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THE HOUSTON TRI-WEEKLY
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X VOL. XXXI—NO, 11."
HOlTSTON, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 19, 1865.
WHOLE NO. 3898.
Om. Murider tn Uulveeton.
,,, OiLTMTo*, April 17.1889.
Ld. Te'.—Ai a commanlcitton from tbts ul*ce ici*-
tlve to the tour of Inspection Juot accomplished by
the Major Jenerel commandluij me District of Ttx-
•a, may not be DDiccepuble to your numeroa* read-
er*. 1 have taken tbe Itbertj to drop yon a few linen.
The review or the troopa took place on th.* 14th
lt>£t, General Magrnder arriving on tbe ground
about 11 o'clock, A M., accomp'oled with htc staff,
Capt. B. P. Tanner ana others; Geo. Mexry and the
celebrated J. N. Mafflt, 0. 8. N Tbe evolutions of
tbe aoMlfrs were handsomely executed, and duly
appreciated by tbe General. After review of the
troopa, the Msjor General cansed them to be formed
In mass, and rUlrg to a position from wblcb he could
most easily be heard, he delivered a sllrrlt g and pa-
triotic address. He told tletn tb it he wonld for this
occasion, depart from the usual cus'om he had adopt-
ed, as he was no speech nuker and was not In the
habit of making speeches to bl men but he saw he-
fore him men of Intelligence and devotion to their
country's caute, and would apeak to them more lu
tbe style of a coufsrence than an oration, lie had
heard It raid that Qalveston was untenable, hut be
hrld that < very plaoe was tenable uotll the enemy
proved to the contrary.
If driven from Qalveaton or flanked by overwhelm'
tnl- department, felt perfectly confld>ntj-hat he c uld
neutralise and defeat the lnvanlnu of 200,000 Y*nk '«s.
Here, we have no navigable river*, ana when the
enemy could not use (team, be <u deprived of more
than neH bit strength. Our State Is peculiarly fitted
for a defensive warfare; the bro d prairies and want
of good roads would makeltlrapos'lble for the enemy
to penetrate the Interior wltb<u exposing hl« com-
munication* <o destruction; here he could find no
■u'>ei tence*-i>Hhough there la plenty In tbe country
It lb difficult of transportation, htu! an enemy In an
nnf lend y country can never afford to dispatch forst-
lrg partlei to collect stores for • large army. He
would Impress upon the troop* ti e indispensable ne
■f cesstty of eU$etpline; notrrrp* in the world could
corqner without It; there must te Concert of act|.
and confidence between tbe conn irder and men; wo
muKt, moreover, expect to sub It to privations, and
labor. If necessary. If fortifying and entrencM u 1>
rrqulred and negroes cannot be procured, we mu.«t
pnt onr own hands to the wheel.
Tbe General declared himself willing to (el tbe
example. With my own hands, said he, tn tbe
hot tun, I will take the ipade and work hsrd. for
my whole hsart and Intereat are enlisted in the
Obuse, and if we are to be overran I do not wish
to survive snbjogellon. No t>rmi will ever do
short of independence ; lose onr ail—lose every
thing—life itself, in gloriously contending for all
that ia dear to a freeman, rather than submit to a
foe so base, so (rasping, so defraved, and 10 de
void of all that constitute! a respectable people
For himself, he wonld rather retire to the moun-
tains or the desert. and live like (he Comanche,
and a. the head of a band of roving freemen,
■trikea blow at every opportunity,and destroy as
many of the enemy as he coo Id. and at last die
with the consolation of knowing that bo had n< v
or been deprived of tbe glorious freedom inherit-
ed Irom his ancestors, by that most despicable of
all creatures, the Yankees The General alluded
in fsellng terms to tbe reported evacuation of
Riohmond and Petersburg, which he hsd no dubot
was true. That glorious old State, tbe land of
Washington and Jeferson and Btonewsll Jackson,
had bared her boson* to the storm, and now her
sons and daughters are driven from their homes,
thslr houses burnad, farms destroyed and every
species of devastation committed apon her soil.
Bat she stiuds proud and defiant yet—more glo-
rious in her grandeur and immortality than any
country in the world He spoke of the possibil-
ity of Texas being the battle field of the Confed-
eracy. If forced back, our armj would oross the
Mississippi, and on the fields of this department
we would dispute the fosi lie advised the troeps
j when writing home lo their friends in the ceun
* try, to tell them not to be too anxious to plant
eotton, but to raise plenty of corn and save It, for
we will have use for it alt.
The Q reral declared his intention of piaster
Galveston in the best p >salble state of defence;
also Houston. Liberty and Riohmond, to protect
the railroad and secure onr communications with
the Interior. Wuh regard to many things that
had been done in this department he said, that the
policy he had proposed nad not been adopted;
that he was not responsible for any but his own
acts, and as this was not a time for criticising, he
would say no more on thta subject.
The General concluded by expressing bis utmost
coutllence 1 . the g.iilantry ana patriotism ot tbe
troop* be had tbe donor to command. He beard
there h«d been a good deal ot grumbling In some
qu r;ers, bat attributed a great part of It to luac
tivlty, aud believed tba< wnen the eoemy came It
woulu eutlreiy cease. He paid a deserved trlbu eto
the patriotism ami fortitude ot the people or Arkan-
sas, where he bad lately commanded—though overt r.n
tney were not despondent.
Tue ad rem was an able and manly eff >rt. and was
received with every demonstration of pleasure ; it
bad a better etiect than a thousand prl Died procl^m-
J ations The men saw their General lace to tace, and
knew him to be In earnest.
Oj the next day the General started on the steamer
Dtara to examine the fortifications at Pellcju Suit,
accompanied with officers, civil, ml.ltary, and naval.
In the stream be waa Interrupted by the Captain of
the rakish blockade runner. Imagine, who podtely
invited tbe General and his friends on board to par-
take of a lunob. The Invitation w s accented, nd
the neatly adorned cabin ot the s.earner waa filled
by gallant and loyal men. Alter tbe luxnrlou ice
was broken, tbe foiiowtng toa.-t was proi oeed by the
company to tbe General, viz:
'Major General J. B Magrnder, a powerful mag-
net to the sol Jiers and patriots of Texas—a friend
to the widow— a father to tbe orphan—a determin •
ed defender of hti adopted lta'4—a true friend to
the ladies of Texas, bs they wives or daughters of
soldiers or civilians, and for his close attention
to them as a father and patriot, he has been much
slandered and abased.
This brought the General to bis feet, who re-
?tiled in a few appropriate remarks He said that
rom his boyhood he had always courted tbe so-
«- 'ciety of the ladies—that when In their company
he knew be was safe from bad Influences, and be
believed that if men would more generally asso-
ciate with thelaoles, they would become more
moral and vlrtnons. He said that he could not
stop tbe tongue of slander—that time, which as-
suages all things, would prove to his enemies that
they were mistaken In him.
Prom the remarks of tbe soldiers, I am satisfied
tha t the visit of the General has been induelve to
much good It has Inspired renewed confidence
in tbe soldiers, and enabled him to improve and
strengthen tbe defenses of Galveston. He is ths
very man for Texas—tbe enemy fear him more
than any commander In the Trsns-lllvaisslppl
Department, and whenever the foe invade ns,
they may rest assured that we "wilt welcome
them with open arms to hospitable graves."
BANGER.
Cotton and Its Prospects.
^ The Civil War in Americo has had a mar-
velous effect on the wellbeing of individ-
uals and of countries that have taken ad-
vantage of the great internal disruption on
the other side of the Atlantic. The law of
supply and demand has quite revolutionised
a trade in which the Southern people of the
United States for many years distanced all
competitors. With a highly favorable soil,
and with abundance of slave labor, the
States now struggling for independence
had in their hands the markets of the world;
but when peace has been restored, with or
without slavery, the condition of thinjrs
there will be very different to what it for-
merly was. New competitors in various
parts of the globe hate arisen to till the
vacuum so created; capitalists have been
investing untold sums in raising the staple
which clothes tbe greater part of the hu-
man race; and industry has been brought in
every direction to aid climatic influence in
providing material for the looms of Great
Britain.
yery remarkable communication from
Western India, which appeared recently in
the columns of a London contemporary,
brings out in bold relief the loss by the war
which America has sustained, and the cold-
en harvest by the some calamity which the
merchants and traders of Bombay have
reaped. No tale in " The Arabian Nights'
Entertainment" is more wonderful than the
transformation which that port in Western
India has undergone in exporting cotton
for the European markets. Immense for-
tunes have been made by all largely enga-
ged in the work of producing and stimula-
ting the growing of cotton. Millionaires
abound. Clerks, with small salaries, have
had their fortunes swelled ont to gigantic
proportions. Even the ryott, the poorest
ana most depressed of all the agricultural
laborers in Hindoostan, have partaken so
liberally of this auriferous manna that they
now rejoiee in all the comforts and even
luxuries which the East can supply. Every
person, however remotely concerned with
cotton, has made money enough to satisfy
the miser's utmost avarice.
But there have been drawbacks to this
otherwise glowing picture. The prioe of
other articles has correspondingly in-
creased. The value of poperty, of houses,
of lodgings, of tlie necessaries of life, bas
more than kept faoe with this sndden
shower of the pteoious metals. Persons
with fixed incomes, now find ft impossible
to live in the city whioh has been the scenc
of this extraordinary change, and the
Governor of Bombay, under the fear of
being deserted by his auxiliaries, was com-
pelled in self defenoe to increase their
stipends, lest they should be overwhelmed
and crushed by this plethora of good luck
to tbe comparative few. Cotton bas been
so remunerative under the new stimulant
of high prices, that the cultivation of
grain, rice, and other edibles, has been
comparatively negleoted, and the anomoly
is witnessed of starvation following in the
wake of all this sudden and unlooked for
prosperity. The change which bas been
wrought in the state of society at Bom
bay, may probably have been paralleled
by similar scenes in the infancy of the
gold diggings in California and Australia,
where men who previously lived by 'lie
labor of their hands, found themselves
suddenly in possession of great pecunin1 >
resources; but nowhere else have su'h
changes from poverty to wealth been at
all so marked or so txtraordinary.
'In a country where labor is abundant,
and the soil and climate favorable, tbe
growth of cotton may be carried to an ex-
tent which may reasonably be supposed
capable of oompeting for a long time with
the Transatlantic artiole. Gome what
may in the United States of North Amer-
ca, where the negro has been made to fight
the battles of the Federals, and is now
about to be pressed into the armies of the
South, the end must be a serious diminu-
tion ia the amount of slave labor, even
supposing the institution of slavery to be
continued, and a largly increased scale of
free labor, if slavery be annihilated. In
either case, a long time must necessarily
elapse before the tide of fortune, which
has set in so strongly in favor of cotton,
the produce of India, can be directed into
other channels.
A reference to the statistics of the Indian
cotton trade show, how readily the enter-
prising speculators in Bombay appreciated
the opening which the course of events in
America had made for them. In 1860 they
sent us half a million of bales * the next
year—the first year of the war—this quan-
tity was nearly doubled ; and last year the
quantity exceeded a million. From this
it will be seen that the quantity of cotton
exported has not been at all in the ratio of
increased prices; but enough has been done
to realise the results which we have already
mentioned. In Madras, the cotton sent to
England varied from 55,000 bales, forward-
ed in 1860 to 173,000 bales in 1864. In
Bengal, the increase varied from 30,000
bales in 1862 to 182,OOu in 1864—a part of
India from which we had never received
any cotton prior to the outbreak in Amer-
ica. Egypt and Brazil have both been
putting forth their powers in the way of
producing cotton under the stimulant of
high prices.
In"l860 we received fromEgypt 100,000;
from Brazil, 103,000; but in 1864 the first-
named country sent us 257,000 bales, and
the last 212,000. The estimate for the pres-
ent year from all the cotton producing
countries is nearly 3,000,000 bales inclu-
ding 150,000 from America, 300,000 from
Egypt, 250,000 from Brazil, 1,500,000 from
India, 100,000 from the West Indies and
Peru, 100,000 from Turkey, 500,000 from
China and Japan—total 2,900,000. The
bale differs in weight in different countries.
From America it represents 438 lbs; from
Egypt—the next nearest approach—500 lbs.
from Brazil, 180 lbs.—the lowest; from
Peru and the West Indies, 200 lbs.—the
next lowest; from India, 365 lbs.; from
Turkey, *55 lbs.; and from China and
Japan,240 lbs.
The question as to the future price of
cotton is not of less importance than the
estimated supply. Previous to the Amer
ican war, the markets of tho world had
been ovp^tocked, and the cotton-spin
ners of K / .md had over manufactured
themsth • -. All authorities agree t hat, if
the then rate of production had been con-
tinued much longer, a panic of the most
disastrous result must have been the in-
evitable consequence. This will account
for the difference, bo long continued, be
tween the price of tbe staple in the man-
ufactured state. The war had progressed
a considerable time before the value of
the two products was correspondingly as-
similated. Now there is nearly uniform-
ity.
Au authority on this point say?: ''As
soon as prices reach a moderately low lim-
it, there can be no doubt that both produc-
tion and demand will increase, for all the
markets of the world are bare of stocks and
need replenishing; but what 'moderation*
is, whether 12d. or 9d. for East India cot-
ton, no man can venture to pronounce."
The ultimate solution of the question must
depend in a great measure on the course of
events on the other side of tbe Atlantio,
and for those events we must patiently wait.
They will develop themselves in good time.
From IVUmer Sf Smith European Times.
BY TELEGRAPH.
Speeial to the#Daily Telegraph.
Shreveport, April 18.
The New Orleaos Times of tha 12th and
13th are received. The Times of the 12th
has information of the occupation of Mo-
bile by the Union forces qb the 11th, but
tbe paper of the 13th says it ia premature.
These papers like the one of the 11th, are
completely filled With inflated dispatcher,
contradictory and absurd.
Tbe following sets at vest the reported
oapture of Lee and his army:
Philadelphia, April 7.—Jay Cook has
received dispatohes from Washington that
the report of the oaptura of Gen. B. E.
Lee is premature. It was Fitihugh Lee.
Tbe army, exeept small fragments^ whose
capture with Lee, 8heridao reports is in-
evitable.
War Department, Washington,)
April 8th, 1885. J
Major Gen. Dix,—A telegram from Gen.
Grant, dated at 12 noon, to-day, sixteen
miles west of Burkville, says that the ene-
my have been pushed from the road lead-
ing to Danville, and are now poshing to-
words Lynchburg, and that he is very con-
fident of receiving the surrender of Lee and
what remains of his army.
E. M. STANTON.
Fortress Monroe, April 7.—Gen. Sher-
man was at Goldsboro on the 4th, ready to
pursh forward again.
The Times says there is no confirmation
of the reported fight between Sherman and
Johnston, as published in the Mobile pa-
pers of the 4th.
New Yohk, April 13.—H. 8. Foote ar-
rived here last night from Europe, and is
confined in the Eldridge street jail.
New York, April 8.—The Herald's
special says that Hunter and Campbell
81 ay d in Richmond for the purpose of
negotiating tor peace, and that they have
already had an interview with Lincoln.
Lincoln is about to issue another amnesty
proclamation.
Gold 150$.
CONSCRIPT.
From the Bahama (Naisau) Herald, of the 8th.
T e Condition ol Affaire.
In the absence of late authentic news
from the United States or Confederate
States, we are left to odnjeotnre what may
have been the termination of the struggle
which was reported by our latest files to
have been going on at the time the Corsi-
ca left New York. But that our readers
may understand and appreoiate the true
and relative positions of the two contend-
ing parties, it is necessary to go back to
last summer's campaign. In May last,
when Gen. Johnston made his first retreat
before the overwhelming force of General
Sherwan, from a position around Dalton,
to a place called Resaca, Sherman's object
was to destroy Johnston's army and to
"hold and possess" the Si ate of Georgia
and the whole of the interior of that part
of the Confederacy. Johnston's object
was to prevent Sherman doing either.
Sherman did not destroy that army, nor
did he (at the close of that campaign)
hold and possess" the State of Georgia.
Johnston was removed from hiB com-
mand—whether a wise act or not on the
part of the President it is not for us to say
—and Hood appointed. Atlanta was evac-
uated and occupied by the Federals. This,
no doubt, was a substantial victory, and
did Sherman's army now occupy that city,
full credit would be given to this general
for having achieved a great and signal ad-
vantage over the enemy; but, unfortunate-
ly for liis reputation and for tho
Federal cause, the campaign did not end
there; or, in other words. Sherman's posi-
tion in the heart of Georgia about this time
became untenable; and that with General
Forrest in his rear, and General Wheeler
on his flank, he was compelled to evacuate
Atlanta and retreat to the sea coast.
He made for Savannah, the easiest posi-
tion to bo reached, which place Gen. Har-
dee evacuated with 12,000 to 15,000 Geor-
gia Reserves, in tlie face of a superior
force; lor although Sherman had lost 75,009
men since the day he followed Johnston
from Dalton, his army still numbered fifty
thousand.
Wo therefore freely acknowledge that
the Confederates have a right to, and
should claim that summer's campaign.
Time, resources, men, were either thrown
away, or they were not Savannah could
or could not have been occupied at a less
cost by the same number of men, and fu-
ture historians will be puzzled to explain
why Sherman did not put his army on
board transports in the Chesapeake or
Potomac and land them at the port of
Beaufort, South Carolina.
This, we know, ia what some Confeder-
ates feared would l>e the consequence of
the capture of that port some two years
since or more, and it was at that time
that General Beauregard and some other
officers of note suggested and advised the
expediency of relinquishing the whole ot
the sea-board, with Richmond, into the
bargain, and of retreating into the inte
riorofthe country, and, by uniting their
forces, defy the coinbin d attacks of the
Federals.
I' is in taking this view of things that
We feel no alarm at the present aspect of
affairs, and that we do not construe tbi-
"rapid and triumphant march of 8h«r
man" from one point to another as an
evidenoe of his ' 'unprecedented military
genius," or as a hopeless oonfession of
weakness and defeat on tbe part of the
Confederate army.
In the former oase it is the same with
Sherman as with Grant. Sherman has
been driven into the proper and only line
of attack to bring about the evaouation of
the sea-board and of Riohmond, as Grant
was driven last summer by Gen. Lee into
taking his present position before Peters-
burg (Butler, by the bye, tells ns this
himself, though we knew it before) the
only way to take Riohmond, supposing
any less a general than Lee were defend-
ing it. In the latter oase, the next mail
from the States will show whether the
Confedeiate armies are defeated.
So much for the past; now a word on the
present and the future—a future which is
very close upon ns.
Sherman has taken a line of, march nearly
parallel with the coast; his force sedtas to
amount to some 100,000 men, and, against
this number the Confederate army, under
Beauregard, had retreated, evacuating place
after place, and falling back slowly.
From our sources of information, and of
which we have given due publication, we
have seen that each army has respectively
occupied Winnesboro and Charlotte—bout
places on the direct line of railroad to
Richmond by way of the Danville con-
nection.
General Beauregard has led Sherman a
wild goose ohase, Increasing his army as
he marohed, until, as we learn, he has sud-
denly appeared near Greensboro' with an
army approximating to 60,000 or 70,000
men, General Johnston in the meantime,
at Beauregard's request, taking command
of this army, he himself remaining sec-
ond in authority : thus Jhonston is again
brought face to faoe with his old adversa-
ry, and with Beauregard's invaluable aid,
we shall be mistaksn if we do not hear a
favorable aeoount of him.
General Lee, in the meantime, has not
remained passive nor inaotive ; bis move-
ments and intentions have been somewhat
lost sight of lately, from the rapid swooes-
ion of "brilliant Northern victories" else-
where, he will, it seems to us, eontraot his
lines around Petersburg, allowing Grant,
for the nonoe, to ocoupy a portion of them,
and suddenly appear in front of "Sher-
man's army of Western veterans" with
30,000 men, effeoting a junction with
Johnston's columns, If Lee and Johnston
sucoeed In crushing Sherman's army,
Grant will deoiedly be driven to hiB gun-
boats, and thus will die the great "Ana-
oonda!"
Remedy for Sores on Horses and
Cattle.—Lime and lard, are the best ap-
plications to old, bad sores of any kind,
especially if the bone be affected any
Take good stone lime, Shake, dry kml sift
through a fine sieve. Pnt the flour in a
bottle, cork tight, and keep it m a dark
place ftom light and air, and it will keep
good for years. Take one part of lime in
three parts of lard in bulk, and mix them
well cold, and apply a proper quantity
twioe a day and cleanse each time with
sudB. If the sore descends below the out-
ward opening, it must be opened to the
bottom, or it will not heal sound. If the
bone is affected, the sore probably will not
heal, and ought not to, til) the bone is
healed. Sores healed under this treat-
ment always heal Bound. If the fungus be
in the sore, this treatment will clear it all
out and keep it out.
AHKomrcJumrrt.
prising ths eooatles of Harris, Vert Bead tad Bra>-
■eria. , , ■arehW-dtdaT
« authorised to announce OOL. EDWARD
,M f eoaWdate ler Governor of Texas, at the
electtou to A unit next. m«hia twttle*
VXTH are authorised to annonnoe Gov. J. W. Hen*
t0T 0on<re** Irom u S<1
We are authorised to snnonnos brio. osn.m.o.
ector, as a candidate for Oovscoer at the election la
Augart next. up] 4
Y/lONXIlt, kobletbok dt Qo,, Oessxnlssfton
V Merchants, Havana, make liberal advances
on Cotton to their oonstgaaeat or te that of their
Mends ia Heron*
Orders for Goods received and promptly attea-
dsdto. Bete to T. W. Hoase, or B&l. Hnteh-
ags dt Oo- dscMdSm*
We are aathorlssd to announce Col. AIHBBL
SMITH as a candidate for Govs
Baatrep military lselli'sta.
THB annaal session of ths lasUMIs elease en
Taarsday, 8th of Jane. A Awl session
tea weeks will hegia on the lotiowtai Moaday. In 1
lien of of the asnal vaottion.fer the speelalan-
•flit of those whose tersM at school are liaised b>
• war. B* T. P. AIiLHH,
April 18-dft* Sept.
T\TQTIOB.— Chs Btoekolders el tee ttoastoa aad
JLv Tsxas Central Railroad Ooapaap, wtU meet
at the Oosspanr's Oflee la Heastoa, ea Header,
theflrst day of Hsj, 1905, f>r the perpeee ot fees
gaatolng and electing Directors.
JAMBS V. LOUDON.
April 19-dtMajg Bee*y|
COMMISSION MERCHANT
Houston. Texss. no* sMss
UsUMJUAaiBB* UuMSOmFt BCJkVlOS,
District of l'exas. ftask. April S, MM. J
General Order*. Mo. S.
I. Exempt farmers are aot prohibited ftom raisins
oottoa, but only tno#e tarmere who have been detaUsd.
An exempt firmer te one who was tho owner aad
manager. «r tbe overseer on a ram or plantation, apia
wblcb ibrre xre now, and Were on theflrst depot
January, 1864. fifteen able bodied field head*, between
the as mi ui 16 <ind 80 years, aad upon which farm or
plantation there u no wbtte male adult not UaUeto
mlllty service.
111. So much of paragraph VI, of General Order,
No. 1. current series Irom these tleadqua rters, as re-
late to exem >t farmers Is revoked.
III. P*r*araph I, General Omer No. 1, current se-
ries from these ilesdquarteis Is revoked.
Br order or «ol. D. U. MABTIN.
tUu. A. WiLLSoH, Oapt. A Adit. apl4 dlw
Ei L6TEK & €0.,
Receiving, Forwading, and
COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
Wholesale and Retail
DKALBBS IN
DRY-GOODS, GROCERIES.
We hare a large Warehouse end Cotton-yard,
and will rscelrs C0U00 cooslgosd to as. Pass the
sams through the Custom-hoose at this place,
give bond aad prooure permits, and forward and
sell the same as Instructsd.
Oars being an old established House, we solicit
patroaaga, and wUl gin personal attention to the
ame.
Goliad, Texas, Msreh 17, 18S5. mch-9-ftm
Official statements carefully made up in
the War Department, will show, it is said,
that the number of our soldiers in our ser-
vice who have died since the war began,
will reaeh the startling number of two
hundred and forty-thousand, or very near-
ly a quarter of a million I Of these, two
hundred and twenty-one thousand have
actually died in the servioe from wounds
or sickness, in the field and in hospitals
The authorities estimate the number ot
deaths from wounds or disease contracted
in the service, whioh did not prove fatal
till after discharge, and do not, therefore,
appear iu the foregoing statement, at
twenty thousand more.— Yankee Paper
ARTISTS' PENCILS—A most eonrenienlarti-
cle for pooket use.
dlsr. E. H. C.dkCO.
LETTER COPYING BRUSHES, Letter Copy-
ing Paper, Ruled Paper, Blotting Paper, eto
dlw* E H.C.&CO.
Baatrop Military loetltuie
WHB annual examination or this Instltnts WtU
X begin on Wednesday the Slst of May, end
closs en Thursday, the flih day of,June. The
friends of the Institute are specially Invited to
attend. R. T. P. ALLEN,
April 18-d4t Bupt.
John Coiuns. JamaBaaw.
JOHN COLLINS & CO,
WHOLiBSASjK Arta* n HTAIL UROCBRS
AND
Dealers In all descriptions of Country Produce,
MaaxaT tfqunsa, Houston, Tsxas.
IN connectlnn with ihe ab>ve Card, the public are
notiSed that a compartnerstalp between the under
signed commenced on tb -4'hdarof April, 1865, and
they wonld respectfully li.vlte their patrons to con*
tlnue tbelr favor*, and tiio public generally, to Rive
them a share of (bar. patronage ao liberally eAjtned by
JoUq OoIUqh, as tbelr etoo.i of Qrocerles, Liquors
Country Produce, Ac., will always be found complete
and extensive. JOHN COLLINB.
JAMES 8HAW.
Houston , April Stb, 1865. splldSt
CHEAP Letter and Note paper, all tbe way from
93 50 up. Reasonabls dlsouunt for salee by
100 Reams.
dlw. E H. C <fc OO
SPliENUiD Pocket Cutlery, Ladles' Sol«sors,
Milliner*' setts of Selmors. eto , eto.
Tbo Quest invoice 01 tbe above ever seeu In this
msrket. B> the dozen only,
dlw. B. H. C. & OO.
bsadttoartsas Distmct or Texas,\
New Mexico and Aaizoxa..>
Houston, April 17,1805)
GBNBBAL ORDERS, Bo. II.
Mtjor Thomss Ltnlgan.C. S. is ennounesd as
Chief Comml«« ry ot tho District of Texas, Mew
Mcxlso and Arlsona.
By command of
tfsjor Gen. MAGBUDER.
BTsrHsw P. Yswcbt. A. a. flsn'l. aplT- 3t
SC11WARTZ, R0UFF & CO.,
MATAMOROS, MEXICO.
Keep eonstently on hand
0X00,000 WORTH
OP
CHOICE MERCHANDISE,
in ottnaT vastsTt, \
SUIT A BLR FOR THB TEX IB TRADE,
CONSISTING or
DRY GOODS—CLOTHING,
BOOTS AND SHOES—HATS,
GKOCEKtBH-IIAKDWABE.
hTationkKY, &e., die., &o.
Jfp Will rocelve Cotton and advance liberally
On S:toie
yspjr- Parti s srrivlntt In MsUtnoros, from Tex-
as are pirl'cuUrly Invited to examine our stock,
aprll 15 <18t
SLATHS and Slate Psnclls, by ths dozen or one
hundred.
dlw. E. H. C.&.CO.
Onft GKOSb Flnu Lead Pencils Ao. i!
varieties.
dlw.
All
E. H. C. <Jt CO.
ARNOLD'S Kocord lull, la small snd le ge
bottles.
3. n. c. dt no.
jyjUCILLAGE In oones.
dlw.
B. H. C. & CO.
1 r. f\f\ Oross Steel Pens, of sll sorts.
IOUU E. H. C. <fc CO.
dli
III.OCK ADK KI .MNKKS.
1MMKDIATK PROPOSALS WILL BE RKCEIV
ED POK aO<iO BALES OP CO 1 ION TO LOAD
ON FAST HAILING 8TEAMKKS,
HKNRY SAMPSON, Treasury Afent
April 11, H«3-d>5c'.w3t Foreign Supply Office
Orrics A. Q. M , Hut Ts**s die.;
Houston, Aprll 14, 16*>5. \
(OiaccLitt.)
All Beef Hides whioh are now or may hsrsaf-
ter be lo the po*ses«lon of officers of this Dspsrt-
mont, within this military district, will be turned
over to officers of tho Clothing Bureso, with tbe
least poislble delay , xcept In those special eases,
whwre there are ur Jers to transfer to other depart-
ments. W. W.STONE, >
Aurll 15 <13l Msjor a id Chiel U M
HBADQCARTBBS, DISTRICT OK
Tsxsh, Naw Msxico nu Arizona, . ellsb \
Houston, Aprll 18,1865. 1 onnlsy
Circular. „ „ Aorrlson
All Officers snd Agents of the Subsistence De- utton and
partmeot iu this Diatrlct will Immediately report be punetn-
to Msj. Thomas L*nlgan, Ciilof Commlsiary, tfenees mads on.
amount of funds aud stores they now have on to tlieirosre.
designating the points or 'I epots at which tbfMORKISON d« CO.
>iro deposited, the probable amount of esi
that c*u bo (tccamulaiKd by them aud tbjtton; 8. N. Hohenthal
be) Issui d anl trsnsferred. iston. febl#-Jdilw3m
i'hey will a'so furnlnh Maj r Lanl|?s
of evry month the following returr rd of Five Thousand Dol
les of Forms No I and 0 Hubilstei.ie J*®e I'-Oole.
and an abstract of all stores pur. B Kogllwi,is hereby wllh-
pr« iteil during the month ; itckidku a private eontraot for tba
bo reported on V jrin No. 1. .ilu. A
By coromo H. B KnuLlsH.
M i) >rO 'fteral J. lit'l 3 'Hj. april I6-1U-U2>
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Cushing, E. H. The Houston Tri-Weekly Telegraph (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 31, No. 11, Ed. 1 Wednesday, April 19, 1865, newspaper, April 19, 1865; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth235131/m1/1/: accessed April 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History.