The Arkansas Gazette from Arkansas Post, Arkansas • Page 1

-I I 4 i BY WM. E. WOODRUFF, PRINTER TO THE fERlUTORY, AND PUBLISHER OF THE LAWS OP THE UNITED STATES, BY -AUTHORITY. 1 1 TTfT Tr mrmni-w Jrclume XI. xwwjy, lA.

lULaiJAI, MAX 4, 1830. JVo. 19. Ao. 539.

from two to seven ascending thus had rode five miles, and then abandoned PROVINCE OF TEXAS, far, alternately sailjng and warping the undertaking as impracticable large Congress, composed of Senate nd House of Itcpresenutitey whose acts shall rective the sanction of the Executive. 5-. The legislalire power ulrall nerer te delegated to any person or corporation. As a proof of the absence of crime, it is stated, that there have been but two or three instances of outrages that called for the use of a prison. The most remarkable of whirh ivnsttip rp jVom 1 Orleans Mercantile Advertiser.

'A die eilracts given to-day, from th-e journals of a traveller just returned from Texas, will found a correct but rough o.itiitve of a portion which has been the subject of much G. The Executive pover ihall reside in tho of thp r.ft(ftneM-'l, President of the Republrc, and will necessarily lu.tission in lire United States. The style is dor guard, for the murder of a man by i and Secretaries of State.1 the name of Early from Ohio, and not! 7. A Connril of State aid the President unite brief, and careless, being but tiie hurried uiwc 4. lui.iug vuu nerus oemg sometimes seen at a con- yawl wheu there is none.

siderable distance, feeding on the burnt Brazoria was laid out eighteen i prairie, which resembles a wheat field in months ago, and conts of six log the spring. AVe also saw eleven mus-houses and stores. At present these tangs or wild horses, and one black are two vessels in port, the Pocahontas wolf. are, it is said, great herds and Xel son, which have brought a hnn- of Buffalo and wild cattle in the thick-dred and thirty passengers. The place ets, but we saw none.

The wild horse, affords one house at which travellers it appears, prefers the prairie to the can eat at twenty-five cents per meal, but1, woods, because he can see his enemy, they can get no lodging. Provisions man, several miles off, whereas in the are every where plentiful in this coun-1 woods he might be surprised. We i.ti notes of a tourist and we can answer that the writer is! not only an attentive observer, but well: qualified to disseminate a proper know Early the Georgia assassin, a was pub-in the more importamboMiieaof his adruinistra- lished in the newspapers. Tliere is not iucifc iiui 2 Jusuce will be administered bv Courts and ledge ol a country so ittle known among us. NOTES ON TEXAS.

Extracts from a Traveller's Journal Ftbrunru 2 J. Cross the Bar at tlte Judicatures, with entire independence in their exercUe. 9. For the better qorernment of the Republic, the territory will be divided into Departments, Provinces, Cantons, and Parishes. 10.

Chambets of Districts will be established, a public edifice in the colony. Every man who will labor three months of the year can support himself and family, and indolence is perhaps the most prominent vice of the residents of this country but it is the natural try, out oedsare scarce, and those who 'cave chase to the wolf during a fpw S. pass, at 1 o'clock, descry uaives- ton Island oivthe 9th, and enter the travel generally carry a blanket and i minutes, but beinc unwillinn- to fitirnp with power to deliberate and decide on all am mouth of the Brazos on the 10th, after sleep on the ground, or floor, as tht our horses, resumed our route. Thprp consequence of a favoured region. No niciPaI and affai" of DcparUnents, and Ltrt r.nr.cnnl tf ilia itm a rt rn.nl 11 Ki lt.ror f-i xr i inMIVldinl leir mc hnco hie tm) i I 3 concern the ceneral interests of the Republic.

striking so violently on tne bar as to render it necessary to ran tSie schooner asfiore immedinteiy, to keep her from sinkiiiff. may happen to be in a house or aprai- jis no house between Madam Powel's rie. A gourd of water is also a neces-; and San Philipe, and the insipid same-sary appendage. A few days render I ness which the prairie presents wearies this manner of livinjr Quite tolerable' the eve even a cluster of trees Galveston Island lies fifteen miles' even to the effeminate cockney. The relief from the dull sceiierv.

Ifamnn taken the trouble to raise a domestic goose or turkey, because he can at any lime shoot as many wild ones as he wants. He has a famous poultry yard. Doubts also respecting the stability of the government, rendered the first emigrants careless of improvements at present there is more confidence in, i i i 4 i i. I i f. i i i i 4 (i; 1 East of the mouth of the Rio Brazos, passengers who have just arrived, es-1 leaves Bell's Landing, he has a ride of Sec.

1. Each Department whose population, wealth, and other circumstances, are sufficient to sustain such an establishment separately, ith advantage to the public, will have a Disitkt Chamber. Sec. 2. Each Department which on account of the smallness of its population or other causes, canuot sustain this establishment wiih public advantage, will be connected for this purpose with an adjoining Department.

1 1. The periods of election will be prolonged, is tmrty miies long, nas tnree trees press not only general satisfaction, bit sixty-three miles to San Philipe, only standing on it within one mile ot each even delight on viewing tbe country i three of which lies through woodland." othpr; is not inhabited at present, and anticipating the numerous ndvnh- Sin Phil ine. was laid nnf in I affords good water, abounds with deer, tnes offered them on every side. And and a great attachment to the Mexican government and the cession of Texas wolves, ana sea-iowi ana is as suscep- whilst no man need fear wnnt to avoid the inconveniences which reulMioni 1 tible of cultivation as the prairies on! one can reasonably expect to acquire' a the main land along the coast which fortune rapidly. Ostentation and lu- frequent changes in ihe hie'n funtuY-uBries, or even the repeated election of the same to the U.

States would only benefit the colonists by augmenting the value of yield whatever is not subject to be de- urv, poverty and distress, will for some No power or magistrate rnU have unlim stroyed by high vviuds. The encamp-1 time be en'inllv nnbnwn hpro tie encamp ited auihoiity, or any other authority than is and now contains thirty houses and shops, mostly built of logs. The best house in the place was recently sold by Col. Austin to Col. Butler, for fifteen hundred dollars, and now rents at twenty dollars per month, for a tavern.

There are three taverns, several stores, one school, (of which there are ten in the Colony,) the ofiice of the Texas Gazette to which there are from two to three hundred subscribers there are iven by the Constitution. 13. No power ur ma pirate shliihavp author ments of Lafitte and Aurv on the end of the inland, are still visible, as well as Fort Bujivar, erected by Gen. Long on ity to suspend individual secogtV. except ia Brazoria is not considered so healthy as other parts of the colony.

The river water is used, and is not good. This evil might be remedied by rainwater cisterns. Musqnitoes are probably as numerous as thev arp nn thP cases specuieu dv tne oust nut iwj. 1 Every public functionary is, subject to te-sponsibdity. The President is irrepoiiible, ex cept in the cases of high treason specified in the four doctors, and four lawvers.

a few lands. As they are, they have not 3d paid the first dollar of taxes, nor asked a privilege that has been refused to them. With regard to the restrictions on religion, they are merely nominal, as no tythes arc paid. Col. Austin is a man of rather small stature, with a care worn, intelligent countenance apparently taciturn in his disposition and assiduous in the discharge of his official duties.

He is highly esteemed by the greater part of the colonists, and having been instrumental in converting the wilderness into an inhabited land of abundance, he should rank among the benefactors of mankind. He has recently published a pamphlet Mississippi; long moss grows eyery public officers, and some straggling wa where on the trees, and the sea-breezes chinangos or mongrel Spaniards, tak are partially intercepted by the woods, ing together, constitute the capitol of Constitution. li. The Catholic, Apostolic, Roman religion, is the religion of tlte State. The coternrrifnt exfrcising the office of protectorate of the Colombian Church, no other public worship will be permitted.

16. The Constitution guaranties personal e-ruritv, the rijrlit of properly, equality before the law, the liberty of the press, liberty of employment, and the right of petition. the point of the main land opposite. The bay inside of this Island is the best harbor ou the coast of Texas, and will be the port of entry at which half duties ou goods for the Colony will be exacted after the first of November next. The Bar of the Brazos, lies 7 deg.

due West from the Balize, and has five and a half feet water on it in ordinary tides. The river is about two hundred yards wide the water reddish, like tint of lied Kiver, though clear, I am told, when lop. The banks, like those of the Mississippi, are covered with creat nevertheless this will undoubtedly soon Austin Colony. Tlie town may be become a considerable town, as it is seen five or six miles-off, oyer the prai- thouffht to be the most eligible landing rie. Its situation is apparently healthy.

On the Brazos. The SUrroundintr conntrv is nrinrinallv I '--mj dry prairie. There are no musquitoes. irom tsrazoria. 1 he prairie onens at I am told, in summer.

WpII nnrl rivpr Mr. Bell's house, which is three miles water are both used, and both disairree- containing his correspondence with the A proclamation has issued from the Secretary's Office for the Home Department, in reference to the law-passed on the 2d of March, 1829, that from the river. Live-oak is the most able to those not accustomed to drink Mexican authorities and the coloniza quantities of drift-tvood, consisting of common tree of the woods, through them. Bilious fever occasionally pre tion laws. By this work it will be seen which I have passed.

The country vails, but there have been no deaths that married men or women who settle prohibited the landincr of any Spaniards here is truly beautiful, and rich. The from it. The river, some parts of the in the colony are entitled to one Span- on the republican frontier, or ports, ah, oakj pecan, mulberry, cedar, cotton wood, sycamore, wild peach, Catfish 4nd sometimes red-fish are plentiful ofeters abound in the neighboring The surrounding land is not subject to inundation. Vessels as water, Irom a well twenty feet deep, is banks ol which ane overflown in spring tolerably good, but impregnated with rises here about fifty feet. Goods re V' I I I 51 I' 4 I isti league, or lour thousand four linn- which had been repealed by the lale dred and forty acres of land the ex- President Guerrero.

The prorlama- lime. Mr. Bell and his family have re- tail at least a hundred per cent, hiuher pense ol the titles ol which and the sur- tion which emanates from the Vice Pre- sided five years in this place and enjoyed than in New-Orleans but the sale of veying, is one hundred and fifty-seven sident, declares it to be the intention of dollars, part of which is paid down and the republican authorities, ricridlv to good health. 1 he travellers, seven in themMs slow, and there is much credit cend tojpell's landing, ten miles above Brazori.a, and forty miles from the the rest at the end of, four, five, and enlorce this prohibition, and that none number, sat during the evening in front and barter; cows and horses seem to of the house enjoying a delightful state constitute the circulating medium hide six years, ihe time allowed to emi- such will be able to land or enter in the mouth -Steam-boat navigation hor ever, migit be extended from three to ui uie aunospiiereanu conversing on the anu skids serv ing as small change. grants for closing their business in the Republic, without an especial pass from -J I I TIT four haisdred miles comparative advantages ot the dilierent Nevertheless, it must not be understood countries from which they emigrate is the President and if after the promul- Mr.

litchell is the proprietor of the no-ui u.c vuiuny. j. or tnree 01 iuai mere are no aoie planters in the' six years, during which peril period they cation of 'this-law, any such persons them were returning Irom surveying country, for within twenty miles of this right bank, and only resident at the mouth of the Brazos. He raises stock, tracts 01 iaua lor tne Alabama Com- town, one hundred negroes are worked pany. They have chosen the neigh- on a plantation, owned by Col.

Cross. and maes salt which he sells at one must live in the colony and improve shall be found within the republican ter- their lands, otherwise they revert to ritories, they will be treated as government. Unmarried men are en- and tlte law of such offenders enforced, titled to one quarter of a league, with the The Secretary of the Home Depart- borhood of Metagorda Bay, giving that From San Felipe to St. Antonio is dollar bushel. Last year the Colony consumed about eighteen hundred part or tne colony a decided preference, one hundred and eitrhtv miles: to right to the additional three fourths, ment considers it as his dutr to let ihis on account, they say, of salubrity, wa- cogdoches one hundred and forty to 11 tney marry, ihe expenses ol the be known, that travellers and passen-quarter of a league are a hundred and gers may not, by the ignorance of the ter, and navigation.

They represent the mouth of the Brazos bv land ninpfv the country to be more elevated and lo the Opelousas Church somethinc .1 .1. 1 i to His residence is a healthy and delightful summer situation. A pcairie extends parallel with the sea from ten to twenty miles in width, except cin the banks of rivers, where the timber land approaches within four or five mites of the shore. The prairies ten dollars, the only difference, I be- existence of such a law, be subjected to lieve, is the surveying. Those who the inconveniences attending it.

luiuug man U.5U11 uieurazos. ADout ori of three hundred. The roads forty families, it is expected, will move leading to all the places, excent the out next fall, and locate themselves so mentioned are good. The only swamps intermarry with the Mexicans are enti- tied to a league and a quarter. If there American Silk.

The Precnrseur, a were more ladies there would undoubt- paper published at Lyons, in France, edly be more marriages, is lit- mentions that samples of Philadelphia near tOfrpthpr as tn-rprain tho in I py .1, 1 1 -c uyioma- me muse uiL ii ooroer nn ges of society and social intercourse. Louisiana. To the west of the San Mr. Bell furnishes travellers with ex- Jacinto thev are literallv imL'nnn'n teralhy a country of bachelors, and ne- "ave been assayed in that city, with cellent board at three dollars and fifty There are between four and iIvp thnn. cents per week, or twenty-five cents per sand souls in the colony of whom about cessarily a dull one.

the most favorable results. I he assay- It is customary at present for every was made a tne request of the Cham-body to extol Texas above all other her of Commerce and the following is countries: whether their praises are or a notice concerning it, which will natu- meat, ne udu no liquors. one thousand are slaves. Last year ZUt-Lodge at Madame PowcVs, from four to five hundred bales of cotton yieia excellent pasture, on which, do-mestic Animals keep latter in winter than summer, by reason of the flies which aire said to be so formidable an evil in hot weather, that travellers rie during the night to avoid them. 0n those eijen plains, hundreds of deer majy be seenifeeding in herds it is however, difficultjlo approach them within gun fchot, asihey can see a man a great distance.

There are also some swans, i nurty uuie irom oen s. i he ride is were made and it is supposed that next are not extravagant, I am incapable of oteresl many ol our readers. 1. I 1 1 ni .1 judging, but I can say that I have not assay place recently upon a sam- uCi a u.auic wnoie distance. Xhe year more than three times the quantity weather has been so dry that corn-plant- will be produced.

There are also three ing. suspended, consequently the sugar establishments, and here as well roads are in a tine state. The first ob- as in Louisiana, the canp vm seen a single individual wno resides in ve uumcuc, 1 1 1 LiOUis Homersue, late Droorietor of a the province that manifested theleast de- spIeodid fiUture ofsilUn said tow nP sire to return to the United States, but It results from the assay, publicly executed at on the contrary those who are ques- Lyons, by Pierre Mazel, licensed assayer of silkr loth j-Halt at Qulf Prairie, twelve jects that attracted our attention in the last fall by the frost. The rrr mnrnino- vrprp iho fUJ! 1 0 -a iivui luiicueu s. nere at tne uccsc ItrcUllJLT 1 even lU US Wild Slate- IS rpnrncontorl junction of the woodland and prairie, is a settlement of respectable families, and about on all sides of us, indeed during superior in size and flavor to any found the whole night they were heard as they in the United States; it is therefore to continued to flyover the house.

They be presumed and hoped that at no dis uotieu reiaiive 10 ineir situations, trene- 11 1 .1 1 an extraordinary Quality, and is admirably adaDt- rally reply that they would not leave ed to all the Je of fabrication its deee of their fertile and easily cultivated lands, fineness is 16 dwt, so that it would produce sin- if good farms were offered to them as 50 dwts. organrine of 32, and tram or gifts, on condition of their living on wol il of SO, a. quality of silk extremely rare good school. The country is per- i-tuy jeel and elevated barely enougl vuui. ui.

tudi no vaiue is attached tant day, it will be extensively cultivat-tothem. We also saw several herds of i ed, which circumstance will infinitplv circumstance will infinitely it from inundation. The them in other countries. Uwi rru; i a toil apparently as fertile as any in the deer, and occasionally a flock of large influence the happiness of the colonists 1 i f5 viuu, ui a line iutui, vnu, in oi I We are promised a continuation of word, it unites allthe cnaliiie? that can be wish- Vnuei States, and the climate accord for where people drink wine, they will this journal, relative to the interior of for' market price in the state of raw silk, Xo, statements of the inhabitants, soon lose tneir taste tor whiskey. tJie Country.

I 1 wc ichcu, accorumg to omerenr. quaines, land Well nrenarpft. vnnll Ka CR frnr a nonnr? but the water which I drank. m. vmewat salt.

I ne sea ZiATZj omissions. and the sale ot it at Lyons would be jrery rasy, particularly if there was a constant opj4y cf tn-eezearc regular, and too highi JViw- York. 5 March 24. The CUamber of Commerce loses no time in i-ivi Hereabouts is all taken up or Vtrto late frorri the" Hrirr I publihing" inforniation so satisfacJory; They thenian, Captajn ChapraanJwe have ore Uiao 'eter, te escite ite Americans eH Py Anstin-which proves that ibis is a favorite part of the Colony I he niriods are fH cf game. The cranes stalking over the burnt grass.

Within the first twelve miles, there are five houses in sight from the road, the last of which, stands on mound that is about a league in circumference, and elevated, perhaps twenty feet above the surrounding prairie. This is the heighst land Iliave yet seen. The country however, becomes a little undulating at Madam Powel's Point. By the word point is understood in this country, a point of woodland making: into the prairies. arladarn Povvel left New-Orleans last year, is pleased with her new situation; and entertains travellers in city style.

22d Arrive at San Philipe, thirty miles from Madam Powers, i This at whose house I lorded. Ihe emigrants 'who are daily arriving in Texas, are from all parts of the United States, aud a great portion of them, from among ihe.citiiens oC Ten-nessee, Alabama and Mississippi. They have not the same difficulties to encounter that the first settlers many of whom were for months eating meat without bread it follows that one does hot hear the reiterations of regrets so nni-yersally expressed by those who leave the comforts and conveuiencies of old settlements for a frontier life. Nor re theii inhabitants remarkable for that rudeness which generally characterizes i tu warn luuivrii iuu miw sim, a imo Ol received Ogota papers and letters industry that wilUfTord great ad a nta ges to both Feb. 14th, inclosivc.

We have also countries, antThiay in future give birth to estab-been permitted to copy frbm letter of hshments of.trarknis kinds and le a new souic the Colombian Secretary of to toibeUnitedStates- -y the Consulate General in thiscityf the The following isan extract of a letter jvent -M in die morning and returned beloreeakfast, with two wild turkies Ifti'h-Jrrivc at Brazoria. Id as- IU UUUI4U4 I- whirl TilV -V. 'vert's, in view, L' be lfMajarCalvert's; Whirh Vo Dy le lunaaruenwi MThe sugr.Crop of Louisiana trill nfriatwj on thp 1. 1 not exceed from thirty to thirtr-ni' trmtitnr! ia siuiiiy reserv- Co A rm rtl i m. s.

lO-goTernment shall be one, uno popu- hotheads. AVhatafaHin-ofrfromtUekhtT- ucvr uuuuiries, out, appear iu nve in harmony among themselves, having no Ausun. i hi cn.r lar, representative and elecitye. morning the gentlemen, Messrs W. bnd ovcucrv is raonptariiQOi anrl 1:1..

cigut tnousanaci liie year Of? a. The supreme power, in its exercise, shall I planters on To O. with! whom I travelled, and "myself! political or sectarian distinctions. the I hate irs thr the -r 1 Ir in I'll imdm rmn lamr ititiv r. VAit4h.a it itv; iuai 01 an ie ed whhrTr 1 "hfi.llln?.ln banks.

are strangers they are particularly hospita- i i "lkVJ ccwuuf una number; and this is only one Lunditd judicial. i I three ho.hearU 'wrnr9. -rn attempted to count the deer wc might see. We counted two hundred before we oie ana inenuiy. 4.

The legislative power: shall be Tested ia a thr, hArA 1 i.