The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1873-07-24

The Galveston News has Washington
correzp ondcni, who figures largely. u late,
over the above second letter Of the alpha
bet. Everybody has heard Of great q. 2
and little ..U, and now We have big B, .
who is certainly q man Of much conse-
quence. according to his own account.
Who be Is, and what he is, and how he
came to be 50, and what he is after, Is hard
to say, or even to guess. From what be
tells US, he seems to be along with Cover
nor Davis and his train or tail. He is with
them here, and he is with them there
and wherever they 60, big s.Br is
with them, and reporting their doings,
good, bad and Indifferent He could
not have started with the Governor from
Austin. It would have taken an extra
train to carry b, If his weight is to be
taken on his own estimate He must have
been picked up on the way, or, perhaps,
he was already at Washington, waiting
the Governors arrival. There he was, of
certainty, as soon as the Governor, and
knowing all about him and his doings,
what hotel he stopped at, when he ate
breakfast, when he took a walk, when he
smoked, and when he sneezed. Why he
has selected the. Galveston News, as the
medium of communicating all these i'm
portant movements of Governor Davis, I'VE
cannot explain. Perhaps, because the
News is the largest daily in the State and
'FBn is the biggest toad in the puddle" at
Washington. OF course ''B' must be a
radical of the right stripe, or he would not
be of the Davis party, and bis intimate as
sociate, as well as the friend and associate
of the Secretary of the Interior and the In
dian Commissioner. 'fB' was present, when
little Clark called on Governor Davis to see
if matters could not be amicably arranged
between them. ''B" heard the whole con
versation, and describes how the valor-
Gus General covered before the tall
and irate Governor of Texas. How
the Governor told Clark-the very
Clark for whom he had risked
the penitentiary, in certifying him into
Congress-that he had sold offices, and
that he would be satisfied with nothing less
than his resignation or expulsion from the
pOstofice at Galveston, and how Clark took
all this meekly, and retired with dropping
head and tail, saying, 1--WE win be friends
yet, " or 1--WE will be happy yet, as the
song goes. Now, of course '.B" must be
one of the truly loyal, or he would not
have been permitted to be present on that
eventful occasion, to witness the triumph of
Davis and the deep humiliation of little
Clark, the near companion and bosom friend
of the President and Secretary of War. He
cannot be mere reporter, employed by
Governor Davis to follow him around to re-
port his travels and exploits, and to witness
his triumphs over the little radicals, who
dare to interfere with him and his; and FALL
therein belonging or in any way appertain-
ing" Surely not, for when the Governor
and the Secretary of the Interior could
not exactly agree about Santanta and Big
Tree, ''B" stepped in, went to the Depart
ment, and fixed things up for grand coun-
Gil at Fort Sill, where, it appears, if the In
dams will come to the terms of Governor
Davis, the big chiefs are to be deliveredu up
This ''B" must be s'big bug" and no mis-
take. 1t is certainly high honor for the
Galveston News to be selected to chronicle
his sayings and doings. He knows, too, all
about the bonds, and what the Governor is
going to do with them, what the Governor
holds them at, and where the Governor is
going to sell them. Evidently this ''B'' is
financial Bull or Bear Che might be either
you see, from the 'initiaD of much length of
horns or strength of arms, either for tossing
up or pulling down. 1t may be he is one
of the Rothschilds in disguise. Anyhow,
he is Watching the Texas Governor closely
in this matter, whoever he may be. We
wait anxiouslY for another letter from this
big 'B, y and take up the Galveston News
with trembling hands. What paper the
News is for securing correspondence.