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Now is the time to subscribe. To SutoBorllJors By postal card, other means being too expensive, subscribers to the Statesman will be rendered accounts, showing amounts due, or sooa to be come due, on subscription. It is 1 the year when all may settle accounts, and subscribers are request ed, in receipt of statements, to remit at once. By the first of January it is proposed to have all outstanding mat ters closed, and a prompt reply will save further trouble in collecting bills Our friends, regarding tbU as busi-nets, will not fail to respond. THE TJPHEJIB COtRTAND ITS MUPRKTIB WISD0.1I- MOH.IO.- IMI IK UTAH AMD TEXAS, Polygamy will now be torn up by the roots, and such should be its doom.

It's a pity "Old not sur- Yive the event to see and suffer. But then vices proposed to be extirpated in Utah are not local. The Supreme Court of the United States declares it bas jurisdiction and proceeds to de stroy vicious Mormon institutions. A court rarely denied its power and al ways widens and never contracts the sphere of its jurisdiction. Human na ture is such that even courts love the broadest authority, and therefore we bave seen the Supreme Court of the United States legislating upon the subject of currency and now, perhaps, wnen tne question or approving David's and Solomon's and old Brigham's practices in Utah are discussed and Congress has hesitated, knowing not how to reach and extlr pste the stupendous crime, tbe highest guardian of personal and civic rights and of those of States asserts its bound less power and declares that Mormon-ism shall be no more.

It may be whol ly right. To strike down public vices is surely well enough and the country's laws may invest the Supreme Court with the right to indulge a sentiment orobev an injunction of popular ODin but it has only begun the execu tion of a task as broad as the continent and involving vices more terrible and ruinous than this proposed to be eviscerated from Utah. 55 Unctious godliness, pious shams, strutting pharisaism and gowned red-beaded' sanctimoniousness, as per- onated by Haven, will thank Ood on bended knees in the presence of splen did altars, that the Supreme Court at the United States has "done its dutv7 but the earnestness of these priests and bishops rests upon the reflection that Brigham's followers and their indulgences are now unauthorized and unguarded by local law, and all sects are on an equality. from the. practices of priests end bishops of all sacts in Texas and elsewhere, it seems that they would rather rejoice that Mormon elders are bereft of special privileges, rather than because public vices are supposed to be ameliorated.

Macauley said the Puritans did not weep because dogs and bears in bear- baiting were punished fearfully, but because the mob enjoyed the sport most keenly. Even so with Haven and bis ilk. It may not be Mormonism that provokes their grief, and which they would uproot, but the delights of a state or. society which gave Infinite satisfaction to Mormon elders and Mormon pslam-iingcrs. Local law in Utah, now repealed by an enactment of the Supreme Court of the United States, licensed vice! and passions which must be carefully cloaked in the States by diligent hypocrisy.

Society, as or ganized an a as 11 exists in lYasmng-ton or Boston, is more corrupt and depraved than in Salt Lake City. This is true, or mn aad women thoroughly cognisant of the vices of the Mormon territory and of those of Christian cities are incapable of truth-telling. The law interdicts absolutely the existence of prostitution in almost every city, and especially in Boston, and its evils are aggravated, and only lessened in those that undertake to regulate and control and restrict the universal vice. Vtu -1 ana morsia constituted we confess, a foul blot upon the fair face of American civilization, and the Supreme Court, thrusting aside an impotent Congress, which modestly ques- its power to extirpate social vices in a territory, usurps functions of a local law-giving body and transforms society at Salt Lake City. Instead of law and order and respect for institutions, horrible and ghastly enough, but no worse vt asnington, rew xotk or uoston, we are naw to hive thinly veiled hypocrisy, and legalized prostitution sup plants Brigham's vicious social system.

If tbe condition of society in Utah be made -worse when concubines are re- leaseu uy iuo ouprciuo vuutt irura obligations now recognized, we do not see that the illustrious bave done anything more than invest Salt Lake City with the exalted virtues of Washington, where an Acklin is a social prince and Simon Cameron a grand Turk. We would only suggest, since tbe Supreme Court bas learned bow to cure (f) the hideous depravity ot Silt Lake, that It cow expend a share of its legislative genius and beneficence upon ungodly congressmen and priests and, wbile busying itself about the incrals of remote territories, it should t.Uo set up an inquisition in Washington and Boston, where, even if Mor- ision law and faith be inoperative. I worse than Mormon practices and I of morals surely prevail. 1 IIV Til VAMKRBS KICI1 AND WE POOIt. Some days ago the postmaster a.

Saratoga sent to Washington $300 in three cent pieces. People were anxious to know whence came such a sum constituted of such units. Three cent pieces are rarely seen and yet such an accumulation was made during a single season at the great American watering place. Hotel keepers said that fashionable JuibitucM of the great caravansaries have accommodated their expenditures to changed financial and social conditions of the country. Money has grown scarce and valuable.

Its purchasing power baa grewn steadily with its scarcity and even Northern fashion able people, as seen -in this substitution of three for ten and twenty-five cent pieces, have adapted habits of economy to the contracted volume of currency. Porters that received ten and twenty-five cents for services were paid, last summer, only three cents, while Saratoga bootblacks were made happy with single coppers. Northern shrewdness is illustrated in these simple facts and Southern dullness and slothfulness is discoverable when the coat of living has neither been adapted in the South to palpable unanciai iacis nor conformed to our poverty. When wealth was wrecked vanity was at the helm. It still lives and commands, even though the ship went down.

We have never learned the use or value of coppers and never dreamed of tbe economy involved in substituting one and three for five and ten cent coins. A beefsteak costs as much to-day as when money abounded and there is nothing we buy or consume the price of which is less than five cents. Yankees deride our folly and practice tbe profoundest philosophy. Farmers sell cotton at seven cents and pay as much for most of the trifles they buy as when the staple was worth fifteen or twenty cents. Yankees, it will be ob served, are sellers in tbe one case and buyers in the other, and are thus profited by our folly on the one hand and misfortune on the other.

Facts like these impelled the shrewd Senator Jones, of Nevada, to say of us when he was recently in Texas that we are infinitely sluggish and stupid But the time will come when we will adopt habits shaped by our necessitiec Then we will begin to grow rich, and not till then. Habits of slaveholders and vanities they indulged and reck less wastefulness in little things will be ultimately cured, and we will finally discover that if our Northern fellow-countrymen are rich and we poor, that the reason is found in the conduct of millionaires at Saratoga, who expended in a few weeks $300 in three cent pieces among porters, bootblacks and Housemaids. A FEARFUL WRONG. It is proposed to sell, even now, the school lands. What robbery of pos terity! What a crime by those that live against those who are to live after us! We would make Texas wise and learned, and yet we provide for the enduring ignorance and poverty of Texas.

We cannot suffer great hardships for a brief period that an endless future may be forever illumined by noonday splendors of universal cultured intelligence. It is a great pity that lawmakers are not always statesmen, that those wielding the power of lawgivers have none of the virtues of prophets. Statesmen, the prophets of our time, we greatly fear, live no more and those claiming the position and fame of statesmen are content if they may- pander to. the exactions of unthinking, reck'ess selfishness which would gratify its own insatiate greed and sacrifice for a penny to-day that which will be worth untold millions even before this generation ceases to exist. Is there no statesman, no true lover of the country, of its future fame and.

power and glory, to rise up and destroy these destroyers of the fairest, brightest hopes of the commonwealth. Tbe splendors and resources and stores of learning of Oxford and Cambridge are due to the fact that" the land, with which tbey were endowed was never sold. The fee was neyer aliened. Incomes of these institutions were trifling for almost a century, and now enormous, and all the English speaking nations go to Oxford and Cambridge to gather the ultimate fruits of the world's learning. These universities govern England and thus the world.

Texas may achieve for her schools and colleges and university these very results. It is only necessary that we be patient. Texas stands where England did one hundred years ago, and a century is only a day in a nation's lifetime. Let us hold these invaluable possessions "a single day" and then tbe people of Texas will be the richest and proudest and best educated in the world. He who interpeses to prevent these results and achieves the sale of these school and university lands will be held infamous in the eyes of posterity on Mint or a rtrbticr.

Titers is to be a contest from the El Paso district between Mr. J. P. Hague, of El Paso, and Capt. Ike Mullens, of Tom Green.

Hague holds the straight certificate, while Mullena holds one from the same returning officer that he received more votes than a clerical error having placed Mullens behind his opponent. Hague is a lawyer of El Paso, and a man ot much sprightliaess. Capt, Mullen is an old froutierman. Mullen's ranch, some twenty years ago, was celebrated as the beginning of Indian depredations, which have not ceased. Tbe ranche wis owned by Capt.

Charles Mullen, father of our legislator, and was in charge of Mullen, Jun. Capt. Ike moved from Lampasas to Brown, from Brown to Coleman, and thence to Tom Green county. He has spent ever twenty years on tbe frontier. He declined a nomination tendered him on tbe Democratic ticket in this (the Travis) district to the Twelfth Legisla ture.

His identity with the frontier will render him, in tbe event of his being seated, a useful member. Tbe clerk ot the nonse baa the name of Mr. Hague upon tbe roll, but we mention these points in view of the pending contest. T11 a high courts of Indiana, oar Texas brethren ahould know, have held that a note given on a v. even for pious church be collected at law.

The better the day is this case, tbe worn tbe deed. THE SPEAKER OF THE IIOCSE The speech made by Mr. John H. Cochran, of Dallas, when Speaker yesterday, was tbe more strik-ing'and effective because the necessity for its utterance was unforeseen. It wss an unstudied outburst of feeling and purpose; therefore truthful and expressive of the native intentions of the man and of the people he The note which he sent to the Speaker's desk and caused to be read, which appears in another place, is il lustrative of that generosity of pur pose and character that has ever dis tinguished the representative of Dal las.

But in the bnef speech thanking the ITouse for the houor done him and his immediate constituents, Mr. Cochran uttered sentiments that will be applauded everywhere in Texas. He quoted, with reference to this broad commonwealth, the trite say-ins of an immortal patriot who declared that when in office be forgot sections and parties and executed the laws or made them as best became the interests of the whole country. "I shall know in this position," said Mr. Cochran, "no South, no North, no East or West, and but one and an indie ixille Texas." It is needless to say that this assertion of fetling and purpose was greeted with prolonged applause, that came alike from the floor and galleries.

The ruling sentiment of the Speaker's add exhaled from every utterance, was suggestive of that cosmopolitanism which distinguishes the heterogeneous and vigorous and intelligent population of Northern and Northwestern Texas. Ten immigrants go thither for each one that comes into these central and southern or eastern districts. Railways are extended there in all directions. That from Dcniaon moves towards El Paso on the one band and towards Palestine on tbe other. Weathcrford invests money and toil in the extension of the Texas and Pacific, even as does Dallas in the Wichita Railway.

Of this vigorous, prosperous, toiling people, resolved to grow intelligent and powerful, the Speaker is an admirable impersonation with which Southern and Central Texas competes in nothing. The Speaker is youth fal, energetic, earnest and progressive, and training will soon remedy any defects developed in his conduct as a presiding officer. By the way, if we may judge of the capacity of a body of men by their personal appearance, the House over which Mr. Cochran presides is inferior to none that has shaped the fortunes of Texas since the Republic became the State. Merchants of the South, from New Orleans to Louisville, declare that a rigid quarantine against southern nations and ports would be more ruinous, commercially, than yellow fever itself.

It the trade and business of the country is to be destroyed every year, either by quarantine or by the plague itself, the sooner the people escape from such a country the better. There is only one remedy perfect drainage and cleanliness of towns and cities and of private houses, and we must trust to providence for the rest. It will come to this at last. Quarantine makes a country uninhabitable even as the hideous fever converts the inhabitants into angels and transfers them into the better land. The difference in the two results is hardly appreciable by devout money-getters.

The world, without money, is not worth living in. Tiik aldermen of Cork refused to receive ex-Prepident Grant as the city's guest because of Grant's predi lections for Methodism and free schools, and because Grant has shown no special disposition to catch the Irish vote by flattering the Irish peO' pie. All Irish prejudices were un corked in Cork, and it is the first time that one was ever drawn forth that Grant was not gracious and tickled tremendously. Ministries, consuls and charges have no intcr-State or international ques ttons to adjust, these matters being consigned to the Secretary of State by tbe ocean cable and swift steamships, Therefore it is that the Secretary of State has evinced a strong disposition to substitute tradesmen for lawyers in filling foreign missions. This is the more strange since Mr.

Evarts himself stands at the head of this profession in the United States. noN. Uenby S. Footr, charge of the mint in New Orleans, says be is only seventy-eight years old. But the rascally newspapers reverse the order of tbe figures and it is commonly written eighty-seven, and thereupon Mr.

Foote swears mightily. He walks every morning from Alexandria to Washington before breakfast. ne says be doe. Chatu.kston, South Carolina, has abolished the tax on drummers. It -foot -non Ino anil "worse itmu profitless.

Nero, witb his thick neck, full round fhm, and cruel" had lost already the beauty of bis early youth. His curling hair was bound by a wreath of myrtle leaves, and his whole expres sion, as be presided on the judgment seat, was that of a man driven neariv out ot bis mind with prosoeritv and boundless power. Before uim stood Paul of Tarsus. worn with long watchings and waiting ror xnai, aitnousn be bad received every indulgence which Roman law could prmit. On his wrists were the marks or tbe chains which be bad worn for two year, the scars which must have hurt so much whilst they were being made.

There were also scars about him of those fearful scourgea in which he gloried; and there were traces of perils by sea and by land, which do not leave a man as they find him. There he stood, with undaunted seir-poeaehuon, facing the Emperor, as be bad faced many a lesser ruler. He had longed to see Cseiar, and now be had his wish. lie was at last face to face with the man who bad murdered bis own mother, destroyed bis first wife and bis adopted brother, and whose heart was full of every imaginable wickedness. He was face to face ith a man whose blood-stained mind was ever bent on praise, and who so far forgot his.

dignity that, in spite of the tears of his aervanu and. counsellors, be publicly performed on the stage as a musician and as a charioteer in the circus. It was impossible even for the most devoted adherent to the Roman law to feel th least re5pect for this Emperor, and awful attribute waa gtvea to him of "power equal to tbe gods" was incapable ot raiung him in tbe minds of bis aubji-ct. Texas Fact and Fancies. Mrs.

Browning, of Chsppel lid', is dead. A case of small-pox is reported at Refugio. Wheat in North Texas bas been greatly benefited by the snow. The price of cotton seed at Navasota bas fallen from $7 to $3 per ton. Tbos.

Coats, an old and respected citizen of Dallas county, is dead. Mr9. McKinnev, the wife who wa9 shot at Sherman, is paralyzed in one of her legs. Mr. John D.

Tcmpleton, the incoming Secretary of State, was entertained at home by friends. In Coryell county Jasper Whitley waa shot and killed by one Whittaker. Whisky was mixed up in the allair. Senator Maxey asserts that nine-tenths cf the people are most positive- I ly opposed to a division of the State. The Bonbam Neien thinks that Hon O.M.

Roberts would be pleased to sue cced Maxey in the United States-Senate. The bodies of Mart and Tom Ilor rell, who were killed by a mob in Bosque county, were brought to Lam pas as. Thomas Reed, late cashier of the First National Bnk of Galveston, has absconded with $27,000 of the bank's fnnds. Bclton is building a splendid city hall. also to be used as an opera houne, that will surpass any edifice in Central Texas.

A poor woman walked all the way from Parsone, Kansas, to Denison, the conductors refusing to let her ride on the trains. Prize fights between women are the last sensation, not in the pood, moral burg of Dallas, but in the awful city 01 l-ienison. Harry Allen, nurse from Texas, ar rested in Memphis last October on a charge of rape, has been discharged without trial. Bob Purnell, a young farmer of Hill county, was killed some time ago at a dance in Montague. A brother is also reported killed.

A. W. Wilcox, local mail agent at Richmond, Texas, has boen arrested while in the act of opening the mails and abstracting letter3. John Greer, the Waller county murderer, has been arrested in Karnes county. Six hundred dollars were offered for his capture.

Three men robbed the stage at Blow' out, in Gillespie county, and then went to Fiedericksburg and attempted to rot a saloon in tuc town. The directors of the Texa9 and Paci fic meet at Marshall next month, and the Denison Nem thinks there's a big bug under the chip. Austin Sims was arrested for horse stealing in Missouri and was identified as the murderer of Hansford, inMcLen nan county, in 1S77. At Fort Worth on January 5, the norther blew at the rate of fifty miles an hour, and the thermometer went to five degrees above zero. The oldest settler of Llano county.

Justus nerber, who came to this coun try with the German Immigration Com pany in 1845, is dead. Some of the Lampasas people arc go ing to Georgetown to talk up better roads between the two places, looking to trade oetween tbem. 'Coon, wolf, wild cat, catamount and other scalps, given, to the number of C37, in payment for dog tax, were burned at the court bcuse in Pans. Col. Sam T.

Robb, of Trinity, killed a hog of the Poland China breed, four years old, weighing 1100 pounds. Extreme length, when hung up, eight teet. Jake Scmerville, the Ilearne mnr derer, whose case has been continued three years, has been turned over to jail by his bondsmen, who stood for S5000. The people of Denison, having coun ty seat aspirations, will petition the legislature for the formation of a new county to be carved out of Fannin and Grayson. The Bellville Beacon says that in lcs9 than two years the country through which the narrow gauge railroad has been surveyed will be one solid line of tine farms.

The county attorney of Hamilton county is preparing to file complaints against 152 persons who failed to pay their dog tax within the time prescrib ed oy law. A negro has been hanged in Smith county for committing rape. They didn't fatten him up at the county's expense for the occasion took him lean as they caught him. A contract has been signed at New 1 ork, it is said, for the construction. of the Sabine Bay and Northwestern railway, to extend from Sabine bay to uenisoo, a distance of 340 miles.

Texas wools in New York, on January 2, were quoed as follows Fine Eastern, 20 to 24 medium Eastern, 19 to 24c; tne Western, 17 to 19c; medium western, i. to ISe; inferior, 14 to ItiC. August Schultz', alias Fritz Albrecht, waa hired to fire the houie of Mr. Open burg, at Fredericksburg. lie was sus pected and caught and has acknowl edged that he played the part of which he is accused.

The press of the State is speaking out very plainly in regard to the Agri cultural and Mechanical College aBd demands that it should be made to con form its course of instruction to the Spirit of the grant. The people of a part of Lampasas county, together with a portion of those of Brown and Hamilton conn ties, are anxious to have a new county, with the court house somewhere near or at Williams's ranch. Young county has filled up with a thrifty population from everywhere, and the Governor's proclamation, for bidding tbe carrying of fire has placed tbe county fully within the boundaries of civilization. The Republicans and the disaffected of all persuasions of San Antonio are divided on the mayoraltv. One set under Newcomb fayors French, the Democratic nominee.

Another under Degener favors Llrich, independent. And now it appears there is another hitch in the Texas and New Orleans road, lue nnai conditions necessary to the signing of tbe contract can not be agreed upon. This is about the thirteenth hitch ia the last ten years. mi 1 1 ioe uaivesion wnari company is a paying institution. It earned during me year ending November 1878.

its expenses were It declared a dividend of and has $3034.37 cash on band. Last year a circular was addressed to 4.35 wdoI raisers of West Texas, stating tbe features and probable effect of a bill before Congress proposing to reduce the tanH oa wool. Half tbe wool growers replied, expressing their opposition to the bill. Cibolo creek in West Texas disap pears in a rocky gorge three miles from Boerne. and nut underground forty miles.

In some places natural ells 240 feet deep are found, from which the roaring of this subterraneous creek can be distinctly beard. The United States grand jury, at Galveston, threw. the case of Rev. Pope, arrested oa the charge of tampering with the mails, out of court. So after all it seems this sweet-tempered 11 art knows something of malice as well as how to sing ever so sweetly.

The shipment of bones has grown into a considerable business in tbe Siate. A San Antonio firm shipped since July 8, 3333 tons to the North, where they are used for fertilizing pur poses. The price paid to the San Antonio shippers waa $7.30 per ton. P. E.

Pearsoajan able lawyer of Richmond, Texas, figures in the Four Counties as the advocate of better pay for tbe district judges, ne wants the legislature to a bill allowing them traveling expenses, leaving the salary for the support of man and family. The nineteenth of January, the an', niversary of Gen. Robert E. Lee's birth day, is set aside through the Sjutn for the solicitation of contributions to a monumental fund in his memory, the monument to be erected at Richmond, Va. Let us have a patriotic response from Texas.

Amanda J. Glover, the poor unfor tunate of Sherman, is to be tried for infanticide. As she is poor and friend less, the penitentiary gates yawn to receive her. Wealth and icfiuence would establish a clear case of puer peral mania, as all tbe surrounding cir cumstances strongly suggest. In Hidalgo county, on the Rio Grande, the other day, twenty ran cheros formed themselves into a vigi lance committee and called on the persons charged with robbing the Cayote ranche of $000.

They found one, tried, convicted and hung liflii. The others, getting wind of the matter, escaped into Mexico. The telegraph line between Fort Stockton and El Paso will be complet ed about the first of February. We will then have through southern tele graph communication with the Pacific, the forerunner of railroad conncc tion. Huntington's road is coining at the rate of 200 miles a year towards Texas.

A private letter received at Stockton from Presidio del Norte states that Mexican troops on either side of the U10 Grande are arresting all Indians in that section and bave now forty or fifty in jail at that place. Several were killed who resisted arrest. The captives are to be sent somewhere in the intrrior of Mexico. Houston held a municipal election on the sixth and elected all Democrats except ore. Burke, Democrat, is elec ted mayor; Beayins, Independent, as sessor and collector; Morns, Demo-crat, marshal; Maydole, Democrat, re.

corder; Bart els, Democrat, street com missioner. 1 he Democrats have a ma jority in the board of aldermen. The wool growers of Western Texas met in convention at San Antonio on the seventh. They passed a resolution demanding of our Senators and Re pre sentatives in Congress that they use every endeavor to prevent the reteal of the present tariu on foreign wools and to prevent tbe passage of any law re pugnant to said tariff. A numerously signed petition will be presented to the Legislature asking that body to grant to the widow of the late Capt.

W. U. Anderson the $1000 reward offered by Governor Hubbard for the arrest and conviction of W. Collins. As be was not convicted at least iu any court the Governor bas knowledge of he holds that it is out of his power to order the money paid Another horrible tragedy occurred at 111 co, Hamilton county.

Two men. lice I'arKer and ueorge uarker, were arrested charged with robbery. The prisoners were placed under guard and at mghc seventy-hve masked men overpowered the guards, and carried them off some distance. In the mean time others of the lynchers shot the prisoners to death in their beds. None of the maskers were recognized.

Through Texas cattle do not stand the cold weather which has been ex perienced in Chicago latelv. The Chi cago Drovers' Journal, of December 24, says: 'A consignment of through Texans arrived here this morning and were unloading rfhen the thermometer showed twelve degress below zero, with a cutting wind from the North west. The poor beasts presented 1 pitiable sight, very gaunt, famished. and as they came from the shutes their backs were arched, not unlike the bump of a camel." TIm frightful prevalence of blood shed in this State, says the Bonbam News, is mainly attributable to two causes easy continuances and the im practicability of obtaining twelve honest men as jurors as they are now chosen. If the laws could be so amend ed as to force criminals to trial within a reasonable time after tbe commission of the crime it would greatly facilitate the administration of justice.

And if. in addition to this, we could adopt the irencn practice 01 authorizing two thirds of a jury to render a verdict the crop of hangings would soon equal the crop of murders, and assassins and desperadoes would be exterminated, and peace and law and order would reign supreme. Somebody bas been trifling with tbe Texas rrfails for New York and steal ing their contents. Detective Foster was put to work, and he finds the dep redator in the city of 1'biladelphia, the local agent there of the postorlice department. This fellow bad been carrying on his rascally peculations during tbe whole six months, and, so far as is known, had conhned bis oper ations to Texas mails, holding them back and going through the letters at his leisure.

When arrested be had numaer or tetters on his person, so that tbe evidence of his guilt is com plete. The investigation was set on foot by Postmaster Manning, of San Antonio, to whom complaint bad been made about the failure of transmission of a large amount of exchange. ine city council 01 uaiveston are discussing soinfe charter amendments. It is proposed to contract the city lim its, and, under the amendments, voters will fo Tqaimd tn have paid lnir poll or other taxes, and on all propositions requiring the expenditure of money no man will be allowed to vote who does not pay taxes on property in the city. No one will be eligible to the office of mayor who does not own property to the value of $1000.

The committee recommend that tbe section permitting the coubcil to borrow money to a sum not exceeding $30,000 for general or special purposes be allowed to remain. The committee reported adversely on propositions to attach tbe duties of tbe recorder to those of tbe mayor, and to consolidate the offices of city clerk and auditor and those of assessor and col lector. They recommend that it be made a criminal offense to attempt to yote without baviner paid tbe poll tax. Mr. N.

Dumont, of Charlotte, N. formerly of Springfield, bas proposed that a convention of North ern born residents of the South, espe cially or tbe two Carolmas and Georgia, be held in Charlotte about Janu ary 15. He says: "It is desired in tbe convention to prepare a statement for publication in Northern papers set ting forth tbe soil, climate, pncea, ease of making a liying and social treatment of tbe individual Northern men. It ia not desired to cover any question of politics or extreme views of any kind. Never was a lawver more illy requi ted for an able defense of a criminal than was ex-Secretary Robeson in tbe case of Beoi.

Hunter, who is soon to be bnng in New Jersey. On Tues day last Mr. Robeson called to bid bis client farewell, and waa rather astonished at Mr. Hunter's remark that tbei separation would be brief, as they would meet in bell. It is reassuring.

at least, to ad a murderer once in a while who realizes Che.sia of I be crime he bas committed, and tbe retribution tint must follow. SIXTEENTH I. EC I SLAT (RE. Hoaa. Hall Hoi se of Represent ath f.s, Alsti.n, January 14, 1379.

This being the day designated by the Constitution of the State of Texas for tbe convening of tbe biennial ses sion of tbe sixteenth Legislature, at 12 o'clock, high noon, the House was called to order by Hon. John E. Mc-Comb, of Montgomery. It was suggested by the Chair that the election of a temporary speaker would be in order and that nominations would be heard. Mr.

Brawn, of Gregg, nominated Mr. Coleman, of Harrison. Mr. Pickett nominated Mr. Stewart, of Houston.

The name of Mr. Stewart was with drawn, anil, upon motion of Mr. Taylor, of Fannin, Mr. Coleman was cleaned teutyorary Speaker by acclama tion. The Chair appointed Messrs.

Brown, of Gregg, and Wurzbach as a commit tee to escort the temporary Speaker to tbe chair. (Mr. Coleman in the chair.) Mr. Coleman returned his profound thanks for the honor conferred upon him, and asked the generous assistance of his fellow-memlers in the further proceedings of temporary organization He then called tbe llouee to order. Tbe Speaker announced that the election of a temporary clerk would be in order.

Mr. Brown, of Gregg, nominated L. Cunningham, of Bell county. Mr. Wuizbacu nominated Will Lam bert.

Upon motion of Mr. Taylor, of Ma rion, Messrs. Cunningham and Lambert were elected temporary clerks of the IIoiHe of Kepresentativcs. Mr. Flewellen nominated M.

Tac- kcrsley, of Harris, for temporary sei- geant-at-arm and Mr. Garrison noun natcd M. M. ggess, of McLennan. Upon motion, Messrs.

UoggeHS and Tankerslcy were elected temporary sergeants-at-arms, Mr. McComb nominated W. J. C. Antrey tot temporary doorkeeper.

Mr. Baker nominated E. R. Yick for assistant doorkeeper. Upon motion of Mr.

Henderson, of Smith, Mr. Autrey was elected tempo rary doorkeeper, and Air. Vick was elected temporary asaistaut door keeper. Without objection of the nouse, the temporary Speaker appointed Master Sidney Shepherd as page. Mr.

Venters moved that a committee of five be appointed upon credential? The motion prevailed, whereupon the Speaker announced the following com mittee: Messrs. Venters, chairman, Johnsan, of Shelby, Jone-i, of Hunt, Smith, of Travis, and Linn Mr. Taylor, of Cass, moved that the roll of representative districts be called and that as each district waa called the member holding the certifi cate of election send up the same to the Committee on Credentials Upon the completion ot the call, the Committee on Credentials retired, and upon motion of Mr. Finlay, the House took a recess for twenty minutes. (Mr.

Coleman in the chair). At 1:30 the House was called to order. '1 he sergeant-at-srms ro lem. was dispatched to ascertain whether the Committee en Credentials was ready to report. It was announced to the House that the committee was not ready to report.

Mr. Pickett moved that the rules adopted by the House of Represents Uvea of the Fifteenth Legislature be adopted as the rules for the temporary organization of this house. The mo tion prevailed. Mr. Gaither moved that the House take a recess for one hour.

The motion prevailed, and at 1 :35 tbe House took a recess. (Mr. Coleman in the chair.) At 2 o'clock and 33 minutes the House was called to order. Mr. Cochran sent up to the clerk's desk the following communication, which was read Hon.

W. S. Coleman, Speaker pro JSii You will please have the clerk to read the following, to-wit: The Stale Gazette of yesterday evening seemed to reflect upou the ability of Speakers Bonner and non. Guy M. Bryan.

I take this opportunity to state that both of these distinguished gentlemen are able and correct presid- omcers and Hi at 1 was never called either of them to the chair for the pnrposes indicated in that portion of the uazette article on tbe Speakership. They did not need any such relief as therein indicated. Respectfully, Jons H. CocnRAN. The Committee on Credentials submitted the following report: To the Hon.

W. S. Coleman, temporary Speaker ilouHo Keprceeulalivea blxioeulh Lrgidla-ture: Sir Your committee appointed to examine into and report upon the credentials of Representatives elected to the Sixteenth Legislature of the State of Texas beg leave to report tbe following persons as having properly authenticated credentials as said Representatives, to-wit: District No. 1, J. W.

Carlton No. 2, W. T. Hill; No. 3.

Thomas W. Ford No. 4 James T. Polley No. 5, W.

A. Stewart; No. W. A. Cross-land No.

7, C. J. Garrison No. 8. 8.

L. Johnston; No.9, B. M. Baker; No. 11, M.

D. K. Taylor, S. L. Proctor and W.

O. Callaway No. 12, J. W. Stiles No.

13, W. T. Smith; No. 14, W. II.

King; No. 15, J. B. Henderson; No. 1C, B.

W. Brown; No. 17, W. J. Sin-gletary; No.

18, Wm. Bell; No. 19, Robert II. Tavlor; No. 20, Seth W.

Stewart; No. 21, W. C. Jones; No. 22, T.

M. Cain and W. B. Henderson No. 23, W.

C. Larkin No. 24, R. M. Jackson; No.

23, D. McCall; No. 20. W. M.

Johnston; No. 27, Hal Gerger 1, si XT. 00 I. 1 tr No. 20, Thomas Beck No.

20, It. J. Evans; No. 31, II. W.

Fisher; No. 32, W. N. Linton; No. 33, Abbbel Smith and Robert Flewellen; No.

3-1, John E. McCoaib; No. 33, Guy M. Bryan and G. P.

Finlay: No. 30. J. T. Fry? No.

37,1. N. Dennis and B. F.Williams; No. 38, N.

Cochran; No. 39, B. G. Guv; No. 40.

A. L. Sledge; No. 41, J. C.

Gaither, W. W. Oxsheer and Moritz Maeduen; No. 42, James P. Brown; No.

43, B. A. Phillpott; No. 44, S. R.

Frost; No. 43, C. R. Gibson; No. 40, John II.

Cochran and J. W. Daniel; No. 47, W. W.

Merritt; No. 43, II. C. oster and James Leonard; No. 49, George R.

Reeves; No. 50, F. M. Daugherty; No. 51, 8.

A. Venters No. 52, O. II. Pickett No.

53, W. R. Gause; No. 54, James Hurst; No. 55, Sames N.

English No. 50, A. M. Douglass; No. 57, S.

II. Mills 53, E. D. Linn and Wood lief Thomas; No. 59, J.

W. Johnson and B. C. Sanders; No. CO, M.

W. Henry; No. 61, Wm. F. Upton; No.

62, B. F. Jones; No. C3, O. Pauli No.

64, W. 8. De-laney and S. M. Holmes No.

63. Felix E. Smith; No. CO, J. T.

W. Loe; No. 67, J. A. RumMy; No.

C3, Green II. Goodson; No. 69, John P. Estes; No. 8.

Crow; No. 71. Charles L. Wurzbacb; No. 72, Wm.

Clemens; No. 73, F. B. 8. Cocke; No.

74, J. M. Moore; No. Santos Ben avid as; No. 77, N.

G. Collins; No. 73, J. 1 i'ol- lev: No. 79.

W. S. Coleman. no. VJ, a.

iOiemau. Aod your committee would ur tber report that in the tenth repreenUtivi district tnere appear two ciaiman' W. T. Scott and John Hudson respecr ively. And your committee, upon in-pf estimation, find that the aalJ W.

T. Scott, having the certificate Of election from tbe recognized county juaee 01 Harrison county, who is ej-crfick returning officer for said tenth district- is prima facie entitled to be tea tod as representative irom said district. And vour committee woolJ url report that in tbe "8UUUi met ia tbe there appeara two me city 01 Austin, IInie aad IiiieMdliMr aiu your cuutauuee, upon tion, find that the said P. having tbe terti Scats of election from 'torn the county judge of El Paso, and m- rticio returning officer for said seventy- nun district, is entitled yrtmn jaae to be seated as representative from said district. All of which is respectfully submit ted.

S. A. Vesters, chairman. Mr. Wuribach moved that the re port of the committee be adopted.

The motion prevailed. Mr. McComb moved that Hon. J. W.

Flemming, judge of the twelfth judicial district, being In the hall, be requested to come forward and admin ister the constitutional oath to the members reported by tbe committee on credentials as entitled to take seats in the House. The motion prevailed, whereupon he Speaker tempore appointed Messrs. McComb and Brown, of Gregg, to escort Judge Flemming to the Speaker's stand. At the raps of the gavel, the mem bers arose in tbeir places and subscribed to the oath as a body. Roll called; absent Mr.

Leonard. The speaker jro temjxre announced a constitutional ouorum of the mem bers present, and that the election Speaker was in order. Mr. Callaway nominated Hon. M.

D. K. Taylor, of Marion. Mr. Gibion nominated Hon.

John II. Cochran, of Dallas. Mr. Jones, of Bastrop, nominated non Guy M. Bryan, of Galveston.

The Speaker jro temjiore appointed Messrs. Callaway, Jones, of P-s-trop, and Gibson, aa tellers. Mr. Brown, of Gregg, movedthat a majority of all the votes cast bf required to elect. The motion prevailed, Upon casting up the first balft it appeared that Mr.

Taylor receijd 41 votes; Mr. Cochran rect i ved 40 rotes, and Mr. Bryan received 9 votes; No one having received a majority all the votes, the Speaker jro temre declared there was no election JiJ ordered another ballot. Upon casting up the secondballot, it appeared that Mr. Taylor Iceived 39 votes; Mr.

Cochran rec'J-44 and Mr. Bryan received 8 votdT No one having receiyed a majority 01 an me votes, the Speaker I'm tern. declared there was no clectior and or dered the House to proceed another ballot. 1 Mr. lewellcn withdrew name of lion.

M. D. K. Tavlor. Mr.

Jonnson, ol Shelby, nminated non. ueorge it. Jtefcvcs, ol frayson. Mr. Baker moved that ie Iloufe take a recess until 7:30 p.

The mo tion was withdrawn, Mr. Johnson, of Slielbj withdrew the dame of Hon. George Reevep. air. is.iKer then renewed ns motion to take a recess until 7 :304.

m. Lost. Upon casting up the sdond ballot, it appeared that Mr. Coc(-an received 57 votes, Mr. Bryan 2(Wr.

Taylor, of Marion, 4, ana Mr. sniKot Harris, 1, Mr. Cochran haviiiJftreived a ma jority of all the votes cil the Speaker jrro tent, declared linn July and con stitutionally elected Hcker of the House of Representative of the Six- tecnth J. egislature. The Speaker vro appointed Messrs.

Taylor, of Man 11, and itryan a committee to escor the honorable Speaker elect to the r. Mr. Cochran add re d- the House mbers for the briefly, thanking the honor conferred, invoi their assist' ance and encourag nil Sfrliiinl uIpab t- nt, eschewing pledging nim- .1 1 1 lj aeii tu uiacuarc 11 it ties fairly and impartially, keeping view the best interests 01 lexas, 01 'and indivisible. He then announced the further or- ganization of the was in order. Mr.

Stewart, of ta, offered the following resolution Itemved, That th louse of Repre- sentatives now pr ed to complete their organization If electing the following officers: Cl clerk, assistant clerk, journal clci jngrossing clerk, enrolling clerk, serj Hut-at-arms, chap- lain and doorkec Mr. Johnson, of ielby, offered the following as a subtale for the above resolution: EeKolved, That fig House elect the following officeraio-wit: One chief clerk, one first aj one second assistant clerk, one entiling clerk, one engrossing clerk, Je sergeant-at-arms, one assistant sireant-it arms, one doorkeeper, onoTjsistant doorkeeper, one cnapiain Iieaohed furtll That at each ballot the candidate rfiying the least number of votes bef opped from the list 01 candidates The substitufwas lost by the fol lowing vote fas, 23 nayn, 65. Mr. Policy, -Sabine, offered the following as a to the original jismImI Til he un Repre- sentatives Vf its organization- llTf'A fol- lowing officer lerk, one hrst asaistant, 7 aasist- ClCTia one en- at-arms, an1 nna ArwJX' Upon motf Kl substitute Mr. "T.oved the to amend the rf after the word eant-ai-arma me assistant sc.

iitit-at- '-Tbe amend- mend was pted. The quei i iiivu icvuiaeti 11. I Knn 1 Jution, which, '111 Lllff original as ed, was a led. Mr. Mc ib offered the follow vAnnlitriAn Jlesolcerl lue nllc" 01 lne oue of lie pre auves 01 ine 1'iiteentn LeeisKlnf.T uol'lc 'r guid 1 a a ance of nnUI otherwise pro vided Adopt Mr.

1 porary Secretar Ias moved that the tern t-ant-at-arms lie sent to the State to request that ofli- cer to cient t) -ly the with a sufli Per of copies of the rules of the Ho Legist for each member present. The Th rn prevailed eakcr announced that the next order would be the cinrn ami mai nomi r. M'lay nominated J. W. of wifV M'-Conib.

Will Lamrwrt I'am, of JielL VUUUM f.i jle viiuwn, vauawaysnd Jones, of l1' ppomieu tellers. up me oauot it ap-hat Mr. Lambert received 4S Xth. 23. and 10 unbeit.

baviner nwiveii m. I all the votes caat, the Speaker I the vot rmt 1 1 I of uimauiy una constitutionally vici a. ext business being tbe election assistant clerk. Mr. rvlm.H ed 3.

L. Cunningham, of Bell, 'inlay nominated J. W. Booth, the catting of the ballot it an. that Mr.

Bioth received 52 Jil Mr. Cunningham received 37 TO'5ooth, haying 1 All the votes received a major- it cast, waa declared jjjaa constitutionally elected first Lambert, chief clerk elect, and wa, urst assistant clerk elect. 10 me speaker, took or oQice and at once entered the discharge of tbeir duties. 1 aianon, placed in ypiatioT. f.r the ixitioa of sec- isisUat clerk D.

O. Cauficld, of pn motion 01 Mr. Reeves tbe adjourned until to-morrow ST at 9 o'clock. 1 StuM, Sours Chamber, cmr, Texas, January 14, 187a. tor su? lkw the Senate of to by the Hob.

Well Thompson, 11 I UV UI 1 pro lem. 1" tbe Rev. John twjoy. geaot The roll being called the following Senators answered to tbeir names: District No. 1, Edwin Hobby; No.

2, P. P. Edwards; No. 3, J. W.

Mot-hyLNo- 4 wler Ripetoe; No. U. Tilson; Nx W. J. Swain; No.

7, John M. Duncan; No. 8, John loung Gooch; No. 9, C. D.

Grace; .10. John C. Buchanan; No. 11, William Blassingamc; No. 12, W.

D. Lair; No. 13 No. 14, F. M.

Martin; No. 15, T. J. McCulloch; No. 16, J.

R. Burnet; No. 17, W. M. Burton; No.

18, Charles Stewart; No. 19, A. P. McCormick Na 20, W. K.

Homan; No. 21, W. M. Brown; No. 22, J.

W. Moore; No. 23, W. It! Shannon; No. 24, J.

H. Davenport; No. 23, A. W. Terrell No.

20, W. H. Led better; No. 27. 8.

C. Patton; No. 27, Ellsbury R. Lane; No. 29, J.

S. Ford; No. 80, A. W. Houston; No.

No. 31, L. J. Storey. Senators Buchanan, Burnett, Dav enport, Duncan, Gooch, Homan, Houston, Lair.

Lane. Martin. Patton. Shannon, Stewart, Swain, Terrell and rilson being newly elected Senators approached the President's desk and took the oath of office prescribed by me ousiuuuon. The President of the Senate ad dressed the Senate as follows: Gentlemen of the Senatt bile it is not expected on an occasion like tbe present that any extended address should be made by the presiding officer 01 una ioiy, 1 snail congratulate you on the auspicious circumstances sur rounding your meeting.

Since many ui yuu isi met in this chamber the military rule set over the State of Louisiana and South Carolinia has been withdrawn, and the governments 01 uiose Mates are now in the bands of their own people. This should be a cause of rejoicing to us, because we ourselves have felt the pernicious effects of a like tyrannical rule and know its corrupting influences on our system of government. We haye also seen in the late Presidential election such a conflict Ix-tween the great polit ical panics 01 1110 country as to shake our governmental fabric to its very foundation, resulting almost in a civil war more terrible than the one from which we have so lately emerged. Happily, TrrMKerer, we are now at peace, and as lrSia.a divine provision mat irom ail civil commotions en dangcring the existence of govern ment, the statesman comes forth more wise and the patriot more devoted, so let us hope that from these se nous lessons wo may draw such wisdom that the future shall bring lorth nothing calculated to destroy this, the best hope of human liberty. Here, jn Texas, we are specially bleat with most that should make a people prosperous; we were spared during tbe past year from a scourge that Ull upon our kindred in the East as direful as any ot the plagues that afflicted the European or Asiatic countries within the period of authentic medical history; only a few years ago Texas was among the most insignificant Slates of the Union, as to wealth and population, but, having a good government and such climate and soil as is unsur passed by any other country in the world, her crops have been large and remunerative, her population hai increased so rapidly till to-lay she stands ahead of all the Southern States, and when the next census shall have been taken we shall have tbe proud satisfaction of seeing her abreast of many of the leading States of the North.

With you, however, depends much of her future greatness and prosperity, for you will in part, as one of the coordinate branches of the Legislature, be called on to inaugurate the new State government and shape its policy during its administration. You will bave to provide for the repression of lawlessness and crime and the enforcement of the laws; devise ways and means to defray the expenses of gov ernment and the establishment of com mon schools; to pass on the codifi cation of the entire statutes of the State, civil and criminal, which shall for years to come control the rights of persons and property. Yet these are only a part of the grave duties that will devolve upon you. If, then, in the discharge of these responsibilities. your deliberations are calm and dis passionate, marked with that wisdom which those who sent you have reason to expect, you will find that you have contributed no little to your country's good, but have also "erected for yourselves a monument more enduring than brass, more lasting than tbe pyramids of Ejjypt." Knowing, then, the trusts reposed in you will not be betrayed and tbe high hope cherished will not be disappointed, I declare the Senate organized.

The Senate then proceeded to orrran ize by the election of officers. Nominations being in order for sec retary of the Senate, Senator Motley nominated Leigh Chalmers, and Sena. ior awards nominated J. F. Beall.

There being no other nominations Senators Motley, Edwards and McCor micK were appointed tellers. 1 he brat ballot resulted aa follows Chalmers, 22; Beall. 7. Air. Chalmers, having received a ma jority 01 an the votes, was declared duly elected secretary of the Senate, us then took the oath of office.

being in order for first assistant secretary of the Senate, Senator Shannon nominated Wm. A. Fields, Senator Hobby nominated Nat. Henderson, and Senator Storey nominated John W. Lane.

The first ballot resulted as follows: "Mds, 13; Henderson, Lane, 8. re being no election tbe Senate 10 the eC0D1 fnie, PldJ 15 Tliir 1 "cr5 reini? no election th nai proceeded a tbir UUor fa fc Mr. fihl fece5veJ mj'- Of all the VoIim c'l filst ksaUtant secretary of uci.iicu camo forward and was qiiabied. Nuininaftiona being In order for second assistant Senator Blew-art nominated A. f.

Lin tor Lair nominated a. nd tfenator Mutely Wm. Neal JUtner. The first hallnt 1 a follows: Williams, Brigance. 7 Raimey 18.

011 Mr. Jlimey.havinff received niiir. ici casi. Was declared aulT elected second asaiat-ant vritur. VV.

1 4 the senate. lie waa then da qual- ified nenator Terrell mnvorf tn nmiMu 1, 1 election 01 me enroiime and en Krueaiag cieras until Tueulay next. Nomination thin beinir declared I tm u. in Order for -nrrnaain ol.l, I oiorey nominated A. 31.

Bi- rm. Th. a 7 urn uau.H resulted as follows: Bl- vi received 2 votes. II 1 1 XCIVIB. U1TID7 rNVIff.l a ma jority of the votea caat, 'was declared duly elected enerosaincr rh.rU- nt enaie, snu immediately came forward and received the oaih Nominations being in order for enrolling clerk, Senator Ld better nomi- naia j.

mi. Btrisher, Senator Tilaoo Dominated T. P. Martin and Senator thrown nominated II. C.

Surtchnor. The first ballot resulted as follows owianer, Martin, 17; Burgh nor, g. air. JUrun, having received a jority of all tbe votea cast, waa declared duly elected enrolling clerk of tbe senate. lie immediately came for ward aad took tbe oath cf office.

nominations be mar in order for cal endar clerk. Senator EJ wards pot ia nomination J. W. Swindells and Hcaa. Uonston nominated W.

L. Ward Upon tbe first ballot Swindell, re ceived 24 votes and Ward S. Mr. Swindells.baving received a jonty of all tbe votes declared duly elected calendar and came forward and was Qualified; ominauots being ia order for at aras, SnatorFord nominated J. M.

Barton; Senator Moore, N. R. Stcgall; Senator Stewart, Lee Hall; S-nator Davenport, C. Hardeman; Senator Led better, L. L.

Shropshire; Senator Houston, A. J. lL.mton. Oa tbe first ballot Barton received 14; Stegall, Lee Hall, Hardeman, Shropshire, Houston, 3. No one having received a majority of the votes cast, a second ballot waa had with the following result: Mr.

Barton received 11 votes, Mr. Stepall 1. Mr. nail 14. Mr.

Hardeman 1, Mr. Shropshire 1, Mr. Houston 2. No one having received a majority of the votes cast, a third ballot was cast. Senator Ledhetter withdrew the name of Mr.

Shropshire. Senator Houston withdrew the name of Mr. Houston. On the third ballot Mr. Barton received 14 votes, Mr.

Stegall 1, Mr. Uall 14 and Mr. Hardeman 1. No one having received a majority of the rotes cast, another ballot was had. Senator Davenport withdrew the name of Mr.

Hardeman. The fourth ballot resulted as follows: Mr. Barton 10 votes, Mr. Stegall 1 and Mr. Hall 13.

Mr. Barton, having received a major! ity of ail the votes cast, was declared duly elected sergeant-M-arms of the Senate and immediately qualified as such. Nominations being in order for assist, ant sergeantMt-armft, Senator Swain nominated Walter P. Fuher, Senator Storey nominated R. W.

Winchell, and Senator Ford nominated Isaac C. Mr-Call. The first ballot resulted aa follows: Fisher, 10; Winchell, McCall, Mr. Fiaber, having received a majority of all the votes cast, was declared duly elected assistant scrgoant-it-arrtaS of the Senate, and came forward and received the oath of cilice. Nomination lciug in order for doorkeeper.

Senator Brown nominated John P. Per rell, Senator Houston nominated Cooley Mann, Senator Lair nominated William Fitahugh, Senator Swain nominated Henry Stout, Senator Gooch nominated M. B. Irwin, and Senator Storey nominated Lon Wells. Tbe first ballot resulted aa follows: Ferrell, Mann.

Fitzhugh. 12; Wells, Irwin, Stout, Phil- lina 1. No one having received a majority hid Tuvrn cam, ine aeconil ballot was had with the following result: Ferrell, Mann, Fitxhugh, 12; Wells, Irwin, Stout, 2. No one having received a majority of the votes cast, a third ballot was had, with the following result: Mr. Ferrell received 0 votes, Mr.

Fitzhugh 15, Mr. Wells 4, Mr. Irwin 2, and Mr. Stout 2. No one having received a majority of all 1 the votes cast, another ballot was had.

Senator Gooch withdrew the name of Mr. Irwin; Senator Houston withdrew the name of Mr. Mann: Senator Swain withdrew the name of Mr. Stout; Senator Storey withdrew tho. name of Mr.

Wells. The fourth ballot resulted as Inf lows: Mr. Ferrell received 8 votes and Mr. Fitzhugh 21. Mr.

Fitzhugh, having received a majority of the votes cast, was duly elected doorkeeper ot the Senate and was qualified aa such. Senator Brown offered the following resolution Jlemlved, That the election of chaplain of the Senate be- indefinitely post poned. Senator Swain m.ved to lav the resolution on the table. Carried. Nominations now being declared in order for chaplain.

Senator Terrell nominated Rev. O. Fisher; Senator Motley, Rev. O. C.

Chaplin; Seuator Lair, IUv. John Lnvciov: Senator Ford, Rev. W. J. Jones, and Senator Shannon, Rev.

II. D. Bantan. The first ballot resulted as follows: Mr. Fisher received 8 votes; Mr.

Chaplin, 12; Mr. Lov joy, fi; Mr. Jones, 2 Mr. Bantan, Mr. "No one," 1.

No one having received a majority of the votes cast a second ballot was had with the following result: Mr. Fisher, Mr. Chaplin, 13; Mr. Lov-joy, Mr; Jones, Mr. Bantan, 2.

No one baviner received a timlnriiv of tbe votes cast another ballot ar. a bad. 1 Senator Shannon withdrew the name of Mr. Bantan and Senator Ford withdrew tbe name of Mr. Jones.

The third ballot resulted as follow Mr. Fisher, Mr. Chaplin, 17; Mr. Lovejoy, 4 and Mr. one," 1.

ltev. Mr. Chaplin, having received a majority of all the votes east, was declared duly elected chaplain of the Senate and was qualified. (senator Motley moved to ad jour uuiu r. m.

l-rfwu. On motion of Senator Storey, the Senate adjourned until to-morrow at. 9 o'clock a. m. NEW ADVEIITISK TI KNT.

OTICE. Application will be made to ta preamC- L-ginlaiure for tbe of ait bet auuruvmir JI10 claim ot Oo. W. lluurr for aarv aa Mule Trmurer fjrnm May 17, IH7. OBIU lfll.

lull im tbrM tbuUMJ dollar pr aa-ML D. MILLER, 15dllw4w Attorney lor Oco. W. Uou-y. JOTICE.

Notice I herch lh "'lful will, aiur thirty d-L TT application to the ia- ...1 I tne comic luf of tbe etrt-H MWte. caiiee. Laaiej ftlreet. the eoatb and OnthZ. mm aiailel SO WM I IIV to the odKiaal plat of toe cltjr of Au.tln.

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hfc.f.h. laory boon SeeerUi. Teat fy VllTy. A-iXr- wecauwly LU.DimlrL-t Court tlu Vuitrd Vitrit of for the Wetter Tan; Je the matter of H1LZ3, I la Jtobkrapu. I Beakraptcy.

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