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The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-04-13


IT MAY be very bad for Tom Scott, but
every Texan having an intelligent app1e-
hension of the true interests of Texas will
be pleased to know that the Senate Commit
tee on Railroads, having laid aside the con-
sderation of the Texas Pacific Railroad bill,
which called for a government subsidy or
Endorsement, took up the alternative bills
offered by the Texas Central and Ell Paso.
and Southern Pacific Railroad Companies,
which propose to build substantially the
same road for the land grant already made
for the. purpose. 1t is understood actinn
on account of the earnest personal appeals
of Col Scott to members of the committee.
He stated that any action on a rival bill
would be great injury to himself, and that
If there were no unfriendly measures in Con-
gress he might succeed in having his lapsed
land grant from Texas restored to the Texas
and Pacific Company. 1t seems that Scott
intends to hold the vast public domain of
Texas at all hazards. We had supposed,
when he failed to extend his road be-
yOnu OrG w OTUuI as ne musb ldll,
he would quietly subside, leave Tex
as, go back to Leader, sometimes
called Philadelphia for short, because he
is soon curried, and that Texas would hear
no more of the illustrious Tom Scott. But
Tom evidently expects to come down upon
the innocent Legislature soon to assemble
in this city, and ask the extension of his
concession and the exclusive right to own,
control and manage. the railway system of
the northern portion of Texas. If he can
not give us a highway to the Pacific our
own people can very well take care of the
roads within our own confines, and by
using the land alleged to be held by Scott's
road, we can have lines built by Hunting
ton from Ell Paso to Fort Worth, to Waco,
Austin and San Antonio. Has not Scott
done enough for us 2 Do we owe him any
thing Dosen't he always get two dollars
for one, and does he not propose to rob the
South, even after this service done him by
Texas, of the terminal point and riches and
of the trunk line of the Southern Pacific
He is traitor to those who have dealt
most generously with him and, worse than
this, he has made Southern men betray the
land of their nativity.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-04-13

we would have either city harmed, but
each process of shortening distances and
lessening cost of transportation inures to
our advantage. Houston will not suffer
Galveston TO triumph thus easily, and heav
ier blows will be struck and the ship
canal enlarged, and if Galveston do
or threaten more we may see
the whole population of Houston
digging in the trenches that connect the an
cient capital with the sea. Again, it is
stated that the Central road, to save itself
and prevent the absolute supremacy of the
International in controlling Galveston
trade, will become the ally of Commodore
Morgan, and, transferring its depots to the
head of the canal, leave Houston to the
tender mercies of desolation and of owls and
bats. the sole guests of the Hutchins House.
II is also alleged that Ball, Hutch
ins & Co., largely interested in the line
between Houston and Galveston and having
little stock in the so-called Santa Fe road,
would destroy the latter to enrich the for
mer, an end to be attained by forcing
change of gauge by the Central road that
trains may pass through from Hearne even
to Galveston. But the probabilities are
that Pierce and Morgan will effect combi-
nation and make Morgantown growing,
prosperous city. Pierce will be in Calves
ton on the twenty-sixth inst, and then the
war of giants must begin. Pierce is man
of infinite energy and resources. He has
less wealth than Morgan, but the exhaust
less fertility of his resources is illustrated
in the fact that even through the past few
years of progressive contraction he has
never stood still. During the current week
the unfinished portion of his road, beyond
the Guadalupe, is to be put under contract
and extended at once, as we are informed,
to Sau Antonio. In the meantime, the
Galveston COmmOner says, Col. Andrews
has resigned the office of general freight
and ticket agent on the Houston road, and
there are vague rumors of other changes OF
similar character. Among them is one
that Mr.. Nichols will be made so uncom-
Portable that he will retire as Mr.. Andrews
has done, in which event Mr.. Howe will be
made superintendent of all the roads IN the
combination, and an assistant superintend-
ent appointed for the Galveston district.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-04-13
THE WOMEN AND THEIR LORDS,
SO-CALLED.

Husbands, we have heard most intelli
gent wives complain, do not make the con-
dition of their business affairs known to
them. An exchange tells of lady who
was first informed of her husbands suspen-
sion 10y reading the announcement in
paper which she accidentally took up in
store while waiting to have an order filled
Whether it was pride or fear that prompted
the secrecy can not be stated, but what can
be expected from wives in the way of true
economy if they are only silent partners in
the matrimonial copartnership2 Not very
long ago a jewelry firm of this city sold
costly set of jewelry to lady. The firm
knew that her husband was in failing con-
dition, for the lady had been long and
profitable customer. When the partner or
dered his clerk not to charge the set which
had been delivered, but to make memo
randum on the blotter, he paid the lady's in
tegrity high compliment. When her hus-
band failed the jewelry came back with
note couched in such terms that the dealer
only regretted that gift of the set would
be construed as an insult TO unaccustomed
poverty. But the lesson should not be lost,
as taught by these facts and while we boast
of the truth and purity of the daughters and
wives of Texas, husbands should tender
that tribute to their courage and intelligence
involved in making them thoroughly
conversant with financial facts affecting the
fortunes of the household. Reasons for
such course are numberless and especially
IN a commonwealth in which woman, save
that she does not vote, is recognized as an
integral member of society. 1t is now COM
monty proposed that the sex, to the extent
that they own property in corporations,
may properly become voters and for the
plain reason that corporate governments,
towns and counties, affect property alone,
the State and its courts protecting life, liber
ty and the pursuit of happiness. In nearly
all the States having school systems, the
women are active voters and managers in all
school elections and most honest, un-
selfish and skillful managers they are of
these most benefcent agencies for the anne
Iteration of the woes of society. The sense
of right and chivalrous spirit of Texans
has conceded to the wife a separate estate, of
which, as head of family, she cannot be
deprived by follies or misfortunes of the
husband, and since the very organic law Of
our government thus respects and guards
the rights of the sex, surely such an incident
as that narrated will never recur in Texan
city, and husbands, remembering the lesson
incuIcated, will never forget to make their
wives cognizant of every fact affecting the
condition of their personal fortunes.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-04-13

Hon. CLINT. ATKINS, Of Tennessee, has
been making very ingenious speech de-
fensive of Tom Scott's scheme of public
plumber and highway robbery. The worse
the cause he expounds, the more lawyer
always has to say, and Atkins's speech must
have been made under the ten-hour rule.
It is eloquent, elegant, specious and pleas
ing; but any map of the continent is more
logical, and no one cognizant of facts af-
fecting the course Of trade, as directed by
the managers and agents of great railway
lines can be misled by Mr.. Atkins Tom
Scott and his "pals" will own the stock In
the road when it is finished. 1t will cost
them rot cent and pay them profit, in
costing the government forty thousand dol
lars, of ten or fifteen thousand dollars per
mile. Scott and his successors and ap-
pointees will appoint all agents and control
the movements ofevery passenger and every
pound of freight, and the whole must be
forced through Philadelphis and to Europe
on Scott's Philadelphia and Liverpool
steamers. We differ from Mr.. Atkins, and
would maintain, by this California and
Southern trade, Southern lines of steamer:
sailing from Galveston, New Orleans,
Charleston and Norfolk, and we can't SEE
why Mr. Atkins prefers Philadelphia unles:
he have centennialism on the brain.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-04-13
TIE SEN NATORSHIP.

To show the North that we did not OBJ
ject to a Southern man who was through
the war Unionist, we have sent John Han
cock three times to Congress from this the
central capital district. We now propose
to send man to the Senate to represent
in truth and in fact, in his instincts, preju
dices, history, and in all his peculiarities
and predictions the great body and soul
of Texas. We make no difference in per-
sonal, social or political life between
Unionists and Secessionists. We never
think of 1t in our intercourse with people
at home or abroad, but do not intend that
oyer-patriotic people shall be always tell
ing, in order to frighten US, that it Is
-fearfully impalitic for Texans to send true
Texans 70 represent the statehood of Texas
in the Federal Senate. Let us be repre-
sented properly or not at all. Mr.. Hancock
has been honored again and again, and
again does he demand the highest honor
we can bestow, and because he differed
from us, and then again co-operated with
and served usl We have refunded all 1t
cost him. He has been lifted up and
placed where he may have won fame.
Wealth, too, has been gathered by HIM with
cunning, grasping hands, and he is emf
nently respectable at home and abroad,
and we have made him what he Is Now,
in Gods name, let us do justice Let III
be true to ourselves and to our own people.
Let Hancock be content. he should rest
for time from his arduous labors. Hs
has served his State and people quits
enough, and surely demands a respite W.
know how diligently he tolls BE hai
everything he does and says and can thinl
about or propose selegraphed to the Gal
weston Kers and We can't help aPPrec
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-04-13

HORACE GREELEY was sadly prophetic
when he said: ''The darkest day in a man s
life is VIXEN he thinks there is better wav
of getting dollar than squarely earning it,
He had reference to the mad hunt for office
that curses the country with such multi
tudes of aspirants for every place under
every government, local, State and Federal,
however mean the salary OF few the perqui-
sites and infuitesimal the honors. In
truth, men no longer seek office for honors
incident to positions once creditable but
now disgraced by thieves and adventures
to such degree that decent people at last
deem the post of honor the private station.
But the evil is twofold. While offices are
won by corruption and knavery the people
are polluted IN tastes an6 morals and the
worse the rascal, in many localities, as suf-
frage is now exercised, the surer his eleva-
ton and the more rapid the degradation of
offices. The calamity is progressive, crea-
ting and multiplying the evils that give it
origin, and the retrogression of public NOR
ais is more and more rapid, and that 'dark-
est day in mans life" of which Greeley
spoke is also the darkest day in the life of
the country and the incapable and unwor-
thy still deem honest toll the last possible
resort of shabby gentility, and gentility be-
comes, in idleness, more and more shabby,
and the thirst for Office, with that for whis-
ky, grows more and more intense, and the
sense of honor and self-respect Is blunted
and the aspirant for position sinks to the
degraded level of those whose votes he
seeks and thus we find the Thad- Stevens
n-Butler-Rutabaga system of universal,
unrestricted suffrage not only destroying
towns and counties but promoting popular
degradation. It is easier to drag a people
down to pollution than up into the pure air
of truth, intelligence, virtue and patriot
ism, and our codes select the easier task and
discharge it we'll.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-04-13

THE solemn and wise Leader says that
Hancock's defeat as q candidate for the
United States Senate must be ascribed to
his Unionism. This true, it is also true
that we sent him to Congress three several
times because he was a Union man, and the
three triumphs on this issue will surely be
an offset, in the godly Leaders, eyes, to this
one defeat when he would be Federal Sena-
tor. How often, in order to demonstrate
our fidelity TO this Union, must we swing
into the pearly gates Of the New Jerusalem
of Radical patriotism, holding on to John
Hancock's fugacious coat-tails ? Must we
tote Hancock as . big banner forever
There is bare possibility of surfeIting the
people with processes Of purgation like this
and the mode of cleansing Confederatism
should be varied. Let Us show the coun-
try that an able and true secession
ist and rebel Is and can be the ablest
and truest Of Unionists. We have exhib-
tied the Hancockian Union side of our
character and modes Of thinking often and
long enough, and the whole country, North
and South, demznds change
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-04-13

DIR. BUcKwoRTH, OF Bartholomew Hospi-
tai. London, recently successfully used BIZ
carbonate soda Is n remedy for severe tooth
ache, when applications Of cbloroform,
either externally 20 the cheek OF 10 the ear,
or placed on cotton in the decayed tooth,
failed, and when carOolic acid, applied as
last mentioned, also proved inopertaive.
PIedgets of cotton, soaked in solution CT
thirty grains Of bicarbonate Of soda in ono
fluid ounce Of water, when used by DIR.
Grant, OF Austin, gave almost instant relief.
DR.. Grant considers the pain due 70 the con-
tact Of acid saliva with the decayed tooth.
and, therefore, IL is important in cases OF
odontAlgia. first 70 determine whether the
saliva has an acid reaction. II this be the
case, then simple alkaline application, As
above stated, is the eficacious means Of
cure.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-04-13

ating his great lsbors and anxieties in be-
half of the good of Texas. The Netss can
and the people must see how great and
growing is the debt of gratitude due this
good and painstaking man-especially care
full to have the telegraph do its neat little
Jobs every few days for the Netcs and ring
in the delicious. bubbling name of Han
cock. For all that we want the State of
Texas to have true representative in the
Senate Of the United States.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-04-13

In view of the completion of the Tom
Scott road to Paris, Texas, and of the great
popular rejoicing incident to the propitious
event, it seems very queer that representa-
tives in the Constitutional Convention from
Northeastern Texas were foremost in fas-
tening on the State the worst features of
Rutabagaism as this idiocy affects progress
sive wealth and civilization as promoted by
railways. Stupid people representing coun-
ties struggling to secure branch roads and
others, hardly as wise, hailing from West
ern Texas, enclosed, for want of railways,
by Chinese wall, advocated the restrict
i've, repressive, ruinous, anti-rallway- build
ing clauses of the organic code. But our
exchange that we proposed to quote says
that "ultra men have succeeded in framing
government so restrictive that no charter
hereafter granted can command money to
ils1d .na4d5efa sI read Who will invest under a
ment or at the whim of popular bcdy9 1t
is absurd to expect it. What would Mid
die Texas be to-day without the Central
and WnaC the SltuaClOn OF Eastern IeXaS
without the International and Great North
ern and the Texas and Pacifc2 Yet, by de-
structive legislation in the convention, the
accumulation of these manifest benefits
must cease and wide districts without char
ters,must stand still without immigrants or
cheap transportation, because of misguided
legislation under which we now suffer, op-
Grating, too, as a monopoly conceded to old
companies. The. present Constitution has
many wise provisions, but 1t is well known
that its friends, in its advocacy, made a
point that it could be easily amended. We
took it as a halfway house, as best under
the circumstances, and so did the voters OF
Texas"
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-04-13

Several yean ago an Englishman paid
liilIais &25, 900 20 paint three daughters
playing whist IN = conservatory. The pic
ture. under the name of s.Hearts are
Trumps, /" attracted much attehticn al the
Royal Academy exhibition. The father Of
the young ladies has recently failed, and
the picture was sold by auction for $4,000.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-04-13

Tin supply of fractional and paper cur
rency Is fast wearing out, and Bristow IS
sues no more, and hezitAtes about begin
ming 10 pay out silver.
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The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-04-13

Prince Bt>marcK-Hts Humor and Style
OF kiu%-N hat he Thinks Of Mar
IIIt-The FIcsT Baby sSRoartny ItseIr
Il ue I'm the Face.
The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1876-04-11
COurtship aud Marriage.

There was an unusually large congrega-
ton in attendance at the church of the
Rcdeemer on Sunday evening TO hear the
Rev. Mr.. Gilberl's sermon on Court
ship and Marriage" Mr.. Gilbert said
during the discourse. that tins thing of
young men calling on the young ladies OF
evenings, taking them to church, parties,
balls. ETC., was not the proper course tor
a young man who contemplated mar
riage. Then he said young lady was
very apt to don her finest dress,
smile her sweetest, and make herself
agreeable and winning, but this was not
from what young man should Judge.
The time came to man after marriage,
he said, when he wanted something more
in woman than fine dress and pretty
face. The sermon throughout was most
interesting and sensible, and one
that il its teachings were followed. would
save many "A poor man slccpless nights
and many a lively deal from his better
halt, in the days to come.
The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1876-04-11
CITY Personals.

Miss Bcnnie Snyder left yesterday
afternoon for Alton, Illinois. for a two
weeks visit.
Judge Green has returned from
EliZabethtown.
MIR. James Coleman of the firm OF
Cross, Coleman & Co.. returned from q
trip in the South. on Sunday.
Miss Ella Steele. we are told, who
has been visiting relations in salt Lake
City for several months past, will return
to this city on saturday.
DR.. James Rca, Of the Biographical
Publishing Company, OF New York
Cincinnati and Chicago, is in the city,
collecting materials TOR sketches for the
Illinois volume. lie will confer pictured
Immortality upon several OF our distin.
gushed citizens.