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The crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1877-1878, 1877-09-13

PICKING oABBAGE.-Take half doz-
en- small red beets, boil, and when cold
chop up fine with n hash.knife. Take
one large head of cabbage, chop up the
same way, and mix all together, add
salt and black pepper TO your taste, n
half teaspoonful cayenne pepper, pack
in crock, cover with good vinegar, and
it will keep for months,
The crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1877-1878, 1877-09-13
VOL. l.
THE NEWS.
THE EASTERN WAR.
A Review of the situation.

The foreign powers most directly in
tercsted in the result of the Turkish and
Russian war are getting into fever heat
From the best foreign dispatches we learn
the following information regarding the
general state OF affairs. The English papers
appreciate the situation, and clamor for
European mediation. The Times thinks it
would be an eternal scandal to civilization
and craftsmanship if II bloody settlement of
the eastern question is the only one that
can be attained. The News thinks that
Russia and Turkey have the best reasons
for wishing that before the middle OF Octo-
Der battles may be fought so decisive in
character as to produce such state of
political feeling as may permit the negotia-
ton OF peace. Public sentiment seems
agreed that the condition of France is such
that the continuance of the Russo-Turksh
was is certain to involve other nationalitics
notably France and Germany. with univcr-
sally disastrous results. Mingled with this
apprehension is the fear of the English that
Russia, if permitted to 90 on, will surely
endanger Bs1ish interests, although this
phase is now kept well in the background.
What commerce. trade, humanity. and
civilization will suffer il the war be permit
ted to continue is the reason urged why the
contest must be stopped. 1t should be
noticed that when the Turks were in the as
ccndant no reasons why the war should be
ended were put forward. All classes of
securities are feeling the effect of the crisis.
The military situation is critical for both
bclligcrcnts.
Another Battle.
Eouabs Pasha's army corps, which
was divided into two columns, attacked the
llth Russian army corps, which was sup
ported by a division on this bank of the
LON. The Russians were defeated and re-
crossed in disorder. They abandoned their
fortified positions near Krichtown. They
lost 5000 killed and wounded. The COM
mandcr Of their cavalry was killed We
lost 200 killed and 700 wounded.
Russians Flankcd.
A telegram from Constantinople re-
ports that the whole of SULLIVAN Pashas
army had passed north of the Balkans.
The crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1877-1878, 1877-09-13

Detroit has become so enraptured
with boat-racing that we expect soon to
hear that she has founded o acollege.
The crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1877-1878, 1877-09-13

1t is reported that the cabinets OF
London, Berlin, and Vienna have agreed
that the time has not arrived for an at
tempt to s.tle tie eastern question by
negotiation. The neutral powers be
licvc that defnitive settlement, prom
ising permanent peace, cannot be OBJ
tanned until Turkey is subjugated G..
Russia becomes thoroughly exhaustcd
by the protracted struggle, and is ready
to seek some other means of adjustment
than the arbitrament of force to which
she has appealed.
The crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1877-1878, 1877-09-13

The reason why Hobart Pasha has not
bombardcd Scvastopol is known at last.
He has discovered that the new fortif-
cations of the place are strong enough
to destroy any fleet that might come
within range of their guns, even with
out the help of the torpcdocs.
The crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1877-1878, 1877-09-13

Col. Elmer Il. Ellsworth's old bay
horse was stolen by tramp from pas
ture in Mechanicsville fortnight since,
but was abandoned on the highway and
recovered.
The crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1877-1878, 1877-09-13
TOPICS OF THE TIME.

Evan Evan Evans is student in Il
Wisconsin college. Evans, what a name !!
The crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1877-1878, 1877-09-13

The injunction of secrecy, has at
lcnthy been removed from the agent of
the Pilgrim Society Of Massachusetts,
and he announces that the gentleman
whose gift of 49,, 300 purchased the inn
monso statue of Faith" which is to
crown the national monument of Ply
mouth is the late Hon. Oliver Ames.
The crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1877-1878, 1877-09-13

The Salt Lake Herald predicts that
the people of Utah will see that she full
fills the fair promises made to the world
by her great founder and leader, Brig
ham Young.
The crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1877-1878, 1877-09-13

In the Island of Sardinia, long neg
lccted by modern civilization, water and
gas works were recently introduced in
several small towns amid an enthusias-
tic display of flags and fireworks,
The crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1877-1878, 1877-09-13

A colonization convention of 1000 or
5000 colorcd people was lately held in
Corinth, Miss. The African scheme
was not favored, but New Mexico, Ari-
zona and northern Texas were consider
ed.
The crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1877-1878, 1877-09-13

The pope is paralyTsl in the legs,
but he is still able to receive visitors,
and is considered good for half Il dozen
years yet, more or less.
The crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1877-1878, 1877-09-13

The postofiicc department has receiv-
cd II number of letters from the princi-
pal newspapers throughout the country,
refusing to publish the advertisement
soliciting proposals for carrying mails
in the several States from Jan. l, 1878,
to June 30, 1879, at the rate allowed by
law, which is forty cents for the first
hundred, and twenty cents for each sub
sequcnt hundred words.
The crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1877-1878, 1877-09-13

A Calcutta dispatch says the weather
reports for the last week are decidedly
cheering. All the Madras districts have
had some rain. In many parts it was
heavy.
The crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1877-1878, 1877-09-13

The condition of peace for Sitting
Bull seem to be that he shall give up
his stolen or captured guns and ponies,
and go upon q reservation.
The crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1877-1878, 1877-09-13

/. "Clcopatra's needle" has been dropped
into the Mediterranean. An enormous
caisson of timber has been built around
the great shaft, sufficiently buoyant to
float it, and in this condition it is to be
towed to England.
The crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1877-1878, 1877-09-13

The late Oliver Ames was the liberal
gentleman through whose gift of S32,
800 the statue of Faith" was completed
and placed in its position on the ma
tional monument to the pilgrims at
Plymouth, Mass. Mr. Amcs WIS a ma
tive of that town.
The crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1877-1878, 1877-09-13

1t is unlimited that the scandalous
Mitchell divorce case, ut Milwaukee, has
been taken out of the courts. The child
is to remain in the custody of its grand
parents, Congressman Alexander Mitch
ell and wife.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-01-11
Mexican News.

Gems. Tuero and Guerra have joined
Lerdo at Michoacan.
Tampico still holds out for Lerdo,
but it is expected that the garrison
will recognize Iglesiss A gunbost -
blockading the port by oder Of ntsz.
EI Democrata says that after the re-
verse suffered by Aletorre, Lerdo aud
his cabinet, after leyying one million
| of dollars prestdm0 left the City Of
Mexico with some four thousand troops.
Revueltas, it is said, will give his ad-
herence TO Iglesias as soon as his
brother arrives from New Orleans. He
is expected on the Morgan steamer,
and brings documents from iglesias to
| Revueltas.
A big battle has occurred by this
time between Iglesias and Diaz- An
other report IS that Diaz and Iglesias
had effected a compromise. The lat
ter is to be president and the former
commander-in-chief Of the army.
1t is reported that Gen. Treyino left
Monterey ten days ago with three thou
sand men and eight pieces of artillery,
on his way TO Matamoros- DiaZ has
ordered Fidenucio Hernandes to take
command of the forces operating
against Matamoros.
Porfrio Diaz entered the capital on
December 90 and proclaimed himself
president. Iglesias claims TO be the
legitimate president and refuses TO rec
ogpize Disz. Lerdo has his seat OF
government in AihoacaD, and has been
joined by Gems. Cebailos and Regules,
with some troops.
In Cortinas's assault upon Matamo-
ros, after two OF three hours' fighting,
seven men were reported killed and If
teen wounded on the inside. The
losses suffered by the attacking party
are unknown. The LeTdists CLAIM that
this was the grand attack which has
been SO doug expected, and that the
..outsidersr lost hesgily in killed and
wounded. The friends OF the ''out-
siders, eH the other hand, claim thet
this Was sri = . res, snnoissaHce,
no fo4D8l assaui Las yet beef
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The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-01-11


THE New York World estimates that
the next House will be organized with
IA Democrats and 1873 Republicans.
This does not include the Congressional
delegations from Florida, Louisiana
and South Carolina, the supposition
being that the clerk of the House will
follow the example of his predecessor,
Mr.. Mcpherson, and refuse to place the
names of members elect on the rolls
where two delegations appear, each
certified to by rival governor. Ex-
Guiding the delegations where two
governors claim to have the power to
issue certificates, the State delegations
will stand sixteen Democratic TO eigh.
teen Republican. A contest existing
in three States, the precise composition
of the delegation Will ba matter for
Congress to determine, while fourth
delegation, New Hampshire's, will be
decided by an election.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-01-11

THE Marshall Herald says "that the
problem of how to deal with drink.
ing, SO as to correct Its abuse. is as
far from solution as ever. The country
is in a worse condition than it was
twenty years ago. Besides what We
witness ourselves, the daily press ID
filed with its horrors. Ii what oc.
ours in the United States in a single
year, the poverty, degradation and
wretchedness, the immortality and
crime, were embraced in volume, mer
would be appalled,. But Legislation
thus far has done but little good. Tht
main corrective must be found, at last
in society itself, and in social organize
tions, inducing men to enter upon ,
new line of life"
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-01-11

DORSEY, of Arkansas, and Spencer,
of Alabama, still assume to represent
Southern States in the Federal Senate
Clayton steps down and out forever In
March. He is a man of nerve aud
force, aid of many excellent personal
qualities; but a reckless, lawless ad
venturer and politician. He would
rule or ruin, and if violence epsue, af-
ter the fourth of March, Clayton will
be as conspicuous fgare as Sheridan.
He was organized by nature for des-
perate deeds, and in lawless society
and in the midst of anarchy would be
as conspicuous and great as be has
been unuoticed and dlminutive among
statesmen. A carpet-bagger is no more
respected among Republicans of the
Senate and House than in the States
he assumes to represent. Party lead
ers use and tolerate them; but this
man Clayton, however devoid of hon
esty in politics, is loyal in his hates
and In his friendships. He is truthful
and fearless. and, however we abhor
the politician and sdventurer, it is only
proper to do justice to the ma1. On
the fourth OF March be steps down
and out-out into the outer darkness
of littleness aud into Oblivion. Il is q
terrible fate for Senator.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-01-11

GRANTS personal organ, the Wash
ington Republican, foreshadows what is
believed to be the policy of the Radl-
cal revolutionists. The joint commit,
tee of fourteen will not agree, the
joint convention will be held and the
President of the Senate will announce
and decide the vote; if the House az.
tempt to meet to elect Mr.. Tilden,
enough Republican members will alb
sent themselves to destroy, if possible,
a quorum, but if they fail IN that, any
attempt by the Speaker to announce
that Mr.. Tllden has been chosen viii
be considered treason, and he will b,
at once arrested with all who are dis
posed to sustain him. This, III brief
is the editorial declaration OF the lead
Ing Republican paper ut the nationa
| capital.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-01-11


IN Vermont they call the local op-
ton law the nuisance law" After
declaring every liquor shop a nuisance,
it provides that the person convicted
of keeping such place shsli nov a
fine of not less than twenty nof9%; =
than two hundred dollars, or be liabIee
to q foe of twenty dollars and impris-
onment for not less than one month
nor more than three months, at the
discretion of the court. The shops
to be closed and the proprietor placed
under bonds against reopening it for
the purpose of selling liquor. People
don't murder one another in Vermont,
and city governments there do not tol-
crate public gambling hells and dance
houses. And on rugged, stony hill
sides, where winter reigns nine months
each. year, the sober people grow
rich and have charming homes and
churches and school houses on rugged
mountains or in deep valleys. The
sirocco blast of whisky's breath never
withered the gardens or fields or NOR.
ais of Vermont.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-01-11

CAPTAIN MARKS will have admirable
copies executed of pictures of the
battle of Trenton, n. j., which was
re-enacted last Tuesday, the centen-
NAL of the event. Troops were pres
ent from Philadelphia as we'll as New
Jersey towns, General Truax com
manding one thousand men represent
ing the Americans, and Captain l. NJ.
Youmans with eight hundred men
representingt Colonel Rail, the Hessiar
commander. The Americans crossed
the Delaware just at the point where
Washington's little army went over,
and the general features Of the old
fight were reproduced. Judge BuGhan
an afterwards delivered an oration.
Colonel John Sullivan, of Boston,
grandson of General Sullivan, wa:
present. The river was frozen and
blocks of ice filed the stream as wher
Washington crossed it one hundred
years before. But who las read IL
boyhood historical accounts of the
battle OF Trerton and then witnessed
or participated in battles of the late
interstate war and then stood upor
the banks of the Delaware to recall
the stories and dreams end hallowec
memones of childhood How insig
nifcant the little river. how insignif
cant the battlel 4 hundred like /
were fought and are forgotten within
the past sixteen years.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-01-11

REPRESENTATIVE THRoCKMoRToN
has been reported, by special telegram
from Washington to the Galveston
Ne,cS, as ready to protect the interests
of Texas in the bill now pending in
Congress for the building and equip
ping and paying of the debts of the
Texas and Pacific and the Atlantic
and Pacific railways and their depend
encieS. The STATESMAN has time and
again pronounced itself as opposed to
government swindles, whether prac-
ticed upon the State OF Texas or upon
the national government. These
wholesale robberies of the government
are what has in a very great measure
brought the country to its present con-
diiion. 1t is reprehensible for any
man or any company to attempt to
practice these swindles upon the pub
lie, and when the question comes to
US in Texas, as paying even for such
heavy burdens without receiving re-
turn, the people should send one uni
yersal demand to Mr.. Throckmorton
and the other members of the Texas
delegation to vote against the pending
bill. st. Louis and Northern papers
declare fron day to day that the pco-
II. sNFf 4 Nf oh. III
not have Texas road, building up
great Texas seaport, and giving
wealth in return for princely domains {;
and so long as Throckmorton and
Others lend their aid to the furtherance
OF Scott's schemes, or even Hunting
tons, if his'be of similar nature, just
so long are they enemies of Texas.
The Constitution of Texas reserves to
the State the right to control rates
for freight and passengers upon all
roads in Texas, and yet the so-called
compromise bill, now before Congress,
would transfer this right to Congress,
which would ever be governed by the
North and East and st. Louis against
Texas, and III favor of lines running
north of and out of Texas. The spe-
cial Telegram, coming from very
leeply-iRterested party in Washington,
would allay any dissatisfaction here
upon this subject, but evades declar-
ing Mr.. Throckmorton's feeling upon
this one vital question. he ''be'
lieves" that the provisions oi
the bill will protect Texas
he cannot declare it, for he certainly
knows that deeper scheme than ha'
ever yet been concocted is nov being
prepared to lead Texas law into
conflict with Federal law, in which
the weaker power must succumb be
fore the more powerful. No superb
eial, eyasive telegram will satisfy th,
public mind. Our State Constitution
must not be insulted and ignored
while Texans are upon the door o
Congress. ~
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-01-11

THE Intercollegiate literary contests,
progressive in New York, dor.ot excite
as much public interest as If 1t were an
intercollegiate muscular contest, not.
withstanding the fact that l. is more
creditable kind of strife. In either
case it is battle OF sculls, but biceps
seem to possess more attraction than
brains when it comes to public contests
for supremacy. Though this painful
fact is confessed of these exercises in
which young gentlemen of choicest
ability and attainments from different
institutions appear, yet the Herald
fails to confess its own un nfortunate
agency in begetting the facts which it,
too, deplores. Half n spa ace is de.
voted to horse and boat racing and the
recital of incidents of billiard matches,
and, until young Bennett was lashed
by May, to ''pulo, "and thus the Herald
has done more than all agencies of taste
and opinion to exaggerate t'le value OF
muscular force and training, as social
facts, and more than all American news.
pagJrs. Self-respect and That due a
wr Inged people should silence the
Hteald now, and the more since its
pr 6prietor, properly enough so far as
WI know to the contrary, refused tc
resent personal outrage demanding
Only share of that ply sical vigol
which the Herald so persistently com
mends to the people and promotes in
its editorial conduct.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-01-11

THERE is aud can be, in the very na-
ture of things, but one mode of giving
perfect relief to the commerce OF the
Mississippi and of its cities and States.
That which gives partial remedy for
infinite evils may be successfully exc
cuted by Capt, Eads; but the increased
force of the rivers current will aug
ment the necessity for tug-boats that
have ever preyed upon and destroyed
the commerce of New Orleans. The
same objections pertain to the Fort St.
Philip canal, leaving the Mississippi
fifty or sixty miles below the city, and
the only perfect remedy for evils of
which farmers and merchants from
the lakes to the gulf and from Kansas
to Virginia complain is to be found in
a ship canal cut from New Orleans
itself 10 deep water in Barrataria Bay.
Texas and the coast cities of Texas are
deeply interested in this solution Of
commercial difficulties deemed almost
insuperable. The Barrataria slack wa
ter canal, with locomotives on it's banks
to draw Great Easterns to the western
wharves of the Crescent City, would
redouble the trade OF the gulf coast
and lessen One-half the commercial
distance-time and Cost-between Gal
weston and New Orleans. But the
next best thing to such a canal is ac-
complished by Capt. Eads, who, at his
own cost, proposes to open the South
west Pass. He is to be paid S., 250,
600. The contract calls for an opening
acrosstEe bar twenty feet in depth and
| two hundred feet in width before the
first payment of $500, 900, and final
depth of thirty and width of three
hundred and fifty fect--the work to be
inspected at stated intervals by COM
missions of government engineers, and
the contract to be completed at the
end of twenty years. Capt. Eads
claims that the channel is now twenty
feet deep, and asks for his money.
The river having this depth he is en-
titled to the sum agreed to be paid,
and Congress orthe departments should
not suffer Eads to be embarrassed be-
cause he may have enemies among
civil engineers or in New Orleans. His
perfect triumph and the depth of thir-
ty feet given the rivers mouth will
only dsuble the volume of commerce
and thus the necessity for u perfect
ship canal.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-01-11


No MAN becomes suddenly good or
suddenly gains conquest over the
evil that Is within him. He moves
steadily to perfection, often relapsing
and again advancing. He gains
strength with each victory, until that
greatest possible degree of human per-
fection may be attained. Life, therefore,
should grow more beautiful and more
delightful with advancing years, and
this is only possible when in yonth the
moral perceptions were not so blunted
by fierce passions that the beautiful and
the true cannot be distinguished from
the unworthy and the base. We were
reading delineation of Senator Nor
toms chsTactei, in which it was said
that he had each distinguishing vice
of each distinguished hero and states
man of ancien: and modern times. Any
one of these defects might have been
pardoned in him, as was cupidity In
Marlborough, or ugliness in Curran,
ambition in Clay or Webster, or physi-
cal deformity in William of Orange,
the ''asthmatic skeleton, or as hIdeou;
and worse than pugnosed ugliness in
Marabeau. But since Morton is vic
ious, vlcious-looking, uncultured, the
companion-in-arms of villains like kel
logg and Chamberlain, ambitious, sell
fish, without honest convictions, big
oted in his partisanship and the apollo
gist of corruption, he cannot be de
cent leader of party pretending Il
decency. We submit these considers
tions to Judge Edmunds and Roscoe
Cenkling. And when We add ths
Morton,s vices of character and moral
are more revolving than the diseases o
his person, 1t must be confessed that q
his time of life reform is IS impossioi'
as prayers are unavailing. he mus
grow steadily worse, for there Is NJ
germ of virtue in. him. He is wors
and more deIestable than John A. Lo
gan. The Springfield RepGblieaa, refer
ring to these facts, says that the feel