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HEMPSTEAD, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22, 1868.
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OSTERHOUT & BEMAN,
PROPRIETORS.
J. P. OSTEEHOtTT.
CHA& A. SEVAN...
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office—oir ink, bztiteen haix asd
wa shi ho tow streets, fth8t build-
iso below the masujflc lodge.
▲U communication* ami matter con-
cerning the paper should be addressed to
Osterbout & Bemas, Hempstead, aa
the Senior Editor win continue to reside
at Bellerille.
HEMPSTEAD:
Wednesday ...... Ai*r í!. 22,1868.
Aa Old Man's Dream.
Ob, for one hour of youthful.joy!
Give back my twentieth'spring,
I'd rather laugh a bright-haired boy,
Th m reign a gray haired king.
Off with the wrinkled spoil* of age;
Away with learning's crown;
Tear out life's wisdom written page,
And tear its trophies down.
One moment let my life-blood stream
From boyhood's fount of flauie!
Oúe me une giday..reeliug dream
Of lite, all love and fame, .
My listening angel heard the prayer,
And calmly smiling said:
44 If I but touch tl'j slivered hair.
Thy hasty wish hitd sped."
" But is there nothing in thy track
■ To bi'd thee fondly stay, ■
While the swift seasons* hurry back
To find Hie wished fur day ?"
Ah, truest soul of woman kind !
Without thee what is lit"«?
One bliss J cannot leave behind— '
I'll take my p.cciou* wife!
The angel.took a sapphire pen,
Aud wrote iu rainbow dew:
" The uian would be a boy again,
And be a husband too*"
*' 1 there Another yet unsaid
Uefore the change appears ?
Remember all th*ir gifts have fled
With thosedisáulviiig years!"
" Why yes, I wen'd one favor more—
My loud i'ateniól joys—
I could not bear toie.ive them all;
I'll take uiy girls ami boys,''
The smiling ang l dropped fci.i pen—
" Why, íni will'neverdo;
The man would be a boy again.
And be a father too."
•
And so i Iwughed—my laughter awoko
The houteuold with its noise;
I wrote my dream when morning broke,
To please the gray haired boys.
Friendship's Vow3;
by j. b. cos vs guam.
They say that, when the heart is sad,
And sorrow veils I he brow.
We muse upon the friends now dead
And friendship's broken vow.
And oil within the spirit seeks
Some word of kindly tone,
Thou wiu-is its flight .h rough clouds of
nighs—
Alas! it is alone.
The darkest hour that man can feel
is when there comes wiih wo ;
The thoughts of pleasure past and gone,
And t.'iends of long ago.
I muse upon the lovely forms
Thai once stood round in glee;
But deatii's cold hand has banished
And borne thcin all from me.
Years—years shall pass, and yet we long
For friendship's soothing balm,
To still the ever throbbing heart,
The aching brow to calm*.
The Household Lamp.
[from the atlantic monthly.]
When suns decline, and the crickets sing,
And w^nd'ring mists from seaward roam,
When nights no heavenly beacons bring,
Theu brightest shin* the star of home
When the brown brooks, with music low.
Watch summers die and autumns come,
W hen stately goldeu rods must bow, •
What cheer is iu that light of home!
When winter strips the shuddering trees.
And ehills the wavelet' wanton foam,.
When in the world's cold grasp we freeze,
xi ow blest is then that star of home!
a rnttt. invittnon uewinw.
A contributor to th« Spirit of the
Time thus. describes a scene At Ifae
Anthony Hornean Arkansas:.
Lata one bitter cold niglit in De-
cember, some eight or nine years
ago. L i. came into the bar-room,
aa usual, to takd bis ¡art in whatever
was going on. For some reason the
crowd had dispersed sooner than
was customary, and bnt two or three
of tbo towns-folks were there, to-
gether with a stranger, who had ar-
rived a half honr or longer-befordP
and who, tired, wet and muddy, from
a long Arkansas stage ride, his legs
extended, and shoes off, was consol-
ing himself with two chatrs and a
nap. opposite the centre of the blaz-
ing log fire. Any one who has trav-
eled nntil 10 o'clock, in a rough
winter night, over an Arkqpsas
road, can appreciate the comfort of
the fruition before that fire-plaCe.
The drowsy example of the srang-
er bad its effect on the others, and
■ who took a seat in the corner,
for lack of conversation was reduced
to the poker for amusement. He
poked the fire vigorously for a while,
until it got red hot, and becoming
disgusted, was about to drop it and
retire, when he observed the great
toe of one of the stranger's feet pro-
truding through a hole of one of hie
Bocrzs. Hero was a relief to L .
He placed the glowing poker wiibin
a'foot of the melancholy sleeper's
toe, and Ijegan slowly to lesseu the
distance between thetn; one by one,
the others, as they caught the joke,
began to open their eyes, and being
wakened, months expanded into
grill?, and grins into suppressed gig-
gles—and ouo incontinent fellow's
into a broad laugh. Closer and
closer the red hot poker nenied to-
ward the nnfortnaate toe. The heat
caused the sleeper restlessly to move
his hands. L- was just about io
apply the poker, yhea a sound of
click / click/1 arrested his attention.
e (coked at the stranger—the lat-
ter with one eye open, had been
watching his proceedings, and silent-
ly brought his pistol to bear upon
. In a voice just audible, he
muttered, in a tone of great deter-
initiation:
" Jast bum It! Burn it ' Jesfl
bnrn it! and I'll be d—d if I don't
stir you up with ten thousand hot
pokers in two second ! '*
L laid down the poker in-
stanter, and remarked:
" Stranger, let's fake a drink!
in fact gentlemen, a'l of you.*'
L Afterwards said they were
the cheapest driuks he ever bought.
Their Constitution
Fan.
Profoundest Speech of the Age
Kindness.
A little word in kindness spoken—
A motion or a tear—
Has often healed the hoar) that's broken,
And made a friend sincere.
A word, a look, las crashed to earth
Full many a budding flower;
Which had « smile but owned its birth.
Would bless life's darkest hour.
Then deem it not an idle thing
A pleasant word to repeat.
The lace you wear, the thoughts you bring.
A heart may heal or break. Asox.
Homo.
Home's not merely four square walls,
Though with pictures hung aud gilded ;
Home is where affection calls,
Fill'd with shrines the heart hath builded.
dome!—go watch the faithful dove.
Sailing 'neath the heaven above us j
Home is where there's one to love!
Home :s where there's one to Ioto as!
Home's not merely roof and room.
It needs something to endear it;
Home is where the heart can bloom, *
Where there's some kind lip to cheer it!
What is home with none to meet.
None to welcome, none to greet.vs ?
Home is sweet, and only sweet.
Where there'* one wo love to meet ns
At a recent meeting in Now Grena-
da, Sontli America, a gentleman,
For some time a resident of che United
States, expressed the hope that the
adoption of American institutions
would place Colombia on a lovel
with the Great Republic of North
America. Whereupon hn was sum-
marily levelled by the folio win,
speech from a. fully reconstructed
Colombian. We quote from the
Panama Star:
Mr. President—In proposing
that we should acept North Ameri-
ctn institutions, in order that we may
rank amongst tho most civilized
nations of tha world, our friend is
merely repeating a vulg^ism against
which I do most solemnly protest.
We are represented as an uncivilized
people, but sir, it to do what the
Americans have done, is to be civiliz-
ed, then we are civilized; if to have
done it before them is to be aheacl of
them, then we are at the head of
civilization. For what do the Ameri-
cans boast of. 'J'hoy have but re-
cently abolished slavery; we have
abolished slavery long ago. They
lave proclaimed the equality of the
races, and are trying to hold up the
negro; we have proel timed that equal-
ity and held up the negro long ago.
They have only finished their first
civil war, rendered -money scarce,
and made a paper dollar not worth a
dollar. We have had dozens of civil
wars; have rendered money scarce,
and made paper dollars not worth a
dollar, long- ago. They are begin
ning to tear up their coustitutionv
itppe'ch their President, set up-dic-
tators ; we have dono all that long
ago. They are at last, going to the
devil as fast as they can; we have
gone to the devil long ago.
From the Memphis Pott, (Radical)
of tho 7th inst., we copy the following
aecoubt of tho arrest of a portion of
the *' Klan," together with their
Constitutions. As we are not a
u Klukiat," we cannot vouch for the
correctness of the reported Constitu-
tion, hotgiye it for what it is worth:
The detectives of the Metropolitan
Police of this city have for some time
been watching the movements of the
Ku Klux iu thiü city, aud following
its members to their den in Ferguson
Hall, at the corner of Hernando and
Beale streets. Last night the police
of the lower statfon made a decent
upon the Klux. As the Grand
Cyclop and his followers began to
disperse, between ten and eleven
o'clock, the police, awaiting their
coming npon the street, quietly nabbed
them np, singly and in squads, as
they presented themselves, and bustl-
ed them off to the lower station. Some
twenty were thus captured. It was
so happily mana ed that the "ghosts,"
" inhabitants of the moon," " resur-
rected rebels," or whatever they call
themselves, scarce knew what was np
until they were ushered into the pre-
sence of the Grand Cyolops of the
police at the lower station-house.
The prisoners joked freely about the
weather, but forgot their usual refer-
ence to the " tyrants," "usurpers " and
the "fatal moon." They were de-
tained until about one o'clock this
morning when they were released.
Upon the person of all wa3 found a
mask of black cloth with holes for the
eyes, but concealing the remainder of
the face. In the pockets of one was
found the constitution of the order a*
given below. Wo could not obtain
the names of the parties arrested from
the police, but are informed that Jack
Campbell, late of the Avalanche, was
Grand Cyelops of tho order. On the
table in the center of tfce ball was
tbuud a human skull, which was re-
quired in the administering of the
-iath given below. The. following
Constitution betrays clearly the hell-
sh purpose of the order.
organization.
The name of this den shall be
the Supreme Cyclopean C'.u cil, and
its officers shall consist of a Grand
Cyclops, a Vice Grand Cyclops and
Secretary. All funds coming into
le association shall be under the
control of the three officers above
named, aud two directors to be elect-
ed, who shall act as a supervising
council, and their decision upon all
questions shall be final. The meet-
ings shall be called by the Grand
Cyclops whoa he deems it necessary,
and shall be done through the papers
in the cipher of the organization.
Our new commander, Gen. R. C
Buchanan, appointed by the Presi
dent to succeed Gen. Hancock in
command of the Fifth Military Dis
trick, is spoken of by the N. O
Times is an oíd officer, a gallant gen
tienten, a true soldier, aud a honest
man. So mote it be.
A Tennessee editer accuses the
Sbelbyvilie (Tenn.) Union of pub-
lishing the Lord's Prayer as an item
of news for its readeñ.
W. J. R. Self, of Prospect, Prince
Edward county, Va sends inquiries
through the press of Texas, for his
; ton, Wm. Eo'jt. Self, who left Vir-
; ginia iu 1S59.
gas.
BBBS
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object .
The object of this organization is
or the purpose of protecting the peo-
jle of the South from the .band of
murderers and robbers now preying
upon them, even to the last resort,
assassinatioui—and we pledge^ our-
selves one to the other that nothing
shall be allowed to deviate us from
this noble object. ,
ENTRANCE.
" Entrance to the lodge room will
lie obtained through the medium of
two raps in quick succession, to be
followed by two slow ones. The In-
ide Sentinel will say "our trust; "
the outside applicant will answer, "is
iu God." He will then be admitted,
and upon giving the grip, as detailed
in another place, ha can take h¡3 seat.
INITIATION.
All candidates shall be bal lotted
i'or in open Couucil, and if any appli
cant receive three black balls, he can-
not be admitted. As soon as a can-
didate is elected, he shall be intro-
duced by a brother appointed by the
Grand Cyclops. The members of
the lodge, all shrouded, will rise and
receive him and conduct him into the
middle of the room. Each member
of the order shall have a drawn dag-
ger or other weapon in his hand,
pointed toward the candidate, and
each member will be required, in the
presence of the candidate, to swear
that should said candidate prove re-
creant to the oath which he is about
to fake, that he will kill him, and
make it his especial duty to do so on
The first «té e opportunity. As soon
as the shrouded brother^have taken
the above oath, the following charge
and oath shall be administered by
the Grand Cyclops, or, in his absence,
d-.e Vice Grand : v.
" Here, in the presence of this
skull and the members now assem-
bled, I solemnly swear to be true to
the Order, to its members individual-
ly and collectively, and, should I
ever, by sign, word, or deed, betray a
secret, or a member of the Brother-
hood, that the skull which I now look
upon, may be a counterpart of mine,
and 1 hope that all the social-relations
which I now eujoy may be sundered,
that honesty in the men or virtue in
the females may not be known in my
family and generation, and that all
who own my name shall be branded
as dogs and harlots. I further swear
that I will, under «ad is all circum-
stances, bear true allegiance to the
South and her interests, aa interpreted
by the Supreme Cyclopean Counci!,
and' when I recieve nfjr wifé, I will
leave her to obey them. I further
swear that all Radicals snd negroes,
who havé placed themsehrus opposite
to the interest of the. owners of the
soil of Tennessee shall forever be my
enemy, and that under do «yrcum-
slances will I have other connection
with them, if I can help it, than to
'' welcome them with bloody hands
to hospitable graves. " -That my
family and the family of a Radical
shall never interchange visits,
and I further pray that the
God of the Southland, whom I now
invoke, shall strike me deaid should
I ever, either in letter or in spirit, in-
fringe upon the things set forth in this
oath. To all of which I swear in
honesty of heart and sincerity of pur-
pose. So help me God."'
" In regard to the grip, your com
mittee would report tbat the simplest
plan, and at the same time the best
would be^a common meeting of palms,
at the same time using tie interlock-
ing of little fingers, and a pressure of
thumbs on the back of the hand.
Your committee will practically ex-
plain it. The word of danger we
would suggest for the present, "Elt
Lami Sabacthani," which we would
recommend to all members to commit
to their memofy. In regard to other
things submitted to your committee,
we would ask for further time, and
would excuse ourselves, upon the
plea that one of our members has been
sick."
The police deserve great credit for
the management of the affair. Why
the prisoners were released and'not
held to answer to the State law against
such conspiracies, we do not know.
The following appears in the Ava-
lanche, this morning:
"Headquarters K. K. K.
"Order No 10.
"Members of this organization
will attend the nest meeting armed.
If molested, be faithful to your
pledges.
" By order of The Commander."
This would seem to intimate too
that the Klan were to^>e really " mo-
lested."
How to Juüué Wfather by the
Sky.—The following mode of judg-
ing weather by the sky, is taken from
Thompson's Coast Pilot:
The color of the vky at particular
times, affords wonderful good guid-
ance. Not only sunset presages fair
weather, bnt there are other times
which speak with equal clearness and
accuracy. A blight yellow sky in
the evening indicates wind ; a pale,
yellow, wtt; a natuia- (¿ray color con-
futes a favorable sign in the even-
, and an unfavorable one in the
morning. They are full of meaning
in themselves. If their forms are soft,
underlined aud feathery, the weather
will be fine; if their edges are hard,
sharp and definite, it will be foul.
Generally speakiug, any deep, unusu-
al hues betoken wind and rain, while
the more quiet and delicate tints be-
speaks fine weather.
Simple as these maxims are, the
British Board of Trade has thought
fit to publish them for the use of sea-
Fiditorial Items
St. Louis has gone Democratic.
The trial of President Davis has
been postponed until the 2i prox.
Chicago employs 518 female
clerks.
Henry Ward Beecher's income is
$38,248.
Sergeant Bates arrived in Washing
ton with the flag on the 14th.
Brigham Young is.a widower, five
of hia wives having died of pneumo-
nia during the past winter.
Gen. 'Longstreet, of whom our read-
ers have j ro'iably heerd, has taken up
his residence at Hunteville, Ala.
Hon. John Bell resides on the Cum-
berland mountains, near Sbelbyvilie,
Tenn. He is now 76 years of ag<>.
Gen. Buchanan, commanding this
District, has appointed the 15th of
ne*xt June as the day for the assem-
bling of the Texas Convention.
Weston the celebrated pedestrian,
recently walk 3d one hundred and
three miles in twenty-three hours aud
fifteen minutes.
A locomotive with train attached
recently made the trip from Cairo to
Chicago, over the Illinois Railroad, a
distance of 265 miles, in ten hours'
time.
The official figures show that $13^-
960,000 were paid out of the Feder-
al Treasury for the expenses of the
regular army during the month of
March.
The Galveston Dispatch says that
the bridge across Galveston bay will
be completed and ready for the pas-
sage of the cars by the 15th of
May.
The city charter of Washington
City has been extended one year,
but so amended as to take the ap-
)ointing power from the Mayor and
jiving it to the City Council. The
object is to give the negroes offices.
For Lawyers.—The Houston
Telegraph has been furnished tht fol-
owing problem for publication, and
asks members of the lejal profession
i or a solution :
•
Coleman died in 1858, in Texas and
of his estate after the payment of all
debts and costs, there is now the sum
of fourteen thousand four hundred
dollars ready for distribution.
He left surviving hin his wife
Susan, and their three children, Eva,
James and William. In 1E58, Eva
died, and in the same year, thb widow
married Grayson, and by him, before
1S67, had four children, Kate, Jane,
Sam and John. Iu 1S67, William
died. If the money was commuuity
property, what is the amount each
oue is entitled to, ? Aud what is
each one entitled to if it was seperate
property ot Mr. Coleman ?
faring men.
A Hint Thrown Away.—A few
weeks after a late marriage, the doat-
ing husband had some peculiar thought
when putting on his last clean shirt,
and saw no appearance of a «'wash
ing." He thereupon rose earlier than
usual one morning and kindled the
fire. When hanging on the kettle,
he made a noise on purpose to arouse
his easy wife. She peeped qver the
blankets and exclaimed, ''My dear
, what's up the day ?" He de-
liberately responded :—"A'y put on
ma last clean serk, aud a'm gauu to
wash a one to mysel'." "Vera weel,"
said Mrs. Easy' "ye had better wash
me a aUe, too." —[Border (Scotland
Advertiser.
War Incident.—In the new
work of John Esten Cooke, entitlec
"Wearing of the Grey," the following
anecdote occurs, which may perhaps
be appreciated under present circum-
stances :
In 1863 the enemy caught an old
countryman near Madison Court
House, and informed him that he must
do one of two things—either take the
oath of allegiance to the U. S. Gov-
ernment, or prepare to be buriet
alive. He declined taking the oath,
. when his captors deliberately proceed
ed in his presence to dig a grave,
and when it was finished, they led him
to it and said :
" Will you take the oaA
" No!" responded the prisoner,
'• You had better 1"
" I won't 1"
'«If you don'ttake the-oath you'll
be buried alive in that grave in the
next five minutes 1"
The old fellow approached nearer,
looked with attention at the pit yawn-
ing before him, and then turning
round with his hands in his pockets,
replied calmly:
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ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW.
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Chesley & Johnson,
A T TORNE Y S AT LA W,
BELLVILLE,
Austin County, Texas,
17* Office in the Cwurt HtttisJB
dee21 ly
Z Hunt N. Holland.
JHUNT & HOLLAND,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW
BELLVILLE,
Austin County, Texas
feb2-f4-1y.
J. P. OSTERHOUT
ATTORNEY AT LA W,
BELLVILLE.
Austin County, Texas.
eb2-f4-iy.
B. T. & C. A. HARRIS,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW
BELLVILLE,
Austin County, Texas.
pr!3 ly
MISCELLANEOUS.
HEMPSTEAD.
HEMPSTEAD FEMALE
ACADEMY.
nPHE FOUBTB session of this *hooI
A opened on Monday, January. 6th
in charge of Mr*. H. 8. Guavks and Mrs.
S. J. Herkdox. Board can be obtained
with Mrs. Hanney, Mr. K er,
Graves and Mrs. Montgomery.
Primary Department, Per Moath
More advanced clayset " •<
Higher English Brimcbaa " "
Musie " "
Embroidery, " "
*8/*
•4,09
*5,00
*8.00
Spanish, French. Latin and German *5,00
Board, Washing, lights &c iocludtd) 912.
OOLBBMt
COMMERCIAL COLLEGE
(Open constantly, Day and Evening,)
Corner of Camp and Common Sts
In the.Elegant and Spaeioos iron Building,
NEW ORLEANS.
Founded in 1832—Chartered by the Leg-
islature of Louisiana, with Commerciu,
Agricultural, Mechanical and Literary
Departments. '
J. W. OLIVER
Attorney at Law.
HOUSTON, TEXAS.
JACK BELL.
ATTORNEY .AT L A, H\
NELS ONVILLE,
Austin Cot sty. Txas.
Post-office address, Industry, Austin Ce
g3Gtf
ed il-
liberally endowed
State Colleges of this and the South-west
em States. It is the OUest Commercial
College in the United State .
_ Every student who gives proper atten-
tion to the Instruction is qualified before
graduating to keep any Set of Books, it
matters not what the business may be, and
do the correspondence of any house. Stu-
dents can attend the Commercial College
or. the Literary or Agricultural Course, or
to Penmanship, Arithmetic or Book-keep
ing, or the English, French, Spanish: Ger
man, Latin or Greek Languages, lele
graphing, Phonography, Penmanship,
Book-keeping, or tlte higher Mathematics,
etc., separately.
Circulars and Catalogues sent to all who
desire them,
We have ample arrangements for out
thousand students during the current year.
RUFUS DOLBEAB, President
«31-tf
I. G. Searcy, H. H. Boons.
SEARCY & BOONE.
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
ANDERSON,
Grimes County, Texas.
fob2-f4-ly.
B. F. ELLIOTT^
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
HEMPSTEAD,
g24-tf Antetin County Texas.
ATTORNEY AT LA W.
Red River Street.
-Hmpstad, Txas.
In the same room with Mr. Clint< n Fort*
CHAS. T. KAVANAÜGH
BREN HAM.
Texas.
CLIN'TON FORT.
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
Red River Street,
HEMPSTEAD, Texas.
Will practico in the Supreme Court of
Texas, and the United States Courts at
Galveston.
During the war of the rebellion it
is known that a strong secessionist
spirit was prevalent in Baltimore, in
which many of the newsboys sympa-
thized: One of these small itinerant
peddlers, with a bundle of newspa-
pers under his arm, entered a cat at
the Baltimore and Ohio depot in that
city, a few minutes ^before the train
started for Washington, and while
passing through shouted. "Hurrah tor
Jeff. Davis!" "Hurrah for the
devil!'" replied a U. S. soldier, who
iu his blue uniform, occupied a near
seat. "That's right 1" said the
youngster. "You hurrah for your
side, aud I'll hurrah for mine. /"
JNO. T. JOYCE S. REESE BLANK
JOYCE «fe. BLAKE.
ATTORNEYS AT LAW.
HEMPSTEAD, TEXAS.
Over Kemper Stone & Co's., Drug
Store,
PHYSICIANS.
An Irishman, writing from Phila-
delphia the other day, to a friend in
the old country, concluded his letter
thus: "If iver its me ferchune to
live till I dy—and God nose wheth-
er it is or no—I'll visit ould Ireland
afore I leave Pbiladelpliy
No man can go down to the dun-
geon of his experience, and hold the
torch of truth, to all its dark cham-
bers, and hidden caviii*?, and slimy
recesses, and not come up with
shudder and a chill, and an earnest
cry to heaven for mere/ and cleans-
ing. .
Pass Him Round.—A graceless
scamp, calling himself Robert O. Bar-
rett, is traveling through the country,
professing to teach an arithmetic
school. His forte is making bills,
and punning away without paying
them.—[State Gazette.
In Germany, when a paper says
anything witty, they kill the editor;
and not ono editor has been killec
there for two hundred years,
A man passing through a gateway
in the dark, hit his nose agaiust the
post. ' I wish that post was in hell, "
said he. " Better wish it somewhere
B- Powell, ^
CONSULTING.
PXTSCICIAN AND SURGEON
Houston Texas. •
BOOK STORE.
PATRICK & BARSANTEE.
at the post office,
KEEP SCHOOL, SONG, and miscel-
laneous books, stationary &c. Also a
fine assortment of Novels, Illustrated
Papers and Magazines, Garden Seed, Toys
and Notions. Subscriptions taken for any
paper or magazine in the United States,
g37-3m.
jam es vice, .
IMPORTER A GROWER OF
Flotrcr & Vegetable Seeds
rochester, nbvt york.
Vick's illustrated catalogue of seeds, and
floral guide for 186d, is now published and
reaoytosend out. It makes a work of
about one hundred large pages, containing
full descriptions of the choicest flowers
and vegetables grown, with plain direc-
tions for sowing seed, cultnre, &c. It is
Beautifully Illustrated, with more than
one hundred fine w< od engravings of Flow-
ers and Vegetables, and a
beautiful colored plate op
FLOWERF*
Well printed, on the finest paper, and one
o the most beautiful as well as the most
instructive works of the kind published.
ty Sent to all who apply, by mail, post
paid, for Ten Cents, which is not half the
cost.
Address James Vick.
g38-3m. Rochester, N. Y
DR. J. L. CUNNINGHAM,
PHYSICIAN If SURGEON
HEMPSTEAD, TEXAS.
Office at Kemper, Stone & Co's Drug
Store.—Bleeping appartments at W R
Starks residence. Calls attended to night
or day. "
BR. F. B. LEWIS,
DENTAL SURGEON
Has located permanently in Chappell Hill
guarantees all work dono in the latest im-
proved style.
Plates to Fit and Wear with Ease.
TREATS TEETH FOR ALL
DISEASES
jy Will call at residences in this vicini-
ty—if desiied.
Rkfebs to Henry L. Rankin, J. W.
Nooner. J. T.' Browning, Geo. f. Lester,
Dr. J. L. Cunningham, Kempei Stone &
Co. (.30—4m
Br. J. fl. IcLaran,
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON.
Residence at Christian Ruenglener's.
BÜCKHORN, TEXAS.
g47-tf
rjlKY THE SOUTHERN TONIC.
Prepared by S. R. Chambers, Wholes lie
and Retail Druggist, Corner Liberty and
COTTON GINS.^I
PRATT'S IMPROVED!
We are now prepared to fill all orders
for these Celebrated Gins. They need
no puffikg. They grow upon the soil
with cotton, and know exactly what cot-
ton wants. Have nil improvement*
that are of any benefit. .Nothing for
show. We will run them against ang Gin
that is made.
Eureka Gin.
Mr. Pratt 1s making a few of these
.Gins this year. They are particularly
adapted for trashy cotton. They were
having a great run on the Mississippi
River before the war. Run some heavisr
and gin faster than his other Gins.
Orders promptlv attended to. •
T. MATHER & CO.
Sole Agents for 7exss.
Strand, Galveston.
Galveston, June liith, 1867.
Wo are also prepared to fnrnish Bar-
plies, Baggiñg, Rope and Ties on tke
growing crop. Consignments solicited.
Prompt attention given to all business en-
trusted to our care. No speculation m
Cotton. Quick returns of all sales.
T. MATHER & CO.,
Cotton and Wool Factors,
Strand, Galveston.
jun*2> no 22-6 months.
OLBEAR Commericial
New Orleans. Founded 1832.
vacations. Book-keeping, Penmanship.
Languages, Mathematics practically taught
Students from *2 to 60.
RUFUS DOLBEAR, President.
sppt21-ly '
D<
College
¡32. No
Erato Streets.
oct26
•< Well, go on with your d -d old else," said a bystander. " You might
funeral!" " run againstit again."
.J
WARE & brother, Cotton
Factors and General Commission
Merchants, No. 133 Gravier Street. New
Orleans. H. H. Ware, late ot Selma, Ala-
Ja?. T. Ware, late of Galveston, T*xa*.
oct25 ly.
w. m. perkins, 8. m. 8wenso*
d. i. kernion.
PERKINS, SWENSON & CO., New
Orleans, Swenson,
New York,
chanta.
Perkins A Co..
General Commission Mor-
A LL persons wishing to improve their
J\_ stock of Horses will do well to call
and examine Jo. Wier's Green Mountain
Morgan Stallion, a dapple grey, 164 hands
high.
. jfc, y ct-
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Osterhout, J. P. The Texas Countryman. (Hempstead, Tex.), Vol. 7, No. 49, Ed. 1 Wednesday, April 22, 1868, newspaper, April 22, 1868; Bellville, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth180291/m1/1/?q=+date%3A1865-1876: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History.