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est libre de bien on NAL faire. On
vera jnsqna la consommation des
siecles des inegalitGs ct des mise.
res de condition, puisque les forces
ct les aptitudes individuclles sont
distinctes ct differentes. Mais un
pas immense est fait vers le but on
nous entrainent nos aspirations,
lorsque peuple ct citoyens s'appar.
tiennent ct sc gouvernent, ne sont
plus Ia matiere tailIable ct corvea-
BILE, la chose appropriee ct avilie
qu'ils furent si longtemps. L'esprit
de revolte, NAL chronique don't
soGffrait Ia France, sera gueri, du
moment on il ne sera plus irrite par
la fureur de oppression, ct les
abus de la force den haut ne JUS
tiferont plns les exces de Ia force
den bas, car il NY anra plus nj
haut nj bas, mais me societe d'hom-
mes libres ct responsables, egaux
ct freres.
La flexibilite de l'ins,itn.ion re-
publicaine ct sa permeabilite au
progres previennent tont naturel.
lement lie retour des Instructions,
ces debordements popdlaires sans
lesqnels une generation ne pouvait
plus passer Ell France. En- politi.
que CONNIE en- ipdustrie. dams les
rela tions du travail ct dn CONNER
ce, Ia Justice reclamee s'accomplira,
les changemen.s vonlas s'opereront
par des procedes ratmnnpIs ct pa.
cifiqnes, par une elaboration nor.
male, m mutnei consentement, ct
les ineTitables concessions re ne.
ront pins arrachees an 2rix d'enor-
mes pertes de sang ct dor, car
c'etait Ia monarchie qni, ponr re
perpetner, entretenait le desordre
qni sonvent la renversait elle.me.
me, mails lni permettait aussi de sc
relever bient6t.
Pour simplcs ct elemcntaires one
soient ces v4rites. lenr acquisition
a co0te de profonds e5ranlcments
ct d'horribies donIeurs, sans les.
quels il devient evident que rhn.
mantle n'avance pas dune ligne
dams sa vote apre ct feeonde.
Mais Ia vuc de Ia distance parcou-
rue fait onblier Ia fatigue ct Ia
peine. Les gronpes epars lie long
de Ia route sc rapprochent ct SEM
brassent an terme de l'etape.
Qni done Sc tiendrait A lecart ct
bouderait cette noble Repnblique
proclamee par le 2 Jnillet1 Seraient.
ce par hasard les vieux amants qui
u poursnivaient de leurs yeux
steriles, les socialistes en- quete de
paradis terrestre, qui tiraient de
lenr anne honnate ct solitaire les
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DIED.

SHAW-In Lexington, Burleson County,
| on the 9Th of August, Of consumption, Mrs.
Nancy Shaw, wife of Captain James Shaw.
Deceased was well know in this cOmuu-
nifty and had many friends.
JoNES-on the morning of July 2sd, At
the residence of his father, Col Thomas b.
Jones, of Salado, Rufus R. Jones, of this
city, in the Slst year of his age.
He had been laboring for several months
under disease Of the throat and lungs,
which finally terminated his earthly career,
as above stated. In the death of Rufus, as
be was familiarly known by a large circle of
acquaintances, his many warm friends have
sustained a sad loss, and society is deprived
of one of its most genial and life inspiring
members.
Possessing as he did geniality of spirit
and suavity of manners seldom surpassed, he
gave his friends always cordial greeting,
and even strangers were made to feel at ease
in his presence. -.zra
he passed through the eVeAtful scenes OF
the late unfortunate struggle with distin-
guished honor, and he is said by those who
knew him best 10 have been the very life
and controlling spirit of Col. Clark's regi-
ment, of which he was Adjutant.
But the destroyer laid his hand upon him,
and his cheerful presence is no longer felt in
our midst Although never having made a
profession of religion, yet his mind, during
the last days of his life, was called very
seriously TO the consideration of that subject,
and under the instructions of Christian
friends he died calmly and hopefully. And
now, while we sadly lament his departure,
we will embalm his memory in our hearts.
J. H. W.
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FORlsIGN NEWS.

LoNpoN. August I9.-It is announced to-
day through the press in London, Paris,
Frankfort. Berlin and Amsterdam that the
opening Of subscription for the FIVE per cent
American loan will take place on Tuesday
next, the books to be kept open to and in
Guiding Thursday.
The Paris Salute publishes the report that
General Garibaldi died this morning, hut a
dispatch from Florence, dated to-day, an
nounces that he is better. His physicians
have left Caprers.
A dispatch from Gambennin, East Prussia,
sixty-six miles east of Konigsburg, says
cholera has appeared in several districts on
the German side of the Russian frontier.
LONDON, August 22.-lt is feared that the
potato blight will almost destroy the Irish
crop. r..
John Bright is much better. Queen Vic
toria is i'll at Balmoral.
PAKIs, August 1s.-The German forces are
withdrawing from the neighborhood of the
Notifications north and east of Paris.
LONDON, August l9.-Bullion has in-
Creased eleven million and half.
LONDON, August 19.-In the House of
Commons, Enfield, under Secretary for
Foreign Affairs, in reply to question, says /;
"Mexico had repudiated the treaty of 1862,
but the Government of Great Britain had in
sisted tn at the treaty was still in effect, and
of binding and obligatory force"
Persian famine is more terrible than re-
ported. Twenty-seven thousand persons
died in Ispahan. The condition of the prov
ince of Masurderan is still worse. The cattle
plague, smallpox, typhus fever, and chol-
era are terrible.
Russian feet with the G. and Duke Alexis,
left Cronstadt yesterday fOs New York.
PARIS, August 2O.-sls deaths have oc-
CURED during the week, including one of
cholera.
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Congressional Districts.

FIRsr.-Anderson, Angelina, Cherokee,
Chambers, Harrison, Henderson, Houston,
Hardin, Jasper, Jefferson, Liberty, Nacog"
doches, Newton, Orange, Pamela, Polk, Rnsk,
Sabine, San Augustine, Shelby, Smith, Trim
ity, Tyler, Van Zandt and Wood coupties.
SECoND.-Archer, Bowie, Collin, Cooke,
Callahan, Clay, Davis, Dallas, Denton, East
land, Ellis, Erath, Fannin, Grayson, Harde-
man, Haskell Hopkins, Hunt, Hood, Jack,
johnson, Jones, Knox, Kaufman, Lamar,
Marion, Montague, Palo Pinto, Parker, Red
River, Shackelford, Stephens, Tarrant, Tsy,
Ior, Throckmorton, Titus, Upshur, Wise,
Wichita, Wilbarger. and Young counties.
THIRD.-Anstin, Brazoria, Brazos, Burle-
son, Bosque, Frsestone, Falls, Fort Bend
Grimes, Galveston, Harris, Hill, Leon, Lime
stone, Montgomery, Milan, Madison, McLen-
nan, Matagorda, Navarro, Robertson, Walker
Washington and Wharton counties.
FoURTH.-Atascosa, Bastrop, Bell, Brown
Burnet, BiancO, Baodera, BeXar. Bee, Colo
RADIO, Comancbe, Coleman, Coryell, Concho
Dawson, De Witt, Dimmitt, Duval, Ell Paso
Edwards, Encinal, Fayette, Frio, Gillespie
Guadalupe, Gonzales, Goliad, Hamilton
Hays, Hidalgo, Jackson, Kerr, Kendall
Karnes, Kinney, Lavaes, Lampasss, La Sale
Llano, Live Oak, Mason, Medina, Maverick
McCulloch, Nueces, Preside, Runnels, Refu-
gio, San Saba, San PatriciO, Starr, Travis
Uvalde, Victoria, Williamson, Wilson, Webb
Zavala and Zspata counties.
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Irdevolves upon 'ye local" to give an ac-
connt of renconter between Steve Hemphill
and the redoubtable Capt. Camiilus Jones'
one Of the Jonsss, you knov--and only re-
turned with fresh lGurels upon his brow from
the New Braunfels convention. On meeting
at the rooms Of their mutual friend Major
Kit ous1ey, and after examinations and re-
ordinations, blowing and relieving, decla-
rAtions, replicatiOns, answers, rejoinders and
sur-rejoinders, the issue being finally made up
to the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Of the parties, they
then walked out and engaged each other,
unarmed, in a regular old fsticuff battle.
Camillus being the heavier of the two, it
looked obviously for Steve; but as the race
is not always to the swift nor the battle to
the strong, Steve succeeded in planting a
telling blow on the mug of the Captain, fell
ing him, and which he followed up until the
said Captain was most thoroughly and per-
fsctly lambasted. All luminosity seemed to
terminate with the fight, as Steve went on
Jones's bond, thus keeping him out of the
calabo0se.
Now, we have a suggestion upon this mat
ter: How does it come that this Captain
Camillus Jones, Chief Justice of Colorado
county, secretary of the New Braunfels con-
vsntiOn-which approved the late act forbid
ing the "bearing of deadly WeapOns"-this
blossom ola cOnservator of the law, can
come here under the very nose of his master,
and at the doors of the chief of police, desc
crate the Sabbath with his drunken brawls,
display pair of DSrringers, and challenge
to combat, without arrest? Why, too, were
his abettors-Oficisls chosen for their belief
in "Divine Being" and for their virtue and
morality-not held to snswer2 Since those
who should have failed to execute the law, no
blame can certainly attach to Steve for an
exercise of the derrier resort.
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luti:ans endorsing you and giving. old
MORGAN Hamilton fits, he cried aloud
IN the most beautiful manner "Re-
publicans, are you going to stand
with your hands in your pockets and
see your State admin stration strick-
en- down." Just then somta mean cuss
of a democrat standing elise to me
said, kinder low, ''no you tc@ol, you
never put. your hands in your own
pockets, they are always in the pos
ples!'' But his malice and ignorance
don't hurt us Governor. We do tax
them pretty heavy, but it is all for
their gOod-to teach them (rebels as
they are) patience and repentance.
And we will make them know that
treason against your administration
shall not 60 UNPUBLISHED. Then what
right have they to grumble? Ifthey
had any sense or deeency they would
not expect US to administer the State
government in their interests. 1t
was not by their votes our party was
put in power. Do they suppose We
are such fools as not to know our
friends? We got control of the State
by the votes of colored men and if
they don'tgrumble no body else has a
right to-. We don't ask the demo-
Gratis or straddlebugs either any odds.
But I am occupying too much time
over them which 1 ought to bestow
on our friends.
And I will now proceed to pay
some deserved compliments to our
young brother Parsons. Unfortu-
nstely for him, the course of affairs
in our meeting was such as to render
the speech which he had written out
for the occasion, inappropos at the
time he took the rostrum. And when,
in his opening remarks, he told US
this, some of us older ones were
little uneasy for fear he might fum>
mix, as he looked kinder young and
bashful. But bless'yOur soul Governor
when he got fairly under way he
wasn't scared any more. If he
didn't make the fur fly from demo-
Gratis and straddlebugs, you may
shoot me. Any body could have
told he was kin to Wild Bill after
hearing him two minutes. And if
you had been here when he came
down from the stand, you would have
just gone up to him and laid your
hand on his little head, and have
said swell dun my son." just like
your pa used to do you after you had
wiped your little nose on your coat
sleeve, and got up on your little chair,
when some well-to-do neighbOr had
come in), and spoken "you'd scarce
expect one of my age" etc. You
would have done that very thing Gov.
and no mistake, because you would
have been so proud of him, you
couldn't have helped it. But then,
if 1 had only taken a good look at
our young brother, even before he
spoke, 1 would have known there was
something in him, for my word for it
Gov, you never saw a youth who wore
his stove pipe on the back part of his
head, and his white pocket handker-
chief sticking about one-hsf or two
thirds out of the hinder pocket of his
coat tail, but what had something in
Lin. 1 will write again soon.
Yours, truly,
TIMOTHY TUGMUTToN.
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lIARKE rs.

NEW York, August 2l.-Cotton has been
small in the number OF receipts, but large in
exports. Receipts at all ports, 1880 bales
against 9,454 last week, 10, 472 the previous
week, aud 10, 800 for three weeks since. To-
tai receipts since September are 1896, O54,
against 2,s04,223 for the corresponding
period in the previous year, showing an in
crease of I,l00,S3l. Exports from all ports
l7,647 bales, against the same week last
year. Total exports for the expired portion
of the cotton year 3,l36,6O7, against 2, l64,-
$50 for the same time last year. Stock at all
ports ll4,42l bales, against s6,76s for the
same date last year. Stock in interior towns
ID, 342 bales, against Is, 1892 last year. Stock
in Liverpool $4,000 bales, against 56s, 900
last year. American af1oat for Great Brit
tain 81 900 against 81 geo last year; Indian
aAoat for Europe 6s6,396 against 1922
last year.
Weather in the South is generally favor
able and the much needed rains have come
at last.
New YoRK, August 2O.-The domestic
market was more active in the leading sta.
Piles, although prices have been very much
unsettled and the fluctuations heavy. There
has been an advance in flour. The b ank
statement is very unfavorable, and an analysis
of the figures show that the banks have made
net loss of 81, 23s, 427, aud that they now
hold $40, l3l $50 above the 25 per cent. re-
quired by law.
New YoRK, August 22.-MOney 2. Gold
lI24. Exchange, long, 81; short, 81 Cotton
quiet: uplands, Isle, and Orleans l91c.; sales
of 200 bales.
NEW YORK, August l9.-Specie shipments
$223,OOO.
Bank statement-Loans increase, S2Is,-
600 600; specie decrease nearly 100000
PARIS, August 22.-Rents 55@5s.
LONDON, August 22.-COnsOls, 93s. Bonds,
s34.
LIVERPOOL, August % - Neon. - Cotton
opened steady: uplands, 5000; Orleans,
st@sld.
Later-Cotton dull: sales of 1000 bales
for speculation, and 5000 bales for export
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Compulsory EduCatIOn--Grub
versus Grammar.
For the Democratic Statesman.

For the Democratic statesman.
SIR-There is comic gravity in
one very radical idea of our radical
opponents that might excite our ridi>
Guile, were it not for the very serious
aspect forced upon US byit. We re-
fer to their very persistent defence
of the system of compulsory educa-
ton, Just now inaugurating under the
new school law, which, for the first
time in the history of our State, and
the second in the United States, is
being experimentally tried.
The whole strength of their argu-
ments is to prove the absolute neces-
sity of education, not its relative
merit. That is, that John must know
grammar whether he has any grub
or not, and that Susan cannot possi-
bly, live without music and drawing,
whether or not there is soap to
cleanse the linen or indeed whether
there is any linen to clense. Further,
Pompey must know Greek and AS
atronomy and spend his time starr
gazing, utterly regardless of the neg
lected cottonfeld, and Topsy must
have a waterfall aud learn to delica-
tely manipulate globes and spheres,
while brindle goes unmilked, the
house unswept and the providential
supply of meat lies forgotten and
uncooked. .
This then Is the theory and now
the practice: We need common
schools-admitted. We must have
them-admitted again. But, like
the maiden matrimonially inclined,
they say we must have them right
away, at whatever cost of money,
time and labor. Then comes the err
ror that will be more disastrous to
our educational enterprise than all
the prejudices the vivid Imagination
of Radical newspaper scribblers can
conjure up. People must live, and
in order to live they must work and
work hard in q new and isolated
State like ours. Every commodity
furnished by soil and climate is more
plentiful, as the result of labor, than
money. But often few or none of
these commodities can be converted
into money, at even a small modi-
cum of their market value @. at oil.
Hence there is ever a society ofIir-
culating medium in asparcely settled
community and the weight of taxa
ton is much heavier in proportion
than in communities where every
article of produce is marketable at
its full value. What would be a
moderate tax in Ohio, would be bur-
densome in Texas, while New York
would esteem small what we could
barely pay.
But reverse the picture as they
have done, and put upon Texas,
what in Ohio and New York would
be esteemed burdensome, and it be-
comes next to an impOssibility. The
result will be, that free schools,
which should be q blessing, will be
looked on as a means of oppression
an engine to extOrt money and re-
lieving hospital in which to pension
unsuccessful politicians and idle
Office seekers.
The grand and beautiful structure
of Solomon was not built In day
nor even a generation, and he who
would undertake to inaugurate and
carry out in year, what should
require ten years or even a genera.
ton, will fail ANONYMOUSLY and bring
discredit on the enterprise.
Yours, ETC.,
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Correspondence,
Interesting Correspondence be-
tween Timothy TugmuttOn,
and his friend Governor Davis
For tho Democratic Statesman. D.. , lIr
NUMBER TWO.

...t.-. NUMBER TWO. .I lI
GEoRGETowE, August Is, 1871.
DEAR GovERNOR-It was not my
intention to trouble you with another
letter so soon; but when I open a
correspondence with q friend, that
proves so edifying and entertaining
it is hard for me to stop short off.
Inmy last 1 didn't say much about
our meeting up here, and knowing
brother Newcomb and young brother
Parsons were too much occupied with
their official duties to go into parts
culars in describing tito you, l will
mention a few items of interest, that
will no doubt be gratifying to you.
The meeting as you already know
was very harmonious, and the
speaking fine. Brother Newcomb
made the speech of the occasion while
the committee on resolutions was out.
He made many happy hits. Among
other good things, he told the de~
mocrats, that if they didn't want to
send their children to school with me-
groes, they had no business voting
for the constitution ;, for that instrus
ment did not permit any distinctions
to be made on account of race, color,
or previous condition, in schools or
anywhere else. And he gave it as his
opinion that whenever the experi-
meGt of mixing the races in the
schools was tried, it would be found
to work admirably. That's the sort
of talk we want Governor. And a
man amt fit to belong to our party
who won't come up to the scratch.
Ours is party of progress. We
discard absolete ideas. We make
the cOlored man as good as the white
man, the colored woman as good as
the white woman, and the colored
child as good as the white child-as
the declaration of independence does.
And we don't want any man in our
party who can't endorse your admin
istration, and defend that doctrine.
Our Mr.. Turner got up in our
meeting and prayed there might be
harmony. But the kind of harmony
he wanted was to be purchased by
bolstering up the old National Re-
publican platform, and letting your
administration slide. But that strad-
dlebug trick wouldn't win. Brother
Newcomb knew a thing or two. He
saw the trick in the twinkling of an
eye, and denounced it in proper
terms. And law, Governor, you
ought to have heard him fire the hot
shot into Turner and all his sort.
He called them straddlebugs, and
told them plainly that we would rath-
er see every Office in the State filled
by straitout democrats, than by such
as them. Then he appealed to true
republicans, Casting his eyes, and
reaching out his arms to our colored
brethren), and you ought to have
heard them scream. They knew who
true Republicans are. You can't
fool them. If they did vote for Jack
Hamilton in this county last time,
you will get them next.
To show you how mean the demo.
Gratis acted trying to disturb the
harmony of our meeting) while Bro.
NeWcOmb was making his appeal to
the truly loyal ia behalf of the reso-
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PEN AND SCISSORS.


Japanese young ladies make WON
derful pictures out Of peanut shells.
Why is your chambermaid immor-
tai? She returns to dust every day
without dying.
Theirs says his only ambition is
hereafter to be regarded as the
Washington of France.
The princess of Wales is response
BILE for making our wives and sweet
hearts wear pink and rOse-pink this
year. Isl
The monthly statement of the
public debt just issued shows a
reduction during the month of July
of So, 100000.
The Presidents mansion was
called the "White House" in honor
of the early Virginia home of
Martha Washington.
WERE we as eloquent as angels,
we should please some men, some
women and some children much more
by listening than by talking.
A daughter of New York stock
broker exults over the fact that she
has been to Europe six times and has
never seen the inside of her mothers
kitchen.
The girls have got hobby. This
time it is the collection of different
patterns of printed calico. One in
New Hampshire exhibits 1000
different kinds.
The wife of D. A. Dadd, of Hum.
boldt, Iowa, has presented her lord
with 10 children in IA years; and
they are all well, and live at home
with their Dadd.
Out in Iowa, kisses are sold at
fairs by the fair. A man pays a
certain sum to the general fund, and
then selects the girl or woman he
desires to kiss.
While the Pennsylvania Central
Railroad Company is swallowing up
an average Of a railroad week, it is
also erecting new Offices in Philadel-
phia at a cost of a million.
A colored orator at Lancaster,
Ohio, the other day, demonstrated
the liberality of his views by exclaim-
ing: 81 pray the Lord l may live
to see the day when the colored man
may forget his prejudices so far as to
be willing to receive all other races
as his equals.
AN Irishman having jumped into
the water to save man from drown
ing, upon receiving a quarter from
the person as a reward for the SER
vice, looked first at the money and
then at him, and at last exclaimed:
sim overpaid for the job.
Mrs. MARY WILSON owns farm
of $50 acres near Reeds Corners,
Ontario county, N. Y, and although
seventy-two years of age, has gather
ed in all her grain without help. She
was found by an interviewer pitching
off load of wheat, and day or two
ago had been moving. She swings a
scythe and handles pitchfork with
the ease of a man in his prime. This,
as the village paper says, is remark
able case.