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ANDERSON, TEXAS:
Saturday, ^ebuary 7, 1856.
AGENTS :
¡35^- F. A. BARTLETT, Crescent Office, No.
70 Camp street, New Orleans, is our authorized
-igent.
JOHN HOLLAND is our authorized agent
in Galveston. 1- i
DSr- uíEQRGE E. ROTTENSTEIN is our
authorized agent in Houston.
Wild Pigeons.—Immense flocks of wild
pigeons visited our neighborhood on Thurs-
day, áod lar^é numbers have been killed.
-literally mado the heaveHS black, so
dense were they.
The voto for Associate Justice at
this precinct stood as follows : Gray, 70;
Franklin, 14 ; Jennings, 7 ; Roberts, 3.—
The " sov's " did'nt turn out. No poll was
opened at Plantersville, and so perhaps at
other places in the county.
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" £3T By a telegraphic despatch to the
New Orleans papers, from Washington, we
learn thai Preston S. Brooks died in that
city on the 28th ult. Thus another of the
South's chivilric sons has passed through
" the valley of the shadow of death." Peace
to his manes!
H3 We learn from the Galveston News
that Rev. R. D. DashieT, a Methodist
clerg^ian, shot a young mail named
Orlando Orr, at Columbia, on the 22nd u!t.
It is expected that Orr will recover.
Dashiel is well known in this community,
having been located here, some years ago.
(J^-A young man uatned Frederick
Singpr, who had been employed as a
messenger at-the Bank of New Orleans,
robbed that institution of $51,020, on the
nQornia ^)f the 27th nit. Another young
man, r.áiped O. W. Rice, was implicated.
They have both been arrested, but all the
money lias not been recovered.
Gen. Comonfort, the President of
Mexico, seems to be endowed with more of
lJu AngTo?Alligric£ñ spirit tima ■" ' rS his
Tho Pacific Railroad.
The principle of false economy, establish-
ed in the public mind, is a hard one to eradi-
cate. It requires more time and labor, more
ihergy and perseverance, than many are
willing to bestow. Great schemes, having
for their object the benefitting of mankind,
have often struck the ignorant "with terror
and superstition at their magnitude; and
men, to carry out their great -designs, have
had to conquer many obstacles ; but, when
the multitude, who railed and scoffed at
them at first,see what mighty mind-machines
have accomplished, they at last are com-
pelled to admit that there aie more things
in heaven and earth than ever was dreampt
of in their philosophy. Men whom they at
first deemed non compos mentis, they at last
are willing and proud to extend the hand of
fellowship. There is one principle in men
that seems a hard one to put away—that is,
a,love for things that are—for old associa-
tions, old things, old ideas. The principle
that would
•' Rather bear those ills we have,
Thau fly to others that we know not oí,"
and which has, of late years, been denomi-
nated by the new school of "progression"
as OH Fogyi'sra. Old fogyism must die.
The fiat has gone fbrth, and the trembling
tyrant that has held the world in bondage
for many centuries, has at last received his
death-blow in the Western Hemisphere, in
the shape of the Great Southern Pacific
Railroad. The scheme, from which the
State of Texas is to derive benefits incalcu-
lable, was deemed impracticable and chi-
merical by many, when first promulgated,
and it seemed as if the philosophy of old
had not received its blow of death, by the
new Baconian system of progression and
usefulness. But science has triumphed
over all obstacles, and shines now with the
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splendor of the eastern sun, when first it
kisses away the morning dew. The malaria
of public opinion has been blown away, and
we now -breathe a healthful atmosphere.
Texas, more than any other State in the
Union, will feel the good effects of this
fjreat national work. It will bring her
prominently before the world. It will in-
crease her wealth, population and resources.
As she now stands, she is known to have
unlimited means, and the State has acted
nobly in holding out so many inducements
lor capitalists and men of energy to settle
within her limits. With 242,524,560 acres
of public domain, she can well afford to be
liberal, especially when in the end it will
redound, to her profit and honor. .Jhis road
is no humbug. The men who have the
Banking.
We have alluded yto banks in our paper
several times, of late, and as we deem that
the time is opportune for the discussion of
this subject,-we intend to advocate iwgener"
al banking law. We conceive that the in-
terests of our growing State demand a
cuirency other than the legal tender of the
present day. We know that, increasing as
she is in population,at a glorious rate, it is
necessary. We have felt the necessity of
it the past year, and we say it honestly, we
believe it has crippled our generaljsrosperi-
tv to a great extent. We have been, as it
were, at the mercy of outside money len-
deis, who have accommodated us for the
time being, with loans at frightful rates of
interest, only to make it harder to pay when
thejx obligations fall due. These monopo-
lies have been living upon Texas. In this
capacity, and in direct violation of law, they
have flooded our State with money which
has been taken by the trading commuuity
at par, paid the operators a heavy per cent,
profit, and we have been compelled,-in turn,
to pay our debts with it to Northern and
Southern merchants, at a heavy discount,
That this is ruinous to the well-being of the
people as a trading community, all can see"
Some flagrant instances of the violation of
the present statues, by parties outside of
our State, but. who have agenciés here, has
just been exposed to the light of day by the
State Gazette, and shows the actual neces-
sity of a paper currency in a stronger light
than anything we have ever seen. It ap-
pears that Swenson & Swisher have been
acting as agents for the Union Bank of
Our Platform.—The Intelligencer is
curious to know our views upon the subject
®f internal improvements. For the infor-
mation of our cotemporarv, we remark,
without elaboration, that we are, and
have been always, in favor of that 'policy
known as the "Corporation Plan," aided
by wise contributions in donations of land,
and loans of money by the State. Con-
ceiving, however, that any system in Texas
must, to a great extent, be experimental, we
hold to the doctrine, that in our progress
it is right for our Legislature to be " wide
awake and duly sober." The ship of State,
in this internal improvement cruise, is sail-
ing upon (to Texians) an unknown sea, and
her crew should not only keep a sharp look-
out, but the line constantly going upon the
mere suspicion of breakers. The owners of
the old craft, too, it occurs to us, should by
all means avoid giving the direction of the
lietm to a pilot who might feel disposed to
run her upon a reef for the purpose ®f
geing snacks with the wreckers and securing
a share of the salvage.
una vigorous character to the policy of
thSt Republic, he has established a law of
colonization, somewhat on the plan of the
old Texas colonizing laws, by which means
he hopes to draw there a large population.
At the city of Hampstead, which is
L<iing built at the second depot of the
Houston Central Railroad, town lots are
sold at enormous prices. We learn that
corner lots are being readily bought at
from five to fix hundred dollars. It is con-
ceded that I^ampstead can never be any-
thing but a depot, a supper, breakfast, or
dinner place; then, what prices, may we
ask our citizens, will our property com-
mand, when we have a branch road of our
own ? Can any one answer ?
S3F" On Saturday hist a meeting was
held in the Courthouse, agreeable to call,
and a committee appointed to draft resolu-
tions and present them at a called meeting
on Monday following. On Monday some
very stringent and important resolutions
were presented and passed, which resolu-
tions the Secretary of that meeting was
particularly requested to hand in to this
office for publication. This was an import-
ant matter, and should not have been neg-
lected. _ Who was the Secretary ?
The spirits, we understand, are play-
ing the deuce down in Grimes' Frairie.
One iight lasrtweek, a gentleman who was
present at a%aitting," says that the spirits
raised a Ifcrge mahogany table off of the
floor, and held it suspended in the air with
invisible aid, for some minutes; after itwas
let to the ground, one of the gentlemen,
more hardy than the rest, sat upon it; the
operators then told the table to jump up.
It did so, thiew the gentleman in the mid-
dle of the room, and made its exit through
the ioof of the house, and was never seen
more. This is vouched for.
The accounts from Nicaragua are
of a very discouraging nature to the friends
of universal freedom. It is reported that
Walker has been completely surrounded;
that his boats have been captured, and th at
he is so hemmed in by the allied army as
to be unable to receive any belp. It is also
said that he has been requested to capitu-
late, but declines doing so. All this news
comes through hostile channels, and scarce-
ly any reliance is placed upon it in New
Orleans. Vanderbilt seems to be the
greatest enemy that Gen. Walker and his
brave compatriots have to contend with,
and he is throwing all elwtjructions in the
way of their success thai tie his power.
The gentleman who reads this epi-
gram must not be told, we presume, that he
Med.not " take it to himself;" but if he
finds that the " shoe fits," well and good—
for Uncertainly is good :
l; The world of fools has such a store.
That he who would not see an ass,
Must hide at home and hold his door,
And break his looking-glass.''
But the following we would commend
our friends to read, digest, and clutch to
their bosoms with " hooks of steel," for it
contains the philosophy of the world in a
Louisiana, and have, with the coni.ivance of'
nut shell. Many a poor fellow has realized
some of our public officers, put into circu-
lation an immense number of the notes of
that bank, paying public creditors and ofE-
cials with these bills, instead of giving theui
the legal tender. By this means they have
monopolized the Treasury of the State of
Texas, which forbids banking, and made it
a branch of the Un on Bank of Louisiana.
its truth, many will again, although many
following the example of the gentleman
with Ion17 cars above alluded to, will not
profit by the lesson it inculcates.
•' 'Tis an excellent world that we live in ;
To lend, to spend, to give in ;
But to borrow, or beg. or get a man's own,
'Tis the very worst world that ever was known
inü" A correspondent from Houston, to
And these speculators have done this under l'ie Civilian, who s^S11^ himself " Home,
the plea that they put the bills into the
tad that the Texas extension will reach the
Trinity, a distance of near two hundred
miles from its junction with the Yicksburg
Road. The whole road is under contract,
and large numbers of men are employed in
building the eastern and western divisions.
The first thirty-five miles of the road-way
formation from Yicksburg west, has been
completed, and the iron superstructure is
now being laid down. One thousand men
will soon be at work on the Marshall branch,
and in some ten years, at farthest, we may
hear the whistle of the iron steed upon the
dreary plains of the far West portion of our
State, making a direct course for the great
sea-iiorts of the Pacific. Then what a pros-
pect will be before the people of Texas and
the Union ! The wealth of the Indies, the
Pacific Islands, China, Asia, Africa, and the
whole Southern hemisphere will be poured
into our lap. This road will bo built, and
some of us will live to see it, and travel
upon it.
J£3T There is another poet in the world—
in Texas—in Austin ! The aforesaid poet
has taken a regular mustang for his Pegasus,
and has given him wings of such huge
dimensions, that he is a regular "high flyer."
In fact, it seems ho has been*enchanted,
not by the " harp ov a thousand strings,"
but by a pianer fort, played, too, by "a
beautiful young lady." Well, Ave don't
deny that "a beautiful young lady" has the
power to make a man do most anything—
wó have known instances wheremen would
apply lead, or cold, naked, rasty-looking
sharp steel to <heir wind-pipes for the sweet
angels—but we never knew tliem to make
a man perpetrate such profound \doggerel
before! We hope the ladies ofSiustin
won't "all claim the compliment at onfe$."
Here is the
commencing
our poets :
Treasury simply for safe-keeping.
But the point we want to make is, that
the Union Bank bills were taken instead of
specie ; that the parties receiving the paper
had confidence in the stability of the Insti-
tution ; that the paper, in fact, was looked
upon as equal in value to the legal tender.
If it was not, why did they take it ? They
knew that it was unlawfully circulatefl;
that tliev could demand payment in bonds,
silver or gold. Why ? For the simple
reason that it was just as valuable as gold,
silver or United States bonds. Or, if not
■ I'll
" But when some fairy Land the keys
Strikes boldly,—yet with practiced ease,
The lavished ear scarce dares to dwell
Upon each tone's voluptuous sw^Jl,
Lest soul and sense should melt away
Beneath that strain's enchanting sway.'?
Macauley, in one of his essays, holds,
that a man, to write, or even properly ap-
preciate poetry,must, toa certain degree,
be insane. Now, if this is a correct theory,
should not the above writer be an inmate
of a lunatic asylum ? He certainly has a
sufficiency of the divine afflutus !
At Constantinople, on the 8th of Decem-
ber, the cold was most intense, with frost
and snow, a circumstance but rarely seen
in that country so early in the season.
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legal banks, we will, forever be flooded by
the currency of outside institutions, "whose
stability and position, in the commercial
States, we are' totally unacquainted with.
In fact, a State that passes a law prohibit-
ing the circulation of bills, only legislates
for the benefit of sister States who legalize
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banking operations.
Curious Discovery.
Discoveries are all the go, now, but we
do not know when we have heard of so sin-
gular a one being made, as was communi-
cated to us a few days ago, by a gentleman
of undoubted probity. It appears that he
was somewhere in the portion of this countv
which skirts the Navasoto, cutting trees to
make fences, and while hewing down a
huge cotton-wood, which measured some
three feet in circumference, he discovered
that it was hollow, but this did not hinder
him from proceeding with his work. After
he had felled and split it in half, he found
embedded within it, what proved to be the
skeleton of an Indian. The skeleton was
entire, not a bone being lost. The inquiry
very naturally suggests itself to one's mind,
how the skeleton came to be in such a place.
Our informer says, that upon examining
the tree closely, he found that there was a
small hole in the tree, but the hole was
some five or six feet above the level of the
proposes Hon. E. A. Palmer, for our next
Governor. lie would undoubtedly be
'■ strong man," could he secure the nomina
tion by the action of the Waco Convention
The correspondent says :
Politically he is a sound and staunch
Democrat, but tolerant in his views.
every public capacity in which he has been
placed, as well as in all the social relations
o| life, the Hon. Edward A. Palmer has not
only sustained ail unimpeachable character
but has won golden opinions in the Hou
of Representatives, and as a Senator has
aicquitted himself, to the honor and entire
satisfaction of his constituents. Such
ipan as Mr, Palmer is the very,man that is
^.«hitglv ngpilpd to fill I Up Cliisf IWnoriatrm
the proper and- suitable man, to be the
Some women in Albany county, N. Y.,
ecently marched into a tavern kept by a
man named Becker, aud smashed all the
bottles, jugs, tumblers, &c. Ugly business
for women to engage in. There are plenty
of male mobites, without seeking their aid.
If is state.! that President Comonfort, in
view of the fact that he is surrounded with
difficulties, has sought for means to secure
at least some future for Mexico, and has
proposed to the United States an alliance
which shall strengthen his government and
bring the influence of our own to bear upon
the reorganization of that Republic.
It is reported from Washington that the
House Committee on postoffices are pre-
paring a bill appropriating seven millions
of dollars for ocean mail and other service,
and which provides that each route shall
be advertised, and finally given to the low-
est responsible bidder, throwing the whole
thing open to competition.
Dr. Bellows, an Unitarian clergyman,
recently preached a sermon in favor of the
theater and op ira house. A number of
managers and artists of the city tendered
him a service of plate in token of their
gratitude. He declined to accept the gift?
but expressed a determination to deliver a
discourse toihe members of the theatrical
profession especially.
It has been found by different railroad
companies in England, that the wear and
tear of engines, generally, is nearly in a di
rect ratio with the consumption of fuel
The Manchester and Leeds Company have
paid particular attention to this, and they
find that the wear and tear follows nearly
in direct ratio.
A fatal malady has prevailed among the
hogs in the Ohio valley during the last six
months. It is computed that between 60,-
0000 and 70,000 have fallen victims to the
destructive distemper within a radius of a
hundred miles surrounding Cincinnati.—
The disease is considered incurable, having
baffled the most critical investigation into
its nature.
The Irish census tables just published,
report that in one year there were 21,776
deaths from starvation ! The editor of the
Medical Times, commenting upon this ap-
palling statement, says: 4,The figures must
be far short of the truth. The harrowing
details even in the body of the report leave
no doub* that multitudes perished by the
wayside, and in the cheerless Irish hovel,
whom neither policeman nor coroner's in-
quest ever took note of."
We learn from a Washington dispatch
that in the House, on the 19th inst., oil
motion of Mr. Taylor, the Post Office
CqMítóf %as tomgmre into the
[communication.]
We Need a Paper Currenoy.
ground, and he thinks that, the tree being
very old, perhaps it was at one time nearer
the surface of the earth. This seems to be
a natural conclusion, and we have no doubt
that the Indian was pursued by some hos-
tile tribe, or some wild beast, and seeing
the vacuum in the tree, climbed up it, first
put in his feet, and then slipt his whole
body in; but after the danger had passed,
impromptu. A\ o commend the attempted to make his escape from his
but" to tho consular;,hnn nf u^n¿xtural place, but found himself incom-
petent to do so, and at last death came to
his delivery. Arrow heads were found
around the tree, and we doubt not that our
corjecture in regard to their being some
hostile Iudians in pursuit of him is a true
one, and that we may be more enlightened
upon the subject, we intend to go and see
the tree, arrow heads and skeleton.
A sleigh driven by sails made its appear-
ance on the ice at Davenport, Iowa, a few
days ago. The motive power was the wind,
which gathered in a big sail sent the sleigh
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flying like a bird across the ice. The sailor
navigating it, tacked about as though the
were in water instead of on it. It wa$ a
popular institution during the day.
successor of our present justly popular
Governor.
General News.
A Washington despatch says the Senate
has postponed the Revolutionary pension
bill until next session.
The Police Department of Philadelphia
now costs upwards of half a million of
dollars annually.
The Indiana State Bank, with the privi-
lege of establishing twenty branches, and a
capital of $6,000,000, went into operation
on the 1st of Januarj'.
Jacob Johnson, who murdered Jacob
Stewart, in Harnett county, N. C., over
two years ago, was publicly executed on
the 2Gth ult.
One hundred large ships, averaging one
thousand tons burden, were built in Maine
in 1856.
The Texas Creditors are knocking at our
door for a slice of public pie. They held a
meeting in Washington City, Jan. 7th, to
devise ways and menus fo get another in-
stallment. When will these wolves be
satisfied?
The President has transmitted to the
Senate a communication from the Atlantic
Telegraph Company, proposing a contract
with tho United States Government on the
same terms and conditions as those accept-
by the British Government. .The Presi-
nt recomm^tids nothing, but leaves the
matter to the judgmeLt of Congress.
It appears by a statement in the Wash-
ington Union, that the total number of ap-
plications for bounty land under the act of
March, 1855, received at the Pen#& -bu-
reau up to the close of December last, 4as
265,968, and that the number of warrants
or certificates issued was 186,9Cl. To
satisfy these warrants will require 22,683,-
690 acres of the public lands.
A patent has been issued by the British
Government, granting full pardon to and
"exonerating from all pains, penalties and
forfeitures," Messrs. Smith O'Brien, John
Martin, Izod O'Doherty, and fifteen others
who participated in .the Irish insurrection-
ary movement of 1848. It will be remem-
bered that this was reported to have been
douo some time ago.
Ihe bill for the admission of Minnesota
as i State, and the erection of the new Ter-
ritory of Minnesota, is spoken of by the
Washington correspondent of the Boston
Post as in the hands of Judge Douglas,
whdwill soon report it to the Senate. Ex-
SenM01' Shields is now at Washington urg-
inglis passage.
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** ii uuinj manir iiuní nuw
Orleans and New York to San Francisco, by
the Tehuantepec route, as soon as the road
is completed.
The proposed constitutional amendment
in regard to the banks has passed both
Houses of the Missouri Legislature, and
has thus become a part of the constitution
of that State. It provides for a more ex-
tensive system of banking than has hereto-
fore existed in that State.
The school teachers of Philadelphia have
received their warrants for salaries for the
quarter just ended—the cidy unpleasant
part of the business being that they get no
money, in consequence of the bankruptcy of
the school funds. Brokers are!l doing" the
bills for six and eight per cent.
We see it stated that a few days ago, a
negro belonging to Mr. Hatcher, in Laurens
county, Ga., confessed to his master that he
had, during three days, swallowed tweHty-
five gold dollars, which he had stolen.
Garret Van Benthuysen, of Galveston,
has been arrested and committed for trial
oil the chatge of attempting to violate the
person of his own daughter, a girl of four-
teen years, on the night of the 28th ult.
During the last month nine Senators
have been chosen to the Senate of the
United States from eight States, and before
the end of the present session of Ooniress
nine, more will probably be chosen to fill
partially expired terms. Of the nine
just chosen, four are Democrats and five
Republicans. The probable political com-
plexion of the Senate on the 4th of March
next, if all the vacancies are filled as ex-
pected, will be as follows; Democratic,
37 ; Republican, 20 ; Americans, 4.
The proprietors of the People's Line of
Steamboats, between New York and
Albany, were somewhat surprised a short
time since at the receipt of $5,000, without
further explanation than a statement that it
was the amount of which a former employee
of the company had wrongfully deprived
them, and which his conscience and his
after prosperity had prompted him to return.
The Buffalo Immigration Commissioners
report that 1,400 persons have been relieved
during the year, with an expense of $3,383
70. All these 1.400 persons were foreign-
ers. Most of the number (600) we*e
Germans; next English, 139 ; then Swiss,
135 ; and Belgians, 133. Of
were but one hundred. In the meantime
by far the largest portion of thf* foreign
immigration to this country has been from.
Ireland, but the Irish remain in the Eastern
States. Éji
Noticing in your late issues, several article in
regard to the charge of Judge Gray, in the caso
of Messrs. Mills, of Galveston, and your own ió-'
timation in regard to banks, has caused me to
spend a few moments of reflection upon TexsS at
present, and Texas ten years hence, in connection
with her general resources and necessities. Thai
people are fully awake upon the subject of in-
ternal improvements, which is all very well, and
will doubtless prove of immense benefit to our
people at large, but many believe that there are
improvements needed in our financial policy, as
bad as in facilities for transportation, that is, we
want a convenient and safe circulating medium,
which other Slates enjoy and appreciate so highly-
With us it can be obtained in no other way than
by a change of our Constitution and laws ojefa
the subject of banking, which provisions might
have been politic at the time of their adoption,
but the exigencies of the times show their im-
policy now. The only circulating medium with
which we have been making shift, will soon be
withdrawn from us. and nothing left us but a
silver and gold currency, the dependence upon
which, as our only currency, has been pronounced
by our best financiers as chimerical and imprac-
ticable in a commercial and trading community.
Then why should not Texas have banks, and let
her own citizens reap the profits and advant£ge3
which we, from the novelty of our position, are
competed to bestow upon the citizens ot our sir:
ter States ? No one, perhaps, will contend that
there is, or could be brought into the country, a
sufficiency of gold or silver currency to supply
the demand. If without banks, we must rely on
drafts, checks, &c., which are representatives of
money, and ihe parties putting them forward are
equally amenable to the law under which the
Messrs. Mills were indicted. We believe thtft
the charge to the jury was a just one, but the blow"
will fall heavy.
Believing the people of Texas to be now ripe
on the subject of banks, I have thrown out these
thoughts, hoping those better able to arouse the '
people upon a subject of such vital interest to the
growth and prosperity of the State, will take the
matter in hand. Texas at present is growing in
wealth and population, and perhaps in ten years
will be the largest exporting State in the Union,
and the Empiie State of the South. Then let onr
people adopt such measures as will hasten th
consummation of our anticipations. Banks.
Galveston Correspondence.
Galveston, Feb. 3d, 1857.
Dear Texian: During a recent sojourn in your
neighborhood, I discovered a deep interest in the
minds of your people on the subject of a railroad
to connect Anderson with the Houston and Texas
Central Road.
It is unnecessary at this day to point out the
advantage—the imperitive necessity—to an agri-
cultural and mercantile community, for securing
a speedy, certain, and cheap transportation ot
their produce and'other articles of trade.
To you, a public journal, pledged to encourage'
every enterprize which promises, on good grounds,
to advance the prosperity of your own section of
the State, by inducing the' immigration of an in-
telligent and industrious population, thereby in-
creasing your resources, your productions, and
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Bu jumuBwycwtCT'pi Ise, juu iu lifinest la
multiplying the comforts of life, the means of
wealth, and the facilities to the attainment of
hight political and social positions iu the com.
monwealth, it becomes a duty, and I doubt not i
may add, a pleasure and a pride, to advocate,
through yo-ir columns, the prosecution of a work
so indespensible as this, to the complete realiza-'
tion of so desirable a result/
The only difficulty to the building of railroads
over this comparatively Jevel country, is the
raising of the heavy cash subscriptions necessary
1o the purchase of the iron and equipments; but
the difficulty takes rather the name of facility,
when applied to roads such as that proposed by
you, to which the State offers a loan—a sum nearly
sufficient to meet this heavy expense—at the low
rate of six per cent, per annnm, besides making a
gracious gift of above ten thousand acres of Jahd
to the mile.
That tommunity must cerjainly be totally ob-
livious to its greatest interests, or sadly deficient
in that energy, thrift and foresight, to which they
have long been accredited, if they fail to seize so
liberal, so advantageous an offer.
I understand that a company of the right kind
of men in your place are moving in the right
kind of way, and if they will only hold patiently
on, the business-gloom which has b ec hanging
over their minds, will be soon dispelled by the
dawning of a glerious railroad day. I have ob-
tained reliable information, whigh should be pre-
sented for their encouragement, to the effect that
your sister counties, Washington and Walker, are
ready and waiting to join you heartily, and aid
liberally in the immediate commencement^l^í
energetically and untiringly prosecute the work
to its final oompletion. Nor must you fear that
you will lack the wannest encouragement of all
interested in the prosperity and succe&df the H. '
& T C. Railroad, to which, for tWraeseat. vqim
would be as a branch, but whie^ al-flo distant
day, when yours shall be the grand" thoroughfare
from Texas to New Orleans, will be as a branch
and tributary to you.
Your planters can spare a sufficient nnmber of
hands to,the fields, to grade the road within the
next two years, or your portion of it, and Walker
and Washington will ao theirs in the same warfÉk
You are then entitled to the State loan, and what*
at first seemed difficult, has been easily accom-
plished, and you have a railroad, a great highway
for men and merchandize, from the greatest mar-
ket and city in the South, to what is to be the
greatest State of all.
The Supreme and Federal Conrts are now in
session. Several distinguished a.ivacates, not un-
known to your Courts are in attendance. Amone
others, one late a citizen of your town, whose
practice at your bar was wholly unrivalled and
who continues to despatch business (I meant to
say something else that begins with b,) with a
facility and etcganer entirely astonishing;
Col. G, W. Crawford, of the Niearaguan army
has arrived, and will visit Anderson in due time
The Grand Lodge and Grand Encampment of
the Order of Odd Fellows are in session A Iarse
delegation is in attendance. The Grand Encamn-
1 ment are reported yesterday to have elected tie
following officers: H. E. Lockett. Grp. r
W. Grover, G. H. P.; W. W. Young G S 'w •
¡E. P. Hunt, G. Scribe; W. M. cS G J W •
The Grand Lodge elected the following • T
M.UtanD P."
ionTo
The electionTór Ai
this city follows
Roberts, SOjJennings,'
resulted in
; Gray, 1Ó8;
aveat Emptox.
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Hepperla, John C. The Central Texian. (Anderson, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 36, Ed. 1 Saturday, February 7, 1857, newspaper, February 7, 1857; Anderson, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth181133/m1/2/: accessed July 11, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History.