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The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-11-23

tween the races will be characterized
by tlegres Of Kindness and confidence
heretofore impossible because loyal leagues
and knaves governing them dug deep
chssms between the races which Tilden has
bridged. II we did not believe Mr.. Hayes
an honest, upright gentleman, and sincere
patriot and philanthropist, we woDli be
forced TO say that his little speech il Cln-
cinnati was simply an insult profered the
South to avepge its hostility to his party.
This hardly becomes one occupying MIR.
Hsyes's proud position and especially when
his conduct at the moment OF his defeat
shou'o be worthy ef that true, moral gran
deur of character which lifted him so far
above his partisans that his very deeds and
virtues and character, while the late con
test was pending, were unnamed and abso.
lutfly forgotten.
Perhaps now that Mr.. Hayes has cooled
down and he is unaffected by disappoint-
, nents which at least make his name I'M
mortal, he should rise with the pressure of
calamities, aud retrieving the error into
which he has fallen, hasten to state the sim
pie truth that whether Blaine and Morton
believe it or not, the negro has won
infinitely more freedom and good
fortune by Tilden's triumph than the white
race. None are losers save the poor place.
holders, and if Hayes have more ears to
shed we modestly suggest that If they fall
like the devE q! HermOn and glisten lus-
trouslv when the fate of those who have ruled
and pluadered for fifteen years is men
toned, our own eves will become we'll
springs of divinest sympathy and we can
boohoo with Mr.. Hayes even until the
fourth OF March next.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-11-23

WHATEVER people may say IN the midst
of this unforeseen exciting juncture Of af-
fairs, when Kellogg rules in one and
Chamberlain in another pivotal State, the
great body of the people, North and South,
Democrats and Republicans, are honest and
devoted to fair dealing. If wrong be done
and false counting of false returns be made,
the people seeing it will hardly assent, and
neither Hayes nor Tilden would be Presi-
dent in the presence of that universal de-
testation which he must ever encounter who
wins this office by palpable unfairness.
There will be no foul play st last, and right
will be done. AS an English ministry is
forced to retire by a popular verdict of the
House of Commons, even so would Hayes or
Tllden, holding the presidency without
right, be impotent for any task of executive
duty. The Congress and the courts and
the people and soldiers would set their
faces against such man. He must either
retire or become a despot. Placemen
would sustain him and submit for a time !;
but simple negative popular and congress
sional hostility would compel the resigna-
ton of an usurper, and neither Hayes nor
Tilden would have the office if not honestly
gwen by an honest election.
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THE TEXAS NE YORKER AND THE
STATESMAN.


Not long ago the STATESMAN contained
two articles; the one commencing, as it
affected Austin, the Texas and Pacific road
because it was to be extended from Shreve-
port to Vicksburg. Austin, by this route,
was given an open highway, the Mississippi
constituting part of it, to New Orleans,
and Austin, through Vicksburg, Meridian
and Atlanta, acquired another route IT, New
York. We gain all this if Tom Scott ex-
tend his road, rs somebody said he would,
from Shreveport to Vicksburg. Should we
not give the devil his due2 That monthly
budget of patent outsides AID no insides,
and which yet pretcnds to be a Texas news
paper and is known as The Ierds Neae-
Yorker, copies the statement of facts above
recited, and with it another paragraph from
the STATESMAN in which we deplore the
fact that if Tom Scott build and manage
the Texas and Pacific he will curve it far
enough south to seize and hold the richest
domain ever given By stupidity to impu-
dence and run the road in the interest of
Philadelphia and of his Pennsylvania Cen
trai to the service of which he has devoted
his life. Did we say, when speaking of
the extension of the road from Shreveport
towards Vicksburg, that the cities and rail-
ways of California would pursue the route
through Austin to Shreveport and Vicks-
burg? Tom Scott never dreamed OF such
coDsummatiOn, and we are sorry to say that
iawgivers OF Texas were incapable of COM
pretending the necessity of forcing HIM to
assure it. The Austin and Vicksburg road
is only feeder to the great trunk line
from Phiiadelphia to St. LOUIS, thence
southwest into Northwestern Texas aud
thence northwest to San Francisco. Texas
and the cities of Texas and of the South
have the least possible interest, Texas pay
ing for it many millions, in such trans-con-
tinental highway. We nrefer the road al
ready built from San Francisco to Los An
gelos and to the southern confines of Cali
fornia and now seeking terminus, not in
Philadelphia. but at the nearest point on
the Gulf of Mexico. The local road from
Anstin to Shreveport and New York serves
Austin We /; but the trans-continental read
from San Francisco to Austin and Calves
| ton and New Orleans would aggrandize
| Texas and the cities of Texas and restore
| to the cities of the South share of that
vast wealth which they lost by the reversal
of the commercial map of the country when
war ragged. The IeeGs Nelo- Yorker, breath
| ing different atmosphere, would see the
facts presented from a different standpoint
| If it looked out from Texas instead of from
| New York.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-11-23


The horrible vulgar display of habili-
ments of woe in dress, in the church, at
the graves mouth, in long lines of hired
hacks renders funerals vicious. Fashion
shapes their gorgeousuess and if the widow
do not weep that the husband d,ed and his
children are orphaned, her tears will surely
flow freely enough when hunger pinches
and the cost of all these trappings of grief
must be paid. And yet empty-pated
women and their silly kindred suffer vast
sums to be wasted in the development of
an unnatural vanity. We cannot help
thinking when a stately train goes by, so
impressive in effects upoR staring, deeply
sympathizing multitudes, that the $500
wasted In this gorgeousness of sorrow will
be required rather to educate and clothe
and feed orphans than TO deck grief in
feathers and fanfaronade and the law should
be wiser and juster than we find it, and
over and above the cost of grave and
coffin and hearse the last debt paid by the
orphans and widows court should be that
incurred by fashion in the name of grief
in a city graveyard.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-11-23

The wages of colored Iaborers in Geor-
Gia, under Democratic governmeut-a gov
ernment, too, of taxpayers, and therefore a
cheap and honest government - averages
twelve dollars per month, besides house
rent and lodging. Ia South Carolina, sep
arated from Georgia only by narrow river,
the wages of laber ore four dollars less per
month, or only eight dollars. The differ
ence is due solely to the fact that The one
State prUspers and the profits of labor are
gathered by those who toll, and not, as
most unfortunately happens in Texss, as
its government was organized by its inca
pable trainers, by the placeholders of the
State. The rule is natural and uniform
ly operative that the system of laws will be
cheapest which they frame who must pay
the cos: of their enforcement, ard the poor
are most rapidly enriched, as shown by
their good fortune in Georgia, where the
laws are made by those who pay the fees
and salaries of placeholders. Therefore
it happens that the poorest industrious
working man of Austin will discover sooner
or later that the STATESMAN, in advocating
the restriction of MUNICIPAL suffrage, is the
truest friend of the peuniless. The rela-
tive fortunes of the poveTty-stricken in
South Carolina and in Georgia constitute
an invaluable lesson to those whose preiu-
dices are invoked by demagogues who
would control their votes in order to plgn-
der the community.
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THE Centennial commission has decided.

The Centennial commission has decided.
closed Friday, the tenth instant, to admit
persons at the usual rates until yester-
day. The exhibition formally closed
with a grand jubilation. There were
a series of national salutes, brief
addresses from prominent men, and
orchestral and vocal music under the direc-
ton of Theodore Thomas. President Grant
consented to be present and perform
the closing cermony. Every American may
Justly feel proud Of the success of the great
exhibition, since it surpasses by far any
thing of the kind ever before attempted in
the world, not only in vastRess, but in
pecuniary results. Down to and including
the second Instant more than z, 250, 600 pay
ing visitors had attended it, and it is esti-
mated that before the formal closing this
number was augmented to 5000, 900.
The attendance on 'closing day" (Satur-
day. was very large. The Philadelphia
Ledger says that as remarkably large as the
attendance has been in a country so young
as ours, it is not the most remarkable fea-
ture, for the population within seven days
travel of the exhibition does not exceed
forty to forty-five millions of people, while
the population within seven days travel of
any of the great European exhibitions is not
less than one hundred and fifty to two hun
dred millions.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-11-23

IT HAS been suggested that Phil. Sheri-
dams proper sphere of usefulness is found
in intimidating wanderers among the Black
Hiis, and especially should he enforce that
provision of constitutional amendments
which gives every white man the inalien-
able right to wear his OVID hair. But little
Phil. can't keep his fingers out of CulT,e's
wool, and again he appears upon the scene
in New Orleans. He is deemed violent,
impuIsive, self-willed, fattered, and reck-
less of reason and right. lie is not the
proper representative of an army in case
like this, and however honestly and bravely
the President has spoken, he has done the
country and himself wrong in sending
Sheridan to New Orleans. Our opinions of
Sheridan may be wholly erroneous; but the
fact that he incurred the condemnation of
many able and just men, North aud South,
when, not long ago, he served in Louisiana,
should have eau ,ed General Ord's assign
ment to the duty to be discharged at New
Orleans by.Sheridan.
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IMBRUTED scoundrels shaved horses tai.

1MBRUTED scoundrels shaved horses tai's
ridden at night by negroes to one of their
loud meetings near Gonzales and then, to
frighten the innocent people, fired guns
into the roof OF the church. Whether these
reprobates be white or black is not ascer-
taine1; hut the community Will be dis
graced if 1t do not punish and thus dis
grace such cowsrdly scoundrelism. We
may not reverence the God that Afrlca
adores; for theirs is peculiar and personal
God. We may not bow when their peculiar
prayers are addressed with peculiar famili-
arity and unctiOusness of manner to the
Most High; but we cannot question African
sincerity at the moment, and God listens as
generously to the humblest az to the most
exalted of his creatures. 1t is the purpose
of the petitioner and of the preacher,
whether the lowliest of Christ's followers or
metropolitan bishop, which decency and
law should compel us at least outwardly to
respect. The right to worship God or not
and to think as we please should never be
violated or questioned, and the poor
negroes at Bastrop, in suffering this out
rage, are not more deeply wronged than
every white citizen of Texas. Just so long
as the Chnaman bends before joss, the
negro before his ideal deity and the Chris
Blin before one or three or personal or i'm
personal deity and interferes not with the
equal rights and comforts of others, the
rest of man kind must stand aloof and see
that perfect freedom of thought and acton
are assured and especially to the humblest
citizens.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-11-23

If Ben. Butler, Sheridan and the army
cheat South Carolina, Louisiana and Flor
ida and Tilden be deposed, and the will of
the people defed, those who have won,
but instead, must lose thousands, will
''raise ned" james Gordon Bennett will
lose $2J, 900, if Tilden be elected. lie is
elected, the Herald says, but suppose Hayes
be the President, will Bennett still pay
1t will be a strange state of facts if honest
gamblers betting on Hayes confess them
selves losers and pay accordingly, when the
party managers and Grants appointees de.
clare differently and invest Hayes with the
presidency. Under such circumstances
Hayes's administration would be uDsus-
tanned by the people, and, however wise,
conservative and honest, must fail. He
would be ieered at by the people and press
and despised in history. We do not fear
an unjust decision of the question.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-11-23
Bexiean News.

Yucatan has started a small revolt.
Rebel General Falcon has surrendered.
The Indians of Western Mexico arc on
the war path.
Bodies of rebels still occupy the country
about TampIco.
Grasshoppers and revolution worry the
State Of Vera Cruz.
Pinblu celebrated Porfrio Diaz's birth
day wI.h great enthusiasm.
The rebel General Manuel Gonzales
thwsrted those who sought TO gobbIe him
and escaped.
We wish the Western papers that gel
TUFTS pills for advertising them would ad-
minister a cargo TO Mexican anarchy and
have the country cleaned out.
The Aztec ruins in Yucatan have been
photographed aud sent TO Philadelphia,
while Father Hsrrera, g learned priest, has
published valuable pamphlet about the
Aztec calendar.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-11-23

WHILE wretched radical and constitu-
tional amendments and universal suffrage
and universal knavery and consequent bru
tality in government are about to plunge
US into internal war. Grant is shaking his
fist in the face of poor, weary, bankrupt
diseased Mexico. The next news from
Brownsville will probably tell that war has
been begun between the United States and
one of the many governments of Mexico.
The chances seem to be that we will soon
be in as pitiable state as our yellow
skinned neighbors, and Grant should be-
ware of poking fun and bayonets at Lerdo
and Diaz, and that other fellow Iglcsias.
Our head devils are Tilden, Hayes and
that other fellow Grant. 1t is OILY d fer
ence in names. The facts are almost the
same, and We are heartily ashamed of it.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-11-23

THERE is prospect OF the opening of an
important export trade to Europe in Ameri-
can boots and shoes, the prices of our & eds
in the Centennial Exposition having great
ly surprised our foreign visitors. No doubt
the prices will equally surprise some of our
own people, and s1.20 for PAIR of substan-
tial shoes for mems wear, and 8. 80 for q
pair of mems boots, are rates none too com
mon. 1t is truly said that no European
goods compare with these il chespness,
wearing quality, style aud finish. Some
orders for Germany have been received By
New England manufacturers, and the pur-
chasers express the belief that trade can
be worked up in France. Germany and
other countries in Europe for cheap. coarse
goods. Hitherto We have only shipped
leather and hides to Europe, but It is now
probable that the manufactured articles will
accompany the raw materials Why may
nOt Austin saddles be sold in London and
Parisi No foreign-made saddles compare
IN vaIne with those produced IN Texas.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-11-23

He is a miserable devil and unworthy of
American citizenship who does not prefer
the election either of Hayes or of Tllden to
the proposed usurpation Of Grant, and the
honest election of either of the two late can
didates to the dishonest triumph Of either.
If fairness aud right be possible, in Gods
name let the country have it. To sacrifice
the placeholders is terrible, but many OF
these are too patriotic to subordinate the
country's good and the cause of popular
government forever 10 their greed for pow
er and gold. Flint justitia ruat eolum. We
would be glad to know with absolute Ger
tainty that either candidate for the presi-
deDcy was unquestionabIy and rightfuily
chosen, and that the zdheTents of the other,
with one voice, assented TO the decision
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-11-23

The i'll effects Of soda on linen has given
rise to q new method Of washing, which
has been extensively adopted in Germany,
and introduced into Belgium. The opera
ton consists in dissOlving Two pounds OF
soap in about three gallons OF water warm
es the hand can bear, adding TO this one
tablespoonful OF turpentine. and three Of
liquid ammonia; the mixture must then be
well stirred, and the linen stepped in IL two
or three bours, taking care 20 cover the ves-
sci contaising them 80 nearly Theoretically
as possible. The clothes are afterwards
washed out and rinsed in the ufual way.
The soap aud water may be reheated and
used secood time. but IN that case half =
teaspecnful Of turpeDtine and tablespoon
ful Of ammonia must be added. The pro-
cess IL said TO cause q great economy OF
time. labor and fuel. The linen scarcely
suffers al all, As lis cleanliness and color nfe
perfect. The ammonia and turpeniine, al
though their detersiye action 10 great have
no injurious effect on the linen; and while
the former evaporates Immediately. the
smell Of the latter is said 10 disappear en-
t:rely during the drying Of the clothes-
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-11-23

The wonders of telegraphy have not yet
been exhausted. The old mystics who con-
ceived it to be possible for friend to hold
immediate intercourse with friend whilst
at distances remote from each other, could
they re-appear upon earth, would find that
their fanciful imagining was completely
realized when science summoned to mans
uses the electric current, and made it the
servant of his will. But even Morse never
imagined it possible that two musical in
struments, placed miles apart, when brought
into connection with an electric wire, could
be made to play the same tune, or that
person writing at one end of wire could
have fac simiIe of his manuscript pro-
duced at the other end of it. Yet these
things have been done. And now we have,
as the latest triumph OF inventive genius,
audible speech by telegraph. At Boston,
a few days ago, conversation by word of
mouth between two persons-one in an Of
fee IN that city and the other in q factory
at Cambridge, two miles of-was carried
IN over telegraph wire. A record of the
wire, and is published in the newspapers.
A comparison of the records shows that,
with the exception Of two or three words
that the ear of the listener failed to catch
correctly, the questions and answers were
accurately transmitted. At first the sounds
are said to have been faint and indistinct,
| bnt became suddenly quite loud and intel
ligible, and SO continued as long as the
Sc sion lasted. The invention that adds
articulate speech to the other wonders of
relesraphy is difficult to describe, but the
author of it is Prof. A. Graham Bell. He
may have unwittingly inflicted great ca
! lamity upon the country. If we must sit
here of nights and absolutely hear Congress
sional speeches and twaddle that will come
next month when the Rlds and Democrats
begin the usual uproar in Washington,
some tmorselessly maddened editer will
show that this Bell is cracked. and If we
mus; hear sll that is said in Congress and
in legislatures and courts and all this must
come audibly over the wires, viii not the
internal uproar madden mankind We
used to think that the day was not dis
tant when there would be telegraphic
writing machine connected with all the
wires of the world, with the sewing ms
chine, at every fresids IN all this broad
land, and friends on opposite sides of the
world would converse as freely and ehesply
rs when face to face. But this resulting
noise puts period to progress, and the
telegraph must be suppressed.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-11-23

DISPATCHES from Washington say that
dread of terrible conflict pervades the
North. 1t is asserted that any effort to in
stall an illegally elected President will be
resisted by force OF arms. The first set Of
the Lower House, which meets the first
Monday in next month, will be to investi-
gate the conduct of elections in Louisiana,
Florida and South Carolina. Grants con-
duct in invading Louisiana when there is
no demand for troops. not even By the
fAcile scOundrel, Kellogg. makes him liable
TO impeachment and the House may sp-
point committee 70 lead Grant to the bar
OF the Senate even as he sent Andrev John
SON thither.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-11-23

The majority given Sunset Cox, as a
candidate for Congress, is the greatest won
by any of the 'three hundred" He far
outstrips his able predecessor IN his district,
and wins 10y majority of 16. 55l. If this
fact, his extraordinary labors in Ohio and
lifelong fidelity to truth and wise con-
servatism do not entitle him to the speak
ership of the mex. Congress, then justice
and right no longer shape the course of
public events even IN u mocratic bodies.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-11-23


The Interior contains an article on ''The
Human Soul Spiritual Body" in which
the doctrine of the New Church concerning
the spiritual nature of man is pretty clearly
stated. The writer says: 1.-The soul Of
man Is spiritual body, accompanying the
human material body, the house OF the
SOUL at its advent into this world. The
immortal part OF man is moro than spiritual,
il is no less than spiritual body, born into
this world at the birth of the material
body, completed in all its form, fashion,
aud equipment for eternal existence, and
its dwelling period upon earth In It's house
of flesh and blood, its fitting period for
eternal life or eternal death" The common
view that the ''soul is an immortal principle
only" he regards as very unsatisfactory.
lie cannot understand how a principle can
be judged as moral and accountable
agent, or how 1t can act. But he can un-
derstand how a living, acting, moral being
can both act and be called to an account
for acting. He then proceeds 70 give rca-
Sous both from reason aud recollection for
his belief. lie has hit central truth.
There will never be q particle Of progress in
the knowledge Of mans spiritual nature un-
til the fact is accepted that mans spiritual
nature is an organized form, and subject 10
all the laws OF organization. When this
fact is accepted, there is asubject TO which
mans spiritual qualities and attributes can
be referred. He becomes the subject Of
law and order in the same sense thst he is
subject IN law as to bis material body. He
Is no longer an abstraction.