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made and secured in the law as to protect
and promote Southern interests, and mske
1t IN benefits as we'll as geographically a
Southern road, may surely be counted to
give 1t all the support in my power.
The question is, will Tom Scott accept
such notifications of his scheme as will
make the road subordinate to the purposes
oil Texan lawgivers when they endowed it
SO munlticently. We want . road TO restore
vitality to the South and cities OF the
South, and while st. Louis and Philadel-
pima may need very sadly route to the Pa
cltlc to compete witL the existing transcon-
tInental highway, st. Louis and Philadel-
Phla and the Pennsylvania Central should
endow 1t and the resources of Texas be ap-
piled to highway designed and managed
by those whose interests and necessities
would impel them to give the South, and
Texas especially, every advantage incident
to the control of the trunk line." Branch
roads are called feeders" of trunk lines"
Under Tom Scott's scheme and manage
ment the Pennsylvania Central is part of
the trunk" line, and the South is drained
into 1t, receiving nothing from it. Let
Texas have Southern Pacific road or a
retrocesslon Of the public domain that we
may assure the construction of such O
road
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The Assassination OF Lincoln.
Very respectfully yours,
c. p. HUNTINGTON.

The following vivid description of the
scenes at Ford's Theater, at the time of mis-
assassination, from forthcoming book by
Walt. Whitman, has never before been pub
lished:
The day, April IA. 1865. was pleasant
one throughout the whole land-the. moral
atmosphere pleasant toO-the long storm so
dark, SO fTatricidal, full of blood and doubt
and gloom, over and ended at last by the
sunrise of such an absolute national victory,
and utter breaking down of secessionism-
We almost doubted our own sensesl Lee
had cspitulated beneath the apple tree Of
Appomattox. The other armies, the flanges
of the revolt, swiftly followed.
And could it really be, thenl Out Of all
the affairs OF this world of woe and passion
of failure ami disorder and dismty, was
there really come the confirmed, unc-riDg
sign OF plan, like u shaft Of pure light, 0f
rightful Tule-of God!
But must not dwell on accessories. The
deed hastens. The popular afternoon pa
per, the little EeeniRg STIR, had spattered
all over its third page, divided among the
advertisements in a sensational manner in q
hundred different places: "Tbe President
and his lady will be at the theater this even
ing" Nineoln was fond Of the theatre.
ndfC sCn sICu nun Aitit 5Cf CAol lllllte.
remember thinking how funny it was that
he. in some respects, the leading actor in
the greatest and stormIest drama known to
real hIstory's stage, through centuries,
should sit here and be so completely in
terested ad absorbed in those human jack
straws, L o. az about with their silly little
gestures, loreign spirit, and fatulenf text.
SO the day, as | say, was propitious
Early herbage, early flowers, were out. Il
remember where Was stopping at the time,
the season being advanced, there were many
lilacs in full bloom BT one Of those ca
prices that enter and give tiDge TO evenss
without being At all part Of them, / find
myself always reminded Of the great tTag-
edy Of that day by the sight and odor Of
these blossoms. II never fails).
Ga this occasion the fneater was crowded,
many ladies in rich and gay costumes. Off
Gers in their uniforms, many vell-kn0wn
citizens, young folks, the usual cIusters Of
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An Important Event ia the Royal
Family.

The New York World, not to be outdone
by its enterprising neighbor, the Herald, in
the way of cable correspondence, gives the
following, which purports 10 have been
flashed under the ocean:
LONDON, February 5.-On Thursday last
Queen Victoria entered the boudoir OF her
unmarried daughter, the Princess Beatrice,
and said, beatrice, my dearest, you want
to get married, don't you2" 20, don't /,
just" exclaimed the girl enthusiastically,
land it's leap year, too. HOoTayl But say,
ma, who's the himl" "Pnnce Louis OF Bat
tenburg," replied Her Majesty. That'll be
awfully jolly" said the Princess; Louis is
such sweet name" aud she began scrawl-
ing on the blotting pad: ''Beatrice Batten-
burg" and wondering how she would look
in white. Yesterday morning, when her
august mother entered Her Royal Highness's
apartments, she found her daughter in tears,
tears of indignation rather than OF grief.
why, drat the child, what ails herr" SAID
Her Majesty. 30, ma" cried the Princess,
''look at this, )" and che pointed to the fol-
lowing item in the Times:
CALCUTTA, February 4.-Prince Louis
of Battenburg. while pig-stieking, fell and
broke his collar bone. The sad event has
cast gloom over the community.
well, said the Queen, what OF thatl"
"What OF thatg" echoed the daughter;
''what OF tl,ai2 With all due Difference to
you, ma'am, will have no Prince Louis. L
thought we had come down low enough
when poor Louise married into grocer's
family; but butcher, man that makes his
living by sticking horrid pigs-not much,
Alexandria Victoria, and kicking of her
mothers crown with the remark that that
was the sort Of hairpin she was, Her Royal
Highness betook herself to her bedroom and
gave way TO tears.
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is 1T TRUE, AND VIII PRE<IDENT
SMITH BUILD THE ROAD ON THE
TERMS STATEDe

twenty-five miles OF. narrow gauge road
from Austin towards Lampasas to the neigh
bOrhood of Bagdad or Liberty Hill would
control the trade of several contiguous
counties. 1t would quiet the excitement
prevalent In that district, caused by the ne
cessity for highway to market. 1t would
concentrate here the trade and travel from
Burnet, Lampasas, Liberty Hill, Bagdad,
Doublehorn, Oatmeal and Mormon Mills and
pay all expenses and handsome profit. In
view of the fact that efforts are making to
draw the trade of that section away from
US, by a road across the country to inter
sect the International beyond Georgetown,
1t seems strange that our people, and espe-
clally merchants, directly interested, are
taking no steps to secure so great prize
and suspend so great loss. At the same
time, 1t occurs to us that the people of Lam
pasAs and other towns in that region are
false to themselves when they hesitate be-
tween railway connection with Austin and
some Joint on an unfinished road. Let Aus
TIN and Lampasas, co-operanvely, secure
the speedy construction of a cheap narrow
gauge railway from the capital to the great
watering place.
From the best information at hand, tie
cost of building and coupling narrow
gauge road over such country woulc be
about ten thousand dollars per mile, or
about two hundred and fifty thousand dol
lars for the first twenty-five miles. which
can only be raised by personal subscrlp-
tions, since the Rutabaga Constitution, like
devil-hsh, throttles all Improvements.
To surmount this difficulty would be an
easy matter, if we are correct in stating
that the Narrow Gauge Railway Company,
OF which Gen. Smith is president, and
which was chartered, with land subsidy.
before the passage of the Constitution. pro-
poses to build the road from Austin Lam
pasaS, or even twenty-five miles OF it, if the
people of Austin and Lampasas will sub
scribe for stock of the company to the
amount of four thousand dollars per mile.
TO be paid when the work is done. II this
De true, our people have it IN their power.
by subscribing the small amount of one
hundred thousand dollars to the stock of
this company, which is not to be paid for
until the work is done, to build TWENTY-FIVE
miles of road towards Lampasas, and thus
settle the matter forever Would il not be
well for our business men to inqrire into
this matter at oncei
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MURDEREGS AND srhEET FIGHT
ERS.

The Oakville Tribune says that the argu-
ment used by the STATESMAN, in favor of
law, and against the use of the six-shooter,
is sensible 10 the last degree and receives
It's hearty Endorsement. If the Tribune will
persist i'll asserting the necessity for reform
In modes of thinking affecting the neces-
slty for bloodshed, to obliterate the effect of
mere words, 1t may accomplish infinite
good. An honest gentleman's mode of life
is the only possible refutatiop of slander,
and for the reason that those most charac-
terless are ever readiest to kill to avenge
either real or supposed grievances. The
pistol and knife must be abolished, and,
therefore, the necessity, very many good
people think, for She utter obliteration of
dram shops. 1t so happens that every
bloody deed is commonly done when wh:s-
ky nerves the arm that strikes the blow,
and no sooner does a man fall in OakyiIIe
or elsewhere than souer people deplore the
existence of u code Of morals or honor that
compelS decent Christian men to punish
with death The goose-gabble of a drunken
fool or stimulates the inebriate to avenge a
fancied insult with murderous shot or
blow. And thus the force of public opinion,
as it operates IN the West, co-operates with
the force of whisky, and the grave-dig-
ger Is kept busy and homes and vii
lagos, otherwise faultlessly attractive, are
contemplated with horror by intelligent,
progressive civilization. These facts are
not pertinent to the Southwest alone.
Deeds of terrible violence are done daily
everywhere in the new States. Mobs, mad
dened by intolerable outrages, do terrible
deeds in Indiana as in remote counties of
Texas or IN mining districts of Colorado,
and the spirit and purpose manifested by
the Tribune should be promoted every
where. When nations and States are wisely
governed by honest rulers, wars will be no
more. They settle no principle, however
they may adjust facts, and even as true is
the statement that no wrong was ever
righted by violence, or befouled reputation
cleansed by human blood. Besides, each
good citizen who would promote the we'll
beiug of society and render his home at
tractlve to the best class of migratory pop
ulations will surely adopt the suggestions
of the Tribune and ''set his face" by his
own worthy example, against violators of
the law and against that perverted public
opinion which impels men to fight and do
murder to maintain honor" in violation of
the country's and churoh's codes.
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MIR. SCHLEI,HER'S SP&ECH OF JAN
UiRY IWBNTY-NINTH.

Mr.. Schlelcher's speech of the twenty
ninth comes at last in pamphlet form. 1t
is clear i'll point of style. 1t is mastery
argument we'll sustained by authorities and
.elucidated by apt illustrations. Above all
it is pervaded by loftier tone than most
Congressional speeches of late uttered in
either hall of Congress. No one but a cul-
tlvated gentleman possessed of the incest
sense of honor in the true meaning of the
term, could have conceived the thoughts,
cited the authorities and presented them in
the judicial yet earnest manner of Mr..
Schlelcher. No ADLER argument in favor of
Immediate resumption of specie payments
has been made. Every Texan has felt just
pride in the notices Mr.. Schleicher has re-
celved from the leading newspapers of
other States; but when he reads and is in
structed by the speech itself he is con-
vlnced that it has not been estimated too
highly. The constituency that elected
such man have right to congratulate
themselves upon their choice. In this day
OF small things and smaller men, it is re-
freshing TO find that modest man of real
ability and, withal, hard worker, who is
above all sordId considerations and narrow
partisan views, is watching our interests
aH'i the interests of the country at Wash
Iu2Iun
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FORTUNES OF TEXAS 1876.

The GLbe-D Democrat of the twenty fourth
says there has been a very comfortable the
ory IN vogue among business men that as
failure after failure is announced the COM
munity is strengthened by the elimination
of weak members. II there is any truth in
this theory the business community ought
to be in condition of Herculean strength.
For two years and half there has been a
rapid and steady process OF eliminating the
weak members, and to judge by the current
dispatches the process is going on quite as
briskly as ever. If every failure give an
additional increase of strength, we ought to
be stronger now than at any previous period
of our history; but, on the other hand, if
every bankrupt who is forced to discon-
tinue business weakenS rhe strength and
diminishes the resources of solvent houses,
as we believe he does, the country ought
by this time to be in a condition which is
neither satisfactory nor promising. We need
hardly say that the daily schedule of fail
ures is more than sufficient answer to the
Jaunty assurances constantly given that
there is really nothing the matter, and that
everything will be prosperous if we will
only look cheerful. Tradespeople in Texas
suffer to no little extent simply because of
the mildness of the winter There has not
been a fire lighted in the STATESMAN edi-
torial rooms for more than twelve months,
and in such a winter farmers and others
buy little OF shoes and clothing, and dry
goods and shoe dealers are subjected to
unusual losses. Aside from this diminu-
ton of the volume of trade, seen and felt
everywhere In Texas, there prevails here
none of that distress which threatens the
overthrow of bankers and merchants every
where in the North and East. Therefore,
1t Is alleged that the course Of public opin-
ion, even under the very shadow of the
hard-money New York World, Is slowly
turned backward, and people say that the
process of contraction must be suspended.
To Texas it signifies so little what policy
may be adopted that we only ask fhe De-
mocracy to be silent when its platform for
1876 is constructed, and let US fight Radi-
calism, invested with its inherent peculiar
virtues, on questions evolved from the
country's history through the past ten
years of its absolute supremacy. Mean
while, whether the volume of currency be
lessened or augmented, if that of imnigra-
zion be undiminished, there will surely be
imported by immigrants enough money to
subserve the necessities of our people, and
if Providence smile upou grain and cotton
fields, year of unexampled prosperity
dawns upon US.
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The Springfield Union's poet thus insures
the success Of the poultry show: .-Ohi
come, all hands, 10 the poultry show, and
hear the BrshmA roosters crow, OH come
and list to the song OF love, OF the tumbler,
fantail and carrier dove, Guinea fowls, pea
fowls, pheasanis, quails. rabbits and squirrels
with snowy tails; cockerels, puIiets and
bantams gay, yellow and red and blue apd
gray. Brahmas dark and Brahmas light,
gamey cockereis good for fight; Hambures
white, spraDgled and black, penciled and
silver aDd-5rio-a Jrae. Spanish aud Leg
horn and Dominique, Hamtnfgs and Polish,
and all unique, white crested, biaek-crested,
buff and blue, father hens, mother hens.
and pullets, 100. Tbere'h be old bun
cochin and young buh cochin, old buh
cochin's son. and young bull eeehins who'll
be buff cochin Wben old bull cochin is gone.
Turkeys and ducks and swsns ana gesst;
African. EgyaiiAn and zen Chinese; mag
pies aud swallows aud wise old owls = fuli-
fiedged mixture Of birds and fowls- Then
come, oh! come 70 the poultry shcW, AID
hear the cocks and cockerels cTow."
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THE souTHERN % PACIFIC ROAD

Il. NJ. T. Hunter, of Virginia, in replying
briefly to the appended letter fiom Hon. B.
b. Douglas, a member of Congress from
that State, assents to the validity of Mr..
Douglass objections to Tom Scott's Texas
Pacific scheme. The Congressman asks Mr..
Hunter:
Do you, in advocating the Southern Pa
eltlc road, mean to commit your judgment
unreservedly to the proposed bin ON that
subject To my apprehension that bill is
| fatally defective in securing the interests of
the cities and of the country east of the
Mississippi and south of the Ohio river. If
passed in its present form, with the con-
trolling power of administration III Phila-
delphia, st. Louis, or any place ON any OF
the lines running north of the Ohio, it re-
quiIes very little knowledge of railroad
management to perceive that the branches
to New Orleans, Vicksburg and Memphis
will be powerless To attract any considerable
share of the trade and travel of the line to
or through that large and important region
the true South-bounded by the Ohio
river ana Pennsylvania on the north, the
Mississippi on the west, the Gulf of Mexico
on the south, and the Atlantic Ocean on the
east.
But unless am mistaken as to the mean
ing of the bill there is another very grave
objection on the score of economy, Justice,
and propriety. The pending bill, as un-
derstand it, not only provides government
guarantee of the interest on sac, 900 per
mile of road to be constructed, but ON
nearly OF quite four hundred miles of road
finished and now in running order. l will
never consent to that proposition, and by
80 doing lend the United etates Treasury
to help Tom Scott or anybody else out of
their own bad speculsiions, and take them
practically of his hands and put them on
government and the tax-ridden people of
ne country. 1t is q nice bit of private
nnancsering under the alluring garb of JUS
tice and of great benefit to the South; but
II Is entirely too thin, and can not swal-
low 1t, though the sugar-coating IS neatly
done and very deceptive. Suppcsinc. then.
that the points OF objection are we'll taken.
you may ask. What is required to meet
and obviate themi answer:
l. Strike OUT Of the bill any proyision for
the already completed portions of the route
10 the Pacific 2. Construct the branches
from the present line between ST. I.ouis and
Texarkana to New Orleans, Vieksburg and
Memphis, and let them be in full operation
before the line between ST. Louis and Tex
sTkana, by way of yinita. Is built 5. Re
strict, under adequate provisions of law.
the government guarantee and aid TO new
construction; and {. That the administra-
tion Of the road be 50 organized as TO give
8 resi- Southern tone and influence in the
management. With these concessions SO
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The Ku-Kiux in Texas have become
black oy some unknown process, and the
Inter Ocean and Morton and Blaine are
nightly bothered about it. 4 negro here
in Austin was cufTed about and driven of
on the day Of the late election by his col
ored friends because he voted the Demo
cratic ticket and had the audacity to assert
the fact. At Huntsville, on the same day,
q negro who voted for Coke, Hubbard and
the new Constitution was killed By his
African fello~-countrymen. We think it
was right, so far as punishment for sp-
proval of the Rutabsga code was involved; ;
Dut what will Morton and Blaine and the
Inter 0ooaH say about it But 1t is fact,
that the only Ku-Klnx now known in Texas
are black and all people '.yoie early and
often without the Intervention Of any re-
striction, moral or otherwise, save and ex-
cspt that imposed by cOIored people upon
one another.
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shor. sketch ofBurn.,. L,e.

What bird In bcsuty, flight or song.
Can with the hard compare,
VINO sang - sWeei and scared 20 strong
As ever child Of auf
HE plu G. his note HE form, could Barns
Ffom ~nim 70 piea.ure chAogc;
He was not 0se bot u By turBs,
WiEh iraa.Enigrntion strAngs-"
One hundred and seventeen years ago,
near the town Of Ayr, in Scotland,
was born Robert Burns, the peasant
poet. His father, William Burns, or Bur-
ness, as it was then written, was q farmer,
and in his boyhood days Robert assisted
him al the plOw ana In other farm duties.
The father was 3 good and hard-working
u,An, and. by ms4ns Of care and industry,
succeeded in having his son receive fair
education Robert Burns's poetic genius
Was frat awakened by the singing of young
gIrl, his companion At the plow, for IN the
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Fall, 1870.

Three year old stakeFor threey ar old colts and nj
les $40 entrn, ce pp CLUB ada 400 IN le heats;
SfO0 10 sacond DOr-e; three more to /. TO DaIne
and close by Apri ], 1876; be run on The 81 cOnd
day % the fall me -tiI z, 1876.
Two wear old staks-F ntrance $25, pr; Club
10 al ( s39J; second horae TO have 500: mile
dash; three 6r more u I'LL, TO name and close Dy
April l. 1876: to Oh the hryt day OF The ial
NEE ing. 1876.
Iost STAKE for all ages; two mile heats; entrance
$3.50; forfeit $50; G. ub Ia add $40; &c :und horse
10 have 500; to lose by apii !, 1876; to be
run on the day Of the fail meeting, 1885, three or
more to NIL
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Fall Meeting, 1877.

Sweepatake for three wear old colts and
nllier; entrance $50; forfeit SO; two mile
heat Climb ad $40; three more To hll To name
and close by May 1,iS17. .
Pall meeting iS7--Swe pstske for two year old
colts AID dles; entrance $s5. pp mile dash; cub to
add $25 $50 to ecOnd hOrs, three or more 10 nlli
TO nam and clUse BY May /, 1914.
Entrance fee ten per cen for all Club purses Two
more to make Half Of the purses ior WalkOver
only first mon 10 horse dis'a eng the Held o
be run under the rules Of the Capital Jockey Club
Weight rame Louisiana Jucke Cub Tor ali ages
over two years old; two ears Id, 81 pounds.
Race. may be portpOned on account OF bad weather.
Stables ana pTovcLdcr in Hbnnda
Addfe CAPT. " VI. NELSON, secretary, care OF
f,hId1w wtapl1
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THE New York Tri5u'.s says that Lamar
can force the passage of Tom Scott's bill.
This may be true, but Lamar will hardly
make himself responsible for the enactment
OF bin that, enacted, viii become more
and more odiOus each year in the South,
and more odiOus still when the actual cost
-of the road and the sum expended may be
computed.
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SprInS NIeerInE, 1877.

sv eepvtake for threc year old colts and hlies-en-
trruc $50; forfeit "a, UUl ten II declared OF by
October l. 1876; mile hea &; Club 10 add S3OO three or
more TO III, 10 name ard close Dy october -, 1910.
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A ssIGNEE's NOTICE oF APPOINT
A

10 trkcra sidr oosorrR--westesn district q Texas
The nnder~igned hereby glVc- nettee last he has
been duly appointed By ". b Price. ksQ sitting ~
Register IN Btnkrup;cy f.r the Mesiesn q sr.et OF
Texas the gnte of the estates of the tolioNing
hsnkrsp = to-wiss Alexander NJ. 6iilclant u san
ADdrcs. Milan county. Texas. sdiadsed : h.nkrept
Janusrv lss6; NJ a. Hiil % p syeitesllic, fasstie
county Texas adiudged blnksupt January II: lsses
r. B Harvey. OF bremond, Texas, sdjudged exak-
rupt January Is. lSs6. J. IL. HU1NhlNS, AHsignes.
ArsrIx, TExAs. February Is, iss6. fcoziwSt
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PIrsI Day.
Sweeo,take@ f'r ihr' sr Old colts and hllies,
mill nca.-t n Tan.e 20, +; Il b To AID fzJJ 80 70
go a bor-.: n -. = anG lose Err March, 1876.
ccour ric,-m Ie heats-fOr all az e. C4uJ purse
500: $50 10 second horse.
second pay.
First rt-e-Jockev q pIr-- siJ': one mil.
&C nd race--J. ckey Ub purte 500; mi'e heats
h'rd raee-J cEey Club purse $iJO,two mile heats;
$iO0 10 second hOfte
Third DHY.
r.t rsce-Jockey Club purse $50; one mi e and
quarter . - /,
q half.
Third race-Jockey Club purse $3.50; $50 to second
hofsc mie heats, three Ia nve
Fourth Day.
First race-Club purse 500; 500 Tor second ana
$50 for third horse; three mile heats.
second Consolation parse for orses tkAI ba's
not won a iace this meeting $40; S5Ilo second
hOrHe; mile heats.