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Sunday, January 10, 1875.
The Legislature of tbe State of Ar-
kansas and the clergy generally of
Little Rock, Gov. Brown, of Ten-
nessee, in his message to the Legisla-
ture of that State, Gov. Allen of Ohio,
in a similar document, Gov. Gaston,
of Massachusetts, in a special message,
the Tammany Hall General Committee
of New York, and the Democratic
State Central Committee of Missouri,
all protest against the action of the
Administration in Louisiana affairs,
and the use made of the army of the
United States in support of political
usurpation. Feeling throughout the
country runs high on the outrage, and
it is by no means confined to the Dem-
ocratic element.
The freedom of commerce between
the New West and the Gulf coast is
pretty effectually barred by the ex-
clusive franchises granted a certain
railroad corporation uow crossing the
Indian Territory with its line. This
is a matter in wliicli the West la deep-
ly interested. No doubt efforts will
be made by that section to bring about
specific legislation regarding grants
made the corporation referred to; and
should such be the case, representa-
tives in Congress from the Gulf coast
should aid the West, either in revoking
certain privileges, or bringing about a
satisfactory compromise. A Western
journal states that it has been demon-
strated that the surplus products of
that region can not be shipped East
without threat loss to producers, and in
the direction of the South, the only
other channel left that section, the em-
bargo of this locked-up country stares
them in the face. " Were it a
toll bridge two hundred and fifty
miles long," remaiks the Kan-
sas City Journal of Commerce,
" over which but one railroad was al-
lowed to pass, it would have precisely
the same effect upon the commerce of
the West, and its tolls are paid by the
Missouri valley now just the same as
they would be in that case." The
Indian Territory must be opened to
commerce by some means before we
may expect that the trade between the
Missouri Valley and the Gulf coast can
assume vast proportions, for no one
railroad will do the business either ju-
diciously or satisfactorily. Monopoly
should be got rid of, and fair compe-
tition established. The West is right
in its demands in this particular, and
it is to be hoped that representatives
from all sections of the country will be
able to devise some means to overcome
this established difficulty, and benefit
the country generally.
Under a late decision of the Secre-
tary of the Treasury, all kinds of for-
eign green fruit are now admitted into
the United States duty free. And this
suggests, that were Galveston to put
more energy into the trade in tropical
fruits, she would be largely benefited
thereby. For instance, if a few light
sea-going vessels of steam power were
to be introduced into this business, it
appears to us it would pay. Some in-
teresting statistics, bearing upon this
subject, are published in the annual
report of Major J. II. Bostwick, United
States Inspector of Customs at New
York.
Tho loss on oranges imported into
the United States from the West In-
dian ports amounted, during the voy-
age, to no less than forty-eight per cent,
of the whole. The most of these or-
anges were brought in by sailing craft,
and the loss was considerably greater
than that experienced in conveying the
same fruit from the Mediterranean
ports by steamship. The loss on lem-
ons amounted to over twenty-five per
cent.; on bananas to over twenty-five
per cent.; on pineapples to over twen-
ty-five per cent.; on cocoanuts about
fifteen per cent.; on limes over thirty
per cent., and on other tropical fruits
about thirty per cent.
Now this is a very heavy loss to sus-
tain in this business, caused greatly by
the time the fruit is required" to re-
main on shipboard; and were this time
lessened, of course the loss would be
lessened also. It is always toward the
end of a voyage that the heavy per
centage of loss takes place. A point
like Galveston, comparatively adjacent
to the West India Islands and other
tropical ports, should command largely
this trade, and with u fleet of light
steamers engaged in it, it would add
greatly to the importance of our city
and her sourccn of commercial pros-
perity.
Su(Trace In the District or Co-
lumbia.
Universal negro suffrage, the crown-
ing blunder of the Radical plan of re-
construction, was established in the
District of Columbia by Congress, a few-
months before the adoption of the first
constitution by an ex-Confederate State
which extended to the freedmen within
its borders the right to participate
in its elections; and the first organized,
earnest attempt to eliminate the negro
from politics comes, strangely enough,
from the same quarter. The import-
ance of ^his fact, in its bearing upon
the future welfare of the South, can
not be over estimated. Here is a con-
fession made by a Radical committee
of Congress and supported, so far, by
some of the strongest Radicals in the
United States Senate, that this insti-
tution of ignorant, penniless suffrage
is a failure, in the City of Washington,
at least. Is it not a sign that the time
may soon come when it will not be
considered disloyal to discuss similar
questions here?
Negro suffrage has been tried in the
District of Columbia under the most
favorable circumstances. Very few of
the Washington negroes have been of
that densely ignorant and hopelessly
stupid class which has been thrown
into the vortex of politics in the cot-
ton belt, and has been numerous
enough to entirely change its current.
The majority of them came from Vir-
ginia and Maryland, where it was a
rare thing for the blacks of a town-
ship or a county to greatly outnumber
the white people, and where, therefore,
by the exercise of their imitative
powers, they were able to acquire some
of the arts and refinements of civiliza-
tion.
Again, the government in the Dis-
trict of Columbia never did depend
for its constitution, its fundamental
law, upon popular suffrage as it has in
the reconstructed Southern States.
The organic law of the District, under
its various forms of government, was
supplied by Congress, which ought—
we will not say that it always did—to
have devised a better form of govern-
ment than ignorant negroes and
knavish carpet-baggers could invent.
There the negro, "the ward of the
nation," was in the care and under
the very eye of his natural guardiac,
Congress, and, with unlimited power
in the premises, Congress failed in its
duty if it did not shape and fit sur-
rounding circumstances in order to
give the freedman opportunity to de-
velop himself under the most favoring
circumstances.
How did the experiment turn out ?
The municipal government, similar in
form to that which prevails in the major-
ity of our cities throughout the land and
which was generally supposed to be
good enough forWashington, was, soon
after this new political element was
introduced, found to be "wholly in-
adequate," speedily swept away, and
in its place a " territorial government"
established, in which the most impor-
tant powers and duties were intrusted
to "boards," and comparatively little
of the duty of government left to the
people. But even then this ignorant,
irresponsible suffrage tainted the wh'ole
system, and we invite attention to a
few of its results, accomplished in
three short years :
A system of street improvements es-
timated in 1871 to cost, when com-
pleted, about six million dollars,
has, in 1874, already cost twenty mil-
lions, and is far from complete.
The bonded debt of the district,
which is limited by law to few million
dollars, is already nearly twice that
amount, and is steadily increasing.
The valuation of property on which
tbe assessment of taxes is baaed, has
been increased fifty per cent., while
property has not advanced in cash
value ten per cent.
Taxes which were levied at a rate
that was less than two per cent, of the
valuation, in 1870, have been assessed
at the rate of five per cent, on the in-
creased valuation in 1874.
Fraud and corruption seem to have
attached to almost every action of the
late government. The Governor has
piled up his wealth by the hundreds
of thousands; ring contractors have
grown rich; ring newspapers have
been heavily subsidized; members of
Congress have been purchased in vari-
ous ways, and the poison virus seems
to have entered the very White House
itself, if indeed it has not proceeded
thence.
Out of it has grown a wicked con-
spiracy to convict an innocent man of
crime and lodge him in jail, and the
conspirators were enabled to command
the services of United States officers as
tools to do their wicked work and to
pay for it out of the United States
Treasury. Nor have we yet reached
the lowest depth of this infamy. Uni-
ted States officers have openly inter-
fered with the prosecution of a por-
tion of the conspirators when discov-
ered ; the Attorney General dismissed
from the case the only lawyer who was
likely to convict the criminals, when
he discovered that Gen. Babcock and
Gov. Shepherd were likely to be in-
dicted, and a Republican House of
Represeniatives, by a solemn party
vote, refuses to have these matters in-
quired into.
Verily it is time there was another
change in the form of government in
the District of Columbia, and we are
not surprised that Republicans favor
the abolition of suffrage there if they
can not get rid of the corrupting ele-
ment in any other way.
Texas Finance*.
The following facts appear from the
Supplemental Report of the State
Treasurer :
Currency.
Cash balance in Treas-
ury, August 31, 1874..$ 85,460 08
Total amounts receiv-
ed from August 31,
1874, to December 31,
1874 832,339 21
Coin.
$ 7,718 20
85,524 86
Total $917,799 29 $93,243 06
Total amounts dis-
bursed from August
31, 1874, to December
31,1874 729,757 50 91,686 88
Balance on hand..$188,041,79 $1,556 18
The Supplemental report of the Comp
troller shows the total debt of the State
to be $4,822,072 83, of which amount
$809,051 02 is classed as of doubtful
validity.
Assets of the State, January 1, 1875,
$5,255,955 59, less as above, $809,051 02.'
Estimated expenditures for school pur-
poses, $507,500.
The estimated receipts for school pur-
poses shows an excess over expenditures
of $147,579 70.
There has been issued $802,389 in pen-
sion bonds.
Compounding felonies is denounced
by the law, but practiced continually,
with the connivance and assistance of
public officers;
A dispatch from Nashna, N. H., states
that Win. B. Towue, President of Souhe-
pan National Bank, of Milford, passed
through that city with bonds aDd col-
laterals stolen by the masked robbers on
the night of October 19, to the amount of
nearly $100,000. It is understood that
the property was recovered by Mr.
Towne, with the assistance of de-
tectives, but upon all matters concern-
ing the recovery he is reticent. The re-
sult of his efforts relieves the bank from
embarrassment growing out of the ques-
tion of impaired capital. The bank will
now have its full capital.
The First Sorrow.
Beautiful boy ! bo still to nighti
Little pale fuee, 'twas once so bright;
Woary mother, with tearful eye,
Patiently hoping he will not die.
Oh, there is no grief so deep and clear,
None springs from the heart like a mother s
tear.
Why wilt thou leave (he briaht green earth ?
When the sunshine and roses are bursting
forth,
When joy and plenty are on the wing,
Away to welcome the beautiful Spring,
And clouds of light fron. the crystal shore
Are gliding in at the window and door ?
Why wilt thou go, my own sweet child ?
Is tho world too cruel, too sin-deflled ?
Canst thou not venture thy spotless soul
Where waves of the deepest color roll ?
Nor dare to launch thy little boat,
Sweet boy, on the waters unbound afloat ?
Ah ! I have watched thee with jealous care.
And wafted thy name on the wings of prayer ;
Have listened thytones with earnest joy,
And caressed thy form, my angel boy.
Heaven wills it, I ri<e this test above.
With the faith and the trust of a mother's
love.
The Indian Campaign.
A REVIEW OF OPERATIONS OF THE WAK—
TIIE FLAN OF EACH COLUMN—WHAT
TIIEY DID AND DID NOT DO—GENERAL
MILES—LACK OF SUPPLIES—INDIVID-
UAL SUFFERINGS.
(.Occasional Correspondence of the News.]
Fort Sill, I. T„ De?. 27,1874.
My last letter gave you a summary of
the results of this farcical war; a resume
of the way those results were attained
may be interesting.
The plan of the campaign was of the
most comprehensive character, and had
it not been for sundry faux pas, the ques.
tion of peace for the Texas frontier would
have been settled.
THE SOUTHERN COLUMN,
under Gen. Mackenzie, was to establish a
supply camp at the head of the Fresh
Water Fork of the Brazos river, opera-
ting from this base. Ilis position, attained
at great expense of suffering from heat
and scant water, in the long, weary march
from Concho to the selected site, was an
excellent one, being at the eastern end
of the Southern Route across the plains,
within striking distance of the canon
crowded region of the head of the Double
Mountain Fork, within easy distance,
(seven days march) of the " brakes " of
the main Red River, and within practica-
ble distance of that wonderful, convulsed
region of the Pecos—all favorite lairs of
the savage prey.
GEN. BUELL
was to operate in conjunction with the
Southern column, and was to have estab-
lished a supply camp at the mouth of
Wanderer's Creek, moving thence along
the south side of the Red, coalescing
with Mackenzie on the levels of Piano.
But from a combination of causes this
part of the plan failed.
Buell, before he could get his supplies,
was ousted his post and ordered to Sill,
where his tired troopers, many of whom
had come from McKeavit, Quitman and
Concho, were compelled to do duty guard-
ing General Davidson's supply trains.
Through that storm of cold, sleet, rain
and wind, in the last decade of Septem-
ber, his meo struggled with the contend-
ing elements, swam, pulled or carried
loads of grain over the Red River,
through the muddy roads to Fort Sill,
and after this work were started for a
sixty days hard scour, with ten days
forage and 25 days supplies.
Finding it impossible to cross the Red,
this treacherous stream,a booming flood,
long delayed at the North Fork, he es-
tablished a camp near the mouth of Otter
Creek, and struck along the divide of the
North and Salt forks of the Red.
GEN. DAVIDSON'S
plan of operations was to move to the
Washita, thence west to the eastern edge
of the plain, south, around the head of
Sweetwater to the North Fork, and so
back to ljis starting point.
These three columns were to move at
such dates as would make them mutu-
ally assisting and supporting, and it was
—a very natural supposition, too—thought
the Kiowas and Comanches would flee
to the plains. By careful search their
camps in the canons might be found, de-
stroyed and the Indians punished. To
GEN. MILES'S COMMAND
was allotted the task of chastising the
Cheyennes, and from his base of opera-
tions—Camp Supply, on the Canadian, in
the upper part of the Indian Territory—
he was to scour tbe Canadian. Cimme-
rian regions, and then move south to the
head of the Washita, etc., while upon
MAJOR PRICE,
coming eastward from New Mexico, de-
volved the important duty of preventing
the escape of the enemy in that direc-
tion.
It would seem that nothing could viti-
ate the chances of success, and to gross
mismanagement on somebody's part, and
the precipitancy of Gen. Miles, must be
attributed the failure.
Every one knows it is impossible to
get anything in the inhospitable regions
to which the duties of the troops called
them, but what was carried. So, for
LACK OF TRANSPORTATION,
insufficient supplies were carried, and
thus, about the time the commands were
in the proper field of operations, supplies
of all kinds were out, and they had to
return.
Gen. Mackenzie was the only excep-
tion, and with that indefatigable energy
for which he is noted, he procured suffi-
cient transportation, and took with him
ample supplies. 'Tis a trick he has.
And then Miles, for fear some one
should get in a blow before him, went
off half-cocked, and long before Buell or
Davidson was in position to be of ser-
vice, leaving all of the Canadian country
unsearched, he dashed down as far as
the main Red, pressing his horses to
death, killing his mules by overwork,
and then, somewhat like that celebrated
King of France, having marched his men
to the Red River, he marched them back
again, exposing Major Lyman, who had
charge of his supplementary wagon
train, with train-guard, train, supplies,
and all, to imminent danger of capture
and destruction at the hands of the Chey-
ennes he had left in his rear.
His failing, sinking command got back
to the Antelope Buttes, and there, half
starved, waited for the arrival of their
supplies, and then slowly crept back to
Camp Supply. He drove the Indians in
front of him, drove them out of the reach
of every one, left the strongest enemy in
his rear, exposed his small detachments,
his couriers, his trains, his whole com-
mand to capture, ruined about one hun-
dred and fifty horses and mules, and that
is all. For, though he fought " several
battles" (in one engagement, when Ly-
man's wagon was corralled for four days,
seventeen thousand rounds of ammuni
tion were expended,) all with the Kiowas
and Comanches, he killed but few and
took none prisoners.
Major Price, crossing the plains by the
northern route, from the waters of the
Pecos to the head of the Big Sandy Creek,
(flowing into the Washita,) went and
fought the Cheyennes, and between the
two they have only killed sixteen Chey-
ennes, and most of those Price killed.
Gen. Mackenzie got in two raps at the
Comanches, as your dispatches have told
you, and Gen. Buell stirred up the In-
dians, who fought Price's and Miles's
people, destroyed about 500 lodges, and,
to my mind, deserves most of the credit
of this not by any means creditable war.
Gen. Davidson has been in bad luck,
his last expedition being alone productive
of good results.
THE FUTURE OPERATIONS
will be but feebly pursued, and, till
spring, there will be a dearth of events.
Major Marrow, as gallant an officer as
there is in the service, has one expedi-
tion around the head of Double Mt. Fork.
Major Schofield, with about 150 men, is
going into the Cimmeron and Canadian
countries, to do a duty Miles has so long
neglected. Miles's and Price's consoli-
dated commands are about the Pan Han-
dle, to prevent |any one stealing the
adobe walls, I suppose, and thus we jog
along.
TWO OR THREE CAMPS OF OBSERVATION
will be established out on the Plains, and
the winter will be spent in astronomical
observations by the soldiers, and observa-
tions of the soldiers by the concealed In-
dian.
Of tho cases of
INDIVIDUAL SUFFERING
and adventure, enough could be written
to fill a volume—from heat and cold ;
from too much and too little water;
from lack of food, from little food, from
no food; from sleet, and rain, and snow
and exposure—till all were, in their hum-
ble way, martyrs. While any distinction
is invidious, Lieutenants Miller and
Thompson, with Mackenzie, Major Mar-
row, and Lieutenants Smith and Turner,
with Buell, all nearly of Price's, and many
of Miles's notably; Capt. Farnsworth,
Major Lyman, Lieutenants Baldwin and
Wetmore, and Col. Carpenter, Captain
Keyes and Lieutenant Maxwell, of Gen.
Davidson's command, and Lieut. Matile,
en route to join Buell, are worthy names
for inscription on the roll of honor. All
of itlie private soldiers have done their
full duty, and when occasion demanded,
have shown the highest qualities of cour-
age and endurance. Nor have the civil-
ians escaped,—not to mention such people
as "mule whackers," who have sug-
gested a grave doubt if they were not
amphibious, so unmindful of water, mud
and quicksands when mules stuck, floun-
dered or half drowned. Scouts, and the
inevitable special " have suffered frem
all of the above mentioned causes, till
they, too, are martyrs to the cause of
" Peace to the Texas Frontier."
Jack Stillwell, Jack Killmartin, Bill
Marshall and Amos Chapman have all
been tried in the fire, and well have they
borne the test.
Mr. Abey, of the World, and Colonel
O'Brien, of the Herald, have each " been
in for it" tremendously. The former
was caught, with Lieut. Matile, in that
fierce equinoctial gale on the banks of the
Big Washita,in Texas, buffeted by storms,
soaked by the waters of all of the North
Texas streams, then lost, wandering
About the regions of Grosbeck Creek, half
starved, and for two weeks out of rations
and for days without any food, and Col
O'Brien was caught in that norther of the
latter part of November, frost bitten,
sleeping in a bed of snow with a cover-
let of ice, without food, and, at last, only
saved by stumbling on Davidson s camp,
are two of the most prominent.
And could I but mention the cases of
suffering among the soldiers, frosted
hands and feet, chilled almost to the
death by a cold so bitter and withering
that our command, with not more than
500 horses, lost by freezing 150 of the
number, you would agree with me that
the high-sounding title of " Martyrs to
the cause" is not written in a grandilo-
quent spirit, but is as well deserved by
these sufferers as by the tortured crea-
tures depicted in Fox's Book of Martyrs,
and, with me, regret that it is all so fruit-
less—all for a beggarly array of sixteen
Cheyennes, ten Comanches and four
Kiowas killed.
Capt. Keyes, with Lieutenant Moxsom
and one company of the Tenth Cavalry,
chased and captured 27 bucks, 28 squaws,
Cheyennes of Medicine Water's band,
and 80 ponies. They formed part of
Major Schofieldrs command, but were
detailed for special duty, struck this
trail and captured the party—the only
capture on the field of any party of In-
dians so far.
Major Schofield's command has re-
turned in excellent condition, men and
animals. Nothing done. The band of
Medicine Water is the party who took
the German family. One of the girls
has died from the outrages to which she
has been compelled to submit. Efforts are
being made for the release of the other.
To this end Gen. Davidson will send
out another expedition next week. The
Cheyennes recently attacked a surveying
party at work in the upper part of the
Indian Territory and murdered a flag-
man, a lad about 16 years of age, and a
compassman named Dilsey. No news
from the other columns.
Snow Dreams.
Last night it snowed; and Nature fell asleep;
Forest and field lie tranced in gracious
dreams
Of growth, for ghosts of leaves long dead, it
seems,
Hover above the boughs; and wild winds sweep
O'er whitened fields, full many a hoary heap
From the storm-harvest, sown by silent
streams!
With beauty of crushed clouds the cold
earth teems,
And Winter a fertile-seeming truce would
keep.
But such ethereal slumber may not bide
The ascending sun's hot scorn—not long, I
fear;
And all the golden visions, on the golden tide
Of mid-noon gliding off, shall disappear.
Fair dreams, farewell! So, in life's stir and
pride,
You fade—and leave the treasure of a tear!
—Galaxy.
Beautiful and Bad.
[Special correspondence St. Lonis Democrat.]
In Paris, more than in any city I am
acquainted with, strange things are con-
stantly happening. This fact is recog
nized by the application in other coun
tries of the adjective Frenchy to what is
peculiar, surprising or sensational.
There is not the least need here ol
journalistic invention, if the press con
tributor will but seek that which is so
easy to find. The most interesting and
remarkable facts and circumstances
rarely get into the city newspapers, ow-
ing, of course, to lack of energy and en-
terprise on the part of reporters. The
average Frenchman dislikes facts, not
knowing how singular, how attractive,
how poetic they are. He prefers to ex
ercise his imagination, which can not
create shadows half so curious and en-
ticing as the substance to be had by ob-
servation.
I have just heard of a very strange
organization, if it may be called such,
consisting originally of six young wo-
men, from eighteen to twenty years of
age, whose purpose is to charm men to
their destruction. The founder is a re-
markably pretty girl, the daughter of a
wine merchant at Macon. She was
finely educated, fcarefully reared, and en
gaged to a physician of the town, when
a Parisian actor, playing in the provinces,
completely won her heart. Falling in
love with him the first night she saw
him on the stage, she might have justi
fled her imprudence by Theophile Gau-
tier's verse—
The heart that loves forgets all else but love,
if she had happened to read or remember
it. She acted on it at any rate, sending
him an ardent billet, and receiving one
in return. He seemed to be as much
enamored of her as she of him. He as-
sured her, if she would elope with him,
that lie would marry her immediately
on arrival in this city.
The faith that amorous passion inspires
was hers. She quitted home, parents,
affianced husband, wealth, happiness, all,
to fly with the actor. Arriving here, he
deferred the fulfillment of his promise
week after week, and finally forsook her,
leaving a letter behind, telling her, with
cruel candor, that he was tired of her
that he did not wish ever to see her
again.
His desertion nearly killed her. She
would have committed suicide, had she
not been seized with brain fever, from
which she did not recover for over two
months. The great wrong did not break
her heart, it destroyed it. She rose from
her bed of sickness wholly changed. She
is that most dangerous and terrible crea
ture, a beautiful and fascinating woman,
without power to love, without suscept
ibility to pity.
She resolved to revenge herself on
mankind for the sin of her betrayer, and
this was the plan she deliberately ma-
tured :
She determined to seek out a certain
number of young and handsome women,
who had been injured like herself, and
bind them by a solemn oath to ruin any
and every man they could tempt into
their toils. Her first idea was to form
an association of twenty such Circes, in-
cluding herself; but she could not find
more than five with the requisite qualifi-
cations of beauty, interestingness, under-
standing of human nature and freedom
from softness of disposition. Those were
precisely to her mood and mind, and she
educated them in bitterness and hate
haranguing them by the hour, until
they were converted into lovely tninisters
of destruction. Strong, magnetic/elo-
quent, she molded them to her will; she
ruled them by the force and fascination
of her character. Without any love in
the usual sense, they loved and feared
her ; her slightest wish was their law.
Three years since they began to work
their mine of evil. They took lodgings
in different parts of the town ; though
they frequently saw each other, their
visits were always clandestine. The
baleful success they met with may be
imagined in a city so licentious and luxu-
rious as this—a city where, more than in
any other, a pretty, unprincipled, adroit
woman may be a Nemesis to our sex for
wrongs that any part of it may have
done.
Each one of the six secured a rich
lover ; within a twelve month the lovers
were ruined, at least in purse. Two of
them blew out their brains ; one com-
mitted forgery; one went to Algeria;
the remaining two ran away to America.
The successors to these simpletons, soon
discovered, shared a similar fate. Men
are never wanting; for the designing
sisterhood drew them as feoney draws
flies.
The charming wantons were known for
their beauty, their elegance of toilette,
their splendid turnouts all over the capi-
tal. The gold they got from their vic-
tims furnished them with the means of
securing more. They became the rage;
bids for their favor ran so high that no
ordinary mortal could hope to share it.
The stories of their fascination, their con-
quest, their heartlessness, widely bruited,
rendered them doubly perilous. Beauti-
ful and bad as they were, their beauty
and badness were exaggerated, and they
acquired the name of the Angel Daugh-
ters of Satan.
Every week or two the selfish sorcer-
esses met by appointment, told one an-
other what had happened, the condition
of their dupes, the special weakness of
these, and discussed the best plans to
pursue for their own interest.
She who formed the little club was
the eldest by a few months, and invaria-
bly presided over and led the delibera-
tions. The name she had assumed was
Mignonne Ducceur, a glaring sarcasm on
her nature, since, instead of being a Dar-
ling of the Heart, Bhe was a Devil of the
Soul. Her knowledge of the world, her
spiritual insight, being much greater
than that of her associates, who pointed
out ony and every defect of their pro-
gramme, and instructed them how to
manage most effectively the men they
had enthralled. Each one of tho five
always went to the chief for guidance
when guidance was needtd, and thus
Mignonnfe prevented her sisters from
making many displays which would
have lost them the game.
My informer, who is acquainted with
the women, especially their leader, is
amazed at the extent of their acquain-
tance with Ihe weaknesses and vices of
his sex. " No man," he says, " is safe,
if once exposed to their arts. They
know him as a botanist knows a flower,
as an anatomist knows the human body.
They can spiritually dissect him, and put
him together again, yet he will be un-
aware of his disintegration. They
clearly understand tha ramifications of
every avenue to the masculine heart—or
what stands for it. They can master
its approaches, and force it to surrender,
ordinarily in less than a week. They
take it for granted that every man is
vain and sensual; that he whom gold
can' not buy, nor ambition tempt, may
yet be seduced by a woman; that the
devil is wise when, despairing of catch-
ing any masculine soul in the secular
sea, he baits his hook with a petticoat."
Thoroughly aware of man's incon-
stancy, they cunningly arranged it so
that when one of their loveis feels an
inclination to abandon any one of the six
he shall fall to the lot of another of the
pernicious number. Marie, for example,
discovering a tendency to disloyalty in
her friend, informs Mignonne of the cir-
cumstance, and straightway either she,
or Lucie, or Annette, is put forward as a
deceit, and the unsuspecting profligate
steps, as they say here, from the boiling
oil into the blazing coals. It is managed
thus : Lucie having learned about what
time Monsieur Hvpolite or Alexandre
may be seen in the Rue Rivoli, or in the
vicinity of the Boulevard des Italiens,
happens in the same quarter. Her per-
sonal appearance and superb entourage
naturally attracts his attention; she per-
ceives it, she smiles, glances, does some-
thing significant, and this small spark
kindles in him a great flame. Every fa-
cility being given by her contrivance—he
never suspecting it—it is strange if he
does not succeed in making her acquaint-
ance within forty-eight hours.
In the first, fervor of his passion she is
conscious he will be most liberal; theu
it is that she draws most heavily on his
purse. She is altogether merciless. If
she were not she would be so by remem-
bering she has the desertion of lier con-
federate to redress. After involving her
gallant completely in her toils she shows
him her true nature—hard, dark, cold.
She taunts him with his weakness, up-
braids him for his egotism, stabs hia self
love to the core. She threatens to for-
sake him, and does forsake him
when he is most loth to let her go—-while
he begs her with actual tears (it is easy
and not counted unmanly for Frenchmen
to weep) to stay a little longer, to let him
by degrees accustom himself to the idea
of separation. If she has gotten from
him a considereble portion o£ his money
she spurns him, laughs in his face,
leaves him with a sarcasm that stings
like an adder.
It is said that several unfortunate
wights have been broken on the wheel
of the bewitching half-dozen. So you
may imagine how thoroughly they must
have been depleted, both of gold and of
illusions.
The wonder is that men could be so
cajoled over again by designing women
with no other motive than deceit and
material gain. The wonder will appear
less when it is remembered that the
daughters of Satan always play into each
others' hands, or impart their experiences
to one another, aDd fully reveal tbe idi
osyncracies of their lovers. Thus, when
number two succeeds to number one,
number two has all the knowledge nam
ber one has gained, and is prepared to
use it to the lullest for her own benefit
and to his disadyantage.
One of their last victims was a young
artillery officer, who had served with dig
tinction in the Franco-Prussian war. Be-
longing to an old and industrious family,
he had a large inheritance which, on ac-
count of his spendthrift habits, had been
so ordered that he could draw only the
income from the property until he was
forty years of age. This income was soon
swallowed up by his expenditure upon
the youngest of the six, with whom he
was so wildly in love that he was tempt-
ed to forge acceptances on his uncle, a
well-known marquis, and get them dis-
counted. They amounted to nearly two
hundred thousand francs, all of which
was dissipated before the paper fell due.
Knowing that his forgery must be dis
covered, the officer suddenly quitted
Paris for Marseilles and embarked thence
for Algiers. After a few hours out he
was missing from the steamer, and there
is no doubt that he threw himself over
board.
Another dupe was a Russian Count
who, like most of his nation, could not
behold a pretty face without entire
readiness to act the fool on its account.
He became . enamored •of Mignonne,
having met her at a fete champetre in
Fontainbleu, and accepted his doom with
delight.
She managed him admirably.
No wo nan ever had a more willing
slave. In three months he squandered
on lier 100,000 francs ; at the end of five
months he was nearly exhausted of
ready cash.
She sent to him, on a soft spriDg after-
noon, for 10,000 francs, saying she must
have it; that if he did not send it she
would never see him again. He pawned
all his jewelry to raise the sum, and,
with the bank notes in his pocket, went
to her luxurious apartments. As he
handed them to her he said: " It seems to
me, sometimes, that you are selfish, Mig-
nonne. I told fou but two days
ago that I was nearly impov-
ished; still you demand 10,000 francs
of me. Here they are. I have disposed
of all my valuables to get the money. I
would give you anything, even my life,
if I did not doubt occasionally that you
really love me. Do you love me 1"
" Love you?" she replied, with bitter
ness; " no, I despise and detest you and
your whole sex. If I have ruined you, I
am happy—to ruin men is the sole object
oE my life. The misery of men is my
joy."
" Do you mean what you say, Mignone?
Have you never loved me ?"
" I mean more than I say; I never
cared for you nor for any man, except to
bring him all the unliappiness possible.
Look at me. See if I am not siuceie!"
He did look. A shadow of intense
hatred was on her fair lace—the bitter
ness of her experience quivered on her
ripe, red lip. lie glanced at her again,
and, murmuring beautiful devil, ran to
the open window, and threw himself
headlong into the court below.
Mignone simply shrugged lier shoul-
ders, with an " Eh bien!" rang the bell,
told the servant that a gentleman had
just fallen out of the window, and might
have hurt himself.
He had not hurt himself. He w
stone dead.
" And what has become of this won-
derful sisterhood?" I asked of my in
formant when he had finished his story.
" Heaven only knows t" he replied.
" TLey melted away from Paris six
months ago ; they have never been heard
of since. They had begun to be notori-
ous, as well they might be, having made
so many tragedies. I suspect that they
were notified by the police to depart.
They will probably reapper some time.
It is a pity they have gone. The Angel
Daughters of Satan must be charming,
indeed. Would I might see them ! A
beautiful, gifted woman, who has lived
down her heart is the most enchanting of
tragedians.
Cause* of Fires.
At New York, duriug last year,
nearly one-third of the whole number
of fires occurred through carelessness
with matches, candles, lamps, pipes,
cigars, etc. Foul chimneys caused
over 200 fires; fireworks, 52; children
playing with matches, 00; over-heated
stoves, stove-pipes, ranges, 200; ex-
plosion of kerosene oil lamps, 44; win-
dow curtains and goods in show win-
dows, 50; sparks from chimneys, fur-
naces, etc., 04; malicious mischief, 33;
escaped gas igniting, 32; defective
flues, 43; spontaneous combustion, 35,
and the remainder from a variety of
causes.
A remarkable character has died
suddenly in Paris—Sophie, the cook to
whom the late Dr. Vernon was indebt-
ed for his reputation as the first din-
ner-giver in Paris for something like
half a century. Sophie generally used
to come in after dinner and be compli-
mented, and, in her humble way, be-
came acquainted with almost every
man and woman of note in Paris, from
Mile. Mars and Mile. Rachel, Tagli-
oni and the Elsslers down to modern
stars -from Talma to Regnier. The
late Emperor, while plain citizen Louis
Napoleon Bonaparte, partook of the
good things elaborated by this woman
of genius.
They now call A. T. Stewart King
Calico.
Tbe Cheilitis try of the Stomach.
As in the more delicate processes of the la-
boratory, it is essential that the re-agents
employed to produce chemical changes in
matter should be uncontaminated, so also it
is imperatively necessary that the Uuids of
the stomach, which act chemically upon the
food, should be perfectly pure. When the
stomach is acid, it is because these fluids are
vitiated or diluted. Similarly, otlior forms of
indigestion arise from a deficiency of the
chemical properties of the Rastrie juices. The
most direct and agreeable way to restore
their puiity and improve their quality, is to
take before each meal a wine glassfull of Hos-
. ~ l* Kf jtmnnli 1 ! if t • .«• V. I .. I, n ..! . 1
l,rvw uuiuiu vavu invtui n « lui; piu.>»HHl UL I1US"
tetter's Stomach Bitters, which correct acid
if.v rftnil^r (liirpstinn I'nmnUitH ami nainluco
New Advertisements.
rpili; TEXAS RURAL REGISTER
—AND —
ImmlEraniK' Ilanil-Buok for 1S75,
is now read}', and for sale at the book stores.
Price 3 S cents. Sent by mail, postpaid to
any part of the world, on receipt of price Ad-
dress TEXAS RURAL REGISTEF
jalOIVfcW.it P. o. liox 497, Houston.
ity,
and
«-<«• --u u.j, n i/ui ici ii av.iu
render digestion complete and painless,
overcome the constipation which it pro-
duces. The nervousness and weakness re-
sulting from chronic dyspepsia, also disap-
pear under its influpneo.
ja8fri-sun-wed&W It
j^"IGIIT SCHOOL,
Special i* of tees.
The Galvettton Catholic Total Ab-
stinence and Benevolent Association, meets
for the purpose of completing its organization
t ^ cvirvtwn nf r- — i. a. i.
flemllej- Building;, Slras< a.
Over A C. JBcKeen's. Hours—; :«0 to 9:30 p.
11. Studies—English Branches and "the usual
Commercial Course. Terms—Monthly, in ad-
vance, $5. Refers, by permission, to James
Sorluy, Esq., Gary&01iphint. and 'Jol. E S
Jemison. JAS. It. MALONE. A M '
jalOlt*
' c — - r j|,o uifiHLUZiailUli
THIS EVENING, at 7 o'clock, at the rooms of
the spiritual director, the xiev. Father Cham-
bodut, at Sd. Mary's Cathedral. jalG It
Notice*—A special meeting of the Cale-
donia Benevolent Association will be held
SATUfiDAY, 16th inst., at H o'clock, sharp.
A full attendance is requested. By order of
the President. E. D. GARRATT,
janlO It Secretary.
Notice,—Tho annual meeting of the
Stockholders of the Galveston, Houston and
Henderson Railroad Company, of 1871, will bo
held at the office of .the Company, in Galves-
ton, TUESDAY. January 2tt, 1875, at 12 o'clock
noon. JACOB E. FISHER, Secretary. '
Galveston, Jan. 9, 1875. jalO 14t
Special Notice.—A special meeting of
the property owners of the Third and Fourth
Wards is called for MONDAY EVENING, Jan.
11, at 8 o'clock, at the Olive Branch Hotel!
corner 29th and Market streets, to discuss
matters of importance touching their inter-
ests^ Prominent speakers will address the
meeting. Punctual attendance requested.
jalO It*
Notice to the Stockholders of the Union,
Marine and B'ire Insurance Company. At the
Annual Meeting, on the 11th instant, a pro-
position from the Gulf, Colorado and Santa
Fe Raiiroad Company, for a subscription of
$5000 to the stock of said Railroad, will be
submitted. ja9td W. F. BEERS, Sec'y.
Notice to Stock. It older* of tlie Gal-
veston Wharf Company.—The meeting of
Stockholders called for January 4 inst. was
postponed for want of a quorum to FRIDAY,
the 15th inst., at 10 o'clock a. m.
ja9 td I. S. LE CLERE, Secretary.
Office Ci. r. R. It. Co,, C-alveMon,
January 7th, 1875.—The Annual Meeting of
Stockholders of the G. C. R. R. Co. will
be held at the office of the Company on
WEDNESDAY, January 13th, 1875, to receive
reports and to elect seven Directors to serve
for the ensuing year.
II. GRESSER,
4t Secretary.
Island City Saving# Bank, Gal-
veston, January 7, 1875.—The usual quarterly
dividend of THREE PER CENT, on all paid
up Stock has been declared, and will bo paid
on and after tho 15th inst.
jalO 2t J. G. MICHAELOFFSKY, Cashier.
Galveston Gas Company, Jan. 7, 1875.
A meeting: ol* Stockholders in tlil«
Company will be held, at the office of the Sec-
retary, on MONDAY, 18th January inst., at 11
o'clock a. m., to entertain and decide upon
the question of subscribing to the Capital
Stock of tho Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe
Railroad Company. By order of the Board of
Directors. J. FRED ERICH,
ja-8 td Secretary.
Office of the Texas Cotton Press )
And Manufacturing Co., y
Galveston, January 7,1875. )
The Annual Meeting of Stockholders of the
Texas Cotton Press and Manufacturing Com
pany will be hold at tho office of the Company
on TUESDAY, JAN. 12, 1875, to receive the
reports of officers and for the election of nine
Directors to serve for the ensuing year. A
proposition from the Gulf, Colorado and Santa
Fe Railroad will also be submitted.
Polls will be open from 12 to 3 p. m.
R. W. SIIAW,
5t Secretary.
Office Southern Cotton Prc#» and
Manufacturing Company, Galveston, Jan. 5,
1875.—At a meeting of the stockholders of this
company, held thi3 day, the following resolu
tion was adopted:
Resolved, That this meeting regards favor-
ably the request of the Gulf, Colorado and
Santa Fc Railroad Company, and directs that
a poll be opened at the meeting lor the elec-
tion of Di lectors, on TUESDAY, 12th instant
and the stockholders be requested to vote yea
or nay upon a proposal to subscriba for $15,
0C0 of the capital stock of said Gulf, Colorado
and Santa Fe Railroad.
A full attendance is requested, in order that
the proposal may receive the attention it
merits. C. G. WELLS,
Secretary.
Notice—Office Union Maiine and Fire In
surance Company, January 2, 1875-The
annual meeting of the stockholders of the
Union Marine and Fire Insurance Company
for the election of thirteen directors, to serve
for the ensuing year, will bo held at the office
of the company on MONDAY, 11th, between
the hours of 10 a. m. and 2 p. m.
ja3 td W. F. BEERS, Secretary.
First National Hank of Galveston.
The annual meeting of the shareholders of
this Bank will be held at the Banking House
on TUESDAY, the 12th day of January, 1875, to
elect Directors for the ensuing year, and for
other important purposes.
THOS. REED, Cashier.
Galveston, Dec. 29, 1874. de29 td
National Bank ol' Texas, Galves-
ton, December 31, 1874.—The annual election
of five Directors of. this Bank will be held at
the banking house on TUESDAY, January 12,
1875, between the hours of 11 a. m. and 1 p. m.
jal td ROBT. J. JOHN, Cashier.
Notice.—The Stockholders of the Agricul-
tural, Horticultural and Industrial Associa-
tion are requested to meet at the office of C.
W. Hurley & Co., at 12 o'clock noon, on WED-
NESDAY. January 20, 1875. for the purpose of
electing thirteen Directors. By order of the
President, C. L. BEISSNER, JR., Sec'y.
ja9 lOt
Notice.—The Steamer CLYDE, saiiing
from New York for Galveston the 9th instant,
will touch at Norfolk and take on board the
cargo of the disabled steamer GEO. W.
CLYDE. Consignees will plase govern them
selves accordingly. J. N. SAWYER,
j&9 3t Agent.
Notice to Consignees.—The schooner
IDA LEWIS, from New York, is discharging
cargo at Lufkin's Wharf. All goods remain-
ing on the wharf after 4 p. m. will be stored at
risk and expense of consignee.
M. Q.U1N & CO., Agents.
ja9 3t
Notice to Consignees.—The schooner
GEO. L. FESSENDEN, Beebe, Master, from
New York, is discharging cargo, subject to
general average, at Williams's Wharf. Con-
signees will please call at this office, sign
the average bond, deposit ten (10) percent, of
the amount of their invoice, pay frieght
bills, and roceive,* delivery order for their
goods. J. N. SAWYER. Agent,
jal tf 54 Strand.
January.
Schenck's Pulmonic Syrup, Sea Weed Tonic,
and Mandrake Pills.
These deservedly celebrated and popular
medicines have effected a revolution in the
healing art, and proved the fallacy of several
maxims which have for many years obstruct-
ed the progress of medical science. Tne
false supposition that 44 consumption is incur-
able" deterred physicians from attempting to
find remedies for that disease, and patients
affiicted with it reconciled themselves to
death without making an effort to escape from
a doom which they supposed to be unavoida-
ble. It is now proved, however, that Consump-
tion can be Cured and that it haa been cured in
a very great number of cases (some of them ap-
parently desperate ones} by Schenck's Pulmo-
nic Syrup alone, and in other cases by the
same medicine in connection with Schenck's
Sea Weed Tonic and Mandrake Pills, one or
both, according to the requirements of the
case.
Dr. Schenck himself, who enjoyed uninter-
rupted good health for more than forty years,
was supposed, at one time, to be at the very
gate of death, his physicians having pro-
nounced his case hupeless, and abandoned
him to his fate. He was cured by the afore-
said medicines, and, since his recovery, many
thousands similarly affected have used Dr.
Schenck's preparations with the sama re-
markable success.
Full directions accompany each, making it
not absolutely necessary to personally see Dr.
Schenck unless patients wish their lungs ex-
amined, and for this purpose he is profession-
al^ at his principal office, corner Sixth and
Arch streets, Philadelphia, every Monday,
where all letters for advice must be ad-
dressed. Schenck's medicines are sold Dy all
druggists.
janl '75 we fr&su 1m
'A'cw Advertisements.
For rent-on corner Broadway
and 20th strest one Cottage House, con-
taining 7 rooms; 3 lots of ground, shrubbery
in the yard. A very desirable place; $50 per
month.
FOR RENT—On corner Strand and 10th
street, one two-story House, with 4 rooms in
the main building, with tire-places in each,
with kitehen, diuing-room and servant's room.
Two lots.
FOR SALE— Lot 7, in Block 129, on East
Broadway and 14th street, with a Cottage
House, containing 7 rooms; also, a small
House in the! rear of the main building, all
new and in good condition. Will rent for
about $70. VINEYARD & KINDRED,
Real Estate Agents,
jalO It 124 Strand.
w*
ET NURSE WANTED
for an infant.
Apply immediately at the corner of Post-
office and 15th streets, or to Dr. J. M. IIADEN,
corner 19th and Broadway. ja9E&M3t
I.
IGIITNING CROSS-CUT SAWS.
One Man Cross-Cut Saws.
Hand and Rip Saws.
Woodland Compass Saws.
Every one warranted by
BERING & McNEIL,
102 and 104, corner of Treraont and Mechanic
streets, Galveston. ja9 It
JJO YOU BURN
COAL OK WOOD {
If you are not fixed up with a
HEATING STOVE
Get one of STEELE, WOOD & CO.,
jalO It 68 and 70 Tromont st.
'<«r|MIE UNKINDEST CUT OF
''—cutting tho prico of good, sound
HAMS down to 12% cents a pound. Tho
place to get them is at the
GALVESTON CASH GROCERY STORE.
jalO It*
j^OTICE NOTICE
Flatonia, January 9, 1875.
Mr. E. LYON'S connection with our firm
ceases from this day.
JOS. JACOBS & CO,,
jal0 2t Flatonia, Texas.
20,000 PiI[L-YDELl>mA
l*ItES§a-:i> K2SICKS
For Bale by SAMUEL BOYER DAVIS,
deC sua tf
73 E «st Strand.
JUST RECEIVED—
—AT—
A: ITSET2(;EU'S
shafmpsp^yo°itLdeIicacies •»«* -
AK.TICHOKES IN WATER
EVAPORATED APPLES "
A fresh supply of French PBUNE3- French
jllO6™1111 at l,o Market st.
jpUBLIO AUCTION.
We shall sell TO-MORROW, at half-past 10
a. m., coruor of Tremont and Mechanic i-treets,
One Omulhns nnd llirce Horse?.
See legal advertisement. J. B. BIRON & CO
jaio It* N. LIDSTO>. E, Auctioneer.
FURJilTURK, STOVES, MATTRESSES, CI-
GARS, TEAS, COFEEE, LIQUORS, ETC.
I>Y BLAKELY & PRINCE
y Auctioneers—lltt and 118 Strand.—Will
sell MONDAY, 11th inst., at 10 o'clock a
m. sharp-
Bureaus. Kitchen Safes, 1 Armnir. Rockiag
Chairs, Tables, Mnttresses, Quilts, Cook
ing Stoves, Heating Stoves. et<\ Also 20
tcs. Ale, 5 half bbls. Ground Coffee. 25 cad-
dies Green and Black Tea, Cigars, 25 cases
assorted Liquors, 1 bbl. blackberry Bran
dy, 5 one-eighth casks Domestic Brandy
W hisky, 20 boxes Soap, 5 bbls. Biead, etc.
Also, an invoice of.Ladies' Uniergar-
monts, Aprons, 10 dozen Pants, Hosiery
Notions, etc. jalO
gEED POTATOES,
NOW LANDING,
£xaS(-h; t« €«eo. IFesscnden, lUe-
lalca and Sanaa Wright,
5C0 Bbls. Peerless Seed Potatoes.
250 Bbls. Early Rose Seed Potatoes.
200 Bbls. Goodrich Seed Potatoes.
10.1 Bbls. Jack3on White Potatoes.
100 Bbls. Iiussett Potatoes.
—Also, in Store—
100 Bbls. Silver Skin Onions.
250 Bbls. Red Apples.
For sale by
jalO It?
EVANS &. CO.,
Commission Merchants.
ii
AIR GOODS AND FANCY AR
TICLES.
New Advertisement?.
=IN STORE —
600 Sacks COFFEE
Ex Brig "TARPEIAN."
And to arrive from Rfo do Janeiro
3700 Sacks COFFEE
Per Brig HENRIETTA.
For sale by
M. KOPPERL.
The successor of the house of M. Auge,
Hair Dresser, New Orleans, has the honor to
inform the ladies of Galveston and the inte-
rior of Texas that, in order to satisfy their
wishes, he has Stnt his a^ent, M. MEICH, to
Galveston, who will be happy to attend to
their orders and fill them at wholesale prices,
nc invites tbem to call and examine the stock
he has on hand at No. 107 POSTOFFICE
STREET, between Twenty-first and Twenty-
second, where they wili be satisfied that his
prices are low, and, he trusts, be pleased with
the stylt» of his goods and workmanship.
jalO 2t*
1 UST RECEIVED,
—AT THE—
BAZAR JEWELRY HOUSE
-OF—
in. W. SHAW & BKCm
The finest stock of Ladies' Opera and Leon-
tine Chains, Eiamond Ear-rings and Pins,
Solitairo and Cluster Diamond Rings, Ame-
thyst, Topaz. Emerald and Pearl Rings; Go Id
Thimbles; Lockets of every description;
Gold Ear and Tooth Picks; Glove Fasteners,
Charms and Fan Holders.
Call and see our stock. It can not be sur-
passed in this State. de7 d&W ly
G
^ERMAN FELT SHOES,
(Deutsche Filtz Sehuhe.)
At the Shoo Store of
1 . C. LEVY,
Corner of Market and Twenty-second streets,
Dealer in
«
BOOTS AND SHOES.
DEFIES COMPETITION in his line of
goods, and offers his fine stock of gentlemen's
Custom Made Boots and Gaiters,
As well as Ladies' and Children's SHOES of
all descriptions, lower than ever he has. Also
on hand a fine assortment of Ladies' and Gen-
tlemen's CLIPPERS and Children's FANCY
SHOES. jalO tf
QRUSHED WHITE WHEAT—
A sure cure for dypepsia.
TORONTO OAT MEAL,
At 10 cents a pound.
DESSICATED COCOANUT,
For pies and puddings.
ROASTED COFFEE,
Choice and fresh.
CREME De VALLEY,
The best American Champagne, equal to
Krug.
CALIFORNIA CLARET,
A pure article.
And a full assortment of fancy and staple
goods. For sale by E. E. RICE & CO.,
jalO It 125 Tremont street.
j^veiiybody says you can
BUY runs
CHEAPER AT THE
GALVESTON BAZAR,
Than anywhere else, for they sell
BLACK CONEY SETS, fur and muff, at $2 20.
Elegant Imitation ERMINE SETS at $4 00.
Splendid FRENCH CONEY SETS at S3 75.
Best Imitation ERMINE SETS, handsomely
fringed, at $5 50.
Striped ALASKA SETS reduced to $1 90.
Real GREY SQUIRREL SETS, for young
ladies, $(3 00.
Genuine CANADA MINK SETS, reduced from
$10 to $25 per set—the handsomest
goods in the market.
Large Fur Oapei,
with or without Muff, reduced to almost
HALF VALUE. Capes formerly soiling at
$7 00 reduced to $3 75.
SH 00 reduced to 75.
$9 00 reduced to $5 50.
$10 00 rcduced to £(i 00.
COM. 12 AND SATISFY YOUKSELF.
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,1 GOOD CHANCE TO SELL
TEXAS LANDS!
Those who have good lands for sale, with
perfect titles, taxes all paid to date, titles or
patents with chain of transfer, with certifi-
cate of District Clerk of the county in which
the "land is situated as to ownership; a de-
scription of the kind of land, timber, etc.,
whether best adapted to the growth of sugar,
cotton, grain, or for grazing cattle, horses or
sheep—of each separata tract—must accom-
pany authority to sell, may find a purchaser,
as I have correspondents who assure me
sales may be made of a number of thonsand
acres, but price must be low. No charge
made for serf tees unless sales are made. I
havo opened my office, and am ready for
bu.'insss
Refer, by permission, to Messrs. Ball,
Hutchings & (Jo , Bankers; Messrs. Leon & H.
Blum and P. J. Wi lis & Bro , Merchants, and
G. If. Mensing and Wm. Hendley & Co.. Com-
mission Merchants. J. fl. COLLETT.
Ualveston, Dee. 23,1874.
de24 Dth&suulm
X° AIiR1VE TO ARRIVE.
4000 Sacks Coffee,
Per Herman brig B. H. Steenkec,
FROM RIO »E JANEIRO.
ja5 una tf
ranger & co.
2000 Sacks Coffee,
IN STORE,
I'or Sale by
no!3tfuna KAIFFISAN 6c RCNCE,
-IN STOKE.
2000 Sks. Coffee,
Insurance.
MERCHANTS'
Insurance Company,
No. 63 STRAND. GALVESTON.
(Organized. I860.)
FIRE. MARINE AJJ® RIVER.
CASH CAPITAL CFUIiL PAID) »2SO,OUO.
JOHN D. ROGERS, President.
ii^ON BLUM, Vice President.
Sity NG Kli, J ACK & MOTT, Attorneys
HENRY SAMPSON Secretary.
w T __ DIRECTORS:
w' K>it^2DY of Moody & Jemison.
w ^ Mar* & Xempner.
m' £ of Gary & Oliphint.
m' o ~ rea £ National Bank of Tfliw.
T^Jvr' BaUinger, Jack & Mott.
John D. Rogers Cf John f). Rogers & Co.
Alfred Muckle Cotton Factor.
Leon Blum. .....of Leon &H. Blum.
q-eorge Sealy of Ball, Hutchings & Co.
B. O. Duval of Qrinn an & Duval.
T. W. Folts of Folta & Walshe
R. A. Brown of R. A. Brown & Co
Henry Sampson Sec'y. Merchants' Ins. Co.
The Company insures against loss or dam-
age by fire on Buildings, Merchandise, Pro-
duce, Household Furniture, and other insura
ble property in town and country, ant] is con-
ducted on strictly conservative principles.
Risks are assumed only at adequate rates of
premium, and losses promptly adjusted.
1an3-'T5D-Wlv*
gTAR MUTUAL
Fire Insurance Company
OFFICE:
IT 3 TREMONT STRilET 173
Galveston, Texas.
Insures property for an/ term not exceeding
five yeara.
Dwellings and Isolated Property
A SPECIALTY.
JAMES BERRY President
JOHN A. AMES Secretary
fel4 D&Wly
TO ARRIVE:
3500 Sks. Coffee.
10, 12, 1+ and 16 Strand,
J. II. ELS WORTH & CO.
de26 3m
BRINLY PLOW.
H. HIRSCH & CO.,
Aecnts for Factory,
STRAND, GALVESTON.
dell tf una
QRESCENT MUTUAL
INSURANCE COMPANY
of new orleans.
JOS. w. rice victor J. baclap.d
Assets, April 30, 1874. $652,649 22
Will insure property against loss or damage
fire:, marine
AND INLAND TRANSPORTATION
At Fair Rates.
LOSSES PROMPTLY ADJUSTED.
THOS. A. ADAMS, HENRY V. OGDEN,
President. Secretary.
B. D. CHENOWETH, Gen'l Agent for Texas.
Office, 1 62 Strand, Galveston. no4 d3m
HOME INSURANCE
AND
BANKING COMPANY
61 STRAND 61
GALVESTON, TEXAS.
OILS AND GLASS,
VARNISHES and ARTISTS' COLORS,
Wall Paper and Window Sliades,
KICB & BATTLAKT>.
77 TREMONT STREET,
ja26D-Su&Wly GALVESTON, TEXAS.
A. MAKINAS,
Importer and Dealer in
CIGARS, ETC., ETC.
Manufacturer of HAVANA and DOMESTIC
CIGARS.
No. 69 Market st., bet. Tremont and 21th sts.
A fresh supply always on hand.
COMPETITION DEFIED.'
JPOR SALE FOR SALE
Br
& LANG,
Wholesale Hardware Merchants,
GALVESTON, TEXAS,
1500 doz. best cast 6teel all bright HOES.
500 doz. one and two-buekie hog skin
COLLARS.
500 doz. pairs HAMES.
25') doz. BLIND BRIDLES.
100 ca*bs TRACE-CHAINS.
150 doz. S. W. Collins's AXES.
200 doz. Brown & Lang's AXES.
5 0 doz. AXE-HANDLES.
At reduced prices.
Nos. 165, 167,169 and 171 Strand.
Xos. 166, 168, 170 and 172 Mechani c street,
jalO
R. WKST. JCjUiU8I. LEVY.
IRECT IMPORTATION
D
FRO.TI UROPE.
We are in receipt ex steamship San An-
tonio, from Liverpool, of
200 pieces black ALPACA and pure MOHAIRS.
50 pieces colored MOHAIRS, in elegant
Evening Shades.
150 pieces IRISH LINENS.
175 12-4 white MARSEILLES QUILTS.
Two cases assorted Towels, Napkins, Table
L'nen and Handkerchiefs.
Purchasers will save 30 per cent., and get
fresh and desirable goods. An inspection and
comparison of prices are solicited.
R. WEST & CO.,
No. 69 Market street,
Two doors below Thompson's Jewelry Store.
jalO lm
$35,000 FOR A H0RSE-!
Bonner's Ledger occasionally issues a fling
at Life Insurance, and he pays for one trot-
ting horse $35,000 and for another $30,000.
Bonner is a good fellow, even though hig
head be not altogether level.
But a LIFE INSURANCE POLICY is better
property th*n a fast trotter.
It not only costs far lees to buy, but LESS
TO KEEP after purchasing. And when ad-
versity and death come will make less trouble
and bring more substantial comfort.
§10,000 GOLD will cost from 50 cents to $2 a
day, as age ranges from 25 to 60.
The INTEREST of this sum will keep your
family ALWAYS COMFORTABLE.
Secure, then, inexpressible relief from anx
iety by taking a policy in the
ALA. GOLD LIFE INSURANCE CO.
J. S. BYINGTON, Special Agent, Galveston.
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JN STORE IN STORE
Just Received.
FRENCH, GERMAN and ENGLISH EX-
TRACTS.
COTTER'S SUPERB COLOGNE.
BURNETT'S COLOGNE.
HOYT'S GERMAN COLO 3NE.
10 gross brown WINDSOR SOAP.
TRUSES and SHOULDER BRACES.
ABDOMINAL SUPPORTERS.
GALVANIC BATTERIES.
LIQUOR LABELS.
4C00 pounds MEXICAN GUM.
10,0C0 quill TOOTH PICKS.
100 gross YOUNG AMERICA LINIMENT.
25 gross ALCOCK'S PLASTERS.
R. F. GEORGE,
Tremont Street, Galveston.
jaCtf
CAPITAL STOCK, $205,000 OO
RESERVE FCND, 23,827 61
BOARD OF DIRECTORS:
John H. Burnett, j. m. Walthkw
Geokok F. Alford, R. R. Lawthkr,
Wm. Barnes, L. LeGierse,
m. W. Shaw. T. N. Waul,
c. H. R["kf, S. W. Sydnor,
S, Hkidknheimer, A. Kory
This Company solicits the patronage of its
Stockholders, and the public generally, in
both its
Insurance and Banking Departments.
JOHN H. BURNETT President
J. M. WALTHEW Vice-President
T. N. WAUL Attorney
W. B. SORLEY Cashier and Secretary
feblDly
j. m. odin menard.
john n. stowe.
Menard & Stowe,
GENERAL INSURANCE AGENTS,
53 Strand,
Represent the following first-class companies,
combining strength and security:
Capital.
Commercial Union, of London,
(gold) $12,500,000 00
Queen, Liverpool asd London,
(gold) 10,000,000 00
Imperial. London (goW) 8,000.(M)0 00
Phoenix, Brooklyn 2,008,947 06
Mobile Underwriters, Mobile... 900.000 00
Manhattan, New York 4'J3,009 19
Mississippi Valley, Memphis 399,0(>0 00
Atlantic, Brooklyn 372.843 89
Cential City, Selma. Ala 125,000 00
Total cap'l Fire Ins, companies 13
Also, Manhattan Life Insurance Company,
of New York: Assets, $9,009,4t>2 33, and has
a surplus of §1,600,620 95 over liabilities.
del3 DlmElw
rpEXAS MUTUAL
LIFE SISTSDRAWC£ CO.,
HOME OFE1CE:
74 Tremont Street 74
GALVESTON, TEXAS.
Guarantee to Policy Holders. $353,650 68
Surplus, May 31, 1874 22,996 77
Directors:
J. P. Davie, Hardware Merchant, Galveston.
J. M. Brown, of Brown & Lane, and Presi-
dent of First National Bank, Galveston.
A. C. McKeen, Cotton Factor, Galveston.
Henry Sampson, Secretary Merchant's In
surance Company, Galveston.
George F. Alford, of Alford & Miller, Gal-
veston.
N. B. Yard, of Yard & Sullivan, Galveston.
Herman Mar-vitz, Grooery Merchant, Gal-
veston.
Ex-Governor F. R. Lubbock, Galveston.
C. E. Richards, of Richards & Hawkins,
Galveston.
S. G. Etheridge, of Etheridge & Co., Galves-
ton.
B R. Davis, of B. R. Davis & Bro.. Galveston.
John Wolston, of Wolston, Wells & Yidor,
Galveston.
Thomas Reed, Cashier First National Bank,
Galveston.
Officers:
J. P. DAVIE President.
GEO. F. ALFORD Vice President.
B. B. RICHARDSON Secretary.
8. M. WELCH, M. D., Corsulting Physician.
LIVE MEN WANTED AS SOLICITORS.
decl3'74-DIy
VII INK F,VI!J,
General Accent.
Professional 4Carm».
BRAXTON BRAGG. J. P. FRESKNIUS.
BRAGG & FKESENIUS,
CIVIL. ENGINEERS AND
ARCHITECTS,
Galveston,
.. .Texas.
C. ALV-ESTON GIFT ENTERPRISE
X ASSOCIATION.
Office—No. 175 Center Street..
ALL TICKETS SOLD ENTITLED TO A
GIFT.
Drawn Numbers, Jan. 9, 1875.
distribution NUMBER 572.
IS 24-39-54-70-34-9-77-26-28-73-7
Drawn Numbers, Jan.9, 8:30 P.M.
ATTRIBUTION NUMBER 573.
50-15-8-13-74-70-26-^4-5-9-35-71-03
Distributions witnessed and attested by
William R. Johnson, Notarv Public.
BOYD & STONE,
dc8 lm* Managers,
W am K-Lo§t-Found.
Will undertake the Survey, Location and
Construction of Railroads, Improvement of
Rivers and Harbors, Buildine: of Wharves
and Docks, and will Plan, Estimate for and
Supervise the Construction of all classes of
Buildings and Bridges, and of Gas and Water
Works for Towns and Cities. no8D&W3m
NJ. CLAYTON, ARCHITECT.
» Designs, Plans, Specifications and Esti-
mates furnished for every description of
building, public or private. Ecclesiastical
architecture a specialty.
N. B.—Also, general Draughtsman and De-
signer. Drawings of machinery and models
made for the Patent Office. Best Galveston
and Houston references. P. O. Box113.
129 Strand, corner 22d street, GALVESTON,
my31D&Wly Texas.
james b. gilmer,
attorney at law,
GALVESTON, TEXAS.
Practic s ia State and Federal Courts.
Reference—Albemarle Bar, Charlottesville,
Virginia.
Office No. 1 Beissner building, Twentieth
street, near Postoffice. de30 we&sulm*
Robert g. street, attorney
AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW,
Osterman Building, cor. 22d St. and Strand,
Galveston, Texas. Practice in State and
Federal Courts at Galveston, and in the Si*
preme Court of the State. feb3D-Wlv
walter gresham.
walter l. mann.
Q_RESHAM & MANN,
Attorneys and Counsellors at Law,
No. 139 EAST POSTOFFICE Street,
oo22 '74 ly
Galveston,. Texas.
OST LOST..
lost.
Land Scrip Certificates Nos. 1-136, 1-137,
1-138, 1-139, 1-140 and 1-141, issued to J. Poite-
vent by Jacob Kuechler. Commissioner of the
General Land Office, on the 30th day of Octo-
ber, 1873. If not found within the time pre-
scribed by law, application will be made for
duplicates.
de31 2mo* J. POITEVENT, Owner.
Groceries—Provisions.
QORN MEAL, HOMINY,
GRITS AND CRACKED CORN.
100 BBLS. FRESH CORN MEAL,
50 BBLS. HOMINY AND GRITS,
50 SACKS CRACKED CORN,
In store and for sale by
CHARLES NICHOLS,
jal '75 ly 4 and 6 Strand.
Removals.
REMOVAL REMOVAL
HI. C. HIitHMOUE,
Attorney-at-Law,
Has removed to
MOODY & JEMISON'S BUILDING,
oo28 6m Stiukp, Galtbstow.
gallinger, jack & mott,
Attorneys and Counsellors hi
Law,
No. 129 Postoffice Street,
novllDtf GALVESTON. TEXAS.
Geo. p. Finlay. Oscar E. Finlay.
q_eo. p. & o. e. finlay,
ATTORNEYS AT I.AW.
73 STRAND, GALVESTON, TEXAS.
oct2 3mo -
charles hume,
Attorney and Solicitor,
ornci:
teio ly BALL1NGER & JACK'S BUILDING.
job PRINTING.
BVERY VARIETY AND STYLE.
Executed with Neatness and Dispatch, at tho
GALVESTON NEWS job OFFICE.
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