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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1877-06-16

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The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-03-01
THE NEWS FROu WASHINGTON
ANOTHER PRESIDENTIAL
ELECTION NEXT FALL.

We had been thixking and writing
of everything that could possibly con-
sole US for the defeat of Tilden and
election of Hayes. We had assented,
sadly enough, to this latter consumma-
ton, and anticipated, despite this un-
toward event, immediate and infinite
prosperity for the whole country. The
peaceful inauguration of a president
would have given new life to every in
dustry and invigorated popular conf
dence in the stability of American in
situations. But these perfect and most
desirable results must be postponed.
We are to have, it seems from our dis
patches, another presidential election
next fall. The canvass begins, ofcourse,
at once, and the wlldes', maddest con-
flict that ever ragged IN the United States
will ensue. 1t is estimated that the
las. election and its uncertainties and
possibilities aud dangers has already
cost the country four thousand mil
hons of money in popular idleness,
in locking up capital and in compul-
sorry bankruptcy. Many have said it
were wiser to accept Hayes than have
reproduction of these cslsmities, but
our leaders at Washington know most
of these facts, and we accept their
action as final. They see how they
have been duped aud wronged and
outraged by the grand commission,
which was neither better nor worse
than the Wells returning board, aud so
pslpably Indefenslble have been the
acts of this unworthy body that its de
crees arc properly repudiated, and to
the people is again given the power of
selecting for themselves chief magis-
trate. Tilden will be re-nominated,
and reelected by the greatest majority
ever given candidate for the presI-
derf.x-
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-03-01

THE ChristiaH-at- Work says that in
the United States there are not less than
1873, 900 places licensed to sell intoxi-
eating liquors, employing about AGO.
900 persons. Add to this number
those who are engaged in the manufac-
ture and wholesale traffic, and it will
reach the number of 575, 900 persons,
or one man to every ssyenty-five inhab-
itants. But the whole number of
clergymen and teachers in our land en-
gagged in the promotion of religion and
education is only rs, 900, or about one
fourth of the whole number. 1t is es
timated that the total cost of intoxicat
ing liquors used each year in our coun-
try is 500, O00,O to which must be-
added $40, 900, 600 for criminals, while
the entire clergy of the country does
not cost $50, 900, 900. 1t Is estimated
that every year iltemperance sends to
prison 100, 900 persons, reduces 200, 900
children to worse than orphanage, adds
600, 900 to the long list of drunkards,
and sends 60, 900 citizens to premature
graves. 1t is also estimated that
while fewer women drink than men,
yet larger proportion of those who
do drink become habitual drunkards.
In New York, within the last ter
years, out of 1873, 900 persons arrested
for drunkenness, &C, 900, about one
| half. were women.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-03-01
GIVE THE DEVIL HIS DUES.

1t is we'll enough to denounGe the
partisan conduct and decisions of the
great commission. But its appoint
ment may have been most fortunate for
the country even though most dlsas-
trous to plans of party leaders. 1t has
certainly assured the country's peace,
and this is gain of infinite value to
those who toll for bread or pay taxes
to acknowledgements corporations
or States. Whoever may be president,
the assurance Is given, and commonly
accepted as final, that Federal in
reference in Southern local govern
ments is ended, and that "mournful
fact" the carpet-bagger, will be no
more. Moreover, the two parties in
the country and in Congress are 50
nearly equal II numbers and strength
that each, dreading the triumph and
coming supremacy of the other, will
pursue a most conservative and beneti-
cent policy. Hayes must be reformer
or Radical vices that gave d emocrAcy its
present strength will soon give it abso-
lutte dominion in and out of Congress.
We are much inclined to believe that
the peaceful Inauguration of a presi-
dent, whether Hayes or Tilden, will be
the signal for the reproduction of q
degree of commercial and industrial
activity unknown for ten years past,
and however keen the interest of office
seekers and party leaders in the acqui-
sition of the country's offices, the pres
idential question should be settled be-
fore the fourth of March, and, when
settled peacefully, there will be an end
of complications breeding bankruptcy
and poverty among the rich and suf-
fering smong the poor, and driving
the people backward towards barbar-
ism. Let Us say what we may of
the miserable partissnship of the grand
commission, it should not be forgoitsn
that peace and prosperity, tven though
Hayes become president, is not impos-
! sibie. -
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-03-01

A recent number of London Punch
himself iIresolute on a log spanning the
gulf of Bankruptcy" and astride tie
log sat complacent Turk, with two
ugly revolvers pointed at the head OF
the imperial Urso. The finances of Rus
STA are now a subject of much interest
to the civilized world. From the
Crimean war until 1871 there was a
yearly deficit. An equilibrium was
reached in that year, and a small sur
plus has annually been reported since.
The debt Of the nation is now 81, 100,
600, 600, large part of which has been
borrowed to reduce the volume of paper
money which has troubled the Empire
for more than hundred years. The
interest account last year was SSl ZOO, :
900, and the tota, public outlay $500,
600, 900. or this the army and navy
received $153, 900, 900, and the church
81, 500, 900, while about $1,000, 00e
went to the Imperial household. The
minister of the interior took So, 900,
900; justice go, 500, 900, and finance
the remsinder Only Sl2 500, 900 were
devoted to popular education. In al
dition to the funded debt there is a
floating debt which, including the
gal tender notes, amounts to $500
000, 900. Since last July the metallic
reserve has shrunk from SlS5, 600, eco
10 SI35, 600, GOO, and, if Russia has to
enter prolonged coRfiic', she will do
so with total de 1t not much short of
81, 0Oo, 600, 600.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-03-01
THE TWO ASPECTS OF THE
QUESTION.

The New York Herald of the TWEEN
tieth, anticipating the possible adjourn
ment of the House from day to day,
and thus the defeat of Hayes and of
Tilden, declares 1t would be an act of
egregious bad faith and the suicide of
the Democratic party. Senator Sher-
man, anticipating the conduct Of the
Democratic House, went to the capital
of Ohio that his own seat in the Sen
ate may be vacated, and Hayes, elected
to fill it, may enter the Senate in Sher-
mans stead, be made President of the
Senate, and THIS become, after the
fourth of March, President of the Uni
ted States. Hayes, by this action of
Sherman and of the Senate, and serv-
ing as Grants successor, will organize
victory for himself and his party In
November. II the Democrats pursue
the policy indicated by our dispatches
Of yesterday, and denounced by the
Herald and the World, it seems that
little practical good is to be gained
since Hayes may become president at
once. Seeing, the Herald insists. that
the Democratic leaders made a bad
bargain and were cheated, they should
have the moral heroism to stand by the
contract. Such is the general argu-
ment, as we understand it, made by
moderate, conservative newspapers.
But the great body of thoroughly par
tisan organs and those that barely
exist are violent, and, like the
office-seekers, bitterly denuncia.
tory of the great returning board
at Washington. They insist that
/ the commercial and industrial ne,
cessilies of the country must
/ be sacrificed aud that the present
paralysis of trade must be protracte6
till we may have another presidential
contest; the next eight months must bt
! given over to defamation before idle
mobs of town and country, and ever!
interest must be sutordinated to thos,
of party leaders, and, that the Scuti
may escape calamities too long endured
at the hands of Badicalism enthroneC
at Washington, we must win the presl
dency or fight. There are two side
to the question: the one suggested b.
policy and the greed for power anC
office; the other, defined by the neces
sity for reform. We must either aban
don all idea of republican honesty ant
freedom, assent to the substitution o
the empire for the republic, or expe
Hayes and Radlcalism from office. T
extend the term of Radical powe
through another four years is to max
the empire fiEal and the republic is NJ
more.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-03-01
WE CAN'T TAKE STOCK IN 1T.

Next Monday Hayes or somebody
must be inaugurated president Of what
was once the limited States" Some
good people talk of fighting about it
but We have no country worth fighting
for. We once had laws and q constitu-
ton and many free republics there
were; but these were throttled long
ago and the Union is a myth and
fable Of a by-gone age, and the hand
of Schliemann can never discover its
jewels or its memories. It is buried
beyond the reach Of statecraft or of
patriotism. The people have forgotten
to reverence it and it is only de-
vice for the robbery Of the many and
aggrandizemcnt of the few. These
last can afford to go to war for It's
honors and emoluments; but the peo-
pie cannot. When the system be-
comes finally, as it must, with its
Packards and Wellses and Mortons,
utterly intolerable and anarchy at last
supervenes, then the people would
court violence and disorder and blood
shed and thorough revolution. The
time is not yet, and until this day
dawns we must have peace and order
even at the cost of right and freedom.
II party leaders must fight they should
have struck the blow when these
Southern States were smitten, when
ebo-shinned and gizzard-footed recon-
struction converted States into pitisble
provinces, and when sectional hate
grinned i'll ecstuCy because the white
race was degraded and subordina-
ted to the black, when States
became provinces and satraps
were set over them. 1t IS too late for
US to talk about the preservation of
the Union. We cannot save that which
does not exist, or fight for fable of
the past. The time for blows comes
not when party leaders struggle fol-
Offices and spoils, but when it is
proposed to inaugurate thorough rev.
olution and reproduce the system OF
republics created by our fathers.
Northern parties and leaders may fight
for offices and plumber; but we can
hardly afford it. If they had come tc
US when their liberties were really dc.
stroyed, and at the very moment that
ours were no more, we might now
stand by them when they grasp madly
at power and plumber.
But this contest is not ours, and does
not especially concern US. The issues
made are not the issues about which
we propose to fight. II they could SEE
Ames plundering and destroying Mis-
slssippi, and Kellogg, a vulgar adven
turer, ravaging Louisiana, ant
i Chamberlain and worse men, upheld
by Federal bayonets, reigniDg as law
r less despots in South Carolina, ant
/ the power called the Union sustain
ing these outrages, we can surely wit
ness the knayeries done at Washing
ton with a pardonable degree of cool
: ness. We cannot afford to go to wa
for bogus Union when there are IL
States. These died when Louisian'
/ and South Carolina and Mississippi
I were put to death. Make the proper
issues and the South may go to war
but not fnI men or offices or party
leaders. We cannot afford it.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-03-01
Editorial Notes.

Fifteen thousand and lightweight
prisoners were liberated the day Veto
ria became empress.
The Legislature of Rhode Island is
endeavoring to make education COM
pulsorY throughout the State.
Ia Russia collins covered with pink
cloth are used for children and young
unmarried persons, crimson for women,
brown for widows. Black is in no case
employed.
Inducements are offered by the land
department of Florida for so. 900
wealthy MeDnonites to emigrate to the
orange groves. Governor Hubbard
will correspond with the representa-
tives of these peculiar people.
In overhauling little weaknesses
Russia finds she has a depleted treas
ury, unsettled industries, superannu-
ated prime minister, and an incompe-
tent generalissimo. Spring will be
soon enough for war evidently.
The taxable property of New York
State, real and personal, is said to be
S2, 700, 900 600, or little more than
our national debt was few years ago.
Nearly half this, or 81, $40. 1926, 229, is
assessed in New York and BROOKLYN.
The editor of the st. Louis Times
states that he kept 'fa record OF the
Republican lies during the Campaign,
until the figures amounted to 48, 1872,
oh h. =
spair, with lots Of organs and orators
not heard from.p
Gen. Fitzhugs Lee, Gen. Joseph E.
Johnston and Gen. d. ii. Maury are
mentioned as possible presidents of 8
new Richmond club TO be called the
'Westmorelsnd." Its members will
be ex Confederate army and navy off.
GERS and professional men Of brains.
The freemasons of England support
three charities, one of which pays an.
nuities to the sged masons and widows,
while the other two are schools for
children of masons, one for bows and
one for girls. The sum contributed
last year for their support was over
$195, 900.
The following Senators were formerly
printers or editors, or both: Messrs.
Plumb of Oregon, Cameron Of Penn
sylvania, Anthony of Rhode Island,
Ingalls, Of Kansas, Sargent of Califor-
MIA, West of Louisiana, Hamlin Of
Name, Blaine Of Name. Dawes Of
Massachusetts,, Withcrs Of Virginia and
Patterson Of Pen South Carolina.
An advantage over ordinary tea, at
tributed to mate tea of Paraguay. IL
that its excessive use does not occasion
any nervous disorder. A beverage
superior TO coffee Is usually prepared
ia said 10 have been introduced into
Australia lately. Il il made from the
leaf of the coffee shrub, instead Of
from the berry.
At Paris masquerade ball a bier
was brought In by O procession OF peo-
pie, who, leaving the candies, walked
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-03-01

DRUNKEN fools and vul gar brutes in
Jefferson disgraced themselves, and
the people that suffer them to live
there, by insulting a stranger and one
born and reared a gentleman. His
crime, in the eyes of the fools, was that
be had done an act which Southern
codes of taste and morals condemn.
He should have slain Beecher rather
than pursue him in the courts. North
ern people are differently educated
and have the right, as Tilton has' to
differ from US, and we have no right to
insult him.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-03-01
TEXAS AND SOUTH AMERICAN
TRASH.

The opening of the mouth of the
Mississippi, which must now be ac-
complished either by Eads or Cowdon
by the j,tties or the New Orleans
and Barrataria ship canal-has caused
the concession by Congress of liberal
subventions to line of steamers from
st. Louis to Rio Janero. This will
have the effect of rebuilding cities des-
olated of recent years along the Mis-
sissippi by the policy of railway man
ayers. These have forced the whole
trade and the wealth of the country to-
wards the Northeast, and away from
the South and Southwest. Vicksburg
and Memphis have lost trade by the
very force that impels Fort Worth to
trade with St. Louis, rather than with
Galveston. Railroads want freight,
and after getting it care nought for
distance. The slightest difference in
favor of Eastern markets induces the
transfer of cotton and wheat to East
ern in preference to Southern and
Western markets, and therefore Texas
cities have suffered, and Houston has
gone to decay aud Galveston hardly
prospers. This enactment of Congress
creating this steamship company will
compel the concentration at New Or
leans of the whole commercial wealth
of the valley of the Mississippi. Cities
on the river will reassert their original
importance attained before Interstate
war, conducted by railways, inverted,
when the war ended, the country's
commercial map, and forced CONT
mental wealth into New York aud polit-
ical power into Washington. The
course of trade in Texas will be turned
into the same channels aud into the
same direction. Wheat that would
not bear the cost OF railway transit
to New York will be transferred
through Galveston to New Orleans OIL
directly to Rio by branch of tins
subsidized steamship company, and the
policy of towns of Northern Texas, as
these OF the South may be affected by
it. will be infinitely advantageous &c
the Safe Of Texas since it must enrich
the cities Of Texas. In very truth il
becomes evident that Federal policy
towards the South is suddenly and
thoroughly liberalized. While the St.
Louis aud Brez liam Steamship Com
pany is created and subsidized, a most
liberal appropriation for the Memphis
custom house has been made and the
member Of Congress from Hayes dis
trict declares in his place N the House
that "Hayes's Southern policy would
be entirely different from what hac
been heretofore pursued, and such a
would be entircly satisfactory to the
southern people" Whether these dec
larations were made to expedite th'
electoral count, or are to be followed
1p in executive acts, remains to b'
seen. Bus very certainly the aspect o
the counIrS's commercial and politics
fortunes is brighter as contemplated
by the South than sr any period sinc'
1860, and not the least benefcent o
facts which We designate with singular
satisfaction is the organization Of I
new route for Southern commerc'
through the Gulf to the West Indies
Brazil and Mexico.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-03-01

The New York TTEses says that. q
novel athletic entertainment will short
" be given by q well .knoIn amateur
of that city. Among other feats that
he proposes to perform are juggling
with dumb bells and ring-weights, none
of them TO weigh less than forty
pounds, and ranging as high ss one
hundred and eighty pounds, and lif,-
ing enormous weights. lie will raise
and hold iR-his haeds cannon weigh
ing 1000 pounds while il Is being loaded
and fired. He viii also lift horse, If
teen hands high, six inches from the
ground by main strength, standing over
the animal on platform. He will then
lift team of horses in the same man
ner, ard will next lift a platform con
tanning 3 dozen persons. While sus
pended in mid air by one hand he will
put up to arms length over bis head .
hundred. pound dumtsbcli with the
other.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-03-01

SINCE the Union is no more and the
politicians may speedily substitute
anarchy for the nondescript lawless
government that we have, it becomes
US to celebrate with proper enthusiasm
the second of March, the anniversary
of the independence of the Texan Re-
plbl C,
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-03-01

CAPT. w. s. j. ADAMS, James Boyd
and W. S. Holman have been spend
ing several weeks in Austin and Gal
weston to secure the extension of the
Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railroad
to their county, Comanche. The off,
GERS of the company have announced
that forty-fve miles of their road are
graded and forty.one miles ironed, and
they are now prepared to receive bids
to construct two hundred miles addi-
tional
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-03-01

THE Kaufman Star proposes to
swap forty lawyers for one industrl-
Gus Yankee farmer. Whisky shops
make costly courts and court houses
and jails and lawyers, consuming
everything and producing nothing, in
dispensable adjuncts of civilized life
and vices.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-03-01

Hon. GUY NJ. BRYAN persists in de-
claring that his quondan schoolfellow,
R. B. Hayes, would deal as generously as
could be asked with people and politi-
clans of the South. Our dispatches
incline US to think that Congress diff
fers from the Hon. Guy NJ.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-03-01

DIR. w. NJ. COMPTON, Superintend-
ent of the Lunatic Asylum at jack
son, Mississippi, has prepared and pub
lished invaluable papers discussing
modes of managing such institutions.
DR.. Compton would have been states
man if his tastes had not been directed
into channels remote from those in
which party leaders guide the little
barques freighted with their fortunes.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-03-01

IT is reported that cortina has been
arrested in MatAmoros. 1t signifies moth
ing. Hesta,ed when he went thither, in
proclamation issued 10 his followers.
that he was going at once to the Mex
lean capital, that he might knswer
there charges preferred against han.
Cortina's forces are disbsndcd, and
have gone to their homes.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-03-01

The FRIENDS OF the Texas and Pacific
Railroad measure in counting noses
claim 4 clear majority in the HOUSE,
but the counting Of the electoral vote
has prevented bringing forward the
bill under = suspension Of the rules,
and thus compelled pOstponement
until the next Congress.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-03-01
ONE BY ONE THEY PASS.

The citizens OF Bolton have held q
meeting, regarding railroad matters,
which has resulted in consultation
with capitalists at Galveston. The
conference was between committee
Of citizens from Bolton, Messrs. Boyd,
Holman, Long and Trice, and the Off
GERS OF the Galveston, Colorado and
Santa Fe Railroad. The object was
20 find what the latter would do
towards building their road to Bel
ton. Capt. Boyd stated that Boil
county had raised 10, 600 bales of cot
ton, which, at So 80 freight to Calves
ton, would amount to $50, 900, and
there would be shipped from Bolton
90, 600 bales, amounting to $50, 900,
and the items Of lumber and goods in
return freights would amount to as
much more; ami that they, as COM
mittee, desired to know what that COM
pany would and could do to build the
tOaa W AsClAou 0AANNAa Va w NN"HAAS@S~
on the International and complete il to
Bolton, and that il the people of Bell
county could comply with their terms
they would assist in SO doing. He
further explained that Bsiton would
control the trade of a portion Of Cory
ell, Burnett and Llano counties, aud
the trade OF Lampasas, San Saba,
rakown, Coleman, Concho Hamilton
AgcCullOch counties. He men
Toned the fact that Bolton had offered
the Houston and Texas Central
Railroad $50, 600 cash if they would
take possession ef the Hearne. Bolton
and Northwestern Ri'road and
build the road To Bel,oa. The
proposition was lett open thirty
days for consideration and tnally fell
through. The matter has gone before
the directors Of the railroad company,
- the committee will wait in Calves
Dnssiiions from them. We
- the people of
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-03-01

IT is very certain now, ana Texas
may we'll congratulate herself, that
Tom Scott's Texas and Pacific Railway
bill will not DE enacted during this
session of Congress. IL Pa
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-03-01

ANovEL feature of the ball of the
telegraphers of Chicago On the twelfth
was the music for the dance, which
was furnished in Milwaukee and trans
mitted by wire by means of the tele-
phone. The wires were also run into
several newspaper Offices. and the mu-
sic furnished amusement for numerous
citizens unable to hear it in the ball
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-03-01

MIssoURI's Legislature Is considering
a bill looking to the establishment
of the whipping post, and to prevent
the killing of birds that kill grasshop-
pcrs,