The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-04-05
Editorial Notes.

cotton amounting to l, 100, 900 bales,
the largest stock known in that mar
ket since 1860. 1t is this heavy weight
of cotton that keeps prices from ad-
vancing to meet the American mar
kets, and keeps back also any favor
able influence from our light receipts.
Cotton has gone forward more rapid
ly this year than for many years past,
and this is why Liverpool!s getting her
maximum so early"
The young King of Spain has been
making a tour of his kingdom. Tri-
umphal arches of orange and lemon
branches loaded with fruit, and of
palms and flowery shrubs, have greeted
him; streets upon his route have been
brilliant with flowers; his carriage has
also been covered with them; allegori-
cal professions have been formed, and
ladies have freed white pigeons adorned
with bright ribbons at his approach.
The papers hope that in return the
King and his cabinet will find some
way of relieving Spanish manufactures,
commerce and agriculture from their
fearful state of depression.
"Gath" writes that President Hayes
snubbed Newman, Grants confessor
If that consisted in not attending his
| church. 1t is a mile and o half from
| the White House to Newman's, and
only two blocks to the respectable
Foundry church, which is the oldest
Methodist society in Westinghouse
large new editice, and a modest but
capable preacher. Hayes is not much
more of churchman than Grant.
They both desire to do the respectable
on Sunday, and go with their wives.
The religious principle in men is gen.
orally of their wives, mothers or dead
children. 1t makes a decided differ
ence in Washington religion as to where
the President attends church. Hayes
has picked out church. He can walk
to church that will be grateful to him
for his support, and rid himself of
world of brassiness and importantly.
l have found two mistakes current in
this life-that preachers and judges
are floating on clouds. The Beecher
! scandal and the electoral commission
were great enlighteners.
The Pope now leans rather heavily
upOA LILO sum, anu HAS lOSI ~ d RTedI
extent the nobly erect carriage which
distinguished him but few years ago.
His voice, too, is weaker, and his ar
ticulation less distinct. But his eye is
yet wonderfully bright and keen, and
his mobile features change with every
variation of thought. His memory,
too, is as tenacious as ever. An Eng
lishman, who called upon him recent
| ly, says that the venerable man re-
membered on what subjects he had
talked to his visitor five years before,
and glided from Italian into French
and from French into Italian, Just as
he did then, and his whole face bright
ened when his lips framed, as of old,
the ready mot, in which he has never
in his sorest trials been known to fail.
The acuteness of his questions as to
affairs in the East proved how strong
is the interest he still takes in ques-
lions of the day, and his jokes about
the Conference, and especially about
the Sultan, showed that beneath the
jocular surface there lurked a sub.
stratum of shrewd observation.
There was another scapdalous scene
at st. James's Church, Hatcham, on
Sunday, February 25. The morning
service was conducted by the new VI
car, Rev. B. Dale, and Mr.. Claughton,
layman. MIR. Tooth's ritualistic sup
porters attended in large force and re-
NAMED till the close of the litany,
when they left the church in body,
headed by the church wardens. At
the west door they were met by mem
bers of the Protestant League. A dis
turbance followed, those who wished
to leave making violent efforts to do so,
while they were as stoutly resisted by
their opponents, One of the church
wardens got out, but the other, Mr..
Plimpton, was forcibly detained with
in the building. A loud knocking
was heard at the door. This was Mr..
Groom demanding readmission sin or
der to see that the rubric of the church
was respected, and to insist upon his
rights as legally appointed church war
deu." He was Immediately seized and
rolled down the steps by the members
of the Protestant League. Order was
restored, and the service proceeded.
There was a smaller attendance at the
afternoon service, hat at its close there
was an open fight In the thoroughfare
leading to the church between a men,
Der of the Protestant League and one
of Mr.. Tooth's friends, who was
knocked down and otherwise NAL
treated, so that the police had to inter
| fere. Madame Roland's exclamation
can be adapted to this occasion: "Ohl
Christianity, what scandals are CON-
mitted in thy namel"
A notion was for some time in vogue
that the race had degenerated here. 1t
was a mere notion, having its origin in
prejudlced perversion of isolated
facts; in the desire OF book writing
travellers to find something strange, and
also derogatorY, with which to space
their pages; and in a craving, which
amounts to a mild insanity among
European people, and particularly
among all classes of the British nation,
to lay hold of some distinctive 'tAmer-
lean" quality, whether physiological,
literary, political, or other, and label,
and file it away, and pigeon,hole 1t
for reference by war of dlffeTencing
| Americans from themselves. ne
notion, venture to say, was essen
tally absurd. That race of men
should materially change It's physical
traits in the course of two centuries,
under whatever conditions of climate
or other external influence, is incon-
sistent with all that We know upon
that subject. The very pyramids pro-
test against it by their pictured records.
According to the history of mankind,
as it is thus far known to Us, such
change could not take place within q
period, unless to external influences of
great modifying power there were add
ed such an intermingling Of races as
has not yet taken place here more than
in England itself, although plainly it
is to come in future generations. Up
TO thirty years ago the inter-marriage
Of Ysnkees-by which name, for lack
of another, designate people of Eng
lish blood born in this country-with
Irish and Germans was so rare as,
practically, in regard to this question,
not TO exist, and at that period there
WA not in England itself . more purely
English people than that Of New Eng
land.