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The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1878-04-02

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THE LIVERPOOL AND L0ND0NAND GLOBE
INSURANCE COMPANY
n .s REMOVED IT'S OFFICE TO THE BUILE-
INC No, lllSISoUTH SIDE OF MAIN STREET.
recently purchased for this company, where tne
GENERAL AGENTS will be pleased TO see tnelr
'i R1ifII I,l .MERUHANDIsE,A AND OTHER
ts.,e.S1-75s x PROPERTY 49, =
injured At MODERATE RATES.
LOSSES PROMPTLY PAID. -WlTHOUI DE-
QUOTING SIXTY DAYS INTEREST: ,o,, o>,--eys
S SHAREHOTD ERS PERSONALLY REsfoSsi-
BILE. ASSETS. $2S, 5000, 900. 81.
Fer additional information appiy,
IL DAVENPORT u co General Agents,
lnh2 2-eod4w sa4s, fliil LIS Masn slrees...:
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-08-22
THE STREET nRAwLERs.

The man who works eight or ten
hours each day and cannot live has
the right to saunter about the streets
declaring that there ought to be three
thousand instead of eight hundred
millions of money. He who has taken
up a homestead, which, under the
bene6cent laws of Texas, costs nothing
and cannot be taken away for debt, and
cannot make bread on it for his wife
and children, has the right to howl
for "fiAt" money, which, costing
nothing, will buy less. The negro
who can make from $125 to So day
picking cotton, and does it, and then
cannot live, has the right to JOIN the
"fiat" money people and demand
money fer nothing and forty acres and
a mule, as originally promised by the
founders of loyal leagues. Blatant loaf
ers, who propose to get a living without
work and ride the unlettered negro into
office that they may steal and rob, can
hardly expect any large share of SYM
pathy among decent people. The real
working men of the country and town
have no such expectations and indulge
no such hopes as are defined in these
fiat" money platforms and speeches.
In Eastern cities there exists an un-
natural state of society. There the
government has interposed and invest
ed its favorities with enormous riches.
From these the people should wrest the
contrel of the treasury and govern
ment. Millionsires have used both
long enough and thorough reforms,
such Is the President has sough. in
vain to institute, should be enforced.
II these brawlers about 'sfiatr money
and the universal diffusion of valueless
paper sccept these as their purposes
the working people Of Texas, IN town
and country, will gladly cooperate
with them Meanwhile, it is
not to be forgotten that this
plethora of paper money proposed
to be created by Northern nadmen is
not sought for By farming populations.
Texas Is devoted to agriculture. The
people are not rich and they are not
poor. Here. capacity to labor consti-
tutes perfect Independence. Women
may, but no man willing and able 70
work can want and he who would
make moBsy without toll isa rObber.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-08-22

We never could understand why a
poor man, unless overwhelmed with
debt, would have a grievously inflated
currency. If ones home be mortgaged,
and he seeks easy escape from the
clutches of creditors, he might pray
for vigorous imitation. But we cannot
see why laborinZ man, who would
get ''value received" for his toll,
would augment the volume when
utterly failing, as he must, to
augment the value of dollars. Why
such a man, out of debt, would have
the currency he must accept for his
labor divorced from real value, we
cannot comprehend. The debtor class
might well differ from the working
class, which owes nothing, but it
seems that in the East the two Co
operate. We can see why capitalists,
consulting their own interests, may ap-
prove currency which increases the
power of capital. Capital controls the
money IN circulation. A redundant
currency enlArges the power which
capital wlelds over labor. The work.
ing man can get no more money, good
or bad, or gold or inflated paper, than
hls toll will buy, and it is true, in
purchasing money as dry goods,
that he is the wisest purchaser
who buys the best goods. But
all the worlds experience shows
that an irredeemabIe (iat) currency is
ruinous alike to capital and labor, and
its worst and first disastrous effects al
ways fall most heavily upon the poor.
The Democracy would not reduce any
class to ruin, but enable the debtor
class to pay their debts with currency
Of the same value as that used when
they contracted their debts. and there
fore the volume of currency might weA
be enlarged till prices Of 1884 are re
produced.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-08-22

That he proposes to rob taxpayers,
through the intervention of govern
ment, does not lessen his moral turpi-
tude, and he should be executed.
Idle, noisy little demagogues. blowing
about paper money and proposing to
make everybody rich while inveighing
against the corruptuess of ''the two
old parties" when but one hss con-
trolled the government for sixteen
years, should be sent to the mad house
or the work house. At least they are
idiots who listen to this "blatherin "
about ''tiat" money until the fiat of
Omnipotence that 1--WE must live by
labor" is confessed In the practices OF
our daily lives.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-08-22

THE watchful care exercised, by
Paris, its delegations of good men and
Its newspapers, over the present and
future fortunes of Senator Maxey
is most fascinating to the contempla-
tive beholder. How nicely and beau
tifully did the sweet little coterie that
come down from Paris guard and ca
ress Governor Hubbard, and eagerly
did Paris strke down Governor
Throckmorton. Throckmorton is in
Maxey's district, and it was proper for
every close friend of Msxey to oppose
Throckmorton. II made Governor,
thought they, he might aspire to the
Senatorship. due only, as held, to the
subIimitY of luck, rather than Of
genius. And now forsoUth, when the
strong intellectual figure of John Han
cock is thrust above the horizon and
clouds that envelope and over
shadow the political world of Pans,
Paris trembles lest Maxey be finally
thrust out. The North Team therefore
blesses the gaunt ghnstly figure of
Wash Jones, and prOstrates itself in
humble alteration in Wash's sweet
presence. Paris knows that Jones,
even if lifted by folly into Congress.
would be in nobody's way and Aaxey's
career unobstructed. Therefore Wash
Is admired aud beloved, even as Han
cock is detested and dreaded. To
measure the greatness of Texans, wktch
and reverse the assertions Of Paris
newspaper and of the Paris poll
ficians
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-08-22

WE don't exactly see how the colored
people can stand it. 1t will be remem-
bered that they were transferred body
and soul, head, neck and heels, to the
Greenbackers by Messrs. Davis and
DeGress. Governor Davis said he did
not approve the Greenbackers' pur-
poses, but preferred them to the Democ-
racy, while our good mayor plunged
unhesitatlngly into the new organize
tion. Ben Butler said, In his speech
announcing his adhesion to the Green
hackers and to Kearney, that
Capitalists now hold the Republican
party bound hand and foot. Hayes
violated every pledge and betrayed the
negroes of the South. The effort of
President Grants administration to
strengthen the public credit was a
swindle.
Was Grants administration swim
dle9 In what has Hsyes's conduct been
fraudulent2 Is the Republican party
fettered by capitslists9 Here we have
each great benefactor of the negro
damned by the chief exponent of the
Greenbackers and then, too, every
Southern white man who afiliates
with these Greenbackers sssents to the
mastery of Ben Butler, who will be
the party's candidate for the presiden-
cy, even as he is to day its greatest in
tellectual moral exponent.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-08-22
Foreign correspondence,
LONDON, July 90, 1873.

LONDON, July 30, 1873.
Editors Democratic Statesman:
Your honored and enterprising
townsman William Brueggerhoff, and
Col. Ashbel Smith, of Harris county,
haYe just returned to this city after
several months sojourn in Paris. Both
are looking in best OF health and ex-
press themselves pleased with what
they saw and experienced at the French
capital. They have engaged passage
on the steamship City of Berlin to sail
on the first proximo, and will probably
arrive at Houston about the fifteenth
of August. A number Of Americans
are in London, most of whom are re-
turning from the exposition en- route for
home. Business here has been almost
stagnant for the past twelve months,
but is now beginning to revive, owing
to the pacific condition of political
affairs.
Gladstone and Bright are despised by
the msjority. Bepconsfield Dizzy
and Salisbury are ''the lions Of the
day." Marquis Of Lorne is TO be the
new Governor General of Canada. It
is opined that the Marchioness
of Lorne princess LouIse), will lend a
new attraction TO Canadian territory,
and stimulate the flow of emigration
to that country. Royalty has its at
fractions, you know.
Most American visitors to London
come over ia the spring and summer
convinced they will fad this great
city enveloped IN fog, hslf the time,
during their stay, and seem surprised
on finding as bright, sunny skies and
as lovely weather as ever experienced
at homes It is true that IN this sec
ton during the months of October,
November and December, the climate
is unpleasant, as fogs, drizzling rains
and periodical showers OF s'eet and
hail prevail the greater part OF the
time, but that period between the
opening of spring and commencement
of the autumn is unsurpassed for
genial and exhilarating weather.
Capt. George Simpton, g Texas
veteran, we'll known to many Of
your readers for his deeds of
daring while officiating as naval
and revenue officer Of the Republic Of
Texas, and many years pilot Of Calves
ton and other ports on the Texas coast,
is residing with sister and niece, Mrs.
and Miss King, at Acton, lively VIII
lage near the western suburbs Of Lon
don. Capt. Simpton was one Of the
heroes who saved the lives Of 80 Ger
mans from 3 wrecked brig on the
south end OF Galveston Island in the
year 1s4l. He was the owner Of the
schooner Santana, which did much VAL
liable service for the Republic Of Texas
ss naval and revenue weasel. Old
Texans we'll remember the heroic
deeds and noble services Of the gallant
Captain, and viii rejoice 70 learn that
their old friend. is still alive, and in
excellent health. BARKER.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-08-22

THE purpose of the Radicals IN affil-
iatlng with the Greenbackers is to en-
courage weak Democrats, wanting Of
fees, to withdraw from the Demo-
cratic party, not that the Greeaback-
ers may succeed, but that the Democ-
racy may be beaten. The ultimate
purpose is to use the ambition and
selfshness of men so that the control
of the House may be transferred to the
Radicals. The House next chosen will
probably choose the next President, and
Radical leaders, where they cannot
themselves carry q district, are shrewd-
ly giving power to the Greenbackers
that the Democratic party may be
made impotent and Grant restored to
Office.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-08-22

Seated on form, in front Of which
was small wooden banister, unfetter-
ed, free to rise and lean against the
barrier, or to repose on the seat as he
pleased, generally pleasing, it may be
remarked, to lounge in such way as
to indicate the supremest contempt for.
all that was passing around him, was
Hoedel, the prisoner. As my eye fell
upon him, and then upon the three or
four sturdy policemen who sat near
him, could but note how fragile
waif of misery this would-be assassin
was. do not know whether he had
a more stalwart look the day he was
creeping along the Linden, revolver In
hand, thinking to shoot the Emperor.
Hard living and two months residence
in Prussian Jail may have had some
thing to do with reducing his flesh.
Perhaps, too, had his unbuttoned,
crumpled shirt been clean, his hat
which he now and again put on while
witnesses to his identity were being
examined-a little less battered, his
coat and pantaloons mended and
brushed, his long yellow hair cut and
combed, and his excessively dirty
hands and face washed, he might have
presented more satisfactory appear
ance. But as he stood or sat, now
rubbing the end of his nose with the
palm of his hand, now scratching his
head, and now grinning, there was
nothing very formidable or notable
about him. My first thought was<tna
the treaG.nIilE- and 7soord birch
ing would have been the most
suitable punishment for 30 forlorn
wretch as he. Yet, that he was
not only intelligent, but also clever,
we were not long in seeing. The
cheap German schools, and the almost
free Berlin University, had given him
the very kind Of knowledge that had
led to his ruin. He had 0ot oniNl
learned to ''speak evil of dignitaries,
but State education had enabled him
to do so in q forcibly, even clever,
manner. Even he did not deny
though he did almost all else-that he
had made many an Grafton to assem-
bled Social Democrats in the holes and
corners of Berlin, 70 the effect that
neither Kaiser nor King, neither God
nor devil, was needed in the social
economy of real Berliners, that all that
was wanted was general bouLevTse-
ment, in which the rich would be
swamped, and the poor allowed TO take
care of themselves. When an old
soldier, who, it appears had over
heard one of Hoedel's eloquent periods,
at some time or other, reported the
nonsense which the prisoner had
talked, Hoedel stood up with much
fattefed air, as though he would Give
everybody an opportunity Of seeing
what manner of man IL was who could
give expression TO such admirable
opinions. Correspondence Of tic
LOa1on Tbl60r01hi
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-08-22
nALLINeER AND HANCOCK.

We have asserted Of Judge Hancock
much the same opinions as those enter
tanned by Judge Nllinger. The learned
and upright jurist sees facts affecting
the fortunes of Galveston more clearly
than ourselves. His vision turned in
that direction discovers degree of
value to she people inherent in Han
cocks peculiar capacity to serve the
which few have ascu-
rately measured and none have exag-
gerated. The commercial emporium Of
Texas, our only seaport, wish degree
Of unanimity never before known in
such contest in Texas, asks inte-
nor counties, having less direct
and immediate interest by far than
GALVESTON in the result Of the cleo
tion, TO send Hancock to Washington.
As the mouthpiecs Of the city Judge
Ballsnger was wisely chosen. His in
tellect is a. clssras bis character stain
lsss. Intslligent honest men every
whore n Texas hslen with profound
rsspses % the uttesaness Of such nan
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-08-22

From present appearances Los An
geles will soon be the greatest silver
producing county in CalIfoFnia. The
great silver ledge on the south slope
Of the Santa Anna Mountains appears
to be . bonanza of great extent and
richness. The immense deposit Of sill
yer ore is about forty-five miles south
east Of Los Angeles and fifteen miles
from the Southern Pacific railroad at
Santa Anna and twenty miles from
Newport landing. The ledge IL six
feet thick, Of solid ore. remarkably
uniform and asssying from 500 70
5000 per ton. II has been prospected
for more than 1000 feet in extent. On
the Dunlap mine nine men are 1t work
and q pack tram OF burros cArries the
ore IN sacks down the side Of the
mountain q mile and q half 70 the
wagons. About twenty burros carry Eve
tons OF ore per day from the dump 20
ther developed chute will doubtless
be constructed 70 carry the mineral 70
the teams. On Thursday ana Friday
last two men raised from this mine on
TO the dump twenty-five tons Of ore
that was probably worth 5000. Col.
Jackson is row making . mineral sur
vey of the mine under instructions
from the surVeyoT-geneFsl. The pc
culiAr situation Of the mine - most re-
markable. II IL placed only three and
. half miles from bed Of coal pecn-
liariy adapted to working thls kind Of
ore. Il is night along side Of one of
the finest agricultural regions In the
world. The rock IL favorable for
blasting and single blast sometimes
detaches five tons Of ore.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-08-22


The Temple Of Ephesus was dedi-
Gated TO the goddess Diana, and rebuilt
seventeen times. In the year 356 B.
c., the day Alexander the Great was
bora, II was burned by an incendiary
named HerostrAtus. In rebuilding il
go years were occupied. Il was 425
feet long and 235 feet broad, supported
BY 1877 columns, 60 feet high, furnished
by princes, and curiously sculptured,
each weighing $50 tons Of Parian mar
bic. Internally, il was decorated with
gold, paintings and statues By the
great masters-6cobas, Appeies, Prax-
iteIes, PaEnssius, and the female,
Timarete- The priests were emascu-
lated and ths sacred virgins were Of
the highest birth. II was finally de-
stroyed By the Goths in $50. The
Turks, in 1900, finished the overthrow
Of all ifs edifces, and Il is now desert
ed for Aiasoleck, TIVE miles distant.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-08-22

II every newspaper, even of Texas,
which used, without crediting it, the
STATEsxAS's synoptical statement of
congressional votes on the money
question, compiled TO show that Dem
ocrAts are conservative and progress
i've Greenbsckers, the STATESMAN
would be the best advertised newsps-
per in the South. The latest copyist
is the sherman Register. But the
Register took il at second hand, and
seeing that il was stolen, because
found in receptacle for stolen goods,
It properly gives no credit.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-08-22

THE average Greenbacker is exceed
ingly well pleased with the STATES
MANS proposition which we innocent
ly supposed to be a. reductiO ad a5sur-
dam of the Greenbackers' "fiat" money
theory. The STATESMAN asked why
not abolish the custom houses and in
ternal revenue bureau at once, and in
stead of collecting money from the
people to pay the cost of government,
let the treasury issue enough fat money
each year to run the machine. 1t need
only be stamped, "this is money!" and
it would go-of couse it would-to
the d..
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-08-22
was aueea meroe.Ie. peI.en,a, !,

The Pans correspondent OF the San
Francisco Ckronicls writes: Poor little
Queen Mercedes of Spaint Oyer her
grave are offered many lamentations
for the doubly dead, IN that she died
so young; lamentations not so much
because she was a princess agh :
doubtless with many thkt fact
lend much charm-as because tk ecysl
Spanish marriage had been genuine
love match, and because in those five
short months she had won golden opin-
ions from all sorts of people. It Is
stsrtling, however, to. SEQ Il openly
stated in print that suspicious OF foul
play are rife, and that even the name
Of the person who; administered the
drug has been mentioned. There were.
il Is true. other reasons why ahe should
have been out of health; but latkerIq
the symptoms had clearly been thosa
OF arsenical poisoning. The poor y aug
girl, who passed her eighteenth birth
day on her SICK bed, had, it Is said,
terror of the near approach OF death,
and earnestly implored the physicians
around her to save her life. The last
struggle was long and violent. Hap
PLY, her mother, who for some timt
past had been exceedingly comfortable
about Mercedes, and was not too vel
aware of the inimical influence sur
rounding Alfonso's wife, yet was her
self debsrred from residence in Span,
was with the little queen ere the end.
1t is thought the Duke Of Montpensier
opposed the embalming of his daugh-
ter's body, because, should . post-mor-
TEN examination of the remains at any
time be determined on, the Gannal
process, whose chief ingredient is ar
senic, would render impossible the de-
lection of other poison. Not long be-
fore this fatal illness disgracefuI
squabble over the royal jewels, valued
at eight million francs, had broken out
between the young king and his moth
er. Alfonso, who really wanted them
for Mercedes, claimed the gems aa
crown property; but Isabella, like the
obstinate woman she is, held stoutly
on to them, utterly declining to give
them up unless he would buy them at
their full value. What trouble the royal
baubles of Spain seem lately to have.
created among the actual possessors Of,
or the numerous pretenders 10, that
most unsteady seat, the Spanish thronet
On her sons refusal to become o pure
chaser of what he consided by right
his own property, Isabella next tried
to get nd of the jewels by public auc-
ton; whereupon Alfonso retaliated by
taking legal proceedings to prevent
their sale. This undignifed feud was
at its height when death came to call
the little queen away"
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-08-22

The St Louis Rspubliean sscribes
the exemption of that city, of recent
years, from plaques to Its perfect sys-
tenn of sewerage. The Rsps5lioan says
''this is the secret OF the disappear
ance of cholera as an epidemic. and Of
the decreasing fatality of cholera in
fantum. 1t win account also for the
perfect security against the dreadful
yellow fever plague. which IS univer-
sally felt. St Louis il too clean 20
breed these epidemies which feed On
elih.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-08-22

Capt. John Bowdon, the original
hydro-dynamic philosopher of the Mis-
sissippi river, says he had Yellow
Jack and there being no doctors at
hand he improvised, when the burn
ing fever was on him, vapor bath,
enveloping himself in blankets and
sitting over tub of hot water for half
an hour. His head was bursting till
perspiration flowed, and in half an
hour, having taken half glass of cas-
tor oil, he was sound and well, but
debilitated. he treated and cured
other cases in the same wsy.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-08-22

Rev. REUBEN WHITE, colored, ex-
State Senator of Clayton's and Dorsey's
time, has done foul wrong to one of
the youthful, innocent members of his
flock. The girl died, and White may
be transformed by the hangqAns rope
into a roaring devil.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-08-22

COBB, Screws, Box and the rest of
the Alabama candidates for State Oh
fees have peculiar names it seems, but
they are said to be able and excellent
men for all that. Cobb, the candidate
for the Governors Office, in Alabama,
is of the same county and boon COM
panlon in early youth of Judge Rob-
erts, our candidate for the same office
IN this State.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-08-22

THE Connecticut Greenbackers met
at New Haven on the fourteenth. They
nominated ticket and promulgated 8
platform advancing all sorts of ridicu-
lous theories and calling for the usual
wild impossibilities.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-08-22

oNE-HALF of the seventy-five or one
hundred persons present at the grand
Greenback ratification meeting at Tur-
ner Hall were inquisitive Democrats.
Among them Judge A. w. Terrell,
who, after Davis, Neill aud DeGress
had finished their very tame speeches,
was called for. He did not speak, nf
course. 1t was not his time to speak,
nor was it his place to do 50. Judge
Terrell is the unanimous choice of the
Democracy of this district for the
State Senate, and the enemies of De-
mocracy will be very apt to hear from
him little too often for their own po-
lltical we'll being.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-08-22

MOSES HULL, the very prince of all
spiritualists, told the people of Boston
that Ben Butler will be the next Gov
ernor of Massachusetts,. Moses noses.
He scents danger from afar. Little
angels, too, bring him messages from
the other world, and Ben Butler is a
special pet over there.