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The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-04-20

THERE are now two regiments Of infantry
and two Of cavalry, colored troops. The
repeal of existing statutes will leave them
no longer distinetlvely coIored regiments.
1t has been found of late that the negroes
do not enlist in the army; they prefer
agricultural pursuits. and West IN Texas is
delighted to learn that colored regiments,
as such, are to be dissolved. Moreover,
the number of discharged colored soldiers
which the old policy turns loose upon the
people of Western Texas is bad in results,
both to the soldiers and country. Dis
charged, far from any home influences, they
fall into temptation and crime, ruin them
selves and damage the country as our crimi-
nal records show.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-04-20
THE THIEF.CATCHERS.

Governor Stockdale, who has been ira
poets of the triumph of Democracy in the
presidential contest extraordinarily fatter-
ing or brilliant. Grant may be crushed !;
but, unfortunately, Grants has been a pure
lY personal and not constitutional or par
tisan government. If Grant be thrown
overheard aud Bristow or Conkling substi-
tuted as a candidate, the crimes and sins
of the administration and of a myriad of
Belknaps are forever forgotten. Grants
party, when relieved of Grant, are relieved
of all conhection with the knaves disgraced
by Congressional committees and Hard
Money and Andersonv1lle, with Bristow or
Conkling, will consolidate all the forces of
Republicanism and perhaps overwhelp'
Democracy. The prospect for Democratic
triumph, as we contemplate it, and we are
not in the habit of suppressing thoughts or
convictions, is not especially brilliant.
Governor Stock dale does not make the sug
gestion as rudely and plainly as the STATES
MAN, but there is no mistaking his mean
ing. We have been condemned for saying
that our CongIessmen should do something
more than crush Grant and prosecute
thieves. The death of Grant is not the
death of the powerful combination consoli-
dated by the twenty-five hundred banks
and sixty thousand oficeholders, the six
hundred thousand black voters and the
-. IL
ers. These mighty agencies of compacted
partisan force still subsist even when Grant
is destroyed. Let us do something more
than hunt down Grants thieves or we are
undone
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-04-20


Owing to the extension Of the iAtohison, 4
Topeka and Santa Fe Railway to Pueblo,
the wonderfully rich mining regions of
Southern Colorado are attracting renewed
attention, and their importance to St. Louis
commercially and financially cannot be Z
overestimated. The San Juan Guido says
no event could be more opportune consid-
ering the deianged condition of labor and
the deprss on Of business throughout the
country, than the discovery of the San Juan
miues, in Southwestern Colorado. Their
extent, embracing as they do about $4,000
square miles, and their wonderful richness,
exceeding in that particular the famous sill
yer mines of South America, and far beyond
any known in the United States, would
seem a providential bounty, from which,
all classes and conditions may, for genera
tions to come, draw support.
From Georgetown aud Black Hawk, a.
little west of Denver, runs in a southwest
erly course the main divide of the Rocky
Mountains. Upon the extension of thus
almost unbroken chain, and in the south
west portion of Colorado, lie theisan Juan
mines They are embraced within the
counties of La Plata, San Juan formed on
the north half of what was formerly La
Plata county,, ,'Conejos, Rio Grande, Hins-
dale, Saguache, and portion of Lake. i''|'
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-04-20

people should not forget these facts. On
the contrary, Grant abhors Romanism,
Bishop Simpson is his confessor, and the
Bishop aud his coterie of religioRists hate
the Holy See and its priesthood, and the
probabilities are that the President will
pursue course not approved by the Her
aid, and its hostility to Grant will be, if
possible, infinitely heightened. 1t thus
happens that while We should accept facts
and news from the Herald with many
grains of allowance we should be quite as
watchful that Grant do not wrongfully and
needleSsly plunge the country into war.
Very certainly, in this conflict, if precipi-
tated between the United States and Mexi-
concur; and since secular newspapers can
not be supposed to know anything about
these sectarian prejudices, the STATESMAN
can have no part or lot in the possibly fatal
quarrel, and we are still opposed to the next
war. Grant will hardly suffer the country
to be involved in fatal difficulties with
Mexico by lawless marauders moving from
town to town and levying contributions
upon honest, industrious people, and Lerdo
will make any reasonable concession de-
manded by our government that our own
people and frontier may be secured against
incursions of robbers. But if a war with
Mexico may be used in crowning the Presi-
dent or his appointee with protracted pow
er, war is very probable, and recent
troubles and seeming accidents were
planned and executed that war might seem
;,,o-;@,l,Io go
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-04-20
THE Bastrop 4d0ertiser having stated II

THE Bastrop 4d0ertiser having stated that
majority of the papers of Texas favor
HancQck's election to the Senate, the Age
rises excitedly in its place and says, Sin the
name of all that is blue and black, Mr..
AdCertiSer, readjust you spectacles." 1t
would require the magnifying powers of a
Herschel telescope to see the facts as the
Ad0ertiser sees them. Two-thirds of the
newspapers of the State. if we are not
grievously mistaken, prefer Governor Coke
as candidate for the Senatorship.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-04-20

The details which reach us now in our
foreign mails, of the damage done in West
ern Europe by the great hurricane of the
twelfth of March, indicate that its force
must have been as tremendous as its sweep
was wide. 1t ragged furiously over the
Rhine country, Belgium and Holland, driv-
ing the river waters into windows at thirty
feet above the river banks, blowing the
roofs of churches upon the houses in their
neighborhood, and at Brussels filing the
air with clouds of hats, wigs, chiguons, UNI
brellas and such like tFiies. In Northern
France it was net less mischlevous. A LsIlle
newspaper estimates the losses by it in a
single small canton of the earropdlssement of
Avesnes, that of Bavai, at ,046 500 francs,
and the Gdsetto dc Cdmbrdi enumerates It's
spoils in the region known MS the Cambresis
at 400 houses blown down, 800 barns de-
stroyed, $4,000 fruit trees uproeted or shat
tered, 1900 shade trees broken to pieces,
twenty mills ruined and eleven persons
killed. However, it is an ill wind that,
blows nobody good, aud this tempest with
its accompanying floods, has given bril-
liant momentary success in the Parisian
book shops to a work which would scarcely
otherwise have been awarded the honors
and emoluments of an immediate popularity,
Tnis is book in octave volumes on SIN
un 1ations In France from the Sixth Century
to our times" by NJ Maurice Champion,
who had been compiling this curious and
instructive record for many years past. M.
Champions first volume is entirely given up
to the floods Of the Seine at Paris.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-04-20

THE representation of Northern Texas in
the Legislature is. relatively to other dis
tricts, thirty three per cent greater than
under the preceding apportionment. Gray
son is the third county in the State in
wealth and population. Harris, Dallas,
Grayson and Travis are first, second, third
and fourth in growth and greatness, and
the race has only begun. If we build the
narrow gauge to Lampasas--the Interna-
in the year-Austin, within three years,
will be the foremost city in Texas.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-04-20

THE House Committee on the Pacific
Railroads reports favorably on the bin pro-
viding for the survey of railroad from
Austin, Uia Fort Layton, on the Rio Grande,
to Topolovampo. or the Gulf Of California.
The sum appropriated in the bill is $40, OOO-
The Senate committee also indorsed this
scheme, but there is hardly time left TO pass
it through Congress at this session.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-04-20
rHe var nRRWlNe.

People and statesmen should beware.
Tue New York Hraid is opposed to free
masonry and devOat in ITS RomAnism. We
do not say that il il the better or worse
paper for either reason; bat its predictions
ever take this direction and Its policy Is indi-
Gated by these simple facts Therefore. As
was pFeiicted some time ago, the Herald is
hostile to Lerdo and devoted to the inter
ests Of the revolutionists. The press and
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-04-20

THE Mississippi river is about to sweep
Cairo into the Gulf and choke it to death
between Eads's jetties, and at the same
time it is cutting under the bluff at Mem
phis., The new Jail there, sadly needed,
that cost something less than half mil
lion and should have cost one hundred
thousand, is about to cave into the river.
Congress is appealed, to to save both Cairo
and Memnhis
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-04-20

JOHN HANCOCK Is reported to have said
that if the Democrats of Texas defeat him
on his Union record it will be accepted by
the North as an evidence of disloyalty in
Texas; and yet when John Hancock was
elected against Degener in 1871 not Union
man in the whole district voted for him. The
original secessionists were playing "loyap
then. and being loyal now they feel they
can select from among themselves.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-04-20

Let the seventh OF June next be SET apart
by the carpet -baggers" as a day of thanks
giving to signalize the event of the ascen-
sion of Gheugis Kahn to the throne of Peru,
or let the third of May he appointed to
celebrate the murder of the innocents, or
the expulsion of Adam and Eve (white)
from the Connecticut Legislature, and let
the fact of such celebration be duly herslded
in the Washington Republican, and red-hot
Radical papers, and we will guarantee that
the colored firemen and Masons, and the
Rising Stars of Glory and Sisters of the
Yellow Rose of Capernaum, and the mem
bers of all other like organizations will turn
out en- masse in full uniform, and parade the
streets of the cities to the sound of fife and
drum from early morn till dewy eve.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-04-20

BEN HILL publishes a long letter assert
ing the fact that Radical newspapers have
published false copies of his Anderson
vile speech" If that speech did harm, as
Democrats here and there have asserted,
and if it served to slaughter Ben Hill as a
national man," it also slew Blaine and
Morton. and set up Conkling. II it exas-
perated Radlcalism it presented plain facts
that gave strength to Democracy, and how
ever Ben Hill may have lost, the country
WAS winner ..tn
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-04-20

THE Pres would have the able repre-
sentative of Sherman made chairman Of the
Judiciary Committee Of the House. The
concession TO North Texan, 10 an editor,
and lawyer, would thus be eminentIy prop
er ir three several aspects.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-04-20

HE San Antonio Express says that from
tins time forth there will not be cattle
enough to make up such a drive as that now
going out of Texas. Various influences have
been AT work to force the driving away and
selling the vast herds of cattle that former
ly roamed almost unmolested over our i'm
meuse prairies. The demand for them in
all the other States has been increasing
with great rapidity ever since the war.
This has sent cattle buyers and contractors
among US by the hundred, with plenty of
capital for the trade. The need OF money
here, As well as the spirit of speculation
here and elsewhere, have made cattle drv-
ing brisk and growing business. For
tunes have been made by scme and lost by
Others, but money has been made much
more plentiful in the country.
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inevitable.


. AQUEER, perverse, curious, sore-headed,
cross-grained paper is the Bonham Neaos. 1t
ever gives the worst possible construction
to the conduct of its neighbors, and if cor
ruptness of motive be possible, it is sure to
discover it. 1t perverts purposes, and as
cri5es uudreamed-of designs to its contem-
poraries, and, altogether, while the Neaos
is an excellent paper, industriously edited,
its habits of thinking sadly need reforma-
ton. 1t is not like the Examiner, which
never grows angry when decently punched
IL its unsightly paunch. The Waco ''or-
gan" only kicks terribly and fights manfully
and good-naturedly, and never thinks its
enemy corrupt or unworthy, because of a
mere difference of opinion begetting diff
ference of policy. 1t never plays the pois-
oner or assassin. The NeDS, referring to
an old controversy, illustrates characters
tics above ascribed to it when it said, last
Friday, that .t -
The Dallas Herald, Austin STATESMAN,
and other organs of the ring, are again
harping upon the Interna tional settle
uCuG, udnlleSlly WlIn JHe ueSlTe Ol re-
opening this issue, if possible.
We have no special objections, whenever
sane people desire 1t, to the ''re-opening
of the controversy affecting the Interna-
tlonal subsidy bill, but are willing, since it
is a dead question, to suffer it to work out a
perfect demonstration, as it surely will, of
the wisdom of those who preferred the
concession of SO, 600, 600 loan as infinitely
more advantageous to the State, even as it
would have subserved more effectively the
immediate necessities of the corporation,
But the Necs, not content with aspersing
the motives of those differing from it, as
serts that the company is exceedingly
sore over that settlement" How the Neus
probed the heart of the corporation and
discovered It's soreness" we leave for others
to determine, and the Neooss assertion only
deserves attention to the extent that it il
lustrates the peculiar facility with which it
discovers, like Col. DeNTorse, impossible or
corrupt or unworthy motives in the conduct
of men. Aside from this popularity of
our Bonham contemporary, it is an excel
lent newspaper, and its readers should COM
pei its reformation.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-04-20

BRIsTow's support in the South is en-
dangered by a report circulating among the
colored voters that he is the man who has
been holding back those lOng-promised
mules. In case of the Secretary's nomination
a powerful explanation will have 20 be un-
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-04-20

those of the people of the Southwest. Ii Is
hard tn see how, for Legitimate reasons, an
Southern member can vote to withhold the
privilege of building this second road to
the Pacific from those who offer to do it
with their own means, or how any North
ern member can be opposed to it.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-04-20
II a fellows breeches be oiled, ammor

II a fellows breeches be oiled, ammonia
removes the stain; If his character, prin-
ter's ink. But printers ink don't eyaPorate
suddenly as does ammonia. 1t fastens it
self in the memories Of men, and the story
it tells is repeated again and again, and the
sum total of mems opinions Of one an
other is made up of barrels Of printers ink.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-04-20
TaR GsaesviIIe s,.n sayg thai the conte

Tax Gsaesyille Sun says that the contem-
plated Austin and LAmpAsas Marrow Gauge
Road Will control for Austin the whole
trade of Coryell county, and yet there are
few tradespeople and property-hOlders Of
Austin who invest nothing in the enterprise
A narrow gauge should be constructed to
bore them for the simples.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-04-20

THE State Fair II Houstsn willdeserve
and attract the attention Of Intelligent peO-
pie everywhere to the extent that they are
Interested in the developuient Of shsei hsil ne
sources and greatness of Texas, The fair
isadmirably is well-managua, and every inter.
est and product Of the state wsll Be repre-
sented aud illustrated. " $50
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-04-20

lsture to change her name. This is leap
year. Let her swoop down on some male
chicken ana make him change it.
a dying Troy woman wouldn't allow
anybody to wash her face, TO revive her, be-
cause her face was waXed and powdered,
and she wanted to be pretty corpse.
At Nine. MacMahou's last ball, Queen
Isabella wore silvered gauzc, trimmed with
green grasses. and regal emerald and dia-
monds on her neck, heads and arms.
Wilton, Iowa, has free reading-room,
and now the ladies of that town spend their
evenings in reading, and don't tar and
feather odious young girls as much as they
did.
A Cuban lady left $S1, 900 in her win to
be invested in lottery uckets. The prizes
were to go to build big church, but there
wasn't enough in amount to build one side
of pine pulpit.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-04-20
MO PAY UNTIL CURED,

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uul Il gta
afia1l . taf -u
isO Van Buren, street. Chicago, Illinois may he con,
suited personally by mall, free OF charge on all
chronic, private nervous and special diseases Of both
sexes SPECIAL attention paid 10 female diseases and
Irregularities Acute and chronic catArrh cured with
application. No charge until the patent T. cured
Medicine sent TO any address Dr. Ship Il the only
physician IN chicago who makes no charge until the
patient Il cured send three cent siamp and yonr
confidential au26 d&wiy
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7o6 Chestnut ST., ST. Louis, NO.
deaunuss To afford RELIADbH hPEC1AL TREAT
MENT in all SECRET and URINARY Diseases.
Those destructive diseases cauAed BY 1et hahn OF youth
Or the OF later yoarsunb sperm ato-rh9a,
Seminal Losses. Nervous Debility, Sterihty, Inn
potanoe and their Disastrous enoci weakness mad aud
BODY dread OF future frahy, iudyesticu,
Consumption neapaeity Tor society aud marriage
IN buancss also resent or long standing cases of
Geet 0ouorrhepa, Structure nnd Syphilis TALL formsl
anccnE Hood Homes Vital lrgans mouth, throat
nose skn. ke, WE CAN CURB,safsly and permanently
Thoaanda OF patonts cured by US could 80 testify, Our
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sssksa eaFnrd akili and exrcueea. WeeRh send
securely and privately 70 at
distance corrc.pondence And cousnaton ree Private
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-04-20
NO. 81

Rev. ur. stirling on Converting Jews
Hcv. DIR. Gouaetl On the Nonsense
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HUI " u ]. tks JilasOs metjlD5 " fyrnf-
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u Aviag osK aud retaining the Vifpr Of manhood and
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DR.. WHITTIER,
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on ST. CharIes street, 81. Loaia, Mt
Huntington advertiser. [volume] (Huntington, W. Va.) 1874-1921, 1876-02-24

WASHINGTON, u. c., February Ia
Controversy having recently arisen ne to
the exact amount of the contraction of
currency that has taken place since tho
Sherman Resumption Law went into op.
ersiion, your correspondent to-day ascer.
tanned the exact figures. Mr. Treasurer
New, states that since Resumption Law
went into operation So2, 900, ,O00of Nation
al Bank currency have retired from circu-
lation BY the winding up Of banks aud
$4,000, 600 of greenbacks have been re-.
tired under the SO per cent clause OF the
bill. making n total contraction Of Si2,-
0C0,000. These figures are from the Trcs'.
ury, and there is no such thing as explain
ing tkcm away. As the Treasurer himself
puts it, the shrinkngc of the circulating
medium il in the ratio of little over FIVE
per cent of its entire volume in yea'.
the Resumption Bill having become a law
February H. 1875 -Speeiai Dispatch 10
The Cincinnati Enquirer.
Huntington advertiser. [volume] (Huntington, W. Va.) 1874-1921, 1876-02-24
FOOLS.
Hi SAM BOOTH,

The Dashaways of San Francisco
recently applied to Sam Booth for a
contribution to their Sunday even
ing entertainment, ,-whereupon Sam
appeared before them and read the
following metrical essay on the fools
WIN get drunk
OF all the poor fools who innsbit this earth
Fools from misfortune, 0 foss from IN ar h'rth !;
Rich tools and poor tools, and great i'ois abo
small = =,
The man who gets drunk il the greatest OF all.
This spendthrift who reve's in rOtous living,
II spending or lending o. losing or givlaS,
is foolish enough; but he has not SUNK
10 the Level Of HIM who is constantly drunk.
The miscr. ctcinaily striving ana slaying,
For what he IL earning. or stealing or saving,
nav he rcckOued a fool bat Ia Is not quite
So foolish rs he wGO VIII get or a" tight
The man who " III wager, and decker andle,
On the toss OF 4 cent cr the cast of n die,
on would think rs foolish as foolish could be,
But the drunkaId is even more foolish than he.
Investments N wild cat arc mostly curse,
But investments In whisky are something s'il
worse;
For stocks do not always their favors refuse,
But whisky investments are certain 10 lose.
And so I'm convinced Of the truth OF my text
That Of all the pooI fcUls. for his world and
the next,
The rich or he poor, the great or the small,
The man who gets drunk is the greatest OF all.
Huntington advertiser. [volume] (Huntington, W. Va.) 1874-1921, 1876-02-24
MARSHALL COLLEGE.
State Normal School.

Nuptisq'ou, " ia. N"pt |, 1870.
The State Normal School Marshall
College will open for the fall term Mon
dav. Sept. Is, 1873, under the direction OF
Prof. \. u. Che-terman, \. W., a. PrincI-
pal, and Prof B. H. Tnacl,tor, \. NJ, a.
First Assistant. Additional a. stan,s
will he adAl ard announced a. rcqui-
red,
The Course Of study will he similar To-
that heretofore pursued, but higher
stl5dald arrived at.
Normal students viii be received, but
If the State Legislature make no appro-
priatiou for the wear, they will be reQu!-
red t, pay tuition fees. Charges for tui,
ton. board &c, wall be the same as last
year
/ \ large and prompt attendance Is cX
pected, ard prosperous and satisfactory
school j. antic. c.pated.
Catalogues and Information can be oh
tanned by applying to Professors CheS'ccl
man and Thach,ton, or the undorr gucd.
JOHN II. OLEI,
Sep. 2tf. Sec.y Of Ex. Com.
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BosTox, Mass, Feb. l4.-Guil
ford White, lawyer of this city, has
been arrested aud placed under sl0.-
600 bonds, detectives having traced
to his possession $50, 900 in govern.
ment bonds stolen from a gentleman
IN New York about year since.
White purchased them at 10 per
cent. on the dollar d h aqd had !. out tJih.Slp JtheSlp
thousand dollars. I{e claims to havo
had no knowledge of their true char.
acter.