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The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1874-12-31
NEEDLES CONFLICTS.

The chief political editorial writer for
the New York Herald went out of the World
Office. He shows in the Herald the advan-
tages of his proper training. The Herald
states the question very fairly when it says
that the trouble in New Orleans in refer
ence to the attempt to force colored lads
into the high school only illustrates the
agitation that now and then dlsturbs the
Southern communities. The High School
of New Orleans is a city institution, and
has heretofore been attended by children of
white citizens. There is, perhaps, no legal
and nomoral reason why negroes should not
be admitted to the advantages of this school !;
but it violates the traditions and customs of
the community, and imposes upon the white
lads, for instance, a necessity of sitting on
a school bench by the side of colored lads
who have been their slaves. This is to COM
pei recognition of race equality which is
not sincere, and is therefore insulting. It
intrudes into education questions of poll
tics that should not be permitted in schools.
1t is an unnecessary issue, and those who
press it do an absurd and wicked thing.
The political point is that both white boys
and black shall be educated. If there is
any reason why education would be imper-
feet by reason of white children attending
black schools or blacks attending white
schools, then arrange the matter in the only
sensible way-let the blacks stay together
and the whites together. So they receive
education and become fitted for useful mem
bership in society, it is Of little consequence
whether they study in one building to two.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1874-12-31

IIoR SALE.

One Of thu finest steck farms in the State OF Texas
and for health and beauty Of situation not 10 be sur
passed. hevaluable property Is in Hays county, ON
the Blanco riyT, between hountain City and San
Marcos, ON the San Antonio road, about twenty-five
miles from Ausin. This estate contains 656o acres OF
land with all ia stock and improvements; 6O00 acres
well inclOsed WI stone and cedar fence for pasture
the Banco runna nearly through the centre. None
equal to II In tbs ate -Four hundred acres splendid
land In high cuyation not surpassed In production;
abundance Of lmber-elm, blackberry live oak and
walnut aud on hundred and fifty not enclosed.
There atty hildings the premises various pens
for rOping andhaDdlng stock; there zoo head OF
cattle, fom or-half to full-hloOdcd Durham; from
two hundred anffty TO three hundred h6Gd OF Texas
cattle; fifteen twenty yoke OF oxen; 100 head OF
American horai aud mulesi two fne jacks; ten TO
fifteen work mtpa and horses; wagons full aud CON-
plete stock OF gricultural mplcments reapors corn
and cotton plNera, threshers, ETC.; saw and grist
cte run BY wattpower afforded by the Bianeo river
The main dWlng house. with cistern ont houses
and every conuience and comfort, Il situated ON
high hill; has ,mmanding view Of the surrounding
country, and hasut 10 be eeen % be admired.
~ Any one omoro persons wish TO engage In the
stock business, With all the advantages, nov IL the
time 10 get q et-cl2ss stock farm, where may be
raised the finest OOded stock In the country and an
nterprisng magko would engage IN Il could get his
awa price IN Il and the ncighboring Staies as
blOcded stock ieuch needed and sought after.
Any person viking 70 purchase this place viii CON-
munlcate with BY letter or IN person. and will
take great plcare In showing the property For
iertns apply TO u. b. SWEENEY,
teal Estate and collecting Agent
aus u fostofice Box i07. Austin. Texas.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1874-12-31
USURY Law.


Some time ago Georgia repealed the
usury laws, and then came the financial col
lapse and Federal and State and local taxa
ton; the first, invisible; the latter, intolera-
bic. Both made property valueless as basis
forloans, and for the simple reason that prop
erty could not be made to produce enough
to pay taxes and tariffs. 1t was in the
midst of this state Of facts that Georgia
tests the operation of free trade in money.
OF course usurious rates are extraordinarily
high in Georgia, as in Texas and elsewhere,
and some of the Georgia papers sscribe the
high price of money to this repeal of the
old code restricting rates of interest.
Whether this be properly asserted or not, it
is not our province to determine. We only
know that the Augusta Chronicle hits the
nail on the head when it says:
If every man will determine to live
within his means; if he will cut off every
unnecessary expenditure; If the farmers
will keep their smoke houses and barns on
the plantation instead of in the West, there
will be plenty of money and cheap money.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1874-12-31

THE Charleston Nelrs and Courier thinks,
because the Federal Congress chartered the
Freedmen's bank, that the Congress should
foot the losses sustained 10y the plueked
and plundered darkies. We are very sorry
the negroes were robbed by those who loved
them infinitely more than ourselves, but our
gnef does not extend down into the depths
Of our breeches pockets. We recognize
neither legal nor moral obligation to pay
the creatures Of Radical fraud for conse-
quences OF their own partisan and pcrsis-
tent follies. There were enough good
honest banks everywhere in the South, but
they were not good enough for the blacks
They preferred little shops kept bY thiev-
ing carpst-baggers, and there the Loyal
Leaguers and sons Of Ham left and lost
their hard earnings. It viii be safely kept
and people having Intelligence enough 70
vote surely had enough 70 know 70 whom
their money might be safely entrusted. To
refund sums lost would be an insult to
every one who voted for the constitutional
amendments. Congress incurred no ha-
bility, and assented to none when II gave
the suindlsrs the charter 70 sWindie- It
Vas simply an assertion by Congress thst
negroes had no faith in Southern white
bankers, and Radicali1m chuckled inUardly
when the charter pasura, sincs i Was signid-
can't Of negro votes for Radical candidates.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1874-12-31


THE papers and letters pIblished during
the trial of Count Won Arnim, late repre-
sentative of Germany in Paris, show that
Bismarck always acted toward France in a
harsh, hostile and domineering spirit. He
regarded it the duty of the ambassador to
interfere directly in French politics. The
Bonapartes, Arnim thought, should be en-
couraged, because they would not want
war of revenge, while Bismarck answered,
that so long as Thiers obeyed the treaty
stipulations there was no use to encourage
his rivals. AS for Italy, Bismarck wanted
her friendship, but he would not allow
Germany to be dragged into war to sup
port Italian prctensions. In other words,
Bismarck had no feeling toward enemies or
allies except to aid Germany. His policy
is only a new chapter in the history of
Prussian selfshness. Such is the view of
Bismarck's conduct as presented by his ene-
mics, and there is reason for it. Won
Arnim, if punished at all, will be dealt
with very leniently. He has been cruelty
used by his masters.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1874-12-31
TERRmLE DEEDS POSSIBLE IN
LOUISIANA.

There were, even in the lifetime of the
STATESMAN, terrible riots in New York
City, known as the Astor riots, and even
moro terrible in Philadelphia. Negroes and
Trishmen have slaughtered one another as
races and nationalities in both these great
christianized, civilized and union-loving
cities. There were Know Nothing riots
in Baltimore and Washington, and Orange
men have been slaughtered in New York.
Federal power never then dreamed Of enter
ing State and asserting local authority.
In what has Vicksburg offended, aud the
SOnth, that Radical Congressman meet in
caucus as on Thursday last, to determine
modes Of maintaining order in the SOUTH
Il was agreed, by each and all the Radical
Senator's that either the Federal army
must be augmented in force or that
a militia must be cOmpacted and thrust
into the hands Of adventures like
Ames and Kellogg Suppose Kel-
logg and Wells be slain, and none
need be amazed il the villains meet this de-
served fate. Suppose the bogus Legisla-
ture, as created and elected BY Kellogg and
Wells, and not By the people, attempt to
enact laws Or prevent the meeting and or
gAnizaiiOn Of the body really elected by
the peoplel 4 Grant to interfere with the
armyl Is this the road to peace and order
and good goFenmcntl There vas chosen
By the people Democratic majority Of a
least thirty, and through a month, that
he prooess By being gradual. might Be di-
vested of iis aspects Of horrible lurpifnde.
and that TIE people might bsoone accos.
toned b ilrconienplalion. tAe psople have
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1874-12-31

Why don't the pretty girls and older
danes of Austin celebrate the birthday of
Beethoven as is done in other cities2 The
people here are passionately fond of music.
In every house almost there is grand
piano and popular taste Is cultivated with
tireless patience. Yet Bethoven's name and
memory are not properly honored. In a
climate like this and IN such country there
Is melody in the very winds that sweep
over Verdure clad plains, and the shimmering
sunbeams even in winter months have
the warmth and tenderness and delightful
movements of the sweetest strains of Betho-
ven's mstchless music.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1874-12-31

Az important movement, which, Il ls said,
gives promise Of being complete success
Is in progress " unite into a confederation
ali the various branches Of tie Presbyterian
Church in North America. II the statistics
are to be relied on, there are not lcss than
fourteen divisions Of the Presbyierian
Church In the United States and Canada.
Each Of these keeps up Q separate orgzuixa.
ton, and, while all have many points % iie-
lief and discipline in common, each has
some usages and views peculiar 20 iisclf
Hitherto, most Of these divisions have main.
tanned separate establishments for the er1at
works Of education and charity ia which
they have been severally engaged, 81 well
as distinct synods and clerical associations
This, Of course, has been done ai q largely
increased expense, and It was 70 meet this
objection, and for other specified purposes,
that the movement WAS initiated 70 Ig
stated that II is not contemplated % form
an organic union, but only q federal union
for certain determined objects. Zach VII
still be a distinct body, and retain it1 sepa-
rate name, but all will be brought loeelAer
for common church action and cooperation.
Such q confederation viii include, L leeaId.
Is, 900 churches, representing membership
Of 3 million and half. Il win make tie
united Presbyterian among tho very 1f1l in
numbers. II not the largest, Prote1iant de.
nomination IN America.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1874-12-31

IT is said by correspondent, to whom,
in this behalf, We can hardly give credence,
that the Colorado Citizen wishes to subdi-
vide the State. For what purpose? 1t
would only bring a multiplication of office
holders and duplication of public burdens.
practically small enough. Therefore let US
build railroads rather than mutilate Texas
When the road is built which we have been
talking about, Eastern Texas will exchange
pine lumber for cattle of the western coun-
ties and the East will be profted as well as
the West, and the whole empire of Texas
aggrandized.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1874-12-31


DR. HAYDEN, whose name is familiar as
that of the most learned Of American sur
geons, explorers Of western wilds and Of
scientists, was reared in Columbus, Missis-
siPpi- By the way, this delightful town,
once the scat Of Opulence, elegance, Of good
morals and perfect government, has been
sOrely impoverished and cursed By savage
government. until recently Major Joe A.
Billups was chosen chief magistrate and
Columbus IS perfectly blest. From Colum-
bus came the famous DR. Shepherd, once in
vested with Office and honOrs by the Repub-
hc Of Texas, and thencs, too, came the re-
dOubtAble Governor Runnsls, Who fought,
thirty-two years ago, when public opinion
approved, memorable duel Just outuiae the
confines Of the then metropolis Of lIissis-
sippi. Columbus, too. vas the home Of the
late wonderful DR.. Linthecum. On the
catalogus Of heroes Of The Texan revolution,
there ara many names once f.niliar, vhen
Columbus was . village. everywhere In
Mississippi.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1874-12-31

THE incapacity to distinguish wit from
scurrulity, and to know whether sentence
Be designed to wound vanity or offend honor,
has destroyed many q newspaper. Excess
sive sensltiveness is often an affectation
developed by extreme coarseness and dull
ness. The stupidest ass that mounts the
tripod is first to kick vehemently, braying
meanwhile most coarsely. He is always
fancying that somebody is polSing fun into
the midst Of his short ribs and resents spite
fully even that which was never intended
To wound
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1874-12-31
THERE is a new party organizing.

THERE is Rew party organizing. Itmay
prove more effective, be endued with
longer life, and subserve ends of patriotism
more successfully than the stupendous pos
sum arrangement begotten of the dreams of
the St. Louis Republican and of the senti-
mentalism of Carl Schurz. The Washing
ton Cd. Co. Dispatch says Hon. William D.
Kelly is to come out openly for the inde-
pendent party before the winter is over, and
in time to play prominent part in the
National Convention at Cleveland, on the
fourteenth of March. Goodwin is dele
gated to appoint delegates from each Con-
gressional District of Missouri.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1874-12-31


A LEADING English journal, the Saturday
Revier, says that recent elections in the
United States were well-merited rebuke
to political prohigacy, and it win probably
put an end to the cruel and sordid tyranny
which has, Tor nearly ten years, labored to
crush the spirit, paalyze the energies and
drain the resources Of 6,OO0, 900 Of the
American people Five hundred thousand
Of these 1000, 600 are in Texas, and the
swlndlers OF these 500, 900 now write and
publish foul defamation Of those whom
they have persistently robbed. It Is pre-
sumption Intolerable in a stranger, ia .
strange land, to demand Office and power,
but these brazen-faced knaves still insist on
their right to rule, even when conscious Of
the OdiHm that attaches to their names and
deeds
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1874-12-31
AUSTIN AND PACIFIC RAILROAD
CONVENTION.

1t has been suggested that the interests of
the various counties lying near the route
and directly interested in the building of a
railroad from the Gulf ria Cuero, Gonzales,
Lockhart, Austin, Burnet, Lampasas,
BrOwnwOOd, and other places on that
route, would be greatly advanced by the
calling of railroad convention at Austin
during the session Of the coming LegisIa-
ture. The president and directors of the
Austin and Pacific Short Line Railroad
Company ask all the counties interested in
the building of the road over the route
above indicated to call meetings and ap-
point delegates to this convention at Aus
tin, on Thursday, the twenty-first day of
January, 1875. We believe such conven-
tiOn would go far toward insuring the sue
cess of the enterprise, and prove prOmotive
of the interests of all these counties.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1874-12-31
PARsoN NEwNAN is one Of Grants mo,

PARsoN NEwMAN is one of Grants moral
sycophants. He was sent over the world on
pleasure excursion, the United States
treasury, by Grants order, paying the cost
of the journey. Newman was called on
the pay rolls inspector OF consulates, -" and
while rObbing the country, still prayed and
preached vOciferOusly. Newman has now
returned, and his Golfers having been lib
orally supplied from the treasury, he has
brought back with him many trunks and
boxes. He did not expect to pay duties,
and some ignorant, awkwardly honest Gus
toms officer has stopped the trunks, and
Newman is IN deal of trouble. Grant will
intervene, and the godly mans plumber, of
course, will come through sect free.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1874-12-31

AUSTIN AND PACIFIC RAnRoAD CONVEX
TIoS.-The citizens Of counties along the
route Of the Austin and Pacific Short Line
Railroad - Calhoun, Victoria, Dewitt,
Gonzales, Caldwell, Travis, Williamson,
Burnet, Lampasas, Hamilton, Brown, Co
manche, Coleman, Callahan and Taylor, and
others interested, are requested to appoint
delegations Of such numbeFas they may see
fit, to attend convention, to be held in the
Mayors court room, in the city Of Austin,
commencing at P. n, on Thursday, the
tWenty-hrst day Of January, next.
z. II. SMITH,
Pres. A. & P. s. L. r. r.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1874-12-31

The vote of thirty-nIne parishes have
been compiled by the Board of Canvassers
at New Orleans, and there are returns from
seventeen parishes to be acted on. Thus
far the Democrats will have majority of
nine, and the other parishes, if justly treated
by Wells and his ring, will add eighteen to
this majority. There is no doubt now that
the Legislature of Louisiana will have an
effective Democratic majority.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1874-12-31

THE Katie KING delusion is at last fully
exposed. Katie was a stupendous fraud,
managing to get in and out of wardrobe
through sliding panels IN wall In mod
ern times there has been no rational evil
dence that dead people ever revisit this
mundane sphere, and all the real develop
ments of so-called spiritualism are simply
magnetic or sympathetic forces much the
same and quite as respectable as those of
lampreYs which electrify, paralyze and
devOur animals crossing pools along the
marshes of the Gulf coast.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1874-12-31

THE reason for electing delegates from
the State at large is plain enough. There
are great men in Texas whose names are
familiar in every household. These should
be chosen to frame the States organic law.
Three or four such men, by accident, may
live in the same district or county, and yet
the county, selecting its local politicians,
would fail to choose even statesmen, pre-
ferring the petty whippers-in of the party.
To assure tho election of the greatest men
in the State, there must be candidates at
large, designated by the press or by con
ventions of the people.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1874-12-31
POOR CHARLEY ROSS.

There was never such story written in
books of romance as this we have all been
reading in all American newspapers for five
months past, about poor Charlie Ross, the
stolen child of Philadelphia. The interest
in the fate of the hapless boy excites just
now more interest than ever before. The
death of two burglars, one confessing when
dying that he and his associate in crime
were Charley's abductors, arouses strong
hopes of Charley's restoration to his home.
Meanwhile the story comes thEt it was
Charley's dead body that was found, some
time ago, floating in New York harbor,
and again it is stated that Charley has
been seen in Indiana and his identity ascer-
tanned indubitably by photographs. Charley
has become member of every newspaper
reading household in all this broad land,
and every mother, when she kisses the lips
of her own child and leads its footsteps to-
wards Gods throne, makes the lisping son
or daughter pray for the safety of poor lost
Charlie Ross and for his restoration to those
who love him SO tenderly and are broken
hearted because of his long, strange alb
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1874-12-31

The people of Galveston request all in
corporated companies and banks of the
city to invest two and half per cent. of
their capital in the road to Santa Fe. This
looks well and Austin should at once devise
plans to secure direct connection, on the
shortest route, with this proposed road. 1t
will cost, if built by Mr.. Rosenberg and
Gen. Bragg, about half the sum expended
on other competing lines, and freight charges
will be lessened one-half.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1874-12-31

FIVE Of Henry Latimer's children have
died Of diptheria ia Pike comfy, and the
disorder is spreading. Austin doctors
should study the reports that I'll medical
journals, and even the New YorI1dailies, af-
fectiug this terrible maIady. It is certainly
infectious.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1874-12-31

TIE New YORK Herald has power enough,
and thus courage enough, to tell the simple
truth. It says that negroes, in the District
Of Columbia, infinitely superior in intelli-
gence to the masses Of Southern blacks,
should be divested Of the right Of suffrage.
II this be true Of the '.nation's special
wardsn gathered about the very throne Of
empire, what must be said Of the unIet-
tered, BesOtted, vOudOu-wOrshipping, night
bowling blacks that render Mississippi al
most uninhabitable, and enthrone villains
and knsves IN Louisiana
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ly a railway line.

THE Houston Age says of Andrew John
SON as a candidate for the Federal Senate in
Tennessee, thatif the ancient hog and hom-
iny State regards the unanimous wish of
their suffering friends in her sister Southern
States, who Reod his great ability and ex-
Perience in aiding to restore to them the
right of self-government, and removing
from them the swarms of blood-suckers that
have so long preyed upon their vitals, they
will elect johnson. He would have no
peer in the Senate.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1874-12-31

SPECIAL dispatches to the st. Louis Globe,
an Inter Ocean in its instincts, states that
Garland will be deposea and Brooks en-
throned in Arkansas. Poker Jack, late
Chief Justice of Arkansas, has won all the
loose change of the committee considering
Arkansas matters, and swears they shall
pay to the uttermost farthing if Brooks be
not invested with supreme power.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1874-12-31

The action of the annual Methodist Con-
ference at Houston was not correctly re-
ported, as this affected the absolute prohi-
bition of whisky drinking. There were
twenty-four votes for and twenty-five
against the amendment to the rules of dis.
cipline proposed at Louisville. The mea-
greness of the majority in favor of the
more stringent rule was that the law, as it
exists, only requires to be enforced The
change would be redundant legis-
lation.
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NO. %

wuEN the Austin and Calf branch Of the
Pacific Road Is built through Lampasas,
many villages of to-day, all towns and cities
of the future, along the generalroute of the
great roadway may be cheahy connected
with it by highways like the Austin Street
Railway. A light third rail need only be put
upon the track of the broad to subserve the
purposes Of all these cheap narrow gauge
branches. The time viii come perhaps when
the unproductive county school lauds may
be utilized in building these cheap railways
which, because OF cheapness in construc-
tion and inOPeFation, always pay dividends.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1874-12-31

THE Fort Worth Democrat endorses the
opinions Of the STATESMAN about the Texas
Pacific, but hopes Tom Scott has or viii
abandon his plan Of changing the course OF
the road. It concludes as follows:
Should the facts be as stated by the
STATESMAN, its suggestions TO the Legisla-
tIire are not far amiss.