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bic as that which was drilled into him al
West Point aud in the army. Ames is a small
man in every aspect in which it is possible
to contemplate his person or virtues, and his
littleness is only comprehensive when We
reflect that the man still seems to esteem
himself a gentleman-even when filing q
place of which every intelligent, honest
American in the State he rules deems him
wholly unworthy. If not utterly devoid of
self-respect he would surely go and hang
himself. The only white men who ever
voted for Ames did so to insult Alcorn by
this seeming preference for Ames. 1t was
a grievous stab, and Alcorn's detestation of
Ames made this thrust at himself peculiarly
offensive. Kellogg, if the big, coarse,
burly fellow who used to roar like Ne
mean lion in Congress before the war be
the man, is almost a match physically for
Governor Houston of Alabama. The man
we knew was q member Of the House from
Indiana, and always howled when Thad
Stevens groaned. He represents louisiana
with those whose homes he has desOlated,
and impulses and friendships and azpira-
tions he has outraged. Burly and stfong
and vigorous as he was, aud may be to-day,
the curse of Heaven will yet befall him,
and for his crimes and hell-born hate and
base ambition, that accepts qualification
even at the hands of benighted, savage
blacks, he will yet be smitten, and wither
and shrink into notmngness, and his
memory into infsmy.
Porter, Of Tennessee, is a tall, somewhat
gawky looking specimen of solemn-visaged
humanity. He is not addicted to smiles
either within or without the precincts of
bar-rooms. His face and nose are some
what elongated, and if put up in Leslie,
alongside of Governor Garland's, would be
certainly very respectable. His face is in
tellectual, his eyes benlgnant, his skin
somewhat dark, and his mouth expressive
of firmness as of moro terrible impulses
when on battle field with Gen. Frank
Cheatham, on whose staff he served
through the war. But we were only going
to say that Frank Leslie, before he prints
the phYsiognomy of Governor Coke, must
employ an artist who can soften the asperi-
ties of a vigorous face. If he do not, as in
the case of Garland's picture, the excellent
weekly will nevermore be suffered to have
place within the households of Texans,
whittier it would surely find its way if his
Excellency were properly portrayed in per-
son and in history.
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The Burnet Bulletia is an eminently pious
organ of the unterrifed Democracy, and
most sensible withal when showing the alb
surdity of the horrible patchwork pro-
posed to be applied to the present oongeries
Of absurdities constituting the organic law
of the State. In reprobahon of the pur-
pose to amend the existing Constitution,
that higher law" the apothegms Of our
Savior themselves may be quoted, We
must not put new wine into old bottles, or
patch an old garment with new cloth.
People should not forget, therefore, that
divine and secular wisdom alike condemn
the proposed amendments and the Constr
tuition proposed to be amended.
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TIE owners Of the palace cars on all rail-
ways are the inveterate robbers Of poor
railways, the Messrs. Pullman & Co. They
are radically and despOtically inclined, and,
having forced all the poor railway COM
panies Of the South TO take their patented
" "sIeepers," on terms prescribed by them
selves, for " fifteen years, and keep them in
perfect repair" these excellent people, Of
whose incorporation one Babcock, late
Grants keeper, is manager general. have
instructed their brass-buttoned orderlieS to
obey the civil rights act in Mississippi, and,
we suppose, everywhere in the South. The
result is that Pullman's cars are fit for kings
no longer-unless these be from Dahomey.
White people enter them no more.
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THE Herald proposes to deluge the public
-77ass,7,..1f sin. raost scandalons 6er.
formance" that occurred M 3 nouse ~ NJ
fame in Dallas. Is there no one in that
hapless city to protest against the open
ing of this filthy hidden sewer Dallas
may become as thoroughly imbruted as
New York society by the Beecher-TiIton
imbroglio. The Herald should spare its
people the threatened calamity, consisting
not SO much in the crime committed as in
accustoming decent people 20 the contem-
plation OF its enormities.
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If any citizen of Mississippi fail, for thirty
days, to pay his privilege tax he can collect
no debt due himself Ames signed the
bill. 1t was right and wise enough for a
negro Legislature to pass it but that white
man should have signed it amazes man
kind. In negro lawgiver's eyes the first
duty of man is to pay taxes for the simple
reason that the negro pays none and ham
dies and pockets deal of it. So in Texas
of towns governed by non-taxpayers. We
note the follies and crimes Of the rabble
when masters in other States, that we may
provide against their injection into Texan
legislation.
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PROPHETIC .. HUUSTUU
WESTON.

Houston is still suffering with hysteris
because dugout with steam propeller
a pOSteriOri went through what is called
the "ship channel" 1t is narrow gauge
affair, and Galveston's nervousness was not
heightened to any alarming extent. We
can't see any remedy for the jealousies and
rivalries of Houston and Galveston save in
the achievement of the designs of the
STATESMAN contemplating the creation of
a city to become, By means of the Interna-
tional bearing thither the whole wealth of
Mexico, and, by means of the Austin branch
of the Texas and Pacific gathering at the
same point the riches of Colorado, Arizona,
Utah and New Mexico, with that of all
lands traversed by the Texas Central and
its branches-by all these agencies to be
speedily perfected, we will build a city
bridging the country from Turner's tavern,
in Houston, even to the cavernous abode OF
the Galveston devil-fsh. A mightier city
than Babylon or Rome may be built even
on the Texan coast, and if Houston and
Galveston in cutting canals do not cut one
another's throats, and will only be patient,
we will adjust all differences, and, putting
the same corporate shirt over the two
blessed little towns down by the sea, we
will make them richer and prouder and
grander than the mightiest marts of trade
the world has ever known. Why not
There is no assignable limit to the greatness
of Texas, and We have yet to find limits to
the area of country which railways must
make tributary to the trade of the two
neighboring and rival seashore cities OF
Texas. If John Ireland will not sound the
tocsin of mad partisanship and give Texas
straight Democratic platform for State
Constitution, we will soon accomplish all
we so modestly promise in behalf of those
Jealous little towns we were talking about.
It may be proper to state that the simple
modesty of this paragraph is due to the
presence in Austin of our friend, Hon. John
Ireland. 1t is inspired-the modesty, and
only the prophecy is original.
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PRISON REFORM AND WARD,
DEWEY & Co.

The investigation and its results sffectin.
the alleged barbarities practiced by Ward
Dewey & Co., are to be kept secret, anC
submitted to Governor Coke before being
published. So says letter written from
Huntsville. This investigation is proper
enough, and should be fairly and vigoI
ously prosecuted until the whole system oi
Texan prison discipline is perfectly under
stood. But let US ask one simple, plain
question. viii not the Governor and press
OF Texas, while guarding the comfort and
rights of convicted felons, induce the next
Legislature to guard more carefully and
justly the rights and persons of men guilty,
In the laws eyes, of no crimel The jails
OF Texas should be examined, and their
administration watched with infinitely
greater care than that repository of all the
intolerable vices and crimes of a great
State consigned to the guardianship OF
Ward, Dewey & Co. These cruel monsters
are caged-men who hate mankInd-brutes
and monsters and moral monstrosities worse
than Ben Butler or Murrell or Jack Cade or
Mccartney from Chicago. These are con-
victed felons, and in managing these
rogHes and murderers of men there is a
ierceness of punishment and rigor in exc
cutting orders, and in the exaction of obe-
dience not elsewhere known or required.
Punishments are cruel and tortures
are' terrible. No man has entered Sing
Sing or other prison in any land
where the devils of cities and country
are gathered, and not gone away horror
stricken because of the seeming diabolism
of the managers of terrible violators of
law, Gagged and beaten and tanned like saw
age wild beasts. But mercy should even
enter Sing Sing, and interpose even when
the most merciless bloody fend incarcerated
is branded or beaten to compel obedience.
But while inspecting carefully the. States
prison and criticisIng the conduct of its
managers, people, as commonly happens in
cases of this character, see facts at dis
tance with wonderful distinctness, and are
horror struck with outrages, real or imag-
mary, done convicted felons, while innocent
men in iron-plated cells, full of foul in
fection and reeking with filth ald vermin,
ask God piteously even for the meanest
share of the pure air of heaven. No citi-
zen inspects county jails. There is nothing
gained by going thither. The helpless and
unfortunate and the innocent and guilty
are there herded together, and share the
same wretched fate. Society must protect
itself, and often most barbarously. But
while all this excitement pervades the
country, and the people and public author
tiles are aroused from that lethargic indiffer-
ence to human woes which characterizes
many of our race, may we not fud enough
Christian gentlemen in each county in
Texas to see that local barbarities practiced
upon innocent men 'chdr9ed with crime'
do not exceed in enormity those practiced
by Ward, Dewey s. Co. upon men cOn0ieted
of crime.
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DISPATCHES to the Neios from New York
are such as are termed glittering generali-
ties. The NeSos' New York special, when
he don't know anything, can talk more like
a man that knew = sight and didn't care
just then to tell it, than any witness in the
Beecher case. There is a quarter of a col
umn from this reporter about the doings
and purposes of the international Railroad
people, and aside from little vigorous
puffery, by which Moody and Galveston
are struck with the lightning Of splendid
illumination and soft solder, there is abso-
lutely nothing in it.
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Rey. DIR. JETER, famous Baptist min
lister, when laying on hands" and going
through the ceremonies incident to the or
dination of a young preacher, kept saying,
"young brother, keep out Of debt" ''lCeep
out of debt" ''preach the gospel ''but
keep out Of debt" "sell dry goods, Z"
keep school, "clean out horse stables"-
anything to keep out OF debt" DR.. Jeter
may not be more harmless than dove, but
we would venture to say that he is wiser
even than a-sea serpent.
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THE Federal navy is now used to facili-
tate the delights of picnic excursions as
planned by the grand women of Washing
ton, the wives of the nobility. It costs tax
payers something more than twenty millions
per annum to uphold the yachting estab-
lishment, and il the Democratic Congress
appropriate dollar for the maintenance Of
the brass-buttoned servants of the aristoc-
racy, or of useless steamers, only built to
minister to the delights of magnificent
placeholders, it will be morally perjured,
and guilty of treason to its constituency.
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II is more pleasing fact to the public
perhaps than to railway managers them
selves that the great reduction in freight
and passenger charges has increased the
revenues Of the Baltimore and Ohio road
forty to fifty per cent. over profits Of the
same months last year. Cannot Texas rail-
way managers derive invaluable lessons Of
wisdom from President Carrots conduct
He Is the great statesman, the Daniel Web
ster among railway kings and potentate1
and lawgiveru. It only costs thiEty-One dol
lars nov from New Orleans 70 New York
over MccOmb's and CARROTS roads.
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HOS. JOHN ASD THE CoSvENTTON.

It viii be remembered that the conven-
tion bill-that monstrosity Of Legislation,
seemingly designed to defeat the purpose
which itassumes to contemplate-Onginated
in the State Senate, and, strangely enough,
with the Judiciary COMMITTEES, Of which our
excellent friend, Hon. John Ireland, was
chairman. The bin, seemingly BY design
Of its trainers, proposes TO prevent the con-
struction Of new Constitution, and this PuF-
pose is pEOtracted and still operative, and
therefore We are to have q botch Of Con-
stitutiOn, framed By partisanE, for partisan
purposes, and not, as the true people Of
Texas desire, q frame work Of organic law
for . mighty and progesdve empire.
Democracy and Radicalism, e sneb, should
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THE STATESMAN.

ONE of the best Of our exchanges saws
that the trouble with Mr.. Ireland i that ba
has become too much accustomed 10 l,s;ns,
partisan. Partisanship has got to be one
Of the ingredients of Us blood and of his
brain, and his body is fed by it. With him
the statesman's regard fer the general vel
fare is swallowed up in the paltry schemes
of the plaee.hunter We must make a con.
stitution for the whole people, not part
of the people. We want a new cOnstitu-
tion. The present one is not in keep
ing with the wants and necessities Of
Texas. We desire the Democratic party
to take hold of the job and make, but
We want no John Ireland-made, partisan
platform to constitute the organic law Of
Texas
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MEN must look to God for strength, but
straightway they must pour out this whole
strength upon the awaiting world. The
clouds must draw their treasure from the
sea; but having stored their great white
mists stolen from the ocean, they must at
once march away to thunder over conti-
nents and exhaust their blessings over fields
that reach from the pine to the palm.
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References.

COFFEE & HENDERSON, Attorneys-at law: GAF-
FEY MORROW, AttOrneys-at law; MAKEMS0N
POSE1, AttoIneys-at-law. CeOrgetown, 4, SaS.
NORTON MOSES, Burnet, Burnet county, Texas.
II. A. BLANDFORD, Austia Encampment, /. q.
o. ~ GEORGE b. ZIAPkLNAN, Aahtin Encanp-
ment, !. .. o. T.
| am personally acquainted with F. NJ. BOlin and
the parties who recommend him. all citizens OF VIII
hanson county, and believe him and them to be
Trustworthy and honorable.
LEVI PENNlNG rUN, Clerk d. c. Williamson Co.
I am personally acquainted with +. n. Bolin and
knew him 10 be jealous Odd Fellow and a high
toned. honorable gentleman and such take pleas
ure in recommending him.
w. X. MAKE NsoN, N c. Georgetown Lodge
No. iT9, I. y. U. +.
concur In the above.
A. s. REED, v G.. Georgetown Lodge
Direct all letters TO +. NJ BOLIN, Manager, Box %
Round Rock, Williamson county, Texas.
Agents Wanted. jazz dit WIN
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THE most popular of the hymns sung by
Sankey, the vocal partner of Moody, the
revivalist has this chorus

Hold the fort, for am coming"
Jesus signals still;
Wave the answer back 20 heaven;
by thy grace we will"
And yet the genius and taste of Moody,
the preacher, and of sankey, the singer,
are on plane with the comprehensions and
religious impulses and tendencies Of vast
multitudes of people, and these two men
are doing the world infinite service. Gin
mills are closed wherever they gather
countless thrOngs, and industry supplants
Idleness and vice. In all its varied forms
and aspects, the Christian religion is stall
the choicest boon ever vouchsafed by
Heaven or approved and accepted by man
kind
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HoS. DAx TRIPLErr arrived in Hunts
vile Saturday evening. The evidence
already secured justifes the Governor in
sending out the commission, who are said
to be working faithfully. No one doubts
their earnestness and integrity. The pro-
ceedihgs are strictly private.
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GEx. r. G. DRUM, from Gen. sherman's
headquarters, teIegraphs Gen. Ord to CO.
operate with the State forces on the from
tier and maintain peace and order. II nee
essary, troops viii be ordered TO cross into
Mexieo-
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To strive for the mastery among men, to
struggle for pre-eminence and the topmost
height, not of excellence, but of wealth
or position or power, even though we tread
on the neck of every competitor and tram
pie under foot every human affection, this
is the one supreme ambition, the one alien
crossing object of human endeavor.
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THE Louisville COurier-Journal building
will be the finest and largest structure used
for the purposes Of publishers outside Of New
York City. The success Of the newspaper
since the wisdom OF Holdeman, the genius
Of Waterson and wit Of Hatcher were con-
centrated upon it, has been simply miracu-
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THE representatives Of PresidentLerdo on
the Rio Gnnde express the keenest anxi-
ETY. 70 suppress disorders and punish rob
bers. Gen. zapata Is now at Laredo en-
deavorng 70 restore peace and order.
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THE Red River and Rio Grands Railroad
Company has been organized At Denison,
and the charter has been accepted, Frank
skiddy made president, and > corps Of en-
gineers sent ont to make surveys.
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ExcrTrz0 events enliyen Corpus Christi.
Telegraph wires have been cut between
that place and Brownsville, houses are
burning, ranchmen fleeing to cities with
their families. and bells ringIng o arms.
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between the people and the church against
powers and principalities and thrones and
selfish despotisms. If the Pope lead in
such conflict he may we'll have his abiding
place in republican America.
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AUSTIN. TFyAs- Anril On 107


why modesty should prevent its publi-
cation:
AUSTIN, TEXAS, April 90, 1875.
Editors Democratic Statesmdn-I must con-
gratulate you on the broad, liberal tone of
your editorials. That of to-day's issue,
"The Politicians and the People" was most
excellent. Nothing disgusts and repels
Northern gentlemen who visit Texas for
health, business or pleasure, more than the
childish carping and vulgar abuse so Law
ishly INDUCED in by some of your cotem-
poTarieS. am most heartily glad to see
ton to those 10sgq and yitppsEa-
chief aim is, apparently, but to keep alive
the dying embers of sectional bad feeling.
AustiR has, think, a bright future be-
fore it, and your journals able and broad
minded course will do much to make it
truly cosmopolitan and progressive, attract
ing here many of the best class of citizens
from afar, both of the North and South.
With best wishes for the continued sue
cess and growth of the STATESMAN, and
feeling that however we may differ on
political or other issues, that you richly
deserve your conceded position as the lead
ing journal of the West, am
Very truly yours, f. E. M.
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The Couriey-.Iourzai says .'the authors
Of secession are nearly all dead, and Il Is
time to rub out old scores and open . new
set Of booln..
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FATInH RTAA, Of New Orleans, has
abandonsd the pEess, and betases himself
exclusively TO the pulpit.
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Directors.
FRANCIS NJ. BOLIN. Manager.
JOHN w. CHRISTIAN,
ALEXANDER HARRIS.

The Concert VIII be under the Imme-
dtate supe perviHlOll OF mr. q. Il. SISSON,
which Will be a sufficient guarantee
that the price paid for the ticket will
Insure the worth OF the money.
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ZOE RENT.
ran AvRNUR nOTKL,

EoR RENT.
rnR AVENUE HOTEL,
Af.r sann.sy !. IssA Ths suIldins vsa b pus n
hosossA rspair.
Appiyto TERRELL 4 WALKER.
Ausrss. lnseh II. lssx. nnrla din&stf
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LI.t or Real R.tate Award..

One house and twelve acre lot in the town OF
twelve ae; farm loi in The town Of Rss,rn 800
$4,000
DopOSitOry-C. II. JOHNS & CO., Bank.
ers, Austin, Travis county, Texas.
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HOUND ROCK,
Williamson County, Texas.
rURPosE-To ERECT AN ODD FELLOWS HALL
Cash Awards.

Price of Tickets Only One Dollar.
CLUB RATEs-ELEvEN TICKETS FOR TEN
DOLLARS.
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THE following letter tells the simple, un-
vanished truth and there is no good reason
why modesty should prevent its publi-
cation:
Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1875-10-09

Tn THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE SEW.
State of Nevada.
John Dahl, William O'Brien, Patrick Nc.
Donagh and Michael o'Brien, plaintiffs, VS.. the
Washington & Creole Mining Company, de.
fendant
Notice TO Lien Holders.
10 all whom 1t may concern.-Notice is here
by given to all persons holding or claiming
Liens on what In known as the Washington and
creole mine. under and by virtue of an act of
the Legislature of the State of Nevada, entitled
" An Act to secure Liens to Mechanics and
others, and TO repeal all other Acts in relation
thereto" approved March 4th, 1871, and also
under and by virtue of an act ot said Legisla-
tnre. approved March 4th, 1875, to be and ap.
pear at the Court Room Of the Seventh Judicial
District Court. in the Town of Phoebe, County
of Lincoln, State of Nevada, on
Monday, the 18th day OF October,
a. ID. 1875,
At the hour OF 10 O'Clock q. m on said day. the
same being day during the regular term Of
said Court, and then and there to make proof of
their Liens. If any they hsve, upon said Wash.
ington and Creole mine. under and by virtue of
said Act and Acts of the Legi lature, or to be
forever barred from claiming the same. Said
mine. known as and called the Washington and
Creole mine, ia situated in Ely Mining District.
Lincoln County, Nevada, contains twelve hun
dred feet of mining ground, and is the same
mining property which was formerly owned
and worked by the Mazepra Mining Company.
JOHN DAHL, ct al,
By A. B. ODouGHERTy, ths ir Attorney.
Phoebe, Nevada, August 2ist, 1876
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