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The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-08-23
THE INTERNAL REVENTE DR-
PARTMRNT.

The recent change of Collector OF
Internal Revenue for the Third Dis
trict of Texas has i significance worthy
OF special notice. the district, in
point of territory, is the largest in the
United States, while paying compar-
atively small revenue TO ;he govern.
ment. 1t was first organized by Col.
J. l. Haynes, as assessor, and DR.. Z.
n. Lane as collector. who received
their commissions from President
Johnson. They were succeeded by
Msjo: A. II. LDngiey, as assessor, md
Philip Braubach as collector. With
the exception of Capt. Braubach. the
above named officers were removed
from the Federal positions they then
held on the request of Gen. J. J.
Reynolds, commanding the Depart
ment OF Texas, he alleging that they
were lmpedimelts to reconstruction in
consequence of their advocacy of the
claims Of Gen. A. j. Hamilton to the
governorship of Texas. They were
followed in quick succession by such
appointments as VIM. u. Moore.
OF Illinois, who has Just
been dismissed from the Treas
ury by President Hayes. Harry
NJ. Taylor, of Ohio, and Col. Norris
(whose residence we do not now re-
nember). On the death OF Norrls,
which occurred about the time OF Dem
ocratic triumphs all over the country,
and feeble effort at reform was made
by President Grant, Robert L. Camp
bell, an old citizen of the district, was
appointed to fill the vacancy. With |
Bristow and Jewell he had to ''step !
down and out" although he had made |
good officer and on retiring handed |
over to the government a clean balance.
tie was succeeded by Judge Brewster |
VINO has. as far as we know, made !
faithful officer, but who had never
resided "a day In the district previous |
% his appointment, and whose home !
md family are in Chicago, Illinois.
The reinstatement of Collector Camp
bell is the first important change among
Texas officials made by President
Hayes. 1t not only signifies that he
Intends TO appoint citizens of the South
md OF the locality to all Fedora! va
'ancies, but it also shows that he will
ven make Cacaacies for tIam where
men from other localities had been an.
by his predecessor. Mr. Camp
'ell made his fight at Washington On
his line, and his signal triumph causes
uneasiness among other
'sderal officials in Texss, and in he
anne department of the service.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-08-23
HAVE WE \ PROPHET AMONGST

Few people about the capital would
suspect Judge y. W. Terrell of in
sp,red powers of prophecy, and yet in
speech delivered by him in July,
1876, in the State Senate, when Tom
Scott's bill was before that body, he
said:
Sir, those over-coniident of our flu
ture may smile at that which should
make q patriot tremble. Capital IN
this country is marching with rapid
step to power. 1t already shapes the
legislation of national aud State gov
ernments. If threatened by agrarian-
ism this capital will seek security In
the formation of stronger government
for the few at the expense of the
many. And, SIT, on the other hare, !,
the unwise exercise of power which
capital secures, in controlling some
times the press. and in thousand
ways moulding legislation for its OWL
benefit, provokes in its turn the very
spirit of agrarianism which viii
threaten it. 1t seems to me that a wlst
craftsmanship would husband our re
sources for the benefit of the grca'
body of the people, on whose devotion
TO our form of government our secu
rity in the future must depend.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-08-23

THE New York Herald says of the
present aspect of the political aEairs
of the country that positive, aggres-
sive policy is demanded a. the hands
of psrtyleaders and of statesmen; a
policy looking to its relief from the
general prostranon of industry; in
tended to revive commerce by the re-
moval of restrictive laws; designed TO
enable us TO sell our surplus manufac-
lures abroad and thus reopen the doors
of our workshops; framed with the
sole end Of freeing the hands of pro-
duetioff, anu with H statesmsn-iike
comprehension of the situation. The
man who comes to this work with lit.
tie knowledge, with a mind half made
up, without enthusiasm and determine.
ton, had as we'll leave it alone. If he
does not feel that the country suffers,
and if he does not know why, his is
not the leaders place. But let no one
believe that the new question can be
pushed down. There are men in both
houses who will take care they are not.
Free government would be a farce if
parcel of demagogues could 90 on
squabbling about dead issues, with
labor and capital both groaning for re-
lief aud every interest in the land lying
PROSTATE. The men who, like the
stupid Republican candidate in Ohio,
want ''neither contraction nor expan-
sion;" the men who gable about free
trade and protection when the question
is of existence, the noble army of trim
mers who continue to sit on the fence
and declare themselves for peace" "
will have to stand aside
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-08-23

GEN. HOWARD. as an Indian fighter,
is no more successful than as a negro
civilizer. His bureau and bank and
college have surely been put upon
wheels and moved out West among
the Nez Perces. He had devised a
big plan for crushing the red men be-
tween two strong bodies of troops,
but the Indians escaped from the Jaws
of death; or, taking advantage of
Towards position, slaughtered or
wounded about one hundred of the
best men in the United States service.
The red devils, encouraged by their
continuous victories. will rise en- nlaSse
and give Congress and the army inf
mite trouble. The more, since the
prospects of war with Mexico are by
no means unprOmisIng.
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support to the opinion that bsptisr
could be rightly performed by any
I other method than immersion. | taNG
not the "Iero-t, ," nor indeed any of G
communications before me at preseni,
I and 80 do not profess To quote with
literal accuracy, but what ! have here
given Is perfectly just representation
ot the substance Of the assertion, and
can assure you would be exceed
ipgly sorry to have TO substautiate il
before the public.
Among the extraordinary "arSu-
menIs' referred - was the use made
of certain admissions of various
Christian ministers who were not i'm
mersionists, and the attempt to dis
cover some warrant for the immersion.
lst system in ST. Paurs expression
''uuriei with Christ by baptism iato
death" Logically considered, these
were indeed ''eXtraordinary," but in
another and very important sense they
were not at all 50. They constitute IN
fact a considerable part of the regular
stock argument, and they are brought
ont as confidently on the thcusandth
occasion IS if their weakness had not
b :en exposed nine hundred and ninety
INES already.
Messrs. Editors, let me assure YOU
that further correspondence on topics
of this. kind, in your Journal. or in
deed III any journal. will not add one
single grain of so den wheat to what
has been long ago gathered and stored
up. Why then should the chalf be
threshed over aud over agaial The
advocates of the immersion theory
cannot bring single fact, nor oiTer a
single reason, N bchslt of their system
that has not been put in print a hun.
dred times already, and We venture to
sag that they arc net capable of i'm
proving the work done in that way by
such men as Booth, Gill, Pengelly,
Robinson, Carson and Jewett. Let
them then direct the public to the
works of these men. and stop their
own little rcpetitions of them. If any
one v Is les tor information or reason
ing on that side OF the question, he
Will find the very best of the kind, rot |
in teIvid haran9utS nor in newspaper
correspondence, but in the books If |
the authors | have mentioned. And !
if he wishes for information or reason.
ing on the other sde, he can find il in
the works of Wall, Taylor. Wilson,
Hall, Hodges or Thorn, whose book |
entitled Modern Immersion not Chris
tian Baptism" Will probably prove sll
sufficient. louis respectfully,
A TRUE BAPTIST.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-08-23

eihcieney to troops. Very rapid firing
IN battle is not the point; il Is In the
accuracy of It. But with improved
ana quick,action guns the expenditure
of ammunition Is not so great as gen
orally supposed. \ British officer
writes as follows about the expendi-
ture of small arm ammunition in the
Prussian army in its campaign Of 1866:
1.-THE greatest number Of rounds
fir dnring the war of the Second
ArAuy was by the Forty-third Regiment
at Frantensu-4S rounds per man. AT
Koenigs ratZ the first battalion OF the
Guards, 9l5 strong, iired II, 694 rounds,
or 1879 rounds per man. The expend-
iturc OF the fifth corps, about 20, 900
strong, in the actions prior TO Koenig-
gratz, where it did not fire shot,
was 5l1 900 rounds, or about e6 rounds
per man. In the First Army, the
Twen'y-seyeuth Regiment, $3.50 men,
at the battle of Koeniggratz, expend-
ed 80, 600 rounds, or under 12 rounds
per man. In some cases the First
Army drew upon tho regimentai re-
serves. Thus the three battalions Of
the Seventy-flrst Regiment, at the
battle OF koeniggratz, expended 1884,
OO0 rounds, OF about s9 rounds per
n.an. 1t must, however, be borne In
mind that the First Army was In action
four hours longer than the Second.
There WAS a total Of about 40, 900, 000 :
cartridges prepared on the Prussian
side for the war of 1866, and materials
for 10, 000, 600 more were ready. The
total expenditure during the war, OF
all the armies, of about 400, 900 men,
was only 1,SI5, 900 rounds, OF be-
tween 4 and . rounds per man. The
Prussian infantry soldier carried &c
rlands of ball cartridges-40 rounds
IN his pouch and 90 in his knapsack."
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-08-23


THE list of delinquent taxpayers IN
the city of New Orleans has just been
issued, and is the smallest by fully one
third which has been issued for many
years. The exhibit is accepted as 8
gratifying proof of the promptitude and
readiness of the people to psy their
taxes to the government which has
their approval and support This is
not all; the institution of proper hon
est government has caused q revival of
industrial astiyity, and the people toll
more zeslously than in former years
They see that their rulers are of their
own class, having common interests and
sympathies with themselves. The car
pet-bagger has gone into exile or re
turned to his hyperborean home, and
the people are willing 10 sustain gov
ernuent constituted OF true represents
t,ves Of the people. The government
., Washington should make . notc o
thesc facts.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-08-23
HOLLOWNESS OF EARTHLY
THINGS.

Most people have read that curious
unique little volume entitled ''Th,
| Coming Race" Ii tells of what man
kind may become ten or twenty thou
sand years hence and describes poster
ity, having already reached this stage
| of progressive perfectibIlity, as dwell.
ers within the earth. They move
through the air wingless bipeds
having learned how to suspend at will
The operative force of Newton's law OF
gravitauon. BY sheer will power they
anDihilate enemies and all IN all the
dwelling place Of those people and
their habits are worthy of contempla-
ton. When liowgate's exploring ex-
pedition recently sailed for the Arctic
Ocean and North Pole a Jealous advo-
cate OF Symmes's theory, which asserts
the hollowness Of the earth, the oceans
flowing through 1t from pole to pole,
presented the ships commander with
fund that he might act upon Symmes's
reasoning and, entering the hollow orb
at the North Pole, make his exit
through the South and return to Bos-
ton, coming up-from the South Allan
tic. Mr.. Symmes insists that the vast
interior of the earth, Of which we know
absolutely nothing, is the dwelling
place of myriads of our race. Geol-
ogists, on the ooatrary, have been &C
custOmcd to declare the eartl s interior
to be molten 6lass of rocks and met
ais and that volcanoes are its chimueys.
Symmes thinks The earth hollow, Its
interior Inhabited and that the Gulf
stream and ocean currents have their
origin in the facts suggested. Man
has never gone beyond the depth of
two miles into the earth's crust, and
Symmes has as much right as others to
theorize, and since ships, in the north
ern ocean, haze often encountered
green trees and birds of sunny latitudes
drifting sOuthwardly from the earth's
northern axis there may be possibility
that the earth was not made simply
that its surface might De inhabited and
its vast interior given over TO volcanic
fires. There is more space within this
terraqueons globe than the tabled |
devil Of iilme and pitchforks could |
we'll utilize. But the voyagers
have departed on their long
cruise. They have every resource of |
science and appliance of comfort |
which experience could suggest, and |
t is TO DE hoped that the Howgate |
rctic expedition will demonstrate the !
OF All earthly things, and |
we'll as our knowledge of geography.
[f it be determined that the earth IS a |
hollow ball, inh,. ,.bitable within as well !
Is on its exterior, there will he less |
necesslty for the annexation of North
ern Mexico, with its gold and silver
mines and intolerable rabble, and the
Howgate people may do much in the
promotion of The worlds peace and in
auguration of the millennium; and
however earnestly the pulpit, through
eighteen centuries. has sermonized
about the hollowness of earthly things,
fresh force will be given to the choicest
homilies read by learning or mouthed
out by slipShod stupidity.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-08-23
THE SpEAKBRSHiP AND 1HE
PRESlDENT.

Sam ]. Randall seems TO think he
will surely be Speakec, s. S. Cox does
not doubt his elevation to the office,
and Saylor thinks he will secure it,
aud Morrison wants it, and then Gar
field and Foster, Republicans after
uay es's own heart, hope that parties
may be SO disrupted that, as repre-
sentauves of the Presidents sympa-
thies and opinions, one or the other OF
them may win the coveted office. Par
ties are hard to destroy, and
politicians know it. Ignorant peo-
Piles prejudices constitute their
convictions. They believe in name
or word and reck little Of its actual
significance. Hayes, so far as the
South is affected by parties, is a Dem
ocrat, or, what we supposed Demo =
crat would be in Misplace. His Re-
publieanism enabled him to do what
Democrat in his place could not have
done, and yet blind adherents OF
party still damn the President and
laud Tilden, the dead lieu of Democ'
racy. Practical, intelligent people,
on the contrary, ''take the good the
gods PROVIDE" and are content with
facts of "Democracy," even if thu
name assumed be "Republicanism.
Aa ordinary ignoiamus even yet, afteI
months have elapsed, still deems Hsye'
his partisan enemy, even though Hsye
the President, as all the worl'
knows, Is not Hayes the candidat
for the presidency. But time AM
the press and diffusion of intelligence
will remedy these evils and to tn
extent that the President or speaker
ship may be affected by them, ther
will be a slow but steadily progressiv
revolution in popular opinion. Th
war with Mexico and the labor que
, ton, the Pacific railway and STEAMSHIP
. and levee subsidy questions, and tn
!, generosity of the President in his deA
G ings with the South, will soon FORK
! people, even the most stupidity ign
\ rant 10 zee that there Is htr
|, reason for the existence OF tho
: partisan antagonisms that have eT
: bittered Individuals and States ~
= L - T. 4.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-08-23

VITRIFIED earthen pipes are conf
monty used now in Eastern cities for
sewerage purposes, and such pipes
should be laid down, one on the west
side of the Avenue and another in the
alley east of the Avenue. These pipes
cost certainly one-half less than lion or
stone, and last always. The PROPOSE
ton to make a stone sewer for S13, 600
from the Capitol to the nver is cheap
enough, and if the work be well done
there is no money in 1t. To this main
sewer vitrifed pipes can be used as
branches. The main sewer might well
be made of stone, and the money eS-
pended viii all be spent here, and
ouarrymen and masons and day labor
ers will be well pleased. But let US
have the sewer, stone or vitrified
pipes. The sewer We must have. II
is said that iron pipes may be used
more cheaply than earthen, and thai
iron should supplant brick and stone
for the main sewer. These questions
| of detail city fathers must determine
The people only ssk that the city b
drained and mephitic odors rendered
| impossible.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-08-23

THE Radical convention of Maine
declared ior the perpetuity of the nav
igation acts and registry laws and
against subsidies to railways. New
England has taxed the country TOR
eighty years to enrich ship-owners and
give them monopoly of the coasting
trade of the United States, and now
when New England has IFS highway
to the Pacific, at the cost of the Union'
it says the navigation acts shall be OF
perpetual force and the South have nc
highway to the Pacific. Blalne's par
tisans are as selfish as sectional.
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SENATOR MORTON, just before patal-
ysis smote him, SAID when the South
obtained control of the government it
would insist on the payment of the
rebel claims, amounting to hundreds
and thousands of millions; then pen
sions for Confcderates, and then paw
ment for slaves" Evidently either
Morton or Tilden has lied, or the South
ia voting for Tilden. Tilden declared,
ten days before the late presidential
election, that none of these things
should ever be done, and the white
people of the South voted sol l.
ly for TIlden. We are eotopped.
We cannot claim payment for slaves,
though lost by men who bitterly op-
posed every incident and act Of pro-
gressive secessionism. Tildcn knew
the South was his own, aud has
pledged us, and we assented by sup
porting him. In the face of these
facts Morton comes before the coan-
try and tells the North it must stand
up soiidly against the South to prevent
the payment for slaves lost by the
South. 1t may be true that Tilden
had no risheto bind us, but - - ,za :,
ourselves by katinaL fnfs nfsah hhin. = ne
tract essential to partisan triumph, and
if they should be -pald for property
who committed no treason, Tilden, to
win power, has robbed us Of this re-
course. But he is a very good and
great man.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-08-23

MRs. NJ. A. c. WILSON has letter
from jefferson Davis, in which he
recognizes the virtues and worth OF
her late husband, Col. William +.
Wilson, who gave origin to the guer-
rilla mode of warfare in the late con-
fiict between the States Mr. Davis
concurs with his correspondent IN be
lievIng that Confederate battles wer'
not wholly in vain, since the freedom
of States, if not of the Confederscy,
must ultimately be evolved from th'
results Of the conflict.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-08-23

MHssRs. CHARLES W. PREssLER and
A. B. Langermsnn have devoted the
past eighteen months to the prepare
ton of a perfect map of Texas. OF
one edition, each map will be 90 by 1O4
inches: another As by 90, and the
third "a by &c inches. The map Is alb
solutely perfect, containing every sort
of information accessible affecting the
peculisrities of each county and dis
trict of Texas. Mr.. Pressler is CHIEF
craftsman and Mr.. Lsngmann COM
piIing draftsman of the Texas Land
Office.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-08-23

The proposition of the Radical party
is to augment the standing army to
100. 900 men. This, III order TO pre-
vent strikes. suppress disorders and
subject the many to the absolute DOM
ination OF the few. No government Is
worth the having which must be maln-
tanned by bayonets and brute force,
and the day is distant when the people
of the United States will consent to
the expenditure of 100, 900, 600 per an
NUN IN order to prevent the destrus-
ton OF $50, O,0OO,O 900 per annum by
strikers. They prefer the more freedom
and the less loss.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-08-23

The papers say that the Democratic
representatives of the east in Con-
gress will vote sOidly against the Tex
as and Pacific Railway dill, and it is
sought so to organize the House that
Scott's scheme may surely be defeated.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-08-23

CONGRESS need only enact laws to
restore domestic trade and foreign
commerce If it would prevent strikes
and restore business activity. If Nor
tons tongue be paralyzed and Butler,
as the bloodhound of the Commune,
forget Louisiana and the negro in pur-
suit of capital; if Blaine discover that
.eAa -. aar, n I,I,iy- destroy himself by an at
NP Up 70 destroy Hayes; if qaes.isns
sorb the attention OF CougrrssJ urru-su0
South as distinctive idea cease to ex'
ist, then the prosperity of the country
will be restored aud strikes be no more.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-08-23

wzES Governor Throckmorton was
in the city he was asked by several
gentlemen whether he would accept a
nomination for the Office of Governor.
He said that he was not now an office
seeker, and that his private and pro-
fessional affairs so sadly needed his at
tention that he was not sure that ne
could serve ont his term in Congress.
But the ways of the politician are
somewhat like that Of the 'Heathen
Chinee-p
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The Democrats will no, ouls carry

The Democrats will not ouly carry
Ohio but California at approaching
elections. Hayes's conduct is not get
comprchended and its results are not
yet seen and approved bv the whole OF
his party at the North But ip Cali
fornia SeuatUr Sargent is not beloved
of his party, and his uupopularity will
defeat Republican candidates fer the
Legislature and the chances are that
= Democrat will supplant him IN The
United States Senate.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-08-23

PREfrpENT HAYEs's course in refus-
ing the special palace car is worthy of
mention on the heels of Preside
Grant accepting everything in sight.
He has, by this act, done much to re-
move from official conduct the debauch-
Ing influence of personal pickings by
men in authority. 1t is well served
notice to all concerned, that the Fed
eral administration is not to be rode or
dined INTO class legislation or class
favoritism. The public conscience is
no longer to be shocked or corrupted
by bribes, delicately administered on
special cars, prepared with refresh
mepts for outer and also for the inner
man.
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wisdom of the President. II, therefore,
the speakership may be SO used by the
President that he may destroy Blaine
and Batter and the enemies of the
South and OF the Presidents policy, it
surely becomes US TO see that he is'
chosen speaker among Democrats
whose elevation will be most promotive
OF the Presidents triumph in his con-
test with the extreme men Of bis own
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the last vestige of prestige forfeited.
The rebel front in Cuba was never
more compact and defiant than now,
aud if ststesmanship prevails in Spain.
the war will be abandoned before these
Cubans drive the lsst armed Spaniai d
from their island
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-08-23

COUNTY ATTORNEY Cox, of Starr
county, wounded By Mexican bandits,
will die. if not already dead. The
jailor and his assistant are SAID 10 be
mOrtally wounded. TO avenge these
outrages Governor Hubbard says the
whole military power of the State, if
need be, will be placed at the disposal
of Gen. Ay,I