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VOL. IV
AUSTIN TEXAS THURSDAY APRIL 1 1875.
NO. 37
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jjjsccllancous.
S2px7i.:E HAFPY.$20
And eavrn $30 or 40 per Day.
f.Tarvo!ou9 Mechanism.
Ingenious Invention
Absolute Perfection.
AN ELEGANT. DURABLE AND FULL-S!ZED
MACHINE
WITH TADLC
and TREADLE
CompUto forl)omotlo IT. o
TWENTY DOLLARS.
rnpintlleled la nrire.
Wun m any important to perl or and i a liable Improve-
Ecal la tlze and 5o tha mm work In tha
tiT. U ID (HI W illll Iiurhihii
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Tba bet simple and cbrapeat mactilna ever mad.
VtrUten guarantee lor nvi teak wiia every Ha
cbloe.
No Hurxiuom ! Js Coxrrrrriox t No Rival la quan.lv
A skillful in1 practical scientific itcromplUliment of
moat wonderful combination ot all the mood jlaij-
tis 01 a newing jimctiD and fully acknowledged
to be a perfectly successful mechanical achievement
of practical simplicity. ThoroughJy Utti. 1'sed
In Uunutuult of lunne. The favorite of the Famllr
" Circle.
It does not take ax Hor to ret ready to do a Miw-
t'TB'a Work but la aitctty rtmJy In a xoxkst to do
a vat' wouk.
It will 8avi it Cost many time over In one season
- doing the Work or tui Famil-. or It will baiim
'our or Five ixillars a lay tor art max ob woxax
who may wish to do sewing for a living.
In so n.Aix and iaat to learn and smooth to run tha
children and aervaa u con vm rr.
So it boko and ioliu bl'llt It wLU last ubmbatioi
If properly cared for.
Baa bo superfluous Coos or Caxb to get cot of
order.
Rews bocaixt rixa with coarse Cotton Linen SUk
or twine.
Bapidlt sewa a strotiir aeam over all kikds of goods
from finest Vamlnc ap to Hbavicmt Uboadolotb
and Lxatkbx without stopping the Machine.'
" linn r a-tir lk.utek more cast and quiET than any
other Marhtn at tivb Tinas th ran a.
Csea tie blrong Straight needK
Marveloaslr tkub In every motion.
hews the finest risx and lamtiku stitch.
Kakra tb oklt oka a than can kot be ripped apart
without destroying the fabric The strrnyio beau-
ty evenness and darabie qualities of wtuca have
- lone bees acceded.
Will bew AXTTUMo It la possible (or a nocdletogo
through.
WiU do bvebt VBsrBirftox of Sewing Even do on
any other MticMn xo matt 111 what the price and
With LIM TKOt'BLB.
W IU Uem. Fell l ock Seam QoIlt BraH Cord Bind
Gather Kullle feulrr. Meat old hco:lop Hull Em-
broider Kria-np-Breadtbo etc. eta With antouish-
Ing ke. Rapidity and NeatneHn.
Ilaa received Tesiimoniahi of lta Merit from all sec-
tions of the Coantry marks of dlnlinguUhed eon-
sideratlan seldom voluntarily accorded to any Inven-
tion of Similar Domestic Usefulness. -
OiiK Maxt bw Attach rnT I'atrnted Anenit 15
1H70: Heptember !W IS71; July 7 lH'.i. Made to fit
. all Machines are tha attainment of procieion la me-
chanical accuracy f jr rendering It bast for even
those who neve taw a machine before to do the
finest kind of Faxot Niidls Woki. otherwise I
uinicuu ana truiout wun tne ntmoat case ana rap-
idity. Himnle in construction. Nseds ko tkachimu.
Money reiunded after thorough trial If not aatla-
zaciory ia every puxtcaiar. ... i . n
Caah l'llces of Nachinv:
p Macuinbs with plain Talk iron Stand and Treadle
complete with ail the necessary fixtures for Immedi-
ate nse fid. Maciilni with Co van. lock and ker.
Jlulf Com MyU. S Machines with covin frr
uai lourtiue uniwrrs iocbh aeyt etc. mree-ruar-.
ter VtiUntt titytt $10. Macuinis with- enclosed
Tahle aide drawers paneled folding doors locks
and keys Fru Cabinet Btttb $73.
Tablet are of Various Styles Materials Mounting
" Kirhnett of JJeMgn etc. according to Trice
Machines Carefully Selected tiocurvly Packed and
bhipped aa Freight to any part of the world-.- ftafe
delivery Injured on receipt of price without further
Chary os. Descriptive Uooks 1lh 1 ltietrated Kn-
gravinga of the different style of Machlnea and At-
tachments Larub ruoriTit Testimonials hamplea
. "r Dewing i.inenii inducements to Canvassers.
. Wholesale Prices etc. forwarded Free of Charge
npoa application. Exclusive agency for large ter-
" ritory granted Gratia to HetiectahUi Enterpriaing
11 u alums Men Clergymen Teachers etc who will
introduce the Extraordinary Merits of oar goods to
' the People of their locality and Supply the Increas-
ing Demand. Addreot .
J. TUOTITSON II ANNA 4c CO. '
feW wly 007 llroaaiway New York.
DR. C. M'LANE'S
Celebrated American
Worm Specific.;
VERMIFUGE.
SYMPTOMS OF WORMS. :
' l MIE countenance is pale and
I leaden-colored with occasional
flashes or a circumscribed spot on
one or both cheeks ; the eyes become
dull; the. pupils dilate; an azure
semicircle runs along the lower eye-
lid ; the nose is irritatad swells and
sometimes bleeds ; .a swelling of the
upper lip ; occasional headache with -humming
or throbbing of the ears;
a unusual secretion of saliva ; slim v ;
or furred tongue; breath vory foui
particularly In the morning ; appetite '
variable sometimes voracious with a
gnawing sensation of the stomach at
others entirely gone ; fleeting pains
in the stomach ; occasional nausea -and
vomiting; violent pains through-
out the abdomen ; bowels irregular
at times costive ; stools slimy not
infrequently tinged with blood ; belly
swollen and hard ; urine turbid ; re-!
spiration occasionally difficult and ' ;
. accompanied by hiccough ; cough
sometimes dry and convulsive ;. un-
easy and disturbed sleepwith grind- i
ing of the teeth; temper variable ;
but generally irritable etc. ' . ' .
Whenever' the above symptoms
are found to exist ; . .. p
Da. C. M'LANE'S VERMIFUGE j
Will certainly efTect a cure. '
1 The universal success which has :
attended the administration . of this
preparation has been such as to war- ;
rant us in pledging oursehxs ta the
public to '
'RETURN THE MONEY
in every instance where it should
prove ineffectual: providing - the
symptoms attending the siclness of
the child cr adult should warrant the i
supposition of worms . being the
cause." In all cascs the )lea:cice
to be given in STaicr ACcoiDANci '
WITH THS DIRECTIONS. .
We pledge ourselves to the public. '
that' . . : - : . i ' .
. Dr. C. M'Lane's Vermifuge ;
- DOES NOT COXTAIX MErCTTiY i
n any form ; and that it is an inr.o-
centprcj-iration nsf Yt?jV cf
tie slightest injury to iht ctest tender-
in fat f. Address all orders to . .
FLEMING tRO; nTTSEV&ci! iL
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VESTON ARD OF TEXAN CITIES.
Capt. John Cowdon who waa born reared
nurtured and educated and is coeval with
the SIuEissippi and whoso life has been
part and parcel cf the tempestuous current
of the majestic river tells us that the
freight charee on wheat from Chicago to
Montreal and thence to Liverpool is forty
five cents per bu3hel ; from Chicago through
New York to Liverpool the cost is forty
nine cents per bushel; from St. Louis to
NewPrleatvs and thence to Liverpool the
freight charge is only thirtj-seven cents per
bushel. If Mr. Jefferson Davis's scheme be
successful and the Ilirsch-English patent
steamers' with double keels be seaworthy
and otherwise successful as now approved
it signiHes nothing whether Eads's jetties
deepen the mouth of the Mississippi or not.
Hirsch's steamers draw only sixteen feet
and these can ascend the river as far as
Cairo at almost any season and in winter
and spring cast anchor in front of St?
Louis. If this be accomplished the whole
system of trade between the West and Eu
rope will be turned backward and even
from Pittsburgh and Cincinnati and Louis
ville as well as from St. Louis Chicago
and Kansas City it will be diverted to New
Orleans. Therefore the importance as it
affects Texan commerce of tire proposition4AinericaQ freedom and the real source of
of Mr. Eads.to open a ship channel at
the month of the Mississippi. ' If the
Ilirtch steamers navigate the river and cross
the bar Eads's labors are almost needless;
if. they do not his toil is endless and the
cost as limitless as the continent which the
great river ever uplifts until Cuba be an-
nexed. Meanwhile when Eads's Sysiphean
tasks have become hopeless the govern-
ment will at last be persuaded to construct
slackwater ship canal even from New
Orleans to tidewaterand then the revolution
in the course of American trade of which Mr.
Jefferson Davis dreams and Cowdon' phil
osophises will be finally accomplished.
Texas is not a listless spectator of commer
cial events affecting every city in the val-
ey of the Mississippi. 'From these and
from the very river banks imperial wealth
is now borne away one and two thousand
miles by countless railways that Montreal
and Boston xnd . New York aad Baltimore
may be aggrandized. Ocr Southern cities
along the Mississippi rapidly go to decay.
They buy groceries and sell cotton and
are mere conduit pipes between producer
and consumvr. They nro not seats of in-
dustry or homes of manufacturing toil.
They produce absolutely nothing and give
employment to the fewest possible people.
They are drained of everything by railways
which drag everything from . their very
doorways into the insatiate maw of the
mighty gasping commercial metropolis of
the continent. Make the river an inland
sea by opening its mouth or utilizing light
draught but heavy freight-carrying steamers
and such a revolution would shock American
commerce that cities would be shaken as by
a Lisbon earthquake. .Facts affecting
cheapness of water transportation from the
West to the seacoa&t as above given show
that the consummation contemplated is
possible probable and eminently desirable.
To its achievement Mr. Davis' the states-
man and Cowdon an original thinker and
philosopher are devoting the best years of
their lives.. They say that 'Texas like
other States of the. great volley ia inter-
ested " deeply in their schemes ; "that the
fortunes of Galveston Houston Austin
San Antonio' Dallas Marshall and Jeffer-
son are inseparabia from those of New
Orleans. They would enchain Texas and
bind ' this isolated empire to the car of
triumphal progress in which the commer-
cial mistress of the South is to be. en-
throned. . There can be no objection to the
ends they would accomplish but. it is cot
true that Texan cities will be subordinated
to New Orleans. The reversal of tho course
of trade in the valley of the Mississippi ag-
grandiics Galveston and the commercial
vassalage of .that city will never be re-
newed. Once liberated .its freedom t is
final. Its bank account-whea not kept in
Wall street will be transferred : not to
New' Orleans but with that of New Or
leans to the Bank of England and Thread-
needle street. . Wnen the road to Mexico is
opened and the wealth and trade of an un-
developed empire begin to flow into Texas
it need pot cross the continent to reach the
seashore at New . York." or even at New
Orleans-; The sea will be then accessible
with chtfap water transportation even' at
Galveston. ' Whenever the commercial rev-
olution is wrought in the valley of tho
Mississippi sought to be .effected by those
who" would open; the Mississippi to the
world's commerce Texas: becomes as free
and independent commercially as was the
Republic of Tcx&3 'politically and. Galves-
ton becomes the commercial capital not
only of Texas .but cf Colorado of New
and old Mexico and the Island now only
dotted ' here . and there -with ' abodes of
wealth about a little centre of trade and
opulence will become as ricn and popu-
lous as Manhattan.
WHY THE UK IS NO PUOCUESS.
; : Bud faith illustrated ia the conduct of
States and corporations in th;s country has
wrought greater calamities than all other
foul infections that desolate States and im
poverish communities. Smith Edwards &
Co. among the richest cotton dealers of
Liverpool say in a circular now before us
that the dUTicuity of employes; capital so as
to leave any suf.lcicnt recompense is extra
ordinary and almost unparalleled and there
seems every probability that it will at last
cause sonic caia or other for .fpeculatire
undertakers. . Fc:c: ri livesliucsts are at
a discount owing to the inuanicrable 6wb
dies. of late years and it eras" probable
that the ttrcaa III re a iathe dlrectioa cf
tndcjiri.il joist-stock companies at hc-ce
An iss'Ance cf tLla u aiTorded by tba vast
cxtcrioacf co crcrstirc cstcrpnso at Old
ham and some ether raaaufacturis towES.
r.-cr tCYC:::a n.l'.i Itve recently leca
str.l oa that'rrinc:4-! &d fcvenl cf the
r-rifite concerns arc bt? converted into
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expect a rapid extension of the cotton in
dustry of Lancashire.
In Alabama and in Texas there are dis
tricts of country in which iron coal and
cotton are produced aide by side. The iron
fields at Birmingham are three and five
miles from those of coal and between the
two parallel mountain ranges cotton grows
luxuriantly. A railway line connecting
New York and New Orleans bisects this
beautiful valley in which Birmingham re
poses in idleness and only filled with the
hopes as brilliant as the eternal hills are full
of unexampled riches. The coal fields of
Texas will soon be utilized. Railways will
collocate iron cotton and fuel and yet
when this is accomplished there still rises
op the great evil defined by the Liverpool
bankers. The commercial world reposes
not the slightest confidence in local govern-
ments of the United States. Corporations
cities and counties are robbed by the black
rabble and offices are bought and sold in
market overt; the people are plundered
that knaves through universal suffrage
may riot in office and the people when in-
vested with the power have not the cour
age To protect themselves. The dema-
gogues bowl the rabble roars there is a
deal of empty twaddle about reform and
evil and the hollow protestations of devo
tion to public good are together perpetu
ated and the tax-burdened people are
pleased to be humbugged forever.
Charters of towns and names ot courts
are changed the cumber of the latter are
constantly multiplied or never lessened
public honor and weight of public burdens
signify nothing to the black rabble office-
holding is a trade and professional office-
seekers are masters of the country's for-
tunes. It is time for . revolt. The consti-
tutional convention soon sits and we would
fain hope that the people of Texas forget
ful of all unworthy considerations and of
unworthy prejudices will send hither as
members or the convention the wisest and
truest and most conservative statesmen the
country has ever known;. ; t . .; . l
The idle accumulated - capital of older
American States and of Europe will never
be brought hither ' for .investment while
there is and can be under savage rule such
as crusnes tne me-blood out oz.Houtnern
local governments no security for' prop
erty values. Municipal i governments al-
most everywhere in the South' havo . fallen
into the hands of those unaffected by bur- J
dens they impose. Towns and corporations
lose credit and foreign capital is withheld'
and every industry languishes. - Let us have
genuine honest radical ' reform. It is
found only in the purification of the ballo'-
box. - ; " 1 '
CONSTITUTIONAL ICEFOB3IS.
It is to be taken . for granted that a con
stitutional convention will be the' result of
the election on the first Monday in August.
The present State Constitution is almost
universally condemned and it is a recog
nized fact that neither retrenchment nor re-
form can be thoroughly Instituted until
there is a radical change in the organic law.
The last constitutional convention was held
at a time when the State was 'completely
delivered over into the hands of mercena-
ries and out of it came a creation which
only entangled all subsequent legislation in
labyrinth of extravagance. -; It is and
always has been as we believe the pur-
pose of tho present administration to con-
duct the government upon the most eco-
nomical plans ; but there are a thousand
stumbling blocks in the way and they all
originate in requirements of the present
fundamental law. A system of extrava-
gance has been established 1 and at present
has to be maintained in spite of any dispo
sition to .tne contrary. There are any
amount of men however) always to be
found who become no matter what their
political persuasion advocates of multitu
dinous official creations. .' There are lead
ing men in the Democratic ' party.
from any and all parts of the State who
claim that the district judges have not been
increased to an unnecessary cumber and
yet we have seen two Radical judgesCham-
ocr8 ana cooper cut down eacn to Holding
courts in one county. The other counties
lately belonging to their districts have been
attached to others and still no complaint
comes that any of the iudges of tho en
larged districts are unable to attend to the
duties imposed upon " theni. .' Twenty-five
district judges can do the work now done
by thirty-five. This reduction alone would
in the salaries of the judges and district
attorneys reduce the expenses of the State
$17000. The jury system' too can be
amended so as to save the people untold
sums of money. Not in the judiciary sys-
tem alone could a most healthy retrench-
ment bo instituted but in all the other
branches of government in the departmen
tal service in the legislative in the reve-
nue service in the present unwieldy inope-
rative and expensive public school sys-
tem and all the minor departments;-where
State money is consumed there can be
caused such a reduction in expenditures as
will speedily reduce taxation aad put the
government into a condition to pay as it
goes. It is believed that if the people
will stare to work in earnest on this line
and elect delegates to the convention who
caabc trusted to secure the needud reforms
Texas will be speedily redeemed from rav
ages consequent upon its present political
system. And it is to be hoped that the work
towards the consummation of this great du
ty will commence at once with a vigor. The
people for a time at least must wake np out
of that lethargy which has become the har
binger of a thousand political and social
evils. They owe present artivily to them
selves and to those who cccia lifter them
and unless they are true to this obligation
iacrcai.rg danger wal u tne inevitable re-
sult. With aa earnest canvass and a d
termination to jend a patriotic Selection
to the constitutional convention the pec jle
tr-sy confidently look fcrwsrd to u;h rtfor-
cit'.oa ia the alTaira cT jpTerrsiczt as will
tsoa Lft Texas out cf tLo finsEciil dl.31-
culties into. which ILe'rrlxs law cf tie
Z:Aq is ccsita-'.ly f ore r. it. ' .
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CONNECTICUT.
The next State to hold an election is Con-
necticut on the first Monday of ApriL
What is claimed by the administration peo
ple to have been a success in New Hamp
shire has encouraged them to make an ef-
fort to retrieve their fortunes In Connecti
cut. The traveling combination of orator
ical performers employed by them ia New
Hampshire the Picayune says have been
dispatched to Connecticut where they are
to repeat their wonderful acts and speak
their pieces to new audiences. At the com-
ing election a full State ticket a Legisla-
ture and four members of Congress are to
be chosen. After these are elected only
two more States will remain to complete the
Congressional elections California and
Mississippi. Of course there is no expecta-
tion that the result in Connecticut can in-
fluence the complexion of the House of
Representatives. That is so hopelessly lost
to the Republicans that a dozen States like
Connecticut could not remove its aspect.
Really the only object of the Republicans
in making a serious contest for Connecticut
is to affect the position of the party before
the country with reference to the coming
Presidential canvass. If there is to be any
chance for electing a Republican President
in 1S76 there must be a break in the series
of opposition successes." The advance of
the opposition army must be checked. Its
vanguard must be turned back If only ia a
skirmish. . New Hampshire did cot accom-
plish this for them.' At the best for them
and the worst for the Democrats it was a
drawn fight in a State which has been stead-
ily Republican except in 1871 and 1874
from 1856 to the present time. . . i
It is noticeable also that ia Connecticut
the issues are much more sharply expressed
than in. New Hampshire. In the latter
State the Republicans took the precaution
to rid themselves as far as they were able
of the dead -weight of Grant's unpopu
larity bj pronouncing definitely against a
third term. In Connecticut whilst noth-
ing : is ; said . oh this point j the Republican
convention; ia ; plain and' unhesitating
terms: approved the policy of Grant's ad-
ministration including even the particular
acts which have brought most discredit
upon it. If th'V Republicans carry Connec
ticut under such conditions as these it will
show that they have succeeded in turning
back the adverse tide at least for a lime.
It must be remarkable too that although
Connecticut has not voted for a Democratic
candidate for the Presidency since 1852
yet in State elections for the last ten years
it has been quite as often Democratic as Re-
publican.' Hence a Republican victory in
Connecticut will have great significance
and will lend fresh hopes and. renewed
vigor to the Republican conspirators for a
third term.
THE CIVIL
niGQTS
TODY.
ACT NUCA-
. Judge ' Emmons of the : Fedeial ; circuit
bench who announced last week that the
civil rights act was unconstitutional is an
original straight Republican and for all
that aa honett upright judge of greater
ability than a majority of those filling
places upon the woolsack at Washington.
He believes that it is the exclusive province
of States to protect the civil and religious
rights of citizens ; the punishment of mur
der' arson or the obstructions to the right
of attending church public schools thea-
tres and forcing the way of being accom-
modated in inns and common carriages in
the State were not only matters not granted
to the general government but in the Con-
stitution itself expressly reserved to the
State. In response to aa inquiry made by
the United States grand jury Judge Em-
mons said : '!:.-: ' : .
. "You ask whether it is a crime for which
you have the right to find an indictment
that a negro has been denied the full and
equal enjoyment of accommodations ad-
vantages facilities and privileges of thea-
tres and inns of the State. ' Such denial is
not an offense over which Congress can give
this court jurisdiction. These are matters
which the State government alone controls.
Parties who think themselves aggrieved
can bring their civil action in this court at
once.. Any decision we may then make can
be reviewed by the Supreme Court"
Tub Sulphur Springs Gazette thinks the
Statesman will be perfectly content if the
International stop at Austin The Gazette
shows how small its capacity for" the meas-
urement even of the interests still less of
the' purity of others j The circulation !of
the Daily Statesman will be doubled and
quadrupled by the extension of the road to-
ward the West. No paper east' of us -can
compete in late news and dispatches with
the Statesman because it will be nearest
the Western towns and .people. Going
cast . however the - Statesman sooa en-
counters the rivalry of the great dailies of
the East. The editor of the Qasetta may
be a : wise lawgiver but there are " more
reasons -thaa that above defined for the
assertion that he knows little of . news-
papers or ;. the . iateresta of ' bewspaper
owners." He prates' too about editors ac-
cepting : passes . to . the press convention.
May we not' inquire whether it be cot a
greater crime1 for lawgivers to - accept
such favors. They are sworn to act faith-
fully and pocket a quati bribe:.The editor
is under no greater obligation to assail or
laud or serve railways thaa a simple sense
of personal honor and duly imposes. While
members of the Legislature accept railway
passes it occurs to us without reference to
the question of right or wrong as editors
may be affected that members of the Leg-
islature should be silent or plcck the beams
out Of their own eyes before they discover
such email motes la the optic orbs of the
poor quilld rivers. . . .. ; .
1IOX. 301X71 ELIXCCCX.
Saa Antonio is well pleased with our
Congressman. The .TTc raid ' says that the
pcc;!e.cf the West and cf the frontier
particularly are under "obligations of the
weightiest character to Hca. Jcba Hascock
f or the aldllloral ej-prc; :ktioa by Congress
cf t'?CC3 to the completion of Co fron-
tier U-Iegrsph aad.al&ofor the appropria-
tioa tf C-v-a.Cj to remove Tcrt CIll Ia-
dl'.ns. The proper expenditures of these
arjoz-ls will prcc-re the frc-'J:r tVrolste
iio.ir.ur.'ty frera Ia-llaa nidi aad vn'.h
rlctiure we bear witness to tie t"or.s cf
C:73-:;:-a ITircock to this llooo: J cca-zzir.-.iUc3.
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A NEW LIGHT1 JUST OUTSIDE TIIE
: CHUnCH.
Dr. Sam Watson long a citizen of Arkan-
sas and of Mississippi is going to deliver
lectures in Shreveport in cities of Tex-
as and will probably visit Austin no is
as famous for earnest simple unpretend-
ing piety as for excellent practical common
sense. He has . grown rich even while
preaching the gospel and ever confessing
himself a "spiritualist" still remained the
editor of the McthodUt Christ tan Adroeate
Finally he withdrew from the Methodist
Church that he mijrht become the great
leading light of spiritism everywhere. He
has written a book and its sequel entitled
"The Clock Struck One' and a suffix
'The Clock Struck Two." Both have been
sent to the Statesman. These unpretend-
ing volumes have been widely read and
tell in the simplest-forms of perfect veri-
similitude" the most marvelous incidents to
show that the dead still live and that we
are in the midst of countless myriads of de-
parted spirits;; Especially does Dr. Watson
undertake to reconcile spiritism and Chris-
tianity lie insists that tho Bible is a
"epiritual volume that every book within
its pages tells of the opening of men's eyes
their "spirit eyes" when they beheld
Heaven's hosts or "nen like trees walking."
It was broad noouuay when we are told
"and V'ttr eyea were cpened.". Their bodily
eyes were already. open" Eat is it true
that Dr. Watson's rational spiritism is Swe-
denborg's 'modified by. supposed modern
discoveries made on the confines of the two
worlds. Swedenborg was a seer.' . He too
like Dr. Watson communed with departed
spirits.' He like Dr. Watson believed that
Christ was the very God. . He gave cre-
dence as many so-called Christians do not
to recitals which tell of the casting out of
devils .an.l oi.nncleaa spirits-and Dr. Wat-
son only goes beyond Swedenborg who
never listened as wc are: advised to " tip-
ping . tables " " and : ' tippling" . .Fosters
whose trifling tricks have only appealed to
the wonder and credulity of those who love
to be cheated.; Swedenborg's extraordi-
nary powers are well attested.; He was at
the dinner table -ia ;London with the fore-
most men ot the British capital. Suddenly
he dropped his knife and fork grew pale
and whenhffrccdvered"brmself described
a conflagration thca. destroying the most
densely populated district of Stockholm.
His own-childhood's home was. at the in-
stant 'swept away.2 "Three weeks later a ves-
sel camc.: and newspapers reproduced the
story as told by Swedenborg: lie had
been at fault in"-" nothing. " ne told
an insurance' office that a vessel
on which the; Jradtakejaheavy risks was
burning far out: at : seaVrHe described the
scene and told of . the escape of part of the
crew in- one of the ship's boats. The story
as tojd wa3 afterwards found to be literally
true. . Swedenborg designated the place
and hour of his death and a truer Chris-
tian -or more . learned or profounder
thinker never added aught to the stores of
human wisdom. It is perhaps true that
there is in nature a more subtle force than
that which: we-term sympathy. We have
seen an unlettered simple mechanic of
singularly nervous temperament who could
hold another's ; hand and tell his very
thoughts 'or define 'any strong feeling or
emotion of a questioner. - Men's brains are
magnetic batteries and the nerves are
wires along which currents of "sympathy"
run from brain' to brain as . over the wires
from Austin" to Galveston.' It was such a
wire of human sympathy that brought
to Swedenborg in .London the story
of the fire in Stockholm and of the
fire at -sea. -Is-itnot-this which we
have all recognized ' which makes ns of-
ten exclaim ''think-of the d 1 and his
imps appear t" The friend or associate of
a lifetime comes cot because we expect
him but we are conscious ot his presence
at the door because he is there and is en
rapport with us. There .is no intervention
of dead. people required to explain all
these developments of so-called "spiritism."
There is nothing to show that people once
dead are ever restored to life. Wesley
like Swc4nlwgj-w-a8-sr-raUonal spiritist
but wc have no reason to suppose that they
concurred with those who like Dr. Watson
believe that spirits of the dead have made
old ."clocks'! silent for years strike either
"one" or "two." - We cannot believe it.
Beccher is somewhat older than mea
commonly guilty pf offenses with whieh he
is charged. ; . Rut. we rhave admitting all
that is said of iim a worse than Beecher
ia sheep's LluliungrrrTlolcg the devil's
work evea '-here In' Texas.' The story is
told with such? ignorant simplicity and un-
mistakable earnestness that there can be no
doubt astotheperfect truthfulness of the
helplejs "wife. . .Of . course bur exchanges
will reproduce the etoryr and the hoary-
headed old traitor to woman and to truth
and to vows registered in heaven will find a
Nemesis ia the prtM to-hnnt him to a grave
of infamy.-:. . v . ' :
I Helena Abkansas March 21 1S75.
.i Editort Democrat ie SlaLemdn You. will
please excus-tb liberty-I have taken ia
writing these few line.-:-1 wish to know if
you will please notify me ia your paper if
one T. J. Lacey is a " Methodist preacher
formerly of Blanco City Texas. He mar-
ried me-there seyen- months ago and
brought me to this placed among strangers
sick and afHicted with the' erysipelas and
not able-to work fcfxiioaths. He then
went off and left me ia a lonely condition
without a cent or clothes. I am cow down
sick among atraagersv atray from my home
and with not one. cent of money or any-
thing except as strangers see fit to give.
Said Lacey io a member of the Masonic
order. He left me without any cause what-
ever only he did rqt wast to support inc.
Will yon be so kind as to give this a notice
in your paper for it is but right that the
world should know low shamefully and
cruelly he has treated aoi aCictcd girl usin g
the cloak cf the church. I wish to let all
Christian people knew how ho has treated
a young and hr-lplcss girL. He is sixty-nine
years old Eve feet ten inches toll heavily
built Tery Mack evea dirk skin and gray
hair.
Will you j I .': - Ire this a notice in your
paper and yea v;iA confer a lasting obliga-
tion oa one La great distress. Other papers
please copy. I1tj P. A. C- Lacey.
' CIIV A. J CUl'MTSY urc
The letter cf "O. Zip Cooa" is none tie
worse for tve torriLhj - came he 'adopts.
That there trs i.-oi!lcs to lie r--'.:;a he
d:?ct:?e Ls-.iu-tirc tl: e French stitesua.
ctnfw-Sici when' L" aiid that
ral
H!--crcrst llrlrj I j tve c-V.iv-'.ica cf tLe
so." the ratural tniveriil aai cvcr-cadcr-ir-cc-r
oLlcn cf :ii2t tLcuU rcltct locg
asd eosidly before they c-olt this Hoot cf all
wLIli it crc-'.os tzl lZc :1s i;:i....liod tc:r-
I I . . .ot u iu c-i::;o:. H jo ll co
wj'1 to r ---:liors tL(y io.:o the Lci.ls
of cities to engage ia the precarious fleet-
ing and uncertain trades which one caprice
nourishes and another destroys. The Ufa
of the poorest laborer ia the fields is envia-
ble when compared with the mechanical
drudgery of many of the inhabitants of a
city. The farm laborer is not forced to
shut himself out from all physical nature
the natural element of man which renders
him strong and rigorous. He has the sky
above his head; the grass under his feet
the sun before his eyes and the fresh air
within his organs of Tespiration. His
labors are rude but varied admitting of a
thousand different applications of the mind
a thousand changing attitudes of the body
a thousand various employments of their
strength and time. Digging plowing sow-
ing and nearly all those employments per-
formed in the open air and light make a
man healthy and cheerful. IncessaLtly
wrestling with the forces of nature ho in-
creases his own. 1 He has the courage and
spirit of freedom and is equal to anything.
He is ready to defend the countiy he has
cultivated looks you boldly in the face
walks upright speaks loud draws a fall
breath nor envies any one. Misery in the
country is not like misery in cities pent
up. How can so many rush lccklessly into
the vortex ! '
VTIU ACTUALLY BEGUN..
If the telegraphic dispatches received in
this city last Saturday be trustworthy the
war at last between Mexico and Texas has
already begun. Texas has borne quite
enough and if the United States will cot
Texas can guard her own confines and at
least repel armed invasion. . Several ranches
in the vicinity of Corpus Christi have been
attacked and plundered- within the past
week by armed bands from Mexico. "Stores
have been rifled and houses plundered.
The robbers in strong force were within a
few miles of Corpus Christi and the citizens
of the place have been called to arms.
Robber bands also hold the roads deeding
into Brownsville. . It is very strange that
Federal power does not intervene. -;If an
imaginary negro or two be knocked on the
head in any - quarter .of tho South Grant's
armies with Sberidans and Merrills to do
bloody worl . and override local law are in-
stantly set in motion and' the North never
ceases to howl till Cuffee's mishaps are ter-
ribly avenged ; bat here at our very doors
week after week there are lawless incursions
into an American State by banditti known
to be guarded and under the patronage of a
Governor of a Mexican State and despite
ceaseless robberies and murders of Texan
white men "the best government the world
ever saw" is calm as a May morningas
Galveston Bay when the "Devil Fish' rests
from its labors. "Xet-us-have-peace" had
reference to negroes ... and Mexicans
and had cone . to. the condition of.
State or ot their white citizens.
A1 pedagogue-over in Sob Antonio
named Carl. Franklin wrote a blood-and-thunder
"Hidden Hand " sort of tragedy.
It was produced by a very respectable com-
pany; and1 instead " Of tears ' and horrors
provoked the wildest scenes of. ;merriment.
Women rsllcd over and men howled and
clapped their hands l and the theatre
shook from ' pit 6 dome.' Never was a
comedy -so successful ' as this '. tragedy
in . comedy's -: slippers. ' The author
was : enraged J the'1 actors' happy' : and
with the gravest' demeanor ' they " went
through tho - most savage scenes of absurd
demonism and mock heroic rage. There
was-never a play so " successful never one
that gave such unalloyed 'satisfaction to all
except the author. ' : ne "feels himself
wronged laughed; at his' purposes 'per-
verted and himself like his play turned
inside out and 'upside down." The ' Expires
says that Mr. Franklin 'has been so outraged
by the extraordinary consequences of his
becoming a playwright that he cow 'pro-
poses to kill all his critics 'and ' Judge
Klocke one of tho number' has been com-
pelled to swear out a peace warrant and
have the learned comico-tragedian jugged.
It is a very exceptional woman who will
not be ill she can to aa attractive husband
and a more exceptional one who will not be
very disagreeable If slie findllierself willful-
ly neglected. It would be very easy to hate
a man who having bound a woman to him
made oo effort' to make her happy ; hard
not to love one' who wasiconstant and ten-
der f and when a" woman loves she always
strives to please. The great men of this
world have often been wretched ia their
domestic relations while mean and common
men have bcea:'exceedingly "happy. '.The
reason is very1 plain. Absorbed' in them-
selves those who desired the world's ap-
plause1 were careless of the little world at
home;T while those Who' had none of this
egotism stro7e to'keep the hearts that were
their own; and were happy in their tender-
ness. - No woman will love a 'man the bet-
ter for ' being renowned ' or prominent.
Though; he be first among men- she will
only be prouder" cot fonder; and if she
loses him through this renown as is often
the case she will cot even be proud. Bat
give her love appreciation kindness and
there is no Bar ri fira .aha -would cot make for
his content and comfort. : The man' who
loves her well is her bero and her king. !
Elkixs is the Congressional delegate from
New Mexico and is a clever fellow and if
New Mexico were a State Elkins might go
up stairs into the Senate..' The Democrats
ia the House all like Elkins and bad egrecd
to help him moke Xew Mexico a State.
One Burrews a ferocious Puritanical Radi-
cal made a violent vindictive malignant
attack upon the South and Elkins cot
hearing a word of "it and thinking only to
fatter the absurd fool rushed to Jus seat
scued his cold hands' froggy as Majctrd's
and la stilted rhetoric lauded the disrupt-
ing bar argue. ' Sunset Cox and ether
Democrats locked oa ia amazcrcer-t They
agreed to kill New Mexico ia order to kill
poor Elkins and ITtw ilexico died that
tight." He went ia Los grave clothes toths
Democrats' for aa '"ex phytic a. . TLey tll
"we taw ycat:brac4 Eurrows and there-
fore yea were ttrkkea ooi th3 hcu-es cf jozi
L-ic-lL" ? Z'Xizz'i cider jr: drrr-ol
d3-"atoits f-"oot cxtcxt Lis Lccu riicte
ere asc-'her tzl ho r;od c-.t.:"j:oa
crh'.rr've Izo-xz Hit I r-3 j IIo.rrcn5ra'i
vote tzl r.:vcr Lcirl a wcri cf tho Lo.!r-
cal r-ee-cL.? Cox ai.1 the rest wept with
Elkias bit it was a vcr".to.hls zz 1
there was't'i' iv-:; M.Z-. u'-..i 17ew llexko.
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TIIE PETHTENTIAIIY LXOKniriES.
It was the New Orleans Timet that dis-
covered the fact that Andrew Johnsoa
bought ten members of the Tennessee Legis-
lature and now it is the same Timet that dis-
covers through a discharged guardsman;
that Ward Dewey & Co. are villainously
corrupt and barbarous. - If : the Timet
prosecute its toils ia this direction
it may finally supplant the Inter-
Ocean as the receptacle of filth
that dozes out of the brains of oaraeleaa
wandering Bohemians. The Legislature of
Tennessee was weak enough to be entrap
ped and advertised tha Timet as it wished
and bow the Timet would have the State
government of Texas bend to its purposes
and give it another effective advertisement.
Ward Dewey & Co. are surely too sharp to
be entrapped. Black-mailers of all sorts
will come down on them and chiefest of
these is the Timet. They need only be
patient. The wrorg begets its own remedy.
Commodobe Morgan C. A. Whitney
Charles Fowler H. B. Plant Presidcntpf
the Southern Express Company; ; M. J.
O'Brien General Superintendent; J.' M.
Tilley; Col. Grocsbeck Vice President of
the Texas Central; II. M. Hoxie General
Superintendent of the International Rail-
way and several . other gentlemen took
passage on one of Morgan's steamers for
Indianola Corpus Christ' Rockport
Brownsville and Matarsoros. They go only
to see tho coast of Texas. -They return to
Galveston-and will be in Austin a week
from to-morrow morning. These facts
coming to the knowledge of Col. Murrah'
of the express office of this city he was in-
duced to postpone his visit to Georgia and
his presence here is required in fixing a
lower rate of express charges everywhere
west of the Mississippi.
" Tns Terat Herald cow published at El
lis talks most sensibly. It asks no "pat-
ronage but proposes to give a quid pro
quo. ll people want a good newspaper
that their wives and children may not be
disgracefully ignorant ofeventa about their
own homes and abroad they must needs pay
. i - tr t ' ' r' ' f -1 ' a i i . mi
tot tne jueram. ubb iact is nxcu lucy wui
not receive the paper till the owners have
the cash ' for it. . It is - surely time 1 that
Texan newspapers : had adopted the policy
of the.iZfiraW. 'Nothing so . degrades the
press as dependence. ? The people owe it
everything : and yet there are newspapers
praying for. "patronage.". It is shameful.
-' Vulgar people say "he goes up- the
spout" the literati like. Evarts say tic Uur
ad 'astral Evarts once floored Boutwell
with this Latin phrase when Boutwellpros-
ecuting President Johnson belore the Fed-
eral Senate ' proposed to have Johnson ex-
iled to that void in' immensity among the
stars down about the South Pole. We be-
lieve Job first discovered this hole ia the
heavens. .' Evarts wanted to see Andy and
Boutwell flop away frein .the. dome of the
Capitol. . But Andy don't look like a seraph
and Boutwell is not cherubic and the usie
iturn etc. was made very absurd in its
application.' i "
.The Waco -Jteporter says: 'From- the
latest : advices "bondholder! ot the Interna
tionai are happy but the poor ttoclc and
Aoreholdera are ruined. That noae but
the bondholder will be benefited is evident
from the fact that the road bos already bor
rowed money on the strength of the money
subsidy to its charter and failing to get
that and being head over heels in debt the
stockholder will be forced to relinquish
everything to satisfy its mortgaged bonds
and the bondholder reaps all the benefit
taking the road and the lands to satisfy
the present indebtedness to the rood. "
The sensational . report from the New
Orleans; Timet republished in the Galveston
Newt upon the subject of outrages perpe-
trated upon the convicts ia the Texas State
penitentiary bears upon its foca evidences
of falsehood.. The informant of the Timet
states the most. outrageous misrepresenta-
tions ia regard to employing convicts upon
different lines of railway. The Timet gives
in its reports the names of lines in connec-
tion with routes which do not even exist in
the railroad bistory of Texas. .
- Commodore Morgan" will remain at the
Hutchias House ia Houston a day or two.
He is accompanied by Messrs. C A; Whit-
ney of New Orleans; his son-in-law A. C.
Hutchins and' H. Wilson of New York
and Capt. Chartes Fowler of Galveston.
Houston people think the Commodore will
make the canal" and that Houston will yet
be the great commercial capital of Texas.
So mote it be. Galvcstoa and Austin will
only prosper the more. ' 4i !
Forttose of the most desperate skill-
ful and notorious counterfeiters and expert
thieves of the continent are cow in Texas.
Counterfeit money is widely distributed
and the people should watch elegantly
dressed strangers on the streets of Texan
towns and beware of Chicago money. ' It
is no. better than the morals of a city that
supports the infamous Inter-Ocean newspa-
per a counterfeit upon all human truth and
decency.' ' - ' -; ' -' '
.'The Age is cot well pleased -that par
friend Peeler' only a year or two ia Texas
should be made assistant attorney general.
We don't exactly see what the deration cf
residence ia Texas has to do w ith fitness
for efficc. . It wotild be quite as reasonable
to Bay that aa editor who has only beea a
year in Texas is incnpable of rendering the
Ayt a charming and most discreet and emi-
nently proper crgaa of Texas interests and
opinion. . .
Gex. Augur la a tote rcjvlyirg to cr.e
from lcadlrg cillzess of Caa Attonio who
deplore Lis transfer to another department
says: . . . v '. -
lly fa.rr.LIy to when yea have rt.'rrc 1 to
klndiy rrret easily with tay6tlf . the
ccce:ty which S'-nratcs thera fr.-i a
l'i with whe-ja V. j Lave l-cea to 1 7 ti
ao t.l;;&o.-;ly to.-. jtl-tcl' &z-l frou Lc-a
they Lave tx'trk-ncc-l c-ihirg t-t kl;-l-rc-s
tzl ccroidrratloa.- .Y'Icrvr the cxi-
feccies cf rr;:2 f.sy Ws9 .cs- it ra'.l
alwsysle a frt:t r I o1. ;ri t - to i: tct
: Z'a asy cf c zt xii ftv. o li. . ' . .. .
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Lettes-writeks say that the missioa to
Mexico of which Cameron and other Sen
ators are members propose to annex all
that part of Mexico north of Rio Rapido
and of the Rio Grande de Rapido. Tho
States to be appropriated by the " United
States are Chihuahua Coahuila ISueva-
Leon Sinaloa Durango Zacatecas and one-
half. Tamaulipas one-third or Jalisco
and one-eighth of Saa Luis Potosi.
A correspondent of the Y-tr writing
from the City of Mexico says of President
Lcrdo that all the powers of his great mind
are directed towards the aggrandizement of
Mexico. - Immigration and railrosids are the
absorbing questions with him at present
and under his wise statesmanship Mexico is
slowly but surely advancing in the path of
intellectual and material development.
The best and cheapest pavement ia any
American or other city is that of Paducah.
It was pat down more thaa thiity years
ago and it is as perfect now as then and
as solid as stone. The material is a species
of -conglomerate clay and pebbles that
grows hard and compact beneath the action
of wagon wheels and never wears out. It
is found at Paducah at the mouth of the
Teancssee river. .
A wortht denizen of Fort Worth stands
upon the tomb of the century and looks
back from tho Fort to the ruins of some
SOO dance houses and .of 100Q calabooses
that designate the spot where Dallas once
stood. Jackals Instead of morning papers
howl over the graveyard cf unattained
greatness and Fort Worth contemplates
the dreary spectacle with unequivocal un-
disguised satisfaction.
To substitute Williams for Schcnck at tho
court of St. James is cot swapping the
devil for a witch but a knave of trumps for
the trump of knaves. Both men degrado
America in the eyes of Englishmen and
England to escape contact with America
througa Williams would spend a million to
defeat the third term. Let Williams go to
London by all means. '-
A man earned Solon is building the jail
at -Waxahachie. Tho finest concoctions of
architectural taste and art are derived from
Greece' and cow since Solon himself has
undertaken to give Texas decent prisons
the ago and country ia which we live will
no longer be disgraced by barbarities in a
system of prison discipline revolting in all
its incidents and disgraceful ia all its facts.
It was the marshal of Texarkaca who
accepted f 1000 from Morris the express
robber and turned Morns loose several
weeks ago. Morris is the authority for this
assertion. He says ho is "done for" a
doomed man Pinckcrtons victim and
must spend the rest of his days in the pen-
itentiary and can now tell the whole
truth.
' - Gen. Rocca in whoso behalf a coup dlal
was lately planned at Mexico was arrested
and locked up byPresident Lcrdo and
banished to Cclaya. Gen. -Aurcliana was
perhaps mortally wounded and several
employees of the government havo beea
exiled. The death or overthrow of Lcrdo
would be. a great calamity eveu to this
coantry.
One Gen. R. R Barrow of Terrebonne
proposes in a long printed circular to pay
the national debt and do divers ether pa-
triotic things on paper and then offers a
reward of $4000000 "for that prosperity
(which was money) as it was in these United
States- before the war with a currency
equal to gold and silver." All of which is
clear as mud. -
' There is reason to believe that a eturdy
effort is making throughout tho State by
f air means and foul to combine Radicalism
and soreheads of all sorts against the prep-
osition to have a constitutional convention.
The plot Is evea cunningly embodied sorao
have said ia tho awkward (?) act submit-
ting tho questioa to a vote of the people.
' A speclu. dispatch to the AVtri from New
York states that the International Railroad
compromise is accepted by the company
that the duo debt will be funded and tho '
prosecutioa of work oa tho road will bo re-
sumed this summer. This will be glorious '
news to the country west of us as well as to
Austin.
TaIR Sulphur Springs Oaatte condemns
the appointment of Chcnowith as judgo
because older citizens and good lawyers ap-
plied for the place. Fortunately Gover-
nor Coke docs cot decra longevity ia or
out of Texas aa element of history and
character indispensable to fitness for oHIce.
' The Ticayv.ne says that John G. Jacies
superintendent of the Austin military prop-
erty il the first Southerner ever made a
member of the examining board of the An-
napolis Naval Academy. It ii aa f.; polnt-
ruent fit to be made
Every white man of intelligence ia tho
South abhors universal suffnsje and th-cvo
all thing" in municipal elections an-l fclnce
we have the right and power to restrict it ia
local elections what prevcr.1f rare the
moral cowardice of party leaders!
Sah A:tcsio is especially well
that Ilea. Joha Hancock L&s ca:
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re-jppropriatcd to that the sr.:ne will r'-t
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