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Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1870-09-03
From Austin.
Special to the Galveston Ncws.l

Special to the Galveston News.
AUSTIN, August 27.-There is small
rifle on the surface Of State matters. |
see card in the Republican this morning
from the Comptroller, defining his position
in regard to the back taxes, showing the
people that he IS not to blame for the con-
dition his office is placed in. 1t shows
that the force of his Office, by veto Of the
Governor, is reduced from nine TO three
assistant clerks, with duties nearly doubled
This is one of the points made; the other
seems to be made by Ncwcomb, which ac-
counts for the card being printed in the
Republican,. The Comptroller ordered 800
circulars from the State Printer. This is
the reply:
OFFICE STATE Journal,
AUSTIN, August %, 1870
Hon. A. Bledsoe, Comptroller;
DEAR SrR:-Your card is respectfully re-
turned in the name Of the firm, it being, as
they believe, an attack upon the Governor,
by facts.
Truly and respectfully,
TRACY, SIEMMERISG & Co,
Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1870-09-03

esy" Cartridges Of all descriptions, for
Spencer and Henry Rifles, Pistols, &C., for
sale by W. II. WATKINS,
[jl:tf1 Waco, Texas.
Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1870-09-03

The Dallas Herald says "Mr. II. NJ. Brad
ford left With us yesterday Two peaches
Indian variety, 10 inches In diameter. We
dare not imPsash this statement though
NC think Il Is ddasiriodily wrong.
Galveston Civilian.
The head Of our venerable Contemporary,
Hamilton Stuart, is now level, though We
thought 1, not SO when he ran for Govern
or. The peaches were ten inches In sir'
cumicrenee.
Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1870-09-03
nANK RTTDTCY.

Sept. 3, 1S70-51:lmo.]
Weekly Trinity journal., 1870-04-16
Late News Items.


Rhode Island has at last abolished imprson-
ment for debt.
An American is astonishing all Paris with his
use of his reyoler in target practice.
Clarendon wants to open the Alabama nego-
tiations Fish declines for the present.
The trial of Mcfarland for the murder of A. D.
Richardson is arousing intense feeling in New
York city.
Out of thirty millions of people in the United
States, only two hundred and fifty thousand pay
an income tax.
The negroes of Wilmington, Delaware, voted
at town election, last Saturday, for the first
time in that State.
The chief of the Six nations offers six hundred
of his braves to fight for the Dominion against
the Red river rebels.
The difficulties between the Young Democ-
racy" of New York and the Tammany
Sachems have been reconced.
An Archbishop of St. Louis is said to be the
most learned and influential English-speaking
prelate in the Ecumencal council.
The National executive committee of colored
men have issued a proclamation, announcing
the ratiicatian of the fifteenth amendment.
The Texas Legislature is a goddess body. 1t
refuses to have chaplain And there are no
chaps in the world that more need praying for.
conspiracy to overthrow the French govern
ment and its headquarters in Switzerland, has
been ferreted out, and some of the leaders placed
under arrest.
In Cincinnati complete returns show an
average majority for the Republican ticket of
over 5000. The school board stands rs for the
Bible in the schools and % against.
The special House committee Of woman suf-
frage will report a resolution in favor of submit
ting the proposition to strike out the word
4" male " out OF the United States constitution.
Two colored men voted at Perth Amboy, New
Jersey, on the adoption of the new charter last
Thursday, the date of the procamaton-the first
vote under the amenement in the United States.
A serious insurrecton is again raging in Bar
celona, Spain. The troops were called on to
suppress its first spasms. In Seville, Cadz and
Valencia there have also been insurrectionary
demonstrations.
Mrs. Victoria c. Woodhull, female broker
announces herself as u candidate for the Presi-
dency. She denouuces the present administra-
! tion, and pronounces in favor of recognizing
Cuban independence.
Late advices from South Pass, Wyoming Ter.
ritory, state that two hundred and fifty men, wei
armed, left Atlantic City, April 9Th, in pursuit
of Indians who murdered citizens few days
since. Frank Irwin, one of the victims, was q
nephew of Senator Trumbull, of Illinois.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1870-04-16
SATURDAY, APRIL l6, 1870.
The Governors "Ring."

The Sacramento Reeerd published a statement
that fourteen Senators bad signed agreement
to sustain any veto Governor Haight might
make. As might be supposed, the article pro-
duced considerable excitement in the Senate,
and several of the Senators named took occa-
sion to declare it unqualifedy false. Senator
Lawrence, however, declared in debate that Sen
ator Comfy told him that the paper was pre-
sented to him (Conly) to sign, and that Senator
Larkins circulated the paper The Record re-
newed the charge and published an affidavit by
respectable citizen Of San Francisco, which, in
connection with the statements of Senators,
leaves no doubt that q combination did exist to
sustain the Governor at all hazards in such
vetoes as be saw fit to interpose. For one we
don't think that Haigbts honesty, politically,
will do TO bet on. In yetoing some measures he
has done well, aud if his action was dictated by
n desire for the welfare Of the people and the
honest discharge of bis duty it ought TO be
placed to hs credit That such were the rea-
sons which controlled him we cannot believe
Any Governor who would approve such infam-
Gus legislation as is embraced in the ltigant
bill and the act to establish State paper eed
never approach us with protestations of good in
tentions even. 1t will be admitted that TIaight
has ability. No defence can be made, then, ex-
cept that the party demanded it Of him. Very
welb No such party rule in this State. II
there is a people earth who believe in fair
play and will insist upon justice being rendered
between man and man, it is the inhabitants OF
this State. The last nine years have taught this
in California to tolerate unfairness on the part
of any party, and their intelligence and nde.
pendence canses party ties to sit lightly upon
them, when no other question but that Of party
supremacy is involved.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1870-04-16

Is everybody who accepts invitation to a
mans table bound to support everything he may
do through life, even though he should be guilty
of mayhem or smony? Is a person who hap
pens to nod to the bank of California or to
whom the bank of California happens to nod
bound to uphold the bank, in case 1t should for
example, perform a somersault We should like
to know, because of remark that was made in
the House Wednesday by Mr.. Sargent Of Cal
ifornia. When several members opposed a
measure which was reported to haye originated
with the bank of California, and IL its interests
Mr.. Sargent replied to them by excamng that
he ''did not think it looked well for those gen.
tlemen who had last summer accepted the hospi-
talites of the officers of that institution, who ate
at their tables and rode in their carriage, to
come here now and abnse them" He seemed
to consider this sufficient answer to all the ar
guments on the other side and what we should
like to know is, il we also to regard it in the
same way? Before leaving the point to be pom
dered on by mankind, however, we must say we
are obliged-to Mr.. Sargent for giving us the pos
tive assurance that he, himself "never received
any favor from the bank of California, and never
expected any" 1t must be an ungrateful bank
Neao York Tribune.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1870-04-16
What the Democrats Say OF the Legis-
ln1urR.

Lest the opinions expressed by us concerning
fair, we give the following from Democratic
journals of undOubted orthodoxy;
The California Express, edited by Alex. Mont
gomery, says of the State paper bill
The bill engineered through the Legislature,
by the State Capital Reporter, for its own benefit,
by clear robbery of the general county press,
is receiving its merted condemnation as trick
not simply mean but as infamous, and we advise
Ex-Governor Bigler to make 4" "a virtue o. ueces-
sity and see that this little matter is stopped
before it proceeds to a law, or he and his State
CapitaI Reporter may have the pleasure of being
damned to unhealthy fame for all future time
If the Democratic party of California is to live,
this bill must not be law.
The Placer Herald, edited by ex-Leutenant-
Governor Joseph Walkup, an old wheel-horse ol
the Democracy, says:
The truth is, we regard one-fourth of the
members as incompetent-better fitted by nature
and education to sit on eggs than in the Legisla-
ture; another fourth as rascals Of more or less
ability and tue other half as men of good inten-
tions, and many of them of more than ordinary
ability. The constitutional provision adjournng
the Legislature at the end Of one hundred and
twenty days is good-it ought to be ninety
days"
The Yreka Union, edited by William, Irwin
himself Senator from Siskyou, speaks know
ingly. We have not ventured to say as much
The eighteenth session of the California Legis
lature expired by constitutional limitation on
Monday night last, and the members thereof are
most all on their way back to their homes where
it is to be hoped many Of them may remain
Certainly, it is hard to conceive of less orderly
and more undsciplined body than the Assembly
has been. A few members of that body, not to
exceed a dozen in all, have shown themselves
men of fair, average legislative ability. The
rest were pernicious men TO entrust with labor
making power, not that we believe they were
corrupt, but that they had no practical ideas OF
legislation. Take the anti-Chnese bills Of this
session-what have they done? Nothing but to
cause the origination of test suits that will upset
the foreign miners license and deprive the
mountain counties of large share Of their
revenue. The Chinese paid this tax willingly
heretofore, because they believed it entitled them
| to legal protection, although they had able lega
advice concerning its unconstitutionality Thi:
will be lost to the mining counties before the
close of the year, through the foolish and pro
scriptive legislation Of the session just ended
Some allowance however must be made for many
members because there were many there who
were elected from counties that had formerly
given Republican majorties, aud who had beer
nominated merely to fill up a ticket. Thes'
men owed their election to the disgust enter
tanned against the fifteenth amendment by Re
! publicans.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1870-04-16

CoMiNG HoME.-The Gilroy AdOocate says AS
semblyman McMurry passed through that place
last week, on his way home. In our estimation,
McMurry ranked above the majority of his com
peers in the Legislature in honesty and capacity
We think, too, that some of the votes cast by
him were wrong in principle and admit of nc
defense, save that the party required them of him
Outside of purely partisan questions, Trinity
county has been creditably represented. Oul
Assem- blyman has been dligent and in daily at
tendance to his duties. Had he chosen a more
independent course he would have had the
unanimous endorsement of the people Of this
county.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1870-04-16

MAsoNs AssAssINATED. - The following has
been issued to the Worshpful Masters, Warden
and Brethren of the Masonic lodges in Illinois
Dear Brethren:-Th Spanish authorities in
Cuba have arrested and assassnated under the
instigation of Catholic priest, several Cubans
and Americans whose sole cffense was that they
met in Masonic longe. No proof was made
that they were in any way engaged in the Cuban
revolution; but upon the demand of brutal
soldiers, maddened by the ufammatory appeals
OF Catalan priest, these American citizens were
slaughtered in cold blood, because they were
Freemasons
do therefore earnestly advise every Masonic
lodge in the State to memorialize the President
of the United States and demand protection to
American citizens everywhere, and ample atone
ment for this indefensibe and unproyoked out
rage, and TO send all papers to Gen. A. Logan,
who is representative for the State at large.
Given under my hand and seal at Springfield
this 10Th day of March, A. d. 1870.
HARMAN G. REYNOLDS, Grand Master.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1870-04-16

UNRBALlzED ANTIcIPATIoNs. - Judge S. A.
Booker, of the Fifth judicial district has desig-
mated the Stockton Euening Herald as the liti-
CANT paper. The Herald is not party paper,
and the appointment was made against the pro-
test of Democrats who wanted the Judge to desi-
nate their organ, the Republican. The Repubh-
can next TO the San Francisco Examiner and Sac
ramento Reporter, was the most strenuous advo-
cate of the litigant bill, aud when after the in
PRODUCTION Of the act to establish State paper, -
the E1amner let mp, continued to advocate the
measure as right and beneficial. 1t occurs to US
that perhaps the Republican expected its share of
the spols which now have been transformed to
the Herald. Ifso, it is more than likely that
the Republican views the subject from a very diff
ferent stand point, and is willing to take some
part of its argument back.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1870-04-16

McCLELLAN.-Edward A. Pollard, the histo-
rian of the rebellion, writes a letter to public
journal in which he states that, in February
1862, the army opposed to Mcclellan numbered
about q 900. At this time Mcclellan had about
40, 900 men in his army OF the Potomac. There
were, it now appears, just 1900 rebels opposed
to poor Little Macs 80 900 at Yorktown. Little
Mac was always dminutiye enough, but he is
rowing small by degrees and beautifully less
wherever the light Of truth is let in upon his in
capacity. As hero it will not be long till be
will take rank below Bob Acres or Sir Andrew
Aguecheek, or any other Z" historic" laughing
stock. There is 10 farce equal to poor Little
Mac in the military line.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1870-04-16

THE CONNECTICUT ELECTION. The Democratic
papers are growing over the election of a Demo-
cratic Governor in Connecticut, and the Sacra-
mento Bee "cannot see it," 1t says:
Both the Union and Exporter attempt to make
a little fuss-a kind of cockadoodledoo exulta-
tion-oyer the Democratic victory in Conneeti-
cut. The former claims it as a Democratic gain,
and tries to lay the blame at the door Of Con-
gress and the latter, in doublc-leaded leader,
claims it as the " gathering rush of a wave that
will soon sweep the country" Let us examine
tlesSures: In 1864 Lincolns majority in Con-
necticut was 2,406. In 800 Buckingham, Re-
publican, for Governor, over Seymour, Demo-
crat, ,O35. In 1866 Hawley, Republican, for
Governor, over English, Democrat, 54I, In 1867
English, Democrat, for Governor, over Hawley,
Republican, 987 In 1868 English, Democrat,
for Governor, over Jewell Republican, l,765.
Grants majority over Seymour, 3,04l. In l8G9
Jewell, Republican, for Governor, over English,
Democrat, All. And now in 1870 English
Democratic, for Governor, is reported to be over
Jewell, Republican, say 900.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1870-04-16

TAMMANY.-It is generally supposed that the
Tammany Society is a Democratic political as
sociation, which controls the party organization
in New York city and such, indeed, is the body
meant when we speak of " Tammy in ordinary
conversation. But the Tammany society was
organized a benevolent society," without any
reference to politics, and such Republicans as
B. F. Butler, John A. Kennedy (the Superintend-
ent of Police), and Judge Busteed, are now mem
bers Of the organization, and have right to vote
at an election for @ Sachems," who are merely
the executive committee of the society which
owns Tammany hall. Formerly there were two
Democratic organizations in New York city, each
claiming to 0e the only regular and legitimate
central organization of the party One of these
general committees met in Tammany the other
in Mazart hall. Hence these names were applied
to the several factions, aud we had the Tammany
Democracy and the Mozart Democracy. After d
series of struggles for recognition by the party
at large, Tammany defeated Mozart, and its legi-
timacy was declared at more than one State con-
vention, and it became to be recognized by
the party throughout The country. The I" Sa-
chems of Tammany" now are all Democrats and
members of the Democrats general committee
and the society is generally regarded as having
lost its original benevolent character, and be-
come merged into the central organization of the
Democratic party.-Sdn Francisco call.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1870-04-16

A CLOSE AND FAIR CouNr.-The San Francisco
Bulletin says it was stated by gentlemen in
public meeting few days ago, that be had
been told by one of the leaders Of the lobby at
Sacramento that out of the eighty members of
the Assembly, sixty-fve were purchaseable, and
could be relied upon when their votes were
wanted, provided the right means were taken to
secure them. That leaves to be counted as hon
est men just about the number of Republican
gentlemen who held seats in that body. very
close and fair count, we should iIdge.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1870-04-16

Has A PoINT.-The Shasta Courier has this
" The State legislature was kicked out OF exist
ence by constitutional limitations on the evening
of April 4th. We shall not undertake to write
the epitaph of the aforesaid body unless the
Central Pacific railroad company will pay for the
same at regular advertising rates"
Weekly Trinity journal., 1870-04-16

A SHAMELESS lNFAMY.-In all the history of
California legislation, Infamous as much of it is,
nothing more damnably outrageous can be found
than the act, which recently received the ap-
proval of the Governor, for the protection of
Democratic newspapers. Under this law Repub-
cans are denied the right, in all matters of legal
advertising to patronize their own papers.-San
Jose Mercury.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1870-04-16

SoLoN ROBINSON SHOOTS NEGRO BURGLAR
The New York World is responsible for the fol-
lowing, which is not bad
Another homicide has emanated from the TTi6-
une office and to make the deed still blacker, it
was perpetrated upon a sable brother who was
but following the artless promptings of his I'M
sophisticated nature by attempting to obtain in
the easiest way those things to which his needs
told him he had a right Solon Robinson long
time agricultural editor Of the Tribune has a
farm in Florida. The sable brother in question
had doubtless been informed of his inalenable
claim to forty acres of Southern soil, and was,
naturally enough, agrieyed by being kept out of
his property. Not being able to carry off forty
acres Of Robinson farm to some more cOnve-
nient spot, the only expedient that suggested it.
self was to levy upon some of the portable chat
ties on that forty acres, on the principle that a
title to land includes title to all thereon. Pro-
viding himself therefore with an auger, he pro-
ceeded to perforate the panel of the door which
barred him from his own but no sooner had
the point appeared within, than the entrenched
usurper discharged a murderous frearm at an
imaginary mark some six inches lower, and the
next morning black object, or rather subject,
with Abdominal perforation, was found at some
distance from the house. How often shall we be
called upon to chronicle these outrages upon the
harmless freedmen Of the South by white op-
pressors, who grasp the land which these
down-trodden brethren have right to live? ~
Weekly Trinity journal., 1870-04-16

OS the morning of April 9th, in the city of
Sacramento was formally declared against
the government of the United States 1t appears
that the Clerk of that county did a recent oc-
cason in the most heroic and determined man
ner refuse and decline to admit TO registration
a voter a cOlored individual who had made
application to him for that privilege and that
Immediately thereafter n number of consitu-
tional Democrats, among whom we find the names
of j. w. Vaudeville, d. E. Callahan, Thomas n
Wand, James A. Douglass, and cover fifty 9TH
ers in the steerage," proceeded to rally around
the aforesaid official in card, in which they de-
clared that for his fidelity to his sworn duty,
and for his manlineSs in this time, marked by
the degeneracy of so great a portion of the
American people, we, whose names here
unto subscribed agree to support you with all
the moral, and if need, be all the physical force
God has given US" We are not aware that any
Of these gentlemen who have resolved upon this
desperate course, particularly distinguished
themselves when there plenty Of fighting on
hand, but for all that this is a threat of war.
We beg to inquire when will the troops march ?
San Francisco Bulletin.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1870-04-16

THE "ONElDA AFFAIR.-The London Times
says that, from the evidence, it is unable to
acquit Captain Eyrie from blame, and that it is
to be expected the American people will be much
exasperated. The leading journals of New York
city use strong language in calling for the pun
ishment of the British commander
Weekly Trinity journal., 1870-04-16

CoNsIsTENcY.-Th Assembly, after generously
voting away five hundred acres of tde-land in
Richardson bay and thirty in San Francisco,
and passing bill to fasten the cost of :he Rim
con hill improvements on this city, refused to
pass Dufy's bill to reduce the cost of State
printing by fifteen or twenty thousand dollars a
year. This is consistent at least-San Fran
cisco Bulletin