The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1875-04-24
EDlTURIIL NOTES.


have arrived in Galveston yesterday,
en- route for the Mexican border. Cen
eral Ord was awaiting him Mt the Grand
Central botel in that city.
THE recent cyclone in Georgia ana
South Carolina was the most deslruc-
tive one ever experienced in this collli-
try. Six hundred people were killed
by it, aud about three thousand
wounded.
In another column will he found an
address to the people of Texas from
Hon. John Ireland, in regard to the
calling of district conventions to make
nominations for delegates to the con-
stitutional convention.
SPECIAL MAIL AGENT Cox arrested
a man named Matthews recently,
charged with rohbing the mail pouch
of the Great Northern railroad that left
Austin on the 9th. The pouch was
taken from the mail car at Houston.
TIE HERALp's correspondence from
Terrell represents business rs active
and gives ilattering account of the
crop prospects. Terrell is II live, thriv-
ing town, and TIE HERALD is glad to
publish the fact of her energy ana pro-
gress.
ALEXANDER WHITE, eX.congrcss-
man from Alabama, and author of the
force bill introduced last session, cX-
poets Grant will reward him with the
office of assistant attorney general, va
Gated few days since by Hill, of Mas
sachusetts.
The people of Houston have tender
ed u banquet to the Hon. Roger. q.
Mills, member of congress, and twas
to come of last night-a compliment
well deserved 10y an at le, laborious and
honest member of congress, of whom
all Texas is justly proud.
TIE democratic pluralityin Con.
necticut on the vote for governor is
1854, and on the vote for congress
men, 3,7S2. "Hundred gun-Grcene,"
the repr blican candidate for governor,
ran behind his ticket everywhere.
The "bunditti" Of Connecticut didn't
disperse rs was expected when those
guns were fired.
On opening the Catholic college at
Kensington, near London, on the 10th
instant, Cardinal Manning very sig
niicantly said, in the course of his ad-
dress, that che regarded himself as ell
trusted with a commission of warfare,
for he believed the church was APP
preaching a crisis the most fiery for
three hundred years"
New YORK has made the first prac-
tical move toward specie payments, by
the recent enactment of a law requiring
all debts due after January !, 1876, to
be paid in gold and silver. 1t seems
that law to that effect might he car
ried into practical usefulness in Texas
with much more ease than New York.
A BILL has been introduced in the
lower house of the Prussian diet to ab-
rOgate the clauses Of the constitution
which grant an independent admins
tration of ecclesiastical affairs and un-
impeded intercourse Of religious asso-
Citations with their superiors. The bill
restricts the freedom ofclerical appoint
ments, and makes their confirmation
indispensable to their legality.
GENERAL GORDON thinks that the
democracy will do well to ignore finan-
cial questions in framing their plat
form for the coming presidential cam
paign. He says the finances are collat-
eral issues, which should not he al
lowed to interfere with the success of
cardinal principles. He favors the
course adopted three years ago at Gin
cinnati and Baltimore-that is, a re-
mission of the financial question to the
people i'm the congressional districts TO
settle.
PARsoN BRowNLow is out in n three
column letter to the New York Tribune
inreply to Andy J ohnson's attack upon
the presidents administration and GER
tain amin diversions upon his Brown
lows administration while governor of
Tennessee. While the style and tone
of its composition is not to be particu-
larly commended for its chastc and ele-
giant language, the forcible and express
sive sentences are not to be misunder-
stood. The letter is eminently charac-
istic of the old reprobate.
WILL the Galveston News, Indian
ola Bulletin, Rockport Transcript or
some other paper on the coast, give us
some light about the fate of the
schooner Morning Star, which sailed
from Rockport, Texas, for Tuxpan, Mex
leo, in January, with numerous passen-
gers, among whom was the old hero
and patriot, Colonel Alfred II. Thur
mond. Its non-arrival was announced
some weeks since. Colonel Thurmond
has many old and devoted friends in
Dallas, who are in painful suspense as
to his fate.
CoLvIN, the loyal mayor of Chicago,
who "swore by the eternal God he
would not meet rebel" at n reception
rendered by that city TO the grand
army of the republic, at which it was
proposed to invite certain confederate
soldiers to be present, is called upon
by the New Orleans Times to answer
questions that implicate him as parti-
ceps crin,iRis,in the great Louisiana
cotton steal during the war T. lrly
answers will oblige the Times, as cer-
tain citizens of the Crescent City are
trying TO track the proceeds of the cot
ton referred to.
THE Austin Statesman takes the fol-
lowing sensible view of the convention
system to nominate delegates TO the
constitutional convention: "Hon. John |
ireland is out in a proclamation In
which he declares that the democratic
party should nominate its candidates
for the convention everywhere. Per- /
haps not. Let the question be dis
cussed, in any event In some districts
Il might be well to have free fight, in I
order TO secure the services of the ablest
men. Itismen--statesmen mark you