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GRAND PROMENADE CONCERT


NEW NORTHERN LIBERTIES MARKET.
street between 4th and 5th SITS
EnT the Benefit If
TEE NCEENS CHRISTIAN HONE.
ST AIMS INFANT ASyLUy.
THK Protestant ORPHAN ASYLUM.
TIE FAMILY or JpSCPH MFTZ
sho unfortunately killed AZ This Building. and
TUE Ns>HINGTON NoNuMENT.
On I'LL E>ptN Jan ~. IS75. dec24 ia
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EVENING STAR,
Washington News and Gossip.

MRS. GRANTS RECEPTIONS will com
menee on tie second Saturday in January
t9ih) at three O'Clock p. m. lasting until five
o'clock p. m. on each reception day
The Presidents public reception. will oc-
eur as foilows:-Tuesday evening. January
l2th; Tuesday evening, February 2I; Tues
day evening, February 23d.
State DiunerS:-TueS,Iav. January 9Th.
Tuesday, January 10th; Tuesday, February
9th
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~ HARRY DONEHUE.

42- 11TH STREET NEIRE
New and neatly fitted NJ ParIors and Show rooms
sBd a dOuLly Increased stock Of
hAsQU GRADE AND THEATRICAL COSTUMES.
sonIrsin. -ey ersl hundred and costly Dresses.
together with every variety Uf COstume-LaIIes'
Gent sud Children s-f0r
AAsQJE BALLS AND PARTIES.
- PRIVATE THEATRICAIS
1ABLEAt AND OLD FOLKS CONCERTS
II. s-NIth thorough kuowl-dge of our busi-
ses- We devote ourselves tO the wants and wsh-s Of
cur IaiTUus and by courteous and polite attention.
TeAst Iatc charges and dI~ position accOmmg
and II,..se We seldom tall 10 give satisfaction.
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INTERNAL REvENUE--The receipts from
This source to-day Were S2sI .5lI.I9.
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A >TRAUS,

A STRAUS,
lOII PENNSY LyANIA AVENUE,
decE-tr Be,w cen 10Th and IIth streets
I'HOS BOSTON, PIANIST,
III furnish kece pfiOns, Social and Fashionable
Parties with MUSIC at the shG. rtest notice
Order left with hetzerOtt q Co, at the III H7H
IL Music store, st COltmani- a ST, vIllttt II
receive prompt attention. Music TO- the German
sRsciaity. Residence, l747 street northwest,
Warrington, c. noY3-3m
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LIEUT.. FRED COLLINS and Can't. E p
Luil. of the L. :. Navy. sailed from New
York yesterday for AspinwaII. Lieut. Col
Inns commands the expedition across the
I>thmuS of barien. and capt. LulI that of the
IsthmCS OF Panama.
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MADAME T.. BASTIEN,

Prom BALTIMORE
fakes pleasures II informing the Ladies Of Washing
ton that -he ha- from this day taken charge If the
HAIR DEPARTMENT at CHAS. BAUM :. and
being eNEelIgLc-d IN this business for the last
twsuty YEAR guarantees fall satisfaction ia HAIR
DRESSING. tHthPUplNG. and CUTTING
CHILDREN HAIR and BRIDES HAIR
DkE>~lN NJ "a -p-Cialty- Ladies will De attended
10 ID their own buu-,.~ by having their orders
CHAS. BAUM Corset Factory,
decIs fm 4O- 1th street
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MOALEY,
COsTU UHER,
COS 10Th STREET NORTHWEST
large collection Il Pine Artistic HALL. TAB
LkAt ahd THEATRICAL COSTUMES kept on
hand.
MASH Sd BALLS and PARTIES supplied at
reasonable Tates.
S-Rsmemher- Mask j. furnished with each
tOsiun AID all CUsi Umes delivered and called for
oetl9 an L. MOXIEY Cos lO,b stree,
oLDNo ON EXHIBITION AND SALE NEw No
$50 439
7TH 81 MARhRITFR' 7rHSr
Ne 43S ~ SfTs,f. bsfire,a ID and K StI.>fs eisht
a0oTS dtOre old FSNOcS Hail.
Choice oIi Paintings EIETayiugs, ChrOmos. &c
,hiso, largest stock of PaP-r Hsngings, Window
sL@Ats- II',nr Frames Picture Cords and Tas-
sels, Ring NaIl-. Se.. in the District
~ IEBN~ CASH.
- Pi''-e remember Name and Number. jel-Iy
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GRAND CONCERT tnr the new organ of 81.
NJ Matthew church. FRIDAY EVENING. Jan
eih at the hall II the Congregational Church G. and
oth street. northwest DE- Caulhrh, Director. A
eFCs KueT, Organi-t. Part 1. Davidie Penitente.
by Mart. TOR the first time in This country. Part
2 SelssIIpuS frH m HAYDEN. HrTCasante. g.. Tick
cts One Dollar, including reserved seats at Metz.
2TOtt. IRrp IaILS p
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THE LOUISIANA TROUBLE.
sum mary Of Last Nights News.

IEPoRTAST DISPATCH OF GIN. SHERIDAN
Secretary BelAnap has received the follow
ing dispatch:
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-11-04
THE Mexia Ledoey saws.


a'eNiths the school law killed, virtually,
the suffrage law framed to suit demagogues,
laws driving away capital, immigration
snubbed, thus early in the session, how
can the friends of progress. sound policy
-aea Ju5ti00i hope f07n Constitution the -peo-
pie will approved We predict thai when
the new Constitution is submitted to the
people, they will spew it out"
We cannot yet concur in all this with the
Ledger. However absurd and Objectionable
in many of its features, this new code, it
may still be properly preferred to the ex-
isting Constitution. We modestly suggest,
even though our memorable friend Col De-
Morse will snuff corruption in the breeze
while gazing among the tree tops of ex-
uberant fancy that the new and old Con-
stitutions be printed, $4,000 or so, 600
copies, in parallel columns, corresponding
sections side by side, that the people
may compare the two. Despite the
credities and absurdities of Rutabaga-
ism, the people may still properly prefer
the new and the old. From this time
forth the incapable of the Convention may
concede share of influence to the wisest
members of the parturient body a few ugly
brawling paintings of demagogism will be
brought into the world by the rusty DR..
Stop who acts as aecOueheu- for the Holy
Alliance. Let us have the two Constitu-
tons collocated and contrasted and the
people thus enabled to determine fairly the
relative value of the two instruments; the
old, made to order by good preacher
obeying the DEGREES of Gen. Candy; the
new, by better man, because branded as
such IN infancy and dragging his voice,
when he leaps like bowling dervish into
the arena OF debate, even as does Satan his
tail when he crawls into his dark abode
drawing in the hole after him.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-11-04

The resolution of ar. Cards, offered in the
Convention on thf fourth instant, conveys
20 the mind OF ne thOughtful reader q
plaintive moan oer the deplorable help
lessness of the bnve people who are push
ing the confines our great empire farther
and farther towalis the setting sun. The
resolution reads:
Thai the fronier be exempted from the
payment Of tax pr a CERTAIN. tine. and the
citizens profess temselves.s
Il says IS plainY as can be to the peoule
of Texas either foteet as, or do not send
Jour tax eolleeto,among us. The picture
presented--of have people. the burden
Of whooe defense rests upon sheir own
shoulders. who are willing to SAND
between the civilization Of the interior ana
the savagery Of the border, ana onIv -
| for this the pitiful Don Of relief from ter.
aiion--is indeed oneo stir the blood Il tI,e
Veins Of the chiFabus and generous ueo.
4 pc OF the State.
When the ASSESSED passes round on The
/ frontier, property hafo-day one vaIue and
! tomorrow quite anOfsr, and the difference
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-11-04


The election Britton, though Davis
and Wheeler di' not think of it, fails ut
terly. The amedments to the city charter
under which hesIaims to be elected are not
yet part OF tie city charter. Their ope
ration will be lsisted In the courts, and
Mr. Wheeler NUT nominate him (Britton),
and the Board Of Aldermen will not con-
firm, and Mr.. sntton will still be left
out 10 the cod. The country should
know that tie Austin rabble that
elected Wheeler by this trade, also
elected Bcitton, who led the mot
that held the CAPITOL, and at the head o.
three hundred armed negroes resisted th'
Inauguration of Go'ernor Coke. 1t is mel
like these that negrees and Mexican mob
inject into Office in towns and cities o
Texas, and Wheeler, good and true Sun
day school man, trades himself into offic'
by dealing with such men, and taxpayer
must foot the bills.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-11-04

BY its wise management the Baltimore
and Ohio road is rapidly making Baltimore
the cheapest commercial city of the East.
Cannot Texan railway managers learn the
lesson taught by President Garrett If
they enrich Texan cities, Texan railways
are the great benefciaries of the growth of
town and country. Railroad managers are
conscious of these facts, and confess that
their interests and those of the country are
Identical 1t is only unfortunate that broad
gauge roads cost too much. To make four
or five per cent. on the capital invested Is
impossible in sparsely populated country.
Cheap narrow gauge roads are the great
needs Of Texan civilization, and that these
may be constructed, counties and towns,
acting through those alone who pay taxes,
should be free to invest in them at will as
the true people declare at the ballot-box.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-11-04
A LESSON Boas TIA MANY.


The most hopeful sign OF the age is that
illustrated in the conduct of Vanderbilt in
founding the. university at Nashville, in
the acts of the great philanthropist, Pea
body, and IN the spirit that actuates the
best people of Austin who would invest the
wisest and best men with office, and ex-
pend wealth that an educational institution
may have here its useful existence. Intelli-
gent thoughtful people, except the agrari-
an fanatlcal majority of the Constitutional
Convention, are discovering that self-inter-
est isco-iLcident with social interest," that
he who would enrich himself can do SO
most effectually by enriching others, and
that hberality in thought and action is the
broad way to prosperity. -
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SENATOR BAYARD says the people of the
South have but faint conception Of the
distress at the North; that his opinion is,
ten Northern men are in state of suffering
from poverty to one in the South. We find
nothing in our Texan exchanges to indicate
the prevalence of want anywhere, not even
in the narrow district that was desolated by
drought and of which the Tennessee papers
tell such hideous st,ries. Wheat is selling
at forty and fifty cents, corn at fifty and
even at thirty cents in many places, and
beef may be had for the asking. Texas is
the land of plenty, aud there is more silver
and gold among the people of this than any
American State.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-11-04
THE ELEcrIOs--fnE siruArloN.


With saddened hearts we have to an
nounce that the will Of the people as to the
Mayor chosen has been defeated, and can
didate elected against the earnest, united
and emphatic action at the polls of ma
jority Of the tax-payiDg citizens-a MAORI
ty so vast as to- constitute a substantial
unanimity. Austin will now be added to
that long, black. melancholy list of once
proud, prosperous cities sacked by the bar
barous army Of Ignorance, pauperism and
adventurers, armed with the ballot for the
overthrow OF free government.
In the Old World civilization was o7er-
thrown by the assaults of barbarism from
without, and the Roman Empire fell to the
ground under tie blows Of the savaaes from
Sarmatian forests. To-day the same ruin
is 'wTeaked by the same uncouth forces
working from the dire vantage gro und of a
position pithin our civilization, and with
weapons that our own hands have furnished.
We need not develop the lesson. 1t may
be read in the history of New Orleans, of
Charleston, of Houston, of Memphis, and
OF countless towns and cities, wherein, as
in mirror, the sad history of extravaganza.
Of corruption, Of enormous debt, of crush
ing taxation, ending in forced bankruptcy,
reputation and a min so total that none
can avoid il save by fight. Such prospect,
does the immediate future bring us to day.
The Convention gives us no help. There, a
narrow fanaticism and rustic bigotry, mac
cessible to reason, bear rule, and turn a
deaf ear to the petitions of ravaged COM
munities, and the. teachings of costly expe-
rience. Our citizens must look to them
selves alone for relief Already on our
streets men look each other in the face and
ask, ''What is to be done 2" ssWhat
measures of self-defense are yet within our
reach 2" A meeting of taxpayers has been
suggested, to the end that all the legal rem
edies of self-preservation Of indeed any ex-
ist) may be explored and invoked.
They who govern should bear the cost,
and Africa and Mexico must be levied on
exclusively. But this proposed policy of
restricting the collection of taxes through
the courts will hardly be justi6able when
we have chosen a Board of Aldermen Who'll
ly trustworthy The members OF the old
ring, except Wheeler, have been beaten, ands
poor fellow, he owes Office. So hogn
by the result in the election of aldermen,
to the trade with barly Britton. The in
nocent good man Wheeler, incapable of
tricks, and pure and good and pious, abso-
lutely trades himself into office, and to
win power, not only pahders to ignorance
and vice, but absolutely sells his followers
to buy negroes and to have Britton
made an office-holder. When we hear a
white man boasting of Wheeler's triumph,
let us not forget that he means Bntton's
triumph, and the city and people are dis
graced that the Sunday school teacher,
through Britton's goodness, may still sell
Austin bonds at seventy-two and one-half
cents. But isn't it lucky that the alder
manic. adilnct of this scheme of robbery
was obliterated. Many nice hllte jobs
will be. knocked away. There is no need
we hope, for a tax payers revolt.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-11-04

AND here comes our good friend of the
Constitutional Convention, and is writing
over the signature Columbus" to the Colo
RADIO Citizen, speaks of 'tthe silly and ridiu-
lous charges, 2 [affecting the Holy Alliance]
''made by the Austin STATESMAN" No
editor of the STATESMAN is a member of
the Convention, and, since this is true, the
literal correctness, of the statements of GO
lumbus" are impossible. The STATESMAN
only printed ,whatowas said by members of
the Convention. Why does columbus
wish to make US the pack horse to carry the
sins of the Rutabagas2 He should not deal
ungenerously with q newspaper when he
represents the sovereign pywer of an en-
miro f4t.1 1.4H 5tI ID ia .-.. y -ur III
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-11-04
A PHYSICIAN Of Japan has said tha

A rHysIcIAN of Japan has said that the
cheek bones of the Japanese are double,
the additional bone being peculiar to the
Japanese race. The Japanese may only
have twice as much cheek as the generality
OF other folks, and that doctor may think
this a great popularity, but if he had, even
with the aid of nitro-glycerine, dissected
the cheek of a Rutabaga in the Constitu-
tioual Convention, he would never have
mentioned the Japanese at all A man Of
sound, clear, sturdy intellect, like Reagan
or Crawford or Dohoney or Ballinger or
West or eight or ten others we might name,
devoees lifetime or earnest ton TO the task
of mastering the science of government,
and when one of these rises to speak, and
Martin squalks "railroad," the Rutabagas
fop and hide their verdant tops and not
one listens even to reason or philosophy ut
tered in their presence. With double the
doubled cheek of the Japanese, Rutabaga-
ism IS now organized defes intelligence,
and the Johnsons are the peerless orators
and statesmen of the Constitutional Con-
ventiOn.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-11-04
ns ecss4.s, aES nAD: conSE II

TEXAS greatly needs nayigable river
from north TO south and from east to west.
The wealth of the State would be qusdr,
pied again and again if such navieabIe
streams traversed the State. But to dig
these rivers and turn the gulf stream into
these channels would cost vast sums, and
yet, however great the cost, the State would
be the richer, even If the State expended
vast sums in such stupenious conslmma-
ton. II such rivers were dug by foreign
ers, and at trifling cost to the people, would
it not be passing strange if the State turned
upon its beuefactors and taxed and robbed
them The artificial river would pay the
owners nothing, certainly no adequate pro-
fit on the wealth Invested, and, yet daring
capitalists, having Iisked vast sums to pro-
mote the greatness and glory of the State,
are at the mercy of the State, and are to be
subjected to systems of taxation wholly un-
precedented and wholly Intelerable. Rail-
way builders have dug such rivers. They
were the great benefactors of Texas, and
Texas now turns upon and rends them.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-11-04
A GREAT OPPOR1 UNITY FOR
AUSTIN. Isfte >

The synod of Texas that assemblies in our
city tonight will decide, during its sittings,
the locality of Austin College This in
stitution of learning will be made first class,
and will. in the lnnn-rnn. be worth more
than thousands of silver and g0ld 70 a.
community that secures it. The small sum
of $S5, 600 will bring this school to Austin.
Will our people allow some other town or
village to outbid them, and thereby lose a
benefit to themselves and to their children
for generations and generations9 Shall not
the citizens of Austin at once subscribe the
$50, 200 when it is positively certain that
this amount doubled (and ever increasingly
will be returned through the institution an
nually to our city, The present opportu-
nifty Is a great one, and let wise men Con-
sider
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-11-04

d THE Austin correspondent of the Colo
-ratiu 1OTCEzeH says or the members of the
Convention that fifty of them are slotO,
honest, plodding old farmers, who are bent
on doing the thing right if it takes all win
ter, and when they have voted once ON a
matter and see they have been misled they
reconsider at once" All of this is the lit
eral truth, and the only complaint we have
to make is, that mistakes are not always
corrected. The election here in Austin, be-
fore the eyes of the Convention, shows how
stupendous the blunder committed when
suffrage is not restricted to true Texans.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-11-04

is made up by raid of thieving, murder
ING. burning A[exicans or Indians. But
mark you, there IS no abatement from the
rate assessed, and it is no honest or fair
thing to do, TO collect the assessment under
the Circumstances The State must fulfill
her obligations OF defence for the citizen, or
resign her claim to the taxes assessed, in
the light both of justice and mercy.
We hust, however, that the resolution
will be rejected. Nay We are certain that
il will, but we hope that in place of the
exemption asked, more manly policy will
prevail, and that provision will become a
part of the new Constitution, clearly pledg-
ing the State to vigorous and effective de-
tense of our entire line of frontier
England, with her colonies scattered all
over The globe, furnishes sn example to US.
The most remote and insignificant settle
ment she has made on the confines of civil
cation is. protected, with the same anxious
care thst the Indian Empire receives. 1t is
the dutyof PROTECTION which she considers,
and not the cost. -1....s.sl :
1t is the duty Of the Federal government,
in the first place, to protect the frontier OF
Texas; but it is notorious that her whole
system has been . thunder from the first.
1t is ineffective and almost less than useless.
The burden of defense, therefore, falls upon
the State authorities. Humanity demands
that she discharge her duty; interest calls
upon her. and nothing short of an entire
Reputation of her most sacred obligations
will prevent her from arranging for the
effective defense of the brave people on heI
western borders.- Waco Examiner
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-11-04

e The Rural Texan, Grange organ as it is,
tells the simple truth of Changers and of the
STATESMAN whenit says that though Gran
gersp 1.-THE white wing of the Holy Alliancel
''may have voted with the Radicals they did
not do SO as Changers" They did not repre-
sent the Changers of Texas in what they
did; but they did it for all that, and there
was, We still believe, if we can believe as
honest men as live in Texas, an agreement
to this effect, and the agreement is still OPP
erative and the same cliques still vote to-
gether and still inject their prejudices and
follies into .sconventionap legislation. o
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-11-04

THE Ennis ReoieU says s'there are good
men in the Convention enough of them to
frame a Constitution that viii be accepta-
BILE to the people. Ifithe dolts, shysters
and pepinj0ys composing the majority can
be brought to such sense of their igno-
rance, knavery and stupidity as will inddce
them to keep still while the honest and SEN
sible element do thework, twill be grand
result. So far, this hcoting rabble has done
nothing but shout its opposition to sensi-
bic men and measures; OF to propose Eet
schemes forthea behoof of each ones cross
road ffs,,9I ~ a1fo.f5if a71t -fEs3
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-11-04

The following note. from Mr.. Weaver,
Of the Constitutional Convention, in reply
20 paragraph in yesterdays STATESMAN.
explains itself. Nc said, agurativeiy Of
course, that he and she chief Of the Ru.a-
bsgas occupied the same little bed. Mr..
Weaver, IL viii be seen, denies the soft i'm.
peachmeRt, and says;
Editors .Democrafie S7atosman--In your i.
sue Of the twenty eighth instant, you make
= charge against me that 1 cannot pass By in
silence. You charge me with not only yot
Ing with. but actually sleeping with ..0lS
R1labaga.n Now, sir, this Il false. hav.
not slept with a mar for yeass--neFcr did
Only when was couscripted into The Con
federAio army, and never intend 70 slcel
with another man Il / freeze. hope yo|
will DO me she justice 70 publish tins dil
c.ainier for the benefit Of your lady readers
oiENhER FR0N ruiz CnlckIsAw NATION.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-11-04

Mr.. WEAvER's eulogistic and poetical
resolution affecting the women still goes
through the newspapers, and all the pretty
women of Texas are kissing their taper fin.
gers and sending the magnetic charm by
pleasing gestures to the poetaster of the
hapless Constitutional Convention. Isn't
it strange how naturally extremes do meet
sd inoouEIPr goes
to the same suffrage bed Of blackness and
flth with old Rutabaga. We don't like to
tell the girls, but they should knew it.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-11-04

A YOUNG New Yorker, named Van Nos
trand, is in San Antonio. He is the holder
of a vast sum in Houston city bonds, and
we are anxious to see him. We are curious
to know whether. holding these bonds, he
is a ''bloated bondholder." Do Houston
bonds, worth ten or twenty cents, serve to
bloat fellow to any alarming extent9 And
don't they create divine afflatus and SEN
timental love in a bondholder's bosom for
rabble suffrage that makes these bonds so
valuable g e'el- a. {4i-a iltt
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-11-04

Mr.. RUSSELL of Harrison does not coop
crate with the Holy Alliance, and this is tbs
iirst evidence OF its coming dissolution.
Mr.. Russell is capable Of discharging the
duties Of his position we'll and is not afraid
to vote as he thinks best and few men
think more accurately or justly. There VA
evidence Of returning reason in the action
OF the majority yesterday, but the Demo
cratic majority is still in the clutches Of Rn'
tabagaism and Raiicalisrn. and thus the true
representatives Of Democracy are impotent