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The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-10-26

IT is proposed to bring to Texas the body
of the gallant Col. W. P. Rogers who fell
leading storming party at Corinth. The
Federal General Rosecrsns, himself hero,
pronounced Rogers the ''bravest Of the
brave" and caused these words to be in
scribed above the spot where Rogers fell
and was entombed. Texas neglects the
mAtchless hero's last resting place and his
remains should be inferred either At the
former home Of Col. Rogers or here at the
capital where the leaders Of the people,
when they meet 70 shape the country's
laws, may have, in hoDors awarded the illus
tnous soldier, a lesson pregnant with honor
and truth and patriotism
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-10-26

JUDGE E. S. FISHER, who died suddenly
q few days ago in Georgetown, was born in
Danvillo, Kentucky, in 1915, and educated
at Center College. He read law in 1888,
in Joe Holt's Office in Vicksburg, when the
peerless and then youthful Prentiss was
startling the world by the splendor of his
forensic eloquenee. Without the gorgeous
fancy and splendid rhetoric of Prentiss or
of Holt, Judge Fisher became ar eminent
and successful lawyer. He was long Of
the Supreme Court bench, when Yerger and
Sharkey were his colleagues. After the
war Judge Fisher was nominated for the
Office of Governor Of Mississippi by the
constitutional convention of that State,
but was beaten by an ex-soldier named
Hnmphries, good, honest man, but Fish
er's equal in nothing save courage. de be
came circuit judge, and was fauitiess IN
this position, tlll, weary of toll, be resigned
in 1871, and last year he became citizen
Of the besutiful capital of Williamson
county, TexaA
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-10-26

must be confessed that a splendid future
dawns upon Us. Dizziness and inactiOn
come of political uncertainties that over
sha low 1t. Unless Tilden triumph rates
of Federal taxation cannot be lessened, and
thus industry is staggered because profit
less, and therefore the West is deuOmins-i
ted great railway cemetery and the East
q tomb of sunken fortunes. The nstionah
debt is 81, 900, 900. 600; municipal debts
$500, 900, 900, and those of railways $4, 600, I
900 900. The interest account of this sum
total of S8 900, 900 900 is 5000 900, 900, and
armies of Federal plsceholders cost US
S400, 900, 600 per annum, and however rich
and prosperous within itself this empire Of
Texas may be, the older States are stricken
down and cannot rise under burdens and
exactIons hourly imposed. The dullness
here is the gentlcst breaking of Iulnous
waves of disaster on the remotest shore of
/. mi hty sea Of misfortune
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-10-26

HIS ExcelIency is slightly pulled up, and
seems to think that papers that have made
war upon him have struck at the body and
soul of the Democratic party. He is fasci-
mating and grand and great and eloquent
and learned, and all that; but has not
swollen to proportions so magnificent that
he becomes the embodiment of the party.
He is Senator elect, and, forsooth, because
the people had enough of him as Govern
or; but be isn't such mighty giant that he
covers the continent. We never yet con-
founded Governor Coke with the party to
which we Uelong, and his vanity and
egntism are simply egregioua.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-10-26

AT Lexington, Mr.. Jones spoke f st, in
his usual roliicking style, making war on
conventions and declaring himself to be a
straight Democrat. Mr.. GiddIngs, though
1t was his appoiI tnent, heard Jones pa
tiently. Jones listened to Giddings some
tune, and finally when GIddings insisted
that Jones, if elected at all, must be by
Radical votes, Jones pronounced him n liar
MIR. Giddings did not resent the gross in
sult-a letter wIiter tells the story-but it
is thought that trouble will come of the af-
fair. J0nes's personal friends, we are told,
are repeled by this conduct of his, and he
can get no white votes about Lexington.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-10-26

HE Houston and New Orleans road, Civ
ing Austin direct route to the Crescent
tlty by rail, is 32O miles long. 1t has
been completed from New Orleans to DON
aldsonville, and is now in full operation,
which makes, except two miles, 1874 miles
finished, and leaves the gap between Or
ange and DDnaldsonville of 1873 miles. OF
this gap it may be said that it Is nearly all
graded and ready for the crossties and iron,
and that the officers have the highest hopes
of finishing the whole line to New Orleans
in about twelve mon hs. With this road
and the Central and NJ prgan's steamers,
and with the International and Vicksburg
and Mississippi route, Austin will have
three competing routes to New Orleans,
and in order to enrich these roads and to
enrich Austin We must have the narrow
gauge to Lampasas and B.lJon, and even
to Ell Paso and Denver
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-10-26
NO. II
WAGNER.

Wagner. the malignant-lookinC black
iend who only sought to kill a white man
that his name might be heralded abroad by
those who fl ,unt the bloody shirt and seek
to exAsperate blacks against whites, spent
some years, We are told, ia the penirentiary.
He is terrible monster, as his appearance
indicates. and as shown certainly by his
diAbolical attempt TO murder q " bite man
whom he had never seen till he thrust a
knife into the throat OF his "natural enc
my" Wagner Is the impersonation Of the
morals and purposes of Radicalism, the
product of Blaine's and Morton's and To-
Versoll's rage and Of their teachings. Where
blacks are organized and nightly drilled in
hate and ectured by high priests Of the
sanity party which d avis leads in Texas,
there are many Wugners. Here they are
few in number a. terrible in demonisn. and
We are we'll pleased that no effort was made
to svenge by the mob the outrage sought
to be done by the base assassin.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-10-26

THE Age says that Governor Coke has
made charges of venality against the press
and, failing to prove them, stands 'trans-
fixed as a convicted calumniator." He
vainly takes refuge behind a political bar
ricade after dshonoring the dignity of his
high office by seeking the hustngs to vent
petty mahgnity against the press of the
State. The Governor, the Age continues,
has lost instead of gaming friends by coarse
vtuperation, which would far better be-
come Dar-room habItue than the exalted
Office of Chief Executive of great State.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-10-26

A LETTER from Evansville, Indiana,
written 10y an ex Federal soldier, says that
''the Republicans had ffty-fve United States
marshals here on election day, same as in
the South, and that is what hurt them
They did not say much, as the Courier
1.-THE Democratic paperl advised all persons
to knock them down if they Interfered,
and several of them were" II this sort OF
statement of facts had been made by q
Southern soldier, as having occurred in a
Southern State, Aabeas corpus would be sus-
pended, and soldiers ordered to shoot the
rebels on the spot. We are to be brow
beaten. bullied, and even bayoneteds and
the North submits in silence; but when
minions of usurped Federal power, to per
feet and perpetuAte despotism, threaten the
freedom Of thought or action of . North
ern community. the outrage is properly re
sented-
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-10-26


fessional pursuits can no longer read even
the catalogues of new books hourly ema-
mating from the press of this country and
of Europe. The habit has been to read ir:
stead reviews of such volumes as were pos
sessed of value enough to compel the at
tention of essayists. But these magazines
and monthlies have become so numerous
that it is quite impossible to peruse the
whole, and therefore Liteirs LiCing Age,
of Boston, is published that the choicest
articles in all the reviews and literary
monthhes may be placed in a compact
shape each week before the intelligence of
the country. Harpe,'s, the GaIary, the
Balto- Southern Monthiy, the Atlantic and the
VALLEY Monthly of St. Louis, and many ex
cellent publications of this character,
are all original, but the LiUing Age is the
creme de Ia creme of modern literature.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-10-26
REAVIS MOVING SOUTH.

L. U. Reavis has done more to aggrandize
St. Louis in the worlds eyes than all living
men. He has written and spoken of its re-
sources, of its inherent energies, of its rail.
ways and rivers until mankind have be-
lIeved, and at last assented to Reavls's as
sertion that the Federal Capitol would soon
crown the heights now adorned by Shaw's
Gardens. Mr.. Reagis is rare genius. He
writes and talks with infinite earnestness
and so logically that his widest prophecies
have the aspect Of mathematical demonstra-
tions. He is coming to Texas and will lee
ture in the leading towns and cites of the
State on ''THE NORTH AND THE SOUTH. :"
He has been u lifelong newspaper man,
and having this claim upon the press of
the State, will be generously welcomed
everywhere. When we add that Mr.. Reavis
is red-haired, that his Uranium is as capa-
cious as George Francis Trains, that he is
an anthropological behemoth, and as full of
generous human sympathies as gymnotus
of galvanic forces, our readers will have
some inado guate idea of the intellectual and
physical man.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-10-26
HOW TO GET PROPER PRESS Dis
PATCHES.
The Dallas Herald saws that

The Dallas Herald SAYS that
The only plan that the Herald can at pres
ent ''detine' is for the daily papers of Texas
that are willing to take the dispatches aud
are aole 10 pay for them. 20 write out and
ME with the Secretary of Sta'e charter In
cooperating themselves as Texas A 3socia-
'e" Fress, with all necessary officers, such
as president, secretary, treasurer and exec
utiVe board. When organized as u char
terea company. propositions eau then be
ulSue 10 tue proper parties, looking To the
sehulng ~ suitable news Ani not the intol-
'eraoie stuff the Eastern Association - now
Painllns OH upon us. II nee, ssary, the
Texas ASSOCIATION can appoint an agent at
ot' Louis to gather and send the news. Il
we cannot contract with the + .stern or the
western Association. the Kansas Aseocis-
tlon would doubtless offer us terms. Every
paper belonging to this contem plated or
gan'Z atom, If the dispatches Were obtained
under contract with the Texas Association,
would at once possess franchise that
would greatly increase the value of the pa
per. The paper having a membership in
the Association contracting for dispatches
could exclude any other paper in the same
city, or cause 1t to pay heavily for the news
All newspaper men know what it cost the
GtO6e- Democrat tn obtain Its dispatches and
what an enormous figure, something like
one hundred thousand dollars, the Courier
Journal demands of any rival paper seeking
t0-SSta9!Ish itself in Louisville That such
an organization should be formed among
the daily Texas papers, no editor will for
a moment question. How many daily pa
pers can $ and the cost of telegramS is an
other question. Those papers unable to
take dispatches should Ienaln out of the
Organization until able to pay for the news.
The STATESMAN will JOIN the Herald and
any other daiiies OF Texas in perfecting the
organ itlon defined, and the Hyuld is au-
theflz:d to represent US in the approaching
convention of the press of Texas.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-10-26

CoRTINA is the only obstacle to peace in
Tamauhpas. Why Lerdo did not hang the
villain when he held him in Mexico no one
can tell. On the nineteenth Gen. Trias
was defeated by Peralta Of the Federal
army. While the fight progressed Gen
Donate Guerro, q prisoner in Peralta's
hands, was killed and then, too. Psrllta
fell morally wounded but he fell in the
arms of victory. Col. Ortiz, as accom-
plshed a villain and thief as Coitina, was
taken prisoner by the Federals, and the
supremacy Of the government is restored
throughout TamauIpas. Quroga, after
whipping Nararjo, is At Piedras Negras II
only remains to hang CoItlna
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-10-26

IT is terrible and truthful Indictment
against 'hadlcalIsm which declares that hav-
ing debauched the public service, and hav-
ing Just now, in the face of open day, as
sessed their army of a hundred thousand
otficeholders-the peoples servants-paid
by the peoples taxes-in order to create
immense corruption funds to Illustrate the
peoples will, they now profess to be the
champions of civil service reform. Having
imposed upon the Southern States the
rapaclty, fraud and punder of the carpet
bag governments, htving almost ruined the
prosperity of the North by destroying the
prosperity of the South, having created
terror and uncertainty and confu .ion in all
the productive industries of the South.
which furnish most of the products of our
whole country. keep in motion the COM
East, and furnish market for the agri-
cultural products of the w, st-they now
propose, by renewal of the same fatal pol
ICY, to prplong their own power in the hope
of concealing their misdeeds, and for this
purpose they do not hesitate to renew the
cry of intolerance; to revive the dying
memories and facts of fraternal strife, and
to appeal to the fears and prcjudices OF the
timid and the ignorant. An oppressive
taxation, all exhau ted S1uth, an Impover-
ished North, tluctuating currency, the en-
ts fsgpTIse rs eng OF n yRdBftri9Rs " ri9R nfeegle is
the outcome of their political policy, such
are the achievements of their long su-
premacy. Our ballots in November can
alone dictate change of measures and
change of men. Shall not the uprising of
patriotism along the valley of the Ohio go
on to a complete and beneficial revolution
in the adm nistlaion of the government of
the United States?
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-10-26

Our dispatches show that thus far, in
every instance, In which military interven-
tion has been required, the wr,Dg-doers
are blacks or managers of blacks. The
whites observe the laws and Federal sol
ders and officers are forced to fratern'ze
with them. And SO it will ever be every
where. ants and Chandler's scheme loses
them South Carolina and every Northern
doubtful State.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-10-26

The executive committee of the Press
Association meets at Dallas, October 20,
to secure proper telegraphic dispatches.
If possible, representative Of the STATES
MAN will be present, and, in any event, it
will cooperate in any reasonable action de-
signed to reform abuses to which we are
now forced to submit.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-10-26

If Grant, as 1t seems from his South
Carolina prOnunciamiento, proposes TO run
this government after the Mexican model,
and have State invaded, its villages gar
risoneC and people shackled and impris-
soned, whenever Gortina or Chamberlain }
partisan necessities dem4nd, the sooner we
have done with this mockery of republican
ism and import king the better for all the
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-10-26

PRcASs are sold at Wholesale at two dol
lars per bushel, and an acre in pecan trees
paws, at this rate, annually, 500, and very
many sensible people in southwestern cOun-
ties are planting and cultivsting these prof
table trees
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-10-26

IT seems that England aud France are
scared off by the combination between Rus
sia and Austria and Prussia, and Turkey is
doomed and the world will rel ice when
the base and barbarous power is stricken
from the face of the globe
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-10-26

SUNSET Cox is said to be the most effcc-
tive exhor,er at a political campmeeting
that ever took orders in the Democratic
church. Happily, too, his piety is not Of
the Bob Ingersoll sort. The reduction Of
r IdicaI naj )rities in Ohio is ascribed
mainly to Cox's elnquence aud tireless toll
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-10-26

The drygoods merchants of the East are
not pleased because the women are talking
everywhere about reforming their modes of
dress, and shortening or dispensing with
heavy, ruinvus skirts and substituting Turk
ish apparel
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-10-26

GOVERNOR CoKE's goose was cooked when
the Houston Telegraph was telegraphed
that r. V. Cook wa' making a rousing,
became Gov" and "CooK" Became Al I,
Cooke" as tie words and letters went over
the wires. The specials" laudation OF
Cook bedewed the modest brow of his Ex-
cellency, and now the Telegraph coolly and
cruelty takes il all back, and says it was
Cook and not Coke that spoke eloquently
and elegantly at Brenham.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-10-26

The women Of the country, and especial
Iy yirginiAns here and at home, and who
are not Jealous, will be pleased to read that
yirginiau girl was crowned ''Queen Of
Love and Beauty" at the Centennial yes
sardav
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-10-26

TIE Dallas Herald doesn't set up long
catalogue Of Democratic candidates names
At its masthead ..becanse rural papers do
il" We don't follow the castom because
the space is worth too much.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-10-26

The Princess de Metternich's last freak
was to 60 out TO lunch in the forest Dear
Marienbad in cart drawn by oxen, the
cart, harness, animals and all being covered
with garlAnds Of flowers, while Madame de
Metternich, dressed as = Vatican shepherd
ess, herself drove the oxen. directing their
movements with her f0se-wFeatbed crook.
Her guests, who occupied seats in the cart,
were all arrnyed IN Vatican costunes 10
correspond with that Of their hostess.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-10-26

A English steamship cleared on Saturday
from New Haven for Constarfinople with
cargo Of Is. OO0, 600 cartridges for the
Turkish Government.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-10-26

Go n day at home. Agents wanted Outfit anc
1lA terms free. TRUE h CO.. Augusta. Maine
su9c ~-rvr
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-10-26

MALLS 6 CO.,
CORNER EAST AVENUE & CEDAR ST.
wHoIEsALE AND RETAIL
GrOCerS and Lumber Merchants,
DEALERS IN ALL KINDS or
LUMBER, SHINGLES.
SASH. DOORS BLINDS. WHITE PINE MOULD
iNas. oFALL sIzRs.
Dressed Lanheralways on hand and dressed to order
SPECIAL BILLS OF DIMENSION LUMBER
cut to order and up short notice
They keep their stock OF Gruoeries and Lumber al
ways complete The invite exami' alton OF their
stock and promise ALWAYS the lowest prices and les,
quality -era,yiyr
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-10-26

They keep their stock OF Groceries and Lumber Al
ways complete The invite al examin alton OF their
stock and promise ALWAYS the lowest prices and hest
quality -snawiyr
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-10-26

Bidders obtain blank proposals. by application
Co Secon nssistant Postmaster General al the
Postofhce Departme I, Washington, ID, c., to the
Postmaster at either terminus OF the routes; fIom
whom. also, they may Obtain any special nformatio-
they may desire. to the liabres duties, and Obli
cations OF bidders and contractors.
JAS N TYNER.
sep20~6w Postmaster General.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-10-26

wHoIEsALE AND RETAIL
The Van Buren press., 1876-01-11
r. r. REYNOLDS.
WITH
SHRYROCk & ROWLAND,
WHOLESALE
Grocers, Cotton Factors g. General
Commission Merchants,
ST. LOUIS, MO.
Flour and Provisions Speciality.
dec l5m6
Valuable Farm for Sale.

We are authorized to offer for sale one OF
the best and most thoroughly cultivated farms
in Western Arkansas, situated In Crawford
county, about eight miles from the city OF
Van Burcn, and four miles from the town OF
Alma. containing quarter section, one-halt
In Frog Bayou bottom, and the other up
land.
Ono hundred aeres ace in cultivation. fifty
IN cotton and hfty In corn. Has a fine SIX
acre orchard Of apples of the finest varieties.
together with fine assortment Of peaches
A fine field Of swect and Irish potatoes and
turnips. Also, If desired, n tract Of 100 acres
near By, can be had to 90 with this place.
Asuperlor large double log dwelling house
and outhouscs; the house one story and halt
high; fine barn, stable and corn crib. &c,
making everything complete and cOmforta-
Bile with excellent water. A steam grist and
cotton mill. ON the joining pl ace, and In
most excellent neixhborhood.
Any one wanting IA No I place can pur-
chased at bargain. Terms to he agreed up
on. II desired. the standing crop will be
disposed Of to the party purchasing. Also all
the farming utensils, which are Of a superior
quality.
Parties In earnest to purchase such place.
will lind II greatly to their interest TO exam
Inc this farm. and see for themselve what tits
by the crops that 1t produces. and there is no
better time to do so than before the gathering
of the cotton ana corn.
Fer further particulars apply to the editor
of this paper. Aug l0-1m
The Van Buren press., 1876-01-11
rexas--Dsmocra,ic Nominations.

A Galveston dispatch Of the 7th. speak.
ing of the Democratic State Convention,
says:
During last nights session, at late
hour, the following nominations vera
unanimously made For Governor, Rich.
ard Coke; for Lisutenant. G overnor. b.
Hubbard; Presidential Electors, ID C.
Giddings aud b. II. Epperson; Attorney
General, II II Boone; State Treasurer,
A J. Dow; Comptroller. Stephen II. Dar-
ding Commissioner OF the Land Office.
j. j. Gross The convention adjourned
until 10 O'Clock to-day
The convention resssenibled at 10 q. ~.
Gov. Henderson nominated O n. Rob
erts for chief justice
On motion Of Mr. Baglev, he was nom.
mated by acclamation, with great ap
plause.
Chief Justice Roberts then addressed the
convention.
john p. White, Gen NJ d Rector,
&c NJ Wenkler and K o Walker were
nominated for appellate judges. For
delegates, state at large, w S Herndon,
L, b Sexton, w. NJ Walton. George
Clark. George Mason, b G Bewer, L. W.
Wheeler and John 5 Ford