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MATAGORDA'BCLLETnr.
WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 27 1637
OtrAU Lctlers directed to Texas from the Uni-
ted States should be post paid and directed to the
care of J. Brent Clark New Orleans.
Wiien death with his relentless grasp seizes
upon the young the beautiful our feelings are touch
ed and all the sympathies of the soul are called
forth. Indeed with religious reverence bo it said
the goodness of God is doubted and by our feeble
natures not unfrequently are his ways and designs
marvelled at. As we gaze for the last time upon
tlio loved fjee and form of those thus snatched from
us in their prime we are- apt to think often say
"Had they been old had they tasted the sweets of
life been spared even a little time." These are
the thoughts uppermost this or similar the language
when we are called to mourn the loss of one just
entering upon life and how erroneous arc ourviews
in this as in all cases where we are left to question
and pass judgment upon the doings of a Supreme
Being. True the mournful sights wc oft encoun-
ter convince us not only of tho uncertainty of life
but that 'tis allotted all "once to die." We arc apt
to imagine that when age comes upon us we shall
be better prepared; that at all events we shall then
leae the world more resigned in the knowledge
that our time must in all human probability soon
have come. Thus many reason and 'lis only on an
occasion when we are left by one who has become
immeasurably useful to his and the rising genera
tion that we are aroused to tho consideration of our
own short-sightedness weakness and frailty. Wc
have been led to these remarks by the death of one
long known to Texas. Ira Ingham Esq. Mayor
Elect of the Town of Matagorda whose demise is
noticed in another column removed to Texas in the
early part of the spring of 1S25 and attached him-
self to Austin's Colony. In the management of the
archives of the political authorities of the country
the colonists received frequent and important ad-
vantages from his legal attainments as well as gene
ral business capacity; he being over ready to serve
the public in the most inferior stations without re-
ward and never claiming or wishing distinction
indeed we are told by one not counted to be in life
his friend that the greatest services by. him render-
ed to his adopted country were secretly performed
and that he preferred another to have the credit if
there was apy attached to making himself conspicu-
ous though from over-persuasion he has been in-
duced on one or two occasions to yield his lo the
wishes of friends and has served his country in
obedienco to their call at the expense of personal
feeling. Mr. Ingram was first to raise tho onc-
star'd banner author of the first Declaration of
Independence first Aid with one exception the
only man from Matagorda who obeyed the call
of the Brazorians in June 1832 to attack Ugar-
techa at Velasco; which place however he unfor-
tunately reached a few hours too late. He never
took a conspicuous part in political affairs but at the
commencement of the present war was among tho
chief promoters of resistance to Mexican oppression
and foremost in persuading his fellow-eitizons to
oppose the threatened invasion of the enemy'sarmy
under General Coss in 1835. He ws-mado the
first Chairman of tho "Committee of Safety" in
Matagorda (the first organic authority to oppose
the Mexicans) was one of the Spartan band who
in October 1835 under Major Collinswortb captur-
ed Col. Sandoval by forcing the gates of Fort Go-
liad which was the first open and avowed attack at
the authority of tho Mexican nation; previous skir-
mishes being nothing more than internal commo-
tions having for their end the aggrandisement or ad-
vancement of some party or chief. Since this time
the deceased has remained in the servjc of his
country declaring as he has often done in our hear-
ing that with it her independence he would sink
or swim. Mr. Ingram had his enemies and who
among us has not; there are those who differed
with him on matters of policy and some there were
who not being on terms of intimacy deemed his
manner sometimes abrupt and on this account took
exceptions to him as an acquaintance; but with all
his excentricities and faults from which sins none
are exempt it may truly be said Matagorda has
lost one of her principal founders an exemplary
and good citizen Texas one of her first pioneers
a soldier patriot and statesman and mankind a
philanthropist. He was eminently though secretly
tho friend of the widow and orphan none ever
came to him in distress no matter in what condition
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of life but received tokens of generous open-
hearted and generous feeling.
The Will. of the deceased was opened and read
in open Court yesterday from which we learn
that besides Cash and Lands to a very considerable
amount bequeathed to his only relatives in the
States-and an) independence to .the wife of his
brother he has left a School Fund to the present
and future inhabitants of Matagorda estimated ut
SEVENTy-i'IVE THOUSAND 'DOLLARS!
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V The report of the existence of yellow fever in
Dtmitirf -isd Be'rbice is contradicted.
Wo have been favored by Mr. Brannun purser in
tho Texian Navy with a correspondence between
himself and Mr. Wm. B. G. Taylor boarding officer
at the Balize port of Orleans from whichwc arc al-
lowed to make the subjoined extracts.
It is known by many of our citizens wJprcsume
that Mr. Taylor was commissioned by the Govern
ment of Texas captain in her Navy which commis
sion lie has never accepted owing as wc are in
formed to the inability of Government to procure a
vessel he would command.
Balize August 18 1S37.
"Myself and Mr. Brecdlove" (collector of the
port) "have been impeached to our Hon. Secretary
at Washington myself for holding ofliie under a
foreign power and he for conniving at my malprac-
tices and favoring Texas generally.
Should these charges be substantiated . will sell
out every particle of my properly and cmlark life
limb and fortune in the defence of the coast-jf Tex
as I again repeat that I will undertake tpsweep
the coast of Mexicans with one vessel of
a corvette of 20 trims. Texas must 1
cr or later."
To the same gentleman wc
perusal of a letter from a right po
at Houston. We laughed heatily o
it and were not less plcascdwith tho more grave
notions therein contained spjaking of the navy ho
says ''The people are arou.-cil to a proper appre
ciation of it the necessity foi larger vessels s ap
parent to all and Congress will take the matter in
hand. Private subscriptions to an incredible c.v
tent can be obtained have ii fact been tcndcrd."
This is indeed cheering ncas.
Nixes' Register one of the oldest and best con-
ducted journals of the United States has been re
moved from Baltimore to the Seat of Government
Bequests. Wc have been informed says a Bos-
ton paper by a legal man that Mr. Lenow the
Scotchman-who lately committed suicide in this
city gave the value of 30000 to tho Divinity
School of Harvard University "for the support ofj
Liberal Christianity" 10000 to the Howard Be-
nevolent Society and a like sum to some other in-
stitution whose name we have forgotton.
Pennsylvania Canal ToLLs.-The tolls collected
on the State works up to the 1st instant exceeds
650000 being an increase of 150000 over the
amount collected at this time last year
The ship Princess of Boston was recently lost in
the Mediterranean having struck on a sunken rock
in the Malta channel. The American Consul at
Palermo writes that the rock is not laid down in the
charts and that it was at the very spot where a o-
cino appeared some time ago and shortly after dis-
appeared entirely.
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Turk's Island is almost in a state of starvation.
Salt was selling there at 8 cents a bushel on the
19th ult. owing to the dreadful want of provisions.
05-Plcasc tote us over a few bushels. We have
plenty of Corn and Beef for exchange and with a
small quantity of your brine truck at the price here
demanded for it 20 pcrsacJc! you might provision
an army.
A certain cure for hydrophobia is said by the
Montreal and Quebec papers to be in the possession
of a soldier named Henry Hughes attached to the
1st Regiment stationed at Montreal. It is stated
that he is willing to disclose the recipe for a con
sideration. A recent Montreal paper contains an
account of a cure effected by the application of
his remedy in ihe case of a lad who was labouring
under all the horrors of hydrophobia.
A Mr. Walsh of Lansingburg N. Y. an eminent
horticulturist has produced gooseberries three inch
es in diameter and said to be of the most luscious
taste. The gooseberry when properly cultivated is
a delicious fruit and wc only wonder that it should
command so little of the attention of gardeners.
The rapidity with which it ripens is said to cause it
to deteriorate in size in the course of a few years
even in the best selected positions but it would
seem well worth while to raise them so as to have
a succession of new bushes. If more generally at-
tended to this fruit we feel convinced would soon
become highly esteemed.
Mowing against Time. The mowing of an acre
of grass is generally considered a fair average dayV
work; but we learn from the Philadelphia Inquirer
that a man a few days ago cut three acres between
sunrise nnd sunset in the neighborhood of that city.
Tho Montgomery Alabama Journal of the 12th
instant says
"A negro belonging to a gentleman of diis place
returned to his master on Sunday evening last after
an absence of twelve years. He states tlat he was
enticed away by a white man who canied him to
Cincinnati Ohio where lie has been living ever
since as a free man and in a most miserable condi
An extensive fire near London on the night of
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neon the lower Dcbtford road. The building
120 feet in length 50 in breadth and 4 siorici
"h. No fire since that which consumed both
houses of Parliament hns been as extensive. The
amount of properly destroyed is immense.
The Coroner's Jury at Hull England has return
ed a verdict of manslaughter against the engineer
of the steamer by tho explosion on board of which
so mucii injury was lately done lie was commit-
ted for trial at the approaching York assizes. This
is as it should be.
tion and he has now voluntarily returred to his
owner."
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Horrid and fatal Accident. Y
noon while a man named Slater a
sion was engaged at work near Mr.
wharf on the Delaware on the mainmast oTa sch'r
about twenty feet from her deck the ropes gave
way by which he was holding and he fell to the foot
of the mast striking in his fall the pumpof the ship.
We learn that he was literally impaled on the han-
dle of the pump; his brains were dashed out on the
deck and his quivering heart was exposed to view
as he lay in the death-agony. Of course his suf-
ferings were brief. . He died instantaneously and
has furnished an awful addition to the unusual list of
casualties which it has of late been our melancholy
duty to record. Phila. Gazette July 20.
Another fatal accident has occurred in Philadel-
phia by jumping from a rail road car h mUion.
The driver of a car in attempting to leave it for the
purpose of quieting the horse fell onlho rails and
two cars passed over him occasioning immediate
death. 4
PuoriitciES For the especial gratification of the
lovers of the marvellous we copy the following
from a work printed nearly a century since in the
French language and written by Jrscph Molt ll
is a book of prophecies which were made in 17GS-
under the head of "General Predictions for the pre-
sent year 1S37" the astrologer sas; "the summer
will be windy with much rain." there will be a-
bundant vintages but the wines will be of inferior
quality." He continues: "At the beginning of
spring corn will be dear and be in demand unti
harvest when the price will fall; for the new grain
will be of good quality although it will be difficult
to gather it in consequence of frequent rains."
Particular Predictions. "A great prince will bi
born." "There will be'a change of Ministry at a
great court; and in a large city there will be popular
commotions." IV. 31 Era.
strong attachment existing between har and her
brother are considered. These ambitious views are
perceptible in the marriage of Leopold to the Prin-
cess Charlotte in his second marriage to the daugh-
ter of Louis Philippe and his acquisition of the
crown of Belgium and in the marriage of his ne-
phew to Donna Maria of Portugal indeed the suc-
cess is astonishing with which the house of Saxe
Coburg though possessing but'a small principality
in Germany of no consideration in the political
world has succeeded in aggrandizing itself by 'mat-
rimonial alliances and now we see one of the
Princesses of that house mother of the Queen of
England with all the influence her relationship to
the crown gives her. This success is probably in
part owing to a concert of action between all the
different branches produced by the tie of strong af-
fection which exists between them. When some
enquiries were made in England as to the expendi-
ture of the large pension granted by parliament to
Prince Leopold it appeared that a great part of it
had been devoted to the support of his sister the
Duchess of Kent and her daughter the present
Queen and afier his second marriage he passed
over to England with his consort for the sole purpose
of visiting his sister and niece.
The present ministry will therefore probably have
in the coming election all the support which the
Crown can give them besides that which the pos-
session of office bestows. The Conservative party
have latterly wc think been gaining strength and
consisting as it does of the greater part of the
wealth and aristocracy of England will make no
doubt a fierce battle for should they be worsted
and the Queen select a husband inimical to their
principles in which they are no doubt sincere the
preservation of those principles would be in danger
as heretofore it has been generally admitted that
the throne though compelled to chose its advisers
from their opponents was silently with them.
It would be folly in England even to venture an
opinion as to the result and a still greater one to
attempt it here. iV. Y. Express.
DIED
On Friday last-Ira. Ixcram Esq. aged 49 years.
Although the demise of the King of England will
not in our opinion cause any change in tiic foreign
policy of that great country jet will it be followed
in nil probability by one of the severest struggles un-
political ascendency between the parties into which
the people arc divided that has been witnessed for
a long time past.
A d issol ution of the cxis ling parliament six months
after the King's death and the issuing of writs by
his succc-sor for the election of another is a ne-
cessary consequence of that event. From an ob-
servation made by one of the present ministers it is
probable the present House of Commons will merely
close the business it has already began and vote
the supplies necessary when a general election will
immediately take place.
There arc irreconcilable differences enough be-
tween the Conservative party and the Whigs to
make the contest a severe one but to these rmy
now be added the fact that on its result will proba-
bly depend the choice the Queen will make of a
husband as this choxc will it is to be presumed be
materially influenced by her Ministers and these
Ministers she must select from that party which can
command a majority in the popular branch of the
legislature. The German fimilics who have be-
come allied to the British crown have generally pro-
fessed high Conservative principles and have always
been considered auxiliaries by tho Tory nartv. It
was therefore not without astonishment wo perceived
the present Queen mother and tho Queen charged
with a leaning towards the Whig Ministers and their
policy. A few days since however wc received
an account of a debate in the House of Commons
in which a circumstance was stated which goes far to
show the cause from which this unusual partiality a-
rose. In a debate in which the foreign policy of
the present administration was under discussion
Lord John Russel took credit for having preserved
the peace of Europe adding that when the Wel
lington and Peel administration went out of office
they wcic on the point of making common cause
with Holland against Belgium and that all the in
cipient measures for entering on a continental war
were then taken. This assertion was left uncon
tradicted and may therefore be assumed to be
strictly true. Now when it is considered that Leo
pold the King of Belgium is tho brother of Jthe
Duchess ot Kent the Queen's mother tt is not to
be wondered at that she should have shown a disin-
clination towards thoso who would havo deprived
him of his newly acquired throne and the reverse
to those who allowed him to retain it particularly
when the ambitious viewi of her house and the
At a Meeting of'the Board of Aldermen of the Town cf Mata
gorda Present Ifarcey Kendrick President pro tem. 51 cure. Cle
ments Elam McCainly nrigham McLellan .Mitchell and Jack
on 2Gth September 1837 called for the purpose of taking into
consideration the measures proper to Ie adopted upon the occasion
of the decease of ll.c Hon. IRA INGRAM Major Elect of said
Town the following Resolutions were unanimously adopted:
Hetolred That in tl.o estimation of the Board of Aldermen the
death of the Hon. Ira Ingram Mayor Elect of this Town is a pub-
lie misfortune and Hill form an epoch in the history of the place
which can never be forgotten.
Resulted That for the beneficent donation estimated at 70.0CO
dollars or more made ly the deceased in hi lativill to fie present
and future inhabitants of the Town for tie support of Scheols and
Seminaries of Learning therein the said inhabitants owe to the de
ceased an cverlatmg debt of gratitude.
Retolred That t-.e devoted and patriotic services of the deceas-
ed tothcRepublicof Tetas. since the commencement of the Revo
lution are such as merit the highest approbation of the whole pro-
pic and that his death ought to be regarded asa national loss.
Resolved. That as a very humble and Inefficient evidence of the
grief which this melancholy event hiscaued to the Board of Alder-
men as individual they wear the uual badge of mourning for
thirty days.
Resohed That there proceedings lie signed by the President pro
tem. and Secretary and that copies be tent to tl e Matagorda CuIIc-.
tin and the Telegraph and Teiaa Rciistcr for pub'icaboi.
I1ARVEV KEXDKICK Preudeil pro tea.
JAMES NORTON 'Secretary.
MARINE LIST.
PORT OF MATAGORDA (1EXAS.)
CLEARED.
Schr. Martha Watts Mobile
A. Mitchell.
SOUTIIEKTOJMC.
1KO branch of science deserves more attention
-L than that of medicine and every effort made for
it anainst the encroachments of Quackery should
be "onerously countenanced and rewarded accord-
ing lo its intrinsic value. The discovery of the
"Southern Tonic" is claimed as an original and
highly valuable discovery and its inventors are as-
sured that it must rank as one of the most respecta-
ble Compounds ever offered to the notice of the pub-
lic. This medicine does not boast of "magical
charms" or venture to insult the good sense of the
Public by assuming for itself the reputation of a
penacoa for tho cure of all diseases which would
be an absurdity; but it honestly claims the credit of
effecting a perfect and lasting cure for Fever xxd
Ague and for being the best Tonic m diseases of
General Deiuuty or Weakness now known.
Thoso medicines which effect a removal of the
cause of disease are alone-worthy of confidence.
The Southern Tonic in cases of Fever and Ague
accomplishes this purpose fclly j and therefore
makes a perfect cure. It is submitted to the tna of
the public with the most perfect confidence founded
upon what it has already accomplished. The cer-
ficates which are enclosed arc respectfully referred
to. Agents are boynd to refund the money in case
ffSForsalc by HORTON & CLEMENTS.
Matagorda Sept. 27 1837. 9-tf
Land Agency in Texas.
RR. ROYA1A. proposes 10 transact an man-
ner of business connected with the Land Of-
fice or Land Titles in any part of tho Repablick of
Texas for a price in cash or lands at his office $
the town of Matagorda. .$
Matagorda August 2 1887. ljf ;
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Niles, J. W. J. Matagorda Bulletin. (Matagorda, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 9, Ed. 1, Wednesday, September 27, 1837, newspaper, September 27, 1837; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth80327/m1/2/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History.