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The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-06-28

gins to think for himself and approves
the more the paper that makes him
think, that stirs his bile, that runs bolt
upright against the enclosure in which
be keeps his prejudices and old rusty
ideas as carefully fenced in as he does
his Cashmeres and Devons. A stranger
breaking over the fence scstters alike
the cattle and rooted convictions, and,
thrusting aside the green grass and
dense, tangled vines and underground,
admits the sunlight of truth which
touches and WHITES the soil and the
soul, and richer crops Of verdure and
OF ideas bloom aud blossom and shed
fragrance upon the gardens and fields
and bless the land we Inhabit. People
used to be frightened when new idea
went like blazing meteor across the
horizon OF thought. They shut their
eyes and turned away as if the vision
were painful but now the liberalization
opinion and progress of just thinking
are such.that novel ideas and fearless
expression, however deep the wounds
inflicted upon old sores called preju
dices, OF religion or of politics, rather
please than offend. He must be of
BG1tisn stupidity who would have q
preacher or lawyer or newspaper or
neighbor concurring with him in all
things. What use Is there for series
of books, each reciting the same events
and making the same arguments, only
changing the language and modes of
expression in each2 Long ago the
party used to demand of the press that
it never should depart from the old
deeply worn grooves. 1t must sing
the same song, chant the same prayer,
recite the same tiresome creed, and
support the nominee, right or wrong.
honest or dishonest, forever. But nous
aUOns change t0m cela All this is wholly
changed and the people are morally
Tree as never before.
There are and should be political
parties. These must be organized
III practical action; they must act
solidly; but in thinking and speaking
and in all matters of personal opinion
the broadest freedom is practiced and
necessarily tolerated. Without 1t in
telligent people would not confess al
legiance to party, and with it parti
sanship is divested of its dangers. If
the party's masters could have relied
upon the ignorance and stolidity and
prejudices and compactness of parties
Hayes could not, after legal lnvestiture,
have held the presidency. But party
ties in this country are not lndestructi-
Bile ligaments binding the unthinking
multitude to the person and fortunes
of the party-icader, and while the peo-
pie Think for themselves and are ad-
dicted to newspapers that utter fear
lessly what they think, there can be
none of those terrible revolutions in
this country that desolate Central
American States, and none of those
fearful caIamities to which Washing
ton adver,ed with such anxiety in his
last address to his countrymen. Free
thinking and free expression are alone.
compatible with the perpetuity of free
institutions, and there is no freedom
where parties are despotic and the
press hesitates to define the errors as
we'll as the virtues of party.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-06-28

IT is perhaps proper to say, in reply
to an 'earnes: inquirer" that the first
outright spiritual manifestation of the
modern sort which we recollect was
that told of in very old book in which
it is stated that one BeltshaZZsr saw a
disembodied hand, stark, stiff, cold
and ghastly, writing the words on the
wall, ''8aene, meme, tekeI uphdrsin." But
the question is whether modern "man-
ifestations" are genuine or only spu-
rious limitations. We can believe the
story told of Beltshazzar, though the
events occurred 2400 years ago, be-
cause the Bible recites the incident !;
but these modern limitations of wou-
ders of old may be wholly fraudulent.
Thousands believe them to be genuine,
and that they are wrought by spirits
now as by spirits in Babylon. The
only good this modern spiritualism
can do, if any, Is Its perfection of
faith in the future life. Very many
materialists Believe that with the pres
ent life personal identity and exist
ence cease; spiritism, like Swedenbor-
gianisun, teaches that life is unending
and continuous, and that death is only
q process by which ones old clothes
are shufiied off that he may don ''in-
visible green" and life goes ON and
progresses onward and upward forever.
It is also true, as our correspondent
suggests, that there are those who ac-
cGpt the Bible, and Christ as the only
God, as did Swedenborg, at the same
time accepting the theories of modern
and ancient spiritists. 1t happens that
we have never seen any practical
demonstration OF the truth spirltism.
We have seen strange tricks done by
table-tippers aud slate-writers and had
questions properly answered that
startled listeners ss ourselves. We
have also seen Signor Blitz and other
fakirs do as great wonders who never
dreamed of the possible intervention
of disembodied spirits. When we
have seen q table sstake up its bed and
walk, y like the sick man of old, then
We may believe and not till then. In
conclusion We would state to our cor
respondent that while We do not think
that the witches Of salem should have
been burned, since they were only
tabIe-tippers taking Jamaica rum, till
they were little ..tipsy,n we stili be-
heve that the iuggIer and rapper are
identical the latter only indulging Q
little raPhsody for the good Of the soul
and using little piOus JUNCTION to de
lude the unwary. - - -
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-06-28
MIR. SECRETARY SHERMAN will hard

MIR. SECRETARY SHERMAN will hard
ly be able to place any more of his iour
per cents. He can't say on their face
that they and the interest are payable
in gold and we only fear that the Sec
retary will go to fumbllng with the
money market and give the thumb
screws another twist and make prop
erty lower and money harder to get,
and smash things. He and Congress
will have a lively fight about it. The
West will demand the reconciliation
of silver, and If this be effected Sher-
mans four per cents. won't so off as
smoothly as was supposed.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-06-28

THE MIR. Seligman who has been
spelling for fight with A. T. Stewart
& Co., because Judge Hilton, Stew
arts successor, ceased to buy bills of
exchange from Seligman & Co., was
originally from Tuscaloosa, Alabsma.
Ia 1S49 he, with his brothesr, went on
foot across the plains to California.
They were poor, having little dry
goods and "old clo." concern when
they set out. They are now the most
potent private bankers on the conti-
nent. One day, as member of the
firm tells, they cashed drafts to tie
amount of sixteen millions. The story
is tolerably steep, but it was thus
told. Judge Gould, of the Supreme
bench, used to know these bankers
when they were youths at the old cap
ital of Alabama.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-06-28

THE health of Mr.. Lamar is said to
be perfect. When he rests for few
weeks or months his physical vigor is
great; when he overtaxcs himself he
is subject to nervous disorders that
compel his withdrawal from active en-
ployments. AS he is to-day, he will
have no rival in the Senate whose elo-
quence or logic will be more effective
than his own, and no State will
have worthier representative Of
its greatness. Why may not Gen.
Ell. G. Walthall sit beside him, and
thus Mississippi would be wholly I'M
rivalled as represented in the Senate.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-06-28

THE papers everywhere deplore the
fact that the Constitution will not
suifer Governor Hubbard TO accept q
loan in order to continue the employ
ment of the military companies on the
frontier. These, it is SAID, must soon
be disbanded.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-06-28

BRICK PoMERoY is the precursor OF
Barnum, and II Barnum can secure
Charley Ross Texas loses its last dollar.
How they do go for rural innocence
Brick was a good Uoion soldier, but
had weakness, it is said, for cotton
which he gathered in about Helena,
Arkansas, when soldering with one
Gen. Custis and then when peace was
restored Brick, having sounded the
depths of rebel folly, printed an awful
newspaper for time in some town in
Wisconsin or Iowa in which he ap
pealed with wonderful adroitness and
infinite don't care-a a-tiveness to
rebel purses and prrjudices. lie was
better Southern man than any of us,
and people read and were amazed and
slobbered over Brick. Then Brick,
encouraged by his success in the South
and among the rude masses of the val
ley of the Mississippi, imagined that
he could supplant Bennett, Chamber
lain, Marble, lIurlburt, Jennings and
Dana. He established the Democrat,
with great flourish of tIumpets, in
Gotham. But the thing tizzlcd out.
A daily lives by local patronage.
Bricks style was not after that ap-
proved in cities of the East. Bricks
daily was short lived. He was driven,
after losing all he had made out West,
to suspend his diurnal publication.
The remote unlettered Democracy still
adhered to Brick. His admirers were
in Texas and in the gulf States and
along the confines of civiliz Ition out
West. Here Brick discovered the un-
mitigated greenbackers and here the
unwashed and unterrified Democracy,
and now Brick comes to his own.
Here his sloshing style has ad-
mirers and here his ardent love of the
South will find full expression and
keenest sympathy. Here he proposes
to secure the * 'elter" and rope in
many subscribers for that eminently
wise and discreet newspaper yclept
'PomerOy's Democrat" We advise
every body to take it. Though edited
by Northern man and Federal soldier
it is the peculiar organ of redemption
less, incurable extremists. Brick is here
now to drink it in and pour it out.
Everybody that has it to spare should
pump it into Brick. He is infinitely a
better friend to US than we to ourselves,
and people of intelligence and patriet-
ism should run after him and throw
up their hats and take on a stock of
bilious enthusiasm to be used when
Barnum comes along with Charley
Ross and the monkeys to rob the lnno-
cent negroes and soft-pated whites.
We modestly volunteer these sugges-
tions in order that Brick may have no
trouble in pumping excitement into the
unthinking multitude and nickels into
his fiabby pockets. He Is good and
great man and overflowing just now
with Southern patriotism, and all Texas
should get up and do him reverence,
and the multitude should run after
him.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-06-28

The number of Oranges in 1876 was
IS, 10, and in 1875 there were "a, 323
of these institutions. The number of
members in 1876 was SIS, 037, and the
year before 76l,263. Perhaps they
are thrusting out all the Rutabagas
and Constitution members, and thus
making the Order decent. In any
event, it is dwindling out of existence.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-06-28

THE extraordinary and disastrous
floods along the valley of the Arkansas
and Mississippi rivers, caused by local
rain storms, are not confined to States
along the course of the great river and
its tributaries. Here at Austin rains
are lncessant, and necessarily local
since the Colorado is unaffected. Very
certainly, if these rain storms DO not
cease at an early day, crops will be ma
terially injured, and the coming of the
boil worm assured.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-06-28
FREETHlNKRR AND THE PE0.
PLE.

RsLE.
Il is the experience of every journal
ist who dares to say what he thinks
that now and then readers are en-
countered who deny his right to think.
Not only is an editor supposed by the
average ignorance Of the old ''moss
backs" to "beloag" to those nice fel-
lows the plsceseekers, sometimes called
the party, bu: any placesecker who
proposes TO use the party to secure sn
otice has the right to ride The newspa-
per. This idea has been exploded by
the dynamite Of progress and common
sense. 1t vas also true, in remote
aye, whereof the memory OF man run
meth not TO the contrary. that if .
newspaper deviatsd from the beaten
track and, thinking for ITSELF, escaped
from the old ruts and went whlrIing
away over highways neHly "blared
out,- the editor vas instantly pro-
scri6ed By the ollicssesksrs and party
leaders and the innocent, uuthinking
people stopped the paper" There
vas miserable popular slavishness in
this truealence to pEeiudices and to
DEGREES Of ambitious sdventurers who
re,orted 10 this once nrevalart sknnid-
iiy in erder 10 eonirol the press But
the people. lsng ago. rsyolssd sgAinss
this moral despotisn and every man BE-
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-06-28
MISCELLANEOUS.
Z. SIMPSON, Loaisville, Ky.

DIR. Tut has been en-
gagged in the practice
OF medicine thirty
years, and for q long
ume was demonstra-
tor OF anatomy In the
Medical College Of
Georgia, hence, per-
sons using his Pills
have the guarantee
that they are prepared
on scientific principles,
and are free from all
quackery.
lie has succeeded in
combining in them
the heretofore antag-
onistic qualities of n
str<agfh<HiaR, PsIHa-
Hve II PayiJ JyisgfoHie
Their first apparent
effect Is 10 increase the
appetite by causingthe
food toproperly assim-
ilate, thus the system
Is nourished, and by
their tonic action on
the digestive organs,
regular & healthy ey-
acuationsare produced
The rapidity with
! which PersoHs take on
HrSh, while under the
Influence of these pills,
Of itself indicates their
|adaptability to nourish
1.-The body, and hence
their efficacy in curing
nervous debility, mel
ancholy, dyspepsia, d
wasting of the mus
cles, sluggishness Of
the liver, chronic con-
stipation, and impart-
o the system. Sold ey-
NV Street New York.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-06-28

are salaries that it is only here. and
there that the wisest and most learned
and best men can afford to sit upon the
bench. From these facts spring that
lawlessness of which the Federal mar
shal tells. and yet these mstchless or
ganic lawgivers, after bringing down
upon Texas all these c'!amlties and
this infamy heralded abroad by the
United States marshal thr ugh the
press, hold up their empty little heads
and blow vigorously about tue excel
lencies and blessings achieved by politi-
cal Grangerism. The causes of evils of
which we complain and of vices of
government of which the courts tell are
palpable and should be eradicated.
We don't know about it, but many
have thought that Col. Lang should be
totally suppressed. In any event, the
vices of Rutabagaism in Texas law,
government and politics should be
obliterated.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-06-28

till Congress meets, is significant of
his purpose, it is stated, not to share
in any plot, now organizing, in his
party sgainst the Presidents policy.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-06-28

The Philosophical and practical and
sensible Sulphur Springs Ga-ette, re-
ferring TO the recently contemplated
duel between two editors of Northern
Texas, advises them 70 keep cool and
remember that bull terriers and gro
cery .bullies have monopoly OF the
filthy, bloodv business"
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-06-28
PILES

How many sufTer torture day after day, max;
lug life . burden and robbing existence OF all
pleasure, owing lo the secret suffering from
Piles Yet relief Is ready to the hand OF almost
any one who Will use systematically the remedy
that has perm anently cunsd thousands. No
drastic, violent purge, but Gentle assistant of
nAture.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-06-28

THE Henrietta Journal, ike the rest
of the women of Texas, scolds the
Dallas Nail Il seems that the Kaa
criticized in harsh terms Governor
Hubbzrd's Intervention in behalf OF
the State in prosecuting the supposed
womAn-murderer, Roihschild, At Jef-
ierssn. - -
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-06-28

THE tide of German emigration will
derive a fresh impulse from the fact
that the German government Is pre-
pairing the organization and equipment
of the Landsturm, which comprises all
able-bodied men from Il to 50 years
of age not belonging to the Line, Re-
serve, or Lanawehr. The Llndsturm
has not been summoned since 1918.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-06-28
BAD BREATH.

Nothing IL so unpleasant, nothing so common
as had breath, Dnd In nearly every case II mes
from the stomach. and can be so easi corrected
n ypu will take Simmons's Liver Regtiator. do
not neglect so sure remedy for this repulsive
disorder IL will H.sO improve your appetite,
complexion and general health.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-06-28
SICK HEAnACHE.

THIS distressing afilietlon occurs most fire.
qucnlly. The Disturbance OF the stomach aris-
ing frum the imperfectly digesied contents,
sanses a severe pain In the head, accompanied
with dissgreeAble nausea, and this constitutes
what ts popularity knowh us Sick Headache.
j. IT, ZEILIN Il CO.,
Sole proprietors Simmons l.lSer Regulator,
Philadelphia.
AZ RemedYiH
NALARIOUS FEvERS, BOWEL COM
PLAINTS, DYSPEPSIA, MENTAL D2PRES-
SION. RESTLESSNESS, JAUNDlCE, NAU-
SEA. SICK HkADACHE, CoLIC, CoNSrlrA-
TION AND BILIOuSNkSS
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-06-28

THE departure o. Senator Conkling,
TIE abIest Republican member OF the
Senate, Tor Europe, % remain abroad
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-06-28
CONSTIPATION

should not be regarded as triflinS
aiIment-in fact nature dem snds the
utAaost regularity Of the bowels, and
any dsvlAtiou from this demand paves
the wav often 20 serious danger. IL
IL quite as necessary to remove i'm
pure accommodations from the bowels
as it is to eat or sleep, and no health
ean hs expected where costivc
habit NJ hn1N nr.s,atta
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-06-28

THE Rockport Transcript contains q
deserved tribute to the genius and
taste of Mrs. Lide &Eerriwethcr,, the
New York correspondent of the
STATESMAN. The Transcript says her
description of \. T. Stewards art gal p
lery is the very perfection of word
painting. The warmth, pathos and
accuracy of the language is so vivid
and lifelike, that it needs little exercise
OF the imagination 10 suppose that We
stand beside the writer contemplating
the works OF the great masters whose
productions lend inspiration to her
pen, and as they assume form, give
shape and expression to the fcrvid Ge
scription we discover and magical
power to poetic prose.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-06-28

DR.. Messer, of the British war.
steamer Pearl, has lately pointed outl
that the wounds inflicted BY pcisonex
arrows in the South Sea IslsndsiiTe n
followed by blood poisiBing, nor BY
specific disease trzceable 10 the
posed ''poisop," but by seria
morbid, mental and motor symn
the first including fear, mental
ment, delusion and seLpal
while the second embfiRe hyst
tetanus, preceded by morbid
tions. Further, he proves that
called poisoned arrows are re
pd p. and that their q
% = produce tetnnus,
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-06-28

THE chasm dug instead of half q
million graves, and in which were
wrecked the country's health and NOR
ais, has been bndged by the people
and almost by the politicians and
partyleaders. Hayes leads the way
and the whole country follows. It is
painful TO state, however, that the
bloody war was inaucurated. to very
great extent, by the churches, and
there are two of these that still stand
alOof from their brethren OF tie South.
and thus is the name Of Christ glori-
tied-of that Christ whose gospel was
of peace on earth aad good will toward
men. But isn't it pity after these
sinners, the party leaders, come to
their senses and let the people have
rest, that these ugly Northern and
Southern churches still wool one an
other and keep up an everlasting row.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-06-28
1T HAS NO EQUAL.
p. Cant1on.

As there are = number Of, ,on ~. eon,s,r.
20 the public Sc ~on1D99 nrspsrsa sIMNoSS's
w 70 guy ~. no .rrsoffOR unless In our engraved
LlNkn swith Ttaao Marx, stamp and signature
MsI6rokon. None OtheS Is genuine
J. n ZElI.IN q CO.,
nosdeod1wiyr Macon, Ga, and Philadelphia
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-11-19
CITY ECHOES.

John Smith YVES incarcerated in the Eighth
Station, charged with carrying q concealed
weapon.
VIM. Graham spent Sunday night in the Third
Precinct Station, charged by Mary Campbell with
larceny of groceries.
Edward Deego retired into the Central Station
Sunday, charged by Special Tracy and Sergeant
Ryan with larceny of wearing apparel.
John Smith, machinist, was locked up in the
Eighth Station, charged with assault with dam
gerous weapons, to wit, knife and pistol.
VIM. Fraley, who shot himself in the head with
q Deringer pistol at o'clock Saturday, died from
the effects OF the wound at quarter to ! o'clock
Sunday morning. The Coroner held an inauest
and returned verdict in accordance with the
facts.
At half-past o'clock Saturday evening Antonio
Bassetts daughter, aged one year and q half ac-
cidentally fell into the gutter at the corner of
Magnolia and Josephine streets, and was severely
scslded by the water that escapes from MIR. Kel-
ler's soap factory.
The following bridges are broken and in very
dangerous condition Corner Poydras and
Tchoupltoulas; corner Tchoupitoulas and Lafay-
cite; corner Tchoupitoulas and Julia; corner
Tchoupitoulss and Delord; corner Wells and
Crossman; corner Customhouse and Front.
Officer Curley reported at police headquarters
that the driver on the red car No. 4, OF the st.
Charles and Jackson street line, refused to stop
for the signal given by the fag-boy of the Jack
son Railroad, but passed within a short distance
of the locomotive, thus endangering the lives of
his passengers.