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THE MAS STATO IjAZMiI
ffiEXAS STATE GAZETTE.
MAT 13
t 'Edited hy WOT. 'll. SCUKIIY and J. IV. HAMPTON.
OITY OF AUSTIN SATURDAY MAY 13 185A.
Mlmrs. Editom! A e-oodly naraler or the cltliens of Travis county haying confidence In tho
Integrity ami qualifications of Mil. FItANK llltOWN Are solicitous tlmt lie should permit the
uie of hi rmrno as Candidate for District Clerk of said county; the sincerity or wlioie desire
thcr will prove on Ihe day of election.
Austin May 12 IBM. MANT VOTKItS.
Kditohs 8riTB OitnTs: Experience lias proven that the ofllce of Magistrate Is n very lm-
portanteno to the peace and welfare of the community ; wo should therefore nt the next
clcctlcu choose such men and such only ni will properly All the office. With this view n
nambri-of cltltcns after consultation respectfully request you to announce Jon T. Aujtx fcj.
and 1). J". CinTED Ksq. as candidates for the ofllce the city being entitled to two or more.
MANV CITIZENS.
Wo are authorised and requsled io announce T. M. nbACKWEI.T Esq. as a candidate for'
the office of Sheriff of Travis county nt the approaching August election.
We are authorised to nnnouncc JOSIAII D. I1I10WN Esq. as a candidate for Justice of the
Feace for Austin City at the ensuing August election.
We are authorized to announce JOHN I). COSTA n candldato for re-election to the ofllce of
ChlcMustlco of Travis county at the ensuing August election.
We are authorized to announce JOHN M COSTI.V a candidate for re-election to the ofllce of
Clerk ol the District Court of Travis county at tho ensuing August election.
Wo are authorized to announce ASHFOIID D. McOIMj a candidate for re-election to the ofllce
ef Clerk of the County Court of Travis county at tho ensuing August election.
Wo ore aulhorlzcd'lo announce OEOrtQE W. SCOTT a candidate for re-election to the oftlco
ef Sheriff of Travis county at the ensuing August election.
EST" Wo are authorized to nnnounco JAMES H. SHAW a candidate for re-election to the
ofllce of Comptroller of the State of Texas at the ensuing August election.
37" We aro authorized to announco JAMES H. RAYMOND a candidate for re-election to
the ofllca of Treasurer of tho State of Texas at the ensuing August election.
31" Wo are authorized to announce II. L. UPSHUR the present District Eurveyor of Travis
District as a candidal for re-election nt the rnsuing election in August next.
3f We are authorized and requested to announce FRED TATE Esq. of F.nyettc county n
candidate for District-Attorney of the Second Judicial District nt the ensuing August election.
1ST We are authorized and requested to announce ALEXANDER II. CHALMERS Esq. as a
candidate for re-electhn to the ofllce of District-Attorney for the Second Judicial Disfrict.
W Wo are authorized to announce JAMES T. McLAURIN a candidate for the office of
Assessor and Collector of Travis county at the ensuing August election. 8.2
tW Wo are authorized to announce Mr. A. U. DUItl.ESON as a candidate for Assessor and
Collector of Taxes for Travis county at the ensuing August election.
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rjj5" See advertisements of Messrs. Cardwell and Hopkins J. N.
Rosenberg & Co. Mr. Francis &c.t&c to be found in the appropriate
column.
Q- A. F. James Esq. is our agent at Galveston. Our accounts
for that city have been made out and sent to Mr. James to whom we
hope those indebted thero will make payment. If there should tie
errors in'nny ol thoso accounts or those in tho hands of any'of our
agents they will be instantly and cheerfully corrected. We say this
because in keeping several thousand small accounts errors may Le
naturally expected to occur. "
Mr. Rodert Guilders Elm Creek Falls countyis an agent for
tho Gazette.
Mr. James P. Railkt is authorized to act as travelling agent for
shington county is autho-
the'Gasette.
E. A. Thomson Esq.. of Gay IIjlJ;'
rized to actus a travelling agent fortlielGazeite.
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jKf "We read with deep regret last weok the announcement of the
dcath of Amjert P. Posey Esq. editor of" tho LaGrango Monument.
Mr. P. was a graceful bold writer n man of 'gentle manners and
kindly sympathies. Our limited acquaintance with Mr. P. had caused
us to form for him personally a very warm attachment and we an-
nounce his death with sincere sorrow.
Tho office of the Monument h for sale. La Grange is a position
we think in which a well-conducted paper might be made profitable.
Kr " The Shelby Revillc" is tho title of a new paper just started
at Shelbyville Texas edited and published by J. F. Martin. The
Rcville is to bo neutral in politics.
Kp- N. H. Munger Esq. of Wharton county is spoken of as a pro.
bablo candidate for Judge of the First Judicial District vice Judo-e
Townes resigned. -
Kp- R. T. Brownrigg Esq. hns been chosen by the City Council
of;&ueliti to fill the office of City Attorney for tho current year.
B7 In a letter to the editor of tho Galveston Civilian Richard
S. Walker Esq. declines being a candidate for Attorney General
at the ensuing election. So as yet Col. Jennings has no opposition
ttJ" Wo copy in another part of this paper an article from the
JElouston- Telegraph noticing and commenting upon a recent speech
of General Houston delivered in that city in justification of his vote
against the Nebraska-Kansas bill in the Senate of tho United States
We shall next week publish the speech of General Houston made
in the Senate on this bill. Wo have rend this speech with a sincere
desire to approve the views of General Houston could wo honestly
do so for his past services entitle him to a fair and candid hearing
and liberal judgment from the people; but we must confess our deep
disappointment in the effort. It is certainly very singular that the
question should have impressed itself upon the mind of Gen. Houston
as it did while every other Southern Senator cNcept one a
whig took an entirely different view of it and voted differently.
Nor do we consider the speech of General Houston as reported by tho
Telegraph at all Satisfactory as an explanation of his course ; and
the comments of that paper on the speech wo regard as peculiarly un-
fortunate to say the least of them. That the' people almost unani-
mously disapprove of General II 's views is very true in our opinion;
but we cannot believe they have o little independence as to surrender
their right of thought even at the bidding of Geueral Houston much
as they are attached to him.
We are not among those who accuse General Houston in his
course on this question as " courting northern votes for the Presi-
dency" but the remarks of the Telegraph might have the impression
that such was his motive. We do not believe it; and the assertion
that Judge Douglass in introducing this bill was "courting Southern
support" we consider utterly unfounded and in exceeding bad taste
to come from a southern journal. If we of the South on this vital
question ascribe such motives to members of Congress from non-slave
holding States how long will we have a friend in Congress from that
section of the Union ? And'without the aid and support of Democratic
members from the free States what will become of the rights of the
Southend her equality under the Constitution? Such men as Doug-
las and Toucy and Bright and Cass and others have to stand up
in their battle for the Constitutional rights of the South against the
bitter abuse and persecution of fanatics in their own States and are
barely able to maintain their position ; branded as traitors tools of
slavery and burnt in effigy it requires a stout heart to withstand the
storm at home; how ungrateful how cruel how ungenerous then
for southern men to join in the hue-and-cry against them and ascribe
to thpm base and selfish motives for their course! Southern men
should never thus be found strengthening the hands of our deadly ene-
mies at the North and making war upon our friends. We hope the
course of General Houston needs no such aid to justify it before the
people of Texas.
p- The letter from the Hon. Alexander Rossey to the editor of
the Dallas Herald expresses what wo believe to be the truth in re-
lation to the views of the German population of Western Texas on
the subject of slavery. Many of these adopted citizens have them-
selves become tho owners of slaves and if the northern fanatics expect
" aid and comfort" from this source in carrying out their designs
against the South and her institutions they will assuredly be disap-
pointed. The German population of Western Texas forms one of our
greatest and surest elements of wealth and prosperity ; they are'
generally industrious peaceable law-abiding people sincerely attached
to our institutions as they come to understand and comprehend them
and would be the last to embrace and propagate doctrines calculated
to bring inevitable desolation and ruin upon their adopted country.
The insinuation that they are either base or ignorant enough to do so
is a flagrant slander they will not be slow to brand as it deserves.
CP" We notice in the San Francisco Advertiser (California) a
notice of the sale of real estate in that city for the nonpayment of
taxes levied to improve the streets that we think Will strike the citi-
zens of our untaxed or non-tax-payingcity with amazement The
tax on single lots fronting from 120 to 180 feet on the principal
streets rouges from two hundred and fifty to nineteen hundred and
fifty dollars ! And this too only for grading and improving the strtcta
of the city. Here our citizens grumble at paying and some refuse to
pay eight or ten dollars annually for the support of the entire city
government including the improvement of the streets. Is such a
course wise or patriotic'.' The cities and towns of California grow
and improve with a rapidity unparalled in the history of the world
and tho price of real estate keeps pace with the growth of the country
in population and improvement ; the reason is -obvious the people
there net wisely in expending their means liberally to adorn and beau-
tify their towns thereby increasing immensely the value df real estate.
But how is it hero? Look at the condition of our streets and alleys
some almost if not absolutely impassable! Bin why are they so ?
Is it not a fact that many of our citizens not only refuse to pay the
light taxes heretofore levied for the improvement of the city but when
important improvements have been projected by the City Council
have these measures not been violently opposed and successfully too
by large bodies of those who should be the first to support them'.' .
What we need here is an enlarged spirit of enterprise atno.g the peo-
ple and a disposition to firmly sustain tho authorities in all measures
by them deemed necessary for the improvement of the city includinn-
the prompt payment of taxes. Until this state of things comes to
pass our city will continue a thoroughfare of gullies mud-puddles and
hog-sties and cow-pens a disgrace to its title of State Capital.
Editor's Taule.
Beows RnviEW.The April number of this excelleut periodical
is now beforo us Soycral articles in this number are exceedingly in-
tercstlhg. Thai entitled " Mormonism in tho United Slates" is very
ably written though we do not approve of alfthe sentiments of the
writer. Tho article after reviewing tho riso and present condition
of this strango imposture concludes thus :
'Wo look with astonishment at tho progress or this wonderful poonlo.
TransplanUng the institutions of the rnyaiic East imn tho notivo anil prncttoat
Hnv.YVij5inouu neorow Wieooruoy among the backwoodsmen of the
Mississippi Minting tho voluptuous sensuality of tho 0-iental harem with tho
stem virtues and lur-sceiug hrowdnosi of tho American Republican these we
confess are anomalies of -hieli we uaunot deterraino tho result. Shall our
boasted institution bo overturned from an obsouro quurtcr from which wo
now dread no harm? Shall wo witnoss tho rise of a now syt-toin of relit-ion
moro.energetio than Isla.n and more potent than Rome spreading through
oar Western Continent from tho fiozen zone of the north to the JrSzen soup
or the south Introducing theooraoy in placo of republicanism and polygamy
in place of marnago? Has iho world complotod one grand cyclo of bolie? and
aro wede8itned to go back to tho putriarcl.nl ago and to commence thereat
ycaratmv? 1 hoae qut-ries may seem absurd but the generation which has
- ...v v ..V4 tnuf-ims ui Kiurinunism saoniu Hesitate long before it
pronounces what is good sense and what is nonsensewhat is probable and
what is ut-proouble." l
Theso remarks furnish " food for reflection" such as will incite
vSljn action on the port of ohriaiianajond patriots throughout the
Union. -
jGkaii-au's Magazine. Tho May number of Graham has been re-
ceived and is unusually interesting. One single article contained in
thisumber-the histoxy of the American revolution' by Hcatlley is
well worth a dozen subscriptions to Graham. " Napoleon nt St. He-
lena" is also a very interesting article
Wrjteiw DEMoonATic Hbvibw. This is a new political Mnga-
aloe the fourth number of which is now befero.us edited and pub-
hshed at ludinnopolis Indiana by George Buell 3 a year in ad.
vance. This Review ia evidently from the tone o its articles do-
aigncd to bo the organ of tl .'Young America" or progressive
b-?ffftt.f J1? ?emocratlc IT of thp Union oid from the ability
wm? whjoh U is conducted will wo predict exercise a wide-spreud
4uflujuc9SpecioUy amoijg tho YojingrtjpJIjJotaorthojparty. '
p- Wo were presented some time since with several bottles of
wine manufactured in this city from the native Texas grape the
Mustang by D. W. Bicknell. This wine has no intoxicating quali-
ties about it and can be used by the strictest advocate of Temperance.
1 richness of color and flavor it is superior as a table wine or for
the sick to any we have ever seen or tasted Mr Bicknell is an old
hand at wine-making having followed the business many years at
Cincinnati Ohio and is confident that he can make a superior wine
from our native grape which grows in such profuse abundance in
this part of the State; and from the experiment of last Fummer we
think he is not mistaken. Ho should be liberally patrouised and en-
couraged by our citizens. Tho wine can be obtained at his store on
Congress Aveuue.
BSir We understand that George S. Ilnghes Esq. by invi-
tation will deliver an address at the Methodist Church this
evening at candle-lighting. The friends of the cause and tha
public generally are invited to attend.
And it has been suggested that at the close of the address
would be a proper time to organize a meeting and muko an ap-
pointment of delegates to represent Travis county in tho Edu-
cational and Temperance Conventions which are to meet in
Iluntsville near tho same time in next month. The suo-estion
we think a good one and hope to see tho proposed action
promptly carried out.
S3gT' So far as we have yet noticed only some four of our
cotemporaries of the press have spoken out in relation to the
time and place of holding the proposed Editorial Convention.
Thks paper the San Antonio Western Texan and the Himtsville
Jftemtvae in favor of Austin .as the place and the first Monday
in July next as the .time. -The Austin State Times is in favor
of Iluntsville the time the latter part of June. We will en
deavor to keep up a regular record as our brethren express
their views so that an early knowledge of tho time and place
may be had.
ESF Mr. McGee editor of tho Lockhart Clarion has been
in our city for several days of the past week looking in remark-
ably fine spirits as though the Clarion was succeeding to his
heart's content which we hope is the fact. Wo are autho-
rized to say that the Clarion is also in favor of Austin and the
first Monday in July as the place and time for the assembling
of the proposed Editorial Convention .
KF" The Brazoria Planter of the 3d instant contains the fol-
lowing gratifying announcement touching tho Galveston and Brazos
caual : We understand that the Canal was cnmrlPtPil m thn TToef
'Union Bayou on Saturday nigh' so that there was a comminlin"-
of the waters of Galveston Bay and the Brazos river. It will now
take but.two or three weeks wock on the Bayou to straighten and
deepen it when tho work will be completed.
Ep- The Military Court Martial whiph convened here on the loth
ultimo adjourned a few days since Dr. Steiner for whose trial the
Conrt was convened not having appeared before it.
Most it not all the officers attendant upon the Court Martial were
those connected with the different posts in Texas and a more quiet
dignified and gentlemanly body of men in their deportment ii'has not
been our pleasure to meet with on any occasion. We thiuk our fron-
tier fortunate in having such a body of intelligent patriotic officers to
look after its defence all evincing a lively interest in everything that
concerns the peace and welfare of our State and people.
htr Tho last LaGrnnge Monument say6 John H. Vanghan in-
dicted some time since for the murder of Stephen Townsend at Round
Top was tried two weeks ago at Austin county District Court and
sentenced to two years imprisonment in the State Penitentiary.
Tho 6amo paper contains an account of the killing of a Mexican
Lioness on the farm ol Mr. Primm not far from LaGrane on the
IGth ultimo. The animal was of the following size ; From nose to
end of tail 7 feot G inches; height 3 feet ; across the head between
tho ear-points 3 inches : length of hoad from nose to top of the head
8 inches; circumference of fore arm at tho elbow 14 inohes length
of tusk l inches; width of foot 4 inches.
KF The San Francisco Advertiser of the 28th of March kindly
handed us by Mr. Booth contains the following account of the " float-
ing Capital" of California. It 1ms puzzled persons abroad to know
where really the Capital of the Eureka State was located and not
without cause according ;o the Adertiser's account. That paper
says :
It will bo remembered that in 18.11 tho Capital was nt San Jose and it wn
then supposed that it would remain there in pence and quiet: but General Mn-
imuu iuim-jm iiuvmy nunc muueements to the State to Ic
cate at u noutt near
ue i-reseni u. o. .ury yooxat Alaro Island it was resolved in consideration of
these advantages o take up with his offer 5 and the Legialnti.ro consequently
Z VJVnZn8?' ' Wr8.he.r. d0P.!lecl- "fter l brief stay or two1 weeks
hat Genera Vallejo having failed in his stipulations the capital could no
longer remain there. Consequently the Senators and Members puoked up
and in another lortnicht wo I nd thorn comfnrrhi n......i 0 '... "i '
' ' UIIL.IJlI.1i:iI III. ilIIITII IMHI1II .
win-re x no rest 01 tue session was held Anact was. Iiowoi'bi.hr .! Idh
tlie Legislature was 10 assemble on the following yt-ar at Vulleio under thw
supposiuoi that Gen. Vallejo would yet be enable! fo fnini hi" engagement
Accordingly the batons of the State again met nt Vallejo butsliort ly if to-
wards passed an act to remove the seat ol Government to Benooia and by the
second section o that act General Mariano was ceased from the perforrnanca
ugatTons""' hSS? he Sam Ume h "e"ed h0 SUU0 "m i -ndTol-
ah las. years session was Hold at Hon n in nni ti.nrai. i. ..
nioiito Stockton Martinez ban Francisco San Jose'und otl.er nlace
Sncrn-
aces were
Q-p- The Hon. Thomas Bragg of Northampton county has been
nomiuated as tho democratic candidate for Governor of North Carolina.
A first rate selection insuring the triumph of the party in that State
by a majority oft thousands.;
mentioned the Ben.c.ans supposed tliov had at last earned the day Ih t for
fr-.ni it. Ihe Present oar the Legislature reassembled nt Uonecia-the well
known battle between the rivn towns dame off in which the Saoramontan"
bore away the prize and tins time at least it was thou-lit for no oil Yam
thought I Like a will o'-tho wisp the phantom still eludes he grasp 'and by
an unforeseen uircinnstnnoe tho iinfrtii..n.. c 1 ... b""' 1 -"' "J
moored and adrift beforo the storms of el Vrooes . S..oIm?0.0. Tn U""
now firmly established the two branches ffu'w
week by wh eh the Supreme Court is dnected to .old U T. ngs a tl e Ca
mnl-whero in feet the law leqimes they should bo held. Now comes un an
important question-where is the Capital -and after deliberate consul anon
the judges 0 that court decide that the Cupual is at San Jose and fo? "hi "tea"
son: Ihe Act of February 4th 1851. contained certain stipulat ioiw wiiorebV
tho seat of government was to bo removed from San Jose to Valeo Thosl
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