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The Daily Dispatch: January 18, 1862., [Electronic resource], Galveston not to an abandoned. (search)
Galveston not to an abandoned.
--The Galveston News, now published at Houston, alluding to the report that the abandonment of Galveston had been determined upon, says:
We think we are authorized to say that this is entirely incorrect.
It is possible that Galveston may have to be abandoned but we venture to say that it will not be done without a straggle, otherwise we can see no some in the extensive defaces that have been constructed during the post five or six months, and which are still progressing with great activity.
Of one thing we are now sure, and that is that it the city is taken it will be at some cost to the captors, and will besides be a barren victory — for they will find nothing that it will pay to take away.
The Daily Dispatch: January 18, 1862., [Electronic resource], Proclamation from the Governor of Texas . (search)
Proclamation from the Governor of Texas.
--Governor Lubbock, of Texas, has issued a proclamation for bidding the removing, transporting to and storing of cotton at any point or depot, or any railroad in the State.
Also, that there shall be no cotton taken to or stored on the Trinity river, below Smith field; on the Sabine river, below Salem; on the Neches, below Hunt's Landing; on the Brazes, at or below Richmond; at or near the rivers Caney and Bernard, Nor shall there be any taken to Lavacea, Powder Hourn, Indianola, Matagorda or Galveston Bays, or city of Houston.
Owners and agents of railroad companies, captains and agents of steamboats, sailing vessels, and all other persons, are forbid from transporting cotton to any point designated.
The restriction is not intended to interfere with the transportation of the staple intended for use in the penitentiary.