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The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-07-27

GOVERNOR Coke is wise and right in We
taing the prisoners board bill. In Penn
sylvauia 1.-The allowance made jailors and
sherlffs, for each prisoner maintained, is
seventeen. and half cents per diem, and
jailors and sheriffs grow rich there, and
CSod is as cheap here as in Pennsylvania.
le jailor pays no rent aud hires no cook
EShining-room servants, prisoners discharg-
ing these offices. He buys no crockery, which
costs more in Texas by half than 1t should.
There are no damask cloths overspreading
the rude deal table at which prisoners
lunch. There are no cutters bills to foot,
and the choicest viands rarely burden the
boards wherest blacks and whites and
honest men and thieves and mur-
derers are herded together and fed
like j wild ii beasts. 10 most prisons
hardly ten cents per diem are spent by gen.
erous jailors, receiving forty or fifty cents
each day, on their wards. The knife of re-
form was applied at the proper spot by the
Governors veto, and when We remember
that shrievalties in Texas are worth from
$4,000 to $25, 900 per annum, and that how
ever ipdirecily gathered, that all these
enormous sums are wrenched by law from
teiiing taxpayers, it is well enough to pave
the veto, interposed by wise chief magis.
! trate to lessen the drain from the fabby
pockets of the people iAto the distended
purses of sheriffs. EejH'.4' t-..t
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-07-27

A CORRESPONDENT of the Galveston NeWs
says that Bryan was surprised when COL
VIM. Falconer was made secretary of the
faculty of Bryan University This was
natural, since Col. F. did net tell people
that he sought the place, for which we hap
pen to know, through an acquaintance of
very many years, he is eminently well fitted.
His training. tastes, habits of life and per-
sonal and partisan predictions and history
are precisely those that should distinguish
the occupant of the position to which he
has been wisely assigned. .S'T lH7"
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-07-27
THE LEGISLATUKE SHOULD THINK
ABOUT 1T.

The fact that reform and retrenchment
are watchwords of Democracy, and that
Tilden is simply the representative embodi-''
ment of this idea, renders the proposed ad-
journment of the Legislature, for reasons
commonly assigned, fact of more than
ordi.ary importance. Texas is the strong
est Democratic Safe in the Union. In pro-
portion TO population it will give Tilden
more votes, as four to one, than any State.
The Legislature is almost wholly Demo-
cratic. Whatever is done Is Democratic
action in democratic government, and what
ever is done here is deemed the inspiration
and action of the party that Tilden leads,
and thus, indirectly at least, Tilden
sible for public and political events in
Texas. If, therefore, the Legislature
ad journ, leaving it's cumulative action in
such condition that Governor Coke is
forced to reconvene the body, the effect
will be felt disastrously abroad, even more
ruinously than at home. To make the State
Republican,, in politics, even partially, can
only be accomplished by the States spbdi-
vision; and by unjust and hurried and un-
finished legislation, even this result is
promoted. If, by extending the session ia
week or ten days, the necessity for an ex:
ira session may be obviated, we are much
inclined to believe that the best interests of
the State and of the party governing it will
be wisely subserved. Followers of Tilden
should render something more than lip SER
wee to the idea of parsimony In govern-
ment, of which he is the impersonation,
and if we may not illustrate Democratic
faith bv Democratic acts In Texas, the party
is equally incapable everywhere, and there
fore untrustworthy. Such would, be the
argument of our enemies. win, Id s9on'
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-07-27

THE people of New York, having tasted
the sweets of good government while Til
den was chief magistrate, seem disposed
to take no step backward. They surely
are well pleased with great men in power
when they would find fit successor for
Tilden in Seymour or Evarts. These two
men will probably be candidates for the
chief magistracy of the Empire State.
Neither could be kouored by the Office,
ana neither one by defeating the other,
and most sane men would toss mp copper
and vote as directed by chance. The
chances are that we would vote, IN such q
case, for Seymour. .9I- ~ 1Laa =
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-07-27

THE St, Louis Times, swsitering in the
shade with the Thermometer at 80, tells its
roasting readers to be patient, since the
Legislature of Texas still tolls sssiduously
even in Austin. The Times should have
added that the thermometer here at 2
O'Clock P. NJ. is at 80, and that we have Just
ordered an anchor for the armed chair of
this establishment that it may not be blown
over Pixies Peak by the tireless sea breeze.
There is not on the eontinent.a a more de-
lightful spot than this, and the anxiety of
members of the Legislature to getaway is
the shallowest sham. We haven't doubt
abont il eH4 7ffn. r.fIH lff Au Gtf.-
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-07-27


RELroS, salado and Lampasas each
would have the trunk line OF the proposed
Austin narrow gauge. That town wln Sc
cure it which is on the direct route TO EI
Paso and Denver City or Pueblo, in Colo
rado. The narrow gauge from Dallas and
this froG Anstin are one and the same, and
part Of that building by Mr.. House frun
Houston, and this last IL psrt and parcet'6f
Cones and Paul Bremondis road from
Houston to Shreveport. That interior tawn
will be mos, enriched which fiads itself in
rich country and at the. terminus Of a
branch road rather than on the main line
Newspaper men should know that the mar
row gauge from Denver. and Pueblo i. .exr
tended four or i've miles each day in this
direction. and when Austin is worthy q
itself, and propert!-ownes have learned
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-07-27
HIsTORX AND PAINTING IN TEXAS.


The worthlessness of history is illustrated
by the fact that if we read Northern and
Southern official accounts of the battle Of
''Shsrpsburg" or Antietam, there is only
concurrence in the two narratives to the ex
tent that the same localities are occa.
sionally mentioned. Then, too, art itself
Is full of lies. They were Roman painters
who sent down to our times pictures of
GURUS Dentatus standing with his back to a
rock, ,slAughtering with his two-edged sword
Gauls by the score, while cowardly enemies
Overwhelm him with boulders from heights
above. We are reminded of these and
countless similar ''historical' events by
descriptions of the many paintings now on
exhibition At Philadelphia. There are few,
Southern artists. The country is too poor,
AS ravaged by tariff and tax-gatherers, to
court art, and thus 1t happens that each
historical " painting which delights the
eye of ogling d .wn casters represents the
bloody Snntherner in full flight or biting
the dust, while a godly Howard OF heroic
Banks or towering Pope looks like forty
devils wrapped in smoke and conquest and
glory. The negro, too. is apotheosized in
these charming pictures. Heis commonly
represented leading charge and cutting
down gunners, and is ever q striking side
show in each impressive battle piece There
is no McArdle at Philadelphia to illustrate
on canvas the deeds OF Lee or jackson or
Bragg or Joe Johnston, and the story
goes down TO the latest posterity,
as now delinessed on CANVAS,
THAT the South was villainously beaten
everywhere, and that our ragged buttesnut
soldiers only knew how to fy when bloody
Yankee presented his NaFoleonic face.
These are the /" "historieal paintings now
shaping final Impressions upon the minds
of Americans and Europeans as lasting as
time and enduring as the heroic portrait OF
GURUS Dentatus. These are the paintings
} 80 un-his,oFicAl and unpatriotic thai
! Charles Sumner would not suffer them
to occupy inches in the halls and
galleries Of the Federal : Capitol.
But history, like these pictures, constantly
perverts truth. There is not s HISTORY Of
Abe Uaiscd States. written during the last
thirty years IN the North. tbs, tells tue
srnsh with reference TO the abolition OF the
slave trade and the adoption Of the nayi
! cation acts, the latter having been cen
: icedee 70 New England in requittAl fer ii
{ assent to az abandonment Of the trade il
human flesh. Even more unbloshingl.
: fAlss are modera recitals of modern events
: Il there be men OF the South who woul.
livs in history, II those who would hav
posserisy reAd the truth, il We wopld pei
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-07-27

81 RlKS who were lever "dnlled at the
piece " should never undertake to FIRE q
cannon. Jos. Mcdonald, of Cohad, had
his hand torn of on the Fourth BY one Of
the two old guns, used there in 1886. and
that now lie lin the streets of GoIrad. Il
should be preserved as holy relic Of the
Texan struggle for independence Per
hAps the old gun is haunted by the spint Of
some dead hero. who resorted to this
method Of modest violence to attract the
attention Of Texan patriots to the fact that
hal ed nemaries Of patriotism are rudeiy
violated by ,he neglect Of these undying
snd eloquent memorials of the past, and OF
the s.1dest event in the history Of Texas
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-07-27

IT is we'll known, and can be asserted by
members of the Legislature, that Tom
Scott's agents areaconstantly plying legisla-
tors for the support of the Texas and Paci-
flo bll. A prominent gentleman, in this
interest, holds reception almost at the bar
OF. the Senate, and there are many who are
justly indignant at such presumption. They
should be discountenanced, for railroad
lobbyism of to day is disgrace to govern
nents, and otherwise evil in it, tendencies
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-07-27

petuate the names, deeds and virtues
of our own heroes and statesmen, the
Legislature of Texas can contemplate no
higher or holisr task than.that proposed to
be executed by the trainers Of the new Con-
stitution when bureau of history and sta
tistics was decreed to be established. To
fill it properly and endow it generously is
an exaction made by all the future of years
and people Of the commonwealth at the
hands Of those row shaping its destinies.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-07-27

il, The Daily L,adeo, of Tyler, asserts the nj :
cessity forsthe subdivision of the State in
order that crime may be suppressed. If
this were eff, cted by this means there would
be perhaps anotherp pair Of r sdlcal sepstors
from, the black subdivision vf T. xas and
this would be an infinitely more In olerable
calamity than ten murders and rCbbefies
every day for q century,. te<aH
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-07-27

EFFORTS are still making for the pardon
of Mckee, and ~ with some probability of
success. The Attorney General has referred
testimony, discovered and adduced since
the conviction, to Judge Dillon, of St.
Louis. While the guilty should be surely
punished, we cannot help wishing that the
guiltlessness of Mr.. Mckee may be salts
factorily established, and pardon granled.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-07-27

PEOPLE should not forget that Hayes's LETT
ter repudiates none of the vices and con-
demns none of the folIies or enormites of
Grants administration. We should also
remember that the last resolution of the
Cincinnati platform endorses Grantism in all
its length, breadth and hideousness. Hayes
plainly stands pledged, in the absence of
disavowal, to carry out the platform, and
thus must approve Grant. Hayes's first in
telligible utterance-after his birth as a
caudidate-was dispatch to Blaine, full
of sympathy and admiration, and Blsinel
out. Herod's Morton. In very truth, how.
ever the South may have been pleased that
Morton and Blaine and Logan, and the
ultra red and black radicals, were re-
pudiated, and a modsrdd0 elected, il
is plainly true that Hayes has lapseda
into the embraces of extremities of his
party and that 1t is his purpose to re-excite
old issues aud make the South, victimized,
by his triumph, to follow in chains at the
chariot wheels of conquest when he enters
the gates of the Federal capital on the
fourth of March next. Mr., Guy Bryan
and other demented people may be centsnt'
II Hayes triumph; but the South win be
humiliated and the everlasting negro still
constitute the dominant idea in legislation,
and the South may still be crushed between
the upper and neither millssones of parti-
sanship. We would have T,lden and Re
form and not Hayes and Sectional strife
and bitterness, and the less prominent the
South and Southern leaders in the pending
contest the less the danger Of giving vitalii;-
~ TO sectional issues and the less the dan
ger of Hsyes's triumph. u s.sasse l5
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-07-27

SENATOR DoHsEY. .,anJ jack Mcclure, for
merly the Clayton Chief Ju>tice and cham
pion poker player of Arkansas, are co-op-
Grating IN the management of the wreck of
Radicalism in AK ,nsas. They will hold
convention on the ninth, and the other
wing of their party or the twentieth of
August, TO nominate candidates for State
officea 90 "a & tAriH4' i-i @t''
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Pitchers Caaf0rIn Is conpf to kiibstitute for
Castor OIL and IL MS pheasant 20 fakeas Honey. II Is
particularly adapted 40 Tcethnk AM irritable chill
dren It destroys worms, assnlale es The food regu-
latrs the stomach and cures Wind Cole Few rene
dies are as ecaciousfor Fsveti shness Group. Worms
and Whooping Cough. CastoflA IL 4 ecfentfhc and
purely setabe prepaato more effective than CAS-
tor oil aud pethsT gags nor Rripes. y Prepared by
Me srs. J. b. Rose q Co., 46 Dey street, New York,
from the recips OF Samuel Pitcher N D Of Barnsta-
BILE Macs. Je&1dtnw&wlyr
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-07-27

THE Goliad Guard Is awfully exercised
because the Legislature threatens, to extend
the concession to Tom Scott, and the Heus-
ton ,Age is terribly disgruntled thereat, and
the Express is hysterical about it, and the
press very commonly thinks that Scott
should have the same showing with other
railway builders and nothing more, and
that part Of his domain should be reserved
to build up and enrich Western Texas
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-07-27

The Southern Congressman and soldier
who proposed TO give pension Of tifty dol
lars per month to Mrs. Custer was infinitely
wiser and juster than he who proposed to
rear monument. TO the fallen soldier.
Christ adverted to, such case when. he
spoke Of one who asked for bread and was
given st01as.l lLa.. n-.l-3I ~. - :
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-07-27

THE repeal of the resumption, act is al
most assured. The Democratic House will
enact the bill, and tie Radical Senate dares
not, in the midst of the presidential cam
paign, refuse. The people. with one voice,
demand this action at the hands of Con-
gress, and none the less that the people, at
the earliest possible period, would s1bsti-
tute coin for paper as the country's cur
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-07-27

IT should be remelnt cred that the Texas
and Pacific Railroad Company is composed
of aliens. and no suit involving as much
as five hundred dollars is ever permitted to
come before our State courts. The Federal
courts lock every right of claimants, and
Tom Scott rejnices at the misery Of Texans.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-07-27

WE had hoped that the day for raiIroad
lobbying about the Capitol was at an
end, but not So Tom Scat's agents
are shere, constantly burton -hoiing, leglsIa-
tors. They are about the halls, aud at the
desks Of members, and even the ante cham
bers are their receiving rooms. a..a -.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-07-27

These Liniments are simply the wonder % the
sI a.1 41srI lasssl9g i+lm 45ef
n fauidsl+
Ths white Lintmest 4. for the hn man finily.
Il will drive hsssm+fs sSa'sS Sl.Ss mi xxi W.
Palsy, I'ch. and most CutaHeous ~ ptioD-; ~ ex-
tract frost from irosTn hsas ~ a naSon s AIo pi,s Il
subduss swelings and all"viates pain of every X a.
remedy ever dIs ovsred % 6ss the inbred paris The
Centa1r nlnient |. used with gfea efficacy 1or sore
ThEo TSSthaeTnhs me ,oaxfSa SsMs e sat sample Of
numerous testimouials: - .-..e,.....rj II
.TSprAxA HoME JEyY Co, ISD May %, 1878.
fered mnch with swollen et nd chOsds. a
few bol ties OF Ceutaur Limment has done the
work for me. ! have not peen Iree from THESE
swelngs In eight years. Now ! asg perfect
Iy " eli. The Linincn: ought % applied warm ;,
The p-oof Is in the trial IT Is reliable ls ban ",
it - clnp and every family sh uld have the Wtis
Centaur Liniment.
The Yellow ren,aur LinInient Is adap.sd
to the toag muscles, cords and Ss q 5g5ses s9S
three years. OF SPAWN, StraIU, Windgas, S-ratehs
sweeney a general Lameness, thsn all other rene
dies 10 existence. Read what the great Expressmeh
"NEw YORK, January 1874
" Eve'y owner Of hOr-es should give the CESrAUR
LIMsEsT trial We consider 1t the best article ever
used Ia our ,tables. .,rf-s>l, ii il 80. 'Allt
iii MARSH. supt. Adams Ex. stables, n. Y ID. ..l
~. PULTZ, rupt. U. 3. E,. - bles y \, =,
- ALBERT S. QIIN, Supt. Nat Ex Stables MY
The best patrons Of this Llnipept ere Farriers and
Veterinary surge M, who continually using some
IIniment Il heals Gal Q. Won ds aud Polevi re-
moves swe g. and isworth millions OF dollars an
nuslly 20 Farmers, Livery men, StocRrowers, sheep
raisers. and those having horses or cattle.
What Farrier cannot do for $40 the Centaur Ldni,
ment will do At trihlng cost rrUf. f.sirU j
These Liniments are Sold by all dealers throughout
the cnuntry They ed by the proprietors,
and botTe will be given 70 any fairer or fhyslciAn
who desires /. test them. i.. af I h.58I l usifuJ
Laboratory Of J. B. Rose s. Co.,
" DEY ST., New York. ta,.u . y
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erant MeIpIng Thden.

H..H E..
The Baltimore Am6ricaa which up TO this
time has been one of the most bitter and
unscrupulons, as well as one Of the ablest
supporters of the Grant administration
through thick and thin, breaks out editorial-
ly in this strain
or all the sudden, apparently capricious
and unexplainable acts which have charnc-
terized Gen. Grants administration, his
sudden dismissal of Pastmaster' General
Jewell will strike the public AS the worst
and most indefensible. Ia tact, in looking
ut it and other receut occpfrences, ID is
almost impossible to hssign any reason that
does not bring seriously into question tho
motives that have influenced the President,
and suggest a Suspicion that he has entirely
abandoned h'mself to the qualification of
his private caprices and enmities. IL is
needless TO say that Governor Jewell is
man who deserved better treatment, and
that Gen. Grant should have had more re-
spect for himself and his office than 20 have
treated him in so cavalier and disrespectful
y manner. Explanations hereafter to be
made may place the matter IN different
light, but as it appears at present we can
only regard IL as an arbitrary, Ill-tempered
act, the consequences Of which will not
affect the President alone. but also seriously
endanger interests which he OF all men,
standing in the position he does, ought tn
have respected and endeavored to protect.
The enforced resignation of Commissioner
Pratt Is so much in the same line Of coEduct
that it is but an additional surprise. The
President is evidently listening to very in-
judicious advisers just now.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-07-27

THE dispensations Of proyldence are wise
and just keeping all things even. We
were deploring yesterday the accession Of
S4mbard of the Mobile GlObs to the forces
of Tilden but he0equilibriun of the uni
verse is restored by Brick Pumeroy's deser-
ton Of Democracy. And Tildenis perfect
" biest. r
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-07-27

TIE spArnng in the. senate. yesterday,
on Tom Seoti's bill, was lively The game,
now, seems to be TO browbeat and intimi-
date legislators into passing this scheme,
and thihkihR men sre becaming disgusted.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-07-27
COMMUNICATED. .
III. New county auup. n rs.ll.

....
ID Editors Democratic Statesman-There is
pending in the House a bill, already passed
by the Senate, districting our vHst wild ter
ntory into compact, squarely-shaped coun-
ties, of thirty -miies square cach. IL is
bill so wise and 80 tulFo FAefttthat no OPP
position to 1t can be Imagined. The object
of tins article Is to urge upon the House OF
Representatives the importaDce of passing
It. The writeris not one Of the class who
have abused this Legislature brcause OF its
failure, in ninety day., to do all that the
country expected. He realizes its grave
difficulties, and the desirs ot the great ma
jority If its members to strve the country
faithfully. Bur, in, the hurry Of mstiers
now, this valuable bill may be overlooked
IL is OF the first importance 20 the exten-
sion of settlements on the frontier in sew
eral wsys. IL will enable and invite bodies
of families to settle upderstHndingiy IN the
unorganized Territory. They can do
50 knowing in advance where the center OF
each couaty h, and thus regulate their ioca-
ii0ns to suit tl.e.r peculiar views of the fn-
ture. IL will greatly simplify the identih-
cation of land surveys throughout All that
immense territory, and enable persons
owning land or desiring TO locate on the
same 10 understand, by the map, the exact
locality In which they may be interested.
Il will show 70 strangers an intsllgible
map Of Texas-a thing never yet seen oi
more than half tEe Statts
For these, and other good reasons. tbs
writer, having no earthly interest in ths
question, beyond the general good of tbs
Whole State, hopes the bill may be taken NJ
by the House and passed. VISITOR
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-07-27

Morton's Mississippi Outrage Committee
has returned 70 Washington, and the mem
bers appears heartily glad TO be back. The
committee has taken mass OF testimony
which is not yet written out. The mtnI-
bsrs of the committee appear 10 be in per-
feet accord on one point viz: That the
people OF Mississippi are 10 pitisbIe condi.
ton. Senator Bayard says that II the people
of the North could be made 20 know what
the people Of Mississippi have suIssed
under Radical rule for the past four years.
the Democrats would carry the country on
that issue alone. As he graphically ex-
pressed it,sgrhe men who have ruled that
State are actually heanless. They hayo
ground the manhood out Of the suffering
people by their tyrannies. and are nov will
ing TO coin electoral votes out Of the very
hearts Of the people" f q
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-07-27

HExhr WArKRsosss cl.iu.s IS = candidate
for Coagress upon me Louisville district
cannot be questioned. He has done more
thsn all Kentackianz. aimee clsy aud Psen-
tice died, 70 make Kentucky rsspecssbIe-