The Matagorda Gazette. (Matagorda, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 15, Ed. 1 Saturday, November 6, 1858 Page: 1 of 4
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PROPRIETOR.
NUMBER 15.
LOLA MONTEZ AND THE CLERGY.
TO SPOIL A DAUGHTER.
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reflection, up the
a wife.
MATAGORDA, TEXAS, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1858.
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FRUIT TREES IN TEXAS.
Harrisoa, Missouri, says :
uu *v euesuay evening last, we uau a
long convesation with Mr. B. G. Johnson,
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cannot expect any better treatment than
Now if the tail be driven off kicks and cuffs, and finally summing it up,
rays,
our
THE LAST INTERVIEW BETWEEN
BENTON AND BUCHANAN.
Mrs. Jacobs, a daughter of the late Col.
r-s
GALE* HODGES,
The Good Shepher dChurch in New York
city, presided over I ’ ~ — - -
Hoyt, Was blown down some time ago by a I
gale of wind. Lola Montez, hearing that
the church was remarkable for having dis- satisfied that this is
yielded up their constitutional rights,
counsel them to submit to the aggression.
Mr. Buchanan, then, in this instance, has
exhibited a just defiance of the sectional
spirit to which Mr. Jones has been the
victim, and displayed at the same time a
discrimination that is at no loss to select
adequate ability and fitting accomplish-
ment for diplomatic station.—Delta.
Mr. Buchanan and Cuba.—The Washing-
ton correspondent of the New York Times
says that Mr. Buchanan’s policy, in en-
deavoring to purchase Cuba, aims at five
things viz :
1. To satisfy the Bisbop and Clergy of
Spain that the Catholic Church would not
wane and be forced to a secondary position
on the island, in the event of its transfer J i
the United States.
2. To satisfy Christina that her thirty
millions of private property on the island
would not be subject to the principles of
agarianism, but would be doubled in value
by the transfer.
3. To satisfy the agriculturist that his
market would not be injured, but improved
by having not only the ports of Cuba, but
the whole country, free to his produce.
4. To satisfy the commercial interests
that free trade would be accorded them
here, while they could discriminate at home
according to their own pleasure.
And lastly, to satisfy the government
that a transfer of the island is actually ne-
cessary to secure lasting peace between
the two countries.
Too Appropriate a Text.—A good story is
told of a popular preacher in the town of
H----, in Pennsylvania, which we shall
take the liberty of reproducing It appears
the minister has been wedded to a most
worthy lady, whose first gift was a dowry
of ten thousand dollars, with the [
of as much more upon the decease of her
invalid parent. Shortly after marriage,
5 chanced to ’
try abroad, and Mr. Buchanan, no doubt,
feels justly assured that Mr. Jones will by
no means depreciate her reputation in that
respect Mr. Jones is a man not to be
slightly classified with the rabble of politi-
cians. As a member of Congress he was
not the slavish partisan, nor 1'
trickster, nor the agent of lobby specula- right.
rights of the South, as Southern constituen-
cies, are to forgive and to still further pro-
mote compromising delegates who, having Comet projects fri
ing representative of Buncombe. He has
been sound and consistent, according to
present recollection, in his whole political
course, and with regard to the constitutio-
nal question of slavery and the rights of the
South, in particular, he has frequently ex-
pressed views and delivered arguments
which even such Southern statesmen as
Senators Davis and Orr might recur to
with profit. And, questionless, it is owing spare himself. Mr. Buchanan remarked to
to his want of accommodating flexibility to
the local sense of his District, to the pro-
vincial prejudices of his constituents, in
that respect, as well as upon the question
of tariff protection for Pennsylvania pro-
ducts, which is unquestionably cherished
more or less by all parties in that State
that his recent defeat for Congress is to
he attributed. For Northern constituencies
are about as certain to punish their repr e-
sentatives who refuse to reflect local sel-
fishness or sectional animosity, in disrc-
land, this being »arding tlie Constitution and assailing the
Mission, by the appointment of Mr. Jones.
Pennsylvania has heretofore furnished some
of the most able, eminent and accomplished
diplomats which have represented the coun- friends ; we have differed on ma»y points,
through the columns of the Louisville Jour-
nal ? That paper says ;
A correspondent asked an explanation of
the cause of the curved appearance of the
comet’s caudal appendage. We do not feel
qualified to answer, although we thought it
had as good a right to curl its tail as a cat
or have a kink in as a pig. But another
corresponeent, who does not speak ex-cathe-
dra from the tower of an astronomical ob-
servatory, and acknowledges himself a
lay member of the scientific school, says
the comet is not within the ^.ulterior range
in which the earth exerts an attractive in-
fluence : that the part facing the sun is of
concave form, from which the solar rays
are reflected in a direct line to their source;
but the velocity with which the comet is
traveling, from north to south, necessarily
causes the curve, on account of the diffe-
rence of time it takes the different reflected
angels of light to reach our vision; and that
if the comet were to come to a dead halt
where it now is, the tail would become as
Be always telling her how pret ty she is
Instill into her young mind an undue
love for dress.
Allow her to read nothing but works of
fictioa.
Teach her all the accomplishments, but
nose of the utilities of life.
Keep her iu the darkest ignorance of the
mysteries of house keeping.
Initiate her into the principle that it ie
vulgar to do any thing for herself.
To strengthen the latter, let her have a
lady’s maid.
Teach her to think she is better than
any body else.X
Make her think that she is sick when she
is not, and let her lie in bed taking medi-
cines when half aa hour’s out of door exer-
cise would completely cure her of her
lasinesa.
And, lastly having given her such ta
education, marry her to a lady’s man, who
iff a clerk with a salary of $250, or an up-
start professional quack.
Punch on Pexntirs.—How nice this being
a printer I A public eervant, and well
nigh the slave of the devil I a good natur-
ed fellow, mast always smile, bow io every
very small trees.—The apple has grown
equally well, but many young trees have
been killed by the flat headed borer, which
works under the bark near the surface of
the ground. The peach, nectarine and
apricot thrive admirably, and of the two
first a few fine fruits have been produced.
The plum and cherry grow off finely ; so of
the quince; but the same insect which ope
rates so injuriously on the under side of the
leaf in Mississippi, is equally troublesome
The grape grows as well as could be de-
sired; in fact we have a grape country,
most emphatically. Of the smaller fruits I
cannot speak. Nearly all of the coniferoe
or cone bearing, and other resinous ever-
green trees and shrubs, thrive admirably,
as do all of the more common evergreen
and other ornamental plants—and above
all the rose ! Such a vigor of growth and
abundance of rich bloom 1 And all this too,
in a comparitively new 1
I only the scond season since the prairie sod
was turned over. The nursery is located
in a prairie valley, beautifully studded with
groves of live oak, pecan, &c., and suffi-
ciently well watered to admit of partial ir-
rigation.
There is one plant whose vigor or
growth has surprised me, under the cir
cumstances; and that is asparagus. It
a stronger,
lished the result of his observations on
the Comet in the Austin Intelligencer. He
says—
“ The curvature in the Comet’s tail is a
curious phenomenon, and merits a remark.
“The usual fact is, that the tail of a
om the sun, thus keeping
the Comet’s head towards the Governor of
the great celastial family, in the most re-
spectful attitude.
“The length of this Comet’s tail renders it aider the printer at best a sorry dog, who
unwieldy, and the nucleus gets in advance
of the tail.
from the Comet’s body by the sun’s i
as would seem to be the case without
knowledge of a sufficient reason for it in
physics, it is obvious, that the matter thus
projected into space, a greater distance
from the sun, would have a vastly greater
distance to travel, and could not, from
previous projectile force, maintain their
position opposite the sun. This cause con-
stantly operating, would account for the
curvature of the tail.”
How does this tally with the explanation
MATAGORDA GAZETTE
— ■«■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■mi—MMaBHa—Maw—
commenced.
" Forever let my grateful heart,”
His words paused—he caught slightly—
then adding, “ the choir will omit the fifth
verse,” sat down with something like a
nervous haste. With curiosity excited at
this conduct of their minister, the congrega-
tion smiled some, as they read—
“ Forever let my grateful heart
His boundless grace adore,
Which gives ten thousand blessings now,
And bids me hope for mores”
Toilet for Gentlemen.—For preserving
> preserve
the breath, sweet abstinence from tobacco.-
For whitening the hands, honesty.—To re-
move a stain, repentance.—Easy shaving
soap, ready money.—For improving the
sight, observation.—A beautiful ring, a
family circle.—For improving the voice,
VOLUME I,
^HE 4ZETTE,
‘U1LIS BED VERY SATURDAY BY
GAM MOTCTS.
The Judge and the Witness.—The Boston
Post say : Our Brown brings us a story
from one of the Southern cities of the Em-
pire State, which he says is as true as any
fact in “ York State.” Judge G. is well
known to the bar of the Southern counties
as a decided character, and more good sto
ries are told about him than any other man
on the bench in that region. Th® judge’s while occupying the pulpit, he chanced to
manner in court is dogmatic, progmatic give out a hymn, the fifth verse of which
as you well know, but I have always trust-
ed in your integrity of purpose. I sup-
ported you in preference to Fremont, be-
cause he headed a sectional party, whose
success would have been the signal for dis-
union. I have known you long, and I
the political knew you would honestly endeavor to do
_ • I have that faith in you now, but
tors, nor the frothing, blustering, swelter- you must look to a Higher Power to sup-
port and guide you. We will soon meet
in another world ; I am going now, you
will soon follow. My peace with God is
made, my earthly affairs arranged ; but I
could not go without seeing you, and
thanking you for your interest in my child.”
Much more was said that is too sacred to
repeat. Col. Benton was much exhausted,
and Mr. Buchanan frequently urged him to
following :
While some workmen were
a marsh on the land of Mr. John McElthone,
in Ellenville, Ulster county, they discover-
ed several huge bones. One is a portion
of a jaw-bone, the others are evidently por-
tions of leg or thigh bones. They are all
much decayed, having apparently been un-
der the soft mud for ages. In the jaw is a
mammoth toeth, in a state of almost perfect
preservation. It is the tooth of a gramin-
ivorous animal, and measures seven inches
in length and three in width. These bones
are undoubtedly those of a mastodon of the
largest size. Such bones are usually found
There is reason to believe that in places like this. Those here discovered
ire said to be five or six times larger than
he corresponding bones of any living an-
iials, and are in conformation unlike
tern.
lesson, and tell them they are not
[Applause.]
class of hypo-
I would be impossible to force
darker growth by any amount of manuring
, and trenching than this plant makes in the
black prairie soil, with very little of either.
The crop of one year’s seedings, for trans-
planting this coming fall, is very fine; and
the two year olds are noble plants.
We have been engaged during the last
month in making wine from the mustang
grape, under the direction of a French gent-
leman, M. Gerhard. But for the scant sup-
ply of labor available for the purpose this
season, and so much of other work to do,
we could easily have made one hundred
barrels of rich vine, without going over five
' miles in any direction to gather grapes.—
As it is, we have had to content ourselves
with less than half the quantity. Of the
process of wine making I will treat at some
future time. I am fully satisfied that Texas
possesses in this grape, an inexhaustible
source of wealth. The wine is a rich, anid
red wine stronger in alcohol than any other
wine, it is positively asserted. What we
have made is the pure juice of the grape,
without the addition of one grain of sugar
or drop of spirits of any kind. Some small 1
digging in experiments, it is true, were tried in that
way, but which resulted, in every instance,
in injury to the wine.
especially to the ladies ; must always be a
dear duck of a man ; always witty ; al-
ways dignified, must never do anything
that would not accord with the strictest
sense of propriety of the most precise old
maid, and must always be correct to know
The Comet.—Professor Forshey has pub- the Iatelt n€wg> ie etylcd Mugiim if he is
not always posted, must of course please
everybody, and certainly is supposed never
to be in need of the “ one thing needful,”
must work for nothing, board yourself,
must trust everybody, and is thonght a
great bore if he should present his bill;
must be a ladder for all political aspirants
to step into office, who very soon become
independent, don’t owe him anything, con«
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Advertiseniis of a personalcharacter, when admis-
sible, will it barged double price.
Political ciu ars or public addresses for individual
promise straight as a loon’s leg.
What he Thinks of Douglas.—“ Long”
John Wentworth, Mayor ofChicogo, better
known as “ Mail Bag John,” expresses the
following private opinion of Judge Doug-
las .
My opinion, sir ! my opinion of Douglas
is, that he is a
one, too, and carries his points against op-
position that any other man would break
down under. He has got courage, sir, and
forces his way and people will follow him.
He is a d—d scoundrel, sir; but he will be
elected Senator—and you Buchanan men
down here will have to take him for Presi-
dent yet. D—n him I
Cube foe the Black ToNGUE.-This disease
which prevails to a considerable extent in
some portions of the country, according to
the Scientific American can readily be
cured. r"
more nor less than to permit cattle to chew pantaloons for her political services.1
coarse salt—the coarser the better. This +°n **
civility.—The best companion at the toilet, is certainly harmless and inexpensive, and
- I is worth a trial
members of the family that nothing had
ever given him greater pleasure. When
Mrs. Jacobs returned to her father’s room, body> uau^t be killing polite on all occasions,
he called her to him and said : “ My child,
you are a witness of what has passed this
evening ; think of it and remember it. I
am glad Buchanan came; all is peace with
me, and I can rest.”
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he is expected to be “ a man without a
model and without a shadow.”
Black Tounge in Texas.—A letter froa
Sabine Town, dated Oct. 18th says :
“ There is some little excitement among
those that have stock, for the cattle dying
through the country with a disease called
the black tongue. It seems to be very fatal
among them, and it is said to endanger
humane life, to use either the milk or ths
beef of a diseased cow or steer. Every ons
of this important phenomenon before given haB *urned bis ,tock at larSe and <luit th®
■ ■ ■ use of it. It is equally fatal among the
deer, there having been dead ones found ia
• the forest with the same disease.
Yours Respectfully,
J. J. NASH.
Burke’s Idea or a Perfect Wife.—She is
handsome, but it is not a beauty arising
from the features, from complexion or from
shape. She has all three in a high degree,
but it is not by these that she touches ths
heart—it is all that sweetness of temper,
benevolence, innocence and sensibility
which a face can express, that forms her
beauty. She has a face that just arouses
your attention at first sight, it grows upon
you every momsnt, and you wonder it did
not more than raise attention at first. Her
eyes have mild light, but they awe when
she pleases; they command like a good man
out of office, not by authority, but by vir-
tue. Her stature is not tall, she is not made
to be the admiration of every one, but the
happiness of one. She has the firmness
that does not exclude delicacy—all of the
softness that does not imply weakness.—
Her voice is soft, low musical, not formed
to rule in public assemblies, but to charm
those who can distinguish a company from
a crowd, it has its advantage, you must
come close to hear it. To describe her
body, describe her mind—one is the trans-
d—d rascal; but he is a big cript of the other. Her understanding is
not shown in a variety of matter it exerts
itself upon, but the goodness of the choice
she makes. Her politeness flows rather
from a natural disposition to oblige, than
any rules on that subject, and therefore
never fails to strike those who understand
good breeding and those who do not.
Beware of the Ladies —Word was sent
by Mr. H------, a defeated candidate, to a
married lady, who was supposed to have
changed the expected vote of her husband
on election day, to the following effect:
“ Go and tell Mrs. F------that I will
The remedy suggested is nothing send her by the first opportunity, a pair, of
” Go and tell Mr. H------was the re-
ply, “to send them along at once. Don’t
forget to tell him that I want a new pair—
not a pair that his wife has half worn out,”
and arrogant, and nothing pleases the bar
so well as to see him heartily laughed at.
They had a fine chance one day when an
Irish witness was on the stand, who, being
rather unmanageable, was taken in hand
by the judge with a manner which said
very plainly, “ You shall see, gentleman,
how 1 will handle him.” “Well, Dennis,”
said the judge blandly, “ tell me the con-
tents of that chest.” “ Yes, yer worship,”
said the witness, eagerly. “First, there
was a picture of Dan. O’Connell, the great
Iiish patriot maybe yer honor’s heard of the complexion, temperance.—To
him ? ” “ Certainly,” said the judge, “ go the breath, sweet abstinence from
on with the inventory.” “ Then there was
a picture of our Lord and Savior Jesus
Christ—maybe your honor's heard of him ?”
The unaffected look of inquiry and doubt
A definition of the Golden Rule as
a little Sunday School Scholar
four years old ; “ If nobody does nothing
to you, you hit.’em.”
“ Mother’s first catechism lesson to
little boy of three years.”
“ My darling, who made you ?”
“You made me, Miss Mum.”
“ Oh, no my darling, God made you.
Now where does God live?’
“ Little boy, after some
chimbly, Miss Mum.”
“Mama, if you had’nt married Pa, what that accompanied the witness,s words, set
kin would Pa have been to me ?” I the audience in a roar of laughter. The
“ Eat your dinner child I” ljudge will never hear the last of it.
Mr. J. says tha* he and his party prospect-
ed four miles -‘einitvof Pike’s Peak,
same busi-
were old California
H^j-j^wo Mr. Pools, of Ou- lightened* and
deposits of gold justify them in attempt-
ing to wash the irt.
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Scandal Amongas “ Upper Ten.”—A New
York paper families the following account
&n affair in Wliamsburg, that has not
y*t resulted in eiier marriage or retribu-
tvm:
A wealthy Newfork leather merchant,
a widower with fiv children, won the af-
fection of a certai young lady, of respec-
table connections, and who, besides her
perio^l attractiois, is the heiress to a
consi < able fortune. Seduction instead
of marge fonowe however—whereupon
A_mr^bers—one a wealthy con-
ofri5no\)yn, the other a farmer of York Evening Post of the IIth we find the
Pennsylvania-yaited upon the betrayer
one day last weekend gave him his choice
—to marry tin ir sister or take the conse-
quences.
This brcjgJ^ things to a crisis. The
merchant p-o-dsed to marry, and fixed
Friday evening^st for the nuptials. The
bride, her broth-g and their friends all as-
eenabled accordiyly. The clergyman was
there but the brhwroorn wag missing, and
is missing still, apposing that he had
taken passage on t,y,rd the City of Wash-
ington, police officer with a warrant, went
on board yesterday a.d made a thorough
search, but the leatht- merchant was not
on board. p~’
he sailed for Liverpool a the Boston steam-
er of last Wednesday, a d as the brothers
are to follow him in the \ext steamer, the
story is yet to have a seq el.
Sense.—2r0Ugh common sense pervades
the followingin which theie is certainly given by
more truth tin poetry: 6 J
“ Great nr never swell. It is < '
three cent indiqna]g who are salaried at
x the rate of twoundred dollars a year and
dine on potatoei and dried herring, who
$ut on airs and<Jasby waistcoats, swell,
puff, blow, and e<,savor to give themselves
a consequential Appearance. No discri-
minating person u ever mistake the spuri-
ous for the genuiiarticle. The difference
between the twjs as great as that
between a bottle vinegar and a bottle
of the pure juice ofQ grape,”
It seems to be the general impression
by the Rev. Ralph | that fruit trees will not produce well in this
State, but from the products which we have
seen of the apple, pear and plum, we are
------------> a mistake. We give
tributed charity to the poor, wrote a note below an extract from a letter, written by
to tne pastor ©ffering to deliver a lecture Thos. Affleck, from Washington county :
and devote the proceeds to the re-construc- “ It is generally known that I have been
tion of the edifice, a proposition which was engaged during the last two years, inestab-
gracefully, and we think very properly ac- lishing a nursery here—the first of any ex-
cepted. Some of the elect thought diffe- tent, so far as I know, in the State. No
rently, and the bishop of the diocese was two years within the memory of man here,
prevailed upon to interdict the accomplish- could have been more disastrous for the
meat of the arragement, It is a difficult i purpose. Yet nearly everything that with
matter to circumvent the Countess of stood the danngers of the route, in being
Lansfeldt, and in this case the bull of ex- transported hither has grown well. Of
communication was a dead letter. Lola fruit trees, the pear has grown best—some
delivered her lecture to a crowded audience fine specimens of fruit have been borne by
and in the course of it paid her respects to
certain clergymen in this wise :
Ladies and gentlemen : The advertise-
ments have informed you that the proceeds
of this lecture are to be given to the Rev.
Ralph Hoyt, to aid him in re-buildidg his ■
free church for the poor. The papers have
also apprized you that some of the clergy
have cast reflections upon the worthy
rector for his willingness to receive the
sum which your patronage of this lecture
yields, which is certainly a piece of bigotry
intolerance, cruelty to the poor, and meddle
some impertinence which I have never be-
fore witnessed, even in the most illiberal,
Catholic countries of the Old World. Who i
are these men that would bar you and me I
from doing a good act, and would rather
lock the doors of comfort and instruction
on the poor than that they should be blest
by a hand which will not be moved by their
dictation ? [ Applause. ] How many
churches will be built, and how many poor
will be fed, by money which they will]
give ?
A voice—“ Not one in a thousand.” [Re-
newed applause.]
It is reserved for me to read those blind
bigots a
Christians, but Pharisees.
They belong to the same
crites who condemned the Saviour because
He ate and drank with publicans and
sinners. [Applause.] And they appear to
t as full of the head-strong devil of
intolerance as in tine old times. They are
certainly very impudent and very bold
devils, when they enter into the breasts of j
professing Christians in such a free and en-
l as America. Such bigoted
intolerance would be bad enough in Tim-
buctoo or the Fejee Islands, but in America
it is like a foul spot upon the bright sun-
shine. [Applause.] I am going to Europe
in a few days, and when I come back—
which I cdrtainly will do—it may be that
I will give a course of lectures to raise a
fund to send missionaries to Christianize
those clerical Pharisees—[laughter]—who
had rather the poor and desolate should not
have the gospel preached to them than that
the means should be furnished by the pat-
ronage of your humble servant. I now en-
treat the prayers of this congregation for
all such benighted and miserable sinners.
Relics of a Formes World—In the New
THE APPOINTMENT OF J. GLANCY
JONES TO THE AUSTRIAN MISSION.
The President has followed np the ac-
ceptable example he set in the appointment Benton, gives the following account of her
of Col Preston, of Kentucky, to the Spanish father’s interview (a short time before his
death) with President Buchanan :
He took the President’s hand in his, and
said, in clear tones : “ Buchanan, we arc
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Pike’s eak a Humbug.—The Western
Democrat,of the 25th ult., published in
Harrison, [issouri, says :
Ou Wedesday evening last, we had a
auug cuuveEauuu wivu w. vx. vuuubuu,
;imd old etzen of this place, who had just
returned roaa Pike’s Peak, having left the
mines on the 25th of July. Mr. J. is a very
intelligent and reliable young man, well
known to every person in this place and
vicinity. Ee left here iu May last, for the
then 8uppoied gold regions, with the in-
tention of going out with Capt. Bent, but i
being disappointed in the place of rendez- (
▼ous, did nd travel to Pike’s Peak with ,
that individial, but arrived on Cherry (
Croek tiie nut day after Bent and his par- (
,ty. He went out with some twenty-seven
gentlemen from Bates, Newton and Bay
counties, tw«nty-three of whom returned
with him. Ee informs us that he and his
party prospected on Cherry Creek some ten
days, and sav others who had prospected
from its head to the mouth, and that he
neither saw or heard of the “ rich diggings,”
au reported by Mr. Cantrell and others ;
and he has no hesitancy in pronouncing
the reported discovery of the “ New El Do-
rado” a wilful and premeditated fabrication. jugt
ed four miles
.and sa_w.
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Lipsey, E. J. The Matagorda Gazette. (Matagorda, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 15, Ed. 1 Saturday, November 6, 1858, newspaper, November 6, 1858; Matagorda, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1329829/m1/1/?q=%22%22~1: accessed June 24, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Matagorda County Museum & Bay City Public Library.