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his campaign speech Is a disgrace to him
self and the State in which he is repeating
it. It is not it for an intelligent white
audience, was only gotten up to deceive the
negroes, and is a gross imposition upon
them. lie has overdone what he has at
tempted, and be win only be sensible of
his mistake wheni it is too late to remedy It.
But the Governor was not content with
his stereotyphed campaign speech at Gal
weston. lie saw, perhaps, how still born
and Ineffective It was, and he concluded to
to try new dodge. He invited the meT-
chants Of that enterprising city to meet him
at the Cotton Exchange, as he had some
thing Of deep interest TO communicate, af-
fecting the hsiness and welfare Of the
city. The merchants and other citizens as
sembled, aud To- he treated them to
another political speech, telling them they
would be ruined If new Constitution was
adopted, and that, if he was elected, he
could securesrom the general government
an appropriation CT a million of dollars a
year for the improvement Of Galveston har-
Dor. But nothing could be expected unless
Texas was kept in harmony with the Radi-
cal rule at Washington. What an adnis-
sion Of the unblushing dishonesty of his
party Vote for me and the Radical party,
and you can have a million of money,
yearly, for an improvement, acknowledged
to be necessary-yote otherwise, and you
shall never have a red cent? This is Radi-
calism out and out. The whole thing was
a low trick of the Governor to secure re
spectacle audience of white people to hear
his degrading political twaddle. From
what we learn by the papers, the citizens Of
Galveston felt outraged at the trick played
off upon them, and left the meeting with
deep disgust.
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piano, It would become liable to seizure
for unpaid rent. This seems very hard. but
it is done to prevent fraud and the cover
ing up Of property to avoid paying an
honest debt. Let Us consider the proposed
law here and its effects. Supposewe own
small farm and, not desiring to work it
ourself, lease it to a negro on sharcs-Ee to
have one-haf Of the coston and other pro-
ducts raised thereon. Suppose, the negro
having nothing, We supply him with. mules
and the various agricultural implements ne
cessary to work the farm, and even with
provisions for the time being, until something
can be raised. Should we have no security
against the misconduct Of our tenant 2
When the cotton is gathered he may dispose
Of all of it and pocket the money. He
may sell the mules and agricultural nipple
ments belonging to US and pocket
their proceeds also, and then de-
camp, and what is our remedy? It
amounts to nothing. We might sue and
get judgment against him, but there
would be no property out of which we
could make the debt, and we could not put
the rogue in jail-he has only committed
breach of trust. The object of the law.
denounced by the Governor and vetoed by
him, was to prevent rascality like this and
and give some security to the owners of
lands and houses, and it was right, and
every honest minded man will say so. Gov
ernor Davis thinks it an awful thing that
the lien should go beyond the premises, but
where would be the security to the land
owner without? The tenant might remove
the cotton and animals and instruments and
other property secretly at night, and if the
lien did not follow them elsewhere, the land
lords debt would be lost Instead of there
being any villainy in the law, which the
Governor vetoed, it is evident that he is
the advocate Of villainy himself, by wish.
ing no guards thrown around dishonesty
and thieving under trust. He cries out that
this is an attempt to oppress the poor. The
insufTerable demagogue! Is it oppression
to compel the payment of an honest debt
from rich or poor, if they have the means
of payment? Does Governor Davis think it
all right for the poor to cheat the rich when
ever they can do it, and does he desire to
open the door wide for this very purpose,
and to give encouragement to it! L would
seem so. Out upon such morality 1t is
only to be found in the school of Ra6i-
calism.
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The Radicals understand fully the value
Of money IN elections. For years past,
they have used It profusely to get up grand
demonstrations, to subsidize presses, and to
buy up votes. Wherever they could, they
have robbed the public treasures FOR these
purposes, and they have bled themselves
freely, with the belief that success would
enable them to more than make up the loss
by the opportunities presented for extortion,
appropriation and pillage. It has been
customary at Washington, and in other
cities, before an election, and whenever
money is wanted, to mako an assess
ment on all the clerks and under
officials in every department, and if the
amount called for is not paid, of goes the
head Of the poor fellow and another more
plant tool is appointed in his place. Some
times these assessments are made when no
election is pending, as lately in the post
office at st. Louis, and it IS believed that
the money, thus forced from the poor clerks,
goes into the pockets of the assessor and
becomes a part of the perquisites of his
Office. The Radicals of Texas are not be
hind their brethren elsewhere, in all the
most approved ways of raising the wind for
political or otherpurposes. We understand
they have already commenced with their
assessments for the present campaign, and
it seems they are. setting their figures pretty
high. A young gentleman, who has been
for the last nine months or more in the
Governors office, received his walking
papers a few days since, for refusing
to pay an assessment of $75 currency, which,
as warrants are now going amounted to
500 or more out of his salary. Whether
this sum has been assessed upon each clerk
in the offices over which the Radical Gov
ernor has control, we cannot say, nor what
disposition would have been made of the
money, if collected. A political canvass
for Governor of State as large as Texas is
quite an expensive matter, and $75 would
have done something towards paying many
little bills, which the generous little Clark
says he used to foot. BY the way, who
pays the Governors expenses, when he
visits those renowned heroes, Santanta and
Big Tree, at Fort Sill? VIII Uncle Sam2
Or will it come out of some contingent fund
in the State Treasury? Or will the Governor
foot his own bills on the occasion? Perhaps
the Journal can throw some light on this
and the other matter to which We have al
Iudad
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GOVERNOR DAVIS Ar GALVESTON.

It now appears that the speech, delivered
by Governor Davis at the Austin barbecue,
false, foolish and ridiculous as 1t is, was the
one deliberately prepared for the guberna-
torial canvass, and is the best that he can
get up for the occasion. At Galveston. on
the sixteenth instant, as reported in the
Ne'os, he repeated, at Turner's Hall, to an
audience Of negroes, principally, the same
disgusting rignarole Of malicious nonsense,
with little alteration or addition. The
same illusions to the Democratic State Con-
vention, the number Of titled gentlemen in
it. The captains, generals, judges, etc, with
the added falsehood, that s'the Confederscy
proposed 10 create titles Of nobility Again
he reiterated the false charge that the Dem
ocratic party wanted to reopen the African
slave trade, proposition only advocated
by his Radical friend and appointec, Gen
eral Parsons and q few others as aIdlc-
patcd and reckless. But It S useless 70 rc-
peat bis batch 81 demagogical charges,
which We have already fuily exposed in
our review q bis Austin sp1cca. The Oh
jcct of Governor Davis IS. REGARDLESS u
truth or decency. 70 arouse the psejudiees
of the poor. Ignorant ncgroea. Il uhom he
looks foE his pTineiral -opPori a.H lha f1p
white men 81 abandoned character. who
expect % profit b7 his re-ei9ciion and the
continued rule 81 Baiicalism "a Tcxas
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THE DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE FOR
COlKEIISSIONER or THE LAND
OFFICE,

A German friend at New Braunfels has
sent us the following brief biography of
Mr.. ]. J. Groos, the Democratic candidate
for Commissioner of the General Land
Office:
''Mr. Groos came to this country with
the German Emigration Company in 1915,
having graduated in Germany as a surveyor
and civil engineer, theoretically and practi-
cally.' On his arrival here, from 1916 to
1s49, he served as one of the surveyors of
the above company, during which time he
made the first surveys in laying off the
towns of Yorktown and Fredericksburg,
with many other surveys on the frontier.
After this, he acted as deputy surveyor of
Bexar and Travis districts, and was elected,
still later, surveyor of Comal county, in
which capacity he gave universal satisfac-
ton. When the war broke out, lie was ap-
pointed an enrolling officer, and, at the end
of the war, was elected the clerk of Comal
county. Since that time, Mr.. Groos has
been engaged as conveyancer and insur-
ance agent, and has served as mayor of
New Braunfels by the election of its citi-
zens. His honesty, integrity, punctuality
and close and prompt attention to business
arc well known and admitted by ALL"
We will only add that the vote of Comal
county, in December next, will show how
Mr.. Groos is appreciated by his German
friends and neighbors, the filings of the
state Journal and the San Antonio Express
to the contrary, notwithstanding.
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oomrULsoRY sUFFRAcE.


George Wilkes, the editor Of the Spirit
Of tic Times, in a reported interview with a
representative Of the New York 1Esrald, ad-
voeatcs not only the one term for the Pres
idency, but, also. compulsory suffrage,
making every man who refuses tovote liable
to a heavy fine. This last is something
new, and. would hardly work better than
compulsory education, which we have little
opinion Of. We dislike the idea Of too
much force, applied even for ostensible
good purposes. No government should in
terfere too far with the private freedom
ef its citizens. The idea Of forcing
people to vote is on the same princi-
PIC Of forcing people not to drink,
or forcing them to attend church.
But the neglect Of using the right Of suf-
frage is very shameful in an American citi-
zen, and should be universally condemned.
II the better classes in this country decline
to vote, and the votes Of the worst arc
bought up by ambitious, .unprincipled
wrctchcs to place them in positions 10 plum
der and opprcss the people, we had better
be undcran hereditary monarchy than ruled
by such q set Of unquestionablc rascals
We trust the good people Of Texas VIII
show their love o. free government and
their proper appreciation Of the right Of
sulIrige Is turning out every man, and
voting il the next election. II they DO
NOT they deserve the fnc which the editor
81 The Spiri, n tte 1Io.a would have IN
licicd upon them.
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To elucidate the above table we will-in a
rough way endeavor to show the per centage
of increase and decrease
Alabama-The negro population increased
from 1910 to 1850, about 35 per cent. from
1850 to 1860, 81 per cent. from 1860 TO
1870, 13 per cent.
AFkdnsas-ThenOg population increased
from 1910 to 1850, 23S per cent from 1850
to 1850, 164 per cent. from 200 to 1870,
10 per cent.
FIorida-From 1910 to 1850, 81 per cent. I;
from 1850 to 1860, AZ per cent. from, 1860
to 1870, n per cent.
Georgia-From 1910 to 1850, the increase
was 33 per cent from 1850 to 1860, 81 per
cent. from 1860 to 1870, about II per
cent.
North Carolina From 1910 10 1850. the
increase was 1S per cent from 1850 10
1860, IA per cent. from 1850 to 1870, .
per cent.
South Cafolina-Increasc from 1910 to
1850, II per cent from 1850 70 1860, per
cent. from 1860 to 1870, only 300, being
not one per cent.
TenneEsee- From 1910 TO 1880, SO per.
cent. from 1850 TO 1860, 15 per cent. ;
from 1860 to 1870, IL per cent.
Teras.--In 1850, So, 600; from 1850 10
1850, increase, 200 per cent. from 1850 20
1870, 100 per cent.
Yirginia.-Increase from 1910 70 1850, 6
per cent. from 1850 10 1860. 6 per cent. /;
from 1860 to 1870, diminution Of 30, 600,
being about per cent. decrease
Louisiana.-Increasc from 1910 10 1850.
about 30 per cent. from 1850 70 1860. 30
per cent; from 1860 to 1870, only ~. 600,
being about per cent.
Kentucky.-1ncreasc from 1910 10 1880,
30 per cent from 1850 to 1850, IS per
cent. from 1860 TO 1870, a dimunition Of
about II, 600, or some per cent. decrease.
1hssissippi. - From 1910 20 1850, in-
crease 30 per cent. from 1850 70 1860, 40
per cent; from 1860 90 1870, being an in
crease less than 5000. about 1-2 per cent.
Miss0uri from 1910 10 1850. increased
about 4s per cent; from 1850 ~ 1860,
about Is per cent. from 1860 10 1870, de-
creased 432 negroes.
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affirmed '''''''
No. IiGf.--Susan Vaughn =. /. Z. Creor
Leon. Il is not necessary to constitnte
constructive notice of a claim to land. that
the records Of registration should contain 4
record of complete chain Of title from or
under the sovereignty of the soil; but any
deed or mesnc conveyance, when duly re.
corded, IS notice to the world Of what It
purports. s.-Judgment affirmed
No. ls19.-Delilah Joplin Y. J. w Flem-
ing and wife-AIarion. IL was not error to
exclude testimony, which, il admitted.
would have been imuaterial to the issues.
Judgment affirmed
No. lS5l.-Thos. p Collins v. The heirs
Of Stillweil and Unice Box--fIouston. On
the death Of the wife, one-haf of the COM
munisy estate passed 90 the surviving hus-
oand, and the title 10 the remaining half at
once descended 10 and vested absolutely in
the children Of the deceased. subject only
70 the then existing debts Of the com
munity. ty.-Judgment affirmed.
No. lSGt.-R q. Scott v. Il. Porter II az.
Robertson. 1t was error to permit the
plaintiff to amend his petition after default
taken, without first haVias tho iudcmcnt
by default set aside This court viii In
dulge in no presumption to aid a sheriff's
return IN order TO support a judgment by
default Reversed and remanded.
No. 1509.-W. r. & J. johnson v. A.
Byler-Caldwel In an action Of trcsspass
to try title, under the plea of the general
issue, either legal or equitable defense.
which amounts to an estoppel, may be Of
fered without being specially pleaded.
Legal estoppels exclude evidence Of the
truth aud equity of the particular case, to
support strict rule Of law, on grounds of
public policy. Equitable estoppels are ad-
mitted on the exactly opposite ground OF
promoting the equity and justice Of the in-
dividual case by preventing party from as
serting his rights under a general technical
rule of law, when he has so conducted him.
self that it would be contrary to equity and
good conscience for him 20 allege and prove
the facts Such equitable cstoppels are not
odious, but arc entitled TO a fair and liberal
application. party is estopped 10y his
acts, wheneverh he has gained an undue adj
vantage, or has caused his adversary loss
or injury. Acts may constitute an estoppel,
which fall short OF constituting a contract
If appellee induced his vendees to sell the
land Ton which he had ayendor's lien) for
Confederate money, By saying that he
would receive that money from them in sat
isfaction Of his lien, he Is estoppod by his
acts from demanding that the sale so made
be set aside for illegality Reversed and
remanded.
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MOTIFS ON TEXAS AND THE TEXAS
AND PACIFIC RAILWAY.

This is the title Of a neat pamphlet Of
some fifty pages, gotten up by the managers
Of the Texas and Pacific Railway to show
the value Of their road and the lands to
which they are entitled by the liberal
grants Of Congress and the State Of Texas.
It contains great deal Of useful infonna-
ton about the road and the great State
through which it passes from east to west,
which viii be read with interest at home
and abroad. a very good map Of Texas,
prepared by Cotton & Co., and showing the
route Of the road and the extent Of the
land reservations granted, accompanies the
pamphlet, as wei as smaller map OF the
United States and Mexico. Whether this
IS for sale or gratuitous distribution, we are
not aware perhaps both. By il We learn
that the amount Of land granted to this
company BY the United States IS II, $40, 200,
and by the State Of Texas u, SIC, 600, truly
a magnificent domain.
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AUSTIN, September 20, 1873.
Messrs. E. NJ. wheelock, T. B. Wheeler, Spence &
McGill and Others:
Geatlemea-Your communication of the
nineteenth instant, asking me to state the
terms upon which the international Railroad
Company will complete their road to the
city of Austin within twelve months, was
handed to me to-day, and in reply I will
state that sucha proposition involves matters
Of agreement between the citizens of your
county and the railroad company upon
which consultation is necessary, and let it
suffice at present for me to say, am an
thorized by President Galusha A. Grow to
build the road within the time stated by
you upon an agreement on terms, and to
this end I wiz be happy to meet a COM
mittee Of your citizens at your earliest con
venience.
I am gentlemen yours very respectfully,
JAS. w. BARNES,
Vice President I. r. r.
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A GRAVE CHARGE.

The Galveston Me,cs has charged that
some Of the Houston authorities offered to
take of the quarantine on Galveston by the
payment of $4,000, and telegraphic dis
patches concerning the matter are given
without names. An inquiry was made on
the part Of Galveston, if reduction of the
amount could not be made, and the answer
returned was, 'will not stir for a cent less l'
This is very serious charge, and of course
the citizens of Houston were very much ex-
cited thereby, and large number of its
most respectable citizens, including seven
of tie aldermen, demanded the names and
proof, which the Neos had stated could be
given. To this the NeCs replied that all the
evidence was in possession of Mayor Scan
Ian, and called for a committee to visit Gal
weston and investigate the matter A com
mittee of three gentlemen has consequently
been appointed for that purpose, who have
not yet reported. If the charge is sustained
in the evidence, it will furnish one Of the
most disgraceful incidents of official corrup-
tion ever known in the South. The idea of
specializing on the yellow fever or reports
concerning it, by the establishment or re-
moval of quarantines, is monstrous. It is
hard to credit, and yet the charge seems to
have been made with deliberation and con-
fdence. Whatever may be the result, some
body must lose character. The spectacle Of
two cities, like Houston and Galveston,
quarrelling over the yellow fever, has been
a very sad and portifying one to contem-
plate. We wait tie investigation and report
of the committee with anxious forebodings
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THE northern newspapers, received since
the meeting Of the Democratic State Con-
vcntion Of Texas make some strange re-
ports through Their ielegraphic dispatches,
Of is proceedings. We sceit stated that 4
resolution in favor 81 annexing q portion ol
Louisiana 70 Texas was passed By an over
vEheining majority No sach rcsoinlion
was adopted. The Ohio resolution in re-
gard @ Louisisna. was. il eubstance. made
a part Of the platform. and nothing more.
We have already territory enough. and 10
desire iof any annexation from any quarter
IS felL The telegraph sometimes makes
awful biunder
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The Negro Important statistics The
Increase and Decrease Ia Numbers
from 1910 20 1870.
Trom tho Kew ofloans ploayunc.1

We beg leave to lay before eur readers n
table, complied from the census Of 1870,
colored population in thirteen southern
States. To elucidate it, we have presented
a rough estimate Of the per centagc OF in-
crease and decrease, which our readers can
easily verify by the table itself We think
that the table explodes a great many errors
and elucidates many important truths, which
we propose hereafter TO consider. At
present we leave them with our table
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D. u. nm on nrownlo.r.

Sometime ago, old BrOWniow, cx-Goycr-
nor Of Tennessee, published n very scuni-
lOns letter IN regard 70 Gen. y II fiiii. In
due time Gen. liill replied through tie me-
dinm Of the Southern Lome, and although
now somewhat stale, stili tie manner IN
which he gaycif 70 tie reverend blasphem-
er' viii read we'll at this fimc
sefhe Rev. Bliisplemcr Is fond 81 Modoc
comparisons. There was one Bogus
Charley" in the Modoc gang. who SANG war
SONGS and danced the IRE dance. then Be-
trayed his leader and BIS ki8dred - their
enemies. The proslaVcry renegade can
scarcely faii 10 sec the resemblance between
thc traitor Indian and himself The whole
life n this miserable creature las been q
sham and q lie. a minister ~ the pure
gospel Of Christ. be has bciclItd forth nofh-
ing but faisehood. blasphcmy anal obsccuifF.
For q quarter ~ 8 century tho eeIl-elcctfd
champion Of human bondage has fOf twelve
years Travelled 81 loving gmpsthY with the
'thclllound party ~ Aboiitionists. The
first 70 suggest d scatbem Conlederacy. he
has been tie fercest pcrsecator 81 confcdc.
rafoa. Bngging ol The terrible things he
would DO "a tie war, he SUNK into boDih.
proof On the strong side ~ the frf whistle
of balls. Preaching, writing and lectufine
for twenty years that The negro was irnte.
~ only FOR bondage, BE oucs his prereat
Senatorial bouors 70 negro influence. Pr1t
ing al his lie about honesty, he voted Tor
the back salary steal and took bis share 81
the stolen money
RecIeaut 70 every irast faithless ~ every
obligation his long career o ritketncss
has been true only % 9th. 70 faleeaopd. %
slandeE. 20 blasphcny. q biacke rrIl,r.
and 70 Wm q. HfonW'ou
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Miscellaneous.
IN. G. T. BoARDMAN,
DmrTTIST.
CNIRCuLAR.
OFFicE os Co,rprnoIlER OF Prsric AccouNrs,
Auslln. TexAs. Senteuher =. lSl3

Austin, Tcxas, September =, 1873 4
TO the citizens OF Limestone and Walker counties:
In obedience % special act Of the Thirteenth Lcgis-
lature to reimburse the citizens OF said counties for
extraordinary taxation Imposed upon them during the
existence of martial law IN the fal of 1871, am pre-
pared 70 issue certificates OF Indebtedness the part
81 the state 10 the citizens individually OF said
ties from whom forced collections made Before
said certificates be delivered. the party must file
his receipt with The Comptroller for the certificate,
fagothcr with The following affidavit, viz:
Il ............. ................... do swear Tor
anrnl that did no illegal act nor melted any other
person 20 do any Illegal net which caused the deeara-
ton OF martial law IN the county of Limestone, Tor
Walker as the case may bel did do. OF write
anything for the parposc uf procuring martial law in
said county"
IA Is SUGGESTED that the citizens Of said counties re-
fcrrcd to- make the required receipts. together
with their adayits and forward to this department BY
A. BLEnSOE
seiT ar wst Comptroller.