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The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-11-13

GREAT interest is felt in the result
OF the Virginia election. The ques-
ton is purely local, and the election
determines whether the State debt will
be paid as q whole or scaled and re-
pudiated. It is fact that each Rsdi-
cal newspaper and orator, during the
last six weeks, has not only waived the
bloody shirt most vehemently and done
up the Chisholm-Dixon business in all
horrible styles of barbsrous cook
cry, but he has made awful
grimaces about the reputation of pub
lie and private debts by States. coun-
ties, towns and corporations, until the
North and the civilized world think
the South or Southern man Is inca
pable of an honest act. We are not
only believed to be murderers and as
sasslns, but thieves OF the grossest,
basest sort, repudiating even public
debts secured by public honor.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-11-13

The g'aud Try ni j. mar oruu Y
cOncurs with ;h- STATESMAN. amt it.
conduct in this behs'i is approved 10y
the North Team, which says that
L. is fact beyond the shadow Of Il
doubt thIt the people o T ks, tie
taxpayers, We mean, favor the estsb-
'Ishing. IN every county in the Stale, q
whipping post that will mSke the iur
Il ! from that class of scouudTels who go
much 81 joy the comforts of the unit,
Jail. Tue truth Is, 1t is matter OF
simple right that the whipping post
should come intu use in our State.
Look over the amounts that are ex-
pended anuu4lly in caring for worth
less scoundrels, who are rewarded by
being fed and clothed at the expense
OF the taxpayers, and 1t Is all the proof
that is required to show that such is
the Case Let the grand juries, the peo-
pie and the papers speak out on this
question, and let all agree TO nev,r
elect an aspirant to the l. 'gislature un-
less he will pledge his support to the
whipping post. the following is an
extract from the report of the grand
jury: I'VE have been in session for
eighteen days and have found eighty
Sven true bile, and doubtless, had il
not been for the wise and timely in
structions received in your honor's
charge to us, to procure evidence on
both sides of doubtful cases, there
would have been many more bill 8
found; const q lently, We fe,l that we
have good Cause to congratulate the
taxpayers of Lamar county. We also
think large percentage of the bills
found could have been avoided by
well-regulated whipping post law"
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-11-13

MRMPHIs-owes more than five million
dollars, nearly twice as much as Texas,
since much OF our public debt is due
to our own university and school
funds. Memphis merchants and prop
erty owners have been bereft, for long
periods through successive years, of all
opportunities for m0ney-naking, and
simply because the city has been so
robbed by fools or knaves that under
ground drainage was made impossible.
The city, utterly bankrupt, and people
unable, as they are, to meet current
rates Of taxation, and drainage being un-
avo'dable as matter of life and death,
the question arises whence shall the
money come with which to invert and
pave Bayou Gayoso and put down the
subsoil pipes. Taxpayers, with profit
less, unstable property, are impotent,
the State itself is bankrupt aud people
so demoral:z=d by depraved govern
ment, springing from polluted ballot
boxes, that all public debts are practl-
cally repudiated. What recourse has
Memphis except in grand lottery
scheme by which the half million dol
lars may be secured? Il is final death
or Havana lottery. Bat the Consti-
tuition of Tennessee inYeighs against
lotteries, and Postmaster General Key
will not suffer the postoffice to be used
in their promotion. What is to be
done about il2
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-11-13
SHERMAN FAR AHEAD OF ALL
HIS RIVALS.

In measuring the chances of candi-
dates for the presidency, we should
not forgeG that Sherman triumphed
over Grant, as we'll as over Ewing, in
Ohio, when Foster, Sherman's sworn
friend, was nominated for the Cover
nor's Office, and this triumph is the
more significant of Sherman's strength
when Ewing is badly beaten. Blame, on
the other hand, hardly carried Maine.
When we remember these facts, and
that Sherman wields the omnipstent
forces of the administration, which
contributed largely to Robinson's de-
feat in New York, we begin, necessa-
rIly, to conclude that even Grant is
lmpotent in this struggle for supreme
cy in the Radical party. Sherman has
made the platform for his party. He
has given it body and force by his
conduct as Treasurer of the United
States. He-has waived the blood
lest possible -sbiEt-snd jingled bags
of gold on the rude, ugly, rotting
tombstones of Greenbackism. He has
interposed with all the forces of Fed
eral power in New York and Pennsyl-
vsnia to crown his party with such
honors and strength that the splendid
sheen of Grants glory is not needed
IS headlight to the splendid train of
Radical achievements hurrying on to
the grand terminus of all converging
purposes Of partisan ambition. Sher-
man, as conductor and chief engineer,
In this fiery race, is certainly far ahead
of all competitors, and the very COM
pleteness of his recent victories rem
dering the nomination of q man posai-
bly, stronger than himself needless,
with almost absolute certainty he
viii win the first prize in the Repubh-
can nominating convention.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-11-13

PARNELL, twenty-cight years old,
who now holds O'Connel.'s place as
the great Irish agitator, is a young Ok
ford man, English on one side of his
house and American on the other, but
owner of hereditary estates in Ireland.
He practices what he breaches, and has
reduced his rem. rates 25 per cent. In
appearance be is wholly unlike his
great prototype. He is of most effemi-
nate appearance and voice and mild
hammered as the coyest maiden. He
drinks water, and never potheen,
and eat year in Parliament
without opening his mouth even once.
But he fell into the habit at last of
asking inopportune questions, and the
more he was coughed down, the often
er his troublesome interpretations were
propo1nded, and these became effec-
tive speeches until he has aroused
Ireland as never before in behalf of
''home rule, p" of which we have heard
in the South, and in behalf of opposi-
tion to foreign land ownership. We
greatly fear he is a man of only one
idea, like greenbacker. Such mono-
manlacs are always more violent than
wise.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-11-13
NEW ISSUES AND NEW DEAL
FOR 1850.

Was it sublime folly or execra-
ble stupidity that impelled Crg-ess to
force issues upon tue c0uatrS which
have c'st tae S1u.h countles,
millions b5 causing every R.public4n
speaker ani newspaper of the n IrIh to
exhaust epIthets and contumels in
talking of a.7 Was it not a crime OF
crimes which induced sr;y-leaders to
drive the President into the embraces
of the stalwarts2 Was it not criminal
to the last degree when they deliber-
ately consolidated the North against
the SJutL2 Was any result po: sible
but this which we see in all recent
elections? The brgadiers, It must be
confessed, as statesmen, are not as wise
as heroic. Tneir courage is always
sublime but tbs S nth Is always ciuc;-
fed. This last is not their first act of
superhuman folly Even here in this
mod .st Little capital the people have
turned their backs upon party in
dulging in follies in State
as we'll as in Federal legislation. Bu,
At crime of crimes against " hieh we
have inveighed from the beginning and
which deserved this condign punish
ment was the deliberate excitation of
every,sectIonal issue that has ever cursed
the country. Everywhere the Demo.
cratic party is beaten. In Pennsylvania
the majority is measureless, and from
New York Conkling goes back to the
Senate, made his own successor by
Potter aud Randall and Beck, who
have sacrificed the South on the altar
of bluudering. selfish sectional parti-
sanship.
But year intervenes before the
presidential election. May we not
have other leaders and other platforms?
It does not signify so much what party
wins il neither he pledged and devoted
to the South's deep damnation.
II r 'pubiicauism go into office 10 1881
with its present temper to be injected
into sectional legislatio-, such as Conk
ling and Beecher would enact, the South
would become desert, and all because
a rsntiug, ambitious, selfish, unwise
body of party LEADERS have chosen to
assert, in extravagsrt resolutions, the
divine sublimity of their intense de-
votion to the South. Let us change
the programme, and overthrow uuwise
and thus unworthy leaders. We must
have new deal and new issues for
1880.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-11-13

The Augusta, Georgia, NeaOI says
''the third crop OF figs IN o O3lethorP,
county is nearly ripe, and there has not
been fight OF quarrel in l. xington
since last spring" 1 was of this an
cient village, that Bob Toombs said
forty years ago, that it was .'liuiehed
and fenced in fifty years." before his
time. The assertion has been applied
to other fossilized towns but owes
paternity to Bob Toombs. But Lex
ington is historical spot. Little,
lifeless, rose-enbowered, its shining
white cottages and residences going to
decay, its store-houses empty and
court house dilapldated led brick
rookery-hapless as its fortunes may
be, and deserted its bar room, where
the Neaos say there ''has not been a
quarrel since last spring." Lexington
is still a fascinating spot--for an arct eo-
logist. The voice of VIM. H. Craw-
ford was once familiar on its streets as
was his gigantic form. He sat, in his
old age, or tine bench. His old home
Is hard by and that OF Joseph Henry
Lumpkin and OF George R. Gilmer and
of the builder of the great public hall
of Athens. These old homes of de-
parted worth and greatness still COZ
stitute monuments to the ancient glory
of Lexington. Then Tom and Howell
Cobb and Bob Toombs and Bill Dough-
Q ty and Jack Greer and Alexander
81. Stephens were boys lettering idly
about the shady village green of Lex
ington. No wonder ''the third crop
OF figs this season rpeDs in Lex ngton."
Figs have less to do there than in any
spot of silence, white sand, and sun
light and solitude TN G)d's footstool.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-11-13

THERE is no more baseless fancy,
more impregnably fixed upon the North
ern mind, than that Gen. Joe Hooker,
of Incompatible courage and fierce
ness of temper, who died last Friday,
fought n battlo at Chattanooga s.above
the clouds" Painters art and poets
song have embellished the glowing pic
ture until the average Northerner tells
with rapture of the halo of divine glo-
ry enclrcling the name of the god-like
victor who absolutely bestrode the tenn
pest and the sunshine and followed the
zigzag lightning in its flight about the
eternal mountains brow. 1t Is all'poe-
try. Perhaps it Is all bosh. The fight
signiied nothing and occurred only
few hundred feet above Moccasin Bend,
on the Tennessee River.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-11-13
THE New York Herald of last satur

THE New York Herald of last Satur-
day, which is inmicsl to Tilden, said
II 1t shall happen that Mr.. Cornell
and the Republican ticket are chosen,
the Democrats may find great comfort
in the reflection that this relieves them
finally of that old man of the sea, S I'M
u,l ] Tilder, and leaves them free to
nominate as able aud as popular a man
as they may have sense enough to Sc
lect. The opinion of many judicious
Democrats, that it is worth while for
them to lose this State next Tuesday
because then they will be rid of Tilden,
seems to Us entirely sound. The dan
ger of the Republicans has been that
they would degenerate into mere one
man party-a Grant party; but the
Democrats have actually been in that
awkward and fatal situation for seyer-
al years; they have fallen to be mere
Tilden party; willing or unwilling,
they have had this old gentleman sad
died upon them, determined to iule or
run them. II by losing New York
next Tuesday they can be fiOally rid of
him they may "thank God and take
courage" for this will leave them at
least q chance of success next year /;
with him they would have none.
But the question, unfortunately, is
still undecided. l. is not certain that
Tilden is Impotent. While Robinson
has gone under, and b&rely gone under,
despite the combined hostility of Tam
many and the canal ring, the Herald
discovers that the rest of TIL
den's ticket Is successful. Whether
the Herald. with the facts of to-day be-
fore it, would pronounce Tilden's
doom, is doubtful. In truth, the defeat
Of Robinson, with all the potent COM
binatious against him, is hardly de-
feat, and so little is the strength Of
Tammany in this Governors race that
Tilden and his supporters may think
It trifiing matter to overcome it in q
presidential contest. But it is to be
hoped that Tilden is shelved forever.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-11-13

coming fair IN aid of the Cathedral. In
the letter he speaks OF the law against
r 5, lotteries, etc, and for his lsbors
for the suppression of gambling in this
city. He closes as follows: aWhen
found the church barrier to the sup
preston of gambling, / publicly made
the following vow: That the first
church in Boston, of whateyer sect or
creed, that advernses, sets mp and pro-
notes lottery, shall be prosecuted TO
the full Cx'ent of the law To my
grief and sorrow / see my first indict-
ment must fall upon the Cathedral fair.
Now, many of my friends and support
ers, many patrons of my lectures, are
Catholics. My newsboys were Caiho-
lies. The man helping me to repair
my church, more than all other men,
was Catholic. But my vow is made,
and, like the VOW of Jephtha, it must
he fulfilled. Lsst Sunday l lectured
against the faro banks aud gamblers.
| have list of the chief gaming hells
and the names OF the proprietors. The
people demand that these infamous
ders be suppressed. but nothing can be
done until the church joins hand in
ha d in the reform. Dark, dark be
tn day when Christianity is banishedi I
Wo' woe! TO New Engiand il the
church L. Q. it's d. The chu ca is
already waning. It will altogether
lose its hold II it encourages gambling.
Now is Your opportunity. Yoa have
more reformatory power vested in you
than 500 other ciergymen. You are
Archbishop Of New England. You
say Church lotte les shall cease, ami
they cease. While Southern States are
striving to expel lotteries, shall we
adopt theml Heaven forbid Then
rise in your might Rise with the zeal
of the Holy Church and stamp out the
evil. Rise ana say, Church lotteries,
Sabbath desecratious and intemperance
shall be done away and children yet
unborn shall bless you, and coming
ages shall canoDize you atnoag the inn
mortal cnes whose names are not born
to die"
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-11-13

KELLY has barely succeeded in de-
feating Tilden's man, Robiason. Bat
ninetY-fve per cent. of the Democratic
party in New York have voted against
Kelly, and though he has destroyed
Robinson, and, for the time at least
thwarted Tllden, he has destroyed
himself. The Republicans detest him,
even when they use TammAny, and the
Demccratic party will curse Kelly and
Tammany forever for this treason.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-11-13
THE RI,K OF LIVING AND CER-
TAINTH OF DYING.

Everybody now and then counts the
chances of life and death. Even the
iuriously busy and restletsly active
u ok Chandler, who was knocked off
Lls vital pins 80 suddenly last S,tur-
day, now and then adverted to the
subject. He injected the thought into
the last violent speech he ever made,
even few hours before be bTesthed
lis last, and his eulogists have been
ples,ed to say, that his sllusions were
propbtlic and indicative Of the fac t
that the fierce old fellow had made all
needed preparations to encounter the
grim reaper. Evidently enough the
vigorous Senator died before his time
and some one psIt OF the machinery of
lie, too often overtsxed by his extra
ordinary labors and 6xcitements, sud-
denly gave way, and thus his untime'y
end came. Now.snd then a mans life
is of unusual length; but the sad fact
still stares us in the facr, that far the
great :r Bumber OF us die young. Ir-
tense self-.oVe constantly induces the
be extraordinarily protracteds. and
however many conspicuous men
like Ector, Chandler and Hooker,
and myIi- d., unknown and humble,
move in endless procession into name
less graves, drawing little dust over
their hiding places, that we may for
get, while we live, that they have
died, we who still inhale, at intervals,
a little life-givipg breath, are thor
oughly persuaded that our lives will
be exceptionally long. In truth, quite
half the people one meets never dream
of death, an each lmagines that his
own existence will be extraordinarily
protracted. He never attempts to see
the end of his life-j Iurney. But life
assurance people, though they them
selves be immortal, have fixed, to an
hours breadth, the limit of our lives.
They have no respect for our seldsh
credulOusness, and when we como to
pay for the risk of not dying, the
price demanded makes one shudder,
and yet, not so much because we dread
the loss of life as of money. We look
over tables of mortality, compiled for
the use Of insurance agents, ana be-
cause our own names are not written
with dates fixed by mathematical cal
culation for our death, we pay for the
risk of living and certainty of dying
and turn away, forgetful that death
hunts us down like sleuth hound.
We append one of these life assurance
tables, which we should keep before
US. 1t is authentic and contains the
gathered facts of centuries and of
many generations of men and women.
1t shows the average length of life at
various ages. and might furnish themes
for effeC tive discourses this morning in
many puipits. The statistIcian gives
in the first column the present ages of
persons of average health, and in the
second column We are enabled to peep
behind the scenes of an assurance OF
fee and gather from their tables the
number of years they will give us to
live. This calculation cannot mislead.
OF course, sudden and premature
deaths, as well as lives unusually ex-
tended, occasionally occur, but this Is
a table of the average expectancy of
life of an ordinary man or woman.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-11-13

An exchange thinks that il the
South should cause the nomination Of
q soldier candidate for the Presidency,
ConkIing and Beecher would swear,
and more than half of the blessed
North would believe it, that we pro-
pose to fight at once for the freedom
of the States and re-enslavement Of
the blacks. And yet, Gen. Hancock
did as noble service as did Grant in
suppressIng the rebellion"
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-11-13

GOVERNOR SEYMOUR presided oyer q
Robinson Democratic meeting four
days before the election in New York
and mildly advised young men to ad-
here to the party and Its nominees.
His adhesion to Tilden is thus sus-
pecsed, though he made no reference TO
the adroit magician Of CIPHER Alley.
Very certainly the most honored Of
living Democrats opposed John KelIy's
detection.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-11-13

TuE creditors Of Egypt claim the
obelisk which the Khedive gave to
New York City, and there is going to
be trouble about it. The Amencan
dag protects the stone. but an at
tlchment hss been levied upon it.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-11-13

CHICAGO, that went Democratic q
year ago by 1000 majority, has been
turned over by congressional folly and
the excitation Of sectional issues to the
Republicans who have made > gain Of
about 5000 in that city.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-11-13

TIE relative strength of parties in
New York is shown by the votes for
the two candidates for the Lieutenant
Governors place. Robinson and Kelly
slew one another. Dispatches even
yesterday did not show clearly by what
majority Potter was elected.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-11-13

A PITTIEs world that has never
ceased to sympathize with poor Carlot-
Ia learns with infinite satisfaction that
her grief is almost dissipAted and reA-
son restored.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-11-13

Since the resumption OF specie par
m nts nearly So, ,000, 900 N specie have
arrived in TINS country, nipe-tenths Of
which have arrived aimee the 6f1t Of
August.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-11-13
MISCELLANEOUS.
Ladies

Do you want a pure, bloom
ing Complexion If so, a
few applications Of Hagan'S
MAGNOLIA BALM will graf
ify you TO yOlr hearts con-
tent. 1t does away with Sal
lowness, Redness. Pimp!es,
BiOtehes, ard all diseases and
imperfectiOns Of the skin. 1t
0yereOmes the flushed appear
aEce Of heat, fatigue ami eX-
citemeut. 1t makes a lady of
THIRTY appear but TWEN-
TY; and so natura', gradual,
aud perfect are its effects,
that IT, is impossible TO detect
its application.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-11-13

w "tAANANA NAA oA y
cess of UNITS
REM EDY, has
induced a great ma
ny to advertise
their worthless pre-
partitions for the
cure OF Kidney dis
esses, hoping to
cell them ON their
well established
reputation. Do not
risk your health by
-
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1879-09-06
Donth of Gan. unnd

n dispatch from now Orleans aunoun-
eos that Geni. Juo. y. Hood has fallen a
victim To Yellow Fever lie died &c new
orleans ontho morning OF Angus, Both,
and was buried the samo day. His
daughter Lydia and Ethel and his little
son have been pros,"tcd by tho same
dread diaeasc, and the death Of Lydia is
reported.
John - u Hood, tie fret notable
victim OF .he ycllow fovCr thl4 yoar. wac
b0Iuat Owingsyilo, Bath county. Ken.
lucky, or tho 10.h % Juno. 1891. and
graduated from thc Military ACADEMY 90
West Point in 1858, standing f9rtv-fourlh
in q class of Gny-two. re Wa mainly
cpyugri iu frontier service in Tcxa, Gin
1850. lie wss severely wouudcu iu an en-
counter with ,ho L'pan AMI Cumanrho
Indians, JuIy 20, 1857, aud wa ON leave
ofaIeouaoi, 1-CJ. Eelyuing l,s cons
u SION u 1901, ho rosc iu TIC CouGJcr-
aloarny from lieutenant lomalyr ge err
al. lie took part iu Che ChicaaaOmiuv
campaign. and was at tho second Ban
Run. At Gettysburg hc commanded a
division OF Lougsticors corps, ANA Lost au
arm ou tho second day OF thobatle. Ito
Lost leg at Chickmusuga. and wasInado
Lieutenant general. TO commanded uhe
army Units operations against General
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1879-09-06
Pleaannt Dalo Lot cr.


Los-roilicga and choppings by
lay, aud ipple-cuttings 10y uight,are
all 'be rage, esl ocially these So call B.
ell socia5.c apple-cuttiugs where all
ages from 6 to 90 years attend, and
yet apples are rather scarce.
On last Sunday ourpulpit was va
cant from some unknown cause.
Our esteemed friend, and worthy
county SUI orintcndent, w. $. Bayles
spent few day. among US last
week.
John 7. Z. Nngeni, VINO ia work
ing on a loc5 IN the Mouongahele
river at Etetcn, was viciting home
last week, accompanied by his friend
Mr.. Coeuisht o, that place.
On last Thursday Daniel T.. Mar
IN raised dwelling house on Lis
Iar.n near Pleasant Dale.
Oar people arc preparing to at
tend The Groye-meetiug at Long
Hollow commencing the 18Th.
Why dcoa Mercury" in the Jouy.
"a5, shine no more2 VENUS.
Sept. lsl 1879.