The Galveston Daily News. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 249, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 28, 1875 Page: 1 of 4
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I.S.BROWN & CO.
Importers and Wholesale Dealers
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Snglisli, German & American
HARDWARE,
Itrand, Galveston, Texas.
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ESTABLISHED—1842.
GALVESTON, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1875. ^ : PRICE FIVE CENTS.
J. S. BROWN & CO.
Increased their Stock by
lite Arrival* to
lost Complete
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YOL. XXXIV-No. 249. ss.li'1,00^^oa prices before pur-
' CHASING} ELSEWHERE.
Weather Prognostics.
The probabilities during the day for
the tiulf and South Atlantic States are
(tailing barometer, warmer and partly
jcloudy weather, and southwest to sonth-
Baat winds. Cautionary signals continue
from New Haven to Eaatport.
IVoaterdar's Commercial Summary.
Gai.veston Market. — Cotton quiet
Innd unchanged ; sales 1473 bales. Hides
l<lull and lower. Wool easier. Bacon
[irregular and lower. Gold 1141@1151.
I Silver 110j@llli. Exchange unchanged.
| Sterling depressed.
Other Markets.—Liverpool cotton
I market continues tlat at unchanged quo-
| tations for spot, and at 1-lGd. decline for
arrivals. The London street rate of dis-
I count has declined to 3J Per cent., which
] is J below the back rate. The Stock Ex-
change rate of interest is 1J per cent.
Bullion withdrawn from the BaDk of
England on balance to-day, £23,000.
The New York cotton market remains
firm for spot and a fraction better for
futures. Gold advanced to and closed at
110. The sterling market is again de-
moralized, and 00-day commercial bills
quoted at 47U@470. Money on call, 2}
par cent.
Lire Insurance.
The mercantile and manufacturing in-
terests of the country Lava suffered ma-
terially from the general depression that
lias prevailed during the last year; but
the falling of! in sales and productions
lias been as nothing when compared
with the rapid and apparently causeless
decline in the business of life insurance.
Experts have given testimony bearing on
the subject, and dicussion has followed
discussion, but no perceptible result has
yet been attained, either as to the prime
cause of the depression or the best mode
of restoring the business to its old-time
activity. The disgust of men who have
allowed their policies to lapse and the
false representations of agents are quo-
ted among the minor causes of the fall-
ing off in the receipts of companies. A
correspondent of the New York Tribune
suggests that life insurance companies
should adopt a plan similar to that pur-
sued by backs with depositors, and per-
mit policy holders, when they wish to
cancel their contracts, to close their poli-
cy accounts and check out any balance
that might remain to their credit. It is
the practice of some companies to com-
pel survivors to answer a long list of
whimsical, troublesome and needless
questions before payment will be made
on policies. Such things prejudice the
public against the business of life assur-
ance and lnse to companies many a policy.
One refusal or delay in paying a loss does
more damage than the prompt settlement
of fifty losses, and if companies will agree
on fair, simple, direct rules for guidance
of officers in making settlements, there
is little doubt that the business will soon
revive. It is due to honest policy hold-
ers, as well as shareholders, that dishon-
est claims should be disallowed ; but the
manner of arriving at legitimate losses
may be greatly simplified by a little uni-
formity of blanks and mode of settle-
ment among insurers.
Long Island City is following the ex-
ample of San Francisco and Chicago in
the effort to get up in the world. Accord
ing to Kerr's poem " Galveston island is
long and low, but rising in prosperi-
ty ;" and so are Long Island; and
the city of the latter name. But it
aspires to become higher ; and has com
menced by raising the grade of the
streets. Locomotives and dirt cats are
running on extemporaneons railways,
bringing dirt from a distance and raising
the street grades until one has to go
down stairs to get into his house. Wood-
en buildings are being raised and planted
on long piles, and the town resembles a
home in which moving, washing and
scrubbing are crowded into a single day.
The Times says the belated wayfarer is
liable to be shocked by the sight of a dis-
sipated MtjtU.aie* mpeting-houHe which is
spending the night in the guuci, or an
intoxicated grocer's shop which has
stretched itself in the middle of the
street, and put off until morning the at-
tempt to Btagger toward its proper cor-
ner. The whole city is undergoing a
sort of combined municipal moving and
house-cleaning. It requires courage to
undertake so costly a work, but in the
end it pays.
Allison & Co., of San Francisco, have
had a refrigerator car constructed for
the transportation of fruit to the East.
The car is provided with a fan blower,
driven by one of the car axles, by means
of which the air is driven through ice,
which reduces it to a low temperature,
and is then distributed among the fruit
boxes through a large perforated pipe
laid along the bottom of the car. After
the cool air has passed among the fruit,
it returns to the blower, and is again
forced through the apparatus. By this
means the atmosphere of the car is kept
at the uniform temperature of 40degrees
Fahrenheit. .
St Louis will take a hand in gambling
in cotton futures. At a meeting of the
St. Louis Cotton Exchange, Saturday af-
ternoon, it was unanimously decided
to commence the " call" for the
sale and purchase of cotton contracts
Monday, 25th inst., at 1 o'clock, and the
rules that govern the New York Cotton
Exchange, pertaining to the subject were
adopted. This is an easy, though some-
times expensive, way of going through
the motions of dealing in cotton without
handling any of that article.
Preliminary work in sinking a shaft
on the French coast for the projected
tunnel under the Channel is announced.
The depth of the shaft—328 feet—is
more than half as great as the utmost
that it is supposed the tunnel may re.
quire. The immediate object is proba-
bly to ascertain whether the formation at
the requisite depth agrees with the theory
of geologists. A similar shaft was sunk
some time ago on the English side of the
Chancel.
Accounts from the City of Mexico say
that a short time since considerable of a
s -nsation was experienced by the multi
tudea promenading in the heart of the
city in the afternoon:
a whirlwind swept through the streets,-
from which clouds of steam seemed to
lliw. 8"m>i persons assert that sparks
of fire were emitted. A local paper says
that " the effect of the meteoric shower
was confined to a small space, beyond
which the slightest effect was not felt,
but that the terrible force of the shower
within its limited circle seriously mo-
lested travelers, especially ladies." The
savans are discussing the interesting
subjrtct. The general opinion is that the
shower issued forth from some of the
volcanoes and was caught in some kind
of an electric current, which with light-
ning rat.idity carried it to the spot where
its force was nearly exhausted. More
meteors, hot stones and red-hot iron have
fallen from the skies overhanging Mex-
ico in the past century than over all the
other portions of the globe combined.
A young Canada farmer has invent-
>t macbinc which is said to work satis-
factorily in model, for reaping grain.
It cuts the stocks, gathers them in a
bundle, twists a band of straw and
binds the sheaf, cuts the ends of the
band and throws the gheaf aside.
COMING STRUGGLE ON THE
MONEY QUESTION.
The specie resumptionists, both Re-
publican and Democratic, are fright-
ened at the echoes of their own guns
after the Ohio election. Before the
election, they urged the supreme im-
portance of defeating Governor Allen
so signally as to give the world assu-
rance that the faith of the nation
should be maintained at all hazards in
carrying out the promise of the resump-
tion act passed by the last Congress.
Of course thi3 meant a relentless pro-
cess of contraction, attended by equal
shrinkage of values and enlargement
of debts. Well, Governor Allen was
defeated, though by a majority of only
a few thousand in a total vote
of four or five hundred thousand.
Nevertheless, the resumptionists, both
Republican and Democratic, raised a
promiscuous shout at what they
claimed as a signal victory for their
policy. The "Western "rag baby,"
they said, which at one time looked
so Titanic, had been laid low, too
stunned and crippled ever to loom up
and fright the souls of fearful bullion-
ists and bondholders again. And busi-
ness interests, East and West, took
them at their word, and the progress
of depression, which- had paused to
await the result in Ohio, was renewed
at an accelerated pace, and in conse-
quence we have seen, and the tele-
graph is every day recording, an unex-
ampled succession of financial disas-
ters. In New York, not only almost
every description of merchandise, but
real estate also, took another tumble,
and the best advices from that city re-
port that the bottom has not yet been
reached. A gloomy prospect, indeed,
when it is remembered that the latter
species of property had already
shrunk at the rate of nearly
fifty per cent.! Such is the
situation — commercial houses fall-
ing like nine-pins right and
left—columns of enterprise going
down under the cruel bolts of a hard
money panic, like the squadron of
six hundred that rode into the jaws of
death at Balaklava—signs of popular
indignation rising in all directions—
when the resumptionists, in the very
citadel of bullionism, lose heart and
look about for shelter from the appre-
hended storm. The New York World
which, with other organs of the Tilden
and Belmont hard money Democracy,
supported the Republican ticket in
Ohio, and held the Ohio platform to
b3 an infamous contrivance, and de-
nounced all who opposed the uncom-
promising enforcement of the resump-
tion act as unlimited inflationists and re-
pud iators, and quite recently urged that
there must be no pause on the straight
road to specie payment, now begins to
hedge and beat about the bush with
intimations that the resumption policy
did not mean resumption in any defi-
nite period or form, but only the final
adjustment of the currency to a specie
standard whenever business could un-
dergo the change without a disastrous
shock. And this, barring that the
Ohio platform preferred a currency di-
rectly representing government credit,
in the shape of Treasury notes, to a
currency indirectly representing that
currency, in the shape of bank notes,
is exactly what that "infamous con-
trivance" proposed. But the Republi-
can organs of the West are not to be
outdone by their late Democratic al
lies of the East in the race to get
on what they suspect to be, or
about to be, the popular side of the
money question. " The Republican
victory in Ohio," says the Cincinnati
Gazette, " does not mean the violent
measure of contraction which would
be required to bring public and pri-
vate business to specie payments in
1879. The Republican contest was
not made on what is called the Re-
sumption act; it was made only
against repudiation and inflation. We
know of no Republicans who think it
possible to carry out that act." And
the Indianapolis Journal, Senator Mor-
ton's special organ, speaking of the
demand for the repeal of the resump-
tion act, says: "We care little for
that act, for we do not believe that
any legislation can make specie if
business won't do it; and if business
will do it, legislation may save itself
the trouble of trying. If it is found
to stand in the way of the restoration
of trade and industry, put it out of
the way." Still most of the Republi-
can leaders are pledged to stand by
the resumption act, and the President
is expected to insist on its enforce-
ment. In the next Congress the money
question will be agitated in a struggle
between the advocates and opponents
of resumption, but it is not probable
that either party will obtain a decisive
victory. Thus the question will go
before the people at large in the presi-
dential canvass, on the merits of the
proposition to withdraw, at any price,
from the uses of trade two or three
hundred millions of gold; on the
merits of the proposition to force busi-
ness down to specie payments at any
sacrifice; and on the merits of the pro-
position to extinguish the who?e of the
greenback|i8sue, which costs the country
no interest, and to absorb all paper cur-
rency into national bank issues, every
dollar of which signifies a charge to
the country for interest. This was at
bottom the question in the Ohio can
vass, so far as the money problem was
concerned. The controversy was not
so much about theories as between in-
terests. Gov. Allen and his adherents
held that the interests of the people
were opposed to the three above re-
cited propositions, and we can scarcely
conceive that the Democratic party in
the coming presidential canvass, will
fail to recognize and sustain the same
view of the people's interests. Yet it
is hardly to be either expected or de-
sired that those so-called hard-money
Democrats of the East, who helped to
defeat Gov. Allen in the late Ohio con-
test, and who draw their inspiration
from the hot-bed of Twecdism, of Bel-
montism, of Gouldism, and all the like
isms, will be found heartily enlisted
with the masses of the national De-
mocracy in that behalf.
It is rumored in Washington that Sec-
retaries Bristow and Jewell are indig-
nant at the appointment of Chandler to a
Cabinet position, and have expreesed
themselves to the effect that be is not an
improvement on Delano. Causes are at
work that may occasion changes in the
Cabinet.
FROM THE CAPITAL.
Constitutional Convention.
A i i kk occurred at Winsey, in Russian
Poland, recently, by which two hundred
dwelling houses, schools and synagogues
were destroyed, and three thousand per-
sons rendered homeless.
FORTY SEVENTH DAY.
[Special to the Galveston News.']
Austin, Oct. 27,1875.
The convention met at the usual hour.
TIIE COMPTROLLER'S REPORT
as read. It showed the amount of
money loaned to railroads as follows:
Houston and Texas Central, $450,000;
Washington County, $60,000; Buffalo
Bayou, Brazos and Colorado, $420,000;
Houston Tap and Brazoria, $300,000;
Texas and New Orleans, $430,500; South-
ern Pacific, $150,000. Total, $1,816,500.
Interest on these sums which had accu-
mulated up to May 1,1870, was funded,
and upon the accumulated Bums of prin-
cipal and interest, amounting to $2,060,-
766 20, the companies are now required
to pay interest every six months, and a
sinking fund of one per cent., which
have been promptly paid by each com
pany. This report was ordered printed.
RESOLUTIONS AND CLAUSES INTRODUCED.
By Martin, of Hunt—A resolution pro-
hibiting the Legislature from creating
any office. Referred.
By Gaither—A resolution that the
President appoint a committee of six,
one from each Congressional District, to
frame an address to the people reciting
the main features of the new constitution
and the reforms attained. Adopted.
By Johnson of Franklin—A clause
that the Legislature may provide for the
publication of information and statistics
under the supervision of thn Mechanical
and Agricultural- College. Refersed.
By West—A resolution asking of the
Governor a statement of bond sales, the
amount realized and to whom sold, in his
own and his predecassors' administra-
tions. Adopted.
By Dohoney—A resolution with refer
ence to the dry ditches and thirsty ca-
nals subsidized by the Fourteenth Legis-
lature, and providing water for them.
Referred.
The resolution of Mr. Scott, that the
rule under which the constitution, upon
its adoption as a whole, might be amend-
ed by a majority vote, was changed bo as
to require & two thirds vote.
Mr. Reagan, upon a question of privi-
lege, explained that his position on the
railroad policy had been mis-stated in
the Gazette. That he had* never favored
money subsidies, but that he was in favor
of a reasonable land subsidy to encour-
age their construction.
Nugent, upon a like question, explain-
ed that his position in the published
speech of Mr. Johnson, of Franklin, was
unfairly and falsely stated. He did not
denounce ministtrs of the gospel, but
had for them, as a class, the highest re-
spect.
Mr. Johnson, of Franklin, replying,
said the gentleman had wantonly attack-
ed the ministers of the country.
A discussion ensued, which was cut
short by a motion by McCormick.
REGULAR BUSINESS.
The motion to postpone the immigra-
tion article and the article on railroad
land subsidy of the legislative depart-
ment was taken up, being on its third
reading. Pending its consideration the
convention adjourned.
Afternoon Session.
The article on the Legislative Depart-
ment was taken up, amended and passed,
as follows :
▲rticl2 2—legislative department.
Section 1. The legislative power of this
State shall be vested in a Senate and House
of Representatives, which together shall be
styled "the Legislature of the State of Texas.''
Section 2. The Senate shall consist of thirty
members, and tho House of Representatives
of ninety members until the first apportion-
ment after the adoption of this constitution;
when, or at any apportionment thereafter,
both Houses may be increased by the Legisla-
ture, the ir enate not to exceed thirty-three
members, and the House of Representatives
not to exceed one hundred members; and
after each apportionment there shall be a
general election for Senators and Represent-
atives.
Section 3. The Senatora shall be chosen by
the qualified electors for the term of four
years. a new Senate shall be chosen after
every appointment, and the Senators elected
after each appoltment shall be divided by lots
into two classes. The seats of the Senators
of the first class shall be vacated at the ex-
piration of the first two yea: s, and those of
the second clase at the expiration of four
years, so that one half of the Senators shall
be chosen biennially thereafter
Section 4. The members of the House of
Representatives shall bo chosen by the quali-
fied electors, and their term of office shall be
two years from the day of their election.
Section 5. The Legislature shall meet every
two years at such time as may be provided
by law, and at other times when convened by
the Governor. The first session unuer this
constitution shall convene on the day
of , 1376.
Section 6. No person shall beji Senator,
unless he be a citizen of the United States,
and, at the time of his election, a qualified
elector of this State, and shall have been a
resident of this State five years next preced-
ing his election, and the last year thereof a
resident of the district for which he shall be
chosen, and shall have attained the age of
twenty-six years.
Section 7. No person shall be a Representa-
tive, unless he be a citizen of ihe United
States, and, at the time of his election, a qual-
i fled elector of this State, and shall have
been a resident of this State two years next
preceding his election, the last year thereof a
resident of the district for which he shall be
chosen, and shall have attained the age of
twenty-one years.
Section 8. Each Home shall be the judge
of the qualifications and election of its own
members ; but contested elections shall be
determed in such manner as shall be provided
by law.
Section 9. The Senate shall, at the begin-
ning and close of each session, and at such
other times as maybe neeessary, elect one of
its members President pro tempore, who shall
perform the duties of the Lieut. Governor in
any case of absence or disability of that
officer, and whenever the said office of Lieut.
Governor shall, be vacant. The House of
Representatives shall, when it first assembles,
organize temporarily, and thereupon pro-
ceed to the election of a Speaker from its
own members. And each House shall choose
its other officers.
Section 10. Two-thirds of each House shall
constitute a quorum to do business, but a
smaller number may adjourn from day to day,
and compel the attendance of absent mem-
bers, in such manner and under such penal-
ties as each House may provide.
Section 11. Each House may determine the
rules of Its own proceedings, punish members
for disorderly conduct, and, with the consent
of two-thirds, expel a member, but not a sec-
ond time for the same offense.
Section 12. Each house shall keep a journal
of its proceedings, and publish the same; and
the yeas and nays of the members of either
House on any question shall, at the desire of
any three members present, be entered on the
journals.
Section 13. When vacancies occur in either
House, the Goveroor, or the person exercising
the power of the Govern r, shall issue writs
of election to fill such vacancies; and should
the Governor fall to issue a writ of election
to fill any such vacancy, within twenty days
after it occurs, the returning officer of tee
district in which such vacancy may have hap-
pened, shall be authorized to order an election
for that purpose.
Section 14. Senators and Representatives
shall, except ia cases of treason, felony or
breach of the peace, be privileged from arrest
during the session of the Legislature, and in
going to and returning from the same, allow-
ing one day for every twenty miles such mem-
ber may reside from the place at which the
Le lslature is convened
Section 15. Each House may punish, by im-
prisonment. during its sessions, any person
not a member, for disrespestful or disorderly
conduct in its presence, or for obstructing
any of its proceedings; provided such im-
prisonment shall not, at any one time, exceed
forty eight hourn.
Section 16. The sessions of each House shall
be open, except the Senate when in Executive
session.
Section 17. Neither House shall, without the
consent of the other, adjourn for more than
three days, nor to any other place than that
where the Legislature may be silting.
Section 18. No senator or Representative
shall, during the term for which he may be
elected, be eligible to any civil office of profit
under this State, which ehall have been cre-
ated, or the emoluments of which may have
been increased during such term; no member
of either House shall, during the term for
which he is elected, be eligible to any office
or place, the appointment to which may be
made, in whole or In part, by either branch
of the Legislature; and no member of either
Hous* shall vote for any other member for
any office whatever, which may be filled by a
vote of the Legislature, except in such cases
as are In this Constitution provided. Nor
Fhall any member of the Legislature be inter-
ested, either directly or indirectly, in any
contract with the State, or any county there-
of, authorized by any law passed during the
term for which he shall have been elected.
Section 19. No Judge of any Court, Secre-
tary of State, Attorney General, Clerk of any
Court of Record, or any person holding a
lucrative office under the United States, or
this State, or any foreltm government, shall,
during ths term for which ho was elected or
appointed, be eligible to the Legislature.
Section 20. No person who at any time may
have been a collector of taxes, or who may
have been otherwise intrusted with public
money, shall be eligible to the Legislature or
to any office of profit or trust under the State
government until he shall have obtained a
discharge for the amount of such collections,
or for all public moneys with which he may
have been intrusted.
Section 21. No member shall be questioned
in any other place for words spoken in debate
in either House.
Section 22. A member who has a personal
or private interest in any measure or bill,
proposed or pending before the Legislature,
shall disclose the fact to the House of which
he Is a member, and shall not vote thereon.
Section 23. If any Senator or Representa-
tive remove his residence from the district
or coun'y for which he was elected, his office
shall t hereby become vacant, and the vacancy
shall be filled as provided in section 13 of this
article.
Section 24. The members of the Legislature
shall receive from the public treatury such
compensation for their services as may, from
time to time, be provided by law, not exceed-
ing Ave dollars per day for the first sixty days
>of eacb eeesion, and after that not exceeding
two dollars per day for the remainder of the
session; except the first session held under
this constitution, when they may receive not
exceeding five dollars per day for the first nine-
ty days, and after that not exceeding two dol-
lars per day for the rest of the session. In
addition to per diem the members of each
House shall be entitled to mileage in going to
and returning from the seat of government;
which mileage shall not exceed five dollars
for every twenty-five miles, the distance to
be computed by the nearest and most direct
route of travel by land, regardless of railways
or water routes; and tbe Comptroller of the
State shall prepare and preserve a table of
distances to each county seat, now or here-
after to be established, and by sucK table the
mileage of each member shall be paid; but
no member shall be entitled to mileage for
any extra session that maybe called within
one day after the adjournment of a regular
session or called session.
Section 25. The State shall be divided iuto
Senatorial districts of compact and contigu-
ous teriitory according to the number of
qualified electors, as nearly as may be,
and each district shall be entitled to elect
one Senator; and no single county shall be
entitled to more than one Senator.
Section 26. The members of the House of
Representatives shall be apportioned among
the several counties, according to the num-
ber of population in each, as nearly as may
be^ on a ratio obtained by dividing the popu-
lation of the State, as ascertained by the
most recent United States census, by the
number of members of which the House is
composed; Provided, that whenever a single
county has sufficient population to be entitled
to a Representative, such county shall be
formed Into a separate Representative dis-
trict, and when two or more counties are re-
quired to make up the ratio of representa-
tion, such counties shall be contiguous to
each other; and when any one county has
more than sufficient population to be entitled
to one or more representatives, such repre-
sentative or representatives shall be appor-
tioned to such countv, and for any surplus
of population it may be joined in a repre-
sentative district with any other contiguous
couQty or counties.
Section 27. Elections for Senators and Rep-
resentatives ehall be general throughout the
State, and shall be regulated bylaw.
Section 28. The Legislature shall, at its
first session after the publication of each
United States decennial census, apportion the
State into Senatorial and Representative dis-
tricts, aggreably to the provisions of sections
25 and 25 of this article, and until after the
next decennial census when the first appor-
tionment shall be made by the Legislature,
the State shall be, and it is hereby divided
into Senatorial and Representative districts,
as follows:
[Apportionment has already been pub.
lished in the News ]
proceedings.
Section 29 The enacting clause of all laws
shall be: "Be it enacted by the Legislature
of the stat» of Texas."
Section 30. No law shall be passed, except
by bill, and no bill shall be so amended, in its
passage through either House, as to change
its originnl purpose.
Section 31. Bills may originate ia either
House, and, when passed by such Houte,
may be amended, altered or rejected by the
other.
Section 32. No bill shall have the force of a
law until it has been read on three several
days in each Hous?, and free discussion al-
lowed thereon; but in cases of imperative
public necessity (whieh necessity shall be
stated in a preamble) four-fifths of the House
in which the bill may be pending may suspend
this rule, the yeas and nays being taken on
the question of suspension and entered upon
the journals.
Section 33. All bills for raising revenue shall
originate in the House of Representatives,
but the Senate may amend or reject them as
other bills.
Section 34. After a bill has been considered
and defeated by either House of the Legisla-
ture, no bill or resolution, containing the
same substance, shall be passed into a law
during the same session; and after a resolu-
tion has been actod on and defeated, no reso-
lution containing the same substancc shr.ll f
be considered the same session.
Section 35. No bill (except ger-eral appro-
priation bills, which may embrace the various
snbjects and accounts, for and on account of
which moneys are appropriated,) shall con-
tain more than one subject, which shall be ex-
pressed in its title. But if any subject shall
be embraced in an act which shall not be ex-
pieseed in the title, such act shall be void
only as to so much thereof as shall not be so ex-
pressed.
Section 36. No law shall be revived or
ameaded by reference to its title, but in snch
case the act revived, or the section or sections
amended, shall be re enacted and published
at length.
Section 37. No bill shall be considered un-
less it has been first referred to a committee
and reported thereon, and no bill shall be
passed which has not been presented, referred
to and reported from committee at least three
days before the final adjournment of the Le-
gislature.
Section 38. The presiding officer of each
House shall, in the presence of the House
over whicn he presides, sign all bills and joint
resolutions passed by the Legislature after
their titles have been publicly read before
signing, and the fact of signing shall be en-
tered on the journals.
Section 39 No law passed by the Legisla-
ture, except the General Appropriation act,
shall take effect or go into force until ninety
days after the adjournment of the session
at which it was enacted, unless in case of an
emergency (which emergency must be ex-
pressed In a preamble or in the body of the
act) the Legislature shall, by a vote of two-
thirds of all the members elected to each
House otherwise direct—said vote to be taken
by yeas and nays, and entered upon the
journals.
Section 40. When the Legislature shall be
convened in special session4 there shall be no
legislation upon subjects other than those
designated in the proclamation of tbe Gov-
ernor calling such session, or presented to
them by the Governor; and no such session
shall be of longer duratisn than thirty days.
Section 41. Every bill, which shall have
passed both Houses of the Legislature, shall
be presented to the Governor, who, if he ap-
prove, shall sign it; hut if not, he shall return
it, with his objections, to the House in which
it originated; such Horn e shall enter the ob-
jections at large upon its journals and proceed
to reconsider such bill, if, atter such re-con-
sideration, two-thirds of the members present
shall airree to pass the bill, it shall be sent,
with the objections, to the other House, by
whom it shall likewise be reconsidered. If
approved by two-thirds of the members pre-
sent of that House, it thall become a law; but
in such cases the votes of both Houses shall
be taken by yeas and nays, and the names of
the members, voting for and against the bill,
shall be entered on t he journals of each House
respectively. If any bill shall not be returned
by the Governor within ten days, Sundays ex-
cepted, after it shall have been presented to
him, the same shall become a law, in like
manner as if he had signed it, unless the
Legislature, by their adjournment, prevent its
return, in which case it shall be a law, unless
he saall file the same, with his ob-
jections, in the office of the Secre-
tary of State, within thirty days after such
adjournment. The Governor may approve
any appropriation, and disapprove any other
appropriation, in the same bill. In such case
he shall, in signing the bill, designate the ap-
propriations disapproved, and return a copy
of such appropriations, with his objections,
to the House in which the bill shah have ori-
ginated; and the same proceedings shall then
be had as in the case of other bills disapprov-
ed by the Governor; but if the Legislature has
adjourned before tbe bill is returned to the
House, he shall return the same to the Secre-
tary of State, with his objections.
requirements and limitations.
Section 42. The Legislature shall pass such
laws as may be necessary to carry into effect
the provisions of this constitution.
Section 43. The flrtt session of the Legisla-
ture, under this constitution shall provide
for revising, digesting and publishing the
laws, civil and criminal; and a like revision,
digest and publication may be made every ten
vears thereafter; provided that in the adopt-
ing the giving effect to any such digest or re-
vision the Legislature shall not be limited by
sections 35 and 36 of this article.
Section 44. The Legislature shall provide by
law for the compensation of all officers, ser-
vants, agents and public contractors, not pro-
vided for by this constitution, but shall not
grant extra compensation to any officer,
agent, servant or public contractor, after such
pub.ic service shall have been performed, or
contract entered into for the performance of
the same; nor grant, by appropriation or
otherwise, any amount of money out of the
treasury of the State, to any individual, on a
claim, real or pretended, when the same shall
not have been provided for by pre-existing
law. Nor employ, in the name of the State,
any one except authorized by a pre-existing
law.
Section 45. The power to change the venue
in civil and criminal cases shall be vested in
the courts, to be exercised in such manner as
shall be provided by law; and the Legislature
shall pass laws for that purpose.
Section 46. The Legislature shall, at its first
session after the adoption of this constitution,
enact effective vagrant laws.
Section 47. The Legislature shall pass laws
prohi ittng the establishment of lotteries and
gift enterprises in this State, as well as the
sale of tickets in lotteries, gift enterpi ises or
other evasions involving the lottery principle,
eftablish^d or existing in other States.
Section 48 The Legislature shall not have
the right to levy taxes or impos - burdens
upon the people, except to raise revenue suffi-
cient for the economical administration of
the government, in which may be included the
following purposes:
The payment of all interest upon the bonded
debt of the State that may become due dur-
ing the term for which each Legislature is
elected;
The benefit of the sinking fund, which shall
not be more than two per centum of the pub-
lic debt; and for the present floating debt of
the State, and for matured bonds for payment
of which there is no sinking fund adequate;
The support of the Bllud Asylum, the Deaf
and Dumb Asylum and the Insane Asylum, the
Sta'e Cemetery and the public grounds;
The enforcement of quarantine regulations
on the coast of Texas;
The protection of the frontier;
The erection and repair of public buildings.
Section 49. No debt shall be created by or
in behalf of the State except to supply casual
deficiencies of the revenue, repel invasions,
suppress insurrection, defend the State in
war, or pay existing debt, and the debt cre-
ated to supply deficiencies in the revenue
shall never exceed in the aggregate at any
one time two hundred thousand dollars.
Section 50. The Legislature shall have no
power to give or to lend, or to authorize the
glviug or lending, of the credit of the State in
aid of, or to any person, association or corpo-
ration, whether municipal or other, or to
pledge the credit of tbe State in any manner
whatsover, for the payment of the liabilities,
present or prospective, of any individual, as-
sociation of individuals, municipal or other
corporation whatsoever.
Section 51. The Legislature shall have no
power to make any grant, or authorize the
making of any grant, of public money to any
individual, association of individuals, muni-
cipal or other corporation whatsoever ; pro-
vided, that this shall not be so construed as
to prevent the grant of aid in a case of public
calamity.
Section 52. The Legislature shall have no
power to authorize any county, city, town, or
other political corporation, or subdivision of
the State, to lend its creditor to grant public
money or thing of value in aid of, or to any
individual, association or corporation what-
soever, or t> become a stockholder in such
corportion, association or company.
Section 53. The Legislature shall have no
power to grant, or to authorize any county or
municipal authority to grant, any extra com-
pensation, fee or allowance to a public officer,
agent, servant or contractor, after service
has been rendered, or a contract has been en-
tered Into, and performed in whole or in part;
nor pay, nor authorize the payment or, any
claim created sgainst any county or munici-
pality of the State, under any agreement or
contract, made without authoritv of law.
Section 54. The Legislature shal have no Pow-
er to releaae or alienate any lien held by the
State upon any railroad, or in any wise
change the tenor or meaning, o? pass any act
explanatory thereof ; but the same shall be
enforced in accordance with theoriginal terms
upon which it was acquired.
Section 55. The Legislature shall have no
power to release or extinguish, or authorize
the releasing or extinguishing in whole or in
part, the indebtedness, liability or obligation
of any corporation or individual, to this
State, or to any county or other municipal
comoration therein.
Section 56. The Legislature shall not pass
any local or special law, authorizing the crea-
tion, extension or impairing *f .liens ; regu-
lating the affairs of counties, cities, towns,
wards or school district;
Changing the names of persons or places;
Changing the venue in civil or criminal
cases *
Authorizing the laying out, opening, alter-
ing or maintaining of roads, highways, streets
or alleys;
Relating to ferries or bridge^ or incorporat-
ing ferry or bridge companies, except for the
erection of bridges crossing streams which
form boundaries between this and any other
State;
Vacant roads, town plats, streets or alleys;
Relating to cemeteries, grave yards or pub-
lic grounds not of the State; '<
Authorizing the adoption orlegitimation of
children;
locating or changing count j seats;
Incorporating cities, towns or villages, or
changing their charters;
For the opening and conducting of elec-
tions, or fixing or changing the places of vot-
ing;
Granting divorces;
Creating offices, or prescribing the powers
and duties of officers in counties, cities,
towns, election or school districts;
Changing the law of descent or succession;
Regulating the practice or jurisdiction of,
or changing the rules of evidence in any
judicial proceeding or inquiry before courtst
justices of the Deace. sheriffs, commissioners,
arbitrators or other tribunals, or providing
or changing methods for the colleotion of
debts, or the enforcing of ^lcWnents, or pre-
scribing the effeotof judicial sales of real es-
tate;
Regulating the feep, or extending the pow-
ers and duties of aldermen, justices of the
peace, magistrates or constables;
Regulating the management of public
schools, the building or repairing of school-
houses and the raising of money for such
Harrell; beat yellow corn, Try Slaughter;
best bushel of turnips, 0. W. Shaw ; b8St
table peas, A. G. Adams ; beet five pounds
leaf tobacco, G. W. Thompson ; for tbe
fastest horse, quarter of a mile, J. E.
Burch.
FROM FORT WORTH.
purposes;
Fixing the rate of interest;
Affecting the estates of minors, or persons
under disability;
Remitting fines, penalties and forfeitures,
or refunding moneys legally paid into the
treasury;
Exempting property from taxation;
Regulating labor, trade, miaing or manufac-
turing;
Declaring any named person of age.
Extending the time for the assessment or
collection of taxes, orotherw.se relieving any
assessor or collector of taxes from the due
performance of his official duties, or his secu-
rities from liability;
Giving effect to informal or Invalid wills or
deeds;
Summoning or impannelin* grand or petit
juries;
For limitation of civil actions;
For incorporating railroads and other
works of internal improvement;
And in all other ca»es where a general law
can be made applicable, no local or special
law shall be enacted, except as otherwise pro-
vided in this constitution; provided, nothing
herein contained shall preveatthe Legislature
from passing special laws to protect the game
and fish In certain localities
Section 57. No local or speeial law shall be
passed, unless notice of the intention to ap-
ply therefor shall have been published in the
locality whore the matter or thing to be af-
fected may be situated, wkich notice shall
state the substance of the contemplated law.
and shall be published at bast thirty days
prior to the introduction into the Legislature
of such bill and in the manoer to be nrovlded
by law; the evidence of such notice having
been published shall be exhibited in the Legis-
lature before such act shall be passed.
Section 58. The Legislature shall hold its
sessions at the city of Austin, which is here-
by declared the seat of government.
article —i
Mode of Cdllinu a Convention and Amending
the Comtilulion of this State.
Section 1. The Legislature, at any biennial
session, by a vote of two-thirds of all the
members elected to each Hcuse, taken by ayes
and nays, may propose anendments to the
constitution, to be voted upon by the quali-
fied electors for members of the House of Re-
presentatives, which proposed amendments
shall be duly published onca a week for four
weeks, commencing at least three months be-
fore an election, the time for which shall be
specified by the Legislature, in one weekly
newspaper of each county, in which such a
newspaper may be published; and it shall be
the duty of tbe several re;urning officers of
said election to open a pol; for, and make re-
turns to the Secretary of 3tare, of the num-
ber of legal votes cast at sa d election for and
against said amendments, and if more than
one be proposed, then the number of votes
cast for ana against each of them; and if it
shall appear from said return that a majority
of the votes cast have been cast in favor of
any one of them, any amendment which has
so received a majority of the votes cast shall
be an amendment to the constitution, and
shall be so declared by proclamation of the
Governor.
In the dit caesion of the question of
submitting amendments to tbe constitu-
tion by the Legislature to the people
the small vote at Qalvetton at the late
election was mentioned, and Mr. Stock
dale, in alluding to it, said the indepen
dent candidate there was presented and
favored by the leading newspaper of the
State.
The convention then tdjourned till to-
morrow.
CORRECTIONS.
In the report of the legislative appor-
tionment, as telegraphed, the following
errors occurred : In the Senatorial dis-
tricts, Hardin county was omitted from
the First district; San Augustine was left
out of the Second district; Upshur was
left out of the Seventh district; Trinity
was left out of the Sixteenth district
Comanche was left oir. of the Twenty
fourth district. In th« Representative
districts, Orange was omitted from the
Third District and Tybr improperly in-
cluded ; Morris was omitted from the
Eleventh district; the Fourteenth dis-
trict is composed of Hopkins, instead of
Hoskins ; and Burnett county was omit-
ted from the Seventy second district ;
Washington county has two representa-
tives.
FROM JEFFERSON.
[Special to the Galveston News. 1
Fort Wobth, Tex , Oct. 27,1875.
The directors of the Tarrant County
Construction Company met this morning,
and elected the following officers : K.
M. Van Z&nt, President; John Hirsch-
field, Vice President; W. A. Huffman,
Treasurer ; Zane CattiB, Secretary.
They have $26,000 subscribed, and the
chances are good for as much more.
This company are to take the contract
from hers to Eagle Ford, and let it out
to sub contractors.
There are a number of contractors here
who are well fitted up for work, and are
anxious to take the contract for the whole
line, one-quarter in provisions, and the
remainder drafts on the company at 8
per cent, interest until paid. The esti-
mate is $60,000 to grade the road to the
point. It is expected that work will com
mence in a week and be pushed through
to completion.
We are very much in need of rain, as
it is too dry lor Tanners to bow wheat,
especially on sod land.
The health of the country is good.
FROM HOUSTON.
I lie Marion County Fair.
[Special to the Galveston News.]
Jefferson, Tex., Oct. 27,1875.
Tho following premiums were awarded
at the Marion County Fair to-day :
For best five pounds of butter, M. D.
K. Taylor ; best five pounds honey, J. T.
Roseborough; best peck dried apples,
S. M. Ward ; best peck of dried peaches
J. T. Veal; best roasted turkey, Mrs. E
W.Taylor ; beBt roasted chicken, Mrs. E
W. Taylor; best apple cider, Mrs. H
Gillman; best apple vinegar, S. M. Ward
best vinegar any kind, Mrs. P. Maulding
of Marshall; best ten biscuits, Mrs. A. R.
Neidermier ; best loaf light bread, Miss
Annie Stutz ; best pound cake, Miss Annie
Stutz ; best dozen doughnuts, Mrs. Neid
eraier ; best ten tea cakes, Miss H. Whit
corn ; best fruit cake. Miss Lizzie Woods
best dozen ginger snaps, Mrs. Neidermier
best apple jelly, Mrs. G. T. Todd; best
plum jelly, Mrs. H. A. Cutrer and Mrs. J
M. Jett; best grape jelly, quince jelly, fig
jelly, same; best blackberry jelly, Miss
L. Moseley; best apple preserves, Mrs.
Geo. T. Todd; best peach preserves, Mre,
Cutrer and Mrs. Jett; best pear preserves.
Mrs. Neidermeyer; best quince preserves
Mrs. G. T. Todd; best watermelon pre-
serves, Mrs. J. Mathews; best display of
preserves, Mrs. G. T. Todd; best black-
berry cordial, Mrs. R. Patrick; best rasp-
berry cordial, Mrs. P. Maulding, of Mar-
shall; best wines of any kind, Mrs. P
Maulding; best blackberry wine, Mrs. J
Mathews ; best p'iach brandy, Mrs.
James Hoban ; best sweet pickles, Mrs.
P. Maulding; best tomato pickles,
Mrs. A. G. A-Jams; best pickles, any kind
Mrs. P. Maulding ; best mixed pickles
Mrs. P. Maulding ; best canned peaches
Mrs. W. H. Cook ; best canned pears,
Mrs. J. Mathews ; best canned apples,
Mrs. G. T. Todd; best canned blackber
ries, Mrs. J. Mathews; best canned to
matoes, Mrs. J. Mathews ; best display
canned fruit, Mrs. J. Mathews; best
canned cherries, Mrs. W. H. Cook ; best
tomato catsup, Mrs. P. Maulding ; best
green tomato catsup, Mrs. P. Maulding
best display pumpkins, T. Harrell; best
display of red pepper, Miss L
Mosely; best half bushel Irish po-
tatoes, M. I). K. Taylor; best
half bushel sweet potatoes, T. Harrel
best yam potatoes, James Brothers
best winter apples, J. L. Veal ; best ap
pies of any kind, J. L. Veal ; best dis-
play of apples and peaches, J. L. Veal
beBt dozen pears, Mrs. Dr. Mooring ; best
dozen quinces, D. W. Shaw ; beat dozen
figs, Cutrer and Jett ; beBt Concord
grapes, Cutrer and Jett ; best display of
vegetables, Cutrer and Jett; best display
of shrnbbery, W. C. Hill ; best Flowers
W. C. Hill ; best hand bouquet, W. C,
Hill ; beet bushel of white 'aeed corn, T
Tlio Construction Company
Elect Officers and Pre-
pare for Work.
The O'Brien Case Decided.
Verdict Not Guilty.
[Special to the Galveston News.']
Houston, Oct. 27,1875.
Late last night the jury in the case of
Bernard O'Brien, charged with the mur-
der of his wife, Mrs. Jennie O'Brien, in
the Fourth ward of this city, after the
last State fair, returned a verdict of not
guilty. The prisoner received the con-
gratulations of bis friends and acquaint-
ances, and, it may be added, the sympa-
thy of the eitowd, and was discharged
from custody.
In the noted case the following were
the counsel, who acquitted themselves
ably, viz: For the State—Major F. M.
Spencer, Criminal District Attorney, Mr.
Taliaferro and J. W. Jones, E.-<q.; for the
defense—Col. Charles Stewart, J. B. Li-
kens, Judge Nat. Cook, (father of Col.
Gus. Cook, Judge presiding,) Capt. E. P.
Turner and Major Crank.
FROM CROCKETT.
Death of L. P. Downs.
[Special to the Galveston News, i
Crockett, Oct. 27,1875.
L. P. Downs, for a long time local
agent for the Galveston News, and one
of the oldest citizens of Crockett, died
to day at ten o'clock.
WASHINGTON ITEMS.
TbankiglTlog Day, November 25tli.
The I-resident's Proclamation.
Washington, Oct. 27.—The President
has issued a proclamation naming Thurs-
day, November 25th, as Thanksgiving
Day.
VVe have been accustomed, as the year
is drawing to a close, to devote an occa-
sion to an humble expression of our
thanks to Almighty God for the cease-
less and distinguished benefits bestowed
upnn us as a nation, and for his mercies
and protection during the closing year.
Amid the rich and free enjoyment of
all our advantages, we should not forget
the source from whence they are derived,
and the extent of our obligations to the
Father of all Mercies. We have full
reason to renew our thanks to Almighty
God, for favors bestowed upon us during
the past year by his continued mercy.
Civil and religious liberty have been
maintained ; peace has reigned within
our borders ; labor and enterprise have
produced their merited rewards, and to
His watchful providence we are indebted
for security from pestilence and other
national calamities. Apart from national
blessings, each individual among us has
occasion to thoughfullv recall and de-
voutly recognize the favors and protec-
tion which he has enjoyed.
Now, therefore, I, UlyseB S. Grant,
President of the United States, do recom-
mend that on Thursday, the 25th day of
November, the people of the United
States, abstaining all secular pursuits,
from their accustomed avocations, do as-
semble in their respective places of wor-
ship, and in such form as may seem most
appropriate in their own hearts, and of-
fer to Almighty God their acknowledg-
ments and thanks for all his blessings,
and their humble prayers for a continu-
ance of His divine favors.
In witness whereof, I have hereunto
set my hand and caused the Eeai of the
United States to be affixed.
Done at the City of Washington, this
27th day of October, in the year of Our
Lord 1875, and of the independence of
the United States the one hundredth.
U. S. Grant.
By the President:
Hamilton Fish, Secretary of State.
Tbe Freedmen Bank Commission—
TUey Pay Twenty per cent—Re-
port or tbe Agricultural Depart-
ment.
Washington, Oct. 27.—Creswell, Pre-
sident of the Freedmen Bank Commis-
sion, has signed thirty thousand checks
to pay depositors twenty per cent. Nov. 1.
John B. Sheckney is appointed Attor-
ney for the Northern District of Florida.
The report of the Agricultural Depart-
ment for October represents the wheat
crop of the present year a short one, the
deficiency augmented by a marked dete-
rioration of quality.
The Southern States, except Virginia,
have increased their production—some of
them 50 to 75 per cent. The total depre-
ciation is 62,000,000 bushels. The crop
is estimated at 24G,000,000 bushels.
The corn crop will be comparatively
large in quantity but poor in quality, ex-
cept in the Southern and Pacific States,
where the result can not be stated till
noxt month.
The rye crop falls 4 per cent, short of
last year, which had an average crop.
The oat crop is 5 per cent, greater than
last year.
Barley and buckwheat are 87 per cent,
of last year, and "Will about equal the
reduction in the quality indicated.
The potato crop promises to be extra-
ordinary, both in yield and quality.
Tobacco, on the whole, is 2 per cent,
above the average ; New York is 2 and
Pennsylvania 10 per cent, above the
average; the great central region, inclu-
ding Maryland 100, Virginia 106, West
Virginia 98, North Carolina 105, Ken-
tucky 116, Tennessee 05, will, on the
whole, realize an unusual crop, though
in some cases injuries from frost and
other influences are complained of. The
season has been favorable for maturing
and curing the plant.
Personal.
The President has recognized Cbas.
Lundin as ^Ice Consul of Sweden and
Norway at Richmond, Va.
CASUALTIES.
Tbe Late Contlagratlou.
San Francisco, Oct. 27.—Wells, Far-
go & Co. have sent one thousand dollars
to Virginia City, and have ordered their
agents to forward supplies from all
points free.
The Board of Brokers have sent five
thousand dollars.
Insurance on the burned district will
reach $1,000,000. Rough estimated loss,
$2,000,000.
No loss of life reported.
full particulars—the suffering is
terrible—the loss heavy.
San Francisco, Cal., Oct. 27.—A dis-
patch from Virginia City says it is im-
possible at present to state the loss of
life occasioned by the fixe. Two were
killed on C street hv falling walls. There
are numerous rumors of other casual-
ties. Hundreds of families are homeless
and hungry. School-houses are the only
public buildings left unharmed. These
are open to the people, but if immediate
relief is not extended much suffering will
nsue. Utter demoralization reigns in
ihe city. Men, women and childred are
wandering about the streets seeking
shelter. The surrounding hills are dotted
with camp-fires. The streets are alive
with drunken mobs, and the military are
patroling the streets to protect property.
No definite advices have been received
as to the extent of the damages. Several
mining companies are involved. The
loss is placed at $3,000,000 or $4,000,000.
still later.
San Francisco, Oct. 27.—The approx-
imate figures from the insurance compa-
nies, place the losses sustained by them
in the neighborhood of $1,200,000.
Among the heaviest losers are the .Etna,
Imperial, Queen and Commercial Union,
about $100,000 each ; the North British
and Mercantile, $60,000 ; London Assu-
rance, $50,000 ; Hartford and Phoenix
about $35^000 each; and other Eastern
and foreign companies for smaller
amounts. Among the local companies
the Commercial loses $100,000, the Home
Mutual $50,000, and the Firemen's fund
$30,000. None of the companies admit
that they are at all embarrassed by the
losses.
A dispatch from Los Angeles promisee
liberal subset iptions of money and sup-
plies.
Deatb from Coal Oaa—Gov. Kellogg
bas Returned.
New Orleans, Oct. 27.—James Rob-
inson, third engineer of the steamship
Royal Standard, was found dead in his
stateroom, and Wm. Donaldson, second
engineer. In the . Bane room, is not ex-
pected to recover. The cause is supposed
to be an escape of gas from the coal
bunkers through the floor of the state-
room, which is immediately over the
bunkers. ,
Robinson was a native of England, aged
29, and leaves a wife and two children.
Donaldson is a native of England,
aged 28, and has a wife and three chil-
dren.
Gov. Kellogg has returned home.
Accident to a Yacht.
Norfolk, Va , Oct. 27.—This morning
about 7 o'clock, the steam yacht Spitfire,
of New York, Capt. Bigelow, bound for
Jacksonville, Florida, while off the navy
yard blew out her stay bolt and scalded
O. M. Dillon, engineer, and the cook se-
verely.
Suspensions.
New York, Oct. 27.—Ira Beard, dealer
in millinery goods, has suspended.
PniLADEErniA, Oct. 27.—Messrs. Lee &
Walker, music publisher?, suspended
yesterday, and made an assignment. As-
sets estimated at over $250,000, which is
thought will cover liabilities.
Nltro Glycerlne]Exploslon.
Boston, Oct. 27.—Nitro glycerine was
expioded under the windows of the Har-
vard College. Several hundred panes of
glass were shattered. It was a narrow
escape from more serious damage. Some
students, it is said, were the perpetrators.
Tbe Eartbqnakc.
Holly Springs, Mian., October 27.—A
severe earthquake, accompanied with a
loud rumbling sound, was felt here at
7:30 this evening. No damage done.
Railroad Accident.
Ralston, Pa., Oct. 27.—The cars on
the Big Plane ran away, caused by a
rope breaking. Two weie killed.
POLITICAL.
Election of Msyor and Conncllmen.
Tbe Democratic Ticket Nueces.tul.
Baltimore, Md., Oct. 27.—The elec-
tion for Mayor and City Councilmen took
place to-day. The contest was very close
and exciting. The vote was the largest
ever cast. The vote was 52,509, of
which Gen. F. C. Latrobe, the Democratic
candidate for Mayor, received 27,620, and
H. M. Warfield, the Reform Republican
candidate, 24,889; Latrobe'a majority,
2787. The Democrats elect ten out of
twenty members|of the first branch of the
City Council, and eight out of ten mem-
bers of the second branch. The election
passed off quietly.
Official Vote ofOblo.
Columbus, Oct. 27.—The official vote
for Governor iB as follows : Hayes, 297,-
813 ; Allen, 292,264. Hayes' majority,
5549. For Lieutenant Governor; >;oung,
297,931; Carey, 287,968. Young's major-
ity, 9963. The highest prohibition vote
was 3630.
twenty years preceding the reconstruc-
t'on of the empire.
Italy.
Rome, October 27.—It is stated that
some German Bishops have asked the ad-
vice of the Vatican for a line of conduct
to terminate the conflict with the German
government. Subsequently Cardinal An-
tonelli addressed circulars to all German
Bishops, asking their opinion.
Prince Frederick William unveiled the
Baron Stein memorial. There wbb much
ceremony.
Canada.
Ottawa, Can., Oct. 27.—The Commis-
sion on the consideration of the fishery
claims will not meet till early in the
spring.
Advices from Jlcilco.
Havana, Oct. 27.—City of Mexico
dates to the 20th, are received. The
Chamber of Deputies was prorogued on
the 15th. The extraordinary powers of
the Executive ware voted bv 139 against
14.
Advices from Guadalajara state that
five participants in the murder of the
American missionary, John L. Stephens,
which occurred at Chualamuco in March,
1870, had been executed.
GENERAL NEWS.
Session of tbe Hoard of missions of
tbe Eplacopal Cbnrch.
New York, Oct. 27.—The Board of
Missions of the Protestant Episcopal
Church resumed their session to-day. A
resolution was . adopted extending the
thanks of the Board to the Rev. Dr.
Scherensechensky, for the past fifteen
years missionary to China, for his ser-
vices in translating the Scriptures into
the Chinese language.
The committee on missions and offer-
ings appointed last year reported through
Bishop House, of Central Pennsylvania,
that in their judgment need of a more
thorough enlistment of the people in the
great missionary work was becoming
more apparent.
Every year the annual meetings of the
Board were very enthusiastic, but in-
creased contributions do not flow into the
treasury.
The committee suggested the adoption
of a series of resolutions, to the effect
that it is the bounden duty of every one
baptized to systematically give a due
portion of his Bubstance for the spread of
the gospel and for tbe salvation of men ;
that it was the duty of pastors to
insist on this, and that while
it may not be practicable to introduce the
pledge and envelope system in every
diocese, where it has been established
it had proved a success, and earnestly
recommended its adoption. The report
was accepted, and (juite a discussion of
the resolutions accompanying it ensued,
but they were finally adopted.
On motion, it was resolved that the
Secretary be instructed to send a copy of
the resolutions to each minister having
charge of a parish.
Tbe Trust Company and tbe Rlog
Suit.
New York, Oct. 27.—The United
States Trust Company, with which was
deposited certain funds belonging to the
estate of the late County Auditor Wat-
son, was to-day ordered by tbe Surrogate
to pay into the State treasury $590,435 94,
being the amount of judgment obtained
at the suit of the people againet Watson,
one of the defendants in the ring suit.
The jury were out fifteen minutes.
Jobn Dolan Sentenced to Death—.V
man Shoots His Son.
New York, Oct. 27.—The verdict in
the case of John Dolan was, guilty of the
murder of J. H. Noe, and sentenced to
death on December 18th.
John Dowell shot his son Thomas in a
drunken quarrel.
Tbe i'ananlan Lotn Placed.
Toronto, Oct. 27.—The Canadian loan
of two and a half millions has been
placed. The stock was subscribed for
many times over in Londot.
Coflee and Cocoa Crop Good.
Laguayra, Oct. 16.—General confi-
dence prevails that the coffee and cocoa
crop will be abundant.
Aquatic.
New York, Oct. 27.—The Dauntless
beat the Mohawk badly ; the race was
twen'y miles to windward and return.
Political Netes.
Pennsylvania Republicans are praying
that there may be no more vacancies for
the President to fill until after election.
Ex-Senator Carpenter is on the stump
for the Republican ticket in Wisconsin.
Chandler's good luck has cheered him up.
Mr. R. T. Bennett, Democratic dele-
gate to the North Carolina Constitutional
Convention from Anson county, has
turned into the treasury the $40 allowed
htm for milegage, less the $4 it actually
cost him to travel to and from Raleigh.
The Hon. W. S. King is in Washing-
ton, trying to hurry up his trial. He
Bays he does not intend to present his
credentials as a member of the House so
long as the indictment hangs over him.
He would probably consent to have the
indictment withdrawn firBt.
The State census of 1875 shows that
there were 340,056 leeal voters in Massa-
chusetts last May. The whole number
of votes cast for Governor in November,
1874, was 185,000, consequently the num-
ber of legal voters in the State must
have been in the neighborhood of 154,-
000. The population in the State laBt
May was 1,647,413.
FOREIGN.
England.
London, Oct. 27.—The screw sloop-of-
war Albatross has been ordered to Pana-
ma to protect British interests.
The Standard says the Servian Kupt-
china voted by 61 to 42 the motion for
war with Turkey.
London, Oct. 27.—Advices from Cen-
tral Asia state that the insurrection in
Kohkard haB been renewed, and the new
Khan has tied to Khodgend.
Prance.
Paris, Oct. 27.—The government is
prosecuting the Echo d'Ajaccio, Rouher's
organ, for saying ihat the constitution is
an uncertain regime, established by a
group of persons without authority.
Germany,
Berlin, Oct. 27.—The German Parlia-
ment met to day. The Emperor was ab
aent on account of indisposition. His
speech was read by the Minister of
State.
His Majesty says so far as human
judgment can discern, peace is more as-
■ored vow than at any time during tbe
NOTICE.
ADVERTISEMENTS UNDER THE READ
Lost, Found, For Sale, For Rent, Wanted,
etc-, not more than three line*, tixxmrds to a
line, one insertion, BO cents; each mibsequent
wnxecutive insertion to cents, payable in ad
vanee.
Cheap Advertisement Column.
FOR SALE—FOR REStT
FOR SALE—A flrst-elass Steinway piano,
but ' T * '
little
music store.
used. Inquire at
Gogpan's
oe28 3t«
For sale-
and harness, together
A valuable family horse, t>ugf?y
is, together or separate. In-
quire of J. C. Gorham. oc28 3t*
j^ARGE TWO-STORY HOUSE, CONVE-
uient to business.
oc28
For rent by
H. M. TRUEREART & CO.,
Real Estate Agents.
THE WATERS HOUSE, on Tremont street,
in one of the most eligible situations in the
city, having been newly roofed, plastered
and put in thorough repair throughout, is
for rent. Apply to H. M. TRUEHEART &
CO., Real Estate Agents. cc28tf
FOR RENT—Two new handsome cottage
houses, containing 7 rooms, on 19th st., be-
tween Victoria and O Avenues. Apply at 162
Strand, back office. oc28 3t*
F°
rkent.
...FOR RENT.
A cheap STORE, situated in the wholesale
business part of this city, n»w occupied by
Messrs. A. Stein k, Co. Apply to
oc28tf J. REYiHERSHOFFER'S SONS.
FOR RENT—A two-story dwelling on Aven-
ue H, between 20th ana 21st streets, con-
taining twelve rooms, with necessary out-
buildings for servants. For terms apply to
G. McKEKNON,
oc24 tf Cor. Tremont and Church sts.
FOR RENT CHEAP—Two small cottages,
with stables, sultabi® for diaymen. Ap-
ply at Internal Revenue office, Market street.
HOUSE FuR RENT, on line
Railroad
oc 22 tf
of People's
convenient to business, by
J. M. ROGERS, 203 Market st.
►JjtOR
RENT—Look through and you wllJ
like it. A neat and pleasant cottage house
on Victoria Avenue, between 19th and20tb
streets. Apply to i. C. LEVY,
oc8 tf Corner Market and 22d streets.
FOR RENT—A large two-story house, cor-
ner of 16th and Market sts. Apply to
oc3 tf B. HANCOCK.
MARKETS.
Foreign.
London, Oct. 27—Noon.—Street rate 3^(5^
per cent, which is per cent beiow
Bank rate. Weather tempestuous and unu-
sually cold.
Liverpool, October 27—Noon—Lard 63s@
03s 3d.
Liverpool, Oct. 27—5 p. m.—Mixod corn
30s 9d@31s.
Liverpool, Oct. 27—Evening.—Turpentine
36s.
London, Oct. 20—Evening.—Common rosin
5e(^5s3d. Turpentine 30s.
Domestic.
New Yobk, October 27—Noon.—Flour more
steady. Wheat a shade firmer. Corn ad
vancing. Pork heavy at $21 80(2>21 90. Lard
heavy; steam I3&c for new. {Spirits of tur-
pentine firm at 42c. Rosin firm at $1 85 for
strained Freights quiet.
Baltimore, Oct. 27.—Noon.—Flour quiet
and unchanged. Wheat firm and fairly ac-
tive, but uuchanced. Corn—southern quiet;
western nominal; southern white 65@78c;
yellow 71@73c.
New Orleans, October 27.—Sugar quiet;
common 7c; fair to good 7}{@7&c; prime to
choice SX<^9Xc. Molaeses lower; fair to
choice 55@04c. Flour dull; q i^ted: superfine
$4 :J0©4 50; XX $5 00; XXX $6 25@6 50;
choice and family $6 75@7 50. Cornmeal—
fresh S3 50; old dull at $3 20. Corn dull;
quoted at 76(j/78c Oats quiet at 48®.52c.
Bran quiet at 51 05. Hay dull at $22. Pork
dull aud weaker; mess f23 25@23 50. Dry-
isalt meats firm; shoulders 9^c; clear sides
13)£@13%c. Bacon dull; quoted at 9»£c for
shoulders; 13&c for clear rib sides; 14c for
olear sides. Hams—choice sugar-cured are
scarce at 16@17#c; ordinary 14)£©15Xc.
Coffee quiet; ordinary to prime 18@21c.
Whisky cull; rectified $1 14<&1 20.
^T. Louis, Oct. 27—Flour inactive; super-
fine fall $4 00(^14 25; extra fall $4 10@4 60;
XX fall $4 75&5 25; XXX fall $5 62)£<&6 00;
family winter, including fancy, §6 C0@8 00.
Wheat—No. 2 red winter still very irregular;
otherwise the market is steady; No 2red win-
ter SI 68@1 73; No 3redwinter$l 28. Corn,
No. 2 mixed 55c. Oats dull; No. at 35(&S5J£c.
Barley dull and lower: No. 2 spring $1 05©
1 10; prime to strictly prime northern f 1 15<&
1 20; choice to strictly choice 51 25(^1 35.
Rye dull; No. 2at68#c. Pork dull and lower
at $21 50. Lard quiet and unchanged; cur-
rent rrake 133*c. Bulk meats dull and lower;
shoulders 8^c; clear rib sides 12c; clear sides
12>£c. Bacon dull, with only a Jobbing order
trade. Hogs higher, with a fair demand;
Yorkers $6 50@-o 75; packing $6 75^7 10;
butchers1 $7 00<Q>7 40. Cattle quiet.
Receipts—Flour. 3,000 barrels; wheat, 41.000
bushe.'s*; corn, 19.000 bushels; oats, 16,000
bushels; barley, 13,000; rye, 3,000 bushels;
hogs, 1,985 head; cattle, 1,990 head.
New York, October 27.—Flour rather more
steady with a moderate demand; superfine
western and State $5 C0<&5 40; southern firm
and moderately active; common to fair extra
$5 50@6 50; good to choice extra $6 70@9 00.
Wheat steady at 23(&1 41 for winter red
western. Corn l@l)£c better, with a good
demand; 71@72Xc for steam western mixed:
73#c for sail do; 73x@75c for high mixed and
yellow. Oats less active and a shade easier;
38@49c for mixed western and State; 45@52c
for white western and State. Coflee—Rio
dull and nominal. Sugar quiet and steady;
refined in better request for export; 10^'c for
standard A; 10^c for granulated and pow-
dered; lKgtllJg'c for crushed. Molasses quiet
and unchanged. Rice quiet and unchanged.
Tallow heavy at 9#(g>9?£c. Rosin firm at
$1 S0@1 90. Turpentine firmer at 42@42j^c.
Leather unchanged; hemlock sole, Buenos
Ayres and Rio Grande light, middle and
heavy weights, 26&283^c; California do 25®
27c; Colman do 25@28.J£c, Wool firm; domes-
tic fleece 45@65c; pulled 27® 16c; unwashed
17@32o; Texas 15<a33c. Pork steady; new
mess, job lots, $21 80@21 90. Lard — old
prime steam dull and nominal at 13)£c. Whis-
ky a shade flrmer at 81 17. Freights heavy
and lower for grain; cotton, sail, 5-16; steam,
7-16; corn, steam, 8@8Kc; wheat, steam. 8%
@8^0.
treasury report.
Sub-Treasury balances—gold, $4,565,753;
currency. $53,915,926. The Sab-Treasury paid
ont $307,000 on account of interest, and $134,-
000 for bonds. Customs receipts, $292,000.
The Indian Territory.
Accounts from MuBkogee say the Bou-
dinot and Harris paper, the Indian Pro-
gress, made its appearance at Muskogee
on Sunday, and shows great ability on
the part of its editors. It is reported
that Shanks and Roberts have procured
a charter from the Creek Council to
publish an intermutual paper at Musko-
gee, and that they have also obtained
an order from the Council directing the
suppression of the Progress and the
removal of the printing buildings within
ten days outside the limits of the Creek
Nation. If they fail to obey this order,
then the building is declared the proper-
ty of the Creek Nation by an order from
the Council of Confiscation. It is sur-
mised that M. P. Roberts, who ia under-
stood to be the coming editor of the new
paper, and now agent of the Associated
Press at Muskogee, has made himself
very busy in this matter, in order to get
possession of the elegant building of the
Progress Company, in which to publish
his paper. Boudinotand Hurris have ap-
pealed to the United States for protec-
tion, and tbe question is likely to be de-
cided whether there is a place in the
United States where a newspaper can be
suppressed at the dictation of anybody, or
a censorship exercised over it3 columns.
A complete history of this attempt to
muz/.le the freedom of the press will be
published in this week's issue of the Pro-
gress. _
llerr Billow is so short that he has
to have a creeper piano made on purpose
for him. But—■" Man wants but little
Herr Bulow, nor wants that little long."
Miscellaneous Cards.
REMOVAL HEMOVA
mas. s. dixon,
AT MRS. GIRARDIN'S OLD STANl>,
102 MARKET STRfaiKT.
Ladies are invited to call and see a full line
of Pattern liats.
Stamping and Pinking. oclO lm ls£ *
notices, etc.
OTICE.—This is to inform the applicants
for the school at Dr. B. P, Curry's that
the situation is filled. oc28 It*
PERSONS GOING NORTH OR EAST VIA
NEW ORLEANS,
can save money by procuring their tickets
throogh U3. YARD & SULLIVAN,
oc28 3t 114 Tremont st., Qalveston.
E. ANHEUSElt & CO.'S
ST. LOUIS
Bottled Lager Beer.
The Best, Purest and Healthi-
est Beer in Market.
it has no equal,
Recommended by the highest medical author-
ities in the country.
SOLD BY ALL LEADING GROCERS.
jy30 3m lstp
educational.
From the first day of November
Miss Royce, in addition to Mrs. Fagtn, will
teach in Martin's Select School for Boys and
Girls, Avenne H and 18th st. A Commercial
Right School, also, by the Principal, J. F.
MARTIN. oc-28 th suit
HELP WANTKD.
Wanted—A good cook; also, a seamstress
willing to do
Broadway.
housework, at 490 East
oc26 3t*
WANTED—A first-class cook. Apply at
house on northwest corner of 15th and
Church street?. oc22 tf
WANTED —Female servants, general work-
men, farm laborers, etc., at R. H. Ward
& Co.'s Gen'l Intelligence Office, Tremont st.
situations wanted.
SITUATION WANTED IN a MERCANTILE
house by a voung man of this city. Not
afraid to work. Highest city references
given. Address Business, News office. oc28*
SITUATION WANTED-By an experienced
cotton man, in any of its branches. ~
city References pi* en.
Good
Address P. O. box 992.
WANTED—By tho 1st of Nov , a situation
by a man and wife, as gardener and cook.
Address C D , News office. oc27 5t*
A GENTLEMAN, graduated in European
Universities, desires to give private les-
sons in German, French, Italian and Latin.
For particulars address B. A., News office. 2t*
A BOOK KEEPER of long experience in
the Cotton Factorage and Commission
Business desires a situation. Best city refer-
ence?. S. S. D., Drawer 6t>, P. O. oc26 3t*
JUISCELLAMEOC'S WANTS.
Gulf loan and homestead, or gal.
Real Est. & l. Co. stock wanted. Address,
stating lowest price, Box No. 939. oc26 tf
KOOmLS AND BOARD.
FOR RENT—Two desiriable rooms, famish-
ed or unfurnished. Terms liberal. Apply
s. side Postoffice St., 2d door e. of 28th. 2W4t*
A NEATLY FURNISHED ROOM, suitable
for one or two gentlemen, with or with-
out board, on 22d street,
Methodist Church.
two doors north of
oc28 3t»
IARGE South Rooms with grates can bo
J obtained, with or without board.
immediately, corner Avenue
teenth street, north cottage.
k
Apply
and Nine-
oc26 3*.*
BOARDERS WANTED—At the Richardson
Boarding-house, on Public Square, Avenue
H. between 21st and 22d. Terms reasonable.
PERMANENT AND TRANSIENT BOAKU,
accommodations excellent, at Mrs. v. A.
WESTLAKE'S. cor. Church and 22d. se4 3m*
_ r?I use EJLli A NEOU8.
IMPORTANT TO THE LADIES.—Mrs. A.
M. Prall, formerly of Houston, has opened
a Dressmaking Establishment on Postoffice
St., near 22d, where she will cut, fit and make
ladies' dressea in the latest and most approv-
ed styles. All fitting guaranteed. oc!7 lm*
PJ. WILLIS & BROTHER—
• Are the Agents for the sale of
"The DEVOE OILS" and
DUPONT'S POWDER.
They keep constantly on hand a full supply.
oc!7 tf
EXCHANGE! EXCHANGE!—Double value
received for your money at L. WOOLF'S
New Orleans Shoe Store, 207 Market st*
GUS. McKERNON, importer and dea'er in
FRUITS, NUTS, etc., corner of Church
aud Tremont streets. Consignments care-
fully handled and orders promptly attended
to. sol6 3m
HEAPEST WRAPPING PAPER
IN GALVESTON, AT
ap21 tf "NEWS " OFFICE.
jmportant to ladies.
MISS J03EPI1INE liENTINCK,
Formorly with Mrs. S. Dixon, will open on the
1st of November Dreps-Makiog and Millinery
at the old stand of Mrs. Dixon'*, 225 Pogt-
oflics street, where she will be nleased to
meet her friends, and do work to satisfy all
who come, and at prices to suit the times.
Pinking done, aud stamping from an entire-
ly new Style ot pattern, OCX lm*
and Lace
Shoes worth 82 at $1 a pair. L. WOOLF'S
New Orleans Shoe Store, 307 Market st.
NOTICE—Children's Button
s
Legal Advertisements.
rpRUSTEE'S SALE.
In pursuance of the terms of a mortgage,
with power of sale, executed by T. T. Smoth-
ers to Alford, Miller & Veal, on the 9th day of
December, A. D. 1S72, and recorded in book A
of mortgages, page 246 of the records of Lib-
erty county, to secure an indebtedness of
52560 80-100, and authorizing therein said Al-
ford, Miller & Veal to advertise and sell the
land hereinafter mentioned in the event said
indebtedness and interest were not paid on
or by October 1, 1873 ; and wnereas, said in-
debtedness is due and wholly unpaid, and de-
fault has thereby been made, now, therefore,
on FRIDAY, the 12th day of November, A. D.
1875, at 11 o'clock, between the hours pre-
scribed by law, I will sell to the highest bid-
der for cash, before the Court-house door of
Galveston county, 853 6-10 acres of land, an
undivided interest in the two leagues of land
originally granted to Pedro Bermeo, situated
about five miles westward of Wolf Point,
on the south side of Pine Island Bayou, in
said Liberty county.
ALFORD, MILLER & VEAL,
In liquidation by
oc21 td GEO. F. ALFORD.
TRUSTEE'S SALE.—By virtue of
authority in me vested as substitue trus-
tee, appointed for the purpose of oxecuting a
trust deed made on the 2Jth day of March,
1873, by F. R. Jones and S. F. Jones, his wife,
of Bastrop county. Texas, to secure the pay-
ment of two certain promissory notes, bear-
ing date Jan'y 1, 3873, each for the sum of one
thousand dollars in gold, due respectively in
one or two years afterdate, payable to the or-
der of Martna W. Holman, and bearing inter-
est at the rate of ten p^r cent., i will sell at
public auction to the highest bidder, for cash,
in tront of the front door of the Court-house
in Galveston county, on
MONDAY, NOVEMBER, 1,1875,
the land conveyed in said trust deed, to wit:
Two hundred and forty acres of land in Bas-
trop county, Texas, on the waters of Sandy
Creek, east of the Colorado river, between
McDade and Elgin, on the tiouston and Texas
Central Railroad. For metes and bounds of
property reference is made to the deed of
trust, which is of record in said county of Bas-
trop, in book S, page 248. Said sale is made
to satisfy said notes and interest. Fifty
acres of this land is in cultivation. A peach
oichard and apple trees on the place; also
good well-wacer. dwelling with four rooms,
smoke-house, cribs and stables.
D. B. SHERWOOD,
oc20 td Substitute Trustee.
JJLESSING & BRO.,
PHOTOGRAPHERS,
174 Tremoiit Street, (U|> Stairs.
POKTKAITS of all SIZES and STYLES.
Bost work at moderate prices, liefer to our
reputation as a guarantee
FRAMES, ALBUMS, STKREOSCOriC
VIEWS and PHOTOGRAPHIC GOODS.
Sam entrance as Wilson Sewiug Machines.
ap!6'
The ualveston news job
OFFICE
Haabeen thoroughly reorganized, and Is fully
prepared to do all kinds of JOB PRINTING
in the latest styles at the very lowest prices
with dispatch.
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