Weekly Democratic Statesman. (Austin, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 36, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 12, 1877 Page: 1 of 4
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THE STATESMAN.
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I published eery morning except Monday. . .
THW WKHtLY
poblieh-d ercry Thursday moraig.
All baalncMeorTCupoadeacs ctmai ealeatloat
U. efcwnld be arfdreeaed to
MnDWkLL mORHIS.
Aot!n. Teas
jflEDICAL.
(Jentaur
Jjiniments.
Ijttltr from a Fotlnuuler.
ANTroctj lix. December 1 !S74.
Meaerf. J. It. lt'o a Co.:
My wife baa fur a long time been a terrible
a-fferer froia Kbeomatlrm. hbe baa tiled many
pbyalciaua aad many rauiedlee. Tbe only Uuag
'Which baa rlvm bar rrllff la Centaur Liniment.
I am re Mewl to any thta haa eared bar. 1 aia
doing what J can U) extend lu aale.
w. n Rruo.
Thla ! a aample of many thooaand teatimoiti;
aia rwlird of woailrrful earea effected by the
I'etitanr I.lnirneat. The loirredleoleof lUia atl-
rlr are pnbtUhed emnna each bo tie. Itcontaina
Witch Hajari. Mentha Amies Kock Oil Car-
bolic ami iuirrerileuta biiherlo little known. It
la an Indlaputulile fact that tbe Centaar Lini-
ment la performing more earea ol BwelHaga
htiU Joint Kmpllona Khan mat lam Neuralgia
Be ailra. Cak-d ilnaaia. Lockjaw etc. Ibao any
othor llolinente emiirocatlooe extract aalrea
olaunrnu and plaaieraaow In uae.
for Tootliacbe. Karat.be Weak Back Ttch and
C'ntar.eona Eruption it la admirable. It enree
burna and ecalda wllhonta car extraela polaon
from bilca and ellnge aad braie froat-bltea and
chillilalna In a abort time. No family can afford
to be Mithuul tbe Ccutaur Lluimeat white wrap
pr.
'I ha Casta or Llnlmaat Yallaw
U rauprr. I adapted to the tough akin auie-
cla and nV.h of ih j animal cieatiun. JtacnVcte
Dpn iHtrrre raaea of Hpavin Hweenr Wind
(all. Hit Head and Toll krll ara llttl leal than
marvi'loua.
Itinera. J. MrClure & Co. Drnrclata coram"
of Klui and Front etreela.Cinctanau. Ohio aaya:
"lu our neighborhood number of Tcamalere
arc u.lnjf tbe t.'iutanr Liniment. They pronounce
It atipericir to anything they have ever uaed. We
a.ll aa blub aa four to live dozen battles per
month to tliuae teamntere."
We have thouaande ef almllar teetlmonlale.
For VYoaiida (.alia tjcratcaee Bincboaa etc.
and for Hcrew Worm in abet-p it hat no rival.
Farmrre. Mrerymea and Storkraleere have la
thia Llalnu-at a rumedy which la worib a hun-
dred tllnua ita coat.
Laboratory f J. B. ROSE & CO.
l Dey lit. New York.
Pitcher's
Castoria.
Mntaera may bave reat and their behiet may
hive health if tley will uae Caatnria for Wind
Colic. Worma Kevrr alinca" Sore Moaib Croup
or Htomacn 'oinplaliita. It il enlir. ly a vegeta-
ble preparation and contalne neither mineral
morphine nor alcohol . It I aa pleaaant to take
aa honey a d neither gaga aar grlpee
l)r K Illmoch. of W.pont Ohio aaya:
"I am urlng ianiorla In mv practice with fha
nio't elgnil benrflta and happy reenlte "
Thl- la whit everyone aaya Moat nnraea la
New York City nee be Caatorla. It la prepared
bv Me. ara. J. H Hoaa Co. Dey Htreet New
Yor aiicreeor'o Hamuel Pitcher M. D.
djfcw ly'ataw tiljeif.
OR. BUTTS'
dispensary r-rfr;
Thirty yrert"pr.n'-wl- lh trratuwat at tcxtuU tVnvl
tChromo 1). .' nflM-th .
Iking A fUy.tologioaU View o Marris
a; f orunniavrrtJ and ihww contt-inplatinf
inn ni Iti eMrrt hiflnMitiraut voutn.
inhmlaUKlwoniaiilMM4 An Illustrated Lwok i M ntijr
Jr pnvat rriidliiir wlinh should be lK'4 iumUt 1vcv tnusi
t. H'-Difiml'Ttt-eit HTf-fcta.
A PRIVATE M R UIUAL TKEATIBC ah all Hf9
f m PrtVati Natur in bth m nv. !-
nrAtrmtUOiv aM-siual atrm and I tie itiwaialviclaMpAfCal
MT DlCf At APVICEd o 84-mualand Chwnlfl DlmiH
flfmiiuil Waukn C.Urrh Canrar. Rupture thai Opiu
llftblt. p. iM)pi(f rk -nt under wal fur ltt ct. All
thrvc book a etHilalnhi 40 paMndvtrrthUit worth
AnowUiff on iltr ulijrf.'t a ant acauroLy wtlM on r-
Apt f 0 ct. A'ldma Dr. BuHt' Diapcnunh
42 N. 6th .rt.. St Lou it. Mo. L iMS.f
04 8a
Dr. rattier
617 St Charles traet St Loula Mo.
a i- a. w. u4Li riiiiiM aaaan.
rnae a tta armlal ImiDxat ef ail Veneral. aexaat
andcnroaio limoaana aay aikar rajauUalalta.
lMMMaa4VVperaaliBaaaiiaMraaiaMuMw.
Syphilia Uaaerrhcsa Oieet trietura Of
ashilia. Hernia or Rupture all Urinary DUeeeee
and ivphilitle ar mercurial affaetieaa af the
threat akin ar bn-a are waatad i a.juiWta4
anW M UlMtaeliallM artaalj.l.a. aafary ttfnutf
SpermatorrheM Baxaal Oebltlty aad1 Impot-
ancy aalbaraaauof BaM-akaMla vaatk. aanal aaaanaa
ta taatatM- ra ar ether aaaaaa. ) wkteh para eaeaa
of tta lblllDa aftV-Ul efrrauaeaeh aaauaal aataaaaaa
4akUKy.laiaaialaujtiaafaMlra aiianry !! aa tae
u ahraloat 4aear. aanlna te aar r haai laa laaraatrai
ef lalaS loaa wnal aowar. aw.. taa4Hag aarrlaf
Improper w nnhappy.ara aaiwtaaauy aar. fayfcMa
14 nlWI U i ebarfc ant la aaatad aarakaaa.
atwVpaMaeaauaiDa. OaaaallaUaa M .aaaaaer ar Wa
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itw aam auaraawce ireeoMerta rraalrau.
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Ptmphlei any ddraaa far Twa tame.
MANHOOD .'o--
WOMANHOOD ZZL'IZZ
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toeatber llluetreted IS Cearta.
.Maenaoa aaa womarmooo aa uiimmi wwm
m mb-i m awaaaa) t 4
GUIDE.
vumh Mintii end rill bfadtna.
ealedforsoa.
.aranr vavlu1t aaa akaafaa Waa M I aruaM aa
tka teUoatna agui aa aaiy warrr. aa a. 7-
fi.nr aa va awry. Waa mtrf Brae IHaaaaa Waaava-
a-oa. rb ileal aear Taa eeme at anuaii n
W ho afcjaU aaany I Baw ua aad aaeeaaaaa aaky
r ei i
tnea looked no. eat UM Maaa a or ana aa ill la away
.( ta-raadlai. li aaataete ahaareaaa of aaaaiaai naar-
AtnrekUMachW aa lharaa la aa attaaaira araeoaa. aad vena
1 2? aaa .aa wui aira u a aaretia aeraaal. taa Haaaa
"roJSfafiuidaa. aawa aa ahara hataaaar aaawaaeaa.
Soontahyajatu Chaapaai il f nil ah Aawataa. Irer
euaaraiiliwa. iniHanmiaanal.
DR. WHITTIER
817 St Chart atrttt 8t LouU M.
DR. WHITTIER
617 St. Ckavrlaa Straat
Treats alt formsof Veneral lharaxs Setnt-
na EiuiaiUons and Scxunl Debility with
unparalleled success No matte who failed
call or write; pamphlet or consultation free.
Can refer to the medical prof km in all
parts of the Country.
ADVERTISINGS
area.! vtllaaaiTvaaaakiaa' aad wut aaaaiy am aaa
avory. Adrraa.
aklaMAdTerUakYsaOalLLeaate
JUE STATE Of TEXAS
Ta ail paranaa Intcreeted la the nardlasahlp f
KW TON U. JAM aad LSNU LAAB.
aainara. -
U la. Lena anardiaa of the above a anted ael-
BOra. baa Aled bia application la taa) twenty
Coart of ravta eoaaiy for tbaaaia of eertata
trai property beloaK ac toaald amlaata for tbe
payment of de ta which will be heard at Ik
aval term of aaid roaih. to be b-ld al tae roan
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1)Y IN UY bTi when aad .bro all p-
auaw lot roted m y appear aad ahow oauae way
auckaaleaboadatbeahadw - .
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VQL-V AUSTIN TEXAS THURSDAY APR L 12 ISTlT '
. I i . : :
XIIH UOIAa!Ca CILBRO.1 aV TI?I. I
a roLi rics. I
Hon Rotrer Q MilU'a assertions of
political and partisan faeU cannot be
questioned. He declare that tbe Ra4
ical party was born of hatred of the
South and living breathing movit.g
and having its being upon this one
idea knows that when passion diss tbe
party will be laid away in the some
grave. In conclusion he said :
The Republican party are in power
ana intend to remain so. Their so
premacy is constant threat against
tae Booth. As long as they hold tbe
power of the Federal government the
South in in peril and for tbe simple
reason that as long as tbe South re-
tains her political power the Republi-
can party is in pehL Whatever is in
store for us let ns meet it aa a united
people rememberiog that "united wc
stand divided we fall."
Mr. Mills may be an agreeable but
is he not an nnwue counsellor? Have
we not tested his policy and found it
rninousf Is not the Booth tbe weaker
section and while issues are sectional
are we not always driven to tbe wall!
When did we win?: How can victory
under such circumstances bo assured?
Even before the war when there bad
been ' no bloodshed and no graves dug
to perpetuate sectional passions party
leaders of the South preaching tbe
very sermon that now falls from sheer
force of passion and habit from Mills's
lips advised the people to accept tbe
policy still ardently commended by
tbe irascible and inflammatory Mr.
Mills. He tells as that three Northern
States voted with the South for Til-
den. Can tbe South rely upon these
three States or npon Louisiana or Mis
sissippi Alcorn can carry Mississippi
where negroes surely bave a majority
of 25000 and colored outnumber white
Toters in Louisiana and South Caro-
lina. Even New York City is untrust
worthy and it was tbe city that carried
tbe Bute for Tilden. The very mob
that served Tweed and has ravaged
and bankrupted the metropolis of the
Union Is hardly fit to be invested with
the power to dispose of the fortunes
as Mr. Mills suggests of these com-
monwealths. And yet if New -York
fail as tbe Democratic party is wholly
undone. We cannot rely upon
New York and therefore cannot repose
unlimited confidence in tbe advice so
generously and earnestly given by the
fluent facile talker of Corsicsna. ' Mr.
Mills disregards all tbe teachings of
partisan history. He forgets tbe ca
lamities "precipitated" by those who.
accepting Mr. Mills's theories sixteen
years sgo organized a sectional con
flict between sectional parties. And
when we contemplate the painful re
sults of Mills's theories when reduced
to practice nobody can complain if
sane .thoughtful people contemplate
tbe possibility of arriving at results
which Mr. Mills aims at by adopting a
different policy. He would perpetuate
sectionalism and bave one section van
quish the other at the ballot-box. It
a "bal load to ttavel but pluoley
little fellows love to show their pluck
and the reckless and unthinking ap-
plaud as tbey do the game eock that
moves up gallantly crowing to slaugh-
ter. It is fine and admirable and
"chivalrous" and "chivalry" loves the
heroism that delights in self-sacrifice.
But common sense takes a somewhat
different view of the country's condi
tion and future fortunes from this which
the Mills ot the godt slowly wind-iDg
grinds out for the delectation of tbe
fiery class of Tszan political thinker.
A great body of Northern people Re-
publicans and Democrats approve tbe
President's purposes. He constructs
cabinet from which the men
that Mills would light f.re carefully
excluded. He promulgates in his
inaugural and in conversational
declarations of purpose and a scheme of
government and of legislation by which
sectional partisanship which so de
lights and elcctriles Mr. Mills shall
be broken down. What is strange in
all this is that the President surrenders
absolute partisan supremacy in the
Union for the sake of the South and
of the Union. Mr. Mills impotent as
be is and representing tbe impotent
South will not see or confess that the
President sacrifices certain absolute
partisan power that tbe South may be
free. Mr Mills on the contrary a
Southerner by birth would thrust as
into another and another sectional con
flict In which our defeat and hucnilio
tion are absolutely certain. Who is
the friend of the South and of the
whole country! Is it Mr. Mills or the
President of the United States? The
President thrusts aside tbe bearers of
bloody shirt banners and gathers about
him old Whigs and even a Southern
rebel is placed in his Cabinet. He
would thwart tbe plans of Mr. Mills
because be would give final peace and
obliterate sectionalism. Mr. Mills
would perpetuate these confessed
calamities. We do not distrust Mr.
Mills's ; patriotism but his wisdom.
He may be right and the President
wholly wrong;; bat we have seen Mr.
Mills's policy often tried and alwsys
failing are willing at least to wait and
see what may corns of tbe scheme of
bencfiosnt purposes defined by the
President of the United States. '
Txtrxxk do alwajs meet and are
never to be trusted or followed in pol
itics or business life. Tbe war cams
of the co-operation ef the extreme
North and the extreme South. Boston
and Charleston were the focal cities
representing focal ideas ot hot war and
hot-headed violence. Tbey ever co-
operated sad cooearred aad Soot hern
secessiOBisea and Northern radicalism
were ever one aad the same in purpose
and result. Sven so at this hoar.
Wsnlell Phillips and the chivalry
art) i bedfellows aad wake up each
nsoraiof to rent their cartes coached
in the same tsnna and based oa the
same reasons upon the devoted head
ot conservatism aad snoderatiotu
' Wubiu PaULurs abases Devest
Attorney General in Hayes's Cabinet.
because be helped once when district
attorney of the United States to re
turn a fntnuve alavs fross Boston.
Hayes thus placed-a: slavecatcber in
his Cabiret and Martin and Wendell
Phillips ar devilish mad about it.
EEKLY
FOHTTN KS r HAlSfOI AID OP
TUU ClTlt Of TtvXAS.
Houston is happier than for months
and years past. There are brighter
days dawning and property advances
in value and railway builders and
managers smile benignantly upon tbe
ancient capital of Texas. The restore'
tion of Col. W. R. Baker to supremacy
in the conduct of the Central road is
not least important of current events
presaging the city's infinite good for-
tune. Tery certainly Col. Baker will
never forget when serving his rail-
way corporation faithfully to promote
tbe commercial fortunes of Houston.
But this revolution in tbe management
of the Central road by which Mr.
Dodge was dethroned and Mr. Baker
crowned portends other events even
more potent in shaping the destinies of
Texas cities. While the direct road
from Houston to New Orleans pro
gresses "X'aul" Bremond is smitten by
the lightning shaft ot inspiration and
constructs a narrow gauge in "conic"
sections towards Sbreveport. Mean
while Commodore Morgan concen
trates tbe wealth of Texas to the ex
tent thst it is controlled by tbe mighty
Central railway and its branches in a
Southern faubourg of Houston at Con-
stitution Bend. The Iaternational
company finding relief from restrictions
imposed by tbe Wharf Company at
Galveston impossible and the railway's
owners having bought the whole coun-
try about the mouth of the Brazos
ill ultimately have its southern
terminus it is again asserted
at Velasco. This consummation if
we are correctly informed does not de-
pend upon the consolidation contem
plated not long ago by Dodge and
Grow. But the scheme of bnilding a
city to outrival GaUeston the Brazos
river forty feet deep to constitute its
secure harbor and perfect roadstead is
again discussed even in Washington.
The next river and harbor bill that
comes before Congress will provide an
appropriation it is alleged fer tbe
harbor of Velasco. The depth of water
on the bar at Velasco is from twelve to
sixteen feet. It may be readily and
cheaply deepened. Capt. John Cow -
don; (famous as the projector of the
New Orleans and Barrataria bay ship
channel has visited Velasco and states
that tbe scheme of these railway man-
agers and capitalists is easy of achieve-
ment. Especially was be charmed
with the country along tbe Brazos and
with the matchless harbor which the
deep river is to constitute. The Gal-
veston Wharf Company gives origin
we believe to this scheme involving
the diversion of the traffi.'. and travel
of tbe International from that city to
Velasco. Houston if these changes
occur becomes the central railwsy-
built metropolis of Texas and of the
Southwest. Tbe whole commercial
wealth of the whole district includ-
ing States and Territories if changes
here defined occur will be concentra
ted at Houston and distributed fmm
that city. It moat become frith ila
road to the devil fish-encompassed
"Beach" to Morgan City to New Or
leans and with Bremond's and Cone's
road to Shreveport and the Interna-
tional to St. Louis and the Central
with its "wide-spreading branches"
grasping half tbe wealth of Texas
with House's Narrow Gauge compell
ing ' Austin to send out one like it
toward Lampasas and with tbe Sun-
set road gathering in every resource of
Southwestern Texas with all these
resistless forces for the concentration
of wealth and trade Houston and its
suburban railway towns must become
not only the metropolis of Texas but
of the Southwest. Austin may be
profited by these events. The low.
flat dreary plain on which Houston
stands hardly exempt from dangers
that make Galveston shudder when
eqtsiaoctial storms are brewing will
never attract tbe many who "live tbat
hey may live." Health local phys
ical facts mountains river cedar-
crowned bills and blossoming gardens
and farms and plains are enongh for
BeneBccnce to grant to one city and
these are enough if we may hive local
government worthy of such a capital
of such a commonwealth to make
Austin grow in wealth and greatness
partpattu with Houston.
THE OLD WHIG PARTY SOUTH.
Very many persons having as they
call it a dead sure thing or a good
thing already in sight when Radical-
ism is beaten in Federal elections are
opposed to any change or even to that
transformation of parties by which the
South may be finally pried out from
between Democracy South and Radi
calism North. Very many tell ns
tbat the old Whigs who will die
cursing "red -republican red-hot se-
cession Democracy" are ripe for change
or for revolt. Tbe adherents of Doug
las like those that supported John
Bell and yet "went South and into
the last ditch" representatives of all
these say they are praying for deliver
ance at last and hope that tbey begin
to see light in the East. It is the star
of. Hayes's destiny they contemplate
watching its culmination with keenest
interest. But tbe country is ripe it
seems . for partisan revolution. The
Sooth has been led long enough these
old men say by its most violent ru
inous passionate thinkers and the
North has fallen of recent years into
the clutches of tbe same class of polit
ical extremists snd we have been the
victims of the two terrible colliding
forces. Wisdom snd moderation come '
to the surtecs and Hayes may yet be
these dreamers allege and as theae old
Wbigs and Douglas men hope the un-
person alios of patriotic conservatism.
If the classes in the Sooth hsre defined
be not mistaken in the man it may re-
sult that parties of to-day before
Hayes's term has expired will be ut-
terly disrupted and Hsyes becomes
in spits of himself another Gabriel in
response to whose awfol trumpet the
grave gives pits dead aad Douglas snd
Bell with their jemed hosts of rattling-bones
become at last living facts.
We do sot know that the President
contemplates the segregation of the
diverse elements of the present Sooth-
era Deaascratie party bat if hs liber-
ate South Carolina and Louisiana open
the Mississippi estsbluh lines of steam-
ers front New Orleans and Galveston to
the) ladies Brasil and Vera Crux; If
DEMOCRAT
hs bave tbe impoverished International
Railway extended tbat we may exer-
c ae the offices of a quasi protectorate
over defunct order and government in
Mtxxo; if he gie Southern offices to
proper Southern men tbe partisan rev-
olution said to be contemplated by tbe
President and former adherents of Sam
Houston Throckmorton John Bell
and Stephen A. Douglas is not wholly
impossible of consummation. Hayis
drags old Wbigs into his cabinet and
converts Radicalism into conservative
Republicanism in tbe North and to
this force he would add those old fo-
gies of the South who have torn off the
word "Democratic" from every ticket
tbey have placed in ballot-boxes since
1860. It is impossible as yet to an
ticipate the success of such a possible
movement on the part of the Presi
dent. But the tendency of the popu-
lar mind and heart North and South is
towards conservatism and moderation
and wisdom will at length supplant
red-mouthed violent rant and fustian
and terrible partisan fury. '
TAX ON THE snOKE-HOVSE AND
CORN-CRIB.
All over Texas the cry goes ap
against the tax on bread and meat
which the farmer needs to make his
crop. Tbe fault if fault it be lies in
tbe Constitution which requires that
all property" etc. "shall be taxed
in proportion to its value" article 8
section 1 ; and again in section 9 which
prohibits the Legislature from releasing
any of the people from payment ot
taxes except in cases of public calam-
ity. The responsibility rests not on
the Legislature but with those who
made the Constitution. Below is giv
en the names and occupation of those
who voted for and against this tax ar-
ticle in the Constitution:
Yeas Messrs. Abernathy merchant;
Allison farmer; Arnim farmer; Bar-
net physician; Blasaingame farmer;
Brown printer; Bruce farmer; Burle
son farmer; Chambers farmer ; Cooke
lawyer; Darnell farmer; Ferris law-
yer; Fleming lawyer; Flournoy law-
yer; German farmer; Graves farmer;
tlolt merchant; Johnson farmer; Ku-
lough farmer; Lacy farmer; Lynch
wool grower; McUormick lawyer;
Martin of Navarro farmer; Martin of
Huat ' farmer; Nugent lawyer and
farmer; Ramey lawyer and farmer;
Ross farmer; Russell of Wood farm
er; Hansom farmer; bcott farmer;
Spikes farmer; Wade farmer; Whit-
field farmer.
Nays Messrs. Balancer lawyer;
Blake farmer; Brady editor; Cooley
lawyer; urawtord lawyer; Davit of
Brazos lawyer; Davis of Wharton
farmer ; DeMorse editor; Dillard farm-
er; Douoney lawyer; Erhard druc-
atiai ; Ford editor: Gaitber farmer;
Kilgore lawyer; Lockett lawyer;
McLean lawyer: Mitchell farmer;
Moore lawyer; Morris mechanic;
Murphy lawyer; Norvell lawyer;
Nunn lawyer; Pauli postmaster; Rea-
gan lawyer; Robertson farmer; Rus-
sell of Harrison lawyer; Smith law-
yer; Stay ton lawyer ; Stewart lawyer;
Stockdae lawyer; Waelder lawyer;
Whitehead doctor; West lawyer.
Thus it will be seen that among those
who voted tor this tax article there
were twenty-three farmers two mer
chants five lawyers one physician one
printer and one wool-grower. Among
those who voted against it were twenty
lawyers six farmers one doctor one
postmaster one mechanic three edit
ors one druggist See proceedings of
Constitutional Convention page 541.
Thus it appears that tbe Granger
element in tbe Convention forced this
article on the very farming interests
they assumed to represent against the
votes and protests of the great body of
the lawyers and of the editors in that
body. Let the farmers direct their
censure where it properly belongs and
not at the Legislature sworn to carry
out the provisions of the Constitution.
But the principle is nearer right than
otherwise and while the record fas-
ten.) tbe responsibility upon the farm-
ers it is to their credit. The lawyers
and editors Voted against it no doubt
in a spirit of generosity alone to the
"yeomanry" of the land. These law-
yers and editors hoped to hold office
again ; the others knew they stood at
the door of tbe public crib their first
and last time.
DISINTEGRATION OF PARTIES.
On what issue will the Southern
Democracy as organized separate it-
self from the party of tbe President?
He asserts "conservatism" and in Vir-
ginia Democracy is still called "con-
servatism" and the word "Democrat"
has gone into desuetude. . Since the
South has become the scat of prosper-
ous cotton manufactories the South is
divided on the tariff question and then
the tariff has accomplished ends aimed
at and preannounced by Henry Clay.
American manufacturing industry has
been so stimulated that Americans un-
dersell English cotton mills in English
markets and no more ''protection" is
required and only revenue. Democ-
racy has always pronounced for a rev-
enue tariff. There are no two Demo-
crats concurring when a question af
fecting internal improvements is dis-
cussed. Tbe Democratic South de-
clares for Tom Scott's scheme snd for
the President's policy of re-opening
the Mississippi. The negro question is
no more snd we have left bnt a few
like Mills of Corsicsna to tell us. in
what consists the practical difference
between parties. The President dif-
fers from us on no modern issne and
the old are extinct. He would repro-
duce the autonomy of tbe States snd
give Southern offices to Southern men
He was nominated at Cincinnati in
stead of St. Louis and then too Mor
ton and Blaine and Bob Ingersoll
voted for him and now Blaine aad the
rest bave confessed thst they miscon
ceived the purposes policy and char
acter of tbe man they made President.
Why should men of intelligence
in order tins ply that party Tines
may remain unbroken persist in
denouncing a president because he
refutes to carry out the will of smch
men and because he serves the South
effectively. Partisan passioa aad hates
aad sectional conflicts surely bave
done mischief enongh aad he who 1
fuses to co-operate with the President
in obliterating sectionslisnas and there-
fore in destroyiat: extreme parties is
traitor to the Son Ik aad to the conn try.
If there be Southern people who ques
tion the Statmxas's wisdom sad de-
EC
votion to right or patriotism there are
none to deny the admirable intelligence
and honeety of Governor Wade Hamp-
ton of South Carolina. Adverting to
these questions oa the fifth instant at
Charlotte North Carolina he said :
"I have the greatest confidence in
tne President. I believe him to be
sincere and honest and determined to
discharge the dutis of his office under
the Constitution as the Executive of
tnis entire great ration."
The Governor eoncludeJ his excel
lent speech by jemarking that but
for the votes of thj honest colored peo
t ei . . y. .
pie oi Doum iartuua ne would not
now be their gorernor and having
pledged himself to secure to the col
ored man all his rghts and privileges
under tbe Consitution and laws
of tbe State be
- Ct w aw
it done so ' hip him God. If
there be those wto pronounce Wade
Hampton RepubHan even so is the
Statesman Republcun. Wade Hamp-
ton may love bia Sate and the Sjuth
more than he lovesa party or its lead-
ers or their hopes for cflic through
tha arJxA-T f .-
the Statesman 10v more the com-
monwealth and the South.
We are indebted for the following
to his Excellency Governor Hubbard :
(No. 241.)
international eshbition
States Centennid Commission.
Philadelphia Maxh 31 1877.
StaU of Texas:
The following is a ceiitied copy of
the report of the judgis as accepted
by tbe United States Ceitennial Cam
mission and in con form ty with which
an award was decreed t you.
You will be notified vhen the diplo-
ma and medal are ready for delivery.
Please acknowledge receipt of this
report. Yours respectfully
. A. T. GO6H0K.X
'. D.rcctor General.
Executive Ofyice )
-Austin April 4 1877. f
A true copy of the original.
Thomai P. Martin .
Private Secretary.
. ' (No. 233.)
CENTENNIAL ixhibition
. . Philadelphia 1876:
The United States Centennial Com-
mission has examined the report of
judges and accepttd .. the following
reasons and decreed in award in con-
formity therewith:
Philadelphia February 14 1877. .
RE POET ON AWARDS.
Product
Name snd address of exhibitor: State
of Texas. '
The undersigned having examined
the product herein described respect-
fully recommend tho same to tbe
United States Centennial Commission
for award for the following reasons
viz. :
For an excellent exhibit of Upland
cotton (0 bales) collected by the Gal-
veston Board of Trade for the State of
Texas showing tbe highest grade of
this great staple of the world.
C. Jtjhlin Dannfelt.
(Signature of the Judre.)
Approval of Group Judges
J. A. Johnson E. Oldendorff
T. E. Sickels T.W. Tallmadce.
A true copy ot the record.
Francis A. Walker
- Chief of Bureau
Given oy authority of the United
States Centennial Commission.
l. 8 J A. T. Goshorn-
Director General.
J. L. Campbell Secretary.
J. R. Hawley President.
Executive Office )
Austin Texas April 4 1877.
A true copy of the original.
Thomas P. Martin
Private Secretary.
THE GOSPEL. OF UABD WORK.
Ten gentlemen of Natchez Missis
sippi contribute $00000 to found 1
cotton mill that the unemployed
women and girls of the place may be
come self-supporting and self-depend
ent that non-producers may be pro
ducers that a new market may be
opened for merchants and for farmers
that money may be kept at home that
buildings may be reared and tbe vast
sum lost in transferring cotton to Bos-
ton and Liyerpool and in bringing it
back as cloth may be saved. Texas
towns on the contrary build costly
court houses for costly trials and civil
suits and these towns remain poor and
unpainted and the women and cbil
dren who happen to be poor are
hardly ted or clothed decently and
their last recourse when shunning
want is found in filthy slums
of hopeless depravity. Should aot
Christian communities first build
cotton mills? The yery pulpits
of Texas should resounl with
lessons of virtue and wisdom involved
in tbe construction of cotton mills.
There is no such gospel of beneficence
as that of hard work and there is no
mode of employment for women girls
and boys so successful in creating
pride of character as that given by a
cotton mill. It generates that spirit
of Independence which gives the
country noble intelligent and patriotic
men and industrious fearless women.
Each mill has its church and school
into which sun bonnets and calico en
ter even as these sre excluded from
cushioned pews in the temples of 1
good God snd of tbe latest fashion
Therefore it is even more a Christian's
than s citizen's dutv to aid in tbe
construction - of a cotton mill
snd therefore we cannot see
why pulpits which would serve
those who most need their aid ana
moral influence snd guidance the
poor to whom the gospel was especial-
ly tent ws cannot see why the very
nnlnita of the South should not rc-
a 1
sound witl) thettory we have here pr
tially written.
It is enongh to make old line whg-
gery torn over in its grave snd rub its
thins and have its rusty bones oued.
Hsyes was a Whig Everts was a Whig
Bhermaa was a nnig uevenswas
Wal?. Thompson wss a Whig Mc-
Craxy was a Whig Schurx would no
doubt bave been a Whig if he had
been in this country before the Whig
party went out of business. It is enongh
to Bake the hair of existing partisans
carl tbe wrong way to contemplate
this resurrection. -Aad there Hsyes
stands' another ' Gabriel1 trumpet in
head "blowing up" tbe dead and as
they come one by one the .Republican
party will sink into oblivion. .
'BscoJaaTBrcnos'' under .Grant
s4tss placer tt ".rests ration " nnder
Hsyes. ; - -
TATESMAN
A TERRIBLE TRAITOR TO THS
lOlTttl
"In conclusion permit me to assure
trie rresulent tbat I feel the strongest
ciimi'ience inai me wise and patriotic
poucy announced in His inaugural will
as soon as it takes shape and action.
produce such fruits that the whole
country will enjoy the blessings of
peace prosperity and harmony."
ihe man who wrote that sentence
last Saturday is surely a traitor to his
country. He is too a Southern man
by birth. He was a terrible and fear
ies9 U)nfederate leader. He became a
Confederate major general and Jeff
Davis and Bragg and Joe Johnston
trusted him as they trusted few men and
yet what fearful treason to the South
and to Democracy falls from the lips
and from the pen of this so-called hero
and patriot. Martin
. o J
will now have this soldier and states
man hanged. He deserves to be drawn
and quartered and his skull should
bleach upon the gallows ne has the
hardihood absolutely to say in a pun
ished letter to President Hayes that
surely "give the country peace pros-
perity and harmony." The Statesman
has said the same things and has been
fiercely denounced. Wade Hampton
says it and we stand aside that he may
be tomahawked by the savages Martin
and Loughery and the other Demo-
cratic Modocs. But is not the fool
argument consisting in the application
of epithets singularly absurd in this
case? How ridiculous the ass tbat
would pronounce Wade Hampton a
Radical" or a "traitor to his State or
to the South." And yet the States-
man has said no more or less than
Governor Hampton. Hampton dares
ta tell the simple unvarnished truth of
partisan enemy when it ollenda
selfish ambitious party-leaders; the
Statesman does no more.
Messrs. Hawlet Harlan and John
Brown of the Louisiana commis
sion are known to tne whole country
as able discreet men. Judge Law-
rence is at present on the Supreme
bench of Illinois to which he Was
chosen a year or two ago as an Inde
pendent by the best elements of both
political parties. He was suggested
for the seat in the Senate that David
Davis now holds and but for his re-
fusal to permit the use of his name
lie instead of Davis would be Logan's
successor. Wayne McVeigh is a Penn-
sylvanian of high standing and of un
doubted abilities. Although a son-in-law
of Simon Cameron he is thor-
oughly identified with the liberal wing
of the Republican party in that State
and was by that clement pressed for
a seat in the cabinet. The New York
Herald confounds John C. Brown cith-
er with his brother tbe able and
learned lawyer and Old Whig Gov
ernor of Tennessee Neill S. Brown
or with tho "Jit. Pisgah" of ancient
Democracy Governor Aaron V. Brown
Postmaster uencral under folk - or
Pierce. John C. is not related to
aiuu v .. out is me younger oroiucr
of Neill S. Brown. John C. is about
forty-six years of age was Governor
of Tennessee in 1870 and rilled tbe
office witli distinguished ability. John
C. Brown like Neill S. was a Whig
and Unionist in 1860-1. Each of these
gentlemen was spoken of for a cabinet
position ; and it is a fact tnat all tne
members of the commission are thor-
ughly in accord With the Southern
policy announced by the President in
his. inaugural address.
Mu. U. Lott president of thn Cor
pus Christi San Diego and Rio Grande
Narrow Gauge Railroad Company is
here applying for land scrip on the first
ten miles of his completed road. He
states tbat it has cost $G000 a mile to
build the first section of ten miles and
to cquid .it with one engine and
twelve csrs. Forty miles will be fin
ished in one year and the rolling stock
will be only doubled to suit its in-
creased length ; so that the completion
and equipment of forty miles will be
effected at even a less cost than f 6000
per mile. He says that the cheapness
of iron labor and everything neces
sary for railroad building is such
as just now to warrant the
wholesale construction of narrow gauge
roads. Ilouston Tyler Corpus Christi
and other places are pushing forward
such enterprises and Austin bangs fire
on a cheap railway to Lampasas which
would increase its trade thirty 4 per
cent. Col. Douglass president of the
Tyler road who was in the city yester
day expresses surprise that Austin
with her eight or ten millions of prop
erty does not earnestly take bold of
this enterprise and push it on to a hasty
conclusion. While Anstin however
has not a House a Douglas or a Lott
would it not be startling some morn-
ing to wake up here and learn that
Round Rock has produced tuch a man.
' The commission sent to Louisiana
is unpaid and merely advisory. Its
main business will be to define a mode
of adjusting the alleged rights of Pack
ard. He must have if possible a de
cent pretext for the abandonment of
office.. If the commission report in
favor of his legal right and against his
t qui table right to the office he may
find reason to retire voluntarily rather
than meet tbe sure fate that awaits hit
expulsion by violence. Go he must.
tooner or later and the President it
only a man of peace. He cannot afford
to keep the troopt in Lorisisna through
out his term of office and by no other
means can Packard's power be main
tained. Packard and the army must
march. This fact is fixed and there is
no need for tbat impatience which the
President! enemies indulge when they
assail him for tardiness snd timidity.
Tbe Congress meets in June. A ma-
iiritv of the Honse it Democratic If
tbe troopt remain in New Orleans not
one dollar will tbe House supply to be
expended in the maintenaaco of tbe
army and navy till Louisiana is liber
sted. The real purpose of the com-
mission it to give Packard a proper
opportunity to retire gracefully. Ia
fact Packard knowt that if the army
and navy bill do not pass the President
cannot kep the adventurer ia ofhoe.
and very ceitainly Packard cannot
keep himself ia power. The end is in-
ri table and it comes before the ides
of June. - ' - - '
The new ad ministration of the affairs
of tbe Central Railway the prompt
cash payment once each month of every
employee and the discharge of super
numeraries snd re-employment of Col
uaicer the most efficient and pcunl
of tho railroad managers of Texas and
toe substitution of Swanson for "corn
fan Kr tt '1 J i : i . . 1 .
"" ti ucugua iue wiioie pro-
pis of Texas. The sleeping coach from
Austin to Hempstead like offices on
tbe road will undergo tbe process of
purgation. Then too there are young
men and gray-haired men of Texas and
of the South who met the fate of war
h-e heroes and suddenly impover
ished never recurred to the fact but
went to work like men to retrieve mis
fortunes which politiciansand sectional
ism in partisanship begat. There are
enough honest and competent men cf
tne South to hold offices in tbe South
whether of rsilways or of the Federal
government and we hope that Presi
dent Hayes and Col. Baker and Mr.
Swanson and Commodore Morgan will
pot .Jag JllUioua..xC jlK. . . -gUv
to a very great extent by tbe policy of
the government which sent strangers
here who tent out of tbe South all tbey
could steal or otherwise acquire in th?
South. Southern railways in the
hands of Northern men bave been
used a ruinously for the South as
Federal courts snd custom houses snd
postoffices and the changes wrought
n the administration ot the affairs of
the Central Railway give infinite satis-
faction to the people of Texas.
Gen. Foster who represents Hayes's
Congressional dUtricc in Ohio is a
moderate Republican "after the Pres-
ident's own heart" and the President
that he may properly shape legislation
through properly organized commit-
tees would have Mr. Foster made
speaker of the House ' that meets tbe
first Monday in June.. There are only
eight . votes difference between . the
Republicans and Democrats in' the
House and the President seeks to se
cure strength in the South. He will
get three votes we are told from Ar
kansas Senator Garland aiding in this ;
one or two from North Carolina and
he wants three or four more from other
States. He temporizes in Louisiana
and South Carolina that he may have
power in the Senate and in the House
to restore as Stanley Matthews puts it
the prosperity and autonomy -of
Southern States and thus tbe peace
and prosperity of the whole country."
The President may not contempts' e
such results by such agencies; but
there is nothing in what he is known
to bave said or done or written that
would justify us in declaring tbat such
are not his purposes. In any event
wbile Wendell Phillips denounces tbe
President for his justice and generosi
ty to the South we are unwilling to
concur with the Boston counterpart of
ultra red-republican Southetn Democ
racy and declare the President a cow
an uy sua uawonaj ana isise urcieuu-
er. Let us wait yet awhile and see.
A cobrespondknt who has studied
the question sayt that as a matter of
right and justice the congressional dis-
tricts of Texas must be reorganized by
the Legislature. New counties of
rapid growth have been virtually dis
franchised and moreover it is not de
sirable perhaps onr correspondent al
leges - tbat Anstin and Galveston
should be cooped up in tbe same dis
trict. It it ttated that the new dis
trict of which Austin will be the cen
ter will consist of Travis Hays Blan
co Burnet Llano Lampasas Bastrop
Lee. Williamson Bell Coryell Ham
ilton San Saba Mason McCulloeh
Menard Concho Coleman Runnels
and Fayette. Comanche is omitted in
the list in order we suppose thst the
Chief may constitute a district of it
self. Nobody can live in tbe same
bailiwick with it and it will bave a
representative of its own. Bat there
is valid reason perhaps for changes
suggested in the inequality of pop
ulations which sre constantly and
rapidly changeful and the Legislature
may upset many plans of ambitious
leaders bv causinu changes like thi
suggested by our excellent correspond
ent.
Connecticut bat taken a step in ad
vance of all other States in its legisla
tion for women. The acts of this
year's legislation place the wife on an
equality with tbe husband. She is
secured the absolute control of her
own property during life ' and on the
death of either party to the marriage
contract the survivor inherits one-third
of tbe real and personal estate of tbe
deceased. Mississippi and Texas have
heretofore stood first in legislation de
signed to make woman an integer in
social and political life and now Con-
necticut makes n leap forward ' in' the
right direction. Soon we shall hear
mea saying if the women must pay
taxes and have heads capable of think
ing and be imbued with honest ear
nest patriotic purposes why not when
every idiot and every tramp and rough
and hired ballot-box stuffer and re
pester when all these vote why not
tbe blessed women f Tbey might now
snd then constitute sn invaluable off
set to incalculable vice and stupidity
thrust so voluminously into ballot-
boxes that decent people refute to
vote. Bat lawgivers are brave and
good and honest and patriotic and
never demagogues never! never!
. Some days ago we spoke of Luling
aa it wss three years ago and did tbe
place and people no .doubt grievous
wrong. It has undergone we are told.
a thorough change. Aa excellent cit
izen of the placa says of it:
"Luling is a quiet and law-abiding
place with a tbnfiy -sober aad Indus-
trious population aad you will cer
tainly retract your cruel charge we
have no bar-rooms because we enjoy
the fall besefiu ef 'local option' snd
when yoa remove whisky front a com-
munity rowdyism cesses. We have
churches and schools all well attended.
New and substantial buildings are con
stantly being erected ; our trade Is ex
pending aad growing ia importance
while evervthier tesrd te snake tbn
one of the thriftiest towns aad most
attractive home ia West Texas. Near
ly two years sgo the terminus of the
road wss" located further west snd
with it went oar floating population."
. J ... - '
The Supreme Court now in session
in Austin has on its trial docket about
six hundred cases. Three hundred
cases are filed at this term from one
hundred and twenty-five to two hun-
dred will be tried and thus the num
ber added constantly outgrows the
number disposed of and the business
steadily and rapidlv accumulates.
Lawyers need never make oral argu
ments and only briefs since the speech
now made may not be applied by the
court till months or even years have
lapsed. How the difficulties of which
we speak are to be obviated it is im
possible to tell. The court'u toils are
incessant and never was there a more
painstaking body of judges; but their
wans it seems are too onerous and ex
acting to be discharged by any de
gree of industry and effort.
Municipal electioni occurred on the
third instant in St. Louis Cin
cinnati Cleveland Toledo Atchison
Denver Chicago Kansas City Law-
rence. Kaneae . Hk - i .. . -
from Radicals mayors. Columbus
Ohio elected a Democrat. Sod alia
Missouri is Democratic. Little Rock
is doubtful. Overstolz elected mayor
f St. Louis is a Carl Schurz Republi
can and was supported by the cons r
vative Democrats. He was nominated
by the Democratic Central Committee
and the Times in a high dudgeon be
cause of Uveratolxs triumph says:
"Kaiser Overstolz can defy the Demo
cratic party and its would-be leaders
who for a mess of pottage have placed
it lu his hands bound and muzzled."
A private note from Hon S. S. Cox
written at Mobile Alabama on the
third instant says he will bo in Austin
within ten or twelve days. He states
further that he has been "lecturing
and ovating" and laid up in Alabama
(signifying "here wo rest") for repairs.
If the Library Association will secure
Turner Hall the admirable talker and
rhetorician and foremost wit of Amer-
ica will doubtless redeem one dull day
in Austin from tho woes of earth. ' He
1 man of rare genius and learning
and of exquisite literary taste and
having occupied with distinguished
honor the position of Speaker of the
Congress of the tfnitcd States and
having been always a conservative
Democrat he deserves consideration at
the handa of Southern people.
The Loi'dou Telegraph doubtless
reaches tbe proper conclusion thst tbe
last will always be the last victory of
the party that made Mr. Hayes Presi
dent. If it die its counterpart alse
dies and there will be few mourners at
the grave of either. If it live it will
give immortal life to its mortal enemy
and the people must ever choose be
tween them and tbe South must ever
go down on the field of glory always
beaten but alwayi rampant and alwaya
eager for tbe fray. It it fine for the
the people and for thoae who do the
fighting and howling and voting and
ditch digging and shooting and being
thot.
When Congressman Mills makes war
upon the President be proceeds first to
describe a man who is not tbe Presi
dent and a party that is net the Presi
dent's psrty and then Mr. Mills squares
himself and delivers a blow at Mr
Hayes.' But the President will hardly
feel the shock and in our mind's eye
we can only see Mills fall. It was s
terrible blow he dealt an imaginary en
emy. In the prizo ring of partisanship
Mr. Mills deserves fame; but since
Hayes became president Mills evident
ly doesn't "know the ropes." He
wants to hit Hayes but is pummeling
somebody else most devilishly.
While tiie New York llcraUl is tell
ing its readers that "it it a good time
to wipe oit the Mormons" old Brig-
bam is quietly buying in tbe spend
thrift's debts who owns the Uerald
and the saintly old cuss will quietly
wipe out Bennett aud Stanley and tbe
African absurdities tbat exhaust all
popular patience. If people wished
tot ee or hear or smell or think of Africa
which is impossible there is no need
for printing sod reading when we
have it all even here covering nearly
one-half of our own country includ
ing Wheatville and Wharton county
Mr. Throckmorton alluded in his
late oration at McKinney to the wis
dom of his prophecies and accuracy
with which he had stated the truth
when through many years ho had
again and again addressed his constit-
uents. Tbe Sein justly concludes that
Throckmorton's strength hss origin is
tbe "correctness of bit judgment snd
clearness of his perceptions." It might
have added thst Throckmorton's tub-
lime courage in truth-telling when an
insane mob would bave crucified him
baa made him prominent not only at
home but famed and honored every
where.
TmmE who denoacce Hsyes when
he ad beret to hit letter of acceptance
and inaugural and then denounce those
who in this approve Hayes's conduct
are the same who went about bray
ing over the country scaring idiots
and drinking blood in 1660 ol and in
1962-3-4 skulked into bomb-proofs or
traded in cotton or sneaked out under
the twenty-negro law. Tbe Bombastea
Fuiioso style of blowbarditm snd de-
nunciation' is of the dead past snd
only tools practice or are affected by it.
Senator Maxky has published a
very sensible practical conservative
letter. It is wise and just but dis-
cusses dead questions.' . The grand
electoral commission has made its de-
creet. K They are final. The whole
country wants peace and Hayes will
give it. How be became president
signifies nothing - practically. - He ae
cepted the office as tendered by tbe
people aad tbe Congress and tbe com-
mission sad that is enough.
' Those newspapers and party-leaders
who do not. dare to tell tho truth of
tbe President or even to do him jus-
tice are moral cowards daring not to
speak the truth. Of course tbey de-
serve neither the respect nor confidence
I ot the people aad ess have neither.
.
fHE STATRSM
DATLT DKMCXTRATIC STATESMAN
Slnriecopjr one year a IS OO
fcttmie copy aix nonthe Of
Suuilecupy tne mnaih I VO
WEKKLT DEMOCRATIC STATESMAN.
Siogle copy one year SO
Bim-I- c.iir." moulhe j q
tar 1 he a here ralce are epecle.
Plow your fields two inches deep:
tuffer tbe hired people to look after
your stock and to ride vour horses and
mules Saturdays and Sdndnys. See
that they are never "curried or salted
buy corn and bacon in St. Louis and
flour in Chicsgo; invest nothing ia
narrow gauge railways ; take your cock-
tails regularly before breakfast; spend
your money before you make it; de-
yote Saturday anyhow to twinging a
Colt't repeater around the corner gro
cery and "cuss the d d niggers be
cause they won't work."
When President Hayes declared
that "be serves his party best who
serves hit country best" the old po
litical leaders were offended and
alarmed. And vet this simDle truth
ful declaration was tbe key-note to
perfect "restoration" and Washington
or Jefferson or Jackson never uttered
an apothegm more pertinent to the
country's greatest needs. He meant to
say that he would be the president of
Cortina is ordered to leave Tsmau-
lipat forever. While he livet he will
traverse as a freebooter the Zona L&r.
When Disz diet or it dethroned tbe
decree of banishment is void and Mex
ican leaders except Sants Anna have
not been famed for longevity snd their
terms of office rarely extend through
twelvemonth.
Stanley Matthews and Congress-nan
Charles Foster must feel very bad.
Packard's Legislature has dcnou iced
them both. But President Hayes it ia
an infinitely worse condition. The
tame illustrious body of patriots as
serts unwavering confidence in the
President's honesty snd patriotism.
The papers Republican and Demo
cratic are already talking about Wade
Hampton for the presidency snd he.
too like Hayos is a platfoira smasher
thinks and acts for himself defying
party rules kicking over their creeds
and platforms as put np jobs to capture
innocent voteis.
It ia now ttated that. Brigham
Young caused eighty teamsters die-
charged from tbe United States ser
vice by Col. Albert Sidney Johnson
n 1837 to be massacred. Tbe proof
becomesvery strong and old Brigham
may yet stand on nothing and pull
hemp. - -
Governor Brown and the other
members of the Louisiana commission
will first reduce the two Louisiana Leg-.
islatures to one and this one will burst
up one or the other governor. Nich-
oils has a senate and three to spare but
lacks nine ot having a house.
Chicago ownt a railway from that
city to Hannibal Missouri and the
Missouri Kansas and ' Texas extends
from that point to Denison. It is aaid
that Chicago has bought the Missouri
aS To
feSFe-d:
The allusions to Governor Chamber
lain's movements and those of bis wife
suggest the pbelisophical remark that
Chamberlain came South with a carpet-
bag and goes back with Saratogas.
What a whale ex-Secretary Fish
must bet He spermed the proffered
mission to England ; but he was alwsys
nice and finnycal and in hit early -years
was a great s pouter.
"Military government! " sre tup-
planted at last by "constitutional
methods" and yet unreasoning South
ern partisans are enraged it setma that
the 1'iesident does rifht.
Wendell Phillips has been making
an ultra Southern Democratic speech.
and they who encore Mills call poor old
Wendell a "meddlesome fanatic"
Platforms are wonderiuily nice till
tbe fellows on them are lifted by tbem
into office and we never bear more of
tbe platform.
Hates doesn't ue tbe word "nation
in all bis letters aud State papers with
tbe singular glibnesa of bis predeces
sor.
Whisky carried Fannin county by a
majority of 140 of 2500 votes cast.
And the colored troops fongbt nobly.
A correspondent gi7es the following
sketch of foreign doctors in Paris:
"Hitherto medical men from foreign
countries whoame to settle in Pans
snd who were graduates of a foreign
univertity bad merely to present their
diplomas in order to receive the nec-
essary permission to practice. In this
respect they bave been treated with
greater liberality than men educated ia
France who bave to undergo an ex-
amination and give certain otber pre-
scribed proofs tbst tbey possets tbo
ftness their office demands. In future
both sre to be Disced on the ssme foot-
ing snd to undergo tbe tame examina-
tion and if tbe foreigner it found to
corne up to tbe required st aad ard he
will be excused from attending lec-
tures snd hospitals snd shall receive
sutborization to practice physic and
surgery in any pert of tbe territory of
the republic. This certainly seems
fair enough though il bas been hinted
tbat jealousy has had something to do
with tbe matter. There sre many sble
doctors in Paris both British snd
American and while almost all foreign-
ers spply to these tbey sre slao mak-
ing considerable inroads upon tbe
practice of their French confreres
though their charges sre higher tbsa
those of tbe French doctors. A
foreign medical maa of good standing
receives twenty francs (say (4) for a
visit to bis patient's louse wbile a
French doctor of equal merit is satis-
fied with balf tbe amount- It takes a
considerable time to get Into a good
practice and the style of living de-
manded is of so expensive a character
snd tbe tax levied so considerable a
young man wishing to settle la Pans
mast possess a certain income to fall
back npon to tide him over a few
years snd then if be possess real
ability particularly in aay department
he will clear bis two or three thousand
pounds sterling s yesr as I know more
tbsn one Scotch doctor of respectable
talents bss done."
The Constitution of Massachusetts
disfranchises persons dependent oa
pnblic charity but tbs law hss beea
for a long time almost a desd letter.
It is now proposed to revire St. Tbe
pan per vote is need in country towns
by overseers of tbe poor to perpetuate
themselves and their friends in office.
It is alleged tbat there are not less
1 baa 20000 voters receiving public aid
ia Maseachiuetts.
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