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The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-01-13
AN ExTRAORDINARK INCIDENT.

The most extraordinary revulsion in pop
ular feeling and opinion was manifested In
the Democratic State Convention when res
olutions were presented, drawn with re-
markable clearness and force, proposing the
restriction of suffrage in county and town
elections to taxpayers. Some one proposed
that the resolutions be laid on the table.
The chairman said that the motion was out
of order, and that the resolutions must go
to the committee under the rule consigning
all resolutions, without debate, to the COM
mittee on platforms and resolutions. Then
it was moved that the resolution be reject
ed, and this was regarded a test vote, de-
fining the opinion of the body on the ques-
tion and was, in fact, vote on the merits
of the proposition. The motion to reject
was rejected amid loud aeclamations. As
thoroughly as we are convinced that it is
the true policy of Texas to restrict suffrage
in local elections that affect nothing but
property rights, and not civil rights, to
householders or freeholders, we cannot see
the necessity of n aking this an issue in the
pending elections in Texas. We may vote
against the new Constitution because it
turns over towns and counties everywhere
to the tender mercies of the venal, drifting
mob that is bought and sold like cattle in
market overt, as has happened within a
twelvemonth here in Austin; but why the
Democratic Convention should discuss this
question, even now, save as an incident of
grievously defective code of organic law,
cannot well be seen. We supposed, there
fore, that the resolution would be summa-
rlly rejected, but the Democratic State Con-
vention, certainly as learned and able q
body of men as were ever gathered for like
purposes in the State, refused to reject and
the resolutions went to the committee. Of
course nothing more will be heard of them.
In. making party platform special ques-
tions and special narrow issues will be
evaded, and yet the question has been pre-
sented and it must be discussed, and sooner
or later the right will triumph and Texan
towns and counties will no more be ravaged
by adventures.
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QUA sELr-LovE rLArrERED.

Twelve months ago the STATESMAN began
the advocacy of an enactment, statutory or
constitutional, restricting suffrage in county
and municipal elections TO taxpayers OF
freeholders. The proposition has grown
steadily in popularity until its acceptance
by majority of the great convention in
Galveston and by the abIest newspapers in
America is confessed, and sooner or later
the reform proposed must be effected. The
potency of q newspaper that steadily per-
monstrated, and it is only the unthinklng
or the uniformed or the timid demsgogues
who withhold assent to the theof,es the
STATESMAN has persisten.ly and fearlessly
promulgated. This quasi approval at the
hands of the ablest body 6. representative
men ever gathered in Texas is certainly
most gratifying to our vanity, even as il
gives assurance that the day is not distant
when Texas will be governed by the true
people Of TIE, : <nd when the confscation
of towns and cities and degradation OF
counties will be impossible. Then, too,
those provisions of the new Constitution
restricting the powers of local govern
ments and thus violating the funda-
mental principles of Democracy may
be annulled and, each county and town
making its own local laws, the disintegra
ton of Texas becomes no more possible
than it is desirable. The unity of the Stat,
IS only compatible with absolute local inds
pendence and home rule, and this fact il
no more pertinent to States in the Unior
than to counties and districts of the empire
of Texas. Very certainly, home rule and
local freedom cannot be attained in Texas
while a nomadic mob is transferred from
one city to anoGher to stuff its ballot boxes
and very certainly we can have no desirable
county governments in districts ravaged b,
Africans. Plainly, therefore, results We
have contemplated can only be attained by
the proposed restriction of suffrage, and
while our vanity was fattered by the actor
of the convention, infinitely more were W,
well pleased thst the redemption of tht
counties and towns from the clutches o.
constitutional despotismss mssbecomes possible
pari pdssu, with the chances for the adop
tion of restricted suffrage.
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mixture OF Race. aud Mental Character

One further general inquiry of different
kind may be added: Wnat effect is pro-
duced ON n;sl nature by mixture of races2
There is reason for believing that, through
out the animal Kingdom, the union of vari-
cites that have become widely divergent Is
physically injurious; while the union of
slightly divergent varieties is hysically ben
efieial. Does the like hold with the mental
nature7 Some facts seem to show that mix
ture Of human races extremely unlike pro-
duces worthless type of mind-a mind
fitted neither for the kind Of life led by the
higher OF the two races, nor for that led by
the lowers mind put Of adjustment to ali
conditions Of life. Contranwise, we find
| that peoples Of the same stock, slightly
differentiated by lives carried on in unlike
circumstances for many generations, produce
by mixture q mental type having certain su-
/ periorities. In bis work on .'rhe Hugue-
nots, Mr. Smiles points out how large q
number of distinguished men among us have
descended from Flemish and French refu-
gees; and N. Alphonse de Candolie. in his
'sHIstoire des Sciences ct des Savants depuii
deux Siecles," shows that the descendants
| of French refugees in Switzerland have pro.
duced an unusually great proportion OF scien
| tIfic men. Though, in part, this result may
be sscribed to the original nature OF such
refugees, who must have had that indepen-
dence which is a chief factor in originality,
| yet it is probably in part due 70 mixture oi
races. For thinking this, we have evidencs
which is not open 20 two interpr tations-
Prof. Morley draws attention 70 the faci
that, during seven hundred years Of ouI
early history, ssthe best genius OF England
sprang up on the line Of country in which
Celts and Anglo-Saxons came together" II
like manner, Mr. Galton, in his ''Englisi
Men Of Science shows that In recent day
these have mostly come from an inland
region, running generally from north 4
south, which We may reasonably presum'
1 containa more mixed blood than do the re
uons east and west Of 1t. Such 9 result
seems probable a priori Two natures re
l spectiyeIy adapted 20 slightly unlike sets o.
social conditions may be expected by thei
union to produce nature somewhat NOR
plastic than either-a nature mvre impresss
bic by the new circumstances OF adyancins
socisl life, and therefore more likely 4
originate new ideas and display modified
sentiments The comparative psychology
Of man may. then, City include the rneDta
effects Of mIxfure; and among desigatiye In
quiries we may ak, '.How far the e0Dques
Of race by rsce has been Instrumental in I'D
vancine civilization By aiding mixture, q
well a. in other wEys7"--Her6evf Spencer
s,Os ne Conpayatios Rsy1hoiogy Of haa, . u
Popular Science Monthly Jsv Jaaaary.
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THE most extraordinary act of magnanim-.
ity ever done was that of Major Buck Wal
ton. When large majority in the Gal
weston Convention, and really every thought
full, intelligent citizen of Texas, could name
no one more thoroughly qualified for the
Attorney Generalship, and when he had re-
ceived a large majority of the votes of the
Galveston Convention-the rule requiring a
two-thirds majority-then it was that Buck
Walton claimed the attention of the vast
concourse, and in choicest words of simple
eloquence withdrew from the contest. He
tor appeared before the assembly that he
had lost an ann in battle, and that when he
fell that with the unharmed hand he
pointed the way and urged his comrades on
shattered. Major Walton said that he con-
fessed the fitness and supreme worth of his
competitor, and that he himself was no
longer candidate. The audience did not
as sent very gracefully to Major Wal
toms proposition, but his assertion of
purpose was inexorable and the manned
soldier was nominated. The nobility
of Walton's nature is confessed, but
the wisdom of the convention may be
questioned. A public Office is not Green
wich hospital for MANNED and laned sol
diers or sailors. If these must be cared for
it were cheaper and wiser to provide fixed
stipends and charities and suffer offices to
be administered by the capable and learned
than to crafty sense of public gratitude
or popular admiration by conceding Offices
to the incapable. But in this case i. seems
that the heroic soldier is also learned and
able lawyer, and those who knew him per-
sonally declared his perfect fitness for the
position to which the convention propose.
to assign him.
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Mr.. Conway replied that few schools had
been established Tor education Of the work.
ingmen in scientific matters on that Clay.
but that the prejudice of the English against
such labors on Sunday were SO strong that
many feared to attend. s.The Esglishman,
though one OF the most sensible on six days
of the week, grows stupid on the seventh. I"
The gentleman rejoined that be had heard
of positive school IN London on that day.
Mr.. Conway sand that . few men-mention-
ing DIR. Bridges and one or two others
were engaged in that work, but added thar
Conptism had too much Of dogmatisn
about it TO suir the English thinkers.
Comptism is as complete as Roman Cathol-
icism, he said, and Acknowledges no
change, and this is not the case with the
doctrines of Huxley, Spencer snd those
men. ID
Another gentleman in the audience asked
Mr.. Conway whether he looked upon nature
as personal. Il might be rash far me TO
say. replied the lecturer. s'thaJ nature has
Individuality, but bslieve iture is every
where laboTing for the potentiality of man. !"
The gentleman then desired to know
how, if nature had no will or individuality,
she can bestow will and personality. Mr..
Conway replied somewhat coldly that he did
not feel inclined or able to give the audi
ence philosophy of nature. e
lie was next asked about John Stuart
Mill. He replied that he believed Mill al
ways intended to have prepared for the
world some clearer statement OF his belief
and views, but during the last years OF his
life was so much engrosse3 in other matters
that he neglected it, and then on his
dyiDg-bed, realizing the fact, gave permis-
sion for his posthumous works, SO called,
to be published. u fe
The next inquirer desired to know about
Immortality. Mr.. Conway replied that, in
his belief, evolution, at all events, furnished
the only proof of q future life. When
asked about his belief in personal God, he
| replied that il once seemed as If religion
| must perish if visible God was taken from
man, but that the result had proved quite
the reverse, and we underrate the alert
ness and the religious tendencies of nature
and the moral forces of man If we think re-
! ligion must perish when personal God is
| taken away. 7+a
After answering several other questions,
Mr.. Conway thanked the audience for hav-
ing given him chance, even In 30 frag-
mentary way, of telling something about
the thinking men of England and their la
bors. He called them a band of brothers,
working together in love, and closed by
saying, 81 believe that ultimately the rays
of thought will all gather in one focus and
pierce some of the darkest gloouis that ever
ensironed our world in its transition" ~
L
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-01-13

j B. PrRcklI, the Catholic Archbish-
op Of Cincinnati, proposed that the first
day of the Year should be celebrated e. the
natal day Of rev era Of civil and religious
liberty; bat number Of people, not re-
motely connected with the Radical party,
propose 70 inAugurate an era Of civil disa-
billies and religious repression for catho-
hcs- And this has been the history Of thai
party. not only the repression Of
Catholics. but the drowning Of innocent
women as witches. the burning Of Qnaksrz.
passing laws which made the world laugh.
and IN the end deluged our land IN fratri-
cidsi bIsod-
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-01-13

Sins. BLACK, upon whom Byron's passing
regards bestowed immofi fiality, has JHst died
IN Athens 1t the age Of 10. A ligktly-writ-
ten poem, composed, upon Temporary sul-
pulse OF sdnliration and attachmeDf, By the
subtle skill Of the poet, sufticed 70 suFrouDd
her with halo Of Interest while abe lived ;
and now that she is dead, she wiIi lie
fhought Of yet more naturally and respect
fully a. .sfbc Naid Of Athens.n II '.Byson
could paa Congressman be would die
President. y
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-01-13

MAIL adxices from EuFope give > neiao-
eholy scc0unnf Of the depression Of trade In
Germany and fts effect on the industfial
classes. Serious distress is anticipated
among the working cIssses during the win
ter. and there are fears Of financial crisis.
Accounts Of the failure Of the Russian crops
sdd 70 the discoufagemeBt OF the outlook
On The continent. Il i aid that never be-
fore has . failure been 20 general N Rnssls.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-01-13

'sLIGHr-f f1oRsE HARRxs WATTERsox has
reformed, and thus says: .'The girl of the
period is at once the grossest and most trans
parent of hypocrites. She has the French
coquetry without the French delicacy she
has the English coarseness Of manner with
out the English solidify Of mind; she has
all the fllpPaDt follies Of Latin belle with
out her sndearing Establishments a1d SYM
pathetic impulse. She foats out on the
street with her pinback and paper color,
ready for adventure and somewhat reckless
Of consequences, having strong inward
conviction that IL the prospect prove less
pleasing or profitable than the early indica-
fions promised, she can take care Of her
self and withdraw IN safety from an en-
counter she inaugurated-p
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-01-13

Mn. TExEEsDs. writing 20 decline nn IN.
vifAti0n 70 fh,s BaiaklaFs banquek says,
. = o.. as.Ix h,S saP PPd e ,ne s,es II. -
OF ali your flne fsIIow1s
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-01-13
Miscellaneous.
Symptoms Of a Diseased Liver.

DAM in she right side. under the
L edge Of the ribs, increase on pres
sure; sometimes the pain is in the
LEFT side; the patient is rarely able
to lie on Tie leit side; sometimes
the pain is felt under the shoulder
blade, and it frequently extends to
the top of the shoulder, and is some
times mistaken for a rheumatism in
the arm. The stomach is affected
with loss of appetite and sickness,
the bowels in general are costiye,
sometimes alternative with lax; the
head is troubled with pain, accom-
panied with a dull, heavy sensation
in the back part. There is generally
q considerable loss of memory, ac-
companied with a painful sensation
of having left undcne something
which ought to have been done. A
slight, dry cough is sometimes an at
tendant. The patient complains of
wcariness and debility; he is easily
startled, his feet are cold or burning,
and he complains of a prickly sensa-
ton Of the skin; his spirit. are low;
and although he is satisfied that exer-
else would be beneficial to him, yet
he can scarcely summon up forritude
enough to Try 1t. In fact, he dis
trusts every rem dy. Several of the
above symptoms attend the disease,
but cases have occurred where few
of them existed, YET examination of
the body, after death, has shown the
LIVER to have been extensively de-
ranged.
AGUE AND FEVER.
DR. c. MsLANE's LIVER Pulls, III
cAsEs or AoUE AND FEvrs, wheIi
taken with Quininc, are productive
of the most happy results. No better
cathartic can be used, preparatory to
or after taking Quinine. We would
advise all who are afflicted with this
disease to give them A FAIa TRIAL.
p s.. Dealers and Physicians ordering from
others than Fleming Bros. will DO well 70 writs
ti,eir orders distinctly. and Aaks ,aene Bad Dr.
Bros, Pat.burpA, Pa. ths p,arket bei,i0 full Of
base isnitaions. To those wishing TO give them q
trial, we win forward per mail, postpaid to any
twelve thrce-cent postage stamps, or one vial Of
Vermifugs for fourteen three-cent stamps. All
orders from Canada must be accompanied by
eWenty cents extra
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-01-13

Coz YALEEFfxK BAxER has offered bis
service 10 the TEmperror Of Russis, the offer
has been accepted, and fke Colonsl viii So
- Russis e scDa q hls term ef impfison-
ment exPirss-
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-01-13

QUEEx VIcToErA's youngest son. Prince
LeOpcId, has joined the temperAncs move
ment, having accepted the presldency oI
the oxford branch OF the Church Of Eng.
land Teinpennce Society.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-01-13

FLoRENcK NIGHTISeALE, in reply to an
invitation 70 the Balaklsva banqnet. whites:
Il regret thar it is impossible for me 20 &C
cept il, as have been for years entirely Z
piisDner 20 my room from illness and over.
work, winch work still do, shank God >
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-01-13

I'm Enperor WiIheln,s viSis 70 Italy oc-
cupies . large space IN tbs London ne9sp4-
psperz His rscspfzon By the Italians wa1
very cordial
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-01-13

HoH. REvERDx JOHNSON will sail for
hosae In the Russia on Janusry 8.
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LORD & TAYLOR
Impos.s+. s.a rsAlers in Foreign and Domestic
DIR " GOO ID ..


swIi owing 70 their great success during the past
season, in fllne orders from all psrts O the Unitsd
S.nfas give greater ATTENTION 70 0UT-Of-IOWN
businesA With N enlarged DEPARTMENT. and in,
creased FACfLIrlES they will hl ali orders by mail
with their asna RR0NPINESS. and. they trust, with
: COMfLKrR SAT1 FACTION.
BLACK and coLoRKD SILKS, FALL. and WINTER
DRESS GOODS. eHAWIS, CeOAKS. LINENS.
PRINTS. etc. Also, HAMBURGS, INSERTIONS,
HnG N0S, TRIMMINGS, etc. PLAIN and FANCY
HOSIERY, GLOVES, UMBRELLAS. etc. ETC. Zach
novelties 70 be found In the EaroPeAh markets
~ Oar Lailies' shoe Department contains stock
OF Winter shoes unsurpassed for esgnnce. durability
and iowness Of pnee. Directions Of self fnleasnre-
nont senf applcalion.
ENr Cumnlete assortment of Gcnts' Furnishing
0cods shlrss Colars Cuts. Ii .. Hose, Cloves. etc
eooas sent 20 any parof The eountry. Shirt measure
menfa senf npplfAtion.
E8-For the accnuinodsiion OF Ladies and Famihee
wko ars rnablo 60 visit the eIy, fall lines of samples
q al 3 sae. q Dry Goods viii be ssnt and orders
hy mAif nilsd with The greatest posstels cara.
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BRsanwaY AND TWENTIETH SITS.
NEW YORK.

FARMERS OF TEXAS.
oas snsespFslng nan n year saids, yho gl.aise
l~r,r aa1 solid tchdes anoLncr RrVw cntona that
WcIfAod poond ce1h. the - yess from ny 1.n-
irffSrs II nv CaEaltgae. Via ses4 tqaEly - koe4
Nv cannof va a. - NcItt NJ i1kRa loa4tra.eo
s rrnn rcntainInr VarIzfy q reEezzAl1
and noUsE ss1d. sens ~ g Az .,..-><.,,..
tAMks y z. 6skeok1.
, 1876-12-06

ton. Hers is not passion learned accor.llnQ 10
M,Ilca,t,-pa*non cn,lnterfeltea according 70
thc rules III Tho French stagc,-pnssnn carved
III stone, as II wcre; but hers Ia pnssinn fused.
molten, overlooking, o!crpowcrlng all, Hike a
lnva-foMl, Ml,-passio,i which knowe, sees, feels
hut one thing, and pstrrcslstihly to ts cnd:
III abort, Wien, intn the midst nf this group Oh
po1upous prtcats, Atlltel Senators, and lovers
attit,nlintzIng Will, nh eye to tho audience,
springs this frantic, uncomfortable motl,cr, ao1-
bling, pleading, tlc1lounrtng, demanding the lIo
beside Art; 1t 's.. 6hakapcare ty the
sllo Of Naclne. Tho dnily press com-
pare licr to lsnclle, and IN conccn-
tratcd force and energy ehc cannot but
suggest that tyne; but, to those OF us who
know Rachel Only by Tho descriptions NJ her
contemporaries, Mile. Bcrnharat seems less
statucsqhu and imposiug,- imneti,o,'s,
mnblle, and natural In her intensity. She ecr-
tainly Inns n spark of the divine flro OF PRONE
theus, and nwakens a strong desire to zee her
in some role III which thu current Of feeling
should ho Erand rather than terrible, mud whicl,
wonlu allow some IntermlnEltnE III the finer mid
softer emotions, One thing In evident anil sig-
nllcant: this play, with It's apostrophcs to llb-
erty aud ancient grandeur, its acashius satfrc
upon prIcstcrnft anil tyranny, would never hnvc
been permitted hy the Csnsors Of tho Second
Eu,pIrc,-no, nor Of the First.
CnAnLEs LANDoR.
, 1876-12-06
CANADIAN NEWS,
Special Qt&pQtch 10 lnE Tribune,

Gp<c1Qt Nl&p44CH ~ AUG 4f1QtH*.
CoLL1Nawoop, Dec. o.-rne propeller City Of
Owen Sound, the last boat expected this seasor,
arrived tonight from Chicago With full cargo
Of general freight.
spectai Dtspaseh to ms 7tsaunA
QuKbEc. Dec. 5.-Llsut.-Iov Caron had d
severe attack Of paraIysia yesterday, and cannot
possibly survive moro than few days. The
namc Of the Hon. Mr.. Ryan, Of Montreal, Ia
mentioned as bis probable succcssor,
Gp*etol Ditpatch to 7as Tribune.
TORONTO, Dcy. G.-Edward Aanlon, Cham
p!on oarsu,an, who won the single acull race In
the international regatta ut PHILADELPHIA, replica
to challenge from Jonu Higgins, the English
oars,nan. lie says he cxpcets 10 meet seycral
American aud CAnat}lln oarsucn In thu spring.
and cunuot lcuve lloMu, but oHrrs to allow
Higgins ElbO, and row hin for 1850 side on
Toronto LAY, 1Ianlon Riyo st4tcs TINT he Ia
prepared t0 row any lnau In tho world, barring
uoHe.
Spsctai Ds&patch 70 7As Tribune.
OTrAwA, Vut., Dec. OIL: Wclcll, Centennial
Commissioner Tor Tasmania, Is III tho city. lie
encouraging the opeilng up OF direct lumber
tradu with Australia. III hal an Interview viii,
the Premier ti-tlnv.
Special Dspatca 20 zA4 1rtouaA
MONTREAL, Que, Lee: a,-At = meeting OF
thv council Of tbs Board os TFaslu tl!a after
noon, the question Of freight a. relating to tAt
trad0 Of this tity WAS discussed, and 1t was ~
tertulned " bring up tho wholu matter VI ths
next quarterly meeting. A feeling adverse tt
the Grand Trunk taritl anu policy Ii mauifestet
aulong city merchants.