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The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-07-20
MEXICO.

General Corella died on the fourth in
slant at Matamoros.
The La P1z of Matamoros says: "Juan
Antonio Hernandez, alias Cayote, Leonardo
Hernandez and carriage driver were hung
by order of Cortina. .s-tu.aai
Srs. Luis V,rcaya, Antonio Longoria and
Antonio Canales, are under arrest for the
non-payment of money and talking too
freely On the political situation. ss.7- -
Mr.. Bernardo Yturria is in Jail for refus-
ing to pay to military authorities of Mata-
moros $50, 900, and if the amount is not
paid he will be taken out and shot Monday
Texas cattle must feed Cortina's' forces.
Twenty four cattle were driven across the
river below Brownsville on the Fourth.
We suppose CJrtina, too, gave a barbecue.
CortIna is reported to be at Palo Blanco
ranch. 1t is supposed that he Will be able
to recruit fully 1000 effective men. a He
may attack Matsmoros. He is ignorant,
but sagacious, possessing the shrewd instinct
of an Indian, he will not care about run,
ming his head against the mud walls that
surround Matamoros. li-rsaona ~ ha1.-3 9
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-07-20

BRIsTow did right when he declined to
answer questions that involved privileged
communications between the President and
his confidential advisers. Otherwise, there
could be no proper confidence reposed by
one member of the cabinet in another, and
no perfect freedom of intercourse. On the
other hand, the President does himself Jus
tice, and properly absoIves Mr.. Brlstow
from obligations of secresy imposed by
Official relations to the Executive. 1t has
been said that, in prosecuting investiga-
tiohs, congressional committees have been
often halted suddenly because they found
that the train of damning facts led into the
White House. This s'conduct of the Presi-
dent tends to show that assertions of his
completely in frauds are baseless, and, how
ever violent the preju1ices of partisanship,
no good citizen is willing to believe that
the chief magistrate of the Union, and Its
greatest lioing soldier, was ever guilty of
corrupt practices.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-07-20

ANYONE accustomed to con over the pages
of newspapers from all parts of the United
States must confess that there is carnival
of crime, celebrated with no more ''enthu
slasm" in T, xas than in Chicago, Indiana
or New York. Here it assumes, from the
character of popular pursuits and habits,
peculiar phase, and subjects of depreda-
tiOns are wholly different from those on
which thieves and knaves are accustomed
to prey in older communities. Pickpock-
cts, burglars and sneak thieves can do moth
ing in Texas. There is no wealth in homes
of farmers or in abodes even of the most
opulent in frontier towns and villages. All
knavery runs into one channel, and horse
thieves and highwaymen necessarily con-
stitute the criminal class. Their deeds are
rather warlike, involving personal daring
and rapid flight. They come down like
Sarmatian wolves upon peaceful sheep
folds, and the clatter of horses hoofs
and cleaning of warlike weapons give
infinite conspicuousness to diabolism,
generated by Federal misgovernment
CFSI WuCISJ anu utNSlOpCu III ILLS nOSI
striking aspect in sparsely settled COM
munities. The columns of Eastern papers
tell of more crimes IN proportion to popu-
latiOn represented than those of Texas, and
the conspicuousness of villainy here is due
solely to the singular conspicuousness of
its peculiar characteristic features. While
difference of social sy stems and of popular
modes of life begets the difference In de-
scriptions of knavery, we must confess that
of the two classes of scoundrelism this of
Texas, if commendation were possible, is the
more to be admired and all must admit that
while it costs each of 40, 900, 900 of people,
men, women and children, about $40 per
annum to maintain officeholders of high
and low degree, and while industry is thus
made protitless, no reform is possible with
out terrible systems of punishment, and,
concurrently with this, the election of a
president who will reduce the cost of the
| Federrl system as he has that of New York
at least one-half. .... ..r aF E.f
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-07-20
Tom sawyer's diplomacy.

Tom Sawyer, having offended his sole
guardian Aunt Polly, Is by that sternly afiec-
tionate dame punished by being set 70 white
wash the fence in front of the garden. The
world seemed hollow moekery 70 Tom,
who had planned fun for that day, and who
knew that he would be the laughing-stOck
Of all the boys as they came past and saw
him Iset to work like ''nigger-" But .
great inspiration burst upon him and he
went TRANQUILITY to work. What that in
spiration Was will appear from what follows.
One of the boys, Ben Rogers, comes BY and
pauses, eating particularly fine apple.
Tom does not see him. Ben stared .
moment and then sail:
..Hi-yii You're up stump, ain't your
No answer. Tom surveyed his last touch
with the eye of an artist. then he gave an
other gentle sweep, and surveyed the result
zs before. Ben ranged up alongside Of him.
Toms mouth EateEed for the apple, bat he
stuck TO his work B4n said: ! s.fa 50
ssH-ilo, old chap. fOu got 20 work hey r
.,s.Wby, it's you, Ben wasn't noticing" I"
Say, I'm going in swimming, / am
Don't you wish you cauldI Boz, Of course,
you'd druthsr work, w0uldn'T yous Coarse
you would ~ W saalal atE % hst q
Tom contemplated the boy bit and sAsd :
.sWhs DO yOn call work p
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Jo,h slII,as. o. s.r.wstrs.... |.

The strawberry Is one ov natures sweet
pets. She makes them worth hfty cents
the fust she makes, and never allows them
TO pc sold at n mean price. si sssa SIS
The color Of the strawberry IL like the
setting Nv the sun under thin cloud, with
delicate splash Nv rain init; Its fragrance
IL like the breath nv baby when Il fust
begins TO eat wintergroen lozzngers; It's
flavor is like the nectar an oId-fashioned
goddess used to leave at the bottom av the
tumbler when Jupiter stood treat on Mount
Ida. rft ae0 af f . ,taH
There are many breeds NV this delightful
vegetable, but not q mean one In the hull
lof
think have stole them, laying around
loose, without any pedigree, in somebody's
grass, when was a lazy school boy, that
eat dredful easy without any white sugar
on them, and even bug mixed with them
In the hurry nv the moment. Cherries IL
good, but they are too much like sucking
marble that has got handle tow II.
Peaches is good, If don't get any Of the
rPin feathers into your lips. Wattermelens
will suite everybody who il satisfied with
half swee,ened drink; but the man who can
eat stTzwbernes besPrinkled with crushed
sugar and bespat;erod with cream (at ssme-
body slseis expens-), and not lay his ha3d
on bis stummak and thank the author of
strawberries aud stummak, and the phelow
who pays for the strswberr1es, u 3 mao
With . worn-out coRscience---A- man ebOss
mouth tastes like hole ia the aronnd, and
don't care what gets down.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-07-20
The Bitter Lakes OF Egypt.


NJ de Lesseps communicated last week
paper to the Academy of Sciences on the
Bitter Lakes of the IsGhmus of Su,z One
of them has d salt-bank in its center, and
one of the chief problems connected with
1t was whether this vat basin could be pro-
vlded with n sufficient supply of water, and
how long the operation would take in con
st quenee OF the evaporation and the absorp-
u"n Uf the soil dried up 70. centuries past.
M de Lesseps states no difficulty whatever
was experienced tine lake had re ecvived, in
round numbers, I 800 000, 900 Of cubic
meters in the course of seven months, from
the eighteenth of Mirch TO the twenty
fourth of October, 1869. But hong Befo.e
the lakes were inundated t. . retic. writer's
had predicted they w.uld be dried up again
b. the action Of the sun, it being impossible
10 supply sufficient water by the two bran
ches of the canal the sections OF which were
toa narrow. The proportion of salt con.
tained 10 the waters rose considerably from
tn; beginning, and although the soundings
taken at various periods showed that the
dissolution of the salt bank was the prihci-
pal cause Of this increase, there was still
much doubt about it. The last inyestiga-
ii MS, however, prove that the dissolution
continues, and that the proportion Of salt is
visibly diminishing, Notwithstanding this
process, combined with the effects of
evaporation. How can tins phenomenon be
explained2 IL can only be by the currents.
The considerable diff rence Of density exist
ing b,tween the waters Of the Bitter Lakes
and those Of the extremities OF the canal
must create ground currents by which the
heavier waters go TO the sea, while the SUI
face currents carry lighter wpters to the
lakes IN order to make up for the loss by
evaporation. A pratical conclusion may be
drawn from these results, which only con
firm the principle ofequllibrium IN vessels
communicating with each other; il is this.
that comparatively narrow office suffices
TO prevent vast sheets of salt water, how
ever far from the sea, from concentrating
under the collar influence in hot countries.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-07-20

WE have no contest i'll Texas, and need
have no idleness or folly growing out of one
confessedly wholly needless. But the ne
cessity for TIlden and Hendricks clubs
will be recognized when we remember that
money shapes re.ults in doubtful States
and the Democratic press of these States
has no access to the Federal treasury.
Funds should be gathered in Texas al d
sent to those who know where they will do
most good. Tilden is gaining and
Hayes losing strength each day, and if the
people do their duty they will expend little
breath at home and deal of money abroad
in promotion of the triumph of the Demo
cratic party. ...
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-07-20

The best citizens of four or five counties
participated in the execution of the Camp
bells and McEiroy. They said that there
was no recourse left the people. The law
was u farce, and the courts incapable, as
juries are now organized in negro governed
counties, and that the highwaymen had
money TO bribe, and to employ adroit law
yers, and that an execution of 9 robber and
murderer having money, IN accordance with
the forms of the law under the blessed
Constitution of Texas, was impossible.
The people did we'll; but lawgivers have
hardly discovered or excised the ugly ulcer
that befouls the fame of Texas -.
Why should not the advocates of the
bloody code adopt the theory of the de-
ceased DIR. LincecuIn. This theory has
been written upon and approved by many
learned men, and should be embodied in
the Penal Code IF Texas And lst rs re-
hrcs If there is not more Of humanity IN
taking from man his power Of generaEiSn.
than IN taking his life. DR.. -Liaceeum was
wise, and his ideas embodied in the code
would, beyond. all deRbt,l Pct an end TO
crime. iL oY 4E
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-07-20

BLAINE will take Morrill's place in the
Senate, the latter becoming Secretary of
the Treasury. The House will have NO ju-
risdiction in Blaine's case, aud here ends the
curious investigation in which Blaine used
a bogus dispatch so adroitly that he abso-
lutely put the prosecution on the defensive
and such were the superhuman efforts of
the gentleman from Maine that people
was only part of the scheme of defense.
He invoked death that investigation might
be repclled. Hayes was nominated, Blaine
is we'll and finally escapes from the wrath of
the House by, dogging behind Morrill, into
the Senate. . ... d. ..r..r aB 5..a, 90
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-07-20
sUMMERrIM HARE AND In
u#... a NORTHERN GIIIES.

u MINI hIbME HEhE AND IN
HH.... NORTHERN GIlIES.
The heat of summer is by no means as
intolerable here as il Northern States. Peo-
pie habltuaHy blunder in leaving Southern
Texas for Eastern hotels, cities and water
ing places. They should go thither in the
fall or spring and spend summers on the
plains accessible to winds just bathed in
the gulf stream. Men are dying of solar
heat by the score in each Northern metrop-
oils. ST. Louis, paved with stone and
built of stone and bricks and rooted with
slate and iron, its streets walled in with
towering hotels and abodes of trade, is an
oven in which half million people are
roasted, more dead than alive, through sum
mer months. Each visitor of each st. Louis
home is greeted at the doorway by ser
want, brush in hand, to sweep away coal
dust and lime that begrimes the persons
of wanderers along heated thorough
fares. The thermometer boils in the
blazing sunlight localized Iy glass and
stone and iron upon the heads of wayfarers; !;
and in the shade Farenheit tells that man
may live and breathe in an atmosphere as
hot as the furnace whence Shadrac and
others miracul0usly escaped. One hun
dred aud seventy men were prostrated by
solar heat three days ago at Camp Beadle
in New Jersey, and there are deaths by the
score each day, from the same cause, in
each of the great Northern cities. Aud
yet, people with the purpose of keeping
cool, hie away to Northern cities when Que
bee is hotter than Austin OF Houston or
Galveston. We discover in this popular
conduct the influence Of books and of poets
that ever twit,er jnyously of Northern sum-
mertime by the seashore. The arrival of
spring and summer is hynned and their
approach invoked. From sunny I.aiy to
the chill and brumal North they sing of
the grateful change wrought upon natures
face bY Favonian breezes and of the ethe-
rial mildness of summer skies by Northern
seashores. They tell in flowing numbers
nf smiling sunlight and fertilizing showers
and excite the imAginatIons of weary,
restless wealth and fashion, and yet
these tnd no proper resting place. TIE
fiery ferceness Of the summers sun and
sweltering temperature of cloudy after
moons are infinitely more intOlerable at
Cape May or Saratoga than on the live oak
or eedar-crowned hills OF Austin ever fam
ned by delicious breezes from the sen.
Here the nights and mornings are cool, aud
1t noOntide the heat from vertical sun is
tempered by hurrying winds. A delicate
azure broken by heecY clouds replaces The
bIazen Ardor Of the Northern summer sky
and the soft moisture of southeastern
winds when solar rays are fiercest, dives,s
life ia these low lAtitudes of terrors cf
which We read in Northern newspapers
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-07-20

Mr.. BRADY, Independent, from Houston,
was making a harangue in the Senate not
many days ago into which he infused not
little harshness and temper. He was grow
ing even denuncistory and referred to the
youthful Senator Grain, OF Victoria county,
as ''jackdaw strutting in borrowed plum
age" II rise, Mr.. President" interposed
Mr.. Grain, Ito point of order. The
gentleman pronounces me a Jackdaw. I
appeal to the chair to correct him. am
only Crain." President Hubbard-with
profound gravity-"I sustain the point of
order made by the bird from the coast, y
and Brady wilted and the Senate roared.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-07-20

THE Indebtedness of American govern
ments amounts to $13, $40, 600, 600, or one
half of the taxable wealth of the United
States. When these debts were created,
the people had the right to pay them in
silver or gold, and Congress has no right to
compel payment in gold alone by demone-
tizing silver. Germany has done this, but
it does not follow that the good luck Of
debtors should be spoiled in order to en-
rich creditors. .-,'.,.r. H....-.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-07-20

The special act of 1878, which was a
fl flal adjustment of all the claims of the
Texas Pacific and Trans Continental Rail
road Companies, says positively that 'Jait-
are to comply Nth any one Of the requirements
Of the act shall forfeit all donations and res
ercdtions," on uncompleted road. The gep-
ersl actof 1875 requires that taoenty miles Of
this road between the towns of Brookston
and Texarkana shall be ompleted by the
first of November, 1875. This was not done
until ten days ago, and certainly was not
done, as all know. on the twenty-thlrd of
November, 1875, when the constitutional
convention passed it's ordinance extending
the time of all unforfeited roads from
''no.c, ''the twenty y-third of November, 1875,
to the close of this session of the Legis
lature. Does any man who reads doubt
that this company has forfeited Its sub
ventions half u dozen timesl and will our
representatives fail to open that immense
reservation to actual settIers1 The bill for
the extension of time to railroads now be-
fore the Senate and made the special
order for p. NJ. Monday next, as orig
inally offered, was a bill for the
relief of the Texas Pacific Railroad Com
pany and nothing else. But now the COM
mittee have amended 1t so as to exclude
every company that has incurred forfeitures,
and as the Texas Pacific has lost its domain
the bill remains simply nullity if the
amendments be adopted, and of no con
ceivable use unless viewed as the straw
at which the drowning man catches. 1t is
not positively declared, as it should be if
men and Senators spoke what the facts
make evident, that the company has lost
its lands and that the kingdom so long
held by the corporation is thrown open to
honest settlers; but such is the case and in
the name of the people of Texas, we ask
that this tlmidity of lawgivers and Injus-
tice to the people be no longer tolerated.
The contract was made with the Legisa-
ture; it has been broken for the sixth time :;
let the Legislature declare the lands for
feited and no longer tremble in the
presence of corporate power. .
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-07-20

BRICK PoMERoY proposes to define his
position on the presidential question next
week, and then the world will breathe freer.
Meanwhile, Mr.. Evarts, the greatest per-
haps of living Americans, and lifelong
Republican, declares for Tilden and Hen
bricks, and Fred Hassaurek, the greatest
OF Germsn-American writers, abandons the
Volksblatt because the proprietors are for
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-07-20

IT was the process OF investigation in the
House that so effectually slaughtered the
administration forces at Cincinnati and
compelled the nomination of new men.
But these viii be captured by the place. men.
and, unhappily, Blaine was the first recipient
of assurances of distinguished considera-
ton" from Hayes. The whole Radical pack
are in full cry on the new scent. l...L
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-07-20

GLADsToNE's articles, entitled Modern
Religious Thought" adorn the pages of
LitteIrs Licing Age. Gladstone is foremost
of modern thinkers, and there never was
such confusion, constantly worse con-
founded, in reference to subjects discussed
by the ex-minIster. Read the papers of
Mr.. Gladstone. sa s+Ati g.. -
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-07-20

SENATOR Logan properly says that no
one who talks about reform has any busi-
ness in the Republican party" Logan can't
see how Hayes, the leader of bis party, can
prate about reform withou. confessing the
iniqulties of Logan and the rest, and Lo-
gan, though nailed TO the cross is not 3
penitent thief.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-07-20
LEGISLATIVE DIRE TORY REP
, r..-t RkSENTAlIVHS. Hfrf
FIFTY FIFTH DISTRICT.

REpRSsENTATTvE SAN G.. GRAHAM was
born and educated in Washington county, Vir-
ginia emigrated to Texas in 1856, and en-
gagged in stockraising and surveying; returned
to Virginia in 1861, and, enlisted in the Thir-
ty-seventh Virginia Regiment, in which he
served through the war as a private. 1ar
Since, the war, he has resided in johnson
county. Texas, and was elected to represent
that county in the Fifteenth Legislature by a
majority of S38 votes He was an Old-line
Whig voted for Bell and Everett, and for
Greeley; was elected on the Democratic
ticket, and expects 10 cast his vote for Tilden
and Hendricks. ..,-.. ...r- ......-....,.. .
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-07-20

BRIsTow,s before Proctor knott's COM
mittee, refuses to tell how the President
acted and stood affected when the whisky
prosecutions were begun that involved his
St. Louis friends and bahbling Babcock
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-07-20

MoRToN has taken charge. of the White
House and the cabinet undergoes thorough
reorganization and reconstruction at his
hands He is said to be the master of the
President. IT this be true and Tilden
elected, he will hardly be inaugurated.
Southern States will be held by the throat
and election returns conformed to the
wishes of the autocrat whose prime minister
is the ablest, most selfish and dangerous
man in America. .. p
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-07-20

The repeal of the resumption act will be
consummated, and then III thought money
will be easier and cheaper everywhere.
The fixed absolute date for resumpt on.
when compliance with the law might be
impossible, has begotten much unnatural
.tightness of the market when idle wealth
burdened bankers and repositories of cur
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-07-20

CONGRESS will adjourn in two weeks.
Appropriation bills have been so shaped by
the Democratic House that the party in
power will have Infinitely less money with
which to pay Schurz and other hired lee
tnrers and neXsnaners -. N L. I'll IL -
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-07-20

THERE are strong hopes entertained by
McKes's friends that. because of new testi-
mopy discovered. be viii be pArdoned with
the assent OF the judge before whom he
was triei.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-07-20

THE London TSu.es ana all the leading
British newspapers confess that OppOrtuni-
ties for reform are wholly with the Dsmo-
cratic party, and that Hayes will be impo-
tent in this direction. ~
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-07-20

LYMAN TRUMBULL, Republican ,ex-Sens-
tor. and John NJ. Palmer, ex- Governor of
Illinois, are to take the stump for Tilden
and Hendricks Z lH Tssa arr,t
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-07-20

THE Henderson Times says the STATES
MAN is blest with great powers of endur-
ance. Even so with the readers of the
Times.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-07-20

THE Federal Senate is Radical, the House
Democratic. Under existing laws either
house, when votes for Presidents of the
United States are counted, can reject with
out reason assigned the.vote of any State.
Sheridan, the lawless savage, is put in
charge of four Southern States even willie
still CO nmanding in the remote Northwest.
The purposei is that he may so use his troops
and blacks on election day that riots may
occur and the Senate be given some sort of
pretext for the rejection of the votes of
four States. But Tilden's majority will be
great enough without these States, and if
he were wrongfullY deprived of their sup
port, he is not the man to submit gracefully
to patent outrage. 1t is Morton's scheme,
but Morton has not the hardihood to exc
cute it. Sheridan is the mana good man |
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-07-20

Gen. Dick Drum, chief Of stan, telt-
graphed Judge Hare, Of sherman, thkt the
name Of his son was not, .as supposed, on
the list Of the slain Of custer's expediti0n.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-07-20

HAYEs's letter is soothing plaster ap-
piled to frightful cancer eating out the
very vitals of the body polite .. i.ef