Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1872-12-28
Perkins between our kindred races.

rics of the Cyane were opened upol
the town." For seven hours W,
shot away shell and ball at the OK
ponse Of the Government. Mr.
Borland looked grimly on the scene
and wrote meantime an official &C
count of it, which filled the grea
Bob Johnson's soul with apprehen
sions that his Arkansas rival woult
yet turn him " in the State. They
buried the poor little mud-hive and
set fire to what in it was too miser
able to fall down the man who
threw the porter bottle might have
felt that his crime was not without
compensations. After tho place was
all down, Lieutenant Jolley do
clared it to be under his protection,
and the English Government held
a deep and solemn inquest upon
the case. @
But, as for Little Rock, when the
news got there, in month or so,
who shall describe the genuine agi.
tation? The first question was /:
How did Borland behave2 Several
challenges are said to have passed
to tho man who asked this. Next,
had anything like it been done
since Jackson took Packenham and
Houston chewed up Santa Anna ?
The johnson faction, at this pre-
sumption that Jackson ever had an
equal, wore equally ready to fight.
DR.. Borland came home, but
found the political field occupied at
every point, and he removed to
Momphis to edit tho Enquirer
there. Notwithstanding any pecul-
iarities in the above description, ho
was a selfreliant, capable, and quiet
man. lie joined the rebellion and
was a brigadier. general for he had
been both an officer and priso-
ner in the Mexican war. Perse-
cuted by a wound, he retired to
Texas early in the struggle, and he
died there in 1864. A daughter
who survives is said to show his
literary capacity.
AUSTIN AND WILKINSON.
The father of the Southwest was
Moses Austin, Il native Of Connect
icut. who settled Texas grant
with young men from the lower
Mississippi valley, and was the
successful competitor over James
Wilkinson and Aaron Burr to an
ticipato the Anglo-Saxon occupa-
ton of Northern Mexico. 4
Wilkinson was an extraordinary
character, and the first Governor OF
all Louisiana, inclusive of Arkan-
sas, which he received from the
French in 1903, as commissioner.
Flo had been the founder OF the
trade between this region under
the French and tho Kentucky
towns, oven prior to Washington 's
Administration and, after baking
Burr's plans to seize Texas, and
seeking to got possession of it for
himself, he died at last, after a
quarrelsome but vigorous life, near
the city of Mexico, just as he had
secured grant of land in Texas to
compete with Austin's colony
With youth upon his side, he might
have anticipated there the career
of Houston, and fulfilled tho ambl'
tious dreams of Burr.
SAM HOUSTON.
In the year 1929, Arkansas Ter
ritory was visited by nobler refu
gee than commonly came to its SO
clusion. A voluntary exile from
the executive mansion of Tenncs
see, followed by the fury of a polit
ical press, and that public, full O.
uncharitablo Interpretation, which
believed the worst, Sam Houston
had now resolved that the sur
should forever shine upon his back
and the East be forgotten in the
misery of his spirit. A Governor
elected at the age of "a, by 1900
majority, he had proved the reverse
of the couplet:
Art hath ne charity for him ....
Whom love has satisfied.
He had married q young lady
and, after three months of living
together, thoy separated. The rea
sons neither never gave. All rushed
forward with a reason, and that the
basest but none guessed the short
est one that the woman did moi
love him. Like Hester Prynne
implorcd by tho proachor, in public
to tell tho name of her betrayer
when the preacher himself was
that, 1T might be said ever San
Houston "He would not speak
Wondrous strength and generosity
of mans heart. Ho would moi
speak |" He resigned his office
bowed his head, and, in the splen
dor Of a young career, departed fol
the desort. He landed at the mouth
of White river, and ascended the
Arkansas to Little Rock, but not to
| tarry and take root again in public
station for, apprehending this, tho
political papers there even detained
him. Many years before he had
been adopted in the Cherokee tribe
and he had come to claim its sym
pathy and brotherhood. -Four
hundred miles by land and water
he pushed up toward the falls o.
the Arkansas, and his father, Ooloo
keta, tho Chief, hastcned likewise
to approach him. The young Gov
ernor of Tennessee stood before the
savage, and was greeted by his In
dian name.
y" Colenneh," said the chief, "you
have become a great chief among
your people. You have suffered
there, and have turned your
thoughts to my wigwam. l am
glad of it. 1t was done by the
Great Spirit"
For o little space, Houston re