Weekly State Gazette. (Austin, Tex.), Vol. 29, No. 33, Ed. 1 Saturday, May 11, 1878 Page: 3 of 4
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! is evidently a con-
to disrupt the
t tbroogh this Trojan
ita leadership to
It says:
of February last Mr.
wrote to a gentleman la
romiuent green backer,; in
s expressed the strongest graefe-
* * ofthtótofc-
• great quan-
* was washed
followed
(fish were
waa cat
into the
opening
it seems there wm a post-
script, in which Mr. Throckmorton d«~
' to know the address of the p«si-
oí all the greenback clubs in the
aa be wished to consult with them
rntng the strength of their respec-
clubs and the prospects of the
of the movement. We did not
the letter, but we are told this post-
was attached to it.
r death In corroboration of this it may be
ture stated that a prominent greenbacker of
reported
indemnify
persons and
to aboliafe
of
i Cincin-
i are du-
ll. high life,
of Oregon, has
" «ge, bat, for
development of bust
s years. For
~ youth named
treasury depart-
to her,
went with
and
Austin is corresponding with Tbbocx-
mobtox, and some time since informed as
that he had kept him advised of the ma-
terial composing the greenback dabs,
and in doing so had stated that ths
greenbackers were mainly recruited from
the Democratic party. It is manifest
that one claiming to be a Democrat and
seeking to control this element would be
interested in knowing a fact of such
magnitude. Bat in the face of all this
we cannot see how the greenbacks
themselves, to be consistent, could sanc-
tion his candidacy. In their communis-
tic dogmas they profess to abhor the
bloated bondholders, for whose benefit a
corrupt Republican party and Congress
has been legislating for the last sixteen
years. The most stupendous bond
swindle of the century have been perpe-
trated by railroad nogs, and there is no
one more pruminentin giving direction
to legislation, both State and national,
so justly complained of by the green •
backers, as Col. Tom Scott, President
of the Texas and Pacific Railroad .Com-
pany. His influence is said to have been
of such a potential character a* to in-
duce a change of opinion in Judge
Bbadley by which Tildkk was robbed
of the Presidency. We have never heard
it denied that aliunde Jo obtained his
distinction from that quarter. It is no-
toriously trae that Hayes was known to
be working in tjhe interest ofthe cor-
riags including thai headed
by Tom Scott. It certainly will not be
denied that Throckmorton acquires his
chief prominence from the leadership of
the Tom Scott rai¡road interest, ánd i
at this time at the head of a committee
:
m i
policy's sake, bat J
shield
ww.
ay the
the young
the sena-
acquainted
with
to either give
her husband.
and let her young Handy
concli
and ma,
- go- Sen-
is exceedingly enraged over
indiscretion, End tbreat-
agalcst the priest who
make use
of in-
readersasmay desire
immi-
uader
to inis««
Our en-
attractive
(be material
With
of the
ait culture,
beau-
2
tate the
heat < r
HI
seeking a bonded support from Congress
of thirty or forty millions of dollar .
How, then, we ask, cán the greenback-
en gire their support to one prominently
identified witn the bonded rings! No
man in bis senses, we apprehend, would
Jay Gould or Tom Soott of
being greenbackers, and this might as
well be done as to suppose those identi-
fied with them iu interest could honestly
claim support from the greenback fac-
tion. The country will look at the acts
rather than protestations of men. How
could Tom Scott favor the payment of
the C. 8. bonds in currency and aa in-
flation of sixty dollars per capita, or near
three thoasand.inillioas of currency, asked
by Throckmorton's former lieutenant
Governor? Scott wants to build his
railroad at the lowest possible cost in
estate in labor and material. Such inflation would
ami to appreciate both fully two hundred per
40 en" * 0ent, and bankrupt his company la ita
first eftorts at extension. It. is only on
the theory that the greenbackers are u
destitute of all moral honesty as regard-
of principle, that such a candidacy
offiar °°B'd receive their support. They pro
feas abhorrence at farther donations of
land and money to private corporations,
and ask for homesteads for the poor. Is
the face of this, how con Id they sanc-
tion the continuous reservation of seven-
teen millions of acres of the public do-
main for the Texas and Pacific road,
after the right to the reservation has
en legally- forfeited.
We conclude that while ourcoatem-
porary may be righ^ in his conjecture of
parpóse in Throckmorton* "to secare
the greenback support, we cannot see
that there is any danger of his ability to
succeed, certainly not of its honest ma-
terial. ¡ÍBÉ|j
Solicitor,
Manchester, Ecg-
sm
As wilt
of lands
; of the Brazos.
The Dallas Call and
1 ara bote
aa Antonio
the de-
that the
FROM BLANCO.
Banco, Texas, May 6,
Editor Gazette: *
In your issue of the 9th instant I no-
tice a communication signed "Blanco,"
la which the writer urges the claims of
Colonel Felix Smith, of Travis county,
to a seat in the next Legislature toipp-
resent Travis and Blanco counties. I
in this county ever since ©r-
I know all the people; have
talked with them freely upon this subject
aad do know that it is their desire to
ve one of their own citizens to repre-
sent them in the next Legislature. Our
county has been organized , twenty years;
ha< always been Democratic; has
the honor of háviog one of her own
ens to represent her in the Legisla-
ture. did hope at the last election
to have the representative from Blanco,
bnt was defeated in the convention.
Notwithstanding we felt somewhat ag-
grieved at the disappointment, we seal
up a large majority for the nominee (Mr.
Sated). We know that Travis
can oat vote us in the conventi
have matters all their own way, but we
believe that the democracy of Travis will
be generous enough to give us the nomi-
nation. Will yon do it? Do you ask if
we have the representative men in Blan-
co county. I reply yes; we have Messrs.
Wm. McCarty, Thomas Morgan, John
| W. 8peer, W. W. Martin, P, P. Cage,
' A. B. Story, all true and tried Dem-
I think any of the
would be
this county, and
It has the ring of
on a higher plane
atatinn hn
•rs of Texas
war on the Democracy,
human and
of principles
unworthy pf support, should teoy not
■how proper resentment and adhesion to
their time-honored flag. The Demo-
lí founded by Jbvfsbsoh
<rf the sk>w c«Btury, and the long line of
have succeeded have em
blazoned the brightest bistre in the his-
tory of American statesmanship and
glory. In the high noon of glory of the
Western Republic, of happiness for the
people and an aaylom for the oppressed
of all lands, the Democratic party held
undisputed sway in National and State
councils.
The war of 1812 waa popularized by
it forces, and again in '46, was the vic-
tor over •outrage aad wroag in a
boring republic. Her heroes and chiefs
came forth from the battle clouds to the
clarion song of triumph, and were thence
The Democracy
met mid conquered the enemy of consti-
tutional law aad liberty, under Jarran
•on, at the threshold, and in the long
line of aliases, to the much despised
Know Nothingi «n of the land, was as
often victorious. It was only when fed-
eralism and fanaticism seized the reigns
of the Federal government, and shook
the piliars of liberty with the tread of
tint the Democratic sun was
In the heaven of its
glory. Tben followed the long
night of oppression in which States and
people became the loot-ball of mailed
chieftains aad bloody-handed conspira-
tors, and not until the rifting of the
clouds in t>>e organised efforts of the
Democratic party, did daylight dawn to
cheer and bless the weary pilgrimage of
Soothern life. State after State had
lifted from the dust of humilia-
tion and oppression aad restored by the
kind hand of the Democracy to a proud
sisterhood in the American Union, un-
til finally, in the great decisive PresL
dential battle, the tread of 'her armies
in the North, Sooth, East and
West, carried victory on nearly
every Une of attack In State and Federal
council. A President and Vice President
in fact elected by a quarter of a
million majority, a House of Represen-
tatives by over two-thirds, aad a Senate
that will soon reflect the omnipotent will
of the victors. An acting President, the
creature of force ami freed, of corrop
lion, the meet damnable in tee history of
civilized nations, seeks to disrupt the
Southern Democracy by playing the part
of Judas. A Radical Congress that for
fifteen long years had legislated with a
majority exceeding two-thirds in both
branches, In its financial knavery and
corruption, had brought the industries of
the country to the block for exeution.
It had looked under Grant for the Em-
pire to succeed the Republic led build
up as autocracy of plunder, singly cov-
ered by a purpose to subjugate the
to serfdom and the thousands of
millions of sun-burnt, bony-banded
gains to the ase of personal power and
aggrandizement, Agains| these foul
wrongs the St. Louis convention pro-
tested, aad in the hard fought battle# on
the plains of the West, tee great leaders
0/ the Democracy rallied the masses in
burning protests. There was Thobmah,
and Hknoricks, and VooBHSK8,kBights
of the noblest mien, whose tall plumes
waved oa many a hard fought battle
field, and pressing the fruits of their
victory to the national ' temple
throttled the money changers till they
trembled in their hoots and. cried for
quarter. The Indiana Democracy sent
booming big guns of relief from her
State convention, which, like the thun-
ders of the Castle of If, when Paris was
throttling demoniac power, struct terror
to the hearts of liberty's assassins. The
through Democratic regenera-
tion, in defiance of an aolocratic veto,
restored the dollar of our daddies and
equalized the value of currency, making
it alike valuable for creditors, govern-
ment and people. And white yet in the
labor of other nameroaa reforms, a
conspiracy is hatched by a worthless
of the West for the
of the Democratic
of Texas move boldly to tha
j front and victory will as certainly perch
I on our banners in the fature as past. A-
Gkh. John H. Batios is coimnen
by the Honey Grove Independent «d
Pilot Point Herald for nomination for
Lieutenant Governor. Baylor is an old
Indian fighter, served aa Governor of
Arizona and member of the Confedfir
Congress, and has hosts of friends in the
country. , . .
a Blanco, May
for
It is held by tee law writers
sends oat from American porta
privateers to prey on British commerce
before war between Eugland aud Russia
shall be actually declared, then the
United States cannot be
consequential drmages.
held liable for
Fivty millions of four and a half per
cent, bonds have been sold and a very
large amount of four per cent.; in one
day, of the latter, $330,000 was sold
This does not look much like a want of
reey in the Country. Certainly not at
the remarkably low rate of interest real-
ized on tee investments^
Mr. Johh M. Claiborne, of jigjvea-
ton, solicits the nomination of candidate
for Commissioner of the Land Office.
He is among the leaders oí the young
Democracy of the Island City and is'well
and favorably known to a large circle of
friends throughout the State, aud, if
nominated and elected, would make as
competent as falthinl a public officer.
The Houston Telegram, in contrasting
the representation of Tsxas at the Lon-
don Exposition in 1850 and her present
appearance at Paris, remarks:
When the Europeans who are talking
and reading so much about Texas shall
see the "scurvy show, or the want of show,
that is made for this State at the great
exhibition, they will form a just, but
not complimentary, opinion of the enter-
prise of the people who failed to repre-
sent decently their boa8ted|Texas at the
world's- show. Dr. Ashbel Smith is a
fine talker, but he will have a bard
time making • the English, French and
Germans who may qüestion him about
Texas believe that, its people have any
industries, any products, any enterprises,
anything in fact that makes a nation
rich and prosperous and great. This
behavior on the part of Texas in 1878 is
caricas commentary on the Texas of
1850, which, at the Loudon Exposition
that year took several premiums for most
important products tnd " distinguished-
discoveries, not the least of which was
Gail Borden's condensed milk. Tben
Texas, a frontier wilderness, won nearly
all the honore teat were taken by the
Americans, and actually did more to give
name to American genius and enter-
prise than alt the rest of the States to-
gether. I Sill
And what makes the matter the more
rldiculoa8 is the large'number of Texas
commissioners who are at the Exposi-
tion without anything to show.
Col. L G. Killongh, -of Fayette, was
appointed a commissioner, and a planter
of practical sense his first inquiry was
directed to obtaining material for ship-
ment to the exposition, and in the ab-
sence of it—although a man of great
wealth and perfectly able to bear the ex-
pense without feeling it—refused to go.
We do not know that a necessity exists
for advertising Texas at thé World's
Fair, but she should either have been
properly represented by a display of her
productions or not represented at all.
At the Centennial,Texas bad her horned-
fróg and bale of cotton, but she had her
Hnbbard, whose great speech waa pub-
lished in four different languages. She
will have' her cotton at Paris, and this
will be about all as we imagine.
San Antonio Expresa: The Gypsies
who were sharp enough to beat Mr.
Henry Bitters, of this city, out of $7000
a few weeks ago, it is thought will be
captured. The local and outside de-
tectives have been working on the case
ever since it became known, and the
telegraph brought a day or so ago cer-
tain information which called Mr. Bit-
ters, bccompanied by Captain Shardein,
away from this city very suddenly.
Bishop Elliott, of the Episcopal dio-
se.of West Texas, in the convention
at San Antonio, offered some# remarks
condemnatory of the practice of bull-
fighting, and a series of resolutions
were adopted by the convention calling
upon the Legislators to euact laws pro-
hibiting such sports.
ORGANIZATION.
press of Texas has
upon the idea that a Demo-
cratic nomination of State officers would
be equivalent to an election, and has
spent its energies in the discussion of the
merit* of men aspiring to high station,
rather" than the necessities of the hoar
for maintaining high Democratic princi-
ple and organization. A more fatal de-
aulmated thoughtful politi-
In the Cok* canvass, party
tee Democracy of
have only heard so far of the movement
of but one precinct, and the time is rap-
idly approaching for the meeting of t)
convention. The chairman of the com-
mittee of the Austin precinct resigned in
tee Giddings-Jones canvass,and we hare
not heard of; his co-committeemen mov-
ing for calling meetings in the wards or
otherwise. A county convention can
only cany weight by a fall representa-
tion of the Demociaey of the county. It
Unes were sharply drawn, and the De- should be a representative body rather
[never
moeracy rallied to a man in support of
the standard-bearers, as against a Radi-
The people were rallied
wrongs of the Davis-
and to vindicate
manhood, were brought to the polls
to rebuke its iniquities. The times have
and with it the issues involved
in that canvass. The people have been
t to look complacently on the ad-
ministration of Hayes and 'thereby be-
indifferent to the oppressions of
misrule in national affairs.
1 Democracy of Texas swept
field as clean as a sanded
the elections of Coke aud Hcn-
babd and proudly boasted of thsir hun-
dred thousand majority as an evidenee
of assured authority for all time to come.
Meantime issues bave arisen in the poli-
tics of the country, and elements of op-
position, developed, threatening the in~
not complete overthrow of the
Democratic party of Texas, A-leading
factor in this work of destruction is the
teachings of a venal and licen-
tious press, and the manifest efforts
of politicians to conciliate it for their
The Galveston
News heads the list of conspirators seed-
ing the entire demolition of Democratic
organization in our State. It is directed
purely by mercenary considerations, and
as alten applauds the devil as the Mes-
siah, when found to its advantage to do
so. Other presses with less brains and
capital, are governed by its example, in
the hope of realizing similar success.
The uniform teacbiogs of such presses
favor a total disregard of political unity
integrity, and every demagogue
avowing hostility to democratic organiza-
tion is mads the subject of their sickening
panegyric. It is by such instrumentali-
ties the effort is made to popularize op-
position to Democratic conventions and
organization, and abolition of all party
than mats meeting, and mast be so or
with foil attendance at the pri-
or the cunning Wash Jones and
other enemies of the Democrat;
carry their ends. Whatever is
should be speedily and vrell done to
secure desired remite.
Next comes an ally of the Radical
party of Texas, with a compact organi
zation, seeking recruits from the sore-
headed, ignorant and pla?e-huntmg De-
mocracy, through which open war is
made on the .Democratic party. These
greenback clubs are scattered every-
where in the State, and are as thoroughly
diilled, it not eqaal in numbers, as the
satanic Loyal League. They constitute
most dangerous 'element, because
thoroughly unscrupulous in their work
of gaming power through the humbug-
gery of the people.
And superadded to these forces we
find a grave suspicion resting on the pub-
lic mind" that a conspiracy exists on an
extended scale with Democratic leaders,
for defeating the organization of the
masses. It is thought to be to the per-
advantage of a large body of the
office' huntiag tribe, that the existing
order of things should be destroyed.
Nothing would suit them better than to
see meagre assemblages of the people at
the primary meetings of the Democracy,
and a State convention assembled from
which bolting could be popularized
should it fail to conserve their ends.
Than canses combined lead us to con-
clude that unless vigorous aud able ap-
peals are soon made for rallying the rank
and file of the Democracy to the danger
that menaces the country and organiza-
tion is perfected throughout the length
and breadth of the State, it is idle to
for Democratic supremacy. The
and patriotic press is the
to invoke in this crisis.
Should it be generously aud liberally
sustained and diffused, the good people
will soon apply the correction by rally-
ing to the standards of the Democracy
as the only hope of perpetuating free
government in the land.
hope for De
enlightened
chief power
in the finances of the country as stock in
trade, he unscrupulously appropriates
them to the use of a faction, but in or-
der to make It appear as original, seeks
the destruction of all metalic currency.
"xj Such a piratical crusade on the landmarks
of the Constitution, one would suppose
would find but few followers, and so it
was thought of Know Nothingism, but
it had a temporary following that en-
dangered the liberties of the peo-
ple. This faction has undoubtedly
been batched in tha hot-be&Jfi cor-
ruption. A mamóte blackmailing
concern, It is the ally of that
which, swept from Eu-
aetks lodgment on these shores.
1 government into
contempt snd defeat its grand experi-
ment on this continent. It would place
the puree and. sword in the hand of a
tator by breeding a revolution that
Id have no other end. If does tl
by ita teachings, in rejecting
the currency of the Federal Constitution
1*8%-;
Thank !
temperature of 212 degs. Fahrenheit.
Dr. Bibb furnishes a full scientific report
on the subject, which should arrest the
attention of the public. Beside the mi-
croscopic examination of all pork offered
in market, we suggest tfcat it be made
the duty of the health officer to examine
ail cured pork offered for sale in the rfty.
-1. If there is no ordinance one should be
of the Democracy ^mediately passed requiring this in-
__ .¿¡on and forbidding sale, except on
certificate of inspection of the health
officer. I, - - ¡ % ¡i
while i
Dr. Bibb, the city physician, has ren-
dered a very useful service by reporting
the existence of trichina in pork sold in
market. It seems that Capt. Giles, the
efficient market master and health in-
spector, had made a microscopical exam-
ination of the pork from which the dis-
covery was made. Some years ago there
were some persona died ia this city from
the fearful disease generated by the
trichna. The animalcule are not de-
Mr. George McCormick, the present
Assistant' Attorney General, as will be
see ft oars the announcement, is a candi-
date for nomination before the Demo-
cratic convention for Attorney General.
The Gazette fiss already given Its opin-
of ifr. McCormick for
ion of the fitness
this high position.
shown,
the laborious discharge of hi
in
his duties In
this office, as much forensic ability as
distinguishen worth and purpose to main-
tain the majesty of the law, in the face
of all combinations and cabals. He has
as much the confidence of the bench as
the bar and public, and, we may also
say, the sterling Democracy of tee conn-
trv, of eminent capacity for this high
position. In saying this of our esteemed
friend, we do not reflect in any manner
upon honorable competitors^. We re-
cently spoke of Gen.
didate, in high terms
It is for the
e on this, at ot!
Mm
c«-
State. He has stood at i
the t
all of their movements.
Gov. Hubbard, while en route for.
Waco, at Hearne, was called out and
addressed the people. Senator Mc-
Leary, of San Antonio, also bound for
Waco, made a speech, in which he testi-
fied In strong terms to the protection re-
ceived by the west from the State police
,
under Hall, and was rather pleased that
train robbers had to operate In the
State they had chosen the field they bad,
as he remembered when the west asked
for protection the member from Denton
and Fannin were load In their opposi-
tion, saying they needed no help; they
could protect themselves,
v « a ■
The nomination of Hon. Joseph E.
Dwyer, of San Antonio, for Lieutenant
Governor, is favored by many of the
leading Democratic papen of the State.
The Victoria Avócate has this to say;
It Is being reported teat Hon. Joseph
E. Dwyer, of San Antonio, is likely to
appear in the race this summer as a can-
didate for the Lieutenant Governorship,
Truly a more hospitable or affable gen-
tleman could not be given the honor. Mr.
Dwyer served as State Senator in the
Fourteenth Legislature with credit to
himself and usefulness to bis constitu-
ency, and would bear any trust faith-
fully and honestly. „
Col. Wash Jon is attempting to d is-
satisfy the people wtto conventions. Ue
expects to be an independent candidate
for Congress, and therefore, it is natural
to expect him to make war on convon-
' ins. He will find, however, that the
people nor the State belong to him.—
Tyler Courier.
Wash Jones is not the only man who
is seeking to bring conventions into con
tempt of the public. There seems to be
a settled policy on the part of a large
class of politicians to defeat Democratic
organisation in this canvass, and favor
independent candidates. The whole
State is infected with this disease. The
usual steps taken by leading committees
for rallying the people have been preter-
mitted, and the Democracy, to-day pre-
sent the appearance it once occupied be-
fore the war, when the regular nomina-
tions were everywhere defeated. Ia two
short months a State convention meets,
and withoat organization of the rank and
file, its nominations will be an empty
honor to those favored by it. Jones was
only defeated by one thousand votes in
the last election, and now he has hun-
dreds of Greenback clubs to support him.
A district convention has been called at
Brenham In August, for nominating a
Democratic candidate, but without the
organization and cheerful support of the
masses, Jones will possibly have it in his
power to make successful "war" on
conventions. And in the height of the
contest between tee Democratic nominee
and Jones, a third candidate will appear
in the person of Edmund J. Davis. He
can control a solid negro vote of the dis-
trict, aud with the lines of the Democ-
racy shattered and torn, may be elected.
This is the present, but we confesa not
veiy pleasant, look out for the an terri-
fied.
roí
very i
i m
see
In the communication published on
the seventh from Blanco appears the
name of Judge Thomas Morgan, as among
the citizens of that county who would
be acceptable to the Democracy for nom-
ination as a floater for tee Legialatare
from this district. We fully appreciate
the rights and sensibilities of the Democ-
racy of that county in a desire to furnish
the candidate for this district, and as re-
marked by us in making complimentary
allusions to the convention preferring
CoL Felix Smith for the position, have
no desire ta counteract them. The main
end to accomplish is to procure aa ac-
ceptable candidate, who will serve the
people of both counties with as much
ability as efficiency, and it matters not ,V®g we
apon principle whether be shall reside in
Travis or Blanco county. The field will
be hotly contested is Travis by both
Radicals and Greenbackers, and it is of
the last importance that a candidate shall
be brought oat with as much unanimity
certainty thathe will canvas the dis-
trict and sweep tee field of *11 opposition.
Blanco county is as much the home of
the white man as -if the sterling Democ-
racy and will give to an acceptable can-
didate four or bve hundred majority.
We reflect the sentiments of the Democ-
racy of Travis in saying that if the De-
mocracy of that county will unite on a
suitable man for the position, they will
not.be heard to oppose the nomination.
The name of Judge Mingan seems to be
received with favor at the capital and we
shall be pleased to hear a further expres-
sion from our friends of Blanco. Let
them call their county convention and
thus give formal expression to their
wishes and the Gazette will echo them
as worthy of the approval of this people.
lips, said: g«^ • . .
"ficw is it, my good frieod,
I don'i see a libraiy, or aay
tionof booka at all ia yoar
I don'6 even see the
shelf. And yet
to teach me,
so learned m
knew befe
"Sir," replied the
it is true, hut a very
of books,—in fact, ~
but they aro
can have. They
works of God, which I
look at, and which
great and good He is.
moon, the stars, the earth, the
the law of Gód written in my own
conscience, telling me what I
to do and what I ought not to
and most of all, the word of
th Bible. The works of God
out all round me in earth and " sky;
they are as a great book always open.
Conscience is a never silent teacher,
unless we stop its voice ourselves by
lefusing to listen to it.
"But these two books would
short of teaching us the truest
dom if we had not ¡[the blessed word
of God, to make that known to us
which we can learn in no other way.
For in the Bible we read how Gal
made the heavens and the earth,
all these. glorious things we see
around us. fie teaches us there .also
how man sinned, and how the Lord
Jesus Christ redeemed us with His
blooqd. In that book we read what
that blessed ¡Saviour did and suf-
fered for us, and what He command-
ed and promised. It tells us, too,
how the Holy Spirit is promised to
all who seek Him. Conscience can,
indeed, show us our sins, but it
God's word alone whioh teaches how
they can be foigiven, and how we
can be saved from them.
"Thus, without a library or hu-
man teachers, the three books of
Conscience, God's Works, and God's
Word, will, if explained by the Holy
Spirit, make a man truly wise."
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Another vetaran has passed away.
Hon. Emory Rains died at his residence
in Rains county on the fourth instant,
sged seventy-eight years. The Age says
of him:
The deceased came to Texas in the
spring of 1817, when under the jurisdic
tion of Ferdinand VII. of Spain.
1 of Ferdinand VD.
He
gave his aid to the Mexican revolution
which
That publication in the Dallas Com-
mercial giving prints of Rothschild and
his mistress, whom he is charged with
murdering, and a sensational account i.f
the naitica, is in bad taste. It is better
adapted to a police journal than a sober
press. Pending trial of the accused,such
publications should not be made,
- Mb. Gboroe Todd, of Jefferson, is
advertised as a candidate for Attorney
General. He ia highly esteemed íd the
circle of bis acquaintance, and seems
to play a manly part in offering
before the Democratic
He was actiag cous-
in the Rothschild murder case for the
great
separated the latter from the
former. After the establishment of the
Mexican Republic, be served as alcalde
of Tanaha ftutrict for maay years. He
was present when the first flag for Texan
independence was ever unfurled, and
served as chair&an of the committee of
vigilance and safety daring the trying
scenes of that gloomy revolution. In
1737--38 be served in the Senate of the
Republic with David G. Burnett, John
A. and Wm. H. Wharton, and that bril-
liant galaxy of heroes and statesmen who
have preceded him to their forefathers.
He was In the convention of 1845, which
framed the first constitution for the then
newly admitted State of Texas into the
American Union.
Ox the 8th a hurricane passed over
Memphis, doing considerable damage.
It was on the 7th oí May, 1840, a fear-
ful tornado prostrated the city of Natchez
killing and drowning five hundred peo-
ple; destroying steam gunboats, seventy
fiats and all of the lower part of toe
city. We have noticed a recurrence of
fearful storms ever since about the same
day of the month in the Mississippi Yal-
Wb have seen no steps taken in Con-
gress for the repeal of the internal rev-
enue tax, and are surprised that a Demo-
cratic House should not pass a bill of
this character. This tax is as burthen-
some as unjust on the occupations and
industries of the country, aud besides is
hostile to the genius of republican gov-
ernment. It costs the
much in Texas for the
tax
ft
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Never is the verily Divine nature
of Christianity so profoundly felt as
in the season of affliction. It thai
is found a friend indeed: a powerful,
yea, an indispensable support. Then,
too, is the Christian volume valued
as at no other period. "Darkness
shows us worlds of light we never
saw by day." We recognise the
pertinency, and realize the pre-4,
ciousnesp, of many a passage which
previously had been either overlook-
ed '. unregarded. It becomes like
the lamp in a railway-carriage, which
>urns on, unprized and unheeded, so
long as daylight lasts; but as soon
as we plunge into a tunnel, or are
overtaken by the shades of night.,
acquires an immediate and special
appreciation. Yes, if it be one of
the many woeful effects of sin, that
it has entailed upon man a heritage
of suffering, it is one of the many
benefits of Christianity, that it both
lightens our calamities and makes
them subsidiary to everlasting con-
solations. «The love of God, which
always springs from a hearty belief
of the gospel, deprives the viper of
its sting, and converts its venom in-
to medicine. There are varitíes of
revelation, proved only in the heart
of the furnace; varieties that, while
tliey impress the mind, improve the
heart. Scripture discloses to us
a most precious secret—how to make
the heaviest trials comparatively
light, even by looking above and
beyond them, to the never-end
blessedness in stole for the people
God, in a for happier state of ex-
istence—that for which we were cre-
*ated.
"W
Confiding Pbayeh.—Prayer must
be confidential, for it is the
utterance of one who has been
brought nigh to God, and taught to
feel at home with Him even in his
holy habitation, yea, brought
dwell with Him there. It is
blood sprinkled upon the mercy-seat,
and round the walls ofthe sanctuary,
that gives him this blessed feeling of
security and confidence; jtnd so long
as that blood is there, he sees that
there is no room for distrust and
unbelief. That blood which was
sufficient to secure his eütrance, is
enough to keep him there in safety
and in joy; nay, to fill his soul with
the most entire and undoubting con-
fidence. His utterances are the
confidential utterances of a child.
His whole intercom
that of one who has
everything straight
suit with God abou
tell his whole mind
his whole heart befor
as one who can
his paternal love,
feels that the things
are more God's concern
own.—Dr. H. Sonar.
with God is
to convey
God, to con-
" 'ofe to
to pour o
im, not only
ything to
as one who
ie prays for
than his
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