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S ATURIJAY, OCTOBE R 23~ 1839.
EI.AINE TWITES' THE 11ED FLAG OF
COMMUNISM.
James G. Blaine has now reached tbe
point in liis political diatribes where he at-
tacks the property-holders of the South
with poisoned arrows. Thk News invites
attention. lie speaks of the negro laborers
rngaged in making pig-iron in southern
Btates at wages of 00 to 70 cents a day, and
the probability that they will compete mare
«r.d more 'with northern workinginen, aud
sugges-ts that the great body of working-
mi n in the South must be paid
Light r wages or northern laborers
must suffer. Sow, there may ba
a few hundred negroes employed
in protected industries, and competing as
Mr. illaine suggests, and if they were not
hired by the rule of the market, their wage a
could be made higher so far as the employ-
ers'ability goes in that business; but the
question involves the rule of the market
for a million other laborers, and what
steidard does Mr. Blaine propose to deter-
mine what are fair wages? Had he raised
only the red flag of communism he would
have been understood. But it is the red
flag labeled sectionalism, and yet it is the
ltd flag of communism also. Must it be
raid, hereafter, that the presence upon
icultern soil of a few protected estab-
lishments, where they make 0J p-jr
cent. profit for capital, and pay (!) to 70
tents a day for their labor, is to bring upon
the sugar producers, the cotton producers,
ILe merchants and employers general-
ly of negro labor in the South a crusade
of communism incited by Blaiae? These
other industries can not pay higher wages
like the protected concerns, because these
other-industries are not supported by rob-
bery. But Blaine tells the whole working
class of tbe North that the wages of the
"great body of ihe workmen in the South
must be raised." Is it at this price that the
South is to entertain a few protected plun-
dering concerns? Is the North to be made
solid and the host of wage labor
rallied against the rights of property
and tree contract to give J. G. Blaiae
thepiize of hi; ambition? Let northern
employers remember thit the poisoned ar-
row will ieturn to smite them. Let them
not dare to aid a movement of the kind in-
dicated, for ;be idea will lodge in their o va
woi V men's mindo that northern labor must
hnve its wages advanced—no matter ho.v.
lie woes of a destructive communism
k.om up behind the perfidious, thievish
t»riff system. Here Blaine, using the mis-
erable fraud of "protection to American
labor," stales facts showing that the labDr-
er does i.ot get she benefit of protection.
What is true of the negro laborer is
trne of the whites. Neither get
jnoie in protected than ia uuprotec:ed
jndnMiies. But Biaice calenlates that the
r>lite laborers will not perceive ths infer-
ence that protectionism is of no use to
them. We are now addressing other men,
however—men who can reason and who
will see the danger to other interests in
Blaine's incendiarism. He means to rouse
the demon in the northern proletary class
against southern employers. He meiua to
take the few southern protected industries
and the fact of disparity between the gains
of capital and labor in those particular iu-
dustries and use that fact, engendered in
the rotten stew of his own protectionist
system, to poison the northern workman's
mind against Honest southern employers.
Thus to defeat the Democratic party is his
object. Who, then, will answer for
Ihe consequences of having roused
the predatory instincts of wage laborers?
Deceived and tricked, when they ask
for an impossible elevation of their owu
wpges the northern toilers would have to
be met with cold steel and a hail of bullets.
But it is net certain that the party which
should consent to regulate wages in the
South, to change the rule of contract and
ruin southern capital, would not have gone
too far. They of the North might finally
succumb, with all their wealth and palaces,
to the ruthless vengeance of the evil spirit
they had provoked. Tbe best thing oar
northern fellow-citizens of sober mind can
do is to shelve Mr. Blaine. He is inciting
to a breach of property. Of course, as an
artful dodger, Mr. Blaine can turn round
and disclaim this. The News is discussing
(he tendency of his harangue. He can
say hereafter that he premised that
the negroes do not have a fair bal-
lot. and that that is the cause of
their wages being low. That is doubly
false. The negroes have the ballot fairljr,
and certainly those who work for protected
employers will not fail to get protected in
volicg Blaiue's ticket. But the ballot has
nothing to do with the rate of wages, con-
sequently lhat pretense is merely a loop-
hole for Mr. Blaine's retreat after ho has
befooled the Northern workmen. The
grave point in the affair is that Blaine is
playing the scoundrel by rousing passions
which he can not control, and which no
power but the military can control if once
they get into action.
A POLITICAL rHAlllSEE.
A Candida,e for county judge of one of
the populous counties announces that in
principles and practice he ia a Prohibition-
ist. How does be practice prohibition? To
the extent of his ability he prohibits a fel-
low-citizen from tippling perhaps. Dies
he take the tippler by the nape of the neck
and the looseness of his trousers and ojeet
him from a saloon? If not, why not? The
tippler will only be treated as the Prohibi-
tionists propose that all tipplers shall be
treated by the State. He certainly does
not mean that he practises prohibition by
appealing to the tippler's reason to volun-
tarily abstain from strong drink, for that is
what the prohibitionists claim does not
prohibit. Then, again, if he mejut to sajr
lhat he is in practice a Prohibitionist only
in abstaining himself from tippling, and
therefore will be a sober county judge, lie
gives notice that, so far as men of his stamp
are concerned, State prohibition is needless.
Put he does not stop with that, for he also,
in asserting his own voluntary sobriety
while in principle a Prohibitionist who
would by law compel all to sobriety, noti-
fies the people whose votes he solicits that
Ihey arc not so good as he, that they c.iu
not depend upon reason and judgment as
he is able to do, and that therefore they
must he forcibly compelled to be personally
and judicially sober, as he complacently
announces that he will be through the force
of sujericr moral and intellectual endow-
ment?. This fashion of preaching was
inaugurated by a pharisee 1S00 years ago,
who might have been a candidate fir
county judge, but the records failtoshoiv
his election. All they do show is that he
received a rebuke that has made the name
of pharisee a reproach down to this day.
If the candidate for county judge in Tex*s
had informed his constituents that he pos-
sessed all the qualifications that are re-
quired for the officer, but that like the ma-
jority he was also subject to the temptatioa
to tipple, and wanted them to vote the sa-
loons out when they voted him in, there
would hnve been less objection to his plat-
form.
ItO(JEH Q. MILLS.
There are occasional whispers and hints
from the Ninth Congressional district
which, coupled with attendant incidents,
suggest that a movement ia on foot to re-
tire ltoger Q. Mills from Congress. Per-
haps the people of the Ninth Congressional
district can afford to do this, but if they
should do it neither the people of Texas as
a whole nor the Democrats of tbe United
States will be inclined to thank them for
their aclion. Roger. Q. Mills is one of the
most useful and able members of the
House of Representatives. He is respected
by honest men of all parties. He is a
philosophical statesman rather than a
" practical " politician, and confines his
work to legislation instead of to office
brokerage. It is easy to understand why
muny of tbe ambitious politicians of Waao,
Belton and Brenham would like to have
Air. Mills rei.ired. Some of them
aie hungering for his place, and
othtrs cf them would like to have aa
agent in Washington to look after the
spoils. Mr. Mills has not banked on the
spoils as the chief prop of his ambition,
lie made no effort to bribe the politicians
of bis district with postoffices, Indian
agencies, levenue collectorships. United
States marshalships and other specimens
of fedeial bouuty. He has attended faith-
fully to the wants and wishes of his con-
stituents. When they desired a postmas-
ter appointe 1 he presented their petitions
to the postmaster-general, and if the peo-
ple were unanimous for one person, he
recommended the appointment,^ If there
were factions supporting different candi-
dates, Mr. Mills declined to take part, but
gave all an fqnal chance. He is not the
spoilman's friend. Now it appears that
the spoilsmen, the Prohibitionists, and
those ambitious of succeeding Mr. Mills,
are paving the way for his defeat. The
Waco Kxaminer. which prides itself on its
promptness to sneeze when the machine
jx lilieians take snuff, joins with i'eeble
alacrity in the anti-Mills crusade. Says
the Examiner: •-«$
"f course much can be said in favor of the
retention of men in representative positions
for long terms. Unquestionably ihey, in this
v ay, become familiarized with the duties of
tbe place in a wnv which nothing else save ex
perience can sn jniy. ll.-.t it does not follow
that the expert does the work,and sometimes,
we ore t.Md, familiarity breeds contemn - Men
too familiar with * ither ttie people or the du-
ties ol a certain place develop irreat contempt
for both, (ronsetlmes For Instance, we have
old repre-enlstives in lioth the Seuate and
the House, who made a little stb and did
something in the first years of their
public life, who Ii&ve sunk'into perfeet non-
eotit. and lemain there. Maxey a-i- '-versat
roll call and diaws las pay, but what else has
he cone for Texas for tbe last ten years ex-
cept i o siblv to prefer bis partisans for place?
XLv s..ine iii a modified sense may be sui i of
Roger Q. Mills, but It is too late for Democrats
in his case to consider sueli an objection, be-
cause he has the regular nomination for Con-
gress, ii lid good Democrats have no other duty
more binding upon them than to support
him.
It is true that it is tbe duty of good Demo-
crats to support Mr. Mills, hut not because
he has what the organs call the " regular
nominalioH," but because he ia one of the
ablest, clearest, boldest Demoorats in the
country. Carlisle, Morrison and Mills havo
done more to keep the Democrats in the
House of Representatives fiom aping the
Republicans than auy three men in the
country. Mills has been a thorough Demo-
crat in Congress, a thorough Democrat on
ihe stump, a thorough Democrat in all his
acts and teachings. Although thore are
more Prohibitionists in his district than in
any oilier district iu the State, he has not
been afraid to meet them face to face and
to combat their propositions. In Congress
Mr. Mills has worked persistently and
earnestly to lift the burdens of unjust
and nnequal taxation from the great
consuming masses of the conntry.
While other congressmen were hunting
in the departments for offices for their
henchmen, Roger Q. Mills was attending to
his duties as a legislator, laboring with
Democrats to wipe out war taxes and the
whole system of robber devices with which
class legislation had saddled the people.
Surely there must be too many good Demo
crats in Mr. Mills's district to allow his
sacrifice, but if he should be defeated, the
taiiff borons and the whole tribe of benefi-
ciaries of legislative contrivances for spo-
liation will rejoice, and true Democrats the
country over will be grieved. The Waco Ex-
aminer likes to nave it understood that it is
the special organ of Senator Coke and Gen-
eral Ross. What is the meaning of its war
on Mills? _____
A GOLDEN OPPOIl TUNITY MISSED.
Senator Evans, in his newspaper, the
Bonbam News, says: "We heard the Hon.
A. W. Terrell, in a speech made by him in
the state Senate, at the called session of
'S-l, say that he never would be a candidate
for any civil office and he was willing to go
before a notary public and make affidavit
thereto. And now we see the same A. W.
Terrell traveling over the state of Texas
(with a short-band reporter employed)
making speeches and having them pub-
lished in the leading journals, etc." Judge
Evans is a very good man, though a friend
of Senator Maxey, and doubtless will cor-
rect his statement when his memory ia re-
freshed. He will, if he has not utterly for-
gotten Senator Terrell's speech, remember
thatthe Travis statesman earnestly pleaded
for a certain land bill which he was dis-
cussing and his promise to retire from pub-
lic life was based upon the clearly and dis-
tinctly announced condition that the legis-
ture should adopt his bill. Senator Terrell
is probably stronger as a candidate from
(he failure of that bill than from the
strength of his opponents. Subsequent
events have shown his statesmanship and
at. the same time the woeful failure of all
the expedients of his opponents for settling
tl;o land and grass questions. Senator
Evans has not forgiven the Travis states-
man for this offense. He should remember
that Terrell is in no way responsible for the
situation of land affairs or the senatorial
question. The state Senate had a chance to
regulate the free graziers and at the same
time to tie up Terrell's mule. The state
Ber ate, assisted by Senator Evans, turned
both loose upon the range. If the school
fund suffers and Senator Maxey is unhappy,
it is the fault of Senator Evans and his ad-
ministration party in the Senate of tbe
Eighteenth legislature. Senator Maxey'a
interest was awfully mismanaged by the
senator from Fannin when he untied
Terrell's mule. Has it never penetrated
1 lie Fannin statesman's intellect that Sen-
ator Terrell assuredly meant to give notice
to the administration and all concerned
that he would be a candidate if his mea
sure was defeated? The inference that if
defeated by the administration he would
appeal to the country is the logical one to
be drawn from the declaration he made.
European affairs are becoming worse
muddled daily. From one capital comes
Eews that the Bulgarian regency will hold
out to the end, that the Sobranje will meet
on time, and that Russia will surely occupy
the country. From another capital news
comes that the regency is weakening,
that the Bobranje will not meet on tine,
and that Russia will not send an army to
the Balkans. Itisevideni that the diplo-
matic gentry are doing their best to mix
the tituation, and it is not at all impro-
bable that the European stock-gamblers
are taking more than a little interest in the
proceedings. No doubt the Bulgarian
regency is doing tho best it can with the
means at its disposal. Rut Bulgaria can
not oppose the wishes of Europe, or of a
majority of Europe. Were a first-class
power to back up Bulgaria, there is no doubt
that the people and government of that
country would be ready to bid Russia de-
fiance. But if Austria, Germany and Tur-
key unite in advising the Bulgarians to
adopt a certain course, no matter how un-
pleasant, it would be suicidal for them to
resist. Bulgaria is not strong enough to do
what she wants.
The New York Evening Post says that
Mr. Roosevelt was nominated for a trade
and he Snows or ought to know this, aud it
adds: "A\Te look on his willingness to allow
himself to bo put in the field by such a body
as the Rapublican organization in this city
as a strong sign of unfitness for the placa
he seeks." The Times replies by attacking
Hewitt, Tammany and Democratic arrange-
ments.
Mr. Blaine, at Philadelphia, stated that
the Republican leaders, shortly after tbe
war, practically said to the southern people:
■J on have a very large number of men with-
out education suddenly made free. They need
• ducntion, they need experience, they need
training, and we will readmit yo i into the
t'nlon, and leave that question for yon to solve
yourself.
Not very generous, if true. That would
have been a good time for the Blair bill
and an appropriation, if it was ever to
come. And if the Republican leaders said
that, they were opposed to interfering with
the solution of tha problem by the southern
States, in which respect their successors
have not continued to follow the path of
non interference.
Evidently it is not safe for any ona in
approaching the czar to bring the hand
near the hip-pocket. The czar might try
the plan of disarming his ofiicers.
Although the revenue marine service
dees not cost the taxpayers anything near
as much as the so-called navy, nor is as
pnady as the navy, still when there is work
to be dote the revenue marineiL.en can ba
depended on to do it. Perhaps there is no
branch of the public service that can show
such a consistent record for efficiency as
the marine corps. It has never been called
on and found wanting. During the recent
disaster nt Babine and Johnson's bayou the
service performed Dy the revenue cntter
Penrose and its efficient commander, Lieu-
tenant O. S. Willey, is deserving of all
praise. Lieutenant Willey kept on foot for
forty hours steadily, and the prompt ar-
rival of his boat at the scene of the disaster
did much to alleviate sufferiug and to
speed the plans of the rescuers. The ma-
rine corps deserve well of the people.
Two Japanese princes with their wives
and suites reached San Francisco on the
l!)tb, and, in accordance with orders from
headquarters, they were passed through
the custom-house without search. Good
business policy, but against the routine of
the political system. Business policy is
personal management. The political the-
orist cries out: "Have we a personal gov-
ernment? " It is impossible for a personal
government to be long without grave
abuses, but it is impossible to have good
management without personal discretion.
If any political theorist can resolve this
antinomy by any process except that of
muzzling government and cutting it down
to a minimum of protection for equal per-
sonal and natural rights we should be glad
to hear from him.
The quakes have not yet abandoned
Charleston. The old city by the sea should
not be jealous of Sabine and Johnson's
bayou.
They are having a lively campaign in In-
diana. The words of the Republican can-
didate for lieutenant-governor, Mr. Robert-
son, are quoted against him. He said last
month:
The Republican plank on the temperance
question was so constructed that it Is adapted
to the beer-drinking Germans of Allen and tne
prohibition Quakera of Wayne county.
He ought to know, and if this is a true de-
scription neither the beer-drinker nor the
Prohibitianist—and a man may be both—
could have mnch self-respect and support
for such a party.
No doubt about it, there would be a
beautiful smashing of rings in New York
if Henry George should be elected mayor.
There is a report that the members of
the Bulf arian regency are quarreling among
themselves. This is bad. The regents
ought to know that nothing would so please
Kauibars as to see them pulling apart.
England practiced this plan for centuries.
Both Ireland and India were conquered and
held by England because of the ability o?
English agents to sow dissensions among
the Irish and tbe Indians. The Bulgarians
ought to profit by the example.
Prohibition appears to bo the Republi-
can issue in Massachusetts. Mr. Andrew's
opposition to prohibition dates from away
back, showing that be was a Democrat by
instinct before he became one by profes-
sion.
Barry got some credit for stopping tha
pacfciEg houses strike at Chicago. Barry
is a pietlv smart man for Michigan, but it
v. ill be remembered that he exploded with
threats c.f immediate return to Richmond,
and of the boycot which was to follow.
Then came a te egram from Powderly to
remain there. Then came Barry's call on
Armour to settle the whole abortive non-
sense by an acceptance of ten hours. Barry
must have been instructed.
If whispers from Philadelphia ara true,
Mr. Randall should endeavor atthe earliest
moment possible to place a prohibitory
taiiff on delirium tremens.
Cleveland's receptions in old Virginia
was all that he could desire. Governor
Lee's speech was an improvement on his
oration welcoming Powdeily. As a recep-
tion orator, however, the governor is not a
complete success. He would baiter uphold
the historic fame of the Old Dominion by
being less effusive and flamboyant.
Tim Campbell has been renominated for
CoDgress by the County Democrats of Now
York. Campbell is an illiterate buffoon,
and his presence in the House of Repre-
sentatives is a national discredit, and a
special disgrace to New York.
Says tbe Baltimore Sun:
Ihe bulk t box ought to be shielded from
pollution In every possible way, and at all
liaziuds, unless we mean to drift bauk again
Into tne evil mcthors which once prevailed In
orr midst, and which all remember with
shame. The man who flourlses his blackjack
or his aw l before Ihe window and drives hon-
est voters awny Is not one whit worse than the
sneaking manipulator who sits behind It., and
either steals the vote cast, or fraudulently
substitutes auother for It. Thore Is but ono
proper place for either or both, and that is in
the penitentiary, and it Is the duty of every
good citizen to aid In the prosecution and con-
viction of such offenders. No party can long
► unive methods of persistent and deliberate
fraud to perpetuate Its power.
Mr. George perhaps thinks that he and
Hewitt are a second edition of Lincoln and
Douglass. This conceit may really grow
in the atmosphere where the belief is con-
secrated that as goes the city so goes the
State, and with the State the Uni in.
Republicans will go a great way to cover
the spoils sj stem. Any Republican who
1 as held office for a time under a Demo-
cratic president ia assumed to owe some
personal thanks. Not at all. The Balti-
more Morning Herald says:
Ix Public Printer Rounds, after enjoyirg 8
luciuUvo office under tbe Democratic adinln-
Istiatlon for more than a year, has retired to
Omni a to engage in the management of a Re-
publican paper whose chief delight Is in
throwing mud at Mr. Cleveland. Kven from
a Republican standpoint, this looks a little un-
gialeful. It seems that fond recollection
should prompt him to throw a mantle of
charity over the president's faults.
Certainly it is ungrateful from a spoils-
man's standpoint, because a spoilsman re-
gards the offices as personal patronage. If
the Republican party is scandalized by
Mr. Rounds retiring with his business
lights and privileges unimpaired, it is be-
cause the Republican party wishes to pre-
serve the spoils system.
New Yorkers want a new constitution,
but Ihey are not doing muck honor to the
present one. It requires a census and re-
districting, and this is disregarded by the
legislature. A change of parties might
look like reform, but it would result in a
new and different gerrymander.
^MONGO'her things the strike policy does,
it invites immigration of non-union men.
It is reported from Europe that the czar
recently killed one of his aid-de-camp3
nrder ihe in.piession thatthe officer wa3
going to make an attack on him. This re-
veals a terrible state ol feeling on the part
of (he autocrat. He is in imminent peril of
assassination at all times, and he knows it.
The fate of his father is continually before
him. Surrounded though he is by an army
of guards, be fears traitors even in his own
household. Tbe officer whom he slew was
a Eobleman and one of his friends. Of
course, it will be all right. What is a life
to the czar? Ke will advance the father or
brother of the slain officer a degree in tha
nobility and afl will be well. But how
about the mind of the sovereign? Will the
u.ciial tenor that haunts hirn day and
night down? Hardly. No wonder he 1a
anxious for war, or anything else that
would divert the attention of his subjects
from himself. There ia no man in the
world who could so well afford to have a
million or two of his countrymen killed aa
Alexander Romaueff.
Terrell's mule is still swinging around
the circle, and keeping pretty close to the
special parade ground of the velocipede.
Why doesn't the third-term candidate raid
western and southern Texas? Is he going
to depend upon federal officials exclusively
to watch his interests in those regions?
THE STATE PRESS.
What the Newspapers Throughout Texas Are
Talking About.
The San Antonio Times says:
San Antonio isn't stingy, but it ia so
eveilnstinply slow when people are in need
of immediato help, like those'at Sabine
Pass and Johnson's bayou.
In Us Matamoros items the Brownsville
Cosmopolitan says:
Sr. Fernando A. Margain haa cited Sr.
Espirideon M. Balis before the courts, to
answer Ihe charge of libel, for a communi-
cation published in the Defensor del Pueblo,
of Brownsville.
Texas papers that say hard things of
Mexicans should look out for extradition
papers. The libel laws of Texas and Mexico
seem to agree that a man is liable to be
punished in one nation for a publication
made in another.
In this country, one of the great fears of
people liable to arrest by the police is that
their names will be published. In Mexico
this is not the case. • The Cosmopolitan
quotes the following in its Matamoro3 de-
partment:
The Eco de la Frontera wants a new set
of police laws enacted. A sort of star
chamber peculiarity in them is that the re-
port of police arrests are, legally, a sealed
book, open only to the inspection of the
major. This puts a terrible power in the
hands of the authorities, who can, undis-
turbed, arrest any poor devil they choose
and place him on the public works, unde-
terred by any troublesome inspection.
James P. Newcomb, editor of the San
Antonio Evening Paper, is the Republican
candidate for Congress in the Tenth dis-
trict. The Paper makes the following
statement, evidently with the hope of aid-
ing him in the canvass-
In the last race which Mr. Schleicher
made for Congress, Judge (now Governor)
Ireland was his opponent- Mr. Schleicher's
chances seemed quite desperate at the
opening of tbe campaign. Ireland was
cT-nvassiiig the district with great energy,
while Schleicher, in ill-health, hardly knew
which way to turn. Tho Greenback or-
ganization bad captured the counties of
Card all; pe, Hayes, Caldwell and Gonzales,
and Irelar-d was in a fair way to receive
not only the Democratic vote, but tne Re-
publican and Greenback vote of these
counties, and also DeWitt and Victoria
counties. Mr. Newcomb met Colonel
Schleicher at New Braunfels, and after an
afternoon spent in consultation, a campaign
was mapped out that won the district for
Schleicher. Mr. Newcomb threw his whole
force into the fight, and canvassed the
counties of Gaudalupe, Hayes, Caldwell,
Coizales, DeWitt and Victoria. Let all
the friends of Schleicher remember New-
comb at the ballot-box. His work was un-
selfioh throughout. He believed Colonel
Schleicher the most valuable man for the
place, and gave him his support.
The Austin Statesman says:
.Galveston dcseives Ihe plaudits of the
whole State for the noble manner in which
she has hastened to help those who can not
now help themselves. Tbe amouut sub-
scrib< d to Sabine Pass and Johnson's bayou
— vhich latter really belougs to the chari-
table jurisdiction of New Orleans—last
night aggregated $S500. We can not but re-
spect ai d esteem a people such as this, who
do not slop at verbal expressions of sympa-
thy, but open their purse-slriugs also. Let
no man or woman iu this State ever liera-
atter say any thing of the stinginess or sel-
fishness of the people of Galveston. By their
acts of toblo eelf-sacrificiug generosity to
Ihe stricken people of Babine they havedis-
pioved all such charges.
The Austin Call mixes its religion and
metaphors as follows:
The wicked are joined to their idols, or
woids to that effect, are recorded in somo
ancient work, and the devotion which the
Galvestonians bestow upon their sea-
washed sand-bar evidences that human na-
tuie is tho same to-day as when the quota-
tion above was first uttered. But the hour
of retribution will surely come, and the
places that know Galveston will know it no
more forever, save through song and story.
Exiles from either Hot Springs, Galveston
or other points of wicked ways and sinful
practices will always find Austin a flue
"sr.ccedaneum." Its moral atmosphere
and christian influences work wonderful
reformations in those whose better in-
stincts have become corrupted or poi-
soned by evil associations in their early
manhood.
The ancient work the Call refers to at
the beginning of this quotation must be out
of print as well as ancient. The Bible says
Ephraim is joined to his idols. Ephriam
means one that briDgs fruit, and doei not
imply wickedness. The Scriptures, how-
ever, forbid the worship of idols; but
" when the quotation above was first utter-
ed " was in the Call itself. The " moral at-
mosphere and christian, influences" of
Austin may work wonders, but they have
made a skeptic of one editor, the veteran
"High Private," and the Moses of the Call
is no more like the old Hebrew leader,
whose name he bears, than a heathen. Un-
less he mends his ways he will have more
to fear from fire than Galveston from
water. His sojourn in Hot Springs only
hardened him in sin. The Record should
devote one of its old-fashioned Sunday ser-
mons to him in particular. He is another
" wessel of wrath."
The Fort Worth Mail says:
Some men have queer ways of express-
ing themselves. The Statesman announces
that an Austin firm has got hold of all the
lithographic lands in Burnett county.
The Statesman has become conspicuous
for blunders. It seems to employ writers
"with unpracticed minds" as the old al-
calde said of juvenile officials.
The Flatonia Argus says:
The Argus has been very urgent, in sea-
son, and perhaps out of season, on the
subject of reformatories iu Texas; but if it
be a hobby, it is at least a worthy one.
The United States government has acknl-
edgea the necessity of such institutions,
by ordering convicted juvenile criminals
to be sent to the reformatory at Louisville.
In reply to one of the false prophets
whose special mission seems to b9 to de-
nounce woe to Galveston, the Fort Worth
Mail save:
Galveston will be where she is long after
you are gone and forgotten.
The La Grange Journal says:
Every city, town and hamlet in Texas
ought to take up a subscription for the re-
lief of Ihe sufferers of Sabine Pass and
Johnson's bayou. Let everybody give ac-
cording to their means. We should bring
this question home to ourselves. Suppose
we, by some terrible and unexpected calam-
ily, were divested of nil we possessed in
tLe way of worldly goods, and all or soma
poition of our families swept into eternity,
would not those of us who were left feel
that those communities which had escaped
were ii> duty bound to assist us? Most cer-
tainly we would.
The Dallas Times says:
The candidates for the office of justice of
the peace are increasing in number: and
there is little wonder, for there is less work
to do in this position anil less ability re
quired to do it than in any office of it
value. It is an oppressor of the poor anr
an extortioner trom the rich. There an
hundreds of cases on the docket of our clt;
justices which show that a $1 fine upon i
pcor vagrant entails court tees of from $li
to $17 upon the county. A $5 fine oftei
cairies a $20 cost. The civil process i
toloiiously expensive. Every lawyer ol
standing denounces the system. None o
this is the fault of the justices. They ar<
created by the state constitution, and thei
fees prescribed by law.
The Times declares that it would abolish
Ihe office if it could. This is wrong. No-
office is more necessary. Reform is whivt
is needed. There is no more reason why it
should be made an engine of oppression
than for any other office to be made one.
When abuEes creep in grand juries and th»
people should take cognizance of them.
The Brownsville Cosmopolitan says:
Captain Baker tells ns that the hnrrioana
did one great benefit by putting nine rooJ
feet of water on the Brazos Santiago bar.
The Laredo Times says:
Judge Antonio Navarro, county judgaof
Zapeta county, is visiting in Laredo, and
gave the times a pleasant call this morn-
ing. The judge bears an honored name ia
Texas history, and is himself extensively
known and respected all along the border.
No name should rank higher in the annals
of Texas patriots than that of Navarro.
Jose Antonio Navarro was a native of Saa
Antonio, descended from a family who had.
emigrated from the Canary islands, and
were among the founders and foremost in-
habitants of the city. When the Texas re-
volution occurred Navarro, being a friend
of liberty, took sides with the revolt against,
the tyranny of Santa Anna. He was oap-
tured among the prisoners of the unfortu-
nate Santa Fe expedition, being one of the
commissioners sent from Texas to invite
the people of New Mexico to unite their
fortunes with those of the Lone Star re-
public, and was taken to the City of
Mexico. Santa Anna made every effort to
conciliate him and, failing, sent him to the
dungeons of the castle of San Juan de
Ulloa, at Vera Cruz, where the effects of a
long and rigorous confinement were tried
to subdue his noble spirit. He was in fee-
ble health with every prospect that death
wduld only release him when his humane-
jailers aHowed his friends to effect his
escape. He landed at Galveston Infirm and
lame. Tho whole population turned out.to
welcome him, and a carriage was provided
to convey him to the Tremont hotel, but he
refused to ride and limped at the head of
the procession leaning on the arm of his
old friend Colonel Samuel L. Williams,
one of the founders of Galveston. He after-
ward served two terms as a legislator ia
the councils of Texas and his long aud hon-
orable career ended by his death from
natural causes, in 1870.
BEENHAM.
Found Murdered in a Field—School Matters-
County Politics
Brenham, Tex., October 22.—Yesterday
irorning Will Garrett, a farmer living oa
Cedar creek, on the boundary between this
and Lee counties, in the northwestern por-
tion of this county, was found dead in the
field about a half mile from his home. An
examination of his body showed that he
had been shot and killed with a load of
squirrel shot. An inquest was held a ad a
verdict rendered that the deceased cam->
to his death by the hand of some person t»
the jury unknown.
The grand jury will be recanvoned oa
Monday next for tho third time during this
session of the district court. Thav were
i ailed together to investigate the killing of
Charley Lee. The news of th<»
killiEg' of Garrett was received this morn-
ing after the call had beon made.
The total enrollment in the white public
school is C40. In the colored schools there
are only about 200. Most of the little ne-.
groes are in the cotton fields.
County politics are getting very warm,
and owl meetings are held every night, and
Sunday, too. The chances are that the peo-
ple's ticket, which is opposed to the Repub-
licans, will be elected by a handsome ma-
jority, though the Republicans are claiming
Ihe world, and have a reckless disregard
forthetiuth. Iu this vicinity prohibition
is an unknown quantity, and the subject is
never mentioned. It cuts no figure la
county politics.
Cotton receipts are rather light. Farmer®
are holding back in hopes of an advance.
Owing to the fall rains, much of the cotton
offeiing is of a low grade and sandy.
DETERMINED TO DIE GAME.
A Sanguinary Shooting Between the Sheriff of
Colorado County and a Western
Texas Man.
Columbus, Tex., October 22.—The city
was thrown into a fever of excitement this
afternoon by a desperate shooting scrape
between J. L. Townsend, sheriff, and a maa
who gives his name as Johnson, frota
Karnes county. The sheriff had instruc-
tions to an est one suiting Johnson's de-
sciiption, and when Johnson rode into
town this afternoon the sheriff told him he-
had papers for him and to consider him-
self under arrest. At this Johnson drew
his pistol, as did tbe sheriff, and the firing
began. After several shots were ex-
changed Johnson fell to a sitting position,
and was attempting to put now cartridges
in 4;is pistol. The sheriff than said:
"Throw down your pistol and I will not.
kill you." He replied: " I will die gamely
with nsy pistol in hatd." After a shot or
two mate Johnson fell over on his faca.
An examination showed Johnson was shot
through the body, and the sheriff shot
through the flesby part of the leg. Johnson
is still alive.
A BULLET IN HIS HEAD.
A Chicsgo Man Commits 8uioido a Few Ml-
tutes Before He is to be Married.
Chicago, October 22.—A tragedy of re-
markable character, last evening, pre-
vented what was to h ive been a brilliant
wedding. The bridal couple have occu-
pied an honorable position iu the highest
social circles, and ihe bridal preparations,
had been completed docpn to minuta par-
ticulars. Hiss Minnie F. Roesch, a beauti-
ful, wealthy and estimable girl of 20, wait-
ed at her home, 194 North street, with near-
ly a hundred guests. The music, feast aad
clerpyman were iu attendance, but the-
bridegroom, who hid left his betrothed
less than two hours before the time fixed
for the ceremony, failed to appear. The
man whotuHll were waiting for was Julius
Lefor, confidential assistant to Schmidt
& Lalies, v.holrsale liquor merchants.
He is cfi ^ ears of ege, a member of the Ger-
mania ilaeunetchor, is widely knoiva
throughout >he city, and is a general favor-
ite. Btlieving that some accident had be-
fallen bin1, a friend at last traced him to
his apartments on Chestnut street. The
hi use was locked and there was no sign of
li e bridegroom. An entrance was finally
fffeottd, with the aid of the police. In
Lufoi's chamber, stretched upon a bed ia
bis weddinir garments, was the bridegroom
with n tnlJet iu his forehead, dead. Tw->
snaps of paper, bearing somewhat inco-
herent inscripiiofcs, w^re found. In the
writirg he complained that ha had not tha
n oral courag'- to nrocecd with the m-vr-
liagc. Word of the tragedy was hastily
brought back to the*>waitinir bride. Aa at-
tempt was made break the news gently*
but : t the fiist intimation of the death she
fhiielied aid fainted, while tha gaily at-
tiri d guests departed in confusion.
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