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GALVESTON, THURSDAY, APRIL 2, 1874.
VOLUME XXXIV.-NO. 74.
(Salbfshw ITefos.
Tknr«4ay, April 2, 1974.
TBI CALL. rOH A MAIS MKBTINC
Th« P»tI«k C»«tr«el».
In another place i» published a docu-
ment, *igncd by » uumber of property
[holders, rccmumemling a mass meet-
ing, on the public square, next Friday
evening, in order to obtain an ex-
pression o( popular sentiment touching
the paving contracts and the majoiity
report of the Council committee on
tbft subject. It is stated that three
-other papers, eopiec of the one pub-
lished, have received a large number
of signatures, but have sot yet beeu
handed in.
If the temper and action of the
•meeting to be held ob Friday are forc-
*ha«k>wed by the names of substantial
» itizens appended to this document,
wv have no reason to apprehend the
prevalence of intemperate counsels
and r&sh and revolutionary proceed-
ings. Persuaded that the call is
prompted by such motives as should
actuate good citizens, we heartily wish
success to the general object which
we conceive them to have in view.
We say this with the firm conviction
that these gentlemen, identified so
largely with the proprietary and busi-
ness interests of the citv, can have no
idea of fatally Uiscot&rting or ob-
structing any reasonable plan for
making substantial and acceptable
■progre* in a much needed system of
public improvements. We can not for
a moment suppose that they ate dis-
posed to encourage or indulge in in-
flammatory agitations in furtherance
/>f some political or personal
schemc, or for any purpose
other than the simple, well-defined,
practical purpose of extricating the
paving matter from the untoward
-complications in which inconsiderate
arrangements cm the part of city func-
tionari-:* had involved it, and placing
It, without unnecessary delay, on some
basis of fair adjustment and satisfac-
tory advancement.
Though well aware that the city ad-
ministration has been, as a whole,
gravely at fault, we arc not prepared,
ami we do not believe that tho gentle-
men who called the meeting are pre-
pared to question the honesty of this
administration as a whole. Nor are we
prepared to assert unreservedly that
the compromise reported by the ma-
jority of the Council Committee is not
one which, as to its main features, the
Board of Aldermen, in consistency
with a sense of sound public policy,
might definitively accept and ratify.
When it whs first announced that
contracts had been entered into by the
City Council that would require the is-
sue of several hundred thousand dol-
lars in city bonds, we participated in
a very general sentiment of surprise,
and we did not disguise our apprehen-
sion that enormous speculations were
about to be made at the expense of the
city. The manni r in which the con-
tracts were made appeared almost as
objectionable an their terms and con-
ditions, and the consequence was an
almost universal expression ol dissatis-
faction. Mayor Hurley himself seemed
to be convinced that the contracts had
been hastily executed and without due
consideration, and he at once issued
an order suspending all work till fur-
ther action could be had.
In response Messrs. Hitchcock &
Co., the principal contractors, declared
their willingness to make all reasona-
ble coni essions, so as to remove all
just cause of public dissatisfaction,
and accordingly they met a committee
appointed from the Board of Alder-
men, and at once agreed to give the
city the full l>enefit of the purchases of
materials they had made greatly below
the first estimated cost. As this
large reduction in the price of the
work left the contractors but a mod-
erate margin for profit, and removed
the chief objection to the original con-
tract, the offer was accepted by the
committee, and its majority report to
that effect was adopted at a special
meeting of the Board of Aldermeu.
Having inquired into some of the
statements- made in a communication,
signed "An Old Citizen," in the
Nkws of Wednesday morning, we
have no reason to doubt their general
correctness. We refer to the follow-
ing statements, and the important
considerations which they logically
carry with them:
1. The present contract price, as re-
duced by the compromise submitted by
the Council committee, is about :is low
as private citizens can procure the
work to be done on private terms.
2. Private citizens were at liberty to
get the work done by whom they
please, if they do not wish the con-
tractors to do it.
:i. A large majority prefer to pay the
contractors, instead of getting others
to do the work, so that only a small
proportion of the cost will have to be
met by the city in bonds.
4. It seems that the city has thus
far paid but about $2000, while private
citizens have paid nearly ten times
that amount.
!>. It Is not questioned that the
proper execution of these improve-
ments will facilitate the drainage and
contribute to the health of the city—
that it is indispensable, indeed, to tho
establishment and efficiency of a com-
plete sanitary policy.
The Legislature.
The most important measure under
discussion in the Legislature yester-
day was one regarding the organiza-
tion of a force for protection of the
frontier, the details of which will be
found under head of regular proceed-
ings. *
Governor Coke sent in the name of
John H. White as Judge of the Twen-
ty-second District, in place of Mancy,
who was addressed out of office day
before yesterday.
The other business before the two
House* was of a routine nature aud
unimportant.
FROM GALVESTON TO »ALLAS.
The editor of the Cleburne C/tr»nicle,
having been "shown by a mcrchantof
Cleburne the freight charges on a bill
of goods purchased in New Orleans
and shipped up Red river via Shreve-
port," expresses hig surprise "to find
the cost but fifty cents per on# hun-
dred pounds from New Orleans;" for,
he adds, "the same freight, we under-
stand, if shipped from Galveston to
Dallas, would cost $1 20 per one hun-
dred pounds."
1 liege are somewhat surprising state
ments. If substantially correct, they
justify the inference that, "if this
lifference in freights is uniform, and
should continue any length of time,
all the trade within reach of the Texas
Pacific will be turned from Houston
and Galveston to Shreveport and New
Orleans."
Still the editor of the Cleburne
Chronicle is not contcnt, but hastens
to put inference and statements to the
Nkws, in a manner more direct than
either gracious or just—thus:
We wonder what the Galveston
Nkwh, the able defender of, and
zealous apologist for, special railroad
interests, will have to say in regard to
the matter. Whatever it may have
to say, let Galveston and Houston
look to their interests.
To begin with, the News has to say
that if the editor of the Cleburne
the legislature.
[.Special to the. Galveston iWiM.l
Austin, April 1.
* Senate—-Horulus Se»»Ion.
The Senate met pursuant to adjourn
ment. Quorum present.
nominations.
The Governor nominated John G.
White, of Seguin, Judge of the Twenty-
second District, vice Maney, removed,
which the Senate confirmed.
petitions and memorials introduced.
By Shepherd, memorial pf citizens of
Washington county, asking the removal
of obstructions to navigation in Brazos
river.
By Bradshaw, memorial of citizens of
Ellis county and from the Stato Temper-
ance Society, asking enactment of the
Ohio liquor law.
By Ball, an act further regulating the
assignment of causes in Supreme Court.
By Ellis, an act repealing an act regu-
lating proceedings in district courts, and
an act to incorporate the I.avaca Tap
Railroad Company.
By Swift, an act providing for redis-
ricting the State into judicial districts ;
also, an act for the safe keeping of the
Capitol buildings and to improve the
grounds.
By Allison, an act providing for the
sale of all lots in the city of Austin
which belong to tire Stat*, except those
used by the State.
bills taken up and passed.
Act authorizing* the several counties of
from bryan.
Chrotti^kjs prijpe to be as wide of th»- to jrftisfijneans to pay their
mark in construing freight bills and in
understanding the cost of shipments
from Galveston to Dallas, as he is in
describing the position of the Nkws
with regard to "special railroad inter-
ests," what he has related about the
comparative charges on freight from
New Orleans and from Galveston
to the same Texas destination must be
taken as a very apocryphal story.
His remoteness from the record, from
everything in the nature of fact, in-
telligent observation and candid judg-
ment, when he characterizes the News
as the "defender of, and zealous apol-
ogist for, special railroad interests," is
simply preposterous. Seeing how dis-
tinctly and steadily the News has ad-
vocated general railroad interests, and
how unhesitatingly it has combated
special railroad interests in behalf of a
general, comprehensive railroad policy
designed for the common service of
the commercial public, we have no
need to resent or discuss assertions to
the contrary. They are entitled to
our serene indifference,aud they have it.
But we may not dismiss, as altogether
frivolous, the alleged difference of
freight charges on one hundred pounds
of goods from New Orleaus up Red
river, via Shreveport, to a point in
Northern Texas, and on the same
weight to the same point by al! rail
transportation from Galveston. The
commercial community of Galveston
can not afford to ignore the published
assertion that it is more than fifty per
cent, cheaper to ship goods to the heart
of Northern Texas from New Orleans
than from Galveston. Nor can those
railroads whose interest, as well as
proper office, is to connect the trade of
Northern Tex*s directly with the Texas
f>eal>oard, afford to ignore the assertion.
For our part, we are not prepared to
credit it. Even if the Texas and Pa-
cific Railroad were secretly discrimi-
nating against Galveston, we are sat-
isfied that it could not profitably carry
from Red river at a rate to make the
total freight chargcs from New Or-
leans less than the price for which
equal quantities of freight could be
profitably carried from Galveston to
the same points in Northern Texas.
Trade naturally dislikes discontinuous
channels and heterogeneous methods
of transportation. Anywhere in the
Texas interior it will naturally prefer
all rail intercourse with Galveston to
half water and half rail intercourse
with New Orleans. The item of river
insurance alone is an onerous burden
incident to the latter process, and un-
known to the former.
But are the railroads plying between
Galveston and Northern Texas doing
what they should do to bring into
healthy activity the natural preference
of trade to which we have adverted ?
This is a question of momentous con-
ccrn. Is it net worth while for the
Galveston Chamber of Commerce to
give it prompt and practical atten-
tion ?
Judge Lynch's Vengeance
A Terrible Retribution !!
The Clarke Embez2Yement €a«c«
Under this caption tho Washington
Crtronide of March 28th says:
The Third Auditor of the Treasury,
in a letter to the Secretary of the
Treasury, relative to a charge of em-
bezzlement against one W. T. Clarke,
in connection with an allowance re-
cently made in favor of the Buffalo,
Biyou Brazos, and Colorado Railroad
Company, states that when this claim
for further allowance was before his
office, Clarke urged favoroble action
on the case, on account of his friend's,
Mr. Tod's, urgent necessities. He also
stated that he was not an attorney in
the case, but that he was acting for
Tod as a friend, who had done him re-
peated favors. The Auditor holds
that if Clarke had promised Cwhich he
does not for a moment believe) to pay
#7500, or any sum, to any person to
secure a favorable report by him, he
certainly would not have paid the
amount, for he perfectly well knew
that his report was directly tne reverse
of favorable, the matter having alread
been once settled on the same consi
erations.
Import* and Export*.
I
The last report of the Bureau of Sta-
tistics, now in press, comes down to
November :i0, 1873. For the eleven
months ending with that date the total
imports, including $27,528,838 of spe-
cie and bullion, were #589,337,098, as
against #<334,022,213, including $19,-
624,729 specie and bullion, for the cor-
responding period of 1872. The total
exports, specie values, including $53 -
COS,299 of the precious metals, were
$54?.,949,368 in the eleven months
ended November 30, 1873, and were
#491,784,202, including $87,618,731 of
the precious metals, in the like period
of 1872. Comparing simply the
amounts of merchandise, exclusive of
the precious metals, exported and im-
ported, we find that in the eleven
months ended November 30, 1873, the
imports were $561,808,260, and the
exports, foreign and domestic, $506,-
599,554, leaving an adverse balance of
$55,208,706. In the corresponding
period of the previous year the imports
of merchandise were $614,397,434 and
the exports, foreign and domestic,
$119,5*4.169, leaving a balance against
tiie country of $94,813,265.
Launt Thompson's statue of Gen.
Wlnfield Scott, intended for the
grounds of the Soldiers' Orphans'
Home at Washington, is now on
exhibition in Philadelphia. It rep- j A man in a mill in Plumes, Califor-
rcsents the General standing erect, ! nia, felt a tug at his coat-tail. He
with one hand in the breast of his j looked around and saw that it was
coat, and tb* other upon his sword; being drawn in by cog-wheels. He
wearing the uniform of s Lieutenantj grabt>ed a pout and held on with all
General, and with a military cl^ik 1 his might, while the coat was slowly
thrown over the shoulders aud tied I torn from him. The struggle was a
carelessly in front.
The newly elcctnd Lord Mayor of
London is a practical printer.
hard one, but the man won.
N-ivigation by steam to Konigsberg,
i in Prussia, has reopened.
present indebtedness.
[This Is in conformity with the sug-
gestions of the Governor when he re-
turned the one which allowed the issu-
ance of bonds for this purpose.]
Act regulating the sale of lauds under
executions and judicial decrees.
Concurrent resolution appointing a
committee to examine the tax bureau of
the State.
House bill punishing theft or destruc-
tion of the products of farms or gardens.
Senator Bradley offered an amendment
to exempt from this punishment boys
under sixteen years of age for stealing
watermelons and fruits, remarking that
he did not know how it was with Sena-
tors, because he had never known them
then, but that they must all have been
boys, and that if his father had to pay
the necessary amounts to have kept him
from the punishments inflicted by this
law for stealing watermelons and fruits
when a boy ,he would have been bank-
rupted—that boys would be boys.
Amendment adopted and bill passed.
An act for the relief of the justices of
tho peace for assessing the taxes for the
several counties of tho State.
An act appointing a board of survey to
inspect all State arms, and to sell the
same.
An act further regulating the assign
ment of causes in Supreme Court.
An act regulating the sale of home-
stead.
An act providing for a State Normal
School. This act appropriates $15,000 for
this purpose.
' IIoimp -.Tlornlns Reunion.
The House met pursuant to adjourn-
ment. Quora.rt present.
petitions and memorials presented
and referred.
By Speaker Mryan, petition of citizens
of Harrison county against dismember
ment.
By Reeves, memorial of citizens of
Sherman against extension of time to
the Texas and Pacific Railroad, or trans-
Continental.
Ro.-bjrough reported in favor of re-
pairs of land office. Report adopted.
A communication from tho Governor,
stating that he had, in accordance with
the vote of both Houses, addressed a
Bote to Judge Maney, of the Twenty-
second Judicial District, notifying him
of the action of the Legislature, and do
claring the office vacant.
The J udiciarv Committee made favor-
able reports on numerous bills. The
only one on which an adverse report was
made was an act amending article 784 of
the Penal Code, which was adopted and
the bill lost, after which the Land-
lord and Tenant bill was discussed to an
adjournment.
— —-
Hou'e-Kvenliiff Sesalon.
House met pursuant to adjournment.
Quorum present.
The House this evening engrossed the
landlord and tenant act, after changing
the caption to "an act concerning rents
and advances." Also an act to provide for
the sale of lands belonging to the differ-
ent State asylums.
The House is working nearly seven
hours per day, but with very slight real
progress. The different committees have
been very much delayed in reporting on
bills that were referred to them. In sev-
eral cases they have been compelled to
hold them from two to eight weeks.
The free conference committee on the
frontier bill this evening decided to re-
port an agreement that section 20 of the
Senate bill snail read, "that in addition
to the force herein provided for, the Gov-
ernor is hereby authorized to organize a
battalion of mounted men, to consist of
six companies of seventy-five men each."
The minute companies organized under
the House bill to be an auxiliary force
to this battalion. The battalion aud com-
pany officers shall be appointed by the
Governor and removed at his pleasure.
Section 21 fixes the pay of major at $125,
captains #100, lieutenants $75, sergeants
#50, and all other con commissioned offi-
cers and privates $40 each per month,
and nothing by way of commuta-
tion. Section 22 authorizes the Gov-
ernor to appoint a quartermaster,
with the tank and pay of captain,
who shall be quartermaster, commissary
and paymaster.
Another section is added which au-
thorizes officers to make arrests of crimi-
nals, and strikes out tho following in
section 25 : " Provided, if from cause a
soldier shall be dismounted the com-
manding officer of the company, under
direction of the Governor, shall furnish
said soldier with a horse."
It is understood the Governor will ap-
prove a bill similar t> this, and it is be
lieved will furnish better protection to
the frontier than a much larger force of
minute companies and at far less ex-
pense.
The bill extenliug the time for the
conatiuction of w>:ka of internal im-
provement,, passed tlie Senato several
days ago, but was only referred to the
Committee on Improvements in the
House yesterday.
SUPREME COURT DECISIONS.
Atnendez vs. Dd La Zcrna; appeal
from Cameron—reversed and remanded.
Morris & Morris vs. Files ; affirmed—
appeal from Montgomery.
Mayfield vs. The State ; appeal from
Hill—dismissed.
The Evangelists preached la:t night in
the Senate Chamber Hall, which was
to crowded that hundredsjhad to leave.
They left this morning.
A London telegram states that, in
the banai"-ise jf the Metropoli-
tan Street Tramway Company, liquida-
tion has been ordered.
Six of the Fiends Hung.
[Special to the Galveston
Br van, April 1.
A mob of white men last night called
on the Sheriff and demanded the jail
keys, but the jailor happened to have
them, and coul*d not be found ; where-
upon they went to the jail aud broke it
open by force, and took out four of the
negroes who had been arrested on the
charge of being implicated in the Leak
outrage, and took them about a quarter
of a mile from town and hung two of
them named Higgins and Brown to a
tree.
They both confessed that they were
guilty, and said that the other two were
innocent of tlie crime, and also told the
whereabouts of ths others.
Brown and Higgins were also identi-
fied by Mr. and Mrs. L?ak aa being two
of tho party.
It is reported that four more were
hung in the Brazes Bottom lost night.
Eight or ten negroes are implicated
in the horriblo deed. Men a?e in search
of the balance, and if fonnd they will all
have the pleasure of jjdning in the fate
of their dead triend* *
burned to death.
Mili.erbtown, Pa., April 1,—A fire
broke out here at liaif-past one o'clock
this morning, in the Central Hotel, from
gas used in the building. It is believed
that seven persons were burned to death.
Some of the bodies Were recovered.
The names aro as follows: Norah Carty,
Pleasantville; George Deet, a German;
Captain Oliver, oil operator; Martin Phil-
lips and Sandford Ocert, drillers; the
other one is unknown. Nellie McCarty
jumped from a third-story window of the
house, and was badly hurt, but is still
alive. All the buildings on the east side
of Main street, from I1 redericks' grocery
and hardware store, in Sink's hotel, and
two other buildings on the south; on the
west side of the atreet fri ni Bed Frank's
shebang north, inclusive of Butler &
Co.'s bank; the United Pipe Lines) office,
express offices, Millerstown Savings
Bank. Westerner's grocery, up to
Schneider's billiard hall, on Slipping
Rock street; on the north side from Fred-
erick's boot and shoe store west to Ber
nard streot; from Hood's dwelling on tiie
south side of Slippery Bock street east
to Puff's iaundry, including sixty-nine
buildings in all, were burned. * More
persons are thought to have been burned,
but none have been discovered.
San Francisco, April 1. — Low &
Fricks' liquor store, on Battery street,
is burned. Loss about $50,000.
Burlington, Iowa, April 1.—The
courthouse is burned with all of the
records.
railroad trouble.
Sumjukhanna Depot, April 1.—Eight
hundred 'roops are here. A renewal of
the trouble is apprehended upon their
withdrawn]. No violence or disturbance
is reported, and everything is quiet.
The strikers cling together, and remain
firm. Those whom the compauy have
employed will go to work in the shops
to-day.
New York, April 1.—A dispatch from
Susquehanna says that after the men
had been paid off yesterday, 1300 of
litem, who had been discharged, paraded
the streets headed by a band. A meet-
ing was subsequently held, at which it
was resolved that if the company wished
to employ them it must be in a b »dy. -Vice
President Clarke addressed them, and
said that the company was willing to
employ some of them if they were will-
ing to abide by the rules. This was re-
ceived with apparent indifference; and
he stated that If the ru.-n don't go to
work to-day the shops will be closed.
The soldiers are anxiously awaiting
orders to go hom». The men of the
First Regiment, who aro mostly leading
business men of Philadelphia, are es-
pecially anxious to get away, as their
business needs their attention.
O BANKRUPTCY.
Providence, B. I., April 1. Pro-
ceedings in bankruptcy against the A. &
W. Sprague Manufacturing Company
were instituted to-dsy by the National
Bank of Commerce, and citations proved
but are not yet served upon defendants.
The announcement of this proceeding
this morning caused intense excitement
among business men. Extraordinary ef-
forts will be made to induce a suspension
or discontinuance of proceedings. A call
for a meeting of the stockholders of the
bank has been made to request the direc-
tors to suspend action.
miscellaneous.
edwin forrest.
New York, April 1.—A bill passed
the State Senate authorizing the execu-
tors of the estate of Edwin Forrest to
compromise with his widow.
died.
Gen. Harry Brown, of the United States
Army, died to-day, aged 78.
fire.
united states senator.
Boston, April 1.—For United Slates
Senator : Dawes 95, Adams 15, Hoar 74,
Banks 6, Curtis 75, Pierce 2, Washburne
1, Whittier 1, Weddell 1. Adjourned
until Friday.
liquor license.
Jeffersonvoxe, April 1.—The Com-
mrn Council fixed the liquor license at
$500, by a small majority. The result
was that several of our best German cit-
izens moved across the Ohio.
Memphis, April 1.—Two young men
of this citv hold a tenth, and a club of
forty hold a fifth of the ticket which
drew the capital prize in the Louisville
Lottery.
Boston, April 1.—A large number of
leading merchants have cigned'a call for
an anti-inflation meeting on Saturday
evening next, at Faneuil Hall.
New York, April 1.—A coronor's jury
brought in a verdict of criminal careless-
ness against John McLellan, telegraph
signal operator, by which a collision was
caused at Point of Rocks, on the Penn-
sylvania Railroad, on Saturday, whereby
two men were killed. McLellan has
been committed to await trial.
foreign.
financial panic.
London, April 4.—Tho London Times
acknowledges the existence of a financial
panic in London, and attributes it to the
effect of thosa with which New York
and Vienna have been visited, combined
with the depressing influences of the In-
dian famine ; and says the check to trade
is probably as severe as in any former
instance.
reinforcements.
Madrid, April 1.—Troops to the num-
ber of 150,000 are on the way to rein-
force Marshal Serrano. It is reported
that the Carlist Gen. Olio is killed. The
final attack on Abinto will be made on
Tuesdny or Wednesday.
reported failure.
Bayonne, April 1.—The Carlists'assert
that the movement of Serrano against
the Royalists before Bilboa has entirely
failed, aud that there was no fighting
between the twenty-eighth and thirtieth
of March.
wounded.
Madrid, April 1.—It is reported that
the Carlist leader, Rodeca, was seriously
wounded in one of the recrnt engage-
ments be&we Bilboa.
death.
Berlin. April 1—Peter Andrewhau-
sen, a German astronomer, died.
LOST OVERBOARD.
qukknstown. April 1— The bark
Creditor, from New York, experienced
tempestuous weather. Several were lost
overboard, including the captain,
from rockdale.
I"Special to the Galveston
Rockdale, April 1.
The International and Great Northern
Railroad Company to-day commenced the
work of building a large reservoir for
the use of stock yards, etc.
A large amount of cotton and several
droves of cattle came in to-day for ship-
ment.
Building going on rapidly. Weather
c >ol.
washington.
Washington, April 1.—Senator West
presented a memorial from the citizens
of Alexandria, La., for the construction
of a breakwater in Red river at Alexan-
dria. Referred to the Committee on
Commerce.
WasniNOTON, April 1.—In the Senate,
Merriman, from the Cornmifee on
Claims, reported a bill referring the cot-
ton claims of the heirs of Stephen A.
Douglas to the Court of Claims. Passed.
The California Legislature, by a joiut
resolution, asks Congress to place unsold
lands granted to railroads, from the Mis-
souri to the Pacific, at the disposal of
pre-etnp'ionist settlors.
The Senate devoted much of the ses-
sion on the third section of the Financo
bill. The committee reported in favor
of authorizing the organization of na-
tional banks in States and territories
having a less proportion than the State
of New York, upon the basis of wealth
and nopulation, until each State and ter-
ritory has an amount equal in propor-
tion to New York. An amendment to
insert Philadelphia in lieu of New Yhrk,
which J would increase the National
Bank circulatijiwout $124,000,000, was
rejected ; yeas 25 ; nays 26.
An amendment to reduce the volume
of fractional currency to $40,000,000 was
also defeated. The amendment was
under discussion at the hour of adjourn-
ment.
In the House, Rainy presented the
memorial of the Republican Central Com-
mittee of South Carolina a* a counter,
statement to the memorial of the tax
payers, presented yesterday. It was re-
ferred to the Judiciary Committee.
The bill to amend tiie mining act was
passed, and then the House engaged in a
debate on the currency question.
The Agricultural Committee of the
House will report a bill authorizing the
Agricultural Bureau to collect specimens
of wood from all parts of the country for
a museum.
Admiral Porter's friends are more con-
fident.
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury
Sawyer was before the Committee on
Ways and Means upon the Sanborn con-
tract.
The debt statement shows a decrease
of $2,125,000 ; amount in Treasury, coin,
$80,125,000; currency, $4,500,000.
The memorial of the South Carolina
tax-payers, as well as that of their oppo-
nents, being now before the Judiciary
Committee of Congress, it is expected
that the whole matter will be considered
on Friday.
The Star of this evening says thought-
ful members of Cougress of both parties
express themselves greatly impressed by
the representation of the delegation as to
the distressed condition of the tax-pay-
ers of South Carolina, and there is no
doubt the committee will give the matter
attentive consideration to see if Congres-
sional action can be constitutionally ap-
plied for their relief.
mississippi levees.
washington, April 1.—Gov. Ileben
and Prof. For.-hey were, by invitation,
to-day before the House Select Commit-
tee ol Levees.
Gov. Hebert, after alluding to the
origin of levees in Louisiana, under
Spanish dominion, and tracing their
history down to the present time, made
an elaborate and exhaustive argument
on the absolute neceseity of the (1 antral
Government assuming tho contr >1 and
expense of all improvements upon the
Mississippi liver, of which he considered
the levees the most important.
He referred to his reports of 1846 and
1847, in which he opposed cut-offs and
advocated a combination of levees and
outlets for tho permanent protection and
reclamation of the aliurial lands of the
Mississippi valley. Governor Hebert
concluded by suggesting the appoint-
ment of a mixed committee of civil aud
army engineers to report on a fixed and
permanent plan at the next session of
this Congress.
probabilities.
For the Southern States clear and
partly cloudy weather, and gentle to
fresh winds, mostly from northwest and
southwest.
MARKETS.
Sterling Ex-
Gold weaker
Domestic.
New York, April 1 — Noon.—Stocks
dull. Money 4. Gold 113f. Exchange,
long $4 85; short $4 88.
Cotton dull; sales 669 bales; Uplands
17c; Orleans 17jc.
The market for cotton for future de-
livery opened steady, as follows:
April 16 5-32(<il6jc.; May 10 9-lGc.;
Jrne 17 l-32c.
New York, April 1.—Evening.—Cot-
ton, net receipts 745 bales, gross receipts
3868 bales.
The market for cotton for future deliv-
ery closed steady; salts 6400 bales,at the
following quotations:
April 16 5-32@16 8-16c.; May 16 9-16@
16 19-32c.; Juno 17 1 33@17 l-16c.; Julv
17 7-16(41715 32c : August 172l-33@17!c*j
September 17£@17 9 32c.
Cotton dull; sales 1143 bales at 17@
17|c.
Freights firmer; cotton by steam f@
7-16c.
Money in firm at 4®5.
change higher at $5 50.
at 113 J@113£. Government bonds strong
and steady. State bonds dull and nom-
inal.
New Orleans, April 1.—Flour dull;
double extra $6; treble extra $6 50,»
7 25; choice extra $7 60@$8; family $8
<3$9. Corn firmer; white mixed 75c.;
white 77@78c.; yellow 80c. Oats quiet
«t 64@65c. Bran—none received. Hay
dull; prime $17. Po:k firm $16 87A(a?
$17. Dry salt meats firm at 6J@6}@8i@
8J(J9c. Bacon quiet Jbut firm. Hams-^
choice in demand and firmer at 12@13c.
Lard in good jobbing demand; tierce 9@
9Jc. Sugar dull; fair 6J@7c. Molasses—
no sales. Whisky dull; Louisiana 94c ;
Cincinnati $1. Coffee quiet at 22£@26c.
Corn meal quiet and firm at $3 40<g8 50.
Cotton—demand general but moderate ;
sales 3800 bales; offerings moderate and
badly assorted ; prices are irregular but
stronger; Good Ordinary to strict Good
Ordinary 13i<®14Jc.; Low Middling to
strict Low Middling 15f®15Je.; Mid-
dling to strict Middling 16i@16jc.; Good
Middling 17i@17ic.
Beceipts to-day, 5400 bales, exports
to the Continent 7170 bales, ex-
ports coastwise bales, exports to
Great Britain bales ; stock 243,-
346 bales, stock unsold 182,600 bales.
Gold 112i@l 13ir. Sight par. Sterling
Exchange $5 474@5 48£.
Forelen.
London, April 1—Noon—Consols 91|.
Erie 34£.
Liverpool, April 1.—Noon.—Cottou
steady; sales 12,000 bales, including 2000
bales for speculation and export.
The market for cotton for future de-
livery opened at the following quotations:
Sales of Uplands not below (iood Ordi
nary delivery in June and July 8^d.; Up-
lands not below Low Middling shipment
in March and April 8 5-10d.; Uplands not
lrelow Good Ordinary shipment in March
8Jd.; Uplands not below Good Ordinary
delivery in April 8d.; Uplands not be-
low Low Middling shipment in March 8
3 16d.
Sales to-day include 6900 bales of
American.
Liverpool, April 1—Evening.—Cot-
ton—sales of Uplands not below Good
Ordinary delivery in June and July 8jd.;
Uplands not below Low Middling ship-
ment in March 8Jd.; O. leans not below
Low Middling shipment in March and
April 8|d.
Mr. George It. Farrier, of the New
Jersey City Board of Finance, who
went to Mexico with the extradition
papers ior tlie return of Hamilton, the
fugitive City Treasurer, arrived at
home on the twenty-sixth ultimo. He
went to M'ttnmo1 o , but was unable to
find Hamilton, who is said to have
bribed Cortinas, tho local chief of po-
| lice with $7000. Inspector Murphy is
i still at Brazos de Santiago.
FROM HOUSTON.
The Bryan Outrage.
[Special to the Galveston Wetti.]
Houston, April 1. -
Passengers down on the evening train
say three of the negroes engaged in the
murder at Bryan were hung by a crowd
of fifty men, who took them out of jail.
Dr. Hammond, with religious excur-
sionists, arrived on the noon train, and
held services at the Presbyterian Church
at three o'clock and to-night. With Dr?,
H. were Rev. Mr. Armstrong, Rev. Dr.
Porteus, and Rev. Dr. Marshall, and
one or two ladies.
Doctors Marshall and Portens also ad-
dressed the children, among whom was
manifested much interest.
Dr. Hammond addressed the audience
in his peculiar and original manner. A
very large congregation attended the ser-
vices to-night.
The Hebrew congregation celebrated
the Passover at their temple in this city
to-night. Rev. Dr. Meyer officiating.
The ladies of the church gave a grand
supper and entertainment in the Fifth
Ward to-night for building a chapel in
their part of the city.
havana. ,
Havana, April 1.—The Diario, of Ha-
vana, whose editor was a prominent city
official during the former rule of Gen.
Concha as Captain General, has recently-
published editorials pointing out many
special advantages for the general good
of the island which would follow restora
tion of peace.
Owing to relations believed to exist be-
tween the editor and Captain General
Concha, the articles are thought to be in-
spired by the Spanish party, and that
their object is to prepare the people of
the island for a manifesto of prominent
members of the Ilispano Cabinet, de-
manding an accommodation between the
so-called loyalists and insurgents, to be
inaugurated by the temporary cessation
of hostilities and to be followed by a for-
mal treaty of peace. The basis of the
treaty as made^known includes a pledge
that the inland shall remain united to the
crown of Spain ; that the people shall
elect representatives to the Cortes ; that
slavery shall only be interfered with by
consent of the owners, and in case eman-
cipation should be decreed, then owners
of slaves are to be indemnified, etc.
mass meeting on the
public square.
Property Holders to the
Front.
Wherea8, The City Council of the
city of Galveston has, through a commit-
tee appointed for that purpose, entered
into certain contracts that are regarded
by the people as inimical to the best in-
terests of the property-holders of Gal-
veston; and.
Whereas, Tho majority report of the
committee appointed by the Council to
investigate said contracts has failed to
give satisfaction to tho public;
Therefore, we, the undersigned pro-
perty-holders, lecommend the calling of
a pnblic meeting, on the Public Square,
Friday evening at seven o'clock,in order
that the sentiments of the people may
be made known upon the subject.
Wm. Hendley & Co., | H. Wiikins,
A. C. Crawford & Son, H. Marwitz,
E. 8. Wood,
F. McDonald,
H. Btizhorat,
Wm. Vordenbaum,
M. L. Parry,
A. P. Lufkin,
D. The. Ayers,
J. L. Mckeeu.
Reyband & Himons,
T. Keyrae ~
S. Billet,
Chaa C. Lund,
Victor Gfrardin,
A. Haldingor,
S. Heidenneimer,
J. K-mffwau,
Julius Rungo,
J. Chut'b,
T. Chubb,
F. Hitchcock & Son,
J. Frederick,
C.JW. Adams,
G. H. Henchman,
F. t.aramers,
John Goggan,
W. H. Goddard,
Aug. Buttlar.
J. L. Darr&gh,
John Berlocher,
C. D. H-:.-lines,
H. Stinhoff,
Fr. Eggert,
John tiennison,
W. Weoar,
P. H. Moser.
H. J. Lausen,
J. G. Hoot,
E. Engelke.
Chas. Kauffman,
A. Allen & Co.,
Ch. Urockelman,
D. J. May
M. Henritta,
Wm. Koberts,
A. Flake & Co.,
A. Stauffacher,
Phi lip Dargan,
John B. Fitzpatrlck,
Edward T. Austin,
D. Morgan,
E. H. Sieliug,
James Crosa,
H. De St. Cyr,
P. Bock,
Frank A. Alexander,
A. P. Root,
V. J. Baulard,
, G. Reymer ho
C. B. AdaoiS,
J. Ziegl r,
S. W Sydnor,
A. B. Eftock,
J. C. Ma»s;e,
C. H. Buff,
J. P. Darie,
J. E. Ciubb,!
M. B. Chubb,
A. Wakelee,
Thos. D. Gilbert,
P. H. Erhard,
H. Schott,
J. E Mason,
C. H Pix,
Th Vogel,
J. Hibbect,
W. T. Beers,
Charles Dalian,
Wm. Richardson,
Sam. Maas,
Waiter Benniaon.
N. Murph',
Tb. Kleinecke,
Arthur Hersnileld,
Phillip Dubie.
Peter Gentler,
M. W. ShawA Co.,
F. C. Armstrong,
T. F. Hollis,
H. Lowell,
Louis Falkenthai,
Th^s. McDunnell,
D. Tobyn.
John Stetnam,
J. Astftl',
C. R. Hughes,
Joe D*vis.
dorsements of his views by Gen. J. A.
Wilson, recently of the United States
Engineer Corps, charged with the con-
struction of the Keokuk Canal; also,
from C. Shaler Smith, Messrs O.
Chanute, O W. R. Bailey, E. L.
Corthell and Col. Henry Flood.
Deepenlue the Water on Bars.
It is to be hoped Aat the investiga-
tion now on foot before the Transpor-
tation Committee of the United States
Senate, in relation to the rival projects
for improving the outlet of the Mis-
sissippi river, will result in the collec-
tion of a mass of information that
may be useful in th evolution of simi-
lar questions elsewhere. Civil engi-
neers, like doctors and "two of a
trade," and even experiments, made at
one place, in particular circumstances,
are not always a sure guide for other
places, under really different, though
apparently similar conditions. The
papers note briefly the statements
made before the committee in favor of
the rival measures, the canal and
jetties, but nothing more conclusive
has yet been elicited.
Mr. Eads was invited to appear be-
fore the Senate Transportation Com-
mittee last week, to reply to the argu-
ments of the agents of the New Or-
leans Chamber of Commerce, Professor
Forshey and ex-Governor Hebert,
against the jetty system. Governor
Hebert occupicd about ten minutes^in
relating who the distinguished gentle
man was they had the honor of listen-
ing to. He had made a study of the
canal. It bad been reported by six of
the ablest engineers of the army, and
those gentlemen, including himself,
were unanimously of the opinion that
the canal was the thing, and that it
wo-ald be very unwise, in the fage of
such professional ability, to intrust a
great work like opening the mouth of
the Mississippi toan outsider without
scientific data or information respect-
ing the subject, and with nothing but
his own crude notions on the matter;
that jetties had been tried there before
nrd were a failure; that there were no
currents to distribute the deposits
of the river, and that the ablest
engineers of the army and in the coun-
try had no faith in the jetties. Prof.
Forshey followed with similar state-
ments. Mr. Eads followed these gen-
tlemen, and by quoting Humphrey's
and Abbott's" reports, and other
standard authority, proved that the
jetty system had been tried at the
mouth of the Mississippi; that a trans-
verse Gulf current did exist there, and
that such able engineers as Chase,
Beauregard, and Barnard had recom-
mended the jetty system for trial here.
Mr. Eads then said be was able to
show that all the talent of the laud
was not on tho side of the canal. In
addition to the -views of the senior en-
gineer of the army. General Barnard,
already expteased emphatically against
the canal, and in favor of the jetties,
he had a nuin!>er "f letters from robrc
^f the most eminent 'cnginom ii. ;h.
United States, recently sent him, anil
from a number he read decided ia-
Col. Ben. Atilaw.
Dr. C. C. Graham, of Kentucky,
formerly propnetor of the Harrods-
burg Springs, now past ninety years of
age, but hale and clear in intellect,
contributes to the public library of
Kentucky a biographical sketch of
Colonel Ben. R. Milam, a native of
Kentucky, who gave his life to the
cause of liberty in Texas, after he had
fought for it in two previous wars, the
last war of the United States with
Great Britain, and the war of indepen-
dence in Mexico.
Among the early incidents at his life
of Milam, Dr. Graham relates the fol-
lowing:
Early in 1813 he became supercargo
of a shipment of floor belonging to
himself and Mr. John Samuel, of
Fraukfort, and finding the market at
New Orleuns dull, he, in connection
with two others, chartered a schooner
and started with their flour to Mari-
caibo, but on the tray the yellow fever
with nil its deadly horrors assailed
tbem. The captain and nearly all the
crew died, a terrible storm shattered
the Bgging, and nearly sunk the ves-
sel, aud after great suffering the sur-
vivors finally reached St. Johns, and
from thence reached New York. Dr.
Graham says:
I knew him better, I suppose, than
any man now living, having been com-
patriots in our war of 1812. I soon
after went with him, Capt. Ben San-
ders, of Lexington, and Lieutenant
Charles Mitchell, of Paris, to aid
Mexico in her struggle for liberty, but,
becoming disgusted with the Spanish
character, and disheartened by the
prospects ahead, Mitchell and myself
soon returned; Sanders joined Lufitte
and was lost :>t sea, while the daring
Milam, with more patriotic firmness of
purpose, resolved to indure all the
privations, hardships and hazards of a
long and doubtful war.
Milam's life, like that of his venera-
ble biographer, was full of strarge in-
cidents and trials. Both grew up
amid the hardships of Kentucky life
during the closing years of the last
century and the beginning of this.
Both were soldiers in the wir against
Great Britain; and both embarked in
the struggle of Mexican independence,
through which Milam, as Dr.
Graham says, fought with great
distinction, though often wounded.
But, when his General-in-Chief, Itur-
bide, made himself Empemr by force
of arms, he and a few others opposed
him, and were ordered to be shot,
which order was promptly executed
on all but Milam, who was thrown
into the dungeons of the Inquisition
in the city of Mexico, where he lay in
heavy chains, unknown to the world,
for more than a year, liis friends and
countrymen thinking him dead. He
was finally released on the appeal of
the American Minister, on the condi-
tion that he should be taken out of
the country; and Dr. Graham says
that when he himself entered the har-
bor of Tampico, in December, 1822,
he met the vessel coining out with
Col. Milam, the port of Vera Cruz
being then blockaded by the British
fleet for a claim of England on Mexico.
On the accession of Victoria to
power Milam again visited Mexico.
He then returned to Kentucky, and
proposed a partnership to Graham for
the purposs of introducing spinning
wheels into Mexico; but the Doctor
had his hands too full of other matters
to accept the offer. The biographer
then relates that the Colonel, having
made his outfit at New Orleans, was
next seen crossing the Sabine and
entering the northern border of Texas,
with five pack inules of Indian goods,
which he disposed of after six hundred
miles travel through the border tribes,
mostly Comanches and Apachcs.
Passing over the long period between
this time and the breaking out of the
Texas revolution, Dr. GrahanT quotes
from history as follows:
Colonel Milam, on visiting the City
of Mexico, was again thrown in prison
for several mouths by the dictator
Santa Anua, and making his escape
he, in order to elude bis mercilcss ene-
mies, traveled eight hundred miles
without a road, prosecuting his jour-
ney at night, and secreting himself in
the day.
On reaching Sail Antonio this Spar-
tan son of Kentucky, and Leonidas of
Texas, though starved, tattered and
worn out, soon called to arms three
hundred Americans, who, like himself,
had breathed the inspiring air of lib-
erty in the United States, and hated
tyrants, and first stormed the Spanish
garrison of Goliad, and next assailed
with desperate courage their strong-
hold at San Antonio. On the night of
the fifth of December he, with his
three huudred American riflemen, en-
tered the town to attack seventeen
hundred of the enemy, fortified and
armed with twenty pieces of artillery.
They entered, however, determined to
conquer or to die. For six successive
days and nights they grappled with
their foe, before they conquered. They
succecded, but the death of their
dauntless leader, who fell in the arms
of victory, was the price of their tri-
umph.
The Doctor quotes from an old
Texas newspaper as follows:
We first hear of Colonel Milam in
Texas in the year 1816, when the ves-
sel in which he was sailing to gain
the Republican standard in Mexico, put
into Galveston bay, and again we hear
of him in 1819, on his way to Galves-
ton island to obtain munitions of war,
and secure the aid of that noted rover
of the seas, and lord of that island,
John Lafitte, and faithfully did he
serve the cause of liberty from that
until Mexico was free from the fetters
of Spain; but alas! it was his fate to
again fight the tyrant Iturbide, and
next the usurper Santa Anna.
Dr. Graham says: "When on the
survey of the southern railroad through
Texas, on the line of 33, on the Pa-
cific, I, in December, '52, visited Son
Antonio, and, in company with Capt.
Henry Skillman, went to the grave of
my dear companion in the war of '12,
and, blind with tears of sympathy, I
sadlv walked away to the Alamo to
see where he fell."
There are still many old Texans,
some of them in Galveston, who re-
member Milam well.
There is nothing funnier in cockney
vernacular than Jearnes' letter, 'when
lie is in doubt which to prefer of his
two lady-loves, Mary Hann or llange-
lina., He writes: "There they stood
together, them two young wojfien. I
don't know which is the 'andsomest.
I coodn help comparing them; and I
pw:f!n I'ule cMts'^fir ' - 1' to j
eerta:n hanr.iii.Ui !'• ■ u.1', ih.it
found it ditHcklt to make a choice be-
twigst 2 Bundles of A.''
fSalveslon Card*,
worn viLUi,
j. B. VKNXiiieaaoLi.
^y7"INTER WALKER & CO.,
HIDES, WOOL. ETC
No. 8 StpAMD, GALVESTON. TEXAS.
mh9D-Wly toe
Stowe & Wilmerding
COTTON FACTOliS
And Commission Merchants.
GALVESTON.
Liberal casn aa ranees on consignments of
Cotton to our address, to Duncan, fchprmau
*Co., New York, or MEHSltS. BARING BROS.
ft CO., LIVERPOOL. Telegraphic transfers
of money to New York, fixt-haug.- fon»ale
on a'! points in Great Britain or on the Con-
tinent. ja5-*;4DA A ly
J. cjlrroluwki, A. J. yi/KKK,
Galvtiton. Houston.
riULXK 8. BUBKK, Houston.
J C. SMITH & CO.,
Cotton and Wool Factor, and
Commission !tlereli«i>t«,
131 .. ..STK%.VD, GALVESTON 181
Julyl8 TS-DAWly
. M. BlUKDOir. J. D. BRA MAN. W. T. Pl>*VlAKCr.
BRANDON, BKAMAN&tO.,
COTTON FACTORS
▲JTO
GENERAL COMMISSION MERCHANTS.
54 Strand) lialmtwOf Texan.
Successors to Brandon & Vardell and J. D.
Braman * Co. jeSD-TW- W1 j
J. 8. GRiKNAN, B. G. Dt VAL,
late of Grinnan & Waylaud } late of Tyier,
Jefferson Texas. Texas
Q.KINNAN & DUVAL,
Cotton Factors,
—A.XD
General Commission Merchants,
OFFICE
Over Texas Banking and Insurance Company
STRAND. GAiiVESTON. TEXAS.
Liberal cask advances made on cotton, hide*
woo!, and other prt^hce. Bagging and ties
furnished to customers, on application, at tL6
lowest cash prices. jl* tiDft Wly
CHA8. H. LICE,
Fayette Co.
J J. M Bill DE,
Leon Co.
J^EE, McBKIBE & CO.,
cottoj* factors,
And General Com mission Merchants,
Hendley Building,
STRAND, GALVESTON, TEXAS.
•ugSD-Wly
W. K. M AI.PIM,
VaWeston
JAS. BALUP.IDOk.,
Washington Co
jyj^ALPINE & BALDRIDGE,
COTTON FACTORS
—AND—
COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
jiexdlej buildixgs, strand,
mylSTT^D-Wly Galveston, Texas
■yjOODY & JEAIISON,
FACTORS FOR THE SALE OF
Cotton, Wool, Elides, Arc.
GalTcifoa, Texas
JaljSD-TW-Wly
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A. Flake & Co.,
DEALERS IX CROCERIKS
—AND—
LANDR ETH'S
Philadelphia Garden, Field & Flower
Seeds.
Onion Sets, Buttons, Seed Potatoes, and
Ornamental Shrnbberry to order,
The New Crop ot 1873.
Haring now onr new crop in
large and complete, we are
orders at Philadelphia prices.
norldD-TW&Wly
store, which is
prepared to 1UI
J B. TURXLEY,
General Coinmisflbn Merchant,
Cor. Strand and Twenty-second St., up-etaire.
GALVESTON, 1EXAS.
Special attention given to Cotton. Wool.
Hides, etc. n r6 Di*v3ir.
^LFRED MUCKLE.
Cotton Factor,
AND RECEIVING AND FOIt WARDING
Commission Merchant,
8TRAN D OAL VESTON TEJLAS.
»o8'73 TWWljr
J. KAUFFAAN. JULIUS .tU>-Qfc.
CHAS. F. nOHORST.
K
AUFFMAN & liUNGE,
CoBmlmlon Merchant* Ac Cotton
Factor*,
DEALERS IN GROCERIES,
Importers of Coffee, Wines & Liquors,
aprl*74 tf Galve«toi%, Tens.
W. HITCHCOCK
». O. HITCHCOCK.
JP HITCHCOCK'S SONS,
9 SHIP CHANDLERS,
Canvas and Duck for Sails, Tents and Tai
paulins, Naval stores. Paints and Oils
Boats, Oars and Spars, Manilla and
Hemp Rope, all sizes; Blocks and
Sheeres for Ferries, Presses,
et<?., etc.,
ap.V?3 67 and 69 Strand. Galvkston. Dly
fkkklon CANNON, GKO. WILLIAMS.
Brazoria Co
lASTNON & WILLIAMS.
C
COTTON AND WOOL PACTORS
And General Commission Merchants,
STRAND, GALVESTON, TKXA8.
Libel al cash advances made on all consign-
ments of Cotton, Wool, oi other produce foi
sale or sbinment. '13 Dly
W. B. NOBRB. J. C. Jonjcs.
ORRIS & .TONES.
COTTON FACTORS,
Shipping A Commission Merchant*
117 STRAND. GALVESTON,. TEXAS.
Liberal cash advances on Cotton, Woo] and
other Produce, id hand or (or fblpment.
jaal4'74 1 j
JUST RECEIVED,
AND NOW LANDING,
1,000 Hacks Coarse Liverpool SALT.
For sale low trorr wharf.
In Store and Bond.
10.000 sacks Coarse Liverpool SALT.
3,000 sacks Fine Liverpool SALT.
3,000 bbls. Hydraulic Rosendale CEMENT.
60 bbla. MAlil ^JC DUST.
400 bbls. bert ffLASTER PARIS.
5,000 FIRE BRICKS.
s,000 pounds PLASTERING HAIR.
50 bbls. Fin shing LIME.
Also—FIRE CLAY, SHARP SAND, ctc.
Fob SaI
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ft Low Br
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Cor. Mechanic and 24th Sta
SPORLEDER,
Commission Merchant,
—AND—
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No. 70 Tremont St., L. II. Wood<>
Iron Front Hulldlng.
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Standard American Billiard Tables,
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With celebrated
PHELAN A COLLENDER'S COMBINATION
CUSHIONS AKD BILLIARD MATERIAL.
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RED, WHITE AND BLUE.
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WOLFS * CO.'S LTQT'ORS.
HPJIE JvEWS' FACILITIES
1 FOR JOB PRINTING
Are not surpaxwd In thf> South or West.
J^ALLLNUKK, JACK & MOTT,
Attorneys and <'ouu«i>tt»r« a>
Law.
No. 12» Postoffice Street.
OCViiD-TWtf UAJ.VKBTON. TEXAS.
HrlTSCiTKE, M. r>., "
• snriei.il, Wt-ulHi Ac Dentist,
-fCHLLESBCRti.
mrll 3m F»retia t o., Taia*.
b. l. Foard, wi-ujiiu m*»ox. oto * cokmu?
[POARD, iflOMI'SON & SlcCOH-
1 - MICK.
Attorney* at Law,
Colombua, T<>a«i.
Will practice In all the Courts of ti e Sfcfct* o
Texan. JuSSDJt
w
J. MOaTGOM^v
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
AUSTIN, TEXAS.
Will practice In the Federal, Supreme and
District Courts, at Austin.
w ill collect ciaiuts *g»iust the Stats and
individuals, and remit proceeds promptly.
jalO DAW3m
Robert o. street, attorney
AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW,
Osterraan Building, cor. «d fit aud Strir.d.
Galveston. Texas. Practice iu mid
Federal Court* *i Oalvnaton, >u<i AS tne Su-
preme Court of the State. Ic.MD-Vflv
R
OBEitT S. GOULD,
ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOR AT LAW
BALUSGM A JACK BiT.cn.«,
PostofDee Street.
felS ly Galveston, Tnxas.
w. r. BAixKa,
4AloiES & WARD,
U'
Rort\ *. Wi'c.
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
AUSTIN, TEXAS.
Will practice in the Ihiprsne and Federal
Courts, and in tbe District Court* of TravU
and adjoining countiae. Prompt atrentioa
given to land bu.lneas in all of it* branches
fell 3m.
CHARLES HUME,
Attorney and Solicitor.
office:
lelO 1 y BALL1NGEU A JACK'S XiUILDlNG.
lyj C. McLEMOHE,
Attorney at Law.
officb:
felO ly BALL INGE Jti A JACK'S BUILDINr#.
i^ a. AJSU L. TliOMPStJ.N, Jk„ Je
McKINSTRY,
Attorney* at Law,
ROOM 2, BALLINGER a JACE BUILDING.
nova#Dtf (IsivesieB.
THOlf M. JOHT£l*H.
m. rrrritsu-
Joseph & kittrell, attor-
NEYS- IT-LAW,
GALVESTON TEXA 4
Office—Corner Poetofflce and Street.
maylPDlj
if. P. GARILETT E. L. AXTONT
/barrett & antony,
VT ATTORNEYS AT I.AW AND LAND
AGKNTS, Casuurou, Milan. County, 'lVxaa
mr7 3m
qffice city engineer,
Corner Twenty-flrst Street and
ATenne G,
ABRAM CROSS.
myl4Dly.
Gr
<*alve«toM Cards.
> arry's patent iron roof-
ItCG.
Having secured the agt>n.*y for the sbeve,
after having given it a thorough teat, and
found it fcU;>eiior to any o»L- r ^oottng
In use, I am prepared to exec we o-leisfvr
city or count ry work. E. £ GKLiE,
mr27 ly Market st.. bet. i£>tb and X 1st.
J. LB WIS,
H D. SWASJi,
Late will*
j. l. conoly,
osse. Tehuacana.- —
* J. H. Lllcluflt »d A Co.. Corsit'uua
ewis, conoly i swain,
Cotton Factors and Commission Mer-
chants
chants.
Mood/ a Jamison's New Build inc.
GALVESTON, - "jjj
fcS8 TlCm
'KXAft.
W- C JlOWAHD. W. T. lGI.MA.Tk
iat.e of l*te of Jglehart A Leonard,
H Calvert. H. S T. C. Railroad.
oward & iglehart,
COTTOSf FACTORS,
GENERAL COMMlhSH'S MERCHANTS,
STRA X». GALTKMTON.
(Tn Moody a Jkuzsox's Builpio.k)
te8 *74 6m
K. H. RICK ICR. a. P. SARUXXT
H. RICKER & CO.,
WAREHOUSEMEN', AND
FORWARDING AttE\T 9.
All freight consigned to us, dectiua-i for
the interior of Texas, forwarded by way of
G., H. and H. K. ft., free of all f^t warding
charges.
Iron Safes and Heavy Machinery rant oral.
Hoisting horses and mules always on bund,
and furnished at short no'.iee. ' P. O. Box 71?
Office, HURLEY'S fiCiLDIKG.
Between Nineteenth and Twentieth streets,
East eTRAN'D, Galveaton, Texas.
jan!4 74 ly•
c. c. dibrell. y, c. dib&kll.
john c. hougbs, jr.
JQIBRELLS & HODGES,
COTTON FACTORS k COMMISSION*
MERCHANTS,
Corner Strand and Centre Streets
feb« '74 ly GALVESTOtf.
john d. hooera. J. A. bobjcbtsos.
JOHN D. ROGER8 & co.,
COTTON FACTORS
And General Commission Merchaata,
(Insurance Buildim,,)
No. 61 STRAND, GALVESTON. TEXAS.
tlT Agents for GRAY'S COTTON FREHS.
apWTSDljr
jgLOCK, MASS IE & CO.,
WHOLESALE GROCEK8,
And General Commission Merchant*,
B0 Strand, under Ball, llutchings A Co.,
GALVESTON, TRXAS.
All Consignments entrusted to our care wll
have our personal attention.
• aug6Dly
"YyOLSTON, WELLS & VIDOR,
COTTON FACTORS,
Commission & Forwarding Merchants,
78 8TRASD, Lbaovk'S BcildiS«,
aug4 GALVESTON, TEXAS. Dly
^DOUE & LOBIT,
COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
Ofloe Over First National Bank.
auglSDIy
GALVESTON, TEXAS.
'P O. M1LLI8 & CO.,
CARPENTERS. BflLDERS. AND MANU-
FACTURERS OP
CISTERNS.
106 A 108 CHURCH ST.
ap#Dly m
B. L. MANN. WM. SAX DAI. L.
BAND ALL 4 CO.,
Dealers Is
WM
Hides, Wool, Tallow, Veltrfes, Faro
Beeswax, ete-. for Cash Only.
FOOT Or NINETEENTH ST.,
j*17 3m GaWeston, Texas.
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