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LAGRANGE, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, MAY 24,
Vol. IV.
1854.
No. 43.
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An Important Inquiry.
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of the State ; which amount shall be ere-11 1_ 1
dited to the special school fund, and special school fund, i
tion for school purposes, as provided by
law; and said bonds of such company,
so satisfied, shall be cancelled and deliv-
ered up to such company.
bsc. 10. Whenever any of the bonds
of said company for the principal loaned
thereon, shall become due in the Office
of the Treasurer; and said bonds shall
be cancelled as required in section 9th
1, as a
premium for the discovery of means of
Mr. Campbell moved
Mr. Dean,
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Sec. ill. That if any such company
or refuse to pay said principal
or interest bonds from time to time as
die same shall become due, the road of
said company, together with all the rights
and property of said company, specified
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only partially understood the suggestion ; quested to cause negotiations to be open-
what
The Merchant “who advertiseth spar-
ingly will trade aparingly; and he who ad-
vertiseth bountifully will trade also bounti-
fullyC’
The solicitor pricked up his ears.
“State your grounds, Mr. O’Kelly,”
nor lent by the board of commissioners, said the court. |
to be paid, in which case the commis-
’ upon said
the office of the Treasury of the State, I ed fund, to supply the deficiency
and which shall be a lien in favor of the sioned by the failure 1
State as specified in the third section of provided that the commissioners may use
this act, and which lien, shall have a pri- it for the purposes of education at any
ority over all other claims against said | time, the interest accruing upon the bonds
company,
vernor, and said Board of Commission-
ers,
bonds at any time.
Sec. d. / ‘ ‘
said bonds upon said first section, 01 any
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not be lawful for said company to give,
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body corporate, whatever, any lien,
mortgage of any kind
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in section third of this act, shall be sold
the trunk or any established caused to be sold by the Governor of
but any railroad
any legally incorporated railroad by fil- 1 *
ling a correct statement, naming the point the subjick; there shall be
office of the Secretary! of State within against the liberty or the citizen!
twelve months from the passage of this act. yer honor, wat’s a more raisonal
on my left,” said the
What says the Stat#* to the
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“ Satisfied,” said the solicitor.
“ What says the defendent to the ju-
ry !”
“ Niver a word, yer honor—no mo-
ther’s son ov ’em will iver have a say on
the bit ov paper I hold in me hand, an*
which it would be waistin’ a good word
to call an indictment. I claim the me
he added with great
boldness, energy and unction, and with a
roar n>f r’s in the word demurrer which
nor shall said amount together with one per
cent, accruing on the bonds of any rail-
road company be used for the purpose of
education ; but shall be kept as a reserved
fund, unless the interest upon five per
cent, bonds remaining unsold, or upon the
and proceedings relative to said
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Sec. 2. That said board with the ap-
probation of the Governor, shall loan the
whole or part of said school fund to le-
gally incorporated railroad companies for
the term of twelve years, from the date
of said loans, at an interest of not less
than six per ceut per annum, payable
semi-annually. Said board however,
shall not loan the United States five per
cent, bonds, without obtaining for them
the market premium ; but the board may
dispose of the same from time to time as
may be found neceasary to carry out the 1
provisions of this act, to (he higest bidder
for not less than six per cent, premium i
for gold or silver only ; .and the proceds '
thereof shall be loaned said roads, as1
herein prescribed ; provided, not more 1
J than $400,000, shall be loaned lo -any one |
road or company ; and further provided
that eight hundred thousand dollars of
tl»e school fund shall be reserved, to be
loaned in aid of the construction of rail-
roads which do not have their terminus up-
on the Sulf coasts, the bays thereof, nor
upon Buffalo Bayou.
Sec. 3. Said board of Commissioners,
with the approbation of the Governor;
is hereby authorized to invest said fund
by loaning to any such company which
has been, or shall be hereafter chartered
for the purpose of building a railroad, a
sum equal to one-third the cost of a sec-
tion of thirty miles; provided the same
does not exceed the sum of six thousand
dollars per mile, for each and every mile
mile upon the whole length of the road I create or convey to any person or person
coMtracted & hereinafter provided.— | °r f
Said ,loans to be secured by the bonds of incumbraace
such company for said principal and in- which shall have priority over or coine
(crest, made and executed to the State of| in conflict with the lien herein secured,
and any such lien, incumbrance or mort-
gage, shall be null and void as against
said lien or mortgage in favor of the State.
Seci 9. That it shall be the duty of
any such company as the interest be-
comes due said bonds, executed as afore-
whose duty it shall be, with die approba-
tion of the Governor, tq invest and re-
invest of th^ sum of two millions five
hundred thousand dollars of the special i
scliool fund, in bonds of railroad compa-I
ides chartered by this Stale in the man-
ner hereinafter provided—and said board
shall annually report to the Governor its
acts
fuadi
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“Charley Napier” as they call the
rough old seadog, who goes East with the
British fleet, has been living seperate from
bis wife for some time. The
he sailed from Po«»riRu^, Act M
the *wc, (Lady N. bad come dow*
see him) “ Old Charley” kissed be?
fore all the bystanders, tucked hey arm
under his own, qpd marched her pff to
I his inn, in triumph.
we want to know
gal evi-
Tell us
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very
Compahiea, all the depot stations, and all
other property owned by such company
foe its business. Aad the State of Texas
upon the execution of said bonds, and
by virtue of the same shall be invested
with said lein or mortgage, without a
deed from such company for the pay-
ment of said bonds and the interest there-
on as the same becomes due.
of railroad, nor four thousand dollars per
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constructed sfs hereinafter provided.—
Said Joans to be secured by the bonds of I incumbrance or
such company for said principal and in-1 which jihall have priority
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Texas, in the corporate name of such
company, signed by the President, and
countersigned by the Secretary or Trea-
surer, under the seal of such company ;
which bonds shall constitute a. lien upon
the road, and said works andh charier
rights of jsoch company, including the
road-bed, right of way, grading, bridges,
iron, rath, equipments, Mid masonry, and B
upon all the stock subscribed for in said I shall be subject to immediate appropria-
law; and said bonds of such company,
Oh ! is there not some happy land—
A land beyond the seas ?
Where pot-pies smoke in boundless lakes,
And dumplins’ grow on trees
Can ginger bread be found in stacks,
And smear cakes by the ton ?
And when you do a job of work,
You can get the ready John.
Where nature’s lessons may be read,
In every babbling brook—
Where bumblerbees don’t sting,
And muley cows don’t hook.
Slapjackdom, April 30 1854.
substantial manner, and furnished ready
] use a continuous section of shall fail
thirty miles at either terminus of the
road of said company^ and the same a-
mount per mile for every additional con-
secutive section of thirty miles, which
shall be completed and furnished ready for
use, on
branch of said road ;
company obtaining a I
fund, shall be required lo give bond and
security in amount equal to the loan ob-
tained to be approved by the commis-
sioners,' that the succeeding section of
the road, if there be another section shall
be completed ; provided, that the value
of any grading or work actually done
upon the succeeding section or sections,
aud the materials and iron upon the
ground for such section shall be regarded
as sufficient security to the extent of the
value of such grading, work, iron, and
other materials, and bond shall only be
required for the amount of the difference
between the value of such grading, work,
iron and other materials upon the ground
and the loan obtained.
Sec. 5. That upon the application of
any such company to said board of com-
missioners for said loan, and its represen-
tation that section fourth of this act lias
been complied with, said board of com-
missioners, with the approbation of the
Governor, shall proceed to appoint some
competent engineer aVthe expense of the
company if there be no State engineer,
who shall examine the road of said com-
pany, and make report upon the condi-
tion of the same under oath. And upon
being fully satisfied that any section or
sections of said road works have been
1 as provided
_ the 4lh section of this act, and that
said section or sections, are not subject
to any lien whatever, other than such as
may be created by (his act, in favor of
the Slate, said board may draw a warrant
1 on the Treasury of the Slate, in the name
I of said company, against said special
HONOR TO
office of the Secretary of State, a detail-
ed statement of the cost of said section of
road, the charter and description of ma-
terials, the grade, embankments, bridges,
and character of roads, which statement
shall be verified by the affidavit of at least
two officers of said company ; and if the
said officers or engineer should knowingly
swear or stale anything falsely in regard
to the statement, they are herein required
to make, they shall, be subject to all the
pains and penalties of perjury.
Sec. 16. The State of Texas express-
. ly reserves the right to enact hereafter all
satd, to^depo^tJhe same in the Treasury such |avvs a8 may be deemed necessary
, - . f , t ,'I to protect the interest of the State, and
, in securing the pay-
ment of bonds, and in enforcing the lien
reserved thereon. And the provisions of
this act shall not extend to any road con-
structed under an act, to provide for the
construction of the Mississippi and Pacific
railroad passed at this session ; or to any
railroad whose commencement and ter-
mination are not established by the origi-
nal act of incorporation or some act a-
mending the same, or by the directors of
Premium for a Cure of Cholera.
—The department of state has published
a letter from our minister to France,
covering a letter from Alexander Valte-
rnate, who explains the circu
a bequest of 100,000 francs, which has
been made to the French institute
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curing the Asiatic cholera, or of the cause
of the pestilence. The testator’s heirs
have contested the validity of the bequest,
and until the litigation thus commenced,
shall be decided the French Institute
will not be prepared to act upon the sub-
When this impediment' shall be
removed, if the decision of the courts
shall prove favorable to the legality of
the bequest, the programme will be pre-
pared, and opportunity afforded to all in
every country for competition.
We understand, that if the legality of
“ Certainly, certainly ! If you are in
that condition you shall have a trial if
possible.”
“Only^warri, yer honor,” said Ste-
phen, who plumes himself on the know-
ledge of the “ noble Roman tongue,”
which he is said to have acquired at
“ Trinity College, Dublin.”
“Offiy qwaui; because the sheriff
has charge over me, an, kapes me con-
stbructively in jail, at Judge Falkner’s
hotel. It’s qwassi^ yer honor.”
The State, “ by its Solicitor,” had by
this time got the witnesses for the pros-
secution within the bar, and announced
1 ready.” Just at this juncture some
one whispered to Stephen that the indict-
ment was demurrable in this, that instead
of alleging this offence to have been com-
mitted before the finding of tire indict-
ment, it was said to have been done be-
fore the filing of that document. Mr.
O’Kelly, from the hurry of the moment,
A dispatch to the Baltimore Sun from
Richmond, Va., dated the 17th inst.,
says: “ A brother of the Captain-Gene-
ral of Cuba passed through here to-day
en route for Washington. He is a bearer
of dispatches in reference to the Black
Warrior affair. He has also been dele-
gated to procure locomotives for Cuban
railroad companies.”
but it was quite enough for him that the
instrument was supposed to be defective.
Verbal inaccuracies of all sorts be pro-
fesses to abhor. So Stephen announced
ready,” too.
“ Go the jury
Judge.
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Sec. 4. Said board of Commissioners of this act, and said principal sums so
SubtcripHon^$3 Dollars per annum, in advance shall with the approbation of the Govern- returned into the Treasury, shall be cred-
03 50 maix months, or $4 at the end of the year or, loan the amount referred to in the iled lo the special school fund, and sub-
AiwHiung-91 per square for tb. first insertion, previous section, to any sttclt company ject to reinvestment by said board as pro-
■nd 50 cents fm each subsequent insertion. 10 as shall have completed in any good and vided in |his act.
line*, or less, to constitute a square. • !* ’* * “ ’ * * ’ ’
Advertisements nat marked with the number of ] for RCtUal
insertions will be published until forbid and
charged accordingly. %
lidge inter their heads; and in me old
age, it goes to me heart to be prosecuted
for fillippin* the nose of a switch av a lad
that was misbehavin’ inthirely. But the
thing that mostly pains me feelins, yer ject.
honor, is Btein’ brought inter the presence
of yer honor by the myr-r-midons of the
law, on a charge set forth in languidge
so vague and intechnical. Yer honer,
the bit av paper in me hand racites that
Suphen O’Kelly is guilty of sthrikin’
and batin’ the boy, and that’s bad enough, the above bequest is established, that the
yer honor! But it gits better niver so
fast whin it talks of a sworn grand jury
filin a bill, instid, yer honor, like Chris-
tian men that had been insthructed in
their humanities, usin the ter-r-r-m /indin^
the bill. I’m glad, yer honor, I’ve
responsibility for tachin’ any av ’em,
and—”
“That’ll do, Mr. O’Kelly,” interposec
the Judge; “ I think I see yer point.-—
What says the State ?”
The solicitor remarked conversation-
ally that he thought the indictment, ander
the code, was good. There was a mere
lapsns pennoe as to a single letter. “Per-
haps,” he added laughingly, “ it might
be cured by the application of the maxim
minimit no* curat lex,
Stephen couldn’t stand so much Lat-
in without taking a band.
“Yer honor,” he exclaimed excitedly
—“ the very maxim of the law that I
plant incself upon. The lapsus penna:
proprietor of “Jacobs’ Cholera, Dysen-
tery and Diarhsa Cordial” (a prepara-
tion that is now being extensively manu-
1 factored in this city) will contend for this
premium, by sending forward an agent
with a sufficient quanity of the medicine
for a thorough test.
If the medicine is what its proprietors
claim for it, and what report says of it,
the formula for its preparation should, by
some means, be secured and made known
for the benefit of the world.—Savannah
Journal. I
THE BRAVE.
shall not work, yer homier, the injury av
* “ 1 ‘‘ ' “ * s bo intend-
of commencement and termination in the ments, yer honor, in this fray counthry
1 And,
more raisdnable con-
struction of de minimis non curat lext
than that an old teacher may spank a lit-
tie boy 1 De minimis non curat lex is Do olber mau cau
good law an good Latin, yer honor, an
the Jilin' av the bill is neither the one
nor the other. An,’ yer honor—he added
with increased dignity—“ I stand upon
me demur-r-r-er~r.”
The court sustained the demurrer and
quashed the indictment; whereupon Ste-
phen, having offered “ me compliments
to your honor,” and bowed patronizingly
to the solicitor, with hat in one hand and
stick with the cruciform head in the
other, withdrew from the court (the
licitor declining to bind over,) to tell
crowd of his friends in the lobby that he
was “ saved inthirely by his
knowlidge of the English ar
ongues an* standin’ like the reck av Gi-
i brakar on his demur-r-r-er-r-r !
Oh ! think on my fate, once you’h I enjoy’d,
Waa ■■ happy as happy could M, * A
But yuuth ia now fled, e’en hope is destroy’d,
And no one takes pity on me
I was taken by age, ’twas the fiat of fate.
And I weep and I bitterly groan, s
When thought brings to mipd my single estate,
I sigh aud I lug on aluoe.
Hard, hard is my fate ! Oh, how galling my chain
My life is steer’d by misery’s chart:
Tho* gainst my fair tyrants I scorn to complain,
Tears gush forth to ease my full heart.
1 disdain e’en to shrink, tho* I feel the sharp lash
For my head like a snow-ball has grown.
While round me the unfeeling fair ones do dash,
I sigh! and still tug on alone.
How fortune deceives; for time has me in tow,
1 mourn o’er my fuHy in vain ;
Fur the life of a Bachelor is cluuded with woe—
A wife I can never obtain !
My face is all furrow’d and hope pass’d away,
And no one compassion has shown.
But despair wasi’s my spirit, my form feels decay:
He sighed and expired alone.
I NORA.
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the State, for the satisfaction of said bonds
loan of the school of said company which may have been
given under this act to the State; and
the whole of said bonds shall be deemed
due if the sale takes place, and the pro-
ceeds of such sales shall be deposited in
the Treasury and credited to the special
school fund.
Sec. 12. That upon the failure of any
such railroad company to pay said princi-
pal, or interest bonds as required in this
act, it shall be the duty of the Governor
to cause notice of such failure to be ad-
vertised in some newspaper published at
the seat of Government of this State, for
the term of sixty days, in which notice
shall be stated the amount of money due
to the State and unpaid, the corporate - n
name of the company owing the samd, )er ^nor*
and the length of road completed at the
time said advertisement is required to be
made, and said company shall have the
full term of the said sixty days after said
sums become due to pay said principal
or interest bonds, and no longer; and if
the same be not paid at the end of said
sixty days, the whole of said road and
work together with all the rights and
property of said company, specified in
the third section of this act, shall be for-
feited to and become the absolnte proper-
ty of the State.
And after said forfeiture shall have
accrued under the provisions of this act,
it shall be the duty of the Governor, to
advertise for sale in some newspaper
published at the said Seat of Government
(he entire road and said appertenances
thereunto belonging and forfeited as afore-
said, for the term of sixty days at the ex-
piration of which time the said road with
the said appertenances shall be sold to
| the highest bidder for cash at the door of
the Capitol of this State.
Sec. 13. In the event of any sale of
any railroad, and other works belonging
to said road under the provisions of
this act, it shall be the duty of the Gov-
ernor either in person or by agent, to at-
tend said sale, and protect the interest, of
the special school fund ; and shall, il*ne-
cessary to protect said interest—buy in
said road, with all the rights and property
belonging to said compay, in the name of
the State in trust for the school fund; pro-
vided, he shall not bid more than the a-
mount of the bonds of said company with
the interest due thereon. And shall lease
the same until the meeting or action of demur-r- rer-rr!”
the legislature!—should the State become
the purchaser.
Sec. 14 An amount of five per cent, was^truly impossing.
bonds equal to the premium of (hose sold
of the school fund; shall not be invested-
Stephen squared himself, in rather pu-
gilistic style, and with Hat and cane in
one hand and the indictment in the other
proceeded:
“May it plaze yer honor, for forty
years its been me lot to be ingaged in in-
sthruetin* the youth of this counthry in
the classics, the mathematics, and in Ht-
therychore ginerally. Me juvenil days
wer spent among boys; me manhood’s
Below wilt be found a characteristic
story by J. J. Hooper, author of Simon.
Suggs, &c., who is now Editor and Pro-
prietor of “ The Montgomery Mail,** a.
paper published at Montgomery Ala. ’
John’s is a rare bird, and tells a story as
1 one.
“ Sloshing About.”
The Judges often tell stories on the
members of the bar, allbeit they are much -
oftener the subjects of stories themselves.
We lately heard one of the former illus-
trating (tee propriety of “letting well
enough alone,” by the following anec-
dote:
An affray case wag on vrtal in tbe ctr-
cuit Court of Pike county, in which some
six or eight peace-breakers were repre-
sented by almost as many lawyers, each
of whom, in turn, put th* only witness
for the State through the tortures of a te-
dious cross examination. Nat-------, a
well known Montgomery practitioner,
was of counsel for a big black fellow in
the crowd who answered to the name of
Saltonstall. As to this defendant, the
only proof of which was elicited on the
examination in chief of the witness for
the prosecution, was that—to use the pe-
culiar phraesology of the narrator—“while
the rest on ’em was cussin’ and clinchin’
and pairin’ on for a reg’lar battle r’yal,
Saltonstall jist kept sloshin', about."—
This expression was repeated a half
dozen times—Saltonstall kept sloshing
about. The Solicitor and Nat both con-
structed this to mean that Saltonstall was
only moving about, drunk, among the
combatants, and the former did not press
for an explanation. . Presently, however
it came to Nat’s turn to cross-examine
for his client and as be had received quite
a handsome fee considering bow things
stood, he felt bound to make something
of a “demonstration.” So, quoth he,
with the air of the avenger of injured m-
jured innocence:
“ Come, witness, say over again what
it was that Mr. Saltonstall bad to do with
this affair!”
“ Saltonstall ? Why, I’ve told you
seveal times, tbe rest on ’em clinched
and paired off, but Saltonstall^ he, jist
kept sloshin' about!”
“ Ah, my good fellow,” exclaimed
Nat, quite testily, “
what that is. It isn’t exactly leg
dence in tbe shape you put it.
what you mean by sloshin' about.'
“ Well,’’ answered tbe witness very
deliberately, ** I’ll try. You see, John
Brewer and Sykes they clinched aad
fout. That's in a legle form, ain’t it ?”
“ Oh, yes!” said Nat------, “ go
on .
“ Abney and Blackman then pitched
into one another, and Blackman bit off a
piece of Abney’s lip—that's legle, too
ain’t it?”
“ Proceed!”
Simpson and Bill Jones and Murray
was all together on the ground, a bitin’,
gougin’ and kickin’ one another—that's
legle, too, is it?”
“ Very !—but go on !”
“ And Saltonstall made it his business
to walk backwards and forwards, through
tbe crowd with a big stick in bis band,
and knock down every loose man in the
crowd as fast as he come to ’em ! That’s
what I call sloshTn about !”
Nat is of opinion, now, that unless a
prima facie case is made out by tbe
prosecution, on the direct examination of
their witnesses, it is quite as well for tbe
defendant to waive bis right to cross ex-
amine. /
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To provide for the investment of two mil-
lions Jive hundred thousand dollars, of
the special setoil fund in the bonds of constructed and completed
railroad companies 10 ,he 4th sect,on of lb“
Section 1. Be it enacted by tbe le-
gislature of the Slate of Texas; That
the Comptroller, Secretary of State and
Treasurer of the State shall exofficio con-
stitute a board of school commissioners } * - - - »
school fund, for such amount of money
as
ions of this act, which warrant shall state !
on account of what work it is drawn,
shall be signed by said board of commis-
sioners, and countersigned by the Comp-
troller, and delivered to the President
or the duly authorized agent of said com-
pany.
Sec. 6. That upon the presentation
of said warrant or warrants lo the Treas-
urer of the State, the amount of money
called for in the same, shall be delivered
and transferred according to law’, to the i
President or authorized agent of said
company:; his receipt taken therefor, and
the same charged to the special school
fund.
Sec. 7. That before said board shall
deliver to said company, said warrants
upon the Treasury, it shall require said
company to execute and deliver into the
Treasury of tbe Slate, the bonds of said
company for said loan or loans ; in sums
of not more than one hundred thousand
dollars each, and not less than one thous-
I and dollars each, pay to tbe State of Tex-
as twelve years after date, together with
coupan bonds for (be per cent, interesty
thereon, payable semi-annually as above
stated, which bonds shall be executed in bonds of any railroad company shall cease
the mode prescribed in the third section m be paid, in which case the commis-
of this act, .and shall be made payable at sioners may draw upon said reserv-
the office of the Treasury of the State, ed fund, to supply the deficiency occa-
and which shall be a lien in favor of the sioned by the failure to pay interests; prime has been ingaged in bangin’ know-
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pri- I it for the purposes of education at any
With the consent of the Go-1 of the reserved fund.
. . Sec. 15. Whenever any company
I 5??J>aiHeS may rc^eera sa,d shall be entitled to a loan under the pro-
* visions of this act, it shall be the duty of
And after the execution of gaid company to cause to be filed in the
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subsequent constructed section; it shall
Cotton is King.—Charles Dickens,
in a late number of his “ Household
Worlds,” after enumerating tbe striking
facta of Cotton, says:
“ Let any social or physical convul-
sion visit the United States, and England
would feel the shock from Land’s End
to John O’Groat’s. The lives of nearly
two millions of our countrymen are de-
pendent upon the cotton crops of Ame-
rica ; their destiny may be said, without
any sort of hyperbole to bang upon za
thread.
“ Should any dire calamity befall tbe
land of cotton, a thousand of our mer-
chant ships would rot idly in dock; ten
thousand mills must stop their busy looms,
and two million mouths would starve for
lack of food to feed them.”
An Irish Demurrer.
Steph. O’Kelly, for many years known
in Western Georgia and Eastern Alaba-
ma as an eccentric teacher of youth ac-
cording to tbe Hibernian fashion of the
olden time, stood indicted at the spring
‘of Chambers Circuit Court,-in the year
1S54, for assault and battery on a boy of
tender years—not, however, a pupil of
our hero, but a pert chap who met Ste-
phen in a bar-room and offered him some
indignity. . | *■
Being unable, or perhaps only unwill-
ing, to give bail—for Stephen is a “ no-
lionate” old fellow—the sheriff left” Mr.
O’Kelly at large on his parole d'honneur.
When the case was called, the presiding
judge inquired of the defendant, who
represented him.
“ Y’er honor! I’m without money, an’
shall have to defind myself.”
“ Be sure I ” responded Stephen.—
“ An’ I want a spady thrail, for I’m un-
able to give bail, an’ bein’ in jail’s no fun,
Annexation of Canada.
On the 3d inst., Mr Campbell, of this
State asked leave of the House of Rep-
resentatives to introduce the following.*
Resolved, That the President be re-
quesieu io cause negotiations to oe open-
ed with tbe Government of Great Britain
with tbe view of ascertaining
conditions that government will consent
to tbe annexation of the Canadas to tbe
U. S. of America.
The reading of the resolutions caused
great laughter, and objections was made
to its reception, f ~
for a suspension of tbe rules,
of New York, wanted Cuba
the terms of tbe resolution, but Mr.
Campbell refused to modify it.
The House refused to suspend
rules—yeas 28, nays 119.
The affirmate vote was as follows:
Messrs. Belcher, Bliss, Campbell, Car-
penter, Cook, Corwin, Farley„ Flagler,
Gun, Harrison, Knox, Lane,
Mace, Matterson, Nicholas, P;
Pringle, Russell, Sapp, Uphajn, Wade,
Walbridge, Washburn of III.. Wells,
Wentworth, and Yates.—Cin. Com.
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