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The Texas Republican. [volume] (Marshall, Tex.) 1849-1869, 1858-05-08
CHARLES pncKuuT

TASHON1GiE EDOr AND SHOEMAKER,
~.pdl. Wesl eafuer I'd hepnNii, iquafoI
IL EEpS constantly on haud arg, assert.
IN mcut OF ladies Had epntlemeu's boots and
shoes, of Iis own manufacture; also good
supply 81 sole aud upper leather for sale.
From h long experience aud close attention
% .ae business, he hopes 70 have aeoniinuarse
of that patronage heretofore so literally b..
slowed on him. Allordcrs promptly attended
TO, and work warranted.
Nov -, 1851 MA
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N,umaaa, Kerac & sons, Acbomaa So
dbd 0sb9rHf s..
lust -eptd. % IarH 7'oea Ell tie aao.
y cat casc- and ie Mah9gony eat raae-
wood %. vlh io5s and kew Also. bef-
t.an 4, Iof-, in casu, and boxes, fine as,ori-
meut,
ui yolors. .u tabs-EnaH-h and American (.
t.ugasss tor portraits ia ifamcs Of sAio TO
IA5G;
Canu. 10 faH lfam as O. 3a Hche, WIDE
-lfaghfrs t1i ,lu,a-rt. Of ali szt-i
AGO d,l. huc sable and caua hair pene.isi
100 uiatunl sau.,h brushes, ali sizes 3
suts.ki r,, eo,j auj sI.lr lal.
Too bundles du.s lea.. white and yeHo" .
TIn foI.. 10 .leta. and haaNs5
TH.t' II .I tlp usa., celHf-.
4......... mad f..t..r...stf
The Texas Republican. [volume] (Marshall, Tex.) 1849-1869, 1858-05-08
Hats and Caps.

1IUtS 0uU VUpS'
Nolcskln bats, latest stilc
Ca,s.ncre aud wool hats,
Beaver bats,
Cloth, Plush and Glazed caps,
Velvet and l'elerschaue caps,
The Texas Republican. [volume] (Marshall, Tex.) 1849-1869, 1858-05-08

1 IL. PERSONS owning lot, or lots n tnc Mar
.. \ shall Cemetery, will please give the IN
dersenod their number or numbers, aud the
evidence of their lot OF lots being paid for im-
ncdiatply. The object of .ih- notice is to
ualr a new aud correct niaii With tle owiierH
names thereon and for the general COED ct
those Interested 10 the premacs, a. well also
10 collect what money is due and OWN, toi tie
lots a'.,ltd> sold, and Tor preventing amy cont
fri Of Titles IN the sale of lots. Those neg
Letting TO give their attention 60 tsls notice and
request, may find lhor lots Sold and pad iur by
subsequent purchasers, via b would adj em.
harmsemeni, diltuliy, amt confusion, To uiat
which has largely accumulated already Per
SOUS owing Tot lots vii please pay Ter iheni.
'rhosc desiring TO purchase permanent home
will apply to 20 the Sexton, Gentgn W. NAiu-,
Esg, o. The undersigned.
JOHN r. WILLIAMS.
Sc. Bosfd trustee NpslaH Cemeh-t
March go bS -9-u
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luSr received from tinc mat, laeuiy
- Cooking Stoves dii,fent si1es md pal
scrns, iof sale cheaper than any heretofore
offered Ia this market.
!. A. VAN HOOK.
May .. 81 no SO II
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IeWu made Furniture.
Planters Hotel,

Northeast Corner Of The Public Nfa"'''
Marshall. Teas.
O.. THE undersigned having recently
kti.i become proprietor of this Hotel r.
-I-aA specially informs his friends and ll'
public gcnorally, that he j. prepared to areen.'
modaie all who may favor him with Their IAF
ronage. The house has been thoroughly fh'
oysled, and a large portion Of the firnaa's
been newly furnished, lis table viii be
well supplied Is that Of any house IN Faster"
Texas, and bis charges moderate.
The terms viii be as follows:
Board per day, s -
month, with lodging, isv
without low
The stage office for al Of the stage h .a.
running 20 and from Marshall, are kept st NV
house.
JAMES LEE, Propriefor.
Apil 10, lSJS. "
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SELECTED ppctrn


III nnsst q. Tpe1ERn4g
GIVE lac tie boon Of lose
! AZ no more f,r f4mc
Nor better one eepua,assed heart
Than glory prouda-' u'me
Nhy wake lenor ia tsc blood
or damp ihy spirit nov,
To aan a wf.at, whose lease, saa'i "''r
Above silhefed broN
f.ise nie the boon Of love
Ambition, necd !, SainF
bearer affections earnest aHlr
'rhan honor's riti'e>l iraia
~ rather leaa upon g breast
Gcsyonsise 81 my own
Than III la,iioa'd gorgcou
rpona kingly THRONE.
Like The ChsldeaH aef
ramoa worllplar siou
pc brilliant ofhs lh1 scatter lis4t
Ger Heavens a1ure aoof
But, Ia their very h,af. cashtiasd
The y,tat,e- Of howe
Kc.no'er t,o hot. 3 ..no. WHICH oaca
Jllnuel tie e5un Alute
nv
From ori the halls 81 death
A loving cs. beeuib me- more
Than fumes onbalond seal
And one swec, note af lrnd,rn.
Tbst tf.nmpl'4 4. i,Isst pal
~ y. ~ va ''g" ~
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II. =. uzuas, 4. VI. president,

s ~ n 2 ~ Y ~ fUI 'I-1Ielrll
4 tsafs aal I.aca,rs.
The Texas Republican. [volume] (Marshall, Tex.) 1849-1869, 1858-05-08

Ia, h,ml--llc hear, OH! itilhe
a true and bounlcuu- thing
IA kindly wara, AZ nobIy free,
As caglc's nesting wing,
Oh keep It not, Ike mi-era gold,
Hhut in ifem ~ beside;
But let It's precious stores untold,
Ia mercy, far and wide.
The h,al--lhc heart, hata tru.y hlclt,
Remover all It's own
No ra} Of glory lights Tho breast
That beat Tor self alone.
The Heart the heart! oh ! let 1t spare
\ sigh for others pan,
The breath tn, aoothcs brothers care
J. never spent IN vain.
And Thought it ihr6b at genllcst touch
Ga sorrow l4ulesl call,
'lwere better il should ache too much,
Than nt,er ache % alb.
The henl---Ile heart that's irly bles,,
Is never al is own;
No my Of glory lights thr breast
That beats for self alone
s,,,,,r an, cor,,s =, e.. r,.,c,,
e.,' 80,
i,y the way -ids lrt them fall,
Tha, the rose may spring by the cottage rate,
And the vine on the garden wall
Cover tie rough and rude Of earth
With n veil of lca,cs an1Towef.,
And mark with the opening bud and cup
The march Of summer hours.
s..u., n.a a. - u.t.,e,
In their loyrise,t lu,tre come.
The Texas Republican. [volume] (Marshall, Tex.) 1849-1869, 1858-05-08

hUNCAN& LOGAN, lsucces-or- to Raw.
- las DUNCAN y Coz Coou iaaf9rs ag3
Comm ion NtrctmRs, % tarondcict street,
New Orleans
Jan -. 81 ~
%, w. rAHlErpN J.. WuuiSa. ~ q. TrlfIs.
T'ABLETON, WHITING q TUl l.lS, Got
l Pea !actors and GtafrM COMMISSION
Nsrh4Hisi No IL taronaole. street, New Or
le.ns aplA-,y
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leather and Findings store.

''''f' s.''Es n = .7F"'''
| M9lltlR, imJWfr, no Charities street,
IL between Cont and NJ Louis streets.
Frcaeh aad Gcfnan Patent loaihers, Calf
Skins, Morocco Kid, Innings and Fancy Boot
legs Also Lasting and Satin Francois, Boot
Wabhs and Galloona, Boot larigFs, Twist
ailsg aoe thread, hst ald shoemaker TOOLS
o. a large siaea Of every grtglo ia the
Wanuiac lugHa line. apis
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1858-09-16

SPANISH AND MEXICAN COMA num-
Der of Storekeepers through the country re-
ceive the old Spanish and Mexican 25, l23
and ct cent peices at the old rates, while a
majority, decline receiving them for more
than 20, II nd cents. 1t is altogether
wrong to r. re the coin at the old rates,
as the law lA., ! by Congress some few years
ago in reference to the current value. of for
eigu coin, fixed the value Of the old quarter
of a dollar at 20 cents, the shilling, nine
pence, lccy or ut, as the piece has been vari-
ously called throughout the States, at 10
cents and the tourpenny bn sirpence, ftp or
picayuae, at 5 cents, and they will not be
received in payment of any debts due the
government for more than these rates.
In the large cities they are only received
at the fixed rates and consequently there are
large number of persons paying their coun-
try bills, and are thereby circulating this
deprecated currency through the country
and making from lS to 90 cents on the dol
lar off their bargains, by speculatiug in old
Spanish and other foreign coin. Somebody
is bound to lose by them, and it is as we'll to
refuse them now as hereafter, when they
may thro' the operations of spectators be-
oome more plentiful throughout the country
towns.-Psterson's CoHntertst Detector.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1858-09-16

A New Workers. VISIT TO YEsUvIUs.
"A New York merchant, now travelling in
Italy, makes, in letter to friend, the fol-
lowing mention of the late eruption of We
suvius:
i have been here at good time to see Ve-
suVius. For some days last week there had
been more or less of an eruption. The as
cent of the mountain is partly made on horse.
back, but the cone to the crater is very steep
and difficult found it extremely fat 'guing,
but perevered, and finally stood on the very
top, looking directly into the crater; and of
allawful, horrible places, this caps the climax.
I walked over the top, the fumes of the sui
phur nearly suffocating me, and the blazing
fire everywhere to be seen through the crev.
ices, while the roar of the boiling lava fell
upon the ear like the waves of the ocean
In fact, stood upon mere crust over the
fire, and thrusting my stick through the oc.
casioual assures, brought it out in blaze.
There was more danger than | was aware OF
at the time-so much so that nothing would
tempt me to undertake it again. The de-
scent on the opposite side of the mountain
is made with comparative ease. When aye
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1858-09-16
LOTTERIES.

It is strange thing that men will buy
Lottery tickets. We have before US the
scheme of the celebrated Havana Lottery.
There are twenty-five thousand tickets at
$40 each, making s50O,00O. Then if man
were to buy all the tickets and draw all the
prizes, he would loose just 100000; that
is, he would pay the lottery man just that
much for the fun of the game: and that is the
principle of the whole ofthem.
Now, the doctrine of chances is just as
certain as any thing else. That is, if one
man should buy tickets in that lottery until
he had spent 100000 dollars, be would loose
just 100000. He might draw 100000
the first time; but he would in the end come
out the loser just two-6fths of all the money
he put in. The misfortune is, that not hav-
ing the money to keep it up, he is liable to
lose all his money before he draws anything
and perhaps still greater misfortune is, that
if in the early part of his career he draws
the prize, he will come to the conclusion
that he is lucky man, and will not only
spend what he has drawn, but all that he
can get for the balance of his life.
1t is on account of the certainty of the
operation of the doctrine of chances, that
they are able to draw these lotteries so of,
ten. Swan or Don Rodriguez advertises o
lottery to be drawn in a month. There is
one prize of fifty, sixty or a hundred thous
and dollars, and others of a smaller size. II
YOU will examine the number of tickets to
be sold and the amount of the prizes, you
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SINGULAR COUPLE.

Along with my brother, who was collect
ing matter for a work he was about to pub.
lish, I visited the interesting town of Hex.
Misunderstanding at least to him, for it was
fine field for historical research: although,
for my own part, found little besides its
ancient church. The circumstances which
more than anything else, obtained the diugy
town lasting place in my memory, was our
taking lodging With an extraordinary pair,
an old man and woman-husband and wife
who lived by themselves, without child. or
servant, subsisting on the letting of their
parlor and two bedrooms. They were tall,
thin and erect, though each seventy years of
age. When we knocked at the door for 3D..
mittauce, they answered it together. If We
rang the bell, the husband and wife invaria
bly, appeared side by side; all our requests
and demands we're received by both, and ex-
ecuted with the utmost nicely and exactness
The first night, arriving late by the coach
from Newcastle, and merely requiring a good
fire and our tea, we were puzzled to under
stand the reason of this double attendance !;
and I remember nay brother, rather irreVer-
emily, wondering whether we "were always
to be waited upon by these Siamese twins. I"
On ringing the bell, to retire FOR the night,
both appeared as usual; the wife carrying
the bedroom candlestick, and the husband
standing at the door. l gave her some di.
rections about breakfast for the following
morning, when the husband from the door
quickly answered for her.
Depend upon it, she is dumb, whispered
my brother. But this was not the case,
though she rarely made use of the faculty
of speech.
They both attended me into my bedroom
when the old lady, seeing me look with some
surprise toward her husband, said
There's no offence meant, ma am, by my
husband coming with me into the chamber
he's stone blind
Poor man + I exclaimed But why, then,
does be not sit still Why does he accom-
paly you everywhere p
Its no use, ma'am, your speaking to my
old woman,' said the husband ; 'she can't
hear you-she's quite deaf
was astonished. Here was compensa-
ton ! Could a pair be better matched p
Man and wife were, indeed, one flesh; for
he saw with her eyes, and she heard with his
ears! 1t was beautiful to me ever after to
watch the old man aud woman in their in
separableness. Their sympathy with each
other was as swift as electricity, and made
their deprivation as paught. .
I have often thought of that old man and
woman, and oanno, but hope, that, as in life
they were ipseparable aud indispensable TO
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will find if the tickets are all sold the prizes
do not amount to more than about three
. .6fths, of the money. But the tickets are
never:sold, yet the drawing goes on. Then
how are the prizes to be raid?. Why, out
of your money of course. Take the scheme
which is now before US There are twenty
five thousand tickets at twenty dollars each:
this makes $500, 900: the prizes amount to
three hundred thousand dollars Now, sup
pose half the tickets are sold-that is 25O,-
600 dollars but the whole 100000 is to be
drawn. Well, you have half the tickets, the
lottery man has the other half. His half Of
the tickets will draw one half of the prizes:
yours will draw the other half. But you
have put in s25O,000 he has put in moth
ing. You draw $50, 900, and so does he
He pays you and has 1000 dollars which
he drew.
Now, whether. he sells the whole Of the
tickets or half, fourth or tenth Of them,
is matter of very little consequence to him.
He is Just as certain Of two.6fths Of all the
money he receives as if you were just to
hand him 10 dollars and tell him to give you
back 6 of it and keep the other four.
. It is this which makes lotteries as at pres.
ent conducted so fatal If they could not
draw until all the tickets were sold, it would
be long time between them: but they can
draw every month, and they can make big
prizes just as we'll as little ones.
There is only one thing to be guarded
against We have said that his half of the
tickets will draw half the prizes. If you
could have access to the books Of these lot
terry men, you would find that in q series of
drawings be has drawn prizes, both In num-
Der and amount precisely In proportion to his
uusold tickets: but just for one lottery it may
happen that the large prize may fall on your
side. Then if he has no funds on hand he
must be careful not to draw until he has
sold tickets enough to pay the large prize
Columbus Corner Stone.
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THE PRESS.

It is notable fact that the duties and SER
vices of the Press seems to be but little uu-
derstood. Its powers, we admit, are certain
ly great, but the term, Free Press is deci-
dedly mistake, as it is construed in lib
eral sense A large majority appear to think
that the press is under no restraint and can
be used altogether at the will and pleasure
Of Its conductor. Hence appeals, very
strange appeals, are constantly made by per.
sors, (to do this or that,) who we suppose
are laboriug under conviction that the con-
ductor can do and say what he pleases. In
many instances we have been requested to
take up this subject or publish this commu.
nication ia behalf of justice-that We ought
to speak out our minds fully and plainly
shoot folly as it fies-reAect severely upon
certain persons and their actions. This, We
are disposed to argue, pre-supposes power
on the part Of the press, not merely extra.
judicial, but above that of the courts of the
land. What court of justice dare to pass
sentence upon the conduct and actions Of a
citizen or citizens of a community without
the proper evidence as to the matter under
inquiry. The Editor Of newspaper how
ever an important character, is expected to
take one-sided statements of parties, abuse,
ceusure; hold up others to public view just
as be would piece of glass to the sun. II
such a thing was allowable, if it was permit.
ted, Press.la,c would be more baneful and
detestable than lynch-law-more despotic
than the Car of Russia. We have thought,
when persons have requested of US to do So
and so, that they never reflected for a mo.
ment of the proposition, or of its retaliatory
effects. For instance, rice oersa. Let i,
be turned upon themselves, and they would
then have lesson, or at least be taught one
they would never forget.
We have received letters from persons
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THOSE AFRICANS.

The Washington Star makes the follow,
ing comments on an article in the New York
Herald:
The South knows the law with reference
to African negroes, captured under such cir
cumstances, and the courts of the South Car
olna will take due care that no obstacle to
its enforcement shall be permitted to triumph
there, if any respectable or numerous portion
of the population were disposed to nullify it
which we do not believe The Attorney
General of the State has already given an
opinion that, under the circumstances under
which they came into the waters of that
State, they are wholly exempted from the
provisions of the South Carolina laws with
referance to free negroes. Or, in other
words, that they are not to be sold by
the sheriff to the highest bidder, as was
at once suggested at the North. by some
journal or other, anxious for another negro
question muss, for political effect Of course.
The law providing for their return TO the
land from whence they came, is, so far as
their interests are concerned, an unfortunate
one. That is to say, purely rphilanthropy's
sake, it consigns them to the tender mercies
of some King of Dahomey,' or other slave
trading chief of Africa, the United States
to be the jailor to land them on the coast of
Africa. where they will probably be taken
possession of in the end by the strongest,
ready at hand to seize on them.
we can perceive no possible loop-hole by
which the General Government can escape
from the duty of carrying out the law in this
particular Could our will regulate the pro-
ceedings in the case, we should send the cap
tain of the slave ship, now in Boston, for
trial to- Charleston, where salt would not
save him from the utmost penalties-for
South Carolina courts and juries do their du-
ty, as that is not done by any New England
courts and juries; and we would send the
uegros to Boston, where all are continually
crying aloud, sLo, the poor African! We
would thus teach New England a practical
lesson concerning the status of the race at
home-in Africa-from which many would
of necessity draw lessons Of wisdom with re-
ference to the comparative condition of the
negro slave in our own South, and the negro
freeman at home in Africa, which would, in
turn, put an end to much of the abolition
political capital of the times. For the fu-
ture peace of our own land the best thing
that could possibly be done with the Echo's
cargo, wouldbe to quarter them in gangs of
twenty, for the next year, in the midst Of
the most populous communities Of New En-
gland, where Aboltionism fourishes most
intensely. The disease requires precisely
such remedy--if aught conceivable can
cure it,
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pEKIN AS SEEN BY AN AMERICAN.

PEKIN AS SEEN Is Y AN Am6hlCAN'
A correspondent of the Philadelphia Eu'
quirer was at Pekiu, the capital of China, a
short time ago, and what he saw of it, and
how it impressed him, he-thus describes:
On arriving at the capital of the Chinese
Empire, We find city containing about two
millions of inhabitants. Such is the estl.
mate, but doubtless the calculation is made
in the usual spirit Of Eastern exaggeration.
Be that as it may, the walls are fourteen
miles in circumference, twenty-eight feet
high. twenty four feet thick at the base, and
twelve at the top. There are spacious towers
all around, at seventy feet distance from
each other, and at the gates are barracks for
the soldiers, nine stories in height. The
metropolis is divided into two parts, one in
habited by the Tartars, and the other by the
Chinese. In each thereisa street four miles
long and one hundred and twenty feet wide,
and the Emperor's. palaces and gardens oc.
cupy two thirds of the Tartar city. And all
this besides the suburbs, which are nearlyas
populous as the city proper.
Pekin is strangely located as national
capital, it being in northern corner (lati-
tude forty degrees,) and only sixty miles
south of the famous Chinese wall, and there
fore much exposed to northern and hostile
neighbors. Yet its Notifications are strong,
and until the vast machinery of modern ar
tillery was invented, the brother Of the sun
and moon was perfectly secure in his paa.
tial halls-the walls, bastiens and towers
being impregnable in ancient times. If
bravely manned and defended, the Oriental
potentate, robed in imperial purple, might
have exclaimed with Macbeth, "Our castle
strength will laugh the siegeto scorn." AL
though the country about Pekin is sandy
and unproductive, yet provisions abound,
being brought by canals from all the great
rivers, and also with its commerce-the mer-
chants being paid in money, as the capital is
the chief recipient of the revenues of all
China. 1t has ever been regarded as very
exclusive place, the presence of no foreigner
being permitted within its walls. But now,
the outside barbarians are in a fair way of
Overlapping the sacred boundaries. And it
is probable that this act, together with the
opening of Japan, may prove an important
step towards the inauguration of Christiani-
'y among the millions who are now benight-
ed in the worse than Cimmerian darkness
of Pagan idolatry and superstition.