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The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1875-02-12

Two or three months ago the
most important figure in Murillo's
famous picture, "The Appearance
of the Infant Christ to st. Anthony
of PadRa," was cut from the can
vas, and carried away-no one
knew whether. This picture, con-
sidered one of Murillo's most val
liable works, was painted about
the year 1850 for the Cathedral
of Seville, whence the portion of it
above mentioned was stolen. Ow-
ing to its size, the vandals were
forced to content themselves with
cutting out the figure of the monk
San Antonio-which they were
able to do without damaging any
other figures in the painting.
Early in January two Spaniards
called at the gallery of Mr.. Schaus,
in Broadway, stating that they
had a valuable painting by Murillo
which they wished to dispose of,
though they refused to fix q price
upon it themselves. Mr.. Schaus
suspected that this was the stolen
picture, and his suspicious proved
true. He communicated with the
consul-general of Spain, and the
picture was purchased for the
small sum of $3.50. 1t had been
very seriously damaged by rolling
the canvas, and this fact was the
reason why the thieves consented
to sell it for that price, though
they evidently were not aware
that a reward of $4,000 had been
offered for the recovery of the
stolen picture. Mr.. Schaus, how
ever, restored the picture to the
Spanish consulate, not for the re-
ward, but because he considered it
his duty to do so as a lover of art;
and it will be sent to Spain at
once, and skilltul by artists be res
tored to its original position in the
Cathedral of Seville.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1875-02-12

loaded the pistol and left it lying
on the mantel, so as not to forget
it when he went away. The
young ladies came in the apart
ment after dinner, and one ofthem
took up the weapon and remarked
that she was going to shoot her
sister. Pointing the pistol at her
she pulled the trigger, and, to her
horror, q discharge followed, the
ball entering the forehead of her
sister, who fell to the floor, and
expired soon afterward.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1875-02-12

Near Milan, West Tennessee, a
distressing accident recently oc-
Cured, resulting in the death of an
accomplished young lady. A pis-
tol had been for some weeks lying
on the mantel-piece of one of the
rooms OF the house. Knowing it
to be unloaded, the young lady
and her sister had frequently
handled it carelessly, and playful
ly threatened to shoot each other.
But one day their brother, intend
ing to leave home next morning,
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1875-02-12

There is no Islander in an all al
lowed fool, though he do nothing
but rail.-Shakespeare.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-01-07
COMPULSORY UNIVERSAL EDU-
CATION.


The compulsory education law goes into
operation in New York on the first of Janu-
AIRY, and the result of this experiment will
be watched with infinite interest every
where But we can hardly hope to gain
access to actual facts, as clearly ascertained
results, for many years. The system will
be in the hands of those whose bread is de-
rived from its maintcnapce and, like other ed
ucational deductions from the same source,
must be accepted with many grains of al
lowance. Where interest and necessity do
not blind the vision, there is wild enthu-
siasm that over.masters the pedagogue, and
his statistics are often untrustwOrthy. 1t
has been stated that knavery and training
in public schools go hand in hand, and that
q I" little learning" as inculcated by the
best public school system, is dangerous
thing" Prison statistics have been adduced
to show this fact, and equally well do these
same records Of penitentiaries demon
strate, in the hands of schoolmasters, the
proposition that the public school is the
gateway to the church and to paradise.
Mems opinions eryWhere are strangely
variant upon thissubject and it is only con
fessed that thorough moral and intellectual
training is most desirable, even as an end
of patriotism. The only question is how
best to attain desired results and whether
the compulsory school system will finally
transform the whole character of our civil
Institutions. The family is now the centre
of social power. BY this New York code
its unity is destroyed and the child is taught
to look up to the State, which is made to
stand an loco PARENTS. at last the State, as
In Bismarck's eyes, may become the god,
and the citizen bows before les majesty in
blind, besotted ensiavement Individuality
is destroyed and with it local freedom and
local and individual independence. Such
are objections naturally presenting them
selves to scheme of benefcence devised
by the best, if not the wisest men of the
age If the "household" in its integrity,
the 'family" in all its social forces may be
perpetuated and everybody educated by
law, the scheme, soon to be operative in
New York, may make that State as power
full in its intelligence as IN its riches and in
the number of its toiling people.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-01-07

We have mentioned the fact that about
seventy-fve immigrants reached this place q
day or two since, all of them anxious to set.
tie in the region tributary to Austin. The
Superintendent Of immigration, Gen. j. B.
Robertson, says that ten thousand could be
expected at this place between now and the
first of March, but that unless our people
take some steps to provide comfortable
home for them in passing, he must, of
necessity, advise them to go elsewhere. In
this connection, it may be well to mention
that almost every place OF any importance
on the rlilroad lines have provided such
homes, where immigrants have quarters to
go into, and hence are not forced to pay
exorbitant hotel bills. When in home
they can provide for themselves at one-tenth
of such cost. Texas expects much from i'm
migration, and the immigrant expects some
thing too. Every person who comes
amongst us adds that much more to the in
dependence and wealth of the State. Lands
are sold and leased or rented; stock is dis
posed Of; provisions are taken at a fair
price from the hand of the producer, and
can be as much benefited by the in
iux of population as any place, and yet
our people have never turned their attention
to offering inducements to bring people into
our midst. Certainly Austin ought to dous
much for immigrants as jefferson, Dallas,
Corsicana, Denison, Crockett, Palestine,
Hampstead, BRENNAN, or twenty other
places that might be mentioned, and yet
all these places have "bomes for 1mmi-
grants, where they are given comfortable
quarters and appliances by which they can
maintain themselves at light expense.
The people of Austin, especially those who
have lands to sell, or lands which will be
enhanced in value by the introduction Of
population, or who otherwise can be bene-
flied, should unite at once and take all the
steps required to make these newcomers
feel at home and anxious to remain among
us. We all know what such little civilities,
costing comparatively nothing, ere calcu-
lated to produce. 1t would be well, too,
for those interested to establish sort of in
telligence office in connection with the
home This would be of vast benefit TO the
community, and Gen. Robertson would
then take pleasure in cooperating with our
people He tells us that in day or two
more another large number will arrive, and
il these encouragements are placed in the
way, the influx viii become very great. We
honestly believe that our people will soon
get ashamed of their tarainess, and get
down to decent and proper work.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-01-07
RED AND BLACK.

Our dispatches show that outright war
RACES along the railway line that crosses the
Indian Territory. This state of facts has
been anticipated, but the violence of the
outbreak will startle the country. In fact
the atrocities and follies of red men may
divert popular attention from those of black
savages away down in the jungles of Louisi-
ana. People, even in Boston, may be led
to inquire in what black, is better than a
red man and why, If red and white cannot
live together or be collocated in peace, how
it is possible for whites and blacks to vote
at the same precincts, serve on the same
juries, travel on the same trains and
each discharge all the functions Of alb
solute citizenship in the shiretown and
parish. There may be nothing in color, but
must be vast deal of iTrepressible mex
tinguishable human nature IN the blood that
courses beneath it. On the plane of compul-
sorry equality, and there can be none
other, there can be no real lasting peace
between two wholly distinct races Of men.
Separate them by barriers of law and right
and of caste, and, in the case of the red
men, hedge them IN with bayonets or Chi.
nese walls, and there may be peace. Even
contact with civilization is fatal to the red
race, made frcemen by Gods laws, even as
freedom proves fatal to the dying race
blackened as slaves before the Pyramids
we're built, and only progressive when en-
shaved. But while our Northern fellow
countrymen expend such bouLdless sympa-
thy upon the blacks Of New Orleans and
Vicksburg, may we not expect them to
shed copious tears over the inevitable doom
of John Ross and his painted followers 7
Ross's race is robbed, wronged, plundered,
and now in exile. They fight for homes,
for unity, for distinctiveness, for
everything dear to red men; while
the stupid negro, lifted up BY slavery
and exalted here, when bondsman,
as not elsewhere in the world,
now that he is free, seeks to shape coun-
try's laws and I'll its Offices, and monopo-
lize its wealth and honors. But, poor 10
be will be quietly knocked on the head,
and never a word Of sympathy uttered !;
while SambO, the black, grinning. hideOus
idol Of the hour, with kellogg and Ames
on his back, is wept-Over in every church
and sunday school. and pitied in every
speech and sermon that echoes over the
hills and holloWs Of New England. So the
world wagS and We only rejoice in the fact
that the progressive intelligence Of the
country begins TO contemplate the negro IS
he Is, and not As painted by Mrs. Stowe and
Wendell Phillips; not as seen in the North,
but as he lives and moves, and grins, and
is "cunjered on Southern rice, sugar and
cotton fields.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-01-07

with Office IS onbipotcnt Federal bayo
nets hedge it in; the forms OF Law arrest il,
power and sanclity and security; the tax
paying people are troiden under foot
their voice is stihed; their representative:
are excluded from the Legislature, and the
reign Of knaves and Of thieves and besotted
Ignorance, after being horne through all
these weary yesrs, is to be perpetuated.
Patieneel patience! There can be no pa
tienee when everything is lost that men
hold valuable, when people are driven in
utter hOpeIessness from homes and farms
made valueless by intolerable social sys-
TENS and more intoIerable State and munich
pal governments
II the Returning Board had not been
pre-assured Of Grants approval, the in
tolerable wrong complained Of would never
have been perpetrated; and since this
fact is too paIpable for denial, we do not
see why the final issue may not be made
and the President forced to lnterpose
Louisiana has nothing to lose by having an
armed soldicry substituted for negro thieves
and for representatives. Of negro intelIi-
gence aud capacity for tasks of ernze-r-sA-a-.
and II the Whole country approve, let the
fact of statehood be no more and the life
Of Louisiana become extinct. States north
ofothe Ohio, if this result be consummated.
will at last begin to comprehend the ex-
tent and intolerable character of enormities
endured by States whose masters are saw
ages or white men worse than savages.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-01-07

incesi, and the inquiry swsSensd, VIII all
the end work beneficial effects. or
course have n pile Of letters on the sub
Jeet. One writer takes quite a cheerful
TifH Of the matter. declaring that my con-
'Jf,fion 70 the January htlaHfic Is, at the
= fsi, a.eharIning romance, which he has
-ead with great pleasure, and shall always
ieem worth preserving. Perhaps it is, for
the moral II points and the lesson Of caution
it teaches
By the latest accounts the Iiolmeses remain
u the city, protesting their innocence and
lolding their usual sittings. still attended
BY earnest aud undonbtiRg believers. They
have not had their say, and the greatest
crlminal is emitted to & hearing. II, when
the smoke clears away, they are found
guilty, there is no crime in the decalOgue
more heinous in the eye Of justice or Of re
ligion than the offense against all that Is
hohest and most sacred which they have
perpetrated. II there be apology for such
an ofIense, 1t must be that which Jesus
found for his murderers, asking that they
be, forgiven because they knew not what
they did. ROBERT DALE OWEN.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-01-07

The press Of the State has slowly reached
the conclusion, now entertained By the
whole people, that the Legislature, about to
convene. should at once adjust al differ
cnces between the State and the Interua-
tional road. It must be done, and the
sooner the road reaches the Mexican capital
and MazatIan the sooner win the glory and
grandeur Of Texas be perfected From ne
cent incidents in Congress, we doubt
the result Of Tom scoit's mission to Wash
ingtOn. Politicians are cowardly. The
rage and passion OF the hour is hatred Of
cxtraTagance, and of thieves in gov
ernment. After gOEging itself, Radi-
calism il almost crazed to practice
terrible economy, and Democracy Is quite
As anxious TO grasp power. In order 70
seize Il, It would perhaps even acrifcs
Texas and the South, and deny the justsSt
demand ever made bT people and st.t1I
upon the Federal gorernmcnt. We fear The
result, and therefore the ersater nscesIity
Tor action b the Legislafare n behalf a.
the Trans Continental Road. Wemurs hava
q once, = highway 70 the Paciae. Ho uho
stands in che way and postPoaes tie pro
gre1s q Texas. Or even delaJsand oh1frncls
Il, VII surely be oEsrHhelnsd. crushsd end
forever an1thematiscd.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-01-07
GRANT.

Plainly enough, Grant has learned moth
ing, either from recent elections or from
rs-rs. ~ ..s,,,.,,rr-
can politicians ard newspapers. He is re-
solved to Eight it out on that line if Il
takes all summer, " and has never dreamed
that while an army, reinforced, as its enemy
grows weak, must triumph, so that party
constantly assailed, and as constantly out
numbered, must at last be utterly van
quished and destroyed. Beaten as he has
been, and all his forces routed, his policy
condemned, his plan of campaign derided,
and his third-term vanity despised and ridi-
euled, he persists in his chosen course as in
hexibly toward the whites of the South as
toward those of Indian-cursed frontiers.
If another Presidential contest were inau-
gurated tomorrow, Grant would re-enact
the very fOllics that recently overwhelmed
him with disasters. lie would stand by
the vain, stolid, malignant Attorney Gen
eral Williams, filling the place once sought
by the greatest American jurists. Grant is
stupidity stubborn. He has learned in
physics a lesson, not true in morals, that
dogged persistency always wins. No ac
cumulation Of facts or lapse of time can
change mankind's opinion, when rightly
formed, as in reference to the rights,
wrongs and needs of the South. Grant
does not believe this, and still moves ION to
Richmond" The sufferings Of Southern,
and palpable sympathies of Northern
whites, do not teach him he does not COM
prehend them; he never did He learns
nothing and forgets nothing.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-01-07


THE death-roll of the year just ended
does not contain the names of SO many
illnstriOus men as that of 1873; But still the
neurological list is lengthy one, and In
eludes the names OF nuny americans who
have been prominent in the political and
social history Of this country. Charles
Sumner heads the scroll, and following arc,
ex.President Fillmore. ex-senator Wigfall,
ex-Chief Justice PeTley Of New Hampshire,
and Thompson and Read Of Pcnnsylvania; ;
Hon. Ezra Cornell, Mayor Havemeyer Of
New York; Hon. Whiting Griswoid, Gen.
John G. Foster Admiral Buchanan, Presi-
dent Tbompson OF the Pennsylvania Rail-
road; DIR. George Derby, Rev. DR.. Kirk,
Elder Knapp, Charles Astor Bfisted, Judge
Edmnnds of New York, N. s. Dodge, viii
liam A. Wheeler, and Rev. Drs. Slicer,
Marvin, Abbott, Carleton and Dewitt.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-01-07

The New York Htruld can vel afford,
more than . thousand miles away, TO urge
the people Of Louisiana 70 be patient
and temperate That the fOulsst out-
rage upon popular and State rights has been
committed the Hrald does not doubt. bui
siill the robbed and WrOnged and brutality
gOvsrnsd white people must subnit 70 this
laulsss domination Of savagss. and Of whils
men worse than savsgss.
BE patient.n sings ne Hsna'z Was
the HrslE patient whsn Tweed uss hlehina
millions fr1n ths p,epls q NrW York;
kAsle nrp courts n New Eos,I. nnl ihisIli-
4spee snd order und dseuncy haV1 fs,lti
ther- i New cf'l1e1.i mob rsfs a.
hret,a tkrn lhs which nte,ied Ire
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-01-07
onAN1,s FoLLIEs IN TnE sOUrH.

II Grant send Sheridan to New Orleans to
''hurt somebody" it might be we'll for
Grant to inquire who will suffer most, the
few hundred people, more or less, slain or
incarcerated by an unthinking military sa-
trap, or the name and fame and future of
the whole country. Grants stupendous
proclamation, Ieveled at the shining little
bald head Of bed-riddeu, helpless Vicks-
burg, is the most absurdly foolish explosion
Of partisan stage thunder that ever echoed
over American hills and valleys. Though
q stupid negro Legislature, instructed by
shallow-pated military monntebank, named
Ames, asked the President to intervene in
States affairs, the Federal Constitution,
IN express terms, makes Presidential inter
ference voluntary and not compulsory. The
Legislature Of Mississippi Yields no COM
pulsory power over the President. and if
Grant were not the basest tool Of partisan
ship, or drunk with power, or crazed by en-
insane desire to retain il, he never would
have left on the pages Of history, so
absurd a picture OF himself. In case
Of s'insurTection or rebellion" in State,
the President, when asked by the Gov
ernoE when the Legislature cannot
be convened, or when it is convened
sshea asked by 1.-THE President MAY in
terpOse with the army and navy. Such is
the power defined, and Grant had the per
feet night to refuse compliance with the re
quest Of Ames and Of the negro numbskulls.
But the terrible PrOauncianienio, more
empty than any that ever emanated from
Wouter Van TWilleF, er even from Mexi-
can bandit. or from Santa Anna in his PALM
lest days, startles mankind. Poor, helpless,
hapless little vicksbarg whose people de-
Tended their women and children, one ter
rible night, against mob Of ignorant blacks.
becomes, after perfect peace and order are
restored, absolutely the snbiect Of tins
iEightiol Presidential proclamation How
thsy trenbie How the eternal hills Of
Vicksburg quake as on a memorable Fourth
q July, tan ysars ssgo A clap Of thunder.
iroa clear sky, 9 star resplendently visi-
be IN ne mi3-hcavens az lnoonday, the
halling q the sun by another Joshus. the
honesty q nsgro-ehosen, ofice-holding
carpet oagger = nothing possible a. i'm
possible bcleath i8o heavens. could
have 90 amazed tac unsrmed. harnle.s. M
ofsaniEed, peaceful people q TIE Iittle civ
of FiekshuFg. q this stupendous Prss.aen-
- 49,.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-01-07

s. S, Cox.-sunset Cox is evidently pre-
ferred for the Speakership of the next Con-
eress by the Western Democratic press, and
since his name rapidly becomes familiar TO
our readers it may be well to say that the
sonbrieuet "Sunset, given this gentleman,
is singularly significant, not only because
his initials S. s. G. suggest it, but the pero-
ration of each of his dazzling speeches ever
reminds his auditors -of-the- -splendors of
+, glowing sunset, while theexordiuin is hardly
less striking and brilliant Effective, logi-
cal and full of eloquence and learning AZ
are his studied speeches in the House, his
wit and readiness at repartce are as admira-
Rble as these and wonderful as his literary
taste is faultless. He is the readicst and
most adroit debater in the Congress and fol
this reason alone should not supplant Dir.
Blaine.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-01-07

The great moral question Of the Age is
that raised by Bob Toombs when he said
our Savior never committed an assault and
battery but once .when he drove the
usurers out Of the Temple" Toombs has
not been reading he book Of late. ST. Mark
says:
And Jesus went into the Temple, and
began to cast out them that sold and bought
IL tAe Temple, and overtIIrew the tables OF
the money changers, and seats Of them that
sold doves" a5 as
There is no allusion TO six or ten or any
other ''cent per cent" TOombsowns baDk
and wants usury law. So with Texan
banker we wot of. Toombs is great, bril-
liant and loquacious, but never wise. 1t
would be quite as proper to set fools to can
ing every boy that entraps doves as to rouse
the church against usuEy codes because our
Savior cast out money changers. II Vasthe
Proclamation Of the Temple and not the pur-
suits of its occupants that Christ com
demned. There are arguments enough
against free trade in money without RESORT
ing to a Perversion Of Holy Writ to sustain
assertions Of men by acts Of God. There
is absolute profanity in it. ~ IAs ..i Sd
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-01-07
LloR SALE.

One az the finest st0ck farms In the State OF Texas
and for health and beauty Of situation not 20 be
passed. This valuable property IL In Hays county ON
the BlancO river, between Mountain City and San
Marcoa, the San Antonio road, about twenty 1.-TWO
miles from Austin. This estate contains 655o Of
land, with all tbs stock and improvements; G000
well incosed with stone and cedar fence for pasture,
the Blanco runnin nearly through the centre None
equal to it In tho Stato -Four hundred splendid
land in high cultivation not surpassed in production;
abundance Of timber-clm, blackberry, live oak and
walnut; and one hundred and dfty not enclosed
There ty buildings on the premises various pens
for roping and hsndng aeek; there are 200 head OF
cattle. from onehalf 10 uil-blooded Durham; from
two hundred and ATTY 90 thrte hundred head Of Texas
cattle; fifteen 10 twenty yoke Of 0xeni 100 head OF
American horses and mulee two hne Jacks; ten to
dftccn work muca aud horses wagons, full and COM
pete stock Of agricultural implements, reapers corn
and cotton planiere, threshera, etc- saw and grst
ETC. run BY water power afforded By the Blaneo river.
The main dwelling house. with cistern. out houses
ana every convenience and comfort. Ia situated on
high hill; has commanding view Of the surrounding
country. and has but 20 be seen 70 be admired.
II anY one or more persons wish to engage In the
stock business With all the advantages, now Il the
time 20 get z lrgt-claga stock farm, where may be
ialre the nest blooded stock IN the country; and an
tnterpruing who would engage in Il could get his
own price In this and the neighborng States, as
blooded stock d much needed and sought afteF.
Any person wishing 70 purchase this place will COM
muncato with ma By lttter OF in person, and viii
taKe great pleasure IN showing the psepcrLY. For
Real Estate and Collecting Agent
ans n fOstotaeo Box iV1. Austin. Texas.