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Sunday, May 11, 1879.
TEXAS ANV WALL STREET.
Here is a threat from Wall street. A
special from our well-informed New
York correspondent reports a prominent
banker of New York, who owns a large
quantity of Texas state securities, as
saying that, if the coming July interest
on the bonds of the state is not prompt-
ly paid, these bonds will fall fifty per
cent, on the dollar as a consequence of
the default. To-day, according to the
Same banker, in face of the veto message
of Gov. Roberts, Texas could uot raise
a loan in Wall street at any price. This
has very much the tone and the air of
financial bulldozing. Such thunder
from the olympus of cent per cent,
has often been heard before. It has
often terrified governments and peoples.
Citizens of weak nerves, sensitive pock-
ets and clouded visions, and administra-
tions fatally bent on extravagance and
inveterately given to bridging over dis-
crepancies between income and expendi-
ture with makeshift devices of credit,
are naturally disposed jto cower
and truckle when the welkin resounds
with truculent fulminations from the
olympian gods of Wall street. But for
an administration which is prepared to
act upon a true conception of what is
due to the economy and efficiency of
government, and for a people whose
sympathies and convictions go with
that administration, such fulmina
tions have no more terror than a cheap
stage imitation of heaven's artillery.
We take it that Gov. Roberts will not
turn pale and fall into a panic repentance
of his veto, under any threat or predic-
tion uttered from Wall street regarding
state bonds and state credit We take
it that the people are ready to stand by
the governor in the policy of doing jus-
tice to the state and justice to all classes
of its creditors, with serene indifference
to the smiles or the frowns of one. or a
dozen, or ten dozen of the bankers and
speculators of Wall street. We take it
that the governor and the people, though
they by no means invite a tumble af
Wall street investments in Texas bonds
to fifty cents on the dollar, and
though they have rio particu-
lar desire to see Texas credit
dry up completely in Wall street,
would not be utterly prostrated with
grief and humiliation if both those
events should come to pass through a
concurrence of certain financial influ-
ences in New York and certain political
influences in Texas. Cut think of hav-
ing some millions of depreciated bonds
thrown back upon the state, some
alarmist may suggest. Well, think of
it. Say that two millions, tumbled to
fifty cents on the dollar, come home to
roost in Texas. Where will be the
disaster of a transfer of habitation that
gives Texas two millions of its own pa-
per at the price of one million?
Where could there be found a better
investment for Texas tax-payers than
state bonds bearing ten, seven, or six
per cent, interest, and acquired at fifty
per cent, discount ? This is no idle badi-
nage. We respect the real anxieties of
public creditors at home or abroad with
regard to the state's ability and punctu-
ality as a various debtor. But there is
a fulsome cant about state credit, which
has too long imposed upon the credu-
lous and thoughtless. It does not de-
serve respect, and ought to be exploded.
This cant has proceeded upon
an essentially fallacious theory.
According to this theory, it is of vital
importance to the financial health of
Texas that the state should preserve, at
any cost or inconvenience as regards the
home uses of government, a gilt-edged
character for its paper in Wall street.
But what earthly good, what rational
honor, can come of maintaining a gor-
geous ornament like that thousands of
miles away by starving the state gov-
ernment in its normal functions aad
heaping cumulative burdens on tue
property and industry of the people?
The vanity and folly of such a display
surpass even the ludicrous 2 com-
bination of decoration and inu-
tility, extravagance and poverty,
presented by the typical fop
of Mexico when he bestrides a gaunt
and hungry pony, worth about five dol-
lars, which staggers under housings of
silver and embroidery to the value of a
thousand dollars. It is time that ali
should understand that, fitst and last,
the real and vital seat of credit and
financial health for the state can be no-
where else than in the state itself. It
should !>e understood that every public
debt is lighter in proportion as it is a
domestic debt. Thus the French debt,
though great, diffused as it is among the
French people, is no drain upon the na-
tion. But, above all, it should be un-
derstood that the primary and
necessary functions of govern-
ment have the first claim upon the
taxes which citizens pay tor the benefit
to be derived from the efficient discharge
of those functions. To levy taxes and
apply them by preference to other pur-
poses, while starving government with
respect to those primary and necessary
functions, is nothing less than robbery
of the tax-payer, and, if persisted in,
could only result in the financial and
general ruin of the state. Egypt offers
a logical exemplification of the theory
which holds it to be the glory of a gov-
ment to serve as a steward or syndicate
for foreign or favored creditors.
To satisfy the French and English hold-
ers of Egyptian bonds, we are told, the
fellahs arc now treated worse than the
negro slaves of this country ever were.
" The people," says one account, "are
driven with whips to their work in the
field by men who have not that sense of
ownership which, in a large degree,
tempered the cruelty of slavery. In
some of the villages the people are past
help, sitting naked like wild beasts, eat-
ing roots and suffering with the endur-
ance of despair." Let the admirers of
an unrelenting policy of maintaining a
gilt-edged foreign credit to cover steady
accumulations of foreign indebtedness,
consider this picture.
A Kcpnbllcan I&oul for tlae ticulir-
nation or imiisacliiueut of tov.
Roberta.
(From the San Antonio Freie Presse—trans"
la ted for ths News.l
Gov. Roberts saw proper to demand
of the superintendent of the lunatic
asylum his resignation, because he was
persuaded that the latter was incapable
of fulfilling the duties of the office, and,
of course, the superintendent acquiesced.
Will not the governor himself do that
for himself which he exacts from his
subordinates? Will he resign when he
is requested so to do bv the representa-
tives of the people? Will he not resign
the position for which he is totally dis-
qualified? We do not know what the
representatives of the people are going
to do, although the evidence before
them of the incapacity of the governor
is overwhelming. They certainly should
not sacrifice the welfare of the state to
the whims and caprices of an old im-
becile. There is nothing else for them
to do except to dispose of this public
nuisance as promptly and quietly as pos-
sible.
As proof of the incapacity of the gov-
ernor to manage the affairs of a great
state, the following is submitted: We
have already called attention to the fact
that, by the tax law, a poll tax of $1
and a fourth of the revenue of the state,
is set aside as a special fund for the sup-
port of the free schools. Nobody has
the righ to apply this fund to any other
purpose than the one for which it was
created, or to tamper with it in any way,
and he who does so is liable to impeach-
ment and prosecution in the criminal
courts. Inasmuch as O. M. Roberts has
imposed his veto on the appropriation
for the public schools, he attempts to
trample the will of the people under his
feet, and incites others to violate the
laws. Or, are we to suppose he has for-
gotten what is contained in the tax law,
and that he appended his official signa-
ture to it? In either case his conduct is
unworthy of the executive of a state.
We are obliged to suppose that he was
fully conscious of what he was doing,
and that he reserved his blow to the free
schools until the eleventh hour, when it
was too late to apply a remedy. For,
if he had vetoed the tax law, whish,
according to his last veto message, was
what he should have done, it Would
have been demonstrated to him that the
income of the state was ample to cover
the appropriations. Either he did not
know this, or he chose to ignore it; in
either case he is not fit to be governor of
Texas. The tax law has cut down the
salaries of the various state officials $G0, -
000; the frontier appropriation has been
cut down $50,000; the pensions have
been diminished $130,000; the refund-
ing of the state debt would have saved
the state in the item of interest $200.-
000; the law which compels railroad
magnates to pay for their patents yields
the state more than $20,000 more.
The bell punch and the drum-
mer law, whatever else may
be said against them, wifi
bring the state a revenue of
at least a quarter of a million. The
occupation tax has been raised at least
25 per cent.; and if the outstanding
taxes are properly collected several liun
dred thousand dollars more will be paid
into the state treasury. The appropria-
tion for the agricultural college, which
last year amounted to about f100,000,
does not figure in this year's appropria-
tion at all. From this general and im-
perfect view of the financial situation, it
will be seen that the income for the state
this year will exceed that of last year by
at least a million dollars. To make this
calculation the governor has not the
capacity. His veto is not so much a re-
proach on the financial standing of the
state as it is evidence of his own inca-
pacity—unless it be the product of a
malicious intent. There was absolutely
no necessity for starving out the free
schools and of threatening the creditors
of the state with its bankruptcy. If we
are to judge by the consequences
of these measures as to what the
governor's motives really were, we
should say that the real object he had in
view was to keep immigrants out of the
state, and the conduct and utterances of
the governor during the campaign fully
justify this conclusion. He who op-
poses immigration works against the
prosperity of the state, and should be
regarded as a public enemy. We have
tried m the foregoing remarks to sink
all party consideration—having in view
only the welfare of the whole people. We
would like to know, in view of these
established facts, who can come to any
other conclusion but that it is time for
Roberts to resign?
THE STATE SENATE.
The Greenback Nomine..
Mr. Josh C. H allot, the greenback
nominee for the state senate, is in his
66th year, and is a native of Massachu.
setts, whence he emigrated at the age of
14, and after a long stay in New York
and a short one in New Orleans, he
came to Texas in 1838. Subsequently
he went to St. Louis, where he became
an ardent advocate of the ten hour sys
tem. At the outbreak of hostilities be
tween the United States and Mexico in
1846, he volunteered his services, and
joined John L. F. Sneed's company in
Pillow's brigade, Quitman's division of
Tennessee. After the war he was
honorably discharged, and finally
settled in Brazoria where he
remained until 18S0. In the late
civil war he took no part, and adhered
then, as he does now, to the indivisi-
bility of the union. Since the end of
the war he has pursued his calling as
bricklayer in the counties of Brazoria,
Matagorda and Galveston. He is said
to be of a retiring nature, and is not
much known outside of the building
trade, but his friends claim him to be
endowed with a good intelligence, and
possessed of a clear and irreproachable
record.
Texas is not so much interested in the
president's veto as in one by governor
Roberts. It was submitted before the
legislature adjourned last week, and
vetoes the appropriation of the poll tax
and a fourth of the general revenue to
support tbe publio schools; $400,000
for interest on the bonded debt, and
$100,000 for the state sinking fund.
The trouble is that Texas has been living
beyond her means, building high expec-
tations on the heavy immigration into
the state, and spending with a lavish
hand. Gov, Roberts is very anxious to
keep expenses within the $1,600,000 of
net revenue, and. holding that the prime
purpose of taxation is to support the
government, he selects the schools and
oldeis of the state's indebtedness as the
proper objects for minor consideration.
Retrenchment is all right, but some peo-
ple would prefer to pinch at home than
to neglect the schools and public credi-
tors. [Springfield Republican.
•' Is this sweet engaged ?" asked a
young fellow of a young lady in a car
And he said it so handsomely and with
such evident admiration, that she took
her bonnet-box off the seat and let him
sit beside her. And—but we anticipate
If some kind of an amendment could
be added to the marriage service which
would make it mandatory upon the
part of the bride to arise in the morning
and kindle the fire, there would be few-
er old bachelors thumping about the
country. ^
Embrace every opportunity that offers,
but only one woman.
LOWE-LOGAN IMBROGLIO
A NTE-It e L J. VM LOYALTY OF THE
ILLINOIS SENATOR,
A Few Fut> that the Alabama Con-
gressman Should liave fi 110WI1.
The fact of congressman Lowe, of
Alabama, having sent a note, amounting
in fact to a challenge, to senator Logan,
of Illinois, which was not responded to,
has been extensively published and com-
mented on, but the causes that led to the
hostile correspondence are not so gener-
ally known, but are briefly these:
u)gan'8 loyalty dimmed.
In the Pittsburgh Post, April 17, 1879,
appeared the annexed dispatch:
Washington, April 16.—The gran-
deur of Logan's loyalty is dimmed a lit-
tle by the following conversation which
occurred between your correspondent
and congressman Lowe, of Alabama, a
greenback representative from the
Huntsville district:.
Correspondent—Are you sure. Col.
Lowe, that senator Logan ever contem-
plated entering the confederate service?
Col. Lowe—I am sure that there were
three regiments of Illinois men in the
confederate service ;|that I fought through
the war with them: that f knew and
often conversed with many of them, and
that, without exception, those with
whom I talked on the subject assured
me that their regiments were raised by
Logan for the confederate service.
Cor.—I have often heard the charge
made that Logan first planned to enter
the confederate service, but I have
never before struck so direct a proof of
tbe truth of it
Col. Lowe—Why, it is so true, that
Logan himself will not deny it if asked
to upon the floor of the senate. He
will dodge the question. True? Why,
I tell you, I have talked with men whom
I know and who declared that they
were enlisted for the confedrate service
by Logan.
Cor."—His speech to-day was hardly
consistent with his action, then?
Col. Lowe—Of course not. There
was nothing consistent about it. Why,
he denounced squatter sovereignty to-
day and spoke of it as one of the great
crimes of the democracy, and he him-
self was one of the leaders of that very
movement. He was Stephen A. Doug-
las's active lieutenant in that fight.
Logan's denial.
In the National Republican, April 17,
1879, senator Logan published the card
that follows:
W ashington, April 21, 1879.—I have
heretofore declined making answer
through the columns of the newspapers
to the many slanders that have been
hurled against me; but the following
statement which appeared in the Pitts-
burgh Post, of the 17th, appears to be
based upon the statements of a member
of congress, and, therefore, I take this
unusual course of replying to it. The
dispatch is as follows, to wit: [Here
follows the interview quoted from the
Pittsburgh Post, as above.]
As to there being three regiments of
Illinois men in the confederate service,
and that I raised them or any of them
for the confederate army, in defense of
the honor of the state I in part repre-
sent. and of myself, I aiiswer that the
statement is false. There were not
three regiments in ihe confederate ser-
vice from Illinois, nor two, nor one, and
that I ever raised a regiment or com-
pany, or any purt af a company, or had
anything to do, either directly or in-
directly, in raising men for such service,
is maliciously and villainously false.
And it is further stated in said dispatch
that this statement (meaning that I
raised men for the confederate service)
is so true that I would not deny* the
charge if made on the floor of the
senate, but that I would dodge the
question. Now, sir, I say that I do not
now nor have I ever dodged the ques-
tion. The whole statement, so far as I
am concerned, is a vindictive and ma
licious lie. This falsehood was origin-
ally fabricated as follows: Some time
in 1861, after the breaking out of the
rebellion, a gentleman by the name of
Thorndyke Brooks, originally from
Maryland, was living at Marion, "Wil
iginally
Marion,
liamson county, Illinois. He, with some
eighteen or twenty young men of that
county, left Illinois and crossed the
Ohio river at or near Paducah, Ky., and
joined the confederate service, and at-
tached themselves to the 18th Tennes-
see regiment, as I have been in-
formed. Afterward Mr. Brooks be-
came lieutenant colonel of said
regiment. These were the only per-
sons in any body or organized form
that I heard of that left Illinois to enter
the confederate service. After the war
was over a man calling himself Wlieat-
ley, whom I had never seen, a pauper
from the south and in the poor-house at
Cairo, 111., at the time, was paid by
some rebel democrats to sign an affida-
vit prepared for him, charging that I
had raised and recruited seventy men in
Williamson county, Illinois, he (Wheat-
ley) being one of "them, and that I took
them from Williamson county across
the Ohio river and then and there de-
serted them. This lying affidavit was
at the time refuted by every decent man
who was at the time at all conversant
with the facts, and also by all who had
returned to their homes in Williamson
county from their service in the con-
federate army. This creature Wheatley
afterward admitted that his statement in
reference to me was false and that he
was paid to publish the lie against me in
order to injure me in my candidacy at
the time for congress. These facts are
all kuown to the people of Illinois, as
these false and slanderous charges have
been refuted over and over again. In
1875 this false affidavit was published in
the New York World. I then asked Col.
Thorndyke lirooks to state the fact re-
garding" men leaving Williamson county
for the confederate service. He did so.
mill his letter was published in the New
Y01k World and many other papers at
the time. I will here give an extract
from Col. Brooks's letter to me. After
ijuoting in his letter the substance of
Wheatley's affidavit he says:
I wish to state that the said affidavit
is a lie throughout. The only body of
men taken from Williamson county,
Illinois, to the confederate army,
that I know of, were those that
went with me. With the recruiting «f
those or sending them off yqu certainly
had nothing to do. The said Wheatley
was never in Illinois that I know of be-
fore the war. I joined the southern
cause, believing it to be the right one,
and have never changed my opinion on
the point. However, not believing any
good can be accomplished by pro
mg
I
ing on Logan's "disloyal record. If he
had been, and told only a portion of
what he knew, the challenge he sent
would no doubt have been accepted,
even if John had before him at the
time a vision of the man who killed his
opponent in the first duel in Illinois
hanging from a scaffold. A state-
ment like the following, said to be true
by old citizens of Illinois, would certain-
ly have demoralized John. Southern
Illinois, being well settled at the com-
mencement of the war by numerous
southern families, or their descendants,
was disloyal, and preparations were se-
cretly made to form an alliance with the
south. Logan was in Marion, William-
son county, at that time, and a report
coming to the town that a body of
United States troops was advancing up-
on it to arrest traitors, he and a com-
pany of men, filled with patriotism and
bad whisky, formed during the night in
the public square. On calling the roll
it was discovered that Logan's law part-
ner, was not in the line. Logan
yelled out: "Where in the hell is
Josh? " Josh, having gone to bed, was
pulled from under cover, and the com-
pany marched to a bridge a few miles
distant, where the soldiers of the United
States were to have been met with shot
and steel. Pickets were put out, and it
has been said by the citizens of Marion
that Lbgan actually stood guard with
a gun In his hands. No
enemy came and the company returned
to Marion, reaching the square after
daydawn. Logan, tired, half drunk and
disgusted, went to his room and threw
himself upon a bed, and as a friend
tugged at his wet boots, attempting to
remove them, said: " By G—a, if we
are caught by the troops we will be
shot for this night's work!" Sot long
after tliis very common-place event,
Logan received word from Washington
that a man of his peculiar temperament
was wanted. He never was known to
miss a chance to push himself along in
the world, and immediately responded
to the call, and in a jiffy was back again
in southern Illinois, a patriot in the full
sense of the word. He had a commis-
sion, or authority to raise a regiment
of men for the federal ser-
vice; and he raised them, put
them in the field and fought through
the whole war with marked gal-
lantry, and returned to southern Illi-
nois a hero. The little company, or a
portion of it, that marched with Logan
to the bridge to resist the troops of the
United States government, went south-
ward, and true to their first convictions,
fought under the flag of the confedracy.
'Josh'' did not follow Logan to the
field, but found his way into congress.
If Lowe had made this statement, he
would have astonished Logan and as-
sisted in materially dimning the gran-
deur of his loyalty.
Eleven years ago the Cairo Democrat,
on a day that Logan arrived in that city,
backed by over one thousand republi-
cans in the garb of "tanners," pub-
lished the Wheatly affidavit, so bitter-
denounced by Logan. Wheatly iflade
ic affidavit while in the Alexander
county poor-house, physically a wreck.
He also declared mat his condition
was brought on through the in-
fluence of Logan, who had urged
him to enlist in a, company that went
into actual service in the confederate
army, and that in the various cam-
paigns against the soldiers of the north
le had lost his health and would die a
pauper. Logan vehemently denied
this also. Yet the people of southern
Illinois believed all that Wheatly stated,
because the place of enlistment—Marion,
Williamson county—wt>s not over seven-
ty miles away from where the affidavit
was made, and Logan's career with his
friend " Josh" and the armed company
of men was still fresh in their minds.
Notwithstanding the part Logan took
in the Williamson county affair with
Josh" and the company of confede-
rate recruits, when he returned to his
home in Carbondale, after the war, a
town but twenty miles from Marlon,
his influence over the people of south-
ern Illinois was unbounded, and
during the bitter political cam-
paigns, through his war record and a pe-
culiarly fervid and domineering style of
oratory, he was the favorite speaker in
all that region, and generally spoke to
thousands instead of hundreds 'of peo-
ple. No democrat could stand before
him in debate, though gifted with learn-
ing and possessed of the highest powers
of oratory, analysis and eloquence. His
old soldiers traveled for miles to hear
him, applauded his utterances, laughed
derisively at weak democratic oppo-
nents, and hissed and stoned those who
were able to cope with him—among
the latter number being " Josh," who
was driven from the speaker's stand in
Cairo. So great became Logan id Illi-
nois that he aspired to the presidency
of the United States, and be
lieved that his popularity would
not wane. But his veterans com-
menced to tire of political campaigns;
the story of the bivouac and field lost
its charm, and republican misrule and
robbery in the south created a political
change of sentiment. Logan saw it and
left Carbondale for Chicago, where he
rested, practiced law and planned how
to drive senator Dick Oglesby from
rower; and did succeed in betraying
Dick and getting his place in the United
States senate; and that kind of betrayal,
the Marion betrayal of citizens when the
sections were preparing for a bloody
struggle, and his willingness to perform
political acts from which men of honor
shrink, have given to him in the west
the sobriquet of " Dirty-work Logan."
If congressman Lowe will visit the little
inland town of Marion, near where the
great vendetta flourished a few years
ago, and when there succeed in living
ten hours, he can accumulate a budgpt
of information in reference to Logan's
record that will dim the grandeur of that
individual's loyalty to an alarming ex
tent. t
To make the record complete the affi-
davit of Wheatley, referred to in sena-
tor Logan's card, is added:
Caiho, Illinois.—I, John G. Wheat
ley, a resident of the city and county
aforesaid, do solemnly swear that on the
28th day of May, 1861, I went from
Williamson county, Illinois, to join R.
H. Cunningham, company G of the fif-
teenth regiment Tennessee Volunteers;
that Maj.-Gen. John A. Logan, who
tjien represented the distriot fe oon-
d can be accomplished by propagat-
_ lies or withholding the truth, I have
written vou this letter as requested. Re
spectfully, Thorndyke Brooks,
Late Lieut. Colonel, C. S. A.
Baltimore, Md., March 37, 1875.
Brooks is now a merchant of Balti
more and is a man of character, to whom
I refer any gentleman desirous of correct
information on the subject. I under-
stand that Col. Lowe claims that this is
not a correct report of what he said to
the reporter. If not he should correGt
the statement and make the reporter re-
sponsible for putting a lie in his mouth.
The statement I brand as false and slan-
derous, and Col. Lowe and the reporter
can settle the question between them-
selves as to which one has been guilty of
perpetrating this villainous falsehood.
Very respectfully, Joiin A. Logan.
It was this publication that, led to the
card of congressman Lowe, denouncing
senator Logan, and the correspondence
by which it is preceded.
logan's ante bellcm record.
It is not, it is understood, denied
either by the friends of senator Logan,
or the doughty warrior and statesman
himself, that he was a democrat of the
most pronounced type before the late
unpleasantness between the states, and
that his sympathies were of no uncer-
tain kind towards the southern move-
ment. His transition from his old po
litical creed to the new was sudden, and
his conversion violent," blooming out in
a single night from a doubtful friend to
the cause of the union to the most ac-
tive and bitter opponent of his old
friends that the country produced dur
ing all the years of the unfortunate
troubles. A gentleman now traveling
through Texas, who happened to be in
Illinois at the time that senator Logan
is accused of affiliating with confed-
erates and organizing opposition to
federal authority, furnishes the follow-
ing from his personal knowledge of the
facts stated:
logan and lowe.
When congressman Lowe, of Ala
batna, said to the special correspondent
0 f the Pittsburgh Post that during the
w ar he soldiered in the southern army
with three regiments of troops raised
for that service in southern Ulinois by
John A. Logan, he did not precisely
state the truth, and perhaps Logan
would not have noticed the ch:
not the Post remarked editorially that
the grandeur of his loyalty was dimmed
by that act. The charge has often been
made before, and for a" number of years
it produced about the same effect on
the general as a fed flag in the hands of
a Spanish matadore would upon the
feelings of a bull in the arena. Lowe
should have been betteT posted in the
affairs of southern Illinois before touch-
gress, was the chief person who raised
said company ana pi
the same; that said Logan accompanied
Were we inclined to be a kissist-«-which
by our snowy beard is impossible—we
think, nay. we feel positive, that we
should prefer a youthful maiden to re-
ceive our salute. The insinuation that
some young ladies are fond of mouths
thatched with a hideous mustache is
doubtless a contemptible slander. Their
own smooth cheeCs and rosy mouths
are far preferable, and so they must
feel. Sidney Smith says: "There is
much virtue in a kiss when well deliv-
ered. We have had the memory of one
we received in our youth, which has
lasted us forty years, and we believe it
will be one of the last things we think
of when we die."
This is no world, as Hotspur said,
For kissing lips and mammets made.
Yet how fond was Shakespeare of this
'lip business." You can not read a
single play of the great master without
finding a world of talk about lips and
kisses. There are an infinity of exam-
jles:
'He kissed—the last of many doubled
kisses."
We'll e'en but kiss Octavia, and w.e'll
follow."
" There is gold, and here
My bluest veins to kiss; a hand that kings
Have lipp d, and trembled kissing."
Give me a kiss—e'en this repays me."
" I shall return onee more to kiss these
lips."
" This is a soldier's kiss."
Commend unto his lips thy favoring
hard;
Kiss it, my warrior."
* Come, then, and take the last warmth of
my lips."
All this, and more, in one play—and
that a very deep tragedy. It is said
that the true origin of this gracious in-
terchange of soul comes from the far
East, and that it is symbolic of the sun's
rays greeting the earth:
" Kiss, sunbeams, kiss
The dear old face of earth.
And bring the sap to the burs tine bud,
And brine the flower to birth!
Kiss, kiss, and kiss!"
us (about TO in numoer) in the night,
part of the way from Williamson coun-
ty to Paducah, the place designated for
us to cross the river. We crossed at
Paducah, according to John A. Logan's
instructions, to evade union troops,
which he stated, were stationed at
Cairo.
When Logan left he agreed to meet us
as soon as possible, and assigned as a
reason for not accompanying us then
that he wanted to settle up his affairs at
home and raise more troops. Logan,
when he left, promised faithfully to
join us soon and command our regiment
in the confederal, service, but tke next
time we met him was at Belmont in the
federal service, and in the fight Capt.
Cunningham and 1 chased him so cloee-
that he was compelled to dismount,
e succeeded In capturing his horse
and delivered it to Gen. Pillow, of the
confederate army.
I served in the confederate armv from
the above date until July 20, 1§69, in
Capt. Cunningham's company, and was
honorably discharged at Tupelo, Miss.
My son, R. L. Wheatly, Thomas Coder,
Harry Hays, William Tinker, Jackson
Brown, Jackson Love, Flerine Ghent,
Martin Williams and othe»s, aS except
the first now residing, or when I last
heard frosa them, in Marion, WilMam-
911 county, Illinois, were members of
said company, and will attest the truth
of the statement. Jobs J. Wheatly.
Subscribed and sworn before me the
30tb day of September, 1868.
John Q. Habmon,
Clerk of Circuit Court,
Alexander county, Illiaeia.
The True Origin of Kissing.
[From tbe San Francisco Argonaut.]
" One may know by your kiss that your
gin is excellent." [Beggar's Opera.
Kisses, according to scripture, are di
▼ided into eight kinds—the writer can
not find mention of more—viz: Adora-
tion, I Kings, xix: 18; Approbation,
Proverbs, is: 4; Reconciliation, II
Sam. xiv: 22; Treachery, Matt, xxvi
49; Salutation, Sam xx: 41; Affection,
Gen. xiv: 15: Subjection, Psalms, ii:
12; and Valediction, Ruth, ii: 9. Kiss-
ing is a very dangerous subject for an
old bachelor to write upon, inasmuch as
the freedom of a fair maiden's lips is
often the provocative to the commission
of matrimony. But, lest the reader be
disappointed that we have no personal
recollections to unfold, and therefore
disinclined to read this article, we may
as well remark that it is intended more
to collect others' opinions than to give
our own crude iaeas. We believe it
will scarcely be disputed that the female
sex is more fond of this harmless
amusement than their sterner brethren
Men scorn to kiss among themselves,
And scarce will kiss a brother;
Women want to kiss so bad,
They smack and kiss each other.
Nor is this entirely out of nature,
Prospects of the Season.
(Te the News.1
Bosqueville, May 8.—©n Monday
last we had a fine prospect for a g?od
crop of corn and cotton and a tolerably
good crop of wheat and oats; the most
of the gardens looked well; Irish pota-
toes large enough to eat; also, beans,
peas and beets—how promising looked
everything—and on Tuesday evening at
5 or 6 o'clock our corn, cotton, wheat,
oats, potatoes, cabbage, beans, and all
other vegetables, including fruit, the
rapes and plums,'were literally ruined,
i^he peaches wert also badly damaged,
watermelons ruined, by the worst nail-
storm any of us ever saw. Many wffl
have to plant over the cotton, and some
speak of planting cotton where the corn
was ruined. As far as I have learned tt
was twenty or thirty miles long and ten
wide; the nearer the streams the w#rse it
was. Capt. Lusk, who lives in Waco,
six miles from here, has a farm five
mil as above here, and was at this farm
and carried some of the hail to Waco
the next evening after. I never saw it
hail and rain so fast in my life, I don't
think. I think the good Lord has
left us enough to live upon; yet the most
of the gardens will have to be planted
over, I guess. Please continue the
faithful friend (the News) to me. I
could not do without it, scarcely. I
consider it the best paper published. I
will close, lest I weary you. B. F. w.
NEW YORK LETTER.
Texas State Bonds and Otlier Se-
curities—The Cotton Market— Fin-
ancial— Ete.
(Special Correspondence of the News.l
New York. Mav 7.—The supreme court
decision in the racific railroad cases, re-
quiring them to pay over to the United
States treasury 35 per cent, of their net
earnings, from June, 1878, caused a fall at
the opening in Union Pacific shares to 72%,
against 75)^ yesterday; but before 12 M.
the stock was up to 74W again.
Houston and Great Northern lsts, with
certificate, were held at 90, and Galveston,
Houston and Henderson's at the sam^. The
Kansas Pacific increased its earnings for
the fourth week in April 144,516, and dur-
ing the whole month of April the Iron
Mountain road decreased its earnings $13,-
144 98.
Messrs. Dillon, Gould, Sage and the Bos-
ton directors of the Union Pacific and
other roads, leave in a few days for the
west on an extended railwav tour.
Texas state 78 are firm at 112W@113c.;
sold at the former. Also sales of Houston
Central stock at 26W, with 26 bid for more.
The baron de Pardonnet is expected here
shortly from Texas, to talk up matters in
oonnection with the Sabine Bay and
Northwest, and the Texas western* roads,
after which he will proceed to Europe.
The bill allowing savings banks to hold
District of Columbia bonds the same as
United States bonds, was defeated in our
state assembly this evening by 58 to 41.
Cotton opened crazy at 20 points advance
on better Liverpool news. {The advance,
however, brought out sellers to realize
the handsome profits of the past two days,
and prices fell back somewhat, closing un-
settled. Mays touched 12.52 and left off
12.44. Liverpool it appears was advanced
to-day by bear failures and cotton being
bought in for their account. One of the
firms was said to be Whitfield A Co. The
cotton covered or bought in at 7dL or there-
abouts, was cotton sola long since at 5^d.,
netting a smart loss. There is very little
short interest in the New York market.
Vassar girl, eating her first goose
berries— " N'yum! n'yum! yum-m-m!
wouldn't I like to see the goose that laid
these berries!"
MARRIED:
WELLS—WEEKES—In Mobile, on May 5,
at the residence of the bride's mother. John
Wells, of Galveston, Texas, to M. Octavia,
; roundest daughter of the late Nicholas
Weekes. No cards.
DIED :
SHEPPAJRD—Dillon J. Sheppard, (formerly
of Matagorda) May 9, 1879, at Galveston, aged
53 years. Was burled in Magnolia Grove ceme-
tery, May Id, 1897, by masonic brethren.
OBITUARY.
DILLON.—Died, April 14, 1879, at the resi-
dence of his sister, Mrs. J. F. Gunderman, of
this city, John Dillon, aced 84 years, a native
of Tarbart, Ireland.
He was well known in the cities ef Washing
ton, D. C.; Alexandria, Va.; Galveston, Tex*;
Opelousas and Lake Charles, La., where his
bright and generous character was the univer-
sal admiration of all chivalrous msn, who wil
unite in sympathy with hip bereaved sMprs ia
their sad loss, and drop a tear oa the untimely
taking-off of so manty a man.
" The world recedes—it disappears;
Heaven opene oa my eyes, my ears
With sounds seraphic ring.
Lend, lend your wings; I mount! 1 fly I
O, gravel where is thy victory?
O, deathl where is thy sting?"
" Death's but the path that must be trod.
If ever man would pass to God. ** •
Paper
Ian*-
AUCTION SALES.
AUCTION ATCTIOI*.
BY SYDNOR & DINKEIJlKEK 111 »nd 113
Tremoat—MONDAY, May If, at 10 a. m.—
Sundry Lots
Dry Goods, Notions,
Cutlery. Bnabrot«ery, Lace,
Balance TlnDrare and
Glassware:
Invoice Pnper an A P
Ing*.
Goods reoetvod ap to hgur of sale.
Aactioa Sale «f Damaged Cettoa.
WE W SELL OK MONDAY. WTH III-
sunt, at IS o'clock m.. on Laoadie's Wharf,
for account of whom it may concern, ex Ship
Lancaster:
30 BALES C6TTON.
Terms cash.
PARK, LYNCH * CO.,
ap29 Auctioneers.
Damaged Cotton at Anctioa.
WE WILL SELL ON TltUWSDAY. 15TH
inst., at l« o'clock a~, on auha's Wharf,
for account ef whom it may oonoern, ex brig
Hera—
300 BALKS COTTON,
new on wharf, and etfcar Gotten that may he
landed before time ef sale. Terms cash.
park, LYtiCH a co..
my 114t Auctioneers.
SPECIAL NOTICES.
F. Ry. Co., 1
1 ~ 1*79. f
order ef
Colorado
Office or tbk g., C. and !
C *
Notice i
the Beard c
and Santa Fe railway company, notice is
hereby given to ad the stockholders ef said
company to attend a stockholders meeting at
the office of the company, in the city of g&l-
veston, on
TUESDAY, the 27th day of May. 1879,
at 11 o'clock a. m., for the purpose of consider-
ing and sanctioning the borrowing of money
bv said company, to be secured by the bonds
or the company and a trust deed on its prop-
e forms there<
' the eomjKinj
Attest: O. C. All an. Secretary.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
T, RATTO,
159, 161, 163 Strand,
Manufacturing Confeotioner.
Wholesale Healer In
FRUITS. NUTS, CIOARS,
PRIZE CANDY, CHEW-
ING ULM, ETC.
LEMONS and ORANGES
BY EVERY STEAMER.
JUST RECEIVED ;
Persian Dates,Very fine
Galveston Garten Herein
f EMBERS WILL PLEASE TAKE NOTICE
M
or me company and a trust aeed on its prop-
erty, the forms thereof being on file in tne
office of the company.
JOHN SEALY, President.
that the
Entrance Gate to the Garden
has been removed from Avenue N to Twenty-
seventh street, opposite the Railroad switch.
The plans adopted for the
NEW DANCING PAVILION
are now on exhibition at the Garden.
The regular Monthly Meeting will be held at
the Garden
TO-MORROW, May 13,
at 7)4 o" clock p. h. Thirty candidates to bo
balloted for. niyll It
ap27 su5t
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Political Notice.
fpHE DEMOCRATS OF THE RESPECTIVE
wards are requested to assemble at their re-
spective places or meeting at 7 p. m., on
TUESDAY, the 13th Inst.,
for the purpose of electing delefatws to the
district convention to t>e held at the court-
house in Galreston to nominate a candidate
for the state senate from this senatorial dis-
trict:
1st ward, at 1st ward market.
2d ward, at No. 8's engine-house.
3d ward, at court-house.
4th ward, at No. 5"s engine-house.
5th ward, at northeast corner Winnie and
86th streets.
7th ward, at Plitt's market.
8th ward, at Kirnley's market.
9th ward, at corner avenue O and Center sts.
• S( -
egner's _
Itfcler's market?
11th ward,
12th
ward, opposite Schmidt's garden.
Sjt Wecnsr's grocery.
WJ4. R. johnsol
B. F. mSBROW, s
R T. WHEELER.
president 1st ward,
president 3d ward,
secretary lOthward,
, president Stn ward.
P. J. WALSH, president 5th ward.
OTlS 8. EATON, president 4th ward club.
F W.y*P. president 7th ward Dem. clutw
DAVIT) WaKELEE. Pres. 2d ward club.
NORMAN G. KITTRELL. Pres. 1 ltli ward.
W3I. SELKIRK, president 12th ward.
THOS. COLLINS, president 9th ward.
The Fountain Spring House,
WAUKESHA. WIS.,
Y17ILL OPEN JUNE 10, 1879, REBUILT
▼ V with double capacity, under the former
manager.
MATTHEW LAFLIiN, Proprietor.
JOS. LABADIE
s
HAS FtR SALE
IMPROVED twist drills, fine gimlets, saw
vises, quilt claflaps, bbl. bo* scrapers, hollow
augors, spoke points, ice picks, enam. sauce
Sans. 5®o.. dumb-bells, sad-irons, furnaces,
utiner machines, $1 25, market baskets. 85c..
cistwrn faucets, lager beer do., water coolers,
$150, toiletware sets, $2 50. dippers, 5c., tiu
cups. 5c., seines, fishing tackle of ail kinds,
lead, solder, shot, powder, caps, shells, 90c.
per lOt).
Complete Assortment In Thirteen
Lines.
JUST RECEIVING,
EX EIGIL,
3300 Sacks Coffee.
IX STORE:
3000 Sacks Coffee.
fel8 una
ffl. KOPPERL.
DISCHARGING.
EX-HEINRICH LOHMANN.
3510 sk^ Coffee
IN STORE,
2000 Sks. COFFEE.
Kaufftnan & Runge.
Assignee's Sale.
IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED
States, for the western district of Texas, at
QalveKton.
In the matter of Oppenhelmer Bros., bank-
rupts.
The undersigned, assignee In bankruptcy of
the above aamed bankrupts, will, on Tuesday
the <!7th day of May, lc79. proceed to sell
within the hours prescribed by law, in front
of the door of the United States court room
in Galveston, Texas, to the highest and best
bidder, for cash in United States currencv,
A * 1 " ' " of said
rnayll 3ts M. E. KLEBERa, Assignee.
Galveston Gas Works
324 and Market Streets.
^LL ORDERS OR COMPLAINTS, TO RE-
ceive prompt attention, should be left at the
Secretary's office, in the
Ostermann Building,
Corner of Strand sni 22d Street,
Between the hours of 8 and 12 o'clock, a. tL
TOBACCOS!
"^yE HAVE NOW EN ROUTE FROM VIR^
ginia one of the largest stocks
Chewing Tobacco
ever brought to this market, and we are now
offering it at prices that defy competition.
Our stock of
GROCERIES
is one ef the largest and most complete in the
State, and we receive additions to it by every
steamer.
MOORE, STHITTQNI CO.
Owing ts Emergencies
That necessitate the disposal of
valuable Cirf RT "
sifosa
eaenmoi
are authorized ottering for sale, at
KALTY, the under-
ottering
•us sacrifice, sundry property (encui
trances of which wiU he remOvea at the trans-
fer), vis:
The south half of lets 1 and 2, block 619. 20th
street and Strand; the north half of Iocs 8 and
9, block 625, Bath avenue, near Strand; the
" "■ * ~ " rhter-house
northeast
south-
west blocks of outlot 34 (adjoining UaUf'Sj; the
half ef northwest block of outlet 9> (and more
of same class.)
Betddes, other unencumbered, chiefly suburb-
an property, cheap improved homesteads, at
3urpriulag reductions. Any one realieiag the
future prominence of Galveston is sure ac-
quiring a bonaasa in the purchase ef above.
STIT MAAS or O. A. MEYER,
aplfi lm A rents.
», oiock ojk>, cam aconite, near oirauu;
northwest block ef outlot 82 (slauphter-ho
not included): the northwest and northt
blocks of outlot 57: the northwest and soi
OILS AND GLASS,
Yarmishe* and Artists' Colors,
PURE PARIS GREEN,
J. S. BROWN & CO.,
WHOLESALE HARDWARE MERCHANTS,
STRAND. GALVESTON. TEXAS,
Offer interior Merchants special advantages in the following lines of goods:
Iron, Stsel, Castings, Kails, Saddlery, Tinware, Woodenware,
Mantels, Orates, Wagon and Buggy Materials,
PAINTS, OILS. VARNISHES. BRUSHES. RUBBER BELTING,
and the largest assortment of
TABLE Cb POCKET OUTLEH.T
Ever Exhibited In Texan. Sole A^eialu i'or
LYON'S PATENT HEEL STIFFENSRS
A.t Manufacturer'a Prices.
THE BEST
Fac-simlle of Lal>el in blue on neck of all Bot-
tles of " Pll'ER-HEIDSIECK." None
genuine without
^OdJUJVO
J«¥I> OSBOltN, SON dc CO,,
45 BEAVER ST., XEW YORK, AND
44 ST. SACRAMENT ST., MONTREAL.
GENERAL AOENTS FOR " PIPER-HEIDSIECK"
CHAMPAGNE.
PROPOSALS.
Proposals-sealed proposals are
invited until MAY 81. ist'j. 12 o'clock m..
for furnishing supplies for the BHik!, Deaf and
Dumb and Lunatic Asyluias, for tiufee months
from June 1 to August 31, 1879, in accordance
with •' an act to provide for furnishing cox-tain
supplies heroin teamed to the Lunatic, I oaf
and Dumb and
A^-lums. Bids will be
received up to and including the 21 st May. 12
o'clock m., and wil lt>e opened on th« 22d, in
tne presence of the Board of Trustees of the
respective Asylums. Each bid must i»e accom-
panied with bond, with two or more good
securities, payable to the State, conditioned
that the party to whom any contract may he
~ ed shall faithfullv carry out the terms
it met, and shall be liable to the State
Cotton Worm Destroyer.
VOK BALK BY
RICE & BAULARD,
N*. 71 TREMONT ST.,
jiWII Wntu 12k Qatrastam. Texaa.__
TO BE RECEIVED AFTER
First of May:
LARGEST SUCK DF TOBACCO
ever consigned to any one party at any one
time ia ttalveston.
Our Known Brands:
IVarlposa. 3, 4 and 7 oz.,
jr. »awe, t •*.,
Lasker'ft 10s,
Hlorrfe, 3, 4 and 7 •>.,
Groea, 10 oa. Navy,
Nettie and Little Jim Twist,
And all other grade*.
Also keep constantly on hand the excellent
article of ll KE'S JHBHA91. guaraa-
teed to givs a* g--oci or bwttar satisfaction than
anv Durtiam in the market.
ap* Le<ilKRSR A CO.
Ruling aito btotino—the facilities
of the News Bindery for executing flrst-
class work of every description i? unsurpassed
In the south. An examination of prices will
prove this.
PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
BRISTZ Ac CLARK,
lawyers m am &gehts,
BIlYAKr, Texas.
LiLW NOTICE.
j. t. harcourt.
J. JAY HARCOURT.
Harcourt & Harcourt,
Attornoy» at Xiaw,
CALVENTOV, TEXAS.
aplo lm BALLINGEi: i JACK KUILD1NI3.
Ballinger, Jack 8 Mott,
\
attorneys and Gsoitssttrs at Lau,
No. 122) Postoffie Street,
Galveston, Texas.
ROBT.V. DAVIDSON. GEO.VT FULTON.Jl
Davidson & Fulton.
Ittarasys aid Counselors at Lav,
moody de J em i son Billdinsi
Galveston, Texas.
•CK'78 ly
award*
of his c< , _ -
for any default or' the same. Tfte following
are the articles required, with specifications,
to wit:
Dkaf and Dumb Asylums.—1500 pounds beef.
fresh, or so much thereof as may be needed,
to b** delivered in such quantities, an<1 of such
quality, as the Superintendent may lequir^ or
order, by 5 o'clock a. m. each day; 10 barrels j
flour, best choice family; 1 barrel sugar, toffee ! |\R M. PERL,
A standard; barrel rice, best quality: 1 tier ce ; JLJ
lard, tresh and good: 3 boxe, soap, Lesser's: 1
box starch, best pearl; 1 sack salt, fine; 1 sick
coffee, best Rio: 20 dozen baking powders, sea
foam: 1 do/.su pickles, 1 gallon jars: 1 do^en
brooms, best quality: 100 pounds prunes, good;
2 cases oil. rratt's antral. 130 degrees; 1C0
cords gti'.d wood, 4 feet Ion?, not over b nor
uncle:- 3 inches at the small end. to be deliver-
ed at the Asylum from June 1 to November SO,
1870: 40 cords oe an. elm, live oak or black
jack. 40 <-or«.s good post oak or Spanish, *20
cords good c «Ur, corded separately.
Lunaiic Asylum—30,000 lbs. beet, fresh, be&t
Quality, delivered as may be desired, dailv: "0
lbs. black pepper, b *st: iiijO lbs. green tea. fcrst:
400 lbs. lmiiis, s. c., best; lbs. Goshen but-
tor, best; 5 bbls. dried apples, best; a bbls.
peaches, best: 4 bbls prunes, best. 2 bbls, so4a
crackers, best: K'4 bbls..flour, choice famr*-y;
7 bbls grits, be t; 5 bbls, hominy, beat; 5 bbls.
krout. best: 5 bbls Irish potatoes, best; 2 bbls.
sirup, cane, best: 10 bbls. rice. »>est; 8 bbls.
pickles, best, small: 2 bbls. mackerel, bent; 4
bbls. cornfield, best; 4 bbls be*as. navy,
b«Bt;2 bbls onions, white, best: 12 bbls. su-
gar, best: 3 bbls. ?u_rar, coffee A; 2 bbls. su-
gar, crushed, best; 0 tcs. lard, white, best; 8
cases bacon, c. s.; 4 cases peaches, standard
peeled, 3 lb. cans: 2 eases pears, standard
peeled, 3 lb. cans: 4 cases tomatoes, standard
retfiel, 3 lb. cans: 30 cases gasoline oil, best.
for jjas machine; 6 caaes IJratt s astral eil,
best: 2Q cases soap, best laundry; 4 cases
siarch. best laundry: 6 sacks salt, fine LI v.; 3
boxes candlos. star jsixos, full weight; 200lbs.
ve>ast powder, fce.it; 150 lbs. chewing tobacco:
6 doz. toilet soap, good; 10 rioz. brooms, best
heavy; 5 gross matches, best sulphur; 2 gross
Walter Gresham,
Worsen a*' Counselor at Law,
Km. 182 P«.toAc. Street,
Galveston, Texan
GENERAL PRACTITIONER,
can *>• e.msultad » <k. ruu Bjgltftie Ios«
tuts, earner Travis <tr.at Tau *Tea*e,
BOUST-^U rltAjL.3.
Cpaciat ittciam a Itrnk Riaua*
TURCO RUSSIAN BATHS .paa U all k.ari
Slue la aalu. $1 60; U baths. 114. J»a#«t
blucinff, ' o/.. bottles: 10 sks. Rio c< >:Tee. choice
40 corns han.1. ao id and sound wood: 10 cords
owlar w. >od: Hbbl. » hiskr. i jrrs old. Bourbon.
Dry fjords.—ti piecea cottonadea, best blue
LOTTERIES.
ROYAL
HAVANA JITTERY!
DRAWS EVERY FIFTEEN BAYS!
CAPITAL PRIZE73 • *200,808
Oldest Agents m the South. Established
since 1848^ Send for Flans te
B0RNI6 & BROTHER,
Importer* Hay&na Cigars,
45 Camp, and 120 te 126 Gravier Street,
NEW ORLEANS, LA.
Address P. O. Drawer 91. ap'.» Kin
ticking, standard: 15 pes. brown shirting, 4-4;
4 pes. bleached domestic, standard 4 4:'lpc.
bleached sheeting, best 10-4: 4 pes ginghams,
standard cotton: 4 pes. brown drilling: 2 pes.
black cotton velvet, rood; 4 pes. towelling
linen crash; 3d prs. ladies" shoes, t£oo.i calf.
Nos. 4 to 7; 12 prs. ladies' clo;h gaiter s. Nos. 4
to 6; 60 prs. men's shoes, brogaus, Nos. to 10;
12 doz. cotton half-hose, heavy while: l doz.
rnus.juito bar*: 1 doz. tooth brushes, good: 5
gro. thread. Coats, wldte cotton. 30, 9b, 40. 30
and 6m ; M. ueedles, asst. Millrord's; 3 doz.
towels, linen Huckaback doz. combe rubber,
dressing:. £0*d; 2 doz. corsets; 2 doz. suspen-
ders, men's, good; 2 doz. liuen napkins; ^doz.
counterpanes, white; 2 doz. indellible ink; 1
pc. marble oil cloth.
Blind Asylum. —8000 lbs fresh fbeef, round
steak, etc.: 1 COO lbs. fiour: 200 lbs. bacon and
haras; 12 lbs toilet soap, good uuality ; 20 lbs.
best imperial tea; 1 tirr -e lard: 1 bbl. rice;
1 bbl. grits; 2 bbls. sugar, coffe* A. 2 bxs soap.
Colgate laundry. 150 lbs.; 2 bxs Fox's starch;
1 sk fine salt; 1 sk Rio coffee, best; 10 doz sea
ioaai: 2 cases Pratt's astral oil; 2 gal. wnisky,
good bourbon.
Dry Goods.—100 yds heary blea. sheeting;
50 yds blea. domestic, F L.; <» doz Coats thread,
white—40, 50, #4) and ?0.
Bids shall be made for the articles herein-
after uuiued separately, to wit: Bids for fresh
beef: bids Tor bacon and lard, bids for flour;
bids for rice, peas, beans, grits a*id hominy;
bids fer s*ap, coarse and fine: salt, vinegar,
starch, soda, pepper and baking powders:
bids for coffee and tea; bids Cor white and
brown sugar; bids for molasses; bids tor
mackerel, prunes and dried apples, krout,
brooms, candles and oil; canned geeds. alco-
holic stimulants and tobacco, and bids for
wood. Proposals must be sealed and marked
with the asylums for which they are intended.
It is also desired to have samples of dry geeds
accompany the bid.
myO 2w STiCPH. H. DARDEN, Comptroller. ;
Advertisemxts for bids to convey
Convicts to the Penitentiary. —Und^r tie
provisions of an Act of the Legislature ef the
btr.te of Texas, approved April 22. lei9. enti- |
tied. "An act to authorize the Governor. Attor-
ney General end Superintendent of the Peni-
tentiary to contract for conveying convict? j
from the places where sentenced to tbe Peni-
tentiary,""bids will be received for conveying
convicts from the places where coniined to
the penitential y to wliich they may be sen-
tenc d for two y*»ars from dat'e of contract.
The bids shall specify at what price per capita
the c< evicts will be conveye 1. The contractor
will be required to enter into a written con-
tract, and to give a bond of twenty thousand '
doi.ars for tne faithful performance of such j
contract. Bids must be sealed and filed In
the office of the Secretary of State at Austin, j
Texas, on or before the 5th day of Juna, A. !
D. 1KT9. The light to reject anv" and ali bid* is
hereby reserved. The number of convicts
receh e at the penitentiary for the last Ave
?pars has amounted to about 790 per annum.
he superintendent of penitentiary, at Hunfcs-
ville. Texas, will furnish any further infor-
mation desired. Austin, Texas. Mav 5, 1879.
my3 20t O. M. ROBERTS.'Governor.
i splendid mrarr
WIN A rOBTDNB.
LSI.
Grand Monthly Drawing, 1879
At New Now OrJea.ua, Tuesday,
Ittay 13.
LOUISIANA STATE"LOTTERY Cfl.
This institution was regularly
i *
. incorporated by the Legislature of the State
for Educational and Charitable purposes in
1968, with a capital of $1,000,000. to which it
has since added a reserve fund of $350,000. Ai
Grnnd Single Number Drawings wiU take place
monthly. It never scales or postpones. l<eok
at the following distribution:
CAPITAL PRIZE $30,000.
109,000 TICKETS AT |2 EACH; HALF
TICKETS, $1.
LIST of prizxs.
1 Capital Pris« .. $30,000
10,000
s.ooo
5,000
5,000
10,000
10,000
10,000
10 ooo
10,000
2,700
1.800
900
I
do
do
1
do
do
2 PRIZES OF 2,500
5
do
I,ooo
26
do
soo
ISf
do
ioo
2u0
do
50
500
do
20
1900
d*
10
APPROXIMATION PltlCBS.
9 Approximation Prizes of $ t00
9
d©
do 20$.
9
de
do 100
1657 Frizes, amounting to $1 10.400
Write fer circulars or send orders to HI, A.
DAUPHIN, P. O. Box 692, N. O.. La.
All our Grand Extraordinary Drawings are
under the supervision and management ef
tieHls. G. T. BEAIKEOAUD aud
JUBAL A. EARLY.
Capital Prue $100,000. Whole Tickets $10.
By* For further information, apply to
J. D. SAWYER, Galveston,
Next to News Office
Notice of Diesoltition.
THE PARTNERSHIP HERFTOFORE Ex-
isting between A. b. Petticol ts, of Victoria
county, and W. W. King, of Wharton county,
in the practice of the law. is this day dissolved
by mutual consent. Cases p -mling in Wharton
and Fort l>end comities m ill b * eonducted to
conclusion bv W. W. Kii.g,
PETICOLAS i king,
April 21. 1879. [eod5t*"j Attormys at Law.
THE BROWN COTTON GIN.
Cleans the Seed Better, Run* Light-
er. Gtnn Faster, and Costs Less
The. Texas
Co-operative Jleamship Co.
[Incorporated iiron GimiL Laws. 1879.]
President—CAPT. J. W. S ABLER.
DEPOSIT—$5 per share on application, $5 per
share on allotment, $15 per share three
months after allotment, and the balance of
$£> per share as may be required, in install-
ments of not more than $10 at intervals of
not less than ftco r>tenths.
THE TEXAS CO-OPERATIVE STEAMSHIP
Company is organized for a three-fold pur-
pose—that of develooia# our southern ports,
being tbe medium of direct trade with Europe,
promoting the cattle, cotton and weol growing
Interests of the state, and of settling the lands
with good working tenantry, aad finding homes
and lands for those farmers who emterate
Other Oln in the < the
Iffoney than Any f
market. Every Machine Fslly and
Legally Guaranteed.
from Europe with iarge families.
above object* in view it is our belief that the
whole state and pe >ple will reap the benefits
that wiU accrue from the establishment of our
steamship company. Our steamers will b» a
credit to whichever port wo permanently trade
with, and will be fitted with *ii modern im-
prorements in order to develop as far pos
slble th^ interests of the cattle trade; and. Ly
pinr stock on our large and roomy vessels.
r of all descriptions w ill be enabled te
thrive the whole passage, wliilst by keeping in
southern latitudes they will be less liable to
pleura-pneumonia and other diseases from
change of olm;aie than those that arc driven
north and then shipped across. Our emploj -
ers of labor will be bouefted by the emigrants
brought over, whilat by oar colonizin? the
famines on the 1 mds of the company will en-
hance prices of land surrounding.
Subscriptions for stock will i>e received for
the next sixty days, and applications for stock
and prospectuses can be made—
In Galveston, to Messrs. MOODY & JEMISON,
Strand;
In Brenham to Messrs. BASSETT A BASSETT;
In Austin, to Mr. H. BROUGHAM ANDERSON.
• Agt. T. Co-O. S. S Co., or Messrs. FOR9TIR
A CO.;
Or WM. E. AUSTIN, Secretary pro tem. Texas
Co.-O. S. S. Co., 3 Park Place, New York City.
Theee Machines are made of the Best Ma-
terials, aad the Workmanship and Finish are
unexcelled. Has been awarded Premiums at
all the State Fairs—Georgia, Alabama, Texas.
etc., etc.
Frice List of CTins, Feeders and Condensers,
payable during the Cotton Season:
Sixes.
30 Saw
35 °
m •'
45 "
30 "
<*> M
70 "
39 "
Price
of
(Has
Price <jins Price, with
with self- self-reed g
f ding att's att con.
I 75 00
«T 56
lfc> 00
110 00
120 00
130 00
140 00
160 0t
, $ 57 50
$120 00
! 11S 75
140 oe
i iso m
160 09
141 75
ITS 25
15* 50
lbS 0$
176 00
202 00
182 00
2:>1 00
2J6 00
256 00
Boxed ready for shipment and delivered at
oar factory. Snecial terms te cash purchasers.
Send for CSrcuiar containing testimonials from
ever 200 live planters who bought and used our
machines last season. From 18-48 to 1H68 we
manufactured Gins at Columbus, Ga., under
the firm name of E. T. Taylor Jt Co.. afterward
demons. Brown A Co . and made what was
then known as the Taylor Oin. During the vear
1V£ we removed to this place, where we nave
b-ea exclusively engaged in manufacturing
Gins ever since. With k>mr experience, the
best labor-saving machinery and skilled work-
men, we posses- advantages not enjoyed by
any other manufacturer in our line for pro-
ducing the best work for the least mouev.
Presses, Engines and Complete Outfit fur-
nished when desired. Address
BROWN COTTON GIN CO.,
ap20 2tawWltam New London, Conn.
TRUTHS.
HOP BITTERS
(A medicine, not a Brink.)
contaixs
■•PS, BUCHUj 9IANDRAKE,
DANDELION,
And Tax Purxst il»d Best Medical Quau
ties or all oxaxa Bitters.
Tney Cure
AH Diseases of the Stomach, Row-
els, Blood, Liver, Kidneys and I'p
niary Organ*, Nervousness, Sleep-
ilessne**, Female Complaints and
BRINK EN NESS.
$1000 IN ttOLD
Will be paid for a case they will aot cure or
help, orror anything impure or injurious
found in them.
Ask your drugggist for Hop Bitters and
free books, and trv the Bitters before you
sleep. Take no other.
The Heu ftnsrb Cure and Pain Be-
lief is the Cheapest Surest'
and Best
LEGAL NOTICES.
Trustee's Sale.
Drayage and Storage.' ovskm
It. P. SARGENT & CO,,
General Transfer Agents & Warehousemen,
Mechanic street, bet. Tremont and 24th.
Having the best, facilities, are
prepared to
Transfer or Storo j
all kinds of light and heavy Merchandise, Wool,
Grain, Furniture, etc.
Moving Safes, Boilers. Engines and all kinds
of heavy Machinery in and out of buildings a
specialty.
Agent? for the sale of Herring's Patent
Champion Safes, samples constantly on hand.
%£T" K. P. SARGENT, public weigher. Or- ;
ders promptly attended to. dec27 13m eod " •
HOUSTON ADVERTISERS.
WM. 0. CLEVELAND,
"Wholesale Grocer
AND
Cotton Factor
No. 3? Main Street and 0.11,13 and 1Z
Franklin (Street
HOUSTON, - TEXAS.
Iiftrgo Stocli of
Fancy & Staple Groceries
tobacco -
CIGARS AND WHISKIES
AND
WOOD AND WILLOW-WARE
Bagging and Ties.
LIBEBAL ADVANCES
«ade on consignments of UOTTON, which I
handle exclusively oa oommission, and arive my
special attention.
Superior advantages in freights to and fro*
this point make it the cheapest and best market
for ail classes of merchandise, and enable us
to realize as good prices for cotton, with less
expense and in less time, than any other market
in the state.
SPECIAL—1 now handle the largest stock
of Texas Su^ar and 3IoIa*se» in the
State, and am in position to oiler inducements
such as no one el>e can offer. Send for sam-
ples and prices. W. D. CLEVELAND.
E. Schoen & Co.
WHOLESALE DEALERS IN
Tehccss ad Cigars,
Smokers' Articles,
No. 8 Franklin Street.
Under Hutching House,
a. p. TURNER,
ITTORNEV1N9COOHSEL8RiT LIW
Xt. 08 Mais Street
HOUSTON, TEXAS,
Practices in State Courts at Houston, Su
pre rue. Appellate and Federal Courts at Gal-
veston. mhl2T9 \2m
i - 1»TH MAY INST., AT 12 M.,
the court-house door of Galves-
ton county, I shall sell, at public auction, for
cash, to the highest bidder, the lot known and
designated as Lot No. 5, in Block No. 498, on
the map and plan of the city of Galveston,
situated on Market, between 18th and lS#th ate.,
together with the buildings thereon. I make
said sale at the request of the payee and hold-
er of a promissory note for $1300, secured by
a deed of trust, executed by J. Hibbert and
Ann Hibbert, to me as trustee, dated March
23. 1870, and recorded in book 21, pages 20, 27.
2s and 29, Galve-ton county records, to enforce
payment of said note, now past due and un-
paid. I will make such title to purchaser as I
am empowered to do by said trust deed.
A. W. SPAIGHT.
mays 101 Trustee.
vigiers
IMPROVED FRENCH PROCESS
FOR DISINCRUSTING
Steam JJoilers.
Positive Action Within Three Weeks
We treat all waters, whatever impuritiet
they hold in solution. Removes Scale. Pro
vents Scale foi mm- Prevents corrosion and
''Pitting." Prevents "Foaming." Contains
no Acid, and guaranteed perfectly harmless.
Acts on all Waters, whatever their impurities.
Any waters can be employed—hard water, s«a
water, or sulphurous water. Saves fuel, re-
pairs. and oil and tallow, and lessens the dan-
ger of explosions. Can be introduced through
feed pipe, safety pipe, or man-hole. Put up ia
packages of from 1«X) to 250 oounds. All ia
tringpments dealt with aecordinf to law
TESTIMONIALS.
Crescent City Sugar Refinery, I
New Orleans, Jan. 2$, 1879. f
Mr. Hugh W. Montgomery, Agent Messrs. JohB
D. Moore A Co., 261, 262 and 283 Broadway,
New York, for Vigier's Improved French
Process for Disincrlisting Boilers;
Dear Sin—i hav» tried the disincrustant you
are the agent for thoroughly. We have been
using it for several weeks. I did this as a per-
sonal favor to you, for I generally dislike mnk-
ing experiments. I can only say that I am glad
I have give* the disincrustant a trial, for it has
turned out by far the best thing of its kind that
I have ever used. It comes u_p to all its claims
on its printed circular, and in future I shall
recommend Messrs. A. Thomson & Co. to use
It exclusively in their boilers, over and in pref-
erence to any o.-ier process for di sine rusting
steam boilers.
I remain, very respectfully,
JAMES T. KING,
Engineer Crescent City Sugar Refinery.
W# indorse the above.
A THOMSON A CO.
Leeds's foundry. i
New Orleans. Feb. 8. 1879 f
Mr. Bngh W. Montgomery, New Orleans. La.,
Agent for Vigier's Improved French Process
for tdsincrusting Steam Boilers:
Dear Sm—After having used the Vigier Pro-
cess tor some months, and given it a fair and
full trial, we can state that it has produced the
most satisfactory results on our boilers by re-
moving incrustations aud effectually prevent-
ing the formation of the same.
we cordially recommend it to those using
boilers. ARCHIBALD MITCHEL,
Supt. Leeds's Foundry.
HENRY RENNVSON,
Chief Foreman.
LEEDS A CO.,
Proprietors Leeds's Foundry.
jJiscount to the Trade.
S*n« for Circular, to Hl'GH TV.
niO.\'XR»^lI'.R V. I 60 Coin in;.II »!..
New Orleans, Sole A»«'iit for tlie
SouthwfRt and lolaiid oK'uha.
C. B Lee. D. Weber. Josvua Miller.
LEE IRON WORKS
c. b. lee & co.,
Iron & Brass Founders
AND
machinists.
MANUFACTURERS OF
STEAM ENGINES,
SAWMILLS
BOILERS,
Mill and Uin Gearing,
Mh aft ins, Pnllejf*, Brass and Irsn
Pumps, Etc.
Particular attention given to orders for Iroa
Fronts and Castings for Buildings.
All kinds of Job Work solicited*
Satisfaction Guaranteed.
Cor. Wi»»ie and Tbirty-second Sts,
(Near Railroad Depot,)
GALVESTON, TEXAS.
(Established IflK).]
E.S. Wood&Son,
IMPORTERS OP
.3NTI3
HARDWARE
stuastd,
GALVESTON, ..... TEXAS.
GALVESTON DEPOT
ROOFING, PilhTS, PAPER, ETC.,
Fire, W*ti>r and Acid-Proof
ROOFING. SIDING, DECKING
goof-goatin?, paints, cements,
Vessel; House aud Iron Paints. As-
phaitnm Paiut and Varnlii,
Ilo.ler and Steam-Pipe
Coverings,
Sheathing Lininsr and Roof Felts
AS8EST0S I RUBBER MATERIALS
Saturated Tarred Paix-r,
Flasterina Paper Boards.
ORRMENTAL &KD VANISHED CEILING
Painted and Varnished Carpeting,
Hloth-Proof Cr "pet aud Lining
~ " ud
Paper. Paper Lip-Boards and
Splashers, hoof Brushes,
Nails, Tacks, Ete.
TO ARRIVE, A LARGE STOCK OF THE
above roods, including tht* latest Im-
proved, best and clhla.pe.-t articles in the >1 ia.
Orders solicited from the city and country.
Circulars furnished, etc. Address
B. S. PARSONS, A*t.,
my8 tf 170 Postoffice Street, ("aW-ston.
WEST
Machine, boiler and blacksmith
WORK for Railroads. Bndk-es, lotton
Presets. Buildings, etc. lilacfc and galvanized
pipe for water and steam, Awning pipes fur-
nished at short notice. Brass valve cocks,
machine bolts, cast iron washors, ar«d fittings
for .steam pip«-s , . . _ «.
Cotton Yard Trucks alwavs m stock. Job
work solicited and promptly attended to, at
very iow figures. 07 Westbiraad. ap4 &AW
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