The Matagorda Gazette. (Matagorda, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 48, Ed. 1 Saturday, July 2, 1859 Page: 2 of 4
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FOB REPRESENTATIVE.
M
ja>rroB.
Isaac N.
°f*
the wanu ^Ki best interest, of biH^Lv
• U- H« >** in oar State Legielatnre
mthehighe* do-
dfc ^ * tw° °^«, Md
etwfWkre.^e^e ttmof •'wtil
done tbon good and faithful
GENERALS WAÜL AND HAMILTON.
in f tiowhlgi.froQltlwU0^^
I per IW I .
S"sütrií. —¡K.b
"l,,#* ii m |a think *—* ..
n the bUte could
tte
H
i*s Beeerd.1
from the diffmni
•W<* Ü CMdiito. for Coop* b,„
• He faflfinml tn I- ii—.
General Weal fe
. . -JI * animation for
B of
too
▼ore cpee
oratory fa*
Who eaid the* the " mfcetiss tfmy amn-
hy is —if ts it memrmHf mdktrr a U tktfrrm-
Obdcb f
SAM HOUSTON.
[S« Iwiepndnct Later, AV 1.]
Who wm rays that he never professed or
practiced -any other then "old Jackson
National Democracy T*
SAM HOUSTON.
[Fiil| I leMr.JVk ]
Who eeid that he «ift ti* Dtmmmlúpt
IfkfmrU tintmiei tie pMpla tf tit Kan-
est JMmifee 3Mt
8AM HOUSTON.
[Cmag. GUit 18M, p. IT]
Who now sajs that he bee sever chan
•d, bet that the whole Democratic
hae left him 7
8ÁMH
of Mr. Bwihsnsn, heft
Action la 18M fay i
of a L K,
that nominee had
8AM HOUSTON
8AM HOUSTON
SAM HOUSTON
SAM HOUSTON.
protection,
together with
Abolition Senators, vis:
Chose, Gillette, Seward, Saanner
In opposition to efery other
ivutela Its fevor?' "i
SAM HOUSTON.
*the event of hie [9n-
Aira would he .a* ■
the part of the
«a en worthy of
a twin brother i
wonld certainly rebuke him, If
did
x«
l&m
AUIB0C8T0H.
SAM HOUSTON,
before a Suatoa andience end
Ü ofVgfciwyfn
cottgratalatlag himself ¿bat he
**UT?? SAM HOUSTON
one lime avowed fibe
ib :ir
Timma r>* Washington—As teltgmpUJ f WL A man named Gf vge White, wm
tit Anr York ftjers.—Though Mr Johnson's irrested this morning in our city, on the
securities on bis California mail contract charge of having committed e rap* v^ter-
bave been received, no belief Is entertained day on a small girl between 10 an j 11 vr irs
here that Mr. Johnson will erer opeu the-old. near Harriaturg. White was emplov-
roete. Government has no redress against el as a baud «n the Harriaber,' railmad
bis bondmen, as they well know. and was making his «.rape when arn-N 1
The President write, that he is much de- this morniog by the two meu in pursuit uf
lighted with his trip to North Carolina. tbitu. On their afidavit jestiee GrifTcths
The steamer Roanoak will, it is raid, had White committed to j*il. We under-
bring the Japanese Commissioners fromj stand that the girl was in a dying condi-
Panama to New York. I tion when the men left in pursuit <if*the vil-
Commander Porter will leave in the '*1U>
steamer of the 80thf to teke
the aloopotwar 8c Mary's,
command of
at Pane-
Iutol
George White, who was arresto-! ...
city on the 03d iust., for rape committed
in Mitr
OH
Capt Dahlgreen having, by order of the * ^rit "°ar Harrisbnrg. was taken
|Mmi of «ka Raman at Onfnanoe and Hvdnv tOTrn 1Bd "aro nden-d to th<
of Ordnanqe and Hydro- j
grapby, examined and feeted Jos'lyn's¡ *uthonUe8- Ilv < kcn before a mag is.
breech-loading carbine, offlcially reports! ***** ^""«ed for tfie offence. Tl,«
that this style of arm commends itaelf to fXC XJ c"l>en« took bun out of the town
the teets of the service, the only objection J°w*n,s rion8U'n' *nd bunS hi®- Our in-
being the shortnees of the barrel. fonnant passed the body dangling to a
The Preddent bee issued a proclamation
for the sale of public lands in Iowa, com-
et Fort Dodge the S5th of Septem-
ber, and at Sioux City the Sd of October;
they are la the northwestern pert of Iowa,
at the head of the Dee Moines river end He
Asstetant Surgeon Howita baa
bese otdered to the Bureau. Surgeon De-
laney end assistant Surgeon Kindteberger
have been ordered to the Sen Jacinto.
L09K oct roa nre Swr.vncn .—Some few
ago, a company of black-hearted
villains paaesd through the neighborhood
north and north-went of Hull/ Springs, end
andec the preteaoo that tbey ha>l a large
to fill far steamboats at
in which old feathers were preferred to
they boegfct a large anmber of feath-
er beds—as maaj a* five or six from one
femily<—preteiaiftg to' fke mm for eld faeth-
, at.d they wotfl take the beds along
and return &e new feaftt ta a few days,
la one neighborhood they got powrion of
ftftoca or twenty good family bode,
and have not been beard from since. The
BKwt villaiaooe act they committed was
the oUaiiing of a bed made of chicken
Hse from aa old negro womaa, promis-
ing her, too, good new feethers in its place.
They had wagons along with them to haul
beds, Inteoding, of ooaree, to make a
oleen sweep wherever they could. A set
of atea—étmtm df wmut Is that would
swindle a poor old negro woman out of her
bed, to make which she had bean for years
c-ílí miÁém
ay ¡ow
bar mi
SAM HOUSTON.
" tille State,
a eaahef tar aad feathers, and abould they
la caagbtj-we have m doobt they will
thaakíel to get off thaa eeaily. Look oat
for the eooeadrslai—[Holly Springs (Miae.)
latest advices from
the aram of the government are trinrnphfng
the rebels on all wdea. Aptolino AN
i, an lakurreciioaary loeder, with 1,000
of all aoM, had besa completely rout
edby the soldiers of the republic, after a
fate fight of two honre.. There Was
a considerable number of killed aad wwrod-
ed on both sides. Gen, Francisco Mouagas
«deed; he fell by the hands uf Hipe. The
rebel Toflo Medra no bee been* completely
defeated in the vicinity of Oanode Chlrgua,
**" Mirabel, leaving more
Bandied dead on «he Add, besides
prisoners ead a anmber ef bore-
tree yesterday at 4 r. a.—[Galveston News.
EaaAMunojf or M—uiwi On Mon-
day morning, ISth iust, a company of fire
missionaries embarked on board the bark
Race Horse, at Boston, to enter upon the
miesionary work in the East, under the au-
spices of the American Board of Commis-
aioncrs for Foreign Missions. They were
the Rev. J. F. Clark and wiie, who will bo
connected with the mtarions in North Amer-
ica } Mira Maria A. West, who rutnms to
resume her duties sa teacher in the female
seminary at Bcbek j Miss Myra A Proctor,
who will join the seminary of Aintali as
teeoher; and Mrs. J. W, Parsons, who,
with her two children, returns to join her
in missionary labor. The usual
religión* serviocs were held on board, snd
weru oonducted b y Rev. Dp. Paine, o f
Holden, (Mrs. fltartrti ffcther.) Qnite a
large oempany of the friends of the mistión
arias gathered to bid thrm farewell, ami
the psrting whh a ttoeue of deep ami tender
emotion, says tlx* Journal.
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PROCLAMATION
BY TIIB
GOVERNOR OF TUESTATE
OF
Wbbui, fho last Legklamre pa cJ a
Joint Resolution, pmposm<r tn amend tin-
Constitution uf the Slate uf Texas, which i.t
in these words ; " J>>!nt U solution • r->(>. >
ing an amendment to titc State Coiouituti- r
Be it Ra*dr*d bp tit I*fidal%rt of lit Sf .H
if Tents, That Uie did dccliuii « !" ilm IVlli
Article ui lúe Couatitutiou of tlie Stale eludl
be so amended aa t i«*wd aa follows, viz;
Sec. Srd. All public lamí , which hu«>*
bervtuloro or which may hereafter be jíiuu-
ted for pahlie sohoola to the virions comi-
ties in this State, may be sold by tlie county
Cuoi U uf each uouuiy to arhich the lands
belong, or by saoh tribunals as may sue-
oecd to tlieir ju«iadirti<ui, by ontiacnf of *
maiority of the legal voters in said counties
and andar saoh genera) rules as 'the I>.igi«-
lature may from time to time prescribe—
rrcridai—That tlie principals of Uic pro-
ceeds at the sale uf such lauda shall fa r«-
tamcd and Invested as a permanent sell > >l
fund for the counties owning tlie same, ami
the interest only shall be used for educa-
tional purpose .
Approved, Februarv 10th, 1058.
Now, tberefofe I. ü. U liunucl*. Gov-
ernor of tlie State of Tthk*, do hereby or-
der and direct that the Chief Justices of
the eeveral coanties in the State, or any
two ef the county Commissioners, if hceca*
sary, cana polls to be openrd at the
a! ««taction precinets of their respective
the time of the
of^Uig-
aet-1860, to takailm voto apon said pro-
posed amendment to tlie Ciustitution, of
all those who vote f h- Rcnro* ntstlvcs.—
The vote msy be expresaed thus—"For tl e
to thaCoMtitutioa."ar "against
to tlie Conetitution," as the
returns of Said
tef thoee voting
stit a place called Baal.
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of the ltd , rays
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took fc-i- ¿aaartawi vsstmdae afteMooo for
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to convey
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the flrfag of
I have hereto sign
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Lipsey, E. J. The Matagorda Gazette. (Matagorda, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 48, Ed. 1 Saturday, July 2, 1859, newspaper, July 2, 1859; Matagorda, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth179128/m1/2/?q=%22%22~1: accessed August 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History.