The Bastrop Advertiser. (Bastrop, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 33, Ed. 1 Saturday, July 1, 1876 Page: 2 of 4
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U-nillr. AlifEKTISEsi
fHOlAS O- ^^3^,
editor, Publisher and Proprietor.
Bastrop. July 1 - 1878.
ATTENTION DEMOCRATS,!
To the Democracy of Bastrop County.
A Democratic Convention to nominate
a Candida^ for Represent -five in Gong-
ress from the Fifth Congr; ssion-fi District
of Texa,, having bj$u called to assemble
in the city of Austin, c:a Wednesday, the
I8th day of August, aosfc, i. becomes mv
duty to call yon to a Democratic Mass
Meeting, to be held in the town of
■3 A 8 T ; Q P
Os Saturday, July 22d 1876,
for the purpose of selecting delegatee to
aaid Convention.
J. J. MONCURE,
Obia’n. DQm. Ex. 'Com. S. 0.
T. 0. Cain Beo’y-
Bastrop, dags’.;t 23d, 1878.
THE N.
_- ..r_-~ ., - ____
., j c: Ai i 1>E dOGRATI C 1 unimpaired,
CONVENTION,
this priceless
We have .not tin:*' nor rpneo to give
more than a aynepti sal rdvrew of the pro-
ceedings of toe National Democratic
Convention which oonvent'd in St.
Louis, on Tuesday last, J ; .:•■ 27th.
Augustus Schell, Chairman of the Na-
tional Democratic Comm ■ -e; called the
convention to order ail-re lockp. m, say-
ing administrative reform demanded that
corruption must be expel}. A from the ad-
ministration of the govooscut, and to
Democrats belonged the duty. Our
rights and jfjterestshed h$$;a most shame-
fully violated and neglect-'-;. The Dem-
ocrats ass'es
course and
the county
Mftj. Saye^Wsaves *' .n-iay for Austin,
and wili deliver the address on the
Fourt i of Julv presenting t.ha picture
of Qen. Tom Green to the State, Lieut.
Gov. Hubbard is to make the reply, and
receive the ■ flag on the part 6f the
State.
-- .—.asp* ........—--
— Col. Wash Jones, makes the Cans
tennial Fourth of July speech, at L;
Grange, next Tuesday. The Bra in
mentioning the Colonel “as the chosen
orator of the day in La Grange, on the
Centennial Fourth,” says :
“We do not admire meaningless pre-
fixes to honored names, particularly
wh n applied to old Tex’ ns Gov. Jones,
Col. Jones, and “sick-like,” may all
sound very well; but give us Wash
Jones, simple and unadulterated. Thus
has he been known and loved from child:
hood’s early hour, and thus,in the hearts
of his countrymen, will his memory eyer
be enshrined. ”
-- i*ft' « !■--
Texas Almanac fob 1877.—Texas A!
manac for 1877, is now being prepared
by Mr. J. Burke, of Houston, and from
notice we would judge it will greatly.ex-
cel all preceding numbers. In addition
to other valuable and interesting matter,
it will contain an official roster of State
and county officers, a court calendar for
Texas, with Ute time and place of hold-
ing courts and a list of practicing alter®
neys in the State. Mr. Burke deserves
great credit and a liberal patronage for
his efforts in getting up such a valuable
book.
a bleu rnust nb^t proclaim the
;he rue vns to restore
% . japerity.
TYMFpBART. ?RG AJBMA I CON .
Hr F i.ru .ted Henry M. Wat'ter-
son for temporary President, who was
elected unanimously, Id :■* Watterson,
on taking the ehai.', made r, splendid ef-
fort in the way of a Speech.
The chair ana-. ^—- temporary
A League of Land.—Baron de Bas-
trop, for whom our town was named, do
nwtgfljo it t[iree leagues the . finest
*n n ani mou3jrote, donated one,league of
' this land to the first r dro id reaching
Bastrop, giving such railroad the privils
ege of choosing either of the three
leagues. Should we get a railroad here,
either of the three leagues would he
worth not less than seventy five, and
probably as much as one hundred
thousand dollars. If the road could
be insured here at an early date, we are
satisfied that the people would not hesi-
tate to give them not only the one league
already voted, but still another, aud,
in addition, any reasonable cash bonus
that might be asked. We are in earnest;
•we want a railroad and we are willing to
pay for it, but we want no foolishness.
We mean business and nothing short of,
business will satisfy us.
Secretary Frederic's O. ret nee, oi Mas
saebuseite; and T. O. Walker, of Iowa,
and S K. Dovan, Assistant Secretaries;
also, Dan Able of Missouri, Sergeant-at-
Arms.
Mr. Abbott, of Massachusetts, moved
a resolution adopting the rules of the last
national convention till otherwise order-
ed, Mr. Littlejohn, of New York, in-
quired if this included the two-thirds
rule, [Voices: “Yes,” “Yes.”] If so,
all right. J Applause.] The chair an-
swered: “It does.” The resolution was
adopted.
Mr. Smalley, o? Vermont, moved a res-
olution Co call States in alphabetical
order for presentation of candidates.
Adopted.
Mr. Wallace, of Pennsylvania, in or*
der to have Democratic precedents obi.
served, moved to reconsider the resolu^
tion. He urged that States should name
members of Committees on Credentials
and Permanent Organization before any
other business was done. He looped
there would ba no innovation on past
precedents. Mir. Weed, of New York,
insisted that the resolution adopted was
in accordance with precedents. Under it-
credentials were received only for refer-
ence to the Credentials Committee.
A Minesota delegate moved a resolu-
tion to call the roll of States for commit-
tees on permanent organization and ore>s
dentials. Adopted.
Mr. Carroll, of Tennessee, moved that
the convention adjourn to 5 to-
night, aud the committee named should
then report. Adopted.
Mr. Smith, cf Illinois, moved a resoa
iK lion that s commit feep from each Statu
resolutions f.
heritage.
Yours will be a better renown than the
renown most prized by the Homans—
condUorum imperiorum—far greater than
founders of empires or the preservers oi
republics.
^ 1 here are no enimies of the Union- to-
day orr. this continent except that Ad-
ministration, centralism, which ia cons
verging at the capital, currents which
ought to flow out through every part,
giving life to the farthest extremities of
the body politic and energy to all its
members, except to corruption, which is
the curse that centralism has never failed,
in any age or any land, to entail upon
any government 1 Centralism aud core
ruption have imposed on ten States rar
pacious tyrannies.' of carpetbag rule, ana,
since the pee-*-, hare added $200,000,000
to their debt. They have* infected the
rrovernment of the Northern States and
Northern cities with the same disease
o? extravagance and fraud. They have
debauched the Federal Govern mo’1"
itself and names of scores of its officers.
The party which has been powerless
to break down this pledged itself to a
reform, of which it has become incapa-
ble. So that party, pledged to restore
specie payments every year, is taking U3
further from 'specie payments. Bo is
pledged itself to civil service reform,
and then-dropped and mocked its re-
former. It a iedged itself to protect
Amercioan labor, ■"^d. -its mon-
strous customkousetaxaticm, ovbr 3009
articles, it has impoverished American
lobor, A few score of monopolists a few
thousand corruptionists, have been en-
riched by capital in the hands of tao36
that earned it by industry and saved it
by frugality, is everywhere distrustful
and rusts unused, while 'honest labor
goes about the streets begging. Is this
the finale of republican self-government.
God forbid! But-we have wandered far
from right paths, and we must.return to
constitutional prin ciples, frugal expen-
ditures pure administration of the pow-
ers of the RspubT e.
This is the appnal we have to make to
our fellow citizens of every form of po-
litical affiliation. This is the one su-
preme, commandang issue _ to .which
others are inferior, othe;,. trivial. Re*
form, reform! If . you shall recognize
the imperious ~n scessity, if you shall
guarantee the sue iceasful achievmeni of
this arduous wor] n of national regenera
when he finds he has made it.- “C. E”
says that the “young man desires to put
himself in favor with the fair Bex.” We
plead guilty to this indictment, and in
justification plead that if the contrary
were true, we could claim no relation to
the Adamic stock.
The doctor knows that when I referred
to Germany I intended no reflection
on either himself or his nationality. The
language used is not in the slightest de-
gree susceptible of such an interpretation.
But as ah evidence of my honesty and of
the truthfulness of what I say, let us
present the language : “France has ever
proclaimed this error to a dangerous ex-
tent, and ere another decade shall have
passed away the proudest star in the
galaxy of nations shall have fallen from
thb zenith of her glory never more to rise
again ; nay, already the genius of civili-
zatijm is chanting & wailing requiem over
t^ proudest nationality the world has
ever seen as'ske scattered her withered
%.nd tear-moisten fillies over the bloody
tomb of butchered Fre^nce. ■
Peruse the language ui0®evi Doctor,
and see whether I weep er w'hetbe? the
genius of civilization is hse'jfing, cu 1
you are not able to anal^s the sentei. »
please have it done, eiidfin the future
you will save yourself o; a very precipi-
tant as well as redicul >us conclusion.
Again he says, “young man, why do you
cry and sympathize Wit; France 1 le
there any evidence of ti;p fact that I have
been weeping over Abe misfortunes of
France ?' Did I say oni word about the
i Franeo-PruSsiaa war ? Have I ever
given utterance to a angle sentiment,
either in public or in private, that would
lead the gentleman to the conclusion
that I sympathized will France? No,^
I have 3bed more tears, over a drink oi
vour best, Doctor, than I ever did over
& . <* 11 .i! tb.incftor] I’inUfiAmS
1876.
AN ADDRESS TO THE BOYS, PAT-
RIOTS AND SEWING MACHINE
AGENTS OF MY NATIVE LAND.
ferred to said
Adopted.
Mr. Weed, o
the chairman c
the chairman %
for the plat-fa
jeoHon, and it
The cl'-.i.'-.v:
National
, ----0 .
latrprm, be re»
nmitfero without -debate,
. ■ ■'re ' v ;
NHw York, m wad that
! each delegation send to
me ' of its, member
ss , committee, No ch-
so ordered.
vr-sid delegates from the
tion; if you selec fc standard-bearers true
and faithful to pi edges, victory in No-
vember is yours. Make-the vital issue
of reform in car lididate and platform,
and States that have honored Douglas
and Lincoln, the ’ States that to-day honor
Hendicks and Th airman, Hancock, Par
ker, Bayard and Til dsn—these States
with all their vas t people—will rise like
the woods an cl w Lods that followed iho
fiaeting Orphous, and follow you to vic-
tory.
Mr. Belmont, of New York, ^ read a
series of resol ut-v ons arraigning the Re-
publican part y e.-Qcl appealing to the peo-
ple to forget the civil war after eleven
years of pea®3, r md put an end to sec-
tional strife -and, with soma earnest re
mrfko, the r<fsolutions were referred.
Adjourned- ti'L to-morrow.
After adjon rhioaent, Hon. Dan Voor ;
hco'.. of Inio'.i ■: t-» was voc.fero^sly called^^yaan
CfjTf ctrerwe- ----- _____- , ■ . a. . fjJjg - ■ 9 ^—
the downfall of the thousand kingdoms,
The Doctor certainly thinks me very
sympathetic. I flatten myself to believe
that, in some respects, he is eminently
correct; in substantiiiT-ioh of this fact
one instance will suffire : At the close
of the gentleman’s constitutional labors,
(which, by the way, were marked by a
degree of honesty arr^ ability equalled
by’but lew in the convention, he was
called iipon to pronfimee sentence upon
their babe, which vrts born under bis
fostering care. BE fihg himself to the
full height of his c^mandmg stattie, he
exclaimed in tonespf thunder : “ God~
for-dam the Constitution.” (The Belton
Journal for autkorby,) Then for the first
time in long years he sealed fountain
was broken up, aMqears in rich profu-
sion trickled dowfa my aged cheeks.
Again the Doctor shys : “We know you 1
Lave no special lo^je for us.” By what
mode of reaeonr-., did you arrive at such
& conclusion ; haV-i I ever intimated, in
thought or deed, the existence of such a
i'aot?° On the conhary, Doctor, permit
me to any, ia ell Guthfulnese, that I have
ever held yon -udfgh esteem for your
many excellent odfiiiHes of both bead
and heart, and wftfther a man be Ger-
man, American, u Frenchman, if he be a
the campaign-.. yi
SECOND
DAY.
Gov. Tildeit, oif New York, Noiipt^ED.
t -
The party p. l& tform was presented and
adopted at 2, t l m. Wa will give it* in
full in our nex t -fisaae.
At 7 o’clock, p.-- m, the chairman an-
nonneed that Ah.e roll of Btatss should
•be called for Pj air limiting candidates for
President, and ' Whitley, of Delaware,-
women’s suffrage association
were'present, asking a hearing,. [Cries
"'N^elSThatbeehain^^
A FRIEND TO THE PRESS.
The fact of Major T-T. Looscau ataniiing for
Dan Morton yesterday, calls to mind the lib-
eral ecu vat: and friendship which Major.-L.
has alwa>s displayed for members of the
press, not- in their prosperity but in their trou-
bles when friends are most needed. Not so
many years ago fie Major, out of pure phil-
anthropy, took a friendless and destitute ed-
itor, pa;d his room rent in Pillot’s bnildinar,
gave;him’money, for his immediate* necessi-
ties and otherwise aided him out of the
straits of friendlessness and destitution. The
quill driver has since paid the great debt of
nature, which all must cancel at last, and
now peacefully sleeps in a cemetery north of
the Bayou. On another occasion- which we
call to mind, the Major osme across a re-
porter who had lost his money, his* situation,
and his al , but the shirt on his back The
••strapped? and almost shoeless knight of
’the lead pencil was given the shelter and
comfort of a home at Major L.’s place, ‘ Fig-
ment. ” where was written by him a merito-
rious drama that may have appeared on the
boards of the distant Eastern city whither the
Major’s former protege has since gone. These
things and acts only sh >w the big Irish heart
that'keats in the f-u-mePs unselfish bosom
Bucb men are few and far between, but when
ever we gtumbie over one ' 1 the rough road
of life, it makes us think better of humanity
after all —Houston Tki.egr .ph.
We fully endorse all our able eotem-
porary has said of the generous-hearted
M -jdr. “Kind hearts,” his said, “are
. more than coronets,” and judged by this
standard, tho Major outranks the king’i-
est. He bears the rank ancj stamp of
Nature’s noblemen, a patent of nobility
greater than any ever conferred on belled
knight 6r titled lord. Long may ho.
live and prosper,
that they wool
Mr. Weed, (
Smalley, of Y-
commit-t-se to ;
platform. Th,
lady had the fi
■.*
asy propositi*
Miss l
took the ytofife
vention with,
voice was too ■
feet distant.
bo heard.*
New York, and Mr,
monfc, were appointed n
oorf the ladies to the
chair announced that a
fe, uod -.svused to hear
Gnzzers, of St, Louie,
w andnddrse^ed the eon-
•Js5:* ouasossion but her
eak to be heard many
a temper a: res petition.
The following - a received from New
Yoik. dnfed June A.
To the President of due Democratic Conveus
lion, St. Louis, Mb.,
The Iulernatiqunl Temperance Congress
held in Philadelpidis, rends greeting and the
earnest prayer ei -lany thoussauda of Christian
citizens (bat in y ,g.r Centennial platform,
about to be ado;;. ,a, you will pronounce
against the frailic in aU h.&hofic liquors &s a
chief cause of criu 3. pauperism arid political
corruption, and noniij-ite as --our candidates
for President and ■ i -s -President total ab*.
Stainers.from in'.oxier'.ing beverages, and sup-
porters of the pL'oiri|):(io>! )f the.liquor traffic
as the true na,tgp.alJoaislative poiicv. *
• Yk, S. Dodge,, President,
J. N. STEAr.xf-, .
At eight • •/u-u 2 jlio conven-j
tion to®? a r< *. si.
The c: oG3e^ibVd.st 5. The
Committee'on C*ri?-cflals reported all
States reproYor.tVb and no contested
Report-ntfcplo <1, with an amende
and backed tho nomination up with a
ten-minutes ape eetb.
Colonel Wiiliari \a, of Illinois, nominated
Governor Hendrbck-r, of Indiana. M,. W.
Fuller, of II inois. se conded tho nomination,
and-Spoke in his b< -h ilf.
.Leon .^bboft, oi New Jersey, nominated
ex-Governor Parki >r. of New Jersey.
When'New York nras called, there/was im-
mense and prolo nged cheering. Francis
Ker nan. of New Yo. rkT advanced to ffie plat-
form and spoke in ti ooi -.in a tion of Tilden.
On completion of Mr. Kernan’s speech Mr.
Kelley, of New York', c wmienced a speech in
opposition to the nomin ation of Tilden.. Be-
fore Kelly’s first sen tone ‘-e was littered objec-
tion was made and consi flerablecoofusioa ex-
isted. Kelly resumed sp eakirg after consid-
erable interrnpiiony but after speaking ten
minutes be was intern lpted by crUis of
“•ime” and left the platfoi *ra.
After Kelly left the pla tform, T, J. Flour*
noy. of Virginia, spoke in behalf of i iid»n.
W. S. Herndon, of Texa= # spjke for Tilden.
General Thomas Ewing nominated ffm,
Allen, of Ohio. .
Glyruer, of Pennsylvania,, nominated Gen-
eral Hancock,
FIRST BALLOT.
8:30 p, M, (New York time)—First ballot
—Alien, 56, Tilden, Parker, 18, an-
, cock, 75, Bayard, 27, -He ndricks 133, Neces-
] sary to choice, 492.
Radical Platform. —It p*a very preHy
platform, and must have taken Gen.
Hawley a long time to write it out. It
is full or correct sentiments and beauti-
ful, beautiful language. To be sure, it
does not explaiu where all the money
has gone to, but we cannot expect every-
thing, even m a platform of seventeen
piankg. As the Western orator well
said: “Although, gm^lemen, as Pre«i
dent of the Yellville National Bank oir
deceased friend did not a -count satisfac-
torily for the.funds of that instilu‘ion.
yet his remarks upon the buying of the
same showed that his heart hear. w°.rmlv
for his naive land.”—New lork World.
, . . mm*<STW»--
The lata Sultan, Abdul Aziz, spent Id
Seats.
meat admittis/r delegates? from District
Columbia and tw:!lories without votes.
The report oi’ tho Committee on Per
manent Oi'gAr izqiA.n? was read, reeom.1
sTtfeji A. McCIernand, of
■■A aaat President and a
Rr
man for a-fcbat.” I
*Ht . in;e* seat of
emotions ' ~r
pa ‘ emo-dons' oF
er, and while there
ons to her social syss
PKe: profound scholars,
aas'm.en and her chival-
Tfe Doctor advises me
flipect age and experi-
I shall have fore
se’ent
the pioud'-st-chf?
- may be some Ob-
tem, all bono® to
I her sagacious e!
rous soldiers,
in -he iature-to
once. Indeed,
gMien my duty tj'my .seniors, then let
indignation, lomMtui deep, come from
' that honored peSfton of mankind, buf
when I sea error Hjeading itself like a
green bay tree tdpughout the ramifica-
tiors.cf society, I feel culled upon to
suppress it, wit.b.&k regard to age or sex.
I admit that the oestieman had a person
to deal with of ; [rain, ability and tal-
ent,” but "by iluinne of all these terms,
either of theca ieuld have expressed
what the gentler in desired to convey,
intellectual forc&Ll hope our fair cor-
respondent wifi jpJf be intimidated with
the:application oMIl these synonimous
terms. I will g^fethe Doctor’s closing
verse : “My goo pntentions to write in-
structive or araasdg articles, all I get, is
to be criticised. 1 am glad I am not an
editor, it is eas y, find fault with their
articles, but harr|o write them better.”
Indeed, give uo Vkst-l
Now, Doctor dthe*future,if it should
be roy duty to ‘ar* you to*task, .either in
the character of upi'o tem. editor or-cor
respondent, it shil be as in the past, in
a spirit of -i'rie|dly criticism. Come,
Doctor, don’t ge j discouraged, give us
that article.on ,; iabie3.”
R C. Stafford,
'.’op,bach State.
■K-o
mending Get
T!Iiuois«fov *
Vice Pifeidi;
adopted,
il jCL OR^TANP’S SPEECH.
General MqOie. ,ird waa escorted to
the chair afid ;>the following speech:
Gentlemen of 0: National Democratic
Convention-. I t-h/ok you for the disau-
.. -IROXDBA r.T-OT,
Second boJcF-Td.-W- 45 A Hendricks, 108,
TI»ur-*naoV2, Haneo.iApVt, B a.f»rA Bp'
ker, 18. A5 !
iAwa changed 25 :o Til ** .chang-
ed 24 to Tilden aud 16 ftenrU iok-- • -luiy
ebauged to 20' T41d, =>/..'< 10 Ef Bdrloks—
nominating . ildeu. ' Ly-
Whole vote on.second ballot wa.a 73S. nec-
essary to choice, 492. After all ti?e changes
the second ballot stood TiUlea. 5:35, Hen-
dricks, 60, Allen,- 54, Parker, 18, Hancock,
59, Bayard, 11, and Thurman 2.
At the end of the second ballot, without
w-iitintrfor the anjiounceoienv from, the chair,
the convention and crowd gave loud cue-era
j fp ten minutes. %Tlio exci tement and nope
1 a j almost drowned Hie music by tho band \ a •>
} lions Ssatei announced etnnotes amidst
confusioh, including D -’awr.re,' which \
?o!id for Tilden Pennsylvania moved to
maY-e it unanimous. Indians, seconded enn°
sylvania’s motion t make the nom.iaation
unanimous.
A rnoti >n to adjourn till 10 ic-morrow was
carried at 8.20 p. rn. .
Before tho adjournment of the convention,
[OOMvjc|tIC .iIED. ]
Red Rock, Ias-rop Go., Texas, 1
June 23d, 1876. f
Ed. Advertiser:
Having boon v—y-busy in tho crop of
laic, I >iav« not I%1 the time to write
you regularly as’,4 intended, therefore
you must exeus ;,.-fielay and I will en
deavor to do bi K- ia the future.
Well, a? a-.; 4, thought is of same-
thing to S X%,m9atioa the fact that
Beat No. 2, oi I^ltrop county is getting
nearly ou the fc-.iw§3n this respect. We
have more than asuffioienoy of wheat to
make ail the eaMbread that the people
of our beat can tea aka way with, and
much more than&e have been in the
habit of eutibg”.
our beat if>r fi
neve? before koo
wepra cer-aiuly
lo money
.. „ will leave
nts&feexb year, something
here. We feel that
rising ground. In
guished houor.yon have done mo in dis notwithstanding the confusion and excifoment,
recting tno to pre side over your delibor | nominatioas were made for Vice-President, '
ations. You ars cho delegates of the 1 including the names of both Hendricks and
great, J ad-litiou to thei iupryved farming im
;nt j piemeucs heret-oSH^ mentioned, we now
have,two Reapiiih Mafflfines and a No.
1. Thrasher. 'TFs-is what Graogerism
baa done for us. [t 1ms saved us, for
the next year, i-y) vs flour bill alone, not
less than §2Q0i|j The corn crop is
splendid, nearly ;; nde, And the Peather
could not bo mo| favorable. We have
D UBocrac-y of th;
ty-seven Stat's.v-
ed but now for f.
visible R-ipn’ >li
li*ica! farnih, wfl
extravagant livfne. within the period of politics, sh
noie Union, of -thir®
■ -? nu naturally estrang-
p unit,din one inai-
-brfetneteu of one po-
■1 the same heritage of
liberty, nudee equal I - w, knd heirs of
one destiny. -.jail we preserve and
transmit fh&kgiteai iieritago ? Shall we.
make thafc d slloy it; most glorious in
the history of f’ ee p ;oples? If your de-
. liberations, fallow ; Democrats, to-day
I shall be wise; f-yovt pei^e^tiou of the
ulr Count
necessif:
v.-;
of or-r tips a, bu> country, our
twenty years, jC 10,000,000 sterling. -At
all this on prKmte account. He did
right to opaj} bis veins with a pair
seizors,
j your sy:
I hearts q‘
j all poradi
j onr ehikl
l-o and Sagacious'; 'if
paGP u'ar,y1 be quick with the
a gr F: people; then, beyond
yerunri' we shall transmit to
rjjjt n ^ -,r cb(Iron’s children,
Hi • ^ ^%
Hancock^ Hendricks was tne first put in
nomination for Vice-President.
(From the N. Y. Commercial Advertiser.)
Breathes there a Yank so mean, so small,
W^o never says, “Wall, neow, by gaol,
I reckon, since old Adam’s fall,
There’s never growed on this ere ball,
A nation so all-fired tall
As we Centennial Yankees?”
Fellow Citizens—It is* with concentras
ted feelings of national pride as Ameri-
cans that we stand here to-day, upon our
own feet, \ atebing the car of American
Progress as it goes rattling arouud the
three hundred and-sixty-five mile-track
for the hundredth timei It is the same
old car whose wheels were lubricated a
century ago with the blood of our patri-i
ot primogenitors; but which are greased
in these latter days with a lubricator
made from the odoriferous skunks oil
furnished us by political polecats. This
is owing to a scarcity of patriots, primo*-
genitora, and blood.
Looking at the upturned faces of my
intelligent audiences I see, branded as it
were upon the burglar-proof oheeks of
this overdone assemblage, these two in-
scriptions— love of country and love of
money. And, if I dig deep down into
the summer-fallowed soil of your agri-
cultural hearts, I shall find these two
loves so firmly rooted that nothing but
death can ever deracinate them.
From the first root, love of country,
has sprung our republican form of self-
government, growing up into a shapely
tree, upon each limb of which an offices
holder sits perche.d, gorging himself
with golden fruit and shaking down
leaves to his constituents. The umbra-
geous foliage of this thrifty tree makes
it a favorite hiding place for unclean
birds of prey, at>d*a!l manner of filthy
fowls that come squawking from the
political barmyards of our fructifying
land.
From the other root, love of money,
there springs a tree whose fruit is a balm
in Gilead to the lacerated credit—a fruit
that brings mirth, jewelry, concert tick-
ets, bliss, silk dresses, and plenty of poor
relations. A man with a pocketful of
this fruit can say with the poet, or with-
out the poet for that matter:
To owe is human,.
To pay up divine.
The wonderful growth of this glorious
country, to which we Americans some.-
times allude, is patent to every single
son, every married daughter, S3 well aa
to every pair of twins within sound of
myfimrytone. I say it is patent, for his-
tory records the taking out of letters pat-
ient in 1776. An event which it poeti-
cally expressed, or rather, poetically
finabalmed, am4-a.fi ready £0be expressed,
1 O. O. D., to the Centennial, in the fol-
lowing chaste lines:
A hundred years ago. you know,
Our glorious country’s sire
As Liberty’s Knight went out to fight
Great Britaiira big Goliar.
It would be well, or at least convales-
cent, for each of ua to pause here on the
portico of our centennial superstructure,
wipe our feet on the door-mat of Time,
and ask our neighbor, or if he is away
from home, ask his wife, three important
questions: From whence, as a nation,
did we come? Whither, as a people,
have we wandered? • Where in thunder
are we going?
Get up, fellow-citizens, and go back
to the dawn of our country’s history;
back as early as four o’clock in the morn-
ing, and, while the firi?t auroral glints of
jihe sunlight of civilization are streaking
across the Eastern horizon,* behold the
intrepid Columbus discovering this con-
tinent in three vessels; some historians
say in ldll2, buf^'gentlemen, Columbus
did it ia three vessels. And, as Christo's
pher stands there with his hand upon’
the front door of our Western Hem is*
p’b.ore, take a peep inside at the country
which our untold ages has been revolv-
ing around on its own axis independent
of the white man. You se9 before you a
howling wilderness, howling to shake
hands with civilization. You see bound-
ing bi3ons bounding over the boundless
prairies. You see a race of untutored
Los building camp fires all over Mare
tha’s Vineyard. You see a goodly pore
tion of the earth’s surface in the posses-
sion of a people living without the sim-
plest comforts of civilization. Not a
penitentiary, not a bond and mortgage,
not a barrel of whisky, not an assessor,
not a politician from the suburbs of San
Francisco to the hub burbs of Boston.
A simple people, worshiping the Great
Spirit, scalping one another, and living
cn game. By game I do not mean sev*
en up or draw poker,
Contrast this picture of the past with
a photograph of the present. To day
our couutry, instead of an unbroken for-
est is made up of land water and taxes.
Most of the land ia mortgaged, * most of
the water is wet, and most of the taxes
are excelsior. Underneath this heavily
mortgaged land is stored our treasures
of gold, silver, calomel, epsom salts and
worms for fishing. The surface is mos
I tell you that, as a nation, as a people,
as a country, we are perfectly overwhelm-
ing in onr preponderons immensity. Aud
now, despite our many leg’slative draw-
backs, desdito our political simoons,
which seem to be sweeping every honest
man from off the face of Amerisan earth,
despite, just now, the scarcity of presi->
dential aspirants waiting to quench their
thirst with the crooked whisky which is
drauk from the golden vessels Belshaz*
zared in the temple at Washington, des-
pite all this Iqt us American citizens take
the sword of Bunker Hill from the ant-
lers, and with uplifted hands swear that
we will henceforth make honest men of
our'representatives, or make representa*.
tives of our honest men.
LEGISLATIVE PROCEEDINGS.
land
Austin, June 26.
t Senate,
Lieut. Gov. Hubbard returned this
morning, and presided in the Senate.
Favorable reports were made by come
mittees on bills to suppress lawlessness
and crime in certain cases; and fixing
the time for the biennial, sessions of the
Legislature.
V- RILLS INTRODUCED.
By Smith—-T'o provide-for the detec-
tion and conviction of forgers of
titles.
By -McCormick—Fixing the time for
holding court ia the Eighteenth Judicial
District.
By MoLeary—Providing for auditing
certain cotton claims against the State.
By Brady—Amending act of May 11,
1848, organizing District Courts.
By F. M Henry—An act for the re-
iiei Of pfifioad and other interna^ im”
provement companies. It allows thirty
days after the adjournment of this Leg
islatufe before the forfeiture of charter.
By Francis-r-To incorporate the Mag-<
nolia and Trinity River Bridge Com-
pany.
An act to validate certificates of mar-
in certain cases was en-
becanse I
[communicated.]
Mr. Editor :
I do not. answer “O. E.”
conceive that his reply is meritorious or
demands an epswer, but in order to disa-
buse the gentierann’3 mind of a very
egregious error, and to extricate myself
from the’false ^position in which ho has
labored so assiduously to place’? me. I
know the gentleman has candor enough
to acknowledge an error when he*corns
mits if, nnd to correct a false impression j
planted more cor this year than hereto-
fore and cultivuCR it better. You may. . * , ,, ... ,, _
expect to see facing advance in future. J °<>polized by the grumbling old Gran-
The farmers are l.[ginning to understand gers who raise grain. Tho grain is illic
the idea of planLAg a aeversified crop,
consequently hdvK more time to improve
their farms. Cotton aa king, like all
other monarchal? not dethroned, but
must surrender
to bread and m
j Texas must loo
! We can make b
| good and as ch;
j Union. As so
i threshed out i
| item, giving yc
i D) -de in our*
j that 70T may fi
j chaff, I remain
if l of
■1 ’and
its royal power
the people of
[o their cattle and hogs,
t and bacon here as
j as any Scat9 ia the
wheat crop is
another
bushels
Ji
is onr
give you
anmber of
Wghborhood. Hoping
ffiS oome grain in ail this
Yonrs, eto,,
Green Walnut.
itly distilled into whisky, and the whis-
ky is mixed with water and used for cam-
fire and rheumatism. Thus you see bow
beautifully the land and water wash each
other’s hands. Show me another conrre
try on this green earth where exists a
more perfect system of domestic econo-*
my.
O, my. countrymen! O, my fellowh
sisters! I tell you with candor in my
Vords, with sincerity in my bead, and
with the seidlitz powders of emotion ef-
fervescing all over my homeopathic heart;
ried women
grossed.
The.bill*to provide for a different sys-
tem of public free schools, being the
speoial order, was taken up and consid
erecl in Committee of the Whole. The
scholastic age was fixed at from ten to
fourteen years. Section 20 was reached,
when the committee rose, reported pro--
gress, and asked leave to sit again.
Bill fixing time for holding court in
the twelfth Judicial D;strict passed.
The Committee on Public Printing re
commended that the contract with J. D.
Elliott be recinded, according to his re-
quest. Adopted,
Adjourned.
House.
There were breezy times in the Kous9
to-day. The vote by. which the Galves-
ton breakwater bill was engrossed on
Saturday, was reconsidered by a vote of
48 to 31.
Denman sent to the Clerk’s desk, and
had read a dispatch from Austin, pub
lished in Sunday’s Galveston News,
charging the opponent of the bill with
being influenced in their action by raiP
road lobbyists; He pronounced the
statement as applicable to himself, scur-
rilous, and denounced it a will (ill he.
He said II would rather be weak-minded
than a notorious liar; and that ho. bad
heard that the friends of the bill bad de-
clared tbeir intention to oppose all meas-
ures advocated by i-s opponents.
Kespta? said he had ' heard that the
friends of the bill had promised to sup
port other bills in return for votes.
Quinn denounced all such statements,
so far as they applied, to him as false
He disapproved the article in the News;
had nothing to do with its making, and
was not responsible for it.
The vote by which section 15 was
stricken out was reconsidered, by yeas
46, nays 26.
The vote by which the amendment to
section 15, striking out sixty sections and
inserting forty instead, was lost, was also
reconsidered.
Downs offered an amendment giving
twenty sections instead of sixty, and lim
iting the grant to six hundred aud fifty
sections.
Boyd offered an amendment striking
out forty sections, and inserting sixteen.
Downs withdrew his amendment.
Cochran offered a substitute, giving
twenty-five sections for every
expended by Galveston, to be located in
alternate sections, and certificates to be
issued for six hundred and forty acres
each, no script, to be issued until one
mile pf sea-wall has been constructed,
and limiting the grant to six hundred
and fifty sections. Adopted by yeas 42,
nay^ 35
Tine bill was engrossed by yeas 46,
nay.s 3l-
OoifihrAn moved to reconsider. , and to
lay that rn'otion on the table. Carried
The committee in the contested elec-
tion case of*(Coffee vs. Northington, from
Lampasas district, reported a resolution
in favor of Worthington, the sitting
member. The report was adopted
bills and resolutions introduced.
To provide for the detection and con-
viction of forgers of j’aod titles.
To grant aid for the improvement of
Trinity river.
To amend an act to inc'Orporate the
city of New Braunfels.
Instructing the Committee c'n Finance
to prepare an itemized list of *be esti-
mated appropriations necessary to defray
the expenses of each Department until
the meeting of the Sixteenth Legisla-
ture.
The act to provide for filling vaoaneies
in tho office of District Clerk passed.
Afternoon Session.
The Committeo ou Assessment and
Collection of Taxes reported a bill to
regulate the assessment and collection of
taxes.
Bills engrossed to amend an act regu-
lating attachments, and to prevent the
removal or sale of animals, tools, cro^
etc., by lessees before the landlord has
been paid,
Adjourned.
Austin, J^Qe 27
Senate.
Favorable committee repute wero re
ceiv^don the follo^mg; JoiQfc resola.
tion requiring the Comptroller to furnish
a list of«the luibudif;d(] claims On file; an
ac., repeal 1 Dr- the ,lct providing for reg-
istration of bir'utts; providing for annual
pensions to veterans; providing for
change oi venue in criminal eftses; re-
pealing section 27 of act regarding Unis
versicy lands; to protect women from
libel and slander; providing for the guar
diansbip of minors, persons of unsound
mind and habitual drunkards; fixing time
for hplding court in the Eighteenth Jire
dicial District; and providing for the de-
tection and punishment of forgers ofland'
titles.
for holding the regular biennial sessions
of the Legislature. Senator Stored also
made a minority report on the same sub-
ject. Both of them think this is the reg-
ular biennial sesion of the Fifteenth Leg-
islature.
bills and resolutions introduced.
By Carroll—Resolution of instruction
to the Judiciary Committee to report
Whether the term ninety days, as applied
to the present session of the Lagis* a'tnro
in the Constitution, includes undays
and holidays, or. was only intended to
embrace working days.
By Brady—An act to protect caviga.-*
lion in the n vigible rivers aud bayous
of the State.
Senate iwg; into committee of the
| whole on t^P^choel bill, and after reachs
! ing section 30, rose and reported. After
this the bill will be considered in the
Senate.
Crain introduced a bill to regulate
change of venue in certain cases.
. House,
The Senate hi!! prescribing the duties
and defining the powers of sheriffs and
other peace officers was discussed three
and a half hours. Four sections were
adopted. The indications are that it will
pass as it came from, the Senate. Lang,
Coleman and MeComb spoke against the
bill ; Barziza, Rust and Adams for it.
Elliott’s resignation as Public Printer
was accepted, and a reso!nt;on adoDted
paying him for ninety copies daily of his
p 'per from the firafc jay of the srhsiou to
date.
A message was received from the Govs
ernor, transmitting the report of the
commissioners appointed to locate the
branch penitentiaries provided for by the
Fourteenth Legislature. The Governor
deems it best not to enter into- contracts
for building the new penitentiaries until
the Legislature so directs.
Bills were introduced to regulate the
assessment of land certificates and the
collection of taxes thereon, and to pro-
vide for the registration of written ins
struments.
Afternoon 'Session,
Consideration of the Senate Sheriff
bill was resumed.. After much discussion
the bill passed to its third reading, by a
vote of fifty-five to twenty four. There
were no important changes in it..
The Finance Committee reported a bill
to provide for the payment of the
amounts due teachers for services' ben
tween January, 1873. and January, 1876,
in the various counties of the State.
Adjourned.
COUNTY COURTS.
The Fort Worth Standard gives the *
following epitome of the County Court
Act as passed both houses of the Texas
Legislature and presented to the Gov-
ernor for his approval on the 16th.
inst.:
Sec. 1. Judges to be eleoied for a
term of two years, vacancies to be filled
by commissioners.
Sec. 2. County Judges required to
keep office at the Couhty Seat, end not
to be absent himself from the county
without leave of commissioners court ,
and not then for m re than twenty days.
Court to sit for civil and probate business
on third Monday in January,March,May,
July, September and November; and
for criminal business on the first Mon-
day in each month.
Sec. 3 Said Court shall have exclu-
sive original jurisdiction of all misde-
meanors-above the jurisdiction of Jus-
tices of the Peace. Civil jurisdiction
concurrent with District Court on ail
su-ms between $500 and 31000, and ex-
clusive jurisdiction when toe amount in
cbtrover&y is more than $200. and 4not
more Chau $500; provided that it shall
not have power to foreclose liens or.
real estate, and no jurisdiction to try
suite for damages f -r slander defamatioa
rf character. Appeals from Justice
Courts to be. tried de now in County
Court. No appeal allowed unless judg®
ment rendered, or amount in controversy
shall exceed $20 00. Appeals from counts
ty courts to be taken to the Court of Ap-
'peals.
Sec. 4. Gives the county courts gen-
era! jurisdiction of Probate matters.
Sec. 5. Gives power to issue writs
of m*andamus, injunction, attachment,
sequestration, garnishment, certiorari
and Habeas corpus.
• Sec. 6. Provides that when county
$10 000 judge is disqualified, cause shall be re-
moved to District Courts.
Bee. 7#- Provides for transferring*
civil, criminal apd probate business-
from District to County courts.
Bee. 8. Prosecutions- to be corns-
menced by imormation based on affi la»
viw, *
Sec. 9. Code of criminal proceed-
ure shall apply to county courts.
Bee. 10 Juries to consist of six men.
Sec. 11. ’Jury fee ot three dollars ia
each case to be collected by the Clerk.
Sec. 12. Record books may ba inn
troduced in evidence with the necessity
of making certificate transcripts.
Sec. 13. In a jury trial each party
sha'i be entitled to three challenges.
Sec. 14. Witnesses allowed one dol-
lar per day and six cents for every mile
traveled.
Sec. 15. Witness fees lo be paid by
party cast in suit.
Sec, 17. County Courts shall havA
same power as District court- to punish
contempts.
Sec. 16, No juries in civil cases eX5
cept when demanded, party' demanding
derk Sh& deposit t!jree doiiirs with
t.j£“toba
■-■iVnlV* 1 iesPPjr to District Court shall'
> Pt 7 o c°un.,-y Courts; provided that
execution rjay isaae in fifteea d affcer
rendition^ of judgtaent, returnable in
81 0 e ninety days after issuance.
0 jC. 2Q. Certain day of each term to
' jC set for probate business, temporary
letters of Administration and guardian-
ship may be granted ia vacation. *
Sec. 21. Probate laws now in force,
not inconsistent with this act, to remain
in force till otherwise provided by law.
Sec. 22. Requires seal to be attached
to all process except subpeeuas.
Sec. 23 Fines imposed on jurors, Sues
for contempt of Court aud jury fees r.o
constitute jury fund, and affiffiotabje by
clerk. '* ^ *
Sec. 24. Clerk required to report at.
last day of each t -rm all monies received
by him belonging to jury fund
Sec. 25. Clerk to pay jurors out of the
funds in his hands.
Sec, 26. County Courts shall have pow
er^to bear and determine motions against
officers of court and attorneys at law for
not paying over money collected where
the amount claimed is les.o that one thou-
C, , „ ,r T-r , 8»“d dollars.
Senator F M. Henry presented a mi-1 . the femainiog seotywat «o altogether
nority report on the bill firing tb§ tiremj
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