Weekly North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1858, 1851-04-30
TEXAS.

Texas is certainlya great country for candidates
for Office. The Austin State Gazette contains the
announcements, by authority. of four candidates for
Governor, and tUe for Lieutenant Governor also,
one announcement for Judge of the Supreme Court,
i've for Congress, and number for the inferior Of
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The veteran Gen. Edward Burleson, who dissin-
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: sd. -. #
"A FAULT OF THE PRlNrEEs. A correspondent
of the News states, the authority, as he asserts,
Of Judge Webb, that the quota tion in Governor Bels
Thanksgiving Proclamation, was set up wrong by
the printers of the Gazette Office, and that the org-
nal quotations from the Bible and from Shakespeare
were correct.
The above from the Telegraph is utterly without
foundation. No such mistake that implied was
made. was any mistake of any kind made in sett-
ing up thanksgiving proclamation in this
Office. 1t printed in strict and literal conformity
with the manuscript furnished US, without the nru-
sion omission OF word or letter. All the crti-
cisms to which passage in that document has given
rise, we regard as captious if -natured, but at
the same time we are not disposed to be made per-
petrators of blunder, however trivial we may re-
gard it,
The following, in relation to the mineral wealth
of Texas, is also from that paper:
mo person can visit the interior of Texas with.
out being struck by the evidences Of mineral wealth
which abound in many portions of the State. No
reliable information however, has yet been obtained
in regald its character, extent or susceptibility of
being made profitable by the application Of capital and
labor. Throughout the whole extent of country,
from this place to northwestern boundary, there
abundant and striking geological indications of
the presence Of various classes OF minerals. such as
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 scIen-
fc examinations 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 Purpo OF ascealnlng Its
mineral resources, but likewise its agricultural capa-
b,ies. The application Of the principles OF science
to 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 neans
improving the agencies Of productions and amelio-
rating the condition of man.
There does not exist upon the earth, perhaps, a
interesting field for the investigation OF the geo.
logst than Texas scientific survey of which would
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."
l. Joseph W. Hampton, Esq, formerly Editor Of the
Mecklenburg Jefersonian in this State, is of the
Editors of the Austin State Gazette.