Texas State Gazette. (Austin, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 4, Ed. 1, Saturday, September 16, 1854 Page: 3 of 8
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TEXAS STATE GAZETTE:
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The Public Debt.
"Wo hnvo been much gratified to see Hint standard old sheet
tho State Gazette take ground nt lost upon the subject of rur
public debt take that position too which is only one in our
opinion upon which a Texian can stand without forfeitmeof
all self respect mid an abandonment of those principles of State
sovereignty which wo have beeu taught to beliovo was moro
real than ideal. The truth is Texas can take no other position
than that suggested by the Gazette in the settlement of this
dobt; to accede. to the bill which lias already passed the Sen-
jato of the United States and which it is confidently asserted
will become :i law at the next session of Congress is to ignoro
all our previous legislation upon the subject of our indebted-
ness and will be equivalent to a declaration that in ouv past
action we have acted in bad faith with our creditors and with
a determination to swindle them out of what is justly duo
them. Is the State of Texas prepared to make 'an admission
so'lnunbling as this and one which time itself so long as the
English language is spoken would fail to destroy and which
would leave a stain and a blot npon her escutcheon forever?
"We certainly can't think so yet wo must admit that the silenco
of the newspapers of Texas upon thi3 subject is to be viewed
as rather ominous ; they have all wo believe published an old
article from the Intelligoncer giving a description of tho
proposition and tho features of tho bill now before Congress
yet but a few of them' Jiavo done so with comments and all
seem to have preserved a studied silence upon the subject.
Why is this 1 Are they afraid to " face the music" or do
they take it for granted that the question bo far as Texas is
concerned is a settled one? Less certainly lias been said
upon this subject than its importance would indicate- should be;
for it involves not only the reputation of the State but also
some two or three millions of dollars. "We are liappy then to
see that standard sheet the State Gazette taking the position
which it has upon this subject and more particularly so too
as wo had been led to believe from certain expressions in for-
mer numbers of thatpaper that it might take a different
course. Central Texian.
Tennessee.
Mi:Mini3 Navy Yakii. There never was any real use for
this Navy Yard. It wus a shameful waste of pubic money.
After the expenditure of nearly half a million of dollars it is
now to be transferred to the city of Memphis. An order to that
effect has been issued by the Federal Government.
The Chops. In some paits of this county says the Fayette-
ville (Teun.) Observer the corn is literally gone burnt up.
There is no mistake about it we suppose. Whatever rain may
now come will avail but little in some sections. We are told
that two dollars per barrel have been offered for fall delivery
and not taken. The prospect certainly looks gloomy. We know
of a sale of fifty head of lean hogs delivered ten days ago at
four cents. . This we are told would be equal to five cents fat
taking thejprobable hUh price of feed into consideration together
with those that will not make meat and the ones that die.
Fikst Balk of the Season. Mr. Robert Patterson of the
house of Titus & Co. left on our table last evening a sample of
the first bale of cotton brought into our market this season. It
was raised on the plantation of Pope near Colliersville in this
nonntv. The bale was classed as Middling:. It will be remem
bered that Col. Pope's bale took the premium at Woild's Pair.
Memphis Appeal.
Memphis. We see by a table published in the Appeal that
during the past year real Estate has increased one million of
dollar's in value.
Lebanon Factory. We are gratified to learn that efforts arc
being made with fair prospects of success to rebuild the large and
magnificent Factory which was lecently destroyed by fire at Leb-
anon in this State." The Factory was the most splendid estab-
lishment in the south-west. Its cotton and woolen fabrics were
sought after throughout the South and flour made at the ex-
tensive flouring mills connected with it readily brought from
fifty cents to a dollar per barrel more than St. Louis or Cincin-
nati brands.
ICT Wm. A. Alexander charged with committing several
forgeries in this county and who fled from justice some weeks
cinnn. hns hnnn arrested and lodged in iail in this county lie
was taken in Graves county Kentucky. Jaclon Whig.
South Carolina.
IIon. Daniel Elliott Hiram: The death of this Eminent
son of South Carolina is the subject of much sympathy in pub-
lic circles. Tho Charleston Courier very well remarks that
"he never disappointed a friend or failed to redeem a pledge
that could be inferred from his declarations or action ; he never
shunned or feared a foe if such he had ; he never spurned or
rndo.lv ftxnltecl over a discomfited antagonist or rival: he never
Bought high offices as solaces for merely selfish aspirations; he
never shrunk from high offices when they involved high du-
ties. Judge IIuglii completed his seventy-fifth year on 28th
Juno lastChaving been born on the third anniversary of the
action at Fort Moultrie. His father. Daniel JIugkk M'a3 a
member in our first Congress and his great grandfather of
Arkansas. I
E3FTho present Stato debt is set down at four millions of
dollars. Tho interest for 1S5A amounts to nearly a Quarter of
a million of dollars. To the sum now drawing interest about
$180000 is annually added.
Corn Crops. Tho Democrat at Little Rock says that tho
continued drought has settled the question as to corn crops ?
they aro gone.
The Cholera had made its appearance in Richland township.
Twelvo fatal cases aro roportod on one plantation. So savs tho
Pine Bluff Republican of tho the 20th nit.
QSJgr' Col. Rust tho democratic candidate for Congress has
made a tour through tho Western and some of tho Northern
counties but finding no opposition ho returned to his residonce.
Col. Rust stands deservedly high with his party.
fi5? Wm. A. Jones Esq. of St. Francis county has been
put on the Legislative ticket in place of James Stotts who de
clined Uio honor in consequence ot bad health. Mr. J . V . Cross
has withdrawn from tho canvass for tho Stato Senate leaving
the field open to Mr. Jones.
(pP Tho Arkansas river was very low on tho 27th ult. and
navigation may bo regarded a closed until a riso takes place.
Eggr1 Rev. Mr. Green a very learned and talented minister
of the Presbyterian church at Littlo Rock Ark. died at the
residence of Mr. O. Worley in Memphis Tennessee.
3 Tho Whigs of Phillips county Arkansas have nominated
J. W. Rice and Allen J. Polk for the Legislature.
Wo aro gratified to bo able to inform the public on tho au
thority of Capt. Williams chief engineer that the surveys of
the Cairo and Fulton railroad are completed aid that they will
be reported 'so soon as the estimates plans "limps and profiles
can be made.
We learn also that that the route of this road runs through a
country remarkably well adapted to iTailroad construction that
I shall stato a
A Few Plain Facts.
it will be very direct with light grimes and that tho cost ot
construction will not exceed and nlliV fall below tho averago
ot western roads
An affray took place in Lower Fourche township Tell county
Ark. on election day between J. JJarril and P. Noover in
which tho latter was killed.
Capt. Danloy has sent his resignation of the Auditor's oflico
to the Governor to take effect the 10th of next month.
51?" Greenwood is elected to congress without opposition.
W. D. Rice and Robert Macon (clem.) havo been elected to
the Legislature from Phillips. Monroe County. P. P. Red
mond elected to the Legislature. JN. 1. Hard wick elected
Clerk; S. P. Hughes Sherifl; E. Black county Judge.
St Francis. Anstall and Calvert (dem's) elected to the
House In the Senatorial district composed of Poinsett and
St Francis Jones (dem.) elected. Crittenden for Legislature
J. F. Bartoe (over his opponent Maj. Ward) 1 35. For sheriff
B. O. Crump (over his opponent Campbell Jones) 125.
County Judge (over his opponent Maj. Wilson) Dr. W. Rives
100.
o a few plain facts herd atid let thorn go for what
they aro worth. Facts aro stubborn things and will weigh
wljero lino language and well turned sontonccs will havo no
ollcct. 'Tis tho understanding I wish to convince". I direct
your attention then to facts.
Intomporanco fills tho Alms Houses. In tho county of Bal-
timore Md. out of 113-i paupers received in ono year 1059
woro brought thero by intomperanco. Removo tho dreadful
curse of intomperanco and instead of theso 1184: paupers thero
would bo only 75. Startling fact! I
In the county of Qumberlaud Pa. of 50 paupers 48 wero
made so by intemperance. Removo tho cause intomperanco
and this Alms House instead of 50 tenants would have only
two and 2-i dollars out of every 25 expended to support tliis
establishment would be saved to tho country.
Tho superinteudant of tho Alms JIouso at Albany NcSv
I York reports that ho bolioves that institution would bo teuantr
less but lor ardent spirits. Hero all tho immonso cxpenso' ot
that institution might be saved by banishing tho causo from
the country.
Tho whole numbor of tho inmates of tho Alms House of.
South Boston in 1S53. was 1273 of whom 1)27 aro known to'
havo been fought there by intemperance; a majority of the
others being attributed to the samo cause. ' t
The cxpenso of supporting tho paupers in tho Alms House
of Philadelphia for one yoar was estimated at 130000 and
tho superinteudant testified that ho bolioved that niuo tenths of
it was attributable to tho uso of ardeut Bpirits. Put liquor out
of tho reach of the. people and you savo to tho country in the
single city of Philadelphia in ono year thq enormous sum of
117000 now expended there to support those ruined by a legal
traffic.
It was estimated some yours sinco that in tho four nations
France England Swedon and tho United States tho actual
cost of intemperance at a low estimate in one year was
$500000000. Doublo this for tho cost of prisons alms houses
&c and you have $1120000000 tho wasto of intomperanco
in these four countries in one year. Banish alcohol in doin
it you will bless mankind apply this money to tho spread or
tho gospel and the amelioration of our race and what imagin-
ation can picture the change in human society in ono year ! !
If is said that the families of tho inteniperato almost uniform;
ly run out and becomo extinct in tho second and third genera-
tion; or if thoy continue tho decendants aro peculiarly in dan-
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Intemperance fills our prisons.
Mr. Edmonds while keeper of the city prison of Now York
kept an account of tho previous training and personal habits
of all tho persons arrested for crime and committed to his
charge during a year and out of 18000 thus committed hot
50 even claimed to bo practitioners of total abstinence Hero
men are iouuu prisoners almost au acicnowiecigmg uiomscives
Georgia.
Daiilonicqa. ft. II. Moore and Company have found and
are operating upon a rich vein of copper ore and aro preparing
to send a quantity of it to market. This ore has been analysed
and contains upwards of thirty per cent of copper as I anvin-
forincd. I suppose thero is no doubt of it In these veins also
they have found a rich deposite of malachite of copper of what
extent is not yet determined. This substance is of a beautiful
gieen and highly valuable for decorative purposes in building
and lor other ornamental purposes it is more valuable than
copper.
ftT A bale of new Cotton of fair quality fiom Albert coun-
ty was sold in the Agusta market on the 1st hist at 12 cents.
One was also sold in the Savannah market on the same day at 15
cents. It was irom Columbus of line quality and weighing
500 pounds.
tho samo name was among tne eany setuers oi mis province
Yellow Fnvnn. in unariesion me x'uver iia so iar ugen
-i:.i.r..;ci.-i vntiipr lr ilin onnositc characteristics. We have
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never known it to maice so muw jmn uim j11'" " ""wiu
in the city. Even now the groat majority of the cases are from
the shipping" and where medical advice has been had in season
there have been very kw deaths. Mercury.
Woffokd Colicgi;. Wo learn from a friend that this insti-
tution located in Spartanburg was opened on Tuesday last
with a Freshman and Sophomore class under the charge of the
President Whitman and Professors Duncan and Carlisle.
Upper Tutxitv Yallev. At no period has our county and
the wholoof tho Upper Trinity A "alley exhibited moro sub-
stantial signs of improvement and prosperity than at present.
These signs aro manifested in tho enlarged enclosures of our
farmers their oversowing granaries in the greatly enhanced
vnlun of real estate and in a yoneral diffusion of that indis
pensablo requisite to public prosperity Ihe "almighty dollar."
A largo emigration came to this section last fall an emigration
adding largely to its pecuniary wealth and contributing as
largely to its moral and social advancement. Tho incubus
that has rested so long upon the country retarding its growth
and crushing its energies has been removed by tho issuance of
patents to tho colony lands. Tho land titles hero are now in-
disputable and tho consequence is that lands are beginning to
demand Eomciumg nite tneir vaiue. uauas juenua.
to be users of intoxicating drinks!
A New Orleans paper makes tho following statement : "DiU
ring the last year there were made 10000 arrests directly and
indirectly for drunkenness in tho city and stato; 4.00 deaths
by delirium tremens ; about T5 murders besides a host of other
crimes."
We have then in the two cities of New York ancKNow Or
leans annually 34-000 prisoners made by tho use of alcoholic
drinks which is encouraged by the lao of tho land. Extend
the ratio over our Union and whose heart does not bleed at
the heart-rendingacte it presents.
Hero is another statement which may not be unintorcsting.
It is calculated that the cash paid for ardent spirits drunk in
tho State of New Yoik every year amounts to $39-120000
and that an equal amount is paid and lost for pauperism and
crime and various casual ities occasioned bT strong drink mak-
ing a total of $7SS10000 wasted in that stato every year.
This money would in ono year build two such railroads as the
New York and Erie Eailrod and two such canals as the Erie
canal. Ov it would put a Bible in every destitute family on the
globe in seven months. It would give a free common school'
education to all tho 5000000 children in the United States
costing $25000000; suppoit every minister of tho Gospel
which at their present salary would cost $0000000 ; leaving
$A7000000 which would support every female seminary anil
every academy in the land all our one hundred and twenty-six
colleges every law school medical school and theological
schoolj making them all free and leave enough to suppqii
every missionary in foreign lands and uvery school established
by them. Such is the amount of waste for the liquor traffic in
New Yoik which has about ono sixth of the entire population
of the Union. Supposing tho samo ratio and we havo every
year wasted in the United States for the traffic in ardent spir-
its the immense sum of $4.730'! 0000. And I ask my fellow-
citizens why all this waste? And yet the laws of our country
legalize this horrible traffic ! Will you not my fellow-citizens
Harkis CouNTY.-i-In the upper portions of the county the
farmers arc beginning to cultivate cotton which they find to
succeed well. Sugar cane has been jjrown successfully in dif-
ferent locations in the county. Both Irish and sweet potatoes
come to groat perfection. Rice might be profitably cultivated.
On all the bayous which permeate the county there are to be
found considerable bodies of land which are quite productive.
Without doubt Harris will in a 'v years become qui to an
agricultural county. Her commercial position is highly favo-
rably. She has several towns of some importance within her
own limits besides being contiguous to the chiet sea port city
of the State. The soil and climate is found to be admirably
adapted to the cultivation of the peach. With this valuable
and delicious fruit both in its green and dried stato she could
p.'isilv smvolvnot onlv her own nonnhition. but. also. Galveston
and the wealthy planters on the Brazos with whom she now has! by your voices and your votes put a Ftop to this consuming
rauroaii commuiucauon. one mignc even export inut to loroimi
markets. Figs plums and oranges also succeed well: melons
of all kinds grow luxuriantly and attain a large size. lcw
counties of the lower State can excel Harris in its stock raising i
advantaged. Many citizens are fast accumulating fortunes from I luo.v Oisi:. Our excellent rotempornry of the Jefferson J for-
tius source. The timber of Harris is a source of great wealth aid says : Cass county for instance postessea an abundance of
of which many aro now availing themselves. Quito a large! iron ore which yields as lare a per cunt as rmv other in the
wasto? I have not the statistics of drunkenness in Texas or 1
would present them also. I havo no doubt but that they would
be equally as frightful as those I have given. C'rmnan's Address.
number of profitable saw-mills are now in operation in different
parts of the county and tho business is found to pay well. -Harris
county contains between twenty and thirty common
schools. Ono academy in which both sexes aro taught all the
branches of an English education. It contains fourteen Sunday
Schools in all but ono or two of which aro used the publications
of the American Sunday School Union. Several of these Sun
day Schools possess libraries of from five hundred to one thou-
sand volumes each. This county contains three temperance
organizations a Masonic Lodge and an Odd Fellows Lodge.
A public Library is being formed ono newspaper tho eldest
in the State emanates from this county "The Texas Telegraph"
for many years edited by Dr. F. Moore Jr. but now under
the control of Judge LI. H. Allen. Galveston News.
g'.5J" At an evening tea-party the other day a proposal was
made for a rubber at whist. After several deals au elegant
and handsome young lady thus addressed a gentleman who sat
near her : " Yhat will you take for your hand ? " Tho young
gentleman modestly replied his eye at the same timo brightly
beaming (' Yours in return."
woild. 'Ihe iron Mountain belonging to Mr. Nash ol this coun
ty is located almos-ton tip: route of the great Pacific Hail road
fi oin Fulton to El I'aso. Ju view of these tilings and the increas-
ed value of railroad iron is it not an object for sonic capitalist to
opoiate here in that kind of business? Wo learn that a planter
in Cass county uses the iion spoken of by the Herald in making
and icpairing his blacksmith woik and that he finds the iron
of a quality superior to any brought from the north.
Smaict Hoy. To tho Knickerbocker belongs the credit of tho
following
tho stage
g : " One pleasant day last summer I took my sea
j coach bound from Fall Kivor to O . Among
tin
tho
rti'ssengcrs was a Jittie gentleman who nail possibly seen nvo
summers. J lie coacu Doing quite lull ho sat m the Jap ol an
other passenger. While on the way something was said about
pick-p"Cketsanil soon tho conversation became general on that
interesting subject. The gentleman who was then holding om
young friend remarked :
' My lino fellow how easy I could pick your pockot I "
"No you couldn't" replied he "I've been looking out fbr
you all the timo ! "
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Oldham, W. S. & Marshall, John. Texas State Gazette. (Austin, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 4, Ed. 1, Saturday, September 16, 1854, newspaper, September 16, 1854; Austin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth81152/m1/3/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History.