HARRISON FLAG
[MARSHALL, TX]
1860-1861
[UT-Tyler's
microfilm copy is very poor, and no other library will lend it.
I hope to be able to visit another library and fill in the gaps at some point.]
HARRISON FLAG [MARSHALL, TX], January 6, 1860, p. 1, c. 2
Fruit Trees, Roses and Evergreens
I have now a fine stock of the above things, and other nursery stuff.
They are also Southern kinds—adapted to the Southern climate.
The Grape Vines and Apple Trees are especially fine, as well as the
Pears, &c.
The
time has arrived for planting.
John Duncan.
October
14, 1859.
HARRISON FLAG [MARSHALL, TX], January 6, 1860, p. 1, c. 2
Gunsmithing.
G. G. Allen, having returned to Marshall, takes this method to inform his friends and former customers, and the public general, that he is prepared to manufacture, to order, upon short notice, superior
Rifle-Guns, and Pistols.
Stocking and repairing of Guns and Pistols, of ever description intrusted
[sic] to his hands, will be attended to with promptness and dispatch.
Persons
wishing to procure his services will find him at Van Hook's Tin Manufactory, on
the South side of the public square.
Jan'y
14, '59.
HARRISON FLAG [MARSHALL, TX], January 6, 1860, p. 1, c. 2
J. H. Vanhook,
Manufacturer of Tin Ware, Etc.,
Shop South Side of the Public Square,
Marshall, Texas,
Has just received a large supply of Office, Parlor, Church, and Cooking Stoves. Great improvements have been made to stoves within the last few years, and these, which he is now offering for sale, are of the
Latest and Most Approved Models.
No family ought to be without a Cooking Stove, and no
family will be, after having once tried them, and ascertained their value.
Sufficient is saved, in labor and fuel, within a very short time, to pay
for one.
J. H.
Van Hook also carries on, in all the various branches, the
Tinning Business.
and is prepared to execute [fold in paper] he may be favored, promptly, and on the most reasonable terms.
Stores Supplied with Tin Ware
cheaper than can be bought in New Orleans.
Guttering
and Job Work done at short notice, and on reasonable terms.
may 6
'59.
HARRISON FLAG [MARSHALL, TX], January 6, 1860, p. 1, c. 2
Hides! Hides!! Hides!!!
Wanted at M. Polack's, north side public square, brick
building, two hundred and fifty BEEF HIDES and PELTRIES.
December
16, 1859.
HARRISON FLAG [MARSHALL, TX], January 6, 1860, p. 1, c. 2
F. Karte.
Watch Maker and Jeweler,
North Side Public Square,
(Mr. Johnson's Old Stand.)
Offers his services to the public in repairing Watches and Jewelry and promises entire satisfaction. Refers to the work he has done the last two years in Marshall, which he knows will be enough to place confidence in his ability as a workman. Also a well selected stock of
Fine Jewelry,
Gold and Silver Watches, Gold Chains, Gold Lockets for two
and four likenesses, Gold Bracelets, which are well adapted for a Christmas or
New Year's Present, and which he offers for sale very low for cash.
December
16, 1859.
HARRISON FLAG [MARSHALL, TX], January 6, 1860, p. 1, c. 2
If you
don't wish to get angry, never argue with a blockhead.
Remember the duller the razor the more you cut yourself and swear.
Every
girl who intends to qualify for marriage, should go through a course of cookery.
Unfortunately, few wives are able to dress anything but themselves.
HARRISON FLAG [MARSHALL, TX], February 3, 1860, p. 1, c. 4
Mrs.
Martineau denounces crinoline, and says that the petticoats of the present day
only serve as a mask of the human form—a perversion of human proportions.
A woman on a sofa looks like a child popping from a haycock.
A girl in a dance looks like a Dutch tumbler that was a favorite toy in
my infancy.
HARRISON FLAG [MARSHALL, TX], February 3, 1860, p. 1, c. 6
Sleet.—After
several days of very warm weather, the wind shifted to the North on Wednesday
morning, which again brought upon us freezing weather, accompanied by sleet
during the greater part of the day. Of
course such excessive cold weather, and so much of it, must necessarily cause a
great loss to stock raisers.—Gonzales Inquirer 11th inst.
HARRISON FLAG [MARSHALL, TX], February 3, 1860, p. 2, c. 1
Music
School.—Remember that Mrs. Witherspoon opens her Music school in this place,
on Monday next. she is one of the
most accomplished women in the country, a skilful performer, and gifted in
imparting instruction in the department she assumes to teach. Public patronage will be worthily bestowed.
HARRISON FLAG [MARSHALL, TX], February 3, 1860, p. 2, c. 2
The
Speakership.—We are informed by Col. G. W. Chilton, now in Marshall, on his
return from New Orleans, that on Saturday last, according to a telegraphic
dispatch from Washington, Mr. Smith of North Carolina, came within three votes
of being elected Speaker of the House.—Col. Chilton says that Mr. Smith was in
fact elected, but for the retraction of three votes cast for him.
Our
informant says that it was confidently believed in Washington that Mr. Smith
would be elected on the following Monday if a ballot could be had.
HARRISON FLAG [MARSHALL, TX], February 10, 1860, p. 2, c. 3
The
Tyler Reporter comes to us in a new dress, considerably enlarged and improved.
The citizens of Smith county are just the people to make a paper
flourish.
HARRISON FLAG [MARSHALL, TX], February 17, 1860, p. 2, c. 1
The
editor of the Clarksville Standard thinks one half of the time of the General
Assembly of Texas is wasted in useless legislation, in view of which he wishes
it could be so arranged as to meet only once in three years. He should have gone a little farther and said four, if he be
right in the assertion that one half the time is squandered in useless
legislation.
HARRISON FLAG [MARSHALL, TX], February 17, 1860, p. 2, c. 2
Madam
Sioniaski [sp?], a celebrated Flutist, has arrived in Marshall, and proposes
giving an entertainment before leaving. She
is highly complimented by the Henderson papers where she, a short time since,
gave entertainments.
HARRISON FLAG [MARSHALL, TX], February 17, 1860, p. 2, c. 3
Germans.—In
the early part of the present week about one hundred and fifty Germans reached
our city in a body. Under whose
leadership they came we are not informed. Most
of them, we are informed, are now employed upon the Southern Pacific Railroad
opposite this place. Among them are
those skilled in the varied pursuits of life; but the majority, aside from
common laborers, we are informed, are mechanics, several of whom have found
employment here. As far as our
observation has gone they seem to be a stout, healthy, and orderly body of men.
The
above was left over last week, to make room for legal advertisements which could
not be delayed without injury to the parties.
Since then we have made the acquaintance of Dr. M. Rosevally [sp?], under
whose direction these operatives came, and under whom they are now at work.
The Dr. seems to be a man of education and intelligence, and possessed of
great energy. It will require but a
few days to prepare the road for the rails to the depot opposite this point.
As soon as this is done, the grading will advance west.
HARRISON FLAG [MARSHALL, TX], February 17, 1860, p. 2, c. 3
"Fillibusters."
The McKinney Messenger thinks recent developments show that there is an
organized order of knighthood in the United States for the conquest of Mexico.
Its editor demands the Press to speak out and warn the young and
inconsiderate against embarking on such a criminal undertaking.
How does he know anything of the moral turpitude of the undertaking,
admitting that his surmises for the colonization of Mexico are well founded?
Is he prepared to say that anything is going on in the fillibuster line
than that which was published to the world through the columns of the New
Orleans Picayune two or three weeks ago? Two
of our distinguished fellow citizens to-wit:
Gen. Greer, of Marshal, and Col. Chilton, of Tyler, gave notice that they
felt authorized to promise the services of one thousand men from Texas for the
protection of our frontier, to give publicity to which and to post Congress
regarding the preparations of this much exposed State, to march to the Rio
Grande to protect the lives and property of our citizens from Mexican brigands.
The Picayune gave these patriotic gentlemen a flattering notice. Would
there be anything wrong in that number going out there under the authority of
the Federal Government? Or would
there be anything wrong in that many going as peaceful colonists into Mexico?
We
fear the editor of the Messenger is an alarmist.
So we think the Dallas Herald regards him from the remarks of its editor
while reviewing the article under consideration. The editor of the Herald says:
We
have occasionally seen allusions to this matter in our Eastern exchanges and
have though rather favorable of it from the fact that it seemed not to meet with
much disfavor at Washington from the officials of the Federal Government.
Reports are yet so vague, that we cannot yet form an opinion, pro or con.
If Mr. Buchanan wants Mexico for the Juarez party, let him have it even
with the assistance of the K. G. C.
HARRISON FLAG [MARSHALL, TX], March 2, 1860, p. 1, c. 2-3
[Summary: Character and physical
sketches of the East Texas delegates to the Legislature, including Richard
Bennett Hubbard, of Smith County. Microfilm
is rather dim—might be more readable in original.]
Looking
from the Speaker's chair, over the head of the subject of the above notice, your
eye rests on Richard Bennett Hubbard, whose "flesh marks" are as
follows: Straight chocolate colored
hair, cropped round, parted on the left, leaving uncovered a forehead broader at
the base than the top, looked directly at appears to be compressed out, deriving
the appearance of solidity and compactness from a contrast with the balance of
his face, eyebrows well defined, eye full, large blue, close inspection showing
a slight yellowish tincture, nose straight, beard including moustache colored
like his hair, grows as nature planted it, duly set back, but still required to
be of considerable extent in order to cover expanse of large fleshy jaws.
To a side view his entire person presents the aspect somewhat of a
magnified pumpkin seed; his feet are large, looking like a couple of g[
]s. Taking all together,
however, his person [?] is not displeasing, nor is it pleasing; his
complexion is neither fair nor dark, but a blending of the two.
He is
a spirited speaker—speaks loud, gesticulates strong.
A little affectedness, champed utterance and twitching of the face when
heated by his subject, lessens the force of his arguments, and their absence
would very much improve his style. A
kindliness of soul and [illegible] of disposition, evinced in his bearing toward
members, gives him a personal influence probably superior to that of any member
east of the Trinity. He does not
appear to be over twenty-seven years old.
HARRISON FLAG [MARSHALL, TX], March 2, 1860, p. 1, c. 7
A Letter in which a Woman Speaks what she Thinks.
Annie Trevor gives her readers through the Philadelphia Press, the very
spicy and truthful letter copied below:
Men
are continually talking about women's dress, ridiculing women's fashions, and
having a good time of it to themselves. You
don't hear women making such a noise about men's styles; they manage to mind
their own business generally, on such matters as those anyhow.
I break through the forms, and give you an idea or two that are in my
head just now.
Men
talked about hoops, unblushingly and relentlessly, when they first became
"the rage." Ministers in
the pulpit, orators on the rostrum, editors through the papers, fops in the
parlor and boys in the street, seemed to think it a necessary duty to cry down
hoops; they do it yet, and I'll wager, if crinoline were entirely discarded, not
a man lives who wouldn't laugh at the long shrouded figures women would appear
in the streets. To be sure, I have
met some few sensible men who are willing to acknowledge that hoops are a
wonderful improvement, that they wouldn't like to see ladies without them, but
the number is very small compared with the other side.
Even while the men do make such a fuss, I want to know if any one of the
sex wears a pair of pantaloons without some kind of stiffening around the hem of
said articles. At any rate, I see
some men who look a deal better if they wore hoops in their pantaloons.
When
ladies wore coats, tight to the form, and buttoned to the throat a la
militaire, men indignantly declared that their styles were being
appropriated by the other sex, and, at that very same time, every second man you
met was wrapped in a monstrous shawl. I
wonder if that wasn't appropriating with a vengeance.
Then
they talk about padding, and there isn't a vest worn that the bosom ain't
stuffed with cotton until it weighs more than any dress-body that was ever made.
Padding, indeed! I wonder if you think we women are ignoramuses, because we
have the good sense to say nothing. I
wonder if you think we keep our eyes shut as well as our mouths.
Not a bit of it. Don't I know that if the old style of knee-breeches and silk
stockings should be revived, the demand for "false calves" would be
alarming? To be sure I do.
And
don't I know that there are plenty of men who lace themselves in stays just as
tight as any woman ever did, and for the very same reason that women do that
thing? I don't know anything about
it, do I? Oh, no, of course I
don't.
I
don't know that men dye their hair and whiskers when the natural color doesn't
exactly suit them, do I?
I
never see men with tow-heads and jetty moustaches, do I?
I
don't know that old gray-haired men are daily making efforts to rejuvenate
themselves in appearance, by turning their gray hairs into "glossy
black," wearing false teeth, &c., do I?
Maybe
I don't.
Ladies
wear tight shoes to make their feet look small, do they? Gentlemen never do such things, I suppose,
They are never seen limping along the street in bran new patent
leathers. Of course not.
They never resort to artificial means to improve their beauty.
They never wear woolen mittens all night to make their hands white.
Of course not. I don't know anything about it, do I?
"What
a quantity of stuff it takes to cut ladies' sleeves now a-days!" said a
masculine in my hearing. Ten
minutes afterwards I saw him with a coat on, the sleeves of which looked like
enormous balloons, legs of mutton, or some other monstrosity. There is consistency for you.
Now, I
advise you men to keep silence on matters you know nothing about.
We will have our own way; we mean to wear hoops until we choose to
take them off; we mean to wear coats a la militaire just when we
please—aye, and pantaloons, too, if it suits us.
(They are worn by some married women now, are they not?)
And you, men, had as well hold your tongues, and not be wasting your time
and talents, talking about what you can't prevent.
HARRISON FLAG [MARSHALL, TX], March 2, 1860, p. 1, c. 6
The
Wife's Commandments.—A downeast paper gives the following as a correct version
of the code of matrimonial procedure adopted in its locality for the training of
all doubtful husbands.
1.
Thou shalt have no other wife but me.
2.
Thou shalt not take into the house any beautiful brazen image of a
servant girl, to bow down to her and serve her; for I, thy wife, am a jealous
wife, visiting, &c.
3.
Thou shalt not take the name of thy wife in vain.
4.
Remember thy wife to keep her respectably.
5.
Honor thy wife's father and mother.
6.
Thou shalt not fret.
7.
Thou shalt not find fault with thy dinner.
8.
Thou shalt not be behind thy neighbor.
9.
Thou shalt not chew tobacco.
10.
Thou shalt not visit the rum shop—thou shalt not covet the
tavern-keeper's rum, nor his brandy, nor his wine, nor anything that is behind
the bar of the rum seller.
Thou
shalt not visit the billiard hall, neither for worshiping in the dance, nor for
the heaps of money that is upon the table.
And
the twelfth commandment is—Thou shalt not stay out later than nine o'clock at
night.
HARRISON FLAG [MARSHALL, TX], March 9, 1860, p. 1, c. 7
Milliners
are making bonnets of paper, which are equal to those made of straw, in
durability and appearance, and are much cheaper. The paper is cut in narrow
strips, and platted and stitched together in the proper shape, and then
varnished.
HARRISON FLAG [MARSHALL, TX], March 16, 1860, p. 1, c. 6
At the
Elmira Female College a new feature of education has been introduced.
No young lady will be allowed to graduate who has not learned practically
the use of the sewing machine. The
matron gives the lessons.
Why
not go further and exact of the young ladies a practical knowledge of
housekeeping in all its varied and important departments?
HARRISON FLAG [MARSHALL, TX], March 16, 1860, p. 2, c. 1
The
Lyceum.—Don't forget that the members of the Marshall Lyceum discuss, at the
Courthouse this evening, the mooted question of the right of a State to secede
from the Union at discretion. Front
seats reserved for the ladies.
HARRISON FLAG [MARSHALL, TX], March 16, 1860, p. 2, c. 2
Complimentary
Ball.—In our last, we barely had space to state that the ties of matrimony had
been solemnized between James Turner, Esq., and Miss Dora Knox.
A large, intelligent and fashionable audience witnessed the solemnities,
and soon thereafter were invited to take their places at a long table weighted
down with all the substantials, luxuries and delicacies of which the country
abounds. The night was a lovely
one—a balmy breeze gently blowing—and we could not but think when the
promenading commenced, what a scene was presented for an artist's pencil.
The
wedding party took the Southern Pacific cars the next day for Marshall to
participate in a complimentary ball tendered for the newly married couple, of
which we shall proceed to speak. It
was one of the most numerously attended parties that has ever assembled in the
State. The Adkins House, as
spacious as it is, in all its public apartments was literally crowded. A very excellent band of musicians had been procured, in
addition to which Sam Williams, the Napoleon violinist, accidentally dropping
in, was invited to the orchestra. On
this subject we need not say more. Exercises
in the poetry of motion followed as a matter of course.
In
behalf of those assembled, we tender thanks to the host and hostess of the
Adkins House for a beautiful and excellent suppler; towards the winding up of
which, the escapes of champagne corks equaled a mock battle. But soon soul-stirring music induced a return to the ball
room, where the exercises were renewed and continued till it was thought to be
honest bed time. Nothing happened
to, in the slightest degree, mar the festivities of either occasion.
Judge
Adkins said he thought a room seventy by thirty-six sufficiently large for
dancing purposes, but he was mistaken, and that to supply the increased demand
he will have one attached to the main building one hundred and forty by forty.
HARRISON FLAG [MARSHALL, TX], March 23, 1860, p. 1, c. 6
A
Lesson for the Ladies.—A gentleman who had been annoyed by waiting a long time
for the making of the toilet of those ladies he had escorted to ball, was
recently invited by one of the ladies to attend the recent Leap Year Ball at
Hyannis. The lady called for him at
the appointed hour, but he was "not quite ready."
Our lady friend was ushered into the parlor and had the pleasure of
waiting nearly until ten o'clock for the gentleman "to dress."
The joke was kindly taken, but was so well done that the fame thereof had
extended to almost every person in the ball-room, in the course of the hour.
Not a few were the jokes and repartees exchanged, and all said that our
gentlemanly friend had "done the thing up brown."
The ladies will please to take heed to this lesson, and not keep
gentlemen waiting, perhaps in a cold parlor, for an hour after the time
appointed to visit the ball-room. A few such incidents would, we really believe, teach our fair
and favorite friends the ladies to be more prompt.—Barnstable Patriot.
HARRISON FLAG [MARSHALL, TX], March 23, 1860, p. 1, c. 7
A
Reform.—We are pleased to learn that the ladies have taken the initiative in a
reform very much demanded. We copy:
The
ladies of Tampa, Florida, held a public meeting on the 23d ultimo—Mrs. M. J.
Harris in the chair, and Miss F. A. Wilson acting as secretary. The object of the convention may be inferred from the
following:
Resolved,
That the ladies should have due regard for each other; therefore, when they go
to church, or any other meeting, they should take the seat next to the wall, and
so on until the seat is filled.
Resolved,
That if any lady takes the seat next to the aisle, before the seat is filled,
that she be left in peaceable possession thereof.
Resolved,
That these resolutions be published in the Tampa "Peninsular" as soon
as possible, if not sooner.
HARRISON FLAG [MARSHALL, TX], March 23, 1860, p. 1, c. 6
A Good
Argument—In a time of much religious excitement and consequent discussion, an
honest Dutch farmer on the Mohawk was asked his opinion as to which denomination
of Christians were on the right way to Heaven.
"Vell, den," said he, "ven we ride out wheat to Albany,
some [say] dis road is the best, and some say dat—but it don't make much
difference which road we take, for ven we git dere dey never ask us vich vay we
come and it's none of their pisiness—if our wheat is good.
HARRISON FLAG [MARSHALL, TX], March 23, 1860, p. 2, c. 1
Public
Meeting.—The citizens of Harrison county, who are opposed to modern Democracy,
are requested to meet at the Courthouse in Marshall on Saturday the 21st
inst. for the purpose of appointing delegates to an Opposition State Convention
to be held at Tyler on the 26th of April, next.
A general attendance is respectfully solicited.
HARRISON FLAG [MARSHALL, TX], March 23, 1860, p. 2, c. 1
We are
pleased to welcome the return of Gen. E. Greer from New Orleans.
We have not had an opportunity of conversing with him as much as we
wished to do, in reference to our border [illegible].
From his brief remarks, to us, we [illegible] inclined to think the
Knights of the Golden Circle have no cause for discouraging apprehensions.
Mexico is destined to be Americanized, and that soon.
HARRISON FLAG [MARSHALL, TX], March 23, 1860, p. 2, c. 7
Opposition Convention.
The people of Eastern Texas, opposed to modern Democracy, are at last
aroused to a sense of duty, and convinced of the importance of immediate action
for a thorough organization to defeat the schemes of its rule or ruin leaders.
To this end we are requested by letters and by gentlemen in attendance
upon the District Court, now in session here, to give notice that an Opposition
Convention will assemble at Tyler, on Thursday, the 26th day of April
next, for the purpose of appointing delegates to the National Conservative
Convention to be held in Baltimore.
We
have [illegible] that the Western part of the State will be represented.
It is important that the Convention should be a full one, [illegible] in
addition to the appointment of delegates to the National Convention.
Electors for the State will also be elected.
HARRISON FLAG [MARSHALL, TX], March 30, 1860, p. 1, c. 7
Transposed.—Lucy
Stone says there is cotton in the ears of men and hope in the bosom of women.
Got that wrong end first, Lucy.
HARRISON FLAG [MARSHALL, TX], March 30, 1860, p. 2, c. 3
Burial
Caskets.—Messrs. M. P. & J. M. Stevens advertise in the columns of the
Flag, this Week, Metallic Coffins to which we earnestly invite public attention.
The foregoing is about as much editorial notice as we are accustomed to
give our patrons engaged in ordinary commerce.
The invention to which the reader's attention is directed.
If it equals what it proposes to be, of which we entertain not a doubt,
deserves a more extended notice, and possesses claims to patronage of the
highest possible importance. The
invention was not conceived of to benefit the dead. If it claims no higher merit, it is a failure, although the
cases are beautiful, their indestructibility is what commends them to favor.
Being air tight and not subject to decay, impure matter can not exude
from bodies placed within them to poison the atmosphere we breathe and the water
we drink. There can be no doubt
that the diseases with which we are afflicted and even the shortness of human
life is to be attributed to the decay of the animal and vegetable kingdoms.
In this view of the subject, the living should by all means adopt
measures to prevent such results. The
idea suggested when discoursing of receptacles for the dead is not very
pleasant, although we all know that a coffin will at some day, not far hence, be
required for each of us who escape drowning.
These coffins, we doubt not, will soon be universally used.
They may be objected to for a while to avoid the charge of pride.
But so soon as the opinion obtains that their use is mainly to preserve
the health of the living every prejudice will vanish, and every one who pays the
debt of nature will be carried to his final resting place in one of them.
Corporations will take it in hand and furnish the indigent.
HARRISON FLAG [MARSHALL, TX], March 30, 1860, p. 2, c. 3
Jefferson.—We
visited the flourishing commercial town of Jefferson in the early part of the
week. In a business point of view,
if it has an equal with no greater population, we have never seen it.
Although the bulk of the cotton has been shipped up, freights employ
several steamers two or three of which were at the wharf at the time of our
visit. Several large brick
buildings are gong up. The water is
comparatively low—indeed below that the smallest boats could not have reached
there two years ago, and now the largest class boats that ever ascended that
high, are plying regularly. This
seems strange, but it is nevertheless true.
As a place of commerce, Jefferson is a fixed fact.
HARRISON FLAG [MARSHALL, TX], March 30, 1860, p. 2, c. 3
General
E. Greer of this place, left for the Galveston Convention by yesterday morning's
Western stage. He is the only
delegate as far as we have learned appointed by the Harrison county meeting who
feels the weight of responsibility enough to forego the expense and fatigue of
the trip; these we do not suppose he would have shouldered but for other matters
in which he feels a great interest. Not
that we question his Democracy but for the reason that we think the frontier
troubles are paramount to all other questions with him.
Should he hear the sound of a war trumpet on the route his course will be
changed we make no doubt, from that of Galveston to that of a bee-line to the
Rio Grande. If his presence is not
demanded to defend our border against Mexican brigands we expect to learn of his
turning up in New Orleans as soon as the Convention shall have determined to do
or not to do, for the purpose of directing the movements of the order of the K.
G. C., of which he is a leader. While we disagree with him politically, we wish
him the greatest possible success in his plans to redress our wrongs and punish
aggression upon American rights. A
state of war exists between us and Mexico.
Let us stand prepared at a moment's warning to march to the scene of
action. We have brave and honorable leaders; let us follow them and
teach Mexican despots a lesson never to be forgotten.
HARRISON FLAG [MARSHALL, TX], March 30, 1860, p. 2, c. 3
Col.
E. E. Lott.—We were pleased to welcome to our town, in the early part of the
present week, our distinguished friend, Senator Lott, of Smith county.
He must cherish a fond recollection of Harrison county as the place where
he entered upon a successful political career as a member of the Texas Congress
eighteen years ago; and as the place where he has scores of personal friends.
As a representative of the people, Col. L. has on all occasions, proved
himself a working and faithful servant. And
he possesses a merit accorded to Generals Houston and Rusk by a politician of
this place some years ago. "No
body can beat him."
HARRISON FLAG [MARSHALL, TX], March 30, 1860, p. 2, c. 7
Crane & Fisk's
Metal Burial Caskets.
[illustration]
The undersigned avail themselves of this method to inform the public that they have on hand in the city of Marshall a full stock of
Metallic Caskets and Cases
of all sizes and that they have made arrangements by which
they will be able to furnish the demands of the surrounding country.
These Caskets are air tight, indestructible and finished in the most
chaste and elegant style, and certainly the most beautiful receptacle for the
dead that has ever been invented.
Having
had extensive experience in the business we are confident of giving entire
satisfaction. The subscribers, who
are the sole agents for the sale of the above valuable invention to the city of
Marshall and vicinity, respectfully invite public attention to the many
important improvements that have recently been made in the style and form of the
Fisk's Metallic Burial Cases.
The
recent improvements consist in an entire change of the form and finish, being
now made in an Octagon form, and finished in imitation of highly polished
Rosewood. Call and examine.
M. P. & J. M. Stevens.
HARRISON FLAG [MARSHALL, TX], April 20, 1860, p. 2, c. 1
Soft
Shell Turtle.—Being absent from our office several days last week, we failed
to return thanks to Pratt Hughes, of the Hole in the Wall, for the half of a
well dressed and fat soft shell turtle. In
way of apology, we give notice to those inclined to puff a good cigar or take an
iced lemonade, with the privilege of something very nice, can at all times be
had by calling at the Hole in the Wall.
HARRISON FLAG [MARSHALL, TX], April 27, 1860, p. 2, c. 4
A Card to the K. G. C. of Texas.
Having been absent from the State since the last of February to examine
into the affairs of the order, it becomes my duty to report to you my knowledge
of the same. Gen. Greer and myself
went to New Orleans at that time to meet Gen. Bickley in person, and arrange for
our department at an early day [rest of long article fades out on microfilm]
HARRISON FLAG [MARSHALL, TX], May 11, 1860, p. 2, c. 1
Organ
Grinders.—We were frighted 'pretty nigh to deth' for a few moments yesterday
evening, in the following manner. We
were composedly composing a piece of composition, for the compositor, (don't
understand, do you?) when all at once we were astounded at some dreadful noise
in the street opposite our office, which we immediately attributed to the
rattling, by a great many d-----belzebubs, of two or three thousand chains
accompanied by a terrible sound resembling that occasionally made by a certain
male quadruped of the bovine species, and had just made up our mind that we were
a 'goner,'—thoughts of home and childhood's innocent days, fleeting shadows of
joys departed, flashed in quick succession through our distorted imagination,
and we were just in the act of attempting a double somersault through the back
window when our own devil shouted "Organ grinders!" and bounded
thro' the door to get a sight at 'em. We
slowly reordered our equanimity, our hair gradually assumed its usual position,
and with the help of a glass of Lager, which, by the by, we are reported to be
pretty 'heavy on,' were entirely restored, and soon was 'our self again.'
But we shall always hereafter entertain an inveterate hatred towards
these abominable lazarones [sic?], who, too lazy to work and gain an honest
livelihood, prowl around the cities and villages of our southern States, feed on
the good nature or gullibility of our citizens. They should all be set to work and the money given to them
appropriated to buying red flannel shirts and pocket bibles for the Feejee
Islanders. The money spent either
way would be about as advantageously invested.
HARRISON FLAG [MARSHALL, TX], May 11, 1860, p. 2, c. 1
The
last large rise in Upper Red River has effectually closed up all navigation
above the Raft. The rise brought
down driftwood enough to form an addition of two miles to the old raft carrying
it some distance above the head of Red Bayou.
This is something rather unexpected to us and greatly to be deplored by
the citizens of North-eastern Texas and South-western Arkansas, their trade by
Red River never the best in the world is now crippled to a greater degree,
almost rendered wholly inefficient, and they are left perfectly helpless in the
meshes of double [illegible] their produce and supplies, between them and New
Orleans, that will be imposed upon them or be compelled to resort to the
uncertain and less expeditious mode of transportation, wagon their cotton to
Jefferson or Shreveport. This must
be a pretty severe lesson to those people who have been lagging behind, trusting
to Providence and high water, instead of building Railroads, and fully preparing
for such an emergency. Their lands
are rich and valuable, climate delightful and healthy, and everything natural
conspires to create it the Texas portion one of the most populous and wealthy
sections of the Lone Star State, were it not for this one drawback.
Go to work immediately, and build railroads [illegible] the river is not
available or at any rate, very uncertain. And
you see too, or should by this time that the
Government is not going to build them for you.
Pitch in then, and intersect the Mississippi at some convenient point or
run a road through to this place, where you can either intersect the V. S &
T. R. or the [illegible] Road which will soon connect Shreveport and Baton
Rouge. Do this and there is a
glorious future before you.
HARRISON FLAG [MARSHALL, TX], May 11, 1860, p. 2, c. 2
Billingsgate.—We
dislike above all things, to see any one no matter who, undertake to beat down,
or attempt to do so, an opponent who is in every other respect the superior to
him, both intellectually and in observing the rules of
etiquette between gentlemen, by dealing in billingsgate and
vituperation. The editor of the
Quitman Herald, we think, can safely be put down as a very bright member of the
Billingsgate Club, [illegible] the editor of the Tyler Reporter—both,
competent, however, to fill a seat as a delegate to the Great National
Billingsgate & Huuta ta too [sic?] Convention lately convened at Charleston.
The recent Tyler Opposition Convention, opened a vast field for the
display of [illegible] called for satire and ungentlemanly conduct in the editor
of the Reporter; and we are compelled to acknowledge he made good use of the
opportunity—acquitted himself quite handsomely in that line of business. In the language of the Unknown Poet he "spread out to
see how much d----d fool he could make of himself" when he tried.
He attempts to cast slurs on the diminutive proportions of the Convention
and ridicules, in the most offensive manner, the speeches made and resolutions
passed by the meeting. Now we ask of all honest men, is this fair?
Because he is a member of a different political party, does it allow him
and the editor of the Quitman Herald the privilege of not only ridiculing and
blackguarding the words and actions of honest men, but willfully abusing and
misrepresenting the character of whose men whose attainments and worth entitle
them to [rest illegible]
HARRISON FLAG [MARSHALL, TX], May 11, 1860, p. 2, c. 6
Headline only readable: Celebration of the Battle of San Jacinto—Sam Houston
Recommended for the Presidency.
HARRISON FLAG [MARSHALL, TX], May 11, 1860, p. 2, c. 7
Headline only readable: Base
Perfidy of an Abolition Captain and Crew—A Southern Lady Grievously Wronged.
HARRISON FLAG [MARSHALL, TX], May 18, 1860, p. 2, c. 1
Gen.
E. Greer has returned from the Charleston Convention. We expected to have had an interview with him before going to
press, but have not met him. This
is not to be attributed to his want of social feelings, but to his being very
unwell, we regret to learn. We
should like very much to hear the General upon the details of the Charleston
convention, in which we will, perhaps, be accommodated, as soon as he regains
his health, as we learn he will be invited to address the people at the Court
house. He has our thanks for a file
of New Orleans papers of the 10th inst. and a copy of Wm. L. Yancey's
speech delivered in the Charleston Convention.
HARRISON FLAG [MARSHALL, TX], May 18, 1860, p. 2, c. 1
Hon.
G. W. Whitmore is on a tour through some of the counties West, we learn through
our exchanges. As he journied [sic]
west, upon reaching Quitman he was strongly urged by many Constitutional Union
men to address the people with which he complied.
The Quitman Clipper reports him at length, and speaks in terms highly
eulogistic at the effort. This is
but simply a tribute to merit. That
the report is a faithful one, we need only copy a few lines.
He is
a clear, logical, and forcible speaker, and the friends of the Constitution and
the Nation, will not fear to pit him against any collarite [sic?] Democrat in
Texas. There is no vanity about
him, which is no slight proof of his taking the first position among the
Opposition.
HARRISON FLAG [MARSHALL, TX], May 18, 1860, p. 2, c. 1
M.
Dopplemayer & Bro., have opened a Saloon where those wishing to regale
themselves with Ice Cream or almost any kind of cooling beverage can be
accommodated, in city order. They
are also prepared to supply their customers with groceries and fancy stores.
For further particulars, refer to their advertisement.
HARRISON FLAG [MARSHALL, TX], May 18, 1860, p. 2, c. 2
From a
notice we have seen of a report of the late Tyler Convention, given through the
Reporter of that place, the citizens of Tyler have to resort to primitive means
to obtain light. If the Reporter
man was in earnest about the court house being lighted up with two tallow
candles the people of that place may get the finest spermaceti by accompanying
an order with the cash to any of our numerous family stores. As we feel friendly disposed towards the editor we will make
no charge for the important information disclosed.
HARRISON FLAG [MARSHALL, TX], May 18, 1860, p. 2, c. 2
The
Tri-Weekly Galveston News of the 10th inst., says the U. S. District
Court Hon. J. C. Watrous presiding, commenced its session on Monday last.
Judge L. E. Thompson is acting as District Attorney; Mr. Stoy [?] acting
Marshal. There are two petit
juries, but no grand jury, as there appeared no criminal cases on the docket.
HARRISON FLAG [MARSHALL, TX], May 18, 1860, p. 2, c. 2
The
editor of the Rusk Enquirer has received a letter from Capt. T. T. Gammage
announcing his arrival on the Rio Grande with his company of 37 men.
HARRISON FLAG [MARSHALL, TX], May 25, 1860—almost totally
unreadable
HARRISON FLAG [MARSHALL, TX], June 1, 1860, p. 1, c. 6
Advice
Not Wanted.—"My dear," said Mrs. Dogberry to her daughter, "you
should not hold your dress so very high in crossing the street."
"Then,
ma," replied the maiden, "how shall I ever show the beauty of my
flounced panteletts [sic] that have almost ruined my eyesight to make?—Sure I
don't care at all if the beaux do look at me."
Here
the young lady gave a kinder arch look over the left shoulder.
Mrs.
Dogberry then went in about the "orful sin of vanity" and "the
beauty of decorum," and retired to her chamber.
HARRISON FLAG [MARSHALL, TX], June 1, 1860, p. 2, c. 1
Summary: Article on balloon
ascension, barely legible
HARRISON FLAG [MARSHALL, TX], June 1, 1860, p. 2, c. 7
Summary: Advertisement for Peak
Family bell ringers, details illegible
HARRISON FLAG [MARSHALL, TX], June 8, 1860, p. 1, c. 5
Lake
and Bayou Improvement.—Capt. Wm. Perry, who has lately returned with all the
necessary improvements, will commence his work of improving our Lake and Bayou
navigation, as soon as the water becomes two feet lower.
He will dam up such points as need work, and by the means of a pump he
has, purchased which will discharge 3,000 gallons of water per minute, expects
to keep the bed of the stream naked, and accessible, thereby enabling every lick
to be advantageously struck. This
mode of work has proved highly successful elsewhere, and the Capt. manifests the
utmost confidence in its successful application to his contract.
It is not only sure but, he believes, the most speedy process by which to
complete his contract—and, moreover, when the work is done it will be well
done. Our citizens have the utmost
confidence in his experience and judgment about such matters, and that he will
complete the work as soon as it can be done.—Jefferson Herald & Gazette.
HARRISON FLAG [MARSHALL, TX], June 8, 1860, p. 2, c. 1
Summary: Report on Peak Family bell
ringers—not entirely legible
HARRISON FLAG [MARSHALL, TX], June 8, 1860, p. 2, c. 3
Summary: Article from Tyler
Reporter, illegible
HARRISON FLAG [MARSHALL, TX], June 15, 1860, p. 2, c. 1
Henderson
Masonic Female Institute.—The East Texas Times of Henderson gives notice of a
meeting to be held there on the 16th inst. for the purpose of taking
into consideration the propriety of employing a competent teacher to preside
over the Institute. The editor says
that Prof. Eaton, of Marshall has been spoken of as a proper person for the
position of which, we have to say, that those who have canvassed his claims are
not in the least mistaken as to his merits, nor to those of his excellent and
accomplished lady whose name has also been favorably mentioned in this
connection. Whether the people of
Harrison county will listen to the proposition for their removal, and whether
the able President of the Marshall Masonic Institute, the Rev. Otis Smith, will
consent to part with them are difficulties that present themselves to our mind.
HARRISON FLAG [MARSHALL, TX], June 22, 1860, p. 2, c. 1
Summary: Short article on KGC—unreadable
HARRISON FLAG [MARSHALL, TX], June 22, 1860, p. 2, c. 1
Summary: Masonic Female
Institute—unreadable
HARRISON FLAG [MARSHALL, TX], June 22, 1860, p. 2, c. 1
Summary: Article on Mansfield LA
Female Institute—unreadable
HARRISON FLAG [MARSHALL, TX], June 29, 1860, p. 1, c. 7
The
Examination—the examination of the pupils of the Marshall Masonic Female
Institute has been the paramount subject of interest for the week.
Our health would not permit us to attend.
The public manifested intense interest in the exercises, as proven by
very large audiences from the beginning to the close.
Many persons were in attendance from sister Counties and Parishes of
Louisiana. We have heard the expression of but one opinion, and that is
highly flattering to the Faculty and students.
As we presume a report will be prepared by a committee for publication we
shall not extend our remarks.
Marshall
University.—The public will remember that the examination of the above
institution will commence on Monday next. Although
the number of students is not very great we are led to believe that it will be
one of the most interesting examinations ever had in the building.
Some of the classes are sufficiently advanced for their examinations to
afford interest to men of education. Exhibition
of declamation during the exercises.
HARRISON FLAG [MARSHALL, TX], July 6, 1860, p. 1, c. 7
The
Camel vs. the Mule.—An Alabama friend who knows "all about" the
camels, recently introduced there and in Texas, says:
"Our
planters in cotton seem afraid to risk a cent in any new enterprise.
Our friend R., has not been able to get any one to take hold of the
camels but himself.—He has four grown ones at work plowing.
Also, two very fine three year olds—two females and four studs.
He will emasculate the two youngest studs this month, and expects a calf
from his oldest female in January next.
"He
says that one camel can do the work of two mules, and will take less to keep him
than a mule or a cow. There are
twenty-eight camels for sale in Texas, belonging to Mrs. Watson.
Price for grown camels $450 per head; young ones, three years old, $350,
delivered at Galveston or Indianola, for cash, or city paper, in New
Orleans."
HARRISON FLAG [MARSHALL, TX], July 6, 1860, p. 1, c. 7
"Mary,
my love, do you remember the text this morning?"
"No,
Papa, I never can remember the text, I've got such a bad memory."
"Mary,"
said her mother, "did you notice Susan Brown?"
"Oh,
yes; what a fright! She had her
last year's bonnet done up, pea green silk, a black lace mantilla, brown
gaiters, an imitation Honiton collar, a lava bracelet, her old ear drops, and
such a fan! Oh, my!"
Mother.—"Well,
my dear, your memory is improving."
HARRISON FLAG [MARSHALL, TX], July 6, 1860, p. 1, c. 6
Tom
Ochiltree.—Tom Ochiltree is one of the Texas seceding delegates.
We knew Tom as well as his father, several years ago.
Tom was then very active and fond of the girls.
We do not wonder at his FIRE-EATING proclivities—his head is about the
color of a lighted cigar in a dark night. Tom
and little Dickey no doubt framed the celebrated address to the Democracy of
Texas. What a glorious thing these
conventions are, and what sublime representatives are sent to them to dictate to
the people! Stand aside heroes and
sages, and let eighteen year old boys dictate for the country!—Fast age this!
the country is progressing rapidly—to ruin.—Colorado Citizen.
HARRISON FLAG [MARSHALL, TX], July 6, 1860, p. 1, c. 7
A
lady, paying a visit to her daughter, who was a young widow, asked her why she
wore the widow's garb so long?
"Dear
mamma, don't you see?" replied the daughter, "it saves me the expense
of advertising for a husband, as every one can see that I am on the list for
sale by private contract."
HARRISON FLAG [MARSHALL, TX], July 6, 1860, p. 1, c. 6
Some
bachelors join the army because they like war; some married men because they
love peace.
HARRISON FLAG [MARSHALL, TX], July 6, 1860, p. 1, c. 7
Amongst
the ingenious inventions of the day is one for working buttonholes.
It will work ten in a minute.
HARRISON FLAG [MARSHALL, TX], July 20, 1860, p. 2, c. 1
K.'s
G. C.—We have been shown by Maj. S. J. Richardson several letters and
documents of recent date, from the Commander-in-Chief of this order, stating
that he will be in this place bout the 20th of August next, and
showing the organization to be established on a new and different basis.
We are
authorized by Maj. Richardson to state that those friendly to the enterprise
desirous of information upon the subject can be furnished with the particulars
by applying to, or addressing him at Marshall, Texas.
HARRISON FLAG [MARSHALL, TX], July 27, 1860, p. 1, c. 7
About
the close of the Texas war, a steamboat was running between New Orleans and
Galveston, the captain of which in a truly patriotic way, let it be known that
he would transport the discharged Texan soldiers to New Orleans, without fee or
reward. It may be made a sure thing
that the worthy steamboatman was not without calls. One day a stalwart fellow came down and demanded passage on
the aforesaid promise. The Captain
looked at him for a moment, and then asked:
"Were
you in the war?"
"Yes,
sir," responded the six-footer.
"What
were you?" said the Captain.
"A
high private," answered the applicant.
"Go
right on board, stranger," said the Captain. "I've been running this boat two years and carried up
more than two thousand men that were engaged in the war, but you're the first
private that I have as yet met with."
HARRISON FLAG [MARSHALL, TX], August 3, 1860, p. 1, c. 7
A Word
for the Ladies.—It was stated that hundreds of cases of deafness among the
female population are very week brought before the attention of the leading
aurists in London, who attribute them to the prevailing fashion of wearing the
hair. The ear is covered and loaded
with a "mass of bandoline, horse-hair, wool, and other articles," by
which the free current of air, indispensable to the healthy action of the
auricle is impeded and at least deafness is produced.
HARRISON FLAG [MARSHALL, TX], August 3, 1860, p. 2, c. 1
To Voters.
By agreement between the proprietors of the Press at Marshall, none other
than a general ticket with all the names for office, from the highest to the
lowest has been printed for Harrison county.
Voters
should be particular in rubbing out rejected names so as not to deface those
voted for. By using ink the vote is
often lost by blotting in folding the ticket before dry.
A colored pencil is the best to cross off names.
HARRISON FLAG [MARSHALL, TX], August 10, 1860, p. 1, c. 4
Creditors
never annoy a man as long as he is getting up in the world.
A man of wealth only pays his butcher once a year.
Let bad luck overtake him, and his beef bill will come in every morning
as regular as breakfast. Again we
say, never plead guilty to poverty. So
far as this world is concerned, you might as better admit that you are a
scoundrel.
HARRISON FLAG [MARSHALL, TX], August 10, 1860, p. 1, c. 4
The
Home Journal is responsible for the latest and best definition of beauty—that
which has troubled the brain of the wisest philosophers. It says: "Beauty,
dear readers, is the woman you love—whatever she may seem to others."
HARRISON FLAG [MARSHALL, TX], September 1, 1860, p. 2, c. 2
Marshall
is Improving Steadily.—New buildings going up in different portions of town.
Not only one new building in progress, but others are being beautified
and improved. The city authorities
seem to be anxious to keep the public square in a condition of no disparagement
when compared with the suburbs.
One
item of improvement deserving special commendation is the removing the up and
down plank walk in front of the buildings surrounding the public square and
supplying their place by a good brick pavement. True it costs something, and the times are hard, but who
would not rather pay a trifle and have an even walk than to have his sides
jolted and his tongue bitten every time he attempted to pass along the sidewalk.
Besides this it is a good policy to keep our mechanics engaged, their
bread comes by the labor of their hands and if they can not find employment
their means of getting provisions are proportionably lessened.
HARRISON FLAG [MARSHALL, TX], September 1, 1860, p. 3, c. 4
Embroidery.
A very large and complete stock of embroidered, jaconet and Swiss
collars, jaconet and Swiss collars and sleeves in setts, embroidered thread
cambric handkerchiefs, jaconet and Swiss edgings and insertings, jaconet, Swiss
and linen flouncing just arrived and for sale by
Bradfield & Talley.
Berages
A beautiful lot of fancy, flounced, and double skirt berages; satin
stripe do; white and black do; together with every color of crape berages just
received and for sale at reduced prices by
Bradfield & Talley.
Muslins.
A very large and well selected stock of flounced and double skirt
organdie robes, together with a rich line of printed and solid colored lawns are
now being sold at low prices by
Bradfield & Talley.
Books! Books!!
A very large lot of school and miscellaneous books, foolscap, legal cap,
letter and note paper, buff envelopes, cards, envelopes and visiting cards, pens
and ink, just received by
Bradfield & Talley.
Hosiery.
A large and full stock of Ladies' and Men's black, slate, mixed and white
cotton hose, ladies' white linen hose, white silk hose just received and for
sale by
Bradfield & Talley.
Gloves.
Every kind of ladies' , gentlemen's and miss's gloves, may be had at
Bradfield & Talley.
Perfumery.
Lubin's genuine extracts, Harrison's extracts, Bell colognes, German
cologne, together with a large variety of toilet soap, just received and for
sale by
Bradfield & Talley.
HARRISON FLAG [MARSHALL, TX], September 15, 1860, p. 3, c. 3
Mansfield Female
College.
-----
Faculty
Rev. Charles B. Stuart, President.
Professor of Moral, Mental, and Natural Science.
John W. Stuart, A.M.
Professor of Ancient Languages and Mathematics.
W. S. Donaldson, M.D.
Professor of Vocal and Instrumental Music Thor-
ough Bass and Composition.
Mrs. Lizzie Stuart.
Instructress in English Literature and Mathe-
matics.
Miss F. A. Batchelor.
Instructress in the Primary Department.
M'll _______________ ( a native of France.)
Instructress in Modern Languages and Music.
Miss Hattie M. Cushman,
Instructress in Vocal and Instrumental Music.
Miss Annette C. Rice,
Instructress in the Ornamental Department.
Mr. A. H. Thomas,
Steward and Bursar.
Mrs. Emma E. A. Thomas.
Stewardess.
The next Collegiate ;year commences on Wednesday, October 3d, 1860.
For further information apply to Mr. A. H. Thomas or to J. L. Scales,
Secretary Board of Trustees.
Lewis Phillips,
President Board Trustees.
J. L.
Scales, Secretary.
HARRISON FLAG [MARSHALL, TX], September 15, 1860, p. 3, c. 3
New Barber Shop.
Shaving, Hair-Cutting and Shampooing.
First Door East of Phil. Brown's Exchange.
Alex Douaire, recently from one of the most fashionable French saloons in
New Orleans, has permanently located in Marshall for the purpose of carrying on
the above business, and solicits a share of patronage. His experience is such as to enable him to give satisfaction
even to the most fastidious.|
Among the many toilet articles manufactured and kept for sale by him, is
his inimitable Hair coloring. Without
staining the skin of the head this preparation darkens and gives to grey hair
its original color, and while it causes the hair to grow strong and healthy, it
keeps it glossy and clean. It is
one of the best articles for dressing the hair ever prepared.
HARRISON FLAG [MARSHALL, TX], September 15, 1860, p. 3, c. 3
Keachi Female
College.
Faculty.
Rev. J. H. Tucker.
President and Professor of Mental and Moral Sci-
ence and Ancient Languages
Miss S. C. Wilcox.
Instructress in English Literature, Drawing and
Painting.
Miss P. E. Gary.
Instructress in Academic Department and Embroi-
dery
Prof. C. F. Schultz.
Instructor of Music.
Miss Sallie E. Carlton.
Instructress in Music—Piano Forte.
Miss S. C. Wilcox.
Instructress in French and Music—Guitar and
Piano.
Miss Sallie P. Scogin,
Librarian.
T. L. Scogin, Esq.
Steward's Department.
Mrs. T. L. Scogin,
Matron.
The Autumnal Term of this Institution commences on the 1st day
of September. The Spring Term will
immediately succeed, without any vacation.
Each Term, twenty-one weeks.
Rates
of Tuition for the term of twenty one weeks as follows:
Primary Department
$15 00
Academic Department
20 00
Collegiate Department
25 00
Incidental Expense
1 00
Music—Piano or Guitar
25 00
Drawing and Painting
15 00
Embroidery
10 00
Board, including fuel, lights, and washing
55 00
Pupils
entering at the opening of the Term, or two weeks thereafter, are charged for
the Term. No deduction for absence,
except in cases of protracted illness.
Thos. M. Gatlin,
President Board of Trustees.
HARRISON FLAG [MARSHALL, TX], September 15, 1860, p. 3, c. 3
Marshall
University,
a
Classical, Mathematical,
Scientific, and Military
Institute,
F. S. Bass, V.M.I., Pres't,
Supported by a Corps of able and experienced Professors and
Teachers.
This
Institution will re-open on Monday, September 3rd.
Negotiations
are now pending to place in every department, professors of the highest
qualifications and experience to fill their positions.
The
salaries paid to teachers are such as to command the best talent, and no pains
or expense shall be spared to make this school well worthy the patronage of an
educated and intelligent community.
The
Tuition fees have been fixed at the following rates, viz:
Ancient
Languages, Pure and Mixed Mathematics, the solid Sciences, Civil and Military
Engineering, Fix'd Fortifications, &c., per Session
$30 00
English
Grammar, Geography, Arithmetic, History, &c.
20 00
Primary
Class
15 00
French,
Spanish, German, and Italian, each (extra.)
10 00
Fuel
for College
1 00
F. S. Bass, President.
HARRISON FLAG [MARSHALL, TX], September 22, 1860, p. 2, c. 4
The Spirit of Exaggeration and Its Effect.
There have been two, and but two, severe fires in Texas—one at
Dallas, and the other at Henderson. In
each case a large portion of the public square and business houses were
consumed, but in neither case was a tenth part of the town, in extent of
value, destroyed. At Austin there
was a steam mill and a carpenter's shop burned.
A few other isolated cases have occurred, doubtless, but really at this
writing we are unable to locate but one with certainty; that of a saw mill near
Marshall. We have heard of rumors
upon rumors of threatened destruction, report after report of poisons found with
negroes, but we have heard of no insurrection nor attempt at insurrection, and
with all the immense quantities of strychnine, arsenic, &c., &c., among
the negroes, we have heard of not a single case of poisoning in the state.
However
different it may have been at Dallas, it seems Henderson was fired by one
of its own citizens. The burning of
the steam mill at Austin, from the circumstances of the case, must have been
accidental. The one near Marshall
occurred at noonday, with the proprietor and operatives all on the ground.
The carpenter shop at Austin was fired by a negro child only nine years
old, of her own volition, just to see the shavings blaze.
The great wonder is that there was not ten times the destruction from
fire.
The
season has been dry n Texas, beyond anything of the kind within the memory of
man. The weather was hot, intensely
hot, the mercury standing at one hundred and ten, and at one time as high as
a hundred and eleven [?] in the shade! It is a well authenticated fact that glass tumblers split
open on being suddenly filled with cold water—just as they do when plunged
into hot water in freezing weather. All
nature was up to fever heat so that you felt a man's hand to be far cooler than
a piece of cold [?]. Every thing
was as dry as the inside of a powder magazine and almost as combustible.
In this country almost every body, children and grown folks, negroes and
whites, handled matches. Half, perhaps more than half of the [ ] matches and many
a Young American, and especially about the towns, [illegible section—get from
original]
HARRISON FLAG [MARSHALL, TX], September 29, 1860, p. 2, c. 3
Hands Off!
Editor of the Harrison Flag:
Dear
Sir—You will please discontinue your paper, directed to me, as I cannot longer
stand your political gyrations and unconditional submission to abolition rule,
as evidenced in your last number, in the event of the election of a
black-republican President of the United States.
I hold
that any paper in the south, advocating such abject soap tail and degrading
doctrines, places itself in the same category with the "Free Press" of
Quitman—the editor of which was driven out the state by an infuriated and
enraged people, and more recently he was hung in an abolition raid in northern
Texas. Farewell.
W. R. D. Ward.
Persons unaccustomed to the practice of the "ungentle craft,"
might suppose at first sight Col. Ward had forfeited his right to a notice at
our hands; but it is never so with the gallant knights of the quill. The author, like ourself, is an old pro tem editor, and
perfectly familiar with the usages of the press.
Among our liberal
minded and intelligent fraternity, gentlemen never take, nor do gentlemen
ever give, personal offence because of a difference in political opinions.
Were it otherwise, the much boasted freedom of the press could not
survive a single campaign. The press has become an established institution—one of the
regular departments of state. It
cannot be dispensed with. It should
not abuse its trust, but even at the hazard of this occasionally, it must not be
trammelled much less silenced. It
is the champion of liberty, the fast friend of justice, the advocate of reason,
the messenger of thought and pioneer of civilization. In a civilized age the pen, tipped with the diamond of truth,
is "mightier than the sword," and a vigorous and enlightened press,
more potent than an army. (Napoleon
said he had rather encounter forty regiments than one newspaper.)
It encourages learning, protects virtue, exposes vice, ridicules folly,
and places a scourge in every honest hand to chastise villainy.
Silence it, and the dark ages are upon you. . . .
HARRISON FLAG [MARSHALL, TX], September 29, 1860, p. 2, c.
5
Exchanging
Compliments.—"O. K." (Ordinarily Korned) gets off a good thing in
the last Sentinel, published at Tyler. It
is at our expense, and intended to be witty.
It might be thought so had not "O. K." mistaken vulgarity
for wit and attempted to play the critic on a grave subject—a
dissolution of this Union.
We
have only to say to "O. K." "that satire and ridicule is the
argument of fools," and on all proper occasions we answer the class
according to their folly. He can cackle
on or hiss on as he will, for in the long catalogue of animated nature, we
know of but two species with the undoubted right to question his prerogative.
The one was a deceiver, and was condemned at creation to crawl upon his
belly and lap the dust. It is his calling to wound the heel, and he has our
permission to practice it; but he must not forget that it is our privilege to
"bruise his head" and we shall not forget it.
The other we speak of has not the wisdom of the serpent, but is
sometimes useful.
Cackle
on, cackle on then, by all means. Rome,
the mistress of the world, was once saved by the cackling of a goose, and
"O. K." may yet be useful.
Nero
fiddled while Rome was in flames; then why should not "O. K." cackle
over the Union (a thousand times greater than Rome) in ruins?
HARRISON FLAG [MARSHALL, TX], October 6, 1860, p. 2, c. 1
Dinner
by the Ladies.—This was really a splendid, a down right magnificent affair of
the kind. Everything the country
could afford or the market furnish in the greatest abundance of the best
quality, and served up in the very best possible style was on the table.
It was an impromptu affair—started not forty eight hours before it came
off—and yet almost every one who heard of it, without waiting for an
invitation, contributed something hansome [sic].
After all had partaken bountifully there was enough left to feed a
hundred men, and the young folks insisted on having a supper; and subsequently a
dinner the following the day. There
was a mutual, and an agreeable surprise all round and nothing has ever taken
better.
The
Ladies of the Benevolent Society are under many and lasting obligations as well
as the ladies who so promptly and so liberally contributed to the dinner, as to
the gentlemen who patronized.
HARRISON FLAG [MARSHALL, TX], October 6, 1860, p. 2, c. 2
Speaking on Wednesday.
There was a pretty fair turn out notwithstanding the inclemency of the
weather. We in common with the
friends of the Union were sadly disappointed when it was made known, on account
of the illness of Mr. Epperson, he could not be here.
Hon.
G. W. Whitmore lives 18 or 20 miles in the country and did not get in till a
late hour through the rain. There
was no other chance, so at about twelve o'clock he faced the music, and in the
expressive language of a friend, carried up his corner for the Bell Everett
Union cause to the entire satisfaction of all.
At
half past twelve dinner was announced, when all adjourned till two. . . .
HARRISON FLAG [MARSHALL, TX], November 10, 1860, p. 1, c. 3
Crinoline
Done For.—As Paris gives the fashions to every place boasting of high
civilization, it is fair to presume that the days of crinoline are numbered.
A new style of skirts is meeting with great favor there, as it supports
the dress without whalebone or steel, relying for this purpose merely on the
harmonious and skilful disposition of the platted muslin of which it is
composed. The multiplied
skirt, or jupon Multiple, as it is called, supports a series of
volants, tapered and grouped like a fan, which are moved at will by means of
metalic [sic] eyelets. For
travelling [sic] it is quite agreeable as it occupies little space.
HARRISON FLAG [MARSHALL, TX], November 10, 1860, p. 2, c. 1
General
Buckley, whose position as President of the American Legion, or Knights of the
Golden Circle has rendered him a celebrity of the first magnitude, arrived in
Marshall on Wednesday evening last by the western stage.
He goes hence to Jefferson where he will address the people as to the
objects of the mystic order over which he presides.
We must defer remarks as to his address here, till our next issue.
HARRISON FLAG [MARSHALL, TX], November 17, 1860, p. 2, c. 1
Secession
Flag.—While we write, (Friday morning,) a pole is being peeled on the Public
Square just in front of our office, which is to be raised, as soon as prepared,
we are informed, for the support and display of a disunion flag.
The secessionists here think the news received warrant the belief of
Lincoln's election. News received on Thursday evening leads to the conclusion
that Bell carried a majority of the norther states.
This is too much for disunionists to stand, therefore, as a pastime they
betake to pole raising. It is
pretty hard to stand, considering that they contend they proved Bell to be an
abolitionist, to grant which and the truth of the rumor as to the election, the
abolition doctrine prevailed North and South.
Instead of pole raisings the slanderers of John Bell had better be
seeking forgiveness for sins committed.
HARRISON FLAG [MARSHALL, TX], November 17, 1860, p. 2, c. 2
General Bickley.
When men shoulder responsibilities so weighty as those assumed by General
Bickley, it is but reasonable that journals in whose midst he is promulgating
his dogmas, should notice them as in their respective opinions they deserve to
be noticed. He is, we doubt not, an
accomplished man, and, according to our opinion, one among the best speakers of
the country. Of this fact he seems
perfectly conscious. In our
opinion, he has misdirected his mission, and that, instead of coming to the
extreme south to teach that slavery is right and in accordance with the
teachings of Holy Write, he should have directed his steps to a portion of the
country where this position is controverted.
The evidences he produces and the arguments upon them are unanswerable;
but of what avail are they where every man won and child concur?
It is true that in the late canvass much was said about a united
south—about the south presenting a united front as that of one man; but when
you enquired of those praters about unity—what they meant, they informed you
that a concentration upon the secession nominees was all that was necessary.
Look at the absurdity of the thing:
could a concentration of votes upon any man, or set of men, possibly make
the people of the south more united in feeling and sentiment than they are
already upon the subject of the institution of slavery?
Certainly not. But you must
vote for the Yancey nominee to prove to the non-slaveholding states that the
"plunge the cotton states into revolution" party had the elements to
make good the threats of its leaders. Would
it not have been more the part of wisdom to have first examined whether or not
the teachings of the leaders met your approbation, and after having done so,
acted upon the result of your investigations?
We think so.
But we
intended to speak more of the purposes of the gentleman whose name appears in
the caption than anything else. From
what we have heard of him, we can best class him as a satellite or rather
forerunner of Yancey, the dissolutionist. Their
opinions, as to the powerless condition of the federal government are identical
as we have shown elsewhere. Let us
pursue them a little further. You
all know that Yancey advises committees of safety all over the cotton states.
By this means he says (we here print his own language):
"We
shall fire the southern heart, [?] the southern mind, give courage to each
other, and at the proper moment, by one organized [rest illegible]
The
general is not imitative—or, as he would say, analytic, but [rest illegible]
HARRISON FLAG [MARSHALL, TX], November 17, 1860, p. 2, c. 3
Note: Article entitled Knights of
the Golden Circle—illegible
HARRISON FLAG [MARSHALL, TX], November 24, 1860, p. 2, c. 1
We are
under obligations to Senator Wigfall for a pamphlet copy of his speech on the
"pending political issues, delivered at Tyler, Smith county, Texas,
September 3d, 1860," published at the request of the secession club at that
place. We shall give it a careful
reading as soon as business exactions will permit.
HARRISON FLAG [MARSHALL, TX], November 24, 1860, p. 2, c. 3
Note: Article entitled General
Bickley—largely illegible
HARRISON FLAG [MARSHALL, TX], December 8, 1860, p. 2, c. 1
Ladies
Fair.—It affords us pleasure to comply with the request of our lady friends to
publish a notice, headed a shown, to be seen in another column.
Here is an opportunity to expend a pittance of money in a cause
praiseworthy and dear to us all, for which expenditure we will obtain admittance
to choice table comforts and an intellectual banquet.
This will be an occasion at which the young and the old will be equal
participants; and, the beauty of it is, that neither will have to incur the
expense of a prescription from a corn doctor afterwards.
HARRISON FLAG [MARSHALL, TX], December 8, 1860, p. 2, c. 1
Panic.—The
money panic is alarming—banks, north and south, are reported as suspended.
We are sorry that, for the want of space, we cannot give the readers the
benefit of numerous extracts on the subject.
HARRISON FLAG [MARSHALL, TX], December 8, 1860, p. 2, c. 1
We are
favored with a visit at our office by Mr. Douglas, associate editor of the Tyler
Reporter, on Thursday last, on his return from a tour, taking New Orleans in his
route. He sports the cockade,
thought to be an ultra secession insignia but notwithstanding, he supports quite
conservative in conversation on the ongoing question—advises deliberation.
HARRISON FLAG [MARSHALL, TX], December 8, 1860, p. 2, c. 6
Gallant
Horses.—The Jefferson Herald and Gazette speaks as follows in reference to the
late races near that place:
"The
late races over the Jefferson course have passed off smoothly to the entire
satisfaction and edification of all present.
A great many ladies graced the track with their smiles and beauty, which
seemed to encourage the fleetfooted steed, and bear him on like the winds of a
stormy March."
Is the
editor certain which accelerated the movements of the horses the most, the
smiles of the ladies or the attachments to the heels of the riders?
HARRISON FLAG [MARSHALL, TX], December 8, 1860, p. 2, c. 6
The
Memphis Appeal, referring to the organization of Minute men in that place says,
after giving their objects as the editor understand them:
Under
these circumstances we would feel ourselves recreant to duty, and disloyal to
the country under which we live, did we fail to raise our voice against this treasonable
move.
HARRISON FLAG [MARSHALL, TX], December 8, 1860, p. 3, c. 3
Ladies' Fair.
The first Annual Fair of the Presbyterian Benevolent Society will be held
in Marshall, on Thursday the 26th inst., at which time an elegant
Supper will be furnished and a large and fine assortment of Fancy Articles
exhibited.
HARRISON FLAG [MARSHALL, TX], December 15, 1860, p. 1, c. 4
Liquorice.—Mr.
Poinsard has left with us a bundle of roots of this plant, which he has
introduced from France. Of all the
plants imported, one alone survived, so luxuriant was its growth, that it
radiates, notwithstanding the drouth, covering the ground for a circumference of
fifteen feet, proving that irrigation is not necessary to its successful growth.
Indeed so eminently successful has Mr. Poinsard been, both in relation to
its acclimature and culture, that
he looks forward to the liquorice root becoming speedily as much an article of
export from Western Texas, as Ginseng is from Minnesota.—San Antonio Ledger.
HARRISON FLAG [MARSHALL, TX], December 15, 1860, p. 1, c. 4
We are informed by a gentleman just from Fort Worth, that the disunionists of
Tarrant county undertook to raise the Lone Star on Monday last.
They had a flag made, had hoisted it a few times to see how it would look
but when the citizens heard the question of disunion discussed and the vote was
taken they could not [illegible] large majority being in favor of the Union.
The meeting was adjourned to another day—McKinney Messenger.
HARRISON FLAG [MARSHALL, TX], December 15, 1860, p. 1, c. 7
The McKinney
Messenger in remarking of Long John Wentworth's defiant article published in the
Chicago Democrat, over which he presides, and over which so much fuss has been
made and elsewhere, it says:
A strong secession
document, truly, if the people of Texas were as silly as the little boy, who,
returning home very wet one cold day, was asked by his mother—"O, my
dear, how came you so wet?"—"Why ma, one of the boys said I daren't
jump into the mill point, and by jingoes, I tell you, I ain't
to be dared!"
HARRISON FLAG [MARSHALL, TX], December 15, 1860, p. 2, c. 1
We
would invite attention to the advertisement of a 'Grand Concert' by the Ladies
of the Benevolent Society.
HARRISON FLAG [MARSHALL, TX], December 15, 1860, p. 2, c. 1
The
Verandah Hotel is a new brick edifice recently opened in Shreveport La., and is
entitled to rank as a first class house in all the region of country North and
West after leaving New Orleans. Its
table is supplied with the very best that the market affords and that very best
is properly prepared.
The
landlord, Capt. S. P. Day, is an old caterer, of portly commanding figure, of
open countenance, such as tells his guests, "you are at home," without
the trouble of repeating it.
Mr.
Isaac C. Henley, in the office, is a courteous gentleman and seems to take
pleasure in having every necessary order of the guest promptly attended to.
This
house is every way worthy of patronage, and we take pleasure in noticing it an
asking its patronage by our Texas friends.
Refer
to advertisement.
HARRISON FLAG [MARSHALL, TX], December 15, 1860, p. 2, c. 4
A
gentleman remarked a few days ago, in Marshall to a crowd, that this thing of
separate State secession, by which the seceding State surrenders her interests
in the Army, the Navy, the Treasury and all other rights she has in the
sisterhood of States, reminded him of a man well armed meeting a violent
personal enemy to whom he hands his double barreled shot gun, revolver and Bowie
knife, then pulls of his coat and tells his enemy that he intends to thrash him
on the spot.
HARRISON FLAG [MARSHALL, TX], December 15, 1860, p. 3. c. 1
Le
Mat's Grape Shot Revolver.—We had an opportunity yesterday of examining the
most effective weapon in the shape of a pistol we have yet seen.
It is an invention of Le Mat, of Louisiana, and has received the emphatic
approval of General Scott, the Secretary of War, and a board of Army officers
appointed to test the merits of new inventions in arms.
It is about the size and weight of Colt's Army Revolver, upon which it is
modeled, all the advantages of which it embraces, but has several more chambers,
and a centre barrel upon which the others revolve, which (centre barrel) carries
a heavy minie ball, or a cartridge of fifteen buckshot.
All of these are discharged by one hammer and trigger, and together
deliver ten shots. There is also an
extra set of chambers, easily attached, which increase the discharge to
nineteen. The weapon is loaded and
handled in the same manner as the Army Revolver, and carries the same distance.
The pistol is handsomely finished, and can be sold for $30.
The presence of so many military gentlemen in the city, the condition of
the country, and the purpose of Virginia to embark in the manufacture of arms,
render the visit of Col. Le Mat to our City very opportune, and we commend him
to the courtesy of those whose position particularly demands that they should be
looking to the defences of the State.—Richmond Whig.
HARRISON FLAG [MARSHALL, TX], December 23, 1860, p. 2, c. 3
Kaufman
County.—A large and enthusiastic Union meeting was held in this county a few
days ago. A splendid Flag
containing the Stars and Stripes was presented in an elegant manner, on behalf
of the ladies, by Miss [illegible], and accepted by Judge B. A. Reese in behalf
of the citizens of the county.—The Judge said that he was in favor of a
Southern Convention of delegates, for the purpose of tendering to the North the
ultimatum our present position demands, in order to secure peace and harmony in
the Union.
[second
paragraph illegible]
HARRISON FLAG [MARSHALL, TX], December 29, 1860, p. 1, c. 4
Supper and Fair
On Friday Night, January 25th, 1861
In Freeman's Hall, Jefferson.
To aid in building the Baptist Meeting House. The articles for sale are useful as well as
Exceedingly Beautiful.
The Ladies have performed a great deal of labor to make the Fair
attractive. Their taste will be
displayed in furnishing a banquet for all who attend.
The
Jefferson Brass Band will furnish their choice Music.
HARRISON FLAG [MARSHALL, TX], January 5, 1861, p. 1, c. 6
Fanny
Fern Sick.—Fanny Fern must be seriously sick, judging from the following late
pronunciamento:
"I
am sick of politics. I am sick of
torchlight fizzles. I am sick of
the Prince. I am sick of men who
never talk sense to women. I am
sick of boys of seven smoking cigars. I
am sick of gloomy Pharisees, worldly idealess sermons, and narrow creeds.
I am sick of lawless Sabbatarians, and female infidels, and freelovers.
I am sick of unhealthy, diseased books, full of mystification and
transcendental bosh. I am sick of
'chaste ribbons' and 'ravishing lace.' I
am sick, in the age which produced a Bronte and a Browning, of the prate of men
who assert that every woman should be a perfect housekeeper, and fail to add,
that every man should be a perfect carpenter.
I am as sick of women self styled 'literary,' who think it a proof of
genius to despise every-day household duties."
HARRISON FLAG [MARSHALL, TX], January 12, 1861, p. 2, c. 1
To the Patrons of the Flag.
The editor of the Flag has been very sick for more than four
weeks—confined to his room all the time, and most of it to his bed.
His health is still so feeble as to render labor of mind or body
dangerous to his mortal existence. The
pro tem can no longer attend to the duties of the editorial chair without
neglect of business and obligations he has assumed for others.—Owing to these
reasons, and others, which need not here be mentioned, there will be a temporary
suspension of the Flag. At what
time it will resume its regular issue, we cannot positively state.
We think it will be within six weeks, and we promise that it shall be
within that time, and much sooner than the fartherest limit, in the event of
returning health.
Should
the editor not improve in health during the brief suspension, so as to justify
the hope of an efficient discharge of duty to his patrons, the office will
change hands.
In the
meantime we shall have the accounts of those indebted to the office presented
for collection as far as possible; and we earnestly hope that our patrons will
come to our aid in this our time of great need.
After reading and considering of the reasons for the course adopted, we
hope our subscribers will justify it, and continue their favors.
Exchanges will oblige us by continuing their favors, unless the
suspension should prove of greater length than is mentioned or contemplated.
Any
Job Work with which our friends may feel disposed to favor us will be attended
to, as heretofore, with neatness and dispatch.
HARRISON FLAG [MARSHALL, TX], January 12, 1861, p. 2, c. 2
Sewing Machines.
I have on hand for sale a variety of Sewing Machines, to wit: Singer's, Wheeler & Wilson', Grover & Baker's, and
Booth & Parmenter's—all warranted to perform well, and will be sold
extremely low. Call at the Post
Office and examine.
T. A. Harris.
January
12, 1861.
HARRISON FLAG [MARSHALL, TX], January 12, 1861, p. 2, c. 2
Marshall Mill.
I feel myself under many obligations to the citizens of Marshall and
country for their patronage, and will grind their corn into good meal for
one-eighth in future. I hope the
good citizens will continue to patronise me.
James A. Coit.