The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-01-02


, awar,is during "a mnrfi. Usual
G the Feoeip;s aid expenditures durin
OeccWDrr arc aheut equal, the SUI
p PITS receipts last u rcmber being bu
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= however the Teceip,s always excee,
, the eNnendl.nn 5, and bT the first o
/ Aargb :hc iucreaso Of three million dol
: .-rs, which the monthly statement f.
j November shows, will he entirely can
cel-d.
Tie House and Senate yellow fevel
= committees met conformity. On mo
hon 81 Gen. & hso8, Senator Eusti.
5 was declared chairman. Experts wer,
invited to take seats with the Con.
, gressional committee. There were
, present J. i. EuStis, chairman, L. o
&. Lamar, y. 5 Paddock, r. L. Glib
son, Charles L. Hooker, Surgeon Gen.
eral j. VI. Wood worth, DR.. Samuel A.
Green, DIR. Samuel NJ. Bemis aud Col.
I. ). Uardie.
Surgeon General Woodworth .aid
before the committee the result of the
work accomplished by the fever ex-
perts who Investigated the subject
during the fall.
NEw ORLEANS, December 30.-On
application of Henry W. Benjamin,
Judge Billings granted an injunction
restraining and enjoining payments of
warrants for over $13, 600, issued to
George W. Dupree for printing and
binding legislative documents for the
session of 1878, the judge hslding that
the law under which said printing was
| done had been repealed.
The Supreme Court decided the cele-
hrated case against E. Piilberry, mayor
It a., revising the judgment of the
lower court which granted mandamus
compelling the city 10 levy a special
tax to pay interest on certain bonds
held by the Southern Bank. The
court holds that section 81 of act SO
provides for an unequal tax and is I'M
constitutional.
Among the arrivals to-day were
Hons. Clarksnn Potter and J. d. Cox,
of the Potter committee, aud Mr.. j. b.
Linton, clerk of the committee.
LONDON, December 30.-A dispatch
to the Times, dated Lahore, says there
is risk of too great Importance being
attached in England to the Ameer's
departure from Cabul, and of its being
regarded as virtually termination of
the campaign. Some persons here
think that the Ameer's flight my have
been greatly influenced by the fact
that if he had remained during the
winter in Cabul he might have found
himself caught in trap. The roads
on this side of Cabul are usually passa.
bic earlier IN the spring than those on
the other side OF the Afghan capital,
and thus our army might have been
able, in the event of the Ameer's stay
ing in Cahul till spring, to advance on
him before he could retire. From this
point of view, his flight may be in
the order Of retreat to a safer quar-
ter whence to prolong resistance
without some risk of capture in
asc of defeat. He has fourteen,
or, according to another calcula-
ton, seventeen regiments at Herat,
and If he can retain his hold over
them ard thus maintain his supremacy
in Afghan Turllistan he may still
offer formidable opposition to va
koob Khan or whatever ruler we set
up in Southern Afghanistan. lie re-
leased YakoOb Khan only under pres
sure from the Ghllzar chiefs, who
would not allow him to leave Cabul
without appointing his successor. If
YGkoob Khan becomes our ally we
shall probably guarantee him against
his father.
The Duly Meas publishes dispatch
from Lahore, which says the reported
submission of Yakoob Khan is not
confirmed to date.
The Viceroy of India telegraphs to-
day that Major Cavagnari reports that
there is no farther news of the Ameer
or of Yakoob Khan. He also announces
that the Khan of Khelan desires to
join us in an advance on Candahar.
PARIS, December 80. - In conse-
quencc of angry words on Saturday,
between Baron Rognictia, diplomat
list attachee, and Count Pairnett, a
foreign officer, duel with swords
was fought by them yesterday. Count
Pairnett received two wounds. One
wound in the shoulder is serious.
LONDON, December 81. - The Vice
ROY of India reports that Cavagnari has
received friendly from Sigod Ma :.
homod, chief of the Kunar Valley, an
nouncing his intention of coming in.
The Times says this may be heralded
as forerunner of the intelligence al
ready her0lded that the districts OF
Chicol, Levat and Kunar will be in
corporated into the Indian Empire.
BY the occupation of this tract of
country an easy and direct road will
be opened up from Punjaub to Yark
and CaTshgar, presenting far fewer
difficulties than that now followed by
The Central Asian Trading Association,
which traverses the high mountain
ranges of Cashmere and Sodak.
LONDON, December 31.-The steam
or LampeFt, from Savannah, which was
ashore at Copenhagen, has been h>at-
ed.
The ship Southern Right, from New
OIleans, put into Queenstown to have
her cargo shifted was also found to be
leaky.
MADRID, December 31.-Moncassi,
his counsel and his wife and child
were given audience by Alfonso to-
day. They have presented to the Min
lister of Justice a petition praying for
mercy, and signed by 1000 persons.
WASHINGTON, December 81 Part
of the correspondence from Louisiana
to the President, which will be gwen
to the Senate when it meets, is ar
ranged for transmission. District At
torney Leonard writes that in Caddo
fifty to seventy-live negroes were killed
and numbers driven from their homes;
many assaulted and all inundated.
Republican meetings were disturbed by
violent armed men, Republican speak
ers Insulted and the leaders threatened
with assassination. The PARISH should
have gone Republican by over 1000.
Majority, but the Democrats openly
took the election by force and fraads.
Military companies were organized and
appeared under arms. In one precinct
where there were 25G Republican and
no Democratic votes cast, the box list
of voters, etc, were fOrcIbly taken
from the commissioners by body of
armed men, and the laws of the State
and United States with regard to the
conduct OF elections fligrantly vic
lated. The United States supervisors
we're not permitted TO discharge their
duties. r publican voters were driven
from the polis. In Natchitoches,
the meeting uf September IL was adj
dressed by Eiam, the candidate for
Congress, anu ether speakers. The
Democrats were publicly told that they
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