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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1876-01-11

TOTAL REcrlpfs OF PRODUCE
Iff N0Tth RirsT TtSseI5 ond K7iIr0ldt
MONDAY. Jan. TO- 1876.
GENERAL MARKET REPORT.


A5BES-Nohing OF importance is going ON 10 ths maTke'
aud figures n0Tuay retained viz. 900 &C for Pots
aud &c. for PEARS.
COFFEK-Ro was steady at l69l9c for fair 10 prime
goes and there demand with sales OF 2.SbJ bags
a. Holmes 5000 bags c1Chssseur on t0nns not trans
plIed 5000 bags Peggy ana 1000 bags eNANei were
stock Of Brazil at all ports 010-J
bags Including 1872 q3G bags here 7lj at Baltimore, 0OJ
bags Hampton Roads aud 1851 tags at Now OTaauA
The rcPts the week ending tonight were 700 bags
sad the sos 49, 5l3 bags santos JOG al III lSy eOl
FOR Pair Good. For m III GRADES the market quiet and
without quOtaDle change IN the absence ~ transact Ons
COTJONEhe market the dull, aud With larger
offerings large receipts slight decl gold and the du
of trade Liverpool prices weak though without
quoted change Neither spinners rteis showed
disposition 70 make important purchases The receipts al Tie
PERU 37o7 bales against -, 900 bales thi5 day last
reek and i5s bales this day last year. he slcs
$50 go saturday evening Of which 200
oy export 800 for consumption and 2sO Tor speculation The
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1876-01-11
DOMESTIC MARKETS.

ALBANY Jan. lO-wheat. nothing doing. Rye quiet and
steady 0Og0lo for state Corn in limited demand Al 6O
Csc Tor New Western Mixed 73a.ic for OH do and 20
S5c for Round Yellow sales, No New western Vel
low at 6sc Barley without important change only moder
sales OF No Canada stained al 81 and ~
Regular at 81 To- oats. Nothing doing ,ow
Jan 1O.-COon quiet and shade easiori low
Mdding l2ssai3c Flour duh and droopns; Ho ward 81
aud Western euper 80 a6dst 90 do Eft - oVe = 10
SIS ds7 20; do RIO 6randa so 75as do Family, 81 10
Pennsyysnis Rcd. 81 37asl $751; Maryland h9d ~ 10
torn-southorn 6rmer Western easier southern White
New b2ae2o.; DO. yellow. Nov, o9ef5e western hlAeh
New 96is spot; &c. January 3Diaf. Is hall January
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1876-01-11

The Merchants Insurance Company OF TINS Guy
nay ther semi-annual dividend of 10 per cent on
demand.
The Clinton Fire Insurance Company makes ITS
usuaI .eni-annual dividend of 10 per cent payable
on demand.
We are indebted TO the publishers, Messrs Nilliam
b. Dana a. Co.. for a bound copy July to January
inclusiycl of The Commercial and Financial Chror'ce
a most excellent authority OH the subject OF winch
il treats The Chronicle has compiled the following
railroad earnings:
RAILROAD EARNINGS IN DECEMBER AND fFo"
JAN TO DTC. 81,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1876-01-11

H sSqtSerp aSs ss' Western Is Wiz. 4sss7c
and PsnnsSaa DOING IN
round ies order trade .ctiye PORK Neg lobb1g Ct s2
"a gesG" sSISer Lard @s s bu e ssad hG
a o ff ns ss Ps snS ns St
sss 5 ePsS, 2s sGse cScn sc at SC
Whisky duh and weak al 81 lliadsl p ,,....-.
super ssesi So Common FItras 81 75sss
eonsn ExtTa, g % 81 Minnese,s Extras e 1855 p
mol. 25sS3 25; st. Louis 50 5OGsS southern quiet
~ e. a and ff%
nsow osi, IN IA" demand at 4s@05e for Mixed ana 10
@ soT 90; 90 ss fS FEED Sos
Wheat 500 BUSH Oats BSsh DO Shorts 5000 bush
s b So y SeS gs o oa a5 S go ea'e NAT ~
Wheat, 80 900 bush Corn 1000 bush oats 1sg0 bush
eioo bSl. wheat $1,000 bush Corn, 90 bush Oats.
a& new PiGss upward SO So changed hands,
su sd%a c a So rp sSTy M o
dai at Be- Tuch9ines nominal.
S Is SFOgg q1 sDs and S9fhangeS 5 %9ss'
Corn in good demand ard higher No 2 fs'sc SPOT 4l'
bid fepToary 455ai5s'c May New ,Seele So 9a,,
66a66@c Barley Den,nd active; prices advanced at
duh al - - a. T%oiay dun At ~ 05GS} 45 Dressed
it9ss aey G a@ 9ssfr a. s*' ~ .n poA DeH S9
$40 t2, February sl9 G72asle 10 Mareh Lard steady
r r&ary ; sl$ CO. March nS Meats rn5r siolcs 7tc
lover At u o. RsccipiDiOo00 b5s Flour 5000 bush.
Wheat 1900 9n's Corn S0Co bush @ oo 80 hush
$4,000 bush What 1000 bush Corn. 1900 bush oats
s MnIs baer at Janary Febrnry
CIvcIANATi Ian o.. Flour dun dgnchanged. Wheat,
active al i54ic oats gui. but sady at SS@iSc barley
qgei and rnehansl ye Gn a. &c roE~ r laT
dnl lover; 81 sl2 25atl2 30; Kettle l$al34e
II &c. buyer ATri; Ce,r sides 1890 c. also sacs OF
short Rib bddss nj - February. aconOny limited
blhn9 nlnl sho9 deI.; rag a.; cl,1r lib So id1@
demand shoulders, 40 sOzS7 ~ sd,s - 81
skSs rai1 Sales a. II o. Bayer S but %De6eG
Demand las ana market hrm Common to Goa iSs
isy, g. 45as7 90 receipts TO- % head; Shipments z1I
CiFyft,sp. Jan. lo-relrocum firm aud unchanged.
qie err dria al sds 20 corn da a, iifi5g osts quiet
nnn ann uncSaag Sfk p III o. Bai@ soadsf
l'lct Ger ab sd ln,,r: oi,ar ssr' os an l32e
re- n4ns su-ar Cured, ~ ird qrict ami unchanged
MEiliIIs Jan. 10 onr qgel and uuclapsof Corn-De
msnd air ana mar rin ne % 4lc lsls De n,nd air ana
Bnk nrrcr though not quotahy n'gner s4ondeGs
MLwArKfs Jau. 10 fiouc quiet but steady. whcai nn;
fri,r ary ii oos- March u %: 80 do, s'sc Corn
steady; WIN "a rn'" 10, q .oo, o a - M ,
~rnrg. 9sc; No do, Doc Rye excited and higher No
nv lardviT@s KsiI- ~ do steam. PIE Hams il
pe .ie. i0Aa ne brj sailed Meats sio0H,S &C. 5ci
with sool daaa GD' o fioir 100 "G'
NEwouEAN- Jan lo-sasar qnel. Con mon 2a@t f1,,
to f9y - = Gs9S C t!,T l SdEs e.
6a a 9 moi a, ' cSaa5 i"E S5 r ne 20
hoc, e5ac lsinr 1rg ir' Joe - ' 90
81 anoi,e and PANTY, ~ 25a u - ,arl al
4 90 I 19 n n s e3 d4 st aa S 81 60 " ara Sr
sailed McaS 49, s""c IS S T,ir o " S,' o.
clear io sides l@tt. tl'ai Si,c-' lEf,: Hams ,oto
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1876-01-11
BANKING AND WNABCIAL.

Commercial Collections speciality with hOwEs 4
Co., 6 Wal-st.. ~ Y Interest allowed on deposits,
which can be drawn by checks. the same - with
tbs cts banks.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1876-01-11
HAVANA MARKET

HAVANA Jan. 1O-Spsnisb Gold. 2l3192l4 Exchange on
the states 10 days, currency 2r7 discount nior
sight Ga6s discount sugar quiet aud steady Ma IL d. b.
ITqidll reals, y aTIobe; I'M gold 61pGst reals.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1876-01-11
LIVE STOCK MARKETS.
RECEIPTS

RECEfPJs
For The WEEK ENDING MONDAY. Jan 10. 1876.
Besves Cows yeals. sheep aud Lambs swins All linda
1888 103 t05 1876 2l,aS0 4s.641
These sold at the following piaoesi
Beeses. Cows VesA hheep swine
JsrseT oH steckYard sos "a lO.sss l1o<l
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1876-01-11
Irving Savings Institution,

No, 90 WtHREN-sr.. NEN-h OHk.
STX PER CENT INTEREST allowed Money deposited
m or be'nreJA 10 DRAINS INTEREST FROM JAN. l.
RAM oon daily from 10 a. NJ 10 ; 2. H.
WALTER w. CONCkblN, FhhsiphSE
VA.DFRBIIT L. BIZ XTON. Secretary.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1876-01-11

Good Ordinary ;..'.iOt9 Low Miiding..-.........l
otricIGOOi Ordinary. II = Middhug
For delivery there decline Of c az which
reduction IA pics fair business sales saturday
si,er mJas1ary. so, d3,Ies Eeorusry 200, - sszei
March 200 % lszo APn zoo rs sse' 100 Is &C. May,
eall-Janc zoo 4ts.c; august lO0 Ia isgc; total 800
baes Third ca-May. o. Ss9ge; tJal, JOj baks Sales
ssesy mp 10 p m-JaunaIy, 900 A.. l3c 200 i8 ICES
February i4OQ elec.. 100 Is sgt o. iSsicci 100
lsEsyc: 400 l3Le; 101 lSsaze 80 % 10 March 1900
:c SOC $e 500 aGs 'ss s9' ,d y ise $ sS
!Sssci May 900 lsc; f70O 10 asgc 100. IL SIec lOo
June. 400 Ia &C.; total 224OO bales grand TOTAL
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1876-01-11

0G0.5 GiRNIN.- T0oH JAN 70 NOV 20.
Mobile end Ohio ..sItei.3.5 s9j6;.Gj9 -... a@s25S
81 r. ana - city ami -
Tn nct earnings OF the Mobile anu ONO ialroad for
Noyolb.r 1870 were II t23. AGAINST ~ll9,-IH last
year showing decrease of Tyi23; the Si,soul. Ran
an texas reports lis operating expenses Tor N'Frm-
Der ~ SO $50 showing ~" Iet ca n!ns 60 haF
been ~ 1852: Philadelphia ana Enc net canine, for
November 1870. are Sl0i.542, a@sns 1859 af"ui-
Der 1874; net earning, OF Houston and TeX1s Cehiai
Railroad for November. 1879, S2o9,J2O, against
Sl7l $40 in NOHeulhrr. 1871.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1876-01-11
Banking Gouees ana Danaers
Gauings Banks.
EOWERY SAVINGS BANK.
4 \ Hu.. . .fff

HOWERY SAVINGS BANK.
ID N.W-i 1ih. Dec. ~. 1875.
\ SEHIASNUAL Dividend "a the late OF So Pa;
CEN YtT uf a of nSv colf' and upward ana
mot tNrcrug 40 tC,Iui DOL , ami u. FIVE fi.k tfN
per u sums over two thousand dollars Nnh 5IN
.yr bee deposited least tcc months uh Tie II dY OF
January ncN. VIII allowed to le drpusr- au' WI Do
Isyais 90 after MONDAY Jan y, 1916 IN Accordance
nith 40 prov .,ious ot tlC bylaws. ,.
ON and a.r Jan. L. ~ t.c Interest Above Wpon deposits
txtetdul thousand oaI s.gU be- ONE PER IN per
NINA less upon such excess Of d posts lan un"u deposits"
tou,aud dolara and less, uud no interest @il s pdd
fpp thousand collars FL nr'il~ M
Of The Trustees. SAM ~ l. bIoN ~ iitsiu'h~
q. ~. fO.sfst4its Secretary.
NEW-YORK SAVINGS BANK, shave, cor.
y ltth.tSx Ter cont interest PAID IRON ir nitl oil
each ,.olh Assets 50 13bSt 40. Htlill-. ft2SoNN ~
O. W. BRiNoNFE.ioFF. Seo'y. RICHARD u. Etti. Pres.
GEAMENh BANK FOR SAYINGS, nos. a
- AND 10 wAlL-srlL, Trrsiees have oneifd thai y
IFWESr Ice paid To- dcuosurs entitled tc.tl' iot the OH
months Guiding 3lsl alt. as loOps: 90, mn,
500 Dollars and under at The rate o SiN Ii'H
CENT per annumi and ,.t,,,. ,,cD
On sums oNroene Dollars ut the rate ~ FIVE PER
PAYABLE end after MONDAY, l1i!i INST
me interest viii Sc crclitei deposOs principal
Sew York, January q, 1876. .. - 5000. ,,-.-.,o,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1876-01-11

Fast River Savings Institution,
No q ruANRFRs ST NEN-YORK DEC %. 1875.
b5Tii SENIANNUAL DIVIDEND Interest at the rate
of SIX (5 PER CENT anuum has Dcen dtoted ana ~
he paid after the IN day Of January on n sums Wtn
have remained deposit Or three OF six months previous 20
Is day of January, lSlb
Interest called will be credited and draw interest az
original depust. 49, ~ , - MI. ,., ,,or. IN IA
WILLIAM III. SLOCUh, Prc5iueh|
A XnIINEN. SrcIutarN.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1876-01-11
Broadway Savings InstituiiOn,

No. 237 Broadway, entrance on Parkplaoe
Interest on deposits entitled thereto for the six months end
Ing Doe s. at the rate OF SIN PER CENT PER ANNUM
on all sums OF @ upward will be paid ond after Mon
dsy. Jan a. 1876. FRANCIS p. SCHoALs. President
pTIER CIMNiNG A0tnaTl
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1876-01-11

OPFICg TIE CFNrRAL RAILROAD 60. 90 NEWJE{-Ef,t
rs LliIhIi.-t, MN hORk. De-. p, 100. !
rNHE usual QUARTERLY DIVIDEND OF
i TWO AND 4 fiALF PER CENT has this day been de-
cdred payabe I'll ,DAN the 2)fh pfoN3 ~ iis onee
The Transfer books WI De- closed f)m FRIDAY, December
SAMUEL KNOX, Treasurer
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1876-01-11

Total . 446 S32 S99,stO S5St"11 fi:9s,'3, -
Net dee res-e. ...... $3.50. @oo''fi'
Three weeks only ~ Drcem1cr IN e1ch yc1r ,,.,
The.e figures include l1j the earuur- OF the nIhF
LAD diyIsnD. earning. or main ne we've <3t7.3l7.
TOT NJ decrease here shown SOGHjJ arc In racine z" MIS-
sOuri earnings. ,-,-,., l. a..
I'm November and December transfers are iucuded IN inc
previous tn uOntlts they are mo- included
The following companies have recently reported Lcir
earning, Tor November;
GROSS TAENINGs ~ NOVEMBER.
IASS 1874. Increase. Decrease
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1876-01-11

MECHANICS AND TRADERS SAYINGS
Va INSTITUTION, No. 2S3 BOwery. near HOustonlsi.
AZ the rate IT per per annum.
after ~. has been declared al
titled thereto for mOats ending Dec 81 Deposits ma lie
or before Jan. 10 viii draw interest from Jan. J.
At CONKLIN, President
H. G. FIsURR SECRETARY
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-04-20
Tn. Blessed women.
items can sing sixty-eight operas.

Titiens can sing sixty-eight operas.
The eye of an election female voter.
The empress of Austria wears an Ulster.
The treasury girls call man ''Bub" until
he is fOrty-seven.
Ida Greeley's husband writes for the
magazines.
Somebody has been counting mp kii the
wealthy widows in Gotham
Tennie CIafin says she can't help il If she
does look like Napoleon L
Queen Victoria's new title doesn't en-
press the English masses very f4vorably.
That handsome female lobbyist at WASH
ington says wink is more persuasive than
lucre.
When you see woman going about with
her shoe strings united, isn't'I Justiiiable
TO infer she's untied-yi
A lady at Mount Vernon, Indiana. has
pIeced q quilt containing 65Si pjexs,
which will be sent 10 the Centennial.
'FemAIe Pimpies" was the subject OF an
essay read before the Young Mems Christian
Association Of Lafayette, Indiana
A very clever woman has said, 81 do not
wish anybody to do anything naughty, but
If they do, want TO kJow all about II.
Julia Ward Howe says there are more bad
men who walk the streets nights than bad
women Julia says mean things occasionally.
Harriet Beecher Stowe is enjoying herself
among her Florida oraDge groves, and they
say that sucking oranges has given her lips
. charming pour-
1iss Hawk Of New York wants the legis-
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-04-20
HOW ABOUT THAT SOUTHERN
RAILROAD TO THEPACIFEC.

The Washington Chronicle says that at the
beginning of the present session of Con-
gress good many Southern members, with
a few Northern, worked themselves up to
fever heat about the Importance of South
err Pac &c railroad, and the necessity of q
government subsidy to build it. There was
the utmost concern for the Southern people
and Southern rights to appropriations from
the Treasury. The scheme had not pro-
gressed far before it became apparent that
it was unnecessary, as the Southwest was
offered better road by Huntington, quite
as soon, and at no cost to the Treasury, ex-
cept to divide the land grant already made.
1t remains now to be seen whether the pre-
tended zeal on behalf of the South was for
the sake of the raiinoad or for the sake of
the subsidy.. II the advocates of the Texas
Pacific scheme do not give their sanction to
the plan now under consideration for allow
ing the trAns-continertal road to be built
frOm both ends to meeting point, giving
the franchises to each company for so much
as it constructs, il is an admission that they
were more anxious for the subsidy than for
the road; and that the interests of Tom
Scott and his betrayed capitalists and mon
ey-lenders were Of more consequence than
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-04-20
PIHCHBACk AND THE TEXAS Leg
ISLATURE.

1t seems that the shrewd. intelligent ne
gro, Pinchback, is not so uneasy about the
re-enslavement of his race as are Blaine
and Morton. In fact, those Northern party
leaders, who would secure negro votes and
enslave the whites, seemingly dread the re-
production of negro slavery infinitely more
than the negroes themselves 1t was An
tense, over-zealous Democracy and love for.
the South in 1S60-61, that he Johnson)
'always distrusted man who was a better
friend to him than he to himself" 1t seems
that Pinchback has accepted the profound,
inexorable PHILOSOPHY of the hard-headed
Tennessean. He said last week, when ad-
dressing his adherents and admirers. that
While it is true that slavery is dead beyonI
resurrection, our rights as citizens are not
secure, and our right to vote even is not ir-
revocable. The organic law, the fifteenth
amendment of the Constitution of the
United States, simply declares that no State
shall deprive any citizen of the right to vote
on account of race, color or previous con-
dition. No State shall deprive any citizen
on account of color of this great preroga-
tive; but they can deprive you of this great
prerogative upon the ground of unftness.
They Can do that, and it is well that they
can do it, say; for unless we exercise this
privilege in an intelligent manner to pre-
serve our rights and condition as citizens.
the right ought to be curtailed. Applause.
You had better clap louder on that Loud
applause. Whether you like it or not, it
is fact.
Pinchback tells the simple, unvarnished
truth. He has surely been reading the
STATESMAN. He confesses and knows that
nobody wishes to re-enslave the Pinchback
race. This step backwards, as each ex-
stakeholder declares each day, is no more
desirable than possible. Confessing this,
we must also confess that we do not pro-
pose, when restricting suffrage in corpora
tions, as Pinchback suggests, to intelligent
taxpayers, to deprive the negro of any Incl
dent of absolute freedom. We violate the
Thad Stevens provisions of the Federal Con-
stitution, which Rutabagaism Rugged so
tenderly to its bosom, in nothing. Butt is
only proposed in this behalf to show how
the STATEsMAN's idea fastens itself not only
upon leading newspapers at home and
abroad, the Nation accepting it as an abso-
lutte necessity in the government of munich
palities, but here we have the most intelli-
gent negro in the South, in great conven-
tion of colored people, telling them that
unless they exercise the right of suffrage
more intellieently it ought to be curtalled." :"
When the prosperity of every town and
county In Texas, the weight of local taxa
tion, when the fitness of each local office
holder is involved and the execution
of the laws and punishment of crime-when
all these incidents of good or bad govern,
ment are involved, surely the Legislature
and people cannot hesitate, and a constitu-
tional amendment contemplating the proper
restriction OF suffrage, even as Pinchback
approves, will be submitted for ratif-
cation at the hands of the people.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-04-20
SHEEP CULTUnE.

Within the past four or five years the
herding of sheep has been found more
profitable in this vicinity and in wide dis
tricts of Western Texas than cattle raising.
Mustangs that cost the owner on the plains
almost nothing, and are sold in central por-
tions of the State and here for ten or twenty
dollars each, constitute profitable resource
for many farmers; but the production of
horses and cattle alike has given place to
wool-growing, suggested, no doubt, and
stimulated by the wonderful success of the
New Braunfels woollen mills. Therefore,
we find many herds of sheep on the hills in
central portions of Travis county, and even
more numerous are f1ocks iu the
western and southwestern districts.
Profits of sheep growing in many
instances have been simply enormous.
They who first adopted the occupation,
giving herds their own personal care and
supervision, have grown even suddenly
rich, and the fortunes of these have induced
many to embark in the business. The mar
row chain of hills and mountains bisecting
the county are choicest resorts for goats,
and flocks of sheep become much more
numerous in many neighborhoods, in the
vicinity of Austin, than herds of cattle.
These last, like sheep, are rapidly inn
proved by the importation of improved
breeds, and the riches of the county are rap
IDLY augmented and its resources multiplied
hv thio fOrtunata d;yars;fcat;on of nnnular
rural pursuits. There is not in the State q
country better adapted to the successful and
profitable management and ownership of
sheep and goat branches" than the we'll
watered and productive hills and plains about
Austin. Already more than two and half
millions of sheep are annually shorn in
Texas and yet there is but one factory of any
pretentions to convert into cloth the incalcu
liable quantity of wool The enviable sue
cess of New Braunfels woollen mills attests
possibilities to be achieved by manufacture
ing skill and energy in and around the beau
tiful capital of Texas.
1t is not wholly irrelevant TO these facts
to state that perhaps one fourth of all the
hides tanned in the United States are fur
nished by Texas, and yet within the Stste's
confines there is not one tannery worthy
the name. And this, too, with every requi-
site facility for conducting the business
successfully. The very statements peril
nent to the manufacture of textile fabrics
apply in this case, with the important diff
ference that no such costly machinery is
essential IN tanning leather as in the pro-
duction OF cloth from wool or cotton.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-04-20

The decent people and prooerty-h olders
of Chicago at last revolt against enormous
burdens imposed by ignorance, whisky and
knavery in Office and the Times says tax
payers should come forth and hang the
villainous placeholders to lamp-posts. The
Cairo Bulletin replies that merchants and
property-holders refuse habitually to par
ticipate in elections and seems to think that
they therefore deserve to be robbed This
is hardly a legitimate criticism upon the
conduct of men when there is no
force or reason or necessity which can drive
intelligence and decency to voting places
in foul purlieus of the great cities of the
United States. Even life is unsafe and
fists and bludgeons, unknown perhaps in
the quiet city of Cairo, are often indulged
by terrible MODS that monopolize municipal
authority. Even if there we're no horrible
odors to be inhaled and no vermin diffused
in compacted throngs that move upon
ballot-boxes in the lowest St. Giles of Chi
cago, why should decency be forced by
aIAanC uouisSoSisui W nPoVO Aoi Po"Ci
and sway in municipal property pro-
tecting government = having no concern
with civil rights = with stupidity and
knavery and lawlessness in constructing
and maintaining such government. Itis
we'll enough to invelgh against decent Peo-
pie for absence from the polls, but would it
not be wiser to make tl.eir votes worth some
thing when they do go to the polls and
not have each ballot of intelligence and
honesty vacated by one cast by ignorance
and brutalityG Effect this reform and there
would be no longer any reason for the jere-
miads of the Bulletin, weeping, as it does,
because intelligence and property refuse
fn vote
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-04-20

THE Galveston NeUs thinks that If we
would elect Democratic President we
must invest Hancock with the Senatorship.
If we elect Hancock, Blaine and Morton
will say, as they do of this Congressional
district, which has elected Hancock three
times, that we are only practieing pious
fra1d upon Northern Unionism, and are
base enough to bend in terror before their
despotic authority, and, in order to propi-
tate them, to stultify ourselves. We are
only degraded in our own and the eyes of
the whole country by such baseness and
treason to truth, and gam nothing, certain
ly nothing of respect or power at home or
abroad. In this, as in all else, honesty is
the best policy. Coke, Devine, Ireland,
Stockdale or Schleicher would be more slow
ly and with greater difficulty drawn into
hostility TO the Union than Hancock. They
have seen and know what war means and
costs. They have felt it in their own persons
and their own fortunes, and are unutterably
opposed to the nert war and happily, too, to
all the villains and vlllainy spewed up by
the last. As perfect representative men
Of the South, any one of these viii
assert these feelings and these convic-
tions and purposes, and when done,
none may deny that ''the Senator from
Texas" utters the honest, earnest convic-
tons Of the people of his State.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-04-20

The gross earnings of the Houston and
Texas Central Railroad and its branches
during the last year was nearly IS, 600, 900,
according to the Commercial and Financial
Chronicle. The capital of this corporation
is put at $4,000, 900. Sixty per cent. of
the gross earnings of broad gauge road
are commonly absorbed in the expense ac-
count and there would he left, as net prof
it's, the sum of 81 300, 600 ON six and a half
millions, or more than twenty per cent.
profit on the capital invested, which ought
to make our friends, the lucky owners of
the Central, very comfortable. r.....