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Enterprise, Democratic paper, was
arrested on charge of melting the
riot, by publishing an "extra," which
only contained an account of the
murder, thrown into prison and al
lowed TO communicate with no one for
several hours, when he was released
upon $4,000 bail.
This direct assault upon the press
and the people is the last and most
dangerous act of this outrageous off,
cial. 1t is indicative of what may
await the inhabitants of any county
that dares arrest the Governors pc.
lice when they commit cold-b looded
murder, or any journalist that de-
nounces such crimes, and calls for
the punishment of those who COM
NIT them. The muzzling of the
press is a new undertaking for Davis,
and he will find it an exceedingly un-
profitable one. Itwas tried by Hol-
den, in North Carolina, under about
the same circumstances, and, when
he lost his grip upon the bayonet, he
found himself impeached and ousted
from the Office which he had dis
graced. The day has come when
the popular uprising of the people is
a last resort. The battles which they
once fought are now left to the press,
which has grown to be power which
the mightiest rulers respect. 1t is
the voice of the people, and only
when it is completely trodden under
foot by the power of the bayonet
does it become necessary for the peo-
pie to speak in prOpria persona. The
press of Texas is able, brave and
powerful, and Gov. Davis will find in
it a dangerous enemy.
But will this be fight in Texas
alone? What we want to do is to call
the attention ofthe Democratic par~
ty and the liberal-minded and pa
triotic people of the Republican par
ty, to the alarming tendency of this
maladministration of the law and the
violations of the Constitution that
are perpetrated by the party in pow
er there. 1t is sin that will be-
come dangerously familiar, if We see
it too often and tolerate it too much.
The condition of affairs in Texas calls
for the immediate attention of the
people of this country, who must hold
those who placed Davis
and his supporters in power.
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PEN AND SCISSORS.
"Brothers in arms"-Twin boys.
A postal telegraph is being talked

'Brothers in arms"-Twin boys.
A postal telegraph is being talked
of.
1t is rumored the Pope will very
soon leave Rome.
Montpensier is going to take his
seat in the Cortes.
Extortionate prices are asked for
bricks in Chicago.
The treaty between Germany and
France has been ratified.
The Papal conclave is to meet in
France, not in Rome.
The French Government owes
Switzerland 250,0O0,O00 francs.
Peter Palmer is erecting new
Grand Hotel at Chicago.
The French army consists of nine
corps since its reorganization.
When does man feel girlish ?
When he makes his maiden speech.
BARRIERS make many friends, but
scrape more acquaintance.
When is clock on the stairs dan
gerous? When it runs down
The best person-indeed, the only
person-to fill a vacuum, is dentist.
A lobster never comes ashore with
out great risk of getting into hot wa
ter.
Sermeno, a revolutlonist, after be-
ing routed, fled to Brownsville, Tex
as.
0. E. Hall, formely proprie or of
tee St. Charles, at New Orleans, is
dead.
Gladstone has made a speech at
Greenwich, declaring that Ireland
was more scontented.
The man who Popped the question
by starlight got his.answer in twink
ling.
Farmers gathering their stock corn
sing Fodder, dear fodder come home
with me now"
A city man who knows all about
farming, says the best way to raise
Strawberries is with spoon.
Among the chief attractions at q
Georgia fair is patent incubator
which will hatch five hundred chick
ems day.
A remarkabl preacher was it who
called upon his congregation to be
thankful that Providence should
have placed death at the end of life,
and not in the middle, so that We
might have all possible time to pre-
pare for it.
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AMERICAN JoUISAL OF PHoNoGRAPHY.-The
November number of this periodical is before
US. The Journal is devoted to the dissent
nation of phonetic shorthand, and the sim,
plification of the art with view to its more
general introduction into the schools of the
country. The editor, Mrs. Burns, is one
OF those practical photographers who does
not believe phOnograpby-beautiful ss it is
is quite perfect, and she is consequently de-
voting her leisure time to experimenting and
corresponding with experienced shorthand
practitioners on the subject, believing the
few anomalies now existing in the system
may be removed. We do not suppose pho
biography has yet arrived at that stage of
development when it can be said there is no
chance for further improvement, and shall
therefore read the suggestions of Mrs. Burns
with much interest. The editor Of the Jour-
nal adhears, in the main, to the system of
phonetic shorthand presented in the wo.k ks of
Mr.. MunsOn, which we decidedly prefer, and
which we recommend to those about to COM
mence the study of the ART. A practical
knowledge of shorthand is so useful in al
most every sVocation of life, that we would
gladly see it introduced into our schools as
one of the regular branches of instruction.
For books or information, address, Burns Il
Co., 80 Park Row, New York,
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LOCAL MATTERS.

THE following gentlemen are authorized
agents for the DEMOCRATIC STATEsMAN.
Major ]. D. Sayers, Bastrop, Bastrop Co.
Albert Giesecke, Shovel Mount.
Gammage & Hunter, Palestine.
]. b. Stien, Hampton, Hamilton county.
T.B. Owens, GatesvillO, Ooryelle county.
DIR. ]. NJ. Hemphin, Marlin, Falls county.
W. NJ. Key, Riddleville, Karnes county.
Levi Able, Groesbeck.
Captain F. L. Price, Georgetown.
Charles Fassett, GAINESVILLE.
wv. Cartwright, Stephensville, Erath Co.
B. A. Brown, Blanco, Texas.
NJ. G. Muckols, Caldwell county.
Aston Duggsn, San Marcos.
R. D. Guide, Guides Mill, Hays county.
GsR6 1sT Z Whitaker Eltil Burnet Texas.
Pierre NJ. Brown, Dallas, Texas.
Giles H. Burditt, Walnut creek.
John g. Gordon, San Gabriel, Texas.
]. W. Fleming, San Saba, Texas.
J. G. Brown, Esq, Fsyette county.
Col. R. A. Rutherford, Travis county.
Captain D. G. Darlington, Leona, Len CO.
Squire Breedlove, Mountain City, Hays Co.
George W. Glasscock, Georgetown.
John A. Forbes, Florence, Williamson Co.
W. II. Burgess, Seguin.
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Sleep, Painting, ApopEexy.

When a man is asleep, his pulse
beats and his lungs play, but he is
without sense, and you can wake him
up.
If a person faints, he too is with~
out sense, but he has no pulse, and
does not breathe.
Apoplexy is between the two; the
heart beats, the lungs play as in
sleep, and there is no sense as in
fainting, but you cannot shake the
man back to life.
In sleep the face is natural; in a
fainting fit it has the palor of death;
in apoplexy it is swollen, turgid, and
fairly Iivid.
If a man is asleep let him alone
nature will wake him up as soon as
he has got sleep enough.
When a person faints, all that is
needed is to lay him down fiat on the
floor, and he will "come to" in dou-
bic quick time. lie tainted because
the heart missed a beat, failed for
an instant, failed for only once to
send the amount of blood to the
brain. If you place the patient in
a horizontal position, lay him on his
back, it does not require much force
of the heart to send the blood on
level to the head; but you set man
up, the blood has to be shot upward
to tho head, and this requires much
more force ; yet in nine cases out of
ten, if a person faints and falls to
the floor, the first thing done is to
run to him and set him on a chair.
In apoplexy, as there is too much
blood in the head, every one can see
that the best position is to set a man
up, aud the blood naturally tends
downward, as much so as water will
come out of a bottle when turned
upside down, if the cork is out.
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A SIeepy David.

In a certain small town on the
Mississippi, lived a man who made
horse trading a business. He bought
up horses for city market, and
was considered pretty good on the
trade.
One day, a long, lean, queer,
green looking specimen of the West
ern country arrived at the dock with
a boat load of horses. He inquired
for the horse jockey.
"Daddy sent me down with some
horses" he said in a half idiotic
tone.
"Who is he?"
Daddy"
"What do you want for your
horses?"
Daddy said you could set yeur
price," was the response.
''Let me go down and look at
your horses" said Brown, and &C.
cOrdingly they were soon at the
boat.
Brown examined the horses, and
named the price he would give for
this ore and for that, and the coun-
try pumpkin made no objection, al
though some of the offers were not
more than one-half the worth of the
animals. One of the bystanders
said to the countryman that he was
being cheated, but he returned:
"Daddy said Brown would set the
price," and so Brown had it all his
own way.
At last they came to another ami
NAL, which did not look so superior
to the rest.
81 must have more for this ani>
NAL, said the fellow. Daddy
says he can run some"
"Run!" said Brown, "the nag
CAM run worth cent"
Daddy said so, and daddy
knows"
"Why, I've got one up to the sta
bic that would beat him all hollow"
"Guess not" said the fellow.
''Let's try EN-. I'll bet the whole
boot load of horses on EN-"
Brown smiled.
"I'll stake five thousand dollars
against your boat load, SAID Brown,
Winking to the crowd; "and these
men," selecting two, "shall hold the
stakes"
Browns five thousand was in
trusted to one, and the other went
on board the horse boat.
One of the crowd started to res
monstrate with the idiotic fellow,
but he only responded.
"Golly! dad told me he could
run some, and daddy ought to loose,
as he was such tarnal fool to tell
me that when he couldn't"
Browns sleek racer was brought |
down and Brown mounted him. The
countryman led out his animal and |
clambered on his back, looking as
uncooth and awkward as the horse
he proposed to ride.
The word was given and they
started amidst the laughter of the
crowd. At first Brown was at the
head, and it looked as if the poor
fellow was to be badly beaten, when
suddenly his morse plunged forward |
and the jockey was left far behind.
Such going had not been seen in
those parts for a long time, and |
poor Brown was crestfallen as the
cheers Of the bystanders fell On his
ears.
"I'lI take the 'spoudulix, said
the countryman, riding up. dad
was right. The anermal can git
around little"
Brown tried to say it was joke,
but the fellow would have his money.
81 guess I won't trade to-day"
he said, as he put up his old rough
leather pocket-bOOk, OIL go back
to daddy"
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PORT OF INDIANOLA.
ENTERED.


For the 'rsek ending Tuesday, October ,, 1871.
Schooner Fanny Fern, Saunders, Pensacola.
Schooner VIM. A. Morrill,, Keen, Pensacola.
Schooner Minnie, Hudson, New York.
Schooner Grace B. West, Lord, New York.
Steamship Clinton, Frahm, New Orleans.
Schooner Henrietta, Steinh .rt, Corpus
Christi and Rockport.
Schooner Martha NJ. Heath, Nickegson, NY.
Steamship Hutchinson, Talbot, N. Orleans.
Schooner WenOnah, Kimball, Pensacola
Schooner Sarah, Wetherell, Tezana.
CLEARED.
Schooner Agnes, Grull, Corpus Christi.
Steamship Clinton, Frahm, New Orleans.
Schooner Fanny Fern, Saunders, Pensacola.
Schooner VIM. a. Morrill,, Keen, Pensacola.
Schooner Emily, MOore,C. O. and Rockport
Schooner Wenonab, Kimball, Pensacola.
Steamship Hutchinson, Talbot, N. Orleans.
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Small houses at cheap rents are in great
demand in Austin. Our capitalists could not
invest their money to better advantage than
building two or three hundred small dwell
lipgs,
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Why don't the Legislature make provision
for repairing the fence around the Capitol
square ? 1t is seriously needed. Perhaps it
is left in that condition to emblemise the
shattered and ruined condition of the State
finances under Radical management.
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Judging from the reduction on many of our
dry good shelves, our merchants must be
selling large quantities of goods.
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Wewere pleased to receive call this morn
ing from Mr. A. R. johnson, of Burnet. Mr.
Johnson is engaged in the land and COLLECTS
ing business, and also acts as our agent. We
are already indebted to him for several sub
scribers and other favcrs. Sec business card
in TO- days paper
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Goods shipped from Houston on the Cen
trail road, suffer no detention now at any
point along the line.
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Old John Robinson's Menagerie and Circus
performed in Columbia, South Carolina, on
the 3Oth ult. This great caravan will reach
here abont the last of December. Boys save
your dimes.
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We direct attention to the law card of Mr..
W. A. II. Miller, Mr.. Miller practices in all
thecourts and does general collecting busl-
ness. Being a native of Texas, he will prOba-
bly, receive fair share of public patronage.
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In La Grange, on the 26th of October, Mr..
Thos. East to Miss Alice Tate.
Near La Grange on the 3lst of October, Dr.
R. A. Mckinney to Miss Bette Farquhar.
In Tyler on the evening of October %, Mr..
John A. Brown and Miss Della Sanford.
In Parker county, on the 18th October, Mr..
T. G. Moore to Miss Sela e. Yourgelood.
In Weatherford, on October "a, Mr. E. o
Kirksey to Miss N. E. Shirley.
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The University Series

OF SCHOOL BOOKS IS FOR SALE BY
t. II. CUSHING, Houston;
ROBINSON & Co, Galveston;
ia. EAGLE, Austin;
w ii. WATKINS, Waco;
DIR II. 2. HOWARD, San Antonio,
And all prominent dealers ia Texas and New Orleans
5. s NICHOLS, Waco, Texas, GENERAL AGENT
,c5 lOW}ml
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Our fall gardens are in fourishing cOndi-
tiOn, and vegetables are becoming plenty and
reasonable in our market.
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Hides and Wool,

HIGHEST MARKET PRICE PAID
A T the Old Republican Office Building,
n Austin, Texas, by
aug24tw65wtf J. HuTCHESON'
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Our schools are all well filed with pupils,
and everything is going on smoothly and
satisfactorily.
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Oysters in the shell are making their APP
pearante in the eating saloons of our city.
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The school boys are improving this fine
weather in the game OF base ball.
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The case of Uno Mexicano Y. Hon. Ander-
son Doris, came up for final adjustment last
Saturday, aad we understand was dismissed
by the Mayor on the plea that knocking
man down with cano was not breach of
the peace. We suppose after this Radical
members OF the Legislature may waylay and
pummel citizens with immunity, SO far as the
law is concerned. But if such an attack as
that of which Mr.. Doris is guilty is not a
breach of the peace, what in Gods name is
it? And on what grounds does Glenn COLI
lect the larger portion of the fines that he
assesses upon culprits But the course
pursued in the case of Mr.. Doris, was with.
out doubt strictly partisan throughout, and
should be so understood by the public
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PORT OF GALVESTON.

For the lreek ending Friday, Norcm5er 5, 1871.
Steamship Hutchinson, Talbot, N. Orleans
Steamship Clinton, Frahm, Iudianola.
Brig VIM. Mallory, Jr, Burrows, New York
Sloop Undine, Robinson, Mobile.
Bark Henry Flitner, Dickey, Boston.
Steamship Morgan, Lockwood, n. Orleans.
Bark Collin E. NJ Neil, Crowell, New York
Steamship Clinton, Frahm, Indianola.
Steamship st. Mary, Hawthorn, n. Orleans.
Steamship City of Houston, Pennington,
New York.
British bark Susie, Lemon, Cardiff.
Schooner Nellie Crowell, Crowell, n. Y.
Steamship Harlan, Lewis, New Orleans.
Schooner J. NJ. Taylor Fauria, Pensacola.
CLEARED.
Steamship Hutchinson, Talbot, IniianOla
Steamship Clinton, Frahm, New Orleans.
Schooner Julia, Sarcovich, San Bernard.
Schooner Volumnia, Snow, Pensacola.
Steamship Morgan, Lockwood, Indauola.
Steamship St. Mary, Hawthorne, Tudianola.
Steamship Wilmington, Cole, New York.
DHtch brig Vier GeTbroeders, Klyn, Amster.
dam.
Steamship Harlan, Lewis, Indianola.
The Mayor of Macon, Georgia,
offers q premium of $50 to the pref
lest girl under II, who shall appear il
a homesupon dress at the State Fair
The Shoe and Leather reporter
represents the loss of that interest a
Chicago at S10,000,00O. The Eas
will feel this blow very severely, a:
Chicago was o large purchaser.
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T OST.-JAMES O'QUN HEADRIG HI
Il CERTIFICATE, No., issued by Board
of Land Commissioners for the county of
Montgomery, for 800 acres also, the Head
right certificate Of William Hengiey for one
third league of land, issued by the Board of
Land Commissioners for Austin county; if the
above described certificates be not heard
from in ninety days, duplicates will be sp.
piled for. W. G. HENDERSON, Agent,
loct5 Wl2t*I Bryan, Texas.
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Financial an d Commercial.
ArsT1N Novepnber o 1871


Salt-Liverpool coarse scarce at S. 90
per sack.
Meal-Sl Is per bushel
Fodder-SI so per hundred pounds.
Northern butter in l o pound cams 40 cts.
per pound wholesale.
Potatoes-S7 so per barrel and declining.
Lard at 10 cts, and abundant.
Bacon; clear sides l21 wholesale.
Pecans 81 1889 per bushel and declining
COTTON.
Liverpool-Firm at 9g@ 93l. and declin-
ing. Galveston-Steady at l5l@l52c. for
good ordinary.
Texas, new, per bushel by wagon load 81 20.
FLOUR.
Firm. We quote:
Northern, OF ST. Louis, Xxx per bbl. II
XXX Sl25@ 49,
Choice Family IA o. Is
Fancy......-... 10
Lower. None here, and quotations are
nominal:
Fine .................. ZV(Gz=
BURY l0c. of.
Lower. We quote:
Green 4(G2
Dry Sailed. sos
Dry Flint................ ...............S "a IO
MONETARY.
Gold. lib
American lver............."...."lll e. liz
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Lemons and oranges are to be found in
abundance in Austin now.
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MARRIED.

In San Marcos, October l2, Emma Corine,
youngest child of Julia Am and ]. S. Travis.
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NEW PUBLICATIONS.

The November No. of the Southern Cults
7ator is before Us, ful. of the rich harveats of
experience, and of suggestions from thought
full men. No farmer can read This valuable
publication without gathering hints that viii
enable him to improve his management in
some particular. 1t is the great medium for
interchange of experience among Southern
farmers, having numerous correspondents in
every Southern State. Address, "Southern
Cultivator," Athens, Ga. Price 81 g year.
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D-INFORMATION-Mr. John Brown, a
w bridge builder by trade, and recently from
British Honduras left this city some eight weeks since
for the purpose Of trying 10 procure work on the
Central Railroad and has not been heard Of since 10
left Mr.. Brown is q short thick set man, about -
years Of age and has always born q most excellent
character A. F. A N. along the line Of the Central
are requested TO make special inquiry and report the
earliest intelligence to his distressed family Direct
letters to Mrs. JOHN BROWN, San Antonio. nv25