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The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-03-30
TUE RATE OF CEI,Esr PAID BY
TEXAS AND THE UNITED STATES.

| 1t is strange that the people do not rec
ognize and punish the cowardice of party
leaders and party managers. Practical is
sues are persistently evaded in platforms
made to be kicked aside when they have
accomplished their purpose of securing
spoils for the party's managers, The holy
horror which the average party trickster
and officeseeker has of the prowling mob
that ravages towns and desolates counties
si!ences the party convention first, and then
the Legislature, and the people are cheated
with empty words, and the ballot box is
still polluted by ignorance and vice, and
party leaders still promise impossible re-.
forms. No political convention dares to as
sert the necessity for the reduction of rates
of interest on State and Federal bonds.
Texas is paying eight and ten per cent.
and should not pay more than four. Our,
paper is better than that of the United
States. The Federal Union may be dis
solved, but Texas will exist forever. The
resources of Texas, as compared with its
debt, are tenfold greater than those of the
United States, and it is no wonder that
Texas securities command premium. /,
is only wonderful that such evidences of
less than five millions of Indebtedness, pay
ing such an intolerable rate of interest, do
not command a premium of fifty per cent.
But party conventions fail to address them
selves to these practical questions, and. leg
islatures, constituted of party managers,
evade the consideration of such matters.
The annual production of American gold
mines is less by forty millions than the sum
required to pay the annual interest on the
Federal debt, and yet Federal bondholders
must be given their pound of flesh. They.
bought the bonds at fifty to ninety cents,
and must have six per cent. on their face
value, even though money be worth on Wall
street only three or four per cent, the
bondholder must have his last farthing.
On this issue all the politicians seem per
fectly agreed. Do the people concur in this7
Is it right or wise or justi There will be
no substitution, we greatly fear, of thrce
and four per cents. for six and ten per cents.
IN adjusting Texas or Federal Indebtedness
til the people show their teeth. Why don't
the Oranges address themselves to these
plain necessities and practical questions7
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-03-30
THE nLEssEDNEss OF TEXAS.

William Cullen Bryant's description of
the prairies of Texas, written forty wears
ago, is as perfect as any of later date. These
he tells US, are the gardens of the desert.
the unshorn fields, bOpndless and beautiful
for which the speech of England has no
name. The poet said that when he first
beheld the prairies his delighted sight slowly
comprehended the encircling vastness.
They stretched in airy undulations far away
as if the ocean, in its gentlest swell, stood
still with all its rounded pillows fixed and
motionless forever. But they are not mo-
tionless. Clouds sweep over them with
their shadows, and to the eye the swelling
surface of the boundless plain f1uctuates
and dark pillows seem to glide along and
chase the sunny ridges. Breezes of the
South that toyed among the palms of Mexi-
CO and moved the swaying moss on forests
OF live oak, that have kissed the limped
brooks gliding ir to the Pacific-thesc deli
cious winds that toss the fiame-like flowers
on the plains about Austin have never
famed, in their wayward wanderings,
country more fascinating than this in all its
aspects of beauty and attractiveness. The
hand of man thus far has little part in all
this glorious work; the hand that shaped
the ornament planted them with island
groves and hedged them round with forests.
These are the matchless prairies that consti-
tute fitting floor for the magnificent tenn
pie of the sky, the flowers in its aisles in
countless numbers rlvaling the considerations
in beauty and brightness. The heavens
stoop down upon the scene of enchantment
"a nearer vault and tenderer blue than
that which bends above the Eastern hills.
''Still this great soil .ude is quick with life
Myriads of insects, gaudy AS the flowers
Tney hutter over gentle quadrupeds,
Ana brds thar scarce have learne the fear of man,
are mere, and sliding reptiles o the ground
Startlingy beautiful. The graceful deer !
Bounds 10 the woods al my approach The bee,
A more adventurous cOlOn 81 than man --
With whom he came across the Eastern Deep
fi me savannas with its murm rings,
And hides his sweets. as in the golden age,
WITHIN the hollo oak listen long
10 his dom sic num, and think hear -t. .#
The sound of that advancing multaIuds .,..-s Il
Come. up the laugh of chiadFeI ife softvCiee
Oi maid ems, and the 8 Get, solemn hymn -lR 4
Of Sabbath wo shippers. The low OF herds
Blepds with the rustlings of the neavy grain
over the DARK. brown burrows. Al! at once ~
IT tsrsner WIND sweeps ny, and breaks my dream,
ono II
Thus blessed in soil, in air and bcsming Skies
In e DIS and sunsh ne, the rivers flow,
IN corn and vine, In vale ana mountain, favored
MOI MOI less IN sIatemen grave, in patriots pure, !
Ana md1dens fair and honOr'd matrons wise |
And teachers sage and holy minister's.
Like seers OF old, in purity and ire rr
or sacred love, be thou e'er blest of Heaven!
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-03-30
LAmAn AND The FaEsIDENox.

The San Antonio Erpress thinks Lamar
the proper Democratic candidate for the
presidency Lamar's speeches are admira
bly, well calculated to win popular applause
everywhere, and the South would rejoice
if such q man, could be thus honored, and
if such tribute of confidence were prof
fered the South blythe North; but the E.r
press should remember events of 1860 and
'61. Lamar made speeches, masterpieces Of
infammable popular eloqu-nce. He then
made peoples hair stand on end. He
painted the process of toting the abstracr
nigger to the Impossible place, Kansas, and
the deprivation Of the South of this inalien.
able right iussueh glowing colors that even
Southern Unionists swere horriied by enor-
-iities proposed TO be done by Douglas.
Looking back now and contemplating alb
surdities Of fifteen years ago, men and
events were it not for the fearful gulf
which vision spans, seem ludicrous enough.
Lamar does not stand on the same side of
the horrible ehasm now as then, and while
lC - ~ iOhECA aAuOuC0 Will PdcSlOuS VI
impulses then snimatiug the felicitous ora
tor, he would be held responsible as a
candidate for his assertions as a party
leader. and itis quite useless for the Express
to chant his praises as q candidate for the
presidency. Great men, like Lamar, do not
become Presidents, and the genius and
learning and patriotism of the man inter
pose insuperable obstacles to his elevation.
Even Ames, the filthy little adyenturer,
acting as Governor of Mississippi through
the Intervention of savages, Ben Butler and
Grant, interposes to prevent Lamar's acces-
sion TO a seat in the United States Senate.
Little villains would not have genius and
worth add eloqnenee honored. Baseness
and narrrowness of intellect become con-
spieunus by contrast with greatness, and
genius and stntssmsnship must be repressed.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-03-30
CUBA WITHOUT WAR.

Scribner's Monthly for April contains 8
short and timely paper under the above
caption, embodying an important letter on
the Cuban difficulty from Alexander II. Ev.
erett, Minister to Spain, to President John
Quincy Adams. We quote the following
when Mr.. Everett arrived in Spain in
the autumn of 1925, he found the King and
government bllndly and obdurately deter.
mined not to recognize the independence OF
their colonies in revolt. He also found the
Spanish government utterly without credit
aud desperately in want of money. Under
the circumstances. which he explains in the
curious private letter to President Adams,
which, Scribner publishes for the first time,
he suggested to the Spanish Minister plan
by which Spain could save her honor re-
ceive large sum of money and be rid of the
military and other charges of the island
On the other hand, the United States would
have real, though not nominal possession of
Cuba; would control its harbors and its
ornaments, and especially be able 10 keep
other powers from possessing it. This plan
was simply that the United States should
lend to Spain large sum of money for an
indefinite time without interest, while
Spain should make temporary cession of
the island as security for the payment OF
the loan. Mr.. Everett regarded this pro-
posal as at once so private and important
that he detailed it only in private letter to
the President, who was, it will be remem-
bered, his intimate and confidential friend, -
1t is now suspected that Grant has nego-
tiatiens on foot to effect like arrangement
with Spain, the financial condition of the
hapless country being Infinitely worse now
than in 1926 The people of the United
States are unutterably opposed to the next
war, whether with Mexico or Spain, or be-
tween the States of the American Union,
and if Grant do not distinguish the closing
year of his administration By some stroke
of statecraft that may make the people OBJ
livious of crimes and rObberies perpetrated
by the Presidents courtiers and appointees
to office, the party led by Grant must be de-
stroyed and Grant himself, constantly be-
fouIed by suspicion and contaminated by
contact with lnfamy, must become abso-
lutely odioss as President and only respec-
ted for irrsniron win and tenacity of purpose
as atsoldieEo Thepeople SO dread the null
tiplication of arogugs and production of
vice and !. crime BY, war that Cuba and Mexi-
co would constitute no adequate compen-
sationsfor'esils begotten. at home by hostil-
ties waged to secure such prizes; and if
Grant would signalize the close of his pub
lie career by great feat of statecraft, he
must buy and not seize the tempting island.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-03-30
WHAT A GRAND Old JUDGE SAYS
OF WOMEN AND PISTOLS.

Z Judge Joe Guild, the old Democrat OF
Middle Tennessee, as Bailie Peyton, his fel-
low-townsnan, is the old Whig of the
State, US Intimate personal friendso of one
another and of Andrew jackson. Judge
Guild said to grand jury last week that
bravery displayed by men should be exhib-
tied in defense of their country aud not in
the buiiyism of the murderer and street
fighter. We are fallen upon evil times of
carrying pistols. dress and parade. We
give entertainments attended with ex-
traOrdinary expenditures, such as no honest
calling can sford. oomuch extrAvagance
and TOO little work are the fruitful causes
OF the evils Of our time. Genuine worth
and virtue are undergoing decay, in the
cities especially. They are stifed and be-
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-03-30
THE INrkRNA1IoNAL BILL.

The Dallas Herald, discussing the fea-
lures of the International Railway bill
adopted by the Fourteenth Legislature, says
that
BY the terms OF this bill twelve thou
sand and six hundred square miles of pub.
lie domain is granted 10 the company; a
territory larger by one thousand three hun
dred and thirty-three square miles than
Belgium, and Belgium has population of
5,0S7, los souls, who pay an annual revenue
10 the government of 81, 336, 96i.
On this twelve thousand six hundred
square miles all the property owned by the
lSelgians, worth untold millions, all their
factories, machinery, mills, stores, villas
and palaces, would be exempt from taxa
Iion for twenty i've years. Every farm
that is opened upon it, every dwelling or
mill or factory that may be erected upon
these lands is exempt from taxation for
twenty-five years. No conceivable State
tax can touch the property.
The six hundred and thirty miles of rail-
way through the heart of the State would
be worth, at $S5, 600 per mile, $2e, $50, 600,
and were this properly taxable, and placed
upon the rolls At its actual value, it would,
aggregating State, county and municipal
taxation, produce revenue at one and one
half per cent. of $3.50, $50 per annuul, or IN
twenty-five years the enormous sum OF
IS, s6s, $50. AL Of this property is exempt
from taxation by the terms Of the bin
! passed.
With the road completed to the Rio
Grande. which would have been nearly ac-
compllshed ere this, had the original bin
/ granting the road &. .0o0, 900 not been We
tOed, the lowest estimate that could have
been placed upon the gross earnings OF the
road would have been IS, 000, 00o per annum
or $4,000, 600 in twenty-five years. No,
one dime of this enormous income can be
taxed under the provisions of the bill
adopted. The land grant 10 the road
amounts 70 eight million sixty-fonr thou
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-03-30
UNDEn, the new Cousti,utiop. which a

UNDER the new Constitution, which does
not operate or exist till the eighteenth prox-
imo, no ofhcehOlder, a. sueh, could have
had preFiout existence.a Therefore, the
clause prohibiting oficeholders holding
seats in the Legislature can bavs no retro
spectiye operation. They never held Office
IN the eyes of the new Constitution, opened
on the eiehsesnth prozimo for the frst time,
and looking forward and not backward.
The argument Of the Esrs, therefore, signi-
6es llothing, and Judge Mccormick may
step of the beach On. the elghteenth Of
April sad. ine, the ss1sts Chamber on the
same day. 80 rss.sa s1ssg $50
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-03-30
y TRAYED OR STOLEN,

From the undersigned owner three miles below
the city OF AUSTIN the side of the COloranu
river, ono Is Y MARE and one BLACK MARE OLT,
about nine months bld the mare about ten or twelve
years old about Aftten aud hAi hanos high. with
fine condition Also. one BRO n SPANS H PONY
with spgI'i h brand snd white streak down his
face A lberal reward val he gyen for any informa
tion OF the above described animals ths dedsey Of
the same j. b. WEEMS.
fe27 dit WITT ...-......-4.....,-
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-03-30
KANSAS CITY BUSINESS HOUSES
SEEKING TExAs TRADE
AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS.

AGRICQLTURALI IMPLEMENTS.
TRUMBULL, REYNOLDS &ALLEY. SEED and
= A'gl Implement house, 4l9and al " alnut 81.
MEDICAL and SURGICAL INSTITUTE.
NEFORMATIEs and Chronic Diseases treated
~ send Tor circular, Drs .oksrsou stsik so Delaware 81
STOCK YARDS 3. LIE STOCK COMM
THE KANSAS STOCK YARDS, the most COM
= modlous In the Mo. Valley, L.N. Morse, Supi,
ElNGSBERY, AlGER 4 CO.. Kama, Stoc,; Yds
~ Kansas city. Mo- National Stock Yards, East
81. Louis, Ill, Specially made .of Hooded Cattle
poMEIs, RIAL a. CO., Live Stock. CoInmis-
sion Merchants, Kansas Stock Yards
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-03-30
NO. 81

plain should be limited as to time; why The
power should decline so that the earth
should be allowed t. prevail and bring de
scent OF life, sre problems as ct unsolved
We call the force that resiSts the earth vital.
We say 1t reSlsts death, We speak Of il as
stronger in the young than in the old but
we Know nothing more Of il really, from q
physical point OF view, than that while il
exists le opposes terrestrial weight sufficient
" To enable the body to move with freedom
on the surface of Il e earth. 81.
lh'se facts We accept as ultimate facts.
10 say that the animal is AT birth endowed
with some reserve force, something over and
above what it obtains from food and air
would seem reasonable CONCLUSION; but we
have no proofs that 1t is true, save that the
young resists letter than the old. We
must, therefore, rest content with our
knowledge in its simple form, gathering
from it the lesson that death, part OF the
scheme of life, is ordained upon a natural
term of life, is beneficently planned, 'is
rounded with sleep. From Diseases OF
Modern L!ts, aoIs an press Of d. ApplercA q
Co. .ha
New-York tribune., 1876-12-30

educational test saying that he woud like TO take
the sense of the HOUSE upon it. Mr. Ingeon said he
could not yield for that purpose The previous qucs
ton was seconded and under its operation the bill
was read third time. Mr.. IngcrsOll then moved the
previous question the passage of the bin it
seconded, and the main question ordered. The bill
passcd-Yeas, 49, Nays, 46 not voting %. Pres
ident johnson vetoed the bil and sent it back with
his objections TO the Senate, where after debate
the 9TH of January, 1867 it passed the veto
by two-thirds vote-Yeas %; Nays, TO- The next
day, Jan. 5. the message went to the House, was
read and underhe operation of the previous question:
again mOvedby Mr. Ingersol the bill passed over
the veto by two-thirds vote-Yeas. 113 Nays So.
Such is a brief account of measure understood at
the time to be test Of the of Congress as to
the law regulating suffrage to be established over
the country. Certainly no measure could be more
important, and it was, as we have seen, passed
through the House of Representatives, under the
operation Of the previous question, without a word
Of debate The bill was returned with a Preslden-
tal veto and was passed over that also, under the
previous question. without word said for OF against
the measure. Tue country is now eating the bitter
| fruit of this legislation. r.
| NeC York, Dec. 20, 1876.
New-York tribune., 1876-12-30
THE POSTAL RAILWAY SERVICE.

STATEMENTS BY RAILWAY PRESIDENTS AND OTHERS
IN BOSTON BEFORE THE COMMIssION-GENERAL
COMPLAINTS OF INADEQUATE COMPENSATION.
BosToN, Dec 29.-The United States Postal
Railway Commission to-day heard several statements.
w. D. Bishop, President the NewYork, Hartford and
New-Havcn Railroad Company, thought the railroads
were entitled much for carrying the mails as for
press matter according to the space occupied His
pany had declined to carry the mails the Now
Rochelle road at the compensation fixed by law, and
continued to carry the mails for nothing rather than
accept the compensation offered The total receipts from
mail transportation the main line were $4,000,
seven and Onesxth mills per lneal foot per mile. Tie
total receipts from passenger baggage and express cars
were S3057 sO0 1923 mills per linea foot per mile.
The Government has legal right carry its mails
any trains il may elect He would be willing TO carry
the mails for such compensation as the Government
might offer provided they could have the right appeal
20 an unprejudced tribunal
Chester w. Chapin President Of the Boston and Al
bany Railroad Company, testified that the compensa-
on which his company had received for carrying the
mails was not satisfactory inasmuch It did not pay
expenses 1000 miles of the road They eight
postal cars, for which they receive 5000 per mile per
annuIn, less 10 per cent His company had told the
Government that If t not satisfied with the postal
cars provided they would furnish others paid for them
lie admitted theIe had been complaints that the accom-
mOlatiOns were not sufficient
The chairman OF the commission declared that the
II
road pretended % furnish cars IL ought TO furnish such
as weIe required for tie BurpOse.
j. i. Laavtt, representing the European and North
American Railroad Company, President stearDs, aud
Postmaster Burt also spoke
Daniel L. Harris, President OF the Connecticut River
Railway, said that they were entitled to cent per
nile statement which he presented showed that tho
p1rt of the train devoted TO mails earned six mills per
nile while that portion devoted 10 Passengers earned
nine mills He thOugnt railroads should have voice In
fixing the compensation for carrying the malls, which
they have not At present.
Charles z. Clarke General Manager OF the New-Yprk
ly,.sy sfas.1 fhtra
mails by weight; that the compensation was not satls
factory. They received $4,000 for express matter and
$4,000 for the mails.
Tne chie grievance Of the road is that they have 20
make contracts for the delivering OF mails % offices within
so rods the road This absorbed at least 10 per cent
OF the receipts Mr.. Clarke Thought they should have
pay. The commission al o'clock adjourned until
[. morrow.
New-York tribune., 1876-12-30
COLES MoRHiYS TRUSTS.

CONFIDENCE or His FRIENDS IN Ills INTEGRITY.
The Wilimn-st. lawyer, Coles Morris, con-
corning 1nfayorabe reports have been Ia orcuh-
ton lor few days remained at his residence yesterday
under the ce of his phy yscian Dr. sayrc, there bong
little change in his condition. Mr. Morris Is Uhcrng
from mental depression, caused by anxiety and over
work lie recently spent four months IN Chicago where
he Was counsel important lawsuit, aud ON ms rc-
,orn oout iva weeks ago. signs OF mental arrangement
were noticed His partner, Mr. Cardozo reEH'ed yes
trray his statement that, 80 far a. the members o
thc firm could ascertain, his accounts with th
firm aad its clients all right to penny.
Mr. Rngq was out Of the city, bnt Ou hi return To-day
they yuuld make a systematic examination INTO M
Morris Affairs. His confidence In trc iulrErly OF MI
Nnrri. remained mistaken. risud Of Mr. Morris slated
Yesterday tnat the HOilius estate Oi when Ne va. lH
Ice h,1ed to MS sister nephew nnrr age, ud nm
,li VINO composed his family, aud thai EiA inIluh
of Inc urppcrty consisted Of real estate ~ NcFJc5ty
,TbcI mad dcprccIalcd very much value SINCE tIS
name IIe Thought that the OEly thE" Which toah POS
sbv bc charged against Mr. Morris might he errors i
judgement in his management Of IT. aui h' D.cNei iAit
even that was not true, rs lie was 'AIlul ou'iNeS'
ffta
New-York tribune., 1876-12-30
LOCAL MISCELLANY.
NOPE TELEGRApHIC REDUCTIONS.

MORE TELEGRAPHIC REDUCTIONS.
THE ATLANTIC AND PACIFIC MAKING WESTERN
BUSINESS MUCH cHRAPER-RXTESsION OF rIiE
COMPASY's FACILITIES.
Thomas T. Eckert, President OF the Atlantic
and Pacific Telegraph Company announces that during
the year 1876 the company has constructed about lOoo
miles OF pole line and 1900 miles Of wire Line IL Las
also obtained through purchase or lease over GOO mics
of line and made contracts Of connection covering oro
than 600 miles of additional line, thereby extending Jus
system from about 900 miles Of pole line ana So"Vo
miles Of wire line at the close Of last year 10 appro
mately $4,000 miles OF pole line and 4OoOo nles VI
wire line at the close OF 1876. The most recent mPo
tant connection made with the Pennsylvania haroau
Company enabling the Atlantic aud Paclhc IelegI"Ph
Comrany TO exchange business with all PehnsyNomaa .
Railroad stations With all these extensions, most Va
which have been only recently completed, ana wiz, 'ne
greatly improved condition OF its facilities, the Auahc
and Pacific Telegraph Company IL prepared TO unuertAe
much larger services than has hitherto been possible
In recognition OF the large patronage that mas pe a
corded the company, and for the purpose OF iny oco
pyinc its facilities, the following additional feo"ciohs
of rate between NcwYork and the principal ces hancu
below will take effect aud after jan !, 1871 pro-
poruonate reduction being made interchange"oV oe,
tween all tho points indicated and between Boston ana
Portland and the Western cities: