| GALVESTON | GALWAY | 603 |
of duties collected, for each year ending July 31, is shown in the following table:
| YEARS. | Imports. | Exports. | Duties. |
| 1870 | $515,234 | $15,474,629 | $277,750 |
| 1871 | 1,358,203 | 14,275,621 | 633,218 |
| 1872 | 1,936,522 | 11,065,631 | 671,582 |
| 1873 | 2,460,610 | 17,820,208 | 492,429 |
Of the exports in 1873, $17,549,096 were the value of cotton. The entrances and clearances for the year ending June 30, 1873, were as follows:
| FOREIGN COMMERCE. | COASTWISE TRADE. | ||||||||||
| Vessels. | Tons. | Vessels. | Tons. | ||||||||
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16,421 | 446 steamers | 511,511 | ||||||||
| 57,594 | 187 sailing | 55,431 | |||||||||
| 31,349 | 253 steamers | 279,994 | |||||||||
| 58,409 | 169 sailing | 44,624 | |||||||||
The number of vessels belonging to the port was 257, with an aggregate tonnage of 23,462, including 198 sailing vessels of 13,813 tons, 35 steamers of 6,709 tons, and 24 barges of 2,940 tons; built during the year, 10 sailing vessels of 165 tons, and 1 barge of 57 tons. There is a daily line of steamers to New Orleans and another to Indianola and Corpus Christi; a weekly line to Havana, and another to New York; and a semi-monthly line to Liverpool. The Galveston, Houston, and Henderson railroad connects the city with Houston and the diverging railroads, crossing West bay on a bridge nearly 2 m. long. The depot and warehouses cover 20 acres. The Galveston Wharf railroad enables the company to load its cars directly from the vessels. A canal, 10 m. long, opens an avenue for commerce to the Brazos river. The chief manufactories are two iron founderies, six machine shops, and the gas works. The New York and Texas beef-preserving company kill and can 48 cattle per day. There are two national banks, with an aggregate capital of $800,000; a savings bank, with $175,000 capital; two banking and insurance companies, and four insurance companies, including a life insurance company. The whole number of joint-stock companies is 23, having an aggregate capital of $12,211,000. The city is divided into four wards, and is governed by a mayor and a board of 12 aldermen. Water works are in process of construction, and there is an efficient health department. Of streets 17 m. have been shelled, and 26 m. filled and graded. The assessed value of property for the year ending Feb. 28, 1873, was $16,500,000; bonded debt, $380,700; estimated receipts for the year ending Feb. 28, 1874, $282,986; estimated expenditures, $273,763. The principal charitable institutions are the house of refuge, having grounds 33 acres in extent, an orphan asylum, and three hospitals, one of which is supported by the city. The Roman Catholic university of St. Mary was founded in 1854, and in 1872 had 8 professors and 35 collegiate and 115 preparatory students. The Galveston medical college, founded in 1864, has six professors. The Ursuline convent, containing 25 nuns, has a female academy connected with it, and 120 pupils. There are two other female seminaries, with about 350 pupils. The six public schools in 1872 had 16 teachers and 700 pupils. The whole number of pupils in public and private schools, &c., is about 3,500. The mercantile library contains about 9,000 volumes, and has a reading room. There are 15 churches, and 5 daily (1 German), 2 triweekly, 1 semi-weekly, and 6 weekly (1 German) newspapers.—The island of Galveston was occupied by the pirate Lafitte in 1817, and continued to be his headquarters until his settlement was broken up in 1821. The growth of the city dates from 1837. During the civil war it was occupied by the federal forces, Oct. 8, 1862, but was retaken by the confederates, Jan. 1, 1863.
GALVEZ, Bernardo, count de, a Spanish soldier and statesman, born in Malaga in 1756, died in Mexico, Nov. 30, 1786. He was the son of Don Matias de Galvez, his predecessor as viceroy, and nephew of José de Galvez, marquis of Sonora, visitor of Mexico from 1761 to 1769, and subsequently minister general of the Indies. He served in France and in the Algerine expedition, rose to the rank of colonel, and was made governor of Louisiana July 10, 1776. During the American revolution he gave the Americans aid for operations at a distance from Louisiana, on the frontiers of Virginia and Pennsylvania and on the northwest, but did not permit them to operate against any English posts near him. When Spain joined in the war, Galvez in 1779 raised an army and took from the English Fort Manchac, Baton Rouge, and Fort Panmure at Natchez. In March, 1780, he took Mobile, and on March 9, 1781, he appeared before Pensacola with Solano's fleet, bearing an army of 5,000 men, and on May 10 compelled Gen. Campbell to surrender. He was created a count, and in 1784 appointed captain general of Cuba, Louisiana, and the two Floridas; but as his father's death in 1784 left his post vacant, he was made viceroy of Mexico, retaining the captain-generalcy of Louisiana and Florida. He was so regardless of stiff official Spanish dignity that he gave offence in Spain, and his erection of the palace of Chapultepec excited suspicion, and led to such vexations and annoyances that he fell sick and died of chagrin after a brief administration.
GALWAY. I. A maritime county of Connaught, Ireland, bordering on the Atlantic and Galway bay, and on the counties of Mayo, Roscommon, Kings, Tipperary, and Clare; area, 2,342 sq. m.; pop. in 1871, 248,257. It is separated by Lough Corrib into two divisions, differing in geological formation and physical appearance. The eastern division rests on a limestone basis, and is in general level and fertile, except the central parts, which contain large quantities of wet bog, nearly unproductive.
