Matagorda Bulletin. (Matagorda, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 6, Ed. 1, Wednesday, September 6, 1837 Page: 4 of 4
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POETRY.
The Bright Little Needle. '
Br WOODWORTM.
The say Mitt of fashion mar I"0"' r ' Ulng
In nnltz or cotillon si whist or quadrille;
And feek admiration ) vaunlingly telling
Of drawing nnd p.-iiiilinj:.iinil musical skill;
But give wctlic fair one in country or city
Whose Lome and Its duties arc dear to licr l.cart
. Who cfcceifully wnrblra ome rmtlcal ditty
Wllle lying the ncdle with rxquisitf att
The orijhl little nredlc tl c swift little needle
The necale directed hy beauty and att.
If I.ove havca potent a trsjical token
A talmnan ever rcs'jtlrss and true
A charm thai is neier evaded or broken
A witchery certain the I cart to subdue
Ti thi and his armory never has furniil.cd
So keen or oncrrins orp.-i!Ul-ed a dart
Let beauty direct It so pointed and burnMi'J
And oh ! it is certain of touching t!.e heart.
Be ww tl en jc nniJcn nor seek admiration.
By dressing for ronquc-t and fliriiii; u itli all ;
You never w hntc'f r lie our fortune or s'alion.
Appear I alfso lovely at route or at tall.
As caily convened at a worn-cot end talle.
Each cl ecifiilly artivc and p!a ins her part
Eeuiling the tnk m itli a f on? or a fable
.nd pUtns M o neeilV w th PiipUite- aft.
cd guilty of the oflbnee of bigamy and shall upon
conviction be jiunislicd as such.
Six. 9. Be it further enacted That it shall not
be lawful for any person of European blood or their
descendants to intermarry with Africans or the
descendants of Africans; and should any person as
aforesaid violate the provisions of this section such
in image shall be null anil void and the putics on
conviction shall be deemed guilty of a high misde-
meanor and punished as such.
B. T. ARCHER
Speaker cfthc House of Representatives.
JESSE GRIMES
President pro tern of the Senate.
Approved 5th June IS'57
SAM. HOUSTON'.
An Act
To legalize certain Marriage? and to provide for
the celebration of Marriages and for other pur-
j)oses.
Whereas in many parts of Texas 'no person lr-
gaily authorized to celebrate ihe rites of matrimom
has existed; and whereas from that caus? mint
pc-sons have resorted to tho pr. ctice of nmryingby
bond and others have been married by various offi-
cers of jtislicc not aulhotized to celebrate such mtr-
ritges; : nd whereas public palicy and the interest;
of f milies require some legislative action on iht
subject: therefore
Be it enacted by the senate and house of rcprr-
scnt.ititcs of the republic of Texas in congress as
sembled Tint all persons -vlio have so intermarried
be and they arc hereby authorized to go before any
of the persons hereinafter provided for. and publicly
solemnize thorites of matrimony; and all marriages
so solemnized are hereby declared of legal and
binding effect from the period the persons had pre-
viously intermarried agreeably to the custom of the
times; ami the issue ofsuch persons are hereby de-
clared legitimate children; Provided however that
such rmrri.igc shall be celebrated within six months
from tho passigc of this law; and provided further
tint no legal bar exists to such marriage.
Sec.2. Beit further enacted That in cases where
persons have intermarried as aforesaid agrecablvto
the customs of the country and cither the husband
or wife has died previous to the passage of this law.
then and in that case all such rnarriagesarc deel ired
of legal and binding effect and tho issue of tin
same are hereby legitamized; Provided that sue!
parties lived together as man and wife at the said
death of either parly.
Src. 3. Be it further enacted That all reguhi
ordained ministers of the gospel judges of the dis-
trict courtSjjusiices of the conntv courts and all jus
tices of the peace of the several counties of this re-
public be and arc hereby authorized to celebrate
the rites of matrimony between all persons legally
authorized to marry; Provided that males under
fourteen and females under twelve shall not marry.
Sec. 4. Be it further aiactcd That any poison
desirous of marrying shall apply to the clerk of the
'county courl and shall receive from him a license
directed to all persons authorized by this law to cele-
brate the rites of matrimony which shall be suffi
cient authority for any one of such persons to cele
brate such marriage; and anyone of said persons so
authorized who shall celebrate the riles of matri
mony without said license from the clerk aforesaid
shall be liable to prosecution and en conviction
shall be fined in the sum or five hundred dollars.
Six". 5. Be it further enacted That no clerk shall
issue a license without the consent of the parents
or guardians of the parties applying unless the par
ties so applying shall be in the case of the male
twenty-one years of age and in the female eighteen
years of age; and any clerk offending herein shall
on conviction be fined five hundred dollars.
Sec. G. Be it further enacted. That the said clerk
sh-ll rccotd all licenses so issued by him in a well
bc.und book kept for that purpose; and it shall also
be the duty of the person solemnizing the rites of
matrimony to endorse the same on the license and
make return of the same to the office of the clerk of
the county court within sixty days after the celebra-
tion as aforesrid ; which return shall also be record-
ed as aforesaid.
Sec. 7. Be it further enacted- That for each li-
cense so issued the clerk shall charge and receive
one dollar.
Sec. 8. Be it further enacted That aJl persons
who hive married agreeably to tho customs of the
country having another wife or husband living and
" shall continue to live together as man and wife sixty-
days after the passage of this law shall be consider-
JIacon July 18H7.
Gentlemen: Your kind invitation in behalf of the
citizens of Macon addressed to Gen. Mirabcau B.
Lamar and myself was received with sensations of
peculiar pleasure. It is in the language of kind
greeting from many friends after an absence of se-
veral vcars. It speaks yoursympaihyfortiiose. who
ii times of danger and death so gall.'Utly struggled
for the independence nf Texas and tint liberty
which sheds its happy infl'iencc upon all classes of
sociclv like the air we breathe or lights from heaven.
That you have maikcd my course amid the thoti-
sind piths of those who have been engaged in the
same noble cause I can only attribute to motives of
personal regard for one whoso proudest boast for
many ycais that he residetl in Macon was that he
was a citizen of your happy country and that you
were his personal friends.
Aficr so long an absence many things require my
attention. The period of my stay not being by any
means certain 1 cannot call my time my own. If
any thing could Invc added weight to your kind iii-l
vitation a communication which I hive received
fiom my much valued friend. Gen. I.iimr. would
have induced its acceptance not merely as a mat
ter of personal gratification but as a duty to our
adopted country. But the circumstances which
compel me to forego your proffered hospitality 1
cannot-control by my wishes. I beg you to return
mv sincere thanks to our friends and accept for
yourselves the warmest assurances of personal re.
sard from BENJA.MIN C. FHAKKI.IX.
Tin: Retort Aitectionate. "What ever made
you marry that howdy" said a mother to her son.
"Because you always told me to pick a wife like
my mother" was tho dutiful reply.
'Why don't you wear your ring my deer?" said
a father in a ball room to his daughter. "Because
papa it hurts me when any one squeezes mylnnd."
What business have you to have yntir hand squeez
ed?" 'Certainly none but still you know pipa
one would like to keep it in squeezable ordsr."
Ar; Insinuation. The editor of the Mobile Re-
gister conveys a delicate hint in the following sig-
nificant paragraph: "Will a certain grod-uatured
friend of ours be pleased to cast his eye on tiie ivory
head of the new dark silk umbrella under which he
is now luxuriating amd see whose name is lightly
scratched on it I"
HOKTOItf & CLEMENTS
General !gency
AND
Com mission itlerch an ts
LAND AGENTS &c.
MATAGORDA (TEXA S.)
A young tady of high accomplishments (and no
pride.) in absence of the servant stepped to the door
on the ringing of Ihe bell which announced a visit
from one of her admirers. On entering the Iwai:
glancing at tho harp and piano which stood in the
apartment exclaimed "I thought I heard music on
which instrument were you performing Miss?"
On the gridiron sir with the accompaniment i.f1
the fnjir.gpanP replied she "my mother is with
out help anil she says I must loam to finger those
instruments sooner or later and I have this dav com
menced taking tho course of lessons."
Messrs. Levi Ixklcv .Tanis Ilea. A. II. Clr.ppcll.
I. It. Howl iml. J. B. Wiley Win. Daniel. Elani
Alexander J. Cowles and U. J. Bullock.
Cum: rou Intemperance and Smokinu Indian
Clteness. A friend of ours who has had extr n-
sivc dealings with the Indians of Mississippi relates
the following characteristic anecdote which he
says is undoubtedly the truth. A chief by t.'ic name
of Glover in some gush of passion happened to
slay another Indian. The invariiblc penalty for
killing among these primitive beings is death and
that punishment is. by their custom to be inflicted
by the nearest friends of the deceased. These had
met together with the prisoner in their charge to
oxecute the last sentence on poor Glover. lie
asked one favour of his judges before he died and
as generous enemies he hoped they would grant it
as it was the last he would ever ask of them; it was
that ho might be permitted to take one more ghts
pf liquor and smoke one more pipe of tobicco. So
small a request was readily granted thry promised
to postpone the execution until he drank and smok-
ed a"ain. Having jj;t them sufficiently committed
to this proposition he gave them to understand ill ::
he never intended lodo cither. Suchisthcsicred-
ncssofan Indian promise that this subterfuge ha--thus
far saved Glover's life antl this occurrence
took place ten years ago. Carolina WalJisian.
Prefer the aged the virtuous and the knowing.
and 'choose those that excel for your company end
friendship but despise not others.
Idleness Is tho bog of gentry the banc of body
and mind the nurse of naughtiness the step-mother
of deception the chief author ofa!) mischief one of
the seven deadly sins the cushion upon which the
devil chiefly reposes and a great cause not only of
melancholy but of many other diseases: for the
mind is naturally active and if it be not occupied
about some honest business it rushes into mischief
or sinks into melancholy.
What you leave at your death let it bo withoil
controversy else the lawyers will be your heirs. "
More hearts pine away in secret anguish for un-
kindncss from these who should l.c their comforters
than from any other calamity in life.
Riches do not belong to the miser but the miser
belongs to the riches.
It was the opinion of the learned Sigoniusand an
excuse for his celibacy that Minerva and Venus
could not live together.
Footo has defined rrlarriago as bobbin" for single
eels in a barrel of snakes.
Lor.n PiainnoKE the HniorKisT. Of all the
Mede-and-Peisian laws established in his house
the most peremptory was that any servant who once
got drunk should bo instantly discharged no ptr
don "ranted no excuse listened to. Vet an old
o
fo'jtmin. who had lived with him many years would
sometimes indulge in a put of ale extraordinary
trustin" to the wilful blindness which he saw assum-
ed when convenient. One fatal day even this could
not avail. As my lord crossed the hull John ap-
peared in full view not rather tipsoy or a littic dis
guised but dead drunk and unable to stand. Lord
l. went up to him. "My poor fellow what ails you?
You seem dreadfully ill; let me feel your pulse.
God bless us he is in a raging fever;. got him to bed
dirccilv and send for the apothec iry." The apo
thecary came not to he consulted for his lordship
was physician-general in his own fimily but to obey
orders to bleed the patient copiously clap a large
blister on his back and give him a powerful dose of
physic. Aftera few days of this treatment when the
fllow emerged weak and wan as the severest ill-
ness could have left him "ha ! honest John." cried
Ihe master I am tiuly glad to sec tlicc alive: you
have had a wonderful escape though and ought tt
be thankful vary thankful inuced. Why man if I
had not pas-sod by and spied the condition you wcr;
in iou must have been dead before now. Bu:
John John (lifting up his finger.) no more of thesj
fevers'."
As old Iolo Morgiuwy a Welch poet was return-
ing from Bristol with a large package of books on
his shoulders to Newport when he was pissed by
tho mail coach one of the outside passengers gor-
geously arrayed thinking to jeer the old pedestrian
accosted him thus: "Well my old buck what will
von take for your pack?" "More than you can
!jivc." rcplird the hard. "What in n that be" re-
joined the exquisite. "A little brains" was the rc-
:lv. As he w-.lkcd on. ho heard the laugh of the
passengers sadly agiinst the impudent inquisi or.
The following is stid to ba a certain cure for Di-
arrhoea: "Parch half a pint ofrici- until it is perf.c-.-iy
brown I o.i it down as rice is usti lly done ' '
it slijwly.auil i; w.il stop the most alarming diarrhce
in a f.'w hours."
Foote broke his leg by a fill from lusjinrss; a
silly peer condoling with him on the accident. Footi
replied "Pray my lord don't allude to my weak
point I have ncvcralluded to yours" painting to the
nobleman's head.
List of Letters
TTgEMAINING in the Post Office at Matagorda
-&' July 1 1S37. fj3-If not taken out before the
1st of October next they will be forwarded to the
General Post Office as Dead Letters.
Amlclon Jno.
Abel E.J.
Augburn Jno.
Arr.i Alex.
Brown T. II. 2
Badger Thos
Boycc R. H.
BriMutmut II. 4
Briggs J. C.
Bosiwick Mrs.
Bridges W. B.
Boliu A. R.
Brcan. Win.
Belknap J. G. -I
Betts Jacob
Coleman. Young
Corbin W. P.
CarminJ. M.
C'cok Geo.
Dings Geo P. S
Duvol G. M.
Don Felipe
Evans Geo. E.
Edwards Jno.
Fulton. G.M.
Gove II. K.
Grcgsbv. Joseph
Gray W. 2
Girdincr Geo.
Gnnes B:7."I G.
Gilmorc.!. W.
Goodman. C. C.
Carson. Wm.
Hubbard. L. V.
Ilotchkiss. Wm.
Hicks Andrew
Hughs Thos. J. 2
Hancock J. K.
Hull". Jno.
IIighsmithR.
Henderson. J. F C.
Hanison. Brev. 2
Hircm.S.C."
Howlh W. E.
Uill.Jos.-pIi
James G. W.
Jones Arch.
Keller F. 2
Keep E. S.
Lcnis G. W.
Maccv W. F.
McFa'riand Mrs
?.IcAubrcy M.
McLelhn R.
Martin Mr.
McHugh M.
McConaghy Wm.
Moody Jas. A.
McIIcnry Miss Lydia
McNair James
P.Ioneng Geo.
Nicolas George
Perronccl C.
Pi-tiy Geo. 31.
Peats Lyman 2
Percy R. C.
Percv. J. C.
Rantitl O. 31.
Richardson. Henry 2
Royal. K. R.
Rend Ezra
Riddle Sam W.
Roblcos
Richmond L. C.
Sheppard A. 2
Simpson. Wm.
Stewert .Mr.
Sears Myroni
Sherman &. Co. A. G.
Stoykor Jno.
Sinc'ileford Jack
Smith Brusly
Smith Jno. W.
Smith Geo. W.
Smith. Hezekiah
Stcm.J. C. 2
Summers. II. C. G.
Sanders Uriah
Whitny. Joseph W.
Wood Hiram G.
I inrs DautI
07-Persons calling for the above will please say
they are advertised.
S. B. BRIGHA3I P. 31.
-Matagorda. Annus! 2. IMT. 1 if
II Oil TON ic CLEMENTS
Corner of Fisher end Cedar Streets
IDT A YE constantly on hand a General Assort-
DTAYE constantly
---i lucnt of
JL.'2.VIP $&;.vci
rmilE undersigned from DcKalb Co. Geo. Iiav-
J-- in' recently settled in Columbus 1 exas oners
his services as : General Land Auenl. He will at-
tnul to selecting and locating Lands and will
transact any business pertaining to the Land Ofiice.
which opens in October next.
The heirs of persons who have fallen in the cause
of Texas arc entitled to locate in addition to their
bounty for a married man five thousand two hun-
dred and forty four acres of land for a single man
two thousand one hundred and sixteen acres.
Persons wishing the first choice should apply im-
mediately to the subscriber who will attend to t.n
business f r a reasonable compensation.
All letters post paid and directed to the care of
Wm. BRYAN & Co. New-Orleans will 0e torward-
cil to the subscriber through Messrs NORTON
& CLE.MENT3at 3Iatagorda Texas.
JA3IES R. STKICKLAND.
Reitisencks. Bail' Kcclerfc Rimseii : Laverly
Ganley &. Co . D Forrest &. Sons; New-York.
Thos. Fleming ; 31illcr Riplcv &. Co. Charles-
ton. S. C
Geo. C 3IcNeil ; Hewy Sholwcll & Co. Ma-
con Geo.
Richtrd J Bland &. A. V. P. Parker. Port
Gibson Miss.
Hon. J. T. Clcavcland Ruben Cone ; Deca-
tuk Geo.
Rev. Simni Strickland Conn Co. Geo.
El'-'... .''. i.?q. Lawrknoeville.'Geo.
Alattuows. Bites Campbell &Co. Geo.
Columbus July 23 1837. ' 1-tf
Slavic eiusl Fancy Goods
Consisting in part ofBrown Sheetings and Shirt-
ing?. Osr.abtirgs. Cnttonarles Negro Kerseys and
Lindaeys. Bleached Shirtings and Sheetings; a
splendid "assortment of Prints 3I.islins Ginghams
Cambrics and Dimities Hosiery. Gloves Suspend-
ers. Fancy Cotton and Silk Ildkfs. 3I::dr. s and Imi-
tation do. tfgcthrr with an assortment of SILK and
FANCY GOODS.
Also a choice lot of
ISexdy dFiide Clothing.
embracing every article in that line and cf every
quality.
A General assortment ot
EKiir&icarc
consisting of Log and Trace Chains Hoes Axes
spades anil Shovels. Horse bhocs. Llevices. Ux
llings and Staples Ril!:'S Guns. Pistols (pocket
tnd Holster.) Bowie and Dirk Knives Cutlery for
the Table c.
Also a L irge and General Assortment of HATS.
BOOTS SHOES SADDLES and BRIDLES '
J3vus;s ami illcdidues
CROCKERY GROCERIES &c.
03-51. &C. having located themselves perma-
ucnilv at M-tagorda intend keeping a general as-
sortment i.f Goods of cicrv description usually re-
ouired by the sctller all of which will bo sold on
." r ! l . TM til --. t.
ine most luvoraote ie;iii. lvx v.iu i.svi re jnu-
pared at all limes to puichaso or make liberal ad-
vances on COTTON.
Mntngord-i. August 2. Lg37. 1-lf
For Sale
fcQ tfo&M FEKT P1X1': LUMBER now
C9 v landing from Sloop Dream well
assorted" by
A. 3I1TCIIELL & CO.
Consignees.
Mntinnrda. August 2. 1S37. 1-lf
To Carpenters.
ANTED .' or 4 gootl carpenters to whom the
liii'hcst wages will be given. Enquire at this
office.
Matasi rda August fl 1S37.
2-tf
CAUTIOS.
AVING been informed that one ISAAC E.
ROBERTSON has attempted to delude the
unguarded by offering to sell a Deed purporting to-
be a Title to the League of Land No. 17 bounded
on the west by the Bay of Trcspelacies and south
hythatofMatagordi;
This is to make public that I hold a vald and
lawful right to that property and that the Deed pur-
porting to vest a title in said ivubertson was fraudu-
lently obtained; tint he had previously received a
title "to a league of land as a crlonist t-nd tint he
Ins forfeited his protection to iht Rights of Citizen-
ship under ihe Constitution and Laws of Texas; all
of which will be mede to appear if the subject be
investigated.
HENRY L. BAIZE.
' Matagorda Augcst'2-1637. ' '1-tf
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Niles, J. W. J. Matagorda Bulletin. (Matagorda, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 6, Ed. 1, Wednesday, September 6, 1837, newspaper, September 6, 1837; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth80324/m1/4/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 9, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History.