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The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-09-09
DE ITH OF STATES.

The death rate of New York city, as last
given, was AZ 10 per thousand, and strangely
enough that of Nashville is next, being
S6.11 per millage. Nashville has very
large negro population, ill-housed, and SINCE
the bondholders began to put the screws to
the gold market and make gold the subject
of speculation, and money itself can be OBJ
tanned only by those having bonds-in the
midst of these facts negroes starve. This
absolute want begets discomfort, and there
are collisions between the races in Georgia
and in Mississippi That which occurred
in the latter State was fatal to ten or twelve
colored people, and Winnebagolsm would
howl, but it so happens that the conflict
was between the Radical white othceholders
and a few negroes on the one hand, and the
bread on the other. The white people
stood aloof and contemplated the conflict
with that all-embracing sympathy which
tortured the tender soul of the drunkard
when he looked down from a safe retreat
upon the deadly conflict between his Draw
ny, brawling spouse and hungry bear.
1t is singularly unfortunate that the
white leaders of one gang of thieves
and savages escaped unharmed, while
as our correspondent tells, ten or twelve
ignorant blacks were killed. Property is
made valueless by terrible taxation, and
then this once richest county, in which ne
b to
one, is desolated by deeds of violence that
disgrace American civilization. A local
civil war is waged for miserable sums that
may be wrested by forms of negro-made
law from the thousand beggared white vo-
tiers of the county. What signifies the
death rate of a Southern or Northern city
or two when states and counties are dying,
and they who could interpose the arm of
power and give relief are engaged in an
empty conflict with which the Congress alone
has to do 2 While prating, too, about the
slaughter of innocents'' in New York ten
ement houses and the extinction of negro
children, crowded by want into horrible
dens reeking with filth In the purlieus of
Nashville, these New York optimists should
not close their eyes to the death of states
subjected to slow torture, but still dying
in horrible anguish. Another term of KelI
logg and another of Ames, AND the foullest
corpses that ever went reeking to the grave
yard of dead republics will pollute the all
we breathe and befoul forever the atmos
phere of history.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-09-09

The interest on bonds cannot properly
be computed In debt statement until due,
but in the above table we have computed
the entire interest due or not due up to the
first day of September. Part OF the inter
est computed in the item of $40, 526. SO was
due on the first of September, and much
the smaller part of it embraced the running
interest from the first of July to the first of
September. 1t has been our purpose to
show the liabilities to the first of Septem-
Der, though the interest account stated
is not all due. Deduct the above item,
and the public debt would be stated on
the thirty first of August as S., $50, $50. 50.
The seven per cent. gold bonds now
outstanding amount to 81, 900, 900. The
act of the Fourteenth Legislature authoriz-
ing the sale of these bonds first fixed them
as currency bonds, bearing currency in
terest. Col. R. L. Moody, who was ap-
pointed financial agent by Governor Coke
to sell these bonds, notified the Governor,
shortly after he reached New York, that it
would be advisable to make the interest
payable in gold. The bill was so amended
by the Legislature, still in session, and a
further demand, shortly after made by
Col Moody, that the principal of the
bonds be changed into gold, was at
once complied with by Legislative enactment.
In the fall of 1874 Col. Moody made the
first sale of bonds, at eighty-ive cents, and
subsequently, at various times, the whole
81, 900, 900 were sold at different prices.
These bonds, though gold, were sold for
currency. There was realized from them,
gross proceeds, 81, ,651, 1861 90, out of which
COL Moody received $50, 022. az, leaving the
net amount paid into the State Treasury
S1,61s, 114.20, equivalent, at premium OF
11a, to 81, 42S, 9S7. 90 in gold, for l,9OO,-
900 of gold, seven per cent. State bonds
$576, O62. 10 less than their face value.
The public debt, as stated by Gov. Coke
| in his financial message to the Legislature
in January, 1875, was 81, COS, 1915. The
Fourteenth Legislature authorized the sale
of 81, 600, 900 of bonds TO pay claims which
had accumulated against the State prior tC
January 10, 1874. These bonds, at 81
cents, less commissions, brought to the
treasury $sss, 900, and about 500, 600 o.
this money was used to pay old warrants
and claims Take the old debt
with interest on the same to August 81
1875, and also the $ss4, ,sss.15 due OIL
school warrants, ami bonds and interes
to settle with Williams 6 Guion, (abou
$500, OO0), and it shows the real deb
entailed upon the State by the Davis ana
previous administrations to reach 70 neari.
| IS, COO, 600. This leaves oser 81, 900,
! 900 70 be accounted for otherwise OF thi
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-09-09

REFERRING to the fact that Andrew
johnson was free thinker and had only
faith in the Great Creator of the Universe,
onesof our exchanges says:
eff he were an infidel his death is no
loss to the country. Better for the country
that every infidel were dead. No class of
men are so dangerous in community or a
nation. They are thousand times worse
than thieves land murderers. We wOula
rather an assassin's dagger should pierce
the heart of child of ours than that an in
fidel should shake his belief in the bible"
Tom Payne was the truest and bravest
and most philosophical of patriots, and
served the country as effectively as any
of his compatrlots. Thomas Jefferson was
of the precise faith of Andrew johnson,
and so with. Jack Randolph. Webster,
too, was worse in this editors eyes, than
''thieves and murderers." Andrew John.
sons personal virtues, veracity and integ-
rity were always conspicuous, and his
fiercest enemies have conceded, to this ex-
tent, his illustrious worth. While we think
it unfortunate that Mr.. johnson doubted
IllC dpOCIypud anu pCIhdpS OInCl POl-
tions of the bible and questioned the inspi-
ration of the Book, we have yet to learn
that in social or public life he was the
worse for this or that his conduct was more
reprehensible than the mass of his associ-
ates who are Christian statesmen like Col
fax and up to their elbows in Pacific Mail
and Credit NIobilier. We never inquire
into mems religious emotions or creed.
They may think, or believe or disbelieve,
what they please, it is no concern of ours,
and while the faith of our fathers is oul
own and it is sacred in our eyes, admitting
of no concessions or compromises, we con.
cede the same perfect freedom of thinking
to others. But this wild editor is of the
class who would reproduce the terrors ol
days when Latimer and Ridley died at Tho
stake.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-09-09

Mr.. JEFFERsoN DAVIS formally accepts,
it is stated, the invitation OF the Kansas
City Expositiois Association to deliver an
address during the progress Of it's fair.
The dispatch states that he will receive
hearty welcome, the staunch Republicans
having been most prominent in extending
him the invitation. Kansas City honors
herself more than Mr.. Davis on the occa-
sion. Several Kansas papers, however, the
Fort Scott Monitor among them, initiate, in
small way, the Inter OCEAN in endeayor-
ing TO raise a howl Of indignation; but
Kansas City doesn't see II, and the result
will be TREMENDOUS gathering at Kansas
| City at the fair.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-09-09

WE asserted some days ago that Georgia
and Mississippi riots IN densely negro -popu-
lated districts of the South would be more
and more frequent and violent. Southern
people have grown more and more careful
and economical, and have absolutely learned
how to make strangers pay for the hospita-
BILE entertainment of former years. This
contraction" has been progressively Wig
orous since Jay Cooke and Henry Clews
and other swindlers of states and corpora
tions, who co-operated with Governor Bull
lock in ravaging Georgia, went to proper
perdition. Charity becomes, in negro-pop-
ulated districts, exceedingly polite, and
multitudes suffer, even as the great body of
the white people were penniless till cotton
commanded advances and wheat became
cash. This stringency comes of the greed
for gold that distinguishes the Radical bond
holders, and Cuffee is the chiefest sufferer,
and therefore these riots and bloody muir
ders and violent deaths with which South
ern newspapers must TEEN until the bond
holders loosen their grasp upon the throat
| of'the treasury.
Near Giddings, band of negroes, las
Wednesday night, surrounded the house o
Thomas Young, and for some time kept VI
a terrible fusilade. Two children wer'
wounded within. We hear of robberie
and thefts practiced everywhere, and ther'
is an apology for these deeds IN the contrac
ton of the currency, which contracts a
well the resources of the poor blacks as o
the embarrassed tradespeople of the towI
ard country. In fact, the bondholders ant
oontractionists are destroying the fortunes
of the town and country alike by peopline
both with crime instead of industry, and
the poor are absolutely driven to despera
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-09-09

THAT is a capital proposition Of local
letter-writer, who says the Offices Of the
city government and the liall for the city
council should be in the basement Of the
splendid court house. The cheaper the
city government the better for taxpayers,
and the less city tax citizens have TO pay tC
maintain loafers or proper ofiice-holders the
more prosperous the city,and the cheaper the
goods the country buys, the more prosper
GUS the city, and thus better market foI
the county's products. Let the Offices be
provided as proposed, and every taxpayer
of the country will approve.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-09-09

The Nashville Union and American, the
old organ of the unwashed Democracy OF
Tennessee, never looking to the right oI
left, and always going the ticket blind, and
thus always (O trustworthy, and certainly 4
worldly wise organ of opinion, says:
''The agricultural, producing congros
sional districts South and West will nevei
concede the speakership to Mr.. Randall
nor TO any other Pennsylvania who has
Mr.. Randall's record on the tariff. II the
speakership be conceded to the Middle o.
Eastern States, it will go to some man who
can say, as Mr.. Cox, of New York, did te
Mr.. Randall: Every dollar Of this in
creased prosperity, OF which Pennsylvania
now arrogantly boasts, has been robbed
from industries elsewhere"
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-09-09

amount 81, ,OS4, 14S has been issued 10 Il :
veterans, upon whicA something less than
$1VO,0 600 in interest has been pe:;'.
TIis leaves over $3.50, 900 to clltee
against the present administration. or this
amount, however, $425, 1888 has been
paid out of revenue, not by the sale OF bonds
as heretofore, for frontier defense, leaving
balance of less than s45O, 600 as deficit
in revenues, in the last nineteen months,
against the cnrrent expenses of the govern
ment. In less than two months the bonded
debt, by the sale of ten per cent. bonds,
will be augmented $lO2 600.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-09-09
NO. Z
THR COLOR-BLIND LETTER
WRITER.

J 1t Is strange beyond comprehension that
the New York Herald sends a shrewdIy
observant correspondent, Nordhof, every
where, and yet he can see nothing that is
white and only the blessed blacks. He
never tells of the utter destitution of nine
tenths of the old white people of the
South. They were rich and had no part
in the war and bought their neg-oes from
the Yankees and Dutch, and honestly paid
gold for them and are responsible in moth
ing for the inception or prosecution of in
ter-State hostilities and abhored secession,
and yet all the old men and women of the
South, whose homes We're once scenes of
endless delight, are dragged down by negro
demonism, directed by carpet-baggers' tact
and knavery, to lowest depths of poverty
But Mr.. Nordhof never deploring this
universal fact can tell of most languishing
ways of the negroes that they shave been
in the main safe in life and property; for
they could not else have accumulated so
much in the short period since they became
free" ....g ,,r-..
And since pegrO, emancipation has been
effected and the poorest of these cid slave
holding people of the South would never
assent to, its reproduction, why does Mr..
Nordhoff give such Importance tea fact
that none have questioned save papers es-
tablished to lie, like the Inter Ocean. He
tells these simple patent truths in the Herald
as if they were newly discovered, or as il
Northern people questioned them. That
Ames deliberately planned the slaughter Of
blacks in Vicksburg is attested by the re-
Election that he alone was to be profited by
the outrage. His party and power were
strengthened and we of the South were in
everything necessarily losers. Mr.. Nord
hof is shrewd, keenly observant, goes
about with his eyes and ears open as few
letter-writers know how, but it is great
pity that he is so thoroughly color-blind
that he can't see white man and nothing
but the luck of Sambo arrests his keer
| vision
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-09-09

GRANTS new Attorney-General, Pierre
pont, is fiat failure. Anyone of his pre-
decessors, even the illustrious Akerman or
that pompous blowhard, the empty-headed
Williams, would have sent strong military
force INTO Georgia and Mississippi and kept
the country in terrific state of excitement
for six months. Habeas corpus would have
been hanged by the neck till it was dead,
dead, dead, that Radicalism might grow
robust as freedom went down 10 its grave.
Is not Pierrepont fraud and shame
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-09-09

PRoBABLY tho most important act Of the
State Grange in its session at Dallas was the
passage Of resolution that
SIT is the senie of the State Grange that
the Constitutional Convention should insert
a clause IN the new Constitution, binding
the Legislature 70 regulate the charges OF
freight and fare on railroads; and that the
Legislature has no power to grant vested
rights Of an unconditional character 70 in
dividuals or corporations that win empower
them 70 throttle or clog the commercial
highways Of ths country, and the people
themselves are incapable, as sovereign
body, of parting with the right to resume
charter concessions Of public franchise TO
private corltorattons
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-09-09

We are told that the preachers of the sew.
eral churches of this city will arrange to
open, alternately, with prayer the proceed
ings of the Constitutional Convention. This
will give variety to performance which,
practiced by a single petitioner, becomes
tedious at last, and when not listened to,
prayers, of course, are unavaiIing, and in
this event are not worth the eight dollars
per diem proposed tobbe paid for them.
Buying prayers Is curious sort of retail
trade anyhow, and we don't like it.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-09-09
HON. JAMES n. SIMPSON.

We are authorized to announce this gen
tleman candidate for the secretaryship
of the Constitutional Convention. Ar.
Simpson was one of the leading members
in the House, during the two last sessions
Of the Legislature. He is one of the most
polished gentlemen and accomplished
scholars in the State, and is speaker OF
rare ability. Certainly no gentleman could
ill the position to which he asPires with
more ability thsn Mr.. Simpson, and he will
ss certainly command a very strong support
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-09-09

THE Telegraph now accuses the STATES
MAN of 50 shAtred" of the Coke administra-
ton The only cause given is the supposi-
ton We presented that We would have, when
the convention met, full and clear state
ment of the States finances, such as Radi-
caIism could not pervert or misrePresent.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-09-09

GEs. JEFF. THOMPSON, who has been in
vestlgsting the present condition OF the
levees along the Mississippi, asserts that be
fore January next the town OF Viclosburg
win find itself situated on the shore Of a
lake and about two miles from the bank Of
ths Mississippi. The Mississippi thus does
voluntarily what Grant tried in vain to ef-
feet. by force; but Dir. JEFF. Thompson Is
no very Trustworthy prophet.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-09-09
Miscellaneous.
Symptoms of a Diseased Liver.

DAIN in the right side, under the
J. edge of the ribs, increase on pres,
sure; sometimes the pain is in the
left side; the patient is rarely able
to lie on the left side; sometimes
the pain is felt under the shoulder
blade, and it frequently extends TO
the top of the shoulder, and is some
times mistaken for a rheumatism in
the arm. The stomach is affected
with loss of appetite and sickness;
the bowels in general are costive,
sometimes alternative with lax; the
head is troubled with pain, accom-
panied with a dull, heavy sensation
in the back part. There is generally
a considerable loss of memory, ac-
Companied with a painful sensation
of having left undone something
which ought to have been done. A
slight, dry cough is sometimes an at
tendant. The patient complains of
weariness and debility; he is easily
startled, his feet are cold or burning,
and he complains OF a Prickly sensa-
tion of the skin; his spirits are low;
and although he is satisfied that exer-
else would be beneficial to him, yet
he can scarcely summon up fortitudc
enough to try it. In fact, he dis
trusts every remedy. Several of the
above symptoms attend the disease,
but cases have occurred where few
of them existed, yet examination of
the body, after death, has shown the
LIVER to have been extensively de-
ranged.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-09-09

THE Fredericksburg Sentinel says that our
correspondent was mistaken, and that there
are no murdersgs or abetters Of murder in
fredericksburg, and that the people OF
Fredericksburg have been stricken with
horror 81 the deeds Of blood and violence
that have lately disgraced the neighboring
country. -. - -. a
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-09-09

WITHIN the month at least four persons
have lost their lives in wells in Texas.
These wells become naturally receptacles
for carbonic acid gas add no fellow that
doesn't practice law in recorders court
can inhale il and live. A negro tried 1t
Monday in Dallas and Grant lost vote in
the next Presideptial copfict- II is very
sad
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-09-09
VIZ counted in a single copy of the Cir

WE counted in single copy Of the Gin
cinnati Commercial accounts of twenty-six
crimes, murders. rapes, robberies and bur
glaries, all occurring in Ohio. or adjacent
States. But Cincinnati is in Gods coun-
try, and robbery and murder there is
blessed innocence that would be hell-born
villainy and treason TO the Union here in
Texas.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-09-09
AGuE AND FEVER.

DR. c. M'LANE's LIVER PILLS, IN
CASES OF AGUE AND FEVER, when
taken with Quinine, are productive
of the most happy results. No better
cathartic can be used, preparatory TO
or after taking Quinine. We would
advise all who are afflicted with this
disease to give them a FAIR TRIAL.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-09-09

p. s. Dealers and Physicians ordering from
Others than Fleming Bros. will do we'll to write
their orders distinctly, aud take none bm DR..
c. IT LGne's LiVer Pills, prepared by Fleming
Bros, Pittsburgh, Pa, The market bring fau Of
base imiidtioas. To those wishing TO give them
trial, we will forward per mail post paid, to any
part OF the United States one box of Pills for
twelve three-cent postage stamps, or one vial Of
Nermifuge for fourteen tn ree-cent stamps. All
orders from Canada must DO accompanied By
twenty cents extra
Los Angeles daily herald., 1875-04-29
The yaassss:::::s

The latest reports of the condition of
the Ventura are discouraging. The
sea was breaking over her, and there
was no prospect of saving freight or
baggage. The following il q copy of
the freight list of the lost steamer, fur
nished us by II. Mcclellan, agent of
Goodall, Nelson & Perkins: 2 A Cuyas,
2 A S Mcdonald, Z A + Kercheval, Z
A G, 5 A J Bradfield, A ] Clark, II
A Harowitz, B & S, lB & l., 88 CHI
Ernst, 25 dmd Co, Ching, 8CF H, 8
Capt Polhemus, 2 G A B, II ID Con-
nor, As G L, So G & HI, ] G H, 48 d &
B, II D s Shrods, d Felix, do, 2 D
Bros, 8 D Gilchrist, 5 Dooner & S, ID
Freeman, 164 Davis & Candel, E Nj
4 Go, E N Mcdonald, "a E & II, J
Jones, 5 Morton, J Umback, Is B
Keyes, 81 dmd G, 10 L John, l. & D,
Is l. A Soap Co, "a l. V ID L, / Mar
shardt, 2 NJ Rittler, a M Meyers, 38 M
Ryrne, Il M & Co, IL N J Clark, 2 N
Jacoby, 8 P w & Co, P P, As r & B,
118 r & ", 3S Prayer, 4 S G. 4 Co, SO
s & z, Is s P r r., Shaffer h s, 1TJ
Rayne, 2 w B, S w Bros, l w Week,
II w M Stoddard, w J Brodrick, IA
w & w, w Slaney, So w F & Co, 70
R&V, so GB H, 2s F Vassalio, F
Bros, 2 F Tapp, 3 F Dupart, l E G
Moore, 1893 G L & Co, l G. G E, 10 G B
G, 8 G L & Co, Downey, $40 g c Co,
1872 do, l4O do Orange, do, 24l H H Il
Co, 437 H N & Co, 40 do, Sc H E B &
Co, 6 dmd H N 4 Co, H Raster, II
Lockwood, Q N H Go, In cross, 10 J
Leecock, 81 Moiso, 5 q, 2 j Lieber,
j Winters, j w Morgan, l48 J M &
Go, ] J Schumacher, 8 J P, "a ] dmnd
w, Ali f & Co, Dolan, 73 ] w
Clark, Gillard & Lave, 100 Lehman &
Co, 5 L X, 2 Ledyard, 81 L & Co, 27 M
Bros, 2 Marxsen Bros, 5 M Vail, NJ F
Swift, so M DyIne, Mrs E A Brown,
l Newmark, P H Downey,l P Wood
worth, II R Roth, r M G, 4S dmnd
r, S G Thompson, Sherman e. H,
S Hellman, S4 s G Foy, ST Woll-
webber, 23l s VM & w Co, WIS
u Co, l w Abbott, 5 w H Summers,
26 w r, 10 w w OF w E Burrows, "a
w D Il Co., 2 w P, 4 dmd r.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1875-04-29
Arrivals and Departures by Stage.

The following persons arrived by the
coast line yesterday from San Fran
cisco and way stations; H Smith, 8
Green, Mr. Vandemark, E Baker, ] II
Taylor, Louis Leese,
Departures yesterday morning
Pinkerton, to San Francisco; John
Ernot to Los Poses.
Arrivals from San Bernardino-Mr
Benson, Mr. Pomeroy, Mr. Brownlow, I
Matthews, r Hogan, Tung Han, Jos.
Voshay, j Shaffer, O Newburg.
Departed to Santa Ana-Martln Her
and H Sharps.
The following passengers left yester-
day by Telegraph stage line for San
Francisco: E Lu Gar and wife, E 0
Hare and three children, w F Kelsey,
Joe Silver, w r Tallman, Thos Tall
man, c N Fox and daughter, Mrs La
varah, H B Russ, Juan Tourot, G
Kane, f Guiol, w J Policy, d H
Pugh, A Roberts, G Roberts, ] Lower,
S Borrow, G T Hayden, Benz Barton,
wife and daughter, DIR Reed, Mr. r
Brown.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1875-04-29
The Ventura Sufferers.

The sufferers by the wreck of the
Ventura are numerous in our midst,
and something should be done to re-
lieve their immediate necessities and
find them employment. Bereft of
everything except the clothing they
wear, they are indeed objects of SYM
pathy, and our liberal citizens are pro-
posing to give an entertainment at
Turn Verein Hall for their benefit.
The nature OF the performance has not
been fixed, but we would suggest an
amateur entertainment with Charles
Vivian in the cast. Such perform
ance, for the purpose of aiding these
unfortunates, would draw well.