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He must be able to spell well, read fluently, write a good hand, and [be] well advanced in Mathematics. In all these Gustus is woefully deficient. He learned nothing at Georgetown College. Since then he has not been at school. Gustus is much at my room, and is with me very obliging and kind. He is willing to go into the merchant service, but says that he would prefer to go to Galatin in Tennessee, and go to school there. He promises me that he will study and try and get an Education. He might do so, and if he would study he might make a bright and useful man. Whatever you wish done, I will do for you so far as I am able to serve you. I would not advise you to be at the trouble, or expense of coming all the way here about him, but say what you wish done, and, at this distance you can arrange it as well as if you were here. His time is wasting in idleness, but I hear of no mischief imputed to him. He sends his best love to you, and his brother and sister. Wishing you much happiness, I am truly your Friend Sam Houston. Mrs. E. E. Ewing. 1 0riginal in the Alexander Ewing Papers, The University of Texas Library. REMARKS IN THE SENATE, CONCERNING CHARGES AGAINST NAVAL OFFICERS, FEBRUARY 21, 1856 1 Mr. President: I offer the following resolution: Resolved, That the Secretary of the Navy communicate to the Senate all the correspondence to and from Captain Charles Boar- man, recently commanding the navy yard at New York, touching the inspection of the steam frigate San Jacinto, at New York, on her late return from the West Indies, via Key West; and any communication the Department may have made to Commodore McCauley, or Captain Stribling, of the Navy, (who commanded on board that ship,) on the same subject. I ask for the immediate consideration of the resolution. It calls for the information which I desire to obtain before the further discussion of the action of the late naval board. [The resolution was considered by unanimous consent, and agreed to.] And I also offer the following resolution, and ask for its imme- diate consideration:
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