The Matagorda Gazette. (Matagorda, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 15, Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 4, 1860 Page: 1 of 4
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NUMBER 15.
MATAGORDA, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 4, I860.
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LETTER FROM
\UST1N.
FÜXD.
•f Watktng-
Itions, which wcrr adopted
oí Uw
Aaeriea, through-
who are éeii*
Teroon Ladies'
is their noble
I
Austin, Dec. 23, I8¿9
E. J. LireEY, E.-m.:
Deir Sir:—F have de-
layed writing you lor some time, witli the
hope that something would transpire that
wonld be of interest. *
A goodly number of bills havekeen pass- .. * ,.f
ed by the Legislature, but principally of ai M 1 *
The Committee appointed on Saturday
night to draft resolutions expressive of the
sentiments of this community in relation to
tin* conduct of K. Palmer fonnerlv a
earth, my friends, was that oi transforming , an readily see. «•re herself, in Paradise,you canuot Bee, nor even smell, lor I di -
himself into a beautiful garter-snake, and was scarcely with less clothing eñ than 1. guise it. My pocket-handkerchief is just
so charntiu_r g=>< d mother tve that she one ¡ have here on these two arms. Then, there ** fuH Qf holes as my stockings and tloun-
lay coii.miüed a slight u isdemeanor, and nothing on my neck, or next to nothing ;jces. A young fashionable lady like mecer
- HIUj awav and il auv poor humble woman in this tainly cannot 1* got up without costing
in uyfi
d shoAt
1 would
amount
_ of the
Gilbert Charles
of the Boston
I oolors, flu th-
A bill proi
Frontier has
pfabtbly be
y few of a
>4«"ed thai
private or local charac er. Vcr
; general character har< been p
would be of interest tn your section
|A bill providing for the protection of tl <
has passed the Senate, and wil
acted upo i in the Bouse oi
to-morrow. News ret ches us occasional!;
depredations comm ,ted on the settler
the Frontier, by ma auding bands of lr^- jjlj(
forfeited her "third" of Par idist_
wen* poor Adam s share in the bargain— world can wear less on her neck l nd
citizen-of this place, beg leave to report ,\iul I verily believe tiitft the same old ders than I, the belle Flora, weal, 1 would
that they have examined the insulting, in- repetile holds <aseinating power over the , like to see and aid the poverty ofthat wo
ion ¡etter attributed to him, fair sex at the presen! time. His fallen , man. My robe is just looped up over my
and com| >ared it with other documents in (írcatuess, uiv brethren, then put on a suit-' shoulders, and henee the neck, bust, aims,
his hand'criting, and to which his signa- able ri;.;-of ahestbes and turned fireman — | , that (í<)d blessed me with when 1 came
turo is a lixed, nnd do not entertain adouht not one of the blatys that run with the big
of his gt ilt. Said Palmer has gone to parts squirting machine, but such a fireman as
unknown. All the circumstances show him is employed upofa a steamboat, to heave
to be .t ift'aclh'mns, bad man, and that he
ought not to bo permitted to remain in any
^portion of the South.
the wood and keep the blazes up. llis great
pyrotechnic establishment is in some loca-
lity best known to himself ; but with which
4
an*. and immediate action shr ild be ha|l|
fir the protection of t e settler!
A bill proposing to ionate 2 0 acres of
to actual settler was und r consider-
by tbe House, < iring last week, and
qmte a disc ssion. Tjhe bill met
agpositk i, and both parties
v«ly. The! friends of the meas-
favored itbocauw they thought it wonld
the country, i id bring the "wild
iiito coltivatio ;Scc. The opponents
that it would e «mping the door to|
ta from the Abortion Aid Socic-
aod felt under no^special obligation to
to our State andf then gire them
four Representative
iber who opposed the
tbe bill confffied its benefits to
"onr-own State, there wonld
little opposition to it No
been had upon the bill.
was inaugurated on
"old hero of San Jac In-
dealreus of testing his
oe over the Legislature
', arid to that end, after the
bad been awaiting him for
hour, he sent a request that the
ore would adjourn is front of 4be
and that he might be there inaugn-
Legislature respectfully and
do . so f tifter wfclcbfhe
ohth of officein the ¿all
Representatives, and
deliver hill in .
of the Santal.- The
10 their Chamber, the
(he crowd .listened to
addresses were/delivered by
their treats ,to the! suc-
buf before the Legislatrfre adjourn-)
Ur*vlrtA, That no man entertaining Aim-11 trust, you will become fully acquainted
ii sentiments has any business in the| at some future period.
semething—but the mouey does not all go
in 'dry goods,' aa you sce«n to thiuk it doc*.
Becanae we take large Saratoga trunks
with us, that you call 'cottages,' or 'bod
rooms,' dou't think they are full of dry
goods. Any one can eaaily handle them,
South ; that such a man.can bo regarded in, My hret|,rn w)l0n the devil comes to
no other light than as au luccttdiarv, and • •
as ail enenty both to the white and f|,ej town now-a-days, lie doffs his old fire tog
black race, and as such ought to bo treat-
ed.
gery, and dresses either in flash style, or
assumes a more gentlemanly garb—seldom
Resolved, That it is customary iu all coun indeed, coming in coarse humspun or with
trica to meet ont tlM diary condign ¡a ^ Qnf ,t, w >nd a suolv
punishment ; and that the man who would ...
delude the ignorant, and vicious of the Is t-
Sometimes he may bs seen strutting
South to their own destruction, anil subject j along quite fancifully attired - with a coat,
rection, with its atrocities, is a wretch,
into the world, arc jusl as he gave them to(as you see the porters daily doing—for they
me ! Now, sir, if you do not blush when are as full of frame work as of 'goodi.*—
•you sec this, or when I tell it to you, all I There is a peg to hang your bonnet on—a
can say is, blushing is departed from man. drawer to püi the jewels in—a place for 4
'But, sir, as you compel me to go into everything, in apartments too numeroua to
painful details, and to recite such things mention, but apartmenta are not ' dry
as should scarcely meet even mamma's goods.' Indeed, sir, but I say it (aside)
eyes, I must call attention to the frock.— f not for you to priut this part of it, the cost-
What is that frock made of? Nothing, liest part of a woman,wrflen is not our
absolutely nothing—for it is a light, airy 'goods,'but our'bads,'if I maw to express
thing, which, of itself, does not weigh half myself. Teeth, for example^ coat more
a pound. It is so light and so Jitmsey, (no| than a|i my flounces and my frocks. My
pun,) I assure you, that my covering is but laces ara not half so expensive "a^ some
imagination ; and were I uot protected by people'* hair dye.- My paints even ad-
crinoline, it would be 'noclothes,' 'no dry^m¡t j pajnt a fittle) cost memore tbai^my
goods'at all. The flounces, even, are not crinoline. Besides, it cost me years of
our families to the horrors of servile insur- of claret, vest of bnff, pants of sky blue, ¡realities—only 6haras. They seem to be {study, and of education, to know how tflk.
and hat and boots of ivory polish, with fl°"nces, and are so in name ; but, if you (get myself up—bat when once the invest-
■Bpr&s
rally .of %
it all
for
e _ _
and for-
P<fr
• e • a • a a a a •
pieture to
style and
the
for deüv-
k CO.
^ .
have
Union-
Democ-
and after
ours past the
waa made to ad-
p. m., when there
ys voting. So the
the ayes had it by
Ing adjourned until
When tlu; time came
title more successful, and
y had a liundred Unim Sartrs to-
>, and adoated resolutions and a plat-
I wife endeavor to send you a
the pro eedings. From all I can
rs of the: new party "have
it," and ajre fully satisfied.
Houston j passes * from the
tilia Grpnd Union-loving
sleep that knows
who deserves the sever- :t dniiisliinent.
Rc-wlced, That w© arc la tv abiding citi-
zens, and deprecate mob lav' and mob vio-
lence, and we theref re ho ie the Legisla-
ture will make saint sty !a^ on this sub-
ject, enforcing the terrors rf the peniten-
tiary and tlic gallows aceo ding to the ter-
pitude of the crime, agains every one who
utters or attempts to cari ' éut abolition
sentiments.
Resolved, Tliat recent ev< nts have shown
that tlie Scjuth is tilled wfth abolition in-
cendiaries, who, while they cannot tempt
the great body of the slave population to
insurrection agaiust their owners, between
whom there exists a bond of union which
canuot be severed, that the Abolition mis-
creants can excite the bad passions of the
vicious negroei, causing them to commit
acts of insubordination and violence, and
that we cannot be too vigilant in watqli-
ing the conduct of those who come among
us whose conduct may excito suspicion.
i Resolved, Therefore, that an* person who
hereafter utter or avow Aliolkion doc-
tpños shall be held responsible for tbe
e.
he following additional resolution was
opted :
Resolved, That the Legislature be re-
ue8tcd to take steps for the smendment of
or State Constitution, so ss to make the
acts and words of onr home abolitionists
treason. * |
Remarks were made by Messrs. Morphis,
Loughery, Hartley, Mareftiall, and Bonfoey.
ioniw
ipers,
in the State, to copy thefec proceedings.
On motion the meeting adjourned.
J. if. TAY iQR,' Chairman.
J. M. CURTIS, Secre tary
=4
three diamond studs and a nugget in his 'urn them up, you will see they arc only J IQent is made, it is made for my life. My
bosom- and a gold watch chain, large and sham flounces, with liuings below. Per sister Elisa has an eye that ooat more than
strong enough to tether a mad elephant; ',aPa y°u 8ay *'ace coata a moJ®, all my clothes—it is so well done ; and my
but with all these, there is always a hole than silk but' 8¡r' y°u hav<; not1l'n5 to «"other sister Emly, has a cork leg so ail-
with prices—for you have charged me with, mirably got up that nobody will ever find
having too much to wear, and I am show- oot cnieBB 8ho gets married. My owq
ing you, I wear nothing, and have nothing - -
to wear. Besides, what can you, a man,
know of lace? Can yo <cll a Honiton from
a Valencicnnes ?—a Brussels from s Barce-
lona T—a Maltese from a Chinese pine sp-
ple ? Men should know what they are talk-
ing about before they begin to write.
After this. plain exposition of my outer
apparel, I do not feel called* upon to explain
more ; but to defend myself, and to silence
. yon forever, I am determined to go on. Be-
V
behind, where the tail comes through —
Sometimes, too lie appears in a more re-
spectable guise of plain black, with mode-
rately short, business-like hair and well
trimmed whiskers. In such raiment he
mig&t readily be inistalfcn for añ unadul-
terated gentleman—-an influential citizen,
-were it not that there a hole behind, and
the tail irill work itself thro.' .And breth-
ren, ♦'have even known the old scoundrel
to don the pontificia I robe, get into the pul-
pit afld preach "Christ, and him crucified,
at a salary per annum that would crowd
defects, sir, if I have any, no mortal man
can ever see—but I don't have any, though
! if I had, they would be the moot expansivo
part of my fit out. You should know some-
thing, then, sir, of what you are talking
about, and not impute to me 'the price of
flour,' or the loss of gold and silver."
thati a fortnight from t te date of the first
payment. I couldn't possibly have the
handling of so much n ouey and hold my
religion. Yes, brethrin, I have seen the
devil, in clerical duds,molding forth, to an
hdmiring congregation, in the most elo-
quent style, festooningltbe garden of heaven
with the rarest exotica and describing 1iell
a hundred times hotter than he himself
A resolution jwas adop ed requesting the
Marshall papers, and all rther newspapers
From the Sao Francisco Cat.) Golden Era.
A SHOUT PATEI T SEK^ON.
by dow
the folio
Eleph
as Gen
of action
will then "sleep
*o asking "
a matte
from tho Rio Grande is
ral hi force too
with a loas of
tly aforce
iHth a twenty
la search of the
— i - _
turn Mr strongly ea-
withnut giving
before us,
• Teziana we
tho progress
Itia a mattel of regre yith many mem
bera f the Lef slature, i iat the penny wise
poli< f adopted it the coi imencement of the
seas m, by tbe "retrench nent and reform"
advi cates, pr ¡vents tl m from keeping
thei
iugi
it c nnot now
constituents postee
of the Le rfelature.
je helped
Your fr ?nd,
Jiuc Mifcmxo.
, Decern er 12th, a public j
iag of the citiaeas f Harrison county
M held at Lyceum H<1, in Marshall. ,
The meeting was organized bj cal I i rig ^ ' 1
Mr. J. M ^Taylor to the Chair, and sppoint-
h a cargo of rosiu,
His nether ornament
madly. uttering tlie
jr.
With a hole lwhlnd whori his tail cornea thro
My Ueaibíhs r The oi gin of this notorious' of matrimony—whose kiss is
scamp—the devil^—is wrapped up in a'the bloom of innocence—wh<
great thickness of obsi urity. As to his pa- flower and leaves tlie tree
all the piety out of youjr poor pastor iu less¡?'ni then, at my ahoes. What are they ?
- J 1 Nothing 1 Nothing at all 1—They do not
weigh an ounce even. They would not
protect my feet frdhi water, or from cold,
and'I cannot possibly walk in the street
without them. They are so \nisesable that
they do' not last out the dance of a single'
night—aud often I see my stockings
through the solei of them, and oven my
nsked.feet. There is not-a beggar woman
who would wear such shoes. Then as to
my stockings. There is no solidity what-
ever in them - no cost for the raw material
and they are not even of silk, or satin, but
could over make it wi
pitch, and c:w phene.
was noi visible wb'-le
"words ol truth- and- obe: ne.-w't—yet jthere
Was a hole behind for the ta j to come
through ; and tho tip end of i might be
seen peeping from beneath his ecclesiasti-
cal cloak as'he walked in the I igliway, as
proud as a peacock and stiff i s a roll of
sol^Mther. I have Also seen 1 is devilship
at tr^^ar, upon the bench; in State Legis-
lature and in our National Co igrcas. At
'all these places he has ever .w< rn the dress
of b gentleman, but" always sipped upon
the behavipr, and exposed the hols behind
rrtaiaktonr Meascuu,—We notico in
the Virginia papera accounts of meetings
in seveAl counties in that State, to tako
measures for retaliating on tlie North for
its outrages on the South. Tlie following
resolutions, adopted in Westmorland coun-
ty, msy serve as an example of tbe spirit of
thoso meetings:
"First—We will adopt a strict non-inter-
course in trsde and commerce with the
citizens and merchants of all non-slavehold-
ing States. Wo will neither sell to theai
sny article of tlie growth or manufacture of
our State—or buy from them or ooaaume
any article of the growth or manufacturo of
their States.
Second—We will cease t*> travel
made of the slightest sp«.---: mer gau^e, ss: amongst them or visit them, except upou
it were. You can see through tlie holes in the most urgent and unavoidable business,
them in every part. Surely, then, in the "Third—We will employ no laborers or
matter of my understanding, I can say,; mechanics from the North. .
with trúth,'I have nothing-to wear.' j "Wo will arrest and send out the
'There are somo topics of a lady's toi , State, in the moat summary manner, all
lette which no gentleman can write upon j itinerant vendors of Northern books, news-
— much more a lady like me—but you so pspers, periodicals, or any other article of
often generalize in the Express by tlie use | Northern growth or manufacture ; and all
of that undcfinablte word'Crinoline,' that I i persons who are suspected of anti-a!avcry
shall follow you up there, to prove that I opinions or sympathies, or whocsnnot givo
have nothing to wear. I don't know, air, precise and true account of themselves,
My text Is contain d in those words j where the tail came .through .... . .
which most of yoti live probably seen' And iu>w my unsuspecting y >nng sisters,, w.hat yon think crinoline is bat, if you are ¡«s engaged in lawful business, we will treat
somewhere-or Romewh<-e else : I beware of. a gay dharpier, ' ho pays a f married man, you know ; and if you are , as vagrants and incendiaries.
"Prayrae how tlie d< it was dressed." 1 J L'- - '
"Oh! he wai in his Banc y'a best,
Hia coa* was thick and It ■ troupers bine.
thousand compliments, and h is as niany'no^> y°o oan see it hung up in the shops of j We arc not sure-that these remedies
mor" ready for another- w| o talkes of Broadway all along, and then guess. All will succeed. We will try them at least."
love and totes you about, but Jevcr thinks 1 haTe ^ 8ay °Pon lhis delicate topic is, ij Similsr meetings are al«o being held in
do not wear New York crinoline—for it is scvoral counties of Alsbama, South Caro-
too much for me to wear, too heavy, too!lina, and Mississippi.
to the proceed-
But ao it is, and
KOTHING
o tail. • So i^ote it
NO TO wJuT"
a blight to
plucks the
wither. I
te verv devil
be 1
ternity, it is generally supposed that he 8ay, beware of him, for he* is
never had a father noi a mother, but is en- j himself —t|ail or no
tirely self-made ; for * bich wonderful piece'
of workmanship he ha i no doubt takeii a j
vast deal of credit to imself. The first we; , >|jsq McPlimsey,? of Madison
hearrof his super-roy il highness, he was j Pqnarp, i s wrilt6n a letter to the
'•sloshing about," in eaven at a terrible -- — -
stiff, tr>o rattling, too fussy, too unyielding, j
The barbarians who make it np in Connec
ticut,liavc not yet learned the art of mak-
ing 'nothing' out of Something, which the
Parisians have, and hence all my crinoline
comes from Paris—for the very reason thst
New Yotfk Expíes , indignantly denying
rate, aud freighteninj! tlie infant Cherubim ^ Bcr¡0Áa imputation cast opon her sex,
ifito fit8j* he pretend d to be dissatisfied Gf cansinc 'financial-panic*' and other mon-
with tbe general gov 'rnment up there, but ¡larv troublef, by.^cxtravagant and useless
the throne was his so 9 object ; and 1 may
1^ An Irish soldier, who was lioasting
of his greít courage, was asked why he
ran away in battle ?
" Faith," saya Pat, " me heart is bowld
as a lion—so it is ; but I happen to hava
a pair of cowardlv legs, which always ran
in it, there is really nothing—to wear. Tlie.®**ay wid me body, when I'd be after the
crinoline I sport is a light, airv, gossamer, j 'n'n,y bad luck to them !"
bM-cago lite M.b,Un«-, th.t .n.ble. iw-| t „ Bum. _W. ¿.d • dMia-
to sport about as a pretty canary does in jrUí9hed visibjr yesterday. Mrs. Parting-
his gosamet; wire ca^« If in dancing I tou called, and she "would like to aaoer-
... , ever fi>rm of myself a right angle triangle, ¡ taiu a copy of our paper that aostained a
lav he foueht like thl devil to reach it — ovcl^rc#s,n^- reiterates thatjhe has. don t gee iu me a more ballet girl-for! reP®rt *f* [• ] old PMawatomy
gay he fought like th de%il to reacn it. 'nothmg to wear,' and goes on to prove her - in t. Brown," who, she had heard, "wraa now de-
He thought if he v\ y could be king of aS!H.rt¡onfl jn tilC followiug siyle. The letter \ it • *i:«rhl and so ítt that it {_ ranged before the Court, together with his
that extensive doftiin on for a few mdlions 4ll lP¡ro miin, |1MÍ ««mía ;g Ü7' ?,ch# Cook, for reciting the negroes of Ylr-
of years, matters woi Id
that they would tak
for the balance of et< r
like 2 ttireehing m^i
glory ; but my bret I .. uu ti>c cosmcsi oreas oi an women, sir, • . , _ , > lion of " \cUm " in Vn<A*nA nn lw.
I; «-or.. cKr.ri I.u 'r . a i i l my unselfishness. Abused as I am by you, unn 01 neoe, irv tngiana, up to tho
tu- i unons were snort—los I have pot clothes-enough on, as everv- ... • • • — —
L...I .i.„ ..r , j , ' as if I were even
negroes
author of
preparing a new novel
ood. Tbe circula*
ing J. M. Curtis, Secretary.
ca is«t wasn t j'. -i,
' Ijorditoo many, f.11
«nd the hosts of the' bodv can sec me, to keep a woman warm,
jo many for him. He, to say nothing of what propriety and de-
The objects of the meeting were explain-,waH at ,as - ami l"tohcd over tl,e ceney require. Tl
ed,by Mr. Loughery, ho read the p^ce¿i- bakfy ? nfMl • down he ra,np k-r iu New York
fnga'of the prelimmarv noting l^ld at tbe ***** where ir the centre of the great streets with more
.... ,, c., -j ■ 1, Dismal Swamp, flr that disastrous fall, -md vet vou have
everything. I call all Newport 14th November, had reached 11,000. Tho
to witmea, that fn the 'German,' the^^8a,<?s the American edition have been at
Polka,' oathi Lancers, (I don't dance vul- ,eMt twice aa great
not as dear to me, as tbey ever were. And «.TJT Tribune says that
6g. of th. preliminary ¿N-t¡DK Md at the """" .T"" T".'i T7 Tn "7" """ 7"""' ' ">i« •« «rn from rc.ll/th. uri.1 nature °" Brow" "* h°"8 '"-I"" ">P«.
Adkins House on Saturday night 'sf*n,p- ' I:i11- a , d yet you have the impudence to abuse of the crinoline that upholds my gauae. nd not a cotton one. It waa made by a
The Committee appointed a« tlie previous my brethj-n, he so injured his l.-ft foot, when I reiterate, with solemn truth,' Now, sir, that I have gone so fully into a ; Kentucky planter expressly for the par-
meeting asked leave to retire and conaider that it wnhered arid turned into a hoof, my'Nothing to Wear.' There is nothing woman's toilette as a modeat lady can in pose. A cotton rope was scut. OB todo
the resolutions tobe offered to the meet-' which he exhibits even to this day, except on m>v mvi- —! • at theru, sir, for you may self-defence, what have you to say for your- the business, but on examiaatlM It
iwhen artfolly i*oneealed by a nice polish *;! %c, ii ; ., k t'-cni any oth'-r b< dv in se'f? From head to foot, I am almost just
There is not a beggar wo- , ... . .
k who doe. not Bo into the i'ac'^) Ule b"°* 'rc >Ml" ,f
clothes than I have on
mg.
Daring the interval, the Secretary offer- c®" skin boot.
ed a few remarks. The Committee then re | The first of this rast al s cs|>ers upon ¡fropi wrists onward and
r'-!*re is nothing nn mv arms, as Nature made me. There is nothing on
upward, as yon' my h ir except s little castor oil, and thst' people ss Old Brown
but on exanuaaoiB ft was
found not to be thick enoogh. After all,
perhaps, hemp is the I «est üiing f* *uch
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