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The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-04-26

THE free-thinking Cincinnati Com
merciaJ says that Mr.. Secretary Sher-
man, of the Treasury Department, has
gone to work with a vigor and tenacity
that promise such reforms as will ben
eft the revenue to the extent of mil
lions. Every case of collusion and
conspiracy to rob the government is to
be unearthed, and the defrauders of
the revenue are to be prosecuted and
punished without regard to political or
personal standing or favor. The re
Gently published decision of the Secre
tary in the case of the sureties of some
of the convicted whisky thieves, who
sued to the department to be let off
from their bonds on the ground that
tie principals had been pardoned,
marks with emphasis the course that
will guide Mr.. Sherman in administer
ing his vast and responsible depart
ment. Wehear of other cases in which
officers and employees in the revenue
and coast service, who were using
their positions to extort money, or who
were caught lending government funds,
have been instantly dismissed, and
their successors appointed. All the
custom houses of the country, begin
ming with the great institution at New
York, are to be thoroughly overhauled
and investigated, the leaks stopped,
and the Proteges and favorites of Off
cials, who have been permitted to
smuggle in goods ddty free, compelled
to pay their taxes to the government.
These Investigations will be conduct
ed, not as in Grants first term, by q
partisan Congressional committee, or
ganized to bring in a whltewashing
report, but by confidential agents and
experts whose first duty it will be to
make investigation investigate. The
politicians holding Office are to be dis
tinctlv given to understand that their
tenure does not depend on the amount
of political business they do, but upon
the amount of revenue that Is faith
fully collected, and of frauds prevented
or detected.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-04-26
TIE good man who objected to

TIE good man who objected to an
investment of three-fourths of cen;
for each day in the year, that he and
his boys and girls and good wife may
keep pace with the worlds progress,
spent sixty-fve cents in whisky and
forty cents in cigars yesterday, and at
this average loss on each occasion he
visits Austin or the village near which
he lives twice each week. He says
that next week he will quit whisky,
take the paper and begin a new life,
and save during the year $125 in moL-
ey, have more intelligent wife and
children, live more happily, be richer
and live longer to enjoy his luck and
his newspaper. 1t was great reform
In a mans habits effected by our friend
who advised the farmer to test the vir-
tues of the reformed modes of life, and
each reader of the STATESMAN who
would serve God and country can do
both, as shown in this case, by serving
the STATESMAN. Each subscriber
should give us another.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-04-26

IT is but just to say that Hayes's
Democratic enemies of the South don't
object to the Presidents conduct to.
wards the South, nor to the success OF
his policy in this behalf; but they dc
abhor the fact that Hayes. while show
ering blessings upon the country, may
dissolve the party. We hardly think
it necessary to destroy the Democratic
party in order to save the South and
the whole country, but if the President
differ from us and accomplish botI
purposes, patriots will still rcj1ice,
while the heads of party leaders must
become fountains of tears.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-04-26

IT is said that fly has appeared in
Grimes county which is mortal enemy
to the grasshopper. This may be true.
''There is no disease without a CORE
spending remedy" they say, and the
hand that sends plague always re-
moves it. We may not see now how
to get rid of the insect which is de
stroying all our crops, but it will be
revealed to us by and by. Gentlemen
stated here yesterday that this un-
known enemy of the prasshopper was
destroying countless myriads of these
pests on the suburbs on the southern
side of the Colorado. At this point
the grasshoppers have been heaped up
in vain efforts to cross the stream.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-04-26

IT Is hardly possible, and wholly i'm
probable, at this juncture, that any
Southern Democrat, though Louisiana
and South Carolina be redeemed, will
vote for Garfield for the speakership.
This election is a party matter pure and
simple, and while Southern Democrats,
whose intellects are not dulIed by par
tisanship, will support the Presidents
policy against Northern and Southern
Radicalism, whether of the Democratic
or Republican species, it cannot be ex-
pected, in matter purely Of partisan
ship, that Democrats will support Mr..
Garfield. The nominee of the Demo
cratic caucus will be the next Spesker
of the House, and if Tilden and his
ela9ueurs, who defeated S. 5. Cox at
the last election, will stand slOof, Mr..
Cox will properly have the place.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-04-26

THE New York Herald thinks that
the President should say frankly:
''There is no use for the Republican
party. Its work is done. 1t was q
war party and will only march to the
sound of the drum. There is no use
for the Democratic party. 1t is some
thing between conspiracy and rail-
road speculation. 1t rests on no solid
basis. 1t is fancy stock, like the Erie
or the Bonanza mines. 1t should go
into bankruptcy. Buchanan and
Tweed and JEFF Davis have frittered its
resources away. Even Tilden, the
shrewdest railroad lawyer in the coun-
try and familiar with the handling Of
broken corporations, could not realize
on its assets. What we want now is
peace. Let US have an era of good
feeling. Let US have peace and civil
service reform peace and justice to the
South; peace and specie payment !;
peace and revision of the tariffs peace
and the revival of industry snd credit !;
peace and reform of the powers of the
presidency, the Senate and the States.
Let all who believe that the war is
over; that there should no longer be
patronage IN the management of the
nations business; that the debt should
be paid dollar for dollar-let all who
believe in these precepts and are will
ing 10 unite with the President in en-
forcing them rally around the admins
trstion."
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-04-26

CHEYENNE, April 9.--'T never saw
such town; it's all saloonsp Such
was the verdict of the small boy as he
brought up at the hotel after his first
voyage of discovery in Cheyenne. II
was Sunday, however, and the other
places were shut up.
To sGy that the Black Hills pilgrims
swarm in Cheyenne is to express it
feebly. Gold abounds. The streeta
were full Of them at 10 A. NJ, and at
noon more Of them sprsng up apparent
ly out OF the ground, like grasshop-
pers. Two hours later the west-bound
emIgrant train came in, and nearly
hundred more Of them disemparked
and distributed themselves wherever
there was room for them. The saloons
were nearly all full by this time, ana
the variety theaters were not open,
consequently there seemed TO be no
place Tor them anywhere. Cheyenne
by lamplIght is quite different scene
from the same city under the broad
glare Of day. As the lights flare out
the crowds seem 10 swell and I'LL the
public resorts as by magic. This place
that looked SO quiet during the day Is
John Chsse's celebrated saloon and
gambling house. Half dozen tables
are all going and all crowded with
plAyers, especially the one presided
over by lady, a French woman,
bright, yiyaciOus, cOqnetish; q shapely
head rising from fair, rOuhd shoulders;
every motion as quick and light and
graceful as a dainty bird. and yet
marked by q certain feline swiitness rs
she reaches her white hands across the
board TO ''rake down" some unlucky
victims pile when it has fallen forfeit
TO her skill, for she is said TO be the
most successful dealer Of yingt un in
the country. But the smile which
haunts her fair face continually is q
study for a physiognomist. What does
it meant One might almost swear it
means everything nothing. There
It is before you always, a. constant as
truth itself IN its continuance, yet per-
haps no two men Of the thousands it
has lured 10 that table have read IL
alike, and not one Of them rightly.
But il is good card, though, and she
plays il As deftly as she does the rest
Of the deck.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-04-26
HAYRS'S PARTY.

The President must know that the
rabid Democrats and rabid Radicals
will each use him to slay its
antipode. Each batch of party
leaders, intent upon Office and
power, will adhere to him while he is
useful TO them in effecting h ir self b
purposes. When he j. driven to tie
Democrats for support by BISine, But
Ter and Morton, these Democrats will
use in order to destroy the President
and abandon him to his fate whenever
they can no longer make him a step
ping stone to power for themselves and
for one of their own class. If Blaine
and Butler and Morton, because Of
events in Louisiana and South Caro-
lima, revolt and set up new party
with the bloody shirt as its banner and
hatred of the South Its shibboleth, the
Presidents power must consist in
Democratic support, but these Demo-
Gratis, or a greater number of them,
will only serve in order to betray, and
President Hayes may be left as impo-
tent by those for whom he sacrifices
himself, as was Andrew Johnson. He
has no recourse save in the creation of
a new party, and we are inclined to
believe that this process will be inau
gurated with the beginning of the de-
oates in Congress in June. Blaine and
Butler will lead the way and Conkling,
Bayard, Edmunds, Lamar, Adams,
Young and House and the m0deralos,
in and out of Congress, of the North
and of the South, will coalesce that
extremiss may be destroyed and
accursed sectional issues eliminated
finally from the politics of the country.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-04-26

Ex-Governor Tom Fletcher, Of
Missouri, seems to differ from writer
whose production, not long ago, graced
the pages of that eminentlY good pa
per, the Southern Tenn. Baptist. This
''BaptiSt' fellow declared that Texas
was only admirable to get away from,
while his excellency says:
There Is something so grand in con-
templatlng the resources and adapta-
bilities of Texas, and the future which
they are to bring her, that any citizen
of the republic must be filled with
pride and joy whenever he properly es-
Inmates them. You have low, pre-
sumo, two million people. There is
room enough for the whole forty mil
lion of our population to be protitably
employed in Texas. 1t is destined to
tecome the empire State. There are
wonderful opportunities there waiting
the coming of people and capital.
Never mind, they will come. l shall
be glad to greet you on your "natlve
heather" Look out for me whenever
you hear OF an excursion coming.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-04-26

THE Chicago Times says that uni
versal suffrage will eventually ruin any
city IN the world that becomes a great
city. For as city becomes populous
the ratio of non property owners to
property owners increases until the
former become the more numerous
body. It is body which, as rule,
does not realize any interest in frugal
and economic administration, and
which, as a rule, will choose persons
of its own class to administer upon the
estates of others, upon the communist
principle of dividing the property of
those who save among those who only
devour. 1t is among this class that
demagogues and covetous knaves who
aspire to office will always seek for
votes and find them too. And all ex-
perience proves that the public func-
tionary appointed by ballot-boxing
will, as rule, do what those who
elected him desire to have done, and
will not do anything to offend them.
For two and half years the STATES
MAN has been asserting and illustrat-
ing these facts and principles and ne
cessities of municipal governments.
To these Federal constitutional restric-
tions and limitations do not applyand
legislatures can have themselves chosen
by universal suffrage if they like,
but local elections should be de-
termined by those alone inter
ested in these local institutions,
which exist only to collect and eXpend
taxes, while the State and its courts
protect life and liberty and property
Will not every newspaper assert the
wisdom of the TimeS's philosophy, and
when the knife of reform is again
applied to ulcers on the body polite OF
Texas, let this most terrible and ruin
Gus and deadly of all be eXcIsed from
diseased. wretched municipal systems.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-04-26
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[LtH.r from n Postmdsfer.l
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[L.H.r f,om n Postndsfsr.l
AhT.ocH ILr-, December ], iS74.
MeEsrs. J. B. ROse Co:
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This i.a sample Of may thousand testimo ii.
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Celtaur Lin mcnt. The ingredients OF this a. IL
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ID au indisputable fact that the CcntanT Llni-
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Ointments and pasters now In use.
For TuOthHchc EaraChe, Weak Back, Itch and
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1roin bites and sting, and heals frost-bites and
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20 DO without the CentAur Liniment, white wrap
T'he Centaur LIniment, Yellow
Wrapper, II adapted to the tough skin, mus
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upon severe 'ases Of Spawn, Swceny, Wind
Gail, Big Head and Poll Evil, arc little less than
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Messrs. J. Mcclure q Co., Druggists, corner
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''In our neigh bOrhOod number Of Teamsters
are a. ing the CeBtaur Liuiment. They pronounce
it superior 10 anything they have ever used. We
sell as high "a four TO nVe dozen bottles per
month TO these tcamstcrs."
We have thousands OF similar Testimonials.
For " Ounds, Gals, Scratches. Ringbone, etc,
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Farmers. iyerymen and StOckraisers have In
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Laboratory of. b. ROSE & co.
46 Dey st. New York.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-04-26

THE moderate men of the press and
the free thinkers of the press and the
greatest editors of the United State:
are gathering in solid phalanx about
the administration. Bowles, of the
Springfield Republican, Horace White,
MIR. Curtis, of Harper's Weekly, Waiter
son, of the Courier Journal, and Mural
Halstead, of the Cincinnati Commercial
are each and ali approving the policy
and declaring their purpose In terms
more or less earnest to support the ad
ministration of President Hayes.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-04-26

ONE printing house in St. Louis has
drawn from the State of Texas not less
than one million dollars within the past
three or four years. In Grayson coun-
ty nearly all the blanks used by the
county officers are ordered, the Register
says, through drummers for st. Louis
stationery houses, instead of giving the
work to local printers who can do it
just as well, and need the patronage to
help sustain local newspapers. 1t is
just as the Neao Era says, our legisla-
tors (and public ofiicers) seem to have
regarded the printing interest of the
State as one dangerous to the public
good, and, instead of encouraging it,
deem it their holy duty to throw
around it every possible restriction.
This is not the lohOle story. Newspa-
per people bid eagerly against one an
other till rates are made so low that
the contractor fails and the work goes
abroad. Then, too, printers jobs are
so widely advertised by printers that
the politicians managing the business
win great notoriety for economy and
for awful integrity and pluck before
the gaping mob if the printer be thor
oughly robbed and reduced TO poverty.
The Legislature that makes most noise
in getting low bids from bankrupt
printers is deemed the most upright
and economical Legislature, and while
everybody else piucks the treasury dd
iafnitum, the poor devil of a printer
himself is ever reduced to penury and
the State loses millions by it in money
sent abroad and in population exiled.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-04-26

The Chicago Inter Ocean thinks ii
is pretty hard on Packard to be unable
to fight, for lack of arms, and that the
North should supply the necessary
weapons for Packard to maintain him
self by arming his militia. How would
it be if the editor of the Inter Ocean
would come himself with an invoice OF
arms, say one musketl If he could
do them any good, Packard and his
friends would welcome him with
bloody hands to hospitable grave.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-04-26
Pitchers
CaStOria.

Mothers may have rest and their babies may
have health II they win Castoria for Wind
Collie. Worms FeyerIshnesp, Sore Mouth, Group
or Stomach Complaints. IL is entir,l ly n vegeta-
bio preparation, and contains neither mineral
morphine nor alcohol lt IL as pleasant to take
aS honey, aud neithor gags nor gripes
DIR Il Dimoch. Uf DdpOnt, Ohio, says:
81 am using Castoria 10 my practice with the
most signal benefits and happy results"
This Is what everyone says. Most nurses In
by Me,srs j. b RosE ~ Co, 40 Dey Street, New
Yorr, successor 20 Samuel Pitcher, NJ. ID.
dSw ly2taw tiljc!2
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-04-26

THE Tri- Weekly Herald devotes q
supplement of six columns, solid read
ing matter, to advertisements of land
sold for taxes. When the exceeding
"high sheriff. of that county, the ad-
mirable Col. Russell, was down here
last week with his saddle-bags full of
taxes for the treasury, nobody would
have believed it, but the Herald always
knows what it is about, and Harrison
county Is in bad fix.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-04-26

SINCE everybody wishes to see the
Black Hills and Pixies Peak, the Rocky
Mountains and endless plains about
Denver, over which countless herds Of
buffaloes and antclopes wander, we
print letter from Cheyenne, ninety
miles north Of Denver. An excursion
from Austin to the Black Hills and
Denver will be organized, we are told,
to leave here in May or June, at low
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-04-26
THE Civilian states that the associa

THE CiUilian states that the associa-
ton of liquor dealers recently organ
lied in Galveston have the sum OF
two hundred thousand dollars pledged
by its members to defend their inter
ests against what they term a misinter-
probation of the State laws, or the laws
themselves, SO far as applying to their
business. With such fund as this
an abundance of litigation will ensue.
Votes, in prohibition elections every
where In Texas, are not valued at a
general average OF five dollars each.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-04-26

How long before we can extinguish
the bonded debt of S., 900, 600, and
come down like Tennessee to ten, in
stead of fifty mills on the dollar Stale
tax! Is not Tennessee perfectly blest
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-04-26

TAFT, too, the unique Attorney Gen.
eral discovered by Grant in the slums
of Cincinnati pork packeries and poll
itics, he. too, denounces President
Hayes for his conciliatory conduct to-
wards the South, and Taft seems to be
''awful mad" about it. even like party
leaders down South.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-04-26
THx srst number of the nDaily

THE Erst number of the "Daily Ttle-
gram,n published in Houston, has
reached our table. 1t is the embodi-
ment of neatness filed to overhowing
with news, editorial and miscellaneous
matter, and richly merits hearty sup,
port Of the people OF Houston and
others throughout the State.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-04-26

PRETTY wreaths of flowers are frozen
by the ice factories in the midst of
blocks sold to their beautiful custom
ers, whose smiles melt human hearts as
the rising sun dissolves the stony sell
fishness of the ice-king.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-04-26
CONSTIPATION

Should not bo regarded as a triiling
ailmCnt-iu fact nature demands the
utmost regularity of tn, bowels, and
any deviation from this demand paves
the way often 20 serious danger. IL
l. quite as necessary tn remove i'm
pure accumulatiuns from the bowels
Ms IL j. TO cat or sleep, and no heal h
en- be expected where costiye
habit OF body prevails.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-04-26

BowES, one Of the most notorious OF
the South Carolina carpet-baggers,
whose political acts have helped to
disgrace the State, is fierce in his de
nunciation of President Hayes.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-04-26

TIE Cicilidn says that at the late
elections in Dallas and Austin, the
former polled 1900 votes and the latter
1859. Nevertheless, Dallas boasts OF
having the largest population.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-04-26
-TuE STATE OF TEXAS

To I'll persons interested IN the administration
ceased.
Il T. Fulm Nro, administrator OF the estate OF
Jonathan DAVIS. deceased, has uled HE fnal &C
caunt ia the County Court OF Travis county,
which will be acted on az the next term OF said
court, commencing on the THIRD MONDAY
IN NAY next. Rt the court house thereof. In
the city OF austin. st which time all persons in
terostcd IN said estate may appear and contest
said account. u they sec proper 10 do 30, by or
Ger of tn, court.
Witness. Flank Brown, clerk OF the County
Court of Travis coanty.
Given under my hsud and the seal OF said
court. al Office. Msrch -. A. ID. 1871.
H. =. FRANK BROWN,
arc Sc Clerk c. c. OF T. C.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-04-26
PILES.

How many suffcr torture day after day, max
ing life burden and robbiug existence Of all
any one who VIII nse systematically the remedy
that has permanently cured thousands. No
drastic violent purge, but gentle assistant OF
n
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-04-26
BAD BREATH,

Nothing ia 81 unpleasant, nothing 80 common
as had breath, and IN nearly every case IL mes
from the stomach, and can be so easily corrected
II y'n will take Simmons's Liver Regulator. Do
not neglect so sure a rnmcdy for this repulSive
disorder. IL will also improve your appetite,
complexion and general health.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-04-26
SICK HEADACHE.

TAls distressing affection occurs most fire.
aueniIy The disturbance OF the omach aris-
ing from the imperfcctlY digested contents,
e uses n severe pain ia tho hoaa, accompanied
with di.sgregahle nausea, and this CO ,sttutes
what Is popularly known Ms Sick Headache.
j. H. ZRILLN 6 CO.,
sole proPrietors Simmons's Liver Regulator,
PhLadel .,hia.
As Remedy In
MALARIOUS FEvERS, BOWEL COM
PLANTS. DYs sPRPSIA, MENTAL DEPRES-
Sion. RESTLESsNES>, JAUNDlCE. NAu-
SEA SICK HEADACHE, COLIC, CONSGIlA-
TON AND BlLioUSNkSS
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-04-26

By resolution ofthe city council of
Mobile, all cotton factories erected
within the corporate limits will be re-
Iieved from city taxation for ten years.