Texas State Gazette. (Austin, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 9, Ed. 1, Saturday, October 16, 1852 Page: 3 of 8
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' ''dST Tho HarriBburg railroad company aroprosoouting their
.i-cnterprizo with tho most commendablo zeal. The last GrilvcMon
Journal says "Letters have been 'received from a very responsible
' house in Boston stating that this road will be completed to tho Brazos
1 by next spring. Two vessels laden With spikes and other materials for
tho road are now on their 'way from Boston. Eight hundred tons of
iron T rails (58 pounds to the yard) Were also to be shipped immediate-
ly to this port from England for tho road."
SEeF" Tho sovereigns of Caldwell county were entertained
-with a very able political discussion during their Court last week by
A. J. Jrlamilton Esq. for the democrats and Judge Caruthers for the
whigs. The speeches on tho occasion on both sides are spoken of in tho
highest terms but our iuformant who is a democrat thinks Mr.
Hamilton got tho Judge 'down" badly The cause each had to
defend would make such a conclusion a very reasonable and natural
one.
S The State elections in New York will soon bo over
and will afford a pretty sure indication of the course that State will
tako in tho Presidential election. Tho democratic candidates are
Horatio Seymour for Governor ; Sanford E. Church for Lt. Govern-
or; Frederick Follett for Canal Commissioner! and Daurius Clark for
State Prison Inspector. The whig candidates are Washington
Hunt for Governor; Wm. Kent for Lt. Governor; Thomas Kemp-
shall for Canal Commissioner and Epenetus Crosby for Prison Inspec-
tor. Gov. Hunt it is acknowledged on all hands is very popular in
tho State and will poll moro than his strict party vote.
5ir Tho very best quality of apples are selling in tho Bos-
ton market at thirty cents per barrel.
BT" Gen. Scott has recently been on a trip through several
of tho western States ostensibly on public business ; but a Cincinnati-paper
says that whilo ho told tho people ho was travelling as a
private citizen he took care to make a speech at every place at which
lie stopped.
3gP The French papers received by tho last arrival state
that Louis Napoleon says he will assume imperial power as soon
as his people express a desire for him to do so ; and they will
doubtless make the request whenever he thinks himself safe in tak-
ing tho step ho has long meditated.
JSBP The last steamer from England brings news of tho
death of the Duke of Wellington the conqueror of Napoleon. He
was to have been buried in St. Pauls with great pomp and ceremony
at the expense of the nation.
221?" The San Antonio Ledger says there are lying in the
Jail at that place eleven United States soldiers charged with pil-
lagiug a wagon loaded with goods belonging to Mr. J. Tt. Sweet on
its way to a western fort.
3gp There has been a cordial reunion effected among tho
democracy of Georgia by tho disbanding of the " Union ' organiza-
tion and enlistment of that party under the banner of the Electoral tick-
et heretofore nominated by tho Southern Rights democrats. This
settles the vote of Georgia beyond a perad venture for Pierce and King.
1 There are now three tickets in the field in Georgia Pierce and King
Scott and Graham and Webster and Jenkins.
USUr The cotton market in Now Orleans at latest dates was
rather dull and prices ranging from 8 to 12 cents. The last Liver-
pool advices show a tendency towards a decline in price iu the
European markets.
.3f Of the fifteen members already elected to the Uiirty-
third Congress seven are democrats and eight are wings in Missou-
ri Iowa Maine and Vermont.
BSgr" The popular majority in tho several States in which
elections have lately been hold stands as follows : In Missouri the
democratic majority is 13408; North Carolina 5491; in Iowa
1757 ; in Maine as far as heard from 31613. The. whig majority in
Vermont is 8459.
jjggr There are very few papers of our acquaintance that
says so many good things in a pleasant way as the Advertiser and
Gazette at Montgomery Alabama. The following very sensible ar-
ticle from that paper we fully endorse from experience and tho last
paragraph of which we respectfully dedicate to the subscribers to tho
Gazette :
" Wo have bnd some of our subscribers to complain ol us for exneting three
dollars for our weekly and six dollars for our tri-wcoUly paper wlieru payment
had not been made etrictly in advancel Tliuy do not seem to appreciate the
difference between a cash und a credit system. Wo deoidodly prefer tho cash
price to the credit price for as the old saying is "a bird iu the hand is worth
two birds in the bush." The cash price in hand will buy paper pay printers
&c wlilc tho credit price out of our hands will do neither. Besides this
difference it is doubtful whether wo will over be able to collect enough of the
u credited" to nvcrago tho cash price. It is a false notion which so mo have
that the difference is put on as interest on our money '' credited out;" this is
erroneous; tho addition is put on to pay for the losses by tho credit system.
For instance we chargo three dollars for our weekly if not paid in advance
nearly that is 331 per cent. Well wo have been in tho newspaper business
twenty years nndour experience so far is that thirty-three nnd a third per cent
is a low estimate of losses by those who novor pay at all. Wo desiro to issue
our paper entiroly on tho cash system and for this purpose have put tho price
lov upon tho prinoiplo of the nimble penny &c and it is optional with our
patrons to avail themselves of either. If they pay in advance all right but
if they do not they must not blame us for asking them to comply with our rates
which aro published in ovory number of tho paper.
From this dato wo want it distinctly understood that in ovory instance we
shall adhero strictly to our published rates nnd in no caso will wo receive the
advance price after ons month from tho commencement of tho subscription
year has.elapsed. 'Ue just and fear not' is our motto.'"
BSr t is estimated that Col. J. B. Gilmer a cotton planter
ill' Caddo Parish Louisiuna will make and send to market this year
. three thousand bales of cotton. The crop on Bed River will be an
enormous one from tho accounts given of it.
KW The Somerville (Tenn.) Reporter of September 25
eayB of tho cotlou crop of Fayette county-" In this part of the
country chunces are decidedly ngaindt making anything like a good
cotton crop; that is so far as we have been able to discover. The
' 'weed ta. largo enough but thero scorns to bo a great scarcity of bolIf
"Wdjthe.lwU-wprmis.doing much. damage hi.8omo places'.' ''
IW The London Morning llovald announces the annexation
6r the Peruvian Islands to thr Main land the Lobos Wands included.
No vessels Sire to be hlloWed to load with jKmub'ht tlfoee Isitihds ox-'
ccpt tinder contract With the Pdfuvlun authorities1 under ffehalty of
seizure and confiscation. -.it-. ...... ..;. ill
Tho Roy. Drv Hawkcs has bcoiv-apppintca Bishop of
Rhode Island. i
IS!?" Tho Michigan State Prison was destroyed by five on
tho 1st instant. '
ISP On tho 1st instant the Memphis and . Charleston rail-
road was completed a distance of twenty-fivo miles from Memphis
ready for the cars and by tho' 1st of November they are expected td bp
running as far as Lagrange.
ttSfT The Muscogee railroad' is now finished and tho cars
running from Columbus Ga. fifty miles and tho connection witli the
Southwestern road will soon bo completed forming a countinuous
line to Savannah.
BSP Tho appropriations for tho bonefit of California; mado
at the late session of Congress amount to $3743143. Thi
pretty liberal nursing on tho part of Undo Sam.
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Correspondence of tho Texas Stato Gazette.
Chicago Illinois September 15th 1852.
My Bear Gazette: Do yon suppose hat I have gone tho way of
all flesh or (lint like many who leave temporarily your delightful cli-
mate I have forgotten you 'midst tho whirlpool of cold luxuries?
Judge me not thus. Often is tho mind carried back to Texas as
being most emphatically the home of the stranger and her people
the friends to the friendless. So far from causing one to forget these
features of Texas a sojourn here tends to impress ns the more strong-
ly with their truth and we recur with the more pleasing recollec-
tions to sweet reminiscences of the sunny South. What a pity that
hundreds and thousands of frozen cracklings who live and move in
these cold regions cannot breathe for a short period the temporizing
and soothing atmosphere of a moro southern clime. They miglu
then become more congenial to tho rest of mankind for whom me
thinks they have at present a most insitniificnnt idea. Cold heads.
and colder hearts with the Almighty Dollar for their God and for-
sooth the unfortunate owner of a slave for their devil they consider
all other portions of creation as mere appendages. "El peso" they
worship with a devotion equalled only in intensity by the hatred they
entertain for slave holders. May the Lord do nnto them as they are
not disposed to do unto the rest of mankind is my prayer.
To post you up in the various ups and downs consequent on a
four thousand mile trip from South to North would bo tedious and
uninteresting. Ec content therefore with a hasty plate and conse-
quently a more easy digestion.
Leaving Austin Texas tint paradise on earth I took the stao-e to
Houston some 180 miles. The mo3t magnificent section of country
the finest crops Hie kindest people and tho most haudsome women
that the northern continent can boast of may be found between Austin
and Galvestou. Leaving New Orleans I took the southern route
calling a halt every now and then for you must know that a " Ca-
manclie just from his home in the far West had no disposition to
continue at roilroad speed but desired to see something of his breth-
ren both black and white air of whom it is unnecessary to say I
found most1 kind und hospitable friendship beaming from every eye
and a heart warm with affection. The southerner is truly the stran-
ger's companion while his home is a resting place for the wearied.
At Charleston I tarried some days partly on business partly to see
more of a place I had then for the first time visited and especially
because it was destined to be my last lingering look for a time at
the sunny South. What would I not give to be this moment in that
warm and socinl circle !
At Washington were to be seen magnates from all partsof the coun-
try each pointing his pole towards his own glorification. If wearied
with the nothingness of lifo ono desired to hear something stnisible
ascertain that no "Abolition Rapper" had the floor and yon had only
to walk into the gallery of tho Senate chamber llow readily do we
mm u suiuuuii to mo apparently mysterious grcainess anu progress
of our country when wo contemplate for a moment tho wisdom the
order and decorum which is there concentrated iu the country's leg-
islation. Although fanaticism will accasionally break forth) yet it
soon becomes extinguished for want of fuel. If fancy craved a more
rough and tumble spoit.it could bo gratified in the other House.
Abolitionists Freesoilers Fire-eaters Rappers and what not were in
constant explosion upsetting (not tables) but pamphlets periodicals
and booko of all kinds; strange interpretations given and stranger re-
sults predicted in regard to this that or the other system of legisla-
tion Finally satiated with all this to which the Red Man you
know is comparatively a stranger I passed on to New York where
I saw tho world and all the rest of mankind" including house ser-
cants a?id Bamum's Museum. Now imagine if you can a Coman-
che in Broudway ! The first idea was to larn where the Grand
Council of War was being held which caused such an immense con-
course of people. All seemed to walk as if for wages (" let the De-
vil take the hindmost) and bent their steps hitherand tlitlier apparent-
ly without other aim or object. But my sheet is full more anon
when time admits. Yours truly
DAN COMANCHE
In the States.
Ojr Dr. Cartwright of Nev Orleans communicates to the Boston
Medical and Surgical Journal an article entitled " Tho Sugar
House Cure for Bronchial Dispeptic and Consumptive Complaints."
It is stated that a residence in a sugar house during tho rolling sea-
son far surpasses any other known means of restoring flesh strength
and health lost by chronic ailments of the chest throat or stomach.
The rolling season is the harvest when tho canes are cut tho juice
expressed and converted into sugar. In Louisiana it commences
about the middle of October and ends at Christmas but is sometimes
protracted into January. Dr. C. says the vapor is most agreeable and
soothing to the lungs und in his own case entirely removed a distress-
ing cough. Ho stood for hours in tho sugar house inhaling the vapor
and drinking occasionally a glass of the hot cane juice. This is a fact
interesting to invalids.
Maine. " It is pretty clear from
Journal of Commerce of Saturday.
tho returns" says tho N. Y.
that the Democrats will' have
a larger majority in the House than the majority of Whig members
elected to tho Senate and that therefore the vacaucies iu tho latter
body will bo filled (on joint ballot) with Democrats which will give
them a majority there as well as iu tho House and insrenso their
majority en joint ballot. Thero being no choice of Governor by the
people Hubard Democrat who hns a very largo plurality over tho
Whig candidate will bo re-elected. Tho Congressional delegation
will stand 3 atid 3. In the present Congress under the old apportion-
ment it stands 3 Whins and 1 Democrats tho number of members
being one greater under the old delegation than underlie new. On
.the whole Uiq.Ktale. is distinctly Demgcrati&V'3' ""
" ' i . : Washiagten dHriHgf' tke Keccss
"Who "Washington correspondent of tho Now York Journal
of Commerce in his letter of tho 17th inst Bays:
"Though CongrcBS is not in session yet tho city is ijo longer
as dull and lifeless as it used to bo during tlo recess. Tho..
public- and privato improvements which arfc g&ing on bo rapid!
ly alone givo tho' city a cheerful aspect. There- aro moro prir-
vato houses now building than thora have over been at any tfnto-
before. Tho north part of tho city which is elevated beauti-
tiful and salubrious is rapidly filling up with good brick houses
Tho government appropriation for new wovksjuere for the pres-
ent year is over a million of dollars.
' The number of govornmont dftices and office-holders iarap-
idly increasing and is constantly tending to an increase. This
must continue- to bo so as long as tho country continues to in-
creaso in population territory commerce and interconrso "with. .
foreign powers. Washington too presents attractions for men
of wealth nnd leisure nnd it is found that every year tho
number of those who with thoir families spend a part of tho
year hero increases. Hero will be. after a while many nation-
al' institutions and monuments of the greatest interest.
The eapitol will itself bo an object of general interest when;
it shall bo completed. Tho liberal appropriations mado fortho-
arrangoment ot tho Congress library is an assurauco that ul-
timately it will bo a library worthyof tho country. Ovor
$80000 woro granted for tho purchase of books during the last
session.
The Smithsonian Institute will after a few years bo able- to.-
extend tho sphere of its operations and its usefulness. Tery
largo additions to its funds aro to bo made by the beneffcence:
of wealthy men now living who have made their wills be-
queathing largo sums to tho Institute. '
Tho National Observatory is already an object of national
pride. Tho Washington Monument now 117 feet high is ihi
progress and with every prospect of being' ultimately comple-
ted according to design. The Jackson Monument will bo erec-
ted in Lafayette Square next winter. .
Every change of administration is a .benefit to the federal
city. It brings to tho city a fresh accession from ovory part of
tho country of men of public spirit and intelligence; and each
administration leaves us substantia! publie and private- im
provements ; anu eacu one contnoutes to tno permanent com-
position of the community and leaves its impress upon itstona
and character.
All political capitals have attracted to themselves population)
and wealth whether tho result of commerce or not and such
will bo the case with Washington as tho Beat of an empires
destined to be greater than any tho world over saw.'
From California.
Our New Orleans exchanges have dates from San Francisco
to the 1st Soptembor. The news is not important. From tho
mines the intelligence is tis encouraging as heretofore thougb
thero does not appear to be that plentinessof large lumps which
formerly obtained.
The books of subscription to tho Sacramento Valley itail--road
Company will bo opened on tho 4th of September at the-
Halfway House nine miles east of Marvsvillo.
The bhasta Conrier contains an account of a destructive fire
at Yreka which occurred on Wednesday last. The loss iB esti-
mated at 50G00.
A train of thirteen wagons arrived at Yreka from the Plains .
on Wednesday 25th. Fivo families camo in with tho train..
They bring intelligence of tho murder of eight men between
Humbolt river and Yreka. It seems that nine itnigrants left
Hnmbolt for Yreka and when within Bix days' travel of the
latter place they were attacked by the Indians and eight of
the party were killed. Tho survivor overtook and camo in
with the train of wagons above mentioned.
The small pox is prevailing extensively among the Indians in-
tho neighborhood of Nevada.
The Supreme Court of California have ordered tho redelive
ry of three slaves to theiv owner out of whose hands they had
been taken; by writs of habeas corpus. Tho intention was to
bring them back to California. A righteous decision I
Important Discoveiie. We noticed says tho Alta California
a few days since tho reception of a letter from Lieut. Moore who-
with a small party had pursued a band of marauding Indians
from Camp Miller on the Fresno to the eastern side of the-
Sierra Nevada mountains. Since then Lieut. M. and bis par-
ty have returned and fully confirm the statement mado in the.
letterthat gold existed on that side of the mountains tho party
bringing with them some fine specimens. They also iound some-
very fertile country on that side well watered and abounding-
in game of an unusually large size.
Panama. The Isthmus is stated to bo healthy notwithstand-
ing previous accounts to tho contrary.
Gold is said to have been discovered in great profusion on the
coast not far from Panama. Samples of the precious ore hayo-
been brought in and its existence appears to be credited.
The San Diego Herald charges that thd Department of- tho
Interior at Washington since Mr. Ewinghas been appointed its .
Secretary has betrayed the greatest ignorance on the subject
of tho Mexican boundary with tho management of which it is.
entrusted An oflicial communication to the American Com-
missioner from tho Department was addressed to him at u San.
Diego Mexico? and was Bix months finding its way to its des-
tination San JDiago California.
In loking over our Panama files we boo it stated in tho Star
in its resum6 of the California news received by the steamer
which brought the mail down that tho cholera had broken out
in Sacramento City and several deaths had occurred. Wo
find no mention of it in the California papers but possibly tlm
intelligence may havo been received atranama verbally
A notorious scoundrel named Robinson known throughput
California by the soubriquet of Yankee Jim was lately captured
near San Diego with two accomplices by i Mexican andhis
wife who had a desporato oncounler with .Robinson. The three
acknowledged that thoy had been horsestealing all along' the
road from Stockton. Tjtoy were tried and convicted. Robin-
son was sentenced to be hung and his companions to a year
each in tho penitentiary. f
A London lotter.to the Mobile Advertiser dated the Othmst.)
8ayflthatadvices from Hamburg mention the failuro.otHhelargo
house of Messrs. Dans Brothers. They havo branch- establish .
'iripiftfl m Mexico and'vP4ariBf Inabilities rumored $2500j000:
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