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Sunday, January 11, 1874.
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tALVES^* A!S A ' OMMEBClAl
CENTRE.
e-nc favorable position of Galveston,
ns a distributing point for a vast ex-
tent of rich territory, is little undei-
ttood by men who have not given the
matter careful and thoughtful atten-
tion, and who have not had before
them the maps and charts, from which
alone, reliable data are to be obtained.
Wo deliberately aflirm that this port
is the most eligible outlet to the ocean
for an expanse of country larger than
that included in the continental do-
main of New York, and which is much
richer in soil, more genial in climate,
and better adapted to the production
of all the staple commodities, the hand-
ling of which gives commercial great-
ness to cities and opulence and power
to peoples.
It is almost unnecessary to remark
that distributing centres arc in the
nature of things importing centres as
well, and thet the same country to the
North, West and Southwest which
send their surplus products here for
distribution abroad, will seek their
supplies of foreign products through
the same port.
To mako the advantages possessed
by Galveston plain, we submit a few
physical fact*, relative to geographical
positions, about which there can be no
difference of opinion.
The total area of the United States
is put down at 4,000,000 square miles;
of this territory 840,000 square miles
east of the Mississippi are tributary to
New York, while 900,000 square miles
lie between the Mississippi River and
the Rocky Mountains, and will, in less
time than it has taken to concentrate
the business of the country east to
New York, be made tributary to Gal-
correct map of the United
lace odp toot ui »
i the city of New York, and
other draw a circle, the ra-
vhich is 250 miles; the circle
>races Rochester, which was
tue centre for accumulation of the
wheat of the country when the Erie
Canal was begun, some fifty years ago.
Extend your dividers, so as to sweep
a circle of 500 miles: the radius just
reaches Sandu ky City. Ohio, for many
years an important point for accumu-
lation of products for shipment East-
ward. Make another extension, so as
to draw a circle of 750 miles, and Chi-
cago is reached. Again extend your
dividers, so as to embrace 1000 miles,
and St. Louis is brought within the
circle. All the country embraced
within the railius described is made
tributary to New York, notwithstand-
ing there are numerous other ports
competing with her for the prize.
Let us see now what important cen-
tres of trade, as they exist to-day, can
be brought within reach of Galveston,
pursuing the same method as with
New York, and extending the circle
by sweeps of 250 miles at each change.
With the stationary foot of your di
riders on Galveston, and giving the
movable one a sweep of 250 miles,
Dallas is reached, which bears the same
relation to Galveston that Rochester
bore to New York. The next move,
the circle extending 500 miles, and
Falls City, Kansas, and Monterey,
Mexico, are embraced. Extend again,
making the radius 750 miles, and we
have within our circle Santa Fe, New
Mexico, El I'asij, Texas, and Chihua-
hua, Mexico. Another extension, mak-
ing the circle e mbrace an area of 1000 I
miles from Galveston, and we reach |
Denver, Colorado, and Guaymas, Mex-
ico, on the Gulf of California.
It will be seen at a glance, on con-
sulting the map and following the sug-
gestions we have made, that Galveston
is, by nature, made the receiving and
distributing centre for all that vast
territory between this city and the
Missouri line on tiic north, El Paso,
Chihuahua and other Mexican cities on
the west, and nearly the whole of
Southern Mexico on the south; an ag-
gregate area unsurpassed in climate,
soil, natural resources and productions.
The circle of one thousand miles
as described, of which Galveston is
the centre, comprises Texas, which is
four times the area of New York ; the
Indian Territory, soon to be made a
State, and which, for all natural ad-
vantages, is equ.il to any country on
the globe; Kansas, Colorado, New
Mexico, Arizona; and of Mexican
States, Chihuahua, Sonora, Nueva
Leon, Tamaulipas and Coahuila.
For this trade Galveston has, abso-
lutely, no competitor. She sits upon
her island site, the Queen of the Gulf,
without so much as a rival.
New York has attained her proud
pre-eminence because of her natural
position and'the enlightened energy of
her people, despite the competition of
numerous ports, some of them places
of great commercial and manufactur-
ing importance, such as—beginning at
the South and following the coast—
Savannah, Wilmington, Charleston,
Norfolk, Richmond, Baltimore, Phila-
delphia, Providence, Boston and Port-
land. New York collects from and
distributes to, by means of her roads
and vessels, all the cities named, and
hundreds of others of less note.
To find a competitor with Galveston
for the trade of the territory to which
we refer, you will have to pass over a
distance of three hundred mi let to New
Orleans, and when that point is reached
no nUrwitage has btcu gained. On
the contrary, a positive loss in time
and money has been incurred.
In illustration of the proposition
with which we started out, the follow-
ing tabulated statement may be useful:
Distance," referring to the respect-
ive centres of the circles; "east"
the points tributary to New York,
and "west," those tributary to Gal-
veston :
EiHT DI.-TAXC*. WIST.
Cities. Miles. Cities.
Rochester 230 .Dallas, Texas.
Sandusky City .500. Falls City. Monterey
Chiaago 750. Santa Fe, EJ Paso, Chi-
huahua.
St. Lou's 1000. Denver, Guaymas.
We have stated only physical facts.
The intelligent reader can draw his
own conclusions.
Galveston is content.
UKDKMPTION OF CAH TICKETS.
In the absence of fractional cur-
rency the issuance of tickets, repre-
senting five cents, by the Galveston
City Railroad Company has been or-
dinarily looked upon as a good (if not
divine) dispensation. Although the
bits of yellow pasteboard promise only
the luxury of " one ride on the Galves-
ton City Railroad Cars," common
mortals have been so accustomed to
look upon them in the light of cur-
rency as almost to fancy that they
emitted a metallic ring when dropped
upon the shopkeeper's counter. Hut
it is not here intended to question the
intrinsic value of the tickets issued by
the Street Railroad Company, admit-
ting, as we do, the entire solvency of
the institution.
The purpose is only to notice the ar-
bitrary manner in which the company
propose to redeem its pledges. It
uii^ui l>c urged that the company issue
no promises to redeem its tickets in
cash, as it merely promises a "ride''
to each bearer or holder of a ticket.
But the past has shown that the com-
pany is not disposed to resort to such
subterfuge to evade its generally ac-
cepted obligations. Hence, we deal
with its issues as representing, al-
though not expressed in. so many
words, the currency of the country.
We take it that a car ticket issued by
the company is, by general consent
and custom, of as much value to the
citizen of Galveston as the nickel of
the denomination of five cents, coined
at the national mint. It is admitted
that they may not be deposited in the
banks as currency, but they are issued
upon deposits of currency. Then why
should an institution, fostered by tho
people of Ga'.veston, and deriving its
chief support therefrom, presume to say
that car tickets will only be "redeemed
every Wednesday, during, banking
hours?" What right has the Company
to issue tickets to the amount of two
dollars through its car-drivers, when
the passenger cannot make the requis-
ite change, and then deliberately say
you must wait until next " Wednes-
day during banking hours?" To sum
up che matter in as few words as possi-
ble, the issues of the Galveston City
liailroad Company are worth nothing
beyond the indefinite contingency of a
ride, or they are redeemable at any-
time when the office of the Company
is open, no matter whether the "hour"
is a "banking hour" or not.
liE.NEUAI. JOS. E. JOHNSTON'S
CAMPAIGNS.
Col. T. A. Washington, agent for
the above named work, is now in Gal-
veston canvassing for subscribers. He
states that it will be sold by subscrip-
tion only. This will, doubtless, prove
an interesting, as well as true, history.
Gen. W. T. Sherman, Commander-in-
Chief of the United States Army,
writes the author, urging its publica-
tion. and savs: "Gen. .Tnhnstno
most favorably known to the military
world, and is regarded by many as the
most skillful General on the Southern
side. He is also ready with his
pen, and whatever he records will
receive the closest attention by stu-
dents of the art of war on this conti-
nent, and will enter largely into the
future military history of the Civil
War." Col. Washington exhibits some
pages as a sample of the work, which
is beautifully printed, and embraces
elegant steel plate engraved portraits
of the leading generals on both sides,
including Grant, Polk, John Morgan,
Beauregard, Bragg, Sherman, Mc-
Clellan, Stuart, Hood, Hardee, Jack-
son and Johnston.
The work will be bound in different
styles, and the prices are $5 for elegant
cloth binding; $(> for leather, and
$7 50 for morocco.
(LGHKS OF LEGISLATIVE COM-
MITTEES.
Among the items of retrenchment
suggested by the Governor of Mis-
souri, is the amounts paid for clerks
of committees in the Legislature, most
of whom have little to do, and many
of whom abuse their positions in favor
of measures for individual benefit
which come before the Legislature and
are referred to committees. The com-
mittees are apt to leave work which
they should do themselves to their
clerks, and the clerks have great temp-
tation to use their positions in favor of
those who arc expected to remember
the accommodation. In Missouri, the
Governor says, clerks there are often
charged witli the important duty of
preparing bills for the action of the
General Assembly. This duty should
be performed by the members them-
selves, and if they are incapable or
unwilling to do the work they are
elected to perforin, they should resign.
LOPPlKU OFF SIN ECU ICES.
The new Canadian Government pro-
poses to dispense with a number of
einecurc ofticc holders. We are glad
to see the same thing proposed by the
Governor of Missouri. It is about time
to adopt the policy of making the pay
for public officers correspond with the
qualifications of the incumbent and
the amount of labor, as in private em-
ployments. Waiting for a lucrative
office has spoiled as many good men as
fancy stock or lottery gambling. The
very worse source of employment a
young man can seek is public office.
Should he succeed, he will be no better
off than he would be in private life,
while his chances for office are a hun-
dred times worse than his chances for
other employment.
Should civil scrvice reform become
what it is in theory, it will be a great
boon both to the country and individu-
als. The idea is by far too common
that the only qualification necessary for
office is to vote and electioneer, with
unscrupulous energy, on the strong
side. _
The Journal of the Disciples of Satan
is the title of a periodical which has
recently made its appearance in Paler-
mo, Sicily. There are a number of
such journals in this country, but they
arc called by different names, such as
Wild Oat*, The Day's Doings, and the
Police Gazette. They sell freely, and
not only recruit the ranks of Satan, but
furnish raw recruits for penitentiaries
and poor-houses.
The negroes are leaving Georgia and
Alabama for Mississippi and Louisiana.
We sec that a body of thirty started
from Mississippi for Kansas a few days
since.
THE TEXAS PHESS.
The Dallas Herald takes a compre-
hensive and correct view of our city,
as follows:
As the principal port of Texas, Gal-
veston has a promising future. In
considering the Texas and Pacific Rail-
road and the advantages to be derived
from its construction to this State, it is
clearly recognizable that Galveston
must become the port that will derive
the greatest advantage as the point of
arrival and departure for all the Euro-
pean travel and commerce that will
seek this line of transportation across
the Continent.
It is over three thousand miles from
San Francisco, by the Union Pacific
route, to New York. It is only about
fifteen hundred mile3 from San Diego
by the Texas and Pacific route, by way
of Dallas, to Galveston. This fact
demonstrates that the great bulk of
travel and trade from China, Japan,
the Sandwich Islands, and Pacific
coast, destined to European ports, will
seek this line and Galveston as an
outlet to the Atlantic Ocean. The
same will hold good, as a rule, for
freights and travel coming from Eu-
rope, intended lor California or more
distant countries.
When the Texas aud Pacific line is
completed across the Continent, the
mineral wealth of Arizona, New Mex-
ico and Texas, and much ot Northern
Mexico, in addition to the overland
commerce of other countries, will seek
water carriage at Galveston. Where
one ship seeks her harbor now, there
will be a dozen then; and but a few
years after that connection is made, the
waters of the beautiful bay will be
whitened and animated by the arrival
and departure of innumerable vessels
every day in the year.
The increased productions of Texas
and the continually growing amount
of importations that will naturally sock
(Jalveston as a point of ingress and
egress, will make it a city of great
importance. Present railroad facilities
indicate that it must become the port
on salt water for much of the com-
merce of States near to and north of
us. When these avenues of trade are
fairly opened up, and the others indi-
cated are brought about by the build-
ing of the Texas and Pacific Railway,
there can be no doubt as to the future
wealth and population of our own
beautiful Gulf City. We sincerely be-
lieve the day is not far distant when
she will eclipse in commercial splendor
Mobile and New Orleans. Not many
years hence, she will send away more
cotton than either of them, and become
the depot for the bulk of the coffee
intended for Texas, the Indian Nation,
Arkansas, Missouri, Kansas, New
Mexico, etc.
" The Herald publishes the following
Indian news •
Fort Belknap, Texas, Jan. 4.
To the Editor of the Dallas Herald:
Mr. Slater, who, with a party, has
been out on a wolf hunt for some time,
informs me this morning that, on
Christmas Day, they came upon a party
of men who had been murdered by the
Indians. There were four men, with a
wagon and harness, in the camp. The
bodies looked as if they had been killed
three or four days, were all scalped and
literally cut to pieces. The bodies
were buried as well as could be done.
This murder took place at Buffalo Gap,
now known as Hill's Gap. After reach-
ing this place I learned that the mur-
dered men belonged to one of S. W.
McKibbin & Co.'s wolfing parties.
Yours truly, John Walters.
The Austin Statesman says:
The Galveston Civilian, under its
new management, turns out to be a
Radical organ. It is defending the de-
cision of the scalawag court. It may
be that Sabin, or somebody worse, is
now editing this paper. It is quite
likely that money has been sent from
abroad to aid the routed Radicals of
Texas. It is a little strange that news-
papers, heretofore sustaining the Dem-
ocratic party, in the face of a majority
ot nearly 50,000 for tho Democratic
party, should suddenly turn over to the
Radicals and have the. courage to de-
fend the vilest scalawag decision yet
made by a court, not excepting Judge
Durell.
The State Gazette says that the Su-
preme court is not as Heavy an institu-
tion as its members imagine, although
it exceeds 65Q.pounds avoirdupois.
We copy the following from the Ga-
zette regarding a new road:
We learn from Mr. James Bird, of
Round Mountain, Blanco County, that
the citizens of that section of the
country are bestirring themselves to
open a road direct from Austin to Ma-
son, which will shorten the road over
twenty-five miles. The opening of
this road is of great importance to
Austin, Houston and Galveston, as it
will bring in immense trade that is
n<iw diverted to San Antonio and La-
vaca.
A new paper is to be established at
Austin, to be printed in the Spanish
language.
In the Tyler Reporter we find an able
opinion from Judge Ii. S. Walker, ad-
dressed to the editors of that journal,
regarding the election question. He
clearly and forcibly enunciates that
Gov. Davis's term of office has expired,
and that Coke should be inaugurated
on the meeting of the Legislature. The
Constitution is quoted wherein it says
that the present State officials shall
hold their present offices for the term
of four years from the date of their
election,1' an3 continuing until their
successors are elected and qualified.
Judge Walker closes his argument
with the following allusion to Gov.
Davis's action in 1870:
Gov. Davis perhaps declined to act
officially until after Congress acted
upon the Constitution, notwithstand-
ing the Legislature convened in Feb-
ruary 1870. Is is immaterial whether
his views, as to his powers or duties
then, were correct or not, and it affords
no aid to the solution of the question.
My opinion is, that if he had not been
installed until the fourth year after his
election, by reason of causaltics
or impediments to our reconstrc-
tion, it would not have thereby
extended his term a day longer
than if he had been installed the day
after the election; for whenever the
period arrives for electing the members
of the Legislature and the Governor,
during the fourth year after his elec-
tion, then, as the Constitution contem-
plates, botii of these departments,
legislative and executive, enter to-
gether upon a new administration, and
it is not a question of computation of
years and months, during which the
antecedent Governor has acted, but
the epoch has been reached, which the
legislature is authorized to fix for its
session, and then, the first Thursday,
Gov. Coke takes his seat, and the coun-
try again breathes the air of freedom.
The Waco Examiner offers sugges-
tions to the fanners of McLennan that
are applicable to all the counties of
Texas:
The subject of improved farm ma-
chinery is attracting much attention
among our farmers, and the largo sales
made by our dealers fully attest the
truth of this assertion. There is no
country on the face of the earth better
adapted to the late improvements in
this kind of mu;hinery than Texas,
and no part of Texas better than Mc-
Lennan and the surrounding counties.
By a judicious selection of plows, cul-
tivators, planters, harvesters, etc., one
man is able to accomplish the work of
throe, with the old implements. Now
it seems to us very strange that every
farmer is not supplied with these i>(e*
improvements, when the benefits are so
palpably plain.
Gov. Leslie, of Kentucky, announ-
ces that the debt of the State has
been virtually liquidated, with the ex.
ception of the school debt, which is a
permanent loan, and therefore not re?
deemable. Kentucky is " the only
Southern State which has been able to
avoid Radical control in her local gov-
ernment.
The newspapers are almost unani-
mous in deftouncing the plan for in-
creasing taxation or the national debt.
The cry is for retrenchment in the de-
partments.
[For the News.]
the cobkscbew.
Ye critics be easy,
And don't ye get greasy,
About these few lines which I lav 'fore your
view;
They are not an essay.
Nor a controversy,
But a simple effusion about a corkscrew.
The poets aid safes
Of this and past ages.
In song and In story have portry'd what they
knew—
The fame and the wages,
Of the sword and its phases—
And entirely passed over the little corkscrew.
O'erlook my presumption
For this pieoe of gumptioa.
In attempting to write of the work it's past
through;
My honest intention,
Is only to mention
Bat a few of the deeds of the little corkscrew.
I first loudly proclaim,
Though you'll think it a shame.
To so boldly assert (the exceptions are few.)
That each store with a name,
And each houie just the same.
Both can boast they have hold of the little
corkscrew.
They need its assistance—
Without its existence.
The corks from the bottles they could never
undo;*
With all their persistence,
The wins and its essence
We owe with our blessings to the little
corkscrew.
In darkness or daylight,
la moonshine or sunlight.
Drunkards and revelers—the despicable crew
You can sea their delight
As they quarrel and fight—
This they owe, with their curse, to the little
corkscrew.
ThroJghout all creation
Couli our observation
But reach the lone corners, we would find
many, too,
Who risk their salvation
And court their damnation
By using too often the little corsst-rcw.
Presidont or peasant,
When either a present,
A gift or a favor request of you.
With smile that is pleasant,
And meaning too well meant.
They bring to assist them the mighty cork-
screw.
Since the day 'twas first mad-*,
It has many waylaid
From rectitude's path—the Devil to pursue,
Till they are suuk to the grade
Whence they say there's no aid,
And thus they keep using the little corkserow.
'Tis a curse ? No, indeed,
'Tis a blessing we need!
For while bottles aie made and corked up by
you,
You are surely agreed
We could never succeed
Without that invention, the little corkscrew.
G.
Open to Texarkana.
Arkansas Headed by Texas Railroads—Texar-
kana Opening the Ways of an " Infant
Prodigy" — The Cairo and Fulton Must
Change its Gauge—The El Paso Stage Com-
pany " Falling Back "—Staging in Texas
Playing Out.
Texarkana, Jan. 3,1874.
Eds. News—Cars are now running
regularly on the Texas and Pacific Rail-
road to Texarkana,on the Arkansas State
line, fifty-two miles north of Jefferson.
Track-laying is progressing south of Red
River on the Cairo and Fulton Road, and
in two or three weeks it is expected the
connection between the two roads will be
made. Work has been suspended on tho
bridge at Fulton on account of high
water, but this will not materially inter-
fere with the completion of the track to
Texarkana. Unless prevented by some
unforseen contingency, passengers from
Galveston, in another month, can reach
St. Louis and all Eastern cities by this
new, pleasant and expeditious route. The
connections will be made by the Houston
and Great Northern to Longview, and the
Texas and Pacific by Marshall and Jeffer-
son to Texarkana, and thence by the
Cairo and Fulton to Little Rock, St. Louis,
Memphis, etc., insuring an almost direct
route from the Gulf to the great States
bordering on the Upper Mississippi, and
its tributaries. The distance from Gal-
veston to Longview is 2SG miles, from
Longview by Marshall to Jefferson 40
miles, and from Jefferson to Texarkana
52 miles—in all, to Texarkana, 378 miles;
and thence about 340 miles to Memphis,
and less than 500 to St Louis. The
opening of this new line, which
is destined to be a popular one, especially
for immigration and trade, will mark a
uuw era in the history ot Northeastern
Texas, and will be the means of develop-
ing a large portion of our State hitherto
isolated and neglected.
It is understood that the principal
mails from St. Louis to Southern Texas
will be placed on this route, as the time
will be shortened about twelve hours,
and the great mail from New York, Cin-
cinnati and Louisville for Texas will also
come this way, as the time will be nearly
twenty-four lionrs shorter. As soon as
the connection is made, two postal cars
will be attached to each mail train, and
tho whole line will be equipped with a
more comfortable outfit. This will be a
^reat accommodation to the people of
Southern and Southwestern Texas, and
of Middle Texas from Dallas down, for
it is about the same distance by
this route, from Dallas to St.
Louis, as by the Missouri, Kansas
and Texas route; and to Memphis, Louis-
ville and Cincinnati it is much nearer.
The advantage to this immense area of
our territory, and its large and increasing
population, will be in the choice of vari-
ous routes, and the consequent saving in
time and expense, for all new outlets to
the great commercial centres, from our
growing State, always create additional
cempetition and result in benefits to the
people.
The advantages of the new connec-
tions to Northeastern Texas are already
beginning to be felt, and will increase
more and more as this section of the
State shall become better known to the
world. Notwithstanding the many dis-
advantages under which the Texas and
Pacific Road has been laboring for the
last few months in running through the
wilderness of Northeast Texas, without
any Northern connection, the beneficial
results to the country have been percept-
ible. Flourishing villages have Bprung
up at various points along the line—At-
lanta, Lanark and Moore's Landing ; and
now quite au important trading point is
springing up at
texarkana,
which promises to be a place of some im-
portance. Only a few weeks ago, the
precise spot wliero this embryo city was
to be located was entirely unknown to
the public, and the actual location and
first sale of lots were not made until last
month. The passenger cars commenced
to run through during the Christmas
holidays, and already the population of
the place numbers between three and
four hundred, and as many as seventy-
five or a hundred houses are built or are
in course of building. The lots have
been staked and marked, but the trees
are yet standing in the streets for want
of time to clear the way, so hurriedly
has been the rush to secure
locations. The location of the place has
been happily chosen. The ground on
which it stands is elevated, being situa-
ted on a natural plateau or ridge, imme-
diately on the State line, partly in
Texas and partly in Arkansas, upon a
light, sandy soil, having excellent drain-
age, first rate water, and surrounded by
forests of valuable timber. The situa
tion is healthful, and in the course of
time it will become the centre of a large
population and, in all probability, a place
of resort while epidemics may be raging
at less healthful cities. It is the point of
intersection of two important roads, one
from Littlo Stock and the other from Jef-
ferson, while it wiil not be long before
the Trans-Continental wiil reach here
from Paris and Sherman, and the Inter-
national from Longview. It will be the
gateway into Texas on this new route
from St. Loijis ;*nd Memphis, from which
wiil radiate lines of road, one leading
through the northern tier of counties,
along the valley of tho Red River, by
Clarksville, Paris and Bonham; another
southward to Marshall and Dallas ; and
tho thjrd by Jefferson and Longview to
Palestine, Houston, ^nd Austin, and must
of nocessity attract considerable interest.
Tho present population settling here
anticipate great benefits to their
trade, from the fact that the
Cairo and Fulton Railroad has a
different gauge
from the Texas system of roads, and it is
supposed there will be a good deal of re-
fthlppitiff <Um» at this point. In this,
howovnr, it is to be hoped that our san-
guine people will bo disappointed. Com-
uimtin i an not brook such adelay as that
In thfue rapid Urrt©* <jf ours, and the
Cairo and Pol ton will see, upon the ex-
periment of a »lii({ln season, tljat their
own InUircais will demand a conformity
of gauge, and tlin company will apply
the remedy by iiiakina a change at an
early day. Freights for a season may
be transhipped, but the
THItOUCiII f'AKSENGEK TRAINS
will pass through without change, as the
arrangements are already being provided
to transfer the elegant sleeping and
palace cars from one track to the other
without delay* by a simple change of tho
trucks, and it is to be hoped that the same
plan will be adopted in reference to all
through freights. Delays in the trans-
mission of freight an intermediate
point like this can not "he tolerated. Tie
public have a voice in a matter of tht^
kind, and if the through freight on this
line is to be subjected to an annoyance
like this, the public will simply
ship their freights by other channels.
A St. Louis car by the Mis-
souri, Kansas and Texas Road can
now reach Galveston without a single
change, by the way of Dallas, Mineola
and Houston ; and if the Cairo and Ful-
ton Road expects to compete successfully
with other lines, the same car must be
made to reach Galveston by the Tex-
arkana, Jefferson and Longview route.
Immense freights are expected to reach
Texas by this new route from New York,
Cincinnati aud other great cities, and
large shipments, especially of cattle, will
go North by the same channel ; the whole
amounting soon to an almost interna-
tional trade, and it is preposterous that
such a trade should be subjected to the
delays and increased expenses of tran-
shipment at an interior village, when the
remedy is so easy. It may be that a
remedy can be applied so as to save the
delay and the increased expense without
a change of guage, by the machinery of
changing the trucks, as in the case of
passenger cars; but, whatever the rem-
edy is, it ought to be applied at once, if
the new route expects to compete suc-
cessfully with the old ones. The time is
passed when reshipping will be submit-
ted to by the trading public on great
through lines; and those who buy
village lots for speculative pur-
poses, with the hope that such
a state of things will contiue long, will,
in a very short time, perceive how much
they have been deceived. All Texas is
more or le3S interested in this matter of
resliipment at Texarkana, and if the
clamor of public opinion shall fail to pro-
duce the change, the drawing off the
trade and sending it through other chan-
nels most assuredly will.
The enterprising
el paso stage company
arj daily taking passengers from this
point to Fulton, but soon they, too, in all
this section will be an institution of the
past. 1 asked Major Wright the other
day, one of the genial members of the
company, where now would he go. His
answer was: " I will seek new fields and
pastuies green. Like the brave but
hottly pressed Confederates of the lost
cause, hunted down by superior forces
better disciplined and the public opinion
of tho world, and driven from every
position, I will fall back with what forces
I have left, and, rallying my men and
horses and such transportation as I have,
will light it out on some other line if it
takes me all winter to do it." These old
stage coaches which have served so noble
a purpose in the days of the past in all
this portion of Texas will soon have
passed away, and the places which now
know them will know them no more
forever. It is a pleasing, yet melancholy,
announcement. The music of the post
horn waking the echoes through all these
forest lands, and the dashing of the pant-
ing teams to the postotfice door in the vil-
lages and before the wayside inns, and
the rattling of the coach, and the ribild
jests and swaggering airs of the reckless
drivers. Bret Harte's Texas " Yuba
Bells" will be seen and heard no more
to inspire the small boys with awe, and
to awaken the admirations of the viliage
maidens. For a great number of years
these stage coaches have been a Texas
institution, and, with all their desagrt-
ments, have contributed no little in by-
gone days to the comfort and convenience
of our people of all classes. And if the
old men of Texas, who have recently
been gathered to their fathers, could ha
permitted to revisit the scenes of their
manhood, among the first questions they
would ask would be: What has become
of all the stage coaches, which, in former
times, traversed all this goodly
land of ours? How do people go to Tyler
now to your Federal Courts, and how do
your politicians, your Governors elect,
Legislators and Supreme Judges reach
the seat of government—for I see no
where the old stage coach—the indispen-
sable conveyance in the days when I
dwelt among you ? And the merchants
and the old mercantile ''drummers" of
the past, who left their luxurious quar-
ters and comfortable surroundings in
New Orleans and New York to " try the
realities" of a journey by stage over
Texas roads. What would their wonder
be to return atjain, and instead of being
roused at midnight by the irrepressiDle
driver and his more irrepressible horn,
and his still more irrepressible "all
aboard,' in the midst of a Texas norther?
He should hear, for the first time in Tex-
as, the whistle of the locomotive, and be
invited to the luxury and comfort of the
sleeping car.
the revolution
in the modes of travel in Texas has, in-
deed, been most wonderful. A few
mouths ago one could not reach Bowie
County by any sort of public conveyance,
and now it. is as accessible as any other
portion of the State, and a thriving
town, with city hopes, has been called
into existence, as if by magic, by the
change. When, in 1867, the writer com-
menced hi3 first journey into Texas, the
old stage liues \>ere running throughout
the whole State. From Jefferson to
Marshall, Henderson, Rusk, Crockett,
Huntsvilie and Anderson. It was a long
and tedious way, but the only public way,
a distance of over two hundred miles, to
reach Houston and Austin from all North
eastern Texa3. This line has been oblit-
erated by the International and Great
Northern. There was a line from Mar-
shall to Dallas, by way of Tyler, with
coaches always crowded with passengers,
but the Texas Pacific came soon to oc-
cupy the ground, and Sawyer & Co., his-
torical names in Texas staging, were
driven away. Everybody remembers the
delightful stage journey from Brenliam
to Austin, by LaGrange and Bastrop, and
the Christian-like spirit of meekness and
submission, always in winter, manifest-
ed by the passengers in the Colorado
bottoms. The "Central" came dashing
along with its cars, and the people of
Houston and Galveston have been sorely
deprived of a great pleasure in no longer
being allowed to accompany "Yuba
Bete" in his numerous crossings of
that classic stream. From Waco to
Dallas, and on to Sherman, to Bonham,
and to Paris, hundred of miles through
the black mud of the blackest and rich-
est prairies in the world—this, too, is a
thing of the past, and no longer will
Chambers Creek, and Richland, and the
Trinity, and the Bois d'Arc, and all the
rest resound with the gentle swearing of
angry passengers, or the poor horses in
the deep mud suffer from the cruel lash
of infuriated drivers.. The Central Rail-
road, with Hutchings and "Billy" Baker,
and Torn Scott and his Trans
Continental, have done away with
all these beauties, and there is
nothing now left in all that route
to be exterminated but the short space of
winter mud between the hitherto unheard
of town of Brookston, in Lamar County,
and this newly fitted up wooden citv of
Texaraana. Ail staging on all these
routes is gone, and the El Pase-Company
must soon take up their line of march for
the frontier, with all their mud wagons,
Troy coaches, stage horns, scraping
brakes, rattling harness and swearing
drivers. . More Anon.
For tho Nisws.l
PoIlsU Christenings In tl»e South.
Zemksewski coming after him. Little
Miss Lizzie was not frozen. He was
nshered into the cottage, which he found
filled with Poles, boisterously laughing
and noisily chattering their own lan-
guage. Such a discord—his cultivated
ears were outraged. It all constrasted so
strangely with the retherehe social gath-
ering at which he had hitherto assisted.
However, he philosophically resolved to
act well his part of gracious proprietaire.
Wooden benches and chairs were
ranged around the wall; a wash-tub
stood before the fire, and covered, pots
and ovens on the hearth. In the centre
of the room stood a fine table adorned
with glasses and a huge jug of whisky.
Enthroned on a bed in one corner was
Mme. Zemksewski, the much envied,
happy mother of ten little " Polanders
her broad face stretched still broader by
one constant, expressive smile. The
Colonel turned from its unvarying
brightness to the table.
Entre nous, the vicissitudes of the
"Jwar times" have taught him to appre-
ciate " keechi." The days when nothing
but the choicest brands of wine and
brandy washed his fastidious palate
have, with many joys of the past, for-
ever flown. His moderate supply of
things spiritual had given out at home,
so his heart fairly yearned to that jug.
You know how it is yourself—don't you?
Presently all rushed to the table. Men
burly and stout; women broadfaced, fat
and rosy; boys wide-moutlied and sandy-
headed ; girls coiffed and dressed exactly
like their buxom " mudders." Each one
seized a glass. Of course "Massa Jack"
must drink with them. Glasses were filled
and presented, one after another, to the
smiling " mudder," with congratulations
for present good luck and wishes for
many returns of the same.
Our elegant Coiontl stood alone in his
glory. He observed that the delicate in-
valid (she did not weigh over one hun-
dred and seventy pounds) drank a good
half of the glass, and, with a grunt of
satisfaction, handed it back to the con-
gratulator, who then drained it. He was
in a dilemna. In his hitherto blissful
ignorance of Polish customs, he had not
foreseen this emergenc.y. Hits glass was
only half full, and he was very chilly.
Then, too, drinking after another was his
special aversion. Again, though a perfect
hero on the war-path, our friend is very
modest. Intuitive delicacy, as well as
conventional propriety, forbade him ap-
proaching that invalid's bed. What would
Mrs. Grundy say ? And, oh! what would
" the boys " say ? How could he manage
to give no offense to his genial, unsophis-
ticated tenants, and yet not outrage his
sense of decorum? I am sorry to ac-
knowledge it, but he silently wished that
the whole concern was in a place where
whisky is not needed to keep folks
warm.
However, strategetic abilities which
had lain dormant since " the surrender,"
now, in thiB terrible ordeal, revived and
came to the rescue. With one grand
sweep of his visual organs, he took in
the situation. The gudo wife on the bed
was drinking her share of the last glass
except his own. There was no time to
be lost. He raised the glass to his lips,
swallowed the contents hastily and set it
down quickly. Then he put his hands in
his pockets and looked innocently
around. .
Zemks -wski now approached : "Massa
Jack, come drink goot lugg mit mine
Zinko vor mine Miss Lizzie," ho said.
" Oh—ah—thank you, Zemksewski; I
have already drank her health," replied
Colonel Biink, with one of his blandest
smiles.
The Polo looked anxiously from his
master to the empty glass. " Mine Gott!
dat make not goot lugg. No, no, Massa
Jack, dat mako no goot lugg," he said,
deprecatingly. He then filled the glass,
pushed it into Massa Jack's hand, and
pulled him to the bed. "Now, shoost so ;
you drink goot lugg mit mine Zinko, dat
make for you some goot lugg," said he,
slapping his hands gleefully.
The Colonel, with a ghastly attempt at
a smile, looked at the broad and now
fearfully crimson face on the bed, and
thought he had best drink the entire con-
tents of his glass—for her sake, of course.
But Zemksewski's little sharp eyes fast-
ened on him, and Zinko's hand was reach-
ing for his glass. As our friend looked
up at the tlnck,blue lips compassing half
the glass and dipping deep in its con-
tents, with strange self-abnegation he
wish, d she would drink all; but, with
her customary self-denial, she left about
half, aud this he would have,,if unob-
served, poured out as an^ offering to the
Lares and Penates of the Poles ; but
there was no chance. He nerved him
self, blandly expressed the wish that she
might live a hundred years, and be
blessed with numberless cherubs like
Miss Lizzie ; then, closing his eyes, with
a suppresood groan emptied hie glass. A
cold sweat stood on his brow > but—
thank Heaven!—that wa3 over with.
Shouts and jolly laughter brought him to.
" Want to see little Miss Lizzie now,
Massa Jack ? " asked the proud father.
" Certainly, certainly." But where could
she be? Not on that bed, unless under
that etherialized invalid ; in such a case,
the supper might yet be turned into a
glorious wake.
Zemksewski stooped over the wash-
tub aforementioned, and opened a bag
from which he hauled up a bundle with
feathers all over it. With the help of
Madame Ridderbrand, he blew and
picked them off, and—lo ! Miss Lizzie ;
Miss Lizzie with down in her nostrils,
and feathers in her mouth, screwed her
little fists under her chin, and, with
hands and feet keeping time, uttered a
succesion of startling screams that s ir-
passed everything in that line the Colonel
had ever had the privilege of hearing.
He was bending over her with admiring
looks and complimentary words, when
the proud father almost put the squall-
ing, kicking cherub in his mouth, saying.
" Kiss him goot bigg, Massa Jack." The
Colonel, though agood soldier, absolutely
quailed. He had never kissed his own
" deary, diny, dony dings," at such a ten-
der age. " Kiss him," repeated the fond
parent; " kiss him," grunted Madame
Ridderbrand; "kiss him," "kiss him,"
came from every capacious throat in the
crowded room. Good heavens! could
not lie be spared this ? He would not do
it; there. But, suppose these innocent,
genial people should take offense, and,
like tho Arabs, fold thoir tent and in
silence steal away to old Graspall, who
was trying to get them to move to his
farm ! Then good bye to his prospective
cottou crop. He knew some of his neigh-
bors would willingly kiss babies,
mothers, sisters.—Thunder! there is a
knock ! Suppose it is the boys ! Quick,
now, for dear life. " Smack ! smack ! "
There, it is done ! He draws himself up
to his full height, and turns to the
door. " The boys," his nephews Ned
and Tom Blink, and that exquisite, Mar-
cus Poole, who bought the adjoining
farm last winter, stood in the doorway
grinning audibly. He bears theii laugh-
ter and staring unflinchigly. Few would
have surmised that under that calm, ma-
jestic mien there was a raging volcano;
but the boys did, and enjoyed it.
Mme. Zemksewski calls him and says :
" Dis Miss Lizzie; next one Massa Idem"
Charmed! yes, of course ; doesn't he say
so?
Well, to bo hriof, our friend, after try-
ing in vain to break away, partook of the
supper, and with the others, drank three
more rounds with Mme. Zemksewski.
Incredible as it may seem, the woman
survived it all, and really seemed none
the worse.
The boys, with lender solicitude, es-
corted the Colonel home, and when sur-
rounded by his wife, three blooming
"daughters, and Miss M , a city belle
who was spending the holidays at Oak
drink without hesitation with the happy
mama, unconscious of live pair of laugh-
ing eyes looking from out of the bushes.
Waltzing was resumed. Some women,
for want of partners, were " going it
alone," among them Madame Ridder-
brand Suddenly that ponderous dame
seized Ned and whirled him around with
her. A shout from the Polish men, and
Tom aud Poole were grabbed and drawn
in.
" I must say, for nice young men, they
have queer tastes ; after making out they
did not want to dance, they are enjoying
it finely," quoth the Colonel to the girls.
Now, he knew Poole to be devoted to his
daughter Kate, and Ned to Miss M .,
and that they were models of elegance
in the presence of those young ladies.
Meanwhile, faster and faster went the
music; round and round whirled the
dancers, like mad; then came the side
step, when the prompter called out some-
thing in Polish. At once the partners
fell to k'S3ing as they swayed in the
dance, the boys' partners falling to as
though kissing were something delecta-
ble, their captives writhing and twisting
their heads aside, the men shouting and
encouraging their women folks; and
every one, except the boys, laughing and
enjoying their surprise and discomfiture.
"Wonder if they couldn't make out to
get off, if they knew who was looking
on?" remarked the Colonel, maliciously.
"Ned's two hundred-pounder gets more
kisses than any one else." True, she
was lustily smaking at his nose, lips,
chin, or neck, as if an adept in the art of
kissiiur. Again they whirled around,
and again resumed the swaying and kiss
ing, the boys' partners, f-s before, incited
by laughter and shouts to do their best.
Finally the dance ended, and Ned, Tom
and Poole rushed for the door, each one
thankful in the profund depths of his
heart that Colonel Blink had declined
attending the christening. They reached
the door. Confusion ! In solid phalanx
there before it, stood the laughing girls,
and towering above them was our friend,
the Colonel, bowing gracefully, with a
mock sympathetic expression on his
noble countenance, as he says: "Ned, I'm
afraid you will liavo to ffivo up tliat
feather, my boy." Paul Pitii.
We have had among us for a little ovet who was spending the holidays at Oak
one year, a few Polish families. NowJ Xawn, gave a very affecting description
these people, though unremitting in the! *
labors, economical in their living, am
zealous in conforming to the rules o:
their religion, believe in enjoying tliemj
selves occasionally. Often, after their
daily toil is ended, the sound of the"
violin floats on the evening air, and young^
and old jcin in the dance, and keep timejJ
with grace and lightness of motion, to;
the music. »
Some of the customs of the people are1
peculiar, as the following incidents will
illustrate:
During a te:rible cold spell of weather*
last winter, one of Colonel Jack Blink's*
Polish laborers came and asked for a
horse to convey his babe to D chapel,
to have it christened.
"What?" ejaculated the Colonel. The
Pole repeated his request. "Why, Zemk-
sewski," said his empioyer, " the chapel
is eight miles off; your babe is only three
days old, and the oldest inhabitant can
not remember such weather as this."
" Dat nodding make, Massa Jack. Ba-
bee muss christen make," was the stolid
reply.
" But it will freeze to death," persisted
the master.
" No, no, Massa Jack, Polander babee
used to cold ; bag of tedders him put in;
back come all right. Him name Miss
Lizzie." (Mrs. Blink is called " Miss
Lizzie" by Polish aud colored laborers
at Oak Lawn.)
Colonel Blink acknowledged the com-
pliment to his wife, and Zemksewski de-
parted, after having earnestly requested
that Colonel and Mrs. Blink would attend
the christening supper, to come off the
following evening.
At the appointed time it was still too
cold for Mrs. Blink to venture out; but
the Colonel, sacrificing his comfort and
aristocratic tastes to gratify his honest
laborers, started forth, and was met by
of the kissing scene.
"And here," said Ned, "is the identical
feather that broke the camel's back. Let
it be tenderly enshrined in a golden
casket as a memento of the touching
.scene."
"Needn't take that trouble, Ned ; you
may keep it as a trophy until I catch you
and these other boys in a tighter place
than I have just escaped," jocularly re-
sponded his uncle.
Two weeks later Ned Blink rode up to
the Colonel's gate and called out: "Hillo,
^Uncle Jack ! 1 came to see if you will
ride over to our Polish christening."
"Thank you, Ned; I've had some,"
responded his uncle, waving his hand
majestically.
"Certainly, uncle, you have had some—
fun; suppose you come and have some
more christening's at Polenski's; supper,
whisky all 'round, dancing and—a bag
of feathers thrown in. Wish you'd come,
uncle. We boys want you to be master
of ceremonies."
"Much obliged, Ned. Believe I'll not
appropriate the honors this time. You
young gents ought to have some chance."
Ned rode off much disappointed, and
Colonel Blink went in and held a con-
sultation with the girls, the result of
which was, an hour after dark a carriage
drew up in a grove of po3t-oaks not far
from Willard Blink's Polish quarters.
Our friend descended and recomjoitered
a house from which strains of the violin
proceeded. The weather being moderate,
the door was open, and he saw some
Polish men and women dancing,
while Marcus Poole, Ned and Tom were
looking on. His next movement was to
bring the girls near and station them be-
hind some low, bushy trees, near the
open door. The waltz—their favorite
style of dancing—ended in due time.
The party outside saw the young men
TEXAS ITEJIS.
McLennan County. — Twenty-nine
prisoners in jail. Horse thieves oper-
ating. Working on the streets of
Waco. Business very brisk. More
talk about starting the cotton mills.
Heavy cotton shipments continue.
Another church built.
Bosque Countt.—The wheat crop is
looking well and promises a large yield.
Many new buildings goiL.g up at
Meridian, including a courthouse to cost
$9000
Grayson County.—No sickness at
Denison. Church socials at Denison.
A coal oil company established.—
Large shipments of cotton from Sherman
to Galveston. Petty thieves at Slier
man.
Lamar County.—Brookston is rapidly
improving. Dancing schools. Busi-
ness looking up at Paris. Many new
farms opening in tho county. More
buildings at Paris.
Williamson County.—More streets
opened at Georgetown. Street cars
suggested. Highway robbers commit
ting deprodations. Social frolics in
abundance.
Walker County.—Very little doing
at Huntsvilie. Farmers preparing for
more diversified crops in future. The
health of the county continues to demor-
alize the doctors.
Fannin County.—Temperance festi-
val at Boaliam. Everybody jub laut
over the prospective Christian College.
Heavy cotton shipments. Innu
merable marriages.
Colorado County.—Board of Medical
Examiners organized. Leopold Steiner.
Chief Justice of the county, is dead.
C-otton arriving at Columbus.-—Planters
busy Citizens all returned to Colutn
bus. Tax collectors abroad.
Grimes County.—Public free schools
busy. Social reunions.— Farmers
busy preparing for coming crops.
Wise County.—A Mr. N. W. Green,
of Alabama, has mysteriously disap-
peared. Foul play is suspicioned.
A large and commodious church built on
Walnut creek. Steam saw and grist
mills established. Decatur is rapidly
improving. Immigrants arriving and
making their homes in the county.
Coryelle County.—The farmers have
not finished picking out their cottou
crops yet. Buffalo aud wolf hunts on
the tapis. Immigrants settling in Co-
ryelle County daily. Business good at
Gatesville. The Sun says: "As an
indication of tne nigu old state ui gouu
morals in the city and county, we chron-
icle the fact that Jim Allen now uses the
calaboose as a cotton pen, and the county
jail now towers peacefully over a tre-
mendous pile of corn—all of which was
raised in the county, the jail included."
Fayette County.—Greenville Penn,
an old and highly respected citizen of the
Bounty, died a few days ago. Heavy
snow storm. Concert by the Temper-
ance Society at LaGrange.
Burnet County.—Cotton gins all over
the county in full blast, aud largo quan-
tities of cotton going to market. New
buildings going up at Burnet, and the
county generally developing.
Marion County.—Cars run off the
track twic% but nobody hurt. A num-
ber of cases of small pox in Jefferson.
Large numbers of horses sold at auction
in Jefferson. Business revived.
Gonzales County.—A good deal of
cotton in the fields yet, not picked.
Balls, soirees, and barbecues the order of
the day during Christmas. Municipal
election. -Tho Friends of Temperance
are in a flourishing condition.——The
Inquirer says: "We have been shown
by Dr. Beach a beautiful article of sugar
saved from the drippings of his syrup,
which he manufactured this fall from the
ribbon cane. It is of a large and lively
grain, of a rich golden color, and fully
equal to fair Louisiana. The doctor in-
forms us that he has engaged the neces-
sary machinery for sugai-making, which
he is expecting to arrive daily. We hope
to hear of more of our planters engaging
in the cultivation of sugar cane this year.
Diversity of crops is what we need in
Western Texas."
Dallas County.—Increased arrivals
of cotton, and everybody happy. The
citizens are beautifying their residences
by ornaments, flowers aud shrubs.
New buildings continue the order of the
day at Dallas.
Travis County.—Improvement to the
sidewalks of Austin is being rapidly-
pushed forward. A union religious
meeting is progressing. City scrip is
on the rise. Plenty of cotton arriving.
Houston County.—An immigration
society is to be established. Musical
festivals the order of the night. Hogs
in this county average about 500 pounds
each.
Gregg County.—Amateur theatrical
performances. New stone buildings
.going up at Longview. Business ex-
cellent at Longview. Tho farmers of
the county are busy.
Cook County.—Cumberland Presby-
terian festival at Gainesville. Success-
ful masquerade ball. The Order of
Good Templars is taking a strong hold in
tho county. General Sabbath School
celebration. -Bailey, of the Gazette, re-
joices because there are twins at his
house.
Navarro County.—The doctors have
organized into a medical association.
A fire has occurred, damaging fifteen
bales of cotton. From September 1,
1873, to January 6, 1874, Corsicana has
shipped 5000 bales of cotton, 8300 pounds
wool, 4880 hides, and 590i) head of cattle.
This is an increase over and above the
shipments for same time last year.
The Ladies' Fair, for the benefit of the
Catholic Church, was very saccessful.
HOUSTON LOCAL ITEMS.
[Houston Reportorial and Business office
of the News, 42 Main street, near the corner
of Franklin.!
Theatrical.—Miss Ada Gray, supported
—and well supported, too—by the Gal-
veston Opera House Company, made her
last appearance last night, at the Acad-
emy of Music, to a large Saturday night
audience, who greatly appreciated the
actress in the emotional production of
"Frou-Frou." Miss Gray was about as
successful in the rendition of the heroine
of that play, as in the role of Ma-
dame Vine at her benefit the night before.
On the Train.—A gentleman, a capital-
ist from the North visiting Texas, and a
passenger on the train to the interior the
other day, remarked to a citizen of Hous-
ton that if the Radicals could retain con-
trol of the State of Texas, in less than
ten years they would have her in debt
one hundred million dollars, and that
whil the present troubles lasted—
brought about by Radical villainy—"capi-
talists are not going to risk anything in
Texas."
Belligerent.—Many days since, a differ-
ence arose between the Mayor and City
Sexton about the burial of a small-pox
corpse. The immediate result was that
Sexton Pannel met his Honor at the foot
of the City flail stairs, informed him he
(Scanlan) was nothing but a thief and
liar, and ended by slapping the head of
the City Government in the face. The
Mayor, having no stomach for such
doings," tied up stairs, followed by Sex
ton Pannel, who failed, however,to bring
him to the scratch. Mayor Scanlan evi-
dently deemed it best and most manly to
to take revenge by instigating a move-
ment, now on foot, to impeach the sexton,
who is himself an elected officer, and all
because the latter dared to slap the face
of a Radical mayor.
Week's Mortuary.—The following is a
list of interments reported for the week
past: Esther Brothers, colored, 73 years,
debility ; child of Watt Cole, 0 months,
convulsions ; child of Frank Rottenstein,
3 days, convulsions; G. Erichson, 60
years, heart disease ; R. Nunnewally, 45
years, pulmonary consumption; - John
Priest, age and disease unknown ; two
small-pox cases—one from small-pox hos-
pital, the other from Frostown.
Widow on the Rampage.—A widow lady
named Gay became incensed at another
lone female, Clara Parker The former
went for the latter in first-class Amazon
style. She succeeded, not in getting at
the body of Parker, but the fence around
her premises in the suburbs, which she
tore down handsomely. For this she was
fined $5 aud costs only.
Assault on a female.—An angry
mother-in-law yesterday complained
to the Recorder against her son-in-law ;
the latter, she alleged, struck her daugh-
ter with a heavy stick, and otherwise
maltreated his better half. But, in the
testimony, it appeared that the daughter
clinched the defendant, Henry Blewett
by name, first. However, the Recorder
fined Blewett $5, and all parties were
disuL ?sed from the court-room.
Hospital Complained Of.—A prominent
citizen yesterday appeared before Re-
corder Duncan, and complained of cer-
tain alleged nuisances contiguous to and
connected with the City Hospital, on Mc-
Kinney street. The case was deferred to
Monday, the Recorder promising to inves-
tigate the matter and have the nuisances
abated, if they really exist.
The Bannister Murder Case.—Up to
2 P. M. yesterday, the jury had failed to
brin^c in a verdict. rl'ho following ato
tho names of the jury in this rather no-
table case: R. P. Archer, E. Cooney, Tim
Brown, Wash Lane, Arthur Slidell,
Robert Clark, A. Bertallot,Charles Boll-
frass, Joe Levin,A. F. Ware, H. Puttz and
George Warner. Half the jury were white
citizens. At two o'clock yesterday it was
understood the jury were divided as fol-
lows : For hanging nine ; for penitentiary
for life, three. The defendant, a burly,
busliy-headed negro of forty-five, was in
court during the deliberations of the jury
in the adjoining apartment. In the case,
Mr. District Attorney, Frank S. Spencer,
and Major Crank—the latter among the
counsel for defense—made able and elo-
quent speeches.
Preachers and Politics.—An editorial
in a religious paper of this city, on the
Supreme Court ducision, was as much
out of place for a minister of the gospel
to write, as it was in the interest of the
late Radical Sheriff and late District
Clerk, A. B. Hall and A. K. Taylor, this
pious preacher maintaining that the acts
of the Democratic occupants of the above
offices in this county, are not legal. Let
ministers of the gospel preach Christ and
Him crucified, not the interests of Radi-
cal carpet-baggers and office-seekers.
Marriage Licenses.—The following
licenses were issued from tho Clerk's
office for tho week : Anderson Culbert to
Ellen Machim; H. L. DeTulle to Miss
Nancy Goodwin; Robert I. Jones to Miss
M. L. Dickson; Ben W. McCarty to Miss
F. M. MoiTatt; Finis-Brend to Sarah Al-
exander; N. D. Bass to Miss A. M. Autry;
Archie Crichard to Easter Scott; Wm.
Grosselt to Miss Ii. E. Sanders: Charles
Wilson to Miss Rose Watson; John Ben-
nett to Miss Dolly Tuinan.
Criminal Court.—The fiist case dis-
posed of before Judge Dodge yesterday
was State vs. Letitia Richmond, charged
with theft of $20 from the pocket of an
Irishman, yclept Peter Murphy. The
latter, however, did not appear in evi-
dence against her, and the accused was
found not guilty by the jury. The next
case called and tried was State vs. Berry
Allen, charged with burglary of a small
boarding house near, the Iron Bridge.
This closed the proceedings before Judge
Dodge yesterday, and the court adjourned
to 10 A. M. Monday.
Odds and Ends.—It costs the city $150
per day to publish the list of delinquent
tax-payers, as ordered by the four white
men and three negroes sitting as the
Board of Aldermen of tho City of Hous-
ton. Such is Radical rascality and vil-
lainy.
Yesterday the weather was mild and
balmy again, after the severe cold of the
late sleet.
Tlio tftato tote iUonti Ivala 111 lilt? cllj Jo
on the increase.
Senator William R. Baker and the
Representatives elect will leave on Mon-
day for the State capital.
It is not considered a compliment that
Gov. Davis should think of making Hous-
ton a city of refuge.
A contemporary Calls Miss Ada Gray
queenly and magnificent. She looks so
on the stage, at least.
The benefit tendered the Howard Asso-
ciation bv the Magnolia Histrionic Club,
is announced for the thirtieth.
The following are the officers elect of
the Houston Machinists and Blacksmiths'
Union; H. Evans, President; W. Kuch-
bacli, Vice President; J. Holland, Re-
cording Secretary ; N. Bell, Correspond-
ing Secretary ; — Morse, Treasurer; R.
Prior, Conductor; L. Kothkan, Door-
keeper.
Commercial.—General business remains
inactive.
The local cotton market, howover, was
firm, and quoted as follows : Low Ordi-
nary, 94c.; Ordinary, 12c.; Good Ordinary,
13|c.; Low Middling, 14fc.; Middling 15JC.
Hides—Dry flint, 17@17ic. Wool nomi-
nal, at 18i<i20c. Gold 110£. Silver 109^.
Exchange on New York—Currency £c.
discount; gold par. On New Orleans—
Currency and gold, Jc. premium.
New Advertisements.
JUST ARRIVED—
3000 Sacks Coffee,
Ex-Swedish Bark Bore,
LOWER PRICKS FROM WHARF. Samples
at my office.
w. kopperl.
NOTICE—-The Officers aod mem-
bers of ISLAND CITY FIRE COMPANY, No.
2 are requested to meet at tlieir Hall, MON-
DAY EVENING, January 12th, 1874, for the
election of officers for the ensuing year.
jail It W. SCHNEIDER, Secretary.
Attention, Washington Guards !
The adjourned Regular Meeting will be held
at the Armory, on Tuesday, Jan. 13th, at 8
o'clock, p. m. A full attendance is enjoined,
jail 2t J. C. KELLY, Secretary.
JQR. J. E. MUSE,
DENTIST,
Will resume business on the 13th instant,
at his old stand
No. 165 POSTOFFICE STREET,
jalO It
NOTICE.
.NOTICE
CLOSING UP OF 1873.
All person* indebted to J. M. COUGET up
to the first of January, 1874, are requested to
call at my office to settle their bills by cash
or by note.
OU HiUlI »f LC"JL tilt] t*» flflU lualaat, all
unsettled bills, accounts, etc., will be turned
oyer to an attorney, to be collected by legal
proceedings.
jail lOt J. M. COUGET.
For rent—one or two
FURNISHED ROOMS,
Suitable for Gentlemen s Sleeping Rooms.
No. SG7 East Broadway. jail It*
Amusements.
^OTICE NOTICE
The undersigned have formed a co-
partnership under the style and firm name of
WM. SANDALL & CO.,
For ths purpose of conducting a HIDE BUS-
INESS at the foot of Nineteenth Stre«t.
B. L. MANN,
jail lm WM. SANDALL.
JpERSONAL PERSONAL
If this should meet the eye of FRA.NK
DAVIS, of Ronne Burnholm, Denmark, he is
requested to communicate at once with
T. H. ZANDERSON,
jail 3t Danish Consul.
tremont opera hoi se
Engagement Extraordinary.
FOR SIX KIGHTS AND ONE MATINBE,
COMMENCING
Monday Bvenlns, jail. 19>
TFITH THK CELEBRATED
Fifth Avenue Theatre
COMBINATION,
Composed of the folio*ing well knoitn i
„ distinguished artists:
Miss GEORGIE LANGLEY
Miss AMELIA HAhBIs,
Miss ADA MONK,
Mis« DOLLIE PIKE,
Miss MAGGIE NEWTON
Miss VIOLA PLUNKETT,
Miss ROSA GRAHAM,
Miss LIZZIE FRAZER,
Miss LITTLE JOHNNY
Mr. GEO. C. BONIFACE
Mr. GiiO. RYEK,
Mr. HAKKY HAWK,
Mr. BEN. C. PORTER,
Mr. GEORGE FARKEN
Mr. MATT. B. SNYDER,
Mr. ISAAC L. STREET
Mr. GIDEON V. it YD ER
Mr. JERRY LANT,
CHAS. E. FURBBISR, Manager,
Who will appear iu the following repertoire :
DIVORCE,
ARTICLE 17,
MAN AND WIFE, ALIXE,
niOKLlMS MO'SEl,,
False SlIAME.
Owing to the .enormous expense attending I
this engagement, the prices will neoessarilv/
be as follows: I
Parquette aud Parquette Circle.... SI 5U
Dresa Circle j yo
Gallery 50
Box sheet will be opened Tuesday, January
13th, when k»its may be secured for the eutire
engagement.
GRAND CONCERT,
• GIVEN BY
LATE FROM THE PARIS CONSERVATORY '
ft.
at the
THE MO NT OPERA HOUSE,
On Mondny, January 12, 1S74,
kindly assisted bv
Mrs. SPIERS, Mrs. VON HARTEN, Mr. H.
LEIBERMANN and Mr. C. SOUTHERLAND.
Central American accounts to the
first instant are to the effect that the
Constituent Assembly of Panama has
passed a law erecting; a neutral zone
across the isthmus for the better pro-
tection of the transit, and for securing
it from local obstructions, whether
from civil war or otherwise.
Senor Ponciano Loria has been pro
claimed President of Honduras.
The soldiers of San Salvador attacked
and capptured the town of Amepala,
after severe fighting, on December 15,
in which one hundred men are report-
ed killed.
New Advertisements.
Lost—a gold hunting case
WATCH. The finder will receive a lib-
eral reward, by leaving the same at
ADOLPH KLINE'S GROCERY,
jail It* On Avenue K, bet. 12th and 13th StP.
PRIVATE BOARD--PLEASANT
ROOMS—No other boarders. Refer-
ences exchanged. For further particulars,
address, stating whether single or married,
etc., jalluna3t WIX, News Office.
THE BEST Way to Succeed is by
the liberal use of Printer's Ink, judi-
ciously applied. For information, call upon
PIERCE & TERRY, Printers and Stationers,
Corner Strand and Centre Streets.
jgEE HOW(E) THIS READS:
"Well, no, Podkins! I can't settle that
little bill. Must be careful what we do, you
know. The Suprem* Court might eome along,
and declare the whole thing null and void."
moral:
KEEP COOL, and
USE WILL HOWE'S MATTRESSES.
jail It
pERSONAL PERSONAL
If Mrs. EMMA BUNDICT
AND DAUGHTER
Are in the etty, they will learn something to
their adrantage by applying to
CAPT. 8TKRRETT; or
jail 2t DR. TOWSEY.
w.
IIARRAL & CO.,
HAVE REMOVED THEIR ENTIRE STOCK
OF WINES AND LIQUORS,
To the store formerly occupied by I. Bern-
stein & Co., on Tremont street, two doors
north of Market.
Special attention is invited to the SAMPLB
ROOM. jail It
RUCTION SALE.
E. A. BLAKELT & CO.,
Auctioneers and Commission Merchants,
11S and 118 Strand,
Will sell WEDNESDAY, 14th inst.; 10 a. ii.,
sharp,
1 Large Roan HORSE, 8 years, 17 hands high,
1 Large Bay HORSE, 7 years, Va% hands high,
1 Sorrel HORSE, 7 years, 16X hands high.
All sound and in good working order; work
single or double; splendid for family use, as
they are perfectly gentle.
Also
1 Open Carriage, as good as new,
1 Mule, Dray and Harness.
1 Horse and Top Buggy and Harness.
E. A. BLAKELY. Auct'r.
Corn, Oats, Bran, Hay, Corn Meal, and
Flour, at wholesale and retail, low to cash
buyers. jallSun&Wed una
T
'HE PEOPLE'S
Circulating Library,
At H. BLAGGE'S Sewing Machine Depot,
131 Post office St.% 131
FRANCIS D. ALLAN Librarian.
Books added the past week:
The Wandering Heir, by Chas. Reid;
Too Soon ; The New Magdalen, by Wilkie
Collins : The General's Daughter; The Dis-
owned; Michael Rudolph, by Miss Dupuy
Old Kensington, by Miss Thackeray; Out of
the Foam, by John Esten Cooke; The Virgin-
ians: Jane Eyre; Arthur Brown, etc.
New books added every day. jalOE&Mlt
ISLAND CITY SAYINGS BANK.
Galveston, Jan. 10th, 1874.
A DIVIDEND of THREE percent, has been
declared out of the earnings of three months,
ending 1st January, 1874, upon the full paid
stock as it stood on that date—payable at the
Bank, on and after MONDAY, 12th inst.
jalOE&Mlt I. G. MICHAILOFFSKY, Cashier.
LOST—At the Opera House, one
night this week. A GOLD BRACELET.
The finder will be rewarded by leaving the
same at the office of J. C. SMITH & CO.,
Corner Strand and 22d streets. jalOE&Mlt
Progra mme—Part First.
1. Robert le Diable Prudent
H. Leibermann.
2. Guards, che Bianca Luna Campana
Duo: Mis. Von Harten, Mr. Southerland.
3. Fantaisie Sur Faust Alard
M. Kaiser.
4. Sing, Smile and Slumber Cb. Gounod
Mrs. Spier3.
5. Romance et Bolero Ch. Daucha
M. Kaiser.
Part Second.
1. The Lover and the Bird Guglielmo
Mrs. Von Harten.
2. Souvenir de Bache Leonard
M. Kaiser.
3. The Stirrup Cup Arditi
Mr. Southerland.
4. Ave Maria Ch. Gounod
(For Soprano, Violin and Organ.)
Mrs. Speirs, M. Kaiser and H. Leibermann.
jail It
SACRED CONCERT
tendered
BV THE CHILDtt^
op
ST. JOHN'S M. E. CHURCH,
IN AID OP
The Organ Fund.
To be held AT THE CHURCH, eorner of
Broadway and Bath Avenue,
TUESDAY Evening, Jan. 13. 187 1,
Commencing quarter before 8 o'clock.
TICKETS—ONE DOLLAR.
For sale by all music and book dealers, and
by the children of the Church. jalOM &E3t
Now in store, and for sale low in quantities
to suit, 1.500,000 English Waterproof Caps,
at only 60 cents per thousand. Also, a
very fine assortment of Pistol*. Breech-
loadinq F»ua, flo.ohg, pouches, at Labadie'g.
^"OTICE.
. .NOTICE
To Our Patrons and tho Public.
We have this day discontinued our RETAIL
STORE, on Tremont near Market street, and
most respectfully invite our patrons of the
old house to continue their patronage with
us, at
Cor. Strand and Tremont Sts.9
Where we are selling the balance of our WIN-
TER CLOTHING at REDUCED FIGURES.
All of our clothing made up previous to
this season will be closed out considerably
below cost, at wholesale or retai', to which
we most respectfully invite the attention of
the trade. Respectfully,
I. BERNSTEIN & CO.,
Cor. Strand and Tremont—' White Front,"
January 6th, 1874.
Referring to the above, I respectfully in-
vite my friends and the public generally to
continue their patronage at the above st«nd.
ja7unalw H. VOGEL.
w
ANTED WANTED
By an efficient Cotton Account-Sales
Clerk and General Office Man,
NIGHT WORK,
For a moderate Compensation. Is quick, oor«
rect and a good penman. Can be or material
service to any firm whose office work is be
hind. All necessary references furnished.
ja9 Fri&Sun-una INDUSTRIA
JOHN ADRIANCE, JR., IS AD-
mitted as a partner in my business, dating
from January 1, 1874, as per written articles,
dated Jan. 8, '74. The style of "the firm will be
H. M. Trueheart& Co. H.M.Trueheart. [ja9 3t
"JJNFURNISHED ROOM WANTED
CONVENIENTLY SITUATED.
Would prefer being in a house with a fami-
ly. Any one having a room for rent will
please communicate, giving location and
price, to the BOOK-KEEPER,
jalD&Eunatf News Office.
T
O ARRIVE TO ARRIVE
3200 Sacks Coffee.
OFFERED FOR SALE,
Per German Brig LEOPOLDINE, from Rio di.
Janeiro.
Samples can be seen at the office of
KlUFFiHAN 6c RCNGE.
de29D&Elm-una
j\£rs. s. dixon,
Milliner and Dressmaker,
No. 225 POSTOFFICE Street, directly oppo-
site the Brick Ice House. Fashionable Mil-
linery at GREATLY DEDUCED PRICES. 5 all
and see, to satisfy yourself. Stamping, Braid-
ing, Embroidery, Pinking and Machine Stitch-
ing dons to order. HUMAN HAIR GOODS.
Will have a few Imported Dolls, suitable for
Holiday Presents. novl8-D3m-una
^RRIVED—
PER BARK SABINE.
A Lot of Celebrated Cook, Parlor am
Heating Stoves.
Also a variety of Enameled and Japanned
House Furnishing Goods, at
WM. BROWN'S,
Tremont street, opposite New Hotal.
jyflDly
J^LESSING & BRO.,
PHOTOGRAPHERS,
172 Tremont St., Galve.ton,
OIL PORTRAITS A SPECIALTY,
- And All Work Warranted to Please.
172 Tremont St., Ground Floor,
dealers in
FRAMES, ALBUMS AND VIEWS,
And all kinds of Photographic Goods.
And the CELEBRATED WILSON SHUTTLE
SEWING MACHINE.
CAUTION.—Beware Tof fraudulent imita-
tions of the World Renowned Wilson Shuttle
Sewing Machines. Irresponsible and unau-
thorised parties are making "bogus" Wilson
Sewing Machines in Hamilton, Canada, and
Hamburg, Germany.
Each single piece of steel and iron In the
Wilson Shuttle Sewing Machine, liable to the
least particle of wear, U finely tempered or
thoroughly case hardened, thus making the
"Wilson" Sewing Machine wear as long as
time, and last from one generation to another
with proper care and attention. jalOSunWlt
New Advertisements.
T. Ii. IHOBIPSOJI, Jeweler.
S0ffC®UlLDlKG
Cor. Tremont and Markei Streets.
nov30D-Sunly&W6m
c
OAL COAL.
WE HAVE CONSTANTLY ON HAND
For Sale from Yard or "Wharf,
AT WHOLESALE OR RETAIL!
Philadelphia Steam COAL,
White Ash Egg ; COAL,
White Ash Nut COAL,
Red Ash"Egg COAL,
Blacksmith COAL,
English House COAL,
English Steam COAL,
English CanneL COAL,
English Grate COAL,
No Extra Charge for Drajage lo any
Part of the City.
All Orders left at our office, or at the Yard,
Corner Nineteenth and Strand, will recoive
prompt attention.
C. W. HURLEY & CO.
de08Dlm-una
5000
lIAIili &: SPI3ERS'
CELEBRATED l'LOWS.
E. S. Wood.
novlSD'^muna
M
EYER & METZGER,
Hare just received, and offur at h*rd
times prices, an assortment of DRIED r
FRUITS, to-wit: New Dried Apples, Peeled
Peaches, Potted and Unpitted Cherries,
Choice New London Layer and Crown Rais-
ins, Almonds, Cranberries, Beans, Peas. etc.
And, also, a fresh supply of Holland Herring v
Russian Sardines, Anchovies and Smoked
Salmon. octl9D3dply ,
Long looked fori
COME AT LAST!
T. D. GILBERT & CO.,
Are now prepared to fill orders for STONE
CURBING of anv width and thickness. Also,
WINDOW and DOOR SILLS, Rustio Corner
Stones. Also, a full stock of Lime, Cement,
Brick, Plaster Paris, Hair, Laths, etc. Sam-
ples of Stone Curbing to be seen at the Post-
office, or their Lime Depot, 177 West Market
Street. julyl9Dly-3dp
just received—
The Avery Spiral Knife Stalk Cutter,
The Hawkeye Riding Cultivator, i
The Advance Walking Cultivator,
The Tunnard Cotton Planter,
The Tunnard Corn Planter.
Also a large stock of -
Steam Engines, Corn and Wheat Mills,
AND MILL SUPPLIES GENERALLY,
At very low prices.
OWENS & ENGLISH,
jaT lm 192 and 134 Strand, Galveston.
brummer, schroder & co.
AMSTERDAM, ROTTERDAM,
Importers & Commission Merchants,
Give Liberal Advances on Consignments of J
Cotton and other American Produce. Bank-
ers in London: Kleinwort, Cohen A Co.
septllL)-oam-6m*
Bills-lading
IS thk BEST rriL*
at news job office.
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