The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-07-01

Legate, Col. Elisha Porter, Col. John Pat
terson, Col. HY Herrick, Major Levi Shep-
herd, Jonathan w. Austin, (Majnr and an
cestOr, we suppose, of the founder oi
Texas, cf Clullnsford,) Capt. Thomas Viii
liams, Ebsnezer Sayer, of Wells, and
James Leavenworth, of New Haven, all GER
tify to Bradish's political soundness. Per
hsps he didn't own negro.
SILENT WILDE
was "news carrier in those days. He
delivered letters and papers for hire, and
charged each citizen 50 80 per annum. He
wants everybody to fork up for six months
service and says that they owe him 1856,
and while he is called silent Wilde, he
makes more noise and fills more space than
any advertiser IN the SPY. z.
PROPHETIC.
Isaiah Thomas, the editor, publishes a
card in which he tells of his escape from
the British in Boston, and that having re-
moved his printing materials to Worcester
he proposes 70 remain here. He says: II
escaped myself from Boston on the menor-
able 18th of April, 1.75, which will ever be
remembered in future as the anniversary of
the battle of Lexington" He proposes to
publish good weekly and Maintain
those Rights and Privileges for which we
and our father have bled.' The price of
this weekly was six and eight pence per an
mum, ''the same as the Boston papers. ~
Among the many agents for the paper ap-
pears the name of the present editor of the
Spy, the author of curious book, by the
way, entitled Ancient America" We
have, in the facts here given, satisfactory
evidence of his intimate knowledge of many
current events, and he is probably the old
est Of liyinD maripan .OatriOto
FUNERAL.
The Spy tells of the death of one Jere-
miah Lee, ascribing to him every virtue.
and especially does it weep when telling
that Jeremiah bequeathed two thousand
pounds to the province. Then, in the next
paragraph, the Spy tells that the six regi-
ments required of Massachusetts were all
full, and moving to Boston, and adds,
"And may God preserve and make them
victorious, y and just below tho women of
America are requested to send rags to Cam
bridge. Twelve years ago such appeals to
the women of the South filled our Spys.
MAsTERLY INACTIVITY.
New York City asked Congress what
should be done when fresh force of Brit
ish soldiers came to garrison the place.
This was before Bunker Hill was fought,
and Charles Thompson, Secretary of Con-
gress, tells them to be patient and watch
them, and, if they attempt any wrong, to
repel force by force, and, at all events, to
protect the people against insult and injury.
THE DRUGGISTS.
Next we have the ''spread eagle ad y of
Levi Shepherd & Co.'S medicinal store.
The term ''drug store" was unknown one
hundred years ago, but there were patent
nostrums before Jayne and Grafenberg were
born, and this Shepherd & Co. advertise
Bateman's Drops, and Hooper's Pills, and
pectoral balm and female strengthening
elixir, much after the fashion of modern
Alexander's on Congress Avenue. 1zs Hs
JOHN HANCoCK's LUCK.
Then we have full account of a great
fire in Boston, its destructiveness ascribed
to the fact that the British wouldn't suffer
the fire engines to be used. On long list
of sufferers appears the name of Hon. John
Hancock, whose store was burned. They
did not have g big stocks in those days.
Eighteen Business establishments, with Mr..
Hancock's "and others" are mentioned as
having been destroyed, and yet the whole
loss was only 1000 pounds.
BREvTrV.
The editor devotes only four lines to con-
gratulations of the country on the fall of
TicOnderoga and Crown Point. The Herald
of modern times would have given half a
column of lightning head lines prefixed to
such story. Two lines tell us that David
Bancroft, great-grandfather of the lawyer
at Texarkana, and grandfather of the his
torian, had been chosen ''to represent this
town CWorcester) in the Provincial Con
gress.
We have seen the like when the Confed
eracy was hardly born, and those good old
fellows of Worcester ordered all the Tories
(submissionists) to appear before the com
mittee of safety and surrender their arms,
and keep quiet, and have no Assem-
blies. Then an editorial paragraph tell:
that Peyton Randolph is President of the
Thomson . seasou"able cuss, spelling
his name, in any event, without ''p ~
was Secretary. We are told of the spirit
ing away in Charleston, South Carolina, o.
ali the powder and shot held there by thu
British, and then that there are seven Roman
lists in the council of the new Governo
General of Canada, who is clothed will
despotic power. The two succeeding para
graphs tell of the death of devou
preacher, Andrew Tyler, and of that o
Mrs. May Ward, daughter of Rev. DIR
Dexter.
PIETY.
The next column contains a resolution o
the Congress, recommending convention
of all the preachers of the country, to hea
sermon to be delivered before Congress, a
Watertown, by Rev. Mr.. Langdon.
JOSE PHI WARREN. -f..1'2
A closely printed half column contains
an address by Joseph Warren, who fell a
Bunker Hill, made in the Provincial Con
gress at Waterfowl, April 26, 1875, to tn
inhabitants of Great Britain. 1t is signed
"Per order Joseph Warren, President pr
tem." News from Virginia is startling. an'
tells of Lord Dunmore, and of the exasper
alton of the people because of the selzur
of stores at Williamsburgh. But enOugl
of old times.
NOW AND THENe--BLUNDERS OF