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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-01-09
EXAMINATION OF SAMUEL S. MYERS.

u
Samuel S. Myers called and sworn and
challenged for principal cause
Mr.. Beaoh-Have you any opinion in regard to this
ltgationi A. Yes, Sir.
O. Isit formed Sir, upon pretty large consideration
OF the publications A. Yes Sir.
@. Do you regard it as pretty deliberate aud nxed
OpinOnf A. Yes, Sir.
Judge Neilson-Stand aside, Dir.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-01-09
EXAMINATION OF HENRY TWIST.

Henry Twist called and sworn and chal-
lenged for principal cause.
BY Mr.. Fullerton-Have you read what has been pub
lished in regard this controversy A. Most OF it,
@. Read the statements A. Yes, Sir
O. Come to a conclusion in regard to its A. have.
@. Got decided opinion, have you A think So
The Juror excused.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-01-09
TWO JURYMEN EXCUSED BY MUTUAL CON


when al length the Court again called TO order, r
Evarts said The result your Honor please Of some
Joint consideration of matters laid before counse Oh
both sides touching perhaps, the question Only OF par
TALLY has led us 10 the conclusion that Mr. Blunt ana
Mr. Hucke may both be excused
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-01-09

EXAMINATION OF DANIEL r. BOwKER.
Daniel X. BOwker sworn as to challenge for
principal cause.
Mr.. Whereabouts do you reside IN this city I
A. No. li Wasbingt0naye.
Q What is your pursuit. A. MY occupation Is
merchant but I have had no business tho last eight
months
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-01-09

EXAMINATION OF GILBERT II. BALDWIN
Ebert Ii. Baldwin called and sworn on the
challenge as TO principal cause.
Mr.. FLllertOn-Hdve you formed any opinion In re-
spect to the merits OF this controversy A Yes, Sir
@ Is that opinion based upon what you have heard
and readl A. Yes, Sir.
O. And is it a liked opinioni A. I think 1t is.
Judge Neilson-S,and aside, Sir.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-01-09

EXAMINATION OF DAVID ALLEN.
David Allen sworn as to challenge for prin-
cipal cause.
Mr.. Beach-Whatis your agel A. slxtyfour
Mr. FdllertOn after some consutaton)-You are ex-
cused
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-03-25
RESTRICTED SUFFRAGE IN TOWNS
AND CITIES.

Grand schemes of public plumber are
usually concOcted in high places, not in
low; among the full-handed, not among
the poor. Tweed and his knavish confed-
crates were all fellows of substance, as well
as of liberal capacity for acquisItion.-NesCs.
Tweed bought and consolidated the rab-
bic as he could not buy the freeholders of
New York City 1t was universal suffrage
that robbed the city of millions, has made
taxation intolerable and the government of
the American metropolis disgracetul in the
eyes of civilization. If this be true of the
fortunes of New York, how infinitely worse
the condition of Southern municipalities
Reconstruction" itself dared not make es-
cape from possible ruin by Savage suf-
frage" impossible. It was declared, how
ever, that if we secured for ourselves wise
State legislation we must win it by losing
numbers and votes in Congress. Beyond
this, crazed Radiealism dared, not go, and
we were left free to protect ourselves at will
in municipalities. State Legislatures need
only declare that none but freeholders shall
vote in municipal elections, though non
freeholders may be eligible to Office, and
then, those alone imposing, who pay taxes,
will surely make them light enough.
County and town governments affect prop
erty alone. They neither create nor restrict
personal rights or freedom. The rabble
that reigns in half the towns and cities OF
the South have neither interests nor SYM
pathies in common with the people they
plunder, and surely none save those who
approve negro suffrage and the delectable
civil rights bill, will hesitate, in the South,
to approve in counties and towns the indis-
pensable restriction of suffrage. Sym
pathizers with Radiealism can hardly be ex-
pected to cooperate in this reform; but a
Radical Congress made its accomplishment
possible, and to this extent admitted, what
we have all seen, that in local elections,
where ignorance is universal and danger
Gus to the last degree, that theonly security
left taxpayers isin the restriction of suffrage.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-03-25
SIGNIFICANCE OF THE ELECTION IN
NEW HAMPSHIRE.

A newspaper should tell the unvarnished
truth and not suffer its readers to be misled
by the binding influence of partisan preju-
dices. 1t begins to appear that the good
people of New Hampshire, however pOr-
tion of the Democratic press may seek to
disguise the fact, have significantly
Spanked the party" as the Philadelphia
Times tells it, and sent it to the foot of the
class, just as they do Repubhcanism when
things go badly in local or national affairs.
The victory is not sweeping, as administra-
ton organs have heralded it, but whether
it is as deep as well or broad as barn
door, it matters not. 1t is enough to change
the political ascendancy in the government.
1t was desperately contested battle, and
exhausted the energies and resources of
both parties, as they fought hand to hand
among the bleak hills and snowdrifts of the
little. commonwealth. Both parties are
hardshell as their granite mountains Re
pubIicans so radical that they believe the
war never. will be over, and Democrats so
Bourbon that they don't believe there ever
was war, and they both declared their ad.
versaries banditti in genuine Phil Sheridan
style, and would have drawn the sword of
destruction had not the lingering lessons of
early Puritanism interposed. The recon
structed Confederate generals, Gordon and
Lamar, piped peace and good will to the
frosted huzzas of the Democracy, but the
patriots of the custom house and revenue
districts thundered loyalty at the rebels,
and won. There is no choice for Governor
by the people, bat the Legislature being
Republican, viii elect the Republican can
didate, and the Congressional delegation
gives one Democratic gain. The Republi-
cans cleared the decks for the fight by a
square declaration in their platform against
the third term, and they have the substance
of victory IN changing the Legislature and
Governor from Democratic to their own
faith. The first skirmish of 1875, there
fore, scores one against Grants renomina-
ton, while, Grant and Pinchback score one
in favor of bayonet rule down South. Be
tween the Republican belligerents the hon
ors are easy, while between Republicans
and Democrats the latter have notice that a
State may be against debanched Republican
rule and yet not be Democratic. It is a
very pointed admouition that the party that
is most wise in 1875 will start with the in
side track in 1876.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-03-25
THE FUTURE OF AUSTIN.

1t is stated by one of our exchanges that
the capitalists directly interested in the Red
River and Rio Grande Railway are worth
more than $1s, 600, 900, and that the road
already built and now terminating at Deni-
son is sS2 miles long and cost $32, 600, 600.
This great highway from Chicago and St.
Louis and from Kansas City, terminating
where it does, is valueless as an investment,
and must reach Austin, the Gulf and Mex
leo. Here, at Austin, it may become also
part and parcel of the international, and,
uniting its. resources with those of this
company, facilitate the extension of a road
across Mexico. There must be either unity
and perfect cooperation between the Inter-
national and the Missouri, Kansas and
Texas road or vigorous, exciting rivalry.
Mexico endows that company with SIS, 652
per mile which first enters Mexican terri
tory. The only condition is that the Ameri.
can road must enter Mexico at Eagle Pass OF
at some point below on the Rio Gtande.
Mexico thus offers premium for rapidity
Of railway construction, as did the Indian
Territory, north of US. To understand
the relations of the two roads, the Missouri,
Kansas and Texas and International to one
another, consult the scale of miles and map
of Texas. The Missouri, Kansas and Texas,
in this State, begins at Denison and goes
thence to Clarksville, in Cooke county,
thence to Fort Worth and Meridian, in
Bosque county, to San Saba, and thence to
Eagle Pass, on the Rio Grande, the main
line extending from Meridian direct to Aus
tin, its point of junction with the Interna-
tional, and with the Texas Central. The
route of the Red River and Rio Grande
missouri, Kansas and Texas road lies
through the richest and most beautiful dis
trict of Texas. There is no more attractive
country on the globe than counties bisected
by this railway northeast Of Austin, and
the construction Of the Missouri, Kansas
and Texas road to this city is an impen-
tive necessity. It becomes at once profta-
bic, furnishing freight and travel to the
long lines north Of Denison. The branch
that DIVORCES to Eagle Pass, for seues Of
yeaEs, until it reaches densely populatsd
districts Of Mexico, must Be comparatively
prOftless. The coming hither Of this rail-
way Is, therefore, an immediate necessity,
and comPels the construction Of the Inter
nation to this same point. and both are at
tracled By the existing Austin branch Of the
Central. In view Of the fact that Austin
Is the nearest point to Denison. access TO
which win make two railways, the Interna-
tional. and Missouri, Kansas and Toxas
profitable to themselves and 70 each Othsr,
Il is hardly probable that thsru il any fOun-|
dation for shs story that the international
win Be detected 70 the north o. south Of It.
present projected route, or that the Ms
souri, Kansas and Texas road win reach
Eagle Pan bsforo the shortor lino 70 the
GaH is completed through Aurin. We
not only believe that the 1egilsnlrro, Just
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-03-25

THE jetty system Of improving and deep
ening the water on the bars at the mouth of
the Mississippi having been adopted in bill
which recently passed the House, attention
has been called by Representative stanard,
of Missouri, to the various rivers in Europe
where this plan. has been used successfully.
The River Trave, In Prussia, with seven
feet of water at its mouth before jetties
were resorted to, was deepened to eighteen
feet. The Oder, by this system, was deep
ened from seven feet to twenty three feet ;
the Warne from six to thirteen feet the
Niemen from ten to twenty-three feet, and
the Pugel from twelve to twenty feet. The
improvement Of the Pugel IS not yet COM
pleted. In Russia the mouth of the River
Libau has been deepened from six te.Eix-
teen feet, ard the Pernau also from six to
sixteen feet. The great River Danube Is .
stream with a mouth much similar to that
Of the Mississippi. t had but nine feet. Of
water when IN natural state but the lap-
plication Of jetties deepened it to twenty
one and a half feet. AT the mouth Of the
Mississippi the work Of dredging has been
going on for long time, and the water on
the bar has varied from fourteen to eighteen
feet. BY the jetty-systeDl proposed depth
Of twenty feet is to be obtained in thirty
months, and this is to be subsequently in
creased to thirty feet.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-03-25
TIE TWO SOUTHERN ROUTES To
THE PACIFIC.


II is possible that the semi-vficial visit
of Federal Senator'S to Mexico has reference
10 the railway and commercial interests
of the two great Republics. Since they go
abroad at the cost of the United States
Treasury there must be some public duty
assigned them. Representatives OF the
International Railway appeared before com
mittees of the two houses of Congress dur
ing the late session, and presented the supe-
rior claims of this more Southern road to
Federal favor. A subvention was asked
and assistance in restoring quiet and order
on the Rio Grande, which can only be
effected by rendering the country accessible
to civilization. Therefore, perhaps Ran
som, Gordon and Logan viii see President
Lerdo, and make the Mexican subvention a
fixed certainty by embodying provision
for it in treaty between the two govern
ments. Lerdo is thus reassured, as Logan
and Ransom may be authorized to state,
that permanent peace will be maintained
between the Republics, and the completion
of the International, without cost to Federal
power, is the scheme preferred to that of
which Tom Scott is the exponent. The In
ternational constitutes much shorter line
to the Pacific from Washington or New
York, and three. fourths of the whole road
VIII exist in country uenseIy populated,
and of matchless fertility. There is no
such route for trans-continental road, by
which the fruits and coffee and sugar of the
tropics may be interchanged for the wealth
of st. Louis and Chicago, as this defined
for the pathway of the International be-
tween the two oceans.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-03-25

southwest from St. Louis, and of the Mis-
sour, Kansas and Texas, from Kansas City
to Austin--all these corporations are repre-
sented by these Federal Senators, and their
purpose will be to secure the most liberal
possible concessions to the international af-
ter it crosses the RIO GTande. It is stated
that an attempt viii also be made to induce
Lerdo de Tejada to grant the international
Company the exclusive privilege Of build
ing railroads in Mexico. Gen. Rosecranz
in connection with has brother, the arch
bishop, is using every influence to get the
Catholic Church of Mexico to favor the
plan, which is believed to include the an
nexation of Sonora and chihuahua to the
United States. The Lower California Com
pany, Of which w R. Tfavers is president, and
E. L. Plumb, who recently spent some
weeks in Austin, are also sharers in this
scheme of railway speculation. Mr.. Plumb,
it is just to say, is no speculator, but rather
an enthusiast. he is living embodiment
of Spanish-American facts, traditions, sta
tistics and history. He has q theory, too,
and lives and, will die with it-that Mexico
must supplant Cuba as source of CONNER
cial riches to aggrandize the cities of the
United States. While Mr.. Plumb has given
origin and body and-sOul to this whole
scheme of railway construction and of
American progress, the head that conceived
will never be crowned with laurel and the
hand that planned will never grasp unex-
ampled wealth that is its due. The sharplit-
tie fellows will now come to the surface
and seizing the honors which position and
impudence command, the modest pains
taking, earnest, and erudite Mr.. Plumb
will be content if the dreams of his unself-
ish ambition and continental patriotism be
realized in the construction of the most
benefcent railway ever planned.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-03-25
NEWSPAPER BUSINESS, FAILURES
AND SUCCESSES.


None of the New York dailies are max
ing money, except, perhaps, the World and
Herald. The Tribune and Times exhaust
their income in paying for news and for
contributions to their brilliant pages, not
more attractive, however, than those of the
two papers above named. It costs vast
sums to collect news, and the theory of the
New York press is, that anything is worth
telegraphing which is worth printing Their
correspondents are everywhere, and if the
world were not SO large, and towns and
States so numerous, the New York dailies
would drive all others out of existence.
These newspapers can't hold all that they
would print. The Springfield Repu6Iican
fourishes, because of the sheer force Of
genius of its editor, under the very shadow
of the great dailies of the great city, and
tells US, very truthfully, that the business
is overdone, and that competition is every
where ruinous. The daily metropolitan
newspaper utilizes the telegraph to the
amount of thousands of dollars per week.
1t has its general and special correspondents
wherever there is news to be found. 1t en-
ploys specialists for special occasions. 1t
gathers the daily news not only from its
city and State, but from the United
States, and from every part of the
world reached by telegraph and mail
1t has already run the monthly magazines
down to very small circulation, and killed
many of them, and it has more or less in
iuenced the sale of general literature by in
vading its domain. The scientist, the lee
turer, the clergyman, find it to be their
mouthpiece, even without their knowledge.
There is little use for scientific journals or
for religious newspapers now. Every pro-
vince of thought, knowledge and news is
ransacked by this omnlvorous collector,
and subsidized by it. The results of this
gigantic work are furnished to the public
for the pittance of few cents, and, as
there is no other business which develops
such exciting rivalry and eager, constant
competition, in like manner there is no
other business which furnishes the results
of competition at so small prlce. The
result of all this is that only few of the
larger papers, which have an extensive cir
culation and advertising patronage, can
make any money. Their income is ex-
hausted in the outgo, and they are in state
of chronic poverty all their days, living in
some mYsterieus manner like individnoia
similarly afflicted. In the case of the great
daily newspapers, undoubtedly this fact is
attributable partly to waste of labor grow
ing out of the want of skilled and trained
men, and partly to the expenditure of
money for unimportant matter, growing out
of the necessities of competition. Just at
present hard times and dull business affect
the business of all papers, but the general
fact remains that the competition for news
between the daily newspapers is exhausting
the receipts of most Of them. How this
problem will be solved remains to be seen.
It may solve itself by the collapse of some
of the superhuous sheets.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-03-25
MEXICO, TEXAS AND THE RAIL.
WAY RINGS.


Some days ago, it was asserted by the
STATESMAN that there was a practical pur-
pose involved in the mission Of Senators
now en- route to Mexico. Federal interests
were at stake or a Federal ship would not
convey the Senators to Vera Cruz. A treaty
is to be defined or some trade is contem-
plated, and Grant has employed Gordon
and Logan as real estate brokers to see Chi
huahua and Sonora and tell Of the value,
and at the same time Of railway line con-
meeting Boston, New York, Baltimore,
Richmond, Atlanta, Montgomery, Vicks-
burg, Shreveport and Austin, and Chicago,
st. Louis, Jefferson and Austin, and Kan
sas City, Denison, Fort Worth, Meridian
and Austin, By the shortest possible line
With the Pacific coast at San Bias or Mazat-
Ian. Tom scOtt's scheme Of connecting
the Eastern and Western oceans along the
route Of the Southern Pacific would cost .
vast sum. Federal credit would be bur
dened, possibly damaged, By lending It to
50 vast scheme Of railway construction
across 90 vast an expanse Of mountains and
plainE. Failing to securS the, SubventiOu
asked for the Southern Pacific, Il Is now
stated In en- Eastern exchange that Tom
Scott himself Is associated IN this Mexican
speculation, and that he win accompany
Logan, Gordon, Ransom and Chandlrr in
the tour through Mexico. As stated by the
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-03-25
THR TRUTn AZ d d.

We are at last to have a newspaper in
Philadelphia worthy Of the ancient city.
At least we infer this fact from the first ed
itorial that graces the pages Of the Times.
It declares its purpose to be ''a thoroughly
independent journal, confessing allegiance
only to its own convictions, making no hol-
low pretense Of neutrality on the leading
questions Of the day, or in political con-
iiicts as they pass. Il win ever discard the
blind partisanship that would subordinate
right to party success, no matter for what
organization orinWhose interest such claim
is made, and it viii resolutely critlciso po-
Etical errors and the want Of public integ-
rity wherever found. The age Of political
organs has passed away never to return.
No journals cOnfessing, either in terms or
by unmhnly obedience to partisan dictation,
their devotion to party whether night or
wrong, can now, or henccforth, command
popular respect and confidence; nor can
they mould tho convictions or direct the
actions Of men In this enlightened era Of
our political progress. There is not q single
great newspaper in the county to-day that
does not openly profess and boldly maintain
It's Independence Of parties and administra-
tions, while the journals regarded as the
ready apologisis Of power and party Ian
guish in business. and justly earn the con
tempt Of all intelIigenf readers Of eVery
political faith.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-03-25

value Of this magnificent property, and
then, If schools and colleges and universi-
ties be wisely nurtured, these lands viii be
retained forever and leased for long terms
Land. does not go TO protest; it can't be
counterfeited, or stolen or deported. Car
pet-baggers <annOt tote it away, or thieves
break through and steal" 1t is of contin-
uous and eyer-growing value, growing in
value and, ofcOurse, in revenues, with con-
stantly-growing density Of population. he
who would sell in fee the domain OF Texas
schools and colleges and universities, would
enrich the present generation for an hour
to impoverish the State and the children of
the State through all future time.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-03-25
WHAT COUNTIES AND TOWNS
eat SHOULD DO.


We receive every day letters from all the
old States asking for information about
Texas, and especially as to the price, quail
ity and productlveness of land in this vicin-
ity. Each letter-writter would know what
schools and churches and factories exist.
We are also required to tell of the health
fulness of the city, its population, railways
and resources. There should be answers
gwen in detail to all these inquiries, and
even the political aspect of our fortunes as
a State and as municipalities should be ac-
curatelY defined. From beyond the ocean
these inquiries come, and it is quite impos-
sible for this Office to respond to all these
questions. We send copy Of the STATES
MAN., but this only recounts the incidents OF
single day or week. Next month a
great number of Texans leave the State to
visit st. Louis, Louisville, Cincinnati, Chi
cago and other Northwestern cities. The
representatives of the State capital should
be men of fine appearance and address, and
while, if occasion requires, they should be
capable Of telling, in good English, all they
know of Texas, they should be furnished
with countless pamphlets, descriptive of
Austin and Of rich tributary districts,
These descriptive pamphlets should be in
the hands of the people of Austin and the
adjacent country that they may be widely
distributed and one should accompany
every letter that crosses the Mississippi. If
we had efficient chambers of commerce
or other organizations capable Of caring for
the public welfare, such publication would
be provided at once By every town and city
in Texas, and distributed as we suggest.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-03-25

GEN. w. II. DEcKER, ex-State assessor oi
Louisiana, is in jail for stealing in New Or
leans. In twelve months, if Louisiana had
an honest government, two-thirds Of Kel
logg's government would be in the peniten.
tiary. But the knaves will fly as soon as
the people regain power, even as Arkansas
is depo2ulated by Garland's supremacy.
st. Louis is to be pitied. Clayton, the late
Arkansian king, has gone there to live. II
is the heaviest blow that ever Befell the Wig.
orOus capital Of the Central States. st.
Louis will have Kellogg ham-strung if he
give the slightest intimation of his pur.
pose to join Clayton as a shyster in the st.
Louis Old Bailey.