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The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-06-21

THE last Legislature, in specific terms,
instructed the State Comptroller him.
self to negotiate the State bonds re-
quired to be sold. What will the
Wall street people do about it2 They
are accustomed to levy exactions in
two directions upon the vendors of
public securities. They compel insig-
nificant, helpless States to pay for the
selling and then rob them in the buy
ing. In fact, itsometimes happens that
the vendor and buyer are parts of the
same ring, and then the hapless COM
monwealth Is decently done for. Col.
Darden is a very proper gentleman to
deal with the animals, .fere nature, as
the lawyers have it, of Wall street.
He has slaughtered many "bear" and
manages the gamest "bulls" that ever
beloved in Texas. He will hardly be
bulldozed.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-06-21
THE TIMID NEWSPAPERS.

Morton said that Hayes had "suc-
cumbed to Democratic force" The
STATESMAN is pleased that Hayes sue
cumbed; but the Register grows angry
about it. 1t is not Democracy in fact
and philosophy it wanted, but the
spoils. Hayes has confessedly served
US more effectively than Tilden could
have done, and when the STATESMAN
rejoices because the country is thus
perfectly blest, the Register weeps
simply because the spoils are lost. The
STATESMAN is patriotic, the Register
partisan. The STATESMAN dares to
tell the truth, and whea q partisan
enemy serves the country well the
STATESMAN lauds as the act deserves,
but the Registers soul is not its own.
1t belongs to the party and cannot do
justice to patriot president who,
rising superior to this timidity that
distinguishes party-leaders, defies their
power in his own party that he may
obey the Constitution and execute the
laws. So extraordinary is this conduct
of Mr.. Hayes, so unlike that of his
predecessors, SO significant of the mans
wisdom, courage and integrity, that we
would be false to every instinct of our
nature did we not recognize each day
the honest worth and devotion to
right of the President of the United
States. Duty to truth and honor COM
pels this assertion of admiration for
the President, and if there be South
ern patriot worthy of the South he will
not fail to do justice to the personal
and official virtues of the country's
chief magistrate. Meanwhile, when
the President falters in the plain path
of duty and of justice to States we will
be as ready to condemn as at this
moment to approval the man and chief
executive.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-06-21

MORGAN is smashing things IN the
Southwest. He believes that there is
an alliance, offensive and defensive,
between Pierce's Sunset and the Inter
national road. He compels these two
roads to take cattle to New Orleans,
on terms most profitless, and then,
when Morgan makes no money on
frelghts, he loads his vessel to the
guards with mules, horses and cattle,
selling out in Havana. He made
S15, 600 on single cargo of mules not
many days ago, and the profits on cat
tie are absolutely certain. He is now
taking merchants of the interior to New
Orleans at nominal passenger rates and
reduces his freight charges to such fig
ures that tradesmen find it better to go
to the Crescent City than to Galveston.
He fights everybody that resists HIM,
and Is how making arrangements, we
are told, to crush out the line of steam
ers hired by Galveston to ply between
that City and Corpus Christi end other
points. Galveston's war with Morgan,
waged through its wharf company,
has been the greatest calamity that
ever befel such a city, and now, we
greatly fear, so great have been Nor
gan's expenditures in perfecting his
canal and landing places, that compro-
mise is impossible. Where or when or
how it will end no man can foresee.
While Morgan lives Galv eston must
wither; what will follow Morgan's de-
mise none may tell.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-06-21
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Centaur
Linimsnts.
[Lensr Cron a Postmaster.l


AsTiOcH. ill.,. December /, 1874.
Messrs. j. Il. Roee q Co.:
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Fnfferer from Rheumatism. she has tried many
physicians and many remedies. The only thing
which has given her relief IL Centanr LiniInent.
! am rejOiced TO say this has cured her. / am
doing what can 10 extend itz sale. ,
This is a sample OF many thousand testimoni,
ais rec iyed OF wonderful cures effected by the
Centaur Liniment. The Ingredients OF this art
ele are Published around each bottle. IL contains
Witch Hazel McnthA, ATnica, Rock OIL, Car
II an indisputabie fact that the Centaur Linl'
nsnt IL performing more cures OF Swellng-,
Stiff Joints, EruptioRs, Rheumatism, Neuralgia,
Seiatica Caked Breasts, Lockjaw, etc, than any
other linlments, cmbrocatiouB extracts, nalYes,
Ointments and plasters now in use.
For ToOthache. Earaehe, Weak Back, Itch and
Cutaneous Eruptons, II Is admirable. IL cures
burus and scalde without a scar, extracts poison
from bites and stings, and heals frost-bites and
chilblains In a short time. No family can afford
10 be without the Centaur Linimcnt, white wrap
ter. x,,
Wrapper, Is adapted to the tough skin, mus
eles and flesh OF the animal creation. Its effects
upon severe cases OF Spawn, Sweeny, Wind
Gall, Big Head and Poll Evil, are little less than
marvellous.
OF Rlm and Front streets, Cincinnati. Ohio, says
"In our neighborhood number OF Teamst ers
are using the Centaur Liniment. They pronounce
Il superior to anything they have ever used. We
sell as high as four to fve dozen bottles per
month to these tcamstcrs."
We have thousands OF similar testimonials.
For Wounds, Gallr, Scratches, Ringbone, etc:
and for Screw Worm In sheep II has no rival
Farmers, Hverymen and Stockri l ers have In
this Liniment remedy which is worth hun
dred times its cost.
Laboratory of J. B. ROSE &c co.
4G Dey st. New York.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-06-21

GOLD has hidden its shining face
from Texas for seventeen years. Sher-
man gives everybody silver that prof
fers paper, and is paying out million
per month, but we never behold the
brilliant yellow, fascinating sheen of
gold. 1t is coming. Sherman is slowly
unveiling it; but what signifies it?
Our condition, when it comes, will be
no better than to-day. Money will be
scarcer and property lower, and the
very scarcity of money will make it
valuable, and we will be driven to use
pennies instead of dimes and nickels.
We have not yet seen the worst Of hard
times. Sherman gives the financial
thumbscrew an additional twist every
day, and squeezes the very lifeblood
and breath out of the country.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-06-21

FIELDS, late of the Comanche Chief,
was an excellent editor. lie was In.
dustrious, and industry is the synonym
of genius. Genius means hard work,
and those brilliant people we read
about smell of the lamp. The un-
dergraduate addicted to terrific sprees
and idle through the day. and yet
standing first in his classes, does an
infinite deal of labor in very brief pc
RODS. He tolls with a degree of ASST
duty of which the sluggish and lazy
are incapable. He loses not moment
of the half hour devoted to books, and
his whole soul is fastened on the page
he would master. II is earnest desire
to acquire that constitutes the capacity
to acquire, and, after all, earnestness
is greatness. A wonderful orator, who
was victorious in many intellectual
combats over one afterwards President
of the United States, used to say that
there is no such quality or power as
genius; that he rose with the "occa-
sion;" that he drew his inspiration
from the Occasion" and that his
'earnestness" was more potent than
the keenest logical acumen or most fas-
THE recent floods in Ark ansas de-
stroyed part of the narrow gauge from
the Cairo and Fulton road to Hot
Springs, where the editors of Missouri
happened to be engaged in cleansing
their persons and renovating them
selves for years devotion to the
country's good. They are there yet,
and cannot get away They are not
encumbered, of course, with baggage
bit most of them are in no fix to walk
after years of sedentary habits and
the like, and such is the order and
peace and quietude of Missouri, while
these noisy editors are imprisoned at
Hot Springs, that the people at home
are petitioning Tom Allen to revoke
the dead-head tickets of the editors
and leave them imprisoned in Arkan-
sas. Many of them could never get
home, and who does not dcplorc the
fate of Arkansas? The Governor o!
Arkansas talks about convening the
Legislature to see what can be done tC
get the editors as peaccably and
quietly and nicely as possible out OF
the State. The country is alarmed.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-06-21

CoNNoIssEURs accustomed to use Eu-
ropean wine pronounce that made
from mustang grapes of Texas the best
ever produced at the table of any sub.
ject or king. The grapes grow every
where in the southern and western
counties. The cost of making the
wine is fifty cents and it is sold for
one dollar per gallon, and each year
adds fifty cents or dollar to its value
for several years. The Houston Agt
asks people who understand the art OF
making wine from mustang grapes to
publish their formula. The crop
will be great and soon ripe.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-06-21

GEN. EscoBEDo is endowed with 9
degree of ubiquitousness that startles
credulity. Only three days ago tele-
gram from Laredo located the General
In that blessed place. Then we were
all told, the next day, that he was in
San Antonio. Thursday the Neaos de-
clared he was in Galveston, and the
Democrat, of New Orleans, asserted
most positively he was in New Orleans
the very day he was in Laredo, and
we would like to find some manager
of industrious and other fiess who can
put his finger on Escobedo.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-06-21

THE representative Odd Fellows of
the State meet in Austin at an carly
day. Their business will consist in
part in locating the great temple of
the Order. For several years the prop
osltion to make Austin the central
seat of the powerful association has
been considered in successive con
claves. 1t is, therefore, an unjust as
sumption that Austin will seek to take
advantage of deplorable calamity at
Galveston to concentrate even here the
wealth, intelligence and moral power
of the excellent Order. The meeting
of the magnates of the 1. o. o. F., for
reasons suggested, is anticipated with
keen interest everywhere in Texas.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-06-21

If IT be true, as stated, that Cortins
has been liberated, that he has moi
been put to death as alleged some days
ago, and that he is again in Tamau-
lipas, there is little hope for peace with
Mexico. Happily no one can tell
whether Cortina will cooperate with
Diaz er Escobedo and Lerdo; but very
certainly there will be no peace where
Cortina may make war. Gen. Ord, il
Cortina be free, will soon be forced,
under existing orders from Washing
ton, to cross the Rio Grande.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-06-21
COLUMBIA AND WHARTON
RAILWAY.--STO TAKEN.

The Houston Telegram says that this
scheme had origin with wide-awake
Northern men, who have been looking
upon the country on the Brazos with
the eyes of Northern shrewdness and
enterprlse-conceived the project of
rousing the planters and property own
ers of the lower end of the Brazos to
bestir themselves and develop section
of this great State that for fertility of
soil has no equal on the face of the
earth. Meetings were therefore quietly
and unostentatiously arranged with the
planters at Columbia, and new pro-
ject laid before them. 1t was to build
three-foot narrow gauge, the same
gauge with the Texas Western, from
the town of Columbia, on the iBrazos
to Wharton, on the Colorado, thirty
eight miles above. The terms offered
were to get 1000 acres of land donated
per mile, or ten miles on either side of
the road. Some of this land is of the
most valuable description; some is
flat prairie, in its present state scarcely
worth twenty-five cents per acre. 1t is
understood the terms have been agreed
to, the company has been regularly
formed and chartered according to the
incorporation laws of the State, and
it is stated that the stock has been
taken and so per cent. already offered
in cash. If the condition required by
the originators of the scheme can be
obtained, it is believed that after the
laying of the first rail the entire line
can be finished inside of four months.
The proposed new piece of road is
continuation of the Columbia division
of the International and Great North
erD, with southwark curve at Colum-
bia, and then striking in a direction a
little north of west for the lanks of
the Colorado at Wharton, penetrating
the magnificent Old Caney country, and
in line with Hallettsville, Gonzales
and New Braunfels, at the latter place
forming a junction with the line of the
Texas Western. From the way in
which the Northern gentlemen con-
nected with it talk about the enter
prise, they evidently mean business,
and that in the near future.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-06-21

THE Galveston NeioS perverts most
sadly and most funnily all that We said
about lecturer who once entrappcd
au audience and made it vote itself TO
perdition. 1t was not DIR. Philpott
who did this job, and the STATESMAN
did not say so, aud the critic of the
NeioS who reads and comments on the
press of the State should correct the
error. II he do not, DIR. p, will set
Bro. Johns after him.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-06-21

cost of removing the sand bar that
lies across the mouth of the deep and
land locked Braaos. They dream, and
it may be only a dream, of rearing
there a splendid city whence the
wealth of Texas, as it cannot to-day
save in little steamers, may have the
cheapest and safest access to the COM
mercial marts of all nations. The
course of st. Louis's commerce will
then be reversed and instead of finding
its way to Europe through New York,
it will adopt the cheaper water route
through New Orleans, and of this re-
vulsion IN the course of trade Texas
will be the chiefest beneficiary.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-06-21

MIR. LEE, of the Episcopal church,
who has been spending some weeks in
Northern cities, says that here in Aus
tin we know nothing of hard times !;
that the sufferings of the poor are pro-
gressive, and the poverty of the rich
infinitely more terrible in the older
than in the newer States. Everywhere
popular poverty and suffering is more
intolerable and visible than in Texas.
Sherman IS doing it. The one brother
desolated the land with fire and
sword the other by mad zeal to
have gold supplant paper and sill
yer. The one is the very impersona-
ton of the genius of war; the other
becomes the representative embodi-
ment of famine and of poverty in its
rags and beggary in its disgusting sores
and hideousness. But the bondhold-
ers demand the sacrifice, and we must
bow submissively to their exactions.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-06-21
TN COUNTY COURT. MAY TERM,
IL A. ID. 1877.

Upon petition Of twenty froeholders. living
within = subdivision Of Travis eounty. Texas,
bounded as follows. viE: Beginning ~ the cor.
ncr whore the Houston and Texas Central Rail
road enters the hne Of BAstrop eounty running
from Austin. N Travis county, Texas, thencs
along the Travis coanty line TO the lower Anstiu
and Gooreofown road, thence with said road to
The toll hfidgc on Big Walnut creek in said eoun-
fys thence down said creek to where said nail.
rosd crosses said creek; thence along said rail
road 70 the place Of oeginnine-en election Is or
dercd 10 be held IN said snbdivisioa OF Travis
county, Tcxas. a. ]. W. Betting's STORE. in the
town of Manor, and a. = school house near {.
Paueer's residence, on Saturday, the fonrteenth
day a July. A. ID. ISL. 70 deiermine by said
election whether only horses, jacks, icnnets and
All elasses of horned cattle ssae ran AZ large In
said anhdivision. N accordance with an act Of
toe Legislsture Of the state Of Tcxss entitled
san act 70 carry into eject sections twenty
two and twcnty-three. aRticle sixteen, % ths
Consultation Of the State Of Texas. authorizing
TIC passage o. stock and feIlce laws" Approved
Angnstla iSse And J. w. Brown is hereby
appointed 70 hold said election a said etere and
G Pnuges 4 appointed 70 hold said election Al
said school hoesa.
IN witness whereof ! have hcreunto set my
hand and seal Of the Connly Coort 81
IL 81 Travis county, Texas. On this. the thir-
fy-irsi day % Nay, A. D. 1877.
JAMES w. SMITH,
is7uss ceuniy Jntge Tlssis cospiS Texss
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-06-21

THE Denver aud Rio Grande (three
feeD Narrow Gauge Road coming down
from Pixies Peak on direct line to
Austin, in passing the Sangre de
Christie Mountains reaches an elevation
of 9340 feet above the sea. It is to
that point we are constantly directing
the capitalists of Austin. 1t is the
nearest point to heaven they can ever
reach by any possibility. They should
go for it, take stock in it and never
forget that it is the straight and mar
row way" which they must pursue or
be everlastingly-ruined.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-06-21

WE have a copy oNthe "Biograph;-
cal Sketch of Linton Stephens Qate
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court
OF Georgia. containing selected letters,
speeches and State papers, edited by
James D. Waddell." Prefixed to the
volume Is an admirable portrait of
Judge Stephens on steel. The book
consists, to very great extent, of let
ters written by Linton and his more
famous and older brother Alexander
Fl. Stephens, the correspondence be-
ginning when Linton was an under
graduate at Athens and continuing till
two or three years ago, when Linton
died. Sam Lumpkin, Attorney Gen
eral, contributes an attractive chapter
to the volume in which he defines the
intellectual force and capacity of the
great barrister who stood aloof from
politics and led life of almost pure
intellectually. Linton Stephens was
regarded by the courts and lawyers and
thinking men of Georgia, who had
measured his greatness, the greatest
lawyer of his time. Georglans will
read the book with especial avidity.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-06-21

Mr.. WALLACE's "Russia," chapter
in LiteI's Lining Age for June second
and ninth, and another entitled "Mon-
tenegro," by Gladstone, the British
statesman, and third, Relation of
Mind and Body" will be more eagerly
read by intelligent people than any art
icles of current literature. LiteLrs Liz
ing Age-weekly-3oOO pages for the
year, of the best scientific and literary
productions of eur time, costs only IS
per annum.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-06-21
MANY more wonderful things ha

MANY more wonderful things have
occurred than the elevation of Texas
Representative to the speakership oi
the lower house of Congress. A fierce
contest may take place and compro-
mise man be sought after. Hon. ].
w. Throckmorton is a recognized Con-
servative, an earnest friend of Tom
Scott, and may be equally friend oi
Huntington. He possesses the political
elements Of success before the nexi
Congress, and his election is by nc
means improbable.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-06-21

TAXPAYERS of Austin pay city taxes
in substitution for fines and forfeitures
incurred for failure or refusal to work
on the public roads. While taxpayers
of Austin thus pay for repairing
bridges and paving streets, those good
people of Austin who pay no taxes to
the city or State but evipce the liveli-
est interest in setting rulers over the
town to tax it-these good people new
er pay taxes or work on the roads or
streets, and some plan of getting even
should be devised. The taxpayers
bear all burdens of government and
then cannot control that government
or elect its officers, and then these
people who are stupid enough to pay
taxes must work in the streets or hire
men to do it. The law is fearfully un-
just, and especially when the corpora
ton deals with property alone, the
State protecting the citizen if wronged
by the corporation. But we only
wished to know whether those excel
lent people who control municipal
elections and give us our local masters
can be induced in any way to contrib
ute their proper share to the MAIN
tenance of the public highways.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-06-21
Pitchers
CaStOria.

Mothers may have rest and their babies may
have health II they will use Castoria for Wind
Collie, Worms Feyerishness, Sore Mouth, Group
or Stom ach Complaints. II is entirely vegeta-
bic preparation, and contains neither mineral
morphine nor alcohol. Ii Is as pleasant to take
as honey, and neither gags nor gripes
DIR Il. Dimoch. of Dupont, Ohio, says:
az am using Castoria In my practice with the
most eignal benefits and happy results"
This Is what everyone says. Most nurses In
by Messrs. j. b. RosE & Co., 10 Dey Street, New
YORK, successor 10 Samuel Pitcher, NJ. d.
d&w 1y2taw tilje22
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-06-21

FREIGHT rates from BRENNAN to Aus
an are orty-6ve cents per one hundred
pounds, or twenty-seven cents per bush
el on potatoes, and IL in barrels, thirty
cents. The result Ia . suspension Of
all traffic between the two places. The
Blansr itself is getting too heavy to
tEaYel.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-06-21

FROM Columbia, on the Brazes, to
Wharton, on the Colorado. the begin
ming and end of the narrow gauge. the
distance is thirty-five miles. The
country penetrated Is the richest in this
or any country Look st the map and
see the effect ultimately upon Austin.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-06-21

The Indians having left the reserva-
tion at Fort sill, we may soon hear of
terrible deeds done by the savagcs ON
the Texas frontier. There is great
anxiety on account of hunting parties
known to be west and north of Fort
Sill.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-06-21

Brick PoMERoY and George Francis
Train are coming South. There arc
no Westinghouse brakes on this Train,
and the political brick in the others
hat is heavier by half than that which
Martin commonly totes around on his
wabbling little legs.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-06-21

WHILE some people are quarreiing
about the proper site for the post
Office and court building, others want
employment and money and bread,
and whether the great structure stand
on Pecan street or elsewhere, in two
years, will signify nothing II Austin
do not outgrow q building like this
and its influence upon values, Austin
property viii be- too valueless to quar-
rel about.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-06-21
TIE country will be pleased to know

TIE country will be pleased to know
that the enterprising capitalist and
daring operator in the world of
finance, Col. Tom Allen, of st. Louis,
still shapes the conduct Of the Iron
Mountain Railway Company. Barings
and other bondholders failed 10 show
the Federal court sufficient reasons for
the appointment Of . receiver.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-06-21
NO. 36

THE Terds NeIe Yorker should con-
tain a resume of editorials of the press
of Texas, and thus give its spirit and
enable the foreign world to judge of
its intelligence and the United States
to see the tendency of opinion in the
Southwest. But the Ne'c Yorker con-
tains much that is valuable, and the
energy of its conductors deserves bril-
liant success. 1t should be printed
and published in Texas.