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Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1861-04-10

Az Enron sn.-l'r Crockett lr'atr,
comes to us t rs.h HtH iu rlanns
clothed in mou .ag Jr he dyr' its
Editor, OSCAR DALroN, who eNp!r he
night Of the 18th ult, after liiSt ing ill
ness of nearly years standing. Mr.. pal-
tou was ono of the sPicicst writers in Tex
rs, and ns nm editor had become universally
known throughout the State, for his ready
and happy wit, lie was born in Baton
Rouge, Lou, February -, 1920 came to
Texas ne n volunteer in the Army in 1887,
and finally removed to Crockett in 1910,
where he has ever since resided. lie start
ell the Printer in 1868, aud by his untiring
eIcrtions aud tact has made 1t one Of the
mos, readable papers in Texas. lie leaves
n wife and nine children.
His remains were borne to the grave by
his brethren of the order Of Odd Fellows,
followed by large concoursc OF mourning
ncighbors nnd friends.
Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1861-04-10
Special n utitG9,

nS'Aurniion l. invited To- the aiyer,l,rmruro f IT,
J, u, EanEiu's Ca'shngr southern Family N7liciu.-
Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1861-04-10

..E.n. Ugh water anl the stop
Oh. ror several trips, We are
r...r. y very late tclcgrapbie
~,s The streams have
...r ..'s ish, in consequence of
.l... .r ...r M mail from nclknap
r.H ... ,r.l c from Austin IN the last
.. .. r.r. ..I. We will 10 better next
..... ~ lcr and lhe roads per-
Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1861-04-10
Beauties of n Coffee Plantation.

DR.. K. W. Gibbcs, of Columbia, ). c., has
written book of his travels in Cuba, in n
style, the most captivating, easy and famil-
lar. His description of the scenery in that
Isle of Beauty e fascinating IA 'ue eE-
.rcme. lie describes \ Cohee Plantation,
and rnu.es us with him into ihc midst of
Is tropical beauty he says;
az coffee plantation is one Of the most
beautiful gardens that can well he con3eiv-
ed of in It's variety and b"o"', battling
correct description aeu!g one Of those Pc
cular c.u,acte"istics of low attitudes
which must he seen 70 br understood An
estate devoted to this purpose usually COW
ers some lhrcc hundred acres of land,
planted in regular squares Of eight acres.
and intersac.ed by broad alleys Of palms
mangoes, oranges, and other ornamental
and beautiful tropical trees. Mingled with
these are planted lemons, pomcgranatcs,
capejcssamines, and species of wild hello
trope, fragrant as the morning. Conceive
of this beautiful arrangement, and then of
the whole when in flower; the coffee, with
its milk white blossoms, so abundant that
it seems as though pure white cloud of
snow had fallen there and left the rest OF
the vegetation fresh and green. Inter
sperscd in these fragrant alleys is the red
of the Mexican rose, the Towering pomc-
granatc, and the large, gaudy flower Of the
pcona, shrouding its parent stem in cloak
of scarlet, with wayngs here and there Of
the graceful yellow flag a d many hewitch-
ingly fragrant wild flowers, twining their
tender stems about the base of these. In
short a coffee plantation is Il perfect floral
FL Dorado, with every luxury [exccpt ice]
the heart could wish.
The METHODIST CHURCH IN TEASING
have hcen kindly favored, says the Houston
Telegraph, by 5. W. Shipman, the publish
ing agent, with copy of the published min
utcs of the General Conference Of the Metho-
dist Episcopal Church South, Of the Western
Distr ct of Texas. 1t is full of interesting
details of business and shows the Church in
the most tiourishing condition. This Confc-
renee embraces about onc-half the popula-
ton of Texas. Its statistics are rs follows {:
Number of white members, ............lS,2 4S
do do on probation, -.......... $50
Number of colorcd members, ............ $3.50
do do on probation, ............ 1873
Total church connection, ..............25, 30
Number of local preachers, .-............ 100
Value of buildings, .........,........,,SllG 1850
The church property in Houston is valued
at $4,000, of which the parsonage is rec
konrd at $500 The total value of all tina
parsonages in the Conference, is SS,6IO.-
The entire membership of the church in this
State, is not far from 10000
Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1861-04-10

tse- Gsn, Houston is generally believed
TO be crazy, lie sIillinagines himself the
Governor Of Texas aud amuses himself with
indiling harmless messages to the Legisla-
ture. He might as we'll sing psalms to a
dead hOrsei the legislature will remain
Obslinalely lsafiO his sntrea,ise, The old
man has made his ewn bed,--let him re-
pose on il, whether I, he sofi or hard.
Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1861-04-10
TlY AUV ~
LOAN FOR THE Di ..." ,..
FFDEai ..

g7fEE MILLIONS ui
sgfm'u, will hc ui'j
April ensuing, and every
fndrratr States will have
share of the benefit, and
the cause of his country.
Bonds with Coupons y
SluOn lu so, and where
cafes in The II unl form n
nj EIGHT PER ENr. per
mou,lr,nt all orr princ.l
The debt hi- he very
ri.y ola duly of un "iEl
about o. cents per bale d
duty. under all rirrum t.
the pnr:naI payment g:
sinking ljml for tllr red.
The Coupons when dur a
the iu.y ON cotton, and
coin, everywhere in lhS'
all portions ufour p"oI1
iuvc. morf, and to eNhit
raising funds Tor the con
opened a. tn" c,iics and |
nor cent must BE- ulid in
ton. and the remainder
trrrst to run from llI"Iia-
DESTROYS to secure Their
cash the whole amount t.
livery Of bonds or stock.
srription at all points, n;
vruirn ~ To sub crihr,
place will be- received nj
In ease rfHn UN"r-Suh
given G.,, 90 ,lusu who
srriutiOn; next to subs,
scribers of SlUO.
G. G. ME Il VI
Nn.TlnNttuN Niuryb y
Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1861-04-10
rs of the Herald.
V1r. pN.r1ns

Iu,sl all who are in'lehl-
come hrwarl AMI make
order IN enable ~ 4"
nis, which are new com-
II nrcl al money now,
: IN debt for onr new of
4 to make this appeal and
ate payment al all ac-
ever small,
Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1861-04-10
JSwS LIsw.

c tolD and Silver Watches, Pencils. Pens
~ Sc, just received and for sale by
April lot \. RHINE.
Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1861-04-10

TnE MoRRlLL TARlFF.-Ths Tariff act Of
the late 4. :. Congress, called the Morrill,
TarlH, is received very unfa'orably IN
England, being looked upon there as
laulamouui to a prohibition Of hHs''A
goods, .
The massage Of this act, in the midst OF
the Secession Of the States, e'inees an after
disregard anl recklsssness on the part OF
the nlI OuvernmenI, that are tru'v aston
i,hing. While the government has iotIer-
ing to ruin aud erumbling around their
heads, they were serambling fur high
protective tariff, instead Of trying To save
the government, Northern Manufactures
must he protected aRd Northern Interest
receive the benefits Of legislatioa to lhe
exclusion Of everything else and instead
"f saving The eounsry, they went To work
h'r seclinn, thai could not live without
the fostering care VI patronage, The Wig
"runs SnuIt AMI her interests len Ia them
solves, ionk thelr Affairs IN y 'r wnhands,
anu SETH question. H. own sat
isis lion.
The Mo.nH tt.." l,'T',r ' England
which she No rr.. - hH ..'" mt hra-
yndn ron. i.. nG...wm.ni, while
the South I'D .sr. n.. ,wH tent for
an active or ri.1lg Ing'reourse
without the r.. of sop iibirOry
Tariff. fur .ar huu'.' cs thus
Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1861-04-10

BAN . D.
March Goth ISL
Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1861-04-10
NEW NOV

EV.lE undersigned T.
Z heir old stand, f.n
Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1861-04-10

The church property in Houston is valued
at $4,000, of which the parsonage is rec
konrd at $500 The total value of all tina
parsonages in the Conference, is SS,61O.-
The entire membership of the church in this
State, is not far from 10000
Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1861-04-10
ESRSSO .EsEa1

April 3, lSGl-26:
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1857-1865, 1861-11-22
rs- Thuriow Weed says that Lincoln

E5- ThurIow Weed says that LINCOLN
expresses deep regret that he did not urge
his friends in Congress to adopt the Crit
tenden Compromise. We labored, to the
extent of our ability, for the adoption Of
that measure as a means of averting the
troubles now cursing the country, but fa-
Daticism proved too strong for justice; the
compromise was oontemptuously rejected,
and this war is the consequence. But as
earnestly as we labt red for the Compromise
and the Union, we are glad that the first
failed, and the last is severed forever. We
have lived, for years, as one nation, with a
people who are .now displaying all the
characteristics of the brutal savage-dis-
carding all the obligations of humanity
in war, as readily as they disregarded the
Constitution and the rights of the outh,
in peace. Their professions of piety are
but the cloak of hypocricy; their views of
liberty extend not beyond the privilege of
making money without regard to the
means, and all their motives of action are
the offspring Of avarice and fanaticism.-
With such people, the South have no
spmpathies and no controlling interests,
and had the compromise been adopted, it
would have been but hollow truce-post-
poning, but not avertihg, the separation
which is as eternal as time. Well may
Lincoln regret his own and the folly of the
North in violating the Constitution and
trampling upon the rights of the South, be-
cause that folly must result in the ruin of
those who perpetrated it; and the ruin is
rendered the more irreparable by the addi-
tional folly of continuing war that can
serve no other purpose than to erect be-
tween the North and the South an impass-
able barrier of mutual hate. The wider
the separation, the better for the South,
and as if to accomplish this to the fullest
extent, the North is giving to the war a
character of savage brutality and wanton
insult calculated to arouse and perpetuate
all the bitterness thatwrong can engender.
But the shame and the punishment of such
policy must fall upon those who inaugu-
rated it; and whilst the South can not fail
to suffer in its material interests, its honor
and liberty will survive the contest, and its
future be the brighter for its eternal sepa-
ration froma people debased by avarce and
maddened by fanaticism.
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1857-1865, 1861-11-22

seR- The dispatches from Memphis re-
present the people of lower Missouri to be
in a state Of alarm, and some Of them as
moving across into Kentucky to escape
from the enemy. Information from that
quarter is not full enough to enable us to
form an estimate of the extent of the dan
ger, but it is sufficient to get up feverish
excitement, and TO stimulate enquiries as
to how the apprehended danger may be
averted. The movements and strength of
the Confederate forces, in Missouri, are in
volved in mystery-or rather the outside
public knows nothing Of them, and can
only await results as the solution of doubts
and conjectures. IF it be true-as is re-
ported-that the Yankee forces in Nilsson.
ri are to be sent down the Mississippi it
may be that they will endeavor to reach
that river below Columbus, and await the
passage of the transports, by our batteries,
that are to take them lower down the river.
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1857-1865, 1861-11-22

psAu. The announcement that Mason and
Slidell were captured, on board British
mail steamer, by the Yankee war vessel,
San Jacinto, is undoubtedly true. As
much as we regret the occurrence, on their
account, in a national point of view, it
may be followed by beneficial results
Our Commissioners sailed from neutral
port, on neutral vessel, and at the time of
their capture, were far beyond Yankee ju-
risdiction. They were surrendered under
protest, and, of course, the transaction
will be laid before the British Government
whose jealousy of the honor of lis flag, in
times past, authorizes the belief that twill
not submit, quietly, to its violation on this
occasion. Should the insult, however, be
submitted to, the effect will be to teach the
South that the anti-slavery ianaticism of
England controls the action of its gov
eminent, and that we have nothing to ex-
pect in the shape of sympathy or material
aid, and that any Intervention from that
quarter, will be dictated by the stcrncst
necessity. We have never looked for the
sympathy of any power in Europe, and
have ever been solicitous that the people
Of the South should indulge no expecta.
tons based upon that hypothesis. We
have to fight our own battles, and work out
our national salvation with brawny arm,
and brave hearts, and it is best that il
should be so, that the world may know oul
power, and that we may enter upon oul
national career free from any debt of graft
tude, and unencumbcrcd by treaties baset
upon considerations Of material aid in the
hour of peril, We repeat that, if Eng
land submit to this insult to her flag, hos
tility to the South will be the reason, and
that we must make up our minds to TAKE
care Of ourselves.
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1857-1865, 1861-11-22
Official Dispatch of the Federal
Commander at Belmont.

/ The st. Louis Republican gives the following as
the official report of General Grant announcing the
result Of the fight at Belmont
CAIRO, Nov. Z.
To Capt. O. AeKeever, ST. LOuiS
We met the rebels about o'clock this morning,
two and a half miles from Belmont. We drove
them step by step into their camp and across the
river.
We burnt their tents and started on our return
with all their artillery; for want of transportation
had to leave four pieces in the woods
The rebels re-crossed the river and followed IN
our rear to our place Of debarkation.
The loss is heavy ON both sides
u. 5. GRANT Bug. Gen.
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1857-1865, 1861-11-22

ReA- We publish, to-day, the Governors
calling out the Militia of the
State to the number of thirty thousand
This step has been taken none too soon,
and, we hope, not too late. The difficulty
of getting volunteers has rendered this
measure absolutely necessary, and having
been resolved upon, let it be carried out
promptly. Thirty thousand men, now,
may do more good than fifty thousand
next spring, and it is of the utmost impor-
lance that much decisive work should be
done before winter closes the campaign.-
Then let the Militia be brought promptly
into action, and every effort be made to
strike a blow, at once, that will tell upon
the duration of the war.
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1857-1865, 1861-11-22
M. Tho St. Lonis Renublican gives

no. The St. Louis Republican gives a
statement of the Federal troops destined to
act against Columbus in the late fight
From. this appears that ten Regiments
marched from Cairo on the Missouri side,
and six Regiments left Paducah to take
Columbus in the rear Why this last body
I'D not make its appearance, we have new
er learned, but the statement shows not
only that there was to have been combn-
ed attack, but that the force of the enemy,
actually engaged, consisted of ten Regi-
mcnts, And although the Regiments are
given by numbers, States, and Colonies, af-
ter their defeat, it is grayely asserted by
the ~enemy, that their whole force was
thirty five hundred, This sort of false
hood is the fuel relied upon to keep alive
the flame Of ianatiaism, and bolster up
hopes Of success tina, would soon be dissi-
pated by the light of truth.
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1857-1865, 1861-11-22

EG~ As if despairing of a ro-construc-
ton of the Union, the Hcssians have adop-
ted the policy of lay ing waste the country
wherever their boats can find access to pro
pcrty that is destructiblo. Stealing ne
gres, at which they hayeloug been adopts,
burning houses, aud Insulting women, are
pursuits perfectly cougcnial to their dast-
ardly natures, aud in these savage proceed
ings they are unchecked by their comman
dors, Against such cruelty, all can not be
secure but if the people of the South
will resolve to put forth their whole
strength the tables may soon be turned
and retaliation, full and terrible, will teach
the yandals that they have naugurated a
policy, the fruits Of which will be their
own severe and nerited suGerings. Let
the robust young men whose fears or indo-
lence withhold them from the army, aud
the sharperS who make money their God,
be forced 10 take up arms-let every man
who can serve his country go to work with
,,5I g., - l,c,t,., .pl a., IN
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1857-1865, 1861-11-22

A New MovEMENT.-From the officers Of the
packets we learn that all the large steamers laid up
at Louisville have been chartered by the govern
ment and ordered to hold themselves in readnes
for trip down the river. A formidable movement
is on foot, but where, the troops that are to be
placed on these boats bound, is matter of con-
lecture. The speculatious of our military critics
at the telegraph Office are not made public, lest
their sagacty should have discovered the real in
tent of the expedition, and should thus be gull
ty of publishing govel nment secretsl Let las hope
that wherever troops go they will hereafter be
in sufficient force to achieve victory. EVdHsvAe
Ida) Journal 1914.
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1857-1865, 1861-11-22

ssy- The Bowling Green correspondent
of the Union and American says "the
smallpox, of virulent type, and black
"measles, are raging at fearful rate among
'the Federals at Muldrough's Hill, many
"of whom are dying daily" The. coward
ly .rascals may have adopted these diseases
as means of defense-knowing that de-
cent men all have a great aversion to APP
preaching such filthy set.
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1857-1865, 1861-11-22
roy The Hessians, il seems. had a fore,

Bay The Hessians, it seems, had force
of some three hundred at Guyandotte,
which force was completely routed by a
body of cavalry, and driven out of town.
After the rebels retired from the town,
a reinforcement of Hessians entered, and
upon the plea that they had been whipped
through the treachcry of the citizens set
it on fire and reduced it to ashes. Well,
may be the tables will be turned after
awhile.
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1857-1865, 1861-11-22
sssy- Gen. Grant, the Hessian comman

ser Gen. Grant the Hessian commhn-
der at Cairo, in his official report of the
battle of Belmont, near Columbus, with
all the cool assurance Of practiced liar,
says he met the enemy and drove them,
step by step, across the river, burnt all
their tents, and started back with all their
artillery, four pieces of which they had to
leave behind for want of transportation
and that the rebels recrossed the river and
followed in hisrear to the boats. Such a
slurring over of most disastrous defeat
never disgraced any commander in Chris
tendon, and yet the poor fools whom he
intends to gull, will swallow the falsehood
with unquestioning credulity.
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1857-1865, 1861-11-22
From the Army ofthe Kanawha.

The Norfolk Day Book of the l4th inst, pub
fishes the following extract of letter received in
that city,
raleigh c. H., Nov. Al have just returned
from another scout which proved successful 10 US
We kilsd several of the enemy, and took Is pfiss
oners with many valuable horses. We visited sew
eral Union houses during the scout, and | laid in
a large stock of bed quilts, wooden counterpanes
blankets and other necessary articles, will not
suffer for bed clothing during the winter | think
our whole force will he in Charleston in week or
two | understand that General Floyd killed and
captured about 900 Yankees on yesterday
pretty good haul for this late in the season.
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1857-1865, 1861-11-22

ARRIVAL or An ENGLISH STEAMER.-Intormaiion
rs we learn, was received yesterday by the Gov
eminent Of the arrival of an English steamer
Her cargo consists Of blankets army stores -sutli-
cient for four brigades-tweuty-eigh thousand
stand OF arms saddles, ten ried cannon, medicines,
&c. She cost f3S,o0o in England, and is regarded
as vessel OF unsurpassed speed. Her commander,
j, d. Bullock, formerly of the United States Navy,
lately run steamer between New Orleans and New
York. His present vessel mounts one large swivel
gun omidships The cargo of this vessel, if her
arrival Is correctly reported Is specially valuable at
this time.-Rich. Dispatch l4th.
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1857-1865, 1861-11-22

RD- We give up much of our space, to-
day, to an article on the manufacture of
saltpetre. The subject is one of great i'm
portance to the whole South, and is being
published for the general good. We,thcre-
fore, offer no apology for giving it so
much of our space.
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1857-1865, 1861-11-22

eey- Much has been said about the diff
fculty Of existing volunteers to make up
the Reserve Corps, aud whilst we concur
heartily in the censure bestowed upon that
class OF men whose want Of patriotism, or
courage, or energy makes them hold back
from serving their country, We can not
blame another class who will not volunteer
because the Government affords their fam
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1857-1865, 1861-11-22

peA-Some activity seems to be displayed
in East Tennessee, towards the capture of
disloyal citizens, but if no examples are to
be made, under mistaken notion of leni-
ency, the evil will be increased rather than
diminished
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1857-1865, 1861-11-22
MS. The St. Louis Democrat, of the

MS, The st. Louis Democrat, of the
12th inst, assumes that England will not
interfere with the blockade, and thereupon
predicates the triumphant exclamation -
''Thc last hope of the rebels broken. -
The Democrat knows little of the resour-
ccs and invincible resolution of the South,
if he thinks it builds its. hopes upon for
eign interference. SO far from looking to
such aid for successful termination of the
war, the ablest statesmen prefer that the
South shall, unaided, achieve its independ-
ence, and thus give proof to the world of
its strength as a nation, and, at the same
avoid any real or fancicd obligation that
might be imposed by the interference of
any foreign power, Humanity calls for an
early cessation of hostiities, and much of
human suffering might be avoided by such
interference, but the true policy of the
South is to fight it out single-handed.
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1857-1865, 1861-11-22

s@- We publish, to-day, Southern ac-
count of the Pikesville affair, from which
it will be seen that, instead of four humid
red killed and one thousand prisoners, re-
ported as our loss, the Yankees were badly
whipped, losing about two hundred killed,
and large number wounded. Our loss
was no prisoners, and two or three killed
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1857-1865, 1861-11-22

RE- The Fort Smith Times speaks of
Lincolnites in Arkansas who are cutting
telegraph wires and doing other mischief
The Lincolnites, here, don't do anything
of the sort because they can come and go
as they please, and no one to make them
afraid
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1857-1865, 1861-11-22

A DAnNAnLE DEED.-A Virginia correspondent
Of the Charleston Mercury writes;
A letter has been received from gentleman in
Fairfax, stating that a few days since, whilst Mrs.
Fitzhugh old lady of 70 years and totally blind,
was engaged with her relatives and friends in per-
forming the funeral rites Of one of her daughters
party OF Yankee ruiians entered the house. caught
her by the throat and in the presence of the grief
stricken family, strangled her to DEATH After this
fendsh deed, they seized all the whites then pres
cnt, and carried them of to Washington where
they are now imprisoned At the same time, all
the slaves, numbering probably hundred, were
stolen, and the house and its furniture destroyed.
am told by the relations of the afflicted family
that the story comes from source 50 authentic
that they cannot doubt it.