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TEXAS STATE GAZETTE.
AUGUST
5.
Ir
THE' TEXAS STATE GAZETTE.
Edited ly JOHN ITIAnSIIAliti nntl WOT. R. SCUISKV.
OITY OF AUSTEN" SATURDAY AUGUST 6. 1864.
We nre authorized to annuowice the non. THOMAS J. JENNINGS n cnndldato nt the ensuing
Agut election for re-election to the office of Attorney-General of the State o( Texai.
V?6 are nuthorUed to announce Mr. E. B. UEIUtY as n candidate for Sheriff or Travli county
at the Augutt election.
We ore nuthorlted to announce QKOROR S. HUGHES Iq. aa a candidate for Juitlco of the
l'cace for the city of Aiulln at the enaulng August election.
We are nulhorlr-l to announce OZWIN WILT.CO.Y Eq. an a candidate for tho office of
County Treasurer at the approaching August election.
We are authorized to announce N. W. BATTM5 Eq as a candidate for the office of District
Attorney of the ThlrdsJudlclat District.
Wo nro AUthorlieirR nnnounco JOHN T. ALLAN liq. aa a candidate for Justice of the
rcacefor the city or Austin at the August election.
Wo are authdrlzcd to announce JOHN N. HOUSTON E. as a candldato for District Attor-
ney of the Third Judicial DIstrijt at the ensuing August election.
We nre nutnonzca 10 announce isuwauu mwkiw Esq. oh a. canuiuaio ior uoumy ireaourcr
at the next election.
fW We aro authorized to nnnounco FRANK DROWN as a cnndldate for the office of Clcrr
of the'Dlstrlct Court of Travis county at the approaching August election.
We nre authorized and requited to announco I. M. HLAOKWEI.L Esq aa a candidate for
tho office of Sheriff of Travli county at tho approaching August election.
Wo nro authorized to nnnounce JOHN D. COSTA a candidate for re-election to tho office ot
Ohlof-Justlco of Travis county at the ensuing August election.
We aro authorized to announce JOHN M. COSTLY n candldato for re-election lo the offico ol
Clerk ol the District Court of Travis county at tho ensuing August election.
We aro authorized to announco ASHPOltl) D. McQILL a candidate for reelection to the offici
of Clerk of tho County Court of Travis county at the ensuing August election.
Wo aro authorized to nnnounco OEORQK W. SCOTT a candidate for re-election to the offici
of She iff of Travis county at the ensuing August election.
3ff Wo aro authorized to announco JAMES ll. SHAW a candldato for re-election to the
effico of Comptroller of the State of Texas at tho ensuing August election.
EST We nro authorized to nnnounce JAME3 II. RAYMOND n candldato for re-election to
the otnee of Treasurer of the Stato of Texas at the ensuing August election.
X3T We nre authorized to nnnounco H. L. UPSHUR the present District Surveyor of Travis
District as a candidate for re-election nt tho ensuing electiou in August next.
37" Wc aro authorized and requested to announco FRED TATE Esq. of Fayette county a
candidate for District-Attorney of the Second Judicial District at the ensuing August election.
dc7' We are nuthorlted and requested to announce ALEXANDER H. CHALMERS Esq. as a
candldato for reflection to tho offico of District-Attorney for the Second Judicial Dlsfrlot.
3P Wo aro authorized to announco JAMES T. McLAURIN a candldato for the office of
'ssesioratid Collector of Travis' county at tho ensuing August election. 82
fW We are authorized to announce Mr. A. D. DUHLKSON as a candldato for Assessor and
Collector of Taxes for Travis county at the ensuing August election.
Wo are authorized to announce GEO W SALMON as a candldato for Justice of the Peace
August electiou.
Wd have been requested by MoJ DENJAMIN QRUMULES to state that he is a candidate for
tho 6fflcef Constable for Austin Precinct. .
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Without'rccapitulating all tho creed of the Know Nothings we
relieve that one and a very important article is hostility to foreigners.
Wo are far from believing that foreign influence can ever seriously
njuroalfo political institutions of our country. With a free press and
a reading and voting people there can be no danger from ther exist-
ence ofj foreign opinion? and prejudices. But if we judge of the fact
from tlie comparative strength'of foreigners in our country and not
at oil take into consideration the impossibilityjaflthe whole or any
important part of tho foreign vote being united against our institutions
wo will see sufficient to convince us of tho fallacy of fearing the ex-
ercised the rights of citizenship by adopted citizens. " 'W
In1850 our whole population was nearly twenty millions and the
whole number of foreign extraction not quite two millions and it half
being about eleven per cent only of our population. "The largest pro-
portion of foreigners Is ic Wisconsin where it reaches thirty-five per
cent of the population ; and yet a more orderly industrious enter-
prising and well governed State is not to be found in the Union.
Without a common language without any attempt at concert of ac-
tion with different religions and certainly without extensive influ-
ence over the American population unless it may bb in some thickly
inhabited cities like Now York it seems to us impossible to expect
danger to our free institutions from tliif source. Notwithstanding over
half a million of foreigners come annually to our shores the native
nopulatio'iv-swallow them up in the immensity of their number. Tax-
ation and representation go together. It is the bulwark of our consti-
tution and while the facts are as wo state them we are in favor of
conferring the liberties of citizenship upon the foreigner and opposed
therefore to the Know Nothing party who wish to deprive foreigners
to homo extent of the liberties they now enjoy in our country.
Social Condition of Kentucky.
Under this head we propose to give our readers some important sta-
tistical facts. Being fiom the annual report of the Births Marriages
and Deaths in Kentucky for 1852 they mny be considered entitled to
reliability. .
Tho present population of Kentucky may be put down at 850000
whites and 230000 blacks. The average of marriages is abotil one
to every 102 whites hi particular parts of the Slate marriage have
been much greater than ill others. There was one tnorriagcitu every
fifty ia Harrison and Jefferson counties while in Simpson and Living-
slon the mhrriages wero only one in every 240.
It is also a fact '.hat in particular months of the year there are more
tliitu double the number of marriages of other months. The
principal marriage mouth is December. In that month l here were 750
marriages while in May the number only reached 270.
Then as to the general period of marriage wo find that eighty per
cent of the females marry under the 25lh vear. and about fortv ner
ent. under the 20th year while amongst the males about lifty-two
per cent mrirry under the age of 25 years. In this matter we think
I hat statistical informal ion will rarely be correct inasmuch as ihe
general disposition of males and females is to put down their age be-
iovv the actual faut.
Kentucky and Massachusetts are tho only states of the Union that
have adopted registration laws of this character. In nearly every purt
of Europe they exist. We mention these iacts while saying that the
births in Kentucky are very large exceeding Massachusetts and going
lar beyond European statistics. There was in 1852 one birth to every
38 of the population. Again we find that December and January
are ihe prolific months. The excess of ihe maiebinhs being the best
index of tlie physical condition of a people we are glad to find Ken-
tucky surpassing Massachusetts as well as Europe. The excess of
male births in France and Prussia is about six pur cent in England
five per cent in Massachusetts nine per cent while in Kentucky it
is twelve and-a-half per cent! So mtich does this ratio of excess de-
pend upon the general vigor and healthiness of a population that
among the hard-worked and bndly-fed laborers of cities there is no ex-
cess of male births found. When the systoms ol a population are re-
laxed by epidemics it is observed that the births which folio tt show
the lowest excess of male births and in the statistics of Kentucky the
months of the smallest male births were those where conception had
taken place in the mouths of August and September when the system
is in ho most depressed condition from climate and labor.
An important fact is that though slight the whites in Kentucky
are more fruitful than the blacks. The blacks too die in greater pro-
portion than tho whites and at an earlier age. Yet if we take the
class of men in the free states who perform ihe labor and menial em-
ployment of the blacks in our Slave States we find that the blacks
in Kentucky are in a much better physical condition and of greater
longevity. What an unanswerable argument to the abolitionist is
contained in this attested fact !
The male and female deaths in Kentucky bear a similar proportion.
Tho most fatal months are August September and October. While
in February the deaths were 640 in August they were 1800. The
month of March is the only one in which appears an excess of female
deaths and probably it may be owing lo the severity of this month
upon consumptives. July shows the largest excess of male deaths
which may be attributed to the greater exposure of the males to heat
and fatigue during this month.
We find the causes of death arranged in classes and this isa deeply
interesting subject for the consideration of everv communitv. The
rolltical
New York. The National Democrats met in Convention at Syra-
cuse on the !2th and nominated Greene C. Bronson for Governor. A
letter was received about the same time from Mr. 13. declining a nomi-
nation. No other nomination was made for Governor notwithstand-
ing. Elijah Ford was nominated for Lieut. Governor tho Nebraska
BUI was endorsed; ond ihe Convention adjourned.
Missouri. Old Bullion's organ the St. Louis Democrot in addi-
tion to the previous announcement of him as a candidate both for the-
House of Representatives and the Senate has also announced him as-
candidate for the Presidency of the United States in 1856
Significant." X" of the Baltimore Sun says : " Gov. Seward
lias emphatically come out ogainst the Know-Nothings while Mr.
Clayton declared himself in favor of the extsting naturalization laws
flic fact that two such shrewd experienced and far-sighted Senator?
thus early wash their hands of this connection is significant.
Ohio. An anti-Nebraska Convention was held in Columbus Ohio
on ihe 13th inst. Nearly all the counties in the State were repiesen-
ted. All sorie of "uuti" resolutions were adopted and various com-
mittees appointed.
Vermont. The Union Convention of Vermont culling themselves
the Rupub icun party have nominated E. B. Walton of Montpdier
for Governor; Ilyland Fletcher of Cavendish for Lieutenant Gov-
ernor ; and Mr. Bates of Northfield for Treasurer. . Tho Ftee Dem-
ocrats and Temperance Conventions concurred in these Humiliations.'
'
Massachusetts. Tlie Whig State Committee have issued a call
for a Slate Convention in Funeuil Hall on Wednesday Aug. 1(5. The
call sets forth the object of the meeting to be to nominate Stale offi-
cers and to express the sentiments of ihe Whigs of Massachusetts
upon.. questions of State policy and upon the new and momentous is-
sus arising out of the repeal of ihe Missouri Compiomise which the
call says opens to Slavery a vast territory dedicated by sulemn coin-
pact to Freedom.
Kansas. A correbpundent of trie National Era writing from Kan-
ses territory says that a company of eight men from Indiana who
were oxamining.ilie country along a stream called the Grasshopper a
tributary of the Kansas river were driven off by the threats of the
slaveholders already squatted upon the land.
Indiana. The Indian State Auti-Nobraska Convention assembled
at Indianapolis 13th July the attendance being very large. Judge
Thomas Smith an Old Line Democrat was chosen President. A
preamble and several resolutions were adopted by acclamation op-
posed to the Nebraska bill and the repeal of the Missouri compromise ;
pledging a general co-operation without regard to party predilections
Ggaiust tho extension of slavery ; Hon. Henry Ellsworth Ex-Governor
Bebb and other leading men addressed the Convention. Candi-
dates for State officers were nominated on the" Anti-Nebraska princi-
ple when the Convention adjourned with thirteen cheers for free soil
and free labor.
' University at Nashville.
.Wo nave received the Introductory Lecturejof the Medical
Department by Paul F. Eve M. D. professor of Surgery and
tho Annual Announcement of tho Law Literary and Medical
Departments. Prof. Eve' shows that medicine is a science
urawu lrum muiBpuuiuie met ana mat ic is aenvea irom a
knowledge of the lunctions performed in tho animal economy.
He makes one Very good remark that is " Whenever a thera-
peutic agent is employed tho amelioration of tho patient fol-
lowing is invariably to be attributed to it ; forgetting that in
many instances nature has done all and that the most judicious
practice va. many cases is to give no medicine at all." But tho
following fact is a striking illustration of the recuperative pow-
ers of nature in the absence of alf medicine :
"In a hospital a few years ago it was designated to test the
effects of powdered hdpB in twenty-two cases ot intermittent fe-
ver : but it so happoned the article could not bo procured for a
.fow days when this paroxysmal affection was found to have
ceased spontaneously in nineteen of thorn and in the remain-
ing three it produced no benefit though ii6ed in large doses : so
that by & brief delay alone this inert nrticlo just escaped tho
credit of curing nineteen out of twenty-two cases of fever."
It has always been our opinion that everv nhvaieinn should
!o highly educated for the great purpose of reducing instead.
mi nuuuig w mu iuuuub ui niuuiciuu given to the patient ; ana
we rarely find it otherwise that an experienced physician pres-
prescribes tho smallest doses.
There aro four members of tho Medical class from Texas up-
on whom tho dqgroe of Doctor of Medicine has been conferred.
Of theso the thesis of Mr. Laboulum Elliott was Fnnnmonia.
Mr. A. R. Hamilton Pleurites Mr. It.D. King the subject of
-.llflu JUVU avw locaea placenta. Jlr. J. J5.
DuvM.pt lexas M. D. has been admitted into this irmtitnte.
Wo arojlad to eeo the University in such a flourishing condition.
Literary.
Tub American Journal op the Medical Sciences for July
lS54r-Fhiladelphia. Blanchard J Zea Publishers.
mmiy yunra ago wo preuioteu the position of this eminent journal.
We said that it would staud fairly side by sido with the Edinburgh
Medxcal and bursical Journal aud the Gazette Medicate de Pars.
Tho American Journal is uow in its 28th volume aud for extensive
research and successful experiment it has no superior. No physician
hi pur btate emtdous of professional reputation should be without it.
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Mi8Miii ilivfflim may say to our traveling friends that
large rclps boat aro sull aBcemJiug from New Orleans" to Loul.vle
and St. Louis but it is probable gx ue fall i the upper rivers tlm is
WW gqng 0H will not long permit t itointe of thiims to exist w.m
;lC3ipur Unusual cmarnie. lU?S '0X -' Frm
principal diseases producing death are cholera diarrhoea croup fevers
and diseases of the respiratory organs (consumption.) Yet the latter
are smaller than iu Massachusetts. Deaths from intemperance are
smaller than we expected while the number killed by design is much
larger than will accord with the condition of an orderly people.
injfipaclusion we think these statistics areinvalualle to the State
andmust be of great service as well to the legislator as to the me-
dical practitioner. For by showing the comparative health of a State
immigration is invited and the unhealthful partions command the more
direct and particular attention of the inhabitants in orderthat by pro-
per drainage they may better theircondition. The period of marriage
isa correct criterion for conforming our laws in regard to minors to
the most apparent years of responsibility. Much may be effected in
the removal of disease and in our physical improvement by the facts
elicited in regard to the causes of death. Could a State have simply
an official account current of the causes of death what a commentary
would it not be upon intemperance and upon the effects of a dissolute
life. The better portion of men could more readily realise their duty
of putting down the evils in our social system aud the moral condition
of a State might in duo lime become a subject of generous rivalry.1'
CoNNnoncuT. The fag ends of all parties united in the late elec-
tion in Connecticut Whigs Abolitionists and ultra Prohibitionists.
This combination defeated the Democratic party. The rirst thing this
speckled legislature did on assembling was to invite a negro preacher
to open the session with prayer. They then elected a full blooded
Abolitionist and a Whig to the United States Senate ; passed resolu-
tions to nullify the Fugitive Slave Law and strings of anti-Nebraska
resolutions.
Indian Nation.
We do not know when we have read an incident of greater
nobleness of character in ancient or modern times than related
by the Chickasaw Intelligencor a paper published in the Indi-
an nation. Lequa-quah alias Morgan was the last surviving
murderer of Messrs. Stem and Lepleman. The Intelligencer
says : As we recollect the particulars furnished Morgan pur-
sued by his tribe travelled about two hundred miles to the tent
of a distant brother which he entered at night and in reply to
inquiries propounded to him repeated a truthful narration of
his crime pursuit and escape. His brother heard the tale re-
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uiiuuuu uim ui luruior uuinoniuoiip ana reqnestea mm to pro-
mise to surrender himself to justice. He refused and in a few
moments fell dead by the hand of a man noble enough to sacrifice
even a brother upon the hallowed altar of public justice. This
brother was a Kickapoo- a tribe residing in the Indian nation
and kuown for their sterling honesty and truthfulness.
Know Nothingism in Texas.
We see by tho Galveston Daily Times of tho 26th July that
the "Know Nothings" have no chanco of germinating tho
seed in Texas soil.
There was a most patriotic and spirited Catherine- at Sclmrirl .
Garden night before last to hear the various candidates for
office upon the subject of TKnow-Nothing-ism otherwise Native-
Americauism. There know-naught-ism creed had no showin"
at all at the meeting ; not a candidate so low as to do it revei
once ; every one of the speakers and their number war Winn.
indignantly repelled oven tho most tor-fetched idea or concep-
tion of what tho ism was made of what it meant ; its uso object
aim wnoruuuuuib jiutouo naa ever seen a luiow-N othing bad
over had one touch him with a forty-acre pole and as for any
having been approached and sounded by one of tho mysterious
fraternity that was entirely Out of tho question and far beyond
cue uouuus ot mcir Knowledge. The assemblage not a largo
one and it appeared to us made up mostly of native born
citizens received with marked favor tho disclaimers of each
candidate; and seemed fully imbued with a sprit of scorn for
tho new and sinister political ism of the times which judging
uy mo ww vi uiu uiutsMiig ia u Horc ox seen tuat win nuruiy
flourish to a naying extent on tho soilof Texas us rich and
Aukansas. A convention ojjttie Democracy of Sebastian have '
nominated F. M. Paine of Marion for Representative ; Francis
Dunn of Bates lor Sheriff; Mitchell Sparks of Upshur for Coroner ;
and Isaac Loiig for Internal Improvement Commissioner.
Oregon. The Oregon Statesman has raised the name of Millard
Fillmore for President aud John Bell for Vice President in 1856.
State Elections. The following btates representing 165 out of
296 electoral votes for President are yet to hold eleeTfons for State offi-
cers : Iowa Aug. 7 ; California Sept. 5 ; Vermmitf Sept. 5 ; Maine
Sept. 11; Pennsylvania Occ. 10; Ohio Oct. 10 ; Indiana Oct. JO ;
Massachusetts. Nov. 13 ; New York Nov. 7 ; New Jersey Nov. 7 ;
Illinois Nov. 7 ; Michigan Nov. 7 ; Wisconsin Nov. 7. All but two
of these States Vermont and Massachusetts gave majorities for
Mr. Pierce at the last Presidental election.
Florida. The Democratis Convention which met at Madison 10th
July for the selection of a candidate to represent Florida in the next
Congress of the United States unanimouslyln&minated the Hon. A. E.
Maxwell on the first ballot. There is no doubt of the re-election of
Mr. Maxwell by a handsome majority. Mr. Yutee's election to the
United States Senate by the Florida Legislature next winter as suc-
cessor to Mr. Morton is equally certain."
More Railroad Frauds. It is ascertained that Edward Crane
the President of the Vermont Central Railroad has over issued stock
in that Company to the amount of eight thousaud (!) shares.
p" It is stated that the authorities of tho variousStates of Ger-
many are beginning to be alarmed at tfie immense emigration to tho
United States.
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&- A letter written by an officer attached to the Japan squadron
says that on the part of the Japanese Commissioners it was at first
much Insisted upon that the United States Government should allow
astipulation that no American lady should ever visit Japan! So
preposterous a demand was not countenanced for a moment by tho
gallant Commodore.
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Canada an Independent Kingdom. The New York Jour-
nal of Commerce is inclined to attach credit to a rumor from
England ot its being in contemplation to send a Viceroy instead
of a Governor General to Canada a Viceroy who shall be a
member of the Royal Family of England the Duke of Cem-
bridge the cousin of tho Queen being named as the first.
There may bo an ulterior object in view. It may be intended
to make it a separate kingdom as a settlement for one of her
Britannic Majesty's numerous progeny. jy. O. Bulletin. .
Pdblio Lands. We understand says tho Washington Star
that Senator Benjamin intends offering tho scheme of Speaker
Boyd for donating the unsalable public lands to the several
States in which they lie as an amendment to tho homestead bill
of tho IIohsc and that quite a number of Senators are prepared
to adopt it with the view of urging it uutii if possible they
may iu ninu iiutuu n mu juw ox tuo lanu.
Sandwich Islands. Tho special "Washington correspondent
ot tho Now York Tribune states-positively that Commissioner
Grogg has nearly concluded tho treaty for annexing tho Sand-
wich Islands to tho United States and that he acts with tho
approbation of President Pierce. Tho only unsuttled'questiou
now is whother the islands shall come into the confederation
a9 a State or as a territory.
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