at about half a million or
dollars instead of two millions and half as the 'papers at first repre-
sented it. t
igr" "We have observed' for some months pa9t notices in our
exchanges that tho whig members of Congress have been scattering
very liberally over the country a certain description of eleetioneerin""
handbills and pamphlets; by which we suppose they expect to delude
the people iuto the support of Gen. Scott for the Presidency. These
electioneering documents are large handbills with " pictures " of the
various battles in which Gen. Scott has been engaged always re-
presenting the General in the most perilous conditions imaginable -in
front of his men cutting and slaughtering his foes all around him
always nt death's door but never killed. A large edition of the same
is issued in pamp'hlet form each edition ornamented at the conclusion
with a large wooden bowl and ladle labelled sotip." These ridicu
lous devices to impose upon and mislead the people are only worthy
of contempt and the effect they produced in Noith Carolina which
State was covered with them just before the election as thick as was
Egypt with locusts is the only response neeneu should make to such
tm insult to their intelligence and patriotism. It seems now that
thesei" picture " books. are finding tho way into Texas ris we have
seen several in circulation to tho great merriment of the boys nnd the
disgust of sensible men; and the postmaster at Monchaca in this
county brought us a copy the other day franked to him by the Hon.
William Cullom whig member of Copgress from Tennessee. The
postniaster desires us to say that he considers the print n disgrace to
our country and tho age in which we live ; that the party that would
avail itself of such menus to electioneer for votes not only miscalcu-
lates and greatly underrates the intelligence of the people but mustbu
regarded as corrupt and devoid of all patriotic impulse; and that the
member of Congress who would disgrace his high position and vio-
late his oath of office to frank such humbugcry as a " public docu
ment should be made a perpetual mark of contempt as ho is a dis-
grace to tho people who elected him to u position which ho has not
the sense or the patriotism properly to appreciate.
.5ir Tho gold an.d silver coinage at the branch mint in New
Orleans for the month of Augustrfamounted to'ttfo hundred thou-
teandollars. ' W - M o'i )
U2P "Wo alluded some time since to tho senseless and ridic-
ulous charge raised against General Pierce upon the authority'
of a rank abolition paper in Now Hampshire that ho had in
1S49 made a violent anti-slavery speech at Now Boston N.IL
Tho version of tho speech as given by tho abolition editor of
tho New Hampshire paper a paper that is bitterly opposed to'
General Pierce was pronounced when it first appeared a baiKt
forgery us it contained language nnd sentiments which General
Pierce did not utter on the occasion alluded to ; but were just
tho reverse of what he did say as well as being opposed to all
tho acts and words of his whole life on tho subject. But this.
did not satisfy tho whigs. Thousands of copies of this forgery
were printed at the liejoullio office at Washington and scat-
tered broadcast over tho Southern States by tho whig executive
committee at Washington to produce the impression on South-
ern voters that General Pierce has all his life been double-
dealing on tho subject of slavery. To removo this impression.
Mr. De Leon the editor of tho Southern Press at Washington
addressed to General Pierce a note asking whether or not this-
account of his New Boston speech is correct ; to which tho f6l-
lowing frank clear and manly answer was immediately given
by General pierce :
Concord N. H. July 23 1832.
My Dkah Sir: Surrounded by pressing cngagments I seize the earliest op-
portunity to reply to your letter of tho 17th uiqtniit. I much regret that any
tiling connected with myself should have becirtho cause of disagreement be-
tween you and gentlemen with wli im you have been associated in the edito-
rial department of tlio Souhthern Prett. I do not remember over to havo seen
what purports to bo a report of a speech delivered by mo at New Boston in
this State in January last until my attention was called to it as republished in
tho Republu. The pretended report is and I presume was designed to be nn
entire misrepresentation. It is not meroly untruthful but is so grossly and ab-
surdly fnlse ns to render in this viciuty ny 4anial of if nuthunticity entirely
unnecessary. The two pnpers quote the Independant Democrat published in
tins place hnd th6 Democrat published in Manchester are thoroughly aboli-
tion journals; and hnyo been and arc zealously opposed to tho Democratic
party. For a. long time prior to tho meeting at New Boston mid ever since
they have been unsparing in their attacks upon mo personally and in their
bitter denunciation or what they havo been .pleased to term my pro-slavery
sentiments. But it would be something new for either of these pnpers to dony
the consistency of my opinions upon the subject oftho constitutional rights or
the South in relation to slavery. My opinions nnd th? avowal of them have
been everywhere the nme. Ever mindful of the difficulties and dangers which
so Joncr proded over tho assemblage of wise men and pura patriots to whose
spirit of concession nnd earnest ertbrts wo nro indebted for tho Constitution
under which wo have enjoyed such signal prosperity advancement and hnp-
piness I havo regarded the subject ns to vital and delicate to be used ns an
element of sectional appeal in party conflicts. My action and my language in
New Hampshire touching this matttjr havo been nt all times and under all
circumstances in entire accordance with my nction and language at Washing-
ton My votes in tho Senate and Houso of Representatives were not repub-
lished in tho Ei a for the first time. They have been again and again paraded
to arouse tho passions and prejudices of our people against mo individually
and agninst tho party with which it has been my pride and plcnsuio to net.
There has been no attempt toovado tho force of the record. It has been ntall
times fiecly admitted and my position sustained upon grounds satisfactory Hi
my own mind. I am not surpiised to know that the attempt to prove me an
abolitionist provoke much merriment among men of all parties here; and this
week nnd untruthful sketch of what purports to be my speech is really too
ridiculous to be considered in any serious light.
I am daily in the receipt of letters propounding the grcntest variety of cu-
rious questions upon all conceivable subjects. Lttors of this character can-
not bo answered of course. No individual could command either tho time or
strength the herculean task would require. I may add that such a corres-
pondence would by no means comport with my views of duty. Tho Demo-
cratic party sent its delegates to Baltimore not alono to nominate candidates
but to reaffirm principles und to present tho leading issues upon which the
canvass should bo conducted.
If I could deem myself capable of improving the platform there adopted
it is quite certain that I should decline either at the call of individuals or as
sociations to incur the chargo of arrogance to which any uttempt to niter
amend or enlnrgo it would inevitably subject mo.
Your letter is of an ontirly different character. It seeks truth in relation IQ
an alleged fact; it speaks of history to which too searching an appeal cannot
bo mndo. I appreciate the estimate you seem to hnvoot my character for
directness; and I beg you to accept my thanks for your e'florts to vindicate
my claim to that trait at least boforo tho public.
I nm with high esteem your most obedient servant FRANK. PIERCE.
Edwin Dk Leon Esq. Washington D. C."
Certainly after reading this letter the whig editors in the
South will have the fairness to brand the forgery they have
been circulating against General Pierce as it deserves. It is a
strange state of things that while tho abolitionists at the North
are slandering General Pierce and straining all their powers
to defeat his election on account of 'his devotion to tho Com-
promises of the Constitution and his Uniform and able advo-
cacy ot Sputhorn rights that the whig editors in tho South
should be found zealously seconding the efforts of theso fana-
tics by copying and endorsing their slanderous forgeries to
mislead tho Southern people and cause them to desert their
true; tried and trusty friend. Such conduct is littlo short of
moral treason.
The following exhibits" the charaqter of the witnesses who
made and testified to tho forged version " of General Pierco'8
speech which has beon endorsed and circulated by Southern
whig editors :
" A Pretty Sort of Witnetses.-TUe Rev. Mr. Foss who reported Frank.
Pierco's New Boston speech nnd swears that Frank. Pierce said 1)0 hated slavt-
ry served four years in tho Virginia Penitentiary.lbr stealing n. horse. Ho wn
sentenced for six years but was pardoned out by tho Governor ot the expirn-
tion or four years upon the condition that lie would behave himself well.
1 he proof of tins can be ascertained by communicating with tho keeper of
tho Penitentiary of that State Goodulo tho editor ol the Independent Demo-
crat who swears to tho correctness and good clmiacter of Foss once lived in
ColHmbus t'orgm and had to run away for stetding a negro woman he had
ns a wife. This is a pretty set of witnesses to bring up to prove a slander
such as is attempted by tho Federat party against Frank. Pierce. What better
evidence does an intelligent community want of the baseness or such nn in-
sertion than tho character of such men ? Hag tho timo como when the whig
party have to apply to Pcnitontiary convicts and negro thioves to sustain
charges made against a democratic candidate for t)ib Presidency f What lion-
oruble lilgh-minded man can belong to such a party?" State Guatd. W(
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