NEWS ITEMS
John F. Simpson, prominent business man of Dallas, died in
that city June 26, 1920.
Mr. H. W. McGee of Marshall presented to the Association a
copy of a National
Register
extra, published at Washington, April
16, 1845, and containing the proclamation of President Anson
Jones, convening the congress of the Republic in extra session.
Rev. Johannes Mgebroff, author of Geschichte der ersten
deutschen evangelisch-Lutherischen Synode in Texas, died at his
home near Brenham, May 22, 1920.
Edgar Rye, author of The
Quirt
and
the
Spur:
Vanishing
Shad
-
ows
of
the
Texas
Frontier,
died at Los Angeles, California, June
7, 1920.
John W. Sansom, author of a pamphlet entitled Battle
of
Nueces
River,
died at his home in San Antonio, June 19, 1920.
Who
Was
"Democrat"?-—During an investigation by the State
Printing Board, at Austin, September 5, 1882, of certain charges
filed against the State Printer, the following facts were brought
out concerning a pamphlet addressed "To the people of Texas"
and signed "Democrat." It was written by Adjutant-General
W. H. King, and printed by the State Printer during August,
1882. The pamphlet embraces twelve octavo pages, and presents
m interesting, though partisan, resume of the political history of
Fexas from 1870 to 1882.
Authorship
of
a
Pamphlet
by
Curtius.—The library of the Uni-
versity of Texas recently acquired a pamphlet entitled: "Texas.
A brief account of the origin, progress and present state of the
colonial settlements of Texas.; together with an exposition of the
causes which have induced the existing war with Mexico. Ex-
tracted from a work entitled, 'A geographical, statistical and his-
torical account of Texas,' now nearly ready for the press. Some of
these numbers have appeared in the New Orleans Bee and Bulletin.
Nashville: Printed by S. Nye & Co, 1836." 8vo., 16 pp. The
preface' is signed "Curtius"; this pseudonym also appears at the
end of the text. The text is addressed "to an impartial world,"
and is divided into numbers I-IV.
A comparison of the text of this pamphlet with the text ot the
first twelve pages of an "Address of the Honorable Wm. H. Whar-
ton, delivered in New York, on Tuesday, April 26, 1836," shows
that entire paragraphs in the two publications are substantially
identical in language. Without, further proof one would conclude
that Wm. H. Wharton and "Curtius" are the same. In a letter
from Wm. H. Wharton to Henry Smith, dated Nashville, February
7, 1836, he says, "I have also published and sent on my Curtius
pamphlet."
The "Curtius" pamphlet was written in December, 1835, and
was published at Nashville about February 1, 1836. Several
errors in the pamphlet are corrected in the address, and in one
instance a misprint in the address is cleared up by the pamphlet,
In a note to the statement, quoted from Wharton s letter to
Smith, Dr. Garrison says, "For what was doubtless the matter
of this pamphlet, see" Telegraph
and
Texas
Register
for February
27 1836." The number of the Telegraph
referred to had trans-
ferred to its columns from those of the New Orleans Bee
Number
1. only of the four numbers constituting the complete pamphlet.
What became of the "work entitled 'A geographical, statistical
and historical account of Texas,' now nearly ready for the press,"
cited in the title of the Curtius pamphlet?
E. W. WINKLER.
E. W. WINKLER
How to cite:
E. W. Winkler, WINKLER, E. W., "News Items", Volume 24, Number 1, Southwestern Historical Quarterly Online, http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/publications/journals/shq/online/v024/n1/contrib_DIVL1152.html
[Accessed Sun Nov 23 2:57:21 CST 2008]
