The Northern Standard. (Clarksville, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 22, Ed. 1, Saturday, May 31, 1845 Page: 1 of 4
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THE NORTHERN STANDARD.
CHAS. DE MORSE
LONG SHALL OUR BANNER BRAVE THE BREEZE THE STANDARD OF THE FREE.
EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR
CLARKSVILLE TEXAS MAY 311845.
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4. Ifsubscribcrs remove to other places
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S.The Courts have decided that refusing to
take a paper or periodical from the office or
removing and leaving it uncalled for is
primafacie evidence of intentional fraud!
Judge Thompson of Indiana decideq re-
cently. - .
'That where a subscriber to a periodical
failed to notify the editor to discontinue the
piper nt the end ofthe time (or which he
subscribed or pay up the arrearages he was
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A year or two since the "ircuit Court of
I'ennsvivania acciaru
"That where a Post Master foiled to notify
the publishers of newspapers that their pa-
pers were not lifted or taken out of the office
he rendered himself liable (or the subscrip-
tion." O' CoHNell. The Caledonia steamer
brought us an account of a Repeal Meeting
in Irelandnd the followwgsketch ol a speecn
delivered by the big-beggar man O'Connell.
which we notice is very generally copied
and duly denounced by the press. Tropic
Ho charred Mr. Polk with arrant coward-
iea ic clossine over the detestable traffic of
lavery by referring to it under the delicate
expression of a "domestic institution."
" Domestic institution 1" ho exclaimed
domestic institution." Mr. Polk it is slav-
ery. (Loud cheers.) Mr. Polk it is huck-
itering in human flesh. (Loud cheers-) It
is a loathsome system that makes man the
property of His fellow; it is buying and sell-
ing. And I am told that slavery is a "domestic
institution 1" (Hear.) Out upon those who
would make itsol (Cheers.)
I lore my country but I would accept of
no advantage to my country through the me-
dium of such a crime. (Hear.) I want no
-'.American nid if it comes across the Atlantic
attained with negro blood and from my soul.I
despise' any government which while it
boasts of liberty is guilty of slavery the
greatest crime that can be committed by hu-
manity against humanity. And yet 'those
who are ready to uphold that system are the
people'that dare to talk to me of liberty.
Shame upon them and eternal disgrace to
them who speak of liberty and practice slave-
ry. But with respect to the present position
of England? Shall I say she trembles ?
Oh I would be ashamed to talk of English
cowardice braver in the battle-field than the
people of England never rtood and yet there
is a political cowardice which gives aUemu-
Ious appearance to her public writers and
prevents her from holding out the bold front
of defiance to American transgressors.
(Cheers.) The Eresident talks of taking
the Oregon Territory." (Hear.) England
.will go to war with them but Polk has a
whisper from the other side of the Atlantic
Will you go to war with me Ireland?"
(Cheers ) ;
He observed that there was no ulk of con
cilialion from the British government until
America began to threaten about Oregon and
Texas and said" We tell them from this spot
that they can have us that the throne of
Victoria can be made perfectly secure the
honor ofthe British empire maintained and
the American Eagle in its highest pride of
flight be brought down. (Cheers) Let
them but conciliators and do us justice and
they will have us enlisted under the banner
of Victoria let them but give us the Parlia-
ment in College Green and Oregon shall be
lheirsand Texas shall be harraless."(Cbeers)
Great Natural Curiosity. The
Dayton (Ohio) Transcript contains a descrip-
tion ofa natural curiosity recently made pub-
lic which exists on tho Scioto River. It is
wo.th transcribing.
Sometime about the year 1818 two men
by tho names of Davis and Richards salt
boilers by profession commenced boring for
saltwater in the bed ofthe Scioto river near
the place mentioned. After having bored a-
bout 20 feet through a solid rock they came
upon a stream of white sulphur water of the
strongest kind. Tho auger with which they
were boring suddenly sunk something like
two feet which is probably the depth of the
stream but such was the pressure ofthe wa-
ter that the auger.was forced up again and
large weight had to be attached to it in or-
der to keep it to its piece and enable them to
boro further. They continued to bore on
however until they got about 400 bebw the
sulphur stream when they struck upon salt
water. The size of the auger was 2 1-2 inch-
es in diameter. When they took it out. the
jut of sulphur rose up to the height of 20 feel
above tho surface of the river. In order to
obtain access to the salt water beneath they
procured a strong copper pipe and attempted
to force it down to the place where it was to
be found; but whenever it reached the sul-
phur stream such was its force and pressure
that the pipe was perfectly flattened so as en
tirely to prevent the passage of water through
it. All subsequent attempts to insert a pipe
proved abortive and after prosecuting the
work at interval for several years tbo pro
ject was entirely abandoned. After enlarg
ing the orifice made by the auger at the top
a wooden stock 20 feet in height was insert-
ed yet even at the top of this such was the
force ofthe stream.that it required the strength
of two or three men to put a plug in it.
From this stock a pipe conveys the water to
a spring house on one of the bluff banks of
the river. The stream has been running for
26 years yet its strength and force are una-
bated. Those who have recently examined
il say that it is capable of throwing up a
stream tn inches in diameter from 80 to 90
feet high and that water can be thus obtained
to turn a large mill.
Natjvoo Fortifications. We learn
gays tho Warsaw Signal by a gentleman di-
rect from Nauvoo that a new Revelalion
has been received in relation to the Temple
Tho work on that structure is to be almost
entirely suspended for the present and the
whole energy of the Saints is to be devoted to
the building of a wall or rampart around the
edifice. This wall is to enclose six acres
tho Temple being in the centre. It is to be
fourteen feet high six feet thick and compo-
sed of solid stone masonry. The work on
this new monument of folly has been already
commenced and hundreds of hands are em-
ployed in carrying it forward.
Handsomely Do.ne. The following ex-
tract ofa letter from Lexington Kentucky
to Nashville Tennessee gives confirmation
of a circumstance which had previously reach-
ed our ears. Tropic ' -
"Mr. Clay hai been largely in debt but
within the last week his entire indebtedness
amounting to near $30000 was cancelled
and his notes delivered to him from Bank I
The great man was deepljyiflictednd asked
who had done ihjsthihsF- 'LWJfnowne&
was the reply " thYnwnejr; wdepjaWSFiff
vour creditand your.otesWe'called. It
nl not concern .vdtfwKodia ititinunot'
your enemies. i!s.t. 1
Gun at Sundown It is well known'te
our readers thelitis the .practice to give a
mornintr end evening gun at the roilitsry
station at West Point the reports of which
unless a strong northerly wind prevails
are plainly heard in the villag. A few
days sincea gentleman on the Point took into
hisservice a verdant son of the Emerald Isle.
On the first day of his service he was startled
K il.. .ound ofthe evening gun as it rever
berated through the Highlands and awaken-
- the mountain slumbering echoes ana an
iously inquired of his employer the cause of
the explosion and was told that it was tEe
"sundown gun. "Och blew me" exclaim-
ed Pat "and does the sun make such a divil
ofa thunder as that on goiag down in this
country?" Newburgh Ttlegrtph.
NEW VIEW OF THE RIGHTS OF
TEXAS.
In glancing over the speeches of yesterday
in the House of Representatives we were
struck with an important fact brought out by
Mr.Caldwell.olKentucky which had escaped
us in the history of Texian independence.
It appears that immediately on learning that
the treaty of 1819 was mado for tho surren-
der of the territory to Spain the people then
occupying it citizens of tho United States
protested against the transfer as a violation
ofthe treatyof 1S03 under which they occu-
pied it and which gave them a right in due
time to assume the attitude ofa State in the
Union. They at once denied tho right or
power ofthe federal goveinment to sacrifice
them to the schemes of interested diplomatists
and "by a convention lo which they were no
party" so contrived it that the treaty of 1 803
under the faith of which they had settled
should be annulled and their rights gua
rantied by it and themselves as a people
"literally abandoned to the croun of Spain
and left a prey not only to impositions al
ready intolerable but to all those exactions
which Spanish rapacity is fertile in devis
ing."
This protest against enslavement con-
cludes with a declaration of freedom worthy
ofthe twelve thousand American citizens
then inthe country. It is in these words:
"The citizens of Texas would have proved
themselves unworthy of the age in which
they live unworthy of their ancestryof the
kindred republics of the American continent
could they have hesitated in this emergency
what course to pursue? Spurning the fet
ters of colonial vassalage disdaining to
submit lo the most atrocious despotism that
ever disgraced the annals of Europe they
have resolved under the blessing of God to
be FREE."
It was under this declaration of freedom
that the Texians shamefully abandoned by
the treaty of 1819 an abandonment as it
now appears by Mr. Munroe's private letters
of that day extorted by the Rufus King
Oliscs and other insTruments of the Essex
junto erected the standard of liberty under
which they fought and conquered their inde
pendence of Spain. From this it appears
that the treaty ol lblU never had lor one
hour the efficacy intended The Texians
never submitted to the dominion of Spain.
They declared their own independence and
achieved it by their own good swords at tho
same time that Mexico conquered hers. Mr.
Caldwell in recapitulating the history of
Texas after making her declaration of free-
dom says:
"From 1819 lo 1824 Texas and Mexico
presented a continued scene of revobtion and
bloodshed. Texas although forsome time
invaded by a foreign army never did submit
never was conquered by cither the armies
of Spain or of Mexico. She continued to
assert her right to freedom and she main-
tained that right until 1824 when she was
admitted a free and independent State with
Coabuila into the Mexican confederacy.
Thus far then they saw that Texas never did
submit toSpainand Texas never had bolong-
d to the present government of Mexico."
Texasthen.as the alIynot the dependency
of Mexico established her own independence
and as an independent State confederated
with Mexico as a distinct republic on the
general republican system established at the
close ofthe war. As an independent and
republican State.she refused to recognize the
consolidated government and dictatorship of
Santa Anna and again vindicated her free-
dom and her independence with her victori-
ous and honorable sword and (as Santa
Anna found) so clement and forbeariag cs
not to exact the atonement which the laws of
retaliation exacted and fortune put in her
power.
Under such cicurastanees what pretence
can be urged on our part to justify the idea
that Texas is n dependency of Mexico? The
treaty of 1819 did not transfer the territory to
ico but'.toSpain; and that treaty faith-
othe conditions of$803 perished in k
so faree-Texas was concerned. Mex-
ico gave no consideration to the United States
for Texas to bind us to make good to. her the
stipulations by which we were bound to
Spain. Nor did she do more for Texas in
achieving the independence of that province
tban-Txas did for her. They both fought
against'Spain and triumphed as equal allies.
Globe
" 3 Hon. Josiah Quincy who for sixteen
years has filled the office of President of Har.
vard University offered his resignation of
that post on the 19th inst to take effect at
the close of the Academic year in August
next
The city of Ragusain Italy is about being
deserted on account of continued shocks of
earth quakes which have frequently taken
place daring tho past year.
flwax
bias
Mysterious Affair. By a letter received
from a geatleman residing in Luray Page
county Virginia we are informed that on the
20th of October a party were exploring a
limestone cavernknown in that neihboibood
as McCoy's Cavewhen one ofthe gentlemen
obiervigg that the floor of a small apartment
which they were in sounded as though there
was a cavity beneath he searched carefully
for an aperture and at length found a large
stalactite that had evidently fallen from above;
he bad it removed with the assistance of his
friends and saw an opening about thirty
inches in diameter. They attached a lamp
to a number of handkerchiefs tied to each
other and lowered it at far as they would
reach and saw that the bottom was no moro
than 10 or 1 1 feet below them. The light
was so dim that nothing could be distinguish
ed however they immediately lowered a
small ladder that had been brought for the
purpose of exploration; and one of the gen
tlemen descended; he stepped upon an object
that was unlike the rocks in other parts of the
cave and upon looking at it discovered to
his horror that it was the body of a man!
The face hands and legs below the knee
(the rest of tho body being clothed) had much
the appearance of an Egyptian mummy be
ing dried and shrunken to the bones.
It was dressed with a pair of buckskin
short breeches fastened at the knees with
four buttons; stockings that seemed to have
been made of yarn but only a small portion
remained. The coat was of blue cloth en
tire but so rotten that it came to pieces when
slightly pulledjvest ofa lighter colored cloth
ahd steel or iron buttons.
There was no hat seenandthe hair which
was a dark brown was slightly gray. The
buttons of the the coat were of brass and
corroded to a dark green color. In his hand
was clutched a chain with a watch attach-
ed and a broad flat gold key with a steel
barrel.
In his pocket were raveral pieces of silver
coin Spanish piitareens anda smaller one
besides two trunk keys with a ring to fasten
them together. Many speculations were
made as to the probablo tira6 of his death
all coincided that he had fallen through the
opening atsoms period long before where
unable to get out. he had perished.
The body was decently interred in the
burying ground attached to the Presbyteri-
an church near Luray. No one now living
can recollect having heard of any person
being missed. From the character of his
dress it is evident that he belonged to the
past generation and a mystery must forever
involve the affair to be used as a subject foi
the future novelist or futile speculation.
From the Baltimore Sun J
AN EXTRAORDINARY CASE A
MURDERER NO MURDERER.
We learn from the Hillsborough (Me.)
Recorder ofthe 20th ultimo that at the Su
perior Courtheldat that place the preceding
week a most extraordinary case was tried
before Judge Caldwell which is perhaps as
singular in its details as any that have yet
been recorded.
A little girl exactly twelve years of age
and described as really beautiful in features
form and figure was arraigned for tho mur
der of her father. There was no one present
at tho time the deed was done except two
small children not competent evidence
and consequently there was no evidence
against her but her own confession and the
fact of her father being found dead in his
his own house and no one there but herself;
and it could r.ot be proved although exertion
was made to do so that any person .else had
been there on the the night of the murder.
The father was a drunken wretch and the
mother was known to have a paramour to
whom suspicion was attached but he proved
clearly that he was somewhere else on the
night ofthe murder.
T was moved that the father was at a Bros
shop on the evening of the murder; that M
beeasaeYse intoxicated that the keepetvef
the gWgshop had to put .him on a horse afcf v
ssad Biitfkome:;. On the moramg Rafter 'the
murder.- the owner of the house happened to
pass near the door aaddiscoveredTbe corpse
lyiag'thereT' 'The man was lying on a pal
let before the fire with one arm under his
head in a sleeping position. The head was
severed as with ene blow ofaaaxe and the.
severed part had rolled down: expoaing'the
brains and tbe whole interior' of the skull
the axe 'having gone through the Head
through three thicknesses of the quilt and
hfllfan inch into the floor! The' owner of
the house above mentioned immediately
summoned the neighborsand held an inquest
over the body the girl and two children
being there all the time. The mother ofthe
girl and a son nineteen years of age had
left home the evening before and staid all
night at a neighboring house.
The girl immediately confessed that she
had killed him. Her first confession was
that her father came home drunk and beat
h6r with a stick and told her to get a knife
he was going to kill himself but she could
not find a knife. On being asked to show
the stick with which he beat her after loot
ing about she pointed out one which one of
the neighbors had brought; and on examin-
ing her body no bruises were found which
showed that that part of her story was untrue.
She then said that he came home and laid
down and told her to kill him; and on her
refusing he swore he would kill her if she
did not; that she went and got the axe. and he
laid down but she still refused to kill him
and he swore he wjuld kill her at the
same time raising himself up as if to get on
his feet and as he raised up she said she
struck him the lick; but the evidence proves
that the blow must have been given when the
head was on the floor thus proving more
untruth on her part. The variations in her
evidence are singular and excited much
speculation. They are the effects ofadis
turbed and excited state of mind produced
either by fright or an over anxiety possibly
to excuse the real murderer if she did not
commit the deed herself.
She further stated that having committed
the act the sight made her sick and to avoid
fainting she threw a part ofthe quilt over the
corpse and went lo bed; first hoivever telling
her younger sister that she had killed her
daddy and the child immediately started up
and went and laid in her dead father's arms
all night. The murderer slept I
ine eviuence oi rncuicai gciuicincu was
thata girl ofherage and size bad notstrtngth
to strike such a blow. This leads many to
the belief that the real murderer is yet undis
covered.
While one can scarcely realize that a child
would or could commit such a deed it is seen
on the other hand that she confessed from
the first moment that she did it and no en
treaties could make her alter her statemeni;
not even the loathsome solitude of a dungton
through night and through day or the per
suasion of her counsel to disclose the truth
if she had not done it and their solemn ad
monitions that the gibbet awaited her unless
she recanted. Nothing could move her.
The jury retired but a few minutes and
returned a vrdict of '-not guilty." The case
has produced much excitement and specula
tion. She was released immediately. The
heartless mother left town and went home
after the trial was over and before she heard
the verdict ofthe jury I
Artiticial Production or Rain.
Professor Esrv has published in the Nation-
al Intelligencer a letter addressed "To the
Friends of Science" in which accounts are
given of a number of highly successful ex
periments made indifferent parts of the coun-
try with a view to teat the truth of his theory
with regard lo the production of rain in time
of drought by artificial means. The experi-
ments and a variety of facts which he has ac-
curuulatrdjtouching the phenomena of storms
all go to show that rain may be produced in
timo of drought in calm weather with a
high dew point and by means not expensive
or troublesome. Accounts are given of ex
perimcntsatCoudorsportocatPike in Penn-
sylvania at each of which places extensive
rains were produced in time of a severe
drought by the burning of a fallow. In
Pulaski county Indiana the burning of a
prairie produced abundant rain. Professor
Espy concludes the communication referred
to as follows:
"From the investigations which I have
been able to make on this subject and on the
nature of rains generally it follows certainly
that all rains travel eastward from the place
of beginning; and that rains and snows in
the n inter are of great leagth from north and
south and comparatively nanow from east to
wertand of course travel side foremost Sev-
eral' other conclusions are rendered highly
probable by these investigations but can only
bemad certain .by further experiments.
V "Let masses oflimber to the amout of forty
acres fer'.erey'twenty miles bo prepared and
fired simultaneously every seven aays in tne
summer on. the weetfof the United States in
a.line of six or seve hundred miles long from
north to. south then tne toiiowing results
Hem highly probable but not certain until
the experimenttis made A rain of great
length north and sotflh will commence near
or on the line of fires; this train will travel
w. w .
eastward ; it will not break up till it reaches
far into the Atlantic ocean; it will rain over I
the whole country eut ef the place of begin.
mog; it win rain oniya snort time in any
onepltce; it will not rain again umil the
next seventh day; it will rain enough and
not too much in any one place; it will not
t !..
be attended with violent wind neither on land
nor on the Atlantic ocean ; there will be
no hail nor tornadoes at the time ofthe gen
eral rain nor intermediate ; there will be n
destructive floods nor will the waters ever
become very low; there will be no more op-
pressive heats nor injurious colds; the far
mors and mariners will always know before
the rains when thty will commence and when
they will terminate; al! epidemic diseases
originating irom nooa- ana subsequent
drough's will cease; the proceeds of agri
culture will be greatly increased and the
health and happiness ol the citizens will be
much promoted. These I say arethepee-
able not certain results of iho pian propos-
ed ; a plan which could be carried into ope-
ration for a sum which would not amount to
half a cent a year to each individual in the
United States ; a plan which if successful
would benefit in a high degree not merely the
landsman but every mariner that plies the
Atlantic. If this scheme should appear too
gigantic to commence with let the trial be
first madealongthe Alleghany mountains;
and let forty acres of four ten acre lots be fir-
ed every seven days through the summer in
each ofthe counties of McKean Clearfield
Cambria and Somerset in Pennsylvania;
Allegany in Maryland; and Hardy Pen-
dleton BathAlIeghany and Mon:goracry'n
Virginia. The ten acre lots should be as
nearly as convenient from one to four miles
apart in the form ofa square; so that the up
moving column of air which shall be formed
over them may have a wide base and thus
may ascend to a considerable height before
ft may be leaned out ofthe perpendicular by
any wind which may exist at the time.
"The summer rains at present are local
and of very limited extent ; and though they
travel towards the eastlike the winter storms
they arc not extensive enough to cover the
whole country; hence portions ofthe coun-
try are liable to be parched with drought and
hot weather.
"May it not be possible that this irregu.
larity is in part produced by the irregular
burning of fallows and prairies thus produ
cing partial and irregular rains interrupting
the wide-extended and general rains which
would otherwise take place as they do in
winter?
'There is at present and will be for many
years to come a vast amount ot timber cut
down and burnt every summer in the western
parts ofthe United Stales; enough perhaps
to produce the wide-extended and uninter-
rupted rains so much desired without any ex-
pense. Until the Government of the United
States can be induced to carry into effect the
above plan I earnestly recommend to all per
sons who have fallows or other large masses
of combustibles to burn to save them till the
first very dry spell in the summer and to en.
sure simultaneous action let all west of west
longitude 87 degrees set fire to their materi-
als only on a Thursday those west of 90 de
grees in the morning at ten o'clock and those
east of 90 degrees at six o'clock in the eve-
ning; and let all east of 87 degrees set fire to
their inateriils only on Friday those west of
77 degrees at ten in the morning and those
east of 77 degrees at six o'clock in the after-
noon; and in no case let any fallows be burnt
unless there has at least a week elapsed with
out rain.
"I hope this request will be complied with
not only because all are interested m the
probible result but because it will be attended
with no expense and the best time of burning
is in very dry weather.
"It is not at all probable that all will ba
ready lo burn oa tho first dry spell or even
on the second or third and thus on every
Thursday and Friday during the season on
which there may be a drought enough ma-
terials may be burnt to produce a general
rain.
"For some timo after these general rains
partial rains cannot take place both because
ofthe scarcity ofthe vapor left in jhe air and
because any up moving columns of air which
may be formed will not rise very high before
they enter into the stratum containing much
ofthe caloric of elasticity given out by the
condensed vapor of the previous ram. in
which the up-moving columns cannot swim;
and it is only after the lower air becomes
charged with vapor and the upper air be-
comes coolod by radiation that another gen-
eral rain can be produced and it is not prob-
able that either of these can be effected in less
than about seven days.
" 1 hope that all editors of newspapers thro
out the United Slates who think there is the
least plausibility in the plan here proposed
will publish this letter or at least enough of
it to let all who have materials to burn know
how to act in concert
" Finally I desire all who burn their ma-
terials toiratch the pb.enomena.and send a
description ofthe whole to the Surgeon Gen-
eral's office. Washington -..j
AR12S3 0I
A miss oi iniormauon. win tnus oe accumu
feted which will lead to modifications in tho
plan for future operations.
Jakes P. Eipr.
M. Dobrezhoffer in his account of the
Abiohones of Paraguay vol. 3. page 150.
says "I myself have seen clouds and ligbt-
mng proaueea irom mesmoice over tne tall
grass and bull-rushes on fire as it is flying
off like a.whirlnind ; so that the Indians are
notto blame for setting fire to the plains in
order to procure rain they having learned
that the thicker smoke turns into cloudswht:h
pour forth water.
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De Morse, Charles. The Northern Standard. (Clarksville, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 22, Ed. 1, Saturday, May 31, 1845, newspaper, May 31, 1845; Clarksville, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth80558/m1/1/: accessed June 30, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History.