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VOL. XXIII—NO. 19.]
HOUSTON, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, JULY 29, 1857
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The Brazoria County Head
The Commissioners and Stockholder of
this road met in this city on Monday, and
organized the Company on a perma ent
basis. The following stockholders fere
elected as a Board of Directors of the Copo
ration—viz., John Adriance, W. J. Bran
J. W. Brooks, A. Underwood, A. Jackon
Wm. Sharp, T J Coffee, Cornelius Ennis H
Sampson, John Dickinson, F. Scranton. A
Groesbeck, J. D. Waters, E. W. Taylor, ind
T. S. Lubbock. At the meeting of the bard
yesterday, by-laws were adopted, andthe
following gentlemen chosen officers—iz.,
J. D. Waters, President; E. W. Tayor,
Vice-President; and John Dickinson, se-
cretary. The Company is now ready tc go
actively at work.
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of Yearly Advertisers charged extra.
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ail m—mlgailom for the office should He ad
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JOB PRINTING OFFICE
Coagnsa sheet, between Main strict and Court
House Square, Houston.
Having neatly, in addition to the large power
press, tweaiusil a tee rotary job press, and over one
hundred new tola of job type, besides cuts, rules,
fancy inks, Jfce., fce., we are prepared to do every
description of werk in our tine in a style unsur-
paassd la this State, and at the shortest notice.
All peneas wanting
P09TIBS. CIRCULARS. BLANK NOTES, RE-
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ui a word Mijining in onrlioe, dons up in plain or
fancy style, la colors or gold, are invited to call.
We are confident that we can render the most per-
fect satisfaction. Oar prices are put at the very
lowest living rates, and we aha 1 not be outdone
in respect to cheapness hy any office in Texas.
Having new ample force in our job department we
shall be able to turn set work with the utmost dis
patch ' We have on hand a large amount of
paper, aWaaadfcacy, cards and stock generally,
which iaabeea purchased from the manufacturers.
and stall be aWe to furnish our work at prices that
cannot Ml t please. Call and examine foryour-
t Country promptly executed.
5. H. CUSHIBG.
iY, JULY 33, 1857.
O" Several interesting letters and commu-
nications are onavoidablv crowdd out till
Friday's issue. _
IT We had yesterday a fine rain here,
aid tbil morning the weather is inclined to
be skwj again.
K7W« would direct attention to the ad
i soliciting proposals far building
r road depot. We are glad to see that
> ia to be so soon constructed
, fipufpaafe C<uni, 106 Ca-
asl Street, N. O. We are requested to state
that all gentlemen who wish to be prepared
for Fail Bvamas, should apply immediate-
ly. Tke city la perfectly healthy. Penman-
skip, Book-keeping, Erench, Spanish, Ger-
man, Engliah, Mathematics, Ac., are taught,
by afefe Professors. There are nine Apart-
ment* and a Prufsssor for each branch, so as
to awe Ae time of learners. Students enter
at any tone of the year. See Advertisement
17 The Board at Directors of the Houston
Tap and Bnuoria Boad adjourned last night
to meal again on the 10th of August, in this
city. They passed a resolution previous to
adjournment, directing the route to be loca
ted to Colombia, with a view of advertising
Cor contracts at their meeting in August.
Thef anticipate patting the enterprise
throng with i1i pfti*h . This road will
prshohiy be buUt ia less time than any oth
er that has ever been undertaken in this
State.
trWe had nine rain here yesterday
morning, which soaked the ground well
We may lank far showery weather now
Dry weather has continued
time, and ft is certainly to be hoped
that the spell is broken. At this immediate
point we are not suffering so much for want
dnis, having had tolerably good rains be-
fore, hat we are assured that there is a good
deal of suffering in different parts of the
country through the protracted drought
■Pllit are man red by Mr. M. W. Barker,
far Cotton's map of Texas, thst the
in tke edition now being cir-
eolnted, in laying down the H. T. C Rail-
road, ooCnrrsd through false information
grton the publisher by soaMcitixei] of Texas,
and waa no dmbt through malice towards
tke Mad or the corporation, or perhaps to-
wards this city. He assures as that
■est edition, of which he will receive copii
in n few days, will be all right
ttALVaiTOH.—TbeCivilian says thai,owing
ta the continued drouth Oil the island, milk
ia lamming exceedingly rare, stuck has been
driven off to water. The cattle there will
soon fen able really to take up the rrae of
• Ruxxkils, they say voted against pajng
for Frontier protection. Granted. And W y?
Because it was the business of the Unted
States government to pay for this protection.
It was in the bond of annexation, and alho'
that government has never since affordedour
people the protection they required, it las
not been the fault of Texas that it has not
d ne so. And when the governor calledjut
the rangers for this purpose, at the reqiest
of United States' officers, that govern rent
should have been compelled to pay fonhe
service.
But why has th'-re been so much apahy
at the seat of government on this subject?—
Why has the thirsty earth drank the bkxl
of the frontier settlers of Texas until buid-
reds of stricken hearts have cried out for
protection ? Why have we always had so
inefficient a protection from the inroads of
savages? Why has not the Texas fronier
[ been lined with troops ? Why have we beu
I compelled to call out rangers and proect
| ourselves, at our own cost, while the natioal
I treasury, which should have paid this ex-
| pense, has been overflowing and our petitins
J disregarded ? Why? Because General Sam
• Houston, once a Choctaw chief, has beei in
4 the United States senate, and from his pace
there has forever defended the indians. be-
cause he has said the white settlers wertal-
ways to blame in these contests. Becaise
he has voted against frontier protection, ind
that too when every other vote given vith
him was that of a rank and rabid freesoier !
when not even Bell of Tennesee stood by
him!
Old citizens of the Republic tell us ha
this is no new notion of Houston's, and hat
when he was president he always took the
part of the savages against his own peqile.
Of this we know nothing. His recent acts
and v ts are enough for his utter polLical
coude, ation. He has voted with tbeabo-
litionists against the democratic party. He
has votod with the abolitionists, time and
again.agamst the South. He has voted with
the abolitionists agaiust protecting hi: own
fellow citizens of Texas against the incursions
of a bloodthirsty horde of savages! W ill
Texas sustain him ? God forbid !
The Enemies of the Democracy, dnding
they are obliged to make some show if prin-
ciple, now take the grrund that the Nebras-
ka act was unconstitutional and wrong.—
Some even go so far as to assume thtf it was
Jreamil! Abolitionists will laugh ia their
sleeves when they see this. The .Nebraska
actfreesoil! Well now, what next ? Pwb
ably every Southern Senator except Sam
Houston and John Bell are Freesoil. ler
haps the whole Southern people, which ias
condemned Houston ahd Bell, aud sustaiied
the Nebraska act, is freesoil. Perhaps all
slaveholders are abolitionists ! Perlnps
Sumner and Seward and Chase and Gd-
dings are good Southern men! Ptyrlaps
black is white 1 Perhaps fire is fro-11 Per-
haps the friends of Sam Houston are coisci-
entious men! We know not what uex to
look for from them. We cannot imaginethe
extent of their audacity.
form a basis for patriotic pride, it may be
found in this' city of magnificent distances,
splendid public buildings.aesthetic grounds
statuary, <&c. The notional capitol, with its
environs,is of itself a subject for study and in
struction—now in its extension approachthg
completion—presenting a front of seven hun
dred feet, and said to be among the most
splendid buildings in the world. Every
American citizen is a part owner, and may
aspire to a seat in one of its halls. All can-
not be seated there, but all are represented,
and each in his measure influences the legis-
lation of its representative assemblies,
approve of the enterprise of the Yankee
whom I met the other evening on the lawn,
iust arrived dusty on the cars, one of the
greenest I ever saw, perhaps nineteen years
of age. He said he bad never been from
home before, but having a little in the pocket
he determined to see the capitol and the
President, and had come all the way from
Vermont. He thought the capital was the
finest house in which he expccted ever to
have an ownership, and he satisfied his cu-
riosity and returned the next day. He, how-
ever, sought to make a penny by hisjourney,
and put in a claim for a patent to a quilting
machine of his own invention. If he is not
disappointed, he will make a fortune out of
it.
I, too, as you know, am Yankee enough to
have business at the Patent Office. The re-
sult of it is yet in the secret archieves. but
you shall be benefited by the publication of
it among the most privileged. The Hon.
Chas. Mason, Commissioner of Patents, is a
public officer of the right sort, intelligent,
complaisant, direct, business-like. He puts
on no supercilious airs, but is your servant
to do your business. If you do not know
what you want, he tells you what you want,
and dismisses you politely, informed and
protected against imposition. Pity that all
our public officers are not of the same stamp.
Some of them may be reformed with ad-
vantage to the oublic service, aud such men
as Mr. Mason are the right men to do it.
The great subject of excitement here just
now is the election riots of the first of June.
It is refreshing to see the public condemna-
tion expressed on all sides, without distinc-
tion to party. It is claimed, however, that
the true authors of that riot are still behind
the scene, and disclosures are promised.
Let them come, wherever the responsibility
may be made to rest. We must have a free
aud open ballot box, and order at the polls,
at all hazards. So Mr. Buchanan says. So
say all good citizens.
We bad quite a disturbance of the natural
elements on Sunday evening, a terrific thun-
derstorm, with rain and hail, destructive to
vegetation and property. Some of the hail
stones I saw were seven inches in circumfer-
ence and solid as glass. The extent of the
injury in one direction alone may be inferred
from the fact, that an order was sent to Bal-
timore on Monday morning for ten thousand
panes of glass to repair the injury in one
building alone, the Washington R.R. Depot.
This storm set ms to be a kind of epidemic,
which commenced near the time and place
that the predicted comet ought to have ap-
peared in Missouri. It followed close on my
heels and in my track, but fortunately in my
wake, until it overtook me while at rest in
this city. I claim no connection with it.
My operations are entirely in the line of
steam, and have no relation to hail or elec-
tricity or politics.
Yours in short,
SAN JACINTO.
On first Monday in August the people of
Texas will be called upon to decide the great
questiou.and end the canvass. For three
months our State has been the scene of a po-
litical excitement rarely seen in any country.
A great man, who has stood up in the Senate
of the United 3tates as our representative,
and time and again betrayed our interests,
who has sold himself to our enemies for the
promise of a gratified ambition, who has
sided with our foes, and made himself their
apologist, their advocate and their voting
companion, who, for all these things,
has been condemned by our State Legisla-
ture, and reprimand* d by the voice of the
whole people. A man too, who has attempt-
ed to deprive a large and most excellent
portion of our citizens of some of the rights
of citizenship—who has attempted to intro-
duce a religious element in our political field;
in a word, whose acts and course for years
have been such as to render him worthy the
execrations of all good citizens, comes before
the people and asks their suffrages.
This man asks to be made Governor'of the
State of Texas, and why ? It has been as-
serted that he has lost his influence in Texas,
and that the people are tired of his want of
faith, and have determined to repudiate him.
If this is so, farewell to the object of his
darling ambition. But he hopes not. He
cannot give up the object of so many years
labor, to the attainment of which he has so
long devo' ed himself ; in the pursuit of
which he has stooped so low, and transgres-
sed so far. He is now making the struggle,
and Monday, the 3d of August, will decide
his fate.
We pity the old man, but we owe our vote
to our country. That belongs to no person
however dear to us he may be, or however
high sounding the name he bears. Our
country shall now and ever have that vote,
as it will that of every honest thinking man.
Houston will be beat. He will want ten
thousand votes of an election. Let every
man vote honestly and candidly, and the
day is ours. Victory already perches upon
our banners.
FRIDAY, JULY 24, 1857.
O* The clouds to day appear lowering
and promise showers.
|£p We note the passage of a larger num-
ber thau usual of strangers-through oar city.
"Water, waterevery where,
AaftMt a drop to drink."
Wo note in the Civilian the card of a new
oouaitefanhaioein Gnlveeton, via., Mather
,0. R. Hughes, long and
Correspoidcnee of the Telegraph.
Issukapolis, Ind., June li.
Mb. Editor,—l left Cairo yesterday, onthe
Illinois Central Railroad, out of whtch, t is
said, the stockholders have made an immoise
fortune, under a charter less favorable taan
the charters granted by Texas. The Dad
may be good enough when it is finished,but
it ia the roughest traveling I have met wthj
The jolting is disagreeably severe, more Ike
the stage coach than the ,rail car. But he
road has been rapidly built, and requres
time to harden the foundation. They mike
good time, and we were soon handed oveito
another and f better line, which landed is
in th:s city, after a safe ride through he
night.
Indianapolis is the capital of the Stae,
almost in its geographical centre. It it a
beautiful city aud rapidly increasing n
population and in business, having advait-
ed from 4,UOO inhabitants to 25,0<>0 in Ui
years. Eight railroads, chartered by tie
State, centre here, comprising 1,600 miles if
track. Aa many more are under contrac,
and will be finished at an early day. Thei
seventeen railroads, comprising 12,000 mils
of track, will directly centre here, makinj
this point the greatest railroad centre in tht
world. The citizens of eighty out of ninety
one counties in the State, can leave home it
the morning, visit Indianapolis, transac
their business and return home the same day
It is estimated that from three t>> five thou
sand persons visit the city every twenty fou
hours, and that nearly one hundred train
pass iu and out of tbe city daily.
With suitable enterprise and effort, Hou
ton may be to Texas what Indianapolis i
to Indiana. It only needs available capiui
and capital men and capital raahageraeut ft
accomplish this. Texas has the area, tit
soil, the mineral and agricultural resources
everything but the motive power to e*olv
her latent energies aud eliminate her mnrbii
apathy. Two lines of railroad have beei
already commenced, aud are looking towardi
her northern borders from the Mississippi-
one from the point opposite Memphis, tb«
other from Gaines' Landing. These, with
third from Algiers, opposite New Oilcans
will uuite with the Pacific road, and all soon
O* The receipts of cotton at this point for
the week ending 22d were 679 bales. Our
receipts now are nearly equal to those of New
Orleans.
weB known in that city being one of the firm
TkeKewa has driven off musquitoes by
i of cxtract of pennyroyal. That
ImI drive away anything, evt-u
t of ordinarily sharp uoaee.
The ITem published Maj. Howth's circu-
lar an •■attar of tmaineaa. The aame paper
now pnblfehea another letter ofhis, in which
i dkwa in made to the Telegraph, but
inoMVaaM.ii requires
by branches, which will offshoot from the
U* Maj. Howard of Fort Bend county, has
placed on our table several bolls of cotton
which opened on his plantation on the 16th
This is the first we have seen this year.
Maj. H. reports good rains on the Brazos,
and in some parts more than is wanted.
D" John A. Wharton Esq., of Brazoria
county, a true democrat and an orator will
address the people of Houston to-morrow
night on the issues of the present canvass.
Let us give hiin a good house. Those who
go to hear him will be flighted. He has
few equals as a public speaker.
ID* The H. T. A B. Railway Company
have appointed John W. Stump, engineer
of the road. He is now engaged locating the
route, preparatory for contracts, to the Bra-
s timber. It is expected that he will have
the most of the distance to Columbia located
by the next meeting of the board, which
will be on the 10th of August.
ID" Mr. Robert Kelly, whose card appears
in our paper as a healer of sores, felons, 4c.,
has laid a circular on our table, containing
certificates from several respectable citizens
of Houston, for whom he has performed re-
markable cures. We recommend all persons
afflicted with chronic sore legs, cancers,
white swellings, <tc., to try his remedies
We are persuaded that there is really some
thing in them worthy th<- attention of the
afflicted.
I/"Last uight the store of Mr. Charles Hue
bner, near the Market, was entered by some
rascals and his safe abstracted. The safe
contained from $175 to $200 in cash. Theie
were three double eagles, some smaller gold
com, and a five dollar Galveston bank note
Hp locked up his store as usual, about
o'clock last eveuiiig, and this morning
found a door open. Krom the fact that there
are no marks of violence about the door, aud
from the nature of the premises, it is presu
med. that some one secreted himself in the
store, having accomplices without.
Mr. Runue Is' Votes.
The opposition are attempting to make
capital by arraying the votes of Hardin K.
Runnels, while a representative of Bowie
county, in our State Legislature. They as-
sert that those votes were always sectional ;
that they always looked to the advantage of
his own county. Well, we will grant this,
and what have our oppouents gained ?
What was Mr. Runnels sent to the Legis-
lature for, but to watch the interests of Bowie
county ? What do we of Harris, or our
readers of any other county, send represen-
tatives to the Legislature for, but to repre-
sent the particular interest of the section
from which they go ? We expect our repre-
sentatives to vote for all measures thBt will
advance the interests of their constituents,
and to vote ad versely to measures opposed to
these interests. It has been just this, and
nothing else, that Hardin R. Runnels has
done. The whole head and front of his of-
fending has been that he has filled well aud
worthy the office he has held. His immedi-
ate constituents, the citizeus of Bowie
county, were satisfied with' his service, and
gave him all honor for his course. As a rep-
resentative of Bowie county he did his whole
duty, and was always handsomely re elected
to the Legislature until the people of the
State, seeing how well he guarded the trust
given to him, asked him to go up higher, to
take a more important trust. v
Since he has been Lieut. Governor, be has
been an officer of the whole State, and no
man cau say that he has ever done any act
while in that office of a sectional nature.
Gratified with the faithfulness he has exhi-
biteed in every office he has occupied, de-
lighted with his honesty, his unwavering
devotion to the principles of democracy,
his thorough appreciation of the wants, and
attention to the best interests of Texas, the
people have now asked him to go up yet
higher, to take tiie helm of State aud guide
the bark over the waters.
He will do it. He will fill the post with
honor. There is no truckling in his charac-
ter, no yielding to Abolitionism, no protect-
ing of Indians in their robberies, no humbug-
ging, no slander, no lying, no demagogue-
ism, no mere selfish ambition, no desire to
use this office as a stepping stone to another,
no deceiving the people by raising false
issues, no coquetry, no double dealing ;
nothing but plain, straight forward honesty
of purpose, backed by a degree of good sense
of which any man may be justly proud.
The Ranger says that Col. A. M. Lewis
would have taken the stump for the Democ
centre with with numerous others at Hoaston racy before this time had it not been for the
from our fellow-citizen of Harrisburg, Mr.
Geo. B. Milner. If neighbor M. has got an-
other one we should take pleasure in thank-
ing him for it.
The Civilian intimates that N. B. Yard
is a candidate of an organized society of
which he is a member. Allusion is doubt-
less had to the O. U. As.
The Civilian also ridicules the idea that
Frank White is a drunkard. Wehavt traced
the rumor to gentlemen of high standing
iu the opposition ranks, and as they have
been influential in spreading it, common
honesty should at least dictate to them an
acknowledgement that they have been mis-
informed. Will they make the acknowl-
edgement 1
The News mentions a fine shower in Gal-
veston last Tuesday morning, lasting about
twenty minutes. We trust our thirsty neigh-
bors may have enough more of the same sort.
The News calls upon Gen. Sherman to re-
open the Tremont. That vast house is now
closed for the want of a landlord.
The News learns that the iron and cars
for the first 25 miles of the Mexican Gulf &
Henderson Railroad have been shipped.—
This amount must be completed by the 24th
of September. It is an impossibility. The
charter will, doubtless, be repassed by the
next session of the Legislature.
Texas Items.
The Brenham Ranger says that Major
Howth's circular was not printed at that of-
fice. The remarks we made were without
reference to any printing office. We give
our neighbor of the Ranger credit for being
a good printer and publishing a good paper.
We can overlook his occasionally grumbling
at us, when we consider the service he is
doing for the democracy. We could wish
he was a little better natured sometimes, but
willing to remember that we all have our
faults, while every man is the last to perceive
his own.
Another Mier prisoner at Brenham asks
Judge Gibson of the Sentinel, through the
Ranger how he now feels, in view of his
supporting old Sam.
It is worth our while however, to remark,
that there are now no less than ten distinct
editors of the Sentinel. F. M. Gibson is the
name that appears at the head of the paper,
but does not stand for our old friend the
Judge. It seems to be a common name
which these ten editors have adopted, and
to which either of them will answer with
perfect freedom. We are sorry that our
friend the Judge has lost his name. We
trust that he has not also lost his identity.
A rose by another name might smell as sweet
if it were still a rose, but if it got bedaubed
with what Lignum Vita would call politi-
cal assafoelida, it might prove an offi-n^e to
the nostrils.
The new bowling alley in Gonzales is con-
siderably patronized—uight and day.
The Inquirer says that heavy rains have
falleu in different portions of that county
during last week. Many there are now cal-
culating on fair crops.
The Belton Independent says that rain is
needed there very much, and unless it comes
soon the crops will be ruined.
The Independent says that Guy Bryan
spoke at BeltoD on the 15th.
j JThe Washington American publishes
Ruune'ls' votes on the payment of the Rang-
ers. Will that paper pubish some of Hous-
ton's votes against an increase of the public
service for frontier defence, and the compa-
ny Houston voted in 1
Mr. Granbury of the Waco Southerner gives
his valedictory in the last number. He is
obliged to deselve bis connection with the
paper because the publisher and pirt owner
of the press insisted that he baa a right to
some extent to contrail the matter that should
be published in it.
The editor of the Dallas Herald has bee n
shown a bunch of oats from oue seed which
produced upwards of 5000 grains.
The Herald says that the weather there is
dry, aud the corn crop short—shorter than
ever before. Uuless good rains fall speedily
the crop will be less than was ever known
before.
The Herald mentions the formation of a
military company in that town, called the
Dallas Guards.
The Herald sums up the prospect iu the
16th District, as follows :—
Runnels will carry Collin, Cooke, Denton,
Wise, Jack, Young, Palo Pinto, Johnson,
Ellis, Tarrant and Dallas, by majorities rang
iug from 100 to 400. Grayson is claimed as
Fellow-citizens of Texas be not deceived. J doubtful, but we confidently predict that she
vote for Houston "and you reward iufidelity will not separate herself fromiher sister coun-
® A!.. . f a I. A 1 l« r\ar>t*>i At an I 1 ■ l. 4 y, r>S
sickness of his wife, who requires his con-
main stem as naturally aud almost as ueces- stant attention.
sarily as branches of a tree from the native Mr. G. Felder advertises a fiowtring mill
stock. The Up root may extend to Galves in the Ranger We advise our friend M.
ton, but Houston must be the common cen- of this city to send some of bis iDtracta-
tre whereihe sap is distributed through all ble rose bushes to Mr Felder.
the members, and where the ripened fruit The Gonzales Inquirer received a boll of
to trust; vote for Runnels, and you vote for
a man that has never yet betrayed his con-
stituents, and never will.
Becaise Sam Houston has betrayed the
South and disgraced Texas, both by his
votes i.'id speeches, the opposition desire to
elect him Governor. Because when sent
there to protect our interests and to carry
out democratic principles, he has voted
against those interests and deserted those
principles, they are now attempting to re-
ward him.
Because Hardin R. Runnells has been
faithful to every trust reposed iR him, be-
cause be has been a true Southern Demo-
crat always, because he is a true aud honest'
man, they blame and try to defeat biin. The
time is past for demagogues. They will not
succeed. From East and West and North
glorious news is wafted by every gale. The
whole State is alive to the issues, aud the
people will show by their votps on the Ud of
August, that they are not deceived by a high
sounding name, aud that the whitewash
with which Sam Houston has smoothed him-
self over dpes not conceal from them the rot-
eriness within.
Galvebto*.—Tbe Civilian, of Wednesday,
mentions the arrival of the brig East
from New York, and the clearing of
the Godfrey from Boston, both on Tues-
day. Also, tbe sailing of the Montauk and
Culloma from New York for (talveston Ju-
ly 8tb and 9th,
The Civilian says that a deck hand of the
Hteainer Atlantic fell overboard, outside ofl
Galveston Bar, last Tuesday evening, and
was drowned.
save his life.
Translations from Chronicles.
must fall and be gathered up. Let Houston
realize this in time and sow liberally. She
will be sure to reap also plentifully.
SAH JACINTO.
Wasnuerea, D, C., J ike 25.
Mi. town,—If anftkiaf material eaa Witt M (kief?
new co'ton, well opened on the 13th inst
from Dr. Bond of Belmont, iu that county.
Dr. Bond is the firet in the State.
Tbe Inquirer nays that Chinese Sugarcane
ia succeeding very wall in that county. It
Every effort was made to , next Legislature.
ties of the 16th District is this great contest.
At all events, on tbe 3d of August next, the
" 16th Legion" will sweep down like an
avalanche on the enemies of Democracy.
The Eastern Texas Gazette says that
" Reagan would be a had man to send to
Congress, for as he would uot have the con-
fidence of the Abolitionifts, he would not be
able to convince or assure them that they
are wrong,"
J ust so. Aud so we suppose Houston and
Evans are good men to send to Congress, or
to elevate to offices uf trust aud distinction
in this Slate, because they bare got the con-
fidence of tbe Abolitionists! Out upon such
a party !
Tbe Jefferson Herald says that raiu is
beginning to be very much ueeded there.
Crops are suffering.
The San Augustine Texian, speaking of
the proposed New Orleans and Houston rail-
way connection by the Opelousas road, says:
'• If the Buffalo Bayou aud Sabine Com-
pany was ever chartered, th«J charter has
been forfeited long ago—the Henderson and
Burkeville road has had its location chang-
ed, aud to the best of our knowledge, uo
charterjis in existence, which could effect a
junction with this road after it reaches the
Sabine."
We had supposed that San Augustine was
somewhere in the world. It seems that no
account of the doings of the last Legislature
has reached that neck of the woods yet, aud
that they are as yet ignorant of any arrange-
ment to conuect the interior of Texas with
New Orleans. We can, however, assure the
Texian that, not only is this road chartered,
but it is surveyed, and stock mostly taken,
and it will to some considerable extent be
built before the editor of that paper will
probably have heard of the meeting of the
Verse 1. And it came to pass in the last
year of the reign of Elijah the democrat, who
was ruler over one of the tribes North Amer-
ica, that there rose up a great man whose
name was Sam—and besought the people of
his tribe to make him chief ruler therein.
2 Now, Sam was an aged man, and had
lived long among the people of his tribe, and
they had loaded him with honors, and had
sent him for the space of eleven years, to the
great assembly of the tribes, to counsel and
advise with them, and to watch over the af-
fairs of the people of his tribe.
3 But the man whose name is Sam, whilst
at the general assembly of the tribes, and at
the place called Washington, carried not out
the institutions of tbe people ofhis tribe—
but wickedly, and for his own glory aud
advancement, joined the camp of the North-
ern tribes, and forsook his own people, and
voted against them.
4 And the man named Sam, forgetting
the interests of his own tribe, on many and
divers times, stretched forth his hand, and
raised his voice, to aid and comfort the
Northern tribes, against the people of his
tribe—and the Northern tribes paid him
great honors, insomuch, that his name be-
came famous, all over the land inhabited by
the tribes. Yea, his name was even made
known to all heathen nations, even to the
uttermost ends of the earth—
5 And the man Sam, went amomgst the
Rechabites of the northern tribes, and preach-
ed unto them concerning the drinking o
wine, and taught them and said many things
unto them, and greatly strengthened their
faith, and he also taught them, saying; build
schools and colleges for your young men, in-
struct them that they may be wise, and
skilled in all manner of learning.
6 And the man Sam, taught the people of
the Northern tribes, concerning the people,
held in bondage, by the people of his tribe,
and as the man Sam is a good spokesman,
he drew many after him. And he told unto
the people of the Northern tribes, that he
abhored'the cruel manner in which his peo-
ple had the children of slavery amongst them,
and that he would stretch forth his hands,
and take the yokes from off their necks, and
loose the shackles from off their feet and send
the people held in slavery unto their own
land, even unto the land of Ham—and the
people of the North greatly rejoiced at the
things he said unto them, and cast their
garmeuts on the way belore him—and lifted
up their voices as one man, and saluted
him—even until the going down of the sun.
7 But the people of the Nothern tribes,
were men, cuuning, and crafty, and they
said unto the man Smn, Lo, we have se-
cret couuciis iu our midst, and we will give
thee many signs wherewith thou mayest be
known, aud by which ihou mayest know
others—and they said unto the man Sam,
come with us, and we will show thee, and
the man Sara went with these cunning peo-
ple. and they showed him, and made all
their matters known unto him. And they
bound the man Sam, even by an oath, that
he should disclose to no man what had been
shown unto him in their secret councils.
8 And the man Sam, saw visions and
dreamed dreams, and was greatly pleased
with the whole matter, for these cunning
men said unto him: Lo, there be many
amongst our tribes that be idolaters, and
worship false gods, and bow the knee to the
image, which is at the place called Rome,
and they said it is an abomination, and
the also said unto him, Lo, our lands are
filled with straugers and sojourners, it is
very grevious unto us, let us drive them out
of our laads, let us grind them in the mill,
let us oppress them'and make them hewers of
wood and drawers of water. And the man
Sam, believed all that was said unto him,
and shut up all their sayings in the depths
of his bosom.
9 But the people of Sam's tribe, had also,
at the assembly of the tribes, a man called
Thomas, aud the man Thomas was of an up-
right heart, ar.d when all these things were
told unto him, he was troubled in spirit, and
sorely grieved, insomuch that sleep forsook
his eyes, and he mourned aloud—Thomas
the upright, went and talked with the man
Sam, and endeavored to dissuade him, from
all these things—and showed their wicked-
ness unto him. But the man Sam hardened
his heart, aud stopped his ears, and refused
to listen unto Thomas the upright.
10. And Thomas tbe upright, being a
wise and learned man, wrote letters to the
chief men of his tribe, informing them con-
cerning all the the t'niugs done by the man
Sam, and when the chief men of the tribe
met iu assembly, they considered the ways
of the man Sam, and the wickedness thereof,
and they were veiy wroth with the man Sam
and wrote letters to him—and condemned
his transgressions, and called on him to give
up his houorable pi: ce, aud return to the
people of bis own tribe—and the man Sam.
with heavy heart, conscious of his guilt, did
as the assembly commanded him.
11. And the man Sam,endeavored to gain
the hearts of the people unto him, and said
unto them: "Have I not led your armies to
battle. Have I not taken walled cities.
Have 1 uot slain your enemies by thousands
and have I uot done wonderful things for
thee? Remember San Jacinto! Am I not the
corner stone upon which your fortunes aud
prosperity are built. Choose me, I beseech
ye, my children to reign over you. Look
over, 1 pray ye, my weaknesses. Oh, my
Texan children, cast me not off I pray ye,
fair women and beautious children, I love
you all—Lift not tbe beverage to your hus-
band's lips, until he says: "My fair one, I
will vote for the man Sam.—
12 But the people of the tribe were verv
wroth with the man Saiu, for those things
that he had done uuto them, and refused to
listen unto him, for they only remembered
bow the man Sam, had violated his faith to
them in his old age, they forgot his former
good deeds. \ ea, many of the people cried
out, he is a leper, and that tbe mark was up-1
talked much with the people ; yet veiy few
gave car unto him, inasmuch aa Sam's
transgressions stunk in the nostrils of the
people ; and furthermore, the man Benjamin
was a Fillmoreite, who was of the house of
Know Nothings, who slew the people, and
wrested from the Idolaters and Strangers
their liberties, and cast them into prison.
14. Aud then also went out amongst the
people, a man who was called by some wise,
but with all sharp and cunning—this man's
name was Isaac, and a kinsmans of Benja-
min, the Fillmoreite, and who always voted
the ticket of the house of Enow Nothingism ;
and the man Isaac met the people on the
corners ol the streets, and other public
places, and talked and reasoned with all
them who would listen unto him, and said
unto the people, Why cast off this man Sam?
He did not do these things unto thee. He
is a great and wonderful man. None can
equal him in all our tribe. No, not evan
one. Thus spoke Isaac, who was of the
house of Independent, and who was a kins-
man, by his mother's side, of Fillmore, who
was of the house of Enow Nothingism—who
slew the people, and cast them into prison.
45. But the people of the order of Democ-
racy, who dwelt in the land of Texas, being
strong and numerous, cast them all off, and
would not permit them to enter their coun-
cils, and many of the people^burned incense
upon the;r altars many days, for their puri-
fication. Behold, it is all written in the
Books of the Chronicles of Texas.
All Sorts of Items.
A Methodist Church has been organized
in Honalula, S. J.
Telegraphs in the United States consume
annually $60,000 worth of zinc, $10,000
worth of nitric acid, and $30,000 worth of
mercury.
Peterson's Magazine for August has a
piquant sketch styled " Learning the
French." Its reading is so light any brain
can peruse it without fatigue.
Tbe duties levied on a barrel of flour at
Havanna amount to $9 85.
Counterfeit gold ddlus have made their
appearance in Peter^^k, Va.
One A. T. Going is about the last of the
Gentiles leaving Utah. Brigham may con-
gratulate himself that Going is going, bat
he should chalk it down in his hat that
Cumming is coming.
Seveuteen Sisters of Mercy lately sailed
from Southampton, England, to attend the
Yellow Fever Hospital in Rio Janerio, Bra-
zil.
England derives annually £4,500,000 to-
bacco duties ; France, 92,000,000 francs, or
$19,000,000: total, $41,000,000—being more
than half of the entire duties levied by us
on the importations from both countries.
An alabaster vase in the Museum of Aln-
wick, of Egyptian fashioning, is said to still
retain its perfume after a lapse of nearly
3000 years. We think we setni a humbug
in this statement of an exchange.
No fort has suffered as much in any battle
as the piano forte from the " Battle of
Prague." Musical ladies please take
notice
The worst liars keep on the verge of
truth.
Brazil furnishes Great Britain with 20,-
000,000 lbs. of cotton annually, oat of 30,
000,000 raised.
At the dinner of the Maine Medical Con-
vention, the Rev. Mr B., while alluding to
the intimate relations between the profes-
sions of the clergy and the physican, in all
seriousness remarked that it was somewhat
singular that" when the Doctor was called
the Minister was sure to follow." Pepper-
grass says in his case it waa vice versa. In
less than twelve months after he and Mrs P,
called professionally on the Minister he was
under the necessity of calling in the Doc-
tor, whose services he has required periodi-
cally ever since.
The following is a speech made by the
manager of an Irish theatre. There were
only three persons composing his audience:
Ladies and Gentlemen!—As there is no
body here, I'll dismiss you all; the perfor-
mances of this night will not be performed ;
but the performances of this night will be re-
peated to morrow evening.
COffliHEBCIAi,.
TELEGRAPH OFFICE,
Friday, July 24, 1857.
O* It should be understood that our quota-
tons ijneraUy represent wholesale prices.
WEEKLY REVIEW.
Since our last issue, the business of Hous-
ton has been as reported for the previous two
or three- weeks, livelier than usual for the
season. A good amount of merchandize is
sold daily, and transactions are generally
satisfactory to the business men. We note
still considerable trains of wagons continu-
ally arriving, though we presume these
arrivals will fall off for a month or two now
soon.
Our accounts of the growing crop are gen-
erally more satisfactory than at last week,
and with tolerably good rains in many por-
tions of the State that have been suffering
from drought, we are justified in anticipating
better crops than we have heretofore calcu-
lated upon. Should the season prove favor-
able, the cotton crop of a greater portion of
the State may yet recuperate, and.be brought
up to nearly an average crop, making the
total product to be looked for considerably
above that of any previous year. We sin-
ctrely trust this may be the case. We are
satisfied that in most of the country east of
the Brazos valley good crops will be made.
In portions of that valley the staple premises
to produce will, w- ile in other portions, the
crop will be short. We may probably say
that tbe present prospect is good for a little
more thau three-quarters of a crop. West of
there the long continued drought has retard-
ed the growth of the plaut, and the best esti-
mates we hear do not enable us to hope for
more than half to three-quarteis of a fair
yielJ.
Coru crops are something like cotton in
i their prospects. While there are no portions
of the State in which enough will uot not be
made for bread, and as a general thing for
cattle, in the great eastern division the crops
are turning out handsomely. There is good
reason to believe that we are done with im-
portations of corn from New Orleans. With
the extension of our railroads in Texas, and
city, and the largest and most successful
planters in that county. The names of rack
men as Abner Jackson, T. J. Coffee, Wm.
Sharpe, John Adriance, A. Underwood J.W.
Brooks, and W. J. Bryan, of Brasoria, and
J. D. Waters, John Dickinson, 0. Ennis, T.
S. Lubbock, E. W. Taylor, F. Scran ton, S.
Sampson and A. Groesbeeck, of this city,
are a guarantee (hat the work they have un-
dertaken is soon to be accomplished. Wo
regard this as an enterprise of groat impor.
tance—an importance indeed that will one
day surprise even its friends. There is no
such a body of land in the world aa that it
penetrates and is calculated to accommodate.
The Galveston, Houston & Henderson road
in in a state of uncertainty now. One day
brings accounts that the workmen an ac
ti veiy engaged in constructing the road on an
air line to Hoaston, and the next brings na
some contradictory rtunor. It is hard to say
what is being done; and without some set-
tled and fixed policy in the company,
the chances are, that the people will, ere
long, lose confidence in the enterprise.
There are now, we are informed, 500 hands
at work grading the Central road. The af-
fairs of the company are in a good condition.
Other enterprises are all progressing, some
faster and some slower, but all promising
early completion. Planters who are " wait-
ing for the wagon" may rest assured that it
will come after a while.
Building, as we hare before mentioned, is
occupying the attention of many of our citi-
zens now, and active preparations are being
made to accommodate the immense bosinosa
which is looked for this foil. The large
warehouses being constructed will invite
cotton buyers to this market to a greater ex-
tent than heretofore, and the occupants of
these houses, who are all active businaas
men, will no doubt have all the busineaa they
can do. We shall rejoice in their prosperity.
HOUSTON MARKETS.
COTTON.
Since oar last report the cotton market in
different parts of the United States, and in
Europe, have all exhibited a tendency fovor-
ing the seller. An advance of l-16d. had
been experienced in Liverpool previous to
latest dates. Sales of the week ending 4th of
July amounted to 68,800 balea. In Vow
York reports to the 18th exhibit a goad bus-
iness. and a firm cottoa market.
In New Orleans the market is dnU. Salsa
for the week endiug 18tb 4400 balea. Tbe
receipts for the week reach only 1373 hits,
against exports amounting to 9199, leaving
stock on hand of 27,035 bales. The amount
received at all the ports to latest dataa ia
2,887,887 bales against 3.462,092 last year.
Showing a falling off of 574, 205 bales. The
entire crop of the year cannot roach much
above 2,900,000. Prices in New Orleans
last Saturday were as follows:
Animitating to that af Livtrptl.
Infsrior........ ...... ... —
Ordinary........... 0
Good Ordinary... ^
Low Middling M •Mk
Middling •• Mlf« lljfc
Good Middling..™..... IS Mi
Middling Flair git ^
At this point receipts have beau mostly
for shipment. We hoar of no transaction
whatever, and conaequontly can only qoots
nominally aa followa:
... , «
-*§<
•MX
Inferior
Ordinary
Good Ordinary —
Low Middling ....
Middling
Good Middling-...
Middling Fair ...
ISJ(aI3
!«•
STATXMXNT OF OOTTOH.
Stcek on hand Sopt. lst,18SC .....bales S17
deceived past week at
T.8 Lubbock's Warehouse 49 "•
Allen & Fulton " "
J. J.Caln&Co's " "
Taylor tc Bagby " 36 ••
679
Received previously 44,877 ••
45,771
41
on his forehead, and they cast him out from ' the consequent facilities for exchanging the
their miust, and the House of Runnells . products of various parts of the State with
reigned in his stead.
each other, we may look probably for a Sr.aiT,-We notoUttla change « ]_
13 Howbeit, some of the people of his j greater degree of independence than is en- ^ 3Pmts'' 6" "j* 01iTert
tribe, eudeavored to appease the people, and j0jV<j by any other State North or South.
win them ovor to him, in the land of Ham's! Sugarcane has also improved in its ap- w '* \B. SnnJiomi — .
nativity and the man of great note—w&o j pearance since our last, and good rains hav-
labored amongst the people for th man ing fallen generally in Brazoria^and)the lower ^®enc*n Brandy 7SQ$3 SO; TlWch
Sam, who wan cast out, was Benjamin, of' counties, the planters are encouraged in Brandy $4 00@6 50.
From the same paper we learn that Nat ' lrThe conc,'rt of the "MuntagrianJ-.', 'ant ^behous,- of Fillmore, who told the people j hoping for a fair return yet for their labors. Tobacco-—We maks BO change
i evening, at the Hogan House, was well at | some months ago, modern Democracy stinks j The railroad movements of the past week from lsst week.
tended by a respectable audience. 1 hey I m his nostrils. Now the man Benjamin was ! have been important. On Monday, the 20th,
possess considerable skill iu execution, and ! in earnest for the man Sam, aud went about the Commissioners of the Houston and Bra-
Shipped past week 8M
Shipped previously 43£73
8Cook on band July Slth...............
Same date last year the receipts to Jaly
19 '56, were Z7...
For week ending July 94..
Increase of receipts this year ovor last' ta
same dste an
Increase in receipts tor corresponding
week Oi
Hub.
Hides have advances fully one cent, aad
buyers are now paying 15 centa aa a regular
price
Woob
Small receipts at previous prices.
MaacaamnzB.
Baoomo—Kentucky Bagging in good de^
mand, at 20@22c.; India is plenty at 16)^,
@18c.
Candles—Star Candles an quoted 30g
33 ; Adamantine 29@31; Sperm 45@50c.
CorrEE—Good stocks of Coffee now in
store. Bio 11@13; Java 16@l7c.
Cordage—Manilla is worth l&f Ilk'
Kentucky hand-made machine
15@15)£; La. Manufacturing Cooapaay 13®
15>i; Grass Rope I6@16)£c.
Coax—Little in market. Worth $1 20®
1 40.
Flock—has advanced. Fine ia worth
$6 25@6 50; Superfine $8 75@9 00; Extra
$10 25@U 50.
Ixon—Good q|ocks in hand. We repeat
our former quotations. Refined Bar is worth
4)e@5c.; Horse shoe, 6}£c.;Hoop 7^®8^c;
Slab 7@7^sc.; Sw eeds6#@7c.; Csst Steel «
22@25c.; German 13c.; Blister 16@l8c.; Slab
Steel 19c ; Kails $4 75@5 50.
Lime.—The supply of lime ia very fair
and sales are made at $2 75@3 00 for Rock
and $2 50@2 75 for Cement.
Molasses.—Stocks generally small as nan
al at this season, and sold at fall priesa.
Bbls are worth 75@80c.; Half bbla. 85®
0c. . %
Lead—Bar Lead is worth 9c.; Pig at 8X
@9c.
Bacon Sides—May be quoted at alightly
lower rates, Ribbed are worth 14){® 15 and
Cleai 14W@16)£c.
Sugar—Small stocks; no change ia price.
Prime U^@12^c.: Choice 13®14e.
Salt—As before, Coarse $145; fiaa $175®
2 00; good supplies in store.
ix*
Rudder, surveyor of the port of Velasco,
died last Monday. There will be some tall
competition for the office anions? the good
citisens of that burg
The Oifiliaa has received a hygrometer
are well worth hearing. They repeat their . daily exhorting thejpeople, to exalt the roan
concert to morrow evening. Go and hear j Sam, once againg to an honorable position,
i aibtit, SeajtttiB, of tke bout* of VillaaN*
loria road met in this city and organised the
company. Tbe Board of Directors choaei
MBbHCf 9«M of tke bwt tasifteot MB It dria
O ls Lard $1 40® l 50; Loaned fl 30®
140; Paint $110®1 30.
Paixts.—Ko. 1 While Laid 8 S0®9 00 •
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