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110W AN EXTRA SESSION OF CON-
GRESS MIGHT BE BENEFICIAL
The New York Herald still insists that it
will be the duty of President Cleveland to
call an extra session of Congress in casa o! a
wor between Russia and Eugluud. The Herald
argues that Congress alone can declare an
thoritatively the foreign policy of the govern-
ment, and insists that it would be an impropar
assumption of authority on the part of the
president to take any action tvhataver with-
out the consent and direction of Congress. It
is evident that the Herald is desirous of
making the United States government display
itself. A special session of the American
Congress in response to a declaration
of war between Russia and England
would be nothing more than an extravagant
dress paiade, uncalled for by circumstances,
and unnecessary from tho very nature of our
surroundings. The United States would have
no interest whatsoever in the struggle between
Russia and England. The president could pro-
claim or indicate our neutrality as scon as
a formal declaration of war was made without
the advice or suggestion of Congress. There
is only one way in which a special session of
Congress could benefit the country in case of
war, and that is by immediately
amending our navigation laws so that
Airerlctms could purchase foreign-built
vessels and navigate them under
the protection of the American ilig.
There is hardly a doubt that if England and
Rufsia engage in war Americans can easily
secure the bulk of the ocean carrying trade if
they are allowed to buy sliip3 where they
choose or where they find them cheapest. At
present the English merchant marine is the
greatest in the world, and in case of war—
with English merchantmen being subject to
attack and destruction by Russian cruisjrs—
the ocean carrying trade, but for our naviga
tion Jaws, which will not allow Americans to
buy or own a ship not built by our John Roach
fraternity, could easily be won by the United
Stf.tes. This would transfer to American
bottoms an American freight and passuager
traffic alone equal to $ 150,000,00.1 per antr.ii),
to say nothing of the liko tratHi of other
countries. The change, if it comes, will ba
sudden, and American enterprise can not reap
the benefits of the unsettling of .affairs oa tho
other side unlcrs our navigation lavs ura
so pmended that foreign built vessels can b<
nationalized whenever they pass to tho bjoi-
fide ownership of American citizens. If there
were a reasonable probability that Congress
would do this, then, Indeed, the president
would have abundant occasion for calling an
extra session immediately. It would be Im-
possible to construct a merchant marine with
such celerity as tho occason requires, and the
only way that American enterprise could ha
benefited would be by authorlzlzirig tho
nationalization of foreign built vessels. Sup-
posing war to be Immlueut this is the ouly
reason for an extra session of Congress. It
would bo absurd to bring Congress together to
declare neutrality, when everyone knows full
well that wo will be neutral anyway.
prospects yon peace oh war.
The war Dews this morning la not much
different from what wo had during the great-
er part of last week. Diplomatic sparring
and maneuvering, not only between England
and Kurds, but all the European govern-
ments, continue. Russia still seetus to be the
aggressor inasmuch as she Beems most anxious
for tl.e conflict, while Mr. Gladstone main-
tains his reputation as a man of peaco by ex-
hausting every means to secure an atniiable
adjustment before declaring war. The situ-
ation f>till has an ugly appearinco and the
eliances of war are much g-eater than the
chances that peace can bo preserved. The Atnncr
of Afghanistan was to reach Cabul last
Saturday and hold a grand durbar (whatever
that may be), and on the decision reached will
depend the Issue of peace or war. While of
course the Afghan monarch is n more figure
head in the proceedings, still it must be re-
membered that a formal declaration of war
must proceed from him. The contest on Its
face is between KuBsia and Afghanistan, and
the nominal ruler of the latter country must
make a formal declaration of war. No one
doubts that the ameer will do just as
DufTerin suggested that he should do when
they parted, but those who have been looking
for the first formal declaration or initiative of
war from Downing Btreet, London, will doubt-
less be mistaken. The news that the Russian
fleet near Cronstadc had orders to prepare for
war Is perhaps an Indication of coming events.
It is also stated this morning that Russia has
sent 150,000 men east from the eastern shores
of the Caspian sea, and it is evident that such
preparations would not have been made did
Dot the czar expect wnr. Tho whole affair is
likely to turn on the attitude of the other Eu-
ropean governments. Neither Rusaia nor
England will be likely to engago in war with
out something in the naturo of a promise from
Bismarck that he will maintain the neutrality
of the other European countries pending the
struggle. That Bismarck means to do this is
iLilieated by his notice to the porte that the
fleets of both belligerents must be excluded
firm tho Hofphorus or he will annul the
treaty of Berlin. This would be a strong point
tor Russia, which has everything to gain
and nothing to lose by being excluded from
the Black sea, provided England is also ex-
cluded. Of course it can be said that Eag
land's Ironclads can force the passage of the
Bosphorus if necessary, but the question thou
arises, if this were done against the protest or
the resistance of the Sultan, would not Turkey
be forced to declare war against England; The
situation at present looks as if hussia desired
war; as if England desired peace but was pre-
paring to go to war, and as if Bismarck had
made up his mind that the other European
powers should keep their hands oft.
TEXAS DAY.
To-day, the Ulst of April, has been set apart
for a heariDg from the Texas representation
at d for a review and celebration of the Texas
exhibit ut the World's fair. Not the least of
lhe advantages of such an occasion is that it
will serve to give Texans themselves, repre-
senting the widest range of difference in habi-
tation puisuit, climate, topography and envi-
ronment, an objoct lesson in tne wonderful va-
riety of the State's physical characteristics and
in the wonderful magnitude and diverssty of
her natural resources. Texas is territorially so
large that the averege Texau, viewing the
State from an inside local standpoint, is apt to
lose the true perspective, and to misjudge the
whole l,y seeing a part in distorted shapo or
exaggerated proportion. Facts, statistics and
representative objects, brought together and
I cview e d at the New Orleans exposition to-day,
will be calculated to corrcct this false per-
spective, and to give Toxans, as well a3 stran-
gers, a vivid idea of what the State is,with her
rresent realities, and what, presumably, she is
destiued to be with her obvious possibilities.
Compared with olher states of the Union,
Texas is fli st in area, first in cotton produc-
tion, first in live stock and fifth in railroad
mileage. She has as large a wheat area as
Ohio, as large a mineral area as Pennsylvania,
as largo a sugar area as Louisiana, as large a
tobacco area as Virginia, as large a timber
nea as Maine or Michigan, and a iargor cotton
area than Mississippi; yet, withal, Texas, com-
pared with other states of the Union, is, so far,
hardly seventh in popoulation. Thus may be
seen what a future of giant growth, and of
various, though rounded, development lies be-
for Texas in the natural order of things. By
the next decennial census she will doubtless
be found approximating Pennsylvania or New
York in population, with a corresponding
increase in political power. Sooner or later
her progiess in commerce, industry and local-
ized accumulations of capital will begin to
surpass even her rapid and continuous growth
in population—a growth not likely to relax
this side of the twentieth century in a country
which now has less than 3,000,000 population,
though capable of sustaining in comfort and
without crowding a population larger than
that of France and Germany. With such
growth and such progress desp water on the
Texas coast, with all the maritime requisites
for accommodating the produce and trade of a
vast interior, is bound to como. Men will
hereafter look back with wonder at the tardi-
tess of Texas sreport interests, and the
a] aihy of Texas interior interests, with re-
gard to a consummation so imperious-
ly demanded by the fitness of things
and by tho requirements of the sit-
uation. Great and remarkable as the State is
at present, there is much in Texas day at the
World's fair to suggest that the State is not so
much of to-day, but in a certain sensa almost
wholly of to-morrow. Texas, strictly spaak-
irg, is cot southern, nor is she western; much
less is she northern or eastern. She combines
in her mixed and variegated population typos
of all sections and all countries. She has the
elements for development into the most thor-
oughly American and the most thoroughly
rational State of the Union, and yet, withal,
a State the most highly marked with cosmo-
politan liberality in ideas, in cuUure, in tastes,
in business methods and in various enterprise.
Althouch Guatemala has patched up a
k'nd of peace with the other Central America a
iepublics, Mexico is iqno way inclined to re-
lax litr i fforts toward securing a settlement of
her claims. Mexico has a number of griev-
iances (gainst Guatemala and demands in-
demnity for them ail In 1?39 General Guz-
man, with TOO men, invaded Mexico, marching
to Comiton, iD the state of Chiapas. Minor
eiistuibartees followed for eighteea years.
From 5857 to 1EC-1 the border warfare became
more violent. The town of Tapachula was
burned and Comitan destroyed three times by
fire, as was also the state capltol at Han Cris-
tobal, which is still in ruin,. In 1869 General
Barrios seized a Mexican In Malacatan, and
forccd him by torture to deliver hi, money
and pood,. In 1870 Ueneral Barrios assassi-
nated p. Mexican in Rodes and burned
bis houses. In 1S75 a Guatemalan ollloer led
a body of troops into Mexico, where the
Guatemalan flag was hoisted and saluted with
a sal.o of musketry. In 187!) a Guatemalan
alcalde burned a ranch on Mexican territory.
In 1880 General Barillas, now president of
Guuttinula, but who was then mayor of Que-
sallenango, condemnid a Mexican to receive
fifty ladies. The Mexican produced his cer-
tificate of cltlz nsbip, claiming its protection,
liurilias seized the certificate, tore it to piece',
and threw it in the Mexican's face. He then
ordered the man to be given fifty more lashes
for being a Mexican. In the same year tho
town of Tuxtla was captured and burned by
Guatemalan troops. Other outrages were
perpetrated In 1884. Mexican commercial In-
terests in Guatemala, it Is alleged, have been
wilfully Interfered with. In one instanco a
Mexican he use bought a large quantity of cjf
fee In Guatemala, on whiih tho export duty
was quintupled by a special order of the gov-
eruiLent, bo that tho coffee had to be sold at a
loss m Guatemala, a small portion only being
exported In order to secure evidence for a
claim for damages. Mexico claims to have a
clear caso against Guatemala, but will obtain
redress peacefully if possible.
It is reported that Ueneral Martin T. Mc-
Mnhon is booked for the collectoi-Bhlp of the
pert of New York. It would be an admirable
appointment. A thorough soldier, a sound
law jei and every inch a gentleman,Mcllahon
weuld keep bummers at a respectable dis-
tance from the collector's office, and see that
the public business was transacted according
tej business methods.
New Yoiik bucket shops are going up the
flume without any legislative aid. Whenshall
we hear from Texas on the same subject!
as will be seen in our local news columns,
Mr. Allen, who at present holds a seat in the
city council as alderman from the Eleventh
ward, ofierrd to resign yesterday. This Is a
strong indication that Mr. Allen has not much
confidence in bis title to bis seat. Did he feel
certain that he was squarely elected, he is
haidly the kind of man to get out Of tho way,
and his backers are hardly the kind of men, it
Ib believed, that would advise him to get out
of the way. In refusing to accept his resigna-
tion the board acted very properly. If Mr.
Allen has not a good title he has by right no
seat to resign, and if ho has no auch seat he
should be ruled out without the formality of
resignation. It is to be hoped the board will
continue in this work, probe tho whole affair
to the bottom, show up, if possible, fraud—if
fiaudwas committed—and its authors and
abettors. It is also clear that if Mr. Allen
was not squarely elected somebody else wa3,
and the person who was elected should be
given the seat without a resort to another
ehction.
Sam Randall's chances for the speakership
are not booming just at present. In fact, it
looks very much as if he would have to make
several tiips a year for a dozen years or so to
tho South before he can convert tho people to
bis way of thinking.
leioKS as if Grant might fight it out on the
eld line all summer. We will all hope so.
The New York Sun intercepted the follow-
ing dispatch, sent by the czar to General
Koinaroff:
Sin: An explanation of your attack upon the
AfghanB fa hereby demanded. (Many thanks for
the same.) You will suite explicitly and without
circumlocution your reasons for such attack, (in-
closed please find a decoration.) Cjncrary to my
orders, which v ill be forwarded to you shortly,
you have advanced your position. (Tbo czarina
st mis her regards and begs you to accept the In-
closed testimonial.) An immediate aad compre-
hensive response is awaited. ('tuy the shades of
the Great Peter look down upon you.)
AnnxAXn&R III.
In this country the bears are opposed to
war and the bulls are in favor of it.
In case of great wars abroad it has been cus-
tomary to seud American officers to the scenes
to note operations. During the Franco-Prus-
sian war and the Russo-'i'urkish war some of
tbe stuff dudes around Washington were sent
off on this important and pleasant picnic. It
is to be hoped that Cleveland will change tha
crder, and if officers are sent abroad that
selections will be made from among those who
have been attending to military dutios on the
frontier instead of those who have been lead-
irg the german at Washington. This sug-
gestion is made in the interest of a square deal.
How does the early bird catch the worm
when the ground is frozen hard i This is
doubtless what some of the office-seekers
think who reported in Washington soon after
the 4th of March.
Moke complications in the air. It is stated
that Parnell will soon lead to the altar a
young, beautiful and rich American girl.
This will be a good thing for Parnell and
doubtless for the lady, but what will tho effete
English parliamentory leaders do when the
Irish chief comes to the front with this rein-
forcement?
PitOiiAELY England will receivo back the
Alert, with thanks, about this time. Sho is
liable to need all the lighting ships she can
muster one of these daya.
Even if war does not come Komaroff is now
in a condition to take the lecture platform.
By all that's lovely this is the hardest of all.
Little Tommy Grady wants to succeed Sam
Ccx in Congress, and stands a chance of bsiug
successful. If this is possible nothing is im-
probable in this great and glorious republic.
Grady is the party that Cleveland, wuen gov-
ernor of New York, asked John Kelly as a
special favor not to send back to the legisla-
ture, and he is the identical particle that
caused General Bragg, of Wisconsin, to love
Cleveland for the enemies that he made.
Tei.y get off some tough jokes in Georgia.
One of tho latest is that Senator Colquitt
stands a good chance of being the next presi-
dent of the United States.
Li'Jisden says Komaroff lies, but says it in
a nice, peaceable kind of a way.
It looks from our Austin dispatch as
though the goverr.or pro tem. and the land
board propose to get about $150,000 out of the
disputed territory, whether Greer county is
decided to be Texas property or otherwise.
Tammany can beat any institution in this
country learning. It announced officially a
few e!ajs ago that it didn't want anything
fscm the president. As this is the only way
that ary one or anything can receive anything
from the present administration, the wisdom
of Tammany can be both commended and
admired.
It will never de> to send the rascals adrift
until honest men get the run of affairs.
Union, the goddess may be expected to regain
both her health and composure without un-
necessary delay. It is only when a speaker
of the Forty-ninth Congreas will be selected,
though, that she will come forth in all her
spendor.
Looks as if FrelinghuyBen might boat Uraut
In the race for the other shore.
The star-eyed gotldees of reform is prepar-
ing fcr a new campaign. Cleveland having
fgain discovered that Kentucky is in the
There Is a paper In Kansas called the
Thomas Cat. None of Its mewlngs have bocn
heard in these parts.
Tee funny man of the New York Times,
commentii g on the report that the Russian
government was anxious to buy the Dolphin
from John Rcach, remarks:
Kussla lias alvays been friendly to us, and It
would be dishonorable ferns to repay this friend-
ship wilh unprovoked hi,Jury. What has Blie done
ti nt in the hour of her distress we should indict
upon her four of Mr. Itoach s men of-wat"/ If we
are resolved tntnke such an uncalled-for course
It t ushepiQ by frankly dee-luring war aialnst Kus
sla, mid then selling her all of Mr. Koach's marine
curiosities that she can bo induced to buy. Other
nations, it Is true, might charge us with waging
war in a monstrous and inhuman wuy, bin we
could cot be charged with a hypocritical viol itlon
of International obligations.
It Is now announced that Madam Victoria
herself will visit Ireland. To say tho Uast, It
was 'cute In tho old lady to throw out Wales
for a feeler. Wonder if she will wear a green
dressf This seems to have played a star part
daring the recent engagement.
Lawton should bo in Hussia whon the music
starts.
SumiT Cox will be in his glory if thesleepy
sultan should be induced to take a hand in the
slugging match. What if he should be ap-
pointed guardian of tho haram In ca'se of hos-
tilities I
The hesitation of England lead, to the sus-
picion that John Bull baa become a regular
old stag.
There ought to bu rt stiff emigration to Ne-
vada one of these days. It haB been developed
that it only costs to have a mother in-law
murdered in that blessed State.
A European war will enhance the value of
free grass in Texas. Tho boys must eat beef.
M'iTK rilKM.
What the Interior Knpfn May.
Tbe Decatur Post is nothing if not practical.
It tries to bring the Dallas Herald down from
Its airy flights, and asks it to "quit talking
about a road from Dullas to Paris, from Dallas
to Brownwood, from Dallas to the East Texas
pineries, from Dallas to Montague, and so on,
but come down to something like common
sense." Does tbe Post want tbe Herald to
imitate General Houston's jumping buck and
break its neck by tho fall?
The Laredo Times says:
The Dallas Herald owns up that it instigated tho
wor between Itussia and Oreat Britain, so that the
fanners could sell hog and homiay.
The Decatur Post Bay s:
Johnnie Bull is greot. So Is the bear of Russia,
but the greatest of all is the American hog.
Bismarck was greater still. He beat tho
hog.
The Fort Worth Democrat says:
liustia continues to twist tbe tail of the British
lion. Lit licr twist.
Ib- that tie fair thing? Bears have such short
caudal appendages that they can not be twist-
ed; but the lion is hard to beat when teeth
aud clawB are tbo test!*.
The Laredo Times consoles those who will
rot have a chance to orate at ths exhibition,
by ray tog:
They pay that orators squander more eloquence
in Music hall of the exposition, with less returns,
than any where else on earth.as the average speaker
tliere is never heard until the papers come out next
morning.
The Gainesville Hesperian-Times comes in
an envelope, pasted, as Puddy would say, with
red sealing wax. It reminds one of the old
days before letter-envelopos and mucilage.
The Brenhom Banner asks:
How long: will the leading pipers of Dallaa and
Fort Worth continue to throw muJ at each other
and at the people of their respective towns?
The folly is not confined to tho two cities
named. The papers of half a dozen second-
class cities and one-horse towns keep it up in a
way to feurpaps the old proverbial free-fight in
Arkansas. Besides being monotonous, the
nomense often produces ill-feeling, though in-
variably beginning in sport.
A business firm of Brenham publishes an ar-
ticle in the Banner urgiug the people of Wash-
ington county to experiment in wheat plant-
ing. Tho writer of this paragraph saw wheat
growing near the old town of Washington in
lb43, but afterword learned that it did not do
well, Wheat was tried in various parts of
southern Texas forty years ago.
The Denton Monitor says Elder Kilgore, the
leading Seventh Day Adventist of this State,
was in the city last Friday. The Monitor
dees not report tho market for ascension robes.
The Atlanta Journal gives a good deal of
room to a controversy about the morality of
dancing. This is one of the old questions that
will come up from time to time without being
settled. It has two sides.
The Victoria Advocate says:
If the commercial interest of Pan Antonio really
desires railroad connection with the gulf noon the
best terms possible, let them construct the pro-
posed line to connect at this city. By this means
tbey would have all the advantages of direct tide-
water connection both at Iod/anola and Galveston,
with a competing line from the latter port.
The Floresviile Chronicle says dryly:
Another change has occurrpd in the manage-
ment of tbe Seguin Times, but there is no apparent
improvement in the spelling.
The crop of typographical errors is a larg-s
one all over Texas this year.
The Wills Point Chronicle give3 this advice
to those in haete to be rioli:
The two best ways to make a fortune real quick
is to buy cotton at 5 cents and sell It for 10 cants,
and shipping post-holes. The latter is a line specu-
lation, when the ground is wet, or where thera are
plenty of old wells.
This is about as good as dealing in futures,
buying lottery ticket or bucking against the
tiger.
This is the way the Forney Register wel-
comes tbe return cf a wandering Bohemian:
The irrepressible and harum-scarum Kimbrough
Is in the editorial chair of the Meaquiter again.
While under the able management of Messrs. Nash
ond Cullom, respectively, the paper has
pleased its patrons without exception; yet we are
£lad that the literary Bohemian has returned, and
is going through the boys once more. Shake, Kim.
The El Paso Lone Star calls our esteemed
contemporary that cowardly pen-wiper, asupa
with the Santa Fe gang of " hold-ups."
The mayor of Victoria was re-elected by a
majority of two to one, yet he has not been
proclaimed governor for the next term by the
papers.
The Dou&ton Post says:
Times are hard and provisions going up, but
the f< r.ces around the base ball parks will not be
lacking in occupants this summer.
People must have amusements, even if they
carry empty stomachs. Work is entirely too
uninteresting.
At Corn Hill, the Express say?, marbles are
tbe go.
A Lampasas man lives by dyeing. The Dis-
patch s:
He dyed yesterday and will dye again to-mor-
row, and .'•till he is not dead, for he wants all the
faded gcod clothing to dye over again.
The map who carrie s a reprint of the old
Ulster county piper to the country editor still
kef ps hfs name before the p jblic. That Ulster
is a good ore to wear though threadbare.
The El P»j80 Star says of the self-torturing
Indian fanatics in that region:
The. penitentes are said to have doue some terrible
butchtrirg in Lincoln county. Sell murder should
be frowned down even among such benighted peo-
ple as tbe penitentes.
Tbe Quitman Mail delivers this somewhat
complex opinion, which Is about as good as
the many cauEcs which have been assigned for
tbe downfall of Greece and Home:
"FnmilieH and tribes of men perish by their own
floit, and toe deolino and fail Of states and om-
plres may bo traced to tho wrongs ond crimes of
countries, the accumulation and the force of tho
ccunen, producing a storm and revolution, stir
prising only these who have uot noticed the logical
re'ftti« n and sequence of events, l'onaltv Is the re-
mit of tbe violation of law, and though the c m-
ctqut-oces may bo remote, the relation to the
ci>ut-c8 is real. It Is tho harvest of years or of cen-
turits.
TheWinsboro Sentinel reports a terrible
accidf nt:
Martin Brown, working at Lawrence's sawmill,
eight n ile8 east ofWinsboro, wa* literally cut to
pieces by falling on the circular aaw. Mr. Brown
was up <*n the carriage nlaclutr the gauge for tho
lull her, when his foot slipped, and he was thrown
violently upon the saw.
The Limestone New Era, not inaptly, says :
The Austin Statesman is Ike an old maid. It
wtaj* a wrinkled face aud is sour on general
principle*. It has'nt a good word for any body
on rsrili.
There nre 0 number of other papers which
ecem to have inherited tbe spirit of Carlyle.
Tho editor of tho Uonzibs Inquirer was
moved a) followa by the conoord of sweet
lonnds:
Last Saturday night, about midnight—the hour
when honest men arc a bed, unless they ani
abroad as ministering angels—wo were awakened
from our slumbers by the strains of sweet tnudc
ami the happy commingling of trained voices war
bling In harmony. We rushed out Into the dark-
n<P8 and in very scanty habiliments, loosed all the
d< gs at d hissed them on, expecting to find gypsies
at the front door wooii.g us to carelessnoss and
forgetfulness, while their pals were going through
the rear of the house. A voice rang out in terror,
beteechin* uh to call off the dogs and otTerlog a
year's subscription to The News—the best paper
In the State—as a peace offering.
He capitulated and allowed them to dis-
course the lengthened sweetness long drawn
out until all hands had moro than they want-
ed. Hope Pilgrim did not take cold.
The Cherokee Standard says:
Few men can be elected to th* United Sta*e«
Senate who are not willing to pledge their suppo t
and influence to the great monopolies
The framers of the constitution Intended the
Senate as the conservative body, and the m-xle
of electing the members as a wall against
popular caprice and corruption, but the event
has proved the truth of the apothegm of the
elder Vanderbilt, it is cheaper to buy a legis-
lature than the people. Since the war mmy
men have been made senators withouc any
reason but money.
The Cherokee Standard says:
Texas needs a few more 41 prospective " candi-
dates for governor.
Trot 'em out. The woods are full of them.
Only about a hundred have been named.
The Fort Worth Gazette says the skating
craze, like Pinafore, will soon wear itself out.
No doubt; but something of the same kind
will succeed it. There is always some popular
folly to amuse the idle and make idlors of oth-
er?. The Montague Northwest prints an arti-
cle expressing regret that the time and muscle
expended in popular amusements oan not be
utilized in industrial pursuits. What is need-
ed is a new name for work. Call it amuse-
ment and get up an interest in it, and It will
take the place of old time corn-shucking',
house-raisings and quiltings. The idea that
labor is a curse is too common.
Tbe T'y ler Democrat and Reporter prints a
letter from the sister of a poor demented man
Who was lately made the subject of an unjusti-
fiable practical joke in that city. Ho had been
a severe student, and subject to disease. His
health and mind broke down, and he wandered
from heme. At Tyler ho was made the sub-
ject of a mock trial iu the court-house, in
which sorn* of the public officers are sild to
b&ve participated. The fright made his con-
dition worse, he e.-caped, and cau uot be fouud.
The iitltr complains most pathetically of the
way in which be was treated, and the oditor
remarks:
We suspect that some, if not all, of those who
took part in the mock trial of the ycunsr man
Boucher in this city, a few weeks ago, will feel
mcrtlfled when they read tho letter in this paper
to-day from his sister, and learn that all the 44 fun "
they manufactured that night was at the expense
of a poor demented fellow-being, whose mis-
fortune rendered him incapable of eithor ap-
preciating the 44 immense joke" or of
resisting or resenting the indignities and sport of
which be was the subject. We do only justice by
saying that some of the participants in that ''car-
nival cf legal lore " would not have taken stock In
it had they known the true condition of their victim
and that 1 he amusement of that night was at the
expense of a sister's tears and the dis-
tress of other relatives and friends of
the unfortunate man-a price too high for
such coarse and urdignified tomfoolery. A few
nights later another young man, a stranger in t'ie
city, a mechanic hard at work for an honest liv-
ing, but perhaps not quite so smart or pretty as
many of the city boys think they are (they will be
wiser when they really learn half as much as they
now think they know) was saved from pasdng
through the same mill only by his neighbors find-
ing out the plot and notifying the intended victim
of his danger.
The Democrat and Reporter describes some
similar cases, where the supposed jokes had a
tragical ending, and mildly remark*:
To laugh at or make sport of another's mis-
fortunes; to deride tbe awkwardness of those who
Inn e not had the advantages of 44 city polish " (God
save the mark of such polish in this our day); to
feeff at the incorrect language of the uneducated,
or to jest at the deformities of a fellow-being, or
treat with lightness age aud decrepitude, is, to say
tho least not what Chesterfield or any other
standard authority has laid down as the evidences
of refinement, or the rules of politeness in the best
society.
Seme parties have been held to answer in
Galveston, under the laws against personating
public officers, for some such practical jokea.
They ere not laughing at present.
TYLER.
£nilth County Teachers — Farmers Hopeful—
Mlnlaier Hubbard Expected Home.
IBrnciAL to Thb Nkwb.I
Tyler, April 20.—There is in this county,
if not a novel, a very beneficial and instruct-
ive organization, known as the Teachers Asso-
ciation of Smith County, which convenes at
Tyler on the fourth Saturday iu every month.
The object of this association is that all the
teacheis of this county may assemble once
every month and interchange ideas and sug-
gest to each other the most effective mode3 of
advancing education. At each of these meet-
ings a number of members are appointed to
discuss appropriate subjects of their own se-
lection at the next succeeding meeting, and
these discu aions are most beneficial and edify-
ing to teachers ond visitors. This association
is considered by this community a potent
factor in the advancement of that ennobling
cause to which its members have devoted their
time and talent.
The weather being very favorable, the farm-
ers of this community are progressing rapidly
in planting their crops. Your correspondent
learted from a prominent farmer Sacurlay
that tbo people are generally planting lirge
crops, end especially of cotton, hoping, with
the kelp of the Dispenser of the«uu3hiue aud
rein, to recover from the flnancul depression
occasioned by last year's failui'e.
Minister Hubbard h expected honi3 from
Washington on Tuesday next, aboat throe
weeks from which time he expects to depart
for his mission to Japan. Amoughis host of
v at in friends here we frequeutiv hear expres-
sions of mingled regret and gladness in con-
templation of his honorable exile.
a party of ladies and gentlemen have just
rc t urned from a pleasure tour to the peniten
tiary at Rusk and are very favorably Im
messed with the politeness of the officers, fch*
cleanliness of the surroundings and the perfec:
order which prevailed.
Wearherlord.1
ISPKCiAn to THK NKW.».
Weatbebford, April 20.— Tlie criminal
dccket in the County Court was taksn up, and
ecveral cases were disposed of.
'A he rain yesterday was a ielief.
Protracted meetings at the Methodist church
are in order.
1YFEH OK AMBHICAN CHARACTER.
The I'roapector.
|To the New«.l
"Turn we to Biirvey
Wl'ere rougher climes a nobler raco display.
[QoUlamltb.
Tho types of character which our western
civilization has produced, essentially Ameri-
can, aro as follows, the prospeotor, "Boha-
mlan, drummer, brakemun, cowboy, team-
ster and steanilioatman." These all are natlvo
and to the manner born. We are tempted to
add the tramp, for • tho sake of truthfulness
ard detail, but the other crowd would "kick."
So we will rule him out anil proceed to amy
the prospector, and see what he will pan. Ho
ii generally known to the reader as a rougb,
good-natured fellow, rigged out in llannel
thlrt, broad-brimmed, soft felt hat, p-tnta-
loons stulTed down in boots, a belt containing
a siz-chooter and bowie—gambling, drinking,
chewing tobacco and patronizing the variety
dancc hall. We have met this bold, bid brag-
gart in frontier mining towns, but always
classed him with the tendefoot—tho cauip
follower of the brave army of gbuulne pro-
spectors.
Fifty psr cent of our prospectors will be
found to be young men who have bean raised
to professions back East, or, In the sere West.
They have been disappointed in love, or in
business, or, better still, are induencod by a
iplrit of adventure, and drift out to the
mining territories. Many succeed and continue
miners and millers; others And surer induce-
ments to locate In some growing miniuz toirn
and continue the practice of their profession.
Tbe bona-flde prospector is well stocked with
knowledge; be must know something of ge-
ology and mineralogy, of adits, dips and
drilts, "goodes" and "nodules," pay-dirt aud
lockets. He naturally acquires a knowledge
of civil engineering, in making dams and
sluices; at bis touch crags crumble, hillsides
change their hue, aud the mighty torrent be-
comes eubcervlent to his will. But it is when
alone, with no companion save his pack-
mule, prospecting in tbe canyons of a hostile
Indian country, that his courage is tried.
His outilt consists of a blanket, miyba;
jet, hnrdly likely, a tent; a pick,
two drills, a hammer and square
of Iron, a blow-pipe, Bome dynamite, several
pourids of flour, ditto coflee, a few books, some
medicine, an ax, a shovel, riile, six-shooter,
knife, frying-pan and coffee-pot. We pros-
pected cnce with a shovel, a pick and a horn.
The latter made a bully cradle, and the shovel
did duty for coffee-pot and pan. We had, also,
a gourd and machet, and wore happy.
W ith a blow-pipe ond piece of charcoal the
prospector can muko as good an assay as the
mineralogist can, and tell to an ouuco what
his find will pan. He must know something
of blackfmithing—putting steel in picks and
sharpening drills. He must also be part car-
penter, so as to timber his shaft and gallery
end rig a windlass or erect a sluice. He should
be familiar with mill work, crushing and
amalgamating, by both primitive Spanish and
Aineriettn bar'l style; and to complete his ac-
complishments he must shoot, fence, wash and
ccok. A perfect prospector, the reader will
admit, must be an Admirable Crichton and a
Chevalier Bayard combined. . The brilliant
ycung soldier-poet, Fitz James O'Brien, wrote
of the prospector:
"They rocked huge cradles the lifelong day,
And shoveled the heavy, tenacious clav,
And grasped the nugget of gleaming ore —
The sinew of commerce on every shore.
Their beards were rough and their eyes wera
bright,
For their labor was heallhy, their hearts wero
light;
And (lie kings and princes of distant lands
Blessed tho work or their stalwart hands."
" The band that rocks the cradle i.s the hind
that moves the world." Everything t.i day is
moved by gold, the produce of the cradle. vVe
know men and women to-day, professslly
Christians, who contribute lar^e qjantities of
gold to support hostilo governments anl
crmies while their brothers elsewhere are
chewing India rubber to appease hunger. Thli
illstarred prospector in the canyon d'auour,
liomto Montague, says to tha apothsoary:
'' Thei e is thy gold, worse poison to m sn's souls;
doing mere murders in this losthsoma world
than these compounds that thou may est not
fell. 1 fell thee poison; thou haet sold me none."
Every attribute which goes to l'orm the p?r-
feet man is contained in the prospector—bold,
independent, truthful, honest, he is tbe living
counterpart of lhe knight of old. Chudd, our
rard down in the Cuimbros, was an ex-Uuited
Htatts naval surgeon and a 4!l'er. He had
held the portfolio of war and commanded thi
revolutionists under Medina. He was a good
forager, was full of story, liked the battle, but
never wed vulgar language. Several time!
be had "struck it rich," but always got
through it again, and came down to the shovel.
One evening, returning from the Pueblo,where
Doc had been indulging rather freely, oitr
route lay across a running stream bridged by
a log. when we arrived at the log we at-
tempted to take Doc's arm, to lead him
across, but he drew himself up
haughtily and disdained all assistance.
When he reached the center he tumbled oil'
and we were forced to wade in and drag hiai
out—covered with sand. He remindod us of
an excavated idol. When he recovered suffi-
ciently he commenced to tell us that " that
reminded him of two Chinamen who used to
wath for the bojs on the Santa Uojaliea," etc.
Ofcar was the baby of tho camp—a big land-
lubber from Louisiana. He had a native wo-
man cooking for him, and lived at tho Pueblo.
In an evil moment we went to board with him.
A few nights after the natives came down in
all their strength, accompanied by their wives
and degs, to serenade him. All the Ooggins
could not commence to tell the name of a
single musical instrument in tho crowd. Hide-
ous would never expiess the noise they mide.
The echoes were lost in the mangrove, and
wandered around until morning. Oscar ap-
peared at the door, robed in a serape, and pro-
ceeded to address the crowd. Some of the
boys jerked the serajie off him, and closed the
door, and his other habiliments being briefer
than woman's love, he darted into the bush
and remained there until the crowd dispersed.
On another occasion he was going off to exe-
cute some secret commission to be absent seve-
ral days. This woman was assisting him to
pack, and we wero watching operations. Sud-
denly we asked: " Oscor, what are you going
to do with the heathen?" He looked at us and
said, " What hcatheni" " That Indiau woman
of yours " The fire which flashed from her
eyes almost caused a conflagration. Oscar
swore, and ran for bis five-shooter; and ws
said, " Oscar, if you consider what wo have
said deserving of fight, let us fight like white
men. We will go to the door, and you turn
one corner and we shall turn the other; whun
we sight each other let us fire." To this ha
agreed; we got arouud one corner, but in
searching for the other we were lost in tha
bush; wo could hear Oscar storm aud rave,
but it was pleasauter to do thi3 than .to ba
preparing matter for a funeral. When
things ejuieted down, we stole bick to the
house aud crept up 011 the roof until Oscar had
ridden away a distance. We then invited him
back to settle that fight He mutterad soaie-
thing about the " juba-dam." We next crep',
into the house, received a tongulng frjm tae
womon, gathered up our lares of ponatea aad
Itaveled over to tho mill, where we ci npai.
Prospecting developed several gold Boiie-
niisrs, notably Bret Ha' to and Joaquin Millar.
The latter retains nil tbe thorough raanlinoj',
humor and originality of a party of men, si
fcmiliar with, and cradled again bythatdsir
mother, nature. To that hardy band
of pioneers the nation owes the de-
velopment and settlement of Califor-
nia, Nevada, Colorado, Oregon, Utah,
Wyoming, New Mexico and Arizona, and
still there is no other class of citizens less ap-
preciated. Wherever they havo gained a
ioothold, churches, schools, the press, and all
ctfcer institutions of civilization have bean es-
ti.Llnhed and protected. It is discouraging
fi r tbe ration's future, that the spirit of ad-
venture which prompts the prospector is not
more common among our youth. When the
successful prospector secures that power of
gold, which brings to him the appeal of
princes ar.d fiuttery of kings, it is in keeping
with his power that he should seek affinity
v ith o family whose existence auteditea the
1 hristening of the Adriatic; and this he exactly
does. p. n. n.
It seems that Mr. Cleveland met Edward J.
Phelps some years ago and liked him. When
he asked Mr. Smalley about him, the latter
acknowledged there was such a person living
in Burlington, but added that he would not
accept political office. " I thought so," re-
plied the president, " he is the kind of a man
I am locking for."
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