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to their own state. After many hardships and harrowing experiences, sev- eral fights with the Indians, suffering from cold and hunger, the so-called Snively Expedition finally retm·ned to Texas soil. In December, 1866, Colonel William Cornelius Dalrymple and Colonel Snively organized, at Camp Colorado, a small party to search for a gold mine that Snively thought he had located in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, near the Rio Grande. When this little party of gold-hunters had 1·eached the mouth of Kiowa Creek, near the head of the Concho, they were attacked by a large body of Indians. Snively and his men lost all their horses and were forced to abandon their venture. During the next year another fruitless search for the gold mine was made, but the party broke up at Eagle Springs after having planned another expedition in search of the coveted gold. After the failure of 1868, however, Snively went on a hunting trip to Arizona; he died there in 1872. John Henry Brown says that Jacob Snively was "an exceedingly conservative man." This man's name is found spelled both Snively, and Schnively. See Yoakum, II, 399-403; Wooten (ed.), Compre- hensive Histo,iJ of Texas, I, 412-414; Thrall, A Picto1·ial Histo111 of Texa11, 332-336; Bancroft, No1·th Mexican Stcites and Texas, II, 271-272; Brown, HistO?iJ of Texas, II, 287-291; The Qua1·te1·ly, Texas State Historical As- sociation, VIII, 267-271. ·
To THE TEXAS SENATE 1
Executive Department, City of Austin, January 29h., 1842. To the Honorable, the Senate: I herewith respectfully submit for the advice and consent of your Honorable Body, the nominations of William Henry Daingerfield, 2 for Secretary of the Treasury of the Republic; and of P. Edmunds,8 for Consul of the Republic at New Orleans, United States of America. Sam Houston. tE. W. Winkler (ed.), Sec1·et Jow"7lals of the Senate, Revublic of Texas, 1896-1845, p. 219. Executive Record Book, No. 40, p. 29, Texas State Li- brary. 2William Henry Daingerfield was born in Alexandria, Va. He came to Texas in the fall of 1837, settled at San Antonio, and continued his resi- dence at that city throughout his stay in Texas. He was a well-trained lawyer, a man of letters and schola1·ly attainments, and during the existence of Texas as a republic he served its government in various public offices. During the early months of 1838, he was elected the second mayor of the City of San Antonio, but gave up that office in January, 1839, when Presi- dent Lamar appointed him Notary Public of Bexar, and later the same year, Commisary of Purchases with staff rank, for the Texas Army. He served as Senator from the Bexar district in the Fifth and Sixth Con- gi·esses, resigning, February 6, 1842, to become Secretary of the Treasury; he served through 1843 in this capacity, but resigned the office February, 1844 to become charge d'a.ffairs to the Netherlands, a position he ably filled
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