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The Temperature.

Mr.. Louis Frigerio. No. SO Chartres street,
reports the weather for the past two
days as follows:
Gam. 3P. NJ. 6P. NJ.
February 2 ........... &c 60 81
February 9.......... ~ So 81
Lowest point during the nigh. OF February
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DEPARTMENT OF POLICE,

DEPARTMENT OF POLICE,
New Orleans, February 6. 1874. !
$NAS BROUGHT TO THE SIXTH DISTRICT
W Pound. on Jersey street, between Valence
and Bordeaux Streets
ONE DARK BAY MULE. fifteen hands high. stiff
N fore legs.
Which, ii not claimed within five days. ard the
expenses thereon paid will be sold at public auc-
S1en, at sald pound. on THURSDAY, February IL.
GS7< at twelve O'Clock VI.
T. BREWSTER. Administrator.
No. 42-fe7 I'd
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Ice cutters at the North say the article il
''too thin this year for Q large crop.
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nPkRA HOUSE... ....OPERA HOUSE
Tuesday, February 10, 1874,
CHARLES VI,
Grand opera by Halevy.
Thursday, February l2-Matinee at IL N.
Evening performance at seven oclOck-Benett
Of Mr.. GADILHE-LAFRICAINE. fel0 IL
A GRAND RACE FOk SPLENDID HARNESS
"A and Saddle Horse to be voted for at the Cres
cent City Table, Odd Fellows Hail. ST. Patrick's
Pair. The following entries are made Of the cham
pion steamers OF the Mississippi:
SATCHtZ, Captain Leaihers.
z. X LEE, Captain Cannon.
FRANK PARGOUD, aptain White.
kATIb, Captain Campbell.
The horse to be awarded to the captain of The
steamer receiving the largest number of votes.
fe4 1t
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Masonic.


The sixty.second annual communication
of the Grand Lodge Of Free and Accepted
Masons of the State of Louisiana com.
menced at the Masonic Hall last evening,
with the following officers officiating:
NJ. w. NJ. <. Girard, grand M master: K. W.
J: G. Fleming, deputy grand master; X. w.
Edwin Marks, senior grand warden. r. w.
w X Whitaker. Junior grand warden; r.
WV. 5. Pike, grand treasurer; r. w. j. c.
Bachelor, NJ d., grand secretary; W. r. H.
Day, grand senior deacon; w. Henry c.
Brown, grand junior deacon; w. w. Robson.
grand marshal; w. G Chaplin, grand sword
bearer: w. Sam H. Brown, grand pursuant;
w. Rev. j. c. Carpenter, grand chaplain;
w. NJ. II. Lppmuns, grand steward: w.
David Moore, grand steward; W. +. A.
Dentzel. grand tyler.
The committee ON credentials reported
eighty one chartered lodges and tao lodges
under dispensatiOn represented.
Standing committees were appointed. and
the grand master delivered the annual ad
dress. and the reports Of the deputies were
received.
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WOOD---COAI.

fNOAf...............CO COAL.
r. d. MACLIN.
No. 81 CnrOndelet street.
BRANCH OEFiCE-Corner Third and TcSoap!.
toul is streets.
pITT-BURG COAL.
Delivered at seventy five cen per barrel. fe2 3t
E. d. WOOD JOHN A. WOOD. j. n. WOOD
u ID. WOOD g. BROTHERS,
COAL MERCHANTS.
iOG.......... Common street ........l O6
Opposite the City Hotel.
Tugbeat Ch arlie Wood no1s 6m
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The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1874-02-19

each and all Of whieh.we find correctly en-
crossed.
The joint resolution returning thanks 10
the President for upholding the right Of To-
cal seIf,government passed both houses
On the fourteenth, Senator euIberson
was excused indefinitely, on account OF sick
ness in his family. His absence at this
time IS most Unfortunate. Men OF his ex-
peFience, research and wisdom are needed
in the decision of the grave questions be-
fore the Legislature. We trust he win be
able to return IN time to take pant in their
discussion. He is an able debater, possess
ing captivating style, remarkable for its
terseness, directness, logical force and
vigor.
An act to encourage stockraising, and
for the protection of stockraisers, was re-
ported to the Senate by committee, and
made special order for Monday.
in the House, on Saturday, the bin to
create and organize the county of Lee, was
ordered engrossed.
In the House, on Saturday, the bin to re-
apportiOn the State of Texas into congress
sional districts, was read and made the
special order for Monday, the twenty
third.
A large number Of bills have been intro
duced, upon which there has been no def
mite action. We shall be particular to
notice all of them, and particularly those
Of inheritance, as they are disposed of.
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nation in regard to the results arising from
immigration int this State. Mr.. Collins is
quite young mar, but possesses compre-
hensive and practical turn Of mind, and is
destined to do great deal towards the de-
velopment Of Texas. He is largely inter
ested IN lands in Northern. Texas, and has
put on foot perfect system for their de-
velOpmentr and consequently the lands Of
everyone else interested anywhere else in
the State. He has visited. with the
object Of inducing immigration to
the State, all parts of the United States.
and has made special rates with
all the main railroad lines for immi.
grants with whom he may make contracts.
In many instances these special rates amount
to nearly two-thiris less than the usual fare.
He has already introduced some FIVE hun.
dred families into his section Of the State,
and has but just commenced his work. lie
Isl highly valuable citizen, and is, besides,
a gentleman Of high intelligence and most
polished education.
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Two hundred indictments have been
found in the district court against citizens
for playing cards for amusement If PLAYED
at public house. the ofTense is complete.
The lowest cost in each case is $42. This
is called regulating the public morals and re-
straining youths from improper habits.
But there is no remedy for establishing
houses of illfame on the principal streets,
and nIne-tenths OF "A Legislature may be
bought and sold, as was the Twelfth. and
not a single Indictment is found. Truly we
are great people.-'State Gazette.
OF course such an insult to the members
of the Legislature must provoke their indig-
nation, but, as we have often repeated be
fore, the editor of the Gazette, with his
.coarseness, can injure no one. He has long
since passed the pale of honest society, and
hisassertions have no weight among respect
able people. His intimate association with
Z. J. Davis for so long a time, has just
qualified him for such dirty inuendoes as
the above.
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READING ELLIS.

That part Of Governor Coke's message re-
ferring to the constitutional requirements
in regard to the reading Of bills up for pas
sage before the Legislature is forcible, and
should constantly be kept in view as one of
the safe landmarks in legislation. Here is
the extract:
l call the attention of your honorable
bodies TO portion of section twenty-four,
article three, of the Constitution, which
reads as follows:
"BilIs may originate in either house and
be amended, altered or rejected by the
other; but no bill shall have the force of a
law until on three sereal days it be read in
each house, and free discussion be allowed
thereon, unless in case of great emergency
four-fifths of the house in which the bill
shall be pending, may deem it expedient to
dispense with this rule"
The evident intent and purpose of this
provision of the Constitution is to secure full
and mature consideration to each bill before
it becomes a law, and thereby to prevent
hasty and ill-advised legislation.
1t will be observed that this provision is
express and mandatory in requiring that the
bill shall be read on three several days in each
House before 1t shall have the force of law,
unless the rule is dispensed with in case of
great emergency by fOur-ffths vote. sub
NIT with great Difference to your honorable
bodies, that the presidents of the Legisla-
ture of Texas in recent years, show frequent
departures from the letter and spirit of this
most wise and necessary constitutional pro-
vision. 1t has been recently common
practice to avoid slight Inconvenience
by suspending the operation of this rule,
when nothing less than great emergency
is q constitutional justification for this
course. l take it upon myself to say
that it is a rare occurrence in the leg
islative history of this country that great
emergency, in the sense in which that term is
used in the Constitution, occurs requiring a
suspension of the constitutionalrule Yet it is
fact that hardly day passes in which for
some cause the rule is not suspended in your
honorable bodies. 1t sometimes will occur
that delay which will admit the reading on
three several days of a bill before it becomes
a law, will be fraught with great danger
and injury to the country or some of its in
tcrests; to meet this contingency, the Con-
stitution provides for a suspension of this
rule But it can only be at rare intervals
that such state of things can exist to such
an extent that it can truly be said great
emergency has arisen.
To suspend this rule merely to suit the
convenience Of one or many persons is per-
version of the letter and spirit OF the Con
stitution, departure from a method found
by experience absolutely essential to safe
and conservative legislation, and conse-
quently precedent which 1 submit should
not be sanctioned or followed.
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COMMUNICATED
A Financial View.

The financial question is now the promi-
nent one in our State politics. Everybody
proposes cure for it, but as 1t has become
an old sore, it will take radical prescrip-
ton to heal it. AS l am not an M. ID, in
financial matters, lido not give my prescrip-
ton as one to be tried, but merely wish it
to be accepted as common sense view of
the case. In the first place there ought to
be law to enforce payment of taxes. The
present laws are not worth the paper they
are printed on,
The tax sale laws ought to be peremptory
and final. You will see no neglect in the
payment of taxes if these laws are enacted.
In the next place, empower the executive
department to enforce prompt settlement
by tax gatherers. If by these means the
treasury is not able to meet all demands,
empower him to make loan to meet it, and
that without delay. If enough does not
como in by present taxation, create a tax
alton upon luxuries sufficient to enlarge
the income of the State to create certain
sinking fund to cover loan for the entire
Indebtedness of the State. BY such means
I think the State of Texas VIII once more
become free State, in the widest sense of
word.
And lastly, but by no, means the least,
there ought to be law making it ON inn
peachable offense for the Treasurer to refuse
payment. The warrants, having par value
nnder such circumstances, viii not be q
speculative commodity, and through such
means the Treasurer will have no tempta-
tons placed in his way. His vouchers and
books will show the receipts and expendi-
lures, loans, etc, at any time when
called on. The workman is worthy his
hire, and the servants of the State belong as
much to that class as any artisan or work.
man in civil life who has honestly worked
for what the State may owe him.
Laws are made for delinquents, and
honest men need not fear them, but
the laws now on the statute books leave
a wide margin for s'smartn men, and are a
source of inviting speculation for honest
men. Express clearly the duty of an officer
and he mast be honest and faithful, even if
he would not, or I'll be
A DUTcHNAS.
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Hen. L. W. Moore on ths Constitutional
Convention.


Ia GRANGE, February IL, 1874.
Editars Dsmocratic Stat4mG1l-The report
of the committee on Constitutional Conven-
ton, by no means reflects the desire and
wish 81 the Democracy Of Fayette county
IN that. they. propose commission IND
thirds OF which to be appointed By the Leg
islature and one-third By the executive, l9f
the purpose Of making organic law. The
excuse Tor this remarkable mode Of eiiecting
constitutional change, Is ecOn0my
4 Constitution thus framed would be
chesp, 90 cheap indeed rs to imply n COM
mon with other shoddy goods, worthless
ness. Yet It might be found dear enough
for the people Of Texas, who are jealous 81
their liberty and the right to manage their
o,s n Affairs according to their own sovereign
wish. when they contemplate the Legisla-
inre appointing tuo-thirls Of a commission.
founding Tor them organic Law. Such econo-
nv If persisted IN would soon destroy in the
mind Of the citizen al respect Tor C0nstl-
buttons and their sovereign power
Al Legislature Of limited power delibcg-
atsly proposes q measure o. supreme an
tIiorify 10 Be placed under their control and
dfclalion II would Be bad enough had
theT proposed some other node 81 appoint
ing this comm ion. bus it deserves the ex-
ccfafion % TIC citizen and win receive Il
il We mean TO be free ard yIRilanl, When
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THE Distribution AND MISERY IN
GREAT CITIES.


The New York Herald has done a good
work, one of benevolcnce and love, in call
ing attention to the wretchedncss of that
metropolis. And its noble proprietor, with
liberality that does credit to his head and
heart opened ms seand gave $50, 600 to
the poor. This is practical. The world
can understand that character of virtue
which mapifests itself in good deeds. But
the editorials, and.the expositions of desti-
tuition and misery which are detailed
through that paper, go practically far be-
You'd the liberal donation Of Mr. Bennett.
They have awakened the moral sense Of the
country, and the religious press and reli-
eious people, to contemplation Of their
duty. It is an admonition and rebuke,
coming from secular source and a secular
press,
Looking at The question in a moral light,
Mr.. Jefferson said, that great cities were
eye-sores on the body polite. DestitusiOn,
vice, and crime prevail in all of them, and
it becomes the religious world to look, in a
spirit OF love and liberality, to their cotrec.
ton. They should rememberthat Magda-
len, Who would DO scarcely admitted into
any o. their costly churches to-day, was the
companion Of the mother Of Jesus that
she stood beside her on the Mount Of Cal
vary, under the shadow Of the cross, and
she was the first at the sepulChre on the
morning Of the resurrection. Christ has
told US that he that giveth to the poor are
repaid seven fold in this world and viii be
remembered in che world to come.
But looking to it even from a human
slandpoint and without even prospect Of
reward. itis time for al good men to take
hold Of this question Of physical relief. in
which IS involved 50 much Of human hap
piness and morality, and cndeavor to make
the world what God designed it. Every
sity, town. village, and neighborhood. can
leafn 3 lesson from these scenes Of misery,
ana look to those around them who may
need cid.
Inufiewing the destitntion in New York,
a. exchange says:
Tho reporter interviewed beggared
broker. scseFal panie-fuined clerks and
otD<ts who were on the verge 81 Starvation.
refcrai instances are known in which re-
spectacle ladies have stayed in bed Tor DAYS
and nights together, because they had
neither iced nor Ere and one woman,
widow, who had pavned everything else IN
the world bat 8 velvet cloak, ia which she
lI1 her MISERY ana rags. absolutely stopped
lady going - church and berrcsi NON
her atty cents with which 70 purchase the
Ilsl food she had eaten for forly-eicht
hours The report gives an insight into TIE
dark side 81 city life. taken from the lower
Straits. and shows tho terrible Distress that
S stalking TIE streets az the METROPOLIS.
nrccIpilated Ia great measure by the COM
fleIeIal and financial panic.
oh, tho world. the world ne church, the
cholchi Does tie world and the church
1e the fact that 81 al tie heafhea
s Nmmon stands conspicuouss .sTc
naol egve God and Nsmlnon Tins
ihe son Of man Il the church
would loils duig--i.s n.inis,ols AMI people
ena - elca beyond lhe secular press The
country Nouia awaken 70 higher and
re cirilIIion.
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U.ury- Ls..sr f.ea nouna nosE.

ROUND Rock, Feb. 13, 1874.
Editors Democratic ISt0fesm0li--4Ye see IN
a communication from Clcburne, your cor
respondent wants q constitutional cOnren-
ton to change the clause forbiddino laws
against usury. Did not one Of tic amend
ments voted for az the December election
permit the Legislature TO make general law
covering this point, or did Il forbid ans
special legislation about it, We, ike Your
correspondent, believe that che want ~
law forbldding usury accounts Tor the fact
that with q full crop Of cotton and fair
prices, times are harder and money scdrcor
than It was IN aEfe-jeIiHm times, with light
crops and low prices; because there s. q
money ring IN almost every neighboihood,
village and town the State, who borrow az
the money TO be had at less than two per cent.
perm0nth, and lend L at from three % Eve.
Then il A owes B, and has 20 pay him, IN
less be has the money AZ hand, Be must Dor
row Of these robbers at I've per cent. per
month, Or not pay. We need not expect
anybody but che usuFer 20 prosper Whilcfllis
condition Of things remain.
hespeedully, JUsTIcE.
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DEATH OF JUDGE JOHN +. SMITH.


Hon. John T. Smith, member Of the
lower house Of the Legislature, from Hous-
ton county. died in this city on Monday,
the sixteenth day of February, at about
five o'clock p. ". He came to Austin at
the beginning of the present session Of the
Legislature in delicate health, and has re-
NAMED so up to the time of his death. In
spite Of this, however, he has been a close
attendant upon his duties as a member Of
the House of Representatives, and made bis
appearance regularly up to the Saturday be-
fore his death. He was taken quite sick on
Sunday and died on Monday afternoon at
the hour named, from the effects of a con-
gestive chill. At the time of his death he
was about sixty years Of age.
Judge Smith was one Of the old settlers
Of Texas and has taken an active part in the
destinies of the State. During the late war
he served in the Confederate army es a cap
tain, and since that time has filed seat in
three Legislatures as Democratic member.
he was in the Legislature in 1866, and was
afterwards elected to the Thirteenth and
Fourteenth Legislatures. During his entire
publiccareer he has won for himself the name
of being a just and fair man-one not to be
led astray by prejudice or favoritism, and
every ready to rectify any false step he may
have taken. In his death the State has lost
good man, his constituents faithful rep
resentatiye, and his friends kind and true
associate.
Judge Smith leaves family in Crockett
to mourn his loss. Immediately upon HIS
death the sad intelligence was conveyed to
his friends at home, and it is understood
that his remains are to be sent to them.
We deeply sympathize with them in their
J,oroo,,a,,,a,f
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they transcend Their authority and become
the controlling appointing power, vested
with supreme authority.
It is no reply 10 SAY the peotIe viii tx-
press their sovereign Will in reiserinr ID am
proving the result Of this commission
just such violation as they exercised
when they voted for the present organic
law ! To avoid the bayonet and military
authority, they in snbjugatiOn DID vote Tor
it. To avoid it, which sits rs the
ghost in the arabian knights. upon
their shoulders day and night. they
might vote for q system Of laws
which an unauthorized and unlimited
agent submitted to them as the only alter
native. The people OF Texas are willing
to pay for their freedom, precisely that price
which freedom demands.
Burdened Is we are with debts contracted
in cur shame and oppression, We want 10th
ing so cheap as a Constitution, framed by
agents. selected By the Legislature and ex-
ecutive departments. They are our high
public servants, selected for other purposes.
The platform upon which they entered upon
power promises a convention.
The proposition Of the committee in
effect is; we will permit you to have a con-
vention, provided you will permit us to
name twO-thirds of the members Why
twO-thirds the jealous citizen SAYS. Who
discovered, and for what purpose, this re-
markable adjustment of power between the
Legislative and executive department, which
ignores the judiciary Il is not arbitrary
simply, nor accidental; it means more than
economy. We honor Savers, Simpson, and
Others of the minority, who have entered
their protest against this assumption. Yet,
in part, we think they err in proposing a
convention so small in numbers as not to be
representative, and particularly that number
which represents the State at large.
We know of no man big enough, no ten,
nor twenty, to represent this State
Let us have a convention, such as good
representative men in the late State Conyen-
ton promised, or bear those evils which
now burden us in the present Constitution,
until a legislature can trust their people
with the full measure Of their liberty.
M roa L. w. MooRR.
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AMONG the warmest advocates of con-
stitutiOnal convention in the Legislature, is
Hon. Dan H. Triplett, of Orange. This
gentleman, like nearly all of the southeast
ern members, is out and out for conven-
ton. BE made an able speech in reply to
Hon. u. U. Barziza, of Harris, who has
been in favor of commission.
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bereavement
SALARIES OF SUPREME JUDGES.

We noted with regret the recent resigna-
ton of our distinguished fellow-citizen,
w. p. Ballinger, as Associate Justice of our
Supreme Court, owing among other rea-
sons, to the inadequacy of the salary
$500, which is about the compensation of
a first class clerk here-whilst necessitating
the sacrifice of his lucrative practice. Few
men who are worthy of the position earn
less than eight to twelve thousand per an
mum, and it is as unnecessary as it is alb
surd, to expect gentlemen of talent and
established reputation to assume the great
est responsibilities of the State, at a per
sonal sacrifice, and possibly personal en-
barrassment. - GdtUeStOR CSUiLaGR.
While we regret the resignation of Judge
Ballinger, and believe the salaries of the
judges are too low, we cannot suffer to pass
unnoticed the above article We believe
that our supreme bench, as atlpresent consti-
tuted, is equal in legal leaIhing TO that of
any State in the Union. Chief Justice
Roberts was an associate on the old bench
with Hemphill and Wheeler, and his decis-
ions were marked by elearness and learn
ing which secured for him an enviable rep
utation among the jurists of the South.
Judges Devine, Reeves and the other asso-
ciate justices are among the most learned
lawyers of the State All of them were
judges before the war, and honored for their
purity and learning. Though their salaries
are low, we congratulate the State that these
gentlemen have been willing to incur sacri-
fees to rescue us from the judicial incompe-
tency which has lately marked our history.
We question whether asable bench can be
found in any State of the Union. We are
satisfied that their nominations have given
universal approval and qualification through
out Texas and abroad where their distin-
guished talents and virtues are known and
appreciated, 1t will be hailed as an omen
of good, and the dawning of better govern
ment.