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CENSUS OP 1870 (Continued). 



Included in the census are 25 Chinese and 

 379 Indians. The tribal Indians are officially 

 estimated at 320. The true value of property 

 was $159,052,542. The public debt, county, 

 city, town, etc., amounted to $1,105,266. 

 The aggregate value of farm-products, includ- 

 ing betterments and additions to stock, was 

 $49,187,170 ; 1,251,328 pounds of wool were 

 raised; 70,895 whites, and 150,617 colored 

 persons, ten years old and over, cannot write, 

 of whom 110,448 are males, and 111,064 are 

 females. Of those twenty-one years old and 

 over, who cannot write, 17,505 are white 

 males. 



A Democratic State Convention was held at 

 Austin in January, to arrange for the thorough 



reorganization of the party. It was in session 

 four days. The following was adopted as the 

 platform : 



Whereas, It becomes necessary from time to time 

 for the friends of constitutional government to reassert 

 their devotion to it, and to proclaim their principles 

 upon which it should be administered, and, when its 

 enemies obtain power, to expose their usurpation, to 

 the end that the whole people may be aroused to 

 action, to protect their rights at the ballot-box : there- 

 fore, be it 



fiesolved, That the Democracy of Texas have nn 

 abiding confidence in the devotion of the national 

 Democratic party to the correct principles of govern- 

 ment, and we pledge ourselves to cooperate with it, 

 as an integral part thereof, in its future^ efforts to 

 restore the Government in its administration to the 

 principles on which it was founded. 



