Daily Ranchero. (Brownsville, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 44, Ed. 1 Wednesday, October 17, 1866 Page: 1 of 4
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Daily
Ranchero.
OLUMK II.!
BROWNSVILLE. TEXAS. WEDNESDAY MOIlMNtJ. OCTOBER 17. 1800.
NUMBER 44.
kiVU'*-
H. |l. H INIOiA(B
flTON & wingrave,
WHOLESALE GROCERS,
I^IOK DKALKHN
AM*
♦ imnssmx meiu ha s rs,
i mjwnraviiiUi
* xiJ for mIp a larjc a-aertuu-ut ol
Liquors and Groceries
FALL (aOOI)S !
I Ionic
WA.
I'nliin M«
<tf Alt %MiMliia mill
Idfiil,
l In l*i t>-
erup up tliu Arkansas gi*>d. Plan- the Synicuiic ( <invention, imt-ts
tun niv not talking politic*. I»nt ) w itli sti'iuuou* opposition from tin
alioiil t*iit11iii. A great t(t itI of rot-1 members ol tin ulil committee.
JUST RECEIVED
A Large Assortment
< > i
ton has I ecu picked, but it require*
\V\*i<ixutok, ()rt. I. This after- ginning ami pressing, and ninny
i neon u delegation from Alexandria, i planters have not vet erected theii
\ ii., waited upon tin* lVcsidnit of machinery. The law requiring ti• • *
the* United States, and presented to * tw(> per cent, to l>< paid in tin* di*
him the address of tin original tint where tin cotton lm* Iss n
l iiimi men of the adjoining countie*, ruined stops for tin piesi nt tli new
who indorse and approve the ar- i Arkansan crop. In miiiic cum a
tion of the Johnson omiscrv utivo planter’* have no money to pin tin*
Flannel. DeLaine
l*o i
I .NS
|<& STORE....WJZABETH ST., BOOTS AND SHOES,
NM » < III I) I
■ hllully announce Hint lhe> Iwo* in J J ^ ( f C )C ) I
asHoriation in support of tin' ]*Ji-
cy of the President.
The Npokosimui said in tin* con-
clusion of 11iis remarks that tin* re-
solutions submitted wevi adopted
by a large moeting of those w ho
were loval to the Government of
their fathers, and true, to Union,
w hen a man hn/.urdrd his life by tie- I
(*laring he was a Union man in
Virginia. They would say to the
Freni dent that they arc ready and
willing to stand by him and defend
the constitution of the country from
any attack that muy come against
it or him. from Hast, West, North or
South.
The President said in reply, that
the cordial • \ press ion of confidence
in him, which was presented in the
.address, w a* at this tune iseuliarh , , *. .• ... ,
, , , , , , . i1. . • gresHional delegations will I*«
acceptable and calculated to inspire y*. , . , ,
i ’ ii. . 1 . tirely changed. I Ins hu ts an
him with renewed determination to1 , . .. ,, • , . ,
diet*rug to the l rcHidciit; for as
goes
OF ALL DESCRIPTIONS,
tax. Sti ps have heeii taken to re-
medy tin evil.
IKikimrmn P.o»|nrli.
\\ o*lilNni'>\, Sept. db. W ashing-
ton has entirely recovered from the
*
dullness that prevailed during tin*'
President's ubsi nee. A great mam
Htrangers are lu re, and among them
are prominent politicians from all
the Northern States. The lath r
are well posted about the elections
prospects ia their respective States,
and I am glad to sav, after hearing
a number of them, that the pros-
pect is bright every where. In Penn-1
sylvaniu and New York, particular -
ly, the Democratic gums will l»c
very henvi Democratic (Governors
will he elected in both those States
and the complexion of their Con-
en-
tirely changed. This facts are very
liramJ*. Us iuitin ^
)UB. ruPPKft.
f K A, SITU Alt. BAl’ON,
Mill KOI! SAI.B
AT C IIKAP PHIUKH.
r^ES::' Hi1
*
! refer to Ins past course in the fu-
ture, and hoped that nothing he
might do would ever lead any to
think that their oofldauci in him ..i on u.
i had been misplaced It was his All statements to the effect that
design to effect as speedily as pos-! the President has announced his
sible, a restoration of peace and ' determination to recommend the
everything in his power for
friends now, and they must do
sana* everywhere for him.
which is antiltudicul, maintain their
nrgnnicntio. and the result of the
wrangle will Is- two sets of tickets
in all the districts (in Saturday
evening the old committee look
possion of tin* headquarter* and
prevented tin* new committee from
entering Cheers wen* given for
Fenton on the one side mid Hoff
uiuii on t In other.
(■mil; i* IImh.i
Yict -iv. Du. Oct. 1. lii'ii. Till-
soii, at Griffin. is inquiring into
the alleged mismanagement of nf
fairs of tin Freed men’s Ihireau by
tin* agent at that point.
A fellow repn sen ting himself as
u son of Arthur Haring, of Liver-
pool: purchasing cotton from the
planters of Burke and adjoining
counties, was arrested at Waynesbo-
ro, w here he w as detected passing
fraudulent checks.
In consequence of the failure of
the corn crop, tin* planters are
going West to procure.
uf mi Imlitni Wirt-liNut.
New Yonx. Oct. 1. Advices from
Bombay announce the failure of
%
Bnnichund Vovclmnd, a Parsec
merchant. whose engagements arc
'.inderstood to be of enormous
so magnitude. He had been a large
is doing operator in cotton, and a leader in
the various great joint stock specu-
lations in Bombay. The estimate
of his liabilities were us high us
three millions sterling.
44 »#4 » «
Thk WtvTHi.u. Ac., Ac. Although
to-dav is onlv the first of September,
and the rsinv season (hs** not usual*
constitution proposed by ('ongress.
are utterly unfounded. Helms not
hanuimv
*
: eouutry.
CauoiiItvlourr« uf < mu priiMlIoii,
Friends and the public »n general Th<! President is about to appoint | to any one that he was in
eouiissioners for Maryland, Ken- those amendments. I. is
are resjM*ctfully invited to mail tuckv, Deluwarc and Missouri, un-
tbemselve* of the opportunity now *h*r the recent net ok ( ongress, to
! make awards in sinus of not
throughout the whole adoption of the amendments to the ly terminate uutil October, it is now
offered.
( A NOLLS CIIEKHK,
DRIKO APPLE*. SO A I*
TUtitlA* O A <’!<} \RS
H.M. EPHRAIM dt CO.,
fomer 12fh nur! /.« »•»•*• .VrvW*.
h'isjni
IIKOW \s\ 11.1.1.. TKV \s.
EL DORADO
SALOON!
awards m sinus oi not umri
1 than >J(Ml each to loyal owner* of
slaves where tin* latter enlisted in
the United States armv. When an
award is made it is to be made out
of tin- draft commutation fund spe-
cially set apart for that purpose by
('ongress.
I«i Iti-r fiititi *inf(i.ry Mi I uIIimIi.
Ini'Ianoisu.is, I ml., Oct. 1 - Se-
cretary McCulloch has written a
letter diM'liiiing to speak in Indiana
on account of a pressure of ofUcial
engagements, in w hich hetuiys: “ In
the iinfortiiLate controversy that
favor
true,
nevertheless, that the Pri*sident has
had under consideration some of
the political points to be embraced
in his next annual message to ('ou-
tlie twelfth dav since vve have had
even a shower worthy of the name.
We have to dav a few light fleecy
clouds floating in an almost pellucid
sky. Tin* air is mild and balmy,
mercury standing at 71 degrees,
Fahrenheit, in the shade, at J !\ v.
Me Imd some signs of rain last
Ithi.mior* Tim-*, in ID It 14
announced in a letter from St. Pe-
tersburg that uu imjM’i ml ukase U.m
just Lss’ii issued, abolishing all pun-
islinietits heretofore iuHictisl
jiersons for renouncing tin (ireok
church, tin* Stati religion of Itussii.
This reform is n gui ded .is ulmos*
* s great a step in advanced riiiluj-
tion us the recent abolition of serf
(loin, and it speaks well for tin •
lightened jm»1 lev of the F.iuperot
Alexander.
H >»» » %
1 Importer* and poverty are get
rally considered s\itoiiviuous terms,
but there an occasional exeeptioi .
as is evident from the following
1 lie local editor of the Hannibal
Daily Courier is thi* wealthiest
newspaper limn in the West. He
sums up his wordly possession it.
tliis wise: Mrs. l.omil, (pur value)
$IJMH),00b; oik* five years old Local
$2r»K,IKR), cash on hand, 4.'t cents,
due on account, *1; sundries. 12
cents. Total. "M,".‘>0,001 5.».
\ young r.ouisvill* clerk iuduc-
ed a respectable Htsisiergirl to rut
away from her home and go over
to Louisville, where he promised to
marry her. He kept her at u board
ing-hoiiso two or three days, um!
made dishonorable proposals to
her. She got him into the parlor,
locked the door, and cow-hided him
within an inch of his life, whereat
the people said good for the H<>< *
ier girl.
A rich city is Chihuahua, 11. e
city of joy A in Mexico. Most of
the houses therein are built of ore,
from which the silver has Iwen
only partially extracted. The nuiu
her of inhabitants has been reduc-
ed from SO,IHK» to 12,000. An Am
erican proposed lately to buv .
the buildings, gradually, uiid to ex
[ tract the silver from them. (mkhI
I Sjwe!
gress. and sonic of these points have night, heavy clouds, vivid lightning,
been submitted to his Cabinet M e rattling thunder, but no rain the
have good reason for saving Mr. storm took to the mountains, and
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in*
Johnson will adhere strictly to the
policy that Ims characterized his
administration.
Among other things, In- will urge
that while the constitution leaves it
an open question for the courts,
whether ordinary legislation is or
is not binding while States are re-
fused representation, that instru-
ment is distinct and emphatic in its
BCTTKR, I.ARI),
hams, hai.t,
< ORN \ CORNUKAL*
POTATORH. RICK,
MARIMXm, SOI*A,
coripiRH. oii>
has urisen Is-twcen the President j requirement* that, in the juepara-
aiid Congress, I stand with the Hon of nil amendment to tile con-
IIKOWNSVIU.E. 7/.'A. IN.
Nnit l x op|x»il« Rani tiero Ituililinx,
did not reach the city. Never has
a building been known to be struck
with lightning 111 this citv. Me s<
that while the papers of your city
report tin mercury up to {Mi degrees
on the ltd ult., and the New York
papers n port 11M eases com/* */e «*/♦•»/
in a single day. many of which prov-
ed fatal, with tin niurcury ranging
from !>4 to 102j|. fora fortnight at
a time, vve, ultlioiigh way down be-
tween the tropics, have kept us cool
os a ciieuinber in an April moiiiiiig.
On th< :iiuli and Hlth ult u<■
placed tin* thermometer in the suu
from one o’clock to two »*. m., run-
in Belgium and Holland linen
prepared IxMiiltiftllb Is-eause 1
washerwomen use retiued borax,
stead of villa, as a washing powder
Due large hand lull oi b u u\ is us. ?
t<> every ten gallons of boiling watei
and tie* saving of soap is said to h«
one-half. For laces and eambries
an extra quantity is used Borax
does not injure the linen, and if
softens the hardest water. \ tm-
spoon full of borax added to an or-
dinary sized kettle of hard water
in which it is allowed to boil
effectually soften the water.
w
Choice
f-'ntr It mlhnnt 7aMrs,
Ami open nt nil lawful boor*.
DR.
former.” In regard to tin* prewi- stitution, all the States thot claim
dent's plan of restoration, which hud and arc willing to exercise the rights
been approved by his lamented pre* shall be represented. T he Presi-
deeessor, Ik* remarks: "To that dent will insist on the immediate
y • plan I regarded the party, of which admission of loyal and legnllv quid- ning the mercury up to 1J1 degrees
1 ^ ® 1 am a member, as virtualy commit-! iHisl representatives from all the on the first day, and 12b degrees
non-represented States, in order
that Congress may be enabled to
prepare such amendments us the
condition of the country demands.
e
Tlir Arllnalnn l'i<i|ii il) . ..... ....
M vsHiMi roN, Oct 2. The Intelli-1 range* nearly the whole year round,
gciieer says: It appears that every- seldom show ing a range of over ten
represents will be vindicated at the thiug of any value had been stolen, degrees, and generally from five to
Approaching elections, I hope and Many valuable heirlooms, including seven. Ctfy nf'Mrririt (for. .V. O.
believe. Of tlieir ultini ite vindicii- a lot of familv portraits, were taken ,v‘
tion I am as fully ]H>nmaded us 1 from the frames, packed in I nixes
am of the perpetuity of our repub- and stored in the upper loft of the
1....... ...^(.4..mansion since lNUl. These Imi.xcn
b2(>
I*. S. KELLY offers his
iwrrlcru to ihe cltiwio of M*tB(m>n>*
Bnd Rrownnvillr.
Oltre at tin* corner of IMa** Ue Armas.
klAIAMOROH.
Octotwx 7, IMS. UW-2C.
ted by the action of its conventions
1 and the resolutions of Congress,
! lx'fore Mr. Johnson attempted to
carry it into effect: to that plan I
am still committed by the dictates
of my best judgement. That the
principles which hi* advocates and
on tin* second, the second day being
a little hazy. Thus it will lx* seen
that it is not hot enough here to soil
a paper collar or white kid with
perspiration : and so tin* mercury
7 Vines
^:pppj* ROPE,
bra PEACH KM
V M 1, KKRM R VISIN'*- A.-
MAXIUKh, WHIfcKY AM INK*.
• •'.•urni'iil* lavlt(*d and liUnil Bdvsnis-
-barpua. I'run>|it wcmiuI mIn and rr
,, J,' I>alrr A 00.. andH|M*n-
„ ' N-;rh»‘* K M,h ii< ♦ 1 A Ci... VV
... • *n,l Hi bnrliliT A /.uU rl ier,
HW*r. HI. I^n. || K W.mnIIio,,*.
"n .l,me Han Jfrr> Hal
^•toroa; H. I* CeUlon A Co. Bmm
k« t>2&.
JUAN PECINA,
Carpenter, Builder
AND
MONEY-BOX MAKER,
U |trr|>uri*il to do all kind* of work in hla line
with (lin|uitrtl.
181101* ON LEVEE,
CLOSE TO THE KERRY.
Hmwnnvlllp. Ort. 4. !***. Iil'l
BUSOH HANTIHOO llo'IT I
KEPT RY
M II N. It O V E II.
|« alwavn up with th^ lirat US’ markrt aflOrla,
No paiim will Is* spared to naUmy *ui'«U.
bM-M4wly
riRAZOH HANTIAOO HOTBL
J# SAUNi.N MOTKJ. ATTAllfUKNT.
f
MY
W. F. MAHON.
Nuthlna l>ut Clink* Wine* and Uqimra will
be kepi. bM-'Jtdwly
liean institutions.
Set r*-i ConrreeiM-e.
N i w v (k f ! 1 New York
Timch s M oshington special savs:
“Santa Anna, Ocn. Craw ford, and
other* of that ilk, arrived here to
day, and are in seeret session to
night.
A ( iilnrnl l.ns > ri',
M'bsHisoToN, 0(*t. 1. A motion
was made in the Criminal Court of
this District, to day, to admit to
practice Jonathan J. M right, a col-
ons 1 man of Pennsylvania, who
bus been engaged in his profession
at the bar of the Freedman's Court*
in South Carolina. The Court ap-
pointed three lawyers to examine
into his qualification*. This is the
first application of a colored man
to Is*admitted to the lmr of our
District ('onrts.
Cotton < of Tmui »%*«• an,I Arkonao,.
Ml: M I'M IN, Ton 11., Oct. 1. A cut-
have beep broken open and every-
thing of value taken away, and the
letters and private papers of (b n.
Lee scattered over the loft.
limtliillno, »f |)r) lluoila.
Nf.vv Yokk,Oct. I.- Brown Sheet-
ing* Amoskeag A. 22ft*, Augusta
20c, Bedford 10c. Bleached Shirt-
ings WamHuttu 40, Anthony Mun-
ufaetiiring Company 20c. M heatoii
Company 2He. Print*. C<K*heco2le
lMAe, Lowell
Jiradloy’s Kui-
Americiui lNfe, Allen
l(k*. Hoop Skirts
press Trail, prices niuTiunged,
Myers I XL in iair than olid. Hlurts,
J. M. L., standard dress, No. 2-i l(>
do No. 210, $27. Paper Collars
Mi tro|H)litaii Collar Company, By-
ron and (i.uudo. No. I. >20, euiini-
eled French enameled and silver
corrugated. $l‘>od.*>. (loldsmith pa-
tent Byron, fUlb Shakespeare, >10,
(Tiffs $r»0, less JO ja*r cent Cam-
Sin Hkmiv Hollaxp INI* thk Fk-
sian’s. Sir Henry Holland, the emi-
nent F.nglisli physician, Inis been
for a few days on a visit to the Brit-
tisli Minister. Your readcix w ill re-
mends r him as a tall, slim, elderly
gentleman, who accompanied the
Prince of M ales toCliieago in 1SIJ0.
It is understood that his visits
has some reference to the situation
in Ireland and Canada, in connec-
tion with some anticipated distur-
bances by the Fenians. It is said
that, so lar as Canada i* concerned.
Sir Frederick Brins* bits not the least.
iim asim hi, There is guite ii large
military force near the Canadian
border. In regard to Ireland, it is
>aid tlmt tin English (Government
really fears an outbreak there. The
impression preivails in England that
the iViamn* in this country an* act-
ing in concert with tin* Irish Feni-
nus in this matter, and that the
letter have been mipplied with arms
and ammunition bv the former,
sSe&stis S5E5
of Milan a total failun*. Planters 1 ' “ M' Mievc. further, that a considerable
who anticipated half a hale to tin
acre will realize about one bale to
fifteen acres
Hcliuble authority report* the
Vrw lurk e.illlli ml Ti'ontil.',
N’r.w Yokk, Oct. 1. The now Hc-
ptibliean General Committee of this
city, organized under the order of
number of American Fenian* will
conn* over to Ireland at the time
the blow is to Ite struck, under the
guidance of Stephens.—A'. 0. I'ic.
Sin ,i i m ('iioi.KKA I’m v»v> non
Sunn* plivsii .ns in Nashville,
Tenn., affirm that during the height
of the cholera ravages in that citv,
a minty blue vapor, Imrdlv visible,
without any jterccptahlf smell,
hung over the town, being densest
in the filthy places. This phenom-
enon was not generally observed,
except by scientific gentlemen
This statement agrees with that of
other cities, including Memphis,
and is believed to he present in all
places scourged bv this malady.
Home time ago, at .Memphis. ,*i
steamer's crew, being in perfect
health, stopped eight hours near
the lower part of tin* city, lying in
n thin and almost invisible vapor
That same day three deck hands on
board sickened and died with chol
era, and four others were prostrat-
ed, but recovered.
♦ 4 4#* 44
JrniKsoN I>wi*i From a pri-
vate letter which vve have received
from the estimable wife of tin* dis-
tinguished prisoner at Fortress
Monroe, we learn with inexpress-
ible regret that his health contin-
ues t<> decline, and that the pecutii
ary circumstances of his family an*
Incoming '• r\ cm burnishing. No-
thing is known to Mrs. Davis o'
the probable future of her husband,
and wi i*nnf«*sH to see little eneoiir-
agetiiclit to biqx* for his eailv re-
le.ua*. It is now remWisl (piit-
probalile that liis trial for trea*or.
will never take place, and then* is
but little danger to tear from tin
“assassination' charges after th*
Conover cxi*>sur<‘M w hicli have Is-ei;
mode. Meanwhile the prisoner is
dying from coufineiueiit, and Ins
family are brought to the verge of
starvation, whilst the Government
declines to restore him to lils*rt>
and n fuses to try him. — C'Aar/eVon
( Via« Js - nlf.
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