The Texas Monument. (La Grange, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 10, Ed. 1 Wednesday, September 29, 1852 Page: 2 of 4
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There is hardly a town
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disposition to enlarge
We do Dot come
are well assured willingly to any conclusion which would
Cendant idiosyncrasies, and live in
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igation of the Colorado, if in the furor (Texas
paper is becoming on the subject of rail-
roads.
Our farmers
sharp look-out for such villians.
encouragement having
to chartered companies, all
The Texas Debt.
We give place to a communication ou
imme-'; slilution.”
All these acts were performed, and the
■ Republic of Texas changed, by the
third Thursday of •baodoned—Especially when Unde Sam
offers to help us clear out the channel.
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The Victoria Advocate,Alluding to the
o
large number of negroes who have re-
The San Augustine Herald comes out
greatly enlarged and improved.
The Charleston Literary Gazette
maintains its reputation as one of the
best publications of tbq kind in the Union, j
It is full of original and entertaining arti-
cles, and appears to be gradually im-
proving.
Abolition emisaries are nt work in our
midst. Our farmers might as well keep always be found for
a
loo vet-
butterfly theory which flits aeroM their of her owe debts and contracts, on ten as
path, and in I
realized money enough to build a railroad j the State of Texas is mi bo way fespoo-
Wi
in order that the same may be
as one of the Stares of the
’ A convention of ths
pro-
the people of
a new government,
form of gov-
a whole people, it was ex*
This how much more so must it be here, where presslv provided by the constitution, aad
*.__j so by public law, had
as opposed to railroads, j no such provision been nyide, that all
and feasible railroad enterprises; but we! rights of property and action ** should
I regret to see our
taken up with them
overlook other cheaper and
diate advantages,
relation to railroads
and even enthusiasm, be excited, if pos- spontaneous act of the
by our aurren-
of which was
the contraclir
The Times considers it
I British pride.
Three Days Later from Europe.
. New York, Sept. 14.—The Cunard
steamer Niagara has arrived at Halifax,
bringing dates from Liverpool to the 4lh
inst., four days later than the accounts
brought by the Humboldt, and three
days later from London and Paris. The
following is a summary of her commer-
cial news:
Liverpool, Sept. 14. — There has
been only a moderate demand in the cot-
ton market since the departure of the
Europa, and the sales of the week are
limited to 51,000 bales, of which export-
ers have taken 5,000, and speculators
13,000 bales. Prices have generally
been firm, but there is »o materieJchange,
and the official quotations are as follows:
Fair Orleans, 6jd;’ middling Orleans,
5fd; fair upland, 6d; and middling up-
land, 5fd per lb. /The imports of the
week are 27,450 bales. The stock on
hand, of all descriptions, exclusive of the
amount on shipboard, is 617,000 bales,
of which 471,000 are American.
which made his force nine,
menu may either be made to him, or
L. Abbotts, at the Monument Office.
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The Executive department at Austin
has received official advices, announcing
* the death of the Honorable B. H. Martin,
Judge of the Siitft- judicial
'
II meeting of the Pres-
i Texas, will bo held
locales on the • ”W * W W|
mouth, tit| Sift <d October.
The cultivation of tobacco is increasing
in Algeria. Last year there were only
446 hectares under the plant. This
year there are 1095.
or die. He will do one or the other,
certain.— Western Texan.
tbe purpose, if distributed forthwith.
We were not actuated by a fault-find-
ing spirit in making thils charge against ar
Houston.
having heard repeated complaints, weeks
beforehand. We wfehed to see older
and better-informed editors in tbe interior
of the Slate agitate tb+s matter before we
touched it. But our cotemporaries have
remained mum about this system of reg-
ular extortion, and we cannot see why,
because it goes on accumulating for years,
and their own readers have the burden to
'Now if the Houston papers are unable
to say anything whatever in favor of this
unjust wharfage, (and that we
suspect to be the case,) bad they not bet-
ter dome out boldly and manfully, amd
urge the citizens of Houston to abolish
the system at once ? We do not wish to
dictate, but merely to offer a
piece of advfoe. Houston cannot lord it
over the interior much longer, exacting
unjust tribute from the people of Texas,
‘ because they cannot help themselves.
For behold ! the powerful iron horse is
coming to their aft?. They have but to
prepare the way Tor fifo entrance. The
lime is not far distant when bis whirlwind
stride will shake the streets of Houston,
and if ever bis iron-shod foot plants itself P®cf l^e State to turn in an^
firmly upon that fit de toharf it will crum-
ble beneath the weight. t Mark it, Hous-
tonians ! Humble your pride a little,
and cease to exact an unjust tax, before
your power to fevy it passes away forever.
other day,
seen.
inches, and the weight
ounces.
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and will be able to supply planters and!
othesqprith good grafts, early next spring.
He calls the apple the Henley pippin.
We have now given what Texas can
do, in oats, corn, peaches, and apples,
and seriously doubt if any State in tbe
Union, with ajl the advantages of supe-
rior seed, cirtture, age, and experience,
can surpass the samples of each, as pub-
lished in our paper.—Star State Patriot.
There is paper now on exhibition at
Among the appropriations by the last
Congress is the sum of $20,000, to be
applied for the employment of means for
transporting troops and government stores
over the prairies of this country. r"‘ *
appropriation was recommended by the
Secretary of War. There is something
ludicrous in thus substituting the most
primeval mode of transportation for steam-
power in Ulis age of railroad mania.
given
Dr. W. P. Smith was in town a few
days ago, and is in fine spirits as regards
his success as Agent of tbe Monumental
Committee. As as he has yet trav-
elled, he finds .t lil
among the people,. ,
• fallen lieroes of tfreir adopted country/’
Tbe individual donations have thus far
varied from 96 to *9200. The Agent
intends to visit Fayette county generally;
then other counties in their order, until
he shall have travelled over the whole
Slate. Should be succeed according to
bis expectations, he says that be may,
perh.pi, extend bls visit to some of tbe
distant Slates, which lost many of their
patriotic eons in their glorious struggle
for Texan liberty.
As he is also tbe Agent for settling ar-
a+tempt to kill. In
jail, the sheriff was
Escaped.—A man named Jack John-
son, escaped from confinement in La
Grange, a fAv nights ago, by filing off his
"Tons. Pretending to be suddenly ill,
he asked his keeper logo down fo the
grocery below for a glass of grog, and
took this opportunity of making l»s exit.
He had been imprisoned for an assault
on another, with an
the absence of a
obliged to confine him in a common
apartment, employing two guards to
keep watch over him. After remaining
j costing
the county some four or five dollars per
day, he very coolly walked off, or ran
off, as tbe case may be. Had he chosen
to remain till the commencement of Dis-
trict Court here, it would have cost the
county a considerable sum. The ex-
pense of keeping two or three prisoners
in the same unsafe manner six months,
would take money enough out of the
county treasury to build a good jail.
There is little use for a Court House, or
Courts either, in La Grange, so long as
it remains without that necessary adjunct
—>a strong jail-house. We trust the
escape of the prisoner above-mentioned
will serve to awaken our citizens gener-
ally to the necessity of making such an
improvement as early as possible. It
should be done, not only for the better
security of criminals, but for the sake of
cconoiffl/.
Cattle Raising.—In speaking of
cattle raising in Western Texas, the last
Indianola Bulletin says:
! This important branch of Texas pro-
duction was never in a more encouraging
state than at present. In the coast region
tire number of stock-raisers is multiplying
rapidly. Iq, no portion of the country
are cattle raised more easily or success-
fully, and with so few losses, as io the
Caranchua country. We learn that Col.
Clark L. Owen has branded in his stock
800 calves, the production of 1852, while
our neighbpr Capt. I. N. Mitchell, on the
north side of the bay*, has branded 400.
The Messrs. Ward, Coleman, Wildy,
and others have very large herds on the
Caranchua. The Messrs. Snodgrass,
Fulton, and others, are establishing
stock hum on the same stream, on which
they wiJlplace a herd of 4000 head.
We are glad that that long neglected
but\nviting region, including the Lavaca,
Caranchua, and Tres Palacios, etc., is
now attracting, the attention of men of
means. It is considered the most inviting
portion of the lower country, and will ere
long blossom as a garden.
There can be no doubt but a given
sum of money invested in cattle growing
will yield more profit, than in any pther
branch of business in this State, and we
have no fears but that a good market will
* our surplus stock.
Lands, with good soil, wafer, grass,
and a
bought much cheaper on the Caranchua
and Tres Palacios, than in any other
part of the country, but ibis will not long
be tbe case, as settlers arc now looking
that way.
Fight with the Indians.—A letter
has been received in this city from Capt.
W. A. Wallace, belter known as “Big
Foot,” mail carrier to El Paso, which
states that he was attacked by about thirty
Indians, near Comanche Springs. Three
Indians were killed and several wounded. |
ighl wish One of tbe Captain’s party was wounded,
also some of his animals. He returned
to Fort Inge and Fort Clark, bu\ was
unable to get any assistance. He hired
three men,
There is, however, a leading idea per-
” ig it which affects, loo, most of the
that side, upon which we
few words. There is a
Stales to the Republic of Texas, and the
obligations of the United States to the
Slate of Texas. It is assumed that
there was some binding contract implied,
if not expressed, with the Republic of
Texas, which the State has undertaken
This opinion is fortified to vary; that this attempt is an unjust
------- - j- —j— interference with the rights of the original
i parties, andjl that tbe United States are
bound to disregard it. We do not so
consider the act of annexation and iia
consequences. The United States did
not annex the Republic of Texaa, or
agree upon the terms of annexation, by
treaty with that government. Aifoexntton
j a joint act of the two governments
was repudiated. Each acted indepen-
anything but a fair denily ; and the history of the Iran sac Loo
shows that the Republic of Texas wa-t
test by which to determine merged in the State of Texas, and all its
See notice of the Fayetteville House
in our advertising columns. We have
o I
heard this spoken of as an excellent ho->
tel for travellers and visitors generally.
sufficiency of limber, can be
sday, September 2ff, 1852.
That WKeiffage.
Our HoUXfon Cotemporaries* remain
ptrfectiy sifetft with regard to the com-
plaint we lately made against the wharfage
system of that city. But why are they
silent? Do they consider it a trivial
ebarge, not worth their notice? Or do
they suppose that The Monument has a
mere local circulation, and consequently -
tbe complaint will not spread very far, aS'
long as other papers take no notice of it?
M tbe Houston papers are laboring under
Cither of these impressions, they are
greatly mistaken in both. In the first
place, that cannot be considered a very
trivial charge which accuses a city of a
few thousand ifffiabhan’s of annually ex-
fortirig over twelve thousand dollars from
tbe very people upon whose liberal cus-
tom it baa heretofore depended for its
prosperity. In the second place, the
paper in which this charge was first made
is by no Means confined to La Grange, or
Fayette county.
in Western Texas where The Monument
has not a number of subscribers, while it
also circulates to some extent in northern
and eastern Texas.
We assure bur Houston co^editors,
then, that, if we have brought a false ac-
cusation upon tfieir little city, it amounts
to something more than a local whisper.
The mtsehievoDs sfonder has circulated
pretty widely by this time, and 'it would
perhaps be prudent to arrest it at once,
if it cap be done. As tbe Beacon and
Telegraph have both continued silent |
about it for two weeks, had they not bet-
ter send out telegraphic despatches imme-
diately, and thus stay the foul accusation
before it spreads any further ? We forgot
there were no telegraphic wires in Texas;
We would respectfully ask our Gal-
lo have veston cotemporaries of the News and the cotton crop i
Journal, if one of the chief arguments
at first advanced in favor of their railway
project was not, that it wotdd harmonize
conflicting opinions, and unite the people
in different sections on the subject—that
it laid down a definite plan, upon which
all were likely to agree? But has it an-
swered their expectations in this respect ?
Have they seen any evidences of its gen-
eral acceptation, or its calming influence,
or its healing virtue? On the contrary,
four columns long, to d°es not promise to create endless divi-
sions, and protracted opposition?
Let our cotemporaries above-men-
tinned reflect, for one moment, upon the
: heavy obstacles this scheme will have to
' encounter, and then let them pause before*
' they urge it any further upon public at-
tention. In the first place, the people of
the State will have to be so changed in
their opinions that they can be brought
to regard it with general favor. Il will
require months of labored writing, whole
volumes of editorial, to do that; of which
fact the editors of the News seem already
aware. Then the people, and their repre-
sentatives iu the Legislature, must be re-
conciled to an alteration of the State Con-
stitution, before the necessary appropria-
tion can be made. It will require months
of legislative disputation, and volumes of
speechifying, to do that. But suppose
the plan progresses thus far, and the
Constitution is altered to suit it, like a
small coat ripped up, patched out, and
re-seamed to fit a larger man: the four
routes proposed would have to be loca-
ted, their precise course agreed upon, and
their termini fixed. Then, again, endless
discussion, log-rolling, and intriguing,
would have to be gone through before
that matter could be settled. In all prob-
ability, not a member living west of the
Colorado would consent that all the lines
should terminate at Galveston. Others
would go for appropriating a few millions
to the El Paso road; others mi
to push another branch directly north,
in order to give the poor frontier Indians
better transporting facilities. There is
hardly a valley or a big prairie within the
State that would not contend that one of
the proposed branches should run through
.. If the routes should all be fixed at
last, some towns and sections would be
satisfied, perhaps, but others would be
discontented, and disposed to tkrow all
obstacles in the way of the more fortunate.
Meanwhile, no
been
jrogress in that way would be arrested,
and the country would remain as it was
until all these obstacles to exclusive State
enterprise had been overcome.
But, really, it is almost absurd to ad-
vance objections to so manifest an imprac-
ticability. We. are surprised that our
Galveston cotemporaries should appear
so blind to the inemable result.'
will bring more sources of wealth to their
wharves than they will expend in build-
ing them! up? If you open new chan-
nels to a down-impending flood, will it
not fill up those channels? And what
matters it if New Orleans and Mobile do
build the railroads they want, without
asking their respective States to build
them, will that circumstance prevent the
roads from'proving equally beneficial in
their operations ?
Suppose Galveston had the means to
build Bp a thousand miles of railroad, ra-
diating tojfour different points of the State,
would her citizens then sit down and idly
fold their hands, and exclaim, “Who now
will build up our commerce? Who will
do our harrying trade? Where is all
our shipping to come from?’* If the
people ol Galveston take this view of
railroad improvements, even if the State
should build the roads they require within
the next few years, acting upon <he same
principle, they might very reasonably ex-
I build them
a few hundred ships a»d steamer? to carry
on their increasing trade.
We shall not pretend to pass judgment
upon all the reasonings the News has ad-
vaneed in be^lf of its favorite scheme: un{jer durance near six weeks,
we have no time to investigate them all;
nor do we profess to have tbe necessary
ability ; neither have we any desire to
'differ with the editors of that paper on
this important subject. But when we see
ib^ra! spirit prevailing them endeavoring to put down corporated
i,; to do honor to the companies by sophistical instead of sound
reasonings, we cannot refrain from mak-
ing an occasional remonstrance.
reflecting man can
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We learn through our exchanges, that
in nearly all the Southern
States, presents a very discouraging pros-i
peel at present. The late terrible storm
on the Atlantic and Gulf coasts, extended
far into the interior, doing g
to cotton crops, which were very promis-j S1?,1S» we h°Pe l^iat
. !of this money may
1 he rams have been i ./
I . l. provement of our river.
, it will insure, to a
The Settlement of the Fishery QvO
Texas Apples.—We received from tion.— Tbe New York Albion, of tbe 4th
Mr. Hira# Henley, residing five miles in»L, expresses its belief of tbe romer
east of Marshall, the largest apple, the that the fishery difficulty is settled by
we remember to have ever England having conceded the American
The circumference was fourteen construction of the treaty, and limited the
" ■ '■ one pound two resdFved rights of North American prev^
It was not quite ripe. inces to the extent of three marine miles
Mr. Henley has eight trees of the kind, from the shore, adding, however :
The British Government, as we dis-,
tinedy said last week, has not backed wet*
It remains to be seen whether it has im-
prudently or ilLadvisediy given eway a
certain rig)n» of which it shook! have
considered itself rather tbe trustee than
tbe possessor. More remains behind.
The Liverpool Times rejoices at thio
settlement of the dispute, but says:
Tbe British colonists, for whose espe-
cial benefit this rupture with the United
Charleston manufactured at Springfield, j States was sought, and on whose aeaouot
Massachusetts, from rice straw from
South Carolina plantation. It is of fair ■ trespass, will be surprised to learn that
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for wrapping paper, and it is believed
could be made perfectly white.
A fisherman at Rockport, Maine, lately the ground. of our ini
took 200 barrels of mackerel, worth
$1,000, in one seine, and at one haul.
The twenty thousand dollar appropria-
tion to the Colorado, seems to have re-
vived the hopes of those still friendly to
the navigation of the river, as will be
seen from art article we Qppy from the
Stale Gazetted If this appropriation had
not been made, we hardly suppose the
Gazette, or any other j^er, would have *
resumed, the subject. But, as we said
some two or three weeks ago, if the sum
rearages to the Monument Office, while appropriated will avail anything, in arous-
iMufor the control of theCofomiuee; pay- *°g dormant enterprise, we hope it
to ‘ will speedily be applied to that object.
; It is possible feat the $20,000 from Con-
gress, and still further aid from the Legis- cenlly escaped from their owners in Wes-
lature, with the assistance of a little pri- tern Texas, expresses the opinion that
vate capital, will put the river in tolera-
ble boating order; Unless the completion
District of of a raflroadnthroogh this region within
jhe next two- or three years was a fixet
(act, beyond all possibility of doubt, we
do not see why tbe Colorado should be i
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ast, and ■ the general subject, and see noth
cl by far phis to call for extended comment.
Tbe idea of rendering (be
' a
unpopular as to be well nigh marked distinction attempted to be drawn
The opinion of every
cial benefit this rupture with the United
a we sent armed vessels to the scene of the
It is x
color, good substance, and well adapted the affair has been settled
for wrapping paper, and it is believed derof rights, tbe leg^
not disputed by either
parlies, and theinfrac ’
C our ini
will not cost the one-fortieth of what
railroad must, and can be done in one-
fourth the time.
money to build a railroad; and we shall. sembled,
’ a road admitted
in three years, i American Union.”
the name of
or stock taken fora railroad, is a slow i the Republic of Texas,” at, recited
one, and the process of building one is
still more so: it is so in countries where jin this transition to
there is an abundance of surplus labor, I eminent by
the reverse is the fact. We do not wish would have been
to be regarded as opposed to railroads, i
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X The ©olorado.
Tbe River and Harbor Bill has be-
come a law, one of the items of which is the subject ol the debt of Texas, in
■ an appropriation of $20,000 for the Col- which the writer, taking as bis text an ex-
orado river. Although we are opposed tract from one of our former articles un-
to the principles of this bill, and disgusted dertaken to prove that the Gavero-
great damage with the sectional unfairness of its provi-;nient of the United States is bound to
! aiviia, wc nupc mai a [
- ' - I of this money may be made to the lin-
ing previously.
excessive since then, and tbe boll worm , p|jet|? ;
and caterpillar, al latest accounts, were [
. striving to complete the work of destruc- nenl benefits.
tion in the bottom lands.
Eagle says it may be set down as a fixed
fact, that the cotton crop of lS52-’53, will afford facilities to a rich
will not turn out more than a i
; one. It will turn out far differently in ! ^*or ^ie ^ransPor\al’°.n to ma,^et of their; vadin
I .. r m , F n, I productions. Tbe idea of rendering (he
this part ol Lexas, however. Western I’- - i. . .. . ©a i
Texas will yield more than an average
crop this season.
prompt application! pay in full the amount of the indebted-
ness of Texas in bonds for which the
Judiciously ap- revenues from customs Were pledged by
portion of the the Republic of.Texas previous to au-
people of this valley, decided and perma- nexation ; and that the State of Texas
The removal of the raft, has no authority to interfere between tbe
The Memphis fW,M rcn^er l^e Colorado, al all times, United States and the creditors of Texas.
j navigable to Columbus, a distance of near We have often expressed our views on
one hundred miles from the coast, and the general subject, and see nothing in
, and by far'this to call for extended comment.
medium the most productive portion of the valley, ■
- .. o it which affects, too, most of the
productions. Tbe idea of rendering (he argument on
Colorado navigable to this point has shall say
become so i
abandoned, without, however, we think,! between the obligations of the United
sufficient reason.
one who has had experience in river boat-
ing, is, that it can be made navigable to
this place for the larger portion of the
year, the quantity of water being greater
than that in many rivers which are now
■ navigable daily-. r-
’ a scientific survey made under the
authority of the General Government, by
All lovers of music, and all desirous I
of gaining correct information on the
subject, should take the Musical World,
published weekly in New York city.
is an able and interesting journal, devoted
especially to the promotion of good music
in the United Slates.
;by
her own engineers, universally acknow-
ledged to be able, and which, in addition,
designates the work necessary to be done,
and the money necessary to do it. The
unsuccessful attempt of the steamboat
Colorado to navigate our river, has done |
more to impair confidence in its praetica-' by
bility, than if amattemjlt had never been!
made; yet this was :
experiment, and no
regard it as a
the practicability of navigating our river, contracts and obligations assumed by the
The Colorado is in no respect adapted to latter, before annexation was consumm*-
the liver, as she draws fully two feet more ted. The annexing resolutions of Coo-
water than a boat should, to run success- gress merely gave a consent that a State
fully, her draft being fully four feet. It to be formed out of the Republic of
will be lime enough to abandon all hope; Texas might become one of the United
of our river when the experiment is made j States oh certain terms. Her consent of
with a proper boat, and after a few thous- the Republic of Texas was an indepeu-
and dollars is expended in improving it, dent act, which might be given or wilh-
not before. For the last year, a properly \ held. It was competent for Texas to
constructed boat could have run the river, remain a republic and independent, not-
almosf daily, and it would be an uncom-! withstanding this overture. The Con-*
mon year that it could not do so for at gross, however, decided for anrrexafina,
least six months. We see no reason, and proceeded to give its consent •* that
therefore, to despair of making it a safe/the people and territory of the Republic
certain and expeditious medium of trans-! of Texas may be erected in:o a new
portation to the coast, especially when it! Stale, (o be called the Slate of Texa**,
with a republican form of government,
to be adopted by the people of the «ai<!
It takes labor, time and Republic, by deputies in convention as-
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and with these he intended to go through. be most agreeably disappointed if
is commenced to this place ’
and still more so if it is finished in six. people ratified this consent, and
The process of getting money subscribed, ceeded, in the name of M i
VV I VJI A V A O.
is* the preamble, to make a n
a new
whole people, it wee
people so exclusively remain precisely in the situation ia which
as- to neglect,and • they were before the adoption of tbe con-
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I more i
Let the discussion in 1
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go on, let interest, j
i people thereof,
sible; for the real work must be preceded into the State of Texas, before the co«i-
bya year or two, or three, of this kind ofi current legislation by which annexation
talk. In the meantime, let us experi-! permissible could have any force,
ment upon a somewhat smaller scale, im-! The true act of annexation, which was
prove our natural facilities, arrd make the the admission of Texas into the Union,
most of them, before we cut Providence recognized only a Stale of Texas; and
and set up for ourselves. We know! it is only with tbe Stale of Texas, after
there are some “fast” men with whom she had superseded and absorbed the re-
rivers have become an obsolete idea, an public, and assumed all the obligations
effete notion, except for the purpose of and contracts of the republic, that tbe
watering stock, and breeding fish, but we United Stales contracted afiy engage-
have not yet caught up with such trans- ments, or could be made Sable for any
the obligations. It follows, to ear appreben-
modest hope t>f seeing the Successful nav- ■ sion, that tbe rights and responsibilities of
igation of the Colorado, if in the furor Texas are precisely Fbe same as though
of enthusiasm its bed be not filled up to there had been no change of her form of
make the track of a railway, We hope government, and that her creditors have
the people of the Colorado valley will no rights against the United Stales which
not give over this enterprise, until they1 are not derivable from their -rights as
have fairly tested its merits. With an : creditors of. the State of Teles,
appropriation of $40,000 by the State, i VVe have no <
in addition to the $20,000 byHhfc G^n- upon this subject. We do Dot
eral Government, we are well assured! willingly to any coi
that the Colorado can be made navigable lessen the claims of any of tbe creditors
for small boats, which the wants of trade of Texas to full payment of their whole
will always supply in sufficient numbers, debt, pxutoipal and interest; but wo can
Let them address themselves earnestly to not bring ourselves to the opinion that
the work, and not slight the favors of for- the United States are at liber
tune by running off after arery gaudy rule the decision of Texas mi
five years they will have an act of gratuity oa their part, for which
a - - - • ' t /-• • •
along its banks, if they desire it.—-Austin sible.—Pirayaae.
Gazette. ------
f’alse Argument.
The Galveston News seems
abandoned all hope of promoting the rail-
way scheme of that city by publishing
brief and convincing editorials on the
subject: for that respectable journal is
now putting forth long printed speeches in
behalf of the plan, and in opposition to
that of Austin. But we cannot see that
these lengthy articles display an ability
and conclusiveness proportionate to their
length. Wje will just make one brief ex-
tract from adabored article in a late num-
ber of the News,
show how shallow and sophistical that able
The editor, we believe, is labor-,
ing to demonstrate that all railroads are
ruinous to stales and cities, unless the !
states alone take upon themselves tbe
burthen of constructing them.
“ Suppose New Orleans and Mobile,
by their diligence and enterprise, and by
straining theiiveredit and expending their
capital, can influence successfully the con-
struction of tbe proposed internal improve-
ments: allow this; but then what amount
of capital will they have left to embark in
enterprise through their external com-
merce? Ntw Orleans now shows but
80,000 tons of registered shipping; and
not half of that probably owned there.—
The New York register shows above half
a million, and Boston two-thirds as much.
If New Orleans and Mobile, or other
Southern cities, exhaust their present
means in building up the country, when
the Slate at large ought to do it, who will
build up their commerce? Who will do
their carrying trade ? These are all con-
siderations not to be overlooked in deter-
mining the.principles ofSouthern policy.”
Here it will be perceived that the News
bases its enquiries upon the false assump-
tion that New Orleans and Mobile, after
exhausting ail their spare capital in build-
ing the roads they have projected, will
remain perfectly stationary while said
roads are Being completed,
words, whert the roads are built, those
i
two cities-wiH find themselves exhausted
W 1 7 I w
but then a few hand-bills mfoAt answer of all their “resources, with no further
’ * , means to supply their increased capaci-
I ties for trade*! And will New Orleans
* - * and Mobile make no advance in wealth
We made it reluctantly, after ant^ population while they are thus open-
ing broad and easy avenues to commerce,
travel, arid immigration ? Are they not
acting upon the tlreory that those roads .
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