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Weather ProgiiOfttlc*.
The probabilities today for the South At-
lantic ami Gulf States. Tennessee and the
*>hio Valley. ore increasing cloudiness and
b'.iiit in th»* Gulf State*. Tennessee and the
Ohio Valley, and posaibly in the South At-
lantic States, with light winds, mostly from
tin- SiHithwest. falling barometer and risiug
temperature.
Cojiei.Ai* rs are frequently made of non-re-
• eipt of the Nkws. The paper is mailed regu-
larly. and whatever fault exists in its delivery
uiiiHt Im* atl rihuted to irregularity of mails or
earelessnesM of |M»stmasters.
It often iM-rurs that siibseriliers forwarding
complaint* forget to give their poatofllett ad-
dress. which prevents that inquiry and remedy
w hull Mill promptly ftrilow all eases brought to
notice.
Subserilieri. whenever they have occasion to
lid dress lis. Mill please forward their letters or
postal cards front the js»stoftlee at which they
expect to receive their paj»ers, giving always
the name of the post office and the county in
which it is situate.
Society and tin- Kiiihvny.
\V«» is*iif with Jiulne Hell
mi liir. assertion <>f tho tmtiscemlen-
1:11 cliiinw iif tin' railway to the
ilcliTi'iu i' of society. This is a case
where the oloquont partiality of
the ailvocaie soars to a height that
is perilous to liis rause. To affirm
thai the country is supremely in-
ilchlol to railmail cor]N>mti(>HH for
its siH'ial and material progress, is
ti-o pal|>alile an exaggeration. It
shocks reason anil the sense of jus-
tice. anil must stagger the belief of
the most credulous. We heartily
concede that the railway is a very
useful agency. Among all the me-
cliauical improvements of the age
none is entitled to rank higher.
Hut why should it be dei-
ticdWhy should it be nuide
an object of fetish worship i
Why should mankind acknowledge
iL as the god of their social and
secular destiny, and devote to it
rites and sacrifices according to
the «Dspel of St. Gould, St. Yander-
hilt. or St. Scott With all respect
forjudge Bell's apotheosizing elo-
quence touching the organized and
embodied railway genius of the
time, we submit that the people of
Texas, in common with the people
of the country at large, are not pre-
pared to unite, with religious im-
plicitness. in a confession of faith
promulgated by a grand council
of railroad lobbies. And yet we ut-
terly disavow hostility to railroads.
We have no share in the
feeling to which he refers when he
deplores "the constant prejudice
and outcry against railroads." We
deny that such a sentiment per-
vades the public mind of Texas. It
is certainly not manifest in the
public policy of the State. We
make no exception of the policy in-
dicated by the late Constitutional
Convention. That body was emi-
nently generous in granting exten-
sions of time to railroad companies
which would otherwise have for-
feited their charters. It secured
them their bounties from the State,
and released them from the stipu-
lated performance of their recipro-
cal obligations to the State. De-
pend upon it. in the long run
the best friendship for the
railroad interest, and the wisest
advocacy of the continued develop-
ment ol railroad enterprise, are to
lie found in doing justice between
that interest and the public and in
putting a true estimate upon the
relations which such enterprise
hears to society and civilization.
Let it be understood that railroads
may perform an excellent office as
a means, but that they may be-
come au absolute oppression if
tliev are allowed to absorb consid-
eration as an end. I^et it be un-
derstood that the object of civiliza-
tion is not to magnify railroad cor-
porations, or enthrone and aggran-
dize railroad kings, but that the
object of railroads is to magnify
humanity, assist all the other use-
ful instrumentalities of society, im-
prove the general condition of the
people, and secure lietter advan
tages for every human being
within the scope of civilization.
There is no reason to fear that any
legitimate interest in Texas will
sutler from a public policy which
seeks the legitimate, and only the
legitimate, development of rail
road enterprise, because it is in
spired with a just idea of the im-
portance of the railway as a sub-
ordinate agency in the pursuit of
the public welfare.
Northern Mexican Mines.
Tlie mint s of Northern Mexico arc
I'.mnil by recent explorations and ex
:imin:itii>iim to lie much richer than sup
posed, I lie deposits embracing gold, sil-
ver, copper, iron, lead, quicksilver, an
limony. bismuth, nickel anil plumbago.
A well-informed correspondent of the
San Francisco Morning fall says there
is a format inn extending through Sierra
M.nlre as peculiar as the Comrtoek Lode,
and rich lievond computation. He says
that in mining experience no highly
paying ore lias ever been found at a
greater depth than two thousand feet,
and that the Comstoek Lode can not, at
best, be expected to last more than ten
years longer, while the mines of North
em Mexico are practically inexliausti
l.lu—they can be worked for generations
and then be scarcely touched. A great
advantage possessed by these mines over
almost all others is that they are lo-
cated in the heart of a forest that ex
tends six hundred miles north and
south, and three hundred miles east and
west, affording an inexhaustible supply
of timber, while !.»i:ig streams rush
t hrougli every mountain gorge, doing
away v. it Ii the great mining bugbear,
a lack of water.
The only reason these valuable tie
posits have not been made to yield their
tribute to the wealth of the world has
been lack of transportation, which will
soon be supplied. With proper energy
■arly
Not Representative.
The failure to pass au amnesty
bill in the national House of Rep-
resentatives. although a large ma-
jority of the House is in its favor,
affords another instance of minor-
ity rule. It is true that the pro-
scription which the bill proposed to
repeal expressed a sentiment which
prevailed when the Fourteenth
Amendment, containing it. was
adopted. Is it right, or is it whole-
some, that a prevalent sentiment
of ten years ago should override
in law and in government a
prevalent sentiment of to-day t
It is an incident of our
constitutional system, and many
may regard the fact as a sufficient
answer. But to assume tlie perfec-
tion of our constitutional system is
not argument, it is only begging
the question. Under this system
the Senate usually represents ideas
that are obsolete or becoming so,
and. as we have seen, the House is
incapable of reflecting the public
opinion of the hour. In England
such discrepancies are unknown.
The parliamentary government of
that country may have its defects
and its dangers, but it is represen-
tative. There public opinion, well
defined and decided 011 any subject,
never fails to make itself felt in
government. No ministry dares
to disregard it. In fact, it is
hardly too much to say that the
English constitution is public opin-
ion interwoven with the traditions,
the customs, the patriotic virtues
and aspirations of the people. It
is unwritten, but it is always intel-
ligible anil never inefficient. Our
final constitution in this country
must also be infused with the ge-
nius of the people and must also
be responsive to public opinion,
unless we are to have a govern-
ment permanently divorced from
the elements of a representative
republic.
Turning; State's Kvldenec.
The fictions and conflicts of law arc
proverbial. There is a principle of law
that forbids the compromise of felonies,
and a practice which allows an accom-
plice in them to evade punishment by
betraying his associates or implicating
others perhaps innocent. The testimo-
ny of one convicted of crime is greatly
impaired, and that of a man who ac-
knowledges his guilt, and evades its
consequences by denouncing others, is
little, if any, better. In fact, it would
seem to he worse, as a motive for per-
jury is presented in the olfer of immu-
nity for the offense charged against the
party who turns State's evidence. The
laws and practice upon this subject are
far from being uniform or well defined;
anil, while so many attempts are made
to improve criminal codes in other mat-
ters, this would probably bear investi-
gation ami amendment.
In the Legislature of California Creed
Haymond has introduced a bill to
amend the Penal Code in the matter of
the conviction for criminal offenses, so
that a conviction can not be had on the
testimony of an accomplice, unless he
is corroborated by other evidence,
which, in itself, and without the aitl of
the testimony of the accomplice, con-
victs the defendant with the commis-
sion of the offense, and such corrobora-
tion is not sufficient, if it merely shows
the commission of the offense or the
circumstances thereof.
The Call thinks the effect of the
proposed change is to tlo away with
the testimony of an accomplice entirely,
and supposes tlie object of the bill is to
remove the temptation from weak,
reaeherous and malicious persons who
are charged with offenses, to criminate
others with a view to escape themselves.
That paper, however, mentions as an
objection to the proposed change that
the fear of the treachery or weakness of
accomplices is now one of the checks
upon the criminal classes. This seems
like an adherence to the old doctrine,
set a thief to catch a thief, anil an en-
couragement of the policy of filling the
land with spies, making, as is the case
in some old nations, every man the in-
quisitor of his neighbors' or associates'
conduct. The Cull opposes the amend-
ment on the ground that, should it be-
come a law, criminals may form bands
and feel free from conviction on the
testimony of their associates, the
only parties likely to he able
to expose them. That paper says, if
one is captured, his testimony will not
convict another unless that other was
already substantially convicted, and
flit "if some member of the Senate
should move to amend the title so that
it would read. 'An act to enable crim-
inal lawyers to clear their clients, the
fleet, if not the purpose of the bill,
would be defined witli a sufficiently
close approach to accuracy." On tlie
other hand, it may be urged that, under
the present practice, criminals may
scape punishment for their violations
of law by declaring that others are
juilty of the same or like offenses,
is an 11I11 adage that the biggest
is the first to turn State's evi-
Tlie Houston Convention.
XOTKS AMD
speculations
rORTEIi.
of a re-
Demoeratle County Convention.
The call of the Chairman of the Coun-
ty Executive Committee for a meeting
of tlie ward clubs on Saturday night
next, to select delegates to tlie County
Convention, to meet on the following
Friday, settles the question that has
perplexed voters and candidates as to
the manner of nominating candidates.
Several prominent politicians preferred
the plan of primary election, but, it
having been determined to adhere to
the old custom of delegates and conven-
tion. it is presumed that they will ac-
quiesce.
The character of the delegations sent
by the wards of the city to the late
State Convention demonstrates the pos-
sibility of always sec uring proper repre-
sentatives of the Democracy by tlie ward
clubs. All that is necessary is for those
most interested in seeing tlie govermcnt
properly administered, and wlio are
best qualified to shape public policy, to
attend and make their influence felt at
the primary gatherings.
Those who have made it their busi-
ness to manipulate ward meetings in tlie
past took it for granted that citizens
who remained away felt no interest in
the nominations, and in many instances
put forward men who were objectiona-
ble to a large and most respectable num-
ber of people. The way to prevent
like occurrences ii) the future is for tlie
people to turn out in answer to the call
of the Presidents of ward clubs, as they
did when delegates were to lie named to
the State Convention.
It is of more direct importance to the
citizens of Galveston that capable,
faithful and efficient officers should be
found to administer the affairs of the
county than that the greatest favorite
should be honored by a State office.
The State can not be kept to the high
standard it should occupy with the
county business in tlie hands of un-
faithful or incompetent officials. The
prevention of mistakes in selection of
public officers is easy—to apply the
remedy after their election is difficult,
perplexing and expensive, and it is to
be hoped that in nomira'ions to be made
for the county offices none but men of
acknowledged merit, ability and hon-
esty will be designated.
Unless this is done, it is certain that
independent candidates will lie placed
in the field, and the obnoxious nomi-
nees, running under the indorsement of
the convention, be disastrously defeat-
ed. The time has come when private
interest must give way to public good,
and the prompt recognition of that fact
by the County Convention in making
nominations will be appreciated by all . ... ......
, , , i . • noted its eloquent strain in vindication
who hold to the sjood old Democratic < „ , , , ,
of tlie railroad power, as hedged 111 and
The election of A. 15. Norton, of Dal-
las, as one of the delegates to the Na-
tional Convention, was distressing to
the faction of the party led by ex-Gov.
Davis. Capt. Boy-le. of this city, was
the Davis candidate, but Tracy and the
Secretary, though favoring the Davis
faction, were thought to lie inimical
to Boyle, and the hitter's friends inti-
mate that he was counted out after get-
ting the most votes. Such was the con-
fusion in the convention and careless-
ness in keeping tally of the votes, that
a fraud might have been easily perpe-
trated if Mr. Tracy had been capable of
such an act. There is. perhaps, no man
living who would believe this possible.
The Davis wing had, up to that time,
been very jubilant, anil looked upon
the removal of Sabin, Shields and Pur-
nell as certain, and the friends of the
last named were correspondingly dis-
heartened, but this last check and the
discreditable character of the proceed-
ings are expected to have a good influ-
ence against any action of the displac-
ing power.
The nominee for the State Treasury
is a German, now Treasurer of Harri-
son county. It is doubtful whether
the Republicans would have riominated
this gentleman, if the ticket had stood
any chance of success. Perhaps it is
unnecessary to say anything further of
this gentleman.
Animosities existing between the fac-
tions in a political party are usually
most bitter and unyielding, and it is
fortunate for the Democracy that this
was the case in the recent convention at
Houston, for had it not been so, in all
probability Flanagan would have been
nominated for Sovernor, and he said
both at Austin upon the adjournment
of tlie Constitutional Convention and
at Houston, that lie would beat Coke or
any other man who favored the adop-
tion of the new constitution, and it is
unquestionable that he would have wil-
lingly done so.
Judge James II. Bell's speech before
the Republican Convention at Houston
was made to furnish the opposition to
the new constitution with inspiration.
He was put forward as the intellectual
Ajax of that cause. Judge Bell, it is
understood, would have been the Re-
publican nominee for Governor if he had
yielded to solicitation. But his pur-
pose is not to be subserved by a per-
sonal notoriety of that sort. Those who
listened to his highly intellectual effort
marked its bearing and direction, and
doctrine that the "greatest goof" of tlie
greatest number" should be the end
aimed at by conventions in making
nominations, as well as by officers in the
administration of public affairs.
Nomination!) In tlie Country.
JfSst af the nominations made by the
interior district conventions for mem-
bers of the Legislature appear to be ac-
ceptable, a notable feature of tlie nomi-
nations being the very large number
made by acclamation.
No excuse exists in any section of tlie
State for using other than the very best
class of people for members of the
Legislature, and the indications are that
when this precaution is neglected or
disregarded in the interest of aspiring
politicians, the people are prepared to
vindicate themselves, and will give sup-
port to candidates who repudiate parti-
san dictation, and ask their suffrages 011
account of merit and ability to properly
represent their constituents.
Considering that the next Legislature
will be charged with the duty of putting
the machinery of government to work
under the new organic law, it is essen-
tial to the prosperity of the State that
good, true and capable men shall be
elected. If the Democratic conven-
tions present men who meet public ex-
pectation in these respects, their elec-
tion will be certain; if they do not, it
will be the imperative duty of the peo-
ple to give emphasis to their displeas-
ure by putting acceptable candidates in
the field and electing them.
It is said that the Grangers of Ken
tucky have liecn so exclusive in electing
farmers to the Legislature that the
Speaker is unable to find lawyers
enough iu that body from which to con-
struct the Committee 011 the Judiciary.
Of tlie one hundred members, less than
a dozen are lawyers, and of these a ma-
jority have made politics, rather than
the law, a profession. The fact is, that
tlie best lawyers are usually found at
the bar or 011 the bench, and that those
who run for political office neglect and
lose their practice and waste in political
discussion the time necessary to acquire
a profound knowledge of the law.
A nominat. prosecution may. it seems,
be better in some cases than a nolle
prosequi. The latter means literally an
unwillingness to proceed. The former
may be construed as a disposition to
advance backwards." The Washing
circumscribed by the new constitution,
must have felt—his antecedent employ-
ment by the railway companies be-
ing known — that the occasion was
taken to put in a special plea for the
railroad corporations, and that this ablest
of our railroad advocates was encour-
aged by the action of the Democratic
State Convention to openly enter the
contest in their behalf. Tlie speech could
not have been intended for the hour or
for the assembly. There was nothing
in the collection of factious "outs"
[ind fearful " ins," nothing in the up-
turned faces of stolidity and ignorance
bearing the impress of all the distin
guisliing animal passions, so plain to
the spectator, to call forth the elaborate
spcecli which this astute lawyer and
forcible speaker there delivered.
"Tlie Life and Adventures of L.
1>. l.afl"erty"
Is the title of a neat volume, by A. H.
Abney, of Rockport, Texas, issued
from the press of Goodsliead & Co.,
New York. It is a story of adventures
in Arkansas and Texas early in the
present century, and extending up to
tlie end of last year, tlie liero of the
story being still alive and a resident of
Atascosa county, in this State. He
spent his early years among trappers,
hunters and wild Indians, and ranged
over the wilderness from Northern
Arkansas to Galveston, meeting with
many ail ventures, dangers and hard-
ships among wild beasts, savages and
Mexicans. He visited Galveston first
in 1818, when Lafitte and Aury held the
place, and .eturned again with Gen.
Long's expedition. He describes Lafitte
as a most gentlemanly pirate, hospita-
ble. liberal and polite, living in hand-
some and luxurious style, with plenty
of negro servants; but says he declined
to take service under the pirate chief.
He says the island has increased greatly
in size since then. Lafferty accompanied
Col. Gaines from Nacogdoches, in 1819,
when Gen. Long sent to open commu-
nication with Lafitte anu Aury at Gal-
veston, and represents Lafitte at that
time as actively engaged in smuggling
African negroes into Louisiana.
Lafferty says that he was captured
with Gen. Long, by the Spaniards, at
Lapantitlan, carried to the City of Mex-
ico; that Long was set at liberty in that
city only to lie butchered by a mob,
"which be could see indistinctly, but
plainly hear," as they, with horrid oaths,
There
rogue
dence.
and bludgeons, 011 the pulilic plaza.
Lafferty was afterward released on the
demand of Gen. Poinsett, United States
nister to Mexico, and returned to
Texas by land and on foot, reaching
The action of the City Council yes-
terday in promptly disavowing and (lis
countenancing the action of the Chief
Engineer and members of the Fire De-
partment in bringing suit against tlie
barkentine Mary Frost, for salvage, will
meet the approbation of their constit-
uency. Any other conclusion on the
part of the Council would have been
unsustained by the city ordinance
which provide that it shall be the
"duty "of tlie Chief Engineer of the
Fire Department, "with the force and
ton special of the Cincinnati Enquirer J proceeded to dispatch him with knives
says the prosecution of Babcock, the
President's private secretary, for par-
ticipating in the whisky frauds, is to be
conducted in such a manner as to acquit
him; but the case has become so noto-
rious that it is necessary to subject him | San Felipe in 1823, but he only stopped
to at least the form of a trial.
lie will without doubt be acquitted j
for the reason that 110 evidence which
would necessitate his conviction will be
submitted to the jury, nor will any evi
tlence be submitted in any of the cases |
which would tend to implicate those
parties high in the Republican party I
who have been for some time suspected )
of complicity. The movement may be
summedup in the statement that all the;
influence of the administration liaslieen
Capt. S. B. Oreenman.
The Narragansett (R. I.) Weekly of
of December SOtli contains a lengthy
biographical sketch of the late Capt.
Silas B. Greenman. of the City of Waco.
Tlie sketch was read at the conclusion
of memorial services on the death of
Capt. Greenman. held Christmas Day,
to a large audience, in the church at
Westerly. Rhode Island, of which de-
ceased was a member. After referring
to the early life of Capt. Greenman, who
was born at Mystic. Connecticutt, Sep-
tember 16. 1833. the narrative goes onto
show that the lamented master of the
City of Waco conceived in youth a
passionate desire to lead a sailor's life.
At the age of 16 he made his first voy-
age to Texas in the schooner Hazard
with Capt. Perry Saunders as master,
and his brother, Wm. Greenman, as
mate. When but 21 years old he took
command of the brig Lavaca. The
sketch then gives this thrilling incident
in his life:
Two years latter the brig was dis-
masted in a hurricane in the Gulf of
Mexico. A trying time for a captain,
who was little more than a boy! He
proved, however, equal to the emer-
gency. Crawling upon his hands and
knees over the wind-swept, wave-wash-
ed deck, be succeeded in cutting tlie
rigging from the side where it was still
hanging. For the next forty
hours, with nothing to eat, he,
with his crew, was lashed to the
ship to keep from being washed over
board. The storm abated at last, and
he put into Pensacola for repairs, af-
terward proceeding on his way to Port
Lavaca, Texas. On the homeward
voyage the ship began to leak liadly,
and it soon became apparent that, while
undergoing repairs at Pensacola, the
worms had eaten into the vessel so
extensively as to make it un-
seaworthy. The men were kept con-
stantly at" the pumps, but there were
continuous head winds, and progress
was slow. It became doubtful whether
with the unfavorable weather the ship
could ever reach port. At length, when
off Charleston, a ship appearing in
sight, they reluctantly set the signal of
distress, and prepared to abandon the
Lavaca. In a short time, however, the
wind suddenly changed in their favor,
the signal of distress was taken down,
and the ship was brought safely to tlie
Delaware Breakwater. Here * severe
weather suddenly came 011, the
ship was frozen in, and the
sufferings that followed were se-
vere. Capt. Greenman, however,
walked ashore on the ice, went to New-
York, procured a steam tug and men to
work the pumps—(the hands of the
crew, as well as his own, were too
badly frosted for effective service)—
went down to the breakwater after the
ship, and brought her to New York, ar-
riving home in February, 1857. The
winter of that year will long be remem-
Jjered for its severity.
After following Capt. Greenman
through an active life, the narrative
ends with a high tribute to his moral
worth and fine business qualifications.
Ji'dge John R. Fi.ippin, of Mem-
phis, is a candidate for Mayor, and
should be elected by all the rules of
rhetoric. The jurors of the Criminal
Court of that city- have given him an in-
dorsement to make a modest man Ijlusli.
The jurors, to the number of twenty-
live, sign and publish a document, in
which they say they "have met, gentle-
men, with one accord, to perform one
of the most pleasing duties of human
obligation. That duty is to deal justly
with the just, kindly with the kind,
worthily with the worthy, and honora-
bly with the honored," It is not to be
charged that the model of this sentence
was drawn from the speech of the law-
yer who "roamed with Romulus and
ripped with Euripides." Tlie docu-
ment proceeds:
Our just, kind, worthy, and most
honored friend and fellow-citizen, John
R. Flippin, whom we all admire, reve-
rence and esteem, and of whom all our
people are so justly proud, has, as you
ire aware, resigned his judgeship of
our criminal court, and is now on the
eve of leaving this honored position he
" ias so ably filled, in answer to the call
of our city to preside over her in-
terests. In view of our friendship, in
its fullest sense, it is now deemed be-
fitting that we wrlio know him so well
and so favorably, should give him a
ii'titcr expression of our regard.
After what the jury calls these " ex-
planative remarks," it was resolved that
they " have never served under a jurist
who possessed as many good, and as
few inferior, qualities as lion. John R.
Flippin," and "never have known his
superior in quick, searching penetra
tration, or in his equanimity of self
possession and circumspection;" that
they "can not estimate too highly, nor
commend too sincerely, his dignified
yet open, free, urbane and genial man-
ner; tempered, as it ever has been, by a
true sense of official grace and un-
flinching justice, which have at all times
won for him the approving smiles and
confidence of those around himthey
regard his official administration as an
honor to himself, to his profession, and
to his country; and that we commend
it as a precedent to all who may in the
future succeed him—a precedent that
an not fail in its clear, concise, and
yet comprehensive charges to the jury;
they " more especially recommend his
administration as a precedent, believ-
ing, as we do, that its uniform exhibi
tion of judicious courtesies and pruden
tial forbearances, to both the bar and
the jury, as in the past, will continue in
the future, to most effectively conserve
the apt, expeditious and economical
ends of justice."
This is a great improvement on the
old style in such indorsements.
for a short time, and proceeded
to Arkansas. He returned to
! iu 1825. In 1820 he made his
at Nacogdoches; but after pass-
there
back
Texas
home
ing through many troubles and dan
gers, returned to Arkansas, where he
remained until he met Gen. Houston on
his way to Texas, and soon after fol
lowed in his footsteps, returned to Gal
veston for the third time in 1832, and
brought to bear to render the acquittal 1 proceeded to Yelasco, where he was in
of Babcock certain, and the only reason
why the case is not nolle proseqnkd is be-1
cause the President thinks it is the best
apparatus under his command, to pre- | policy to let the form of trial be gone
vent the destruction of buildings, ves-
on the part, of Texans, and an
completion of the connections between I policy and the interests of
the roads already constructed and those | Galveston.
under progress, with the extension of
the California roads, the boundTef
wealth locked up in the mines of North
cm and New Mexico, Arizona, anil tin
intermediate sections, will find one of
its chief distributing points at the city
of Galveston.
Tlie live men of Galveston will read
ily understand that every development
of the resources of the country to the
Avest and south adds to the possibilities
of their city. They can not but have
realized the palpable fact that in those
directions mainly lies that expanding
domain of trade upon which they must
depend for future prosperity, ami that
every delay in providing transportation
facilities to the sections from which
business must lie brought, is n postpone
mint of that destiny for Galveston
which it is the duty, no less than tli
interest of every citizen to promote,
Is and property, by fire, within the
city of Galveston." The case is now in
court awaiting adjudication, but the
City Council disclaims and refuses to
take any interest in it. The members
agree with public sentiment that to ad-1 Vrju.m \icl ean
vancc such claims and institute such
proceedings is decidedly opposetl to the
the port of
through with.
Such rigorous prosecutors as Gen.
Henderson are not to be allowed to take
part in the case.
The late anniversary of the battle of
New Orleans passed without any gene-
ral observance by the country at large.
The fact is that tlie country is so well
supplied with holidays that it is becom-
ing necessary to drop some of them;
and as Andrew Jackson fought his great
battle after the treaty of peace had been
signed and it was a barren victory, ex-
cept iu glory, people begin to think less
of it than formerly. It is, however, by
no means the only great battle that was
ever fought without benefit to anybody.
A St. Loris paper warns people of
that city that three nionthsof winter are
yet before them, and advises them to
prepare to face the cold. It may be brave
to do so, or even unavoidable with many
people, but it would lie wise for such as
can leave to come to Texas, where sum-
mer is almost perpetual.
Tennessee is now hanging licr high
toned citizens. A late paper says of
who was hanged at
Jackson:
Calmly, silently and sternly lie met
his awful fate, without a bosom friend
near liim, almost scoffing at human sym-
pathy, and defying human pity. With
Roman sternness he seemed to con
quer death. In a felon's cell the mur-
derer lay, from the springing of the
violets in '74 until the wild winds of
winter sang their rude lullaby by the
cradle of the infant '70; and during all
this long and dreary period, shut out
from the sweet " wandering airs" of
heaven, the golden smile of morning,
and gorgeous kaleidoscope of the settinj
sun, lie maintained a stoical exterior-
an appearance of that indifference tt:
the shock of the bolts of fate which
found its most emphatic type iu the red
warriors of our primeval wilderness.
The salary of that reporter should be
raised to three dollars a week.
The Ohio Grand Lodge Committee
favors antl recommends the recognition
of tlie colored lodges in that State.
The organs of the Masonic fraternity do
not seem to relish the idea, and op-
pose it.
the battle that ended in the capture of
the Mexican garrison. lie then return
etl to Nacogdoches and was engaged in
the troubles in that region until his
lieal tli gave way, and he returned again
to Arkansas, where he remained until
1855, when he returned to end his day:
in Texas; but his battles and misfor
tunes had not ended. He met with
some severe struggles with Mexicans
and Indians 011 the Rio Grande; and
bail little peace or repose until the close
of tlie late war between the States.
The book is full of such stories as de
light the lovers of adventure in the
wilderness.
Whatever may be the feelings of
the French, the Germans seem to hav
gotton over the hostilities between
Ihese peoples during their late war. The
Frankfort Zeitnng states that before the
war Bcrliu had only 200 French arti
sans, but it has now 2400. Prince Von
Pless employs French workmen ex
clusively. sixty in number, in the ercc
tion of his new Renaissance mansion.
A feature of the observance of New
Year's Day in Chicago was, the Tribune
of that city says, the general absence of
wine from the parlors and dining
rooms. When Chicago inaugurates
moral reform of this kind, it is full time
for the people of other cities to take
I warning.
WASHINGTON.
The Committees on Pacific Roads
and Indian Affairs (Jetting
to Work.
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A Question Involving the Validity
of South Carolina's Represen-
tation in the House.
[Special to the Gdlcexton Keics. ]
Washtxoton", Jan. 15, 1870.
The House Committee 011 Pacific
Railroads has voted to proceed with the
consideration of t lie Texas Pacific bill
on Wednesday next, and invite Tom
Scott and other advocates of the bill
to be present and present its claims. It
is also reported that the managers of
this scheme are preparing to overwhelm
Congress with memorials for govern-
ment aitl to build their road. Petitions
are circulated for signatures on all lines
of the Pennsylvania Road by men in its
employ; and the influence of the com-
pany of that road all throughout Penn-
sylvania is so great that these petitions
receive numerous signatures.
The Sub-Conunittee on Indian Affairs
to-day considers bills for the transfer of
the care of Indians to the War Depart-
ment. No vote was taken, but discus-
sions developed favorable sentiments
for the change. The committee decided
to solicit the views of Gen. Sherman be-
fore definitely disposing of the subject.
[Associated Press.]
South Carolina.
Wasitixotox. Jan. 15.—The House
Election Committee heard the argument
from W. H. Trescott, that the Third
Congressional District of South Caro-
lina was not entitled to a representative,
because not wholly a contiguous terri-
tory, one county not touching any
other six. In an argument, submitted
in behalf of Hoge, representing the dis-
trict, Judge Pascal suggested that the
question submitted by Trescott bears
upon the validity of all other South
Carolina representatives; if one district
were null, the State had not been
legally districted, and the present Legis-
lature must redistrict and order a new
election in all districts.
The election committee have decided
to take the map as evidence in the
Third South Carolina Congressional
District contest, which shows that one
county is separated twenty-five miles
from the rest of the district, and plain-
ly in violation of an act of Congress.
The committee, however, before acting
will inquire into the matter of passing
the act by the Legislature, and if satis-
fled it was done for preventing repre-
sentation to minority', Hoge will be 1111
seated. Tlie question of unseating the
balance of the delegation is not before
the committee, being a mere side sug-
gestion.
Senator Gordon Ou Amnesty.
The Chronicle makes amends for the
misrepresentation of Gen. Gordon's
view's on amnesty. It now correctly
represents Gen. Gordon's position, as
follows: He (Senator Gordon) is op-
posed to any conditions connected with
amnesty, but wishes it free and uni-
ersal. He will not vote for a bill
hich excludes Mr. Davis, as he can
not consent to be a party to discrimina-
tion against the ex-Confederate Presi-
dent. If, however, a bill for universal
amnesty can not be passed without at-
taching to it the proposed oath to sup-
port the constitution, he would vote
:'or the bill with such an amendment.
The Louisiana Troubles.
Iii view of reported disturbances in
three of tlie pm'ishes of Louisiana, the
Attorney General will soon, by direc-
tion of the President, prepare a letter
addressed to United States District At-
torney Beckwith, directing him to use
all efforts to quiet the disturbances and
to execute the enforcement act by
bringing all offenders to trial. Tlie
President, as he expressed himself in
conversation to-day. seems determined
to preserve the public peace as far as it
is in liis power to do so.
Department Notes.
William E. Austin, new Third Audi-
tor, assumed his office to-day.
Week's customs—receipts" 5 1-8 mil-
lions, against 3 5-8 millions same week
last year.
Everxst, who is supposed to know-
all about the St. Louis whisky frauds,
whose absence from the trials created
so much gossip a month ago, has been
found and will take the stand when tho
prosecution against McKee commences
on the 20th. The recusant witness has
been abroad for the benefit of liis
wealth. He was at Rome when the
;overnment first found him, and only
consented to return and testify on the
assurance of tlie Department of Justice
that he would be let off with trifling pun
ishment, and that certain friends
St. Louis should receive absolute im
munity. The government accepted the
terms of Everist, and so notified him
by cable dispatch, but he was unwilling
to take official assurances and remained
abroad until he heard from the friend
he desired to screen that they had been
protected. Everist whs nominally
gauger when the ring broke, but was
actually the business manager of the
concern, having succeeded Fitzroy, and
attending to the collections and
turning over of the weekly earnings to
Joyce. The St. Louis Times says there
is 110 doubt that Everist is the ouly
man, as long as Joyce and McDonald
preserve silence, that can show up all
the workings of*the ring in its latest de
velopments.
In his valedi ctory message to the Le
gislature of Ohio, Govereor Allen says
"Thematter of professional vagrancy
is one worthy of your attention. I am
well aware that, owing to the general
paralyzation of business, a great many
honest and industrious men are out of
employment, and iu their efforts to find
remunerative labor go from place to
place with honest purpose. But within
a few years a class of vagrants have
grown up in our midst, who seize the
dullness of business as a pretext to
roam over the country, with no purpose
except to secure a living by begging or
illicit means. The evil should be ar
rested at once. The question is a diffi
cult and delicate one. Honest search
for employment must not be branded as
a crime, but vagrancy is a misdemeanor
in itself, which the" law should sup
1 press."
FOREIGN.
England Considering the Austrian
Note.
Strikes and Lock-Onts in
and Manufactories.
Mines
How MacMahon's Proclamation is
Regarded in Political Circles.
Great Britain.
London*. Jan. 15.—Six hundred weav-
ers of lower Ilcycs mills, at Maccles-
field, locked out" in consequence of a
disagreement between the proprietors
and the secretary of the weavers' union.
A portion of the North Wales col-
leries have again struck for higher
wages, and it is feared others will fol-
low.
A meeting was licit! yesterday, at
Derby, of the Iron Tradc Employers' As-
soclation. to consider a strike against
piece work by 100 members of the
Amalgamate Engineers' Society, at Eas-
ton it Anderson's works, at EritliKent.
The Iron Trade Employers' Association
will resist any attempt" of the societies
to restrict piece work in the shops of
members. It has resolved that the gen-
eral lock-out recommended by the exe-
cutive committee should not be resorted
to at present, as such a lock-out would
throw- out of employment 70,000 men.
France.
Parts, Jan. 15.—Snow- again inter-
rupted communication in South France
and Corsica. It is said consequently to
be impossible to hold elections for sena-
torial delegates in many places tw-nior
row.
Paris, Jan. 15.—President MacMa-
hon's proclamation has fallen rather
flat. Republican newspapers, which
were expected to' greet it with sharp
criticisms, appear, with the exception
of a few irreconcilables, delighted with
the recognition of the republic; and
the appeal for a fair trial of the consti-
tutional laws produced no effect in po-
litical circles. The prevalent opinion
is it leaves things as they w-ere. Satis-
faction is generally felt at the adjust-
ment of the ministerial crisis, but it is
utterly devoid of enthusiasm.
Germany.
London, Jan. 15.—The Pull Mull Ga-
zette has a special from Berlin that the
select committee of the Imperial Par-
liament, to whom the government pro-
posal for an amendment to the criminal
code was referred, resolved upon a di-
rect opposition to the government and
to favor jury trial for press offenses.
The proposed conference of German
maritime States for inquiries into ma-
rine disasters, is postponed six weeks in
order to give opportunity to study the
English systems.
Owing to opposition from some of
the smaller States, the government has,
for the present, limited tlie scheme pur-
chasing all railways to Prussia alone, in
which 110 serious difficulties are antici-
pated.
Turkish Afl'airs.
London, Jan. 15.—The Timez, in an
editorial, says the British Cabinet will
consider the answer to the Austrian
note next Tuesday. The Time." strongly
advises acceptance, and says Turkey's
answer may depend 011 England's deci-
sion.
The Vienna dispatch says it is
reported that twelve merchants of
Odessa have been transported to Libe-
ria for supplying arms to the Turks.
A Vienna telegram in the Po*t reports
serious differences among the insur-
gent leaders in Herzegovina. One
of tho leaders has quitted the insurgent
camp with his followers and gone to
Ragusa.
The Isle ol'St. Thomas.
London, Jan. 15.—The Pall Mall Ga-
el te has a special telegram from Copen-
agen saying, " I am authorized to con-
tradict the Teport of a proposed sale of
the island of St. Thomas, in the West
Indies, to Germany."
The idea was mooted in 1873 of ex-
hanging St. Thomas for North Sles-
wick, but was dismissed as impracti-
cable.
Esypt.
Alexandria, Jan. 15.—It is reported
that Egypt is negotiating w ith English
capitalists for the sale of Egyptian rail-
ways.
INDIAN0LA.
The Democracy of Calhoun Appoint
Delegates to the Senatorial
District Convention.
+
[Special to the Galveston JVcies.]
Indianot.a, Jan. 15, 1876.
The Democracy of Calhoun couuty
held a county convention this afternoon
at the county court-house. W. II.
Crain, Esq., chairman of the Democratic
Executive Committee, called the meet-
ing to order. David Lewis, Esq., was
appointed chairman.
The following delegates were ap-
pointed to attend the Senatorial and
District Convention, which meets at
Victoria 011 the 21st inst: W. II. Wood-
ward, W. II. Crain, I). C. Proctor,
George Stockdale, W. P. Milby, J. E.
Barlow, Captain Pullian. B. A. Hovt,
Captain Sheppard, D. Sullivan, and
sixty others.
W. H. Crain was recommended for
the Senate, and tlie delegates requested
to support him. General Woodward
was recommended for District Judge,
and the delegates instructed to support
him for that office.
The delegates were instructed to sup-
port the Hon. E. D. Linn, of Victoria,
for the Legislature.
There is no opposition to Sir. Crain,
and there is no doubt of his election.
There are two candidates for the judge
ship, but Gen. Woodward is the most
popular, and will, if elected, make an
able judge.
BEAUMONT.
Nominations in the First Senato-
rial District.
[Special to the Galveston
Beaumont, Jan. 14, 1870.
The Democracy of the First Senato
rial District met in Woodville, Tyler
county, on the 12th and nominated:
For"Senator—Hon. Edwin Hobby, of
Tyler county.
For Representatives—P. S. Watts,
Hardin county: J. C. McKennon, Poll,
county; T. M. Stone, Jasper county.
For District Judge—J. M. Crosson
Polk county.
HONEY GROYE.
Apportionment of Representation
in the Ninth District.
[Special to the Galveston Ne'icx. ]
Honey Grove, Jan. 15, 1870.
The District Convention for the
Ninth Senatorial District met here to
day, for the purpose of apportioning
the representation in the district. Fan
nin county was awarded the choice of
the Senator and local representative
Lamar, a local representative, and Delta
county the floater. W. 11. Lowit, of
Paris, was elected chairman of the Sen
atorial Executive Committee.
R. E. LEE.
The Anniversary of His Birthday
to be Celebrated in Kichiuond
Richmond, Jan. 15.—A meeting of
ex-Confederates was held here this even
ing to make arrangements to celebrate
the birthday of General R. E. Lee on
the 19th instant by a public meeting.
Governor Kemper will preside. Capt
J. Hampden Chamberlain, editor of the
Norfolk Virginian, will deliver the
oration. Arrangements are also made
to canvass the city for subscriptions to
the Lee Monument Fund.
Business Failures.
Winchester, Pa.. Jan. 15.—The as
sets of the Brandywine Bank, recently
suspended, amount to $00,000, .-S tO.OtK)
of which is doubtful.
Monticei.i.o, N. V.. .Tan. 15.—S. II,
White, County Clerk of Delaware coun
tv, and a heavy real estate operator, has
assigned.
New York, Jan. 15.—E. S. Munroe,
stock broker, has failed.
MARINE.
The Capt. Hewitt Case.
London, Jan. 15.—The inquiries by
tlie Board of Trade at Biddleford into
the loss of the British b.V k Island
Belle were concluded yesterday. It
has transpired that channel is-
land vessels, sailing from the
port where registered, are accustomed
to have a nominal captain, who is mate
to the real, but uncertified master.
Court suspended to certificate of the
nominal captain, Hewitt, for two years,
but expressed no opinion as to the death
of Lewis, who was alleged to have been
brutally kicked by Hewitt.
A Scene of Great Violence.
LtvERPOOL, Jan. 15.—The American
ship Caravan, Captain Waeftaer, left
the Waterloo dock at this place at 10
o'clock yesterday for New- York, had
proceeded but a few miles down the
river, as far as New Brighton, when
11 scene of great violence occurred 011
board. The captain states that the
crew who shipped just before the de-
parture of the ship were all drunk. As
oon as the Caravan got out into the
river the crew, who had been ordered
to duty, became insubordinate, and
threatened to kill himself as
well as the officers. He therefore
signaled to the river police,
who promptly boarded the Caravan and
took two of the ringleaders into custo-
dy. The remainder of the crew were
lying drunk about the deck; one was
very severely wounded during the riot.
The Caravan was detained in order to
ship a fresh crew.
Arrivals, Departures, etc.
New York, Jan. 15.—Arrived—Rot
terdam, France. The brig Marshal
Dutch, Havana for Mobile, has been
wrecked on the C'liandeleur Islands.
Arrived out—Western Empire, Milli
cent, Flor, Portia, Hoppet, Frank.
Homeward—Lina, Ball river, S. C.
The Glencoe, Charleston; Noel, Pen
sacola; Carl Gustaff, Bull river, Charles
ton; John H. Kranz, New Orleans.
London, Jam. 15.—Maria Greenleaf,
New Orleans for Liverpool, put into
Queenstown leaking badly.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Harry Clifford, Jack Hartnette and
John Sayres, notorious thieves, knocked
down the driver of a prison wagon and
escaped.
The head of a boiler in the Volksbla tt
printing office, Cincinnati, blew out
yesterday, fatally injuring one person
and hurting several others.
A cock-pit was raided in Boston yes
terday. Sixty-one people and sixty-
one fowls were captured. The men
were held to one hundred dollars bail
each. The fowls were released on their
own recognizance.
In order that any of the English Uni-
versities may accept the invitation to
the contest in the International College
boat race in America, it is indispensit
ble that the day for the event be fixed
considerably later than proposed.
New Orleans Casualties and Crimes
New Oiu.eans, Jan 15.—Mrs. N. Col
lier, aged seventy-five, burned to death,
her clothing having caught fire from
grate.
A child, four years old, w;as burned to
death, its clothing being fired by a play-
mate.
James Murphy, aged thirty, was shot
and instantly killed by James Mcrri-
man (colored), aged sixty. Murphy
and Merriman were carpenters, worked
together, and quarreled aliout earnings.
Merriman surrendered himself.
Asainst the Pennsylvania Road.
Lebanon, Jan. 15.—In the case of
Eliza Benson against the Philadelphia
and Pennsylvania Railroad, who was
carried beyond her destination, and be
came permanently disabled from con
sequent exposure to weather, a verdict
was given for plaintiff for $4250. The
road moved for a new trial.
The Kentucky Senatorship.
Frankfort, Jan. 15.—An ineffectual
ballot was had in joint session. The
Democrats caucused ineffectually. Sec
ontl joint ballot: Beck, 50; Williams
42; Leslie, 29; Wadswortli, 14. Ad
journed.
Collieries Besoming.
1 Pottsvillk, Pa., Jan. 15,—A large
number of collieries, worked by tlie
Reading ltailroad Company and private
parties, resume work, giving employ-
ment to a large number of men and
boys.
Report of an Indian Iflussat re.
St. Locis. Jan. 15.—-It is reported
that fifty Otoe Indians, on their way to
a buffalo hunting ground, were killed
by a band of Sioux.
Whisky Prosecutions.
India nat'w.is. Jan. 15.— McGriff. con
vieted 011 nine counts.
MARKETS RY TELEURAPH
Financial .Hatters.
foreign.
Paris. January 15.—Rentes 65f. 7TUe.
domestic.
New Orleans. January 15.—Goltl 113.
Sight Exchange V4 of 1 per cent discount.
Sterling, commercial. 54U<i<g 542*4; hank. 545U
<g 54H. ~ "*
New York, Jan. 15—10 a. jr.—Gold opened at
New York. January 15— Noon.— Stocks ac-
tive and better. Monej' 5 per ceut. Gold
113. Exchange, long. 485: short. 4s9. Gov-
ernments active and better. State bonds quiet
but strong.
New \ork. January 15—Evening.—Money
easy at 4(7? 5 per cent. Sterling quiet at
4M5 Gold 112%@.llo. Governments active
antl strong: new 5s. 117%. State bonds quiet
but steady.
Stocks closed active but strong. New York
Central lOKi^; Erie lti; Lake Shore 66^4:
Illinois Central 100^: Pittsburgh North-
western 4(»4: Northwestern preferred T2K>:
Rock Island 106%; Pacific Mail 38-te; Union
Pacific 70%. 8
SCB-TREASl'RY REPORT.
The Sub-Treasury balances are: Gold. $44.-
626.050; currency. $36.167.61:1 The Sub-Treas-
urer paid out S110.000 on accoiuaCot' interest,
and $107,000 for bonds. Customs receipts
$373,000.
BANK STATEMENT.
Loans, decrease. $1,375,000: specie, decrease.
$875,000; legal tenders, increase. $5,250,000:
deposits, increase. $6.250.0(H): reserve, increase.
$3,000,000.
Domestic Cotton Markets.
Houston. January 15.—Receipts of Cotton
by Central Railroad. 1552 bales; by Great
Northern, 703; shipments south, by rail. 874
bales; by boat 555 bales: shipments north, by
rail, 226 bales. Stock 2915 bales.
Market quiet and weak. Low Ordinary 7%c;
Ordinary 0c: Good Ordinary 10V£c: Low
Middling 11 y,r; Middling 12*4c: Good Mid-
dling 13c.
New York, January 15.—Cotton — Spot
opened dull and closed weak and irregular.
Sales 850bales to exporters. 1180 bales, to spin-
ners. and 1000 bales in transit; total 3030
bales.
Ordinary 094c: Good Ordinary 113-16c; Low
Middling 12 5-1 tic: Middling Uplands 13c;
Middling Alabama 13V£c: Middling Orleans
13 3-16c; Middling Texas 13 3-16c.
Futures opened weak, declined 011 first call
and finally closed quiet but steady. Sales
28,200 bales.
January 12 2J'-32c; February 13 l-16c; March
13 5-16c; April 13 17-32c; May 13 25-32c; June
14c; July 14 3-16e; August. 14? jc.
New York. January 15 Evening.—At the
Cotton Exchange the spot market has been
dull and lower. The position has been much
depressed by .. dull and declining market in
Liveri»ool. a decline in gold and exchange here,
and excessive receipts, both at the ports ami
interior towns. The Agricultural Bureau's re-
port fell fiat on the trade: no attention was
paid to it. in which there were significant
points. The crop is now estimated by many
at 4.250,000 bales. For future delivery there
has been almost a steady decline for the week.
It is an important reduction. At one time
there was some animation created by shorts
covering 011 contracts put out at higher figures
and by some speculative demand from the
South, but this soon died out, and the close is
dull and depressed.
New Orleans, January 15.—Cotton—De-
mand moderate Sales 75(H) bales. Or-
dinary 9%c; Good Ordinary 10c; Low Mid-
dling llJ4c; Middling 12^'c. Stock 298,636
bales.
Mobile, January 15.—Cotton—Market steady.
Sales 1500 bales. Good Ordinary 10%c: Low
Middling ll%c: Middling 12?gc.
Savannah. Jan. 15.—Cotton in fair demand,
Sales 2005 bales. Good Ordinary 11c; Low
Middling 12c; Middling 12«^c.
Charleston, Jan. 15.—Cotton easy. Sales
2000 bales. Good Ordinary 11 3-16c; Low Mid-
dling 12 5-16e: Middling 13c.
Boston, Jan. 15.—Cotton quiet. Good Or-
dinary ll^jjc; Low Middling 12>4c; Middling
Foreign Cotton Markets.
Liverpool, Jan. 1".—Cotton—Spot dull and
easier at l-16d decline. Sales <>000 bales:
American 3000 bales; to exporters and
speculators 1000 bales. Imports «ii»00 bales, all
American.
Middling Uplands, 6 ll-16d; Middling Or-
leans. 7d.
Arrivals l-32d lower. Basis Middling Up-
lands. Low Middling clause:
Nov.-Dec. shipment. 6«£d; Dec.- January
shipment. 6%; Jan.-February shipment. 6%d;
■i'eb.-Mar. shipment, 6 ll-16dd; Mar.-Apr.
shipment 6%d; January delivery, 6 9-16d;
Jan.-Feb. delivery, 6 9-16d; Feb.-Mar. delivery,
6 9-16d; March-April delivery, 6*%d; Apr.-May
delivery 6 ll-10d.
Liverpool. January 15—Evening.—Cotton—
The Market experienced a severe pressure to
sell, and the tone lias l>een depressed, with
much irregularity. The continued heavy re-
ceipts and large shipments appear to have led
to increased crop estimates and induced mer-
chants to place a great part of the recent im-
ports on the market. The demand for trade
ias been small, and the week has been one of
great disappointment to holders. It closes
without any relief to the feeling of depression
which has prevailed, notwithstanding the
total stock of all descriptions is 134,000 bales
less than last year, aud American 83.000 bales
less. Egyptian staples were pressed for sale,
at J4d reduction in price. Brazilian was in
good demand at from l-16@^d decline, but at
the close of the week suffered from the fall in
Egyptian, spinners preferring the latter at
such decline. Arrivals experienced the same
depression which characterized the spot mar-
ket, and prices have slowly and steadily given
way with the increasing pressure to sell, and
the market closes at the lowest prices of the
week.
Havre. January 15.—Cotton—Prices barely
supported. Tres Ordinaire 80 francs; Low
Middling 82 francs.
Produce Markets.
foreign!.
Liverpool. January 16—1.30 p. m.—Lard
59(g,62s. Tallow 46s 6d.
London, January 15—Evening.—'Turpentine
Ss.
domestic.
New York. January 15 — Noon. — Flour
dull but unchanged. Wheat quiet but steady.
Corn didl and declining. Pork unchanged at
$20 75(2,21 (H). Lard linn: steam 12J^c. Spirits
of Turpentine dull at 37^6(5 38c. Rosin quiet
at $1 62^*1 70 for strained. Freights steady.
Baltimore. January 15—Noon.—Flour steady
and unchanged, wheat steady and firm;
Maryland amber $1 52rm 1 55: other grades un-
changed. Coi n—southern quiet: western firm:
southern white, new, 53@60c; yellow, new,
57 (%60c.
New Orleans, January 15.—Sugar in good
demand; inferior 4(f>5J£c: common 5%@5%c;
fair to fully fair 6-)£e; prime to strictly
)rime 6%@.7c: no choice 011 nand; gray clari
ied 7%(^-8*4c. Molasses—market bare of
choice not fermenting: demand good for fer-
menting at 32<p/42e. according to quality:
cistern bottom 38c; prime to strictly prime not
fermenting 41@.50c. Flour—only a local de
mand; common quoted at $3 25(^3 50: fine
$3 75; superfine $4 00; XX $4 25: XXX $4 50<&
5 75: choice and family $6 75^,7 50. Corn
meal dull and nominal at $2 40(o 2 50. Corn in
moderate demand: white and yellow 5455c.
Oats—demand fair and market firmer; St.
Louis at 43c; choice Galena at 50c. Bran-
sales at 85c. Hay quiet; prime $21 00<<} 22 00.
Rice—Louisiana lower: No. 2 at 2^£<g8c: com-
mon 3^(£>>4e: ordinary 4J4@5c; fair 4%
@.5c; no choice. Pork—new mess held in
round lots at $21 50. Dry-salt meats steady-
but strong; shoulders held at c; sides, just
arrived, are held, for clear rib, 11c: clear
llj^c. Bacon—stock light with only a jobbing
demand: shoulders 10*4^r,l()}4c; clear rib
sides 12*4c; clear sides 13c. Hams in good
supply but dull; sugar-cured 14c. Lard in
light supply and good demand for refined;
tierce, 13J4c; keg 13%<&J4c; bucket 14c. Coffee
-good inquiry- and firm: ordinary to low fair
17^@17%c; fair 18«4c: good to prime 18J4<gi
19J4e. Whisky in good demand and lijxht sup-
ply at $1 12@1 13 for Louisiana and western
rectified.
The Price C"rr<nt ^ives the following stocks
on hand; Pork 2221 barrels: lard, 6*»9 tierces.
2610 kegs: bacon, 308 casks; hams. 151 tierce
dry-salt m«jats 391 casks.
Cincinnati. January 15.—Hogs slaughtered
to date. 450.150; last year. 423,282.
St. Louis, Januaiy 15.—Flour quiet and un-
changed. Wheat irregular and higher: No. 2
red winter $1 51^; No. 3 do $1 33. Corn in
active and lower: No. 2 mixed 39c. Oats dull
and lower: No. 2 : rejected 32^£c\ Barley
scarce and firm for tlie higher grades: strictly
prime to fancy northern $1 15@1 35. Rye-
no transactions. Pork unchanged at $19 75.
Lard dull: head and gut 12c. Bulk meats
opened dull and rather weak, but closed firm-
er, and fully cured are held higher; shoul-
ders 7*4<7r.7»^e: clear rib and clear sides 10*4
(O*10}$c. Baicou easier: shoulders 9c; clear
rib and clear sides 111{>^' ll%c. Whisky steady
and unchanged at $1 08. Hogs—weather very
warm and packers are out of the market, but
there is some shipping demand: Yorkers $'» 50
@6 75. Cattle iu fair demand, steady and un-
changed.
Receipts—Flour, 4000 barrels; wheat. 16.0C0
bushels; corn, 42,000bushels; oats. 6000 bush
els; barley, 1000 bushels: rye 1000 bushels
hoes, 7000 head: cattle «'»60 head.
New York. January 15—Evening.—Flour
in limited demand; superfine western and
State $4 25@4 65; southern flour quiet; com
mon to fair extra $4 90(^5 80; good to choice
extra >5 8 To. Wheat a nkade firmer,
but very quiet with little demand; $1 22 for
winter red western; $1 45 for No. 1 white
Michigan in store. Coi n a shade firmer with a
moderate inquiry: <~5<7y.65^£c for ungraded
mixed; 650 65J4e for new yellow southern; 65
<&.66c for new white southern; 72>£c for prime
old western mixed afloat. Oats dull: 44(g;.48c
for mixed western and State; 46<g*52c for
white western and State. Coffee firmer with
a better demand. Sugar quiet but Arm. Rice
dull. Molasses quiet and unchanged. Tur-
pentine 37c. Rosin quiet at $1 62V£<7M 6714.
Po ' * " ~
For the News.]
Tlie Injun We Captured.
Poor devil, they had him badly hacked.
He was willin'to throw down hi* hand;
He signed that he wanted to pass in his
checks.
And scoot for the spirit land.
You see we had pinked him a time or two.
And the red faded fast from his kidc.
For the crimson liquor was fiowir' through
Loop-holes in his snoulder and side.
Well, ft want much wonder he wanted t.> £»o.
And motioned towards a gun.
And asked by mute, implorin" sig t*
lo have the business done.
And when it come to that kind o'hiz.
1 011 bet that the boys were thar,
Tho" they didn't partiklar hate the cuss,
let they hankered arter his liar.
Then Banty Jim. in a twinklin'.
Fetched his gun to a deadly aim.
A second would a' wound him up.
When a voice cried out. '• For shame!"
Then in rushed brave Sergeant Kflchum.
His blood smokiif hot. all enragel.
And he chawed his bits like a pit**hin' hoss.
And foamed like a tiger caged.
"Just lower that gun. j-ou onery <neak.
Porg on your cowardly melt.
\\ ould you murder a cripple, you rascal.
For the sake of getting his pelt?
Now hump yourself from the comp'ny.
And turn out to mavrickin' right.
I want no truck with the likes o" urn.
You dastardly blatherskite!
Now. boys, all of you as is human.
And in for the thing that is far.
Let's give him a show for his ante
If lie creeps clean off with his bar:
Let's mount the cuss on his critter
And all shake his hand with a will.
As though we raly intended
To hustle him off for Sill.
"And when he gits out fornenst that tree,
Just shove in a cartridge and fire.
And if we don't settle his hash right thar
You may take my scalp for a liar.
Now that's done up like a human.
We've worked him off ou the squar.
And I ought to have for my kind,oess
The heft of the scoundrel's liar.
But just as you say. my cronie.
Divide it up if you must.
Lord forbid that I should be hoggish.
Or claim what aint honest and just.
I want to keep a clar conscience.
But as for that oner3* Jim.
What's tlie use to send priests to tlie Injuns
Till we hang all the likes of him
Camp Blai/t. _ John Capers.
Texas in Congress*
From the Congressional Record. Jan. 11.
Mr. Reagan presented joint resolution
of the Legislature of Texas, asking an
appropriation for the improvement of
Soda Lake and Cypress bayous. Re-
ferred to the Committee 011 Commerce.
Also petition of J. A. Warren, asking
compensation for property taken by the
United States. Referred to Committee
on War Claims.
Also memorial of citizens of Texas,
iisking for an appropriation /or the im
provement of Sabine Pass, ami harbor.
Referred to Committee 011 Commerce.
The following was part of a young
attorney's peroration on argument of
demurrer in one of our city courts re-
cently: "May it please your Honor,
this is a stupendous question. Its de-
cision by you, this day, will Jive in ju-
dicial history long after you and I shall
have passed from this scene of earthly
glory and sublunary vanity; when the
tower of Pisa shall be forgotten; when
Waterloo and Borodino shall grow dim
in the distant cycles of receding centu-
ries; when the names of Eugene, Marl-
borough and Napoleon are no longer
remembered; when the pyramids of the
Pharaohs shall have crumbled into dust:
when the hippopotamus shaL1 cease to
inhabit its native Nile; even then your
ruling upon this demurrer will still
urvive in the antique volumes of legal
lore as fresh, green, and imperishable
as a Big Thompson grasshopper on a
Colorado potato bug.''
Dr. Reid, the celebrated medical
writer, was requested by a ladv ol*
literary eminence to call at her house.
Be sure you recollect the address, said
she, as she quitted the room, No. 1
Chesterfield street. Madame, said the
doctor, I am too great an ulmirer of
politeness not to remember Chesterfield,
and, 1 fear, too selfish ever t<> forget
number one.
The fifth centenary of Boccaccio's
death was observed by a fete at Certaldo. Tus-
cany. the place of his birth and death.
'ork dull: new mess$20 io(Tr21 00. Lard firm,
prime steam 12 13-16<g 12%p. Freights rather
quiet; cotton per sail wheat 8^c.
Mustapha Fay/1 Pasha, the late brother
of the Khedive, was famous for his sumptu-
ous living and bis propensity for reckless gam
bling. A Paris writer who visited him at Con-
stantinople. says of him: "At heart he was
good, and lie was beloved by all who surround-
ed him. Fifty domestics would have sufficed
for this palaee. but he fed three hundred—
some because he had known them from birth,
others because they had served his father.
When Mustapha Fayzl offered me hospitality,
in spite of tlie sympathy which their master
showed me. none of the three hundred scamps
in his service would make my bed, clean mj-
boots, or do anything for the giaour. All that
has been said" about the civilization of the
Turks is a fable: notwithstanding a little Eu-
ropean varnish, they hate us. and religious fa-
naticism dominates every other feeling. The
three hundred scoundrels lounged al>out the
chambers, and if the Prince wanted a glass of
water there were fifty domestics to hand it to
him.'' •
Bishop I'.lliotCs Visitation*
Foil .JANrAKV AND
isrii.
anuary 16....
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Gonzales.
Clinton, im^rninj.'
Cuero. (night. 1
Victoria.
Indianola.
Chocolate.
Lavaca.
Goliad.
Rockport.
Corpus Chfisti.
Brownsville.
Laredo.
IfiMliop Gregg's
Fat.i. and Winter Visitations.
Jan. lfi Sunday Ualveston.
Jan. 10 Sunday night, Trinity Chapel. Gal
veston.
Cheap Advertisement Column.
NOTICE.
A h YE It TIS FXKMTS VXDKR THE UFA !>
Lost. Fo'tm?. For Su?*. To Rent. Wantn!. etc.,
riot more than three Hues, si r word* to a tine, w.c
insertion, 50 cents; each subsequent insertion 2 5
cents, payaUe in advance.
GENERAL MERCHANDISE.
qoau cheat ('-i }\l..
C. W. HURLEY & CO..
ja!2 2w
19th and Strand.
IX>R SALE PURE FRESH MILK. FRESH
1 Eggs, and Fresh Countrv Butter, low I»v
del? lm JOS. LABADIE.
/ A VS. McKERXON.
VI Importer and Dealer in Fruits. Nuts, etc.,
corner of Church and Tremont streets.
Consignments carefully handled, and orders
promptly attended to. selti tlrn
V^OTICE—Wholesale Depot for Green Shoe
2 Boxes. L. Woolf, New Orleans Shoe Store,
20, Market street. Galveston. Texas. deT
FOR SALE—FOR RENT.
R SALE—A comfortable cottage and out
. houses 011 Avenue L. between 11th and 12th
streets, at a great bargain. Party anxious to
effect a sale in order to leave for the interior.
Also property in other localities. Inquire 011
the premises or at Sam Maas's office, ('has.
Hogerman. jalS lw*
L^OR RENT -Cattage
I Rent $15 per month.
011 West Broadway,
per month. Apply at C. W. AD
AMS & CO.. corner 24tli and Mechanic, jaltf It
UX>R RENT—A Two-Story House. Postottirr*
1 street, betweeu 24th street and Bath ave-
nue. Apply to RKYBAUD & SIMON, jaltt li
I?OR RENT LOW—Two story house, corner
Avenue OU and 31 st. Davis A. Spencer,
Ballingrer & Jark's Building. icl2 t f
Jj^OR RENT—Cheap—Two brick stores oppo-
site the Market, corner 20th and Mechanic
streets. Also, a large hall and nine rooms or
offices. Apply to E. II. SEILING.
del9 lm* Cor. 17th and Winnie sts.
JfOR RENT—A comfortable Residence with
eight or ten rooms, convenient to business.
McAlpine £ Baldridge, Hendley Building.
FOR RENT—'The three-story brick building
on Tremont street, now occupied by R. F.
George. no20 tf A. FLAKE & CO.
1^* >H RENT—A large, comfortable room,
I suitable for two persons, at 222 Church st..
bet. 20th and 21st streets. jal3 3t
I^OR SALE OR EXCHANGE FOR A RES1-
I dence near the business center—My two-
story residence (two years builtt. brick cis-
tern, out-buildings. etc., and five lots. and
39th sts. Apply to S. T. BLESSING.
no2 tult&sun tf 174 Tremont st.
LOST.
I OST-A small GOLD BADGE, with the
I j words "Faith. Hope and Charity" en-
graved thereon. Finder will confer a favor by-
leaving it at this office. jalO It
NOTICES, ETC.
66k AT THIS AND WEEP?' All per-
I J sons in arrears with us will please
come forward ami settle promptly, or we
shall be compelled to give their accounts to au
attorney for collection. We need money.
jal2 D2w WILEY A SHERRARD.
OoK AT THIS
and rejoice:
We will sell our stock of Ladies' and Chil
dren's Hats, trimmed or untrimmed. at Half
Price. Ladies call and be convinced. Money
110 object.
BANKRUPT STOCK,
jal6 Market, bet. 27th & 28th sts.
H OT E L S REST A U R A N TS.
HPREMONT HOUSE. J. LANDRUM. Prop'r.
X Cor. Tremont and Postoffice streets.
Situation central. Furnished rooms. Eating
by single meal, day. week, or month.
tr^Beds obtained for one night. jal'J -It
B
ROOMS AND BOARD.
OARD—A large south front room, fui nislied
011 line of cars, and within five minutes walk
of the Postoffice. with excellont board, can )»«•
had with a private family by addressing P. < >.
Box 36. * jalti 2t
I >Li 1ASANT rooms for rent, convenient t<•
1 street ears, and suitable for gentleman and
wife, or two single gentlemen (with or without
board.) Address P. News office. jalti it
OR RENT—A Comfortable Room to a cou-
ple. Apply at Mrs. J. G. Timmins. corner
of Church and Twenty-fourth sts. jal6 lw*
l>OARDING—A few gentlemen ean be ac-
1J commodated with day board by calling at
Mrs. Smith's. No. 79 Winnie st. jalfi It*
7V)R RENT.
...FOR RENT
Several nicely furnished Rooms, corner of
1 t -
Nineteenth and Postoffice streets. jal»i it
I7*OR RENT- Nicely furnished south rooms
to rent by Mrs. A. Cordes, cor. of Centre st.
and Avenue K. jalfi lw*
V YOUNG MAN wishes board in a private
family. Address, stating terms, which
must be moderate, N. Y.. News office. jal»'»lC
\\f ANTED—Board by a gentleman in a pri-
t ▼ vate family. Give terms and referenee.
Address Strand, News office, jal5 2t*
1AOR RENT—Two Neatly Furnished Rooms,
with private family. S. C. BEMAN, South-
west corner Church and 16th streets. jal4 3t
I HOARDING—Furnished rooms and first-class
) table at Old City Hotel. Postoffice st.. bet.
Bath Ave. and 26th. Mrs. J. M. CONRAD.
I )RIVATE BOARDING—At the Richardson
1 boarding house, on Public Square, Avenue
II, between 21st and 22d. Terms reasonable.
LAWYERS' BRIEFS
At $1 Per Page
AT THE NEWS OFFICE.
J. V. WHITE,
wholesale and retail
DEALER IN
Saddlery & Harness,
110 Tremont Street,
Between Market and Mechanic.
Repairing Neatly Done at Reason-
able Rates. de2!* eodlm lp
E. ANHEUSER & CO.'S
ST. LOUIS
Bottled Lager Beer.
The Best, Purest and Healthi-
est Beer in Market.
IT IIAS NO EQIAL.
Recommended by the highest medical authori-
ties in the country.
Sold by all Leading Druggists.
octf) 3m lp
Beer! Beer! Beer!
BOTTLED BEER
from the
STAR LAGER BEER BOTTLING t'O.
Cincinnati, Ohio.
This is strictly PURE LAGER BEER. War-
ranted to be free from any deleterious com-
pound. Equal to the finest brands in Germany.
For sale by the wholesale grocers and liquor
dealers. Prices lower than any ether domes-
tic Beer. Ask for it. Take no other.
J. PAUL JONES, g.ate Agent.
del4 3m lp Galveston, Texas.
Fresh Garden Seeds!
EVERY PAPER GUARANTEED.
PIPER HEIDSICK CHAMPAGNE,
and a fine assortment of Frenoh and California
Wines. Also, a select stock of Hie best TEAb.
For sale by E. E. RICE & CO.. Grocers,
ja4 2m lp 1® Tremont st.
CARD..
.A CARD.
Thanking my many customers for their past
patronage, I desire to inform them that 1 »a\e
decided to retire from the business which 1
have followed in this city f«»r twenty y^ars.
and will immediately proceed to close out my
entire stock of
Boots and Shoes
Actuall}- at
25 per cent Below Cost,
But for Cash, and
FOR CASH ONLY!
Let those who doubt it price the goods.
Store For Rent and Fixtures For
Sale.
1.1. LEVY.
Corner ot 22d and Market Stt».
ja4 lm lp&Etf
SITUATIONS WANTED.
~lI,rANTED—By a broken merchant, a situ-
T ▼ at ion as salesman or traveling agent. Ad-
dress "Etna." News Office. jal'-i 7t*
1IKLP WANTED.
HELP WANTED—a young or middle-aged
. woman, willing to make herself useful.
Apply at lti«'» 22d street. jalti it*
rpEA('HER WANTED—We which to employ
1 a professional teacher, one that can teach
the higher branches. We ask references ami
terms. Any first-class teacher wishing a pay-
ing school will apply at once to Secretary
Livingston Academy. Livingston, Tex. je9 2\v
VGENTS WANTED—For all the principal
counties in the State for selling and tak-
ing orders for the most salable thing out ;
useil in every family. Large commission and
extensive territory given to the right parties.
Full particulars ean be had by calling on or
addressing HALE CO., Washington Hotel,
(ialveston. del? lm*
WILLIN EKY-DRE8S1H AK1NG.
Mrs. e. moore,
FASHIONABLE DRESSMAKER, south-
west corner 22d street and Broadway, jll lm*
] .FASHIONABLE Millinery, fine hats, at cost.
Call on Mrs. Walsh, Postoffice st., opposite
Express office. Dressmaking done. ja5 2w*
PROFESSIONAL.
DR. J. B. KELLY'S hours of attendance for
diseases of the eve and ear are from 9 to
10 a. m. Dr. J. li. Kelly lias studied under the
most skillful aurists and oceulists. both in Eng-
land and France. Office and residence, corner
21st and Church streets. ja2 lm*
MRS. AT.)IX. MIDWIFE, a graduate of the
Obstetric Institute of Madgeburg, Prussia.
16th st.. I>et. Church & Postoffice sts. 3m
EDI CATION A L.
(1 ENTLEMEN wanting to study the German
Tf language at very moderate terms may ap-
ply to Prof. O. Mundelirs. jalG 3t*
PERSONAL.
DIVORCES legally obtained for incompati-
bility. etc.: residence unnecessary: fee
after decree. Address P. O. Box 1037, Chicago.
MISCELLANEOUS.
t"V)R SALE—PARTRIDGE f'OCHIN EGGS
1 for setting: also, a few very choice HESS
FOR SALE. The Partridge Cochin matures
early, arc hardy, good layers, (especially win-
ter layers). Can be raised successfully in a
small space. Inquire at 502 Avenue I, between
13thand 14th. jalti It*
DRAIN YOUR LOTS, but not your Pockets.
i have received another car load </f
•• TERRA COTTA" Drain Pipe, all size**.
For sale cheap by
W. B. BENNETT.
jalti 6t* 71 Church st.
1?OR SALE CHEAP—A Good Sound Mule,
^ Dray and Harness. Can be seen at Levy &
Bro. s Lively Stable, Church street, between
Tremont and Twenty-second street. Apply to
LEVY & BRO. or to BOB FLEMING, jalti It
UM. TRUEHART & CO.. Strand. Galves
• ton. Texas, Bond. Stock and Note Bro-
kers. Investments of money made. Loans
also negotiated for borrowers on Real Estate.
Stocks or other Collaterals.
OR SALE—TWO SECOND-HAND SAFES,
in good order by J. MULLIGAN. 1~T Me
chanic street. Gun arid Locksmith. jal"> 3t*
Raffle, two vekv valuable
WATCHES AND CHAINS,
of superior workmanship, and a real solitaire
diamond ring, will be raffled at L. L. Higgins*,
Market street, near Tremont, as soon as the
chalices are taken. ja4 lm
if raTCHES and Jewelry carefully repaired;
YY satisfaction guaranteed; prices reason-
able. at Leaveck s. Market st. pear £M. 28 3w*
Ct ALL at L. Woolf 's New Orleans Shoe Store
for gentlemen's boots of all descriptions,
and save 25 cents on the dollar.
IN VIEW OF THE FACT THAT
1 THE WILSON SEWING MACHINE
is represented by interested parties to be of
•* No account.'' *• Will wear out in six months, '
etc., we offer the following CHALLENGE:
We will select a Wilson Machine—the other
party to select the same price machine of
their make.
These machines are to be given to a commit-
tee consisting of six persons, three machinists
and three cabinet makers. Each party will
have the right to choose one man of such
trade, and they to choose the other two.
These machines are t<* be given to the com-
mittee for thorough examination aiul test, the
machinists to test and pass upon the ma-
chinery and the cabinet makers likewise upon
the wood work. .
Tlie test shall be the most perfect machine
constructed on the best mechanical principles;
also quality of material used in its construc-
tion, both Metal and Wood.
The loser is to pay all expenses attending
the examination, and forfeit the machine on
exlubition. BLESSING & BRO.,
Agents for Texas, 174 Tremont st., Galveston
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