Texas State Gazette. (Austin, Tex.), Vol. 5, No. 33, Ed. 1, Saturday, April 8, 1854 Page: 2 of 8
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CITY OF &USTIN SATURDAY APRIL 8 1854.
'taff"' W w Buthoflicd to announce JAMCS I. SHAW n candidate for re-election to the
office of Comptroller of .the State of Texas al the cnsulng.August election. .
E8F tVe are authorUed to announce JAMES 11. RAYMOND a candidate for re-election to
Uio offleeof Treasurer 6f the State of Texas nt tho ensuing August election.
VST !"f re authorised to announoo II. I. UPSHUR the present District Surveyor of ravl
District a a candidal for re-election nt tho enduing election In August next.
tsr Wears authorized and. requested Jo announce FHED TATE Esq. of Fayette county a
candidate for District-Attorney of tho Second Judicial District at tho ensuing August election.
3PT" Wears authorised and requested to announce ALEXANDER II. CHAUIKUS Esq. as a
candidate fur re-election to theofflco of District-Attorney for the Second Judicial District.
' HT We are anthorUed to announca JAME3 T. McLAUIUN a candldato for the offlce of
Ittfrflfr and Collector of Travis county nt the ensuing August election. 82
' We Ate authored to announce Mr. A n. BUHI.KSON as a candldato for Assessor and
Collector of Taxes for Travis' county at tho ensuing August election.
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jjThe 1?cwtii State. Gazette has been selected by the i
rtmcut at Washington for tho official publication of
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State De-
yfjlcial publication of the laws
V treaties proclamations &c of tho United Slates Government. .Wo
shall commence tho publication of the lowof the Thirty-Third Con
gress in pur n'extweek's.papei. This will add additional interesUo
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k ourcoiumlis and wolibpe will greatly increase our already large list
Otaupecnuers.
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A Ci0"''We"ra under obligations to Senators Douglass Houston and
' 'Rski.alCho.tlon'.'B. Crnigvof N- C.j for interesting Congressional
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'K TtfeGazetto-will hereafter be published on Saturday of each
Jvveek instead of Tuesday' as heretofore. This change in our day of
.publication Jias been rendered necessary by the present mail arrangc-
Bmbnts and'is more convenient for our county subscribers.
' T?8?v?"he communication from " Sabo" shall appear 'nextf week.
' ' "ri frotn ' utno was;rgceived too late for themsertion of
. msoramuuicatiori in'this number of the'Gazofte.
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Wv " KiltaHs Tabl:
?he March 'numbefpj the omertf$Uutimgfaitei-- is upon
Citable - futUjas usual 'of valuable and'attracdvoarticTes original
our;tab!e
and.eelected
The .Trcicr JDemocraticRcpicw for March is before us and pre-
sents tho following varied arid interesting table of contents : The
;&&? 5Jvkeh question Na 3: Tho constitutional power of Con-
(" greas oycVpublio improvements : Young America and a College for
tlie masses-. Irish genuis No. 1 : The Nebraska Question: Ameri-
can" Humorists. No. 2 an approciatiycessajjupon James Fennimore
J36per:iiw Keforih la England : Editqr&able.
'. Arthur'' Home Magazine for April has been received: This ex-
ciltent Mfgkztaa has lost none of its usual attractiveness. The Angel
6t the Hpusiehpld is.ephtinued'in itj and makes one's eyes Aprilish in
'tfcsir habits; sflilles and tears alternately chasing; each other iu its
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:'BJ Wej would call .attention to the notice of the' Chief Justice
'' sus tote citizens of Travis county to be found iu our ad.-
Iigofliluniiu. Wc hope that there will be a full attendance of
ftftfiiMuijjpuQ different sections of the county as they would be
.!& to furnish 'thweourt -with valuable information as to the best
'tao3'ef dividing tho county into school districts. This is an im-
iwrtant matter itr which all are interested and should bo promptly
iKttendei .toi . " -f -
V.fij? W take pjeasure in announcing J. 13. Shaw and J. H.
kjfEayraoadirEsqrs. candidates for re-election to the offices they have fill-
lilfe' stveral years past with so much credit to themsolves and bene-
.t.w ine wuoie state. Eio state m the Union can boaat of morn cnm.
tt and faithful officers than the gentlemen alluded to. 'Xhe im-
?Mtiit audonroH8 extra-official duties so frequently imposedjupon
Mwsrs.Shmw and Raymond by tho' legislature and. for which they
i.gsjt iio additKHial pay hava eyer been promptly and efficiently .per
formed ad-too 0;nehaving business at either of their offices ever goes
away without being forcibly impressed with the fact that they are
tialy.fwiuently qualified for tho positions they occupy bnt that
feiy.tM always obliging and courteous in the discharge of their offi-
jBwiauues. we nppeito see tnem reeiecteu uy suciia vote as will
fjt&f tobem thatth people of Texas properly appreciate.the services
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iitkftil jpublio servants.
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lyTfe Watoriaus Dr. Armstrong was brought back from San An-
mjjj i triad before J ustice Allen on Monday last upon a charge
'iMA1 tlinS. There not being sufficient evidence in the opinion
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W$jpf Juatie la bind hii over to the District Court he was dis-
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Tfcf MftU frn "The States."
';' We see hf the New Orleans napers that efforts aro making in that
1 ttetLa daily mail to Galveston. This is certainly a move-
aBt of Yrgreat importance to the whole State of Texas. The pre-
Yseiit wail waHementb amount to.a grievanoe nothing elso and we
v (ve long been expecting a movement to bo made in our State euch
& wottkl indjiice the gineral government to do us justice. We have
Ktwie;hed ir; va however; and now that our New Or
waicd
A'ffWf wttfl lvo taken up the matter it.js certainly our interest to
c gflcond their cfforS4prbmptly We obsarve in tho last Western 'lex-
hatJf nieetingujo beld. in San Antonio to consider'the
;;HlHatoyght we not tojiavo a similur meeting U Austin and is
JVii&t T Bastron. La G-rnn Rrnlmm T.wlna.wla.n "Ur.ui.;..r
'ftIpuatonVHuntsville and other towns interested m the subject siif-
at Washington
5ien!y tpsiiul up to tho PostQffico Dorament
fPrP?8Pa 01 "Afm08 relative to it ?t Prompt action may
- us pur '8W-r wM-JViircertaluly(Jeavu8iin.our present con-
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f- The President's Message on tho Black Warrior affair is exciN
ihg ai very general commentary from the newspaper press of the
Union. A majority of th'em wo believe concur in regarding it as a
manly and appropriate expression of the Executive opinion and sus-
tain his action in tho premises Bcekingas he docs from Congress those
powers which will enable him should Spain fail to make reparation
for tho wrong committed to redress tho grievance and vindicate the
national honor. ' Tho timid and conservative old fogies however af-
feet to believe that its bold and decided tone will conjure up " Gor-
gons and chimeras dire" portcntious of innumerable evils to the coun-
try and threatening its future peace; they regard its unequivocal lan-
guage as the sure precursor of an aggressive war upon the rights of
Spain with nothing to justify it save our own lust of dominion and
love of territorial aggrandizement. Tho Young America party en the
contrary speak of it as a rather tame and insipid affair largely want-
ing in the fillibustering pluck and go-ahead vim which characterize
their own couusels. They indulge in pompous and high-sounding
denunciations of Spain and talk largely of the tameness of the Exe-
cutive under wanton outrage. The only way to have settled the
matter satisfactorily to them was for the President to assume the
kingly prerogative and to declare war upon his own hook regardless
of the prohibition which vests the war making power in Congress.
Their bile is stirred amazingly because Gen: Pierce did not commence
negotiations by bombarding Havanna with our naval batteries. This
is certainly a progressive age. The President is censured for declining
to usurp powers vested in a co-ordinate branch of the government
and resorting to the means pointed out by the constitution for the re.
dress of a grievance by a foreign state. According to this logic the
Isrealites were not so stupid after all in desiring a king to reign over
them. v
It is with no small degree of surprise we must confess that we find
the Galveston Journal ranging itself on tho side of the fast men.
Wo had been so long accustomed to regard the easy tempered and
amiable gentlemen who preside over the editorial columns of that
Journal as among the antirprogressives who hunger after the " flesh
pots' of tho past and sigh for those halcyon days of conservative
inertness in the management of our foreign relations when the coun-
try writhed under the sluggish administration of Mr. Fillmore. We
had as much' expected' to have seen an iceberg in a blaze of fire as
that peace-loving Journal grow bellicose. The unexpected ignifica-
tion of the icicle came oyer us with a sensation akin " to being stir
red with the North Pole" so quiet cool and dignified were they dur.
ing that administration when outrage after outrage was perpetrated
upon American commerce and American citizens by the Cuban au-
thorities and our government either silently approved or supinely
passed it by. What is it that has wrought this wondrous change in
the opinions of the Journal ? Can it be that a recent initiation into
the mysteries of the order of the Lone Star has opened their eyes
to an easy and pleasant manner of "subjugating foreign territory"
.and' converted them to the creed of the fillibusters? Whatever may
4iave been the cause the change is an extraordinary one. If we are
not mistaken the editors of the Journal were m6inbers of a party who
used to denominate Mr. Fillmore as " the model President" for what
reason we never could ascertain except it was that in the adminis-
tration of public affairs he resembled those ingenious' little contrivances
called models" by which inventors are in the habit of illustrating
the uses to which their discoveries may be applied but which are en.
tirely unavailable for any practical purpose and thus furnished his
admirers a similar model by which to illustrate their views of what
a President should be when they obtained the genuine article. We
suppose a3 Mr. Filmore was only thfc model and Mr. Pierce is the
actual bona fide President that the Journal sees no in
consistency in eulogising the former for the vast amount of nothing
done and effected by him and denouncing for its want of energy the
bold and decisive course pursued by the latter.
In our own view the course of the President was eminently judi-
cious. Before proceeding to extremities the whole subject should
be thoroughly elucidated. Firm and decided in its tone the message
is-at the same time characterized by that moderation which is ever
tho offspring of a calm judgement. We greatly prefer that ho should
thus act within the forms of the constitution in seeking redress than
usurping with a reckless and despotic hand powers and responsibili-
ties that are not within the province of his position. He proposes to
afford Spain an opportunity to repair the wrong inflicted but should
sho fail' to make reparation and permit the demand for redress to go
unheeded he would hold her to a swift and rigid accountability de-
claring that he will not fail to use all means placed at his disposal by
Congress to enforce that demand and vindicate the national honor.
What morecould any friend of Constitutional government demand
K On Monday last a rencounter took place in' the streets of our
city between a man by the name of Guinn and Captain Grumbles
which resulted in the shooting of Guinn by Grumbles with a double
barrell shotgun. It seems that on Saturday evening previous there
was a drunken misunderstanding between the parties at which Guinn
was very much incensed aud threatened the. life of Grumbles.
Guinn continued his threats until Monday when Grumbles again
coming into town Guinn saw him and told him that " if he Grumbles
was a gentleman to go aud arm himself that ho himself was armed
that Grumbles had insulted him aud ho would have satisfaction.
Grumbles told him ho was sorry for having insulted him but took
him at his word and proonred a gun and took his position in the
retail. grocery of John Horan and as Guinn crossed tha street from
tho Swisher hoiiso to Glasscock's grocery with a double-barrelled
shot guriin his hands Grumbles shot him. Guinn received some 12
or s13 shot jho most of them in his thigh. It is thought that. ho will
recoveries none of tho wounds are considered very dangerous. Grum-
bles was before Justico Allen on Tuesday evening wheti the txami-
nation of the affair was commenced. Wo aro informed that tho Jus-
tice recqgnised the defendant to appear at the next term of tho JEis-j
trict lfe' hond for a thousand 'dollars; Mesarohn A. Green
arid.Tfinejsou appeared for the defence aiidMessrsrBrownrigg
arid'ej6t.br tho Stated
Special Legislation.
' ' At tho close of the late Legislature wc briefly referred to tho enor-
mous disproportion between the general and the special enactments of
the session. In looking over the proceedings we are again forcibly
struck with tho multitude of bills passed for local and special purposes.
The fratners of our constitution did not conceive of tho wide and in
tense feeling that has arisen in the State in regard to railroad improve-
ments and the extravagant demand that would in consequence be en- .
gendered for acts of incorporation or they never would have fettered
the Legislature by a provision which requires every such demand to
bo separately provided for " shingling the State all over with incor-
porations" of an endless diversity of powers and privileges. Nor has
this wholesale grant of special charters stopped with grants to com-
panies for tho construction of railroads but school houses lodges
academies and toll bridges colleges and shipping companies all
sought and nearly all succeeded in obtaining charters. If the thing
progresses much farther it will become necessary for " each man to
be any body to get himself incorporated."
This monstrous and cumbrous mass of specialties is becoming a
serious evil and should be remedied. It is bevond tha reach of tho
action contemplated for lbs commissioners appointed to codify our
laws. Tho evil is inherent in the constitution and can only be reach-
ed through the medium furnished by that instrument hself. The con-
stitution should be amended so as to permit the passage of general
laws upon most of the subjects now demanding special legislation.
By so doing we shall abtidge the sessions of the Legislature by one
half and relieve it of those local bills which the representative feels
bound to nurse for popularity sake and to whose passage he but too
often sacrifices larger interests and more comprehensive laws. A re-
form in this matter is seriously needed and the sooner it is begun the
better. At the last session there were ninety eight general laws out
of which all but about twelve were local in their operation while
there were one hundred and eight special laws. The following lisi
comprises the special acts in relation to railroads:
A bill to incorporate the Brazos Branch Railroad Company.
An act amending 1st 4th Gth and 17th sections of an act incorpo.
rating the Brownsville and Rio Grande Railway Company.
An act to incorporate and amend the Buffalo Bayou1 Brazos and
Colorado Railroad Company.
An act supplemental to an act incorporating the Buffalo Bayou
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Brazos and Colorado Company.
A bill to authorize the assignment of land certificates to the 'Buffalo
Bayou Brazos and Colorado Railroad Company.
An act to incorporate and amend the Colorado Valley Railroad
Company.
A bill to incorporate the Columbia Wharton and Austin Railroad
Company.
An act supplemental to an act to establish the Galveston Houston
and Henderson Railroad-Company. " "H..
A bill to incorporate the Gilmer and Sulphur Springs Railroad
Company. r - .
A bill to incorporate the Gulf Coast and Austin City Railroad
Company.
An act amending and supplementary to an act incorporating tho
Henderson and Burkville Railroad Company.
An act to incorporate the Jefferson Railroad Company.
An act supplemental to an act to incorporate the Jefferson Railroad
Company.
An act to amend and Incorporate the Memphis and El Paso and
Pacific Railroad Company. " l ""
A bill to provide for the construction of the Mississippi and Pacific
Railroad.
An act supplemental to an act for the incorporation and extension
of the New Orleans Texas and Pacific Railroad Company and the1
New Orleans Algiers and Opelousas Railway through Texas.
And actsnpplemental to an act for the extension and establishment
of the New Orleans Texas and Pacific Railway-. Company and tho
New Orleans Algiers and Opelousas Railway through Texas.
A bill to incorporate the Sabine and Rio Grande Railroad Company.
An act supplemental to act supplemental to act to incorporate tho
San Antonio Railway Company.
An act to incorporate the Tyler and Dallas Railroad Company.
An act supplementary to an act to incorporate the Tyler and Dallas
Railroad Company. '
2J" Tho last Western Texian says it is reported in that city that
the Hon. James Webb of Corpus Christi has been elected. Judge of
the 14th Judicial District a new district formed by the last Leisla
ture and composed of the counties of Nueces Refugio Goliad
Karnes and San Patricio. We know not who Judge Webb's oppo-
nent was or whether he had an opponent ; but in his election tho
people of the district have done themselves and the State much honor.
Judgo W. is an ornament to his profession and will make a Judge
of whom his district aud the State may justly be proud.
(Ep Tho Mayor and Aldermen of Huntsville in their zeal for tho
improvement of their town are growing barbarous in their infliction
upon some of the inhabitants. They were guilty of introducing
water into the premises of the editor of the Item recently and he
justly regarding it as an infraction of his legal rights to force- so uth-
welcome a visitor into his household contemplates? consulting us in
relation to the mattery We certainly regard the conduct of the cor-
poration as atrocious and "cruel. Uhe editor's' antipathy to water
should have proteoted him against so wanton an outrage and the
inhuman perpetrators are liable to presentment by ibe gsand Jury
under the statute punishing cmelty to animals.
KT The San Antonio Ledger says that Mr." '(5. F. King of thai
city has been appointed deputy Collector and Inspector of the dis-
trict of Saluria for the port of San Antonio and adds that Mr. K-
will make an excellent officer.
rvBSP The editor of the Huntsville Item says his growing crops have
been injured by being flooded with water. We have always under-
stood that water was very destructive to whiskey blossoms.
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Scurry, William R. & Hampton, J. W. Texas State Gazette. (Austin, Tex.), Vol. 5, No. 33, Ed. 1, Saturday, April 8, 1854, newspaper, April 8, 1854; Austin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth81129/m1/2/?q=Lamar+University: accessed June 9, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History.