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The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-02-01

DAVID DAVIS, of the United States
supreme bench, was assigned this
place as the close personal friend of
Abraham Lincoln. He has ability, fame
and wealth. He is honest, conserva.
tive, learned, fat, weighing $50
pounds, rich and ambitious. He has
aforetime sought a seat in the Senate,
but Logan's virulence, blowhardism
and blackguardism and war record de-
feated the ambitious judge. He has
succeeded at last, and if we did not
know the man to be incapable of bar
gain and intrigue, would greatly fear
that he and Grant and Logan had
traded, and that Logan would
be seated instantly, upon Davis's
accession to the Senate, upon the
woolsack of the Supreme Federal
Court. What calamity befals the
country If Davis leave the bench, as
soon as he is commissioned Senator,
Grant will fill the vacancy, and Logan
or Chandler or Matt Carpenter, each
of the three, happily for the country,
beng out of employment, will be sub
stltuted for Judge Davis. If Davis and
Logan had any understanding affect
ing this result, Davis will come down
at once from the woolsack before the
fourth of March THAT Grant may ap-
point his successor and then Logan
will be the man.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-02-01

WE imagined that Governor Hub
bard would not approve the Tom Scott
bill, as nO,0 presented to Congress, and
yet the Rockport transcript asks,
"does the STATESMAN think that Gov
ernor Hubbard is a man to change
with every wind?" Not a bit of it.
Nothing less than a cyclone could
move him or Mount Olympus; but
Tom Scott is a bigger bag of wind
than was ever turned loose from the
caves of -Holus, and his Excellency
may have been slightly twisted when
the Texas and Pacific was bent towards
the northeast, its trunk line being
given to St. Louis and Philadelphia
and its "branches" to Texas and cities
of the South. Such distortion Of a
great railway, begotten of the genius
and wealth of Texas and transferred
to other States and peoples, would
wrench the intellectual and moral
muscles of any man.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-02-01

A PICTORIAL FRAUD.

r. w. Thompson, the excellent gen.
eral passenger agent of the Texas and
Pacific Railway, sends a map of "Gl
tie railroads IN 7e1as" On this the
Texas and Pacific road runs south of
west from Fort Worth to FL Paso. In
the bill before Congress, this same
road will actually run northwest from
Fort Worth aud meet the road from
Vinita and st. Louis, in Oldham
county, in the Pan Handle. This is
on the line, very nearly, of the Allan
tic and Pacific road, chartered for a
st. Louis company, and transferred
with its land grants to Tom Scott.
This map of the Texas and Pacific
road, published September l, 1876, is
simply designed to mislead the people
Of Texas. 1t presents one state of
facts, and the Lamar-Atkhs bill
wholly different road, running in
wholly different direction. The "hon-
est" map tells of things that are not
designed to exist, and only to soOthe
the Texan who suspects that Tom
Scott has swindled the rutabagas. He
has, in fact, entered Texas to secure
the land of Texas in order to build a
CentraL and not Il Southern Pacific
road. If Texas Congressman submit
to the outrage, they submit to the
barefaced robbery of Texas. The cor
poration that will manage the road
and define the route of freight and
passengers Is Northern corporation,
constituted of Northern men, having
all their wealth, their homes, their
city and railroad base in Philadelphia.
They bend the Texas road, as finished
from Texarkana to Fort Worth, north
west, as the Lamar-Atkins bill pro-
vides, to a proper place of junction
with the road from St. Louis,
and at that q "branch" diverges
south to Fort Worth, while the
trunk line'' diverges northeast
to ViEita and St. Louis. The
Central Railway map does not show
that the International road exists, and
the InterDatiOnal's map of Texas is al
most equally Jealous of tue Central,
which, in its turn, Is suppressed. But
this Tom Scott map not only suppresses
the truth, like the other two, but alb
solute!Y suggests and asserts palpa-
BILE faIsehood. Scott is building, aud
designs to build, no such road as that
drawn on his railway map from Fort
Worth to Ell PasO. The chancery
courts, if it were possible, should be
invoked to prevent fraud and sup
press the circulation of the pictured
falsehood.
OF course Mr.. Thompson, the gen.
eral passenger agent of Tom Scott,
sent us this pretty map that we might
be amused by its absurd misrepresenta-
tions OF geographical and commercial
facts; but while 1t is exceedingly ridic-
ulous in his eyes, and he is conscious
that we would enjoy it, he should re-
fleet that the careless observer deems
it proper and honest and fair presen-
tation of the purposes and plans of
Scott, when Scott himself spurns it,
and his bill before Congress thrusts it
aside, and makes u railway map that
confesses the outrage done Texas and
the South in behalf of the aggrandize-
ment of St. Louis and Philadelphia.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-02-01

THE election of Ben Hill to tho
United States Senate by the foremost
Democratic State of the Union is sig
nificant. He is free thinker, and OF
those who say what they think. Heis
a man rather of genius than of talent,
but defective in neither. He never
stands still or looks backward; but is
progressive and aggressive. If he had
been born and reared under the shadow
of Massachusetts morals and modes
of thinking he would have been more
terrible than Thad Stevens and violent
than Mr.. Butler, with the marked diff
ference that Hill is thoroughly honest.
He does not close his lips even when
silence would serve him better than
logic or eloquence. lie Is of those
great men who shape, control and
direct, rather than watch and pander
to, popular opinion and prejudice. A
month has not elapsed since Tray,
Blanche aHd Sweetheart, and all the
bowling pack of blind partisans, were
bowling upon his track. He had dared
to think and say what ne thought and
the party were left in the lurch or dis
covered that some one of its supposed
tenets of faith had been violated by
the brilliant Georgian. Hill is another
stone mountain towering above the
horizon of Georgia. Its summit is
always crowned with sunlight and the
mighty mass is as firm and fixed and
immutAble as the heavens above or
the earth on which it rests. Nothing
shakes it and no power can remove or,
overleap it. But while the rugged
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-02-01


THE HeyaiH publishes Senator Ed
munds's speech in behalf Of the bill to
provide method of counting the eiee-
toral vote. The Harlld says it will
crafty those who feared that party zeal
and prejudice would prevent fair
and constitutional settlement of the
critical question that has already too
long disturbed the country. The ex-
celient work of the committee is suf-
ficient proof of the truthfulness OF Mr..
Edmunds's assertion, that Its members
laid aside all partisan feeling and uni
ted in reporting the bI.l with a solemn
sense of the important duty with which
they were charged. The best proof
of the honest equity OF their plan is to
be found in the fact that 1t is bitterly
denounced ty those to whom politi-
cal triumph is of more consideration
than the preservation of constitutional
government and who would consent
10 win party victory by such an un-
worthy trick as that pracused in Ore
gon or through the undisguised ras-
cality of such al infamous body as the
Louisiana, returning board. But the
value of MIR. Edmunds's speech is to be
found in the convincing argument by
which The constitutionality of the COM
mittee's plan is maintained and in the
clearness with which the provisions OF
the bill are explained.
The opponents of the bill have as
sailed its constitutionality and ques
toned the right of Congress to dele
gate its powers to any tribunal what
ever. The committee embraced in It's
composition some of the soundest con-
stitutional lawyers as well as the most
experienced legislators in Congress.
Mr.. Edmunds himself Won high repu-
tatioH at the bar, and has been speaker
of the House and president of the Sen
ate in his State, in addition to his
eleven years of service in the United
States Senate. Mr.. Frellnghuysen
was Attorney General of New Jersey
before he became United States Sena.
tor. Roscoe Conking's ability as q
lawyer is conceded. Mr.. Thurman has
been Chief Justice of the Supreme
Court of Ohio. Mr.. Bayard was Uni
ted States District Attorney for Della
ware. Mr.. Ransom has beef Attorney
General of North Carolina. Out of
the seven representatives, on the COM
mittee six are lawyers of reputation In
their respective States. 1t is not prob
able, therefore, that the committees
plan would be assailable on constitu-
tlonal grounds, and the debate in the
Senate disposed of alI such objections.
AS wise settlement it receives the ap-
probation of the whole country outside
the few extreme and selfish politicians.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-02-01

DALLAS, in behalf of Texas, surren-
ders the banner to Georgia as the fore
most stronghold of Democracy, but the
Augusta Chronicle tells US that 'if en-
igration TO Texas be not stopped,
Georgia will not long retain the flag" "
1t is amusing now to read the stories
told in Eastern papers in derogation of
the CHAINS of Texas. 1t is even sid
that whisky is supreme, and that IN no
county or town will the people approve
the law that has served Kentucky and
New Jersey and Massachusetts 81 well
and that whole communities sre en-
shaved to whisky and fight anu kali
perpetually.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-02-01

THE commission to which the dis
tputed electoral vote is to be left must
be composed of five members from
each house of Congress, and five mem
bers of the Supreme Court, consisting
of the Justices from the First, Third
Eighth and Ninth Districts; and the
four shall select the fifth member from
among the other members of the Su-
preme Court. The member from the
First District is N. Clifford, of Maine,
appointed by Buchanan, January II,
1858; from the Third, William Strong,
of Pennsylvania, appointed by Grant,
February IS, 1870; from the Eighth,
S. F. Miller, of Iowa, appointed by
Lincoln, July 1G, 1862; from the
Ninth, S. ]. Field, of California, ap-
pointed 6y Lincoln, March 10, 1868.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-02-01

GRANT still refuses to recognize the
Packard government in Louisiana,
Sherman's and Mortcn's people an
noyed him persistently till at length
he made them understand thatNichols's
government presented better aspect
than Packard's. Nothing will be done
till the committees have reported. 1t
Is said that these have been bull-dozed
and that they will sustain Packard
strOnUly
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-02-01

BEFORE the committee on the pow
ers, privileges and duties of the House,
Oswin D. Roberts, cashier of the Sec
ond National Bank of New York, ex-
hibited two certificates of deposit by
z. Chandler, one for $4,000 and the
other for $4,000. They were made
payable on his own order or return of
certificates. The Endorsement read /:
PAY s. B. Packard or order. Z.
Chandler"
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-02-01
WE are informed by Gov. Hubbar

WE are informed by Gov. Hubbard
that Rev. DR.. Sears, the agent of the
Peabody fund in aid of public schools
in the Southern States, will visit and
lecture in this city on the third of
February proximo,. and will remain
here three days. DR.. Sears was ap-
pointed by the great philanthropist
as agent for this munificent bounty,
and his present visit to Texas is to de-
termine the must suitable places for
the distribution of its blessings in this
State. 1t was the request of Mr.. Pea
body, on his dying ped, that Texas
should be specially remembered by his
executors. He should have good at
tendance.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-02-01

WE have before Us the Report of
the Treasurer Of the State of Texas for
the fiscal year ending August 81,
1876 Galveston, Shaw & Blaylock,
printers" The publication OF this re-
port has been greatly delayed, but
having it, we have in detail every
transaction of the treasurer up to the
date mentioned. 1t shows, too, all
balances due or belonging to the sew
eral funds, ana is as interesting to the
general reader as the table of loga-
riJhms. But it shows the psinstsking
care with which the accounts of the
State are kept and the fidelity with
which the great trust of the State
Treasurer is executed by Andrew ].
Dorm.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-02-01

THE steady and persistent Northern
winds have driven the sea away from
the shore of Texas, and the reef in
front Of Corpus Christi is far above the
waves. So the water has left the ship
channel below Houston, the seashore
is rising and the gulf stream, it is al
legged, has been diverted from the coast
of England. The climate of London
has been SO thoroughly changed, and
such have been the sutferings of the
people from cold and ice and snow
that London papers absolutely discuss
the probable abandonment of the coun-
try and the transfer Of forty millions of
Euglishmen to this continent. Ali
this comes of the alleged diversion of
the gulf stream from the Western Brit
ish coast.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-02-01

ever tImid party leaders may be, and
unwilling TO face the hostility of ig-
norance, recent events in Louisiana,
Florida and South Carolina, and the
condition of towns and counties, Of
Houston and Memphis, and of States,
like Tennessee aud Alab ANA and North
Carolina, and the repgdia,ioH of mil
lions Of bonds by Georgia, are facts
that render the restriction OF the pow
er Of mobs. at least in municipal cleo
tions, an unavoidable necessity.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-02-01

PHYSICIANS, chemists and philoso-
pliers concur in declaring that grow
ing plants should not be kept at night
in bedrooms, and for the simple rea-
son that plants by day purify and by
night vitiate the air. A number of ex-
periments made by the French scient-
ist Boussinga1lt prove that, as final
result of vegetation, far more oxygen
is liberated than is consumed.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-02-01

A SHARP, shrewd, telegraph opera
tor on a branch road owned 10y Cover
nor Drew has copies of all the impor-
tant dispatches sent by Chandler and
others to Florida when the scheme of
stealing the vote of that State was con-
ceived and executed. The young man
had little to do and was interested in
poitics; he listened to messages that
came rattling down into the jungles of
Florida from the jungles of Radicalism
In Washington and has preserved faith
full copies. Chandler is captured at
last, even if Orton refuses to talk.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-02-01

Col. Ton SCoTTs friends deny that
he is using money to help Logan back
to the Senate from Illinois. They say
that the money sent from Philadelphia
to Springfield for that purpose was
from the Cameron ring, and that Scott's
name has been wrongfully used as
blind. Logan is useful to such crowd
as the Camerons, and they are willing
to pay for his election.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-02-01

IF any one branch of the Texas and
Pacific road be Topped of it should be
that which is designed to be the
main line from the one hundred and
fourth parallel In the Panhandle to
NinIta and st. Louis. Then away with
all the branches, and If any be built,
the country and the railway corpora
ton owe it to Texas and not to st.
Louis. 1t was Texas that has made a
concession to a Pacific road the most
munifcent ever given by State, and
st. Louis, that gave nothing, demands
everything,
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-02-01

THE press of the South, 10 the ex-
tent that it has spoken, approves the
adjustment bill, and the House will
hardly undertake to defeat the meas
ure. In such body, however, there
is always a class never cortent when
a new scheme of legislation is pre-
scnted, unless they have illustrated
and demonstrated their originality by
presenting an amendment. The men
of amendments-eve:ybody recalls De-
Morse in our constitutional couven-
tion-must be thrust down and OUT or
the scheme will be crushed.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-02-01
HAYES and Wheeler. having failed In

HAYES and Wheeler, having failed In
a recent venture, have absconded. OF
Tilden's movements and sayings we
hear every day through New York
newspapers; but Hayes has only SAID
that with modes and measures adopted
for the settlement of the presidential
question, he Lad nothing to do, and
that he had nothing to say.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-02-01

THE Russian army has not yet
crossed the Pruth. 1t gives no indica-
ton of being in a hurry to cross the
Pruth. The Car has got his elephant,
but it is uncertain what he means to do
with it. 1t is an unpleasant animal, at
best, and hard to handle. To Judge
from the tone of the Moscow Gazette,
Russia would gladly persuade the res:
of Europe to pull her chestnuts out of
the fire. The attitude of Turkey, in
the meantime, provokes admiration by
its boIdness and consistency. The Otto
man individual at least inspires re-
spect.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-02-01

tion of the domain Of Texasl They
were swindied, and should require, as
due to themselves, the restitution Of
the msasureless wealth obtained by
false and fraudulent pretenses. Else
where are printed extracts from Sena-
tor Terrelrs noted speech. They will
be read with additional interest, SINCE
eight months ago he so plainly declared
the plans which are now being set or
foot by the enemies OF Texas.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-02-01
NO. 25

THEY have discovered in Rome the
spot whereat the Apostle Peter was
wont to baptize. VIII not the curious
ia such matters inquire as to the facili-
ties for the taskl Was it an Enonl
There has bsen unesrthed a stone on
which is inscribed the name of 81. Pc
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-02-01

Col. DOUGLASS, OF the Tyler Tap
railway, will soon have the iron and a
locomotive, and track-laying begins at
once. Men who build their owR mon
uments of iron and stone and have
locomotives to shout OF their names
and deeds are they who will live
longest in the country's memory and
gratitude.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-02-01

The Grand Duke will spend the
winter in the United States. His nur-
pose may be to see how Grant can con-
vert republic into the empire. The
process must be very interesting to an
emperor's son. But how can this stall
wart descendant of the woman who
made freedom shrlek," remain here
when the Mahommedan and Greek
churches are about to collide and
Christian or Turk must control the
route to India.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-02-01

NEWSPAPERS of Northern Texas that
belong to Tom Scott also belong to
St. Louis, aud it is very common to
hear them say that Texan merchants
should prefer st. Louis to Galveston.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-02-01

THE STATESMAN was incorrect in
some of its statements about the acts
of the commissioners as to the contract
for building the East Texas peaiten-
uary. The facts are: That the prop
ositlon for bids was advertised in the
Galveston Nelcs and tive other Texas
papers, in the New York Tribune and
Chicago Times. Bids from parties In
several States were presented, and two
from within this State. The commits
sioners, Col. Lang objecting, agreed to
accept bond given out of Texas, but
theslmnase continued to such degree
a the decision doubtful The
were finally notified, how
be bid had been accepted
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-02-01

JUDGES PLEAsANTs AND FLEMING,
having administered the law with inf
mite vigor anG punished scoundrels
mercilessly, are odious to knaves and
murderers. Now that the State cavalry
is to be withdrawn these judges will
hardly dare to hold court to punish
bloody-handed aud blear-eyed scoun-
n relism
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-02-01

THE United States Circuit Court
holds that 1t was never the intention
of Congress that the million and half
loaned to the Philadelphia Exposition
should be refunded and the court
authorizes the stockholders 10 pocket
the money for their trouble and zeal
and the like. Blessed stockholders I
A year ago we said that money had
OOne m
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-02-01

HY. WATTERsoN, of the Courier Jour
MI and member of Congress, is to be
general. in-chief of the army of one
hundred thousand designed to capture
Grant and Hayes and enthrnne Tilden.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-02-01

IT is harshiy said that while the
churches of New York prayed for the
orphans and widows made ty the
Brooklyn fire, the actors and actresses
made up large fund to relieve the
wants of the unfortunate sufferers.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-02-01

Mr.. YosLET, whom the Republicans
of the Arkansas Legislature supported
for the United States Senate, was for
merly the attorney general Of that
State, and figured conspicuously in the
Brooks-Baxter war. He is also known
as the champion peanuteater Of the
Southwest.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-02-01

Col. CuAs. DEMoRsE publishes in
the JimPlocUte an excellent appeal TO
the people OF Northern Texas in behalf
OF Bryan University. Very certaisly,
it costs the youths OF Texas less, and
the training is more thorough there,
than elsewhere in the South or East.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-02-01

and that bond must be fled. The
bond was fled, signed by parties out of
the State, to which the Governor OBJ
jected. The commission, at its late
meeting, gave the contractors privilege
TO give bond IN this State, placing the
limit at twenty days.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-02-01

TIE Headlight says that Round Rock
will ship 5000, 900 worth of cotton.
This is one of the Goals of fire that the
want of narrow gauge towards the
northwest heaps upon the backs Of
Austjn terraDinS
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-02-01
4AVNINt1R'1V V'0II1'3'VNIi TIII''IV IPIIE'
CURE For SICK HEADACHE.

Den Bro Meek: Editor The Central Methodist,
Cattleshurg, .Aentucky:
see In the last CeHtrdi that you want rem
cey for sick headache. II you will use remedy
IN Z you advertise In your p per every week.
am sure you will be < oatly benefited thereby.
aud believe cured have been sufferer from
sick.headachc. can saf almost from infancy,
aud have tried every remedy could get, and
never found anything 20 do mo any good until
I used "StMMoSs's LIVER REGULATOR " Ii has
been nearly thee years since first used II, and
/. have never used but Two packages AID a hall
of tho Regulator" | had SISTER last spin
that had FROM one 10 two spells OF sick hca, ache
every week. | sent her halt OF a package snd
she SAYS she has not had II since. feel for any
one that cutters wit0 that terrible disease, and
hope yon will give Il trial, and also hope u
hear that u has cured You.
| pm yours, & =. MOtRlS-
HrnMnsNilu. ". Va, Sept. 8. 1876.