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, 1876-10-25
B A r B A DO S.
From tic European Mail.)

A return, procured by Mr.. Edward jenkins,
N. P, has been issued, giving some interesting
information as to Barbados. The revenue ia the
year 1875 was 1872, 1921. The amount of duty
collected under the tariffin the year was 1854,
aud l1,1S6I. additional duty of 20 per cent.
collected uudsr q separate ACT, making &c, S2lE.
With regard to education" it appears that,
owing to the absence Of any law for the regis
tration Of biuhs and deaths in Barbados, no
trustworthy information could be obtained as
to the actual number OF children between Z
and 10. The Inspectors of Schools report
that there are $4,000 children whose names
appear on the registers Of the primary and
infant schools. The Commissioners say
+" there are $4,000 children of age to attend
school who attend no school whatever" Ire
gularity of attendance is a grave question, and
many reasons are assigned, such as poverty,
&c, and the employment of child labour.
AS a remedy, the Commissioners suggest that
the principles of the English Factory Act
should be applied, and that it should be declar-
ed unlawful and penal to employ child labour
unless the child has attained a minimum eduoa-
ton qualification. In some parishes there are
schools, supported by general taxation. in
which distinctions are still maintained between
white and c%oloured children. The Commission
ers recommend the abolition of the %"colour dis
tinctions." The total expenditure on education
appears to be 8,246l. The number of persons
belonging to classes benefited by grants for
primary education is 100000 at 73d. each, and
for higher education 10000 at IS. each.
, 1876-10-25
II PACIFIC CANAL.
From the Eup. Mail.)

A well-informed correspondent says =
The scheme for uniting the Atlantic with
the Pacific Ocean by means of a canal
through Nicaragua is again before the
commercial world. The cost of the pro-
posed canal, which would come out some
where near Brito-wherever that may be
on the Pacific, is set down at $4,000, 0O0Z..
and its length is computed at 1871
miles, This would save the passage round
Cape Horn. The Suez Canal, some four
years ago, was said to have cost
16, 000, 000J., and its length is under 80
geographical miles. The estimated item,
therefore, for the canal in question may be
considered too low. Should it ever be
an Jait accOmph it is questionable whether
it would much advantage Australia. Yet
as a probable enterprise of a gigantic cha
%racter, some account of what is doing
with 1t may not be uninteresting. For
more than $50 years the problem of Joining
these oceans has, it is said, occupied the
attention of navigators, engineers, and
others, but it still remains unsolved. In
our own day scheme after scheme has been
proposed for carrying out this important
work; the choice between the various
projects has, however, been practically
confined to three u Of the whole number.
The routes which have received most gene
raj approval are that by Tehuantepec,
that by Panama, and that by Nicaragua
and it has long been a most point which of
these was the most feasible. The Ameri-
can Government, by whom very large
sums of money have been expended in
causing the various practicable routes to
be surveyed and scientifically examined,
have at different times sent commissions
, 1876-10-25

to report their views as to the most advan-
tageous one /; and the last of these, appoint
ed in 1875, decided at the conclusion of
their Investigation in favour of the Nicara-
guam line. By this plan the canal to be
formed would run from Grey Town to
Brlto on the Pacific, passing the Lake Mica
ragua on its way. Indeed, this lake is In
tended to furnish the canal with water,
and it is reported to be capable Of giving
the necessary supply in a constant and
uniform manner. With regard to the
funds tor carrying out the work, if what
has been rumOured be correct, q member
OF the leading financial firm in London has
expressed a wish to have the opportunity
OF bringing the scheme before the public
but the PRIME mover in the matter, who,
1t may be observed, is much encouraged to
the enterprise by NJ. de Lesseps, seems to
consider himself bound to place the first
offer of the grants at the disposal of con-
tinental capitalists who are in accord with
himself and the representatives in Europe
OF Nicaragua and Costa RIGA, and it is said
that the first capitalists in Paris are pc rfect-
Iy ready to accept the offer. The canal
would be of great benefit to England, our
right to use it being already secured by
treaty, and to the world at large, but its
chief value would be experienced by North
and South America, whose commerce
would be immensely developed by it, per-
haps to the disadvantage of Australia in
such matters as cereals and copper. It
would also be of vital importance to Nj
caragua, where the execution of the work
is naturally desired above all things. 1t
is in many quarters hoped that the capital
for the scheme, that has received the ap-
proyal Of the United States officers appoint
ed to examine it, may be procured in due
time. This enterprise, whenever it is CON
pleted, will undoubtedly revolutionise
trade, and give to our markets many Of the
articles now supplied by the Cape, Aus
rralia, and New Zealand, and from this
point Of view statesmen should ever be
upon the alert when ~legislating for the
future.
, 1876-10-25
BREACHES OF TIE PEACE IN
THE SOUTH.
u Al AZ ~ TT
From tie N. 7. Herald.)

We deprecate and detest the ignoble vulgari.
ty that is incapable Of viewing the state of
Southern society in any other than it's party
aspect. For the last eleven years an expert
ment has been 10 progress in our Southern
States of deeper interest to philanthropists
and philosOphio observers of social conditions
than any other in the whole history of the
human race. That this great experiment has
worked so well, that it has been attended with
no industrial and very little social disturbance,
that the production of the great Southern
staples has not fallen of, that a considerable
proportion of the emancipated slaves have
acquired property and the selfrespect which
accompanies its possession, that breaches of
the peace have been confined to q few scatter
ed localities and have been the exception and
not the rule, are results which SO far exceed the
most sanguine expectations that there is reason
for devout gratitude to a protecting Providence
that Southern society has escaped the ~unhinge-
ment, disorder and CONFUSION which might have
resulted from so tremendous a social revolu.
ton and the disruption and reorganization
of the whole fabric OF society. Never before
In the history of the world has there been SO
extensive a.remodelling Of established condi.
tons with so slight a shock to social order
and industrial prosperity. This gratifying re.
, 1876-10-25

suit is creditable to the forbearance Of the
whites and to the good sense, good temper and
quiet spirit of the emancipated ana enfranchiSed
blacks. If the pestilent breed Of selfish inter.
meddling politicians could have left this
sublime experiment to proceed without hinging
IN hrebrands of discord the transition of South
ern society from the old system to the new
would have furnished one Of the brightest
pages in human history.
Whether the whites or the negroes are more
to blame for the recent riot in Charleston is a
question which cannot be decided without closer
knowledge of the secret springs of the distur-
bance. The wantOn exaggerationS and mis-
statements of the party press make it difficult
to reach the exact truth. On the surface the
Charleston riot seems to have resulted from
negro violence and outrage perpetrated under
the impulse of party passions. A republican
negro organization assaulted a democratic
negro organization, and it is probable enough
that there exists among the republican
negroes q spirit of fierce intolerance against
people of their race who act with the democra-
tic party. Il is quite natural that they should
regard colored democrats as renegades and
traitors, considering the kind of influence under
which the negroes have acquired their imper.
feet political education. But the enlightened
friends Of peace and order in the South ought
to recognize this inevitable tendency in the
negro mind and to discourage all movements
calculated to arouse it. When they inspire
and aid the formation of negro democratic clubs
they offer a needless provocatiOn to the pas
sionS and prejudices of the mass Of the colored
population. 1t is not to be presumed that
the negroes would organize democratic clubs
without white instigation but democrats
ought to court the negro vote by methods
which do not tend SO directly to breaches Of
the peace. The white population of the South,
as employers Of labor, lenders of money,
owners of farms and tenements let to negroes
who must often be in arrears in paying their
rent, have great advantages for quietly infu-
encing negro votes, and they should use these
advantages in quiet and non provoking ways.
The Southern whites have a greater interest
10 promoting tranquility and good feeling than
they can have in any partisan result, and We
wiSh they would discourage all oven
which tend to infame and exasperate an igno-
rant populaoe, whose errors and prejudices
have been engrafted in their minds by unscru.
pulous politicians and carpet-baggers. The
negroes have behaved so we'll, on the whole,
that they should be treated with great indul.
gence and consideration. When the whites
shall have convinced them by steady kindness
and generosity that they are their real friends
they will have little difficulty in controlling their
votes.
, 1876-10-25
RICH AND POOR MANURE.
lFrOm tie NeW York HeraLd.l

A great many tillers of the soil do not
appear to be aware of the fact that the manure
made by animals that are being fattened on
grain or meal will be far richer in those ele-
ments of fertility which are so desirable to
produce b~Ountiful crops than the manure made
by poor live stock when required to subsist on
food of an inferior quality. The recognised
superior fertilizing properties of the manure Of
f~attening stock fed upon cake or corn is mainly
due to the large amount of nitrogen or am-
mOnia which it contains. Manure produced
by the use of such food is also invariably
richer in p%hosphates and potash than manure
produced from food comparatively poor In
heterogeneous constituents. 1t is difficult, how.
ever, to put a money value upon the manure,
because dung produced from various kinds of
food will vary in the effects produced according
as the soil to which it is applied is heavy or
light, aad also according as the land is affected
by other circumstances. Different articles Of
food OF the same class will differ far less In
their feeding value than in their manure value.
linus, While 1T makes comparatively little differ
ence, so far as the increase in the live weight
OF the animal is concerned, whether a ton of
Iinseed cake or a ton of deoOrticated or of I'M
decorticated cotton cake or q ton of corn be
given to fattening cattle in addition to their
OAN'J HOOI S0O0 Ao otIaW VI nay II LukulPSa
the value of the manure from the consumption
of a ton of each of these foods will show great
differences. The manurial value of food will
depend upon the amount of heterogeneous matter
potash and phosphcric acid which passes
through the body into the dung of animals.
In the case of fattening cattle about ninety
per cent. Of the nitrogen contained in concen.
trated food is passed in the solid and liquid
%excrements, and the whole of the potash and
phosphorio acid contained in food. In the case
of milking COWS or young stock, which are
more sparngly supplied with concentrated
purchased foods, some Of the heterogeneous and
phosphate constituents will be taken up during
the growth of the young animal and In
the production of milk. Consequently the
dung of such animals will not be SO rich In
fertilizing matter as that of fattening stock.
There is still, however, a large proportion of
the nitrogen and of the phosphates of the food
elected in the dung and urine even Of young
stock and milo coWe,
, 1876-10-25

Government will largely support and p%atronize
the steamer. 1t is needless to say how such an
enterprise of the kind recommends itself to
every individual in ST. Vincent, and particularly
to those in the Leeward District. We have no
means of rapid transit, while conveyance by
Passage Boats at certain periods of the year is
dangerous to life and slow in communication.
We understand the dimensions of the steamer
will be 70 feet in length and Ia feet in width.
She will probably be completed by the summer
OF 1877. We may therefore expect her about
June next"
, 1876-10-25
] 4 N AIC a.
From Calls News Letter

Jamaica, we learn, has carried off two Gold
Medals at the Centennial Exhibition for her
Tobacco, which the judges have pronounced
q equal to Havana" There are about twenty
FIVE medals awarded Jamaica for Sugar, Rum
and Coffee, and there would have been double
that number had not Sir William Grey recalled
Mr.. Thomson our Commissioners to plaat grass
and corn at Hogg Hole for official horsskind, as
will be seen by the estimates for this year.
, 1876-10-25
DOMINIC A.
From tho Dominican

The weather continues favourable to the
planter. Good showers have fallen during the
whole week lending Oct. y.
The Police Magistrate is hearing the famous
Obeah case, Andrew Duvorney vs. II. Taver.
nier and Alexis Burton. Mr.. Latouche appears
for Tavernier.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-09-14

PoLrrTcAL grumbers are doing what they
can to weaken the Democratic nominee for
Congress in this district. They make q
great deal Of fuss about an improper nomi-
nation and the dangerous position into
which the party has been thrown, but it is
wasting time to listen to them. Disap-
pointed hangers-on of the party may num-
Der score or more in Austin, and hun
dred or more in the district, aud being too
week to demand consideration, the best
ooarSe to pursue is to let them alone and
aliow them 70 vail under their political
diseases. Dissatisfaction is expressed in
consequence of having developed their own
weakness and because they are not in that
successful line OF promotion, which has
been so fondly prepared for themselves.
They are what are commonly termed poliii-
cal sorehesds, and persons soon learn to
avoid them. Cut of the prospect of office
upon the scent Of which such men are
always trailing, and they win go down and
be forgottea and the country will no longer
be annoyed by these would-oe political
pensioners.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-09-14
THE NEW YORK MUDDLK.

The Democrats of New York have
abandoned the idea of running Mr.. Sey-
mour against bis will, and will reassemble
again in convention on the thirteenth OF
this month at Saratoga TO select candidate
to take the place offered hin. This course
is very proper. fcr keeping Seymour in the
field against his|wIll would lead thousands
of Democrats to inactivity, when it is nee
essary Tn put all the vim possible In the
canvass. The New York State election
lust now becomes national affair, in
which every partisan in the United States
feels the deepest interest, for the Republi-
cans, having nominated as they think two
OF the strongest men in the Union, one for
Vice President and the other for Governor,
are gong to leave no stone unturned which
may lead them to success, and carry New
York as great moral lever for the nation
al contest. The errors already committed
by the Democrats in finding a candidate
for the governorship have given the Repub-
licans new hope, and the utmost
caution must now be used by
the former, or the damage will
never be repaired. One thing at least has, it
IL hoped, grown out of the recent troubles.
Those who attempted to take undue
means to reach ends will be placed in the
background, and it is reasonable to.believe
the convention will select candidate fully
rs strong as Mr.. Seymour, one who, by
throwing work into the canvass, may even
poll larger vote than could Mr.. eeymour.
Who the man will be it is hard to tell, but
he will be nominated under the circum-
stances with remarkable unanimity. A
number of prominent names are men
toned, among them Sanford B. Church,
VIM. +. Allen, Clarksop N. Potter, Samuel
Hand, Scott Lord, Manton Marble, Edward
Cooper, Dewitt @. West, VIM. G. Fargo,
Judges Starbuck and Lott, and Henry G.
Murphy, any of whom would hold the posi-
ton with honor to the State and the party tc
which they belong. The selection of the
convention will be accepted at once with
enthusiasm, and the ridiculous position
into which the party has been thrown viii
seek vent only against the schemers. Ever,
earnest Democrat in the State will regard
it as his duty to 60 earnestly to work to re
pair any probable damage sustained, and
the canvass in New York, after the Demo
cratic candidate is named. will be the
wzrmest in any State, excepting Indiana.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-09-14

NEARLY all of our space to-day is taken
up with the speech Of Lieutenant Governor
Hubbard, delivered at Philadelphia on the
eleventh instant. Besides being fine lit
erary production, it is full of valuable in
formation, and copy of it should be care
fully preserved in the scrap book of evey
Texan. Il was an effort Of which our seo-
pie must feel proud, and, publishs. Is It
will be extensively throughout ths sonntry,
must not only become valuable f'r its his
tory and statistics, but also Is Democratic
campaign document Of powsfful influence.
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Aaron BuriesOn, shot few days since in
Lee county. has died NJ h;s ,..,,...,


Aaron BurlesOn, shot few days sinoe IN
Lee county, has died Of his wounds.
The grand jury of Lee county, in nine
days session, returned forty indictments
The cotton worms are playing havoc in
the crops on the Brazos, in Robertson
County.
Hons. q. U. Mead and p. e. Peers have
gone TO the Centennial and other parts ~
the haoitable and unhabitable world.
A Catholic school is being talked of in
Seguin, and it is thought the Female Col.
lege property will be purchased for that
purpose.
Aorsah has about completed connection
oE rail between Clinton. the head of the
sp'p channel, and the track If the Central
The city OF seguin is financially in q
poor condition, and now the good people
are talking about q concert to bridge over
seth Shepard aud ]. P. @. Whitehead
OF Austin, addressed the ID .mocracy Of Lee
county Few days since. They are reported
as making able addresses.
Peterson is the man. He lives In Paris
and that is what has taken Maior pam
there. II Penn converts him the miuenn;-
um will be sure TO follow.
1t was in Mason. The weather wa.
warm, and Foley was directing harsh. nm.
christian language st COL Todd, when the
latter directed u six-sho ater at the former
and started him on trip beyond the river
Styx. So
Judge Gerald was holding court. Judge
Max and County Attorney Pearre, conduct.
ing a case before him, got into a dispute.
then into fight, add the Judge had to com.
mand the peace with a six shooter. Pistols
were numerous, and this occurred in Waco.
A colored preacher named Corn became
so unmanageable in crazsd condition on n
Central tram as to require the conductor to
turn him over To the sheriff at Calvert. He
had cleaned out car, aud was having
things his own way. He is probably the
same man who was in this city tor while.
The mayor Of Denison decided that a
party brought before him had no night to
trial by jury, unless fee of six dollars
was paid That mayor is something like
Others we might mention who glory in the
same tle-ieather-headed, mutton headed.
pIg-headed, or to be more generous, proba-
bly, mule-headed.
The average Jewett man gets up at day.
break and goes down town to get drink :;
then goes back home to eat the breakfast
his wife has cooked; then goes down town
and takes several drinks; goes back home
and eats dinner, and then complains be-
tween drinks in the afternoon about hard
tlme9. RafRranPa mazda n fhn Taov, Ok
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To she Mem beFs or tne Deasoeraaie state
NExecsstve CommitEeef

Actuated by an earnest desire 20 advance
the interests Of the Democracy in this dis
trict, and with no inten ion 10 do any one
or any section Of the State an Injustice, /
rendered the appointment. Of elector for the
State at large 20 the Hon. Seth Shepard, in
plsce Of Hon. ID. @. Giddings
The appointment seems % have met with
disfavor BY . portion Of the party, and the
Hon. Seth Shepard has authorized me
withdraw bis name as one Of the electors.
As the convention failed 10 designate
which Of the gentlemen elected as alter
mates should succeed Col. ID. o. Giddipgl
in case Of his death or resignation, ] have
therefore TO request that you make knownS
70 me, In writing and At your earliest con
yenieDce, your opinion - to which Of them
should lie his successor.
IL IL proper for me 70 call your attention,
70 the following extract, taken from the
proceedings Of The State CONGESTION, held
at Galveston, in January last concerning
the electors:
The correct vote cast on tho first ballot
was - follows:
ID. @. Giddings, e43; B. II. Kppersou,
ass; s. J. Adams, 407; g. Upson, 303:
w. r. Reagan, 81; John 5. Ford, 3.
The Chair announced that Col. d. G.
Giddings, having received e43 votes on the
first ballot, was duly elected DO one Of the
Democratic presidential electors for ,he
State 81 large
AL the names having been withdrawn,
Hon. B. Il Eppssson IVES npminated by
aceiamation, Who vas escorted 20 the stand
aud accepred IN few well-timed, appro-
pirate FemsFl,s. e
DC motion. Hr. Adams. Of Dallas. and
NJ Upsoa, Of Bexaf. we're declared, By ac-
clamafion, elternates for electors FOR the
S.ate e. lsrgs. JoExFH d. eAYkRa
Chm Dem. STATE tx. Committee.
BastrY. September 5, 1875.
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. The noting Of the negroes At Monroe,
Louisiana, was ins,igsted for the purpose
Of reslivieg the race division, and to pre-
vent the negroes from uniting with the
Democratic. Conservative ranks. A cores.
pendent OF thc New Orleans Time reports
that the trouble was developed Just pre-
vious % the Democra.ic- Conservative mass
meeting AZ Monroe, with the view Of deter
ing the negroes from attending. The 40
tioa Of the whites throughout was extreme
y temperate and forbearing. and bioodS
riot Was thus prevented. The negroes,
urged on by unknown parties. were q Qua
time violently aggressive, and it was feared
that no prudence on the part OF the whites
could prevent q bloody collision. The
sronbles were quietly ended. however. and
lsisls OF no apprehension is nov felt a
tlsir renewal. The "bloody shirt" can
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-09-14

TEE kilograms bring " the news OF the
election in Maine. We have already
given the vote for = number of years for
governor, selecting those when presiden-
tial election toek place. This from 1860
to 1872 averaged majority for the Repub-
licans of IS 900 votes. The Republican
majority In 1858 was 10000; in 1872, 49,
500; snd now it comes down to $4,000,
sho~ing that when the full strength is OBJ
tanned RepuLIicanism is shown to be on
the decline
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not be waved over this. matter. The whole
affair, from beginning to end, displayed SO
consPicuously the temperance and forbear-
ance of the whites that the fercest orators
Of the Republican party can find no ground
for an attack upon them.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-09-14

Hos. W. NJ. RUST, at. the solicitation of
the people Of his entire district, has be-
come a candidate for reelection to the Leg
islsture. He says: 81 do not feel that
should be doing justice to myself or to
you il should give to the friends of the
Tom Scott ring the opportunity to say that
l was afraid to risk the verdict of my own