The Arkansas advocate., 1833-09-25

eglil5 pec6 man urselges; such, at least as the alowife o esripdons given us of Texas, would never shaye led US to believe that :Iiiss5s5Y :Iiiss5s5Y e,liti lexis e1ist. here.
 ssOn May 14ths I was compelled to aban- don my house by the inuadation of the Brazos, which covered the whole of my grounds, ii rose near three feet in the main eaft of my house. lost every stalk of, corn; the most forward was just showing tasseI. Since the 10th of June, I have planted all my lot four times over which was snceess4ely swept by the worms. lily seed corn giving out desisted; but getting from the Bernard, a few ears of corn, 1 .piaDted about the 10th July, about two acres witch now looks fair. My fence from some distance above where my cow-yard was, and all round in front of the house was washed entirely away, and so sudden was the,rise, (t was in the night scarcely any thing could be got away. 1 was nineteen days, every day, wet from knee high to my neck; yet have experienced no accident as to health. We were fifteen days at Hughoons (poor fellow he has since died at my house. During the high water 1 saw more of the deprayity of the people among whom live than expected of them. Families camped near my block of lots, which was quite dry, the floating popu- iatlon were with them, generally all hands drunk, and the greatest excesses commit ted--the most wanton destruction was com mitted on all property by those who had mo- thing 10 lose; and often heard 1t repeated that they wished every person would lose whatever he had--indeed began to think that those Who had property might have just apprehensions for their personal safety.- All the plantations any where near the Bra zoo are entirely destroyed. A boy came from Oyster creek to Brazoria, and might have come from twenty miles beyond.-- The whole country seems ruined. This is the second year have lost my labor and made nothing. During the high water the first cases of spasmodic cholera made its appearance in the town; early in June, Mrs. Counsel and Mrs. Cleveland died of t, and occasionally there were cases oI f ev- cry one of which proved fatal; and some of the first days of July, Charity and jnl were attacked; l attended them myself; the attacks were very easily managed.
 Here follows an enumeration of eea 1s by cholera.
 "sayre and Ware had their plantation ruined by the high water;-since of l0 Ile- groes, the former lost five, the latter out U the same number, ' by cholera.
 ''f now come to the subject of getting a. way from this country; it will be attended, l fear, with great difficulty and loss. In the first,piaee there Is 20 money to be ob- tained for any kind of property. What then is to be done With what | have here, whiel 1 cannot remoYel 1 fear to place 1t III the hands q any one, being removed so laf off, and yet am unwilling to sacrifice 1t. IheTemoyaI of the negroes, I appre- hend will be attended with some difficulty, perhaps risk. know not whether -un- uertdle their return by land or water. The latter mode would be least laborious but perhaps most hazardous; going through by land should be obliged to hire an Indian as guide 10 pass the Sabine.
 "Ihe political news is, that all is revolu- ton and confusion in Mexico. It seems, that Tn Congress, proposition was brought forward to abolish an ecclesiastical estab- ilshment and to appropriate part of the church property to the national debt.- Tie priests raised an instruction on this. and by some means actually took President santa Anna a prisoner whom they pro- claimed perpetual dictator. He, however. bribed his guards and effected his escape. All the troops are ordered 10 Mexico ta quell the instruction"