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B3HT Noticing thodisurbarices which exist in Tamaulipns i &5JJT The Hon. V. E. Ilownid and Hon. JR. Scurry of tllis
the Brownsvillo Flag of tlio lltli ult. says. "Wo learn that all the State :in Hon. W. 8. Ashe of North Carolina unci Hon. C. Ll.l?oas-
lee of Now Hump-dike have our thanks for interesting piibliis docu-
rneiits recently received. ' ' ' '
principal towns in tlio State have pronounced against Gov. Cardenas
Tind within a week's time stirring scenes may bo expected among our
' neighbors. The citizens of Matamoros in public assembly resolved
not to recognize Sr. Cardenas as Governor of the State. Tho cities
of Tampico and Tula have passed similar resolutions while Cardenas
is still in his seat as Governor and thus tho matter for the present
restP."
We also learn from tho Flag that at the City of Mexico on tho
o2d of Augustj a council composed of three members of tho cabinet
was in session in which it was deemed necessary Under existing
'Circumstances to adopt the following resolutions:
1st. That congress be convened in extraordinary session on tho 1st
of October.
2nd That it be wholly and exclusively occupied on the following
points : To devise ways and means for sustaining the expenses of
government; to adopt such measures as are pointed out in the con-
stitution to restore order to the Republic; to protect the frontier
from Indian depredations ; to arrange the vexed Tehuautepec question
on a basis fixed by the President in a law of the Mth of May last
and to adjust two other points in relation to reforms &c.
The same paper has dates from the City of Mexico to the 28th j
August in which it is said " Within three days there will bo a
ministerial crisis; the resigning of tho Cabinet en masse The 31st
of August all the Ministers abandon their posts. It surprises us'
says tho Trait D' Union ' for we thought that Mr. Ramirez would
not resign until the conclusion of tho Tehunntepec affair. It was
not known yet who would take their places. It was thought that
Mr. Ramirez would have no successor; and that his place would bo
filled by the official mayor of tho financial department a Mr. Monas-
terio.' "
3gf Tho government at Washington 1b again in serious
fright from apprehensions that another Cuban invasion is on foot.
Commodore Perry was recently ordered on to1 Washington in great
haste to advise with the President and the Cabinet on tho subject.
It is cruel in tho " Filibusters " to keep our good Presidont in ouch
constant alarm for the stability of Spanish despotism in Cuba and tho
safety of the heads of Spanish tyrants.
SS Col. Benton is publicly announced as a candidato for
Senator in Congress from Missouri in 1854 or sooner if Mr. Geyer
the present whig Senator can be instructed out of his seat. May his
aspirations never be gratified.
BS Tho railroad from Columbia to Charlotte N. C? has
been completed and the cars aro running to tho latter town ; aiid a
branch of the same road turning off at Chesterville.in the direction of
King's Mountain has been completed to Yorkville. S. C. These
roads penetrate tho richest and most (productive regions of the Garoli-nas.
C5iF" A correspondent of tho Indianola Bulletin writing
from Gonzales county says : " You rriay inform your readers that wo
have in Gouzales county one hundred and sixty-six farmers who will
make an average of at least thirty acres of corn for each farmer
making in corn cultivation four thousand uiuo hundred and eighty
acres an acre averaging forty bushels making one hundred and ninety-nine
thousand two hundred bushels of corn. Thousands of bush-
els are offered for sale at 25 cents per bushel.
"Our pecan live oak post oak and black jack mast arc the best
that has ever been known m tho county ; hogs aro very plenty most
.every farmer has a full supply for his own family and many of them
Avill have pork for sale and although we are expecting a heavey emi-
gration the probability is that pork will not bo worth more than
from three to four dollars per hundred.
" We aro picking the best crop of cotton that has ever been raised
in the county ; many of tho famers boast that they will pick four
thousand pounds of cotton per acre. The average crop in the county
will be not less than fifteen hundred pounds per acre."
glF" Tho October number of Harper's New Monthly Maga-
zine is on our table. This periodical is one of solid merit and well
deserves the extensive circulation it has obtained. One single article
iii the number before us "Memoirs of the Holy Land" is worth the
iprice of a year's subscription $3.
3gF We have neglected to notice tho election of Mr. Thomas
Glascock as Assessor and Collector for Travis county which
took place at a special election on the 11th ultimo. Mr. G. has
given bond and entered upon the discharge of the duties oi his
office.
gr" Tho District Court for Calhoun conn ty after a session
f of nine days at Indianola adjourned on the 29th ult. Tho Bulletin
says there were fifteen criminal trials " two for assault and battery one
for failing to keep a registry of marks and brands by a butcher one
for selling liquor to a slave and the other 11 we think for gambling
or keeping gambling tables in all of which the parties were found
guilty and generally fiued $10 In the two first cases the fine was
fixed at 100; in the case of the butcher at S150. The latter is a
peculiar caso and may be remitted as the existence of the law requir-
ing all butchers to keep such registry was generally unknown.
The same paper continues " We think we but speak the general
impression of the bar when we say that Judge Jones has despatched
business during this term in iu a satisfactory and business-like way.
As Distuut attorney Mr. Glass has sustained every case in which he ap-
peared aiid displaysd a degree of watchfulness and industry with a
.high-toned fairness highly creditable to him as a lawyer and a gentleman."
ggT Tho Lavaca Commercial says a murder was committed
in the neighborhood of Mrs. Kerr on Lavaca river recently by Robt(
Swan upon the person of Win. Cohan. They were gambling at a
grocery when a dispute arose and Swan stabbed Cohan with a
"pocket-knife killing him instantly.
The same paper says the fall trade of Lavaca has opened with great
activity largo importations of goods are daily arriving to the mer-
chants and the planters are bringing in their cotton and other produce
very freely.
The Commercial says that " Capt. Smith one of the most in-
dustrious and thorough-going traders in the West is now here and
is again fitting up his train for El Paso and Chihuahua and will leave
in the course of a week for that distant regiou. His train consists of
eighteen large mule teams and will be ablo to carry out a large quanti-
ty of goods.
" This is the second trip that Capt. Smith will have made to El Paso
and Chihuahua this year It will bo remembered that ho left here
last spring for El Paso with a train equally as large as the present one
and got through without experiencing any difficulty on tho route.
This proves conclusively that this is by far a more practicable route
than tho one by tho way of St. Louis and Independence as on this
routo you go at all seasons of the year while on the latter you can
only travel duriug tho summer months."
&3gT A passongor who was bo injured by the upsetting of a
stage coach in Virginia as to make him a pripple for life sued the
proprietors of the lino and has recovered $9000 damages. This settles
unimportant principle that tho proprietors of stage lines are respon-
sible to passengers for' the damage done by the carelessness of drivers. :
JJSir" It is now stated positively that tho government; of Ni-
caiagua has unqualifiedly rejected the basis of a treaty entered into
between Mr. Webster and the British Minister at Washington Mr.
Crampton relative to that country.
jjggr About the 18th tiltimo the States of Georgia and South
Carolina and the upper counties of North Carolina were visited l)y
the heaviest storms of wind and rain ever known iu that country
The water courses everywhere were higher than they have been
within the memory of any living inhabitant and the damage done in
the destruction of crops on the bottoms the washing away of bridges
mills factories Sec is beyond computation. All our exchanges from
those States are filled with sad details of losses by the Hood extend-
ing from the ricefields on the seaboard to the mountains. The rail-
road bridge between Charleston and Columbia was washed away and
the damage to the Columbia and Greenville road is immense. So ex-
tensive bus been the destruction of the corn crop that it is feared
much suffering will be the consequence in some sections of the conn-
try. i
GSgP A great advance has lately taken placo in the !New
York market in the price of wines brandies currants and raisins in
consequence of news of a failure in the crop of fruits in the Levant
Sardinia France Spain aud Madeira.
63gr The Trustees of the Indianola and Guadalupe railroad
company had a meeting at Indianola on the 20th ultimo at 'which
tho following board of Directors was chosen : Col. Wilkins Hunt
Capt. Jesse O. Wheeler -and John D. Logan of Victoria- and Jacob
Maas Dr. Joseph II. J3aldridgc Wm. H. Woodward and Col. C. A.
Harper of Indianola. At a subsequent meeting of. the Directors Col.
C. A. Harper was elected President John Henry Brown Secretary
and Henry Beaumont agent.
$3gf The exact majority of Rcid tho democratic candidate
for Governor at the late election in North Carolina as shown by the
official returns is 5491 votes.
'
gF" A call has been issued at Now York for a Kational
Union Convention to nominate Mr. Webster for the Presidency. It
is signed by Hon. M. P. Gentry of Tennessee George T. Curtis of
Massachusetts and other distinguished whigs from various parts of
tho Union.
(SHr The Hon. J. H. Stephens lately made a speech at At-
lanta' Georgia in which he declared himself for Mr. Webster for
President. Although an ardent whig he is as ardently against Scott;
said Gen. Pierce is sound on the slavery question but was the nomi-
nee of a. convention hence he could not support him. " While J"
said Mr. S. " was stumping in Georgia for the Union and the com-
promise in 1850 Gen. Pierce was stumping in New Hampshire iu
favor of the same measures." With suuh a champion against him
Scott's vote in Georgia cannot be dangerously large.
13!?" A new plan for scaring cattlo off the railroad track has
been adopted by the Conductor on the Charlotte and South Carolina
railroad. A man stands on the front of the engine car with a gun
loaded with small shot with which he shoots the cattle in the flank
or rump and they not ouly get out of the way in quick time but
ever after take to their heels when they seo the train approaclnug.
Hgir Tho Hon. Daniel Webster and Mr. G. B. Duncan have
sued the corporation of Now Orleans for a fee of fifty thousan dollars
for attending to the celebrated Gains suit against the city.
3ir Mr. Loroy Springs a merchaut of Charlotte North
Carolina on his way North to purchase goods was robbed at the
Baltimore depot of the Philadelphia railroad on tho 8th ult. of $1900
in bank bills.
The Nueces Valley has intelligence from Laredo to the effect that
the Indians ure very troublesome on tho Rio Grande. Tiey had kill-
ed several men on the route from Laredo to Monterey. Th9 Valley
says:
" News of Indian outrages pour in Upon us from every quarter. A
Mexican arrived here on Wednesday having several very severe ar
row wounds which ho received from a baud of nine or ton Indians
about forty miles from this place. He was engaged in Mustangiug
iu company with two others one of whom was killed on the spot.
"A sergeant arrived hero from Los Ojuelos on Thursday night
and reports that ho found the mail-rider from this place to Laredo
lying in the road about fifty miles from here severely wounded by
arrows. Tho Ader was a Mexican and left here on Sunday last.
Tho Boldier not understanding .Uio language was imubJp to gather
any particJeyjmd jjjgt tjw jwU had begn stolen;!. ": ''...' .'
1 Y. V"f . otohflxfc. Stat0 Gazotto.
Democratic Meeting in Genial s tosnty.
On the 24th of Sept. J 852 the democrats Of Gonzales county assem-
bled in considerable numbers nt the courthouse with a view of organ-
izitig for the purpose of getting out the democrats of this county to
Uio polls on tho day of the election and thus secure a largo majority
in this county for Pierce and King; whereupon Wiley V. Collins ynjs
called to the Chair and A. Jones elected Secretary of the meeting'."'?.
The democratic Elector Maj. R. $ Neighbors then addressed 'tho
meeting in a zealous and sensible manner and moved thatthe Circu-
lar pf the Democatic Stale Central Committee bo then" read after
Which tho meeting proceeded to disappointment of a county commit-
tee consisting of John T. Tinsloy A. S. Miljor John Moonoy' B'orijS-
min Weeks Wm. K. Hargis Wm. II. Stewart W. ness Jo'iie.
Doct. Lockridgc Thomas J. Pilgrim "ty. V. Collins A. Jones 'Jonn.
Burleson S. B. Conley Wm. Rupe A. II. Jones Jatncs Hodg'es.
Wm A. Matthews H. Askey H. Eggleston T. M. Dennis' &S.
Cobb James M. Butler Charles Braohes It. T. Bar'uetf Morrjs
May Jamca A Barnett John G. King sr.' J. C. Cooksey' Andrew
Lockridgc R. M. Davis and T. N. Waul. ' ' .
Resolved That any fivo of tho county committee with tho.chair-
man shall constitute a quorum. ' . .!
Resolved That tho Secretary of the meeting furnish tlio Secretary
of the State Central Committee with' the names of1 the coulnty com-
mittee and their chairman;' and that he notify those membera of "tfe
committee not present of their appointment.. ' v-ttr
Resolved That the Secretary furnish tho .State Gazette with a
copy of tho proceedings of the meeting for publication. ' . ' "
On motion the meeting then adjourned '' ""
W. y. COLLittS Chairman. .
A. Jotn:s Secretary. " " ' -
NoTn.-Aftcr tho adjournment of the meeting tho commicteomct
and appointed John TTinsley as their chairman and Wmi H.Stow-
artios their Secretary j. and adjourned to meet at tho cpurthousejon
the 18th of Oct. at 10 p' clock A M. . . ".
' Wm. H. Stewaut Sec'y of Committee.
For tho Tcxds State bazottci1
' " Tribute of Respect. ' "V'TmSJ
" Without controversy great ate tho mystorie9 of Godlinoss.'J ' !
Tho abovo is fully voriflqd in the removnl of our beloved brother John B.
Gill'mm from this to aauulcnown world. Ho deported this life at the re'sldence
of Mr. E. D. Barnett in tho Town of Bastrop on tho 10th inst'.' at 'oldven
o'clock P. M. thereby depriving us of a worthy membor of our order and-lii
parents brothers and slstars of mn atrectionato son and brother. Wo as his
brothers ean say to his disconsolate and bereaved family bo yo reconciled for
it is tho doings of tho great Architect above; and as your son and brother has.
soared alofi on golden wings to that worfd from w'henoe no traveller retunis
and will bo guarded and protected by that Spiritual division riot made with
hands eternal in- tho heavens you his greatest care oniearth should not eon.
row as thoo who havo no hope. We therefore say to you take courage ana
bo yo also ready for you know not nt what hour Ho who rules all things may
say to you come hither and give an account of the decd3 done in thobody;
therefore bo It i d
Resolved That the members of this Division colloctively and individually
tonder Qur( cordial sympathies to the sorrowlnjr family and rolatives in their
deep nliction hoping they may receive consolation from the saureefword
which says " tho day will come vhon this corruptible shall put on ineorrupti-
blb and this mortal immortality." .' tr
Resolved That wo wear tho usual badge of mourning thirty days.
Resolved That tho pnronts of our deceased brother bo furnished witha.oopy
of these resolutions and that a copy bo forwarded to the !?tato Gazette fdr'pub-
lication with a request that tho South Western American and 'Woslqynn
wanner copy. a. W ." 'AKMS' W. PI
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E. P. Petty It. S.
Telegraph' Items. '""
The Fisheries. Boston. Wednesday Sept 29. Captain
Bell tho commander of the British frigate Devastation sta-
tioned on tho fishing banks has written a letter to thoGover-
nor of Prince Edward's Island stating that the American fisher-
men are flocking in vast numbers to tho fishing grounds" in the
neighborhood und that the greatest exertion of tlio authorities
is required to keep a check upon their intrusion. ..
Indian Affairs Japan Expedition tfasliinglon. WebTties-
day Sept. 2d. Tho Shawnee delegation havocoucluded(their
business with tho Indian Bureau. Tho government pnyg tljem
$88000 to bo distributed among tho people of their triboM"
Orders have been issued for tho removal of tho Menominees.
to the new home assigned them in tho WeBtem regions of "Vd8-
cousin. . ' ;
The Government is engaged energetically in forwarding .the
Japan expedition and it will now proceed with tho least poasi-
blo delay. - - i
Cuban Expedition. Nexo York Sept. 29. Tho Ileraldj this-
morning contains a letter from Col. Gonzalez in which thollat-
ter denies that tho Cuban sympathizers contemplate a '.' Lopes
expedition" against tho Island. ' .se'
jyew York Marlcet.Neu) YorJc Sept. . 29. The Cotton
market is yet quiet and prices unchanged. The steamer's news
has had no effect on tho market. ' I "u
Washiton Scpt22.t
'The Gardner Case. Revelations before the committee. for tho.in-
veBtigatiou of tjie Gardner fraud implicate another party than Secre-.
tary Corwin iu that fraud. Much excitement exists in consequence '
of reports in this regard. ' '
Galveston Canal. Wo learn Irom Capt. Hitchcock that $io
wprk on tho Galveston canal is rapidly progressing. Capt.
Bradly has excavated tho canal moro than two-thirds of jtho '
uibiuucu lrum mo uuy to vjyawr uuyou ana expects to reacn
tiie bayou in a few weeks. Tho committee has determinedto..
extend tho cat
bavou. which
Itouston Telegraph.
Ugr0 Hon. R. Scurry member of Congress for the eastern
district ot Texas arrived in town on Monday last. Ho "pro-
ceeds directly to the eastern part of the State. Houston Teh
Frost. There was a severe frost extending through. the wh'6)e-.
of Columbia county N. Y. on tho 13fh September. Hous-
ton. Telegraph. ' ';
An exchango telU the story of a preacher who in a late sermon ol.
served that it was a striking proof of the wibdom and benovolenceTpf
Providence that death was placed at the end of life thus giving
time to make the necessary preparation for that sad event. The same-
paper says this calls to mind the profound remark of a philosopherwlio
admired the arrangement of placing Sunday at the end of the week
instead of the middle which would have made a broken week of it!
There is a great deal of wisdom in these two remarks.
KUABBDB '""'"
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On the 3d inst. by the Rev. Edward Fontaine Wathinglon X HM to Jl-f..
Mary J. Jlervty both of this city. ' f
On tho 23rd September 1832 at tho residence of Mr. M. F. .'Alexander iu
Washington county Texas by 'tho Rcjv'. Hugh WUsonVirf.VantiiJi'MiM of
MetnphU-'Tmnn;to JJffw Virginia F.y6ingot datight5rTofMriRGb"ecboMuN
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