The Representative. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 22, Ed. 1 Saturday, May 4, 1872 Page: 2 of 4
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hioi3la.h3d nelson,
EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
For President In 1872
ULYSSES S. GRANT
Subject to tl.e nomination of the National
Republican Convention.
SATURDAY, MAY 4, 1872.
The Coming Convention.
Thanks to H. E. Cuney, of
Washington, D. C., for political
speeches.
Mrs. Fanny Kelly and Mrs.
Sarah A. Larimer were once cap-
tives among the Indians. After
the escape of Mrs. Kelly she
wrote a narrative of her life and
suffering among the noble red
men. After Mrs. Larimer's re-
lease she obtained possession of
Mrs. Kelly's manuscript, publish-
ed it in book form and sold it.
Mrs. Kelly sued for damages, the
cause having just been tried at
Iola, and recovered a judgment
of $5,000 against Sarah A. and
Wm. Larimer.
The Secretary of War has
transmitted to Congress a state-
ment ot the number of the color-
ed soldiers enlisted during the
war, their previous condition,
and the amount of money requir-
ed to pay the enlisted slaves'
bounty. The total number enlist-
ed was 178,975, of whom 144,426
were slaves. Under the existing
law' slaves enlisted subsequent
to July, 1864, are entitled to
bounty, the same as freemen.
The number enlisted prior to
July, 1864, and who are allowed
bounty under the bill pending in
the military commission, is 21,-
537, and of this num5er at least
one-fifth have forfeited any claim
upon the government by deser
tion and other causes. The Sec
retary states that, in case the
bill passes, $2,000,000 will be re
quired to pay the bounty allowed.
The Austin Journal says:
"The joint diablerie of twenty-
three Democrats alluded to some-
time since, are busy with a new
scheme to attract Republican no-
tice. They are all working to
prevent a judgment in the Su-
preme Court in the school tax
case. Stealing the education of
two hundred and twenty-five
thousand children of educable
age, besides robbing teachers of
their hard earned monthly pit-
tance. Will the people of Texas
submit to this second outrage
upon their holiest right ? "
The Kauffman Star says,"Over
1,000,000 of beef steers are annu-
ally driven to market from this
State. Not one of this vast num-
ber were ever inside of a pasture
or saw an ear of corn, a blade of
fodder or a bundle of hay. We
feed our work oxen, and the hor-
ses that we use, but nothing else."
Cassius M. Clay has been mak-
ing an anti-Grant speech in Ken-
tucky. It is so peppered all over
with personal pronouns that it is
difficult to ascertain where the
real sentiment comes in.
The N. O. Republican says
that "We congratulate our tal-
ented young confrere, William
G. Brown, Esq., upon his appoint-
ment by Governor Pinchback as
an administrator of the Univer-
sity of Louisiana. As editor of
the Louisianian, Mr. Brown has
manifested marked ability, and
he will bring to the discharge of
his new duties not only this, but
integrity of purpose and sound
discretion."
On the 14th inst. one of the
most important conventions ever
held will take place at Houston.
The objects to be attained are the
election of proper delegates to
the Philadelphia National Con-
vention, and the reorganization
of the Republican party, in order
to secure a triumph in the ap-
proaching contest.
To accomplish these ends every
effort should be made. Concil-
iation, (forerunner of internal
harmony,) fairness in prelimin-
ary proceedings, and an absence
of personal bitterness must event-
ually cause the Conventon to be
an entire success.
We note with gladness that
our County Convention has in-
augurated an era of good will;
let every other county practice
the same moderation ( displayed
here last Wednesday evening,
and that "split" so often spoken
of, eternally written about and
oracularly declared irreparable
will disappear and be remember-
ed only as an artful diversion of
our enemies to secure our defeat,
but discovered in time to be ren
dered unavailable even as an
electioneering dodge.
The Galveston Republican
County Convention.
That Link.
Our big neighbor, in an issue
of the 2d inst., has a full head
article entitled "another link in
the chain of outrages," wherein
it is gravely asserted that Gov.
Davis has procured the dismissal
of District Attorney Garland be
cause of Garland's implication in
the finding of a bill of indictment
against his Excellency. Now
this is all the veriest bosh, for
there is scarcely an editor of our
so-called Democratic sheets but
knows that Garland's incapacity
is the cause of his removal; that
"he has never been able to make
an indictment stick; " and every
reputable member of the bar, who
will express an opinion freely,
would not hesitate to confirm the
title of "necessity conferred
upon Garland, on account 'of his
knowing no law.'"
If Gov. Davis realiy desire^, to
shield himself, by questionable
modes, the removal of an imbe
cile prosecuting officer, is about
the most singular mode of avoid-
ing a conviction ever known. It
is about equal to discharging a
blind man and hiring one who
can see, in order more effectually
to allow a burglary. Try again,
Mr. News, your reasons are too
thin, and manifestly illogical, to
eonvince even your strikers.
They know that you know better,
and scarcely feel complimented
at your estimate of their sense
In another column will be
found a letter from Judge W. A.
Price, of Matagorda. The Judge
is an able and intelligent gentle-
man. He was educated in Ohio,
the State that has so many sons
in the South; he was born, we
believe, in Alabama. After trav
eling over the United States,
Mexico and Canadas has come to
the conclnsion to rest his ark in
Texas, and has purchased a home
in Matagorda county. Mr. Price
is a fair representative of his
race, an active and influential
Republican, and by his courtesy
commands respect from even his
opponents. We thank him for
past favors and hope to hear
often from his county.
Horace Greeley, for President?
and B. Gratz Brown, for Vice
President, have been nominated
by the Cincinnati Convention.
The large and harmonious
meeting of the Republicans of
Galveston county was held at the
V. M. E. Church, on the 1st of
May. The meeting was called t°
order at eight o'clock by Mr.
Cuney, who, as Chairman of the
County Executive Committee,
issued the call.
Judge D. J. Baldwin, on
motion, was unanimously elected
President of the Convention, and
Geo. Lawrence, Esq. Secretary.
Mr. Lawrence being absent, Mr.
N. Allen was chosen to supply
his place.
On motion of Col. Patten, that
a committee of three be appoint-
ed, and amended by Justice De
Brulil, a committee of five on
Platform and Resolutions was
appointed, G. T. Ruby, W. D-
Shepherd, T. Gorman, M. Shaw,
and Wm. E. Griffin.
A motion that remarks be lim-
ited to ten minutes, was adopted.
A recess of filteen minutes was
then taken to give the committee
time to make up their reports.
During the time the committees
were absent, the Hon. B. F. Wil-
liams, of Colorado, being loudly
called for, delivered a very elo-
quent and able address upon the
duties of Republicans at the pres-
ent time, and the necessity of
united, harmonious action. The
speech was received and warmly
applauded.
The committee on Platform
and Resolutions announcing
themselves as prepared to report,
the following Platform and Reso-
lutios were adopted:
EErOET of COMMITTEE on ABSOLUTIONS.
\ ' Whereas, A committee of the Re-
publican party of our State is called to
meet in the city of Houston, on the
secqnd Tuesday, 14th day of this
month, and
Whereas, The Republicans of Gal-
veston are alive to tne true intereft of
their party and State, cheerfully re-
spond to said call. Therefore,
Resolved, That the Republicans of
this county in mass meeting assembled
do proclaim their unswerving lealty to
tbh great principles of the National
Republican party, embodied in Liberty,
Justice and Equality, and do recognize
in General U. S. Grant, the renowned
Chief Magistrate of our country, an
able statesman, a wise leader and a
patriotic representative of the pedple,
in whom we have unbounded confi
dence, and to whose renomination and
rc-election we give our undivided
support; and to this end our delegates
are instructed in the State Convention.
Resolved, That as earnest Republi-
cans, desiriug the continued success of
the great principles of our party, we
deprecate all efforts at division in our
ranks, and pledge ourselves now and
for the future to the most thorough
harmony and concert of action in our
political conduct.
The committee on nomination re-
ported the following list of delegates
and alternates to the State Convention
Which, upon motion, was carried and
adopted:
DELEGATES. ALTERNATES.
Hon. D. J, Baldwin F. Daney.
' Maj. B. R. Plumly S. Paschall
Hon. N. Patten W. E. Griffin
Justice S. Mason Thos. Smith
Henry Show, Esq Jd DeBruhl
Hon. G. T. Ruby Thos. Gorman
Justice R. Nelson J. H. Jones
E. J. Webb, Esq Ed. Green
Capt. Wm. Parker F. Brown
N. W. Cuney J. Jackson
On motion of Mr. Ruby, the follow
ing resolution, recommended by the
committee, was adopted:
Resolved, That the Delegates and
Alternates present are authorized to
substitute proxies if they see proper
for those absent, or to cast the entire
vote to which this country is entitled
in the State Convention.
On motion the Convention, 9:30
o'clock, adjourned sine die.
[COMMUNICATION.]
«' Caney, Texas, April 26,1872.
Hon. Richard Nelson.
DEAR SIR
Thinking that a word concerning our
County Convention would be of in-
terest to you, I write, pursuant to a
eall issued, the various delegates as-
sembled at the courthouse in Matagor-
da on the 25th. The following are the
gentlemen from the preciusts:
No. 1—Judge Buskhart, J. M. Bar-
bout.
No. 2—James Ohmstead, Ransom
Ediston.
No. 3-^Chas. Cashan, Thos. Taylor.
No. 4—Cain Harrison, by his proxy.
The resolutions were short, and the
whole tenor of the Convention exhibi-
ted the determi nation to stand by the
Philadelphia Convention Nom*uce-
The following gentlemen wore seized
to represent the, county: Meesrs.
Judge Burkhart, Prico, Bourboiui#U(l
Cashan. The Convention was olF^e
best ever held in the county. Eff ry
delegate being a man of property,
of course feeling the interest oftpfc
State at heart. Look out for a l*$£e
majority next fall. We are to ha^v a
mass meeting at Colorado on the
May. Iam to attend; I shall
you the particulars. Yours,
W. a. Price-
texas items.
Jail Delivery.—Last Wednesday
night, between midnight and dawn,a
party of armed unknown men went to
the jail at this placc, and after over-
powering the guard and forciug them.,
to deliver tht> jail key, marching them
off from the jail, building and promises,
and then while quietly keeping them
under arrest so that no alarm could lie
made, took off the man Dove, who hal
the day previous been lodged there to
be tried for being an accomplice of the
murderers of Sheriff Rogers, and t'oi
stealing horses at Groesbeck. Who
th« persons were that took Dove off,
the guard has not, the least idea, nor do
we, after no little inquiry. What wis
done with him we are totally unable
to ascertain.—[Fairfield Ledger.
Fine Stock. — Passing the livery
stable of Mr. Butts this morning we
saw John Greer, of Austin county,
standing at the door, and we inferred
at once that his presence was connec-
ted with something fine in the lira of
horse flesh. Passing over we soon
found our inference to be correct. Mr.
G. was just from New Orleans, and had
brought with him a handsome blooded
mare and the thoroughbread bay stal-
lion Beacon. Beacon is half brother to
Ulverson; is sire to Mr. Greer's Keene
Richards, and Keene Richards is the
well known champion of the Texas
turf.—[The Age.
Deputy U. S. Marshal W. H. John-
son, of Arkansas, arrested last Wedes-
day in this place two men named
Page, charged with the murder of an
Indian in the Cherokee Nation last
February. He left on Thursday with
the prisoners for Ft. Smith. He also
took with him Brooks and' Covington
recently arrested in Parker county, and
lodged in our jail, charged vith horse
stealing in Chickasaw Nation.—[Sher-
man Patriot.
We have been informed that a num-
ber of our citizens will refuse to pay
the school tax. Go in. gentlemen; if
you fail to get rid of ihe tax, it will
only make it cost yoathe more, but it
is your legal right to cest the constitu-
tionality of the law>[Canton News.
The three cattle irds of Texas are
thus mentioned in t© Annual Report
of the Commissioneof Agriculture:
The Santa Catrfcles ranch, on the
Santa Catrides rier, owned by Col.
Richard King, embaces 84,132 acres of
land, stoeked with>5,000 cattle, 10,000
horses, 7,000' slieiy and 8,000 goats.
For the managem*t of these immense
hoards, 300 Meian herdsmen and
1,000 saddle horse are held in constant
requisition. Co: King each year
brands 12,000 ca^es, and sells 10,000
fat cattle, conautly investing the
surplus proceed in <: stock cattle.
O'Connor's rancl twenty miles below
Goliad, on the an Antonio river, in
1862, contained fer 40;000 cattle; du-
ring that year, u this estate, 12,000
calves were brgded, and 80,000 real-
ized by the sale f cattle. This enter-
prise was inaugrated ten years pre-
vious with 1,90 cattle. Rolideaux
ranch, betweenthe Rio Grande and
Nueces river, owed by Mr. Kennedy,
is a fertile penisula of 142,840 acres,
jutting out info the Gulf of Mexico,
the isthmus beig secured by thirty
miles of plank fcce, guarded at inter-
vals of three liles by herdsmen's
ranches. It aliady contains 30,000
beef cattle, besies large numbers of
other stack.—[Rton Journal.
in jail. The rebels here are how-
ling with rage because they can-
not take them out of jail and
hang them. The whole enmity
and hostility against these men
exist in the fact that they are
Union men, and have been since
1861; they know the doings of
all the villainous ivu-Klux since
that time; hence the desire to be
rid of them." Perhaps Grand-
mother " Collocation" will in-
form us that there is no longer
any u political feeling" in Texas,
as veil as in this State. But we
assert that wherever the Demo-
crats have the power, it is unsafe
for a Republican to attempt to
live; and not only in this State,
but in every State South.—Ark.
Republican.
Vie Democracy and the Presi-
dential Election. — The reports
fro^i New Hampshire and from
thrown meetings in this State
ar< having their effect in the
Solth. The Nashville, (Tenn.)
Bjrner, of Thursday, closes a
lo] j article, reviewing the polit-
ics situation, thus:
Every turn of the wheel
sbws the woning influence of
dt*l partyism, and more espec-
iay that there is no longer
mgic nor magnetism in the
Dtnocratic name. This is the
leson which New Hampshire
tcches people capable of learu-
ir; and willing to learn. It will
tie tho most Republican of
Lteral Republican tickets to
b^t Grant, and then, it is a
npk-and-neck race. Democratic
ojanization is still worse. No
nitter how Republican the
tiket, or how national—the
Bmocratic label kills it at the
$rth, which is to be the battle-
gouna. We do not say we will
at supsort the Cincinnati Lib-
eal Republican ticket zealously,
lut we do say that support of it
ly the Democracy in its organ-
ised capacity—'kept well in hand
ly its leaders,' as those leaders
themselves insist—will inevit-
ably elect Grant. Mark the pre-
diction."
A Gentleman in search of a
man to d some work met on his
Way a lighly respectable lady,
not as yomg as she once was,
and askec her, "Can you tell me
where I ctn find a man?" "No,
I cannot." she replied, "for I
have beei looking these twenty
years for «ne myself.";
Democrac jn Texas.—Gov.
E.J. Davis, f Texas, tried the
conciliating pocess among the
Democratic hll-hounds of that
" iron cage," nd he is probably
satisfied by his time that be
" wishes he hd forgotten iyc."
However, he had a couple of
tricky little bieds who advised
the " soft" poby? and he is reap-
ing the consequences. We clip
the following from the State
Journal as a simple of how con-
ciliation workd in Nacogdoches
as told by a corespondent: "You
would be sunrised to be with
these people £ short time; they
imagine they Ive in a miniature
confederacy—hey have no idea
that the Soutl has ever lost any
of the prestge of its former
glory, and my man differing
with them in politics is in danger.
Of all the lawless counties in the
State this leads: the sheriff with
a mob thinks nothing of taking
all freemen's arms from them
and breaking them up. I have
the names of some twenty freed-
mea who were so treated. Gen.
Goodwin has arrested the sheriff
(Ogdeo) and carried him to Rusk
county to stand trial for false
imprisonment. The prisoner's,
Hazlett and Grayson, are here
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
EXCHANGE HOTEL—
Late Island City Hotel,
GALVISTON, TEXAS,
JOHN SUMMERS, - Proprietor.
Free Bubs at all Trains and Boats-
SONNENTHEIL BROS. & WENK,
DRY GOODS,
LADIES' St. GENTS' FURNISHING GOODS
EMBROIDERIES, LACES, GLOVES,
SHOES, BOOTS, TRUNKS, &c.
157,150 and 161 Market Street,
GALVESTON, TEXAS.
ISLAND CITY SHOE STORE.
Edwin Belcher. John F. QuarleS. £• R. Belcher
Belcher, Quarles & Belcber,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
HAMBURG, S. C.
Prompt Attention Given to the Collection
of Claims.
apl3-tf.
OFFICE IN THE BANK.
a^oisrietr ijo-ajsteid on
All articles of valne, by JACOB RUDY
Agent, at 108 Post Office Street,
Galveston, Texas.
Unredeemed articles for sale.
LEGAL CARDS. <•
T. J. LEAGUE.
ATTORNEY & COUNCELLOR AT LAW
Hendley Buildings,
GALVESTON, TEXAS,
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C. B. SABIN,
attorney ■ at-l aw.
GALVESTON, TEXAS.
Office; Corner Strand and Tremont strebt.
Eutrance No. 105 Strand and 58 Tremont 8t.
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vv. i'. ballingee thos. m. jack m. f. mott
BALLINGER, JACK & MOTT,
Attorneys and Counsellors at Law
No. Postoffice st.,
GALVESTON TEXAS.
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