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To All Whom It May Concern-
Editorial Paragraphs-
CONGRESS.
THE B G RHLKOAD CONVENTION.
HAM-SIRI GING HE CIIiES.
The Mexia Ledger can’t stand it.
worse than the present
working now.
DECEMBER 3, 1875.
FRIDAY,
Editorial Shorts.
AN UMQUHI E CRIESUS.
X
HE A. OR OF CRELIIoN.
SENSIBLE ME Ki HI ATS.
Court.
Subscriber.
vention assembled, and the election
SAN SAB ,
eyes sparkled with merriment, and the r
rated for it
And what has become of old Tom
Potts, who slept on a big flat rock from
A man who is supposed to be a luna-
that that was Bro. Elliott himself.
000,
R. D. WESTCOTT, Editor.
B. F. HARDCASTLE, Bu iness Manager.
THE NEW CONSTITUIION AND IHE
INTERNATIONAL RAILROAD.
tie of charity that will cover all of its
sins, and he will therefore support it.
Bro Elliott calls this "manly and patri-
otic !”
Gen. Horace Boughton, formerly of
Marshall, is a candidate for Postmaster
country, to cultivate corn and cotton.
They wanted to get rid of “middle men’,
and manufacturers, and get back to the
olden times of Adam and Eve.
Are not the people of the towns abe
to take care of themselves, without the
meddling of that Constitution ?
Does the Convention in this show that
it was better able to take care of the
towns than the towns are themselves ?
qqFMr. W. I. Barker is the correspondent
and general agent of The Age at Galveston.
OFFICE INCONCRETE BUILDING UP STAIRS.
Although our advocacy of a Di-
vision of the State was not produc-
tive of immediate results, we were
conscious that the seed was not sown
on barren ground, our correspond-
ence indicated too forcibly that in
good time, it would sprout, grow and
bear fruit, aye, good fruit.—San An-
tonio Herald.
The Age will have to enlarge her
borders. That’s the way things are
This body meets next Monday. In
the House there are one hundred and
8ay8. , , „ c. ; voauul, uaugouuo Juunuy .
Ferris and the Supreme Court were all lexas is spreading herself.
asses. It says that a railroad is not a , - -
Gov. Coke roars the new Constitution
“as soft an he were a sucking dove.”
He steps over it like a turkey walking on
hot bricks. He don’t particularly like
Houston, Nov. 29, 1875.
Editor Age—We would thank you
for granting space in the columns of
«your valuable journal,” herald of
truth, integrity, and ensign of mor-
ality in Houston, to blazon abroad
the corruptions that are being fast-
ened upon society by Judases,
Achams, pseudo—friends of the com-
mon weal. They first introduce
themselves for admission into the
They join the church, arc
regular attendants upon the ordinan-
ces of the sanctuary, till something
transpires that will call forth the true
character of the “man.” He is then
with the agility of deer. And how their
long message to the Legislature and he o ______________ u.. JL. .
made worlds of capital throughout the . cheeks were aflush with the roses of
State and was very tremendously hur- i health '
He cited Judge Chris-, He who was a match for them had to be
tiancy and lots of other learned Judges ! no sardine, but we honestly believe that
to prove that he was correct Judge ! none of them ever got ahead of us. We
Ferris said that he was correct, and so were some hickory nut in those days
did most of the Supreme Court. : ourself. And now here comes an excel-
Now comes the new constitution and jent newspaper from that same wild,
that Governor < oko and Judge , beautiful, dangerous country ! Truly,
•i — l ie o-N.c horenl
The International Railroad had a claim
against the State for a little matter of
$6,000,000 in bonds, which the State
through its Legislature had contracted
to pay the company for building the
railroad across the State, The railroad
after complying with its contract in part,
brought suit to compel the State to com
ply with its contract in part, and deliver
the bonds for so many miles constructed
The State contested, and got out of this
little muss by a dictum of the Su-
preme Court that the Legislatnre had no
right to tax private property to build up
private corporations. The whole thing
turned upon this point, and the Inter-
national railway and its bonds were
thrown out of court really upon, that
point and no other The little matter
of mandamus, though pushed for-
ward to the front as a blind, was
really not in the struggle at all.
Governor Coko took that position in his
The San Saba News drops in to see us
the first time. As we glanced over its
well filled twenty-eight columns, it put
us to thinking considerably. Not many
years ago San Saba and all that coun-
try up there was a sort of “stamping
ground” with the writer of these pre-
sents. He shot deer, turkey, bears,
panthers, wild-cats, skunks, and occa-
sionally tackled the hideous Comanche
right about where San baba now stands,
There were very few people up there
then, but they were a brave, vigorous,
hospitable, powerful set of men, sharp
as briers; and then there were a few of
the buxomest sort of lassies, who could
bound over , the flinty hills, barefooted.
tic created quite a sensation on Pecan
Is the International excluded from an- street yesterday. He jumped up several
other attempt for its bonds? If they find times, yelling as loud as he could, chal-
that the terms they have accepted under lenging the city auhorities, the United
compulsion don’t suit them, we know of States troops, and the world at large to
no law, moral or statute, to debar them arrest him. Officers Larue and Thomp
from another trial under the new Con- son took him in charge, and locked him
stitutlon, where they will have plain sail- up in jail to await further development,
ing, if it is adopted' The acceptance of Some thought he was intoxicated, but he
of that Constitution by the people may showed no indication of it in his walk,
be claimed by them as a verdict of the and the officers who arrested him, say
people, that their orignal claim was just, that there was no odor of spirits about
and that they may come in to demand it his clothes or breath, and the general
according to the verdict of the people. opinion of those present was, that he
------ was a lunatic. He will be examined.—
Virginia, were adopted by the House
of Delegates yesterday.”
William B. Astor paid last year.
$2,000,000 taxes on his real estate in
New York. That’s bigger than the
whole income of Houston.
The Cincinnati Commercial thinks
that Jno. Hancock of Texas stands a
good chance to be Speaker of the
House. Shouldn’t wonder.
Charles O’Connor, the first law-
yer of the country, was very sick
yesterday, at his country house up
the Hudson. He is very old and
will probably die.
This new,constitution is an “ im-
provement on nothing,” unless, which
God grant, it result in an improve-
ment of the crop of Rutabagas.—
Austin Statesman.
The only fruit it will bear, will be
to make your name a hissing and a
scorn. No sensible Texan would
ever submit to see his grand State
dissevered.
The Bastrop cotton mills, founded
Our market square neighbor shows
pluck on Sunday. There is the ring of
the true metal there, and it swells our
Houston pride to perceive it. The bat-
tle of San Jacinto, market square neigh
bor. was fought too near to Houston fr
us to turn coward and quail. A flight
is all the more despicable when it is
from a field of victory. It is easy to
pluck victory in this case.
And never before in any other that we
ever heard of The criminal classes are
generally a terrible burden to the
counties, but Grayson has discovered a
way of making them profitable. It is
the only instance in the State, we dare
say, where the criminal account has not
been found on the wrong side of the
ledger.
thereafter.
The new constitution is splotched
all over with gangrenous blotches. If
all the lawyers in the Untted States
were to sit upon it a thousand years,
they could not make head or tail of
a considerable portion of it.
Fernando Wood having backed
out of the contest for Speaker, the
contest is narrowed down to Kerr,
Randall and Cox. We do not be-
lieve that either will get it. We
bank on Lamar yet. Possibly Say-
ler, of Cincinnati, may loom up.
A. Oaky Hall, one of the most
distinguished mayors New York
ever had, has turned actor, and will
first tread the stage in a piece of his
own composition. Now, Mayor Lord,
when you are an Ex, here’s your
chance. Write a farce about our
City Fathers.
The principal reason now urged by
the friends of the new Constitution for
its acceptance by the people, is that it
may be got rid of so easily. So you
may get rid of a dirty shirt very easily,
but that is no reason why a sensible man
should put a dirty shirt on, if he has
another.
There is one thing that sticks out all
over the new Constitution, like the
quills on the back of the porcupine,
and that is that the people have not
sense enough to govern themselves,
but that rutabaga turnips have. And
the people will take that insult?
The New Orleans merchants are
now advancing on cotton at 8 per
cent, per annum, within a fractional
margin of the full value, and allow
the owner to hold at pleasure. If
true, this is a great concession, and
is likely to divert much of the staple
to that city.
Some of the railroad men say that
the new constitution is the best
thing in the world ; that under its
provisions there will never be another
railroad built in the State, and conse-
quently those that now exist fwill
have a monopoly for all time to
come.
The new Costitution did trust the
Legislature in on thing: It has
turned over the railroads to their ten-
dermercy, to be manipulated by them
like a cat would a mouse. The rail-
roads will have to keep on the sun-
ny side of the Legislature. Here is
a grand opening for the lobby and
corruption.
The Age abandons its usual courtesy
and which has so greatly distinguished
it since the last change of proprietorship
in discussing the matters hanging on the
action of the coming Democratic Con-
vention at Galveston.— Waco Examiner.
Softly now, Bro Barton ! We never
drop the silken gloves off our hands.
Bvt have we not a right to chasten oc-
casionally those whom we love ? Think
you we would put ourself to any trouble
to larrup one unless we loved him ?
Now we intend to smother you in a bed
of roses. It is sometimes sweet to have
our quarrels, for the sake of the recon-
ciliation that follows. Prepare to blush!
It is not strange that Elizabeth
Cady Stanton and other women’s
rights shriekers occasionally spring
up, when we consider the selfishness
of the lords of creation. The chief
of the United States Bureau of Sta-
tistics has lately promulgated some
rather amusing figures. During the
fiscal year 1872-73, terminating about
two months before the late great
panic began, the imports of silks,
laces, bonnets, fancy hosiery, etc.,
into the United States, amounted to
$24,942,213, and the imports of wines
and liquors, cigars and tobacco
amounted to $12,500,000.
During the panic year, the im-
ports of silks and fancy dress goods,
in other words, ladies ware, fell off
over $8,000,000, while the imports of
winesand liquors, cigars and tobacco,
men’s-ware, actually increased over
$200,000! Thus when times grow
tight, the womankind’s rations are
cut off ; but the lords of creation in-
stead of cutting off theirs, absolute-
ly increase them by taking a part of
what the ladies have cheerfnlly given
up. ISIlU Uluo downright meanness
on the part of the lords of creation ?
Come what may they must have their
whole rations of wines and cigars, if
they have to stint their wives and
daughters to get them. Well, it is
glorious to have a lion’s strength.
pected daily.
You regard “the majority of the
Democratic party as shortsighted and
ignorant ? ” You will see about the
third Tuesday in February that they
are not so—“ o hurt.”
The Central and the International
railways inform Major Sayres,
through their Presidents, that dele-
gates to the Democratic Convention
in Galveston will be carried at half
price.
The present term of the criminal court
has not only cost the county n thing,
but has assessed in fines and forfeitures
oue thousand dollars mere than its ex-
penses Perhaps this has never before
occurred in Grayson county.—Sherman
Register.
No Registration.—In section 2d of
an ordinance submitting the new consti-
tution to a vote of the people it is pro-
vided that the election shall be conduct-
ed as far practicable as now by law, but
no registration of voters shall be required
and every elector shall vote in the pre-
cinct ofhiszesidence.
The Bryan Post is cruel to strip
Bro. Elliott’s skin off, and leave his
great long ears flopping out so. The
Post should have left that work for
THE WEEKLY AGE.'
William B. Astor, who died in New
York last Friday, is now said to have
been worth 150 millions dollars. It is
doubtful if there was any other one man
in the world worth so much. The actual
capital of the Rothchilds is said to be
some 300 millions, but there are some
three or four of them operating in co
partnership. The possession of this
capital, however, gives them the hand-
ling of unlimited amounts more. Rich
as Astor was, he built no railroads or
steamships, and contributed nothing in
the world to public enterprises or the
advancementor happiness of humanity.
Dur ng his long life he was about 85
years old—he erected a great many
buildings in New York, but few of them
were at all remarkable for either gran-
deur of proportion, or superior architec
ture. They were generally severely
plain and unpretentious, like the old
man himself He left no monument by
which the great city will remember him,
and did nothing to advance her pros
perity. He died like a rock that sinks
into the sea, producing hardly a ripple
on the surface. That he did not em-
bark in great enterprises is hardly to be
wandered at, since the management of
his enormous estate was enough to tax
almost any ordinary man to death He
did hardly anything but collect his rents,
with the regularity of clockwork, and
invest them in securities whose safety
could not be questioned. He inherited
about $30,000,000 from his father, aud
bis increase ia wealth shows the
increase of New York more than
any great financial ability on
his part. His father laid the foundation
of his great estate in the fur trade, and
his name will go down to posterity only
through the light Washington Irving’s
genius threw around it—a second try re
fleeted sort of light that does not amount
1 141 TI - I.«. e o e A » e i d
erable number of sons and daughters,
none of whom have ever manifested any
marked ability in any line. He went
out without sickness, like a candle burnt
out.
But what a prodigious amount of good
this old man could have done, if he had
had the heart to suggest and the brain
to know how.
We have heard Alice Vane sing and
seen Fay Templeton act. The latter is
not near so impalpable as the arguments
of the Age and the former not near as
vain as its editor.—Austin State Ga-
zette.
Now Bro Elliott is trying to make
believe that he has hugged somebody.
The old fraud! He never felt that good
in bis life.
private corporation, but a public corpo- rOlIS, wuu slopu ou a Jig __ a0uu
ration, and subject in all things to be choice, rather than in a feather bed?
manipulated by the Legislature, like the And Farrar and Quait, Dan Harkey, Pic
charter of a city. See section 2 article Duncan old Capt. Jno Williams and G.
10 of the new constitution. If that con- B Cooke? The latter, we see, has got
stitution is adopted, wbat heconies of to be a Judge and a constitution builder.
Governor Coke, Judge Ferris aud the Well, Cooke, that was a mighty poor
Supreme Court ? • job you put up in Austin. Itou would
Dogberry invited some one to have done a better thing if we had been
come in and -Ante him down an ass, and . T with
Governor Coke and the Supreme Court moD8
have had the Convention to come in
without solicitation, and write them
down asses of the first water.
Texas is filled with ambitious towns.
They feel the stimulus of the times and
the progressiveness of the age. They
want to build for themselves a name and
fame, and wealth and power, and not to
rot like a worn out hulk on stagnant
waters. The new consoitution comes in
and tells them to give up ambition and
to rot ic says that if you have not
10,000 people, you shall not tax your
solves to exceed twenty five cents on the
hundred dollars. If you do it you vio
late the Constitution, aud make your-
selves amenable for high treason !
Well, let us see how this operates.
Here is Waco, an ambitious, vigorous
little city, with a grand future before
her. provided she is left to manage her
own Say she has 8000 people and
$3,000,000 of taxable property. This
would give her an income from real
estate of $7500 a year. Say occupations
and licenses would give her as much
more, and she has a total annual income
of $15,000 a year ! What can ambitious
Waco do with that ? Can she construct
sidewalks, pave her streets, build city
halls, establish parks, and do all those
things that advance and ornament ?
city ? Or can she even support a police
and city government to maintain order a
Will she not have to remain stationary,
or gradually rot and drop to pieces ?
Can she do anything to develop the
country around Ler and thus help to
enrich herself?
Her only hope if the new Constitution
is adopted, is to establish an immigra-
tion Bureau of her own, and run her pop-
ulation up above ten thousand, or else
tax her merchants, lawyers, doctors, car
penters, shoemakers, blacksmiths, edi-
tors, so furiously that they can’t live
within her borders, and thus drive them
out. Sweet prospect, isn’t it Waco ?
And all the towns in Texas,except Gal
vesron, Houston, Sau Antonio. Austin
and Dallas are in precisely the same fix.
The convention probably thought that
towns are evil things, and determined
to stop their growth and destroy them
by driving their populations into the
As mean as the Inter-Ocean is in re-
gard to everything touching the South
and Southern men, it comes and places
a beautiful bouquet on the grave of
Edgar A. Poe Poor Poe! Misunder
stood and unappreciated while living,
but worshipped when .lead. His star
will forever grow brighter. He got only
$10 for his “Raven.” but it placed him
in intimate association, where he has
gone, with the greatest bards that ever
lived. That was wealth enough for him,
but it did not prevent him from starving
while living.
by Judge Munger of this City, are
about to start’again. A corps of
skilled artisans from the East is ex-
seventy-five straight Democrats and ten
Independents, all of whom were elected
by a combination of Democrats and Lib
eral Republicans. There cannot be
much question, we think, that they wall It says itis
all generally act with the Democratic -
party. The natural 1w of gravitation
will’lead them into the party at last.
Brick Pomeroy’ says he sunk $400,•
000.trying to establish a great daily in
New York. ‘'Brick” ought to have had
better sense than to do that. Metropol-
itan journalism is entirely out of the
line of his genius A good hard hitting
rough and tumble country editor ‘Brick
is, and he is nothing more. Had he
staid in Lacrosse he would have been
great and rich yet. It is remarkable
how a little breeze of prosperity does
sometimes make asses out of real good,
honest stuff.
An iron foundry has been started State Gazette.
in Marshall, with a capital of $100,- We will bet a handful of goober peas.
the Democratic party to do, in Con- it. Out thinks that “the facility with
- ’ • • which it can be amended” is the man
No one remedy is louder
called for by the necessities of
the American people than a ■
sure and safe cure for Fever
and Ague. Such we are now
enabled to offer, with a perfect
certainty that it will eradicate
the disease, and with assur-
ance, founded on proof, that no harm can arise
from its use in any quantity.
That which protects from or prevents this dis-
order must be of immense service in the com-
munities where it prevails. Prevention is better
than cure, for the patient escapes the risk which
he must run in violent attacks of this baleful dis-
temper. This “Cuke” expels the miasmatic
poison of Fever and Ague from the system,
and prevents the development of the disease, if
taken on the first approach of its premonitory
symptoms. It is not only the best remedy ever
yet discovered for this class of complaints, but
also the cheapest. The large quantity we sup-
ply for a dollar brings it within the reach of
everybody; and in bilious districts, where
Fever and Ague prevails, everybody should
have it, and use it freely, both for cure and pro-
tection. it is hoped this price will place it within
the reach of all —the poor as well as the rich.
A great superiority of this remedy over any
other ever discovered for the speedy and certain
cure of Intermittents is, that it contains no Qui-
nine, or mineral; consequently it produces no
quinism or other injurious effects whatever upon
the constitution. Those cured by it are left as
healthy as if they had never had the disease.
Fever and Ague is not alone the consequence
of the miasmatic poison. A great variety of dis-
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are Neuralgia, Rheumatism, Gout, Headache,
Blindness, Toothache, Earache, Catarrh, Asth-
ma, Palpitation, Painful Affection of the Spleen,
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and derangement of the Stomach, all of which,
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travelling or temporarily residing in the mala-
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while exposed to the infection, that will be ex-
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in suniient quantity to ripen into disease-
Hence it is even more valuable for protection
than cure; and few will ever suffer from Inter-
mittent- if they avail themselves of the protec-
lion thissemedy affords.
For T.ivvr Complaints, arising from torpid-
ity of the. Liver, it is an excellent remedy, stun,
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Articles of impeachment against E. first circles of society.
A. Bennett, State Auditor of West mhen the
of the House. Texans will support
him.
Hieronymous barks at the Age Go
itittle fice !
Judge A W. Terrel proposes to run
for State Senator in the Austin District.
And Bryan and Navasota are at it
terribl".
Gen Maxey has departed from Paris
for the United States Senate.
Mrs. Elzaheth Cady Stanton is going
to lecture in Dallas.
. he Bryan Appeal writes learnedly as
“Someone to Love” and “Pickled Cab
bages.”
Bro. Elliott, how goes your little game
of making it a test ? Don’t you see that
it has already played out?
The Victoria Advocate pukes Bro
Elliott’s bolus out. It c m’t stand that
• test.”
The Chicago Inter- Ocean is trying to
become decent, we believe. It says iv
will be darned if it will take Grant.
When you know that you are honest
and right, to doubt your success is to
doubt Almighty God.
Sherman has made up her mind to get
Austin College. We believe she will
get it She has the pluck to win in all
such races.
Bro. Elliott should come down to
Houston and hear Alice Vane and Fay
Templeton sing. It would warm up and
put new life into his cold, desolate old
heart.
The merchants of Sherman are going
to build a cotton compre ss. But Capt.
Lufkin says he must compress them over
again, notwithstanding.
The Pour Counties, after “mature de-
liberation, and much fear and trem-
bling,” comes tut for W. Comstock
Sims, of Fort Bend, for Governor. Who
is be ?
Wouldn’t George Flournoy cut a fig-
ure in the United States Senate ? A lit-
tle fussy, tow-headed boy playing mar-
bles in a crowd of venerable seniors !
Several of our interior exchanges have
are tea®"' rHsides- RkVmOS misen
tombs we have read o'.
Notwithstanding the drought Tarnips
are very fine.— Hillsboro Expositor.
But that seems to be rather a scrubby
one jou wear your hat on
The Emperor of Brazil has rented a
brown stone front in Philadelphia for
the Centennial. He pays $50,000
These Emperors scorn economy.
The new Constitution would throw the
cities of Texas upon their backs, and
throttle them. The young giants of
Texas will have something to say about
that matter.
The editor of the Longview New Era
was terribly enthused with the conjunct
tion of Mars and Saturn. He sat up all
night to see them, and got a thorough
soaking and a chill for his pains.
The San Saba News thinks that if the
new constitution is adopted, it is an end
to railroad building in Texas for years
to come. Would you like to prevent our
Narrow Gauge penetrating and enrich-
ing your beautiful country. Mr. News?
Judge Ballinger, of Galveston, was
one of the Committee appointed by the
Convention to write an address, showing
to the- people the beauties of the new
Constitution. But Judge Ballinger’s
name don’t appear. He didn’t concur?
The Rockport Transcript proposes to
throw Governor Coke overboard, and
take up Col. Geo P- Finley for Govern
nor.
Mr. Waco Eeportrr, you carry a head
on your shoulders, and a good, square,
honest heart in your bosom. These two
things together are a terrible set of cus
turners to combat with
Bro. Elliott has appointed “every
Denocratic member of the convention”
a local agent for his paper “with 25 per
cent, commission” on subscriptions and
advertisements. How these apples do
swim !
Sherman is laboring hard to supply
her court house with gas. That’s re-
markable. Our court house has been
abundantly supplied with that article
some 35 years past.
The Brenham Banner objects to the
Immigration Bureau because through it
some scoundrels might get into the
State. For the same reason the Banner
would object to any sort of immigration.
What fool -osopher “ writ ” that article,
Mr. Banner.
The Governor went to his Sabine
farm.—Statesman.
So much for being a gorilla—as igno-
rant as an ass of the name of the river
on which Waco is situated.— State Ga-
zette
May be his farm is up Salt liver.
Augusta Evans’ new novel, "Infelice,"
is nevertheless a most felicitous hit busi-
ness-wise, 50.000 copies having been or-
dered —Exchange
Nursing the bbies don’t sum to in-
terfere with that little lady’s prolific
genius much Her husband has cause to
feel proud.
OUR RATES:
Subscription, $1.50 per annum; six
months, $1.00; three months, 60 cents.
Advertisements, per square, $1.00 first in-
sertion. 50 cents each subsequent insertion.
Cards, per square, $20.00 per year, and no
proportionate space will be taken at less
rates.
At the head of the Independents is
N. P Banks, of Massachusetts, who
was a leading Democrat until
separated from the party on the slavery
question. The slavery question being
out of the way, like an honest man
we doubt not he becomes a denocrat
again. Theie are 292 members of the
Huse, and this gives the Democrats,
with their 10 natural allies, 185 all told,
and the Rads 107—a Democratc ma-
jority of 78. The party has had no
such majority in the House since 1853.
The Senate when full is composed of
74 members. Of these the straight
Democrats have 29,and the straight Rads
have 38. There are five Independents
wao will generally act withzthe Demo-
crats, viz : Booth, of California, Chris
tiancy, of Michigan, Alcorn, of Missis-
sippi, Cameron, of Wisconsin, and, we
suppose, Hamilton, of Texas. There
are two vacancies yet to be filled, one in
Louisiana and one in Mississippi, and
both will be filled with Democrats.
Granting that the five Independents
will generally act with the Democrats,
this would run the latter up to 36 and
the Rads to 38. This will be close cut-
ting in the Senate. The Democrats
have just power enough to present a
a very bold front in Congress, and not
enough to hurt themselves in any event.
Perhaps it it very fortunate for the party
that it is so, considering the emergency
that is arising.
Ayer’s Ague Cure,
For Fever and Ague, Intermittent Fever,
Chill Fever, Remittent Fever, Dumb
Ague, Periodical or Bilious Fever, &c.,
and indeed all the affections which arise
from malarious, marsh, or miasmatic
poisons.
We have always heard that the mer-
chants of Sherman were a very sensible
and spirited set. and the extract below
from the Sherman Register proves it.
Sherman is rapidly rising out of the
ashes, and will soon be far more beauti
ful than she has ever been.
Sherman merenants have adopted the
wise policy of buying cotton on their own
account, in order to raise the prices and
thereby induce farmers to bring their
cotton to this market. Our merchants
have,heretofore,relied too much on those
buying on eastern orders, with a limited
price, to handle the cotton, and this has
had a tendency to keep down the price.
Since the merchants have entered the
field as buyers the effect has been ail
that could be desired. Prices have ad-
vanced by reason of the competition, and
cotton is now selling for nearly as much
as it will bring in Galveston or St
Louis This would be a losing business
jf it was nat for the great, korease
in trade that it brings to the city. Ine
policy is a wise one, aud is having its
effect upon a 1 branches of trade The
news has gone abroad that Sherman
merchants are paying more for cotton
than can be had elsewhere, and cotton
receipts are daily increasing The false
impressions that have been made in re
gard to the state of our market are rap-
idly being corrected, and business is as
Burning its old proportions. The fact
that we aie paying high prices for cotton
and selling goods cheap, will draw the
bulk of the trade of this and adjoining
counties.
We are strongly inclined to believe
that the big Convention in St. Louis is
a l fuss and feathers after all. Its object
is a good one, but it meets at an unfor-
tunate time. A Presidential election is
too near at hand and both parties in
Congress are going to be exceedingly
cautious what they do. The convention
will ask Congress to endorse $50 000,-
000 of bonds for the Tex is and Pacific
Railway, and we very much doubt if
either party, or any considerable,
membership of either party, will
dare take upon itself, at such a juncture
as this, the responsibility of such au act.
The Radicals recognize the fact, that it
was subsidies and congressional jobbing
that hurt them seriously in the last two
elections, aud the Democrats will be
afraid to burn their fingers with the
same fire An endorsement of $50,000 000
of bunds by Congress, would put the
Texas Pacific through in a hurry but
we fear the time has not come when
that can be procured. We think Tom
Scott will be glad to withdraw his prop
osition very soon after Congress meets,
to come up with it again after the presi
dential election. Then he will succeed
with it, but not before
plodding for the sale of his master—
to sacrifice his own reputation—to
barter his wife, it may be, for laugh-
"ng at the idiosyncrasy of an emotional
being, and worse than all, for
shaping, chipping, wire-working
(ring master) to reduce society,
to the lowest depths of degrada-
tion, forgetting that his own chil-
dren are to assimulate. them-
selves to the stasis of society, he is
thus hewing out and framing for
them. He entirely ignores human
life. How vicious must such a mon-
ster be! How lost to all sense of
shame, honor and self respect must
such a demon be ! How unworthy of
confidence must such a recreant be!
Fellow citizens, let us arise in our
sovereignty and declare our utter
contempt for such a wretch, and not
tolerate him to offer any more indig-
nities upon a moral and law abiding
people.
[Commicated.]
Editor Age:
As the time approaches to make se-
lection of standard bearers to carry the
old Democratic flag on to victory, per-
mit one of your subscribers to suggest
the name of one who is every way
qualified, as one of the three Judges
of the Court of Appeals. Hon. Gus-
tave Cook, fills the Jefferson test,
“Honest and capable.”
Certainly this part of the State is
entitled to one of the Judges of that
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