North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1852, 1851-04-26
TEXAS.

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Texas is certainly great country for candidates
for office. The Austin State Gazette contains the
announcements, by authority, of four candidates fo
Governor, and Jfpe for Lieutenant Governor; also
one announcement for Judge of the Supreme Court
FIVE for Congress, and number for the inferior Of
fees. --,-
The veteran Gen. Edward Burleson, who dlstn'
guished himself in the battle of San Jacinto, is a
candidate for the Senate in the Austin District.
We copy the following from the last Austin State
Gazette # -s-s7l-
"A FAu1r OF THE Painters. A correspondent,
of the News states, the authority. as he asserts
of Judge Webb, that the quota ton In Governor Bells
Thanksgiving Proclamation, was set up wrong by
the printers the Gazette Office, and that the origi-
nal Quotations from the Bible and from Shakespeare
were correct.
The above from the Telegraph is utterly without
foundation. No such mistake as that implied was
made nor was any mistake of any kind made in
ing up Governors thanksgiving proclamation this
office 1t was printed and literal conformity
with the manuscript furnished u.s. without the intru-
sion or omission of word letter. All the criti-
csms to which passage in that document has given
rise, regard captIous if not l-naured, but at
the same time We are not disposed to be made per-
petrators of blunder, however trivial may re-
gard It,"
The following, in relation to the mineral wealth
of Texas, is also from that paper:
No person can visit the interior of Texas with.
out being struck by the evidences of mineral wealth
which abound in many portions of the Stale. No
reliable information, however, has yet been obtained
in regard TO its character, extent susceptibility of
being made profitable by the application pital and
labor Throughout the whole extent of country,
from this place to northwestern boundary there
are abundant and striking geological indications of
the presence of various classes of minerals, such
iron. copper, silver and COAL in quantities sufficiently
abundant to be profitable object of industry.
Enterprise and capital, however, are not likely to
be attracted this direction until satisfactory scenti-
ic examinations are made in this department., and the
results promise profitable employment. To this end,
deem it important that the next Legislature should
make provision for thorough geological survey of
the State not only for the purpose of ascertanng its
mineral resources, but likewise its agricultural
bilires The application Of the principles of science
the ordinary pursuits of industry, has made new
era in its economy, and every aid which can be de-
rived from this source should be employed means
ofimprovng the agencies of production, and amelio-
rating the condition of man.
There does not exist upon the earth, perhaps, a
interesting field for the investigation of the geo.
ogist than Texas scientific survey of which ould
no doubt add important fund of information in this
interesting department. 1t is to be hoped that the
next Legislature will be properly impressed with the
importance of such measure, and make the necessa-
ry provisions for its being done."
Joseph w. Hampton, Esq., formerly Editor of the
Meckenburg Jeffersonian, in this State is of the
Editors of the Austin State Gazette.