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J.S.6ROWN&CO.
Importers and Wholesale Dealers
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English, German & American
HARDWARE.
Strand, Galveston, Texas.
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S. BROWN & GO.
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EST ABLI SHED—1842.
GALVESTON, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1875. PRICE-FIVE CENTS.
VOL. XXXIV.—No. 245,
Late Arrivals to
One of the Most Complete
In tbe Southern States.
MERCHANTS ARE REQUESTED TO IN-
SPECT OCR PRICES BEFORE PUR-
CHASING ELSEWHERE.
Weather Prognostics.
Tbe probabilities during tbe day for
T« nnessee, the Gulf and South Atlantic
States, are a falling barometer, northeast
to southeast winds, warmer, partly cloudy
or Cloudy weather, and rain on t1 e South
Atlantic and Gulf coasts.
Vcilcrdais Commercial Summary.
Galveston Market.—Receipts of cot-
ton today 0717 bales, exports 529 bales,
to New Toik via Brashear. Sales 3202
bales. Market steady at unchanged quo-
tations Bacon dull and drooping. Wool
firm and higher figures paid for desirable
parcels. Hides strong at quotations
Gold lU}@115i. S lver 1091(3110$. Ex
change unchanged.
Ox tutu Markets —Liverpool cotton
market firm for spot and l-10d. higher
for arrivals. Manchester market for
yarns and fabrics steady. Havre cotton
maiket Hit and irregular at 1 franc de
cline on/ nfloat." Kectipts of cotton at
all p.irts to-day 00,141 bales, this week
147,510 bales. New York market for
spot steady at 110c. improvement on all
grades. Futures closed weak and 110@
15 l«c. lower on all months. Sales of spot
1232 bales to spinners, and 388 to specu-
lators. Sales of futures 31,500 bales.
Bullion withdrawn from the Bank of
England on balance to-day, £40,000.
Stock Exchange rate of interest, 2 per
cent. Street rate of discount, 3£ per
cent.—J below Bank rate. Gold declined
in New York to day from 110J to 115|,
the closing figure, and sterling recovered
from its protracted depression, advanced
points, and commercial 00 day bills
closed at 476i, against 473 yesterday.
The Cobstltuilonal Convention.
The Judiciary Committee reported in
favor of increasing the jurisdiction of
magistrates, fo as to relieve the District
Courts of much of the labor now imposed
on them, and thereby cheapen the judi-
ciary department of the government.
Questions relative to the best syst»m
of providing revenues and levying taxts
provoked lengthy discussion, which fail-
ed to lead to any solution of the pro
blem.
A proposition to authorize the Legisla-
ture to provide pensions for veterans of
1838 was made and properly referred.
Tin? private railway carriage in which
the railroad magnatts, Jay Gould, Sidney
Dillon, Oliver Ames and Robert E. Carr,
traveled while making their late tour
over the Kansas Pacific road, was attach-
ed for debt on arrival at Kansas City
from Denver. McCord, Nave & Co. had
a shipment of a car load of n\o-
lasses made them by way of
the Kansas Pacific road; the com-
pany failed to deliver the molasses or pay
for it; hence the suit and seizure of
the private car of the president of the
company in which the excursionists
were traveling. The claim was bonded
by Jay Gould and Robert E. Carr, the
carriage was released, and the excursion-
ists went on their way rejoicing.
The case of J. F. Kerr vs. The State
of Texas, on appeal from Galveston was
reversed and remanded by the Supreme
Court yesterday. Kerr, it will be rr
membered, was convicted of assault with
intent to kill Gregory Cooper, and sen-
tenced to two years imprisonment in the
Penitentiary.
The English are not done trying ex-
periments in naval architecture. The
Boadicea, a sixteen gun screw corvette,
constructed of iron and cased with wood,
was launched at Portsmouth dock-yard
on the 16th instant.
A full report of the political mass
meeting last night will be found on tbe
fourth page. The meeting was ad-
dressed by Major Ochiltree, Major W. H
Stewart and Governor Lubbock.
The Factors' and Traders' Insurance
Company, of New Orleans, subscribed
$15 ,000 to the stock of the New Orleans
Pacific Railroad Company, and the papers
are happy thereat.
Fhof. Gunning went off as follows in
the face of a Milwaukee audience, the
other night:
Time was when sloths of elephantine
bulk browsed the trees of South America,
and troops of mastodons and mammoths
of more than elephantine bulk roamed
over North America, and mammoths and
mammoth elks and tigers and beaTs were
in Europe. At once, everywhere on the
globe, these great dynasties began to
wane. The blood in the veins of nature
seemed to be drying up. The megathe-
rium of South America died out, and its
family lapsed into the little ant-eaters
and armadilloes and sloths. The great
cave bear faded out of Europe and
shrunk into the grizzly of the Rocky
Mountains. Mastodons and mammoths
perished in Europe and America, and
their dynasty dwindled into the smaller
elephants which live to day in Asia and
Africa.
There were giants among the beasts in
those days, but there were no professors
who could talk like this Professor.
The comparative values of free and
slave labor are pretty fairly indicated
by the following, which Mr. George
W. Adair, a citizen of Atlanta, Ga.,
writes to an exchange:
Before the war I kept four negroes
on my lot. Wash, a man of-all-work,
valued at fifteen hundred dollars; Sa-
rah, a No. 1 cook, fourteen hundred
dollars; Harriet, a house girl, twelve
hundred dollar?, and Nancy a nurse
nine hundred dollars. The legal in-
terest (seven per cent.) on the value of
these slaves wis three hundred and
fifty dollars per annum, and I had to
feed, clothe, pay doctors' bills, etc.
Now I have the same services per-
formed at three hundred dollars per
annum. I feud these hired servants,
but furnish no clothing nor pay doc-
tors' bills, and get the same service per
month for less money than when I
owned slaves, and if they die I lose
nothing. Now, when I acquire my
capital I can put it in other property in-
stead of locking it up in slaves. This,
I think, illustrates the whole question.
The land-owner can avail himself of
negro labor to-day at less cost than
when he had to pay for the slave and
take care of him. This labor, can not
bo controlled as absolutely as slave la-
bor, and more or less irregularities
grow out of it; still it is available and
susceptible of being used to great
profit by the land-owner. Planters
who owned slaves, who now remain
upon their land and give personal at-
tention to the crops, can make more
clear money from the soil than under
the old syhtem. The South is becom-
ing every year more familiar with free
labor, and understands better how to
manage it. She is becoming more
self reliant and self-sustaining.
Gov. Inoeusoll, of Connecticut, has
appointed a committee to consider the
advisability of using the "amended
orthography" in publishing the offi-
cial documents printed by the State.
It consists of Senator W. W. Fowler
who introduced the resolution; Prof!
W. D. Whitney, of Yale Collegg; Dr.
J Hammond Trumbull, Prof. C. Van
Benschoten, of Wesleyan University
Prof. 13. G. Northroj), of the State
Board of Education, and Prof. Samuel
Hart, of Trinity College. The plan is
only to put State documents into easier
and cheaper orthography, with less
letter*.
THE DEMOCRACY AND LIVING
ISSUES.
A respected gentleman, Mr. W. II.
Stewart, is presented as candidate for
the Constitutional Convention, with
the extemporaneous indorsement of the
local Democratic organization in Gal-
veston. It is not to be doubted that
his name is well calculated to engage
the confidence of citizens, irrespective
of party, who are acquainted with his
personal merits and public antecedents.
But what is signified, as regards mat-
ters to be acted on in the convention,
by stamping him as a Democratic can-
didate, we are, in common with the
public, wholly at a loss to understand.
This is a conundrum that would pose
Judge Ireland, Gov. Coke, or any other
learned pundit in Democratic ortho-
doxy, revised and adapted to the lati-
tude and longitude and soil and cli-
mate of Texas. Fully two-thirds of
the delegates went into the convention
with Judge Ireland's official stamp
upon their backs as regular Democratic
nominees, but the acutest observer
will search in vain through the delib-
erations of that body for the identity
of principles and the homogeneity of
aims and tendencies which the public
have a right to presume are indicated
by such political trade-marks.
Among regularly nominated and
elected Democrats in the convention
some are opposed, on grounds of prin-
ciple and policy, to State aid to rail-
roads and other internal improvements,
and some, on the same grounds, advo-
cate such aid. Regarding the funda-
mental questions of taxation, suffrage
and popular education, they are still
more heterogeneous and dissonant.
We can only conclude that, as far
as the business of the convention is
concerned, the term Democracy means
nothing at all. It is idle to
try to attach any distinctive sig-
nification to it in that relation.
We take it that the mass of citizens in
Galveston and the State at large—mer-
chants, farmers, professional men, me-
chanics, laborers, to whom politics is
not a trade or a pastime, but an occa-
sional episode of public duty—have
seen enough of such child's play, and
are by no means in a mood to be
amused at their own cost with a juggle
of meaningless words. We find this
impatience with arbitrary political
designations manifesting itself nil
over the country. Not rigorous
party demarcations for party's
sake, but distinctive measures
for the country's sake are de-
manded. Capable, trustworthy men,
of earnest purpose and cle.ir-cut
opinions on living issues—men who
know the wants and are in sympathy
with the aspirations of the people—are
called for to come to the front in poli-
tics and assume the responsibilities of
government. The people in every
quarter feel the need of live men, not
ghosts of a perished epoch, and of true
men, not mouthing pretenses, to grap-
ple-with the dread problems of the hour.
With the grest civil commotion of 'Ct-65
the heart of the country was pierced
with the iron of military rule. Then
followed the hostilities of peace, the
visitation of carpet-bag thieving, the
general riot of official corruption. In-
dustry everywhere staggered under
strange burdens, business was sick,
feverish, delirious, panic succeeded
panic, fortunes were wrecked, estates
engulfed, for there can be no healthy
energy, no true prosperity, when gov-
ernment is corrupt and profligate.
And all this while a few, the special
beneficiaries of the government's finan-
cial policy, were growing richer
and richer through the impover-
ishment of the many. These
incidents came in due historical
sequence. The question is whether the
successive and cumulative evils of that
period shall be finally concentrated and
fixed in the cold, consuming horror of
a moneyed despotism. And upon this
question, as far as practical, distinctive
measures are concerned, the Democra-
tic politicians in the country at large
are no more defined or in accord than
the Democratic politicians of Tex-
as are with regard to sub-
jects debated in the Constitutional
Convention. Some have winked at all
the proceedings tending to put the
business of the country at the mercy
of a centralized moneyed power. Some
have favored the combined contrac-
tion and inflation which have been so
perplexing and harassing, and some
have openly advocated the perpetua-
tion of that outgrowth of the desper-
ate financial policy o£ the war, a mo-
nopoly of the bank-of-issue privilege.
Such Democrats are hardly the men to
satisfy the cravings of the restles
and dissatisfied masses, who feel that
something in the present financial sys-
tem is fearfully amiss, and are looking
about for the means of a salutary
change. The St. Louis Times, which
fears that the National Democracy as
it now exists will prove unequal to the
emergency, asks the Democrats who
are disposed to evade the financial
question, "Would they go back to
the last eight years of stealing and
profligacy among our rulers, and base
their claims for success upon the
number of investigations they might
make black with blasted reputations?"
But, adds the Times: "The horse is
gone, and the thief is in Texas, and
why lock the door ? the people will
query. We are hungry, naked, out of
money, out of hope, everything has
been going against us since the panic,
it is just as dark now, aye, a great
deal darker, than it was last year, and
there must be a change. Give us a
party fit to lead in times of revolu-
tion, and give us a party with some-
thing else in their platform besides
dead issues and stale platitudes that
deal with everything else but the mon-
eyed oligarchy which is grinding us
into powder." Has the Alleghany
ridge of the hard money and soft
money quarrel broken the back of the
national Democracy and disabled it
from championing the cause of the
people upon this issue ? Our St. Louis
contemporary believes its back has
been broken in that preliminary quar-
rel to the Presidential campaign. Let
us hope not.
A medical contemporary, lauding
the system of international weather
bulletins lately established by our Sig-
nal Service Bureau, goes on to hope
that a similar scheme may ere long be
applied to the rccord of prevalent
zymotic diseases, in the form of "an
international bulletin setting forth of-
ficially the movements of ' waves' of
epidemic disease from their initiation
to their decline, medical 'signal offi-
cers becoming the counterpart of the
weather observers,"
FROM THE CAPITAL.
Constitutional Convention.
FORTY THIRD DAY.
[Special to the Galveston News.]
Austin, Oct. 22,1875.
DeMorse presented a minority report
on the Judiciary, the principal feature
being increasing the jurisdiction of mag-
istrates courts, with a view to exclude
cases of minor importance from district
courts, and cheapen the judiciary. Or-
dered printed.
By Robertson—Minority report on pub-
lic lands, opposing land subsidies to rail-
roads. Ordered printed.
By West—Report from Committee on
General Provisions, against any action
by the convention in reference to the
regulation of the practice of medicine,
leaving that matter to the Legislature.
By McLean—Resolution that the truth
of words spoken or published, and good
motives in speaking or publishing, may
be plead in case of libel suits, or for
damages ; and a resolution that the next
Legislature provide pensions for veterans
of 1836. Referred.
REVENUE AND TAXATION.
Reagan submitted majority report,
which is substantially the article on this
subject in the constitution of 1845. Rea-
gan held that the elaborate article of the
majority left the legislature in all the
future with power or discretion.
NugeDt objected to leaving the Legis-
lature the power by a two-thirds vote to
exempt from taxation—opposed from be-
ginning to end any authority which
might be ustd to exempt railroad pro-
perty.
Reagan intended only to authorize ex-
emption of church • and school property,
and household effects of small value, if
expedient.
DeMorse thought that on this subject of
taxation was drawn the line between spe-
cial interests and the interests of the
masses of the people.
Russell, of Harrison, favored the ma-
jority report for its requirement that
taxes on lands be assessed and paid in
the county in which the property lies, and
prohibits occupation taxes except for im-
moral occupations.
Fleming said that enough back taxes
were due to pay off the entire State debt,
and that the system of permitting prop-
erty to be rendered anywhere outside of
the county opened the door to frauds
upon the State and honest tax-payers.
He said two-thirds of the land in Brown
county, for instance, are held by non-
residents, and may be rendered in other
counties, but are not, and no taxes what-
ever are paid upon them. If rendered
outside, they are valued by outside par-
ties, who know nothing of their value,
and usually at ten cents an acre, when
the real value is from two to ten dollars.
Weaver opposed occupation taxes;
though the majority report was more ex-
traordinary than the extraordinary legis-
lation which the Galveston News says is
within the power of this convention to
enact, it should be boiled down and leave
something to future legislation.
Stockdale analyzed the majority re-
port, showing it to be within the discre-
tion of the Legislature to exempt pro-
perty from taxation.
Waelder amended Reagan's substitute
and discussed the article as containing
enunciations of principle already con-
tained in the legislative article, and ob-
jectionable for going into argument and
legislation.
Pending the close of this argument the
convention adjourned until evening.
Afternoon Session.
The afternoon session commenced by
discussion upon the question of occupa-
tion taxes and rendition of taxes in the
counties where taxable property is situ-
ated
A motion to table Reagan's substitute,
which is verbatim the clause upon taxa-
tion in the constitution of 1845, was lost.
Reagan favored occupation taxes.
Nugent spoke against it.
Wade also opposed any kind of occu-
pation tax.
McLean favored the majority report,
but favored the occupation tax, objecting
to the taxes being mainly imposed upon
the agriculturists of the country.
There are four revenue and taxation
projects before the convention, and dis-
cus»ion takes great latitude.
DeMorse defended his report, stating
that it was the restrictions upon legisla-
tion and taxation for the beuefit of pri-
vate interests that created so much oppo-
sition.
Fleming's minority report was adopt-
ed. It is a substitute for the majority
report and Reagan's substitute and is sub-
ject to amendment.
On motion of Ballinger, the judiciary
articlo was made special order for next
Tuesday.
Adjourned.
RAILROADS.
The following is, with perhaps a few
verbal alterations, the text of the article
regulating the construction and opera-
tion of railroads in Texas, as adopted by
the convention :
Section 1. Any railroad corporation or
association, organizsd under the law for
the purpose, shall have the right to con-
struct and operate a railroad between
any points within this State, and to con-
nect at the State line with railroads of
other States. Every railroad company
shall have the right, with its road, to in-
tersect, connect with or cross any other
railroad ; and shall receive and transport
each the other's passengers, tonnage and
cars, loaded or empty, without delay or
discrimination, undar such regulations
as shall be prescribed by law.
Section 2. Railways heretofore con-
structed, or that may hereafter be con-
structed in this State, are hereby declared
public highways,and railrosd companies
common carriers. The Legislature
shall paps laws to correct abuses and pre-
vent unjust discrimination and extor-
tion in the rates of freight and passenger
tariffs on the different railroads in this
State ; and shall from time to time paBS
laws establishing reasonable maximum
rates of charges for the transportation
of passengers and freight on Baid rail-
roads, and enforce all Buch laws by ade-
quate penalties.
Section 3. Every railroad or other cor-
poration, organized or doing business in
this State under the laws or authority
thereof, shall have and maintain a public
office or place in this State for the trans
action of its business, where transfers of
stock shall be made, and where shall be
kept, for public inspection, books in
which shall be recorded tbe amount
of capital stock subtcribed, the
names of the owners of the
stock, the amounts owned by them re-
spectively, the amount of stock paid, and
by whom,tbe transfer of sad stock, with
the date of the transfer, the amount of
its assets and liabili'ies, and the names
and places of residence of its officers.
The directors of every railroad company
shall hold one meeting annually in this
State, public notice of which shall be
given thirty days previously, and shall
report annually under oath to the
Comptroller or Governor all of
their acts and doings, which report
shall include such matters relating
to railroads aB may be prescribed by law.
The Legislature shall pass laws enforc-
ing, by suitable penalties the provisions
of this section.
Section 4. The rolling stock and all
other movable property belonging to
any railroad company or corporation
in this State, shall be consider-
ed personal property, and its real
and personal property shall be
liable to execution and sale in the same
manner as the property of individuals ;
and the Legislature shall pass no law ex-
empting; any 6uch property from execu-
tion and sale.
Section 5. No railroad or other corpo-
ration, or the lessees, purchasers or man-
agers of any railroad corporation, shall
consolidate the stock, property or fran-
chises of such corporation, with, or lease
or purchase the works or franchise of, or
in any way control any railroad corpora-
tion owning or having under its control a
parallel or competing line ; nor shall any
officer of such railroad corporation act as
an officer of any other railroad corpora-
tion owning or having the control of a
parallel or competing line.
Section 0. " No railroad company or-
ganized under the laws of this State
shall consolidate, by private or judicial
sale, or otherwise, with any railroad com-
pany organized under the laws of any
other State, or of the United States."
Section 7. No law shall be passed by
the Legislature granting the right to con.
struct and operate a street railroad
within any city, town, village,
or any public highway, without
first acquiring tbe consent of the
local authorities having control of
the street or highway proposed to be oc-
cupied by such street railroad.
Section 8. No railroad' corporation in
existence at the time of the adoption of
this constitution, shall have the benefit of
any future legislation, except on condi-
tion of complete acceptance of all the
provisions of this constitution applicable
to railroads.
[Second Dispatch 1
The \Yliin f Company Before
the Committee on Private
Corporations.
Argument of Jndxe TerrllJ.
f Special to the Galveston News.}
Austin, Oct 22,1875.
The session of the Committed on Pri-
vate Corporations last night was devoted
to the Galveston Wharf Company.
Col. Terril occupied the entire time
in the delivery of a learned legal argu-
ment.
During the argument, which was main-
ly to establish a position not attacked, the
chairman asked his elucidation of the
problem contained in article 7, section 2,
constitution of 1845, which says that an
act of the Legislature granting private
franchises shall pass by a two-thirds
vote, ai d that the franchise may be re-
called by the same vote. The answer
was, that the right to take wharfage was
not such a franchise; for it was held by
those private persons who built the
wharves, and passed by purchase to their
successors, the Wharf Company.
The final determination to which the
attorney of the company came to was
this, that if Galveston wants the wharves
she must pay for them not in bonds or
promises to pay, but in money at its full
value. He denied that the convention
could condemn it for the city, even by
paying for it, and that the city could
then charge toll, but the State could con-
demn if the city wanted it free.
Col. Flournoy, interrupting, said the
State had the right, in view of the large
amount necessary to pay for the wharves
and the public necessity to authorize the
city to take the wharves and pay for
them in bonds.
The advocates of the company claimed
that the city, in view of its large debt
and the fact that its promises to pay were
hawked upon the streets at sixty cents on
the dollar, could not be safely burdened
with increased debt, created by the pur-
chase, necessitating a host of wharf offi-
cials and corrupting the administration
of the city government. This idea he
obtained from the letter of the President
of the Wharf Company to the City Coun-
cil, written, he said, when the press of
the State had began a crusade against
the Wharf Company.
He then argued that the Wharf Com-
pany, it a burden upon commerce, was
not particularly detrimental to Galves-
ton, but that it affetced the whole State
of Texas, and it was just, if a necessity
existed for a condemnation, that the State
should take the burden of buying it upon
herself.
He wound up his plea by saying that
there was a matter connected with this
franchise which was not generally un-
derstood. It was generally known that
there is another character of monopoly
in Texas than the Wharf Company of
Galveston. There is a railroad monopo-
ly—there are railroad exactions, and in
some parts of the State they are talking
of taking that matter in hand. These
railroads are owned by foreign capital-
ists, but I understand the Railroad Com-
mittee have remanded the whole ques-
tion to the Legislature.
He forgot to state that the Legislature
is, by the power bo conferred, authorized
to abolish the railroad exactions and dis-
criminations.
If that policy, he nays, is adopted with
ref ■ rence to railroads, upon what principle
can you justify a different policy with
reference to a property owned by capi-
talists within your own State ? If you
will not venture to fix rates for the rail-
roads, why will you propose to do so in
case of a private franchise 1
He then, in the style of an investi-
gator who has discovered a bug under a
chip, proceeded to charge that the cru-
sade was not in the interests of the peo-
ple, but of the railroads. In the present
status of the company's franchise, the
people may see the question of cheap
transportation solved. The Wharf Com-
pany has the chartered right to run a
railroad a given distance, to own cars,
aDd build switches and connect with
other roads, and the law requires the
roads connecting with the Wtiarf Rail-
road to transport the cars and freight
brought to the point of connection at re-
munerative rates. If the rates demanded
by the Galveston, Houston and Hender-
son Railroad are not satisfactory
to the Wharf Company, the two
companies muse select disinterested
arbitrators to decide between them.
Here is cheap transportation, and here is
a reason why others than the public may
have an interest in the fight against the
company.
He wound up with the assertion that
by thirty years usage the right to charge
wharfage was secured ; that it would be
a gross injustice to not only the men, but
the women and children, who own the
stock, to deprive them of their franchise
without full payment, the value to be
ascertained beforehand, and to be paid
upon surrender in good money. That
the value of the stock consists in the
right to take toll.
The committee then adjourned until
Mendav night.
The cases read by the attorney of the
company in every instance where wharf-
age was mentioned named it separately
from the property owned in connection
with wharf franchise. The whole ques-
tion seems to be whether the State and
the people by laches of thirty years,
have permitted their right to regulate
wharfage at Galveston to reBt in the
Wharf Company. This is the question,
in the estimation of the learned counsel.
The cheap transportation bugbear was
introduced with a flourish of trumpets.
A number of tbe prominent lawyers of
the convention were in attendance upon
the committeee. The legal status of the
company will be fully discussed if the
committee brings the matter before the
convention.
Whether the demands of the people
are met depends upon the committee.
FROM TILER.
Supreme Court Decisions-
Cotton.
[Special to the Galveston News.]
Tyler, Oct. 22,1875.
Cotton coming in on an average of 125
to 150 bales per day, which makes busi-
ness quite brisk at this place.
The second ten miles ef grading on the
Tyler Tap Railroad has, it is understood,
been let to G. W. Humphrey, and it will
now be pushed to an early completion, or
at least to its connection with the Texas
and Pacific road.
The decisions rendered in the Supreme
Court, Friday morning, Oct. 22,1875, are
as follows :
J. M. Thompson and W. W. Thomp-
son vs. C. C. & J. C.Alexander; error
from Rusk. Reversed and remanded.
R. R. Hallon vs. Laweon Smell; appeal
from Rusk. Reversed and remanded.
Buck Bray vs. the State; appeal from
Lamar. Affirmed.
Buck Johnson vs. A. J. Botty; error
from Panola. Affirmed.
Macmiller vb. the State ; appeal from
Lamar. Affirmed. j
Macmiller vs. the State; appeal from
Lamar. Dismissed.
J. F. Kerr vs. the State ; appeal from
Galveston. Reversed and remanded.
Geo. Thompson vs. the State ; appeal
from Lamar. Reversed and remanded.
FROM HOUSTON.
Meeting of the Council.
I i
[Special to the Galveston N&>».]
Houston, Oct. 22,1875.
The Board of Aldermen met to-night,
it being the regular weekly meeting of
that body.
Tracy's ordinance for settling with
the city's creditors en a basis «f six per
cent, interest came up, but ths counsel
deferred and postponed further action on
the debt matter till the next regular
meeting, Frid*y evening of next week.
The Council had a lengthy discussion
of the paving business.
FROM WACO.
The McLennan County Fair.
[Special to the Galveston News. |
Waco, Oct. 22,1875.
To-day was called the big day, though
the attendance was not quite as large
as yesterday.
in THE ring.
The following are some of the principal
awards for cattle: For the best thor-
oughbred herd, four cows, one bull, Ma
jor Moore, of Bastrop. Best bull, three
years, W. R. Robertson, of Missouri,
whose bull weighs 2700 pounds.
Major Moore got iou* other premiums,
and Robertson three, on their cattle.
Moore has fifteen head here and Robert-
son.twenty-three, all of which are extra.
Several other awards were made for
small cattle.
Awards were thift made for driving
horses. Among tke drivers was a beau-
tiful young lady of fourteen, Miss Dee
Jones, who handled the ribbons splen-
didly. is, ■*
Horses were then called and premiums
awarded, but they did not equal the show
at Gonzales. Still there are many good
draft stock on exhibition.
the races.
Throe badly matched and unimportant
races were run. In fact, they were not
races at all. Though races are the most
atractive feature of fairs in Texas, Waco
has not been successful in them thiB year.
awards for cotton.
Best bales Texas upland cotton, 5 en-
tries, premium $50, awarded to Gray
Cobb of McLennan. Best bale of Texas
bottom land cotton, same premium, to F.
Wiesbusch, whose wife picked it. Best
bale of cotton raised by a boy under 16
years old, same premium, G. W. Garrett.
Below are a few of the awards in other
departments. The full list would oc-
cupy too much space and is not ready:
Best peck of corn field peas, Mrs. J. H.
Torbet. Best peck black-eyed peas, C. H.
Mann. Best two purple egg plants, C. H.
Mann. Best specimen of figs, E. W.
Krause. Best collection of foliage plants,
Waldron & Anderson. Best and largest
collection of greenhouse plantB, Waldron
& Anderson. Best peck of sweet pepper
for table use, John T. Flinte. Best floral
display of dried flowers, Mrs. L. West-
brook. Best specimen of peaches, Mrs.
Ruth Slaughter. Best half bushel of
Irish potatoes, Mrs. W. W. Downs. Best
dozen beets, A. S. Arnold. Best
peck of tomatoes, A. S. Arnold.
Best peck of onions, Johnson & Co.
Best cabbages grown in Texas, S. John-
son & Co. Best collection in variety and
for most tastefully arranged group of
green-house plants, two premiums, O. J.
Downs. Best bushel of wheat, Waco
City Mills. Best bushel of oats, George
P. Pargell. Best bushel of sweet pota-
toes, Fritz Wiesbuscb. Best Texas mo-
lasses, Sandford Johnson. Best specimen
of butter, Mrs. Coolsen, of Bastrop. Best
specimen of ornamental candy work,
made in Texas, Miss Lorena Westbrook!
Best honey in the comb, made in Texas,
E. W. Krause. Best vinegar made in
Texas, A. S. Arnold. Best specimen Tex-
as clear sides, Mr. A. W. Speight.
Best corn beef Mr. LeBterjette.
Best Texas Mustang wine, W. A. Fort.
Best soft and family soap, Mrs. Torbett.
Best brooms made in Texas, J. N. Rus-
sell & Co., of DailaB. Best buggy, Texas
manufacture, Reese & Jandeo. Best
specimen of wax flowers, Miss Hatty
Gates. Best specimen of wax work,
other than flowers, Miss Ida McLellan.
Best painting of any kind by a Miss under
16, Miss Jentie Westbrook. Best collec-
tion of paintings in oil and water colors,
nine premiums to Mrs. M. L. Brown.
Best drawing in stamp of pencil, Mrs. E.
E. Brelstord. Best specimen of practical
penmanship, by Miss undef 16. Best
specimen work with pocket knife,
Tower D. Cetor. Mrs Kate L. Acer,
of Washington county, tooi seven pre-
miums for needle-work. Krs. E. Lander-
dale, of the same county, one, Mrs. S.
W. Adams seven, and Miss Ophelia Ec-
cieg, of Lagrange, took two. Miss Kate
Gerald got a premium best embroi-
dery by Miss under oixteen, and Miss
Battle, same age, s?1 a napkin ring for
best patchwork quilt. MiBS F. A. Motz,
silver cup for best embroidery in silk.
Bliss Mary West, ten years of age, gets a
siver butter knife for best needle-work.
Miss Kate Ross gets a gold thimble for
best specimen in hatd embroidery. For
a sofa pillow cover Miss N. Cresap, of
Marlin, gets a silver cup ; for the best
l»Ci tettlng in cotton, a gold thimble.
For the best specimen of hand embroidery
Mies Jennie Anderson gets a silver cup.
For beBt domestic voven counterpane,
Miss Annie Cunningham, of six summers,
got Bilver cup. For b«st patchwork quilt,
Miss Jennie Andersen, gets silver cup.
For best silk quilt, Miss S. P. Jettem,
silver cup. For bed; domestic woven
coverlet, Miss Mary fort, napkin ring.
For best ottoman over. Miss Carrie
Myers, silver thimble. For best cotton
and wool tidy, Mrs. Lauderdale, silver
cup. For best threid lace, Miss Rosa
Jones, silver napkin ling.
Under the head o! stock awards the
following are most notable :
For best Berkshire sow, with little
pigs, D. M. Moore. Best boar and
sow, Philip Gathngs, of Hill
county. Best Polard China sow,
year old, John H. Bakef. Best boar and
sow, sweepstakes prenium, forty dol-
lars, P. Gathings. No many chickens,
but some fine game ani larger breeds.
The Fair continues tc-morrow.
The Ross Brigade held a primary
meeting last night, pnparatory to their
reunion to-night. They elected Generals
Ross and Whitfield Presidents, and the
colonels of regiments who still live, Vice
Presidents.
To-night they hold their reunion. Some
forty members are here. Gen. Ross and
his adjutant, Gen. Daris R. Gurly, are
the only members ol the staff present.
Tbe Knights of Pythias also give a
big uniform ball at the McClelland Hotel
to-night.
FROM DALLAS.
Cotton — Counterfeiters —
Thieves, Etc.
[Special to the Gdveston News. 1
Dallas, Tex., October 22,1875.
Shipments of cotton for the week end-
ing to-day, 2937 bales,tnd from Septem-
ber 1 to date, 10,327.
The city iB crowded with buyers, and
the streets are almost blockaded with
wagons loaded with (he fleecy staple.
There is greater activity among buyers
than ever before knows. Selling—Good
ordinary, lOf; low m.ddling, 11J; mid-
dling, 11|.
Our flouring mills art crowded to their
utmost capacity with orders from all
portions of the State.
A Deputy United] States Marshal ar-
rested a man named Cunningham to-day
for counterfeiting. He was carried be-
fore United States Commissioner Long
for a preliminary exaaination, and re-
manded to the custody of the jailer.
One of the Dallas county Deputy Sher-
iffs arrested two negroes at McKinney for
stealing a span of fina horses from a
gentleman who lives three miles east of
this city. One of the legroes says that
they belong to an organized gang of
horse thieves, who have been carrying
on their thieving for some time past.
Hope to give you an account of an ele-
gant hanging soon.
FROM ORANGE.
Steamer liaised—Tlie Crops,
[Special 0 the Galveston JTstM.]
Orange, Oct. 22,1875.
The mail steamer Pelican State, that
was blown ashore on Sabine Lake dur-
ing the late storm, is again afloat, and
will resume the mail service as soon as
she can be repaired.
Cotton is coming in-quite briskly.
The damage to the farms by the Sep-
tember gale was not so great as was at
first anticipated.
From some cause business of every
character continues depressed.
GENERAL NEWS.
Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad,
Richmond, Va., October 22.—The case
of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad was
called to-day, in the United States Circuit
Court, Judge Bond presiding.
Mr. Starrs,of New York, of counsel for
the railroad, read the answer of the
company to the bill of the plaintiffs, de
nying the allegations of the improper
management of the road and the inju-
dicious application of the proceeds of the
management. The answer states the
trouble and embarrassment with which
the officers of the road had to contend,
and states the fact that the counsel of the
road, tobrtng these difficulties to an end,
were contemplating taking such legal
steps as were necessary to reach that
end, and at the same time protect the
interests of all parties.
The answer concludes by praying that
Gen. W. C. Wickham, vice president of
the road, be appointed permanent Re-
ceiver.
Mr. McFarland, of New York, counsel
for the trustees of the first Chesapeake
and Chio mortgage, together with the
counsel for the second Chesapeake and
Ohio mortgage, and for certain bond-
holders, all united in the prayer for Gen.
Wickham'a appointment.
The State's attorney, Gen. Daniel, in
behalf of the State, presented a petition
asking to be admitted as a party to the
suit, claiming that the State was guaran-
teer of $1,000,000 of bonds of the old
Virginia Central Railroad, now the
Chesapeake and Ohio, and was also the
holder of $2,000,000 of bonds and stocks.
The State also claimed the forfeiture of
the road to the State, by reason of non-
completion of the road as prescribed by
law, and asked for the appointment of
Isaac H. Carrington as Receiver.
Judge Bond look the papers under con-
sideration, and promised to report his de-
cision in three or four days.
Pending the hearing to-day a telegram
from a Mr. Bloodgood, of New York, to
Judge Bond, was read, protesting against
the appointment of Gen. Wickham as
Receiver, on account of his alleged mis-
management of the railway while he was
vice president.
New York Items.
New York, Oct. 22 —Birnum's Hotel,
in this city, will be closed to-morrow, the
present proprietor thereof, Barnum, of
St. Louis, having concluded to discon-
tinue business, owing to unfavorable
prospects.
Joseph W. Duree, a lumber merchant,
suspended yesterday. Liabilities un-
known.
It is stated that the natives of Porto
Rico, in this and neighboring cities, are
forming a committee, after the manner
of Cuban patriots, to co-operate with
their fellow-countrymen at home in an
effort to cast off the Spanish yoke, and
that a thoroughly organized conspiracy
has existed in the island of Porto Rico
during the past two years, the head of
the organization being situated at King-
ston, Jamaica.
New York, Oct. 23.—William Delan-
cy, for the murder of Captain Lawrence
J. Cleaver, of the Josephine, has been
sentenced to death. Execution on De-
cember 10.
Commissioners, representing city of Mo-
bile, are now in this city endeavoring to
effect an arrangement by which its debts
may become less burdensome. From
their statement it appears that the total
debt, principal and interest, to be paid
in sixteen years, will be $4,000,000,
beinc; twenty-five per cent, of the
total assessed value of the city.
If held to this the commissioners
say the city will become hopelessly in-
solvent and can never pay, and to keep
toward the settlement of these difficul-
ties the Legislature of old passed an act
giving the Governor of the State author-
ity to appoint three citizens of Mobile as
commissioners to settle the city debt.
Thia act provides fo* ti*<? ox lwu
million dollars of six per cent, bonds,
payable in thirty years from May 1,1875,
and creates a first lien on the real estate
belonging to the city, as well as on the
revenues of the city.
Nolle pros, entered in the case of the
People vs. Francis D. Moulton, indicted
for alleged libel against H. W. Beecher.
Judge Neilson—The motion is granted,
and I think it proper to say, recognizing
that the question involved in such cases
rests largely in the judgment and dis-
cretion of the prosecutor representing
the people, that in this particular case
the views expressed and the course pur-
sued by the District Attorney are proper,
and commend themselves to our judg-
ment as a fair and just exercise of the
discretion necessarily vested in him. The
Clerk will make proper entry.
Mr. Britton made like motions in other
indictments—the cases of the People vs.
Moulton and the People vs. Theo. Tilton,
which were also granted.
New York, Oct. 22—The Executive
Committee of the Associated Press to-day
adopted resolutions of regret at the
death of Fred. Hudson, he having been
one of the founders of the Associated
Press, and for twenty years a member of
tbe committee.
The Collector of the Port, under in-
structions from the Secretary of the
Treasury, has modified the order regard-
ing the sugar rebate, so as to allow the
exportation of sugar at the old rates in
cases where valid contracts can be shown
previous to the reduction of the draw-
back.
Baltimore Races.
Baltimore, October.—First race—two
miles, for three year olds; Aristides won.
Time 3.36^.
Second race—One mile and a quarter ;
Madge won, Viator second, Tom Ochil-
tree third. Time 2.12J.
Third race—Compensation stakes; mile
heats. First heat—Rhodamanthus first,
Gen. Harney second, Big Sandy third.
Time 1.46J. Second heat—Rhodaman-
thus first, Arcturus second, Big Sandy
third. Time 1.44J.
Steeple chase—Diavolo first, Coronet
second, Deadhead third. Time 6.16.
Baltimore, October 22.—Breckinridge
stakes, two miles, for three year oldB.
Pool—Ochiltree 500, Nator 305, Bay
Final 350, Joe Cerne 310, Aristides 210.
Start good, Nator leading, Joe Cerns sec-
ond, Ochiltree third, Bay Final fourth.
On the second mile, while there was no
change in position, the horses drew
closer together. At the half-mile post
Aristides took the second place. On the
home stretch, Aristides shot ahead, lead-
ing Nator half a length, who led Ochil-
tree half a length.
In the mile and a quarter race there
were twelve starters. Ozark and Weath-
erly the favorites. They got off well.
Jest leading, Weatherly second, Madge
third ; the others bunched. No change
at the judge's stand. At the quarter
Madge led, Ozark fo ir'.h. On the back
stretch Ozark took the second place,
Primrose third. Madge beat Ozark a
length, who was two lengths ahead
of Primrose and Weatherly seventh.
Mile heats—Pools: Rhodamanhus $5f 0;
Gen. Harney $155; Arctu-us $103;
Big Sandy $95. Rhodamanhus led at the
lower turn. Big, Sand took the leid. No
change till the home stretch, when
Rhodamanthus took the lead, winning
the heat by half a length. Second heat—
Rhodamanthus still the favorite, two to
one; start good; Arcturus, at the first
quarter, led Rhodamanthus three lengths,
when he closed up at the half mile, and
took the lead on the home stretch, win-
ning by half a length.
Grand steeple chase—Pools, Diavolo
$500, Deadhead $260, Coronet $190. Dia-
volo won; Coronet three-fourths of a
length and Deadhead six lengths behind.
New Orleans Items.
New Orleans, October 22.—Captain
Johnson, of the steamship Royal Stand-
ard, from Liverpool, reports that on the
13th of September, latitude 36.40 north,
longitude 31 west, he fell in with the
burning wreck of tbe iron ship Aurora ;
boarded the wreck, and found it had been
abandoned. The lower hold was a per-
fect mass of burning fire, everything that
could burn having been consumed. Find-
ing it impossible to save the wreck, and
dangerous to allow it to float around, he
scuttled it, and proceeded on hiB way
here.
Mrs. D. L Murden died from the ef-
fects of the explosion of a coal oil lamp.
Her husband was severely burned in at-
tempting to extinguish the flames.
Prof. W. P. Gardner and Capt. Fred-
erick Wright, with a party cf about
forty persons from the vicinity of Cleve-
land, Ohio, arrived here en route for Pass
Christian, Miss., where they propose lo-
cating permanently.
New Orleans, Oct. 22.—The Demo-
cratic and Conservative State Central
Committee met last night, and after, a
lengthy discussion, decided on calling a
convention to meet on the first WedneB-
, day in January.
Washington Items.
Washington, D. C., Oct. 22.—The
Treasury Department has advices of the
arrest, near Fulton, III., of the notorious
counterfeiter Ben. Boyd. He was the most
successful cutter of spurious bank note
plates in the country. Col. Washburne
captured him after an eight mile chase
ou horseback. Boyd had his mill at Cen
tralia. III.
The Postcffice Department has decided
to order postal card service between
Pittsburg and St. Louis via the Panhan
die and Vandalia route. It is believed
this will greatly expedite the mails for
the Ohio and Mississippi valleys.
Two thou ""nil dollars deficiency in the
Treasury. Unknown whether error or
theft.
The Commissioner of Internal Reve
nue has decided H ut weiss beer is taxable
one dollar a barrel.
Gov. Ames has written a letter to the
Attorney General alluding to the pacific
relations, opposing political organizations
in Mississippi, and expressing sincere
gratitude to the representatives of the
Attorney General, now in that State, who
has brought about this condition of
things, and insured a peaceful campaign
and fair election.
The Lighthouse Board gives notice
that the Galveston light vessel must be
repaired betore she can resume her sta
tion.
Religious Intelligence.
Cambridge, Oct. 22.—The standing
committee of the Diocese of Easton has
consented to the consecration of Rev. Dr.
McLaren, Bishop elect of Illinois : Rev.
Dr. Brown, Bishop elect of Fond du Lac
and Rev. Dr. Eccleston, Bishop elect of
Iowa.
Rochester, N. Y.,"Oct. 22.—The Cath-
olic Benevolent passed a series of resolu
tions of sympathy with the Pope, and
with their suffering brethren in Italy
and Germany, uuanimousiy. The last
paragraph deplored the course pursued
by too many Becular papers on all ques-
tions affecting the Church in her present
conflict.
It was ordered that the Union insti-
tute a Board of Colonization. The propo-
sition to erect a memorial fountain in
Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, was in-
dorsed, as was also a general celebration
of the Centennial.
The following officers Jwere elected:
President, JHon. A. M. Keiley, of Rich-
mond, Va.; Vice President, Father Phe-
lan, of St. Louis ; Secretary, Martin D.
J. Griffin, of Philadelphia; Treasurer,
Rev. Father Henry, of St. Louis.
The next meeting will be held at
Cleveland, Ohio. Adjourned.
V allures.
Detroit, Oct. 22.—The Northwestern
Gas and Water Pipe Company, of Bay
City, Michigan, has failed ; liabilities
$130,000.
Barley & Orton, hardware, of same
place, have failed.
New York, Oct. 22.—The failures of
Cumberland G. White. Charles H. Ward,
R. J. Fuller and Howard Ivins, brokers,
were announced to the Stock Exchange
to-dav. These parties are short of stock.
Rifle Practice.
San Francisco, Oct. 22.—A tourna-
ment of the California Rifle Association
opened this morning at Presidio range.
Twelve teams of six each entered, be-
sides two hundred individuals. The
prizes aggregate thirteen hundred dol-
lars.
Destructive Fire.
Freeport, III., Oct. 22.—The watch
factory started here six months ago was
burnsd to-day. Several hundred watches
were in progress of completion. Loss
on the building and stock $150,000. The
fire was the work of an incendiary,
murder and Suicide.
Mercer, Me., October 22.—Greenleaf
Trscy shot a divorced woman living with
him, and then went into the woods
and shot himself. Both were dead when
found. Jealousy the caase.
Whf.1,7 < «*«■.
Milwaukee, Oct. 22.—In the Erskine
whisky brand trial to-day, after two
hours .consultation, the jury returned a
verdict of not guilty. The remainder of
the cases were postponed to Nov. 3d.
Laying Corner Stone.
Baltimore, Oct. 22.—Bishop Cummins
officiated at the laying of the corner
stone of the Reformed Episcopal'Church
of the Redeemer. The church will be
built of marble.
Semoneed.
New York, Oct. 22.—Charles Calla-
han, charged with killing his mother,
has been sentenced to seven years in the
penitentiary.
Shipping Intelligence.
New York, Oct. 23.—Arrived—Abys-
Binia, Victoria. Arrived out—William,
Fred, Eugene, Homeward, M. E. Chap-
man, Eaigma, Carl, George, Nero.
Hanged.J
St. Louis, Oct. 22.—Henry Brown, the
negro who killed Pfau and outraged and
murdered Mrs. Pfau, has been hanged.
Gov. Allen goes to Pennsylvania.
Chillicothe, O., Oct. 22.—Gov. Allen
leaves for the Pennsylvania campaign.
He makes his first speech at PiUsburg.
Dead.
Boston, Oct. 22.—Josiah Bard well, of
Skinner & Co., well known in Southern
cotton circles, is dead.
FOREIGN.
England.
London, Oct. 22.—A Paris special to
the Echo says that in the coming session
of the Assembly authorization to prose-
cute Rouher will be asked for attacking
MacMahon and the constitution.
London, Oct. 22.—Wade reports to
the Foreign Office that in addition to
other guarantees, a Chinese commission
goes to England, bearing an apology for
the Yannan outrage, and safe conduct
toBurmah for the commissioners of in-
quiry.
London, Oct. 22 —Messrs. G. D. Mer-
rontsas & Co., merchants of London and
Manchester, have failed. Their liabili-
ties are stated to be $250,000.
London, Oct. 22.—Weather tempestu-
ous. Much damage to shipping. Dis-
asters, involving the loss of twenty lives,
are already reported.
London, Oct. 22.—The Times, in its
financial article, says, we learn from tbe
Draper's Trade Journal that a Manches-
ter firm has begun to import calicoes
from the United States. The fact is sig-
nificant, as the importers say that
the goods are of much better quality and
appearance than ours. Manchester, it
appears, has found a competitor at last,
but that must depend on the price.
London, Oct. 22.—Late reports an-
nounce that the floods were particularly
disastrous at Darlington, in Durham,
where the gas works were flooded, and
the town subsequently left in total dark-
ness. At Rotterdam, in Yorkshire, 2000
people are thrown out of employment
because of the flooding of the factories.
Manchester, Oct. 22.—The Manches-
ter Courier of to-day says that by the
failure of a large American house va-
rious firms in Bradford will lose from
five to six hundred thousand dollars.
• Prance.
Paris, Oct. 22.—Rouher's speech will
be discussed in the Council of Ministers
to-day. As soon as the Assembly mee's
the Left will move to fix the day for
dissolution, hoping thus to procure a vote
hostile to M. Buffet.
Paris, Oct. 22.—It is announced that
the French Assembly will convene on
Thursday, the 4th of November next.
Spain.
Madrid, Oct. 22.—A royal decree con-
voking the Cortes will be issued imme-
diately.
The Cuban mail steamer,with Sharkey
aboard, arrived at Santander.
Germany.
Berlin, Oct. 22.—The estimates for
the German empire for 1876 show a de[
ficiency of 15,000,000 marks.
Canada.
Toronto, Oct. 22.—A cable dispatch
from London says the two and a half mil-
lion sterling Canadian loan guaranteed
by the Imperial government, balance is-
sued on the credit of Canada alone, at
four per cent, interest, has been favora-
bly received. _
MARKETS.
declioin.Gr. Wheat quiet and heavy. Corn
dull, but unchanged. Pork is heavy at
$21 70@21 75. Lard heavy; steam 14c. Tur-
pentine firm at 42c. Rosin firm at $1 85@1 90
for strained. Freights unchanged.
Baltimore, Oct/ 22.—Noon.—Flour quiet,
steady and unchanged. Wheat quiet and
steady; Pennsylvania red $1 43; Maryland
red $1 35@1 45; amber $1 50%1 55; white
$1 20<Z&1 55. Corn quiet and steady; southern
white 80<§>82c; yellow 75@76c.
Baltimore. Oct. 22—Evening.—Cats dull;
southern 88@46c. Rye quiet and steady.
Provisions quiet; order trade active. Pork
unchanged. Bu)k meats nominal. Bacon
steady. Lard quiet and steady. Coffee dull
and weak; job lots 19@22c. Whisky dull at
81 16<&1 17. Sugar quiet.
New Orleans, Oct. 22 —Sugar in good de-
mand ; sales of ole yellow clarified at 9<2*9)£c.
Molasses in good demand at 69®74c for prime
to choice. Flour dull; superfine $4 30® 4 50;
XX $5 00; XXX $5 25@6 40; choice and family
$6 75@7 50, Corn in fair supply; demand
moderate; choice whiteG2c; iancy white 83c.
Oats in good supply, but dull; quoted at 45®
50c. Hay in light supply; demand moderate;
., . —j Di
choice sold at
Dry-salt meats—none in
London,
PorelSB.
Oct. 32—Noon.—The street rate is
3«, which is X per cent below the Bask rate.
Erie. 14*.
Paris, Oct. 21.—Rentes 65f. 65c.
Liverpool, October 22—Noon.—Bread staffs
firm, except, for corn, which is dull. Corn 29s
3d@30s Lard 63s®63s 6d.
London, October^aa—Evening.—Sugar, spot,
23s®23s fid; afloat, 23a.
Liverpool, Oct. 22—Evening.—Yarn fabrics
steady. Rosin 5s 3d.
Domestic.
Nsw Yoke, Oot, Flour dull and
first hands; shoulders, to arrive, quoted at
10c, Hams—choice sngar-cured in light sup-
ply: demand go©d; quoted at 17X@18Xc; in-
ferior 14J£@15J£c. Lard scarce and firm;
tierce quoted at 14X(&14%c: keg 15J£c. Coffee
dull; ordinary to prime 18J£@21Xc. Whisky,
rectified dull, with only a jobbing trade;
sales of Louisiana at $1 15; western $1 20.
Others unchanged.
fct. Louis, uct. 22.—Flour dull, but un-
changed. Wheat higher for cash and Octo-
ber, with some indications of a corner; oth-
erwise the marke is offish; No. 2 red winter
$1 83(^1 04 cash and October; $1 40 Novem-
ber; No. 9 red winter $1 33<gH 34. Corn high-
er; No. 2 mixed 56c cash; 5?e October: 47c
November. Oats higher; No. 2 at 35J£®30c
cash. Barley steady with a fair demand.
Rye easier; offered at 71 %e. Pork—stock
withdrawn, anticipating higher prices; job-
Bing at $20 35. Lard—no transactions. Bulk
meats—notrane;no ound lots offering. Pa-
con unsettled, with only a job and rrder
trade. Whisky quiet and unchanged. Hogs
dull and nominal. Cattle active, but lower;
good to cnoice natives %5 C0@6 12#; medium
to fair S3 50(&4 50; native cows $2 20®3 10;
good to choice Texans S3 40®3 80; medium
to fair $2 75@3 10, common $3 25@3 50.
Receipts—Flour, 7,000 barrels; wheat, 37.000
bushels; corn, 19,000 bushels; oats, 22,COO
bushels; barley, 10,000f rye, 2,100 bushels;
hogs, 1,345 head; cattle, 1,865 head.
Cincinnati, Oct. 22.—Flour dull and nomi-
nal. Wheat quiet and weak: red $1 25®1 35.
Corn steady with a moderate demand at 62<&
65c. Oats dull at 32®45c. Barley dull and
nominal. Rye dull at 78@80c. Pork in fair
demand, but lower; sales at $21 25@21 50.
Lard scarce and firm; steam 13^c; kettle 13^
@14c. Bulk meats inactive; old shoulders
held at 8%c, loose; new clear rib sides 12>£c,
Dacked; clear sides, old, held at 12c for loose.
Bacon—only a limited jobbing demand;
shoulders 9X©9#c; clear rib sides 14<&14>£c;
clear sides 14J£@14J£c. Hogs dull; common
to light $6 50^7 00; good light and packing
$7 30®7 75; good heavy $7 30@.7 40; receipts
1970; shipments 650. Whisky steady with a
fair demand. Butter dull, but unchanged.
New York, Oct. 22.—Flour dull and sti 1
strongly in buyers'favor; snperfine western
and State $5 10@5 40; southern flour rules
heavy; common to fair extra $5 70<2,6 75;
good to choice do $6 00@9 00. Wheat dull
and heavy and l@3c lower; $1 10@,1 20 for in
ferior winter red western; $1 30 for good do;
SI 40<gH 46# for white western. Corn opened
steady, but closed heavy, at 69®69#c for
steam western mixed; 70(a71c for sail do,
closing at 70c; 71@72c for high mixed. Oats
dull and lower at 37@47#c for mixed wes-tern
and State; 45<gt52c for wnite do. Coffee—Rio
dull and nominal at 18^@21^c for job lot4.
Sugar steady with a fair demand; refined
heavy at 10#c for standard A; 10»'e(cfrl0%c for
ranulated and powdered; 11c for crushed,
folasses—grocery grades unchanged, with a
moderate inquiry. Rice quiet at 6^®7c for
Louisiana and Carolina; 6J£@6%e for Ran-
:ood. Tallow steady at 9#@9%c. Rosin
Lrm at SI 90^1 95. Turpentine firm at 42o.
Pork firmer; new $21 75 cash. Lard firmer;
prime steam 14 5-16c. Whisky a shaee iower,
at $1 17. Freights steady; cotton, sail, 5-16;
steam, 7-16.
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Personal.
... .M. Guillemin calls comets " the
vagabonds of the heavens.
, .. .Judge Jere Black calls the act of
the government in making money out of
paper an act of trar.substantiation. •
...A Prussian in Dusseldorf killed
his wife and daughter because they in-
dulged in sarcasm on his flaming red
hair.
... .Jay Gould, Sidney Dillon, Hon.
Oliver Ames and party of distinguished
railway officials, arrived in the city of
St. Louis on the 17th inst.
...Maggie Brayton, of Pella, Ohio,
while swinging with a young man last
Sunday, fell out and broke her leg. A
'oung man who can not hold a girl in a
swiiig uugui xo ue a.ica.eu 10 ueaxii Dy a
grasshopper.
.. .Tilton is to lecture out in Iowa
some time next month, and the Des
Moines Leader says that a room is being
prepared for him at one of the hotels
with extra nails upon which to hang pic-
tures, and a bed of peculiar excellence.
A night porter will remain in the hall
during the night to suppress all sleep-
walking manifestations.
.. .Orville Grant wrote to Delano a
letter of condolence in which he said :
A venomous public press can not ob-
scure the lustre of your virtues," and
then ordered his St. Louis agent to sell
o£E his old stock of army blankets at a
bargain but hold on to the fire water for
home consumption.
.. .Mr. Sanderson, a member of the
British Parliament, has come oat as a
champion of the poor inventor. He be-
lieves that the man with no money is
placed in a very unfavorable position as
the law now stands, and promises to pe-
tition Parliament for a law by which in-
ventors can secure patent rights without
the interference of capitalists.
.. .Ernest Renan has been making a
trip through Italy, and the reception
which he has met is a striking illustration
of the change that has come over that
country in the last few years. Where
formerly the great French apostle of free
thought would have found enemies and
probably a prison, he now finds friends,
admirers ; the doors of monasteries open
to him, and banquets are served by broth-
erhoods of monks.
A terrible story comes from Spain,
which, if true, destroys all hope of a
decent government under Alfonso, and
proves that he is following in the foot-
steps of his infamous mother. The
facts, as told by a Madrid correspond-
ent of the Boston Journal are as fol-
lows:
The king and the Duke of Sexto
have been corrupting the daughter and
the wife of an officer in the army,
whose home ia second or third door
from Mr. Cushing's. He was in the
north fighting, but hearing of the
king's frequent visits at his house, he
came suddenly to the city, and enter-
ing his home late at night, found the
king andjthe Duke of Sexto in the
house. He shot at the king but missed
him and was himself shot dead by the
Duke of Sexto, who was behind him.
The street police heard the pistol shots
and came running to their rescue, but
were sent about their business. The
body was given to a night watchman,
who carried it nobody knows where,
and is now receiving it is said, four
hundred dollars a month. The maid
servant, who was an eye-witness of the
murder, disappeared the next day—
some say was assassinated. But she
had had time to tell her lover. When
he found she was disposed of he hid
himself for some days, but ventured
out at last, and was found dead in the
street, stabbed, one morning.
The judge before whom the case of
the first murder would have come, be-
ing a firm and incorruptible man, was
murdered, and the report given out
that he had committed suicide. None
of the papers dare to comment upon
the facts, and the courts are silent and
inactive, although the story has gone
privately from Lisbon to Barcelona,
and there is intense feeling upon the
subject. Several persons have been
hurried off to prison for daring to talk
on the subject. Canovas del Castillo,
the Prime Minister, has resigned, and
a radical change has taken place in the
ministry in a liberal direction, with the
hope of warding off a revolution. The
young King is said to be surrounded
by those who strive to govern him by
pandering to his passions, as they did
to those of young Amadeus, who was
thus ruined, and the peace of his fami-
ly destroyed. The whole government
from head to foot is pervaded with
licentiousness and corruption.
They have taken to enrolling the
tramps at Albany, and find that some
queer fish come into the net. Here are
samples: Edward Johnson, who has a
wife and child inUtica; John Dren-
nan, who wanted to go to the hospital;
Charles Judge, a thorough profession-
al ; Edward Collins, who expects a liv-
ing from the public; Herman Michaels,
who has tramped all through the West
and is now doing the East; John
Roach, a college graduate, who has
seen better days, has a wife and eleven
children in London, and is a profes-
sional tramp.
Political Notes.
The Democrats of Buffalo have nomin-
ated State Senator Albert P. Laning for
Mayor.
The friends of Hon. Charles Francis
Adams are circulating a document which
is intended to place that gentleman on
the track as a presidential candidate, in-
dependent of all political organizations.
The Hon. M. C. Kerr has returned to
his home in New Albany, Indiana, com-
pletely restored to health and vigor by a
visit to Colorado Springs, and ready, no
doubt, for the tussle for the speakership
in December.
The Maine Senate will be composed of
twenty Republicans and eleven Demo-
crats ; the House of eighty-seven Repub-
licans, sixty two Democrats and two In-
dependents. The seats of two Represen-
tatives will be contested.
The Indianapolis Sentinel says that if
anything definite was determined by the
Ohio contest it was that tbe Democracy
of the South and West must decide what
shall be the policy of the Democratic
party on finance in the next general con-
test.
Hon. Austin Blair, of Michigan, wrote
to the late hard-money State Convention :
" Unless we are ready to fling away the
reputation of our country and run after
humiliations, all the money we have
harrowed, whether on bonds or green-
backs must be honestly paid. That can
be done only in the old-fashioned way
of industry and cconomy. I have not the
slightest doubt that this will be done.
We defended successfully the territorial
integrity of the country, and now we
shall defend and preeerve its financial
character as well."
The New Itork Times infers from its
Pennsylvania correspondence that the
canvass in that State will be very tame.
It says : " Both parties have been wait-
ing for the result in Ohio, but neither
has found it decisive enough to materi-
ally alter tke position^which it held be-
fore that important contest. The fact
that no thorough canvass can now be
made on either side in Pennsylvania
may make the result in that State a more
accurate test of the sober judgment of
the people on the great question at issue
than it might otherwise have been."
Cheap Advertisement Column.
FOR 8ALB-POH RENT.
JpOR RENT—By the year—a comfortable
two-story residence on Avenue H, near Cen-
ter street. Apply to
H. M. TRUEHEART & CO.
oc23 It Real Estate Agents.
on line of People's
convenient to business, by
House fur rent,
Railroad, convenieui> tu uumuhss, oy
oc22 tf J. M. ROGERS, 203 Market st.
J^OTS 13 and 14, Block 675, corner of 16th
and Strand streets, fenced in with seven feet
high tight feq^e, for lease for two or three
Tears. J. H. COLLETT,
oc21 Iw Real Estate Agent.
jpOR RENT—Look through and yon will
like it. a neat and pleasant co'tage house
on Victoria Avenue, between 19th and 20th
Apply to I. C. LEVY,
streets.
oc8 tf
Corner Market and 22d streets.
FOR RENT—A large two-story house, cor-
ner of 16th and Market sts. Apply to
°o3 tf B. HANCOCK.
NOTICES, ETC.
IMPORTANT TO THE LADIES.—Mrs. A
M. Prall, formerly of Houston, has opened
a Dresemaking Establishment on Postoffice
St., near 2<Jd, where she will cut, fit and make
ladies' dresses in the latest and most approv-
ed styles. All fitting; guaranteed. ocl7 lw*
HELP WANTED.
WANTED—A
Ironer.
white
Apply at
35th and 36th streets.
Cook, Washer and
Avenue L, between
oc23 2t
Wanted—a
assist
WOMAN TO COOK AND
in Housework. Apply at corner
of Avenue N and 15th street. oc22 3t*
WANTED—A first-class cook,
house on northwest corner of
Apply
15th a
at
and
WANTED—A COOK—None but first-class
need apply. MRS. WESTLAKE, corner
Chnrch and 22nd.
oc21 3t*
W
ANTED WANTED
A woman (German preferred) to do the
cooking and assist with the washing. Apply
at house northeast corner Bath avenue and
avenue h. oc21 lw A. P. LUFKIN.
81T1JAT10NS WANTED.
SITUATION WANTED—Bv a young man
who has had 10 years experience in hard-
ware. Best of references given. Address,
oc21 3t* "THOMAS," News office.
WANTED—Situation by a young man as
Clerk or Correspondent. Knows how to
work. Address "A. B.." News Office. 21 3t*
MISCELLANEOUS WANTS.
Board in a private family want-
ed by a single gentleman. The best of
references given if required. No other board-
ers preferred. Where the comforts of a home
could be secured. Address, stating price and
location, " G. A. V.," News office. oc22 tf
WANTED—Land in Northern Texas. Spe-
cify number of acres, in what county,
and price, in answering this, with name o£
owner. Address—
G. T. A., P. O. box No. 19,
oc22 2t Galveston.
REMOVAL.
Removal..
of santa
REMOVAL
CLAUS to the second floor
(floor above the dry goods department) of the
Galveston Bazar, where the largest and finest
stock of TOYS ever imported here can bo
found. sc21 lw
MISCELLANEOUS.
WM B. KING & CO. have a
office fnrniture, including i
Safe, for sale cheap.
neat set of
k Herring's
ocl9
OYSTER KNIVES FOR SALE- Apply
John Mulligan, Gun and Locksmith, M
John Mulligan, Gun and Locksmit&,"Me-
chanic st., bet. 22d and Tremont sts. ocl7 lw
LOOK HERE—Get your watch cleaned for
one dollar at NEWTON'S American Watch
Depot, on 20th St., near the Postoffice. ocl71w*
PJ. WILLIS & BROTHER—
• Are the Agents for the sale of
The DEVOE OILS " and
DUPONT'S POWDER.
They keep constantly on hand a full supply.
ocl7 tf
EXCHANGE! EXCHANGE !—Double value
received for your money at L. WOOLF'S
New Orleans Shoe Store, 207 Market st.
GUS. McKERNON, importer and dealer in
FRUITS, NUTS, etc., corner of Church
and Tremont streets. Consignments care-
fully handled and orders promptly attended
to. sel6 3m
CHEAPEST WRAPPING PAPER
IN GALVESTON, AT
ap21 tf
•'NEWS" OFFICE.
NOTICE — Children's
Shoes worth $2 at $1 a pair.
Button and Lace
L. WOOLF'S
New Orleans Shoe Store, 207 Market st.
KOOmS AND BOARD.
BOARDERS WANTED—At the Richardson
Boarding-house, on Public Square, Avenue
H, between 21st and 22d. Terms reasonable.
FERMANENT AND TRANSIENT BOARD,
accommodations excellent, at Mrs. V. A.
WESTLAKE'S, cor. Churchand 22d. se43m»
£) EMOVAL REMOVA
mrs. s. dixon,
AT MRS. GIRABDIN'S OLD STAND,
162 MARKET STREET.
Ladies are Invited to call and see a full line
of Pattern Hats.
Stamping and Pinking. oclO lm lstp*
pAKE NOTICE
That I am now closing the State and County
Tax Roll for the year 1874, and I have instruc-
tions from Austin to ENFORCE the collection
of taxes unpaid on said roll by LEVY and
SALE of property. Delinquents will please
come lorward promptly ana avoid the penal-
ties.
J. M. O. MENARD,
Deputy Sheriff and Collector
ocl7 dlp&Elw Galveston County.
E. ANHEUSER & CO.'S
ST. LOUIS
Bottled Lager Beer.
The Best, Purest and Healthi-
est Beer in Market.
IT HAS NO EQUAL,
Recommended by the highest medical author-
ities In the country.
SOLD BY ALL LEADING GROCERS.
jy30 Sm lstp
gLESSING & BRO.,
PHOTOGRAPHERS,
174 Tremont Stmt, (Up stain.
PORTRAITS ol (01 SIZES and 8TYLES.
Beat work at moderate prices. Kefer to ou*
reputation as a guarantee.
FRAMES, ALBUMS, STEREOSCOPIC
V1EW8 and PHOTOGRAPHIC GOODS.
Sam entrance as Wilson Sewlug Machine*,
aplfi'
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