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Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1876-05-03


THE SHIP CANAL PRoJECT.-The
article which we to-day publish on
this subject is from the pen of Capt,
{. X. Dean, of Boscobel, a practical
civil engineer, who has q personal
knowledge of the character of the
Wisconsin River such as but few
IN the state possess. There can be
no doubt that Mr.. Dean is correct as
to the impracticability of the canal
project, and what he intimates of its
evil connection with political affairs
in the state, and especially in this
congressional district, has long been
recognized with regret by many OF
the better men of both parties. In
future campaigns we hope neither
party will attempt to make a hobby
of the River Improvement, as both
have done in the past, bat that each
will give such an unequivocal en-
dorsement To the present hopeful
plan of operations as to put y lasting
quictus upon the baletul Utopian
Ship Canal scheme.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1876-05-03
BaisTcw OF BLAINE.

VcUtlOLl VI w lSCOISlH, idoc CNi N"A ,
declared by resolution that James
G. Blaine was then the choice of the
party in this state for President, it
no doubt spoke truly; and when the
same convention refused to instruct
delegates to the Cincinnati Conven-
ton, it displayed wisdom. Since
the holding of that convention moth
ing has developed to show that Mr..
Blaine is not in every respect worthy
of the confidence then expressed;
indeed, since then he has been sub
iected to severe criticism and malic-
ious SANDER, and passed through the
ordeal without even smell OF fire adj
herring to his garments. During the
same time, Mr.. Bristow has come
into prominence as a possible oandi-
date for the Presidency he has been
subjected to equal or more trying
tests, and come out unscathed, even
to the singeing of hair. 1t seems
more than probable that upon one Of
these worthy statesmen will be con-
ferred the honor of bearing the Re-
publican banner through the ap-
preaching political campaign and
under the leadership of either we
believe the Republican hosts would
tremendously unite and march to
victory.
AS but one can be chosen for the
first post Of honor, however, it is the
right, if not the duty of every Re-
publican to have preference, and
express the same with his reasons
therefor. In the exercise Of which
prerogative we briefly give few
reasons for the belief we entertain
that the nomination of B. II. Bristow
for President by the Cincinnati Con-
vention is the most desirable that
can be made:
lst, TO his efficiency, fearlessness,
and vigor the country owes the dis
covery and demolition of the whisky
ring, the existence of which so long
stained our national honor, and the
honor of the Republican party.
I'd, Being rightly regarded as the
prime cause Of the detection of the
great whisky frauds, and the punish
ment Of corrupt officials and dealers,
Bristow's name at the head of the
national ticket would do more than
any other, and more than all the
newspapers and orators of the nation
to convince the people that the Re-
publican party do not, and will not
approve or palliate corruption, which
Democrats strive so hard to make
appear.
In these two particulars, at least,
he has the advantage of Blaine, or
any other man, and in every other
rpspect il eouolly desirable as a pan-
didate. And believing that these or
even one of them is sufficient to JUS
tify conviction that he will prove
the strongest before the people, and
that the strongest man should be
nominated, we earnestly hope the
! Cincinnati Convention will see it
its duty to place his name at the
head of the ticket.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1876-05-03

months ago or more, that paper az
parently thinking that Hon. r. B.
Washburne, of Illinois, might develop
into a prominent candidate for the
presidency, began and continued,
from day to day the publication OF ed
itorial and copied squibs derogatory
to that gentleman. Every item, from
whatever source, or of however i'm
probable nature, that could be tor
tured into a shape unfavorable to
Mr.. Washburne, was seized upon,
exaggerated or re-dressed as hideous-
ly as possible, and given place in the
Sentinel columns. More recently,
Mr.. Washburne not appearing to be
SO prominent in connection with the
Presidency, and Mr.. Bristow's name
becoming frequently mentioned, the
Sentinel has begun to employ the
same "mean tactics" toward the last
named gentleman. In its Issue OF
April 10Th the Sentinel makes reply
to a statement that recently APP
peared in the Chicago Tribune, to
the effect that "a conspiracy had
been formed between the Democrats
and the whisky ring to break down
Bristow as candidate for the Pres
idency." In that article the .Senti'aeFs
animosity to Mr.. Bristow is clearly
discernable, though feeble attempt
is made to hide it under a weak at
tack upon the Tribune. In the fol-
lowing sentence Of the article men-
toned the Sentinel aims to create an
impression that the charges against
Bristow are well founded:
So far there isn't the slightest reason to sup
pose that members of the whisky ring have
had anything to do with the charges against
Bristow and if they have, that fact has
no bearing on the real question, which is,
whether the charges are or ore not true.
This, be it understood appeared
after evidence clearly generating the
Secretary had been several days be-
fore the country, and the charges
silenced even in Democratic circles.
In recent numbers of the Sentinel
have appeared several squibs tend
ing to the same purpose-to unjustly
prejudice the public against Mr..
Bristow and Mr.. Washburne. We
copy the following as sample:
If Mr.. Bristow rs unable to answer charges
against his integrity without becoming blus
terng blatherskitc he had better allow some
sensible person to appear for him.
And such is the character of pa
per which aspires to be the leading
Republican organ Of Wisconsin !!
Thanks to the good sense Of the peo-
pie of the state, it never has, and
never is likely to get beyond aspir-
ing. 1t is sohotorious that the Sen
tiael is merely the mouth-piece of an
unprincipled ring, that its influence
i. uncomfortable, and its rottenness
but little affects the party of the state.
The greatest evil done by the con-
Germ is abroad, where it may be ac-
copied as a standard by which to
Judge the character and intelligence
of the Republicans of Wisconsin.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1876-05-03

WAR has actually broken out be-
tween the adjoining CentralAmerican
republics of Guatemala and Salvador.
One battle is reported to have been
fought, resulting in Gautemalan
victory. 1t is hard to find out
what the quarrel is about.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1876-05-03

THE last team proposed for the
Democratic Presidential ticket is
Tilden, of New York, and Doolittle,
OF Wisconsin. Another is David
Davis, of Illinois, and Charles L.
English, of Connecticut.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1876-05-03

TIE British House of Commons has
defeated a Woman's Suffrage bill
ayes l52, noes 239. The prospect
Of giving the women the ballot does
not seem to be more encouraging in
England than in this country.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1876-05-03

Mr.. CAULFIEDD and Mr.. Cate, who
both hold seats in Congress fraudu-
lently obtained, are the leaders In
investigating Mr.. Bristow.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1876-05-03
NelU Advertisements.
SEALED PROPOSALS

~ will be received up TO May 10th for the cree.
ton of II Good Templar Hall, near Willow Springs
7. NJ Church, to be completed by the 18th Of July,
1876. Pland and specifications can be seen at the
Post Office in Mineral Point. Proposals must be
addressed to n r. Prrkinson Mineral Point.
by Order Of Committee
W. j. REESE, Sccy.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-05-25
AN EXTRAORDINARY SESSION.
Article III, section 8, of the Constitution,

Article III, section 5, of the Constitution,
reads:
The Legislature shall meet every two
years, at such time as may be provided by
law, and at other times when convened 10y
The Governor.
The ordinance postponing a general cleo
tion was regarded as dangerous assump-
ton OF authority by the Constitutional
Convention, but it's advocates claimed it as
a necessity. The subsequent ordinance,
submitting the new Constitution to vote
of the people, reads:
That in case the new Constitution shall
be ratified at said election, the Senators and
Representatives then elected shall assem-
bic as the Fifteenth Legislature. at the seat
of government. on the third Tuesday in
April, A. ID. 1876.
Upon careful consideration of this Sec
ton, and the one following it, there is left
OF the Legislature, under the direct pro-
visions of the Constitution, is nothing
more than an extraordinary session, a con-
cession in view of the fact that the election
general election and meeting of the Fiji
tenth Legislature from January to April.
1t is clear that legislation, Immediately
upon the adoption of the Constitution, was
necessary to place the statutes in accord
with the new organic law, and hence this
extraordinary session was provided for.
The same ordinance further ordained:
That after the first election herein pro-
vided for, until otherwise prescribed by
law, the regular biennial elections of this
State, for State, district, county and pre-
cinct officers, after the year 1876, shall be
held on the Tuesday next after the first
Monday in November, every second year,
commencing with November, 1873. All
officers elected at the election herein pro-
vided for shall hold their Offices as though
they had been elected in November, 1876,
whether the tenure of their offices by the
new Constitution be for two, four or six
years.
The same ordinance declares that the
Constitution shall go into effect on the
third Tuesday in April; and at the same
time, as above quoted, It provides that the
election, held in February, shall be regarded,
as applied to tenure of Office, as though
held in November, 1876. From this
date, then, the limitations of the new
code virtually commence. Two years after
next November another general election
will be held, and IN 1879, and not
until then, will the Sixteenth Legis-
lsture meet. During these two years,
should no session of the Legislature con
vene, such failure will be in direct antag-
onism to the Constitution, which expressly
and positively provides for session of the
Legislature to onvene every ''two years, y
and not once in three years, as must be the
case should no session of the Legislature
meet IN 1877. 1871 1853 sai
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as 1t contains the principle of armed inter
ventipn, and is menace TO the liberty and
independence of Turkey.
LONDON, May 23.-In the House of Com
mons the Secretary stated that the Wins
low papers, up to date, would be submit
ted 10 the House.
The Under Secretary'of the Foreign De-
partment stated that the Cubans, in Octa-
via, had not been released, but that Spain
promised to take no action regarding them
till arrangement between the governments
had been reached.
LONDON, May e3-At the request of the
Attorney General the WinSlow case is fur
Their remanded eight DAYS. Meantime the
government takes measures to bring the
case before the Queens Bench.
Domestic Ma. acts.
GALVESTON. May 23.-Gold l121S@ll&
Silver par a l09, Exchange-New York
sight A@lSc premium New Orleans sight
Cotton-market dull and irregular; good or
binary SSSc; low middling l0Ac. middling
llssc good middling lessc
NEW YORK, May 23. = Stocks dull and
little lower. Money per cent. Gold
opened at ll2ss and declined TO ll2ls Elk
mentS duh and steady State bonds quiet
and nominal
CottOn-market quiet; sales 456 bales; up
lands llstc; Orleans II ll-l6c
NEW ORLEANS, May %, - Gold 1929
Sight IS per cent premium. Sterling 5.50IS
Cotton - demand slack; sales 1900 bales !,
good ordinary &c; ordinary 9lsc; low mid
ding lO4@lO1sc; middling llls@llHc,
Foreign Markets.
LIVERPOOL, May 90 = Noon. Cotton
dull and easier, middling uplands f-l6d;
middling Orleans 6l4d; sales 5000 bales; for
| speculation and export 1000 bales.
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terrible accidents, referring, at the same
time, to people who are always accident
ally shot" by guns ''known" ~ to be IN
loaded. Il was not our purpose to treat
ridiculously the misfortune that befel Mr.
BraggeIt or members of his family, excel
lent honest and worthy We are told, but
to show how strange it is that lessons of care
are not taught by ever-recurring accidents
We deplore, as deeply as those who have
criticised the manner IF the announcement
the misfortune that befel these excellent
citizens, and in wTOnging them, if wrong
were done, have most deeply misrepresent-
ed and wrOnged ourselves, in seeming to
speak lightly of the woes of individu als
W hen only intending to condemn thought
lessness that so frequently results in suffer
ing aud death. We respect the criticism
of the Express and therefore this explsDs-
tIOn.
The assertion of the virtues of blue rays
of light, as curative agencies for nervous
disorders and rheumatism, is persistentiy
made by Northern newspapers, and many
persons attest the infinite value of Gen
Pleasan;on's discoveries. Gen. Drum, chief
of SheTman's staff, and other noted officers,
| have been cured of rheumatism bv blue
rays of light, and their certificates adorn a
place III AIc new DIX LItTOd. W Z are
told that blue light falling on growing veg
etables doubles and quadruples their dimen-
sions and rapidity OF development. A colt
kept in a stable supplied with blue glass win
dow lights was full grown horse in three
months, and countless other astonishing sto-
rIes are told of the peculiar virtues of blue
rays of Zig hit falling ON animals or vegetation.
Many columns of the Herald have been de-
voted to the exposition Of facts and philos-
ophy sought To be established bv Gen.
PleasantOn, who has devoted fifteen wears
TO experiments affecting the properties OF
! light, especially as affecting vegetation and
diseases. We must confess incredulity.
and especially since the General denies and
would subvert all accepted ideas on these
subjects. 1t is only a conceded fact that
beneath the bluest skies vegetation and
men alike grow most rapidly; but that
! Gen. Peasanton's discoveries Justify
conclusions he has announced is in
credible and seemingly absurd. II
there be readers of the STATESMAN who
would test the value of "Pleasant-onian'
theories, we cannot refrain from warning
them against calamity we have somewhere
heard about commonly known as ''blue
ruin )" and 1t may be true that the surposi.
ton that vegetables were affected by blue
light came of the fact that the biggest
onions in the wLrld--'pl easant-onions"-
grow only about Ell Paso, where everybody,
except Mr.. Cards, is in ''blue way"
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THosE money-lendrrs and five per cent.
per month people who do not like the new
Constitution should not misrepresent il. II
Is stated by a letter-writer for St Louis
paper that money cannot be loaned on real
estate or on town lots in Texas; that the
homestead exemption act renders il unsafe.
II il were the policy Of Texas to inhlbit
the borrowing Of money and the paying in
tsrest on life or fire insurance premiums to
foreign banks and corporations. Il IL mat
ter that concerns Texas alone, and other
people have no right 10 complain They
surely have no right either to prey upon or
enrich US IL we choose TO prevent il. The
lsnspicion is excited, by complaints made,
that We are not. aud that lenders alore are,
pIofi,ed by the process Of lending and
crediting. and II this surmise be well
founded, as shown b5 this letter-writeF, the
constitutional provision, TO the extent that
& makes borrowing and usury impossible,
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-05-25

CAPT. BOYD, of q III county, has intro
duced bill in the House providing for a
State detective force, to be composed Of a
captain, receiving St2j month, eight ser
geants, receiving $50 per month, and one
hundred men to he paid $50 per month.
peace officers in making arrests; to assist
in rhforcing laws; 10 preserve the peace
prevent crime and to bring offend
ers of the law to justice; also to
be clotheu with authority to act
without warrant The fofce shall be un-
der the command Of the Adjutant General,
who shall discipline the same. Officers and
men shall be self cted only on satisfactory
proof of good moral character, signed by
five creditable men, well informed upon
the subject. Rewards offered by the State
shall not be recoverable 10y any members OF
this force. Its members shall be invested
with authority to arrest anywhere in the
State, and to call on citizens to assist in
making arrests. The Adjutant General
shall give the force all procurAble means to
ferret out and detect criminals, and 1t shall
act in conjunction with sher.Ts to this end.
The bill further provides that this forco
shall remain in effect so long as any
necessity exists for the use of the same to
suppress crime and lawlessness.
The Committee on State Affairs unani-
mously agree upon the necessity for such a
bill, and should this and the one of Senator
Grain, making the power of all sheriffs to
arrest co-extensive- with the limits of the
State, become laws there will soon be an
end to the lawlessness now prevailing in
Texas
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is eminently wise and proper. The less said
abroad, therefore, in condemnsiion Of local
selfishness, the greater the possibility of the
liberalization of the exemption and usury
codes Of Texas. But the homestead ex-
emption las is misrepresented. a lender
on mortgage or trust deed is as safe here as
elsewhere. If the imprint Of the wiie's
foot have not stamped the property with
the seal and sanctity Of the homestead, the
mortgagee's or trustees prior nights are as
perfect as under a like instrument of
record affecting a city lot in ST. Louis 81
London or b oston. The defect in the Con.
stitution; which shoTld be amended al
once, in this behalf, consists in the fact
that It d es not spec Jcaty require the
registration" Of deeds defining home
stesds, but, where property has not been
thus Appropriated rs the abiding place Of
the family, the rights Of the husband and
wife cannot so arise as to defeat the priOl
liens of lender on mortgage, and the st.
Louis letter writer is wholly in error.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-05-25

The privilege" of suffrage is not deemed
very valuable. People, where it is degraded
to all base uses by ignorance and vice, as
in city and town elections everywhere, rs
sign the privilege very little value, and the
more capable and worthy the citizen the less
he cares to discharge the duty of voting.
So valueless is the privilege that decent
people do not care to exercise it, and it is
impossible that women should seek to gain
it,. Until they do there will be no extern
sion of the suffrage womanward. If they
want it, very certainly they can have it.
But until the concession have value there
will be no woman suffrage, and simply be-
cause the sex could not be induced, as cleo
tIons are now conducted and determined,
to attend popular election.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-05-25

THE evident seli-satisiaction with which
the hermaphrodite St. Louis Republican
ticks its filthy chops and announces the in
generation of Col. Mckee, of the Globe
Democrat, is simply brutal and infamous.
Many as honest men as any in st. Louis,
Democrats and Republicans, believe Mckee
the victim of foul conspiracy and of the
passion for prosecution; and if this be not
true we can only deplore the weakness OF
the editor entrapped by knaves through his
greed for gold. In this, if public opinion
have any value, be is surpassed in nothing
by the owners of the Republican.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-05-25

A MAP of Texas shows that Cuero is al
most due south from Austin, and San An
tonic is almost due west from Cuero. II
Morgan extend the Cuero and IDdianola
road to Austin he gives this city the shortest
route to the sea, and thus its cheapest route
to New Orleans. Will not the coming OF
the International concentrate here such
trade and travel that Morgan will come
hither to control it9 Should not the people
of Austin promote such consummation,
and, if we would assure it, should not the
building of the narrow gauge to Lampasas
be inaugurated ut once2
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DEcRNOx ANoNG NEWSPAPERS.

..en a man of ordinary modesty has
been in the newspaper business any length
Of time he eschews even the use of the i'm
personal 1--WE" and for the reason that it
smacks OF egotism. The name of the news
paper is substituted foi the plural personal
pronoun. These facts are observed in the
conduct Of all wel-established newspapers.
Correspondents even are not suffered to
violate laws of taste, decency and news
paper decorum and those journalists who
cannot conform to the code thus established
by prescription should be deemed beyond
the pale of professional recognition. The
editor who cannot make his presence felt
without Haunting his ugly patronymic be.
fore the public hardly deserves to
occupy the place of a public instructor,
and II he have not modesty himself, he
should sometimes suspect the existence Of
the virtue in others. Therefore the imper
sonality OF journalism and therefore the
substitution OF 1--WE" for the detestablt
EGO" and therefore the suggestion that il
an editor avoid thrusting himself into the
newspaper his contemporaries should surely
suffer his privacy to be uninvaded by vut
garity. Newspapers and newspaper men,
so-cAlled, in Texas have degraded them
selves and the profession they dishonol
by the non-observanee Of rules nsvel
violated by those who have honoreG
the profession Of journalism. II tn,
Press Association of Texas ever accom-
plish any desirable result it win be discov
cred In the incubation OF the lesson nov
sought to be expounded, and the profession
and its members viii win respeotability ans
influences 20 the very extent that this result
Il attained. II there be those who canno
comprehend the reason for rules long pre-
scribed, those who obey these laws Of de
cency should not forfeit self-respect ~ in
volving themselves in controversies will
ignorAnce and bad breeding.
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Mexico.

DesestiOns from Diau's army are numer-
Gus. sass
Gen. FlOrer thoroughly extinguished the
revolt AZ Tampieo.
Corn is selling At very high prices in the
State Of TAmAuhpas.
Gen. Alasorre has defeated the rebel
Gen. Lopez. and occupied The city OF
SAnApa, alter severe engagement with the
national guard OF onzAhz-
A revelation has broken out in the State
Of Tlaxcala- Gen. Salcedo has been or
dered TO that place. He will act in con-
junction with the iorces Of Col. Aloozo.
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peRitentiary convicts and has studied prsc-
tically the working of the existing system
of employing couvicts, is the proper man
to devise plans of reform and of all men,
because OF his excellent good sense, Is best
fitted for the craftsmanship of the Commit
tee on the Penitentiary.
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REprATH, the insane zealot of Boston,
is secretary of Morton's smelling, bloody
shirt committee to Investigate enormiue:
done by whites in Mississippi. Morton
and Redpath II makes ones blood freezt
to think of the forthcoming campaign doc
ument this pair of WORTHLESS viii launch
upon the sea of politics.
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THE imposslblllty ot obliterating the
color line in Southern politics is shown in
the fact that the negroes prefer Morton to
all other candidates for the Presidency,
and next highest stands Grant or Blaine.
events in Louisiana give it attractive stains
and splendor.