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The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-03-21

WHEN we said that little meeting
in Mr.. Schleicher's district had "de-
monetized" him, we did not mean to
say that the excellent and learned gen.
tleman would not be '1egal tender''
in the next congressional race. This
depends upon his future speeches and
votes. If he continue to thwart the
purposes and defy the wishes of his
constituents and serve the bondholders
he should be chucked overheard. but
we would regret the loss of so useful
and able a representative of Texas.
Popular forbearsnce is virtue which
is not always practiced.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-03-21

Nearly every resident of Montana
has either seen or heard of the famous
Beer Tooth Mountain, the most prumi-
nent landmark in Northern Montana.
Ii is visible at different points at dis
tsnces ranging from forty to sixty
miles, and is in full view from Helena
and the surrounding country. The
mountain IL distant about thirty miles
from Helena, and stands like a grim
and mighty sentinel at the end of the
canon known as the Gate of the Noun
tains, through which flows the Missou-
ri River. The Bear-T Tooth was fully de-
scribed as q wonderful landmark OF the
carly explorers, Lewis and Clark. In
all photographs of the northern country
the two tusks, rising black and grim
hundreds of feet above the mountain,
are the prominent objects. The main
trunk remains, looking lonely and iso-
lated in its grandeur.
The Helena paper says: "Last Non-
day a party of hunters, who were chas-
ing game several miles north of the
Bear Tooth, observed rumbling sound
and q quaiSing Of the earth, and sup
posing it was an earthquake, and not
noticing repetition of it, they soon
forgot the occurrence and continued
theit chase until they reached the
Bear Tooth. Hero they wefe aston.
ished by the appearance OF the eastern
tu~k This was perpendicnlar mass
of rock and earth, fully 500 fett high,
200 feet in circumference az its base
aud about $50 feet at the top. This
immense mass had become disiodged,
and coming down with the speed OF an
avalanche, had swept through o. forest
of large timber for quarter of mile,
entirely leveling it. The country around
is now covered with great mass of
broken trees and tons upon tons of
rocks, many of them as large as an or
binary house"
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-03-21

The Boston Herald Gays: "AIost Ia
dies choose dog, cat, q canary or a
pony for a pet, and often 'tset their
lives upon them," but rarely does one
hear Of lady attaching herself to snch
strange pets as the writer saw at Mrs.
Lincoln's, 81 Howard street, day or
two ago. Living in the family are a
couple Of lions, 81 months old, brought
up by the hand of Mrs. Lincoln. They
are African lions, species not easily
reared in this country, but Mrs. LiD-
coin has succeeded, by the exercise OF
great care, IN rearing them to. their
present age and size. The male weighs
about 250 pounds, and the female per-
haps 80 pounds less. They have been
at the house on Howard street since
last September, and within a month
have had the ''run of the place." go-
ing about the rooms with considerable
freedom. As q measure Of caution the
police thought the creatures should be
restrained, and their quarters are now
more limited than formerly, although
they have safe outdoor run and q
room ad joining the kitchen, with only
strong wire door separating the
apartments. BlrS. Lincoln is as free
with her pets IS ladies are with their
poodies. She plays with them; feeds
them frem her hands, and has taught
them several tTicks- They viii kiss
her at her bidding, jump through 9
hoop, etc. Before the police restric-
tions were placed upon them the ami
mails were accustomed to walk into the
kitchen, or parlor among the guests,
and 60 back 20 their quarters without
offering harm 10 any one. A year ago
the lioness used 20 occupy the same
couch with the lady, but now che has
grown full large 70 be taken upon q
common bedstesd. The animals are
quite q curiosity, and. In their gentle
ness, show plainly how potent is tha
law Of kindness, even with the brute
creation"
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-03-21

THE STATESMAN has been saying fol
long, long time that sooner or later
the South and West were coming to
gether, and now everybody is begin
ming to see it, and even a Senator
named Ingalls, prates about it in his
place in the Federal Capitol snd party.
leaders are fumbling about among old
platforms and things to learn what
they are going to do about it. The
bloody shirt fellows are first to discov.
er that their occupation is gone, and
Conkling fights desperately against
destiny.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-03-21
SUNSHINE FOR THE PEOPLE.

People may assert their discomfort
as they will, and constIpated croakers
growl as they choose, but the sllyer
bill, however conservative as enacted,
will surely produce progressive activl-
ty in trade. There are better times
at our doors and we might as well
make up our minds to expect them.
Very certainly it adds three or four
million per month to the volume of
currency, and this of itself will COM
pei those who have held money in or
der to realize higher price for 1t, to
make investments. They will antici-
pate decline in the purchasing power
OF money, and therefore buy first un-
taxed United States bonds, and then
real property and cheap railways.
These effects are already visible in
New York. United States bonds,
though now payable in silver, have
not declined in value.
Heretofore he who has simply held
Money unused has been made rich by
Congress, while he who ventured to
buy and improve property has been
ruined by Congress. Legislation has
been against industry and trade, and
in favor of note shaYers.
The former have been beg
CARED, the latter aggrandized.
The people at length compel Congress
to change its policy, and the very be-
ginning of the revolution assures US
of its final result. Bankers and trades
people will act as if the end contem-
plated were already attained. In this
consists the chief immediate benefcent
resul. of recent financial legisla-
ton. But the end is not yet, and the
revolution is by no means complete,
and will not be until the volume of
currency is as great here as in France.
Our property has been taken from us
for one-hslf and one-third of its value.
We foolishlY suffered the rich of the
East to shape at will the course of
financial legislation until property lost
and money advanced one-half in value.
1t is now the right and duty of the
people to have their share of good for
tune and reacquire that which they
lost. The debtor was remorselessly
robbed by the creditor, and now, when
the tables are turned, there should be
no sadness and no vain regrets
indulged by those who will
be forced to prefer property
to money. They should console them
selves with the pleasing reflection that
while forced to invest first in United
States bonds and then in other stocks,
and in railways and buildings and
land they are serving the country while
serving themselves. Heretofore they
have robbed and impoverished the
many and aggrsndised the few.
OF truth there are prosperous days
coming and the silver bill is the bow
of promise portending the delights of
coming repose after dark clouds of
poverty and adversely are dissipated.
Day-dawn is visible and the silver
bill is the aurora of coming cloudless
sunshine to illumine with hope and
confidence the pathway of toll and
poverty, even as Federal power, for
years past, has bestrewn with gold the
pathway of Plutus.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-03-21

THE death of slavery was the signal
for perfect union between the States
along the course of the Mississippi and
its tributaries. The Railroad Rerie.c
says it is inevitable, and thinks the
revolution in trade and government,
which will surely follow, will be the
most benefcent that ever affected the
fortunes of people or governments
and cities. Such have been the con-
slant assertions of the STATESMAN.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-03-21

THE Capoeiras of Rio Janeiro are
mostly mulattoes, whose occupation
consists In ripping people open with
broad-bladed knives and razors in the
midst of crowded places in halls and
streets. They are powerful in local
elections, and the police have been
dealing gently with them; but the
Emperor has instituted many reforms,
and two hundred Capeelras are to be
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-03-21


The Secretary of the Treasury has de-
termined that the first silver dollars 10
be issued will be used only in exchauge
at par for gold coin, or for the puF-
chase of silver bullion At market price,.
lie does not feel at liberty TO use them
to pay for current expenses until the
amount coined is sufficient 70 furnish
all alike, without discrimination; nor
does he deem IL expedient at present
to exchange them for United States
notes, or 70 use them IN the payment
Of the interest on the public debt un-
til the amount coined Is sufficient 70 en-
able him 10 do 80 impartially. There
fore they will at present be used for
the purchase OF silver bullion at mar
ket rates. The silver certificates will
soon be ready for issue, and are of the
form Of bank notes. engraved In the
best manner and printed on bank note
fber PAPER.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-03-21

to be dwellers in remote mountain dis
tricts of Tennessee who still vote for
Andrew Jackson, having never learned
or never believing that he was mortal /;
SO there, are very many who do
not know that Tilden, rs a po-
itical fact, has ceased to ex-
ist- In the rapid progress of
the country's thinking and necessities,
the royal master of Gramercy Park has
been left in forgotten age and among
forgotten historical facts. Now and
then some good man, who would have
gained office if Tilden had prospered,
lifts the curtain of oblivion that OBJ
scures memories of the dead past, and
we behold the ghost of this great and
good man. But the figure is in its
grave clothes and as unsubstantial as
the apparition that stood before Brutus
at Philip. Revolutions never go back
ward, and we have passed so far beyond
the age and creed of Tilden that ques-
tions which then interested us in Lou
isiana and South Carolina and the
bloody shirt are absolutely shut out
from human vision. Hayes has
crushed old leaders and parties. and
If the names of these be retained they
will no more have reference, as in
former years, to the relations of the
North and South. We gain absolute
local freedom, the West, an invaluable
adjunct of political force, and the East
and Tilden must await the lapse of
many years aud the coming of another
age before the machinery of Federal
government will be devoted to the
SIMPLE purpose of aggrandlzing men
and cities by the sea at the cost of the
poverty and ruin of States in the valley
of the Mississippi.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-03-21

WHAT is the necessity for the repeal
of the resumption act when we have
already resumed? Gold and paper
and silver are all at par. When we
said that silver was of less value than
gold, simply because it was demone.
tized, some of our readers doubted the
assertion, but now the fact is demon
strated. But 1t is possible that
future financial legislation, designed
for the relief of the debtor class, may
change the relations of gold and silver.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-03-21

THE Pandora steamer, tie property
of Mr.. Bennett, of the New York
Herald, becomes properly government
vessel, though still private property. 1t
viii cast anchor, if human energy and
toll and heroism can accomplish the
task, at the North Pole If the open
sea, of which travellers in polar regions
tell, be discovered, they will enter it,
and, coming out at the South Pole, re-
turn to New York BY way of Terra del
Fuego and Rio. We wish Bennett and
Stanley bon poysgs usque sa iaErnum.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-03-21

If Hayes have no party, and he surely
has none and wants none, it seems that
Tilden has one. 1t consists just now of
Senator Eaton, gold and bond-bear-
ing Democrat, of Connecticut, and
Dana's New York San. Parties are
mainly defunct and there is no present
possibility of reconstructing them. Sen
ator Conkling is about to make q
speech reviewing the closed year of
Hayes's administration. By this
means he proposes to reproduce
the Radical party, having Governor
Nichols and the Anderson conviction
pictured on the bloody shirt. He
thinks to provoke Senator Coke or
Ben Hill or others who may be excita-
BILE to respond, and then Blaine will
come to the rescue and all the section
al bitterness which Hayes eviscerated
from partisanship will be reintused
into politics. But the President is mas
ter of the situation just now, and Rae
ical party-leaders have lost their reck-
oning. They propose to re-elect Grant
and restore the mastery of the rich
and of the bondholders, and then the
government will drift rapidly into a
despotism of gold and the poor be
finally and thoroughly enslaved.
Who will follow the lead of Conk-
ling Who will cooperate with by
opposing him? Who will help him
fan the fires of sectional hate !?
Who will destroy Hayes in order that
Conkling may prosper2 1t becomes
the plain duty of every patriot,
whether Democratic OF. Republican, to
stand by the President. He needs
power in the country and in the towns,
and Senators and people should con-
cede it as against Conkllng and Grant,
and as against Democrats who love
party more than country, and therefore
cooperate with Conkling in hostility
to the President.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-03-21
texas PolItIen.

The Brotcn County Banner says: Gin
discussing the proper person for this
position, with the knowing ones Of
this section, we find that Major - D..
Sayers, of Bastrop, is the almost uni
versal favorite and especially among
those who know him personally, some
of them having served with and under
him during the late war between the
States. One OF his messmates and
comrades In arms, in descanting upon
his abilities as a soldier and'a citizen,
said: He entered the service ns q
private and was rapidly promoted, fer
meritorious conduct, until when. the
war closed, none stood higher among
those who knew him best.'r
We opine from present indications
that tsSayers will not only carry Brown
IN the vote for Lieutenant Governor,
but will sweep this section OF the State.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-03-21

THE money sharks begin to sec that
they are at last losing their grasp
upon the country's treasury, and the
people begin to exert their legitimate
authority. Congressmen begin to learn
that their proper masters are not in
Eastern cities, but in the hills and val
leys and on the plains of Western and
Central States.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-03-21

CoRrUs CHRISTI begins to grow in
grace and in salable value of city
property, and the narrow gauge is
completed only twenty-five miles, and
unlike that proposed to be constructed
here, extends across a very sparsely
settled country. But it forces itself
along, and will soon empty riches into
the lap of the ancient town by the sea,
and therefore this advance in property
values. Let Austin profit by the les
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-03-21
SUNSET Gov and Hale b.vo he.,

SUNSET Cox and Hale have been
making speeches in the House which
are much talked about. Hale's is a
reproduction of Blaine's when the lat
ter collided year or more ago with
Hill, of Georgia, In the House. Hale
seems to think that the outcry for re-
form and economy is only a thin dis
guise to conceal the enormity of claims
made by the South upon the Treasury.
MIR. Cox's speech was full of fun, and
was especially destructive of the Pres
ident's civil service reform policy.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-03-21

The London Laacet protests in the
strongest terms against doctors allow
ing their patients 70 inject morphine
subcutaneously for themselves, and
mentions that young lady, the victim
Of neufotic symptoms, was actually
Taught by an eminent London physi-
clan to carry out this system OF self-
doctoring. and has never ceased TO
soothe herself with II nightly, whether
necessary or not, since she was 20 edu-
Gated. A middle-aged lady, who has
been in the babitof administering Il 70
an invalid sister for some years, re-
wards herself 81 the same time With 4
dose in the neck. which is scanned
with ugly scars from the flequent Fepe-
tition Of an operation cnadaated TOO
often in very close propinqnIty to tIie
external jueulaF Eein-
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-03-21

WASHINGTON letter writers say there
il = hope for the Texas Pacific Rail-
way bi;l. It's friends do not Co operate.
Local ssl6shness and Northern selfish
nea are fatal to the scheme, and Hunt
ington, having no positive strength,
h>s enough 70 do Tom scott great in
jury On general principles, the
schens should fail; ss local sectional
questiap, the rOsd nholla Be built.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-03-21

The Baltimore SUn says: 1.-THE con-
tinued low premium on gold and the
apparent groundlessness of the fear as
to the unhappy effects to flow from the
passage of the silver bill must not be
accepted as an answer to the arguments
made against it, or as condition of
affairs that can be regarded as perma-
nent. The laws of gravitatIon cannot
change, neither can the laws of finance.
1t must not be forgotten that just at
this tine the balance of trade is In our
favor, the supply of gold Is unusually
large, aud the new silver dollar has not
yet been put into circulation. The
greenbscl1 dollar Is within cent and
a fraction of being worth as much rs a
gold dollar, but when this greenback
dollar is redeemed with % cents worth
of silver it remains to be seen whether
the difference between it and the gold
dollar will not widen instead of dimiu-
isb. When we shall be drained of our
gold by our securities, which are COM
ing back from abroad, then we will be-
gin to realize the effect of the silver
bill. Late London papers received here
show that English holders of United
States bonds are letting them go as fast
as possible. At q recent meeting of
the London Tramways Company the
chairman stated that its reserve fund,
which amounted to over e21, 900, or
more than 800, 600, had been invested
in United States bonds, but that on ac-
count of the silver agitation they had
concluded it Wise to sell out, and had
done SO, and put their money in their
own hume securities. The London
financial writers say that the United
States securities, which haye hereto
fore been regarded as among the first
class securities, have now been trans
ferred to the grade of third-class."
Suppose all this to be true, it does
not affect the question of popular In
terests and necessities in the United
States We have not seen a gold coin
in trade for fifteen years, and IL it leave
the country or be boarded in New York
or In the treasury, it signifies nothing
to the impoverished debtors.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-03-21

They call George Francis Train a lu-
natic. This being true, what he says
signifies nothing anditean do no harm.
he is Accustomed, when addressing tho
multitudes, to tell them to ask any
question possible on any subject, and
he Will answer eloquently or wlttily or
outrageously. At st. Louis some fel-
low sang out to Tram, ''What do you
think of the people3" he answered:
'Don'ttalk to me about the people.
they are miserable slaves in the hands
of the politicians. They are driven Ike
sheep, and. the poor devils think they
are governing themselves. Why, tho
lawyers and.the doctors and the cler-
gymen are doing the governing. Out
of 6,000, 900 farmers In this country
yon have not hali-a-doZen in Congress
nothing but lawyers Hayes, Bisine,
Conkling, Randall-all lawyers. There
never was an honest lawyer, and never
will be; so how can such fellows legis-
late honestly7 am not gong to talk
q tn workingman. The workingmau
10 frauds noisy, beer-swilinp fraud
a willing slave. who would self hlmeelf
any day for fifty cents. Whisky, to-
bacco and meat, especially the latter, :
should never be used. This country
will never be right until its 60, 600
churches are turned into Turkish baths,
and its 100 600 preachers made sham
pooers." After good deal Of the same
sort of stuff George announced la
dies secret matinee for Tuesday after
noon, and the audience dispersed.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-03-21

KANSAS and Missouri papers approve
earnestly Col. Norton's scheme of max
ing Texas fairs succeed one another,
week. after week, going south from
Denison and Sherman. The finest
cattle and horses from the Northwest
will be brought into the State and dis
tributed after exhibition at these fairs.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-03-21

The Philadelphia Times, not friend
" to the President. says tha. Hayes
doesn't always blunder In appoint
ments, As he illustrated recently BY the
nomination Of Joseph A. 5craatop, edi-
tor Of the BePu1lioan, as postmaster Of
the city that bears his name. Mr..
Scranton is an able and more than
commonly independent editor, and his
standing and qualifications must make
his appointment very gsneraliy accept
able 70 the community.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-03-21

'sRKBKLv postmAsters and mail con-
trsctors will get no pay for services
rendered before the .'rebeIlion" until
another session of Congress. Then the
success Of their application is deubfful.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-03-21

Gov. NICHOLS, 1t is stated, will not
pardon the ballot-box stuffer, General
Anderson. The Governor can only
pardon with the concurrence of the
Senate, which does not meet till next
foil
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-03-21

LETTERS from Rio state that the cof-
fee crop is enormous, and that prices
will be very low, and its cheapness will
multiply its consumers IN these States.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-03-21
THE TREE IS KN0WN BY ITS FRUIT.'

THE TREE IS kM0MN BY ITS FRUIT"
TUFTS Pills are worth their weight In gold" I"
= REV. !. r. SIMPSON, LOuissilIs, Ky.
"Tutt's Pills arc special blessing of the
= REV. i. 3. oseooo, New York.
"I have used Tutf's Pills for torpor OF the
liver. They are superior TO any medicine for
hillary disorders ever made" -
.. p. CARR, Attorney at Law, Augusta, os.
ct have Used TUFTS Pills five years in my fam.
ily. They are unequaled for costiveness and bill
iousness."-F. R.WlLsoN, Georgetown, Texas.
'T have used TUFTS Medicine with great
benefit. ."-W. w. MANN, Editor Mobile Register.
awe sell fifty boxes TUFTS Pills to FIVE OF
all thers"-SAYRE 8 CO., Csrtersville, Ga.
"Tutt's Pills have only to be tried to es.
tablish their merits. They work like magic"
w. n. BARRON, ee Summer ST., Boston.
"There is no medicine 50 well adapted to the
cxre OF bilious disorders as Tutt's Pills."
JOS. RRumMEl, Richmond, Virginia.
AND THoQsk No MORE.
Sold By druggists. S5 cents a 6on. Office
.3S Mtirrdy Street, NetU York.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-03-21

In Rrsth and Besqus c.unsies the
grain crops are charming. b Austia
has no narrow gauge 70 issch thsn.