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condition, and as to his rcbellious spirit
under it. Mr.. Harper is followed now by
Dir. Nordhoff, whotells Of the terrible muir
,derousness of blacks when aroused, and
that on plantations, everywhere in the
South, planters were accustomed 10 place
axes, scythe blades. and. like farming i'm
plements, beyond the reach of the solored
people. Nothing was iurther from the
truth. For lifetime we have lived in dis
tricts IN which negroes outnumbered whites
five to one, and never yet have known
master, who, If asked for an AK or scYhe
blade, would not apply to. a slave 10 obtain
1t. The assertion of negro pugHaeity was
made. so absurd by the conduct of negroes
eetto .tqgra'ste, when all arms bearing men
were absent, and only negroes, and women
and children at home, that it is strange that
MIR. Nordhof copies the blundeIing of
Mr. Harper and of many writers, in whose
memories are stoaosd away the dreams, cf
Phillips and fanclfm portraitures of Uncle
Toms CABIN. Thc criminal instincts of the
negro are not shaped by bloodthirstlness.
He is not commonly murderous or pugna-
cious, but emineutiy good natured.- W omen
have infinitely more reason to fear him than
men, and now that no white man proposes
or dreams of depriying the negro of his
perfectrights of person and property, and
Mr.. Nordhoff is conscious of and asserts
this fact, is there any reason why Sambo,
as q voter, should be suffered to destroy
towns and counties, and invest with power
in municipalities those reAorseless scoun-
drels to whom, as Mr. Nordhoff confesses,
the South owes desoiation aud intolerable
poyerty @S t-.4Nt '-'' 40 4S-- .
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!. TwESTy-FTvE years ago VIM. Allen was
commonly known as sstbe Iate Mr.. Allen,
of Ohion This peculiar designation had
reference. we believe, to his utter demoli-
ton in the Federal Senate by Henry Clay.
It was then said that Alien would never
lift up his head again and surely could
never more occupy an Office at the hands Of
the people. But new world has been dis
covered. The food that like the Noachian
deluge swept over the land has subsidized,
the ark of government has found an Ararat
and old Noah still lives in the person OF
ssthe late Mr. AlIeny Of Ohio.p He is
commonly known in our time - ssRise Up
Vim. Allen He Is suppossas 70 be the big
gest job ever executed by tie resurrection
ist Of revolution. He is older than the
eternal mo1ntains N the nidst cf which,
At Lynchburg. Virginia, II We are not mis-
taken, he was bern. The archaeological
society OF Cleveland, Ohio, has been en-
gagged Tor twelve months IN tedious iabors
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now THE SOUTH as STILL mEsoON-
CRIVED..G .ssI asfr

In the mau Mr.. Nordhoff's letters from
the South, discussing and defining the rela-
tions of whites and blacks, and the condi-
ton of the sOuth, are wisely conceived and
eminently jlst. Whenever he has blum
dered he has been misled By some one
whose adveat in the South has been recent.
1t is strange how often Northern men re-
assert anahsrdity, and, TO correct the i'm.
preston, that in denseIy negro populated
districtsplanters, before or since emancipa-
ton, haze lived in constant apprehension
of DANCE, seems impossible. james Harper,
an honet. uright gentleman. once mayor
Of New York. Was in New Orleans in 1850
We renember be srOse and published the
same aburd old story. and because he had
been flsely edncAted s. 70 the nature Of
the nefo, and As 70 his supposed wretche.l
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RELIGIOUS TOLEkANCE.

AS this is the American centennial year,
it is legitimate to note that among all the
changes for good wrought among men. dur
greater than that which has so largely
tended to the superinduction of a spirit of
charity and toleratioh for every religious
belief bearing upon it the stamp of SINGER
ity, and no change so surely as this shows
the advance that mankind has made. to-
wards true religion. The breaking down
of the barriers between sects, or, rather, the
recognition by each of the common pur-
pose of all # fresh evidence of which we
see every day in acts of mutual concession
Ii is the best proof how wide-spreading and
far-reaching the tolerant spirit has become
Poets, it is said, are but mirrors in which
are reflected the sout-life of the people
among whom they sing, and Tennyson
truly reflects the spirit of the present age
'Tis not the creed that makes the man,
1t is the man that justihes the creed;
For each must save his soul as he can,
Since each is burdeLed with different ne, d.
The contrast between the feeling on re-
ligious subjects now and that which existed
century ago is great indeed. Then, in
each State of Europe, one single belief was
regnant as the national religion, and to all
who dared stray beyond its iron bounds was
meted out the harsh penalty of fine, i'm
prisonment, exile, or death. In Asia still
darker creeds held sway, and upon their
doubters were visited like penalties, while
in no part of the world could there be
found nation, State or people In whom
the principle of freedom in things religious
had made an abiding place. To contem-
plate these benighted ages behind us causes
soul-sickness to every true man, and the
fact that this sad record, of intolerance
reaches back almost to the foundation of
the world brings up in deeper, blacker out
line its weary, despairing gloom.
| Now, in each civilized land, spiritual lib
erty is Tot only conceded as a privilege,
but accorded as right; while even in most
countries that we term ''heathen BE.
cause their ways are not our ways there
| is practically the same unrestricted freedom
of worship. The darK night through which
the world has passed was not without its
uses. As progressive ages have rolled on,
cleansing man with the fires of tribulation,
purer life has been generated, and the
fierce hates of sects and churches have
been forced gradually to fade away and
| give place to better spirit of fellowship
and love. The world is beginning clearly
to see that the true religious spirit is thai
of sympathy, of helpfulness, of active love
| II enters into the lives of other people, re
joices in their joy, sorrows with their sor
row, and forgets itself in them. 1t canuo
be shut up within the bosom of any sect
In dry crtiar fur--~t, if f-v~o- -Einalo R-o
the flame once started sweeps over every
thing. Our whole life is trainlng for thI,
spirit, and If we rightly accept human ex
perience, we constantly rise from its lowe
to its higher stages. When ali the famil!
of man shall have fully entered into thu
spirit, then will the sublime prayer be full
filed, THAT they all may be one.r
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BURLESON- AND IRELAND.

naesa
1t was very, very thin. Judge Ireland
persistently pretended that he was not a can
didate for the constitutional convention,
and yet his friends, in the nominating dis
trict convention, make desperate struggle
= it was a very death struggle = to have
him nominated. He fails and falls inglo-
riously. Meanwhile, the man who led In
the contest, Gen. Burleson, who was nomi-
mated, hadedeclared in the papers, a week
before the convention at Luling sat, that
he did not want the nomination, and did
not wish to sit in the constitutional conven-
ton. We happen to know that Gen. Bur
and, like all great men, absolutely dis.
trusted his own abilities and questioned
his own fitness for the distinguished office.
But, nominated in spite of himself, he will
surely serve the people who confde in his
honor and wisdom. 1t is somewhat signifi
cant, too, that Gen. Burleson is nominated
on platform of his own. He had expressly
repudiated that which Ireland constructed,
In his letter of June II, published
a few days ago in this city, Gen. Burlesor
expressly and distinctly says he does moi
want the office and declines the nomina
tion, and then takes occasion to add, moi
having the fear of Ireland before his eyes,
that the people twill find me ready and
willing colaborer to, aid in eleeting suct
members to the constitutional convention
as will frame our, organic law SO. that a
wM not sagOr Of partisans1sip." -, s.,t 49,
We do not well see how Gen. Burlesol
could have made palmer, clearer, stronge
issue with Ireland, and yet Ireland, in thi
district convention, before which this let
ter was read, as we suppose, was defeated
lngloriously and Gen. Burleson was nom
mated on the first ballot. Ireland wa
beaten on the eleventh ballot by majority
as reported, of tFo-thirds. y. He made
desperate struggle for the nomination, o
his friends for him, and we happen t.
know that they have been earnestly at worl
everywhere in the district for four weeks
We suppose, however, that Ireland will
say now that he was not "a candidate, ant
that he did not want a seat in the consti
tutlonal convention, anyhow, Well, he i
| done for. Let it be as he saws.
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BKx BAKER, The editor and proprietor Of
the Colorado Citissn, Is skilIful printer as
well as editor. But Columbus is the --LATEST
looking town, imbedded in the densest fol-
isge, and on the banks Of the laziest-looking
river, osershadowed By eternal gloom, be-
meath the most majestic live oaks, irnped
IN the longest moss that "A Tanned. By
breezes from the sea. Even the winds that
stray along the yalley Of the Colorado can
hardly lift psrceptible wavelets upon the
bosom Of the stately river.
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VIZ said some dasys ; aso O,,,il IA, I.leu,en,r

We said some days ago that lieutenant
Governor Davis (colorcd), of Mississippi,
had received do9eetr of $3.50 when he
pardoned the negro murderer of a white
woman. The facts are, that $Ie5O were
used, but the lawyers managing the affair
received $3.50 OF the whole sum. The re-
mainder was pocketed by the acting Gov
ernor. But what shsll be said OF these
lawyers Who are ,heyl Why does the
Lhdes fsil TO give their names Are they
white or black, csrpet,haggers or natives :
Though Senator Alcorn stated in pub
lie speech, in Davis's presence, that Davis
accepted largesses when he, Davis, was of
the State Senate, il is but just that the
names of those who gave the brihe should
be published, with this Of the negro who
accepted il.
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GEN. CELSIUS PRICE, son of sold Pap,
has been substituted for Stillson Hutchins
as the manager of the st. Louis Times.
Hutchins has increased the Indebtedness of
the office more thans $40, 600 since last De-
cember. The concern, Gen.a price says, was
rapidly going to the devil, even while
Hutchins was buying its first mortgage
bonds at fftj; cents. This last fact would
surely go to show that there is sort Of
identity between lIutchins and that old fell
low who ''rules the roast in kingdom come,
as was Hutchins's wont in the Times
Office
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THE Hillsboro Erpositor deplores a fact
to which the STATESMAN often adverts. 1t
says it is difficult to induce the best men of
the community to become candidates for
the constitutional conventions. Lighthead-
ed, habitual plaeeseekers, and the ordinary
''fly-up-the-creek2.p politicians, are ready and
eager enough to swallow anything that
comes along; but decent intelligence is not
over-anxious to undertake task which
statesmen might fail to discharge with
honor to themselves or fortunately for
Taxas f4.
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MONEY abounds in New York as never
before, and people don't know how to use
it, but stiIl they viii not invest in any cor
porate or municipal securities, Even Wall
street confesses the necessity for the restnc-
ton Of suffrage TO those that pay taxes.
There is universal want Of confidence in
government conducted by those having no
interest in the honor or purity or chespness
Of governments.
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GOVERNOR CoKE's admirable letter, touch
ing the condition of society on the-western
confines of Texas and the ravages of Cor
tina's bandits, has attracted attention
everywhere in Europe and America, and
we will now have war or perfect peace.
Grant is evidently preparing to strike an
effective blow and, we doubt not, with the
approval and concurrence OF President
Lerdo. But with or without the assent of
the excellent President of Mexico we must
have peace and order on the frontier.
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LYMAN TRuMBUII, the jurist OF Illinois
and leader in the United States Senate on
the Republican side for years, has joined
Democratic club in Chicago. lie was
follower of Chief Justice Chase and went
into RepublicAnism on account of the negro,
but now that Sambo ia done for, he comes
back to his first love. But isn't IL curious
that such man, at any time, loved sambo
more than his country, its codes or theory
OF government.
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JAMES Z. scoTT, president Of the Texas
MiIiers' Association, proposes to have Eve
hundred barrels Of -four shipped to Rio a.
an experiment. The capacity Of our wheat
to resist moisture and the effects Of sea
voyage viii thus be tested. Texan farmers,
because OF proximity. may secure menop-
oily Of the markets Of South America.
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The Charleston Ncrs and Courier has not
only defeated Bigamist Bowen in the libel
suit he instituted against it, but has finally
induced the grand jury not only to indict
Bowen for murder but for peculations and
frauds in Office. Bowen is sustained by a
large negro Radical majority in Charleston
and upheld by corrupt courts but he fights
a powerful and wisely managed newspaper
in vain. He must succumb and will be
driven, finally, in disgrace oct of South
Carnlinn
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We propose to give many curious facts
and statements OF great interest to tax
payers and to constitution makers under the
caption Estate Politics" The statements
and tables given today, and hereafter 70 be
given, are authentic. Our own, perhaps.
and the errors Of Others, viii be corrected
and great service, we hope, done the public.
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THE Governor of Missouri is 4 COO,

THE Governor Of Missouri is good man
"a man of extraordinary faith. His faith
is taken, too, upon trust. He issued a
proclamation for a general fast aud univer-
sal prayer meeting. The grasshoppeis
didn't even await the coming of the sancti-
fed day. They took unto themselves wings
and fled to the wicked land of Moab, north
of the Missouri, and are now smiling that
unhappy people hip and thigh.
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NIX must toll everywhere and especially
show willingness TO toll; but man with
small means can grow rich more rapidly
and invest more proftably IN Texas than
elsewhere in the United States. We give
facts every day demon5trassng this fact
Read our news column.
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IT seems that the usury code men and anti
usury code men will compromise at last on
twelve per cent. This will be enough to
prevent men from sending their money
from home to lend and not so little that 1t
will drive money lenders out of Texas.
Then, too, it will not make money lending
so profitable that money holders will do
nothing but lend. Such, substantially,
arc the arguments pro and con-, and such
the compromise proposed.
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RefeFence0,

COFFEE & HENDERSON, Attorneys-at.law; GAF-
FEY n MORROW, Atiorneys-at law; MAkEASoN
4 POSEY, Attorneys-At-aw, Georg efowIi, Texas
NORTON MOSES, Burnett Burnet county, Texas.
Il. A. BLANDFORD, Austia Encampment, l. o.
a. r.; GEORGE B. ZISPELMAN, Austin Encamp-
ment, l. .. D. h. a7f -iI ~
I am personally acquainted with F. NJ. Bolin and
the parties who recommend him, all citizens Of VII
hanson county, and believe him and them to be
trustworthy aud honorable. f..... -. I.
LEVI PENNING TON, Clerk d. C. Williamson Co.
I am personally acquainted with r. NJ. Bolin, and
knew him to be u Jealous Odd Fellow and high
toned honorable gentleman, and as ruch take pleas
urc In recommending him. s..5f : :
". X. MAKEasoN, n. @. Geotgetswn Lodge.
No. Ia, l. u. y. Il. s-.fst
| concur In the above. "a am ss.-.
A. 5. REED, V. g. Georgetown Ledge.
Direct all letters to f. NJ. BOLIN, Manager Box 2S,
Round Rock, Williamson county, Texas
AgeuG~ Wanted. jae9 dit w6m
THE RuCKMxE !
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NO. 40

directed to the discovery of the place and
date Of Rise Ups" birth. There is pa.
triotie reason fer these labouous and curl
Gus researches. Republicans and Demo
Gratis alike in Ohio would prevent the pos
sibility of the recurrence of dangers that
now beset the country, and it is supposed
that if Rise Up be made President IN
1876, he win not entertain any very won
derfuliE dangerous aspirations affecting a
third term. 1t is generally understood that
the late aforesaid is already at least sew
enty-five years of age. He was elected
Governor two years ago by sI7 majority
over his Radical competitor, and il he now
defeat Mt. Hays, he will probably be the
nominee of the Democratic party for the
Presidency. He is hale and strong and
vigorous and seemingly as immortal as Ex-
ira Billy Smith, of Virginia.
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ALI the Dewspspera think We are on the
eve Of war with Mexico, and seem to think
that the necessity for the third term must
be discovered in the ruins Of tlse Mexican
capital
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Directors.
FRANCIS NJ. BoLIN, Manager.
JOHN W. CHRISTIAN, ssssls5as.
= ALEXANDER HARRIS.

The Concert VIII be under che fmne-
diate supervision OF mr.. o. II. SnSSON,
which will bs n sufEicient guarantee
that the price paid for the ticket wall
insure the worth OF the money.
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Cash Awards.

Price of Tickets Only One Dollar.
GLIB RATEs-RLEvEN TICKETS FOR TIN
DOLLARS.
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was young man a. college in Cambridge,
whose ioyalky 70 khe Coafsdaracy wss sas-
pectea. He was very uncomfortable about
L, and Gen. Seth romeroy, Col Thomas
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HISTORY UPsEGLTHE WORCESTER
seK ONE HUNDRED YEARS AND
ONE MONTH OLD.

We have before us copy of the news
paper above named. Itwas called, May "a,
1775, "The Massachusetts, Spy or AH.erieGn
Oracle Of Liberty" The number before us
is ss2, volume v. It's first page is occupied
by "The Crisis I" number II, dated London,
1875, and entitled "a Bloody Court" "A
Bloody Ministry" and "a Bloody Parlia-
ment." These papers have been preserved
entire, we believe, and this is remarkable for
the verses with which it closes:
"Aided By Heaven all danger we defy,
q And nohlY conquer or like komans die.
Then blessing ireedom with parting breath
glorious aezth, mach beftcr In the grave
fireman buried than living slave.
Twas hrst deereed By that great power above
That HE sing TO mankind, q sacred trust.
He who'd resign h Is to God urjusI"
The third number Of the s'Ciisisr' papers,
We are told, will be addressed to the King.
Then follows this: Eliphalet Aliens &
Peter Rryson's ssAdn of farm of forty
four acres-a splendid place, mainly be-
cause Il Is between two saw mills, one mile
from the Coznecticut and eleven-tweliths
OF q mile from the meeting house.
HARSH. 81 ;ssfR
a remarkable paper appears written by
Gen. Gage. This document, in small type,
hlls more than q solid column. The editor
says of 1t: "In our last we inserted, as
enrosity, an infamous, lying letter from
Gen. Gage, IN answer TO very polite one
from Gov. Trumbull, The following is
/ 1--WE suppose) she narrative Of the late en-.
| gagement taken (as the General saxs1 ssfrou
gentlemen Of indisputable honnr ana xsrac
1 ny. Here follows Gen Cages account y
Concord and Lexington fights. The editol
injects his comments in italics and in pa
renthesis- They ara quite as rough Is thos.
Of two modern partisan sheets when the,
wool one anothef.
KBENEzKR KRADIsH
was . young man a. college in Cambridge
whose ibyalsy 70 the Confedaracy Wss sns
rsrfna He 1n. vnrr nnnnfS f0rrnfle al,rr,
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LIZ, or Heal E.,.,s Awards.

DepOsitory-C. II. JOHNS Il co., Bank
ers, Austin, Travis county, Texas.
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TEEI BUCKE1x1
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'Tis not the creed that makes the man,
1t is the man that justiies the creed;
For each must save his own soul as he can,
Since each is burdeLed with different net
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williamson County, Texas.
rURposE-To ERECT AN ODD FELLOWS HALL.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1875-07-25

Howe and Singer and all kinds of
sewing machine for rent at three dol
lars per month, at S. Hellman's, No.
spring street or No. 95 Main street.
jy22 2w
Los Angeles daily herald., 1875-07-25
PrIsmoidal Road.

The East Los Angeles Street Rail-
road have received their bill for the
iron for their track. The iron is ship
ped by the Panama steamers, and
will be landed at Wilmington or
Santa Monica. The iron was pur-
chased in Philadelphia at $52 per ton
currency, and costs delivered at this
place $50 per ton currency. The
iron for one mile of road costs $1,000
in coin, as against the two rail track.
The Company will lay mileof the
prismoidal track from the depot down
to Los Angeles street, and operate it
with cars until satisfied with the ex-
pertinent. If successful then the rest
of the road will be built. The ties are
laid long enough so that if the Pris-
modal road does not answer, the same
rail will be laid on the same ties and
make two-rail track, and the lum-
ber used in the prism will be taken
up and used for the bridge across the
Los Angeles river. In this way
no material will be wasted, and only
small amount of labor. In this
way the road will be fully tested and
no risk rum The iron is expected
here as soon as the Panama steamers
can bring it.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1875-07-25
Church Chimes.

The Rev. VIM. HI. Hill will preach
in the Episcopal Church to-day at IL
and O'Clock. Sunday School at 1890.
Seats free and all cordially invited to
attend.
The public services of the Presbyte-
rian Church, conducted by Rev. A. f.
White, LII. d., will be held to-day in
Good Templars' Hall at II o'clock A.
NJ. Union services will be held in the
Congregational Church at s P. NJ The
Bible Glasses and Sabbath School meet
Immediately after the morning serv-
ice.
Baptist Church services at Leck's
Hall, Main street. Rev. John Francis
will preach at IL o'clock A. M. and at
1880 P. NJ. Mr.. Francis will be assisted
by other ministers in the evening.
Seats free. All are cordially invited.
Sabbath School at p. NJ.
Preaching at the German Church,
Spring street, between Fourth and
Fifth, at 10:3O A. NJ. and 1880 p. NJ.
Sunday School at $3.50 A. NJ. j. G.
Zahn, Pastor. All Germans are in
vited.
To-day in the Catholic church the
first mass commences at $3.50 A. NJ,
sermon in Spanish; second mass at 8
A. NJ; third mass at 10 A. NJ, sermon
in English; catechism at 8 P. NJ; ves-
pers at 4 P. NJ.
Congregational Church, New High
street, Rev. j. H. Warren, ID. D., will
preach at IL A. NJ. Sunday School
and Bible Glasses at 1890.
Preaching in the NJ. E. Church, Fort
street, at II A. NJ. by Rev. DIR. Sinex,
of the University of California.
Sunday School at 1890. Seats free and
all cordially invited to attend.