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THE STATESMAN.
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New Achxrsoachts
C'O": REWARD.
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Strayed from th tini-ri'iiel. two IIOESES-one
sorrel !njiil jtan o!l hand high tar la fore-
bval two hr"- Midle mark and branded 3 on left
Dhouldi-r. The other brows nun 9 year old 15
tend J inch hljh tr in forebcad kft rye lisM!y
iffixtedi no brand.
I will pay fiS for tie return of the above bones at
llfilt'i Livery Stable.
TIES WARXKIV.
Q REWARD.
Hirave or lolwi from thn undirMjrnrd onn bar
HjN V 4 yr r old about ui handa high braDuwt
on left jaw with a ma'n hor.
lw.ll ry t10 for the return of the above described
pony at klngpbuiy'a livery alablc.
wt o. w. Eitwiy.
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2TRAYEI) OR STOLEN.
From the eii rt booe In Aiutin on Kotanlay night
O' tolx-r 11 a li'ht bay born- mule about fonrtcvu aud
half hand hiirli branded L' ti in two Nlarc. (on
chonider and tbl'hi nhod in front and the balron h!
tii:-lH)ne turned alKut. or curled abowin? that it ha
been rublx-d. Thn mule w tied to a )wi at the eor-
rier :t tlm conrt bua by hi ix-k wiih a rope about
five feet Ion;; had on liifidmall of a bridle without
re!n and a srood Texaa alilla. about hkif worn the lie
B'rnp cut and afwed to'eUier; the hnekle tongue on the
offnideof ttirgirtb In broken aud tied with a raw-hide
atitn.
r ifiy dollar reward will be paid for the return of the
muie to ttiU office or Information leading to hi recov-
ery aud the arreiit and conviction of tho thief or
twenty arc dollar for either. Addrex
J. '. IIAXCOC'K.
Bof w:lm Onion Creek P. O. Travl county.
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KELLY'S FOUNDRY
ii. A. KELLY Proprietor
JEFFERSOX TEXAS
NLTArTinrB or
COOKING AND HEATING STOVES
CAST Tl'RXIXd TLOWS
Shovel ahd Scoutera Waah Kettle Country Hol-
low Ware Dog Iron etc. etc. Inducement offered
to the trade Send for prlca list. novl7dJtwly
IIET7 JEWELRY STORE
Under Avenue Hotel Conri-cg Avenue
.T. W. C LOVH Afcnt
Ilaa a well (elected tock of One Jewelry watchca etc.
which are offered at reasonable price. Thcao good
Which have been purchased from first hands enable
him to compete with any other ottablishmcnt. Having
corao hero to atay respectfully aollcit a Uaro of pub-
lic patronise. V.'ntcbe rccaaed diamond reset and
Jewelry muds to order. Everything guaranteed as rep-
rented. noOTdAwlm
A
LARGE STOCK OF R03ENDALE
Ilttlr. unci
PRACTISE. FilRIS
Constantly on Hand at Low Trices.
Jnn d.t wlv
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ERY SEWING MACHINE
DOl'BLED IN VALIE.
BY
l'a liner's Combination Attachment.
FOlt ALL SEWING MACHINES.
I. It prepnroa tho milliner's fold better than can bo
done by hand.
i. It prepares milliner' fold with different colors
and Piece of goods at one oM'ration.
a. It prepores and place a fold in any cara perfectly
without banting.
4. it prepares and put a doublo or single fold on the
edu'c of a band.
ft. It cords bltta bauds.
o. It prepares and applies a doublo French hem
fluMi.
7.. It prepares a cord welt perfectly.
8. It prepares and places a cord wolt in aur scam
without baKtin.
1. It prepare a cord welt at tho saino time gathering
and placing the welt In the usthcrins seam sewing it
to a plain hand if desired at one operation.
HI. It doe ptuin catheriuif.
II. It gathers aiKinew on at the tamo time better
than any other eatherer.
I J. It hems all poods bias or straight.
I t. It binds with braid.
1 1. It binds with cut binding.
15. It sews any seam without basting.
The arrnirmei)t Is very novel and it Is one of tho
simplest attachments' in nse.iudispensableiu Its utility
douitiing thu value of any sewiuj machine.
In ordering state kind of sewing machlno.
1'rire. ft with full instructions fur its us mailed
post free. Address
I'ALMEIi MAMTACTTRiyO CO..
817 lirondway New York.
An opportunity seldom offered to agents of both
sexes v. ulcu are wanted everywhere Immediately.
nov7 wly
J HAVE NOW IN STORE
And to arrive the l irgest and bsst assorted stock of
Stoves
Tinware
Hardware.
House Furnishing Good and Building Material ever
before placed ou this market and otter great luduce
ments for cash.
JuneS diwiy S. B. BRCSH.
Attorncys-nt-liiiw.
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7M. T. GAINES
Attorney and Counselor at Law
Will practice In the Supreme and Federal Court at
Austiu and in tho District Court of Travis aud au-
jolulng counties
jc iai attention given to Land basini's in U of Its
branches- iu5 Ti diw ljr
A. W. TlillllLU X. . Wat.KKR.
rjpERRELL t WALKER
Attortirya at Law
rtu kory stroet bwetisoii Building Austin Texas
msyl'l dAwly
W M. M. WaLTOM. sons A. CBItN
ALTON vt GREEN
Attorney at Law
Austin Texas practices Id all th cfirta ia
.uill. juuSdiwly
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NlT.snUYMAX. SEDMAX AXD FLOKIST
lIcHtston Texas.
ttA;1:-ii:l Stock Send for a Catalogue.
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JJENDERSON Jb COOK
Attorue) at Law
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VOL III.
NELTUALS ATiD IMDErEXDESTS.
There is often a professed neutrality in
politics but uch a thing in reality ncrer
bad an existence. Neutrality ia only com-
patible with idiotcy. All sensible people
hare ideas and feeling the one n ay or the
other though for certain reasons tiieyniay
try to conceal them. But hi spite of the
utmost exertions and the reatet care the
bias and inclination will Ik- exhibited and
plainly noted by the discerning. There is
no such thing as a neutral newspaper. It
may profess to lc it may try hard to be but
it never is neutral. It may like the ostrich
stick its head under the band and imagine
that it is hidden from all the world but the
whole world can sec if it chooses its most
inferior proportions ar d the real nature of
the thing. Neutral ne Aspapers so called
arc usually established by men who hold
opinions with the minority wherever they
live and desire to court the favor and sup-
port of the majority by professing to
Ihj neutral and holding an iudepeudi nt
position. It is all a pretence in most Ca-ts
to make money out of people who entertain
entirely different opinions from themselves.
Where this is the case it is undoubtedly a
dishonest trick which tdiould be exposed
and censured. Rut admitting that some
meu actually . imagine that they can be
wholly impartial and steer a straight
courstt between parties and opinions
and make all sorts of promises to that
effect it is as wo have Baid impossible
it is not in ordinary human nature to carry
out their intentions and professions. They
should all then be regarded with suspicion
and watched closely or they may do serious
injury under their careful disguise. Now
the white people of Texas arc known to be
overwhelmingly Democratic and tho most
of the negroes incapable of reading and
therefore if able not very likely to patron
ize the press so that when a pro-
fessedly neutral paper is established
in this State it may be understood
at once that its owners ana
managers are Radicals in heart and mind.
They are Radicals who are expecting to
make some money out of Democrats by this
disgnise and if you watch them closely you
will every now and then discover the dirty
thing peeping out; cautiously perhaps but
showing unmistakably that it is there. So
in our younger days have wc marked the
weasel peeping out of a stone wall in
which it had hidden and looking about for
a chance to do somo mischief to a farmer's
poultry or eggs. We say to our friendi that
theso professing neutrals will not do. Let
them bo discouraged ; put no confidence in
them; they will bo sure to betray you and
you will repent when too late.
What wo have said about neutrals applies
equally strong to independents. Was there
ever a really independent paper or even
man? Wc never knew one. The professing
independent newspapers are generally the
least independent of all. They arc the very
ones to trade and barter in everything.
They aro always in the market and can be
bought by the highest bidder their inde-
pendence is a mere sham like tho most of
neutrality. How can they be independent?
They aro dependent on tho community in
which they are and they are seldom rich
enough to despise and set at defiance public
opinion. If they happen to be rich they
have become so by pandering to tho whims
and excitements of the day by selling their
columns to all who were willing and able to
buy them and when this is the case the
habit by which wealth has been acquired
will be continued when there is no longer a
necessity for it. There can be no actual in-
dependent human being. All arc more or
less dependent on each other. In conclu-
sion a word about independent candidates.
All these arc also a delusion and a snare.
They will not do to trust. A man in these
days cannot bo independent of his party
ho must take sides one way or the other.
In tho language of Scripture "they who arc
not for us aro against us."
SAN ANTOTVIO AND AUSTIN.
The Sau Antonio Herald tells of an "hon-
est farmer from Nacogdoches" who had ar-
rived in that city from Austin with the
doleful tale that tho people of our city had
given him and other immigrants a very dis-
couraging account of the country around
San Antonio and that he had come there to
judge for himself. He also informed the
Herald that ho had seen tho best farming
country ho had found in the Stato on his
way from Austin to the ancient city ef the
Mexicans. Now all this is calculated to
produce the impression that our people arc
unfriendly to San Antonio and aro trying to
disparage the country around it which we
arc suro is not tho fact. Wo don't know
what sort of people tho "honest farmer"
fell in with while sojourning i our city
but wc are certain they were noHhe right
sort if they endeavored to misrepresent
matters to him. We have often said that
tho country between this and San Antonio
was one of the most beautiful and desira-
ble in Texas; but it is an undisputable
fact that the country immediately around
San Antonio is poor for agricultural pur-
poses. Along tho valley of the river the
lands are rich but off from tho valley lor
a very considerable distance around the
lands are dry anl poor comparatively and
the best proof of this is that they lie uncul-
tivated. If any Austinian represented that
the country between this city and San An-
tonio until you get within a distance of
some ten to fifteen miles was poor and un-
desirable he was grossly ignorant or wil-
fully misrepresented tho matter. .We trust
our friends at San Antonio w i!I not imagine
for a moment that the bulk of the people of
Austin entertain any hostility towards that
ancient and beautiful city or w ould do any
thing to retard its growth and prosperity
or that of the country around it. There is
room and business enough for both cities
and they aru too far ? part for any serious
rivalrv to s-rinrr up between them.
tug yv a a rr.csrcci".
NotwUhsUs-ILrg the warlike appe trance
of the di-patches UtcIy.Jand tho activity
d:; '..t.Yvd in f;t'r ;out our zavr wc $t;U
t' k C .i tV Vir-:-::;s u:.;:icr will U set-
tle 1 2-.: 1 !':. r war will follow. A great
::::.y t t'. e cratches are sc -s.it le.r.al.
with searcc a lw rf truth llks the
itVh Au-;!a t the G divests.
sdout the rrtVi:er.i's dispatch to
Governor Davi?. Ti e .tch frera jd ro 1
al-ou: MA!c3 Uir.g r.v 1 ' .-Uj MalriJ ii
rror.'.ntiKe ! lo-.:s.. It w-'.l l o r.ot;.! t'.-.t
I'.: ;.. --I iv.t'.-.t.st.'Mtdc--:.-: :.-'.:..!.
ef Gr.i-t talk poc !-Icrtca 1 tl.- ".It.r
of the Ne- York Ti the f : eel d :-xrr.-
tr.:-t or -
A charge cf .iv.rrt ia
Spain whkh i rumored.
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a collision but that is uncertain. We shall
know more after the meeting of Congress
next Monday. The national honor should
be vindicated and preserved and we should
heartily rejoice in the independence of Cuba
but for one we want no more negro an-
nexation neither Cuba nor San Domingo.
TIIE SEASONS.
The change of seasons in all its various
manifestations is one of the evidences of
Almighty wisdom every where displayed in
tho universe. An entire uniformity of
climate would be tiresome and dreary to
mankind and constant change in all things
seems almost a necessity of their nature.
What if the skies were always cloudless
and eternal sunshine prevailed would we
not tire of its perpetuity glorious as it is
and long for a change? What if there was
no variety of heat or cold but one contin-
uous warmth day after day and year after
year? We -should stagnate and lx-comc en-
ervated and worthless. Wc impratively re-
quire change and variety. We are so con-
stituted that wc cau not do without it.
After the hot summer we long for the cool
breezes of autumn and welcome the bleak
winter with its cold winds and icy frosts.
They brace up our languid frames and give
us new energy and activity for the work
aud tlutics of life.
But after its brief reign we again sigh for
the soft and balmy air of spring with its
sunshine and flowers. We think of the in-
vocation of the poet:
"Come trentle Spring ethereal mildness come
And from the bosom of yon dropping clond
While music wakes around veiled in a shower
Of shadowing roses on oar plains descend."
This is the last day of autumn. In this
favored clime its mild reign continues
usually up to tho very entrance of winter
as marked in the calendar and even now
we greet the yearly visitor with flowers and
tho brightest sunshine. We have so far had
but slight frosts to do little injury to vege-
tation and roses and other beautiful ac-
companiments are plentiful if not abundant.
Our autumnal roses are often the most per-
fect of all the seasons. In saying good-bye
to autumn we have no toars to wipe away I
as wc turn to welcome the winter tacu is
gooel and desirable in its turn. To us in
lovely Tcxtis winter presents no repulsive
aspect. It looks cheerful and strong and
bright. We known nothing of its sublim
ity as portrayed by the gifted author of the
Seasons.
The following to all natives of tho Sunny
South will seem a very strange and unnat-
ural description:
"In winter awful Thou; with clouds and storms
Around Thee thrown tempest on tempest hurled
Majestic darkness on the whirlwind's wing
Hiding sublime. Thou bld'st tho world adore.
And humblest nature with thy northern blast."
Here the winter is the least tempestuous
of the seasons. There is far more of beauty
than sublimity in it. It is true now and
then wc have the northern blasts but they
arc usually harmless anel rather pleasant
than otherwise except to the traveler or
immigrant caught out on the boundless
prairie without fire or shelter. Instead of
"majestic darkness" wc have mostly bright
and cheerful sunshine with rain sufficient
to refresh the reposing earth and keep green
the prairie grass and the winter wheat. No
whirlwinds and few real storms disturb our
enjoyments as in that colder clime where
dwelt the sweet singer of the changeful
seasons. Thank Heaven for the beautiful
land wc live in. Thank Heaven for its
matchless climate and its varied and abun-
dant productions. Thank Heaven for all
its blessings anel welcome the coming win-
ter with its Christmas and New Year and
their merry makings and innocent rejoicings
of all kinds. Good bye to the Autumn;
gooel bye.
We regret to seo tho North Texan favoring
the formation of a new party. Our friend
the editor ought to see as we think after
the success of the Democracy in the late
elections that the old Democratic . party
only can muster up strength enough for the
overthrow of Radicalism. A people's or
farmer's party would fail to accomplish
this. No new combination can be as strong
as tho old Democratic party. Tho Greeley
experiment ought to have satisfied the editor
of tho Xorth Texan and every other Demo-
crat that a mixed up concern with no fixed
principles or all sorts of principles cannot
succeed. There is nothing to hinder all the
elements of opposition to Grant and Radi-
calism from uniting with the Democracy and
thus insuring victory. The matter looks so
plain to us that we aro astonished to find
sensible Democrats counseling Anything
else. The idea of a great party made up
exclusively of farmers and entertaining all
sorts of pi! iciples is preposterous and
should not bo entertained a moment.
It appears from a lato writer in Harrier's
Weelhj that tho word panic comes from the
heathen god Tan. When the Persians in-
vaded Greece tho Athenians sent a messen-
ger to Sparta for help. He was met on the
way by tho god Tan and asked why the
Athenians did not Worship him as he had
always befriended them. After the battle
of Marathon the Persians fleeing in great
confusion the Athenians attributed it to
Pan and set apart a cave near tho Acropolis
for his worship. Hence any great and sud-
den disorder and confusion was called jxtni-
con in Greek and has thus descended into
all the modern languages of Europe. Wc
supposo the late money and political panics
of the Radicals reminded the editor of
Hirer's Weelhj who is a classical scholar
of this derivation. Truly Pan has been
aiding tho Democracy and has struck terror
and dismay into the hearts and ranks of the
Radicals.
ArrKn trying everything else to get up
the mind in aid of Davis and the Radical
party of Texas the Journal has at last seized
on a war with Cuba. Davis will himself
take Cuba! Tho whole .army for the pur-
pose will be raised in Texas and put under
the command of Bob Brutus Taylor his
Lieutenant and very thort work will be
mada of it. It is supposed that the' eager-
ness to get some otHcc under Gen. Bob
Eratns which. Davis alone can confer will
prerr.pt all to veto for Davis and Bob ! What
text? Cannot the Jcvrwl get up a hlight
cartnqnarke r
" - . j
William JL Tweed grand sachem of
the Tammany Democracy has gone to the i
pcn".ut;.rT. . its vvr.v;.
No yin are ctiitakca. He is out on l;.;! j
Uio .'Ml t.. Atr.es ar t is ior iv co-
party cf Govsracr Pavu Gca. Bavt..soa
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AUSTIN TEXAS THURSDAY DECEMBER 4
Tj;e Indianola B iUetiu one of the best of
our State exchanges in repuVlishing some
account of the growth and prosperity of
Austin which we gave not long since ex-
presses its sincere congratulation thereon
with a desire for a more intimate relation
ship with our beautiful city by railroad
We most heartily join in this. Wc greatly
need a thorter outlet tothc Gulf than by the
w ay of Houston and Galveston. The com-
pletion of the road from Indianola to Austin
will be an event of great importance not
only to this city but all this section of
country. Our cotton wool hides pecans
etc. will be shipped in that direction un-
less the railroads ru3ning to Galveston
greatly reduce their present charges for
freight. Competition in all things is dsir-
ablc and especially in railroads in litis
country at the present time. Cut hcsivy
freights for shipment abroad will always
seek the nearest seaport. Morgan had bet-
ter hurry up his railrcad.
A Boston paper publishes an interesting
item from Chicago w hich may or may not
be true. It runs in this way. An Episco-
pal clergyman in reading the service on
Snd;:y morning was seen to falter and
break down as if from extreme fatigue or
sudden illness. At length he closed the
book and made a feeble explanation of his
case. He had not been to market the day
before because he had no money to buy
anything with. His dinner tho day before
had been bread and butter and tea. His
breakfast that morning had been less.
There wa3 nothing awaiting him when he
should go home after sen-ice. He was lit-
erally starving! What was tho result of
this exhibition and appeal wc aro not told.
The spirit was willing but the flesh was
weak. This story will do very well for Chi
cago the great grain and meat market of
the mighty West ! .
Texas is to be cut oil from political sym
pathy with the rest of the Union. inte
J0"ll(tl.
No only cut off from Radicalism at
which they will have the sympathy of all
the rest of the Union. The best of the
Northern Radicals will rejoice at the down-
fall of such Radicals as we have in Texas
and the South generally. When wc were
last at the North even a government offi-
cial said to us : 4 'Wc know what you are
suffering and the character of the men who
are governing you. They would not be
permitted to hold ofiico here anel we hope
you will get rid of them very soon. They
arc merely calling themselves Republicans
to get an opportunity to plunder a defense-
less people." Texas is not to bo cut off
from sympathy with the rest of the Union.
Only the Radicals arc to be cut off and
thrown into outer darkness.
PitEPARATioxs are already being made
for the great Centennial Celebration at
Philadelphia in 1870. Plans for the build
ings have been submitted and adopted.
Our readers may form some ielea of the
grand scale on which every thing is to be
when we inform them that the contem-
plated buildings will cover thirty-six and
one half acres of the Fairmount Park. It is
expected that contributions from the whole
civilized aud scmi-civilizeel world will be
brought for exposition there. It is intended
to eclipse anything of the kind ever yet
had and no labor anel expense will be
spared. We hope to live long enough to
join in this grand demonstration over the
birth of freedom in this western world and
to sec all the wonders of the great Centen-
nial Exhibition.
We see it stated that a spiritualist in Ver-
mont has been in communication with
Charles Dickens and that wonderful genius
has kindly furnished him with the remain-
der of the Mystery of Edwin Drood which
was cut off by his sudden death. It has
been already printed and is for s"ale in Chi-
cago where spiritualism and free love are
quite popular. The gullibility of the pub-
lic is unlimited and no doubt many will
buy anel read this shallow imposition and
believe they arc enjoying the veritable out-
pourings of that gifted spirit now free from
the shackles of humanity. It may have no
more real resemblance to Dickens's style
than it has to Lippard's or any other fourth-
rate story writer. It will be all the 6ame
and pronounced wonderful. There is no
end to humbug.
The irrepressible Susan B. Anthony
voted again at the last election in New
York. If we are not mistaken she was
fined for voting at the last election in that
State but it is harel to suppress one of these
semi-masculine monstrosities. They have
more pcrscvcrcnce and endurance than men
with all the unreasonable determination of
excited woman. Susan will be crying
"scissors" as long as her head is above
water. Drowning outright can alone stop
her mouth and keep her from bawling for
suffrage. This woman suffrage is one of
the offsprings of Radicalism and the effort
to secure it may cease with its downfall
True Democracy regarels woman too highly
to wish her involved and besmcareel with
the filth of politics.
Wn give up a considerable space in our
paper to the communication of an old fash
ioned Democrat who dates back to the
days of Jackson. His remembrances and
opinions arc well worth reading by the
young especially who arc not acquainted
with the views and eloings of their fore-
fathers. It will be notcel that our friend is
rather hard on banks and railroads and
truly though good things properly con
ducted they both need watching.
DitMoM uwi. possession is not in these
days or at least ia this country a very
usual complaint; yet a German pastor in
the Puste rthal has not only met with a cse
but discovered the .right treatment for it.
A girl in that place1 doscriltcd as being or-
dinanlv of a iiio?t amiaMc character feu
suddenly under satanic influence to the dis
may of the ueigatArnool as I more espe-
cially of the curate "a voting gentleman
recently imported from Brixen full rather
cf zcr.I than knowledge. io lis entreaties
that the demon should le exorcised his su-
perior at Cr-t pleaded dNbtlief ia t'se gen-
uine nature of the case. But as matters grew
worse the pastor consented to deliver pirl
and parish fiora such an unwelcome gucsL
Starting stick in hand anl amulet ia
pocket." he found his patient calm and quiet
and. after sense friendly talk he expressed
his hope cf :Tect;r.g a speedy cure by means
of a holy nlle. Oa hi solemnly producing
the ansnlet. the d-.vil broke l.xise ia her ia
the r.iost tiolt-nt foilion; where. u:v-r. his
rcvtrtr.ee in g ;-. rend terms explained
? her tl. t her chihlL-h follv was
exposed;
f.T ha 1 she been "but aa a cent cf Satan he
vev.1 1 have known thit the relic w2s noth-i:-
I :t a cor.r.terfr.-sra tN- px-tr'scsr.i! ox
c: . fa'.'.y Ys r. ;..! ia a j u-ce of tl :!. lie
c : ; ivtfd V'..e care with a s .:r .l e.vri:r.
wLis.li v;5 vc.-t ur mt but r ' It ef
fectual.
lib
WHAT AN OLD DEJIOCIIAT IIAS TO
SAT.
EJ.tvr DetiHK-ratU Siatemnn From read
ing the editorial remarks of the Statesman
as well as other papers I see much e&idrel-
rtive to the abuse of the banking system in
lueso- uaj8 ana truly much with propriety
....v ..us. uutit io oc saia in oennn oi our
beloved country; and when we draw the
contrast between these days and the days of
our joreimncrs it is enough to make us
wonder to see how we have degenerated
froia our.ancetors in relation to the system
of banking. Nevertheless there was a
strong disposition to create banks in 1811
w hen the stockholders of the United States
bank asked Congress to permit them to es-
tablish branches in each State and offered
a bonus of M0000. Mr. Clay then a mem-
ber of Congress replied that the bonus was
liberal but that no bonus ought to induce
Congress to favor such a proposition. It
would be muddying the fountain stream of
liberty. At that time Mr. Clay was a Dem-oci-ar
but in 1816 to the best of mv mem-
ory a suit was instituted against the bank
for establishing a branch at Columbus Ohio
and the stockholders employed Mr. Clay
as their attorney to defend them.
Mr. Clay then succeeded in showing it was
Constitutional by implication which proved
his great power as a lawyer and Mr. Clav
was afUr this a bank Whig of 1816 and
this is what prevented him from being
elected to till the presidential chair. And
such things arc now going on. Mr. Clay's
indebtedness to the bank of some $50000
was paid by some unknown party or parties
and when he called at the bank lie was in-
formed by the cashier that he owed the
bank nothing. But said Mr. Clay I owe
a large debt here. The cashier Bhowed him
the books and all had been settled. To
prove further what advantages moneyed
corporations will take of the bone and sinew
of the country let me give you what was
done from my best recollection during the
life time of the United States Bank. The
directors privately concluded they would
make a speculation in the purchase of cot-
ton. Their agents wcn to New Orleans
and other places and purchased all the cotton
in the market. In this way they raised the
price anel made large profits. Now what
was done with these profits? They re-
turned the amount taken from the
bank and rctaineel all the profits them-
selves. So much for this invest-
ment. Some time after tho same sort of
investment was made and they thought
things were equally 6ecure but they were
mistaken. From some cause the planters
had not gotten their crops on the market as
early as was expected and the rumor got
out anel the bankers sustained a loss. What
then? The loss was charged to the bank.
The directors got all the profits of the first
adventure and the stockholders and the
people hael to divide the los3 in the last.
This was one of the reasons given by Gen.
Jackson for removing the deposits belong
ing to the people lrom the bank while he
was President.
Again some time previous to Jackson's
seconel term a bill was introduced in Con-
gress to rccharter the bank for the purpose
of compelling him to veto or sign it as it
was believcu in cither event that it would
detract so much from his popularity that he
would be beaten for a second term nis
friends cautioned him fearing the result
and what was his reply? "By the Eternal
I will take tho responsibility" and with all
this management ho was re-elected by
an overwhelming majority.
Now it is important that wc the De-
mocracy stanel square on our principles
and maintain our rights. We may be some
time obtaining our independence but there
is no changer in Texas. Our majority will bo
sonic forty or fifty thousand. But if wc
sleep upon our rights as other States have
done the railroad corporations are willing
to ride over us even more roughly and op-
pressively than the banks. Give all railroad
corporations equal rights with others and
not one inch more. Incorporate them give
them the right of way through all State
hind and all the profits that their stock
will yield subject to the charges to be reg
ulated by our Legislature and when they
violate the law and grants made them by the
State let them suffer the penalty that at-
taches to others that violate the law. In
former days it was not uncommon to add to
charters a provision that if the law should
be violated the charier should be forfeited
and all privileges granted be null and void
Were this the case now corporations would
be more cautious and particular how they
comply with their promises. Look at the
banks. They violate their charters with
impunity and as this has been and con-
tinues to be. we tho people ought
to bo more cautious about grant
ing charters. It has been said for
many years that moneyed corporations
have no souls anel when we view our pres
ent condition it goes very far to that con
elusion. All power in former days came
from the people and all high functionaries
acknowledge it; and further whenever the
people came to the conclusion that their rep-
resentative was departing from theit inter-
ests based on principle they claimed tho
right to instruct him and that be should
obey or resign. This rightwas never denied
by our forefathers now is it now when
one of these high functionaries gets into
office? lie claims it to be his privilege to
resign or remain et his pleasure. The day
is coming and nigh at hand when all this
mist will be swept away from the eyes and
the understanding of the people throughout
this great nation and then there will be but
ono national name and that will be the
name recognized by ashington Jefferson
Madison Monroe etc. a Democratic Re
publican government. And upon this let
us all unite on the second of December
next having no other principles than those
given us by the great fathers of the Kepub
lie.
An Old Democrat.
Wanderer ou Ills Travels.
FKOM WILLIAMSON TO BELL.
Editor Democratic Statemnan Leaving
Georgetown carlv in the morning of a de
lightful day and traveling over a beautiful
rolling county one sees much to please the
eye fine lands comfortable buildings
good farms with plenty evidence of good
crops in the shape of mammoth corn stalks
and tall cotton I am almost led to say
trees. Indeed this whole section has been
blessed excellent wheat crop average corn
crop and 6uch a yield of the fleecy staple
as to surprise the oldest planters bhould
cotton recover from "the panic money will
be plenty times easy and tnany more acres
will be added this fall to the productive
area of the county.
Quite a Fcttlemcnt is springing up about
ten miles from Georgciown called Horn
Hill
Ten miles from Horn Hill is the rretty
and substantial village of" Salado with its
fine stone college building which has lately
been considerably enlarged. Examining
the catalogue published m June last it
shows an attendance of over 173 pupils
with an excellent coqs of teachers. Our
old friend E. S. C. Robertson is president
of the board of truees end takes great in
tcrcst in its welfare. It i3 a temperance Til
lace anl no liquor is allowed to be sold
within six ruilcs of tl:c vidage.
The Salado a creek of considerable size.
divides the village. A neat an l substantial
suspension foot bridgt? spans the stream
an l the whole aipoet of the village leaves a
favorable impression oa the mind cf the
traveler. It certainly raut c hca'thy.
The clear rolling water the picturesque
hills clad with comfortable dwelling the
Lirgc number of raddy-faccd children seen
a!ut the schoei house the whole surround-
ing indeed nay be said to be attractive to
the tired and wea-r immigrant seeking a
Lome. TLa creek h ; r.. any mill sites and
the fact that the wrur. tary but little frcra
their csnal l.e-cht c kes it certain that ere
!..? T this wi'I l-o a mm t me taring r l'C. As
a 1.-..-:. :i far a : r.v.: .1 r-emtunti irr. we
kuow r. ) j lace t
at Las as i.;:iiv imtrr.il a 1-
xa:a-.s.
Four mil. 5 U-yoml the h the
Lr.mpT.-i5 by to ctcuns a tractal.-Io- stream
hi 1 illiOivJmu o
1S73.
if we should jadce by the si-ens of the late
overflow which must from the signs have
risen at least forty fret. We were just able
to cross it; found the current verv stron"
and the nver deep enough to run through
the buggy.
From the Lampasas to Bolton (four miles
we speedily bowled along ami were glad to
find rest with the obliging landlord of the
St. Charles Hotel which although comfort-
able is not as large as the rotunda of its
namesake in New Orleans. Belton looked
quite lively; shows evident signs of consid-
erable improvemaut in the stiajnj of sub-
stantial buildings. The stores seem to have
well assorted stocks and as all the mer-
chants were smiling we Judged business to
be good.
The Democracy assure me that they will
carry Bell county without' any trouble.
The Republicans are largely in the minority
and our colored brethren are getting rather
sick of politics. The "forty acres and a
mule" which they have been so repeatedly
prdmised having failed to come to hand
they are gcttins sensible cnourrh to perceive
that it don't pay to leave a day's work to at
tend political meetings.
I leave in the morning for Marlin. across
the country. Waxdkuek.
FKOM HELTON TO MAULXN.
After a comfortable night's rest at Belton
I started iu a cold rain for. Marlin crossing
the- former great scare of travelers the
Lcona river on a fine iron bridge which the
enterpriscof a few citizens of Bell county
built some twelve months since much to
the convenience of tho ncighborhood-aiud
travelers generally for it was no uncommon
thing for this boisterous stream to interrupt
communication for a week or ten days.
t ouowing the road which leads to aco.
for eight or nine miles I was agreeably sur
prised to find the whole country almost one
unbr.iken line of fence with evident prepa-
ration for still inclosing more land.
After passing Duggci s some mile or so I
took the right baud road to Elm creek
where I found several new settlements made
since I last went over the road. From there
to little Jim Jackson's some ten miles fur
ther I was glad to be taken in and well
cared for for man and beasts were bof t
tired. From thence next morning to Mar-
lin a distance of about t-ixteen miles w-hicb
from the state of the roatls occupied me some
six hours. I was not sorry to meet the hos-
fitable greeting of my old friend Z. Bart-
ett. Coming over the space between Bel-
ton and Marlin at a slow gait I was able to
take a more critical view of the lands and I
have no hesitation ia saying that this is one
of the most desirable portions of the State.
Lands are easy of cultivation very rich
indeed and have produced this year over a
bale of cotton to the acre and from thirty
to fifty bushels of corn and as for sweet
potatoes tho farmers can't or won't enu-
merate the bushels . for fear that people
won't believe them and their lands are ael-
mirably adapted to the growth of w heat
millet and oats; of the two latter largo
yields have been gathered. I don't know a
more desirablo region than these uplands of
Falls county. Lands with these advantages
could not forever remain to be appreciated
by the few. Twelve months since I believe
that most if not all of them could have
been purchased for two dollars per acre
now they are held at from five to eight
dollars.
Some years since Gen. Shields told me in
conversation that he thought the creek bot
toms Deer creek. Fond creek etc. were
fully equal to any lands in the State while
the uplands were good enough for any body
to cultivate. Interspersed as these lands are
with mots of timber and exposed ' to the
full blast of our summer breezes with no
malarious influences the settler whether he
be from the extreme North Europe or some
other portion of the Sunny South is sure
with only a little care to enjoy as good
health as he would in any part of the
world. When you come to the bottom
lands of Falls county I feel that I cannot
do them full justice. How deep the soil is
has never yet been tested nor do I believe
the full measure of their fertility has yet
been ascertained for I have seen land at
the falls which has been in steady cultivation
since 1834 and cannot see any diminution
in the size of the corn stalk or the heighth
of the cotton or in the number of bolls on
the stock. Some years since the brother of
the writer in a public lecture delivered in
England and afterwards extensively circu-
lated through the Union asserted that
Texas had ten mUlions of acres capable of
producing a bahs of cotton to the acre this
was much criticized at the time but I
firmly believe that in fact it is under
the truth and let parties travel extensively
over the State and they will soon be con-
vinced of the truth of the statement.
Falls county although amongst the small-
est of the counties in the State contributes
largely to swell the above figures. The
writer corresponding with some parties in
the northwest who arc in treaty for lands
on speculation made i3sue of the above ie-
mark and the reply from one of the parties
is characteristic. "About that ten millions
acres equal to the production of a bale of
cotton. to the acre could you not take oil
a million or so? then even would you have
more cotton hand than i3 wanted?" The fact
is the vastnessof the area of the best quali
ty of Texas lands within her borders can-
not be conceived by parties out of this
State or even by those within it who have
not traveled extensively over the broad do
main. W e have the lands and the climate
all we want is the muscle. I hat is
coming too if wc arc to judge
by the number of wagons I have encoun-
tered on tho road. Since I left Austin I am
sure I have met nt least one hunelrcd wair
ons wending their way westward and I
think that it will average five children to
the wagon counting from the ruddy baby
in arms to youths of fifteen years. I like
the looks of the parties healthy clean and
all seem to feel determined to make their
homes with us and with cheerful heart9
and willing hands tickle old mother earth
till she laughs out a living for them. Frora
this sort has the great West end Northwest
been made to teem (in spue oi its rugged
climate) with the fatness of the land and
been peopled with a race inheriting the
tim that has made us a nation the wonder
of the world. Here in Texas vulh the
most splendid and couiblc clima'.c with
lands fabulously productive no winters
compelling the yeoman to toil hard for five
mcnths to feed the necessary cattle the
other seven it requires no seer-like q lalities
to prophesy the honest and industrious toil-
ers and tillers of the soil a complete inde-
pendence a competency for their children
and fortunes for tho third generation.
Politics are dull here owing to the ques-
tion of the division of the county. It is
hard to tay who will be elected. Falls is
already one of the smallest counties in the
State and dissatisfied parties are ready to
divide the territory for some imaginary lxn-
ctwhich the county scat would confer oa
their lands forgetting the expenses nn.l
trouble too in erecting court houw? ja:!
etc. and paying the salaries an 1 fees of
county otHcia.s;"fo!getfal tco or careless
of the fact th'tt tLe division cf the pres-
ent county would m?.kc one county entirely
under the control cf the negroes w ho would
be largely ia excess of the white. With the
example cf Waller county created ty tie
last Legislature it L to Ic hoped that- our
next wLI never inf.ict so terrible: a curse us
to create a county which from the nature
of thing1 would ban; 'a tLe white r.aa vi lo
controls all the wealth and the civilizutia-n
and place Ll:a forever under the govern-
ment rf i Tfsr'ir.ri anrl rii i T.ri -.- .f
the BcgTot or the vice cf the car; .a-ba r
and scallawag whues.
1 have tp-ja this letter too l.-.-r.-cthv al-
ready but S.-ulre New-comb nrd Lis l.ench-
oaa Gillc pie the whilota r ou. on both i z.i
a ; ;:.-
the ettrens rf IV. Is this week
tot come. The s ."ire it is r-
c.-rm-t: J tad tLe r ..- . a f.aa-l a Laniroa
cfac2k cat!.3 ro.I. ro r E.:t---m and ir
o: tr.aiT.:r t-a ro; t
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: v. .-. ..ra- 1 1 st '.:
I s7cr'tLei;u
thence to I-bcrtimi.
rt of T.Zli m. I
ViA5r'.".r.T:n.
NO. 19
FALLS OK TIIE EltAZOS.
Leaving Marlin if you are not traveling
by rail I should alwavs advise travelers to
take "the Falls of the" Brazos" ia their way
and gs down the country on the right
bank. The fulls themselves are a very
s:uh11 a.L.ir a mere ripple but the country
t!at you p.a ove-i the soil tho large tim-
ber ami f..o farms jou se'e on your way. I
shall always n-sert tai to ee Texas in all
her glory of rleh sllavbJ this is the best of
traviLdaoute-.
Opposite to the f:.U; on the rlcdrt banh
is a bohl bitiff ami on this bluff the pi
nccrs of lb-Vnsoi Colony planted the'r
first home ami founded the town of Yi-
esca of which but a single post remains
a bare mot-king loaning rickety emblem
of the past the very graves of the old
pioneers have vanished" from off the face of
the earth.
I know of no prettier view than to stand
on the site cf old Yicsca look across the
Brazos and view the farms now white as a
mountain snowbank with the great fleecy
staple of Texas. 1 wonder if these pioneers
who now sleep ia quiet on this knoll ever
dreamed even hi the wildest of their imag-
inings that they w ere sowing tho seeds of
such magnificent fruits. Over a thousand
acres almost in one body in cotton and such
cotton! When old Sam told the people in
Mississippi that hi people in Texas took
step ladders tothc field to reach the cotton
there was far more truth than poetry in the
observation. Cotton stalks ns tall as a man
on horseback laden with bolls from lotteun
to top! Is it any wonder that even a bale to
the acre is saved besides what is annually
lost for want of hands and time to
gather it?
I recollect ia'71 in the cars near New
York a gentleman on his way home from
his rcw purchase in South Carolina had a
cotton stalk roots anel all with some eight
bolls which lie w as showing to tho wonder-
ing crowd and exhorting most agricultu-
rally thereon. My daughter who I was
then taking to school could not help laugh
ing most heamly sit the specimen and I
never shall forget how her observation dis-
concerted the old gentleman. "Cotton
papa" said she "why ono of cur negroes
would not stoop to pick thuttkint "' As I
passed tiivo-rgh tho plantation of t! e late
Col. Chuieiiill Jones tho scene in ! c car
came to ray mind and I wished I could
send a few sta!k3 just as they stand to let
our brethren in the North see what we call
Cot (;'!.
Are republics ungrateful? this remark
came finally to my mind as I cast my eyes
up and down the Brazos and then looked
ou my map of the county which revealed
the fact that tho hcadriglits granted to at
least forty of these old veterans wero cov-
ered with prior "eleven league grants"
taken up by the dcvi'.uh hyenas tho early
land sharks quietly ami secretly as report
has it by meandering the river in the night
time. Here are these men who cumo to
this then wilderness and fought tho savage
Indian the brutal Mex. an and sullcreel all
the hardships of a life i.. the wilderness and
whose main object i t coining to Texas
was to get lands for ti .-nselves and chil-
dren many of whom we-e shun in their
encounters with the wild Indian who have
never received one foot of the splendid do-
main which by their provesu they wrested
from the hands of the savage and whose
services also helped to v ia a new empire for
American civilization.
The new comers who Boan formcel the
majority in the Republic of Texas seemed
to give the cold shoulder to all claims for
land that was due these old patriots and
6ince lexas became a btatc in the Lnion
the political authority- has entirely ig-
nored the claims of the descendants of
those who made the way cav for
their successors. I know that there are
over 2o0 titles extendcel to old settlers which
are covered by these eleven league grants
or otherwise defective that neither the men
themselves their children nor their assignees
have ever received one acre of land. Even
many of those who in good faith for years
cultivated these hcadriglits have not only
lost their land but with them the whole of
their years cf hard work and toil. The
sons of sonic have been dispossessed of the
very field upon which their parents have
been shot auil scalped by the savages even
while they were plowing the land orsowing
the corn which was to feed their families.
Before Texas parts will all her public do-
main to soulless corporations will not some
patriotic member of the next Legislature
bring before that honorable body a bill for
the relief of the descendants of old settlers
who havi never vet received n heudright?
It would be a good field for the Hon. Guy
M; Bryan the. nephew of Gen. Austin. It
is true less of these irregularities occurred
in Austin's cslony than in the' others but
still this gentleman is looked upon as the
particular representative of the old Texan
Let him try his best.
This is too. long however for the States-
man. I did intend to tell you something
about the dark corner which I will do in
my next. Wandered
Eii:IIli and Amrrlcsn Itaiikliisr Tlie
ll(lcroii-o in tlic .Proportion or Coin
ana rsper .'loney.
The Tr'dunc has au article on the Bank
of England from which we extract the
following. It exhibits in a strong and
very suggestive light the difference between
a rotten and a sound financial system. The
J ribunc says:
The money of Great Britain consists of
about two hundred and fifty million money
of paper and probably four hundred mil
lion in coin. Lxcluding from the paper
one hundred million issued by the Bank
of England against gold coin and bullion
the proportion is one hundred and fifty mil-
lion of hank notes and four hundred mil-
lion doil.tr in coin. Our money coovists of
seven hundred and fifty nij.lion dollars irre-
deemable paper about fifty million dollars
in coin in private hands and fifty inilli-jn
more locked up in the Treasury. Wc found
no argument on these figure tj prove the
redundancy of the cutrency of t!tc United
State but wc brg our readers to observe
that the money of the most prosperous and
wealthy nation in the world i composed of
two-thirds coin to one-third bank note?.
Yt'c are no advocates of a cast iron reserve.
Wc think the reserve of a bank bhould be
kept for n-e and not for ornament. The
trouble with o'.ir I'lmncc is aud always ha
been that tite banks have never kept a salh-
ciently Wge reserve. They have never
been able to t;tand a pressure. They take
men's money and i:n 'e-rtake to. rep.-.y it at
any moment on der.i " I but they deliber-
ately put tl.cmxdvcs i i a position which
make-sit impossible ' them to ke?-p their
word. It is a'l very v. -. !1 to say that if
everybody wants ciom.y nt the ernne in-
stant it i.s impos-ibh; to y y everybody and
yet there is still a dI;T rem a betw a-en keep-
ing oa h m l forty .jit r cent of what you
agree to pay on Sefu.ir: 1 t.nd keeping only
twenty jurtent. The maximum per rentage
of legal tcmbr r.-.t. hel l by th? New
York bank as a l-.-.erve a-iiiV.t the de
mands of t.t-ir d 'p.Uor h-i not U any
time within the l...-t four y-ur been equal
io imny p. r cent ol t!it;r i.tK to dq.oM-
tors. Oa tl.c- L.'-a-em't of Ortober tLe
date of tl-.- la-t Kir. a of the Bir.k cf
Kng!..n 1 ict eive.l by the re ? -re cf
notes an l t ain ia tas banking de; rt ;-nt
do r Lavir.g l-.-e.i draw a !-ab frot-i teiitr-
s:x to thirty
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TIIE STATESMAN.
TIEC D.VIItVV
I pabttticsl every mora!nj exctr-t Uonay.
1 pnblUhed ersrr Ttmrdr moruiR.
aoald t iarv-si io
CAIIDWIILI. V WALIiFR
AC'TLV. TlXA.
A Card.
"The statement by the Austin f Jour-
nal and copied ia the Tyler ldx (a Radi-
cal sheet) charging me now just on the
eve of the election with personal corrup-
tion and uttering end acknowledging that
I made false statements in writing in the
year 1SG5 is a base and malicious falsehood.
There was a personal rencounter between
the party alluded to and myself in 1S03
but the matter was then amicablv and "i?i-
oralJy adjusted by mutual friends and Ma-
sonic brethren we both being memlers of
the fraternity and since friendly. The rec-
ords of the Ma-sonic Tyler Lodge attest the
truth of this statement.
"Riciiaki B. HrEn.utn."
Yesterday we went to tho clerk's oflice in
this city and failed to find recorded there
anything with regard to Col. Hubbard of
the nature stated by the Mat Journal. Wo
had a conversation yesterday also with
Sheriff Robinson from whom the Index
quotes and while ha speaks of notes w hich
passed he does not say that a lie bill was
ever signed or recorded so far as ho knows.
The district clerk says that no such docu-
ment is on record in his office to his knowl-
edge. A'ij. Democrat.
"We the undersigned members of St.
John's Lodge Tyler Texas state from r-
sonal knowledge and from an vxamh .ion
of the records of the lodge that Co!. 1'. B.
Hubbard signed nothing in the sha;i . f a
lie bill in the settlement of tho diri. ..'.ty
by the lodge between Hubbard and Slmip
alluded to above. The whole matter .;.s
amicably settled.
"W. II. Fark W. M. O. M. Johnson S. W.
"L. A. Dcnson J.W. J. W. Davenport
"George Adams M. L. Fleishi
"J. M. Jessup John F. Haden
"J. J. Moore.
"Tvi.EnNoTember21 1873."
The RallroadH aud Their Com.
Tho latest estimates represent the number
of miles of railroads in the United States
to be something more than sixty-seven
thousand miles and their cost about
$2500000000 or a little less than ft 1000
a mile. But in many cases it is alleged this
extraordinary cost includes not only tho
actual cxpcnelituro for construction and
equipment but also the indebtedness in
volved by watering stock and additional
issues of bonds for a dividend of sroils
. .
among rauroiiu uireciors ana managers a
financial writer in "New York estimates the
amount of watered stock or bogus capital
of railroads at $250 000000 but expresses
the ojrinion that as tho construction and
equipment accounts in many casts have
been augmented fur beyond the real cost
through the connivance of the contractors
and managers at the expense of the etock-
lioiders this estimate is not half enough
and that the public is charged with ?50s)-
000000 more than it would have been if
everything had bean conducted honestly.
By which it is nif'ant "that the public i
required to pay in the way of freight and
passago money higher rates iu order to
make dividends on tho much inflated or
fictitious capital." Florid ian.
" Survival of Instincts.
Tho last number of the Pojiuhtr Science
Monthly coutains an article on tho survival
of instincts which details soma cruel and
njtparcntly abnormal habits among domestic
animals and traces them to early develop
ments ol necessity. By repetition they
have acquired the force of instinct. For
instance a gentleman living near Biooklyn
recently tethered a turkey in the field with
a rope lor the better protection of her young
brood. One day the turkey became cutati-
gled in tho cord and fell helpless upon the
ground. The other turkeys in the f.amo
field with whom there had been a constaut
and friendly association heretofore imme-
diately fell upon their disabled companion
and commenced picking at her head and
eyes evidently with the purposo of killing
her. This occurrence led to inquiry winch
elicited the fact that such conduct was not
unusual among otherwise well-behaved tur-
keys whenever one of the flock became dis-
abled and an easy victim to its companions.
Tho same disposition under similar circum-
stances has been found among other domes-
ticnted animals cattle swine and dogs.
Drovers of long experience testify that
whenever cattle aro rapidly driven und ono
falls to the ground or exhibits signs of weak-
ness it is not uncommon for tho rest of the
herd to set upon it and gore it to death. A
Long Island gentleman reports a cuso in
which this occurred in a Ctld where cattle
were jieacefully grazing and another that a
cry of distress is always a signal for attack
on tho part of the strong instead of an in-
vitation for sympathy. The Bame propen-
sity has been observed among swine.
In driving in the pens and especially
in crowded cars the weak aro attacked by
the strong and in some cases devoir . as
well as killed. On one occasion r a
hog bad been slaughtered and eatea ;
meat was thrown tothc survivors to
til . -m . .
icr
wnetner nungcr nau tempted themto '.m
treachery but it was not touched. This
seems to indicate that their cruelty nas
prompted by some other instinct.
This propensity among dumb uniiuiU
uniformly developed under certain ccuii-
ditions U reasonably attributed to a sur-
vival of certain instincts from a former
wild condition when such actions were
rendered necessary or advisable us a means
of self-preservation. This view is con-
firmed by tho fact that a similar dispos-hion
has been noted among will animals Cuvier
says of the white urns: "When one of the
breed happens to be wounded or is en-
feebled by age or sickness the other set
upon it and gore it to death." An labon
rejMjrts that it is common among the wild
turkey on their marches for the oi l males to
destroy the immature though the full prawn
and vigorous bird aro not attacked. ' The
American bison desert the old fkk and
and disabled for the wolves t f. .-d on.
Wounded wolves are killed by their com-
rades. An instance is cit' d in wide !i or.e
of a number of porpoises followirg a vewd
was wounded by a jiole hurled at it fro .i t'j
ship when the others turned on it Ja: me-
diately. The TcrLlc.ation of tLii La! It
among so many diiTcrcnt t-p- b rives to it
the character of instinct width wr.s origi-
nally developed by tlie la-.v of sel.'-j r . rva-
tion. It became ncccriary cltim s to driv
behind or destroy tLe (..cLl? i:i : '. r to
protect the majority when m d.s v ere
mreaieucu or pur-m-ui by ttr .!" t
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perpetuated end strengthened
sion from generation to gmatTuti
Darwinists find eome tK ;'
hypothesis of a commo.i or'.';'
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