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The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-03-22
THE END OF 1T.

The whisky contest is ended and its
malevolence extinct. 1t was the fact
and not the men against which we
made war. The fight was made as
honestly as 1t was earnest and fearless.
1t was the city's and country's good,
and evil to no man or body of men,
which we sought to attain. There was
never a personality contained in aught
we have written or an offensive epithet
applied to an individual, and now that
the colored people have the matter
their own way we can stand it if they
can. 1t is no evil to ourselves that we
sought to ameliorate and as we sup
posed 1t 6ffectS them and others it must
be an imaginary curse. Time will tell.
But the contest is ended at last until a
different proposition is submitted and
until it Is shown who was the wiser
and who was right last Saturday.
With this termination of the conflict of
opinion We are wholly content and its
memories sink out of sight and new
questions arise and new purposes oe-
cupy peoples thoughts and il we are to
rear a beautiful and prosperous city
let us cooperate to make it great and
rich and attractive and prosperous even
with whisky. In this at least we can
ask for the cooperation of all classes
IA voters. 1t was against whisky and
not against them that the fight was
made.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-03-22

The Marshall Herald should learn
what manner of man Hayes may be
and what he proposes to do from
Hayes's acts and words. One OF his acts
is the elevation of Carl Schurz to a
place in the cabinet, and it was Gen.
Schurz who declared, In 1874. that Eat
the head of the negroes are the great
thieves that rule the South, and rely
on Grant for support. The support is
given to them freely, and every posi-
BILE means has been ia xen to make them
blind instruments of the powers that
be. The Republican party is respon-
sible for the present condition of the
South. will not be Republican to
deliver the Southern people over to the
worst set of scoundrels that ever OBJ
tanned political power. We are fight
ing for the overthrow of a system-a
system of unconstitutional arrogance
of power, system of contempt of
law, system of government by force,
a system of plundering in the South
and corruption in the North; such a
party, when it has come to that, does
not deserve to live"
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-03-22
THE PRESIDENT AND SOUTH
ERy NEWSPAPERS,

The perversity Of selfish, narrow
minded partisan journals is proverbial.
Therefore when we Iaud Republican
who becomes, in acts and words,
Democrat, and when some empty-pated
organ Of some selfish leader or clique,
having a hungry eye fastened on the
loaves and fishes to be bobbed for, the
newspaper being the hook and line
when partisan zealots call US names
because We congratulated the country
on the practical accession to Democ-
racy OF a powerful force to promote
the rehabilitation of Southern States,
we did not feel deeply wounded. The
critic only wronged himself and ex.
posed his own littleHess in that he
loves party more than he loves the
South. When we saw the President
doing all that Tilden promised and
expressed our unmixed satisfaction,
the selfish, arrogant, absurd and va
porting little newspaper stood on tip
toe to call US "Radical." We felt very
badly about it. We are mortified be-
yond measure that, not long ago, we
ascribed to Hayes the purposes of Nor
ton and Blaine and Butler. We forgot
that he had a platform which he ap-
proved and had written q letter to
which he proposed to adhere.
We sought Tilden's triumph that he
might attempt, with hostile Senate
and doubtful House, the accomplish
ment Of the very results which Hayes
executes without difficulty. Hayes
may destroy existing parties in the
South and West, and give US new ideas
and purposes in politics. lie may
separate the intelligent, educated and
thoughtful people from those who
never think, but speak and act
as the party's whippers-in and
Office-seekers direct. In all this the
President may be exceedingly criminal,
but we prefer peace, prosperity and the
self-government of the States to that
intolerable sectionalism of parties and
Of legislation which has crushed the
very life out Of statehood and reduced
men to that pitiable condition of degra-
dation in morals in which they assent in
municipalities to the mastery of lgnor-
ance and vice, and Of tramps and
roughs and shoulder hitters. They are
the moral towards who accept and en-
dure these evils and dare not revolt,
and yet these are they who cry "trea-
son to Democracy" when one dares to
approve che Presidents conduct or to
inveigh against vice and robbery in
local governments. Hayes declares for
the autonomy of the States and would
hberate the South from the mastery of
the army, and Of the carpet-bagger,
and every Southerner who is more
patriot than partisan will assert graf
itude and laud him who serves us.
Neither that cringiug cowardice which
bends before the party lash and is ST.
lent, nor that vicious blindness which
will suffer US to see nothing good in
partisan enemy, shall compel silence.
The newspaper that does not tell what
1t thinks does not deserve to be read,
and can never be trusted.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-03-22


JOHN w. DEFREEsE, an honest, up
right citizen and able writer and adhe.
rent of Greeley in 1872, and one OF
those who Venerate the memory of
Henry Clay and the facts and govern
ment of bygone years when this was,
of truth, the best government the
world ever saw-this man, John w.
Defreese, is to be public printer. No
other appointment could do more to
commend the President to the conf
dence of honest people. The writer
knew Mr.. Defreese long ago in Wash
ington and last beheld him weeping
over the degeneracy of the age and CO.
operating with Carl Schurz and Stan
ley Mathews in the Cincinnati Conven-
ton of 1872. Then Henry Watterson
was of the newspaper ring that sought
to nominate the distinguished son of
Massachusetts, and "Gath" claimed
the honor of having crowned Greeley
with immortality and death.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-03-22
Horaiin Sevmnnr said

Horatio Seymour said, few days
ago: 1--WE talk in our r"n exagger-
ated way from the stunp and through
the press, but near no harm. In par
ties men learn tho character of their
opponents anS friends, and see their
f~-fls, thopsh they may not be willing
to confess them us regards their own
partisans. They learn to be liberal in
Par,ioS. w" talk of our political on
poneRts IN PIekwlskian sense. Wsr
when l was Governor was r.va,
treated more chivalrously TIN Inv ~.
Legislature opposed to me-. Tbav
differed with me, but the difiIanoa
was an open one, and wa knew !,
They thought nothing OF abusing ms
in exaggerated speeches, calling me
traitor, ETC., and coming to me right
after and askipg what they could do
for me. There was no ill-feeling, but
it is our system Of doing things, got
oveT my defeat in about two weeks.
was more interested whom was run
ming for the Assembly than when ran
for President. When | was defeated
l knew it meant rest, and it took me
at least two years to get over an cleo
ton to Office"
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-03-22
A Poet among the GAS. Blowers.

1t is not generally known that the
new process Of toughening glass, re-
Gently invented in France by NJ. A. de
la Bastie, has already been introduced
into this country, and is earned on
every day in Brooklyn. Mr.. William
Cullen Bryant, the venerable poet and
journalist, and q number of other gen.
tlemen, recently visited. the La Bastie
Glass Works, in Delevan street, near
Van Brunt street, South Brooklyn, at
the invitation of Mr.. A. de 10 Chap
Pelle, the proprietor, to examine into
the operation OF the new process.
Up to the present time it has been
applied in this country chiefly to the
toughening Of lamp chimneys. These
are first made in the ordinary way,
complete and ready for use, but brittle
as common glass. A workman then
takes them, one by one, upon the end
of q long iron rod, and pluDges them
into a furnace. The chimney is not
allowed TO fall from the rod, but is
held upon it in plain sight. It grows
redoer until il has assumed q tint
which the skilled eye recognizes as IN
dicative oil the proper temperatures
which the courteous and
foreman stated to be 1900
degrees Fahrenheit.
The chimney, still upon the end OF
the rod, IL now withdrawn from the
fire and plunged into the oil bath close
At hand. This is a circular IRON vessel,
perhaps three feet in diameter, stand
ing upon the floor OF the works and
heated from below. Il 10 nearly filled
with melted tallew, At 6 temperAiure Of
about 400 degreea- Around the edge
Of the bath, and standing in the hot
oil, are ten or dozen small upright
vessels, each with horizontal handle,
III resembling high saucepans with
lat bottoms- The lower part Of each
ons OF these vessels IS pierced with
Arge holes, 30 that Is they stand In the |
path the oil comes up TO the same level
n them - in the body Of the bath
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-03-22

THE fellow that had taken a quart
OF colorcd elderly" Saturday contin-
ued to swallow the delightful stuff all
night and was taken to the calaboose
Sunday. He assembled the hill from
the Avenue between two Charles who
could hardly hold the reellng, bowling
madman. 1t was glorious spectacle
in Christian city, on Sunday
too, and among a civ ilized people.
Has society no right to protect itself
against vice and madness and red
handed crime? Or must men be free"
to enact such scenes as this that made
decency shudder and the sun, as it
mounted the heavens, hide it's face in
shame?
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-03-22

We have on our exchange list one
peculiarly queer newspaper. 1t tells
US that all religions are to a certain ex-
tent involved in obscurity. It is said
that Mahomet was born at Mecca, in
August, A. d. $40, and was originally
3 tradesman. 1t was in COS that he
first conceived the project of establish
ing new religion on earth, and be-
coming the head of empires. 1t ap-
pears from history that he retired to q
cave in Mecca, where, as he claimed,
with the assistance of an angel, he
wrote the sacred book of the Moham-
medans. 1t. is estimated, however.
that instead of being inspired by an
angel, he merely had the counsel and
aid of a Jew and renegade Christian.
I The bowling dervishes are active agents
aud representatives of their Mobamme-
dan faith. They are said to be pos
sessed of remarkable magnet power,
stanchipg the flow of blood from an
ugly wound by touch, and healing a
pslsied arm. They claim miraculous
power, and agree with the Shakers ard
Quakers that divine inspiration has not
ceased. Mohammedans reject the doc
triue of trinity and that of the atone
ment as irrational, and claim that every
sin has Its punishment from which
there is no escape. They believe in
seven bells and seven heavens, shading
insensbly into each other, andthe diff
ference between the highest bell 5nd
the lowest heaven il no more than be-
tween any two heavens or bells. They
are very strict in honesty and temper
snce, except in the cities, where they
have become somewhat demorallzed
by contact with Europeans.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-03-22

IT is very wicked that Hayes should
do and Democracy only preach, and it
is very unlucky that Democracy is
starved and hungry, and Hayes, practic-
ing the philosophy and creed of De
mocracy, is arrayed in fine linen and
Tapped In splendor and luxury. He
steals our creed and yields plumber
and power. 1t is enough to make dis
appointed people mad.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-03-22

A. sharper was standing at street
corner in Cincinnati. A man who
looked unsophisticated approached
with a sealed package, and asked him
to read tho address for him. On the
package was written $4,000 govern
ment bonds" with the name 'James
Harper, )" aud a number. "I'm James
harper-Pll take the PACKAGE" said
the sharper, thinking he had chance
to swindle. The other handed over
tho package, after Stimulating hesita-
ton, and said that two dollars were
due HIM for carriage. The money was
paid, and the package was subsequently
found TO contain blank paper only.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-03-22

THE Marshall Herald says the STATES
MAN is Radical. 1t is easy to call
names, but the task is unworthy OF
men of sense. The negro party here
also denounce the STATESMAN as Radi-
cal
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-03-22

GEORGE FRANCIS TRAIN says: "Mr.
Train, having sunk his individuality in
universally, his egotism is absorbed
in evolution, while his life of solitude
and boiled rice diet have store-housed
his electricity and magnetism, making
him the central battery of the vital
forces of the universe. The great
unknown in this psychologist tidal
wave may turn out to be the great
known"
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-03-22

LIEUTENANT Hall says he wots of a
sheriff and county attorney, and other
officers, who habitually skin other
peoples cattle. Some folks seem to
think this is terrible; but we know of
officers who constantly skin the PEG
pie themselves, and won't even look at
a pensive old COW. -.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-03-22

BECAUSE we deem President Hayes q
very good Democrat, lunatic editor
says that therefore the STATESMAN is
Republican rather than Democratic.
The better the man and president, the
less the Democrat. Is that the mean
ing of our contemporary That is what
il saws.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-03-22

Cock fighting is the popular amuse-
ment of Marshall, and the Herald
weeps over the woes of chivalrous
ROSTERS brutality asssssinated. 1t is
the refinement of cruelty, and shame
lessness is sHperadded to vice.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-03-22

The eolOred people defeated whisky
prohibition in Austin county. They
say that prohibition takes away their
freedom, and that the next thing the
white people will do, as they were told,
too, By an eloquent young lawyer OF
this city, will be to deprive them OF
coffee snd tea, and then of their wives.
The negroes believed it here and talked
OF it In high dudgeon on election day.
Whites haven't much ''optioan when
they do these things.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-03-22

The 215 miles from Austin to Gal
weston, which make groceries and
merchandise cost too much in Austin,
must be lessened, and If Morgan pro-
pose to make Austin great city and
monopolize its trade for his steamers,
he must cause the extension of the In
dianola road to the capital.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-03-22

If there happen to be anybody in
Austin who feels the slightest interest
In the commercial fortunes of the place,
let him read the last number of the
Cuero Bulletin, which tells of the rela-
tions Of Austin to Indianola.
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THEreadersc Of the STGrKsMAS should

THEreaderse Of the ST2TEsMAS should
not forget that President Hayes said In
his inaugural:
, "Let me assure my countrymen Of
the Southern States that it il my ear
nest desire to regard and promote their
truest interests, the interests of the
white and of the colored people both
and equally, and 10 pat forth ny best
efforts in behalf Of civil policy which
will forever wAsh out Of our political
affairs the color liue aud the distinction
between North and South, to the end
that We may have not merely O united
North and South, but united eeup-
Try"
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-03-22
DELINQUENT TAXPAYERS FOR

ere hereby noiiatd ihst all CLAIMS for taxes In
Precinct No. I are placed, for eoileeiiop Ia ar
hands Of Mr. W ID. Hunter; in Precinct No. s.
In the hands Of Mr.. W. G. Reager; in Pfsrfnct
No 4. IN the hands Of Mr.. J. L. Poxue; in Pre-
sinet 20. ), IN tho hands Of Mr. j. W. Laird
Those from whom taxen are due will please esII
on these gentlemen and settle, Otherwise they
VIII be dealt with according 10 law. Those
who owe taxes In Precinct No. are again re-
qEested oesn 20 this once and settle The ssnae
This 10 the lat ea., further Indulgence eaanot
be given. JOHN D. JOHNSON, Collector.
mario ada VT
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-03-22

1879. - 1875. 30
Cotton, lbs .901, s44,615 i, 563, 455, 3sS
Corn, bush. 45,O17 O33 81, 500, 756
W leat, bush 29,005, 500 81, 157, 607
Cheese, lbs. 65.459, 462 100, ITO, 1896
Tobacco, lbs. 219, 600, 600 3le,40o, 900
Hops, lbs. 1,l64 372 IS, 937, 951
Bacon, lbs. ,276, 42S, 27G 42O, 572, 234
Beef 80. %, 713 575 81, S52. 439
This shipment of food and produce
abroad is bewilderipg to think of. The
year was not a remarkably favorable
one. The cotton crop was reported
short, and the production of grain and
provisions was not excessive. Why
should the export of 1876 be so large?
Probably when the tables for the year
1877 are made up, the cause will be
made manifest by reported falling
off. No doubt part of the business
of 1877 was crowded into 1876 by the
rIilroad war, which resulted in bring
ing the grain, cotton and provisions Of
the interior to the seaboard in an unu,
sual hurry. Whatever the reason for
the immense expectation, the fact of /.
remains, and the other important cir
cumstance, that the farmers and plant
ers have received their money for their
stuff 90 ---t iiH-
The sale of American manufactures
abroad has been satisfactory. With
1876 an export has begun IN earnest of
leather, cotton goods, woUlens, glass,
hardware, paper, musical instruments,
watches and silk goods; and the for
eign sales of implements, arms, ma
chinery, furniture, copper goods, and a
few other things, have been largely
expanded. 1t is reported in New York
and at the manufacturing centers that
orders for American wares are coming
thicker and faster with every month.
The events of the year have given"
American goods the prestige of superb
ority as to quality, and the agents sent
out to Europe, Canada and South
America by manufacturers find that it
is not difficult to build up q trade by
meaus of well-directed effort. A
On the whole, the results of the
commerce of 1876 seem encouraging.
The imports were small, marking the
progress of development and the econ
omy at home The farmers and plant |
eFs have marketed their produce, and |
have money in their hands to spend,
always tie sure precursor, of busy
times The opening of markets abroad !
10 American manufactures has kept the /
factories going, and is now bringing
an abundance of business, especially |
to the cotton and implements indus
tries. The small importations have
enabled the surplus stocks in the cour-
try to be worked down, until they are
lew ebb, and it ID ali our
factories will need to do this coming
year simply to supply the reviving de-
nands of the home trade, unless, per
haps, the factories Of rails may be ex
cepted, but that they will at least be
busy there 10 already good |
reason to belieYe.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-03-22

The value of the agricultural produc-
tons Of California last year is estimated
al so, o0o, 600. Adding the gold yield
of $40, 600, 900. this makes the splendid
total Of eco. 600, 900 for tine queen of
the Pacific coast,
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-03-22

A sailor who has recently returned
from Newfoundland says that the fog
is 90 thick there that he ussd 10 drive
nail IN it TO hang his ha. On,
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-03-22
GOLD, GOLD! THE BLACK HILLS.

A gentleman in this city, having re-
ceived the following letter from the
Black Hills, vouches for the truthful
ness of the writer. He says he is a
jolly, rollickiug fellow, but incapable
of misleading a friend. The letter
was not designed to be printed. In
fact, there are some things IN it that
would not well grace the pages of q
decent newspaper:
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-03-22

Total. :. .s521. 500, 1863 $685., $40, 773
1t is the largest expectation the
country every enjoyed, and is $3.50,
900, 900 more than In 1872. The bal
ance in favor of the Uaited States in
1876 was 1926, 600, 900. The table
shows that the products of the farms
and of the soil constitute fve-sixths of
the whole amount of exports, and that
the American position in the trade of
the world is, in the MAN,, simply that
of great agricultural nation. 1t is
only in the year CT 1876 that the
Uulted States really makes it debut in
commerce as a manufacturing nation;
and this is more apparent, it must be
confessed, in the, efforts making by
manufacturers than in the figures show
ing what has already been accom-
plished. 49,. a4.s..-. 1oa
The increase by quantity of some of
the expectations is enormous. Here
are few of them: -'s ~,
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-03-22
MIKES DIGGINs,

February %, 1876. {
Dear JIM promised to tell you of
this country. l had pretty rough
time coming over from Cheyenne, but
since 1 got here have an abundance
of everything, and high old time
generally. There are countless thou
sands on their way here, and anybody
can get rich that keeps his eye skinned.
The tiger does big business here, but
l clawed him smartly the other night,
and had several hundred dollars over
the next morning. Then / took stock
in lead" that pays me now twenty
dollars each day, and we have no ma
chinery at ALL 1t is devilI0h tircsome,
rough work, however, to fellow who
has devoted much of his life to finger
Ing pictures, and is accustomed to the
ways of town life. We have fiddling
and dancing every night, and occasion
ally go on tramp over the hills
searching for signs of gold. Of the
ladies who have visited this country
l know nothing, and wouldn't ad-
wise you to fetch your family.
You can make money hand over fist.
Bring the implements and have a fine
layout and it will be worth more to
you than my twentieth in the Devils
Hole" in which work every day. II
you are coming, let me know, and
will get up shanty for you.
Truly yours,
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-03-22

Emma Abbott has thin voice, and
the critics arc cutting it up.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-03-22

FRoE Indisnola to Austin the dis
lance Is only one hundred and sixty.
nine miles.
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THE STATE OF TEXAS,

TO Al peEsons Interested ~ the administEntloa
Of The eel ate Of ). n Steiner. deceased.
James IL Rsynond. Administrator OF J. n
Steiner, deceased, has al. q "a the County cOu 9
e TraSis eonnty an exhlblto Of the condition Of
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-03-22

A DvERTIsEMENT.
Provision ha. been msde by Congress for
the pap meat Of balances due
Southern Mali Contractors
for the years 1850. 1863 and 1881. The ssms will
be promptly eoilec ed by GILBERT MOVERS
d Co Washington, ID. G. nsrai "a
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NEW ADVERTIsEmENTs.
HRAVIS COUNTY ROAD AND
III nnEnnU

II
The following toll rate were this day estab-
llshed by the Board Of Directors:
Annual rates. payable monthly in advance,
mn urfts