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The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1877-07-06

ThnReading Times and Dispatch says the
the owing is a verbatim copy of letter
received by Chief Cullen from a lady in
Williamsport, Pa. The lady evidently
means business, and would no doubt be n
sweet object for some erich old widower, "for
whom she seems to have hankering. If
there are any such that would like to draw a
prize (?) they can obtain a full address of
the lady by applying at the mayors office
WILLIAMsPoRT, June 11th, 1877.
Dear Chief In all confidence, wish to
inquire of you if you have any rich old wild
overs in your city or county who wants a
housekeeper or wife. Don't care if he is
eighty years old, or old as Methuselah, so he
is up to his ears or chin in money. Now do
not mean that money is all the God | wor-
ship. | shall idolize the man, whatever he
may be, for | have learned to profess friend
ship where | dislike, and if | dislike people
| live with ever so much, | do not let them
know it. | am fifty years old have no
home, but want one; keep my home with a
brother in Muncy teach school, and fancy
work, such as embroidery, painting, &c.
Please address - -, Williams
port, Lycoming county, Pa.
In confidence.
P. S.-Ify you can get for me man that is
rich indeed, you will get large reward. l
an told that is the place for rich men.
The Dispatch adds: The letter is written
in plain female hand,s sand there is no
doubt as to its genuin eness, or the sincerity
of the author. Whether the lady will be
successful in Reading, celebrated, as she
says, for being "the place for rich men" re-
mains to be seen.
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ORPHANS COURT SALE.
OF VALUABLE
REAL ESTATE!

BY virtue OF an order OF the Orphans Court OF Co
lumbla county, the undersigned Executrix OF the
last VIII and testament OF Frederick Iser late OF
Greenwood township, Columbia county, deceased,
win expose 10 public sale on the premises on
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1877-07-06
Candidates..
NEW ADV ERTISEMENTS

Wanted-One male and three female teachers for
the public schools OF Centralla Borough for the
ing year. An examination OF applicants viii be held
at the public school house In CentTalia July l7th
commencing at 10 O'Clock a. IN.
BY order Of the Board,
c. G. MURPHY,
July g. '7I2w Secretary.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-04-12

he have the impoverished International
Railway extended, that we may exer-
C Sc the offices of quasi protectorate
over defunct order and government in
Mexico; if he give Southern Offices to
proper Southern men, the partisan rev.
olution said to be contemplated by the
President and former adherents of Sam
Houston, Throckmorton, John Bell
and Stephen A. Douglas is not wholly
impossible of consummation. Hayes
drags old Wings into his cabinet and
converts Radicalism into conservative
Republicanism in the North, and to
this force he would add those old TO-
gies of the South who have torn off the
word Democratic" from every ticket
they have placed in ballot-boxes since
1860. 1t is impossible, as yet, to an
ticipate the success of such possible
movement on the part of the Presi-
dent. But the tendency of the popu-
lar mind and heart North and South is
towards conservatism, and moderation
and wisdom will at length supplant
red-mouthed, violent rant and fustian
and terrible partisan fury.
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CosNEcrIc UT has taken a step in ad'

CoNNECTICU Ut has taken a step in ad-
vance of all other States in its legIsla-
tIon for women. The acts of this
years legislation place the wife on an
equality with the husband. She is
secured the absolute control of her
own property during life, and on the
death of either party to the marriage
contract the survivor inherits one-third
of the real and personal estate of the
deceased. Mississippi and Texas have
heretofore stood first in legislation de
signed to make woman an integer in
social and political life, and now Con-
nscticut makes a leap forward In the
right direction. Soon we shall heaI
men saying, if the women must pay
taxes and have heads capable Of think.
ing and be imbued with honest, ear
nest, patriotic purposes why not, when
every idiot and every tramp and rough
and hired ballot-box stuffer and re
peater - when all these vote, why not
the blessed women? They might now
and then constitute an invaluable OF
set TO incalculable vice and stupidity
thrust so voluminously into ballot
boxes that decent people refuse tt
vote. But lawgIvers are brave and
good and honest and patriotic and
never demagogues, never! never!
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-04-12

A CORRESPONDENT who has studied
the question says that as matter of
right and justice the congressional dis
tricts of Texas must be Ieorganized by
the Legislature. New counties of
rapid growth have been virtually dis
franchlsed and, moreover, 1t is not de
sirable perhaps, our correspondent al
leges, that Austin and Galveston
should be cooped up in the same dis
trict. 1t is stated that the new dis
trict, of which Austin will be the Gen.
ter, will consist of Travis, Hays, Blan-
CO, Burnet, Llano, Lampasas, Bastrop,
Lee, Williamson, Bell, Coryell, Ham
ilton, San Saba, Mason, McCulloeh,
Menard, Concho, Coleman, Runnels
and Fayette. Comanche is omitted in
the list in order, We suppose, that the
Chief may constitute district of IT.
self. Nobody can live in the same
bailiwick with it and 1t will have q
representative of its own. But there
i. valid reason perhaps for changes
suggested, in the inequality of pop
ulations which are constantly and
rapidly changsful, and the Legislature
may upset many plans of ambitious
leaders by causing changes like thi,
suggested by our excellent correspond
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THE commission sent to Louisiana
is unpaid, aud merely advisory. Its
man business will be to define mode
of adjusting the alleged rights of Pack
ard. He must have, il possible, a de-
cent pretext for the abandonment OF
office. If the commission report in
favor of his legal night and against his
equitable right to the Office he may
find reason to retire voluntarily rather
than meet the sure fate that awaits his
expulsion by violence. Go he must,
sooner or later, and the President is
only man of peace. He cannot afford
to keep the troops in Louisiana through
out his term of Office, and by no other
means can Packard's power be main
tanned. Packard and the army must
march. This fact is fixed, and there is
no need for that impatience which the
Presidents enemies indulge when they
assail him for tardiness and timidity.
The Congress meets in June. A ma
jority of the House is Democratic. II
the troops remain in New Orleans not
one dollar viii the House supply to be
expended in the maintenance Of the
army and navy till Louisiana is iber.
ated. The real purpose of the com
mission is to give Packard proper
opportunity to retire gracefully. In
fact, Packard knows that If the army
and navy bill do not pass the President
cannot keep the adventurer in ofice,
and very certainly Packard csnno'
keep himself in power. The end is in.
evitable, and it comes befors the idel
of June
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-04-12

GEN. FOSTER, who represents Hayes's
Congressional district in Ohio, is a
moderate Republican. "after the Pres
ident's own heart, " and the President,
that he may properly shape Legislation
through properly organized commit
tees, would have Mr.. Foster made
speaker of the House that meets the
first Monday in June. There are only
eight votes difference between the
Republicans and Democrats in the
House, and the President seeks to Sc
cure strength in the South. He will
get three votes, we are told, from Ar
kansas, Senator Garland aiding in this
one or two from North Carolina, and
he wants three or four more from other
States. He temporizes in Louisiana
and South Carolina that he may have
power in the Senate and in the House
to restore, as Stanley Matthews puts it,
''the prosperity and autonomy ol
Southern States, and thus the peace
and prosperity of the whole country"
The President may not coRtempla' c
such results by such agencies; but
there is nothing in what he is KNOWN
to have said or done or written that
would justify us in declaring that such
are not his purposes. In any event,
while Wendell Phillips denoupces the
President for his justice and generosi
ty to the South, we are unwilling tc
concur with the Boston counterpart o.
ultra, red-republican Southern Democ
racy and declare the President COW
aIdly ana unworthy anu IRlse pretend
er. Let US wait yet awhile and see.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-04-12

Mr.. THRoCKMoRToN alluded in his
late Grafton at Mckinney to the wis
dom of his prophecies and accuracy
with which he had stated the truth
when, through many years, he had
again and again addressed his constit-
uents. The Ne'os justly concludes that
Throckmorton's strength has origin in
the correctness of his judgment and
clearness of his perceptions" 1t might
have added thst Throckmorton's sub
lime courage in truth-telling, when an
insane mob would have crucifed him,
has made him prominent not only al
home, but famed and honored every
where.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-04-12

Mr.. U. LOTT, president of the Cor
pus Christi, San Diego and Rio Grande
Narrow Gauge Railroad Company, is
here applying for land scrip on the first
ten miles of his completed road. He
states that it has cost $4,000 mile to
build the first section of ten miles, and
to equip it with one engine and
twelve cars. Forty miles will be fin
Ished in one year, and the rolling stock
will be only doubled to suit its in
creased length; so that the completion
and equipment of forty miles will be
effected at even less cost than $4,000
per mile. He says that the cheapness
of iron, labor and everything neces-
sary for railroad building is such
as Just now to warrant the
wholesale construction of narrow gauge
roads. houston, Tyler, Corpus Christi
and other places are pushing forward
such enterprises, and Austin bangs fire
on a cheap railway to Lampasas, which
would increase its trade thirty per
cent. Col. Douglass, president of the
Tyler road, who was in the city yester-
day, expresses surprise that Austin,
with her eight or ten millions of prop
erty, does not earnestly take hold OF
this enterprise and push it on to hasty
conclusion. While Austin, however,
has not House, Douglas or a Lott,
would it not be startling some morn
ing to wake up here and learn shat
Round Rock has produced such a man.
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WHILE the New York Herald is tell.
ing its readers that 'ht is a good time
to wipe ort the Mormons," old Brig.
ham is quietly buying in the spend
thrift's debts who owns the Herald,
and the sanity old cuss will quietly
wipe out Bennett aud Stanley and the
African absurdities that exhaust al
popular patience. If people wished
tos zee or hear or smell or think OF ofAfrica,
which is impossible, there is no need
for printing and reading when We
have it all even here, covering nearly
one-half of our oyn country, includ.
ing Wheatville and Wharton county,
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-04-12
THE GOSPEL OF HARD WORK.

Ten gentlemen of Natchez, Missis-
sippi, contribute 100000 to found a
cotton mill that the unemployed
women and girls of the place may be-
come self-supporting and self-depend-
ent, that non-producers may be pro-
ducers, that a new market may be
opened for merchants and for farmers,
that money may be kept at home, that
buildings may be reared and the vast
sum lost in transferring cotton to Bos-
ton and Liverpool, and in bringing it
back as cloth, may be saved. Texas
towns, on the contrary, build costly
court houses for costly trials and civil
suits, and these towns remain poor and
unpainted, and the women and chill
dren who happen to be poor are
hardly fed or clothed decently, and
their last recourse, when stunning
want, is found in filthy slums
Of hopeless depravity. Should not
Christian communities first build
cotton mills? The very pulpits
of Texas should resoun1 with
lessons OF virtue and wisdom involved
in the construction of cotton mills.
There Is no such gospel of benefcence
as that of hard work, and there is no
mode of employment for women, girls
and boys so successful IN creating
pride of character as that given by q
cotton mill. 1t generates that spirit
of independence which gives the
country noble, intelligent and patriotic
men and industrious, fearless women.
Each mill has its church and school
into which sun bonnets and calico en-
ter even as these are excluded from
cushioaed pews in the temples of
good God and of the latest fashion.
Therefore, it is even more Christians
than o citizens duty to aid in the
construction of cotton mill,
and therefore we cannot see
why pulpits which would serve
those who most need their aid and
moral influence and guidance = the
poor, to whom the gospel was especial
ly sent-we cannot see why the very
pulpits of the South sheuld not re
sound with the story We have here par
| tlally Wrlttep.
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SOME days ago We spoke of Luling
as it wss three years ago and did the
place and people, no doubt, grievous
wrong. 1t has undergone, We are told,
q thorough change. An excellent cit
izen of the place says Of it: re- ~
''Lullng is 9 quiet and law-sbiding
place, with Q thrifty, sober and indus
trious population, and you will Ger
tsinIy retract your cruel charge. We
haYe no bar-rooms because we enjoy
the full benefits of local option and
when you remove whisky from . COM
munity roEdyism ceases. We lave
churches and schools all well attended.
New and substantial buildings are con-
stantly being erected; our trade Is ex
panding and growing in Importance,
while everything tends 10 make this
one Of the thriftiest towns and most
attractive home in West Texas. Near.
ly two years ago the terminus Of The
road was locassd further west and
with it went our floating population.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-04-12
DIsINTEGRATION OF PARTIES

On what issue will the Southern
Democracy, as organized, separate it
self from the party of the President2
He asserts conservatism" and in Vir-
ginia Democracy is still called ''con-
servatism," and the word Democrat"
has gone into desuetude. Since the
South has become the scat of prosper
Gus cotton manufactures, the South is
divided on the tariff question and then
the tariff has accomplished ends aimed
at and preannounced by Henry Clay.
American manufacturing industry has
been so stimulated that Americans un-
dersell English cotton mills in English
markets, and no more protection" is
required, and only revenue. Democ-
racy has always pronounced for rev.
enue tariff. There are no two Demo
cra.s concurriug when a question af-
fecting internal Improvements is dis
cussed. The Democratic South de-
clares for Tom Scott's scheme and for
the Presidents policy of re-opening
the Mississippi. The negro question is
no more, and we have left bat q few
like Mills, of Corsicans, to tell us in
what consists the practical difference
between parties. The President diff
fers from US on no modern issue, and
the old are extinct. He would repro
duce the autonomy of the States and
give Southern offices to Southern men.
He was nominated at Cincinnati in
stead of St. Louis, and then, toe, Nor
ton and Blaine and Bob Ingersoll
voted for him, and now Blaine and the
rest have confessed that they miscon-
ceived the purposes, policy and char
acter of the man they made President.
Why should men of intelligence,
in order simply that party lines
may remain unbroken, persist in
denounciIg q president because he
refuses to carry out the will of such
men, and because he serves the South
effectively. Partisan passion and hates
and sectional conflicts surely have
done mischief enough, and he who re-
fuses to cooperate with the President
in obliterating sectionalisms, and there
fore in destroying extreme parties. ia q
traitor to the South and to the country.
II there be Southern people who quss.
ton the SrATEs,fAS's wisdom aud de-
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A PRIVATE note from Hon s. S. Cox,
written at Mobile, Alabama, on the
third instant, says he will be in Austin
within ten or twelve days. He states
further that he has been "lecturing
and ovating," and laid up in Alabams
(signifying "here we rest'D for repairs.
If the Library Association will secure
Turner Hall, the admirable talker and
rhetorician and foremost wit of Amer
lea will doubtless redeem one dull day
in Austin from the woes of earth. IL,
is man of rare genius and learning
and of exquisite literary taste, and,
having occupied with distinguished
honor the position of Speaker of thu
Congress of the United States, and
having been always a conservative
Democrat, he deserves consideration a
the hands of Southern people.
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THE OLD WHIG PARTY SOUTH.

Very many persons having, as they
call it, dead sure thing or good
thing already in sight, when Radical
ism is beaten in Federal elections, are
opposed to any change or even to that
transformation of parties by which the
South may be finally pried out from
between Democracy South and Radi-
calism North. Very many tell US
that the old Wings, who will die
cursing ''red-republican, red-hot Sc
cession Democracy" are ripe for change
or for revolt. The adherents of Doug
las, like those that supported John
Bell, and yet ''went South and into
the last ditch"-representat of all
these say they are praying for deliver
ance at last, and hope that they begin
to see light in the East. 1t is the star
Of Hayes's destiny they contemplate,
watching its elimination with kecnest
interest. But the country Is ripe, it
seems, for partisan revolution. The
South has been led long enough, these
old men say, by its most violent, ru-
inous, passionate thinkers, and the
North has fallen, of recent years, into
the clutches of the same class of polt-
ical extremists, and we have been the
victims of the two terrible colliding
forces. Wisdom and moderation come
TO the surface, and Hayes may yet be,
these dreamers allege, and as these old
Wings and Douglas men hope, the i'm.
personation Of patriotic conservatism.
II the classes in the South here defined
be not mistaken in the man, it may re.
suit that parties of to-day, before
HAyes's term has expired, will be ut
terly disrupted, and Hayes becomes,
IN spite Of himself, another Gabriel in
response to whose awful trumpet thu
grave givesupits dead, and Douglas and
Bell, with their ,serned hosts Of rat
tling. bones, become At last living facts
We do not know that the President
contemplates the segregation of thu
diverse elements of the present South
ern Democratic party, but If be liber-
ate South Carolina and Louisiana. opeE
the Mississippi, establish lines Of steam
ers from New Orleans and Galveston h
the Indies, Brazil and Vera Cruz i
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votion to right or patriotism, there ar,
none to deny he admirable intelligenc,
and honesty of Governor Wade Hamp
ton, of South Carolina. Advertine tc
these questions on the fifth instant a,
Charlotte, North Carolina, he said
"I have the greatest confidence IN
the President. | believe him to be
sincere and homes, and determined to
discharge the duties of his office under
the Constitution as the Executive of
this entire great natIon."
The Governor concluded his excel
lent speech by lemarking that but
for the votes of the honest colored peo-
pie of South Car,lins, he would not
now be their governor, and having
pledged himself b secure TO the COL
ored man all his rights and privileges
under the Constitution and laws
of the State, he was going to see
it done, SO hep him God. If
there be those wID pronounce Wade
Hampton Republican, even so is the
STATESMAN Republican. Wade Hamp.
ton may love his Safe and the South
more than he lovesa party or its lead
ers or their hopes fer offica through
the snl,ai.y Of tho pFty, anu 49, -
the STATESMAN loves more the COM
monwealth and the South.
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a TERRIBLE TRAITOR To THE
SOUTa!

''In conclusion, permit me to assure
the President that l feel the strongest
confidence that the wise and patriotic
! policy announced in his inaugural will,
as soon as 1t takes shape and action,
| produce such fruits that the whole
country will enjoy the blessings of
peace, prosperity and harmony.
The man who wrote that sentence
last Saturday Is surely traitor to his
country. He is, too, Southern map
by birth. He was terrible and fear.
less Confederate leader. He became a
Confederate major general, and jeff
Davis and Bragg and Joe Johnston
trusted him as they trusted few men. and
yet what fearful treason to the South
and to Democracy falls from the lips
and from the pen of this so-called hero
and patriot. Martin and Louphery
will ROW have this soldier and states
man hanged. He deserves to be drawn
and quartered and his skull should
bleach upon the gallows. He has the
hardihood absolutely to say, in a pub
iished letter to President Hayes, that
surely "give the country peace, pros
perity and harmony" The STATESMAN
has SAID the same things and has been |
fiercely denounced. Wade Hampton
says it, and we stand aside that he may
be tomahawked by the savages, Martin
and Loughery and the other Demo
cratic Modocs. But is not the fool, |
consisting in the application
of epithets, singularly absurd in this
case2 How ridiculous the ass that |
would pronounce Wade Hampton a
Radical" or ''traitor to his State or
to the South" And yet the STATES
MAN has said no more or less than
Governor Hampton. Hampton dares
to tell the simple unvarnished truth of |
partisan enemy when it offends |
selfish, ambitious party-leaGers; the
STATESMAN does no more.
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a THE London Telegraph doubtless
reaches the proper conclusion that the
last will always be the last victory of
the party that made BIr. Hayes Presi-
dent. Ii it die its counterpart alsO
dies, and there will be few mourners at
the grave of either. II it live it will
give immortal life to Its mortal enemy,
and the people must ever choose be-
tween them, and the South must ever
go down on the field of glory, always
beaten but always rampant, and always
eager for the fray. 1t is fine for the
r.~~~--IS", ~" s~..ISAN AOa
the people and for those who do the
fighting and bowling and voting and
ditch digging and shooting and being
shot.