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LET THE PEOPLE KEEP THEIR
MOUTHS SHUT.


Nothing SO gratifes US as the earnest af-
lection evinced everywhere for the seat of
government Of Texas, our own home, by
the press Of Texas. This local attachment
is the true basis OF true patriotism, and the
more are we grstifed when we see the un-
willingness of the newspapers to have the
distance of their local habitations from
Austin augmented. On the contrary, many
members of the late Legislature evinced q
wholly different spirit. Theirs was an ex-
'traordinary development Of magnificent
State PRIDE. Their leading idea was to
impress mankind with the behefth Texas
was broader than Russia, than all out of
doors. They made the several county cap
itals the furthest possible from the State
capital. In view of these facts, so strongly
and beautifully illustrative of the magniR-
cent and admirable patriotism of our last
lawgiyers, we are astonished that the news
papers will descend to the consideration of
trifing matters of dollars and cents, and
dare suggest that the few paltry pennies
painfully pOcketed by impecunious patriots,
over and above the sum honestly due as
mileage, influenced their action or shaped
and, moreover, the poor newspapers Of
Texas and the innocent Changers, having
no right to do more than pay taxes, can
have no right to inquire into little pecula-
tons and peculiar practices of patriotism
that distinguish the public and private life
of the self-constituted masters of the peo'
pie of Texas.
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TnE RANGERS.

The San Antonio Express complains Of
the cruelty Of Major Jones in bringing in
the decapitated heads Of Indians taken in
his late raId.-Enchange.
The Express complains Of anything done
BY the rangers. It complains Of them, too,
simply because they are trying to do their
duty to the people Of Texas, and to protect
the otherwise neglected frontier. It COM
plains Of Major Jones and his command on
none other than political grounds, and, hence,
what it may say amounts to nothing. But
since the Express attacks Major Jones about
the decapitation Of the Indians killed in his
late fight, we will give the facts about
those circulating heads Of the defunct saw
ages. After the Indians had been killed,
and the rangers had left the scene of con-
hict, the post surgeon at Fort Richardson,
a Federal officer, learned from the rangers
the whereabouts Of the bodies, and sent
some of his men with orders to bring him
the heads OF the Indians, which was done,
and the doctor, by this time, probably, has
sent these heads to grace the museum OF
some medical institute. He was only per.
forming duty to science in securing such
specimens, and will no doubt in conse-
quence, receive the thanks Of many learned
men. This, too, was probably the only
means the Doctor had, or had ever had, OF
ever expected to have, for getting such tro-
phies, and he took advantage of the &C
tion Of the rangers to secure them for the
benefit of science. Had the doctor gone
even further, and captured the whole car
cass instead of the head Of each Indian
and had them stewed down for the skele-
tons, he would not have gone beyond the
refined and just usages of science, and
hence of society.
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negro at the mercy OF the vast rebel ma
jority in Tennessee, and in this Radicalism
c0nfesses that its whole history, as the
South for ten years past has been affected
by it, Is a living lie and stupendous fraud.
THIS protest by Northern people and BY
Radical papers against the incursion Of
blacks into Northern States Is an invaluable
lesson to Texas, and the State, even now,
while the power is perfect and the occasion
inviting, should invite intelligent, property
holding whites into Texas and repel blacks
by restricting suffrage in all municipa! cleo
lions to freeholders. Let the press speak.
The politicians are afraid.
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THE LIVING SOUL OF THE PARTY.


It has often been SAID that il any single
proposition affecting government be univer-
sally accepted and sought to be injected
into legislation by the Democratic party, it
was that which we have deemed the cor
ner stons Of Democratic faith, and which
Mr.. jefferson Davis approved. Call it what
you may" State rights" municipal in
dependence or "local fIeedcm"-it is the
living soul Of Democracy, aud nothing else
distinguishes Democracy everywhere from
Radicalism. Ireland is not the impersona-
ton OF Democracy. His idea is a good
one, but it only involves the necessity for
keeping up the proper line Of succession,
and the main question is whether he can
get over the mountainous back of Dick
Hubbard into the Governors place, when
his ExcellencY goes upward. Everybody
sees why the people, for Ireland's purposes,
should be kept in proper line Of battle,
with the nice little officers all on dress pa
rade, the major generals and brigadiers and
colonies each in his proper place in the
long row Of "bricks." Such is Johnny
Ireland's Democracy. He has not thought
Of the tariff in ten years, and doesn't know
practically, as politician, that his wrstched
neighbors are robbed to poverty by Fed
eral tariffs and an intolerable banking sys-
tenn. Democracy, with Ireland, and with
most blowhard, noisy leaders in corner gro
Gerry conventions, is simply cunningly de-
vised machine with which flies and moths
are entrspped; while it is true that Democ-
racy, in name and fact, embodies a scheme
of government. A majority, perhaps, of
Democrats, besides the theory of local in
dependence, adopt the idea Of free trade.
But Ireland has never referred to these
facts. Though we accept both theories,
he absolutely asserts that we are not Demo-
Gratis. A curious fellow is this same Ire
land-a strange compound Of wisdom, yio-
lence, selfshness and folly and vanity. He
knew, when prattling about Democracy and
RadicaIsm and the press of Texas, that no
Ssaih sa 2tsige1t gentleman would be
nature. If Mr.. Ireland would have a seat
in the Federal Senate-and we may support
him in his aspirations for the place-should
he not rather tell the country what he
thinks Of the destruction of the national
banking system, and substitution Of green
backs for Chicago hottest The party is not
wholly agreed upon this point, but the
STATESMAN viii stand by Ireland if he will
come up to the scratch like little man,
and talk sensibly about Democracy, and
tell in what he is and is not Democrat.
None of these questions, except this Of
local freedom, the freedom of municipali-
ties, is involved in elections pending in
Texas. The STATEsGAN persistently advo-
Gates the Democratic idea, and the only
Democratic idea in existence, and yet Ire
lands organ, the paid organ of the govern
ment,. absolutely questions the Democracy
Of the STATESMAN. And thus it is that ex-
cessive zeal, in behalf Of the power that
pays, overreaches itself and becomes alb
surd, and thus it ever happens that
"organsn ever lose public confidence, and
fidelity to men is often foul treason to the
people and to principle.
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RATHER STEEP.

Lake Wilson, OF Fannln county, an
nounces himself a.candidate for the consti-
tutiOnal convention, and, reproducing, as
nearly As may be, the Constitution of 1916,
would only have those people vote hereaf-
ter in Texas who pay taxes. This would
lessen Texan representation IN Congress un-
der the constitutional amendments very ma
terially, since il would disfrznchise nearly
all the negroes and Mexicans. Moreover,
the Legislature Of the State defines by its
acts the rights Of persons and of property,
of employer and servant, Of father and
child, husband and wife, parent and child,
creditor and debtor, and therefore the ne
grOes and Mexicans have direct interest
and are directly affected by the action OF
thu Legislature, and should vote for its
members. But these non-ptoperty-holderS
have no right to interpose in the govern
ments Of counties aud towns and cities.
These corporations affect property alone
and not personal or civil rights, and those
having no property in Austin have no more
right, in morals or fact-save as dema-
gOgues have conceded them the right to do
wrOng-tO vote in city or county elections
than in the organization of G. r. Johns s
Cas- banking house, in which they are not
shareholders. The moral courage Of Mr..
Wilson and his philosophy are admirable,
but it is only needful to protect the tOiling
people Of Texas against rapaciOus thieves
set over corporations by the deprayed rab-
bic. The State can. take of itself even
when bearing the unmixed curse Of mixed
and universal suffrage.
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TnR FRIENDLEss NEGRo.

1T Is 4 singular, even wonderful fact,
that the Northwestern Radical newspapers
fall 10 extend any cordial or other invita-
ton to the Tennessee negroes. These
blacks, since Senator Brownlow and Repub-
lican Eastern Tennessee "went back on
civil rights" would emigrate in a body.
They held conventions and appointed
agents, as did followers of Moses Of old,
to Spy out the land" Butthose Canaanites
and other good people across the Jordan Of
the Ohio are in arms, and poor Cuffee,
whose friends loved him while he remained
in Borrioboola Cha, would cut his throat
L he become a neighbor. It is singular,
the generosity and eloquence with which
sambo Is appealed to to stay at home. The
Chicago zlri5uns says that though the Dem
ocrais have a majority Of 40, 900 in Tonnes
zee, sambo is honestly invested with all
privileges Of citizenship, has q good home,
and equal laws equally administered, and
Tennessee isths very place for the ssfourht
nobly.n We would gladly have g. coo Of
these superior voters domiciled IN the
suburbs Of Chicago. They would orai-
narily cast a, 900 votes, make the later
0cean mayor and Mccartney treasurer a
The pious town, and there would Be = atness
Of things in "chickens coming home %
roosl that the exterior world would
kesnly appreciate. But they dont even
.'hanker after caaee Is substi-
tute for grasshopperS IN Hoaven-ac-
cursed Kansas. Not a single Radical
organ confirms the impression made
upon sambo's susceptible bosom that there,
even in Kansas, viii Be found The tabled
forty acres and the browsing, philosophical
mule; no henefcent Radical artist Of the
West rears = pDud monumental pile Of
colorod marble pointing towards Kan
saa. with the immortal legend inscribed
below, ,sThcro i the East There l. In
dia,n hut che whole machinery Of public
opinion. when the 6nal test IS made, dis
covers the neero's Eden. even in the swamps
Of Arkansas and the lowlands Of the Ms
aIippi These Northern people have usea
Caaee as q plant sponge 70 absorb TIE
wealth q southern communities. and hav-
ing sqneel. out g him al that be Is worth.
and seeing that ne csn only give thea tvo
OF three urcl "a States IN the prcsiden-
tial elecloa, think III sport no longer worth
the candle. They would leave the helpless
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BOtton Of the paper, upon which these ana
similar doctrines are expressed, appear the
autograph signstures, as paid up sub
scribers, Of the following persons:
John Little, James Satterfeld, George A.
l. Conner, J. B. Blount, Edm- HOskins, Jos.
y. Skinner, Andrew Knox, James Barnes,
Robert McAorine, David Clark, Geo. d.
Reed, John skinner, samuel Nixon, John
Harvey, William Creacy, Thomas Hosea,
Isaac Barber, John Muller, William Cope
land, William T. Max, ThOs. B. Littlejohn,
George Wilkerson, Jos B. LIttlejOhu.
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Madison county, Western North carollna. These
springs situated four miles from the Tennessee
line, on the banks Of the French Broad river Ia the
very midst Of the highest ranges Of mOunfng east o.
the Li.41slppl rlyeT, In cOrntry generally known
and truthfnliy called the Switzerland u America.
The Hotel accommodations are unsurpassed a any
Welering place OF summer resort IN the country Ihc
baths consist 81 large poole Of clear powerful mineral
ana electric water. Temperature lUS % i0f degrees
tahnenheIt, which wonderfully InFiQof1fiDg 10 OF
inro1a. eQnnlIzlnR the circulation and Stimulating
the secrctoFy orgnn1 and viii ia most o. chronic
and gubacule Ronf, rheumatism, paralysis, dyapfpsla
ncnraga, secondary syphilis nephrflc end caculna
dlsordefH, scfofula cutdncOus diseases and many Dis
cases peculiar % females, eject speedy and radical
cure
There Il also Cold sulphur Spring near he Warm
Springs, resembling very cioefly n Temperature and
color o. deposit The Yellow buphur hpfinR 81 VIZ
GINA, With enlphnrou1 odoE much stronger. These
springs cay q aoccgs from AZ eolthen cities ~
en- lnea q rqroads Converting INTO East TENNESSEE.
ria New OrIoanf Noble, Montgomery, Atlanta.
Knoxville Tonae19o1 q ofr'ltoan, k,rf Ienneesce.
Ercnffion 81 r1f lr fseis are % aale 70 and from
ihis place II ~ ho1ih,n dnol q three cents per
NO. Hates or boards
go per month. san PEI wssk, g Per dey. chH-
dren under - and year, and coofed servants.
'i ssd i 10 el.ruI.ss end psupAsis % uansgss
sa.nszui Manss.r for Warn s6riars c5npsry.
le1 deodlm&ult
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As Mr.. Jefferson Davis approved our
zone idea monomaniA," and single
barreled, nOn-revolving platform Of local
freedOm-local independence-we can well
afford to accept bis addsnduAA made at Aus
tin, that everybody having secured their
rights except the famers," it is time
that they were coming to the front They
should demand free trade and the restTic-
ton Of suffrage in local elections to free
holders. Then the cost Of government
viii be lessened One-half, and farmers must
pay the whole Of it.
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WHKx he Telegraph has aught 10 say Of
.'Our contemporary it should say which Of
the papers Is designed to Be designated. The
unlzindsst cut Of all would Be 70 make the
STATESMAN, in the eyes Of soma Houston
fellow Who reads the Ttlsgvspb RESPONSE
bic for mockeries Of EngIish and sense Of
taste 70 which We would not give paternity
for the world. We can 1tand the joke about
stats rights. even as did Madison and JEFF
ferson. bat this unkindosl cut Of all IS in
fnlnrnlla
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THURSDAY. .............J JUNE 4, 1877
no eUBSCnIBBRS AMI
PONDENTS.

Persons writing to this Office in relation
TO their papers or business, will please state
the postofice TO which the paper is, or will
be sent, or the answer must be mailed.
They will also state whether they take OF
desire to take the DAILY or WEEKLY.
BY so doing, much delay and trouble will
be avoided.
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New ADVERTISEMENTS.

r osT.
Note for SIS. dated October z 1872. drawn bv
= n. = W. W. Hull. Ia favor of Charles Hoeb pay
able thirty days ateT date Finder win pcare leave
same with Weed 4 Co. Pecan street. the same having
0s ;ss p sss THIS d'y. CHARLES NEEh
Litchfield enquirer., 1875-04-15
Cornwall.

We hasten to acknowledge the arnyal of Spring. Last Saturday and Sunday were beautiful, and Monday was spring day if blue birds are any sign, for we cer- tainly seldom see bluer set of birds than the songless misanthropes of Monday The Democrats say that "Coggias comet didn't whisk around here for nothing last summer"
 The Band of Hope met, Monday night, and elected the following officers. Presi- dent, Almon L. Miner; Tice-Presidents, Nellie R. Miner and J. Ernest Whitney; Secretary, Charles c. Marsh; Treasurer, E D. Cole. The Sewing Society met at Mrs. A. Judson's on the 7th, and was largely attended, but the old sign failed and no rain followed.
 The first of the summer boarders ar- rived at Mir. s. T. Dudley's the 9th, more are expected soon, and the nymphs and dryads of Crystal Pool, the Glen and Coltsfoot Cave and Mount, are fitting, up in the gayest of Sylvan costumes for their reception. Beecher is stil, argued. New England may have been settled on Ply mouth Beech, but it is certainly unsettled on Plymouth Beechers.
 Wort "Jack" favor us by writing a record of the principal spelling matches in College St.. some fine day while he toasts his shins by the kitchen fire.
 J. G. B.
Litchfield enquirer., 1875-04-15
Cornwall.
COLLEGE STREET.


 Mir. John Chapman is home, now. being out of work. MT. George Jennings arriv- ed here last week from New Jersey. He is staying with his uncle, Mir. William Jennings. 4.E.t .zses sats
 MT. James Blake sold two pigs eight weeks old, last week, that weighed 4s pounds each, or 96 for the pair. Now if any Litchfeld County swine breaders can beat that should be very happy to hear from them. 4at .sa4a f as:s tt
 eI would inform your New Preston correspondent that we know where New Preston is, even if he does not quite re- member the location of College Street; also. that it will not probably be quite so newsy in the future as the spelling schools are over for the present.
 i4wecane near starting brass band . short time ago; but we only got two i'm struments together and one of those is now returned. Still, as far as blowing is concerned. we can do it to perfection. already. 4zgl.TTgr zF .s-rYq JACK. e7
Litchfield enquirer., 1875-04-15
nISTRICT of LitchfieId sss Probate
 VCourt. April 10th. 1875.

DCourt. April 10th. 1875.
 Essstea of Dxight c. KiIboarn of Litchfisld in said Ddseriets 1nsolvent Debtor. 2E K
 The Court of Probate for tha D5str;ct cf Litchfed hath limited and allowed threanonthe from the date hereof. for the Credifors of said Estate, m which to exhibit thefr claims thereto: and has apponted Jesae L. Judd and Frederick p. Webafsrs Esquires, Commissioner to receive, dered that said 6ommissicners meef q tse of. nee of said IWebstef, in amid Titchaefd. on inc 10th days of May and July 1875. as 10 oielock in the f0ssnoon of each of said days for the uur- poe ef aftsnding on the business of said D.
 Certified from Record, hes+ ss.s. s1.ss.
 GEO. II. WOODRUFF. Judge ! Al psEspns indebted to said Rsfatse ars re- questsd to make immediate payu1ent t, =, -
 2sw HENRY B MORRILL,, Trustee.
Litchfield enquirer., 1875-04-15
PROBATE ADVERTISEMENTS.

nISTRICT of New Milford ss. Probate D Court, March 9th, 1875.
 Estate of silas Erwin late of New Milford in said District. deceased. eS@ go aaae
 The Court of Probate for the District of New Milford hath limited and allowed six months from the date hereof, for the Creditors of said Estate. represented insolyent. in which to ex- hibit their claims thereto; and hss appointed Daniel Marsh and Albert N. Baldwin, both of said New Milford. Commissioners to receive and examine said claims. f-E F7 E#E
 Certified by
 =. JAMES MCMAHON, Judge.
 The subscribers give notice tha3 they shall meet at John s. Turrills office in said New Mill ford on the 9th days of May and September at o'clock, in the afternoon. on each of said days, for the purpose of attending on the business of said appointment. ~- L g& tg
 11s1an 1ksRRr lAhsaI <. BatIDw1s. con'r.,
 All persons indebted to saiE Estate are re- quested to make immediate payment to
 51 4w JOHN 8. TURRTLL. Adm.
Litchfield enquirer., 1875-04-15
Washington.


 Hon. s. s. Logan and wife, son and daughter, left town this morning esa-Toute for New York, to attend the marriage of hls son Walter s. Logan, Esq, which is expected to take place tomorrow (the 18th inst.).
 In your last issue the name of Miss Candace Bradley was omitted as teacher in East Street. Miss Edna Wyant of this place is teaching in Hotchkissville. Mrs. Marvin's select school for young Misses will commence the first week in May. Success attend her efforts, though an observation of several years has led us to beleive that the foundation of a good ed- ucation, (viz.: correct spelling. distinct articulation, and thorough knowledge of the rudiments of Arithmetic, Grammar and Geography is rarely acquired except at the common school. As several of your correspondents are school visitors Iwould like their views on this subject.
 The remains of Mary, wife of Romu- Jus Loveridge, were brought from Florida and inferred in our Cemetery on Thurs day of last week.
 Several of the descendants of honest John Smith visited MT. Augustus Smith at his home last week. Five of the origi- nal families were represented. Mt. Smith left for Washington, D. O., on Saturday. His sister, Mrs. s. R. Pond (wife of Rev. Samuel W. Pond of Shakopee, Minn., who has been spending the winter with her friends in this place) will return to her western home soon.
 On Friday, and again on Monday Mir. F. w. Gum was one of Mir. Beecher's friends present at the great trial. Some of the papers dub him "Dr., or Prof, i" We do not imagine that be has ever aspir- cd to any distinction of that sort.
Litchfield enquirer., 1875-04-15
nIsTRICT of Litchfeld ss. Probate

n STRICT of Litchfield ss. Probate 1D Court, March A, 1875, = t1.&S Estate ot Hazard Bentley late of Goshen in said District, deceased. -&<I IS Fl The Court of Probate for the District of Litch- field hath limited and allowed six months from the date hereof, for the Creditors of sad Estate represented insolvent, in which to exhibit their claims thereto: and has appointed Willard Gay lord and John M. Wadhams, Esquires, of said Goshen. Commissioners to receive and decide upon said claims. -sf.-F !y
 Certified by
 GEO. n. WOODRUFF. Judge. The subscribers give notice that they shall meet aA Ch.s. ,. 1eadAnt's Hosefln Said doshen on the 22d days of April and September 1875, at 9o'clock in the forenoon, on each of said days, for the purpose of attending on the business of said appointment.
 ynHE MIHI4kD R 9anHoR4' GA34oRp' com,rs. All persons indebted to said Estate are re- quested to make immediate payment to
 51 4w FREDERICK P. HILLS, Execution.
Litchfield enquirer., 1875-04-15

DISTRICT of Litchfeld ss. Probate Court, U March 10th, 1875. Z9n .arg
 Estate of G. W. & s. M. Wheeler of Litchfield In said District, lnsolvent Debtors = IF
 The Court of Probate for the District of Litch- neld hath limited and allowed three months from the date hereof, for the Creditors of said Estate. represented insolyent, in, which to ex- Frank W. Wessells and Frederick B. Webster. Esquifes, Commissioners to receive and decide upon said Claims; and has ordered. that said Commissloners meet at the office of Henry R. Morrill,, Esq, in said Litchfeld, on the 21st days of April and June 1875, at o'clock in the forenoon of each of said days for the purpose of attending on the business of said appointment.
 Certified from Record .aF. q
 F GEO. M. WOODRUFF, Judge
 All persons indebted to said Estats are re- quested to make immediate payment to 5Tsl(
 51 4w HENRY R. MORRILL,, Trustee.