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The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-06-08

THE Emperor of Brazil doesn't fancy eti-
quette and he has no chronic aversion. to
reporters. When the Secretaries of State,
War and the Navy went in war-steamer
to welcome him, with brass band and a
written-out speech, they were quite indig-
nsnt because some newspaper men asked
permission to- go along. But when the rep
resentatIyes Of the~President reached the
Brazilian steamer Helvetius, which had
brought the Emperor, they found the auda-
cious knights of the pencil chatting socially
with Dom Pedro, withOuts q bit of blawsted
etiquette, you know. His Imperial High
ness gave the officials cold shoulder, and
they returned on their steamer without him,
but the reporters escorted him to his place
of landing at New York. This is another
exemplification of the fact that the Press is a
a POGer, and that the old pr'judices against
it must be gotten rid of by those who aspire
to direct public sentiment in this republic.
No one can deny that the present admins
tratIon has suffered because of the army
prejudice against newspaper men which has
estranged them fr m the White House.
And in the coming Presidential contest the
P0tcer of the Press will be exercised. Ger
respondents whose dispatches are read by
many thousand voters every morning can
not be held in contempt even by the candi-
dates who imagine themselves above the
effects of printers ink, often so maliciousiy
and unfairly used.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-06-08

THE resolution Of Senator Edwards, like
that which was presented in the House,
serves to show that what we stzted was true,
a. every printer cognizant of the facts at
tests, that it is impossible to execute the
"binn printing contract without loss.
Senator Edwards would have the COMMITTEES
on Public Printing inquire why printed
bills and resolutions are not delivered ct
the proper time. In truth nobody, with
that contract, can execute it in docOrdanoe
srith its terms and act with fairness to all
concerned. The bills now presented to the
Legislature are not printed in the type re-
ouired by Law, and on very inferior paper.
Competent bidders for the printing
are those who are fully provided with
material and appliances for executing ID,
and when work is not done IS required by
law 1t is both . wrong 70 the State and te
competitors who had fully intended 10 ex-
ecute work exactly IS lequired by law.
The neinvests capital TO meet legal require
nients, while the ether does rot, and
hence there is . wide differences.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-06-08

THE Meas didn't get any public pap at
Austin, and went away licking its hungry
chops in 9uerulous mood, and it was full
of sadness and emptiness when it went for
the public printing at Galveston. The Ci-
Uslian has turned it down, and the break
water people are slow about anteiDg, "
and the goodly News looks ghastly and
down in the mouth. OF the wharf com
pany monopoly, it hasn't had anything
to say since that column was dlled by the
Devil fsh's 'ad,'" and altogether the
Neies is hypochondriacal and devilish tishy
and dull
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-06-08

The fellow Harvey must produce better
testimony than his own ipse DIRT, if he
would make an honest man believe that
Mr.. Speaker Kerr sold a petty Office for
$500. Kerr is a solid, kRotty, cranky,
Scotch Presbyterian, born and reared in the
fold of that church. Love of honesty and
of economy, because the two virtues are in
separable, is the basis of conduct and char
acter of the class of which Mr.. Kerr is q
proper representative. He is now growing
old. Through long and active public
life his fame has been unspotted, and it is a
foul shame that partisanship has become SO
degraded that it produces and recognizes
men who would serve the party by defan-
ing one whose whole life and history assert
the perjury of his accuser.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-06-08

SINCE Dallas is going to be left out in the
cold, and is no longer the great railway.
center aud terminus of Texas, people might
suppose jest serious, and then it would
signify something and even do possible det-
riment. 1t would be neither generous nor
just, therefore, to poke any more fun at
Dallas. The Wichita Railway scheme, to
compete with Tom Scott's, has fallen
through, and Dallas must suffer for time
from terrible paralysis; but it is In the Gen.
ter of matchless farming district, and the
torpidity of its people cannot destroy its
final growth and greatness.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-06-08

FIVE hundred and six applications for
divorce were made in a single week in Chi
cago. Welded people there will all be
liberated and then establish pandemonium,
and the next fire will blaze through eter-
nifty, and the Inter Ocean will still be the
proper organ of society and government.
But it is fearful fact, in view of the con-
dition of society and public and private
morals in Chicago, that newspaper of the
Internal place should criticise the tastes
and acts and misdeeds of the people Of
Texas. We could endure condemnation
from any other quarter Of the uncivilized
globe.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-06-08

WASHINGTON, June 1.-MulIgan desired
to make the statene t when he arrived
here that a note came from Blaine request-
ing witness and Mr.. Fisher to call at
BlnIne's house. Witness declined. Fisher
went. Blnine called at Aulligan's hotel
last night then called on witness again.
Fisher and Atkins were present. Blaine
asked regarding private letters which Apl-
ligan had promised to hand back, which he
did. Blaine afterward came into witness's
room, where they were alone. He plead
for the letters, talked Of the ruin OF his
family and suicide and asked il he could
read the letters again. Witness handed
them to him, when Blaine gave him one
and retained, and has yet, some seventeen
letters. After this, Blaine spoke Of other
matters, a, king the witness how he would
like TO run a committee or how o foreign
com ulate would suit hlm. Blaine made n
statement that he had the letters, but the
conversation abnut suicide and cOnsulship
were all imagination Blaine says he con-
suited two friends, and to-day will consult
two Of the best lawyers whether anything
in the letters refer u the matter under in
vestigaiion, viz, the t64 900 in bonds
which Scott s0ld to the Uaion Pacific.
The tffect in the COMMITTEES roOm WAS ap.
pAiling. Mr.. Blaine employed himself ID
folding an envelope very squarely and tear
ng il. aot4 40
Extract from Blaine's statement-I called
on three gentlemen, Messrs. Atkins, Fishei
and Mnlligan, at the Riggs House, and ir
the parlor Atkins had some conversation
with MuIligan about these letters, and
asked him to show them 70 me. With
some apparent reluctance, ! said 70 him,
sWhy, you are not afruid Of my keeping
them, are your" and he said mo, and
handed them 10 me. 1 looked them 81
over and discovered that there was only
one letter in the list that bore upoa tht
question before the COMMITTEES, and eyeE
that only By forced construction, and mo-
in reality. handed them back 70 him
The conversation then became some
what general between the four gen
tlemen, including myself, IN the room
After little while Mr.. Michigan went up
stairs 20 Mr.. Fishers room night over head
I was talking with Messrs. Fisher and Al
kins few moments. and then started y
Fishers rooms and kBoeked q the doc
and was admitted, and there talked viii
Mr.. MullisAn for some time. / mny hav
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-06-08

THE vagrant acts of the Eastern States
are very severe and instant in operation.
providing for no jury, the justice commit
ting idle wanderers to prison by an ez pdrte
proceeding. These laws are very old, and
more necessary now than ever before, when
trsmps absolutely control elections in towns,
investing thieves with offices. Bot the
Federal Constitution provides that no person
shall be deprived of lifeor liberty without
the judgment of a jury of his peers, and
Eastern lawpers say that Eastern codes must
he reformed, or the South may institute
ysgrant codes, to protect hen-roosts and
clothes lines, that will be iutolerable to the
man and brother. We can only congratu-
late ourselves that the share of inconven-
ience and of the cost of recognizing the
civic rights of those unworthy of them
must fall alike upon the just and the un-
just, and while we pay the piper when
Africa dances, new England must shell out
when colorless tramps. go their weary
rounds
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-06-08
EVERY sane Southern man would have
sectional issues obliterated and we can only

EVERY sane Southern man would have
sectional issues obliterated and we can only
sbhor those of the North who pretend to
love the Union, and yet will not suffer the
withdrawal of the wedge that ever widens
the broad ugly tissure between the North
and South. Blaine, who has done most
since Thsd Stevens died and Ben Butler was
silenced, to dig and deepen the unseemly
chasm. has been stricken down by the ugly
fend of Investigation, and Providence has
smitten Morton, the monster of hate
and malignity and sectionalism, with
foul incurable leprosy and it seems
that decency must triumph and that
Conkling and Bristow will be
the Republican candidates for the presi-
dency and vice-presidency. The Demo
Gratis must then nominate Tilden. He
alone can compete with Conkling for su-
premacy in New York, and he alone, with
Trumbull as.the Democratic candidate for
the vice-presidency, can secure the vote of
the Carl Schurz reformers and political free
thinkers in the East and West. Whet her
Tflden or Conkling be triumphant the
South is infinitely the gamer. The coun-
try, in either event, will be government
of statesmen, substituted for incapable,
unworthy adventures and ghastly rings.
We therefore not only believe Conkling
and Bristow the strongest possible ticket the
Republicans can present to the country, but
If this ticket must triumph the South will
have the least possible reason, in view of
the fearful fact that the power of Repub-
iicanism is protracted, to deplore the result.
But the future leaders of the party N
power must soon be known. Ten days
hence the Republican National Convention
sits in Cincinnati.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-06-08

EVEN if it were true, as alleged, that Mr..
Tilden's friends have paid for the publica-
ton in other States of articles affecting his
personal worth and fitness for Office, the
truthfulness of these publications is not
questioned, and Mr.. Tilden's virtues are
only made the more widely known. If this
were worth doing, it were worth paying
for, and somebody had to pay for the type
setting, and why not Tilden's friends in
New York and elsewhere The culpabil-
ity of their conduct is by no means self
evident, and still less that of paper that
published these articles while believing
Tilden the proper man for the presidency.
Such paper is only paid for doing what
1t believes right, the question of right or
wrong depending upon the honesty of pur-
pose of the publisher, and not upon the fact
that one man or another pays the printer
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-06-08

WHEN the Marshall He,ald ascribes arro-
gance to Governor Coke because he would
accept the Senatorship the Examiner can't
comprehend the criminality involved in the
alleged swellhesdism. Almost any mans
modesty, in such a case, would modestly
disappear, and especially when he was
conscious of fitness for the lofty position
to which the Legislature assigns him. Sun
lit clouds of modesty would hardly have
. lowered about the lofty brow of
Loughery if the benignant Legislature had
proposed W UIO"H ~------
roses ana nouuIs, anu the luster of Coke's
arrogance grows pale IN the presence of
such suggestions. .H.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-06-08
THE RAILROADS AND THEIR DE.
SIGNS. ..

The railroads, it Is said, have combined
to force through the Legislature general
extension bill. The coal of fire on that
terrapiu that crawls from Dallas to Fort
Worth has done such infinite good service
that it might we'll be made incandescent
everywhere, and used to put all the para
y zed corporations in notion These Texas
roads cost their owners not q dollar. The
State paid for them, the rings own them,
and, since shareholders do not hesitate, as
the International now proposes, and as
Pierce has done at San Antonio, TO levy
blackmail upon towns and people, We do
not see how the representatives of the peo-
pie can be induced to make unjust and
over generous concessions in their behalf.
A town is to be bull. near Round Rock,
owned by the International. 1t thus de-
stroys property values in all neighboring
towns and villages, and the corporation
building a town of its own sells lots at
prices fixed by the losses sustained by
neighboring towns. They rob every village
aad town aud city, within twenty or thirty
miles of its property values, In
duce multitudes to buy, and then,
in 1879, IL the Legislature do not protrac'
ehe power to desolate, speculate and de
stroy, IL must be extended to Austin, leav'
ing helpless and hopeless those who to-day
are induced to pay fancy prices for fame,
lets near Round Rock. Stage coaches ar
robbed by chance. but towns and cities o
Texas by system. When il was thought
some weeks ago, that the narrow gauge Z
Lampasas would be built, the Internstiona
:. .highwSymen,n wearing velvet gloves
came down softly and tenderly amoni
these innocent lambs and had the stor.
bruited abroad that IL Austin would Civ
the road access 20 the Avenue, Al cost q
the company Of not more than ten THOUSAND
dollars. it should be extended thither i'm
mediasely. Water lots OF course, wen
. kiting;" corner lots in the Mexican sub
urb became fancy stocks in the market o
speculation, and as the International peopl
anticipated, publicity made the executio
Of the proposed scheme Impossible It Ms
never proposed % be execnsed. Fer hike rea
seas corps Of engineers was made 20 "a
4
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-06-08

AN observing Galvestonian, through the
columns OF the Neos suggests that the most
effectual bIeakwater for Galveston is to be
obtained by planting Bermuda grass along
q slightly raised line near the coast. This
writer, in part, says:
Since the autumnal equinox at the ter
minstiOn of the great yellow fever epidemic
here, the cyclone was the only storm that
hurlsd higher and more furious waves over
our beach. SO say, for all ordinary eoui
ncxial, or any other storms reasonably ex-
pected within q hundred years to come.
with all their furious uprisings of the gull,
a seawsll three feet high is amply sufficient.
Now for my plan-and l don't charge the
city $4,000 for it, either. Make big potato
ridge to take the place of the former sand
hills, and make Bermuda grass take
possession of it Sink two rows of cedar
posts, three feet apart, and spike on planks
three feet high, fillaptwo- thirds with sand
(taken from the waters edge at low tide),
and balance with manure (and soil, If to be
had), and set out the Bermuda; and only
one more thing is lacking to save US, viz. !:
manure and Bermuda grass ut the base, and
all over this ridge; when it takes root and
grows, no storm of wind or waves will ever
undermine it. The we'll at the Ocean
House got filled up, and when afterwards
opened again this grass was found with live
roots six feet undei ground, and it would
have grown out green Ut the top if it had
been let alone. -'- ,'..t a.. A. ..s.
Capt. Boyce can show anybody spots
there-where this grass has raised the
ground by acceretion of sand eighteen to
twenty inches-snd if well fed with manure
would soon make sand hills even without
the plank protection. This restoring of the
sand hills-making q permanent artificial
ridge that will check the inroads of the
GuIf-is, in my opinion, the cheapest and
best plan for breakwater. It IS so simple
anybody can approximate the cost, and by
occasionally covering it with manure, the
grass will soon not only take it and keep it,
but add to it by every wind that blows.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-06-08

THE STATESMAN, in jocular paragraph a
few days ago, criticised a sentence IN an ad-
mirable oration which has been republished
everywhere. 1t is proper to say that refer
ence to the original manuscript copy Of the
speech shows that the sentence We con-
demned became vulnerable because some
original typesetter interpolsted words
changing the original construction and sig
ni6cation of the sentence, and the speaker
was therefore unjustly criticised.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-06-08

WHY will not Virginia place in the Ma
tional Statuary Hall statue of that truly
noble son of hers, Chief Justice MarsbalI2
A man of great genius, high philosophy,
and lnfiexlble honesty, he was equally con-
spicuous in the social scenes of private life
The accounts of QUOT club ut Richmond
to which he belonged are delightful, and
the example set by him and his associates
beneath the oaks at Buchanan's Spring
might be proftably followed by some of our
Ss99lftnson SSs9lfetns on Capitol Hill, who never en- jOy
old roosters spJeasagEt e % %spa loe.qs- .It4ea
laughter there; how they pitched quolts
without their coats, and fessted on the
roasted shoat and drank moderate juleps,
in the days long sgol Of these innocent
seasons of convivial enjoyment the Chief
Justice was one of the brightest luminaries.
With his coat thrown down, his eyes spark
ling with pleasure, the crowd looking on
eagerly, anxious for his success, the Judge
addressed hunself with ardor to the real
business of the day. This business was to
overcome all his competitors in hurling the
peaceful discus at the stake in the ground.
Marshall's most dangerous opponent was
q worthy clergyman, between whom and
the Chief Justice many struggl's for the
mastery took place. But the latter was the
favorite of the by-standers. In measuring
the distance OF his own and his opponents
quoit from the pegs the arbitrator would
generally manage. to declare in the judges
favor-in fayer of law and against divinity.
If cheating was necessary to arrive at thi,
result, so much the more unfortunate, but
that was all. Judge Marshall was to be,
under any circumstances, triumphant, fol
he was the fayprite, of all, the pride of the
members of the club, the most despotic pet
of them all. When he made bad throw,
or his QUOT rolled away to a distance, all
fAces became elongated; sadness entered
every heart, and his opponent was regarded
with ill concealed hostility. When, how
ever, she quoit went straight to its place
above all, when it ''rung the meg" thai
is, fell plump on top and encircled it, ths
enthusiasm of the crowd knew no bounds
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-06-08

The Legislature does not propose to ex-
tend pensions to Texas veterans living in
other State And imperative necessity de-
mands thai the State assume no liabilities
now that are hot absolutely necessary.
The debt of the State is growing at such
rate as to make this proposition purely &
correct one, especially since in the abstrsci
a1 concessions of this nature are made
through compliment.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-06-08

HAYS, Washturnel BFistov and Conkling
are now the foremost Republican can
didates for the presidency. Blaine and
Morton are less prominent but will come TO
the surfsce when the bloody shirt iDyes-
tigatiDg committee has traversed Mississippi
and published its compendium of supposed
enormities -
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-06-08

THE Dallas Herald is certainly conducted
BY gentlemen of excellent intelligence who
do not hesitate to say that Samuel J. Tilden
is the only man who stands the remotest
chance Of defeating the Republican Eomi-
nee at Cincinnati
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-06-08

PEOPLE should learn an invaluable les
son from each river they behold. Every
current of water Is certainly tending to
equalize its slope, to increase it where it
is almost imperceptible, and diminish it
where 1t is too rapid. We commend the
lesson inculcated by nature to the Sunday
readers of the SrArEsA1AN.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-06-08

Hoss. R. B. HuRBARD, as is presently ur-
dsrstood, will make the centennial speech
for Texas on the eleventh day Of SePtem-
Der, the anniversary day Of the battle OF
BrAndywine. Orators from each State have
been invited by the centennial commission
ers to speak, upon days agreed on, upon
he history and resources Of the different
States.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-06-08

THE Gar has got his dsughter-Marie
Aexandrovna-home from London, and the
Duke of Edinburg leads life of his owu
WhereupOn the newspaper quidnuncs con-
lecture that the Duke and Duchess have
had another quarrel; that the separation is
final, and that it portends war between
Russia and Great Britain for the possession
of Asia The fact that the Emperos of Ger
many did not visit the Queen at Baden is
also made to play part in the great drama.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-06-08

THIRTr FouR governments viii be repre-
sented at the Exposition at PhilsdelPhiA.
and the neanest and most intolerable Of al
these are found where earpet-baggers,
through ignorant suffrage, uphold mock
erles Of republics.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-06-08
CTRAYKD OR STOLEN.

Ahout the foaFth of April from Phineas Barch-
- nvt. m he unpar Sas Antnnio road, throe ntlrs
go Inriin. TWO BROWN HORSE MULES neckcd
= -~se.r one il fcnrtesn haads \ gh. Aftcen years
~ Srsnd.A cn right thigh thas; rs and counter
Ss~..S~d The other u fuFteen and hall h.nds h,eh
ss,SI h-rnS.d ii On len shoulder and on left hip.
- - os as viii Be paid for the deitvcry Of the
sie 10 ne suAscsibcr ~ liberal pS given fos intoe
rarfion ehnf vii lead 20 their discovery Ap4i ~Sn
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-06-08

THE first interviewer" and blaekmail
levier ever publicly known in Washington
was Anne Royal. She claimed to be the
widow of Capt. Royal, Of Tennessee.
She was short, spare person, with piercing
black eyes and aquiIine nose, and tongue
that was never silent. Those who invested
in copies of the ''Blaek Book or OF The
Huntress were lsuded to the skies, and
made to appear altogether lovely; while
those who refused to contribute were de
famed and denounced without stint. There
Is vast difference between the pleasant
and amiable epistles Of the lady Journalists
OF our day and the productions Of thii
virago; yet she il, nevertheless, entitled &c
precedence She died here, believe, in
October, 1854, and the late B. B. French
wrote 9 very readable sketch of her life.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-06-08

sword, no one ever saw it without wishing
that it might become animated for five
minutes. so as to give 1t an opportunity to
smash Winnie Ream's Lincoln and then get
hung for conspiracy, a
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-06-08
Saysrs & Walton. Prupristurs.

rr,.d.r. Of THOROUGHBRED sHoRTHoRNs
and PURR-bLooDKD BKRkSHIkk PIGS. have Tor
~ thor0nrA6roa and gransa stock; alec. one hun
Srsd ART ciasa Texas coua. In calf BY thctoaghored
shsrthorn balls, Which No VIII sell OF exeA.nge for
rod property. uottNU