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The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-05-18

the fine arts, and whilst proud of what we
have done, we regret that We have not
done more. Our achievements have
been great enough, however, to make
It easy for our people to acknowledge
superior merit wherever found; and now,
fellow-citizens, | hope a careful examina-
tion OF what is about 10 be exhibited to
you will not only inspire you with a pro-
found respect for the skill and taste of your
friends from other nations, but also satisfy
them with the attainments made by our
people during the past one hundred years.
| invoke your generous cooperation with
the worthy commissioners to secure brill
liant success to this inter national exhibition,
and TO make. the stay of our foreign visit
ors, to whom we extend hesrty welcome,
both profitable and pleasant to them.
declare the International Exhibition now
open w.
At 1880 A. NJ. Dom Pedro was escorted
To his seat by Gen, Hawley; at 10 40 Gen.
Philip Sheridan aud wife passed over from
the building to the stand in font of Memo
rial Hall during the rendition of national
airs, and were greeted with applause, closely
followed by Hon. James G.. Blaine and
Senator Jones aud wife, of Nevada; at
1855 the President entered through Memo
rial Hall and was conducted to seat in
front of the platform; Governor Hagtranft,
Gen Hawley and Hon. ID. J. Morrill, occu-
pied seats on his left, while John WEIGH
and Mr.. Goshorn were ON his right. Fred
Douglass, by some mischance, worked his
way through the crowd and was helped
over the ropes 10y the officers and conducted
to a seat on the platform. He was greeted
with cheers. At ll:03 the Wagner centen-
nial inauguration march was performed by
the orchestra, under the direction of Theo-
dore Thomas; at the conclusion of which
Bishop Simpson offered devout prayer,
during the rendering of which the majority
of the vast assemblage stood with uncov-
cred heads. p.
PmLADELPmA, May 10.-The Empress
of Brazil, escorted by Mrs. Gillespie, Wis.
tied the women's pavilion this afternoon,
and made the tour of all the aisles and pas
sages. There were no foImahties attend.
ing the visit. Dom Pedro also visited the
pavilion and gave emphatic approval of
the work displayed by American workmen,
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-05-18

NOBODY would have Galveston destroyed.
ne s~nDosition is absurd; but Galveston
sh"ulu not o>rnand everything at the hands
of the State. A sn.--a of modestv in iocted
into its appeals'for help ws>rd he eminent.
~ proper. There are other haro>-s 70 ho
perfected and otner oities to be built on rl.,
coast of Texas, and the Wes. is surely en-
titled, after Tom Scott is appeased, TO a
share of the public domain. The Island
CITY now resPS unheard-of gains from the
whole foreign commerce of the great com
monwealth through the Intervention of its
wharf company, and this is the most gener-
Gus concession ever made by State to a
commercial mart. For the rest, Galveston
and the United States government should
provide. 1t is not the province of the peo-
pie of Texas.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-05-18

THE Galveston CommOner says that Mr..
Chew, OF the Centennial commission, is not
a resident of the State, unless it is in some
technical sense which by legal construc-
ton makes man IA resident who does not
reside" We have had enough of these
foreign adventures sent down to hold of
flee. Every vulgar fellow who has done
Grant or some Radical placeholder special
serViI>, If too vulgar or ignorant to hold
office In the cIViI-Zeu 1NUTUu, Is sent IN robes
of state into the South. Knaves and
boobies and common thieves thus, unhap-
PLY, give commonplace Southern people
their only knowledge of Northern gentle
men, aud no wonder the bloody chasm is
hard to bridge. But this is not designed
to refer to Mr.. Chew. He is said to be,
socially, very proper person. We only
proposed TO refer to the weIl-founded preiu-
dice of Southern people against the system
of filling Southern offices with Northern
men. The NOrtherner, save in exceptional
cases, will not take Office here If he can Sc
cure it at home, aud therefore the second
EatS NoItueInet Is ioICSd, as placeman,
into the South. We do not know how
Boston would take it, but rather uLkintily we
imagine, if Grant sent thither five hundred
educated ''ex-planters" to manage the Gus
tom house and postoffice and United States
Court of that godly town. But suppose
Grant, finding it impossible to induce fss-
udious ex-planters and decent gentlemen
to accept these positions = because gentle
men would not thrust themselves upon an
unwilling people = suppose Grant found
himself compelled to send over to Boston a
queer lot OF ''overseers" and Confederate
Cross Road" bullies, would not Boston
hoWL the monument quake, Old FaneuiI
roar, and Quincy Market expectorate We
have no objection to Chew but don't
like to be ''chawed, " and while we have
profound respect for very many excellent
gentlemen sent hither to hold Federal
places in Texas, we can't help thinking the
distinction made against rs by Federal au-
thority is InvidiOns and very many Of its
Representatives here are unworthy Of .sthe
best government the world ever saw
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-05-18

GOVERNOR COKE would gladly have the
State Constitution undergo thorough revis-
ion at the hands of the Legislature and its
more glaring defects remedied. Then,
when the Legislature has shaped these pro-
posed amendments and committees have
perfected leading measures of needful cur
rent legislation, Governor Coke would
probably be pleased to retire for a time to
that "Sabine farm" which an indignant and
learned contemporary informed u.s. on one
occasion when we lnnocently alluded to it,
was on the banks of the brawlIng Brazos,
and not on the Sabine. Very naturally,
his Excellency would devote few weeks
or months to the arrangement of his long
neglected private business before going to
Washington for six years. OF his pur-
poses, in this behalf, we know nothing.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-05-18
ACROSS THE RIO GRANDE.

The forces Of Gen. DIaz have been com
PEELED TO fall back on Matamoros on ac
count Of the scarcity of water. 1t is re-
ported that the government troops will en-
deavor to cut off their retreat, and it is
probable that IN endeavoring to effect this
object Escobedo will be assaulted when he
least expects it by Diaz, who is esteemed
by Mexicans very Fabius or Joe Johnston
in war. He knows how to win victories by
retreating, and when to assail more pow
erful antagonist. He fought the French
and finally defeated them, though always
retreating and always outnumbered, and
finally triumphed. When Juarez and Lerdo
were driven into remote northeastern dis
tricts, Diaz remained in the valley of Mex
leo or in mountain Businesses, and by sheer
force of sturdy courage and genius as a
soldier maintained his authority. While
we would prefer the maintenance of the
existing order of things, there is no deny
ing the capacity of Dlaz and his superiority
as leader to Escobedo, and the latter may
at any time encounter a shock that will
make his big ears bend and quiver like
reeds before the tempest's blast. Diaz does
not retreat so much for want of water as of
men. His forces are undisciplined and un-
trustworthy, while Escobedo leads an army
perfectly organized aud equipped.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-05-18

EVERY sane man has a perfect right
to maintain unquestioned his own opin-
ions in politics and religion. He who
damns another in social or business life
simply for his convictions, however SEEM
ingly absurd, has hardly been properly
reared, and certainly his education has
the aggregation of the opinions of its cor con-
tributors, and we must concede to news
papers that freedom of thinking and of
opinions never denied to one another among
intelligent gentlemen. Therefore we have
despised the iliberality of those who never
find their favored journal differing from
them, that they do not grow angry and
prescribe it, prOnOuncing it corrupt be-
cause, perhaps, not as blind as themselves.
There may be bigots of this sort in Austin
fellows whose eyes glare by moonlight,
and so close are these cleaning organs of
vision to one another in narrow heads of
this illiberaI, selfish, sanity pattern, that a
Pharisee and Puritan is never mistaken for
generous, LIBERAL educated gentleman.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-05-18

THE political death of Representatives,
who secured the passage of bill through
the Fourteenth Legislature, for cleaning
out Oyster creek, the San Bernard river and
Gamer creek, should be warning to others.
This bill opened the way for one of the
grandest steals, as far as it went, of this
age. And now, from the same quarter,
are asked sixty sections of land for every
$40. 900 of bonds issued to build break
water at Galveston. The best way TO salts
fy demands from this neck of the woods Is
for the Legislature to declare at once that
all the public domain, except that part
already gobbled up by Tom Scott, be
turned over to satisfy this local demand
now and forever
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-05-18

GALVESTON is after Big Bonanza" i'll
the shape of sixty sections of land for
every so, OG0 of bonds that may be Issued
to build breakwater. As this enormous
concession may in time gobble up the en-
tire public domain, except that reserved
for Tom Scott, the East, West, North and
South of Texas, Except Galveston) may
give up all hope OF internal improvements.
When the bill is passed for Galveston, In
dianola, Lavaca, Matagorda, Saluria, We
lasco and all the demolished coast country
should be taxed Oh to it
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-05-18

WHAT wsn al the rest of Texas do for
coveted internal Improvements when Texas
has disemboweIed itself of every remaining
acre of public domain for one local interest,
while the rest is held at the pleasure of a
foreign railroad king
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-05-18

THERE have been many paragraphs
printed containing less truth than is en-
bodied in the statement of the Examiner
that nobody knows the influence exerted
by Hon. John Hancock's TRADE against the
press at Brenham nearly two years ago in
accomplishing his defeat as candidate
against Coke for the Senatorship. AS the
grand first cause, it would take high rank,
we are greatly inclined to believe, if there
were any means at hand to arrive at cor.
rect conclusion"
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-05-18

LOUISIANA colOred church peol /, are
nightly excited about the proposed merge
church, and there is violent opposition to the
the scheme The cunning white fellows who
came down from the North to engineer the
religious business of the simple blacks war
the money to be picked by piety from pitt
full pockets, ana African preachers have
learned the value of the purse strings of
godliness and are little disposed to transfer
them to Bishop Haven's and Confessor
SIMPSONS immaculate missionaries. The
color line in religion is and should be as in
destructlble as in politics and in social life.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-05-18

GEORGETOWN will build tap road to the
international just below Round Rock;
.hanca if is fourteen miles 10 Manur. TnV
Central road will probably build branch
to connect with Georgetown near Round
Rock and thus Georgetown will have a di-
rect route to Houston. Of course this
Georgetown branch of the Central will be
extended to Lampasas and Brownwood
Would it not be wise for Austin to save
narrow gauge from this city to Lampasas
Nothing else can save to Austin the trade
of northern and northwestern counties
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-05-18

THE exodus of negroes from Tennessee
still progresses, and the people don't seem
to weep about it very bitterly. Whites
come in as the negroes emigrate, and Kan
sas, it seems, without hankerins after
our African fellow citizens, is gathering
them in. No foreign or Northern white
population will seek homes in country in
which negroes are dominant, and, however
costly labor may become for time in dis
tricts abandoned by blacks, land is aug
mented IN value by their departure, and a
temporary evil speedily develops its own
compensatory advantages.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-05-18

Tom SCOTT means business. He is plot
| ting grand movement against the United
States Treasury and the S nth. He not
only takes the toddling little newspapers on
grand tramp, desoating hash-houses, but
conveys the old veterans of two Texan
wars to Philadelphia, and now this exceed
ing good and Soulh-loving and generous
man sends special railway palace car to
gHXrttth foRgYsX the J widow Of President Polk from
South will he grateful for such generous
deeds, and surrey, in the midst of all the
harshneSs of reconstruction and universal
suffrage, the South and Texas, even for
small favOrs, will be exceeding grateful and
full of wonder and admiration. Tom only
asks $40, 900 per mile more than Hunting
ton as a concession to be made to him for
building a St. Louis and Philadelphia
trunk line Pacific road that bends down to-
wards the South and draws away the
wealth and travel of Texas, returning
nothing to the commonwealth. He is com
PEELED to make the road subserve St. Louis
and Philadelphia interests in order to Sc
cure the votes of these cities and of their
roads in Congress, and now he would use
the press of Texas and the old soldiers and
the kindly feeling of the South excited by
kindness to a representative woman of the
South. To the North and to Philadelphia
and St. Louis and their Railways he proffers
the trade and travel of a trans-continental
road; to the South he comedies Little
Leaders, press excursion, dead headism to
veterans and a palace car for Mrs. President
Polk, and we are exceedingly happy when
contemplating the sweet proportions and
enrapturiug beauties of our side of the
innocent, undeslgnlng, simple minded,
good man!
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-05-18

EXTREME Western Texas, embracing one
third of the entire area of the whole State,
supported Coke for the United States Sen
ate. Cards, Hunter, McLeary, Wurzbach,
Kessler, Ford, Rogers and Perrenot, repre-
senting solidly the country from the Pan
Handle TO the Gulf of Mexico, and as far
east as Mason. Gillespie, Comal and Nueces,
all voted for Coke. Dare it be said, then,
1hss he was not the choice of the great
Western interest -
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-05-18

AT Richmond, this State, the sheriff,
treasurer, county attorney and justice of
the peace are all negroes. These officers
have all taken the oath of office and entered
upon the discharge of their official duties.
1t would be well to note statistics of i'm
migration and emigration in Richmond
while this state of facts exists, and then we
may discover the relations of universal suf-
frage to universal retrogression in wealth,
morals and decency
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-05-18
Mexico.

Generals Fuero, Palscios and Quiroga are
at Aquas Negras CDlnck wa,er), 70 JOIN Es-
cobedo and clean out Diaz.
Gen. Narango, with 400 men, holds Mier.
Porfro Diaz had 2OO0 men when he
started toward Monterey 10 encounter Esco-
bedo. NaraBgo joined him with perhaps
1000 men. Gonzales is in command at
Matamoros.
The Brownsville war about SKINS has
subsidized. Tresino Garza withdrew grace
fully, and Don Timideo de Solio-tlmid
about the sunlight-is hide inspector. It's
an awful crime in those parts to pull the
wool over the eyes Of Tsmideo.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-05-18

IT is said that the narrow gauge double
track road from St. Louis to Washington
city will surely be built; the bill providing
for its construction having been approved
by the proper congressional committee.
Narrow gauge roads pay stockholders and
builders; broad gauge roads pay bond
holders and mortgages.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-05-18

The next that may be heard of local a'd
from the State is that the desolated plan
tauons of Matagorda and Brazoria coun-
ties may have sixty sections of land to
every ten thousand dollars of property to
secure them against future overfows.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-05-18

CAPT. S. ]. ADAMS, of Dallas, has pur-
chased iron for FIVE miles of the Dallas and
Palestine road, that the charter may not be
forfeited, and here we propose to build a
narrow gauge road twenty miles that will
double, within three years, the trade of
Austin, and all the capitalists, landowners
and merchants and bankers of Austin can
not be induced to create a fund to assure
the construction of this highway. These
facts explain the prosperity of Dallas
tradesmen, and the vigorous growth of the
place, and also account for the torpidity of
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-05-18

-ryas Observer likes patent out
o~iActiOn to them consists In
the TACT that vast deal of advertising is
done for which the ro-as publisher gets
nothing and thus our press is rrr.Aod as we'll
as our Texas type settlers. 1t is in degr.3a.
ton of advertising rates that the gre~.
evil of the bogus system consists.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-05-18

HoSoRs and rewards rendered the few
surviving ''old veterans" of Texas exert
profound and most fortunate influence up
on the character and conduct and aspira-
tions Of the youths of this commonwealth.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-05-18

lSDIANoLA should have a breakwater
built BY the State, and as it was really des-
olated when Galveston was not, the State
should pay for all the loss sustained in that
now desolate place.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-05-18

The way of the transgressor Is hard"
In any event Boss Tweed has been running
around amoug icebergs. But be was never
Yet headed OF in game of 81 freeze out, /"
and may not be captured by his parsuers.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-05-18

A memorial lamp, paid for by contribu-
tons from California, viii be erected on
the Centennial grounds, at cost Of $4,000.
The pedestal will represent one of the ..big
trees" Of the State with gold quartz piled
about the base.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-05-18

The PoErRss ''USA.p - Mrs. Mary A.
Ford, Gina the weil-known Irish-Ameri-
can poetess, is dead. She was held In
very high estimation by the Irish-Ameriesn
and Catholic press Of the country. Her
"Washipgtonis Farewell 10 His Army"
"a Hundred Years From Now The
Green and Gold, !" the Men Of Rarii, and
''God Pity the Poor, " are esteemed among
the finest things in the English language.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-05-18

The company publishing Bsecher's Chris
tiaa Union, after hard struggle with de-
clining fortunes, the pass two years. has han
10 give up aud 20 into bankruptcy. A new
company has been formed % carry on the
paper. whose circulation has deeliDed from
les, 600 10 25, 90, within less than two
years $50
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er of flsher Aer's Colony. On the fo1rsecnth day
~ February, lso for go land II found
within tbs time prescribed oy law application VII be
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