The San Antonio Ledger. (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 13, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 19, 1852 Page: 2 of 4
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THE LEDGER.
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OFFICÍAL JOURNAL
For fublUhiSf the laws of the United States-
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SAN ANTONIO.
kÍdat, august 10
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|^f J. s. ACcxawder is duly aihoráed to act
4s agent for «he " San Antonio Ledger," during
hi* journey through the State.
CjTThe present number closcs the connection
of the undersigned with the publication of the
" San Antonio Ledger." Professional engage-
ments, which I am not at liberty to decline, re-
quire ao great a portion of my time, that I can-
not gire that attention to the publication of the
Ledger that its patrons have a right to expect
In transferring it to other hands, I hare not been
unmindful of the interest of its subscribers, as
it is placed under the direction of a gentleman
every way qualified to conduct it, with credit to
himself, and advantage to the community. Mr.
M. Bocbke, will hereafter be the publisher, and
the services of the gentlemin who has con-
ducted its columns for the last few weeks, have
been secured in the Editorial department. The
future patronage of its readers is earnestly so-
Hcited in behalf of these gentlemen, and I have
Hcited
v "way tfrrtiiled to t
The T^edgerno
_ nn* _
' fide nee of the ©
During my brief connection with its publica-
tion, I have endeavored to make it useful and
interesting, so far as my limited abilities and
means would permit. Iumt that the same con-
fidence thai has been extended to me, may be
continued to my successors, and that both the
reader and publisher of the "Ledger," may be
equally gratified in its future conduct.
D. C. VAN DERLIP.
I3T In olden limes, a goal roan was recalled
from exile and crowned ruler by a bad people.
Hi* excellent virtues won esteem and honor and
mat ion from the vicious. Our response to our
friend of the Victoria Advocate and others of our
cr.temporaries who wonder why we, with our
Loco Foco instincts should receive a Federal
appointment from the Whig Dynasty, is, (and
v.-e ray it with complaisance) we are moral and
;íuO'¡, and our excessive virtues have reached
the knowledge, oí the Government at Wash-
ington.
VT Our late distinguished visitant, Dr. Na-
phegyi, with his auburn curls and ferocious
mustache, and fascinating whiskers, and dapper
body, and profusion of j ewelry, had, from latest
accounts, reached the Gulf. After muttering to
the breakers that rear their crests against the
goodly town of Lavaca, in each of the intini*
tuie of languages he liar, at his control, the
learneddoctor put on his hat with a serious but
composed eountrnance, crossed the taflrails o^.
some vessel bound for Mobile, looked benignant,
ly at the crowd collected on shore to witness his
departure, called for the bar-keeper and solemly
imbibed a whisky tod)'. The scene and attend-
ing circumstances were too overpowering. The
last information we have of this eminent man,
is to the effect that he was wiping the perspira-
tion from his excited countenance as the boat
left the Lavaca wharf.
Cuba.
At a brief distance from our southward
border, and in verge of the old ocean,
slumbers a sweet island. Years agoue,
a proud power, afar to the eastward,
crossed the taffrails of some crazy vessels,
(for navigation at the time was infantile.)
¡tod courted the wrath of the fierce billow
Guided by a wonderful destiny, these ad-
venturous men tracked the unknown wa«c,
and after much peril, leaped upon the
shores of a new world. Spain, then, was
bold, and poor,and virtuous. Those stal-
wart sons of hers, who bad plowed the
main with such terrible intrepidity, with
sword in hand, swept through the western
continent. As the northern blast dashes
howling o'er the plain, catching up and
killing the tender autumn flower with its
icy breath, so coursed these wrathful war-
riors, lapping up the blood of myriads of
unresisting native savages. * It was a brief
work to subdue this timid and primitive
race, and pluck from their possession
their long vales and towering mountains
and rapid streams. Strange is the story,
tjiafc sullen and imbecile and tottering
honor, of utter exclusion froto *ctvil and
military office station. But w ere ore
amplify- The Creole is as a ffog under
the heel of a drunken and wrathful owner
—as a galley slave under constant goa .
Each breeze that reaches our happy
from that ill-fated Isle, instead oj£>afting
the perfume of rich fiowret,is loaded with
shrieks of agony. The sons and daughters
of Cuba, in the midnight hour, when the
brutal oppression is asleep.bie to the beach.
In hoarse whispers, and with outstreatched
arms and tearful eyes, they implore this
free land to come to their rescue and town, which
break the iron chains that is eating in
their vitals. They say the discomfiture
of the meagre expeditions that have reach-
ed their shore do not bode future defeat.
They ask, too, the many, exiles whom ty-
ranny has driven away to this dear soil
to bestir themselves in their behalf.
Alas
for Cuba!
Closing'Stores on the Sabbath-
An esteemed and prominent merchant
of our to^fn, somewhat addicted to. piety
and a reverence of the lord's Day, but
aV*; yet,' HtiNH'e pained to sg %in the od%
art
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The Three Ugly Dromios.
San Antonio has many peculiarities. Springs
bubble around it. It contains the most motly
population. The architecture of its buildings
is very strange: now a dwelling of modern pro-
portions and texture and again a weird old
structure, that has been mocking time for a cen-
tury or two. Yet has it another eccentricity
v. ,;der than all the rest. There are three young
men in the town, who hail from different and
distant portions of the United States. They bear
the same name and yet can trace no blood or
marital relationship. Their ages are not much
dissimilar and their.specific gravity corresponds.
The most especial conformity consists in their
iutense and almost terrifie ugliness. Each one
t>y himself in grotesqneness and hideousness of
features would characterize and immortalize a
large city. Sometimes this strange trio are
seen together promenading the streets. \s unto
three Richards the very dogsdo bark at them,''
anu from window and doorway protrude female
countenances wreathed in laughing levity, as
thes¿ "three ugly Dromios," as they facetiously
style them, pass along.
Some of our neighbors on the Guada-
lupe arc talking about the upper tendom,
and say that the desire #) enter that
magic circle amounts to a contagion.
Lord preserve us !
Cuban News.—The news fro Cuba is
rather of an exciting character. A news-
paper containing inflammatory and insur-
rectionary appeals has of late been dis-
tributed throughout the Island. Not-
withstanding the efforts of a most vigilant
military police, no clue has as yet been(
trace"3Iro the Mtho^wj^of.tbe incendiary
article# or even to too location of the
press. Arrests ¿>f Several prominent and
wealthy Creoles have been made, although
the muffled governmental sheets contain
no information on the subject. It is very
certain that the natives of this ill-starred
island are very far from remaining quiet
under the yoke that presses them so se-
verely.
At a mcetiug lately held at Indianols,
the following among otheAerocious reso-
lutions were adopted:
" Whereas, the true line for a railroad;
as indicated by the commercial sagacity
of the country, would run from Powder
Horn Bayou through the town of Indian-
ola to Victoria, theace up the Guadalupe
river to Gonzales—therefore,
Rcsotiul That the delay of the San An-
tonio and Mexican Gulf Railroad Com-
pany has thrown such a doubt on their
enterprise that, in our opinion, these in-
the line sketched out above, should take
immediate action for a joint stock com*
pany for the building of either a Plank
or Railroad from ludianola to Victoria
and Gonzales.
We trust that-the good people of that
section will have mercy on- the town of
Sao Antonio
Only one Whig paper in Georgia sup-
ports (Jen. Scott
emits, and with a dowery such as the fabled
slave of the lamp would waken into exis-
tence. The stroDg-armed groom, with
lusty impetuosity, seized her in vigorous
embrace, and with the wild recklessness
of a dissolute spendthrift, suddenly in
possession of wonderful wealth, valorous
Spain became haughty and indolent and
dissipated. By degrees, from langor and
listlessness and loss of physical strength,
one after another of its distant provinces,
eluded its feeble grasp, until at last the be-
sotted debauchee has to possessions in
this broad continent. It is true, Spain
still lives, and by the buoying policy of
Europeanjpowers retains a national name.
It has no strength of its own. Degraded
and impoverished, it kisses, with the ab-
jectness of a whipt spaniel, the filthy hem
of the tattered garment of a harlot queen.
Yei do we mistake a little. We have
spoken of the Ocean Isle, somewhat
to the southward. It is the loveliest and
sweetest spot of all God's handiwork.
Upon it are reared tall mountains, so tall
that the atmosphere that plays around
their summits reveals the gorgeous tint
of the azure blue. At their base, bubbled
forth streams of cool and purling water.
Though this beautiful Island is spread
out in the heart of the tropic,it is ever fanned
by soft and equable breezes, modulated by
healing vapors that spring up from the
great deep. Where the innovating furrow
of the husbandman disturbs not the native
soil.a wild luxuriance of greensward wells up
while the varied wild flower, with immen-
sity of profusion juts above, and from its fat
petals swell forth to the kissing zephyr
an aroma, such as the Turk ne'er dream-
ed of in his opiate visions of future bliss.
They call them wild flowers in Cuba, for
they gush spontaneously from the alembic
of great nature; yet a girl of this grim
clime would yield her virgin heart to an
ugly and rejected lover for a bouquet
plucked at random from a Cuban heath.
A pious man, in the Good Book, tells of a
garden, fashioned at the dawn of creation,
for the progenitor and progenitrix of th6
human race, in their condition of purity
and fellowship with the creator. In
beauty of texture and gorgeousness of pro-
duction and charm of climate, this same
Cuba is not a whit behind the Paradise of
Moses. It is a fearful, frightful thought
that this lovely Isle, fitting abode for the
Peris of Eden, should bo an appanage of
demoralized and tyrannical and brutal
and rotten Spain, the sole territory
still lingering of all its vast posses-
sions in the Western World. It is terri-
ble to tell the tale of wo and agony that
the mother land visits upon the poorprovin.
cials. A lazy and leprous nobility, stink-
ing with baseless pride, like hideous vam-
pires, suck away for their own support the
treasures of the land. The Creole toils
awav till his tendons crack and his bones
beeoíne marrowless and the gracious soil
yields its teeming fruits. Then comes
the remorseless tax gatherer and laps up
the abundant harvest and floats it off for
distribution among the besotted Dons.
A sweet girl has advanced to exquisite
loveliness ; the bloom of the peach is on
her cheek and the darkness of the ra-
ven is on her tresses ; with a nec^ arch-
ing as the gazelle's and the fires of purity
beaming from her large dark eyes, with
feet of delicatc mould and voluptuously
rounded limbs—this creature is a Creole
daughter, bright as her own native isle.
Armed officials, gathered from Spain, and
sustained by soldiery, plucked from the
barren mountainsofthatimpoverished land,
are sole and supreme lords there. One of
them has caught a vision of that blooming
Creole maid. No matter. Some tears j
a dishonored body and a broken heart.
A brother or father may, perhaps, give a
look of anguish or indication. Then he
is struck down and his carcase flung to
an attending blood hound. Much could
be said of a muzzled press, of life incar-
ceration for the utterance of opinion, of the
suffocation of th$isle with an immense borde i
of importad brutal soldiery, Qf general in-
security of prop arty aad limb and life and
J™ Sfio, present load of ^ in
** " ^^ffiáfBoundféís
estera world. It was a young virgin
bridé, with breath such as a bed of violets
reference to selling goods on the day
which the text enjoins should be devoted
to prayer and spiritual communing and
fasting.
Thus do we discourse on this grave
topic. We Lave ever conceived that the
strongest evidence of the truths of revealed
religion, is to be traced to the regard which
is bestowed throughout the world to each
returning Sabbath. It matters not how
steeped in ignorance and vice, how degra-
ded in the matter of morals, may be a
people, each tribe and race and community
upon the footstool adopt this periodical
day of rest. The veriest infidel, who as-
sumes to scoff at divine ordinance?, thus
baring his bosom to the thunderbolt of a
revenging Omnipotence, will, upon the
approach of this period, set apart as holy,
relinquish his secular avocations, and be-
take himself to quietude and repose. The
fact that the various religious denomina-
tions have devoted different days to this
observance, is no disparagement to our
proposition. The Jew, if he pleases, may
consecrate our Saturday; the Mohammed-
an, our Wednesday; still, it is the delight
of the believer in the Word, and in the
eventual accordance of ali creeds to the
faith and practices of the Gentile, to re-
flect that every class of worshipping men
observe the same lapse of time. The Sab-
bath of all is upon each revolving seventh
day. The truth is, this division of labor
from rest is so much in conformity with
the wants of our physical constitution, and
of such general adoption, as to stamp its
origin as divine. But, moralizing is not
***"* Gwdalopc High School
Few of ouilcitixens seem to bo aware of
the. advantage furnished by our sister
town Scguin^lf obtainisgfor their child-
ren a good aim thorough education.
The towi^lf ig eligibly situated in a
remarkal^yjl lantic and healthy situa-
tion,Vn¿ it ilgencrally conceded, that a
more én'terpisiBg, industrious, or mora]
community t^n the citizens of Guadalupe
county, is ra^ly found even in the old
Atlantic Stafcf.
As an evince of their enterprise, this
almost a wilderness at the
ation, consisting only of a
og cabins, is now a hand
tantial village of near one
itants. The former rude
disappeared, and elegant
dwellings have been sub-
usiness houses are gener-
r order, and many are now
of erection that would be
mercialcity. In addition
to this, the to. can boast of a spacious
Cour^-house^e^odif.fe/^hurch, a remar-
kably ;he services of a superior^ a3onic
AT-ssór, thorough instruction will be New Vork tt.L^onv< of a« Wi
n tjp" -<«T _ Of -r - JV
1 phens affirms in lita le
period of an|
few scattered)
some and si
thóuKpl inl
structures h^
and comfortj
stituted. Tj
ally of a suj
in the progí
a credit to a <
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Se Sons of lw\iiperance, and two splend-
id and substantial buildings of stone for
male and female Academies belonging to
the Guadalupe High School Association.
Two additional churches, a Presbyterian
and Baptist, will soon be constructed, and
Seguin may then boast of having more
public buildings in proportion to popula-
tion, than any town in the State. As an
evidence of their industry, we have to re-
fer not only to the improvements already
mentioned, but also to the highly cultivated
farms in every portion of the county, so
recently reclaimed from the wilderness.
The morality of the population is fully
established, from the fact, that since the
settlement and organization of the county,
no criminal offence of any magnitude has
been committed within its limits, while
smaller offences have been promptly sup-
pressed and punished. *
But the schools are the chief attractive
feature of the town of Seguin. The Male
Academy is under the charge of Mr. Glass?
an able and accomplished teacher, and as-
sistants who seem to have been selected
in reference to their merits and capacity
alone. Globes, maps, and charts and a
valuablo philosophical and chemical ap-
paratus has been provided, and for trifling
additional compensation the student has
access to a small but choicely selected li-
brary. The Female Academy is under the
care and management of a lady of ac-
knowledged ability, with a sufficient num-
ber of capable assistants. The instruc-
tions which these schools furnish are suf-
ficiently numerous for all practical purpo-
ses. The student canuot only acquire a
our especial forte; so «Wonine tlie ele- comPlctc EnSlisl> ^cation, >>"' «1 ®
valed atmosphere tenanted by our clerical' M<lu,r® tIie I;alm/l"d. G™ok languages
friends, we shall proceed to counsel our
good citizens with wisdom drawn from the
school of general policy. The prosperity
of a town is vastly dependent 011 its moral
reputation. Indeed, the City of San An-
tonio furnishes evidence of this postulate.
Some few years ago, rowdyism was ram-
pant in our thoroughfares, and general
business stagnation was the result. An
efficient mayor and well-organized police
have, to much extent, contributed to the
late immense influx of population, and the
erection of those noble edifices that so
much adorn the place. No sensible man,
with a family, will locate in a disorderly
city. Now, the American world exult es-
pecially in the pride of morality, and ever
point to the observance of the Sabbath as
the strongest argument in this behoof. It
is rare to find an open store on the Sab-
bath in the American portion of New Or-
leans. After loud clamors, ordinances.
with heavy penalties for violation, enforced
the observance of the Puritan code in this
particular ; and such legal injunction was
necessary, and for the reason that although
a pervading public sentiment favored the
measure, a persistence in the old custom
on the part of the irreverent and ungodly,
would compel the moral portion of the
community to resort to bargain and sale
on the Lord's day. A desire for the accu-
mulation of coin is stronger than the love
of Heaven. Men will not suffer their fel-
lows to outstrip them in barter, though the
competition endanger their souls. We
fear that such an ordinance is necessary to
arrest the evil in our midst. Moral men,
eager for a reverence of the day, are un-
willing to ^ield an advantage of barter to
their competitors. We conclude bur homi-
ly by urging upon our devout Common
Council the necessity of enforcing the law
prohibiting the opening of stores, for the
purposes of trade, on a Sunday. So mote
it be.
53a On Tuesday last Doct. Moffat, the
assistant surgeon of Capt. Shaw's company
of Rangers, while bathing in the San An-
tonio River, was seized with a cramp.
Before assistance could be rendered he
was drowned. Yesterday, a solemn cor-
tege of the Masonic fraternity, preceded
by the band of the mounted rifles, followed
him to his long home. Dr. Moffat was in
high esteem among his military comrades,
and the body of which he was a member
bestowed appropriate honors to his mem-
ory.
Indianola, says the Bulletin of the 12th
intt. is entirely healthy.
and a thorough instruction in the various
branches of mathematics, in chemistry and
other kindred branches,
The charges for instruction are remark-
ably low, sufficiently so as to place the ad-
vantages of education almost within the
reach of all. Board can bo obtained in
respectable private families at from $8
to $12 per month, and every necessary
article that the student may require can be
obtained in the town at reasonable rates.
We think it may safely be asserted, that
uo town in the State can furnish superior
if equal advantages for obtaining a good
education than that provided by the town
of Seguin.
What a contrast does Guadalupe coun-
ty, with but a little more than two hund-
red voters,present in this respect to Bexar,
with her two thousand and two hundred.
All this has been effected in Guadalupe by
a few of her own farmers, mechanics and
merchants, all of whom have but limited
means. Bexar the most populous, and
perhaps the most wealthy county in the
State, depends upon the precarious facili-
ties of private elementary schools for the
education of her youth. Show her mer-
chants a feasible railroad project, or even
the opening of a new wagon road as an
outlet for their merchandise, and they will
stake their last dime upon its construction.
But call upon them to erect a respectable
school house, they would hardly part witb
the first one for that purpose, and at the
same time spend yearly upon the educa-
tion of their children in other States, suf-
ficient to establish institutions of learning
at home upon the most liberal scale.
However commendable their enterprise
in other respects may be, and is, yet the
advantages of a home education for their
children, is a subject of more importance
than is imagined.
It is to be hoped that our county and
city will asouse from this lethargy, and
not permit themselves to be distanced in
the cause of education, by others of much
less means.
The Austin State Gazette says: " There
was considerable excitement and some
bloodshed in several counties at the late
election. At Washington there was a
fight or two, and the same at Rock Island
in Austin county; at Wheelock there was
a man killed by the accidental discharge
of a pistol in his pocket; and at Cameron
another was killed in a fight. At Inde-
pendence, there was a bloody affray, in
which three persons wero badly cut. We
had a fisticuff or two at this place, but no
bloodshed, we believe.^
The first bale of new cotton was feceiv-
ed on the 9th isat at Galveston.
Harey Safe, with a Slight Talk on Ramon.
There is criminal blame somewhere that
should be visited with terrible censure.
In our issue of the 29th ult. was published,
m considerable detail, the particulars of a
massacre. The information was obtained
from the military authorities of this town.
Avowing the source from whence emana-
ted such information, our communication
assumed, to some degree, a semi official
character. It is true, the papers at Aus
tin, being nearer the scene of the fabulous
slaughter, had anticipated a few days our
publication. With the facilities we enjoy
through the courtesy of the officers on duty
here, in connection with the fact that San
Antonio is the Headquarters of the Fede-
ral Military stationed within our State
borders, our statements endued a rumor,
somewhat vague, with form and substance
The letter of Sutler Stephens to an officer
high in command, revealed much nicety of
detail. In addition to an avowal of a re-
ligious belief in the truth of the reports
that had reached Fort Arbuckle, the char-
acter of the communicant for general in-
tegrity and veracity was sustained by tbe
known officer.
that so fully ac-
credited at Fort Arbuckle were the reports,
that every preparation was made at that
place to resist an anticipated Indian at-
tack. The effect of the idle rumor is well
known. Throughout the dimensions of
our land, a favorite officer, with his entire
command, has been mouraed as dead.
Deep and bitter curses have been wreathed
around the innocent Red Man's brow. To
a comparatively few and qualified out-
rages, has been attached the odium of a
frightful and unprovoked Indian massacre
The report is still grumbling along, awa
kening indignation and horror. No doubt
it stimulated and ripened the late Federal
legislation in reference to border protec
tion, and provoked the present movement
of Governor Bell to the same purpose and
behoof. Without a positive certainty of
its truth, and yet with the precaution of
wisdom, it drove Gen. Smith to throw
upon the frontier provisions, to meet an
emergency, at a cost of not less than fifty
thousand dollars. It may be asked with
much feeling and pertinency, who is the
reckless and sacrilegious author of this
baseless and malignant report? Is there
an officer upon the frontier who tinctured
a silly Indian story with official authen-
ticity and sanctity, without a proper and
reasonable investigation. A more flagrant
cause for reprehension was never present-
ed, and there is good reason to believe that
a severe scrutiny will ensue among those
who had any agency in transmitting to
Headquarters, without sufficient grounds,
so unfounded and mischievous a rumor.
Now comes the complete and utter refuta-
tion of this wild story.
Through the kindness of Major Deas we
have been shown an official communication
from Col. G. Lootnis. at Fort Belknap, to
Col. C. A. Waite, of date Aug. 5th, which
recites that L. Bates. Orderly Sergeant of
Capt. Marcy's couimaud, had arrived on
the day previous at Fort Belknap, and re-
ported that Capt Marcy, with his entire
command, had reached Fort Arbuckle on
the 28th of July ; that Marcy had accom-
plished the object of his mission without
interruption of any description ; in fact,
that he had not encountered an Indian,
friendly or unfriendly, throughout the
entire route.
This is the ending of this wonderful
farce of rumor.
Movement of Gov. Bell, for the protection of
the Frontier.
It will be seen by reference to the let-
ter of instructions from Gov. Bell to the
Adjutant General, published on our first
page, that our worthy Executive has taken
tbe responsibility of action in reference to
our unprotected frontier. With that
promptitude and boldness which charac-
terized his military career, he has leaped
over the embarrassments and restrictions
which defective laws have encircled his
position, and at all hazards assumed the
protection of the exposed border. It was
the duty of the last Legislature, to have
yielded the means for this necessary move-
ment. The knowledge of the insecure
condition of the country adjacent to the Rio
Grande, was forced upon their attention.
They heeded not the cries for relief, that
reached them from every quarter. They
knew the Federal arm, so far as it affected
to extend aid, was altogether defective and
inadequate. Under such circumstances,
with full confidence that future legislation
would remunerate the troops summoned
into service, he responded to the appeals
of his fellow citizens, by providing them
with a sufficient force for their protection.
The Adjutant General is prosecuting his
orders with vigor and alacrity and will
leave us in a few days for Corpus Christi.
Capt. Shaw, now with us, has completed
his compliment. With such gentleman
in command as Lewis, Shaw and Davis,
with our own daring riders for subordi-
nates, the Mexican and Indian will flee
howling to their nasty coverts. We have
good reason to suppose, that these com-
panies will be incorporated among the
Federal troops, and receive compensation
from the General Government.
No cases of cholera, says the Advocate,
occurred in Victoria during the week end-
ing August 14th
Mynheer Tencrin, the German Doctor
Who would willingly assert his ignorance of
this strange beiogl Two years ago, an aged in-
dividual, with countenance perfused with shag-
gy hair, anl buoying up hit apparently decrepit
strength with a long and eccentric staff, stood
upon a mound that overlooks our broad city
with its strange architecture and intersecting
purling streams. It was easy to gather from
his ardent and prolonged gaze, that this man,
with his foreign garb and dark twinkling eyes,
was a stranger. Anon, he plucked from his fan-
tastic vest diminutive box of curious work-
manship, embossed with various and cabalistic
designs. Mysteriously would he tap this small
receptacle, and displacing the lid .with much de-
liberation, proceed to extract between his thumb
and forefinger, a portion of its pulverized con-
tents. As he leisurely applied the dark morsels
to his expanding nostrils, a gleam of intense
satisfaction would light up his dark and forbid-
ding countenance. There mast have been some
wonderful inspiration in that eccentric powder.
When by strong inhalation it seemed to pene-
trate the lungs, his thin lips began to move.
It was when the last beam ot the receding sun
had just fitfully sported with the top of a neigh-
boring hillock, and then, as if affrighted at its
long delay, had fled away behind the crimson
horizon, and the heavy dews of appi^>aching
nightfall were moistening his thin garments,
that this weird old man, as some anathematising
Ste- prophet, thus communed with hi
surrounding solitude—,fXlTáát,a8ótS
the purling streams and mot lied population, 4
have you now! The evil spirit that controls my
destinies has faithfully guided me to thy bor-
ders from the sterile banks of my native Vistu-
la, in far distant Poland. In my infancy, a witch
mother drove me to swear a ponderous oath
against law and police regulations. The busy
tongue of rumor told me. years agone, of a bor-
der town with wonderful official paraphernalia,
a vigilant mayor and powerful agents to achieve
his behests. Now shall begin the fierce war.
I will introduce confusion in San Antonio.
Under the guise of a German Doctor will I
break down order, and rowdyism shall again
reign triumphant with the people." Grim dark-
ness was upon the face of nature, as his con-
cluding threat mingled with the passing night
breeze. Resuming his staff, which had glided
from his grasp, he steals away within the den-
sest portion of the town. It matters not to tell
how this strange being had acquired his won-
derful knowledge of medicating decoctions and
health-yielding tinctures and concrete boluses,
or how, with the precision of a "native to the
manner born," he had learned to discourse the
Teutonic dialect. Some there be, who aver
that a supernatural power, of a malignant
agency, mid way between the grosser structures
of earth and the ineffable spirits of good, had
gifted him with extraordinary knowledge, while
others avow, that his wisdom flowed from Diab-
olus the Arch, to whom, in a moment of mad-
ness, he had contracted his soul. Certain it is,
that wending from tabernacle to tabernacle, he
would play with the parching fever and the de-
bilitating diarrhoea and the benumbing palsy, as
the frolicksome girl with her battledore. Bid-
ding the lame to walk and the blind to see, he
would mysteriously escape from the haunts of
men, and wend away none knew whither. Mor-
tal man never saw this curious being imbibe a
morsel of food, though wild suspicions have
clustered about his name. There be men, and
of reliable natures, who urge, with much per-
tinacity, that his tendencies are ghoul-like and
that an odor of mortal corruption, such as a
graveyard emits, will sometimes steam from
his person. In horrid whispers, they intimate
that his food, consumed in the dark of the moon
is plucked from the charnel house—that his nu- j enough to intimate that their night
triment is a petrified human-corse. Yet never
did this uncouth old man forget the great end
and purpose of his destiny, or his terrible vow
as he stood upon the mound that overlooks the
gladsome city of San Antonio. The expulsion
of disease was his means for power and jnflu- uutics, ana give you the news. Sometime
ence. The time had arrived to begin his un-j since, Capt. Weymouth, who accompanied
hallowed crusade against restraining lawand or-j Lopez in his last expedition, was killed
ganized order. It does not behoove us to record during a general melee in Theatre Alley.
New Orlbans, Aug. 9th, 1852.
Well, we hare at last our New Consti-
tution. It may not be a matter of newe<
and yet I cannot, in a moralising strain,
refrain from observing, that a ohief beau<
ty in our peculiar institutions, consists is
the power of the people to essentialfy
change the organio law, at short intervals.
The State of Louisiana is an cxeellent il-
lustration. For forty years it groaned
under the most absurd laws that could af-
flict the human family, a motly and ridt-
culous and oppressive confusion of Romanf
and Spanish,«and French, and English ju-
risprudence. The yoke became intolera-
ble. As soon as Atnenban feeling prepon-
derated, the clamor became violent for a
chsnge and was effected, contrary to the*
wishes of the Creole population in 1846!
The Constitution of that year was pecu-
liarly the result of compromise. Tht in'
novating American (as he was styled) wav-
ing against the native. A few years pass*^
ed on, and it was found that the old crea'
ture of compromise and exacted concilia*
tion, was illy adapted to the present wantr
of the people and the progressive spirit of
the age, and hence the Constitution of '&>.
It is an able instrument, aild the mem--
bers of thp Convention who framed it, dc-
' credit fori business d^T"~ *^-
tconnmation. Weha^o^n:,.
trative being, upón which can be
ected special laws which will develop the
résources of the State, and properly apply
the capital of our citizens. The good work
was accomplished in less than one month.
Its rapid completion will afford a fine les-
son for similar bodies.
Professor Dimitry, who has in times •
past, been esteemed as the most prominent
of our literary characters, but who now
claims a citizenship in Mississippi, is pay-
ing our city a temporary visit. His origin
is peculiar. There is no doubt, that he is
a lineal descendant of the £uropean Gip-
seys, a small colony of whom, years ago,ef-
fected a settlement on Lake Pontchartrain.
With a cultivated mind of a superior or-
der, that in these dull days of literature,
entitle it almost to the character of genius,
he has taken a prominent political part.
Indued with almost every species of ec-
centricity, be has ever advocated the most
rabid political doctrines, and with the
burning tongue of an accomplished ora-
tor. It is strange, that a man of his bust-
ling acquirements, should devote his time
to the annoying avocation of a Professor
in some third rate College, in Mississippi.
To assume such a position he resigned the
office of Superintendent of Common
Schools in this State.
Pascagoula, you know, is a favorite re-
sort for our citizens during the heat of the
summer months. This year, a peculiar
interest has attached to the place from the
fact that Gen. Twiggs has made it his
headquarters. Alas, a great calamity has
just befallen the town. The principal ho-
tel in the place, owned and kept by your
old friend Boyd, is in ruins. It was con-
sumed by fire a few days ago Hundreds,
of individuals, or I might rather say thous-
ands, have left the place for other water-
ing places. Speaking of our summer re-
sorts, your poor correspondent is much
disposed to envy ycurgood citizens of San
Antonio. I care not for the North, for-
the reports from that region inform us:
that the thermometer ranges higher than
in our latitude. And then who is bold
w brtar
the slightest comparison to ours. What.
I wish to soe and enjoy is your pure San
Antonio springs. Oh ! it would glad my
soul to plunge into their rapid and purling
waters. But I must come back to my
duties, and give you the news. Soun
all his manifold and ferocious achievements in
this regard. With the restless energy of the
untameable beast of the forest, he roams from
place to place throughout the length of the
town. Anon, with sword firmly clutched in his
strong grasp he assails the neighboring nunnery
and forces to tears and anguish the chaste
daughters of charity. Again, with violent as-
sault, he wreaks the bitterness of his vow on
some innocent citizen. But his wildest war is
with the shuddering police. In the bright flash
of the day-beam, or in the gloom of darkness,
constantly does he hang upon their footsteps.
Sometimes, accumulating strength, they suc-
ceed for a brief period in subduing his power
and surround his person with restraining pri-
son walls. Dolefully do we dread the result.
The German Doctor will triumph in the end.
Disorder and chaos will again reign in San An-
tonio. Mynhear Tenczin will destroy the police.
The Postoffice at Fort Lacy, Cherokee
county,has been removed,and name chang-
ed to Alto, and James W. Collier appoin-
ted Postmaster.
Listen to old Bullion Benton in a late
speech, as blustering and conceited as
ever.
My senatorial life of six Roman lustrums
—seven and a half Greek olympiads—has
shown what my principles and conduct
are, and is for you, not raé, to remember.
I claim nothing for past services and have
an ambition above going to Washington to
repose nnder the shade of an ancient re-
nown, or to fight old battles over again
If I return there, it is for service, not for
repose—for service to you, not myself—
and if my election can bring any gratifi-
cation to a desolate bosom, it will be in tbe
rebuke it will administer to the ring-
streaked, speckled and spotted combination
which, by fraud, and falshoods, and packed
conventions, and foul nominations, have
undertaken to deprive tbe people of the
right of voting for me.
According to a late report made by the
Secretary of the Treasury, the steam ton-
nage uf the United Sutes, at present
amounts to 419,226, and employing 29,057
officers and men. The tonnage of Great
Britain, if we remember rightly, scarcely
reaches 208,100. In 1851, according to
tbe same report, the number of steamers
lost on our inland waters amounted to no
less than 118, and the loss of 695 lives.
It is said that one tenth of all the steamers
in the United States are annually destroy*
ed by incidents.
The Island of Jamaica basa population
of 400.000.
He was much esteemed in the city, arid
violent and successful efforts have been
made to send the suspected* parties to the
criminal cmrt. The examination before
the Recorder has filled the columns of our
newspapers for the last week. In fact,
during this hot and dry weather, the print-
ing fraternity will eagerly seize upon any
topic that will occupy space.
Centenary College, located at Jackson
in our State, is reflecting much credit on
its founders. An examination was lately
held, the results of which clearly estab-
lish the fact that our clime can sustain in-
stitutions equal to the most favored of the
North. In great heat and perspiration, L
again say, yours respectfully,
CRESCENT.
Wealth not Bliss.—Rothschild is forced
to content himself with the same sky as
the poor newspaper-writer, and the great
banker cannot order a private sunset, or
add any ray to the magnificence of night..
The same air swells all lungs. Each one
possesses, really, only his own thoughts
and his own senses, soul and body—these
are the property which a man owns.'\All
that is valuable is to be had for nothii?g~
in this world. Genius, beauty, and love-
are not bought and sold. You may buy
a rich bracelet, but not a well turned arm
to wear it—a pearl necklace, but not a
pretty fthroat with which it shall vie..
The richest banker on earth would vainly
offer a fortune to be able to write a verse-
like Byron, One comes into tbe world-
naked and goes out naked ; the difference
in the fineness of a bit of linen for a
shroud is not much. Man is a handful of
clay, which turns quickly back again into
dust.
Large Cheese factory.—George Hez'
lep's great cheese factory, in Ohio, con'
verts the milk of about 2¡200 cows, belong-
ing to farmers in the neighborhood, into*
the best cheese, by labor-saving machin-
ery. The curd is made, sacked, and mark-
ed by the farmer, and sent to tbe factory
by a wagon which daily goes the rounds.
Eight teams are thus employed. The
curd is then weighed, sliced rapidly in* a-
maohine, then passed through the double'
eurd cooking aparatus, then through w
machine which outs it to fine powder, an<£
salts it while passing through. It is then-
pressed, sacked, and again pressed! A
maehine sacks 240 cheeses per hour.
The factory makes 300 eheesea dailyr
weighing 5,009 pounds. Nearly 400 tons
are turned out yearly.
More than one hundréd millions of hu~
man beings have died ofcholera in tfofat
25 years, in all parts of the globe.
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Van Derlip, D. C. The San Antonio Ledger. (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 13, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 19, 1852, newspaper, August 19, 1852; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth179383/m1/2/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History.