The Matagorda Gazette. (Matagorda, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 26, Ed. 1 Saturday, January 29, 1859 Page: 1 of 4
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THE SUGAR CROP.
A ONE CENT PANDEMONIUM
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how to shoot,
which mingles with the smoke of the
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With the restlessness and love of adven-
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“not much account/’ pecuniarily.
Because he cannot hold his
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angles to their bodies; embroyo Cancemis
and Peter Dawsons, with unpleasant voices
snobs of office people, who block up the
dead.
From the cabins there now arises the
With some pretty good means of know-
ing, having recently passed through the
GALEN HODGES,
mon,” repliek Donald, “nae very well either terials,” said the facctij
but I was muckle better aff than the bugs, should take the upper j
for deil ane ’o them closed an eye the hale
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tion, manners, and language ol
Be civil to the woman wheat
of her gloves.
“If you wish to mak&ghdU of
,my in Paris—of
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A man who admires a fine woman has
yet no more reason to wish himself her hus-
band, than one who admires the Hesperian countrips, ignorant of the hist
fruit would have had to wish himself the
dragon that kept it
A Scotchman, who put up at an inn, was
as
his own body—which he had enfolded in
his arms, and the integrity of heart that an-
imated which he had placed the firmest re-
liance, were silently placed in a neat coffin,
and deposited, not to be disturbed again, I
hope, until the day of resurrection, in a se-
Six-pence-a-day as
her limp, wet and tawdry dress, and nud-
ges each his fellow ass, and laughs as Six-
pence blushes, and seems to wonder that a
are so
cheap; these are the dock scenes; but the
sights on board are more intensely uncom-
fortable. The crowd rushes to the end of
the boat, and then subsides into the cabins
then, as if the instrument had been a gal-
vanic battery, the supposed corpse, with a
countenance most horribly contorted, sprang e<l with lime; greasy citizens just from the
up and seized the Professor by the gown,
and then fell back quiescent. A glance of farmer8 from L. I., their elbows at right
horror and recognition seemed to pass be-
tween the ‘subject’ and the Professor. He,
as if struck by lightning, staggered back,
a hard drinker, for that m
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of evil is riding upon the walking beam,
and nods his head as a great burst of pro- t]?act the attentiOn of the people of thecoun
What bar
Our first business,” he resumed, “is with shuts 1 A crow-bar.
j is
■i ever. _.
o whom you at once conceive a great dislike
cabins. Small boys uttor large blasphemies anq politician. These are some of the cur-
and large men swear continually; and as
the rain increases the wicked voices rise in
power, and seem to drown the rush of wa-
ter with their awful utterance. As I stan<
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ill-gotten means.”
This was all
and domestic history,
my communication.
Three weeks
ST”””—’ explain to us all (a class of students) a He now faced about lull at the table, and
UdrOTBts for individual certajn condition of he human stomach, and lifted the scalpel. He paused an instant,
he was to do this
ing room. There
propriety of some
Hall’s teachings with
which soon become filled with the motley Banks will win the day according to pre-
crew—the women standing and the men
Mount Vesuvius is said to be firing up
uncommon. It is cracking, opening, vomit-
ing lava in all directions, and “cutting up”
generally in a. very improper manner, to the
great danger of Resina and Portion House
Fruits
L Gardea
is detract!129-1 ?
son Frank
.’doubtless
readers know from the many able medical
sketches you have published, particularly
dignified. In fact, it is (in view of the sad
proofs of our wretched helplessness and,
mortality spread around) frivolous, disgust-
ing and utterly at variance ■with the scene
and the legitimate purposes of the assem-
blage. Rude jests, profanity, the intemper- shook his head, and muttered, “It was the
ate use of ardent spirits, pipe-smoking, etc.,
are practiced and indulged in by all. On
this night we were in the wildest spirits ;
and when, soon after the hour appointed,
the Professor entered, he found us engaged sjg-ht I” and then,
Before we could recover from our terror,
he fainted.
We looked at the body ; the muscles of blush is left, when souls and bodies
the face were working—those of the limbs
were twitching convulsively, and yet, as af-
ter investigation proved, it was dead.—
Why it should have made this strange man-
ifestation is not to be resolved into jt mat-
ter of certainty. One of the physicians
connected with the institution, says that he sitting. A vapor rises from the moist crowd
has witnessed the same phenomena among
the bodies of those who died suddenly in cigars, and is careful shut in for the com-
fits, as well as those who died with chol-
era. Heaven only knows the reason of the
terrific demonstration ! But the strangest is falling upon those who cannot enter the
room is not, as I presume the most of your part of my story remains to be told.
We naturally supposed that the Profes-
sor swooned from fright. We applied re-
storatives, and finally be exhibited indica-
tions of consciousness. We explained to
him that the show of life given by the poor, by the railing I fancy that the great spirit
faded form upon the table was purely spas-
modic and fallacious ; but he incredulously
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fort of the cabin passengers. From the
deck a storm of oaths is raging, as the rain
an attitude of despair and wild terror,
way through the roof upon the people, and
the sounds mingle and grow into one
mighty howl of execration. With every
burst the demon of the walking-beam nods
as if to point clamor about the abominable extravagance
by the way to the maddened people.
the surrounding circumstances. The corpse lainous-looking negro performs
A vil-
a dance
and whistles, while a walking personifica-
tion of sin hands around his cap, and a
peddler tries to make me purchase his stock
in trade. Soon the storm of wind and rain
increases, and the thunder makes an ac-
companiment to the wicked chorus of the
Williamsburgers, who are now not so vio-
lent in their curses, but subside as the boat
nears the dock, and then, when she touches
spring forward and with one fearful cry to
heaven to do damage to their bodies and
all their members, they rush to their seve-
ral homes, and I walk slowly and with a
sense of faintness upon me, to my own.
coffee and other tropical products, and to
establish a free port for the supply and re-
fitting of American whaling ships in the
Pacific, for a general trade. The island
which the colonists have fixed upon, is said
to be very fertile and beautiful, and is not Paul Morphy,
claimed by any European power, a few pow-
erless and inoffensive natives occupying it,
who will welcome peaceful adventurers.—
The enterprise is a novel one, and its pro-
gress will be watched with interest.—Ex.
An aspiring, inventive genius has recent-
ly got up an apparatus for towing ships by a8ke(i in the morning how he slept. “Troth,
lots in these two places are said to be of balloons.
Why must a man without hands be very
is’iUhZToften opens but never garulous ? Because he cannot hold his
tongue.
corner shop with sourcrout cigars alight ;
fanity comes from the crowd upon the deck,
hand of God,” and relapsed into insensibil- My throat grows parched and my knees
tremble as an occasional opening of the
cabin den permits the vapor to escape, and
I see a gull fly over the boat, inhale the
the water
The Chess Match Between Morphy and
ture which characterizes the American peo- Anderssen, New Yoita, 11.—A Paris letter
expedition is now fitting out in New say8 the match at chess between Morphy
and Anderssen commenced on the 20th ol
December—the winner of the first seven
games to be declared the victor. No mon-
ey is staked by the contestants.
Morphy’s friends offer to bet ten to one
on the result.
The first game, Morphy having the first
move was a long one. Alter the seventy-
second move, Morphy resigned.
The third and fourth games were won by
rent speculations in Washington during the
holy days, and I send them along’
Orestes.
Washington, (D. C.) Saturday, Jan. 1
The reckless manner in which Congress
squanders the public money begins to at-
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try. If you will but notice, you will per-
ceive that while certain leading Republi- modesty of the
cans keep up a deafening noise about the
extravagance of this Administration, the
rank and file of the party in Congress
vote for all extravagant appropriations and ,
rotten claims, and bills. A leading Repub- [y disgusting by the
lican openly gave it as his excuse for vot-
ing for the Pension bill, that it would put
the Administration into a serious dilemma
—that it will force, a higher tariff upon the
country. This is the secret of many
astonishing results in the House. Members
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I got were to the effect that she had become
shameless and besotted, and was living in
condition of public in'
he had left her.”
“der—some wrote to
thief.” (Here he shuddered.) “ Cer-
bad squandered all his
til I conild gather of his early,
’ ' 7. But to the point ol tention directed upon his wordsand
i>, the professoi was to
all (a class of students) a
r allopathically, on this side
of the Atlantic. I was fortunate enough to
become a particular favorite of his, and was
introduced by him to one of the cleverest
eugeons in, I think, the world. His name
. I will call him the Professor, how
■. He is one of those individuals for
Mr. Seward’s friends have taken the sum-
mersault of the Times in favor of Mr.
Douglas very unkindly. The Times for
years has been reckoned on as sure for Se-
ward whenever a chance arose for his no-
mination or election, and it is claimed even
now that the Times will wheel round once
more to the support of its old friend. But
lactically in the dissect-
vas a dispute as to the
)f the late Dr Marshall
'’i regard to the divi-
sions of the nervo is system, and the Pro-
fessor was to settle the dispute, scalpel in
hand. The division of Dr. Hall, permit me
noV;Jpayment7e: to say, arranges the nervous system into
three sections ; the cere bral, or sentient
voluntary ; the true spinal, or excitomotor,
and the ganglionic, or nutrient, or secreto-
ry.
The Professor is one of the most skillful
of lecturers, and a precise and handsome
demonstrator. His devotion to the anatom-
ical branch of medical science amounts al- with a loud cry, or rather shriek, and stood exit from the women’s den to stare at poor
most to a monomania. The patience with jn
which he will work around and elaborate gazing vacantly, into the air.
the smallest preparation for his cabinite, is
spider like.
Connected with the mooted questions con-
cerning the stomach were others which it
is not necessary for me to describe ; but
they made it imperative that the body to be
dissected should be that of a male adult
somewhat aged.
The night arrived. We were all in our
dissecting room apparel. The body, en-
tirely nude and completely covered with a
cloth, as it is the custom, lay upon the ta-
ble, and we impatiently awaited the Profes-
sor’s arrival.
The conduct of students in the dissecting
sent appearances, in the Nominating Con-
vention. He is a Republican, an American
a Democrat and a tariff man. And then
again he is no* an American, not a Republi-
can, not a Democrat, not a high tariff man.
Is not he a capital candidate ? Nobody
knows what he is, only he is a lucky man
“blighted hopes,” the “rascality of kindred,”
and “the folly of supposing any affection
sprang from ties of consanguinity.” On
cue of these communicative occasions he
told me a heart-rending history of family
experiences. I gathered, by piecemeal,
from his conversations, the fact tliat one of
own blood _had treated him most heart-
tesslv^d driven him, by fraud of the gros-
•g&jt character, from his native place to this
i country, penniless and friendbjss.
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majority of those who ranked among his
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ity. A second time we restored him to his
senses, and his first words were :
“ Remove the subject 1 hide it from my
i, as if again horror-strick- poisonous air, and then fall into
en, he fell into violent convulsions.
We remained near him until he seemed
to have recovered from the scene enough sound of wild profanity as the rain finds its
to be left in charge of one watcher. Before
we retired, however, the explanation of the
Professor’s extreme affright, at the scene
of horror, was made. The revelation, (for
such it was) was given under a pledge of and smiles and plunges down
secresy—a pledge extorted from me
We gazed, all earnestness, upon the body.
The scalpel descended. Scarcely had it
touched the lean, lank, scraggy, and miser-
ble relic of mortality, ere there was a fear-
ful change. The most perfect silence at
that moment reigned in the room The
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matagord, texas,Saturday, January 29,1859.
the stomach.”
We gathered around him full of anxious
expectation.
“ You will pay particular attention to
me,” he continued, bearing the scalpel, and
half turning toward the table, “the first in-
cisions are very important.’,
We concentrated our vision upon the
corpse—he looked steadily at us.
“ I will now, he resumed, seeing our at-
move-
ments, “lay open the body directly beneath peck gnp perry to my house,
the region of the diaphram.” ■> <• -------vi
He now faced about full at the table, and
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Under this caption, a person who sub-
scribes himself “A Peck Slipper,” writes to
the N. Y. Express the following graphic tion out at Sfiver Spring,
description of a Williamsburg ferry :
The panic of last year has had one very
bad effect upon me: it has compelled me
to reside in that town of cheap houses
Williamsburg; and to pass through fearful
scenes of misery when obliged to cross by
. The rush to
the ferry gates is disagreeable enough, but
when one enters the shed prepared for his
reception, the scene is one which will leave
its recollec+ion upon the dullest mind. A
noisome den, from whose roof the crawling
earwig and ferry spider drop down upon
the mass below; while the light of one
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To pronounce them the most pioj> ?l f |
never i'
To take offense at the odd addr^
riage of any man whose mind ai
we are unacquainted.
Te laugh at the appearance an®I
of foreigners to whom we muSM
equally ridiculous.
To occupy the attention of a large^jW>j
pany by the recital of an occurrence in|a A
esting to yourself alone.
People of exquisite sensibility,
not bear to see animals put to deathSBlhl
ing the utmost attention to the variety
a bundance of their tables.
To buy a horse of a near relation, andlH
lieve every word he says in praise ou^O
animal, he is desirous to dispose of. «
To send your son to travel into forejMH
WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENCE.
Washington, Thursday morning Dec. 30
The Republicans had a private jollifica-
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F. P. Blair, Esq., the other day, and that
the meeting was called a holyday-dinner,
yet it was also a political gatheiing for
important purposes. Although we are a
couple years off another Presidential elec-
tion, yet the Republicans are greatly exer-
cised about a candidate for 1860. Mr. Blaii
patronises the party—gives big dinners to
of the Administration, and turn round and
vote the most extravagant appropriations.
Several of the prominent southern states-
men in Congress resist and will resist to
the bitter end, all attempts to raise the
tariff. They demand direct taxation if it is
necessary to defray the expenses of the
government. If this were adopted we
should soon see an end of this corrupt
system of appropriations for every kind of
humbug which can be got upon legs before
Congress. Let the people be directly taxed
to pay for those appropriations, and Con-
gressmen who vote for them will very soon fights a duel,
have leave to stay at home.
residence of sugar parishes of the State, and made dili-
gent inquiries in regard to the crop of the
present year, we have put the sugar crop
of Louisiana for 1858 down at 300,000
hogsheads. We feel confident that we
have not under estimated the crop. Let
us examine facts in relation to this matter. I
The over flow destroyed, it is estimated, ■
from sixty to seventy-five thousar ’ hogs- ■
its most distinguished members and helps beads of sugar, or i ts eqmvalent. ■
... . r i_.-_ — It probably destroyed forty thousand
; acres of cane, and this vast sheet Of land
But will have to be planted by cane taken from 1
other fields, and that would have been J
made into sugar but for the overflow. I
The early freezes destroyed an immense I
increase that naturally belonged to the ■
There was a gradual loss going on
the wind rowed cane from the time it
cut down till it was worked up. '■
In some locations there was consider- ■
able loss by sour cane.
In several parishes tliere was much less g
attention paid fo sugar than in previous B
years, the cotton crop being considered I
more profitable.
With these facts before us, we are un-
able to see how the sugar crop of Loui-
siana can this year exceed 300,000 hogs-
heads.
And we do not know why sugar should
not bear a very high price during the sea-
son. We are confident that those planters
who hold on till March, will obtain fine
prices.—[Franklin (St. Mary Parish) Plan-
ters' Banner, 29th.
pie, an
York by a number of enterprising young
men, of various trades and professions, for
the settlement of one of the Papuan Is-
lands in Central Oceanica. They propose
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Physiology that ever taught the young idea
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••My’evil spirit is upon me,” he would
sometimes say to me, and then he would il-
I lustrate, in his conduct and manner, the
most singular phases «f hypochondria I ev-
p 1 ©r witnessed.
| It. appears that he was burn in the town
of'k—-en'* mu8t fbr I am now
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scalpel a second time touched the body, and £ir]8. disreputable Dutchmen in a state of feeling against Sewaad in his own party ^P-
beer; blear-eyed clerks from bank and oince
one-eyed negroes with faces and rags cover
. j* or a? wonderful partiality; audit was the
| 4 Utter I, at the first time we met, felt for
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Ho was a strange being; at least he seem-
ed so te me on our first meeting, and for-
| ever afterwards. Oftentimes he drank deep-
™ 1y; and while under Use influence of drink,
! he would let fall curion.® hints concerning
was in his best mood.
There he was, a perfect picture of a man of
science, unbending, for the moment, from
the dignities of his station, so as to insure
a feeling of ease to those who had congre-
i to receive his instructions. And
ease, in the presence of the preceptor, let
me tell you is very serviceable to a pupil.
“ It is astonishing,” he said, as he pre-
pared himself for the business of the night,
“how soon we get to be familiar with the
relics of mortality. Habit is everything.
The first timel was introduced into a dis-
secting room, I was compelled to bite a
piece of human flesh, that being considered,
by my companions, a writ cf initiation that
. The sensation
of horror I experienced cannot be discribed.
I vowed mentally, that I would never en-
ter such a revolting place again, but in
three months I was the most reckless of
the members of the classes. Now I handle
the dead as if they were mere bales of cot-
ton. Spectacles of the most appalling char-
acter pass by me, leaving no impression j
worth mentioning. And this, gentlemen,”*
witnessed.
It appears that ju^was
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violating confidence,) site was unfortunate uot dispensed with,
considering ti e lav’s which give the
ier brother everything, te be ushered in-
to the world after t,jg <.r John. For
this frare he felt the ailfebtion. To
him he confessed the h\tory of h.’s hopes ;
‘ to him he looked, more > infirm
1 father, for advice ; to hun6eo jma,j,nicate(j
* narrative ef his love, ad oy success-
ful wooing. The maid of his cifice was
beneath him in wealth and sta tion, but his
brother approved of that choice he was
content
It is necessary to my obj^t, in penning
this narrative,, only to state that the elder
brother seduced the girl, robbel, by a fraud
of the basest character, her homrable lover
of all his means, (also reducing the old fi.th-
I ery to penury by forgeries,) and then ie-
canped, taking the girl along to Italy.
\ 'Did you never take vengeance on the
| ar city acceptance, to secure m-
O dH-Candidates’ anuotir 'eiuentfl ter County offices,
) i quired uweriMy in . • . - „
! All advertisements, t^e publication of which is re-
quired by law, must bti paid tor in advance.
ALIVE SUBJECT.
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SCENE IN A D1S8V.CTING ROOM.
Threre are opachiii in every medical man’s
history, each of which comprises a lifetime
of horror. Only three short weeks ago I
was one of the gayest students of medicine
and surgery in the United states. To-day
well, let me not anticipate.
Two years have ©lapsed since I was sent
from Mobile, by my father, to study medi-
cine at the North. I listened to my first
course of lossonf in Philadelphia, and there
made the acquaintance of Professor------,
who is probably the best demonstrator in
into which the Professor was about to
plunge the scalpel was that of his brother !
How or when he had reached this coun-
try is not known. But it is known that af-
ter earning an unenviable notoriety among
gamblers, horse-jockeys, and the victims of
profligacy generally, he gradually sank in-
to the mire of degradation, until he became
a dweller in a den of thieves, well known
to the police. Here he was seized with dis-
ease, and deprived of his accostomed strong
potations, delirium tremens was the conse-
quence. He was kicked into the street ;
attempted to commit a highway robbery,
was arrested, tried, and condemned to the
State Prison. Before reaching there, how-
ever, he was to all appearance dead, and
was in that condition conveyed to the pur-
veyor of ‘subjects,’ and so brought to our
dissecting room.
The College (in which we do not reside)
j is for the present closed. The remains
j which greeted'the horrified vision of the Pro- cultivation of sugar, cotton,
said he, raising his voice and approaching ; fessor which sprang from the same loins
the table whereon lay the subject, “this fac-
ulty of conquering our weakues is what
makes us valuable as physicians. Nerve !
that, young gentlemen, is our greatest aid
in difficult practice. Learn to suppress
every approach to nervousness school
yourselves to view the severest sufferings eluded spot in----cemetry.
with adamantine firmness—never betray
the slightest fear, and with hard study to
back you, there can be nothing to retard
your progress in the noblest of all the learn-
ed professions.”
Here he’made the usual sign to the jani
tor, and that official partially removed the ’
cloth from the subject—the Professor stand-
ing then, with his back toward the table.
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aedteer?” I inquired, when he related
tkeie facts to me. 1 1
'“'I didnot regard either of them as being
vorthyof anger,” he replied; and I
an inch-”
Du y «ver ..ar them p j agk.
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Slang Phrases.—In the mouths of females |
bywords are almost revolting^Jf a tender
looking creature is asked how ‘she is, will
probably say “first rate;” the same answer
would be entirely applicable to a barrel of
pork, while it is clearly out or place when
applied to a person, and whe^^ming from
the lips of a young girl, shows a lack of re-
finement at once. If a person is desired
to wait awhile, he is told to “hold on a min-
)fcar to hear
full and
ute.” How shocking does it aj
a child refer to a “jawingTate
her mamma—or the “fitW*^
get! And when “overTh^
pression of doubt, or “it^fefl
how certain it is that the m
sex j
these repulsive expressionsJjij
mouth. The ancienn 7...?^
“Let not thy tongudrauSw^t
many of our young l^diggj^lc
slang phrases—such as"w8i
mouth of a loafer and be at
the mouth of a blackguard^ a
young Misses of our city*ren
graph, it is hoped that the nex®ta
hear the application of slang phrau
words from their associates; thefy.v
carefully and consider the ef^MB
this is necessary to create a YJoSte
them at once. By-words are mean
when comin^from street boys; b
coming from a girl are absolutely irf
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ABSURDITIES. .
Some sensible fellow, speaking of
surdities of life, thus discourses th ■ 5 5
To be passionate in your family j M
pect them to be placid.
To think every one a man of spirit?
pronounce them the most nipjOFMiM
absent themselves from chg||
hakn nflmsR at the odd addwfl
Mikiiy
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tatter I, at the first time we met, felt for
U him.
on the political interests^
when he can. Mr. Blair
like to see Seward nominated for Preside
and Frank P. Blair, Jr., of Missouri, follow
for Vice-President. He is winning over
flickering gas jet scarce shows the way to obstinate Republicans by his dinner civili-
the dock edge. A crowd of damp sewing ties at Silver Spring. But the truth is, the
is violent, and he will find it exceedingly
difficult to compel a nomination at the
hand of his party. The “card” is Banks,
among the knowing ones. All the talk
over Crittenden is humbug—not a northern
State would, in convention, give him its
votes. Mr. Seward’s friends will fight
desperately for him, realizing that it is now
or never with him, as far as a Presidential
she struggles past with nomination is concerned.
in one of the most animated series of laughs
at the spectacle of a lighted cigar stuck be-
tween the lips of a half-dissected negro.
The professor appeared to be as joyful
as the students. He regaled us with sev-
eral anecdotes, more pointed than polite,
but calculated to inspire the heartiest mirth.
i'oUgM »y. , ttat hi8 drink-'|J that he
tug bouts were conducted str ctly on the
.gentlemanly plan, and were seldom or nev-
er made known to th® public, or even to the
majority 01 muae J
immediate friends; and furthermore, I should .
remark that he is well ad vanced in years,
although, no doubt, you know that already.
“My evil spirit is upon me,” 1^
_____
lustrate, in his conduct a rid
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Lipsey, E. J. The Matagorda Gazette. (Matagorda, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 26, Ed. 1 Saturday, January 29, 1859, newspaper, January 29, 1859; Matagorda, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1329838/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.