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The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-05-10

Tue Galveston Cirilida seems to
think that Gen. Joe Johnston has Wis
tied Texas and gone to San Antonio
for reasons not generally understood.
It says that Iglesias has been supplied
with several hundred thousand dollars,
and that he is desirnus Of recruiting in
the Southern States large body of
men to invade Mexico in his interest.
No step in this direction would prom
Use greatsr success than the knowledge
that. Gen. Johnston would take an act
i've part in promoting the alleged pur-
poses OF Escobedo. This Mexican
ehieftain has returned to San Antonio,
we are told, from Galveston. At San
Antonio he will meet Gen. Johnston,
and, strangely enough, Col Coopwood
Of this city, an old friend of Esoobedo,
was summoned to San Antonio Sa.ur-
day; and we do not forget how signifi-
can't was recent speech Of Gen. Ord,
who seems to think peace with Mexico
almost impossible. We can't help be-
lieving, however, that Gen. John
ston would prefer 10 insure the
Halls o. the Alontszumas against
eonhagstiOn at i've per cent. in the
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-05-10
Tnr Au,t,u Medical society should

The Austin Medical Society should
know that the California State Medical
Society, week ago, aim ost unanimous
ly declared that the practice of making
annual contracts with individuals or
societies for medical attendance is not
only derogatory to the dignity of the
profession, but 8 violation of the Code
of Medical Ethics adopted by the
American Medical Association. The
society decided to strike from the roll
of membership the name of any pRysi-
clan who shall hereafter make or renew
a contract for annual medical atten-
dance. There are several gentlemen,
if we mistake not, in Texas who make
such contracts as this condemned by
the ethics of the learned profession in
the West 90
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-05-10
THE SUFFRAGE QUESTION.

The New York HsraH is pleased to
state frankly that the negro vote
"does not appear in nearly its full
strength in Georgia; hence it is said
there must be intimidation" Those
who make this deduction from the
confessed fact entertain the idea that
a negro will always vote the Republi-
can ticket if he IS allowed. But not
only is this VIGOROUSLY false, but it
would be serious calamity if it were
true. 1t would be to declare that the
negro has developed no political judg-
ment since he was made a voter; that
he remains only willing and blind
machine in the hands of set Of polit-
ical leaders who would be sure to be
corrupted by having such tools at their
command. There are Democratic ne
groes in Georgia as we'll as other South
ern States where military interference
has ceased, but their numbers do not
account for the actual absence of
large negro vote in many counties.
This is caused in a different way. The
Republicans, directly after the war,
and while they controlled the State,
gave it q constitution, some of whose
features, the Herald states, are excel
lent. Among Others they provided
that every voter shall pay poll tax,
and that he shall not vote unless it ia
paid. Now, the colored people have
not become accustomed to paying taxes.
They evade this one by keeping
their names off the poll lists, and nat
urally the Democrats take care to ex-
act the tax if anyone wishes to vote.
The Republican politicians, while they
held the State, used to provide fund
from which the negro voters poll tax
was paid; but they can no longer af-
ford to do this. Hence the disappear
ance of large negro vote, the white
Republicans of Georgia being de
moralized minority, not at peace among
themselves, and numbering not much
more than five thousand. In vain did
the STATE:MAN and a large and most
intelligent minority in the late Consti-
tuhonal Convention urge the necessity
for provision imposing in Texas this
Georgia restriction upon suffrage. The
tax, now lost, gathered from polls un-
der such code would have
lessened greatly the burdens
that fall upon farmers, but the pecu.
liar representatives of farmers" IN the
Rutabaga convention were the faI
mers' worst enemies. Major West,
would defend the folly of these
people; but the case is too plain, and
incapacity for tasks of constitution
making were not illustrated in this one
alone, but many instances. But If 8
man seek office, 1t were wise, if he
would secure votes, to deal gingerly
with this question, and Major Vests
head is wholly level. The STATESMAN
happens TO be free-thinking and free.
speaking institution, and for the sim.
pie reason that, asking nothing at its
hands, it comedies nothing to human
folly and does noe fail to condemn OF
laud rs facts justify or demand. We
can afford, when the timid party leader
or organ cannot, to tell the unvar.
nished truth, and when we discover
how admirably well the polltax suf
frage law of Georgia operates we can
not help contrasting the wisdom OF
what we proposed and advocated, with
the folly of what was done by the Con
stitutional Convention of Texas.
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TIE New Orleans Democrat says 'sas
to the hearty support which IL Is al
legged Mr.. Randall gives to the Texas
Pacific Railroad. it arises from the
simple fact that this enterprise is emf
nently PennsylvaniAnin its nature and
interests, and is principally owned and
conducted By PennsyIyanians. Bot We
have heard it bruised about that Mr..
Randall is decidedly opposed to en-
numbering this gigantieraiIroad scheme
with any Southern branches as calcu-
lated to jeopArdiEe the success of the
main object had IN view. For these
reasons alone we are at loss to see
how the ex-Speaker can hope to re-
ceive the support Of southern members
of Congress, or At least from those
States directly and largely interested
in the measures be has Contributed 80
much 10 defeat -
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Veteran Claims.
AUSTIN. TEXAS, Nav, ]

ACSIlN, IEAAS, may, 1O''.
Editors Democratic .StateSman-I am
aroused to ask "who were the real de-
tenders of the Lone Star Republic
only those numbered in the battles Of
Bexar and San Jacinto? Not that l
would take honors from anyone, for
history testfi IS to brilliant achieve
ments. Still, did not the 5000 volun-
teers who arrived after the twenty-tirst
of April, and previous to 1887, answer
promptly to the bugle call? Were
they not waiting Oh the distant shores
in slckening suspense? Did they not
accept any craft that would bear them
to the defense of Texas? Were they
not actually in "the service" even at
the time of the battle of San Jacinto?
The $4,000" would gladly have ''smelt
powder" on that occasion, but the PRIV
ilege was denied them. Were not
many of them in that battle only de-
Tending their own firesides? Whereas
the $4,000" severed the ties of home
to aid in driving back the tyrant and
the uppressor Did not Texas require
protection after the real separation
from Mexico? AS late as 1889 Capt.
VIM. F. Wilson, with a company Of
sixty-tive or seventy picked men from
Galveston, drilled his troops on the
site where now stands Austin, and be
had severe battle on the Perdinales
about fifteen miles east from the spot
now called Fredericksburg, killing the
Comanche chief Icenaonie, and inau-
gurating "Jack Hays" as he was
called, int his first Gunpowder
perfume. Col. Henry Karnes was
in command of the forces, though
no trace of this service is on rec
ord. What caused the battle
of Mier, but the defense of Texas
and the Mier history has yet to be
written. Many of the $1,000" were in
''the service" from their arrival. in
1886, to their release from the Castle
of Perote, in 1914 Those men "smelt
POWDER" without bombast, endured
hardships" and the jingle of chains
without q nurmer, and returned naked
and homeless to the land to which they
had DIT, ffered "the flower of their
manhood +" for its defense, to find
naught left them but the signing
winds. Mast those $4,000" stand in
the shade of oblivion, and only the
few survivors of Bexar and San Jacinto
be deemed worthy of recognition by
Texas as a1one entitled to douceur of
$3.50 per annum. Veterans, buckle on
the old-time spirit and divide the crust
and honors, aud do not let the few
gobble both emoluments and honors
until the tomb covered all. As to
'indigent," an old Texan is the pro-
genitor of that clause. / take it amia-
bly,, as perhaps INDECENT" and
''hero" are Synonymous terms to his
understanding. One hundred and fifty
men should not take all The pension
should be free from red tape. and the
veteran" be allowed to go to his
kindred in any cline, that the hand OF
affection may cheer the sunset of his
days. THE old soldiers" and their
widows feel they have friends in Gov
ernor Hubbard and the STATESMAN.
The Governors heart is always attuned
to justice and right, and sufficiently
capacious to render t'honor to whom
honor is DUE" and Texas Is able to
meet all such reasonable demands.
A "MIER" PRIsoSER's WIDow.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-05-10

THE control of the Bosphorus is said
to be necessary to the material inter-
ests OF Russia as the control of the
mouths of the Mississippi is to the
United States. If the lower Mitsissip-
pi were held by foreign power it
would be a steady object of American
policy to gain possession of it; and the
design, however obstructed, would
never be abandoned. The possession
of the Bosphorus is equally essential
to the interests Of Russia. The north
ern portion of her empire lies under
an arctic or semi-arctic sky. The
Baltic, near which St. Petersburg, her
capital, is situated, and which is her
means of free egress to the outside
world, is closed by ice for half the
year; and her ambition to become
great commercial and naval nation is
obstructed by the way she is hemmed
in on her rich southern frontier. The
mouths of the Mississippi are less nee
essary to us than the free use of the
Bosphorus is to Russia. From an
American point of view her policy
seems reasonable. No American doubts
that if Russia possessed Constantine
pie it would become a great seat Of
commerce, nor that all trading nations,
the United States among them, would
profit by the change. 1t would be
victory of civilization over barbarism,
of industry over stagnation, of COM
merce over an effete system of repres-
sion, of Christianity over Aslatic fanat-
icism. The American people think
the European jealousy of Russia as alb
surd as the European jealousy of the
United States, and their intelligent
sympathy will be given to Russia in the
present conflict. ....
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-05-10

WILL not men pretending to decency
and civilization, and yet going alb 1ut
with murder in their hearts because
they have pistols In their pockets, read
what Is said of them by the letter
writer from Washington9 He tells the
simple, .unvarnished truth, and we
should accept and act on it.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-05-10

THE President thinks that in the
present temper of the public mind
there is no need for a Republican
speaker. He can get all he would
have at the hands of the House organ
lied by the Democrats. Public opin-
ion will compel the Congress- to serve
the administration.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-05-10

THERE are 70, Irish, $1,000 Ger
mans and 100000 Americans in New
Orleans, and yet two-thirds of the
municipal offices are filled by foreign
born citizens, and nine-tenths of the
police are Irishmep. The result is that
the American mudsills are making
much fuss about it.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-05-10

New York Home to the leadership Of
100, 600 Texans organized for the worse
than proftless conquest of a country
wo do not want and which the Ameri /
can people will never rob. The terri
torIal integrity of Mexico must be per-
petus;ed by the United States. We
only demand the extension Of a rail-
way to the capital and to Mszatlan on
the Pacific. The San Antonio Express
tells that Col. Pedro Valdes better
known as "Winkler," who has been
recently in our city, is now back again
in Mexico, and on yesterday, May 5,
had arranged it to pronounce" a.
Santa Rosa, for the restoration of Lerdo
in Mexico. Already other prominent
chiefs are said to have pronounced"
for Lerdo on the frontier, Pedro Mar
tineZ, Garcia de Cardena and Charles
amongst others. Both Cansles, in
Tamaulipas, and Trevino in Nuevo
Leon, are said to be disguised with the
Diaz government, particularly on &C
count of custom house matters being
out of their control, and their "bonos''
not being recognized. So ''the ball
opens" again for another revolution, to
martial music, provided by eminent
professors of revolutionary act; and
'the sick man" must needs dance the
dance of death on this continent, q:
we'll as in the southeast of Europe,
where the barbarous Turk is on the
dissecting table, under Russian opera
tors. So moves the world along, whilst
we are enjoying the calumet of peace
having had enough of war and it
ruinous Accomplishments to satisfy u
as to the blessedness of peace.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-05-10

SALLY WARD is bride for the fourth
time Her last name is Ten Brock,
that of the great race horse man. She
at last, whatever he may think of his
other follies, will be fast enough for
the old fellow.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-05-10
a CARD.

To al who are suffering from the errors and
Indlserstions Of y0ath, nervous weakness. early
decay. loss Of manhood. etc. wiIl send restps
tha, viii cure yoa, FREE OF CHARGE. This
grest remedy was discovered By mIsHionary
In soafh America ssnd self-addrsssed en-
vslops 10 The Rev. JosxFH 7. IxHAs. Sfaiios D
BssssHosss, Eew Yoyk cry. janIsdsod~am
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-05-10
Ex-Public Printer Clapp. supplanted

uD'IS I EILVcI OIaPPI buppIdHIsu
by Hon. J. d. Defrees, the embodiment
OF old Whiggery, proposes to start an
aDti-administration paper in Washing
ton. The AUdidHcle thinks he should
call it the " Thunder CIapp." The
suggestion il not Q bad one The
thunder comes after the bolt has strick-
en- its object, and naturally Clapp will
howl and roar. But are there not rea-
sons, If he'exPects to keep things in
% hot water, why this decapitated fell
low should set up in business II Hot
Springs, where they have lying hoe
pItaI Tor Mortoni
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-05-10

2. George L. lnOx (''HumPty- DumptyT)
has been sent back TO the insane asy-
Inn It Somerulle, MAss., his old symp-
toms having returned With redoubled
force.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-05-10

FRoM all quarters and all sources
the President receives constant assur-
Ances OF the approval Of his admins
trat,on by the masses Of the people. .
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pRIDGE TOLL.

DRIDGI TOLL.
The brldEe keeper win sell 20 anyone
ROUND TRIP TICKETS, good for one day. a.
the rates following; FOotman Sc; horse1nan Toe;
yehic es, one horse sc; tso horse sc; four-horse
90. ana Sc for every Additional animal- Re
oueed rates will be made f0s large numbers Of
persons, OF hogs, sheep or gosts.
X. A. SMITH, z N. IEAsk.
srcrstary, President,
mss dim Wit 7. G. X. B. Company.
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E,oR sALE-s7s scrss with dwelling, fencing
u ana water tank. 30 acres good uInber. BAL
snes pEairie. rear Posi- Oak lslanA. Lee ceanly,
on good terms. DEcoHD0YA q Mckinney
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o. We shall be compelled 70 cIose G6e5S deeoaafs
4. We WI - a Ssyn 49, LIE LIST % Soyp;7
and inf end 20 mike IL an obiect for everybody 10
buy their groceries OF ne Ia STRAIGHT Cash.
Pecan sirDeE mas In Wit
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our land. Every issue seems to me to
double in interest since the presiden-
tial imbroglio. The STATESMAN is
bound to be'a power in our land If it
continues in its present course"
The iron bridge for the San Jacinto
river, on Paul Bremond's road, will he
on the ground in a few days. The
force upon the road is now clearing and
grading the second division of twenty
five miles, and actively at work on
thirty to thirty-fve miles. Mcssrs.
Wood & Allen, who have large expert
ence, have left with full corps Of en-
gjneers to locate the line to the cross
ing of the Trinity. And so the narrow
gauge roads go from Houston while
Austin looks on with indifference.
Negotiations are going forward be-
tween the present company and mar
agement of the Texas Western Rail
way looking to the securing of capital
sufficient to carry the road to La
Grange. 1t Is believed certain parties
and capitalists from abroad will be in
duced to assist in the building of the
roac so suspiciOusly beguR, and which
has been rapidly completed to Patter
son. Those Houston people have g
vim about them which excludes the
word Jal from their business. cata-
logue-
George III. Baxter. who of course
has no relatives, got into 8 fx at San
Antonio. A woman who loves him
ever so dearly, and who is in love with
even the name Of Baxter, had him ar
rested on charge Of improper adj
vaDces. After he was locked up, and
could not give bail, she flew to the
arms Of her George, and told him to
marry her and that would be the end
Of the suit. This didn't suit Baxter,
however, and be stuck il out until the
weary judge relieved him.
Just as Nat. Q. was making himself
genially aud generally comfortable and
thought he had 3 good thing and was
swinging around Austin every Satur-
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GARD TO The PUBLIC.

To save unneoessary talk AID explanations,
We take this nethCa Of stating
That We do not WI.h 20 Extend
oar Line OF CTedits.
An persons Who aire.dy have aeoounts on our
oooks nnai comply Etth our rules and
Pay Promptly on the FIRST of zach
1a- Z 81 =aa !. Month,
Arizona weekly miner., 1877-01-26
Prescott, NIinstrcl~.

This troupe. which alway, draws crowded houses. and gives entire satisfaction when ever it appears before the public, is about to make a tour of the Territory
 The company consists of Hat Pettibone, Len. D Siyyer. N C. Wheeler, R NJ. Arm strong. H C Matthews and A C. Stuart They will leave on Sunday morning perform at Wickenburg on Monday evening; PhTnix on Wednesday evening and Florence on the 3rd Feb. From Florence will proceed 10 Tucson and perhaps return by way of the Military Camps on the upper Gila. Apache. and the Little Colorado Country.
 If the people will give them half \ show, they will give the people q good shor
Arizona weekly miner., 1877-01-26
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IN THE DISTRICT COURT. THIRD JUDICIAL District, Territory Of Arions, County Of Yavapai
 EHiN STANLEY vs ALICE NJ SrANLEY Action brought in the District Court f The Judicial
 District, 10 and for ths county os faVapai Territory ArEopa
 1hs Territory of 4rIeRS i,nas Greeting io Ailos V NaHley.
 foa hereby summoned and required Co appear n an action brought Agslasi bv The above named pa Ia the District Cot, of the Third Judicial District n Lr foF the County of NavspAi ia the Territory uf Arizona and suswcr the complaint hled with ths Clerk of this Court ai Prescott in said county Ia cory af which rlRini accompanies this suu,mons within twenty days ~tclusve of the day of scryes aher hs service upeH you Of this summons served In this county but If served out of he county sni within this district then Wtthlu thirty ys In all other eases forty days
 And you hereby notified tha, f yoa fail appear and answer The complaint above Frquircd he plain un N aSe decrre dissnlvnx tho bonds of mar u,onv between The sad plaintiff aa yuu the sad defendant aSi diVorcing him from you aesed in sad complaint Co his wife and such other relief according the prayer said complaint and costs aud disbursements to this behalf ctpended
 Given under my hand and fhs seal of ih- said District Court. at Prescott ihis s.xtt day oi December A D ls76 WILLIAM WIIKERsoS CI.rk tL-SI Ny VI. C. NrkpOE. Dcputy. Hargrsve Leonard Weber Attorneys for Plaintf.
 decSwiO
Arizona weekly miner., 1877-01-26
Fat sheep.

|. H. Ashurst, Esq, formerly of Teha- antv, California. and now residing is family at the base of Bill Williams ain. came to town this morning and sn> that his sheep range k all and ban hc expected in the way of winter aee. Ii- asserts positively that hls ouSand head of >herd are al this mo- he fa,tcst flock of sheep for the num- at he ever saw at any season. of the ad he has spent the majority of his ein the sheep business in California. amer range is up in the high foot r part way up the mountain where he iif his residence. and where he has nt ,illable land for all the purposes
 eep raiser. Here he could have cas- this sheep all winter, had he known ia be so mild, but having a winter
 Nd ranch twelve miles down the lin he removed his flock down there
 winter and the result has been as lthe fattest two thousand sheep an old Use! ever SAW.
Arizona weekly miner., 1877-01-26

THE WEAruEE-We find it extremely hazardous to risk ones reputation as q prophet on weather contingencies lester- day the indication, were that protracted storm was brewing in fact had already set in, and to-day the weather is beautiful the sky clear and n" more appearances of rain or snow than If such phcomenon were un- night-fall dense fog, which is most unusual in this mountain region. settled down upon the earth, and although, when it began to show itself, the sky was completely over cast, it was not long before stars began to glimmer through the gloom, indicating that the hope of a storm was past, and when the hour arrived for the sun to rise this morning he opened his eye upon a sky without a cloud
Arizona weekly miner., 1877-01-26

Information wanted of John II Gardi- nicr. He left Tolumnc City in February. 1870. with or men with him on horse back on 8 prospecting tour for Arizona, since which nothing has been heard of him He is 6 feet high. dark complexion snd black hair. is rather quiet man, and is well educated. is = years old His aged parents living in Springvillc, Erie County. New York, are very anxious to hear from him and any one Knowing anything about him will confer great favor by writing to his broth CT. J. Gardiner. Dentist. Prescott, Arizona jn care nf jhr MINER office
Arizona weekly miner., 1877-01-26

From private letter received from Mir k r.. Burlington of Indian Wells, Cal. we learn that the owners of the Southern Pa cihc R. k. have GOO Chinamen at work on their road and intended moving thirty miles nearer Prescott within few days Thus we see-the Railroad coming nearer and near. CT to us. NIT. Asher, who arrived today from Californa, informs us that the Co. Lid two miles and a half of track the day he ar rived at Indian Wells, and that the track is being laid near the line of the old wagon road.
Arizona weekly miner., 1877-01-26

GEORGE W. CURTIS saw mill, is in full blast, turning out several thousand feet of good merchantable lumber daily. Mir. Cur us has tine new saw mill with shingle. blaming and matching machines, etc. and has manufactured during the last twelve months, one million and half feet of lum. Der and million and quarter of good shingles. He has now cut and ready to be manufactured into lumber. one million feet in the log and enough good pine trees in the vicinity Of his mill to manufacture four millions feet of lumber.