The Texas Monument. (La Grange, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 50, Ed. 1 Wednesday, July 2, 1851 Page: 2 of 4
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in the mines ; that the
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of Texas,
re
Wednesday, July 2, 1851.
to say there have
operations.
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fond of the
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their guards and
rom their
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oth parties
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A very destructive tornado passed over
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Telegraphed to the N. O. Delta.
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men have been instigated and encour-
aged to hunt me throughout thp State,
to contest and litigate my property until
him the written evidences of the hostility
read them and generously ordered them
to
an aris-
essional
date for Congfi
(Ala.) District,
the whole party will rally
in all probability, elect him. |
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the country; that
weary of perse-
, where
honorable
g
r.
the 1st of July.
F«|tr.—The Crystal
the 3d inst., by
The Queen
i
He is
His!
voice
th|e first to
the peopld of Texas of the jipproach-
to call a
$
New York, June 17.
The steamship Humboldt, from Havre
i evening.
r<
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>▼ wire tyu wurkiuen were. engaged m
taking down the wall of Delmonico’s
■ Jg» on
( were
and pa-
ts which
Congress,
erms the
d of the public
lities a nd\ offer-
ing attractive inducements; maintaining,
grew
* o
Both gen-
very high standing in
The
very generously
raised ten thousand dollars for the purpose
of educating the children of Mr. Terry.
and fur^ishin
sap
thousand
tion and
ugh sixty
a case
The Texiaras are the most onward progress.
. They fill nearly attended the Illinois, the Wabash, and
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upon a
o
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prise should be called in a*n
resources, by granting facil
i ,
however, a superintending control over
the whole.
To deepen the inlets tnd channels,
grounds
1 might
similar
citizens,
mining cotm-land all seemed to enjoy themselves well. and CoweSi al.;ived .berb| ll)is
The Galveston News says that the
quickest trip ever made between that city
accomplished by
She left the wharf
Thursday morning, ooot^ demand.
an
S
and to restorobme to equal privileges with
my early compeers, the glorious privi-
lege of again serving my country, an k
at |east one raore testimonial o
nfidenee and esteem of my coUn-
I sweep
very imposing appearance.
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A very animated and interesting ad- Arrival of the Humboldt.
> was delivered by L. F. Price, Esq.
A very destructive tornado passed over snake, the size of which would seem to
the city of Algiers, opposite N. Orleans, <nJ<cate that the species of reptile has
greatly degenerated. r*: »—»*:-
° found embedded in the solid limestone
Many per- rocfct about sixty feet below the earth's
, Its size is enormous—sixteen
feet in length, and iq the middle at least
substance is completely assimilated in
Items frorh the Sacramento Placer
Times of May 15th.
Safe Found.—The safe which was
stolen the other evening, from Messrs^
Wand and Jaynes,^ was found yesterday
morning near the brick-yard, below Q
street. It had ^een blown open, and of
course it was empty. A hand Cartwis
also found near it, which had been em-
ployed to remove it to the place where it
was found. Who' the hand cart belongs
to we have not heard—it was probably
stolen from
hood.
been
* in England ]
the names of
These statements of friend Bardin may
* ’ ’ * ’ ’ many of our!
acquainted with him
will charge him with bein
marvellous.
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On Tuesday last, the Masonic Frater-
nity of this place had a very imposing
celebration. The Order turned out in
A dreadful rencontre took place in
Lynchburg, Va., between a Mr. Saunders
and Mr. Terry, the editor of the Lynch-
burg, Virginian, in which
were so
suited 7ni . _______ ,
out of a political! discussion,
tiemen occupied a
the circle in which they 'moved.
« citizens of Lynchburg
gginls, thv miners1
corqpelled to take
own hands, but crime
i .i I : • > ■•£*
always punished promptly, and the
to
Cotton Firm.—By the arrival of the
last steamer, the Niagara, from Europe,
we learn drat Cotton is firm, with a fair
prospect for an upward tendency. The
prices in New York arc hence firmer than
they have been for some time past.
Gen. Quitman has been unanimously
nominated by the Convention in Missis-
• ippi for Governor, Joseph Bell for Sec-
.. TheSou'.lilernnicniTetary of State, Richard Griffith for)
means satisfied, and arc de- 1 reasurer, and George T. Swan for
Auditor. -------
Chilians, Chinese, and | A patent has been obtained i
ere allowed to vote, or for a new system of posting
we employ wisely the means under our
control, the day is not distant when the
light of science and general intelligence
will shine alike for the rich and the poor,
Uluminating the plain habitation of the
daily laborer with the same bright beams
which gild the gorgeous mansions of the
opulent. Education is the great lever
which moves the world,—it forms the
foundation of morals in society, and of
the free institutions with which we are so
eminently blessed; and its general and
equal diffusion is necessary for the pre-
servation of both. Fully impressed with
these great truths, I shall present and
advocate a system of free public schools,
which I have digested, suited to the sparse
condition of our population, and admit-
ting of a gradual development propor-
tioned to its increase. For the support
of this system I shall recommend that one
million of dollars be set apart and held
sacred, in addition to the ten per cent,
of the revenue secured by the constitu-
tion, and the public lands set apart as a
school fund. These means provided by
the constitution for purposes of education
should never be permitted to be diverted
from the wise and benevolent objects to
which they were consecrated by that
instrument; and I shall oppose every
attempt to change it so as Io give the
Legislature the power to divert these
sacred educational resources (rom their
legitimate ends. v
I might, fellow-citizens, urgje toy per-
sonal claims upon Texas for your suffra-
ges. I might show to you my long apd
complete identity with all her fortunes;
that I came to her at the very dawn of
manhood, and laid my heart at her feet
with a perfect devotion ; that I have ever
stood by her with heart and hand, through
weal or woe; that 1 have given to her
my best services, in a spirit of entire dis-
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esc services,! al-
en-
desires, because
I me sufficient
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I have no per-
private revenges,
* . To me, re-
venge is not sweet, but forgiveness is;
1 more ardently
desire than that my enemies should place
themselves in a position towards me, absolute title in the mines.
ice
When Cesar
might approve forgiveness,
rose to supreme power, and
i
surrounded collected and placed before
him the written evidences of the hostility
and guilt of his eneWCFj—ht. u
i
be destroyed. None but contracted
narrow cowardly hearts
could stoop from power to seek revenge.
I have Sever thrown an obstacle in the
several thousand miles without com pen- path of any man in his progress to re-
satioq, to secure their lands to them: nown. If I cannot keep pace with others
‘ ~ ] in the career of honor, I should feel
finally succeeded by. .degraded in my own estimation by at-
tempting to arrest them by casting impe-
diments before them. Whenever the
opportunity has been afforded me I have
served my country with
and-perfect devotion,
have been far from bein
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desires. I have been hemmed around by
an iron wall of proscription; and I now
e’ hope he will ■
: the cause in!
which we are embarked il worthy of it. to t|)e iar(Te
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We return our thanks to Gen. May-
field, for late California pipers.
and hence we , Richardson, also of our town, is in
; California Legislature, and is
spicuous, and very popular.
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----- ’ be considered incredible by
■ • "readers, but no one
arrived at this pice from Cali-‘J
on Thursday last. £
kind^
nominated as the Southern Rights candi-
ess, in the Montgomery! Canada l^inc nJ steamers.—the
It is conjectured that Asseinbly last evening, an address to the
to his aid, and Queen was adopted, praying for the estab-
; lishment of a line of steamers between the
cities of Quebec and Liverpool, and the
extension of the same privileges that are
now granted to the Cunard line.
Eddyville, (Ky.) June 19.
» severed wounded as to haveinJnMlen aod gives to it show of pl.usi-
- i . . .... ton, Kentucky. To-dayTK^re have been . bility, is, that these threats were made M
in their death. 1 he affair grew , , A ..."
twelve cases there, of which seven
resulted fatally. Our town is quite heal-
thy, and is filled , with refugees from
Princeton. ---—h a
A Curiosity.—The Beaver (Pa.) Star
says that a short time since the workmen j
at Power’s Summit, .bn the Ohio and Buildin
Pennsylvania Railroad, found a petrified i entire back end suddenly fell, killing
.jl “ men i
others, one of whom hi
escaped
from being on the top of the wall when it
fell. They were, we believe, all French-
men, but did not ascertain their names.
The wages of carpenters, masons, and
mechanics generally, have advanced-
ten dollars per day is asked and obtained.
New Discoveries at Aubwn.—A gen-
tleman just down from Aubutn, informs
us that a vein of auriferous quartz baa
been discovered a short distance from
the town, in a northerly direction. The
from the State of Main.. Wp .re .s-
sured by a gentlemae, in wf
relyf that the vein has been
Our ediler, Mr. Kuykendall, i,s
absent on business connected with the
paper. He will again resume Lio.labors
shortly, at least by the cottmencement of] a]| foreigners
attracted but little attention. The
supposed to be those tickets for her first concert, however, are
expe- selling for high premiums, generally bring-
! ins two, three, and five dollars. It is
We learn from the Delta, thai Col. j announced that she is to give ten concerts
John Cochran has been unanimously at Saratoga within a short lime.
Toronto, June 17.
Canada Line of Steamers.—In the
hat trr» nr tu/ont
obtained Io the nand pct J
thah wealth
I might urge
our con-
jxas, on
ight fur-
ther show that I am now the only one
remaining among the patriots of those
times which tried men’s souls, who,
having acknowledged claims upon you
for important services, have not received
repeated and substantial testimonials of
your confidence land esteem ; that, whilst
others boast of the multiplied * favors
which they have received from you, land
refer to them as new claims for ipcreafced
honors,1 alone have been permitted by
you to be driven back into obsc jrity^by
an unjust, ungenerous and unmanly pro-
scription, waged against me' by
tocracy of speculators and prol
politicians, who, actuated by motives the
most unjustifiable and selfish, Have, by
artful combinations and insidious and
covert means, sought to poison tlie public
mind and feeling against me, for the pur-
pose of excluding me forever1 from all
participation in public affairs; that to
compass this, lawless and unprincipled
men have been instigated and
killed.
Gold in1 Ohio.—There is consider-
in I
tlve late discovery of gold mines in that
State. Gen. Mosely, of Green county,
happened to turn over an old stump lately
on his farm, and under it discovered a
rich gold mine, from which, it is eiti*
* matAd. that trn nr fu’ont- ’obits can be
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a •; *• fork over” likewise.
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Southern diggings; but,had
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communication with all lite mi.
try.
In the mining districts|jand in fact all
over the country, good older exists, and
crime is as uncommon Ms in the older
L. i
Slates. An industrious wan can make!
clear of eibpehse, from four to ten dollars
per day, but he must wprk, and work
late and early. Provisions are cheap;
flour 15 cents per pounds at the mines;
hickory shirts $1, and other things in
proportion. There is no land fit for farm-
ing in the mining districts, except here
and there a little valley of 50 or 100 acres.
The best fanning land is Hear the coast.
Small grains succeed well, especially
f ‘
M
her Condition;
gave
gs of the
judiciary,
and the" free exercise of political and
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discovery was made by Thomas Cults,
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i r «- tea
should be vigilant. There is no doubt
that large numbers of these villains are
now among us, ready at any time to burl
the fire brand into our midst.
It is to be hoped that ll>e police of this
city will be constantly on their guards and
by activity and vigilance our city w*Hl be
secure. And sboeM one of these v*iUaios
be detected, let such an example be made
of him as will at once stop his high-
handed course of crime which has “so.
long been carried on in California’.
At San Francisco in the recettt con-
flagration, white window shutters were
found to be a much more effectual pro-
tection against fire than those painted of
any other color. They did not heat with
any thing like the rapidity as those which
were of a dark color.
The Price of Merchandise.--The
recent fire at San Francisco has had an
effect upon almost every species of mer-
chandise in this market. Some articles
have advanced a hundred per cent, or
more, while others have been but slightly
affected.
Late from the Sandwich Ishtnds.-^Ly
an arrival at San Franctscev on the 6th
inst., dates have been received from the
Sandwich Islands upto the 9th of April.
The following in relatatipn to affairs there
we take from the Alta CaHfornia :
“Government has deckled to apply
to the Government of the United Stales
for annexation, and that an officer of our
national government ir now in our city,
on his way to Washington, entrusted with
the mission. We not only hope this is
true, but also that tbe cloak of Unde
Sam may be folded around this beautifel
sea nymph of the Pacific, and site be
domesticated in die "great family."
Capt. Wakeman arrived at San Fran-
cisco, from Stockton, yesterday morning.
He states that a regular organized band
of Sydney convicts have sworn to be
revenged for having been imprisoned at
San Francisco, by burning all California,
and had set a rime for burning Sacramewto
among the rest. Capt. W. vouches for
the truth of this statement. The above
information comes to us through a reliable
source. What is singular about this
been] bility, is, that these threats were made at
|lave Stockton previous to the destruction of
either of the late unfortunate cities, and
that the time fixed for their hellish incen-
diarisms has proved the sincerity of their
purpose.
While tbe workmen were engaged in
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Montgomery street, tbe
Jtwo
instantly, and badly injuring five
- Jtn has since died.—
His snakeship was|Four of them esca^bd with tl>eir lives
from being
through tbe bars of out bays, and to keep guished positions of Attorney General of
open the mouths of our rivers, a penna- c “ T J rrin —
nent fund should be provided, as there
ean be but little doubt that the greater
part of them will be refilled by a gradual
and permanent process. To provide this
fund, our Legislature should pass a law
to impose a light duty upon the tonnage
of vessels navigating our waters,' for
Which the assent' of Congress would be
necessary. * This would not be withheld.
The strictest constructionists of the de-
mocratic party, recognise this as the le-
gitimate mode of providing the means for
such works; and it has been practised in
the coast states from the foundation of Generals
the government to the present time.
In addition to the mighty impulses nearly t^ro thousand
which would be given to immigration and
I to our general prosperity by the large
expenditure of funds witbip the limits of other
our State in these improvements and the
immense increase of facilities for every
branch of industry which will be afforded
by them, the profits arising from tbe tolls
would pay the interest upon the amount
expended, free us from taxation, and whether it be
ultimately pay back ipto the coffers of the
State the cost invested. The limitr as-
signed to this communication will not
allow me to discuss these things with
figures and analogous databut I shall
avail myself of a future occasion to do so;
* and I doubt not I shall be able to main-
tain the positions I have assumed, and to
demonstrate the practicability of the whole
scheme with all its mighty advantages.
A brilliant scene opens before us for
the rising generation of our country, pro-
mising all tbe beneficent and potent
in«x the river.
o
aod that after ui
for four years
procuring the passage o
of which I was tbe author; that during
that time I combatted and defeated the
attempts of a foreign millionary company
to purchase their homes over their heads,
and thus saved to the country more than
twenty millions of acres of land, when,
by allowing them to be sacrificed, I might
have realized for myself a large fortune,
by accepting the offer which w^as made
to me by the company; that in 1833rto
save the public domain from beingsacri- # r -
freed, and to give to Texas the control of myself with tbe most indefatigable zeal,
her own destinies, I set xi motion the
great measure of sepXating her from
Coahuila, to take her stand as a sover-
eign Stoto io tbe Mexican Union; that I
procured tbe
■ rc-orffft>izing
us all from the stage of action and consign He says there is yet room; for 10,000
us to the pen of the historjan. persons or more,
gold under the houses in the town of So-
nora, is plentiful beyond conception, and
that if he could be permitted to measure
off 10 acres of it as his own, he would
scarcely take half a million of dollars for it.
, Mr. B. thinks that slave labor could be
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! used to great advantage in California.—
The Frcesoilers he believes to be in a |,s,PPl
very small majority. r”*_
arc by no i
termined to try to repeal the clause pro-
hibiting slavery.
Mr. K.ys fully author- California would have been a slave State.! the streets,
those born in the United States,
tne. An hour
T. J. CHAMBERS.
THE
J. H. KUTKENDALL,' Editor.
The Missouri had also
overstepped its fronted bounds, seemingly
rejoicing in being freed from its prison, ...
... , . 1° , . ... tary at War, will soon
while devastation and ruin: marked its, >
J i the Cabinet, and that Mr. Gentry, of
onward progress. Like results have'.,, ,. i
leunessee, wuI be his successor.
Boston, June 18.
Jenny Lind—-Politics.—Jenny Lind
\Ve learn tljat two wrecked vessels arrived here yesterday, but her appear-
have been discovered in St. George’s
i • 1
I Sound, which are
belonging to "Sir John Franklin’s
containing 4 pounds. Mr. Bardin | ,l*on*
bund a number of lumps Containing from
9 to 12 dollars, and one worth S13 25
cents, but this was the- largest. The
ump of 28 pounds was found in the gar-
den of Joshua Holden, formerly of Travis
’ county.
As for land titles, no-one claims an
T—, According to
the regulations of the miners, a person
holds all his house covers, but no more.
The miners feel themselves privileged to
work up to the very side*of the houses.
TSaoh digger is allowed 16 feet
and if he discovers a newline, be is al-
lowed from 30 to 40 feet square. He is
also allowed all that he grains, without
regard to quantity.
In many of tbe diggi
have heretofoie been
the law into their
was
innocent as promptly protected; and
this the good order now existing is at-
tributed.
The Indians have caused some trouble
in tbe northern mines, but all is quiet
now. The State keeps 200 Rangers in
service, at a cost of S5 per day for each ab|e excitement) i
private. < t
The Diggings are 1000 miles long,
and from 6 to 12 miles wide. Mr. Bar-
din thinks the gold cannot be exhausted
in a century, and that there are yet mines
as rich or richer, than any heretofore dis-
covered •
masses of foreigners in the
iirrv out their measures.
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? never saw any man -
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blossoms in that State, and China,
) India, at the same time; and that the
manner of its blossoming indicates an
adaptation of the climate of the South to
r its cultivation.
An agency has been established in
Charleston for the sale of the plant anq
seed, which are imported direct from
China. The seed is the size and color
’ in the a ^az^e nut’ and COI>tains an oily kernel.
quite con Giles, a slave of Maj. Winston, of La
Grange, Tennessee, was left by his mas-
) ter in California for wajnt of means to bring
him home. Nothing daunted, this faithful
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L negro went to work, earned money suffi-
! cieiit to bear his expenses,' and a short of |ate has been ,oo w?|| repre5enled
time ago returned to bis master. 'sueb men as Wildred,
Wheat is now being successfully culti-
vated in Florida, and it is said the culti-
vation of it will, in*a short time, be exten-
a ! give. ■ ■! ' ■ 4**" j 1
interestedness, whenevc ' she has deigned
tp accept them ; that tl
■ though not unimportant have fallen
tlrcly short of my ardent (f
she has failed? to afford
opportunities, and has buffered herself to
be influenced against me by the machina-
tions of designing and jealous men, Z'ho
have persecuted, balunfniated and pro-
scribed me, because they have supposed
that I might be an obstacle to their selfish
designs, and have knOwm I'
could control nor intimidate me; and
that whenever the opportunity has been
opened to rfie for usefulness, 1 have never
failed to avail myself of it in the most
efficient manner in ^her behalf. I might
show that more than twenty years ago 1
came to Texas ^ith the appointment of and there is nothing which I
chief Surveyor of the State, and that 1
rendered important services in that capa-
city, which wcre\formally acknowledged where jutti
by the government; that during that time w,,‘
I acted as interpreter for the people of the friends and flatterers by whom he was
Eastern Texas, and obtained their notes
for my servicesf amounting to more than
ten thousand dollars, which I subsequently
surrendered without payment under the
impulses of a youthful generosity, on ac-
count of tbe embarrassed condition of intellects and
that frontier; that I afterwards became
the agent of those people, and traveled
'The name is blown or stamped in the
lass of the street lamps, and is thus visible
on the 22d ult., doing serious damage to
farms, fences, bouses etc.
sons were scriopsly wounded, and several surface.
four inches in diameter. Although its
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Ohio in reference to the rock in which it was embedded, it
looks surprisingly natural—indeed, almost
as perfect in form and feature as when
alive. 1« |
There is a landlord in Boston who is
in the habit of placing an extra fork be-
side the plate of suTS boarders as have
not paid promptly, being an intimation to
prosperity, and redound to its honor and
in seeking your suffragesi, fellow,
citizens, I have no private ends to ac-
at nothing but the
to generous minds.
service of my country, from which I have
1
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sonal animosities,
a disinterested
But my services
ig equal to my
an iron wall of proscription; and I
appeal to a jost and generous people to
reverse the illiberal decree which seeks
to cut me off from that career of useful-
ness, for which, in early life, I preparer
I receivir
Mage of a law wholly the con
r public administration, trymen, ere the hand of time shall
content and litigate my property until
none bhoutd be left free to meet the
liabilities which I had brought upon me
to serve and save
when, at length, grown
cution, and become anxious to terminate
it even dn the grave, I went to Wash-
ington ^at • the commencement of the
Mexican war, and demanded, nay, sup-
plicated'from your representatives there
a respectable position in the army
I might win repose by an
death in the service of my country—even
this wagt denied
successful battle-field might have placed
me upon even more elevated
than the heroes of San Jacinto,
urge all these, and many other
considertrions upon you, fellow-,
but I am conscious that, although they
might arouse your sympathies, if given
in detail, they would not entitle me to
(he office of chief Executive of tine State,
if the principles which I profess and
maintaitg and the measures which I advo-
cate are not such as would promote its
pruspt
glory. T
citizens, ! have
complisfck I aim
that they neither privileges inestimable
of devoting my energies to the honorable
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been so long excluded.
> no i
which I wish to gratify.
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country, to carr
Mr. Bardin says he
; suffer, who would wonk.
On our first page wilj be found the
Circular of Gen. T. J. Chambers, one <
the candidates for Governor of this State, ni
And here it may be prdper to remark
do | makin
advocate ' expresses deliver letters to the miners at
2 a-piece—newspapers $1
and New Orleans, was
I the steamer Pampero,
at New Orleans on
the 19th, at half-past 9 o’clock, and
chored off Galveston bar at half-past
o’clock on Friday evening: having made
the run in 4*5 hours.
The Mississippi
all the northern tributaries of the Great
Father of Watefs, have been
hi-di, latelv.
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wheat, oats and clo\ er. Oats and clo\ er an(| faryls on fl>ese rivers,
grow spontaneous!v all over the countrv. q. Vr
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Cattle, by thousands, find a plentiful sub- hank*, and had
sistence from the cloveri and oat seed,* squares into the city, doin
even after the straw is burnt off. These
seeds can in places be gathered by bands-
full. It is one of the best stock countries
in tire universe.
The health in the southern mines is
excellent; a case of sickness is very’
rarely seen,
popular people there,
all the important offices. A lump of gold other streams,
was foqnd in Sonora by' a Mr. Robertson,
of Travis county, Texas, containing 28
pounds. Just above where Mr. Bardin
worked, i gentleman found another lump;
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containing 14 pounds ; and a negro found <
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one i
the 2d volume.
ized to obtain subscribers., job work, and Amon0,
advertisements; and wc| hope he "ill j the southern nicn have the majority, and-g
meet with every success | the cause in > the Frcesoilers have been obliged to resort by day’ and night.
Tea Plant.—Mr. Junius Smith, the
'gentleman who is cultivating the tea plant
in South Carolina, says, that the plant
ii.i „ a i»„ it • blossoms in that State, and China, and
Our old townsman, A. Reynolds, isj
of the principal of a company which is run-
ning expresses from San Francisco, from *
Stockton, and from Sacramento, to all
that in publishing the various Circulars ; the Mines south ot the Stanislaus,
that have appeared in our| paper, we do • making an independent fortune,
not wish it understood that we
the claims of any of the candidates. They the sum of
all pay a fair consideration for the publi- each,
cation jbf their Circulars gl..2 1 ...
have felt free to insert thqfn.
Late from
Ounold friendsand fellow-citizens Mr.
Bardin and son, Mr. Davil and Mr. IJhul-
meyer, arrived at this place from Cali-
fornia,
Mr. Bardin has kindlj’ furnished us
with tbe following interesting matters from
tire land of gold, which <we give in the
order related to us.
Mr. Bardin is enthusiastic in hU praises large numbers, and really presented
of the country, and says^that it “is the
greatest country now in the world." He
worked entirely in wbatyare called the dress
constant. crowd in attendance was very large,
o
and greatly ameliorating
that by tny efforts i<i her behalf, I
to her the inestimable blessir
trial by &ry, with a separate
,___i r_____J
religious? opinions; that in tie distin-
the Sta^t, and Superior Judge
1 rendered services of an important char-
acter; that whilst 1 was exercising the
latter office, the revolution corinmenced,
which overturned the Mexican confedera-
tion and crushed the sovereignty of the
States, and 1 boldly raised hiyr
■against it as Judge; was
warn
ing danger, and advised them
convention to provide for their safety,
for which I was incarcerated and im-
peached: for high treason; that I resigned
the office of J udge to accept that of
in the,army, where I sacrificed
a fortunit in raising with my own means
----men for defence
of the cojintry, feeding and clothing them,
—i arms, amrnunr1— ““1
plies ; and that altho
dollars would not release me
from the sacrifices I then madd, and the
consequences flowing from them, I have
no pecuniary claim to urge upo^ Texas;
and whatever may be my lot in life,
one of splendid opulence
or abject poverty, I shall alike disdain to
seek or accept pecuniary compensation
at her hands; and that whatever efforts
I then made to sustain the cause of my
struggling and bleeding country,
the outpourings of disinterestec
triotic emotions, and the than
were twice voted to me by <
recognizing in complimentary
sacrifices which I had made, w^re more
highly appreciated by me
thrice told and returned.
these and other services upon
advantages of universal education. If sideratiop, fellow-citizens- of Te
we employ wisely the means under our the present occasion; and I min-
now the only
some place in the neighbor-
We are sorry to say there have
no traces yet found td the thieves.
Lynching.—On Tuesday Inst*, at Beal’s
Bar, a man who had passed sometime in
the vicinity in dealing French monte,
&c., was caught with a stolen horse, fte
was taken and tried by a jury of twelve,
selected from the bystanders, ami after
an examination, sentenced to receive
fifteen lashes, and be ordered to leave the
bar in fifteen minutes, under penalty of
receiving one hundred lashes more.—
The penalty was inflicted, and the guilty
party departed to commence anew his
f
A gentleman called upon ui yester-
day, with a letter from San Francisco, in
which it was stated that parties were
betting upon the probability of the de-
struction of Sacramento within the next
eight days. The gentleman at San Fran-
cisco who wrote the letter,alluded to,
cautioned his friends here to beprepared
for the worst, os there was evidently a
determination to burn this city as well as
San Francisco and Stockton.
Ne?c Arrival nf Sydney Convicts.—
A vessel reached San Francisco, a few
days since, with a large nuinber of con-
victs on board, direct from Sydney. A
large number of them had their heads
shaved, showing conclusively that they
are direct from that Australian hell, which
I such men as Wildred, Watkins, and a
I host of others. Tliese rutlfless villains,
not satisfied with murder and robbery for
past months, have now commenced level-
ling our cities by hulling the fire brand in
our midst, in order more fully to carry
on their work of plunder. San Francisco
and Stockton are both a heap of smoul-
dering ruins, and how soon may our own
fair city of Sacramento share the same
fate.
It is high time that precautionary steps
should be taken to put a stop to this
brin,rinfr Paris dates to the 3d, and Lon- scene of destruction—that every citizen
don dates to the 4th inst.
• Liverpool, June 3.
Market.—Cotton continued firm, with
*. The sales of tbe 3d
amounted to 7000 bales at previous prices.
’ The steamer Hermann arrived out in
less than 15 days to Southampton.
The Europa arrived at Liverpool on
die 1st of June in ten and a half days from
, Missouri, Ohio, and Boston.
Steamers Great Drituin and Atlantic.
unusually —Capt. Matthews, mate of the City of
Very serious damage has Glasgow steamer, is to have charge of
been done to|^i|ny of the towns, villages the steamer Great Britain, which vessel
1 be river comes to New York in September.
opposite St. Louis had overflown its] The steamer Atlantic will be ready for
extended for several: sca on
lg great damage j Thc lrurlJ,s
to produce on t >e levee, and in rite base-' pa|ace, was vi.i(edt L,n ,
ments and cella^f the warehouses front- < |)ear|y 50 000 1)Crsons.
was present.
It is rumored that jMr. Conrad, Secre-
resign his post in
o^Baviog efffru, prolonged
n fii
procuring the passage
ly st
f tbe law of 1834,
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Kuykendall, J. H. The Texas Monument. (La Grange, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 50, Ed. 1 Wednesday, July 2, 1851, newspaper, July 2, 1851; La Grange, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1291261/m1/2/: accessed July 12, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Fayette Public Library, Museum and Archives.