davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-12-05
THE MESSAGE.

Congress assembled Monday, aud
THE morning we give our readers a
telegraphic synopsis of the Presidents
message. The President, while very
Inild in tone, ascribes the changed po-
litical results IN South Carolina and in
Louisiana to overriding the lately en-
franchiSsd black voters of the South.
Certainly he has not yet been
informed OF results in the
fifth congressional district in Texas,
where Hancock, an intense Union man,
has been defeated for Congress by
Wash Jones, Confederate, and whose
election is due to $4,000 black votes,
driven by Ex-Governor Davis, chief of
Radicalism in Texas, supported by the
iercest OF the Confederate last-ditch-
ers. When he knows all this he may
regret that to please his party, he
made an empty assertion. The truth
is, the negroes of South Carolina and
of Louisiana have learned to have con-
fdence in the old slave-owners. They
know, too, that Radicalism has sent
among them the grandest set of thieves
that ever infested any country, and
hence they are ready to follow an hon
est Hampton. And now we may ex-
pect, as even intimated by the Presi-
dent, that Congress may be called
upon to abridge the political rights of
the negro. When lost to the Repub-
lican party it will become his greatest
enemy.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-12-05
Editorial Notes.


Sleeps stomachs are now utilized
by beng tanned aud converted into
leather bags.
Harry Bissett, one oil the most ns-
ted horses ever ON the American turf,
died lately at Princeton, N. j.
The camas plant, which seems to bo
a native Of Idaho Territory, is SAID 10
be very fine food for hogs. An effort
10 being made tn introduce its culture
into California.
The match of Hannah de Rothschild
and Lord RosebeTry is reported not 10
have proved a happy one, aud rumor
has it that a separation is in oontem-
plation.
Rice was introduced into Europe by
the Spanish Saracens. The same ia
true of cotton and sugar. Though a
native of Asia, the introduction of rice
into America is comparatively recent.
A farmer in Monticello, MINI, put
his pipe in coat and the coat in
buggy, aud w hen he had returned the
hard money il had contained was All
right, except that it WAS so hot that u
burned his fingers, but n SEQ green
back had been redeemed in smoke.
During 1878 the Trotting Association
has dropped" 100 new trotters into
the 30 class and foriy-eieht into that
of the 2:2j. larger additions are said
TO have been made OF new aspirauts
for turf honors than in any previous
year.
Hayden, Vermont murderer, has
just been sentenced to be hanged IN
January, 1881. A law recently passed
in Vermont prohibits the execution OF
murderers uuul.two years after Their
conviction. The law has already saved
the life of one convicted assassin, aud
will probably keep all others from the
gallows.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-12-05
Texas Politics.

Jones's official minority in San Saba
county is $40.
Judge Norton will not contest the
election with Judge Roberts.
In the second district the official vote
gives CuIberson II, 245 and O'Ne4l 712.
In 1876 Still Russell, Republican, got
S196 votes in that district.
The cause of the throwing out Of the
vote of three precincts Of Falls county,
by which the Greenback majority was
changed to s Democratic victory, was
the failure of the officers OF election to
send in their returns As required by
law.
The State Of Delaware requires the
prepayment Of tho poIi-tex ere the
honest citizen can cast his BALLOT on
election day. Such plan, II adopted
n Texas, would result Adgahtsgeous-
" to the State treasury au& AZ sthe
same time be equitable and Z L. go
-
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-12-05
To Subscribers

b postal card, other means being
too expensive, subscribers to the
STATESMAN will be rendered accounts,
showing amounts due, or soon to be-
come due, on subscription. 1t is a
sims Of the year when all may settle
punts, and subscribers are request
in receipt of statements, to remit
at once. By the first of January it is
proposed to have all outstanding mat
tiers closed, and prompt reply will
save further trouble in collecting bills.
Our friends, regarding this IS bust
ness, will not fail to respond.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-12-05
dozers,' if such creatures exist as de-
scribed in the Presidents message,
should be extirpated by the South.
TlXATIoN AM N0IIxG-

The 3 icon bGllOi-bax Is commented
IN strong terms by many newspapers.
Boon has been q benefackor Of man
kind from Noah's time. Bacon was
the Profoundest Of philosophers, and
many good people believe that Bacon
was the real author of '.Shekspt are. -
Very certainly he is the inventor of a
device, cheap and simple, which rem
ders many commonplace election frauds
impossible. The mechanism of the
box IS very simple. IL numbers every
ballot with detective combination,
preventing stufng" and instantly
showing spurious ballots. It has
been tested by skillful experts, who
have sought to eYade Its operation,
but in every point it seems to be
guarded, except in that which
most needs wstchfulness aud security.
1t cannot distinguish ccuntenances.
The same man may vote early and
often. We have seen wagons freight
ed with voters who went from one to
another polling place and voted again
and again. When whisky stood up
against decency and good morals,
brandishing the KNIFE and pistol, it
also thrust polluted ballots into count
less boxes. Negroes voted again and
again from tie rising to the setting
sun. White men are distInguIshable
from one another, but judges of cleo
tons are impotent to detect black
'repeaters, and in many towns and
counties of Texas, since there Is no re-
straint and no Bacon ballot-boy
or other means of restricting the
number of ballots thrust into
the boxes, elections are worse than
farcIcsl, and decent, honest people
will not vote. Bacon's ballot-box
prevents many frauds, but until voters
of each civil district are numbered, and
none are suffered to vote except at
their own polling place, and until
none vote who have not paid at least a
poll tax, there can be little value at
tached by the citizen to the privilege
of suffrage. 1t would shock ones SEN
sibilities when deposi!lng his ballot in
the box, and, turning away, to behold
an ourang-outang neutralizing the ef-
fects and proper results of wise and
honest voting. We have 10 voting apes
in this country, but then we may have
and the sheriff should be empowered
to guard absolutely and protect relig-
lously the purity of the ballot-box.
This invention of Mr.. Bacon is a per-
feet safeguard against many irregulari-
ties and frauds, but until none vote
who cannot show a tax receipt the
foulest outrages and most vlllalnous
frauds will be perpetrated. Mr.. Bacon
will surely be paid we'll for his anti-fat
ballot-box in Bastrop and Wharton
counties; but the evil to be remedied
cannot be obviated until each voter is
restricted not only to his own ward or
precinct, but until he must present,
when he deposits his ballot, a receipt
IN full for taxes.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-12-05
PEOPLE having an extraordinary

PEOPLE having an extraordinary
stock of plety were little inclined to
approve the re-erectiop OF the WHIP
pirg pos. in the Southern States. But
we have retrograded in morals AID dc
cency and advanced IN vice. The
state OF society IS worse than fifty
years ago; crimes are committed and
deeds OF violence occur, such as were
not known prior to 1850. Death and
murder and the digging of
million graves, and Destruction of nine
thousand millions of property in the
South were by 70 means the chiefest
results OF the war. The people have
been made reckless and vicious as
never before, and laws, st least for tie
next ten years, must be adapted to
this state of society and morals. We
cannot maintain armies of knaves In
penitentIaries and especially wien We
know that this punishment, when sp-
PAlId ~ a CAAcS Vi 4ts NlNiZ-n-, Is
by no means remedial. The Baltimore
Gd@etts says:
Saturday was whipping lay in
New Castle, Del, and nine c9nvicts,
six of them black, received at the
hands of the sheriff from ten to twenty
lashes, large crowd, as usual, assem-
bled TO look on, and the day was made
a sort of a local holiday. There seems
to have been feeling of disappoint-
ment among those present, for a CORE
spondent says: Sheriff Pyle Ind on
the lashes too lightly, but it Is said in
his behalf that he is a new hand at
the business, and may rival his prede-
cessors eventually, who could make
the thong draw blood at every stroke.
There has been much denunciation of
the whipping-post, and inhumanity
and barbarity has been cried against it
by its opposcrs, but the fact remains
that Delaware, where it is used, is
freer from crime than most any State
in the Union; spends very little money
on jails and criminal prosecutions and
is one of the few States entirely out of
debt"
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-12-05
Note. on afghaul.,ap.
VANITY FAlr. Novaahes Il

AMY r4r, November 10
The greatest length of Afgeanistan
is $50 miles, the least SO, while its
creates. breadth is go miles, and its
leAst $40; 50 that it is rather larger
than the W hole ot the United Kingdom
put Together. !, is mountainous all
through, with series of elevated fls,-
hottomed valleys. II has no large riv-
ers, and those il contains are generally
iordahle ut all seasons. The climate
varies; at GAuzaI it Is extremely Sc
we're IN winter, the thermometer sihk-
ing 10 ten OF fifteen degrees below
zero, while il always begins 10 IRE, re
IN octoher. At Cahul In the middle
OF October the thermometer is always
below zero at night while from June
to September the climate is very hot,
At CandahAr It is also hot in summer.
but in winter tae climate is perfect, as
10 also that Of Quetia. An the so-called
roads are shockmgly bad, and there
are no bridges. The population "a
about 1000 GOO, entirely Mshometans,
almost exclusively Of the Sunni creed.
The regular army consists, for Cabul,
or 81 600 men Candahar. Is, 600; He
rat, ~ coo. Total, 81 600 men, Of
whom $4,000 are irregular horsemep.
The following table of distances be-
tween points likely to appear in the
story of the war may be useful:
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-12-05

THE negroes of the District OF Co.
lumbia are making preparations, says
the Star, to give public expression
with reference to the recent political
outrage to which the colored voters of
the South have been subjected. The
negroes snd their white coadjutors in
Southern Texas, says tie BRENNAN
Banner, having elected no less than
five of their colored brethren to the
State Legislature, and also a member
of Congress, should send protest to
their brethren in the District of Coluu-
bia, and have any mention of Texas
omitted in the resolutions.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-12-05
LIQUOR LEGISLATION.

Harper's Weekly says that the New
York Court of Appeals has declared
the civil damage act to be constitu-
tloral. Th:s act holds both the soller
of liquor and the owner of the prem
ises upon which liquor Is sold respon-
sible for any violation of law in conse-
quence OF drunkenness caused by the
liquor. 1t is, of course, a law passed
in the interest CT temperance. 1t rec
ognizes the right of society to regulate
the sale of intoxicating lquors, as
license law recognises it, and its direct
operation is to prevent leases for Gq-
uor shops except to those who will not
abuse the privilege of sale. A news.
paper which opposes the law asserts
that it violates the principles of justice
and equity. The ground of such
comment is, of course, that man
drinks at his own risk, and If he
breaks the peace the law already pro-
vides for his punishment. 1t is equal
ly true that man smokes a pipe near
powder-magsZine at his own rlsk,
but society has rights as well as the
individual, and society, to protect it.
self, regards gunpowder as an excep-
tionally dangerous property, and regu'
lates its manufacture and storage as it
does not those of other properties.
In the same way it argues that
liquor is an agent sure to be abused,
and proved by experience to be the
cause of enormous taxation by the
crime which it produces, and which
necessitstes police and prisons. 1t as
serts, therefore, the right to regulate
its dangerous use as beverage, and
one OF the Obvious ways to do this is to
put check uoon its careless sale by
holding the person who lets a shop for
that purpose responsible for the dam
age that may arise from making a man
drunk. 1t is case in which society
seeks to protect itself by preventing
disorder, and the argument against it
is an argument against any regulation
of the liquor traffic.
Liquor legislation is matter of ex-
pedlency, and springs from the right
of society to protect itself by methods
which involve no disregard of sound
and conservative fundamental princi-
piles. Individual liberty of action must
be defended up to the point where ex-
perience proves that the common iber-
ty requires an individual restriction.
That warning of experience can be as
certsined only by common consent or
by the voice of legal majority. 1t is
maxim of the law that q man intends
the natural and obvious consequences
Of his acts. When he sells or fur
nishes the mesns Of selling to another
man something that he knows will de-
stroy the moral and conscious response
bility Of the buyer, why should he not be
responsible for the RESULT Il the buyer
ough, to be held responsible for drink
ing what he knows will steal his wits,
certainly he ought not to escape who
makes a LIVING bv it. The PARTICULAR
case which was appealed was that of
son who drove his fathers horse on
Sunday to ''hotel" in Orange county,
and there made himself drunk. and
drove the horse to death. Tue father
sued both landlord aad tenant to &c
cover the value OF the horse. The jury
gave him verdict, and upon the sp-
peal OF the landlord and tenant the
Court Of Appeals affirmed the judg-
ment.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-12-05

The feeling dominant in the North
and to which the President lends the
approval of his fame and greatness, is
illustrated in this excerpt from the New
York Tribune. We cannot compre-
bend these things. The focus in which
terrible stories of alleged Southern out
RACES is concentrated is in the North
and not IN the South. We see and
hear nothing of these devilish deeds,
and yet the North hears of them and
sees them everywhere. The relations
between the races here is as kindly as
among Americans and Germans or
Irishmen. But the New York Tribune
says:
The South may rest assured that
these objects of the war have not been
and will not be abandoned. As long
as the South Is solid, by dlsloyal and
dishonorable methods, in behalf of a
dishonest and disloyal party, the North
will be found solid also. But it may
as well be added that the defiance of
the Constitution and the disregard of
its guarantees will surely be stopped,
and that at no distant day.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-12-05

While "Uncle Toms Cabin was
performing IN Chicago recently, at Mr.
Vicker's Tbeaier, gentlemaI,,-sghose
counteDance was Of a very serions casl.
stepped up 10 the bok-oiIice. holding
a fiye-dollar bill IN bis hand.
: "Will Uncle. Gems Cabin be play
ed tonight" Iie asked with tie a.
most solicitude.
'Ye', sir-yes. sir-bow many seats 4
sirs" calculated the blard divinity II
the box.
with the full force Of the compa-
ny, including the Jubilee Singers
''Yes. sir; yes, sir"
and Is this the last Dighlgr
''Yes, sir; positively the last night. .
"Well-a-thaBk heaven for tlsat.
exclaimed the man. as be pocketed bis
money, and without smile stTode rap
idly away.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-12-05

THE New York Mail says that the
words immortal SOUL" deathless
soul" undying SOUL" deathless
spirit" disembodied soul, B." disem-
bodied spirit" eternal torment, -"
eternal suffering In conscious misery"
eternal misery" 'unending misery, "
" unending torment" everlasting
woe, y" endless VICE." b" never-dying
soul, and all their Kindred words are
words that never, in single instance,
are found in the Bible. Bat from the
copious manner in which these words
are passed to us from the pulpit and
through the press, we should, without
reading, suppose the Bible full of
theml The word ''immortal' occurs
but once in the whole Bible.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-12-05

Russian soldiers are sorted, as far IS
practicable, according to their size and
complexion. The late Emperor Nico-
las was especially exact IN this. He
had Hussar regiment entirely COM
posed of dark-haired men pitted with
the smallpox, and aRoiher of light
haired men similarly SCARED. TIE
soldiers of one regiment all had fair
hair, blue eyes AMI slight figures. and
of smother swarthy features and hooked
noses. Assortments are less exact at
present, but care Is taken to bring men
together speaking different dialects in
order 10 guard against mutiny.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-12-05

THE naturalization of a Chinaman
in New York City excites much iudig-
nation amoog Californian congress
men. Mr.. Luttrell will present bill
in the House prohibiting, in specific
terms, the naturalization of Mongo-
hans. But then We would like to
know what about the African. Ten
thousand Chinese voters are intolerable
and not to be thought of in California
when we get along marvelously with a
million balloi-box suffers.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-12-05

labor at different times; also the sig
na'ufes oi the members. l. G. Searcy,
president; Fraok uamilton, treasurer; ;
Il, L. Egsleston, secretary G.B. en-
peiman, David n Robinson. ]. A.
Wsyland, y. G. Shelley. d w. Jones,
Wllham B;uegCcThoG, J. II. Houpi-
toD, J. T. Breckenridge and 4. Nein.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-12-05

THE World says that the law points
out to the President the path in which
he is to tread, but Republican wire
pullers may be assured that neither
from this nor from the next Congress
will they get power to interfere in a
State election either in Massachusetts
Or in the South. II there be a condi-
ton of civilization or of partisanship
which instigates or tolerates election
acts at the South which are not insti-
gated or tolerated at the North, then
let the South be condemned according
IL. But Gen. Butler ought to be ex-
Gmined as to whether there Is any
more immortality in elections there
than in Massachusetts aud New York.
Only in the latter States the police are
summoned TO suppress or prevent vio-
lence and ballot-box stuffing, and that
the difference.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-12-05
Square
PRECE OF WEEKLY REDUCED

In view of the hard times and the
extraordinary interest attaching to the
approaching State canvass, the price Of
the WEEKLY STATESMAN will hereafter
be only 81 year; S1.25 fo- SIX months.
Now Is the time TO subscribe.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-12-05

THE Bastrop Advertiser, with great
earnestness, insists that the Legislature
make the payment of poll and other
taxes a condition precedent to the ex-
eTclse of the ''privilege" OF suffrage.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-12-05

Earl Gray. whose political judgment
IS regarded with high respect, depre-
cate IN the London TINES war with
Atghanistan. He urges the right of
every independent nation to refuse to
receive an envoy, and points out that
il was recognized in 1857 with Eng
lands assent. he does not deny that
E,glAnd's prestige viii Dc damslnd At
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-12-05


Senator Lamar, Of Mississippi, ssJi
President Hayes will fad nothing o. 1
curing in the South 10 justify 40
abandonment OF bis s iuthern. police
or departure FROM II. Mr. Lamar SIS
the election in M'ssissippi MAS
peacesbIc rs sny election in Tie wofil
could be, aud there was 10 organic
tiOn Of the Democratic party in 4
STATE. lie s1ys the South Is moseN
u in favor OF self ,5reseryatioD ii
divided as TO National politics. 10
gard 10 tie Drxs presidency. Sir.
mar ssys no msn IN the stun i faoi
honeTe'i aaa beloved in tie s,na 3 -
Ssnator Biysrd, Of Deia~are,
would b. quite ~ enthnsiasfica
ported by the Southern people
bricks or Thurman, II Bominsll
the Democratic convention.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-12-05

ST. LOU1s Rspsslioaa. "Thc pacif-
cation of the South viii never be COM
plete according TO Republican ideas
until It's people support the Republican
ticket. To be Democrat il to be \
traitor, and there is no dol
South is fsll Of ,Kssscr.n
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-12-05

Rsoul P.elef, ibe discovery
liqaelsclIon Of oxygen, i d
nevs. Switzerland. 81 softe
brain.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-12-05

The formation OF siege IA
present engaging the atientiel
French government, and one
received orders for nearly ore >
guns Of the heaviest caiibre. til
70 be eighteen feet 10 length,
Armstrong filiing, and viii throw
jeetiles Of eight hundred y
weight.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1878-04-11
ISC I LA n { 0 U.s..
NOTES ON PRESERVING WOOD.

An increased demand for one OF the resi-
dual coal tar products Of gas manufacture is
likely 10 arise. at no distant day. for the
purpose OF preserving wood from rot. and
from the action Of the various marine worms
that SO rapidly destroy woodwork in salt
water. By permission of the Directors of
the American Society OF Civil Engineers, a
paper OF great interest in this connection
was read by Mr.. E. f. Andrews. of Boston,:
specimens Of wood were exhibited which
has been treated - years. and in constant
use in railroad ties which showed no signs
Of decay. The process. as described, con-
sists in extracting the sap from green wood.
placed in v~acruo," and then filling the
pores thus emptied of their sap with creo-
sote oil under 4 pressure of from 60 10 100
pounds.
Results obtained abroad hare established
the practicability of the process. and its per-
feet success in preserving timber.
\ writer in the Journal a Forestry gives
the following on preserving fence posts ]:
What would recommend with fence posts
is: The materials. when felled. to be di-
rectly sawn into posts and stored under
sheds thoroughly ventilated. where they
will remain az least 4 year exposed to sun
and wind. The neck. or part between wind
and water, OF each post should be slowly
charred over a strong fire-slowly. because
our principle means heating the timber
thoroughly TO the heart, so as to extract any
moisture which may still be lodged at the
center, and hardening a crust on the surface
OF the posts. Atterward, to prevents the
posts absorbing water. they should be well
coated with coal tar. having its acid des-
troyed with fresh quicklime. The tar
should be thoroughly boiled, to evaporate
al watery matter. and applied boiling hot.
4 large tank holding the pests set ON end.
and filed with the scalding tar from a boiler
answers the purpose very well. OF course
the upper half of the posts can be painted
when placed in place | am fully con
yinced that coal tar, properly applied to
thoroughly seasoned timber, is far more eff
fectual in preserving posts than creosoting,
poisoning. kyanizing. Or all the parapher-
MALTA of iron prongs. sheetiron wrappers
ian American iayentionl. etc. One great
recommendation in favor OF the above pro-
cess is that it requires no skilled labor. and
the cost is u mere ~trifie."