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The Lipan Indians.

If any Of our people suppose for a mo-
ment that the raids from which our people
have heretofore suffered from the Lipans,
Kickapoos and other Indians arc to cease,
they are reckoning without their host. 1t
is true, for the great part of the past sum-
mer, we had flourish of trumpets relating
to the removal from Mexico of these trouble
some Migrants, and finally, sometime in Au-
gust it was supposed they had crossed the
Rio Gronde, and were under the guardian
ship of the special commissioners, vending
their way beyond the military posts on the
frontier, on their return to the reservation
assigned to them by the government. But
the people of Texas are not yet safe from
these villainous marauders. Capt. Wood,
of Twenty-fourth United States Infantry,
commanding Fort Mcintosh. near Laredo,
on the Rio Grande, reports as follows:
son the sixth instant party of Indians
appeared among the sheep and stock ranches
about forty miles from here, on the San
Antonio road, the ranches being from three
to twelve miles apart along the road, and
off on either side of the road. They first
appeared about 10 o'clock A. NJ, at the
ranch of Mr.. Raymond Martin, wounding
one of his herdcrs, named Elentorio Sua
rcz, by an arrow wound in the eve and one
In the lett cneek, ana DuileJ IN the lclJ
thigh. The man says the Indians were Ii
pans, and when he escaped they had wound
ed another herder, who subsequently, died.
There were about forty and they afterward
divided. He thinks he shot ono Indian
through the abdomen with his revolver.
Magnus Suarez, herder for Mr.. Porfrio
Beraredez, was wounded through the wrist
and breast with an arrow he died on the
ninth instant Mariana Monsola, another
herder, was also wounded -Four other
h0rders are reported missing. The Indians
took off eighteen brood mares belonging to
Pedro Cruz, and killed number Of others
belonging to him that would not drive
gently. They also killed five or six brood
mares belonging to Philip Villarael; also
taking brood mare and colt belonging to
Mr.. Rodriguez.
Persons coming from the Nueccs report
that a party Of Indians stole a number Of
horses on the fifth of September from near
old Fort Ewell. This was probably the
same party that committed the depredations
at the sheep ranches.-S. 4. Herald.
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Democrats R1seunve Commssses.

Hcs; JOHs IRELAND, Chairman, seguin
Guadalupe county.
First District-W. W. Whitehead, Tyler
county.
Second District-ThO,. N. Bowers, Pan
ola county.
Third bistrict-s. A. Wilson, Cherokee
county.
derson county.
Fifth District-c. B. Klgore. Rus,
county.
Sixth District--F. J. Mecord. L0ugyiew.
Gregg county.
seventh District-H. ?. o'NeiI, Linden,
Cass county.
Eighth Distriet-w. ]. swayne. Red
River county. GAINESVILLE.
Ninth District. L. Halbert, Navarro
county.
Tenth Districs--Daniel UpthegrOve, Hunt
county.
Eleventh Distdet-s. B. Mazsy, Paris,
Lamar county.
Twelfth district -Chas. L. Cleveland.
Galveston county.
Thirteenth District--P. +. Pearson. Rich
mond, Fort Bend county
Fourteenth District Gustare Cook, Har-
rs county, Houston
Fifteenth District-John s. Cleveland,
San Jncinto county.
sixteenth District--John " Carroll,
Bnreson county.
seveDteensh Distsiet-Jas. Boyd. Bell
county, Bolton
Eighteenth District ~ Il. Davis, Rrazos
county, Bryan.
Si1sssea.h Di.iries-Ira B. sadIss, Cor.
yelle cOunfr.
Twentieth Dissries-K. ~ Van zandt
Iarf1nt county
Twenty-dr.f Dissriet--0. p. Pickss,
Wise county.
Twenty-seooud-J. ". Jenninss, ersy.oa
county. Denison.
Twenty-ihird District Wm. yeale, Psio
Pinto county.
Tuenty-fourth District-D. G. Proctor.
Indianola. Calhoun county.
Twenty-ffih DiElrict-Wrils Thomrn.
Colorado county, Columbns
lwenty-sizth Disfrct--J. y. e,gef. bas
fr0p county.
IWcutg-sevenfh Disircs-WiII + faft,
Caldwell county. Loekhafl
1Wcnfy-eiehfh District 81 =. WesffalI.
Williamson county
Twenty p'plb District Geo. Pisu4s,.
r-srt
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In our issue of to-day will be found the
declination of DR.. Westfall of the nominal
ton unanimously rendered him by the late
convention at Burnet of Senator of this dis
trict, and his call for new convention.
DR.. Westfall deserves high credit for his
promptitudc in this matter and his wish to
harmonic the Democracy of this district
He has no desire to be the candidate of the
party for Senator unless he is the choice of
the people. For ourself, VIC have never had
the slightest objection, personally, to any of
the candidates nominated by the last cOnven-
ton, but only to the manner in which it was
conducted and the unjust distribution of
the representation. We care little who shall
be Senator, SO he be sound Democrat, but
we insist that the frontier counties, seven in
number, to-wit: Burnett, Lampasas, San
Saba, McCulloch, Concho, Llano and
Blanco, shall have representation-of their
own selection, that they may be satisfied
and justice be done
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JUICE CoKE's APPOINTMENTS. Judge
Coke will address the people of Texas upon
the political issues of the day at the follow
ing times and places:
Carthage Friday, October "a.
Centre, Shelby Co., Monday, October q
Nacogdoches, Wednesday, October 30.
Rusk, Saturday, November 1.
Henderson, Monday, November 3.
Tyler, Wednesday, November 3.
Palestine, Friday, November Z.
Crockett, Saturday, November 8.
Huntsville, Monday, November 10.
Houston, Wednesday, November 10.
Galveston, Friday, November ID.
Columbus, Monday, November II.
La Grange, Wednesday, November 10.
BRENNAN, Friday, November 81.
Navasota, Saturday, November %.
Bryan, Monday, November %.
Austin, Wednesday, November 90.
San Antonio, Saturday, November 90.
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NEGOTIATIONS.

1. ResOlrcd, That We deprccate the action
of the Democratic members Of Congress IN
cooperating with the Republican majority,
and President Grant, in the passage Of the
shack salary BILL"
Adopted unanimously.
2. We heartily concur In the following
resolution passed by the Ohio Democracy
in their recent convention, to-wit:
'sRes0IOed, That the act Of the President
in setting up by bayonets a government in
Louisiana not chosen by her people. and
having no title whatever 70 rule over them,
was fragrant violation Of her rights, and
Of the Federal Constitution
And futher, that We deeply and sincerely
sympathize with the people Of Louisiana in
their misfortunes and the oUtrages perpe-
trated on them.
Adopted unanimously.
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lCoL Theodore o'Iinrs, Kenlnciiln By birth, (uho
has written one Of the Enosl poems In the EnEiish
lngusgs died. and vas barred AZ Columbus. Georgia
Subsequent 10 the late civl war.
The Legislature Of his native STATE has recently sp
propriatcd funds for bic reiRfcrmcut az Frankfort
Col o'Hara was a. time Captain in the Unifcd
Gen r. z Lee then Lieutenant Colonel % eavslry.l
TO THR MEMORY or COL. THEO-
DORE O,EARa.
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To OuB BRETHREN OF TIE PRESS. We
have had in the main a most pleasant inter
course with you for nearly six years, and in
bidding you farewell, we wish all the most
unboundod success and prosperity. Some
times some of us have said harsh things of
each other, but we hope you will believe US
when we say, that we have never borne
malice against any of you. On the contrary,
we never remembered any little dispute for
two days, and to-day we lave no heart
bnrning against any of you, and we hope
and believe that you will reciprocate our
kindly feeling.-HouStOn Telegraph.
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son u tho dark and bloody ground,
Thou must not elumber there;
Tho sister States thy praises sound
Along the Southern air.
Kcntucky's soil should be thy grave
Thy native sod thy tomb;
The noble canse yoa folght to save,
Niththee, Is wrapped Ia gloon,
Thy Celtic breast was fred 10 arms
REGARDLESS Of the cost;
A Tyrant'e act awolSe alarms:
The battle now Is losti
Thou lent an ear to Honor's voice
True instinct % the have.
And kindred hearts viii now rejoice,
To guard HerO's grave.
The song you sing o'cr warriors dead,
The filter requiem be-
For freely too thou wouldst have bied.
And smiled az Fate's decrecl
Thy gallant life has gone to Cod
a soldiers sleep be thinei
Tho sti6 the form, and cold the clod,
Thy e0W was e'cr divine!
Then let thy sacred dust be laid
In NalOr' proudest spot;
And may thy Tyre so sWeetly PLAYED
BY friends be ne'er forgot.
Bnt timed by some great master-hsnd
To strike one pensive lay.
And call thy spirit to the land
Made hallowed by thy clay!
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1873-10-23

TIE nominations from the Bexar and
Washington districts for the Legislature
are first-rate, and ought to be successful.
In the Washington district, We note the
nomination Of Seth shepard, Esq, for SEN
atOr, and in the Bexar district, Mr.. Kessler
Of New Bnunfels, very intelligent Ger
man. for the lower house. The nomination
Of Dwyer for the Senate in Bexar district,
We have already noticed, aud the other
nominees in both districts are, we under
stand, all that could be wished for,
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GLASS LEGIsL ALTON AND CLASS
COMBINATIO Ms.


We are and ever have been opposed to
both. They are both wrong, and in our
judgment should not be encouraged nor
tolerated. They are not Democratic in prin-
ciple, and they cannot be upheld by reason
or justice. When law makers undertake to
pass lsws for the special benefit of one class
Of citizens at the expense Of another, they
are going beyond their province and COM
hitting great injustice. Their work may
be legal, and there seems no way Of avoid
ing II, except by the substitution of a new
ma iflercnt set of Legislators, who win act
in accordance with the spirit of our constitu-
tions, national and State Their doings
are laws, until repealed by competent au-
thority or set aside by the decisions of the
courts, and must be respected as such. As
agross instance Of class legislation, we note a
protective tariff, by the general government,
(which is imposed for the avowed purpose of
benefttinga particular class Of persons, the
manufacturers, when Il IS well known that
the effect will be to injurc, more or less, all
other classes. For the high tax imposed
really has to be paid by all the consumers,
for the benft Of the few manufacturers,
who greatly profit thereby. So of any
other special legislation on the part of the
general government or the States, which
looks to the advantage OF the few at the
expense Of the many. It's all reprehensible
and should he stopped as soon as it can be.
The right way, and the only effective way
Of stopping this kind Of legislation, is for
the people to elect members Of Congress
and members Of the State Legislatures, who
are sound on this question, aud who win do
what is right. That is the only practical
way Of getting reform and fixing things as
they ought 10 be.
SO much for class legislation, and now
something on the question Of class combina-
lions to affect objects which may be had in
view As desirable OF accomplishment. We
arr equally opposed to them. Il Is wrong
TO combine all Of ono class Of our citizens
against the other classes. The farmers
would admit that il would be wrong for all
Tie merchants and lawyers and mechanics
and doctors to unite against them to injure
their interests and to keep them from theis
proper degree Of political power II, then,
thar would be wrong, IS It not equally
wrong Cor an the farmers to unite TO control
lhe country exclusively for their own
Interests rsgaraless of the remainder
81 their ieilow.cilizcns, Who are engaged
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they deserve, and the new convention viii,
we doubt not, do complete justice to every
portion Of the district, without regard 10
the Gasette, and the result viii be the har-
Inonv and triumph Of the Democratic party.
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TIE Journal seems to be about as much
exercised as the Gdscite about the calling Of
a new convention in this district. It is not
a new thing Tor them to fight in pairs.
They ara ever ready to play into each Others
hsnds. While the Gasstis threatens to bolt
the new convention the JesrRal, with this
encouragement, is Tor bringing ont an indie
pendent ticket, which no doubt il expects
the 6asstte to support. They ara a pretty
pair.
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IT seems, by the Burnett County Exponent,
that it was given out that Governor Hamil-
ton would speak at the Radical convention
lately held there, where they succeeded in
making no nominations. This must have
been trick to get an audience. Governor
Hamilton would hardly be caught in such
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DRoLINATIoN or MN. wEsTFALL.
can for Now Dl.trIet Convention.

LIBERTY HnL, October 10, 1878.
Inasmuch as there appears to be some dis
satisfaction with the action Of the late Dem
ocratic Convention which met in Burnett,
and as received and accepted the nomina-
ton fos~statc Senator, in order that entire
harmony may, If possible, be secured
throughout the District, hereby resign any
and all claims to said nomination.
VIM. H. WESTFALL.
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In view Of the dissatisfaction in some
sections Of the Twenty-eighth Senatorial
District, as chairman of the Democratic Ex-
exective Committee Of said district, here
by call another Convention, to be held in
Burnet on the fourth day of November,
1873, to make nominations to represent the
people Of said district in the next Legisla-
fOre
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ron ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.
,. n. HOLLrNoswOHTH. OF Hays Co.
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FOR SENATOR TwENTY.EIoHTH DISTRICT.
W. n. wEsTFALL, OF Williamson Co.
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VIM. H. WEsTFALL,
Charm Dem. Elk. Com. ssth Sen. Dist.

The chairmcn Of each of the Democratic
Executive Committees Of the several coun-
ties composing the Twenty-eighth Senate
rial District will Immediately call Conven-
ton in their respective counties for the pur-
pose Of electing delegates to the District
Convention to be held in Burnet Noven-
Der 4, 1873.
VIM. II. WESTFALL,
Charm Dem. Elk. Com. 2sth Sen. Dist.
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FOR coMPrRoLLEa PUBLIC ACCOUNTS.
). n. DARDES, or caldwell County.
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FOR COMMISSIONER GENERAL LAND OFFICE,
J. :. GROOs, OF cOmal County.
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IT is now conceded that Allen is elected
Governor of Ohio by about GOO majority,
and it is believed that the Radicals have car
ried the balance of the State ticket. The
Legislature is conceded to be Democratic,
which will rc-elect Thurman to the Senate.
This is glory enough. Honest VIM. Allen,
an old Jackson Democrat, running on the
old Democratic platform, has been elected
Governor of the great State of Ohio, and
Thurman, the man who stood firm when
such men as Groesbeck and Pugh wavered
and gave in, and talked of the Democracy
being dead, will go back to the Senate he
has heretofore honored and adorned. This
looks like the old Democracy had some life
left in Ohio. And so it will be all over the
Union, when the fight is squarely conducted
on old Democratic ground. This result in
Ohio will tell throughout the country and
insure us good old fashioned Democrat
as our candidate in the next Presidential
election.
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TIE RICHEST president. We presume
that at the close Of Grants Presidency he
will be the richest man who ever left the
White House. Both Of the Adamses had
small fortune at the time OF their election !;
Van Buren, and Polk were well of; Taylor
had a plantation; Pierce had a piece Of
land Buchanan had some productive invest
show Of worldly goods. Grant IS already
richer than the richest Of them, and very
much richer than the most Of them. His
houses, lands, personal property, stocks,
AT the beginning Of the rebellion he hadn't
dollar in the world, and couldn't pay his
debts IN Galena. Cincinnati CommSrciol.
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SAM EAsLEY, OF williamson County.
FELIX SMITH, Of Travis County.
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SoNE newspaper writer incidentally re-
marks that Darwin has raised reasonable
doubts as to tbs origin Of the human family.
Doubts, perhaps, but doubts are not always
reasonable. Darwin IS going up stream,
which Is but an empirical way Of solving
the question Of origin, FOR how many pos
sible ailments the stream Of theory may
have. nobody can tell- Now II there were
a theory which starting from The origin d
the human family, professcd 70 trace i
doEnwards, there would be some reasonable
show FOR doubling Or noi doubling q IL
correctness. And there IS such theory
'.And God said, let ns make man IN our
own image Begin there. 1Ir. Darwin,
and see Il that does not explain ail the rid
dies which puzzle YOU Mold Daifg 1ees.
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A Precious Relic.

We have been shown by John Henry
Brown, in the writing of the immortal
William Barrett Travis, commander of the
Alamo, the original OF the first dispatch
sent by Travis to the colonies after the
Mexican army, under Santa Anna, appeared
in sight. Major Brown has been in posses
sion of this rare document for many years,
and once refused hundred dollars in gold
for it. To preserve it he has had it encased
in a handsome frame Those wishing to
see it can do so by calling at our editorial
Office within week or two, after which it
may be seen at Major Browns residence.
= The following is an exact copy of the
dispatch
"CoNMANDANcY or BEAR,
February 20. O'Clock p. NJ.
80 Andrew Ponton, Judge, and to the
citizens of Gonzales: The enemy in large
force is in sight. We want men and pro-
visions; send them to us. We have one
hundred and fifty men and are determined
to defend the Alamo to the last. Give us
assistance,
''W. B. TRAVIS,
Lieutenant Colonel Commanding
'P. S. Send an express to San Felipe
with the news, night and day.
TRAVIS"
This dispatch was addressed to Andrew
Ponton, Judge, Gonzales. Judge Ponton
crossed out his name and addressed it $50
all the inhabitants Of Te1as," and sent it
forward by express to San Felipe.
1t was after the receipt of this dispatch at
Gonzales, that Colonel James Butler Bon
ham, then recently from North Carolina,
raised thirty-two men of that place and en-
tered the Alamo through the Mexican lines,
to swell the whole number of its defenders
to one hundred and eighty-three, all of
whom fell in its defense rather than sur
render, on the thirteenth day of the siege.
1t has been said 'tThermopyla Lad its mes
senger of defeat, but the Alamo had none, y
leaving its defense and fall without a par
allel either IN ancient or modern times.
1t should be understood that in writing
the name ''Bejar" instead of ''Bexar' Colo
mel Travis followed the common and correct
mode of spelling the name. On the same
principle the name Texas was spelled TEXAS
the pronunciation being the same, to-wit,
Te-hGs. Dallas Herald.
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ron TREASURER

4. ,. Dons, O Eannla ooun.y.
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L4w7Ens have necessity q brief career.
That nay bs the resson Why their fees are -
high
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FOR LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR,
p. B. HUBBARD, Of smith county.
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HIOnAnD COKE Of nehemiah County.
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