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New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1877-01-09

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Kew ozleans, January g. 1877.
10 tee Reversible this President ana Membsru OF
he aonate;
! Hm directed By the House OF Represen-
fatfpe9 TO inform your honorable body chat
the house has CONQUERED In the folio wing
Senate bile, 70 vii.
eenaee bill No 2 entitled an act forbid.
ding The organization and maintenance Of
cry military organization, company or body,
nos MUSTERED into the militia Of the State;
defining aueD Illegal bodies as riotOua and
unlawful assemblies In certain cases; ak
AnR II ; medemeanoF 20 viol ate this aot,
end prescribing punishment therefor, ana
pioyidiag for ihe disbandment Of snch lie
Fnd bodies.
Also, Ssnato bill No. .. an act 70 author.
~ the Attorney General and district At
eqensfe and other officers Of the State to
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AHN daudas
H4apeeifqilg.
ROBERT II. GUICHARD,
4lat& Of the. Aouseof Representatives
~ unanimous consent Senator Stamps
ntsd petition from p. V Werthsrn.
fas relief which, 81 m6tisn, was
sd % ahs Committee o. Blnanee Nhen
reinfad
ser Stamps moved 20 adjourn Until
ay at9 A. a.
a@iqs 1lant moved 30 amend By strik-
1 g., enlae O'Clock. and inssrslne 'isen
'atuI onuoansed shat tho Senate
aeFAea ~ Monday, at 10 a. rs.
IAH41gTnRE, IN,
4 81 to Senate.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1877-01-09

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The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-08-09

The Ohio Republican Convention
met in Cleveland on the first of Au-
gust, and the kilograms should by this
time give us something definite as to
its action. But it is bound to labor to-
wards its end with difficulty. In
tluences opposed to President Hayes's
so called Southern policy must
ind vent for deepest animosities.
The friends of Blaine and Packard will
make themselves both heard and felt
in desperate attempt to gain an ex-
preston of the convention against the
course of the administration, and this
feeling will be strengthened by the
fact that the Democratic party has al
ready commended Hayes for his course
10 this matter. The war will be fierce
one en- the part of the extremists, but
they will be beaten upon this
point as well as upon others, and
out of consequent disaffection the
Democrats will be enabled to elect
the State ticket by handsome major
ity in October. In treating the tinan-
cial questions the Republicans will be
compelled to repudiate the policy of
the administration, and in this they
will be regarded as following in the
wake of the Democrats. The discord
auce of elements in the convention
must aft ct its positive action to such
a degree as to produce apathy in the
coming State canvass.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-08-09
HENRY WARp BEEcHER, who eDi

HENRY WARD BEEcHRR, who enjoys
a salary of $50, 900 year and perqui,
sites, is of course opposed to the poor.
In his eyes there is nothing so mean as
poverty, even honest poverty. SIS not
one dollar day enough TO buy bread ~
asks this representative of money bags
and scandal to Christianity. Surely it
is, and a pbor man has no right to
have family. ''Man canro live by
bread, it is true" he continues; shut
the man who cannot live on bread and
water, is not fit to live" This is COM
ing down to hard-pan in dead earnest.
There is only one harder bit of pan,
and that is destitution of both bread
and water. Reecher deserves to be ap.
pointed private chaplain to Secretary
Sherman with an increased salary.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-08-09
TuE responsibility of counties and

The responsibility of counties and
municipalities for losses sustained
at the hands OF mobs will be thor
-oughly tested in Pennsylvania and else
where. Asuit has been brought against
the city Of Pittsburgh by pawnbro-
ker for property ;aken from him by riot
ers. The county, is is said, is liable
for all damages resulting from acts of
mob violence, and thst sli claims
for damages awarded by the courts
must come out of the c1unty treasury.
The railroad company Is generally sup
posed to be liable for the loss sustained
by shippers from the fact that being
common carriers they are insurers; but
it seems that provision exists in the
law which says that ''acts of God and
enemies of the State make their liza
bility as insurers void" and the
shippers can come on the coun-
ty for every dollars worth of
freight destroyed by the rioters.
The railroad companies also can
collect from the couaty every dollar of
their loss if they are so disposed, but
it remains a question as to whether
they will resore to such measures, as 1t
would in the end inevitably react
against them. These damages will be
collected just as all other debts against
county. A maIdamus will be is
ued by the court on the county treas
nrer, AID, if no funds are available
rom which to pay the debt, then the
county commissioners will be compelled
70 levy special tax, just as was done
some years ago in regard to'the rail-
road Indebtedness to the county. When
the county comes to pay $40, 900, 900,
the pecuniary value of riot will be
understood. This question is one to
which great significance attaches. Tie
principle is correct and is operative, it
seems, both in Pennsylvania and Mary
land. We are not prepared to say to
what extent 1T might apply in the diff
ferent States.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-08-09
Political Notes.

In Mississippi the Republicans claim
to have had majority OF 80, 600 votes,
but they have quietly taken down their
sign and shut up the political shop.
Declaring that they have abundance of
capital, they virtually proclaim them
selves bankrupt by their acts.
Senator Wallace, of Pennsylvania,
expects to see the Democrats carry
Pennsylvania by "a very respect le
majority" And old Simon Car sron
is strongly of the same way of think
ing, judging by tho blanks and aster-
isks which so plentifully intersperse
his remarks ON the situation.
Called upon to decide whether they
love party more and Office less, Federal
officeholders, with great unanimity,
throw up their positions on county and
city committees, ana withdraw the
light of their countenances from eau
cuses and primary meetings. There is
monotony about this that is weaIi-
some. Is there none TO resign the fat
places for the sake Of the party2
The Now York Nation notes that the
Republican party is now placing itself
upon the plank Of the Democratic plat
form which declared the resumption
act of 1879 hindrance 20 resumption
and demanded its repeal. During the
campaign the Democratic party was
bitterly denounced for taking the po-
sition the Republican party now as-
sumes.
This is not good time to talk about
Federal politics, but Governor" Pack
ards proposed remedy for the trouble
in the Republican party is so refresh
ing that it ought to be noted. eyes, +"
said the dethroned Governor TO a New
York reporter, elf the President could
change his Cabinet and put out Schurz,
Evsrts, Devcns and Key, and put In
their places good Republicans Of the
old sort-Zach Chandler for one-the
party would get right up on its feet
again"
The mayor OF Richmond has formal
ly invited President Hayes TO visit
that city the last Of this month, add
lug: 81 can assure you that the people
OF Richmond WILL extend to you a
hearty welcome, and will avail them
selves OF the occasion to pay their re-
spects to you as the chief magistrate
Of the country, and % express their
qualification at the patriotic and i'm
partial manner in which yos haYe dis
charged its high duties.'
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-08-09

r. W. BISHOP, the Democratic
choice for Governor of Ohio, is a
wealthy wholesale grocer of Cincinnati,
and has very large circle of strong
fIieuds throughout the State. He was
S9ee S9f ii mayer tEe 81 Sta aGjneinnati. then
Convention, and as trustee for the Gin
ciunati Southern Railroad has dis
bursed $40. 600, 600 without q breath
of suspicion attaching to his
management Of this largo sum.
He is against contraction or resumption
at an early day, and owing to his bold
stand against resumption in the Boston
convention few years ago prevented
that body from placing itself on rec =
ord in favor of it. He is sixty years
old and of strong mind and body.
His nomination has not been the result
of running down hill in party grooves,
and is another blow to whip-cracking
politicians. In other words, it is an
eviden'e of emancipation FROM the
contemplate party hacks who hereto
fore have ridden the Democratic party
in the line of self-arranged promotion,
much of which we know about IN
Texas, and which will be scorned in
its own good time.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-08-09

JAY GOULD regards the railroad
strikes as the beginning of "a great
social revolution which cannot be ar
rested until it has led to the destruc-
ton of the republican form of govern
ment in this country and the establish
ment of q monarchy" He said, also,
that he would gladly give 81, 900, 600
to see Gen. Grant in the White House.
Gould,s remarks would lead people to
think that the railroads themselves are
conspiring to revolutionize the govern
ment and build up monarchy. Nor
Is it at all wonderful that he would like
to see Grant in the White uouse. The
ex-President was always s very willing
too of the railway corporations, while
the Cabinets late refusal to obey the
order o! Tom Scott has led them no
doubt 70 look rather unfavorably upon
the government as it Is. Those rail-
road presidents, who, before Hayes's
Inauguration, were opposed to Tilden,
might now become the leaders in
the often mooted. Democratic move
ment for displacing Hayes, but Tilden
would not come up to their Standard OF
q monarch.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-08-09
NO. "A

of one to Ten to tho errors committed
10 reasoning. And were man to
make this his sole guide, even In the
common affairs Of this life, and reject
all faith in human testimony, he would
be in proportion as ne lived conform
ably TO his reasoa, the greatest errorist
in his day. Not hpshandman in ten,
who attempts to strike out 3 new
course in agriculture, but miscarries
oftener than he succeeds. And so pre-
carlous are the best reasoneIs upon
the plow and the shuttle that nothing
is relied upon but erpeTinent Not a
husbsndmaa in ten can rely upon his
own judgment or reason il deciding the
pretensions of 9 new plow or OF q new
mode of cultivation, uatil experience
has taught him its merits or its defects.
Hence, experience is continually cor
recting the errors of reason. They,
ther, who believe, or, in other words,
rely upon, the experience of others in
human affairs err less frequently, and
much less fatally, than they who, re-
jecting the experience Of others, SIT
sail upon the ocean of speculation and
reason. II every generation were to re-
ject the experience and instructions of
the past there would soon be a rapid
retro zression IN the improvements OF
society. But, without being tedious,
they use reason beet who pay good
regard to those who have lived before
them, and never dare to rely on their
own reasoning, any further than they
have proved them by experiment. He
that drinks water 10 cxtinguish the
burning sensations occasioned by Wit
riol, though he reasons plsusibly, does
not reason more discordan.ly with fact
than the majority of reasoners who rea-
son themselves into universal doubt.
II, then, in the material world, and
with reference to the common business
of life, men more frequently err in I'M
plicity following their own reason than
in following the experience related to
them by others, how much dependence
ought to be placed on sheer reason IN
the things pertaining to the invisible
and future world. But there is one
tremendous CONSEQUENCE attached TO
the errors of reason in things pertain
ing to the spiritual and eteHal world,
that is not necessarily attendant on
errors pertaining to temporal affairs.
Experiments may, generally do, and
almost universally might, divorce us
from these erroIs. But if experience
of our mistakes in religious faith. or
in rejecting faith altogether and adopt
ing reason, is to be the means, the sole
means, of detecting them, deplorable
beyond the powers of expression will
be the detection of our own sophistry.
PnILoTHEAN.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-08-09

The kilograms bring us the news OF
great victory gained over the Rus,
slams by the Turks, the passage of the
Balkans, which has been heralded as a
great movement on the part of the
Russians, having resulted in almost an
entire destruction of their brag army
corps. Out of $4,000 Russians "a. 600
have been killed and wounded, the
Turks coming off with but slight
losses. The remnant of the Russian
army ls in a state of flight, while the
Turks haze captured vast quantity Of
arms and ammunition.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-08-09


THE Virginia papers are discussing
the question of doing away with the
two thirds rule in Democratic nomina-
tions. The rule is an infamous one,
and should be attacked in every quar-:
ter as one of the time honored customs
better honored ia its breach than in its
observance. AS is known to all well
inf Drmed persO. 8, the two t rirds
rule in conventions seldom serves any
better purpose than to enable minori-
ties to practically control msjDrities
and defeat the strongest candidates,
while the ignorant cling to it as great
principle" Many of the Virginia
journals urge the adoption of the ma
iority rule in the approaching Sat-
convention. This was doLe two years
ago in Virginia with good results.
But the two-thirds rule is rusty with
age ~nd opportunities for trickery, and
the professional politicians adhere to
it as one of the Chief sources of their
strength, though it has been aban-
doned in many of the Northern s ates
by the Democrats. The majority rule
prevailed in the Ohio Democratic Con-
OAIsEOkx OEssT lr"VEi, s-ae
plblicans have never tulerated tho
two-thirss rule, not believing that
twenty-onc should control thirty-nine
in nominating conventions. Many
wrongs have been comuftted In Texas
in adherlng to this rule, and we would
have it expunged from party tactics.
In the last Travis county convention
this rule played havoc with party nom
nations. Let us have no more of it.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-08-09

WE gather from the Houston Age
that all present prospect for an exten-
sion of the Western Narrow Gauge
Railway is at an end. The enterprise
has been handled in such q way as to
repel the assistance of capital, and Mr.
Floeck's late visit to..Newi York has de-
monstrated the fact that not dollar
can be obtained in its interest. AS an
evidence of its fissncIal standing, there
were lately offered in New York al
auction $40, 900 of its first mortgage
bonds which sold for only $400.
First class railroad securities have
lately declined from five to fifteen
per cent, and the Western Narrow
Gauge has lost even the slender foot
hold it once had in moneyed cir
cles. II this ioad is row built it will
have to be done by the people Of Hous-
ton assisted by the property-holdeIs of
the country through which it is pro-
posed to run it.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-08-09

On the twenty-thIrd of July the
Treasury department issued the fifty
third call forfhe redemption of fve-
twenty bonds of 1865. The call is for
SO, 600, 600, consols of 1866, of which
$4,000, 900 are registered and 81, 900,
900 are coupon bonds. The principal
and interest will be paid at the Treas
ury on and after the twenty seventh
day of October next, and the interest
will cease on that day. The following
balances were in the Treasury on the
same day at the closing hour: Cur
rency, $s, 270, 959; special fund for the
redemption of fractional currency,
81, 1868, 213; special deposit of legal
tenders for the redemption of certifi
Gates of deposit, $50, 76O, 900; coin, in
Guiding $39, O79, 200 in coin certificates,
$l09, 362, 274; outstanding legal ten
ders, 359, 764. 3S2.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-08-09

COMMISSIONER GRoos publishes a
letter in the Galveston Neacs, placing
such features upon the so-called "land
steal" as to lead that paper to front
about on the Commissioners course.
After all, this question between execu-
tive oGcers may prove an instrument
shooting in more directions than one,
and hence the STATESMAN leaves its
handling to those who seem unmlnd-
ful of such danger.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-08-09
SENTIMENr IN LABOR.

Money-baSs" is now in favor of a
standing Federal army, and the New
York Tribune becomes one of the lead
ing organs for urging this thing upon
the government. jay Gould and Scott
originate the idea, make demands upon
the government, and win follow it up
with a pertlnacity which must gain an
interested hearing in the end. No
doubt most of the railroad corporations
would see the Federal government sus-
tain sn army of hundred thousand to
strengthen monopolies and maintain
combinations; but the most serious re-
suits would follow, and Instructions,
not of ten days or a fortnight's dura-
ton, would succeed, but there would
then come crumbling to pieces of
that very government which pa
trictic and democratic people have
again learned to look upon with
hope. The Republican party came
to its zenith Of power az q
time when the military power of the
country was all-powerful. Its leaders,
who enjoyed and grew rich upon the
protection thus given them, have been
10th to see the influence OF the army
diminished or its numbers decreased,
and they would now see the civil
subordinated to military law; and out
of the resulting order of affairs they
would so to work to create mon
archy, to be used for their own sell
fish purposes and vindicuve ends.
No wonder Gould, and others like
him, should demard for themselves a
standing army. Such a step taken
would lead to others, in which the
great trunk railway lines Of the coun-
try would be sustained in exorbitance
and local despotism, and q way pre-
pared for a more. thoreugh degrada-
dation of labor. What the country
needs is rot degraded Abu:
intelligent labor, and il Is but
proper that it should betreated intelI-
gibly IL its standard would be raised.
No. only would the opposite course
destroy individual pride, but the indie
pendence and sovereign responsibility
ofStates would beimpaired. States have
been created for carrying out local
government, and it is this inserferance
with local self-government which has
shaken the foundation 81 q system,
that nosopolists and the bondholdss
would destroy. Anything proves aa
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-08-09

A COMPARISON shows that those who
support the government of Great
Britain pay a heaY,er tax for doing so
than do the people nf the United States
in supporting the Federal government.
At the same time the latter are more
fortunate than the former III seeing the
public debt decreased. The revenue
of Great Britain the year ending
June 30 last amounted to 1896, 4a2, AGO,
against 1886, 062, AT for the preceding
year, an increase of 50, $780, 245. The
chief sources of the British revenue for
the past year were about 100 millions
from customs, 140 millions from the
various internal duties, chiefly on
liquors and tobacco, fifty-five millions
from stamps, twenty-nine millions from
the income tax, thirteen millions from
tue tax on houses and lands,
jhirty and one-halt millions from the
postoffice, which is conducted at a
profit, and six and half millions profit
on the telegrsphic service. The Gus
toms and stamps show slight falling
off compared with the preceding year,
but all other regular sources of reve-
nue. show an increase. 1t will be no
ticed, when compared with the reve-
uue of the limited States for the same
fiscal year, that Great Britain raised
one hundred snd twenty four millions
more than we did, her customs yield
ing thirty millions less than ours,
while her various internal duies, in
come tax, stamps, etc., yielded just
double our internal duties.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-08-09

THE negroes of South Caroi are
warmed up upon the subject of emf
grafton to Liberia. A meeting was
lately held at Charleston for the dis
cussion of this question, and the propo-
sition was made to form joint stock
company, representing so, 600 shares Of
ten dollars each, for the purpose of
purchasing a first class steamship to
carry out this object. Great
enthusiasm prevailed at meeting,
the poor whites offering to assist in
this emigration movement. The blacks
claim that Africa is their only natural
home, to which they must return,
while the poor whites take the ground
that the presence of the white man is
damaging to his interests. There is
not enough work to support both, and
hence the poor blacks are disposed to
extend aid 'to the Liberian movement.