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The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-01-25

Houston will celebrate Nardi Gras
Denison is building q $50. eco car
rage factory.
johnson county adopted local option
by forty majority.
L. 3. N1illett & Bro. own abou! 1C0, .
600 cattle in Baylor county.
The Waco, Fairfield and Palestine
road, it seems, Will he built.
The Hill county Record is given over
body and soul to local option.
Treasury warrants in small amounts
were sold for 81 IL cents Friday.
The Guadalupe Tsmes is happy IN
the possession of Gordon press.
Nsvasota takes whack at loca!
option on the twenty-fourth instant.
In Rockwell county only thirteen
votes were polled against local option.
Farmers about Seguin are preparing
fields for crops and plowm@n are busy.
si,et, snow and ice have killed mgr-
lads of cattle in the Northwest and in
Texas.
E C. Geeter's private school in Aus
tin county has thlrty-!lve pupils read
ing Latin.
a negro named Davis stabbed and
killed another at Iicarne: Friday,
named Dixon.
Two Hardsheil preachers, OF Illlnols,
are maullng the Ltsytater and other Sin
ners III Sherman.
Comanc'e IS to nave $!@, 600 hotei.
Adams " NH&entaie pumping tnuaacr
INT" the scaeme'
Senator MCCutOCh, OF leon county,
has lamed himself ~ fai.jag "a ,he ice;
but his leg Is getting We'll
The Dallas Commercial becomes oRo
of the most attractive newspapers that
reach the STATESMAN Office.
The Houston telegraph begins at last
20 talk earnestly for Texas a. affected
bv the Tom Scot sw1ud!e.
The new PRESBYTERIAN Church At
Nacasots will c dedicated to dav. d..
Smith, of Dsllas, officiating.
D. II c., :. ,,-..,.,l,;.,-- o,<,,,,.
.ho sho-o. - .ho l,,;s...,,.,,, C:,sd.,,,,e
because there is much water there.
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Oh Cal9"eI, I,.,l..? 49, -, ioI ~, a"u '"'
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~, whisky was the Suc'css'nl candl'
uAle' nS''"s " N'a my % '"o '-
brecNehrlise IN 0'e!'HehS cum :
grows with wonderful rapidly Ihey
are talking OF narrow gauge 10 Aus
''n
W mic la'''uSeS are Il zen GEMS
dozen at RocNdaie We hope the -Rdsss"
ger VIII oe KIM enough 10 snip Us
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The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-01-25

The PEyITENTIAEY question seems
to be the upPeEmost one just now in
State official quarters. The ease Of
Ward, Dewey < Co. has been under
consideration for some time. and decis-
I've action may u once be expected IS
to the provisions Of the bill passed By
the last Legislature, which left with
he Governor the resumption OF the
control Of the penitentiary. Col. Ward
md col. Patton, and probably Col.
Dewey, are here, making "a desperate
fort to hold on. They threaten to
appeal to the courts 10 maintain their
position, denying the right Of the Gov
ernor TO act under the bill passed hy
the last Legislature. 1t remains - be
seen whether Governor Hubbard can
be lntimIdated in course, which in
vestigations made by the Legislature
authorize, and which humanity has
seemed to require, and We lean to the
opinion that lac who thinks our broad-
shouldercd Governor may falter in thi.
or any other duty Will lie very Ger,
tainlY mistaken.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-01-25

''THE SOUTHERN SIDE OF ANDERSON
VILE Prison, complied from Off
cial documents 10y X. Randolph
Stephenson, NJ. D., published by
Turnbull Brothers, of Baltimore, y
is before US.
This book is invaluable to the South.
1t is made up of official facts COM
piled by the chief surgeon in charge at
Audersonville, and written by one who
knows how to prepare an attractive
book. No one series of incidents and
assertions have done the South such in
finite harm rs the ott-recltcd "horrorS
OF AIdersonville." Honest, good
people everywhere in the North and
South have shuddcred when con-
tcmplating alleged outragcs done
by Windcr and Pillow and 9TH
crs under Jefferson Davis's author.
ity at Andersonville. Such was the
fury bC2 often because of the storio S
that went abroad affecting dcvilish
deeds done within the walls of the
great prison pen that the writer OF this
book fed the country, and WuTz, the
keeper, was executed, and since il was
necessary that WuIS's execution, like
that OF Mrs. STRAITS, should be justi-
fed, the horrors of the prison have
been again and again reCouuted, and
the intoieIabie, unprecedented heart
iCSsncsS and cruelty of surgeons ana
keepers has been constantly ,Xaggrr-
a.cd.
THIS volume tells the whole sto-
~. Nothing is concealed; a1d w hen
We happen TO know that late
in 1854 raw potatoes were choic-
est mXuues 10 those outside the
prison walls, aud when no exchange
Of prisoners would be permitted by
Federal policy, and to feed and clothe
or give medicine 10 those We held was
quite as impossible as 10 feed ana
cIothe our own soldiers, and when the
people around ApdCrsonville were
themselves starving, it is not matter
of amazement that prisoners Of war
suffered terribly. 1t was no fault OF
those who shaped the conduct and for
tunes of the Confederacy. The book
before us possesses infinite interest,
and it Is ombel!ished with many pic
lures. Mr.. Henry I. Horucr, Of NIr-
ginia, represents Mcssrs. Turnbull &
Bros. in Texas, and will call upon our
citizens shs, they may order the book.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-01-25

THE town of NIueland, in New Jer-
scy, contains from Is, 600 to Il, 900 in
habitaats. 1t is OF the size of Austin.
4 bar-rOom was never fixture IN the
place. Local option" has ever been
dominant. We are told by the Eewspa
pers Of the place that there never were
but two people committed for felony to
the ctlabooSe Of the town. The prop
crty owners of Niuelaud could not be
hired, on ANY terms, to suffer bar
room TO exist there; hut many of them
have their own sideboards and drink
their own wine and brandy at home,
and sobriety and decency and order
and progress and industry are univer-
sa.. Again and again have bar-rooms
been opened IN Nineland, but the
courts, under the law, have instantly
closed their doors and the facts are be-
lore u, and the ca,aboo.e and jail of
Austin smells of whisky. Whisky
oozes from its grated windows. Its
breath IS pollution; its occupancy
moral coutagion aud death. Whisky
Is the real committing court, and the
teloas that 90 in and ont are mad
dened with whisky before they are
bloc: -staincd by crime.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-01-25
WHEN .ExAs WILL FIGHT.

We can hardly believe that the men |
IN possession Of power for sixteen |
years past will surrender it withou,
fighting. They have the army and
navy, and it costs them less to fight
than to surrender, and fight they will.
We do not believe that the proposed
scheme Of settlement will be effective.
TIE very air Of Washington IL full Of
the Lreatk Of war. Grant is not aversc
to conflict and has been providing
for il, as everybody knows, and as no
one denies. Every Democratic place
man in 1901, ej=cted by Lincoln's
election, was frantic for war and was
never appeascd till he held as good a
place at Montgomery or at Richmond
as he had lost at Washington, or in
the cOuntry's pOstOtticcs or custom
houses. Eighty thousand oflicehOlders
and their families and brothers-:n-law
and mOthcrs-in-law can readily in
| vUlye the country in rujnOus strife, and
| Grant loves his profession that gave
| him fame and Office and world wide
renown. He may be Modified by
Casey's election to the Senate and suf
fer Louisiana to lapse into the en-
braces of Democracy; but he means to
transfer his Office to Hayes, or, falling
ia this, to retain it. Even now the
first Indispensable prerequisite to the
establishment and maintenance of a
despoti,m is proposed to be Effected
by the seizure and management Of all
the telegraph lines by the government.
Whatever may be said to the contrary,
the tenure Of the telegraph Is of greater
value than that Of the army. CirCu-
lars and petitions, to be signed, have
been sent over the country, and the
bill before Congress provides for the
purchase of all the telegraph lines
and their management by department
at Washington. Then they could
control elections more dfeCtualiy, and
as occasion required distribute troop
and all who were not in sympathy with
them would know nothing of their
plans and movements unit! they had
accomplished their purposes. This
scheme is put forth under the plea
that it is for the good of the people.
1t is a preparatory step to the country
complete subjugation and ruin.
The signs of the times indicate the com
ing of terrible events. 1t will be attempt.
ed to make the South the scene Of con
llict, and every possible means en-
pIoyed to invelgie these States into it.
J The Union, as we are affected by it,
and as its central government is ad
mlnistered, and as the Constitution
has been distorted and construed, is
not worth fighting for, and its es
sencc is such that fighting destroys it.
Union cannot come of war. We have
seen that fact demonstrated, and W.
cannot fight for disuniOn. We ar,
cured % that, and in no aspect of fact.
can we be induced to participate in
conf ct from whose womb of woe!
nothing can be- born but anarchy, pow
crty, despotism and unutterable hide
BUSINESS. Whoever comes out of sucl
II war victor comes out, whatever VT
! may term him, an autocrnt, and hi
government must be dcspotism
Then, and not till then, can Texas
; have reason to fight.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-01-25

The Galveston No,S moves slowly
and cautiously 70 ends aimed at and
approves tho philosophy Of the STATES
MAN when it copies and approves an
editorial Of the New York Times,
which says;
Great part OF the important labors
of a city government is simply business
precisely such as our commercial,
financial and manufacturing community
are accustomed ~. Il has no relation
10 politics. II regards the manage
ment Of debt, the condition Of roads
and railways, the encouragement 81
commerce, the protection ~ health,
the arrangement of expenditures TO
suit income. and the consideration of
distant questions relating 70 the trade
and prosperity OF the community.
They are practical business questions,
aud the men who deal with them
should be from the class who have has
business training, and who nave the
: deepest interest IN them. TAcre are
communities whose taxes cut UP the
interest OF property. TIE poorest aud
lowest laborers, led 10y some dema-
gogues, vote away by thousands the
money which does not belong tn the N,
and afterwards complain that rents are
high, aud business stops. In the iu-
tiest OF the masses, they mu be pro.
tectsd from the effects OF their own
!. ignorance and extravaganza. The re-
form might be carried out in villages
requiring aldermen and mayors 10
elected by pToPerty-hulaers, ami TO
be themselves owners of real estate.
Those who pay taxes directly will be
everywhere IN favor OF this change.
The working classes of Houston
~ be in infinitely better coalition
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-01-25

WHEN paper IS exceedingly fero-
cious and savage in It's assaults upon
Hayes and Grant, AID eager for the
next war, we are reminded of the
journal that calls upon the press, chat
mightiest coaservator Of liberty, to
send its red-hot lightning through the
heart Of Grants tyranny and it adds:
Terms, 81 per annum in advance.
Are We patriots or slaves Cur sub
scribcrs are earnestly roquested to
come up and settle. He is an arranv
coward who fa.tcrs when duty calls.
Send in your ads. Strike the tyTants
from power. job printing done with
neatncss and dispatch. Heroic Texans
will never falter in thc hour Of the
country's peril The result IS that
all of US are almost crazy to get into
the next war, and the enthusiasm o!
Texas is simply irrepressihlc.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-01-25
THE EIST TEXAS pENgTEN-
TEAssE.

The commission appointed to make
arrangements for the building of the
eastern peni!entiary in this State met
over Elk months ago, and accepted II
proposition from a gentleman in Ohio
10 build 1t. The proposition for bids
had been Injudiciuusly advertised, and
contractors hardly knew anything Of
it. Olly the one proposition was re
coived, though it ~ understood others
would have been presented under diff
ferent circumstances. The commits
sion, no doubt, thought the course
they pursued was the best, bus 1t led
to home contractors being left en-
trely out. The proposition from the
Ohio gentleman was definite rs
to the amount to be paid, but
specifications were wanting. New
ertheless, it was accepted, and
more than half year has expired
without anything having been done.
A short while ago n bond was sent in,
but it was signed by non-resid.nts and
the Governor very properly refused to
accept it, alleging that he wanted no
bond that might require suit TO be
prosecuted outside of our own State
courts. And so the matter has stood
until it would appear that the PROPOSE
tioa has died natural death. In the
mean time there certainly could he
found,parties in Texas, citizens of this
State, who could do the work rs ad-
vantageously as Il nonresident, and IL
also appears to us that the length of
time transporting since the proposition
was accepted, in which bond even has
not been given, was sufficient for the
commissioners to make contract with
other bidders if there be any in the
field.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-01-25
Do Ju>r"E, GENTLEnEN.

The STATEs1iAS Was first denounced
by Col. DeMor-c and Grange that he
engineered as the bought agcut Of Tom
Scott. Then, bccau-e We advocated
the adhesion 81 tho STATESMAN 10 the
terms Of the cou'rlc, made by Texas
with tho International Railway Com.
pany, the STATESMAN was again de
nounced with unm.,igated ferocity as
utterly corrupt. But the claims Of
the international were recognized, and
land was conceded instead Of three
millions in bonds, and there was as
much wroag in tIc ces=iOn Of land IS
in that OF money or bonds, and thus
again the sTATEsIAS's enemies found
themselves convicted Of injustice. Col.
DeMorsc and his little squad Of Ruta-
Daqas still insisted that the STATESMAN
was the hired tool Of Ton Scott.
TheR the STATESMAN sold out to one
. Huntington. Everybody was sure Of
Il. Body and soul we had been trans
ferred to the Californian. He pro-
posed TO build, and held resources en-
abling him to do 1t, road which
would have given California and Ore
gon the shortest possible line from San
Francisco TO the Gulf. We preferred
this to Tom Scott's st. Louis and Phil
adolphia scheme, and again each little
organ OF Scott sworc by all the gods,
internal and celestial, that the STATES
MAN was the bribed organ Of this man
Huntingdon. Meanwhile, Col. De
Morse and his sweet little COtcric OF
Rutabagas were in an internal fog, and
seeing that If we were sold to Grow
so was Coke, and seeing that we were
not pocketed by Scott, the DeMorst
party became u party OF rcmors'
and mors Prilid1 settled down upor
these absurd accu5ers Of The
STATESMAN. At length, when Hunt
inGton and Scott become allies ana
1t Is proposed |" ROB the o)uth 4"
one, while the North has TWO iac'h
roads and when ours, which Texas en-
dowed with such munlllccnce, IS TO b
diverted from the state, 81. Loul
r already having the Iron Mountain AM
Little Rock extension oil TINS Souther
Pacific and no" demanding that III
whole road shall be hers ana 'hat
shall leave Texas IN the Fan Handle
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-01-25

CASEY ANA Pinou6aca wia probably
be the Democratic, " so-called, Sena-
tors from Louisiana. The people are
ready to make any sacrifice 20 save the
State from the clutches OF Kellogg's
myrmidons, and very certainly they pre-
fer the absolu,ism of the bayonet to
the domination of ignorance and
kusvery, and therefore they will fight
rather than submit - the government
set up by the Wells returning board.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-01-25
Heme and Farm.

Everybody knows how readily dis
eases are transmitted from man 10 man
by contagion, infection, epidemics, or
other morbifc means, but We are not
prepared 10 believe that they can be
and are readily communicated 10 hu-
man beings from the lower order of
aRimals- The London Veterinary
Journal however, records the trans
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-01-25

P.oF. BENEDICT has been examining
the bra:as ard skulls OF criminals
At Nieuna and asks our sherlifs 10 sup
ply him with the heads (pickled) Of
those hanged IN Texas. We would be
gratiiied, as scientists OF course, 20 see
little cargo Of fifty or an hundred
capita OF the bloodle,t devils in Texas
shipped to the lvsrned gentleman, ami
such is the interest awakened by the
lecturer on phTenology lately figuring
IN Hampstead, that we do not doubt
that several 6rst class scoundr4is will
condemned to death by the crAri
lists Of Hampstead and other towns
" because popular taste and the
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-01-25

desire for knowledge demand it. The
Austrian professor finds that the brains
of murderers "deviate from the nor
NAL condition approaching that OF the
lower animals" The article before Us
tells that-thcEe are different grades o.
blOod-thIrstiness shown 10y the shape
and proportions of different parts Of
the brain and /, mus; follow that there
Is species of insanity giving origin
TO murder. The skull OF & noted vii
lain who had murdered twerty-eight
persons and who devoted his life I,
deyiIish deeds aud wore a coat OF
mai, that he might draw the fire or
stab Of his victim that he himself
might shoot or stab in supposed "self-
defense - this monsters head was
very fiat On top and Of excessive OBJ
l.quity in the anterior part of the skull
and there was an absence of symmetry
between the two halves of the brain.
But We would inquire of our good
Christian politician at Galveston il
these heads OF these villains have these
peculiar shapes and defects and abnor
nal Developments, are they not help.
less victims Of Unborn, inherent vice.
Of nature Are they no: non compotes
and can they be in any just sense
criminals The law does not punisf
insane persons for acts which they
helplessly commit, and if murderers
heads are the peculiar heads Of mur
derers and their mental and moral or
ganizltion be abnormal, their acts ar,
abnormal and to be condoned. Is no
capital punishment the intiiction of
grievous wrong, and should not i'm
prisonment for life be substituted
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-01-25

WHAT does the mOralisr OF the Gal
weston Idc0cate think of the PROPOSE
ton, made by 3 New York preacher,
Rev. Edward Cowley, to appropriate
the theater to the uses Of the church
and of moralists! \ theatrical editor
and preacher might win great fame
and do infinite good IN high moral
tragedy. There is 10 ield Of good and
usefulness which our excellent neigh
Dor does rot propose to enter, and
he should now reform the theatCr and
come hopping in tights and big Wigs
and powdered on the stage, that the
universally CT his genius may be illus
trated. lie proposes, while editing a
newspaper; maintained by the Metho-
dist church, TO assajl Cvil-doing and
evil everywhere. He would leave the
pulpit and preach to the courts and
legislature to have gambling bells and
dramshops destroyed. lie is not a
mere moralist, but an armed warrior.
lie does not propose, as we imagined,
to Contine himself to preaching the Cos
| pei through the press, instead of from
the pulpit, but becomes an assailant of
all popular wees and foibles and would
govern the State and shape its codes
as well as illustrate the doctrines of
Wesley and texts of Scripture. We
niscouccivod the purposes and ex-
tent Of his mission. He is not the less
Il citizen, when enacting the role of
preacher, and therefore goes abroad
everywhere assaihng sin and depressing
wrong and unfolding virtue. The
world, the flesh and the devil, and
then, too, the interests and achieve
ments of the church, are all subjects
for his defamation, and we have nc
right or desire to object, and have only
to suggest that the excellent organ OF
Methodism will probably have its hands
| full
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-01-25

THE foremost buIi-doZsc OF the day
is T. J. Abbott, who writes from
South Carolina to tie /,y" (Bas-on)
Messenger that down il South Carolina
the Democracy ''saturate the negroes,
their clothes and hair, with coal ii.
and set them OF fire TO make them vote
the Democratic ticket The story looks
probable till We begin to Inquire who
held the roasted darkey while he
voted, and how many men were re,
quired to keep the frlcaseeG Africans
at the polls, and how the white people
endured the native essence mixed with
fumes of coal oil we do rot exactly un.
derstand.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-01-25
TIE QUESTION SETTLED.

Governor Hubbard Saturday made
a requisltion on, and thus recognized,
Governor Nichols, of Louisiana, for a
fugitive from justice. This settles the
question in Louisiana, for everybody
knows that Hubbard is a 6igy.r man
than old Grant.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-01-25

MOsT of the moderate newspapers
and the leading stnteSmen of the
country approve tds scheme of adjust
ment before Congress. Whether the
difference be settled rightfully or
wrongfully, the great point gained is
the peace and reproduced prosperity
Of the country. More than this: the
President thus made becomes of ne
cessity the compromise President. He
must owe His office to the coGserva-
t,sm of the ccuGtry. Morton and But
Ter and Clayton ard desperadoes in
politics stand aloof or oppose the
scheme of adjustment, while the in
dependent newspapers, Democratic
aud Republican, are its active promo
tiers. The New York Times il ap-
parently and violently opposed, while
the World approves with the Express
and most Democratic organs. In fact,
those who hold power are more
anxious to retain than the eX-ofiice-
holder to regain access TO the mighty
volume of spoils flowing out from
Washington and overwhelming the
continent. the multitudes that bend
down and quafT and are drunken are
maddened by inappeasab!e thirst, while
they who have not tasted the intoxi-
eating beverage for twenty years, not
since Linco!n's first inauguration, are
still rational and deem the country's
peace more desirable than the country's
offices. We hope for the adoption Of
the bill to-day providing for the settle
mert OF the controversy when ii
comes before the two houses. If it
fan of accomplishing purposes for
which it Is designed, very certainly
no harm can come OF il, and the dis
cusson it Will excite will surely tend
to the amcliorat:on of passions aroused
by the results Of political suffrage in
the bu,i-dr7ed States Of the SouJn.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-01-25

THE Hearne 1yyus says that if the
decent and good people Of Austin will
assert themselves and cooperate they
can easily get control and make the
city worthy of the State whose capital