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New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-06-13

We continue to quote first clas. sixty dav
| paper and collateral loans at 8 a 9 p cent Y
annurs. AL d" at 10 0l2. and second grade
At l50ls Fret class mortgages still rule
! at 9al0 y cent y annum, while second
grade are entirely nominal
Gold opened at IlGa. a 1863, against 1867
At New York. and after very limited bust
ness closed at the opening rates, against
ll6A IN that market. The only sa'es re.
p,rred were $1,000 at il6as and $1,000 at
1863.
NJ sales of silver we're reported. American
hat dollars we're still quoted at 1854
a l09. and Mexican dollars at - q &C. g. Id.
Foreign exchange was without quotable
variation The offerings Of sterling were
extremely light. and she only sales reported
were $500 bill Of lading at s. g.. and $4,000
bank IL, IS 20.
The sales Of francs comprised 10000
.mbr acipg $4,000 commercial at l5as
10, 900 do at 45, and 20, 900 bank at i4lA.
At 'he cl"-- sterling bills were quoted a.
S 66ls as g. II tor bill Of lading and AL
clear. and -0S5 20 for bank. and francs
at ..46A "a - for commercial. and %
1 Al 4 tor bank.
New York sight continues scarce, in lin
tied demand and unchanged. The sales
comprised S95, 600. em bracing $40, 900, $3.50
and $4,000 commercial, $25 900 private
bankers and e25, 900 bank at SIG y cen,
premium. We also noticed q sale of SIC. 900
commercial on Providence at u = cent
premium
The banks continued to check on New
York at g Y cent premium, and CONNER
Gal eight was still quoted at q SIG
Very little movement was reported in
stocks, The only transaction being shares
81. Charles Street Railroad Company at
81.
Under the influence Of very liberal Offer
inss city gold bearing seven per cents
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-08-12
TT sEEMs ,vKRx PLAIN no. rs.

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There is a very great difference in the
value of the right TO rotein State and in
municipal selectionsJ The State regulates
all personal rights of parent and child,
guardian and ward, creditor and debtor, !
and the tenure of property. Every ques-
ton of personal right and liberty is pro-
tected by the State and its courts. Munici.
pal governments affect nothing but prop
erty and the value of property and, there
fore, while each man, as such, should share
in shaping the State government. there is
no reason why, save as a property holder,
he should vote in municipal elections. The
Dallas Herald surely sees the plain distine
ton. We would protect the poor and m
dustriOus against the lawless, migratory
rabble that robs and desolates towns and
cities, and counties especially, of the
South. No man can gain wealth, unless he
be an officeholder. in rabble-ruied commu-
mites such as we have seen, in which white
mob at one end of a city allied itself with
two plundered and destroyed till
homes were yalueless and the poor
exiled. But there is another reason
for the restriction of the operation
of these codes limiting the number of vo-
tiers in corporate elections, in the fact that
under the Federal Constitution we lose rep
resentation in Congress il we lessen the
number of voters in State elections. We
not care, just now, to lessen the force
of Texas in Congress. Congress has usurped
almost limitless power, and we can hardly
afford to lose vote in that illustrious and
most potent body 1t is also true that in
general State elections the danger to de-
cency and justice is less than in local elect
tions. In the whole State the power of
desperadoes, who now and then have over
run Texan towns and robbed local )taxpay-
ers mereilessly, is not so dangerous. Their
forces are diffused, and they cannot grasp
the State as they may compass Dallas
or Austin, reducing them to the pitiable
condition of New Orleans, VicksbuFg and
of countless towns of the South ravaged
and desolated by local tax gathers. We
would have the freedom Of the people linn
itless, and thus illustrate the Democratic
maxim, constituting the very substFatism
of Democratic principles, that "that gov
ernment is best which governs least and
therefore we would haxecorporatiohs fiber
ated; but only on condition that suffrage is
restricted to those, interested IN the wise
and honest condhct of corporate govern
ments. IF this restrictions ofasuffTage orits
equivalent be not madeinHT exam towns and
counties, the Legislature should divestthem
wholly of the powertocreateindeb
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-08-12

bad men who, twenty years ago. found N
the Mormon movement to the Western
wilderness convenient shelter for them
selves and their crimes. He had been 9
notorious character in the wild life Of the
border, and had made himself conspicuous
among the fighting force that was comprised
within the pale OF Mormonism. He led
the massacre at Mountain Meadows, and
then he disappeared from tine eyes of the
world. In 1859 an attempt was made to
procure indictments against certain promi-
nent Mormons suspected of completely in
the crime, but the grand jury re-
fused to indict their brethren, and they
evaded bench warrants by fIght TO the
mountains. Lee was one Of the persons
mentioned, but his whereabouts were pro-
found mystery. A few years afterwards an
adventurous newspaper correspondent was
travelling through the wilds of Southern
Utah and found the great criminal living in
a hut upon ledge of q canon far away from
civilized humanity. Lee acknowledged to
the rowing journalist that he was IN hiding,
and that he did not dare to enter within the
domain of constables and legal processes.
There is scarcely more romantic incident
in the annals of crime than that of this
man living year after year in that lonely re-
treat, and being finally dragged out to stand
his trial in the courts of law. ,E0 r#l
Lees trial, now in progress, iRculpates
him as the agent in the slaughter, but it
also makes the Mormon Church the prin-
cipal. Lee is said to have made confes-
sion, and to have offered himself as States
evidence, but the United States authorities
declined the offer, believing that they had
testimony enough to convict him, This
testimony is that of Bishop Smith, and it
comedies closely with all that is known of
the Mountain Meadows massacre. 1t indi-
Gates that the atrocity must be traced d.
rectly to Brigham Young. Lee and his
ruffians were only the instrument; the di-
recting head was the then newly-chosen
chief of the Mormon Church, to whom, in
his old aye, the responsibility of the crime
is being brought. 1t was thoroughly piece
of Mormon Church work. The property of
the murdered victims was taken charge of
and converted into money by the church,
and the proceeds of the sale went into the
church treasury. No matter what may be
the verdict of the jury in the trial of Lee,
the evidence which has been given will.
stand as lasting condemnation of the
Mormon officials. There are a majority of
Mormons upon this jury, and they may de-
feat verdict against Lee, but they cannot
stifle the testimony that reveals the nature
of the terrible crime committed on the
plains of Utah eighteen years ago.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-08-12

The great event OF this summer is the
Presbyterian Ecumenical Council now in
session IN the city of London. This assem-
bly, is composed of representatives from al
the Presbyterian churches throughout the
World From the days OF the Refornatiod
the Pfesbytefikh bodies in common with
6fhsr brxnches Of the Protestant church,
have felt the necessity Of exhibiting their
essential unity. Calvin wtots to ctssnaaer:
''ons pf the greatest evils. of the times is
that the churches are so widely separated
from each other, that there Is NOT even
tempora. or human intercourse carried on
betwkeeu them. Sa = SO far as am
concerned, If can be Of any use, i will
readily pass over ten seas TO effect the OBJ
iect in view. II the welfare of England
alone were concerned, should regard it as
ssuficient reason to act thus, But at pres
ent, when our purpose is to unite the senti-
ments Of ell good and learned men, and so,
according to the rule Of scripture, to bring
the separated churches into one. neither Ia
Dor nor tr0a5se Of any Kind ought %, Be
" e f1sH ti.alr -affAai p fft.ta-t' '+
The scheme now about to be put in opera
ton differs in two respects from Cslvin's
plan In the first place, 1t represents only
the churches, holding the doctrine and
order of the Westminster Confession of
Faith. Calvin's effort was to unite all
Protestant Churches solidly against Rome.
He is often. represented as narrow and
harsh. His correspondence touching the
question before US shows that of all the
Reformers he was the broadest in his views.
Cslvin's effort, in this respect, is realized in
the eevangelicai alliance. But, in the second
place, Calvin's plan contemplated forming
q representative court for all the Protestant
churches, whose decisions should be bind
ing on all. The present scheme contem-
plates an annual representative assembly of
only moral power. What it may become
eventually no one can tell. 1t may at
length assume the form of the Presbyte-
rian General Assembly of the World
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-08-12

:
The Houston organ-the Ielegrqph-pro-
nounces the following paragraph from the
SrATEsMAs 'incendiary,g while we boast
of such, 'incendiArism." The Telegraph
denOuncss it as shameless; !" the STATESMAN
is shamelessly devoted to every purpose and
principle here enunciAted. Read and ap-
prove the STATEsMAH or condemn the Gov
ernor 70 the extent that he IS properly rep
resented by his organ The sTATEsMAx
said and still says: -, e.. 49,. Z
''The Grangers- need only learn how TO
exert the terrible power they might WELD
10 reform the American system OF govern
ment, restoring even that simplicity That
distinguished II 100 years ago. Associated
effort is indispensable in the attaiBEheDt Of
any great public good. Through these
Oranges, farming populations, learning
somsfhing Of their own strength, learn also
how TO Wield n. and we are not amazed
when old party bummers and orgen-gEind-
ers and party hacks tremble lest the Gran
gers embark In politics. Just 80 surely As
Mr.. Lang, and others having accees 70 the
6rMnges, once teach them the extent Of
their authority and show row they have
been plnndered and robbed and reEnorse-
lessiy victimized by placemen Of high and
low degree, ard how they are taxed in ali
things and sprotectedp IN nothing, that
they pay ell tariffs and sll bonds, and are
paid nothing -when All these facts are
clearly nnfolded, there win be great Feason
for that terror which overmasters that god
y, piem organ, the Telegraph, when the
farmers Of Texas. - elass. manifest an M
tsreat In The coures aof public ezapts, and
declare thsir purpose to control these
evenfs."
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-08-12
WHO SHALL SPEAK ron Us IN PHIL
ia- s,ADELPHIA9 'i He


It is very proper that each section of the
Union should have its representative orator
at the centennial celebration at Philadelphia;
and that these gentlemen may aexpound
properly and worthily the genius, taste, in
telligence and patriotism of those for whom
they speak, their several tasks should be
assigned them at once. Longfellow, first
of American poets, win yersify the hallowed
memories and holiest aspirations of Aneri-
cans. Either Of the Adams might well
represent New England, as Webstef, if liy-
ing, might have obyisted the necessity for
more than one massive intellect to compress
into single faultless orstion the dreams,
hopes, memories and patriotism of the peo-
pie of all sections and States. Evarts,
lineally descended from the foremost revo-
lutionary patriots, should speak, as no other
living American can speak, for New York.
The Middle and Northwestern States should
designate their exponent, and with one
voice the South would pronounce Lamar
the most felicitous rhetOrician, tasteful
scholar and logical thinker now adjoining
public life, aud therefore proper represen-
tative of the Cuff States. Ex-Governor
Stockdale or Lieutenant Governvr Hub
bard should frame, in sonorous, glowing
sentences, as they could, the story of Texan
devotion to memories Of its own, and Of
American independence. ssis rzsaHa
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-08-12
THE GREAT RESOURCES OF TEXAS.

At Corinth, Mississippi, an ingenious me-
chanic aud enterprising citizens have built
a cotton mill and introduced new machin-
cry modelled especially for the South, and
so constructed that a saving of certainly
thirty per cent. in the raw material is
effected in the manufacture of cloth. Cot
ton is brought from the field, and, never
having been subjected to any process by
merchant or farmer, is converted into yarns.
The three preliminary processes to which
the raw material, after being ginned and
compressed, is subjected in other mills are
omitted in this. The packed cotton is not
beaten with fails as in other mills, and the
tenacity of each fiber remains perfect.
Moreover, long continued compression in
jures the strength of fiber, and bale that
has been compressed several months
lies dead and solid when the bands
are cut. OF two threads of equal weight
and length, one from the Lawrence and
Lowell mills and the other spun at Corlnth,
weight, and the Corinth thread has the
glossiness of silk, while that made of cotton
from compressed bales has lost its sheen.
Cloth made from threads spun at Corinth
will out last, as two to one, that made from
compressed cotton bales, and when we add
to this difference in value the saving, not
only in labor employed in the manufacture
of the better description of goods, but the
cost of transporting the raw material to
Lowell and then of the cloth back to Texas,
it becomes apparent that, other things be-
ing equal, Texas is the proper site for most
profitable cotton mills. Here trained skill
and labor are wanting and worthless ad-
venturers from the East have become mana
gers and destroyed the value of many invest
ments made by enterprising Southern mill
builders But at this hour, while Lowell
and Lawrence and countless operatives are
idle everywhere in New England, the
mills of Georgia and Carolina are running
on full time, with full forces of employees,
and all Southern mills even now, when the
bondholders are forcing the country to be-
gin the payment of gold into their vaults,
are paying dividends from seven to fifteen
per cent. 1t is also true that the manufac-
ture of cotton goods has been so stimulated
by the tariff system that greater quantities
of cotton goods are manufactured than can
be consumed in the United States, and
Eastern mills can export cotton yarns and
undersell Manchester in the Liverpool
market. The tariff to ''proeectn Ameri-
can mill-owners is no longer needed. On
the contrary, England needs tariff to pro-
tect her mills against the cheaper products
Of America, and there is wide margin for
profits on Southern-made cotton goods.
Southern textile fabrics are infinitely supe-
rior because made of cotton lever COM
pressed, never beaten with fails, and re
tAiniDg the freshness and vitality that make
It glow, even now, in its oily glossiness in
brilliantly green fields in these sunny Iati-
tudes. Cotton cloth should be made be-
side the cotton fields, and in. this consum-
nation consists the riches, resource OF
Texas-r "a a
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THE RAINBOW.
a IEcksD raos rHE erRxAs, Hr urpr.


...r ....
On eload Of pearl and azure, sailing slowly DER the
PLAIN,
Sat Ihe favored fairy hOusemAid in Tiiania's elm
The summer sunlight giinred through Aer hOa'ihs
golden curis.
As she took from casket string Of costly pearls
With laugh the lite fairy held her hieh in
Thinking that The sunbeAns glitter would ma sr them
still more fair; u -. -
For diamonds shine with borrowed light the worlds
But oc-an's tears like loving hearts shed radiance
from within.
Behind the elm maien as she laughed in her delight
sat Puck the wAggsh f-iry born for teasing man aAa
de cut the string, and down earth the priceless
treasures few, % -
And scattered grass and like drops Of morn
ing dew.
The little mad dew after them-her heart was sore
afraid i
But though she travelled fast and far, pearls her
search repaid.
The clouds made haste to help her but they gathered
dew in vain tg ,
The ocean tears, so lightly lost. were found
again. . 4--
Now Puck sat weaving many plans within his goblin
For, though he loved to laugh at her. he would not
give her pain; IA.
And held solemn council with his ugly friends, the
snolheS' @ Isi si i@ .- 4.'5~
Gay, cleaning they brought him, and shining
spangles TOO, = s. .- r..f :
And, holding them within shell. alof he gayly hew
Then lightly dancing around her, his waggsh head he
tossed,
Saying, Here are Jewels brighter far than any you
have lost
The clouds left of their weeping and the fairy laughed
in gle.
But when she looked more closely at the hashing
trumpery,
She shook the shell in anger, with loud and bitter
cry,
When 10! radiant circle spanned the glowing sum
mer sky.
Now, often when the grievng clouds weep out their
woes in rain,
Puck brings his spangles. and the play is acted DER
again;
But like the got gold that CLEANS in many wretched
homes, ..
'Tis but q vain, deeetful show-a present from the
gnomes. . 7...- .H.... a
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-08-12
AN ERR0R, ,CORRECTED.

D.. j.
A paragraph has been going through the
newspapers of Texas assuming to show how
enormous were losses, sustained by, the
South during the war, IT. says that Ala
bama, between the years, 1850, and 1879, as
shown by census, tables, lost, two hundred
and thirty millions Of personal wealth,
and that the South lost of such property
twelve hundred and eighty1four millions,
including slaves. These last, constituting
one-third of the whole loss, at $500 each,
were worth two thousand million dollars,
and thus the paragraphs to which we refer
are rendered very absurd. But when we
remember the houses and fences destroyed
by Sherman's armies, to say nothing Of the
wreck wrought when red ruin rode tri-
um phantly over Virginia and the Carolinas,
we must conclude that he who compiled
those statistics was grieyously afraid that
the sum total of losses incurred by these
States would become known. The product
of four years. labor was lost by the contin-
uous idleness of half, a million men in the
South, and then the profits of all Southern
industry, invested for four years in Con-
federate money and bonds, were lost.
In fact, the statistical paper to which
we refer is a gross misrepresentation,
and should be repudinted . by every
paper that has reproduced 1t. The South
lost not less than nine thousand mill
hons because of a conflict which could not
have occurred but for the fact that there
were two parties to it, and that the trainers
of the Federal Constitution made il q COM
promise and ,confessedly tWo-sided, and
susceptible of two constructions. The
quarrel was outrageously wrong-headed on
neither side, especially when We remember,
If selfish interest did not intervene, that
each distinct people have the inherent
right, as Greeley confessed in 1861, 70 goy-
ernthemselves as. they choose. Butit'is all
over now, and its wrongs happily forgot.
ten, and, in view Of facts. affecting the ter
rible losses to which the South was sub
jected-the North gathering inches even as
we lost them-in view of these facts, is it
not asking too much to make Of rs beasts
of burden forever By making rs pay in
gold the interest and principal of enormous
sums stolen and appropriated By the speeu-
lators and dealers in shoddy, who prsyed
upon the peoples czizmitics, and coined
widows tears and peoples griefs into
gold
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-08-12

THE people Of Houston need not despond.
The Marrow Gauge and the Houston and
New Orleans roads and the perfected ca
nal will speedily double the city's wealth,
and thus lessen taxation one-half, and the
old town viii yet be perfectly blest. VIII
not its representatives in the constitutional
convention see that it is never more sub
jected to the government of thieves and ad-
venturers 7 And that this result may be as
sured viii they not have the new Constitu-
tion declare that none but freeholders shall
7ote in municipal elections
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-08-12

a SoIKAlN RKFLECTIoS.-HN New Orleans
secure direct railway connection with Hous-
ton and then with Shreveport, Marshall and
Jefferson, practically one town, and from
this triangular village with Dallas, We
don't clearly see what is to prevent the
wharf company's suffering excruciating con-
stipation of its merciless bowels Of mercy.
Then, suppose Morgan's steamers claw their
way, like mud-turtles, to the lower fau-
bourg Of Houston, what must be the fate of
the sea-girt city on its barren island The
Nees may yet be published in Houston, and
fishermen will dry their nets on the arid
beach where wealth and commerce and
youth and beauty do now disport them
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-08-12
rHE MOUNTAIN MEADOWS CRIME.

John Lee Doyle, or John Doyle Lee, as
he is indiferently called by the .Ne1s and
Courier, whose trial for participation In the
Mountain Meadows massacre is now in pro-
gress before court in Utah Territory, was
the centre figure in crime that for its au-
dacity and mystery has had no parallel in
American history. Eighteen years ago the
Mormons, driven from Illinois and Kansas,
had just established themselves in the far
West and commenced to build up what is
now the most populous and wealthy com
munity in all the Territories. That was be-
fore the days of Pacific railroads or even
well organized stage lines across the conti-
nent. Emigrants toward the land of the
sunset traversed the great plains with
wagon teams. In September of 1857 a
party of pioneers, numbering in all about
one hundred aud fifty, men, women and
children, were making their way westward.
On the tenth Of September they encamped
at Mountain Meadows. In the saleDce and
stiffness OF the night the emig,ants were
attacked BY party of men disguised as
Indians. Surprised and unarmed, they
could make but little resistance. The mas
sacre was complete, and it has never been
positively ascertained that of the emf
grants any one escaped the knife or the
pistol. The mnrderers were Mormons,
under the leadership Of the man who is
now on trial At Beaver. They were dressed
In Indian costume in order tha, the n,essa-
ere might be charged upon the Indians. but
the subsequent developments left no room
for doubt as to who the actanl criminals
were. The Mormons acknowledged their
responsibllity for the slaughter, but they
pleaded excuses for it. According to the
Mormon account several families in the
emigrant party came from that pan of Mis-
SCUM whence the Latter-Day Saints were
driveh, and were supposed to have shared
In the killing Of the Prophet Smith and the
Apossls Pratt. Other charges against them
were that they used profane Language, con-
trary TO the territorial laws; thst they de
sfroyed fences and grain, and killed stock
belongine TO the Mormonss TINT they named
two Of their oxen .sBrighamn snd ssHebers
IN derisioa Of the MnEmon officials; that
sAsy hssbossd apossases frOul the Church,
and poisoned springs along the ronte they
we're travelling. The Mormens were very
bittsr e the tine. becanse they had jnzi
been driven cut Of the Est. and the Fed.
eral gover.msnt mas threateaing 10 pursus
then ssill further.
Deyla - Lea. wss tie cikef Of ths as
|sAnlsins p<rsy. He vas oss Of the bOla,