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had to limit the quantity for each meas The APP
portionment 20 small that il afforded but tenn
porary relief. And since that the Daes poet has
been eaten OUT an express came TO Fort Vancou-
few days since with orders for additional sup
plies Immediately; that the stores at the Dales post
had been exhausted. We fear that those now in
the vicinity of the Dalles must be in great want
''Ihe army officers at Vancouver may exert
themselves to their utmost and they will not be able
to reach the Dalles under ten or twelve days. A
large proportion of the immigrants fell into a com
mon error this season-that OF loading too lightly
with provisions. IL was reported in the States that
nearly all the immigrants had overloaded last year,
and that heaps Of flour and provisions of all kinds
were strewed all along the road. II also
tanned at Fort Hall; that any amount of flour could
be had there for less money than any person could
afford TO haul il from the States.
"True, there was last year large quantity taken
ing the immigration, but they all having overload
ed last season, bought little none. In
quence of this there was encouragement to keep
II up this season. The flour had been all packed
eight hundred miles, at a heavy expense to the
manager of the Hudson's Bay Company stationed
at that post"
The gentleman whose rise to public favor forms
the theme Of the following article is SO universally
and favorably known by our fellow citizens for his
personal qualities of liberality, benevoence, and
patriotism, that feel assured it will be read with
Of his political adversaries:
From the Fond du Lac (Pis.) Journal
The Rise Of senator Rusk.
The tragedy Of Nacogdoches, and the romantic
incidents which led to the Texan war of indepen-
dence find their parallel only in the Romish history
of Lucrctia and the elder Brutus. Juan Costa was
a person of great influence and bravery in the wild
forest but fell under the displeasure Of Santa Anna
and his minion Pedras, the commandant of Nacog-
doches, was sent to arrest him. He arrested the
father at the supper-table, attended by his only
daughter-a young girl of surprising beauty and
intelligence. He loaded him with chains and cast
him into prison, notwithstanding her tears and
treaties Finally, he proposed TO free the father if
the daughter would sacrifice her honor and inno-
cencc. She rejected the infamous proposition with
blow in the face; when the armed ruffian swore
horrible oath to execute his will on them both, and
then
With dark eyes, fearless. CLASSY, and fixed
those OF the corpse, yet flashing double portion Of
luminous fire, she mounted horse, and hurried
away wildly around the country. She halted at
every house, no matter whether Mexican or Amer
lean, and rehearsed in tones of thrilling horror,
her fathers wrongs and her own, All timid mod
esty, all weakness had vanished from her tongue,
utterly consumed in the scorching thirst for
gcance. She painted in passions fiery language,
and with awful mnutenees, the facts of the damn
ing deed; she barred her virgin bosom and showed
the lived marks OF the ravsher's fingers among tho
mazes of those azure veins along the surface of that
expanse OF snow, now 30 polluted and soiled, but
And still, wherever the beautiful maid wandered,
deafening yell of wrath and vengeance rose Up
against the tyrants. The people of both races and
all classes, flew to arms, appointed general rem
devious for the 25h of June at the residence of the
absent and now imprisoned Juan Costa
Ii wasthen debated by the people TO the mode
of attack, and who should be their leader; but
nothing being agreed on, the whole assembage
bid fair to break up in confusion, when a tall, and
powerfully built stranger, who had just entered
Texas from the States, came forward and addressed
the multitude as follows:
81 am a stranger, but also a man, and
owe my life, body, soul, happiness-all, all to a
woman-my mother! And If turn deaf ear to
the prayers of an innocent woman asking aid
against villain, may both my mother and my
God curse me. go for one, and-should you all
stay behind-alone to fight Col. Pedras and his
armed ravishers of your wives and daughters 20
The speech was received with three tremendous
cheers, and then general shout, that seemed TO
shake the solid earth, uttered the first peal of
luton. 1--WE will GO. Death to the tyrants!
Freedom for Texas, and the giant shall be our
leader" And then, for the first time, was heard
in the land Of the wild oak name destined TO be-
come an echo TO the pulsations of all hearts-the
name, Thomas j. Rusk
The next day he led his raw troops TO the attack
of Nacogdoches, and stormed every position
against immense odds, after assault of four
hours, the carnage being dreadful on both sides.
Among the slain was the body of the atrocious
Ferdinand Pedras.
Such was the debut of Rusk in Texas and from
that day his popularity has gone on steadily in
creasing, without even transtory eclipse,
much as a cloud 20 dim its spendor. In vain for
three years General Costa demanded his arrest.
Mexico had not soldiers enough 70 take him; and
in 1866 he assisted TO chase the last Of these out
Of the country. Afterwards he amassed fortune
at the Texas bar and was chosen one Of the first
Senators from the State annered-a place
which be may hold for life If he wills IL.
Rusk is the only public man in Texas who has
never engaged in duel.