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Weekly statesman.
THURSDAY MARCH 29.
1877
TCRfft FOR WEEKLY I
Habsenptlon for Iwelre months Bo
etabecrtiitloB for elx month 1 00
' rATABL IX ADTABCm.
TUE BorTOjnLIiM PIT.
Auittin like every other city of
Texas sadly needs reform in its mode
jTfit gOTernment. The cost of the cx-
Wtmrr avatem to taxnavers ignimnlv in-
o J - -
tolerable. It was devised by the Ruta-
bagas like the peniuiaitc-grabbing
courts that the people might be
thoroughly plundered without know-
ing It. Bat the people will go behind
the scenes in these little theaters in
which small men in a small way play
fantastic tricks before high heaven and
a weary world. In most towns and
cities save these of Texas a mayor
acting as recorder or a distinct record-
er's court determines questions of
guilt or innocence and the culprit
having offended a municipal law or be-
ing wrongfully punished by this one-
man power has his writ of haleat cor-
pus or right of appeal to the State
court. Then comes the costly jury
and the bailiffs and clouds of standing
witnesses each to be feed like the
mustering cohorts of standing jury
men for their distinguished services
rendered an ever-gratcim country tuo
shysters of cities swing lovingly around
this recorder's court to victimize the
innocent and thoio accidentally druolc
or captured by the honest policeman
' because seemingly ignorant friendless
and unknown. Even in these cities of
other States of which we speak the
system of government is bad enough
and full of evil practices and corrup-
tion and baseness. Men are witnesses
and swear so ofton "on thu book"
thac the little reverence originally en-
tertained for the obligations and sanc-
tity of an oath is wholly lost and
knowing tbo sUto of facts prerequi-
site to conviction these facts are ever
sworn to. Tbo appearance of the
accused in an ordinary recorder's
court is the sure conviction of the man.
This is commonly true where the city's
officials are salaried. How inexorable
must be the law of conviction when
fees and perquisites demand tbo en-
try "guilty" opposite the greasy sig-
nature of the culprit at the bar! And
then when the good mayor is also re
corder and ha can popularize himself
by having jurymen feed by the half
doeen in each petty offender's case the
people begin to see how they are fleeced
that the good man in authority may
have money and votes. And these are
better than most votes givon for such
men. They cost tho mayor nothing
and cost tbo people only about one dol
lar each. Hut the beautiful process of
fleecing the public by punishing drunk
enness vice and vagrancy has many
peculiar charms for taxpayers. The
average fine is five dollars and the
costs that are not named in the reports
as published average wo are told
twenty dollars. All this sum is sup
posed by the dear people to be paid
by the unfortunato "drunk and disor-
derly." Nothing is further from tho
truth. Every penny is wrenched from
the taxpayers of tho town. The va
grant of course penniless is consigned
to the calabooso. and tho turnkcv and
keeper must have their little fees
z--' ........ ..... tm w iiu.u -i nn mavnv litia
his fees for rendering " judgment" of
which he keeps on hand a large sup
ply dealt out wholesalo and retail at
one dollar per jerk. The policeman
must have his witness fees and then
mat as lurgu sum as pussiuiu uiujr u
j;oneraily distributed jurors must sit
on the Case and theso must bo paid.
If they do not call for their per diem
f the olllcors in waiting cobblo it and
thus there aro lino pickings to bo pil
fered by placeholders of Texas towns
But not a dollar thus honorably earned
in accordance with Rutabaga codes of
administering municipal systems
derived from the drunken culprit. Hu
goes upon tho street to "work out his
fine and ccsts" and the city is charged
with the fine and costs and instead of
paying the poor devil who bears about
his spade and pick the city pays the
man who feeds the vagraut; it pays
the mayor who fines him; it pays the
jury that convicted ; it pays the jailor
it pays the turnkey ; it pays for all the
wearing done beforo tho jury ; it pays
the jury fees; it absolutely pays tho
drunken deadbeat's fine of 11 to dollars
and then tho wnole sum total goos
down into the pockets of tho good
men who commonly sit over an empty
treasury and aro constantly telling tho
dear people of its unutterable empti
nest and of tho wickedness of those
horrible fellows who refuse to fill it by
paying taxes. And into this mammoth
cave go the taxes. Taxpayers may
groan and toil and dig and go into
bankruptcy and whilo tho perquisite
system prevails tho unutterable hollow
ness of a city treasury in Texas is ir
remediable as that of immensity.
Talk about a sewer from tho Capito!
to the river! However indispensable
to the lives of people who must inhale
odors from gutters and alleys nothing
can be done. Maligaant fevers may
be generated in foul sinks and alleys
and numbers may die and property
values be destroyed and tho world
finally deem this the choicest
"abiding place or death and yet while
the perquisite system preys upon the
city's treasury there can be only an
aching void into which money pours
an endless river finding the pit hot
tomless into which it rashes forever
Tna Sherman Eeguter approves the
Dallas Cimtrciat$ tribute to the
worth and virtues of Governor Hub
bard and says:
We have observed closely the admin
titration of Governor Hubbard since be
assumed the executive office of this
State and we feel that we are but
peaking the sentiment of our people
when we say he is one of the best gov-
ernors Texas has ever had. Under
his administration the affairs of the
State have gone along smoothly and
without the least jar of trouble. The
f rootier is quiet and the border troubles
on the Rio Grande are no more beard
of whiUi the entire State is peaceable
and prosperous. His appointments
have all been first-class men of uc ques-
tioned honor and integrity while his
financial policy has been so successful
that Texas bonds to-day are sought af-
ter by capitalists as among the best and
safest investments bringing as high a
market price as the bonds of any State
in the Union. We predict that at the
nd of his term of olHce the people of
Texas will show their appreciation of
l hi in by unanimously re-electing him to
the high and honorable position which
jtc is so eoitoontly qualified ta fill.
now it is dome.
The President would have an inter
view with the two Governors of Louis-
iana and South Carolina. Hampton
suffers Chamberlain to gofirst and he
will follow though silent as yet after i
a time. There can be but one solution
of troubles in South Carolina and the
policy of the President is to temporize
lie says in his letter to Chamberlain
that be does not propose to use the
army and this is equivalent to saying
be will not depose Hampton ; and poor
CLambcrlain in his journey to Wash-
ington is on his last legs. Hayes it
seems is an eminently good-natured
man. He was talking kindly and
laughingly with Morton and listening
to Morton's advice only two houra be-
fore he sent to the Senate his list of
nominees for places in his mixed Cabi-
net. Morton was almost bull dozed by
the shock and poor Blaine went off
into a blazing pyrotechnical speech
but the sky-rocket came down a stick
Morton fell like Lucifer to rise no more
and now Chamberlain comes jogging
along across the sandy barren plains
and across the red naked hills of the
Carolina and presents himself before
the kindly amiable President only to
have himself uncrowned. It will be
most gently and amiably but
none the less surely done and Hayes
will be President for four years and
I'mLmJ nJ OhaLrlin end Mortoa
and Blaine see no help for it and tbey
must accept and defend bis policy.
Submit they will and Blaine and
Morton rather than have the President
lapse into the embrsces and control of
conservative Democracy will become
the exponents and partisans of the
President. They are not fools and as
Bob Toombs said Democracy in the
Senate was only warning in brains
when it did not seize the opportunity
when Morton and Blaine revolted to
capture the President. But Blaine and
the rest recovered their senses when
recovering from their amazement
and terror aud rage and now
we read of the President and Morton
airing themselves and ideas together in
an open carriage about the capital and
the Democratic Senators stand aloof
helpless idle impotent. Radicalism
resolves itseii into conservatism as
Hayes would havo it and Democracy
is only the helpless and unrewarded
opposition." But what signifies it
We only ask that the freedom of all
the Slates alike be restored; that the
knaves be expelled from South Caro
Una and Louisiana; that the army be
ussd as the theory and history of the
country intended in assuring the re
publicaniam of the contiuent and not
in upholding local despots; that honest
men identified in interest with the
people who ieed and enrich them be
invested with Federal local offices and
then when the Federal system is thus
administered the great mass of the
peoplo will be content. Meanwhile
illustrations of the courage and self-
will and sense of justice of the Prcsi
dent will be surely discovered in his
patient resolute line of policy em
ployed in dealing with hapless States
desolated by knaves and smitten with
intolerable despotism. Hayes must
have peace and order and good gov
eminent in the South and these ends
are only compatible with the suprem
acy of Hampton and Nicholls.
hiuhvih Aiu luin stun.
The needless augmentation of tb
length of the Texas and Pacific road
that it may aggrandize the Pennsylva
nia Central on tho ono hand and Hunt
ington's California lines on the other
and its future control and management
by the "successors" of these men who
will direct at will the course of com
mcrce and travel over it these are the
objections to tho scheme that should
bo remedied. Congress should build
tho road and if it is to be a "South
em Pacific" in God's name let us have
plain sailing and fair dealing. The
road should be part of the Southern
system and not managed by Northern
railways of which it is to be a part
and surely not by the president of the
Pennsylvania Central on the one hand
and of the Central Pacific on the other
We want a road from Norfolk to Quay
mas. . Tom Scott and HuntiBgton will
hold the stock in the road elect it
officers appoint its agents and control
its "through trains" and direct travel
and freights at will. Everybody said
that if Dodge and tho International
had secured the management of the
Central the whole trade of Texas would
have been turned backward into New
York. But Morgan won and now th
wealth of Texas is thrust into Clinton
aud Morgan mu?t double his fleet of
steamers. Tho same power over the
courso of transcontinental traffic will
be exerted by Tom Scott and Hunting
ton and if we aro to have a "Southern
Pacific road" let its stockholders and
corporators be Southern men identi
fled with Smthern cities and Southern
railways. If this miy not be sinipl
honesty denvtuds that the public do
main of Texas given to a "Southern
Facitlc road" be rctroceded to the
State. This L&mnr bill contemplates
the construction of another Central
Pacific road which be ml 3 down into
Northern Trx.is "scoops" out our
priceless domain and then trends away
northwest to San Francisco. Wa may
bo robbed but do not choose to have
Congress make downright fools of us.
Change the name when changing tb
fact and restore oar public school
tund and proceed to build this Pbila
adelphia and San Francisco highway
to nomine. This is its proper designs
tion and this it must be in fact
Huntington and Scott build it and
bold the stock and manage it. With
in five years after its completion the
Texas scoop" will be taken out and
the road straightened and made direct
from Si. Louis to San Francisco and
we must be content with little "feed
era" to the trunk line that dips down
to Weatherford and Dallas and Tex
arkana and Galveston and Houston
and New Orleans and Charleston and
Norfolk are undone.
M. TiiiEST a Republican lawyer
was deposed for "corruption and in-
competency" by the Fourteenth Legis-
lature. Last week the Democratic bar
of his the Rusk county district made
him special judge by a vote of nine to
four and the only Radical lawyer
present voted against Priest. All of
which is exceedingly queer if not fan-
ny and the Fourteenth Legislature or
the blessed Jawcr should rise and
jpla.in.
Cokgress meets in June an 1 the
Huntington-Scott alliance w hich steals
both ends of the Texas PaciQc ; the one
using it for San Francisco; the other
for Philadelphia and each adding from
'x hundred to one thousand net Jiess
miles to its length and concurring in
the robbery of Texas this bill it u
said will then be enacted. We wanted
Southern" or "Texas Pacific" road
nd Congress should endow 6uch a
road but we would not have Texas
robbed of her domain that the owners
of the Philadelphia Central on the one
and and of the California roais on
the other may be enriched. Is there
no mode of building a Texas and
Pacific" road and cannot such a high-
way be constructed by Texan and
Southern men who will own and man
age it in the interest of Southern States
and cities and railways? We want a
road from Guaymas on the Pacific
to Norfolk Charleston New Or
leans and Galveston on the At-
lantic and representative men of
these States and cities shouM shape
the fortuues aud direct the travel aud
commerce of the great highway. But
Huntington and Scott have combined
and they and their successors forever
ill concentrate the wealth gathered
by the mighty thoroughfare in San
Francisco and in Philadelphia. If this
must be and Texas is enly to furnish
feeders" branches so munificently
endowed by this commonwealth surely
tills domain will be icuiiueu to lUe
State by the Union. Wretched in-
capable Rutabagaism was wheedled
nto the scheme and Congress should
compel the restoration of the property
in trust that the children of the Slate
may be educated and that stupidity
rosy never more rob them that Scotts
and Huntin"tons may be aggrandized
and the South plundered and its cities
robbed.
The colored people crowded into
Henderson and voted solidly for whis-
ky and swept everything before them.
The same conduct distinguished the
race everywhere except in Wrnrtou
and adjacent counties where Judge
McCurmack was unresisted. There
prohibition was triumphant. But see
how awkward the position of the Re
publican party in Texas! Etch intelli-
gent preacher and lawyer and office-
bolder of the party voted for prohibi-
tion. There was hardly an exception
and whether we wish it or not this
whisky question goes into general
State politics. The party leaders
dodgo it and officeholders and seekers
keep their mouths shut. They pray
for its exorcism as they never before
prayed for the expulsion of the devil
from their own midst. But it will
not down. Brother Lang the chief
exponent of intelligent grangerism is
making speeches over the State even
now paving the way for future con-
tingencies and this irrepressible whis-
ky question is thrust into his face ev-
erywhere. Every candidate for every
office in every town in Texas must
show his bottle or his bible and civil-
ized Texas is in arms against whisky.
If old "Hayes" fail old "Rye" will
burst parties into fragments in Texas.
With "wry" faces haughty party lead-
ers feeling their "oats" would thrust
aside the issue but are forced to con-
template the coming explosion and
the next State contest must be
most confused and rye-oatous.
President Hayes's proposed rcpu-
diation of the gospel of hate makes
him odiou3 to the promulgators of the
gospel of Radicalism in two directions.
Radical bitter-enders would monopo
lize offices under a Republican admin
istration and the fierce leaders of Radi
cal red-hot Democracy would keep
tho party lines compact for the next
struggle between the North and South
between Republicanism and Democ
racy. The salvation of both those
classes as such depends upon the
practical perpetuity of the conflict of
sections. Of the country's pacifica
tion and investiture of States with
self-government these violent men reck
nothing. Whether President- Hayes
will co-operate with them or with the
conservatism and genuine patriotism
of the country remains to be seen.
The sylpho-carbonate of soda is an
infallible remedy for scarlet fever and
diptbcria. These diseases are para-
sites inhaled from the atmosphere as
shown by the microscope. Tyndall
tho scientist says they are cairicd
through the air. and lie buried lor
months in clothing and unsuspected
places. The conviction is growing
which the Statesman has osscrted
again and again that the microscope
would become as invaluable in the
practice of medicine as the stethescope
and thermometer nud le&rned physi
cians must admit that micioscopic or
nanisms and reproductive parasitic life
are at the root of epnlerai-.; diseases.
TnE larger Northern S;ates average
twenty foreign appointments missions
and chargeships each while these
Southero States have one or two. Thu
system ot condnmg t:ie txertui'.urcs
of Federal wealth to Northern citiz :us
tends greatly to the impoverishment of
these agricultural t;.riil-y-i inir com
munities.
Tom Bow Kits comes to the front aud
propounds the grave inquiry:
Suppose Congress had taken Mr
Mills's advice and defeated the. com
promise b 11 and another war and dis
astrous defeat had been the result what
would the people then have thought
of Mr. Mills and those who voted
ugainst the bill?
Tns next unthinking selfish wretch
that comes to this office and opens and
scatter! the newspapers over the floor
will be pitched out of the window and
sent to the calaboose and indicted for
theft and bored for the simples.
A lively nice party organ now
that Governor John C. Brown has ac
cepted a place on the Louisiana com
mission calls him a " Judas Iscariot on
wheels."
The law that shot John D. Lee
should establish an orphan and Magda-
len asylnm. He left only sixty-four
children and eighteen wives.
Thx Comanche Chit seems to think
that the freedom of the South is of
greater importance than any man's ele-
vation to the presidency.
Coetisa has made his will is sick
and nervous and pal and weak and
has ipeat weeks of late in a foul ilaU-
moroa prison.
Texas Facta and Fancies.
Most of the delinquent subscribers
to the Fayette county Seie Era are in
the jail over there.
Grataboppers breed idleness. There
are no firm laborers wanted till the
pests disappear.
Plantations about Sempronius and
Buck horn are in a beautiful condition.
Everybody is putting in cotton this
week.
Henry Sherrard was killed at Rich-
mond yesterday by James Garvey a
nephew of the sheriff of Fort Bjnd
county.
Our St. Louis correspondent is ad
vised that local option triumphed in
Uavs Wharton Ellis Bell and Mata
gorda counties.
The Corsicana Qlatner says its brass
band can knock the " hind sights" off i
anything in Dallas Which would be
rough on the brass band.
Sherman has the measles bad. But
the pimples on Martin's nose are not of
that sort and he needn't 6wear about
the measles so dreadfully.
When Broughall struck the towD
Sherman went into histrionics and
Martin is dosing his part of tho town
with "local option" by the gallon.
Travis county except the densely
populated districts of the city will
adopt ir is said the prohibition law
and then Austin will be truly lively.
The good people of Comanche are
exceedingly anxious to have the opera-
tion of tbe law suspended which author
izes the people there to carry concealed
weapons.
Oan Oaba bno a flourishing library
association and the orators and readers
there since local option went into oper-
ation have quit going round the cor-
ner to see a man.
The bite of a polecat results in in-
stant hydrophobia so says the Xem
Era. We always thought it was the
odor that did it. It's a wholly different
animal that gives a fellow jim-jams.
Whitesboro in Cooke ccuntycarried
lo.-.al option but other districts failed.
Whitesboro is famous for its good
schools and the people knew it was
the only mode of maintaining them.
The celebration of Maifest now oc
cupies the brain of the average German
and the girls aro dreaming of it and
the Turners are full of it at least
where local option does not prevent.
The colored people in Wharton
county it is said were induced to do
one sensible thing. They took the
advice of Judge McCormaek and
voted solidly enough for prohibition.
If was layer and not whisky that
triumphed here and the Herald should
so inform its readers. The election
was carried by thc solid vote of the
colored people who stood by the lager
party.
It is stated that spirits of turpentine
sprinkled through the bouse once a
week is a sure preventive of scarlet
fever and other diseases. It is also
stated that it will keep moths out of
carpets.
The word "Colorado" means col-
ored and it was 1500 majority against
local option and yet no living man can
tell why a negro of all living men
should not be foremost in hostility to
whisky.
Prof. L. T. P. Hollow-man is giving
readings in Georgetown and Nat Q.
is pumping thunder into him. It's thu
biggest contract Nat ever undertook
and it makes him "blow" even worse
than usual.
Major J. W. Eldridge and his wife
are raising Ned and the devil and the
spirits in the liveliest and most aston-
ishing manner at Little Rock and the
Gazette says they are going to turn
Texas upsido down.
The Fayette County Xevo Era says :
"Local option was defeated in Travis
county by 1000 majority in Bastrop
county by COO and in Colorado by
1000. The colored troops in said coun-
ties fought nobly."
The county court at Groesbeck has
voted the county judge a salary of
$1000. The salary awarded by the
Uutabaga constitution would not feed
him and a Groesbeck judge ought to
have something for drinks.
The Hush County Olstrver says that
"Liberty" sometimes called whisky
for short by colored people is cock-of-the-walk
over there. It is generally
so bad on the walk that it must be
som3 other sort of a rooster.
The secret of the blue glass cure is
the simplest thing in the world. It is
the therapeutic action of the actinic
rays on the cerebro-spinal nervous sys
tem that does the busieess and Mar
tin is having his shirts made of it
The finest garden the Brenham Banner
man has seen this spring is that of
Judge Bell's at Bel'.ville. Irish pota-
toes are half leg high and peas have
been in bloom ten days with every-
thing else proportionately forward.
When the Brenham Banner wants to
travel rapidly and smoothly and with
painless feet it resorts to sherry '"cob
blers" and then staggers away beauti-
fully chanting the praises of whisky
and inveighing against prohibition.
Marriage licenses are refused in some
districts of Germany to persons ad-
dicted to drunkenness. American lo-
cal option only slops the gin mill while
that of Germany goes for the mill of
the gods which doth slowly wind etc.
Uvalde Burns and Mrs. Hattie Sum-
ner both are cheated and Mrs. Page
i f whom we may learn something in
the ''Merry Wives of Windsor" is
postmistrer-s at Sherman. Martin is
uow very fond of Bhakspearean char-
acters. Penitentiary commissioners accord-
ing to law have been commissioned.
They ara James E. Shepird of Travis
county J. T. Gaines of Lamar and
II. K". White of E:lis. Their com-
missions were issued on the twenty-
fiist instant.
Thrtc drunken roughs named Boren
tired iuto a hou?e in Montague county
where many persons were dancing
and killed an excellent gentleman
James M. Berry. The people will
hang them on the spot but take care
of tbe whisky.
The surveying party of the Gulf
Colorado and Santa Fe Railroad made
their advent into Brenham Wednesday.
They came in on what is known as the
"ridge road" from Brenham to Bell-
ville and real estate prices are ad-
vancing down there.
The work of changing the gauge of
the nempsteid and Austin branch of
Morgan's road occupying two days
was completed yesterday we snppose
and then we wiil have the Age and
Banner and -Vfiri to tell us bow the
world wags down South.
. Barnum is coming through Texas
and expects to get camels and Hamas
and ostriches from Col. Coopwood's
ranchc. He can secure a very clever
monkey from a busted office in a town
bard by which will be for sale by the
time Barnum comes along.
Fruits foreign and domeitic and
western vegetables in this market are
now in very large supply from the Hous-
ton market which is overdone. A
dealer of that city was in our market
offering inducements to jobbers to take
off some of his surplus stock.
The Tennessee Legislature blunders
in making it a finable offence to play
base ball on Sunday. Ii'a the M&rlin
Bill that was intended to be smitten.
Why the law didn't make both of them
finable offences is one of these mysteries
which no lellow can find cut.
Rata the Exgitter says travel nine
miles from Denison to Sherman taking
up their abode in the latter place. They
come down upon Sherman Martin says
in great droves. Denisoa must be a
sinking ship. We do know that the
Denison Aeirs Is dreadfn'.ly at sea.
The Gainesville Gazette doesn't say a
word about the immediate extension of
the Missouri Kansas and Texas road
to that place. Noel low lingers list
lessly in Chicago and the ruaJ hasn't
been to Gaiacsriiie on paper since he
left Texas and his old tuuie died.
One car run over another at Long-
view and ditched two men that wtre
iboard breaking tho leg of oue and
ahoulder of the oiber. But it is a
queer way of '"doing well" and that
is what tde Xcic E.a says of them. If
they had cracked their necks they
would be "doing splendid" we reckon.
TDe children of drunken men arc
born drunkards or deformed in morals
or bo.lv- or defective in intellect. Wo
men are therefore granted divorces
not so much that they themselves but
that society may be saved from perdi-
tion that the rare may not be de-
graded. The Xar Era says the Groesbick
court house was built of "rawtide
lumber." So-called because it is
twisted by the sua. And properlv so-
called we are iiicliued to think. They
can use this sort of weather-boarding
to hang knaves withal and save heavy
investments which are sadly needed
in hemp.
Some of the hucksters were selling
eggs at fifteen cents yesteiday in ra-ir-ket.
It was because the hail storm
had killed the grasshoppers and the
bens will have to scratch now for a
living and cannot go round like dead-
heads and luncb-snatchers at bar-
rooms quietly picking up breakfasts
and things that cost nothing.
A sensitive constable Crabtree and
one Morrow had a row in Gordonville.
near Sherman 'a few days ago and
much threatening was done and pistols
drawn and the Ucginter weeps about it
and forgets that whisky wa3 there and
that it is everywhere breeding riots
dissensions beggary robbery and
murder. Why denounce poor Crab-
tree? A man named "Brick" keeps the
bett hash house in Longview. He is
so called in allusion to that old "para
ble" if. you ask lor bread you are
given a stone. He is not the " Hard
Brick" who has been figuring in the
Statesman for the "Long-view" fel
low is a close inspector of whisky and
there is always a brick." in his bat.
Wednesday the fourteenth W. L.
Hall E-"q. of the Dallas Commercial
was wedded to Helen the charming
daughter of Hon. T. J. Freeman of
the Supreme bench of Tennessee at
Trenton in that State. Mr. Hall de
serves and has won the hand of one of
the fairest and most accomplished
daughteis of. the ancient common
wealth.
bince the proposition lor the re
moval of the county seat of Mont
gomery several rows nave occurred in
consequence; the sheriff drew bis pis
tol on the county judge; several knock
downs occurred ; much whisky went
down; pistols shot-guns tomahawks
broad axes and carey plows seem to be
chosen weapons and local option is
sadly needed.
Barnum advertises his coming circus
and menagerie in a newspaper printed
in France and sends a copy to ail the
papers of the West that he may get a
gratuitous notice. Barnum often bursts
but always pays the printer and the
press always lifts him whenever he is
down and now the whole country is
saving pennies to be spent on Barnum's
colossal show
The Cameron (Milam county) Senti
nel says: "We have always regarded
the Statesman as one of the most able
of our State journals and being pub
lished at the capital it Bhould be wide
ly circulated in order that the people
may be acquainted with the manner in
which their repres utatives transact
the Important trusts eubmittel to their
charge."
"The Treasurer of the United States
can now supply silver com in reasona
ble amounts to bankers and others.
Espressage both ways to be paid by
parties sending notes. This notice is
intended particularly for the South.'
Wo copy this statement from an ex
change and are inclined to believe
that very many people will at once
have their paper discounted at Wash
iagton.
the Licuian says trm jur. iuorgan
has not yet exhibited his purpose in
"taking stock" in the Central Railroad
and should he have obtained a control
ling interest therein he may use it and
we think will in such a manner as to
cause Iloustonians to liugli on the
other side of the mouth. Look out
sharply for future developments on the
part of Mr. Morgan.
The Dallas Uerahl is informed that
there is a force of about two hundred
men at work on the Dallas and Wichita
Railway with the usual complement of
teams. The foundation for the bridge
across Elm Fork is being built and tbe
grading of the road is being pushed
vigorously. The line to Denton is lo-
cated and will be let to contractors at
once. The cars will iun to Lswisville
in a few weeks.
The Dallas Herald does Judge naB-
cock if we are not grievously mis-
taken gross injustice when it inti
mates that be has fully affiliated with
the Republican party . and "(hat the
'd d papers' probably caused it" and
"that he would not co-operate with a
party in which Coke is a Itader." We
are told that Judge Hancock has
changed his opinions and partisan re-
lations in nothing.
It is said that Tom Scott will visit
Texas about the first of April to look
up coal fields and other matters con-
nected with the Texas and Pacific
Railroad. He will probably go as
far as Phantom Hill. He also reports
that the Texas Pacific bill will probably
pass at the extra session of Congress in
June. Capt. Cole of Weatherford
spins this little yarn for the Dallas
Herald.
J. S. Le Clcre who for thirty-three
years occupied the same position in
the office of the Galveston Wharf Com-
pany is at the ' Raymond House. A
gentleman who thus serves a corpora-
tion his virtues being rewarded by his
employers and these a "soulless cor-
porations" as they deserve would be a
valuable accession to the pnpula ion of
Austin. He proposes to make this city
his home.
That patent washing machine fellow
who made such a noise in Austin has
been scrubbing the Fayette county Jdir
Era and it is bright and lustrous and
attractive. Its face brightens the more
when it sees the grasshoppers moving
north and it tells that eggs are at ten
cents. And then how inexpressibly
sad and long and lantern-j iwed it be-
comes when it tells how tbe colored
people smashed local option in Beat
No. 4.
How does a juvenile grasshopper
know north from south! Is there a
magnet in his piston-rod by which his
jerking machinery is directed ? His
head is always turned and he is ever
moving northwardly nd if he blun-
der and make a false leap because of
the wind or other obstruction be will
turn round and try it again. Teeter-
day the countless myriads of locusts in
tbe mountains north of Austin were
moving steadily towards Pik's Peak.
The Cnero Bulhiin says that in the
nit of Charlee Morgan et alt. v. the
Gulf Western Texas and Pacific Rail-
way Company judgment was rendered
in favor of plaintiffs for the sum of
$I.3SC.OOO gold principal and 3S3-
000 gold interest. It is understood
the rod has been thrown into bank-
ruptcy and will be sold April 3. On
the settlement of all these difficulties
and law suits an in view of the prep-
arations now being made a forward
movement towards Gonzales and Aus-
tin iuay soon be expected.
The Denisoa Crtuet says that "three
car loads of Texas raised coffee went
North r.i the Missouri Kansas and
Txss Iiilrod Wednesday. It was
consigned to parties in New York City.
The raising of coffee in Texas has been
experimented with and found after u
fair trial to be a successful enterprise.
With her vat extent of territory
yaritty of climate and soil 'Texas is
cap-Able of producing all tho products
of searly every c'ime under the sun."
It wounds deeply the dignity of an
average Texan "city" along a Texin
railway if trains be not halted tbe
length of time mentioned in some ab-
surd Rutabaga statute. Pierce's tru'.us
have been stopped and hncu by n
mighty magisterial dignitary at I.uling
and at Seguin. The justice ot tuo i
peace at Seguin fined the conductor I
and it was paid and the train
went on. The mails and passengers
snd valuable freights all must take
off their hats and stoo for df Eks live
minutes at all these towns. 1'i'm la
'mgatelle .'
Mrs. N. A. C. Wilson has recovered
her pension as the widow of a Texas
Veteran the late William F. Wilson.
Jack Hayes as wo are told fought his
first battle-in 1S30 on the Ferdinaies
undor the command of Capt.. Wilson.
Vustia was then hrst surveyed and the
plan cf the present city defined. The
papers in this case of Mrs. Wihon show
her admirable character as a wife and
putriot. She will make Austin ner
future home. Major joe 11. Stewart
was the solicitor who secured a pension
for Mrs. Wilson.
Houston is awfully happy just now
because the mastery of tbe Central is in
the hands of the best friend the vener-
able city ever bad. Commodore Mor
gan will extend the road in whatever
direction is necessary to gather in
Houston the commerce of Texas. The
machine shops will be so enlarged that
an its worK ana repairs wm ue uuuc
at home. The headquarters of the road
will be at Houston. The Texas and
New Orleans roiid will be at once com
pleted as oon as men and money can
do it. The steamships now plying be-
tween Houston and New-Orleans will
do more service than ever.
The Texas Observer like all proper
newspapers and people deplores the
defeat of prohibition "in the beautifnl
State capital where the supremacy of
sobriety and decency is so essential to
sober and decent legislation." More-
over the Observer might have added
the world abroad judges of tbo de-
cency intelligence and good morals of
a State by these conditions of its capi-
tal and Austin is between two rivers
the Colorado on the one band and
that of whisky on the other. The lat-
ter is much more nearly navigable for
Morgan's steamers.
Waco is the only place on the com-
mon highway from Austin to Dallas
where whisky can be sold and when
a Dallas fellow in Austin starts home-
ward he travels faster when in ten
miles of Waco than a locomotive ' and
tlierrwben be is going in on the home
stretch and catches the first ruddy flush
of Dallas morning cocktails he is en-
dued with new lite and under whip
and spur dashes into the place and
with mouth ears and eyes agape and
expanding his lungs to tbe utmost ten-
sion he gulps in the whisky-impregnated
atmosphere and swoons in
ecstacy and jim-jams in the arms of
his blessed family.
Those of our readers who have seen
a picture of Gulliver in old editions of
Swift's works in which that worthy
stood astride of two villages of
Lilliputians and extinguished a
great conflngration in one of
them can appreciate the responsible
position ot our friend the redoubtab'.c
Col. Loughery who now stands with
one hool planted nrmly in his tri-
weekly at Marshall and the other ten
miles away in the midst of his weekly.
at Jtnerson while ne aiuuses over
both the genial refreshing generous
harmonies that make virtue and go; d
morals fructify and bless the people of
loose parts.
MijorJ. W. Eldridge remembered
by many Texans as an artillery officer
in liragg's and Joe Johnston's armies
and for a time we believe of Lee's
army of Virginia is now the foremost
expounder of "spiritism" of our time.
nis main purpose is to demonstrate
through the Jpractical interyention of
spirits tbe immortality of man. His
wife his chief assistant is a Virginian
woman and in her youth of rare beau
ty. Major Eldridge is an esrnest and
attractive speaker ana whatever we
and ethers may think of it honestly
and absolutely believes that be has per
soual interviews with those who have
died. Strange stories are told bv
those intimate with him of the revela
tions from the other life made through
him to dwellers in this. He is coming
to Austin "called" as he says by
spirit influence. Where it Bald win?
They have nice sweet seductive
exhilarating drinks at our fashionable
bar-rooms named in honor of three
eminent preaebcrs of this city aud- a
great deal of "nominal" piety now
warms the inner man who is thus as
tonished internally beyond nil conce'p
tion. When a thirsty wretch feels the
ruddy head of Brother P. or Brother
W. glowing down through his tender
bosom or his esophagus and other parts
swelling when the ltev. Doctor from
the top of the bill goes gurgling down.
there is experienced evidently an ex
uberance ot supernal beatitude aud the
imbiber has beatific jaiks and jim-
jams it is in any event a good thing
on the pait of these jolly barkeepers
to make a good joke ot a very serious
business and we can't help approving
these reforms in the technical nomen-
clature of exhilarating beverages.
The Houston Age is happy to state
that "Mr. Dodge is still ia town. Mr.
Cornelius Ennis tbe New York finan-
cial agent of the company is stopping
at the Hutching House. We received
a letter from Mr. Grow at Hot Springs
Arkansas yesterday ordering the Age
to be sent to him at that point. Judge
Duval of the Federal Court has post-
poned his decision in the motion for a
receiver for thirty days. It is knowa
that that will be the last of it. Com-
modore Morgan is expected in Houston
on the fifteenth or sixteenth ot April.
When the floating debt of the company
is paid off it will turn loose a bushel
of money in Houston. - This is looked
upon as a great coming blessing and
it will be a future blessing that no
more capital will be locked up in it.
Commodore Morgan did not buy all
the stock held in Houston. There is
a good deal of it held by people who
propose keeping it. None of it is for
sale at present."
Grant is said to be a poor man. In
spite of all that the nation and friends
have done for him his wealth has been
swallowed up in Unprofitable specula-
tions. It is said that for two years tbe
President has anticipated bis salary
every week and drawn from the tTem-
ury the amount due him; .Mrs. Graet
in speaking about ber sorrow in leav-
ing tbe White House said that she hid
had more money w hile there than she
ever saw before and that she had en-
joyed -a rest from all the cares acd
worries of housekeeping and fefft a
dread of again taking ap tbe burden.
Gen. Grant doea not teem to have any
business capacity or be would be neb
with all the money he has received for
sixteen yeri 'If be had confined his
capital to the purchase ot government
bonds instead of allowing Mr. Tom
Muipby of New York to invest it in
real eatatein that city and Longllranch
he would never have. known poverty.
It may not be true that be is poor but
such are the stories afloat. -
Political.
Don Piatt tbe fiercely felicitous
Washington editor and letterwriter
ssya of the President in the Democratic
Cincinnati Enquirer: Do you know
that this gentleman is dead in earnest
upon this subject? Civil service re-
form. I have it from the highest au-
thority his next and most confidential
frieJMi. I am ready to believe it. He
has called two Democrats to his cabi-
net appointed a Democratic postmas-
ter snubbed all the officeseekers so far.
I believe he will carry out his notion
of reform. And he caa do it. The
man who is pledged not to solicit a sec
ond term and knows confoundedly
well be could not get it were be to ask
for it is a very impudent sort of a fel-
low. The leading Republicans of tbe
Senate haTu realizing sense ol tnis
wheii they undertook to bull-doze him
iu his Southern policy. Blaine has
been severely criticised and commented
upon tor his speecn on me occasion
but the fact is he 'led off on a clear
understanding gotten in caucus that
this was the thing to do and that he
was to be sustained by the entire Re-
publican side of the Senate with the
exception of Conkling. Morton some
time before in response to a serenade
gotten up by himself went further than
Blaine. It was supposed that bv this
old aud well knowu course the
President would be intimidated
and the party committed. But
Rutherford B. Hayes whatever else
may be said of him" is not timid. He
does not scare to nny extent. One of
the Senators full of the milk of human
kindntss called on tbe administration
to wain and advise. Rutherford very
politely took the aged Solon to a cor-
ner accompanied by his little girl who
amused herself by swinging to the Ad
ministration's coat tail with an entreaty
to go tomewhere or do something with
far more earnestness than the anxious
Senator. Rutherford smiled and list-
ened attentively and when through
thanked his friend in the kindest wav
and so ended tbe interview. Tbo next
day I oelieve it was he sent in bis
obnoxious cabinet.
What could a party of bald-headed
Senators do under these circumstances?
They have counted him in; he is there
for four years. He asks nothing of
them. There was nothing to do but
come down as gracefully as tbey could
but come down all the same and come
they did. ' Old Cameron resigned; the
old widow and the new President were
too much for him. Blaino growled for
a few hours and then dined with this
damnably absurd man. Bob Ingersoll
swore by a God he does not believe in
and then went off to lecture upon the
opening glories of a new admimstra'
tion. They can do nothing for Ruth
erford out Kutherford can do some-
thing for them only he won't. I am
glad of it. Not that I hate Rutherford
less but those aged specimens of dig
nified rot more
Mr. James B. Simpson the la to ex
cellent editor of the Dallas Herald re
ferring to a statement of that paper
affecting Judge Hancock's fidelity to
the Democratic party and to the South
says:
' The portfolio of Postmaster Gen
eral of the United States was placed at
the - disposal of Judge Hancock. He
was requested to accept it as a Demo
crat of the straitest sect. He was not
called upon to become an apostate or
to darken bis reputation with the
charge of being a recreant to his faith
He was invited as a southerner and
Democrat to administer the affairs and
bestow tbe patronage of one of tbe
most important departments of the Fed
eral government. He sought the ad
vice of the Texas Senators and Con
gresmen and I was invited to be pres-
ent at their conference. The delega
tion met at the rooms of Judge Reagan
and consisted of Senators Coke and
M&xcy and Congressmen Mills Schlei-
cher Reagan Culberson and Throck-
mortoa. I will not undertake to out
line the discussion that tnmcd nor to
give the views expressed ly the gentle-
men present but it will suffice U-t me
to siy thut the delegation was disposed
to let Judge Hancock exercise his own
jti'lgmeat which was in effect to de-
cline to advise him as to the course he
should pursue.
Mr. Editor permit me in all truth
to say that this was a rare exhibition
of matchless generosity and does
merit at the bunds of all Texans un-ie.-trvtd
praise. Hancock could have
been of immeasurable benefit to Texas
and to the South. He felt this but
his peerless sense of honor forbade him
to place bis former associates in the
position of apologists for their action
and his or to have the faintest suspi-
cion of unfaithfulness visited upon
them by their constituents. Senator
CoKe was swift to appreciate this
most manly act and in discussing this
matter subsequently with . him he
warmly expressed the highest admira-
tion for Judge Hancock and declared
that he felt a higher regard for that
gentleman than he had ever before ex-
perienced. .
Need I say Mr. Editor that the
Texas delegation respect Judge Han-
cock for this act and that it is
cruelly unjust to charge him with
being a recreant to his trust and an
apostate to his party.
When this fact was communicated
to Judge nancock the tender of the
portfolio was declined. I am perfect-
ly familiar with the motives which
prompted that gentleman to decline
this great trust and the exercise "Of its
tremendous power for the honor of
that position is tremendous. Judge
llnncock and bis colleagues (save Mr.
Mills) bad supported tbe electoral bill
and in doing so had been charged with
selling out to the Republicans. In
other words it wss avowed that in
consideration of the bestowal of certain
important .offices upon Southern men
no disturbance should be created and
that the determination of the electoral
commission should be accepted and en-
lorcee.
Judge Hancock thought that should
be accept this office coloring would be
given to this most unjust and ungener-
ous charge and with that exalted spirit
of self-abnegation that has more f
grandeur in ie tban aught I have wit
nessed in political life be put aside
power and place and honor and emolu
ments lor the sake of these his asso
ciates and friends.
Personal.
Dr. Slade the Spiritualist is. about
tuiurn to mis country.
' Stanley Mathews's sister marriad TV
Joseph Webb brother of Mrs. Hsyes
that is Mrs. Hayes's brother is Stanley
Mrs. Haskell has given such hearty
satisfsction as the State Librarian of
the Legislature of Tennessee that she
has been re-elected through a long
vi ears wuoout Opposition.
ur. Aluhlenburg the venerable
lounder and head of St. Luke'i Hosoi
tab New York and the author of "1
weald not live always" is dangerously
i OA years oia.
The sister of Edgar Alien Poe. who
lately died in the Home of the Epi-
phany at Washington left wi'h. ber
meagre enects a bundle of letters and
poems of ber brother which ara nm
in proper nanas lor publication.
6. S. .kmeisthe editor of the TWutia.
riikrq hioil so called Journal was
noi ueau last I buraday in his office in
Chicago while he" was writing. Dr.
W. C. like was the murderer who thus
avenged an outrage done him by Jones
wno misittu and betrayed Pike's wile.
.leilaon is in a peck of trouble about
some real estate which she bought in
the City of New York in tbe flush
times of the ring. She paid 1 15 000
down and executed a mortgage for
$30000. Since then taxes assessments
and intorest have added $10000 to tbe
property and It won't bring enough
to pay off the mortgage.
Tbe Da cllo.
The practice of havin? recourse to
the pistol or sword with the view of
settling personal disputes should be
"more honored in the breach than the
observance." And yet the lamentable
fact is not ignored that persons alike
distinguished for their intellectual en-
dowments and moral worth have not
been louud backward in resorting to
the duello when apersions upon their
fame have been indulged in by respon
sible individuals. illism Pitt for
nstance the illustrious premier of
Great Britain whom political friend
and foe alike frankly recognized as a
moral and religious man patronized
the duello requiring not to be invited
twice by Tiernev to meet him m deadly
encounter. -The "Iron Duke" loo (
truly conscientious and scrupulous man
at heartl. hesitated not a moment to
call out. on a certain occasion. Lord
Wincuelsea than whom (the phal
aox of bishops included) no more
religious man sat in the House of
Peers. The meeting between this
good man and tho duke provider
tially "ended in smoke" Lord Win-
chelsea firing his pistol in the air
Canning's manifest sympathy with.
and predilection for the "code of
honor" betrayed themselves more than
once and more especially in his last
encounter with a young sprig ot aris
tocracy a member of the House of
Commons whom Canning's scarifying
satire had rendered furious. A meet
ing was the result. At the first fire no
harm being sustained by either Can
ning hurled bis pistol at his antagonist.
contemptuously remarking "Kcnucl
sir!" The nobleman insisted that this
was "n6 satisfaction at all" and de
manded that they should fire again
At the second hre 'Janning was se
riously wounded in tbe thigh a result
we believe which pretty effectually
cured one of the most gifted prime
ministers' England ever had of his
dueling propensities. Sheridan's well
known encounter with Capt. Matthews
of the British army growing out of a
feeling of jealousy cher.sbed by
both in regard to Miss Lindlcy has
about tbe same claim on our atten-
tion as Canning's affair with th
young nobleman. The initiative wo
believe lay with Sheridan who chal
lenged Capt. Matthews as his most
formidable and hated rival in the af
fections of Miss Lindley. It was the
result of the duel consequent upon
this state of things that enabled Lord
Byron to compliment his friend Hacri
dan by remarking that he had "writ
ten the best cojiedy ever acted made
the best speech ever spoken and mar
ried the handsomest woman that ever
lived." In his first encounter with
Matthews (they fought with swords)
Sheridan bad decidedly the advautage
poor Matthews having been reduced to
the necessity of begging his life. He
was at once "sent to Coventry" by his
brother officers and to redeem mat
ters resolved once more to "try it on
with Sheridan. Again they fought
with swords and this time poor Sberi
dan presently found himself in the
very predicament to which he had re-
duced Matthews on tbe former occa-
sion that is prostrate on the ground
with Matthews's. weapon pointing at
his throat and its master insisting that
Sheridan this time must "beg bis
life." It would seem that Richard Brins-
ley was not in the least appreciative of
Matthews's demand and refused point
blank and with an unseemly oath to
do anything of tbe sort. Thus termi-
nated a duel whose bloodless character
alone redeemed it in a great measure
fiom infamy. The duel however
which always appeared to us as ex-
ceeding in magnanimity all others we
have read of (si far at any rate as one
of its principals was concerned) was
that of tbe late Duke of York and a
certain Col. Tortens (we think that
I was the name) of the British army.
The colonel challenged hu royal high-
ness (the off.;nse charged we well re-
member was a most trivial one) and
tbe duke promptly responded to the
challenge. They met and that the
colonel meant mischief became obvious
from tbe accuracy of his aim. The
bullet very materially disarranged the
duke's curl. The duke bad wholly
abstained from firing and manifested
no intention whatever of doing to. He
as coolly as courageously however de-
manded of the colonel if he was satis-
fied magnanimously invitiug him to
"fire again" if sach was not the case.
The colonel it would seem was not
altogether a brute and desisted from
his audacious impertinence.
Sketch of the rarrcr of Ueu. James
Cbalmers.
Gen. James R. Chalmers of Missis-
sippi has many relatives in Texas 'and
moreover led Texan soldiers during
the war between the States. There-
fore this sketch from the daily Graphic:
He has attracted much attention re-
cently by his brilliant canvass and elec-
tion to Congress from the sixth district
of Mississippi in which the negroes
predominate so largely over the whites
and which has been heretofore pro-
nounced a Republican district. The
Democracy are proud of his achieve-
ments while many Republicans in-
credulous as to the reported political
change among tbe negroes point to
bis election as an evidence of intimida-
tion' and wrong to the co'ored voters
and denounce him as tbe Fort Pillow
murderer. His quiet and unobtrusive
manners and bis reputation for kind-
ness and generosity towards all men
would seem to negative the idea that
be was a man of blood and the Con-
federate history of Fort Pillow not on-
ly denies that any men were killed
after tbey had surrendered but repre
sents Gen. Cbalmers as attempting to
cneck tne nnng oi tbe Confederates as
soon as tbe fort was entered and before
any surrender took place. That he is
a man of courage all admit and this
should acquit blm of this charge for
r.ae Drave are never cruel.
He was born in Halifax county Vir
ginia on. the eleventh of January
1831 and came from a family which
bas produced many distinguished men
Dr. John G. Chalmers who was Secre
tary of War in tbeTxas Republic was
nis uncle; Joseph W. Chalmers. Chan
cellor and United States Senator frem
Mississippi was bis father; David
Chalmers Ulenn the brilliant orator
and former Attorney General of Mis
sissippi was his first couin; and IL
N. Chalmers now a distinguished
juage in the bupreme Court of Missis
sippi is nis Drotner; ana a younger
orotner now aead col. Alexander U.
Chalmers was one .of the most gallant
and dashing cavalry officer! in the
Confederate service. James Renard
went to Mississippi when a child in
ne graduated witn second hon
ors at isoiumoia south Carolina in
1851 and was appointed a delegate
irom Mississippi to tbe National Dem
ocratic Convention at Baltimore in
1852. He was admitted to the bar in
1853 and was elected district attorney
for tbe Seventh Judicial District of
Mississippi in 1858. and held that of
fice until tbe breaking ont of tbe war.
He was elected to the Secessionists
Convention of Mississippi in 18G0 and
was chairman of tbe Military Commit
tee of that body. He entered the Con
federate military service in March.
1861 in command of a comrjanv. and
surrendered nis command April 10
"a i . . -'
1865 being then the commandaat
of three brigades of Mississippi cav
airy the First Division of tbe For
rest cavalry corps. He served two
years in tbe infantry in command of
iuc .iiuiu jnississ.ppi xtegtmcni ana oi
ine ceieoratea (Uigri-preisuni Brig-
ade" of Mississippi which he organ-
ized and which was afterwards ably
commanded in succesxioa by Gens.
Tucker and Sharp of Mississippi; sod
ne was mentioned with distinction for
his gallantry by Gen. Brogg in bis re-
port of the rwttlei of Shllob and Mur-
freesboro. In tbe last named battle be
was severely wounded and afterwards
transferred to tbe cavalry service. lie
commanded the First Division of the
Fourth Cavalry Corps and participated
in most of the hard services and bril-
Uiut victories which distinguished the
corps aunng tbe last years of the war.
He is mentioned wltu high praise bv
tieo. Forrest and by the author of tbe
work entitled "Forrest and his Cav
alry" in which he is represented as
having two personal hand-to-hand ren-
counters with the enemy at that cele-
brated retreat of Hood from Nashville
when the auvance ol the f ederal army
nHum-.iwu men bv incu. anil waea
the rear guard composed of Forrest's
cavalry and Walthall's division of in
fantry covered itself with military re-
nown. Iu tho crm;a:;n of 1S72. Ocn.
Chalmers was clermr for Greeley and
Brown from Mi sissi ri. In lS75le
was elected t.i the Legislature of 1S7C
n men impeached the Uovernor and tea
Superintendent of Education purified
the judiciary reduced the taxes and
restored the State t the government of
her own people. He received the Dem
ocratic nomination for Consress from
a district supposed to be hopelessly
Republican aud by his energy indus-
try and perseverance and grt'i t popu-
larity not only with his own pnrty bi t
with the Republican" was elected over
John R. L'oyd Republican by a ma
jority of 4000.
Gen. Chalmer hold a high iatik in
bis profession but l e has be n more
distinguished a-t an advocate than as a
lawyer and his success in the defense
of criminal (especially capital) rase
has been almost unprecedented. He is
uow in Washington as a witness be'oro
the Senate Committee on Elections
and many of the old c ti.ens there who
knew Joseph W. Chalmers wheu in
the Senate recognise the son fioui tho
striking family resell blance. He has
the reputatiou of a good speaker
quick iu perception clear and concise
in the statement of his cases and forci-
ble in his reasoning. As a man he is
said to be even and energetic in pur-
pose with courage suffieieut to uidcr-
tako any honorable task and tho de-
termination which insures success. He
is the intimate friend and associate ot
Mr. Lamar and will doubtless act in
harmony with him on all great quel
tious.
What Does Bob Itleau ?
Bob Ingersoll has been making a
speech in New York City. In it ho was
pleased to say in pithy sentence that
nobody can imitate that "You may
call me of what party you please I am
willing to join hands with those men
without regard to color or previous
condition. These men havo already
these men of tho South have already
made us their debtors. Let me tell yen
something. If the high joint comtuii-
sioa bad failed ; if the Vice Preside! t
had never counted the vote; if tie
election had been thrown into tl e
House of Representatives Samuel J.
Tildon would never have been elected
but Rutherford B. 1 1 ayes would haver
been elected by Southern votes. Ap-
plause. I know I know what 1 am
talking about. During the last Con-
gress the Southern members not all of
them but enough of them men who
had fought upon the field of war
against the life of our country held
in their hands so to speak thb des-
tiny of the United States. With ono
word they could have plunged us into
the hell of civil war. We were not
saved by the Northern Democrats we
were not saved by honesty and reform
laughter ; wo were saved by those
who had once sought to destroy tho
nation because they had had enough
of war they wanted peace. Ap-
plause. They refused to act with tlie
Bourbons of the North ; they said
' We like this country; we know what
war is; our land was laid waste our.
homes and towns and cities wero re-
duced to ashes; there shall bo no more
war that we can prevent. A President
hall be chosen and that President
shall be inaugurated in peace.' Men
I s iy who had fought upon the field of
battle against us stood up in the caucus
of the Democratic party in Washing-
ton aud used those very words. Ap-
plause. To them we are indebted
for a peaceful solution of the ques-
tion. They gave us peace. They
preserved us so to f-penk and I am
willing to unite with them to preservo
that priceless gilt forever. Applause.
"There is another qiv-st on and thafr
is the rcmonetiz.ttiou of silver. I do
not know bow you feel about it in
New Yoik and I care just as little us I '.
know except for tho general good..
We are the only nilver producing na--tion.
For what curlhly rc-tson sliu'll
we slander our own wares? Silver isi
good enough for me; it is good enougln
for you. It will buy bread ; it will buy
labor and anything on e irth that will
buy bread and labor is tool enough to
pty a debt. I want to see good timca
0 ming back to this c mntry ; I do nob
want to see everything given up to the
persons they arc pleased to cal I the cred-
itors of this government I want them
to have every dollar that is coming to
them. If we have agreed to pay them
n gold let us pay them in gold. It
we agreed to pay them in coin let us
fiay just as soon as we can every doir
ar in coin; but I want to be under-
stood that tbe debtor is as good as the
creditor and the man who takesbii
coupon down to tbe bank every morn-
ing at 10 o'clock is no better than tl e
man who has dug in the snow and
tie cold for his dollar."
What a Republican says :
Oivs me msn of ncrre and pluck.
Who hit snd bluing timO;
I'd rather be one oudco of lllaioe
Than forty poand of Hchor.
SPECIAL NOTICES.
To all whs are suffering from tbe errors ana
Indiscretions of Youth nrvou weakness erljr
decsr.lots of manhood etc.. I will send a redp
that will care yon FHEK OF ClUKUS. This
great remrdjr was dlscerered by a missionary
la Boath America Bend a self-addressed en
Tlope lo tbe Rjt. Jons-n T. Ins Station D
IIJjUIIjum Ntv York Ulty. JacSldeod-w Cm
NEW ADVERTHHtmRNTS.
PIMM. . MM MM T MMl Mlk..
r A ..1 HI. W F w. M I -r
axoSBa HA a a ibo oo..
rsiaesvine. Lake OoOlda.
WANTED One r two workitx; home ba
exchange for a new c.btset Mnr evrs .
Macb ne. Inquire at HALL UlKiUk V J.
niture store CvucRsa Avenne Asaiui.
BANKRUPTCY.
In the District Coartef It rlI- tw h
m um rr in
GR1FKITH. Baiikrapl "iTJkT.p ley
rtne of an ordrr of . -I. . .
Br wirtac of aa i
be
fHatee Ilitrct Cunrt fot Ibr u Z.rm
" "'.""' . tue nrat ur or Mar.
" "-er or blocs Ho. TO. la
the city of An.tlii wobbi Jeal h'mra. aril u tbe
hlghe-t and beat k'ddrr for caah. all hundred
ana forty acre of land la Konnrla con Dir.
Texa. beln 31 arr. of Noah Kmiihwtck nr-
nr So. 4.V1 aaa 4 bum of v-k ..
enrrej No. ftt ma the properly of tac bank-
rapt estate ml L. A. (Jrlffitn. V..mpt
""'A. CUA.VOLEK. Aaifgnee
mtrftmu of catate of OdlUta baukrap.
LOST.
One Irariie snd Nhor hrAr-ki --w!a.t. Kn
490. Aral claa. Ieat4 l.r ik. KmJ r LuA
Uoaa-laatOBeTa for Ban AogoMnie county to
laaae Ceatnbe L aa uivnn J iimm II. U II.
llama date sot rrmm bared. If tot foo ad I th-
in mty daya application will b tntde far da
Pe. J. I. THOMAS.
Areat tut onr.
Aostis Texas. March K. 1T. marbximr
850
REWARD.
strayed or trelen. (be follow! or described aa.
hntla on tb static "f ib evvcaiceaift ( March
friaa ai blare ua the Ciiv4o: One litfht-veliuw
bay aiere male aboat IS a in da hlh braaaw oa
left ahoa'oer i haa: Scare 7 ll a arroas snd
above acd aliad la freut A so one saiall
ray sura perfvctljr rretlo and s natural
en ac the aaddle; branded os left ehoaider
thsa: X with a beiow. 1 will cm. ik.
reward. 110 for the antaela. aad Stu fur tas
laid. JOHX II. MUjWM iJJZ
aw; IS KMM.
coaalj Texas. r-W
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