The Goliad Guard (Goliad, Tex.), Vol. 9, No. 36, Ed. 1 Saturday, August 19, 1876 Page: 1 of 4
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A WEEKLY JTEW8P1PER, DEVOTED f O THE AGRICULTURE, STOCK-RAISING AND ED UéATIONAL INTERESTS OF WESTERN
TEXAS, AND GENERAL NEWS.
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GOLIAD, TEXAS, SATURDAY f, | AUGUST 19, 1876.
3«N l*«rendani.
NO. 36.
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Indian Bald.
San Antonio, Aug *5.
Yesterday afternoon the Indians
stole alt the horses in the vicinity of
Fort Concho, and visited Tankerly,
Levy and other ranchos. A scout
from the post has ¿«fue in pursuit.
Night before last about thirty In-
ed within- a mile of Joe
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jle Pass road, with a bunch
of horse - gathered from Frio and
Sabinal canyons. They go in a
southwesterly, course, probably to
strike the Leona and Nueces settle-
ments. A party of twenty citizens
are pursuing them, following their
trails.
Gen. Ord returned last evening.
No local news.
San Antonio, Aug. 7.
On the 2nd inst. Indians came to
Frio canyon, took thirty horses,
crossed to Sabinal canyon and gath-
ered aiarge herd., On Rancho creek
the Indians killed the shepherd of
Richard Ware. They then went
through Ney's and Rhode's pas-
ture's, getting many horses; then
through Riley's pastures, and fol-
lowed tfifough alf~the~ Utighboring
ranchos
They camped Friday night at
Slaughter'r pasture. Near there
they struck Patterson's cow-hunters
while penning a herd of cattle, and
took iifteen horses. Then they
crossed Leona river, four miles from
Uvalde, struck another party of cow-
hunters and took most of their
horses without a fight. They theh
went through Tileston's pasture on
the Leona.
This morning (the 7th) another
trail of about thirty Indians was
discovered two miles from Uvalde.
This band attacked Adams' cow-
hunters, and after a fight took thir-
ty to forty horses from them
gone on
Büiai
the hostile Sous suspended till they
could have au opportunity to confer
with them in the interest of peace,
has been referred to the proper au-
thorities of the War Department.
In the absencc of the General of the
Army it has been referred to Gen.
Sheridan, whose views are momen-
tarily expected here.
The general opinion among army
officers is that there will be no com-
>romise listened,to, and all that can
is to prosecute and punish
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stipulations
path.
war
Belknaplsm In the Senate.
Xvith them A cavalry detachment
is out from Fort Clark to head them,
and a party of ci'izens are watching
the Ivickapoo Spriugs. This is a
bold raid. More anon.
[Associated Press.]
Chicago, Aug. 7.—-ASan Antonio
dispatch, received ¿his morning *t
Gen. Sheridan's headquarters, says a
small command under Lieut. Bull*
found a Kickapoo and Lapan . camp
in Texas and attacked it They
killed two, captured four Indians
and one hundred horses.
Indians In (he Northwest.
Cheyenne, Aug. 6.--On the re-
from Dead wo.od the stage
The sto< ;k was stolen, mail bags cut
open* coach destroyed, and one pas-
A camp of fifteen Indians was
surprised and attacked at Old Bridge
" rty miles north of Fort Lar-
a party ofjherders. One
* two ponies were killed
lies captured.
& Davis' train, while re-
from the hills, was attacked
twenty three miles south of Fort
Laramie, yesterday, losing ten head
of horses.; A sergeant, eight.oav-
alryraen and a number of rancheros
started in pursuit, but tailed to over-
_ Dnsiderable excitement has been
'¿rented among stosk men in the val-
ley, and horses are being corraled.
gartis^-JEÍlh «iTty-Jvu
... ,'ed at Rawlins to-day, They pro-
'ceeded to Fort Steel to be armed,
~~ then start north to join
the vote op yesterday.
Taking refuge behind a technical-
ity that had been overruled by a ma-
jority vote of the Senate itself at
the opening of the impeachment
trial which ended yesterday, the
Republican Senators have evaded
the iniquitous facts of the case, and
failed to convict the bribe-taker Bel-
knap. It would have been too ab-
surd in them to pronounce him not
guilty of the high crimes and misde-
meanors with which he stood charg-
ed; for his guilt had been establish-
ed, Tnnnuerely by his own virtual
confession, but by a body of direct
ovidence that could not be shaken.
'But he has been shielded by,Bepub-
lican votes from the proper and just
penalty of his misdeeds, under the
pretext that the jurisdiction of the
Senate, in impeachment' trials, did
not extend over functionaries who
resigned office after the exposure of
their criminality. He had cunuing-
ly handed in his resignation, which
Grant instantly and accommodating-
ly accepted, after tha evidence
against him had leen prodpeéd; and
thus, by this trick, secured for him-
sell the paltry pleayf which he has
been allowed to^íKe the advantage.
The vote^Vy which Belknap's
Tile
New t oas, Aug. 7.—The answer
in the cas e of the St. Louis, Alton
and Terré Haute Railroad Company
against C harles Butler,-Samuel J.
Tilden, R ussell Lacee and others
was filed i> day in the United States
Circuit Co art. The defendants ad'
mit organization of the road, but
they deny I that the owners and hold-
ers of thtfi ^aripiw stocks and bonds
ever sub^'jhed to the complaint.
S. J. ' 'den, further, answering
" says that during the pe-
% 1862, as well as before,
Ame after, the said Tilden
acted at tl ie request of the purcha-
sing comr littee as counsel in their
important matters, and that for such
services he never received any com-
pensation ¡as such whatever; that
during all the period mentioned the
said Tilden, at the instance and re-
quest of complainant, as well as at
forhifc
riod of J
and some
publican members, with the single
exceprionof Eaton, of Connecticut;
and it embraced an actual majority
of the Republican members of the
Senate. The Democratic members,
pearly all whom voted for convic-
tion. were sustained by a number of
Republican members; but a two-
thirds majority was required. The
Republican party, as represented in
the Senate, is thus directly and in-
disputably responsible for the escape
of this guilty man. They must de-
fend and justify this infamy before
the people, who will not be satisfied
with the subterfuges by which jus-
tice has been defeated.
Many of them, doubtless, felt that
they could mot convict -Belknap
without injuring the Republican
party as much as it would be injured
by his acquittal. Not a few of its
other high officers and leaders, Inclu-
ding members of the Senate itself,
have been guilty of offences like
those with wbioh Belknap stood
charged. His conviction would have
been an assault «n Grant himself.
The guilty Secretary has escaped
conviction in a pitiful way; but no
man wbo has read the evidence can
entertain any donbt of his criminal-
ity. In his acquittal, both the Re-|<,
publicans and Democrats of the
country are furnished with aspeota-
cle of dishonor which tuay well set
*l— all to thinking.—iV. Y. Sun,
Another Experiment in Ship-
ping Fbesh Beef.—The ateamabi
Egypt, which sailed for
from NetófSTork
board one hundred and tKfty
of
tee, was accustomed to reodet pro
fessional services as counsel for com-
plainant, who was in frequent and
constant need of professional advi-
ces, and sometimes such services had
been very laborious, requiring spe-
cial and peculiar skill and abilities,
and were of, great acknowledged
usefulness.j-'S'he other defendants
also denyJna^ng ipiy compensation
for services ;<,md, further, of any
distribution of stocks or bonds to
third parties.
The unfortunate people of tl
land of Iceland are about to dei
that strange land of ice and fire."
For a thousand years the island has
been inhabited by man. The set-
tlers were principally from Denmark,
to which ingdom the Island belongs,
and through many vicisitudes of
Arctic stcritis, and frightful winters,
earthquakes^ nd volcanic eruptions,
these hardj^eople have managed to
live- Inr^^ge of intercommuni-
cation. -vel between the elif-
e eartfc^thq in-
elafid have acquired
e of other more favored
influenced too by the
A Supposed Copy of Tlloen's
letter of acceptance.
[Received Iff Aerial Telegrig^.]
Oentlemen ? I accept the tiféinina-
tion, and shall be happy to bo elect-
ed by a large majority.
I will be on the steps of the Cap-
ital at. 12 o'clock, March 4, 1877, to
tabs the oath of office. That oath
I will faithfully keep.
If tebellion should reappear, I
will speedily crush it out by the
strong hand of the Federal Execu-
tive. Carpet-baggers I will not
cherish,. Taxes I will reduce.
I am in favor of specie payments
all the time—this day, henceforward
ank forever. I will do what I can
to reform the civil service: in the
first place, by turning out Gen.
Grant's unworthy appointees; and
in the second place, no convicted or
suspected men will be appointed by
me in their stead.
the instance of purchasing commit-L Iam opposed to a third term, but
ton. was annnat.nma/1 i mnjoi. fum very strongly in favor of a first
lanfa,
dreadful t mjne tj,at ^ prevail^
among th
they are le
island is
Manv haV¡
British N<
number of
tie in Al
should off*
people of
capy
conn
fitted
tages of
' defects; thá
ra during the year past,
ying the contry, and the
" Ty to be depopulated,
ne to Manitoba, in
America, and a large
im are anxious to set-
The government
inducements for any
civilised races to oc-
orthless and barren
no people are better
with its disadvan-
and other natural
ifandoHl
and second.
Faithfully yours,
(Signed) Samuel J. Tilden.
Late Developments of "W hkky
Frauds.—The House investigating
committee, which has been working
on the whisky ring, have had before
them Bluford Wilsen, who wes the
Solicitor of the Treasury under Bris-
to w, and who acted a prominent part
in the unearthing of its monstrous
frauds. The evidence of Mr. Wil-
son shows that Grant was informed
of the proofs that showed the com-
plicity of Babcock with the whisky
thieve^ and from that moment he
grew cold in the prosecution of the
offenders, and placed obstacles in
the waiy of his favorite's" conviction.
Mr. Wilson shows that Grant care-
fully informed himself of all the
evidence that was to be used against
the ring, and immediately reported
it to Babcock, as the latter admitted.
It also comes out in the course of
these investigations that Babcock
-vras concemtU In tile celcTjreted
"Black Friday" panic, using the in-
formation of the amount~an4~4ra|i
The fame and honor of the Presi-
dent of .the Republic ought tó M
always dear to the people, bnt wheri
that President is a man like Grant,
who has no regard for his own honor
and fame, we don't see how anything
in the way of love and respect is to
be expected from anybody in his be-
half. Moreover tbe rights and liber-
ties of the people, and the honor bf
the nation, are far dearer to all hearfe
than the fame of all the whisky
thieves and treasury robbere that
ever did or may use theiy high posi-
tions 'to defraud their country. It
is one of the decrees of an avengr
ing Nemesis, that when , good works
are forgotteu evil deeds are still
treasured up in wrath against their
perpetrators. In this spirit thé
American people will not fail to re
member Grant Belknap and Babcock,'
and other worthies¡ of that stripe,
when the veiy names of Bristow,
Jewell, Bluford Wilson, and G."*
Custer, and other honest and brave,
men, will be lost from the records of
mankind.—Houston lelegraph.
Between now and next November
Grant will make constant troable
for the Republicans. He is the bull
in their china-shop. If they had re-
pudiated|bim sqnarely at Cincinnati,
they would have gone into the can-
vass in better shape; but that they
did not dare to do, fearing his con-
trol over the officeholders, who are
the neucles of the party. But there
would undoubtedly be joy in thé
Republican ranks if Grant was out
of the way. Yet, talk as they may
about civil service reform and ether
fine things, their canvass is led by
Zach Chandler and Don Cameron^
and Hayes is no more than a puppet
obedient to their wire-pulling. The
contest is between reform and Grant-
ism; and you can't change the issue.
Tilden is the champion of the on¿
and Hayes of the other.—New York
Sun.
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.The J'
Ihrougho
ing and
and mown,-,
lem.
st dark
at the
will be
bflL
long and
70 of
pie w
ers wi
were torn
both sides, i
mans t
this country and
Jorld will this even-
commemorate
■ the fall of Jerusa-
Í commences to-night
itinues till to-morrow
, and the faithful
i in their places of
em was destroyed
nnder Titus, after a
i seige, in the year
era. The tern-
the principal tow-
1; the dwellings
the walls were lev-
t Moriah was liter-
The struggle
fury on
en at last the "*
spared neti
ording to J
over.
' of extreme
sition to be made of the gold in the
NationaL Treasury he was able to
get from Grant. It is true nothing
has been brought to light that the
verdict of public oninion has not
already anticipated; but Grant's
complicity with the members and
operation of the infamous conspira-
cies against the Federal Treasury
has been put beyond the domain of
conjecture and suspicion, and is es-
tablished by reliable evidence.
The unearthing of these villainies
may not impossibly end in Grant's
impeachment, and,the establishment
of the precedent that impeachment
cannot be sustained after the retire-
ment from office of a public official,
may yet interpose between Grant
and an outraged law, the only de-
liverance that the demands of jus-
tice will permit.—Houston Tele-
graph.
How Thick the Indians Webb.
—At tbe centennial celebration of
one of our New England towns the
chairman called upon "Our esteemed
fellow citizen, Col. Boozer," to make
a few remarks. The Colonel, whe
who was pretty heavily loaded,
"commenced firing" after the fol-
lowing style: '
"Feller ci'xens, er hundred years
'go th' Injuns were thicker'n—'round
here—
Here one of the committee, no-
rme
í, , ticing the Colonel's condition,
I ljiftfcvad as a hint for morejgl
Mr. Scott Lord, a Democratic
me moer of Congress from" iJew
York, has introduced a bill which
if jjmuuiT|
complexion of national politics, and
effect a purer and more efficient civil
service. His bill proposes the elec-
tion of United States Marshals, rev-!
enue assessors and collectors and
postmitsters. The idea is thorough-
ly in accord with public symyathy,
and will doubtless commend, itself
to tbe favor of the masses.
Jiote and Opinions^
Never mind about T11denys. fetter
of acceptance . Wait till yon get
his first message to Congress, if yon
want to see fnn.—Nashtnlle Ameri-
can (Bern.)
Hayes says he is "in the hands of
the committee," whereupon the Wor-
cester Press remarks: "If hie is al-1
ready in the hands of these fellows'
(Zach. Chandler & Co.) how in thun-
der is he going to get Out of their
hands if elected?"
The St Louis ItqtubUeen takes
this view of the matter: " For fif."
teen years the Republican party has
been piling tip tbé mass of evil which
the people nbw demand shall be re-
moved, yet the people até asked to
give tbíté party the contract for re
naoveaL"
The BeBefonte Watchman, pub-
Ex-Gov. Curtitt's home'
enor Curtin now sits,
in his shirt-sleaves anil slipper, and
congratulates himself that he
was not nominated for
resident of the Unit-"1
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which is
'
(ion i
statements
¡exaggerated.
Jews that follow-
i.one of the remarká-
f; and the results
have since then
are felt all over
T. Sun, My 29.
of Justice
rsonal i
is to be
in
ord is to
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lecTTfito a
ed fiercely on hi
jffpj
"Tell ye' they were-
flies 'round m'lasses cask,
couldn't go out to
en 'thout
s stuck fullxjf arrere-^-"
amid a géneral^ar,
was pi
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