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The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-07-08

WHENEVER citizen gets little ahead OF
the world, is out of debt, and people begin
to owe him, then he ''fops on 'tother side"
and wants the property exemption act re-
pealed. What signifies it. A man gets no
credit if he do not own more than is ex-
empt from execution, because of his prop
erty, and since there is therefore no wrong
done the creditor. who sees the printed law
before him every day, correspondent
thinks the law should be suffered to remain
as it is. The Shylocks, he says, get enough
in any event, and there should always be
spared a competency for the widow and
children A premium is offered by the ex-
emption act for marriage, and alike for i'm
migrants. There is no dishonesty under
the law or in its operation.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-07-08

THE prospects are that there will be few
asses braying in the constitutional conven-
ton, and not few. we are happy to con-
fess, left outside. But if We are to have
more fools than wise men, and more parti-
sans than statesmen, occupying seats in the
convention, good citizens viii vote for the
ablest candidates and then vote against the
convention. We hope in a few days to be
able to furnish list of candidates from all
parts of the State, and upon the character
and worth of the men designated depends
the conduct of the people and the fate of
the convention.--Thefefore it is that fools
should step down and out.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-07-08


Col. w. PRESTON JOHNSTON delivered
the memorial address at Lexington, and in
it the following unpublished occurrence is
related:
When Mr. Davis was at Greensboro,
North Carolina, after Gen. Lees surrender,
an eminent gentleman and gallant soldier
from Virginia said to him in my hearing:
81 shall return to Virginia, and with my
men take to the woods and mountains and
marshes, and wage eternal war upon the
enemy" Mr. Davis replied rather drily
II would be glad, General, if you could
bring those men here, and help Johnston
strike another blow for independence; but
if you begin guerrilla war the Yankees
will hang you, and if they do not your own
people will.v And he added to me after
wards: Sand they ought to, guerrillas be-
come brigands, and any government is
better than that" He understood our peo-
pie who are willing to die for liberty but
will not endure license. With such race
hope never fails.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-07-08
THE WORLDS BEAUTIES DEPEND
UPON THE POINC e FROM WHICH
WE VIEW THEM.

Mr.. Davis said that fresh and more beau
tiful landscape was presented from every
hill and mountain side about Austin. 1t was
not the sunlit city that underwent these
glowing transformations of the kaleide-
scope, but different objects differently
related to one another were ever contem-
plated when the point of vision was
changed Even so with the newspaper; aud
we have it not in our hearts to condemn.
When thequestion was first considered one
of the ''organs" of power, if we mistake
not, concurred with the STATESMAN and
disapproved the Intervention of partisanship
in onstitution-mending Such is the asser-
ton of one Of our exchanges. But there is
another dazzling revelation that bursts upon
the vision Of our bewildered contemporary.
Il has ascended little hill only broad
enough to contain dreary, desolate office
holders. They hold it as anxiously as did
the family Of Noah the narrow summit OF
Anrat when the deluge began TO subside.
A breath Of wind might have swept them
away, as breath of popular prejudice, IN
jectsd into this constitutional convention.
may destroy forever the anxious placemen.
Noah is properly represented by his grave
kxcellency, Who wears, that his person may
escape the drenching Of any future rain
storm, marvellous proper sombrero. The
Austin 0ryaa personates Ham. Is shown by
his advocacy Of the reelection Of the pres
ent Africanized and Radiealized city gov
eminent; while At Houston We have Japhe,
in Search Of his Father, the story Of his
life being fully narrated BY one Capt. Mar,
ryait. shea asd tre rest Of the happy fam
| ily run the wash houses, cleanse the dirty
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-07-08

liHen and manage the menagerie belonging
10 the anxious showmen.
The Telegraph, discharging the functions
of chief organ grinder, and affected as its
head may be by sweets of patronage, sings
different roundelay and contemplates a
very different world from that which it be-
held when it had net been lifted up to the
heights of orgsnship. 1t doesn't now see
with such clearness the necessity for cheap
government. 1t is on higher plane. The
constitutional convention may prove an
other Nosh's flood and sweep away every
occupant of every soft place under the sun
of government, including even the public
printing The times are sadly changed and
the Telegraph tells US, while 1t pockets the
greenbacks and basks in Noah's smiles, and
secs the possible speedy end coming.
"Whle retrenchment is good enough to
talk about, and good TO practice, let US
bring into our discussions little practical
statesmaEship and good share of facts
and figures. Let us be just, and consider
ate, and when we insist upon carrying on
the machinery of the State with as little
cApcuSS as pOSslDlc, anu COuustl anu
mand husbanding of all our resources, let
US understand what we are talking about,
and we shall not so frequently cry out,
Reduce taxation, and get back to the
economy that characterized the administra-
tion in the good old times before the war;
Swallowing to-day the crumbs that fall
from the table of Dives, the beggar of yes
terday no longer sympathizes with the
woes of poverty. The Telegraph no longer
reflects upon terrible hardships endured by
people who, having lost halt their wealth
by war, must now pay percentage of tax
alton .tour .tod greater than when their re-
sources were unSHpaired. The less the
people have, the more the placehOlders de-
mand; the poorerxVe are, the more afro
cious the exactions of government; the less
the ability of the people to maintain them,
the more numerous have placeholders be-
come; the more earnest the promises of re-
form, the more rapidly have placemen been
multiplied. We can't help fearing that if
Noahs family, especially those that toot
fog-horns at Austin and Houston while the
| old ship is in terrible distress, do not act
more wisely and prudently, and restrict
their extravagance,of manner and dress and
modes of talking, that the people will
gladly have the whole tea party chucked
ont of sight beneath those waves of which
it Is written:
= There have been drowned therein
All sinful beasts and of
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-07-08

A Washington letter says: 'The book
of Gen. Sherman continues to be the great
topic of conversation in army circles, and
the intense feeling which it has developed Is
remarkable. 1t would be an extremely
difficult matter to find one army officer who
docs not condemn the style and statements
of this work. A distinguished ex-officer of
the army, and graduate of West Point, in
speaking Of the work recently, SAID that If
he was now in the army he would prefer
charges against Gen. Sherman Of conduct
unbecoming an officer and 9 gentleman, and
that the contents of his book would be suf-
fcient TO convict him before any court
martial. He f1ther said that Gen. sherman
had, by his misstatements Of facts and his
hbcls on brother officers, made himself the
most unpopular man in the army. II is very
apparent that Gen. Sherman has effectually
ruined whatever chances he may heretofore
have had for the Presidency, TO which there
is no doubt he has been aspiring
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-07-08

The Crown Prince of Prussia's two eldest
sons are now upon 9 pedestrian tour in Wal
deck. As the princes are travelling in strict
incognito, accompanied only By their tutor,
the most ianghable mistakes sometimes
occur with regard to their condition. At
Cocks Hotel, IN FntzlaF, the excursionists
looking perhaps rather tired and travel
stained, ordered coffee, for which the land
lord considerably charged only two silber-
boys on . trip from Cassel- In another
place their order for three rooms was blunt
u refused, and they were otherwise treated
with contemptuous disregard, for which
ninS host could not find sufficient apologies
~ soon as he had been made acquainted
With the real character OF his visiton-
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-07-08

THE Ennis Argus is ssurely at fault. While
we believe that the State should have exc
cuted its contract with the international
Railway Company, as proposed last winter,
and Judge Ferris as jurist thought differ
emily, it would never have occurred to US
that this opinion of the distinguished gen
tleman constituted any objection to him as
candidate for the constitutional conven-
ton. If the Judge, honest and able as he
is said to be, differed from US on more ma
terial issues we would never hesitate to vote
for him. We want ability and virtue, and
not sold records" in the constitutional
convention.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-07-08

The Tenas Immigrant must be harnessed.
1t has absolutely kicked entirely out of the
traces, and doesn't even wear collar. If
branded, there is not the trace Of scar
on its stainless person. 1t has the audacity
to say to the whippers-in who propose to
monopolize the business of political think
ing for the people that ..t.,s,s.a+T,
"The people of Navarro are educating
themselves in politics, are tired of having
terms dictated to them, and being driven
by the party lash held in the hands of
demagogues. In the future they will be
free men," 'fs3 ~ id y
Expressions of this sort are misehievous
to the last degree. They destroy the proper
order of events. The nice fellows that
hold the leading strings and have the success
sion of political events all properly ar
ranged have their plans thwarted by just
such untimely awkwardness as this of the
Immigrant 1t must be made. to succumb,
and now is the time fol another letter from
his Excellency. He should call it Radi-
ool
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-07-08

THE wheat crop of Texas is now gar
nered. From our exchanges we gather the
conclusion that the average is twenty-five
bushels per acre. VIII some one tell the
proximate number of acres devoted to the
production of wheat We can only con-
gratulate Texas that bread, for the next
twelve months, will surely abound. The
land flows with milk, and honey of Hybla
is distilled from the lips Of the prettiest
women that blossom more brightly, in the
clear, bright atmosphere and beneath the
cloudless -sKies and 'hsiIliant stars Of Texas,
than elsewhere in the world Gen. Robert
son may close his Office. The press, sus-
tanned by the people, need only send abroad
its eloquent messages descriptive of the
charms Of Texas and the worlds myriads
viii come hithter to find matchless homes
in land Of boundless plenty.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-07-08

WE cannot help suspecting, however un-
just it may seem, and however highly
Americans have ever esteemed President
Lerdo, not only for his supposed patriotism
but distinguished ability, that he and Grant
have effected an alliance, and both propose,
through war waged against each other, to
crown each other with the honors of third
term. We find in Mexican newspaper a
paragraph written of Mexican facts, and of
Mexican election precisely such as we
have witnessed under Grants reign in the
South. On the sixth instant an election
was held at Monterey for members of Con-
gress. The federal Mexican troops under
Gen. Fuero interfered and drove away all
those who voted the opposition ticket, thus
rendering the election of the government
candidates certain. This caused great eX-
citement in Monterey. This is only one OF
the straws showing how the wind blows on
the other side of the Rio Grande, and we
have only to say that if President Lerdo
persist IN initiating Grant he must become
as odious in the United States as, hereto
fore, he has been deemed a worthy success
sor of the Indian statesman, Juarez.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-07-08

AT time like the present, when machin-
cry can be purchased at one-third less than
cost, and materials for building are within
reach, and proportionately low in price, the
construction of a cotton mill, even as work
of public benefcence, offers great advan-
tages. The various mills at Augusta, Ma
con, Georgia, and Graniteville, South Caro-
lima, have proved eminently profitable, even
upon old construction rates. and mill set
up now with all the latest improvements
must prove still more so. The situation of
Marble Falls, above Austin, is beautiful and
healthy, and will attract working families,
and the experience of the other mills shows
that abundant and excellent labor may be
secured. When it is remembered that the
published reports of other companies show
profits on an average of twenty-four per
cent. for FIVE years, the floating capital now
looking for investment win find this place
admirably well calculated to stimulate en-.
terprise and provoke investment.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-07-08

GeN. ORD thinks the Federal government
fully aroused, and that an end will be put,
very speedily, to the RIO Grande troubles.
A second war vessel will. soon appear of
the mouth OF the Rio Grande, and Cortina
may find his little trade with Cuba sadly in
tarupted. He may still steal cattle; but
will find it difficult to ship his herds. The
mouth of the Rio Grsnde, until order and
law are restored along the river everywhere,
will be closed against zlawless commerce
based upon robbery ndtheft
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-07-08

TEN millions of dollsrs have been wasted
by adyeHturers in twelve months in the
newspaper business. 1t is most ruinous TO
tyros, and sure penury follows in the foot
steps of those who, ignorant of the art Of
newspaper management, invest in 3 wstery-
eyed publication their time or money. He
who triumphs as an editor may fail as 8
Publisher and in both cases careful train
ing is as indispensable as when the lawyer
goes to the-br on the physician to the
pegtle and mortar. - f-
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-07-08

THE Bolton district convention noml-
mated L. S. c. Robertson, Col. Gathes and
C. r. Smith. 4 special to the Neos says
'they are all men fresh from the people, and
not allied to any clique, though Democratic
in principle. A platform condemnlng any
attempt to insert party or partisanship in
the coming constitutional convention was
unanimously adopted. The nominees are
received with universal favor.n
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-07-08

A sCALAwAe Congressman of Louisiana,
named Smith, is still toiling in Washington
and at home to beget separation of East
ern from Western Texas The more States
and more places for spoIlsmen, and the i'm
preston prevails very generally just now
that we have quite enough of all these.
The same class of fellows are always crazy
to create new counties. The man that ex-
poets to be sheriff and his family and that
of the county clerk that is to be arc always
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-07-08

FIVE dollar notes of the Bank of Clinton,
Illinois, are beautifully counterfeited like
those of Chicago banks, and if this busi-
ness of counterfeiting be not checked the
expansionists of the Pendleton sort will be
knocked on the head by the Macartneys of
the country. But may not chemists and
moulders become as skillful as printers, and
counterfeit gold and silver coins as per
fectly as Mccartney initiates engraved bank
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-07-08

WHEN newspaper always follows blind
ly and approves IN all things the acts of
placeholders and partisan leaders, it is
either incapable Of thinking for itself, OF
wanting in courage to tell the truth, or con-
trolled by corrupt loye of Office or patron.
age. We make this remark, which none
can gainsay, because we see a paper that
says the Galveston News received $40. 600
for Its support of the International Railway
subsidy bill. This paper, making, such a
charge, is of the blind, partisan sort. 1t
must know how it is itself.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-07-08

For some time past Col. Manuel Para,
has been about Matamoros with orders 70
arrest Cortina and convey him to the CITY of
Mexico. Having only one-tenth the force
of Cortina, he was awaiting the coming of
additional troops. We suppose these
reached him. In any event, Certina has
been arrested and sent forward, we presume,
to the capital. Cattle stealing along the
Rio Grande is suspended for a time.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-07-08

THE doctors discussing the Richmond
murder case, in which a poor woman Is al
legged to have died of the malpractice Of one
or the other Of jealous physicians, each ac.
cusing the other, have certainly demon
strated the fact that the hypodermic admin
istration Of morphine has caused number
less deaths;zu from at the papers say
about it people At Richmond win hereafter
take opium, as they do whisky. in the good
old WAY. Iala.lL lsle ~
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-07-08

MAYNARD is corruption of the word
Reynard. In any event Maynard was always
foxy, "gobbling everything In sight, and
he takes to Turkey naturally. A Texan
tells of meeting the yellow, black haired,
lantern -jawed East Tennesseean, born at
Roxbury, in Constantinople, and represent
ing there the dignity of the United States.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-07-08

done by few amendments. For all that
they sent delegates to the district eouven-
ton, which sat in fredericksburg on June
2s. While deprecating any partisan fea-
lures in Texas organic law, they still thought
it best to have partisan nominations. To
deprecate result on the one hand and do
the very thing to assure it on the other is
queer, but party managers must keep the
lines always tightly drawn. Otherwise the
small fry and unworthy whippers-iu would
never stand the ghost of chance to secure
spolls and gather honors.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-07-08

IS the published reports Of appOintees to
Office, Giuseppe Montedonico is named as
Italian consul fer the central valley of the
Mississippi. Joseph (Giuseppel was bern
in this country, was graduated BY az Amer
lean university, has travelled everywhere in
Europe, and written admirable Iette-s from
the Old World for New York and Southern
metropolitan newspapers. BE is an excel
lent scholar, and modest, unpretending gem
tleman, aud viii reflect honor upon the
country he viii wisely represent
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-07-08

TEXAS will have reason to boast of the
enterprise of Galveston when steamships
ply regularly between that city and Rio and
Vera Cruz. Then the new northwest will
be doubly anxious for cheap routes to the
sea. and Galveston will speedily become a
great commercial emporium.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-07-08
NO. so

The San Saba Nesrs suggests that all
taxes on all land in Texas should b. paid
in the county where the land lies and not al
the capital, Here, nothing is known of the
value of the land on which the foreig,s
speculator pays at a nominal valuation and
tnus Texas loses vast sums annually, and
while the residents and citizens living in
Texas are taxed at full rates the New York
Spectator pays only most trifling sums.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-07-08

ALL the old soldiers of all the wars are
going to organize an association of ''old
soldiers" in Dallas. We like it. Why not
have one in Austin. We have here one
soldier perhaps, but not more than one, of
1s12-15, five or six of the Texan war of
1886, one hundred or more Mexican war vet
Grams and five hundred or more Confeder-
ates. These should get together once a
wear and swan stories.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-07-08

CoMANCHE boasts of its court house as il
it were profitable like cotton mill. II
will only grind out paupers who go in
nabobs. The yarns spun there are only
used In hanging people or in binding their
noses to poverty's grindstone. A cotton
mill feeds and educates and clothes and
civIlizes the million. 6r15 ...s-
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-07-08

THE farmers education costs most. 1t is
obtained mainly by sad experience, and
therefore doctors and lawyers need not at
tempt to shove off enormous bills as just
upon the poor farmer by stating that ''my
professional learning cost me $40, OO0." The
joke is old but very thin.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-07-08

B. T. ESTES, for the iirst time In his long
and useful life, defes Democratic preserip-
ton and decfces and usAges. and prOclaims
himself candidate on his opn hook for
the constitutional convention, At Texarkana-
A long list Of citizens, Published in the
-yimplerut<, induces this action Of Nr. EStes.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-07-08

THERE is proposition we'll put by the
Apdlancho when it reverses that of the ex-
pansionists, who prate largely about "the
want of volume of currency equal to the
demands of industry" when they should
rather produce ga volume of industry
equal to the demands of the currency"
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-07-08

THE Ireland convention IN Kerr county
smashed Democracy and Ireland and every
body by resolving that constitutional con-
vention just now is impoIitic. because it
may stir up Northern Radiealisn; inexpe-
dient. because it viii cost somsthipg; and
needles, because all that is needed may be
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-07-08

Col. BEVERLY MATTHEWS, of Columbus,
Mississippi, the most brilliant and success
full of barristers Of his State, and an elo-
quent haranguer of the multitude, is now at
Austin and proposes to make this city his
home
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-07-08

THE conmercial should not complain.
We quote it to show Austin all the good of
which Dallas boasts, and then tell Of the
misdeeds OF Dallas, the little necessary in
cidents of wonderful progressivenesss in
order to warn Austin against evil while
presenting picture Of wonderful charms.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-07-08

THEY are finding it out now everywhere.
The Colorado Citizen, dated July I, 1875,
says:
Judge Ireland positively declines to be
a candidate for the constitutional conven-
ton. The STATESMAN and Herald have not
abused him for that as yet."
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-07-08

The total cost OF the ST. Louis bridge Is
but little less than 81, ,O0o. 900. It's gross
receipts IN the last year were $2s6. 900, and
its expenses sos, 900, leaving Sles. 900 20
pay the interest on the 81, 600. 600. Pretty
poor business.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-07-08

One Of Tennyson's friends qnoted one OF
Tennyson's lines, in the poets presence, As
happy instance Of the natural impression
Of q spontaneous thought, and the poet
said: II smoked dozen cigars over that
line"
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-07-08

Probably the weaIthiest journalist in
Americe - Mr.. A. S. Abeli, Of the Baltimore
gun, whose property is estimated at from
g.. 900, 0000 to $40, 000, 900.