The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1852-01-19

A TExAS CoLossL's sroRy.-"No. my friend
said tho colonel to his grave companion. "No, il
IL snuroly impossible for one nureed ia you have
evidently been, in the lap oflunury-perhaps even
in ceilsd and framed house-to know what we
suffered here in SO. I'll just tell you exactly how
II was with me, and have seen nothing-O, moth
ing at alto what some have! You zee / was
there in Sabine county, had little cabin in the
woods away from town some dozen miles. had a
hundred oows, twenty mares, seventeen fllios, and
wife and three children, but not a dollar in the
world. However, was lawyer, and had engaged
10 defend man for COW stealing at court in town
next day, for which was TO get two bushels of
meal You sec my clothes had wellnigh worn
out, and ~ swoppod with Bedi Indian for a suit
Of dccr-skin Did you see a real suit Of deer
skin, stranger,
"well, I have fen il too. You see tho Indian
told me 90 dye II in lockwood ooze I did go, you
know; left them IN all night. Ncstmorning was
up early and of for court, for needed that meal
didn't have anything in the hOuso Mt all. My deer
skin suit fitted wel-had tassc.s round the calves
and skirts. Well, rode out Of the mot Of timber in
which my cabin was built on to the prairie that
stretched the rest Of the way 20 town; ne tho sun
got hotter, the wet hkin-y0u had To put il on
wet, for mus, be at court, had to have that meal
the wet skin begun 10 get tight Pshaw IL don't
mind, says ]; but in twenty minutos psha g. IL did
mind Got on the mare out there in that broad
prairie, with tho roasting, broiling burning sun
right over my head, and my clothes creeping ID
and CCllinC tight around me like n ncst Of snn kee
My arms were fastened so by the sleeves that I
couldn't get at my knife Co rip anything. My hatr
stood the end like the thofns Ui a hoia dare o.
the misery! the suHcring the agony! My whole
body vhs bound up aud screwed together and
stranglod. Blood rushed TO my head -coudn't get
on my horse. Well. lay there in the bliscrirg
sun till somebody going 70 court happened to pass
and rip me up. lie cut inc in two or three plsces,
ho was shaking with laughter while he did il.
Well, you sec ] rode back home-took the lsst
sheet in tho house-cut il out-wife sewed on ono
leg while sewod up the other got TO court just in
time with my white sut--clearcd the man, and rot
The mealp'-Rsd Land San Augustine
hsornrs Cor DUsr swIsDLr.-s p. Dushnno.
who 10 charged with having swiudled California n
named Palmer, wss yesterday, in company with
Thomas Hatfield, brought up before Recorder &c.
nois on another charge Of swindling Both thcrr
men kept sn exchange office at47 Esplsnade street
johnson Il. Ewing testified that he has lust return
ed from California, and in company with another
returned Californian, hired cab on Wednesday
~ take their gold to the mint but in the case Of
Palmer, they were taken TO the exchange Office in
Esplnnade street There Dushano and Hatfield ,o
presented Themselves TO be tho assayer and trca
surer OF the mint and told Ewing aud his comosn-
Ion that il would be waste OF time 20 wait for the
coming OF their gold, that thoy would give them
8l7 AN ounce for it. Tho Caifornians agreed, and
handed their gold to the mint officers ns they
supposed. IL was weighed, and when the amount
was calculated the Celifornians found that one Of
thom, Ewing was minus : 634, and the other g So
OF what they knew that they possessed. The facts
a. related above were made out to tho satisfaction
OF tho recorder. and he committed Hatfield and
Dushanc Def re the fret district court, fixing tho
amount at which each will be admitted to bail At
$1,000. The recorder cent tho papers immediate
ly TO the district attorney, with the view Of having
the case tried at oncs.-Nsc Orleans Picay,ms.
Tia KossUTH FsvEa.--A great sensation was
produced in the streets yesterday by the appear
snce Of an honest, broad checked t,amster who.
in lack Of Kossuth feather, had stuck Goldfish in
his cap, tail up, with cracker attached 10 the eide
by way Of cockadc. II was the beet nc could do 10
manifest, IN his humble way, his zeal in behalf of